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While he didn't win a medal, Petersburg High graduate Derek Gibb saw some unexpected action during the World University Games, or Universiade, in Daegu, South Korea.
Gibb, who will be a senior for defending NCAA champion Auburn University, was a member of the U.S. men's 4x100-meter freestyle relay team in Monday's swimming events at the Duryu Swimming Pool.
Even though he wasn't on the original U.S. roster posted Sunday before the relay, Gibb was pressed into action during Monday's preliminary heats and he stayed on the team in the finals.
"I did swim the third leg of the 4x100 relay," Gibb wrote in an e-mail Monday night. "I didn't know that I was going to be on that relay until the day before, so I didn't get as ready as I would have liked."
The Great Britain team of Chris Cozens, Alex Scotcher, Ross Davenport and Matt Kidd won the event in a time of 3 minutes, 20.59 seconds, repeating the British victory in the same event during the 2001 World University Games in Beijing, China. Australia took second place in 3:20.90, followed by the Ukraine in 3:21.11.
The United States team of Mark Knepley, Clay Kirkland, Gibb and Andrew Schnell finished in seventh place with a time of 3:22.97. Kirkland and Gibb swam for Auburn, as did Kidd from Great Britain, when the Tigers won the NCAA Championships in April. More than a dozen swimmers from Auburn are competing for various countries in the World University Games.
Gibb swam the third leg for the United States, and his time was 50.75 seconds. Gibb covered the first 50 meters in 23.57 seconds, but his second 50 was just 27.18. Knepley swam a 51.49 for the first leg, Kirkland posted a 50.14 for the second leg and Schnell swam a 50.59 for the anchor leg.
Gibb also swam the third leg in the preliminaries for the United States, which took third place in its heat and fifth overall in the preliminary round. The Ukraine won the first heat in 3:22.37, followed by France in 3:22.98 and the United States in 3:23.11. Great Britain won the second heat in 3:22.09 and Australia was second in 3:22.80.
"I wish I would have prepared more for it, since I trained for the 50 this summer," Gibb wrote. "Also, coming home and fishing made it so I didn't train as well as I would have liked. But that's the way it goes sometimes, although that was my best relay split for meters so I was happy.
Before he left for Korea, Gibb said he thought he might swim in the preliminaries but not in the finals. His main focus is Saturday's 50-meter freestyle, Gibb's only scheduled individual event.
"It was nice being able to get a swim in under my belt before I swim the 50 on Saturday," Gibb wrote. "There's a lot of fast people entered in the event so it should be a good one. The competition looks really tough. I think going into the 50 I'm going to be more nervous because of the fast guys. But hopefully it will make me swim faster."
The Universiade has been under a terror watch, and there have been clashes between South Korean protesters and North Korean journalists covering the World University Games. But Gibb said the head of security has been able to keep the athletes updated on the situation, and they haven't had any serious scares.
He said the North Koreans wouldn't cheer for the Americans during the opening ceremonies, but otherwise everyone has been pretty friendly.
"Other than that we are having a great time," Gibb wrote, adding that he's enjoyed the atmosphere of the Olympics-style event. "I've met so many people from other countries, mostly hot girls from Sweden and Estonia - and Greece! So it's been nice."
He said he and several teammates found a tailor who is making them suits for $200 that would cost $1,500 in the United States. The tailor, Sangtae Han, went to Texas A&M, and he invited them to have dinner with his family.
"We can see how they live and how their lifestyles are, so that should be pretty sweet," Gibb wrote. "Because of what he's doing for us, we are getting him free tickets to a few of the swimming events. The Koreans over here are the nicest people. We meet new ones every day that speak English, and they help us find our way around and show us all kinds of cool stuff about Korea."
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I'm sorry that I haven't updated in awhile.
It's been crazy busy at the moment.
The sort of week where you simultaneously want to live in a cave removed from the rest of the world just so you can get some peace and quiet, while running on pure adrenaline to get yourself to the finish line, or as close to it as possible. The insomnia doesn't help, but when you've built up such a tolerance to the pills that it's either sleeplessness or taking four pills to get to sleep, the former is better than the latter.
The only thing that makes it bearable is coming home at night to a darling puppy (okay, not puppy but more 11yo golden retriever with Peter Pan syndrome) who quietly lays his head on your knee and looks up at you to ask if you're okay.
The best cure in the world for these long, tiring days is a puppy hug.
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Each day, we all experience pain in one form or another….a twisted ankle, shoes that pinch, an aching tooth.
But what can be done for those who battle pain – serious, excruciating pain - on an everyday basis?
During OHSU's upcoming Brain Awareness Season lecture series, Howard Fields, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of California, San Francisco will share his insights on the upsides and downsides of pain. (Yes, there actually are upsides!)
Given the large number of neuro-experts at OHSU, its no surprise that several of our scientists are highly interested in the subject. Earlier, we spoke with researcher Mary Heinricher, Ph.D., about her research on the aches and pains…of pain. Here is what she said:
Other Brain Awareness topics during the 2011 season include:
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The future of the former Six Flags amusement park site in eastern New Orleans will be determined in coming months. The Industrial Development Board, which holds title to the 150-acre, city-owned land, has begun accepting proposals from developers. The first deadline for proposals is Feb. 28.
This is the second selection process for the site in recent years. In 2012, a committee chose Provident Realty Advisors and DAG Development to build a 400,000-square-foot outlet mall. But when a separate outlet mall took shape at the Riverwalk, the eastern New Orleans site developers walked away from the project, saying the market couldn't support two such malls.
In the past, developers have also proposed amusement and water parks, an electric power plant, and a combination theme park-resort and sound stage.
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Born: Dec. 4, 1955
No player in Kings history ever wore the uniform with more distinction, pride and class than Dave Taylor. For 17 seasons, Taylor gave his all, both on and off the ice, receiving numerous awards and All-Star status for his outstanding play.
After retiring as a player, Taylor worked for the Kings in the front office, where he eventually spent nine seasons as the Kings General Manager. In his role as GM, Taylor helped shape a Kings roster - a roster that collected more than 90 points each season from 1999-02, the first time that feat had been accomplished in the history of the franchise - and by securing playoff berths in four of Taylor's first five seasons. In 2000-01, Taylor was named by The Hockey News as the NHL Executive of the Year. Taylor in 2005-06 served as President, Hockey Operations/General Manager.
Taylor began with the Kings when the club originally selected him in the 15th round (210th overall) of the 1975 NHL Entry Draft. He made his NHL debut in 1977 and a few years later he became a member of the renowned "Triple Crown Line" with Marcel Dionne and Charlie Simmer.
Taylor, a five-time NHL All-Star who served as the Kings captain for four seasons (1985-89), played in a Kings-record 1,111 games and recorded 1,069 points (431-638=1,069) and 1,589 penalty minutes. His 431 goals rank third on the franchise's all-time list and first among right wings. He also ranks third on the team's all-time list with his 638 assists, 1,069 points and his 123 power play goals, while his 1,589 penalty minutes rank second.
A native of Levack, Ontario, and a product of Clarkson University, Taylor also played in 92 career playoff games and recorded 59 points (26-33=59) and 149 penalty minutes, while his career highlight was reaching the Stanley Cup Finals in 1993. Individually, he was honored with the Masterton and King Clancy Trophy in 1991 and he was an All-NHL Second Team selection in 1980-81. In addition, he was honored with the following team awards: Most Valuable Player, Most Popular Player, Most Inspirational Player (six times), Unsung Hero (two times) and Community Service (four times).
On April 3, 1995, Taylor's No. 18 jersey was retired, becoming the third King to have his sweater retired after Rogie Vachon (No. 30) and Marcel Dionne (No. 16). Taylor was inducted as one of the six original members of the Kings Hall of Fame in 1997.
At the conclusion of his last season as a player, the 1993-94 campaign, Taylor joined the Kings as a front office executive. He first worked as the club's Assistant General Manager and Director of Player Development for three seasons before being promoted to Vice President/General Manager on April 22, 1997.
After being relieved of GM duties in April, 2006, Taylor was named the Kings Director of Amateur Development for one season, a post he held until he joined the Dallas Stars as Director of Player Personnel in July of 2007.
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NCAA played the judge and jury for Joe Paterno
The NCAA acted as judge and jury in finding Joe Paterno guilty of being, in effect, an accomplice to child molestation. The NCAA, as best I can tell, based its findings on hearsay evidence.
Would this have been possible in a civil court? Would not the accused have been afforded an opportunity to speak in his defense before such harsh penalties as those handed down by the NCAA were imposed?
True, the late Mr. Paterno could not testify. But if he had, what would have been the outcome?
What happened to the presumption that one is considered innocent until proven guilty? The late Mr. Paterno did not have the opportunity to face his accusers.
Under the circumstances, the penalties handed down by the NCAA were totally unfair to a great football coach, his family, Penn State University and the PSU players.
Did the NCAA have any evidence, other than hearsay? Were there letters and/or emails from Paterno which proved that he knew of the actions of Jerry Sandusky? Were there recorded telephone conversations?
Despite the accusations, Joe Paterno was a great football coach. He is, and probably always will be, the coach with the most NCAA lifetime football victories in history. I am sure Bobby Bowden would agree and that he takes no pride in now having that distinction.
'We the people' will be left holding the bag
Many of "we the people" don't realize or care that the federal government is approaching $16 trillion in debt.
"We the people" elected our choices to Congress to represent us. They in turn brought about this indebtedness by wasting our tax dollars and then borrowing more and more with only paper and our good name, faith and credit to back up those loans.
Tax dollars are supposed to provide for our needs. A multitude of those dollars are utilized by our representatives for personal benefit and to benefit their benefactors, for a worldwide military presence, etc. They also created what is fast becoming a nanny state.
It is "we the people" who are in debt for those many trillions of dollars. We gave our elected officials the power to tax us to cover that debt, and they will certainly raise taxes.
We gave them power over our earnings, property and, yes, our children's future earnings and that of their children.
If "we the people" keep electing those who would keep increasing our indebtedness, then we are just as much to blame as if we went to the bank and borrowed the money on our own good name.
It isn't Democrats or Republicans; it's elected politicians. The few who have spoken up against this blasphemy have been drowned out by those who wish to spend, spend, spend.
But when it comes down to the nitty gritty, it is "we the people" who are to blame. And we will be left holding the bag.
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This one's for the record geeks.
Over the course of 30-odd years and four different studios (one of which, the original J&M Studios on Rampart and Dumaine streets, has twice been honored with historic landmark status), engineer Cosimo Matassa set the mics and turned the knobs for countless New Orleans recordings. It was with Matassa that Dave Bartholomew oversaw the making of Fats Domino's classic cuts; Little Richard recorded his career-making Specialty Records sides at J&M, and Dr. John played his first sessions there, as a teenage sideman. Ernie K-Doe's "Mother-in-Law," Lee Dorsey's "Ya Ya," Irma Thomas' "It's Raining," Aaron Neville's "Tell It Like It Is" – all those, and many more, were recorded with Matassa.
Not everything recorded in a busy studio, of course, turned out to be a stone classic, and the sheer volume of what came out of J&M and, later, Jazz City Studios was rather staggering. In addition, most of what Matassa engineered was released by a legion of small independent labels – Ace, Vin, Ric, Ron, Instant, Minit and so on – that are largely defunct. The full breadth of Matassa's output, though exhaustively studied, has never been fully indexed in detail – until recently, when a group of record collectors and fans cracked what they call "the Cosimo Code."
It was a Scottish collector named Davie Gordon, apparently, who noticed that most original 45 releases emerging from Matassa's studios were marked, on the right-hand side of the label, with an unexplained number split by a hyphen. The first half of the number, Gordon figured out, identified the artist; the second half tracked the recordings made in chronological sequence. (For example, Ronnie and the Delinquents, in which a young Mac Rebennack played guitar, are number 94; 94-345 refers to the "Bad Neighborhood" single recorded in 1961 and released on the JC label, with 94-346, "Keeps Dragging Me On," as the B side.)
Gordon reached out with his discovery to renowned music scholar John Broven who, along with a group of other collectors, scanned his collection for the numbers. Over the course of months, the team built an index of coded releases organized chronologically – from 1960, the first known appearance of the code, through the late '70s – and built a website to house it. Cosimocode.com went live during the last weekend of March 2013; its forums already are packed with posts by eager fans.
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The Cosimo Code, and its development, is explained in a video on the cosimocode.com website; it details how Gordon ascertained the significance of the mysterious numbers, and how writers and bloggers such as the Soul Detective's Red Kelly, Home of the Groove's Dan Phillips, Sir Shambling's Deep Soul Heaven, the Ninth Ward Jukebox, the Singing Bones blog and others worked together to create the growing index (complete with streaming mp3s and scans of the original 45 labels) that appears on the site.
The code is an extraordinary tool for collectors and biographers but perhaps even more so as a wonderful jumping-off point for fantasy. Who might have had studio time booked back-to-back? What conversations, friendships, collaborations and escapades might have resulted from meetings there?
"The Cosimo Code is not only a tribute to the great musicians of New Orleans, it's also a tribute to the man himself, Cosimo Matassa, who in a sense developed the sound of rock 'n' roll through his great engineering abilities," Broven says at the end of the video.
"The Cosimo Code is a tribute to him, and very well-deserved."
The video concludes with a short comment from Matassa himself, with his typical tone of humility. (The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame inductee often has said that his technique was to simply place the microphones and stand back.)
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Roasted pepper sauce for pasta or chicken
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- Freezable
- Healthy
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal115
- fat4g
- saturates0g
- carbs19g
- sugars2g
- fibre3g
- protein3g
- salt0.65g
- 3 red pepper
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- 2 peeled red onion
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- 1 tbsp oil
- ½ tsp dried thyme
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Heat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. Cut the peppers and the onions into chunks. Toss in the oil and dried thyme, then roast for 30 mins until soft and slightly blackened.
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Delicious! I had a mixed bag of red, green and yellow peppers, so used that, and I added a couple of cloves of garlic before putting the tray in the oven. Served over penne. A few days later I added some shredded chicken for leftovers, that was also really good but it doesn't need it. Would recommend.
What an amazing recipe, so easy and much better than pre-made sauces! Added 3 cloves of garlic and a few basil leaves, the cloves I added before roasting, the basil afterwards. After they came out of the oven, I added some extra olive oil for moist and some crème fraîche so it got a little creamy :)
Really tasty sauce that can be used for so many different things!!!
I made it this morning adding some garlic while roasting the peppers & onion & once the sauce was made I added a few chilli flakes for a bit of a kick, I served with with pasta & chicken with a salad for lunch & it was really tasty - a definate hit!
I would definatly reccomend as im sure you can easily adapt it with slight variations for different dishes & its so quick & simple.
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Tropical Storm Debby is nearly stationary over the central Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. Tropical Storm Debby is centered at latitude 26.1 north and longitude 87.5 west, about 220 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River. It has maximum sustained winds of 50 mph and minimum central pressure of 1,000 millibars or 29.53 inches.
A tropical storm warning is in effect for the Louisiana coast from the Pearl River west to Morgan City, not including New Orleans or Lake Pontchartrain.
Tropical Storm Debby is not expected to move much tonight. A slow northward motion is forecast to begin by Sunday morning, followed by a gradual westward turn by Sunday night or Monday morning. The center of Tropical Storm Debby will be moving over the northern Gulf of Mexico during the next few days.
The strongest winds of Tropical Storm Debby are occurring well east of the center of circulation. Some strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours.
Tropical storm-force winds extend up to 175 miles from the center, mainly to the northeast and east.
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As much as I hate to admit it, I am honestly looking forward to the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter, even if I still think Chael Sonnen is utterly undeserving of the spot as coach opposite of reigning light heavyweight champion, Jon Jones, simply because it gives Sonnen a title bout that he just hasn't earned.
But still, this is Chael Sonnen we are talking about—one of the most intelligent, well-spoken and cunning men in the sport today—author of…a book, and master of social media as it pertains to enterprise.
Granted, all the talk is of how friendly Sonnen and Jones are, but with both men, you know what rests upon the surface is very deceiving.
This is a competition after all—a contest between two people—and given that I don't believe that Sonnen stands a snowball's chance in hell of beating Jones in a fight, he's going to pull out all the stops to beat him in a contest between coaches.
And that is what makes it all compelling, and that is why I feel compelled to watch.
I think both men will honestly make good coaches, unlike Georges St. Pierre vs. Josh Koscheck, where GSP was the coach and Koscheck was simply a man using a group of undiscovered fighters to try to defeat the champion vicariously.
I think both Sonnen and Jones, no matter if they win or lose their title fight, actually care about those men who are looking to them for leadership, and it's been a long time since The Ultimate Fighter has seen that.
But aside from the paternal aspects of this upcoming season that appeal to me, there is also something artistically pleasing about the clash to come—and make no mistake about it, there is going to be a serious clash—that is terribly random on one hand and outright predicated on the other: I just can't touch it with a needle…yet.
But I can identify it when viewing other fighters and potential seasons through that lens: it seems to bring notions of conflict—both pronounced and subtle—into view in such a way that they seem to come to life like good oratory in the middle of a war.
In that spirit of discovery I give you 10 more possible seasons of conflict that look at one hand to be poetic and in the other just aggressive, but I don't think you'll mind.
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Our family has endured two tragic freak accidents within two years. This is something no family should ever have to endure. The heartbreak is unexplainable. Freak accident, a term that we often hear about, but could never imagine it happening to our family, let along two freak accidents. The odds are impossible to figure out, but it has happened and to my family.
The one thing we have found out is that living in a small community is a huge blessing. Only in a small town would a family receive an overabundance of outpouring love and support that we have. We feel that had we lived in a big city, we wouldn't have been gifted with the values that people who live in a small town can understand. They realize the pain we have felt, not once, but twice and within a very short period of time. The support we have received is also unexplainable, it is impossible to thank everyone for the kindnesses they have shown on my family, it is constant and will never be forgotten.
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Highs should be near 90 both days.
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Carrie Bradshaw is back and she's in love ... with a studded black belt.
Don't worry, there are no plot spoilers here. Those who didn't gather their best gal pals, shake up some cosmos and catch the new "Sex and the City" movie at Friday's opening can safely read on.
This column is just to dish about the common denominator under these heroines' tightknit friendship divided by four: the fashion.
The film based on the HBO series tumbles us back into the often tumultuous but always stylish lives of Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha and Miranda. They kick errant men to the curb and trip over their own foibles, all the while striding Manhattan's gritty streets in fiercely pointed-toe pumps.
With reportedly 300 wardrobe changes in the 2-hour, 25-minute movie, the flick's styling, crafted by master costume designer Patricia Field, will be more than satisfying to fashion fans. I almost expected to see some audience members at Tuesday night's Elmwood Palace preview savoring a cigarette after the show.
A cigarette -- that's one accessory that didn't make a leap from the HBO series to the big screen. Carrie, played by real-life fashion plate Sarah Jessica Parker, must have officially kicked the habit. (Big may have captured her heart, but she owes her healthier lungs to Aidan.)
Overall, the characters are now older, bolder and colder (to the men in their lives), and their wardrobes reflect it. Parker sports an aggressive pair of Christian Dior gladiator sandals, and the film unfolds in miles of silk and chiffon, one giant flower applique dress, and even a bright blue bird affixed to a bridal veil (something only Parker could pull off without looking like a cross between the "Princess Bride" and a Vegas show girl).
"The gladiators speak to Carrie's evolution; she's busting out, going through all these changes in her life, and she's wearing these powerful statement shoes," said Meghan Cleary, founder of the shoe blog MissMeghan.com and a frequent television commentator about shoes and fashion.
Electric-blue satin Manolo Blahniks play a co-starring role in the Cinderella story line. A bevy of Louis Vuitton and Chanel bags get pranced about, and even Parker's famous white tutu from the opening-credit sequence for the TV series makes a brief appearance.
"Every year 20-somethings come to New York in search of the two l's -- love and labels," Parker says in the film's first voice-over.
Over its six-season series run, "Sex and the City" had enormous influence over fashion, turning once-obscure labels into household names. The characters' style was as liberated as their sex lives.
If, as Pat Benatar once sang, love is a battlefield, then Carrie came armored in a black pleather mini-dress, giant flower pin and knee-high gold lame boots, pitched for her latest tussle with Big.
Her try-anything-once approach to fashion was shocking, sometimes scary and often hilarious.
"Patricia Field (the costume designer for the series) is old-school, downtown New York cool. I don't think that aesthetic had been brought to the screen before," Cleary said. "Pat Field showed that you don't have to have everything match. ... No black shoes. Do a color, do a nude shoe that has spirit. Be bold."
For fans with an adroit eye for detail, here are a few other things to look for in the film:
Stud muffin: Parker sports a punkish, studded black belt in at least four outfits during the film. It cinched her waist on a retro green floral frock and gave a hard, '80s edge to a fuchsia sheath.
A girl in pearls: We drooled over Parker's nearly waist-length strand of pearls that she wears casually -- even to bed.
Here comes the bride: In a scene sure to make fashion lovers jealous, Parker tries on a dizzying array of bridal couture from Oscar de la Renta to Christian Dior to avant-garde British designer Vivienne Westwood, each one more breathtaking than the next.
You can wear them again: Ruffles trailing, the bridesmaid dresses worn by Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha were from Zac Posen's spring 2008 collection.
Bold-faced name: Andre Leon Talley, Vogue's editor-at-large, columnist and fashion week front-row regular, makes a cameo as a stylist for the film's wedding photo shoot scene. In real life, Talley styled Jennifer Hudson (who plays Carrie's assistant in the film) for the 2007 Oscars.
Tour de force: On her Web site, patriciafield.com, costume designer Field features the Eiffel Tower purse carried by Parker in the movie. The basic bag is $450. Parker's Swarovski-crystal-encrusted version is $3,000.
Dreaming of happily ever after: In a scene about "coloring," Parker picks up a crayon and colors Cinderella's shoes in a coloring book.
Susan Langenhennig can be reached at email@example.com or at 504-826-3379.


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I own a pretty disturbing amount of Marc Jacobs shoes, but not a single stitch of clothing. At least, not until a few weeks ago, when I found this adorable dress at eLuxury.com. Every Marc piece I tried on was ill-fitting. Too blousy or too snug, in all the wrong places. This plaid dress is far more tailored than most of the other Marc Jacobs pieces from the last couple of seasons.
The dress is an interesting blend of elements. The body is long, and tailored, …
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I bought these on a whim. I really should not have bought shoes, but I couldn't help it – the deal was almost mind-numbing.
Why should I not have bought these shoes? Well, for one thing, I had been unemployed for several months, and the unemployment checks had just run dry. I was also leaving for Vegas and I wanted to have some gambling money. Also, that very day, I was buying a brand new MacBook Pro, and those don't come cheap! And yet, I …
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I have been lusting after these since the beginning of the season. But at $350, it was too rich for my unemployed blood. I was determined to wait until the went on sale.
I saw them, for a blip of a moment, at DSW for around $260. I decided it was still too much (at the time I was in a pretty hardcore "I must save my money" mode). A few months later, I started to regret it.
eLuxury sold out of them before they could make it …
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At some point these were dubbed "Cinderella shoes" by someone I work with. I have no idea why – except that they are DREAMY. These are from the Spring or Summer collection 2004.
A producer I was working with was wearing these in fuchsia, and I fell in love. This was before I had my serious addiction to designer shoes. I tried to get them from Nordstrom.com (they were on sale) but never could bring myself to spend the money, and then they ran out of my …
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A friend of mine saw these and said "You can't wear those, those are a work of art!" With their berry-colored quilted velvet, contrasting mustard-colored ribbon, and red lacquered heel, they damn near are.
I have seen these in a wide variety of colors on various sites and on ebay. I almost bought a pair in lavender with light green ribbon, but lost out on them at sale price. Zappos had ONE pair of these left, in a 39 (how convenient – in Marc Jacobs shoes, I can …


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No. 2 Livingston (22-1) vs. No. 3 Millburn (19-1)
No. 17 West Windsor South (14-1) vs. Cherokee (16-2)
Semifinals, 11 a.m., Final, 3 p.m.
Topspin: Livingston versus Millburn will be a rematch of the Essex County Tournament. Livingston won 3-2, dethroning Millburn for its first ECT championship since 1980. Millburn was riding a 38-0 win streak, dating back from a year ago when it won the Tournament of Champions and competed in Group 3. West Windsor-Plainsboro South possesses tremendous depth - with almost its entire lineup intact from its 2011 campaign - which it will look to against a red-hot Cherokee coming off its first sectional championship since 1980.
Prediction: West Windsor appears to have enough depth to get past Cherokee. But the winner of Livingston and Millburn will have the firepower and depth to take the title.
No. 10 Northern Highlands (12-0) vs. No. 5 Mendham (15-0)
No. 16 Princeton (16-0) vs. No. 11 Moorestown (12-0)
Semifinals, 11 a.m., Final, 3 p.m.
Topspin: Both Northern Highlands and Mendham are undefeated this year with team titles in their respective county tournaments and the match should be very close. The two teams have yet to meet this season, but if the state doubles tournament is any indication, Mendham is favored in this matchup. In the doubles, unseeded Mendham swept past third-seeded Northern Highlands 6-3, 6-3 in the quarterfinal round. Princeton received a nice surprise this season when two stellar freshman filled the one and two positions, but with second singles Chenchen Weng out with a torn knee meniscus Moorestown will rely on three points from its bottom four to win.
Prediction: Mendham has shown great tenacity this season, most recently its first doubles making a surprising run all the way to the state doubles final, where they fell in three to Haddonfield. If Mendham's depth can carry the team past Northern Highlands it's likely to grab its first group title since 2004.
Pascack Hills (10-1) vs. West Essex (12-2)
No. 4 Holmdel (19-1) vs. No. 1 Haddonfield (27-0)
Semifinals, 9 a.m., Final, 1 p.m.
Topspin: Haddonfield already owns a 5-0 win over Holmdel this season, taking the top four positions decisively in straight sets. Chelsea Brown and Sylvia Strauss rallied over three sets to complete the sweep at second doubles. West Essex won its section for the third year in a row behind its latest addition - freshman Skyler Simson at first singles. Pascack Hills grabbed its fifth consecutive sectional crown yesterday.
Prediction: In all 27 matches played this season Haddonfield has only lost three game points. Taylor Ng at first singles, Amanda Lanciano at second, and Arpie Senopoulos and Erica Pascocello at first doubles are all undefeated. The South Jersey power is expected to take its five straight crown.
Verona (8-8) vs. Glen Ridge (13-5)
Metuchen (12-0) vs. Pennsville (17-2)
Semifinals, 9 a.m., Final, 1 p.m.
Topspin: When Jules Richards and Averi Chan took the point at second doubles in three sets they sent Metuchen past Point Pleasant Beach 3-2 for its first sectional title since 1985, and to maintain the team's 12-0 record this season. Metuchen will look to continue that momentum against Pennsville, the defending champion. Glen Ridge beat Verona 4-1 two weeks ago and is expected to repeat behind Kendall Smith at second singles.
Prediction: Pennsville lost the majority of its starting lineup to the 2011 graduation. Experience may carry Metuchen past, with the majority of its lineup returned. Look for Glen Ridge to win its first group since 2009.
No. 7 Pingry (13-0) vs. Gill St. Bernard's (12-4)
Final, 1 p.m.
Topspin: Pingry snapped a three year drought when it beat Red Bank Catholic in states. The past three years Pingry and Red Bank Catholic have met for the group final, but faced a round earlier after Pingry moved from the North to the South sectional bracket.
Prediction: Pingry is solid from its 1-7 and is expected to win its first group since 2004.
Kent Place (11-2) vs. Montclair Kimberley Academy (11-7)
Final, 1 p.m.
Topspin: A loaded regular season lineup helped Kent Place spring from the fourth seed in its section to a trip down to Mercer County Park. Both of the Union County school's losses have been to Westfield and Pingry. Montclair Kimberley stunned top-seeded No. 14 Dwight Englewood in the sectional semifinal and then No. 15 and second seeded Newark Academy for its first sectional title since 2006.
Prediction: Battle tested and on a roll, look for Montclair Kimberley to nab its first title the same year it last won its section, 2006.


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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- It's Armed Forces Week, and here in Huntsville, we know how to celebrate and honor those brave men and women just right.
Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of Huntsville/Madison County and the Association of the U.S. Army, Armed Forces Week offers several days worth of local events, most of which happen to be free and fun for the family.
This year's special week kicked off with a bang.
No. Literally.
Monday night's Concerts in the Park, which also happens to be the final concert of the summer series, offered musical entertainment by the U.S. Army Materiel Command Band and ended with a beautiful display of fireworks over Big Spring Park.


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Up with Downey
Talk about landing the perfect one-two punch. Marvel Entertainment (NYSE: MVL ) posted blowout quarterly results on Monday, just after its self-financed Iron Man finished with the second best box-office opening weekend ever for a non-sequel flick.
How cool is that? Marvel made a ton of money in the past, and now it has set the stage for even more money in the future.
We can't get carried away here, since Iron Man had all of the ingredients in place. It won critical praise from most cynical movie critics even before the multiplexes started letting moviegoers in. Marvel isn't going to be able to hit it out of the park like this every time, but at least it knows it has a legitimate franchise that it can tap in the future. Imagine the success that Marvel's Spider-Man has had for Sony (NYSE: SNE ) , except this time, Marvel is doing more than just skimming royalties off the top.
I'm impressed that critics rallied around the film, even with the over-the-top product placement. I mean, come on, critics. Billionaire Tony Stark comes back from months of captivity, he's craving a burger, and he goes to Burger King (NYSE: BKC ) ?
Quick hits
A few more of the market's stories, in brief:
- Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT ) is now selling video downloads for the Zune. The software giant's media player has only 4% of the market, so what's keeping it afloat? I have an idea. Someone get Marvel on the line. If Zune doesn't sound like a great comic-book superhero, able to survive against amazing odds, at least let Microsoft work on the film rights.
- Disney (NYSE: DIS ) and several of its regional amusement-park peers posted better-than-expected results this week. Maybe we finally have a recession-resistant, consumer-driven industry. If not, the media will love the chance to roll with plenty of roller coaster, carousel, and Ferris wheel metaphors.
- Convenience-store chain The Pantry (Nasdaq: PTRY ) posted a quarterly loss. Wasn't this supposed to be the recession-proof sector? I guess now I have to work on metaphors about bean burritos rotating in the convenience-store microwave. They're going in circles, and you're still not getting the beef.
Until next week, I remain,
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Let it go, Daisy, let it go Open up your fist This fallen world Doesn't hold your interest It doesn't hold your soul Daisy, let it go
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The song is sung by Switchfoot.

I think that the song is about this girl, " Daisy " who feels she has to fight against the world alone. He's saying that if this sh*tty world doesn't care about you, don't bother and move on to better things.
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Switchfoot sings it. I'm not sure how to interpret it. In a way it sounds like he's telling her it's ok to just let it go and die (perhaps she has terminal cancer?). It could also be taken as a young man trying to convince his girlfriend to give up her virginity or maybe just to stop being such a worry wart. However you take it, it's an odd little tune.
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It's a dude singing and its bout the devil trying to talk into su isi de ?
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People United for Armstrong Park's spring concert series starts Thursday (April 18). For more entertainment offerings, browse the events calendar.
- Jazz in the Park, People United for Armstrong Park's spring outdoor concert series, features a spacewalk, face painting, and a marketplace with food, crafts, and a grocery valet, in a festive atmosphere with live music. The New Skool Brass Band performs at 3, Flow Tribe takes the stage at 5, and James Andrews headlines at 6:30. Admission is free. After the concert, the New Skool Brass Bands leads a second line to the after party at Candlelight Lounge, 925 N. Robertson St. Admission to the after party is $5 suggested donation.
The Big Beat, a fundraiser for the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, features dinner and live entertainment by Cyril Neville, Bill Summers, Adonis Rose, Shannon Powell, Jason Marsalis and the 18-piece big band. Tickets are $325.
- Movie writer Mike Scott has the scoop on the inaugural Louisiana International Film Festival, which screens "Twenty Feet From Stardom" at the Joy Theater tonight.
- The Clifton Monroe Chronicles return to The Shadowbox Theatre for another installment of screwball mysteries. Theater critic Theodore P. Mahne said of the first episode, "With its sharply clever writing and well-executed concept, this cheery
show has all the makings of an exceptionally successful serial," and Mahne remained optimistic after episode two.
In 'Lot o' Shakespeare,' actor Timothy Mooney, having memorized one monologue from every Shakespearean play, performs them at the draw of a Bingo ball. The audience plays along for prizes.
At a special location this week, 17 Poets literary series hosts Kelly Davio, Freddi Evans and Kit Robinson, followed by an open mic.
Junebug Productions presents the stories of five adults trying to negotiate the post-Katrina education landscape in New Orleans in "Lockdown," at Ashe Cultural Arts Center through Sunday (April 21).
The Tony Award-winning musical "Million Dollar Quartet," presented as part of the Broadway in New Orleans series, plays at the Mahalia Jackson Theater through Sunday (April 21). In his "Million Dollar Quartet" review, Theodore P. Mahne said, "Featuring a series of virtuoso performances – in which the actors are all playing their own instruments, as well as singing – this dynamic and energetic show is one of the most viscerally engaging productions so far this year."
Comedy Zone presents Jason Russell at the Parish at the House of Blues. Leon Blanda hosts, and Scotland Green provides support.
- Lakeview Shepherd Center, which provides services, activities and support for senior citizens, celebrates its 36th anniversary with a gala featuring food from local restaurants, music by the Chris Burke New Orleans Trio, and a silent auction.


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Chef Thomas Dunklin demonstrates how to make Ahi tuna and beet tartare:
2 to 4 appetizer servings
1 pound ahi tuna (sushi grade)2 large beets, golden1 each lime1 Tablespoon shallots minced1 teaspoon ginger fine grated1 1/2 Tablespoons olive oil1/2 Tablespoon chives minced1/2 teaspoon serrano chili fine chopped1 each avocado1 Tablespoon wasabi powder1/4 cup sour cream2 Tablespoons lime juice1 teaspoons American sturgeon caviar1 Tablespoon olive oilTabasco sauce to tasteMicro greens for garnish
Season beets with olive oil, salt and pepper. Place in a baking dish and cover with aluminum foil. Bake at 325 degrees for 2 to 3 hours or until the beets are tender. Once tender pull out of the oven and peel the skin off and let cool. While beets are cooling, take avocado (peeled and de-seeded), wasabi powder, sour cream and lime juice in a blender and puree till smooth. Season with salt, white pepper and Tabasco. Dice tuna and beets to half-inch squares and place in a bowl together. Then dress the tuna and beets with 1 teaspoon lime zest, 1 lime juiced, shallots, ginger, olive oil, chives, serranos, salt and black pepper. To plate place avocado-wasabi mousse on the plate and top with tuna and beet mix. Combine caviar and olive oil and drizzle that over the tuna mix and around the plate. Then top with micro greens.
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Cinema On The Street Presents "Three Amigos!"
-- Friday, July 26 at 7:30 pm
-- Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica
Cinema on The Street in Downtown Santa Monica will conclude its three-week run today at 7:30 pm with a screening of "Three Amigos!"
The "Cinema on the Street" series on the Third Street Promenade has run for the past two Friday evenings with screenings of "Back to the Future" and "Despicable Me."
Downtown Santa Monica invites residents to come unwind in its unique outdoor setting under the stars.
Bring a blanket or beach chairs, a date, family or friends to enjoy this classic movie.
The outdoor movie screen will be located on Third Street Promenade at the 1200 Block, just outside Chipotle.
Admission is free and open to the public.
For more information, visit downtownsm.com/cinema-street.
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You should edit the supplied pop-before-smtp-conf.pl file to customize things for your local system, such as scanning for the right POP/IMAP authorization, setting various options, etc. Again, the quickstart guide cover this.
When starting up, pop-before-smtp builds an internal table of all netblocks natively permitted by your SMTP software (for Postfix it looks at the output of ``postconf mynetworks''). This allows us to filter out local IP addresses that are already authorized and thus need no special help from us.
This daemon likes a couple of helpers. Several init scripts are included with the source and a version customized for your current OS may have been installed in the same package as the pop-before-smtp script.
Once pop-before-smtp has been started (and thus the database file has been created), you'll need to modify your MTA's configuration to read the IPs from the database file. This is also covered in the quickstart guide.
pop-before-smtp protects the writes to the db file by flock. As far as I know, the consequences of a collision (corrupt read in an smtpd) are relatively mild, and the likelihood of one is remote, but the performance impact of the locking seems to be negligible, so it's enabled by default. To disable the flocking, invoke with --noflock or set ``$flock = 0'' in the config file.


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This software's powerful creative features can't quite compensate for its annoying interface.
Ulead's PhotoImpact is a handy program marred by a dramatically overstuffed interface. PhotoImpact 11 addresses this problem by providing specific workspaces for different tasks. It's a good idea and a big step forward, but in the end this $189 application remains a bit rough around the edges.
PhotoImpact finally supports RAW images and 48-bit colour depth for advanced editing. The package includes a few single-click tools for automatically optimising photos. However, the interactive, optometrist-inspired "which preset looks better?" fixes for exposure, colour cast, saturation, and sharpening will deliver better results. Ulead includes several innovative tools that make Adobe's Photoshop Elements look positively old school in comparison. Thanks to the program's updated object extraction wizard, you may never go back to lasso tools again.
The SmartRemove function lets you collect a series of photos of the same scene, mark elements for removal, and then deftly combine them to create a final image that reveals obscured objects. Depending on the quality of your source material, evidence of the erasure varies from almost invisible to awkwardly noticeable.
The High Dynamic Range feature returns in this version with a simpler interface and better performance. With it, you can combine several photos of a scene that has tricky lighting to create a properly exposed shot free of regions of over- and underexposure. On the graphics side, PhotoImpact is chock-full of Web-friendly design features, including image maps and rollover effects. You also get Web page templates and a slew of clip art, stamps, and effects such as object deformation and warping (useful for a broad range of special effects, logo design, and other graphical applications). Unfortunately the interface lacks a logical layout; some relatively common tasks, like one-touch correction and image straightening, are buried in menus.
We also experienced a recurring glitch when using the app's Enhance Lighting tool (it's a known bug that Ulead is working to correct) and a frustrating incompatibility with my Minolta-QMS MagiColor 2300 printer.
Ulead supplies two separate photo-organising apps in the box: Photo Explorer 8.6 and PhotoImpact Album 11. Unfortunately, both badly need updating. Each has a clumsy, dated feel, and the two offer overlapping organising and viewing features. If Ulead can make all of PhotoImpact's tools feel as fresh and exciting as the handful of new flagship features, it will have a true winner.
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
My first impression after unboxing the Q702 is that it is a nice looking unit. Styling is somewhat minimalist but very effective. The tablet part, once detached, has a nice weight, and no buttons or switches are located in awkward or intrusive positions.


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Will shares in SSE help you build a FTSE-beating retirement fund?
The last five years have been tough for those in retirement. Portfolio valuations have been hammered, annuity rates have plunged and uncertainty has ruled the roost. There's no sign of things improving any time soon, either, as the eurozone and the UK economy look set to muddle through at best for some years to come.
A great way of protecting yourself from the downturn, however, is by building your retirement fund with shares of large, well-run companies that should grow their earnings steadily over the coming decades. Over time, such investments ought to result in rising dividends and inflation-beating capital growth, especially if you keep the shares within a tax-efficient ISA or SIPP.
It's no coincidence that the world's most successful investor, Warren Buffett, prefers such companies, and recently invested in a large FTSE 100 (UKX) company that fits the bill perfectly (you can find full details in this free report).
In this series, I'm tracking down the UK large caps that have the potential to beat the FTSE over the long term and support a lower-risk income-generating retirement fund. I'm going to kick off the series with a look at SSE (LSE: SSE), the UK's third-largest electricity utility and a share that's a big favourite of income investors, thanks to its superb dividend record.
Utility shares are traditionally 'defensive' shares -- shares that are popular during times of economic volatility, such as we have seen in the last few years. SSE has benefited from this defensive bias and from the attraction its dividend policy holds for long-term investors looking for a reliable income. As a result, it has massively outperformed the FTSE 100 over the last 10 years:
If you are building up a retirement portfolio, total return is a useful metric for measuring the performance of your stock, as it captures the effects of share price changes and reinvested dividends. These two ingredients combined are what make it possible for equity portfolios to regularly outperform cash and bonds over the long term.
The trailing 10-year average total return highlights just how valuable SSE's stability and strong dividend performance is for retirement investors. Despite SSE getting left behind in the rebound rally of 2009, it didn't crash in 2011 and its trailing total return over the last 10 years is double that of the FTSE 100.
To help me pinpoint suitable investments, I like to score companies on key financial metrics that highlight the characteristics I look for in a retirement share. Let's see how SSE shapes up:
5 year average financials
*SSE was formed when two much older companies, Scottish Hydro Electric and Southern Electric, merged.
Here's how I've scored SSE on each of these criteria:
Total: 18/25
A score of 18/25 is pretty solid and, if anything, I think it underplays the security offered by SSE's large, heavily regulated business. Overall, I think that the figures suggest SSE could be a very strong candidate for a retirement fund portfolio.
Finally, if you are interested in dividend-paying retirement shares, I would strongly suggest you take a look at some of Neil Woodford's choices. Neil is one of the UK's most successful fund managers and specialises in identifying companies with strong income potential. You can find out about eight of Neil's biggest holdings in this free Fool report, "8 Shares Held By Britain's Super Investor", which I strongly recommend, as many of Neil's picks are excellent retirement shares.
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This Spring, Sprockids Creator & Program Coordinator Doug Detwiller has been very busy traveling from Vancouver Island to the Maritimes conducting Sprockids Leader Training Sessions. Over 117 new Leaders have been trained, and many of them have already started their own Sprockids Program. Sprockids is all about getting kids, and their parents on bikes, while creating vibrant cycling communities across Canada. Your local Giant Dealer is making this vision a reality!
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5 Things to Love about Hotel Chandler
Prime Location:
Hotel Chandler is a hidden gem in the heart of Manhattan. Located at the intersection of Flatiron District and Murray Hill Hotel Chandler provides easy access to corporate offices in Midtown Manhattan, the Javits Center, and must-visit attractions such as Madison Square Garden, the Empire State Building, Times Square, Grand Central, Theatre District and the United Nations. Being centrally located to most of the major tourist attractions and shopping, our guests have the opportunity to indulge in shopping, dining or sightseeing.
Newly Renovated:
Hotel Chandler boasts a classic design with a contemporary touch, reflecting the timeless character of our 1905 Beaux-Arts building. Our design provides our guest with an architectural gem in the heart of Manhattan. Our guests will enjoy an enchanting lobby area, sophisticated yet quiet and relaxing guest rooms and suites which blend a century-old building with modern furnishings. We recently introduced Juni our fine dining restaurant and lobby bar.
Nothing beats Hotel Chandlers luxury accommodations that make the most of every inch, with classic bay windows, rich cherry wood armoires and sleek black granite work desks. Guests have the opportunity to relax in our comfortable beds dressed in Frette linens while lying in front of an LCD HD TV flat-screen television. Our bathroom amenities include luxurious Frette towels and bathrobes and Molton Brown bath amenities. Business travelers can start their day with free Wi-Fi and a functional work station, freshly brew coffee or pick from our array of assorted tea provided in our lobby daily. After a busy work day, sightseeing or shopping guests can unwind in our fully equipped gym or relax in our library and Chandler lounge. We also make sure not to forget the rainy days thus providing our guest with complimentary use of umbrellas during their stay.
Hotel Services:
Hotel Chandler offers unparalleled personal service with uncompromising attention to detail. Our goal is to personalize each guest experience and have our guest leave with an unforgettable experience. Within each of our guest rooms we also provide a guest service directory summarizing our services. Our bellman and staff are always there to fulfill all guest requests during their stay. Our service is unparalleled to any other Hotel and we enjoy receiving many reviews from our guests commenting on it.
Sleek Concierge Services:
Hotel Chandlers concierge provides personal concierge service to each and every guest. Our concierge can help arrange private car transfers to all airports from our hotel, getting to meetings, or just getting around in the city. If you're looking for those special Broadway tickets just a few hours before the event begins or if you're interested in purchasing tickets ahead of time, you may contact our concierge before your stay to have them make those arrangements. Sightseeing is one of the major attractions for any visitor therefore our concierge service makes it all possible. We can arrange a double-decker bus tour, a harbor cruise to the Statue of Liberty, a guided tour of the Empire State Building or a helicopter tour above the skyscrapers. We can also set up museum visits at destinations such as MoMA, the Whitney and the Met.


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Club gets good at breakfast
When you make breakfast for 24 years, it's probably going to be pretty good.
While members of the Ixonia/Concord Explorers Club have been only making their breakfast just once a year, it's still probably going to be pretty good.
This Sunday from 8 a.m. to noon at the Ixonia Pub, on Marietta Avenue in Ixonia, the club will be hosting its 24th annual I.C.E. Snowmobile Club Country Breakfast.
The breakfast includes eggs, eggs deluxe, pancakes, blueberry pancakes, ham, hash, hash browns, sweets, juice, milk, coffee and more.
Advance tickets are $8 and can be purchased at Ixonia Pub, Loppy's or any club member. Tickets at the door are $8.50. Breakfast for children 6 to 12 is $4 while children 5 and younger eat free.
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I'm Sophie. My family & I (husband, four & two year olds) have been Primal for about 18 months after following WAPF for our daughter's teeth. I'm hoping somebody here might recognise themself in my description & help show me the right path.
Disclaimer: this starts with heart problems. I know it's going to be tempting to tell me to go to the doctor & I promise I am. But in the UK it helps to go to your over-worked GP armed with some answers - they get eight minutes per patient & are general, not specialist in their knowledge.
Ok June 2011 I had open heart surgery for a number of congenital defects. All went swimmingly. A few heart monitors later, a 24hour one showed frequent & very frequent ventricular & supra ventricular ectopic beats. 75% of the population have ectopics, they're generally harmless but can be very dangerous in those with heart disease. It has been suggested that I go on low dose Beta blockers.
I would much prefer to find out what is causing this than just treat the symptom in isolation. I'll take the meds if it's unavoidably necessary.
A number of digestion problems that have plagued me since early-20s still hang around. I am beginning to feel, through research, that these and the palpitations are related - that the palps are the result of gut issues, rather than cardiovascular in origin. The palps always occur after consuming food. (NB. I don't normally eat processed carbs, but it was an N1 thing!)
This is getting long, so thank you if you've read this far! I didn't want to list my symptoms in isolation, without some background. So, here's where I'm hoping someone might recognise the symptoms:
Palpitations after eating - very bad with bad/processed carbs, noticeable with dairy & caffeine, very mild 'cold, fluttery' feeling with Primal foods
Cramps, gas & loose, urgent stools immediately after heavy dairy & sometimes caffeine
Brain fog, bad memory, lack of concentration - textbook for Inattentive ADD
Huge lack of energy/fatigue
Itchy, over-productive scalp - infinitely worse if I eat sugary stuff
Muscular & skeletal weakness - I'm very prone to back problems, 'crunchy' knees, & what was being diagnosed as pleurisy but is actually problems caused by instability in my ribs, etc
Dreadful immunity - I get everything going, for weeks
Sinusitis, including sinus headaches
Depression - ranging from mild to major, including postnatal
Migraine - with aura, headache lasts two days minimum
Abnormal stools - no blood, but rarely 'normal', seems to swing from one end of the spectrum to the other
Very low blood pressure - leads to dizziness, about 100/50 usually
Flare-ups about every six to twelve months - I cannot keep any food in my body for about four weeks when this happens; immediately after finishing a meal I have to rush to the toilet & can't leave until everything is out of my system, along with dreadful cramps - once I'm empty, the cramp vanishes.
Ha! I sound pathetic The kicker is, I'm overweight, despite this. The weight does come off when I stick strictly to Primal, but that's complicated by disordered/emotional eating issues.
I am getting desperate now - I thought I had a handle on all this, the Primal helped enormously, but that letter about the Beta blockers...the heart surgery brought home the fact that I am actually mortal & this stupid broken heart could take me away from my babies. I'm just plain scared, but I don't want to get stuck on meds & forgotten about until the next problem. I want to fix it!
Suggestions from friends & research seem to be leading me towards: Hashimoto's, leaky gut, hypothyroidism, Specific Carbohydrate Diet & magnesium/potassium deficiency.
Please, please, does any of this (some symptoms may be irrelevant) sound familiar to anyone? Any thoughts would be gratefully considered....


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Jeanette Mace
Jeanette "Addie" Currence Mace, 64, a resident of Valley Head, passed from this life Sunday evening, Dec. 30, 2012, at Davis Memorial Hospital.
Addie was born Friday, March 12, 1948, at Becky's Creek, a daughter of the late Reuben Davis Currence and Goldie Virginia Bishop Currence. On April 5, 1965, in Baltimore, Md., she married Michael Eugene Mace who survives. They enjoyed 47 years of marriage.
Also left to cherish her memory are three children, Jeanette Michelle Maher, of Newbern, N.C., Christine Bertelli and husband, Carlo, of Midland, Va., and Jodi Mace of Midland, Va.; three brothers, Reuben Currence and wife, Marvella, of Huttonsville, Jerry Currence and wife, Phyllis, of Becky's Creek, and Eddie "Bill" Currence of Mill Creek; one sister, Retha Jane "Sis" Channell and husband, Donnie, of The Plains, Va.; three grandchildren, Jamie Lynn Mace, Matthew Maher and Ryan Maher; one step-granddaughter, Jamie Bertelli; three great-grandchildren, Christian, Brooklynn and Cali; many half-brothers, half-sisters, nieces and nephews.
Addie was preceded in death by a daughter, Jese Dawn Mace; one grandson, Bryan Michael Mace; and a sister, Sarah Currence.
Addie attended the schools of Randolph County, was a homemaker and worked as a cook for the Valley Head Restaurant. She enjoyed quilting, sewing and other various crafts.
Visitation will be at the Randolph Funeral Home on from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday. Funeral services will be from the funeral home chapel at 1 p.m. Saturday. Pastor Frank Stanley will officiate and interment will follow at the Valley Head Cemetery.
The Randolph Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements for Jeanette "Addie" Currence Mace. Send online condolences to the family at www.therandolphfuneralhome.com.


text: hi you can try use BerkeleyDB module its the interface for the new version of use BerkeleyDB (3.* and above) and its have hash interface use BerkeleyDB; $db = tie %hash, 'BerkeleyDB::Hash', [OPTIONS] ; $db = new BerkeleyDB::Hash [OPTIONS] ; $db = tie %hash, 'BerkeleyDB::Btree', [OPTIONS] ; $db = new BerkeleyDB::Btree [OPTIONS] ; and more itamar -----Original Message----- From: Yuval Yaari [mailto:yuval at windax.com] Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 11:13 PM To: Perl in Israel Subject: Re: [Israel.pm] Handling huge data-structures? [SNIPPED] > SQLite uses a single file to store a single database. The database > *code* is embedded in your application (DBD::SQLite in this case), not > the actual data. My mistake... > I suggested CDBI for a familiar (and scalable) interface, not for speed. > I expect (but don't take my word for it) that straight SQLite is going > to be one of your fastest options that don't require you to implement > the store yourself. I love CDBI, but it would give me performance problems, which I am trying to solve. Either I've been misusing CDBI or it's really slow. > The advantage with DB_File is that it uses perl's tie interface. I have > no idea if it works for large files though and indeed how it performs. > Whatever the bioinformatics guys were talking about, it probably used > tie for the magic. As Offer wrote, it doesn't work with huge files, as it loads them to memory. > Note that each solution here will still have different performance > characteristics than a natural Perl hash, even if it looks like one. > Some operations may be more expensive than you think. Also, tuning a > large database in the low levels can dramatically impact performance, > if you know how. But you will need to research this. Is there any solution in the form of a hash? I should look at bioinformatics code :) I would also see if SQLite/CDBI solve my problem. --Yuval _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list Perl at perl.org.il http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl


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Renewable Heat Premium Payment Extended
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced that the Renewable Heat Premium Payments (RHPP) will be extended with a new budget of £25m. As well as a £7m extension for the existing scheme also announced was £8m for a new competition for communities to apply for grants to encourage community groups to install renewable heating and £10m for a new social landlords competition.
Potential applicants will be able to pre-register with the Energy Savings Trust from Monday 2nd April. For more information please visit the DECC website.


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Would the Masters let kids do this? Probably not!
That's one of the great things about the biggest golf tournament ever to come to the Pacific Northwest, the 2015 U.S. Open men's championship. It is being played on a public course that is very much open for all to see.
The tournament is scheduled for June 18-21, 2015. Unfortunately, the kids probably won't be allowed to ride scooters on those day. Such activity might mess up someone's back swing.
The tournament takes place at Chambers Bay Golf Course in the southern suburbs of Tacoma at University Place, population 30,000. The course is owned by Pierce County. Do yourself a favor and visit it. And if you don't golf, bring a scooter.
Here are some links to reporting on Chambers Bay Golf Course:
Opening tee shot of the 2015 U.S. Open Championship starts in (go to chambersbaygolf.com):
Chambers Bay Golf Course puts Washington in 2015 world spotlight (the blogger is doing it right now)
County park south of Tacoma gives walkers access to trails on U.S. Open-host Chambers Bay Golf Course (photo gallery)
Lakewood, Wash. (next door to Chambers Bay, which is in University Pace): Private land reclaimed for public use
Tacoma's Museum of Glass dazzles with glass art, creative process (photos, video)
-- Terry Richard


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Hurricane Katrina's slight eastward tack has prompted Louisiana State University's hurricane forecasters to recalibrate their damage estimates from wind and flooding as the storm continues its trek toward land.
Computer models generated by a supercomputer at the LSU Hurricane Center from Sunday's 10 p.m. advisory project a "worst-case scenario" of 329,000 buildings in southeast Louisiana sustaining at least some wind damage. That's down from an earlier forecast of a half-million homes damaged, said Marc Levitan, director of the hurricane center.
Storm-surge estimates outside the levee system have also been revised downward to 16-18 feet in eastern New Orleans. Earlier estimates were for 20 feet.
Flooding was expected to be worst in Plaquemines, St. Bernard and eastern Orleans parishes and less severe to the west, Levitan said. Inside the levee system, water is expected to crest at 10 feet above ground-level in eastern Orleans, and at eight to 12 feet above ground-level in Kenner and Norco.
"It's not as bad as the (forecast) last night, " Levitan said, referring to forecasts that were based on Sunday afternoon's projections of Katrina's path.
The new Hurricane Center estimates for wind damage to residential structures are as follows: In Orleans 62 percent of homes are expected to sustain minor to moderate damage, and an additional 25 percent could be severely damaged or destroyed. In Plaquemines, 19 percent of homes could see minor to moderate damage, with 79 percent severely damaged or destroyed. St. Bernard could see minor to moderate damage to 43 percent of homes, with 54 percent severely damaged or destroyed. And in Jefferson, 51 percent of homes are estimated to see minor to moderate damage, with 12 percent severely damaged or destroyed.


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Nexus One hi-rez images and 3D benchmark
Now this is what I'm talking about! Exactly the kind of content we've all been waiting for: some high resolution images and a demonstration of quantifiable performance.
Engadget has posted the N1 running Qualcomm's Neo Core 3G benchmarking app (video below), and the phone scored 26.7 frames per second. Not bad. Also check out the best photograph we have of the device to date, after the break.
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We're down to the final four in our countdown of the top 25 players we at AL.com believe will be the best in the nation in 2014.
In this installment of SECond Look, AL.com's Randy Kennedy and I take a look at an offensive lineman who should be among the best in the country this fall. He plays at a program that has produced two other offensive tackles who have been top 10 NFL draft picks in the last two years.
He is projected to be a first-round pick himself, but chose to come back for his senior year to prove he can play left tackle after sliding over from the right side.
He is Texas A&M's Cedric Ogbuehi. Watch this installment of SECond Look to hear our thoughts on this preseason All-American.
The rest of the list that's been revealed so far:
5. Vernon Hargreaves III, CB, Florida
6. Landon Collins, S, Alabama
7. Reese Dismukes, C, Auburn
8. Dante Fowler Jr., DE, Florida
9. T.J. Yeldon, RB, Alabama
10. Mike Davis, RB, South Carolina
11. Ramik Wilson, LB, Georgia
12. Cody Prewitt, S, Ole Miss
13. La'El Collins, OT, LSU
14. Laquon Treadwell, WR, Ole Miss
15. A'Shawn Robinson, DL, Alabama
16. Alex Collins, RB, Arkansas
17. A.J. Cann, OG, South Carolina
18. Dak Prescott, QB, Mississippi State
19. Sammie Coates, WR, Auburn
20. Trey Flowers, DE, Arkansas
21. Derrick Henry, RB, Alabama
22, Markus Golden, DE, Missouri
23. Alex Kozan, OG, Auburn
24. Leonard Fournette, RB, LSU
25. Bo Wallace, QB, Ole Miss


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A state Superior Court judge threw out the indictment in a brutal Jersey City murder case today, saying a so-called confession that had been presented to a grand jury was based on an incorrect translation.
Darwin Rodriguez-Ferreira, who was 21 when he was arrested in August 2008, will remain in jail on a $500,000 bail while prosecutors re-present the case to a new grand jury, Judge Joseph Isabella ruled.
The defense had asked for a reduced bail in light of the circumstances, but officials noted that Rodriguez-Ferreira had fled to the Dominican Republic when he was a suspect in the case.
The shocking development came as jury selection in Rodriguez-Ferreira's murder trial was set to begin.
Rodriguez-Ferreira is accused of stabbing to death Mark Kendall, 26, on Aug. 16, 2008, near Pershing Field in the Heights. Both men were residents of Summit Avenue.
Kendall's body was found with multiple stab wounds -- the most serious to his neck and left arm -- between parked cars outside his home at about 5:45 a.m., officials said at the time. Blood was also found across Summit Avenue on the Pershing Field side of the road.
After the murder, Rodriguez-Ferreira left the country for the Dominican Republic, officials said. His mother and sister were jailed on charges of hindering apprehension because they took him to Kennedy Airport in New York City and got him a plane ticket, officials said. They were released after his return to Newark Liberty International Airport, where he was arrested.
Investigators said at the time that they believed the killing was the result of an ongoing beef between the two men over money.


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Day 4: Here come the position players
Astros pitchers threw their final bullpens Tuesday before facing live hitters. With the full squad set to work out for the first time Wednesday, the pitchers will take a day off from throwing before ratcheting it back up by facing hitters on Thursday – a week before the first Spring Training game.
Manager A.J. Hinch continues to be impressed by how well-prepared his pitchers are this spring.
"I think some of the readiness of the pitchers to get into games or into simulated games has been notable," he said. "The number of guys that have come in here and told me they threw simulated innings, they're up and running, there's not too many guys easing into these bullpens. I don't know if it surprised me, but it's a pleasant surprise if I've been surprised."
Hinch said the quality to attention to detail has been good.
"That's expected at this level," he said. "I don't want to dive too much into things being surprising, but I expect a lot because this is the big leagues. Guys are coming and the focus is there and I'm happy with that."
Before the full squad hits the field on Wednesday, the Astros will hold a team meeting. Hinch will talk to the team, and typically general manager Jeff Luhnow and owner Jim Crane will say a few words as well.
"I'll have a couple of words for the whole team and then we'll get on the field," Hinch said. "I think the tone and the vibe of camp has been good, and I think the pitchers and catchers that have been here will be able to show and live with that, with the position players. There's some messages to send, some introductions to be made, and then there's a full-squad workout."
Quotes of the day
"It's hard to embarrass a guy who wears a beard like that," — Hinch joking about singling out bearded Dallas Keuchel in clubhouse.
"I'd prefer no dive. It's the one thing that we didn't mention beforehand is we'd like them stay on their feet, but we corrected it afterwards," — Hinch on 6-7 pitcher Scott Feldman taking all-out dive to try to field a ball during PFPs on Tuesday.
"I know he wants to prepare to play every day. From our early conversations, he doesn't know what a day off is. That's fine by me." — Hinch on Jose Altuve.
Injury report: RHP Brad Peacock (hip surgery) threw 20 fastballs in the bullpen Sunday in his first action since having surgery and is progressing well. … RHP Vincent Velasquez (strained right lat) won't throw for at least two-to-three weeks. … RHP Josh Fields (left hamstring tightness) threw in the bullpen Tuesday without incident
The day in photos can be found on my new Instagram page: https://instagram.com/brianmctaggartmlb/
— Hinch says there's no pressure on Altuve to repeat as batting champ
— Fields hopes hamstring issue is behind him
Tweet of the day
Astros show support for Venezuela
Several Astros players and staff members joined with other teams in posing with the Venezuela flag and signs that read "PAZ, TODOS UNIDOS, HERMANDAD" in Spanish in a plea for peace for a nation in crisis. The sign loosely translated in English reads "peace, together, brotherhood."
Venezuela has seen an increase in violence in the last few weeks as the government has tried to subdue a protest movement. The Astros who posed together included native Venezuelans Jose Altuve, Marwin Gonzalez, Jesus Guzman, Cesar Izturis, David Martinez, Carlos Perez, Gregario Petit and Ronald Torreyes. Players from other nations, such as Carlos Corporan and Carlos Correa from Puerto Rico, also participated, along with bullpen Javier Bracamonte and bullpen assistant Carlos Munoz, both of whom are from Venezuela.
Bracamonte, a native of Caracas, spoke following the display of unity and explained to reporters how difficult things are in the country. Bracamonte, who was a victim of violence himself three years ago when he was held at gunpoint during a bank robbery in his home country, is hesitant to take his daughter to Venezuela to meet his family.
"I want my daughter to know when I came from and see the neighborhood where I grew up," he said. "I have brothers and sisters that want to see my daughter, but I'm a little afraid."
Bracamonte was in Venezuela a few months ago for winter ball with J.D. Martinez, who's from Miami, and he could sense the tension.
"I have two friends of mine that died very young of heart attacks, and I think it's because of the stress of the whole country," he said. "[While in winter ball] we didn't do anything outside the hotel and just go to the ballpark and that's what it was. I went to see my family for a few days and they didn't do anything outside. I just went to the ballpark to the hotel to the ballpark."
"The good thing is they have security for the players to go pick them up and drop them off at the hotel, and a bunch of those guys live in the hotel that way they feel safe. … It's been tough. You see all the video. Right now there's no media covering it because they're kicking people out. The only thing you see is by phone or Facebook or Twitter and you see a lot of people filming."
Munoz, who's from Maracaibo, said it's difficult for his family in his homeland to find basic supplies like food and soap.
"I think we've gone back like 60, 70 years," he said.
DeShields eager for another big season
Astros prospect Delino DeShields Jr. didn't make the MLB.com Top 100 prospect list, but he's certainly one of the up-and-coming performers in Houston's Minor League system following a terrific 2012 season in which he stole 101 bases combined between Lexington and Lancaster. He's ranked as No. 7 among second base prospects in baseball.
DeShields, who could begin the season in Double-A Corpus Christi, spoke to MLB.com earlier this week about the upcoming season.
Q: What did you do during the off-season?
A: "I've just been working out and trying to enjoy my friends and family as much as I can before I have to go back out for camp. But nothing really specific, just trying to get better."
Q: How important is this year in your development coming off a big year?
A: "It's going to be a challenge for me, but I'm ready for it. I prepared myself really well. I'm just excited for what the year has to come. I don't really know what's going to happen; you never know what's going to happen in baseball. My main thing is just to stay healthy and see what happens."
Q: Do you expect to be in Corpus Christi to start the year?
A: "I have no idea, but I hope so. I'm just going to go to Spring Training and play my butt off and they're going to make the decision at the end of the day. Hopefully I make the team. If not, I'm not going to be upset. I'm going to keep working and get there."
Q: Will it be hard to live up to the numbers to put up last year?
A: "It's going to be tough, but I'm not going to say I'm going to steal 100 bases again this upcoming year. I'm going to try to. I'm going to try to give the people what they want. As long as we win games and that stuff, that's all that really matters to me."
Q: With all the trades the Astros have made recently to jettison veteran players, are you able to see yourself reaching the Majors soon?
A: "There's a light at the end of the tunnel. Like I said, I just have to stay healthy and can't risk getting hurt and stay positive about everything. I can't let people get in my head and continue doing what I've been doing. Hopefully I'll be there at the end of the day."


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East Palestine teen faces aggravated burglary charge
By DEANNE JOHNSON
Staff Writer
LISBON – An East Palestine teen is facing an aggravated burglary charge after a woman reportedly found him standing inside her home on Wednesday evening with a knife.
Steven M. Wright, 18, Jimtown Road, East Palestine, made his initial appearance in Columbiana County Municipal Court on Thursday morning by video arraignment from the county jail. Bond was set at $25,000 and a Sept. 4 preliminary hearing was set.
According to the Columbiana County Sheriff's Office, Jennifer Guy, Cream Ridge Road, Lisbon, reported at 5:40 p.m. Wednesday she came home to find a man in her house. He reportedly left in an older model, powder blue Buick, heading in the direction of Elkton. A deputy, Steven Boyd, driving east through Lisbon saw a vehicle matching that description go westbound on state Route 154, then turn north onto Moore Street toward East Chestnut Street.
Boyd stopped the vehicle and asked Wright where he was coming from and where he was going. He claimed he was coming from East Palestine and going to his father's house in Lisbon. He denied being on Cream Ridge Road. However, when Guy arrived, she identified both the vehicle and Wright as the person who had been at her house.
Deputies learned the window to the attached garage at Guy's home was cut, which is believed to be the way he got inside. Guy also reported Wright threatened her with the knife outside the home in the driveway after she ran out of the house.


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19-month-old child killed in East Hills shooting
19-month-old child killed in East Hills shootingUPDATED 6:18 PM EDT May 22, 2013
A 19-month-old boy was killed and two women were wounded after shots were fired in the East Hills neighborhood on Tuesday evening.
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It's time! Last year we had 3 of these contests going, we're kicking it up a notch. Just not all the way to 11, because that might get a bit excessive. So let's do this. Join one or join them all. But hey, don't be a weenie. Join them all. Survival Football The easiest and hardest all at the… Read more →
Category: The Salute
I Know a Spot that I Love Full Well…
…'Tis not in forest, nor yet in dell. There is a political climate in this nation that is currently broken and divided, and seemingly beyond repair.1 To what degree we can get away from it depends on where we can go to be unified. Throughout my life there has been one place where that seems possible… Ever it holds me… Read more →
Bracket Time
We all know what time of year it is. Bracket time is back. I don't care what all you Christmas, summer, or other time of year lovers say, starting this week we're in the most wonderful time of the year. It's March, baby! So my yearly bracket contest is back. As always it's just for fun, no money involved, but… Read more →
If you're reading this you probably know that I'm the co-host of The Salute, a fan podcast1 about K-State sports2 on CollegeSportsVision.com. We don't do it for money, or really any other reason than to amuse ourselves, but Cory and I thought we could try and do it for something just a bit more, at least this once… so we've decided… Read more →
Cheer Loud, K-State
Back in December K-State played West Virginia and the big conversation was whether or not Bob Huggins should have been cheered or booed. There were plenty of great points on both sides. Those who cheered pointed out that Huggins gave the Cats the jump start they needed to be a top 25 type program again. Those who booed pointed out… Read more →
On Joe Paterno
When Joe Paterno was fired it was one of the biggest stories of 2011. Everyone was talking about it whether they were fans of college football or not. The Sandusky cover up, the scandal… it was too much to believe. Paterno took the fall for his failure to act. At the time at which he was fired I said on… Read more →