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Published 31 July 2010
Rod Fabricius, Goodwood Racecourse's Managing Director, said: "We expect a crowd of over 22,000 today, with advance bookings marginally ahead of last year.
"Hopefully, the damp start to the day will not deter racegoers from attending the fifth and final day of what has so far been a highly successful festival meeting."
Tuesday 13,003 13,767 -764 (-5.5%)Wednesday 16,705 15,530 +1,175 (+7.7%)Thursday 20,607 19,414 +1,193 (+6.1%) Friday 20,723 20,209 +514 (+2.5%)Saturday ? 22,031
After four millimetres of rain up to 10am this morning, there is a slight change to the going.Straight course: GOOD
Round course: GOOD TO FIRM, GOOD IN PLACES GoingStick readings at 10am
(Overall): 8.1
(Round Course): 8.5
(Straight Course - Stands' side): 7.5
(Straight Course - Centre): 7.5
(Straight Course - Far side): 7.7
Top bend and back straight watered - 10 millimetres applied
Seamus Buckley, Clerk of the Course, said: "With the forecast precipitation overnight, I didn't want rain falling on firm ground, so the decision was taken to water the top bend after racing. That allowed the rain to absorb into the turf.
"The GoingStick reading overall is 8.1, so we are heading into the final day on very nice ground. I am delighted with the way the course has stood up to racing and the credit for that goes to the groundstaff who have worked hard to give us a wonderful surface.
"The rain is moving away and we are forecast to have a fine afternoon with temperatures of around 22 or 23 degrees Celcius."
This year marks the fourth occasion that the bookmaker Blue Square has sponsored the bluesq.com Stewards' Cup (3.40pm) and the Group One Blue Square Nassau Stakes (3.05pm).
The bluesq.com Stewards' Cup over six furlongs is one of the season's biggest betting heats and Alan Alger, Blue Square's on-course representative, reports sustained interest in jockey-of-the-moment Richard Hughes' mount, Rileyskeepingfaith.
The Mick Channon-trained four-year-old missed all of 2009 but has returned with some smart efforts this term, including when splitting Blue Square's current 8/1 joint-favourite Genki and Castles In The Air (22/1) at Haydock last time.
Alger reported: "Rilesykeepingfaith has been well backed all week. When the five-day declarations were made he was a 20/1 chance and that quickly shortened to 16/1. There was heavy support for the horse yesterday afternoon that saw him shorten further and he is now a 12/1 chance.
"It could be that we may not see much more for the horse now that the price has gone but we already have our liabilities, so I think I can safely say that Rileyskeepingfaith would be the worst result for us.
"Dandy Nicholls' Evens And Odds was tipped by Pricewise and he is now 25/1 from 33/1 but that price will only go south."Midday is bidding for a repeat victory in the Group One Blue Square Nassau Stakes and Alger reports interest in the Henry Cecil-trained filly as well as in one of the two French raiders, Rosanara, who refused to board a plane to Ireland for the Irish Oaks earlier this month.
He said: "We had Rosanara as 3/1 joint-favourite with a run after she failed to make the race in Ireland. She then drifted out to 9/2 but was backed into 4/1 yesterday.
"Midday was 9/4 and is in to 2/1 this morning. Some firms went 7/4 but then Barry Dennis put her up as his Bismarck on The Morning Line and she drifted out a little bit. I expect she will be around a 2/1 chance.
"We haven't seen any money for the other French filly, Stacelita."
bluesq.com Stewards' Cup facts & figure
- The Stewards' Cup was first run in 1834 over a distance of a mile and a half.
- In a bid to attract a larger entry, the race was staged over its familiar distance of six furlongs for the first time on July 31, 1840, when 20 runners went to post. The race was won by Epirus.
- That 1840 contest was worth £300, whereas today the bluesq.com Stewards' Cup carries prize money of £100,000.
- Since 1946, the winning margin has been a short-head on 10 occasions, a head eight times and a neck 11 times. In 2008, for the first time a new distance - a nose - could be utilised in a close finish.
- There has been one dead-heat in the Stewards' Cup. The 1914 running went to both Golden Sun and Lord Annandale, the previous year's winner.
- The biggest winning margin in the post World War II period came in 1987 when the Peter Calver-trained Madraco won by four lengths.
- Madraco returned at 50/1, making him one of three horses since 1946 to have triumphed at such mammoth odds. The other two were Ahonoora (1978), who subsequently sired the 1992 Derby winner Dr Devious, and Ashurst Wonder (1954).
- The shortest-priced winner since 1945 has been Patavellian who was returned as the 4/1 second favourite in 2003.
- The first German-bred winner of the Stewards' Cup (pre-dating a French-bred victory on English soil by three years) was Count Hahn's Turnus, who triumphed in 1850. He defied a penalty to add the Chesterfield Cup at the meeting two days later.
- With three wins apiece, Willie Carson, Paul Cook and Richard Hughes are the most successful jockeys in the post-war period. Richard Hughes has a chance to go clear today as he rides the well-backed Rileyskeepingfaith, while the other two riders have retired.
- There have been three dual winners in the history of the Stewards' Cup. Marvel scored in 1890 and 1892, while Lord Annandale triumphed in 1913 and shared the spoils in a dead-heat the following year with Golden Sun. Sky Diver was victorious in 1967 and 1968. Genki attempts the feat today.
- Lochsong's awesome victory in 1992 was the first in a hat-trick of major sprint handicap successes that season as the future Group One heroine added the Portland Handicap and Ayr Gold Cup on her next two starts.
- King's Signet (1993) and Petong (1984) carried the highest weight to victory in the post World War II period - 9st 10lb.
- At the other end of the scale, the three-year-old Psalmsinger carried a featherweight 5st 4lb when triumphant in 1845. The minimum weight is now 7st 12lb.
- The bluesq.com Stewards' Cup has a maximum limit of 28 runners these days but that has not always been the case and in 1861 Croagh Patrick defeated 44 rivals to take the famous sprint.
- Only 12 lined up in 1842 when Lady Adela took the spoils and that is the smallest field in the race's history.
- The Stewards' Cup was transferred to Newmarket from 1915 to 1917 and not run at all in 1918 during the First World War. There was also no race in 1940 during the second World War although a substitute, the Stewards' Handicap, was staged at Newmarket in 1941 and won by Valthema, with Windso playing host from 1942 to 1945.
- Epirus was a six-year-old when winning in 1840 and 11 other winners have been that age. Four-year-olds have been most successful with 67 wins, while three-year-olds have taken the prize on 51 occasions.
- The John White-trained eight-year-old Shikari's Son became the oldest winner in 1995, taking the distinction from Epaulet, who was seven when triumphing in 1958.
- Since starting stalls were first used in 1966, the luckiest draws have been stalls 11 and 19, with four winners coming from each.
- No winner has come from stalls 2, 3, 4, 7, 13, 17, 23, 24 and 26.
- Dermot Weld saddled Red Alert to success in 1974, the only Irish-trained winner of the Stewards' Cup since the war.
- Dandy Nicholls rode the brilliant mare Soba to victory in 1982 and as a trainer he has tasted success twice with Tayseer (2000) and Gift Horse (2005). He saddles three runners in today's renewal - Evens And Odds, Sonny Red and Striking Spirit.
- Sweetsauce won the six-furlong Stewards' Cup at 20/1 in 1860 and just two days later was victorious in the Goodwood Cup over a stamina-sapping two miles and five furlongs.
- Probably the most popular winner of the Stewards' Cup was Tudor Monarch, who carried the pink and chocolate colours of Sir Winston Churchill when ridden to victory by Geoff Lewis in 1959
- In 1883, the previous year's Oaks winner, Geheimniss, was pipped at the post by the fast-finishing Hornpipe.
- Spillers was the first commercial sponsor of the Stewards' Cup from 1970 to 1980. The 1981 renewal was backed by the tote and then William Hill sponsored between 1982 and and 1992. Vodafone supported the race from 1993 to 2006, initially under the Vodac banner. Blue Square, the current sponsor, took over in 2007.
- The Stewards' Cup used to be run on the first day of Glorious Goodwood, the Tuesday, switching to the Saturday, the final day, under Vodafone's sponsorship in 1993.
- Owners and trainers chose the stall position for their horses for the first time in 1999 - a tradition that carries on.
- The 1998 Stewards' Cup saw the launch of the tote trifecta bet.
Blue Square Nassau Stakes Facts & Figures
- In 2006, Ouija Board defeated the previous year's victor Alexander Goldrun in one of the most thrilling races ever seen. In doing so, the five-year-old joined the 1992 heroine Ruby Tiger as the joint-oldest winner of the Nassau Stakes.
- The race was opened to older horses in 1975 when the three-year-old Roussalka kept the prize for the younger generation. However, she returned the following year to become the first triumphant four-year-old.
- Ruby Tiger (1991 & 1992) and Roussalka (1975 & 1976) are the only horses to have won the race twice. Midday will attempt to join them today.
- Three-year-olds still dominate the race, with the older generation enjoying only seven successes in the last 35 renewals.
- In 2008, the Aidan O'Brien-trained Halfway To Heaven became only the fourth Irish-trained winner since the Second World War, the others being the O'Brien-trained Peeping Fawn in 2008 and the Jim Bolger-trained pair of Alexander Goldrun three years earlier and Park Express in 1986.
- Trainer Sir Michael Stoute, who has won the race a record seven times in total, and jockey Kieren Fallon, teamed up to notch a Nassau Stakes hat-trick between 2002 and 2004 with victories for Islington, Russian Rhythm and Favourable Terms. Sir Michael's other winners have been Hawajiss (1994), Kartajana (1990), Optimistic Lass (1984) and Triple First (1977).
- Henry Cecil will bid to match that total with Midday today although Stoute will be looking to extend his tally with Strawberrydaiquiri. Midday gave Cecil his sixth success last year and the trainer's other wins came with Roussalka (1975 & 1976), Connaught Bridge (1979), Nom De Plume (1987) and Lyphard's Delta (1993).
- Fair Winter scored by six lengths in 1967 but that distance was bettered by the brilliant Ruby Tiger who registered the widest winning margin since the Second World War when defeating Shamshir by seven lengths in 1991.
- The legendary Lester Piggott is the winning-most rider, having enjoyed five victories in the Nassau Stakes, with the first of those being Aunt Edith in 1965. He was on top Roussalka for both of her triumphs and the second of those was the rider's final success in the race.
- US Hall Of Famer Gary Stevens, who enjoyed wider acclaim on the silver screen as George Woolf in the film Seabiscuit, rode Godolphin's Zahrat Dubai to success in 1999.
- The great fillies La Fleche (1892), Sceptre (1902) and Pretty Polly (1904) each won the Nassau Stakes en route to completing the Fillies' Triple Crown in the St Leger, having earlier won the 1,000 Guineas and the Oaks.
- The Nassau Stakes was upgraded from Group Two to Group One status for the 1999 renewal.
- Since the resumption of racing following the war in 1946, the smallest field saw only three runners go to post in1952 when the race was won by Hortentia.
- The largest field size has been 11, with that number competing in 1981, 1982, 1985 and 2005.
- There have been four short-head winners since 1945, Hortentia (1952), Lucyrowe (1969), Favourable Terms (2004) and Ouija Board (2006).
- The longest-priced winner of the Nassau Stakes has been Crespinall, who landed the odds at 25/1 for trainer Richard Hannon in 1972.
- The great Pretty Polly was a prohibitive 1/33 favourite when winning the race in 1904. The shortest-priced winner since 1946 has been Lucyrowe, who was sent off the 1/2 favourite but only prevailed by a short-head under Frankie Durr in 1969.
- Park Express, successful for trainer Jim Bolger in 1986, is the dam of the 2008 Derby winner New Approach, who was also trained by the Coolcullen handler.
- In the last 16 renewals, 10 favourites or joint-favourites have been successful, the latest being Peeping Fawn in 2007 who scored as the clear 2/1 favourite.
- Wayward Belle won the 1946 Nassau Stakes as the 11/8 favourite and a further 23 market leaders have triumphed since that time.
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FINEST RESERVE - 10/1 from 14/1 with totesport; 10/1 from 16/1 with Paddy Power
WADNAAN - 4/1 from 5/1 with Paddy Power; 4/1 from 9/2 with Coral
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MIDDAY - 15/8 from 2/1 with totesport and Paddy Power
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ENACT - 7/1 from 9/1 with Coral
PRIME EXHIBIT - 25/1 from 40/1 with totesport
EVENS AND ODDS - 20/1 from 25/1 with both Coral and totesport; 22/1 from 25/1 with Paddy Power
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UPS ON THE DOWNS AT GLORIOUS GOODWOODIn an age when superficial celebrity has become a way of life, Glorious Goodwood's proven format has shown once again that class is always popular.
Staging five-star sporting action in an absorbing location works time and again, and if the weather is kind you have a winner year in and out. People and horses come and go, but Glorious Goodwood remains a shrine of English summer excellence.
The 2010 version will be remembered for a performance that deserves recognition by every fan of horse racing. It has centred on a man, his son-in-law and the team that backs them.
Trainer Richard Hannon has not arrived overnight, an X-factor fancy soon to be forgotten - he has been plying his trade for 40 years, and handled numerous good horses, yet he is experiencing an annus mirabilis that begs the question, how does he do it? High-quality horses seem to be looking over every other door at his Wiltshire stables, and he brought the best of them all, Canford Cliffs, to Glorious Goodwood on Wednesday for the Group One Sussex Stakes.
What a treat for racegoers when Canford Cliffs reeled in another top-class miler, the 2009 winner Rip Van Winkle, in the process enabling Hannon's son-in-law, Richard Hughes, to provide another example of brilliant race riding.
Not only is Hughes successful, he is also hugely entertaining, for it is his brand, and few other jockeys would attempt it. Leaving it late, arriving in time, and doing so while exuding cheeky confidence is the hallmark of his method, and crowds love it. Hughes is currently a sportsman at the crest of his career, but he's entertaining too, and we are blessed to witness it.
Seven times in the first four days Hannon and Hughes have teamed up for victory, and five of those wins have been gained with two-year-olds, suggesting we can look forward to many more good times from the Hannon/Hughes double act. Their haul has included success in the two most important juvenile races of the week, by virtue of King Torus (Veuve Clicquot Vintage Stakes) - Hannon's 50th Glorious Goodwood winner - and Libranno (Tanqueray Richmond Stakes). Another two-year-old, Kalahaag, gave Hannon his 200th success at all Goodwood meetings when taking the EBF New Ham Fillies' Maiden.
The week's emotional highlights centre on two horses who won on Thursday. Illustrious Blue's success in the Artemis Goodwood Cup was his third at Glorious Goodwood and a fulfilling moment for locally-based young trainer William Knight, while Borderlescott's success in the Audi King George Stakes was his second Glorious Goodwood victory and proved age can only partly wither quality. Borderlescott sustained a leg injury when winning, but is on the road to recovery, and, similarly, Age Of Aquarius is pulling through after tearing liagments during the Artemis Goodwood Cup. Professional veterinary care, a feature of Goodwood, undoubtedly played a role in alleviating these injuries.
Other highlights have included a return to his best by Lord Shanakill (Betfair Cup), a late, late flourish by Beachfire (TurfTV Summer Vase), strength and brilliance while netting three victories by champion jockey Ryan Moore, and an all-the-way triumph by Sea Lord (totesport Mile).
All treasured memories - and there is still one day to go!ROD'S GLORIOUS FAREWELL
Rod Fabricius bids farewell to Glorious Goodwood today after a 28-year stint at the helm of Goodwood Racecourse..
Fabricius hands over the role of managing director to Adam Waterworth at the end of the year but, at the conclusion of the racecourse's premier meeting, he was keen to emphasise he is not saying goodbye to the world of horseracing.
He said: "I'm looking forward to moving on with new challenges, and I hope some will involve the racing industry, but Goodwood is in safe hands and will continue to entertain racegoers in this most quintessentially English of settings.
"I've no specific plans - I'm contemplating possibilities, and one will be to remain involved in Goodwood and to support Adam where I can while, avoiding risk of interference as a non-executive director of the racecourse. I'll continue to live in West Sussex and my family are happy here, but I will certainly be seen more often on racecourses, because that's what I enjoy most about the game.
"I made the decision to move on at 60 because I've exhausted my ideas and energies for the business and it requires new creative thoughts. It deserves the ambitions of a younger person.
"In so many respects the challenge at Goodwood is retaining what is so precious to the brand and those things which make it so special for hundreds of thousands of racegoers, yet it has to move forward in terms of customer expectations and raising the standard of racing."
Asked to consider the key changes during his time at the course, Fabricius was quick to nominate a piece of kit that is crucial to turf management. He said: "In terms of ensuring we can attract the best horses and have the confidence of top trainers the Upton Irrigator, which we bought for £40,000 15 years ago, has been a marvellous investment. Without it, our ability to provide consistently safe and level going would not have been possible.
"[For paying customers] The new paddock layout has had the greatest impact, but the Charlton and Sussex Stands have been a success and I'm thrilled we've been able to advance the fixture list from 15 to 23 days. Growing the number of black-type races has been rewarding, too, as has lifting the Betfair Nassau Stakes to Group One and the Audi King George Stakes to Group Two.
"Generating sales is crucial for investment in prize money or improvement in facilities, so the successful exploitation of picture rights, the attraction of corporate clients and sponsorship, and ticket sales to the public via advanced bookings on our website have all been key elements, and ones that Adam is ideally qualified to develop."
Asked for personal highlights during his tenure, Fabricius returned to horses, saying: "The Marling and Selkirk titanic battle [in the 1992 Sussex Stakes] was marvellous, and the Artemis Goodwood Cup has always played a big part in thrilling the crowd, not least through Double Trigger, Persian Punch and more recently Yeats, but maybe Canford Cliffs' victory in Wednesday's Sussex Stakes will prove to be a performance of Goliath standards."
And what are Rod's future plans for leisure and pleasure? "I shall certainly be going racing more often, and my son Balthazar works in the [betting] industry so I shall help him in whatever way possible, but I'm also looking forward to spending more time with my family, playing a little more golf, and no doubt lingering in the garden and greenhouse when getting under my wife's [Debbie] feet.
"What I must convey, however, is that none of the things achieved at Goodwood during my time would be possible without a brilliant team who have been exceptionally supportive, and that extends to the enthusiastic and knowledgeable board at Goodwood. They are true professionals, very competent, and we have built a great friendship."
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The work began with the thinning of the dense canopy of trees that clogs parts of the 13-acre park, said State Rep. Lisa Baldelli-Hunt (D-Woonsocket). In the months ahead, she said, other contractors would be hired to build two basketball courts, a splash park and a baseball field to replace the existing tennis courts.
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Have you ever asked someone else to help with your Rails app? Did you notice how painful it seemed for them to get everything working? Or how about contributing to someone else's project? A bad setup experience can really suck away the motivation to help.
It usually goes something like this… you clone the repo from Github, look at the readme and realise it is still the default Rails template version. Ok, run
bundle install, hopefully that goes well.
Next you try the database setup rake task but you've forgotten to put your details in the config file. Hopefully there's a sample version to avoid the actual file being checked in to source control. If not, and you need to make a change, get ready for some annoying
git stashing when it comes to pushing your code back.
What about those projects with a
/db/migrate folder overflowing with migrations? Run
rake db:migrate and hope they all still run?
Regardless of how much experience you have building apps with Rails, this is still a pain.
How did we end up like this?
Very often, the dependencies of your app evolve over time. You add a background worker to avoid a user having to wait for a process to complete, and then an A/B testing library or a feature flipper. Before too long there's quite a list of dependencies that are not managed by any specific process.
The trouble is, tasks like creating and configuring these dependencies is often a one-time affair for you, well, once in your development environment and then once on your production server. Once done, it's easy to forget that it's a requirement for the app to work properly.
Automate it
The solution then, is to automate as much of this as we can. And we can automate the majority, if not all of it.
The easiest way to do it is to keep a bash script up-to-date with the steps required to get the app up and running and let it evolve alongside the app's requirements.
Generally this is what I start with in
#! bin/sh
echo "Installing dependencies"
bundle install --quiet
echo "Preparing database"
rake db:setup
echo "All done. Run 'rails s' to start a server"
This will ensure my gem dependencies are up-to-date and my database is present and fully migrated.
rake db:setup also runs the
rake db:seed task, that populates the database from the
db/seeds.rb code.
Make it idempotent
At this point, I'd like to recommend that you ensure your script can run in an idempotent fashion. Which is a succinct way of saying don't overwrite things.
In order for this script to be useful and used by you, it shouldn't overwrite or re-install things that are already up-to-date. Dependencies that haven't changed don't need to be re-installed and likewise, your db doesn't need to be dropped and then created from scratch every time you run this script.
So, the script should aim to check what has been done so far and only perform steps that need to be run.
Fortunately, a lot of the system tools we use have this idea baked in. Bundler, for example, only updates your gems when a version has changed and you have asked for an update.
If you're on a Mac, the
brew command operates in a similar idempotent fashion.
Checking dependencies
As part of my setup script, I like to check for the presence of any dependencies that aren't included in my app's
Gemfile. This generally is made up of databases and sometimes queue servers or a caching server.
Because we're writing a shell script, we have all the power of the command line at our disposal and are able to make use of the
which command for easy dependency checking.
if test ! $(which createdb)
echo "You need to install PostgreSQL. If you use Homebrew, run:"
echo " brew install postgresql"
echo "PostgreSQL found"
I repeat that block for any other dependencies the app has.
Config files
Another step we can automate is to create local versions of our standard
.yml config files. At a minimum this will require us to create
It's good practice to keep configuration files that may differ between developer machines out of version control. So, when starting a new project I will create a
config/database.yml.example file with generic values, this gets committed to version control, and then let the setup script create my local version, which gets ignored by my
.gitignore settings.
if test -f config/database.yml
echo "Database config already set"
cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
Running the app with Foreman
Finally, the last common step we want is starting up all the services our app depends on. At the very least we want to fire up a web server. This is where we look to a great tool called Foreman.
Foreman allows us to define the processes our app needs in a
Procfile and then manage these processes with a common set of commands, eg.
foreman start and
foreman stop.
We need to ensure that in the root folder of our app we create a
web: bundle exec rails s
This is the simplest
Procfile we need.
It can also include other entries such as
worker: rabbitmq-server. You can do anything that you would at the command line, so feel free to add switches for port numbers for example.
In order to add this to our setup script, let's output a message that instructs the user how to start the app.
echo "Success. The app is installed. To view it in a browser, run:"
echo " foreman start"
Summary / tl;dr
Automating your setup process will save time for you and anyone else who wants to contribute to your project.
Keep it current by updating it as your app changes.
Run it yourself, often.
Do it today.


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Gov. Corbett pivots to support medical use of cannabis oil
Gov. Corbett pivoted Thursday to express support for legislation to legalize the medical use of cannabis oil extract – one day before advocates were planning a sit-in protest to call attention to the issue.
Sen. Leach may protest Corbett's medical marijuana stance with sit-in
As a bill to legalize medical marijuana awaits action, State Sen. Daylin Leach (D-Montco/Delco) is threatening to hold a sit-in protest in Gov. Tom Corbett's reception room if Corbett doesn't agree by Friday to meet with Leach and six families with children who could use the medicine.
Minimum wage increase bill introduced today in state Senate
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Medical marijuana will be legal in Pa. this year, says Sen. Daylin Leach
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Pa. medical marijuana bill gets more support
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14 Little Ways to Spruce Up Your LifeResolutions to upgrade your life. (And the word diet is nowhere to be found).
9. Renew a childhood passion.
Try pottery. Perfect your Pictionary game. Take your piano skills from "Chopsticks" to Chopin.
10. Do something you hate for someone you love.
Lunch with his mom, his college reunion (complete with kegger), or a movie that's long on action and short on plot.
11. Add color to your life. Buy a sweater in cerulean.
Paint your living room a dramatic red. Vivid colors can boost your mood. And really, who could possibly be blue in purple?
12. Stop with the why-ning.
"Why?" is a perfectly lovely question coming from a toddler, but not from you. Why am I stuck in this stupid job? Why don't I have a better boyfriend? A better question: "How?" How do I get a better job, a better guy?
13. Find a bra that fits.
Because right now, we're guessing that yours doesn't (a study showed that eight out of 10 women don't know their correct bra size). To prevent cups that runneth over and underwires that dig, get a pro to measure you at your local department store. Or try the Bra Size Calculator at balicompany.com
14. Learn to say no.
Put your tongue against the back of your top teeth, make an oval shape with your mouth, and let go. Feels good, no?
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Nov. 3, 2013
COLUMBUS, Ohio - No. 11 Ohio State defeated Walsh 93-63 in an exhibition contest Sunday afternoon in front of 14,092 fans at Value City Arena.
Five players scored in double figures for Ohio State, led by 15 apiece from senior Lenzelle Smith, Jr. and junior LaQuinton Ross. Senior Aaron Craft added 14 points, sophomoreAmedeo Della Valle tallied 14 and junior Sam Thompson 13 for the Buckeyes, who shot 50 percent from the field for the game. Walsh was led by a game-high 18 points from Jesse Hardin.
The Buckeyes were ahead 49-26 at the half. Six players from the squad scored six or more points in the opening 20 minutes.
Ohio State opens the 2013 season this Saturday, Nov. 9, with a Noon ET tip against Morgan State at Value City Arena. A pregame skull session and fan fest will be held at 10:00 a.m.
Postgame Notes
• Ohio State scored 29 points off of 23 Walsh turnovers.
• The Buckeyes held a commanding 52-26 advantage on the glass, a 48-28 scoring edge in the paint and scored 20 second chance points.
• Ohio State totaled 12 team blocks, led by five from junior Amir Williams.
• OSU owned a 25-6 edge in fast break points.
• The Buckeyes recorded a 32-18 advantage in bench points.
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Turkey Mulligatawny Soup Recipe
The spices in this mulligatawny, a rich Indian soup flavored with curry and garam masala, will help you wake up from your post-Thanksgiving coma. We substitute leftover turkey for the more traditional chicken and finish the soup with creamy coconut milk and cilantro.
This recipe was featured as part of our Thanksgiving Leftovers photo gallery.
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 medium yellow onion, medium dice
- 1 medium Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored, and medium dice
- 1 medium carrot, peeled and medium dice
- 5 medium garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon curry powder
- 1 tablespoon garam masala
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 5 cups turkey stock or low-sodium chicken broth
- 2 cups diced, cooked turkey
- 1 1/2 cups cooked basmati rice
- 1 (14-ounce) can unsweetened coconut milk or light Coconut:coconut milk
- 1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest (optional)
- 1/2 cup packed fresh cilantro leaves and tender stems, for garnish
- Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat. When it foams, add onion, season with salt, and cook until tender, about 3 minutes. Add apple, carrot, and garlic, stir to coat in butter, and season again with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Sauté until apple is tender and onion is translucent, about 5 minutes.
- Sprinkle flour, curry powder, garam masala, cumin, and cloves over vegetables and stir until spices are fragrant and flour has cooked slightly, about 2 minutes.
- Slowly add stock or broth, stirring until flour has dissolved. Bring to a simmer and cook until vegetables are tender, about 10 minutes.
- Add turkey, rice, coconut milk, and lemon juice and return soup to a simmer for about 10 minutes. Stir in lemon zest, if using, and season with additional salt and freshly ground black pepper as desired. Ladle soup into bowls, garnish with cilantro, and serve.
Beverage pairing: Hecht & Bannier Vin de Pays des Côtes de Thau Syrah Rosé, France. Syrah and Indian spices typically go well together, but a deep, red wine would probably overwhelm the soup. The solution is a Syrah rosé, which still possesses some of the savory/sweet fruit of the grape, while delivering it in a rounder, mellower package.


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Open 22
Design: Thomas Buxó and Klaartje van Eijk, Paperback, Illustrated (colour and b/w), 176 pages, 17 x 24 cm
In association with SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain
This issue of Open investigates how transparency and secrecy are intertwined in modern-day society and explores how they relate to the public and the civic, using WikiLeaks as a special case. The contributors consider the public's intrinsic bond with the secret, the political potential of transparency and transparency as fetish, and the ideal of free flows of information versus the struggle for information.
WikiLeaks is certainly not an isolated phenomenon. The whistleblower website expresses the growing public desire for openness and transparency from the state, businesses and administrators. It is a demand for publicity that stems in part from the growing number of sensational social and political revelations. While people often regard secrecy within the public sphere as impermissible and clandestine, transparency is associated with democracy, participation and accessibility.
But is transparency really so liberating? Might it equally well result in concealment or stricter control of information? And is transparency not the ultimate manifestation of the banality of the contemporary society of spectacle, in which everything revolves around pure visibility and the production of affects? Open 22 addresses these questions and much more.
Open is a cahier that reflects upon contemporary public space from a cultural perspective.
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Seasonality Update – SeptemberSeptember 12 2011 at 20:46
We are indeed heading for our autumnal seasonal foods. The weather is changing and the leaves are falling.
The little-know Celeriac comes into season. Celeriac was developed from celery and is known as turnip-rooted celery. It is knobbly with a patchy brown and white skin and has a similar but less pronounced flavour than celery. Celeriac contains useful amounts of fibre, Vitamin C and folic acid. It can be eaten raw or cooked.
We are in harvest in Ireland so we have a powerhouse of choice of Irish Organic vegetables including beetroot, broccoli, cabbage carrots, cauliflower, kale, leeks, onions, rhubarb, spinach and swedes and turnips. September also sees the main crop of Irish Potatoes come into season – they have a three month run until November so enjoy them at their best now.
Alas in September we lose aubergines, broad beans and shallots and next month we lose rhubarb for a year so stock up now.
All salads and herbs remain in season this month.
As for fruit, apples and cooking apples are at their yearly best in September. And indeed we still have strawberries and raspberries at their best. However by the end of the month we lose blueberries and blackberries.
Enjoy the September organic harvest!
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Serve this Asian-style dinner tonight made with noodles, chicken and Progresso™ Recipe Starters™ basil cooking sauce – ready in 25 minutes.
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1. In 3-quart saucepan, heat 4 cups water to boiling. Remove from heat; add noodles (push noodles into water with back of spoon to cover completely with water if necessary). Soak noodles 3 to 5 minutes or until noodles are soft but firm. Drain noodles; rinse with cold water. Set aside.
2. Meanwhile, in medium bowl, beat cooking sauce, peanut butter, lime juice and soy sauce with whisk until smooth; set aside.
3. Spray 10-inch skillet with cooking spray; heat over medium-high heat. Add chicken; cook and stir 4 to 5 minutes or until no longer pink in center. Add sauce mixture; heat to boiling, stirring frequently. Stir in noodles until thoroughly mixed. Cook 2 to 3 minutes, tossing with 2 wooden spoons, until heated through and noodles are tender. Sprinkle with peanuts and cilantro. Serve with lime wedges. Serve immediately.
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46 U.S. Code § 70305 - Suspension of passenger services
(a) General Authority.— Whenever the President determines that a foreign nation permits the use of territory under its jurisdiction as a base of operations or training for, or as a sanctuary for, or in any way arms, aids, or abets, a terrorist or terrorist group that knowingly uses the illegal seizure of passenger vessels or the threat thereof as an instrument of policy, the President may suspend the right of any passenger vessel common carrier to operate to or from, and the right of any passenger vessel of the United States to use, a port in that foreign nation for passenger service. The suspension may be without notice or hearing and for as long as the President determines is necessary to ensure the security of passenger vessels against unlawful seizure.
(b) Prohibition.— A passenger vessel common carrier, or a passenger vessel of the United States, may not operate in violation of a suspension under this section.
(c) Penalties.—
(1) Denial of entry.— If a person operates a vessel in violation of this section, the Secretary may deny the vessels of that person entry to ports of the United States.
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When it comes to online success of a website, landing pages play a pivotal role. Landing pages are web pages which appear when someone clicks on advertisement or online link. A landing page can be money page, sales page, opt-in page and squeeze page. Main objective behind these pages is to attract readers and search engine robots. When a website is created, prime focus of owners is on making landing pages appealing. If landing pages of a website fail to impress website visitors, sales of a business may suffer a lot. Creating appropriate and valuable correct in landing page is crucial for SEO marketing. Landing pages should grab attention of a website's visitors.
Landing page optimization has ability to increase percentage of visitors to a specific website. It improves a landing page to optimize page performance and results. Landing page optimization is a preeminent way to improve the effectiveness of a website. This process includes authoring particular page content around several narrow focused and relevant keywords.
Advantages of landing page optimization:
Basically, there are two methods of landing page optimization. These are:
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This method is used for testing multiple versions of a page (e.g. FAQ, product page and home page). The most impressive feature of this method is that it identifies which version is more effective and appealing. Testing can be conducted in both ways i.e. parallel and sequentially. No complicated statistical analysis is required in A/B testing and it is simple and easy. In addition to this, it is highly affordable.
2) Multivariate Testing(MVT).
This landing page optimization method includes variations of visual elements such as text or graphics. This method can give best landing page within couple of days. It is highly fast to test. It offers foundation of open-ended experimentation. It provides a trustworthy approach for comprehending preferences of clients and optimizing their experience.
Split testing is a landing page optimization technique which can test pages in a live scenario. As far as business and online commerce are concerned, it is of the essence to create a noticeable impact. Majority of businesses have realized that it is extremely essential to optimize landing pages. Landing pages should be designed to meet needs of audience. To drive more and more audience towards landing pages, it will be better to create a meaningful content. When a visitor visits a specific website, he only spends few seconds to read the content. He never hesitates to switch over to some other site if he does not find relevant content. Therefore, website owners have less time to keep him engaged and get his attention. Excessive information and poor design can hamper a website's success.
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Below mentioned are the main characteristics of this tool.
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Linked to AdWords
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Rapid installation
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Analysis in every environment
Google Analytics tool is versatile and flexible as it has the ability to handle challenges of analyzing data in difficult environments where a site utilizes stuff such as sub domains, intricate URLs, Flash and multiple domains.
Offers an integrating option
This tool provides an option to integrate data with several tools and software packages such as CRM solutions dashboard reporting system, Google website optimization and many more.
Google Analytics tools can be used for different purposes such as bounce rate, visitor loyalty, page views, time spent on a site and total number of visits. These tools also measure imperative metrics of a particular website.
In recent time, website analysis tool is proving to be highly indispensable as it gives an opportunity to track the progress of a website and evaluate competitor's website. By using this tool, it is not at all intricate to analyze that whether a specific website is recognized by eminent search engines such as Yahoo, Bing and Google or not. In addition to this, it becomes easy to identify that how much a site is discussed in social media sites. A detailed report is generated through which everyone can get an idea about how many individuals visit his website every day. A good analysis report allows to stay up to date with market trends.
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3) Analyzes on-page issues
4) Enhance ranking and popularity of current site
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Links and Images
Internal links, outbound links and inbound links are of high significance. It is essential to ensure that a website does not have any broken or dead link. The most crucial factor to be kept in mind is that images utilized in a site must have proper text along with width and height attributes specified.
HTML Aspects
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Unique content
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Things A Book Addict Might Say Before Buying Books
- 1: Hm, better scan and check Goodreads first!
- 2: I wonder if I can find it cheaper anywhere else?
- 3: To get this or not to get this...
- 4: Will I ever really read this?
- 5: What the heck, it'll look pretty on my bookshelf!
- 6: This is a total cover buy--it's sooooo pretty/artsy/classy/whatever floats your boat.
- 7: I wonder if I already have this one...
- 8: Please, please, please let this be the first one in the series!
- 9: I wonder if I'm still under my budget...oh well!
- 10: I haven't read the others in the series, but I have to get them all!
- 11: It's the last/only copy here, so I have to get it!
- 12: I wonder if anyone is looking at my full basket.
- 13: I wonder what the employees here are thinking about my stack of books.
- 14: Ooooh, bookmarks!
- 15: I hope these books fit on my shelves.
- 16: I'm so reading this one next!
- 17: Oh my gosh, a sale! (Adds five more books to cart.)
- 18: My arms are starting to hurt, maybe I should stop...
- 19: OMG!! That author wrote a new book? How did I not know?!?! Gotta have it!
- 20: Ok, I'll buy all of these, but I'm definitely going on a book buying ban after!
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- me: *owns 264 unread books*
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Nude dancing is back in Lubbock County. Late Thursday afternoon, Federal Judge Sam Cummings ruled that the Boom Boom Cabaret, Fantasy Theatre, and C & L Bookstore will be allowed to continue operating as sexually oriented businesses pending the outcome of litigation against the three establishments. This means for the first time since January, dancers can be nude at the Boom Boom Cabaret.
Judge Cummings writes in his order that timing is an issue for all three businesses. Specifically, the amount of time they have to correct any errors on renewal applications. The county started requiring sexually oriented business permits in 1995. According to court records, these three businesses were in operation before that, so they were grand-fathered in and allowed to continue operations... But to do so, they've had to fill out the appropriate applications every two years. Last year, the county denied all three businesses' applications because each application had discrepancies, and Judge Cummings writes they may not have been given enough time to try and correct those errors.
Boom Boom Cabaret Attorney David Guinn says, "The guts of what a lot of this case is about is the tricky little time scheme they created when someone can apply for a license. How long the county can take to tell them whether they were denying or not. You didn't find out about your permit being denied until it was too late."
Guinn tells us they haven't found any evidence that sexually oriented businesses are being targeted. He says it could be a coincidence that certain regulations are being enforced, seemingly all at once, but he says either way, some of the rules are not constitutional.
This does not mean these businesses are free and clear. Thursday's court order only allows them to keep their permits until a final decision is made on the current lawsuits in federal court.
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The Happiness of the Katakuris is a 2001 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike, and is very loosely based on the South Korean film The Quiet Family. This movie blends so many different elements that it utterly defies description. It is in roughly equal parts Surreal Horror, Black Comedy, Musical, and Farce.The Katakuri family, after a long string of failures decide to pool their remaining resources and open a guest house in the country. At first, this seems like a great idea that is finally bringing a measure of success to the family; until their guests start dropping dead. Not from mysterious or supernatural means, nor even the result of a serial killer; but for purely mundane reasons. Suicide, heart failure, and so on. All played strictly for laughs as the family attempts to hide the bodies, in order to prevent the deaths from ruining the house's reputation; because, after all, dead bodies are bad for business.
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Besides term limits and repealing the 17th Amendment, there has to be an elimination of entitlements for elected officials. These entitlements only encourage the political lifestyle. Pay them whatever you want while they are in office, but make them pay for parking on their way home. No pension, no tax breaks, nada.
I do agree really, but trying to be objective. I spent 25 years as an Army infantryman. I don't care who is helping me fight or carry the load, I care who is not. I do not support women in infantry units for all the reasons stated. Men have lost their lives protecting their buddies forever. I do know that the authority, no matter how distateful it is, has made the decision. Standards must be gender neutral for this to have any chance of success because it will filter out those who cannot carry the load or perform the required tasks - men and women alike. We can deal w the decision makers during elections as long as we do not get distracted by bright and shiny things.
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Am I alone or is Dempsey another example of why our strategic military leadership has not finished or won at war lately?
Your point is well taken.But remember when you force others to play at your level, they get better . If women are required to perform at a certain level to succeed, they will perform at that level or not succeed unless they get a free pass on the standards.
I too am concerned w another unilateral decision without debate. But on this particular issue, my concern on this decision is standards of performance will not be relevant to the requirements, but only to ensure inclusion. If a man or a woman can meet the standards, great. As far as men and women in combat together, its been going on for millenia as well as the sex asociated with it. Soldiers will learn do deal with it. Our Soldiers are the strength of our army. It is not their senior leadership who have not given us victory or evan a clean finish in quite some time.
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This module examines modern political theory from the late eighteenth century: Hume, Kant, Burke, Hegel, Bentham, James Mill, Tocqueville. The second part takes the exploration of themes through the nineteenth century: J S Mill, Marx and Nietzsche.
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the thing i really wish, was that my chat window didn't change every character. all my other addons have profiles and stuff that are easily restorable, but i decided to play with ardor's idea of the two chat windows (one for actual talking and one for information) and every time i switch to another character i find myself having to take the time to move the chat frame to the right place and create another window. most annoying!


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Some of the junior-hockey work I do showed up in others' draft coverage this year. A list:
- The 2013 version of the Jeff Skinner Rankings, the world's most popular totally-dependent-on-PPG-and-exact-age CHL and USHL
folk parody duoscoring forward rankings, now an institution in junior hockey*.
- A Yahoo piece on two undervalued players according to the Skinners. One of them went 76th overall to the Islanders and the other** didn't even get selected or ranked by Central Scouting*** because he is 5-8 and apparently we are still selling jeans here.
- The Ottawa Senators took some of my thoughts for use in their live draft tracker.
- Canucks Army did the same, for example with first rounder Bo Horvat.
- Ditto the first pick by Toronto, Frédérik Gauthier, at Leafs Nation.
* Possibly an exaggeration.
*** Doesn't "Central Scouting" sound like a Soviet thing? Is Don Cherry aware of this?
I also thought I'd collect my real-time observations on various drafted players here, where "observations" mostly means the two or three most-similar players from past draft years according to 5v5 scoring statistics, quality of competition faced, playing time, and age. Here those are:
Nathan MacKinnon
Most similar player to MacKinnon from past drafts: NOBODY. There are none. Serious comparison: MacKinnon's accomplishments/competition are most similar to Sean Couturier (but, um, better).
Sean Monahan
Matches to Alexander Khokhlachev, Brayden Shenn, a bit of Justin Shugg in there too.
Darnell Nurse
Hard to find a comparison for Nurse, but Scott Harrington is the best we can do at this time. Nobody similar has been drafted as high.
Josh Morrissey
Morrissey's comparables from past draft years are mostly undrafted and forgotten. I'll assume the comp system isn't meant for him. That said, Morrissey's No. 5 comp is Marc Staal … you just have to go through still-CHL and now-CIS players to get there.
Ryan Pulock
Ryan Pulock's selection reminds me of one of Brandon League's original nicknames: the Brandon Heat King. (He was more impressive then.) Pulock's comparables from past drafts: Ryan Murray, Stuart Percy, Joey Leach.
Mirco Mueller
Mirco Mueller, notable for facing very tough competition this year, matches up with Tim Billingsley and Nick Crawford.
Kerby Rychel
Rychel, top-10 among draft-eliglbles in the Skinners, matches to Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Phillip Danault, Dale Mitchell.
Anthony Mantha
Anthony Mantha, out of impossible-to-type-quickly-Val-d'Or, matches to Ryan Strome, Sean Couturier, Zack Phillips.
Hunter Shinkaruk
Ranked 4th among draft-eligibles in Skinner rankings, 7th overall. Was 2nd-highest left behind Petan at time of draft. Ranked 29th in Skinners in 2010-11, and 2nd behind MacKinnon last year. Good pick. 2nd-toughest competition among Medicine Hat forwards. Comparables: Boone Jenner, Ryan Martindale.
Ryan Hartman (sort of)
I like the Ryan Hartman pick for Chicago at 30. Though if you're going to draft a high scorer's linemate, Free Jaedon!
Keenan Kanzig
The reason I wasn't using draft position in my most-similar-players definition can be summed up by Keegan Kanzig. Though, really, I could just ignore CGY picks and the problem would go away. Of Kanzig's 10 most-similar players from 2010 and before, more have gone to CIS hockey than ever turned pro.
Sven Andrighetto
Is there another Sven Andrighetto or did Montreal just draft a 20-year-old?
Anthony Duclair
Like the Rangers' pick of Anthony Duclair. Young for his draft class, 10th overall in Skinners, ranked 50ish. Got him at 80.
Carter Verhaeghe
69th among draft-eligible players in the Skinners, 215th overall. NHLe of 18.7. Faced tougher competition than Strome did this year on Niagara. Pretty similar to Bo Horvat, really, once you isolate on 5v5 time, which kind of make me wonder why Horvat went 9th and Verhaeghe 82nd, but obviously there are many things I don't know about this process.
Cole Cassels
82nd among draft-eligibles in the Skinner Rankings, tied for 256th overall. Doubled his scoring year-over-year (and then some, when you look at his total points, not just 5v5) but he was starting from a very low base. Among his most three common opponents was Ryan Murphy, but overall, he faced by far the weakest competition on the Generals (and was 7th in ice time among their forwards by my estimate). A little underwhelmed, if I can say that with a straight face about someone I don't even know. Most-similar: Darian Dziurzynski (2009), Samuel Schutt (2012), Jean-Sebastien Dea (2012).
Jaedon Descheneau, who went undrafted
JAEDON MUST BE AVENGED. Interested parties who can swing a sack of doorknobs are invited to join. But you gotta bring your own knobs.
I'm not even going to pretend I can say who had a good draft and a bad draft, but I will point out the players I liked (other than FREE JAEDON DESCHENEAU). Hartman (30, CHI) is one, Shinkaruk (24, VAN) another, Taylor Cammarata (76, NYI) a third. Morgan Klimchuk (28, CGY, in one of their non-bizarre choices) and Mirco Mueller (18, SJS) both played against very tough competition this year and I was pleased to see both go in the first round.
Beau McCue didn't get ranked at all, let alone drafted by anyone, but by some measures he compares favourably to the 28th, 29th, 48th, and 69th picks this year so I don't know what's going on there. I would not be surprised if there exists a bias against players a) born in Montana and/or b) playing on U.S.-based CHL teams.