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Dr. Alan Johns, from the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth, leads a panel of medical experts in answering viewer's questions about ENT problems ranging from hearing loss and persistent scratchy throats to ringing ears and sinus problems. Panelists include Dr. Todd Freeman, an ENT Specialist with Northland Ear, Nose & Throat Associates in Duluth; Dr. Jonathan Glickstein, an ENT Specialist with Essentia Health-Duluth Clinic ; and Dr. Victoria Heren, a family medicine physician with the Raiter Clinic in Cloquet.
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AlunaGeorge - Attracting Flies
AlunaGeorge - Attracting Flies
Disclosure - White Noise ft. AlunaGeorge (Official Video)
AlunaGeorge - Your Drums, Your Love
Here's a song from their debut album, which is out in June 2013.
AlunaGeorge - Attracting Flies (Behind The Scenes)
AlunaGeorge will release their debut album, Body Music, July 29 (pushed back from July 1 and then July 15). It will be released via Island. The album, which follows last year's You Know You Like It EP, features their singles "Attracting Flies", "Your Drums Your Love", "Just a Touch", and more. The album version of "You Know You Like It" will be released on an EP on July 28 backed by the album track "Bad Idea". Album tracklist below.
The band also has a slate of tour dates coming up; check them out below.
Body Music:
01 Outlines
02 You Know You Like It
03 Attracting Flies
04 Your Drums, Your Love
05 Kaleidoscope Love
06 Bad Idea
07 Diver
08 Lost & Found
09 Best Be Believing
10 Superstar
11 Just a Touch
12 Body Music
13 Friends to Lovers
14 This Is How We Do It (bonus track)
AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It
AlunaGeorge - VEVO GO Shows UK: Your Drums, Your Love
AlunaGeorge - Not Above Love
I loved their first album, but their newest album did nothing for me.

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Anyone interested in hanging at the 501 this weekend?
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Anyone interested in hanging at the 501 this weekend?
YESSSSS I'm in
Oh i had fun the last time i went there, but no can do its my weekend to work. Darn healthcare making me work every other lol.
Finally!!! I get to go a hang at the 501!! :):):) I will be keeping an eye on this one!
I may be interested depending on scheduling, will know more as week goes on...
What's the plans? I'd probably prefer to hike out early Saturday as I have to work on Friday. I do love night hiking with a passion though...
The 501 is car camping, unless you hike there from another point.
i can't the 6th... i'm good the weekend of the 20th
We have a dinner at the Gun club on the 6th and i'm working it so i won't get done there till Late :(
Any updates? Is this happening? Is this actually a campsite? I hear you can get pizza delivered to the shelter, what is that all about? I'd rather camp out on the ridge leading up to Wolf Rocks, the edge of the field on top of the Pinnacle, or something than listen to cars drive by all night if I had my pick...
You don't hear anything from where we hang, very little traffic and a ways from the road.


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The 'super hard' tire has been in the pipeline for some time and was tested during practice for the Malaysian Grand Prix and during Pirelli's private tests. Motorsport director Paul Hembery said it would be used again during Friday practice at Istanbul Park, where the drivers will be given a set to use on top of their usual allocation.
"The new compound is a new hard compound," Hembery said in a Pirelli YouTube video. "The idea is to add three or four laps to the life of the current hard compound with less degradation. We want to introduce that if we can at Barcelona. But it might be the case that we have rain on Friday at Turkey so we won't have the opportunity to test it, so it might be that we have to go to Barcelona again with these same tires and try to test there. But we will certainly see it at Silverstone, if we can test on Friday at Istanbul then we'll see it at Barcelona."
Pirelli arrives at the Turkish Grand Prix fresh from a private two-day test at Barcelona earlier this week when ex-Virgin driver Lucas di Grassi made his debut in the Italian firm's Toyota-based development car. The Brazilian, who is still hoping to return to F1 in 2012, said it had been a very useful opportunity.
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After a frustrating 1-0 loss on Saturday, we came out to the ballpark yesterday with our good pitching and hitting. In his second start after coming off the DL, Chris Young was incredible. He took a perfect game into the 8th, where the Brewers finally got their first hit and run on a Gabe Kaplar homer. They were able to scratch one more hit in the 9th, but CY threw a complete game on 96 pitches. He beat them bad. And so did the Padres' hitters. Every guy in the lineup except leadoff hitter Matt Antonelli had at least one hit. Kouz hit his 21st homer of the year. Adrian, Chase Headley, Nick Hundley, and Will Venable each had 2 hits. Chase got his 9th home run. Sean Kazmar had three hits and a walk. Even CY got a hit, his 2nd of the year. We got 5 runs in the third, and 4 runs in the 7th. We also got one in the fifth. It was an amazing game. We split the series, which is not bad, considering that we have the worst record in baseball.
On Friday the Padres called up outfielder Drew Macias and pitcher Mike Ekstorm. Today we are back at home, facing the division leading Dodgers once again. And guess what? We get to face Maddux again! This time we will pound him. If anyone wants to see Manny in San Diego, now is the time to head out to Petco. On Thursday, we start a 4-game series against the Giants, and I will be there. Remember, these games against the Dodgers will have playoff implications. Hopefully this will be a homestand like the last one. GO PADRES!!


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Rajveer Singh Rathore
Hello Meagan!
Things that you pointed out for distraction are the challenge for me to, might be for most of us. Your thought inspiring detail to cop up with them are commendable.
I also apply the idea of putting on a fan, only to get a sound sleep. To concentrate in work I tend to play some music – any music without lyrics.
For visual inputs I try to follow exactly what you do. I think that really helps.
To me Mobile Phone was a big distraction. Now I generally keep it on silent and make sure it's away from my work desk. In fact before starting to work I finish talking to people about things that are important for that day.
I think Social Networking apps and website are also enemies to work. I do not keep any browser or OS plugins. Do not keep these website open in any browser tabs while working. However I make sure to give time for this before and after work, everyday.
I am very poor at work planning when it comes to get together with friends and family. This is an area where I think my work compromise, most of the times. I love to hang around with friends and colleagues. That's where I am trying to improve – "learning to say no to parties and drinks as much as possible" unless there is just no work commitment.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts :-)


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The Knicks have picked up the option on coach Mike Woodson's contract for the 2014-15 season.
Woodson led the Knicks to a 54-28 record last season and their first Atlantic Division title since 1994. He is 72-34 since taking over for Mike D'Antoni late in the 2011-12 season, a .679 winning percentage.
New general manager Steve Mills said in a statement Monday that after spending time with Woodson recently that it was ''clear that picking up his option is an easy decision.''
The other big issue for the team as camp opened in Greenburgh, N.Y., was the status of Carmelo Anthony and his potential free agency.
The Knicks followed their division title with a strangely timed change in the front office, just days before opening training camp. Mills returned to Madison Square Garden as president and GM with a mandate from owner James Dolan to overhaul the organization and make the Knicks ''the best that there can be in the NBA.''
Maybe that would be enough to keep Anthony in New York. The NBA's leading scorer can become a free agent next summer, and Mills said keeping him will be a priority.
''He clearly is one of those superstar players that don't come around very often,'' said Mills, the former MSG president who replaced Glen Grunwald last week.
''So while it's premature in the process, we've made it clear that we have every intention of making Carmelo a Knick for a long time to come.''
Anthony insisted he's not even considering his future yet.
James game 'better'
LeBron James took time off this summer, got married, and spent time globetrotting about while tending to his many business interests.
The NBA's reigning Most Valuable Player also said he had time to work on his game, saying Monday, ''I got better.''
With that, James ushered in a new season for the two-time defending champion Heat, who gathered for their annual media day. Practice begins Tuesday morning in the Bahamas.
James didn't say what he worked on, though Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said James spent part of his summer focusing on his post-up game.
James also said he would not talk during the season about possibly becoming a free agent on July 1.
Small step for Bynum
Cavaliers center Andrew Bynum has resumed basketball activities, but he will not be medically cleared to practice when Cleveland opens training camp Tuesday. Bynum, who underwent arthroscopic surgery on both knees in March, hasn't appeared in an NBA game since May 21, 2012 . . . Almost exactly a year after a routine physical uncovered a heart condition that threatened his career, forward Channing Frye is back with the Suns. Suns officials said they have decided that Frye, 30, should re-join the team after he was unanimously cleared by several doctors . . . As expected, the Kings signed 23-year-old center DeMarcus Cousins to a four-year max contract extension worth a reported $62 million.
Toronto rewarded
The 2016 NBA All-Star Game is coming to Toronto. NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver made the announcement, marking the first time Toronto will hold the showcase. Canadian rap star Drake and Mayor Rob Ford were among those at the news conference. The Raptors announced that Drake will be their ''global ambassador'' and have a voice in the team's rebranding . . . George Karl, who won the Coach of the Year award last season but then lost his job in Denver, is joining ESPN as a studio analyst.


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Yesterday Public Policy Polling released a new statewide poll that proves once again the vast majority of North Carolinians want the legislature to pass the School Violence Prevention Act, a bill that would make our schools safer with anti-bullying policies that have been proven to make a difference.
Controversy has erupted over the bill's listing of categories of students frequently targeted for bullying, including sexual orientation and gender identity.
Why is that language there? Because we know that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students–and others who are just perceived to be LGBT–are among the most frequent victims of bullying and harassment, yet teachers and principals don't consistently intervene to protect them. Research has shown that policies that spell out that protecting all students really means all students, including minority students, make students safer.
Now this poll shows that most North Carolinians agree: 69% support the bill with sexual orientation included. That includes a majority of every single demographic: Democrat and Republican, East and West, black and white.
An amazing, broad coalition of groups representing parents, teachers, students and minority communities, Prevent School Violence NC, has emerged to support this bill.
The question is this: Will the legislature act this year to make schools safer? Or will they once again hand victory to a small but loud group of people who dislike gay people enough that they're willing to risk children's safety?


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Vancouver Whitecaps have struggled recently when they should have been pushing on down the stretch to the Major League Soccer playoffs.
Since August, the Whitecaps have been struggling with the recent loses and a string of lost points. Who is to blame for the downslide of a team that was leading the Western Conference in goals scored?
The main people at the centre of the downside would have to be the defence. There should be no blame to Jay DeMerit who has been injured for the entire season, as the blame should be on the defensive cover that has failed to fill the void.
Andy O'Brien showed his own frailties again in the match versus Chivas and the rotation of Johnny Leveron, Brad Rusin and Carlyle Mitchell have all failed to fill the void and add defensive stability. Now that Alain Rochat has left the club the left-back spot has been Jordan Harvey's who although likes to get forward lacks any defensive reliances.
In the other wide spot the evergreen Y.P. Lee at age 36 can not be responsible for both being an attacking and defensive asset.
Although the defence has problems this could have been overcome if the Whitecaps attacking strength could have continued but even the goals have dried up. Russell Teibert has been a constant bright spot this season coming through the ranks and now starting most games.
The same can not be said for Camilo who was on a red hot scoring spree before seeing the goals drying up and trying to score from every possible angle which often leads to teammates being furious with the young striker.
His striking partner who recently retired from intentional duty with Scotland has also seen a drop in form since his goal against England. Kenny Miller is often a forlorn figure at the top of the Whitecaps attack, and like many other strikers gets frustrated when he does not see enough of the ball.
The reason he does not see much of the ball is that lack of support that the Vancouver Whitecaps have and the players that Martin Rennie puts in are simply not good enough.
Kekuta Manneh and Erik Hurtado although they have pace are too young to make the right decisions to get the Whitecaps the points that they need, and with Darren Mattocks having a poor season and Daigo Kobayashi a square peg trying to fit into a round hole the Whitecaps need a change.
To this writer the blame for the Whitecaps recent poor run of results lies not with the players but with the manager. Rennie constantly tries to rely on players that have not shown that they can be assets in the Whitecaps team.
To expect that Jun-Marques Davidson is not going to get you a red card for a bad decision or Kobayashi is going to come up with a goal is pure imagination. When other teams i.e. the Vancouver Whitecaps Cascadian competition the Seattle Sounders make key acquisitions like the addition of Clint Dempsey, one has to think as to why the Vancouver Whitecaps are not able to make a splash of cash to get someone in that would help them challenge for a playoff position and potentially the cup.
The potential is there for all to see, but Rennie may have lost the plot this year, unless somehow the team changes their fortunes and sneaks in the Western Conference playoff positions.
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Matej Vydra's agent Ondrej Chovanec says the striker would prefer to play for a 'first division team'
From Watford Observer website, my interview to Ondrej Chovanec, Matej Vydra's agent.
You can read the original article here
Matej Vydra's agent says the striker would prefer to play for a "first division team" but accepts Udinese will decide his future.
The Czech Republic international was Watford's top scorer last season with 22 goals in 47 games and the Hornets are hoping to re-sign him this summer.
Vydra agreed a new five-year deal with parent club Udinese last summer and a loan move to the Premier League, with West Bromwich Albion, followed.
But it's been a disappointing campaign for the striker who has only scored three goals in nine starts and 15 substitute appearances in all competitions.
Despite his poor season, Vydra's representative Ondrej Chovanec believes the 22-year-old has the qualities to play in the Premier League or Serie A.
"He (Vydra) prefers to play in a first division team, Serie A or the Premier League is the same for him," Chovanec told Italian writer Emanuele Giulianelli.
Udinese and Watford are both owned by the Pozzo family, as are Spanish side Granada.
And Chovanec said: "Vydra is a player of Udinese, they are Matej's owners. He has the qualities to play in a top level team, so I prefer him to have the chance to show what he can do in a top competition."
On the prospect of playing for Udinese next season, the agent added: "I don't know. Vydra believed he would play with Udinese last year but he never had a chance to do it. All will depend on the head coach."
Chovanec believes Vydra could have made an impact in the Udinese first-team this season but believes the striker's experience at West Brom will benefit him in the future.
He explained: "He thinks it (the loan) has been good for him. He's mentally much stronger now and prepared to fight in order to become a real football star."


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Liquid trouble: Sinking water means rising costs
When Belmont resident Jenny Mead opened her August-to-September water bill, she got a pleasant surprise: her water use had dropped from 1,570 cubic feet at the same time last year to just 190 cubic feet this year, bringing her bill down from $35.43 to $5.96.
"One of my friends asked me, 'What time of year do you bathe, Jenny?'" Mead laughs.
But good news for conservation-minded water customers like Mead is bad news for the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority, which sells water to both the city and county utilities.
Larry Tropea, executive director of the Albemarle County Service Authority, says, "We're taking a look at the budget situation."
That might be putting it mildly.
Before the drought even hit home, the RWSA had already rung up a massive deficit– nearly a million dollar shift in the budget.
According to finance director Lonnie Wood, a projected surplus of nearly $180,000 turned into a $689,000 deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30.
Then, less than two months after the start of fiscal year 2003, came mandatory water restrictions. With car washes' taps off, restaurants serving on paper plates, and gardeners watching their foliage shrivel, water usage has slumped nearly 40 percent since July, according to Richard Defibaugh, RWSA's water department manager.
Purchases of water/sewer account for 100 percent of the RWSA's annual income– budgeted to top $12 million this year so it doesn't take a CPA to realize that the local water factory is facing financial ruin.
Unless it has the power to raise rates– and pass the pain on to consumers– which it does.
"Rates will have to rise," says Tropea.
Earlier this week, the board met (after presstime), so the rate hike may already be the talk of the town. It'll have a big impact on the two water resellers.
"When the volume goes down, unit cost will have to go up to meet those costs," says Bill Brent of the Albemarle County Service Authority, one of the resellers.
The other purveyor is Charlottesville Public Service. "I'm afraid we're going to have to do what we have to do," says Rita Scott, Charlottesville's finance director.
For the county, the drought follows another recent water crisis: the 1999 closing of the ConAgra plant, which was the county's top water customer at the time. A frozen foods company that washed vegetables and chicken carcasses all day long, Con-Agra shut its doors– and went from buying eight percent of all county water in fiscal 1999 to using zero almost overnight.
"We weathered that storm three years ago," says Brent. If ConAgra had closed down 20 years ago? It would have been "a staggering blow," he says. But county growth has made up the difference in the intervening years.
Drought conservation, however, may end up being that staggering blow. Depending on the size of the rate hikes, customers like Jenny Mead may soon see their savings on future water bills flushed right down the drain.


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Each day, millions of Florida school kids log on to the World Wide Web, but the federal government is threatening to disconnect this vital service, and it's all over money.
Nearly all of Godby High School's 1,400 students will tap the keys of a computer, but this connection is in danger of being unplugged by the federal government.
"E-rate from federal government pays for all of our Internet access at public schools and universities, then federal government came back and said we are not giving you the grant because they were under the impression we had to take the lowest price," says Francis Marine.
Instead, DOE awarded a $9 million contract to Hayes e-government resources to run the Florida Information Resource Network, which beat out three others for the job.
"We are looking for the best value, while there may have been lower prices they may have not offered all of the services we need," Francis adds.
Francis Marine, with the Department of Education, says the federal government misinterpreted Florida's bidding process, a misinterpretation that could mean rough waters ahead when surfing the net.
"I don't want to see it go away because we need it for out school system and parents to function as well as it has been," says Fred Varn.
Leon County school board member, Fred Varn, says Internet access is a vital part of public education without it the home to school connection could be muffled.
DOE appealed the ruling, penalizing them for not choosing the lowest bidder; a move they hope will keep Florida kids connected to the World Wide Web. DOE officials are confident the ruling will be overturned. If not, they will form a contingency plan to provide the service.


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To the editor:
The city of Cape Coral has dominated voting held by those who seem to organize for big industries, unions, and the city workers.
The citizens of this city may or may not know who, what, where or why. This large city in Florida has produced little if any economic growth to stimulate the local economy, yet taxes continue to escalate without concern of what the working class citizen can afford.
More people are moving away from this city and the similarities of what is happening here are currently explained in the recent article posted by Time about the collapse of cities across the nation. Detroit is being featured in this article, however more cities are moving closer to becoming bankrupt.
The Wall Street Crash forced many cities across the nation to cut back on pensions and or other city government spending while Cape Coral spent money like wild fire. Those cities that did not pay attention to their fiscal accountability during these critical times are now in hardship.
Years later this city offers no accountability for the loss of multi millions of dollars spent in haste during the boom years, and continues to enforce excessive taxation, impact fees and extreme costs of the utility expansion project onto those still struggling to make ends meet. If we are facing slower-than-normal recovery in this area who is to blame?
It is unacceptable for any city government to hold citizens accountable for their own mismanagement of finances. Is Cape Coral keeping the real estate market and banks prosperous by enforcing these horrific financial hardships on their citizens?
This city is practicing Regressive Taxation which hurts all middle class families. I am sure future blight will continue here as long as your local government does nothing to stop putting the burden on those who did not ask for or deserve any more hardship then they already experienced over the last six years. Why are the citizens held accountable for something they did not need, want, or vote for? If more people leave this city for other places where cost of living is lower, than what happens next?
You can research other city costs of sewer and water, none so excessive as ours. Many reasons may be offered but none hold truth to the expose' they deserve. Did the city of Cape Coral ever file for federal funding to pay for this big white elephant, the multimillion dollar poop pellet machine, or the UEP expansion? What city can be proud of when the city government creates hardship upon its citizens?
It is your right to hold those accountable, and stop these actions.
You can write to the State Attorney General's office and file a complaint.
You can file a complaint at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and also send letters to your senators. You can start a petition within your neighborhood because it is your right as a citizen to speak up against any inappropriate over taxation or other assessments that infringe upon your rights as a citizen in this city of Florida.
Do you think this city government cares about their citizens when they take harmful steps like this ? Who are they helping?
May I please ask about voting here and for who what where and when?
Deborah Green
Cape Coral


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by Julie Ryan Evans
down, one of the most frustrating and exhausting (literally) parts of
parenting small children is the lack of sleep. From middle-of-the-night
feedings to nightmares and kids who just don't want to sleep, there are a
number of issues that leave parents red-eyed and in need of copious
amounts of caffeine. But should it get this bad?
Nightline recently interviewed parents Danielle and Marcello (who don't want their last name used) who were so desperate for sleep, they took extreme action.
Between their two children -- a 2-year-old and a 9-month-old -- they
say they were staying up virtually all night long. Danielle said she was
lucky if she was getting fours of sleep a night -- and not in a row.
Both parents work full-time, and when they simply couldn't function anymore, they hired sleep consultants.
service runs about $2,000, and it includes an overnight visit and
follow-up support. That's a lot of dough! And the consultants admit that
most families could do what they do themselves -- using things like
controlled crying, black-out shades, and sound machines. But if parents
aren't able to -- for whatever reason -- then isn't getting someone else
to do it worth it?
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I suppose it depends on your budget, just how tired you are ... and the level of guilt you might have for farming out such a chore.
fact these consultants even exist is worrisome to a degree. I mean, do
children today really have more trouble sleeping than they did for
hundreds of years before such a service existed? Are we really that bad
at instilling good sleep habits at an early age? Or are parents today
just more willing to throw up their hands and bring someone else in to
do the job when they can't.
I mean, you can hire people to do everything from potty train your kid to help them with their homework and remove lice from their head.
Is it a good thing that parents are able to ask for and get help in
areas that challenge them (or they don't want to deal with), or is it
somehow cheating our children? Is taking the easy way out always a bad
thing, or does it make sense sometimes?
don't know. I suppose if parents have the cash and want to go this
route, then that's their business. You just have to wonder if you start
down that road of hiring experts when the parenting gets rough where
else it may lead you and what message it sends your children.
Would you ever hire a consultant to help get your kids to sleep?
If you got the cash and you really are out of ideas and feel you could use some help, why the hell not?
Quoting OwlNuggets:If you got the cash and you really are out of ideas and feel you could use some help, why the hell not?
no, I have never had extra money for such a thing.
I never would. I'm the mom, so I'm pretty sure I'll be better at dealing with issues my kids have than some stranger would be. Of course, neither of my kids has ever had much trouble with sleeping. Now potty training, on the other hand, I would be tempted some days! Lol
No and I wouldnt have a nanny either, I gave birth to my child to be his mother, not to hand him to someone else to raise! Hiring a maid drives me crazy too, good grief, raise your OWN child, clean your OWN house, its really not that hard!
I think some people will do anything to be able to get some sleep, thankfully my girls are good little sleepers.


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Weekend Preview! What Will You See?
Weekend Preview! What Will You See?
-- "This Is 40" is the latest comedy from Judd Apatow, debuting in theaters nationwide on Friday, December 21. This sequel to "Knocked Up" (2007) switches perspective to follow Debbie, Alison's sister. Debbie and her husband may seem like a successful couple. However, as they approach middle age, the two are trying to navigate a failing relationship, a hectic family life, and workplace drama. Debbie and Pete will have to develop a good sense of humor if they want to survive 40. The irreverent comedy has an R rating for mature content, crude humor, drug material, and pervasive language.
"Jack Reacher" is a tense new crime drama from director Christopher McQuarrie. Tom Cruise takes on the eponymous role, as an ex-military man who winds up in the middle of a heated investigation. With five innocent victims slain, the authorities are eager to put the suspect behind bars. The alleged killer claims that they have the wrong man. Jack Reacher steps in to solve the case, but things could end up getting worse before they get better. The PG-13 rating is due to language, drug material, and violence.
"Monsters, Inc." hits theaters for the first time since its original 2001 release, this time in enhanced 3D. Directed by Pete Docter, Lee Unkrich, and David Silverman, the Pixar classic offers a fresh perspective on the classic childhood fear of monsters under the bed. Sulley and Mike may be monsters, but scaring kids is just part of their job. When the human and monster worlds collide in an unexpected way, Sulley has to make some tough decisions to set things right again. "Monsters, Inc." has a family-friendly G rating.
Director Anne Fletcher's "The Guilt Trip" opens on December 19. After inventing an organic cleanser that has the potential to change his fortune, Andy sets out to find a distributor. His road trip takes an unexpected turn when he gains a new passenger. His outspoken and irrepressible mother decides to come along for the ride, much to Andy's dismay. "The Guilt Trip" has a PG-13 rating for language and risqué material.
Kathryn Bigelow directs "Zero Dark Thirty," a new political drama that explores the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Based on true events, the film traces the events taking place between the devastating attacks on September 11, 2001, and the death of Osama bin Laden in May of 2011. During the decade-long manhunt, everyone from politicians to Navy SEALs struggle to make sense of the tragedy and bring the terrorist to justice. "Zero Dark Thirty" opens on Wednesday, December 19, in select theaters. The movie's R rating is due to language, strong violence, and disturbing images.
"On the Road" opens in limited theaters on Friday, December 21. The drama draws inspiration from the life and writings of Jack Kerouac, a prominent Beat poet. During a journey across the American landscape, a young writer ends up learning about the strange and dark side of his country, thanks to the influence of two free spirits. "On the Road" has an R rating for drug use, language, and mature content. Walter Salles directs.
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"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" is the newest fantasy epic from Peter Jackson. Martin Freeman stars as Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who leaves the comfort of his Shire home to explore the rest of Middle Earth. Along with tough-minded dwarves and a wise and cunning wizard, Bilbo hopes to retrieve lost treasure from Smaug, a fearsome dragon. The film's PG-13 rating is due to intense violence and frightening images.
"Rise of the Guardians" tells the story of Jack Frost, a freewheeling spirit who delights in causing trouble. Everything changes when the Immortal Guardians approach Jack and ask him to help save the world's human children from the growing threat of Pitch, a malicious Boogeyman. Peter Ramsey directs the animated fantasy, which has a PG rating for mildly scary action and thematic elements.
Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" commemorates one of America's most iconic presidents. During the last days of the Civil War, the country is in upheaval. Although Abraham Lincoln longs for peace, he knows that time is running out for him to pass a controversial amendment that will banish slavery from United States soil. Lincoln must make tough choices as he guides the country towards true equality. "Lincoln" has a PG-13 rating for intense war violence, carnage, and strong language.
Directed by Sam Mendes, "Skyfall" sees James Bond facing new and complex challenges as he fights for the fate of MI6. The twenty-third Bond film centers on M. When dark aspects of her past reappear and threaten her future, M does not have many allies, but Agent 007 is willing to help. Sam Mendes directs the film, which has a PG-13 rating for mature content, language, smoking, and violence.


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Whether you love them, hate them, or forget they exist until they pop on your screen interrupting your game, achievements and trophies have become a (literally) required aspect of all PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 games.I fall into the love camp, and these are some of my favorites from 2011. The achievements and trophies that I find most interesting aren't the ones that mark your progress in a storyline, or that you get for attaining a certain number of headshots. I like the ones that can be skipped entirely and reward a player for doing something odd within the world of the game. I like the ones that force you to think outside of the normal functions of the game, or simply reward you for doing something weird.LittleBigPlanet 2
I just found these Trophies to be oddly specific, and easy. There really should have been a trophy for getting the 9am and 9pm Trophies on the same day. That would have been true dedication.
A Game A Day Keeps The Doctor Away: Play LittleBigPlanet 2 on every day of the week.
Who Needs Breakfast?: Play LittleBigPlanet 2 before 9am.
Just… One… More… Go…:Play LittleBigPlanet 2 after 9pm.
Crysis 2
I got this achievement/trophy by setting a reminder in my phone to play the game again in six months. The idea behind it is to get people to continuously play Crysis 2, but my way works, too. I played the multiplayer a total of two times. Dedication: Play online 6 months after your first time
Batman Arkham City
Pay Your Respects is interesting because it gives player a chance to see where Bruce Wayne's parents were killed, and it's something you can avoid completely. The Base Jumper achievement/trophy is similar to an achievement/trophy in Arkham Asylum, but like most things in Arkham City, it was on a much grander scale.
To get the Story Teller achievement/trophy, you have to visit Calendar Man on holidays that occur throughout the year. There is one outlined holiday per month. The game came out in October, but some people already have the achievement/trophy somehow. Time travel, I assume. [You know you can change the date/time on your console, right, Kyle? –Ed.]
Pay Your Respects: A moment of remembrance.
Gotham Base Jumper: Jump off the tallest building in Arkham City and glide for 1 minute without touching the ground.
Story Teller: Have 12 murderous dates with Calendar Man.
Ms. Splosion Man
Star Road in Ms. Splosion Man exists purely for the sake of the achievement associated with it. There is a road shaped like a star on the level select screen that you can unlock by finding a secret level exit, and beating a new level. It serves no purpose, other than to give you an achievement and hear Star – the character from Twisted Pixel's previous game, Comic Jumper – berate you as well as Ms. Splosion Man and even other game companies like Capcom.
This quote sums up the experience: "So yeah, if you want to keep hanging out here that's cool and everything, but uh, there really isn't anything to do here. Really it's just an achievement. It's the only reason this place exists, honestly. Really nothing more to see here. Not joking. Seriously. Go."
Find Star Road: Found star road.
Dead Space 2
Despite dismembering creatures left and right throughout Dead Space 2, it's still a bit of a welcome surprise when you get an achievement/trophy for dismembering a small child mascot statue.
Lightspeed de Milo: Dismember the Lightspeed Boy Statue.
L.A. Noire
L.A. Noire is a game that prides itself on its realistic city and faces. It's all about immersion. If you stray too far from the main goal and try to go all Grand Theft Auto on Los Angeles, you usually get punished. That is why these two achievements/trophies are great. They encourage you to go just a little crazy. At least long enough to get an achievement/trophy or two.
Lead Foot: Keep the needle above 80mph for more than ten seconds while driving.
Public Menace: Rack up $47,000 in penalties during a single story case.
Duke Nukem Forever
Duke Nukem is full of references to games that are much better than itself, but this one actually rewards you. Hidden somewhere between the muscles and the *** jokes is a barrel with a heart on it. All I got when I unlocked it (other than a few points) was a sad sigh, and nostalgia for that brilliant game I played a few months earlier.
Companion Barrel: Unlock the secret closet at the end of the Forkstop.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
These are things you should probably be pursuing in real life instead of playing Skyrim, but achievement points and trophy score is cool too.
Citizen: Buy a house.
Married: Get married.
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Brussels, 16 February 2005
Air transport: Europe reinforces passengers' rights
As of 17 Febuary, citizens will enjoy new rights when flying. Thanks to a new Regulation applicable in all the Member States, greater protection is being afforded to air passengers in the event of denied boarding, flight cancellation or long delays.
As Jacques Barrot, European Commission Vice-President responsible for Transport, has noted: "The boom in air travel needs to be accompanied by proper protection of passengers' rights. This is a concrete example of how the Union benefits people's daily lives. Competitiveness and competition in the air sector go hand in hand with guaranteed passengers' rights."
Despite the efforts of the air industry, passengers sometimes have difficulty enforcing their rights when they encounter inconvenience during air travel. For instance, more than five million pieces of luggage were lost or damaged in 2004 by European airlines and 250 000 passengers were denied boarding in 2002.
The new Regulation[1] enters into force tomorrow, introducing very significant improvements to the protection of air passengers' rights in the Union. It should help bring about a dramatic reduction in the frequency of denied boarding, for which airlines will have to pay compensation as a deterrent (€250 for flights of less than 1 500 km, €400 for flights of between 1 500 and 3 500 km and €600 for flights of more than 3 500 km). Passengers will be compensated for late cancellation and will receive assistance in the event of long delays. There is no right to compensation for cancellation if the airline can provide evidence of extraordinary circumstances which could not have been avoided.
The Regulation applies to all flights, including charters, operated by European airlines from or to a European airport and to any flight departing from the European Union. The Commission is certain that the application of these new rights will considerably improve the quality of service that European airlines provide to their customers. This will make those airlines more competitive.
Passengers must be properly informed if they are to enforce their rights effectively. The European Commission has therefore decided to launch an information campaign at airports and travel agencies across the European Union. Airlines too are obliged to inform passengers about their rights.
The new Regulation also requires each State to set up an independent body responsible for dealing with passengers' complaints and any disputes they may have with airlines, which will help to avoid long and expensive court cases.
To date, only 15 States [2] have established such a body: the Commission will refer the matter to the Court of Justice if the other States fail to comply. Furthermore, the Commission is ready to advise passengers and follow up cases where their rights have not been respected. Indeed, over the last 3 years the Commission has already looked into more than 2 000 complaints lodged with it.
See also DG TREN's website for further information and documentation (leaflet, poster, regulations, etc.):
For the attention of audiovisual media correspondents:
A video produced by DG TREN, "Europe reinforces passengers' rights", is available from the Audiovisual Service of the Commission.
To obtain a copy (languages available: FR-EN-DE-ES-IT) please write to:
Daphné LEVEQUE : firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com
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a. from € 150 to € 250 on flights up to 1500 km,
b. from € 150 to € 400 for flights between 1500 km and 3500 km
c. from € 300 to € 600 for flights longer than 3500
[1] Regulation (EC) No 261/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 February 2004 establishing common rules on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay of flights, and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 295/91.
[2] http://ec.europa.eu/transport/air/rights/doc/2005_01_31_national_enforcement_bodies_en.pdf
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Federal Aviation Administration is advising all foreign airlines to use a GPS system instead of visual approaches when landing at San Francisco International Airport in the wake of the deadly Asiana Airlines crash.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports the FAA issued a recommendation Sunday that the airlines use the GPS system when landing on main runways instead of relying on just their eyes and cockpit instruments.
Pilots on Asiana Airlines Flight 214 had been cleared to make a visual approach when the plane crash-landed on a runway at the San Francisco airport July 6. Three girls died, and 180 people were injured.
The FAA says that since then, pilots for Asiana and other foreign carriers have had more aborted landings than usual while trying to make visual approaches. The agency didn't provide exact numbers.


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Hillary's off and running!
What a literary feast. For this summer's blockbuster read, we've been given one of the most exciting choices ever: either the new Harry Potter, which will be released on June 21, or the new Hillary Clinton, which debuts this weekend.
For grown-ups, that's a no-brainer. Give me Hillary, or give me death on the beach. No matter how much trouble that little four-eyed nerd with magical powers gets into, he can't match the excitement of Hillary's learning for the first time from Big Bad Bill that he'd been lying to her about Monica Lewinsky.
As recounted in "Living History," President Clinton realized he'd have to come clean with his wife once he knew he had to testify about Monica to a federal grand jury. He woke her up on Aug. 15, 1998, and dropped the bomb. For six months, believing his lies, Hillary had defended him. Now she was ready to strangle him.
"I could hardly breathe. Gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him, 'What do you mean? What are you saying? Why did you lie to me?' I was furious and getting more so by the second. He just stood there saying over and over again, 'I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I was trying to protect you and Chelsea.'"
Hillary recounts that she finally decided to stick with her husband, although "as a wife, I wanted to wring Bill's neck." The worst part, she says, was having to go to Martha's Vineyard on vacation together after his grand jury testimony. Fortunately, "Buddy, the dog, came along to keep Bill company. He was the only member of our family who was still willing to."
Wow! Top that, Harry Potter! Not all the gremlins, Merlins, dragons or flying brooms of Hogwarts could come close to that for dramatic effect.
Simon and Schuster is giving Hillary Clinton a book launch worthy of Harry Potter. She kicks it off on an ABC special with Barbara Walters. Next, the morning talk shows. Then she sets off on a coast-to-coast speaking tour.
Now here's what's really exciting. If that sounds like an old-fashioned political campaign, it may well be. If she gets an enthusiastic reception, if big crowds turn out and if books sell like hot cakes, Hillary might just jump into the 2004 presidential race – immediately blowing all nine Democrats already in the race right out of the water.
That possibility already has Republicans jumping with glee. Virginia's Sen. George Allen, election chair for Senate Republicans, has sent out mailings begging for campaign contributions to "stop Hillary." He and other GOP leaders are already crowing that she will be easy to beat if she runs in 2004 and will help them raise millions of dollars in the process.
These are the same people who insisted that Hillary Rodham Clinton could never get elected to the U.S. Senate. And for them, I have two words: Rick Lazio. That's exactly the kind of campaign he ran against her in New York state. He attacked her, demonized her, ridiculed her, took her for granted. And Hillary cleaned his clock. Now Republicans are all set to repeat the same stupid mistake.
It's still a long shot the former first lady would run in 2004, no matter how many books she sells. Friends insist she's determined to complete one full term in the Senate before setting her sights on 2008. But I hope she changes her mind. If she does, she will not only win her party's nomination, she has the best chance of any Democrat to hand George W. Bush a one-way ticket back to Crawford, Texas.
Sure, 40 percent of Americans hate Hillary. But they won't like her any better if she waits till 2008. That leaves the 40 percent who love her now and those 20 percent who will once they see her in action. As she proved in New York, she's a dynamite candidate. She's smart, articulate and charismatic. After husband Bill, she's also the Democrats' best campaigner and fund-raiser.
Plus, she has one great issue: health care. She was the first to raise the issue in 1993 and the problem didn't go away; it just got worse. There were 31 million Americans with no health care in 1993. There are 41 million today. It's time to bring the issue back, and there's nobody better to do it.
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Remember when Altavista was the search engine? Or Yahoo? They stuffed their search pages with useless, distracting crap, and using them became unpleasant. And then, bam, along came Google, with a simple, clear search page and uncluttered search results. However, now that Google has become this massive behemoth, tracking our every move, and tailoring our search results, leading to only being fed those pages you agree with - isn't it time for something new? Something simple? It might be, and you've undoubtedly heard of them: DuckDuckGo. I'm switching. Update: Just got an email from Gabriel Weinberg, the guy behind DuckDuckGo. The OSNews !bang (!osnews) is now live!
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A better name - GrabIt
One thing that might keep DuckDuckGo from becoming a household name like Google is it's name, since it's hard to be used like a verb. For example, when you want to tell somebody to search for something, you say 'Just Google it'. Can you imagine telling somebody to 'Just DuckDuckGo it' haha
True. I would have named the thing GrabIt.
"Just GrabIt." Short and sweet.


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November 5, 2012
The International Space Station is, after the sun and the moon, the third brightest object in the sky. If you know where to look for it, you can easily see it -- no telescope required. But: if you know where to look for it. Since the Earth spins as the ISS orbits it, the station's position in the sky at any given moment -- relative to a position on land -- is hard to know for sure.
You know who always knows where the ISS is, though? NASA. Several times a week, Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston determines sighting opportunities for 4,600 terrestrial locations worldwide -- places from which the space station is visible for a long distance. Now, NASA is publicizing that list ... and sending it, in fact, directly to you. Spot the Station lets you sign up for email or text-message alerts that will let you know, a few hours beforehand, when the ISS will be passing over your area.
"This service will only notify you of 'good' sighting opportunities, NASA says -- "sightings that are high enough in the sky (40 degrees or more) and last long enough to give you the best view of the orbiting laboratory." That viewing opportunity could come as often as once or twice a week or as rarely as once or twice a month, depending on the Earth's rotation and on sky clarity. (So "don't worry," NASA says, "if there are big gaps in between sightings!")
Read more at The Atlantic.
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I'll buy this formulation. But from the cheap seats, it all comes down to the same thing. Whether it's in the platform, where all apps can make use of the functionality, or simply a set of conventions that enough application developers adopt so that the web of cooperating applications acts like a platform, we get what we want. (Some of the difference between what I say and "in the OS" is the looser definition of "the OS" that you can take from Unix/Linux and the Internet. I like to say that some OSes are "one ring to rule them all" and others are "small pieces loosely joined." In a "small pieces loosely joined" OS, features aren't in the OS so much as they are in the conventions that govern inter-application interactions. I use the word "conventions" rather than "rules" because there is no cop to enforce them. No "operating system" specifies the interaction between internet end points, but Jon Postel's "robustness principle" says a lot about how end points *ought* to act.)
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- 2 cups diced peeled tart apples
- 1 cup water
- 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar, divided
- 5 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 12 slices day-old bread
- 3 eggs
- 2/3 cup milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Confectioners' sugar, optional
- In a large saucepan, cook apples and water over medium heat for 10 minutes or until apples are tender. Combine 1/2 cup sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon and nutmeg; stir into apple mixture. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Remove from the heat; stir in lemon juice.
- Spread six slices of bread with 1/3 cup filling; top with remaining bread. In a shallow bowl, beat the eggs, milk, vanilla and remaining sugar.
- Dip sandwiches in egg mixture. Cook on a lightly greased hot griddle until golden brown on both sides. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar if desired. Yield: 6 servings.
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"I haven't tried this recipe but it sounds delicious. I just wanted to say that we used to make something similar in our local Brownie & Girl Guide campouts. Instead of the filling here, we'd spread the bread thickly with applesauce. Can also make like grilled cheese instead of French toast. Butter outside of bread, spread apple sauce between the slices and fry until golden."
"Oh, so yummy & very filling! Next time, I might add a little cinnamon to the egg mixture to make it a little more like French toast. I've also made these using the apple pie filling that I canned. Just as good!"
"Yum! I will admit that I was a little skeptical when I saw this on the web and my little one wanted to try it. We did try it and loved it. I made it again over the weekend and added a very thin slice of cheddar cheese in the sandwich and oh my it was good. Thank you for submitting this recipe!"
"This was so yummy! ALL my picky eaters that hate french toast gobbles these delicious sandwiches. I will definately be making this again and again!"
"This is a great recipe! I also have made it with 1/2 tsp.-1 tsp. of maple flav. OR blk. walnut flav. added to the dipping mix for the sandwich. My granddaughters love it!"
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Jeannie Rygiel says she isn't as strict as some moms, but she sets rules and expects them to be obeyed.
But like most parents, when it comes to the Internet, the Spring Grove mom doesn't usually check up on her kids.
"We know most of their friends and their parents, so I think [with] this being a small community, things come back to us pretty quickly," Rygiel said.
Kids, however, are taking advantage of their parents, according to a study titled "The Digital Divide: How the Online Behavior of Teens is Getting Past Parents," sponsored by online security company McAfee.
Half of teens surveyed said they would change their online behavior if they knew their parents were watching, and more than 70 percent have done something to hide their online activity.
Rygiel and her husband, Tony, raised five boys. Their youngest, Dan, is the only one still at home.
He is 16 years old and attends Richmond-Burton High School.
The boys weren't allowed cellphones until they reached high school, and even when they got them, they weren't smartphones. None of them got computers until they graduated.
Allowing children to have computers in their bedrooms is one of the worst things parents can do, said Mark Peloquin, co-owner of LeadingIT Solutions of Crystal Lake.
His company helps schools implement computer security systems that keep kids off inappropriate websites.
"It's getting a lot harder now, especially with smartphones and iPads," he said. "We haven't even begun to look at that – how to lock those down – yet."
Parents can't necessarily afford the fancy programs and filters that schools use, but the McAfee study shows about half of parents aren't implementing the easiest-to-use safeguard: parental controls. Depending on the program, they can be used to stop access to inappropriate sites, limit time spent online or monitor online conversations, among other things.
That's because a lot of people don't know how to enable the controls, Peloquin said.
Holly Kelly, a Spring Grove mother of two elementary students, remembers a "whoops" moment her 10-year-old daughter had online when she typed something into a search engine and sexual content popped up.
She said she used the accident as an opportunity to talk to her daughter about the Internet and what's safe.
"That really got our conversation going," she said.
Kelly is a teacher at Harrison School in Wonder Lake. She works with pre-kindergartners through eighth-graders.
Her education background has helped her have age-appropriate conversations with her children. Conversations with her 7-year-old son tend to be more about appropriate language, she said.
She said she isn't as worried about what kids can stumble across online as she is about what information they put on the Web themselves.
Her kids are too young to be on Facebook – she said she doesn't know when the right age is yet, and they're not allowed unsupervised access to the Internet – but some of her former students are.
She said she's amazed at some of the pictures former students put on Facebook and has emailed some of them, cautioning them about potential ramifications, she said.
It all comes down to "old-fashioned parenting," Peloquin said.
Rygiel agreed.
"We've been involved in everything they do, and I think that makes a difference," she said.
She also pointed to their faith, which she said helps kids give extra thought to whether they should do something.
"I don't want to represent that my kids don't do anything wrong, but I do believe that our faith is a big thing," she said. "I tell them that I'm not always watching, but God is."


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Howe faces uphill climb as state wrestling meet opens Friday
INDIANAPOLIS — If Damon Howe wants to win a state title, he'll have to do what no one else has yet been able to do this season.
And he'll have to do it three times.
Howe enters the first round of the 73rd annual IHSAA Individual State Wrestling Tournament at Conseco Fieldhouse on Friday, along with fellow area heavyweights Jeremiah Harvey of Culver Community and Abraham Hall of Bremen, while John Glenn senior Cody Strange enters the 160-pound competition and Culver Academies sophomore Anthony McHugh joins the 119-pound field after each finished third at last Saturday's Merrillville Semistate. The first round is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. with the tilt finishing up on Saturday with a 9 a.m. start time.
Howe will try to better his fifth-place finish at last year's state finals, but he faces an uphill climb in trying to do so.
He takes on Fort Wayne North Side's Ta'quan Walker in the first round, and if he wins, he'll likely face No. 1 seed Willie Henson of North Central Indianapolis in the quarterfinals. And even if he advances through 39-0 Henson, undefeated Martinsville junior Kaden Suter could be waiting in the semifinals, with the possibility of a match-up with 43-0 Bellmont senior Daniel Meyer — who takes the mat opposite Hall Friday — in the championship.
That makes three undefeated wrestlers in this year's state heavyweight field.
"If I want to be a state champion, theoretically I'm going to have to go through three undefeated guys," said Howe. "Everyone down there knows how to win so I'm going to have to go down there with the mentality that every match is going to be a close match.
"Once you get to the state tournament, every single wrestler is going to be as good as Harvey, as good as Hall, everyone that made it. It's just pushing me even more to get better in the room and work harder... I'm feeling pretty good going into the tournament."
One advantage Howe will try to capitalize on is his experience at the 2010 state finals as the bright lights and big stage at Conseco can dazzle newcomers.
"Last year I was fifth so I'm going to go down there, and I'm not going to be star struck by all the people or anything like that," he said. "I'm going to know what to expect with my surroundings, the environment, all that stuff, so that's not going to be much of a shock to me. I feel like I have an advantage over a lot of other people because I think there are only three other (returning) state qualifiers coming back. When you get down there you're in awe because it's something you haven't experienced before."
While Howe faces off against Walker, and Hall tries to hand Meyer his first loss of the year, Harvey drew Huntington North junior Andrew Mason.
The Culver Community senior is on a roll after coming off back-to-back championships, handing Howe his first loss of the year in the Rochester Regional semifinals en route to a dramatic double overtime championship win over Penn's Kade Maggart, then following up with a rematch win over Howe at last weekend's Merrillville Semistate title match.
"The coaches have been pushing me to strive for success, and I think I'm getting the hang of it," said Harvey following his Merrillville Semistate championship."
Strange will try to stretch his win tally to 40 when he takes on Tyler Rickenbaugh of Heritage Hills Friday, and McHugh will attempt to push his to 41 against Evansville Memorial's Logan Wedding.


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Kimi Raikkonen says FP2 was not a fair reflection of how much he can get out of his Ferrari in Austria as several factors prevented him from recording a clean lap on the supersoft tyre.
While Fernando Alonso finished third in Friday's afternoon session, Raikkonen could only manage 11th, though both drivers were on different run plans. Though not content with where he finished Raikkonen thinks he gained valuable information for Ferrari ahead of qualifying on Saturday.
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