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Beat the Streak Report: Monday, June 14
Top selection Robinson Cano's 1-for-3 afternoon pushed the fast forward button on 15.1 percent of streaks nationwide on a crazy, not-so-lazy Sunday that saw seven players launch two home runs a piece, which I'm pretty sure is the final sign of the apocalypse for all Home Run Beat the Streak players.
But enough with the small talk, we have some serious business to address.
Today we are faced with perhaps the most challenging Beat the Streak day on the 2010 calendar.
Not only are we still in the midst of Interleague Play, where hitters are facing unfamiliar opposing pitchers (advantage pitchers), but there are only four games scheduled, slicing away almost three quarters of our player pool.
And while former BTS stalwarts Albert Pujols and, gulp, Ichiro Suzuki are primed for the taking, 2010 BTS reliables like Cano, Miguel Cabrera and Vlad Guerrero each have the day off.
I'm fully aware that the picks below are not for the weak minded.
Today is the day we separate the double decker tacos from the hard shelled.
Time for Monday's picks
Oh, hello there …
? Adam Jones: Eight-game hitting streak; .302 AVG for June.
? Aaron Hill: .364 AVG (4-for-11) lifetime vs. Padres starter Jon Garland
? Carlos Gomez: .500 AVG (4-for-8) lifetime vs. Angels starter Joe Saunders
? Erick Aybar: .422 AVG (19-for-45) over last 10 games.
Feeling kinda spicy?
? Juan Rivera: .364 AVG (4-for-11) lifetime vs. Brewers starter Randy Wolf. Last two starts for Wolf: 0-2, 13 ER, 15 H, 10.32 ERA. Don't mind if I do …
You'll thank me later …
? Miguel Tejada: .000 AVG (0-for-7) lifetime vs. Giants starter Jonathan Sanchez
? Matt Wieters: .167 AVG (6-for-36) for June; .235 season AVG;
Leaderboard time!
"BsblGeenus" and "ecurryjmp2" each survived the weekend and are now riding stellar 32-game streaks.
That means that they are officially 56.1 percent on their way to buying (roughly) 84 billion of those insanely annoying World Cup vuvuzelas thingies and obliterating mankind 'til kingdom come.
In Survivor news, "brentandcam" are still at it, upping his/her/their streak to 26 games by correctly predicting a Yankees win over the Orioles. Apparently, there is no rule voiding any picks when a team faces Kevin Millwood (0-9, 5.16 ERA).
This needs to change.
Top MLB streakers
? Brandon Phillips: 15 games
? Kevin Kouzmanoff: 14 games
? Sean Rodriguez: 14 games
? Jorge Cantu: 12 games
? Julio Borbon: 11 games
? Shin-Soo Choo: 11 games
? Vladimir Guerrero: 11 games
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Curious to see how many Pujols/Ichiro picks there will be, both in the Top2500 and the field. Also curious how many 2nd/3rd string catchers will be picked by the timid 😉
Well talk about a rough day. I have Hunter of Anaheim. He is hitting well lately and he is hitting Wolf at .667 clip in 3 ABs. I think Matsui is a good sleeper for today.
Man, there is not a single solid pick out there. Ichiro could be a trap because of Wainwright. Wainwright seems to pitch awfully better at home which takes the risk level even higher. And the way Seattle has been hitting, Wainwright can just cruise and maybe even pitch around Ichi if he comes up in a key situation.
Pujols is a 50/50. He has the most weirdest splits ever. He can hit right here or lefty there only if its night or day at home or on the road, etc.
Only 5th starter is going against a team with hitters that I am not that comfortable going with. Will research Sanchez now.
This might be good day to go with someone who is not playing.
Personally I wouldn't touch Sir Albert with a 10 foot pole. Prior to yesterday, he was slumping big time & his 2 hits yesterday might have been simply due to bad pitching by the D-Backs pen, i.e.. lucky timing on his last 2 ABs. Ichiro may be a good pick as he hits righties well and Wainwright hasn't been truly lights out this year; however, hits per innings are low & most seem to come with 1 or 2 outs: hence less damage & high win rate. LaRussa doesn't hesitate to intentionally walk hitters either. Dilemma yes. I'm still sticking with the west coast.
Does anyone know of anyone who is confirmed to have the day off?
I do not see anyone worth picking.
champ88: check rotoworld, it may be helpful. Be cautious, those with day off can pitch hit for the pitcher: 3 of 4 games in NL parks. For the 1 AL park game, less likely, but still a possibility. If you find any inside info for a day-to-day, minor injury related batter, probably better odds won't come in. You can also pick STL-SEA and hope for a rainout 😉
^^ excuse typo-s above. … pinch hit, not pitch hit.
How about Wise from Toronto? He only has one AB. I didn't even know he was back up. With Wells playing CF and Marcum pitching, I doubt there will be much opp. for pintching hitting for pitchers. But if its tie game with extra innings, better off Wise will be 2-for-1 for the season. As lavolpe mentioned, catchers maybe too but don't go with one from Angels. Their reg. catcher is playing first base.
I have yet to put my pick in but after heavy debate I've decided I will pick somebody who will play.
What do you think about Colby Rasmus for a hit against some guy named Luke French? I was going to go with Pujols but he hasn't been exactly tearing it up lately.
Regarding Colby, maybe a better pick than most if he bats in the #2 spot. With Pujols, Holliday & Ludwick following him, he should get the best pitches to hit; just depends on whether he can do anything with those pitches.
I agree the Ludwick would be a good pick and I had a hard time picking between him and Holliday. I went with Holliday even though he hasn't been lights out lately. Seattle pitching has been terrible this year with the exception of Lee and Hernandez and this guy French will not be able to mow through the Cardinals line-up I don't think. I also like the lefty-righty match-up as well. GL to everyone as this will be interesting to see how everyone does and who everyone picks.
Keep this in mind, the Cardinals have 3 problem areas: lefty pitchers, pitchers they've never seen before, Bud Norris. Any Cards fan will tell you this & I know 'cause I've lived outside STL now for 10 years (Go Cubs Go!). Well, it isn't Bud Norris pitching tonite, but it is a never-before-seen lefty – beware!
whod u guys pick for roday igot…
BTS Juan Uribe
HR BTS Ryan Braun
Survivor Giants
Wish I would have followed my own instincts: "Ichiro may be a good pick as he hits righties well and Wainwright hasn't been truly lights out this year". 1st inning hit for Ichiro; now to wait for my pick to get a hit.
Moving on for me. I figured I didn't have much to lose with my lowly streak so instead of wasting time, I went with Made In Japan. I figure you can't win this game w/o him and if you couldn't rely on him today, when??
Today's Top Picks of the current Top2500. All games included, 75 different batters picked overall
Player, Times Picked, Percentage
Albert Pujols, 657, 26.03%
Torii Hunter, 305, 12.08
Ichiro Suzuki, 253, 10.02
Ryan Braun, 216, 8.56
Aubrey Huff, 174, 6.89
Matt Holliday, 100, 3.96
Pablo Sandoval, 82, 3.25
Freddy Sanchez, 64, 2.54
Vernon Wells, 60, 2.38
Erick Aybar, 57, 2.26
No Selection, 53, 2.1
Buster Posey, 50, 1.98
Bobby Abreu, 38, 1.51
David Freese, 29, 1.15
Craig Tatum, 28, 1.11
Adrian Gonzalez, 26, 1.03
Highest "No Selection": Page #9 with a streak of 16 now reset to zero.
An average day yesterday for Top2500 streakers, with a 19% reset.
Wow. So many people choosing Pujols. I don't see the reason. I wonder if it would have been this high if it wasn't the MLB Pick of the Day.
Kudos to the leaders for going with Huff. I think you need guts to make uncomfortable picks to win this. I thought about him but went with the comfort pick.
Soon as I bash Pujols, he rips a line drive hit. This game can't be figured out.
pujols and ichiro are both 1-1
Not one comment on Eric Aybar – batting over .450 the past 10 days and bats leadoff v. a hittable Wolf of Brewers. I took him tonight and now I've got my fingers crossed as no one is mentioning him. Uribe and Huff also looked good to me.
yeah i have uribe
kinda worried… havent found anyone else who picked uribe…
Survivor: Anyone take a look at the leader page? More than 1 reason for me to hope STL loses tonite: 1) Cubs fan, 2) Didn't pick them
Tomorrow: anyone hoping the STL-SEA game doesn't get rained out; have you taken a look at the 2 pitchers in that game?
pujols and ichiro are both 1-1
"I figure you can't win this game w/o him and if you couldn't rely on him today, when??"
lol, outside of facing tough lefties, there is not many worse matchups for Ichiro.
"Today's Top Picks of the current Top2500. All games included, 75 different batters picked overall"
That could be record potential, since if you scale by number of games, that is close to 300 different batters picked.
"Craig Tatum, 28, 1.11"
never heard of this guy?
"Not one comment on Eric Aybar – batting over .450 the past 10 days and bats leadoff v. a hittable Wolf of Brewers. I took him tonight and now I've got my fingers crossed as no one is mentioning him. Uribe and Huff also looked good to me."
I looked at him, but for some reason, he is only hitting .208 at home this season.
I went with Andres Torres by the way.
@champ88: Tatum is backup catcher for BAL. Has played this year.
Also, what is this nonsense with these advertisements on Gameday today?
I REALLY hope this is not going to be a permanent addition.
They are REALLY annoying!
Go figure, several posts up, btsplayer suggested maybe picking TOR's Wise as a safe no-player tonite: he's in the starting line up & F.Lewis gets day off instead.
Do you have Wise?
I've said before u can't avoid EVERY elite pitcher. Sometimes u just have to take a chance w/ an elite hitter. Ichiro with a hit has me worried, hope F. Sanchez doesn't go hitless when I didn't follow my own advice.
@champ88: Nope, I'm one behind you in the bloggers group. Never considered him, but I changed my pick as soon as I saw the SEA-STL lineup today.
Is there a way to turn off the annoying ads between innings? It wouldn't be so bad if they don't repeat the same one every time. It makes me want to not buy the product.
Was it last year when they were running banner ads for McD snack wraps on the bottom while BTS was being sponsered by the Burger King?
Regarding GameDay. I don't use it anymore. I select 4-6 mini gamedays instead. Look for link at bottom of the normal gameday window.
lavolpe, just switched to the Mini. Thanks!
Man, Seattle just can't catch a break. Before the season started, I really thought they be contending now. Every which way things can go wrong, they did. I sort of see the logic now in Cashman overpaying for players while they're still peaking. So many teams pay pretty good $ for stars of 2 yrs ago and get nothing in return. The discount in the yesterday's stars is not worthe the risk. Often they get 0% return.
@btsplayer: You're welcome. To view more than one:
From the miniplayer, select SCOREBOARD at bottom, click on one of the other games. I have all 4 games displayed right now.
7 game streak…7 1st at-bat hits…I would love to go 50 more days like this.
A.Huff hitless after 7. Unless a bat-around, the 2 leaders drop tonight and are replaced.
Gotta feel for our now-dethroned leaders. Only if the Giants batted around would Huff get another AB. Well bases loaded, and F.Sanchez is the 8th batter and he swings… a single, clears the bags and noooooo; Sanchez makes the last out running to 3rd with Huff on deck!
Other news: Aybar injured in takeout slide; goes 0-fer
MIL slams LAA & they take out Abreu & Hunter; all 0-fer. Wells goes 0-fer.
What started out as a very promising day for BTS turned out to be rather sour indeed.
Definitely feel for anybody who had Huff. I've been in that situation (with my guy left on-deck) plenty of times. Not a good feeling thinking "what-if".
I had a suspicion that Wolf wasn't gong to be so bad. I said that last night. He was just having some bad games this year. Last year, this guy was very stingy with hits even when ue loses. I remember never even thinking about going against him last year. Given so many ways things can not go your way, no sense in making it harder.
@lavolpe: Have you thought about just tallying top 500 or maybe 1000 instead of 2500 for your list. I am more interested in what people with good streaks are picking. You know the people who are at least in double digits. My suspicion is generally there will be even more concenration of "hot bats" towards the top.
@rip2thecompetition: Yup. I was thinking the same. I don't know why I get so emotionally involved in this. Its not like what I am thinking, yelling or cursing will change a thing. You know but the Huff was a suspect pick for today. He already had 4 days of great hitting prior to today. That is a lot for him. He is one of those guys who gets lots hits on days he hits but has many zero days too.
@btsplayer: I thought so, but right now everyone in the Top2500 are ahead of me, so all are of interest & probably for the majority also. Hurts to say that!
Last note: Pinch hitters took out about 20 of the Top2500 that thought they were playing it safe. Just goes to show you, best pick someone to ride 'cause you never know. The worse example was Padres' Cunningham with a .133 AVG picked by one Top2500 player. The most taken out at once was 9 by Orioles' Montanez. The Orioles' Tatum never came in having more than a page of picks with 28 picks.
Good night, until tomorrow.
"@lavolpe: Have you thought about just tallying top 500 or maybe 1000 instead of 2500 for your list. I am more interested in what people with good streaks are picking. You know the people who are at least in double digits. My suspicion is generally there will be even more concenration of "hot bats" towards the top."
Mostly everyone in the top 2500 is in double digits.
Following big elimination days, a handful of 9's sneak in, but other than that, it is all double digits.
"@rip2thecompetition: Yup. I was thinking the same. I don't know why I get so emotionally involved in this. Its not like what I am thinking, yelling or cursing will change a thing. "
I always try to watch, because watching lots of games gives you a better feel for who is hot, than having to do a lot of research before the games start.


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Heritage is a matter of the heart and not the brain, David Lowenthal once said. It does not seek to explore the past, but to domesticate it and enlist it for present causes. From the drafting of the first royal decrees on ancient monuments in the 17th century, political interests have had a hand in deciding which traditions, monuments and sites best represent and best serve the needs of the nation. The sum of these domestication efforts, the laws, institutions and practices established to protect and manage heritage, is what we call heritage governance. In this seminar you will learn about the politics of 21st century heritage governance at national and international level. Students will become familiar with key conventions and learn about the functioning of heritage institutions. We will also examine the hidden practices and current political developments that impact heritage governance: how UNESCO heritage sites become bargaining tools in international relations, how EU heritage policies are negotiated in the corridors of Brussels, and how the current re-nationalization of Western politics can affect what we come to know as our common past.
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Archaeological studies in contemporary East Asia share a common concern, to contribute to building a national narrative and cultural identity. This course focuses on case studies from China, Korea, and Japan, examining the influence of particular social-political contexts, such as nationalism, on the practice of archaeology in modern times.
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From the Palace of Versailles to grand operas to Jacques-Louis David's portraits of revolutionary martyrs, rarely have the arts been so powerfully mobilized by the State as in early modern France. This course examines how the arts were used from Louis XIV to the Revolution in order to broadcast political authority across Europe. We will also consider the resistance to such attempts to elicit shock-and-awe through artistic patronage. By studying music, architecture, garden design, the visual arts, and theater together, students will gain a new perspective on works of art in their political contexts. But we will also examine the libelous pamphlets and satirical cartoons that turned the monarchy¿s grandeur against itself, ending the course with an examination of the new artistic regime of the French Revolution. The course will be taught in English with the option of French readings for departmental majors.
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Gibson: 'Taste' of big leagues would help Bradley
PHOENIX -- D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said a taste of the big leagues at some point this year would help top prospect Archie Bradley in 2015, but that it's too soon to say when, or if, that will happen.
"What I want Archie to do is continue to throw the ball well like he did his last start, get on a roll and be prepared for an opportunity should it arise," Gibson said.
Bradley, who is pitching for Double-A Mobile, allowed two runs on three hits over seven innings Saturday and struck out 10 while walking just one. It was the 21-year-old's fifth start for Mobile after being shut down earlier this summer with some elbow discomfort.
Bradley is using his secondary pitches -- his curve and changeup -- more than he has in the past according to Gibson and he has also been developing a two-seam fastball.
"That's kind of what you want to see," Gibson said. "You can't just rear back and throw it here. He's good, he's strong, mechanics are good. He's really working on his total pitch package and is becoming more comfortable in utilizing it."
Bradley lost out in a battle to win the No. 5 spot during Spring Training and then was set back with the elbow problem, but he still could find his way to the Majors this year before it's all said and done.
"You come up and get a taste, it's valuable going into next year, for sure," Gibson said. "Any experience he could get would certainly be valuable going into next year."


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Were you here with us at the Marquee, Science Centre Singapore for our first lead-up family workshop for the Singapore Mini Maker Faire last Saturday? It was an amazing array of activities and we hope you had managed to cover everything if you were here.
Check out some of the station activities that were arranged!
LED activities/ Using DIY remote buttons for Scratch software
Learn about simple circuits by making a blingtastic circuit
Sciencey games: Kendama
Amaker3D: Open source 3D printing
3D modelling and design with Henry Wong and Darren See
Quilling and paper crafting with Priyanka Datta
Solder your own wireframe models by Pan Yew
Colour Me – by artist Richard Kearns
Communicate your Science: a "Be a writer" talent hunt and children's talk show, by Sindu Sreebhavan of Kids Parade Magazine
If you had missed this workshop, no worries, there will be other opportunities. Do watch this space or follow us on our Singapore Mini Maker Faire Facebook Page! Remember to block your calendar for our actual Singapore Mini Maker Faire 2014 which will happen on 26 & 27 July 2014 at Senja-Cashew Community Club.


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Hosting the Oscars is the worst job in comedy. Everyone at home expects you to be funny. Everyone in the Kodak Theater expects you to be respectful. And comedy and respecting people NEVER go together well.
Think of the crowd you have to play to when you're an Oscar host: actors, writers, directors… These are some of the most self-important, humorless, thin-skinned people on Earth. They make the audience at the White House Correspondent's Dinner look like the crowd at the Comedy Cellar. You'd run them over with your Hyundai if you could. They're immensely irritating human beings.
Over the past decade, the Oscars have trotted out no less than seven different hosts to try and get the show exactly right: Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Crystal, Steve Martin, Jon Stewart, Chris Rock, Ellen DeGeneres, and Hugh Jackman. Some of these hosts had their fair share of issues. Rock was too crude for the audience. Stewart was too subversive ("Oh no! He's actually making fun of us? THAT WASN'T PART OF THE DEAL!"). DeGeneres was too meek. And Goldberg was too not funny.
Jackman hosted last year, in part, because the show's producers decided to not even bother trying to find the right comedian to host the program. Thus, we were treated to a spectacularly bloated, Tonys-style affair, complete with musical numbers, tribute speeches TO EVERY FREAKIN' NOMINEE, and more. Jackman was in charge of it all, and while he's a pleasant fellow, I still wanted to stick my head through a plate glass window by the time it was all over.
Of all those hosts over the past decade, I'd argue only one really got it right, and that was Steve Martin. Billy Crystal is beloved by many, but his humor's gotten juuust a bit old over the years. Do I need to hear the Fernando voice ever again? No, I do not.
But Martin. Oh, Martin was a wonder. He was funny. He was charming. He ribbed the audience and got away with it. And he kept the show's length to a minimum. He hosted in 2001 and 2003 and hasn't been back since. And how the show has missed him. I don't need my Oscars revolutionized every year. All I need is a charming, funny host, and clips of the nominated movies and performances. That's it. Nothing else matters. The rest of the show is useless crap.
Well, at long last, the show's producers are finally bringing back Martin for the 2010 show, for the first time since 2003. Joining him will be Alec Baldwin. And while you may complain that Baldwin is a jerk, and fat, and a dirty liberal, and a voicemail child abuser, the fact remains that he can a rather charming fellow when asked to host a television program.
Together, these two men have hosted "Saturday Night Live" a whopping 29 times, and they host that program better than most anyone else (alongside Tom Hanks). Both are legitimately funny people. Plus, Baldwin's liberal cred means he can tweak the room and get away with it. He's one of them, and that means he can probably get a few laughs. Or, at the very least, he could induce a reaction of some sort. Better than Goldberg.
So settle in with your glass of red wine and your fleece blankets the night of March 7th. You may not end the night bored to death, and that will be a nice change of pace.
Drew Magary is the author if Men With Balls: The Professional Athlete's Handbook and a writer for Deadspin.com.


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CMiST Microbiome Club, a work-in-progress meeting, is a forum for University of Washington and affiliated students, postdocs, staff and principle investigators working with, or interested in the microbiome, to come together and share their work, initiate collaborations, promote microbiome research at UW and affiliated and neighboring institutions.
Our goal is to draw faculty, staff and students from as many disciplines as possible to assure that the presenters get the best and most well rounded comments on their work.
Everyone who attends is expected to participate both by giving meaningful feedback, as well presenting new and unpublished data from your lab. As the microbiome touches so many disciplines, we are welcoming of labs who may not have begun working on commensal microbiota yet have experience or interest in nutrition, mucosal immunology, ecology, neuroscience, and many more.
Come for the coffee, stay for the conversation!
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2019 Microbiome Club Schedule
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According to a new market report published by Transparency Market Research "Seed Treatment (Insecticides, Fungicides, Other Chemical and Nonchemical Treatment) Market For Corn, Soybean, Wheat, Canola, Cotton and Others - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth and Forecast, 2012 - 2018," the global seed treatment market was valued at USD 2.43 billion in 2011 and is expected to reach USD 4.45 billion by 2018, growing at a CAGR of 9.2% from 2012 to 2018.
The global demand of seed treatment has been primarily driven by the growth of the commercial seeds (conventional and bio-seeds) market. Increasing global farming and reduction in arable land has generated the need for high yield productivity, further boosting the market for seed treatment. Increasing input cost of seeds and technological developments in agriculture are also expected to drive the demand for seed treatment. However, environmental concerns regarding the toxicity of chemicals used in insecticides, fungicides and other chemical treatments are expected to inhibit the market growth.
Insecticides dominated the seed treatment market and accounted for 52.5% of the total market revenue in 2011. Insecticides were followed by fungicides which accounted for 34.9% of the total market in 2011. Nonchemical treatment, which is generally done using biological agents, is expected to be the fastest growing treatment, at an estimated CAGR of 9.9% from 2012 to 2018.
Corn was the most dominant crop for seed treatment, accounting for 34.7% of the global revenues in 2011. Corn was followed by soybean, wheat canola and cotton. Canola is expected to be the fastest growing crop requiring seed treatment, at a CAGR of 9.6% from 2012 to 2018.
North America was the leading market for seed treatment and accounted for 42.8% of the global market in 2011; North America was followed by Latin America sharing 24.2% of the global market for the same year. Asia Pacific is expected to be the fastest growing market for seed treatment at a CAGR of 10.2% from 2012 to 2018. Growing awareness regarding the advantages of treating seeds coupled with government initiatives in countries such as China and India is expected to drive the seed treatment demand in Asia Pacific.
The global market for seed treatment is highly concentrated with the top four companies accounting for more than 80% of the total market in 2011. Syngenta and Bayer CropScience together accounted for more than 60% of the total market in 2011. Some of the other companies operating in the global seed treatment market include Monsanto, BASF Agriculture Solutions, DuPont, Chemtura, Nufarm etc.


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Somewhere in the family DNA lies the talent for things musical. While I did not demonstrate overwhelming proof of it during those few years I played the clarinet in middle school, my younger brother Igmar has definitely gone much further ever since he discovered his love for the trumpet. His music has taken him all over the country and world, including destinations as exciting and far away as Shanghai and Paris. This weekend he will be performing with a fellow Berklee College of Music alum, Esperanza Spalding, at the St. Lucia Jazz Festival.
That's right. "Iggy," as his friends call him, will be visiting the home of our great-grandparents Edelanive Mondesi and Joseph Louis Colomb! Although Igmar will apparently be the first in the family to set foot on one of our ancestral islands time will not permit him to visit Soufriere or seek out our long-lost relatives as the jazz festival venues are on the opposite end of the island.
Let us hope this will be the first of many visits our family will make to the island. For now I'll just stew in my jealousy over Igmar enjoying an all expenses paid trip to St. Lucia on which he gets (paid!!) to do what he loves. Who wouldn't be envious? Truth be told, I guess I'm a little proud too.


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Albuquerque, New Mexico
Immaculate Conception Church, a parish in downtown Albuquerque, N.M., has been staffed by the Jesuits since its founding in 1883. The church's story began when the Jesuits were assigned to work in Old Town Albuquerque in 1868. Fourteen years later, it became evident that a church was needed and a site was chosen for what would become Immaculate Conception Church. The town's people generously helped to build the church and St. Mary's School as well.
From 1892 until his departure from Immaculate Conception Parish in 1924, Fr. Alphonso Mandalari, S.J., became somewhat of an Albuquerque legend. He served on the Board of Regents of the University of New Mexico, and he worked hard for the construction of an orphanage. Fr. Mandalari also helped to provide Jesuit-owned land for the construction of St. Joseph's Hospital. It was also during his time as pastor at Immaculate Conception that President Theodore Roosevelt made a visit to St. Mary's School.
In 1956, the church began raising funds to build a new convent, church, rectory and an addition to St. Mary's School. The dedication of these additions was held in May of 1960.
Today, various parish groups help to respond to a variety of needs of the underserved and underprivileged, including providing a warm lunch for the homeless every Sunday through the parish's Bread and Blessings program; informing parishioners on social justice events and issues in the community; educating parishioners about Catholic social teaching; and supporting Casa de las Comunidades, a Catholic Worker House, that works directly with the poor and the marginalized.


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Easy chocolate brownie cake
The perfect cake for brownie lovers, try a big slice warm with some ice cream
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal405
- fat26g
- saturates14g
- carbs41g
- sugars34g
- fibre0.44g
- protein4g
- salt0.06g
- 175g unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing
- 225g dark chocolate, broken into pieces
Dark chocolatedahk chok-o-let
Dark chocolate means the shiny, dark-reddish brown treat produced from the cacao bean, theobroma…
- 200g caster sugar
- 3 medium eggs, separated
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition packed with protein and a…
- 65g plain flour
- 50g chopped pecan nuts
Related to the walnut, pecans are native to America, and grow enclosed in a glossy, browny-red…
Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter a 20-25cm cake tin and line with greaseproof paper.
Place 175g/6oz of the chocolate, plus the butter and sugar in a heavy-based pan and heat gently until melted, stirring occasionally. Leave to cool.
Whisk the egg yolks into the chocolate mixture, then add the flour, nuts and the remaining chocolate.
Whisk the egg whites until they form soft peaks, then gently, but thoroughly, fold into the chocolate mixture.
Pour into the prepared tin and bake in the centre of the oven for about 35-40 mins until crusty on top. Leave to cool, then run a knife around the sides and remove from the tin. Dust with icing sugar and serve warm with custard or ice cream or cold with cream.


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The brand-new 2018 Toyota C-HR at Deacon Jones Toyota of Clinton is thinking outside the box. Innovative and affordable, the first ever Toyota C-HR in Clinton, NC showcases a sassy and refreshing design perfect for standing out, no effort needed. Born from the mind of a racecar driver, this uniquely expressive subcompact crossover SUV lets its exceptional handling performance doing the talking. Make your choice from two trim levels: XLE and XLE Premium, and customize the luxury.
The C-HR in Clinton is coloring outside the lines, literally. Nine dynamic exterior paint options include an optional R-Code scheme. A two-tone color combo consisting of a Blizzard Pearl roof and choice of Radiant Green, Ruby Flare Pearl or Blue Eclipse Metallic body is featured. This fresh design is sure to create double-takes with every turn of the wheel. Cut lines and precision styling give the Toyota C-HR it's edgy and distinctive personality. Vortex styled 18-inch sport alloy wheels and c-pillar rear-door handles create a thoughtfully integrated design.
The 2018 Toyota C-HR in NC doesn't leave the good looks to its exterior. An intuitive and sleek interior is designed with passionate drivers in mind. Maximize your driving experience with diamond-inspired features surrounding you. Standard soft-touch leather-trimmed steering wheel and satin-plated shift knob complement the available driver/passenger heated seats. Standard dual-zone automatic climate control and auto-dimming rearview mirror with integrated backup camera add a sophisticated touch to the affordable price point.
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Frank, Jack and You. A Night of Sinatra Classics at Encore.
On Thursday, April 9, Michelin-starred chef Theo Schoenegger of Sinatra restaurant inside Encore at Wynn Las Vegas will create the first in a series of very special dining events celebrating the 100th anniversary of Frank Sinatra's birth. His masterful four-course dinner will be expertly paired to a variety of cocktails crafted from Frank's favorite spirit, Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskeys. Jeff Arnett, master distiller for Jack Daniel's will co-host the evening, discussing the unique barrel fermenting process for the extraordinary Jack Daniel's Sinatra Select, while sharing tales of the storied relationship between Frank and Jack. This is a rare opportunity to hear first-hand how Jack Daniel's distinguishes itself from the rest – and why Frank loved the brand so much.
The four-course prix fixe dinner and cocktail pairing is $185. per person, inclusive of tax and gratuities. Reservations are limited and can be made by calling (702) 770-5320.


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I had the same problem a number of times. I think Red5 said they were working on some major changes to the web site. I think we need to be patient. In fact, I am glad to know I am not the only person that has experienced the same problem. Seems some of us can get on and some can't. Let's hope Red5 will enlighten us on that matter fairly soon.


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The second in a series of video clips featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the making of "Show Me How To Live", the 11th studio album from Danish hard rockers ROYAL HUNT, can be seen below. The CD will be released on November 29 in North America and December 2 in Europe via Frontiers Records.
ROYAL HUNT was recently rejoined by D.C. Cooper, the American singer that performed on the band's two most successful releases in the '90s: "Moving Target" and the concept album "Paradox". "We started chatting on Skype from time to time and that's how the idea of doing on a mini-tour came about," says ROYAL HUNT founder, songwriter and keyboards player Andr Andersen. "After playing some shows we realized that the chemistry was still there and we decided to continue recording a new album first..."
"Show Me How to Live" is described in a press release as "highly melodic with rich, lush arrangements and stellar production" and certain to "please the fans of neoclassical yet progressive music."
"The new songs are continuing right from where we left it in the first place, [and] so far it sounds great," says Andersen. "It will have some qualities of our previous albums, 'Moving Target', and 'Paradox', but you can certainly expect some cool updates and new twists!"
The follow-up 2010's "X" is being recorded at NorthPoint studio in Copenhahen and will be mixed at RoastingHouse Studios in Malm, Sweden. The mastering duites will be handled by Jan Eliasson at AudioPlanet in Copenhagen.
"Show Me How To Live" track listing:
01. Introduction
02. One More Day
03. Another Man Down
04. An Empty Shell
05. Hard Rain's Coming
06. Half Past Loneliness
07. Show Me How To Live
08. Angel's Gone
As a companion to the new album, Frontiers Records will also release on the same day a ROYAL HUNT double DVD entitled "Future Coming From The Past". This double package serves as a celebration of the return of singer D.C. Cooper to the line-up, and makes finally widely available two very rare items which were only released in Japan back in the day. The first DVD is entitled "1996" and was recorded live in Japan just after the release of the band's "Moving Target" album. "1996" is an excellent summary of ROYAL HUNT's career up to that point. The band offers a great mix of songs from their first three studio albums. The band was in top form for this show, with D.C. leading the way. The second DVD, "Paradox - Closing the Chapter", was recorded in 1998 and marked the end of the original D.C. Cooper era for ROYAL HUNT. It is essentially a complete live performance of the band's amazing studio album "Paradox", their most successful album to date. It is a very solid performance and D.C. delivers the goods, while the band's playing is superb. To complete the package is a 50-minute documentary which shares stories of life in a rock band.
ROYAL HUNT's current lineup:
Andr Andersen - Keyboards
D.C. Cooper - Vocals
Allan Srensen - Drums
Andreas Passmark - Bass
Jonas Larsen - Guitars
ROYAL HUNT's last album, "X", was released in Europe on June 7, 2010 via Scarlet Records. The CD, which featured the vocals of Mark Boals (ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN'S RISING FORCE, BILLIONAIRE BOYS CLUB, RING OF FIRE), came out in Japan and Southeast Asia on January 21, 2010 through Marquee/Avalon.
Singer John West joined ROYAL HUNT in 1999 during the recording of the "Fear" album and he worked with the band up until its "Royal Hunt 2006" live CD/DVD.


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A nagging problem we've seen every now and then with FAST is the big red message box "Search is Unavailable" when you go into FAST Home to look at collection details. But when you try to execute a search, it works fine. In fact, everything works fine - just really slowly.
In the past when we've seen this on development systems, we typically reinstall and muck with things until it works - or we give up and go to a different server. Knowing the answer is nice, but getting something running is usually more urgent.
Last week, I finally broke down and asked a brilliant FAST systems engineer in San Francisco about the error. He had the answer in seconds - as usual, if you know the answer, it's pretty simple: ESP was not able to resolve to the system name it thinks it's running on.
In our case, we had installed ESP on a server named MARS - but nslookup resolves that to MARS.INTRANET.NEWIDEAENGINEEING.NET; hence the error. Luckily, I was able to solve the problem without making big domain changes or such - simply adding that entry in my hosts file was sufficient to keep FAST happy; the error went away without even restarting the server.
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This is a Threadless design by Eduardo San Gil which upgrades the Orca's other name with Assassin's Creed duds. Can we do this for everything with "killer" in the name? Bees, for example. Let's see "Expert Killer Bees."
Check out San Gil's other designs, which also tend towards the geeky.


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I contacted Ivan today about the possibility of making an official Discord chat for atWar. There were many reasons for this, as I will sum them up for you here:
●There's roles on Discord. On the atWar discord we have the roles: Admin, Moderator, Supporter and Premium. You get your desired role based on your rank in-game
●Instead of holding meetings now on Skype (where not everyone has an account there) we can now hold meetings on Discord, which will be more easy and accessible for everyone
●You can use voice chat on Discord and discuss off topic subjects
I'm aware there are already made atWar Discords, which is fine, it's just to announce that this will be the official Discord server for atWar.
INVITE LINK: https://discord.gg/fW9sysA
The atWar Press Special Announcement: The *OFFICIAL* atWar Discord Server


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THE Methodist Church in Fiji and Rotuma will establish a Methodist University that will cater for students who don't reach tertiary education. The proposal - which aims to provide Methodists, and others, with a choice to study in a Christian tertiary institution of quality and to strengthen Christian values - was endorsed by the church's annual conference which met in Suva last month.
Presented by the former chairman of the Fiji Higher Education Commission, Dr Richard Wah, who is now chairman of the church's strategy development committee, the proposal is based on the economic situation in Fiji and the large percentage of push-outs from the formal education system. Dr Wah said the concept of a Methodist University in Fiji has been part of the dreams and vision of early missionaries and their mission work in Fiji since the 19th and 20th century.
"However, it has never been addressed directly by any of the early missionaries up to the time of modern Fiji and has since then continued to be a dream." Once a prominent education provider in Fiji, the standard of the church's education system has dropped. While it still operates and manages primary and secondary and vocational schools across the country, Dr Wah said there was great need to revamp the system.
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FOR the first time in more than a century, the Anglican Church in Tonga will have its own bishop. Although men with Tongan heritage – Bishop Jabez Bryce and Archbishop Dr Winston Halapua – have led the Diocese of Polynesia, Tonga has always fallen under the leadership of a primate based offshore. Last month Halapua – only the second Pacific islander to head the church since 1908 – announced he would step down in August 2018.
That means the Diocese of Polynesia's Electoral College will meet over the next 13 months to choose a successor, most likely from priests from its Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and New Zealand congregations. A popular candidate is the Vicar of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Suva – the young, charismatic, Father Claude Fong-Toy.
There is also expected to be a push for a bishop from the ethnic Solomon island community to which the church has ministered since they were black birded in the 1800s to work on cotton and coconut estates in Fiji. Also in contention are women candidates Sereima Lomaloma and Amy Chambers who were among the first female priests ordained by the church in the Pacific.
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LEADERS of faith-based organisations must address corruption and the unequal distribution of national wealth if social and political crises are to be averted in the Pacific. Bishop Jack Urame of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Papua New Guinea has spoken out against division within the Christian faith which has led to stagnated development.
And he has accused church leaders of seeking short cuts using religion and religious values. "Instead of addressing corruption and unequal distribution of the nation's wealth which lead to development stagnation and social crisis political leaders attempted to create political holiness to solve social and development issues," Urame said.
In a paper delivered to leaders of PNG's main churches at the Melanesian Institute in Goroka, Urame pointed to a number of local approaches including the destruction of cultural symbols in the name of God and for the sake of development. These included the importation of a 400 year old Bible from United States, the supposed dedication of PNG as a nation to God after a mass national repentance and the removal of traditional carvings from Parliament House.
"(The) National Speaker, Theo Zurenuoc, claimed that Parliament House was decorated with motifs of bad spirits," Urame said.
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A NEW-LOOK Papua New Guinea Council of Churches has vowed to step up the fight against human rights abuses by Indonesian security forces across the border. After more than a week of talks and years of negotiations, leaders of PNG's mainstream churches gathered at Goroka to discuss the revival of this ecumenical movement which had been dormant for a decade.
Immediately after the gathering the leaders of the Anglican, Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran and United churches issued a joint statement calling for unity, cooperation and rethinking of ecumenical relations. In a powerful statement the leaders vowed to call on the PNG government – long an ally of Jakarta out of fear of the Indonesian military, a need for economic support or a combination of these factors – to consider supporting full membership of West Papua in the Melanesian Spearhead Group. Along with Fiji, PNG has for the last three years blocked attempts by Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands to allow Papuan dissident groups into the MSG.
Pacific Conference of Churches Programmes Officer, Sirino Rakabi, was a key figure in bringing the PNGCC back to life and was critical of the Fiji-PNG stand on MSG membership.
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LAST year the Roman Catholic Church in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and Kiribati moved swiftly to put in place guidelines to stop sexual abuse by priests and teachers on orders from Pope Francis. Deeply concerned about attempted cover ups within the global church, the Argentinian Pontiff has been at the forefront of moves to ensure transparency within the institution of about 1.2 billion people.
In Fiji, the Archbishop of Suva, Peter Loy Chong, directed the formation of a Professional Standards and Resource Group to handle allegations of misconduct within the church. The groups comprises experts in the field of law, medicine, investigations and theology.
It has already successfully handled a number of cases which have seen priests defrocked over their impropriety. Archbishop Chong has repeatedly told his congregation that the church system of investigations will not replace the legal system and guilty parties will need to face criminal prosecution if this is warranted. In the past many Catholics have chosen not to address sexual abuse by priests for fear of being ostracised by members if the congregation.
This is one of the issues addressed by a recent meeting of PNG and Solomon Islands bishops who designed a process to deal with allegations of sexual misconduct. The Catholic Bishops Conference of Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands has finalised its policy on tackling sexual abuse and sexual misconduct.
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Alumna explores relationship to technology with new book
January 03, 2013
Amber Case BA '08, named one of Inc. magazine's Coolest Entrepreneurs Under 30, recently appeared on OPB Radio's Think Out Loud to talk about her new book, An Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology.
As Case explains, "Cyborg anthropology is a way of understanding how we live as technosocially connected citizens in the modern era." For example, she sees cell phones as "companion species" and notes that if you never throw away your computer files or photos, you might be a "digital hoarder."
Case credits Deborah Heath, associate professor of anthropology, for introducing her to the concept of cyborg anthropology during a 2005 spring philosophy extravaganza.
"The next wave of successful technology will blend into the background," Case says, "allowing humans to intuitively interact with one another." Learn more in this Chronicle Magazine interview.


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Here is another bunch of cards that I made for Stampeddler as samples to show various paper or stamps. The first one was another Kaiser card but it made from left over paper I had from another project and I wanted to show the stamp. (It is the center panel.)
These 2 cards are using Anna Griffith paper and a couple of new stamps that are at the store.
These next 2 cards were using some stamps that looked more steampunk to me so of course I had to do something with that theme.
These 2 cards are using Indigo Blue paper and stamps.
I forget what paper this was but the cute flower stamps are from Kaiser again.
This was using a big background stamp from Impression Obsession and clear stamp set from Bo Bunny. (Can't remember what paper on this one either.)
This is a large stamp from Stampendous that comes with a cool stencil to use with it. You can do some cool things with masking or stenciling.
This card was mostly to show the paper but it also has a lot of stamped backgrounds.
Another couple of cards using Kaiser stamps.
This one was using Basic Greys chipboard pieces and paper. How easy is it to do this one? (About half an hour.)


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Yellow Tiger Leggings
Yellow Tiger Leggings
Stylish and comfy leggings are great to wear for going out, yoga, the gym, holidays, errands, relaxing around the house or for any occasion. Skyvora leggings feature vibrant colors and are made out of a comfortable and durable microfiber yarn that will never lose it's stretch. No need to sacrifice beauty over comfort. Breathable material keeps you cool during hot days yet also repels the cold during winter.
- Made of a smooth and comfortable microfiber yarn
- Stretchy & super flexible material
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Buried in a list of 20 million Web search queries collected by AOL and recently released on the Internet is user No. 4417749. The number was assigned by the company to protect the searcher's anonymity, but it was not much of a shield.
No. 4417749 conducted hundreds of searches over a three-month period on topics ranging from "numb fingers" to "60 single men" to "dog that urinates on everything."
And search by search, click by click, the identity of AOL user No. 4417749 became easier to discern. There are queries for "landscapers in Lilburn, Ga," several people with the last name Arnold and "homes sold in shadow lake subdivision gwinnett county georgia."
It did not take much investigating to follow that data trail to Thelma Arnold, a 62-year-old widow who lives in Lilburn, Ga., frequently researches her friends' medical ailments and loves her three dogs. "Those are my searches," she said, after a reporter read part of the list to her.
AOL removed the search data from its site over the weekend and apologized for its release, saying it was an unauthorized move by a team that had hoped it would benefit academic researchers.
But the detailed records of searches conducted by Ms. Arnold and 657,000 other Americans, copies of which continue to circulate online, underscore how much people unintentionally reveal about themselves when they use search engines — and how risky it can be for companies like AOL, Google and Yahoo to compile such data.
Those risks have long pitted privacy advocates against online marketers and other Internet companies seeking to profit from the Internet's unique ability to track the comings and goings of users, allowing for more focused and therefore more lucrative advertising.
But the unintended consequences of all that data being compiled, stored and cross-linked are what Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a privacy rights group in Washington, called "a ticking privacy time bomb."
Mr. Rotenberg pointed to Google's own joust earlier this year with the Justice Department over a subpoena for some of its search data. The company successfully fended off the agency's demand in court, but several other search companies, including AOL, complied. The Justice Department sought the information to help it defend a challenge to a law that is meant to shield children from sexually explicit material.
"We supported Google at the time," Mr. Rotenberg said, "but we also said that it was a mistake for Google to be saving so much information because it creates a risk."
Ms. Arnold, who agreed to discuss her searches with a reporter, said she was shocked to hear that AOL had saved and published three months' worth of them. "My goodness, it's my whole personal life," she said. "I had no idea somebody was looking over my shoulder."
In the privacy of her four-bedroom home, Ms. Arnold searched for the answers to scores of life's questions, big and small. How could she buy "school supplies for Iraq children"? What is the "safest place to live"? What is "the best season to visit Italy"?
Her searches are a catalog of intentions, curiosity, anxieties and quotidian questions. There was the day in May, for example, when she typed in "termites," then "tea for good health" then "mature living," all within a few hours.
Her queries mirror millions of those captured in AOL's database, which reveal the concerns of expectant mothers, cancer patients, college students and music lovers. User No. 2178 searches for "foods to avoid when breast feeding." No. 3482401 seeks guidance on "calorie counting." No. 3483689 searches for the songs "Time After Time" and "Wind Beneath My Wings."
At times, the searches appear to betray intimate emotions and personal dilemmas. No. 3505202 asks about "depression and medical leave." No. 7268042 types "fear that spouse contemplating cheating."
There are also many thousands of sexual queries, along with searches about "child porno" and "how to kill oneself by natural gas" that raise questions about what legal authorities can and should do with such information.
But while these searches can tell the casual observer — or the sociologist or the marketer — much about the person who typed them, they can also prove highly misleading.
At first glace, it might appear that Ms. Arnold fears she is suffering from a wide range of ailments. Her search history includes "hand tremors," "nicotine effects on the body," "dry mouth" and "bipolar." But in an interview, Ms. Arnold said she routinely researched medical conditions for her friends to assuage their anxieties. Explaining her queries about nicotine, for example, she said: "I have a friend who needs to quit smoking and I want to help her do it."
Asked about Ms. Arnold, an AOL spokesman, Andrew Weinstein, reiterated the company's position that the data release was a mistake. "We apologize specifically to her," he said. "There is not a whole lot we can do."
Mr. Weinstein said he knew of no other cases thus far where users had been identified as a result of the search data, but he was not surprised. "We acknowledged that there was information that could potentially lead to people being identified, which is why we were so angry."
AOL keeps a record of each user's search queries for one month, Mr. Weinstein said. This allows users to refer back to previous searches and is also used by AOL to improve the quality of its search technology. The three-month data that was released came from a special system meant for AOL's internal researchers that does not record the users' AOL screen names, he said.
Several bloggers claimed yesterday to have identified other AOL users by examining data, while others hunted for particularly entertaining or shocking search histories. Some programmers made this easier by setting up Web sites that let people search the database of searches.
John Battelle, the author of the 2005 book "The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture," said AOL's misstep, while unfortunate, could have a silver lining if people began to understand just what was at stake. In his book, he says search engines are mining the priceless "database of intentions" formed by the world's search requests.
"It's only by these kinds of screw-ups and unintended behind-the-curtain views that we can push this dialogue along," Mr. Battelle said. "As unhappy as I am to see this data on people leaked, I'm heartened that we will have this conversation as a culture, which is long overdue."
Ms. Arnold says she loves online research, but the disclosure of her searches has left her disillusioned. In response, she plans to drop her AOL subscription. "We all have a right to privacy," she said. "Nobody should have found this all out."


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Police are now trying to find out if there is surveillance video showing actor Philip Seymour Hoffman withdrawing money from an ATM on the day before his death.
Philip Seymour Hoffman withdrew $1,200 from an ATM at a supermarket near his New York City apartment the night before he was found lifeless in his bathroom with a syringe still in his left arm, sources told NBC News.
The Oscar-winning actor, 46, withdrew the money in six transactions while talking to two men wearing messengers bags around 8 p.m. Saturday, sources said, citing bank records.
Hoffman was found dead hours later in his Greenwich Village apartment after an apparent drug overdose.
Law enforcement officials told NBC News on Monday that officials who searched Hoffman's apartment found 49 full bags of heroin, 23 empty bags of heroin, four bags of white powder believed to be cocaine, as well as various prescription drugs.
Detectives are investigating whether Hoffman purchased the drugs the night before he was found dead. No amount of money approaching $1,200 was discovered during the search of the apartment.
Investigators are trying to piece together Hoffman's last hours. He lunched at The Standard Grill, a Manhattan restaurant, on Saturday afternoon and paid a $120 bill, sources tell NBC.
Shortly before Hoffman withdrew the cash Saturday night, he spoke with his longtime partner, Mimi O'Donnell, on the telephone. She later told authorities that the actor seemed to be high during their conversation. It is the last confirmed contact with Hoffman.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, was found dead in his New York City apartment Sunday.
The two labeled "brands" of heroin found in the apartment — "Ace of Spades" and "Ace of Hearts" — tested positive for heroin, although more sophisticated tests that will confirm the purity of the drug are still ongoing.
A law enforcement official told NBC News that toxicology tests, which could take a few days to complete, will likely determine the actor's cause of death. It was unclear Monday if the heroin Hoffman had injected was tainted or if he took too much of the drug.
Multiple law enforcement sources told NBC News that authorities found six bottles of prescription drugs — including the blood pressure medication clonidine hydrochloride; the addiction treatment drug buprenorphine; the attention-deficit disorder treatment drug vyvanse; the anti-anxiety drug hydroxyzine; and the muscle relaxer methocarbamol.
Hoffman had spoken openly about past substance abuse battles, saying he quit using drugs and alcohol and "got sober" at 22 years old.
But in early 2013, Hoffman checked himself into rehab for 10 days. He told TMZ that he had begun using prescription medicines, and his use escalated to heroin.
Hoffman's publicist, Karen Samfilippo, said in a statement Tuesday that the actor would be buried in a private funeral service in New York but did not say if that meant the city or elswhere in the state and did not say when.
NBC News' Jonathan Dienst, Katy Tur and Daniel Arkin contributed to this report.
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You can ask top prospects your questions
In honor of the release of our 2010 Top 100 Prospects list, Baseball America will host a number of chats on Tuesday with prospects who made our Top 100. Here's a look at the schedule with links to where you can ask your questions now and read the answers once the chats begin.
• Astros catcher Jason Castro will chat at 4 p.m. ET.
• White Sox outfielder Jared Mitchell will chat at 4:30 p.m. ET.
• Mets first baseman Ike Davis will chat at 5 p.m. ET.
• Nationals righthander Drew Storen will chat at 7 p.m. ET.


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That's less scary than it sounds. Probably.
Celery Tree is now open! If you've been blog hopping recently, chances are you've already heard this news, but you may be asking---why Celery Tree? We've got Amazon, Goodreads, etc., etc.
Well, the cool thing about Celery Tree is that it's a more intimate alternative that showcases independent authors who often get lost in the fray at the mammoth-sized sites. In other words, Celery Tree aims to be the internet's answer to a small, cozy bookstore.
In the spirit of community, all the site's authors have agreed to purchase at least six titles from the Celery Tree collection throughout the year. As you know from the supportive blogging community, it's something a lot of us are doing anyhow, and ensures that Celery Tree will be an encouraging, friendly e-neighborhood---a welcoming place to hang out, which is exactly why I decided to join.
From the Celery Tree Blog :
The book world needs a vehicle to help overlooked but talented authors get discovered. The real judge of a book's worth should be made by the readers, not by the marketing dollars behind it. But how can readers find those books that don't have the big bucks behind them?
Authors helping authors, in an environment of books, blogs and reader reviews--similar to Goodreads but without the annoying side ads. The only ads on Celery Tree will consist of our members' book covers posted in strategic locations.
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So I finally saw Pineapple Express this weekend and throughout the whole movie the men around me were constantly expressing how "fucking gay" the movie was. I left there thinking about the two very different displays of masculinity I had just witnessed in the movie theater. The men in the audience, who were mostly young men of color in their late-teens/early-twenties, were attempting to (re)affirm their masculinity through homophobic and sexist comments in response to the perceived lack of masculinity they saw on the screen. On the screen however the cast of Pineapple Express (most of whom are white men with the exception of Craig Robinson) were celebrating their homosocial (but not homosexual) affection for each other and their outsider status as members of the informal economy. I thought about the ways that homosociality functions not only in Pineapple Express but in Judd Apatow movies generally as a comment on the state of contemporary white masculinity in American society.
For those of you who might not know who Judd Apatow is, he's the writer and/or producer of many of the successful "Frat Pack" movies including: Pineapple Express, Step Brothers, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Superbad, Knocked Up, Talladega Nights, The 40 Year Old Virgin, and Anchorman. He's was also the Executive Producer of the cult TV show Freaks and Geeks on NBC.
Yeah, he's that guy.
Critics and audiences alike have wondered whether the characters in Apatow's films, especially Superbad, might be gay. In Superbad, Seth is so obsessed with dicks that he used to compulsively draw them as a kid and talks about them non-stop throughout the entire film. Towards the end of the film Evan and Seth share a "tender moment" where they exchange "I love you's" and Evan says he wants to go scream from the rooftops that he loves Seth. Those "tender moments" have become a staple in Apatow's films and Pineapple Express is no exception. At one point in Pineapple Express Danny McBride's character tells James Franco's characters that he's happy they're best friends and continues by saying "I want to be inside you."
I don't think Apatow's films say anything about sexuality that is specifically homosexual or homophobic, but I do think his films rely on homosociality to demonstrate the ways in which white masculinity has been "wounded" by the feminist, gay, and civil rights movements. In Apatow's movies we see an entire generation of white men who rely on each other for a sense of validation and understanding, a generation of men who in many ways by refusing to grow-up are able to avoid facing the reality of changing power structures in American society.
In a New York Times article on Apatow Jon Kasdan, who also worked on Freaks and Geeks, said:
"The culture in the last 5, 10 years is one of shame and humiliation, and Judd gets that. Part of the experience of being a man in this postmodern life is humiliation, and wearing it as something to be proud of. This is a true frustration that Judd is expressing in his work, almost a romanticized version of being a schlub."
What is interesting is that in Apatow movies arrested development is presented as the solution to dealing with the frustration of being a "schlub." People of color, women and gays (particularly white gay men) have more visibility, if not power, in contemporary society – the question that Apatow's character are trying to work out is "where does this leave me?" While Apatow's films don't directly say it, they certainly show us that white masculinity ain't what it used to be for the groups of white male friends that the stories center on. Apatow's characters exist in a universe that is almost completely male and almost completely white, their existence in this world of their own making is like an attempt to recreate the "old boys clubs" of their father's and grandfather's generations.
Think of AMC's critically acclaimed TV show Mad Men, I think it is no coincidence that a show that literally portrays that "old boys club" has generated so much attention and ratings. In Mad Men and Pineapple Express you see the trajectory of white masculinity, Mad Men presents us with the cracks beginning to show in white masculinity's façade, while Judd Apatow's movies ask "How the fuck did we end up here … but since we're here lets get high and play Guitar Hero."


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We are sad to report that Professor Ottomar Rudolf [German 1963-98], an iconic figure on campus for many decades, died of a massive stroke over the weekend. He was 83 years old.
Ottomar served the college as a faculty member in the German and humanities departments for 35 years. He founded the German House and launched the Reed in Munich program. He was also a champion of music at Reed; he founded the Music Matinee, coordinated the Music Associates program, sang in the Reed chorus, and served on the boards of the Portland Opera and the Portland Youth Harmonic. He coached the Reed soccer team, was the inspiration for Portland Brewery's award-winning Uncle Otto's Oktoberfest beer, and served—at different times—in both the German and the U.S. Army.
He participated in the Oral History Project at Reed, and is quoted extensively in Comrades of the Quest. Ottomar and his wife Catherine were generous and consistent financial supporters of college.
Please join us for a memorial for Ottomar on Saturday, March 23, at 4 p.m., in the Eliot Hall chapel. A reception will follow.


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(Pocket-lint) - "Oh that's a nice picture" you hear one of your family or mates say when they are around your house looking at a photo on your mantle piece. "Can I have a copy?"
You've then got the hassle of finding that picture, printing it out and then probably sending it to them as the whole process has taken so long they've given up and gone home. Sony is hoping to cut out the waiting with the launch of a digital photo frame with a built-in printer, so you can create and deliver the print there and then.
Sounds great, but is it?
The DPP-F700 sports a 7-inch, 16:10 WVGA screen with a resolution 800 x 480 and can print 4 x 6-inch, 300 x 300 dpi photos in 45 seconds.
The frame, which features a large black boarder offers touch-sensitive controls, that like other frames on the market, appear only on touch, however for some reason Sony has opted to use a different non-gloss material - a matt plastic it seems, which doesn't work.
Controls allow you to navigate through the basic menu system and here you can edit images before printing with options including enlarge, reduce, crop, date stamp on/off, border/borderless as well as brightness, contrast, hue, and sharpness adjustment.
Images can be transferred onto the frame via USB from a PC, and there is an array of memory card slots around the side including support for SD, MMC, Compact Flash and xD.
Failing that, there is 1GB of on-board storage. Storage levels will vary, with Sony boasting 2000 images as a headline grabbing number, but as this is only at a 2-megapixel resolution, expect this number to be around 200 if you're using a 7-megapixel or higher camera.
The DPP-F700 uses dye-sublimation as the printing technology, the print quality was good, not amazing, however they were able to be handled straight away when we played with the printer at a trade show.
The concept is perfect, unfortunately the realisation isn't. The biggest problem isn't the quality of prints, or the software interface, it's the form factor.
As you might imagine adding a printer into a photo frame will add some bulk to a photo frame. Sony has surprisingly done a pretty good job of hiding this underneath the frame (see pictures) and the end result therefore is that it looks like you've perched a regular digital photo frame on to a box, no problem there.
The problem, however, is that rather than then put the photo paper tray within this box or to the side, it sits rather awkwardly out the front giving the game away that there is a printer hiding inside.
Yes it is detachable, but that's not the point. There is no way you could place it anywhere like a window ledge or mantle piece because of the width of the overall footprint. So you might as well give up on the idea altogether and use a small compact printer.
In the future, if we are still printing photos, all digital photo frames will have a printer built in. It makes sense, it's a nice idea and we can see why someone at Sony approved the making of the DPP-F700.
However, it seems that "approving person" walked away after they were pitched the idea, as the end result neither looks good or has a form factor that would make it suitable (from our brief play) for where it should live in the living room.
This really is one of those moments where the end result could have been so much better.
The DPP-F700 digital photo frame-printer will be available in the States for about $200 in January.


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Home Opener Thrills and Chills
F-18 Navy Hornets, gigantic American flags, player introductions, the Mayor and…
Kermit the Frog!
All the wonderful elements of the Yankees' home opener this afternoon against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. What sweetened the whole deal? A 5-0 shutout of the Halos behind a brilliant outing from new Yankee Hiroki Kuroda.
The Japanese-born starter twirled an absolute gem, tossing eight-plus innings while not allowing a run. Kuroda allowed just five hits, walked two, and struck out six.
Talk about a fine way to introduce yourself to the Yankee faithful.
Kuroda probably would have finished the game had he not given up a leadoff infield single to Bobby Abreu in the top of the ninth, but he was at 109 pitches, therefore gave way to David Robertson.
Robertson got Albert Pujols to ground into a 6-4-3 double play before fanning Kendrys Morales for the final out.
Kuroda and Robertson were backed by a solid amount of run support, started by a bases-clearing double off the bat of Nick Swisher in the bottom of the first. The two-base hit plated Alex Rodriguez, Robinson Cano, and Mark Teixeira.
Up 3-0 in the bottom of the third, Rodriguez added a run with one swing. The slugging third baseman crushed a leadoff home run deep to centerfield, a shot that landed in the netting above Monument Park. With that homer, A-Rod tied his former Seattle Mariner teammate Ken Griffey, Jr. for fifth place on the all-time home runs list with 630 career round-trippers.
Curtis Granderson put the icing on the cake with a screaming line drive bullet home run over the right field wall in the fifth. Granderson's solo blast gave the Yanks all the offense they needed to put the Angels away and boost their win streak to four.
Hiroki Kuroda
The Yankees couldn't have asked for more out of their number two starter. The bullpen had thrown 11.1 innings in the final two games the Bombers played in Baltimore, and after an off-day yesterday, the relief corps basically received another day of rest.
Length was key, and Kuroda gave the Yanks more than enough.
It was a nice rebound start for Kuroda, having given up six runs in 5.2 innings in Tampa Bay last Saturday. He used his fastball to his advantage and his slider was dancing all over the strike zone.
Not even the mighty Albert Pujols could figure Kuroda out.
He didn't utilize his split finger much, but he didn't need to; he neutralized the strong hitters like Pujols and Morales without giving an inch.
In Japan, the best pitcher on the staff wears the number 18. Kuroda chose to wear number 18 upon his arrival in the Bronx and today he earned the right to wear that number. A crackling fastball, a moving slider, six K's against a deep Angels' lineup, and a win – that's enough to sell me on him.
Now at 1-1 on the year, he will look for his next win Wednesday at home vs. the Minnesota Twins.
Alex Rodriguez
Manager Joe Girardi chose to bat Alex Rodriguez third in the lineup today. Having only collected three hits in the first five games of the season without knocking in a run or hitting a homer, it was clear A-Rod needed to move from the cleanup spot on account of lack of production.
All that changed today. The move clearly had an impact.
A-Rod went 3-for-4 this afternoon and belted his first home run of the year, a bomb that landed in Monument Park – not a cheap homer.
With the home run, Rodriguez tied his old buddy Ken Griffey, Jr. for fifth place on baseball's all-time home runs list. It was A-Rod's 630th career homer. He also raised his batting average from .174 to .259.
That's the beauty of baseball: one day can turn everything around.
Nick Swisher
The Yankee right fielder is becoming a valuable asset to the team in the early-going. Nick Swisher has reached base in every game this season. He's hit safely in six games and in the one game he didn't reach base by way of a hit, he drew two walks.
Last Saturday against the Rays, it looked as though the Yankees were done in the ninth when Swisher stepped up to the plate. He proceeded to cream the ball for a home run to keep the Yankees alive, although they eventually lost 8-6.
In the series finale at Camden Yards vs. the Orioles, Swisher came up huge with what proved to be the game-winning home run, a two-run blast that gave the Bombers a 6-4 lead they held onto for the victory.
Today Swisher had the huge double in the first to clear the bases and give the Yankees an early lead and a ton of momentum.
So far this year Swisher has two homers, nine RBIs, has seven hits, has drawn five walks, and has scored three runs.
If there is a Yankee hero at this moment, it's Swisher. Right now, he can do no wrong.
Honorary First Pitch
A special dignitary tossed out the honorary first pitch this afternoon: recently-retired catcher Jorge Posada. The Yankees stood behind the mound out of respect to their former teammate and watched as he threw out the ceremonial first pitch.
There was a lot of speculation as to what was going to transpire during this particular part of the Opening Day festivities. I had heard a rumor Posada was going to go to the mound, then one of his teammates would switch with him – and he would actually catch the honorary pitch rather than throw it, because that's what he is most known for in Yankee lore.
But that didn't happen.
While his teammates and family watched, Posada threw the first pitch to his dad who stood behind the plate to catch it. Following the first pitch, Posada emotionally hugged each of his Yankee friends.
It was a touching moment and Posada received a well-deserved standing ovation from the Yankee Stadium crowd.
It was a promising win for the Yankees. The Angels are the only team with a lifetime winning record against the Bombers and with the additions of Pujols and starter C.J. Wilson (who the Yankees will get a look at tomorrow afternoon) they only got stronger; more difficult to beat.
But they got beat today – stifled by a lights-out performance from Kuroda.
Curtis Granderson's bullet home run marked the second year in a row he has gone yard in the Yankees' home opener. He homered last year in the Yanks' win over the Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium.
Phil Hughes toes the rubber tomorrow against the Angels, gunning for win number one on the year. Hughes threw the ball well in his first start on Sunday in Tampa Bay, but came up just short.
He will look to pick up his first win and roll the Yankees' win streak over to five games.
On a side note, is anyone else growing tired of the promos for the new "3 Stooges" movie?
If the three stooges walked up to me and paid me $50 to see this abomination, I would hand them a $100 bill and simply say, "Let's pretend this never happened."
I understand it's totally irrelevant to the Yankees, but the TV spot kept popping up during YES' broadcast of the game this afternoon. I just know a bad movie when I see one – and I won't be seeing the "3 Stooges."


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It is one of Teresa's Pot holders she is making.I just love it Thank you Teresa.If you want to see more of the pot holders have A look on her Blog.Its called All ThingsVintage.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
I got A surprise package in the post today.
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Saturday, October 15, 2011
Baby Shower.
My granddaughter Sammi and her partner Nic are having A baby Boy in December And her Mum Lynn Had A baby Shower for them today. They got lots of Gifts for the BabyMore gifts.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
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Friday, October 7, 2011
This is what I got at the opp shop today.
I dont know what the pattern in it cost me Ten Dollars I thought it was a bargain. I like the colours in it.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
No sewing this week .
I Have been having A try at making these baby shoes I think they look alright. Where I got my Bolg name was I have so many grand children That everyone calls me nanna Mary so I thought that scottishnanna would be a good name.spo thats my story.
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Dr. Shigy FrancisHOD- Senior Consultant
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM & R), also known as physiatry, or rehabilitation medicine, is a branch of medicine that aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to those with physical impairments or disabilities. Rehabilitation is a science which concerns itself with functional ability.
Rehabilitation of people with disabilities is a process aimed at enabling them to reach and maintain their optimal physical, sensory, intellectual, psychological and social functional levels. Rehabilitation provides people with disability the tools they need to attain independence and self-determination." (World Health Organization)
Department aim to provide comprehensive, cohesive and cost-effective treatment and to re-integrate a person with disability into society.
This is achieved by cohesively treating, teaching, training and mentally tempering the people with disability through a combination of medical treatment, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, counselling and vocational training.
During the rehabilitation process, all possible resources and all possible methods, both within and without, are utilized to enhance an individual's function.
• Locomotor Disability
• Chronic pain management
• Spinal cord injury
• Stroke
• Traumatic brain injury
• Meningomyelocele
• Cerebral palsy
• Muscular Dystrophy
• Developmental Delay in children
• Pressure ulcer
• Diabetic foot
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Osteoarthritis of knee and hip
• Spondyloarthropathy of cervical and lumbar spine
• Peripheral neuropathy
• Joint management of person with Haemophilia
• Cancer Rehabilitation
• Burn Rehablitation
• Geriatric Rehabilitation
• Prosthetic fitting for Amputee
Medical and Surgical Management: Treatment of all routine medical problems encountered by individuals with disability is carried out by the department.Operations are performed for the surgical management of pressure sores and for correction of deformities.
Physiotherapy: A variety of physical modalities like heat, sound, light, and electricity are used to alleviate pain and improve functioning.
Occupational Therapy: Occupational therapy is concerned with enhancing a person with disability's functioning through training in specific activities and skills
Social Work: The ultimate aim of rehabilitation is to enable the person with disability to be a productive individual within society. The social worker's sphere of action extends beyond the walls of the hospital to ensure that vocational rehabilitation takes place.
Community Based Rehabilitation: Community Based Rehabilitation aims at changing the environment, enabling patients to find methods to modify available infrastructure for easier access and helping them to meet other special needs they will encounter while living in their community.
Orthotic and Prosthetic Services: Fitting and provision of assistive devices and mobility aids such as calipers, walkers artificial limbs and appropriate wheel chairs