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Shortly after returning from his historic flight to space in 1961, Alan Shepard got a surprise gift from General Motors -- a dazzling white 1962 Chevrolet Corvette.
The gift would spark a budding relationship between NASA astronauts and the automaker, and experts say the association helped to define the Corvette as the iconic American sports car.
"In the 1960s, astronauts were the American heroes that every child idolized and every adult respected," Corvette historian Jerry Burton told GM in a 2011 interview. "That so many of them drove Corvettes really helped establish the Corvette as America's sports car."
But the astronauts might not have settled on the Corvette had it not been for Florida Chevrolet dealer Jim Rathmann, who also won the Indianapolis 500 in 1960.
According to General Motors, Rathmann saw the astronauts as the perfect pitchmen for the sports car. He worked out an arrangement with Chevrolet that put six of the Mercury astronauts behind the wheel of a Vette for a single dollar.
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Danny Reed, who owns one of the astronaut's Vettes, said it made sense that they would be behind the wheel of one of America's most iconic models.
"It just fit their image," Reed said. "What other car would they drive?"
As former pilots, many of the astronauts couldn't pass up the opportunity to use the full power of the Corvette.
"All of the astronauts were test pilots back then," Kennedy Space Center safety engineer John T.R. Dillion told GM in 2011. "They flew performance aircraft, and they moved into performance cars with a well-honed appreciation for handling, acceleration and so forth."
Shepard, who owned at least 10 Corvettes in his lifetime, reportedly loved to race his car and often dueled with fellow astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom. Others have said the astronauts used to speed around the Houston area in their sports cars.
By the Apollo 12 mission in 1969, Chevy had the astronauts hooked.
Apollo 12 astronauts Dick Gordon, Charles "Pete" Conrad and Alan Bean ordered custom 1969 427 Stingray Corvette coupes. The black and gold cars also came with special inscriptions, such as LMP for "Lunar Module Pilot."
The association with Corvettes began to worry NASA officials because they believed the public might construe the purchases as official endorsements by the astronauts, which was forbidden at the time, according to GM.
By 1971, the astronaut's sweetheart deal for new Corvettes had all but ended, Reed said.
That's when Reed stumbled upon Bean's car sitting on a GMAC lot in Austin in 1971. Bean's car had famously appeared on the cover of Life Magazine, and the unique paint job and the "LMP" detail caught the eye of Reed.
"I was a space junkie," he said. "I recognized it right away. They couldn't tell me a whole lot about it at the time."
Reed eventually bought the car in an auction after the original high bidder couldn't come up with the cash. Reed had outbid the next highest bidder by a mere $30.
It's one of three Corvettes that Reed now owns.
"I think it was meant to be," he said. "That car has had a better life than I have."
Reed takes the so-called AstroVette around the country to help promote the space program and to get youth excited about space exploration.
He said he hopes that the classic car can serve as a reminder of the glory days in space.
"That car is a symbol of what they did for the world," he said. "In my mind, they aren't properly funding NASA, and that's a big loss to me."
There is also a bit of a twist to the AstroVette.
Bean's car is the only Apollo 12 Corvette to be found. Reed said fans are still searching for the two other Apollo 12 Corvettes. The vehicle identification numbers have been kept secret to ward off anyone hoping to make a clone of the AstroVette.
Plenty of people have called over the years, but no one has found it. Reed said the cars -- and likely their stories -- are gone forever.
"Unless it is in someone's barn, they are either repainted or wrecked," Reed said.


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- Get serious about desire to remember
- Make sure you sleep long enough to dream
- Look for symbols to decode a dream
Imagine walking into the world's largest theater to see a vivid new film every night filled with twists and turns, none more shocking than the final credits: You were directing it all along.
Justina Lasley does just that, for about eight hours, seven nights a week.
"Every night I look forward to sleeping. It's like going to the movies," says Lasley, founder and director of the Institute for Dream Studies in Mount Pleasant, S.C. "It just blows my mind how creative and wise I am in my sleep."
Lasley is not bragging. Though she has analyzed and decoded dreams for more than 22 years, virtually anyone can dream big, spill their subconscious and capture it all with just a notepad and pencil.
"I think parts of the dreams contain parts of our past and parts of our future," she says.
Despite this power, many dismiss their dreams and these figments of flying, falling, running, drowning and public nudity as mental noise.
"Dreams are God's answers to our prayers," Lasley claims. "We're praying for things and we're sleeping right through it."
Here are some tips on how to capture the power of your dreams.
Get serious
Dreams are elusive things. That's why if you want to catch them, you need to first get serious.
Those who can't remember their dreams usually either may not want to or care not to. "They're usually not intentional about it," she says. "There's a difference between choosing not to (remember their dreams) and not choosing to."
To show you're serious, get the requisite reverie materials, including a journal to log your dreams and a pencil. Lasley avoids pens because they rely on gravity and too often run out of ink.
"The intention is the main thing to use," Lasley says. "It's their intention to remember, you can't fool the subconscious or the psyche. You're either serious about remembering or not."
Lasley recommends journaling what you want answered before sleeping to show conviction. After all, people have looked to their subconscious for answers for a long time, Lasley says.
"In ancient times, people put so much emphasis on the dream," says Lasley, citing dreams had by the biblical Joseph and Jacob. "All those major decisions were made on a dream."
Get sleep
Lasley hears from people that they don't sleep enough to dream.
It takes about three hours of sleep to achieve rapid eye movement, the lightest stage of our sleep cycle where the most vividly recalled dreams occur. The longer we sleep, the longer this level lasts.
The more time you concentrate on your dreams and the details within, the more energy you will wake up with, she says.
"I guarantee them if you start paying attention to your dreams and honor your dreams, your sleep will be more restful," says Lasley, adding that she sleeps between eight and nine hours each night.
Always be ready
While easy to have, dreams are hard to remember, fleeing from our memory seconds after we wake.
Since there is no time to waste, Lasley keeps her journal and a pencil under her pillow, turning to them before even turning on a light.
"I just write it in the dark," she says. "If you make a few notes, we can connect those notes. We just need a hook to (get) back in the dreams."
Don't move
When waking up, it only takes a slight movement to jolt you miles from your dream.
"There's a difference between dream time and linear thinking," she says. "Linear is the plan of the day, when you think 'I have to get out of bed and get ready for my meeting at 8:30 a.m.' The dream time (has no) limitations with space and time. Once we change that thinking to scheduling time, to where I am, the sense of the dream disappears."
To hold onto your dream, stay as still as possible in your most comfortable sleeping position, she suggests.
"It's amazing," she says. "If we turn over our pencil or paper, we can sometimes move out of our position."
Day dream
Even harder than detecting a dream while sleeping is doing so while awake, says Lynette Teachout, author of the dream-interpretation novel Journey With Zeke.
"You can dream during the day as much as you dream at night, your dreams are really thoughts or images," says Teachout, a resident of Rives Junction, Mich. "I'm awake and I'm working, and I see an initial pop in my mind and that means something."
Teachout doesn't take daydreams for granted, carrying around a notepad wherever she goes.
For instance, she recalls one conversation with a stranger in which the word "violet" suddenly popped up in her mind. When she asked "does violet mean anything to you?" the woman said she had intended to name her firstborn Violet. Teachout estimates her inner voice is about 60 percent accurate.
Teachout, who practices as a psychic, defines a dream as "our own unique communication with our inner wisdom."
Explore the meanings
During a signing of her new book, Teachout heard a young girl's reoccurring nightmare in which a bear would hang outside her bedroom, scaring the girl to the point where she felt captive in her room while dreaming.
"I told her, 'The bear is there for protection,'" Teachout says. "The look on her face told me that she got it. … We build our own fears and we just have to unlock our own fears."
Rather than assume the worst in a dream, find out how else they could be viewed, she says.
"They came across as nightmares because they don't understand the true meaning," Teachout says.
Look for symbols
Both Lasley and Teachout agree only a few jotted remembrances of each dream will begin to tell a story about the dreamer.
But what exactly is noteworthy in a dream?
While anything is better than nothing, Teachout says animals, such as a wolf, possesses symbolism, standing for guidance, she says.
"Or colors can be really huge too," she says. "Color could have significance. White represents a cleansing, enlightenment, but if it was something to do with black, then I would think there's a power or a power struggle."
Trust yourself
It's important to not rely solely on dream dictionaries when decoding them.
A more reliable source is yourself, Lasley says.
"You can use (a dream dictionary)," Lasley says, "but the first thing to ask is, 'What does that mean to you?' What does flying mean to you, what does that feel like? Being free, untethered, not tied down, can see at great distances, you have a different perspective of the world when you're flying, your viewpoint of the world has changed, and for the person who hates flying it may be the most anxiety-producing dream that you can think of."
Interpreting such common dreams — such as involving falling, drowning or flying, or being underwater, back in school, or naked in public — depends on the individual, Lasley says.
"Some people think they can interpret other people's dreams based on their own experience, but it's tailor-made for the individual," Lasley says. "Your dreams are made from your past experiences."
Lose control
Some people spend years mastering the skill of lucid dreaming, the ability to control one's dreams.
However, Lasley would rather relax and have her subconscious write the script — and without the disruption of any music or sleeping drug.
"For me, they whole reason is to get out of control, where our ego is out of the way," she says. "The dream is taking us to a place away from ego. It's grander than anything we can think of, so why are we going to go back and control it?"
Deciphering your dreams
When dreaming, emotions manifest in one's subconscious through certain common symbols. Here is a general guide to what some of these symbols might represent according to DreamMoods.com:
Animals represent primitive aspects of yourself, including your raw desires and sexual nature. The extent depends on the particular animal and even its color. For instance, a wolf — symbolizing loneliness, mystery, pride and self confidence in its most generic form — can represent valor if white or self repression if black. A snake can represent anything from phallic desires to an untruthful person.
Babies can signify innocence, warmth, new beginnings or the desire to have baby.
Demons can actually indicate denied emotions and the need to change your behavior for the better.
Money alone usually means self worth. Exchanging money in your dream may convey an anticipation for some life changes.
Roads may indicate your direction in life and a need to reflect on your current path.
Teeth, or more specifically dreaming of losing your teeth, may commonly reflect a hidden fear of getting old and being seen as unattractive.
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The UEA Law Clinic is a collaborative venture between UEA law students, the academic staff of the Law School, external agencies and members of the local legal profession. As you will discover, there are numerous opportunities available for our students to use their legal knowledge for the benefit of the wider community, while at the same time gaining valuable hands-on experience of the law in action.
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Kristin's in Braintree serves breakfast and lunch 7 days a week (Monday-Friday 6:30 AM – 2 PM; weekends 7 AM – 1:30 PM). Up until last month, I had only ever had breakfast at Kristin's. Their breakfast menu is a lot more extensive and interesting than their lunch menu. The breakfast menu contains a ton of creative pancake and french toast options listed on their board, homemade corn beef hash, assorted eggs Benedict selections…and so on…I've found that the most interesting choices are usually on the Daily Special Board.
The lunch menu is mostly made up of your standard salads and sandwiches: ham & cheese, club sandwiches, chicken salad, BLT etc. …so it never really jumped out at me as place I just had to try for lunch. I am someone who typically likes a little adventure in her menus. 😉
Well, we were in the neighborhood recently and decided to stop in for lunch. I ordered the Ultimate Turkey sandwich ($5.25). The sandwich had a thick layer of roasted turkey (not cold cuts…the real stuff), cranberry sauce, stuffing and mayo. It comes with a pickle and chips which you can swap out for fries for $1. I opted for the fries. The sandwich was very good and the perfect size for lunch at a price that is hard to beat. I love a good Thanksgiving-style turkey sandwich and this is one of the better ones that I've had in the area.
Kristin's is relatively small so sometimes there is a bit of a wait on weekend mornings for breakfast. They are family friendly and have several menu options geared specifically to kids (I'm looking at you, M&M pancakes) There is a small parking lot behind Kristin's, but if it is full you have a fair chance of finding street parking on the side street.


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DETROIT (AP) -- A 73-year-old Detroit man has been sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison in the dismemberment of a still-unidentified woman whose remains were found in his bathtub.
Alphonso Jackson was sentenced Wednesday in Wayne County Circuit Court. He pleaded guilty this month to second-degree murder, concealing the death of an individual and tampering with evidence.
Jackson accepted a deal to avoid a possible life sentence. Jackson told a judge the woman died of an overdose.
Defense lawyer Donald Cook says Jackson provided money to the woman for drugs, panicked after she died and tried to hide the body.
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Not My Job: Ballerina Misty Copeland Gets Quizzed On Morris Dancing
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Ballerina Misty Copeland is one of the greatest dancers performing today; she's a soloist at the American Ballet Theater, and she's accomplished all this despite starting ballet at the age of 13. By that age, most kids who dream of dancing have already given it up and resigned themselves to a career in public radio.
We've invited Copeland to play a game called "Hey Nonny Nonny" three questions about a form of English folk dancing called Morris dancing, which scholars believe originated one night in the Middle Ages when some guys got really, really drunk.
And now the game were people who have exceptional talent do something that makes no use of that talent whatsoever. Ballerina Misty Copeland is one of the greatest dancers performing today in classical ballet. She's a soloist at the American Ballet Theater. And she accomplished all this despite starting ballet at the age of 13. By that age, most kids who dream of dancing have already given it up and resign themselves to a career in public radio.
SAGAL: Misty Copeland, welcome to WAIT WAIT ...DON'T TELL ME.
MISTY COPELAND: Thank you for having me.
SAGAL: So first of all, is that true, that you were not one of those little girls who was obsessed with the ballet and loved to put on the tutu and such, so on and so forth?
COPELAND: Absolutely not. I had never heard classical music before. I was listening to Aretha Franklin and Mariah Carey.
SAGAL: Really?
COPELAND: Yeah. I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.
SAGAL: That's crazy.
COPELAND: Yeah.
BRIAN BABYLON: She's like the Lebron James of...
BABYLON: ...Ballet a little bit.
SAGAL: Yeah. One of the things about ballet - classical ballet especially - is it's obviously so incredibly strenuous, except - and part of the aesthetic is you have to seem absolutely effortless. So whenever I see a ballet, I always imagine that the people dancing around on their toes are constantly thinking to themselves, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
SAGAL: Is that true?
COPELAND: On some days.
SAGAL: Yeah.
COPELAND: We do talk on stage to each other and I think some people think, why did I choose this career? Why am I doing this?
SAGAL: Wait a minute. You said you talk to each other on stage?
COPELAND: We do.
SAGAL: What do you say?
COPELAND: The artistic director may not want to hear that, but we have full-on conversations, depending on, you know, how rigorous the part is.
SAGAL: Really? So like...
BABYLON: During the show?
COPELAND: What are you having tonight for dinner? What - you know...
SAGAL: Wait a minute.
COPELAND: You going out to the club?
SAGAL: So you're telling me, like, if I go see "The Nutcracker" and the corp de ballet is back there, and they're doing, like, the sugarplum fairies. They're dancing around on point, and they're saying to each other, so what are you doing tonight? Oh, nothing. What about you? Oh.
BABYLON: And do you have to, like, wait for the person to come back around before you get your answer?
SAGAL: Do you talk to them when you're, like - you're spinning around, and you just get one word out when your facing them? Hey. What. Are. You. Doing. After. The. Show? Depending on how fast you spin.
ROY BLOUNT JR.: And do you talk smack sometimes?
BLOUNT: Let's see you jump with my foot on your shoe. Ha.
BLOUNT: I bet they do that. Oh, I'm going to go to the ballet tomorrow.
COPELAND: Yeah.
BLOUNT: Suddenly, it's come alive for me.
BABYLON: You know, Peter...
COPELAND: I guess that's what makes us professionals.
SAGAL: Yeah, I understand.
BABYLON: I went to my first ballet and I saw "Aladdin" from the Houston Ballet...
SAGAL: Yeah.
COPELAND: Ah.
BABYLON: ...And I was amazed. And I was like, man, I think these guys could probably beat me up...
BABYLON: ...Because - I mean, are they - how are strong are ballet dancers and ballerinas? I've always...
COPELAND: They are the strongest people, I think, that exist, both mentally, emotionally, physically. And to be able to do all that we do on stage, and for you to think we're just a little sugarplum families prancing around is even more incredible.
SAGAL: Right. I mean - I don't mean to get personal, but looking around on the Internet, your legs are quite the thing.
SAGAL: I mean, it looks like - it looks like...
BLOUNT: You know how to talk pretty to women.
SAGAL: I do. I do.
BABYLON: I was on the Internet, and I was looking at you on the Internet.
SAGAL: No, I'm - seriously and if you...
SAGAL: I mean, there are like...
SAGAL: I'm just saying.
SAGAL: What I was saying...
BABYLON: Quite the thing, both of them.
SAGAL: I'm saying that if you - you know, when your career in the ballet ends - which hopefully won't happen for many years - you can get a job for, like, the NYPD kicking down doors for them.
BLOUNT: Oh.
O'CONNOR: I don't think that's what you're - also what you're supposed to say to a woman.
BABYLON: Yeah, you could kick some doors down, babe. Yeah.
O'CONNOR: With those legs, man.
BABYLON: You know, I've been - since - when I went to that ballet, I found that I've been doing plies myself.
COPELAND: You have been?
BABYLON: Well, the thing is - this is why. I accidentally bought some skinny jeans, and...
BABYLON: Yeah, I actually bought some skinny jeans, and they bunch all up in the man parts and I found a plie is the classiest way to unhinge man parts in skinny jeans.
BABYLON: It's so classy.
SAGAL: So one thing I've always wondered about people like yourself - 'cause I am a terrible dancer - and so whenever I'm at a - you know, like, a party or whatever where there's dancing, I do not dance. I am on the side. You are one of the greatest dancers, well, in the world. So when you're at a party and, like, the dance music starts up, do you say to yourself, now is my time.
COPELAND: Absolutely not.
SAGAL: No?
COPELAND: No.
SAGAL: You're, like, a mutant with superpowers, and yet you won't show your powers.
COPELAND: (Laughing) Kind of.
SAGAL: But don't you...
SAGAL: Come on. Come on. I mean, you must see somebody out there who thinks they're special, who thinks they're, like, doing the moves. And you could say, I could blow these people's minds.
COPELAND: Yeah.
SAGAL: But today, no.
COPELAND: (Laughing).
BLOUNT: Can you twerk? I mean, you can twerk, right?
BABYLON: Hilarious.
SAGAL: Come on. Come on. You can twerk. Come on.
BLOUNT: Come on.
COPELAND: I get down. I listen to a lot of hip-hop and R&B and soul. I don't know if I've ever twerked.
SAGAL: I think someone would have noticed, Misty. I think...
SAGAL: ...It would've been quite the YouTube sensation, had you done it. Well, Misty Copeland, we're delighted to talk to you. We've asked you here were to play game we're calling...
CARL KASELL, BYLINE: Hey Nonny Nonny!
COPELAND: Oh.
SAGAL: You are a classical ballerina, but classical ballet is a newfangled upstart compared to Morris dancing, which scholars believe originated one night in the Middle Ages when some guys got really, really drunk.
SAGAL: We're going to ask you three questions about Morris dancing. Get two right, you'll win our prize.
SAGAL: Carl, who is Misty Copeland playing for?
KASELL: Misty is playing for Barbara Woods of Anacortes, Washington.
SAGAL: Now before we get started, let's establish what Morris dancing is. It is a very old kind of British folk dance. And they put on these costumes with bells, and they dance about in, like, county squares. And they...
BABYLON: Like "Game of Thrones" stuff?
SAGAL: All right. So now that we've established that, here's your first question. As we've said, Morris dancing is ancient. People do like to mix it up. Which of these is a new trend in Morris dancing? A - Hip-hop Morris, in which dancers dance to rap hits from the likes of Jay-Z and Lil' Wayne. B - Goth Morris, in which dances are changed into weird satanic-like rituals. Or C - Morris the cat dancing, in which dancers incorporate licking themselves and coughing up hair balls.
COPELAND: (Laughter) Oh, wow. I feel like A seems the most normal.
SAGAL: Hip-hop Morris?
SAGAL: Actually, no. It's B. It's Goth Morris is the latest thing. Yeah.
COPELAND: I thought Goth went out in the '90s.
SAGAL: No, no, no. They're just getting around to it in England, apparently.
SAGAL: That's OK. You still have two more chances, Misty, so you're going to get this, I'm sure.
COPELAND: Oh, OK. OK.
SAGAL: Now, Morris dancing has spawned all kind of spinoff industries - 'cause it's popular - as in which of these? A - A personal injury lawyer specializing in Morris dancing injury claims, like being hit in the face with a Morris stick. B - No More-iss, an iPhone app that helps you avoid any Morris dancers in your area. Or C - Errol Morris dancing, a form of the dance when you merely stare at the audience and say very little.
COPELAND: (Laughing) I'm going to go with C.
SAGAL: You're going to go with Errol Morris dancing?
COPELAND: It's somebody doing performance art.
SAGAL: Errol - yes. It's like, and tonight, the Errol Morris dancers present "A Fog of War."
SAGAL: The dancing Robert McNamara. So you're going to pick that? You're going to go for - I admire your boldness, Misty Copeland. But I'm just going to ask you to confirm, are you going to pick Errol Morris dancing?
COPELAND: Oh, your - I feel that you're telling me not to.
SAGAL: I see you have the sensitivity and soul of an artist.
COPELAND: (Laughing) A?
SAGAL: A. Yes, it's A.
SAGAL: Apparently...
SAGAL: Apparently, if you're in a Morris dance troupe and you injure yourself, like getting hit with a Morris stick, you could be able to sue your own Morris dance troupe. All right. If you get this last one right...
SAGAL: ...You will win everything. Having been run for a very long time, Morris dancing inspired a number of jokes. Which of these is a classic Morris dancing joke sure to get a laugh in Morris dancing circles? A - Three Morris dancers walk into a bar and immediately get thrown out because everybody hates Morris dance.
SAGAL: B - Why did the Morris dancers cross the road? 'Cause they were being chased by a mob because everybody hates Morris dance.
SAGAL: Or C - Why do Morris dancers wear bells? So they can annoy the blind as well.
COPELAND: Wow. C sounds perfect.
SAGAL: C is in fact the right answer.
SAGAL: That is the classic Morris dance joke. Carl, how did Misty Copeland do on our quiz?
KASELL: Well, she had enough correct answers to win, Peter. So she is a winner.
SAGAL: Well done, Misty.
SAGAL: Congratulations. You see what I mean?
COPELAND: Yay. Thank you.
SAGAL: This had to be more fun than dancing "Firebird."
COPELAND: Absolutely.
SAGAL: Misty Copeland is a soloist with the American Ballet Theater. Her memoir "Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina" is out now. Pick it up. She's amazing. Thank you so much, Misty. Great to talk to you.
SAGAL: Take care.
COPELAND: Thank you.
SAGAL: Bye, bye.
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Reddam Racing's I'll Have Another turned the Southern California three-year-old division upside down with a 43-1 shocker in Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 Robert B. Lewis Stakes at Santa Anita. The 3-2 favorite Liaison was beaten on the far turn, clipped heels in the stretch, and unseated rider Rafael Bejarano.
Making his first start since a remote sixth in the Grade 1 Hopeful on September 5, and his debut around two turns, I'll Have Another stormed past the front runner Isn't He Clever at the top of the stretch and drew off with authority by 2 3/4 lengths. Aside from fueling mutuels of $88.60, $35.80 and $12, he suddenly erupted onto the scene as a Kentucky Derby candidate.
The Doug O'Neill pupil zipped 1 1/16 miles on the fast track in a sparkling 1:40.84. His final time just missed the stakes record of 1:40.76 set by Crown of Thorns on the old Cushion Track surface in 2008, and ranks as the fastest Lewis ever on dirt.
"This is my biggest win," said jockey Mario Gutierrez, who has ridden principally in Canada and has won a couple of riding titles at Hastings Park. "It's a great thrill."
"He's an incredibly talented colt," O'Neill said, "and we decided to take a chance in here. We thought he could hit the board and we'd move forward, but he ran unbelievable. Mario gave him a great ride. He's always trained fantastic, but we never saw this coming to be honest with you. This is incredible.
"Paul (owner J. Paul Reddam) saw Mario ride about a month or so ago here and said, 'If we ever get in trouble, think about using that kid.' That's how that came up. Then he came over (to Hollywood Park) and worked the horse; he worked great and it couldn't have worked out any better.
"We just didn't want to get into a head and head crazy duel, not get caught up in a speed duel, and he did just that."
The Robert B. Lewis shaped up as the rubber match between Liaison and Rousing Sermon, the one-two finishers in both the Grade 1 CashCall Futurity and the Real Quiet last fall. Those wishing to oppose conventional wisdom tended to back Liaison's stablemate from the Bob Baffert barn, Sky Kingdom, who rebounded from a fourth in the CashCall to run away with a recent allowance.
Totally overlooked in the betting was I'll Have Another. The son of Flower Alley was a debut maiden winner at Hollywood last summer, and finished a solid second to Creative Cause in the Grade 2 Best Pal at Del Mar. I'll Have Another shipped East to Saratoga for the Hopeful, but never got going in the slop, and it was unclear how ready he would be off a five-month layoff for a stiff task in the Lewis.
I'll Have Another was well placed in second early, with Liaison just to his inside in third, as the pair tracked Isn't He Clever through an opening quarter in :23. Groovin' Solo sneaked up on the rail to make it three stalkers abreast through a half-mile in :46 3/5. Liaison was unable to maintain his position, and found himself retreating into fourth by the time the leader reached six furlongs in 1:10 2/5.
At the same time, I'll Have Another was moving beautifully to challenge, and rapidly pulled clear. Behind him, things were about to get hazardous. Isn't He Clever and Groovin' Solo kept on doggedly, ahead of Liaison, who was trying to get back involved while racing in a clear path between, and slightly behind, them. But Groovin' Solo floated inward, crossed into the path of Liaison, and caused the favorite to clip heels.
Meanwhile, Empire Way, who had been last early, rallied up the rail to finish second by 2 3/4 lengths. Groovin' Solo reported home third, 1 1/4 lengths to the good of Rousing Sermon, but he was disqualified for his role in the mishap to Liaison.
"I thought the inside horse (Isn't He Clever) moved out," Victor Espinoza, Groovin' Solo's rider, contended. "I tried to help as much as I can. When another guy asks for help I move out as much as I can. There's nothing else I can do. I think he ran great."
The stewards promoted Rousing Sermon to third, Isn't He Clever to fourth, Sky Kingdom to fifth and Chips All In to sixth. Groovin' Solo was officially placed last, and Liaison did not finish after losing Bejarano. The jockey escaped serious injury, and Baffert told HRTV that Liaison appeared to be OK back at the barn.
"I had my hole when I saw two horses that split out," recapped Bejarano, who went on to ride subsequent races. "I had plenty of room in between horses. When I asked my horse to go, he was coming little by little, but the horse on the outside (Groovin' Solo) was lugging in a little bit. I started screaming to let him know I was there and he (Espinoza) tried to correct his horse, but at the same time when he corrected his horse, he was just coming in too much.
"The horse on the inside (Isn't He Clever, ridden by Corey Nakatani) didn't even give me a chance to check his horse, because he was coming out too. At least the outside horse (Groovin' Solo) tried to correct himself, but the other horse from the inside didn't do that. He just kept going and was coming out little by little, but he didn't even try to check his horse. That's why it felt so tight and I clipped heels. I ended up clipping heels with Victor's horse because Corey Nakatani's horse was coming out and it was enough to push me out. Other than that, I feel good. I'm just a little sore."
"This was a weird run race," Baffert said. "He (Liaison) was up there but he was a little fresh today. He got a little rank with him (Bejarano) and then he (Bejarano) was trying to get him to relax and get back but he just emptied out.
"He (Sky Kingdom) broke, and then he got shuffled again, and on this track you have to really ride the track a little bit. You've got to be up there close. I was disappointed in him, but once we go a mile and an eighth he'll be better. But this track is a little speedy. I thought he would run better than that."
I'll Have Another has now earned $184,000 from his 4-2-1-0 line. Bred by Harvey Clarke in Kentucky, he was a bargain $11,000 Keeneland September yearling. Dennis O'Neill, the trainer's brother, purchased him for $35,000 as a two-year-old in training at OBS in April.
"We bought him at the OBS in April of last year," Dennis O'Neill said, "and we've loved him since day one. He trained like a really good horse from day one, trained like a two-turn horse from day one. He came out of his Saratoga race with sore shins, so when we got him back going, Paul said to take our time with him.
"We paid $35,000 for him. It's great for Paul. Paul's put a lot of money in the game and this is fantastic for Paul."
Out of the winning Arch mare Arch's Gal Edith, I'll Have Another comes from the family of Grade 1 winners Roanoke and Into Mischief. He counts as his fifth dam the influential matron Patelin, ancestress of champion Pleasant Stage and such Grade 1 winners as A Phenomenon, Seattle Meteor, Pillaster and Class Play.
Doug O'Neill indicated that he would likely skip the next contest, the Grade 2 San Felipe on March 10, and await the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby on April 7.
"We'll look at the Santa Anita Derby if all goes well," the trainer said.


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The competition featured six, two-chef teams representing Naval Base Coronado, Naval Base San Diego, Naval Air Station Lemoore, Naval Base Point Loma, Naval Base Ventura County, and Naval Air Station Fallon.
The chefs were allowed two hours to prepare and present entrées using beef tenderloin, chicken, and coconut milk, the secret ingredient announced just before the competition. They were free to incorporate additional fresh produce and pantry ingredients provided.
As the clock ticked down to the final minutes, the chefs remained calm and efficient during plating and final garnishing.
Judges evaluated and graded the teams' entrées on presentation, originality, and taste. During the preparation, judges also observed the chefs in the kitchen, in order to evaluate knife work, cooking methods, and proper safety and sanitation.
This year's judges were Captain Yancy Lindsey, Commanding Officer of Naval Base Coronado, Executive Chef Dorance Aldridge, Executive Chef Joaquin Cueva, Chef Nydia Ekstrom, and Celebrity Guest Chef, "Sam the Cooking Guy."
First place was awarded to Culinary Specialist 2nd Class Sophia Palafox and Culinary Specialist 2nd Class Ruel Sulandgi, from Naval Base San Diego, for their Beef Poke with Coconut Aioli, Poached Chicken Meatloaf, and Pineapple Coconut Rice. They move on to compete in the annual Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) Culinary Competition later this year, in San Diego.
Second place was awarded to Naval Air Station Lemoore (CS2 (SW) McGee and CS2 Jackson), and third place to Naval Air Station Fallon (CS1 Stinchcomb and CS2 Theodoru). The first three winning teams were presented with engraved plaques. Additional prizes included bicycles, gift cards, knife sets, and garnishing kits.
Special thanks to Steve at eCoronado, Chief Culinary Specialist (SW/AW) Jason Simmons, and Angelic Dolan, Naval Base Public Affairs, for the opportunity to attend and photograph this exciting competition. We tip our honorary chef hats to all Navy culinary specialists in recognition of their culinary talent and service.
As reported by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Michael Feddersen, Navy Region Southwest Public Affairs, the Navy's more than 7,000 culinary specialists (CS), deployed around the globe, feed on average more than 92 million wholesome and nutritious meals per year, ensuring the Navy's fighting forces operate at peak performance and are ready to respond to threats worldwide. Navy commanding officers agree that nothing impacts Sailors on a day-to-day basis more than the food CSs prepare for them; they believe these top quality meals contribute directly to Sailor quality of life and morale. Today's CSs have greater culinary instruction than ever before. With even more advanced training on the way, Sailors, both afloat and ashore, can look forward to even healthier and better-tasting meals in the near future.


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In 2009, I gave a lecture in New York City titled, "A Pathway To Adepthood: The Method of A∴A∴." It was filmed, and a short excerpt was put up on YouTube a few years ago. Bryce Churchill has now finished editing the entire two and a half hours, and added it to Temple of Thelema's YouTube channel. You can find it here:
Bryce told me he has a couple of my other NYC talks nearing completion, so we'll have more material in the near future, hopefully. Many public thanks to him for all of this work (it's no small job).


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MIAMI – U.S. Marshals arrested a man suspect of shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend outside a pharmacy in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood last month.
Ifrain Quintana, 42, was apprehended in Naples on Friday. The Collier County Sheriff's Office assisted in the arrest.
SWAT made the arrest because authorities believed Quintana was armed.
Quintana is suspected of fatally shooting Ariadna Gonzalez Campa, his ex-girlfriend, on Dec. 28.
Police said the shooting happened outside the La Milagrose Pharmacy and Discount. The pharmacy is on the corner of Southwest 8th Avenue and 5th Street in Little Havana.
Celina Quintana, the suspect's mother, said her son has been mentally unstable since he was a boy. According to the mother, the suspect spent time in a psychiatric hospital and once said he would end his life if something ever happened to Campa. The woman said her son and the victim met about two years ago at a family party. Both are from Cuba, she said.
Ifrain Quintana (left) is seen with his mother (middle) and girlfriend Ariadna Gonzalez Campa (right), whom he is accused of fatally shooting.


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Develop a program to demonstrate the following Student information system.
1. Create a class called GetStudentInformation and it has the following features.
i. Input the class name (A, B, C,) and the grade (Grade1, Grade2,…….)
ii. Input total Number of students from the given class.
iii. Student id will be auto generated by the system.
iv. Each student attends for 5 examinations and subjects are given in the table.
Subject name---------------------------Subject Code
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Commerce -----------------------------------355
2. The user (Staff member of the School-(XYZ)) will be using the class called GetStudentMarks to input the marks for total number of students from the given class. The GetStudentMarks class will be having an abstract method which can be used to display the information of one student.
3. Calculate the total marks for each student and store the information about each student in a file system.


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Heerema Marine Contractor's iconic semisubmersible crane vessel Hermod is set to retire after a 40-year operational service history.
Hermod's first job in 1979, installing the Piper A platform topsides in the UK North Sea. Images from Heerema Marine Contractors.
Designed and constructed in the 1970s, Hermod and her sister vessel Balder were the first semisubmersible crane vessels of their kind in the offshore construction industry.
The semisubmersible concept was developed with the aim of extending operability in the harsh North Sea environment and to deliver superior lifting capacity.
This allowed Heerema Marine Contractors to work faster and during more months of the year than the conventional mono-hull crane vessels of the time.
After delivery by the Japanese Mitsui yard in 1978, Hermod's first job was the installation of the Piper A platform on the UK Continental Shelf.
The vessel executed its first project outside the North Sea in Brazil in the mid-1980s, followed by projects in the Gulf of Mexico, South East Asia and Africa.
Throughout its career, Hermod has worked in more than 25 countries and was involved in several "first-of" installation projects, including:
Hermod's first dual crane topside lift, the L13 platform, in 1986.
The demolition of Hermod will be performed in a safe and responsible way, in accordance with the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships and in line with the European Union Ship Recycling Regulation.
The Chinese demolition yard Zhoushan Changhong International Ship Recycling Company has been selected. About 98% of the vessel materials will be recycled and re-used.
Hermod's last project, installation a transformer platform on the Borkum Riffgrund 2 wind farm in July this year.
Hermod will be transported to its final destination on Boskalis' heavy transport vessel Dockwise Vanguard.
"We wish to bring a thankful salute to our Hermod and all of our colleagues involved in working on and with her, presently and in the past, being grateful for an exceptional contribution to the offshore construction industry in general and our company in particular," says HMC.
HMC is currently constructing the world's largest semisubmersible crane vessel Sleipnir in Singapore. Sleipnir has a two, 10,000-tonne lifting capacity and is due to come into service in 2019.
Sleipnir will be outfitted with a dual fuel propulsion system, whereby in LNG mode, harmful emissions will be substantially reduced.


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CHICAGO (AP) Brian Urlacher acknowledged he could miss the rest of the regular season because of a hamstring injury, meaning the linebacker might have played his last game with the Chicago Bears.
In an interview Tuesday with FOX Chicago, Urlacher said doctors told him he could be out ``two to four weeks, three, could be four.'' The Chicago Tribune, citing sources, reported earlier in the day that he was expected to miss three games and possibly the rest of the regular season because of a Grade 2 right hamstring strain.
Urlacher, who has an expiring contract, came up lame in coverage on the second-to-last snap of Sunday's overtime loss to Seattle. The eight-time Pro Bowl player said ``100 percent, yes,'' he expects to be ready for the postseason, assuming they make it.
That's not quite a given at the moment, even though they're tied with Green Bay for the NFC North lead at 8-4. A win at Minnesota this week would go a long way toward securing a spot, but with four games left, they still have some work to do.
Their only remaining home game is against the Packers, and after that, they travel to Arizona and Detroit. They've been banged up lately and dropped three of four, so the Bears are hardly peaking at the moment.
With an uncertain future in Chicago, it's possible Urlacher has played his final down for the Bears.
``I do not think that's going to happen,'' he told the TV station. ``But, if it does, I have had a really good and long career so I would be sad, but I would not be crushed.''
He's been slowed by a knee injury this year and clearly isn't as explosive.
Now, he's dealing with the hamstring issue.
Without Urlacher, Nick Roach figures to move from strong side to middle linebacker with Geno Hayes likely starting at strong side linebacker.
The Bears also signed linebacker Dom DeCicco to a two-year deal Tuesday to add depth at the position. He appeared in in all 16 games for Chicago last season and finished second on the team with 17 special teams tackles.
Online:http://pro32.ap.org/poll andhttp://twitter.com/AP-NFL


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For Christians God is understood and known as Father, Son and Holy Spirit:
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My favorite tips and locations for visitors to Chicago, Illinois. The first place I take a visitor from out of town is to Millennium Park, Museum Campus and the Signature Lounge in the John Hancock Building.
When I crave Chicago cuisine, I turn to Giordanos, Gino's East, Pizzeria Due or Lou Malnati's for Deep Dish Pizza.
To escape work I go to Oak Street or North Avenue Beach.
For complete quiet, I can hide away at Osaka Garden on Wooded Island in Jackson Park.
If you come to Chicago, get your picture taken in front of The Bean in Millennium Park or on the Museum Campus with Chicago's skyline in the background.
When I'm feeling cash-strapped, I go to Nuevo Leon in the Pilsen neighborhood.
For a huge splurge, I go to Table 52, Avec, Blackbird, Aliena or Topolobombo.
Photos ops in Chicago include The Bean, Skyline, the Michigan Avenue Bridge over the Chicago River.
The best vantage points are taken by walking to the top of Sears Tower or John Hancock Buildings. Both buildings have observatories that are available for views of the entire city.
The most random thing about Chicago is the Baconfest. The folks @ExploreChicago put the reqest for random Chicago things out to the Twitterverse and the Baconfest was decidedly a unique annual event.
In Chicago, an active day outdoors involves walking or hiking or biking or roller-blading the Lakefront Trail.
My favorite walking route is the Lakefront Trail.
Chicago's best museums, the Museum of Science and Industry, Field Museum, Art Institute, Chicago History Museum, Shedd Aquarium and Adler Planetarium to name a few. On our first trip to Chicago in 2002, we brought our children, then ages six and ten, and visited all of the museums listed above. We broke our trip into bite size pieces and the kids gobbled up all of the activities without a hint of complaint.
For a night of dancing, go to Nacional 27, HideOut or Le Passage.
The Wiener's Circle is the spot for late night dining.
To find out what's going on at night or on weekends, read Time-Out Chicago, Metromix, or The Reader.
You can tell a lot about Chicago if you take an architecture river cruise.
In the spring you should attend baseball opening day, the Great Places and Spaces Festival, or Farmers Markets.
In the summer you should attend Taste of Chicago, Millennium Park Concerts, neighborhood street festivals or SummerDance.
In the fall you should visit Fashion Focus and Chicagoween.
In the winter you should go to Holiday Events in Daley Plaza or on Michigan Avenue and check out the holiday windows at Macy's.
A hidden gem in Chicago is the Water Taxi.
For a great breakfast treat or espresso, go to Milk and Honey, Yok, Lou Mitfchells or Ann Sather.
Just outside of Chicago you can visit Oak Park, have lunch at the New Rebozo Mexican Restaurant.
The best way to see Chicago is to walk Lakefront and Michigan Avenue or ride the El around the loop. You can also take a segway tour.
If you have kids, you won't want to miss the Zoo, Millennium Park, Navy Pier or the Crown Fountain.
What are your favorite things to do in Chicago, Illinois?
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Liza Minnelli to Guest Star on Tv Musical Drama "smash"
Liza Minnelli will guest star on an episode of TV musical drama "Smash," NBC said on Tuesday.
The singer and actress will play herself and sing a number in one episode of the show when it returns in February 2013. The series, starring Debra Messing, Anjelica Huston and Katharine McPhee, dramatizes the backstage life of writers, producers and actors working to create a Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe.
"Liza Minnelli is the essence of a multi-talented, singular show business sensation, particularly for her extraordinary contributions to Broadway," Robert Greenblatt, the president of NBC Entertainment, said in a statement.
"So what could be more fitting than to have her legendary talent on a show that celebrates a world Liza has dazzled for decades?" he added
The daughter of director Vincente Minnelli and Hollywood legend Judy Garland, Minnelli, 66, is one of a handful of stars to have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony award.
She is best-known for her portrayal of Sally Bowles in the musical "Cabaret." She is also expected to revive her role as Lucille on the upcoming fourth season of "Arrested Development," which is slated to air on Netflix after being canceled by Fox in 2006.
NBC has moved the second season of "Smash" from Monday to Tuesday night, starting on February 5, 2013.
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Festo's CTEU bus node opens up Fieldbus connectivity for two pneumatic valve terminals at the same time and meets IP65 and IP67 ratings.
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From MapStory creator Chris Tucker
MapStory is not Wikipedia. But, like Wikipedia, we want MapStory to be a special place where "we can all go to think, to learn, to share our knowledge with others". As a 501c3 non-profit, the MapStory Foundation seeks to provide www.mapstory.org as a new dimension to the global data commons, which empowers all of us to organize the world's knowledge spatially and temporally - rather than encyclopedically.
When it comes to certain problems, I strongly believe that you can either make money off of them, or you can solve them. But, you can't do both. MapStory was conceived of in order to let everyone dedicate to the global data commons their knowledge about how the world has changed over time. For this to work, people must be secure in their knowledge that their cultural contributions are not subject to commercial influence.
MapStory is a new social venture, and we are still working out the kinks. If you are happy having a place where you can freely publish your spatio-temporal representations of the world to a global user community, and to easily access such data from others, perhaps you might consider contributing $10, $20, or $50 to support the hosting and operations costs of this global data commons. Remember, all donations are tax deductible.
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As a regular walker around Hollywood and West Hollywood for 25 years, I have found my experiences, however, to be anything but dull.
First, we pedestrians don't own the sidewalks. I am forced to dodge bicyclists, joggers, dog walkers, skateboarders, roller-skaters and mobility scooter users. Not to mention diners occupying outside tables on narrow sidewalks.
When I come to busy intersections, I have to always be on my toes. At Sunset and Fairfax or Santa Monica and La Cienega, for example, I never know whether those time-obsessed drivers are going to let me get across in one piece.
Neither have I found it necessary to kill time by attaching the latest digital music player to my ears. I simply entertain myself by humming some favorite tunes, such as "Angel Baby," by Rosie and the Originals (1960).
And how could I possibly be bored when some of my regular routes take me past such evocative locations as Mary Pickford's studios (Santa Monica and Formosa), Charlie Chaplin's studios (La Brea and De Longpre), and a house that once belonged to William S. Hart in West Hollywood, when it was a bucolic suburb.
Above all, however, I have discovered an astounding secret: Walkers are the honored recipients of two-second epiphanies about life in general (and theirs in particular).
The sages, of course, have long known that the angels whisper to us mortals when we go for a walk.
Anyone who is looking for a good workout and nonstop suspense, then, you need only put on a pedometer and start walking around this vibrant and dynamic city of ours.
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Kindling New Flames of Public Passion in Horse Racing
History does not support the spread of horse racing as a popular sport. It has a record of being the preserve of royalty and the wealthy. However, there is no reason why everyone should not enjoy horses and sports betting. What can race track operators do to keep their turnstiles moving? Here are 5 successful approaches that have worked around the world:
More to enjoy: a full afternoon of exciting events is not enough! Fine dining, shopping for mementoes, slot machines and fashion shows are some of the attractions other than horse racing that draw crowds to race tracks like powerful magnets! Some of the most successful US race tracks are parts of fair grounds. Operators should develop several lines of revenue to cover their fixed expenses, some of which such as jockey insurance can rise alarmingly from one year to the next.
Learning to love: race horse owners have reasons to keep their stables from prying eyes of competitors and of those with evil intentions. However, watching horses at close quarters is integral to building devoted following for horse racing. Following animals and riders elevates horse racing betting to a plane beyond that of other forms of gambling. Watching horse trainers develop legendary champions is one of the most enduring joys of following horse racing. Companies with substantial and long term investments should encourage the public to visit stables and practice sessions.
Family values: some Scottish race courses have this wonderful idea of a separate marquee just for children. It always helps to expose young people to the pleasures of being with horses, and they need to have fun things to do when they accompany parents and other adults for picnics and outings at race tracks. Many individuals would find horse racing much easier to follow if it did not mean leaving the family behind.
Answering the conscience: do guilt and negative propaganda keep scores of potential punters away from the pleasures of horse racing? Many of us are trained to think of all gambling as being bad, and have some pre-conceived notions about cruelty in horse racing. Race track owners should meet these issues head on, and communicate effectively? How many people know the contributions of horse racing to their State exchequers? Do some of us still believe in the myths of the whip and wasting horse wantonly? Horse racing is humane, tightly regulated and socially responsible-it is up to us to present the facts!
Teaching to win: how does odds betting work? What do the acronyms on a racing sheet really mean? How do weather and track conditions affect race outcomes? How much should one wager? What can we learn from horse behavior before and during a tight race? Do veterinary medicines affect performance and how do we know when a horse is under legitimate treatment? Wagers in horse racing require endless study, and indeed this is one of the most charming aspects of the sport. Spreading awareness about intelligent sports betting can do horse racing and punters equal worlds of good.
Though the United States leads the world in so many fields, horse racing is not one of them, Lexington, KY notwithstanding! Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Dubai, Switzerland and the United Kingdom all have impressive records of new and growing masses of punters, eager to have a good time on the race track, and make some welcome extra cash in the bargain! There is no more time for American operators to lose.


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Flat abs and killer confidence have one thing in common: a hard core. That's because the muscles that make up your middle dictate not only how you rock a sports bra but also whether you stand tall and pack a punch in kickboxing class. "Firming the deep ab muscles is the fastest way to shrink your waist and improve your posture," says Alexandra White, a co-owner of Jumping Frog Pilates in Tenafly, New Jersey, who supplied the six turbo toners on the next page. Grab a yoga mat and do the circuit twice, three days a week on alternating days. Then flash that superfly center!
Alex Palombo
Targets back, abs, obliques, inner thighs, and outer thighs
- Lie faceup on floor with arms and legs extended upward; lift head, neck, and shoulders off floor.
- Simultaneously lower arms out to sides and open legs 45 degrees, keeping shoulders and chest lifted throughout.
- Return to start, squeezing palms together and legs together.
- Do 10 to 12 reps.
Alex Palombo
Wiper Plank
Targets back, abs, obliques, butt, and legs
- Start on floor in plank position, balancing on forearms and toes, elbows directly under shoulders. Clasp hands together.
- Lift right leg behind you as high as you can, then lower it without touching toes to floor and bring it out to right side.
- Return right leg to center, then repeat without touching toes to floor.
- Do 10 to 12 reps. Switch legs and repeat.
Alex Palombo
Targets back, abs, and obliques
- Sit on floor with legs extended, thighs together and feet flexed; tilt torso back 45 degrees and extend arms out to sides, palms facing forward.
- Rotate torso to right, sweeping left arm across body to tap left palm to right palm.
- Return to start, then repeat to left to complete 1 rep.
- Do 10 to 12 reps.
Alex Palombo
Targets shoulders, back, abs, obliques, and hamstrings
- Stand with feet hip-width apart, elbows bent out to sides and hands touching behind head; keeping back flat, hinge forward from hips so that upper body is parallel to floor.
- Rotate torso to face right. Pause, return to center, pause again, then rotate to left to complete 1 rep.
- Do 10 to 12 reps.
Alex Palombo
Skinny Dip
Targets back, abs, obliques, and butt
- Lie on floor on left side, propped up on left forearm, knees bent 90 degrees and toes pointed behind you; extend right arm overhead.
- Lift hips off floor, then raise bent right leg a few feet. MAKE IT EASIER: Keep knees together.
- Keeping right leg lifted, dip hip to floor.
- Do 10 to 12 reps. Switch sides and repeat.
Alex Palombo
Targets shoulders, back, abs, obliques, and legs
- Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, arms extended overhead; lift right leg about a foot off floor, toes pointed.
- Hinge forward from hips and reach hands to toes.
- Keeping right foot lifted and back flat throughout, straighten up to standing start position as you lift arms overhead, then place right foot on floor.
- Switch sides and repeat. Do 10 to 12 reps, alternating sides.


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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's son on Wednesday pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor domestic violence charge after a confrontation last month with his Playmate girlfriend, Claire Sinclair.
Marston Hefner, 21, pleaded no contest in a Pasadena court to corporal injury to a spouse or cohabitant, according to City News Service.
The run-in occurred on Feb. 12 at the couple's Pasadena home.
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Mississauga, Canada, 12 May 2010 - Linde Canada's specialty gases plant in Edmonton, Alberta, celebrates its 35th anniversary this year.
Linde Canada is an affiliate of Linde North America, which is a member of The Linde Group, a world leading gases and engineering company. The specialty gases plant, which has been located at 12143 - 68 Street in Edmonton for its entire existence, has quadrupled in size since it opened its doors for business in 1975.
"A thirty-five year anniversary is a major accomplishment for any business," says plant manager Neal Konowalyk. "It speaks to the stability of the business, the quality of the people, and the level of service provided to the customers," Konowalyk said. "Over the thirty five years of operation we weathered many challenges and have worked to continually improve our systems and processes to provide our customers with value-added products and services," he said.
In its early days, the facility housed an acetylene production unit, an air separation unit (1 ton/day), and cryogenic facilities to serve the local welding and oil and gas markets. With the addition 30 years ago of gas mixing production units and a reactive gas handling unit, which includes a state-of-the art corrosive mixing area, the plant's focus moved to the specialty gases market.
The staff at the Edmonton specialty gas plant has over 100 years of production experience in this niche market. The site fills about 15,000 cylinders per year to service the oil and gas industry, analytical laboratories, hospitals, and various other markets where specialty gases are required.
The Edmonton facility now has over 20 years of experience producing stable reactive gas mixtures of hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide and ethylene oxide for the local oil and gas industry. The plant also produces custom gas and liquid mixtures which are used as laboratory standards throughout Canada, the United States, and other parts of the world, such as South Africa and Venezuela. "This is just the tip of the iceberg," said Konowalyk. "We also produce pure gases, such as air, nitrogen and hydrogen, natural gas standards, environmental standards, and other types of mixes," Konowalyk said.
The gas mixtures are offered in a variety of cylinders, including Linde's latest portable gas cylinder solution, the ECOCYL® OSQ specialty gas cylinder. ECOCYL cylinders are part of the Linde HiQ® family of specialty gases and equipment. ECOCYL cylinders have integrated cylinder valves, pressure regulators and flow control all contained within the cylinder – and permanently protected by a specially designed protective cowling. This makes the ECOCYL safer and easier to handle than cylinders requiring associated gas handling equipment. The ECOCYL is also refillable, offering an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional disposable cylinders.
About HiQ Specialty Gases
The HiQ specialty gases product range from Linde supplies high purity gases, gas mixtures, precision engineered equipment and gas distribution systems, and services and support, to a wide range of industries employing specialty gases applications. It encompasses, but is not limited to, REDLINE® specialty gases equipment, BASELINE® specialty gases regulators, SPECTRA-SEAL® calibration gas mixtures, ECOCYL portable specialty gases solutions, HiQ SPECTRA® fine chemical and high purity gases and VERISEQ® pharmaceutical grade gases.
The HiQ product brand represents Linde's commitment to the highest available quality and global consistency across gases, equipment and services.
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Actress Natalie Portman reminds the world that she is breathtakingly gorgeous by stripping down to her birthday suit in her latest Christian Dior beauty ad for the new Rouge Dior Nude Lipcolor.
Portman played the fine line of sexy and classy (kudos) by going topless but only baring her back to the camera while giving us that face.
And if this isn't risqu enough for you, let's remember that she is a wife and mother now--thank you.
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The beautiful Oscar-winner is no stranger to popping her top off for Dior. In January 2011, Portman got sultry for a perfume ad for Miss Dior Chrie.
Earlier this summer, Portman posed for a Christian Dior fragrance ad in a black, strapless, silk gown that hinted at the tutu she wore in the film "Black Swan." On the set of that film, she met her husband, Benjamin Millepied, who served as the on-set choreographer.


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Finally, the ClickOnce version of Report Builder 2.0 is available with the CTP release of SQL Server 2008 SP1 (Community Technology Preview (CTP) for Service Pack 1 of SQL Server 2008). The big changes that have been made now with this service pack are the following:
Now the big question is will the support for infinite clickthrough exist? First thing that we have to do is install SP1. So I fired up my VPC and went through the process of updating my SQL Server 2008 CU2 release. Here are some screenshots of the process:
So after that process was done (took about 20 to 25 minutes on my VPC) I was now on build number 10.0.2520 with CTP SP1 for SQL Server 2008. The main thing I wanted to check out now was the replacement of Report Builder 1.0 with 2.0 with the ClickOnce deployment. It turns out that the Report Builder option in Report Manager still points to the 1.0 release, but you can access the 2.0 release through the following URL – http://<servername>/ReportServer/ReportBuilder/ReportBuilder_2_0_0_0.application. If you want to change the settings for the Report Builder option in the toolbar you can go into the Site Settings and set Custom Report Builder launch URL to this path or you can also access this in the Advanced settings in the Report Server properties if you connect by using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) – the property is called ReportBuilderLaunchURL under the Reports section. Then the fun begins and here are some screenshots of the process:
|Accessing the ClickOnce application with the URL address
|Almost a 50 MB install (1.0 was like a 8 MB download)
|The splash screen
|And finally the application
I went ahead and created a report against the Adventure Works DW SSAS database report model and deployed the report, but unfortunately as of now there is no infinite clickthrough (Enterprise Edition feature) support like there is with Report Builder 1.0. Plus there wasn't any interactive sorting capability like with the Report Builder 1.0 reports out-of-the-box. You can go into the properties though and setup the Interactive Sorting functionality. Will clickthrough support be available at all with Report Builder 2.0? Am I just missing something? That was a really nice feature, but maybe Microsoft has decided to stop support for this option. I guess if you want to stay with that then you have to go with Report Builder 1.0 and stick to a single data region
For more information about Report Builder 2.0 configuration take a look at Teo's blog posting here Report Builder 2.0 ClickOnce. For more information about Report Builder 2.0 take a look at my posting Report Builder 2.0 RTM install and overview.
Just read this posting, How to build a Clickthrough link in Report Builder 2.0, from Bob Meyers on the MSDN blogs in regards to a couple of different options for setting up clickthrough in Report Builder 2.0. One option is to create the report in Report Builder 1.0 initially (and then you can modify it with Report Builder 2.0) and the other is to get some information from the Report Model and setup a 'Go to report' action.


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The MCX merchant consortium, which is gearing up to launch a mobile-wallet platform and bar-code based mobile-payment services in the U.S. has named the former head of mobile commerce for Barclaycard US as CEO, following a long search.
MCX, which includes large U.S. chains Wal-Mart, Target and Best Buy, announced today it has hired Dekkers Davidson, who while at UK-based Barclaycard's US credit card unit launched a bar-code based mobile payment trial in two cities.
Davidson, during his two years with Barclaycard, which ended in March, also was involved in enabling customers to easily add a cloud-based Barclaycard application to the Google Wallet and engaged in dealings with the Isis mobile operator joint venture that would see a Barclaycard-issued payment application in the Isis Mobile Wallet.
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NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – U.S.-based Cubic Transportation Systems and Israel-based trip planning app provider Moovit, now owned by Intel, have expanded their partnership to develop mobile services for transit agencies, seeking to enable transit customers to "look, book and pay" for multimodal journeys.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Major Brussels transit operator STIB-MIVB plans to begin accepting contactless EMV credit and debit cards and NFC wallets on Wednesday, the latest European capital to launch open-loop payments following the success of the technology as demonstrated in London.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – The massive new fare-collection system planned by Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, or MBTA, which will include open-loop contactless payments and an expanded closed-loop program, has had trouble getting off the ground. Late last week, the transit agency finalized its "reset" of the project, agreeing to increase the contract by nearly 30% to just over $935 million and to add two more years to the rollout schedule–all in hopes of getting the project back on track.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – As more consumers buy online, and to a lesser extent use mobile wallets for in-store purchases, because of the coronavirus pandemic, tokenized card transactions are expected to increase dramatically.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – In what is believed to be a first, a transit agency in Europe plans to accept contactless credit and debit cards using a third-party software-as-a-service platform this summer, UK-based platform provider Masabi told NFC Times, although the company declined to name the agency. The project is expected to begin as a pilot.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Apple today finally launched its Octopus transit payments service in Hong Kong on Apple Pay, nearly a year after the service was originally announced and more than two years after rival Samsung introduced a similar service in the market.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – While contactless payments in Europe were already commonplace and continue to grow, the Covid-19 pandemic has created even more interest in the technology among consumers, according to a report released Thursday by Mastercard. The report includes a survey showing that consumers in eight major European markets say they use NFC-enabled smartphones and wearables for a combined 32% of all contactless transactions, a spokeswoman confirmed to NFC Times.
NFC TIMES Exclusive – A consortium of 13 small and mid-tier transit agencies in Ohio and Northern Kentucky plans to enable customers to buy public transit tickets directly in the Uber app as early as this summer, following two other U.S. transit agencies, in Denver and Las Vegas, which have already integrated with Uber.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Samsung offered more details today about its Samsung Money debit card and "mobile-first" money management service for its Samsung Pay app, which it plans to launch in the U.S. this summer with personal finance fintech SoFi. Samsung had disclosed plans for the new service earlier this month.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – In announcing their respective quarterly results this week, both Visa and Mastercard, as expected, discussed the major disruption that Covid-19 is wreaking on the payments business. But they also noted that there is one unexpected victim of the pandemic: cash.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Citing the increased demand for cashless payments because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Westpac today became the last of Australia's big four banks to adopt Apple Pay, ending a four-year holdout that had lasted months, even years longer than its major rivals.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – With Covid-19 lockdowns causing mass transit ridership in many cities to virtually fall off a cliff–with such cities as London, New York and San Francisco reporting drops of more than 90%–transport providers worry that some riders may not come back, even after the pandemic ends.