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Please read Chapter 21 here.
Chapter 22: Talise Bewitches Nina.
Nina felt the coldness of the water handcuffs Talise had fitted around Nina's wrists when she caused Nina to fly back and land on couch.
Handcuffs made out of water were a curious sensation. They felt wet and dripped water onto Nina's hands. Yet when Nina pushed her wrists against the watercuffs and attempted to twist out of them, the watercuffs bit into her skin sharply as metal handcuffs would do.
Nina was seated on her suede dove-grey couch with her hands and arms bent awkwardly behind her back. Talise was seated on the other end of Nina's couch. She seemed lost in her thoughts and Talise's clouded eyes combined with her haggish appearance were terrifying. Talise possessed the demeanor of someone curse and otherworldly.
Nina couldn't believe Talise had ever been an enchanting youthful woman wearing a sea green gown at the Mergers fundraiser Nina had attended with John. Nina feared Talise because she was certain Talise would murder her and do so painfully.
A small part of Nina couldn't help but feel sorry for Talise and what she had become. There was no concrete explanation for how Talise could've aged exceedingly in a short time. Powerful and demonic sorcery had to have physically altered Talise and blackened her heart. A heart, Nina thought, which had attempted to warn Nina away from John months earlier. What feelings of rage and jealousy had John and Nina created in Talise? Why would Talise give-up– her youth, her beauty, especially her soul — to have vengeance.
" Talise, what happened to you?" Nina ventured to ask Talise, " What do you want with me? You should be happy. John broke-up with me last week." Nina lifted her pale blue eyes to Talise's cloudy green ones. Nina hoped Talise could relate to Nina and in doing so, not hurt her. Talise grinned at Nina darkly. Amazingly, her teeth were still perfect, though the lips surrounding Talise's mouth were wrinkled.
" Yes, Nina. I know John left you. I made Malcolm — you remember him, he works for John? Anyways, Malcolm was supposed to run you down in a stolen truck or injure you terribly. I was giving you a way out, an easier exit out from John's life. This is no longer the case."
Talise threw back her thick wavy hair like a young girl, but the stripes of white in her hair gave her age away. " Must have been painful for you, Nina. Spending all week thinking about John, yearning for him." Talise's voice was raspy and she cackled at Nina's expense. Talise expressed little sympathy for Nina.
"I'm a smart woman Nina. I have over two-hundred-years of life experience on John and you. I had my true love Ethan once, back in the Victorian Era. I couldn't have children so we adopted Ethan's two nephews. When Ethan died, my nephew Simon admitted Ethan had a mistress all through-out our marriage. Simon told me Ethan said I was his only love but Ethan wanted offspring of his own. He had eight — eight children with this whore. And I couldn't do a thing to him or his mistress who had both died peacefully in their sleep at an old age. I know how it is to be hurt by the man you love Nina."
"I know John too. I loved him deeply, not as much as I loved Ethan but enough, we could've built a life together. Being in John's life has only harmed you Nina. John may have hastened your death by refusing to give you up in time." Talise told Nina crossing her legs and smiling absurdly. The wrinkles in Talise's face deepened grotesquely when Talise smiled. She did not appear merely old as humans appeared, but their was a disgustingness, a monstrosity about Talise.
" I know you believe what you and John have is special. I think it's different than what I had with him. I loved John but he didn't love me back, it is clear now in my mind, he was only using me for sex. He loves you more than me and can't accept he's chosen you when he could've had me." Talise's gravelly voice said harshly.
" You think John left you but you know better Nina. You're aware he only broke-up with you to protect you from me? He didn't want you to be physically injured again, especially after your concussion. I had hoped it would be more than a minor concussion when I directed a table hit your head during the storm I created at the Farmer's Market. I had hoped your concussion would force John to never want to see you again." Talise grasped hold of Nina's wrist. She leaned in to frighten Nina with appearance. Talise's muddy eyes were gloating dangerously.
"John miscalculated with me Nina. He's caught in my cave, trapped by a kind of force-field spell. In my cave is a looking glass where John can watch what I do to you. I told him I was intending to bewitch you and drown you, but my new plan but I'm thinking of will cause John and yourself a great deal more suffering. Letting you both die would be too easy. John has my dagger, but I have you. He's not going to be able get here in time to stop what I have planned for you Nina." Talise's grating voice cackled.
Nina couldn't believe she was caught in a deadly situation with Talise. Why hadn't she looked through the door to see who was there before she let Talise in her condo? Where was Rianne? Did Talise hurt her?
Additionally, John was stuck in some deserted cave. He should have brought someone with him, but he hadn't. And he couldn't help Nina. She doubted John could have saved her from Talise, had he been here with Nina and Talise. Talise's magic was disturbing and powerful sorcery, even if John had the dagger that could kill Talise.
Talise's body shimmered with magic and it's soul sucking presence made Nina's hair stand on end. Talise had zoned out, whispering words under breath and holding her arm with her hand. Nina noticed a spot or two of red on Talise's hand. What if John had been able to injure Talise with the dagger and Talise's wound wouldn't heal? Nina filed this significant detail away in her mind to use later.
Talise snapped out of her trance and grinned at Nina as if they were friends.She wanted to harm Nina but was thoroughly nonchalant about the situation. "Why are you stuck on John Talise?" Nina blurted out, "If he hurt you so much by telling his brothers he didn't love you, that you weren't a good wife for a professional businessman, why would you want to be with him? You cursed him and he's suffered for ten-years. You could let him suffer more." Nina exclaimed convincingly.
"There is a minute chance that John can break your curse. To do so he would have to sacrifice himself for me. So isn't you endangering my life, only giving John a chance to save me? To break the curse?" Nina questioned Talise overtly. Talise grinned maniacally seeing exactly what Nina was attempting to accomplish.
" John can try to save you all he wants. There is no way I'll let that happen. To escape my cave John would have to break through the barrier and swim far in the cold Sirene Lake at night. John's not as young as he use to be," Talise said.
"Besides if John does sacrifice himself for you, I've no issue with him then because he'll be dead Nina. It's the beauty of a curse, it's difficult to make your way around them and live." Nina couldn't get over Talise's honeyed voice had altered with each word from her lizard like lips.
"I told John, Nina, that I was going to bewitch you and drown you in the Sirene Lake. I could do that now and no one would be able to stop me. But I've been thinking . . . What if I don't kill you for now? What if I turn you into a mermaid, not a sea witch mermaid such as me, but a mermaid such as the other girls in the Sirene?" Talise wondered aloud.
" John and you would be separated forever and I wouldn't allow him near you to break the curse should the opportunity arise. I'm rather keen on bewitching John permanently. fI what him to do whatever I say whenever I feel like I need him to do something. Sometimes he could do as he pleases but he would always know at any minute, I control him much. He would be much as a servant to me, with little free will or control over his life." Talise mused.
"And I'm going to get my dagger back . . . you never know when I might need to stab either on of you, so the other one complies." Nina's breath caught in her throat but she pretended to be amused by Talise's schemes.
"That's your plan? After all these months you've had to come up with a scheme and you want to separate John and I by giving me a fish tale and bewitching John?" Nina asked Talise and giggled. Talise looked at Nina angrily backhanding her across the face with her wrinkled hand. Nina had forgotten how strong Talise's body was despite her appearance to be otherwise. A welt developed across Nina's left cheek. It stung, "agh…" Nina proclaimed in pain. "You hurt me . . ."
"Excellent! It was supposed to hurt," Talise grated. "You need to learn to respect your elders. Yes, you'll get a fish tale and I will bewitch John and control him. It's either that or I could keep you hidden until I gain my dagger back and stab you through the heart. I've been frightening John with images of that scenario in his dreams.Which do you prefer Nina?" Talise challenged."Once you're a mermaid, I'll ensure John only glimpses you, enough to bring back painful memories. I'll tease and antagonize both of you. Ethan betrayed me and I couldn't have my revenge but against John, I will have my way."
Talise had been standing in front of Nina when she slapped her. She gazed down on Nina, smiling suspiciously. Nina attempted to speak to tell Talise off, but when she opened her mouth to speak, her voice wouldn't come out. She looked at Talise in fear. Her hands hurt behind her back and she fought her watercuffs observing Talise chanting a spell. Talise instantly, grabbed Nina's head grasping Nina's thick blond hair to keep Nina in place.Talise forced Nina to look into her magnetic muddied orbs which hypnotized Nina and made Nina feel weak and lost.
Without realizing what was happening to herself, Nina's body began moving without Nina controlling it. Nina stood up and slid her feet into a pair of flats. Talise had no need to restrain Nina now, so the watercuffs disappeared and Nina grabbed her purse and keys. She had no control over any of her body movements. It was if the essence of who was Nina, was trapped inside Nina's mind. She could think her own thoughts but not express them verbally or physically.
Talise wanted it to appear as if Nina had left her condo to stay with her mother. She had Nina write a fake note to Rianne, telling her where she was supposedly going. How Talise knew about Nina's mother Heather, Nina didn't know. She also wondered how she knew Rianne was staying with Nina. She felt panic rise up inside her, afraid for her Mom and for her best friend.
Nina's body accepted the actions Talise commanded of her and she couldn't even say anything to Talise to convince her not to make her into a mermaid because Nina couldn't speak her mind."Are you ready to go now Nina?" Talise asked Nina. She tried to shake her head but instead Nina heard herself saying: "Yes, I can drive us to the harbour as you asked Talise." Talise smiled at Nina and patted her arm.
"Fantastic Nina. We're going to be great friends, you'll see. Mermaids have a greater lifespan then humans by hundreds of years. Plus, you'll young for most of your life.Once John has died, maybe I will allow you to go on land and find a new man. Mermaids go to land to have children. When John is gone, it will be us girls." Talise remarked. She sounded nice as if she were trying to be friendly, but Nina knew better.
Inwardly, Nina shuddered at Talise's words, but she couldn't halt her body from walking down to the parking garage with Talise behind her. Nina settled into the driver side of her black SUV and drove Talise and herself to the harbour in Adare. Nina had to park the car a few blocks away to Talise's displeasure, but Nina had no control over finding empty parking spots either.
Nina and Talise trudged the few blocks to the harbour. Talise's haggard face scowling darkly in the night. Nina fought and struggled inside herself to regain control of her limbs, her voice, and actions. But her mind became exhausted trying to fight Talise's dark sorcery. She couldn't fight the bewitchment spell.
Talise and Nina walked out to the harbour to the docks where many wealthy people tied their boats. Nina hadn't been here since the first night she met John. Talise told Nina: "Time to get to know your new home in the Sirene Nina. Jump in and swim around for a while. It's time to learn what it's like to have fish tale." Nina's body jumped in the water of the Sirene Lake. Nina was scared because it was a dark outside, only a crescent sliver was apparent in the sky. Little orbs of light along the harbour were the only available lights and they didn't cast their glow far. Nina hadn't realized how far the jump to the water was from the dock.
The water was cold and refreshing. Nina had been sweating since Talise bewitched her, out of fear. She observed herself swimming back and forth in the Sirene under where Talise stood. Talise had her eyes closed and was beginning to cast the spell that would turn Nina into a mermaid.
In her mind, Nina focused on controlling her limbs, trying to make them swim back to the harbour dock away from Talise. Nina was planning to hide among the boats. She knew the black night would aid her in hiding from Talise, at least until Talise jumped in and found her. Maybe Nina could climb up the ladder of somebody's boat?
In a strange but magnificent moment, Nina regained control of her body which was still swimming in the water back and forth by Talise. Talise had begun to utter archaic words in a loud gravelly voice. Nina ducked under the water and tried to swim towards the boats tied to the dock. She wasn't an experienced swimmer but she would have done her last swim teacher proud, making her way through the Sirene Lake's waves as quietly as possible.
On the dock, Talise eyes were glowing a pulsing and pure emerald green. The lake responded to Talise's archaic mutteringings and Nina felt the Sirene's waves become choppy, increasing her difficulty as Nina was swimming.
The sky was turning cloudy in the darkness of the night, Nina believed the darkness was the only thing keeping her from being turned into a mermaid. Hiding behind the hull of a sail boat, Nina peered out at Talise, easily hearing her loud disembodied grating voice in the silence of the night.
In an instant, a pair of arms reached around Nina's body in the Sirene and pulled her close. Nina screamed, but a man's hand covered her mouth. Her scream had been small and insignificant beneath the sounds of the water lapping against the sail boat she was by and Talise's avid chanting of her spell. Nina tried to break free of the arms surround her, but they held her even tighter. Tears spilt down Nina's smooth cheeks as Nina awaited her fate in the Sirene.
Please Read Chapter 23 here.
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Many thanks to Alison Kenney and Lindsay Olson for this week's blog post on Lindsay's PR recruiting site, Six Things You Didn't Know About Solo PR Practitioners. In her guest post, Alison offers six reasons to hire a sole public relations practitioner. As Alison notes, each PR consultant has his or her strengths and unique talents, but she has identified six universal truths about PR soloists:
1. Solo PR consultants are self-motivated. This is a given since when you work for yourself, whether you are in PR, a freelance writer, or even painting houses for a living, if you aren't self-directed, you won't stay in business long. PR soloists are virtuosos at many tasks, including finding and pitching their own business, which requires many of the same skills required to promote yours.
2. PR soloists can become dedicated partners. This is a little known fact for those who have never retained a PR consultant. Most PR consultants who have been doing it for a while like what they are doing, and they like working for themselves, which means they do make great partners because they want to work with you, not for you. They like working with short-term projects or projects with a limited, well-defined scope because they know they can excel at those types of projects. They can work closely with your marketing team in ways that a larger PR firm can't.
3. You can find PR consultants to fit the need. Not all PR soloists offer the same services. Some like to do everything from strategic development to execution, and others like to fill in for a missing team member of help with specific projects like writing white papers or product launches. PR practitioners come in all shapes and sizes, so you can find one who fits your needs.
4. They take their work personally. I like to work as a consultant because it suits my temperament and allows me to deliver well-thought-out, well-executed projects because I am responsible for strategy as well as the hands-on work. I take my work personally because I have to answer to my clients directly, without an agency to run interference, and I have to use my past performance as the means to sell future and repeat business.
5. Soloists have a niche. PR consultants often have a handful of skills at which they are particularly skilled, as well as the PR basics. the good consultants know what they are good at, and that's what they sell.
6. There is no such thing as a truly "solo" PR professional. Every PR consultant is the product of his or her professional experience, drawing from past PR agency work, professional affiliations, clients, and contacts. Most PR consultants I know use a "virtual"agency model, tapping their network of friends and fellow consultants to find the right resources for any project.
Those are the common traits that Alison identified for PR consultants. Of course, there are many others that I often cite when I talk about PR consulting.
7. What you see is what you get. One of the things that used to irk me when I worked with larger PR agencies was the "bait and switch"; the firm would bring in the senior practitioners with years of experience to sell the business and build a program, but once the contract was signed, the actual work would be turned over to the junior team for execution. The challenge with the agency structure is that the senior staff is actually too valuable to actually do the work. They are much more valuable closing new business and running the agency. Within the agency, the goal is to rise above doing the day-to-day client work. With PR soloists, it's exactly the opposite. When you hire a PR consultant, you know they are the ones actually doing the work they promise.
8. You pay for results, not process. A curse of the agency business is the billing process. Most agencies work on the billable hour, and even those that don't use billable time against a retainer model to measure employee productivity. A large part of the agency business model is proving their raison d'etre by generating reports and spending an inordinate amount of time proving their value. When you hire a good consultant, they'll concentrate on getting the job done and not wasting time justifying the invoice.
9. You get more flexibility. Part of the idea of being a business partner is adapting to the needs of the program. Sole practitioners are much more nimble at adapting to their client's needs, suggesting ways to improve the program and achieve the target objective without a lot of internal discussion to realign the agency team.
10. You get better, dedicated service. I also believe you get a lot more loyalty from consultants. After all, you are one of a handful of clients who make up their entire business. The stakes are higher when you are a consultant, and you have a greater vested interest in keeping the clients happy.
11. You save a lot of money. The savings you get versus the quality of service is not to be discounted. Consultants operate with much lower overhead and less infrastructure so you are paying for their expertise, not for maintaining the office for their staff and their administrative overhead. Consultants can generally charge a more cost-effective rate and offer better service because they have less overhead.
So overall, you can get more from PR consultants. You get experienced professionals willing to work hard and apply all their expertise. You get a business partner who is committed to helping you succeed because your success reflects on his or her success. And you get more value. When you bring a PR soloist in to solve the right kind of problem, chances are you'll get superior results.

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Public Concern At Work, the whistleblowing charity, is the leading authority in the field. We aim to protect society by encouraging workplace whistleblowing.
- We advise individuals with whistleblowing dilemmas at work
- We support organisations with their whistleblowing arrangements
- We inform public policy and seek legislative change
I am a whistleblower
PCaW has produced a short-film highlighting the importance of whistleblowing.
Featuring Dr Nick Harper discussing his experience of whistleblowing in the interest of patient safety, the film marks Speak Up Day (November 16) for the Institute of Business Ethics 30th anniversary. @IBEUK #30daysofethics


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The harness already has the capability to import results from a text file, this lets users gather results from other testing systems and submit them in a batch (it just takes an administrator to do the import currently, adding an upload page for users is on the todo list). Adding an API to accept results from a different system would be fairly trivial, my main concern would be adding some authentication to that API so that it can't get spammed. There's a user/login system growing under the hood (from common code used with the test suite management system), that could be used for that so only registered users can get to the API (or upload batch results). Peter On Aug 10, 2011, at 6:19 AM, Bryan Sullivan wrote: > Hi Francois, > > A useful feature would be to allow a tester to define the test results > collection server address, and for W3C to publish the API that the client > side of the framework will use to deliver the results. This will allow > testers to do preliminary testing, and automatically collect the results at > their own server for offline/private review, prior to doing a test for which > results are delivered to W3C. > > Selection of a non-default results server could be a configuration item > which the tester can set at the start of a test session or persistently (eg > via localstorage). > > Bryan > > On 8/10/11 1:33 AM, "Francois Daoust" <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > >> Hi Philippe, >> >> I've added an automatic test results reporting feature to the framework, see: >> http://w3c-test.org/framework/suite/nav-timing-default/ >> >> The page presents a "Report test results automatically (when possible)" >> checkbox, enabled by default. When activated, pressing "start" will run the >> test suite, jumping for test case to test case and saving the result reported >> by "testharness.js". >> >> That's a bit ugly from a pure visual point of view as the browser jumps from >> page to page as soon as it gets the result of the test, but we can improve >> that later on, I think. >> >> Note automatic results reporting gets automatically deactivated when the user >> chooses to report for a user-agent that is not the user-agent on which it runs >> the tests. >> >> Francois. >> > > >Received on Wednesday, 10 August 2011 18:15:22 UTC
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IKEA has expanded a previous recall of its children's wall-mounted lamps to include more than 30 million lamps sold worldwide due to a strangulation hazard.
The first recall was issued in December 2013 and it now affects about 30.2 million lamps sold in various styles, shapes and colors.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reannounced and expanded the recall on Tuesday.
The lamps have a electrical cord, about 7 to 8 feet long, and children can get entangled in the cord that hangs from the lamp, posing a hazard.
The recall was expanded after a 15-month-old baby was entangled in one of the recalled lamp's cord and nearly strangled. In the previous recall, a 16-month-old baby died after getting entangled in one of the cords of a recalled lamp. Both incidents involved the infant pulling the lamp cord into the crib.
The lamps were sold exclusively in IKEA stores, catalogs and online from May 1984 to April 2014 for between $5 and $30.
For a complete list of recalled lamps, click here.
If you have one of these lamps, stop using it immediately and contact IKEA for a free repair kit. The repair kit has self-adhesive fasteners for attaching the electrical cord to the wall.


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We suggest a new type of connector which would combine both connections, as well as a new type of wire, combining the power line and optic fiber. In fact this is a refinement of a standard electrical socket and a plug through adding an optic connector.
But it seems to me that this idea is just destined to be realised by someone in the future. It's simple and natural and modern technologies can help this idea become widespread and cheap.
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Professor, Department of Medicine (Critical Care)
Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health
Chief, Division of Critical Care
Director, Critical Care Research, Department of Medicine
Dr. Michelle Gong is recognized nationally and internationally for her expertise in critical care research. A model clinician-researcher, her scientific projects influence her clinical care, and her patients influence her research. Her overall research focus has been on the prediction and prevention of acute critical illness and their complications. Continuously funded by the NIH for over 10 years for her research, her current projects range from acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) to prevention of delirium, treatment of severe influenza and the development of new electronic acute care interfaces.
Dr. Gong is the Director of Critical Care Research in the Division of Critical Care Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and Associate Professor in Medicine and Epidemiology and Population Health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. After receiving an engineering degree at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Gong went on to earn a medical degree at the Yale University School of Medicine. She then completed her postdoctoral training at the Beth Israel Hospital in medicine and at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in the Harvard Combined Program in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. She also studied at the Harvard School of Public Health, receiving her Master's degree in Epidemiology. Prior to coming to Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, she was Assistant Professor of Medicine in the division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She joined the Einstein/Montefiore faculty in July 2009.
Current and past research projects under Dr. Gong's direction include:
An award-winning educator, Dr. Gong has received the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Health Disparity Scholar Award and the Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award.
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Roundup: Liverpool in charge of Premier League title race
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool took command of the captivating Premier League title race by beating Manchester City 3-2 in a match of wide-ranging emotions at Anfield, although the destiny of the trophy is also in Chelsea's hands after its win at Swansea on Sunday.
Hull's 5-3 victory over third-tier Sheffield United in the second FA Cup semifinal, which set up a meeting with Arsenal in the final, was overshadowed by the latest installment in the fight for the league title that still has some way to run.
Seeking a first championship in 24 years, Liverpool is the favorite after taking its winning streak to 10 games thanks to Philippe Coutinho's match-clinching strike in the 78th minute against City.
VIDEO:Man City's huge defensive mistake
Tears were shed by Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard as he embraced his teammates and made a rousing speech at the end of an emotional contest that was played to a backdrop of tributes marking the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough Stadium disaster, in which 96 Liverpool fans died.
"We live with Hillsborough every day — the families and the victims are in our thoughts every day," said Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers. "It was an inspiration for us, rather than something that held us back."
While third-placed City, which is seven points behind Liverpool with two games in hand, is relying on a slip-up from the rampant leaders, second-placed Chelsea is in charge of its own fate after Demba Ba's goal secured a 1-0 win in south Wales.
Liverpool is two points clear of Chelsea with four games each left but the pair meet at Anfield in two weeks in what is likely to be a defining match in the race for the title. If Chelsea takes anything from that game, City is back in the frame and will capture the league by winning all of its remaining games.
"It is not the end of the Premier League," City manager Manuel Pellegrini said. "The most important thing today is now it is not dependent what we do in the future."
Ba's winner in the 68th minute — a left-foot strike from the edge of the area — ended Swansea's stubborn resistance, with the hosts forced to play most of the match with 10 men following the 16th-minute dismissal of Chico Flores for two yellow cards.
It capped a successful week for Ba, who scored a late goal in Tuesday's Champions League quarterfinal against Paris Saint-Germain to put Chelsea into the last four.
At Wembley Stadium, Hull twice came from behind to reach the FA Cup final for the first time in its 110-year history and stay on course to win its first major trophy. Arsenal beat second-tier Wigan in a penalty shootout on Saturday and is one more win away from ending a nine-year trophy drought.
"All the pressure is on Arsenal," Hull manager Steve Bruce said. "They haven't won anything for years."
Hull was transformed after halftime, with Matty Fryatt equalizing for 2-2 before Tom Huddlestone and Stephen Quinn gave the northeast team what appeared to be a comfortable cushion. Even though Jamie Murphy pulled a late goal back for United, David Meyler quickly responded to secure Hull's first trip to a major final.
Even if Hull beats Arsenal, the story of the season is likely to remain Liverpool's resurgence to the top of the English game, which the club dominated in the 1970s and '80s.
Thousands of Liverpool fans lined the streets outside Anfield hours before kickoff to cheer the team bus into the ground and the sea of flags, scarves and banners in the iconic Kop stand harked back to the club's glory days.
And Rodgers' team keeps on winning, with the platform for the latest victory set up with goals by Raheem Sterling and Martin Skrtel in the opening 26 minutes.
City was blown away at the start but produced a second-half fightback, with David Silva scoring in the 57th before Glen Johnson's own goal five minutes later looked like giving the visitors a point.
Coutinho, though, pounced on City captain Vincent Kompany's poor clearance to curl home a low strike and send the home crowd wild. Jordan Henderson's injury-time red card for Liverpool for a studs-up challenge on Samir Nasri came too late to affect the outcome.
"That is probably the biggest statement we have made so far," Gerrard said. "That was the longest 90 minutes I have probably played in."


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Aside from receiving beautiful gifts this Christmas, we also received so many beautiful wrapping papers. My sister had a brilliant idea: what better way to do with them than recycling into greeting cards?
You will need:
Used wrapping paper (one with patterns, one solid color), used brown paper bag, ruler, pencil, scissors, glue.
Cut the solid color paper into thick strips. Then cut the patterned paper into slightly thinner strips. Glue the patterned paper on top of the solid color paper.
Cut your brown paper bag into the size of a greeting card.
Glue the wrapping paper strips on the brown paper. You may place them horizontally or vertically on one side.
And then you may dress it up some more using rubber stamps or just your handwriting. Then write your dedication inside the card.
The holiday season is not yet over. It's not yet too late to give out greeting cards to your loved ones!


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The Kerry-ization of Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney is getting the full John Kerry treatment on national security — and some top Republicans are alarmed by what they see as his ham-handed response to it.
Romney — whose convention speech didn't include a salute to the troops or a reference to Afghanistan, where about 75,000 Americans are still at war — is getting hit almost daily now by Democratic attacks that he is wobbly and therefore untrustworthy on national security.
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It's the same critique Republicans used to undermine Kerry to devastating effect eight years ago — and the Obama campaign plans to use the run-up to the presidential debates to make a major issue of Romney's surprising convention stumble.
( Also on POLITICO: PHOTOS: Sept. 11 remembered)
Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark, an Obama surrogate, said Monday that the GOP nominee's approach has been "unbecoming of someone who wants to become commander in chief." Clark was building on a very personal critique of Romney that started with Kerry himself at last week's Democratic convention and was quickly followed by Vice President Joe Biden and then President Barack Obama.
Romney, who aides say has downplayed national security in speeches and in the campaign to focus on the economy, will seek to repair any damage on Tuesday, the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, when he speaks to a crowd of 4,000 at the annual conference of the National Guard Association in Reno, Nev. What might have been a standard patriotic speech has become a more urgent mission to reset the national security debate for the last nine weeks of the campaign, aides said.
( 50 PHOTOS: Ground zero reborn)
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in an interview that he thinks Romney should use his speech Tuesday to "go on the offensive — to point out that the president never mentions victory in Afghanistan, but talks about withdrawal. That has clearly encouraged the Taliban and extremists. The level of violence is up."
"Of course, I believe that he should have repeated what he has continually said throughout the campaign: how much we appreciate the men and women who serve," McCain said. "But there is nothing for him to be defensive about."
Yet Obama advisers tell POLITICO that they expect to cite the convention-speech omission repeatedly in coming days as evidence that Romney is not ready to be commander in chief and is not being frank about what he would do if elected, including his policy on Afghanistan. The campaign plans to use Romney's omission as a key talking point in events aimed at military families and veterans in Virginia, North Carolina and other swing states where many voters have relatives or neighbors serving in combat.
The Obama team also is beginning to point out that Romney's address failed to mention Al Qaeda, a staple of the two earlier post-Sept. 11 Republican presidential campaigns. Several top Republicans said that, besides the short-term damage to his own campaign, Romney's perceived neglect of national security could hurt the party in the long term if he loses because the issue has been a traditional Republican touchstone.
In essence, many of the same Democrats who accused Republicans of playing politics with war in past elections are playing politics with it this time around.


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Reid to Obama: OK to skip Congress
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other top Democrats are putting new pressure on the White House to circumvent Congress to boost the nation's debt ceiling if no bipartisan agreement can be reached.
In a strongly worded letter to President Barack Obama obtained by POLITICO, Reid and his leadership team argue that failing to raise the $16.4 trillion debt ceiling would threaten the full faith and credit of the United States. Reid and Sens. Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer and Patty Murray asserted that Obama "must make clear that you will never allow our nation's economy and reputation to be held hostage."
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( Also on POLITICO: Report: Debt ceiling 'X Date' Feb. 15)
"In the event that Republicans make good on their threat by failing to act, or by moving unilaterally to pass a debt limit extension only as part of an unbalanced or unreasonable legislation, we believe you must be willing to take any lawful steps to ensure that America does not break its promises and trigger a global economic crisis — without congressional approval, if necessary," the Friday letter to Obama says.
The letter amounts to the most concerted push yet by Senate Democratic leaders for the White House to take unprecedented action to raise the debt ceiling given the bitter stalemate in Congress. After the messy debt ceiling fight from 2011, and the protracted fiscal cliff battle that extended until New Year's Day, Obama has said he will not use the debt ceiling increase as a bargaining chip and will refuse to negotiate with GOP leaders on the issue.
( Also on POLITICO: Dems to W.H.: Don't rule out 14th)
But Republicans have demanded that dollar-for-dollar spending cuts must accompany any increase in the debt ceiling. And after agreeing to raise marginal income tax rates on high earners as part of the fiscal cliff deal, Republicans refuse to consider any new revenue as part of a debt-ceiling accord. Democrats say taxes must be part of any deal.
In addition, many conservative Republicans are not convinced that failure to lift the debt ceiling — which will be reached as early as next month — would constitute immediate default by the U.S. government. These Republicans believe that the U.S. government can continue to make interest payments to debt holders without defaulting.
"The fact that we continue hitting the debt ceiling is a symptom of Washington's spending problem, and hitting the debt ceiling does not immediately trigger a default," said Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), chairman of the powerful Republican Study Committee, in a statement on Thursday. "The Treasury Secretary has an obligation to preserve the credit rating of the United States and should pledge to continue making necessary interest payments to avoid default."
( PHOTOS: Who won, lost with fiscal cliff deal)
Following the prolonged 2011 debt fight, the credit rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded U.S. debt, and analysts warn more downgrades could be possible, which could have dire consequences for the American and global economies.
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The current rankings for the May 4 Kentucky Derby:
1. Orb (150 points), Florida Derby winner
2. Verrazano (150), Wood Memorial winner
3. Goldencents (129), Santa Anita Derby winner
4. Java's War (122), Blue Grass winner
5. Overanalyze (110), Arkansas Derby winner
6. Revolutionary (110), Louisiana Derby winner
7. Lines of Battle (100), UAE Derby winner
8. Vyjack (70), Gotham Stakes winner
9. Will Take Charge (60), Rebel Stakes winner
10. Itsmyluckyday (50), Holy Bull Stakes winner
11. Governor Charlie (50), Sunland Derby winner
12. Black Onyx (50), Spiral Stakes winner
13. Palace Malice (50), Blue Grass 2nd
14. Normandy Invasion (44), Wood Memorial 2nd
15. Frac Daddy (44), Arkansas Derby 2nd
16. Mylute (42), Louisiana Derby 2nd
17. Oxbow (36), Rebel Stakes 2nd
18. Uncaptured (30), Kentucky Jockey Club winner (2012)
19. Super Ninety Nine (30), Southwest Stakes winner
20. Falling Sky (30), Sam F. Davis Stakes winner
Seven are tied with 20 points. They will draw into the field based on unrestricted stakes earnings in this order: Den's Legacy, Charming Kitten, Departing, West Hills Giant, Code West and Tiz a Minister.
The Derby field is limited to 20 starters and four "also eligible" runners, who would draw in if there are scratches among those with more points.
Two races remain on the schedule for horses seeking a starting spot in the Run for the Roses. The Lexington Stakes at Keeneland and the Derby Trial at Churchill Downs each offer 20 points to the winner, 8 for second, 4 for third and 2 for fourth. Results of those races could produce minor changes at the bottom of the qualifying list.


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If I remember right Curlin ran on turf for one race and did
decently-? It's been a few years..
In any case, a lot of Curlins like wet heavy tracks, which turf can play like. I think this is a cross worth trying.
He did. He ran second to Red Rocks in the 2008 Man O' War at Belmont Park. A lot of people suspected that he would have done alright on turf if they had run him on it more than once.
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I want to try my hand at this because I love writing and sharing my opinions.
For the time being, I'm going to try to keep it Breyerfest related. Every now and then I might write one about a web special or primer club release. I hope that people enjoy these!!
Special Runs always brings about excitement for breyerfest attendees.
So far Breyer has released three Special Run Models. These are very different from Store Specials
We might be moving again...
This time into a two bedroom apartment with more space then our current one bedroom cramped one.
I'm crossing my fingers that everything works out to get the new place.
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People typically utilize easy shade for their restroom. They occasionally utilize just one shade or a combination of two shades. White and grey bathrooms are preferred for your home with a modern style. Both colors look so excellent integrated with each other. They are neutral colors and can develop an eased environment to your bathroom. White and gray are moody shade. They sometimes feel straightforward and also awesome while various other times they look sophisticated. Nonetheless, both are timeless shades that great to be related to your shower room.
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Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts registration open house is Jan. 4
WINONA, Minn. — The Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts will conduct semester II registration open house, Monday, Jan. 4, from 4 to 7 p.m., at the Valéncia Arts Center, 1164 West 10th St.
Registration for the Winona Area Youth Singers (WAYS) choir, private music lessons, and semester II dance classes, which begin Jan. 5, will be accepted at the open house. Tours of the facility will be available, refreshments will be served, and students will have the opportunity to meet new and returning faculty and staff. Additionally, students can be fitted for all their dance attire needs at the open house. MCA's dance attire boutique offers quality basics including leotards, tights, ballet slippers, jazz shoes and tap shoes.
Dance class offerings are available for youth as young as 3 to adults and include beginning through advanced levels in classical ballet, tap, jazz, creative movement and modern, hip hop, and a special tuition-free boys program. Semester II also provides programming specifically for beginning teens and adults through classes in partnership with Winona County Community Education, including: Clogging I, Clogging II, Dance Fitness, Power Piyo, and Teen and Adult Ballet. Academic credit is available through Cotter High School and Saint Mary's University for a variety of MCA dance classes.
The official youth choir of the Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts, WAYS offers students in grades four through eight additional educational and choral performance opportunities. Semester II WAYS members will participate in a spring concert, a special mentorship program with Saint Mary's choirs, and in community outreach by performing at nursing homes and for other charitable events. Placement auditions for new choral students interested in becoming WAYS members will take place at the open house as well. Due to a grant from the Saint Mary's University Friends of the School of the Arts, WAYS is tuition-free for all students for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Private lessons in voice, guitar and other classical instruments are available for students in grades four through 12. Private music lessons are $75 for five 30-minute lessons or $140 for 10 lessons.
MCA Semester II music and dance programming provides five to 13 weeks of instruction, depending on the specific course/activity. Dance classes conclude with a demonstration week, March 22-27. Those dancers in the Dance Repertory Company will perform in the company's annual spring concert April 22-24. WAYS will conclude the semester with the presentation of a spring concert April 18 and a performance with the SMU choirs on April 24. Tuition for MCA classes varies, depending on course length and level. Discounts and scholarships are available.
For more information about MCA's open house, dance classes, WAYS, private music lessons or future performances, visit www.mnconservatoryforthearts.org, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or call (507) 453-5500. The Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts is an affiliate program of Saint Mary's University.


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Onorato Finishes With .430 Batting Average To Set New School Record
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. – Yale's offensive outburst from Sunday didn't carry over. Two days after belting eight home runs in a doubleheader with Brown, the Bulldogs were limited to two hits in a 6-0 loss at Marist in the season finale.
Sarah Onorato went 0-for-2 in the game with a walk, but still finished the season with a .430 batting average, which is a new school record. It narrowly edges the .429 average Jennifer Fong had in 1993.
Yale's best scoring chance in the game came in the first inning. Singles from Tori Balta and Hannah Brennan and a walk to Onorato loaded the bases with one out, but the three were left stranded when the next two hitters were retired.
Yale (10-37) had only two base runners the rest of way. Chelsey Dunham walked in the second, and Riley Hughes drew a walk in the third.
Marist (25-22) scored twice in the second, once in the fourth and three times in the sixth.
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in the House today to recognize the 150th anniversary of the Caledon Fair. This annual celebration of agriculture, community and family has become a cherished tradition for the residents of Dufferin—Caledon and surrounding areas.
Since the fair first begin in 1860, it has honoured agricultural excellence and represents all that is rural Canada. Today families can still enjoy livestock shows and home craft displays. However, new and exciting additions to the fair include the Caledon Idol, truck and tractor pulls and a midway.
I would like to sincerely thank and congratulate the Caledon Agricultural Society, especially Anne Ward and Clarence Pinkney, as well as the directors, members, volunteers and our community for successfully and enthusiastically preserving this family tradition for 150 years. Their efforts, hard work and dedication are deeply appreciated.
I encourage everyone to travel to Caledon Village on the weekend of June 11 to 13 to enjoy some outstanding family fun.


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There is a particular beauty to guitars. If I had the money, I would collect them like a kid collects bottle caps (wait, does that happen anymore?). My wife often asks why one is not enough. A picture such as the above speaks volumes to that question. But is it worth the $3k? I say wait for an Epiphone model unless you are pulling rockstar paychecks…
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Distinguished as one of the most savage players in all of rock, Zakk Wylde has made his mark on everything from the tours and recordings of Ozzy Osbourne, to his own Black Label Society, to a wide range of solo outings and collaborations. Throughout it all, his outlandish style has been every bit as distinctive as his searing solos and eviscerating tone—as witnessed once again on the Zakk Wylde Vertigo Les Paul. High on personality and loaded with tone, this new guitar from Gibson USA exhibits a playful new twist on Zakk's trademark "bullseye" graphics, with a vertigo-inducing "twisted bullseye" that creates an optical illusion that's nearly as powerful as the music that you'll make with it. The Zakk Wylde Vertigo Les Paul features all the traditional tonewoods and craftsmanship that have made the Les Paul a legend, along with Zakk's preferred specs for optimum playability, and his choice of kicking EMG™ active humbucking pickups for unparalleled output and sustain.
To craft the body of the Zakk Wylde Vertigo Les Paul, Gibson USA starts with the timeless pairing of a solid Grade-A maple top and a mahogany back, which work together to blend sonic depth, richness and clarity. The mahogany body uses traditional weight relief which retains resonance while reducing overall weight. A solid one-piece, quarter-sawn Grade-A maple neck is glued in with a traditional mortis & tenon joint, and carved to measure .818" at the 1st fret and .963" at the 12th. It is finished in natural satin for a comfortable, played-in feel, and topped with a Grade-A maple fingerboard with Zakk's preferred custom fret wire. In addition to the striking Vertigo graphic atop a natural finish, and the back's contrasting Ebony Black finish—all in genuine nitrocellulose lacquer—the Zakk Wylde Vertigo Les Paul carries several Custom-style appointments such as 7-ply top binding, 5-ply back binding, multi-bound headstock with acrylic inlays. Furthermore, the back of the headstock displays a black Zakk silhouette decal, and the entire run will have a unique sequential serial numbering from "ZWVTO 001" on up.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College women's basketball program and head coach Maurice Smith are excited to host summer youth camps for both individuals and teams.
Girls' individual camp runs July 8-10 for ages 11 to Rising Senior. The co-ed Pee-Wee Camp for youngsters ages 6-10 is July 23-27, while Girls' Team Camps are June 11-13, 22-24 and 28-30.
The camp sessions are designed for all levels of play. The programs consist of comprehensive instruction, physical conditioning and games.
For more information or to register, visit www.GCSportsCamps.com or call (478) 445-6341.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information.


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Chai, Wen Lin and Ngeow, Wei Cheong (2009) Shooting pain. British Dental Journal, 206 (9). p. 450. ISSN 0007-0610
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Sir, we couldn't help but wonder if there was a common factor that contributed to the unusual manifestation following inferior alveolar nerve blocks. Paul et al.1 described that their patient experienced a sharp pain following the insertion of a dental injection needle. Incidentally, we have also reported such a similar experience whereby one of our patients reported experiencing sharp shooting pain prior to local anaesthesia misadventure.2 We suspect that the piercing of the dental injection needle into the neurovascular bundle causes a breach and this allows the local anaesthetic agent to be percolated into it instead of surrounding it. This local anaesthetic agent is then transported retrogradely to a branch elsewhere, resulting in all of these unusual manifestations. We wonder what would have happened if Paul et al. did not deposit any local anaesthetic agent upon realising their patient was feeling sharp pain?
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Gustavsberg porcelain factory was founded in 1827 near Stockholm, Sweden. It is best known to collectors for its twentieth-century artwares, especially a green stoneware with metallic silver inlay called Argenta. Its items are in the art deco style, but it first made transfer-printed creamware in the English style. The company was sold in the 1990sbut the name is still being used.
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I'm merely making an effort to make every corner and crevice in our small little house work very, very hard. Also, as we were driving home from Christmas, I realized, we have a lot of nice things. Sometimes, I think our lovelies get shadowed by the other not-so-special things that we accumulate. So, I'm in clean out and clean up mode (similar to shape-up or ship-out...).
If I love it, it stays.
If we need it, it stays.
If I would ever need to repurchase it, it stays.
If for some reason (however irrational) I don't get a good vibe from it, I've never liked it, but it was a gift, I get no joy from it, it was on sale so I just bought it but don't really like it... it goes.
We don't have very much usable storage in our little house- only one small linen closet in the hallway, hardly any storage in the kitchen and none in the dining room. So, using this cabinet works great for storing everything from table linens to wool blankets.
This is a stack of out of season pillow cases and on top is a vintage European duvet cover that will be Emma's. I bought it last year in Brimfield, Ma. at the famous antique show.
Stacks of sheets and wool and cashmere throws.
Everyone has their own basket (even Mr. Darcy) that has all of their junk in it. Baskets are always a great way to make you feel organized... it always looks pretty, but really just divides the mess. To make you feel better, at the end of this post, I've included a photo of what my basket looks like inside - everything is just thrown in there!
I got these "Threshold Rattan Small Milk Crate Baskets" at Target. They sell the baskets without the liner ($25 for 2) online, but with the liner ($15 each) in store.
Paper towels and pillows... not much to say about those.
I've included photos of what hides behind our baskets, too, so you can see we're actually human. I have no idea what is in those boxes... they were packed like that when we moved.
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Grand great room, full gourmet kitchen, spacious master bedroom w/King bed, private balcony, 2 fireplaces, large soaking tub, walk-in shower. *Check your preferred travel dates for special rates and packages Columbia Cliff Villas offers a wide variety of 2 & 3-bedroom suites and villas, created by combinations of adjoining lock-out rooms (each with private baths). You will find descriptions of each of the individual master suites and adjoining guest rooms listed under the individual room types. All these combinations create a comfortable multi-room home atmosphere, yet still provide complete privacy for all guests. Pets not permitted.
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Didn't See That Coming
If there was one game where a win seemed inevitable for the Blue Jays, it was on Thursday night.
Out for the Red Sox: David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, Jason Varitek, Wily Mo Pena, Trot Nixon, Alex Gonzalez, Jon Lester and Tim Wakefield. Starting for Boston? David Wells — oh wait, he was traded to San Diego before the game. So the Red Sox turned to a handful of relievers. On the mound for Toronto? American League Cy Young candidate (still?) Roy Halladay. The cards were definitely stacked in the Blue Jays' favor.
While everything was going wrong off the field for Boston, though, Toronto couldn't get anything going on the field. Capping off tailspin was right fielder Alex Rios' gaffe that led to an unlikely home run by Alex Cora. The ball Cora hit bounced off Rios' glove, then off his right hand and into the stands for the game-winning homer. Ouch.
Anyone think of the 1993 Jose Canseco incident when you saw that? Halladay did.
"Obviously, the ball off Canseco's head comes to mind," Halladay said. "That's why you play the game. It's never a given. Things like that happen. That's always going to be the case. You do the best you can to deal with it."
Basically, this was a loss that I — and I'm sure the Jays — didn't anticipate. That's happened during two straight Halladay starts, too. Last time out, he turned in arguably his best performance of the year, but lost to the Royals and Runelvys Hernandez. I don't know which defeat was more unpredictable.
Toronto wants to leapfrog Boston in the AL East standings, but I think the Jays just need to make sure they finish above .500 at this point. In order to finish 81-81, Toronto needs to post a 12-16 record in its final 28 games, including 19 left combined against the Yankees, Red Sox, Tigers and Angels. In Toronto's last 28 games? Well, the club has gone 12-16, including a 7-8 mark against the Orioles, Devil Rays, Royals and Indians. Double ouch.
–Today marks the first day for September callups. Toronto plans on bringing up five players. Those likely called up are Adam Lind, Josh Towers, Dustin McGowan, Francisco Rosario, and Kevin Barker. They all won't be up at once. The Jays will probably bring up two right away and then the other three after the weekend.
–Justin Speier is scheduled to throw his in his second bullpen session today — this time with sliders mixed in with fastballs. After that, the injured right-hander has a pair of simulated games left before he says he can rejoin the team.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "What, should I fight him?" — Toronto manager John Gibbons, joking around after one Toronto reporter asked him if he was concerned about the recent mistakes Lyle Overbay has made.
What has been the club's single-best performance thus far?
May 13: Roy Halladay throws 89-pitch CG
May 30: Vernon Wells hits three homers
June 27: A.J. Burnett throws CG shutout
July 1: B.J. Ryan strikes out five in save
Aug. 7: Lyle Overbay collects five RBIs
I only could pick five and I wanted to have five different players represented if possible. Otherwise, Overbay's five RBI game and Ryan's save might not have made the cut. I also might have included Wells' game-winning blast against Mariano Rivera or the game in Baltimore, where Troy Glaus went 4-for-5 with two homers, including the game-winner. Feel free to debate other moments that should have been included. There were plenty more than the five I picked. Blame me if you don't like the list.
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That game really hurt. Rios' gaffe topped it all off. I can't comment on the Jays' best single game performance until the disappointment of last night's game fades a little!
Hope Rios turns anger to offensive production like Wells does!
I think Doc is still a Cy Young candidate. But these past two undeserving losses have hurt him big while Santana dominates. Plus Wang seems to straighten up now too. Unless Doc dominates again in September and Santana falters, then Doc has a chance. I think he is slightly ahead of Wang behind Santana right now. Either way, Doc still deserves considerations. Hope fatigue does not catch up to him though.
Seems like Jays have imploded. Guess it was bound to happen. Hopefully they can finish strong though. It would look very good if they finish ahead of Boston at least.
I vote for Doc's 89-pitch CG against TB, although it was the Devil Rays. Heck, the Towers 0-7 almost duplicated it the next night. Still, I couldn't believed how quickly that game went by and how many balls were pounded onto the infield ground by Rays batters.


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More than a year later after the BP oil spill, the environmental degradation from the Deepwater Horizon disaster lingers in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil can still be found on nearly 500 miles of Gulf coastline, and an enormous dead zone remains at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Yet most Americans have moved on from images of the burning rig, oiled birds, and the 11 men who lost their lives. And in a crucial and dangerous way, Washington has also moved on.
Early this month, the Obama administration approved Shell Oil's plans to drill four exploratory wells in America's Arctic Ocean. Shell's plans are the most aggressive to date in a region largely untouched by humankind and where there has never been significant ocean drilling. The approval was given, despite the fact that there is no proven way to clean up oil spilled in an icy environment.
To the people of the Arctic coast, the images from the Gulf are foremost in their mind as they wonder how long it will be until their pristine Arctic experiences a devastating spill. True, Shell's drilling – expected to start next summer – will be in shallow water with an average depth of 160 feet, compared to the 5,000 feet of the Gulf disaster. But the Arctic's extreme conditions and remoteness bring challenges and obstacles that are unknown in Gulf.
Shell maintains it will be able to clean up 95 percent of any oil spilled in the Arctic using mechanical recovery. Yet this rate of success has never come close to being achieved – anywhere. In the Deepwater Horizon spill, the mechanical recovery rate was close to 3 percent. With the Exxon Valdez, it was 8 percent.
Standard clean-up methods won't work in Arctic
Robert Thompson, who lives in Kaktovik, a small Inupiat community on the coast of the Arctic's Beaufort Sea – where Shell got provisional approval to drill – believes that Shell's drilling plans must have been approved by people who don't know the Arctic. Even in the summer months, conditions can be so foreboding that it wouldn't be possible to mount an oil-spill response effort.
A recent report for the Canadian government reinforces this point. In the Canadian Beaufort Sea, conditions (precluding sea ice) in June – the tamest month on the Arctic calendar – would keep spill response efforts from being launched 20 percent of the time. September and October? Forget about it. Despite this, Shell plans call for drilling beginning in July and continuing through Oct. 31.
Despite warnings that global warming is accelerating the melting of the Arctic, sea ice is still found in the Arctic Ocean every month of the year. Arctic seas are far from placid. Even in the summer months, hurricane-like storms form 20-foot waves and create conditions that are so harsh that human beings often cannot step outside.
Then there's the Arctic's remoteness. The nearest deepwater port and Coast Guard station is 1,000 miles away. That's roughly the distance between Washington, DC and New Orleans. Coast Guard Admiral Robert Papp recently told Congress "we have nothing" when it comes to the resources and capability to respond to an oil spill in the Arctic.
Importantly, no one has been able to come up with a workable way to clean up oil in ice. Shell's spill plan includes techniques that are familiar to anyone who followed the Deepwater Horizon disaster – in situ burning, dispersants, booms – methods that were difficult to implement in the Gulf's calm, temperate seas, close to modern infrastructure.
When oil companies tested some of these approaches in the Arctic (over 10 years ago), the experiment was declared a "failure." Since then, nothing has changed in Arctic oil-spill response technology.
US says not enough known about the Arctic
What's more, America's own science experts – the United States Geological Survey – say it's "difficult, if not impossible" to make informed decisions about drilling in the Arctic because too much remains unknown about the Arctic's marine environment and the wildlife that depend on it.
This week, in Point Hope, Alaska, on the Chukchi Sea where Shell also hopes to drill, Inupiat people from all over Alaska's Arctic coast are coming together for one simple reason – to pass on the ways of the past to the future.
Community elders are sitting down with young people to teach them the traditions that have enabled them to survive in the harsh climate for thousands of years.
Point Hope itself, a small spit of land jutting into Earth's northernmost ocean, is the oldest continually inhabited community in North America – people have lived and thrived there since long before the planet was divvied up by nation states.
But the air there is not filled with defeat. As Inupiat leader Rosemary Ahtuangaruak said: "I will continue to speak out for my people with the hope that future generations will continue to be Inupiat – and not just residents in an industrialized area destroyed by drilling."
The Obama administration should not rush forward with drilling in the Arctic Ocean until Shell can provide a proven plan to clean up an oil spill, and until there is more scientific information about the impacts drilling could have in this pristine, unique place.
Emilie Surrusco is the communications director for the Alaska Wilderness League.


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Just Mobile Gum Max Battery Pack for iPad 2 Review/
We love Just Mobile as much as we fancy all-things aluminum, and both make a great team to bring us some of the most useful accessories iDevice users can ever wish for. Just Mobile's Gum Plus was a cute little battery pack with a decent amount of juice packed into it to triple the lifespan of your iPhone but not nearly enough to bring an iPad to its maximum self. At last, we've got something that promises to fully charge an iPad or iPad 2 and still have enough power to keep on charging. Just Mobile's answer is the Gum Max. A supercharged, hyped-up battery pack with - close your eyes for this, 10,400mAh of sheer power waiting to be let lose on your iPad.
As always we're going to be the judge of that, so jump past the break for the full review!


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Penny Arcade, the epic top dog of all internet comics, has started using Ustream! In an amazing example of creativity the creators of Penny Arcade have been drawing the comics live!
It takes a creative forward thinker to fully take advantage of live video. Unlike television shows, or even live television, Ustream allows you to interact with your viewers. Now with television in mind you wouldn't know what to do with this – you'd sit there doing your show but fail to acknowledge your viewers. Penny Arcade isn't even thinking of TV. They're thinking internets and only internets. The show is awesome.
Not only do they draw the new comics in front of a thousand fans – they talk to the chat by scribbling words across the comic! "getting a cookie BRB" or "hi user3434" isn't a rare sight on the Penny Arcade live stream.
Its so exciting to see the many ways people think up to use Ustream. Classrooms, eclipses, speeches, tech shows, voice lessons, and now comics drawn in front of yours eyes. I wonder what will be on tomorrow…


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How to Knit a Six-Stitch Cable
Knitting six-stitch cables is similar to four-stitch cables. You can knit a six-stitch left-twisting cable (abbreviated C6F) and a six-stitch right-twisting cable (C6B) with ease. Work a six-stitch cable when you come to the direction C6F or C6B in a pattern.
Slip 3 stitches to the cable needle and bring the cable needle with its 3 stitches to the proper position.
Move the needle to the front of the work for C6F (top image) or to the back for C6B (bottom image). Just let the needle hang there. You don't need to hold it. If your stitches begin to slip off the cable needle, use a larger one.
Knit the next 3 stitches from the left-hand needle.
Slide the stitches on the left-hand needle over a bit so they aren't in danger of falling off the tip, and then drop the left-hand needle.
Pick up the cable needle with your left hand, and without twisting it, knit the 3 stitches from the cable needle.
The knit side of the stitches will face you.
Put down the cable needle, pick up the left-hand needle, and finish the row.
That's it! Repeat the cable as specified in your pattern.


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Country Ham and Red-Eye Gravy
Country ham and red-eye gravy is a traditional part of a Southern breakfast, often served with biscuits and grits. This red-eye gravy served with ham has been a favorite breakfast food for over a hundred years.
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Yield: 2 to 3 servings
1/2 tablespoon bacon drippings
3 slices country ham
Pinch or two of sugar
1/3 cup brewed black coffee
1/2 cup water
Hot biscuits or grits, for serving
Heat the bacon drippings in a 12-inch cast-iron skillet over medium heat.
Add the ham slices and fry until brown, about 3 to 4 minutes on each side.
Remove to a platter and keep warm in a low-temperature oven.
Add the sugar and coffee to skillet to deglaze.
Stir and scrape any brown bits from the skillet.
Increase the heat to medium-high.
Add the water.
Bring the mixture to a boil and cook for about 3 to 5 minutes to reduce.
Place servings of hot biscuits or grits on three plates.
Ladle the gravy over the biscuits or grits.
Place a slice of ham on each plate.
Per serving (without biscuits or grits): Calories 396 (From fat 168); Fat 19g (Saturated 6g); Cholesterol 63mg; Sodium 2,671mg; Carbohydrate 27g (Dietary fiber 1g); Protein 28g.


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This Week's ChessVideos Show: Laznicka-Edouard, European Championship 2012
This week's show really belongs to last week, but it took a little longer than usual to get posted. Hopefully it will prove worth the wait, as I take a very deep look into the theory of the variation that starts 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Bxc4 a6 6.0-0 c5 7.Bb3 Nc6 8.Nc3 cxd4 9.cxd4 Be7 10.Bg5 0-0 11.Qd2. That might seem pretty specialized, but even if the shadows from 1.d4 d5 never darken your board it's still the rare chess player who never plays either side of an IQP (isolated queen's/d- pawn) middlegame. The presentation shows many of White's attacking ideas in this variation, and they are generally themes that work in any typical IQP middlegame. And that's still another reason to watch - you'll see some very attractive games and variations illustrating the beauty of a powerful attack. A fourth motive to watch is for tactics training.
So if you're persuaded (or didn't need persuasion in the first place), have a look here. As always, the show is free (one-time free registration required) and will be available on-demand for at least the next month or so.


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Finale Time! Project Runway has finally come to an end. And I have to say; I may seriously be done with this series following last night's results. I won't give anymore away for those who have not yet watched (or Googled).
It's two-days before fashion week and everyone is in a tizzy! Tim Gunn greets the designers in the workroom and announces he is furious at the crack-smocking judges' critiques of the mini collections. He offers the real final three props and calls the judges out on their cray-cray; although did I hear him say he loved Eyebrows' Grecian catsuit?! I think he just said that to be nice and to point out clearly and emphatically that little miss Anya had no business taking her messy used "intimate tapes" sheets to fashion week. In fact he told her as much! That's the spirit, Tim. The old Tim we know and love! Tim announces a surprise gift! An additional $500 to spend at Piperline Mood to buy whatever they want!
Anya is over-whelmed by her lack of a collection and starts to panic. Viktor announces he will be re-making his fabulous grey gown?! At Mood, Viktor demonstrates he has been spending too much time with Eyebrows as he gravitates towards sheer – and not just sheer, cheetah print sheer!


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Harvard was a perfect 21-of-21 at the line en route to its fifth-straight road win.
NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Harvard women's basketball team rode a record-setting performance at the free-throw line to a 68-56 win at Columbia Saturday night, the team's fifth straight on the road.
The Crimson (11-8, 4-1 Ivy League) was a perfect 21-of-21 from the charity stripe, tying the program record for free-throw percentage in a single game and marking the first time the team has been perfect on more than 15 attempts. Christine Clark, meanwhile, matched Reka Cserny '05 for the best individual performance at the line with a 12-of-12 showing.
Clark finished her night with 21 points, becoming the first Crimson to score 20-plus in consecutive games since Victoria Lippert did so in four straight games in February of 2010.
Lippert added 19 points to the scoring effort while Elle Hagedorn chipped in 11 off the bench. Harvard combined to shoot just 37.7 percent for the game but was aided by seven three-pointers and its 21 points from the line. Columbia (2-17, 0-5 Ivy League) was led by Courtney Bradford's 17 points and Tyler Simpson's 15.
Harvard jumped out to a 5-0 lead and was on top 12-9 following Lippert's second three of the evening, but Columbia bounced back with three straight baskets to take a 15-12 advantage. Tyler Simpson hit 1-of-2 at the line to move the score to 16-12 before Lippert ended the Crimson's drought with a nice cut to the bucket. Clark's 15-footer tied the score at 16 and a layup by Emma Golen evened the game at 18 with 8:15 to play.
Hagedorn put Harvard back in front with a three-pointer and following a pair of Miriam Rutzen free throws, the Crimson led 23-18. Columbia rallied once again and retied the score at 23 on a Courtney Bradford drive, but the momentum swung back in Harvard's favor as the Crimson closed the half on a 9-0 run. Clark sparked the run with a three of her own, and Golen made back-to-back layups for a seven-point edge. Clark added a pair of free throws with 3 seconds remaining, giving Harvard a 32-23 advantage at the half.
Clark netted 11 points in the frame while going 6-of-6 at the free-throw line, and Lippert added 10 points on 3-of-3 shooting. The Crimson shot just 33.3 percent in the half but was a perfect 10-of-10 at the line and hit four three-pointers while holding the Lions to 37.0 percent shooting.
Columbia opened the second half on a 14-5 run and knotted the game up at 37 on a deep three by Melissa Shafer. Taylor Ward began the run with a three-pointer on the Lions first possession, and Bradford's three-point play cut the Lions' deficit to 35-34. Clark scored a layup to make it a three-point game in Harvard's favor but Shafer hit her three on the ensuing possession to even the score.
Hagedorn followed a pair of Lippert free throws with her second trey to put the Crimson back on top by five, 42-37, and added an and-one for a 47-41 advantage with 10:36 remaining. Four straight free throws from Clark moved the score to 53-41 and Lippert added a basket in the paint to make it an 18-4 run and give Harvard a 14-point advantage, 55-41.
Harvard's lead did not dip below 10 points for the remainder of the game as the Crimson hung on for the 68-56 victory.
Harvard will return home next weekend to host Penn and Princeton. The Crimson will first face the Quakers Friday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. before welcoming the Tigers into Lavietes Pavilion Saturday, Feb. 11 at 6 p.m.
Game Notes: Harvard went 21-of-21 at the line, tying the program record for free-throw percentage in a game and marking the first time the Crimson have been perfect on more than 15 attempts in a game … Christine Clark went 12-of-12 at the free-throw line, tying Reka Cserny '05 for the best single-game performance in program history … Christine Clark has scored 20-plus points in back-to-back games, becoming the first Crimson to do so since Victoria Lippert scored 20-plus in four straight in February of 2010 … The win is Harvard's fifth straight on the road, marking the team's longest road win streak since February of 2010 … Harvard has recorded 299 wins in Ivy League play, and will soon become just the second program in Ancient Eight history to reach 300.


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How I Changed the Domain of My Website and Almost Lost No RankingsBlog Post: May 24, 2010
Great and concise information - thank you for taking the time to share! Very helpful for me as I only recently started using WordPress as an additional resource for my clients and have reinvented my strategy a couple of times already - including moving from "individual" blogs to a WPMU environment. Your info is very helpful.


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It's New Orleans: Out to Lunch
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OUT TO LUNCH finds economist and Tulane finance professor Peter Ricchiuti conducting business New Orleans style: over lunch at Commander's Palace restaurant. Each week Peter invites guests from the New Orleans business renaissance to join him. The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Inc magazine have all named New Orleans the best city in the USA to be an entrepreneur. Out to Lunch is the cafeteria of the new New Orleans entrepreneurial movement. You can also hear the show on WWNO 89.9FM.
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