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The Women's Prestige Cycling Series (WCPS) concluded at the the fourth and final race of the series, the Cascade Cycling Classic in Oregon with three titles being awarded: the individual classification, the sprint classification, best young rider and the team classification.
Consistency was the name of the game for Team Type 1's Alison Powers. She took the the lead in the individual classification by finishing third at the first race of the series, the Redlands Bicycle Classic and held on, building her lead with her overall win at Joe Martin Stage Race and third place at Nature Valley Grand Prix until the final race where she finished third. Powers finished with 616 points with TIBCO's Kat Carroll in second spot at 228 points back and Webcor's Katheryn Curi Mattis in third.
Powers also leads the NRC, and with only five races remaining in the series and a more than 200-point lead over her nearest competitor, Powers all but has the title locked up.
Team Director Jack Seehafer said Powers' accomplishment does not come as a surprise, despite Team Type 1 being a first-year women's program.
"We knew the abilities of all of our riders and what they were capable of achieving," he said. "So it was a matter of holding up to those expectations. We also knew Alison wanted to learn and grow as a stage racer. So we worked to fuel that passion and work with her to succeed in putting her on the podium in every stage race this year."
The team competition was a long battle between Team TIBCO and Webcor Builders with TIBCO coming out on top. TIBCO won the team classification at Redlands which put them in the lead for the WPCS but lost to Webcor after Joe Martin with the Series offering bonus points for young riders. After the third race, TIBCO was once again in the lead but with a very slim margin of 26 points. The TIBCO squad clinched the team classification at Cascade which put them on top of the WPCS. Although Webcor's guest rider Evelyn Stevens won the stage race, she wasn't eligible for the Series and Webcor finished third behind Team Type 1.
"One of our goals coming into this year was to be the top women's team in North America," said Team TIBCO founder and manager Linda Jackson. "We've shown race after race that we have the strongest team, and we're proud to have earned the team title of the Women's Prestige Series."
Five of TIBCO's riders placed in the top 11 of the individual standings, including Carroll and Joanne Kiesanowski in 4th. Julie Beveridge, who finished 10th in the individual standings, finished 2nd over all in the Young Rider category.
"We've been able to take advantage of our team's depth on numerous occasions without having to rely on a single rider to get results," Jackson said. "With so many riders capable of delivering, we've tried to make the racing hard every time out and put pressure on the other teams."
The battle for the Sprint classification came down to the final race as Tina Pic (Colavita/Sutter Home) was tied on points with Powers, with the edge going to Powers because of the tie breakers after Nature Valley. By the end of the Cascade Classic, Pic had sown up the Series Sprint competition and Powers slipped to fourth. Kiesanowski claimed second and Webcor's Gina Grain finished third.
Finally, Webcor's Rebecca Much grabbed the lead in the Best Young Rider competition after the second race, bumping leader after one race Beveridge down to second, and defended it until the end despite Beveridge getting closer and closer. Webcor's Alexis Rhodes finished third.
The 2009 Women's Prestige Cycling Series began at the Redlands Bicycle Classic (March 26 – 29), followed by the Joe Martin Stage race (May 7 – 10) and then the Nature Valley Grand Prix (June 10 – 14 before concluding at the Cascade Cycling Classic (July 21 – 26).
The Women's Prestige Cycling Series began in 2004 with the goal of highlighting women's racing by giving them a spotlight that they don't have to share with the men. Organized by the Nature Valley Grand Prix, the Series grew out of meetings that began in Minnesota in 2003 at the first Women's Cycling Summit Conference hosted by that event.


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Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley also said that his party was ready to support most of the anti-corruption legislations once government restored order in the House. (Agencies) Latest News from India News Desk
"Instead of patting himself on the back for this rather belated realisation and taking undue credit for introducing these legislations towards the fag end of (Lok Sabha) tenure, Rahul needs to look inwards and find out the honest answer to the question why these legislations are held up. It is the Congress members who repeatedly disturb the House," Jaitley wrote in his latest blog.
The BJP leader's comments came a day after Rahul alleged in Karnataka that BJP was stopping the passage of six anti-graft legislations and not allowing Parliament to function.
"Not a single BJP member has disturbed the proceedings of either of the two Houses of Parliament. No BJP member has gone into the Well of the House. A large number of members of the Congress disturb the Houses every day," the Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha said.
Taking a dig at the Congress leader, Jaitley said, "I don't think Rahul Gandhi has had time to either come to the House or acquaint himself with the disturbance being created by his own party members. Not having spoken even once on major scams such as 2G spectrum allocation, coal block allocation, Commonwealth Games, he has only belatedly realized that corruption is a major issue in Indian politics," he said.
Senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley also said that his party was ready to support most of the anti-corruption legislations once government restored order in the House.
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Mohamed passes on message from inside Darfur
Can you believe this?
I contacted a few refugees in Chad and Darfur, before meeting with Mia. I told them that I would be with Mia today because she is fasting for you guys. She is killing herself for you. I also started the fast with her, along with hundreds more around the US and the world. I told them that Gabriel and Katie-Jay, who also visited you last month in the camps, are leading the campaign. The refugees know you Gabriel and Katie-Jay and Mia because of the many visits you conducted to Chad and Darfur!
They are thrilled and said:
"Alhamdullilah, mashaalla, Alahu akbar. When our Muslim brothers and sisters remained silent, Mia and Americans are fasting for us, supporting us spiritually and fiscally. May our God bless them and accept their fast and the noble efforts on behalf of us.
They also said:
"Please Mohamed tell Mia not to fast anymore because she's weak and we don't want her to do more harm for herself than she has been already doing now. It's enough for her what she sacrificed so far and all she has spoken and pleaded for the whole world to help us. The leaders are not listening. But our God is listening. We will be okay. We want her strong, alive and healthy to come to see us again with her good friends. Thank you so much for Mia and all those fasting in America and the rest of the world for us. God bless you all in America and beyond. God bless all the generous and kind people."
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What is your best salon-related organizational tip?
I always keep my things within hands' reach and replace them in the same spot so I don't spend time searching while the client is in my salon. Also, in between clients it's a good idea to get in the habit of cleaning your station and the bathroom, re-arranging the magazines, and sweeping around your area. If you're not organized, clients will sense it, and you may ultimately end up losing clients. - Patty Lopez, Studio 24, Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico
I use a lot of craft organizers, like bead trays, painters' art boxes, scrapbooking, storage boxes, and even a coupon organizer for my small sticker sheets. - Claudia Iacovetto, Newcastle, Wyo.
My best advice is to computerize as many things as possible. I keep all of my client data and scheduling in a database called GoldMine and track my expenses in QuickBooks. I also installed webcams inside my salon, which means I can either sit at the salon's front desk or at home (or anywhere else with an Internet connection) and still be able to monitor everything that goes on inside the salon. - Bobby Trinh, Victoria Nails & Spa, Orange, Calif.
At least once a month I do a deep cleaning of my supplies. I fill what needs to be filled, take inventory, and get rid of products I'm not currently using. You'd be surprised how much stuff ends up in my station or my locker that I don't use. I also have a nail closet at home where I keep my back stock. - Lynn Weber, Kaya Beauty, Henderson, Nev.
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My gel polishes and regular polish bottles sit on a three-tier spice rack stand, making them easy to access while creating a pretty display. I use a Matchbox car case to hold my glitter and colored acrylic collection; each car section holds two 1-oz. pots. I store cotton rounds and lint-free wipes in a canister to keep them separate and dust-free. In my drawers, I use white plastic pencil dividers to keep things, like extra gels and nail art tools, from rolling around. - Kahne Withman, That Nail Chic, Longview, Wash.
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Holiday travelers avoid the crush
Updated 10:53 pm, Monday, November 19, 2012
For travelers lucky enough to have a full week off for Thanksgiving, the best perk might not be the extended vacation as much as it is avoiding the crowds by traveling on days others don't.
Elisa Sassi, 35, flew her mother, Maura, in from Brazil before the two of them headed to Dallas on Monday afternoon from San Francisco International Airport. Sassi, a San Francisco resident, could have flown out over the weekend but waited for Monday to snag a better price on the tickets, she said.
The two will also beat the crowds on Sunday, projected to be the busiest travel day of the weekend, by flying back in the wee hours Saturday morning.
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As throngs of travelers take to the roads and skies for Thanksgiving, the savviest travelers are avoiding the heaviest days - traditionally Wednesday and Sunday - if they can.
About 5.4 million Californians are traveling 50 miles or more during the four-day holiday period, according to the regional American Automobile Association forecast, which says the total is up slightly from last year and a healthy rebound from the dip in 2008, when the recession and high gas prices made travel difficult. More than 1.2 million travelers will pass through SFO from Nov. 16 through Nov. 25, airport officials predict.
Most will drive
The vast majority of travelers, about 87 percent, will drive to their holiday destinations, according to the AAA report.
For the Bay Area, that means drivers may be snarled in traffic Wednesday evening and again Sunday evening when people drive back home, said AAA spokeswoman Cynthia Harris.
"Typically, it always happens that everyone decides they need to get back Sunday around the same time," Harris said. "Right after lunch, they get on the road and head home, and so does everyone else."
More than 548,000 Californians are expected to fly, which is 1.8 percent fewer than last year, according to the AAA report. But 11 percent more residents are taking other kinds of transportation - trains and boats - than in 2011. Though that comes out to only around 169,000 travelers, it shows some travelers might opt for more creative travel options to beat the crowds, Harris said.
Susan Harrison, 58, knows the traffic can be dicey, so she and her husband, Geoffrey Harrison, 59, opt for BART when they fly in from Seattle and head to Lafayette to visit family.
"I fly here often to check on them," she said of her mother and mother-in-law, who both live in the East Bay. "You just hop on BART from the airport, and it's easy as can be."
Airfares down
Travelers who fly should find airfares on average slightly lower than last year. That's good news for many families that are spread across the country, which makes flying the only option.
"We tried walking, but we found it took a while," joked Aparna Ramesh, 38. She and her husband flew from Boston to SFO on Monday with their two young children - trouble-free, thanks to an iPad to keep Nisha, 6, and Neel, 2, entertained.
The family will make a few sightseeing stops in the Wine Country and San Francisco before spending the week with Ramesh's sister's family in Fremont. And they'll take off on Saturday to beat the rush back.
"We really just want to avoid the crowds," Ramesh said.
While Wednesday and Sunday are the commonly busy days, the Friday before Thanksgiving is a newly popular option if kids have a longer vacation, according to Doug Yakel, SFO spokesman.
"It's an emerging trend over the past few years," Yakel said. "More families with kids that have the full week off are taking advantage of that."
SFO expects to see 3 percent more travelers during the holiday than last year, and Wednesday evening departure lines could get ugly. But drivers who stay within the Bay Area won't find much relief on the roads, either.
Ellen Huet is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @ellenhuet


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By Margaret Harris in Washington, DC
Greetings from Washington, DC, where the 2011 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is getting off to a gentle start this afternoon before the firehose of information switches on tomorrow.
Between today and Monday (17–21 February) there will be more scientific symposia, plenary talks, career workshops and poster sessions here in America's capital city than you can shake a very large stick at. In fact, there's so much going on that I'm not the only one from physicsworld.com attending this year: my colleague Michael Banks is navigating DC's excellent Metro system as I type this, and between the two of us we'll try to bring you as much of the conference's physics news as possible.
One of the themes of this year's conference is interdisciplinary science, and that was certainly on display at this afternoon's press briefing on adaptive optics. Regular readers of Physics World will already know that adaptive optics is not just for astronomers anymore – we published a feature by Alan Greenaway on adaptive optics in cell biology just a few months ago, in August 2010 – but it was still surprising to find an astronomer (Norbert Hubin of the European Southern Observatory) sharing the stage with a biophysicist (Eric Betzig of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute) and an opthalmologist (Joseph Carroll, Medical College of Wisconsin).
Hubin, of course, is interested in adaptive optics on a grand scale – tools like laser guide stars, and systems of actuators that can make 100 adjustments to a telescope mirror every milisecond, producing images up to three times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope despite Earth's turbulent atmosphere.
Betzig, for his part, uses genetic engineering to label clumps of mouse neurons with a fluorescent marker. Once the mouse matures, these glowing clumps become his "guide star" when he images processes that take place up to 500 microns below the surface of a live mouse's brain.
And Carroll is using adaptive optics to image the human retina on a cellular level, with the goal of diagnosing diseases like glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy at earlier stages, before they cause irreversible damage. "We hope to be able to tell people 10 years before they would have known otherwise that they have this disease, and then treat them," he told me.
Both Carroll and Betzig emphasized that their adaptive-optics work is still in its early stages – "We are neophytes compared to astronomers," Betzig admits – but there's a clear sense of excitement about where this technology could go in the future, as more and more scientists pick up on these astronomy-inspired "tricks of the light" and adapt them for their own needs.


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Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday had a miraculous escape when his helicopter was forced to land in Bihar's Naxal-infested Gaya district due to a technical snag.
No one was injured in the incident, party sources told PTI in New Delhi.
Naidu was on his way to Jharkhand for election campaigning.
The helicopter landed in the Pundari area at around 1500 IST after it ran out of fuel. Naidu immediately contacted party general secretary Arun Jaitley, who, too, was in Gaya.
Being a Naxal-affected area, Jaitley sought security arrangements from the district administration for Naidu, party sources said.
But when no security personnel reached the site for over an hour, Naidu left the place on the two-wheeler of a party worker, who had reached the spot on hearing the news.
As soon as Naidu left, suspected Naxals threw a petrol bomb at the helicopter and blew it up.


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Milo Hamilton will announce at a 2:30 p.m. Wednesday news conference that he will give up his seat in the Astros radio booth after the 2012 season.
Some of you no doubt have recorded your thoughts on the matter at the Ultimate Astros blog. If not, feel free to do so here.
I've only been in Houston since 1990, so Milo's tenure spans my entire history in the city. I have, however, gotten the chance to chat through the years with Gene Elston, so I have had the unique opportunity to listen and learn from two men who span the complete history of a major league franchise. You don't get that chance very often. Houston fans are fortunate to have had two such announcers of distinction, along with other standouts like Harry Kalas, a Frick Award winner in his own right, and unique characters such as Loel Passe and Larry Dierker as its voices of summer.
So feel free to sound off, and let's try to keep things in historical perspective of what Milo has meant to the organization, and vice versa.
As for the future, I think that since Dave Raymond and Brett Dolan have labored as good soldiers across six seasons of what I'm sure they expected would be a much shorter transition period in the latter days of Milo's stay, they deserve a full shot at being the Astros' broadcasters in 2013 and beyond. Some of you may disagree. Some, and rightly so, might lobby for the return of Jerry Trupiano in some fashion, be it on radio or as part of the new Comcast Sports Net Houston TV deal that cranks up on the Astros front next season. If so, feel free to weigh in on that front as well.
Hamilton's pending departure is yet another example of what a year of transition this will be in Houston sports and Houston media. In what direction would you like to see it turn?


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bill-swift - February 22, 2013
Season Three of Game of Thrones doesn't premiere on HBO until March 31st, which means there won't be anymore brothel scenes where one woman teaches the others in the sapphic arts until then. But in the meantime, HBO has finally released Season Two of the show on DVD, Bluray, etc. And you know what...people's be dyin'. Like, a lot more than I actually remembered when I watched. I thought Season One was chock full of life ending head chopping, but between the Wildfire and the birthed smoke monster that goes all regicide on the younger Baratheon, there's some serious carnage.
So to celebrate it's release this week, we present some really well-made montages of every single death from Season Two of Game of Thrones. Part One can be watched above and Part Two after the jump.


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Ford Park earns revenue during Ike recovery, but can't quite make up losses from storm
Published 12:00 am, Tuesday, October 14, 2008
BEAUMONT - Ford Park should be preparing for the double Ferris wheel, show cattle, and booth upon booth of fried bad-for-you food.
Instead, manufactured homes, government trailers and blue tents claim the parking lot.
Hurricane Ike and its recovery effort have canceled the South Texas State Fair and a few other events, but Jefferson County, which owns the complex, is not necessarily losing money on the deal.
A federal agency has rented the grounds and 5,000 square feet of office space for $120,000 a month for three months, according to the county, and more events scheduled through the year's end should go on as planned.
"We would love to have been doing what we were supposed to have been doing, which is have events, and I think that we would have been able to generate more income had we been able to do that," said John Hughes, general manager of Ford Park.
"But nobody could control the storm, and it is what it is. We'll make do with that."
Hurricane Ike plowed through Southeast Texas on Sept. 13, the weekend the Christus Pro/Celebrity Class tennis event was scheduled.
It was rescheduled a few weeks earlier after the region evacuated for Hurricane Gustav, but the devastating storm af-fected other events.
Sugarland, a country band that had originally planned to play the park Nov. 15, moved its tour date to Jackson, Miss., Hughes said, though he hopes to reschedule. Ford Park management cannot say how much revenue was lost from the concert, because no tickets had been sold.
Two baseball tournaments scheduled for the park's baseball complex directly after the storm were canceled, but soft-ball tournaments resumed last weekend, Hughes said. Also, youth baseball tournaments are still on schedule for the next three weekends, according to the Ford Park events schedule.
According to Ford Park financial statements for April, baseball and softball tournaments then netted almost $11,000 a month.
By far, the largest event affected by the storm was the South Texas Fair, set for Thursday through Oct. 26.
The Young Men's Business League, which organizes the fair, canceled because the fair grounds were leased to the federal General Services Administration for use by the Federal Emergency Management Administration and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in disaster recovery, according to The Enterprise archives.
"Obviously the fair uses the whole facility," Hughes said. "They were obviously concerned about the economy - peo-ple having money - people are focused on trying to do repairs to their homes. It was one piece of the decision."
Most years the fair nets about $150,000 for the county, according to Jefferson County Auditor Patrick Swain.
Jefferson County's contract with the General Services Administration allows federal agencies to use the grounds and office space in the back of Ford Arena, said Jeff Branick, assistant to Jefferson County Judge Ron Walker.
Although the lease runs from Sept. 14 through Dec. 14, the General Services Administration can terminate it after the 30-day mark, which was Tuesday.
"But I am understanding they will be there a while longer," Branick said.
Public relations representatives for FEMA, the main user of Ford Park's space, said the most pressing need of the parking lot is for staging manufactured houses, the need for which will fluctuate. The agency has not set a specific date to vacate Ford Park.
After Hurricane Rita, the Texas Wildcatters hockey team canceled its entire season one day before training camp when Ford Park was needed as a staging area for FEMA and National Guardsmen, according to The Enterprise ar-chives.
The Wildcatters have since moved to the Ontario, Calif., and Beaumont's newest minor league sports franchise, the Southeast Texas Mustangs of the American Basketball Association, will host home games at Ford Arena when it begins play Dec. 6, Hughes said.
Ford Park's next big-ticket event open to the general public is the Staind and Seether concert Nov. 25, which should rock as previously planned.
"Before we confirmed the event we did have a discussion with people running the FEMA operation out here, and they understand that we are an entertainment facility and that's our core business," Hughes said.
"They want to work with us, so they will make adjustments as we need them."


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Railex USA, which ships fresh produce and other perishables nonstop on dedicated trains from the West Coast to Rotterdam, said today its first train from its new California warehouse arrived this morning at 6 a.m.
The train, carrying carrots, celery, broccoli, and some citrus, including grapefruit, left from Railex's warehouse in Kern County last Friday. Railex has been operating a similar service since late October 2006 from Washington state to Rotterdam.
The trains are a joint operation of Union Pacific Railroad and CSX Transportation. While much of the produce has moved from west to east, Railex is seeking products from the East Coast to send back on the trains. So far, it has shipped everything from fingerling potatoes to Italian wine westward.
Each train can replace 200 or more tractor trailer trucks, and reduces fuel consumption of diesel fuel by 100,000 gallons or more, according to Railex figures.
The company has added 30 employees at its Rotterdam warehouse and now employs 150 there.
"We're in a hiring mode," added Paul Esposito, a Railex official. The company is considering adding a second weekly round-trip from California, perhaps as soon as January, he said.
Railex also invested $800,000 in Rotterdam to expand its rail access to accommodate the additional train traffic.


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Decorum is here–a modern-day nod to John Galsworthy and Edith Wharton in this American novel of the Gilded Age. Set in Victorian Era New York and the Canadian Rockies, sparks fly over lavish opera parties, Central Park encounters, and mountain landscapes while hotel plans are laid and deals are made. Choices that challenge the decorum of the times change the fortunes of the characters along the way.
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I tried the map_hashes method of my favorite DBI wrapper, DBIx::Simple, but it only returns one hashref for each mapping key:
and I want an arrayref of them all. It's easy enough for me to write something to do this:
but someone has to have needed this and written it already... maybe there's a data structure utility that does this sort of reworking of an array? UPDATEDBIx::SQLCrosstab does exactly what I want, except that it aggregates the non-keyed columns instead of making an arrayref of hashrefs out of them. For now, I will just code it.
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By Jared Bowen
Feb 24, 2011
BOSTON – Based on the original P.L. Travers children's stories and the 1964 Walt Disney film, the stage version of Mary Poppins is now playing at the Boston Opera House through March 20. The current stage version takes inspiration primarily from the film, whose music was written by brothers Richard and Robert Sherman.
At age 83, Richard Sherman still has the ability to recount with sharpness and insight the creation of the music and his relationship with Walt Disney.
"[Walt] would never say 'wonderful, great,' but he would say 'hmmm… yeah'" remembers Sherman. "Behind your back he would say 'they wrote the perfect song for this scene,' but never to your face."
Mary Poppins tells the story of the enchanting but firm nanny who literally blows into an English town to care for two precocious children. Her philosophy is best summed up in one of her signature songs, "A Spoonful of Sugar."
"It was in part meant to get at Mary's contrarian nature," Sherman says. "Mary Poppins did things you didn't expect, so when she sings,"
Just a spoonful of sugar
Helps the medicine go down
"Anybody would go down with the melody when they sing 'down,' but that's not Mary Poppins. So we wrote the melody, we had her go up. That's how we wrote the song."
Another of the Mary Poppins classic tunes was written for the chimney-sweeper Bert, who is elevated from a minor character in the books to one of the show's central characters.
"We had to change the word 'chimney' to make it work," explains Sherman. "It's kind of a button-down word, and we wanted to give it a flow and have a nice feel to it. So it became 'chim, chimaney, chim, chimaney, chim chim cher-ee."
Speaking of words, the show is perhaps most famous for introducing the world to the word 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.'
Foster explains, "We thought, let's give them a crazy word, an obnoxious, super colossal word. It started with atrocious, which makes you sound smart… and then that would make your precocious… and then why not docious. That's the way it started."
Of the more than 150 songs Richard and Robert Sherman wrote for Disney movies, TV shows, and theme park rides – including "It's a Small World" – one became Walt Disney's favorite. That one was Mary Poppins' "Feed the Birds."
"[Walt] wanted a symbolic song, so we found in the books a scene with an old lady selling bread crumbs on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. It says that it doesn't take very much to give kindness, to give love."
Mary Poppins plays at the Boston Opera House through March 20. Showtimes and tickets can be found at broadwayacrossamerica.com.
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Buffalo Chicken Mac and Cheese
Maraconi and cheese on at a party may sound messy but it's not if you separate the mac into individual cups. We used foil cupcake liners — get them in your favorite colors! — for single portions.
Serves: 12
- Cooking spray, for the pan
- 1 pound elbows
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 cups whole milk
- 1/2 pound shredded Cheddar cheese
- 1/2 pound shredded Monterey Jack cheese
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup hot sauce (preferably Frank's RedHot), plus more for serving
- 2 cups packed shredded rotisserie chicken
- 1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese
- Snipped chives, for garnish
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1. Preheat the oven to 350˚F. Line two muffin pans with foil liners; lightly coat with cooking spray.
2. Bring large sauce pot salted water to boiling. Add elbows and cook as the label directs. Drain well.
3. Meanwhile, in another large sauce pot, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the flour and cook, stirring, 2 minutes or until pale golden. Stir in the milk; cook, stirring, 2 minutes or until thickened. Stir in the Cheddar, Monterey Jack, garlic powder and salt; cook, stirring, 4 minutes or until melted. Stir in the hot sauce, chicken and elbow s until combined.
4. Divide macaroni and cheese among prepared liners. Sprinkle each cup with 1 teaspoon crumbled blue cheese. Bake 5 to 8 minutes or until bubbly. Top with snipped chives and more hot sauce, if desired.
Don't want to make the mini cups? Just spoon the mixture into a lightly greased 9-by-13-inch baking dish and bake for about 10 minutes.


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Cummings steps up for Siena
Junior hits key baskets to help Saints seal tourney win
Published 12:02 am, Saturday, March 9, 2013
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Siena women's basketball coach Ali Jaques said she calls junior guard Kanika Cummings by the nickname "Clutch," which Cummings sheepishly acknowledged after Friday afternoon's game.
"I guess that's my nickname," she said. "I just have fun, and if I get a shot off and it goes in, yeah, you can call me Clutch."
Although she was averaging only 4.5 points per game coming in, Cummings deserved the moniker for the big baskets she delivered in a 52-48 victory over Fairfield in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference quarterfinal at MassMutual Center.
She had 12 points, one off her season high. Cummings scored seven points during a 9-2 Siena run after Fairfield had climbed within 42-40 with 10:41 left.
"Her nickname is 'Clutch' and she is," Jaques said. "She likes big moments, and she's not afraid to take big shots. ... She has a fire and intensity and when she's going, you can see it. She had a great game tonight."
Sixth-seeded Siena (13-17) earned its first tournament victory under Jaques, the team's rookie head coach. The Saints will advance to a semifinal game against second-seeded Iona at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
"It was an extremely hard-fought win and I'm really, really proud of our team's ability to finish the job," Jaques said. "There were opportunities where this team could have quit, and they refused to do that."
Siena led for the final 35 minutes to defeat the Stags after twice losing to them during the regular season.
Down 11 in the first half, Fairfield (17-13) rallied to within 42-40 on a Katie Cizynski layup with 10:41 to play.
That's when Cummings responded with a difficult step-back jumper from 15 feet to put the Saints back up by 4. She said it was a shot she worked on with her father, Wayne, who was in attendance.
With the Stags still within three points, Cummings buried a pull-up jumper in the lane and sank a 3-pointer from the right corner to build the Siena lead back to 51-43 with three minutes left.
Cummings, a native of Monroe, Conn., said she was never recruited by Fairfield, which is less than 20 miles away from her hometown.
"Usually, when I play them, I'm like, 'They didn't recruit you, and it was close to home, and you could have gone there,'" Cummings said. "Today I just went out and played."
She's battled through left knee pain after undergoing an ACL reconstruction following last season.
Fairfield still had a chance to tie, down 51-48, after Siena star Lily Grenci (17 points) missed the front end of two 1-and-1s in the final 1:17.
But the Stags never got off a tying 3-pointer as senior Katelyn Linney traveled with four seconds left. Siena's Tehresa Coles added a free throw for the final margin.
"Just great communication, great effort on the defensive end for our players to get through all (Fairfield) screens," Jaques said. "We've been in so many tough games, so many close games."
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Christine Schwartz pointed me to a post Dodie Gaudet titled Perpetual Beta & Bibliographic Records. Dodie makes some interesting points about how we should think of our bibliographic records, but I think she's missing one step. First, let's look at what Dodie says:
So rather than thinking in terms of one person completing the perfect bib record, perhaps we begin with CIP or publishers data or something else and build on that. The first person with the book in hand adds details like paging. Someone who has studied a specific field can add more precise subject headings. The responsibility doesn't have to fall to just one person. This doesn't excuse anyone for doing a sloppy job, but sometimes the information one has to work with is limited. I've created bib records from "surrogates" (i.e. photocopies of titles pages) and for books in totally foreign (to me) languages like Hungarian. I expect I missed more than a few things in those cases, but I did the best I could with what I had.
We could think of bib records like a wiki. They evolve; people keep adding to them. Even though a published book is a static object and doesn't change, the information we have about the book, the author, publisher, etc. would and given the Semantic Web, that information could be incorporated into or linked to the bib record.
This is awesome!! And I agree that we as catalogers can only do so much with the information we have and the background knowledge we have. The problem here – is a wiki is open to the public or at least to all in a specific field and with bib records we save them to our system and maybe send them to a cooperative of some sort – but then that's our record, we don't get to benefit from the others that edit the record after us because it's in their system – not accessible to us.
So I'd add to this idea that we need an open access shared record database – ‡biblios.net was a step in that direction, but it seems to have been abandoned … and it never had the kind of user base you'd need to really benefit from a collaborative cataloging model.
I don't have the answer here – but if we're really going to benefit from the knowledge and expertise of our colleagues worldwide, we need to have access to each other's data and we need to be able to share that information freely.


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When I was young and going out to Mario's or Pasquale's, in Royal Oak, Mich., after a high school football game, pizza was simple and singular — a chewy, yeasty crust liberally smeared with acidic tomato sauce and topped with pepperoni and cheese. Oh, that cheese! Garden-variety mozzarella in strings that extended from as high up as your arm could hold the piece of pizza down to your mouth, and sometimes below.
Today, pizza is everywhere and everything. Some fans stay close to the tried and true; others are more adventurous, exploring the likes of the Ritz-Carlton's cremini mushroom white pizza. But even the most devoted bec fin brings a pizza home once in a while. Here are some folks' choices across demography and geography.
This is easy. Ciáo is definitely our No. 1 pizza place. Lenny likes the pizza he grew up on in New Jersey. So he needs sausage or pepperoni. I basically like what we call designer pizza ... lots of goat cheese, mozzarella, spinach, and no tomato sauce. Ciáo will give us a half and half pizza if he leaves off the sauce. Then he gets a side order of sauce and fixes his pizza slices like he wants them. We are both happy and full!
— Susan Landau, Longboat Key
Café Epicure — I like to sit at the bar, closer to the oven when it's chilly outside. I just ask Pepe for a pizza with no cheese and whatever vegetables he wants to throw on there. I haven't been disappointed.
— Colleen Yuskaitis, Sarasota
With 17- and 18-year-old girls running through the house, we have had quite a few cardboard boxes delivered on Friday and Saturday nights. Kayla insists on Domino's. I like it when we get Papa John's. While most normal people would go to the Ritz for fine dining, Sharon Black and I would sneak off for a little girl time and meet at the Cá D'Zan Lounge. Their "white" pizza is fabulous! They call it cremini mushroom white pizza with truffles, ricotta and spinach.
— Mollie Nelson, Sarasota
(Editor's note: Yes, you can carry-out pizza from the Ritz-Carlton bar.)
OK, the best pizza is from Rico's, and the reason is the crust — they make it there, slinging it around in the air — the whole bit. It is fabulous. My favorite toppings are anchovies and pepperoni, with lots of cheese.
— Butch Amerson, Sarasota
My favorite pizza is at Valentino Pizzeria Trattoria on Clark Road. They have a quaint eat-in restaurant, but I usually call for delivery. My favorite is the bruschetta pizza that has fresh tomato, basil, arugula and fresh mozzarella on a warm, brick-oven crust (the toppings are cold). They serve pizza by the slice and whole.
— Coral Pleas, Lakewood Ranch
We do order pizza — from Pizza Hut and others, including Little Caesar.
— Bruce and India Lesser, Laurel Oak
Mine is Michael Angelo on State Road 70 and Lakewood Ranch Boulevard.
As close to New York pizza as you can get ...
— Iris Starr, Lakewood Ranch
Local legends
Cá D'Zan Lounge at the Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota — 1111 Ritz-Carlton Drive, 309-2000
Ciáo Italia Casual Italian — 5370 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, 383-0010
Café Epicure — 1298 N Palm Ave # A, Sarasota, 366-5648
Michael Angelo Pizza and Italian — 11517 Palmbrush Trail, Bradenton, 739-5656
Rico's Pizza — multiple locations in Sarasota, 366-8988
Valentino Pizzeria Trattoria — 4045 Clark Road, 921-9600


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At some point, we all have to stop looking at the 49ers as a fluke, and that point might have been Sunday afternoon at about 4 o'clock, and that's bad news for Jim Harbaugh.
"I believe in you guys, the media," the 49ers' head coach said after his team's 27-20 win over the Giants. "I believe that you will find a way (to underrate the 49ers). As long as all that is written is being written against us, we'll be happy."
Love to help you, coach, but we can't keep selling your little team short. Not after your seventh straight win. Not after your defense came up big again and there was a UFO sighting, and the UFO turned out to be Alex Smith passes.
From here on out, the 49ers will have to do their winning out in the open, without help from the media or critics or fans who don't quite believe. Because eventually we have to start believing our eyes, the scoreboard, the stat sheet and the standings.
And we have to start believing in Harbaugh, who tries to conceal the substance of what he does behind shtick (see: handshake high jinks).
On Sunday, Harbaugh pulled out new tricks:
— An onside kick in the second quarter.
— A two-point conversion to give his team a 20-13 lead in the fourth quarter.
— Letting Alex Smith quarterback.
Until Sunday, Smith was a game manager, a handoff machine.
"He is a guy who (the 49ers) are trying to keep out of position to win the football game," Giants defensive end Justin Tuck said during the week.
Tuck was saying the 49ers hide Smith, minimizing his role because he's not that good.
Game manager. Makes Smith sound like a zookeeper. Hey, Alex, did you remember to feed the rhinos?
On Sunday, Smith passed the ball on the first play of each of the 49ers' first five drives. The five passes went for gains of 11, 14, 9, 5 and 14 yards.
Smith acknowledged he had read Tuck's comments.
"I just saw the one (comment) where I got called a manager or whatever, and this and that. I could really care less, honestly," Smith said. "That is the honest truth. It feels good to be 8-1. I managed myself into a victory, and that's all I care about."
Rim shot, please!
Smith was going against Eli Manning, considered by Eli Manning to be one of the league's elite quarterbacks. Manning had moments of brilliance, including two touchdown passes that were caught over-the-head in end-zone corners, beautiful passes that probably had Willie Mays applauding.
Manning threw for more yards than Smith, 311 to 242, but Smith had a better passer rating, 85.7 to 84.5. I got your elite right here, Alex was saying.
A couple of hours after the game, I saw Manning on TV in a national commercial for wristwatches. When was the last time you saw Alex Smith selling products on national TV?
It really was a sneaky trick by Harbaugh, unleashing Smith, and Harbaugh almost copped to it.
"The game plan was to put the ball in (Smith's) hand," Harbaugh said, "and he responded like we knew he would. … He's a top-flight quarterback. Love him."
But when pressed on upgrading Smith from game manager to playmaker, Harbaugh quickly backpedaled.
"We'll always put the ball in his hands, and Frank's (Gore's) hands, and Delanie's (Walker's) hands, and Vernon (Davis), Crabs (Michael Crabtree), he's got great hands."
What Harbaugh would not say: "Today we crossed the Rubicon. We gave Alex his wings."
Harbaugh isn't crowing about how he saw things in Smith from the beginning that the rest of us missed in our eagerness to see him gone. And Harbaugh isn't crowing about how he has brought Smith along gradually and used him wisely.
Harbaugh didn't remind us that he knows what he's doing, that he's pushing all the right buttons.
One criticism of Harbaugh has been that he under-involves tight end Vernon Davis as a receiver. On Sunday, Davis again was not a major target (three receptions for 40 yards), but early in the fourth quarter, with the Giants leading by a point, Davis took a short pass from Smith and rumbled for a 31-yard touchdown.
Davis finished the play by leaping high into the air at the goal line, into the arms of safety Antrel Rolle, and together they fell into the end zone.
"I was actually trying to decide what I wanted to do," Davis said, "whether I wanted to run him over or just dive into the end zone, so I ended up jumping."
A metaphor for the way the 49ers feel right now: They believe they can fly.
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anada claims the first recorded account of a baseball game, which occurred in Beechville, Ontario on June 4, 1838, described in a detailed letter written by Dr. Adam E. Ford, but not published until 38 years later on May 5, 1886, in a magazine called Sporting Life. In this letter, the game was described as having five bases or "byes," base lines twenty-one yards in length and the distance from the pitcher to the home bye was fifteen yards. Innings determined the length of the game as opposed to playing to a specific number of runs. Fairly and unfairly pitched balls were described and techniques mentioned for the pitcher to make it difficult for the "knocker" to hit the ball. The differences between "fair and" "no-hit" balls were described and each side was given three outs per inning.
The earliest known newspaper account of a Baseball game in the United States was published on September 11, 1845, in the New York Morning News, which announced a game that occurred the previous day. The first recorded Baseball game was played on October 6, 1845 at Elysian Fields, in Hoboken, New Jersey by fourteen members of the New York Knickerbockers Club. One team may have been captained by Alexander Cartwright and the other by club president Duncan Curry. Curry's team won 11–8 in three innings. Between October 6 and November 18, 1845, the Knickerbockers may have played as many as fourteen more intra-squad games.
Alexander Joy Cartwright (1820–1892) is often referred to as "The Father of Baseball" for his role in organizing a group of ballplayers whom he exercised with since 1842 into one of Baseball's first known teams, the New York Knickerbockers. On September 23, 1845, by virtue of its constitution and by-laws, the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club was officially formed. Cartwright scribed twenty rules, which were published and became known as the "20 Original Rules of Baseball" or the "Knickerbocker Rules." The team's first elected officers were: Duncan Curry, President; William Wheaton, Vice President; and William Tucker, Secretary/Treasurer. Curry, Wheaton and Tucker comprised the Knickerbocker Committee on By-Laws and their names appeared on the signed by-laws document that contained the rules.
The new rules changed Baseball in a number of ways—further differentiating it from Town Ball—three strikes to a batter, three outs to an inning, tags and force-outs in lieu of hitting a runner with a thrown ball, and the addition of an umpire. The 1845 rules also established the idea of "fair" and "foul" territory. Previously, the batter could run the bases any time he hit the ball, as in cricket. The Knickerbocker version of the game became known as the "New York Game" distinguishing it from "Town Ball" and "The Massachusetts Game."
Early on the Knickerbockers moved from the Murray Hill section of Manhattan to Hoboken, New Jersey to play their games at Elysian Fields. What is often referred to as the first recorded game played under the Knickerbocker Rules (now believed to be yet another intra-squad game), took place on June 19, 1846, when the Knickerbockers lost to the New York Baseball Club (aka "the New York Nine") 23–1 in four innings. The winning team was comprised mainly of Knickerbocker players. Cartwright umpired the contest and enforced a six-cent fine, payable on the spot, for swearing.
A team called a "Picked Nine" or "The (blank) Nine," most often referred to a team of players put together for that day or for a specific game. These players were not necessarily part of the same club.
Daniel "Doc" Adams (1814–1899) was elected President of the Knickerbockers in 1846. Two years later he headed the Committee to Revise the Constitution and By-Laws with Cartwright serving under him. Cartwright left New York on March 1, 1849, for the California Gold Rush and eventually ended up in Hawaii.
Adams has been credited with "inventing" the 'short-fielder' or 'shortstop' position in 1849 or 1850. The position evolved because the baseballs used, handmade by Adams, were light and could not be thrown far. A non-base-tending player was needed to retrieve balls from the outfielders and return them to the pitcher.
Under Adams' presidency (1846–1862), the Knickerbocker Club became the model upon which all early clubs were organized. So dominant was the Knickerbocker Club during the 1840's and 1850's, that they transformed Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey into the first great center of Baseball activity in the United States.
Considered by some to be the true "Father of Baseball," "Doc" Adams was elected president of the first Base Ball Convention in 1857. He also headed the Committee on Rules and Regulations that year, which instituted the following rules: nine equal innings for a full game, five equal innings for a complete game, 30 yard distance between the four bases, the pitching distance should be 45 feet and he also stated that nine men should comprise a team.
With the rules better defined and with the success of the 1857 convention, the game became increasingly popular. Subsequent conventions attracted more teams. The Civil War caused membership to decrease but helped introduce the game to southern parts of the United States. The membership of the National Association of Base Ball Players increased to more than 300 members in 1867.
Adams was elected as Chairman of the Committee on Rules and Regulations during the March 1858 Base Ball Convention in which the National Association of Base Ball Players was formed. He resigned in 1862 and two years later the bound rule which he fought since 1857 was abolished. He also resigned from the Knickerbockers in 1862 and played in his last base ball game in September 1875 in an "old-timers" match arranged by formed Knickerbocker James Whyte Davis. Adams died on January 3, 1899.
Under Adams' presidency (1846-1862), the Knickerbocker Club became the model upon which all early clubs were organized. So dominant was the Knickerbocker Club during the 1840's and 1850's, that they transformed Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey into the first great center of Baseball activity in the United States.


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MSG happy: Ratu Inoke
By MAIKELI SERU
The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) is pleased with the progress made in the implementation of the Noumea Accord since 2010 as they head to Nadi tomorrow for more deliberations.
This was revealed by Fiji's Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation of Fiji and chair of the MSG Foreign Ministers Meeting (FMM, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola after the second MSG Ministerial Mission in New Caledonia last week.
Ratu Inoke returned home last night.
"The meeting was to assess the implementation of the Noumea Accord," he said.
Ratu Inoke said the Mission was pleased with the progress made in the implementation of the Accord since 2010.
This, he said, was evident in the economic activities in the Northern Province. They noted that there are five remaining powers that still need to be transferred under the Noumea Accord.
"There needs to be more awareness on the process leading up to the 2014-2018 referendum including the referendum itself as well as agreeing to clear guidelines for this process.
"Furthermore, the role of the UN Committee of 24 is not clearly understood in some parts of New Caledonia and established institutions, therefore the MSG in consultation with New Caledonia, will consider exploring the option of approaching the UN to conduct joint visits to advance the Accord and identify areas the MSG and the UN could assist in the process."
The MSG Foreign Ministers will present their findings to the Special Leaders Summit in Nadi, starting tomorrow.
He said other members of the ministerial mission included Alfred Carlot the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vanuatu, Moses Garu, Minister of Mines of Solomon Islands; Peter Eafeare, Papua New Guinea's High Commissioner to Fiji. He deputised on behalf of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of PNG; Patteson Oti, Solomon Islands High Commissioner to Fiji, senior officials; and the director general, Peter Forau and staff of the MSG Secretariat also took part.


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<robertbrown1971_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1108102001.898621.256240_at_l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... <snip>
> Are the four approaches I described above exhaustive? Are there any
> other that I overlooked?
I hesitate to mention this, but in case you are open to using data models other than relational, this is a perfect application for tools that permit weak typing, among other features. If you were to model this application in XML documents, for example, ignoring dtds and xsds for now, you will see that the pattern to the data that makes sense in your mind and the minds of the users can also make sense to a database product. It simply isn't a good match for today's RDBMS implementations, nor for a strongly typed persistence engine.
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The collapse of a coal mine shortly before midnight yesterday in Panzhihua, southern Sichuan province, Xinhua reports, has left 44 workers trapped below ground in addition to 9 confirmed deaths. Xinhua also writes that a manager of the mine is now in police custody. 08/30/09:00 update: Fifteen lives have now been claimed in the accident and 32 miners remain trapped.
Former Guangzhou mayor awash in rumours
Former Guangzhou mayor Zhang Guangning has jumped to his death while under investigation for corruption, according to sourceless online rumours, while others suspect he's merely being held for investigation. Zhang hasn't been seen in public since May this year, contributing to wild speculation regarding his current situation. The longstanding belief that Zhang married well-known Guangzhou television presenter Zhang Xiaoli in 2010 was put to rest yesterday when she took to her microblog account to deny the rumour and ask the public to respect her privacy.
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The Mariners will mark the 10-year anniversary of the 116-win 2001 team and the departed Sonics in two of their special events this season.
The schedule of giveaways and tributes was released Tuesday.
On July 16, Safeco Field will pay tribute to the 2001 team that won an American League-record 116 games.
Former general mangers Pat Gillick and former players Jay Buhner, Dan Wilson, John Olerud, Mark McLemore, Jeff Nelson, Bret Boone and Jamie Moyer, among others, will attend a pregame ceremony. The first 20,000 fans will receive a commemorative T-shirt.
On July 29, former Sonics players from all eras will attend a pregame ceremony.
The giveaways this year include a season magnet schedule (April 8), Felix Hernandez Cy Young bobblehead (April 9), Franklin Gutierrez "death to flying things" flyswatter (April 22), Ichiro hit-counter bobblehead (May 6), "Go Green" train car (June 3), green Ichiro jersey T-shirt (June 17) and fleece blanket (Aug. 26).
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I have wondered why us girls, are treated so horribly. This has happened so many times and it's time to stop it NOW, not next week, not next year, or 3 years. NOW, it's getting really sad, to read in articles that so many females are treated like animals! It's time to show the guys, what we as independent women can do! No more taking any of their crap, we should be in control of who we are and what we are as well! They can't tell us what to wear or what to do; it's America we are free to do whatever the heck we want! I'm sorry to snap like this, but it's the truth and if you don't like it, fine by me; that's your opinion. Yes I might sound mean right now, but as I stated above its the truth. We need to show the world what is going on with men treating women like they're just a piece of trash. Well here's a news flash; WE ARE NOT TRASH! We deserve just as much respect as the average man does! If you do not agree, just do this for me please stand up for Women's Rights!
Women's Rights
August 17, 2011
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Aug. 20, 2011 at 9:57 pm
Aug. 20, 2011 at 9:57 pm
YES! I totally agree, I'm so tired of guys thinking they're so much better than me.
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Mark Philippoussis finally arrived in Adelaide yesterday afternoon, missing Australia's second official practice session on the Memorial Drive match court, but not the swirl of controversy dominating the lead-up to this week's first-round Davis Cup tie against Sweden.
Speaking publicly for the first time since suggestions from former cup greats Pat Cash and John Alexander that off-court distractions had contributed to his limp fourth-round exit from the Australian Open, Philippoussis proferred commercial obligations as the reason for his late appearance, but was spared any more questions by the interjections of his captain, John Fitzgerald.
"I just had something that I had to do, I had to fulfil some contracts," Philippoussis said after arriving from Melbourne just minutes before the Australians' compulsory 3pm news conference. "Having done so, I came in as soon as I was done."
Philippoussis practised later with hitting partner Todd Reid, supervised by Fitzgerald and coach Wally Masur, after the full squad had hit for more than three hours in the middle of the day. The hero of last year's final against Spain, Philippoussis had worked from Friday to Sunday with Lleyton Hewitt and Wayne Arthurs at Melbourne Park, and was granted a Monday rest.
Despite his delayed entrance leaving only another two days of centre-court practice, the 27-year-old was adamant he would be prepared for Friday's singles, probably against Swedish debutant Robin Soderling. "We've all been on the court, trained pretty hard, so it's not like I haven't been doing anything. I've been working pretty hard on the court, and physically as well," Philippoussis said. "It'll definitely be enough preparation."
Fitzgerald was strident in his defence of his singles No. 1, intervening when responses were sought from Philippoussis over his messy stoush with Cash and Todd Woodbridge's description of his cup teammate as "the type of guy who's been happy to give 70 per cent". Woodbridge, who had been speaking on radio, later claimed to have been quoted out of context.
"We don't want to answer that - he's not going to talk. I'm happy to answer anything if you want, but I'd prefer if it stayed on Davis Cup," Fitzgerald said. "We're not really interested in anything that sort-of angles toward tabloid journalism. It's not what this team's about.
"This team is a very solid unit and we're not interested in trying to develop a story that we don't think there's anything in. I think it's been overplayed absolutely, to the point of the ridiculous, and these guys are all here fighting together as a combined unit . . . We're not going to listen if (Cash) says something like that."
Earlier, Philippoussis said suggestions that Cash was considering taking out a restraining order against him were laughable, and insisted Davis Cup was the only thing on his mind.
Swedish captain Mats Wilander said the only thing that surprised him about the issue was the media's insistence on pursuing it. "I don't have an opinion about that, I must say. I have more important things to think about and do," he said.
Asked about Philippoussis's late arrival, Wilander said: "They've most probably played on this court since they were little kids; Lleyton obviously is from here, so I think it's totally different from us. So I couldn't put myself in their shoes, and they've come from the same surface in Melbourne."
The Swedes came much earlier, and all but the experienced Jonas Bjorkman have been here since last Thursday. Wilander said he would not be making his selections known before Friday's draw, but 57th-ranked Soderling is favoured for one singles place, and Bjorkman will play doubles, most likely with teenager Joachim Johansson, partner of Hewitt's sister Jaslyn.
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Lawyer's former mistress accused of targeting him from jail cell
Updated 10:51 pm, Tuesday, June 12, 2012
The Houston attorney who allegedly plotted with his mistress to have his wife killed is accusing his former paramour of trying to orchestrate his own demise from her jail cell for $20,000, his lawyer said Tuesday.
Michelle Gaiser, who has admitted trying to arrange hit men on three occasions to kill Yvonne Stern, allegedly tried in a detailed, four-page letter to solicit a fellow jail inmate to have Jeffrey Stern eliminated.
That inmate passed on the letter to authorities and no attempt was made on 54-year-old Jeffrey Stern's life, but his lawyer, Paul Nugent, said the threat was detailed enough that the Stern family was taking it seriously.
"It's a pretty chilling letter," Nugent said. "What's chilling is that Michelle gives explicit instructions. The family needs protection."
Stern, who acknowledges having had an affair with Gaiser but denies plotting with her to have his wife killed, is facing trial on two charges of solicitation of capital murder. Gaiser, 39, who is in jail, has agreed to plead guilty in exchange for her testimony and a 25-year cap on her sentence.
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Yvonne Stern, who was badly wounded in the third attempt on her life in May 2010, filed for divorce but has reconciled with her husband and now says she doesn't believe he played any part in the scheme to kill her.
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Prosecutors accused Gaiser of launching the plot in January 2010, contacting a middleman to arrange the killing. They claim she twice was recorded trying to hire someone to kill Yvone Stern, a full-time mother and discussing a payment of $10,000.
One man has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for attempting to kill Yvonne Stern.
Jeffrey Stern was scheduled to stand trial in April, but that was delayed after information emerged that Gaiser may have been involved in a murder-for-hire plot prior to the Stern case.
Nugent said Tuesday he could not release the letter he claims Gaiser wrote ordering the hit on Stern, but he said the FBI had investigated and determined it was authentic. He said the Sterns were making the letter's existence public because they had not been offered protection.
The FBI declined to comment, as did the Harris County District Attorney's office.
Nugent said the letter was peppered with expletives and derogatory statements about Stern and his wife. It offered details about Jeffrey Stern's daily habits and movements, including where he parked his car at his office and the need to be cautious about closed- circuit cameras at the Sterns' Bellaire residence.
"Frustration and fear"
Gaiser offered to pay her fellow inmate $10,000 up front and another $10,000 after the job was completed, Nugent said. The letter also stressed the need to make the killing look like a robbery.
"This has got to be clean," Nugent said Gaiser wrote. "This can't go back on you or me. It's something we'll both have to take to our graves."
Nugent said Gaiser suggested the inmate shoot Stern or cut his throat with a knife.
"Cut the carotid and it's over," the letter advised, according to Nugent.
In a statement, Gaiser's attorneys said the latest allegation in the case would add to the "frustration and fear" their client feels after sitting in a jail for more than two years while "Jeff Stern continues to live the good life."
"She knows better than anyone that the entire scheme against Yvonne was concocted by Jeffrey Stern, and yet he has just thrown her under the bus and continues to lie and absolve himself of any responsibility for his actions," attorney Deborah Keyser said in the statement.
The Sterns appeared together at a press conference Tuesday, but did not make any statement.


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Xpress, the Coolest Section of the St. Petersburg Times, is the home for features, news and views of interest to young readers. Most of the work in Xpress, which appears on Mondays in Floridian, is produced by the Times' X-Team. The team of journalists ages 9-17 from around the Tampa Bay area is selected every year at the end of the school year to serve during the following school term. The current team of 12 was chosen out of 150 applicants. Watch for X-Team application forms in Xpress during the month of May.
By BILLY NORRIS
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published December 24, 2001
Rating: PG
Summary: Peter Appleton (Jim Carrey) is a Hollywood script writer in the '50s who is working on his second movie. After he is blacklisted by the U.S. government, he gets drunk and takes a car ride up the California coast to try to make sense of what's happening to him (not a good idea!). He crashes his car on a bridge and falls into the raging river below. When he wakes up on a deserted beach, he has no recollection of what happened or who he is. He is brought to a quaint, nearby town by the elderly man who finds him, and upon arrival he is mistaken for a long-lost war hero, Luke Trimble, who was supposedly killed in World War II. He moves in with his "father" (played by Martin Landau), and together they restore the long-neglected theater his father used to run, The Majestic. Luke's former fiance comes back into the picture, too, and Appleton's world changes drastically as he gets more and more involved in the life that really isn't his. The real problems begin when the life he left behind starts to catch up to him.
My View: This film really blew me away. First of all, Jim Carrey gives an astounding performance! Not by any stretch of the imagination was this a typical Carrey film. He put his extremely comedic personality away for this one and played a totally dramatic role. I became more and more involved in the story as it moved along. The overall acting, the settings and the whole nostalgic ambience of this film captivated me. I believe this was an Academy Award performance by Carrey.
Favorite Part: Carrey's versatility as an actor amazes me. He is able to play a wide range of characters successfully, and he proved is with this role.
Least Favorite Part: The Majestic dragged on longer than it needed to. At two hours and forty minutes, it could have been a half hour shorter and still gotten the point across.
Recommendations: That this film is rated PG, and Jim Carrey is the starring actor, is deceiving. The theme of the anti-communist sentiments and the blacklisting of Hollywood actors, writers and directors that occurred in the 1950s is a serious one that won't interest younger viewers. To those 12 and up who aren't expecting Carrey's rubber-faced humor, I highly recommend this film!
Grade: A
-- Billy Norris, 14, is in the eighth grade at Seminole Middle School, and is a former member of the Times X-Team.


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SummaryGrossly overrated
The GoodAddictive. I remember paying $99.99 for it and staying up all night playing it, emerging bleary-eyed, having just made it at the lowest level. Today I wonder which I had most of, money? and least of, sense? I shan't repeat here what the game is about--that would be as silly as explaining what a mouse and a keyboard are. And you will find here at MobyGames more than a dozen reviews that will tell you all about it. Many years after my first exposure to Civilization, thinking back on it, I am still at a loss as to what made this game such a success. Yes, it is addictive, but so is crack, they say. So let's turn to:
The BadAbsurd, utterly absurd. I realized that when I was building a space ship and a Zulu diplomat stole the technology and the Zulus started building their own spaceship. Now in this game, when a civilization gets wiped out, another one often pops up in the form of a settlers' unit, which builds a city, and starts again from scratch. The Zulus were one of these newborn nations. They hadn't discovered anything much beyond chariots and they set about building a space ship! I was also pretty miffed once when I attacked a Barbarian diplomat with my tanks, and got zapped out of existence. That is when I stopped playing, to take a long hard look at the game and to write myself a saved-game editor allowing me to modify the properties of military units and the contents of cities. In the process I discovered what a mess the coding was. It was like digging middens in an archaeological site, uncovering layers upon layers of rubbish. But, once finished, I then could price diplomats right out of anyone's reach, and make movement a bit more realistic. Still I could not knock any sense into combat rules, that is, short of disassembling CIV.EXE, I imagine, and rewriting the mess.
Combat is as unrealistic as the rules of chess compared to real war. There is only one possible outcome to each engagement with an enemy unit: total annihilation of him, or of you. No attrition, no morale, nothing. And you can only attack a unit on an adjacent square, even with artillery, even with a battleship. Now have a battleship attack an enemy phalanx. Your battleship, the most powerful unit in the game, stands a chance of getting zapped out of existence by the phalanx. And with what weapons would that be, pretty please, javelins?
The so-called AI is nothing but cheating, cheating, and more cheating. Have you ever tried to build a Wonder, say, the Pyramids, or the Hanging Gardens? Suspiciously often another civilization will beat you to it, just before you succeed. And all out of thin air. Just hit %^ to reveal the map and you'll see. They just didn't have the production capacity by far, but they still managed to build that Wonder. The only way you can hope to beat those cheats is to build caravans, caravans, and caravans, and keep them stored away until you have enough to build your Wonder in one single turn so as not to give your hand away.
Speaking of caravans, have you ever seen an enemy caravan roaming the map? Of course not. But when you take over their cities, by battle or, better, by subverting them, you will see trade routes to here, there and everywhere bringing in good money. YOU have to build caravans and send them under military escort to distant cities, THEY just conjure them out of thin air and teleport them.
Diplomacy? There is no diplomacy. Blackmail and intimidation, yes, but you cannot strike an alliance with another civilization. Oh sure, you can ask the Romans to attack the Babylonians. They will want payment up front, and then they will do nothing at all. And once you have sworn eternal friendship (sic) with, say, the Russians, they will turn against you at the drop of a hat. Which is whenever your coffers are full enough to make blackmail a going proposition. As for striking an alliance against a common enemy, forget it: there is no way it can be done. Soon you learn your lesson, which is (spoiler ahead): once you are a Republic or a Democracy, always refuse to talk to foreign delegates--otherwise the Senate will force you to sign a peace treaty and then forbid you to sabotage their cities and steal their technologies. And just before you become a Republic or a Democracy, don't forget to declare war on everybody you are at peace with.
Movement? Movement is ridiculous. In the early stages one turn is equal to twenty years of calendar time, so that it takes a phalanx about 400 years to go from Rome to Moscow. Yes, dem soldiers were long-lived in dem days. How long would Alexander's conquests have taken? And Xenophon's march? Something like 2000 years I guess.
Scoring. Starry-eyed me played his first few games trying to shower his citizens with goodies, and got rewarded with defeat and a Dan Quayle rating. Oh yes, building Wonders and keeping citizens happy does count towards the final score, but not as much, by a very very long sight, as destroying other civilizations. Once I had figured that out, I managed to end up regularly with top marks, having destroyed ten civilizations, sometimes eleven. "Civilization"? This should have been called "Thuggery and Savagery".


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sorry! made a mistake! my brother tryed it on me once, and somehow i wiggled my hands out from under the glasses. don't ask me how i did it. i have no clue how i did it.
My brother tryed it on me once. Don't ask me how I did it; I have no clue how I did it. He tryed again today, but I knew better not to.
im going to try that one on my sister!
ok… i hope the glsses of water will balance when i do it on my brother
watch out tho if the glasses aren't glass i no that i would just dump them on the floor: i better verision would be to make them hold an egg with tow fingers throught the crack between a door and a wall (where the hinges are) if they let go they break the egg, if they close the door they crack the egg, and they cant reach around the door either becuase no one has that long of arms!
The PERFECT trick
Its insane
ross looked so funny!
loved it. will try on my Dad
😀 HAHA got my sister good
i love it
you know i tried that on my mom and it wouldnt balance so its not gonna work unless you are super careful
well if you dont care you pull your hands up
Well people don't want to get all wet!
P.S. (Problem Sovled.)
I know how to get out of this.
Just grab one glass with your teeth and then use the free hand to take the free hand to set the glass on the table, then grab the other glass with the free hand.
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You just put duct tape over the person's mouth and say it's part of the trick which makes it even funnier.|:P
i did it on my friend and when i started to walk away he spilled them both on himself! ROTFLOL
thats hilarious ilove it
got in trouble
can't wait to try it
i did it on kaikerrools after i did it i left his house he had to stay there for 2 weeks!
ok that is not possible
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