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The Munchkin who instructed Dorothy to follow the yellow brick road in The Wizard of Oz is bringing memories of classic Hollywood to Augusta this weekend.
Ninety-one-year-old Karl Slover is visiting Augusta for screenings of the classic film at Fort Discovery today at 2 and 7 p.m.
Released in 1939, the Academy Award-winning film has been named by the Library of Congress as "the most watched film in history."
Slover, who lives in Dublin, Ga., recalls details of the making of the movie as though it were yesterday. At 4 feet 2 inches tall, Slover is energetic and in good health, with a lively sense of humor.
He was one of 124 Munchkins in the film and the shortest of them all. Today, only five of the Munchkins are still alive, said Mike Deas, the owner of Augusta Amusements, who brought Slover to Augusta.
Then 21, Slover played four roles in the film, including the first trumpeter, a soldier and a "sleepy head." He also led the song Follow the Brick Road , he said.
He landed the first trumpeter role when the original actor kept missing his cue because he was falling asleep while standing, he said. Filming for the Munchkins' scenes lasted several weeks.
"I was glad to get out of the costume for the trumpeter because I had tights, and I hate tights," Slover said, laughing.
Today, the film has achieved acclaimed success, but when he was making it, Slover said, he didn't think it was "going to last." He didn't see the film until three years after it was released because of his rigorous traveling performance schedule.
"But then, when I did actually get to see The Wizard of Oz , I said to my roommate, 'There's two things I don't hear in that picture: swearing or filthy language.' That's the reason why the people keep watching it," Slover said.
Judy Garland, the actress who played Dorothy, was 16 at the time. She was friendly to everyone, he said, along with other members of the cast and crew.
"I met her, but she couldn't stay too long. She was glad to see us," Slover said.
Born in Hungary, Slover has been in the entertainment business since childhood. When he was 9 years old, an agent came to his home and asked his parents if he could join The Midget Show, then the largest performing troupe of its kind in the world, he said.
He grew up on the road with the troupe, singing, dancing and working with animals. The experience led to acting jobs, and Slover has appeared in several films, including Bringing Up Baby with Katharine Hepburn, Block-Heads with comedians Laurel and Hardy, They Gave Him a Gun with Spencer Tracy, The Lost Weekend and The Terror of Tiny Town .
When The Midget Show began to come to an end, Slover took a job at carnival in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he trained dogs, elephants and other animals.
Slover kept in touch with many of the Munchkins, some of whom he knew from other acting jobs.
Each year, Slover attends The Wizard of Oz convention at the home of writer L. Frank Baum in Chittenango, N.Y.
Mayor Deke Copenhaver has officially declared today "Karl Slover Day" in Augusta because of Slover's lifetime dedication to the entertainment and enrichment of others. Commissioner J.R. Hatney presented the honor at The Partridge Inn on Friday.


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For Immediate Release, July 27, 2010
Contact: Jeff Miller, (510) 499-9185
Two Rare Ecuadorian Bird Species Given U.S. Endangered Status, Including One of Darwin's Finches
SAN FRANCISCO— In response to decades-old listing petitions and a series of lawsuits by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today designated two rare South American bird species as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act: the black-breasted puffleg, a hummingbird native to Ecuador, and the medium tree finch, one of the famous Galápagos Islands finches studied by Charles Darwin.
A campaign to protect scores of the world's most imperiled bird species began in the 1980s, when worried ornithologists began submitting Endangered Species Act petitions to protect more than 70 international bird species. Although the Fish and Wildlife Service had determined that most of the species warranted listing by 1994, it illegally delayed responding to the petitions. Center for Biological Diversity lawsuits in 2004 and 2006 jumpstarted the foreign-species listing program, and the Service determined that more than 50 of the bird species warranted listing. So far the Service has listed 14 of the bird species as endangered or threatened and proposed listing for 28 more.
Listing international species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act restricts buying and selling of imperiled wildlife, increases conservation funding and attention, and can add scrutiny to development projects proposed by U.S. government and multilateral lending agencies such as the World Bank that would destroy or alter their habitat.
The medium tree finch (Camarhynchus pauper) is endemic to the island of Floreana in the Galápagos, where it inhabits moist highland forests. It is one of the 14 species of Darwin's finches, collectively named in recognition of Charles Darwin's work on the theory of evolution. The species is threatened by habitat loss and degradation due to agriculture and ranching, and habitat alteration and predation by introduced species.
The black-breasted puffleg (Eriocnemis nigrivestis) inhabits humid temperate and elfin forests in Ecuador, and is named for its distinctive white leg plumage. The single puffleg population has declined by more than 50 percent the past 12 years, and fewer than 250 pufflegs are known to remain. The species is threatened by habitat loss and destruction due to deforestation for agriculture and grazing, oil development and road development.
Read about the Center's International Birds Initiative.
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Yesterday I wanted him all day, when it came to getting down to it did take it away, until he cum and he continued "playing" with me, problem is I want him and he's "fella" never comes back to life again (well after an hour or 2) what is frustrating me.


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ATLANTA (AP) The comparison of starting quarterbacks just didn't seem fair.
Arizona's John Skelton was benched after only five incompletions. Atlanta's Matt Ryan kept throwing after five interceptions.
Michael Turner scored the winning touchdown on a 1-yard run with 6:40 remaining, and Atlanta bounced back from its first loss of the season to rally past Arizona 23-19 Sunday, giving the Cardinals their sixth-straight loss.
Even in the ugliest of wins, Ryan managed to find himself linked with a legend. He became the first quarterback since Green Bay's Bart Starr in 1967 to win a game despite throwing five interceptions with no touchdowns, according to STATS LLC.
``That's good company to be in,'' Ryan said with a chuckle.
The Falcons (9-1), who clinched their fifth straight winning season, found a way to bounce back from the team's first loss at New Orleans.
Atlanta rallied after trailing the Cardinals 13-0 in the first quarter.
Coach Mike Smith stuck with Ryan, who led the 70-yard touchdown drive that gave Atlanta its first lead in the fourth quarter.
Ryan, who completed 28 of 48 passes for 301 yards, said it was important he remained confident for his teammates.
``I think that there are a lot of hats you wear as a quarterback,'' Ryan said. ``Part of it is player, and part of it is keeping everybody on the same page and being relaxed.''
Arizona's Larry Fitzgerald couldn't hang on to a fourth-down pass that would've given the feeble Cardinals a chance to pull it out.
The Falcons (9-1) turned it over a total of six times, but Ryan set up Turner's winning run with four completions for 64 yards, including a 9-yarder to Tony Gonzalez that was just short of the end zone. Turner scored on the next play.
Coming off a bye, the Cardinals (4-6) tried to bolster their anemic offense by switching quarterbacks, replacing Skelton with rookie Ryan Lindley. Arizona was held to only 178 yards.
``We said during the bye week we were going to make changes that we thought necessary, and that's what we're going to do going forward,'' Arizona coach Ken Whisenhunt said.
Lindley completed 9 of 20 passes for 64 yards with no interceptions and no touchdowns. He said he was ``geeked up'' and rushed his decisions in the first half.
``I was too excited,'' said Lindley, a sixth-round draft pick from San Diego State. ``After that, I felt more calm. I think I made better decisions.''
Skelton completed only 2 of 7 passes for 6 yards.
``We missed some throws when we had opportunities early,'' Whisenhunt said. ``We're trying to win, so we gave Ryan a chance to make the throws.''
The Cardinals took a 19-16 lead on Jay Feely's fourth field goal of the game, set up by Ryan's fourth interception - before the Falcons finally came alive on a 70-yard drive.
Ryan completed passes of 11 and 26 yards to Harry Douglas. Following an 18-yard completion to Roddy White, Ryan passed to Gonzalez, who stretched for the goal line, getting his helmet knocked off in the process.
The officials ruled him down about a foot short. Turner carried it in from there.
Arizona had one more chance, after Ryan had a pass deflected at the line, the ball wobbling into the arms of Cardinals linebacker Sam Acho at the Falcons 32.
On fourth-and-2 with just over 3 minutes remaining, Lindley threw a pass that Fitzgerald appeared to haul in at the 5 before tumbling out of bounds. But as he took a hit from William Moore, Fitzgerald rolled over and the ball came loose. The Falcons took over and ran out the clock.
``It's disappointing,'' Fitzgerald said. ``I had an opportunity late in the game to make a play, and that is going to bother me for a while.''
LaRod Stephens-Howling had 22 carries for 127 yards.
``It's extremely frustrating,'' Cardinals center Lyle Sendlein said. ``If you would have told us yesterday we'd get the ball four or five times on their side of the 50, I'd have said, `Yeah, we're going to beat them, and beat them by a large margin.''
The turnover tone was set on the very first snap.
Ryan threw a little behind White, the ball bouncing off his hands and right into the arms of Arizona safety Rashad Johnson for the interception. He returned it to the Atlanta 9, and the Cardinals punched it in two plays later on a 3-yard run by Stephens-Howling.
Ryan threw two more interceptions before the first quarter was done, the second of which led to another field goal by Feely to make it 13-0.
John Abraham hit Lindley, forcing a fumble. Players on each side stood around, thinking it was an incomplete pass, before Abraham motioned for Jonathan Babineaux to pick up it up. Babineaux ran 15 yards for the touchdown.
``Multiple players told me they heard a whistle,'' Whisenhunt said.
NOTES: Stephens-Howling had only 184 yards rushing coming into the game. ... The Falcons lost CB Asante Samuel (right shoulder) in the first half, and WR Julio Jones (right ankle) hobbled off in the fourth quarter. .... Cardinals CB Patrick Peterson was slowed by a hamstring injury.
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I enjoyed the snacks, Q&A, and the screening of Hunter x Hunter 2011!
Bingo was also fun, but it was hard to tell what you wanted us to do to fill in the blocks. It was a nice icebreaker, but I think it could have lead to much deeper conversation if we could have elaborated on those experiences. "Why yes, I am in multiple anime clubs, I have been to Alcatraz , and I go to Los Angeles, multiple times each year. Would you like to hear more?"
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April 18, 2011
by Kevin Pelton
In the last edition of Trend Watch, a look back at five of the most significant trends over the course of the season, whether they lasted and what they mean.
April 11, 2011
The final weekly Trend Watch looks at New York's seven-game winning streak, why Andray Blatche is earning the nickname "Mr. April" and how several rookies are playing their best basketball down the stretch.
April 4, 2011
This week's edition of Trend Watch looks at Anthony Randolph in extended minutes, Andrew Bynum's role in the Lakers' post-break surge and the NBA's most valuable players in the month of March.
March 28, 2011
This week's Trend Watch tries to explain Rajon Rondo's shooting slump and why the Atlanta Hawks have struggled since the break as well as looking at the history of 50-win teams in the NBA.
March 21, 2011
This week's Trend Watch looks at James Harden's scoring surge since the trade deadline, how well the Nets offense has played with Deron Williams and first-round upsets in the NBA Playoffs.
March 18, 2011
This week's Trend Watch looks at Chase Budinger taking advantage of his chance to start, the Utah Jazz struggling on defense since the Deron Williams trade and the history of below-.500 teams making the playoffs, usually in the East.
March 7, 2011
This week's Trend Watch takes a look at Andre Iguodala's productivity as a point forward for the 76ers, Denver's defensive improvement since dealing Carmelo Anthony and how referees have handed out technicals more frequently all season long.
February 28, 2011
On the last day of the shortest month, Trend Watch looks at the league's top player in February, why the Cavliers have been scoring more this month and which teams have changed the most after the deadline in years past.
February 21, 2011
Heading into the All-Star break, Chris Paul suffered through his roughest stretch of the season. Meanwhile, the Chicago Bulls are rolling without Joakim Noah. And just what does the outcome of the All-Star Game mean, if anything?
February 14, 2011
Trend Watch considers Randy Foye's play as a starter, takes the air out of the Dallas Mavericks' 10-game winning streak and looks at the trends for midseason coaching changes.
February 7, 2011
This week's Trend Watch looks at D.J. Augustin blossoming since Charlotte's coaching change, the Suns becoming defensive-minded with Marcin Gortat's emergence and the rookie and sophomore classes through recent years.
January 31, 2011
This week's edition of Trend Watch looks at how a different role has helped Hedo Turkoglu in Orlando, compares long New Orleans win streaks and notes the rise of close finishes league-wide.
January 24, 2011
This week's edition of Trend Watch shows rookie Greg Monroe playing his best basketball in the month of January, Charlotte playing better under Paul Silas by taking care of the basketball and compares NBA stats to this time a year ago.
January 17, 2011
This week's Trend Watch looks at how the Milwaukee Bucks have been able to stay competitive without starting point guard Brandon Jennings, why Shawn Marion's scoring is way up and the continuation of a trend toward fewer offensive rebounds.
January 10, 2011
This week's edition of Trend Watch looks at how well the Orlando Magic has shot since last month's trades, why DeMarcus Cousins is starting to turn the corner and the West's advantage over the East.
January 3, 2011
Why Kevin Garnett's injury could hurt Boston more on the offensive end, Mo Williams morphs into a passing point guard and history shows that most divisions are unlikely to change hands after this point in the season in this week's Trend Watch.
December 27, 2010
In this week's edition of Trend Watch, the Houston Rockets are winning with offense for the first time in recent memory, LaMarcus Aldridge's finishing powers a strong four-game stretch and the Cleveland Cavaliers have had a December to forget.
December 20, 2010
In this week's edition of Trend Watch, a look at how Doug Collins has turned around the Philly defense, where Glen Davis' proficiency at taking charges ranks among recent leaders and how the three-point attempt elevator has stopped climbing.
December 13, 2010
This week's edition of ESPN Insider Trend Watch considers how Raymond Felton has stepped his game up during the Knicks' surge, explores why the Hornets have slipped after their fast start and notes that free throws are up around the league.
December 6, 2010
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SEATTLE – The Seattle Sounders threw everything they had at the LA Galaxy in their bid, Sunday night, to overcome a three-goal deficit in the Western Conference Championship. An untimely penalty kick ended their dream.
Robbie Keane won and then converted a PK midway through the second half as the Galaxy, dominated almost from start to finish by their hosts, advanced to a record eighth MLS Cup final and third in four years following a 2-1 defeat in front of 44,575 at CenturyLink Field.
LA, which won the series 4-2 on aggregate, will be home Dec. 1 against the Houston Dynamo in a rematch of last year's championship game, which the Galaxy won 1-0.
The Sounders, in a near copy of last year's first-round fightback from 3-0 deficit against Real Salt Lake, opened a 2-0 advantage on goals by Eddie Johnson in the 12th minute and Zach Scott in the 57th. They needed one more to pull even in the home-and-home series, but Keane's penalty kick, following an Adam Johansson hand ball on the left endline, provided LA a cushion Seattle couldn't overcome.
Seattle outshot the Galaxy 13-5, but they put only five on frame.
OPTA Chalkboard: Sounders dominate, but fall short again
The Sounders, with Johnson at the forefront, were in charge from the opening whistle, playing with great energy and aplomb, dominating possession, winning most of the second balls and keeping LA's backline on its heels for long stretches.
Johnson might have had a hat trick in the first dozen minutes. Fredy Montero, on the left wing at midfield, played him behind LA's backline in the fourth minute, but he blasted over the net. He scored from Christian Tiffert's feed in the 11th minute, but assistant referee Adam Wienckowski's flag was raised – incorrectly, judging from the replay.
Johnson finally got the goal a minute later. It started with a back and forth between the Galaxy box and the midfield circle, with Omar Gonzalez nodding forward a Brad Evans header and Scott first-timing it back into space. Johnson got position on Gonzalez, outbattled him into the box and left-footed past Josh Saunders.
Seattle nearly added to the lead four minutes later when Montero headed a Tiffert cross at Josh Saunders from close range, and the LA goalkeeper dived to push an Osvaldo Alonso drive past the right post in the 32nd.
The Galaxy didn't threaten until the end of the half when Keane, after a give-and-go with Mike Magee, chipped into the goalmouth from the left endline but put it just fractionally too high for Edson Buddle. Moments later, Sounders defender Jhon Kennedy Hurtado handled a Magee shot from close range in the box, but referee Mark Geiger let play go on.
The Sounders nearly rallied from a three-goal deficit to RSL in a Western Conference semifinal last year, outshooting the Utah side 26-4, but they scored just twice and exited with a 3-2 aggregate loss. They got to 3-2 against LA 12 minutes into the second half, when Scott stepped in front of Buddle at the right edge of the 6-yard box to nod home Tiffert's corner kick to the near post.
They continued to push forward in search of a third, but the game changed in the 67th minute. Keane, with the ball to the left of the goal, played a game of cat-and-mouse with Johansson, finally firing toward the net. The Swedish defender twisted at the ball, and it caught his left hand. Geiger pointed to the spot, and Keane stutter-stepped and rolled the ball up the middle, past diving goalkeeper Michael Gspurning, restoring LA's two-goal cushion with 22 minutes left.
That's all LA needed, and Seattle's search for two more goals – with Montero diving over a sliding Gonzalez trying to win a PK, Jeff Parke twice testing Saunders, and David Estrada forcing the keeper to parry a sharp shot in stoppage – was fruitless.
Several Sounders, with Johnson and Alonso the most demonstrative, confronted Geiger at the final whistle as the Galaxy celebrated their conference title in the midfield circle. Alonso, who was cautioned after fouling Juninho in the 75th minute, received a second yellow for his actions and was ejected.


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The same can happen when an ancient practice gets turned on its head, like the Christian belief in the power of relics — something described last month in this column — which makes God seem pretty mean if he expects us to grovel over parts of dead bodies before he'll give us any help.
These are macro-examples of doubt, but Sarah Sentilles' "Breaking Up With God: A Love Story" (HarperOne: 244 pp., $22.99) is very much a micro one, a personal chronicle charting the battle between her growing doubts and a desperate wish to hang on to religious faith.
"I believed in a male God," she writes, early in the book. "I loved him. I needed him. Sometimes he was gentle and kind. Sometimes he frightened me."
Like many, she started with a child's Sunday-school version of God — the kindly man watching our lives through a hole in the clouds. "Breaking Up With God" describes her childhood in New Jersey and Texas, her beginnings as a Catholic and her quest to shed that juvenile version of God during years of academic achievement and distinction at Yale and Harvard, and explores her loneliness and self-esteem issues. She also spends time in Southern California as a teacher in Compton in the Teach for America program (see her 2005 book "Taught by America") and as a member of All Saints Church in Pasadena, where she discovers a loving, welcoming community. They treat her like a little sister or a daughter, showing her love in the smallest of gestures:
"People knew what was going on in my life. They prayed for me, prayed for my students, let me cry, brought me soup when I had the flu, sent me home with hot toddies after night meetings when I had a sore throat… I belonged.… When the priest dismissed the congregation at the end of a church service one Sunday she said, 'We are home,' and I knew it was true."
They're also the ones who tell her that she has spiritual gifts and should consider entering the Episcopal priesthood. She does.
"Other twenty-three-year-olds I knew didn't want to be priests, and that was, at least in part, why I chose the vocation," she says with brutal honesty. "Wanting to be a priest marked me as different, and being different felt like being chosen."
But it doesn't work out. Sentilles struggles too much with the judgment in so many people's attitudes toward faith and God, especially self-proclaimed God-fearing people who use religion to attack other people's sexuality and lifestyles. As an apprentice pastor she learns that no one wants to hear provocative political talk from the pulpit even though, she says, "faith and politics weren't separate for me … I went to divinity school … because I thought churches could help make the world more just and life-giving for everyone." After struggling with an Episcopalian discernment committee helping her make a decision about her vocation, she calls it quits.
To this point this review has tried to be charitable even though there's a problem: Sentilles' memoir is a claustrophobic book.
She restlessly moves from one idea to another — scattered throughout are meager summations of the efforts of major theologians (Martin Buber and Paul Tillich among them) to understand the divine reality. She never seems to stop long enough to live with a particular view of God. Let's adopt her cliché of a breakup with God for a moment: It takes a long time and many shared experiences to build a deep understanding of one's beloved. Often it has little to do with words — but there's too much talk here, too much chatter about competing viewpoints.
The monastic approach to faith appeals to this reviewer because humility is a crucial ingredient — a daily process of letting go of larger ambitions, of focusing on the now, of quietly listening. It's nothing unique to Christianity either — you find it in other traditions and other memoirs, whether it's Ram Dass struggling with his ego in an ashram or Siddhartha Gautama confronting death and disease with the Middle Way. A knowledge of other traditions might have opened a window for Sentilles onto what the divine reality is all about.
One final problem has to do with being a twentysomething — who really knows anything in their 20s? — and wrestling with the archangel of doubt in a lethal intellectual atmosphere: graduate school (in her case, Harvard Divinity School). Anybody who's done time in grad school knows what I'm talking about: It's all rarefied there, heavily cerebral, frequently subversive — not the best place to go when you are on shaky ground about your beliefs and self-identity.
Yet Sentilles endures it all, and she emerges at memoir's end with her own intellectual position. The problem is, it was hard to be interested in it. She has a grating way of talking about her discoveries about faith — she acts as if she's the first to make them. I was relieved to finish the book, but not before hoping she might find her way back to that community at All Saints and settle for proof of God's existence in a simple bowl of soup.
Thankfully, I had another book at hand that brims with all the patience and wisdom that Sentilles' lacks:
"I was at the lowest point in my life. I had lost all I thought I needed. I did not know how to go on.
It was an enormous, sudden peace.
I knew, very quietly, that I would not find God in this place. I knew it was possible I would not find God at all. And so I could not explain the overwhelming peace I felt. I could not explain how I knew, absolutely, that it would be all right."
That is Marya Hornbacher, recalling a visit to a convent in the introduction to "Waiting: A Nonbeliever's Higher Power" (Hazelden: 168 pp., $14.95 paper). She doesn't chatter endlessly about competing models of God. She sits and listens.
"Waiting" is not a book about God but about the process addicts must take from bottoming out to realizing their ability for spiritual renewal even if they don't believe. "Faith does not imply a God," she says, "the faith we need is a faith that spiritual growth and wholeness are possible for us."
As the author of two harrowing memoirs, "Madness" and "Wasted," Hornbacher knows whereof she speaks. She has endured the dark night of the soul in her own life, and her experiences seem trustworthy. You feel confident in following her where her book leads you. "Waiting" is sympathetic, generous and offers a wide horizon to all kinds of truth-seekers.
Owchar is deputy book editor of the Times. The Siren's Call appears monthly at http://www.latimes.com/books.


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8 Things That Make Moving That Much Easier
Moving is a stressful and sweaty time that can feel like the end of the world, but having a few essential tools can go a long way to retaining your sanity. Sure you can probably do without any of them, but throughout our many moves we've acquired all of them and wouldn't move ever again without them!
1. Sharpie: Sure other markers will do the job, but 1 large tip Sharpie will move you and still be around to label all your burned Netflix later on in the year once you're settled in. Not that we would condone such a thing.
2. Rope: With a nod given to the movie Boondock Saints ("You and your stupid %$* rope!") we don't leave home without rope — especially when we move. It's almost essential to tie things down. Even if you're not putting anything on top of a car or truck it can still be handy to hold down tarps or section off parts of your moving van to help keep things secure.
3. Tape Gun: If you own more than 10 boxes worth of stuff, a tape gun is a huge (huge!) help. Never again will you search for the edge of the tape that's stuck itself back down or tear packing tape with your teeth (shiver), plus the large sound they make is oddly satisfying.
4. Blankets: If you're moving more than a few blocks, having a blanket or two in your moving truck can come in quite handy to ensure favorite pieces don't get scratched during the trip. We don't use them as often as we probably should (usually they're packed in our boxes of glass goods to keep things safe), but when you need them — you need them!
5. Box Knife: Although you'll be packing things up first, getting back into them quickly can be far less painful, so spend the few bucks and pick one up.
6. Walkie-Talkies: Yes everyone has a cell phone and yes they work just fine, but more often than not, you don't hear ring tones, text message bleeps and bloops when you're busy sweating your face off.
Walkie-talkies always have reception in the area you're working in and make you feel like you're 6 again. Neat.
7. Furniture Dolly: Even if this is the only dolly you own, it can make moving heavy items like sofas, deep freezers or even a large pile of books easier. The bonus is it will slide under your bed or in a closet when you're done moving, not to be seen or heard from again until it's needed again. Hand trucks on the other hand, well let's just say you better have a garage!
8. Plastic Wrap: Use regular wrap from your local big box retailer, like you would use in the kitchen, or order some from a place like Uline, but one of the smartest things we do each and every move is wrap shelving units that might be made from veneer or laminate to keep them safe. It works like a champ and even helps stabilize them from tipping over in the moving truck.
Do you have any moving essentials that didn't make the list? Let us know in the comments below and share your secret weapons for getting the job done without a meltdown!
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Greenville took a commanding 59-20 lead heading into halftime and never looked back. Kyle Martin contributed 16 points on 8-of-10 shooting. Micah Summer led St. Louis Christian in scoring with 16 points.
The win improved Greenville's record to 6-1 prior to a weekend tournament where they host Mid-Continent at 8 p.m. Friday night and Missouri Baptist at 5 p.m. Saturday evening.


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PORT JERVIS — Bon Secours Community Hospital got approval Friday from state regulators to decertify its obstetrical services and eliminate its four maternity beds.
PORT JERVIS — Bon Secours Community Hospital got approval Friday from state regulators to decertify its obstetrical services and eliminate its four maternity beds.
But the approval from the New York State Department of Health came with several caveats.
Bon Secours will need to provide an "acceptable closure plan" and several other commitments, the state approval says.
Specifically, the state is requiring that any time a woman comes to the hospital and delivery is imminent, Bon Secours will arrange and pay for the cost of transporting that patient by ambulance to Orange Regional Medical Center in the Town of Wallkill.
That would apply only if the woman can be safely transported and if the transportation isn't covered by the patient's insurance.
Bon Secours also will be required to cover transportation costs for the baby and mother back to their home and the cost for taxi services for immediate family members wanting to visit the patient for up to three round-trip visits.
The transportation costs would be covered for two years.
The approval is also contingent on working with the Middletown Community Health Center, located on Hammond Street.
The Health Center contracts with Bon Secours to provide three full-time obstetrics doctors, though one of those doctors left in November.
Bon Secours will have to provide two $25,000 annual grants to the Health Center to hand out "transport vouchers" to obstetrics patients and their families who reside in Bon Secours' service area, so that they can travel to and from ORMC.
Bon Secours would also be required to provide obstetrics training and continuing education to Emergency Department staff, and have a designated space in the Emergency Department for births when conditions will not allow a pregnant woman to be transferred to another facility.
Bon Secours will have to expand its collaboration with the Health Center to provide outreach and education services, meeting and training space, screenings and publicity regarding the need for prenatal care.
The approval comes more than a year after the hospital asked the state to allow it to close the maternity unit.
Community members have opposed the plan, saying the shutdown affects low-income residents of Port Jervis who can't afford to get to the two nearest hospitals in Warwick and the Town of Wallkill.
Frederick Kelly, board chairman for Bon Secours Charity Health System, said the hospital had been unable to recruit and keep well-qualified obstetricians.
In July, the Health Department said it was leaning toward denying the closure, though talks continued.


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CRESTVIEW � In 1938, several key residents of the sleepy little town of Crestview decided that it was �time for some culture,� so they set about getting a band. They enticed Romulus Hunter Thompson, the assistant band director at DeFuniak Springs, to accept the directorship of a band that existed only in the group of civic visionaries� pipe dreams. The Big Red Machine was born.
Editor's note: The late J.C. Connor wrote this story about the formative years of what is now the Crestview High School band. It first appeared in the News Bulletin's 2008 observance of the band's 70th anniversary. Connor served for many years in the Okaloosa County School District, volunteered at the Baker Block Museum and, until he died last fall, was the Big Red Machine's historian.
CRESTVIEW � In 1938, several key residents of the sleepy little town of Crestview decided that it was �time for some culture,� so they set about getting a band.
A committee comprising school board member H. Claude Garrett, Dr. E. A. Fleming, W.E. Duggan, Tom Fountain, Cortez Campbell, Mallory Barrow and George W. Barrow enticed Romulus Hunter Thompson, the assistant band director at DeFuniak Springs, to accept the directorship of a band that existed only in a small group of civic visionaries� pipe dreams.
Thompson, a Water Valley, Ky., native dropped out of high school to play his saxophone and violin in bands that played dance halls and hotels in the 1920s the Tampa and Miami area.
After a short stint with the Tampa Symphony Orchestra, Thompson returned to high school when his family moved to DeFuniak Springs.
At Walton High School, he was an athlete playing football and baseball while finding time to organize and perform in a dance band. He later became the band director�s assistant at Walton. During the Depression, he was hired to teach music at other schools in Walton County.
The Okaloosa County school district was perpetually short of funding; often, teachers were paid in script or promissory notes to be redeemed when the school board had funds. Thompson and committee members made the rounds to all of the local stores asking that the promissory notes be signed over to the band. In a show of civic support, they all donated the notes, assuring that if Thompson could teach, Crestview would have a band.
Thompson taught each student individually. The newly formed Okaloosa School Band soon was able to play simple songs and marches. The band debuted on June 4, 1938, with a parade down Main Street followed by a concert on the courthouse lawn.
Thompson was dismayed when shown the local football field, locally known as �Sandspur Field.� The name was well-given as it was a sand bed full of �stickers,� totally unsuitable for a marching band. Games were played in the afternoon as there were no lights and no real seating.
After getting a very skeptical principal and football coach to agree to give the band half of the gate if the band could get a real lighted field and stands built, Romulus formed the first band booster organization in Okaloosa County.
Several citizens, including Claude Garrett, put up the money for field lighting. Bill Duggan donated lumber from his sawmill for the stands. A farmer donated grass to sod the field. The Baker School FFA and several band parents laid the sod and built the stands.
Thus, in the fall of 1938, the first night football game in Okaloosa County was played in a newly lighted Sandspur Field. There were 600 spectators who paid $1 each to see the game and watch the first halftime show by a band in Okaloosa County. True to their word, the principal and coach handed over half of the gate receipts to the band. According to Thompson, �we never had any trouble with money after that.�
Ambition and competition
Thompson entered the band in its first district band festival in the spring of 1939 in DeFuniak Springs. The band played in class "C� � a class higher than they should have been in � and won the highest rating possible.
At the same festival in 1940, Thompson took an incredible risk and entered the band � which still should have been in class �D� � in the highest level, class "A." He believed the Crestview students� talent and work ethic would offset their inexperience. The band competed against the larger, more experienced Pensacola band and again received another �First Division� rating.
The Crestview High School Band and its incredible young bandmaster�s fame gained attention from many throughout the state, including the administration of the Leon County School District in Tallahassee.
Thompson was hired to start and organize the Leon High School Band in Tallahassee. Thus after only two years, Crestview�s band, through firmly established, was without a leader.
Several directors followed Thompson � none staying more than a few years until the long reign of David Cadle, today Crestview's mayor. Perhaps most notable was Virginia Ferdon, the Crestview High School band�s only female director, who served 1942-1946.


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Dell Acquires Clerity Solutions, Launching New Applications Modernization Services
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Dell today announced it has acquired Clerity Solutions, a leading global provider of applications modernization and re-hosting solutions and services. Clerity's capabilities will enable Dell Services to help customers reduce the cost of transitioning business-critical applications and data from legacy computing systems and onto more modern architectures, including the cloud.
Dell has taken significant steps over the past three years to expand its services capabilities to help customers manage the increasing complexity of IT, including the ability to support growing volumes of data, streamline processes and ease the transition to cloud-based solutions.
Clerity's unique re-hosting solution makes it easier for customers to move applications off legacy computing architectures into the new IT environment of their choice. By automating this approach to IT modernization through its UniKix™ offering, Clerity helps customers minimize the need to retest systems and retrain IT personnel—which results in overall cost and time savings.
Clerity was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Chicago, Ill. Dell welcomes Clerity's approximately 70 employees to the Dell Services team, and plans to make continued investments to grow the applications modernization capabilities of its Services business. Additional terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
"Unlike other providers, Dell remains committed to open architecture computing and to helping our customers implement optimal platforms for their applications," said Steve Schuckenbrock, president, Dell Services. "Increasingly, these x86 platforms are enabling super-scale cloud environments, and the addition of Clerity gives us a clear advantage in helping customers modernize and migrate their applications off outdated hardware infrastructure to more current architectures. We are thrilled to welcome the Clerity team to Dell."
"The combination of Clerity and Dell provides tremendous growth opportunities for our core application modernization and re-hosting solutions, and rapidly expands our global reach and scale," said Brandon Edenfield, president, Clerity Solutions. "Taking this step with Dell is a very natural progression for our business and offers customers access to world-class enterprise solutions and services offered by Dell Services."
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There are still a good chunk of users that haven't fully given themselves over to the solid state evolution. Hybrid drives, a mesh of traditional spinning platter drive and solid state components, may be a little more appealing to some as they bring large capacities with some of the performance perks of an SSD. Large capacity solid state drives are still cost prohibitive for most so hybrids are also a viable, lower cost alternative. Until now, if your device (think Ultrabooks) could only fit 7mm height drives, you could only choose from a spinning platter drive or an SSD. Seagate's third generation hybrid drive, what they term an SSHD, has not only slimmed down from 9.5mm height to 7mm height but also bumped performance and dropped the unit cost. The Seagate Laptop Thin 500 GB Solid State Hybrid Drive (SSHD) retails for $83.57 shipped online, which is ~$26 more than what a standard Seagate Momentus Thin 5400.9 5400RPM hard drive as that drive retails for $57.71 shipped.
This third generation hybrid drive features 8GB of on board NAND and a 5400RPM platter drive that work in tandem using Seagate's Adaptive Memory Technology (AMT). This technology identifies "hot" data or data that's accessed most frequently and data which is tied into performance such as boot files. All of this is determined by way of a proprietary learning algorithm that analyzes usage patterns. Usually it takes 3-5 repetitions before identification of this data is hat cached for SSD-like performance. Obviously with only 8GB of NAND available, it has to prioritize what data should be cached – a process that is fluid and ongoing.
Having a look at the thin SSHD versus the last generation Momentus XT from above, you can see the same overall design and the length and width dimensions are congruent.
However, looking at them from the side, the difference in size is move obvious with a 2.5mm height difference. The Seagate Thin drives feature a 7mm z-height form factor that allows for thin chassis design for modern laptop computing.
Taking a peek at the solid state components of the drive, we can see a number of features including the controller, the NAND and the cache. The 64MB cache and the 8GB of NAND are both Samsung produced. This portion of the drive plugs right in to the main drive body and attached with a number of small screws.
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Pairing Modern and Traditional Furniture
The one thing I always find myself struggling with when it comes to furniture is how to pair traditional pieces — often family heirlooms — with a more modern setting. My friend, Chancie, is a expert at filling her home with pieces from every era and an inspiration to mix-match-challenged folks like me.
The clean lines of Chancie's modern kitchen are offset by ultra-traditional inherited pieces like her grandmother's huge hutch, rustic country house chairs, and a host mid-century collectibles. It may not be as easy as it seems, but as many a house tour participant has encouraged: buy and keep what you love, then re-arrange, re-arrange, re-arrange and somehow it will all come together.
Check out Chancie & Dan's house tour on Apartment Therapy LA.


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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
We've moved!
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Friday, March 15, 2013
Bento Friday: Suica Bento from JR
Happy Friday!
Japanese Railway will sell limited edition food items featuring their mascot Suica Penguin this month. There will be Suica penguin bread and Suica penguin bentos! So cute! (It's not bento Friday yet but it is too cute not to post this)
Suica penguin bread is made with cocoa powder and chocolate and custard cream filling. They are 400 yen for two and come in a super cute take-out box too. Bentos are 1,050 yen each and have a variety of food. There will also be ICOCA character bentos in addition to Suica bentos during the campaign period (March 18th to March 27th.)
For all Suica items on Yahoo Japan auction, check out the list.
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Rare find! Hermes Birkin 35cm in Black Ardennes
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
Today's Pick: Greco Mockingbird BC1800
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
STRICT-G & PORTER Releases New Bags Inspired by Gundam's Zaku II
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|3-way Brief Case, Waist Bag, Multi Purse, and Wallet
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Wanko -puppy- Type Earphone Jacks to be Released in April!
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Wrap up of New & Limited Edition Super Dollfie models from Dolls Party Osaka 7
SDGOU Claude the Beast
SD17 Claude the Prince
SDGr Belle
Super Dollfie Midi
Liz and Chloe
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Lucy Maria Misora: Magical Princess version
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Remembering 3.11: Rinkya's CEO Tells Her Story from the Japan March 3rd, 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
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Saturday, March 09, 2013
Featured Collection: Jumbo Machineder Figures
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Jumbo Machineder Great Mazinger
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Anne Hathaway on the Catwoman suit: "It was a psychological terrorist"
Anne Hathaway is Allure Magazine's July cover girl! The 'Batman: The Dark Knight Rises' actress shows her famous dimples, and long brown hair for the cover. (Shortly after this shoot, she buzzed her hair off to play Fatine in 'Les Miserables'.
In the issue, Anne opens up about both roles, and the physical changes she underwent for them. She opened up about what it took for her to wear the Catwoman suit, how she's dropping weight for 'Les Miserables', and how she's comfortable getting nude on film. Here's more!
On wearing the Catwoman suit:
Hathaway says that becoming worthy of the Catwoman suit for the upcoming Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, permanently changed her relationship with her body. "It was a psychological terrorist," she says. "The suit, thoughts of my suit, changing my life so I would fit into that suit…. It dominated my year." She added, "I didn't understand how you could be thin and strong. I went into the gym for ten months and didn't come out."
On being told to undergo plastic surgery:
Despite her obvious star potential early on, Hathaway was constantly subjected to suggestions for remodeling. "Someone wanted to gift me Lasik surgery," said the near-sighted actress. And she was told to get Botox at 23. "I was like, 'Can we maybe discuss heavy creams first?'" Not to say that she's adamantly opposed to any kind of intervention. "But I reserve the right to figure that out until after I've pushed out a bunch of babies."
On getting nude on film:
It was clear early on that Hathaway was both fearless and sophisticated in knowing what she could pull off and what she couldn't. Nudity? Fine. Even today, as an A-list actress, she's surprisingly unbothered by it. "I'm as vain as the next girl," she says, "but I think it's my job to show people as they live, and nudity is part of life."
On turning down the lead in 'Knocked Up':
At the same time, she's passed on roles with scenes she just couldn't wrap her mind around. Example: Hathaway turned down the role Katherine Heigl took in Knocked Up because of an explicit birth scene. "My issue with it was that having not experienced motherhood myself, I didn't know how I was gonna feel on the other side about giving birth. And by the way," she adds, laughing, "I could pop a kid out and think, Oh, well, I really should have done that movie."
On her fiance, Adam Shulman, and having children:
Hathaway is engaged to her boyfriend of three years, Adam Shulman, an actor turned jewelry designer. While family is very much on her mind as her next step, she isn't sure how many children she'll have. "But I'll start with one healthy one," she says.
On her vegan diet:
She is hoping, too, that she will be able to maintain her vegan regimen. She describes the diet changes as a "transformation." Not that she doesn't have her moments: "I mean, cheese is amazing," she says. "[But] once you're over the cheese hump, there's really nothing left."
On Anne's friend Kate Lee doing her makeup during the shoot:
When she arrived on the set, Hathaway and her close friend, makeup artist Kate Lee, shown here, jumped up and down and screamed when they saw each other. For the cover shot, Lee created eyes that were "more Liz Taylor than Sophia Loren." First, she drew a thin black line from the outer edge of the lashes inward. "It's not your stereotypical '50s swoop," Lee said. She swept medium brown powder under Hathaway's cheekbones and blended a creamy nude luminizer on top. As a final step, Lee used a liner in the same shade as Hathaway's lips to enhance their shape.
On styling Anne's hair for the shoot:
Hairstylist Serge Normant (shown below) wanted to give Hathaway a "polished bedroom texture" for the cover. After spritzing on volumizing spray, he blow-dried her hair with a medium-size boar-bristle brush. He blasted a little dry shampoo on the roots to pump them up and smoothed dry oil on the ends for shine.
RELATED: Listen to Anne Hathaway sing in the new 'Les Miserables' trailer!


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I haven't heard a peep (I have numbers that almost exactly their median from last year) but people with 166 lsats and <3.2 gpas have been getting offers so far.
Sorry, I should clarify. Peep=phone call offering admission. I did recieve the email asking If I would like to stay on the waitlist and I also recieved an email (after I responded) thanking me for my "strong interest" in Hastings. According to lsn and top law schools people have gotten in already.


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Nestled in the untouched rolling hills of the Wild Coast, Swell Eco Lodge offers self-catering rooms along the north side of the Mdumbi River. The lodge is located just 800 metres from the Indian Ocean.
The thatched-roof buildings offer rooms with an en-suite bathroom with a shower, and access to a fully-equipped kitchen. Some chalets also feature a wooden deck and Indian Ocean views.
Guests can enjoy outdoor activities, such as hiking and horse riding. They can also go fishing, canoeing and s...norkelling at Mdubi River Beach.
Swell Eco Lodge offers guided day tours to Hole in the Wall, Hluleka Nature Reserve, Mapuzi Caves and surrounding areas at a surcharge.
Swell Eco Lodge is accessible via a 1.5-hour drive on a gravel road. The property offers transfers from surrounding areas and airports at a surcharge.
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Of the Office for Civil Rights
Fiscal Year 2006
Enforcing federal civil rights laws is critical to carrying out the mission of ED. They protect millions of students seeking to attend or attending education institutions. OCR helps ensure that all students, regardless of ethnicity, race, gender, disability or age, receive a quality education.
As a law enforcement agency, OCR's primary responsibility is to make sure institutions receiving federal financial assistance are in compliance with federal civil rights laws. Accordingly, its primary objective will continue to be prompt and efficient investigation of complainants' allegations of discrimination, accurate determination of whether the civil rights laws and regulations have been violated, and securing an appropriate remedy for any violation. Additionally, OCR will continue proactive enforcement efforts through compliance reviews and targeted technical assistance. OCR staff will continue to provide assistance to schools, train school administrators, and help parents and students understand their rights under the laws it enforces. To provide quality assistance to both the public and recipients of federal funds, OCR is also committed to continued policy and regulatory development.
Over the past decade, OCR's complaint receipts have risen 20 percent, from 4,828 to 5,805. The only way to ensure that enforcement activities continue at the highest quality is to further develop and increase the knowledge and capability of OCR staff. In response to this increased workload, Assistant Secretary Stephanie Monroe will look to provide additional substantive training for OCR employees. Professional development, increased communication and nationwide coordination are just a few of the ways OCR will work to maintain operational excellence.
OCR is dedicated also to assisting the Department in building on the success of No Child Left Behind. The success of this landmark legislation is clear. As Department data indicate, achievement gaps in reading and math between African-American and Hispanic 9-year olds and their peers have fallen to all-time lows. As the Department works to reauthorize No Child Left Behind, OCR will continue to vigorously enforce civil rights laws and promote the principle that all students deserve equal access to educational excellence at all levels, elementary and secondary as well as postsecondary. Although OCR has achieved a a great deal over the last year, it is clear that much still needs to be accomplished, by both OCR and by the education community as a whole.


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Summertime is a time to enjoy the break in school with a farewell to school time schedules. Most kids in Orange County enjoy the great outdoor weather that summer brings. There are many ways to savor the time off and the beautiful weather. Here are a few of our favorite summertime activities for kids in Orange County
Beach Time in Orange County
Having a beach day is one of the best ways to spend a summer day in Orange County with kids. We have many great beaches in the OC. Some of our favorites include Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Laguna Beach and Crystal Cove or Little Corona Beach. You can pack a lunch and snacks or enjoy a yummy beachside burger at a restaurant. Be sure to bring sunscreen so you don't burn.
Water Sports in the OC
Orange County offers an abundance of watersports for people to enjoy. Newport's Bay Back has water sport rentals including kayaks, paddle boards and even canoes. If you are feeling adventurous, you may want to consider renting a wave runner or a Duffy boat and enjoy the OC water.
Orange County Kids Museums
You can take advantage of the many wonderful Orange County kid museums such as Bowers Kidseum, Pretend City or even the famed Discovery Science Center. These museums provide interactive fun for kids to enjoy. These are not your typical look, but don't touch museums. They are engaging and fun while providing a fantastic learning experience for you kids.
Theme Parks in Orange County
The Granddaddy of all theme parks is of course the world favorite Disneyland. Other than the Happiest Place on Earth, there are many Orange County theme parks that kids love. Some of our favorites include Knott's Berry Farm, Adventure City for the little ones, California Adventure, Balboa's Fun Zone and Boomers.
Roller Skating in OC
If you want to beat the heat and head to an air-conditioned fun place, try roller skating. This is a fun experience for kids that are older than four or five years old. There are tons of fun activities for the little ones, but this is best suited for kids that are over four. Roller skating is a favorite American pastime, and I remember the fun times I had as a tweeny bopper on the roller rink.
There are so many fun activities for kids in Orange County to enjoy. Whether you are visiting from out of town or you live in Orange County, you can find an abundance of activities listed for your kids on our website. The only dilemma that you will run into is choosing what to do among the hundreds of choices. There are activities for all ages and many of them are free or at least low cost activities in Orange County. Take a peek at the many choices and let us know what you think. Send us a review of your favorite Orange County activity for kids and be featured on our OC Fun Guide website .


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"I feel like I did when I was a rookie. I have a lot of spirit and a desire to return. I think I can play three or four more years in the form I am now...I want the chance and I believe one is going to appear. This time I will accept an offer like the one with the Nationals because I want to get back to the majors."
(Sammy Sosa, via SI.com/AP, 12/22/2006)
The Sammy Sosa watch is on: Will Jimbo make him another offer?
The Juicy details -- Disgraced former slugger attempting another comeback, claims he's had "calls" from interested teams, hints that he'd accept an offer like the one he rejected from the Nationals last season.
We say: offer him a Jim Bowden Special: Minor League Contract with an invite to Spring Training, $850,000 if he makes the Opening Day roster, load it up with incentives, call Miguel Tejada for some of those vitamin B-12 shots...
(Photo by Gene Sweeney Jr./Baltimore Sun)


text: 6-7 Donte Grantham of Martinsburg, WV was reported by his local newspaper to have an offer from Clemson, but Grantham said Wednesday night the Tigers have not yet offered. "They are show interest and they came to see me play," Grantham said. "They've been talking a lot to my mom and they seem pretty interested." He did land an offer from West Virginia Tuesday. Some of his other offers include VMI, Northern Kentucky, James Madison and Marshall. He said he's also getting prep school offers. Grantham said he's not sure about upcoming visits but does want to see Clemson. Right now he's busy with AAU basketball. Grantham was named the West Virginia player of the year after averaging 18 points and 9 rebounds per game.


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This morning, I finished the rough draft of the fourth chapter of my forthcoming book, _Laboratory Apocalypse: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality_. This chapter is about how apocalyptic visions from pop science books (Moravec, Kurzweil, et al) have influenced online gaming culture.
With the completion, I now have nearly rough drafts of all substantive chapters, with only a short introduction and a conclusion to go! The project is wearing me down but I look forward to having a complete draft soon (probably not before I have to resume teaching on the 27th, though). It feels good to make progress!


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Charter Names Two New Financial Executives
Charles Fisher, Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance and Stefan Anninger, Vice President, Investor Relations Join Charter
Feb 04, 2013, 03:15 ET
STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Charter Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHTR) has named two seasoned Wall Street veterans to its management team. Charles Fisher will join Charter as Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance on February 11, 2013, and Stefan Anninger has been named Vice President, Investor Relations.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110526/AQ10195LOGO)
Christopher Winfrey, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer said, "I have worked with both Charles and Stefan over the years, and their financial expertise and knowledge of our industry will serve Charter well. We're pleased to have attracted two such high quality hires to our leadership team."
With both positions reporting to Mr. Winfrey, Mr. Fisher will be responsible for Charter's capital markets and merger & acquisition activities. Mr. Anninger will be responsible for developing and managing Charter's relationships with the investment community and shareholders.
Mr. Fisher was previously a Senior Managing Director with Guggenheim Securities, LLC. Prior to joining Guggenheim Securities, Mr. Fisher was at Nomura Securities where he headed the media investment banking practice for the Americas. Previously he served as a Managing Director and led Lehman Brothers' and Nomura's European cable investment banking business in London, and was a Managing Director for Lehman Brothers in both London and New York as well. Mr. Fisher holds a B.A. from Queen's University in Ontario and a M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
Stefan Anninger joins Charter as Vice President, Investor Relations. He comes to Charter from Credit Suisse, where he served as Vice President and the senior equity analyst covering US Telecommunications and Cable & Satellite TV, where he covered Charter. Prior to his five years at Credit Suisse, Mr. Anninger worked at both JP Morgan and Bear Stearns, where he covered the cable and satellite TV industry. Prior to his work in finance, he was with Showtime Networks as Director, Corporate Strategy & International and Director, Business Development. Mr. Anninger received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and his M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
About Charter
Charter (NASDAQ: CHTR) is a leading broadband communications company and the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States. Charter provides a full range of advanced broadband services, including advanced Charter TV® video entertainment programming, Charter Internet® access, and Charter Phone®. Charter Business® similarly provides scalable, tailored, and cost-effective broadband communications solutions to business organizations, such as business-to-business Internet access, data networking, business telephone, video and music entertainment services, and wireless backhaul. Charter's advertising sales and production services are sold under the Charter Media® brand. More information about Charter can be found at charter.com.
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Creative Tidbits #190: Hip-hoppers, decades, Instagram, textures and more
When I saw the series of photos shot across 4 decades I knew this was going to be a good edition of Creative Tidbits! Hope you enjoy this edition -- and if you can guess all those circle movie posters, let me know!
- Getting Closer to the California Print Junkie Who Designed Jay Z's "Holy Grail"
- Astonishing series of photographs of four sisters shot every year for 40 years
- Could Graphic Design Help People Better Relate To Each Other?
- Interview : My Instagram: Lauren O'Neil
- Dust & Noise Overlay Textures
- Can you name the movie?


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Meet Natalie, 26, a civilian who works for the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. Her husband, a captain in the U.S. Army, has been stationed in Afghanistan since March but he is set to reunite with Natalie, and their 1-year-old daughter, Mikayla, this week. Find out how Natalie and Tommy met and started a family, and then how they stay connected from halfway around the world.
I can't believe that tomorrow I will see my husband after nine months! It still does not feel real, and the more I think about it, the longer my to-do list grows. I do not think that Tommy will notice that I washed the dogs, or the inside of the oven, but it is a great way to fill the hours between today and tomorrow. I equate the whole process to a pregnant woman nesting; your newborn did not notice the perfectly arranged nursery, or the fact that you folded and refolded their clothes half a dozen times, but it sure made you feel better.
Mikayla will be 16 months this week, so she is not old enough to require much preparation for their reunion. When Tommy was deploying, the USO offered a service in which soldiers could videotape themselves reading a children's story. Then they send a copy of the story with the DVD to the soldier's family. We have watched our story DVD a few extra times this week in order for her to see his face as much as possible. By now, he has the celebrity status of Elmo, and I am hoping that will make it easier to recognize him tomorrow.
Despite the fact that Mikayla has seen her dad almost every day on Skype and on the DVD, I am still apprehensive about their reunion. She has been pretty clingy this past month, and has developed a bit of stranger anxiety. I have warned Tommy that she may not give him a big sloppy kiss right away, but that it will be no time before she is comfortable with him again.
Since Tommy is on the last flight I have been able to see many of my friends and their babies experience the joys of a reunion. Each instance is different; some babies cry and others recognize their parent right away. The one amazing commonality is that within a week the family is completely whole again. The parent-child bond is restored, and they are able to fall into a routine.
I am going to be honest with you: having your soldier on the last flight is no fun. The upside is being able to set my expectations and prepare myself. We both know that our reunion may have some tears and uncertainty, but in no time things will fall back into place and it will feel as if he never left.
Next post: Our reunion!


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Say my name: the best personalised and monogrammed gifts
Why are presents such a struggle? It always seems like everyone is so hard to buy for and already has everything they need. Then, when you do find something, it just doesn't feel thoughful or personal enough.
But what could feel more thoughtful and personal than a present with the giftee's name emblazoned on the front?
Personalised gifts are one of the biggest trends this year, and it's no surprise. Whether it's a jar of Nutella or a beautiful clutch, everyone from the age of 8 to 80 loves a present that's just for them. Thanks to the popularity in personalisation, many of our favourite stores have come on board with their own form of customisation.
Here are some of our favourites you can shop right now, so you can tick 'present buying' off of your to-do list.
For Mum
Mum is finally easy to buy for! Choose between jewellery or bag charms with her initial, or go one step further with a 2018 diary, coin purse, phone case, pyjamas or a beautiful handbag – all of which can be monogrammed at their respective stores this year.
Pictured, left to right: Mimco Name Drop Charm, kikki.K Leather Event Planner, Mimco Mim Pouch, Peter Alexander Gorgeous Sleep Tee, Oroton Alphabet Charm, Fossil Letter Pendant, Mimco Classic Hardcase Phone Cover, Oroton Forte Medium Tote.
Image via Mimco.
For Dad
Treat dad to a set of pyjamas with his name embroidered on the front, a card holder that he'll use every day, a luggage tag for all of his work travel, his very own skin care (so he can stop stealing yours) or a keepsake watch that can be engraved. Then there's personalised Tim Tams. How can you possibly go wrong with personalised Tim Tams?
Pictured, left to right: Arnott's Personalised Tim Tam Gift Box from Myer, Peter Alexander Surf Wagon Tee, The Daily Edited Luggage Tag from David Jones, Fossil The Minimalist Slim Three-Hand Stainless Steel Watch, Kiehl's Personalised Ultra Face Cream from Myer, kikki.K Textured Leather Card Holder.
Image via The Daily Edited.
For kids
Kids absolutely love anything personalised! This year, Myer is offering super cute Mr. Men and Little Miss frames, personalised with the kids' names – so cute. kikki.K has a range of gorgeous diaries, while Typo has bags and both can be monogrammed. Don't forget to pick up a tin of personalised MILO from Cotton On Kids too!
Pictured, left to right: Typo Mini Harry Bag, kikki.K Sweet Leather Personal Planner, Vue Personalised Jingle Bells Stocking from Myer, Fossil Curious Sticker Set, Personalised MILO from Cotton On Kids, Art You Know Personalised Framed Art from Myer, Typo Small Letter Marquee Light.


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What You'll Get
Get your digital photos out of their hard-drive nooks with today's Groupon to A&I Books, recently featured by Hewlett-Packard as a way to get high-quality photography books. For $20, you get $60 worth of custom-designed photo books that are perfect to display the photos you took of the Ansel Adams exhibit. Make a handful of small books to promote your art, photography, or theater production, to commemorate your dog with his own coffee-table tome, or to give your significant other, mother, or mailman a sweet gift for the holidays. This Groupon can't be used toward shipping costs; shipping for most orders is $15, but depends on quantity and speed. To redeem for multiple books, all copies must be for the same project.
A&I Books makes making your own photo book easier than sticking photos into slipcovers for a photo album, and the results are brilliant and professional. After receiving your Groupon, go to A&I Books to download its free, intuitive software. Drag and drop your digital photos into the program's templates, and use the ID# on your Groupon to activate your credit at checkout. Your custom-designed book will be printed in-house at A&I on high-quality paper with superior image saturation and color density. The finished product will be delivered to your door, or to your office in the Dojo District if you prefer. Books are available in hard and soft cover. Get a few small 4x4 and 5x5 books ($14 for soft cover with 40 pages, $24 for hard cover) or an 8.5x11 hard cover with 60 pages ($53). If you have a bigger project in mind, you can use your Groupon toward the cost and pay the remaining balance.
Perfectly bound family photos on high-quality paper make thoughtful holiday gifts for anyone, especially people who prefer photo books to word books. If you don't own photos, make new memories by getting together with friends for a photo shoot and preserving them on bound pages, or gain exposure for your artistic talents with a perfect portfolio option.
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Few hardware vendors have not yet launched their own mini laptop (or, "netbook"). Most brands these days produce their own version of the same hardware, with Intel's i386-compatible Atom cpu's and Windows XP installed on a spinning hard drive or sometimes still a solid state disk. Some Linux models are still sold by some vendors, among whom Asus, which more or less started selling in this OLPC-inspired genre of laptops.
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Interesting you include Silverlight in there. Maybe it's just the corners of the web I typically frequent, but I've not encountered a single site yet that requires Silverlight to play its content.
It's getting used more and more, and from what I've seen so far, its performance is much better than crappy Flash, and it doesn't weigh as heavy on the resources either.


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Passover and Easter are, of course, profoundly important religious occasions for Jews and Christians, respectively. Efforts to secularize them have generally been met by the faithful with disapprobation.
But this year, could we at least acknowledge some meteorologically oriented holiday joy?
At Passover, Jews commemorate God's freeing the ancient Israelites from slavery in Egypt. To Christians, Easter celebrates Jesus Christ's freeing humankind from the finality of death. Both holidays, in that sense, involve liberation.
And after this past winter, we could all use some liberation from cold, snow, ice and sleet.
February was the coldest month ever in Connecticut....


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Large collections of Daughter Quotes and Sayings – Daughter Thoughts, Messages, Quotations arranged by topic, authors, daughters day greetings images, messages, quotations, sayings, inspirational wallpapers, thought provoking, poems, stories and more. Daughter Quotes and Sayings To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. ~Euripides A daughter is a gift of love. ~Author Unknown A son is a …Read More »
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Noctis: Italian Beds & Sofa Sleepers
Beautiful Beds! Italian bed and sofa sleeper company Noctis wowed me with their simple and (often) colorful beds — I was drawn to the beech one pictured above. Its simple lines and colorful fabric headboard (which looks super-easy to update/replace when you're ready for a change).
• The canopy-like bed in the first 3 photos — my new favorite!
• The endless possibilities with various headboards, bases, colors and finishes.
• Storage beds on the Noctis site
• Sleeper sofas and convertible beds on the Noctis site
MORE INFO: Noctis
Images: Aaron Able


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We've shared a few of our fav Father-Daughter dance songs, but when it comes to swaying with our sweethearts? Well, that's a whole other tune. From upbeat tempos to those fab living-in-love lyrics, our very own SMP Editors are sharing their chosen first dance songs with you. So grab that someone special, press play, and turn that living room into a makeshift dance floor!
Dawn Picks
Ben Folds - The Luckiest
Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Sade - By Your Side
Led Zeppelin - All My Love
Abby C. Picks
Paul McCartney - Calico Skies
Marc Cohen - True Companion
Van Morrison - Crazy Love
Etta James - At Last
James Taylor - How Sweet it is
Beatles - In My Life
Beatles - I Will
Ben Folds - The Luckiest
Stephanie Picks
Ben Rector - I Like You
The Lumineers - Ho Hey
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home
Mat Kearney - Closer to Love
Train - Marry Me
Melissa Picks
Van Morrison - Into the Mystic
Leon Bridges - Coming Home
Ray LaMontagne - Hold You In My Arms
Ben Howard - Only Love
John Legend - Slow Dance
Michelle Picks
George Ezra - Budapest
Ray LaMontagne - You Are The Best Thing
Coldplay - Sky Full of Stars
Stevie Wonder - Overjoyed
Mat Kearney - All I Need
Elizabeth Picks
Elton John - Your Song
Louis Armstrong - C'est Si Bon (It's So Good)
The Sweet Remains - Dance With Me
Nat King Cole - L-O-V-E
Billy Joel - Just The Way You Are
Thia Picks
Al Green- Let's Stay Together
Otis Redding - That's How Strong My Love Is
Michael Jackson - We've Got A Good Thing Going
Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling in Love
John Legend - Stay With You
Stevie Wonder - For Once in My Life
Billie Holiday - Our Love Is Here to Stay
Abby S. Picks
Mat Kearney - City of Black and White
Bruno Mars - Count on Me
Marc Cohn - True Companion
Donavon Frankenreiter - Butterfly
Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life
Gabrielle Picks
Adele - Make You Feel My Love
Ed Sheeran - Tenerife Sea
Beyoncé - Love On Top
Lee Brice - I Don't Dance
Sam Smith - Latch (Acoustic)
Listen to all of these songs on our new Spotify playlist created just for you!
Get Groovin' with more picks below!
The Best Wedding Songs of 2015 That We're Still Dancing T0


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While I haven't been here—at The Sensitive Pantry—so often lately I have been out and about with friends and family. In between we've been dodging (or not) hurricanes and freak October snowstorms that have left us on two occasions without power for more than 5 days each time.
Yes, life has been clipping along at a fast pace. Even so, the individual events—in snapshot form—hold good memories. Lovely images of friends walking together on the beach, meeting up at the farmers' market with someone who gets as excited as I do about organic vegetables, and the sounds of generators humming throughout the neighborhood while we chat lazily with the folks next door.
One of the highlights of my fall weekends is coming to a close and I'm feeling blue about it. Most Sunday mornings I grab my shopping bags and head out to one of two local farmers' markets. Most times I meet up with Stephanie from Gluten-free by Nature (and on occasion Amber from Bluebonnets and Brownies) to stroll about in the perfect weather, gushing over organic broccoli raab and San Marzano tomatoes (sigh), delighting over the fresh fish, checking out the adorable alpaca and catching up on all that's going on in our separate worlds.
It's pretty simple—it makes me really happy to spend a few hours this way every week. Really happy. So easy to do. So simple. So nourishing—in so many ways.
Come to find out there's a winter market about twenty minutes away. Bazinga!
Up next—homemade roasted tomato ketchup from organic San Marzanos!
One of the organic farmers offers a great selection of potatoes. The red and blue varieties are boldly colored throughout. This quick recipe is as simple as it is beautiful.
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. If you have a convection oven use the Convect Roast setting.
Scrub and dry:
About 8-10 small to medium organic red and blue potatoes
Cut them into equal sized pieces. I cut mine in half long-ways and then in about 3/8 inch strips (again cutting along the long side).
Rinse the potatoes in cold water and dry thoroughly.
(I used a ziploc bag for the next two steps.)
Toss with:
1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil
Sprinkle and toss to coat with:
2 teaspoons almond flour
2 teaspoons grated pecorino romano cheese
1 1/2 teaspoons mixed dried herbs: thyme, sage, rosemary, oregano
salt and pepper
Place the potatoes in a cast iron frying pan and roast in the oven for about 20-25 minutes until fork tender.
Makes about 4 servings.
Stephanie and Amber created some really wonderful dishes from their farmers' market purchases—a lovely Pumpkin Sage Cake (gluten-free and vegan) from Steph and mouth-watering Kielbasa, Apple and Kale Hash from Amber (naturally gluten-free).
Have any favorites you'd like to share?
Recipes are not restricted to allergen-free recipes. Link sharing available through December 15, 2011.