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The Denver Nuggets started February the same way they finished January.
Ty Lawson had 21 points and 13 assists, Andre Iguodala scored 24, and the Nuggets beat New Orleans 113-98 on Friday night for their sixth consecutive win.
The Nuggets continued their fine play in 2013. They won 12 of 15 games in January, including a 10-2 mark at home, and got February started strong.
They grabbed a double-digit lead in the fourth quarter, and unlike Monday, when they let a 14-point lead against Indiana evaporate, they closed it out.
In general, weve been good getting leads in the fourth quarter, but weve been giving them back, coach George Karl said. (Friday) we didnt do that.
Danilo Gallinari finished with 18 points, and Corey Brewer had 17 off the bench for the Nuggets, who scored a season-high 32 points off 22 New Orleans turnovers.
Ryan Anderson had 21 points, and rookie Anthony Davis added 13 points and 10 rebounds for the Hornets, who have dropped three in a row and five of six.
Our turnovers cost us the game, point guard Greivis Vasquez said. It was really hard to take care of the ball.
That was Denvers game plan, and the Nuggets harassed New Orleans guards. Vasquez, Eric Gordon and Austin Rivers combined for 12 turnovers.
You want to make the right play, but youre just throwing the ball to space instead of throwing it with a purpose, Hornets coach Monty Williams said. It happens to a lot of young guys. Not reading how the defense is playing you. Thats what they do; they force turnovers, and theyre really good at that.
Denver led by three at halftime and increased it to as many as 11 in the third quarter. Iguodala scored 10 points, and Lawson had nine, including a buzzer-beating 3-pointer that gave the Nuggets an 85-78 edge heading into the fourth.
The lead grew to 16 with 4:08 left after Iguodalas 3-pointer and Gallinaris fast-break layup. Anderson hit two 3-pointers to cut it to eight with 1:28 remaining, but the Hornets never really threatened.
The story of the night was when we had a 10-point lead with 3 minutes to go, we didnt give it up, Iguodala said.
New Orleans was in control early before Denver clamped down. The Hornets trailed 26-20 late in the first quarter before scoring the next 14 points to go ahead with 9:29 left in the second. Denver turned up its defense after that, forcing eight turnovers and putting together a 16-4 run to go back ahead.
Brewer set the tone with 11 points in the quarter and scored on two fast-break dunks that gave Denver a 42-38 lead. The Nuggets were up 51-48 at halftime.
We were planning on that run. They were driving it in transition and we were committing three or four guys to one and they were finding, Williams said. A couple of times we threw it away and Brewer got away for an easy layup.
Gordon, the Hornets leading scorer, was held to three points on 0-for-2 shooting in the first half. He finished with nine points.


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The U.S. is facing a growing surplus in natural gas. Renee Montagne talks to Amy Myers Jaffe, of the Energy Forum at the Baker Institute at Rice University, about the glut. She expects some consolidation in the industry.
Natural Gas Glut Leads To Lower Prices
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HINSDALE – Winners have been chosen in the 2013 edition of Metra's Safety Poster and Essay Contest, designed to promote and reinforce railroad safety messages and keep children safe around trains.
Justin Kim of Hinsdale, a sixth-grader at Hinsdale Middle School, was selected as one of Metra's Safety Essay Contest's first-place winners for his "Safety Always Comes First" essay.
Each year, Metra's Safety Contest invites students in grades K-12 throughout its six-county service area to submit poster designs and essays highlighting the importance of railroad safety. Tasked with selecting the winners were a panel of 20 judges, including government officials, representatives from safety and education advocacy groups, business and community leaders, media and railroad professionals.
First-place poster and essay contest winners receive an iPad, while second and third-place poster contest winners receive $250 and $100 gift cards, respectively.
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. . . and the other one, "Colbert`s Sister" . . .
Actually, I'd make the other one Tyson, because Neil Degrasse Tyson was instrumental in making Pluto no longer a planet.
Dr. Tyson merely grouped objects in the solar system based on similar properties at the museum that he works at for their big multi-million dollar renovation.
His decision to not enumerate the planets was based on prevailing winds in the science circles already. The decision that the IAU made for Pluto's "demotion" was in no way influenced by Dr. Tyson's actions at his museum.
Stewart and Colbert
Han shot first, and Pluto is still a planet.
As long as 6 or 7 other little iceballs get to be planets too....
This one especially:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(dwarf_planet) [wikipedia.org]
...In fact, even a moon can have moons. But that would be very uncommon as a moons moon would most likely get pulled out of orbit by what the moon is orbiting.
Why would that be uncommon? Our moon doesn't get pulled out of its orbit around the earth by the sun, nor do the moons of any other planet in our solar system.
It's a dwarf planet, not a non-planet.
Yes. Asteroids can have "moons" in fact.
non-planets have non-moons
there's also a special SETI Institute G+ Hangout planned for 11 a.m. PT Monday
Now I bet that is an exciting awesome event not to be missed.
After all, Pluto's not a planet, sayeth the cool kids in the astronomy departments.
sayeth the cool kids in the astronomy departments
Have you ever been to an astronomy department?
The point was a majority of people who happened to vote in some panel at an IAU conference decided Pluto isn't a planet. Given that, why get worked up over the name of a moon of a plutoid, one among many?
.. people who happened to vote in some panel
Same procedure in law-making. Also in the patent system. Your point?
sayeth the cool kids in the astronomy departments
Have you ever been to an astronomy department?
He means the toughs who hang out by the air conditioner.
He means the toughs who hang out by the air conditioner.
Bah, if they were tough they wouldn't need air conditioning.
He means the toughs who hang out by the air conditioner exhaust.
I would vote for those. Also Persephone would be a good choice.
That would be a good pairing. I voted Lethe and Styx. My beef with the voting is that many of the names work much better pairwise, but you could end up mix and match. I guess that's only an issue until the next moon is found, but even so, Eurydice and Lethe just wouldn't be as good.
I'm okay with Styx, but the other one should be named Journey.
Except that both were among the worst bands ever recorded.
If you want to name those rocks after bands, how about Morphine and Radiohead?
I proposed 2 new names: Phlegethon and Cocytus
These would round out the choices to include all 5 rivers of the mythological underworld
However, all of the other planets and moons I can think of are named after beings rather than places (mythological or otherwise).
So I cast my vote for Erebus.
Those two aren't taken yet? I'm genuinely surprised.
Haha, I got exactly the same idea!
Haha, I got exactly the same idea!
A minor clarification: I got the idea before I even RTFA (and seen the list and voted). It sort of felt immediately obvious. But I think the choice is obvious for anyone with high shool education, so perhaps it's not that surprising.
Those aren't asteroids. Troll is a comet. Shill is a black hole.
It's obvious, right?
It also has three known moons: Charon, Nix & Hydra. This just brings the number to five. A moon is a moon regardless of whether the thing it is orbiting is a planet or not.
I still haven't gotten over Pluto's demotion. I just don't wanna revisit that whole thing. Moon, shmoon, whatever, it will never be the same.
Anyway I'm sure somebody out there's already got perfectly good names for them...
Given the danger to the New Horizons probe, the appropriate mythology names would have to be Scylla and Charybdis [wikipedia.org]
like the names of the greek gods for "fear" and "terror"
thanks a lot, way to ruin my bad joke...
with an awesome win
like the names of the greek gods for "fear" and "terror"
'fear' is taken: one of the Martian moons [wikipedia.org] is named after it.
And the other one is named Deimos (terror); thus he was making a deliberate reference to the Martian moons. Deimos and Phobos are both sons of Ares (Mars), which explains the choice.
too bad their poll is not more like Slashdot... I'd go for Itchy and Scratchy.
Flea and Tick would be my choice
IIRC the second was Catastrophe instead.
Testi & Cles?
Astronomers gomad for them.
... they could say they were keeping up the habit of naming them after elements of backwards pagan mythologies, then name them Belphegor and Asmodeus, and wait to see how long it takes for someone to get it.
Acheron and Persephone get my vote. LV-426 and Monica Bellucci. Yes, indeed.
Chilled and on the rocks of course...
Pain and Panic.
Kraid and Ripley.
Bebop and Rocksteady.
Palom and Porom.
Mordor and Shayol Ghul.
Orpheus and Persephone.
"Who the fuck cares" and "This is not a moon"
Death and Sleep, the sons of Nix (Night) and Erebos (Darkness). Death or sleep are the two most likely outcomes of a collision, and Nix is already a moon of Pluto.
Case closed.
Pinky and Brain.
Shiva and Kali, because I like Indian food and music.
Never, Never EVER hold an internet vote to name something.
http://www.thelocal.de/society/20110728-36581.html#.URluY6WzJ8E [thelocal.de]
Unfortunately, the article ommits that the local swimming pool was an even better idea, not only because Bud Spencer actually took part in a swimming contest in his youth at that very pool (IIRC), but also has that nice pun with Bud and Bad (= pool)
Call them "Planet" and "Planet Too"
Logic is the chastity belt of the mind!


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|One man awaiting trial, second sought on illegal credit card charges for gas
|Written by Marty Randall
|Tuesday, 14 August 2012 00:00
A jailed suspect is awaiting his November 19 trial on 15 counts of forgery, conspiracy and burglary while a second man is being sought for similar offenses in a case of apparent fraudulent charges made on a gas card owned by Stucker Fork Water Utility.
The Scott County Sheriff's Department was notified by a supervisor with the water utility in late June that multiple unauthorized purchases had been put on the utility's credit card. A rumor that an employee had been making the purchases had reached the management, the supervisor explained. When a check was done, all of the charges were made when employee Brandon Van Dyke, 26, Scottsburg, was on duty, he said.
All of the purchases were made between 4 p.m. and 8 a.m. or during weekend shifts when all of the credit cards were secured in a desk, Chief Deputy Donald Campbell learned. A check with a local gas station where some of the charges originated revealed that a light-colored mini-van was at the pumps in security tapes.
Van Dyke allegedly admitted to the supervisor that he had taken gas cards out of other Stucker Fork vehicles and used them to buy gas for himself and a girlfriend. Van Dyke also reportedly stated that he had let friends use the cards as well. The young man also said he had forced his way into the shop area to obtain cards.
In total, Stucker Fork records showed unauthorized charges in excess of $12,950 for April, May and June.
In a later interview with Chief Deputy Campbell, Van Dyke purportedly admitted to using the cards illegally for the past 18 months. When his friends used the cards, he would sometimes get paid by them or sometimes he let them use them free of charge.
Most recently, Van Dyke said a friend he only knew as "James" had been coming to the plant and getting a card and then returning it to Van Dyke.
Through Van Dyke's description of "James," Chief Deputy Campbell said the department was able to develop James M. Haycraft, 26, Austin, as a suspect. Haycraft, who resides on Wilbur Avenue, was interviewed by the officer on July 24. According to the probable cause affidavit, Haycraft admitted to being involved in the gas scheme, stating that "...he knew there was no way that Van Dyke would be authorized to use that much gas, but that they had been doing it for so long, they just kept doing it." Haycraft allegedly admitted to using a gas card nearly every day. He said the two would "unload" the gas at Van Dyke's residence on State Road 56 East and then sell it for $2 per gallon.
Van Dyke's charges include three counts of burglary, three counts of conspiracy to commit burglary, three counts of forgery, three counts of conspiracy to commit forgery and three counts of aiding forgery, all as Class C felonies.
He had his initial court hearing in Scott Circuit Court on August 6, and his bond is set at $50,000 corporate surety/full cash. Van Dyke is an inmate at the Scott County Security Center.
Haycraft had not yet been located by law enforcement officers as of Monday, August 13. He has 12 Class C felony charges filed against him, including three of conspiracy to commit burglary, three of conspiracy to commit forgery, three of aiding forgery and three of forgery.
His bond is also set at $50,000 corporate surety/full cash.


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A former state legislator and well-known area businessman has decided to throw his hat into the ring for the borough mayor's seat, which will be vacant in October.
Mike Navarre, also a former borough mayor from 1996 to 1999, announced Tuesday he would file a letter of intent to run for the mayor position currently held by Dave Carey, who isn't seeking re-election.
Navarre's announcement brings the total number of candidates jousting for the position to six. The other candidates are Dale Bagley and Fred Sturman, both of Soldotna, Debbie Brown of Kasilof, Ron Long of Seward and Gary Superman of Nikiski.
The 55-year-old resident, who lives just outside Kenai city limits in the Kalifornski Beach area, said he had been contemplating running for the position for "quite some time."
"I've been through the soul searching that comes along with any political endeavor where you are putting yourself out in front of the public open to criticism and seeking their support to trust you with the responsibility that goes along with being mayor," he said.
Navarre first ran for public office when he was 21, but was elected to the Alaska Legislature when he was 28. He served in the Legislature for 12 years before leaving to run for borough mayor. He served a three-year term, but lost a re-election bid for the position in 1999.
"I'm not running against any candidate," he said. "I'm running because I think that I have the best mix of experience, management style, education, community involvement. And, I think support, but obviously that's a decision that is going to be left up to the voters."
Navarre said his management philosophy could be summed with one word - responsible.
"I'm a consensus builder - you know I have to be to be in a family and to manage a family business," he said. "When I was in the Legislature, I worked well with all the political parties and many different governors and worked well with all of them. I think that's what we need because there are a lot of issues on the horizon."
One of the biggest issues facing the new borough mayor, Navarre said, was the future of the Central Peninsula Hospital and health care on the Peninsula.
"You have to look at where health care is going and try to figure out how to best manage the assets that you have to provide the best benefit for the communities and the people who live here," he said. "That takes a lot of time - you have to engage communities, business groups, special interests and everybody who uses the health care facility."
Navarre has also served on the Central Peninsula General Hospital Inc. board for six months, he said.
Moreover, Navarre said he would focus on strategic planning not only at the hospital, but across the borough to determine "where the dollars are being spent and why."
He said he wants to craft a "responsible budget" that takes into account trends in the fund balance and population growth while "building public confidence in what's happening with the decisions that are being made on their behalf by their elected officials."
"The dollars that are spent on any program or issue, you have to ask why it's being done," he said. "And then you can determine whether or not it is the responsible thing to do ... across all budget areas, whether they are special funds, service area funds, whether its general government funds, education or non-departmental."
Navarre also questioned recent actions by the Kenai Peninsula Borough assembly, which voted to place a question on the October ballot asking voters whether or not they would like to raise the sales tax one tenth of a percent to fund economic development and non-departmental agencies.
He said he wouldn't have advocated for the measure and doubts the success it would find with voters. Funding of such departments should still be left up to the mayor and assembly at budget time.
"If it fails, it doesn't mean economic development and figuring out how you advance economic development goals in the borough go away," he said.
Navarre said he was pleased with his former service to the borough. If elected, he said he would also like to better disseminate to residents what actions the borough is taking and the reasons for those actions.
"The easy thing is to go out and say, 'I'm going to go out and cut taxes and cut government,'" he said. "But, if you look at what has happened in this borough in the last 10 years, the population has grown significantly, the budget has grown significantly and taxes have also grown. How you best manage that is a process. I'm fairly analytical in the way I approach things and I also listen and try to incorporate diverse opinions into that process."


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The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly approved Tuesday a two-month-old ordinance that, through amendments, became a shadow of its original intent.
Ordinance 2011-24 was introduced in early June by assembly president Gary Knopp and originally sought to add an extra term to the time assembly members could serve before being required to take a break in service. It also sought to redefine a term as three full years.
However, at the assembly's early July meeting, several amendments offered by members changed Knopp's ordinance so much that members of the assembly became concerned it needed to be mulled by the public again.
On Tuesday, public hearing yielded two testimonies from residents, but an amendment from assembly member Linda Murphy changed the ordinance again.
That change was enough to draw criticism from Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Dave Carey who thought more public involvement was needed.
The ordinance entered the meeting with language that would have asked borough voters to consider increasing the existing two-term limit on service to a limit of two, full, three-year terms, plus any partial terms for a maximum of eight years service on the assembly.
It would prohibit an assembly member from serving on the assembly again until 180 days has passed since his or her last day of service.
The Murphy amendment deleted that language and added a section that mirrored almost exactly the mayoral term limits.
The ordinance, which will not go before voters in the October election, was approved, 8-1, with assembly member Brent Johnson voting against the measure. It will take effect on Oct. 14 or upon pre-clearance by the U.S. Department of Justice, which ever occurs later.
Currently, assembly members are limited to serving two terms, with the definition of a term being any or all of a three-year term.
In October, the new term limits will read that "no person who has completed two consecutive full terms on the assembly may serve another term or portion of a term until a period of 180 days has passed since the end of his second consecutive full term of office.
"A full term of office means the regular term of office for assembly and does not include portions of a term served by appointment or election to the remainder of an unexpired term vacated by another person or to a truncated term resulting from assembly redistricting."
Kasilof resident George Pierce said the ordinance, before the Murphy amendments were made, were "making it to where you got to be a rocket scientist to figure out whether you need to vote yes, maybe or no."
"It seems like it is kind of undermining to discourage people from voting and we have a major voting problem here anyway, and to make it to where people can't understand it, why go vote?" he asked. "I can't understand it and that's what's happening."
Murphy said that for "consistency's sake" term limit definitions for assembly members should match the mayor's. She argued passage of her amendment would be sufficient to enact it, and the measure would not need to be placed on the ballot.
"We are not attempting to change the number of terms that the voters voted for in both 2007 and 2009," she said. "What I would like to see us do is to redefine what a full term on the assembly is."
Johnson said he wanted to see it go on the ballot and asked Murphy if she would "bend that much" before voting against the amendment and ultimately the ordinance.
"The voters spoke and now I think the voters need to weigh in on it, whether or not we have to or don't have to," he said. "I just want to."
In response, Murphy said she "sees no reason" voters need to be asked.
"The majority of voters in this borough when they voted for this ... just saw a limit of two terms," she reasoned. "They were not thinking about re-apportionment when someone who is elected next year may get a one year term and then be termed out after four years on the assembly. I'm sorry, I disagree."
Assembly member Mako Haggerty said he felt it was assembly members' duty to "make some hard decisions" and "this may be one of them."
Carey, however, took issue with another aspect of the ordinance's approval. He said the nature of the Murphy amendment did not allow the public time to participate in a controversial issue.
He said that amounted to "bad policy."
"I think we had many people here to talk about whether or not it should go on the ballot," Carey said. "What we did tonight with an amendment provided this afternoon, we did away with the election and the assembly just took the action. I question if that was a good public process. I have to think that if notice had gone out, if it had been part of the agenda ... people would have shown up if they would have known that this assembly was going to make a substantial change to the ordinance."
Assembly member Charlie Pierce disagreed with Carey.
"What we did was that we defined what a term was, three years, and what it says is that you can serve two terms and I think that is what the people voted on - two terms," he said.


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Washington Memorial National Carillon at Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge will present the 2013 Frank P. Law Summer Carillon Concert Series. The series starts on July 3 the the return of Julianne Vanden Wyngaard, University Carillonneur at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, followed by Gerard de Waardt from The Netherlands on July 10.
The Janet Tebbel-Lisa Lonie Duo (July 17) pairs local carillonneurs Janet Tebbel, of First United Methodist Church of Germantown and Miraculous Medal Shrine, Philadelphia, and Lisa Lonie, of St. Thomas� Church, Whitemarsh, and Princeton University, N.J.
Then, for their first concerts at Valley Forge, the Chapel presents Sally Harwood, assistant carillonneur at Michigan State University (July 24) and Linda Dzuris, assistant carillonneur at Clemson University, South Carolina (July 31).
Dan Kehoe, carillonneur of Simsbury United Methodist Church, Conn., returns on Aug. 7, followed by the ever popular Irish Thunder Pipes & Drums on Aug. 14 (Music of the British Isles).
On Aug. 21 returning will be Gordon Slater, retired Dominion Carillonneur of Canada.
Chapel Carillonneur Doug Gefvert�s concert concludes the 2013 series on Aug. 28.
As always, all concerts are free and open to the public.
These are hour-long outdoor concerts, so attendees should bring a blanket, lawn chair, snacks or dinner.
The Chapel Cabin Shop will be open for refreshments and souvenirs. Chapel Used Book Store also will be open for great bargains.
All concerts are played rain or shine.
Washington Memorial National Carillon is located in Valley Forge National Historical Park at Washington Memorial Chapel, Route 23, Valley Forge.
For information, visit website at www.wmchapel.org.


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I have this question that I am stumped on, I have changed the numbers to a practice another version so that it is not the exact question on my homework.
An arch of a bridge is semielliptical, with major axis horizontal. The base of the arch is a across, and the highest part of the arch is b above the horizontal roadway, as shown in the figure. Find the height of the arch 7 feet from the center of the base. Assume a = 40 feet, b = 8 feet. (Round the answer to one decimal place.)
What I did..
wrote out my equation as (x^2/1600)+(y^2/64) = 1 from a^2 = 40^2 b^2 = 8^2
so i enter 7 in for x making it 49/1600 +y^2/64 = 1 that becomes sqrt ((1-49/1600) * 64)
that gives me the answer 7.9 however the answer key says 7.5 so where am i going wrong?


text: Selectmen recently appointed three regular members and two alternates to the Zoning Board of Appeals. Selectmen made the appointments after determining that the town's zoning bylaw makes the Board of Selectmen the zoning board's appointing authority. The zoning board has five regular members and two alternates. Previously the town administrator made the appointments. The terms of three regular seats and one of the alternate seats had expired, while the second alternate seat was vacant due to a resignation. Under the new process, candidates applied to serve on the board without specifying if they sought a regular or alternate seat. Seventeen applied, though five later withdrew. Named to the three regular seats were Claudia Augustin, William Gaffney, and Neil Kane. Gaffney had been a board member, and Kane an alternate, while Augustin is new to the board. Kevin Belmont and Charles Viveiros were appointed to the two alternate seats. Selectmen also reconfirmed the appointments of the two board members Joseph Morandi and John Alberghini, enabling them to serve out the remainder of their terms.


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What would have one of the more anticipated games of the 2013 FCS season has been scrapped.
North Dakota State athletic director Gene Taylor told The Forum of Fargo- Moorhead that Montana State has bought out of a Sept. 7 game at the Fargodome with the expectation the Bobcats will play at SMU that day.
NDSU is the two-time defending FCS national champion out of the Missouri Valley Football Conference. Montana State has won a share of the last three Big Sky Conference titles and finished this past season ranked No. 5 in The Sports Network FCS Top 25.
"Really angry, really disappointed. Stunned. I just don't understand it," Taylor told The Forum, adding Montana State is paying a $100,000 exit fee for pulling out of the NDSU game, which was signed in 2009.
The national champion Bison have 10 scheduled games, including five at home, and will look to find another non-conference game for either Sept. 7 or 14.


text: I had to bring my Macbook Pro to the Apple Store yesterday, since it decided to stop working, so I'm currently stuck with my 8 year old iMac, that doesn't allow me to edit or even open my own photos, which is also the reason I haven't updated my blog the last couple days. I will probably get it back repaired under warranty in a few days, that's why I decided to show you another great editorial. I have a thing for those soft black and white photographs and if you pair it up with a beautiful model (Sasha Pivovarova) and awesome styling, it just makes me smile.


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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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Ideal colours in this photo, love the guy wearing the red jacket against the background.ReplyDelete
Magical just magical :)ReplyDelete
Funny photos.
Have a nice day!
The best fench fashion magazine can only organise the coolest wedding!ReplyDelete
this is beautiful!ReplyDelete
Aw those are so cute - love the Panda head one the most!ReplyDelete
Im in love with this shootReplyDelete
these photographs are so beautiful... now thats a wedding i want to attend! :)ReplyDelete
I just wanted to say congratulations on being featured in American Apparel's Ways to Wear It style e-mail! I was just scrolling down when suddenly I hit your photo and I was like "WHOA I GO TO THAT GUY'S BLOG ALL THE TIME!"ReplyDelete
Anyway, yeah, 'grats, and stay stylish :)
Thanks for more eye candy!ReplyDelete
wish i had a giant soft teddy bear head... :(ReplyDelete
love all these photos they make me feel like i want to be 6 again!


text: It has been nearly four years since the last time gamers were able to control "The Darkness" as hitman Jackie Estacado. Since then the game has shifted developers from Swedish-based Starbreeze Studios to the Canadian dev team at Digital Extremes. If gamers were worried that Digital Extremes would be unable to deliver a standout sequel in the comic-adaptation franchise, all signs currently point to those fears being completely unfounded. The Darkness 2 takes place two year after the events of the original game. Jackie Estacado is now the Don of his crime family but is still haunted by visions of his lost love, Jenny. "Jackie sees Jenny everywhere," Sheldon Carter from Digital Extremes explains. Though it's still a source of his pain, Estacado remains powerfully possessed by the evil Darkness--a source of tremendous power. But the thing about power is that those who do not wield it, will do anything to obtain it. The demo begins with Estacado begin crucified by a familiar face from the first game. A crippled man tells him he wants Estacado to give up the Darkness and hand it over to the old, scarred man. The Darkness, you see, can heal any wound and won't allow its host to perish. The dark room is the first sign of a big change in The Darkness 2. Gone is the realist Starbreeze Engine and replaced with a "high contrast, graphic novel noir" style of Digital Extremes' Evolution Engine. Hard, dark lines wrap each character and the environment. Everything is sharp and angular. The lighting adds to this new look, keeping the effect unique versus other games that share the same style (Borderlands, for example). According to Carter, all textures in The Darkness 2 are hand-painted. Hand-painted horror. As the old man's goon nail Estacado's hands to the thick wooden frame, the game flashes back to another day in Estacado's life. Met by his right hand man Vinny--one of the few who understand his immense power--Estacado walks through a traditional Italian restaurant. Estacado passes filled tables, passing by chattering guests and makes his way to a table where he is greeted by two blond bombshells. The mood is calm, the ladies are flirting, and Estacado seems to have not a care in the world. Suddenly, a gunshot rips through the back of one of the blonde's eyes and she lays in a pool of her own blood. A van crashes through the window and the room ignites in fire. Estacado--trapped under a table--is bloody and hurt, his right leg shattered and missing pieces. Vinny throws Estacado a pistol, tells him to take aim, and proceeds to drag him out of the room. As Vinny, and the player knows, Jackie's power only works in the dark. The lit-up room of the restaurant and the glow of the burning dining area mean that Estacado is helpless. As Vinny drags Estacado through the room, the damaged hero fires into crowds of orange jumpsuit-wearing thugs. Later, Vinny throws Jackie a second pistol and he tears through the opposition. Soon Estacado makes it to the dark and his demon arms emerge. Now, one arm controls grabbing while the other controls slashing. Grabbing works with objects throughout the world. In one instance, Estacado grabs a long piece of rebar and tosses it at an enemy, pinning him to the wall like a thumbtack in paper. The slicing arm, used in conjunction with the right-stick, can slash in any direction. In the demo I witness Estacado eviscerate enemies with slashes that took off limbs and even sliced enemies in half...lengthwise. Just another night out on the town for The Darkness. Beyond that, players will be able to dual-wield weapons while using both arms. Quad-wielding is what they're calling it, sadly, but we won't fault Digital Extremes for making up buzz-phrases. Grabbing works in tandem with the slash. Estacado can grab an enemy and use the other arm to help split the adversary in half. The move is aptly referred to as "The Wishbone." Executions return and make an even bigger splash (of blood) with demon arm executions. Estacado can grab sneak up behind an enemy, coil him up with the grabbing arm, and burst through his back and chest for another vicious kill. Another change in the game are the darklings. Rather than have a number of demon helpers, The Darkness 2 features one. "This is a much more personal story for Jackie," Carter tells me. The A.I. controlled ally exists to help Estacado destroy the opposition and to get the game's hero out of bad situations. In one instance, the Union Jack-wearing demon jumps on the back of an armed guard, snaps his neck, and gleefully hands Estacado the handgun. Say hello to Jackie's little friend. The game constantly flashes back to the room where Estacado is left nailed to the wall. The old man promises that if Estacado does not give up his power, the man will kill Estacado's Aunt Sarah. According to the legend, the individual who wields the Darkness can only willingly give it to another person. With his Aunt on the line, the old man assumes Estacado will give it up. He's wrong. Jackie rips his hand out from one of the large nails, yanks out the other and quickly stabs one of the old man's goons in the face. Make no mistake, The Darkness 2 is ultra violent. The Darkness 2 was a real surprise for me at GDC 2011. I went in slightly worried and walked out excited to see more. It's certainly one of the best games I've seen during this year's event. Hopefully, Digital Extremes can deliver in the final version of the game when it launches later this year for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3.


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High School Performances : Bestt time in the 5K during cross country is 17:52 at Ocean County Park, finishing third at the Shore Conference ... Finished tenth at the Meet of Champions that year, improving 12 spots from the previous year ... Best time in the 3200 is 10:39, which was run at the Meet of Champions during indoor track in senior year (2nd place) ... Best time in the 1600 is 5:05 (2nd), in the Shore Conference.
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January 24, 2012 > Oliveira Junior Ambassadors lead the way
Article and photos by Miriam G. MazliachEveryone likes or wants the opportunity to be considered special, and that's the case with the newly created "Oliveira Junior Ambassadors" program beginning at Oliveira Elementary School in Fremont. To add to the palpable level of excitement, the school held a kick-off celebration for students, parents and guests on the evening of January 10.Ian Squibb, the Deaf & Hard of Hearing Specialist at Fremont Unified School District (FUSD), helped to develop the unique program at the suggestion of the school's Principal, Linda Anderson. "The goal is to promote kids with leadership skills to realize the potential they have," stated Anderson.Currently assisting at Oliveira Elementary while he is pursuing his Administrative Credential, Squibb explained that he needed to choose a project. "Principal Anderson gave me some background on a similar program, begun at Centerville Junior High School, by teacher Dawn Troupe-Masi which encourages leadership skills in their 8th graders to mentor struggling 7th grade students and help them rise above," added Squibb. The program has proven to be successful at Centerville in that both grade levels of students benefited from the interaction and improved academically and socially.Squibb not only wanted to expand upon those ideas, but more importantly develop his own program with the focus on the elementary school age population, such as at Oliveira.From all the fourth, fifth and sixth grade students at Oliveira, 25 were selected by Anderson and Squibb, among those nominated for their leadership capabilities by teachers and their peers.According to Squibb, he plans to have the "Junior Ambassadors" meet weekly, during lunchtime, to teach leadership, mentoring and problem solving skills, as well as work towards a goal of building self-esteem and recognizing the value of helping others."This program has the potential to be great," said Squibb, "especially if it can help any underachieving students reach their potential."Squibb hopes that, at least once a month, there will be also be opportunities for students to participate in group activities or service learning projects in the community. "In this way, students can see the changes they can make and decide how they are going to make a difference with younger students [in grades K-3]," added Squibb.Both Anderson and Squibb want the students and parents to demonstrate commitment to the program and mentioned that they will encourage the students to talk to parents about what they are learning.As for the evening's festivities, although the students had received invitations to attend, they did not know for certain that they had made it into this inaugural group of "Oliveira Junior Ambassadors." But soon, beaming faces and huge smiles followed, once Ian Squibb began to announce each of their names and receive a certificate and t-shirt, making it official.Fourth grade student Ilene Avila remarked, "I'm really happy because I never thought I could be an Ambassador. I'm looking forward to helping people."Anderson and Squibb were most appreciative of the generous financial sponsorship provided by the Fremont Rotary Club and an anonymous donor, for the purchase of posters and curriculum materials from Stephen R. Covey, "7 Habits for Kids." Additionally, for the event, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Fremont Flowers and Texas Roadhouse, provided decorations and cakes, for the enjoyment of the attendees.The "Oliveira Junior Ambassadors" program is off to a great start. The plan is to build the program for two years with fourth through sixth graders and then empower K-3 graders to "pay it forward."


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I am 38 weeks pregnant and I want to Breast feed for sure but we are on a very tight budget, wondering ikf anyone knpws of a place that rents breast pumps or gives them away, or gives a good discount..? Help!
I am 38 weeks pregnant and I want to Breast feed for sure but we are on a very tight budget, wondering ikf anyone knpws of a place that rents breast pumps or gives them away, or gives a good discount..? Help!
Are you planning to go back to work? How long after your baby is born? If you're staying home, you probably won't need a pump (or you can get a cheap one), and if you do, you can worry about that then.
For most working moms, you need a good pump, and it's not cheaper to rent a pump for 8 months than it is just to buy a good quality double electric for about $300. However, some of the rental pumps are really high quality (hospital grade) and that can be a HUGE help if you are struggling with supply, etc. But for most people it's not a savings.
Do you qualify for WIC? They offer free, excellent pumps, I believe.
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Mom to baby boy Joe, born 5/4/09 and breastfed for more than two and a half years, and baby girl Maggie, born 7/9/12.
with the PP. The type of pump you'll need depends on how you'll be using it. If you're going to stay home with your baby, and are just planning on pumping once and a while for a sitter, you can get away with a cheap pump. If you're going back to work, you want a good double electric.
Even if you are not going back to work, do see if you qualify for WIC. If you are breastfeeding, (and you qualify financially) you can get nutritional support for you as well as breastfeeding support. One of the moms on here is a lactation consultant who works for them and could give you more information.
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There are reports today that Sony's networks still are oblivious to real security [reuters.com]. Among the serious vulnerabilities are links to globally viewable security consoles in robots.txt files, ID web-management consoles being publicly available and indexed in Google, and more!
I guess the upside is that if the hackers are going to get your credit card from Sony, they already have it so you may as well play your games too.
I think the upside is for Nintendo because this is great advance marketing of their new system.
Nintendo will need to seriously overhaul their model for online interactivity before they could even be placed in the same ball park as XBL and PSN. As it is, they could not use the Wii's present level of online interactivity on the new console and hope to welcome in PSN refugees. They'd all sooner hop over to XBL.
Too late I think.
An outage like this one will cause more than a few to rethink why they spend so much time gaming online. Perhaps the issue may serve a higher purpose and get folks out doing something else.
I'm very curious to see how many will cancel their accounts with SOE after this, and of those, how many will be better off for it.
Perhaps the issue may serve a higher purpose and get folks out doing something else.
Yes, like playing D&D, which, of course, doesn't require any connection - only a steady supply of pizza! ~
Note that the the report says some of these are already fixed.
Seems a big failure on design. If I designed a credit card payment system I would have it only be active in the portion of the network that required people to pay for something.
So... your playstation comes online and you want to sign in and play a game. Ok, the console has been authorized before it should be able to send a token saying "I'm whois let me play games."
In fact, PSN shouldn't really care who you are unless you're trying to buy something. Buying something and playing a game are two fundamental
You got to love arm chair systems architects. Every thing is easy peasy and obvious. Simple answer is:....
Management has no idea how things work. So they turn everything off at once during a breach. And turn everything back on in small steps with tons of testing along the way. It is a best practice as old as computing.
In fact, PSN shouldn't really care who you are unless you're trying to buy something.
Or unlocking Trophies, or listening if you're receiving messages from other players, or setting the status of what game you're playing, or to check whether or not you've got game invites periodically...
Oh, wait...
Has it actually been confirmed (by Visa, Mastercard, or Sony) that credit card numbers were stolen? Not just anecdotes -- we'd expect a few of the millions of PSN customers to be victims of ID theft anyway.
Anyone ever told you you're an arrogant, condescending douchebag? Frankly, it's none of your fucking business who any person wants to conduct business with, and if anyone deserves to suffer it's a jerkwad who thinks that just because a person chooses to deal with Sony (possibly because they don't give a shit about OtherOS or George Hotz) then they are apathetic fools deserving of righteous suffering.
Spot on.
Ill go further. Its good when average people who are blissfully ignorant get some of the Sony treatment. Maybe now they will understand and stop giving these jerks money.
There are no innocents, only those who are apathetic. If you're still putting money into Sony's pockets after the crap they've pulled then you are part of the problem and deserve to suffer along with Sony.
Among the 70 million PSN account holders there are, I would imagine, quite a few in a mood to rake the geek and the hacker over the coals.
Far from apathetic.
But simply sharing a different set of values and priorities.
If you're still putting money into Sony's pockets after the crap they've pulled then you are part of the problem
Then how do you recommend that I find a grocery store that doesn't play Sony Music over its speaker system and therefore doesn't put money in Sony's pocket?
I am not in favor of the innocent users becoming victims, but if this happened to any company, at least it happened to Sony. There are few companies that deserve this more than Sony.
It's not even really a case of 'deserving' it. They created ill-will with a group of people, and those people retaliated. In the short term, a lot of people are getting burned by the outage. Looking at the big picture, however, Sony will have to think long and hard about whether or not to remove features in the future.
What the 'hackers' did was criminal and not justifiable. They should not have done this. (I bet somebody replies without having read this bit.) But if Sony shows any wisdom at all, they'
Sony's SOE games (the MMOs, such as EverQuest) have been down for 2 weeks. They brought them back online earlier today.
Are Sony offering any kind of counselling for those poor addicted geeks' horrendous withdrawal?
What I'm curious about is why do they re-activate the network per state [playstation.com].
As of right now, just California and a few New England states seem to be "online". One server per state? Sounds a bit odd.
Oh and the map is stored on Flickr. For a moment there I thought someone hacked their blog system too, and just posted faked-up "we're about to go live again" message.
I'm guessing they are doing it for the purposes of load testing. They selected two high population regions of the country on opposite coasts. If the system gets overwhelmed, they can spin up additional resources.
Probably something to do with being able to predict how much horsepower is needed.
So if california get up, and theres not enough horses, buy more horses for the server farm.
If everything goes online at the same time, the horses dies.
Certainly several hundred if not thousand of severs per state, and likely spread across several major data centers, at least in the case of more populous states like Calif. Of course I'm just feeding what Sony is doing based on my experience with Second Life's racks of 1U servers as far as the eye can see...
Latency is a huge deal with gaming, so yeah, it makes perfect sense that it's per-state in some fashion.
Much of the point of ChromeOS is that applications will have offline functionality. But don't let facts get in your way or anything. This seems familiar, did you post this same troll before?
Frankly, I think far more people are still confused about what ChromeOS gets them that Android doesn't.
And Google is definitely moving Android in a direction of running on multitude of form factors, not just phones and tablets. If you plug in a USB mouse into a Honeycomb tablet, you get a good old mouse cursor and can fully interact with the OS that way. In 3.1, they're adding mouse hover and scroll events to the API. Its browser syncs bookmarks, history and other settings with Google servers (which in turn
Frankly, I think far more people are still confused about what ChromeOS gets them that Android doesn't.
Well, that IS the actual objection to Chrome OS, isn't it?
So, what's the advantage of ChromeOS, again? I expected it to be price, but those laptops they've announced recently don't look all that cheap compared to the recent slew of Honeycomb tablets; so that can't be it.
There is none. I think anyone buying a Chrome OS device is a tard because Chrome OS and Android will probably eventually merge [eweek.com]. And who's more likely to get an update, an Android user or a Chrome OS user? Yeah, you got it in one.
Much of the point of ChromeOS is that applications will have offline functionality.
The HTML5 technologies that ChromeOS will use for offline functionality are really designed to synchronise with the original server. So when Google Docs or your network goes down, you will be able to keep working on your document. But if you want to take your document somewhere else — say take a copy home as a file on a USB stick — you can't. Exporting documents is done in the cloud, not by the browser, so your document is stuck on your machine. You just have to wait until Google Docs works again so it can sync back up and then export it.
That is almost exactly the same as the PS3 outage. The PS3 console and games continue to work as normal offline, but you can't play online and you can't switch to a competing provider of online games. In a major outage of Google Docs, your ChromeOS would continue to work as normal offline, but you wouldn't be able to take the document anywhere or give it to someone else — and you wouldn't be able to switch to a competing provider like Office Live — because your data is stuck in the Google cloud. One day Google may fix this, but at the moment you would be stuck.
The problem here is being reliant on one company. On a desktop computer with a full operating system you've got myriad alternatives and competing solutions for any problem. On the PS3 and ChromeOS you've got a very simple-to-use system that's normally all you need; but if it fails then you're stuck with no alternative.
In a major outage of Google Docs, your ChromeOS would continue to work as normal offline, but you wouldn't be able to take the document anywhere or give it to someone else â" and you wouldn't be able to switch to a competing provider like Office Live â" because your data is stuck in the Google cloud. One day Google may fix this, but at the moment you would be stuck.
That depends on whether you already had an account on some service like syncplicity which backups your Google Docs in realtime.
Google has open APIs to your data, and that makes all the difference.
Much of the point of ChromeOS is that applications will have offline functionality.
The HTML5 technologies that ChromeOS will use for offline functionality are really designed to synchronise with the original server.
That's not true, Google is adding additional functionality to handle local file access. [cnet.com] Again, don't let the facts get in your way or anything.
And initially, I was like: "Awesome! Want!" when Google announce ChromeOS..
I'm genuinely interested: what made you think "Awesome! Want!" with regards to an "OS" not on your own computer?
EQ2 servers came up about 5pm PDT today.
Yep, just got into the game even though I haven't subscribed for over 18 months.. looks like they've activated every account for the next 45 days.
They removed the ability to play PS2 games, and the ability to boot OtherOS.
What this time?
The ability to plug in controllers?
The ability to play sounds?
The ability to do hi-def?
Each update seems to be a slow descent into brickdom.
Fuck!!! It's a Sony!!!
They removed the ability to play PS2 games
Er...no, they didn't. If you bought a PS3 able to play PS2 games, it is still able to do so. Sony never took that ability away from any PS3 that had it.
You are incorrect. There were two forms of PS2 backwards compat.
If your console was a REALLY early original, with hardware compatability, you can still play some PS2 games.
If your console was the second gen, with software compatability, they removed it.
I've lost my patience with all the forced firmware upgrades, so I'm just not signing back on to the Playstation Network. All of my PS3 games are single player, which I've been able to play during the outage, so I'm just fine with never signing on to the PSN again. Aside from single player games, the only other use I have for a console nowadays is Netflix.
Essentially, the Playstation Network has nothing of value to me.
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By Michael Aneiro
Bonds are getting trounced Tuesday after yet another October economic indicator showed surprising strength despite the government shutdown. The Institute for Supply Management's nonmanufacturing purchasing managers index unexpectedly rose in October, to 55.4 from 54.4 in September, while the ISM Employment index rose to 56.2 from 52.7.
The 10-year Treasury note is down 19/32 in price late Tuesday morning, lifting its yield to a two-week high 2.671%, per Tradeweb data, while the 30-year bond is down 1 7/32 to yield 3.759%.
It wasn't even a week ago that the 10-year yield seemed poised to stay tucked below 2.5% for a while, with the economy recovering from a 16-day government shutdown and the Fed's stimulus-tapering plans seemingly on hold until spring. Then a pair of strong economic readings late last week, including the ISM's manufacturing PMI, set bond yields marching higher again.
Proving that everything is once again all about the Fed, stocks are down too as equity investors look past the optimism of strong economic data and focus on whether this makes the Fed more likely to start tapering sooner.


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Having been to #meateasy, sampled the delights of the Meat Wagon and even dropped by the Peckham Rye pub, some might say I've had my fair share of their burgers over the last year or so. But, based on the two MEAT Liquor burgers I've had already, not to mention some heart-breakingly tasty Mac and Cheese, I'd be inclined to disagree.
However, we can all agree that MEAT Liquor is going to make a good burger or two. What I've recently had the delight of realising twice in about as many drunken evenings is the revelation that you can now drop by for one just about any time after you've been out boozing.
It requires a process that's a hyrbid of following the star to Bethlehem and the journey to another world in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. Need more details? Let me explain.
*Editor's note: Drunken photos may lack the usual refined detail – for full experience, have a few beers before reading.*
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In some instances it is easy to evict an ex from your social media life. Most break-ups, however, end in a question of etiquette with regards to Facebook: do you unfriend the ex? Are you being the bigger person if you don't unfriend? Can you stop yourself from Facebook stalking?
If you're worried about the rules of unfriending someone who dumped you, a new study makes the case that you should do it (just send them this article with a "it's not you, it's me" note). It also indicates you should chill out on the Facebook stalking (just send this article to yourself as a reminder).
The survey asked people to recall a "distressing romantic break up" and rate their levels of heartbreak along with the amount of time they spent looking for information about their ex on Facebook. The British study concluded that in order to get over your ex, you have to get some space.

Notably, frequent monitoring of an ex-partner's Facebook page and list of friends, even when one was not a Facebook friend of the ex-partner, was associated with greater current distress over the breakup, negative feelings, sexual desire, longing for the ex-partner, and lower personal growth.

However, the group conducting the survey were surprised to find that people who remained friends with their exes on Facebook rated their feelings of sexual desire and longing for their ex lower than those who did not. They offer two possible explanations — that those people were less invested in the relationship from the start or that seeing the mundane daily posts from their exes made them less appealing. The exes you don't have contact with maintain an "alluring mystique" in your mind.
The survey still found that participants who did remain Facebook friends with an ex were low in "personal growth" (aka washing that ex right out of your hair). This suggests that separating from ex partners is a key component for anyone who wants to move on.
A variety of factors, including your age, self-esteem and type of relationship with the ex, can influence how you react to information gleaned about an ex on social media but the study seems to draw the conclusion that when it comes to choosing between unfriending and stealth Facebook monitoring, most people are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Maybe there's a case to be made for not logging on to Facebook for the sake of your romantic mental health. The study agrees, concluding that, "avoiding exposure to an ex-partner, both offline and online, may be the best remedy for healing a broken heart."
-Courtney E. Smith, CBS Local


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Even those school districts with plans in place may be re-thinking those plans after what happened in Connecticut.
It is a unthinkable outcome that can happen anywhere.
"At the very least it will raise your awareness," said Navasota Police Chief Shawn Myatt. "It's such a tragedy."
The safety of students and staff has taken on new meaning after the shooting massacre in Newtown, Connecticut; and local school districts and law enforcement personnel are taking safety measures to a whole new level.
"Some agencies are even adding law enforcement officers for the time being," said Myatt.
In an effort to ensure their students' safety and calm parents' nerves, school districts across the Brazos Valley have asked police departments to increase patrols and some have even sent messages to parents outlining safety plans and precautions.
"From a law enforcement standpoint and from me personally being there, you don't know how it's going to play out," said Myatt. "That's why it's so important to always practice those measures because you don't know what's going on in the minds of other people."
Every district in Texas is required to submit a safety audit; and if the district fails to do so it receives a red-flag from the state.
Attorney General Greg Abbott said Monday the districts "can't let another second tick" without having a safety plan to deal with the possibility of school violence like the carnage in Connecticut.
The Texas School Safety Center was created in 1999 in the aftermath of the Columbine shootings in Colorado. The state education code requires public schools conduct safety audits once every three years.
Abbott's office says 38 of the state's 1,025 public school districts have filed no audit. Another 40 reported but are not in compliance.
Centerville ISD was listed on the report as non-compliant. News 3 reached out to the district, but our phone calls were not returned.
"We would like to be extremely prepared and we'd like to deter everything but even the best laid out plans don't go according to plan, especially when humans are involved," Myatt added.
The tragic outcome has become a turning point of action and a reminder that anything is possible even when safety measures are in place.
"You shouldn't live in fear, but you should always practice safety and precaution," said Myatt. "Again, you can't predict the actions of other people, so it's always a good idea to be prepared."
We spoke to management at an area gun store who says sales on guns and ammunition surged over the weekend. In fact, the weekend sales equated to the total amount the store typically averages in one week.


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Music Gala Successful
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- Published on 04 September 2012
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
Organizers report the Mount Vernon Music Association's 2012 Gala was a success with about $16,000 raised to finance the 2012-13 concert season. That represents less than a third of the organizations operating budget, which depends largely on continued donations, sponsorships and concert ticket sales. This year's Gala featured the N'Awlins Gumbo Kings jazz band and attracted 102 people to the event. The next concert will be at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 9 featuring a six piece ensemble for "Heavenly String Sounds."


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Sir Alex Ferguson challenges Manchester United strikers to hit 25 goals each
Sir Alex Ferguson has called on Man Utd's Wayne Rooney, Robin van Persie and Javier Hernandez to bag 25 goals each.
Last Updated: 10/02/13 4:27pm
All three frontmen have been in scoring form this season, with Rooney grabbing five in his last five games for United in all competitions, taking his tally this season to 13.
Van Persie has netted 22 for the Red Devils while Hernandez has landed 14 despite being a less regular figure in Ferguson's first-team.
Ferguson believes all three of his hitmen can reach the 25-goal mark this term as United target silverware in the league and in Europe.
He told The Sun: "If I can get Van Persie, Hernandez and Rooney on 25 goals it will get us in the ball-park position for honours.
"The way they are going, the signs are good. Chicho has 14, Wayne has 13, Robin 22."
Leaders Manchester United host Everton in the Premier League on Sunday and Ferguson is wary of his side being pegged back in the manner they were last season, when the Toffees came from 4-2 down for a 4-4 draw.
The manager believes that result was decisive in United's title collapse and has warned his players they must avoid it happening again.
He said: "If I had to pick out one single match where we lost our title it would have to be that game.
"What I can say is that it won't happen again - or if it does, then put it this way, they will feel the full effect of the hairdryer."
Ferguson has recently fended off questions regarding any potential retirement plans but United legend Sir Bobby Charlton expects the long-serving boss to stay on beyond the end of the season, particularly if his side lift the title.
Charlton told the Daily Mirror: "Alex won't walk away if he wins the title this season, I don't think he has any plans to do that at all."
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THE mother of a 22-month-old child was "severely sleep deprived" and suffering from so-called "forgotten baby syndrome" when her son was found dead in her car in 2015, the Coroner has been told.
Romy Zunde's son Noah Zunde was found in a car outside a Kyneton childcare centre in February, 2015. The death is the subject of a coronial inquest.
Ms Zunde falsely believed she dropped her son at childcare that morning.
She returned in the afternoon to collect him, not realising he had been in the back seat the entire time, according to a medical expert's report given to the Victorian Coroners Court.
The report stated that in the week leading up to the death, Ms Zunde hadn't been able to sleep well due to suspected gastroenteritis. Initially she was unwell with vomiting and nausea and later her daughter fell sick too.
The night before the death, Noah was uncomfortable due to teething and slept in his parents bed, meaning Ms Zunde was virtually unable to sleep, according to police statements by Ms Zunde's partner, Andrew Krespanis.
On the morning of the death, Thursday February 19, Ms Zunde had to disrupt her usual morning routine to drop off a misplaced myki card to her partner at Kyneton train station so he could get to work, the report said.
Mr Kespanis described Ms Zunde as "considerably distressed" from the disruption and the possibility of her daughter being late for school.
Ms Zunde traveled to Tylden Primary School for the school drop off and then instead of taking her son Noah to Bambini Child Care Services, she traveled home and commenced doing chores, the report said.
In her statement Ms Zunde said the childcare was "very close to ours, a left turn directly opposite the right turn to our house. I can only assume I automatically made a right turn instead of left".
Ms Zunde also didn't have the usual memory "cues" that Noah was in the car, according to expert neuroscientist associate professor Matthew Mundy, including the fact the baby seat was not visible from the driver's seat.
"Without a visual cue to the presence of Noah, it is less likely that Romy Zunde would have been reminded of his presence after a failure in short term memory of driving home instead of to Bambini daycare," the report said.
"Noah must have fallen asleep on the way.… he was probably asleep in the car which is something he hardly ever did," Ms Zunde stated in her interview with police.
"This seems important, since he would normally be making some kind of noise during the journey. Again, these observations would also suggest a lack of external 'cues' to prompt the maintenance of Romy's short-term memory".
"Ms Zunde had suffered several days of acute sleep deprivation," Mundy submitted.
"She was overwhelmed with confusion and thought about several alternatives where she could have left Noah."
Associate Professor Mundy said Zunde's exhaustion had affected her long term, short term and habitual memory and led her to believe she had dropped Noah at the daycare centre close to their home.
The sleep deprivation was partly due to suspected gastroentritis of Zunde and her primary school age daughter, along with Noah's teething discomfort.
Father Andrew Krespanis told police he and Ms Zunde resorted to having Noah in their bed, which was very uncomfortable for her and resulted in her getting "much if any sleep".
"Noah had a really - almost unprecedented night of not sleeping" Ms Zunde told police adding she "needed help" due to her fatigue but could not ask for it.
The report also found that Ms Zunde said to a woman at her daughter's primary school that morning that it had been a "hellish" week. The witness said Ms Zunde was "very fatigued" and "probably overwhelmed".
Sleep is required for memories to be consolidated so the deprivation would have decreased the likelihood that Ms Zunde remembered her child was in the car, the report said.
"Cognitive performance and short-term memory integrity are reduced following sleep deprivation."
Mundy also stated that a recent change to the childcare routine adding an extra day meant Ms Zunde's habitual memory took over and led to an error.
Ms Zunde told police she had been on "auto pilot" during the trip from her daughter's school that afternoon.
She said "the change in routine...the extra care on Thursday and (her daughter) starting school...Over the school holidays (her daughter) and Noah doing childcare days together...dropping them off together," added to her belief she had dropped Noah at daycare.
"In my opinion, it is possible that due to the recently changed routine for the destination of a Thursday drive (which would otherwise have been to the family home), and the competing and confusing information from the other items held in long term memory (arrangements for Fridays, arrangements for previous weeks etc.), there was a potential for error introduced into the day's travel," it said.
Mundy submitted that Ms Zunde's memory may have been affected by stressful situations including a recent dog attack on the family's pet pigs as well having to retrieve a forgotten Myki pass that morning so her partner could travel to work.
The inquest will be heard in the Coroners Court on Wednesday.


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The Blue Ridge Humane Society will be offering cat adoptions at matinee performances of "Cats" at the Playhouse Downtown.
For the next few weeks, "Cats" will not only prowl the stage at the Flat Rock Playhouse, they'll be in the parking lot of the Playhouse Downtown.
The Broadway hit "Cats" premieres tonight at the Playhouse Downtown at 125 S. Main St., and for nine of the shows, Blue Ridge Humane Society will be holding cat adoptions in the parking lot adjacent to the venue.
The Humane Society will be offering adoptions from 3:30 to 5 p.m. at the "Catinees" – matinee performances scheduled for this Thursday and Saturday, Sept. 12, 14, 19, 26 and 28, and Oct. 3 and 5.
"The Blue Ridge Humane Society is thrilled to have another opportunity to showcase our animals through the generosity of the Flat Rock Playhouse," Lutrelle O'Cain, director of the Blue Ridge Humane Society, stated in a news release. "We have many beautiful cats and kittens waiting to find their special someone. Flat Rock Playhouse has been extremely helpful to us in providing a venue at the Rock and now downtown with the production of 'Cats.' Like the cats in the musical, our shelter is full of animals looking for a second chance."
The partnership is a natural fit, said playhouse Managing Director Hillary Hart.
"We are so thrilled to have the opportunity to deepen our relationship with our fellow nonprofit, the Blue Ridge Humane Society," said Hillary Hart, managing director of Flat Rock Playhouse. "They are such wonderful community partners and we simply could not pass up this natural fit. We hope that our audiences will leave Playhouse Downtown uplifted by the story and music of 'Cats' and they will then take the opportunity to walk next door and consider adopting a real one."
Since "Cats" first opened on the West End stage in 1981, it has grossed more than $1 billion. The plot is based on T.S Eliot's "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats," and the award-winning music was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. "Cats" is the second longest-running show in Broadway history.
Performances will be Wednesday-Saturday at 8 p.m. with matinees at 2 p.m. on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. All tickets are $40 and can be purchased by calling the Playhouse box office at 828-693-0731 or online at www.flatrockplayhouse.org.


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By RICK METHOT
Ah, opening day of trout season.
It's a rite of spring.Reconnecting with nature and the musky high of manly-man camaraderie makes it a day of anticipation, especially giving a nod to life's growing column of yesterdays.
What could be a more idyllic picture than a man sallying forth to do battle with wily critters in hopes of proudly carting home dinner?
The great provider he is, ignoring the fiscal facts that all the money he spent on gear, licenses, gas, lodging, food and drink said trout fillets probably cost the household budget about 20 bucks a pound.
Trout season opens this Saturday (April 6) in New Jersey, started in 18 Pennsylvania counties — including Bucks — this past Saturday, and will open Monday in New York, appropriately April Fool's Day.
And fools rushed in one opener on the fabled Beaverkill while ice chunks the size of Volkswagens bobbed down the stream and jammed up at Junction Pool.
But we were there for tradition's sake. Opening day in Roscoe, N.Y. (Trout Town, USA) was a big deal, covered by the outdoor writers from all three New York City daily papers. A photographer was whisked in by helicopter to shoot the festivities.
Meanwhile, we froze our fannies off, didn't catch diddly and were three-deep at the bar at the Antrim Lodge by 10 a.m.
Trouble with a fishing trip, as my uncle the doctor used to say, is "that some damn fool always wants to go fishing."
They called the Antrim bar, "Mahogany Ridge." More deer were shot there and bigger trout netted than any other place in the Catskills.
Up on the Flatbrook years ago we decided to play princes of men — we three Jarhead cronies — and take our kids out for an opening day adventure. Tears of joy flowed from grateful wives.
It rained with ferocious intensity, the steam gushing and roaring over its banks until normally still pools churned the color of a chocolate milkshake.
Say, kids, how do you feel about cheeseburgers and soda?
The now defunct Layton Hotel was packed with soaked anglers seeking shelter, and a few shooters, from the storm.
Fishing is supposed to be a contemplative endeavor, sitting on the shoreline watching a bobber in the little lake for any signs a fish may be interested in your offering. I often take a book and indulge in a pipe packed with good Virginia burley.
But opening day, before the rules made it possible to fish for trout year-round in certain waters, used to be about as contemplative as a cross between the Sacking of Rome and the Charge of the Light Brigade.
It's still possible to have some nitwit sling a spinner across your line, splash into a favorite pool in front of you, or come armed with tackle that could whip a hammerhead shark into submission, rather than a tiny trout wand to match the quarry at hand.
Things seem to have calmed down in these years of liberal seasons and opening day has a lot do to with a family outing…dads and their kids, old-timers taking their grandchildren out for some time together, that will no doubt not be forgotten by either generation.
I have pictures I fondly gaze at in melancholy moments of me and my son and daughter with our silly grins and hand-held just-caught fish from the Musky, Round Valley and our little Pennsylvania lake.
Memories are made of this.
And this too: Slip-sliding down a mud-slickened bank of a New Jersey stream on an opening day about 15 years ago I bounced off trees and rocks and wound up with a torn rotator cuff.
I never had surgery and the shoulder bothers me in cold and raw weather to this day.
Why the slip and fall?
We had camped at water's edge and fired up the grill long before the 8 a.m. starting time.
For someone who normally has a piece of toast or bowl of Cheerios for breakfast, consider that rashers of bacon were sizzling, sliced potatoes and onions were frying, biscuits were rising in a Dutch Oven and Bloody Marys were being mixed by the pitcher.
It was a normal opening day.
Thus, with enough greasy food to gag a Cape Buffalo in my belly, the demon drink blurring my vision and reflexes, I wobbled forth to make my first cast — and nearly ended up in one.
The brain of a trout is about as big as a pea; the average fisherman's? Think cantaloupe.
Pea-brain usually wins.
Have fun Saturday, but be careful out there.
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Patiala is a city in Punjab province in India.
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By Bus : from Delhi If you are coming from Delhi it is 260 kms distance, then you can find Direct buses from ISBT after every hour. There are deluxe buses also available charges rs. 240 per head. The bus journey from Delhi take 6 hrs. One can also take taxi, but charges will be really high in tune of 3500-4500.
By Bus from Chandigarh 65 kms There are regular buses from Chandigarh every hour direct to Patiala.
By train Although there is a railway station at Patiala but it is not very well connected by Rail because it doesnot falls on main line.
However there is "Dadar Amritsar express" coming from Mumbai and few intercity trains.
The nearest well connected Railway station is Ambala ( UMB). There are many trains coming from all parts of India upto Ambala. From Ambala you can hire a taxi or come by bus. Distance is 60 kms. Taxi may charge around 800 to 1000 rupees.
Manu lassi
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Okay, most lifelong DAYS fans could hardly imagine Maggie Horton with anyone except Mickey. And it would be hard to swallow Victor in a mature, rational, and healthy relationship with anyone. But this is why I argue that the pairing of Maggie and Victor makes perfect sense.
What they have going for them:
-They both have a mutual commitment to family. Maggie may not have her daughters around, but she is fiercely committed to her "surrogate" daughter Melanie, and back in the day was a loving protective mother to Melissa, Sara, and Janice. Victor too does everything in his power to love and look after his sons Bo and Philip, as well as his "surrogate" son Daniel. They may differ on the means to accomplish protecting their loved ones, but their end goals are the same.
-They have both lost significant loves. Maggie knows what it is to love and lose her husband Mickey. Many would argue that Caroline is Victor's true and only love. However, it seems that ship has sailed given that they blew their chance to get together while stranded in Melaswen back in 2004, and have barely spoken two words to each other since Shawn's death in 2008. Both have experienced love, loss, and are ready to try again with a blank slate.
-The have strong ties in Salem. For 25 years we have seen these two in the same scenes at various weddings, funerals, court trials, restaurants. They have always run in the same circles, but have rarely spoken directly to each other. Now they are finally starting to take notice of one another, which speaks volumes about the potential of finding love and affection unexpectedly later in our own lives.
What they're up against:
-Their internal differences. Those same traits that balance them out can be qualities that tear them apart. Victor's moral ambiguity and Maggie's clear sense of right-and-wrong could potentially become dividers.
-Family disapproval. Like most viewers, Maggie's loved ones will have a very hard time with her dating a man who has been known to commit various crimes in his time, including drug dealing. And then there's that pesky issue of how Victor tried to have Melissa killed in the summer of 1985 when he mistakenly thought she had incriminating evidence against him and his drug cartel.
-Vivian Alamain. You think the woman who buried Carly alive and stole Kate's embryo is going to stand for Maggie getting in the way of her marrying Victor? Hardly! But what Vivian doesn't realize is that Maggie is much tougher, stubborn, and resilient than any of her former foes. She may appear genteel, but Maggie has never backed down from an argument or fight with anyone.
Regardless of how this plays out, this coupling is a guaranteed success. You pair two beloved characters, with decades of history, who are complete opposites in some ways, yet have several mutual goals in common, and there you have it. I think "Magtor" may be on their way to becoming Salem's newest and most compelling supercouple of the 21st century. What do you think?
Damon L. Jacobs is a Licensed Marriage Family Therapist seeing individuals and couples in New York City at Mental Health Counseling & Marriage And Family Therapy Of New York. He is also the author of "Absolutely Should-less: The Secret to Living the Stress-Free Life You Deserve.


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The day two show of the Agathon Kennel Club had Patricia Hess and a final of the Gordon Setter, GCH CH Firethorn & Sandpiper Easy On The Eyes, the Otterhound, CH Lonestar's Prime Choice, the Samoyed, GCH CH Stolichnaya, the Border Terrier, GCH CH Meadowlake Overnight Celebrity, the Yorkshire Terrier, GCH CH Stratford's Diamond Jim, the Chinese Shar-Pei, GCH CH Chaoyang Take It To The Limit, and the Briard, CH Honeycreek's Chantilly Lace. Best went to the Yorkie, Jimmie. It's the first for Jimmie, bred and owned by Barbara Scott. Congratulations to Barbara and handler Diane Ehricht.


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Bulldogs Finish Fifth In Team Point Standings
PENNSAUKEN, N.J. – Two Yale crews, the varsity eight and varsity four, earned silver medals at the Ivy League Women's Rowing Championships on Sunday on the Cooper River.
The Bulldogs finished fifth overall with 54 points, one behind fourth-place Cornell. Princeton won the team point trophy with 81 points. The Tigers also earned the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Championship by virtue of their victory in the varsity eight grand final.
Yale, ranked ninth in the nation, would seem to be in good position to earn an at large berth when the 22-team field is announced on Tuesday at 5 p.m.
"I'm cautiously optimistic," said Yale head coach Will Porter. "I certainly believe the [Ivy League] is deserving of five bids. There was some great, intense racing today."
After falling behind Princeton early, the varsity eight seemed poised to challenge the top-seeded Tigers by the midway point of the grand final. Yale was within half a boat length, but Princeton pulled away down the stretch to win by nearly seven seconds. The Tigers finished in 6:29.961, while the Bulldogs crossed the line in 6:36.859.
Yale earned its first varsity eight medal at the Ivy League Championships since 2010.
"We really found speed late in the season and came on hard," Porter said. "There is more push that can happen and we'll work to find it over the next two weeks."
Princeton had beaten Yale by nearly nine seconds in a dual-race on Apr. 20. Porter shuffled his lineup following that race, moving senior Eliza Hastings to the stroke. The Bulldogs then won their final three races of the regular season.
"Eliza was so strong as a leader," Porter said.
The varsity four grand final turned into a two-team race between Yale and Brown. The Bulldogs, who were seeded fourth, led by a little less than a second with 500 meters left, but Brown came from behind to win by nearly four seconds. The Bears finished in 7:39.511, while Yale came in at 7:43.215. Princeton was a distant third in 7:48.427.
"The four did a great job," Porter said. "They exceeded their seeding and really raced hard. I couldn't be more proud of them.
Yale's second varsity had a disappointing performance in the morning heat, finishing fourth sending it to the petite final. The Bulldogs cruised to a nearly 28-second victory to finish seventh overall. Yale's time of 6:59.413 would have been fast enough to place sixth in the grand final.
"Our second varsity had a hiccup in the heat," Porter said. "That is difficult to overcome at this level in such a closely matched field. They were able to rebound and post a respectable time in the petite final."
In the third varsity eight grand final, the Bulldogs placed fifth with a time of 7:41.409. Princeton won in 7:09.964.
Yale's second varsity four won the petite final, defeating Penn 8:20.646 to 8:42.408.
Yale Boatings
Varsity Eight: 1. Colleen Maher, 2. Maddie Lips, 3. Natalie King, 4. Kim Szokol, 5. Nina Demmerle, 6. Claire Tolson, 7. Abbie Young, 8. Eliza Hastings, coxswain: Kristen Brownlee
Second Varsity Eight: 1. Martha Cosgrove, 2. Kristina Wagner, 3. Kristjana Gudmundsson, 4. Abby Loucks,, 5. Emily Tormey, 6. Jen Stockwood, 7. Elizabeth Vincent, 8. Madeline Dinse, coxswain: Christine Devlin
Varsity Four: 1. Brit Sharon, 2. Kara Freeman, 3. Mieke Scherpbier, 4. Amina Edwards, coxswain: Margaret Ayers
Second Varsity Four: 1. Natalie Lapides, 2. Juliet Caragianis, 3. Regan Considine, 4. Mimi Reichenbach, coxswain: Laura Grimbergen
Third Varsity Eight: 1. Sabrina Malak, 2. Jane Kozey, 3. Emily Diana, 4. Sarah Weil, 5. Kendall Chapin, 6. Mary Farner, 7. Emma Hammarlund, 8. Christine Tsai,coxswain: Emily Cline
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YES linux 2.2.3 is a distribution based of RedHat 9.0 but soon to be Knoppix based. It includes a minimal yet powerful server suite. Artie did a great job and is currently working on version 3.0 which will be remastered knoppix but isn't due out for a while.
Either on the coverdisks or a reveiw in the magizine would be a great surprise to Artie who has spent a fair bit of time on this great project.
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L.L. Beijing, Wearing Her Diamonds & Ashley Does Dudes
Orient Express: LL Bean will open shop in China this month. Beijing will receive the first of four retail locations, but unfortunately missed the Michael Phelps' Mom Endorsement train. [DNR]
English Rain: A Continuous Lean's Michael Williams offers a decidedly British fall look, from bags to bumbershoots. The whole lot exceeds $5,000, which is great for aesthetic but painful if you're on this side of the exchange rate. [A Continuous Lean]
Tough Tooth: Liev Schrieber wears his wife's jewelry and doesn't care what you think. At least it's a gold and diamond shark tooth. [W]
Draped in Olsen: Stock market meltdown, Palintology and menswear by Ashley Olsen. Isn't that a Nostradamus prediction? [The Cut]