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New England Patriots Roster Bubble Battles Headed into Training CampJuly 17, 2012
New England Patriots Roster Bubble Battles Headed into Training Camp
NFL teams always watch New England Patriots training camp with great interest. How else can you explain the number of players that are signed after being released by the Patriots year after year?
With several camp battles heating up as we enter the dog days of summer, this year appears to be no different. The Patriots have made several additions, specifically on the defensive side of the ball, which open up the possibility of some known commodities landing on the waiver wire or in free agency by the end of summer.
As we know with the Patriots, the more ways you can contribute, the better chance you have of making the roster, which makes a few of this year's battles particularly interesting.
Here are some that will be watched closely through August.
James Ihedigbo vs. Nate Ebner vs. Josh Barrett vs. Sergio Brown
With safeties Patrick Chung, Tavon Wilson and Steve Gregory likely to earn the three top spots at safety, that leaves a heated battle for the fourth (and possibly fifth) safety spots.
Of the four safeties, Josh Barrettt is the most likely to say goodbye. The Patriots claimed Barrett off waivers in 2010 before the Broncos could put him on injured reserve, but as a result of his injury, he missed the entire season. He suffered a hamstring injury in 2011 which ended his season once again.
He also doesn't offer as much in special teams coverage as James Ihedigbo and Nate Ebner; special teams was Ihedigbo's bread and butter for three seasons with the Jets, and although he is a talented role-playing safety, he may not have started if Barrett hadn't been injured.
Ebner, on the other hand, was a rugby player at Ohio State and was a walk-on for the football team, earning the respect of his teammates through dedication in practice and on special teams; however, he only played three defensive snaps at safety for the Buckeyes last year, and still has a lot to learn in terms of the mental aspect of the game.
Finally, Brown has experience in the system and has contributed on special teams in spots, but he had the rug pulled out from under him after starting two of the first three games of the season; he played 163 snaps in the first three games of the season according to Pro Football Focus (average of 54.33 per game), and 186 for the remainder of the season (23.25 snaps per game).
That decreased workload could signify a decrease in the team's confidence in Brown, and if only four safeties are kept, Brown is another likely candidate to be cut. Ebner, however, is practice squad eligible. The Patriots may elect to try to keep him that way, but would be running the risk of another team snatching him off waivers.
Jeff Tarpinian vs. Tracy White vs. Niko Koutouvides
This is a case of three players who largely fit the same mold, all competing for the same spot. All three linebackers have a place on the special teams unit and as backup inside linebackers.
White has been a core special teams player for the past few years, and filled in sparingly in sub packages. Tarpinian's spry young legs might be too enticing compared to White, whose 31-year-old body has taken many special teams collisions in his career; what's more, he missed organized team activities with a sports hernia.
Tarpinian was primarily a special teamer in 2011 (eight special teams tackles according to ESPN Boston), but he earned a start against the Jets in Week 9. He may not have earned those opportunities without significant injuries at linebacker, but Tarpinian (and all three listed here) have an increased opportunity with the departure of linebacker Gary Guyton.
Koutouvides filled Tarpinian's role when he was placed on injured reserve shortly after the Jets game, and earned a start of his own against the Colts in Week 12. It should be noted, however, that he was unable to earn a roster spot last season up against largely the same competition he'll face this year.
Tony Fiammetta vs. Spencer Larsen vs. Eric Kettani
The Patriots carried fullback Lousaka Polite at the end of the 2011 season and through the playoffs, but the position as a whole has largely fallen to the wayside since Josh McDaniels left in 2008. Now that he's back, perhaps they'll look for a fullback once again; they added both Spencer Larsen and Tony Fiammetta this offseason.
Larsen may have the upper hand; he is a veritable Swiss Army knife—listed as a fullback, but his ability to contribute on offense, defense and special teams is something head coach Bill Belichick will likely covet, and that should come in handy. According to Belichick via ESPN Boston, the value of the fullbacks will be measured "relative to the running backs, the tight ends, the linebackers and the kicking game and how big of a role those other players would have offensively or defensively."
Fiammetta, on the other hand, is strictly a fullback and doesn't offer much in terms of special teams. His limited utility could be a huge setback for him in his endeavor to land on the right side of the bubble.
Eric Kettani was placed on the reserve/military list at the end of the 2011 preseason, but pulled some strings and won an appeal against the United States Navy which exempts him from service so that he can play football instead. According to Jeff Howe of The Boston Herald, Belichick may have been the X-factor in the process, as he vouched for Kettani's "legitimacy as an athlete."
Marcus Forston vs. Ron Brace vs. Gerard Warren vs. Myron Pryor
The battles on the defensive line are always among the most talked-about leading into training camp, and this year looks to be no different. While the Patriots will likely employ a mix of 3-4 and 4-3 looks, the outcome of the camp battles could depend on which front they intend on using more in 2012.
Kyle Love, Vince Wilfork and Brandon Deaderick are locks for the roster, but beyond that, there are a number of players competing for one, or maybe two spots at defensive tackle.
Ron Brace is in the roster bubble discussion year after year, whether it be a result of injuries or simply not living up to the billing as a second-round draft pick in 2009. His value lies mainly in 3-4 packages, as he doesn't bring the interior rush presence of guys like Deaderick and Jonathan Fanene.
Marcus Forston was highly touted headed into the 2011 season, and is seen as a solid addition for the Patriots in undrafted free agency despite a one-game suspension (improper student benefits) and injury (knee) cutting his 2011 season to just three games. Unlike Brace, Forston's best chance at making the roster seems to be if the Patriots run more 4-3 looks and sub packages, which would call for his skill set as an interior rusher.
That role, however, has been occupied by Myron Pryor since 2009 and Gerard Warren since 2010.
Warren was cut prior to the 2011 season, but was brought back shortly thereafter; that may have been a result of the team not wanting to guarantee his salary. He'll be turning 34 by the time training camp opens, and younger options may be more enticing at this stage.
Pryor is versatile enough to fit both the 3-4 and 4-3 fronts, but that's only if he can stay healthy; Pryor has missed 24 games over his three-year career, and was absent from both OTAs and mandatory minicamp.
Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be sure to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to keep up with all the updates.


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Sydney User Group Meeting Confirmed!
We are pleased to confirm that our Sydney User Group Meeting will be held on Tuesday 6 June at Trinity Grammar School, who we thank for hosting the event.
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When a secret baby makes headlines, the world watches to see what Italy's Formula One champion, Alessandro Rinaldo and his secret wife, prima ballerina, Katrina Baxter will do.
When racing car driver, Alessandro Rinaldo discovers his estranged wife has secretly had his baby in Australia, he has a simple plan. He needs to bring his wife and child home to his ancestral castello in Italy. However, convincing his ballerina wife is far from simple. She won't see sense or take his money so what does she really want? Powerful chemistry brought them together in the first place; perhaps she needs to be seduced again.
Principal dancer, Katrina Baxter had to run from her marriage when she got pregnant. Once again she'd been painfully dismissed by a man in her life. But when Alessandro confronts her about their child, he refuses to take no for an answer. She won't be bought and wants a loving home for her son. She couldn't bear for Alex to endure a cold aristocratic upbringing. If only Alessandro didn't stir up wild desire every time she looked at him. Ending up in the arms of her estranged husband would just be playing into his hands but somehow that's exactly what happens.
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When you can't have the child that will secure the future of an orphanage, being in love with their benefactor isn't enough.
Australian, Natalie Baxter, is on assignment in the UK to organize the McLaren foundation's annual fundraising ball but a chance encounter prior to her official meeting with billionaire, Angus McLaren leads to a passionate connection. But what Angus needs most is a child of his own and that's the one thing she can't give him.
Angus McLaren must secure the future of is ancestral estate including the foundation for orphans in the third world. His last attempt at love ended in divorce and without children. His heart wants Natalie but this time around he must marry a woman for duty and and heir that can inherit his title.
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Times-Record Looking for Little Miss Merry Christmas
Sugar, spice, and everything Christmas.
That is what the Valley City Times-Record is hoping to find in its first ever Little Miss Merry Christmas Contest candidates this holiday season.
The T-R is excited to invite Barnes County residents to submit a photo of a Little Miss Merry Christmas candidate, a girl between the ages of 5-10 who loves the share her Christmas spirit. All submissions will then be entered for a chance to win the title of Little Miss Merry Christmas 2017.
Photo submissions will be accepted through Nov. 3 at 12 p.m. and can be submitted by emailing them to firstname.lastname@example.com, or by either dropping them off or mailing them to 146 3rd Street NE, Valley City.
All submissions will then be posted on the Valley City Times-Record Facebook page for voting throughout the week of Nov. 6 and whoever receives the highest number of likes will earn the crown.
The title of Little Miss Merry Christmas will officially be announced in the Nov. 10 edition of the Times-Record.
After her crowning, your highness will be escorted on a tour of various Barnes County businesses taking photos in each location, and will receive the honor of riding in the Parade of Lights 2017 as an honorary guest.
Publisher Bill Parsons says about the contest, "Little Miss Merry Christmas is a fun campaign to get more of the Barnes County Youth involved in our newspaper especially during the holiday season. We hope our readers will enter their daughters, granddaughter, and nieces into this contest and allow us to have a good selection for the community to pick a first ever Little Miss Merry Christmas."
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The Boys College Showcase brings teams together from all over Texas to play in front of collegiate and university coaches in an effort to be recognized and admitted into their respective academic and athletic soccer programs. With over hundreds of players showing their skills, the Boys College Showcase is in one of Central Texas' biggest opportunities for player recruitment.
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Tracy's Lab Plays Critical Role in Precision Medicine Effort, Is Go-to for Genetic Specimens
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- By Sarah Zobel
Precision medicine found the limelight when President Obama unveiled a $215 million initiative to target its growth as part of his 2015 State of the Union Address in January, but for researchers both nationwide and at the University of Vermont, exploring how to best tailor medicine to individual needs has been the focus of their work for years. Whether it's referred to as precision, personalized or genomic medicine, the goal is the same: to obtain individuals' detailed genetic information so that both risk and treatment of disease can be dealt with at the most elemental level.
"Heart attacks are common," says Russell Tracy, UVM professor of pathology, by way of example. "But everyone is an individual. And what precision medicine means is ultimately understanding each person's version of these things so that it's prevention first, and then if (a heart attack) happens, therapy can be tailored in the most precise way, so that you get the best bang for the buck."
Tracy's lab was at the heart of the massive Exome Sequencing Project (ESP) sponsored by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, serving as the clearinghouse for thousands of DNA samples, which the lab quantified and plated before sending them on to the Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Broad Institute and the University of Washington for sequencing.
"(Tracy's) lab was the single final conduit for organizing those specimens and managing them without contamination, without specimen swaps," says Dr. James Wilson, University of Mississippi professor of physiology, biophysics and medicine and, along with Tracy, a member of the ESP HeartGO cohort consortium. "It's the go-to laboratory in the country for large-cohort studies for the management of biological specimens, including serum, plasma, purified DNA, frozen white blood cells and urine."
The ESP HeartGO consortium -- the other two ESP consortia were focused on lung disorders and women's health -- has already published multiple papers in the New England Journal of Medicine and elsewhere on findings related to a variety of genetic mutations they were able to associate with cardiovascular disease. On a continuum that ranges from exceptionally rare genetic disorders to fairly common variances, the ESP findings fall somewhere in between. And although many of the mutations are not found in a wide swath of the population, the discovery of each one is critical. Given that vascular disease and stroke kill more people worldwide than anything else -- including all cancers combined -- drilling down to the lowest possible level will have significant ramifications.
"By definition, a rare variant is a small part of the population, but if you have enough of them, then it adds up to quite a few," says Stephen Rich, director of the Center for Public Health Genomics at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and a member of the ESP HeartGO team. "The importance of the project is that it's uncovering novel genes and novel pathways that become new therapeutic targets." He cites the example of a gene that the ESP established that is associated with extraordinarily low triglyceride levels, thereby lowering the risk of heart attack; drug companies are now working to create compounds to mimic it.
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Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative will bring ever-needed funding to be divided among the NIH (including the National Cancer Institute), the Food and Drug Administration, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Eventually, the initiative will focus on many complex chronic diseases, but for now, the attention is on cancer -- in large part, says Tracy, because "it may be the least difficult of all the difficult things." Unlike many chronic diseases, cancer arises out of relatively constrained origins, he explains, so the work will begin with genetic sequencing. Beyond that, researchers will look at the expression of messenger RNA, at small regulatory RNAs, at metabolism, at the proteins themselves, and so forth. Tracy's lab is already involved in related multi-center projects with partners around the country, and in fact, the world; current projects include collaborators in Uganda, Russia, Japan, and England, among other places.
At some point in the not-so-distant future, says Tracy, all patients will be sequenced, and that information will be available to physicians for the routine treatment of disease. To the patient who is discovered to have the APOA5 gene associated with early-onset myocardial infarction (read about a recent study on this here), a doctor might point out the documented increased risk of heart attack and, based on that, make suggestions for dietary changes, exercise and quitting smoking.
"We're entering an era where we're going to get more and more precise -- granular -- about all these levels and layers," says Tracy. "The first one, as the foundation, is understanding the primary sequence of the human genome in detail in a wide variety of people so we can make all the links between those variances in the genome and health and disease."
For Tracy and his colleagues at UVM and around the country, the greatest challenge has changed from gathering data to asking the right questions. It's a process, says Tracy, one he likens to fixing a leak under the kitchen sink -- a seemingly simple repair that then turns into five trips to the hardware store as the problem evolves.
"The quality of the question becomes paramount," he says. "That means you have to have a big enough selection of people to ask the proper question. And as you start asking better and better questions, you realize your initial questions were naïve." So where once 5,000 people was considered a huge study, today researchers are looking at 100,000 people at a time -- the Precision Medicine Initiative even calls for a million-person study. The Veterans' Administration already has something of that size underway, and Tracy's lab is a small part of it.
"It's an unbelievably exciting time to be in biomedical science," he says.


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We polled Calgarians in 2014 and 2016. Eighty percent know that there is poverty in our city. In fact, four per cent had had direct experience at one time in their lives. Eight per cent are aware of Enough for All, Calgary's poverty reduction strategy. When asked to prioritize nine issues facing our community, 30 per cent rated unemployment as the number one issue and six per cent rated poverty reduction as number one, 5th out of the nine.
This data tells us that we know that there is poverty in our city but we have become complacent. We have accepted it as "normal."
Yet, these Calgarians are our fellow workers, family members and neighbours. They are struggling each day. They are living in constant stress and trauma. Their lived-experience of poverty is similar to the tens of thousands who lost their housing in 2013 when the Bow and Elbow Rivers overflowed their banks. Or in 2016 when the residents of Fort McMurray were evacuated. Lives were disrupted. Families were displaced.
The dramatic pictures and many personal stories ignited our compassion and empathy on so many levels in both of these major catastrophes. For example, YMCAs across the country collected dollars and forwarded them to the YMCA in Fort McMurray. Our Rotary Club encouraged all of its members to donate to assist families affected by the fire. Thousands of people responded to the floods by donating dollars and time. Hundreds put on boots and work gloves and helped their neighbours clean out their basements.
Approximately the same number of people are living in chronic scarcity as directly affected by the flood and fire are experiencing the same stress and trauma on a daily basis. However unlike the fire and flood, they remain invisible to us. We have normalized their pain. Unlike the flood and fire, we have learned to live with it rather re-ignite our empathy and compassion and challenge ourselves to work to change the systems and support people to lift themselves out of poverty and in time to make it a thing of the past.
Enough for All is a comprehensive strategy. It has an aspirational goal to work and change how we support the most vulnerable to such extent that those living in poverty is reduced by 50% by 2023. Like our response to the fire and flood we know that we have the ability to make a difference.
Here are three things that we can do:
I am convinced that this personal approach can make a difference. Start today.
This blog was originally posted on the Vibrant Communities Calgary website by Franco Savoia on August 28,2017, and is re-posted here with permission.
Franco Savoia is the Executive Director of Vibrant Communities Calgary. Please feel free to leave a comment below.


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As I continue work on my upcoming book on writing skills, I'd like to start sharing some of the lessons I'm preparing for the books. The first, and perhaps the most important, is such a general concept it works like an introduction – the idea of keeping writing simple for more effective, accurate English. There is one rule that is taught in almost all settings of writing skills, which can help whatever the purpose for your writing: Keep It Simple. Continue reading
When can we use "not so" instead of "not as" for comparatives
A recent question I've had is which comparative form is more correct, using so or as: "England is not as hot as France" or "England is not so hot as France". It's an interesting point as they are both possible so neither is really more correct – and one of my reference books covers it in one simple point "After not, we can use so … as instead of as … as." This doesn't give you much room for discussion! So, do the two forms differ? Continue reading
What's in the upcoming ELB writing skills book
If you're a member of the ELB mailing list you may have seen that I'm working on a new guide to improved writing skills. The idea is to present advanced writing tips for learners of English as a foreign language – a guide based on how the language functions, as opposed to as a creative art (which may have value for native speakers, too!). To introduce the book, I want to share the chapter topics that I currently have planned, and I welcome feedback on any additional topics you're interested in – or ideas/hopes for how these will be discussed! Continue reading
When can we use the past simple for timeless rules?
When we write a rule in a past tense narrative, should it still be in the present simple tense? This was an excellent question raised by a reader, from a fairly unexpected source – this Christmas reading exercise. It contains the phrase "everyone knew how magical Santa was". The issue is that saying "was" in the past tense suggests Santa is either no longer magical (or perhaps has died?!). So, how can past simple still be correct here? Like much in English, it depends on our context. Continue reading
Why "keep doing" is present simple and not continuous
I've been asked about the tense of "keep writing" – and how it relates to the rules and patterns we use for the present continuous form of "to be writing". Many verbs can be followed by other verbs in an –ing form, such as "keep doing", "enjoy doing", "avoid doing" – but they are not the same as the continuous tense "to be doing", and are actually used in the present simple tense. A verb like "keep" may be particularly confusing, as it suggests a continuing action. So why is "keep doing" not the same as the present continuous? Continue reading
Using -ing forms for perfect meanings
A recent question I've been asked is whether or not the following sentence is correct, as it sounded strange to the learner: "With the restaurant having closed, there was nowhere to eat." What do you think? Better as "As the restaurant had closed…" or "With the restaurant closed…"? Perhaps – but the sentence is actually possible – it's just difficult to explain how it is used. Continue reading
Comparing Examples of all the English Tenses
I have had a few requests recently to provide more examples of sentences as they are used across all the English tenses. This is useful to show how and why we might use the different tenses to describe the same situation. One example was given in my timeline (I go school…) and you can go into detail about why we use the different tenses in my book – but for here, let's just look at 4 different sentences across all 12 aspects of English. Continue reading
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Whether applying for schools or jobs or simply asking for information, at some point everyone communicating in English must write cover letters. There are templates you can use to get started, as long as you make them personal, but the basic principles for effective cover letters are worth knowing. I have prepared some common tips below, with a consideration for foreign learners. I will be expanding on some of these tips later, including examples and more detailed breakdowns of general business writing principles. Continue reading
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Future Industries like the steel industry might be high-tech, with robots along with fewer workers.Industry leaders view that the steel industry growing on the upcoming decade. Change can appear fast and it might be debilitating.At the Next Era of Global Growth at the World Steel Association's Yearly seminar,panelists talked broadly about robots taking over manufacturing occupations, however said technological advances can also cause new places like for digital mechanical engineers, data boffins and business enterprise operations data analysts.
Speakers Envisioned an immediate transformation which may comprise more automation displacing conventional production projects, 3D printing plastic cars eating away at the demand to get steel and pen lead-based graphene potentially replacement steel altogether. "I'll give you fair warning that you will be provoked and challenged and maybe a little frightened.
Historically, steel makers have not been nimble or influenced by new scientific improvements as organizations from different industries.Over The past few decades, automation has caused a large number of job declines in Northwest Indiana Aluminum Sheet Supplier and manufacturing plants. It will be likely to walk the complete mile as a thin sheet of steel whizzes by just visiting one worker. Train cars drive on their own, without a conductors.
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"That Has to be the main worry about manufacturing for the last 100 years," she explained. "She said invention was creating new tasks as fast as the united states has lost them by the shift in tech.
"In the U.S. over the past 25 years, fully a third of the rise in new net jobs came from occupations that didn't exist or barely existed 25 years. Computer programmers, analysts, even fitness instructors: those we didn't really need at this scale 25 years ago."


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USA Mundane Forecast
for the four weeks beginning October 9, 2016
For the 12 months beginning January 15, the United States' Year Chart is dominated by a close, angular URANUS-PLUTO square plus a little Mars. This is a radical, uprooting influence - revolutionary, revising, remapping, anti-establishment, often anti-government, embodying a spirit of revolution that dismantles current systems and tears down iconic structures. Nor is this a gentle revolt: Foreground Mars + Uranus is explosive, unleashing sudden fiery force. These "bombshells" are mostly psychological, but physical explosions will be part of the mix, especially after mid-October (e.g., warlike assaults, violence, fires, natural disasters, high profile deaths, and a general sense of crisis).
Through the first half of October, a subplot to the above is all about fantasy and entertainment. Jupiter opposes Neptune across the horizon, with both square Moon. Expect unrealistic optimism in diverse forms, especially as market inflation and binge speculation. Taking investment risks is not recommended right now unless you find a brief window with very short-term advantage.
Libsolar (October 17) Map 1 Map 2
With the Libsolar, we enter the most volatile, unstable, and threatening three months of the year: violent, aggressive, explosive, unleashing ferocious energies with distinct governmental and political overtones. Of 18 active astrological factors in this one chart, 16 reiterate these dangerous, destabilizing themes.
First, the technical particulars: Sun, Mars, Uranus, and Pluto are all within about 1° of an angle. Each aspects the others. A close Uranus-Pluto aspect has its midpoint only 0°02 from the angles. Briefly, these aspects anticipate the fiery, explosive, destructive, and startling, with assaults on power, disrespect for law, and mind-stunning impact, "surprise attack" bombshells with startling violence, stress-testing capacity beyond tolerance, and unleashing ferocious force. They are revolutionary, revising, remapping, and anti-establishment, tearing at iconic structures.
All of these may be purely psychological instead of physical. For example, we may have psychological "bombshells" and assailing of conceptual structures rather than physical ones. This difference matters, of course, in terms of loss of life and property damage and yet, in another sense, doesn't matter: The psychological impact is much the same either way.
Mercury is only a little more widely angular and connected. In particular, Mercury's aspects to Mars and Uranus are historically consistent with two categories of events: Overt declaration of war (or other planned, strategic mobilizations) and significant transportation disasters. They also speak of discovery, revelation, disclosure and being startled, threatened, and uprooted.
All of this speaks of an unstable, apprehensive time. The one, often charming and protective aspect, Moon exactly opposite Venus, usually brings occasion for celebration but, with these other factors, most likely means that love will be a sacrifice and the masses feel powerfully and intimately about these unfolding events.
Moon-Uranus Aspects
From May through mid-November, every lunar ingress has a close Moon-Uranus aspect. In addition to break-out events for women, this aspect, affecting the entire world, indicates sudden, explosive, eruptive, shifting conditions; surprise attacks characterized by their sudden and explosive nature and by rapidly changing conditions that require quick adaptation and reorientation, new learning, and new responses; new technology, new strategic approaches, and new discoveries; and civil instability, including events that mark new levels of human freedom.
Bridge zones change rapidly this month. Most only last a few days as Mars darts in and out around other planets. This suggests that things are happening quickly, the tone of the times changing faster than the normal news cycle. Pay attention this month, or you might feel a bit of whiplash.
A MARS Zone (Mars square Capsolar Moon) continues from the prior month and lasts October 9-10. Such Mars transits always mark (for the whole world, and not just the U.S.) concentrated violence, fire, explosions, and destruction, war and other attacks, and crises involving national leaders.
October 12-18 is a one-week JUPITER Zone (transiting Jupiter opposes Capsolar Moon). This (affecting the whole world) is the most positive indication in a hard, harsh month. At best, it offers diplomacy and dignity. Elitism prevails. Most pronounced through all events are strong elements of national pride, patriotism, family, community, and standing first for those groups with which one identifies ("my kind first"). This can, of course, be divisive as well as unifying.
October 19-20, as the new Libsolar and Arilunar settle in, brings a MARS-JUPITER Zone. Confidence inspires boldness. Ideology turns aggressive. This combination normally sponsors economic crisis. Heroic victories shine with achievement and causes for public celebration. Expect religious evangelism and other belief-driven aggression.
October 21-22 is a MARS-JUPITER-URANUS Zone as Uranus begins a long-term crossing of Capsolar Eastpoint. Cracks begin to show in the illusion of security and stability. Another side of Mars with Jupiter-Uranus is great passion for human (civil) rights; but if Congress is still in session, expect childish tantrums and throwing things - even more than usual.
October 23-26 is a MARS-URANUS Zone, explosive, with surprising, startling violence. "Bombshells" are usually psychological, and sometimes physical. Fire + explosion is the theme - particularly in light of the new, volatile Libsolar.
October 27-30, Mars drops out and we get a simpler URANUS Zone. For a few days, expect simple surprises, disclosures, and revelations, perhaps fostering "turning point" changes.
October 31 to November 5, as Pluto returns for a long-term conjunction with Capsolar Midheaven, we get our first new URANUS-PLUTO Zone. This reinforces what was said above (in both the Capsolar and Libsolar) about Uranus-Pluto. This time especially emphasizes revolutionary, revising, remapping, anti-establishment, anti-government trends that dismantle elements of the current system and tear down iconic structures.
November 6, nearly on Election Eve, begins a MARS-URANUS-PLUTO Zone that carries through the election. (Mars squares Capsolar Ascendant.) There is nothing to say not already mentioned under the Libsolar: This election will be explosive and disrupting, shredding sacred cows into machaca. In many countries, this would be the mark of a coup d'état attempt.
Caplunar (October 9)
The Caplunar describes October 9 through November 6, and especially the first week (Oct 9-16). Neptune on Ascendant (partile) squares Saturn. Moon squares Uranus.
This is conceivably the chart of an abdication or other resignation. However, as common sense suggests that neither presidential candidate is likely to step out of the race (and October 9 is the second presidential debate, in St. Louis, where Venus is angular), Saturn-Neptune likely refers to some national sorrow: Grief, loss, fear; sacrifice and renunciation; resignations, abdications, exiles, and other removals. Saturn-Neptune is also discouraging for the stock market. (Uranus dominates quotidians for the first four days of this period. Jupiter makes October 13 the best day of the week, though stormy.)
Arilunar (October 16)
The Arilunar describes October 16-22. Its main feature is more pleasant and relaxed than anything else we see all month: Venus is exactly angular (0°06'). With Jupiter's concurrent transit of Capsolar Moon, we may get a week's deferment on the Libsolar kicking in.
Life doesn't stop, though: The final presidential debate is in Las Vegas October 19. With Arilunar Moon in background aspect with Sun and Uranus, expect even more surprises in a year filled with them. Moon, Sun, and Uranus are angular for Las Vegas, along with a "you can't wiggle out of this" Mercury-Pluto square! On October 19, Hillary Clinton has harsh, merciless, skewering aspects, and Donald Trump's transits show depression and resignation. Pugilistic Mars and Pluto conjoin on Washington's CanQ Descendant the same day.
Canlunar (October 22)
The Canlunar describes October 22-29. Two themes predominate. (1) A Moon-Mercury-Uranus T-square sits right on Washington's angles, with the Moon-Uranus square (widening for the rest of the world) only 0°05' in mundo in DC. (2) Mars conjoins Pluto on angles.
This promises to put the surprise into the traditional "October Surprise." Expectation of Russian malicious hacking of American information systems and explosive, embarrassing disclosures are realistic. The dual Mercury-Uranus emphasis anticipates discovery and revelation, information disclosure, and generally being startled and taken by surprise. It stirs a sense of emergency and alarm. Crises with information and transportation mark the headlines. Mars-Pluto points to the violent, ferocious, often explosive unleashing of force of many kinds.
With Moon's prominence, there is an intense populist fever in this chart. Moon-Uranus is particularly known for civil instability and masses besieging the gates leading to greater freedom and life-quality. Massive local protests in responsive to new police violence are just one possibility. (October 26-27 shows a significant victory and good news.)
Liblunar (October 29)
The Liblunar describes October 29-November 6. This new week is no calmer, except that the information storm will have settled down. For the week immediately prior to the U.S. elections, a Moon-Mars-Uranus T-square rides the angles for Washington. Mars-Uranus is closest (0°22'), and Uranus is most powerfully angular.
Therefore, many themes itemized above will continue. Explosive, startling Mars-Uranus highlights surprise attacks and bombshells. Moon square Mars stirs a more physical violence and especially increases the risk of fires and physical harm, with a tone of crisis for those in power. Moon especially stirs a wave of populism.
October 30-31 places Mars on a quotidian angle (with a New Moon conjunct the Mars), and November 1-2 brings two Plutos plus Uranus. Expect the week's shock and impact on these latter days especially.
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The world of animals is an endlessly fascinating one. They have a way of surprising us with their behavior. They're often a lot smarter than we give them credit for and, even though the animal kingdom gets a bad rep for being ruthless, they also have an incredible capacity to love.
We've seen all kinds of unlikely animal friendships in the past, and this one is easily my favorite so far. Earlier this month, in the city of Erode in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, a local rhesus macaque monkey came across a puppy and decided to adopt it. The monkey cared for the dog just as he would have cared for his own child, defending it from attacks, feeding it and carrying it around.
This is the tale of the puppy that was rescued by a monkey.
The monkey found the puppy being attacked by other stray dogs. He jumped down from a tree to defend the little guy. He then took a liking to the pup and adopted him.
Whenever it was time to eat, he made sure the puppy always ate first. Isn't that sweet?
He took the puppy with him everywhere, holding on to it as they scampered through the streets.
The monkey even groomed the puppy just like he would with his own child. Is he a great foster dad or what?
I wonder if he thinks the puppy might one day get used to life in the trees?
He made sure to share all his snacks with his new ward.
Local residents were touched by the bond between this unlikely duo, and the pair quickly became local celebrities. People started to leave them offerings of food and marveled at how affectionately the monkey took care of the puppy.
The pair even got some news coverage. Zee News, a major Indian news outlet, reported the following: "People who have seen them spoke of their strong mutual affection and described their bond as the most caring thing in the world - to take care of a puppy in danger and protect him like a parent."
"Their undying affection gives us a valuable lesson about relationships."
Sadly, the story takes an unfortunate turn. It seems the puppy and the monkey may have been separated and Forest Department officials might now be in custody of the puppy. This news comes from exclusively Tamil-language new sites that have been very roughly translated via Google Translate, so it is currently unverified. This story will be updated if more information presents itself.
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Young Lamont Roach, Jr. shows poise in win at MGM
NATIONAL HARBOR – Lamont Roach, Jr. showed poise and workman-like skills to win a unanimous decision over Rey Perez in front of 1,768 loud supporters at MGM National Harbor last Thursday.
Roach (16-0), from Upper Marlboro, holds the World Boxing Council Youth Silver Super Featherweight title, although the belt was not on the line for this fight.
Early in the fight, it seemed as if Roach was trying to figure out Perez (21-9). However, he said that was not true.
"That was not the case," Roach said. "We had him figured out. I got hit with a good body shot in the second round that hurt, and along with a few low blows, that kind of threw me off. But I got myself back together and dominated the rest of the fight."
Perez only won the second round. The judges agreed that Roach dominated the fight from the second round on. All three judges scored the fight 99-91, which is nine rounds to one, in favor of Roach.
Roach has a fighting style that is far beyond his age. He understands every opponent is tough.
"I think every opponent is tough, especially one that is coming into my backyard," he said. "I am undefeated and he would like to get that on his resume.
"I shut him out and I looked good. You don't need a knock out to make a statement."
Roach was the harder puncher throughout the fight. His lead right hands and combinations were landing flush on Perez's face and body. In the middle rounds, Perez's eyes became puffy and he was swelling around his cheeks. But, as Roach said, Perez was tough and resilient and was fighting until the end of the tenth round. It is the second time Roach has gone 10 rounds.
Roach has fought in his hometown before, but never at the new MGM National Harbor.
"It was great. I loved the energy. I loved being in front of my friends and family. They make me feel at home," he said.
The other local fighter on the card suffered a defeat. Bowie's Luther Smith (9-2) lost a split decision to Lamont Capers. Smith knocked down Capers in the first round, and Capers almost fell out of the ring, but Smith seemed to run out of gas for the rest of the four-round fight.
The next big event for a local fighter will be on Jan. 20 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn when Washington, D.C.'s, Lamont Peterson takes on the International Boxing Federation Welterweight champion Errol Spence.


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Re: Thomas Adams & Anna Harmon Greene Co., TN m.1817
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Thomas Adams & Anna Harmon Greene Co., TN m.1817
Janice Johns 6/05/09
I doubt this really has any connection to you, but some Lusters (Lester) lived in Limestone County, AL (which adjoins TN at Giles County.There was an Anna Luster who married a James Adams in Limestone County.
I think this is the same James Adams who was in Giles County, TN in 1860 with several sons.
We have a Lester community on the TN line in Limestone County, AL, which I believe comes from the Luster or Lester name.One is probably a corrupted form.
Sorry this doesn't really help you.


text: I just bought a new DSi XL and when I played the preloaded Brain Age I noticed that the touch screen was slightly darker then the top sccren. The difference wasn't extreme and when I played Metriod Hunters I didn't noticed it, but the screens in Brain Age are most of the time white and when one white screen is darker than the other it is easier to spot. I doesn't really bother me but when it's already broken "touch screen darker than it should be" than I want to exchange it. It would be nice if you could share the experince with your own Dsi XL with me and if your touch screen is slightly darker as well.


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Those of you of a certain vintage may remember the days when 'afternoon tea' actually meant stopping what you were doing, and with family, friends or colleagues, enjoying a pot of freshly brewed tea.
By Lindy Brophy
Possums in the south west are performing a high wire act every night.
The Crawley campus has been a centre of political power this month with a visit by the leader of the world's third-biggest democracy and the first State Cabinet meeting at a University.
By Sally-Ann Jones
If you think only humans are capable of despicable behaviour, you're in for an unpleasant surprise. A new UWA researcher has discovered that birds are experts when it comes to being bad.
For my last column in our University's centenary year, I'd like to thank all of you for your hard work in 2013. Many of you put in extra hours to ensure that our celebratory events - and our bumper Open Day - were the highly successful events they were.
The University has had enormous success with its funding applications for next year.
A short film projected onto a silo in Geraldton will end the UWA Gives Back Centenary program, with echoes of the spectacular launch of the year with LUMINOUShall.
Songs that children sang in South Africa in the 1950s and 1960s have come alive more than half a century later in a new exhibition.
When PhD scholar Kelsey Kennedy came to UWA on exchange from the US in 2008, both she and the University became winners.
Our 99th Rhodes Scholar in 100 years hopes to combine her science background, her volunteer experience and her language proficiency to improve the health of the global community.
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Hi Manju, Welcome to the project! Great to hear you're interested in jdb. Yes, as you have noted in your other mail, we have an implementation of jdwp under the jpda source folder. This is a native code implementation of the jdwp standard, and covers most of it's features. We also use the Eclipse JDI (Java Debugging Interface) to provide Java debugging hooks, which I believe is packaged up into our tools.jar at build time. I would personally recommend using JDI to implement the debug functionality of jdb, as it provides a well spec'ed [1] Java API for you to use, will allow you to create platform portable Java code for the debugger and should also plug easily into our existing launcher (so creating a jdb executable should be very simple). To begin with I would recommend looking at the JDI spec - it should provide everything you require API-wise (it's what Eclipse uses for debug :) ), and will be a good starting point for you to think about implementation of the tool. Regards, Oliver [1] http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jpda/index.html Manju Vijayakumar wrote: > Hi, > > I am interested in putting together a proposal for developing some of the > tools needed for Harmony SDK. > I am particularly interested in the jdb tool development. > > I am searching for a framework implementation that can allow me to connect > to the VM to be debugged > from a debugger process. Do we have this in place or are we required to > build up the debugging architecture > in order to proceed? Please give me some pointers so that I can do a source > code search in the right places. > > -- Oliver Deakin Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU
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The Sydney Symphony Orchestra's Meet the Music series continues to introduce audiences to a rich variety of orchestral repertoire at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.
These two discrete four-concert series introduce secondary students to the concept of 'subscription' in an evening concert-going experience. The orchestra brings to life great classics, modern and home-grown masterpieces, sharpening listening skills and supporting the music curriculum. These concerts begin at 6:30pm and program durations range from 2 to 2.5 hours.
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Dr. Junichi Yamada
Senior Special Advisor, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
MiTA Myanmar Investment Summit, 25 Sept 2014 @ UMFCCI
Dr. Junichi Yamada is the Senior Special Advisor in Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Before this current position, he supervised the overall strategy and operations of JICA as Director General of Strategy Department, JICA.
He had been involved with Japan's Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Myanmar as Second Secretary of Japanese Embassy in Yangon during 1986-89 .
In Japan, he seconded to Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1986 and handled Japan's ODA to Myanmar.
Dr. Yamada's academic background is Ph.D. from University of Malaya (Economics) in 1996 and Master Degree from University of Tokyo (Urban Planning) in 1982. He wrote some books such as "Japanese Official Development Assistance in Southeast Asia" ISIS Malaysia, 1997, which includes Japan's economic contribution to Myanmar.
Brief profile of JICA in Myanmar
The government of Japan changed its economic cooperation policy to Myanmar in April 2012. JICA is working to ascertain the needs for infrastructure to promote economic development, in addition to the conventional fields of cooperation such as improving BHN and capacity along with providing assistance to minority ethnic groups. Specifically, JICA will implement an economic reform program as assistance to reform the economy through capacity development. JICA is also planning to provide cooperation for urban development in Yangon including Thilawa SEZ Development, along with port and transportation network infrastructure, as support that will lead to economic growth.
During Japanese fiscal year 2013, JICA has provided 51 billion Japanese yen in form of loan and 10 billion Japanese yen in form of grant.
The JICA Projects and their location are shown in the following website: https://libportal.jica.go.jp/fmi/xsl/library/Data/PlanInOperation-e/SoutheastAsia/Myanmar-e.pdf
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* Pruritus of various etiology;
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Children aged 4-12 years: 1 measuring spoonful 2 or 3 times daily.
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Renal Insufficiency Following Contrast Media Administration Trial (REMEDIAL). A Randomized Comparison of 3 Preventive Strategies.
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Thick PZT films via Sol-Gel Process
The maximum film thickness achievable without cracking via non-repetitive, single-step sol-gel ceramic film deposition is often called "critical thickness." From the viewpoint of industrial production, (1) the small values of the critical thickness (< 0.1 µm in many cases) and (2) the short lifetime of the sols due to increase in viscosity with time are serious drawbacks of sol-gel ceramic thin film deposition. Achievement of thickness of submicron or over by non-cycled gel film deposition and firing is desired especially for PZT films to be applied as pyroelectric infrared detectors, piezoelectric actuators, and so on.
Here we announce the single-step deposition of PZT via "PVP-assisted sol-gel method" (Ref. 9). PZT films as thick as 0.75 µm could be prepared via single-step deposition from a Pb(NO3)2 - Zr(OC3H7n)4 - Ti(OC3H7i)4 - CH3COCH2COCH3 - n-C3H7OH - CH3OC2H4OH solution containing polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP, average molecular weight 6.3 x 105) (Fig. 1). The gel films were deposited on silica glass substrates by spin-coating, and then were heat-treated successively at 80°, 300° and 700°C, the last step of which was conducted in flowing oxygen. The gel film deposition and heat-treatment was not cycled, but performed just once. The films were optically transparent, crack-free, and PZT in single phase (Fig. 2), exhibiting P-E hysteresis loop with remanent polarization of 24.6 ± 1.6 °C cm-2 and coercive field of 95.6 ± 9.8 kV cm-1 (Fig. 3). The coating solution was stable in viscosity for over 1300 h at room temperature (Fig. 4).
For these few years, we have demonstrated that inclusion of PVP (Fig. 5) in sols significantly enhances the critical thickness of sol-gel-derived ceramic coating films. Single-layer, crack-free BaTiO3 and PZT films over 1 µm could be obtained via the PVP-assisted sol-gel method. Although we still do not know exactly the details on how and why PVP could enhance the critical thickness, we believe that PVP allows the structural relaxation or plastic deformation of the films, suppressing the increase in tensile stress in films subjected to heat-treatment. Probably the hydrogen bonds between the C=O group of PVP and the OH groups of the metalloxane polymers play an important role, and not only PVP but also polyvinylacetamide, which also has amide groups, has been demonstrated to enhance the critical thickness.
In order to make dense ceramic thin films, the PVP-containing solutions should be transparent and homogeneous. In some cases the compositions of the solutions should be tailored so that the solutions be homogeneous. The ceramic thin films obtained through the PVP-assisted sol-gel method are optically transparent in general, but are not necessarily fully dense. We have recognized, however, that calcination of gel films beforehand at 300 - 400°C, where PVP is thermally decomposed, is effective in increasing the final density of the fired films. The densification through calcination works in BaTiO3 films, where the 1.2 µm thick BaTiO3 film became a denser film of 0.7 µm in thickness.
Before the present announcement, we reported that single-layer 1.7 µm thick PZT films can be prepared via the PVP-assisted route from Pb(CH3COO)2.3H2O - Zr(OC3H7n)4 - Ti(OC3H7i)4 - CH3COOH - n-C3H7OH - CH3OC2H4OH solutions. However, the calcination did not work for densification and rather induced crack formation. Then we replaced Pb(CH3COO)2.3H2O and CH3COOH by Pb(NO3)2 and CH3COCH2COCH3, ending up with the successful densification.
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Gorgeous End-unit, 3 storey freehold town-home situated in a quiet family friendly community close to schools, parks and local area conveniences available!
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Want to Win the New halo Defiant Map Pack Early? CLOSED
To win all you have to do is follow me on Twitter (@StophJ) and ReTweet the Tweet about winning the Maps. You have until 12pm est on the 13th to enter one winner will be picked at random and the code will be direct messaged with in the hour. Good Luck.
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Recently I won a Kidde 10 Year Sealed Battery Smoke Alarm on their Facebook page. I received it a few weeks ago. 374 and I finally agreed on a spot in our house to install it.
Even before I became a fire wife, I was always fire conscious. I never leave anything on or running when I leave the house, even for a few minutes. I unplug most appliances and devices when they are not in use. Installing new and more smoke alarms was at the top of my to do list when we bought our home. So when I won this new "toy", not only was the resident firefighter excited, I was as well.
I hope I can never attest to just how well this smoke alarm performs. However I can rave about it's features. The main feature of this smoke alarm is it's ten year battery. How many of us are on top of changing the batteries in the smoke alarms on a regular basis, not just when it chirps as the battery is dying? This model's battery never needs replacing. Additionally, you can't even get to the battery without breaking the device open, causing it to deactivate permanently. There's no random chirping inconveniently in the middle of the night, or just as you've laid you little one down for a nap. This alarm will only chirp at the end of the ten years when the battery is about to expire.
Ten years. Why does the battery expire in ten years? Why isn't it five years, or fifteen years? The NFPA (National Fire Protection Agency) recommends that you replace your smoke alarms every ten years. Yes, even smoke alarms have a life span. You may be a family who regularly changes their smoke alarm batteries, but your smoke alarm itself may fail if it is an older unit. Those fresh batteries do no good if your device is out of date. To ensure you get the entire ten years out of your battery, the battery is not activated until you install it on the provided mounting bracket.
What's another feature I love? The Hush control. We've all had those moments in the kitchen when you leave the pizza in the oven just a bit too long, or set the setting on the toaster a little to dark. This results in you frantically waving a dish towel or pot holder in front of the squawking smoke alarm to fan the smoke away. With this model, if a known smoke condition is causing the alarm to sound, you can push the Hush button to desensitize the alarm for 8 minutes. However, if the smoke becomes more dense the alarm will override the Hush feature and sound continuously.
We installed the alarm in our office. It was one of the few spots in our home that did not already have an alarm. Installation was easy. Two screws are needed to secure the mounting bracket to the desired location. Then installing the alarm to the bracket is complete by rotating it clockwise on the bracket until it ratchets. This also activates the battery.
Would I actually purchase this model for use in my home? Most definitely. 374 and I are currently looking into doing a complete overhaul of our existing alarms. This Kidde model is at the top of our wish list.
I would like to thank Kidde for the opportunity to win this alarm. This past June they gave away one of these alarms every day of the month. That's 30 smoke alarms to 30 different households. I think of all the homes that received this alarm that may not have had even one alarm in any location in their home. Or the people who may not have been aware of the need to replace their smoke alarms. I'm sure they inspired more homes to be more fire conscious. To this fire family, that's amazing. It's one less burning building a firefighter has to run into, risking his life.


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Our focus at Garden Gate Nursery has been to provide our customers with high-quality shade and ornamental wholesale trees. Through trial and error, we have learned a lot about growing container trees the last 12 years, and we know there is a lot left to learn, but our hope is to always ship the absolute best plant material we have to our customers.
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On average, from the time a tree is started as a cutting to the time it gets to our customer, the tree has been alive for 5 years. It has gone through multiple periods of movement, been on 2 to 3 nurseries in two states and has been transplanted multiple times. The tree has experienced extensive care, from staking to disease management, and is guaranteed to leave our doors in pristine condition.
Our goal is that every tree that comes from our farm is in perfect health so that the end user will never have to worry about its survival. If customers routinely water it, we have almost 100 percent survival rates of our plants.


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A lot of bad movie ideas were spawned while doing lines in a seedy bathroom stall back in the early 1980's. "Man, wouldn't it be funny to see John Rambo trying to sing country music with Dolly Parton? HAHAHAHA, YEAHTHATWOULDBEREALLYF-CKINGFUNNY! LIKEREALLYF-UCKINGFUNNY! WOO!"
With that dream, a rolled up $20 bill and some fine columbian imported, a classic awful movie was born. Of course, it'd be libelous of me to assume the writers were on drugs, so we'll just pretend that happened (despite how probable it may seem).
Rhinestone opens with a montage of the great country music capitol of America – New York City. The lovely and talented Miss Dolly Parton greets us with song, as she performs in front of a packed house at the film's namesake country music club. It would seem that Miss Dolly is the lone shining star at this establishment, all other acts being booed and heckled relentlessly by the discerning Manhattan country music crowd. So the owner challenges her to find any idiot the street and teach them to sing good.
Enter Sly Stallone.
(Sexiest Cabbie since Travis Bickle)
Sly is a crazy cabbie who hauls Japanese tourists around the Big Apple, his driving is just as bad as his singing abilities. So, the very talented Miss Dolly takes him back to her hometown of
Whatever, Tennessee to train him in the dark arts of honky tonk; riding a cow, chopping wood & stepping in horse shit. The locals cozy up to him, fascinated by his big city style. They ask him things like "What does it feel like to shoot up Heroin?" (Literally, no joke). It's riveting cinema.
Miss Dolly distills as much singing talent that is humanly possible out of him. Pure, unfiltered awful oozes from the screen and speakers as Sly "sings" a ridiculous song in an equally ridiculous getup.
(Hey-yo, Yee-Haw)
So, their training at an end, it comes time to go back and prove himself up on the big stage. Sly, for some crazy reason, develops an ego and gloats over his newly developed abilities. Bubbly, talented Miss Dolly wisely knocks him down to size and he goes all emo and storms off. But when it comes time for him to get up and sing, he has a change of heart and seeks out Dolly.
Duded up in sequins and tassels, he jacks a horse with a neon sign on its ass and rides through Times Square to find Dolly.
(Yes, this happened.)
They go back to the club, Sly sings a song, wins over the rowdy crowd, Dolly gets up on stage and they sing a duet, they kiss, freeze frame, credits. Blah, blah, blah.
Some would think this "Fish out of Water" story is funny. It isn't. It's really insulting. Movies that base humor on stereotypes don't work 99 out of 100 times. Rhinestone transcends the run-of-the-mill B-movie awful into a dark and painful circle of awful hell. Dolly Parton is not to blame. Though I personally don't care for country music, she's got a fantastic voice and managed to act without ACTING! (Her talents were pouring out all over the place as well, the only visually appealing thing about the movie)
Stallone is horrendous. He doesn't know what to do without boxing gloves or machine guns in his fists. He apparently turned down Romancing the Stone AND Beverly Hills Cop to do this movie. Although, who among us would turn down a rom-com with Dolly Parton? She's a class lady though, so no boobs in this one. Might have been a good thing, she could have poked some eyes out, those things are dangerous.
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Friday, 8 May 2009
Crystal from Missouri please step forward!
4 comments:
- Rose said...
If you don't find her, I'll take it!!! lol
- 8 May 2009 at 17:03:00 BST
- Anonymous said...
If it's the Crystal N I know, she's getting married today.
- 8 May 2009 at 22:28:00 BST
- Candice S. said...
Here I am!!! I am Crystal!!! Really, I am! I have just PRETENDED to be Candi... fooled ya, didn't I!??
Just kidding!!! :) Congratulations to Crystal!! how fun for you! I hope you get lots of cool schtuff!!! :) And if you are the Crystal who was getting married today, CONGRATULATIONS!!
Vicki! Thank you so much for what you did for me the other day....along with the other STI girls. You all really are so special! I think you all rock! You are all very important to me, even though I have never met any of you. I am sure I could meet Stacey since she's like my neighbor, but the rest of you gals are just waaay too far for this kid to be traveling! LOL! Although, ya never know. Perhaps one day I will actually venture out of the USA....it's a thought!
Thanks again for all you do!
- 9 May 2009 at 04:51:00 BST
- clearbell77 said...
I'm Crystal N from Missouri. I just replied to your email. I'm sorry it's so late!! My only defense is that I'm a single mother to a 9 month old and who has time to check email?? LOL I hope I'm not too late. I never win anything!
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DescriptionSeries of photos of the Lunar Eclipse off the west coast of Los Angeles, California over the Pacific Ocean. The west coast of North America was only able to see the first half of the Lunar Eclipse. I was able to get a series of photos until totality before I lost it in the morning sunrise.
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Getting arrested for a DWI can be an overwhelming experience. Whatever the circumstances that led you to get pulled over; you certainly did not intend to harm others or yourself.
What happens now? Will you lose your driver's license? What kind of criminal charges could you face? Will you need to install an ignition interlock device?
A DWI charge can affect all areas of your life. In this post, we cover some of the things that can happen when you are arrested for a DWI in Texas.
Your license could be suspended if you refuse a test
Texas has what is called "no-refusal" DWI enforcement. This means that by driving on the state roads, you implicitly consent to take a breathalyzer test to determine your blood-alcohol concentration if you are suspected of drunk or impaired driving. A refusal could result in suspension of your driver's license.
Refusing to complete field sobriety tests on the shoulder of the road does not carry the same penalty. In addition, an officer cannot force you to comply with the testing – you have the right to refuse. Contact an attorney immediately if your license is in jeopardy because of this.
Your arrest itself could trigger license suspension
Even if you comply with the alcohol testing, but are later convicted of a DWI, your license could be suspended. It is important to note that suspension of your driver's license and the drunk driving charges are separate proceedings – one is civil and the other criminal. An attorney can help you handle both.
How much time do you have to request a driver's license hearing?
A crucial step in ensuring you have the best possible chance of avoiding a driver's license suspension is requesting a hearing with the Department of Public Safety. You need to do this within 15 days of your arrest.
In Texas, you have to specifically request it yourself. If the deadline passes, your license is automatically suspended on the 40th day after your DWI arrest. In the case of breathe test refusal, if you do not request a hearing, your license would be suspended automatically for 180 days.
While penalties for DWI charges can be harsh, having an attorney by your side can help you get the best possible outcome, especially when prior convictions are on your record. An attorney skilled in the area of DWI defense can aggressively defend you and minimize the penalties you may be facing.


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I can't believe that in just a few short days we will find ourselves saying goodbye to October, putting away the Halloween decor, and recovering from our candy hangovers. I have been busy, busy, busy hanging out with so many beautiful families over the last month, and I know that soon they (and you, my friends) will be wanting to get those beautiful Holiday cards ordered and sent out to family and friends.
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Although I do not do a lot of waterfowl hunting I do have access to a spot that always holds birds. Last Saturdays plan was to get my son and his friend a few birds, and give the dog a workout in preparation for my upcoming South Dakota upland hunting trip.
Arrived at the swamp after a long 4X4 ride deep into the woods. Set up or decoys using head lamps and got into the blind 30 min before legal shooting. Five minutes after legal shooting the first flock of mallards dropped in at the far end of the swamp. They decided to wait before firing for a few more minutes of light to arrive. Minutes later the the birds started dropping in 4-8 at a time. The shooting began with many misses. Birds would flush out after the shots then with some calling drop back in. Dog worked in between the flocks retrieving the downed birds delivering them to us one at a time.
Eventually their was a break in the action. We heard a "honk" and a small flock of geese were passing overhead. They started honking on their goose calls and got the flock to drop in at the far end of the swamp. I sent the dog in to flush them out and 5 of them took off like planes at Bradley right overhead where the boys bagged two of the five. Dog grabbed the geese one at a time for us.
With all that excitement it was time for a water break for us and the dog. While were were sitting talking about the action I look up and see a flock of woodies circling. Hit the woodie call and they drop in 40 yards out. Son rattles off two shots winging one. Dog goes in after the bird and comes back empty. Knowing something is just not right I send her back into the tall grass on the edge of the pond. There it is! Woodie flushes up flies 15 yards and drops. Dog grabs the flapping bird and brings it back to hand.
Great morning hunting. Ended the morning with two geese, three mallards and a female woodie. No jewelry on any of the birds.


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Art Deco Double Pine Wardrobe (f1904d)
Art Deco Double Pine Wardrobe (f1904d)
An antique pine double wardrobe which totally dismantles for delivery. Dating from 1920 - this has an Art Deco appearance.
There are some delicate carvings to the top sides, and the original key escutcheon's and lock and key are all in good working order.
It is in excellent condition throughout, having recently been stripped. It is now ready for wax polishing.
We will fit a new brass hanging rail - this is included in the price. If you wish to have a shelf made, to be placed above the rail, we can also do that for you - please let us know of your requirements.
Height: 89", width: 59.5", depth: 24", internal depth: 18"
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