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World's oldest Jewish person dies in NYC at 113
NEW YORK -- The world's oldest Jewish person, Evelyn Kozak, whose family fled Russia to escape anti-Semitism in the 1880s, has died at age 113.
Kozak died Tuesday after suffering a heart attack the day before, her granddaughter Brucha Weisberger said. She was buried next to her parents in a cemetery in Brooklyn.
Kozak was the world's oldest documented Jewish person and the world's seventh-oldest person, said Robert Young, a senior database administrator at the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group, an organization of physicians, scientists and engineers who validate supercentenarians, people 110 or older.
While a series of strokes about three years ago left Kozak in a wheelchair and paralyzed on her right side, her mind was always sharp, Weisberger said Thursday. For the past three years, Kozak had lived with her granddaughter and the granddaughter's husband and children in Brooklyn.
"As old as she was, we really expected her to live forever," said Weisberger, one of nearly a dozen grandchildren. "She was strong and incredible. We thought she would be going on and on and on."
Kozak, who was one of nine children, was born on Manhattan's Lower East Side on Aug. 14, 1899. Her family had moved from Russia to escape organized anti-Semitic attacks.
She spent much of her adult life in Miami, where she ran a boarding house for many years, fixing meals for her tenants, Weisberger said.
"Sometimes she would say, 'I always try to help everyone and not hurt anyone,'" Weisberger said. "And even when they say, 'It's not your business to help someone,' she felt that it was her business."
Kozak believed in being truthful and honest, Weisberger said.
"She always said a good conscience was the secret to a long life," she added.
Though Kozak had no formal religious education, she was religious, keeping kosher and observing the Sabbath. When she was 110, she started covering her hair, as many traditionally orthodox Jewish women do.
Kozak was married twice but had been a widow since 1957. She had five children, 10 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson. Besides New York, she had lived in Perth Amboy, N.J., Miami and Pittsburgh.
The world's oldest person, Misao Okawa, of Japan, is 115, the Gerontology Research Group said.


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My home on Design*Sponge - wow wee!
Ok at last I can tell you all - my home featured on Design* Sponge Sneak Peak today! I was hugely flattered when Shannon emailed me awhile back asking if DS could do a feature on my humble, little, messy home. Then a whole lot of tidying up, phaffing around and photo shoots later -tada! My lovely friend Tigs helped out with the photographs and made my home look lovely. You can have a sneak peak yourselves right here. I am so pleased with the way it all tuned out and again so flattered to be on such an inspiring design site, thanks Shannon and the Design*Sponge team.

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The days are getting longer and,
Cycle 25 has already begun.
The days are getting longer and,
Cycle 25 has already begun.
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I didn't see the announcement!
Now we get about 8 years of improving or relatively good conditions!
So there I was, totally naked. With only a rubber hose and a stuffed animal...
Aw hell let's go for it:
Group Hug!!!!!
So there I was, totally naked. With only a rubber hose and a stuffed animal...
Maunder Minimum lasts about 65 years. We ain't through yet.
Silly me, thinking next year would be the lowest point in sunspots....
So good news after all.
"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop
telling the truth about them." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
Im not liberal/conservative, Im anti-idiotarian.
At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution
Cycle 24 not dead yet...
January 25, 2019 @ 13:40 UTC
Sunspot 2733 / Minor Storm Observed
Good morning. Here is a look at the lone spotted region (2733) as it transits near center disk. The sunspot cluster belonging to Cycle 24 has produced minor B-Class flares during the past day, but is not considered a threat for anything stronger than the minor C-Class range. Image below by SDO/HMI
Currently, HF absolutely stinks at these latitudes.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
I want to know when to dust off my 6 meter AM tube rig....sure is quiet out there.
I thought religions were prophet based organizations.
What do you mean I am out of money? I still have checks!
Remember, amateurs built the Ark, professionals built the Titanic
AM being next to the worst power hungry mode, FM, it's been my experience that the Collins/Clegg/Gonset crowd only comes out of the woodwork when the band is on fire. The last time I heard 6M AM was the last time around the sun and the band was wall to wall end to end stations. I worked every propagation mode known, transatlantic and trans-equatorial DX, broke the cherry on Nunavut while everybody else was calling to no avail on 20M and the Heathkit SB-110 didn't smell like burning dust. Maybe that's because I spent more time repairing it than using it... like a Harley. (;->) Oh, that was only a half accomplishment, the bums never QSLed. (:-<)
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"New Jersey, the most American of all states. It has everything from wilderness to the Mafia. All the great things and all the worst, like Route 22."
Jean Shepherd K2ORS (SK) & WOR radio personality
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
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My innovative "Four Forms" model of Employee Engagement, which identified four distinct types of employee-employer relationship:
was recognized recently by one of the engagement movement's leading practitioners, David Zinger.
Zinger has posted a full article on the four forms on his own blog last month, and led off the piece with the following exchange between us:
"Mike Klein is an original think around employee engagement. He joined the Employee Engagement Network recently and I asked him about his nonlinear view of employee engagement and employee engagement seen as a moral virtue. He wrote a comment on my network page that really got me thinking:
Engagement is non-linear: The short answer regarding my non-linear view of engagement: I think the idea that the path between employee hostility and helpfulness as a straight line called "engagement" is total rubbish.
Rather, I see "engagement" as a willingness to connect through some sort of relationship, which can either be hostile or helpful, passive or active, possessive or bereft of long-term commitment, and solitary or collective.
As for my background–while I have more than 10 years of internal communication experience, mainly in Europe, I managed political campaigns in the US for 10 years as well, where I saw other patterns and models of engagement emerge around candidates and issues. That background gives me some perspective around the whole "engagement as moral virtue" piece–for it is impossible for anyone actively in a relationship to be disengaged, whether they are hostile, helpful or hopeless.
Ultimately, I think this issue has been horribly mispositioned in the communications and management press, and that professionals need access to new models and vocabularies that don't treat engagement solely as an employee issue, and solely as a matter of right and wrong.
This whetted my appetite to learn more from Mike about employee engagement or engagement and I received his approval to reprint the blog post below. I have made a few slight changes to make it easier to follow but the post is directly from Mike. This is not a short blog read but I believe your will gain much if you focus on the engaging metaphors that Mike presents."
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- December 25, 2012
- R, 2 hr 45 min
- Action/Adventure
- Drama
Fandango FANALERT®
Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django (Jamie Foxx) is a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles - dead or alive. Success leads Schultz to free Django, though the two men choose not to go their separate ways. Instead, Schultz seeks out the South's most wanted criminals with Django by his side. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago. Django and Schultz's search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of "Candyland," an infamous plantation where slaves are groomed to battle each other for sport.


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The Alcor chapter of Mortar Board at Hope College received multiple honors during the national organization's annual conference in Ohio this summer.
The Alcor chapter of Mortar Board at Hope College received multiple honors during the national organization's annual conference in Ohio this summer.
Dr. Dianne Portfleet of the Hope English faculty, who is one of the chapter's two advisors, received one of only three "Excellence in Advising" awards presented nationwide. For the second consecutive year, the chapter received both the "Golden Torch Award" and the "Project Excellence Award."
Hope's chapter was one of 27 recipients of the "Golden Torch Award," which honors chapters that have excelled in the areas of scholarship, leadership and service. In addition, Hope's chapter was one of the top five "Golden Torch Award" recipients, and was one of the five finalists for the national "Ruth Weimer Mount Chapter Excellence Award."
The chapter was among 24 recipients of the "Project Excellence Award." The award was given for two of the chapter's projects: organizing a prom for adult foster home residents with disabilities, and providing five full college scholarships for students in Tanzania.
Portfleet is an adjunct associate professor of English at Hope. She and the other "Excellence in Advising" award winners were recognized for giving outstanding service to their chapters; going "above and beyond" in contributing time and expertise to assist their chapters and members; serving as role models demonstrating leadership, professionalism and the spirit of service; and providing support to help their chapters achieve goals, overcome obstacles and meet challenges.
Jacob Holton, who is a 2007 Hope graduate from Chelsea and was the historian and director of communications for the 2006-07 chapter, described Portfleet as "a huge motivator to our group," noting that "Her love of service is modeled so effectively to our chapter that it is, in one word, contagious. Her demeanor is never anything less than extremely professional and her constant ability to lead by example is invaluable to an honor society that emphasizes leadership."
Portfleet has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1988. The graduating class presented her with the annual "Hope Outstanding Professor Educator" (H.O.P.E.) Award in 2006, and she won the "Hope's Outstanding Woman" Award in 2003. She was the college's Commencement speaker in May.
Mortar Board is a national honor society that recognizes college seniors for outstanding achievement in scholarship, leadership and service, and provides opportunities for continued leadership development, promotes service to college and universities, and encourages lifelong contributions to the global community. Since its founding in 1918, the organization has grown from the four founding chapters to 223 collegiate chapters with nearly 250,000 initiated members across the nation.
The Alcor chapter has existed at Hope since the 1936-37 academic year, although it did not become part of the national Mortar Board organization until 1961. The chapter had 35 members during the 2006-07 school year, and the president was Lisa C. Smith, a 2007 graduate from Dearborn.
In addition to Portfleet, the chapter is advised by Martie Bultman, wife of HopeCollege president James E. Bultman. The chapter's president during the 2007-08 school year is senior Matt Wixson of Albion.
The 2007 National Conference was held in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday-Sunday, July 27-29. Students attending were seniors Chris Bowen of Ithaca, who is the chapter's vice president for 2007-08, and Lisa Peterson of Columbus, Ohio.
In addition to being recognized in 2006, the Alcor chapter was also honored by the national organization in 2000 when it received the "Silver Torch Award" for excellence in maintaining the society's standards and two "Project Excellence Awards."


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On-line registration for next Saturdays (Sept 26th) SouthSide Pentathlon Swim Meet will be closing on Wednesday. Enter at https://www.ClubAssistant.com/club/m...2278&smid=6885 .
Things to remember:
1. All Pentathlon (Sprint, Mid-distance, and Iron Man) finishers will earn a trophy.
2. Following the meet all participants are invited to enjoy the meet social (food and beverage provided)
3. The GA-LMSC annual meeting will take place after the social.
4. We will be accepting deck entries. However the meet director greatly appreciates people who enter the meet real soon.
2015 Georgia Masters
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I'd like to address Albert H. Black's letter ("Art reviewer shares blame for expecting explanations," Aug. 25) commenting on Daniel Kany's art review of David Driskell's work.
From an artist's standpoint, I must defend Mr. Kany. The art critic has, in the past, wielded huge power in making or breaking careers. Clement Greenberg was the premier critic from the late '30s to the '50s.
That kind of godlike posturing has thankfully been replaced with thoughtful, constructive and honest reviewing, such as New York magazine's Jerry Saltz, who was fearless in his reviews.
Mr. Kany likewise offers a subjective and educated opinion, one with which you may or may not agree.
After reading his Aug. 18 review, I learned some facts about the background of Driskell. I may have a completely different reaction to the paintings than Mr. Kany; however, it made me think about the work in terms of the artist's historical influences.
Every art student has faced the dreaded "critique." It is there that we learn to listen to very subjective yet constructive advice.
We may not agree with it, but it affords us an avenue by which we can move our work forward and improve. This is especially true for "blossoming professional" artists whose works are reviewed by critics.
Mr. Black, in suggesting "leaving it to the eyes of the beholder," misses the opportunity for the viewer to hear other opinions. Yes, go look at as much art as you can, but also be open to all opinions. Information from many sources will only help us appreciate art in a more thoughtful way.
Lin White
Casino proposals would level playing field for the Downs
The Downs respects the views of residents opposed to gaming, including betting on horse racing. I did, however, want to correct a misstatement in a letter from Suzanne Foley-Ferguson ("Scarborough could lose say over casino on Downs land," Aug. 27).
The Downs has not proposed any recent legislation that would allow expanded gaming without a local referendum. The Downs believes that a local referendum is essential before gaming should be allowed, either at our current location or if we are able to move to another city, such as Biddeford.
The zoning ordinance that the Town Council passed and state law expressly require a local referendum and would require the track to reach a revenue-sharing agreement with the council. The Downs supports both requirements.
The bills the Downs has proposed to the Legislature would only correct unfair provisions that were drafted to give an unfair advantage to Maine's existing casinos.
Those fine-print provisions prohibit the Downs from moving more than five miles (i.e., to Biddeford); require its local referendum to have been completed by December 2003, and prohibit the Downs from operating within 100 miles of the casino in Oxford.
Horsemen and track employees work hard to earn their living, but they are being asked to fight an uneven battle against casino operators. Scarborough Downs is asking for a level playing field that will allow it to compete against casino gaming.
We realize that some people don't support gaming, and we very much respect their opinion on this issue. Casino gaming has now arrived in Maine (at multiple locations), and if harness racing is to survive, a racino is needed at Maine's largest commercial track, located in a community that desires its economic benefits.
All we and horsemen are saying is "Let us compete."
Sharon Terry
president, Scarborough Downs
Racist diatribe reminder of need to battle ignorance
Wednesday marked the 50th anniversary of the Freedom March on Washington, D.C.
The front-page article in that day's Press Herald ("Local official rebuked for offensive Obama Web post") poses a distressing irony.
Americans of all ethnicities, races, religions, sexual orientations and political beliefs draw pride from those who sacrificed to help our society evolve into a more tolerant and compassionate nation.
David Marsters' public, vitriol-laced diatribe threatening our twice-elected president harkens back to the sad days prior to the civil rights movement. It stuns many of us living in this state that such hatred is celebrated by some.
Only those of us who recognize the horror of such ignorance can overwhelm such narrow-minded ignorance.
The Rev. Martin Luther King eloquently expressed his hope that we as Americans would learn to judge others not by "the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
As a society, we have made strides in this direction. Mr. Marsters has given pause that perhaps we have not come as far as many have hoped.
My sincere desire is that we will hear the ignorance amongst us and allow it to strengthen our resolve that indeed we shall overcome.
James M. Kirsh
Dr. King would have fought for factory-farmed animals
This week's 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington is being observed with marches, speeches and speculation on what causes Dr. King would embrace today.
He would certainly continue to work for racial equality. But he would also likely advocate for a rapid withdrawal from Afghanistan, workers' rights, gay rights and animal rights.
Yes, animal rights. Although he is best known for advocacy of racial equality, Dr. King opposed all violence, like the Vietnam War. And there is no greater violence than that perpetrated each day against billions of cows, pigs and other sentient animals in America's factory farms and slaughterhouses.
The day before his assassination in 1968, Dr. King came to Memphis to champion the most oppressed human beings in America — African-American sanitation workers.
Today, it would also be about the most oppressed living beings in America — animals raised for food, experiments and entertainment.
Although Dr. King never lived long enough to extend his circle of compassion, justice and nonviolence to non-human animals, his wife, Coretta Scott King, and his son Dexter Scott King did, by embracing the vegan lifestyle. A great way for us to honor the King legacy is to follow their lead.
Paul Mahn
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Temperatures hit record highs in Japan on Thursday as a heatwave swept through the country, leaving at least seven people dead over the last few days.
In Tajimi city, 400 km (250 miles) west of Tokyo, the mercury hit 40.9 degrees Celsius (105.6 Fahrenheit), topping the previous record of 40.8 logged in 1933, the Meteorological Agency said.
At least seven elderly people have died from heatstroke in the last two days, including a 59-year-old man found dead in his living room in a city near Tokyo on Thursday.
The energy market is watching the weather closely this summer after a strong earthquake last month damaged and closed a nuclear reactor -- the world's largest -- that supplies most of the electricity to the Tokyo region.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the operator of the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in Niigata prefecture, has said it may struggle to meet peak power demand from the capital if temperatures go above 35.3 Celsius, as they have done for the last few days.
The summer heat and humidity result in greater use of air conditioners, boosting electricity demand.
TEPCO increased overall power supply on Thursday by accepting help from other utilities and raising its own output as consumption was expected to rise along with temperatures, a company official said.
TEPCO raised supply to 60.10 million kilowatts by 0200 GMT on Thursday (10 p.m. EDT on Wednesday), from an original plan to supply 58.80 million kilowatts earlier in the day.
"After taking those measures, we were able to raise supply by 1.3 million kilowatts," the official said.
TEPCO has asked six utilities to supply electricity to help fill an anticipated shortage due to the nuclear shutdown.
As of 0400-0500 GMT, electricity demand peaked at 55.94 million kilowatts, against Thursday's peak forecast demand of 57.50 million kilowatts.
On Wednesday, peak power demand was 51.89 million kilowatts.
"We are looking at the situation closely, but I think we'll have enough supplies," the official said.
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Authorities could file charges against three brothers accused of kidnapping and holding three women captive for 10 years as early as Wednesday morning, officials say.
Suspects Ariel Castro, Pedro Castro, and Onil Castro were arrested Monday night after Amanda Berry escaped from a house owned by Ariel Castro and called 911. Police also found missing persons Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight in the house. The three women disappeared in separate incidents between 2002 and 2004, and all had been held captive in the Seymour Avenue house on the west side of Cleveland.
Cuyahoga County authorities have 48 hours after an arrest to file charges against the suspects, FBI spokeswoman Vicki Anderson said Tuesday. Federal and local law-enforcement officials will interview the suspects Wednesday, she said.
Details about the three men have emerged as neighbors and family members ask how and why the women could have been held for so long.
"The [brothers] were all good kids," Nelson Roman, a lifelong friend of them, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer Tuesday. "That's why this news is devastating. It's not only horrifying to the families of the kidnapped girls, it's devastating to us, because these brothers were all very good kids who grew up in a very good family. I was shocked to see their pictures on television involved in kidnapping. We've stayed friends over the years and had no idea they were keeping girls hostage."
The Castro family was among the first Puerto Rican immigrants to settle in Cleveland after World War II. The brothers grew up in a family of nine children, and their father owned a car lot in the West 25th Street neighborhood, Adrian Maldonado, who owns a construction consulting company in the area, told The Plain Dealer.
Pedro Castro, the oldest of the three brothers, was a straight-A student in high school, but dropped out his junior year because of a problem with alcohol, Mr. Roman said. Pedro worked a punch-press machine in a factory, but his drinking habits forced him to stop working. In recent years, he was receiving Social Security benefits, Roman said.
Onil Pedro, the youngest brother, also had a problem with drinking, Roman said. He made his living doing odd jobs as a handyman until he was injured while working as a laborer five years ago. Since then, he has been receiving workers' compensation, Roman said.
Middle brother Ariel Castro, who owned the house where the women were found, was known by most people in his neighborhood. He was a school bus driver for 22 years, but he was fired by the Cleveland School District last November after several incidents of "bad judgment," including leaving a child alone on the bus, making an illegal U-turn, and using the bus to go grocery shopping, according to records released Tuesday.
Mr. Castro also played bass guitar in salsa and merengue bands.
However, he struggled to control his temper, The Plain Dealer reported.
According to a 2005 filing in Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court, viewed by The Plain Dealer, Castro fought over the custody of his children with his former wife, Grimilda Figueroa. She had full custody of the children, but Castro allegedly took the daughters and kept them from his wife. In the filing, Ms. Figueroa's attorney asked the judge to "keep [Castro] from threatening to kill [Figueroa]." She suffered a broken nose, broken ribs, and two dislocated shoulders, among other injuries.
Ariel Anthony Castro, his son, told The Plain Dealer that the news of his father's alleged involvement is "beyond comprehension."
In 2004, Anthony Castro, as he goes by, wrote an article as a journalism student for the Plain Press, a neighborhood newspaper, about the community's anxiety after Ms. DeJesus's and Ms. Berry's disappearances. He interviewed Nancy Ruiz, DeJesus's mother, for the article.
"That I wrote about this nearly 10 years ago – to find out that it is now so close to my family – it's unspeakable," Anthony told The Plain Dealer.
Arlene Castro, one of Ariel's daughters, told the TV program "America's Most Wanted" in 2005 that she was the last person to see DeJesus alive, reported WEWS-TV in Cleveland. In the years after DeJesus's disappearance, Ariel performed at a fundraiser held in her honor and passed out fliers with her photo on it. At a candlelight vigil a year ago, he comforted Ms. Ruiz.
Anthony said that he speaks to his father only a few times a year and rarely visited the house. He told London's Daily Mail that his last visit was two weeks ago, and his father would not let him inside.
"The house was always locked," he said. "There were places we could never go. There were locks on the basement. Locks on the attic. Locks on the garage."
City officials said Tuesday that there was no record of anyone calling to report criminal activity at the house, but they would continue to search the emergency databases. However, two of Ariel Castro's neighbors said they called the police for separate incidents.
In November 2011, Israel Lugo heard pounding on the doors of the house. Police officers knocked on the front door, but no one answered. "They walked to the side of the house and then left," Mr. Lugo said Tuesday.
Elsie Cintron lives three houses down from Castro. Several years ago, her daughter saw a naked woman crawling in the backyard, but the "police didn't take it seriously," she said Tuesday.
• Material from the Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Thursday afternoon, the girls and I will board a big white bird and fly across the ocean to London and then to Belgrade. Last few days I have been overwhelmed with a feeling of unbearable panic accompanied as usual with an accelerated heart beat, a crazy adrenaline rush (not in a good way), and a sensation that a baby elephant has made a nest on my chest. The items on my list are almost completely crossed over, our e-tickets are printed, the passports are neatly laid out right next to the tickets, and empty suitcases lined up on the bedroom floor.
I still have to buy a few necessities for the trip, like goat cheese, multi-grain crackers, and pretzels, as the girls requested them as snacks. Packing should not take a lot of time, as I have piles of stuff destined to travel neatly arranged all over the apartment. I am helping my sweet next-door neighbor with making a creative journal for her special friend's 70th birthday. In exchange, she will water my succulents and keep my herbs alive until we return. The roots and grays are covered, the nails are done, the purses purged of extraneous material that inevitably manages to collect in time.
I am as excited as anxious, unable to relax, even though these trans-Atlantic trips have been my routine for over twenty five years. But, I tend to fret whenever anyone travels, even for a weekend, even just across the state. Once the baggage is checked in and boarding passes are safely tucked in my purse, I'll slump in a hard plastic chair at a Starbucks and bury my face in a latte, a smile replacing the angst. Until we arrive at Customs, of course.
Wednesday morning, the suitcases will be packed and keeping ranks in the hallway. I hope to emulate Dorothy Parker and walk around my friend's street party, cool, armed with a witty repartee and a glass of good wine. (The only thing that I can guarantee right now, though, is a glass of good wine.) We'll stroll down to the beach at sunset to watch the fireworks and I will take every burst of color personally, as a farewell greeting and a colorful goodbye. I will miss the smell of the ocean and the bike rides on the strand. I will miss my friend madly. But summer is always the fastest of the seasons, and the day of our return will creep up sooner than I expected, as always, and plunge me into another panic-ruled state.


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In some localities, skunks are a serious threat to successful beekeeping, since they hamper the development of strong colonies. Being insectivorous (insect-eating), skunks will raid bee yards nightly, consuming large numbers of bees. While such attacks are most common in the spring, they also can occur throughout the summer and fall.


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In her blog "Information Wants to Be Free," Meredith Farkas, Head of Instructional Initiatives at Norwich University in Vermont, writes about how "Twitter has changed so much in significance and utility" since its inception. Her post goes on to discuss how "Twitter (and FriendFeed, and other microblogging and lifestreaming apps) has been an amazing boon to those looking for connection and conversation." Farkas lists four ways in which Twitter can be useful:
- "It's great for querying the hive." By the examples she gives, this means it is handy for getting quick opinions and information from the online crowd.
- "It can be great for sharing knowledge."
- "It can be great for conferences." On one hand, Twitter can help people share what is interesting and exciting at a conference. On the other hand, it can be a distraction from, or disruptive to, sessions and workshops.
- "It can be a great advocacy tool. Libraries and non-profits are using Twitter to promote their services and get the word out about projects they're working on, current needs, and the news on issues related to their cause. And people who support them can amplify their messages through retweets. It's also a great way to join conversations happening among their community of users."
The Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library has its own Twitter profile page where this author tweets information from this blog via HootSuite. Check it out!


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Bracing for more fiscal cliff volatility: VIX ralliesDecember 27, 2012: 11:55 AM ET
Who's worried about the fiscal cliff? Who isn't. One look at the market's fear gauge, the VIX, and it's pretty clear that investors are among those feeling some agita.
Over the past month, the VIX has surged nearly 30%, hitting its highest level in months. And with mere days left for President Obama and Congress to reach a deal on the fiscal cliff, it's no wonder investors are bracing for a roller coaster ride.
Of course, if you look at the stock market, it may appear that worries have been baked in. But Thursday's dismal consumer confidence reading was enough to push stocks sharply lower.
All of that fiscal cliff fodder has given StockTwits traders plenty to chew on.
$VXX creeping up on a slow day. Might be a warning sign going into the end of the year, or perhaps just people hedging risk. $SPY
$VXX calls are hot hot hot and getting hotter. We have a VXX which could see 40++ next week easily! $$$
VIX now over 20 for the first time since July 25th. $VIX $$
That was a dicey time for investors.
Disappointing earnings, or shall I say guidance, were rolling in, Europe was heating up and U.S. economic reports were not painting a pretty picture so it's no wonder that volatility was on the rise.
This time around, it's solely the fiscal cliff that's driving that churning. And don't expect it to let up anytime soon...even if they strike a deal.
$VXX $UVXY - think big $ hedging, small $ using options to short. start of a bigger trend? mind the mid nov gap close. GL
2013 I will be long cash and large cap...it may prove to fail but it feels right to me $SPY
I don't think vcutrader is alone in his thinking.
Selling on somewhat light volume. breaking Support, I continue to wait til 2013. $SPY $VIX $DIA $QQQ
Most investors are unwilling to do anything until there's more clarity out of Washington. And really, can you blame them? The beltway insiders don't have the best track record in avoiding kicking the can down the road.
Remember the debt ceiling? Yeah, we're back in that boat too.
OMG Can we have more action and less press conf ? "@CNBC: Harry Reid to hold news conference at 1p ET on the fiscal cliff." $SPY
buying feb 30 puts on $VXX a not-so-bad idea. scale in


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The first Common Man Restaurant opened on Main Street in Ashland in 1971. The bank didn't think too highly of financing the young Alex Ray in this venture, but after a few doses of the Ray enthusiasm and the dedication of one loan officer in particular, it all came together.
The Common Man Ashland could serve all of 35 people in its cozy front dining room. There wasn't a waiting area or lounge, so patrons would line up outside - even in the winter - and wait for an open table. Alex says he used to run out of the kitchen and peek around the building to see how long the line was. People waiting would look in the door and see customers ordering more coffee. The whisper would then run down the waiting line, "Oh nuts, they're having more coffee."
Alex and Jack McCormack were the cooks, and Common Man family Vice President Diane Downing worked in Ashland as a server and bartender. Diane eventually managed Ashland and future locations, and moved into her important role on the leadership team.
In 1974, the carriage house behind the restaurant was converted into more dining space. Now patrons had a warm place to wait for a table! In 1977, Alex and his young family moved out of the rooms above the main restaurant to a farm in Holderness, and Alex converted the space into The Step Above Lounge. The comfortable, family-room like lounge is a local landmark.
In October of 1985, the old Pollard Family home in Lincoln, NH was purchased and an old barn was moved to the site, renovated, and attached for additional dining space. Bing Rogers of Campton, NH constructed an amazing rock fireplace, and 47 days from the date of purchase, Diane and Alex opened the second Common Man Restaurant.
In 1987, the old Howard Johnson's Restaurant in Concord, NH was purchased and renovated, keeping the old-style counter service and turning the rest of the place into a real old-fashioned 50s style diner. The Capital City Diner became a popular local hangout and a must-stop on every politician's tour of the state.
In December of 1991, after much negotiating, Alex convinced the Pike Family to sell the parking lot adjacent to their company headquarters just off exit 20 off I-93 in Tilton. He knew this would be the perfect spot to park the 1952 steel diner that he'd bought several years before. Alex, Diane and a dedicated staff opened Tilt'n Diner the following spring.
In 1993, Alex and Diane partnered with friends to open the Italian Farmhouse in Plymouth. The Farmhouse has become a favorite for locals and tourists alike, with its fresh baked bread, brick oven pizza and warm, friendly atmosphere. A large glass greenhouse was rescued and resurrected behind the restaurant. The brick-floored, carefully-manicured greenhouse overflows with flowers and is a favorite spot for weddings and other celebrations.
In 1994, property in Holderness, NH was purchased and became Squam Seafood Company, a seasonal restaurant serving fresh seafood in a fun atmosphere. Just one of the many unique features of the restaurant was a real lobster boat beached out front. Diners could actually order their meal and eat on board! Although the restaurant was extremely popular, the demands of a seasonal restaurant were too much, and that location closed after three years.
Also in 1994, Alex and Diane worked with Meredith entrepreneur Rusty McLear of Mill Falls at the Lake to create the Inn at Bay Point and a new upscale-dining concept called Boathouse Grille Restaurant. The restaurant was in a completely renovated bank building located right on the water in downtown Meredith. In the fall of 2003, the Boathouse Grille was renovated into Lago, an authentic Italian Trattoria.
Twenty-five years after opening the original Common Man Restaurant, the Common Man Family opened yet another Common Man. The new restaurant was located in a renovated barn in Windham, NH that Alex had his eye on for quite some time. The Common Man Windham is busy year-round, serving great American fare to southern New Hampshire and guests from over the border in Massachusetts.
In 1996, Diane spearheaded the effort to open The Common Man Company Store in Ashland, NH, buying the converted Ashland Post Office building and selecting New Hampshire and New England-made merchandise and antiques to sell. The store offers a wide variety of Common Man goodies and gift baskets, and also stocks creative toys, candles, linens, soaps, lotions and our own Spa at the Common Man Inn's product line. Most popular is the Common Man's home made fudge and penny candy counter. In 2010, the old-time store merged with modern-day technology to offer its most popular Common Man items for sale online through thecman.com.
In 1998, the Common Man family again teamed up with the Inns at Mill Falls in the creation of Camp restaurant, located within The Chase House at Mill Falls in downtown Meredith. Camp is a re-creation of fun days spent at summer camp on the lake, and serves up great American fare with a camp flair.
In 1999, another try was made for a seasonal place, buying the old Frankensundae on the Bay in Meredith and turning it into a take-out or eat-in summer dining spot called Town Docks. Town Docks features breathtaking views of Meredith Bay on Lake Winnipesaukee with deck seating, a beach bar and Franky's ice cream shop, serving Common Man-made ice cream. In 2001, Town Docks was transitioned from a quick-serve deli to a more traditional New England Lobster Pound.
In 2000, the decision was made to replace the Capital City Diner in Concord with a Common Man restaurant. The old structure was torn down and a new, charming New England home and barn was built in its place. The Common Man Concord opened its doors in the fall of 2000. The restaurant features unique gathering rooms that are usually booked
solid, and a new bar 'n grill offering lighter fare and spirits.
A test of the resolve and drive of the Common Man family came in the summer of 2001, when an arsonist burned down the Common Man Lincoln. The shock and loss was felt throughout the company. Lincoln STARS were kept on and loaned to other C-MAN family restaurants. The new restaurant – re-built in just 60 days – is a match of the historic home and barn that housed the original, with a few subtle improvements, including meeting and event space on the second level.
In 2001/2002, the Common Man family undertook a huge challenge. They took a 60,000 square foot defunct wood mill in the town of Plymouth, and, retaining 90 percent of the original building, ingeniously transformed it into the 38-room Common Man Inn & Spa, Foster's Boiler Room restaurant and event facility. The Common Man Inn & Spa has won 'Grow Smart' and Main Street awards, and provides what many consider to be a new center for the town of Plymouth.
Next up for Alex, Diane and their team was opening Lakehouse Grille in Church Landing at Mill Falls in Meredith in 2004. Lakehouse serves creative American cuisine in an Adirondack-style dining room that features hand-hewn exposed beams, fieldstone fireplaces, panoramic lake views, and a large event space with seating for 300 guests.
In 2005, the Common Man family turned to a big, new project - a Common Man Restaurant in Merrimack, NH. Hannah Jack's Tavern was purchased, and to the great excitement of the Merrimack community, the team set to work renovating the former home of Matthew Thornton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The restaurant opened in the historic structure, which dates back to 1794, in July of 2005.
Just as the Merrimack project was finishing up, ground broke on the Airport Diner in Manchester, in the Holiday Inn on Brown Avenue. The historic photographs of Manchester Airport, vintage planes and paintings that make up the diner's aeronautical theme were selected in partnership with the NH Aviation Historical Society. Since opening in December of 2005, the 50s style diner has quickly become a favorite with locals and travelers alike.
In 2008, the Common Man Express opened, a deli located at the Ashland Mobil Station off of Exit 24 of I-93, allowing travelers and area business people a chance to order great Common Man food while on the go.
Also in 2008, in conjunction with the massive I-93 widening project in southern New Hampshire, major renovations were made to the Common Man in Windham to increase seating, parking and offer a Bar 'n Grill area upstairs, as well as private dining areas.
In June 2009, we continued to grow, with the renovation of defunct mills in Claremont on the banks of the Sugar River into the second Common Man Inn in New Hampshire, and a Common Man restaurant. This was another sizeable undertaking by the Common Man family and Rusty McLear, who converted brick mills that were downtrodden and stood unused for decades into a beautiful 35-room inn and restaurant. Area leaders see the project as an important piece of the economic revival of the entire region.
Not waiting long for the next project, The Common Man Portsmouth opened in August 2009, becoming the first seacoast home for the Common Man family. And in October 2009, the Common Man family opened The 104 Diner in New Hampton on the former site of Bobby's Girl Diner.
Rounding out 2009 and expanding into a new area, a defunct movie theater on Main Street in Plymouth, NH was purchased and re-opened as The Flying Monkey Movie House and Performing Arts Center. After undergoing an extensive renovation in April 2010, the historic 1920's Vaudeville theater re-opened in July 2010 and now brings to northern New Hampshire national recording artists and comedy acts; independent and classic films; and regional dance and theatrical productions.
While the Common Man family has grown in physical locations over the years, so too has it's commitment to local communities by inspiring all of its STARS to live the mantra of "Doing Well by Doing Good." Each location is charged with holding community fundraisers, and employees are given paid time off to volunteer with non-profit organizations that are important to them. Over the four decades of being a hospitality leader in New Hampshire, the Common Man family has donated hundreds of hours of sweat equity and thousands of dollars in sponsorships, food and in-kind donations to local, national and international organizations working to make a difference.
The Common Man's community efforts have been recognized on both a local and national level, receiving for 16 years in a row the New Hampshire Restaurant Neighbor Award, and in 2010, a national Cornerstone Humanitarian Award from the National Restaurant Association. Other awards for the Common Man family over the years have included Business of the Decade from Business New Hampshire Magazine, Business of the Year from the New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development, Best Company to Work for in the Food Service Industry by The Griffin Report and multiple "Best of" Awards as voted by readers of New Hampshire Magazine, Hippo Press, The New Hampshire Union Leader and The Concord Monitor.
November 2011 marked 40 years of The Common Man family serving great American fare in the Granite State. The "Family's" drive and creativity had not diminished over the years, and in October 2013, Alex broke ground in Hooksett to undertake a unique public-private partnership with the State of New Hampshire, to renovate the dated Welcome Centers on each side of Interstate 93.
After just 15 months of construction, the ribbon was cut on the northbound facility in March 2015, with southbound following shortly after. The new Welcome Centers offer new 20,000 square foot NH Liquor & Wine Outlets, 3,000 square foot interactive visitor centers, NH General Stores, Common Man Roadside eateries in 10,000 square foot food courts, 16 Irving fuel stations, Tesla electric car charging stations, upgraded restrooms and more than 300 parking spaces each. The northbound center was named in honor of the late Executive Councilor Raymond S. Burton, and also features a Merrimack County Savings Bank branch and a League of New Hampshire Craftsmen retail store. This is the only facility of its kind to feature an all-local food court without the presence of national brands.
The newest addition to The Common Man family is a barn that spent the last 177 years or so housing livestock and storing potatoes on the Peverly Farm in the historic village of Canterbury, NH. Keeping true to our Yankee ways, Alex and our team salvaged this treasure, lovingly took it apart –board by board, beam by beam – and moved it to a beautiful spot with a view of the Pemigewasset River, adjacent to our Italian Farmhouse in Plymouth, NH.
This three-story, 10,000 square foot event facility, called The Barn on the Pemi, opened in June 2018 and hosts up to 300 guests for gatherings and celebrations of all kinds.
There's always something exciting going on in our Common Man family. You never know when Alex is going to find a new project and proclaim, "Here we grow again!"
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Your adventure party will be challenged with obstacles and challenges that test their mettle. Your resoluteness and will to fight are vital to complete the most difficult tasks. The Forgotten Realms will test the strongest fighters – how will you fare?
Fortunately, an ally is at your side: The Devoted Cleric. This versatile class is capable of handling any situation your party may encounter. In a support role, their heal abilities are unmatched in Neverwinter. In combat roles, the Devoted Cleric can punish foes with the likes of a seasoned Guardian Fighter. Many enemies have wrongly underestimated the power of a Devoted Cleric – with deadly consequences.
The Devoted Cleric can also turn the tide in battle with outstanding area control abilities and single-target holy damage. Furthermore, they can build divine power by dealing damage to enhance skill effects through channeling. Which spells should a devout Cleric focus on? Below are a few of the Devoted Cleric's abilities.
Lance of Faith is their most reliable attack; few enemies can withstand incoming spears of light. To bend enemies to your will, encase them with the cleric's alternate at-will Astral Seal power. Your party will recover health by attacking a spellbound enemy! If you prefer to channel your divine powers, press Tab to switch to a different set of divine powers. Punishing Light deals a steady stream of damage while Soothing Light restores health to the cleric and any ally he or she targets. The cleric's versatility is key to keeping you and your party alive for the next dungeon delve!
There are even more powerful spells at your disposal, but for only the most experienced Devoted Clerics. One of the first encounter abilities available is Daunting Light, an area-of-effect spell that casts a divine column of light to rain down on enemies. Used with divine power, the Devoted Cleric can cast some spells quicker and affect a larger area! One of the first daily powers is Hallowed Ground. The cleric sanctifies an area to reduce incoming damage for allies and buffs their damage output in desperate times in battle – use it wisely!
This is only a small glimpse into the true power of a Devoted Cleric. One must fight alongside them to truly understand how invaluable and necessary they are. Play as a Devoted Cleric or recruit one for your adventures in Neverwinter's Forgotten Realms today!


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More than a decade after Yvette Harris's 1997 Mitsubishi was repossessed, she is still paying off her car loan.
She has no choice. Her auto lender took her to court and won the right to seize a portion of her income to cover her debt. The lender has so far been able to garnish $4,133 from her paychecks — a drain that at one point forced Ms. Harris, a single mother who lives in the Bronx, to go on public assistance to support her two sons.
"How am I still paying for a car I don't have?" she asked.
For millions of Americans like Ms. Harris who have shaky credit and had to turn to subprime auto loans with high interest rates and hefty fees to buy a car, there is no getting out.
Many of these auto loans, it turns out, have a habit of haunting people long after their cars have been repossessed.
The reason: Unable to recover the balance of the loans by repossessing and reselling the cars, some subprime lenders are aggressively suing borrowers to collect what remains — even 13 years later.
Ms. Harris's predicament goes a long way toward explaining how lenders, working hand in hand with auto dealers, have made billions of dollars extending high-interest loans to Americans on the financial margins.
These are people desperate enough to take on thousands of dollars of debt at interest rates as high as 24 percent for one simple reason: Without a car, they have no way to get to work or to doctors.
With their low credit scores, buying or leasing a new car is not an option. And when all the interest and fees of a subprime loan are added up, even a used car with mechanical defects and many miles on the odometer can end up costing more than a new car.
Subprime lenders are willing to take a chance on these risky borrowers because when they default, the lenders can repossess their cars and persuade judges in 46 states to give them the power to seize borrowers' paychecks to cover the balance of the car loan.
Now, with defaults rising, federal banking regulators and economists are worried how the strain of these loans will spill over into the broader economy.
For low-income Americans, the fallout could, in some ways, be worse than the mortgage crisis.
With mortgages, people could turn in the keys to their house and walk away. But with auto debt, there is increasingly no exit. Repossession, rather than being the end, is just the beginning.
"Low-income earners are shackled to this debt," said Shanna Tallarico, a consumer lawyer with the New York Legal Assistance Group.
There are no national tallies of how many borrowers face the collection lawsuits, known within the industry as deficiency cases. But state records show that the courts are becoming flooded with such lawsuits.
For example, the large subprime lender Credit Acceptance has filed more than 17,000 lawsuits against borrowers in New York alone since 2010, court records show. And debt buyers — companies that scoop up huge numbers of soured loans for pennies on the dollar — bring their own cases, breathing new life into old bills.
Portfolio Recovery Associates, one of the nation's largest debt buyers, purchased about $30.2 million of auto deficiencies in the first quarter of this year, up from $411,000 just a year earlier.
One of the people Credit Acceptance sued is Nagham Jawad, a refugee from Iraq, who moved to Syracuse after her father was killed. Soon after settling into her new home in 2009, Ms. Jawad took out a loan for $5,900 and bought a used car.
After only a few months on the road, the transmission on the 10-year-old Chevy Tahoe gave out. The vehicle was in such bad shape that her lender didn't bother to repossess it when Ms. Jawad, 39, fell behind on payments.
"These are garbage cars sold at outrageous interest rates," said her lawyer, Gary J. Pieples, director of the consumer law clinic at the Syracuse University College of Law.
The value of any car typically starts to decline the moment it leaves the dealer's lot. In the subprime market, however, the value of the cars is often beside the point.
A dealership in Queens refused to cancel Theresa Robinson's loan of nearly $8,000 and give her a refund for a car that broke down days after she drove it off the lot.
Instead, Ms. Robinson, a Staten Island resident who is physically disabled and was desperate for a car to get to her doctors' appointments, was told to pick a different car from the lot.
The second car she selected — a 2005 Chrysler Pacifica — eventually broke down as well. Unable to afford the loan payments after sinking thousands of dollars into repairs, Ms. Robinson defaulted.
Her subprime lender took her to court and won the right to garnish her income from babysitting her grandson to cover her loan payments.
Ms. Robinson and her lawyer, Ms. Tallarico, are now fighting to get the judgment overturned.
"Essentially, the dealers are not selling cars. They are selling bad loans," said Adam Taub, a lawyer in Detroit who has defended consumers in hundreds of these cases.
Many lawyers assisting poor borrowers like Ms. Robinson say they learn about the lawsuits only after a judge has issued a decision in favor of the lender.
Most borrowers can't afford lawyers and don't show up to court to challenge the lawsuits. That means the collectors win many cases, transforming the debts into judgments they can use to garnish wages.
The lenders argue that they are just recouping through the courts what they are legally owed. They also argue that subprime auto lending meets an important need.
And collecting on the debt is a critical part of the business. The first item on the quarterly earnings of Credit Acceptance, the large subprime auto lender, is not the amount of loans it makes, but what it expects to collect on the debt.
The company, for example, expects a 72 percent collection rate on loans made in 2014 — the year that a used 2009 Volkswagen Tiguan was repossessed from Nina Lysloff of Ypsilanti, Mich.
With all the interest and fees on her Credit Acceptance loan factored in, the car ended up costing her $28,383. Ms. Lysloff could have bought a brand-new Volkswagen Tiguan for $22,149, according to Kelley Blue Book.
When Ms. Lysloff fell behind, the trade-in value on the car was a fraction of what she still owed. Last year, Credit Acceptance sued her for $15,755.
The strategy at Credit Acceptance, which has a market value of $4.4 billion, is yielding big profits. The Michigan company said its return on equity, a measure of profitability, was 31 percent last year — more than four times Bank of America's return.
Credit Acceptance did not respond to requests for comment.
Some of the people who got subprime loans lacked enough income to qualify for any loan.
U.S. Bank is pursuing Tara Pearson for the $9,339 left after her 2011 Hyundai Accent was stolen and she could not pay the fee to get it from the impound lot. When she purchased the car in 2015 at a dealership in Winchester, Ky., Ms. Pearson said, she explained that her only income was about $722 from Social Security.
Her loan application listed things differently. Her employer was identified as "S.S.I.," and her income was put at $2,750, court records show.
Citing continuing litigation, U.S. Bank declined to comment about Ms. Pearson.
Auto lending was one of the few types of credit that did not dry up during the financial crisis. It now stands at more than $1.1 trillion.
Despite many signs that the market is overheating, securities tied to the loans are so profitable — yielding twice as much as certain Treasury securities — that they remain a sought-after investment on Wall Street.
"The dog keeps eating until its stomach explodes," said Daniel Zwirn, who runs Arena, a hedge fund that has avoided subprime auto investments.
Some lenders are pulling back from making new loans. Subprime auto lending reached a 10-year low in the first quarter. But for those borrowers already stuck with debt, there is no end in sight.
Ms. Harris, the single mother from the Bronx, said that even after her wages had been garnished and she paid an additional $2,743 on her own, her lender was still seeking to collect about $6,500.
"It's been a nightmare," she said.


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In this five-session small group Bible study DVD, The Me I Want to Be, John Ortberg reveals how you can become the unique, fully alive person God intended you to be.
There is a me each of one of us wants to be... someone who's more kind and generous, patient, and loving. But there is a gap between the me I am and the me I want to be. Oftentimes we find it easy to trust God to bridge the gap between and us and him, but we struggle to really live by grace and trust God to close the gap between the me I am and the me I want to be. Becoming God's best version of you is both God's desire and the greatest task of your life. And here's the good news... he's already working on it. Your life is God's project, not yours.
The Me I Want to Be small group Bible study is a powerful look at becoming the unique, fully alive, flourishing person God intended. Pastor and author John Ortberg teaches through fives sessions how you can move toward becoming God's best version of you in four specific areas: your mind, your time, your relationships, and your experiences.
Spiritual growth can seem difficult or intimidating, but John Ortberg's humor and innovative thinking in The Me I Want to Be will leave you challenged, inspired, and hopeful about true spiritual growth happening in you and your small group.
This DVD is designed for use together with The Me I Want to Be Participant Guide (sold separately) and features live teaching sessions from John Ortberg. When used together they provide you with a practical tool than can transform your faith.
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Gallardo outduels Locke in Brewers' 1-0 win
Yo tosses seven shutout innings
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Aramis Ramirez had an RBI groundout shortly after Jonathan Lucroy was awarded a double on fan interference and Yovani Gallardo outdueled spot-starter Jeff Locke as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 1-0 on Sunday.
Gallardo (4-4) gave up four hits and a walk over seven innings for Milwaukee. He struck out a season-high eight.
Locke (0-1) returned to the form that earned him a bid to the 2013 All-Star game, allowing three hits and a run in seven innings. He struck out five and walked three while pitching in place of Charlie Morton, whose start was pushed back a day.
The Pirates also placed right-hander Gerrit Cole on the 15-day disabled list.
Lucroy led off the seventh with a double, aided by fan interference. He advanced to second base on a fly to center field and scored on Ramirez's soft grounder to first base.


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By default, your DIRECTV receiver displays all the channels DIRECTV offers in the DIRECTV program guide, whether or not you subscribe to them. However, you can limit the displayed channels to just those to which you are subscribed. To learn more about the DIRECTV Program Guide and how to customize your settings, watch the video below.
See only those channels you're subscribed to. Here's how:
The DIRECTV guide will now display only the channels you subscribe to. "Custom 1" should be displayed in the bottom left corner of the guide screen.
Note: You must have a Standard receiver (model D10-100 and above), HD receiver (model H20 or above), Plus DVR (model R15 or higher) or Plus HD DVR (model HR20 and higher) to use this DIRECTV Channel Guide feature.


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No. 9 Lady Vols trounce Mississippi State 88-45
Kamiko Williams scored 10 points and grabbed a career-high 13 rebounds in her first start of the season Thursday as No. 9 Tennessee routed Mississippi State 88-45 for its 10th win in its last 11 games.
Williams started in place of injured center Isabelle Harrison, who will undergo surgery Friday on her left knee. The senior guard had six assists and six steals to go along with her double-double.
Meighan Simmons scored 21 points, Taber Spani added 15 points and Bashaara Graves had 10 points as the Lady Vols (17-4, 8-0 SEC) led from start to finish. Martha Alwal had 16 points and nine rebounds for Mississippi State (9-12, 1-7), which has never beaten Tennessee in 34 attempts.
Tennessee forward Cierra Burdick returned to action Thursday after missing eight games with a broken right hand. Burdick, normally a starter, had four points and five rebounds off the bench.


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Star Modello Super Star Trade Mark Super S .380 ACP STAR SS STAR PD CUSTOM AUSTIN BELERT 45 Guns Pistols Star Pistols Star Spain mm Model B Colt Government Size Steel Frame Israeli Army Police VG Magazine | 665 | 105 | Lc | 46.8635ms View Category Star Spain 9mm Model B Colt Government Size Steel Frame 1950 Israeli Army Police VG 1 Magazine For Sale from Robertson Trading Post | Positive feedback: 99% View | Verified Seller | 25496 Completed Sales View Sellers Items /UserImages/87270/945091703 3201743.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201743.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_sm_3201743.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201743.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201743.jpg /UserImages/87270/945091703 3201744.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201744.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_sm_3201744.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201744.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201744.jpg /UserImages/87270/945091703 3201745.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201745.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_sm_3201745.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201745.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201745.jpg /UserImages/87270/945091703 3201746.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201746.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_sm_3201746.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201746.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201746.jpg /UserImages/87270/945091703 3201747.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201747.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_sm_3201747.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201747.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201747.jpg /UserImages/87270/945091703 3201748.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201748.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_sm_3201748.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201748.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201748.jpg /UserImages/87270/945091703 3201749.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201749.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_sm_3201749.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201749.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201749.jpg /UserImages/87270/945091703 3201750.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201750.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_sm_3201750.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201750.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201750.jpg /UserImages/87270/945091703 3201751.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201751.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_sm_3201751.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201751.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201751.jpg /UserImages/87270/945091703 3201752.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201752.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_sm_3201752.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201752.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201752.jpg /UserImages/87270/945091703 3201753.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201753.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_sm_3201753.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201753.jpg https://www.gunsamerica.com/UserImages/87270/945091703/wm_3201753.jpg Description: Star, Bonifacio Echeverria S.A. of Eibar, Spain quickly caught the attention of Europe, the Middle East, and even the United States with their excellent quality pistols that went into production in 1934 with the Star Model A. The Star's all steel, close machined construction certainly was strong enough to stand the high pressures from the 38 Super Round, and it most certainly could withstand any 9mm Luger Rounds. Here is a well preserved specimen of the 9mm descendant Star Model B with 1950 date code letter U stamped above the trigger guard to the right of the Spanish Government and Local Eibar proof marks. Serial number is 62000 range, correct for 1950. Most likely it came into service with the Israeli Defense Forces shortly after Independence and served in the wars of 1956, 1967, 1973, and both Intifadas as well. This specimen comes to us from service with the Mishteret Y'Israel, the Israeli Civilian Police in Jerusalem District, and before that from service with the Israel Defense Forces. Its only alien stamping is required by US Law, PW Arms Redmond WA importer marks on the forward upper left side of its frame. Barrel and slide are 5 inch Colt Government length, blue steel with John M. Browning bushing type mechanism. Sights are stake-on half moon low profile front and matching dovetailed blue steel rear combat type. Extractor is housed completely internally to the slide, located in right rear serrated area, as the photos show. Safety setup is main safety only for cocked-and-locked carry, with no grip safety. The Star safety, however, will engage with the hammer in resting position. Frame's mainspring housing area is integral to the frame, not removable, with checkered serrations. Magazine is factory Star, World War II era. Capacity is 9 rounds, 8 + 1, and magazines are available throughout the country. Caliber is 9mm Parabellum, 9mm Luger, 9x19, call it what you will, THE 9mm. Weight empty is 37 ounces, and weight and dimensions are very similar to the Colt 1911 Government Pistols. Grip panels are factory checkered composite, period correct and original Star. On this specimen, Surface detractions are only moderate: principally holster contact whitening on the slide edges, small etchy freckling here and there on the blue finish, and flattening to the grip panel checkering. We rate this specimen as Very Good, 80 percent vicinity by our estimate; photos, at any rate, ought to suffice for our distinguished shoppers to judge finish grade for themselves. It is excellent mechanically; bore, chamber, and mechanism are all bright, clean and excellent, and the trigger pull is crisp 5 pound vicinity with negligible felt creep. We're offering this very attractive, eminently serviceable and collectable Spanish-Israeli Star Spain 9mm Model B Pistol for only $ 349.00. C&R Eligible; Not transferable to civilian non-dealers in Massachusetts. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> $10 lower 48; $30 Alaska, Hawaii or Puerto Rico, USPS Priority Mail, insured with Delivery Confirmation. Don't let your buddies use your account, that kind of thing smells like felony level straw purchase attempt. MC/Visa/Discover/USPS MO paid orders shipped same day. 7 day hold on checks. FFL ok by fax, e-mail or mail, please ask your dealer to put your name on there. We offer 7 day money back on used guns and items, but No Returns on New in Box guns or on Lay-aways or ammo. We do not pay transfer fees or return shipping. New guns have factory warranties and we are not a warranty station. We accept lay-away with 20% down, balance in 90 days - lay aways not refundable, though. Internet phone hours 8:30 – 4:30 CST Mon - Fri CST. Local pickup available. Robertson Trading Post 117 Front Street PO Box 365 Henderson, Tennessee 38340 We Buy, Sell, or Trade. We always have, since 1952. Read More Condition: Used, Minor Wear Caliber: 9mm (other) Location: TN Trades Accepted: We Buy, Sell, or Trade. Always have. Read More Don't let your buddies use your account. Registered user must be the buyer, with his or her own money. Buying firearms and related items for other people can result in felony charges. Don't try, either, to circumvent any law; for example, a California civilian may not buy a high capacity magazine and have it shipped to his brother-in-law in Nevada. That is a felony. GA Pay buyers are NOT charged until we confirm we have the item and are ready to ship it. The same thing is true for phone-in, fax-in, and mail-in payments. In this respect, and in several others, Guns America outshines all its competitors. This is the best firearms website there is, hands down. Shipping Notes: $10 lower 48; $30 AK, HI, PR, USPS Priority. 7 day money back on used items, but No Returns on NIB, Lay-away, or Ammo. Lay-away OK, 20% down, 90 days to pay. We Buy, Sell, or Trade; we always have. Read More Share Item Item #: 945091703 Stock No.: HG1246 Robertson Trading Post Seller Since: Jul. 2007 Identity Verified ( Henderson, TN ) Trusted Seller This seller is an FFL City: Henderson State: TN Price: SOLD (Price reflects 3% cash discount.) This Seller Accepts Online Payment Shipping: $10.00 Accepted Payment Methods: Returns: 7 Days Your Recently Viewed Items