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Anna Benson, the former wife of big league pitcher Kris Benson, was charged with murder in 1996 and then part of a national manhunt, according to a report in the New York Daily News.
Benson, then known as Anna Warren, was charged, along with Paul Dejongh, her boyfriend at the time, with the murder of an 18-year-old man in her Knoxville, Tenn., apartment. Authorities issued arrest warrants for both in the murder of Michael Evans, a college student who was getting ready to enlist in the Navy.
EX-MLB STAR'S 911 CALL: My wife has a gun
However, the murder charges against the then-19-year-old Benson were dropped. The later accessory charges against Benson were also dismissed because of a lack of "sufficient proof," said Knoxville County Deputy District Attorney Bill Crabtree, according to the Knoxville News-Sentinel.
After an argument between Benson and Evans, Benson allegedly said, "Get rid of him" to her boyfriend before the slaying took place, the lead investigator told the Daily News, quoting witnesses. Evans had been shot once in the back of the head and a second time as he tried to get to the door, a forensic expert said.
Police were called to the crime scene early on the morning of Jan. 22, 1996, with Benson and Dejongh the only ones missing of the five people determined to be in the apartment at the time of the incident, according to police. The two fled, prompting a national manhunt and a feature on America's Most Wanted.
Benson would be on the run for nearly five months, before being captured June 18 in Portland, Ore. Dejongh was caught that August around Atlanta. He was convicted of first-degree murder, but it was overturned on appeal. He eventual pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 21 years, dying while in prison.
The murder charges against Benson were dropped, as prosecutors decided to charge her with an accessory charge. It was dismissed in May 1998, according to the Daily News.
Anna Benson was recently arrested in Georgia for allegedly threatening estranged husband, Kris, with a gun and whacking his computer terminal with a baton.


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Pussy juice: Natural lubrication produced inside a pussy before and during sex or masturbation producing a so called wet pussy.
Caution: Sometimes pussy juice is not what you think it is. It can also be the jizz of the guy who fucked your girl an hour ago without you knowing about it. The chemical test to distinguish pussy juice from left-over cum is simple: Pussy juice is sour (pH between 4.5 and 5) while cum is neutral or higher (pH 7 and higher). The pH of a pussy can easily be measured using litmus paper as an indicator.
The amount of pussy juice produced by girls is very individual: Some girls do hardly produce enough pussy juice for pussy lubrication while others start dripping. As far as the authors of this article know, you cannot buy pussy juice neither auction or sell pussy juice, although it would not be too difficult to bottle pussy juice. If you would like to taste your girl's pussy juice all you need to do is to start eating her pussy.
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- Pussy juice has very few calories. Its chemical composition is somewhat similar to vinegar which contributes to its sometimes bitter taste; some think it just tastes divine. Unfortunately, there are not enough nutrients to survive solely on pussy juice.
- Every pussy tastes somehow different, mainly dependent on what the owner of the pussy ate within the prior 48 hours. Common pussy taste is described as: buttery, sour, bitter, lemony, sweet, salty but not too salty, fishy and tangy.
- Pussy juice is the cause for so called wet spots on panties and pants and sheets most commonly.
- Pussy juice is one of the causes for the individual pussy smell.
Pussy Juice Contains:
- Lots of Water
- Pyridine: An organic compound with a typical fishy odor. It's major role in chemical solutions is to prevent freezing of water. Only god knows why women produce Pyridine in their pussy. Pyridine is the only cause for "fishy" pussies and the pussy owner has no way to decrease the percentage of Pyridine in her pussy juice.
- Squalene: An organic compound which is oil-like. It's major role is lubrication. It has no odor.
- Carbamide: An organic compound also to be found in urine. Mostly used as fertilizer!! Some scientists believe the role of carbamide is to extend the life cycle of the male sperms after ejaculation into her pussy. It smells a little bit like oak wood, but far less intensive.
- Acetic acid and lactic acid: Also to be found in milk. Does not smell at all.
- Alcohols (very little): You would need to drink 26 gallons (or 105 liters) of pussy juice in order to reach the alcoholic effect of one glass of beer. The role of the alcohol is pussy juice is to prevent the components above to separate from each other.
None of the components above is in any way toxic or has any positive or negative effect if swallowed. The nutrition effect is low because pussy juice is very low on calories due to the absence of proteins. You would need to drink at least 35 gallons (140 liters) of pussy juice a day to avoid starvation compared to 0.3 gallons (about 1 liter) of male ejaculation.
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In order to be aware of the status of the produced pussy juice, some females run the so-called pussy juice inspection every 20 minutes on themselves or use the iPussy device.
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A U.S. Army Sergeant tasked with preventing sexual assault in the military is being investigated for charges of "abusive sexual contact."
The Sergeant 1st Class, whose name has not been released, served as the Sexual Harassment/Assault Result Prevention (SHARP) Coordinator and Equal Opportunity Advisor at Fort Hood in Texas. U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command is handling the investigation and the sergeant has been removed from all duties. According to a statement released by the Department of Defense (DoD) the service member in question is being investigated for allegations of "pandering, abusive sexual contact, assault and maltreatment of subordinates."
This new investigation follows the case of an Air Force chief of sexual assault prevention and response who was arrested on charges of sexual battery. Lieutenant Colonel Jeffery Krusinski groped a woman in a parking lot. She fought him off when he attempted to grab her again and immediately alerted the police. An anonymous spokesperson for the Air Force confirmed that Krusinski had been dismissed from his post in response to the allegations. Later that week, the Department of Defense issued an annual report that showed that sexual assault in the military rose by 35% from 2010 to 2012. The report found that 26,000 members of the military experienced "unwanted sexual contact" in 2012 when answering an anonymous survey - a rate of approximately 70 assaults a day.
As a result of these recent cases, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has ordered all military personnel responsible for sexual assault prevention and response, in addition to recruiters, to be retrained, re-credentialed, and re-screened. Senator Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY), Chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee announced that she will be introducing legislation with Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) that will remove military sexual assault cases out of the chain of command. In a statement Gillibrand wrote:
"For the second time in a week we are seeing someone who is supposed to be the tip of the spear preventing sexual assault being investigated for committing that very act. We have to do better by the men and women serving. And assure them that they will be serving and not be attacked by their colleagues, and not be subject to this kind of treatment.We have the best and the brightest serving in our military. We have the greatest military in the world. And we ask everything of them. We ask them to even die for their country. We should not be asking them to be subject to sexual assault and rape.It is time to get serious and get to work reforming the military justice system that clearly isn't working. I believe strongly that to create the kind of real reform that will make a difference we must remove the chain of command from the decision making process for these types of serious offenses."
Media Resources: Department of Defense 5/14/2013; MSNBC 5/14/2013; Feminist Majority 5/8/2013; Feminist Newswire 5/8/2013, 5/7/2013;
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Lowland Paca
The Lowland Paca (Cuniculus paca), also known as the Spotted Paca, is a large rodent found in tropical and sub-tropical America, from East-Central Mexico to Northern Argentina. It is called paca in most of its range, but tepezcuintle in most of Mexico and Central America, jaleb in the Yucatan peninsula, conejo pintado in Panamá, guanta in Ecuador, majás or picuro in Peru, jochi pintado in Bolivia, and boruga[3] in Colombia. It is also known as the gibnut in Belize, where it is prized as a game animal, labba in Guyana, lapa in Venezuela, and lappe on the island of Trinidad.
There is much confusion in the nomenclature of this and related species; see agouti. In particular, the popular term agouti or common agouti normally refers to species of the distinct Dasyprocta genus (such as the Central American Agouti, Dasyprocta punctata). Sometimes the word agouti is also used for a polyphyletic grouping uniting the families Cuniculidae and Dasyproctidae, which, besides the pacas and common agoutis, includes also the acouchis (Myoprocta). Cuniculus is the appropriate genus name instead of Agouti based on a 1998 ruling of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature as the Lowland Paca's genus.[4]
The Lowland Paca has coarse fur without underfur, dark brown to black on the upper body and white or yellowish on the underbelly. It usually has three to five rows of white spots along its sides, against a dark grey background. It has thick strong legs, with four digits in the forefeet and five in the hind feet (the first and fifth are reduced); the nails function as hooves. The tail is short and hairless. The zygomatic arch is expanded laterally and dorsally and is used as a resonating chamber - a unique feature among mammals.
An adult Lowland Paca weighs between 6 and 12 kg (13 and 26 lb). It has two litters per year, each having usually one young, sometimes two; gestation lasts 115–120 days. Pacas are sexually mature at about 1 year.
The Lowland Paca is mostly nocturnal and solitary and does not vocalize very much. It lives in forested habitats near water, preferably smaller rivers, and dig simple burrows about 2 m (6 ft 7 in) below the surface, usually with more than one exit. The Lowland Paca is a good swimmer and usually heads for the water to escape danger. It also is an incredible climber and it searches for fruit in the trees. Its diet includes leaves, stems, roots, seeds, and fruit, especially avocados, mangos and zapotes. It sometimes stores food.
Economical and ecological aspects
The Lowland Paca is considered an agricultural pest for yam, cassava, sugar cane, corn and other food crops. Its meat has excellent flavor and is highly prized. It is plentiful in protected habitats, and hence not in danger of extinction, but overall its numbers have been much reduced because of hunting and habitat destruction. It is easily bred and raised in farms, although the taste is said to be inferior (perhaps unpleasant) when farmed.
- ^ Woods, Charles A.; Kilpatrick, C. William (16 November 2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi (pp. 1538-1600)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). pp. 1538-1600. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400270.
- ^ Queirolo, D., Vieira, E., Emmons, L. & Samudio, R. (2008). Cuniculus paca. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 5 January 2009.
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=9r9E_HBDAF0C&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=paca+boruga&source=bl&ots=iJKf7_ZRwz&sig=85N_UMlVKN-zmNktvXgJiSEuq_o&hl=en&ei=LhGlTOGcOo6ssAOQ6tn-Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=paca%20boruga&f=false
- ^ Woods, Charles A.; Kilpatrick, C. William (16 November 2005). "Infraorder Hystricognathi (pp. 1538-1600)". In Wilson, Don E., and Reeder, DeeAnn M., eds. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2 vols. (2142 pp.). ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=13400269.
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irl Scouts across central and eastern North Carolina collected enough donations to purchase over 82,000 boxes of cookies for our Operation Cookie Drop program. Girl Scout Taylor W. from Troop #877 in Knightdale sold 733 boxes for Operation Cookie Drop, making her the overall top seller for this donation program.
These cookies will be delivered to military personnel deployed from U.S. Marine installation Cherry Point in Havelock, U.S. Army base Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro. NCPacks4Patriots and the USO of NC centers in Jacksonville and RDU International Airport will also distribute a portion of the donated Girl Scout cookies to the military personnel that they serve.
Almost 350 letters to the troops from girl and adult members were collected through "Letters to the Troops," which was part of the Council's 2014 National Girl Scout Week activities. These thank you notes and pictures will be delivered to military personnel with the cookies.
It is always wonderful to see how eager our communities are to support our military troops and Girl Scouts," said Lisa Jones, chief executive officer of Girl Scouts – North Carolina Coastal Pines. "We are very proud of this program and especially proud of all the Girl Scouts who have worked so hard to collect these donations."
In its tenth year, Operation Cookie Drop has shipped more than 600,000 boxes of cookies to military troops. To view a video of military personnel speaking about the annual donation program, visit Girl Scouts – North Carolina Coastal Pines' Operation Cookie Drop webpage.


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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — On a historic night in Bud Walton Arena the University of Arkansas basketball team toppled No. 2 Florida, 80-69, on Tuesday evening in front of a frantic Razorback crowd and a national television audience. Eight Arkansas players scored at least seven points as the Razorbacks defeated the No. 2 team in the nation for the sixth time in school history and the first time in 14 years.
The Arkansas (14-8, 5-4 SEC) win is the fourth time that the Razorbacks have defeated a ranked opponent at Bud Walton Arena over the last two years, handing Florida (18-3, 8-1 SEC) its first conference loss of the season and the first loss by the Gators since late December. Sophomore BJ Young led the Razorbacks in scoring with 13 points while junior Marshawn Powell and freshman Michael Qualls each scored 11.
"This was a total team win against a great basketball team," head coach Mike Anderson said. "Our bench played outstanding. Our defense took them out of what they wanted to do. We were excellent at rebounding. We made shots and did a good job attacking and moving the ball."
The Arkansas defense was relentless as they pestered the Gators throughout the contest, forcing 16 turnovers and capitalizing on them with 21 Razorback points. Offensively, the Razorback bench contributed 50 percent of Arkansas' points (40).
The win was the first time since Feb. 24, 1999, that the Razorbacks topped the No. 2 team in the country. That evening they steamrolled Auburn, 104-88. Arkansas' 80 points were also the most scored against Florida this season, the previous high was set by Kansas State, in a 67-61 loss.
Arkansas was clicking on all cylinders starting off nearly flawless with a 9-2 run over the opening 2:23. The Razorbacks increased their lead to double-digits over the Gators as Qualls stroked a three-pointer to put Arkansas up by 11, 19-8. On the ensuing play, Powell laid down a dunk heard throughout Fayetteville (22-8), sending the crowd to its feet. The 13-point lead was the largest any team held over the second-ranked Gators this season.
"The first basket set the tone and everything else fell in line," Powell said. "We ran, we attacked and we played physical. That was our goal and we executed it. It shows what we can do, the potential we have and how hard we work every day. It feels good."
Arkansas never let up the defensive pressure and it seemed the high flying Razorbacks couldn't miss a shot. The Razorbacks grew their lead to a whopping 23 points as freshman Jacorey Williams tipped in a two-pointer to put Arkansas up 36-13. Arkansas entered the locker room with a 17-point lead, 43-26. The 43 Razorback points were the most points the Gators have given up this season in the first half.
The Razorback defense held the Gators to their lowest first-half field-goal percentage (7-of-24, .292) of the season. Arkansas on the other hand went 16-of-30 from the field in the first half. The Razorbacks also finished the first half with a season-high seven three-point field goals, in which a total of five different Razorbacks contributed a three-pointer.
Arkansas out-rebounded Florida 19-13 and finished the first with 10 assists. Arkansas forced seven Gator turnovers that led to 12 Razorback points.
The second half began no different than the first as the Razorbacks hounded the Gators, going on a 6-0 run before Florida head coach Billy Donovan signaled for a timeout. The Gators returned to the court to put up their biggest run of the evening, 7-0. Arkansas wasn't ready to let the Gators come within single-digits of their lead and answered Florida by growing their lead to a comfortable 27 points after a crowd-erupting dunk by Clarke to put Arkansas up 67-40 with 9:40 remaining in the game.
The Gators were unable to come back from their biggest deficit this season as Arkansas downed a top-5 team for the first time since Dec. 30, 2008 when the Razorbacks rolled No. 4 Oklahoma, 96-88.
"They were ready to play tonight," Anderson said. "Playing against a team like Florida they really wanted to play well. Now we want to continue to build on this. This isn't the beginning. This is a continuation of what we've been doing. Tonight was our night."
The Razorbacks look to continue their momentum during a two-game road swing, as they travel to Nashville, Tenn., to take on the Vanderbilt Commodores on Saturday, Feb. 9, at 12:47 p.m. on the SEC Network. Arkansas will then head to Auburn, Ala., to take on the Auburn Tigers on Wednesday, Feb. 13th.
For more information regarding Razorback men's basketball or University of Arkansas athletics, please visit ArkansasRazorbacks.com.


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Planning a Trip... Ohio Historical Society
The library has a terrific website and it provided me with a lot of information that I needed to know prior to visiting the facilities. I did have a few further questions that the website did not answer. Sadly, my first attempt in obtaining answers failed (I sent an email on 1/27 and haven't heard anything to date). I had a free moment and decided to give the facility a call.
Thankfully a very friendly gentleman was willing to answer my questions. Just in case others had similar questions, I figured that I would post my questions and the answers I received.
- The Library Rules and Procedures page says "Notes, computers (but not the cases), notebooks, and pencils ONLY are permitted in the Research Rooms." I was curious to know if tablets (iPad, Android tablets) are considered computers and allowed. I also wanted to know if digital cameras were allowed. Guess what! Okay, you know the answer... YES. Tablet computers are allowed into the archives. And digital cameras may be used without the flash. Yeah!!! I love am set with cameras to document my finds.
- Having seen Who Do You Think You Are?, I wanted to know do I needed to bring a pair of gloves? Nope! They supply them when needed.
- The Rules page said that only the staff makes photocopies of the items. So, what are the photocopy fees? The man said $0.25, but you should really just used your digital camera. Well, I was hoping that would be what was allowed, but I'm so glad he confirmed that's what I really should do!
To examine the Naturalization records, I'll be going first to the Microfilm Room. It's self-service and I can access anything without filling out paperwork. Great! He mentioned that I could plan ahead and not exactly what film I was going to access by using their website to look up film numbers. What a great idea! I didn't know that was on the website. (I haven't found this information yet, but that was so nice of him to tell me to look for it). I hope I can find it before my trip to increase my efficiency.
Once I've examined the indexes, I'll be given a reference number for the original documents that are handled only by the OHS staff. If I need more than one item, then I can only use one at a time. I'll have to fill out a call slip, etc. Hopefully those I'm looking for will be in the fewest number of volumes, but we shall see.
I have to give the gentleman (who I forgot to get his name) a big round of applause for helping me know what to expect and prepare for my trip to his facility. I look forward to visiting the State Archives and hope that my family members will stand up and be counted.


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New York Lottery draw team members Yolanda Vega and Gretchen Dizer will be bringing the statewide "Family Feud" promotion tour to Amherst and Buffalo this weekend with two separate stops at the Boulevard Mall on Saturday, April 13, and the Galleria Mall on Sunday, April 14.
The "Family Feud" promotion tour provides Lottery players with a chance to be a contestant in a traveling version of the hit television game show of the same name. Players must be 18 years or older.
Lottery players have two chances this weekend to present a non-winning "Family Feud" ticket in exchange for some "Survey Says" fun and a chance to win "Family Feud"scratch-off tickets. The "Family Feud" promotion tour will make stops at the following locations:
•Saturday, April 13, between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. at Boulevard Mall in Amherst (730 Alberta Drive), with Gretchen Dizer as the host; and
•Sunday, April 14, between noon and 4 p.m. at the Walden Galleria in Buffalo (One Walden Galleria, Cheektowaga) with Yolanda Vega hosting.
Additional dates and locations for the statewide "Family Feud" promotion tour and related "Family Feud" second chance sweepstakes are available at nylottery.ny.gov.


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Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 7:00 PM - Friday, February 15, 2013 at 12:00 AM (PST)
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National Food Truck Date Day
Forget being broke from expensive dinner reservations, stressed about plans or bummed cause you're single this Valentine's Day...Meet your honey, blind date, friends with benefits, or BFFs at SoMa StrEatFood Park for a fun, inexpensive, stress-free evening on February 14th that we're deeming National Food Truck Date Day!
Join your hosts 50 Food Truck Dates, Lyft, Joey the Cat Skeeball, Mensch of the Month, CrushHub, and 50/50: A Dating Documentary for a Stoplight Party! Everyone is welcome - couples, singles, daters, flirters and friends!
Party will also include:
- $4 Red Strawberry Sangria
- A get-your-booty-shaking dance party from DJ DiscoLyft!
- A healthy dose of competition with Skeeball from Joey the Cat
- Special "Food Truck Date" Menus from the food trucks
- A raffle for $20 Lyft credits and boy/girl Food Truck Date swag. (You must RSVP on EventBrite for raffle!)
Scheduled Food Trucks:
- Adams Grub Truck
- El Calamar
- Naked Chorizo
- Smokin Warehouse
- Docs of the Bay
- Tacos El Tuca
- Simply Mochi
- Candy Bar
You'll also have a chance to learn more from 50 Food Truck Date's awesome co-hosts:
Lyft: Lyft is your friend with a car. Download Lyft in the App Store or on Google Play and request an instant pickup from a friendly, background-checked community driver for less than the cost of a cab. Lyft is currently available for rides originating in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Mensch of the Month: Mensch of the Month is a non-profit calendar of local Jewish mensches. Chosen but not Taken™ features eligible mensches from the Bay Area! Proceeds benefit The Smart Program, a SF non-profit.
Joey the Cat Skeeball: Joey the Cat Skeeball Rentals specialized in providing Classic Skeeball machines for events of all shapes and sizes.
CrushHub: CrushHub lets you play matchmaker for your Facebook friends. You and your friends will be playing, scheming, and scoping out the best matches. Together.
50/50: A Dating Documentary: One cute, single girl, 50 first dates, one in every state. And soon to be documentary of it all.
Read more about the National Food Truck Date Day movement to turn around the negativity surrounding Valentine's Day: http://the50dates.com/valentines-day-meh-instead-lets-make-it-national-food-truck-date-day/
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SoMa StrEatFood Park
428 11th Street
San Francisco,
Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 7:00 PM - Friday, February 15, 2013 at 12:00 AM (PST)
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50 Food Truck Dates
Jeanna is going on 50 Food Truck Dates and writing about it. Follow her food truck reviews and dating stories at 50FoodTruckDates.com
Also hosted together with Jeanna's friends at Lyft, Mensch of the Month, Joey the Cat Skeeball, CrushHub and 50/50: A Dating Documentary.


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I can't sleep, so I'm tracking the Sacramento River Cats game on Twitter. The game just went into the bottom of the 18th inning and has been going for over 5 hours. Position players are pitching now. Apparently there's a curfew rule that prohibits an inning from starting after 12:50am. I'm not sure what they do after that.
The Giants game went into extras tonight because Santiago Casilla is having some trouble with the closer role. Say what you will about Brian Wilson's methods in the 9th but dude almost always pulled it off. Usually with the bases loaded, two outs, and a full count.
Brandon Crawford fouled a ball off his knee in the 11th and because there was no one left but two relievers and four starting pitchers, he had to stay in. On the next pitch, he crushed a home run to right center. It's one of the best, if not THE best, Giants home run this season. I mean, Crawford was PISSED. You could see it in his face as he swung through and made contact with the ball.
Chipper Jones isn't very happy with Melky Cabrera, who taunted fans a few times tonight/did his usual wrestling crotch slam thing with Blanco. We're to be on the lookout tomorrow (technically today) for a rib ball for Melky. And I'm sure benches will clear because everyone will be tired and cranky and rawwwwrrrr.
The only other Giants-related thing I can think to tell you is that Buster Posey's batting average in the last like 5 games is somewhere in the neighborhood of perfect. Perfect or .595. CLOSE ENOUGH.
River Cats update: walk off homer by a Tacoma position player who pitched the top of the inning. Oh, baseball.


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MONTGOMERY | Colin MacGuire of Greenville may be one of Alabama's smallest adults, but he's probably the University of Alabama football team's biggest fan.
MONTGOMERY | Colin MacGuire of Greenville may be one of Alabama's smallest adults, but he's probably the University of Alabama football team's biggest fan.
MacGuire, 55, who is known as "Big C," is 4 feet 7 inches tall.
"I'm considered what you call a dwarf," he said Friday. "If I could swap arms and legs, I'd be tall."
That didn't stop MacGuire from playing football in high school. He attended UA, where he was the football team's equipment manager. He graduated in 1980.
MacGuire has been in sports memorabilia sales and is a sports talk radio host in Greenville on WGYV 1380 AM. The station's website is www.jockjive.com.
His first caller Friday was Paul from Attalla.
"Well, what do you think about Monday's game?" Paul asked MacGuire about the national championship game between 12-1 Alabama and the University of Notre Dame, No. 1 and 12-0.
"I think we'll win," MacGuire said.
He added that Alabama must play error-free football. "If we play like we did against LSU, Texas A&M and Georgia, it will be a struggle," he said.
When MacGuire says "we," he means it as a former equipment manager when Paul W. "Bear" Bryant won national championships for the 1978 and 1979 seasons. "Two years we went 23-1 and were back-to-back national champs," McGuire said.
Toward the end of the legendary 1979 Sugar Bowl against Penn State, MacGuire can be seen flying through the air after a pass play went out of bounds and players tangled with sideline participants.
"I normally could get out of the way, but in that one particular instance I had a deer-in-the-headlights-look," MacGuire said. "The next day when I went back to Tuscaloosa, I could feel the imprint of the helmet hit on me."
The next year, Alabama beat Lou Holtz's Arkansas Razorbacks in the Sugar Bowl for Alabama's final national championship until the 1992 season. (MacGuire said he just got engaged. "She's an Arkansas fan, a Razorback fan," he said.)
The last Alabama game he attended was the SEC Championship game against Georgia last month. "It got a little nerve-wracking," he said.
MacGuire said he got interested in football while watching the 1969 Alabama-Ole Miss game.
MacGuire said his late father, Buster MacGuire, was the state editor for The Montgomery Advertiser. He said he would ride from Greenville to Montgomery with his dad so he could read The Advertiser's microfilmed sports pages.
That's where he got his textbook knowledge of Alabama football trivia, scores and history.
MacGuire said he remembered Ole Miss receiver Floyd Franks catching an Archie Manning pass in the 1969 Alabama game. More than three decades later, he met Franks and recalled the game.
MacGuire said Bryant was larger than life and could be intimidating.
MacGuire said that one day after practice, Bryant drove by in his golf cart and offered him a lift. "I told him 'no, thank you'. It scared me so bad," MacGuire remembered. "I had to walk and get the cart and go back. The smart thing would have been to ride in his cart."
But Bryant had a soft heart, too.
"One of my best memories was I got sick before (the 1979 Sugar Bowl) and was in the hospital, and Coach Bryant found out about it and wrote me a real nice Christmas card," Mac-Guire said. "The return only said 'Bryant'. It didn't have a return address or anything."
MacGuire said he loves Alabama football.
"To me, it's always exciting when they win," he said.


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Hendersonville won the first game of a best-of-three series on Thursday in the state 1-A semifinals, knocking off defending state champion South Stanly, 6-1, at The Den.
The Rowdy Rebel Bulls are the West Region's top seed from the Yadkin Valley Conference.
Starting pitcher Derrik Doyle hurled six innings of three-hit baseball to get the win. Sam Linn left third base and came in with two runners on in the seventh to close things out.
"(Doyle) pitched us a good game," said Bearcats coach Mark Cook. "That's what our guys have been doing all year. Our pitchers go out and do a good job, and know the field is going to back them up."
"We didn't play well at all," said South Stanly coach Terry Tucker, whose club swept the Bearcats in last year's state semis but had three errors on Thursday. "They did a good job of hitting. They stayed away from the breaking ball."
Doyle escaped a shaky first inning with no runs after hitting the first batter and giving up a one-out single. The junior settled down to strike out four Bulls in a row through the second on his way to seven whiffs for the game.
Hendersonville shortstop Caleb Williamson (2-for-4, run, RBI) got the Bearcats rolling in the first with a leadoff home run to left field. Doyle scored later in the inning after a walk, a wild pitch and an infield throwing error with two outs for an early 2-0 lead.
Second hitter Bradley Schmidt (3-for-4, run) gave the top of the order two big sticks in the Bearcats' eight-hit attack.
Hendersonville (21-5) put four runs across in the fifth on two RBI singles and Linn's RBI double, all with two outs. Right-fielder Shawn Rogers (1-for-2, walk, run) drove in two runs in the inning with a rocket past the pitcher before Linn's long drive to left-center following a pitching change.
"All our guys jumped on it," Cook said of his team's clutch hitting. "We had good at-bats and were patient at the plate.
"This is the first step, and we've got two chances to (advance)."
Neither coach had decided after Thursday's game who they will pitch on Friday in Norwood. The probable choice for Hendersonville is Linn, who is 14-0 on the season, though he pitched six innings in the Bearcats' Tuesday win.
South Stanly (26-5) will likely start its left-handed ace Russ Weiker (10-1), though he also pitched in the Bulls' Tuesday night win.
If South Stanly wins this evening the deciding game will be played at 3 p.m. Saturday at The Den.
Doyle, Bearcats nab Game 1 of West Regional series
Hendersonville won the first game of a best-of-three series on Thursday in the state 1-A semifinals, knocking off defending state champion South Stanly, 6-1, at The Den.


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Functional adaptationLimbs sacrificed to escape predators: crabs
The claw and other limbs of a crab assist escape because they can be shed and regenerated.
"In some invertebrates, autotomy can involve the loss of one or more legs. Crabs, for instance, are famous for sacrificing a claw if attacked by a predator, which they will then regrow. Indeed, they are willing to lose several of their limbs if necessary to avoid capture, though this willingness decreases markedly with each successive limb loss, for obvious reasons." (Shuker 2001:132)
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Coined by Mikey Rocks of the Cool Kids. Synonym for creeper.
"Whenever you see anyone lurkin' real hard, you gotta call 'em out. Make 'em aware you see 'em. You gotta sing the lurkulator song. 'I'ts time for the lurkulator. It's time for the lurkulator'. It makes them uncomfortable and want to remove themselves from the situation."
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2013 South Dakota State Preview: Offense [AUDIO]
South Dakota State begins the 2013 season Saturday night as a Top Ten team in the nation, based in part on the weapons they have returning on the offensive side of the ball.
Junior running back Zach Zenner led all FCS ball carriers with 2,044 yards as a sophomore, good for 157 yards per game.
With that kind of success, both Zenner and head coach John Stiegelmeier know defenses will be prepared to shut down the Jacks running game in 2013.
Junior quarterback Austin Sumner has thrown for more than 2,300 yards in each of his first two seasons in Brookings, and showed tremendous improvement last year, despite hurting his hand 10 days before season opener at Kansas.
That hand was operated on during the off-season.
Sumner and coach Stiegelmeier are happy with the way things are progressing with the recovery and preparation for the new season.
The key to the Jackrabbits' attack is a veteran offensive line, where four of five starters return, including All-America senior left tackle Bryan Witzmann.
Witzmann says blocking for Zenner is a lineman's dream come true.
The biggest question mark on the offensive side of the ball is the receiving corps. SDSU graduated their top two receivers from last season, Tyrel Kool and Aaron Rollin, and are looking at a couple of returning players to fill those voids, while hopefully getting some help.
SDSU and Butler kickoff at 6:00pm Saturday night at Coughlin-Alumni Stadium in Brookings.


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2 stars (out of 4)
In a recent interview, Tom Waits mentioned that while recording music, "You have to work with people that know when to trick you."
Coldplay pays lip service to the element of surprise on its fifth studio album, "Mylo Xyloto" (Capitol), by enlisting the ultimate trickster, Brian Eno, who has brought out the very best in past collaborators such as Talking Heads, U2 and David Bowie by banishing business-as-usual habits.
Eno, who also worked with the British quartet on its 2008 album, "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends," is credited with "enoxification" and, more tangibly, with cowriting every song on "Mylo Xyloto." His presence can be felt in the details, the way songs evoke paintings with their depth of field and subtle blends of color.
But Coldplay has a formula, and formula prevails on "Mylo Xyloto" despite Eno's presence. It will ensure a certain number of hits and considerable commercial radio airplay, but those who thought of a Coldplay-Eno collaboration as a ticket to a reinvention – as U2 accomplished with "Achtung Baby" in 1991 or Talking Heads with "Remain in Light" in 1980 under Eno's guidance – will be disappointed.
Innovation really isn't the point with Coldplay – at least not anymore. In what has otherwise been a fairly desultory era for mainstream rock, the foursome has sold 40 million albums by thinking big. Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion come across as rock stars of the most modest, self-deprecating sort, and they aspire to write universal, feel-good songs: from their breakthrough "Yellow" in 2000 through "Clocks," "Fix You" and "Viva La Vida," they've reliably dished out durable radio singles.
Though the band has tinkered with new sounds (the art-rock moves of "X&Y" in 2005 and the world-music accents in "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends"), "Mylo Xyloto" is essentially a blueprint for concert sing-alongs – rock's sensitive-guy answer to the Black Eyed Peas' party-till-you-pass-out celebration.
The new album takes its cues from the '70s Bruce Springsteen, who wrote about blue-collar kids trying to escape their unpromising pasts, and finding that in many cases it's possible. The music was operatic, brimming with archetypal characters and dramatic payoffs. "Mylo Xyloto" is a second-hand version of those tales, short on the specifics and sharp images that defined Springsteen's songs, but longer on bombastic pop hooks and optimism. The album's title characters are in love and on the run. It's "just us against the world," trying to survive "all the madness" and "the chaos as it swirls." They are street urchins brimming with "spray-can soul" who "from underneath the rubble sing a rebel song."
The clumsy narrative is supported by two kinds of songs – sparse ballads and enormo-anthems, linked by three short instrumentals that give the album a sense of cohesion, one track bleeding into the next (a classic Eno-esque touch). After a brief intro, the band throws three big punches designed to shake the walls in "Hurts Like Heaven," "Paradise" and "Charlie Brown," packed with "whoah-oh! vocal hooks, falsetto singing, cascading guitars, sumptuous keyboards, drums that crash songs back into overdrive after sudden dives into near-silence. You'll recognize a lot of the moves from other records: Not just by Springsteen, but by the Killers, Kings of Leon or Arcade Fire doing their takes on Springsteen, plus the chest-thumping uplift of U2 and the haunted yearning of Radiohead. They even appropriate Big Country's bagpipes-as-guitars sound from the '80s on "Every Teardrop is a Waterfall."
Coldplay strategically deploys a handful of ballads for contrast: "Us Against the World," "U.F.O.," "Up in Flames." Martin milks these smaller, more intimate moments, the world-weary troubadour imploring a lover, God or both to "lift up this blindfold (and) let me see again." The one detour is an awkward, seemingly pasted-together collaboration with hooks-specialist Rihanna, who punches up "Princess of China" alongside Martin amid the album's most emphatic rhythms and a beehive of swooping, buzzing synthesizers.
As for the desperate lovers Mylo and Xyloto, it all works out in the end -- and how could it not in a Chris Martin story? A last-minute surprise would've been completely out of character for an album that plays it this safe.


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Have you ever heard that saying, "An old friend you've only just met"? Usually people use it to describe a new acquaintance with whom, for some strange, almost mystical and inexplicable reason, you just have an immediate connection with, a feeling of kinship usually reserved for people you've known and loved for years. It's also used by happy-hour Lotharios who want nothing more than to establish a long-lasting connection in the subject's pants.
Lust for a Vampire and I are like that. On both counts.
Allow me to explain: back when I was just a TV altar boy, in the days before cable, before the internet, even before VCRs (I know it's hard to imagine, kids, but it's true), there were two ways a horror-obsessed lad like me could find out about the mad mad movies I craved. One way was to scour the TV guide every week and stay up late on Fridays for the Weekend Fright Fest, which was usually some boring crappy z-movie from the 60s but was occasionally something spectacular like A Bucket of Blood or Taste the Blood of Dracula. The other way was to go to the local public library and check out all the books they had on horror movies. I did both, and as a result I knew about a lot of films long before I ever got a chance to see them, still images in living color and glorious black and white burned into my impressionable brain.
It was in one of these books--a tome whose title I've forgotten but which I remember was a study of the evolution of the vampire film from Nosferatu to Frank Langella's Dracula (which was a fairly new flick at the time, to give you an idea of the Vicar's age), that I happened upon the picture below:
Now, I don't know how many of you have ever been a pubescent boy in the age before the internet, but let me tell you, in those days images like this were hard to come by. You couldn't just Google "outrageously hot Swedish chick with blood all over her boobs" and satisfy your youthful curiosity. To me at that time, this was just a little bit short of a miracle. You just didn't see things like this every day.
Well, unless you could get to the library before I rechecked said book for the 20th time. And you couldn't. People tried.
So now, after all these years, I've finally met my old friend, Lust for a Vampire for the first time. And I must say I'm very pleased to make its acquaintance. Generally considered one of the lesser flicks of the Hammer vampire cycle (though I'm not at all in agreement with that assessment), this movie has everything I could have asked for from it: beautiful photography, gorgeous period costumes, heart-breakingly gorgeous women, and some genuinely perverse and disturbing set-pieces, all tinged with that trademark almost-but-not-quite-camp feel that's so common to the Hammer brand.
And it has that image. Praise be to the Lord of the Undead!
chesty barmaids who dressed like the St. Pauli Girl and were not too particular about taking rides from strangers driving funereal black coaches. Before you can say "Eurobabe Abduction!" one such wench finds herself in the clutches of a mysterious couple in long satin robes, who take her back to a ruined castle and perform a devil-worshipping resurrection ceremony. The male of the couple is played by the wonderfully named Mike Raven (if he didn't have a porn career, it wasn't his name's fault!), who is a perfect Poor Man's Christopher Lee, right down to the sonorous voice, the spear-point widow's peak, and the impossibly bloodshot eyes. He and his lovely assistant sacrifice the barmaid and spill her blood on a dessicated skeleton in the crypt, leading to a wonderful effects scene as the body glows and reconstitutes itself under a white sheet stained with the blood. When the vampire rises, it is revealed to be the Hot Swedish Countess of my youth, Yutte Stensgaard, in all her bloody, tit-hanging-out glory.
We then go back to the village, where novelist and outsider Richard Lestrange (Michael Johnson, whose costume and bearing make him look like a very passable Timelord understudy) is macking on the remaining barmaids and alienating the townsfolk by laughing at their silly superstitions about the vampires in the castle on the hill, who seem to come back every 40 years like clockwork to feast on the blood of Eurobabes. After a stern reproof from the pub owner, Lestrange proposes to prove what a bunch of backwards rubes they all are by heading up to the castle himself to show the vamps don't exist. Once in the crypt, however, he encounters a strange gentlemen and three strangely silent women in pastel, see-through gowns. (Zang.) Is he to be the prey of the Legion of Undead Hawtness?
a teacher and three young women on a field trip from a nearby girls' school! Lestrange goes back to the school with them, where he meets the Mrs. Garrett-esque headmistress and watches the student body take their daily exercise in "Roman Dancing," each of the girls in see-through togas and all of them HAWT. Unsurprisingly Richard offers his services as English instructor, a position he gains after a little underhanded dealing sends the original prof to Vienna. One of the female teachers, Janet Playfair (played by the beautiful but slightly strange-looking Suzanna Leigh) marks him approvingly.
Of course according to Chekhov's principles of drama you can't introduce a girls' school in a horror movie and NOT have gratuitous nudity and lesbianism, and that's just what we get as enigmatic new girl Mircalla (Stensgaard) and her classmates share a wanton basin-bath scene before Mircalla and her roomate engage in some out-of-nowhere massage and necking. (Ziggity-zang.) The girl goes missing, and the school is in turmoil. The headmistress resists calling the cops because she abhors scandal, and in the meantime the nerdy, Stephen King-like history professor recognizes Mircalla as the spitting image of Carmilla Karnstein, one of the notorious family of vampires said to haunt the nearby castle. Lestrange has fallen hard for Mircalla in the meantime, despite the fact that Janet Playfair is totally crushing on him. More folks die, Count and Countess Karnstein reappear, Richard is torn between his hypnotic slavery to Mircalla and his genuine love for Janet, and the villagers are getting restless and stockpiling torches in preparation for the castle-storming finale.
There's a lot of really great stuff here, so much I hardly know where to begin. For one thing, the movie is gorgeous to look at. The sets, the costumes, the colors, the mise en scene, all top notch, especially in the blood-spilling scenes. One thing you can always count on a Hammer film to deliver is a great visual experience, and Lust for a Vampire is no exception. There are also some great Bava-esque color filters used during a couple of weird dream sequences, and the sex scenes are well-shot and quite arousing all around.
Zeta One) is great as the seductive, slightly reluctant vampire woman, and her parents are both delightfully evil and menacing. And the character actors in bit parts also demand notice, from the intense, surly bartender to the ill-fated police inspector who almost blows the lid off the case before being chucked down a well by his quarry. Suzanna Leigh is good as the strong, educated woman who tries to win Lestrange back to the side of good, and Ralph Bates as Giles Barton does fantastic work as the history nerd who longs to join the ranks of the undead. And David Healy as one of the missing students' father determined to find out what happened to his daughter gives a strong, memorable performance as well.
There's a little bit of hilarity too, as when during Lestrange's first trip to the castle we get some clumsy voice-over flashbacks to events that happened less than five minutes before. And the only drawback to Richard and Mircalla's otherwise completely zang-worthy love scenes is the painfully earnest song that plays over them, "Strange Love," which sounds like a Burt Bacharach nightmare and which we get to hear in its entirety not once but TWICE. Brutal.
The vampires are kind of unusual too in that they don't mind coming out in the daylight, seemingly returning to their coffins at night in an strange inversion of the legend, and aren't at all bothered by the prospect of being burned up in their castle by the mob since "Fire holds no death for us!" and they can just reboot the whole enterprise in another forty years. The ending is pretty wild, with an out-of-nowhere cardinal appearance and the mob's blatant disregard of his instructions, and Lestrange having to be rescued by Healy from the burning mansion just as Mircalla meets an accidental and somewhat grody fate.
I should also point out that this is the second in a loose "Karnstein Trilogy" that Hammer did, inspired like so many others by the novel Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, which I guess I'm going to have to break down and read some day. (The other two films are 1970's The Vampire Lovers and 1972's Twins of Evil, both of which are now on my must-be-seen list.) If this is indeed the least of the three as many critics claim, the other two must be fantastic.
I have been handing out a lot of high scores lately, and it's bound to fall off sooner or later, but I can't in good conscience give Lust for a Vampire anything less than 3 Enthusiastic Thumbs. Seek it out, ye fans of blood and boobs. I promise you will not be disappointed.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Lust for a Vampire (1971): or, a Hunk of Burnin' Vampire Love
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 10:14 AM
Labels: '70s, 2-3 thumbs, Based on Carmilla, Chekhov Rule, Devil Worship, Vampires (Lesbian), Vampires (Regular)
3 comments:
- Karswell said...
I definitely wouldn't call this the worst of the Karnstein trilogy as it's not fair to refer to any of them in this manner. I think it's equally as great as The Vampire Lovers and Twins of Evil (and Countess Dracula '71.) Can't wait to hear what you think of the others.
- February 21, 2008 at 7:23 PM
- Jo said...
Ok, so I laughed a little too much while reading that [hey, I'm a slacker and lurking your blog while at work- oops!]
- February 23, 2008 at 4:49 PM
- Shweta Mehrotra Gahlawat said...
Oh this was so much fun to read!
That poster is super cool- on the other hand, that last screen cap- is that a shot of her nostrils from below? rofl :D
- March 19, 2008 at 4:26 PM
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - "Al Sanawbar School" (Al-Ain)? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in "Al Sanawbar School" (Al-Ain)? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> United Arab Emirates View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message ak_hopeJoined: 08 Apr 2004Posts: 14 Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 8:44 pm Post subject: "Al Sanawbar School" (Al-Ain)? Hello everyone! A quick search through previous threads in this forum yielded no results for "Al Sanawbar School" (Al-Ain). Does anyone have any info regarding this school? Back to top teflliferJoined: 13 Jun 2003Posts: 81 Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 6:38 pm Post subject: Al-Sawnaber, etc English-medium School - does mainly US curriculum sort of, I think. Kids from mixed marriages and Arab expat students. Have heard of the other one Al Madar, but no info... Chouefait is an option - but see posts and notes on the job info board regarding system, etc. Emirates Private Schools is maybe a possibility. Many expat schools are either brit of American - but there is a Canadian Grammar School in Abu Dhabi - also American international School in Ad might be possible - they do IB. In Al Ain, there's also Liwa and Al-Dhafra schools which employ expats - and Emirates wide is the varkey Group which has schools of varying types - some do Brit sysytem, some do Indian. Try the UAE Embassy wherever you are for a list of schools. Hope it works out. Back to top ak_hopeJoined: 08 Apr 2004Posts: 14 Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 8:12 pm Post subject: Thanks a lot tefllifer! Does anyone happen to have an email address for Al-Liwa school? Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> United Arab Emirates All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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Service failure showed what can go wrong, but one government site showed how to be prepared
This article has been updated from its original version to include a reference to Amazon's explanation of the failure.
Proponents of cloud computing might have felt a slight chill up their spines recently, when a failure hit Amazon Web Service's (AWS) Elastic Cloud Compute, sending several popular social media sites and one Energy Department site, among others, into the dark.
This was no blip. Energy's OpenEI.org site, an open, Semantic Web collaboration platform for sharing work on clean energy, was down nearly two full days. Sites such as Reddit, Foursquare and Quora weren't down quite as long, but they were still dark for a day or more, an eternity for social networking sites where users post and consume information from minute to minute. For some, it was panic-as-a-service.
Amazon has restored EC2's lost services and offered a detailed explanation of what went wrong. The company also is offering 10-day credits to affected customers. Knowing the actual cause of the failure is no doubt be useful and the credits are a nice gesture. But the bottom line — and for government and private-sector websites, uptime is the bottom line — is that sites that depend on those cloud services were out of commission for a long time.
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Amazon cloud crash keeps Energy site off-line
So what does this mean for agencies going to the cloud? Does the Amazon crash prove that cloud is a crap shoot for any organization that takes its services and data seriously? Will agency applications in the cloud forever be at the mercy of remirroring run amok?
The short answer is almost certainly no. The longer answer is no but also that the EC2 crash is a cautionary tale, a reminder that moving to the cloud involves the same prep work, attention to detail and contingency planning that goes into any other critical network.
Case in point: Recovery.gov, which is hosted at the AWS Northern Virginia data center where the failure occurred, remained in operation throughout. The reason? The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which runs Recovery.gov, had a backup plan, an agreement with Amazon to move its operation to another location in the event that trouble cropped up, according to a report in InformationWeek.
One lesson from the crash is that cloud services won't always be perfect. But the better lesson is the importance of a contingency plan.
Agencies are increasingly moving operations to the cloud, and for good reasons. Cloud computing frees data center space, cuts maintenance costs and power use, increases the availability of systems for mobile users, and, above all, saves money. Also, the Office of Management and Budget has decreed it, requiring agencies to move three applications to the cloud in the next 12 to 18 months.
But although cloud services can make some things easier for agencies, getting there isn't a snap. Even moving e-mail systems, which are generally deemed the lowest of the low-hanging fruit for cloud migration, is fraught with pitfalls, as Rutrell Yasin reports in this issue.
The best approach, experts say, is a careful, thorough one. The impact of Amazon's EC2 crash — which sites went dark and which stayed up — proves the point.
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I've been in IT for 15 years ... I know several different programming languages (including c++), I'm a network administrator, and It's beyond me why so many of you are willing to hand the power of IT back to the big guys after we secured it for ourselves with the advent of the PC. This is but a sample of "bad" things to come if we continue down the path to handing our control over to "the cloud". Say goodbye to your DIY datacenter, and hello to the chains of your ISP.
The operative word here is PLAN or in a much better way architect the landscape of the problem you are committing your organization to. Most successfully this has been done using the discipline of EA or what ever you may call it, and the irony of it is in Government most agencies have accomplished lots of this work already. They should use it to protect their rear end and reduce risks.
Kevin, not all sites were completely down on a long term basis, the long term outages affected database capabilities. Just like you said, it is all a crap shoot, but when you pay for quality employees, they don't drag down the entire cluster with an incorrect network configuration change. Was it really worth all this hassle to save a few bucks by switching to the largest webhost in retrospect? If this is the cloud (I loathe the term "cloud") and your workstation ran from Amazon EC2 or EDS services, how long would you CIO have a job after this outage? Assuming this is a small business of 5,000 employees, my guess is the CEO would be scouting a new CIO during the outage and reconsidering Amazon's services. Point proven, indeeed.
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text: School partnerships Legacy is a recognized leader in Oregon in school-to-work partnerships, especially in supporting new state education standards and curricula. Career explorations Legacy hospitals provide job shadow and internship experiences only for students at schools with official contractual relationships with Legacy; see the list below. Many elementary, middle and high school students hear speakers provided by Legacy Health through the Trauma Nurses Talk Tough injury prevention program. Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center partners with the Center for Advanced Learning (CAL), to provide students from six school districts in East Multnomah County with basic clinical experience. The students can choose to earn a Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) certificate. Partner schools Each Legacy hospital works to develop a partner relationship with an elementary, middle and high school. The hospital plans school-to-career activities for the students, and they in turn help the hospital by singing at dedications, displaying artwork in clinics and patient hallways and writing to patients. Partner schools include: Beaverton: Beaverton Health & Science High School Gresham: Center for Advanced Learning Walt Morey Middle School Reynolds High School Portland: Benson High School Boise Eliot Elementary Chapman Elementary Jefferson High School Lincoln High School Metropolitan Learning Center Tualatin: Bridgeport Elementary Hazelbrook Middle School Tualatin High School


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Exploring the Nexus between Well-being of the Migrant and DevelopmentNov 6, 2013
"We need to place migrants at the centre of the debate on migration," said Ambassador Laura Thompson, Deputy Director General of International Organisation for Migration, at the launch of the "The World Migration Report 2013" in Addis Ababa on 6th of November.
Growing numbers of people from all parts of the world are on the move and the trend is expected to continue. The UN Population Division estimates that since 2000 the number of international migrants has grown from 175 million to over 230 million this year; these figures are projected to increase.
By examining the lives of individual migrants, and not just aggregate socio-economic indicators, the report argues that policies can be finely tuned to respond to the needs and experiences of migrants. The report draws on extensive polling, carried out across 150 countries, to assess the overall wellbeing of migrants across six dimensions of wellbeing – subjective, financial, career, physical, social, and community. The findings seek to shift the focus from debates around economic growth and remittances to the impact of migration on human development and lives.
People migrate in pursuit of a better life or to be reunited with loved ones in distant places. Many migrants are people who flee from poverty, violence, conflict, corruption, and persistent exclusion. Migration flows seem to increase in the future, driven by both inequalities within and between countries and by the growing ease of travel. More people can be expected to leave their homes as the impact of climate change makes continued residence impossible in some areas.
Migration is still too often addressed narrowly through the lens of single issues, like the so-called brain-drain. "Migration has the potential to greatly improve human welfare, if we get it right," noted Mr Eugene Owusu, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr Owusu said and elaborated by saying "that it is critical to look at the larger question on how migration can help countries, such as Ethiopia, to realise development objectives, and how to best protect and uphold the rights and security of all migrants". He emphasised that this is why it is critical to mainstream migration into national development strategies and plans, work together and improve the well-being of migrants.
State Minister of Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Dr Zerihun Kebede, underlined at the launch that there is need to apply a comprehensive approach to address the problems migrants face and protect the rights of all migrants. His Excellency called for doubling the efforts on reducing the negative effects on migration.
There are no one-size-fits-all templates for maximizing the potential of migration for human development, but countries can facilitate human mobility in ways which support that. In Ethiopia, the government has established a National Anti-Human Trafficking Council, chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister, to promote the wellbeing of migrants. The country's Growth & Transformation Plan likewise seeks to tackle labour migration by reducing illegal migration and trafficking; decreasing the rate of sexual assault and labour abuse; and increasing the number of women receiving training in entrepreneurship management and credit and saving services.
In Ethiopia, UN agencies are working together with the government to address the root causes of irregular migration, including through programmes to support economic development and reduce people's vulnerabilities. UN agencies also provide victims' support; help reintegrate migrants; and assist with integrated border and migration management.


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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. | The University of Alabama's arrival at Miami International Airport on Wednesday didn't exactly go off without a snag, but the Crimson Tide was none the worse for the issues.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. | The University of Alabama's arrival at Miami International Airport on Wednesday didn't exactly go off without a snag, but the Crimson Tide was none the worse for the issues.
Reserve offensive lineman Arie Kouandjio became dehydrated on the flight and was treated by medical personnel upon the Delta charter flight's landing, but the older brother of starting left tackle Cyrus Kouandjio had no further complications. Another reserve, tight end Harrison Jones, was not on the flight but will join the team today.
"We had one player that could not travel today for medical reasons, but he should join the team tomorrow," UA coach Nick Saban said. "That's Harrison Jones."
Notre Dame's team flight landed shortly before Alabama's.
Alabama held Wednesday's workout at its on-campus practice facility before the team flight, which arrived shortly after 4 p.m. local time. The team will hold three practices in Miami at Barry University.
"It's good to be back in South Florida at the Orange Bowl. I'm sure these people here are going to do a great job of providing tremendous hospitality for our players and our entire family," Saban said.
Saban was asked twice by local Miami media in a four-minute news conference about the way he handled his oft-criticized departure as coach of the NFL Miami Dolphins when he came to Alabama in 2007.
"I've made my comments about all that. We all learn things about ourselves as we go. Some things we all would like to be differently," Saban said. "We've said what we have to say about it. We're happy to be here and we're focused on the opportunity we have with our team, with this team."
Team captains Barrett Jones, Damion Square and Chance Warmack each spoke about keeping the team focused on the game despite the various distractions available in Miami's party-centric South Beach area.
"I don't think it will be hard. I think a lot of our guys know we're here for the national championship," Jones said. "While this is going to be a fun trip, for us it's going to be a business trip. We're really not here to have fun. We're here to win the game."
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Telecom is coming with a TVNZ-produced set of infomercials called "Tech in a sec". They also have a "Tech in a sec" microsite with all those videos (currently set to private).
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It seems "Tech in a sec" is coming out during the first ad break on TV One News, from this Sunday.