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Zoya Akhtar (born 14 October 1972) is an Indian film director and screenwriter. She made her debut as director with critically acclaimed Luck By Chance (2009). In 2011, she directed the critically and commercially successful film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and won the Filmfare Award for Best Director for it.
Zoya started her career as co-director a music video called "Price of Bullets" for a rock band. She has worked as a casting director for films including Dil Chahta Hai and Split Wide Open, and as an assistant director for her brother Farhan Akhtar's films, Lakshya and Dil Chahta Hai. She then worked as an executive producer for her longtime partner Reema Kagti's Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd., also produced by Excel Entertainment.
Zoya made her directorial debut with Luck By Chance (2009), starring her brother Farhan Akhtar and Konkana Sen Sharma. Telling the story of a struggling actor who breaks into the Industry. The film was well-received by critics, despite not doing well at the box office. In 2011, she directed Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, a multistarrer with Hrithik Roshan, Abhay Deol, Farhan Akhtar, Katrina Kaif and Kalki Koechlin. It turned out to be a huge box office success and was well received by critics and won her Filmfare Award for Best Director. In 2013, Akhtar teamed up with Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee and Karan Johar for Bombay Talkies. It was made as a celebration of 100 years of Indian cinema. She then went on to direct Dil Dhadakne Do (2015), a film based on a dysfunctional Punjabi family starring Ranveer Singh and Priyanka Chopra as brother and sister, with Anushka Sharma and Farhan Akhtar as their respective love interests and Anil Kapoor as their father.
Personal life
Zoya Akhtar was born on 14 October 1972 in Mumbai to poet, lyricist and screenwriter Javed Akhtar and screenwriter Honey Irani. Zoya's stepmother is Shabana Azmi. Zoya is the sister of Farhan Akhtar and granddaughter of Urdu poet Jan Nisar Akhtar. She went to school at Maneckji Cooper and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at St. Xavier's College, both in Mumbai. Later, she joined the New York University Film School to learn film production.

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Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram also known as Vikku Vinayakram is a Grammy Award–winning Indian percussionist. He plays Carnatic music with the ghatam, an earthen pot, and is credited with popularizing the ghatam.
why i posted this entry Experience with Mahaperiava – Sri Vikku Vinayakaram
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soul cleansing at the glass hallAugust 23rd, 2009
Alapana has organized a series of concerts to celebrate their tenth anniversary and also in memory of Dr S. Ramanathan, a great scholar musician and musicologist
R. Banumathy, Daughter & disciple of Dr S. Ramanathan is the Founder-Director of alapana, Singapore
Today is by Neyveli Santhanagopalan accompanied by T.R.Vijayakumar on Violin, V.Raghuraman on Mridangam and S.Selvapandian on the Kanjira.
Venue: SAM Glass Hall • 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm • $10 (at the door) • Sunday, 23 August 2009
'Soul Cleansing' is the word that one reminiscences when one hears the melodious strains of Neyveli Santhanagopalan's music that is drenched in bhakti and bhava. This has come with his concerted and dedicated efforts to go back to his roots, empathise with the feelings of composers, emulate their lives for brief spells, gain from the music of the great yester-year artistes and then internalise to sing, as it may seem, with the tremendous well-wishes of all these ancestors hailing from the grand music lineage.
We look forward to the places he will take us today
live updates from the concert planned at friendfeed
btw – Neyveli Santhanam's home is named "Periyava Pichai" (Kanchi Periyava is his spiritual guru)
meditative musicAugust 18th, 2009
Swami Nithyananda in one of the many videos on youtube : "inner music is meditation – outer meditation is music"
which music is meditative to you?
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Despite Andrew Cuomo's admirable push for gay marriage, he is a horrible governor. As a "Democrat," Cuomo has declared war on unions, on the environment, and on everything Democrats theoretically stand for, outside of gay marriage. And again, while his stance on that single issue is to his significant benefit, Cuomo is atrocious. After his pro-fracking announcement today, I was going to unload, but Steve M beat me to it and I'll leave it to him and those Steve links to:
The Cuomo administration is expected to lift what has been, in effect, a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial technology used to extract natural gas from shale, people briefed on the administration's discussions said on Thursday.
Administration officials are discussing maintaining a ban on the process inside New York City's sprawling upstate watershed, as well as a watershed used by the city of Syracuse, according to people briefed on the plan. But by allowing the process in other parts of the state, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo would open up New York to one of the fastest-growing — critics would say reckless — areas of the energy industry….
Hydrofracking has spurred intense protests from environmental activists, who say it threatens the cleanliness of ground water….
It isn't just the fracking. There's a lot more to dislike about the guy if you're a progressive, as Eric Alterman recently noted:
The same liberal Democrat who fights for gay marriage is presiding over a budget agreement that will cost New York City schools 2,600 teachers, 600 more than estimated, and lay off 1,000 city workers, many of whom work in health care for the poor, at a time when the need for both could hardly be greater. Cuomo, who one must sometimes remind oneself, is a Democrat, also fought tooth and nail to ensure the death of New York's millionaire tax, at exactly the moment when its proceeds might have been able to prevent exactly the kinds of cuts described above. In his willingness to play "bulldog for the rich," as Michael Powell puts it, he is distinguishable from Roger Ailes' favorite politician, right-wing New Jersey Governor Chris Christie only in degree, rather than in kind.
And if you can judge a guy by his friends, here are some of Cuomo's:
"Looking for a tax-cutting, budget-slashing, fiscally conservative governor? How about Andrew Cuomo?" wrote the Cato Institute's Michael Tanner back in February.
"Cuomo's performance thus far has advanced the cause of limited government in the Empire State far more than did his past three predecessors," enthused Deroy Murdock in April.
Cuomo in 2016? Reihan Salam can get down with that. "Imagine a presidential election pitting a budget-cutting Democratic governor against a budget-cutting Republican governor," Salam wrote. "That would be, in my view, an excellent outcome for fiscal conservatives."
Even Carl Paladino has praised Cuomo.
So if he's the 2016 candidate against Chris Christie, update your passport.
I'll only add this: Cuomo has a clear vision–to be the ultimate centrist, thinking he can squeak through the 2016 presidential primary against other, presumably real Democrats who actually share the vision of the post-1933 Democratic Party and then triangulate himself into the presidency, where he will make us all long for the halcyon Clinton and Obama days, when a Democrat knew how to stand up to a Republican.
Except that I don't think he can do it. I don't think the bastard can withstand a Democratic primary, unless we let his single good and admirable position outweigh the fact that he doesn't care about working-class people or the environment or essentially any other traditional Democratic issue. Certainly I would not vote for Andrew Cuomo for president, not in a primary and not in a general election.
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False-Positive Mammogram Results May Turn Out Not to Be: Study
Researchers urge women who have false-positive results to get regular follow-ups
Thursday, April 5, 2012
However, the link between false-positive results and an increased risk of breast cancer was weaker among women who had been screened from the early 2000s on, the researchers found.
Experts have long known that screening mammograms, done in healthy women to detect breast cancer early, are bound to lead to some false-positive test results. These are results that seem to detect cancer but turn out to be false upon further testing.
However, few studies have followed these women with false-positive results long-term to evaluate what happens, said My von Euler-Chelpin, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Copenhagen, who led the study. The new findings were published online April 5 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
"Some earlier research has found similar results, but to my knowledge there has been no study with such a long follow-up as this one," Euler-Chelpin said.
For the study, the investigators evaluated 58,000 Danish women, aged 50 to 69. They looked at those with negative mammogram results and those that turned out to be -- with further testing such as ultrasound and biopsies -- false positives. They looked at both invasive breast cancer and the early cancer known as ductal carcinoma in situ.
The average follow-up time was nearly 11 years. Women who had received false-positive results in the mid-1990s had about a 1.5 to 1.6 times higher risk of eventually developing breast cancer compared to those who had negative initial mammograms. This increased risk persisted even at six or more years, the researchers found.
For the false-positive group that underwent their mammograms in the year 2000 or later, the link with the increased risk was not significant from a statistical point of view, the study authors noted. "The excess risk might still be there," von Euler-Chelpin said. It could be, she said, that there were not enough cases to detect accurately any increase in risk.
Why would the women with false-positive results be at higher risk? "The reason for this is not known, but misclassification is a possibility," von Euler-Chelpin said. That is, the women actually had breast cancer but the tests did not detect it.
Whether the findings would apply to U.S. women is not clear, said Dr. Stephanie Bernik, chair of surgical oncology at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. She reviewed the findings but was not involved in the study.
The research seems to suggest that ''screening has gotten so much better [that] we are more accurate," Bernik said. "We are better at figuring out who needs a biopsy and who doesn't," she added.
"In the past, false positives [in the study] were clearly an indication of an increased risk of getting breast cancer," Bernik said of the study findings. "Now, it is less clear," she said of the more recent findings, since 2000.
The Danish researchers encourage women with false-positive tests to continue to get regular follow-up screenings as recommended by their doctors.
In the United States, Bernik said, a woman who has had a false-positive mammogram result is often, but not always, advised to get another mammogram in six months. It depends on what the doctors see on the mammogram and other information. Women should follow their doctors' advice on the follow-up schedule, she said, as every case is different.
Bernik finds that among her patients, women who have had a previous false-positive result -- and had further testing that ruled out cancer -- often say they are tempted to ignore recommendations to get further testing when they get a repeat mammogram result that calls for further testing. That is a mistake, she tells them.
"Women can't rely on the fact they had a false-positive test in the past to forgo additional studies going forward," Bernik said. "You have to treat each new finding as its own entity."
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text: Artist Statement:Art is the means to satisfy my creative hunger, to release my inner flow of colors and shapes and transfer it to a canvas. I look at the outcome on the canvas like at my reflection in the mirror and wonder what it is all about. Maybe one day I will solve the mystery of the "self", uncover the deep secrets of my subconscious.My art has nothing to do with pop culture, traditions, politics or religion. It is only the expression of my inner self.I work mainly with oil paints on canvas and ink pens on paper. My dominant styles are Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, and Symbolism or a mixture of these.I also appreciate humor and it can be seen in some of my works as it shines through ever so subtly.Most of the artworks are done in full or half improvisational styles. Fully improvisational way means there is no predetermined path for the creative process, no image in the head of what the painting is going to look like. Half improvisation means that there is a vague idea or an approximate goal in mind, but there is no definite path to get to that point.Biography:I was born in 1981 in Simferopol, a Southern Ukrainian city that nowadays belongs to Russia. It is a city within the vicinity of the Black Sea.My early life was spent living in the so called "Eastern European slums", being programmed to be a communist in school and also at home. Fortunately, the communist regime ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The older society began seeking a new identity. As a child, the only thing I could do at the time was to witness the constant resistance between the older and the newer generations, mass confusion and the growth of the "free market".This social revolution had a great impact on my persona. It essentially freed me from any hope and belief that I could rely on any political system for my well-being, which is something that I'm grateful for.Ever since I was young, I have been interested in the arts. As I became an adult, I decided to take my passion to the next level. At the age of 16, I went to study art at Samokish Art School, but never had a chance to complete my studies, as I had the opportunity to move to Israel, which enabled me to vacate the post-communist chaos.In the new country I continued to develop my creative potential while supporting my livelihood. I took various visual art classes and courses and also received a diploma in 3D Design and Animation Finally, in 2007, I moved to Vancouver, Canada, which is presently my home and the place I continue my artistic mission.http://AlexLavrovArt.com/Thank you.


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A good friend would bail you out of jail, but your best friend would be the one sitting next to you saying, "damn that was awesome".
I feel sleepy 24x7!....what to do???
"Most people say U have changed but no 1 dares to look into you eyes and say u have compromised a lot"
Accidentally wore a red shirt and khaki pants to target today, and long story short, i think i have been promoted to assistant manager.
The internet is perfect because it satisfies my desire to be alone while still getting attention from people.
Best error message of the century
An error shown by a computer:
"No keyboard found.
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I drink once in a blue moon but the problem is why that blue moon comes so frequently.... lol
In the good old days, girls used to cook like their mothers, NOW THEY DRINK LIKE THEIR FATHERS...
Some people are so useless like "AY" in the word "OKAY"!!!!!!!!
I love the beach........ except the water and sand but i love the rest :)
My girlfriend is getting so tired of my Linkin Park references. But in the end it doesn't matter.
A wise person once told me taht if a guy wants to be with a girl, he will make it happen, no matter what.
We really shouldn't eat or wear animals, they are our friends. How would you like it if i ate you ?
Mom: Why is there a spoon in your room ? That should be in the kitchen.
Mew: Hehe, like women.
What the heck is planking ? Its the parkour of people who can't move fast.
The most beautiful things on earth can't be seen, they can only be felt with the heard..
Hearts don't feel boobies .....
Everyone's a genius, But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid."
Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember
Love doesn't require two people look at each other, but that they look together in the same direction.
"Who gets the hottest place in hell, the Priest who would take away the innocence of a child or the lawyer that would defend him?"
If I were a computer I'd shut down and reboot my life.
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The Rays short-season affiliate, the Hudson Valley Renegades have introduced a new blog, The Renegades Rundown…
Here you'll get a glimpse into what the Renegades are doing on and off the field. By keeping up with the blog you'll get the latest news regarding players, schedules, promotions, events, and more! This will be your one-stop shop for all things Renegades!
The blog is part of a new effort by the 'Gades to be more active in social media. An effort that includes a very active Twitter account (@HVRenegades). And the voice behind the new fronts is Megan Ogulnick, the 'Gades manger of new media.
As much as minor league teams depend on promotion, we are amazed that so few teams are this active in new media and these new ways of reaching out to current and potential fans.
So, if you have a moment, go on over and welcome Megan to the organization.
- David Price spoke to a Nashville paper about life in the spotlight, his charity work and money, including a bizarre story about some overaggressive autograph seekers. [Nashville News]
- Marc Topkin hears that Pat Burrell "has been working out extensively at the Athletes' Performance Institute in Arizona, specifically strengthening his back, and is in tremendous shape." [St. Pete Times]
- Devil Rays blast from the past…Joel Guzman has signed a minor league deal with the Orioles. [Baltimore Sun]
- Durham manager Charlie Montoyo was named sports person of the year during the Greater Raleigh Sports Council's "Evening of Champions." [Carolina Newswire via Biscuit Crumbs]


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We Made the Front Page of the Gainesville Sun!
Special kids get a jump on sports and togetherness
By Kristine Crane
Staff writer
Zaivion and Zachary Mason of Gainesville never used to play together. Although the two brothers are just a year apart, they were born with one big difference between them: Zaivion, 7, has cerebral palsy, a disease of the central nervous system affecting motor skills, and his little brother doesn't.
For a long time, that meant they didn't really interact with each other, said their mother Lashaunda Mason. But after participating in a local sports program designed to bring together children with and without disabilities, the two brothers play together all the time.
"They like to wrestle and toss the ball back and forth," their mother said, adding, "Anytime Zaivion needs something, Zachary helps him out."
The program, called the "Young Athletes Program," is part of Balance 180, a Gainesville-based gymnastics and sports academy started by a couple of parents whose daughters did gymnastics. Carsten Schmalfuss, a cardiologist at Shands at the University of Florida and the VA, and Krista Vandenborne, the department chair of physical therapy at UF, knew that sports was one way that kids could feel good about themselves, and they wanted all types of kids to have that opportunity.
So they started the "Young Athletes' Program," for children aged 2-7 with disabilities, along with their peers, to improve the kids' physical skills and teach them to have fun together. After several weeks of bi-weekly practices, the group gathered on Sunday for a Special Olympics-style event at St. Francis Catholic High School in Northwest Gainesville.
As Vandenborne explained, the Special Olympics program normally starts at age 8, but their program gives kids a head start in the skills and mentalities that will help them throughout school.
"They really learn to take turns and follow directions," Vandenborne said, explaining that the kids without disabilities – often siblings – learn tolerance and gain respect for their peers. "They might not even notice the wheelchair anymore," she said. "That's really what we want the community to be like."
Schmalfuss agreed.
"These kids are so young that they don't really have prejudices. They are really showing us (adults) the way," she said.
At Sunday's event, 24 children in small groups participated in various events that included running relays, hopping relays, kicking, an obstacle course, and tossing a ball. UF cheerleaders cheered them on, and gave them stickers as they finished each event. Jillian Roberts, a UF sophomore and one of the torchbearers at the London Olympics last summer, carried the same gold torch for Sunday's opening ceremony.
Volunteers, mostly UF students of health sciences, guided the kids through the events. Ryan Hidalgo, a pre-med student at UF, said he learned about the program in a class called "Exceptional People in School and Society" about interacting with disabled people. Hidalgo said it was rewarding to work with kids who had developed enough strength over the course of the program to get out of their wheelchairs.
"A lot of pre-meds volunteer at hospitals and end up changing bed-sheets. But with this, you are directly making a real impact on their lives," Hidalgo said.
Lashaunda Mason can attest to that. She loves seeing her boys interact now and said the program helped bridge the gap between them since birth. Now, other differences help define them: Zachary has short hair and likes math, and Zaivion has braids and likes to be in charge, said Mason.
"But they're both honor roll students and love reading," said Mason. "And they both are chatterboxes."
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Meet and Eat: Liza de Guia, Documentarian
Conversations with chefs and food personalities in New York City.
"I find nothing more inspiring than someone with a dream."
This week's Meet & Eat subject is no stranger to Serious Eaters. You've enjoyed her videos of some of New York's most interesting purveyors and producers, including Liddabit Sweets, Kumquat Cupcakery, and MilkMade. Now it's our turn to get to know Liza—this time, without the video camera.
Name: Liza de Guia
Location: Greenpoint
Occupation: Documentarian, Founder of Food. Curated.
Website: www.foodcurated.com
Why is it important to you to share stories about food? Storytelling is my passion. And it's my passion because it puts me in touch with interesting and fascinating people. I find nothing more inspiring than someone with a dream—a person who's putting it all out there because they believe in something special. These are the people I am drawn to.
I find that the food world has many people like this. People who fly under the radar, who devote 15+ hour days to creating something that makes them happy—be it growing a crop of stone cherries or creating a homemade "Snickers bar to end all Snickers bars." They want others to enjoy what they put their heart into. I love that. And I use my craft to support it. Visually capturing the behind-the-scenes is important because I can help get them noticed. I can put them on the map a little more and play a part in their discovery—and that makes me feel good. It's fulfilling!
How do you find your subjects, and what are you looking to learn from them? I'm driven mostly by curiosity. There's so much I'd like to learn about the food world; a lot of the stories you see are just things that I wanted to learn for myself. Overall, I look for people who want to educate. In my stories, I try to showcase their tips and techniques, ideas and discoveries so people watching at home can learn something new.
What has been the most interesting or unique story you've told so far? The one about The Lone Acre. I'm all about finding compelling characters, and this story just nailed that happy balance between totally crazy and totally interesting and relevant. It's about this young, philosophical farmer named Dan Machin who runs a one man organic farming operation out in Long Island called The Lone Acre: 1 dude. 1 acre. 1000 varieties.
His personality just jumps off the screen, and his farming method can only be described as organized chaos. What I love about his story is his passion for growing uncommon varieties of food. He loves growing things that people aren't normally exposed to; testing new ideas for crops in the New York area. He grows food as an act of discovery for himself and for his customers, and in the story I truly believe I captured that childlike enjoyment of good food.
What are some of your earliest food memories from childhood and how did you develop such a passion for food? My mom and dad both migrated to the United States from the Philippines in the '70s, and my mom literally didn't learn how to cook until she set foot on US soil. (My dad always likes to tell stories of how my mom would cry tears over burning rice those first few months. I mean, it's pretty hard to burn rice, right?) But we had a family friend move in with us one summer, who happened to be a well known chef in Switzerland, and in a short period of time he taught my dad the basics to playing in the kitchen. This completely captured my dad's imagination, and that was the summer our kitchen was officially transformed into more of a laboratory for food discovery.
My dad became a force to be reckoned with in the kitchen. My sister, brother and I became my dad's little sous-chefs, helping him test recipes, perfect cooking methods, and play with food in a way that brought our family closer. To this day, I can name at least a few dozen people who will tell you that the greatest meals in their lives have been at the deGuia household. I am one of those people.
What's coming up this year for Food. Curated.? This year I'm planning for many many more inspiring stories about food passion. You'll see me on more farms, on more boats and in more kitchens, that's about it!
You're a big Twitter user. How does Twitter play into your site and your work? Twitter is great It's for people like me who like to meet people and be social. I use it to make new friends, share ideas, find out what's going on in my area and around the world.
If you could put together a three course meal with dishes from three different NYC restaurants, what would you include? I go for affordable food with really good flavor. I also cook mostly seafood at home, so when I go out, I'm usually on the lookout for meat. And I'm not talking lean meat. So for me, the perfect meal would be: Sripraphai's Crispy Fried Watercress Salad—it's a crunchy party in your mouth; Fatty Crab's Short Rib Rendang braised with kaffir lime, coconut, chili—lick your lips deliciousness to the third degree; Ippudo's Shiromaru Hakata Classic Ramen Soup with slices of fatty Berkshire pork—possibly the most comforting and satisfying meal I can think of. I really couldn't do better than that in a sitting.
What are your favorite local hangouts or places you might be considered a regular? My favorite hangouts include: 5 Leaves (Greenpoint), Mesa Coyoacan (Williamsburg), Dumont (Williamsburg), Chelsea Market for Lobster Place sushi & chowder, Union Square Farmer's Market, Motorino, Amarin Cafe, River Barrel (Greenpoint, only for burgers), & Num Pang Sandwich Shop.
What New York foods do you crave the most often? Slices of cheese pizza from John's on Bleecker, Katz's pastrami sandwiches, Cafe Margon's pressed cubanos, anything from Num Pang sandwich shop, street tacos, soup dumplings and pork buns in Chinatown, falafels, and bagels and donuts from Peter Pan's Donuts in Greenpoint.
What is in your fridge that you'd be embarrassed to tell us about? I do have a bag of frozen tater tots in my freezer. Oh, and I am disgustingly addicted to Cheetos. It's to my great disadvantage that they still produce those magical little cheese fingers.
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TORONTO -- A play at the plate in the eighth inning of Tuesday's contest against the Blue Jays had a major impact on Houston's 5-2 series-opening loss.
With one out, and runners on second and third, pinch-hitter Dexter Fowler hit a grounder back to Toronto reliever Brett Cecil, who fielded the ball and tossed it home to nail a sprinting L.J. Hoes at the plate. After home-plate umpire Mike Estabrook ruled Hoes out, Astros manager Bo Porter immediately came out from the dugout.
After Porter challenged the play, the call was confirmed and the review lasted one minute and 26 seconds. Porter said he came out because of multiple issues he had with the play at the plate.
"One, I felt like he blocked the plate before he had the ball and two, I thought Hoes cut underneath the tag," Porter said. "I felt like he tagged him a little high. I thought his foot may have gotten in there."
Under new rules the backstop must give the runner a sliding lane, something Porter wasn't sure Toronto catcher Dioner Navarro did.
"To their thought process, his legs were open, and he had a sliding lane," he said.
Hoes, too, felt the play should have gone in the Astros' favor.
"You can't block the plate without the ball, and from my point of view he was blocking the plate," Hoes said. "Umpire's judgment, umpire's rules, and he ruled I was out."
If this sort of play happened last season, Hoes said he would have initiated contact.
"In the old situation, that's a play where I would try to run the catcher over," he said. "It's different, you have to get used to the rules and play the game differently."


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"One of today's automatic buy-today-read-tonight series...thoughtful but suspenseful, fast but lasting, contemporary but strangely timeless." (Lee Child) In the extraordinary new Cork O'Connor thriller from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award--winning author William Kent Krueger, the lives of hundreds of innocent people are at stake when Cork vanishes just days before his daughter's wedding.
Since the violent deaths of his wife, father, and best friend all occurred in previous Novembers, Cork O'Connor has always considered it to be the cruelest of months. Yet, his daughter has chosen this dismal time of year in which to marry, and Cork is understandably uneasy.
His concern comes to a head when a man camping in Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness goes missing. As the official search ends with no recovery in sight, Cork is asked by the man's family to stay on the case. Although the wedding is fast approaching and the weather looks threatening, he accepts and returns to that vast wilderness on his own.
As the sky darkens and the days pass, Cork's family anxiously awaits his return. Finally certain that something has gone terribly wrong, they fly by floatplane to the lake where the missing man was last seen. Locating Cork's campsite, they find no sign of their father. They do find blood, however. A lot of it.
With an early winter storm on the horizon, it's a race against time as Cork's family struggles to uncover the mystery behind these disappearances. Little do they know, not only is Cork's life on the line, but so are the lives of hundreds of others.
A taut, suspenseful thriller, Manitou Canyon features everything readers love in a Cork O'Connor novel: a dramatic Northwoods setting, an intriguing view of the Objibwe culture, an enigmatic crime, masterful storytelling, and more than a few surprises.
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William Kent Krueger grew up in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. A former logger, construction worker, freelance journalist, & researcher in childhood development, he is the author of two other acclaimed Cork O'Connor novels, "Iron Lake" & "Boundary Waters".
(Publisher Provided) William Kent Krueger was born in Torrington, Wyoming on November 16, 1950. He attended Stanford University for one year before losing his academic scholarship for participation in a takeover of the president's office in protest of what he saw as the University's complicity in weapons production during the Vietnam War. He wrote short stories and sketches for many years. His first novel, Iron Lake, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, the Barry Award for Best First Novel, the Minnesota Book Award, and the Loft-McKnight Fiction Award. He writes the Cork O'Connor series. In 2005 and 2006, he won back-to-back Anthony Awards for best novel. Ordinary Grace won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2014.
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Publisher's Weekly Review
In Edgar-winner Krueger's uneven 15th Cork O'Connor thriller (after 2014's Windigo Island), Lindsay Harris and her brother, Trevor, hire the ex-sheriff turned PI to find their architect grandfather, John Harris, who recently vanished from Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Winter is coming, and Cork's daughter is getting married soon, but the siblings' plea is compelling and Harris was a childhood friend, so Cork accompanies Lindsay into the wilderness to see what Tamarack County Search and Rescue might have missed. When the pair fails to return, friends and family investigate. Meanwhile, Cork and Lindsay fight for their lives. Honorable and courageous yet full of self-doubt, Cork seeks not only Harris but also redemption for past failures. By contrast, most of Krueger's female characters lack depth and act only out of love for-or lack of love from-men. References to Ojibwe culture and an extraordinary sense of place provide color and texture, but deliberate pacing and an anticlimactic conclusion undercut an intriguing setup and the plot's inherent tension. Agent: Danielle Egan-Miller, Browne & Miller Literary Associates. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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This is a mystery made up of several shiver-inducing levers: survival story, hostage situation, man tracking man. The setting for most of the action is the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness that stretches between Minnesota and Canada for a million acres, filled with recreational, escapist, and murderous opportunities. In this, the fifteenth in Krueger's Cork O'Connor series, a wealthy entrepreneur goes missing on a camping trip with his two twentysomething grandchildren. The grandchildren brother and sister seek O'Connor's help. O'Connor, part Irish, part Ojibwe, was the former Tamarack County sheriff and now runs a Northwoods burger joint and does security and investigative work on his own. He has a deep knowledge of the Boundary Waters and agrees to search for the grandfather with his granddaughter. They quickly learn that they are being hunted. All of O'Connor's wilderness skills are put to the test in a plot that keeps tightening around O'Connor and the granddaughter and the reader's nerves. A first-rate addition to this series, with Krueger's usual inclusion of Northwoods atmosphere and Ojibwe tradition.--Fletcher, Connie Copyright 2016 Booklist
Library Journal Review
In his 15th adventure (after Windigo Island), Cork O'Connor reluctantly returns to Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for his daughter's November wedding: it's the month when his wife, father, and dear friend all died tragically. While awaiting the festivities, Cork learns that rescue workers have exhausted their efforts to find missing friend John Harris, who had built the nearby Manitou Canyon dam. Harris's relatives beg Cork to continue the search. When Cork fails to return, his family send a floatplane out to search for him-only to find Harris's blood-soaked campsite but no bodies. Meanwhile, Cork, in his hunt for Harris, has encountered an angry group of Ojibwe people who threaten to blow up the dam. Verdict Once again, Krueger has written a suspenseful outdoors thriller that incorporates family drama, evocative settings, and fascinating Native American lore. [See Prepub Alert, 2/29/16.]-Jerry P. Miller. Cambridge, MA © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Manitou Canyon CHAPTER 1 In the gray of early afternoon, the canoes drew up to the shoreline of the island. The paddles were stowed. The woman in the bow of the first canoe and the kid in the bow of the second stepped onto the rocks. They held the canoes steady while the men in the stern of each disembarked and joined them. The kid grabbed a rifle from the center of the canoe he'd come in, then lifted a pack. He studied the island and the great stand of red pines that grew there. "Where to?" he said. "First, we hide the canoes," the man who was the oldest and tallest said. They carried the crafts from the lake a dozen yards into the trees. The tall man in the lead and the woman with him set their canoe behind a fallen pine, and the kid and the other man did the same. "Want to cover them with boughs or something?" the kid asked. "Break off boughs and someone will know we were here," the tall man said. "This'll do." They returned to the shore where they'd left their gear. The kid grabbed his rifle and reached for a pack. The woman said, "I'll carry that. You see to your rifle." She shouldered the pack, and the tall man started toward the interior of the island. The others followed, wordless and in single file. On some maps, the island was called by its Ojibwe name: Miskominag. On others, it was called Raspberry. Words in different languages that meant the same thing. They walked inland through the pines, passed bushes that in summer would have been full of berries, but it was the first day of November, and all the plants except the evergreens were bare. They came to a great upthrust of rock, a kind of wall across the island, and the tall man began to climb. The others spread out and found their own ways up. The top of the outcropping stood above the crowns of the trees. From there, they could see the whole of the lake, a two-mile-long, horseshoe-shaped body of water three-quarters of a mile across at its widest point. The water of the lake was the same dismal color of both the sky above them and the rock outcropping on which they stood. The gray of despair. "Where will he come from?" the kid asked, his eyes taking in all that water and shoreline. "The south," the tall man said. "Over there." He pointed toward a spot across the lake. The kid looked and said, "All I see is trees." "Try these." The tall man unshouldered the pack he'd carried, set it down, and drew out a pair of binoculars. He handed them to the kid, who spent a minute adjusting the lenses. "Got it. A portage," the kid said. He returned the binoculars to the man. "What now?" "We wait." The others unburdened themselves of their packs. The shorter of the two men--he had a nose that was like a blob of clay plopped in the middle of his face--took a satellite phone from his pack and walked away from the others. The woman said to the kid, "Hungry?" "Famished." She pulled deer jerky and an orange from her pack and offered them. "Wouldn't mind some hot soup," the kid said. "No fires," the tall man told him. "He won't be here for a long time," the kid said. "The smoke would be visible for miles. And the smell would carry, too," the tall man said. The kid laughed. "Think there's anybody besides us way the hell out here this time of year?" "Out here, you never know. Enjoy your jerky and orange." The tall man walked away, studying the whole of the lake below. The wall fell off in a vertical cliff face, a tall palisade several hundred yards long. A few aspen had taken root and clung miraculously to the hard, bare rock, but they didn't obscure the view. There was nowhere on the lake that wasn't visible from that vantage. The woman followed him. "He's too young," she said with a note of gall. "I told you." "He's strong in the right ways. And a far better shot than me or you, if it comes to that." He looked back at the kid, who'd already eaten his jerky and was peeling the orange while intently studying the place along the shoreline where the trees opened onto the portage. The woman was right. He was young. Seventeen. He'd never killed a man, but that's what he was there for. To do this thing, if necessary. "When the time comes," the tall man said, "if he has to do it, he'll be fine." He turned from the woman and rejoined the others. The man with the formless nose said, "Sat phone's a problem. These clouds." "Did you get through?" "Only enough to say we made it. Then I lost the signal." "That'll do." The kid sat on a rock and cradled his rifle in his lap. He leaned forward and looked at the lake, the trees, the shoreline, the place where the man would come. "Does he have a name?" the kid asked. "What difference does it make?" the woman said. "I don't know. Just wondered." "Everyone has a name," the woman said. "So what's his?" "Probably better you don't know. That way, he's just a target." The tall man said, "His name's O'Connor. Cork O'Connor." The kid lifted his rifle, sighted at the shoreline. Behind him, the woman whispered, "Bang." Excerpted from Manitou Canyon by William Kent Krueger All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.


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Sunday, June 15, 2008
Thoughts and sketches.
And to add up a little more light to this last 'drawing-less' posts, a couple of life drawing sketches.
Not too long ago, before the 'Orphan' news broke, I was talking to someone comparing the times in which I grew up (60's 70's), when one only had access to artwork produced by the 'official big guys' (from which sure enough we learnt so much), to these times we are living now in which with full access to internet and therefore pretty much any creative blog on earth, the scope of art, artists, talent, styles, points of view, options, opinions and ideas we could learn from and be inspired by, just enhanced everything we ever experienced at this level to a point never imagined before.
The speed at which things happened, the interchange of sources of inspiration -and- ideas, the creation of a global community of artists that were -constantly and in real time- sharing the best they had to offer in terms of art and opinion, seems it might as well be in the way out. If things go in a certain way, no 'real time' art, no fresh and spontaneous feedback there. This window to the world which I particularly appreciate very much seems to be going through very difficult times right now.
Anyhow a friend was telling me recently that the more obstacles we find in our way the more we, as the creative people we are, are going to find ways to even improve what we had before. I'm with him.
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When I am in New York, I spend time in both the village of Hastings-on-Hudson and the town of Greenburgh. It's easy, since my New York home is in both.
Hastings-on-Hudson, population 7,849 as of the 2010 census, is located completely within the town of Greenburgh, population 88,400. Both are, in turn, part of Westchester County.
When my kids were growing up, they couldn't cool off in the Greenburgh town pool; they had to join the Hastings pool instead. They were educated in schools that are part of the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free School District, whose boundaries extend beyond the village itself. Some of their classmates belonged to the Greenburgh pool.
Greenburgh has a police force, but its cars never drive past my house, because Hastings-on-Hudson has a force of its own, along with a Department of Public Works that fixes streets and collects trash. Being too small to support a paid fire department, the village relies on volunteers, who do quite a good job. But, just the same, I'm glad smoke detectors and other modern improvements have reduced the frequency and consequences of house fires.
As homeowners in both Hastings-on-Hudson and Greenburgh, we pay taxes to both. Our town taxes are reduced to reflect some services that the village provides. Overall, however, we pay around three times as much in taxes, per dollar of property value, in New York as we do on our main home in Florida or our vacation home in Vermont.
As I have written here before, companies control cost by eliminating redundancy. The public sector, however, tends to be less concerned with efficiency and the economies of scale. The result, in New York and some other places, is a proliferation of tiny localities, each with its own facilities, its own staff and its own taxes.
Hastings-on-Hudson and Greenburgh are just two of more than 10,000 local jurisdictions in New York state. Efforts to reduce that number have met fierce opposition. In 2009, as attorney general, current Gov. Andrew Cuomo helped push through a law to make it easier to dissolve superfluous layers of government. Under that law, called the New N.Y. Government Reorganization and Citizen Empowerment Act, 10 percent of residents or 5,000 registered voters, whichever is fewer, can force a vote on whether to consolidate or dissolve duplicate jurisdictions. But few empowered citizens have emerged to take advantage of the law.
Michigan also recently passed a law to enable citizens to do away with unnecessary municipalities. The first merger proposed under that law failed last month, with residents of the tiny Onekama Village, located on Lake Michigan, voting 139 to 86 against joining with surrounding Onekama Township.
New Jersey saw a big win for consolidation last year when neighboring Princeton Borough and Princeton Township agreed to a merger that is expected to save about $3.2 million. But other New Jersey towns have been reluctant to follow the Princetons' example, and the state continues to be dotted by so-called "doughnut towns," where one municipality completely surrounds another.
In all three states, governors have aggressively advocated consolidation, recognizing that the high property taxes levied to support so many municipalities are a major impediment to economic progress.
Critics of municipal duplication are generally quick to blame resistance to consolidation on local public employees, who fill those duplicative jobs, and on county-level politicians, who are accused of using miniature jurisdictions as patronage mills. There is a fair amount of truth to this. In local politics, where elections are often determined by a handful of votes, it is easy for entrenched interests to keep unwelcome change at bay.
But there is more to the story. The truth is that, despite the inefficiencies, most people like their small towns. In some cases, opposition to mergers is a pure matter of dollars and cents. Residents of one district may not want to pay taxes to fix up a pool on the other side of town, or they may be reluctant to share resources with neighbors who have less to put into the pot.
Often, however, there is something else going on - the inexplicable (at least to me) lure of the hyperlocal. The localists usually put arguments about schools front and center. It's true that the schools in Hastings-on-Hudson, where each grade has only around 100 to 120 students, are excellent. But I expect that has far more to do with the size of individual classrooms and the socioeconomic makeup of the district (heavily populated by doctors, lawyers, psychologists and other professionals) than with the size of the district. Neighboring localities have similarly high-performing schools. I see no reason why our districts cannot consolidate to save on administration and overhead without compromising educational performance.
My guess is that the defenders of local government really want smallness for its own sake. In large suburban areas like Westchester, whose countywide population is just under 1 million, the inconveniences of small-town life, including the nitpicking and nosiness that plague actual small towns, can begin to look a lot like charm. So the borders that were originally drawn when people traveled on horseback and left calling cards for their friends continue to cut across modern landscapes.
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How many times have you begun to take care of something on the tablet and realized very soon that it'll be too tedious to finish? You wouldn't be the first person who decided to save that half-email in drafts or regretted getting into a chat conversation with your sister discussing weekend plans on your tablet. The good news is that GoKey was designed to solve this problem for you. This super easy-to-use portable keyboard pairs up with any Bluetooth enabled smart device (in a 10m range) and acts as a simple stand -both portrait and landscape. The comfortably sized keyboard, normal key spacing and regular resistance keys come together for that comfortingly familiar typing experience.
- Universally designed to fit tablets in the 7" to 11" range including, including, Alcatel Pixi 8
- Perfect key response and "regular resistance" ensure a delightful and seamless typing experience
- Simple one button setup, opens "claws" that act as stand for your smart device (in both Instagram mode/portrait and Youtube/landscape)
- Bluetooth enabled, syncs with smart devices in a 10 m radius allowing you to type from a distance
- Lovely and sturdy hard plastic finish, makes it presentable, easy-to-use and clean if necessary
- While keyboard is in use, virtual keyboard disappears giving you the gift of 50% more screen space
- Built-in battery ensures about 50h of uninterrupted work, enough to last you through the work week
- US English Qwerty keyboard, complete with nifty shortcuts and iOS, Windows and Android support helping you get more done faster
- USB charging cable included
|Model Name
|Alcatel Pixi 8
|Keyboard, Dock
|Cooper Cases
|Business, Mens, Student, Travel, Womens
|Budget $1 - $39
|10.2 x 0.4 x 5.4 in (WDH)
|232 grams / 8.2oz
|Exterior Material
|Cross platform compatibility, Bluetooth, Integrated stand, QWERTY keyboard layout, Universal
To use the GoKey, simply turn on the Bluetooth button on the top of the keyboard. Press button on the middle of back side to unleash "claws". Place tablet or other smart device in either landscape or portrait mode, pending on desired activity. Suited best for structured surfaces but can also function as a comfortable work station in your lap.
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OW2 Annual Conference 2010
November 24, 2010
Thank YOU!
We would like to thank all the participants for making this conference a success. A special thank you to all our speakers who have contributed to an advanced program of sessions covering key and emerging technologies. We were very pleased to gather speakers and participants from Brazil, China, India, Korea, the USA and many European countries, which exemplifies the growing number of international members participating in the OW2 community.
The conference survey has provided a lot of valuable feedback. Among the sessions the Panel Discussion on Cloud Computing was the most popular and the response to presentations chosen for this year's conference was very positive. The conference has been mentioned several times as a unique opportunity for networking and face to face meetings. In addition to this, participants appreciated the live video streaming and recording of the main presentations.
We invite you to use all the content (presentation slides, videos, photos) now available at the conference website.
Thank you again for your participation and we look forward to seeing you at next year's OW2 Annual Conference, 2011!
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Paris, France
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Open Source for Open Clouds
November 24-25, Paris, France
A unique opportunity to learn more about open source cloud projects
that will shape the computing landscape over the next ten years.
Supported by a group of industry-leading, globally renowned IT organisations, coming from industry, public administrations and research institutes, OW2 is becoming a major player in open source software. The OW2 annual conference is a unique opportunity for professionals to discover, learn and exchange knowledge, best practices and real-world experiences on open source middleware, generic enterprise applications and cloud computing platforms.
Who should attend the OW2 2010 Annual Conference?
As an international high-technology conference, the event will gather attendees and speakers from Europe, USA, China, India and Brazil and will feature 2 days of high profile technical sessions. Software architects, developers, as well as managers and decision-makers in the open source field will be there to share their experiences and network with peers.
Why attend?
OW2 Annual Conference is an opportunity to network with key open source industry leaders and broaden your technical knowledge. Benefit from high technical expertise and acquire a deep understanding of advanced middleware technologies through tutorial sessions on the main OW2 technologies. Discover the latest technology trends and the recent involvement of OW2 Community towards an open and interoperable cloud, highlighting the recent Open Source Cloudware initiative (OSCi).
New this year..
The Annual Conference is an independent event. Last but not least, as an open community, we wanted to have an « open conference », offering the opportunity to the whole community to be active and express their views and experiences, this will now be possible through the « unconference sessions ».
OW2 Annual conference 2010 program will feature:
- Keynote address: Jean-Bernard Stefani, Research Director, INRIA
- The Open Cloud Summit: Ignacio Llorente - OpenNebula, Bret Priatt - OpenStack and Denis Caromel - ProActive.
- Round tables
- A series of half-day tutorials on leading OW2 projects (Bonita, JOnAS, Spagic, Talend, Trustie, Xwiki, etc)
- Several thematic sessions with over 30 presentations, with speakers from Europe, Asia and the Americas
- Guest open source cloud projects
- Social event: the Free Beer Party
- Unconference sessions
Over 150 attendees are expected for the second edition of the OW2 Annual Conference.


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Nov 16, 2012
As more and more Americans log onto the White House website and sign the electronic petitions seeking to allow their state to secede from the nation, other citizen movements are afoot to empower the people in this time of growing unrest.
One such movement, sponsored by InfoWars.com, is called the "National Opt-Out and Film Campaign," and it seeks to give "thanks for the First Amendment, by getting back in the faces of those who are attempting to abuse their authority to silence free speech and in turn conceal flagrant abuses of our rights and our basic dignity."
According to a flier produced by the website, the focus of the Opt-Out effort – which is scheduled for Nov. 19-26 – is to make the conscious decision to decline to pass through the TSA's invasive backscatter x-ray machines at airports that use them, as well as taking video of TSA employees at work.
Stand up for your freedom – Opt out!
Why opt-out? Says the flier:
— Because the backscatter body scanners have been associated with an increased risk of cancer and millimeter wave body scanners are potentially damaging to cellular DNA.
— Because the TSA has implemented other invasive procedures which serve to facilitate obedience rather than enhance security.
Why film? Again, from the flier:
— Filming TSA agents holds them accountable and is a way to protect human rights.
— Because the TSA has repeatedly abused its power and violated travelers' rights by touching their private parts.
Though constitutional rights are important every day, InfoWars said it is "picking one week in particular as part of a grass roots outreach that we hope will contribute towards putting an end to what has come to represent the face of big government tyranny."
Previous Opt-Out weeks sponsored by the site have been successful.
"In November 2010, the national opt out day was a huge success that generated massive media attention. The TSA was forced to mothball most of its radiation-firing body scanners for that one day in a desperate attempt to avoid embarrassment – a political act that proved the naked scanners had nothing whatsoever to do with genuine security concerns," writes Paul Joseph Watson.
The agency has since adopted a policy that allows travelers to opt-out of walking through the invasive backscatter machine, only to be humiliated by an equally invasive, grope-filled pat down.
"Now it has been confirmed that the TSA punishes people who opt out of the scanners by subjecting them to more invasive grope downs, it's time to re-assert our dignity, and we're going to do it using the First Amendment," Watson wrote.
If you accept this level of intrusion…
The TSA's own website says it's not illegal to film or videotape agents or checkpoints, so long as it does not interfere with the security process
That said, the site also carries this ominous warning:
Taking photographs may … prompt airport police or a TSA official to ask what your purpose is. It is recommended that you use the Talk To TSA program on tsa.gov to contact the Customer Support Manager at the airport to determine its specific policy.
The message? Take all the pictures and video you want, but we're likely going to hassle you if you do, and quite possibly even threaten you if they determine you've got an attitude about being harassed for, well, doing something the agency says you can do.
InfoWars.com says it has re-launched its campaign as a way to preserve some modicum of liberty.
"The TSA's policy on 'enhanced pat downs' now includes literally touching and groping people's genitals as part of the procedure – a policy top rape counselors have warned is triggering post-traumatic stress disorder in rape victims," the site says.
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The Vibe Three buildings originally built in 1897 as townhomes and apartments have been turned into a calm hotel catering to both business/convention travelers and regular tourists. You'll never forget that you're in New Orleans at this family-owned joint, and the friendly, local staff are always eager to point guests to the right restaurants and clubs.
Rooms Thirty rooms are spread out over the three historic buildings. Each room has its own individual character and decor—some even have original touches like 12-foot ceilings and fireplaces—but the feel is uniquely New Orleans throughout, with a combination of French and Spanish influences. All come with modern amenities such as Internet access, voicemail, cable TVs, and alarm clocks.
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Minus Rooms are slowly being upgraded, so may differ dramatically in quality; check in advance to see what you're getting. There's no on-site gym, but free passes to a facility across the street are available.
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Instead of making 3 billion screenshots, perhaps you should make a video x.x
i cant watch videos at work, so pictures work fine for me
Why not both? Videos and images?
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Fans flee as threatening weather halts US Open
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ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) -- The horn that suspended play at the U.S. Open also turned out to be the official signal to shop.
Forget Ian Poulter. The real early leader at Merion Golf Club was the merchandise tent -- all three of them. Those crackles of thunder led to plenty of ka-chinging at the stores.
Storms were expected in the Philadelphia area for most of Thursday, and when the alert sounded at 8:36 a.m., thousands of fans left their perches in the grandstands and went in search of souvenirs -- $45 umbrellas and $27 hats.
"We were so excited but we really didn't even get to see anything," said Samantha Jaffee, holding $88 worth of Open items.
So she followed the lead of hundreds of others, browsing through racks of $95 shirts along with posters, books and bags.
Aside from the big, white souvenir tents, there were few options to escape the storm, so fans took advantage of any covered area, no matter the size -- a small ATM machine booth, a USGA survey tent that was mostly empty during practice rounds.
All the while, there were announcements on screens and from public safety officials telling spectators to seek shelter; weather warning signs flashed on leader boards around the course.
"Safety is paramount so flexibility is employed," USGA spokesman Dan Hubbard said. "This means (the) clubhouse or other restricted areas may be made available, if needed."
USGA officials said about 17,000 fans were on the course when the horn sounded. Weather alerts were posted on video boards around the course and fans were directed to the tents, buildings, busses, even nearby Haverford College for shelter, director for Open championships Mike Butz said.
Fans also were kept updated on weather and safety procedures through social media and other websites.
"I think the plan we put in place, in a lot of ways, was a good trial run for us," Butz said. "The plan itself worked really well."
The USGA quickly suspended transportation from three main lots to Merion, though service continued for anyone who wanted to call it a day and leave. Which brings us to refunds.
If there is less than a full four hours of play, U.S. Open championship director Reg Jones said there could be refunds or tickets "possibly" could be used another day. The tournament was less than two hours old when the horn blew but resumed shortly after noon under mostly sunny skies.
To be sure not everyone went shopping in the rain. It made people want to eat, too.
There's nothing worse than being wet and hungry but a cheesesteak, $9.50, please, just might be able to make it more bearable.
Some washed-out spectators complained that breakfast sandwiches were already sold out by 9 a.m.
"This is the worst," Tim McDermott, of Philadelphia, said as he ate a Thai chicken wrap. "Who runs out of bacon, egg and cheese at breakfast? It'd be fine if I could drink a beer, but you can't do that before 10:30."
Ralph Pelusi, of Hatboro, arrived at the 14th green around 8:15 a.m, just before the horn sounded.
"It's tough, but we'll wait it out," Pelusi said. "It's a bummer."
Bill Strehse, who lives about four blocks away, was part of the scramble for shelter.
"Everybody ducked under what they could find. Every tent was filled. And this place was a wall," he said, pointing to the large covering at the entrance. "I had my poncho and just waited under the tree and watched the lightning. Once the rain started, everyone found a spot to hang out."
Some, like 16-year-old Geoff Warke of Hershey, simply popped open an umbrella and walked the front nine. He even got a quick hello from Phil Mickelson near the fourth fairway.
By mid-afternoon, the black-and-white umbrellas imprinted with "Merion 2013" were used to shield folks from the sun.
Brian Furio, of York, bought one during the downpour and used it more as a walking stick in the afternoon.
"If I stay long enough, I'll be ready," he said.
At a fan zone, where a replay of the limited morning action was up on the big screen, a worker took the microphone to implore an overflow crowd to move to the merchandise tent.
"We're not feeling safe having this many people in here," he told them.
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Baseball themed slots are in plenty. Hot Shot is yet another number in this category for Microgaming. Swing you bat for a home run as it's the top paying images of this slot. Lavish, crowd pleasing settings of Hot Shot bring the real world feel to this online slot game.
Hot Shot symbols
A Home Run symbol, strikes, wild Balls, baseball caps, finger chips, popcorn, coffee, candies, sausages, with a couple of baseball silhouettes and the trophy form the regular symbols of Hot Shot. The 1,000 coins prize is for the home run symbol.
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Hot Shot is a 5 reel, 9 payline slot game. Pitch the ball straight into the strikers bat and watch him smack it for Home run. You get to hear the crowd cheering in the background for each spinning reel. The dealings between sound, graphics and general gameplay of Hot Shot is terrific. A simple to play game, it features only wilds and scatter for winning.
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Scatters: The Scatter Gold Trophy symbol is the one for pocketing the 100 times total bet when 5 of them land on the reels.
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Robert Zubrin is a New Atlantis contributing editor, a fellow at the Center for Security Policy, and the president of Pioneer Astronautics, an aerospace engineering R&D firm. He also leads the Mars Society, an international organization dedicated to furthering space exploration. For many years, he worked as a senior engineer for Lockheed Martin. He holds a doctorate in nuclear engineering, and has nine U.S. patents granted or pending. In addition, he is the author of the critically acclaimed nonfiction books The Case for Mars, Entering Space, and Mars on Earth; the science fiction novels The Holy Land and First Landing; and articles in Scientific American, The New Atlantis, American Enterprise, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He has appeared on major media including CNN, C-SPAN, the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the Science Channel, NBC, ABC, and NPR.
Mr. Zubrin's 2012 book Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism, is part of the New Atlantis Books series. Merchants of Despair traces the pedigree of the ideology that human beings are a cancer upon the Earth — a species whose aspirations and appetites are endangering the natural order — and exposes its deadly consequences in startling and horrifying detail. It exposes the worst crimes perpetrated by this antihumanist movement, including eugenics campaigns in the United States and genocidal anti-development and population-control programs around the world. And it provides scientific refutations to antihumanism's major pseudo-scientific claims, including its modern tirades against nuclear power, pesticides, population growth, biotech foods, resource depletion, industrial development, and, most recently, fear-mongering about global warming. The book's official homepage is www.MerchantsOfDespair.com.
Mr. Zubrin's 2007 book on energy policy, Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil, was excerpted in The New Atlantis here. He discussed his book in a lecture at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in November 2007; to watch the video, click here. The book's official homepage is EnergyVictory.net. In connection with his writings on energy policy, Mr. Zubrin occasionally contributes to the "Set America Free" blog.
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