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What can make a face softer but edgier at the same time? (Don't worry, this isn't some complicated riddle.) Bangs can enhance any face shape—if you wear them the right way, that is. We've rounded up five ideas with fringe benefits, along with hairstylist Nathaniel Hawkins's tips for pulling them off.
LASH-GRAZING: Taylor SwiftTrimmed to the eyelashes and angled down slightly at the temples, these bangs pack major attitude. "They add mystery and are the focus of the entire hairstyle," says Hawkins. Dramatic as it is, the horizontal line softens Swift's heart-shaped face. Since blunt fringe is heavy and adds width, it also flatters oval faces (and thick textures). Blow-dry them with a round brush.
TIP: Don't rule out bangs if you have naturally curly hair—Swift does! "Determine how smooth your hair gets when you blow-dry it before you cut anything," Hawkins says. Ask your stylist to cut your bangs while they are dry (hair stretches when it's wet), so you'll know exactly how they'll fall.
"Bangs cut above the brows are strong," Hawkins says of Stone's straight-across fringe, ideal for round or square faces. "It becomes a fashion statement." Flatironing these bangs once they're blown dry gives them edgy definition.
Emma Stone
TIP: To avoid having your bangs cut too short, ask your stylist to trim them gradually. "A quarter of an inch too short may not matter when you're getting a haircut, but it makes a big difference with bangs," Hawkins says. "Ask your stylist to cut them longer at first and take them up in increments until you reach the perfect length."
(See more: How to get the eyebrows you've always wanted)
ARCHED : Rachel ZoeA lighter—and more bohemian—version of Swift's lash-skimming fringe, Zoe's are trimmed with a razor in two sections: one that falls directly over the forehead, then longer layers on the sides that blend with the rest of the hair. Bonus: This style, perfect for oval faces, expertly camouflages the forehead and corners of the eyes, where many women show the first signs of aging.
TIP: Go easy on the styling products. "Style them with whatever you'd normally use on your hair but apply it to the rest of your hair first with your hands," Hawkins says. "You can use whatever's left on your bangs." If you're using a shine spray, mist it on your brush first and then comb through.
PARTED : Zooey DeschanelAnother way to wear bangs? Parted down the middle like Deschanel does: It keeps hair out of the way but still draws attention to her insanely blue eyes. "With the contrast of her dark hair color, it actually makes them look more blue," Hawkins says. Curtain bangs like these can help make the transition to a grown-out style, too. The wispy side layers look soft and feminine, especially when the rest of the hair is swept back.
TIP: When applying rich face creams and makeup, make sure they're fully absorbed before letting your bangs down. Hawkins's trick? "To be safe, dab the forehead with a blotting tissue. You don't want the oils to transfer to your hair and make it look greasy." Clean & Clear Oil Absorbing Sheets are one of our favorites.
SIDE-SWEPT : Debby Ryan
And of course, there are side-swept bangs. Or as Hawkins calls Ryan's take: the non-bang bangs. "This version is more like a long, sweeping layer that has the effect of bangs," he says. "It creates a vertical line where the hair starts to swoop and thins a round face."
To steal Ryan's look, ask your stylist to trim a section of hair in the front of the face so that the longest point falls above the tip of your nose; blow-dry it with a round brush and set in a pin curl for ten minutes. "With the others, the hair is falling straight down," he says. "You need to condition your hair to drape to the side, and a pin curl will set that shape."
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For 58 minutes, the Canadiens had the makings of a goaltending controversy.
If Carey Price had shut out the Sabres in Buffalo, who'd get the start against Florida at the Bell Centre on Thursday night?
Well, we've been spared that mystery, eh?
Jaro Halak will be in goal as your Montreal Canadiens attempt to bounce back from what might have been the most disappointing loss of a season that has not lacked for heartbreak.
For almost 57 minutes, your Montreal Canadiens played a near-flawless road game.
As Kirk Muller told Renaud Lavoie on RDS after the second period, the Canadiens were executing their game plan: stressing simplicity, getting the puck behind the Buffalo D and forechecking effectively to slow the Sabres down.
As bad as the team had been against Ottawa on Monday night, they were superb against Buffalo: skating, puck support, short crisp passes, aggressive team defence that prevented the Sabres – no slouhes in the skating department themselves – from moving through the neutral zone with any speed or spark.
Then Ryan O'Byrne took the fourth of four consecutive penalty calls against the Canadiens.
And with 3:33 left in the game, Lindy Ruff pulled Ryan Miller to give the Sabres a 6-on-4 power play.
And the roof caved in, a collapse that continued through the Overtime and into a woefully one-sided Shootout.
Defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.
What a bummer.
And 24 hours later, we'll find out whether Jacques Martin is capable of rallying his shell-shocked troops.
There are positives to build on:
• The return of Mike Cammalleri was the spark that Tomas Plekanec's line needed, as evidenced by the first goals Andrei Kostitsyn has scored in almost three months.
• Marc-André Bergeron played a solid game on the fourth line and gave the power play a point presence that the Sabres were obliged to cover, opening up the ice for the forwards.
• Until the debacle of the final two minutes, the penalty-killers played an outstanding game.
• Brian Gionta was brilliant in every aspect of the game. If the Canadiens had 18 skaters who played with the energy and spirit of this guy … OK, maybe a few them a little taller … they'd go 82-0.
• Benoit Pouliot, MIA for a few games, complemented Gionta and Scott Gomez with his size and forechecking zeal.
• Carey Price, playing his first game in 17 days, was excellent. The kid just can't buy a break this season. I wouldn't stand anywhere near him in a thunderstorm.
The Canadiens were a transformed team from the disorganized, lifeless group that lost to Ottawa.
It's a short plane ride home from Buffalo. I wouldn't want to be flying back from Dallas and thinking about a loss like that.
The point pushed the Canadiens up into sixth place, past the freefalling Flyers.
But man, that was a tough L to take.
For 57 minutes, a shutout over the division leader and a nice springboard into the final games of the season.
Instead, a dagger into their hearts … and the task of regrouping very quickly, because a loss to Florida would plunge the city into full-on panic mode.
• • •
Remember that great scene in Good Will Hunting when the math prodigy, played by Matt Damon, breaks down as he talks to his therapist (Robin Williams) about trying to protect his siblings by taking beatings from a drunk, abusive father.
As the tears flow down Damon's cheeks, Williams hugs him tightly and repeats: "It's not your fault … it's not your fault … it's not your fault .."
Know what?
Carey Price needs Robin Williams.
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On a particularly hallucinogenic Antichambre, Michel Bergeron suggested MAB was a better Dman than Jaro Spacek and Norman Flynn second-guessed the decision not to dress Maxim Lapierre.
PJ Stock, of all people, was the lonely voice of reason.
I gotta find out who's catering weed for that show.

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CoreLogic Reports Home Prices Increased by Less Than 1 Percent Month Over Month in October
––Analysis Projects Virtually No Growth Month Over Month in November––
Excluding distressed sales, home prices increased 0.4 percent month over month in October 2013 compared to September 2013. On a year-over-year basis, excluding distressed sales, home prices increased by 11 percent in October 2013 compared to October 2012. Distressed sales include short sales and real-estate owned (REO) transactions.
The CoreLogic Pending HPI indicates that November 2013 home prices, including distressed sales, are expected to remain at the same level month over month as October 2013, with a projected increase of 12.2 percent on a year-over-year basis from November 2012. Excluding distressed sales, November 2013 home prices are poised to rise just 0.4 percent month over month from October 2013 and 11.3 percent year over year from November 2012. The CoreLogic Pending HPI is a proprietary and exclusive metric that provides the most current indication of trends in home prices. It is based on Multiple Listing Service (MLS) data that measure price changes for the most recent month.
"In October, the year-over-year appreciation rate remained strong, but the month-over-month appreciation rate was barely positive, indicating that house price appreciation has slowed as expected for the winter," said Dr. Mark Fleming, chief economist for CoreLogic. "Based on our pending HPI, the monthly growth rate is expected to moderate even further in November and December. The slowdown in price appreciation is positive for the housing market as almost half the states are now within 10 percent of their respective historical price peaks."
"In terms of home price appreciation, the housing market appears to be catching its breath as we head into the final months of 2013," said Anand Nallathambi, president and CEO of CoreLogic. "The deceleration in month-on-month trends was anticipated as strong gains in home prices over the spring and summer slow in line with normal seasonal patterns and the impact of higher mortgage interest rates."
Highlights as of October 2013:
- Including distressed sales, the five states with the highest home price appreciation were: Nevada (+25.9 percent), California (+22.4 percent), Georgia (+14.2 percent), Michigan (+14.1 percent) and Arizona (+14 percent).
- Including distressed sales, the only state to show depreciation was New Mexico (-0.5 percent).
- Excluding distressed sales, the five states with the highest home price appreciation were: Nevada (+22.5 percent), California (+18.5 percent), Utah (+13.3 percent), Florida (+13 percent) and New York (+12.4 percent).
- Excluding distressed sales, no states posted home price depreciation in October.
- Including distressed transactions, the peak-to-current change in the national HPI (from April 2006 to October 2013) was -17.3 percent. Excluding distressed transactions, the peak-to-current change in the HPI for the same period was -13.1 percent.
- The five states with the largest peak-to-current declines, including distressed transactions, were Nevada (-40.7 percent), Florida (-37.4 percent), Arizona (-31.5 percent), Rhode Island (-29.3 percent) and West Virginia (-28 percent).
- 96 of the top 100 Core Based Statistical Areas** (CBSAs) measured by population showed year-over-year increases in October 2013.
*September data was revised. Revisions with public records data are standard, and to ensure accuracy, CoreLogic incorporates the newly released public data to provide updated results.
**The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a bulletin on February 28, 2013, establishing revised Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA) delineations. With today's release of HPI, these new delineations are now reflected in the data.
October HPI for the Country's Largest CBSAs by Population (Ranked by Single Family Including Distressed)
October National and State HPI (Ranked by Single Family Including Distressed)
Figure 1: Home Price Index Percentage Change Year Over Year
Figure 2: YoY HPI Growth for 25 Highest Rate States Min, Max, Current Since January 1976
Single-Family Combined Series Peak to Current Declines 12-Month Change by State
Single-Family Combined Excluding Distressed Series Peak to Current Declines 12-Month Change by State
The CoreLogic HPI™ incorporates more than 30 years' worth of repeat sales transactions, representing more than 65 million observations sourced from CoreLogic industry-leading property information and its securities and servicing databases. The CoreLogic HPI provides a multi-tier market evaluation based on price, time between sales, property type, loan type (conforming vs. nonconforming) and distressed sales. The CoreLogic HPI is a repeat-sales index that tracks increases and decreases in sales prices for the same homes over time, including single-family attached and single-family detached homes, which provides a more accurate "constant-quality" view of pricing trends than basing analysis on all home sales. The CoreLogic HPI provides the most comprehensive set of monthly home price indices available covering 6,948 ZIP codes (58 percent of total U.S. population), 647 Core Based Statistical Areas (86 percent of total U.S. population) and 1,227 counties (84 percent of total U.S. population) located in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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By Bobby Harrison/NEMS Daily Journal
JACKSON – The Mississippi House reversed course Wednesday morning and passed legislation to require people to vote on whether they want to keep their elected school superintendent.
The legislation was killed Monday, but Wednesday the House leadership garnered enough votes to pass it 62.55. The bill now goes back to the Senate.
That chamber has passed legislation to require people to garner a specified number of signatures to hold a vote on whether to maintain their elected superintendent opposed to having one appointed by the Board of Education.
Read more in Thursday's NEMS Daily Journal newspaper.


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My last 2 dogs have a problem with angle entries into the water on blinds. They want to square early and get in the water. This is obviously due to an imbalance in my training and they are not comfortable.
What are some of the drills you do for this. It has not been a problem with marks, only blinds.


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THAT same morning Richard was up and out early. Fog had followed on the evening's rain, and at sunrise still shrouded all the landscape.
"Let her ladyship know I breakfast at the stables and shan't be in before luncheon," he had said to Powell while settling himself in the saddle. Then, followed by a groom, he fared forth. The house vanished phantom‐like behind him, and the clang of the iron gates as they swung to was muffled by the heavy atmosphere, while he rode on by invisible ways across an invisible land, hemmed in, close‐encompassed, pressed upon, by the chill, ashen whiteness of the fog.
And for the cold silence and blankness surrounding him Richard was grateful. It was restful—after a grim fashion—and he welcomed rest, having passed a but restless night. For Dickie had been the victim of much travail of spirit. His imagination vexed him, pricking up slumbering lusts of the flesh. His conscience vexed him likewise, suggesting that his attitude had not been pure cousinly; and this shamed him, since he was still singularly unspotted from the world, noble modesties and decencies still paramount in him. He was keenly, some page: 211 might say mawkishly, sensible of the stain and dishonour of casting, even involuntarily and passingly, covetous glances upon another man's goods. In sensation and apprehension he had lived at racing pace during the last few days. That hour in the Long Gallery last night had been the climax. The gates of paradise had opened before him. And, since opposites of necessity imply their opposites, the gates of hell had opened likewise. It appeared to Dickie that the great poets, and painters, and musicians, the great lovers even, had nothing left to tell him—for he knew. Knew, moreover, that his Eden had come to him with the angel of the fiery sword that "turneth every way" standing at the threshold of it—knew, yet further, as he had never known before, the immensity of the difficulties, disabilities, humiliations, imposed on him by his deformity. Bitterly, nakedly, he called his trouble by that offensive name. Then he straightened himself in the saddle. Yes, welcome the cold weight against his chest, welcome the silence, the blankness, the dead, ashen pallor of the fog!
But just where the tan ride, leading down across the road to the left, diverges from the main road, this source of negative consolation began to fail him. For a draw of fresher air came from westward, causing the blurred, wet branches to quiver and the pall of mist to gather, and then break and melt under its wholesome breath, while the rays of the laggard sun, clearing the edge of the fir forest, eastward, pierced it, hastening its dissolution. Therefore it followed that by the time Richard rode in under the stable archway, he found the great yard full of noise and confused movement. The stable doors stood wide along one side of the quadrangle. Stunted, boyish figures shambled hither and thither, unwillingly deserting the remnants of half‐eaten breakfasts, among the iron mugs and platters of the long, deal tables of the refectory. Chifney and Preiston—the head‐lad—hurried them, shouting orders, admonishing, inciting to greater rapidity of action. And the boys were sulky. The thick morning had promoted hopes of an hour or two of unwonted idleness. Now those poor, little hopes were summarily blighted. Lazy, pinched with cold by the raw morning air, still a bit hungry, sick even, or downright frightened, they must mount and away—the long line of racehorses streaming, in single file, up the hillside to the exercising ground—with as short delay as possible, or Mr. Chifney and his ash stick would know the reason why.
There were elements of brutality in the scene from which Richard would, oftentimes, have recoiled. To‐day he was page: 212 selfish, absorbed to the point of callousness. If he remarked them at all, it was in bitter welcome, as he had welcomed the chill and staring blankness of the fog. He was indifferent to the fact that Chifney was harsh, the horses testy or wicked, that the boys' noses were red, and that they blew their purple fingers before laying hold of the reins in a vain attempt to promote circulation. Dickie sat still as a statue in the midst of all the turmoil, the handle of his crop resting on his thigh, his eyes hot from sleeplessness and wild thoughts, his face hard as marble.—Unhappy? Wasn't he unhappy too? Suffer? Well, let them suffer—within reasonable limits. Suffering was the fundamental law of existence. They must bow to the workings of it along with the rest.
But one wretched, little chap fairly blubbered. He had been kicked in the stomach some three weeks earlier, and had been in hospital. This was his first morning out. He had grown soft, and was light‐headed, his knees all of a shake. By means of voluminous threats Preiston got him up. But he sat his horse all of a huddle, as limp as a half‐empty sack of chaff. Richard looked on feeling, not pity, but only irritation, finally amounting to anger. The child's whole aspect and the snivelling sounds he made were so hatefully ugly. It disgusted him.
"Here, Chifney, leave that fellow at home," he said. "He's no good."
"He's malingering, Sir Richard. I know his sort. Give in to him now and we shall have the same game, and worse, over again to‐morrow."
"Very probably," Richard answered. "Only it is evident he has no more hand and no more grip than a sick cat to‐day. We shall have some mess with him, and I'm not in the humour for a mess, so just leave him. There, boy, stop crying. Do you hear?" he added, wheeling round on the small unfortunate. "Mr. Chifney'll give you another day off and the doctor will see you. Only if he reports you fit and you give the very least trouble to‐morrow, you'll be turned out of the stables there and then. We've no use for shirkers. Do you understand?"
In spite of his irritation, the hardness of Richard's expression relaxed as he finished speaking. The poor, little beggar was so abject—too abject indeed for common decency, since he too, after all, was human. Richard's own self‐respect made it incumbent upon him to lift the creature out of the pit of so absolutely unseemly a degradation. He looked kindly at him, smiled, and promptly forgot all about him. While to the boy it seemed that the gods had verily descended in the likeness of page: 213 men, and he would have bartered his little, dirty, blear‐eyed rudiment of a soul thenceforward for another such a look from Richard Calmady.
Dickie promptly forgot the boy, yet some virtue must have been in the episode for he began to feel better in himself. As the horses filed away through the misty sunshine—Preiston riding beside the fourth or fifth of the string, while Richard and Chifney brought up the rear, his chestnut suiting its paces to the shorter stride of the trainer's cob—the fever of the night cooled down in him. Half thankfully, half amusedly, he perceived things begin to assume their normal relations. He filled his lungs with the pure air, felt the sun‐dazzle pleasant in his eyes.He had run somewhat mad in the last twenty‐four hours surely? He was not such a fatuous ass as to have mistaken Helen's frank camaraderie, her bright interest in things, her charming little ways of showing cousinly regard, for some deeper, more personal feeling? She had been divinely kind, but that was just her—just the outcome of her delightful nature. She wouldgo away on Friday—Saturday perhaps—he rather hoped Saturday—and be just as divinely kind to other people. And then he shook himself, feeling the languid weight of her hands on his shoulders again. Would she—would—? For an instant he wanted to get at, and incontinently brain, those other people. After which, Richard mentally took himself by the throat and proceeded to choke the folly out of himself.—Yes, she would go back to all those other people, back moreover to the Vicomte de Vallorbes—whom, by the way, it occurred to him she so seldom mentioned. Well, we don't continually talk about the people we love best, do we, to comparative strangers? She would go back to her husband—her husband.—Richard repeated the words over to himself sternly, trying to drive them home, to burn them into his consciousness past all possibility of forgetting.
Anyhow she had been wonderfully sweet and charming to him. She had shown him—quite unconsciously, of course—what life might be for—for somebody else. She had revealed to him—what indeed had she not revealed! He remembered the spirit of expectation that possessed him riding back through the autumn woods the day he first met her. The expectation had been more than justified by the sequel. Only—only—and then Dick became stern with himself again. For, she having, unconsciously, done so much for him, was it not his first duty never to distress her?—never to let her know how much deeper it had all gone with him than with her?—never to insult her page: 214 beautiful innocence by a word or look suggesting an affection less frank and cousinly than her own?
Only, since even our strongest purposes have moments of lapse and weakness in execution, it would be safer, perhaps, not to be much alone with her—since she didn't know—how should she? Yes, Richard agreed with himself not to loaf, to allow no idle hours. He would ride, he would see to business. There were a whole heap of estate matters claiming attention. He had neglected them shamefully of late. Unquestionably Helen counted for very much, would continue to do so. He supposed he would carry the ache of certain memories about with him henceforth and forever. She had become part of the very fibre of his life. He never doubted that. And yet, he told himself,—assuming a second‐hand garment of slightly cynical philosophy which suited singularly ill with the love‐light in his eyes, there radiantly apparent for all the world to see,—that woman, even the one who first shows you you have a heart, and a body too, worse luck, even she is but a drop in the vast ocean of things. There remains all The Rest. And with praiseworthy diligence Dickie set himself to reckon how immensely much all The Rest amounts to. There is plenty, exclusive of her, to think about. More than enough, indeed, to keep one hard at work all day, and send one to bed honestly tired, to sleeping‐point, at night. Politics for instance, science, literature, entertaining little controversial rows of sorts—the simple, almost patriarchal, duties of a great land‐owner; pleasant hobbies such as the collection of first editions, or a pretty taste in the binding of favourite books—the observation of this mysterious, ever young, ever fertile nature around him now, immutable order underlaying ceaseless change, the ever new wonder and beauty of all that, and:—"I say, Chifney, isn't the brown Lady‐Love filly going rather short on the off foreleg? Anything wrong with her shoulder?"—and sport. Yes, thank God, in the name of everything healthy and virile, sport and, above all, horses—yes, horses.
Thus did Richard Calmady reason with, and essay to solace, himself for the fact that some fruits are forbidden to him who holds honour dear. Reasoned with and solaced himself to such good purpose, as he fondly imagined, that when, an hour and a half later, he established himself in the trainer's dining‐room, a mighty breakfast outspread before him, he felt quite another man. Racing cups adorned the chimneypiece and sideboard, portraits of racehorses and jockeys adorned the walls. The sun streamed in between the red rep curtains, causing the pot‐plants page: 215 in the window to give off a pleasant scent, and the canary, in his swinging, blue and white painted, cage above them, to sing. Mrs. Chifney, her cheeks pink, her manner slightly fluttered,—as were her lilac cap strings,—presided over the silver tea and coffee service, admonished the staid and bulky tom‐cat who, jumping on the arm of Dickie's chair, extended a scooping tentative paw towards his plate, and issued gentle though peremptory orders to her husband regarding the material needs of her guest. To Mrs. Chifney such entertainings as the present marked the red‐letter days of her calendar. Temporarily she forgave Chifney the doubtful nature of his calling, and his occasional outbreaks of profane swearing likewise. She ceased to regret that snug, might‐have‐been, little, grocery business in a country town. She forgot even to hanker after prayer‐meetings, anniversary teas, and other mild, soul‐saving dissipations unauthorised by the Church of England. She ruffled her feathers, so to speak, and cooed to the young man half in feudal, half in unsatisfied maternal affection—for Mrs. Chifney was childless. And it followed that as he teased her a little, going back banteringly on certain accepted subjects of difference between them, praised, and made a hole in, her fresh‐baked rolls, her nicely browned, fried potatoes, her clear, crinkled rashers, assuring her it gave one an appetite merely to sit down in a room so shiningly clean and spick and span, she was supremely happy. And Dickie was happy too, and blessed the exercise, the food, and the society of these simple persons, which, after his evil night, seemed to have restored to him his wiser and better self.
"He always was the noblest looking young gentleman I ever saw," Mrs. Chifney remarked subsequently to her husband. "But here at breakfast this morning, when he said, 'If you won't be shocked, Mrs. Chifney, I believe I could manage a second helping of that game pie,' his face was like a very angel's from heaven. Unearthly beautiful, Thomas, and yet a sort of pain at the back of it. It gave me a regular turn. I had to shed a few tears afterwards when I got alone by myself."
"You're one of those that see more than's there, half your time, Maria," the trainer answered, with an unusual effort at sarcasm, for he was not wholly easy about the young man himself.—"There's something up with him, and danged if I know what it is." But these reflections he kept to himself.
Dr. Knott, later that same day, made reflections of a similar nature. For though Dickie adhered valiantly to his good page: 216 resolutions—going out with the second lot of horses between ten and eleven o'clock, riding on to Banister's farm to inspect the new barn and cowsheds in course of erection, then hurrying down to Sandyfield Street and listening to long and heated arguments regarding a right‐of‐way reported to exist across the meadows skirting the river just above the bridge, a right strongly denied by the present occupier,—notwithstanding these improving and public‐spirited employments, the love‐light grew in his eyes all through the long morning, causing his appearance to have something, if not actually angelic, yet singularly engaging, about it. For, unquestionably, next to a fortunate attachment, an unfortunate one, if honest, is among the most inspiring and grace‐begetting of possessions granted to mortals.—Helen must never know—that was well understood. Yet the more Dickie thought the whole affair over, the more he recognised the fine romance of thus cherishing a silent and secret devotion. He was very young in this line as yet, it maybe observed. Meanwhile it was nearly two o'clock. He would need to ride home sharply if he was to be in time for luncheon. And at luncheon he would meet her. And remembering that, his heart—traitorous heart—beat quick, and his lips—traitorous lips—began to repeat her name. Thus do the gods of life and death love to play chuck‐farthing with the wise purposes of men, the theory of the eternal laughter having a root of truth in it, as it would seem, after all! And there ahead of him, under the shifting, dappled shadow of the over‐arching firs, Dr. Knott's broad, cumbersome back, and high, two‐wheeled trap, blocked the road, while Timothy, the old groom,—stiff‐kneed now and none too active,—slowly pushed open the heavy, white gate of the inner park.
As Richard rode up, the doctor turned in his seat and looked at him from under his rough eyebrows, while his loose lips worked into a half‐ironical smile. He loved this lad of great fortune, and great misfortune, more tenderly than he quite cared to own. Then, as Dick checked his horse beside the cart, he growled out:—
"No need to make anxious inquiries regarding your health, young sir. What have you been doing with yourself, eh? You look as fit as a fiddle and as fresh as paint."
"If I look as I feel I must look ravenously hungry,"Richard answered, flushing up a little. "I've been out since six."
"Had some breakfast?"
"Oh dear, yes! Enough to teach one to know what page: 217 a jolly thing a good meal is, and make one wish for another."
"Hum!" Dr. Knott said. "That's a healthy state of affairs, anyhow. Young horses going well?"
"Bless me, everything's beer and skittles with you just at present then!"
Richard looked away down the smooth yellow road whereon the dappled shadows kissed and mingled, mingled and kissed, and his heart cried "Helen, Helen," once again.
"Oh! I don't know about that," he said. "I get my share as well as the rest I suppose—at least—anyway the horses are doing capitally this season."
"I should like to have a look at them."
"Oh, well you've only got to say when, you know. I shall be only too delighted to show them you."
As he walked the trap through the gateway, Dr. Knott watched Richard riding alongside.—"What's up with the boy," he thought. "His face is as keen as a knife, and as soft as—God help us, I hope there's no sweethearting on hand! It's bound to come sooner or later, but the later the better, for it'll be a risky enough set out, come when it may.—Ah, look out there now, you old fool,"—this to Timothy,—"don't go missing the step and laying yourself up with broken ribs for another three months, just when my work's at its heaviest. Be careful, can't you?"
"But why not come in to luncheon now?" Richard said, wisdom whipping up good resolutions once more, and bidding him check the gladness that gained on him at thought of that approaching meeting. Oh yes! he would be discreet, he would erect barriers, he would flee temptation. Knott's presence offered a finely rugged barrier, surely. Therefore, he repeated:‐"Come in now. My mother will be delighted to see you, and we can have a look round the stables afterwards."
"I'll come fast enough if Lady Calmady will take me as I am. Work‐a‐day clothes, and second best lot at that. You're alone, I suppose?"
He watched the young man as he spoke. Noted the lift of his chin, and the slightly studied indifference of his manner.
"No, for once we're not. But that doesn't matter. My uncle William Ormiston is with us. You remember him?"
"I remember his wife."
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North Mount Olivet to host Unity Fellowship
North Mount Olivet General Missionary Baptist District Association and her Ministries will host a Unity Fellowship on Sunday, Dec. 30 at 4 p.m. Hosted by the Rev. Chester McNairy and Jolly Chapel M. B. Church, the program will follow the theme "There Is Hope in God's World" from 1 Peter 1: 3-5. The Rev. Danny Gladney will serve as moderator, assisted by McNairy and the Rev. John Smith. The event will feature 18 churches from Monroe, Chickasaw, Lee, and Clay counties. For more information, contact Deacon Edward Haynes at 369-2263 or email@example.com.
"Home Run" movie coming to Tupelo
The Christian baseball movie "Home Run" will show at Tupelo's Malco theater on its opening weekend, April 19, 2012.
"Home Run" was prescreened by community and religious leaders in October to gauge interest in the film. Release of the movie in certain locations are the result of positive feedback from such local prescreenings. "Home Run" garnered enough support to warrant its showing in Tupelo.
Sponsored by Christian rehab program Celebrate Recovery, the movie tells the story of loose cannon professional baseball player Cory Brand (Scott Elrod) who finds himself suspended form his team. Stranded in his Southern hometown, Brand is forced to attend the only rehab program around.
Holiday concert comes to Lyric Theatre
Tupelo Community Theatre and Origins Church will present a holiday concert on December 23rd at the Lyric Theatre. The concert, Love Came Down, is presented free but general admission tickets may be claimed from the TCT ticket office from Noon-4 p.m. Monday-Friday. The concert will feature Cody Hickman, Drew Gatlin, Melissa McAnally, and the Origins band. For more information, email email@example.com or call 844-1935.
'Hacktivists' infiltrate Westboro Baptist Church
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting, the Westboro Baptist Church, a group notorious for picketing the funerals of soldiers, children and AIDS victims, announced its intention to protest the funerals of the slain students.
Earlier this week, prominent hacktivist group Anonymous infiltrated Westboro BC's website and publishing a list of personal information about the church members.
A similar group, UG Nazi has launched an offensive against the church. A 15-year-old hacker screen-named "Cosmo the God" infiltrated WBC members' twitter accounts.
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Q. WHAT DID the slothful man say was in the street to keep him from going to work?
A. A LION (Proverbs 26:13)
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Q. What verse in the Bible contains every letter in the alphabet except the letter Q?
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Coffee cakes rank among the most popular of comfort foods, welcomed at breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner, and as the name indicates, coffee breaks. A coffee cake batter is generally more liquid than a quick bread one and contains a bit more sugar, and as a result, the final product is lighter and moister. On the other hand, coffee cakes tend to be less sweet than butter cakes. There are many versions of kuchen, this streusel-topped sour cream type being a very popular one. It is commonly served at the meal following Yom Kippur, or Shavuot, and on Sabbath afternoons or the melaveh malcha ("accompanying the queen") party following the Sabbath. For the later occasion, spices are added to the batter and topping, reflecting those used during the havdallah ceremony signaling the end of the Sabbath.
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I baked the cake in two English cake pans. I think I may have over baked it since it came out tasty but a little dry. I was expecting a denser, moister cake.
This came out wonderfully - moist, light crumb, perfectly spicy crumble on top, absolutely delicious! I'm not sure why so many people are reporting a dry cake. I used full-fat sour cream, and made the single-layer 13x9 version in a glass pan (changed the temp to 325 per the recipe's tip, and baked only 30 minutes). Perhaps the tube pan version gets dry because it requires longer baking? Also, I ended up short by one egg, so I substituted 1/4 cup Greek yogurt to go with my other two whole eggs and it still came out great. All I know is I loved it (and I'm a little picky about dry baked goods), and it was a smash hit at the office -- devoured within an hour, and I saw at least one person go back for seconds.
Normally when a recipe is so highly rated, and there¿s one person who starts off, ¿I don¿t know why everyone thinks this is so great,¿ I dismiss that person as a curmudgeon or worse, an inept cook. But this time, I gotta agree; this cake is SO overrated! I grew up baking with my Finnish grandmother and am well-acquainted with my friends sugar, cinnamon, butter and sour cream. Plus I added tart apples I picked that morning. It still came out dry, sandy, bland, with a rough, unrefined crumb¿exactly like something vegan from the health food store. Mummi must be rolling in her grave.
Really great basic recipe. People devoured it! Added in some apricot preserves for a little change. Looking forward to trying varieties others have mentioned.
Not sure why this rates so high... it was just a garden-variety coffee cake. Its versatility is worthy of some points, though. Usually my oven takes longer to bake things than the recipes call for, but in this case, I at the prescribed time my cake was a tad overdone, so keep a close watch. Anyway, in the future I will look for a more creative coffeecake with a lighter texture.
Sorry naysayers.... for a scratch cake, this is easy. I had no baking soda, so used 4 tspn of baking powder. The cake was wonderful and moist. Added lemon zest to batter and about 1 tbspn of lemon juice to glaze.... yum!
I think this is a keeper. Super easy, I made it in a 9X13 as a single layer and swirled a knife through before baking. Definitely going to try the cheese version with raspberry or blueberry preserves next time!
I made this for a catering.. It went over very well. I only did a single layer in a 9X12. I put the streusel topping on the top only using the nuts. I replaced some of the flour with 1/2c oats and 1/4c freshly ground flax (just for the health of it). It gave it more texture. I made it a 2nd time and put a swirl of cream cheese then 3 berry jam through it... Now that was very good too! This is a good one to experiment with...
Delicious! It's a real crowd pleaser. Everytime I bring it into the office people are a lot happier for the day :)
My goodness, a lot of fuss for a german coffee cake; my mother whipped up something similar in half the time that tasted much better. Here is the recipe: Mix 2 cups flour with 1 cup sugar and ¾ cup butter into crumbs. Set aside 1 cup crumbs and add to remainder: 1 cup milk 1 egg 1 tsp. soda, cinnamon and cloves 2 cups raisins Stir, put into greased cake pan and top with the crumbs that were set aside. Bake in 350 oven for 30 minutes. Enjoy!


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Memorial service for Kauzmann planned for March 27
Friday, March 27, 2009, 1:30 p.m. · University Chapel
Posted March 19, 2009; 09:36 a.m.
A memorial service for Walter Kauzmann, the David B. Jones Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 27, in the University Chapel.
Kauzmann, whose deep insights into the properties of materials made him a pioneer in chemistry, died Jan. 27 at age 92. A full obituary is available online.
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President Trump, his fossil fuel administration, and anti-conservationists in Congress are attacking America's public lands!
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Skogen, Onalaska head into MVC Championship in striking distance
ONALASKA, Wis. - University of Wisconsin recruit Ben Skogen won medalist honors for the fourth time in five MVC meets this season, pacing Onalaska to a team score of 308 on a rainy day at Coulee Golf Bowl.
Onalaska finished 12-shots better than second-place Holmen. The Vikings still hold a two-point advantage over the Hilltoppers in the season standings, however both teams now control their own destiny heading into Monday's MVC Championship at La Crosse Country Club.
"We live another day," said Onalaska head coach Dick Kyes after Thursday's meet. "So now we have a chance if we can play well on Monday and if we're fortunate enough to win that thing we could get a share of the title."20091942
Onalaska won the MVC title last season and shared the championship with Holmen in two of the past four years.
Skogen finished his round at even par 72, edging teammate Ian Earp who shot a 74. "Playing through the bad weather today was very key," said Skogen. "We know this course pretty well so playing smart today and avoiding big numbers really helped us."


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|On May 27, 2006, stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie welcomed a baby girl to their growing brood -- the first biological child for the two, who were already adoptive parents to son Maddox and daughter Zahara. Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt was born by a scheduled caesarean section in Swakopmund, Namibia. L.A. obstetrician Jason Rothbart, who delivered Shiloh, confirmed to People that the high-wattage stars celebrated a very typical delivery: "Brad was with Angelina in the operating room the entire time and cut the umbilical cord of his daughter." To prevent the paparazzi from clamoring for those rare images of their new baby, Brad and Angelina sold the first photos of baby Shiloh to People for a reported $4 million, with profits going to children's charities.
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|At only two months old, Shiloh was already breaking the mold: On July 27, 2006, she became the first infant to be recreated in wax by Madame Tussauds in New York City's Times Square. Her wax likeness snuggled alongside a mold of her parents, who were posing in an African-themed nursery (in homage to Shiloh's Namibian birth).
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|A world traveler before the age of one, Shiloh (who was granted a Namibian passport) traveled with her mom to Pune, India, on Oct. 20, 2006, where Angelina was shooting the film "A Mighty Heart." Protecting her daughter from the crowds, Angelina wrapped Shiloh in a blanket as she carried her to a private jet, with guards trying to keep onlookers at a distance.
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|Only sixteen months apart, Shiloh and Zahara don't mind getting pushed around as they head to a New Orleans patisserie with their parents on March 5, 2007. Brad and Angelina set up house in an early 1830s masonry mansion they purchased in the French Quarter, bringing some much-needed attention to the area post-Hurricane Katrina.
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|It's a girls' day out! Shiloh and Zahara are in a New York state of mind as they do some shopping in the Big Apple on February 18, 2009. With mom Angelina, the girls hit up Lee's Art Shop in midtown Manhattan, a favorite stop for the Jolie-Pitt clan when they are visiting New York City.
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|Taking notes from Mom and Dad, Shiloh seems to have quickly learned how to shield herself from the flashing bulbs of the paparazzi. The pint-sized Hollywood princess hides behind a hoodie and dark shades as she leaves a Washington, D.C. toy store on March 6, 2009.
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|Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have their hands full! The parents take their oldest four kids -- Maddox, then 10, Shiloh, then 5, Pax, then 7, and Zahara, then 6 -- to see the musical "Wicked" in London on Aug. 6, 2011.
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|Angelina Jolie couldn't be happier to have her whole family together! The actress and partner Brad Pitt arrive at the Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Nov. 8 with all six of their little ones in tow. (From left in the photo: Zahara, then 6, Knox, then 3, Maddox, then 10, Shiloh, then 5, Pax, then 7, and Vivienne, then 3.)
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|Shiloh takes responsibility for the family's bulldog, Jack, on a walk in New Orleans on March 7. The family was in the City of Jazz for dad Brad Pitt's fundraiser for his Make It Right foundation, which is dedicated to helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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|From New Orleans to Amsterdam in one week! World-traveler Shiloh plays coy with the camera after taking a boat tour in Amsterdam on March 14. She's certainly dressed for the occasion in a velvet blazer and khakis, proving why she's one of Hollywood's most stylish celebrity offspring.
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Seahawks add RB, DT depth in Day 2
Day 2 of the 2013 NFL Draft was all about options for the Seahawks.
Not just when it came to selecting players in the second and third rounds on Friday, but also with the players they selected – Texas A&M running back Christine (pronounced Christian) Michael and Penn State defensive tackle Jordan Hill.
While Michael is an addition at a position of strength, Hill provides needed depth and some pass-rush ability for the interior of a defensive line that lost Alan Branch and Jason Jones in free agency.
"You can't go through drafts and passing on talents like Michael," general manager John Schneider said when asked about taking a player in the second round who is not expected to start. "When you start doing that is when, in my opinion, you start making a lot of mistakes."
Offered coach Pete Carroll, "I don't think we really looked at it in that way, that we have to get guys that are going to start. I look at it as hoping that we can add a competitive nature to the position and then that will bring out the best in everybody.
"Each one of the guys that we've picked, we see something in there that will add to that."
The Seahawks will enter Saturday's third day of the draft with 10 picks after adding two more in trading down six spots in the second round with the Baltimore Ravens – one in the fifth round and another in the sixth – before selecting Michael. They already had eight third-day picks.
"We're looking forward to this. This has been a great area of the draft for us," Carroll said, referring to the selections of All-Pro cornerback Richard Sherman, Pro Bowl-caliber strong safety Kam Chancellor, linebackers K.J. Wright and Malcolm Smith and guard J.R. Sweezy on the third day of the past three drafts.
"We're going in very optimistically that we're going to come up with some good stuff and terrific kids."
Carroll also added, "And we won't forget that thing that's the exciting part of this draft is that we really do think that Percy was our first-round pick."
That would be Percy Harvin, the receiver/runner/returner who was acquired last month from the Minnesota Vikings in a three-pick deal – which included the Seahawks' pick in Thursday night's first round. The Seahawks did not see a better offensive player – and more diverse offensive player – in this draft class. The actions of the other teams underlined that belief, as only five skill-position players were taken in the first round.
The selection of Michael caught some off-guard, because the Seahawks already have All-Pro back Marshawn Lynch and added backup Robert Turbin in the fourth round of the draft last year. But Michael was the highest-rated player on the Seahawks' draft board when they made the 62nd pick overall, his physical style is a good complement to Lynch and Turbin and there is an opening for a third back after Leon Washington was released last month.
"We want this position loaded up," Carroll said. "The chance to get another good, strong, tough guy like he is just adds to the theme of what we're trying to present as a team. … To have this consistency in the makeup of the guys is a good thing for us."
Offered Schneider, "He's our kind of runner. He's a tough, intense, up-field, one-cut guy. A very good football player."
Michael also has had a couple of serious injuries – a torn knee ligament that ended his 2011 season and a broken leg that ended his 2010 season. But the Seahawks checked him out thoroughly and had Michael in for a pre-draft visit. As they were preparing to make the selection, Schneider huddled with Sam Ramsden, the team's director of health and player performance, for an extended period in the draft room.
"He's overcome an ACL and came back," Schneider said of Michael rushing for 12 touchdowns in a situational role last season. "He's a really cool player."
Matt Berry scouts the Southwest region for the Seahawks, and he also likes the selection – again, for the obvious reasons.
"He's a really explosive back," Berry said. "One cut, downhill, runs through arm-tackles. Real good balance on contact. He's just an explosive NFL back. He's got a lot of talent. It jumps off the tape."
The Seahawks ran the ball more than any team in the NFL last season (536 times), and Carroll wants to continue running the ball with authority – and production – even as the offense becomes more balanced in Russell Wilson's second season as the quarterback.
"We know how we want to run it. We know the style we'd like to bring," Carroll said. "We don't need to take a step back at any time when these guys come off the bench, so I think it gives us great depth and really the consistency that we can really build on.
"We hammered pretty good this year, and we hope to continue that."
The Seahawks also saw something that was needed, and that they could not pass on, with Hill. So much so that Schneider said they would have consider drafting him in the second round if Michael had not been there.
"Defensive tackle was definitely a need for us, adding depth to the position," Schneider said. "That was the one spot that, quite honestly, when you're putting it together you're a little nervous that maybe you're pushing players because of a need."
But they didn't feel that way about Hill, because of what he brings and how he brings it.
Asked to describe his game, Hill offered, "I'm a guy that plays with a high motor. I just want to get after it each and every play. I just love playing football and I love to compete."
No wonder Carroll likes him so much. And Hill has an on-field personality that also is easy to like.
"It's really everything to my game because just of the way I out-work the guy in front of me, how much work I put into it studying film and stuff like that and just my relentless play," he said. "Whenever you work that hard at something you're bound to succeed."
Just as Schneider and Carroll feel they've improved an already good team with the additions of Michael and Hill.


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Former EPA chief to speak, March 4
Posted February 26, 2004; 11:45 a.m.
Christine Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey and former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will present a lecture titled "The Economics of Environmental Protection" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, March 4, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Whitman served as head of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2001 to 2003, during which time President Bush's Clear Skies Initiative was introduced. She served as New Jersey's first female governor from 1993 to 2001.
Her lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs .
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Well, last night I finished up writing the written part of the presentation. Today I need to format the document in RTF or HTML so that the conference people can publish the document as part of their conference proceedings. The document I wrote is 17 pages long and over 6000 words. It will probably end up being 20 - 25 pages after I reformat it to fit on pages correctly, etc.
I was able to get Camelot to pay for 4 nights of hotel because of the whole plane ticket fiasco. The guy who I talk to about this tried to tell me how much more generous they are because most other conference don't pay for their speaker's flight or hotel, etc. Then he named two conferences as an example and I hadn't heard of either one of them (JavaOne and SD West/East). I think that it's only fair that speakers get benifits like this since there is not only time spent presenting the material at the conference, but a whole lot of time (every night for the past few weeks) spent preparing the material.


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It's likely no one on this BB will disagree that the planet is always having climate changes. It's the SUCKERS that are falling for the "man-made" part of the equation.
What is hilarious is how this crowd is so easily taken in, and willing to bastardize themselves by following the Algore farce, thus proving Phineas Taylor Barnum's famous undeniable truth, " a sucker born every minute".
Now comes the goofballs claiming the current snow pattern in the USA is ALSO proof of their favorite cause-du jour.
How much proof is needed? Just follow the money! If a politician can be so easily 'bought off', why not a scientist surviving on the government tit? If you can't see this hoax as a scam by Algore and his ilk, you aren't even worthy of an original thought.


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Yemen: Continued violence and insecurity cause new displacement in the South
Fighting continues in Abyan Governorate and has resulted in approximately 91,000 displaced people in southern Yemen. Displaced people are mainly scattered across Aden, Lahj, and Abyan, staying in schools or living with host families.
The volatile security situation in these areas continues to hamper aid delivery, while rising fuel and food prices are aggravating humanitarian needs as well as significantly increasing supply costs for aid delivery.
Many services, particularly health services, have been discontinued or severely interrupted due to power outages and lack of fuel; only two government hospitals are operational in Abyan. Health organizations are delivering essential medicines and supplies to medical facilities in the area, and six ambulances were dispatched from Aden to evacuate injured people in Zinjibar.
Other support provided by humanitarian organizations to IDPs includes a measles and vitamin A supplementation campaign which has reached 62% of children under five. A fully equipped re-hydration centre in Gamohari Hospital will open next week.
A rapid nutrition assessment of IDPs was completed in Lahj and Aden, which found that the global acute malnutrition (GAM) rate among children under two is high, indicating poor breastfeeding and inadequate complementary feeding. Agencies are concerned that the rising food prices, increased transport costs, poor sanitation and hygiene conditionsmight contribute to even worse malnutrition rates.
Schools are scheduled to re-open in September after Ramadan, which will put further pressure on host families in Aden. It is also unlikely that most IDPs will be able to return home in the near future, which makes long-term shelter a key concern.
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Rush Soccer and adidas send top two '97 boys to Real Madrid
As part of the new adidas partnership, Rush Soccer has the opportunity to send two of the best U15/U16 boys each year to the world famous Real Madrid, as part of the Real Madrid Select Training Program. Zach Emerson (OR Rush) and Sergio Rivas (NM Rush) have been selected to represent Rush Soccer as two of the top 30 players in the world to have the opportunity to train and play with the most famous club on the planet.
The all expenses paid trip allows Sergio and Zach to train with the Real Madrid Academy coaches and players and have the chance to be the one player that is kept over for a week's trial to potentially become a Real Madrid player.
Sergio said, "I really appreciate this opportunity. I am going to work even harder leading up to the camp, and i promise i will do everything i can to get picked to stay."
Zach, who has just returned from helping the B15 Select win the PDT in Arizona, for the 3rd year in a row, by scoring a hat-trick in the final, said, "I'm excited for this great opportunity to play with kids from all over the world as well as experience the Spanish culture"
Both players have been an integral part of the 97B Select team that have won all 5 tournaments they have entered and have never lost a game.
The guys received this note from adidas lead John Parker:
2013 Real Madrid Select Invitation
On behalf of Rush Soccer, adidas International Training Program, and the Real Madrid Select staff, we'd like to congratulate you on your invitation to the 2013 Real Madrid Select Program! As part of a unique partnership between Rush Soccer and adidas, each year two players who best display the character and talent of the Rush Soccer organization will be invited to join their peers in Madrid, Spain as a representation of the top talent at their age level.
As an invitee of the 2013 program, you will be one of the first two players to represent Rush Soccer in this partnership. You've represented Rush well in the past, and we are excited about how you can extend that to one of soccer's largest stages. Playing under the auspices of Real Madrid C.F. Academy coaches at their world class training facilities, you will experience the commitment and excellence that creates some of the greatest players on the globe.
Congratulations on your invitation and all of your successes.
For more information on the trip View the Madrid Select PDF here


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Choreography by: Jerome Robbins
Music by: Leonard Bernstein
Robbins' first ballet and an immediate success, Fancy Free presents three sailors and their escapades while on shore leave in Manhattan.
In 1944, Jerome Robbins — then a young dancer with Ballet Theatre — choreographed his first ballet, a collaboration with up-and-coming composer Leonard Bernstein. The two wanted to bring a modern American sensibility to ballet, and they hit on the perfect concept: sailors on shore leave in New York City, a common sight in those days. The premiere performance of Fancy Free has become legendary, with two dozen curtain calls for the stunned cast, composer, and choreographer, and raves from the bowled-over critics. Fancy Free was the inspiration for a full-length musical, On the Town, that was also a great success, and Robbins and Bernstein went on to collaborate on another Broadway classic, West Side Story. Of course, each man had many subsequent successes; Bernstein became the music director of the New York Philharmonic and a prolific composer and conductor, and Robbins was the creative force behind many enduring Broadway hits, as well as the choreographer of some of New York City Ballet's core works. But it was Fancy Free that put him on the map as someone who had a clear eye for creating compelling movement, a deft hand at telling a story, and a creative vision that was unique in the world of theater.


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Facing the prospect of confrontation with a Congress dominated by his Democratic rivals, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld stepped down on Wednesday (NYT). President George W. Bush, announcing the move, said Iraq required "a fresh perspective" and proposed turning the Pentagon over to Robert M. Gates, a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who is president of Texas A&M University. Gates is also a member of the Baker-Hamilton Commission, which has been reviewing U.S. policy in Iraq (Weekly Standard).
Bush told reporters that those who expected a major course change in Iraq were mistaken. Yet Rumsfeld's resignation coincided with a tectonic shift of political power in Washington as Democrats took control of both the House and the Senate following the November 7 midterm elections. Democrats described the vote as a referendum on Iraq; one senior lawmaker, Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), told NPR the Democrats plan to use their mandate to force a change in Iraq policy.
Rumsfeld's head has been in demand since shortly after the Iraq war began to disintegrate into chaos in 2003. Democrats, citing the fact that weapons of mass destruction never materialized, were first to make the demand. As Iraq's insurgency grew, Rumsfeld dismissed its adherents as "deadenders" (Newsweek) and his resistance to adding additional forces to the relatively small invasion force became a sticking point for those in both parties dismayed by events in Iraq. Rumsfeld himself says he twice offered to resign (CNN) in the wake of revelations in 2004 that American troops abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. At this juncture, Rumsfeld leaves a "very negative" legacy, Retired Marine Lieut. Gen. Bernard E. Trainor tells CFR.org's Bernard Gwertzman in a new interview. Trainor, coauthor of a book on the planning of the Iraq conflict says Rumsfeld will be remembered for his "miserable execution" of the war.
Rumsfeld should have resigned by early 2005, once he became "a serious lightning rod," Leslie H. Gelb, CFR's president emeritus, told Gwertzman earlier this year. "It was hard both for Democrats and a number of Republicans to work with him; and inside the Pentagon, the poisonous atmosphere had begun to develop." A number of his senior military officers joined the chorus as the situation in Iraq worsened last spring (TIME).
By late summer, even the Bush administration itself was mulling "Plan B" scenarios, a debate outlined in this Backgrounder. As the political season progressed, that debate became afflicted with what CFR President Richard N. Haass dubbed "withdrawal syndrome," caused by the realization, even among the war's supporters, that "the U.S. Army cannot stand the current level of deployments and operational tempo indefinitely." An Online Debate, currently in progress, pits two prominent military experts on the question of whether a more lasting "Iraq Syndrome" will afflict post-Iraq America.
While Iraq may define his tenure, Rumsfeld's Pentagon years are also notable for his highly praised handling of the invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11, and his controversial insistence that an agenda of "military transformation" continue even as the two wars raged. Reflecting his fear of being outflanked by more agile foes, Rumsfeld said in a speech at CFR last autumn that the government still functions as a "five-and-dime store in an eBay world." He spent a generation at the top of the defense establishment, serving twice as secretary, first under President Gerald R. Ford (1975-77), and then under George W. Bush (2001-2006).


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It's official, Britney's back! After a year of bad publicity, shaved heads, crotch shots, lawsuits, and an album that flopped, Britney Spears' 2009 is looking to be a great start of things to come. Yes, she's making headlines again because of her cleverly-titled If You Seek Amy, but like any great artist, it's the work that's being talked about. Debates have sparked over the news media about the nature of the song to the point of ridiculousness, but Brit-Brit seems unfazed with it all. Instead she's hard at work preparing for her upcoming tour and busting her butt off, as you can see in the pics below. Let's hope she's here to stay. Then again, I do miss the f-upped Britney.
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Bitch was bred on March 9th. All health clearances, %'s say will have some EIC carrier pups. Both dogs have performance titles and are healthy at 6 and 7 years old. 5 pups already placed if bitch is pregnant. Depending on number of pups will make little or nothing on the litter. Reason for breeding = I want a pup out of this litter and so do others.
My question: Are prenatal vitamins necessary, helpful or beneficial? Or is the puppy food I am currently feeding the bitch sufficient?
I realize my title is inflammatory but you guys are now self named and I did want an answer to my question. I know it will be read.


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WILDE: For Finley, no discouraging words
GREEN BAY, Wis. - To understand just what relative good news the Green Bay Packers had on tight end Jermichael Finley on Monday, all you had to do was rewind to another Monday two years earlier, and contrast the feeling in the room.
On that September Monday, coach Mike McCarthy walked into the very same Lambeau Field auditorium and somberly announced that Nick Collins' season was over. The Packers three-time Pro Bowl safety had left the Bank of America Stadium field on a backboard and spent the night in a Charlotte hospital after suffering a frightening neck injury 24 hours earlier in the second game of the season against the Carolina Panthers.
And while Collins' long-term prognosis was still unclear at the time – as it turned out, he never played again – there was no question that Collins would miss the rest of the season.
"I have some bad news to report on the injury front," McCarthy said that day, breaking from tradition by not immediately opening the press conference up to questions. He then delivered the news.
"So," McCarthy paused, sighing. "It's tough. We've been through the injury stuff before, but it's something you never get used to as a head coach."
The mood was quite different Monday, when McCarthy again entered the press room and immediately made an announcement. And while he wasn't in any way downplaying the injury -- McCarthy used the word "significant" – there wasn't the same ominous vibe in the room.
"As far as the injury, the specifics of it, there's a lot more studies that are going on, opinions to be heard. So anything as far as a timeline would be premature to give," McCarthy said of Finley's injury. "(But) he's up and performing daily activities, and he's in good spirits."
McCarthy said he visited Finley, who spent the night in an intensive care unit of a local hospital and was still there as of Monday afternoon, on Sunday night.
"Jermichael is very, very upbeat, very positive. Always has a smile on his face," McCarthy said, adding that he didn't know when Finley might be discharged. "He's focused on what's most important. That's his health and his family."
Finley was injured with 10 minutes 28 seconds remaining in the Packers' 31-13 victory over the Browns. After catching a 10-yard pass from quarterback Aaron Rodgers, Finley took roughly three steps and collided with Browns safety Tashaun Gipson, whose shoulder connected with Finley's head and send him to the turf.
Finley was down for roughly 6 minutes while team physicians Dr. Patrick McKenzie and Dr. John Gray tended to him, then left the field on a gurney and went straight to an ambulance parked up the tunnel. He'd caught five passes for 72 yards and a touchdown in the game.
"It's very unfortunate. Jermichael was playing very well. He was having a great game," offensive coordinator Tom Clements said. "He just got caught in the wrong position and it was an unfortunate result."
Whether that unfortunate result turns out to be as serious Collins' remains unclear. McCarthy was reluctant to say it was encouraging that, unlike with Collins, the doctors weren't telling him Finley's season was over.
"We do not have enough information. This is something that needs to be seen by more than one doctor," McCarthy said. "I think it's important to always go through the process, do your due diligence. At the end of the day, we're going to do what's in the best interest of Jermichael Finley."
While many of Finley's teammates became emotional after seeing the play and then when talking about it after the game, McCarthy said he and the coaches looked at the film of the play and didn't take issue with anything that Gipson did. McCarthy first saw the replay while in the training room, then saw it again Monday morning in the coaches' meeting.
"I don't know really what you can do. It just seemed like one of those situations where it kind of just went that way," McCarthy asid. "I didn't think it was a dirty play. I thought it was two guys playing football, or three guys that were involved in the collision. I don't know what else any of the players could've done differently."
Finley's injury is the latest in a run of injuries to key players. The Packers played Sunday without four-time Pro Bowl outside linebacker Clay Matthews (broken thumb); wide receiver Randall Cobb (broken leg), who had been their leading receiver at the time of his injury; wide receiver James Jones (knee); outside linebacker Nick Perry (foot); and inside linebacker Brad Jones (hamstring).
McCarthy suggested that James Jones and injured backup tight end Ryan Taylor (knee) could push to play next Sunday night at Minnesota, but the Packers still could be shorthanded going into that game. The 46th active player on their game-day roster on Sunday, special teams ace Jarrett Bush, did not play a snap against the Browns because of a hamstring injury and instead rode a stationary bike with sweatpants over his uniform pants all afternoon.
"We're going to have 46 guys line up against the Minnesota Vikings, and we're going to the Metrodome to win," McCarthy said. "So, everything that happens between now and that moment is part of our focus, is part of our commitment. That will never change. Jermichael's injury situation is no different than the other ones, the other players that have gone down so far this year. It's personal, but there is a team goal, and that won't stop."
Listen to Jason Wilde every weekday from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on "Green & Gold Today" on 540 ESPN, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jasonjwilde.


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Ovila Abbey Ales will closely follow the traditions established by centuries of monastic brewing. "Thirty years ago, I never thought we would be working with a monastery," says Ken Grossman, founder of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. "I first toured some of the Belgian abbey breweries in the 1980's, and I've been fascinated with the beers ever since. It's exciting for us to work on this project, and to experiment with these unique Belgian-inspired styles. The response so far has been great, and I can't wait for the first release."
The first beer in the Ovila series-a Belgian-style Abbey Dubbel-will be released from the brewery on March 1, 2011. The following beers in the series-a Saison farmhouse-style ale and an Abbey Quadrupel-will be released on July 1st and November 1st, respectively. These remarkable ales will be packaged in 750mL cage-and-cork bottles featuring artwork inspired by the historic Santa Maria de Ovila monastery.
A portion of the proceeds from the sale of these beers will go toward the restoration of the historic Ovila chapter house building on the grounds of the Abbey of New Clairvaux in Vina, California, just a few miles north of Sierra Nevada's home in Chico. This medieval chapter house was begun in 1190 near the village of Trillo, Spain. Monks lived, prayed, and worked there for nearly 800 years. In 1931, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst purchased the abbey, dismantled it stone-by-stone, and shipped it to Northern California. Hearst's plans were never realized, and the stones fell into disrepair. In 1994, the monks of the Abbey of New Clairvaux gained possession of the ruins, and began the painstaking reconstruction of the historic abbey.
Ovila Abbey Ales are Belgian-style beers brewed in a centuries-old abbey tradition. These beers are an homage to the legendary monastic breweries, but are not Trappist beers-nor are they made in connection with the member breweries of the International Trappist Association (I.T.A) headquartered in Belgium.
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Don, I also have wondered for quite a while how soon this type of post would come. I am so sorry. I still picture Carol sitting at your dining room table with a lot of spunk as she told the boys and I about outrunning the tornado coming home through Nebraska and other memories from your life together. While I have long desired the relief of your having help with her care, I really did not want it to come to this, inevitable as it was. I am so sorry. Please let us know if there is anything that we can do. We are not far away.
"We are not sinners because we sin, we sin because we are sinners."
You have wearied the LORD with your words.
"How have we wearied him?" you ask.
By saying, "All who do evil are good in the eyes of the LORD, and he is pleased with them" or "Where is the God of justice?"
Malachi 2:17
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Many thanks to all for your prayers and words of support. They are needed and appreciated more than you will ever know. There are already several prayer chains working (outside of FW) that extend out to the four corners of this country and points in between.
My daughter and I will be heading back to the hospital soon. Son and DIL will be there later. By the way, Carol is wanting to see the big televised auto race starting at 11:00am our time. We have clear instructions to turn on the television for her.
There are some questions racing through my mind that will continue to plague me the rest of my life. Although I tried over the past 4-5 years to do the best I could using every resource within me, did I do enough? Did I wait too long to call emergency 911? Should that have been done a day sooner? A week sooner? Should it have been done a month ago? Or, six months ago?
I hope no one ever tells me that had I not waited so long, Carol would not be in the dire condition she is in today. I could not live with that knowledge hanging over my head.
John 14:6
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
"My Journey To Jesus"
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"I have a story to tell...the saving gospel to share...and the fire of the Holy Spirit burning deep within my soul."
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Oh, Don . . . I know that these are the questions we would all have going through our minds. But, I have to say that we should not put ourselves through the anguish of these thoughts. I believe our times are in His hands and He is in control of all of our circumstances. I believe He lead you to call 911 at the right time for all of the right reasons.
You are a dear and faithful husband. A tender caretaker of your wife and a good cook to boot. Think on these things. The best way to overcome the enemy of our thoughts is to quote the following verse . . .
Philippians 4:8
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
May our Lord keep your heart and mind at peace.
Don, my prayers continue from up here in WA and extend all the way to heaven for your family.
Love and hugs
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When God calls me to account, what will I answer Him? Job 31:14
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Don, from the outside looking in, I don't know what more you could have done. You've taken excellent care of Carol during these years, you've taken her to her doctor's appointments and you called 911 when you felt it was necessary. If there was anything medically that could have been done for Carol previously, you had her at the clinic to find out what could have been done. I can't imagine that you could have done anything more for her.
It's only natural that you ask yourself these questions. You love Carol and have wanted to do right by her all along. I'm praying now that the Lord will ease your mind. You have so much to face right now without these nagging questions.
My mom went through things in her mind, too, about what happened at the end of my dad's life. She took great care of him, took him to his appointments, and called 911 when it was necessary. There's only so much we can do. She has no regrets. While it was so hard to let go, ultimately she knew it was his time. When we found out his diagnosis initially, I just knew that cancer or no cancer, God was the one who numbered his days.
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Adding my love, thoughts, and prayers to those already posted, Don. May God grant both of you peace in the coming days.
"God has not called me to be successful, God has called me to be faithful." Mother Teresa
"...not to advance in the spiritual life is to go back. But those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward even in sleep.". Brother Lawrence
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Don, Satan is the Great Discourager, the Great Accuser of the Brethren. He is both a coward and a bully at the same time. He attacks the sick, the tired caregiver, the weak and worn.
Jesus is the Great Encourager. He puts his strong arm around your shoulders and says, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant," and "My strength is sufficient," and "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee." This hymn will encourage you, my dear brother in Christ.
Mariane Holbrook
"Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." Lamentations 3:22-23
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I add "Amen!" to the precious messages from our sisters already posted. My dad wrote to me when Howard had his first heart encounter: "Isn't that just like the dirty devil. He can't stand to see Christians happy, so he tries to rob us of our joy. Well, just don't let him!" Dad often said, "If the devil can't attack a Christian any other way, he uses discouragement."
So, now we have his number! And his number is up. He is a defeated foe.
As for God's timing, which I believe it always is, I like to think of reasons why what we might fret could be delay is absolutely on target. With all the flu going around (my sister-in-law took a client to a clinic last week [many coughing], and is now suffering the beginnings of the flu that has sidelined so many this winter), I think God protected Carol, keeping her home as long as He did.
So I add to above prayers for the peace that passes understanding to flood your heart, Don, and give you rest and joy. I'm delighted that Carol is looking forward to a tv program - that sounds encouraging.
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So I found this song a couple weeks ago, and I think this totally fits how so many of us are feeling. I love it...
Worn - Tenth Avenue North
First few lines:
I'm tired, I'm worn
My heart is heavy,
From the work it takes
To keep on breathing...
I wanna' see redemption win,
Let me know the struggle ends,
That You can mend a heart that's frail and torn,
I wanna' know a song can rise
From the ashes of a broken life
And all that's dead inside can be reborn
'Cause I'm worn.
Isaiah 40:30-31 (NIV)
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Yes, that song beautifully describes the pain and heartache of a worn body and soul. Thanks for posting it.
A while ago I wrote three articles of a similar nature. Many of you have already read them, but here they are again.
John 14:6
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
"My Journey To Jesus"
"The Israel Connection"
"I have a story to tell...the saving gospel to share...and the fire of the Holy Spirit burning deep within my soul."
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I'm also thinking and praying for you two, Don.
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I haven't felt good most of the weekend. Mostly symptoms of the needed surgery. Went to the OB/GYN today and they called this afternoon and want me to go into the hospital for a blood transfusion. I have a ride on the way. They did not know if they would be admitting me or not.
"We are not sinners because we sin, we sin because we are sinners."
You have wearied the LORD with your words.
"How have we wearied him?" you ask.
By saying, "All who do evil are good in the eyes of the LORD, and he is pleased with them" or "Where is the God of justice?"
Malachi 2:17
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After looking hard, I finally found a video of a song that has always helped me in tough times. I first saw this video on the old Z Music Channel in the late 90s-early 00s, and I think it's the most beautiful version of the Three Tenors singing "You'll Never Walk Alone".
Even if you're not a soccer fan, it's still interesting to watch, maybe even encouraging as well, in a way.
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My dear Christian brother, Don,
I've been out of the loop with company and appointments. My heart just sank when I read about Carol. Then when I saw our porch pals gathered round you on their knees, I was thankful for the joy and comfort and caring of Christian friends. Only Satan could try to put into your mind that you had not done enough. God knows--and your friends here and elsewhere know that you have devoted your life to Carol's care. May God give you extra strength as you travel through this deep valley. I am so thankful that you and Carol have close communion with the Lord. God bless!
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine...
Proverb 17:22
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Joanney, may our precious Lord and Savior be with you and bring your heart peace and comfort to your mind. My prayers are with you as you travel to the hospital and for your upcoming surgery, may He place His healing hand upon you.
Amen and Amen
When God calls me to account, what will I answer Him? Job 31:14
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Joanney, I'll be praying for you and hope if you go home tonight that you can post just a little something so we have recent word from you. You've been through so much and now I'll be glad when the surgery is over and you start feeling well again.
We all love you dearly.
Mariane Holbrook
"Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." Lamentations 3:22-23
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Hello Fellers,
I have been foolin with making turkey calls for a few years now, mostly pot calls. Last year I tried my hand at a box call made out of cherry that I had years earlier cut from the front yard. It turned out ok and I am fairly certain I can call a turkey with it.... but now I got the call makin bug and want to try to make something more refined.
I am looking into buying either the Neil Cost video or the individual chapter on building box calls. Obviously the chapter is cheaper (20). I'd like to hear from those of you that have one or both... can a guy figure this out from just the chapter and with trial and error or should one just buy the video (dvd)?
I am hoping to make my next call from old some juniper posts. Juniper is related to cedar and I am guessing it should be similar in sound.
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I'm developing a turn-based strategy game using a component based game engine and have been wondering how to structure my components.
There are quite a lot of collection components in my game. E.g. an Army contains many units. Is it suitable to have an ArmyComponent containing many UnitCpmponents? Is that a suitable level of abstraction for a component?
Another thing I've been considering is the level of abstraction for the buildings I'll have in the game and also connected properties. A player can create a farm, which produces food. A player can also create a barrack to construct units, but this building also increases the offense points of troops by 10%. These types of properties can obviously change (although not likely that any other building than a farm will produce food), and as such this should be customizable easily. My question is what level of abstraction the components should be? Should there be a BuildingComponent, ProductionComponent, and ResourceComponent? Or should there be a FarmComponent, ProductionComponent and FoodComponent? Am I making my components too granular?
I obviously want to create a flexible system, but I don't want to over engineer either. Most buildings will be static, while their properties will change. That's why I'd like to hear your opinion of how you'd structure these relationships using a component based engine.
One more thing, and this question is about sub systems. I intend on making the sub systems handle the logic, and only have the components store data. Does anyone have some tips & tricks regarding how to think about sub systems? I've read that one should aim for a 1:1 relationship between components/sub systems, I am not sure this would be the case for me given my current setup with regards to my granularity of my components.