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Think you're good at sex? The sex coach—yep, we said sex coach—will be the judge of that. He literally paces the sidelines of your bed, calling the plays and (gently) critiquing your moves. He wants to take you and your teammate to the promised land—and do you really want to argue with the Phil Jackson of boning?
A Manhattan studio apartment feels especially cramped when you're watching the couple who live there take a sex lesson. Even scrunched into the farthest corner of the love seat, I can't put more than a few inches between me and the bed, where Mike, a fitness-center manager, lies atop his girlfriend, Shannon. While I scribble furiously in my notebook ("I feel like I shouldn't be watching this") and struggle to keep my expression blank, Mike holds Shannon's face and kisses her, grinding his body against hers. He peels her tank top over her head, slips off her pants, unhooks her bra, slides her red panties down her legs, and strips to his bor briefs. Mike has some serious abs. In fact, both he and Shannon are toned and lithe, as if they fell in love at the gym. (They did.)
Shannon and Mike (not their real names) are "warming up," in the words of their sex coach, Eric Amaranth, who kneels beside the bed, offering tips and encouragement. Watching this gorgeous couple writhe on the sheets (they seem pretty warm already), I have trouble imagining that their sex life is anything short of pornographic. So why do they need coaching? "They want to learn more," Amaranth says. "Everyone should. Some people think it's wrong to work on sex—that it should just flow naturally because of how the two people feel about each other. Come on! Sex isn't always about lovemaking. Sure, that's a form of sex, but there's also animalistic, hot fucking."
I've touched on one of Amaranth's biggest pet peeves—the idea that you are who you are in bed, and that sexual prowess can't be learned. "That is such a destructive myth," he says, shaking his head.
Personally, I never subscribed to that myth. Probably because I'd never heard of it. Before meeting Amaranth, it hadn't occurred to me to seek formal sex guidance (isn't that what the Internet is for?) or to reject it. But after hanging out with him a few times and tagging along to a couple of his talk sessions (tonight is the first time I've seen his clients naked), I'm intrigued.
A few minutes ago, before the clothes came off, Amaranth used a vagina-like toy called a Fleshlight to show Mike how to stimulate the G-spot with two fingers "for 100 percent coverage," and now he rolls two Magnum XLs onto a pair of vibrators—a necessary safety precaution, since he uses the same toys for all of his "guided" sessions. On the hardwood floor, toys of all shapes and sizes, three brands of lube, a prostate massager, the Fleshlight, a clear cock ring, and a silicone butt plug sit on a white towel. It's like a sexy version of your dentist's tool tray, if your dentist specialized in a different orifice.
Amaranth is straight-backed, wiry, and fastidious—shirt tucked in, dark hair cut close to his scalp, beard cropped short on his whittled jaw. You might mistake him for a religious ascetic if he weren't always saying things like "There are things men don't know about hand jobs, like how to hold the glans with a diagonal grasp so that the coronal ridge has full contact with its surface area." (Obviously.) Mike's the one who looks like a sex pro, standing there in his underwear, tattoos scattered on his muscular torso. But the pupil just takes the vibrators from his sensei and nods thoughtfully.
In addition to coaching—a two-hour session runs $240—Amaranth offers health-and-wellness tips; sex-enhancement workouts; personal shopping for toys and lingerie; and for those willing to shell out up to $7,000, a full sex-life makeover. His client list includes newlyweds, 18-year-old "beginners," premature ejaculators, couples who have young children and are desperate "to figure out how they can still have a sex life," middle-aged single ladies on the cusp of cougardom, and sexual alpha types who are hungry for Amaranth's "advanced" secrets. Then there are the Mikes and Shannons, regular people who fuck respectably without guidance but who thought a little sex coaching might be fun.
"There's stuff you can only learn through lots of practice," Amaranth says. "And if you can't get solid, powerful technique down, then you'll never be a sex god."
As a young man, Amaranth started reading about sex for the same reason most guys start reading about sex: He really wanted to have some. He loved the way women looked when they were aroused. He wanted to master the art of getting women off. Nothing was going to stop him, not even his virginity. When the time came to have sex, he was going to be ready.
And the more he read about sex, the more engrossed he became in the details. In college, he felt dissatisfied with his professors' myopic focus on sex therapy—all that soft stuff about feelings and emotional connection—and their dearth of knowledge about applied sex education. (By then he'd started applying his own education, having lost his virginity at 19.) So he turned to the work of Betty Dodson, pioneer of sexual liberation, queen of the vibrator, one of the original members of the "sex-positive feminist movement," and author of Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving, a book about masturbation that has sold over 1 million copies internationally since its release (forgive the pun) in 1974.
At 22, after corresponding with Dodson for months, Amaranth took a bus to New York from his college in Virginia and showed up on her doorstep. Hours after he offered himself as a student, they chucked that charade and hopped into the sack. So began Amaranth's apprenticeship with Dodson, and also, despite their forty-seven-year age gap (!), their ten-year love affair.
Amaranth ignored criticisms of the relationship. So what if his old lady was, well, an old lady? Who wouldn't want to go to bed with one of the world's leading sex teachers? He holds that most people don't appreciate the full spectrum of hot. "Big breasts and a tiny waist, yeah, okay, that's hot. But so is sex done with advanced technique. When both partners really know what they're doing, that's hot." Undeniably, Betty Dodson knew what she was doing. And after ten years of banging her, so did Eric Amaranth.
Mike is kneeling on the bed in front of Shannon, tentatively wielding one of the Magnum-wrapped vibrators. Amaranth asks Shannon which kind of "pressure" she prefers, and then tells Mike to use the toy on her through a towel. "I like it better without," Shannon says, and Mike flings the towel aside.
As you've probably gathered, Amaranth is passionate about the power of toys. They enhance sex, he says, because they free the body from its usual constraints. With toys, a couple isn't restricted to four hands, two mouths, and one penis that comes in one size and is sometimes out of commission. "When I have sex," Amaranth explains, pointing to a few dildos, "that's my penis and that's my penis and that's my penis." (You might think a groovy, sex-positive guy like Amaranth would dispense with the clinical language and opt for raunchier slang. And sometimes he does—when the client requests it. Otherwise he keeps it cleanish. He's also impervious to the giggly, immature reactions that the subject of sex elicits in most people. He could probably say "vagina" ten times, slowly, without laughing, while staring you in the eye.)
"But what if a woman doesn't want her boyfriend to fuck her with a bunch of dildos?" I wonder.
"That's okay," Amaranth says. "If she has a strong aversion, it's unethical to keep harping, but she should be interested in at least trying it out. If you have too many blocks, resentments form. And that's destructive to your sex life."
As we discuss these "blocks," I offer the example of anal sex—a classic male enthusiasm that many women abhor. "What can a couple do to find common ground in the anal-sex department?"
"Start with smaller things," Amaranth says. "You don't have to start with the penis. Also, he should combine the anal penetration with clitoral stimulation, because at first anal penetration alone won't create an orgasm. Later, once the sensations have been integrated, he'll be able to bring her to orgasm with just penetration."
Although perfecting anal-sex technique might sound like a dream job, being a sex coach, especially a male sex coach, has its drawbacks. Take, for example, the one-on-one sessions Amaranth does with straight women who want help masturbating. Predictably, this kind of session can become a blue-balls hatchery. Once he met a client, a businesswoman in her late thirties, in a hotel room. As Amaranth knelt on the floor at the foot of the bed, guiding her through "manual clitoral stimulation paired with G-spot vibrator stimulation" (his words for what others might call, simply, "masturbating with gusto"), she moaned, "I so want your cock inside me!"
Incidents like this are not uncommon, but he says he remembers his manners every time. "Thank you for that vote of confidence," he told her, "and for the honor. But I'm just the guy giving you instructions."
Every once in a while, those instructions simply aren't enough. "Do you ever have couples who just suck at sex?" I ask. "No matter how much coaching you give them?"
"It can be tough for people who have severe coordination issues," he says. "This one woman said she couldn't make men come. We did a session where we were each holding a dildo, so I could demonstrate a technique and she could copy it. And I saw what the problem was: Her coordination was so bad, she couldn't even do the up-down, up-down motion."
Fortunately, he says, the hopeless moments are a lot less common than the big, satisfying breakthroughs. "The woman will have the first G-spot orgasm of her life, and then the guy's high-fiving me. One time the couple took me out for sushi."
Forty-five minutes into the session, as Mike tests out the two vibrators, Shannon isn't just relad—she seems to have forgotten we're even there. In turn, I relax, too. I've been hiding behind my notebook, feeling like some Jane Goodall of the Upper West Side, but now I stop writing and just watch: A pink flush rises from Shannon's chest to her cheeks, her breathing quickens, and her back arches. She clutches Mike's thighs and digs her nails in.
Amaranth reminds them that it's not "orgasm time" just yet. He wants Shannon to have a wider range of experiences first. He tells her that if she thinks she's about to come, she should force herself to take a ten-second break. Shannon complies, pushing away the vibrator. Lying spread-eagled on the bed, panting, she rakes her fingers through her sweaty hair. But just moments later, she starts squirming again. Mike resumes with the toy, and Amaranth asks him whether he can feel her vagina opening. When Mike says that he can, Amaranth offers him a larger dildo.
With ten minutes left in the session, Amaranth tells Shannon that she's welcome to finish. At this point, Mike is moving a fluorescent pink dildo in and out of her while she draws small circles on her clit with an Eroscillator, a toy designed by the inventor of the first successful electric toothbrush. Shannon, having delayed her orgasm several times, explodes and pulls Mike down on top of her. They lie spent, their breathing synchronized, in a tangle of limbs.
Amaranth smiles. "Cuddle time," he says.
He uses the remainder of the session to explain a few sex positions that Mike and Shannon can try later. ("We do that one all the time!" Mike says proudly when Amaranth details a tummy-down, man-on-top configuration.) As a gift, he presents Mike with a brand-new cock ring. "This isn't just something to use if your dick isn't getting hard. Even if you're 100 percent hard, this will bring you to 110 percent. You know the hardness you have when you come? With this, you'll have that hardness the whole time. Then when you come, your hardness will be at 115 percent."
Shannon pulls on a pair of yoga pants and fishes her tank top off the floor. Mike, still in just his underwear, starts tidying up the apartment, making small talk. While Amaranth washes his toys in the sink, Mike and Shannon tell me their story. They started dating a year ago. They're training for a triathlon. They don't mind sharing such a small living space; they're just happy to be together. And although they claimed to hire Amaranth out of "curiosity," they fell in love on the sly and left their marriages for each other. So doesn't it make sense that they would hire a sex coach to preserve what they know can get lost? Wouldn't it make sense for most couples?
For a culture as sex-obsessed as ours, it's a little weird that so many people just wing it. Shouldn't we all welcome Amaranth's sextopian vision? It's a world where everyone fucks at the highest level, nobody ever gets laid the same way twice, and your girlfriend can't wait to hop into bed every night—with you and all your penises.
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PET scans use a radioactive tracer that is introduced into your body to measure the cellular activity of the cell type or body part being scanned. A CT scan takes a large number of x-rays. These are analyzed by a computer to create a three-dimensional image of the body part being studied. When both tests are performed at the same time, the information about function and structure is integrated through computer models.
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Because PET/CT scans provide a combination of information about the function and structure of a body part, they are useful for the early diagnosis of cancer. Not only can an abnormal tumor be seen, but the function of the cells that make up the tumor can be analyzed as well. This can help to differentiate between cancerous and noncancerous growths.
PET/CT can also be used to see if cancer has spread into other areas of the body.
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One way in which stocks are valued is the price to earnings ratio, commonly abbreviated as P/E or p/e. It is a fairly simple calculation that divides a stock's price by the company's earnings per share for a given 12-month period. The logic of the ratio is that by owning a share of a company you are, arguably, buying the future stream of earnings the company generates.
If a company's earnings are growing strongly, investors might logically assume that today's earnings are worth more because of the potential for future growth. Conversely, if a company's earnings are growing slowly or unevenly, it wouldn't make logical sense to pay a premium. This last statement highlights an important aspect of the P/E ratio—by itself it provides minimal information. To properly use the P/E as a valuation tool, it must be compared to something.
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Very often, a P/E is best used to simply cut companies from a list of research candidates. It is, indeed, a quick way to pull out companies that are trading relatively cheaply from a much wider group. To this end, each week The Value Line Investment Survey contains a listing of the 100 companies with the lowest Price to Earnings ratios out of the approximately 1,700 followed by the Service (it is paired with a similar screen for the highest P/Es). For value-oriented investors, this list of low Price to Earnings ratio stocks is a great place to start looking for investment ideas. Below are a couple of companies that were recently found on this list, namely Rio Tinto plc (RIO) and Cirrus Logic (CRUS).
Rio Tinto plc
Rio Tinto, based in the United Kingdom, is the world's second largest mining company behind BHP Billiton (BHP). The company mines and processes a diversified range of minerals that make aluminum, copper, iron, etc. Around half of Rio Tinto's revenue and over 80% of its income stems from iron ore extraction, a key ingredient in steel. It also produces energy assets, such as coal and uranium, plus industrial minerals, like borax, titanium dioxide, and salt. The company's operations are located across the globe, with significant concentration in North America and Australia, and smaller presence in South America, Asia, Europe, and South Africa.
Rio has hit a few bumps in the road of late. Former chief Executive Tom Albanese recently resigned after the company revealed that it will post a $14 billion write-down of goodwill, which was added to the balance sheet after the acquisition of certain coal and aluminum assets. The change in asset valuation indicates that Rio paid too much for Alcan and Riversdale Mining. We believe Mr. Albanese's replacement, Sam Walsh, will do well to get the miner focused on core operations. Mr. Albanese's previously headed up Rio's iron ore business and is looking to expand it further.
In addition, the company has agreed to sell certain facilities in South America. Exiting less profitable businesses ultimately makes sense for Rio Tinto, since this reduces liabilities. What's more, capital will be available for more-desirable projects. Notably, the company spent more than $7 billion on expansionary initiatives during 2012.
The stock has regained some lost ground of late, arising partly, it seems, from better-than-expected economic figures in China (a huge consumer of commodities) and the change in leadership. Furthermore, capital appreciation potential over the 2015-2017 horizon still looks appealing, when compared to the Value Line median. But prospective investors should be aware that these shares can be quite volatile, at times, reflecting fluctuations in the prices for various metals as well as the global and Chinese economic outlooks.
Cirrus Logic
Cirrus supplies high-performance analog circuits and advanced mixed-signal system-level chip solutions. Products sold under the company's name and Crystal brand enable system-level applications in mass storage, audio, and precision data conversion. Sales from outside the United States currently account for more than 85% of the company's total.
Overall results have been good thus far in fiscal 2012, which ends on March 31st. We attribute that partly to a good performance from the Audio Products division, brought about by healthy demand for portable products. Notably, the company continues to benefit nicely from the success of its biggest customer, Apple (AAPL), which comprises nearly 80% of total revenue at present. On the negative side, the Energy Products group has suffered from diminished volumes of power amplifier and power meter products. Too, profits have been constrained somewhat by a big ramp-up in R&D spending in order to support multiple new product launches.
The stock has fallen considerably over the past few months. We believe that movement is the market's overreaction to management's tempered (but still decent) near-term outlook for Apple. We think there is little risk that Cirrus will lose designs in future Apple products. In fact, its presence should only expand as new devices are revealed.
Importantly, Cirrus is set to release December quarter earnings after market close on Thursday January 24th; investors may wish to remain on the sidelines until earnings are released.
At the current quotation, these shares stand to bounce back sharply in time. Still, given the cyclical nature of Cirrus' operations, risk-tolerant accounts need only apply.
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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Age: 29
Finally, I managed to read all the translated chapters. I feel like a bad person, I demand translations but when they're translated I don't read
Not many comments. Honestly, I always thought that anime is easier to understand than any other source or adaptation. Now I'm sure, I was wrong, really wrong. My memory fails me, but did season two end with Galia's attack? Was Galia ever mentioned in season two? I hate you JC Staff! hehe.
And I'm really glad I'm reading, otherwise I would have always thought that tiffania was just a pair of boobs with a body (note the difference with "a body with a pair of boobs"). A bit childish of course, but still interesting.
Last, I loved the SiestaxSaito kiss. It felt more dream-like or romantic than any other LouisexSaito kiss IMO. Shame on Saito for not wanting to continue. Poor Siesta
And I admit I skipped most of "Saito's morning" chapter. Should I go back and re-read? After watching Anime Louise, I really didn't want to read about Louise kicking Saito anymore so I skipped that part and finaly decided I wasn't missing anything big in that chapter.
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No, but taht chapter was hilarious...One of the funiest if not the funniest chapter from all ZnT novels...So yeah I think you should go back and reread it.
And I do not think SiestaxSaito moment was that romantic as far as mutual romance go. More like Siesta was trying to push her feelings to Saito who already had his heart taken.
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It's really a shame Siesta hasn't gotten any appearance lately. Saito x Siesta FTW!
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Jim Cicconi was at the New America Foundation late last week to discuss his thoughts about the U.N. / ITU / ITRs currently being addressed in Dubai, as well as their connection to how companies like AT&T can modernize its communications networks for consumers in a way that is not hamstrung by 1934-style telephone regulations.
Above is a brief video except of that talk, and below is the transcription of that excerpt.
Jonathan Koppell, interviewer: How is the business model, if you will, in these countries, and the regulatory power countries, threatened by the status quo? And what is the protection they're seeking, right, from a business point of view?
Jim Cicconi: I think it was stated earlier. I can't remember who said it, but you do have bad actors here. You do have authoritarian countries who simply want control in this space for purposes of repression. And then you have a group of other countries that may want control, maybe not for that purpose, but just have trouble abandoning the old model. And I think it was said earlier, and I agree with it, that the danger is not that the ITU takes over the Internet. You know, that's not what AT&T is worried about. But we are worried that it does provide a legal underpinning for nation-states being much more repressive, much more controlling about the Internet.
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Cicconi: I think that anybody who argues to change it, or that we need more governance or regulation, whether it's at the ITU or some nation-state level, you know, in the current situation, I think bears a heavy burden of demonstrating why. Now, we're going to confront a lot of these questions here in this country, you know, as we make our own broadband transition. We have to modernize our own regulations. Everybody understands this because the regulations we have in place today are still designed for a monopoly, voice-only phone system that doesn't exist anymore. They're not designed for an IP broadband world. And I think just as we're resisting the ETNO proposals, we need to resist similar notions here of just reflexively taking those old-style rules designed for 1934 and applying them to a 21st Century technology. I'm not saying that this has to be a regulation-free zone or something. But I am saying that we ought to design the regulations for the technology we have today, for the problems that we face today, not simply assume, you know, that things are going to be like they were 70 years ago and apply the same model. The President talks about smart regulation, and I think this is the epitome of it. It's silly as heck that when you build a modern IP network, you can't turn off the old network. The regulations bar you from doing that, whether you've got any users on it or not. It makes no sense. And, of course, it costs you money forever not being able to do that. So, we need to modernize this, and I think it can be done in a tempered way, and in a careful way, but it needs to be done. And we need to resist this notion, I think that's being pushed by other carriers in other countries, that we should somehow just treat the Internet like it's one big telephone system. It's not.


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Attorney General Terry Goddard today received the Presidents Award from the Arizona Community Action Association for his work protecting consumers in Arizona.
With Arizona among the states hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis, a surge in mortgage fraud has followed. Goddard has gone after fraud artists with both criminal prosecution and civil lawsuits. He recently joined U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in a Mortgage Fraud Summit in Phoenix with federal, state and local law enforcement officials, whose work will be helped with an additional $1.7 million in federal funds to Arizona to fight mortgage fraud. Goddard also has ramped up educational efforts aimed at preventing mortgage ripoffs.
In tough economic times it is more important than ever to combat the scam artists who rob hard working Arizonans of their last dollars, Goddard said. Fighting for Arizona consumers and protecting their rights has always been a top priority for me and the Attorney Generals Office. Arizona is at the center of the housing crisis, and I am committed to continue the fight to keep as many Arizona families as possible out of foreclosure and in their homes.
Each year we have the privilege of honoring a member of our community who has made a significant impact in the lives of vulnerable Arizonans, stated Margarita Leyvas, president of the Arizona Community Action Association. Attorney General Terry Goddard has done an excellent job of this throughout his career as a public servant. He has worked to ensure that consumers are informed about fraudulent practices that vulnerable Arizonans, particularly the elderly, fall prey to. We are proud to be honoring Terry Goddard for his dedication and commitment to Arizona residents.


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2011 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano: Overview
Pros: Incredibly fast thanks to 6.0-liter V12 engine; Offered in a high-performance GTO edition; Corners with incredible precision; Still offers enthusiast-friendly stick shift
Cons: Doesn't offer Ferrari's slick dual-clutch automatic transmission; No convertible -- unless you get the high-priced SA Aperta version; Very expensive to buy and own
What's new? The 2011 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano was unchanged in its final year on the market. The F12 Berlinetta replaced it for 2013.
The front-engine, V12-powered 2011 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano was originally introduced in 2007 to replace the 575M Maranello. Like the Maranello, the 2011 Fiorano offered only two seats, though with a far more upscale cabin. It was also available with a true 6-speed manual transmission, making it one of the last Ferrari models to do so.
Three versions of the 2011 Fiorano were available. The most popular was the coupe-only version. Two new versions joined the lineup in the model's final year: a high-performance 599 GTO and a limited-production 599 SA Aperta convertible. All offered a 6-liter V12 engine, which produced 620 horsepower and 448 lb-ft of torque.
The 2011 Fiorano was priced at $311,000 for a base-level model with a 6-speed manual transmission. Adding Ferrari's F1 single-clutch automatic brought the price to around $320,000. Drivers who could get their hands on the SA Aperta model paid around $500,000 for the privilege of owning the extremely rare convertible.


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Yes, back to Humpty Dumpty:Spiny Norman wrote:I think the same applies to "God", it seems to mean whatever people want it to mean.daverupa wrote: Modern thinking about Xianity is all over the map, it seems. "Xian" is (almost?) a meaningless term.
"I don't know what you mean by 'glory,' " Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't—till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!' "
"But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument'," Alice objected.
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."
Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. "They've a temper, some of them—particularly verbs, they're the proudest—adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs—however, I can manage the whole lot! Impenetrability! That's what I say!"
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2014 BMW 5-Series Updated, Adds Diesel Model
- 2014 BMW 5-Series offers slightly revised styling
- New diesel-powered 535d available
- 5-Series GT hatchback also updated for 2014
Several changes are coming to the BMW 5-Series lineup for 2014. BMW recently announced several updates to its midsize sedan for the new model year, including a face-lift and a new engine. And updates aren't confined to the sedan: BMW is also changing the 5-Series GT hatchback.
The biggest news for 2014 is the addition of a diesel model to the 5-Series lineup. Available only as a sedan, the 535d will be powered by a 3.0-liter turbodiesel 6-cylinder. The engine makes just 255 horsepower but delivers a whopping 413 lb-ft of torque. That means it'll feel fast at lower speeds, such as in the city and on highway on-ramps.
Of course, the 535d also will offer exceptional gas mileage. In the smaller 3-Series, the same engine is good for 23 miles per gallon city and 36 mpg highway. That's far better than the 19 mpg city and 28 mpg highway of the gas-powered 335i. The Environmental Protection Agency has not yet rated the 535d, but we expect only slightly lower numbers for the larger sedan.
BMW is giving the 5-Series sedan a minor face-lift for 2014, as well. On the outside, both front and rear bumpers are revised. Inside, the sedan boasts larger storage units and chrome trim. Possibly the biggest update is the touchpad now included in the 5-Series' iDrive system. That means drivers can type instead of using the circular iDrive controller to scroll through an on-screen keyboard.
The 5-door 5-Series GT hatchback is also updated for 2014. The GT's exterior changes are more substantial than the sedan's, and include new headlights and taillights as well as revised front and rear bumpers. Inside, the cargo area is enlarged for more room, while the GT's iDrive also uses the same new touchpad as its sedan counterpart.
BMW says the 2014 5-Series range will start with the 528i, at $50,425. The new 535d is priced from $57,525 with rear-wheel drive or $59,825 with all-wheel drive. The updated 5-Series goes on sale in August.
What it means to you: For most shoppers, the biggest news about the 2014 BMW 5-Series is the addition of the all-new, diesel-powered 535d.


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2. Khaseem Greene, OLB, Rutgers
-Okay I'll preface this by saying I have no idea who I think or want the Hawks to take at 56. I kinda wanted a safety to replace Kam next year, but now Kam got a contract. There's no late 2nd receiver I think would be worth it. I'm not a huge fan of the DT options in that range, at first I had Brandon Williams at this spot, but from what I read he's not that explosive or a particularly good run stuffer and at 6' 1" doesn't seem like the right size. Christine Michael has been popular recently but I just don't feel right taking a 3rd running back that high. So apparently I'm going with Khaseem, despite me really doubting the Hawks care to take another 2nd round LB. Maybe we will go right tackle. Friday needs to get here.
3. Travis Kelce, TE, Cincinnati
-Future replacement for Miller. Great blocker and seems to be able to get down field well enough for a big guy. I'm not sure he'll be there in the 3rd but he's one of my favorite players in the draft. I feel like Bevell could find a use for 3 TE's who can all inline block. It's likely Pete and John would rather get a joker but I want Kelce. So yeah.
4. Montori Hughes, DT, Tennesee Martin
-Impressed at the Senior Bowl, helps at depth at defensive tackle.
5. Duke Williams, S, Nevada
-Can play single high coverage. Earl, Chancellor, Duke. 'nough said.
5. Matt Scott, QB, Arizona
-Backup to Russell, Probably goes earlier than this.
6. Marquess Wilson, WR, WSU
-Upside, competition for the backup to Sidney/5th WR spot.
7. Kerwynn Williams, RB, Nevada
-Turbin and Kerwynn reunited!
7. Demetrius McCray, CB, Appalachian State
- 6' 1" and fast. Obligatory DB selection, Mark Legree take two.
7. Caleb Sturgis, K, Florida
- Kicker competition!
7. Phillip Steward, OLB, Houston
-One of the Fieldgulls writers talked him up a while ago. Sold!


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We love the idea of being able to decorate for the holidays without having to take everything down once the holiday season is over. We accomplish this by using the seasons colors and lights (and steer clear of buying Santa Claus and his eight tiny reindeer).
- Incorporate pops of color (think reds, golds, blues and greens). This small entryway rug is fun and bold. Made from recycled T-shirts, it's bound to be a conversation starter that you won't have to store once the holiday season is over.
- The use of mirrors. Anything that helps the room sparkle is great for creating a festive, holiday vibe. Whether you use a mirrored tray or table top, the effect is bright and shiny (not to mention the reflective quality always helps open up a small space).
- Decorate with plants. During the holidays, you can garnish your potted plant with homemade garland and a few ornaments. After the holiday season has passed, your plants will continue to make your home cozy and inviting.
- Display a grouping of vases or glassware. During Christmas, large glass vases can hold pine cones and ornaments. Once spring rolls around, you might want to display fruit or bouquet of fragrant flowers.
- Hang holiday lights. Christmas lights aren't just for trimming the tree. We've seen them displayed in a clear vase or draped on the mantelpiece. When the weather warms up, you can move the string of lights outdoors for the ideal party lighting on the patio.
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Vegetarians and vegans can eat quite well in most countries. The traditional cuisine and the style of eating in many countries can make it a bit difficult for vegetarians or vegans to find food without animal products in it. However, most cultures have a at least a few vegetarian dishes, and many, if not most restaurants are willing to leave out or substitute animal ingredients.
Take your diet into consideration when planning your trip. Where will you be going? There will be a greater variety of food available in big urban centers then there will be in rural areas. If you want to visit a tiny village in rural Vietnam, fine, but be prepared that you may have to limit the variety in your diet, or work with restaurants or others feeding you to come up with food to your liking.
Research the cuisine for the place you are going. There will be a couple of vegetable/grain dishes everywhere so you'll have something to order in restaurants. This will also give you an idea of local cooking techniques; often times innocent looking vegetable dishes will be cooked in chicken stock.
Look up lists of vegetarian restaurants and grocery stores in the area you'll be staying, check the destination guides for the area you will be visiting for information. Try local vegetarian groups in the area you'll be visiting.
Among countries in which vegetarianism and veganism is not the norm, those in the West tend to be the most accommodating, and even non-veg restaurants, particularly in the Netherlands, Denmark, the US and the UK, generally offer several vegetarian options.
Other countries, such as India and Taiwan, have a tradition of vegetarianism and so finding suitable meals in these places will not be a problem.
Explaining your diet
In many countries and cultures (especially developing countries where focus is often on getting any sort of food) vegetarianism/veganism is very rare or unheard of. People will feel insulted when you turn down the lamb kabobs they have prepared for you. Come up with a short explanation and be prepared to repeat it. If you're vegetarian/vegan for non-religious ethical reasons, in places with a language barrier or strong food/host tradition it's usually best to refrain from explaining out your beliefs and go with something inarguable (medical reasons, something vaguely religious or cultural). Be polite and apologetic as you would anywhere.
The tiny book Vegan Passport (ISBN 0907337309) contains a short explanation of what vegans eat, don't eat, and why. This is explained in about 40 languages, one page per language, and all you have to do is to show the right page to the restaurant staff. Another source of very brief listings of what vegans eat/don't eat, in many different languages, is available from the International Vegetarian Union's list of phrases.
In some cultures, there may be an internal vegetarian tradition of some kind that you can compare your diet to. In countries with Buddhist sub-populations, some vegetarian travellers find that calling their diet "Buddhist" is the simplest way to explain it.
Be as considerate as you are in your home country. If you are staying long term with someone or eating dinner at their house, let them know about your diet. Ask if you can bring food, give them examples of common local vegetarian dishes. Let them know that you don't mind them eating meat/milk/eggs/cheese.
When all else fails, hit the grocery store/local veggie market. You can cobble something together with a camping stove or get an apartment with a kitchen.
You can try GM Diet Plan which was developed by General Motors company for their employees for their good health and wellness. This food Plan was developed with the help of Food and Drug Administration and Department of Agriculture of United States of America. On 15th August 1985 this diet plan was approved and distributed by its board members at its general meeting. GM Diet Plan is wholly endorsed by General Motors and this Diet plan is available to all employees and families at its Food Service Facilities.


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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) Jaye Crockett scored 22 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead Texas Tech to a 91-63 win over Nebraska-Omaha on Wednesday night.
Crockett shot 9 of 12 from the field and was flawless from behind the 3-point mark and the free-throw line.
Texas Tech blew a 13-point lead to go into halftime up by only six. After the half, Dejan Kravic and Crockett helped the Red Raiders break open a lead that would only grow.
Kravic added 20 points for the Red Raiders, with all but two of those coming in the second half.
The Red Raiders (2-0) crashed the boards, out-rebounding the Mavericks (1-2) 48 to 27.
The Red Raiders pressed aggressively all game long, which translated into 10 steals and kept the Mavericks on their heels.
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April 7, 2008
by Caleb Peiffer
It's No. 1 in the Pomeroy Ratings versus No. 2 for the title tonight in San Antonio. Which elite defense will prevail?
April 5, 2008
Two games featuring the four best teams in the nation should make for a truly outstanding day of basketball.
March 30, 2008
Ken Pomeroy's "Doomsday Scenario" is just two wins away. Can Texas or Davidson save the day?
March 29, 2008
Two No. 3 seeds look to knock off No. 1's, and both attempts figure to make for thrilling games.
March 28, 2008
Friday's pairings feature three teams looking to score major upsets, as well a game between squads that are just one spot apart in the Pomeroy Ratings.
March 27, 2008
The first four regional semifinals promise to produce three very close games, and one chance for a No. 12 seed to continue its remarkable run.
March 23, 2008
Easter Sunday finds two 12 seeds and two 13's still alive, and paired off in unlikely yet potentially thrilling matchups.
March 22, 2008
Basketball Prospectus was at the Verizon Center to bring you the second round tournament action, as West Virginia and Xavier advanced to the Sweet 16.
After a thrilling day two of the tournament, the second round gets underway, with eight spots in the Sweet 16 waiting to be claimed.
March 21, 2008
Just two lower seeds were victorious in the 16 games yesterday, wins predicted accurately in both cases by the Pomeroy Ratings. Will the upsets start coming today?
March 20, 2008
Basketball Prospectus is at the Verizon Center to bring you the first round tournament action from the capital.
Let the games begin.
March 18, 2008
You never know which team might make NCAA tournament history, which is why you should read up on tonight's matchup between Coppin St. and Mount St. Mary's.
March 16, 2008
Selection Sunday features five tournament championship games, and four teams that need wins in order to make the NCAA tournament.
March 15, 2008
Championship Day has arrived, with 11 conferences title games.
March 14, 2008
Your guide to the biggest day of the college basketball season to date.
March 13, 2008
The Big East, Atlantic 10, and Pacific 10 narrow their fields to four, while three bubble teams look to make their case as the ACC and SEC tourneys get underway.
March 12, 2008
The Northeast and Big Sky each send a representative to the Dance, while the Big East and Atlantic 10 tournaments crank into action.
March 11, 2008
The Summit and Horizon Leagues and the Sun Belt play their tournament championship games tonight.
March 10, 2008
Senior guard Tay Fisher came off the bench to hit six three pointers as the Saints rolled to the MAAC tournament championship and a berth in the NCAA field.


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When KDE 4.0 was released, there was a lot of criticism being thrown its way, but it's important to make a distinction between two types: the criticism that KDE 4.0 shouldn't have have been released as 4.0, but as a developer preview or something - and the criticism that KDE 4.0 was different than KDE 3.x, and did things in a different way. Windows 7 didn't have the released-too-early problem (yet), but did face a storm of criticism from people like Paul Thurrot for being too different from what came before it.
In a sense, with today's release of KDE 4.2, both KDE and Windows 7 are in a very similar position. Both KDE 4.2 and Windows 7 build upon frameworks and technologies that have been available for a while, exposing them to users in a useful way. For instance, Windows 7's HomeGroup doesn't introduce any new technologies; it builds upon low-level features and frameworks already present in Windows Vista. It just ties those low-level features together and makes them transparent to the user. The Windows 7 taskbar is a similar case; it also ties features and abilities of previous Windows releases together to make the taskbar a better fit for the Windows application/document paradigm.
The same more or less applies to KDE 4.2, only to a much greater degree, as the changes between KDE 3 and KDE 4 are much more encompassing and drastic than those between Vista and Windows 7. KDE 4.2 builds upon the frameworks and low-level features introduced in previous KDE 4.x releases,and exposes them to users in a useful way. This process is on-going, and future KDE 4.x releases will only expose more of the fancy new frameworks to users.
Both KDE and Windows should be commended for trying to change some of the established UI conventions, trying out new ideas, and implementing new approaches to user interaction. KDE's ideas are much more drastic than Windows', but the essence remains the same.
Like I said, I've seen many people criticise the changes implemented by both Windows 7 and KDE 4, and all of these criticisms seem to come from people who at least call themselves technically inclined and computer enthusiasts. I realised ages ago that computer users most averse to change are not normal, every-day users - but nerds, geeks, computer enthusiasts. Normal users aren't as averse to change as many seem to imply.
Hundreds of thousands of people switch from Windows to Mac OS X every year. I've seen many of my friends switch to Mac OS X without so much as a hitch. A few pointers, maybe, but that's it. If you've ever seen someone use Microsoft's ribbon interface for the first time, you'll see that it doesn't take them very long to adapt.
My point is that us tech folk always criticise the normal users for being averse to change, inflexible, and, well, plain stupid, barely able to find the "on" button - but if my years and years of OSNews reading, commenting, and editing have taught me one thing, it's that the more technically inclined people are, the more averse to change they are.
No better is this illustrated than by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols latest piece. He criticises both KDE 4 and Windows 7, but all of his criticism basically comes down to "I have to do things slightly differently! Help! I'm lost!" - exactly, the same thing we are so eager to blame normal users of doing. And I might have singled out SJVN, but he's not the only one of his kind being averse to change. Just browse through the OSNews comments' section to any article related to KDE 4, Windows 7, or Office 2007, and you'll see one after another.
I find it slightly amusing that the people who are the most stern advocates of normal users moving away from Windows, trying out alternatives, are the same people who are usually lost whenever they themselves have to change their way of doing things. Do as I say, but not as I do.
KDE 4.2's release is imminent, and while it certainly isn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination, the KDE team deserves praise for at least having the guts to go against the stream and come up with something truly new. Instead of condemning them for it, why don't you give them an honest chance for a change, and not curl up in a fetal position when you discover they moved your pet feature three pixels.


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Cooler Master Elite 310 Review
Buying a low cost computer case can sometimes be a gamble. There are so many places manufacturers can cut costs and sometimes the end product can be a flimsy, low quality mess. Cooler Master is a highly regarded manufacturer of computer cases, and its Elite 310 mid tower is an affordable option for someone who wants a good looking case without breaking the bank. Available at some vendors for less than $40, the Elite 310 definitely falls into the low cost category and I was anxious to see how it holds up.
Closer Look:
The Elite 310 is packaged in a plain, brown box with the Cooler Master logo at the top and its model number and the specifications printed across the middle. Both the front and the side are identical to their opposite end, which is why there is only one picture of the box show below. Picking the box up and moving it made a curious noise; somewhat of a sloshing sound. Somehow the bag of screws inside the case had torn open, leaving screws all over the inside of the case. It certainly was not fun finding them all before picture taking, nor later finding some in my feet because a few escaped. I'm not entirely sure how the bag tore while it was inside the case, as it was taped to the 3.5" drive bays, but nonetheless, it did.
Opening the box offers no surprises, just a simple view of the usual styrofoam blocks on either end of the case, with the case wrapped in a plastic bag. The case seemed to be unscathed, altough there may have been an impact where the front of the case was, since some of the drive covers had been detached. Regardless, there was no damage.
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Western Grey Kangaroo
(Macropus fuliginosus)
Facts about this animal
The Western grey kangaroo is one of the largest kangaroo species. Males may reach a length of up to 225 cm from head to tail and weigh up to 54 kgs, and the length of the tail, which is used as a balance in locomotion, ranges from 42-100 cm. The muscles are well developed, allowing the animals to leap up to 12 metres in a single hop and reach speeds of 60km/h. The species exhibits sexual dimorphism, whereby females are considerably smaller than males. Males are also characterized by a strong, curry-like smell. The colour of the coat varies from greyish-brown to reddish-brown and to chocolate-brown. The muzzle has finer hairs than most other kangaroo species.
Open grasslands, near water and with nearby forest or woodland, are the preferred habitat of the western grey. Probably the species is now found in greater numbers than before European settlement because of the provision of pasture and additional water points. As a result, western greys are often culled under licence in some areas by farmers concerned about damage to fences and crops.
Western greys are mainly grass eaters. They usually produce one "joey".They have no particular breeding season, although most young are born in the Australian summer. Newborns are minuscule, resemble a jelly bean and take only a few minutes to climb to the pouch and attach them selves to a teat. They leave the pouch at around nine months but continue to suckle for a further nine months, often while another young is occupying the pouch. Western grey kangaroos are the very vocal. The mothers communicate to the joeys with a series of clicks.
Did you know?
that the western grey kangaroo was described in 1817 at the Paris Natural History Museum on the basis of animals imported in 1803 and kept at the Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes? In Australia it was believed at that time that the animals were identical with the eastern grey kangaroo, however, the two forms do not interbreed.
|Name (Scientific)
|Macropus fuliginosus
|Name (English)
|Western Grey Kangaroo
|Name (French)
|Kangourou gris de l'ouest
|Name (German)
|Westliches Graues Riesenkänguruh
|Name (Spanish)
|Canguro gris occidental
|Local names
|Australia: Forester
|CITES Status
|Not listed
|CMS Status
|Not listed
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|Western and southern Australia
|Open forest and woodlands, semi-arid mallee scrub and heath
|Wild population
|Zoo population
|279 reported to ISIS (2005)
In the Zoo
How this animal should be transported
For air transport, Container Note 83 of the IATA Live Animals Regulations should be followed.
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Why do zoos keep this animal
The Western grey, like other large kangaroos is a very popular species and therefore serves as ambassador of the Australian fauna.
Western greys carrying joeys in their pouches are a typical model for the marsupial type of reproduction, i.e. keeping them has also an educational function.
The western grey is also a species which can be displayed in "Walk-thru" exhibits, allowing for close encounters between animals and people.
Australian zoos also may come into the situation to keep western grey kangaroos for animal welfare reasons as they may accept and care for sick, injured or orphaned animals.


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Photograph by Lacey Terrell/Rogue Pictures DON'T LOOK BACK: Monica Potter gets a good scare in 'Last House.'
House of Pain
'Last House' remake is a sign of the times
By Steve Palopoli
THE NEW REMAKE of The Last House on the Left has no guts. That's not a put-down, just a statement of fact. Back in 1972, director Wes Craven packed his debut film with every shock he and producer Sean Cunningham (later of the Friday the 13th films) thought they could get away with: rape, gruesome murders, carved bodies, forced lesbian sex, oral castration and an infamous scene in which the gang of criminals assaulting two teenage girls actually pull the insides of one of them out. This scene was cut from most prints of the film, but released on DVD.
The original is disturbing, to say the least—even Craven himself has quasi-disowned the violence in it. And yet, it endures as a cult classic not just because of its notoriety (although that certainly didn't hurt), but because aside from some unfortunate comic relief scenes, it's actually an excellent film. Based on Bergman's Virgin Spring, it questions whether, when forced into the most extreme circumstances, there is really much difference between the most wretched criminals and the most civilized suburbanites. Eventually, the movie suggests, we all resort to a primal rage.
The remake is not about the same things. It may seem like it from the advertising, especially the ridiculous tag line "If bad people hurt someone you love, how far would you go to hurt them?" Uh, could you repeat the question? It sounds like one of those word problems where a train is leaving Chicago with 5,000 pounds of bluefish. But this is not a shock film, it's not an exploitation flick, it's not even really a horror film. It's just a very 21st-century thriller with some nasty concepts held over from the original. The plot is basically the same: Krug (Garret Dillahunt) and his criminal family kidnap Mari (Sara Paxton) and Paige (Martha MacIsaac); rape, stab and shoot them; then by coincidence end up at the home of Mari's parents looking for a place to spend the night. It's not hard to imagine the shenanigans that ensue.
But this time, everything seems oddly logical. Everyone has a reason for doing what they're doing, even if it's an evil one: the criminals seem like they might let Mari and Paige go, but then Mari tries to escape. The parents don't start taking out the perps for revenge purposes, they do it because they're trying to save someone's life. (Whether they derive pleasure from it is another question.) It's all sort of civilized, really, and even though the attack scenes against the girls are vicious, they're not even remotely on the level of the original. Strangely, none of this makes the new Last House a bad film, just a very different one. It can't touch the power of Craven's film, and it doesn't have the same subversive subtext, not to mention that it doesn't have the incomparable David Hess, the original Krug. But as a slick Hollywood B-thriller, it's pretty watchable—a quality squeamish viewers would still not ascribe to the original film.
THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (R; 100 min.), directed by Dennis Iliads, written by Adam Alleca and Carl Ellsworth, photographed Sharone Meir and starring Garret Dillahunt and Sara Paxton, plays valleywide.
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Which Quarterback Deserves to Get Benched? — Sports Survey of the Day
We're about halfway through the NFL season, and some quarterbacks have been a bit, shall we say, disappointing so far. But has it been enough to merit a demotion?
One of the biggest question marks coming out of week 8 is Eagles quarterback Michael Vick. Head coach Andy Reid has decided to stick with his struggling QB, even though the Eagles are 3-4, losers of three straight.
Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers is also off to a rough start, with his team at 1-6. So far, they are sticking with the second-year quarterback. Kansas City's Matt Cassel is also struggling at 1-6, though he doesn't have a Rookie of the Year trophy to fall back on.
The Jets' Mark Sanchez has been hearing the calls for Tim Tebow to step in all year. The team is at 3-5, and fortunately the Jets are on a bye this week. Perhaps some time off will allow him time to collect his thoughts.


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2013 Annual Meeting
Montréal, Québec, Canada | November 1-5, 2013
Steve Fuller, University of Warwick
Birger Hjørland, University of Copenhagen
Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan, University of Lyon 3
Lai Ma, University College Dublin
Jens Erik Mai, University of Copenhagen
Joseph Tennis, University of Washington
Julian Warner, Queens University of Belfast
Tuesday, 8:30am
Over the years, some library and information science (LIS) researchers have called for practical or applied research that does not ignore the epistemological assumptions underlying the systems and artifacts they design lest they showcase only the dominant theory at a given time. Others have deplored what they consider the epistemological promiscuity of the field and the fact that the field has largely neglected the contributions that philosophy and epistemology could have made in its research. This problem raises questions of the boundaries of LIS and is all the more troublesome because boundaries between epistemological theories are fuzzy. Indeed, some epistemological theories share the same basic assumptions or are historically derived from one another (rationalism and positivism, for instance). Gathering a wide array of acknowledged theorists in philosophy of science and epistemology, this panel will examine how research work in the LIS field can clearly articulate the epistemological assumptions underlying that research and under what constraints this can be achieved.


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There are a few surprises, but nothing earth-shattering.
The squad is led by 2012 first-round pick Corey Seager, one of the Dodgers' best prospects. The team also boasts 2012 draftees Zachary Bird, Lindsey Caughel, Jharel Cotton, Scott Griggs, Paul Hoenecke, Jeremy Rathjen and Eric Smith.
My predictions were decent. I hit on 14 of 25 players. Normally, 56 percent is nothing to really brag about. But, I do write about baseball and a .560 batting, on-base or slugging percentage is video-game like.
Jose Capellan
Tyle Ogle
Eric Smith
Alexis Aguilar
Bladimir Franco
Paul Hoenecke
Malcolm Holland
Corey Seager
Jesus Valdez
James Baldwin
Jeremy Rathjen
Devin Shines
Zachary Bird
Ralston Cash
Lindsey Caughel
Jonathan Martinez
Angel Sanchez
Miguel Sulbaran
Relief pitchers
Daniel Carela
Jharel Cotton
Carlos Frias
Sawil Gonzalez
Scott Griggs
Luis Meza
Arismendy Ozoria
The biggest surprise is probably Sanchez being demoted. He's 23 years old and, despite a terrible season at Rancho Cucamonga, I didn't see that coming. The last time he pitched in Midland was his first professional season and it put him on the prospect map. He'll need to re-establish himself at Low-A -- potentially as a reliever.
This team is filled with pretty solid prospects. Bird, Cotton and Martinez are some of the more intriguing pitching prospects to make this squad. Rathjen, who I thought should have begun the season in Rancho, should form a nice middle of the order with Seager and Valdez.
Baldwin CF
Shines RF
Seager SS
Valdez 1B
Rathjen LF
Smith C
Franco 3B
Hoenecke DH
Holland 2B
There's definitely some potential in the lineup. In a league where hitters don't usually fare well, the Loons could surprise some teams with their offense.
If they can get some decent pitching from some of the youngsters, they could compete for a playoff spot.
Photo credits: Dustin Nosler, Feelin' Kinda Blue


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Northern Tier offers wilderness canoeing expeditions in Northern Minnesota, Northwestern Ontario and Northeastern Manitoba through three canoe bases. All trips are fully outfitted and provisioned. A highly trained staff member, called an Interpreter, accompanies all crews on their trek.
Northern Tier crews paddle in almost 6 million acres of canoe-access only wilderness - from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) of Minnesota to the Atikaki Provincial Park of Manitoba. Trips range in length from 6-14 days and usually include between 50-150 miles of wilderness travel. Find out more about the opportunities available at Northern Tier's three wilderness canoe bases (the Charles L Sommers Base, Ely, MN; the Donald Rogert Base, Atikokan, ON; and the Northern Expeditions Base, Bissett, MB) as well as the several provisional programs Northern Tier offers to individual scouts.
All participants must be age 14 by the time they arrive at Northern Tier OR have graduated from the 8th grade and be age 13 by the time they arrive.
Ely, MN - Charles L Sommers Canoe Base
The flagship base of Northern Tier, the Charles L Sommers Canoe Base has hosted Boy Scout Canoe Expeditions on the shores of Moose Lake since 1941. Located twenty miles, outside of the town of Ely, MN, the Sommers Base outfits over 4,000 scouts each year on wilderness canoe trips in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) of Minnesota and the Quetico Provincial Park of Ontario. Trips out of the Sommers base are limited to the size of 8 participants plus an Interpreter.
We are a Cooperator with the USDA Forest Service under the Superior National Forest. We issue permits into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW), part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. As a Cooperator with the Forest Service, we are an equal opportunity service-provider.
In addition to hosting Northern Tier's typical canoe expeditions, Charles L Sommers is home to several unique individual scout programs: the Order of the Arrow's Wilderness Voyage Program; Forest Corps, a coeducational environmental leadership program; and Lone Voyageur, a program that allows for individual scouts and smaller troops to take out a Northern Tier trip.
The Sommers Canoe Base is also home to the Okpik Cold Weather Camping Program, the premier winter camping program in the Boy Scouts of America.
Atikokan, ON - Donald Rogert Canoe Base
Located an 80-mile paddle North of the Sommers base, the Donald Rogert ("Atikokan") Canoe Base outfits 1500 scouts each year for expeditions into the Northern regions of the Quetico Provincial Park as well as into the Canadian Crown Lands, including the Turtle River - White Otter Lake Provincial Park. The Quetico is a gorgeous and pure wilderness, with traces of human travel; the Crown Lands region features the remains of a used wilderness - trappers cabins, age-old gold mines and even the remains of a World War II Prisoner of War camp can be found amidst the beautiful wilds of the Canadian Shield (a vast geological shield covered by a thin layer of soil). Crew sizes may be up to 11 participants plus an Interpreter if travelling in the Crown Land and 8 participants plus an interpreter if traveling in the Quetico.
Bissett, MB - Northern Expeditions Canoe Base
Unofficially regarded as the "Most Extreme High Adventure in Scouting," the Northern Expeditions ("Bissett") Base is the most rugged and remote region paddled by Northern Tier crews. All crews enter the wilderness via a twenty-minute float plane to a canoe cache located at the heart of the combined 2.5 million acres of Atikaki Provincial Park and Woodland Caribou Provincial Park, an area paddled by only a handful of canoeists each year. Crews are limited to the size of 11 participants plus an Interpreter.
Fishing in the Bissett region is world class - Northern Pike, Walleye and Channel Catfish abound - and the difficult geography ensures that it will remain so. Bissett is most appropriate for older crews with previous High Adventure experience.
Here's a video of how your adventure in Bissett will begin!
Come to Northern Tier for a whole new level of adventure, up north! From incredible canoe journeys to wild winter wilderness camping, Northern Tier promises the Scouting adventure of a lifetime in the Great North Woods of northern Minnesota and Canada.
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Order of the Arrow
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Bangor Hydro Power Outage Update 7 AM
The brunt of the storm is coming into Maine early Saturday morning, and the power outages are increasing. Here's the latest 7AM Bangor Hydro Power Outage Update. Check back after 11 AM and we will have the latest update posted. Be very careful if you're venturing outside., If you're walking your dog be sure to dry the pads of their feet from the encrusted snow.
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The blizzard that has crippled much of the northeast is now affecting customers of Bangor Hydro Electric Company. Early this morning increased winds began bringing down power lines and tree limbs. Coastal areas are expected to see the most damage during the storm today. Crews were prepared for the storm and have been working to restore power since early this morning.
Customers are reminded to avoid coming in contact with power lines and trees touching them. Generators and alternate heat sources should be used in accordance with manufacturer's guidelines.
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|Customers may report outages by calling 1-800-440-1111, at bangorhydro.com or on our mobile site at bhe.com/m. Customers should have account numbers ready. A live outage map is available at both sites with the most up-to-date outage information and estimated times of restoration.
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|Crews will work to restore power to customers as quickly as possible, but continued winds will cause additional power outages and delay restoration time.
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Auburn survived a scare from Samford, but reeled off 14 straight points in the fourth quarter to close out a 35-16 win on Saturday.
Clint Moseley, not usually known for his rushing capabilities, took a quarterback keeper 22 yards for the score with 11:28 remaining to give Auburn (7-4) the breathing room it would need in the win.
The Tigers added a 10-yard touchdown run from Onterio McCalebb with 2:17 to go for the final margin.
"They played us," Tigers coach Gene Chizik said. "We had to fight that one out to win it. We understand right now we have a lot to clean up and a lot to get better at."
Moseley went 13-of-20 passing for 167 yards and a score, and Mike Dyer rushed 30 times for 157 yards and a score for the Tigers.
Dyer, a sophomore, passed James Joseph --currently Samford's running backs coach --for 10th on Auburn's all-time career rushing list. He has 2,287 yards in 25 games at Auburn.
"We all know Michael's a good back, there's no question about it," Chizik said. "He had his opportunities today. We were going to give him his opportunities."
Dustin Taliaferro went 17-of-32 for 161 yards, with a touchdown and an interception for Samford (6-5). Kelsey Pope caught 13 passes for 90 yards and a score, while Jeremiaha Gates posted his first career 100-yard game, rushing 28 times for 119 yards.
Samford coach Pat Sullivan was honored with a ceremony before kickoff to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the 1971 Heisman Trophy he won at Auburn, becoming the school's first Heisman winner.
Samford closed within 21-16 on a 37-yard field goal by Cameron Yaw with 13:22 left to play, set up by a reverse pass from Pope to Gates for 28 yards into Auburn territory.
The Bulldogs had a fourth-and-1 from the Auburn 19-yard line, but opted to go for the Yaw field goal.
The Tigers scored the eventual winning touchdown on a 6-yard Dyer run with 3:25 to go in the third, capping off a 14-play, 70-yard drive in which Auburn handed off to Dyer on the last seven plays and he ran for 51 yards to put the Tigers up 21-13.
The Tigers put a renewed emphasis on the power run game in the second half --rushing 26 times for 160 yards after the break.
"We just felt like coming out of halftime we wanted to try to run the football downhill," Chizik said. "We felt like we needed to wear them out a little."
Samford had cut the lead to 14-13 with 7:22 left in the third quarter, driving 70 yards in 14 plays -- including 42 on the ground from Gates -- to set up a 28-yard field goal by Yaw, but the Bulldogs could never get the upper hand.
Auburn started off the scoring with a 32-yard strike from Moseley to Philip Lutzenkirchen down the seam, finishing off a nine-play, 55-yard drive and giving the Tigers a 7-0 lead with 7:07 to go in the first quarter.
The Tigers had a chance to add to their lead on the next drive, but Cody Parkey pushed a 32-yard field goal wide left and Samford took over at the 20-yard line.
The Bulldogs drove 80 yards on 10 plays from their -- aided by a late hit penalty on third down that gave them a first-and-goal at the Tigers' 6 -- and Taliaferro found Pope for an 8-yard score to tie the score at 7-7 with 14:27 left in the half.
Auburn answered right back with a 10-play, 60-yard drive -- ending on a 10-yard touchdown run by McCalebb -- to go up 14-7 with 10:03 in the half, but Samford closed within 14-10 with a 40-yard field goal by Yaw 2:32 before the break, a lead the Tigers took into halftime.
Auburn's offense put up 219 yards in the first half -- 131 passing 88 rushing -- but suffered from two costly lost fumbles around midfield, the second of which set up the Bulldogs' field-goal drive. STORY AD BEGINS HERE


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Panel saws are small saws often used around the shop where cuts do not require a larger tool. It is a good size to carry with you in your toolbox. Nice weight and balance.
Sawbenches are really handy when using a Panel Saw. For an article on sawbenches by Christopher Schwarz, the former Editor of Popular Woodworking Magazine, click here.
Maintenance: It is a good idea to keep a coat of oil or silicon spray on your saw's blade when not in use. This will minimize the chance of rust forming on the blade. The blade is high carbon steel with no rust-inhibiting alloys added.
Handle: The handle on your saw is finished with a wiping varnish for the beauty of a hand-rubbed finish. The handle nuts require a special screwdriver to remove.
Sharpening: The steel in your saw's blade is the best that's available. It is very hard (50-52R) and will stay sharp a long time. Eventually, however, you'll have to sharpen it. You can do this yourself with a little practice. We use a 6" slim taper file to file the teeth on the 8ppi saw, and a 5" double extra slim taper file to file the teeth on the 12ppi saw.
Take a couple of pieces of thin, straight scrap and clamp them in your vise on either side of the blade so that the top of the scrap is flush with the bottom of the gullets on the teeth. Take your file and take one swipe per tooth. Notice the small groove the file leaves in the wood. This is a good gauge to show you how deep you're filing. The teeth are so fine on your saw that no more than one pass per gullet should be necessary. If you use this method consistently, you shouldn't ever have to joint your saw. Of course, Dovetail Saw teeth are sharpened to a rip profile, so you can file all the teeth on the Dovetail Saw from the same side.
You can use a Stanley 42X saw set on our saws. The Stanley set may vary from ours, so experiment on a small area before you do the whole saw. Your saw blade should measure only .024 - .027" when properly set. The slight set is what makes the saw cut and track so well. If done improperly, you'll notice a drastic decrease in performance. You should only have to reset your blade after every other sharpening, not every time. The ultimate test of any setting job is how well the saw cuts. Take some scrap and start a cut. The saw should glide through the wood without jumping around in its kerf. It should not be hard to push, nor should it be roomy in the kerf. If either of these conditions exists, increase or decrease the set accordingly. If the saw tracks away from the line, the side on the saw that is furthest from the line has too much set. A simple remedy is to lightly stone the edge of the offending side with a medium India slip stone. Take one swipe with the stone, and try another cut. Usually only one or two passes with the stone will correct the problem. Don't remove too much, however, or you will have the same problem on the other side until not enough set is left to make a cut. Once you have determined by trial and error that you have just enough set on that particular saw, make a note of where your saw set is adjusted for future reference. You may also send your saw back to us for sharpening.
Guarantee: Materials and workmanship are guaranteed for the life of your tool. Call for repairs or replacement parts. We are available for advice if you ever have a problem using your tool.
Proposition 65 Notice: Bronze and brass alloys contain lead, a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects, or other reproductive harm. Wash hands after handling.


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- Sign into MyVWCC by clicking on the Login to MyVWCC link on the left of this screen or the MyVWCC link on the VWCC homepage.
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This will bring you to the QuikPAY® Application and you will land on the QuikPAY® Message Board.
To Set-up a Payment Profile
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- Select to add either a Credit/Debit Card Profile OR an eCheck Profile.
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Chicago's Black Ensemble Theatre will stage a new musical about Marvin Gaye in February, as written by the late singer's family members, along with their manager Barbara Cole. Entitled "The Prophet: A Marvin Gaye Tribute," the new show (not the first attempt to dramatize Gaye's life and works) will star Gaye's sister, Zeola Gaye, in the role of the narrator. Jackie Taylor will direct.
"They came to me with this project," Taylor said.
Also on tap for the Black Ensemble season, the first in its soon-to-open new home at 4450 N. Clark Street:
A reprise engagement of the Black Ensemble hit "The Jackie Wilson Story," opening the new space in November. Taylor said she hopes that the original star of that production, Chester Gregory, will perform the title role through Jan. 8, although that, she acknowledged, will depend on the extent of Gregory's commitments to the Broadway show "Sister Act," in which he currently appears.
In May, Taylor will present "Luther," a biographical show about Luther Vandross. Next summer's show will be "One Name Only: A Tribute to the Ladies of Soul." And the debut season ends, in the fall of 2012, with "Ladies and Gentleman: James Brown," a tribute to the late godfather of soul.
"We needed," said the typically ebullient Taylor, "a legendary slate for a legendary new space."


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Another winter is approaching, and Ireland again appeals to the sympathies and solicitudes of her provident and more fortunate sister. The rebellion has been suppressed, but not the famine. Throughout extensive districts there is as great a failure of the potato as there was two years since, and with a return of the cause we must expect a renewal of the disastrous consequences. There are, it is true, some circumstances now in our favour. The white crops have not been as deficient as in 1846. There is not a European famine, nor is there likely to be. We have also the benefit of our former experience. All things considered, therefore, the difficulty will confine itself to the relief of certain districts, with existing agencies, and as much as possible from the local resources. For many weeks, indeed, considerable portions of the western population, as, for example, on the wild coast of ill-fated Connemara, have been supported by regular doles of oatmeal-porridge, supplied from the union funds. If such is the case now, and has continued so even in the midst of the harvest and of the season for the fishery, what will it be when the earth is locked by frost, or wrapped in snow, and when the ocean denies alike to the fisherman and the emigrant its wonted hospitality?
As measures of relief are in actual operation, and we have not to construct at the eleventh hour an original machinery for the purpose, there will be no overpowering pressure on official responsibility and public resources. What, then, is the work to be done? In the first place, there are vast accumulations of misery in certain parts, owing partly to the immigration of outcasts, and partly to the secluded nature of the region, and the consequent extraordinary ignorance and inaction of the people. There are corners of Ireland which are the Ultima Thule of civilization, and where a Cimerian gloom hangs over the human soul. The people there have always been listless, improvident, and wretched, under whatever rulers. Ever since the onward Celtic wave was first stopped by the great Atlantic barrier, these people have remained the same, and their present misfortune is that they are simply what they have always been, and that from want of variety and intermixture they have not participated in the great progress of mankind. When we see a dense population on one of the finest shores of the world, with an inexhaustible ocean before their eyes, yearly allowing immense shoals of fish to pass visibly before their eyes, with scarcely to exact a toll from the passing masses of food, we must either rebuke their perverseness or pity their savage condition. We do pity them, because they have yet to be civilized. In Canada we have Indians in our borders, many of whom we yearly subsidize and maintain. In Ireland we have Celts equally helpless and equally the objects of national compassion. Such cases are only to be met by some form of public alms. Should the local resources be utterly drained, or so severely drawn upon as to paralyze industrial employment, England must make up her mind to some amount of imperial assistance, for the present at least.
But how far can Ireland maintain herself? That is a question which demands an immediate answer. It does not follow because there are districts of intense destitution that Ireland is, on the whole, unequal to the task of supporting her people. Nor is it so in fact. There is great wealth in Ireland. The state of cultivation, the value of the stock, and the produce, the manufactories, the pits, the mines, the edifices, and every other form of fixed wealth, has been immensely developed since the Union. We have given Ireland a commerce. Her ports are prosperous. The alleged decay of her cities is a gross fable. Dublin is a thriving metropolis, and if, as in every other metropolis, and not the least in London, certain streets are comparatively neglected and some meansions are unoccupied or desecrated to plebian uses, the beautiful suburbs, on the other hand, especially in the Wicklow direction, exhibit the same increasing rows of cheerful villas as our own Camberwell or Islington. Within the last fifty years an immense number of gentleman's seats have been erected in all parts of the island, and roads have been made even beyond the wants of the people. A vast amount of British capital has been sunk with more or less profit. Such a country cannot be a pauper. She may have her poor; but it is ridiculous to imagine that she should throw herself altogether upon the alms of an English population, the greater part of whomare as well acquainted with hunger, and far more familiar with toil, than the most unfortunate of our Irish neighbors.
It may serve to show the utter falsity of the current picture of Irish impoverishment just to mention one fact. During the last four years, or rather the four years ending last January, the total of Government stocks in the books of the Dublin Bank and standing probably in the names of Irish residents, has increased more than five millions. In other words, Ireland now possesses five millions more of funded property than she did in January, 1844, and receives therefore about 200,000l. more of the annual dividends. What is more remarkable, and what certainly suggests some unpleasant suspicions, this increase of funded property was the greatest in the year of the famine -- the ever memorable 1847. . . .
There can, we think, be no doubt that Ireland is able to maintain herself. Indeed, who does doubt it? The very cry of rebellion is that she should keep her own produce at home, a demand which implies much folly and dishonesty, but yet testifies to the general opinion of Irish self-competency. We have therefore only to set the wealth of Ireland against its poverty, and draw the more favoured districts the material and moral assistance required by the rest. There are two alternatives before us, and only two. Either we must have an Irish system, amply sufficient for Ireland, without this perpetual recurrence to English bounty, or the Imperial system must be applied without any reserve. Either Ireland must distribute fairly over all her resources the burden of her great houses and plague spot of misery, by the operation of a property tax or other comprehensive means, or she must submit to the Imperial taxation as the condition of Imperial relief.


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Best pick at No. 10: Teemu Selanne, Jetsby Adam Kimelman / NHL.com
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first NHL Draft, NHL.com assembled a 13-member panel to select the best first-round picks of all time, based on selection number. NHL.com will feature one of the top first-round picks each day, beginning with the best No. 30 pick on June 1 and culminating with the all-time No. 1 pick on June 30, the day of the 2013 NHL Draft.
Today: The best No. 10 pick: Teemu Selanne, Winnipeg Jets, 1988
The Winnipeg Jets had to wait four seasons to bring Teemu Selanne to town, but starting with a record-setting rookie season, the wing proved to be well worth the wait.
The Jets made Selanne their first pick after watching him dominate the opposition with Jokerit's team in Finland's junior league, totaling 66 points in 33 games. He spent the next three seasons playing for Jokerit, and for Finland at the 1992 Olympics.
He made his NHL debut on Oct. 6, 1992, against the Detroit Red Wings with two assists, and two days later he scored his first NHL goal, against the San Jose Sharks. Selanne never seemed to stop scoring that season, setting NHL rookie records with 76 goals and 132 points, and won the Calder Trophy.
A torn Achilles tendon ended Selanne's second season after 51 games, but he returned in 1994-95 to total 22 goals and 45 points in 48 games.
In 1995-96 he had 72 points in 51 games with the Jets before he was traded to the Anaheim Ducks. He finished the season with 36 points in 28 games to give him a total of 108. Playing on a line with Paul Kariya and Steve Rucchin, Selanne had 50 goals and 100 points in two of his first three seasons with Anaheim. In 1998 he played in his fifth NHL All-Star Game and became the first European to win the game's MVP award after scoring a hat trick.
In 1998-99 his streak of 50-goal seasons ended, but his 47 led the League and earned him the first Rocket Richard Trophy.
During the 2000-01 season he was traded to the San Jose Sharks, then in the summer of 2003 he signed with the Colorado Avalanche, for whom he had the worst offensive numbers of his career, 16 goals and 32 points in 78 games.
In the summer of 2004 he had knee surgery, then sat out during the lockout to heal. The move worked, and he returned to the Ducks in 2005-06 with his best season in six years, totaling 40 goals and 90 points and winning the Bill Masterton Trophy for dedication to the game.
He was even better in 2006-07, scoring his 500th goal and 1,000th point en route to finishing third in the League with 48 goals. He became the first player in NHL history older than 35 to record consecutive 40-goal seasons. But the biggest milestone came in late June, when he lifted the Stanley Cup for the first time.
Selanne, then 37, sat out most of the 2007-08 season contemplating retirement. He opted to return in February 2008 and signed a two-year contract with the Ducks that kept him playing through the end of the 2009-10 season.
He continued to pile up the goals and points, cementing his place in NHL history. On March 21, 2010, he scored his 600th goal, and two weeks later passed countryman Jari Kurri with his 602nd to become the all-time leader in goals by a Finnish-born player.
Selanne had 12 goals and 24 points in 46 games this season, raising his career totals to 675 goals (11th all-time) and 1,430 points (15th).
"Teemu Selanne should be remembered as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport," NHL.com staff writer Corey Masisak said. "He didn't win the Stanley Cup a bunch of times, and the prime of his career came in a scoring-suppressed era, but Selanne deserves to be placed among the all-time greats. The 'Finnish Flash' will certainly be remembered as one of the most gifted skaters. Even now at his advanced age, just watching Selanne skate is a hockey fan's version of admiring a great work of art."
Voting: Teemu Selanne, Winnipeg (1988), 13