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Bruce Springsteen Mocks London Police in Dublin
In his first concert following the forced ending of his show in Hyde Park on Saturday (July 14), Bruce Springsteen made fun of the incident on several occasions throughout the night.
Taking the stage at Dublin's RDS Arena on Tuesday, Springsteen turned on a mock power generator and said "Before we were so rudely interrupted…" The E Street Band picked up where they left off, with the ending of 'Twist & Shout.' They then launched into a cover of the Bobby Fuller Four's 1966 hit, 'I Fought the Law.'
In the encore, Springsteen again launched into 'Twist & Shout.' A man dressed as an English policeman came out to stop them, only to be rebuffed by Springsteen. During the last song, 'American Land,' the policeman pulled the plug from the fake generator, only to have it be put back in by Little Steven.
Saturday's incident in Hyde Park was the subject of a hysterical segment on Tuesday's episode of 'The Daily Show.' In the bit, the New Jersey-born Jon Stewart defended Springsteen's right to sing as long as he wants, while John Oliver, a native of England, spoke of Britain's need for sleep. It predictably devolved from there.
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CINCINNATI -- The Dolphins have played terrible so far.
They've committed two turnovers. They've missed tackles. They have been their own worst enemy.
And yet they only trail 6-0. Consider that a blessing because it could be much worse.
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The following people were arrested on felony charges by law enforcement agencies in Davidson County, and, unless noted otherwise, were either placed in the Davidson County Detention Center or released from custody and are scheduled to appear in Lexington District Court on the date given:
• Charles Robert Franks, 43, of 11 Arden Road was charged with safecracking and conspiracy to commit a felony, $25,000 secured bond, Jan. 28.
• Byron Franklin McIntosh, 36, of 301 Pennington Ave., B., was charged with three counts of possession with intent to sell or deliver cocaine, three counts sell schedule II controlled substance and one count of habitual felon, $200,000 secured bond, Jan. 7.
• Timothy Dean Furguson, 24, of 711 Carl Pressley Road, was charged with assault on a female, assault by strangulation and assault inflicting serious injury with a minor present, $15,00 secured bond, Jan. 8.
• Jaquail Devon Townsend, 18, of 111 South Street, Apt. D, Thomasville, was charged with possession with intent to manufacture, sell or deliver marijuana, $10,000 secured bond, Jan. 16.
• Adam Ray Soles, 33, of 310 Soles Drive, was charged with misdemeanor larceny and felony obtaining property under false pretense, $500 secured bond, Jan. 10.
• Drew Cameron Shytle, 28, of 535 Lake Drive, was charged with felony larceny of destroying an anti-theft device and misdemeanor larceny, $7,000 secured bond, Jan. 31.
• Jimmy Joe Rothrock, 50, of 267 Eaton Drive, High Point, as charged with felony possession of a firearm of by a felon, $10,000 secured bond, Jan. 18.
• Danielle Mesmer, 21, of 356 Ferry Road, Hertford, was served with a fugitive warrant for unlawful use of controlled substance, $20,000 secured bond, Jan. 2.
• Mark Alexander Johnson, 51, of 181 Rockaway Drive, was charged with possession of a controlled substance on prison/jail premises, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a cell phone by an inmate, $10,000 secured bond, Jan. 28.
• Nathan James Hedrick, 25, of 153 Mockingbird Lane, Thomasville, was charged with three counts of misdemeanor larceny and three counts of obtaining property under false pretense, $10,000 secured bond, Jan. 15.
• Sterling G. Gordon, 29, of 415 East Farriss Ave., High Point, was charged with two counts of simple possession of a scheduled II controlled substance, simple possession of a schedule IV controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a firearm by a felon, $30,000 secured bond, Jan. 30.
• Kevin Christopher Gregory, 26, of 1180 Oak Hill Drive, was charged with felony possession of cocaine and maintaining a vehicle/ dwelling/ place for controlled substances, $5,000 secured bond, Jan. 29.
• Tremain Donta Ervin, 24, of 516 Walnut Street, was charged with assault on a female, felony possession of cocaine, possession of up to 1/2 ounce of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, $5,000 secured bond, Jan. 31.
• Charles Robert Franks, 43, of 11 Arden Road, was charged with felony possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia, $5,000 secured bond and $2,000 secured bond, Jan. 14.
The following larcenies more than $1,000 were reported to the Davidson County Sheriff's Office and the Lexington Police Department:
• Jewelry, silver dollar coins and silver flatware valued at $2,200 was reported stolen from a home on Highland Drive between 6:30 p.m. Friday and 3:10 p.m. Sunday.
• An air handling unit and miscelanneous scrap metal valued at $1,825 were reported stolen from a residence on the 6600 block of Old U.S. Highway 52 between Dec. 19 and 12:55 p.m. on Saturday.
• A chainsaw, weed eater, chainsaw case, Mercury Villager and miscellaneous automobile parts valued at $1,480 were reported stolen from a residence on the 800 block of Haden Grove Church Road in Linwood between 11 a.m. Friday and 9 a.m. Saturday.
• A battery, motorcycle helmet, motorcycle gas tank, leather vest, battery charger, leather chaps and miscellaneous items valued at about $5,000 were reported stolen at ta residence on the 300 block of Edward Road in Thomasville between 4 p.m. Saturday and 12:48 p.m. Sunday.
• One 2001 Chevrolet S-10 valued at $4,500 was reported stolen from a residence on the 100 block of Red Oak Drive between 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday.
• A motorcycle frame and one ATV valued at $1,800 were reported stolen from a residence on the 3500 block of Regan Road in Denton between 5:30 p.m. Sunday and 1:56 p.m. Monday.
• One safe and cash valued at $1,050 were reported stolen from a residence on the 300 bock of Speedy Lane between 10:30 a.m. and 11:11 p.m. on Monday.


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I hate all the friend of Ichigo Kurosaki they are useless in battles
Don't lie to me.
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Cowchan7897 wrote:
I laugh at most of the reasons that people present or try to explain why they hate a particular character. It's as if they don't delve into a character's personality or who they are in general. Just because it's anime, doesn't mean that characters have to be perfect where they can fight off anything in their way and be chivalrous while succeeding in everything they do all the time.
Btw saying a character is ugly, slutty or whatever insults you can throw doesn't make your argument strong for why you hate a character. Although I agree with some comments about certain characters but there are a lot that just makes me what to slap my head and ask "did you watch the show clearly?". And that's for characters I also dislike as well. Then there are fan-base hatred. Although I agree that some fan base for certain animes are annoying, it shouldn't really be a reason why you hate a character that much.
I want to defend some characters that are receiving too much undeserved hate but it would be pointless to change opinions of stubborn people that only look at things 1-dimensionally
I would agree based on your principle. But at the same time, I can also agree with some of the posters here who has a legitimate reason for strongly disliking a character. Even if you delve into these kind of characters, why they`re presented the way they are, their backstory or their reasons behind every single thing they do, blah blah blah, they still come out as an atrocious character.
One thing about analyzing a certain work such as anime is too look at the characters from a critical standpoint, not just the point of view from a gushing fan. You can like a work but not their characters.
For example:
I like Evangelion (to a certain degree; I`ll admit, it could be extremely flawed and tedious, but that`s a discussion for another day), but I know that I hate at least 85% of the characters of that show. (85% because I`ve come into better terms with Asuka, but at the same time, she`s still a arrogant little bitch). You constantly have to delve into Shinji`s psyche episode after episode after episode (etc. before my head explodes!) and he stills cannot get over his self-loathing, but instead, turns to post modern existential nonsense that even Eva`s most sane fans would sling poo at the screen for all his dumbass choices, and an even more ridiculous conclusion (all THREE times). Rei has the personality of a blank slate (LITERALLY) that only serves as otaku fapping material. (I can honestly go on all day about this, but lets stop here).
The point I`m trying to make is that even though you get to know a character through an extensive degree, to the point of having a better understanding of them, doesn`t mean you`ll like them any better than before.
I understand and agree with you to a certain extent. Not every character created is compatible to everyone since every individual has a different perception, views, thoughts, etc. I mean it would be unnatural if someone in this world like everybody or everything they see. But my argument was about how there are so many people here who don't give a good constructive criticism and would just plainly insult the characters on appearance or the prominent blunt sides of characters.
Since you mentioned Evangelion, I would like to state my views on the anime. Personally I love the anime for it's realism in most parts and how it reflects how most of individual in society feels. In a way you can relate with a lot of the characters in this series, seeing how many flaws and conflicts the characters have. (Although I agree with you on Rei a little bit, but I don't hate her or like her.) Since it'll be too long to talk about each important character, I'll just stick with the weak protagonist Shinji Ikari. Shinji, out of every character I have seen so far, is created with a great sense of realism. Many people have a problem with how he can hardly fight in any battles when piloting the EVA 01 unit, and would call him a "pussy". I doubt that anyone who has hardly have any training with piloting against a monster would be able to fight properly like chivalrous heroes who knows how to handle everything. Even if you don't want to pilot it everyone is relying on you to not disappoint and save them by risking your own life. It understandable why Shinji would become emotionally distraught with his own desires to live a peacefully versus not disappointing everybody especially his father's expectations. I could go on but I might just drag on and waste people's time.... x_x;;;
Yata Misaki from [K]. I don't hate him or anything, but the fact about how overrated he is irritates me.
Um, I mean, fans immediately complain whenever he doesn't appear in an episode? Jeez. :/
Ayano Kannagi from Kaze No Stigma.
She's too loud. And she jumps to conclusions really quickly, all the while accusing people for no reason whatsoever.
Haruhi Suzimiya and Asuka from Evangelion.
Anyone and everyone from Naruto -_-
lets see..... Natsu from Fairy Tail and Sasuke Uchiha....
Haruhi. She's just a damn brat.
Sakura from Naruto, she is annoying and useless. Also Makoto from School Days, I just can't stand him.
I'm not crazy! My reality is just different than yours!
The boy from Eureka 7.
Jellal Fernandez from Fairy Tail
The reason I don't like him is because after being a fairly good antagonist the author just had to ruin his character by "reviving" him and making him turn good. I thought that after years of being brainwashed he had no chance of becoming the boy he once was, it was even shown how twisted he was during the Tower arc but some how he conveniently got amnesia. -__-
Kumagawa from Medaka Box
At first this guy was this scary seemingly invincible antagonist that pretty much overpowered Medaka but after his defeat, he was turned into this overpowered "good loser" troll. Misogi Kumagawa, who is known as the loser of the series doesn't really ever lose, he simply gives up or lets himself lose once he has tricked his opponent that they have been defeated. It was pretty clever at first but now it's just annoying.
Kirito/Kazuto, Yui, and Asuna from Sword Art Online
One is overpowered, the other is this annoying moe AI, and the last one is this seemingly perfect girl. Together they make the perfect Full house family that fight against anything that threatens to break their perfect family. Yes, even Suguha because she isn't perfect.
Boredom :I
People may hate them, but they're still good characters, an example being Light. Im pretty sure the writer didn't want everyone to like him, so he did his job.
most of the characters from Naruto
What even
Kirito from Sword Art Online. He's sooo boring.
Everything has a name. So yours doesn't make you special.
^^ he is overrated? that's new(s)
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Published 7:28 am, Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Little more than a week after southwestern Connecticut and the rest of the nation's Northeast was socked by what is now known as "Superstorm" Sandy, the region today is battening down again for a nor'easter blast of rain, high winds, coastal flooding -- and possibly snow.
The National Weather Service has issued a "hazardous weather outlook" for the region today as the storm is expected to begin buffeting the region this afternoon.
In addition to precipitation, which could include some snow, the NWS has issued a high-wind warning from 1 p.m. today through 4 a.m. tomorrow with winds 25 to 35 mph, gusting as high as 60 mph.
There also is a coastal flooding warning in effect from 2 p.m. today through 7 a.m. morning, particularly during high-tide periods as the storm surge hits.
At this point, however, forecasters are saying this storm should not be as severe as Sandy.
Little or no snow accumulation is expected this afternoon when precipitation begins as the daytime high temperature reaches into the mid-50s, according to the NWS. Chance of precipitation is 80 percent, the weather service says.
Tonight, rain is on tap as the temperature dips to a low in the low-30s. There will be a north wind 21 to 28 mph, with gusts as high as 60 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90 percent.
Tomorrow, rain should continue, mainly before 2 p.m. It will be cloudy, with a high temperature in the mid-40s. There will be a north wind 17 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 38 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60 percent.
Nighttime brings a continuing possibility of rain before 9 p.m. Conditions will be cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing begins as the temperature registers a low in the low-30s. There will be a northwest wind around 17 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20 percent.
Friday is expected to be sunny, with a high temperature in the low-50s and a northwest wind 10 to 13 mph, the NWS says. Friday night should be mostly clear, with a low temperature in the mid-30s.
Saturday is likely to be partly sunny, with a high temperature in the mid-50s. Nighttime will be mostly cloudy, with a low temperature around 40 degrees.
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- Diana Nyad is "feeling strong ... joking for the first time all day," says her handler
- She hopes to swim the 103 miles from Havana to the Florida Keys
- It's her fifth attempt in 35 years and will be her last, she says
- If she's successful, she'll be the first person to do so without a shark cage, flippers or wet suit
[Breaking news update 11:35 p.m.]
Diana Nyad has broken swimmer Penny Palfrey's 2012 distance record in the Cuba to Florida swim, putting her closer to Key West than anyone has ever swum without a shark cage.
[Original story last posted at 10:18 p.m.]
Diana Nyad better than halfway through Cuba-to-Florida swim
Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad was better than halfway across the strait separating Cuba from the Florida Keys on Sunday on her fifth attempt to make it across the channel, her support team reported.
After more than 30 hours in the water, the 64-year-old Nyad was more than 63 miles north of the marina where she began Saturday morning.
"This is farther than she has gone in any previous attempt," team navigator John Bartlett wrote on Nyad's website. "Her path is only 5 miles to the east of a straight line from Marina Hemingway to Key West, thanks to a favorable Gulf Stream."
Nyad was still "swimming strongly" at just over 1.5 mph -- but averaging about 2 mph thanks to that favorable current, Bartlett wrote.
Later, her handler said that Nyad was feeling strong and coherent.
"She is joking for the first time all day," wrote Bonnie Stoll on the same website.
"The only concern is that she is throwing up everything she eats. She's quite nauseous from sea salt, but that's to be expected," said Stoll. "We're giving her enough calories and nutrition. We're just going to keep feeding her, and we hope that some of it is going down. She's not weak. Her stroke count hasn't changed."
Nyad is attempting to become the first person to swim the 103 miles without the benefits of a shark cage, flippers or wet suit. She's said it will be her last attempt at that mark, after previous attempts that were thwarted by dehydration, ocean currents and excruciating jellyfish stings to her tongue.
This time, she's wearing a specially designed prosthetic face mask to prevent the jellyfish stings.
"It took us a year; we made mold after mold," Nyad said of the mask, adding it was the kind used to protect people who had suffered injuries to their faces.
"It's a two-edged sword for me. It's cumbersome, it's difficult to swim with, but it doesn't matter. I am safe. There's no other way."
She jumped into the water at 8:59 a.m. Saturday.
Were Nyad to swim the 103 miles, it would validate her attempts, which have spanned 35 years.
In 1997, Australian endurance swimmer Susie Maroney, then 22, completed the swim from within a shark cage.
Along with the protection the cage offers against toothy predators, swimmers say the cage provides a barrier against waves and other weather hazards.
Since Maroney's swim, some of the world's best endurance swimmers have tried to cross the straits of Florida without using a cage. All have been turned back, though Australia's Penny Palfrey made it 80 miles in 2012 before unfavorable currents forced her to quit.
But few have done so as persistently or as colorfully as Nyad.
The Los Angeles resident says she feels a special bond with Cubans and hopes her repeated efforts to swim between the two countries will help improve the still-tense relations between Havana and Washington.
Nyad is being accompanied by a 35-member crew aboard two sail boats. They monitor her health, update her progress on social media and try to ward off sharks that might view her as a potential snack.
If all goes as planned, Nyad said, the swim will take her three days to finish.


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By Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc believes it has "numerous" grounds to appeal a Mexico City civil court's $2.7 billion preliminary judgment against the company, including both errors in procedure and in application of law, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday.
The ruling in the case, which involves allegations of breach of contract related to an online yellow pages listings service, was made by the 49th Civil Court of the Federal District of Mexico City, Yahoo said on Friday.
The case has perplexed many investors and tech-industry observers since Yahoo disclosed it, particularly given the large value of the "non-final" judgment.
The lawsuit was brought by Worldwide Directories S.A. de C.V. and Ideas Interactivas S.A. de C.V. against Yahoo and Yahoo de Mexico, Yahoo said.
The companies could not be reached for comment, although Carlos Bazan-Canabal, who describes himself as a founder of Worldwide Directories, told Reuters via email that he had contracted a U.S.-based law firm to handle the Yahoo case.
He declined to comment further on the matter.
Bazan-Canabal operates a number of web sites. He said on one that he joined Yahoo in 1999, adding that he is a former executive of Yahoo Mexico, and that he helped to launch that company. Yahoo could not immediately be reached for comment on this.
The details of the suit remained unclear on Monday. Documents from local courts in Mexico are not available for public consultation. Yahoo declined to comment.
Yahoo signed a commercial relationship with the two companies in 2002, the person familiar with the matter said. Yahoo terminated the relationship with the companies in 2009, the person said.
Yahoo's appeal is expected to be heard by a panel of three judges in a superior court in Mexico City, the person said who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. It was not clear when Yahoo might file its appeal.
Yahoo's most recent 10Q filing, which lists major ongoing legal proceedings, makes no mention of the lawsuit.
"We believe the $2.7 billion figure appears high based on the seemingly small size of Yahoo's business in Mexico, but we believe shares could trade off modestly on the news," wrote JP Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth in a note to investors following Friday's announcement.
"It's not clear how the Mexican court arrived at the $2.7 billion figure, but it would represent 40 percent of our projected 2012 year-end cash balance for Yahoo," and equate to about $2.30 per share, he wrote.
Shares of Yahoo closed Monday's regular session down 1.2 percent, or 22 cents, at $18.55.
(Additional reporting by Dave Graham in Mexico City and Sarah McBride in San Francisco; Editing by Bernard Orr)


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — The Weis Center for the Performing Arts at Bucknell University will present Shakespeare's classic tale, "Romeo and Juliet," in a co-production of the Acting Company and the Guthrie Theater on Saturday, Feb. 19, at 8 p.m.
"The Acting Company is one of the treasures of America," said Bill Boswell, executive director of the Weis Center. "The company not only can be counted on to produce theater of the highest quality, but it has proved for many years to be the spawning ground for a lot of young actors, many of whom have gone on to major stage and film careers. So this is also a chance to catch tomorrow's stars and be able to say 'I saw them when...'
"This time the company brings to life Shakespeare's iconic romantic tragedy of innocent young lovers falling victim to family hatred and cruel destiny in a production that is immediate and deeply felt," he said.
The performance is directed by Penny Metropulos from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
The Acting Company continues its 38-year tradition of bringing touring classical productions, talented young actors and teaching artists into communities across America. Honored by the TONY Awards for Excellence in Theater, the Company has won the Obie, Audelco, Citibank's Excellence in Education and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. Since its founding by the legendary John Houseman and Margot Harley in 1972, The Acting Company has performed 135 productions touring to 48 states and 10 foreign countries.
Ticket information
Tickets for the performance are $20 per person. Discounts for senior citizens and students are available.
Tickets for Weis Center series performances are available in person from the Campus Box Office in the Weis Center weekdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; from the Barnes & Noble at Bucknell University bookstore in Lewisburg, weekdays and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, 12:30 to 4 p.m.; or the Campus Activities and Programs office on the ground floor of the Elaine Langone Center at Bucknell, weekdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Advance tickets also are available online or by calling 570-577-1000. The box office in the Weis Center lobby opens one hour before performances.
The 2010-11 season of Weis Center Events is generously supported by grants from the Bucknell University Association for the Arts and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in conjunction with the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Additional support for the series is provided by numerous and generous private donors, including members of the Weis Center Green Room Circle and Green Room Board.
Next event: Jumppanen residency
The Weis Center Series will present performances in February as part of a three-week residency by pianist Paavali Jumppanen, courtesy of funding by the Kushell Music Endowment. The residency will include the main Weis Center Series concert on Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. with music by Beethoven, Mozart and Stockhausen; a family matinee performance of Saint-Saens' "Carnival of the Animals" on Feb. 26 at 1 p.m.; and the Gallery Series performance of Messiaen's masterpiece, "Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus," on Tuesday, Feb. 22 at 8 p.m.
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The Minnesota Twins have had all of two managers over the last quarter-century, so it's a bit startling to see Ron Gardenhire beginning the last year of his contract, his job seemingly on the line after back-to-back seasons of more than 95 losses.
Of course, Gardenhire isn't alone. Four years after winning the World Series, Joe Girardi is in the final season of his deal with the New York Yankees. Don Mattingly is in a similar situation with the Dodgers — and even Walt Weiss, who just took over the Colorado Rockies in November, is signed for only a year.
Every season, a handful of managers find themselves under increased pressure, and 2013 is no different. A manager facing the end of his contract isn't necessarily doomed, but these next few months will be crucial for some of baseball's biggest names.


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A March Madness warm-up turned into a great escape for Gonzaga.
The Zags got pushed to the limit by Southern, pulling out a 64-58 victory in the closing minutes in Salt Lake City to avoid becoming the first No. 1 seed to lose to a 16 in the NCAA Tournament.
Kelly Olynyk led the Zags (32-2) with 21 points. But it was a pair of 3-pointers – one by Gary Bell Jr., the next by Kevin Pangos – that staked the Bulldogs to a 62-58 lead only moments after the game was tied at 56 with 3:45 left.
Derick Beltran had 21 points to lead Southern (23-10), and his 14-foot baseline jumper tied it at 56. But the Jaguars didn't make another field goal.
No. 1 seeds are now 113-0 against 16s.
No. 9 Wichita St. 73, No. 8 Pittsburgh 55: Malcolm Armstead scored 22 points, Cleanthony Early added 21, and the Shockers outslasted the Panthers in Salt Lake City.
Carl Hall added 11 points for the Shockers (27-8), who forced Pitt into 15 turnovers and held the Panthers to 35 percent shooting, including 1-for-17 from 3-point range.
Freshman Steven Adams had 13 points and 11 rebounds to lead Pitt (24-9), which saw leading scorer Tray Woodall miss his first four shots and finish with two points and five turnovers.
No. 6 Arizona 81, No. 11 Belmont 64: Mark Lyons scored 23 points, and the Wildcats used their huge size advantage to shut down the Bruins in Salt Lake City.
Arizona (26-7) rolled past Belmont (26-7), which fell to 0-6 in tourney games. The Wildcats held a 44-18 edge on the boards, outscored Belmont 36-18 in the paint, and blocked five shots.
Kevin Parrom, Kaleb Tarczewski and Nick Johnson added 12 points each for Arizona, which shot 57 percent from the field and made 9 of 17 3-pointers, including a critical one from Solomon Hill with 4:40 remaining to stop an 11-2 Belmont run.
Kerron Johnson led the Bruins with 22 points, and Ian Clark finished with 21.
No. 14 Harvard 68, No. 3 New Mexico 62: Also in Salt Lake City, Wesley Saunders scored 18 points, and Laurent Rivard had 17 to help Harvard pull off Thursday's biggest upset thus far.
The Ivy League advanced for the first time in the tournament since a very good Cornell team made the regional semifinals in 2010. It also was Harvard's first NCAA Tournament win.
The Mountain West Conference, judged one of the top two leagues in college basketball all season, fell to 1-3 so far this week.
Harvard (20-9) will try to keep it going Saturday against sixth-seeded Arizona.
New Mexico closed the season at 29-6. Alex Kirk had 22 points for the Lobos, a popular pick to make the Final Four.
Instead, they still haven't made it through the first weekend since 1974.


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WASHINGTON — Hours before Israeli and Palestinian leaders met today to end a three-year freeze on negotiations, Secretary of State John Kerry named veteran diplomat Martin Indyk as the Obama administration's special envoy to shepherd talks toward a final settlement of the decades-old conflict.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sent senior negotiators to Washington, showing what Kerry called "courageous leadership" on an issue that the Obama administration hopes to revive within the next nine months.
Kerry told reporters here that Indyk, who served as U.S. ambassador to Israel and as assistant secretary of state for Near East Affairs during the Clinton administration, would work closely with the parties to "navigate the path to peace and to avoid its many pitfalls." Frank Lowenstein, a longtime foreign policy adviser to Kerry, was named deputy envoy.
Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat were scheduled to meet U.S. counterparts for dinner tonight, with talks set to begin Tuesday morning. The State Department said this inaugural session would wrap up with a statement issued sometime in the afternoon. That first announcement will be closely parsed by analysts who are eager to see whether Kerry's team — led by diplomats who have tried and failed previously to broker a deal — can crack through stances that are even more hardened by now.
In brief remarks, Indyk called it a "daunting and humbling challenge." Kerry and other politicians warned against getting overly optimistic for a breakthrough at this early stage.
"Many difficult choices lie ahead for the negotiators, for the leaders, as we seek reasonable compromises on tough, complicated, emotional and symbolic issues," Kerry told reporters.
Analysts praised Kerry's determination and said Indyk knows the challenges.
"He's clear-eyed. He sees a solution as being important to the United States and to Israel and Palestine as well, and that's a darn good place to start," said Arthur Hughes, a former ambassador to Yemen and scholar at the Middle East Institute. "It's something we can't not try."
Kerry, who has traveled frequently to the region since he became secretary of state, is so invested in the talks that he's unlikely to be able to hand them off to an envoy, said Aaron David Miller, a vice president at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a former adviser to Democratic and Republican secretaries of state.
"John Kerry is going to be attached to these negotiations like a barnacle to the side of a boat if they're going to work," Miller said. "The amount of time and energy invested means that he is now permanently associated with these negotiations."
Miller noted there is enough doubt about the possibility of success and risk that it "heightens the urgency to keep the talks afloat."
"It's a real investment trap for him," Miller said.
Just as soon as plans for a summit were announced, both Israelis and Palestinians began violating an unofficial agreement to keep the talks quiet, quarreling publicly about conditions and goals.
On Sunday, the Israeli Cabinet narrowly voted in favor of releasing 104 Palestinian prisoners, one of the demands of the Palestinians before agreeing to direct talks.
At the White House, spokesman Josh Earnest said the administration welcomed Israel's decision to release the prisoners, calling it a "positive step forward." He also praised Netanyahu for an "interest in making the difficult and courageous decisions that will move this process forward."
Plenty of other contentious issues remain, including setting a starting point for border talks. Palestinians insist Israel must go back to its borders from before the 1967 war, when Israel captured the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, all areas at the core of a future Palestinian state. Israel has rejected that in the past.
Another big snare is the issue of Israeli settlements. Israel has resisted setting a timetable for a slowdown in construction, arguing that such thorny issues should be worked out in face-to-face talks, not by setting preconditions.
The Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved a draft bill that, if it makes it through the Knesset, would put to referendum any peace agreement that comes from the rejuvenated talks. Opponents of the bill say it just adds one more hurdle on the road to a peace deal.
President Barack Obama has no plans to meet with the Israeli and Palestinian negotiators while they are in town, though that might change.
"There's a role for the United States to play in terms of encouraging and facilitating and cajoling, but ultimately when it comes down to making decisions, it's going to be the responsibility of the negotiators in both sides to strike an agreement," Earnest said.
The White House took credit for getting the talks restarted, saying that the process was kicked off by Obama's visit to the region in March and that Kerry has been traveling there frequently "at the president's direction."
"We're certainly encouraged that the two parties are coming to Washington and beginning their conversations," Earnest said. "But we're also cognizant of the hard work that remains over the next nine months."
He wouldn't characterize whether Obama is optimistic, saying that "it's obviously a good sign that both sides are sitting down."


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As Gov. Ryan prepares to consider granting clemency to Illinois' death row inmates. Wednesday, the victims family's finally had their say.
Nearly 50 family's faced off with Ryan in what was their opportunity to tell the governor what they think about his handling of death penalty cases.
As the victims families started arriving to talk to Gov. Ryan Wednesday morning they had only one thing in mind, to convince the governor that the person who murdered their loved one should not be granted clemency.
"I want him to take a serious look at my father. What he looked liked and that he didn't deserve to die the way he did, said Bob Peters Jr.", whose father was murdered in 1992.
The meeting lasted about five hours and took an emotional toll on most of the victim's family's. This woman was so overcome by emotion that she collapsed as she spoke to reporters, others say that they were just mad they even had to be there.
"Why do we have to wait so long? My son was killed 10 years ago and I still have to go through this. The system really sucks," said Deloris Bussel, whose son was murdered in 1991.
For the Peters, the meeting proved to be exhausting. They said they were emotionally drained after hearing countless victims describe each of their family's tragedies in detail.
"I was exhausting. Hearing your story for the tenth time is amazing but hearing people who have had to go through this for 20 years makes our ordeal seem like a drop in the bucket," said Becky Peters, whose father was murdered in 1992.
The governor though did assure these families that he would not impose a statewide blanket clemency, reassurance for some. But for others they still have fear about what the governor may do.
"I think the governor won't lift the moratorium like I should. But I really think that the governor won't even make a decision on this before he leaves office," said Bob Peters Jr.
While the impact of these meetings may never be known, what is, is that Rod Blagojevich is expected to review these cases himself once he becomes governor in January, meaning, these family's may have to go through this ordeal again.


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Dec. 5, 2012 02:51 PM
PURCHASE, NY--(Marketwire - December 05, 2012) - Kobrand Wine & Spirits is proud to announce five of their Italian wines have earned 2013 Tre Bicchieri awards from Gambero Rosso. The award winning wines include Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia 2009, Tenuta Sette Ponti Oreno 2009, Tenuta di Nozzole Il Pareto 2009, Michele Chiarlo Barbera d'Asti La Court 2009 and Feudo Maccari Saia 2010. In addition to the five Tre Bicchieri accolades, Gambero Rosso crowned Sassicaia 2009 'Best Red Wine of the Year.' Each of these wines expresses unique terroir and the winemaking philosophy of their producers:
Tenuta San Guido Sassicaia produced in the same style with the same winemaking approach every vintage, this blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc earned Tre Bicchieri's "Best Red Wine of the Year" 2013. Tenuta San Guido's visionary winemaking philosophy and incomparable wines started a stylistic revolution in Italian winemaking in the late 1960s that heralded the concept of the "Super Tuscan" with its release of Sassicaia.
Sette Ponti Oreno is a rich blend of Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot made from 15- to 20-year-old vines, named after the Oreno River that runs through the estate. Dr. Antonio Moretti, luxury good entrepreneur, began blending his own wines in 1997.
Nozzole Il Pareto is a Super Tuscan, sourced entirely from 29-year-old Cabernet Sauvignon vines in the 10-acre Il Pareto vineyard. The Folonari family began making wine in Tuscany in the 1700s. Producing exceptional expressions from Tuscany's top appellations, Tenute Ambrogio e Giovanni Folonari is one of Tuscany's leading producers with 250 years of experience.
Michele Chiarlo La Court is a single-vineyard Barbera, made from grapes grown in the famed La Court vineyard in Nizza. Michele Chiarlo, established in 1956, produces some of the region's best Barberas and high-quality Barolos.
Feudo Maccari Saia is a varietal wine made from Sicily's most noble red grape, Nero d'Avola, grown on low-yielding, 20-year-old vines. Feudo Maccari is the newest estate to be launched by Sette Ponti's owner Dr. Antonio Moretti. Feudo Maccari is assembled from more than 50 separate plots, giving the wine a diverse complexity.
Gambero Rosso, an Italian food and wine magazine and publishing group, launched their Italian wine guide Vini d'Italia in 1987. Widely regarded as Italy's most authoritative guide, wines are assigned one to three glasses (bicchieri). The guide only includes wines which are deemed "above average" with the highest rating of three glasses (Tre Bicchieri) indicating an "extraordinary wine." The ratings are based upon blind tasting by independent experts. This year's tasting included 45,000 wines which the experts narrowed down to 20,000, from 2,350 wineries. Of these 20,000, only 399 were awarded Tre Bicchieri.
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Tropical Storm Ingrid forms in southern Gulf of Mexico | News
(USA Today) -- Tropical Storm Ingrid formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico on Friday morning, the National Hurricane Center reported.
As of 11 a.m., Ingrid had winds of 45 mph and was located about 60 miles east-northeast of Veracruz, Mexico. It was drifting to the west at 2 mph.
It is the ninth named storm of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season.
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The hurricane center predicts that the system will meander over the extreme southwestern Gulf of Mexico for the next two to three days. It is not forecast to strengthen into a hurricane.
The greatest impacts from Ingrid will likely be heavy rainfall, flash flooding and mudslides in eastern Mexico, according to AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski.
A wide swath of eastern Mexico near and inland of the Gulf Coast has the potential to pick up more than 10 inches of rainfall, with isolated amounts over 20 inches through next week, the Weather Channel reported.
The flooding could be "life-threatening," according to the hurricane center. A tropical storm warning has been issued by the government of Mexico for a portion of the coast.
The storm could also bring needed rainfall farther north along the Mexico coast and perhaps as far north as South Texas, depending on its track, AccuWeather reports. "Any reasonable rainfall will be welcomed by many residential and agricultural interests over the Rio Grande Valley," Sosnowski says.
There are now three active, named systems in the Atlantic basin. Ingrid joins Tropical Storm Humberto and Tropical Depression Gabrielle, which are both spinning in the open Atlantic Ocean and are expected to continue to weaken on Friday.


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08.09.05● Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Coatings:
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The company also named K.C. Smith
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G-Braves quickly finding their niche06/06/2010 1:42 AM ET
By Benjamin Hill / MLB.com
I attended a game at Gwinnett County's Coolray Field on Saturday evening and ended up with termites in my pants.
It happened at the conclusion of the first inning, when I was brought onto the field while wearing a pair of billowing pantaloons. A member of the promotions staff used a slingshot to launch stuffed termites into the air, and it was my job to catch them. In my pants.
I am pleased to say I succeeded at this all-important task, safely ensconcing three of these pests betwixt my oversized trousers and lower body. I was declared a winner in front of the 7,508 fans in attendance and exited the playing field in triumph.
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Welcome to the neighborhood
Participating in an absurdist between-inning contest is one of many potential highlights of the Coolray Field experience.
The sprawling facility, home of the International League's Gwinnett Braves, is in its second year of operation and still feels like a just-opened toy on Christmas. And that sense of newness is palpable, especially since the team is operating in a market that is getting its first taste of the Minor League Baseball experience. An Atlanta suburb, Gwinnett County is growing at a meteoric rate. Its population is approaching 1 million and it boasts one of the largest and fastest-growing public school systems in the United States.
The Gwinnett Braves played their inaugural season in 2009 after relocating from Richmond, Va. The location is a perfect fit for the franchise, and not just because of the region's burgeoning population. The club is owned by the parent Atlanta Braves and the close proximity between the two franchises greatly facilitates player transactions and scouting opportunities. The proximity also gives fans a built-in rooting interest, providing a chance to see future (and former) Atlanta players in an intimate and affordable environment.
The lack of Minor League baseball in Gwinnett County's past has been something of a challenge for the G-Braves, who need to expose fans to a more irreverent way of doing things without alienating them. When was the last time someone had termites in their pants at Turner Field?
"We're bringing everyone into the shallow end first," said G-Braves community relations director Courtney Lawson. "[Minor League baseball] is a different experience and a different perspective.
"There are still so many people in this area who don't realize we're here or that we play as many games as we do. That's why we stage as many non-baseball events as we can, because we know that once people see this place they're going to want to come back. We're very confident in our product."
At the helm of the operation is general manager North Johnson, a veteran of more than 30 Minor League seasons who most recently presided over the Carolina League's Myrtle Beach Pelicans. Johnson was hired in January, giving him a very small window to get acquainted before the onslaught of the regular season.
"It's a fun challenge, taking this over," Johnson said as he gave me a tour of Coolray Field. "After my first season in Myrtle Beach, we experienced an attendance increase of one third. And that's what I hope to do here."
If Johnson is successful, the average Coolray crowd would approach 7,000. The outsized stadium easily can handle those numbers, boasting dozens of concession stands, a sprawling grass seating area and an open concourse that allows 360 degrees of unique vantage points.
"The basics are the same here as they were in Myrtle Beach and [previous employer] Rancho Cucamonga, but I'm still learning the intricacies because everything here is on a larger scale," Johnson said.
As if to illustrate this point, he opened the doors to the kitchen that handles all the food orders in the upper-level suites. In a typical Minor League environment, the visual would be interns speedily putting plastic wrap over metal trays filled with hot dogs. At Coolray, however, there's a full-time kitchen staff operating in a fully stocked professional environment and presided over by an executive chef with extensive culinary training and experience.
A symbiotic relationship
In fact, it is chef Blake Stembridge who is responsible for one of the Gwinnett Braves' most distinct selling points: The Knucksie. Named after the specialty pitch of Atlanta Braves legend Phil Niekro, this creation features pulled barbecue pork, pickle chips, caramelized onions and two kinds of barbecue sauce served atop toasted corn bread. At CoolRay, it is spoken of in hushed, reverent tones -- the supreme concession stand experience.
What's more, The Knucksie has gotten the callup to the bigs and is now being sold at Atlanta Braves games. In exchange, the G-Braves began serving one of Turner Field's specialties: The Hammer. Named for Hank Aaron, this dish features a fried chicken breast topped with bacon, onions, cheese and mayonnaise and served on toasted waffles.
This sort of teamwork exemplifies the bigger picture in Gwinnett -- the new kid on the block working in close conjunction with the more established parent club.
"The [Atlanta] Braves have been a big help, sharing with us their knowledge of the market and giving plenty of advice on who to work with and who to avoid," said Johnson. "We're the little brother and they protect us."


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In a previous post Rob Allen showed how to return JSON data from a controller in a Zend Framework 2 application. In this new post he shows how to use the "Accepts" header from the client to do the same thing.
Following yesterday's article on returning JSON from a ZF2 controller action, Lukas suggested that I should also demonstrate how to use the Accept header to get JSON. So this is how you do it!
You'll need to create the JsonStrategy first, then you can return the ViewModel from the controller. If all goes well, you should see the sample HTML page rendered in a browser and JSON output when requested with the right "Accept" header (he uses curl in his example).


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Bay County may have said no to relocating the airport, but Panama City Beach residents overwhelmingly said yes by a three to one margin.
That gives beach officials good ammunition in a possible fight to take the project away from the other local governments.
According to a 1989 provision to Florida state law, the city of Panama City Beach can build an airport miles outside its city limits.
Voters on the beach spoke Tuesday. They want a new airport.
Wednesday, Panama City Beach Mayor, Lee Sullivan, says that can happen with or without the blessing of the county.
"It's nice we can do this and sort of play connect the dots."
Mayor Sullivan is talking about chapter 89-490. It says the city of Panama City Beach is authorized to plan, acquire, and develop industrial development facilities within 12 miles of the city limits.
An airport falls under the state's definition of an industrial facility, so Panama City Beach officials can go after the airport project in West Bay and not have to annex anything.
"We'll go after the parcel so we don't have to make people part of the city if they don't want to be."
Other Beach officials say the idea merits discussion.
"We'd have to get the okay with the property owner, but we'd definitely go after it if asked."
Mayor Sullivan says he has not talked with anyone from the Saint Joe Company about the Beach spear-heading a new airport. He says no matter what entity, whether it be the Beach or Bay County, eventually a new airport will benefit everyone.
The airport vote came out 55-percent to 45-percent against relocation. However, about 76-percent of beach voters approved the move.


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NEW YORK (AP) -- Rajon Rondo lost his cool, and any chance at history, in the second quarter when Boston last met Brooklyn.
This time, the second period featured some of the best basketball the Celtics have played this season.
Rondo scored 19 points in his first full game against the Nets this season, and the Celtics won 93-76 on Tuesday in another game with some heated moments between the division rivals.
Rondo, sidelined in the first meeting and thrown out of the second after shoving Nets forward Kris Humphries into the courtside seats, outplayed counterpart Deron Williams and helped the Celtics take control early.
"We moved the ball; we rebounded the ball," Rondo said.
A month after the teams scuffled in Boston, there was another skirmish in the fourth quarter that resulted in four technical fouls. But that was the most fight the Nets put up in a disappointing performance on the national stage of the Christmas opener. They were never in the game after the first 20 minutes, and their fans headed to the exits with under 2 minutes left as a "Let's go Celtics!" chant broke out.
"It was a big game for us. It was a division rival. We were ready for a big game. It just didn't happen," Williams said.
Rookie Jared Sullinger tied a career high with 16 points and Jeff Green had 15 for the Celtics (14-13), who avoided falling under .500 with just their second victory in six games.
The Celtics took control with a 23-5 run in the second quarter of the opener of their four-game road trip. They had 11 assists on 13 baskets and outscored the Nets 34-18 in the period after dropping the previous two meetings.


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Laughter Quotes and Sayings
Laughter will always be the best medicine, silence will always be the best revenge, and love will always be all you need.
Laughter is the best medicine but if you laugh for no reason, you need medicine.
Don't live life so seriously, always have time to laugh. Laughter not only adds years to your life, but adds life to your years!!!
Laughter is the fastest way to connect two hearts
Laughter is my drug of choice.
Life is better when you are laughing.
You don't stop laughing cos you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing.
Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
– Walt Disney
Laughing will give your diaphragm a work out, will show you have a sense of humour and can increase your life by 8 years – so laugh!
Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves – for they shall never cease to be amused!
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.
– Jay Leno
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
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Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak powwowed with the media this afternoon, and just to make sure the Times doesn't think we're stealing from them, AK and I decided to stop by. We'll have more up for you ASAP, but for the time being, here's a smattering of what he had to say. As you might guess, most of the questions centered around the draft. Go figure.
On moving up:
"I think everybody wants to move up. I've talked to every GM in the league, sometimes several times. Everybody wants to move up. There's a cost associated with moving up, whether it's a player or another pick. At the end of the day it doesn't happen very frequently."
Is it something you'll try to pursue?
"Yeah, we'd like to move up. I think every time you're in the draft, if you're at 26, you wish you were at 25. If you're 25, you wish you were at 20. You always look and say, "Wow, I wish I had a little better pick than I actually have." Last year we were at 10, and I'd have felt more comfortable if we could have gotten to eight, although we got the player we wanted at 10. So that's just the way your mind works this time of year. You never have a great level of comfort with who you're gonna get and who you like, because you don't know what the other GMs think. You don't know exactly who is going to fall to you when draft time rolls around."
Are you thinking point guard? Big man?
"In terms of the draft, I don't think we're pinpointing a position. When you look at the draft, with a team that wants to win games... we won 45 games, we want to get to 47, get to 50, we want to get past the first round in the playoffs, it's unlikely that in this day and age that the 26th pick is going to play a lot for you next year. Although you look at our roster and you may say we need help in the backcourt, I don't think we're going to get a backcourt player that's going to play for us to help us next year. That would be great if we did, but we're not going to draft just a backcourt player. We'll see who's there, whether it's a big man, small forward or a ball handling guard, and the guy that we feel will have the best chance to play in this league for 8 to 10 years will be the guy we take."
On how having a D-League team will change things:
"...That will be a factor in developing our players. Whether it will be a factor in the draft this year is too early to say. We're limited to how many players we can carry on a roster... Once you have your roster at 15, or 13 or 14, you're limited as to what you can send down to the NBDL. So it'll be a factor, but it won't be an overriding factor."
As a team, you do seem to need guard help.
"I would agree. Laron Profit seemed to be finding a little niche for himself in January and February when he tore his Achilles tendon. And at that point, I felt we really raced through the season one guard short. We didn't have a deep backcourt to begin with. We brought on a guy who played great the whole year in Smush (Parker), but I don't think anybody had any expectation level for him. Sasha was a big unknown also. He became our third guard. So it's not a stretch to say that our backcourt is an area that needs to be addressed."
On Brandon Roy:
"He's a heck of a player. Of all the players available for the draft right now, I could name two or three that could probably play right away. Because of his maturity level, his size, his athletic ability and his skill ability, he'd probably be one of them. He's the most ready to play."
On trusting what you hear at this time of the year, when GMs aren't always telling the truth to each other:
"A lot of it is gamesmanship. We have an owner that likes to play poker, likes to play cards. And to some degree, in an odd kind of way, that's what it is. You work towards the moment of truth, which is draft day. If there are going to be deals, teams are going to play their cards close, and you're not going to really know what their feelings are until the next day or two (leading to the draft). And the closer you to a deadline, that's when you really get a feel for what teams will and won't do. Which makes sense, because you haven't seen a lot of deals made here in the last three or four weeks, even though we've been allowed to do it. Teams are assessing their hand, they're trying to get a feel for the draft. Everybody's talking to each other trying to get a feeling for what they can and can't do, and they're making lists, just like we are...."
On contingency plans as the draft day goes on:
"...I don't know what the other 25 teams in front of me will do. I have a pretty good feel for what we think will take place, and of course we know the 26 players that we would like to take.... The scenario always exists that a couple of players that you didn't think would be taken are taken, and then (conversely) you have two or three players to choose from that you didn't think would be there that are all of a sudden there."
On where Bynum might have gone in this year's draft, his progress this summer:
"Based on the number of calls I've gotten on him in the last four weeks, I'd have to believe that there's a really high demand for a player like that. A lot would have depended on what kind of year he had at Connecticut...I can't answer the question. He remains a player with an awful lot of promise. He's in here every day working. I know the teams in the NBA know about him, because every time (we) talk they ask me about him.... We're expecting some progress this summer with him on the court. He's working pretty hard, and we're looking forward towards the summer league....
...It's just so hard to get players that size that are true centers. I've got to believe he'd be selected higher than 10, which was our thought process (in last year's draft)...."
On Bynum trade rumors:
"There's no discussions of a trade. I've seen some rumors, and Andrew, I kidded with with him the other day- because there have been a couple of things written about him being traded — I kidded with him that we're not going to trade him. I said I want to see another year of play before I make that decision...but we're not going to trade Andrew. We're very happy with him. He's grown an inch, he's gotten bigger, he's in the weight room, he's gotten stronger.... We haven't measured him recently. We measured him about two months ago, and he had grown an inch. So he's over seven feet tall."
On Odom and Bynum, discussing concerns they might have as their names pop up in rumors:
"With the veteran players, we don't sit down with them. They understand this time of year, they understand what goes on before the trade deadline. I have not sat down with Chris or Lamar. I explained in a joking fashion and more serious fashion with Andrew and his representative how it all works. And nobody is guaranteed to be anywhere, so that's not to say something couldn't pop up, but we're not trying to trade any of those players....
...As a young player, Andrew Bynum doesn't really understand the whole concept of trade talks prior to the deadline, prior to the draft this time of year. I try to educate the young guys, first of all that nothing is guaranteed, and second you're going to hear a lot of rumors. That's just the nature of the business... We don't have a trade about to happen, and we're not trying to trade Lamar, Chris, or Andrew."
More to come later...
UPDATE — TUESDAY, 11:30 p.m.
Here's the rest of Kupchak's media session...
On the impact of not having high school guys in the draft this year:
"... It's a really good high school class. If you're a college basketball fan next year it's going to be an exciting year... There's going to be a lot of players next year available. I would guess that five or six of those guys if they were in the draft this year, they'd be first round picks. So that clearly would move five or six players down towards us."
People talk about this as being a weak draft (on top), but a deep draft. Would you agree with that assessment?
"I wouldn't call it a deep draft. I wouldn't call it a deep draft. We feel confident that we're going to get a good player down there, but I just get a feeling that it's getting a little bit tougher for us to get a great comfort level with 26 players right now. Whereas in years past, whether you have 20 or 22, or last year we had 10 and you know you're going to get a pretty good player. So we think we're going to get one, but I sense in the league that there are a lot of teams that are trying to move out of the first round because they don't have a great comfort level with the talent in the draft. I just get that sense."
Does that lack of consensus at the top and throughout make it harder to trade up? Trade down? Easier?
"I'm not sure it's any different than any other year in terms of making a deal. If you want to move up, there's normally an associated cost with that. You have to give up another player or give up another pick. Two firsts to move up a couple of places. But GMs don't normally want to move down. They'll move out of the draft, but they really don't want to move down. Most GMs want to move up in the draft."
How much different would it be if you still had the 21st pick (traded away in the Mihm deal):
"Well, it's five slots. For the novice, a spectator to look at it and say, "Well, it's 25 or 26 versus 21, it doesn't seem to be a whole lot." But as I mentioned earlier, you always like to have a pick one or two or three earlier. So to that degree it's significant, but it's not like 10 versus 26, or 15 versus 26. You're going to get the same quality of player."
Hypothetically, if you decided to move up, what would you do? How could that be done?
"What kind of deal could you do? You could trade this year's pick for a future pick. You could trade this year's pick for a player. We have an exception. Normally, when you trade to get a player, you have to give up a player because the salaries have to meet. You have to create room. But we have an exception for about $1.9 million, which means we can take a player without giving up a player. So that would be an option. Take a player, give up a pick."
How do you keep track of all those exceptions?
"That's what we do. It's our job. Believe me (the list) is not in my head. We have a book that's updated every day. We spend a lot of time on it, and if I ever lose the book I'm in trouble."
With all the rookies (and young players) on the roster last year, do you feel like you need another rookie?
"That's a concern. Not so much bringing in another rookie, but overloading your team with too many players of the same age window. There's something that's not really good about having a lot of talent that's really young, because they all kind of have the same mindset. They all want to play, they all want to prove themselves, they all need minutes. They're all very similar, in our opinion anyway you have to have a good mix of veteran players that play big minutes, young players that play, maybe a veteran or two that's going to play some minutes, and maybe is a little bit past his prime but he brings something to the locker room or he brings something to the huddle. And he understands that his role later on his career is not about the minutes but is being part of something. So all those things factor in. So we don't want to have a team with just young players, because number one, as I mentioned we want to have a good mix, but we also feel that we want to win games too."
You believe that the 26th pick probably won't play much. Will the pick have any impact on what you might go out and get in the free agent market? Are they separate issues?
"They're separate. Although I'd like to think that the player we pick in the draft is going to help us immediately, I know that's unrealistic. So we'll try to look to bring a young player on board through the draft if we keep our pick, which I assume we will, and we hope that player will be in the league eight to ten years. We won't, when we look at our depth chart, put that player in a position where he's going to play a lot of minutes. If he does, that's great. But we'll look to improve the team in terms of its on the court performance via a trade or free agency. That's how we're probably going to help this team."
So if you draft a guard, for example, that won't keep you from signing one?


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Market Insight – 3 Dec 2012
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Global equities saw continued inflows this week albeit at a slower pace then previous weeks. The US market was supported by fund buying as they went into the MSCI Index rebalancing final session of the year. Next week all focus will again turn to the …MARKET INSIGHT
By Bryn Griffiths (CEO, Edge Capital Markets)
Global equities saw continued inflows this week albeit at a slower pace then previous weeks. The US market was supported by fund buying as they went into the MSCI Index rebalancing final session of the year. Next week all focus will again turn to the fiscal cliff negotiations in the US, where it is becoming more evident by the day that there is unlikely to be a quick resolution to this with some commentators starting to use the phrase "stalemate". As the week closed Obama stated that there would be "prolonged negotiations" and House Speaker John Boehner told reporters that "right now we're almost nowhere". If this is in fact the case and no agreement is reached then the US economy will be facing a whopping US$607bln of automatic tax increases and spending cuts at the beginning of 2013. There is no doubt this will hurt an economy which once again showed signs this week that it is gaining strength. Manufacturing, housing and the consumer all showed improvements last month with Core Durable Goods Orders printing +1.5% vs -0.6%, pending home sales printed +5.2% vs 0.9% and the all important US consumer's confidence rose for the 3rd consecutive month printing 73.7 vs 73.1. The European region continues to be presented with headwinds despite the German lawmakers passing Greece's latest rescue package. Germany, the core, is definitely being impacted by the prolonged problems with the peripheral countries. The German consumer climate took a further knock last month with the data missing to the downside when release at 5.9 vs expected 6.3. Wide based European unemployment remained at 11.7% despite the rise in Italy's monthly unemployment rate which deteriorated to 11.1% from 10.9% last month. At this stage it appears that inflation in the region is under control, so there is further room for the ECB to inject further funds if required. To note, Moody's downgraded the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) to Aa1 from Aaa and the European Financial Stability Facility provisionally to Aa1 from Aaa. This will have an impact on the cost of the fund to borrow money. The CBOE Volatility index continues to fall as investors grow more confident. The index stands at 15.5% and has now fallen 12.6% in the last 4 weeks.
Weekly Moves: Australia 200 +2.1%, Hong Kong +0.5%, Japan +0.8%, China -2.3%, France +0.8%, Germany +1.4%, UK +0.8%, Dow Jones +0.1%, S&P500 +0.5%, Nasdaq +1.3%
The US dollar saw minor flows this week with the US Dollar index closing flat. Currencies were again sidelined by investors with the Major currencies closing within +0.3 to -0.4% of last weeks closes. Focus for this market will now be on the progress in Washington to a resolution to the fiscal cliff stand-off. Our FX desk has reported today that NZDUSD vols have fallen to the lowest in 15 years evidencing investor's lack of interest in the market. The recent strong rally in the USDJPY consolidated this week, with all eyes now on the election outcome of the 16th December where it is widely expected the pro stimulus LDP party will regain control again and aggressively stimulate the Japanese economy through a weaker Yen policy. The USDJPY has now rallied 5% in the last 8 weeks. This has translated into a 6.5% rally in the export heavy Japanese Nikkei stock index. Some further devaluing of the Yen will be required to stave off insolvencies of some major Japanese exporters. Sharp and Panasonic have recently had their bond ratings reduced Junk by S&P.
Weekly Moves: AUDUSD +0.1%, GBPUSD -0.1%, EURUSD -0.2%, NZDUSD -0.4%, USDCAD +0.3%, USDJPY +0.1%, USDCHF +0.0%
Interest Rates
This week saw inflows into the global bond markets as investors sought some degree of safety from a lack of resolution to the Fiscal Cliff negotiations between the White House and US Senate. The movements in these markets swing from supported one week to unsupported the following depending on central bankers and country leaders' comments. This week is big in terms of interest rate announcements with Reserve Bank of Australia (430pm Tuesday NZT), Bank of Canada (300am Wednesday NZT), Reserve Bank of New Zealand (9am Thursday NZT), Bank of England (100am Friday NZT) and European Central Bank (230am Friday NZT). Only the RBA is forecast to change rates with a 25bp cut expected. There rest are forecast to remain unchanged. The Italians' 10yr bond Auction yield fell to 4.45% from 4.81%.
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Precious Metals saw strong outflows with both Gold and Silver closing the week lower. After a strong move up in the silver prices recently it seemed the uncertainty around Fiscal Cliff discussions led investors to take profits provided, and possibly now sit in cash awaiting the next lead. Lack of inflation globally at the moment, evidenced by flat or negative recent data releases is not giving any support to this market at present. In contrast the price of copper rallied strongly this week to close up 2.9%. As copper is used as a future measure of perceived growth it seems the market is expecting good GDP data releases in the coming month. We have a significant stream of data releases this week that should give some further clarity to the global economic landscape.
Weekly Moves: Gold -2.1%, Silver -2.1%, Copper +2.9%.
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Dominik Hasek has finally decided to hang up the skates for good.
The 47-year-old goaltender hadn't played professionally since 2010-11, when he suited up in four games for Spartak Moscow in Russia's Kontinental Hockey League. Hasek also saw action in 13 games for Pardubice in the Czech Extraliga three seasons ago.
According to an NHL.com story on Tuesday, Hasek expressed his wish to play exhibition games in the American Hockey League in preparation for an expected NHL return, and that one NHL club remained in contact. However, that club apparently told Hasek's agent that they weren't interested anymore.
Sabres general manager Darcy Regier told the Buffalo News back in mid-July that he and head coach Lindy Ruff joined Hasek in meetings to discuss a possible return, but that the club decided not to press any further.
Hasek last suited up in North America for the Detroit Red Wings in 2008, helping the club win their fourth Stanley Cup in an 12-year span thanks to a 27-10-3 mark with a 2.14 goals-against average and five shutouts.
A former 10th round pick of the Chicago Blackhawks in 1983, Hasek didn't make his NHL debut until 1990.
He starred for the Sabres from 1992-01, taking home six Vezina Trophies, a pair of Hart Trophies as league MVP along with two Jennings Trophies for allowing the fewest total goals in that span.
Voted an All-Star on six occasions, Hasek participated in 735 regular-season games with Chicago, Buffalo, Detroit and Ottawa, going 389-223-95 with a 2.20 GAA and 81 whitewashes. In the playoffs, the flexible netminder finished 65-49 with 14 shutouts and a 2.02 GAA. He won his first Cup with the Wings in 2002, then retired, only to return to Motown for the 2003-04 season.
In addition, he represented Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic in four Olympic Winter Games (1988, 1998, 2002, 2006), backstopping the Czechs to gold in '98.


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It isn't often that a middle schooler earns the top prize in the Edison Kiwanis Science & Engineering Fair.
For North Fort Myers Academy for the Arts student Derrick Robles, it has become an annual thing.
Robles, an eighth-grader, won the Grand Award at the fair in January and a four-year scholarship to Florida Gulf Coast University - both for the second time.
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North Fort Myers Academy for the Arts student Derrick Robles
The only down side about the second win is that when he takes his project to the state competition in April, it will be when he's also supposed to appear in the school's production of "Music Man II."
Robles, who lives in Cape Coral, took home the big prize for his experiment on the affect of a super capacitor on how long a solar-powered fan can run without a constant light source.
A super capacitor is an electronic component that stores and discharges electrical energy, and it was attached to a motor that had a fan on it, powered by a solar panel, Robles said.
Robles ran tests without the super capacitor, with the solar panel receiving energy from a work light to spin the fan. When the light was turned off, the fan stopped almost immediately.
He then used a super capacitor. Using the same parameters, the fan was able to spin as long as eight seconds without the light source.
The project built on the winning project he did last year, using a capacitor that discharges all its energy at one time and doesn't store as much as a super capacitor.
"The first time I won was great because my mom and dad were happy that the cost of college was lifted off their shoulders," Robles said. "I kind of expected it this time because the judges came around during the second round of judging."
This year, Robles had some competition from schoolmate Alexa Lowerman, who tied him for first in the category. But only one can go to the state competition in Lakeland, and his was chosen.
Melissa Lewellen, Robles' science teacher, had a huge hand in making Robles' project a winner, by splitting things up in bits and pieces and assigning them so he could follow the scientific method.
"He's won two years in a row, so it's a big deal for him and for us. We support him and do anything for him," Lewellen said. "I pushed him to find a project unlike anyone else's. I don't want them to do mundane paper towel projects. They need to do experimental projects, and he does that and likes it."
Robles said he plans to continue entering the science fair and use his love of the need to know how things work as a foundation for an engineering career.
"Derrick can do whatever he wants to do. He's that bright," school principal Dr. Douglas Santini said. "He does the right things and he does a lot of them. He gets into drama and Odyssey of the Mind and I appreciate this. He's a leader in a quiet sort of way."
He said his next project will be to use the super capacitors to power larger things such as a machine or robot and test their durability.
Lewellen said that since there were no entries in some categories done by high school students, Robles should consider pursuing that.
As for his appearance in the musical in April, that's been taken care of.
"We had to make arrangements to doublecast his part so he'll be able to do the first and last shows," Santini said. "We felt we should help him out. He came in and we talked about it."


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Dothan, AL - A FLorida aviation company is expanding to Dothan, bringing hundreds of jobs with it.
"Woo hoo!" said Dothan Mayor Mike Schmitz Friday morning at the Dothan Opera House.
Schmitz isn't alone in his excitement. State and local leaders have been working hard to recruit the Miami-based aviation company, Commercial Jet.
"It's a big day for Dothan. It's a big day for Houston County, and it's a big day for the State of Alabama," said Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard.
The aircraft repair and maintenance company will move in to the former Pemco facility at the Dothan Regional Airport.
"Today is really a historic moment for our company. Allowing us to have growth in this exciting market place and to tap into an available workforce," said Commercial Jet President David Sandri.
The company will create 500 new jobs over the next three years, and 1,500 additional jobs are also expected to be created throughout the community.
"I'm so proud for the people of Dothan and the Wiregrass. 500 new jobs that pay $20-21 an hour, and that is significant," said Alabama Governor Robert Bentley.
"When you take a $25-30 million payroll and you multiply that, they're buying houses. They're buying clothes. The greatest thing is we had a lot of qualified workers who had to leave, they'll be able to come home," said Schmitz.
The economic impact doesn't stop there.
After 10 years of operation, Commercial Jet will have paid about $23 million in sales and property taxes.
"This is just the beginning. Our airport is one of our greatest assets we have and we believe we are going to grow it dramatically," said Schmitz.
With Commercial Jet moving in, leaders hope that will be the nudge it takes to convince two other interested companies to also call the Dothan Airport Home.
This deal almost didn't happen. The company was second-guessing its move to Dothan after the airport's tower was set to close. However, Dothan leaders made the commitment to keep that tower open. Airport officials are still trying to nail down how much that will cost.


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|9 years ago :: Aug 28, 2009 - 5:37PM #1
We've talked a bit about manifesting before.... how can you manifest more money? Anything from a windfall to steadily better income?
I've never been very good at making money. It seems that I'm always running short or barely have enough. I am especially short now, but for the most part, that's how it's always been. (And I expect lots of people can relate at least for now!) I manage a budget well when I have the money to budget with; the problem is getting enough in the first place.
How can I change this pattern? Has anyone done anything in particular in this sort of situation that worked well?
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|9 years ago :: Aug 31, 2009 - 9:13AM #2
I could relate to your woos and while others may think this is superficial subject, the fact of the matter is we need money to live and survive. Now ways I have heard has been from everything to spells to getting a $100 bill, folding it and placing it in your purse and imagining all the things you could buy with that $100 bill (but don't actually buy it). I don't have any sure fire ways, as I too need money for essentials fast, however I know that the mind/will is the most powerful instrument to use when trying to manifest anything.
Blessings & Abundance-
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|9 years ago :: Aug 31, 2009 - 2:34PM #3
I've heard of the hundred dollar bill trick, too, but I never have a hundred in cash at any one time. I'm too short of money to be able to do that. If I get a hundred dollars, I have to spend at least some of it right away--if I didn't, I wouldn't be able to keep up with basic necessities. I might be able to carry between twenty and forty dollars without spending it, but that doesn't give the "wealthy" feeling that a hundred would.
So presumably, that one's only for people who aren't that short of money to begin with!
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|9 years ago :: Sep 03, 2009 - 2:37AM #4
Hmmm.... perhaps the real question is how to remove whatever may be blocking manifesting money.
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|9 years ago :: Sep 04, 2009 - 6:05AM #5
I followed a suggestion I read ages ago about the $100, put some monopoly money in your wallet! I took a $100 bill out of a game and put it in my wallet.
The whole point is that whenever you open your wallet you see that $100 in there, not an empty wallet.....so you feel prosperous.
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|9 years ago :: Sep 04, 2009 - 1:05PM #6
Hi Leolotus:
That's cool, did you find that it worked for you? Yeah the point of it is to imagine all things you can buy if you wanted too without actually buying it. Making you feel prosperous and more empowered over your finances.
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|9 years ago :: Sep 04, 2009 - 5:21PM #7
I'm taking that suggestion. And adding a few more touches. When I went looking for that old Monopoly set, I found a Masterpiece game that I'd forgotten I had. Masterpiece involves play money, too, but the smallest denomination is five hundred thousand--that's too much for this exercise; I need something I can really imagine myself spending. Most stores will break a hundred dollar bill, but just try anything bigger! Still, I did take a five hundred thousand dollar bill from the Masterpiece set to use in a simple prosperity spell--not much more than lighting a green candle with intent--and then from the Monopoly set, I took a hundred and a five hundred. The hundred seemed too small, so what I'm going to do now is carry them both, and imagine spending the hundred with the five hundred for security--five hundred saved in the bank, as it were. I can mentally spend the hundred over and over and put the five hundred in the bank over and over, and perhaps feel like I'm building wealth.
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|9 years ago :: Sep 26, 2009 - 10:54PM #8
Since it only took you a week to manifest that free newspaper a while back, I'm curious as to how this exercise has been progressing for you.
"The best thing you can do for the world is make the most of yourself." -- Wallace D. Wattles
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|9 years ago :: Sep 26, 2009 - 10:59PM #9
Seems like the free newspaper was the extent of my talents. Or maybe I'm not trying hard enough.
After I forgot to take the Monopoly money out of my pocket and it got shredded in the wash, I took it as a sign. I'm still not sure what it's a sign of.
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|9 years ago :: Sep 27, 2009 - 12:42AM #10
Hi, again, MBear ...
OK, this whole law of attraction, manifesting, deliberate creation, et al., concept is still new to me as well. Anything I suggest is based on my best intepretation of what I've been attempting to learn for myself. Personally, I'm hoping that, as I make observations/suggestions for you, I will have some "a-ha" moments for myself, too.
There are plenty of techniques out there for working with clearing limiting beliefs. EFT is one that I have mentioned before in a different thread on this forum. However, each person has to find what works for him/her.
The game that has already been suggested has been mentioned in many Law of Attraction exercises, including Abraham-Hicks, and seems to have piqued your interest. So, let's continue with that one for now.
So, start right where you are with what you do believe you can accomplish. Carry around that $20 or $40 and practice repeatedly spending it in your mind. But, even more importantly, focus on the good feelings you have as you mentally spend it since they are what will raise your vibrations from lack to abundance. (By the way, I'm not sure that "abundance" and "wealth" are synonyms as far as this exercise is concerned.)
Personally, I don't know how well it works when you use Monopoly money. I guess some people have better success at bypassing their resistance, and it does work for them. For me, though, I have to have the real thing in my secret compartment in my wallet. As I understand it, a major part of the value of the exercise is knowing that you could actually spend that money in any of those ways if you chose to do so. That's why setting aside the real money works better for me ... because, at any time, I could make the conscious decision to pull that money out and have whatever it is I'm imagining buying. I have yet to find a merchant of any kind that accepts Monopoly money. (Besides, real money doesn't shred in the washer if you leave it in your pocket; it just gets "laundered".)
I have done this exercise with varying amounts between $20-$50. Here's just one example of my own:
How good does it feel to go out and buy that "2 for $20" dinner at Applebee's? Focus on what it feels like to sit at the booth or table and have the luxury of a wait person come and take our order. What will we choose for the appetizer? How does it taste? What entrees do my dining companion and I choose? How are the meals presented? Smell the aroma of the food. Feel the satisfying fullness in my belly. How great does it feel to leave the clean-up to someone else?
The next step is yours. Will you play the game again and exercise your manifesting muscles?
"The best thing you can do for the world is make the most of yourself." -- Wallace D. Wattles
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ROCK FALLS — The board of directors of Tri-County Opportunities Council has announced that president/CEO Sandra Julifs will retire in January 2013. She has been employed by TCOC for 40 years, 29 of which she served as the CEO.
"Forty years ago, I began my journey with what was the new concept of Community Action," said Julifs, "We had next to no money, a staff of 14, no benefits other than paid leave and my job was supposed to be a 'temporary' one. It was an exciting time, and after all these years, still is because we have made a difference in thousands of people's lives, and our 400-plus employees continue to do so every single day. But, it's time for me to leave, to move on to other adventures. An, so, I'm planning to retire as of Jan. 15, 2013."
As her replacement, the board selected TCOC's Head Start Director Terri Lawrence, who has been with the agency in various positions for 33 years.
"I'm delighted that our board promoted Terri; she has been a great asset to the agency and genuinely cares about the people we serve," commented Julifs, who will act as a consultant to the board and CEO for a period of one year.
TCOC is the Community Action Agency serving the nine counties of Bureau, Carroll, LaSalle, Lee, Marshall, Ogle, Putnam, Stark and Whiteside counties with such programs as LIHEAP, Weatherization, Community Services Block Grant (Outreach, Scholarships, Emergency Aid, Project Employment, Youth Enrichment, Family Development), Head Start, Early Head Start, Migrant Head Start, Housing, Homeless Services, Homemaker, Foster Grandparent and the Bureau County Food Pantry.