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ATLANTA >> Brandon League is acutely aware of the biggest difference between being a closer and a middle reliever. In his case it's not the money; the Dodgers are paying League like a closer ($7.5 million this season alone) without asking him to close.
It's the job description. The Dodgers' middle relievers don't have one — beyond waiting for the bullpen phone to ring and getting outs on a moment's notice.
"In any normal bullpen, when you don't have guys with a minimum time of six, seven years in the big leagues, the only guy who knows his role is the closer," League said. "Everyone else, it's a free-for-all.
"From last year on, I kind of got myself ready from the fifth inning on."
The fifth inning hasn't been an issue for the Dodgers lately. Until Hyun-Jin Ryu had to leave Wednesday's game because of an injury, their starters had completed at least six innings in nine straight games.
That's left the seventh and eighth innings up for grabs with Kenley Jansen holding down the ninth. Like League said, those innings have been a bit of a free-for-all.
Manager Don Mattingly narrowed it down to four pitchers: League, Brian Wilson, J.P. Howell and Jamey Wright.
"I use 'em all," Mattingly said. "It's just who we got matched up."
Waiting on pins and needles in the bullpen to hear your name called can be difficult, League said.
The coaches don't tell pitchers exactly who they'll be facing before a game or a series, but League said "you kind of have an idea. Most of the time they give you an idea, but usually you have two or three hitters to get ready (for)."
That's changed somewhat since the beginning of the season. Wilson was tabbed as the primary eighth-inning reliever out of spring training, with League and Chris Perez coming in earlier and Howell matching up against left-handers.
Perez is on the disabled list. So is southpaw Paul Maholm, who never matched up well against left-handed hitters (they had a .289/.348/.398 slash line against him).
Mattingly said that Wright — a right-hander who pitches better against lefties — will slot into a situational matchup role once Kevin Correia is ready to assume long-relief duties. Correia pitched six innings Monday in his first game with the Dodgers.
"The way we're trying to do it right now is the way we've been trying to do it for a while," Mattingly said. "The starters have stabilized our 'pen. They've been going deeper into games for a while now, which keeps everybody fairly rested, and you can use guys how you want."
Fife has surgery
Right-handed pitcher Stephen Fife had Tommy John surgery Wednesday to replaced the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow.
The surgery was performed by Dr. Neal ElAttrache in Los Angeles. The standard timeframe for return is 14 to 18 months, which means it's unlikely that Fife will pitch anywhere until 2016.
Fife went 2-2 with a 6.34 earned-run average in 12 games (10 starts) for Triple-A Albuquerque this season. He made one spot start for the Dodgers in May, allowing four runs in six innings against the Miami Marlins.
Mattingly said that injuries prevented Fife from being called up more than once.
"There haven't been a whole lot of times where we looked and he's been healthy down there," Mattingly said. "(May) was our only time. I think the other time was between him and Red (Patterson) with Minnesota, and Minnesota's a team that just takes (pitches) and makes you throw the ball over (the plate). Red's more of a strike-thrower than Fife."
Fife joins four other pitchers in the Dodgers' organization who have had Tommy John surgery this year: Chris Withrow, Daniel Moskos, Ross Stripling and Caleb Ferguson.
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The Dodgers requested unconditional release waivers on utilityman Chone Figgins, who was designated for assignment on Aug. 6. … The Blue Jays claimed left-handed pitcher Colt Hynes off waivers Wednesday. Hynes was designated for assignment on Sunday to make room on the 40-man roster for Kevin Correia. … Pitching prospect Lenix Osuna, 18, was reportedly suspended 10 games by the Rookie-Level Pioneer League for pitching with a foreign substance. Osuna has a 4.02 earned-run average in 16 games, all in relief, for the Ogden Raptors this season.


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I can't write about domestic violence without a nod to my current context: I live in a small, impoverished country in sub-Saharan Africa where domestic abuse, including physical and sexual violence against women and girls, is rampant. Women have few resources for getting out, getting safe, and getting help.
One of my friends and colleagues—a minister in the largest Protestant church in this country—says churches are seldom able to address the issue. Domestic violence is considered more or less "normal," she tells me, and clergy are inclined to dismiss it either as unimportant or as something to which a God-fearing woman should submit.
Until I read Is It My Fault? Hope and Healing for Those Suffering Domestic Violence (Moody Publishers), by Justin S. and Lindsey A. Holcomb, I had no idea that the leading cause of death for African American women ages 15 to 45 is murder at the hands of a partner. Nearly three out of four Americans personally know someone who has faced domestic violence (90 percent of the victims are women). As the Holcombs show, the effects of domestic abuse are wide-ranging, unpredictable, severe, and long-lasting, affecting both the women and their children. Boys witnessing domestic violence, for example, are twice as likely to become abusers themselves.
Justin (a pastor and adjunct professor at Reformed Theological Seminary) and his wife, Lindsey (a case manager at a domestic violence shelter), answer the title's question with an unequivocal "no." They also acknowledge that while "many victims believe clergy have the most potential to help them," in fact "[clergy] are too often the least helpful and sometimes even harmful."
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Can I please ask you to take a few moment of your time. I am conducting a research project for my MA dissertation. This research project is looking to find out if there is a correlation between peoples' views in accepting Syrian refugees into the UK and the news source information that they read and hear.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 282 diseños de 72 diseñadores freelance.
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FRIDAY, Feb. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Exercising in young adulthood boosts bone density, new research suggests.
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Young men whose physical activity decreased during that period had significantly more "brittle" bones, according to a University of Gothenburg news release.
Improved bone development, which occurs throughout childhood and into young adulthood, can reduce the risk for fractures and osteoporosis later in life.
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"The men who increased or maintained high levels of physical activity also developed larger and thicker bones in their lower arms and legs," study author Mattias Lorentzon, of the Sahlgrenska Academy's Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research, said in a news release. "These findings suggest that maintaining or, ideally, increasing physical activity can improve bone growth in our youth, which probably reduces the risk of fractures later on."
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My name is Tom Piergrossi. I live on the Big Island of Hawaii and have a passion for plants. For more than 20 years I had a wholesale nursery and landscape company in San Diego, CA. Following my dreams, I moved to Hawaii in 2009. My goal was first to get settled in my new tropical home, then start a new nursery, this time a mail-order nursery called Vintage Green Farms. I'm growing many of the same plants I grew in California. I shipped about 1,000 taxa (varieties) over when we moved here, but we also added many more with a tropical flavor.
I love sharing my favorite plants with others. And my nursery makes it possible for you to try some of my favorites in your garden.
We call it Vintage Green Farms, because so many plants from the past are tried and true, work well and are very serviceable, but aren't grown because they aren't new. We try to grow plants that work, whether old or new. Too many plants get overlooked because they might be common, but may be great as a background plant. And too many new plants haven't been around long enough to know just how adaptable they are. In addition, I've seen new plants that work great, but stop being produced just because there is something newer being introduced.
Mom and Pop nurseries seem to be getting harder and harder to find. The big box stores now all seem to sell the same plants, whether or not the plants are well adapted for your area. That's because so many plants are grown by national plug companies and sold to local growers to finish before they end up on the shelf of your local depot store. A great way to sell a lot of plants, but maybe not a great way to garden. I think the diversity of the plant kingdom is fascinating and the generification of horticulture has not been good for gardeners. Sometimes it's even hard to find a species name on these mass market plants. The more information available on any plant just helps you learn how to better grow it in your garden.
I believe in buying local whenever possible, but I've found there's often not enough demand for certain plants in most areas to support a nursery that will take the time to grow a tree, shrub, or perennial that might take more than 90 days to grow. Good information can really help set you up with the right plant for you, even if it's not as popular at the moment for any reason. I try to give as much information as possible to help you make those choices for your garden.
Plants can be very surprising in their adaptability, as are gardeners in developing microclimates to grow their favorites. I find many people grow lots of tropical plants as annuals in colder climates, and others have a greenhouse to overwinter their tender plants.
With the internet and FedEx shipping, shopping for unusual plants has never been easier and the plants get delivered directly to your door.
We've also been connecting to the local community selling plants at farmers markets and organizations like BIAN (the Big Island Association of Nurseryman). We occasionally make it to the Maku'u Farmers Market on Sundays from 7:00 - 2:00 and at other major event sales around the island. Like us on facebook and I'll let you know when we are out there selling.
I've also continued my landscaping business now called Kaloli Landscape click on the link for more information.
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X-rays are made by using external radiation to produce images of the body, the organs, and other internal structures for diagnostic purposes. X-rays pass through body structures onto specially treated plates (similar to camera film) and a "negative" type picture is made, the more solid a structure is, the whiter it appears on the film. For this reason, bones appear very white on an X-ray film, but less dense tissue such as muscle, blood, skin, and fat, appears darker. Chest x-rays may be used to assess heart and lung status.
You will be asked to remove any clothing or jewelry from your neck and chest area that might interfere with the exposure. You will be given a gown without snaps to wear. If you are pregnant, or think you may be pregnant, you should tell your physician or the X-ray technologist prior to the procedure.
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For many consumer goods, the price that you'll pay right now for that item is higher than the price you'll pay six months down the road. There are a lot of reasons for that.
The big one is that many companies issue products in cycles. Every so often, they replace the version of the product currently on the market with a new one that's usually just a fairly small tweak on the old one.
There's also the simple "new" factor, which pops up on things like video games and DVDs. When they're new, companies charge a premium price for those items. When they're not new, the price begins to sink.
My solution for taking advantage of both of these factors is to simply decide on the product I'm going to buy, then putting that decision aside for a while. The time can vary based on how much you "need" the product.
Cell phones are a perfect example of this phenomenon.
Like many people, my cell phone eventually gets beat up with heavy use. Whenever my cell phone contract is up, I typically replace my phone with a new one, usually a very low cost or free one that comes with the contract.
The thing is that many of the models that the company carries go through a pricing cycle. They start off with a fairly high price, but when they're replaced by newer cell phones with just a few more bells and whistles (that, in all honesty, you'll barely use), they tend to see their price drop pretty steeply. Eventually, they're replaced.
The thing is, most of those slightly outdated phones do everything I want a cell phone to do.
So, what I often do is look at the models a few months before I'm going to be upgrading my phone. I figure out the one that works for me and then walk away.
A few months later, when my contract is up, I stroll in and, most of the time, the phone I decided on is still there, often at a lower price. Sometimes, it's a recently discontinued model that's free with the contract.
Want another example? Whenever a new computer game is released that I want, I simply add it to a list and wait until the following December. There's a good chance that the game will be available at 75% off or better at some online sale or another. I've been doing this very thing for years.
Patience saves you money. If you don't need the thing, wait a few months. You'll save some money in the process and won't lose any of the quality of the item you desire.
This post is part of a yearlong series called "365 Ways to Live Cheap (Revisited)," in which I'm revisiting the entries from my book "365 Ways to Live Cheap," which is available at Amazon and at bookstores everywhere.


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Patricia M. Cryan was never first in line to buy new iPhones, and she isn't selling e-books yet.
The technologically patient owner of Annie's Book Stop of Worcester on James Street said she isn't resisting the latter, but will get to them in time. She said she believes print and electronic formats can easily co-exist.
Ms. Cryan, who took over the store in 2010, changing its format from used books for trade to a general bookstore that also sells new books, said selling e-books is part of a five-year plan to which she's sticking.
In the meantime, Ms. Cryan said she isn't worried about print books going obsolete.
The local businesswoman said paranoia about the death of print books "is really not justified from what we see here."
The numbers suggest print still has the stronger footing on the industry, but e-books are gaining considerable ground.
Last year's joint study by the Book Industry Study Group and the Association of American Publishers said that the e-book phenomenon continued through 2011, attributable to the ongoing popularity of e-readers, tablets and other devices and publishers' strategic production, distribution and marketing of content in all e-formats.
Publishers' net sales revenue from e-books more than doubled, from $869 million in 2010 to more than $2 billion in 2011. In addition, units more than doubled, from 125 million e-books sold in 2010, to 388 million e-books.
Combined print formats such as hardcover, trade paperback and mass market paperback was $11.1 billion in 2011, the study said.
Jim Hilt, Barnes & Nobles vice president of e-books, said digital readers still consume and buy print books.
"What we get excited about at Barnes & Noble is, even when people become digital readers on Nook, or if they're reading on their iPad or whatnot, they're still coming into Barnes & Noble stores to experience the book discovery that you get that's unique at a bookstore," Mr. Hilt said.
Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Barnes & Noble will close about 20 stores per year over the next decade, but Barnes & Noble spokeswoman Mary Ellen Keating said Wednesday the company had not adjusted its store closing plan whatsoever, and it had historically closed approximately 15 stores per year for the past 10 years.
Some of the stores were unprofitable while others were relocated to better properties, she said.
Ms. Keating said the company is fully committed to the retail concept for the long term, and that it had no plans to close any stores in this region.
Mr. Hilt, the e-book vice president, said those in the digital business ultimately want to continue to see incredibly rapid growth of e-books.
But the market perception of everybody reading digital books "is maybe not exactly what's really happening — so I think there's a little bit of market hype around everybody moving to digital," he said.
Mr. Hilt said the company was still going through its year-end numbers, so he couldn't provide the breakdown of print versus e-book sales.
"We felt the year was a really good mix, certainly at Barnes & Noble, that's for sure."
Ms. Cryan, the Worcester bookstore owner, said her customers tend to have an electronic device for travel or vacations, but they may want a print book to share the reading experience with their children. Or, if it's a book they know they'll cherish and may even want signed, they prefer print.
She said her store has many books that are out of print that can't be found in an electronic format.
While Ms. Cryan said she isn't nervous about the rapid growth in e-reader and e-book sales, she said she is nervous about the publishing model itself, "where it seems that everyone and their dog can put out a book."
The result is often books of lesser quality that are not being overseen in the same way as in the traditional print market, she said.
Trisha J. Wooldridge, the events coordinator and marketing planner for Ms. Cryan's store, said this might also explain some of the slowdown with e-book buying, as readers become more aware of the lack of vetting, unless it's from a writer or publisher they trust.
In Southbridge, Jacob Edwards Library director Margaret Morrissey said the facility has been diversifying, spending about $2,000 a year in e-books out of its approximately $70,000 for materials. That will increase commensurate with anticipated demand, she said.
The funding is pooled into the Central/Western Massachusetts Automated Resource Sharing system.
Ms. Morrissey said the library has two e-readers available for demonstration purposes within the library.
"I still think there's a place for everything, and it's really about choice," she said. "For a nonfiction topic, for a report, an e-book is great because you get the most current information.
"But for fiction, if you're reading a novel, there's a lot to be said for the tactile feel of turning the page by hand, smelling the paper, just that whole kind of cozy connection," she said.
In Southboro, Tony King of Time & Quiet Press, which puts out books for children and books about nature for children and adults, said he is "romantic about the darned things (print books)."
He said he takes enormous pleasure loaning books with his thoughts on the subject matter written in margins, initiating a conversation between the lender and reader.
Mr. King admitted that he may be in fact forgoing business by eschewing e-books. He said he recently met with a consultant to talk about e-books.
"He came to us. He feels there's a real market for our books for children on the Web, and that interests me because I really believe in what the books are supposed to do, which is encourage young people to look out their windows, spend time in their backyards."
Mr. King likened the co-existence of books and e-books to painting and photography.
"When the camera really started to go in the 1890s, right around there, people thought painting was dead because who needed a portrait?
"There's enough people and possibilities, and the crafts were different enough, so they just had to find their own balance."
Mr. King said he believes there will always be a place for print books.
"I don't think the world is going to stay as virtual. We're all caught up in it. We're all running around like hell, and I think we're going back to a slightly more contemplative stance in our lives."
But voracious reader Evelyn Rivera of Southbridge said she got a Kindle Fire for her birthday last year, and always reads on it. She said she used to trade print books with her friends, but no longer finds it necessary. She said she finds print books cumbersome, and that she reads faster on the e-reader.
The last print book she started was over the summer; she never finished it.
"They're not dead," Ms. Rivera said of print books. "But they're dying."


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Some people say not enough material? hmm strange. I remember in season 1 this show was so deep, there was so many questions unanswered, so much left to explore. why dont they pick it up and do that? ^^


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Sony's PS Vita sure is struggling! Launching new hardware isn't easy — just ask Nintendo. But while Nintendo was able to turn the 3DS around, Sony hasn't done that yet with the Vita. Japanese celebrity and Pokémon queen Shoko Nakagawa might have the logical answer.
Nakagawa, who has done Zelda commercials for Nintendo, recently seems to have come into possession of a PS Vita. She's been playing Ragnarok Odyssey, adding, "The graphics are unbelievably beautiful and the touch panel is great, too."
Continuing, she added, "If only God Eater, Resident Evil, or Final Fantasy would come out, that'd be heavenly! There's no news yet on Final Fantasy X?!"
Other than we probably shouldn't expect it anytime soon? Um, no.
"It's such a waste that there are few games," she continued. "Even so, the potential is great."
So there you go, Sony. Put out God Eater, Resident Evil, and Final Fantasy, and you'll probably make more than this Japanese gamer happy.


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The latest Edward Snowden-powered exposé published by the New York Times, ProPublica and the Guardian is, to me, the most frightening. It reveals that the National Security Agency has moved beyond its historic role as a code-breaker to become a saboteur of the encryption systems. Its work has allegedly weakened the scrambling not just of terrorists' emails but also bank transactions, medical records and communications among coworkers.
Here's the money graf:
"The NSA hacked into target computers to snare messages before they were encrypted. And the agency used its influence as the world's most experienced code maker to covertly introduce weaknesses into the encryption standards followed by hardware and software developers around the world."
I'd be disappointed if the NSA hadn't figured out how to do that hacking trick. But adding vulnerabilities to standard encryption techniques? That's just making the job easier for hackers to make sense of the scrambled data they steal.
The outrage is still pouring in from various advocacy groups. Here's a succinct condemnation by the Center on Democracy and Technology, one of the more centrist of these organizations:
"These revelations demonstrate a fundamental attack on the way the Internet works," senior staff technologist Joseph Lorenzo Hall wrote in a statement. "In an era in which businesses, as well as the average consumer, trust secure networks and technologies for sensitive transactions and private communications online, it's incredibly destructive for the NSA to add flaws to such critical infrastructure. The NSA seems to be operating on the fantastically naïve assumption that any vulnerabilities it builds into core Internet technologies can only be exploited by itself and its global partners."
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Every form of encryption can theoretically be cracked, given enough time and processing power. But the mere use of encryption has encouraged data thieves to look elsewhere for targets, on the same principle that even weak bike locks are effective when there are unlocked bikes nearby.
The easier it is to pick the electronic locks used online, the less of a deterrent they become.
The NSA's efforts appear to be the Plan B implemented after the Clinton administration failed to persuade the communications industry in the mid-1990s to use government-developed encryption technologies for voice and data transmissions. The decryption keys would have been held by the government, available to the NSA as necessary. But industry ultimately rejected the plan because of a fundamental vulnerability: a stolen or cracked "master key" could have unlocked every bit of scrambled data.
The latest Snowden-leaked documents outline a multi-pronged assault by the NSA on the various forms of encryption used online. Its techniques included more traditional code-breaking as well as the aforementioned hacking and weakening efforts. Thursday's stories didn't identify the forms of encryption that the NSA undermined, saying more generally that the agency had targeted the secure version of HTTP, Secure Sockets Layer, virtual private networking technology and the encryption used on 4G smartphones.
In short, the implication of the mass of documents leaked thus far is that the NSA is not just monitoring seemingly every utterance on the planet, it is planting weaknesses in the security technology that protects legitimate online communications for the sake of decrypting illegitimate ones.
I'm looking forward to hearing the NSA's defenders explain why we should feel safer now.


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A decade ago, nearly two-thirds of the American public opposed legalizing marijuana . The issue was such a non-starter that until 2003, when the Supreme Court let a lower court ruling stand, doctors ran the risk of federal prosecution simply for talking about the drug with patients whose conditions it might help. When Capitol Hill's only two lobbyists working full-time on weed policy paid a visit to a congressman around that time, the member's aide announced their presence by yelling, "The potheads are here!" Legalizing marijuana wasn't a serious political issue—it was a pipe dream.
Since then, we've seen an astonishing shift in public opinion. In less than a decade, the poll numbers have flipped: Instead of opposing marijuana legalization, a majority of Americans now support it. Colorado and Washington have legalized the drug, lobbyists around the country are pushing for other states to follow and even such Republican establishment figures as Grover Norquist and Pat Robertson have voiced their support. Here in Colorado, the state has just now begun issuing licenses to stores to sell pot recreationally—not just a first in America, but most likely the world.
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So what happened to turn marijuana legalization from stoner fantasy to political reality? To start, 21 states and the District of Columbia have passed medical marijuana laws in the past 15 years, and the country hasn't suddenly become overwhelmed with dangerous potheads. Public outrage over the mass incarceration of nonviolent drug users—a consequence of the zero-tolerance laws put on the books over the past 40 years—has also played a role. And then there's another factor, far less well known but arguably at least as important: a cherubic, perpetually half-lidded 31-year-old who works in the shadow of Colorado's capitol building.
His name is Mason Tvert, and it's no exaggeration to say that without him marijuana would not be legal in Colorado. By changing the way marijuana advocates talked about pot, he changed voters' minds—and proved to political operatives across the country that a tweaked message could turn this perennial loser of an issue into a campaign winner. Now, as director of communications for the Marijuana Policy Project—the country's largest organization devoted solely to making weed legal—he's taking his message, and his irreverent way of selling it, national.
In the summer of 2004, Steve Fox was looking for someone who could make a little noise on college campuses. Fox was MPP's federal lobbyist at the time, one of the two official "potheads" working the Hill. But his duties extended well beyond his job description, which is how he found himself looking at the data that would eventually empower Tvert.
Fox's big discovery, when he examined a survey commissioned by MPP, was that people who thought marijuana was less harmful than alcohol overwhelmingly supported legalization. Most campaigns up to that point had done their best to avoid even mentioning the drug. "They had focused on more traditional arguments," Fox says, "like tax revenue going to schools or the fact that dealers don't card." The survey results told him that what marijuana really needed was a useful foil, which he found in alcohol. Approximately 80,000 people die each year because they get into a car or a fight after too much booze, drink themselves into oblivion or simply succumb to a lifetime of pickling their livers. In contrast, the Centers for Disease Control considers marijuana so benign that the agency doesn't even have a category for weed-related deaths.
Fox didn't need convincing that it made no sense to tolerate the more destructive substance and criminalize the less harmful one. But what he learned from the data was that a significant portion of the American voting public felt the same way—and even more people hadn't been exposed to the idea but could be convinced. Put those groups together, Fox realized, and you'd have a majority. He had found his message. What he needed now was someone to sell it.
Growing up in Arizona, Mason Tvert had always been interested in politics. The political became personal when two separate incidents crystallized the view that would become his rallying cry. The first happened in high school, when Tvert got so drunk at an outdoor concert that he ended up in the ER. The second was during his freshman year at the University of Richmond, when one of his fraternity brothers was caught with a joint. To Tvert, it was clear which situation was more serious. Yet he was discharged from the hospital without so much as a stern word, whereas the small amount of pot found on his friend led to a subpoena and a multi-jurisdictional drug task force that interrogated Tvert and two dozen of his friends. "I almost drank myself to death," he says. "But no one ever asked who sold me, an 18-year-old, a lethal amount of alcohol."


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Ascent of Mount Baldy on 2008-10-10
Dennis Poulin
Friday, October 10, 2008
Ascent Type:
Successful Summit Attained
Mount Baldy
11403 ft / 3475 m
Ascent Trip Report
My wife and I took an extensive road trip from in the fall of 2008 visiting tourist sites and doing some hiking primarily in Colorado and New Mexico. As we turned to head back home in Oregon, I had to try one more hike. Mount Baldy, the highpoint of Apache County in Arizona. Mount Baldy was the last peak I needed to complete all the county highpoints of Arizona, so it was high on my priority list.
On October 9, we drove up from Silver City, NM and found a nice inexpensive motel in Springerville called the Rode Inn. Early the next morning I drove out to the West Baldy Trail trailhead. There has been some extensive road work in the area and this trailhead has been relocated. It is on 273 about 100 ft south of the intersection with the road going to Greer. It is trailhead is well marked and the road is closed going south from here. This route is well documented and I had lots of routes, trip reports, and maps printed, so I was prepared for this hike.
I parked alongside the road and shouldered my day pack. The rerouted trailhead is meanders through the forest for about a mile before it rejoins the original West Baldy Trail in the Little Colorado River Valley. Wow! What a beautiful valley. Open meadows, beautiful evergreen forest, aspens in their fall colors. I hadn't gone very far up the valley when I saw a bull elk feeding in the meadow ahead. He didn't stay around very long before heading up the valley ahead of me. In another half mile I caught sight of him again and he was with 2 cow elk this time. They headed east into the timber and I kept going southwest following this nice trail.
About half way to the summit, the valley opens up and there were a couple tents pitched in strategic locations just south of the trail. A couple campers were stirring trying to wake up. I kept going and the open valley ended. The terrain was totally forested and I finally crossed over the Little Colorado and left it behind as the trail started to climb towards the summit.
When the trail reached an old burn area that was full of snags, I started to have a problem staying on the trail. There was snow in spots and between the snow and the down snags I finally lost the trail all together. My trusty GPS had a waypoint set for the summit and the saddle near the summit, so I kept going picking my way through the burned snags and then into a beautiful forest with very little brush or obstacles to overcome. I followed my GPS directly to the saddle and never found the trail again. I visited the highpoints and found a red can that had a summit register in it at one time. Sometimes these registers are more trouble than they are worth anyway.
It was a beautiful day and I could see for long distances in all directions. All good times must end, so I decided since I had no clue where the trail was, that I would just head directly off the summit towards the point where I had lost the trail. It was kind of steep going down in the snow and rocks, but I made good progress. I stumbled across the old airplane wreckage, so I knew the trail should be close, but I couldn't find it. I kept going and eventually found the burned snag area. I also saw a couple hikers or hunters below me on another slope. They must have been on the real trail.
My GPS served me well and I finally found the trail and could now make good time going back to my truck. I enjoyed the hike all the way back. This is a beautiful scenic area. I did see a couple more hikers almost back at the trailhead. I guess they slept in this morning.
My GPS indicated I had covered 16.7 miles. I only gained 2,700 ft and it took me 7 hours for the complete hike. This is a beautiful area and I would go back again any time. Oh, yeah I became the 42nd completer of the Arizona County Highpoints.
Summary Total Data
Total Elevation Gain:
2714 ft / 827 m
Total Elevation Loss:
2714 ft / 827 m
Round-Trip Distance:
16.7 mi / 26.9 km
Route Conditions:
Maintained Trail, Snow on Ground
Ascent Statistics
Gain on way in:
2714 ft / 827 m
8.4 mi / 13.4 km
West Little Colorado
Start Trailhead:
8689 ft / 2648 m
Descent Statistics
Loss on way out:
2714 ft / 827 m
8.4 mi / 13.4 km
End Trailhead:
8689 ft / 2648 m
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Sale Sharks have announced that two of their promising players Tommy Taylor and Ross Harrison have penned new deals.
In what the club label "a double onfield investment for the future", prop Harrison has signed a new three-year contract while they say hooker Taylor has agreed a "similar long-term contract". The pair both signed academy contracts with the Sharks in the summer of 2011 but have featured prominently in the team's first XV this season and they have been rewarded for their efforts.
"It's great news that they have agreed these long-term contracts," said Sale supremo Steve Diamond. "Both Tommy and Ross epitomise everything that is good about the club. They are both local lads who give everything for the club, and they fit into the template of what we are trying to build here. They are the ones who have really come to the fore in recent weeks.
"I've been amazed at how well they have stepped into the side and dealt with the pressure and risen to the challenge. In fact they have inspired everybody else to 'up their game' with the way they have played. They are so consistent in everything they do.
"They are not alone. We've got some great young lads on the scene in Will Addison, Rob Miller and Tom Brady, who have all done well, and we've got Henry Thomas waiting in the wings, too. He's just 21, and will be back from injury sometime in the New Year.
"We've talked about building the club around local talent and these lads are really what we are about. Hopefully, their progress also demonstrates that we are not afraid to give young lads their chance."
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This package includes (1) 11"x11" security sign and perfect for indoor or outdoor use. This surveillance warning sign is made from weatherproof plastic. The sign has rounded corners and four holes pre-drilled for easy mounting.<\p>
Most burglars are unskilled, inexperienced and seeking the path of least resistance, and a couple of strategically placed deterrents can dramatically decrease your chances of being burglarized.
Convincing a potential burglar or neighborhood hoodlum that your house or business is protected with a video surveillance system can stave off an impending burglary or vandalism to your property. Whether or not you actually have a video surveillance system, one glimpse of a CCTV Warning Signs often scares a thief away. Why would he break into or damage your home or business when there is a more vulnerable house or business down the street?
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Look – Quick 5 Neutral Minute Eyes
This is my incredibly easy and super fast natural/neutral eye. No matter what the occasion is, this eye is always appropriate, which makes it really useful to have in my back pocket. (Particularly useful on days when I can't come up with anything else!)
You will need the following…
- Eyes: Soft Ochre paint pot (neutral beige base), Ricepaper eyeshadow (neutral beige), Soft Brown eyeshadow (soft medium brown), Wedge eyeshadow (medium dark brown), Urban Decay Lucky 24/7 Liner (copper), Plushlash mascara (black)
- Cheeks: Margin blush (dirty pink), Dior Amber Diamond Skin Shimmer (bronzy highlighter)
- Lips: Sweetie lipstick (pink), Sweetie lipglass (pink)
- Brushes: 266 (firm, angled brush), 226 (fluffy crease brush), 219 (pointed crease brush), 214 (smudge brush), 249 (flat, firm brush), 239 (fluffy shadow brush), 129 (dense blush brush)
- Substitutes: Sweetie = Pink Poodle
Directions: Define brows using a coordinating powder shadow applied with the 266 brush. Apply Soft Ochre paint pot all over the lid as the base with the 249. On the lid, pack Ricepaper eyeshadow on using the 239. Apply Soft Brown eyeshadow to the outer portion of the lid. Darken crease with Wedge eyeshadow using the 226. Sweep Ricepaper eyeshadow underneath the brow bone to highlight. Finish with Urban Decay Lucky Liner on lower lash line. Apply Plushlash mascara on lashes. Sweep apples of cheeks with Margin blush using the 129, then highlight with Dior Amber Diamond Skin Shimmer with the 165. Apply Sweetie lipstick to lips, and then top with Lychee Luxe lipglass for color and shine.
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NYTimes Draws Connection Between Beastie Boys Lawsuit & Patent Trolls, Realizes IP Hinders Innovation
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Following the unfortunately-timed sampling lawsuit against the Beastie Boys, I expressed hope that the high-publicity situation would call more attention to serious issues in copyright law as it pertains to sampling and other forms of art that directly build on what came before—though I haven't exactly been holding my breath. To my surprise, though, it seems like the story has had an even more profound effect over at the New York Times: a recent piece uses the Beastie Boys lawsuit as a starting point to talk about oppressive copyright laws, tech patent trolls, and the fact that more intellectual property does not automatically mean more innovation.
Most of the article won't be anything new to Techdirt readers, but it's great to see these essential topics getting more attention in mainstream news sources—especially coming from a journalist who has previously espoused the RIAA/MPAA's bogus piracy stats:
Patents on inventions, like copyrights on songs, are not granted to be fair to their creators. Their purpose is to encourage innovation, a broad social good, by granting creators a limited monopoly to profit from their creations. While companies like Apple may believe they are insufficiently compensated for their inventions, the evidence often suggests otherwise. The belief that stronger intellectual property protection inevitably leads to more innovation appears to be broadly wrong.
Like "Paul's Boutique," the software that drives smartphones is composed of a vast array of ideas from multiple sources. Everybody infringes to some extent on everybody else. Overly strong intellectual property laws that stop creators from using earlier innovations could slow creation over all and become a barrier for new technologies to reach the market.
There are a few oddities to the piece—it's not always clear on the distinction between copyright and patents, and it also makes the assertion that "software patents will never be banned, of course"—despite the very real possibility that software patents will be massively restricted in the future. But what's really great to see is the understanding from NYTimes that these issues are connected: an anti-competitive attitude and the "ownership mentality" are endemic to intellectual property as a whole, not just the specifics of certain areas of law, and the problem really does need to be addressed at that basic level, starting with the incorrect assumption that more IP equals more innovation. Now if only lawmakers would start listening.
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New York, August 25, 2009--The fourth session of the mass trial of more than 100 opposition figures, including journalists, took place in Tehran today. The Committee to Protect Journalists is particularly dismayed by procedural irregularities and the fact that the trial is only open to state-owned media.
In the aftermath of the country's disputed June 12 presidential election, Iranian authorities have expelled foreign journalists or severely limited their ability to report independently. They have also arrested dozens of journalists, a number of whom are facing various criminal charges.
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The Fars News Agency reported that Bastani testified that Mehdi Rafsanjani, the son of powerful cleric and former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, sought to create "an illusion that there was a fraud in the voting." Bastani allegedly also said that he "had orders to attack the four-year work of the government, to weaken the Guardian Council ... to cast doubt on the election process." He works for Jomhoriyat, a news Web site affiliated with the defeated reformist candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi; he was detained on July 5.
Bastani's alleged confession comes on the heels of others that appear to have been coerced. The journalists' lawyers have been denied access to their clients in prison, and police chief Gen. Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam recently admitted that detainees had been tortured while in custody.
"The government in Tehran
seems to have dropped even the pretense of providing defendants with due
process," said CPJ Middle East and North Africa Program Coordinator
Iran remains the
world's leading jailer of journalists with at least 36 behind bars.
Iran remains the world's leading jailer of journalists with at least 36 behind bars.


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Release Blitz: Hunted
By Nicole Goodin
Series: Love Like Yours
Genre: Contemporary Romance
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I sniffed and tried to wipe the tears from my face. "I just feel so cruel El. But I can't help it. I see you and Lawson and I want… I want a love like yours. He just wasn't the one, I never wanted to hurt him, but he just wasn't the one." I hung my head and let the tears fall, letting the guilt pour out of my body.
Quinn was prepared to let Colt go. What she wasn't prepared for was the inexplicable pull she feels towards his brother, Harrison Hunt.
Harrison lies bloodied, broken and bruised in a hospital bed. He knows how he got there, how badly he's hurt… how close he came to death. The one thing he doesn't know is who the girl with the piercing green eyes is, or why she frequents his dreams every night.
Colt doesn't want to let go, but Quinn can't hold on anymore. Her infatuation with a man she's never met has made it impossible.
Harrison has a secret he'll guard with his life, can he move out of the darkness and open up to Quinn? Or will the fact that his brother is in love with her be too much to live with?
I still had no idea how to deal with my brothers feelings for the beautiful woman in front of me. And call me an asshole, but right now, with her standing there in her underwear, it's the least of my worries.
The scars marring my body, that she'll see any moment, are the source of the fear that slices through my veins. I know she'll ask. One thing I do know about her is that she leaves nothing much unsaid.
The question is… am I willing to lie just to keep her?
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Ellerslie left it all behind. The pain, the heartbreak, the anger…
I was an idiot.
I sighed in defeat. "I know he's an asshole Q. I really do. But I don't know how to forget him. I don't want him in my life, not ever again… but I miss the future that our relationship should have had, if he were different that is. I should have been planning a future with him. It should have been my next step, I should be expecting a child with my loving husband… but I'm not. And now I don't think it will ever be on the cards for me."
The last thing El is looking for is love, and she's especially not prepared to get caught up in her best friends hotter than hell big brother.
"I felt my mouth hang open as I turned to look at him. The air between us crackled with tension, sexual and otherwise. But before I could even come up with some witty remark to throw back at him, he took a couple of steps towards me. He was so close I could smell him."
Lawson doesn't give a shit about love. It's the absolute last thing on his mind.
"From that moment on, I decided love was a load of crap. Commitment? Ridiculous. Feelings? Unnecessary. I became a heartless bastard who wanted nothing more than casual encounters with plenty of women." I felt El flinch, but I carried on, she needed to hear it. "For the last ten years, I haven't had anything other than a series of meaningless fucks. I've never developed any feelings towards a single woman I've been with. There was never any difference between any of them."
She's heartbroken and stubborn.
He's wounded and proud.
The last thing either of them is prepared for is finding that once in a lifetime, fairy-tale love.
"You are the difference Ellerslie. The only difference."
Having Lawson make love to me was like burning slowly. The look in his eyes lit the match, the touch of his hands stoked the fire, and our passion fed the flames.
They both have demons in their pasts, the question is, will that be what comes back to haunt them? Or will some unforeseen force be what tries to tear them apart?
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It was strange to think that such a short time ago it was just me… and then I found El… or maybe she found me – and I had something I never even knew I was looking for.
I thought I had everything.
As per usual life had other plans.
One event would alter our entire course…
We hadn't even made it down the aisle yet and already there was a baby in the picture. I knew she was going to turn my whole fucking life upside down. How I would run a business, care for a family and still cherish El… I had no clue.
I wasn't sure I had what it took to be a good father, I knew Ells would be a great mother, and Aunty Quinn had promised she would be there to help in any way we needed.
I was determined to try my hardest. I wanted to be the best I could be for her when she arrived. She was part of my family… her, El and I… we were a family now.
If I was really being honest with myself, just being a new father was not my main concern – learning to be a father to a child that wasn't mine? Yeah… that was up there on the list.
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NICOLE GOODIN is a twenty-seven-year-old wife and mother of two from Taranaki in the North Island of New Zealand.
Mid 2015, she started to write about a group of characters who wouldn't get out of her head. Her first book, Rushed, was published in mid 2016, with plans for a series already in the works. 'Pierced' followed in August of 2016.
Nicole enjoys reading, working out, and spending time with her friends and family.
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