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Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has responded to Jim Boyce's claims that the Anfield star is a 'cheat' and dives to win penalties by the FIFA vice-president is a nobody.
The Reds man has been at the centre of diving row all week after Stoke City manager Tony Pulis claimed he should be banned for trying for going down untouched in the Premier League clash at Anfield last Sunday.
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers was forced to defend his top scorer from Potters critics, but they were then backed up by Boyce claiming that diving had become a "cancer" in football and criticised Suarez for trying to win free-kicks and penalties when he had not been fouled.
Liverpool were desperate for a goal in the 0-0 draw against Stoke and Suarez went to the ground without any apparent contact being made by a defender, but he was in bullish mood when talking about Boyce, claiming the FIFA official of attention-seeking.
"This guy, I've no idea who he is," the Uruguyan was quoted as saying in The Sun.
"I don't know why he has been talking about me. He certainly can't be well-known and he wants to get publicity.
"Let him carry on talking. My job is to play football and to try to do so in the best way possible."
The Uruguayan FA did not take kindly to Boyce's public criticism and filed a complaint with FIFA in light of his comments.
Liverpool will be glad of some down time from another publicity pickle involving Suarez, as he is away on international duty until next week.
Rodgers will be hoping his star man comes back unscathed, however, as he is now the only fit recognised senior striker at Liverpool since summer signing Fabio Borini suffered a suspected broken foot while training with Italy and is expected to miss a big chunk of the season.
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Today With Sean O Rourke Monday 3 February 2014
The mid-morning current affairs magazine with the stories of the day, sharp analysis, sports coverage, in-depth features and consumer interest.
Limerick experienced some of the worst flooding in its history over the weekend resulting in the displacement of up to 1000 people from their homes. Minister Brian Hayes is due to visit the areas worst hit this morning amid calls for emergency Government funding to assist the people affected. Now, high tide was expected in Limerick about an hour ago, and last night and this morning Brian O'Connell has been on the scene speaking with those impacted and assessing the damage.
Education is in the news this morning...there are more young people completing their Leaving Cert than ever before...but details of a tax refund scheme reveal again the difference in opportunity between affluent schools in Dublin and the rest of the country.
When Ruairí Quinn became Minister, he pledged to tackle many of the issues that have plagued primary and secondary schools...patronage was top of his agenda and underperforming teachers are now also in his sights.
But facing the combined strength of the teacher unions and the Catholic Church, progress is not easy.
Minister Ruairí Quinn joined Sean in studio today.
It's every one's worst nightmare – you approach your front door after an early morning walk in a rural part of Ireland and suddenly you realise a gun is being held to the back of your head. From then on events spiral into a nightmare for you and your family. That's what happened to Joe O'Loughlin back in February 2010 and his story features in a two part documentary "Kidnapped - Ireland's Tiger Raids" which begins on TV3 tomorrow night.
The streets of Portobello, the heartland of what used to be known as Dublin's 'Little Jerusalem', are hung with posters...but this time they're from the neighbours - protesting against the Jewish Museum's plans to develop the existing museum - a former synagogue - on what THEY see as a tiny, residential road. Whereas, the Jewish community say the expansion programme is 'a cause for celebration'. Valerie Cox has been to Portobello to find out more.
Physiatrist Jim Lucey, Medical Director of St. Patrick's Mental Health Services joined Sean to discuss Mindfulness and how to live in the present moment.
The European Parliamentary Elections which take place on May 23rd alongside the local elections – hit the headlines with the announcement last week that Junior minister Brian Hayes is standing in Dublin.. The constituencies have been changed to three reducing the numbers of MEPs from 12 to 11. So who are the candidates and what will be headlining issues? Sean was joined by Niamh Lyons and Stephen Collins.
Presenter: Sean O'Rourke

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|2012-04-12, 20:45
|Link #41
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This show's art design is just absolutely gorgeous!
Anyways I enjoyed the first episode, I wouldn't call it instant love & I am not attached to any of the characters yet but of all the recent "boys in school" series this one was the only one where I thought I'll watch the next episode.
Of course this looks like it might be more than "boys in school" with the whole saving the world thing.
And as I said previously I am hoping this will be a Nakamura series that I end up loving as much as Mononoke.
|2012-04-12, 20:57
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|2012-04-13, 04:30
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Komrades of Kitamura Kou
Join Date: Jul 2004
Age: 33
A lot of shows that use plenty of visual imagery and metaphors have a tendency to deluge the watcher with a torrent a images and events that often just gets the watcher lost in the hectic pace. In others, well, they seem to just rejoice in their own visual cleverness even when no one else understands a damn thing.
Not this show though. It's not bizarre for bizarreness sake but all the weird events, real or not, serve a point and not just to make you wonder what sort of ridiculous dimension this story is taking place in. It doesn't go overboard with the imagery and knows when to reuse the ones that really tie into the characters, at the right place and the right time.
That feeling of drowning and suffocating, heh, well I used to have a very debilitating social anxiety that I only managed to grow out of during high school and college so I understand perfectly how Yuki feels when you suddenly freeze up, contort your face and feel like water's entering your lungs.
Haru... well Irino Miyu has done it again. I personally can't wait to see how two heavyweights, Irino's absurd genki voicing and Sugita's deep no-nonsense tone, will play off of each other. I think that's going to be one of the highlights of the series.
Anyway brilliant fusion of the everyday idiosyncrasies with... uh... alien bizarreness?
NoitaminA is on a roll this season.
|2012-04-13, 08:10
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: France
Age: 31
Like everybody else, I was stunned by the gorgeous art direction. So colorful and beautiful.
The premise seems interesting as well, but it's hard to tell where the story will go. We've got an eccentric alien (who isn't a pretty girl with big boobs; is this truly anime?) who can talk to fishes, a socially awkward guy who often feels like he's drowning (I found the similarities between him and Kaoru in Appollon amusing), and a master fisherman. Can't forget the indian secret services and the duck either. So yeah, besides the fact the plot will be related to the sea, I have no clue where this is going.
|2012-04-13, 10:28
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Best premier for me this season so far.
The backgrounds was amazing, their house, the school, every single frame was just beautiful (Character animation, not so much). The overall summer feeling was very put together and the music was a nice tune.
As for the story, I could relate a lot to the "about to drown" feeling that Yuki has. So far I can really see this series going in a more adventure/a bunch of kids saving the world-direction, which I hope it does. The girl who laughed on the train was pretty cute too and looking at the characters on the website I think the cast is going to be great.
|2012-04-13, 11:35
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Location: Kobe, Japan
The thing about Miyu-Miyu is that he can do this (or Chizuru) and yet, still be Kitamura Kou. You just don't see that kind of range - except for maybe Inoue Kazuhiko and Tomatsu Haruka. Is it any wonder that Miyu and Tomatsu are such a dream team?
|2012-04-13, 13:01
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But I know how much you love Miyu Miyu
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|2012-04-13, 14:39
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Seishu's Ace
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
Sugita is the funniest male seiyuu out there, I think, but I don't buy his "serious" side like I do with Miyu Miyu.
Kamiyan and Jun Fukuyama aren't in the same weight class, just MHO. Jun-kun is also great at comedy (Panda-kun!) but again, I don't buy his serious side to the same degree I do with the very best. Kamiyan does indeed have that range to be both very funny and very serious, but apart from Natsume (perhaps because he is Natsume in my mind) I'm more conscious of him "performing".
As I said, the other actors who come to mind as being able to transition from comedy to drama at the top level are Haruka Tomatsu and Kazuhiko Inoue (who, while of an earlier generation, is probably the best seiyuu in the business in pure acting and voice modulation terms).
|2012-04-13, 15:13
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Hmm I do think I can buy Sugita serious side but that's me talking after watching 5 years and 251 episodes of Gintama where he has to do both on a regular basis. Although it doesn't take much for his serious side to go over the top (his role in Macross F comes to mind)
|2012-04-13, 18:13
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|2012-04-13, 21:37
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Brought the seiyuu discussion to a more appropriate thread (I didn't want to get this thread too off topic).
Although of course talking about Miyu Miyu and Sugita would not be OT because they are actually in this series but I was getting off track.
|2012-04-14, 00:30
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Forests of Hokkaido
Age: 68
I have to admit that I never could get into fishing as a hobby. Among adult men it seems like an excuse to leave the ladies behind, sit around for hours in a boat, schmooze, and drink beer. I know that there are Zen aspects to fishing, but I haven't found them. Personally I'd rather play golf. At least you get to walk around.
I wonder if Nakamura fishes?
I have to say it wasn't clear to me whether Yuki's submerged experiences are just a visual representation of his paranoia, or whether there's some sort of sci-fi/fantasy thing going on. In a show with a self-described alien who communicates with fish and a guy who communicates with a goose, it's hard to know what to make of Yuki's experiences. For all we know he might be sliding into some alternate universe where fish rule the day. It's pretty obvious there's more to Yuki than meets the eye since he catches Haru's attention right away.
Doesn't it sometime seem that Japan has a national high-school champion in just about everything under the sun?
|2012-04-14, 00:36
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Seishu's Ace
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
I had this one on my radar from the beginning - it just felt right for Nakamura somehow.
I admit I'm surprised to see you here, Sensei, given the leads are all in high school. Much respect for Nakamura, I take it? We do have that hip and cool Grandma at least...
|2012-04-14, 05:38
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Feeling comfy
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 43
Well, I've run out of superlatives for the string of shows I've caught up with today. Right now, the thing that bugs me is that I'm fairly certain that Tsuritama's art style has a name, drawing inspiration from architectural drafts or pop art. But I just can't put a finger on it. It's not art deco, but a style that is associated with it. You see it sometimes in American comics that echo Andy Warhol's inimitable aesthetic.
One other thing to add: "Tourism" anime seems to be a growing trend. Last season's Rinne no Lagrange touted the beaches of Kamogawa. This time, it's Tsuritama's turn to shine the light on Enoshima. And it seems it's a place for hip oldies to be, if this show is anything to go by.
|2012-04-14, 05:47
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Monarch of Rughzenhaide
So I just watched this and... wtf did I just watch? . I donno why, maybe it's the music and the bishies, but atm I'm getting somewhat of a Hetalia Axis Powers vibe.
Until I can get my head around what I just watched (I think this will require at least another rewatch to figure out what's going on) I think I'll stick with the other noitamina show for now
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This is in response to Richard Rowland's letter ["Challenges the beliefs of letter writer," Nov. 28] about my letter, "Now it's up to Congress to work together," printed on Nov. 17.
1. I stand by my letter 100 percent.
2. I never said Obama won by a landslide mandate.
3. Your remark about the dead people in Chicago who "probably" voted is laughable.
4. I do think college-educated people do make wiser and more informed voters.
5. The Benghazi attack was a tragedy, for sure, but it should not have been made into a political football.
6. As far as the benefits I receive from hardworking taxpayers of which I, too, am one, I do receive Social Security. Period.
Let's just say we have a difference of opinion and leave it at that.


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patch 4.3 heroic dungeons will have their own category in the random Dungeon Finder, while the Zandalari heroics tier has mysteriously disappeared. Now, when queueing for a random Cataclysm heroic, the system will include the two Troll instances if your item level is satisfactory to enter. In addition, the Hour of Twilight dungeons, as well as any Cataclysm heroic, now reward 150 valor points per completion, up to seven times week. Any heroic will now grant the same amount of valor points.
Moving the Zandalari heroics into the general heroic pool seemed like it would happen eventually, considering that having multiple tiers of dungeons to queue up for could get confusing over time. Now, players will be placed into dungeons based on their ilevel and not necessarily which dungeon category they queue for.
This presents an interesting dilemma, though. Players who want to do a quick heroic right now can queue for a random, non-Troll heroic and be in and out with half the VP (and half the stress -- I'm looking at you, Jin'do) in half the time of a Troll heroic. In 4.3, it doesn't appear that you'll have the option. Then again, everyone at a high enough gear level to care about this stuff will just queue for the Hour of Twilight heroics anyway, right?


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Former U.S. youth international goalkeeper Diego Restrepo will join D.C. United for the first week of preseason training, sources told Goal.com Tuesday.
The 24-year-old has no contract in place with D.C. and may leave the MLS club after the first week. Restrepo, who tweeted Monday "Back to the USA on Wednesday, very excited to start a new chapter," is still said to have options in South America, and D.C. still employs Bill Hamid, who is firmly entrenched as the team's No. 1 goalkeeper.
With Hamid training with the U.S. national team in California ahead of the Jan. 29 friendly against Canada, Restrepo will join United briefly. D.C. Backups Joe Willis (Sunderland) and Andrew Dykstra (Hartlepool United) are currently training with clubs in England, but both are expected back by Thursday's first day of preseason training, according to a United official.
Restrepo most recently played for Deportivo Táchira in Venezuela, where he was born, after transferring from Colombian club America de Cali. The goalkeeper moved to the United States as a teenager and attended the University of Virginia before becoming a professional, helping backstop the Cavaliers to the 2009 NCAA championship.
John Rojas contributed reporting to this article.
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Raiders vs. Broncos: Highs, lows from Denver's Week 17 victory
In their final game of the regular season, the Denver Broncos defeated the Oakland Raiders, 47-14, at Sports Authority Field at Mile High on Sunday to secure a first-round playoff bye. Here were the notable and not-so-notable moments from the victory.
D.T. makes history: Wide receiver Demaryius Thomas broke Rod Smith's single-season record of 1,602 receiving yards. Thomas eclipsed the mark in the second quarter as he produced his 10th, 100-yard game this season. Signing Thomas to a longterm contract remains a priority for the Broncos.
Go Wes, young man: Wes Welker returned back-to-back punts for 18 and 19 yards, and recovered a fumble to prevent a short field for the Raiders.
Run to daylight: Omar Bolden is bold, man. He took the second-half kick six yards deep in the end zone and returned it 76 yards, one shy of his season-high set against the Bengals.
Going the wrong way: Peyton Manning suffered an unusual turnover. He threw a backward pass to Emmanuel Sanders that Justin Tuck deflected. Keith McGill scooped it up and ran for a touchdown. Manning, meanwhile, was tagged for a five-yard loss and a fumble.
Julius Thomas's role reduced: The Broncos continue to grapple with ways to fit tight end Julius Thomas into their new balanced offense. He played minimally in the first half, flexed out as a receiver and serving primarily as a decoy.
Franklin, Bruton hurt: Left guard Orlando Franklin and David Bruton suffered concussions. Bruton was taken to the hospital after a brutal hit late in the game.
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Feb. 14 arts benefit will celebrate Dorothy Gillespie
The Radford campus and community can enjoy a Valentine's evening of culture and fine art at the second annual Give Your Heart to Art benefit, sponsored by the Radford University Arts Society.
Give Your Heart to Art was established in 2012 to celebrate the university's commitment to fine art and community outreach. This year's event is dedicated to the memory and legacy of RU Distinguished Professor of Art Dorothy Gillespie.
"The purpose of Give Your Heart to Art is to have a very nice event that involves both Radford University and the community," said Kathleen Harshberger, a charter member of the RU Arts Society. The Valentine-themed formal event is open to anyone who wishes to spend an evening socializing with fellow art lovers and celebrating the rich arts tradition at the university, she said.
In addition to drinks and dinner, the evening will feature a documentary about Gillespie by a longtime friend, Roanoke-based filmmaker Gerry McCarthy. McCarthy has produced four documentaries on Gillespie's life and work, exploring her international renown as an artist and her influence in the local community.
"People will have a great chance to get dressed up and go out on Valentine's, have a wonderful dinner and listen to an interesting speaker," Harshberger said. "The profits will allow us to make additions to the art museum's permanent collection."
Gillespie, a Roanoke native, died in September 2012 at age 92, leaving a rich legacy of arts education and advocacy. The Radford University Art Museum owes its existence to Gillespie's campaign in the 1980s for a new gallery space on campus. She engineered major gifts of hundreds of pieces of art from dealers as well as artists like painters Betty Parsons and Adolf Dehn, said RU Professor Stephen Arbury, director of the museum.
"In addition to helping build the RU Art Museum collection, Ms. Gillespie involved herself directly with the students, coming to campus on a regular basis to speak to classes about art and the art world," Arbury said. "Ms. Gillespie adored the students, and they adored her."
As a further tribute, the RU Arts Society has arranged to display several of Gillespie's small sculpture pieces at this year's benefit.
The primary mission of the RU Arts Society is to provide money for scholarship support for exceptional deserving students in the College of the Visual and Performing Arts. Donations from individuals, corporations, foundations and other sources are also used to bring world-class performances and exhibits to the New River Valley for the enjoyment and enrichment of the entire Radford community.
Give Your Heart to Art on Thursday, Feb. 14, will begin with a cocktail hour at 6 p.m. in the Covington Center for the Arts. Dinner and documentarian McCarthy's presentation will follow at 7 p.m. Tickets for the event are $100 per person. All proceeds directly benefit the Radford University Museum Art Acquisition Fund. Tickets must be purchased by Friday, Feb. 8.
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Rosalina Cano Quinteros fears the worst about the person who killed her 4-year-old son; that it was someone the family knows.
The idea of what she called "a monster" living near her in the neighborhood around Churchill Downs has left her, and many in the
close-knit community, shaken and worried that children can no
longer play safely outside.
"There's no trust, no peace, now that a child can walk, can play," Cano, 39, said Tuesday.
The comments by Cano and the boy's father, Cesar Aguilar Quebedo, 29, were the first since Louisville police positively identified a body found in a trash bag Saturday as that of Cesar "Ivan" Aguilar-Cano.
Louisville Police Lt. Col. Tim Emington said the case is being investigated as a homicide, but investigators have named no suspects.
"My son was close to home, so it had to be someone close," Aguilar said. "It's a monster who did this. I will track this person down and kill him with my own hands. I have to find this person."
Cesar was last seen alive June 29, playing outside of the apartment where he lived near the home of the Kentucky Derby.
Neighbors told police that Cesar was a curious boy who would
sometimes run around the complex unsupervised. It wasn't uncommon
for the boy to go inside open apartment doors, they said.
Cano said her son's uninhibited behavior may have led to his death at the hands of someone familiar.
"Yes, I think so," she said, breaking down in tears.
That idea worries the Rev. Ken Boehm, the Churchill Downs chaplain. While some of the barn workers at the track stay on the grounds and inside the gate, others, like Cano Quinteros, stay in nearby apartments, where there is less security.
"We tend to take our security for granted, being back here in this environment," Boehm said.
While police have received more than 100 tips and more than 350 people showed up at Christ Chapel at Churchill Downs on Monday night for a memorial service, getting cooperation has been tough for investigators at times.
Miguel Laguanos, a family friend, said the boy's slaying and the
investigation have many fearful not only of a killer on the loose, but of the police, too. The idea of being deported may keep someone from coming forward with valuable information, Laguanos said.
"Since many people believe the police department is the immigration department, I feel that they will not get involved," Laguanos said. "This is not an issue of immigration. It's an issue of murder now."
For now, Cano and Aguilar are planning Cesar's funeral in his native Santa Rosa, Guatemala. Sister Larraine Lauter, an Ursuline nun who served as a translator for the family at a press conference Tuesday, said getting the boy to Guatemala could take weeks, and some family members must make sure they can leave and return to the United States.
"I've been involved in cases that take months," Lauter said.
Cano and Aguiar plan to return to Louisville after the funeral. Cano said she eventually wants to go back to work at Churchill Downs as a hot walker of horses, a job she quit a few days after her son disappeared. Before that, though, Cano wants to see the person that killed her son arrested and some peace return to her neighborhood.
"I've got to return to ask for justice for my child," she said.
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Has my membership been revoked? Have I been kicked unceremoniously to the curb? Is everyone else getting in just fine, and it's just me?
I think Blotanical (if it indeed still exists) needs to put me through a 12-step program... O_O
Comments would definitely be appreciated.
25 comments:
- Floridagirl said...
Hahaha, I've been going through withdrawal for two days as well!
- February 15, 2010 at 4:54 PM
- Kyna said...
I'm just glad I'm not the only person. Because I wouldn't have known how to fix it lol.
- February 15, 2010 at 5:07 PM
- Noelle said...
Hi Kyna,
It seems offline for everyone. I know that they had some sporadic outages over the past week. I hope they are back up soon :^)
- February 15, 2010 at 5:17 PM
- Kyna said...
Thanks for the info Noelle! :D
- February 15, 2010 at 5:36 PM
- Bangchik said...
Same thing everywhere... I heard its about changing to a new site and doing data migration. ~bangchik
- February 15, 2010 at 6:06 PM
- Kyna said...
Yep, I just found all that out myself. There wasn't really anything about it when I left for work this morning, and now there's a ton of posts I wish I had looked at before I posted my own lol.
Thank you!
- February 15, 2010 at 6:24 PM
- Rothschild Orchid said...
Hi Kyna,
Stuart says that the site is going to be down for a few days yet as they are sorting out some issues and migrating to a new server. He is on Twitter if want to keep up with whats happening http://twitter.com/bussogardener
We are all going though cold turkey I think!
RO xx
- February 15, 2010 at 6:36 PM
- Jess said...
I was wondering how long it had been down. Didn't notice it yesterday, but today once I did notice it, I checked it an inordinate amount of times today. Garden crack.
- February 15, 2010 at 7:17 PM
- Jan (Thanks For Today) said...
I had the same questions yesterday & today. Wonder if we'll even recognize it when we get back there. Stuart is doing some 'overhauls' of the site. I can't get there all that often anyway...it does get to be quite time consuming;-)
- February 15, 2010 at 7:26 PM
- Amy said...
I am glad to hear we are all in the same boat. I was wondering if it was just me. :/
- February 15, 2010 at 8:08 PM
- Kyna said...
Thank you, RO :D Now I just have to take up drinking until the site's back up. O_O :P
Jess: LOL. Is that wrong of us? Probably. But if it's wrong, I don't wanna be right! :D
Jan: Hehe, now that I know there are going to be overhauls, I can't wait to see it :D
Amy: You're not alone! We're all jonesing together :D
- February 15, 2010 at 8:18 PM
- Sunny said...
I thought it was just me... :( Hope they fix it soon...now about that drink... lol
- February 15, 2010 at 8:29 PM
- Meredith said...
LOL, Kyna, I was fearing I was some kind of addict; at least I know I'm not alone. I also had the paranoid thought that I'd broken some unspoken rule and been kicked out, and posted to spread the word this afternoon, hoping no one else would have to go through that on top of the other withdrawal symptoms. ;)
- February 15, 2010 at 10:27 PM
- Kyna said...
Cheers, Sunny! *clinks glasses*
Meredith: An unspoken rule...like we're Masons or something LOL
- February 16, 2010 at 6:25 AM
- Bernie said...
Whew! No need to panic then ... withdrawal symptoms under control now! I like so many other thought I'd done something wrong!
Thanks so much for clearing up the misunderstanding ... I feel much better now.
- February 16, 2010 at 6:27 AM
- Kyna said...
You're welcome Bernie lol. I'm glad for the whole 'following' feature of Blogspot, so that I'm in touch with people outside of Blotanical lol.
- February 16, 2010 at 6:32 AM
- Jayne said...
Even though I signed up with Blotanical, I now cannot remember my password and when I click on the "forgot password?" link to have a new password sent to me, the email never arrives. I like the following feature in blogger too, that's how I keep up with people.
- February 16, 2010 at 1:28 PM
- Kyna said...
I'm sure there will be a way to do it once the 'new and improved' Blotanical is up? Maybe? Hopefully? lol. I hate having to remember all of my different passwords. I know it's for my protection, but still...:P
- February 16, 2010 at 5:25 PM
- Jim Groble said...
i've been jonesin since friday. i got the shacks. I got so used to just going to Blotanical to look at all my faves that I got lazy about my blog list. I hope it's just maintanence.
Wow, 8 inches of snow. Are the schools closed and the stores out of milk and bread?
Nice pics as always. jim
- February 16, 2010 at 6:49 PM
- Kyna said...
Haha, yeah. My husband went to the grocery store to buy dinner that day, and he said the shelves were cleaned out of everything. Bread milk, cigarettes and beer lol. People gotta have the staples :P
- February 16, 2010 at 6:57 PM
- Ian said...
Thanks Kyna for doing a post on this.
Amazing how you get used to going to a site and then when it is not there you miss it.
Have a great weekend
cheers Ian
- February 19, 2010 at 4:22 AM
- Kyna said...
You're welcome :D Yeah, I've been checking for days now...I know they said it would take a few to move to a new server. But I'm impatient lol.
- February 19, 2010 at 9:28 AM
- Rothschild Orchid said...
It's back, but not quite on both feet yet!
- February 20, 2010 at 5:51 AM
- Carol said...
It is quieter and a bit empty without being able to just see all of you out there at blotanical. Addictive yes... it is our community... ;>) It still is not working full tilt. ;>( but then neither am I!
- February 25, 2010 at 1:06 AM
- Kyna said...
Yep, I was disappointed to see it down again for another couple of days. I love that place, because it helps me find new blogs easily....
- February 25, 2010 at 7:41 AM


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Please answer just this one question.
atheism is:
A. the disbelief of gods
B. the belief that there are no gods
C. Other (explain.)
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I select A.
I like A best. It's a rejection, and B is an absolute statement I could never prove.
Someone suggests below that both A. and B. are correct. I would suggest that each individual would have to answer for him/herself. I am convinced that all the gods created by humans are not unproven but rather impossible in their own terms. So B for me.
C. There is no evidence of a god or god's as prescribed by any religion therefore I do not believe a god or gods exist.
atheism is:
A. the disbelief of gods
B. the belief that there are no gods
C. Other (explain.)
I'm afraid I don't understand the difference between A and B. I disbelieve in gods, and I believe that there are no gods, though I prefer "agnostic" just in case -- for example, I wouldn't argue with Einstein's belief that some forces could be called gods as they participate in creation. But gods as I think of them, I find unbelievable.
I pretty much like the definition that "Freethought Today" (from the Freedom From Religion Foundation) uses for a freethinker (or atheist for that matter): A person who forms opinions about religion on the basis of reason, independently of tradition, authority, or established belief.
A and B seem the same to me. In Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens recounts Salman Rushdie's comment on the title of God Is Not Great: it's too long, by exactly one word.
Don't know if you're still compiling data, but I'm going with revised A.
I read the Wikipedia's atheism page recently and it outlines "weak atheism" basically revised A and "strong atheism" as B as a measure to clarify. Myself I would consider revised A.
Regarding the original A, when I was in the process of investigating whether to reject Paul's books of the Bible (which I did a while before I scrapped the rest of it), I had to undergo a study of the prefix "dis." While my study was hardly academic (it was just a few word comparisons), here is my conclusion: While "mis" "un" and "dis" are all similar, "dis" generally seems to indicate an active opposition like in disconnect and discover, "mis" seems to generally operate as some alternate wrongness like in misfire and misplace, and "un" seems to have a very passive negative as in uninterested and unavailable. I understand there are words that don't fit this scheme entirely, but I think this is their general use.
A such, I would define the strong atheist (per Wikipedia's classification) as disbelief in gods, weak atheist as unbelief in gods and theist as misbelief in gods or misbelief in a god, lol.
I see no diff. between A and B and would agree with either or both.
Initially, I selected C and wrote a giant post complaining about current useage of the atheism/agnosticm terms. Nahh...if you're making me king I'll tell you how the world will be. To say atheism is "the disbelief of gods" would be the most satisfying definition to me. Some would claim to be an atheist you must insist there are no gods. That leaves those who refuse to go so far out of either theist/atheist camp. Those who support answer A are clearly not theists so they must be atheist.
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Grand Valley residents are feeling the heat as experts with the National Weather Service say our area is facing one the longest heat streaks in its history.
As the summer sun shines down across the Grand Valley, residents say there's only one thing on their mind once they step outside.
"It's been hot," said Julie Faber, who spent Sunday watching her boyfriend play baseball. "It's way hot."
"I can tell you, if I was roofing today or bucking hay, no way," said Paul Gray, who spent Sunday playing baseball.
It's a heat streak that has even turned the heads of local weather experts, who say this many consecutive days of extreme heat is unusual.
"Today marks the thirty-sixth straight day where we have reached ninety degrees or warmer," said Jim Daniels, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
They say most days, warmer seems to be the case. Meteorologists say the Grand Valley has officially reached temperatures of 99 degrees several days this summer. Unofficially, some of their weather spotters across our area have reported temperatures of over 100 degrees. That's why they're asking residents to keep a few things in mind as they head outside.
"Don't over do it and drink lots of water," said Daniels.
Those who spent the day outside say you don't have to tell them twice.
"I came to the shade because it's way too hot to sit in the sun," said Faber.
As for the players on the field, where there's not much shade, they say staying hydrated is their best option.
"Lots of cold water," said Gray. "You hope you don't have to rely on this stuff out here that's warm out of the tap."
Some say the less time they spend outside, the better.
"I like to go inside," said Faber. "It's way too hot to do anything."
Others say they're not going to let the heat spoil their good time.
"We're out here playing baseball and having fun," said Gray. "So you don't mind the extra little bit of heat."
Weather experts say they do expect some cloud cover early this week, but for now their forecast calls for more 90 degree plus temperatures.
"I think we have the potential to see this streak continue," said Daniels.
Weather experts say if high temperatures stay above 90 degrees through Wednesday, that will make this the third longest heat streak in Western Slope history.


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As a young ironworker traveling through the American heartland in search of work in the late 1970s, Stephen F. Lynch began to exhibit some behavior that his buddies found bizarre.
When a blizzard shut down his work site in Wisconsin in 1979, Lynch enrolled in night school. His fellow laborers tried to talk him out of it, while his sisters back home in South Boston were "baffled" by his action.
When shortly afterwards he declared himself a vegetarian at a diner in Wisconsin, the burly ironworkers crowded around the table roared in disbelief — and promptly helped themselves to the steak remaining on his plate. But when he adopted a diet of tofu and hummus and joined a local food co-operative, Lynch had clearly crossed a line.
"We thought Stevie was off his rocker," declared Bobby "Batman" Maguire, one of a group of ironworkers who occasionally traveled with Lynch, a US representative for more than a decade. "We are steak guys, meat and potato guys. What he was doing was not the behavior of an ironworker."
Now running for a seat in the US Senate, Lynch maintains that his 18 years on the high iron have instilled in him a far better understanding of America's working men and women than his Democratic opponent, US Representative Ed Markey, whom he portrays as a remote Washington insider, will ever have.
But if Lynch can identify with his fellow ironworkers, he also emerged as distinct among them from the time he first unfurled his cherished Wall Street Journal while eating a sandwich on a steel beam.
If what was different about him sometimes baffled his co-workers, it also fast became a reflection of his emerging ambition. The son of an ironman, Lynch worked for many years as a "connector" bolting steel beams hundreds of feet high in the air, one of the most dangerous jobs in the trade, and was an outspoken advocate for worker safety early on. At 33, he was elected the youngest president of his Local 7 of the International Association of Ironworkers ever, his victory heralded as the start of a more enlightened era for the trade.
But that turning point
Markey has the backing of half a dozen of the state's large "white collar" unions such as SEIU and the Massachusetts Teachers Association, and says he has the backing of roughly half of the state's union workers, according to his campaign.
In a surprising blow to Lynch's campaign, the AFL-CIO last month decided not to endorse either candidate in the Democratic primary. Some union stalwarts say they are troubled by Lynch's vote against President Obama's health care bill and his once-conservative tilt on issues such as abortion and affirmative action.
Lynch, however, accustomed to the role of long shot in his nearly two decades in politics, is undaunted. Over a bowl of oatmeal at a Newton diner, he is quick to point out that he has 89 unions on his side, never mind that some of them are small locals. "I don't cry about the ones I don't have," he declares. "We're getting there."
Working iron, 'booming out'
Amid the thick wad of cards that fill his wallet, Lynch keeps a worn Local 7 card that bears his union "book" or membership number, which begins with the digits, "901." The number indicates the apprenticeship class he entered on graduating from high school in 1973. The '901ers,' as his classmates are called, are a graying group now, so senior that a plaque in their honor hangs in the local's union hall.
But in their day, the 901ers were legend, and not just because so many of them went on to positions of prominence. Theirs was a breakthrough generation, tough-talking "cowboys of the sky," as they were once dubbed, who would also lead the union's gradual awakening on matters of health and safety.
Many had fathers who dropped out of school to work the iron. They followed those men up the steel beams that rose over Boston's skyline in the 1970s and 1980s untethered to any of the safety lines that are now de rigueur, working at heights where a rogue wind or errant steel beam could easily knock them to their deaths.
"If they tried to make us hook up, we complained," recalls Lynch, 58. "The steel is swinging and it's heavy, and I believed that if you were hooked up to something you could not get out of the way."
It is the kind of job most reasonable people would refuse to do. It is the kind of job, as one union official guffawed, "where you aren't going to find Ed Markey."
And it was a job that Stephen Lynch, raised in the Old Colony housing development in South Boston, was born to. His father, an eighth-grade dropout, worked as an ironworker for four decades, while his mother worked the night shift at the post office. The only boy among six children, Lynch, as his sister Karen O'Leary recalls it, "was spoiled by all of us. But he still had to wait in line for the bathroom."
Francis Lynch, now 91, was a "rod man" who routinely carried several-hundred-pound bundles of steel. To little Stephen, he was a hero. On good days, the elder Lynch brought home the company truck crammed with tools and rigging and rope and allowed the neighborhood children to play in back. When he worked overtime, the entire family often took the bus to his work site and met him for lunch.
"This was my life's dream," Lynch recalls. "All those guys running around the iron, it just looked like a big jungle gym to me."
Lynch attended St. Augustine's, a parochial school in South Boston, and had an unremarkable passage through South Boston High School. He played varsity baseball and soccer and nursed a passion for reading before graduating in 1973, a year before court-ordered busing erupted in the neighborhood. At 16, Lynch began working summers on construction sites beside his father.
That he would be in ironworker was never in doubt. The only question was what kind. Lynch and one of his lifelong friends, John White, whose father and grandfather were ironworkers and who lived next door to Lynch, chose to be "connectors." The job requires two men, working in pairs, and often standing on the highest point of a structure, to grab hold of a steel beam as it is being lowered by a crane and to bolt it into place.
"It was the best job, the most dangerous job, two guys just putting steel together," said White, who runs a fishing tackle business based in Gloucester. "Everybody else is under you, everybody else follows you . . . You are in charge of your own destiny."
After graduating, Lynch joined the 901ers' three-year apprentice program. As a young man, he helped to raise more than a few of the buildings that now dominate the Boston skyline, including One Post Office Square and the Federal Reserve Building. But by the end of the decade, work was slowing down. On a dank afternoon in 1978, Lynch and his father were laid off.
Lynch, then 23, hit the road looking for work, or as ironworkers put it, he "boomed out." He pooled his funds, bought a pickup truck, and headed for New Orleans to join some buddies from Dorchester on a job.
Over the next several years, he would crisscross the country time and again, often running into friends from back home. A power plant in Maine. A steel mill in Indiana. A car body plant in Michigan. Clad in tattered overalls and flannel shirt, Lynch, who sported a beard and hair creeping below his ears, fast became known for his agility on the highest beams. And every week, at least in the beginning, he sent half his paycheck back home.
"Mom was worried about him all the time," recalled his sister Karen. "Every time she hung up the phone, there'd be tears in her eyes."
The itinerant ironworkers sometimes traveled en masse, 10 men in three vehicles with one unyielding agenda: work. When the job ended after weeks or months, they'd call back to Local 7 to find out where there was another to be had. They stayed in trailer parks and hotels, often eating together to save money. Lynch and White, the youngest among the group, found their own way to help make ends meet.
"Sometimes Stevie and me got a hotel room together with one king size bed 'cuz it was cheaper," White said. "We'd been doing that since we were kids so it was OK."
Life on the road had its lighter moments as well. Some of the gang stopped for baseball games in Chicago and Milwaukee. And one night, while Lynch was working on a corn sweetener plant in Illinois, he was arrested along with dozens of others at a Willie Nelson concert and charged with smoking marijuana. He was fined and nothing came of it.
And then came the snowfall in Wisconsin that changed it all — at least for Lynch. It was 1979 and the storm in Kenosha ground everything to a halt, including work on the power plant where Lynch was employed. When Lynch looked around for something to do, he found the University of Wisconsin.
"It was always tugging at me. I felt like if I was going to get to the next level I had to get some education," Lynch said. "I wanted to be running these jobs, not just working on them."
During the months that Lynch and the gang spent in Kenosha, Lynch attended night classes whenever he could. When the guys headed out at night for a beer after dinner, Lynch turned them down, even on the weekends.
"When he started studying we thought he was something of an oddball," said Maguire, who earned his nickname "Batman" from the years he spent working as clubhouse boy for the Red Sox. "We'd go to a party on the weekend and he'd go to the library."
Lynch decided to swear off meat not long after his father came down with cancer of the lymph nodes in 1978 and had to have a jugular vein removed. All four of his father's brothers — who were sheet metal workers or "tin knockers," as Lynch calls them — also had some form of cancer. When Lynch visited his father in the hospital, he recalled the doctor saying that their illnesses might be related to eating meat.
"Well, that took the fun out of eating red meat, I'll tell you that," Lynch said.
In an effort to learn how to eat healthfully, Lynch began to visit a local food co-operative and soon adopted a diet of grains, legumes, and tofu. When he began running and working out regularly, he dropped 20 pounds. His fellow ironworkers, he recalls, "looked at me like I was a science experiment.''
Lynch continued his vegetarian lifestyle for decades until 2001, when he donated 60 percent of his liver to his brother-in-law, who had cancer. When Lynch's remaining liver later failed to regenerate appropriately, doctors phoned him and ordered him to eat meat. Immediately. Lynch, who happened to be standing on a nurses union picket line at the time, hung up and ordered a cheeseburger from an outdoor grill. It was, he says, "the best cheeseburger I have ever had."
On his return to Boston in the early 1980s, Lynch enrolled at the Wentworth Institute of Technology and pursued a degree in construction management. It took him eight years, working construction during the day while taking courses at night and on weekends. When he was awarded a bachelor's of science degree in 1988, he became the first in his family to have completed college.
At the time, Lynch was becoming increasingly interested in matters of worker safety. While traveling across the country, he had noticed that safety standards were much more stringent where unions were strong. At monthly meetings of Local 7, he increasingly took the microphone to argue not just for improved job conditions, but financial safeguards that some had never considered.
New role for the union
"Stevie would . . . talk about safety programs, but he was also talking health care and annuity programs, things like that," recalled Jim Coyle, a 901er and former officer of Local 7. "We were beginning to realize that we could change things and make it better for the next generation. We didn't have to go through what our fathers had."
As some of the younger ironworkers were contemplating a shift in the union's role, so Lynch was undergoing some personal changes. In 1981, Lynch, who has acknowledged that as a young man he had a problem with alcohol, began attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and stopped drinking. "It was," he said, "a difficult transition."
The following year, he met a young art student named Margaret Shaughnessy while listening to a local band. Shaughnessy, who also grew up in South Boston, shared his interest in community activism and the two regularly attended meetings of the South Boston Residents' Group on their early dates. "Pretty exciting courtship, eh?" said Margaret Lynch. Married in 1992, the couple have one daughter.
Further fueling his interest in worker safety, Lynch came within inches of losing his life while working on a building on Federal Street in 1983. Lynch and fellow ironworker Todd Merner were erecting a large crane about 10 stories high when some rigging came loose and sent a steel ladder directly into Lynch's back, pushing him forward and snapping Merner's wrist. Merner grabbed Lynch, arresting his free fall, and the two landed on a platform below.
Not long afterward, Lynch decided it was time to step up his role. In 1985, when he was 30, Lynch won a seat on the union's executive board. Three years later he set his sights on Local 7's presidency.
With a campaign logo and stickers for hard hats designed by his wife, Lynch campaigned hard. Although well-liked by the rank and file, he was seen as something of an upstart by the more senior workers. But in the end his assertiveness prevailed, and in 1988 Lynch became the youngest president in Local 7's history. It was a turning point not just for Lynch, but for the union as well.
"A lot of the old guys were being phased out and the technology began to change,'' said Jay Hurley, who worked on the iron with Lynch and is now president of the Iron Workers District Council of New England. "Stevie had the vision."
It was a crucial year for Lynch on many fronts. For some time, Lynch had been considering enrolling in Suffolk University's night law school, but two months before the union vote he fell down a stairwell while working at the 75 State Street construction site and injured his back. Awarded a substantial settlement and unable to work construction for more than a year, Lynch enrolled in the day program at the more prestigious Boston College Law School. But a broiling union dispute made him three weeks late for class.
It began when Local 7's nearly 1,800 workers walked off the job that summer, unable to reach a contract with the Associated General Contractors. The strike dragged on for weeks as construction around the city ground to a virtual halt. Anxious for resolution, the Ironworkers International ordered Lynch to sign.
When Lynch refused, angling for a better deal for his members, the international threatened to remove him from his post. When Lynch still would not budge, the International went over his head and signed the contract that he would not.
Lynch, the street fighter, was livid. In an aggressive move that union veterans recall vividly, Lynch filed charges of "coercion" against his own union with the National Labor Relations Board. In the end, he prevailed and the international agreed to back off.
Taking on the international made Lynch something of a hero among the rank and file, but it also shut the door on any aspirations he might have had to rise within the union hierarchy. After he graduated from law school in 1991, Lynch contemplated a different path — politics. Over the next few years, he would keep a close eye on the State House a few blocks from the law firm where he worked and eventually defeated an incumbent state representative.
There were those who suggested that the rough edge of his ironworking days might work against him, but Lynch believed just the opposite.
"When you're out there hanging iron, your understanding of workers issues is not theoretical," Lynch said in between campaign stops recently. "You've done it. You've been there. That makes a difference."Sally Jacobs can be reached at email@example.com.


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Lipscomb middle blocker Alex Kelly was named to the CVU Stellar Spiker Second Team. Setter Stefine "Jake" Pease was an Honorable Mention selection.
This was Kelly's third time to be named to a Stellar Spiker team. She was a First Team pick in 2009 and Honorable Mention in 2008.
Pease was a Second Team member in 2009.
In honoring the 103 student athletes from across the nation, CVU.com looked for players that exhibited excellence and balance. While NCAA statistical rankings were considered, they weren't the only consideration. Also considered in forming the two teams of 14 and in choosing the 75 Honorable Mention selections was the impact the player had on helping her team succeed as well as conference awards.
First-and Second-Team selections were formed around the idea of building a team with a starting lineup of seven players and then two players per starting slot were chosen to fill out each team.
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What to Understand Your Dreams?
Nancy Grace to lead Introduction to Dreams at Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church on March 16th (rescheduled from February)
March 16th, 2014 at 11:30am in the Sanctuary
Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church
Corner of Middle and Church Street, on the green
Accessible Entrance at #10 Church Street
All are Welcome
Additional Information at www.gloucesteruu.org
Using the language of symbol and metaphor, dreams paint pictures of our lives, and offer us guidance and creative inspiration. In this introductory gathering, we'll learn a variety of techniques for making connections between dreams and waking-life circumstances, as well as how to talk about dreams with others, how to increase dream recall, keep a dream journal, and understand recurring dreams and nightmares. Bring your questions and, if you'd like, a dream to share.
Nancy Grace began teaching about dreams in 1989, and has given presentations on dreams at retreat centers, churches, therapy centers, and colleges including Harvard, Northeastern, and Berklee College of Music. She has trained in group dream work processes with UU minister Jeremy Taylor, and with Montague Ullman, M.D. She served for many years on the Board of Directors of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, and is a co-founder of the Cummington Community Dream Center in western Massachusetts, which has been meeting monthly for the past 10 years.


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Scientists in Australia and the United Kingdom have discovered the sharpest teeth ever recorded in history – with tips measuring just two micrometres across – that belong to a long-extinct prehistoric fish. The study, presented in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, was funded in part by the EVOLVING TEETH ('Uncovering developmental and functional constraints on the occupation of conodont tooth morphospace') project, which is backed by a Marie Curie Action grant worth EUR 198 260 under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The project involved teams from University of Bristol, UK, and Monash University, Australia, working together and using a very big machine to see some of the world's smallest fossils.
The results of this study provide insight on the potential eating habits of these conodonts, early vertebrates that kept their skeleton in their mouth and that lived some 500 million years ago. Fossils of conodonts, animals which resemble eels, are extremely rare. For a long time, what scientists knew about them was only what they derived from their tooth-like microfossils. This research suggests that conodonts evolved the first vertebrate dentitions.
'Conodonts had no other skeleton than the teeth in their mouths,' said Dr Alistair Evans from the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University in Australia, one of the study's authors. 'These came together a bit like scissors, to slice up food.'
Being so microscopic, the scientists realised that the teeth must work differently from the teeth of other animals, including humans. So with such small teeth, no jaws and weak muscles, researchers asked how could they possibly have worked as teeth?
The researchers found that the teeth indeed worked differently thanks to their sharpness.
'The conodonts took an alternative route through evolution to humans, who developed less efficient, but less breakable, blunter teeth, to which greater force can be applied by jaw muscles,' Dr Evans said. 'The sharpness of conodont teeth allowed them to overcome the limitations of their small size. Since pressure is simply force applied divided by area, to increase pressure you must either increase the force or shrink the area. Conodont evolution took the latter route, allowing them to apply enough pressure to break up their food,' he added.
'So next time you're struggling through a tough Sunday roast, remember that conodonts evolved the tools for the job 500 million years ago,' said Dr David Jones from Bristol's School of Earth Sciences, another author of the study.
One of the major challengers the researchers faced was to determine how to analyse something which in size is one twentieth the width of a human hair.
Said Dr Jones: 'The first problem is: how do you analyse such tiny teeth? The answer: with a very big machine. We created high resolution three-dimensional models of the conodont elements using x-rays from a particle accelerator in Japan, using it like a giant computed tomography scanner. These virtual models were examined, leaving the original specimens untouched.'
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I would estimate that approximately 5,000 hockey columnists (some paid, some not … some writing to an audience of one) will or have already discussed Sidney Crosby's return today. The Hockey Daily Dose isn't meant to be a defiant puck-related diatribe, so permit me to pepper you with a few thoughts about his comeback before we get to what it really means for most fantasy owners.
First things first, I must ask the fantasy owners who drafted Crosby: does it still feel worth it? Health permitting, Crosby will enact a fascinating experiment: he will determine how many NHL players fall short of the marks generated by 75 Percent Sidney Crosby.. (If he plays all 62 of the Pittsburgh Penguins' remaining games, he'll play roughly three-fourths of the team's season.) Feel free to e-mail me with your thoughts because I'm genuinely intrigued what people are thinking in this fantasy leagues-wide scenario; color me double-intrigued if you pulled a John Buccigross and drafted Crosby in the first round. (You riverboat gamblers, you …)
One more Crosby-specific nugget: the other intriguing question is if Crosby found time to add something new to his bag of hockey tricks despite the concussion issues. Much like Kobe Bryant learning "The Dream Shake," Crosby seems to improve an area of his game during each off-season. He dramatically improved his faceoff skills following his rookie year struggles, decided to transform from a pass-first player to (briefly) the most dangerous goal-scorer in the NHL and so on.
It all combines to develop something I've harped on for a long time: the Crosby hype might be nauseating to many hardcore fans, but at least the guy does everything in his power to live up to the attention.
Dan Bylsma stated that Crosby will center a line with Chris Kunitz and Pascal Dupuis tonight. This makes sense since Crosby has great chemistry and plenty of experience playing with both players; Kunitz forechecks like he's on a perpetual safety blitz while Dupuis speed and smarts make him a good fit for Crosby despite the Grand Canyon-sized gap in talent between them.
I've hammered the "Don't rely on linemate table scraps" philosophy over and over, so it should come as little surprise that I'd recommend caution with both.
That being said, I can't blame you if you nab Kunitz in particular. He hasn't ever exploded while cleaning up Crosby's garbage, but if you look at his career stats, Kunitz hasn't been healthy enough to play a bunch of games alongside the game's biggest name, either. Kunitz shoots a lot, can rack up some solid PIMs and could flirt with the 30-goal plateau if he sticks with Crosby - which is something he's done for most of his stay in Pittsburgh.
In other words, if you want an extra reason to watch Crosby on NHL Game Center Live or Center Ice, then picking up Kunitz as a depth forward should be your ticket.
After the jump: Kessel continues to amaze, old dogs sniff top jobs and more.
Is it possible to overstate how stunning Phil Kessel's start has been? OK, playing in an obsessive market like Toronto should probably make his run plenty famous, but still … the guy has 16 goals and 29 points in 21 games. Kessel has reacted to being the last pick of the 2011 All-Star Game fantasy draft in the same way a high co-ed should react to getting dumped: by looking better and better every week.
Hockey life hasn't been too kind for Jean-Sebastien Giguere and Martin Brodeur the last few years. During his time with Toronto, Giguere looked uncomfortably comparable to Vesa Toskala in his worst moments. Meanwhile Brodeur has been frequently usurped by Johan Hedberg, a goalie who's only about a year younger but is at least a decade behind Marty in hockey years.
As bad as things have been, both of their outlooks are trending up after this weekend. They haven't been earning many style points (Giguere had an especially tough night against the San Jose Sharks on Sunday), but they're starting to compile standings points, which should provide them with precious starts.
Brodeur isn't likely to be available in most sane leagues - even with his struggles - but Giguere should be around in many. Keep an eye on Giguere during the next week or so because he's creating a platoon situation in Colorado.
The media and Washington Capitals fans are calling for heads to roll after the team's embarrassing loss to the Leafs on Saturday. Keep an eye on Rotoworld for news of a move because a trade or a coach firing can throw a lightning bolt into a sleepwalking team; just look at the St. Louis Blues' promising mini-turnaround if you need an example.
Craig Anderson left Sunday's Senators-Canucks game with a sore neck, but early indications are that it's nothing too serious. Either way it's a shame because he was finally putting things together … T.J. Oshie hurt his wrist on Nov. 19, but the Blues are "hopeful" that he'll be ready for Tuesday … Guillaume Latendresse and Marek Zidlicky haven't made much (if any) progress with their concussion issues, but Marco Scandella hopes to return by Thanksgiving Eve. Despite those bumps, the Minnesota Wild currently stand atop the entire NHL. (Yeah, I didn't see that coming, either.) … Mattias Ohlund resumed on-ice activities, though it's unclear when he'll actually return. That news is probably more promising for Dwayne Roloson owners than anything else, though … Tyler Myers is dealing with what looks like a wrist injury, so stick with Rotoworld for updates. (Click here for the full injury list.)


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Emmetsburg Police continue to ask the public for assistance in the investigation of a series of tire slashing incidents before Christmas.
According to Emmetsburg Police Chief Eric Hanson, during the overnight hours of Saturday, Dec. 22 and Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012, several acts of criminal mischief took place in Emmetsburg.
The Emmetsburg Police Department received 17 separate incident reports of vehicle tires being slashed. All of the vehicles involved in these incidents were parked outside in their respective driveways, where an unknown person or persons entered onto the property and slashed the vehicle tires with a sharp, cutting-type instrument.
Of the 17 residences where the acts of criminal mischief took place, a total of 33 tires were damaged. The estimated total amount of damage resulting from this criminal mischief is $5,800.
The Emmetsburg Police Department is continuing to offer a $500 reward for any information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who were responsible for these acts of criminal mischief.
Anyone with information about this criminal mischief is asked to contact the Emmetsburg Police Department at 712-852-2424.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Kaycee Green was named Tuesday as the Tennessee Sports Writers Association Player of the Week for volleyball.
Green led the team in kills, and had at least 15 kills in each match, helping the Lady Bisons to a perfect 2-0 record to begin the five-match home stand.
Green had 32 total kills, four blocks, seven digs, a 5.33 kills per set and a hitting percentage of .279.
"I think Kaycee's been playing some great volleyball," Lipscomb head coach Brandon Rosenthal said. "It's great to see her accomplishments be recognized and it's been a lot of fun to watch her grow as a player, especially in her final year."
The Cookeville, Tenn., native had 17 kills, three digs, two blocks and a hitting percentage of .289 in a 3-0 sweep of ETSU Friday night.
Green had 15 kills, four digs and two blocks and a hitting percentage of .268 in a 3-0 sweep of USC Upstate Saturday afternoon.
Green had nine of her 15 kills in the tough first set against the Spartans, where the Lady Bisons fought back and won the set 25-20.
"I thought that first set spoke volumes to me as a coach and what the girls are trying to do," Rosenthal said. "If you look at her numbers, it's pretty remarkable as far as what she took on her shoulders and said 'Hey let's get this done.'"
The senior leads the team with 324 kills and 3.79 kills per set, which ranks second in the Atlantic Sun. She leads the A-Sun with 4.32 kills per set in conference play.
This is Green's first career TSWA Player of the Week. Green has won the A-Sun Player of the Week twice this season on Sept. 24 and Oct. 1, the first consecutive player of the week for an A-Sun player since the 2009 season.
The Tennessee Sports Writers Association is a collection of media members around the state of Tennessee.


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June 12, 2007 > What Do You Get the World's Greatest Dad?
It's often a dilemma. What do you get dad for Father's Day that he doesn't already have? Kirsten Hetherly from Lake Mary, Florida, found a gift to please her dad that didn't wind up in the back of a closet or at the bottom of a drawer. Last year, Kirsten adopted an endangered manatee by the name of Nick for her father from Save the Manatee Club's Adopt-A-Manatee program. Since my dad and his wife dedicate most of their spare time helping stray cats in Arizona, and he's a big supporter of animal rights and protection, I thought he would appreciate a manatee adoption," said Kirsten. "He really enjoyed his gift, so I plan on adopting again for him this Father's Day."It costs $25 to adopt a manatee, and although the real live marine mammal is not part of the package received in the mail, it does include an adoption certificate, manatee photo and biography of a known individual, a membership handbook, and free shipping. Members receive a subscription to the Club's official quarterly newsletter, The Manatee Zone, which includes manatee adoptee updates, and also the bi-monthly e-newsletter, Paddle Tales. Or, for $35, while supplies last, each new member who joins the Adopt-A-Manatee program online will receive the Club's popular T-shirt featuring a new manatee design that beats out a tie any day!For Shiloh Robinson of Tulsa, Oklahoma, this will be the 5th year that she and her two young sons, Grantham and Ethan, have adopted Doc for their "Popo" on Father's Day. "Popo loves getting the Doc on his special day," said Shiloh, who explained that the manatee is her step-dad's favorite animal. In fact, it was from him that she first learned about these gentle plant eaters, whose closest land relative is the elephant. This January, the family visited Blue Spring State Park near Orange City, Florida, to experience manatees in the wild. "It was very cool to show the boys the manatees, and Popo was so proud to share his love of this glorious animal with them," said Shiloh.There are 31 manatees to choose from in Save the Manatee Club's three Florida adoption programs at Blue Spring State Park, Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park, and in the Tampa Bay area. To view the photos and names of all the manatees available for adoption, go to Save the Manatee Club's website at http://www.savethemanatee.org/Adoptees.htm. Funds from the adoption program go toward conservation and education programs, manatee research, rescue and rehabilitation efforts, and advocacy and legal action.In order to raise public awareness about the manatee and help ensure the survival of a species in trouble, Jimmy Buffett and former Florida Governor and U.S. Senator, Bob Graham, got together back in 1981 and started Save the Manatee Club, a membership-based, national nonprofit organization. Last year was the worst on record for manatees, with 416 reported manatee deaths. At least 86 were killed by boat strikes, making it the second highest mortality from watercraft collisions ever recorded. There are about 3,000 manatees left in Florida's waterways, and they are listed as endangered by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. For more information on the adoption program, up-to-the-minute news about manatees, or to sign up for the Club's free E-Newsletter, contact Save the Manatee Club at 500 N. Maitland Ave., Maitland FL 32751, call 1-800-432-JOIN (5646), or visit their web site at www.savethemanatee.org, where more manatee gifts are featured for the entire family.###


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Dragon Quest V: Tenkuu no Hanayome
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Genre: Turn-Based RPG (Fantasy)
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Rob Hamilton says: "Your hero might be a standard silent protagonist and his supporting cast isn't really given any motivation for their actions other than utter devotion to your quest, but as I played Dragon Quest V, I felt more of a connection to them than I have for many characters in modern games. The concept of having the main character grow up during the course of the game, get married and have kids is a rare one in the world of console RPGs and Enix was able to make all of it feel fresh and memorable."
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Hey there Purplemath! I need some help setting up the problem:
A rain gutter is to be constructed from a long 30 cm wide sheet of metal by bending two sides upwards at and angle of theta so that each of the sides and bottom is 10 cm wide. Determine the angle theta so that the cross-sectional area of the channel is maximum.
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Frederick (or Fred as he was known) Henry Nusbickel is my wife Ellen's second cousin, twice removed. Fred was the grandson of Elizabeth (Wagner) Nusbickel, a sister of Ellen's second great grandfather, Jacob Wagner.
Fred was born in 1881 in Lyons, Wayne County, New York, the first son to Frederick Nusbickel and Anna Maria Kletzing. In 1905, Fred married Maisa Parker and the two subsequently left New York state and moved to California where Fred took up citrus farming. The 1910 US Federal Census shows Fred as being a 'nurseryman' of citrus trees in Glendora, California, which suggests he was an employee, but it appears that by the time of the 1920 US Federal Census, Fred had acquired his own lands and was listed as a Fruit Grower of Citrus Groves in San Dimas, California.
In a February 1945 letter to his sister, Tusanelda (Nusbickel) Simpson, Fred recounted a time when Ellen's great grandfather, Rev. Louis Henry Wagner, came to California for a visit: "I remember that when Maisa and I were living in Glendora, he [Cousin Henry as they called him] came to see us for about three days. He was attending a minister's conference in Los Angeles. I remember that on a Sunday morning after breakfast, I asked him if he wanted to go to church or to the beach. He asked what we would do if he were not there. I told him we would go to the beach. He said that he would like very much to see the Pacific Ocean again. So we all went to the beach. He rolled up his trousers and in his bare feet ran up and down the sands and gathered shells. As he was over sixty at the time, it did not occur to me that he would want to go in swimming. After Maisa and I had our swim, we were dressed and lying on the sand. He came up and asked if I cared if he used my suit to go in. I told him that I was much embarrassed that I had not brought another suit for him but that it had not occurred to me that he would want to go in. So he put on that wet suit and acted like a kid in the water. In fact, I had to insist that he come out, as I was afraid that he would get too chilled after a rather long time. We enjoyed his stay very much."
Following my last post that introduced the Nusbickel family name and my wife's connection to it, friend and terrific genealogy blogger "Apple" provided a comment with a referral to the 'Old Fulton New York Post Cards' site. The Fulton history site offers access to more than 15 million old New York historical newspaper pages and what a treasure of information these old newspapers have been for my Nusbickel family research. For example, the Lyons Republican and Clyde Times newspaper, in the April 5, 1951 edition, published the following obituary for Fred:
Frederick H. Nusbickel of San Dimas, Calif., died suddenly of a heart attack, March 31, according to word received Sunday in Lyons.
Mr. Nusbickel was born in Lyons, the son of the late Frederick Nusbickel, prominent merchant of Lyons, and Mrs. Nusbickel. He was graduated in 1899 from the Lyons Union School, valedictorian of his class, and from Syracuse University in 1903, where he was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity.
In 1905, Mr. Nusbickel began a career in California, pioneering in the perfection of pedigreed citrus stock, and developing from virgin soil his extensive citrus groves in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
Mr. Nusbickel's first wife, the former Maisa Parker, died in 1922, and in 1926 he married Marjorie MacPherson Herlighy, who survives.
Also surviving are two sons, Frederick of California. David of Winter Park, Fla.; a step-son, John Herlighy, of California: four grandchildren; a brother, Thomas Raymond Nusbickel, of Glendora, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. O. E. Van Slyke of South Pasadena, Mrs. R. S. Simpson of Lyons, and six nieces and nephews."
Although a newspaper account may considered as a secondary source of information, this obituary helps confirm information that I already had obtained and helps provide good clues as to where I need to look further for some primary information sources such as Maisa's death in1922 and Fred's second marriage. If you have ancestors who lived in New York State, particularly the Fulton, Wayne, and Erie County areas, these newspapers will be of great value to you.
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Hi Ian,ReplyDelete
I know a Fred Nusbickel who lives here in the San Diego area. My guess is that he is the son Fred mentioned in the obituary. I worked with Fred at Rohr Inc., a Chula Vista commercial aircraft manufacturing company. He retired about 15 years ago, and I see him occasionally at the retired engineer's lunches every two months.
I'll ask him if he's the son of this Fred, and if he knows your wife, his second couisn, or is it his third cousin? Who's the common ancestors?
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The gyrations we might go through to make something ridiculous match established canon are well known, even if it's something like a bedsheet, or in this case, an advertising campaign. There's a Powerade commercial before X2 that is - I swear to God - over eighty minutes in length. It really is like a movie about Powerade that you have to watch before your own movie may begin. The fifteen minutes before your film are now a non-stop psychic barrage.
I'm so excited about E3 I don't know what to do with myself. I play Planetside pretty much, wringing every last moment from that Valhalla, until Daddy takes the T-bird away. I've got a batch of free stuff that I've been playing too, just to take the edge off.
So that's what I've got going on.
I do, however, require an Amen from the Old School on this one. I need to know if any of the true players recall the Archon series, which I played on the Commodore 64 but probably came for the Apple IIe or something. Essentially an action game with a strategic metagame, it combined arcade play with chin rubbing strategic fancery. Even if you don't, Lucasarts certainly recalls it - check out the screens for the recently revealed Wrath Unleashed. I thought that we were talking about a fighting game or whatever that drew on mythology, which would have been fine, hey, go for it, until Gabriel mentioned this screen in particular. To this date, I know of no game that has been made worse by the addition of a hex or two. Just throw a couple in!
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On a Tuesday afternoon in the basement studios of Capitol Records, She & Him were recording a volley of live tracks for a few radio station sessions. Singer Zooey Deschanel finished an umpteenth take of the duo's single "I Could've Been Your Girl," and she felt that something was sounding a little false.
"Do you have any ribbon mikes? We're just not used to sounding digital," she told the session engineer. "Maybe an RCA-77?"
That specific taste in microphones showed her technician's ear — and the craftsmanship that goes into the winsome summery music she makes with longtime collaborator M. Ward.
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The band makes its headlining debut at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday, and with the release of She & Him's fourth album, "Volume 3," even once skeptical audiences are coming around and admitting that they are real artisans of classic pop.
As they prep for Sunday's show, they're taking in the fact that Deschanel's hero Emmylou Harris is opening for them. "We're so excited, she is absolutely perfect," said Deschanel. But headlining a night at L.A.'s most iconic music venue is also validation for the work they've put into making She & Him an accessible yet deceptively complex project.
She & Him began as a side gig carved out of Deschanel's and Ward's respective acting and solo musical careers in 2008, but the act has since become as big a venture as the duo's day jobs. As might be expected of an actor-fronted band, there was plenty of early groaning (it's hard to read much about the band without Deschanel's "New Girl" tagline "Simply Adorkable" popping up somewhere).
But Deschanel's voice was undeniable — a bright, resonant instrument with a hint of Patsy Cline — and Ward's pristine, tasteful arrangements conjured the AM of decades gone by.
The robust and immaculately written "Volume 3" should put any last grumbly holdouts on notice. The album is the duo's most "produced" yet, full of the old Hollywood string arrangements and brass lines and stacked harmonies that make a simple tune take on new shades.
But it's also home to some of Deschanel's most acute and acidic songwriting.
The first lyrics on the album, from "I've Got Your Number, Son," are as self-aware a depiction of dysfunction as a songwriter can ask for: "What's a man without all the attention? Well, he's just a man … who am I without all your affection? Well, I'm a nobody too." The jaunty, family-band singalong "Together" quietly implies that, well, love stinks and nobody really understands anybody: "We all go through it together, but we all go at it alone."
"We're always talking about that mix of happy-sad, where a dark melody gets an upbeat lyric or vice versa," Deschanel said. "I love that Beatles song 'And I Love Her' for that reason. I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody."
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Of course, it's hard to hear a song like that or the album's single "I Could've Been Your Girl" without reading subtext from her recent real-life divorce from Death Cab for Cutie and Postal Service singer Ben Gibbard (a subject she doesn't talk about in interviews).
But that very public pain lends some even darker corners to songs that on the surface seem aglow with nostalgia and sweetness.
"People who say, 'There's no grit there,' have no use for someone like Sam Cooke or the Beach Boys," Ward said. "The productions are rich because her songs are rich."
To listen to the duo tout the emotional virtues of diminished chords and the deep cuts of Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry (whose "Baby" gets a cover treatment on the album) is to hear two lifelong students of the best American songwriting at work. Yes, they know their arsenal of hipster-cute endearment is deep — watch Deschanel's vamping in her self-directed video for "I Could Have Been Your Girl" for proof.
Few are immune: At Tuesday's session, one radio interviewer took his last seconds with the duo to have Deschanel record a congratulatory message for his daughter's recent track-team accomplishments.
But She & Him know that clean fun and serious skill aren't opposed in pop music. They're both necessary, and committed miserabilists can go jump in a lake.
"I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys," Deschanel said. "And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore."
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Launching of eco bagsJun 5, 2014
UNDP and UNV in partnership with a chain of supermarkets Korzinka.uz is launching a new initiative – eco bags promotion campaign in Uzbekistan. This initiative aims to raise people's awareness of plastic bags' harm to the environment appealing consumers to use eco bags instead of using plastic ones.
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For a while already UNDP/UNV Project 'Social Innovation and Volunteerism in Uzbekistan' is promoting social innovation and volunteerism in the country offering innovative solutions to social problems, generating interaction between different people and various organizations. For more information about the project, follow the link www.iact.uz