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Cabrera's 2-run homer lifts Royals over White Sox 5-4
CHICAGO (AP) — Melky Cabrera showed the Chicago White Sox what they are missing.
Cabrera hit a go-ahead, two-run homer against his former team in the eighth inning, and the Kansas City Royals beat the White Sox 5-4 Saturday night to stop a five-game losing streak.
Cabrera, acquired from the White Sox on July 30, homered with one out off Aaron Bummer (1-3) and drove in Lorenzo Cain, who led off the inning with a walk against Chris Beck. Cabrera has an eight-game hitting streak.
"These kind of wins are wins that help you stop the bleeding," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "I was sitting there thinking about this group. What do you tell them? They're not pressing. They're competing their tails off. All you can tell them is, 'Hang in there, keep battling, it is going to get better.' And a win like this does a lot for their spirits."
Cabrera fell behind 1-2 in the count and homered on the ninth pitch, his third home run since the trade and 16th this season. He extended his hitting streak to eight games.
"I am grateful to Ned for playing me every day," Cabrera said through a translator.
Scott Alexander (3-3) won after allowing a two-run, two-out single in the seventh to Leury Garcia that put Chicago ahead 4-3.
Joakim Soria pitched a perfect eighth, and Kelvin Herrera worked around a walk in a hitless-but-eventful ninth for his 25th save in 28 chances.
After pinch-runner Tyler Saladino stole second, third baseman Mike Moustakas made a diving stop on Adam Engel's grounder and threw to first for the final out, ending Chicago's four-game winning streak.
"I was trying to keep in the infield to make sure a run doesn't score but I got a pretty good read on the hop so I was able to make a play on it," Moustakas said. "We know how good we can be and we know we weren't playing good baseball."
White Sox starter James Shields struck out a season-high eight in six innings, allowing three runs and seven hits.
Jose Abreu hit a pair of solo home runs against Ian Kennedy, who gave up three runs and seven hits in 6 1/3 innings. Abreu became the first White Sox player to reach 20 homers in each of his first four seasons.
"Good pitches, bad pitches, he hits them," Kennedy said.
Nicky Delmonico singled in the second, becoming the first player to reach base in his first 11 games with the White Sox. He is batting .366 (15 for 41) and has a nine-game hitting streak.
Royals: C Salvador Perez (strained right intercostal muscle) threw from 120 feet for about 10 minutes before the game and could hit off a tee next week. The Royals have lost six of seven since he got hurt and are 4-12 when he doesn't start.
White Sox: 3B Matt Davidson (bruised wrist) may not be ready to be activated from the 10-day DL when he becomes eligible Tuesday, according to manager Rick Renteria said.
Jason Vargas (13-6) starts for the Royals on Sunday against fellow left-hander Derek Holland (6-11) in the finale of the three-game series. Vargas is 1-3 with a 6.94 ERA since the All-Star break. Holland survived seven walks against Houston on Tuesday for his first win since June 13.
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The War of 1812 tour is now available on the Kentucky Historical Society's Explore KY History app. If you haven't downloaded this thing, let me once again recommend it to you. Most Americans probably associate the War of 1812 with the Chesapeake or the Gulf of Mexico, but Kentucky suffered more casualties in that conflict than all the other states combined.
One of the most notable Kentucky vets was Isaac Shelby, who became the state's first governor in 1792 and then ran for the same post twenty years later. Shelby didn't throw his hat into the ring until less than a month before the 1812 gubernatorial election, and he was more than sixty years old.
He won handily anyway, partly because he'd already made a name for himself during the Rev War and Kentuckians were gearing up for another confrontation with England. (Shelby had led a regiment at King's Mountain; in fact, he was one of the primary architects of the expedition that defeated Ferguson's Tories.) In the summer of 1813 he took the field himself at the head of 3,500 volunteers who fought at the Battle of the Thames, thus seeing action in both of America's wars with Britain.

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Apple might be readying its largest iPhones ever. Regardless of how you feel about that, it could mean one unequivocally crappy thing for all of us: The extinction of great, casual one-handed games.
The usual trickle of pre-release rumors suggests the iPhone 6 could come in two sizes: 4.7 inches and 5.5 inches. Enlarging the form factor ostensibly would help Apple better compete with already-huge Android handsets. But it also would jeopardize the iPhone's promise of comfortable one-handed use—and that's where the problem arrives with respect to games. If designers can't be sure we can grasp our phones with one hand, with our thumbs free to tap most of the screen, will they still spend their time making games that demand these conditions? If one-handed phones die out, why wouldn't we assume one-handed games will follow?
Bennett Foddy, the gamemaker behind the Flash sensation QWOP and its iPhone incarnation, recently sparked the discussion on Twitter. A mega-iPhone would be a "massive mistake" on Apple's part, he wrote. "I don't really care as a consumer, mind you. But it matters to me as an iOS game developer, where it's just going to be a design nightmare."
How Fragmentation Affects Game Design
On one hand, the problem bigger iPhones pose to well-crafted games is simply one of fragmentation. It's something that's been a mounting challenge to exacting designers and developers since the initial iPhone. "At the most basic level, good game design is concerned with the micro details of interactions," Foddy explains. "How does it feel if I put this button 1.2 inches from the edge of the screen instead of 1.1? Does it feel nice and natural to swipe my finger in this particular arc?"
In the early days of smartphones, when there was a single touchscreen form factor to develop for, it was easy to work out those tiny details. Today, Foddy says, you just can't achieve that level of tactile fine-tuning. To make money, designers must put their games on as many screens as possible. As a result, many settle for making the experience "adequate" on devices large and small, Android and iOS. Effectively splitting the iPhone market into three sizes (including legacy 4-inchers) would only add to this problem.
But larger iPhones could mean an even more significant shift in the mobile games landscape. While you can find one-handed games for your gigantic Android phone, the majority of truly novel, thoughtfully designed portrait-orientation games arrive at least initially and often exclusively on the iPhone. Think Threes, Ridiculous Fishing, Letterpress, Device 6. These are the types of games most at risk amidst the great smartphone embiggening.
The Gaming Use-Case That's at Risk
It helps to remember that smartphones gave rise to a fundamentally new type of game, making way for the titles that have distracted us from our line-waiting miseries for the past several years. "Knowing that someone can touch most of the screen with one hand, you can design apps or games that live in the busiest parts of a person's life," Foddy says. "On the train, or at the bank, I can play *Flappy Bird *or Threes or Letterpress, but I can't play a 3-D shooter."
But if the next generation of iPhones are indeed 4.7 inches and 5.5 inches diagonally across, as has been rumored, it would mean that a significant number of iPhone users won't be able to comfortably touch the whole screen with one hand. It makes those "busiest part of your life" games a much trickier proposition—and potentially bad business. "If I make an app in portrait orientation, I have to assume half my customers will be holding it with two hands," Foddy says. And if he wanted to make a game explicitly designed for one hand, "I basically have to give away a large portion of the market."
Asher Vollmer, co-creator of the hit portrait-orientation numbers puzzler Threes, thinks Foddy's concerns are legitimate. "One of the biggest complaints I get on Threes is that the retry button is too far away," he says. "It's in the top left of the screen. I can just barely get away with this because you don't restart games too often, but if I released a game that required area-specific touch controls I would be in a lot of trouble with newer, gigantic phones."
Is Awkward Gaming Inevitable?
Vollmer does point out that portrait games like Threes and* Temple Run *might ultimately be safe because their main gameplay controls work anywhere on the screen. But in a mondo-phone future, games with area-specific controls like Cut the Rope will have a more difficult route ahead. It's possible games will adapt, moving their controls to a thumb-friendly interaction zone in the bottom-right (or bottom-left) corner of the screen, but that isn't the most elegant use of a huge touchscreen, nor will it work with every type of title. (Plus, the problem with larger displays isn't just thumb-reach; it's that one-handed operation of any sort becomes fraught at a certain size. You get people pinching the side with their palms, accidentally triggering taps on the screen, or else grasping them two-fisted like a Game Boy. All this uncertainty adds challenge for game designers.)
While a wave of bigger iPhones could be a death knell for a certain type of one-handed, casual game, there's evidence that these sorts of games are already on the way out. Just look at the bestseller charts for Android Play and the iOS App Store. As of writing, there was exactly one portrait-mode game to be found among the top twenty bestsellers on both stores. It's a glossy update of Tetris for the iPhone, an old game that just happens to have lived in a long, tall rectangle all its life. By comparison, App Store records for the same week in 2010 show that a full half of the top-selling paid games for the iPhone were portrait-orientation.
So why the dearth of popular portrait titles on the charts today? It might be that we're just increasingly coming to think of smartphones as sideways, two-handed gaming devices. As phones have become more powerful, games have become more cinematic, and cinema always looks better in widescreen. Plus, we now have other portrait-mode diversions like Twitter and Instagram to fill those idle moments in line and on the subway. The addicting pleasure of "pull-to-refresh" even lends some of those apps a game-like element of their own.
Looking at those App Store charts, Foddy can't help but see evidence that mobile gaming has turned on its side. "The days of DoodleJump and SpellTower and Letterpress are gone," he says. "Everything is in two-handed landscape mode, a mode for people who are sitting down or lying in bed, and devoting all their attention and manual capability to the game." In other words: Bigger, better, brighter phones have lead us to bigger, better brighter games.
The demise of the one-handed game becomes fascinating when you take this slightly longer view. For a brief spell, the advent of a touchscreen device that fit comfortably in one hand gave birth to an entirely new type of diversion. These were tiny things, just as easy to put down as they were to pick up. We didn't have to carve out time to play them; they lived in nooks and crannies of down time during our day. But with the rise of less graspable phones and the abundance of time-wasters we now have for them, the conditions that allowed for those games to exist may well be evaporating.


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In early 2007, when Barack Obama launched his presidential campaign - certainly a moment in political history that still seems fresh - there was no Twitter or iPhone and Facebook was just starting to gain notice.
In just six years - a tiny forward movement in the timeline of the republic - social media has transformed our culture and has absolutely revolutionized our politics.
Elected officials and candidates - at all levels - who are not on Facebook are labeled dinosaurs. In Washington, members of Congress compete daily on Twitter over who can gain the most retweets and followers. Political reporters inside The Beltway spend every waking moment following Twitter and chasing tidbits of information garnered from a single tweet from a colleague or reliable source.
Today, a journalism scoop of two minutes is considered a coup. An official who waits more than an hour to respond to criticism is branded as out of the loop. A political gaffe can gain nationwide attention and thousands of Twitter responses in the time it takes to make one phone call.
Rumors become supposed facts within hours because 'it was on the Internet.' Speculation becomes astute analysis because the issue raised by a neophyte included a link to a website. Certain bloggers become equated intellectually with veteran, sage newspaper columnists because, well, they preach to their online choir.
Six years ago, many politicians were so skeptical of electronic communication that they did not have email addresses or websites. Today, a state-of-the-art web page with a rotating photo gallery and numerous high-tech links is common even for a city council candidate.
Numerous tea party groups, in particular, have done an admirable job of using email blasts and websites to keep their faithful informed, active and energized.
On a much larger scale, Twitter and Facebook and YouTube force elected officials to act fast when potentially bad news hits, even if they are not sure of the accuracy of the reports. They can get caught up in long Facebook threads filled with talking points and vitriol expressed by the far left or the far right.
As a result, many pols use Facebook largely to post photos of baby-kissing, ribbon cuttings and parades. And it's fascinating how so many political pros - pollsters, advisers, PR experts, campaign managers - avoid weighing in at all on FB. One veteran political consultant told me that he'd rather use Facebook to keep tabs on his non-political interests - everything from hobbies to the latest news from former high school classmates - than engage in the war of words on FB that often degenerates into name-calling.
That's where the divide between Facebook and Twitter commences.
Facebook is viewed as a state/local forum, a strange mix of political tidbits and serious discussion, extremist rants and memes, self-promotion and conspiracy theories. At the same time, FB is a home for fluff such as photos of kids and kittens, inspirational sayings, and posts that simply declare, 'Hey, I'm having lunch at the Main Street Bistro.'
Twitter, despite the endless criticisms of its 140-character limit, is for news alerts and displays of so-called wit and wisdom by major players in the world of politics. It's fast-moving, it's snarky, and it's largely for an audience that wants the latest news and commentary quickly - before the waitress brings the check. Heck, the world of Twitter, which has become a digital fire hose of information, even has its own 2-hour daily political show on satellite radio that recommends 'follows' and hashtags and the do's and don'ts of sending tweets.
The outcome is such that Twitter is a Washington world - local, county and state politicians largely shy away.
In the ongoing Twitter contest by political movers and shakers to see who can be the most clever and cynical, critics say that it's time to lose the attitude. The wit displayed by newspaper columnists for decades may be morphing into shallow snarkiness.
Peter Hamby, CNN's online guru, recently compared social media to the days when 'the boys on the bus' - a group of 'sainted' reporters from the big city papers - traveled the campaign trail with a presidential candidate in intimate surroundings and decided, on a daily basis, what the American electorate should know about this potential resident of the White House.
Today, the rapid-fire coverage of politics, with input from every direction, without time for reflection, has handcuffed countless elected officials.
'This filter-free new ecosystem,' Hamby writes, 'is having a profound impact on how campaign strategists are deciding to present their candidates to the media and to voters. The speed and shallow nature of today's political journalism has rattled elected officials, candidates and their advisers in both parties, from the smallest city hall on up to the top levels of the White House.'
In presidential politics, the good news is that the Boys on the Bus have been replaced by a diverse group of boys and girls on the plane from a wide array of news outlets. The bad news is that they're stuck in the campaign bubble and still expected to feed the beast, to spit out every little tidbit of information all day long.
Many political writers, including Hamby, cherish social media's ability to reach and involve audiences. But as one veteran said, 'reporters are so busy looking after the bells and whistles that they need to on social media that they are not working as finders of fact, asking the tough questions and doing the analysis.'
Knowing that video of some kind is recording at every moment on the campaign trail and could be spread nationwide in minutes, our candidates - for president, for governor, for Congress - have become even more cautious and robotic. And why not?
When a grateful Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey was caught on video last year giving a high-five to President Obama as they played a carnival game on the Jersey boardwalk, that image quickly and preposterously led conservatives across the nation to label Christie a 'liberal Republican.'
Those are the once-fleeting moments in time that led Mitt Romney in 2012 to keep his distance from the press - a move that backfired. Hamby believes that social media has forever changed how political decision-makers will engage in campaign tactics. The 24-hour cable news cycle has become the 24-second digital news whirlwind.
The speed of Facebook and Twitter in disseminating nuggets of news and opinion is a technological marvel. But I keep remembering that, as children, we were told not to talk with our mouth full.
Maybe we all need to slow down and digest some things about politics and policy that offer depth and context - and won't be old news in the next 20 minutes.


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Reporter's Notebook: Ali Ismail Abbas, Iraqi Boy Hit by American Missile 10 Years Later
The news of his marriage – brought back a flood of memories and emotions.
Dec. 29, 2012 -- The British tabloid the Sun has reported that a man named Ali Ismail Abbas was married last month. I hadn't heard or read that name in many years and seeing it again -- and especially the news of his marriage -- brought back a flood of memories and emotions.
The first and last time I saw Ali Abbas was in 2003. He was 12 years old lying naked on a medical examination table at a hospital in Kuwait City. His torso was charred black in some places. Other patches were red and raw. He had no arms, just a pair of stumps protruding from each small shoulder. He was shrieking in agony as doctors huddled over him and began working on him. I remember it vividly. It was a piercing, horrible sound that rang in my head long after we had left the hospital.
Ten years ago, Ali Abbas was famous in this country. He was famous because a New Yorker magazine reporter, Jon Lee Anderson, wrote about him, and a photograph of Ali in his hospital bed in Baghdad appeared alongside the story. Anderson had come across Ali by chance during a visit to the hospital in the spring of 2003, shortly after the war that toppled Saddam Hussein. Anderson had asked to see the hospital's worst-case and doctors took him to Ali, a then-12-year-old boy whose home had been hit by an American missile. His father, mother, brother and 11 other relatives had been killed. A neighbor found Ali in the rubble, improbably still alive.
"His face was like an old Italian Renaissance painting," Anderson later recalled. "He had a biblical countenance. It was the absolute face of innocence. And it seemed absolutely impossible that two arms could just be roasted and the rest of the body intact."
He expected Ali to die, The Iraqi doctors expected him to die. But he didn't die. And when Anderson's poignant article and that photograph appeared in the New Yorker, Ali Abbas became a celebrity, and his celebrity brought him to the attention of the U.S, military, which then arranged to have him taken by one of its helicopters to Kuwait where he could receive better medical care.
I was in Kuwait, having just returned from a month on assignment on the U.S. Abraham Lincoln from which bombing missions had been launched during the war. The rest of the ABC News team was still scattered all around the region, covering the aftermath of the war. I would be going home soon, but in the meantime we learned that this boy, the famous Ali Abbas, was coming to Kuwait so we gathered a team: me, producer Gitika Ahuja, a cameraman and sound person, and raced to the hospital to be there when he arrived. By the time, the ambulance bearing Ali arrived, there were dozens of journalists there. When the ambulance pulled up in front of the emergency room, they – we – surrounded the vehicle. The attendants got out and went to the rear to bring the boy out.
But the crush of photographers was so great, for a while they could not open enough space to open the doors. They pleaded for the photographers to back up, but no one would. No one wanted to miss "the money shot," as they call it.
Eventually, the attendants' insistent pleadings succeeded. The photographers cleared enough space for them to open the rear doors, and out came the stretcher bearing a dazed little boy screaming in pain as the flash of dozens of cameras exploded. The attendants hustled him through the throng of journalists and into the hospital.
Since no one stopped us, we trailed them down a hallway and right up the open door of the examination room. We watched and continued to videotape as the doctors began working on Ali. All the while, there was that horrible shrieking. It seemed impossible that an injured little child could make so loud a sound.
After some time, we were forced to retreat to the waiting room. As I recall, the doctors came out after some minutes and told us about Ali's condition and how he would get excellent care and would survive.
As we broke up, I remember another journalist, an American, muttering: "That's America. We blow you up and then we patch you up."
Back at the work space, we edited the story and then fed it via satellite to New York. A producer in New York said we should not have put in the sound of Ali's screaming, which led to an argument. Gitika and I said that people – our viewers – shouldn't be protected; that they needed to know what happens in war. People get killed. People get hurt. Children get their arms blown off. The producer disagreed. He said it was too graphic, too upsetting. That's exactly the point, we argued back. People should be upset. The result was a compromise of sorts. The story ran with Ali's screams, but muted.
The image of this screaming boy with no arms stayed with me. For a while, I followed his story back in the United States. Someone in Canada offered to sponsor him to come there for treatment.
If he came there, I thought I could do a story about it and I spoke to a man. He seemed nice and was eager to help but for some reason it never happened. Ali remained in Kuwait for a while, and then one day I got an email from one of our Kuwaiti "fixers" that Ali had gone to England for further treatment, that he would be outfitted with artificial limbs.
And then, for years, I heard nothing further. Until I was emailed the Sun article with the headline:
"I didn't expect to live ... be loved and marry/Iconic face of the Iraqi War Ali Abbas on his emotional wedding to childhood sweetheart."
There was a photo of a young man with dark hair, in a suit, necktie slightly askew, looking into the lens with, well, no expression. His left arm hang loosely. No hand protruded from the cuff. Beside the young man with no expression is a pretty woman in a wedding dress holding a flower bouquet. The caption reads: " Newlyweds … Ali Abbas and his wife Ankam Hamza on their big day."
I stared at the photo for a long time. "This is Ali," I kept thinking. "He's a grown man." Then I read the article. It told how "the inspirational 21-year-old," now a resident of Britain, met Ankam during one of his regular visits to Iraq and they married there last November.
"I've definitely made the right choice," he is quoted saying. "She never lets me feel like I'm disabled. When I'm with her I just feel normal, like me."
Then I went on-line and found a video of an interview Time magazine had with Abbas in 2011. In heavily accented English, he recalls the bombing and, his time in the hospital in Baghdad. He says the pain he endured was so bad he wanted to die.
"I couldn't think of anything else apart from the pain I had," he says. "I had so much pain, I just wanted to be relieved. But, you know, God wanted me to live." It is remarkable how unangry he seems as he says this.
Abbas goes on to explain that he had declined the offer to go to Canada because the person who offered to bring him there would not or could also take his friend, Ahmed, another war-injured Iraqi he met in the Kuwaiti hospital. Ahmed ended up going to the U.K. with him and they remain close friends.
"I was always angry of what happened to us," he says. "I lost my family and what happened to me. Of course, I was angry. I don't see any reason why this happened. For me, it's like … a nightmare."
I wondered if he even remembered being carried out of the ambulance, through the crowd of reporters and into the hospital in Kuwait. Maybe it would be better if he didn't. Maybe the less of the nightmare he recalls, the better. What was important, it seemed to me now as I read about his new life, his marriage, his joy, as I peered at the image of this young man and remembered the howling boy on the hospital table, as I listened to him speak, is that his nightmare is over.


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The Supreme Court of Minnesota recently issued a disappointing ruling on the legal rights of organic farmers faced with pesticide drift from neighboring farms.
As we reported some months ago, Oluf and Debra Johnson went to the courts when they lost their organic certification (and their crops) due to pesticide drift. They were looking for compensation for these losses, as well as future protection from pesticides drifting onto their farm. An appeals court had ruled favorably on their case — so the Johnsons were hoping for good news from the Supreme Court. Instead, the ruling severely limits potential compensation, and threatens organic enforcement standards across the state.
While the Johnsons' case is not over yet, the state court handed them two major setbacks. First, the court ruled pesticide drift cannot be considered trespass because it is an "intangible" substance. Second, the justices found that organic produce contaminated with pesticide drift may still be considered organic.
Stone age science
By ruling against pesticide drift as a form of trespass, the Supreme Court missed a huge opportunity to provide a defensive tool for farmers and rural families who are effected by pesticides. It's often difficult to prove how specific instances of pesticide drift impact health or crop loss. With the concept of "trespass," the violation is the simple presence of pesticides, so you don't need to prove a particular impact to receive compensation.
Almost as upsetting is the justification used by the Supreme Court for this decision. They relied on an outdated form of legal reasoning that predates microscopic science to say, essentially, that because we can't see pesticide drift with the naked eye, it is "intangible" and can't be considered trespass. This reasoning seems particularly suspect given that the court cites in their decision tests conducted by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture documenting the presence of drift on the Johnsons' farm.
Eroding organic quality
Beyond the "trespass" issue, the Supreme Court also limited the state's authority to effectively regulate organic produce. This harms both consumers and organic farmers, since consumer confidence in certification programs is key to growing the market for organic produce.
EPA has an organic standard that disqualifies any produce with a specific chemical residue surpassing 5% of a set EPA limit. The Minnesota Supreme Court used this rule to say that any produce that passes the 5% test could continue to be certified organic, taking away discretion from certifiers to use other, more stringent standards when determining organic certification.
According to the Johnsons' lawyer, Arlo H. Vande Vegte,
There will be a bunch of organic farmers who will say, 'I have drift, but you can't decertify me.' Which means that there will be more and more pesticides in organic products.
While courts continue to move back and forth regarding trespass, policymakers should be stepping up. National rules should more carefully evaluate how newly proposed pesticides drift, and EPA should put stronger rules in place to control drift-prone pesticides that are already on the market.
At the state level, legislators can press for laws that better protect small farmers and rural families from pesticide drift. Such rules would go a long way toward helping farmers like Oluf and Debra Johnson, whose livelihood is very much at stake.
This is not fair for courts to do like this ,in this type of situation it is alarming that the organic farming should be given first priority and laws should be build such that even in pest drift the upland farmer should compensate the organic farmer because the basic behind organic farming is that we should not use pesticides.Any one will get laughter of court saying consider agricultural products which had effect of pesticides to consider them as organic products
Farmers may care their plants by putting an example of irvine signs to follow the rules. Somehow we can't identify the weather if its low/high pressure on how we protect the plants.


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Listing Date08/10/19
Year Built1981
AreaBeaver Creek
Lot Size0.04 Acres (1,742 SqFt)
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Property Description
Fabulous location and easy to get to the condo! Nicely upgraded kitchen with granite countertops, updated fireplace and bathrooms have updated tile floors and showers. Faces south to the pool and partial ski slope view. Trees out front to enhance privacy. Also is nicely furnished. Enjoy all the spectacular amenities that the Charter has to offer as well as the convenience of front desk. Great rentals!
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LaRoche homer lifts Nats over DBacks 5-4 in 11
WASHINGTON (AP) Washington Nationals manager Matt Williams said the last time he was part of three consecutive walk-off wins he was playing for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
This time the Diamondbacks were the ones being beaten.
Adam LaRoche hit a game-winning solo home run with two outs in the 11th inning to help the Nationals beat the Diamondbacks 5-4 Monday night for their seventh straight win.
It was the third walk-off win in as many days for NL-East leading Washington, the first two coming against the Pirates.
''They don't come around very often that's for sure,'' Williams said, ''but (we) just keep fighting.which is a great trait to have.''
LaRoche sent a 3-1 pitch from Will Harris (0-3) off the wall in the back of the Nationals bullpen and was mobbed by his teammates at home plate.
''I got every bit of it, I did,'' LaRoche said. Just a crazy few days. I don't know how we've gotten these walk off situations the last few days, but we have and have been able to grind back.''
It was LaRoche's first career walk-off homer.
''Nice to get my first one, it took me long enough,'' the 34-year-old said.
Winning pitcher Craig Stammen (3-4) pitched out of a bases-loaded, no outs jam in the top of the inning.
''We missed our opportunity, me striking out instead of putting the ball in play,'' said Didi Gregorius, who made the second out against Stammen.
Arizona tied it 4-4 when David Peralta led off the ninth with a solo homer off Tyler Clippard.
Washington trailed 3-2 when Denard Span doubled with one-out in the eighth against Brad Ziegler and Anthony Rendon followed with a triple to tie it. Jayson Werth then scored Rendon with a sacrifice fly.
Miguel Montero had three hits for Arizona, and rookie Ender Inciarte extended his hitting streak to 18 games.
Arizona had taken the lead in the top of the eighth.
Jake Lamb drew a lead-off walk off Jordan Zimmermann, and Gregorius sent a 3-2 fastball into the Nationals bullpen for his fifth home run.
Wilson Ramos had given Washington a 2-1 lead with a two-run homer off Arizona starter Vidal Nuno in the seventh.
Nuno, winless in eight starts with the Diamondbacks, pitched well, allowing two runs and five hits over seven innings.
Zimmermann went seven-plus innings, allowing three runs on four hits. His three walks were a season-high.
He faced the minimum through four innings thanks to a pair of double plays.
In the fifth however, the first two Diamondbacks reached base via a walk and a single. Manager Kirk Gibson had No. 6 hitter Jordan Pacheco bunt the runners over, and Lamb's sacrifice fly made it 1-0.
Diamondbacks: SS Chris Owings, on this disabled list with a strained left shoulder, began a rehab assignment Sunday with the team's Arizona Rookie League affiliate, going 2 for 3.
Nationals: Werth (sore shoulder) was in the starting lineup for the first time since Aug. 10. . OF Nate McLouth, out since Aug. 2 with right shoulder inflammation, was scheduled to undergo an Arthrogram - an MRI procedure that involves dye being injected into the joint - on Monday to help determine the extent of his injury.
Diamondbacks: RH Chase Anderson (7-4, 3.16) is 2-0 with a 2.19 ERA in his last six starts.
Nationals: RH Stephen Strasburg (9-10, 2.53) pitches Tuesday at Nationals Park, where he's 7-2 with a 2.41 ERA this season.
Washington second baseman Asdrubal Cabrera was shaken up, but remained in the game after a third-inning collision at second base. On a sacrifice bunt attempt by Jordan Zimmermann, Cabrera slid into second and the side of his head slammed against the knee of Gregorius's, who was fielding the throw. Cabrera remained on the ground for several minutes as manager Matt Williams and the trainer came out to check on him.
Inciarte is tied with Jose Abreu of the White Sox for the second longest hitting streak this season by a rookie. Abreu had a 21-game streak as well. . Mark Trumbo (1 for 4 with a walk) has reached base safely in 17 straight games, and hit safely in 15 of 17, going 21 for 61 (.344).


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Activities are posted on this page, and on the Maine Media Facebook page to let you know what's coming up.
Maine Media Faculty Lecture Series – highlights faculty who are teaching a workshop, guest speakers, and others who share their art, career experiences, and perspectives on current art practice, trends, or topical issues. Usually held at the Rockport Opera House, these are free and open to the public.
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As most of you, my readers, know, I usually write high level overviews of emerging technology coming down the pipe. Once in awhile, when I come across a really interesting product, I like to do a product spotlight. Enjoy!
Matrix Audio, a Canadian company, has revealed a speaker smaller than the size of a golf ball, called the QUBE.
As we all know, good things tend to come in small packages, and the QUBE carries that on by packing a lot of fun into this QUBE. You will really want to get one of these for your office cubicle. Incredibly small, sexy, and beautiful, it rocks in the looks department. Coated with aluminum, it comes in three colors. Red, black, and native aluminum, and pumps out amazing sound for it's size. Which one would you chose?
Decisions, decisions. Well you just might want to grab all three colors, but guard them, your friends will definitely be borrowing them.
The QUBE is actually slightly smaller than a golf ball, and twice the weight (78 Grams), so there is a bit of heft and significance to the unit.. With 3 watts output and Passive Vibrating Bass (PVB) technology, get ready to be amazed. For such a miniscule device, the QUBE is loud enough to fill large room with sound. Equipped with a built in rechargeable battery, get ready for up to 8 hours of continuous playback of your favorite music or book.
The wired version is $49.99. Each QUBE comes witha universal 3.5mm Headphone jack, carrying pouch included. Total dimentions: 38mm x 38mm x 38mm. A bluetooth version is coming approximately in March.
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Sensory Storytime uses preschool-level books, songs, and activities to engage all five senses in developing emerging literacy, social interaction, and both gross and fine motor skills. Fidget toys and weighted pads will be made available, and children are encouraged to bring their favorite lovey, toy, or fidget.
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I learned the value of everything
from you, most human of beings,
how to observe the crystal bucket,
not just watching, but seeing.
read about Clive James here
All the people celebrated in these Otwituaries have, in some way or other, had an effect on me, positive or otherwise...
About Otwituaries
I started tweeting these poetic obituaries via Twitter on the death of Ernest Borgnine in July 2012. After a while a friend asked if I would gather them together, so I have created this blog as an archive. New Otwituaries will appear here as well as being broadcast via Twitter and Facebook.
All the Otwituaries are written very quickly on the day their subjects pass away, so are clearly lacking in polish or the insight that only comes in time, but they are all from the heart. They represent the people who have, in some way, touched my life - actors, musicians, sporting figures, TV personalities, writers, explorers and assorted others of note.
We live in an age where people are celebrated for the most modest of achievements - news and media ensure that seemingly everyone gets their five minutes of fame if they stick around long enough. It may therefore seem a little morbid or even self-serving on my part to write about the recently-deceased (few if any of whom I have actually met), but these people already enjoy some degree of immortality through their celebrity, and therefore don't need a poem from me. I hope you enjoy reading these short poetic sketches all the same, in the spirit they are intended.
Wednesday, 27 November 2019
Clive James - d. November 24th 2019
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[NOTE: If you are new to David Sedaris's unprovoked feud with me, you can start by reading here.]
This is some exciting, exciting stuff. In my quest to rid the best-seller lists of all things Spedaris, I am pleased to announce this contest, which was created by my friend and blog-helper Steve Huff.
The idea is so simple it's genius: take any photo of the cigarette-devouring David Sedaris and, using whatever media are at your disposal, alter that photo in such a way as to transform the internationally esteemed memoirist and beloved NPR contributor into a supervillain.
What kind of supervillain? That, Dear Reader, is up to you.
I will announce the top three finalists on July 2nd. Then, two days later, on July 4th, the birthday of the greatest country in the world – a country which Mr. Sedaris has shunned for the Nutella-loving shores of France - I will announce the Grand Prize Winner!
What does that person win? The greatest prize in the history of prizes, that's what: an autographed copy of my new book, "My Custom Van (and 50 Other Mind-Blowing Essays That Will Blow Your Mind All Over Your Face")! I will personally have my assistant make it out to you with the inscription of your choice. PLUS, you will also receive a gift certificate to Bath & Body Works for twelve dollars. Truly an amazing, amazing prize. Total retail value: over fifteen dollars!!!
Please name your Spedaris supervillain and include a brief description of whatever super-villain powers he may possess.
To submit: either post your entry (entries?) to your image hosting account (like flickr or photobucket), then post a link to the image in the comment section of my blog.
Or you can send it to email@example.com as an attachment and put "David Sedaris Supervillain" in the heading.
Good luck, Godspeed, and may the best David Spedaris Supervillain Portraitist win.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
John Kasay signs with New Orleans Saints
An NFL source told me this Tuesday morning and it was officially announced by the Saints Tuesday afternoon six hours later -- Kasay has officially signed with the Saints to be a placekicker for the team.
Kasay, 41, could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Saints have used Garrett Hartley as their primary placekicker for the past three seasons and he has been mostly successful. But Hartley got hurt late in the Saints' 40-20 exhibition win over Oakland late Saturday on an extra point and the Saints went for two after that when they scored on touchdowns. The extent of the injury is unclear, but coach Sean Payton said afterward something to the effect that Hartley had "tweaked his hip."
Depending on the extent of the injury, Kasay's employment with the Saints could be a short- or long-term deal.
Hartley made three field goals of more than 40 yards in the Saints' Super Bowl win and he was 20-for-25 last season, a FG percentage only slightly worse than Kasay's (who has made 82 percent of his FG attempts in his career). However, on at least one occasion in the past the Saints have signed veteran John Carney to take Hartley's place temporarily (before eventually releasing Carney).
The Saints have occasionally kept two kickers on their active roster -- Hartley and Carney -- under coach Sean Payton.
Kasay, who was on the Panthers' roster from their inaugural year of 1995 until being released recently in favor of Olindo Mare, has long had very good success kicking in the New Orleans Superdome. Most all kickers love to kick inside a dome's climate-controlled conditions. He beat the Saints with game-winning field goals in the dome at least twice.
When Kasay was released by the Panthers, he penned a gracious handwritten letter to all Carolina Panther fans and entrusted it to me to publish. This was my column about the letter.
If Hartley doesn't come back quickly from injury, Kasay could kick against his former team, the Panthers, twice a season. The first time would come Oct.9th in Bank of America Stadium, when the Saints visit Charlotte. The Saints open the NFL regular season a week from Thursday -- three days earlier than the rest of the league -- against the Green Bay Packers.
47 comments:
Oh, great. Two days after I drafted Garrett Hartley for my fantasy team.
- August 30, 2011 at 10:24 AM
It still makes me sick to my stomach that he's no longer with the Carolina Panthers.
- August 30, 2011 at 10:30 AM
He will be cheered in Charlotte if he returns as a Saint.
- August 30, 2011 at 10:34 AM
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- August 30, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Once a Saint, always a Saint.
- August 30, 2011 at 10:38 AM
I wish him nothing but the best for 14 games this year.
- August 30, 2011 at 10:38 AM
At least we're not a threat to be close in score with them at the end only to have him beat us with a FG. I wish him the best!
- August 30, 2011 at 10:38 AM
- Hugh R. F. Campbell said...
A class act and a really nice around guy. I doubt he needs the money but probably feels he has a little more in his leg. I will always be a fan.
- August 30, 2011 at 10:39 AM
- Jonathan said...
Say it ain't so!
- August 30, 2011 at 10:50 AM
What a great role model that will truly be missed. I am so thankful for Christian players that give the credit and glory to God. We need more players in the NFL like John. I will be pulling for you no matter who the Saints play.
- August 30, 2011 at 10:51 AM
John is great. Anybody notice Reece Lloyd was the FG kicker for the Giants last night!
- August 30, 2011 at 10:51 AM
hartley tweaked his hip in sunday's game vs oakland. kasay is an insurance policy.
- August 30, 2011 at 11:07 AM
"It still makes me sick to my stomach that he's no longer with the Carolina Panthers."
Whatever! The 41 year old can't consistently kick it into the end zone and the Panthers needed the 53rd roster spot for something other than a second kicker. Grow up, it's a business. There's only so much loyalty. Kasay has millions of dollars in his pockets. If he gets another million to kick field goals for another team, good for him.
It's not like you're married to the kicker or he is married to you; It's a job!
Hope you understand...Morten Andersen
- August 30, 2011 at 11:18 AM
For God's sake don't let him kickoff.
He can't kick it past the 10 yard line, or he'll shank it out of bounds when it matters most.
- August 30, 2011 at 12:07 PM
"For God's sake don't let him kickoff."
Unless you can do better then STFU idiot.
Kasay might have been relieved to leave sensing a 0-16 coming & no chance of bailing them out to win a few with his foot yet never getting any credit.
Only pretenders get credit plus a statue.
- August 30, 2011 at 12:12 PM
- Mexoplex said...
well there goes his chance for a statue outside the stadium. cool dude and if i was in his shoes-i could always use the paycheck. good luck Kasay- but only for 14 games.
- August 30, 2011 at 12:44 PM
What's wrong with you people??? Am I the only one that remembers the Super Bowl Shank??? Should have fired his a$$ then!!! He's a great guy, but damn!!!
- August 30, 2011 at 1:04 PM
- Drew said...
wish this story broke yesterday!
i just wasted my 13th round pick on Hartley!
- August 30, 2011 at 1:11 PM
"What's wrong with you people??? Am I the only one that remembers the Super Bowl Shank??? Should have fired his a$$ then!!!"
Shank this mofo. JK lost the SB with 2 missed blocks a rushed snap and 2 blitzing CBs? You a waste of time.
What about SS missed passes for TDs? Didnt Moose drop an easy TD too? Didnt JK kick 3 FGs anyway?
Such stupidity. 4get the males, CP female fans would bitch slap your DUMBASS silly.
- August 30, 2011 at 1:30 PM
This will bring back a sense of deja vu:
October 9th, Bank of America Stadium, 6 seconds left in the 4th quarter with scores tied at 17.
45 yard field goal attempt: Snapper Jason Kyle, Kicker John Kasay.....
Right through the Middle...Game Over
Same teams, same cast, only Kasay will look much better wearing Black and Gold. The Saints do have better looking jerseys than us, thats for sure.
Thanks for the memories, John.
- August 30, 2011 at 2:06 PM
better than the black one??? i respectfully disagree. I'll give you the white one.
- August 30, 2011 at 2:31 PM
I guess the all knowing invisible kicker in the sky told him to go kick for the Saints.
What a traitor!
- August 30, 2011 at 2:50 PM
Love how the Panther fans only remember the bad, not the great that someone does. Kasay was a great Kicker and the idiots fans in NC, who know absolutely nothing about the NFL are giving us NFL fans in other cities a lot to laugh about with the stupidity shown
- August 30, 2011 at 3:09 PM
I like Kasay as a person but let's be real, he cost us a Super Bowl victory.
- August 30, 2011 at 3:18 PM
To all of you stupid idiots who think Kasay cost us the Super Bowl: You have forgotten several blunders. Fox going for 2 when we were down 20-16 after the second TD (Gawd, I HATE that stupid chart that says go for 2 when the margin is this, go for 1 when the margin is that. NO TEAM should EVER go for 2 before there are 5 minutes left in the 4th quarter. Period.) And of course, when we didn't convert, we had to go for 2 on the third TD to make up for it. And we missed again. If we simply kicked the PAT after that second TD, NE would have done so after their next drive, which would have made it 28-17. Then after we scored the next 2 TDs, we're up 31-28 when Kasay shanks the kickoff, and the subsequent NE drive simply ties the game at 31. Who knows, we could have won the coin flip and NE never gets the ball again.
And no matter where New England started that last drive, they were going to score. I don't care if they started on their own 1 yard line, our defense was useless at that point and a Pop Warner team could have drove the length of the field on us.
Get over it, and don't bring it up again.
- August 30, 2011 at 3:54 PM
Kasay was the ONLY reason they even in the Super Bowl.
- August 30, 2011 at 4:10 PM
It was a huge mistake to let him go - even at the age of 41 he was productive. Class act all the way......
- August 30, 2011 at 4:40 PM
"JOHN KASAY DID NOT CAUSE THE PANTHERS TO LOSE THE SUPER BOWL".....He sure didn't help with the shank and ball on the 40 to Brady & Co. He squibs it deep, no telling but hand the ball to give the ball to Brady on the 40, turn out the lights. It was a crucial blunder at the wrong time.
- August 30, 2011 at 4:53 PM
- todd said...
At last he's with an owner that would have at least had the decency to let him retire rather than fire the last original panther
- August 30, 2011 at 4:55 PM
The Panthers held on to this bible thumping douche way to long!
Thank God he's gone!
- August 30, 2011 at 5:29 PM
todd said...
"At last he's with an owner that would have at least had the decency to let him retire rather than fire the last original panther"
My advice to you Todd is to seek help for your short-term memory. Sure, Benson will let Kasay retire on his own, just like he let me...then I went on to play for 5 other teams because he didn't pay me what I deserved!
When the Saints are done with him, they'll dump him like a load of...
Morten Andersen
- August 30, 2011 at 5:31 PM
"...at least twice".
Why don't you do the work and figure out exactly what the number is?
- August 30, 2011 at 6:11 PM
" Anonymous said...
The Panthers held on to this bible thumping douche way to long!
Thank God he's gone!"
You dumb muthafuka you.
Bible thumping douche?
Thank God he's gone?
Cant have it both way idiot !!
- August 30, 2011 at 6:33 PM
Panthers to the Saints?
Can you say UPGRADE???
- August 30, 2011 at 6:44 PM
At least NO is now headed back to the SB and JK will win the game & get him a big diamond ring b4 he hangs up his kicking tee for good.
- August 30, 2011 at 6:48 PM
Since he's such a believer in the invisible man in the sky, he can have an invisible statue outside the stadium.
- August 30, 2011 at 8:02 PM
So you decided to join the Saints Kasey? A bitter division rival?
Well then F*ck you and I hope CJ breaks your dam leg on a block
- August 30, 2011 at 8:11 PM
The next time I see that out of shape dough boy I'm going to kick him right in his bible thumping balls.
What an absolute traitor.
Rot in the imaginay hell Casey!
And pray to your imaginary friend in the sky for forgiveness.
- August 30, 2011 at 9:06 PM
What a dick!
- August 30, 2011 at 9:12 PM
My parents always told me that it was better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. I think this statement applies to the written word as well. Some of the hateful and juvenile comments attacking Kasay and his Christianity are indicative of small minds that cannot think of logical, truthful, civil comments. And we wonder why our country is in the shape it is in today. Kasay's manly character, and what he stands for, is of eternal importance. As much as I love football, it is just a temporary game that passes in time.
- August 30, 2011 at 9:58 PM
the desperate saints
- August 30, 2011 at 11:41 PM
Kasay is the devil...
He wants to eat your soul
I am so happy he is gone!
AMEN brothers and sisters!
- August 30, 2011 at 11:46 PM
- chazatlas said...
How can any REAL fan of the Panthers wish Kasay anything BUT the best? I wish you the best John.
- August 31, 2011 at 12:53 AM
sounds like some homo 90 lb weakling waterboy hates kasay
- August 31, 2011 at 6:51 AM
- samurai said...
I am not sure why i am so amazed by all the "haters" out there. It has already been mentioned how much John Kasay did IN that Super Bowl, and i agree with the commenter that mentioned that poor choice of going for 2 points on previous touchdowns, etc. Not to mention all of the games he pulled out in the closing seconds with the game winning kick. The Panthers would not have even been there if not for John Kasay.
He has been an upstanding member AND LEADER of this team, his community, and his family.
In my opinion this changes nothing in regards to how this team needs to honor him. He still belongs in the Ring of Honor, he still deserves that statue alongside McCromick and Mills.
It was a business decision to let #4 go, and it was a personal business decision to sign with the Saints. If you had a leg like his and a team was willing to sign you, wouldn't you want to earn a couple HUNDRED GRAND to kick a football!?!
I say, God Speed John Kasay. Thank you for the memories and the example of how a real man should walk the earth.
- August 31, 2011 at 9:25 AM
@ kasay hater pos
@ sicko fag pos
@ evil pos
@ busted
- August 31, 2011 at 10:37 AM
This man did more for the CP than any one man in the history of the franchise. I will proudly wear his jersey. Such petty posts about him do no justice to his service to Carolina. 8th in all time NFL scoring and adding to it. God speed John, some of us are loyal fans.
- September 3, 2011 at 9:54 PM


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The Department of Energy said it would provide $450 million to two separate proposals involved with small nuclear reactors.
Ameren Missouri and Westinghouse sent a proposal to the U. S. Department of Energy in an attempt to get funds to design and build the small nuclear reactors. Luetkemeyer said only two other proposals were submitted.
However, the Department of Energy chose only one proposal that focused on research rather than building. Because of this, Missouri delegates sent a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu asking for guidance on why only one proposal was chosen and what the Department of Energy plans on doing with the remaining money.
Luetkemeyer said he wants answers as to why the agency changed what they wanted.
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In August 1968, shortly before seizing control of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Yasir Arafat urged "the transfer of all resistance bases" into the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, conquered by Israel during the June 1967 war, so as to launch a sustained terrorist campaign that would undermine Israel's way of life by "preventing immigration and encouraging emigration...destroying tourism...weakening the Israeli economy and diverting the greater part of it to security requirements...[and] creating and maintaining an atmosphere of strain and anxiety that will force the Zionists to realize that it is impossible for them to live in Israel."
Forty years later, with salvos of Gaza-fired missiles raining down on Israeli towns and villages on a daily basis, Arafat's words seem prophetic. Yet his plan for victory would have remained a chimera had it not been for the Rabin government, which in 1993 invited the PLO, a group formally committed to Israel's destruction by virtue of its covenant, to establish a firm political and military presence on its doorstep.
More than this, Israel was prepared to arm thousands of (hopefully reformed) terrorists, who would be incorporated into newly established police and security forces charged with asserting the PLO's authority throughout the territories. In the words of the prominent Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini, Israel was willingly introducing into its midst a "Trojan Horse" designed to promote the PLO's strategic goal of "Palestine from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea" -- that is, a Palestine in place of Israel.
In line with this thinking, from the moment of his arrival in Gaza in July 1994 to lay the ground for Palestinian statehood at peace with its Israeli neighbor, Arafat engaged in an intricate exercise in duplicity, speaking the language of peace to Israeli and Western audiences while building up an extensive terrorist infrastructure and backing anti-Israel terror attacks. By the time of his death in November 2004, Arafat had transformed the territories transferred to PLO control -- the Gaza Strip and the West Bank's populated areas -- into an effective terrorist state and had launched a vicious terror war (euphemized as the al-Aqsa intifada after the Jerusalem mosque) that plunged Israel into one of the greatest traumas in its history.
No Difference in Goals of Hamas and Fatah
One might have hoped that, 11 years and thousands of deaths after the launch of the Oslo process, the international community would pay closer attention to what the Palestinian leadership was actually saying (in Arabic) and doing. Yet such was the extent of the peace delusion that the European Union's policy chief, Javier Solana, could state upon Arafat's death that "the best tribute to President Arafat's memory will be to intensify our efforts to establish a peaceful and viable state of Palestine." When this widespread illusion of a new and more peaceful Palestinian political era failed to materialize, a handy scapegoat was found in the form of the Hamas Islamist group, which in January 2006 won a landslide victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections and replaced the PLO at the helm of the Palestinian Authority (PA), established in May 1994 as the effective government of the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza.
Neither Hamas or the PLO accept the Jewish state's right to exist and both are committed to its eventual destruction.
In reality, of course, there is no fundamental difference between the ultimate goals of Hamas and the PLO vis-à-vis Israel: Neither accepts the Jewish state's right to exist and both are committed to its eventual destruction. The only difference between the two groups lies in their preferred strategies for the attainment of this goal. Whereas Hamas concentrates exclusively on "armed struggle," as its murderous terror campaign is conveniently euphemized, the PLO has adopted since the early 1990s a more subtle strategy, combining intricate political and diplomatic maneuvering with sustained terror attacks (mainly under the auspices of Tanzim, the military arm of Fatah, the PLO's largest constituent group and Arafat's alma mater). In the candid words of Farouq Qaddoumi, the PLO's perpetual foreign minister: "We were never different from Hamas. Hamas is a national movement. Strategically, there is no difference between us."
Such attitudes are by no means confined to "hard-line" elements within the PLO but are a commonplace among supposed moderates, notably Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), Arafat's successor and perhaps the foremost symbol of supposed Palestinian moderation. For all their drastically different personalities and political style, Arafat and Abu Mazen are warp and woof of the same fabric: dogmatic PLO veterans who have never eschewed their commitment to Israel's destruction and who have viewed the "peace process" as the continuation of their lifetime war by other means.
In one way, indeed, Abbas is more extreme than many of his peers. While they revert to standard talk of Israel's illegitimacy, he devoted years of his life to giving ideological firepower to the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish indictment. In a doctoral dissertation written at a Soviet university, an expanded version of which was subsequently published in book form, Abbas endeavored to prove the existence of a close ideological and political association between Zionism and Nazism. Among other things, he argued that fewer than a million Jews had been killed in the Holocaust, and that the Zionist movement was a partner to their slaughter.
In the wake of the failed Camp David summit of July 2000 and the launch of Arafat's war of terror two months later, Abbas went to great lengths to explain why the "right of return" - the standard Arab euphemism for Israel's destruction -- was a non-negotiable prerequisite for any Palestinian-Israeli settlement. Those who were disposed to regard these words as lip service by a lackluster apparatchik deferring to the omnipotent and hopelessly intransigent Arafat were to be bitterly disillusioned. In an address to a special session of the Palestinian parliament shortly after Arafat's death, Abbas swore to "follow in the path of the late leader Yasir Arafat and...work toward fulfilling his dream...until the right of return for our people is achieved and the tragedy of the refugees is ended."
Six months later, in a televised speech on the occasion of Israel's Independence Day, Abbas described the proclamation of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, as an unprecedented crime of history and vowed his unwavering refusal to ever "accept this injustice." "On that day, a crime was committed against a people, who were uprooted from their land and whose existence was destroyed and who were forced to flee to all areas of the world," he said. "The refugees have a full right to fulfill the right of return. We strongly object to the possibility they would become citizens of the countries they live in."
Arabs Rejected UN Resolution 194 on Refugees
Against this backdrop, it is hardly surprising that the Annapolis summit not only proved little more than a photo opportunity but also underscored the pervasiveness of Palestinian recalcitrance. For one thing, by categorically refusing to recognize Israel's Jewishness (or for that matter its very existence as a Jewish state), the Palestinian leadership -- from Abbas, to Ahmad Qurei (negotiator of the 1993 Oslo Accords), to Saeb Erekat, to the "moderate" prime minister Salam Fayad -- has effectively rejected the two-state solution, based, in the words of the UN partition resolution of November 29, 1947, on the creation of "independent Arab and Jewish States" in Palestine. For another thing, despite the lip service paid to the two-state solution in his Annapolis address, Abbas insisted that "the plight of Palestinian refugees...must be addressed holistically -- that is, in its political, human, and individual dimensions in accordance with UNGA Resolution 194."
In the Palestinian perception, peace is not a matter of adjusting borders and territory but rather a euphemism for the annihilation of the Jewish state.
Yet far from recommending the return of the Palestinian refugees as the only viable solution, Resolution 194 (passed on December 11, 1948) puts this particular option on a par with the "resettlement and economic and social rehabilitation of the refugees" in other countries; indeed, that provision made the resolution anathema to the Arab states, which opposed it vehemently and voted unanimously against it. Equating return and resettlement as possible solutions to the refugee problem; linking resolution of this issue to the achievement of a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace; placing on the Arab states some of the burden for resolving it; and above all establishing no absolute "right of return," the measure was seen, correctly, as rather less than useful for Arab purposes. This, however, did not prevent Arabs and Palestinians from transforming the resolution into the cornerstone of an utterly spurious legal claim to a "right of return," which in their internal discourse is invariably equated with the destruction of Israel through demographic subversion.
And therein, no doubt, lies the crux of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. For to refuse to recognize Israel's right to exist, 60 years after the assertion of this right by the international community, and to insist on the full implementation of the "right of return," at a time when Israel has long agreed to the creation of a Palestinian state roughly along the pre-1967 lines, indicates that, in the Palestinian perception, peace is not a matter of adjusting borders and territory but rather a euphemism for the annihilation of the Jewish state.
The Israeli government and the international community will be dangerously deluding themselves in continuing to view Abbas' adamant refusal to fight terrorism as a reflection of political weakness (as they did with Arafat in the early Oslo years) and his avowed commitment to "the right of return" as a bargaining chip or lip service. To deny the depth of the PLO's commitment to Israel's destruction is the height of folly, and to imagine that it can be appeased through Israeli concessions is to play into its hands. Only when Palestinians reconcile themselves to the existence of the Jewish state and eschew their genocidal hopes will the inhabitants of the Holy Land, and the rest of the world, be able to look forward to a future less burdened by Arafats and their gory dreams.


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Hi guys,
I wanted to add a content box at my profile, but i don't know how to.
Someone willing to help?
Hi Cabien. I'm not sure what you mean by a content box. Can you tell me a bit more about what you are trying to do? There three main types of box on the wiki at the moment - infoboxes, tables and navboxes.
Template:Season explains how the season infobox works.
To start a table type {|. A basic example table:
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Navboxes are a complex template that are almost certainly not what you are looking for.--Opark 77 18:32, April 2, 2012 (UTC)
Sorry for the confusion. Take for example Eddard's page. Below a short intro story about him there is a content box which contains:
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1 Biography 1.1 Background 2 Season 1 3 Appearances 4 Image gallery 5 Family tree 6 In the books 7 See also 8 References
This i want to recreate at my profile page. I've tried but didn't seem to figure it out. -- Cabien 08:05, April 3, 2012 (UTC)
I see, thanks for clarifying. We call that one the Table of Contents, or TOC for short. It appears automatically when a page has 3 section headers. You can force it to appear (or move it) by adding __TOC__ to a page where you want the Table of contents to appear. I have done so on your user page with this edit. For more information Wikia has a help page about the TOC.--Opark 77 09:59, April 3, 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for the change at my profile page and thanks for the explanation ;) --188.8.131.52 16:47, April 3, 2012 (UTC)


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"When I need ideas for potlucks or gatherings, I call on my go-to gals, the Casserole Queens! Whether it's gluten-free, vegetarian, or anything goes, their comforting one-pot dishes are sure to be a hit. But even better, Crystal and Sandy clearly get a lot of joy from sharing food with others—and they want you to have just as much fun, too."
—Lisa Fain, author of The Homesick Texan Cookbook
"Those sly, sassy Casserole Queens have once more moved casserole culture forward. Their mix-and-match recipes for delicious family recipes feature gluten-free (gluten-free corn dog casserole!), diabetic-friendly, and vegetarian options to make sure everyone at the table is included."
—Martha Hall Foose, author of Screen Doors and Sweet Tea
"The Casserole Queens have embarked on a mission that is not only getting us all back in the kitchen and cooking the food that Ma and Grandma used to make, but is also going a step further. They are moving away from our digitized, hectic, futuristic lifestyles and are preserving a style of cooking that is quickly going the way of homemade jams and pickles. They are champions of a cuisine that can truly be called American."
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THE MORNING STAR, 17-19 Pottinger's Entry, Belfast, is a two-storey public house, reputedly dating from ca 1820.
It is one of the longest-operating licensed premises in the city.
The building occupies the corner site of Pottinger's Entry and Pottinger's Court, an alley which was first mentioned in a map of 1715.
The Bar comprises two storeys, with a pilastered front, moulded base panels, and etched glass windows.
The current building had certainly been erected by at least 1850, when maps depicted the building along its current layout.
Griffith's Valuation recorded that it was occupied by John and William Riddel in 1860 (the Riddels were iron and metal merchants who utilized the premises on Pottinger's Entry as a store and workshop).
The premises were valued at £25 in 1860; however, by 1863, the site had been converted into a licensed "spirit shop and stores" operated by Mr J Steenman.
Mr Steenman was recorded as the occupant of the site between 1863-81, although the Belfast Street Directories state that the "wine stores" were administered by the Malcolmson Brothers in 1868, George McChesney in 1877, and William Nixon in 1880, presumably the publicans.In 1892, the property was acquired by James McEntee and Henry McKenna, two publicans who also owned pubs in the area around Castle Street.
The property was recorded as a "Licensed House" and had been increased in value to £65.
McEntee and McKenna's partnership had been dissolved by 1900, when Henry McKenna was the sole occupier of the site.
|Pottinger's Court ca 1910
In that year the valuer increased the rateable value of the premises to £95 and noted that McKenna paid annual rent of £60 to William Riddel.
Henry McKenna's public house also included a bottling store which was located off Pottinger's Entry, in Pottinger's Court.Mr McKenna continued to operate the public house until 1926.
In 1913, the site was first referred to as The Morning Star Bar in street directories.
The Irish Builder records that in 1924 renovation work was carried out to the bar which repaired damage incurred during an arson assault. The Morning Star was burnt out in a sectarian attack, part of the sectarian violence common in the post-partition years of 1921-23. Renovation work was carried out by Messrs F & J McCardle.In 1935, the bar was administered by the Madden Brothers, having passed from Henry McKenna in 1924.
There was no further valuation of the pub carried out for the next two decades due to the disruption of the 2nd World War.
The Morning Star narrowly survived the Belfast Blitz of 1941 whilst many neighbouring building on High Street and Bridge Street were levelled.
The Morning Star is, without doubt, the earliest building currently standing on Pottinger's Entry; however, the exact construction date of the two-storey building is difficult to determine.
The Morning Star maintains a historic tradition stretching back as early as 1810, when the Belfast Newsletter supposedly made reference to the building as "one of the terminals for the Belfast to Dublin mail coach".
However, the building was probably not utilised as a public house or tavern at this time, and it was not until 1863 that the building was first referred to as a licensed premises.
The Morning Star was refaced in 1892, when Messrs McEntee and McKenna took possession of the site and added its Victorian features.
Much of the current bar dates from the 1924 renovation of the building following a sectarian arson attack.
Law states that the renovation was carried out shortly after the Madden Bros. acquired the Morning Star Bar from McKenna in 1924.
The Maddens also owned the Ivy Bar in Church Lane; Dufferin House in Whitla Street; the Sportsman's Arms in York Street; and spirit stores in Duncairn Gardens.The current horseshoe bar and the exterior sign are amongst the features installed as a result of the Madden Bros. 1924 reconstruction.
Having undergone a further extensive renovation in the 1960s, The Morning Star was listed in 1986.
Marcus Patton OBE, writing in 1993, described the public house as a
two-storey stucco building of considerable character, tall pilastered front with etched glass windows and boldly moulded base panels; projecting sign in brass and glass with bronze urn on top; a winged lion stands guard over the corner entrance.
The features described, including the exterior sign, continue to adorn the façade of the public house.
Although it is not possible to identify the precise origins of The Morning Star, the building is significant as the sole surviving remnant of the former street-scape of Pottinger's Entry, one of Belfast's original entries dating from at least the early-18th century.
First published in January, 2015.


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1964 Cadillac Coupe De Ville - Building A Better Boat Anchor
Converting to disc brakes on a '64 Cadillac
Our friend John and his son, Greg, have been driving this mostly stock '64 Coupe De Ville for a few years. The big boat weighs in at about 2 3/4 tons, and even more when big John climbs in and puts his heavy right foot to the gas pedal. The sum of all that mass more than exceeded the safe stopping power of the 43-year-old drum brakes. During some recent 60-0-mph testing, those drums were so toasted after a couple of hard practice stops that the car was too dangerous to drive and had to be trailered home.
The next stop was ABS Power Brake in Orange, California. In addition to manufacturing power-brake boosters, high-performance master cylinders, and power-steering boxes, ABS makes disc-brake kits for all kinds of late-'40s to early '70s cars and trucks. The company currently has the measurements to provide complete kits for approximately 50 different applications, including Tri-Five Chevys, Fairlanes, Impalas, Thunderbirds, most popular musclecars, '47-72 Chevy pickups, '48-70 Ford F-series trucks, and Cadillacs like this one. If ABS doesn't have brakes for your car or truck, the guys can fabricate them using your spindles, steering arm, and bolt pattern. This upgrade doesn't cost radically more than rebuilding the stock drums, and provides much better performance.
The Cadillac disc kit that went on John and Greg's '64 is a recent development and presented a challenge, since the center portion of the stock rims wouldn't clear the caliper. It's a familiar problem to early '60s Cadillac owners who sometimes solve it by switching to rims from disc brake- equipped Cadillacs. Since John wanted to retain the stock wheels, Pedro Gomez substituted 11-inch rotors for the 12-inchers he would use otherwise.
The improvement was significant. The front discs, combined with a new master cylinder, double-diaphragm booster, and disc/drum proportioning valve, made an impressive difference.
"The car drives much better now. The new brake system is very well-balanced and matched to a Cadillac," John says. "The brakes aren't touchy, so it's easy to stop without being jerky-and if I need to stop fast, the harder I push the pedal, the faster it stops."
More testing backed up that seat-of-the-pants impression. Although the drum-brake failure during the pre-upgrade testing prevented us from getting any hard numbers, we deduced the 60-0 stopping distance would have exceeded 250 feet. With the ABS discs, that shrunk to 167 feet and a stopping time of 3.87 seconds. That's impressive, especially with such a heavy car rolling on non-performance tires.
According to John, "The biggest improvement is something you can't measure-confidence in the brakes. Now I can relax and enjoy driving the car without worrying about rain or repeated stops in heavy traffic."


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The City of Portland is excited to announce it is one of seven cities and groups to pilot INRIX AV Road Rules, a platform that lays the foundation for the city to communicate with operators for safe and effective deployment of Highly Automated Vehicles (HAV) on public roads. INRIX AV Road Rules is the first platform that enables cities and road authorities to assign, validate and manage traffic rules and restrictions for autonomous vehicles operating on public roads. The platform also leverages HAV data about roads to report infrastructure improvement needs, making the roads safer for all users.
"This is just the beginning for Portland," said City Manager Jon Jennings. "We are truly poised for additional growth in the technology sector, and mapping our city for HAV usage is just the latest in a string of developments in which Portland is leading as a smart city and innovation hub of the East Coast," said Jennings, referring to the city's recent deployment of LED street lights, smart traffic signals, and public WiFi spots.
Jennings added, "the implementation of HAVs is a key component of our transportation management plans to help manage our growth and ease traffic congestion, especially along Franklin and Commercial Streets. I'd like to thank the City Council for supporting this effort and recognizing the economic development benefits it brings. We invite companies to locate here and pilot new projects knowing that we stand ready to work with them."
INRIX AV Road Rules will help Portland take an important and concrete step to support HAVs safe operation on city roads. The City can easily assign traffic restrictions and have those rules provided directly to vehicles, and will explore how the City shares information with vehicles and vice versa. It will provide the base for operators interested in piloting AVs on public streets by offering an important dataset that demonstrates Portland's understanding of real-world deployment challenges.
Portland will work with INRIX to map the city as part of the first phase. Choosing a vendor for HAV service will be a separate phase and will be based on several factors including past experience and costs. Any questions can be emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
HAVs are currently testing on public roads in fewer than 50 cities around the world, but more markets are interested in bringing this new technology to their streets. At launch, Portland is joining six other cities and road authorities and four HAV operators that have signed on to support INRIX AV Road Rules, and many more have expressed interest in joining when it expands later this year. In addition to Portland, the initial set of pilot users includes cities and road authorities with a variety of sizes, climates and geographies: Bellevue, WA; Boston, MA; Austin, TX; the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada which includes Las Vegas; Transport for West Midlands and Transport Scotland in the UK. Automakers and operators slated to use the platform at launch include: nuTonomy (an Aptiv company), Jaguar Land Rover, May Mobility, and Renovo. The initial set of partners will help refine and expand the platform to improve a crucial tool for road authorities to fulfill their traditional role of setting and maintaining traffic rules and restrictions.
"If deployed correctly, autonomous vehicles will radically improve our transportation systems, making them safer, more efficient and higher quality," said Avery Ash, head of autonomous mobility. "After talking to hundreds of cities, states and federal officials, and dozens of HAV operators, we identified a critical data gap that INRIX is uniquely positioned to address. INRIX AV Road Rules marks an essential new tool for transportation agencies to lay a foundation for the safe operation of HAVs on public roads."
INRIX AV Road Rules enables cities and road authorities to quickly and easily digitize local restrictions such as speed limits, crosswalks, school zones and stop signs, allowing automakers and HAV operators to ensure vehicles comply with local guidelines. The platform also creates a channel to communicate road infrastructure needs from HAVs back to transportation agencies, which improves safety and performance for all road users.


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Twalcom ® is pleased to introduce the new Rally footrests.
These new pegs with surface "oversize" allow you to ride your bike safely over long distances without having to use odd knee positions but instead with the feet and legs in the correct position. Maximum support, maximum safety, maximum relaxation and no fatigue of the plantar arch.
The footpeg Rally are composed of a robust central Alu structure and two stainless steel sprockets fixed to the body of the footboard with 4 screws. The two toothed crowns offer the boot maximum grip in any situation but especially the most external part of the second crown allows the perfect run of the motorcycle riding in a standing without fatigue.
A further unique feature is that the footrests are removable: this allows the use of the platforms in a "Lite"configuration , that is without the second ring gear, and then in all situations of normal use.
In addition to this, after a long use, it will be possible to replace the single sprocket consumed, without necessarily having to replace the entire platform
The footrests are made Rally in 7075 and are equipped with springs, spacers, screws and double-row bearing the boot in stainless steel.
Coloring Black / Black.
Weight: 0,270 g. - Support base: mm. 60 x 92
The Equipment Rally can be mounted on all models R1200GS (2005 and later) R1200ADV (2006 and later). Only for the R1200GS 2004 required an adaptation of the spacer.


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Critic-Turned-Cook: The Coolest Things I Learned While Working in Professional Kitchens
I am a much better cook than I was a year ago when this journey from the keyboard to the kitchen began. I'm not trying to brag—my husband told me so the other night after I made a Tom Douglas recipe for halibut, the first of the season fish seared on the stove and finished in the oven. I plated the beautiful fillet on a bed of lentils, with sautéed fiddlehead ferns and morels on the side, and a gremolata-bread crumb mixture on top. Hello, Spring! (Oh, and then we had chocolate fried pie for dessert.)
I wouldn't have even attempted those feats of culinary daring a year ago—at that time I ate out most every night to keep up with my weekly review schedule. I rarely got the chance to spend time in my favorite room in the house. But after trading my pen for a pan and working in nearly a dozen different kitchens, I've picked up some amazing techniques. I am still in awe every time I walk in a kitchen and watched the seasoned pros do their thing with such style and grace. They make it look so easy. It's not.
Like Thomas Keller says, it's about repetition. It's not just about making one great dinner for your family—It's about making 100 great dinners a night, seven nights a week. Knowing what I know now, I truly do not understand why we tip servers and not cooks. If you loved your meal, please tell the server to tell the crew in the kitchen. Those compliments do stoke the fire.
To mark the one-year anniversary of getting my official health department food handler's card, here is a short list of some of the coolest things I've learned as a cook.
What I Learned as a Cook
- When sautéing a piece of meat or fish, slide it, don't set it into the pan. And then give the pan a little jiggle and it won't stick.
- You can remove the char from an overcooked steak by dunking it in white wine and rubbing gently.
- Score the top of a thick burger when you put it on the grill and it will cook more evenly.
- Use both hands when shaping cookie dough—like gingerbread or Russian teacakes—iinto balls. Gets the job done in half the time.
- Dust your hand-cut fries in the lightest coating of flour to make them extra crispy.
- When making ravioli, store the pasta in cornmeal. Never sticks together that way.
- It is possible to do the "Stairway to Heaven" drum solo with a pair of tongs and a grill.
- Always announce "behind you" or "coming through hot."
- Comfortable shoes are the key to happiness in the kitchen (I got mine at ShoesForCrews.com).
- Always, always, always keep raw chicken on the bottom shelf of the fridge.
- When making mayo, listen for the emulsion to thicken as you add olive oil. Then stop.
- Don't forget to get a huge cup of water to sip while you work or you just might flame out during service.
- Prepping bacon makes your hands silky soft.
- Be nice to the front of the house.
There's so much more. What I've learned could fill a book, and, yes, I just finished a proposal. Now to sell that sucker. Coming through HOT!
About the author: Former Seattle Post-Intelligencer restaurant critic Leslie Kelly has been apprenticing in professional kitchens since the newspaper folded in March 2009 and chronicling her culinary journey from pen to pan for Serious Eats. She recently started a new project on her personal blog, inspired by Michael Ruhlman, she's exploring "An Egg A Day".
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