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HF Sinclair Corporation (NYSE: DINO) ("HF Sinclair") and Holly Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: HEP) ("HEP"), plan to announce results for the quarter ending September 30, 2022 on November 7, 2022, before the opening of trading on the NYSE. HF Sinclair and HEP have scheduled a joint webcast conference on November 7, 2022 at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time to discuss financial results.
This webcast may be accessed at:
An audio archive of this webcast will be available using the above noted link through November 21, 2022.
About HF Sinclair Corporation:
HF Sinclair Corporation, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is an independent energy company that produces and markets high-value light products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, renewable diesel and other specialty products. HF Sinclair owns and operates refineries located in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, Washington and Utah and markets its refined products principally in the Southwest U.S., the Rocky Mountains extending into the Pacific Northwest and in other neighboring Plains states. HF Sinclair supplies high-quality fuels to more than 1,300 Sinclair branded stations and licenses the use of the Sinclair brand at more than 300 additional locations throughout the country. In addition, subsidiaries of HF Sinclair produce and market base oils and other specialized lubricants in the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands, and export products to more than 80 countries. Through its subsidiaries, HF Sinclair produces renewable diesel at two of its facilities in Wyoming and also at its facility in Artesia, New Mexico. HF Sinclair also owns a 47% limited partner interest and a non-economic general partner interest in Holly Energy Partners, L.P., a master limited partnership that provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage and throughput services to the petroleum industry, including HF Sinclair subsidiaries.
About Holly Energy Partners, L.P.:
Holly Energy Partners, L.P., headquartered in Dallas, Texas, provides petroleum product and crude oil transportation, terminalling, storage and throughput services to the petroleum industry, including subsidiaries of HF Sinclair Corporation. HEP, through its subsidiaries and joint ventures, owns and/or operates petroleum product and crude pipelines, tankage and terminals in Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming, as well as refinery processing units in Kansas and Utah.
View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220922005696/en/
HF Sinclair Corporation
Craig Biery, 214-954-6510
Vice President, Investor Relations
Trey Schonter, 214-954-6510
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I've arrived yesterday to Gran Canaria for the Desktop Summit, awesome weather, specially for someone like me who is coming from a pretty cold winter at Santiago de Chile. I'm pretty happy to see a few of my good Gnome friends here and I'm really looking forward for the conference to start.
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E3 Speaking:
Forget about learning to speak by memorizing caned sentences from text books or even listing and memorizing canned sentences out of context. You will never become fluent with that outdated method—even after 24 months of memorizing 1000's of sentences. To become fluent English speaker in 6 months or less without memorizing do the following:
- Each week, you will listen & retell one (and only one) new short story. You can choose from anyone of 24+ stories.
- After listening to a new story, you will be asked to answer question, which you must answer spontaneously or without thinking about grammar or sentence structure.
- Within two weeks of signing up, we will assign you a native English speaker from USA or Canada as a tutor. You will retell him or her the story that you are working on. Each story should be told in present, past and future time frames.
- If there is no tutor, you will then just listen retell one story per week to yourself or to a friend. You can also record it and hear it yourself.
- Once you can retell the story in three different time frames, you will then move on to the new story. Otherwise, you will keep working on the same story until you can retell the story as a natural story teller.
- Do it for 12 to 24 stories for 12 to 24 weeks.
- Most people can start speaking basic or beginner English in 4 and fluent in 12 to 24 weeks. To become English master speaker, add more stories. But do not exceed more than one story per week.
That's all. At the end of 12 to 24 weeks (or three to six months), you will be a fluent English speaker.


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Larry and I left to go up to the Sierra Foothills to visit my Mom and Bob on Friday. Our destination was Pollock Pines, which is off hwy 50, ten miles east of Placerville. On our way up there we stopped at Terre Rouge winery in Amador County. One of the things I really like about this winery is that they allowed us to bring in our dog, Elmer Fudd. He was on a leash and they have their own dog that roams around. We sampled a few wines and liked their Syrah blend the best. We had been there last February, enjoyed their wines and got on their mailing list. In April we found out that they were having a photo contest to see who could come up with the best picture for their wine label called Tete a Tete, which means "head to head". Shortly after Larry and I had our brunch at The Epic Roasthouse in SF this spring, Larry sent in a picture that we had taken of Narsai David, local wine and food producer and connoisseur and the chef, Jan Birnbaum. We captured a great picture of the chef and Narsai at the end of the meal discussing how things went. This picture is what Larry submitted it to this contest. Well, to our surprise he won! So on our way up to my Mom's we stopped and picked up our case of wine. Yes we won a whole case of their "Tete a Tete" Rhone Blend!
To hear more about this story I'm going to lead you to Larry's article. We got to Mom and Bob's and enjoyed a quiet afternoon sitting in the sun; it was still 90 degrees up there at 5:00 p.m.! Mom made dinner; baked chicken breast breaded with toasted onions, coleslaw (a family recipe) and a zucchini and cheese casserole. That night we watched the Bank Job. Mom fell asleep; I tried to keep up with all the characters. All in all I think it was a B- movie.
On Saturday after a nice walk we got ready to go meet our friend Al at the 4th of July parade that Pollock Pines has every year. It was cute. Nothing to write home about, just plain cute. There were the horses, little leaguers, and the fire trucks.
There were some very cool old cars and of course the statue of liberty. It got a little strange when a dune buggy or two went by and a truck pulling a bulldozer. Well there were some interesting things but everyone was throwing candy to the kids. I even got some too! Afterwards we went to some friends of mom's – Lydia and Andy's house. It's a 2-bedroom cabin with a very large backyard that includes a deck with a Jacuzzi and a very inviting swimming pool. We kicked back some beers and visited while just hanging in the pool. It was very refreshing. We went back home and took a little nap. We had a nice bbq dinner, which consisted of skirt steak, salad, baked baby red potatoes and frozen fresh lemonade. Larry opened the bottle of Tete a Tete we had just picked up. Very nice, full-bodied, very rich in fruits, not much tannin – ready to drink. For dessert we had Dryers 1/2 fat ice cream flavor called Red, White and No More Blues. Very good, vanilla ice cream blended with strawberries and blueberries. Of course we had a little chocolate syrup and some had whipped cream as well. Afterwards we sat and watched another movie. This one was not very uplifting, Dought. Very well acted, not too long, but difficult subject matter.
Sunday morning I slept in until 10:00! I woke up to Larry watching Wimbledon men's final match. It was crazy; Federer and Roddick were tied in the 5th set and were on the tiebreaker for the match. They were so evenly matched that it didn't get finished until nearly 11:00. I was rooting for Roddick, but I like Federer too. We packed up and left to head home with a few stops along the way. Mom and Bob tagged along in their own car. We headed back to Amador County but went to a different part that we had never been to. Our first stop was C.G. di Aire. I had never even heard of this winery. Arriving we found a sign that said, "watch out for rattlesnakes" and "no dogs in tasting room". Since we had Elmer with us, and it was warm out we had to hook him up to one of the picnic benches. No big deal. Their outdoor area is beautiful and very peaceful. There is a nice waterfall that leads to a Koi Pond with lily pads.
Quite a number of picnic tables in the shade and lots of room for children to run around. The building itself wasn't too exciting. The folks behind the bar were nice; they answered all of our questions. There was no tasting fee. The winery is not at the tasting room but is about 16 miles n.e. In El Dorado County. At the winery they have facilities for events. They had a Rose' and Sauvignon Blanc that we really enjoyed. They also had a Zinfandel, Syrah, Petite Sirah and other red varietals for us to try. I enjoyed their Syrah the best, but everyone has their own tastes. They do not allow limousines. They have a nice schedule of tasting events throughout the year. Each month they have a "Tasting with the Winemaker", for example this Saturday the 18th they are having a vertical wine tasting of Petite Sirahs. If you like Zinfandels mark August 15 on your calendar they will do a vertical tasting with their Zins. The winemaker/proprietor is Chaim Gur-Arieh, Ph.D. In 1998 he and his wife bought the 209 acres they have there and developed 40 acres of it. He designed his winery to have gravity-feed into the tanks and has new technology to helping him to make his wines. Afterwards we drove about 3 minutes down the road into Plymouth. There we had lunch at Incahoots. They offer pizza, bbq, and sandwiches. A perfect menu with a lot of different items. Mom had the pulled pork sandwich; Bob, Larry and I got their BBQ sampler plate, which includes tri-tip, sausage (we got spicy), chicken, and pork and beef ribs. Their baked beans are the best ever. It's a Santa Rosa style where they are cooked on the grill and pick up the mesquite flavoring. The last winery we went to was Nua Dair, which is Gaelic for New Oak. The winemaker/owner, Mark McMaster, was in the wine making/barrel room to greet us.
Mark is a UC Davis graduate and makes wine in his spare time, as he runs his own CPA firm. I'm sure we could have brought Elmer inside but we had already tied him up outside. There was no tasting fee and we tried his Sauvignon Blanc, Syrah, Zinfandel, Barbera, Pinotage and Cabernet Sauvignon. All of his wines are 100% of that varietal. I liked his Barbera and Syrah the best. The area outside offers a couple picnic benches, nothing much else. We enjoyed our time with Mark. We said our goodbyes to Mom and Bob and we each headed off towards our perspective homes. On our way we stopped at Chocoholics Divine Desserts chocolate factory in Clements, which probably has maybe 1,000 population. Very nice store, we bought some chocolate raspberry sauce (no fat!) and had a chocolate milkshake (fat!) and walked through the self-guided tour of the factory. They offer tours for larger groups too. It would have been perfect if the factory was active, but being a Sunday it wasn't. Chocoholics is famous for their "Body Frosting". They even have a couple games to play with the chocolate frosting such as; Truth or Dare" and "Strip Chocolate".
We got home before 6:00 and had a nice light dinner. The cats were happy to see us and they didn't leave us any surprises! Good kitties. ☺ The weekend was great; it had a bit of everything and that is just what I needed! I hope all of you had a Happy 4th of July celebrating "The Land That We Love".


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Vault by Vans and Disney Celebrate Mickey Mouse's 90thAnniversary Through the Lens of Four Iconic Artists
Deep Southern California roots bring Vans and Disney back together again, this time, to celebrate 90 years of Mickey Mouse. Honoring the optimistic attitude and loveable nature of Mickey Mouse on his birthday, Vault by Vans and Disney collaborate with four iconic artists – John Van Hamersveld, Mister Cartoon, Geoff McFetridge and Taka Hayashi, to create one-of-a-kind artwork featuring the beloved Disney "True Original."
In a unique, well-rounded collection, each of the artist's custom Mickey Mouse rendition is featured on Vans' iconic silhouette, the OG Sk8-Hi LX, as well as a short-sleeved tee to present a well-rounded offering.
With a mutual passion for California culture, renowned illustrator and graphic designer
, John Van Hamersveld is continuously recognized
for his influential graphics and images that are quintessential markers of Southern California culture. Best known for his psychedelic patterns and vibrant color schemes, he is a pioneer in the worlds of art, music, and surf—blending these genres perfectly into his extensive repertoire. For this collection, Van Hamersveld produces bright, punchy graphics featuring the one and only Mickey Mouse.
Legendary tattoo artist Mark Machado, more famously known as Mister Cartoon, is a Mexican-American artist born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Mister Cartoon is recognized and sought after for his richly detailed hand-rendered style of fine line tattooing—a technique that uses diluted black ink to create shadows and depth. What sets his work apart is the textural intricacy and stunning details of his three-dimensional- appearing works. His contribution to the collection depicts a black and grey illustration of the iconic "True Original" mouse driving a vintage car.
To bring a minimalistic and surreal illustrative style to the collection, Vault by Vans and Disney worked with Geoff McFetridge, Canadian designer, illustrator, and animator based in Los Angeles. McFetridge's work intuitively ignores creative boundaries and spans a broad range of art media. The versatility and simplicity in his work is balanced by the use of elegant line drawings and paintings. His design captures Mickey Mouse in a unique pattern, highlighting his iconic colors – black, red and yellow.
Vault by Vans mainstay, Taka Hayashi, completes the collection with his commitment to detailed craftsmanship and unique design approach. Hayashi's design features an unexpected hit of pink, conveying a Mickey Mouse inspired hot air balloon.
The Disney x Vans collaboration launches globally on August 25, 2018 at select Vault by Vans accounts.


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Michael C. Hall knows you hated the ending of Dexter.
The 43-year-old actor, best known for playing vigilante serial killer Dexter Morgan on the Showtime series, isn't even sure he liked the ending himself.
"Liked it? I don't think I even watched it," he says of the finale, which aired last September. The once-gripping saga of the nerdy blood spatter analyst (spoiler alert) ended on a flabbergasting note, with the death of Dexter's adoptive sister Debra; his self-exile from his kids, his job, and Miami; and his transition into a new career as…a lumberjack. Hall chooses his words carefully when discussing his feelings about that last episode. "I thought it was narratively satisfying—but it was not so savory."
"I think the show had lost a certain amount of torque," he says. "Just inherently because of how long we'd done it, because of the storytelling capital we'd spent, because our writers may have been gassed. Maybe some people wanted a more satisfying—maybe they wanted a happy ending for him, either a happy ending or a more definitive sense of closure. They wanted him to die or something, but I think the fact that he's sort of exiled in a prison of his own making is, for my money, pretty fitting."
Now, with eight bloodstained years behind him, Hall has taken on the role of another murderous suburban dad in Jim Mickle's slick indie thriller, Cold in July. Hall plays Richard Dane, the hapless, bemulleted owner of a framing business who finds an intruder snooping around his house late one night. Petrified, and holding his gun a little too tightly, Dane accidentally shoots the intruder in the head, spraying blood and brains all over his living room couch and setting in motion a noir-ish chain of events that never quite turns out the way you think it will. Cops turn into bad guys and ex-cons into allies (after twist, after twist, and so on) against a 1980s East Texas backdrop, complete with a John Carpenter-esque synth-heavy soundtrack.
"This guy felt closer to me than Dexter, inasmuch as I would be horrified if I actually shot and killed somebody. I wouldn't kill somebody then go eat a sandwich after I dismembered them," Hall says, referencing Dexter's preferred method for disposing of dead bodies.
But for a movie that choke-holds you in suspense from the very first scene, Cold in July is also surprisingly funny. Don Johnson blasts in midway through the movie in a practically neon cowboy getup, with a swagger that only the former Miami Vice star could pull off ("[Johnson] can talk about himself in the third-person in a way that is charming," Mickle laughs). And Dane's mullet (a hair piece which Hall brought to the set himself to give his character a "reaching, uncool" vibe) and '80s-dad clothes put him hopelessly out of place in the bloody antics he's involved himself in. Topped off with a "good supply" of Polo cologne—"along with Drakkar Noir, it was like, the manly scent at the time," Hall recalls—and one sad, half-grown mustache and voila: "He's the guy who decided to grow a mustache last week and then this thing happened to him," as Mickle puts it.
"I was really struck at first by how funny Michael was in his comic timing," Mickle adds. "It was a great surprise, you know. When you see the characters he's played, you're not expecting him to have a lot of that. There's a humor to Dexter that I think hints at that, but [Cold in July], I think, takes that even further."
Part of the film's humor comes from Dane's need to prove that he's man enough to hang with Jim Bob (Johnson's character) and Russel (a gruff, reticent ex-con played masterfully by Sam Shepard). It becomes obvious at one point that Dane no longer needs to be involved with the two older men's mission—but Dane is clearly just bored by the idea of going home to his wife and son and picking out a new couch.
"There was a big element to that character who wanted to feel tested," says Mickle. "There was a time in this century when it was totally okay to challenge someone to a duel. You'd get in a fight with somebody at a bar and it was totally cool to walk out and shoot 'em. That's kind of gotten tamed out of us in a way, but I think there's an element to guys that [still want to know] how we'd stack up or how you'd be when you're tested…In [Dane's] mind, when someone like Russel shows up, that becomes the symbol of what a man should be. But is that really what it should be?"
Hall more than holds his own alongside veterans Shepard and Johnson, bringing enough nuance to his character that Mickle was able to cut down scenes that had previously put into dialogue what Hall was already instinctively emoting. And though his resume so far reads somewhat morbidly (before chopping people up on Dexter, Hall played a funeral director for five years on Six Feet Under), he's relishing the chance to take on new projects. Hall currently stars alongside Toni Collette and Marisa Tomei on Broadway in The Realistic Joneses, co-starred in last year's Beat poet epic Kill Your Darlings, and is looking at more film projects (none of which he can talk about, of course).
In the meantime, Richard Dane occupies a special place as the character that brought Hall back from Dexter's bloody, broken world.
"It was nice when Dexter ended to have a chance to play somebody who didn't mean to kill a person, but nevertheless killed someone and dealt with the immediate befuddlement, remorse, and confusion that went along with that," he says. "It was like a way to come back to humanity."


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Five burning questions
With the Baltimore Ravens and Denver Broncos commencing NFL Kickoff Weekend on Thursday, here are five of the NFL's biggest questions heading into the season:
Can the San Francisco 49ers avoid the Super Bowl hangover?
History doesn't favor the 49ers in their Super Bowl quest. A team hasn't won the Super Bowl after losing it the year before since the 1972 Miami Dolphins. The 1993 Buffalo Bills are the last losing team to return to the Super Bowl after playing in the game during the previous season. The last four Super Bowl losers have made the playoffs the following season, but the 2012 New England Patriots are only the team to go back to the conference championship game following a Super Bowl loss since the 1993 Bills. The 49ers open the season with a tough schedule. Four of the first five games are against playoff teams (Green Bay Packers, Seattle Seahawks, Indianapolis Colts and Houston Texans) that had a combined 45-19 record in 2012.
No team has lost the Super Bowl and made it back the following year since the 1993 Buffalo Bills.
San Francisco's passing game suffered a big blow when Michael Crabtree, Colin Kaepernick's favorite receiver, tore his Achilles during organized team activities in May. He is expected back towards the end of the season. Anquan Boldin, who was acquired in a trade with the Baltimore Ravens, is San Francisco's only proven healthy wide receiver. The 49ers have been experimenting with tight end Vernon Davis by lining him up at wide receiver.
San Francisco had the NFL's fourth ranked pass defense in 2012 but it was exploited by opponents late last season. The secondary has some holes to fill. First round pick Eric Reid takes over at free safety for All-Pro Dashon Goldson, who signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during free agency. Nickel back Chris Culliver is out for season with a torn ACL. Nnamdi Asomugha, who has taken Culliver's place as the third cornerback, is looking to bounce back from two disappointing season with the Philadelphia Eagles.
The 49ers' two-year reign as the top team in the NFC West could come to an end with San Francisco expected to battle division rival Seattle for NFC supremacy. The NFC West should be improved because of the St. Louis Rams' additions through free agency and the NFL draft, and the Arizona Cardinals having a competent quarterback, Carson Palmer, who can get the ball to Larry Fitzgerald.
Are the Baltimore Ravens reloading or rebuilding?
The Baltimore Ravens lost eight starters, including six on defense, from their Super Bowl XLVII championship team. Most notably, Ray Lewis retired after a 17-year Hall of Fame career and eight–time All-Pro safety Ed Reed went to the Houston Texans during free agency. Outside linebacker Paul Kruger capitalized on a career-high nine regular season sacks and an additional 4.5 sacks during the playoffs by signing a lucrative contract with the Cleveland Browns. Re-signing linebacker Dannell Ellerbe was a priority, but the Ravens couldn't compete with the Miami Dolphins' offer.
The Ravens filled most of their defensive needs by being judicious in free agency because of salary cap constraints. Defensive lineman Chris Canty (three years, $8 million), safety Michael Huff (three years, $6 million) and linebacker Daryl Smith (one year, $1.125 million) signed modest deals. Elvis Dumervil was the most expensive free agent defensive acquisition. He signed a five-year, $26 million deal (includes $11 million in guarantees and worth up to $35 million through escalators and incentives) after he became available because of a paperwork snafu on his renegotiated contract with the Denver Broncos. The Ravens used their first and second round picks on safety Matt Elam and inside linebacker Arthur Brown. Lardarius Webb also returns from a season-ending ACL injury that sidelined him last October.
The newcomers should help improve a unit that ranked 17th in total defense last year, which was the first time the Ravens weren't in the top ten since 2002. Dumervil should be an upgrade over Kruger. Smith could be Baltimore's most important addition. He had an outstanding preseason spearheading the Ravens' defense. The Ravens caught a break when Rolando McClain abruptly retired a month after signing. Smith is probably playing elsewhere if McClain is still in Baltimore, since he took McClain's roster spot.
The offense has some obstacles to overcome. Anquan Boldin, the team's leading receiver, was traded to the San Francisco 49ers for a sixth-round pick after he refused to take a paycut. Tight end Dennis Pitta was expected to have an increased role in the passing game to help offset the loss of Boldin before sustaining a serious hip injury in training camp. Pitta has been placed on injured reserve with a designation to return, but is probably out of the year. Aging veterans Dallas Clark and Brandon Stokely were signed in the aftermath of Pitta's injury. Joe Flacco must put his inconsistencies behind him and play like the quarterback that earned a six-year, $120.6 million contract (with $52 million guaranteed) during the regular season.
Will NFL teams solve the read option?
Will RG3 have as much success in 2013 as he did as a rookie in 2012?
The read option or "zone-read" caught NFL teams by surprise last year with young, athletic quarterback having success running it. The scheme helped Robert Griffin III become the NFL's Offensive Rookie of Year while setting NFL rookie records for passing rating (102.4) and quarterback rushing yards (815). Russell Wilson's effectiveness improved dramatically and the Seattle Seahawks became an offensive juggernaut after relying on the read option during the second half of the season. The Seahawks averaged 34 points per game in their final eight regular season games. Colin Kaepernick was unstoppable in the San Francisco 49ers' divisional playoff victory over the Green Bay Packers with 181 rushing yards and 263 passing yards.
Defenses should be more prepared against the read option after an offseason spent studying the scheme. Some NFL teams consulted with college coaches on ways to stop it. The Packers sent their coaching staff to Texas A&M for advice. One strategy teams will employ is aggressively attacking quarterbacks, especially as a ball carrier and when executing fakes, to see if they can withstand the punishment from the additional hits.
Which receivers will step up for the New England Patriots?
The New England Patriots have made wholesale changes to their receiving corps. There wasn't much of an effort to re-sign Wes Welker despite him averaging 112 catches and 1,243 receiving yards per year since joining the Patriots in 2007. Since Welker wanted to play for a Super Bowl contender, he turned down more money from another team to sign with the Denver Broncos. Deion Branch also wasn't re-signed. Brandon Lloyd was let go in March even though he caught 74 passes for 911 yards in 2012 because he was a headache in the locker room. It will also be difficult for the Pa triots to continue effectively utilizing two tight end sets with Aaron Hernandez's release following murder charges and Rob Gronkowski's injuries. Gronkowski should return to action from forearm and back surgeries sometime early in the season.
The Patriots have replaced Welker with Danny Amendola. He's younger and faster than Welker, but injury prone. Amendola has missed 20 games over the last two seasons, but should thrive in Welker's role if he can stay on the field. Although Aaron Dodson and Josh Boyce were selected in the second and fourth rounds of the NFL Draft, undrafted free agent Kenbrell Thompkins has been more impressive. Thompkins was New England's leading receiver during the preseason. Undrafted free agent tight end Zach Sudfeld has also been a surprise at tight end. He is taking over Hernandez's role in the offense. The rookie could test Tom Brady's patience since they don't have the same understanding of the offense that Welker, Branch and Hernandez possessed.
New England's offense was expected to struggle without Randy Moss' presence as a deep threat when he was traded after the 2010 season started. It reinvented itself and finished eighth in total offense and led the NFL in scoring that season. It wouldn't be a surprise if New England had similar results this year despite the wholesale changes at receiver.
Do the Dallas Cowboys have the secret sauce?
Dallas Cowboys executive vice-president Stephen Jones recently proclaimed that the team has the "secret sauce" to make a Super Bowl run. The Cowboys haven't been Super Bowl contenders since their glory days of the 1990s. Their only playoff victory since 1996 is a 2009 win over the Philadelphia Eagles.
As always, it all comes down to quarterback Tony Romo.
The Cowboys have revamped their defense by switching from a 3-4 defense to a 4-3 scheme under new defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin, the architect of the Tampa-2 defense. Head coach Jason Garrett reluctantly relinquished play-calling duties to offensive coordinator Bill Callahan. The expectations for Tony Romo have been raised with his six-year, $108 million contract extension (including $55 million in guarantees), which is one of the richest contracts in NFL history. He is also being given more input into the offense. Running back DeMarco Murray has missed nine games in his two NFL seasons. He should easily top the 1,000 rushing yard mark for the first time in his career and help the Cowboys become more balanced offensively if he stays healthy. Romo ranked third in the NFL last year with 648 pass attempts.
The NFC East has had a different winner in each of the last three years. If the trend continues, Dallas will give Romo the opportunity to improve upon his 1-6 record in elimination games and a 1-3 record in the playoffs as division champions.
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Come Over When You�re Sober Pt. 2 is Lil Peep�s second album, and the first posthumous long form album from the prolific artist The New York Times has described as �at the forefront of bridging hip-hop, emo, pop-punk, and one of the most promising musicians in any genre.�
Come Over When You�re Sober Pt. 2 was produced and guided by Peep�s friends and collaborators, Smokeasac and George Astasio of IIVI. �Gus was my best friend. Finishing COWYS2 without him is the hardest thing I have ever had to do. At times I didn�t want to finish it, some days it was just too hard to hear his voice and not have him right there beside me but when I got out of my own head, I could feel him there and that and his incredible fans are what got me through it. I really had no choice, it had to be done and I am proud of what George and I have done for Gus and his fans,� stated Smokeasac.
Come Over When You�re Sober, Pt. 2 is available in a variety of physical formats including vinyl LP, a limited edition pink cassette, a CD and a limited edition double LP set featuring Come Over When You�re Sober Pt. 1 & Pt. 2 on pink and black vinyl. All versions of the physical packages include drawings from Lil Peep�s childhood. The limited edition 2 LP set includes some of his drawings on one of the inner sleeves, and images of his tattoos on the second inner sleeve.


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Early casualty reports indicate that a powerful suicide car bombing Thursday in Kabul killed at least seven Afghan civilians, four foreign civilian contractors who were working for international forces and two members of the international military force.
Dozens more people were reportedly injured by the blast in Afghanistan's capital city.
Officially, the NATO-led Afghanistan International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is only saying at this time that two of its service members and four civilian contractors died.
NBC News is reporting it has been told by a NATO source that six of the people killed were Americans.
From Kabul, NPR's Sean Carberry tells our Newscast Desk that "the massive explosion shook the capital Thursday morning, and set nearby cars and buildings ablaze. Hospital officials say dozens of civilians, including many children are being treated for injuries. The militant group Hizb-i-Islami has taken responsibility for the attack. They don't conduct operations nearly as often as their Taliban allies."
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and / or artwork are featured.
of this gorgeous publication ( one of my faves! )
only 4 short days before my mother entered the hospital
for the very last time.
I say thank you so very much.
To the readers and friends of this blog,
I treasure you beyond words.
I once wrote for her...
If you like anything at all about me
or this blog, thank the lady in the photo above.
She's the reason.
I hope you'll grab the issue,
as I'm pleased as I can be to be featured alongside
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my friends Tricia of A Rosy Note,
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and Mary of Urban Farmgirl.
Congrats, ladies!
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Apple Tax My Eye
If you read the WSJ and NYT and a few other sites with paywalled content I won't link to, you'll hear about the 'fear of an Apple tax'. The idea is that, because Apple won the lawsuit, Samsung and others will have to pay Apple to license patents and the cost of your phones will go up.  The anti-Apple angst in this argument  is absurd on it's face because:
1) Apple pays license fees to Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and countless others who have IP in the wireless telecom business now as part of the price of every chip they buy.
2) Apple pays a "Samsung Tax" now because Apple buys components from Samsung that Samsung makes a tidy profit from selling to Apple. It's naive and childish to imagine the idea that any product as complex as a smart phone isn't already 'taxed' in a very tangled web. You may say Apple's IP will be additive but even if it is, it's just so much noise below much louder signal.
3) The patents in question are not difficult to work around at all, that is unless you want to make product that looks and feels like an iPhone.
Beyond this Apple Tax hogwash is a segment of the internet's population that wants to make Apple the villain and Google the great 'Open Source Savior Of Our Freedom'. Â They loathe Apple, they want to make Apple a villain that goes and whines to the courts. They cite history they don't understand to paint Apple poorly.
Unfortunately the only legitimate thing they can cling to as proof of Apple's evil is the infamous quote:
"I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong,†Jobs said. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.â€
"I don't want your money. If you offer me $5 billion, I won't want it. I've got plenty of money. I want you to stop using our ideas in Android, that's all I want.†– Steve Jobs Via Walter Isaacson
Well fine, be mad at Steve for his typical tone. When you've been in any kind of meeting where there is a multi-million dollar argument going on and you haven't heard somebody take that tone, or, the more dangerous one, the quiet calm and subtle one, get back to me.
That quote is what we in the business call… business.
Remember that Apple has been on the receiving end too: ZDNet:Â Nokia likely netted $600 million plus in Apple patent settlement.
A few things these great "Message Board Marauders" should probably know before they step up to paint Apple the big bad wolf in an industry full of sweet warm fuzzy sheep:
– Apple's 'look and feel' lawsuit against MS was because MS agreed to licensing terms with Apple when they launched Excel. Â Excel, for those who don't know, was a Mac *first* application built with Apple support and (according to Apple) licensing for MS to use some UI functionality) and Apple objected to MS's taking license (poetic not legal) in MS's interpretation of the agreements around Excel by using them in Windows. And.. Â before you jump up and down and say "Apple ripped off what they saw at Xerox PARC!" remember, Apple paid for that (in advance, not after getting sued by the way).
– The lawsuit settled in 1997 with the patent cross licensing agreement with Microsoft was not the 'look and feel' license suit but another one over QuickTime and Video For Windows sharing some of the same actual code because MS used the same company to support VfW dev as Apple had used for the QuickTime port to Windows.
– Apple did try to negotiate with Samsung before filing suit.
– Samsung countersued trying to use patents that fall into a class many courts have described as "standards essential" and therefore must be licensed under "Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory" (FRAND) terms. and, in this case, were "exhausted" because Apple had paid for the chips from vendors who had paid already to license Samsung's patents. In other words, iPhone buyers were already paying a "Samsung Tax",
You can have all the opinions you like about which company in the shark lagoon of the tech industry  is the poor persecuted underdog worthy of your activist support but make the arguments you use to support your opinion with some awareness not only of the facts but their historical context.
As I might actually agree (and I do) that the US patent system is a disaster in need of reform the intent of the patent system is a good one, a necessary one: Â "if you invent something, you should have a reasonable period of time to make money off your efforts before others can use what you invented without paying you." or.. as it's said in the US Constitution: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"
Here's my take on the current state of affairs:
– Samsung nakedly ripped off Apple in several small but important ways and got spanked for it.
– Google bought Android they didn't 'innovate it from whole cloth like conquering heros' and Android is not, in any practical way like Linux or other FOSS because the carriers maintain control of most Android devices in the wild and they do it in cahoots with the Samsungs and HTC's of the world. Thinking Android protects your rights as a consumer is delusional at best.
– Until Apple managed to cut their deal with ATT for the original iPhone exclusive, phones in the US were positively buried in crap designed to preserve and extend carrier revenue.  Verizon locked out Bluetooth and wire-connected contact syncing direct to the device so you had to use their online service to manage your contacts off the phones on *many* models of phones. They all had horrible and little 'carrier branding animations' at phone startup and ugly badging on the phones. They all  set it up so ringtones were things you could only buy from a carrier at absurd pricing. If a phone had any 'smart' at all, it was crammed full of bundled 'crapware' even less removable than the junk you find on el-cheapo consumer PC's.
Apple did more for your 'freedom' in that deal they cut with ATT than Android ever has.
If you love Google so much, instead of whining on message boards about 'big bad Apple' Â think about this; Google could use this situation as an opportunity to fix the Android ecosystem and we'd all win.
Google licenses "Official Android" branding and access to Google's Android marketplace to phones that meet certain hardware and openness standards including:
– Users can upgrade to new versions of Android from *Google* not at the carrier's whims.
– Google will indemnify handset makers from lawsuits from Apple and anyone else over the software.
– Google will "badge" phones that meet minimum specs for current and roadmap Android versions so customers know they won't have a locked down phone with hardware quirks that make Android development both absurdly complex and profitless.
Google then innovates Android away from Apple's patents or, if you think they can't manage that, or that Apple's patents are bull#$%^, Google can sues to invalidate those patents.
If Google did that? Android would get better. Windows Phone would get better. iOS would get better and the carriers would be left to compete on their quality of their service to attract and retain customers instead of thinking they had any business in the content game that kept them wasting money, and crapping up your phones, hoping to cash in on the next 'flash of cultural lunacy' that was the ringtone market.
For more from somebody far more 'in the know' on this see: Jean-Louis Gassée's:  The Apple Tax, Part II
And… in the pity for Samsung department, see the previous post below.


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The accords, which establish rules for extracting and using "space resources," commit signatories to exploring space peacefully and in the spirit of international co-operation.
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Canadian Space Agency president Lisa Campbell cheers the accords, but says more robust rules for the exploration of deep space are still a long ways off.
Campbell says the agency will begin consulting with Canadians, as well as a United Nations committee that oversees space exploration.
"The Artemis Accords are an important achievement for safe and sustainable space exploration," Campbell said in a statement.
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Splendour in the Grass – 2010 – Woodford
It's Summer festival time in Europe, but over in Australia it's Winter and Webcuts was there to brave the chill and celebrate Splendour in the Grass' tenth birthday with 32,000 others at the new Woodford location in Queensland. Over the three day weekend our reviewers witnessed a phenomenal selection of old and new favourites including -- Ash, Band of Horses, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Cloud Control, The Drums, Grizzly Bear, Jonsi, LCD Soundsystem, Paul Kelly, Pixies, School of Seven Bells, Scissor Sisters, The Strokes, Tame Impala, The Vines, Yeasayer, and believe it or not, a whole lot more!!


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Step 2: Cut out vinyl (the vinyl came from a garage sale-you can read more about that here) I used my silhouette and put it in place on the board.
Step 3: Paint over the whole board (I used white paint-also from the roadside-double score!)
Sand over the whole thing (should I tell you I got my sander at a garage sale too?)
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"Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented." – Elie Weisel. ~~~ "The seal of G-d is Truth." – Rabbi Hanina, Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 64a.
I was drawn to Chabad-Lubavitch, a grouping in Orthodox Judaism, because it seemed to be the perfect combination of social service and religious mystery. Long before the pop-Kabbala craze made famous by Madonna, Chabad was teaching a form of Jewish mysticism to Jews like me who had grown up in secular homes. And it combined that mysticism with social service. Chabad had a drug treatment facility in LA, poverty programs in New York City and Jerusalem, underground outreach in what was then the repressive Soviet Union – and a rabbi just around the corner from practically every Jew in America, even those in Jews who found themselves in Iowa, Texas and Minnesota, far away from the coastal centers of Jewish life. Under its charismatic leader or rebbe, Chabad focused on macro issues – for example, opposition to the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, promotion of prayer in American public schools, and the staging of public displays of Jewish religious symbols on government property – promoting an in-your-face, unique and unapologetic brand of Judaism that included any Jew, no matter how removed from Jewish life he might be, in its body politic. As a Chabad wag is fond of saying, "All Jews are members of Chabad – some just don't know it yet!"
My involvement in Jewish life predated my joining Chabad. I was active on my college campus, with a national Jewish fraternity, with an international Jewish student group, and in the effort to rescue the small endangered Black Jewish community of Ethiopia. It was this last involvement that would lead to my excommunication.
Soon after joining, I asked Chabad to help with this rescue. I spoke with Chabad leaders, men close to the Rebbe. Chabad would not undertake such a mission without permission from the Rebbe, I was told. (His immediate predecessor had been described as the "Pope" of Orthodox Judaism.) So I wrote the Rebbe directly. After months of waiting, asking, and waiting again without a response, I sent another letter, this one sent certified special delivery, to the Rebbe in Brooklyn. In it I listed some things Chabad could do to help the Ethiopian Jewish community. After each item, I asked a simple question: Is Chabad doing this? If not, why not? I also asked if the Rebbe considered these black Jews to be Jewish.
I already knew the answers to the first part of those questions. Chabad was not doing these things. Less than 40 years after the Holocaust, I wanted to know why.
Two months passed. The Rebbe did not answer my letter. I decided to leave Chabad. Before doing so, I gave my contacts in the Chabad leadership another chance to get an answer from their leader.
They returned with an answer. The Rebbe had read my letter. He directed me to continue the work I was doing to help Jewish communities, especially the work I was doing locally. And, if I wanted to resolve any dispute over the Jewishness of Ethiopian Jews, I should do so through the leading Orthodox Jewish legal authority in the United States. The Rebbe did not feel himself competent to decide this complicated issue of Jewish law.
The Rebbe had answered my letter but had not answered any of my questions – and Chabad was not helping Ethiopian Jews. Still, I saw hope. If this leading Orthodox legal authority would endorse rescue, surely the Rebbe would order his followers to help.
So I worked on it, months later getting that endorsement. Soon after, I took a leading Ethiopian Jew to Washington to meet with senators, representatives and State Department officials. After successful meetings, we decided to go to New York to meet with Jewish religious leaders to line up support for rescue. Our first stop was Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Brooklyn where we were refused a meeting with the Rebbe. However, the chief judge of the Chabad religious court agreed to see us. He endorsed rescue and our efforts.
Four months later, Operation Moses, the rescue operation that saved thousands of Jews from Sudanese refugee camps bordering Ethiopia, would begin.
Fast forward 20 years. Chabad was still not involved with Ethiopian Jews, but the issue did not seem so pressing after the rescues were completed. I remained in Chabad, working at times for the organization in America and Israel. I went to rabbinical school, studied and was about to take the equivalent of rabbinic boards. A large Israeli-based Chabad magazine was publishing a series of letters from the now late Rebbe. These were private correspondence meant to answer difficult and often intimate questions. The Chabad publication got around privacy issues by removing the name of the correspondent. In my case, the letter read "To Mr.___, S. Paul, MN 55116."
The letter was an answer to my letter on the rescue of Ethiopian Jews. The original may have been lost in the mail. More likely, it was taken by an alert aide who recognized its potential damage to Chabad and the Rebbe's reputation. The letter is a collection of excuses. Why other things, like American Jewish spiritual needs, are more pressing than saving poor, starving Black Jews and therefore must come first. Fanciful denials of Chabad involvement in Washington lobbying and Israeli immigrant absorption – two well-publicized Chabad activities. But worse yet was the tone, so mean, spiteful, and uncaring about the suffering of Ethiopian Jewry.
Because the Rebbe could not bring himself to write the phrase "Ethiopian Jews" – perhaps a good indication that he, despite rabbinic rulings to the contrary, did not consider them to be Jews – he wrote the phrase, "the matter that you are so concerned about." Because of this, and because the letters the Rebbe responded to were not filed with those responses, Chabad did not realize the true import of the letter, and they published it.
I waited a month before responding. Then I published my letter to the Rebbe along with the Rebbe's response on my blog started for that purpose, www.FailedMessiah.com. Because I refused to take down the blog, I was excommunicated. That means:
1. I can no longer be counted as part of a prayer group.
2. I cannot lead prayers or receive any religious honors.
3. I have been shunned by members at the request of the rabbis.
4. Members are urged not to do business with me or to see me socially.
5. I cannot work in religious-related business.
6. I have completed rabbinic training but cannot sit for what is the equivalent of my boards.
7. I have been told that there is no repair for my soul and that I will burn eternally in hell.
I have also:
1. Been threatened.
2. Had websites hacked and destroyed.
3. Had my home address and telephone number posted on the internet.
4. Had thousands of dollars of magazine subscriptions and other materials illegally charged to my name.
Would I do it again? Yes, I would.
UPDATE: January 2007 – I no longer have an interest in being a rabbi. My religious beliefs have changed much since I started this blog. For more details, please read this.


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Genesis Super Customizer adds options to customize colors, create a fixed header that shrinks on scroll, upload logos, edit footer credits, and much more, all through the native WordPress Customizer interface.
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IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: This plugin is designed to work with the Genesis Framework and the Genesis Sample Child Theme only, not all premium Genesis child themes like Author Pro, Parallax Pro, etc. It no longer duplicates and overrides all the stylesheet from the Genesis theme or Sample Child Theme, but not all settings will work with all premium child themes.
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- [accentbg] – Add the accent color to the background
- [bgcolor] – Add the background color to text
- [mainbg] – Add the main background color to the background
You can use html in the shortcodes and they are stackable as well:
[themebg]This is an [bgcolor]example[/bgcolor] of awesome genesis super customizer shortcodes. [accentbg][bgcolor]Check out this[/bgcolor] link
For designers that want to use html you can instead use the classes that each shortcode corresponds to and add them to html elements.
- [themecolor] – theme-color
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- [accentcolor] – accent-color
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You can import and export your design templates. Use them as starter templates to speed up your design process.
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Here are some planned updates for the near future
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- Upload genesis-super-customzer.zip to the
directory - Ative o plugin por meio do menu "Plugins" no WordPress
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Just like importing a template, navigate to the Genesis > Import/Export menu. Check "Customizer Settings" under the Export Genesis Settings File dialog. Then click the Download Export File button.
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In previous versions, you needed to upload the default settings via a .json file, but not anymore. There's a simple reset button at the top of the Customizer, right next to the save button.
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1.2.2 – January 6, 2019
- Better organize sections and panels.
- Move new genesis custom logo to header logo section.
- Add separate Reset and Remove value controls to sliders.
- Fix GSC global setting for Options or Theme Mods to default properly when not yet set.
- Add body font setting.
- Other minor fixes.
1.2.1 – January 2, 2019
- Make sure the line height of the header menu items match the logo when using the fixed shrink header option.
- Removed genesis_sample_link_color and genesis_sample_accent_color from newer Genesis Sample child theme.
- Upgrade notices and readme updates.
1.2.0 – December 31, 2018
- Made all default options empty so only the styles set will be applied. Clicking reset button will set all options to empty as well.
- Added settings panel with global setting to use Options (default) or Theme Mods.
- When Theme Mods are used instead of Options, Live Previews are enabled for most styles (most colors, basic styles and some built in settings).
- Improved range sliders (thanks to Anthony Hortin, derived from his development) with reset and direct number input.
- Defers and loads async any public scripts to help with page load speed.
- Moved custom fixed header styles to inline instead of adding another stylesheet. One less resource to load. (Hurray for fast page loads!)
- Moved Header Settings Section to new Header panel, and separated older Header Settings options in it's own section.
- Fixed spacing on default footer credits.
- Fixed known errors with array keys undefined.
- Misc error fixes.
- Code and comment clean up
1.1.0 – March 19, 2016
- Added reset button to Customizer actions (no more uploading a file to restore defaults!)
- Code and comment clean up
1.0.7 – March 16, 2016
- Fixed button class links focus state colors to adopt theme color for buttons and menu links.
- Fixed pagination link focus state colors to adopt theme color for buttons and menu links.
- Fixed misspelled variables.
- Color Style updates.
- Comment clean up.
- Only calls in fixed header scripts when needed.
- Deactivates within the appropriate hook.
- Added active callback to panels, removed active callback filters and replace with functions.
1.0.6 – December 5, 2015
- Fixed focus state colors to adopt theme color for buttons and menu links.
- Fixed flex crop feature, wasn't checking value correctly.
- Updated for WordPress 4.4 compatibility
1.0.5 – September 29, 2015
- Added Link Decoration option for hover and focus states.
1.0.4 – September 29, 2015
- Menus and Navigation section is now a under the Menus section and renamed to Menu Styles to comply with new Customizer updates.
- Fixed undefined call to genesis_get_option error.
- Fixed Enews Slick Form. Form was not assigned position: relative correctly.
- Added Link Decoration option to be able to override new Genesis 2.2.2 styles.
- Updated plugin description.
1.0.3 – July 10, 2015
- Added shortcodes for colors chosen in the customizer.
- Updated plugin description.
- Updated FAQs.
1.0.2 – May 28, 2015
- Added title area padding option to help center title & description within logo height.
- Updated FAQs.
- Typo fixes.
1.0.1 – May 26, 2015
- Header image background-size set to "contain" to utilize logo width & height.
- Fixed min-height header size (set to initialize outside of mobile query) so it overrides default 160px.
- Fixed width factor for footer widgets.
- Added alignment options for primary & secondary menus.
- Added option for eNews Extended widget "Slick Signup".
- Updated header settings descriptions.
- Updated plugin description.
1.0 – April 18, 2015
- Release inicial.


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Death Note: The Last Name
In the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named Rem. Light attempts to defeat L along with Teru Mikami (a Kira follower) and Kiyomi Takada (another Kira follower) but in the end will Light win? or will a Shinigami named Ryuk make all the difference in Light's victory or his ultimate death? Released: 2006


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The emergence of the optionless King of Spring Dana Eveland throws all sorts of wrenches into the best laid plans of rosterbators and Clarence haters. Jordan Pulitzer suggests both Rzepcyznski and Cecil might start the season in AAA to make room for Eveland. Makes sense, the Jays need to finally strike it rich with a found money deal like Eveland. But I don't agree that Cecil or Rzekljal;kf should take the fall.
Bastian makes a good point in his justification of the kids staying south.
Why start the two youngsters in the Minors? Well... why not? The Jays want to get out of the practice of rushing players to the Majors. Developing properly takes priority and this is a season more about developing than contending. When there are guys like Tallet and Eveland to buy time for younger arms, why not use them and make sure the kids are good and ready?Of Cecil, Rzepcyznski and Brandon Morrow, who needs the most time to rest a tender shoulder? Who is the furthest behind in terms of minor league (or even major league) starts? Who, by virtue of his high-end stuff, benefits the most for polishing his act to a fine sheen?
If every one is healthy and Eveland's truly an option, let Morrow grow even healthier and even more confident in his secondary stuff. Let Morrow hone his craft until the Cecil & R Zep show they aren't ready or Eveland proves spring numbers mean nothing.
Unless there's a section of the Jays front office concerned with the optics or burying the big stud horse 3000 klicks away while trotting out unassuming lefty after unassuming/ground ball inducing lefty. An understandable concern, though the number of semi-casual Jays fans able to ID Brandon Morrow on a bet is no higher than those chagrined him starting the season in Vegas.
Photographic evidence of the coming Dana Eveland labrum searing courtesy of Colin McConnell of the Toronto Star.


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Arkansas Tech University's first basketball tour of the Great American Conference will reach its midpoint with a doubleheader at Southern Arkansas University on Saturday, Jan. 28. The nationally 13th-ranked Arkansas Tech Golden Suns (12-3 overall, 4-3 GAC) will face the Southern Arkansas Lady Muleriders (2-15, 2-5) at 5:30 p.m. Game two will pit the Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys (13-4 overall, 5-2 GAC) against the Southern Arkansas Muleriders (11-8, 4-3) for a 7:30 p.m. tip-off. Both games will be played at the W.T. Watson Athletic Center in Magnolia, and both can be heard on KWKK 100.9 FM.
Click here to access an Internet stream of the broadcasts.
Arkansas Tech's men improved to 5-1 in their last six games with an 82-67 home win over Ouachita Baptist on Thursday. The Wonder Boys made 10-of-23 shots from 3-point range and finished with a 36-13 edge in points off turnovers. The SAU Muleriders lost for the second time in their last three outings when they dropped an 81-69 decision at Henderson State on Thursday. Southern Arkansas led 39-31 at halftime, but the Reddies shot 55 percent from the field and made 14-of-19 at the free throw line over the final 20 minutes to rally for the win. As a result, Henderson State (11-6, 6-1) maintained a one-game lead over second-place Arkansas Tech in the GAC men's basketball standings. Southern Arkansas, Arkansas-Monticello (14-5, 4-3), Ouachita Baptist (11-6, 4-3) and Harding (9-8, 4-3) are all tied for third place. Arkansas Tech has won eight consecutive men's basketball games over SAU, but the Muleriders have been the surprise team in the GAC so far this season. Southern Arkansas was picked to finish last in the men's league race. Now SAU finds itself in the thick of the championship hunt at the midpoint of the league schedule. "It's so tough to play at Magnolia," said Wonder Boys head coach Doug Karleskint. "It's loud and it's hot. We were lucky to win there two years ago when we were No. 1 in the country. Coach (Eric) Bozeman does a great job. They are mixing it up defensively between their man-to-man and their zone. We just have to go in and control what we can control, which is ourselves." Arkansas Tech's women made it 11 straight wins over Ouachita Baptist with a 76-66 home victory on Thursday. Rosie Silva led the Suns with 19 points, 13 rebounds and 11 steals.
Silva's performance marked the first triple-double in Arkansas Tech women's basketball history, and it was almost the first quadruple-double by a Golden Sun. She also dished out eight assists. Her 11 steals tied the single-game school record that she set earlier this season against Christian Brothers. With the win, Arkansas Tech pulled into a three-way tie for third place in the GAC women's basketball standings. Southwestern Oklahoma State (12-5, 7-1), which will be idle on Saturday, sets the pace. Harding (12-5, 5-2) is in second place, followed by Arkansas Tech, Ouachita Baptist (11-6, 4-3) and Henderson State (11-6, 4-3). Southern Arkansas lost its first 13 games this women's basketball season, but the Lady Muleriders have bounced back with two wins in their last four games. They went on the road and stunned Henderson State 74-68 on Thursday. The big difference for SAU has been the return of Kmaria Hobbs, a senior post player who rejoined the Lady Muleriders' active roster at the end of the fall semester. She has averaged 16.9 points and 5.9 rebounds per contest in nine games this season. "Southern Arkansas will play hard for 40 minutes," said Golden Suns head coach Dave Wilbers. "They really hook it up and get after people. They know that Hobbs is their best player and they get her the ball in position to score."


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Since the day the first domain was registered in 1985, the Internet has not stopped growing. It has sailed through multiple recessions and one near-collapse and kept on increasing in use, size, reach, and impact. It has ingrained itself in daily life to the extent that most of us no longer think of it as anything new or special. The Internet has become, quite simply, indispensible.
By 2016, there will be 3 billion Internet users globally?almost half the world?s population. The Internet economy will reach $4.2 trillion in the G-20 economies. If it were a national economy, the Internet economy would rank in the world?s top five, behind only the U.S., China, Japan, and India, and ahead of Germany. Across the G-20, it already amounted to 4.1 percent of GDP, or $2.3 trillion, in 2010?surpassing the economies of Italy and Brazil. The Internet is contributing up to 8 percent of GDP in some economies, powering growth, and creating jobs.
The scale and pace of change is still accelerating, and the nature of the Internet?who uses it, how, and for what?is changing rapidly too. Developing G-20 countries already have 800 million Internet users, more than all the developed G-20 countries combined. Social networks reach about 80 percent of users in developed and developing economies alike. Mobile devices?smartphones and tablets?will account for four out of five broadband connections by 2016.
The speed of these developments is often overlooked. Technology has long been characterized by exponential growth?in processing speed, bandwidth, and data storage, among other things?going back to Gordon Moore?s observation nearly five decades ago. The Intel 80386 microprocessor, introduced in the same year as that first domain name, held 275,000 transistors. Today, Intel?s Core i7 Sandy Bridge-E processor holds 2.27 billion transistors, or nearly 213 times as many. As the growth motors along, it is easy to lose track of just how large the exponential numbers get.
The power of exponential growth is illustrated by an ancient fable, repopularized by Ray Kurzweil in his book, The Age of Spiritual Machines. It tells of a rich ruler who agrees to reward an enterprising subject starting with one grain of rice on the first square of a chessboard, then doubling the number of grains on each of the succeeding 63 squares. The ruler thinks he?s getting off easy, and by the thirty-second square, he owes a mound weighing 100,000 kilograms, a large but manageable amount. It?s in the second half of the chessboard that the real fun starts. Quickly, 100,000 becomes 400,000, then 1.6 million, and keeps growing. By the sixty-fourth square, the ruler owes his subject 461 billion metric tons, more than 4 billion times as much as on the first half of the chessboard, and about 1,000 times global rice production in 2010.
The Internet has moved into the second half of the chessboard. (See Exhibit 1.) It has reached a scale and level of impact that no business, industry, or government can ignore. And like any technological phenomenon with its scale and speed, it presents myriad opportunities, which consumers have been quick and enthusiastic to grasp. Businesses, particularly small and medium enterprises (SMEs)?the growth engine of most economies?have been uneven in their uptake, but they are moving online in increasing numbers and with an increasingly intense commitment.
There are threats too, some misunderstood, and policymakers and regulators alike are challenged to make the right choices in a fast-moving environment. As is often the case with fast-paced change and complex issues, many governments are still trying to determine what their role should be.
Meanwhile the rice pile on the next square keeps getting bigger.
This report assesses the far-reaching economic impact of the Internet. It shows how the benefits are large and getting larger, identifies the drivers behind them, and examines their clout. It quantifies gains?economic growth, consumer value, and jobs?in the context of the economies of the G-20. It demonstrates that no one?individual, business, or government?can afford to ignore the ability of the Internet to deliver more value and wealth to more consumers and citizens more broadly than any economic development since the Industrial Revolution.


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The 32nd USCT Regiment was organized in March 1864 at Camp William Penn outside Philadelphia. After training was completed, the regiment was sent to South Carolina in late April 1864. These men participated in a number of engagements while assigned to the Department of the South.
- "Towards the close of November [1864], General Foster, in command of the Department [of the South], was directed by General Halleck to make a demonstration in the direction of Pocotaligo, for the purpose of diverting attention from General Sherman's front, who was now approaching the sea. Foster could spare but five thousand troops for this purpose, and with these, ascending the Broad River in transports to Boyd's Neck, he landed and hurried forward a force under General J. P. Hatch, to break the Charleston and Savannah Railroad. The Thirty-second was in Hatch's command. On the morning of the 30th, Hatch encountered a rebel force under command of General Gustavus W. Smith, at Honey Hill, three miles from Grahamsville, in a commanding position behind breast works. Hatch immediately attacked, and though pushing his advance with obstinacy and bravery, he was compelled to fall back, sustaining heavy losses .The Thirty-second had nine killed and forty two wounded."
After Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered in April 1865, this regiment remained in South Carolina on "garrison duty." The 32nd USCT returned to Philadelphia in mid-August 1865. You can read the full summary of the 32nd USCT Regiment's actions during the Civil War as well as see the complete muster roll here.
(Courtesy of Google Books – Samuel P. Bates, History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5 (Harrisburg: B. Singerly, 1871), 5: 1047-1065.)