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Asiatic Black Bear Classification and Evolution
The Asiatic Black Bear is a medium to large sized species of bear that is found inhabiting the deciduous tropical forest throughout Asia. Known to be closely related to the American Black Bear, the two species exhibit a number of similarities including their size, appearance and behaviour and are thought to have actually shared a common ancestor some 4 million years ago. Unlike the American Black Bear however, that is showing increases in population numbers particularly in certain areas, the Asiatic Black Bear is considered to be an endangered species throughout it's native range today as populations have declined drastically due to both loss of their natural habitats to deforestation and the fact they are the most prized of all bear species that are hunted for their body parts (mainly the gall bladder) that are used in traditional medicines and also as a culinary delicacy in some areas.
Asiatic Black Bear Anatomy and Appearance
Like the other seven bear species found around the world, the Asiatic Black Bear has a strong and sturdy body with a large head and thick-set legs which are strong enough to enable the Asiatic Black Bear to both stand and walk on, using bipedal movement in order to make themselves appear even bigger when they feel threatened or are competing for territory with other individuals. Asiatic Black Bears have a black coat of fur (sometimes brown or even blonde depending on the subspecies) with a distinctive whitish v-shaped marking on their chest and a ruff of longer fur around their necks which again is thought to help to make them appear larger in size than they actually are. As with other bear species, Asiatic Black Bears have a keen sense of smell that is vital in helping them to find food and is reflected in their impressively long snout. However, despite the fact that their ears are larger than those of their relatives, they share the same bad sight and hearing and so rely heavily on their sense of smell to figure out their surroundings.
Asiatic Black Bear Distribution and Habitat
Asiatic Black Bears would have once been found throughout both Europe and Asia with fossil records having been uncovered from as far west as France and Germany, but have more recently been confined to regions in Central and Southern Asia from Afghanistan to Japan and south to Thailand with a handful of populations also found as far north as Russia. Although they have a relatively wide distribution throughout South-East Asia as well including Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand they are today absent from Malaysia, possibly due to the overlap of these territories with that of the Sun Bear. Their exact habitats depend on the geographical region where they are found although Asiatic Black Bears prefer deciduous forests and brushland at lower altitudes. Despite this though, the encroachment of human activity on these lowland regions from increasing levels of agriculture and growing human settlements has resulted in the remaining populations of Asiatic Black Bears being pushed into small and isolated pockets of vegetation at higher altitudes.
Asiatic Black Bear Behaviour and Lifestyle
As with other bear species (and indeed many large carnivores), Asiatic Black Bears are solitary animals that only come together to mate or when competing for more desirable territories. Despite their relatively small claws, Asiatic Black Bears are highly efficient climbers and spend most of their time foraging high in the trees where they inadvertently build nests from the folding of branches caused by them reaching for fruits and hunting small animals. In colder climates in the more northern regions of the natural range, Asiatic Black Bears also hibernate through the winter months and so spend the autumn months consuming foods such as acorns, beechnuts and walnuts that have a high fat content in order to build up a good layer of fat to keep them sustained throughout the winter. Although they tend to hibernate from November right through until April, in parts of Russia particularly where the weather is more hostile than further south, some populations are known to enter their winter dens as early as October and do not emerge until late May.
Asiatic Black Bear Reproduction and Life Cycles
Asiatic Black Bears are able to breed when they are between 4 and 5 years old and do so during the warmer summer months of June and July. After a gestation period that lasts from between 6 to 8 months, 1 to 4 cubs (although usually 2) are born between March and April in the safety and warmth of the female Asiatic Black Bear's winter den. Depending on the region, these dens can be found in river beds or in rocky outcrops with even those individuals that do not hibernate in the warmer, southern regions, seeking out the shelter of a den in which to give birth to her young cubs. Asiatic Black Bear cubs are born hairless and rely heavily on the warmth of their mother and her winter home to keep them both safe and warm. Asiatic Black Bear cubs are weaned when they are six months old and so begin to only eat solid foods rather than relying on the nutrition from their mother's milk, but often remain with her until they are three years of age. Although Asiatic Black Bears often live to be 30 years old or more in captivity, they rarely exceed the age of 25 in the wild.
Asiatic Black Bear Diet and Prey
Despite being classed as carnivores, like other bear species Asiatic Black Bears have a widely varied omnivorous diet meaning that they eat both small animals and plants throughout their natural range. Due to the fact that the fruits, plants and seeds that they consume do not contain as much nutrition as larger animals would, Asiatic Black Bears spend vast portions of their waking hours foraging in the trees for food. Acorns, beechnuts, walnuts and other nuts and seeds, along with fruits such as cherries, bamboo shoots and leaves, grasses, herbs, grubs and insects including termites and ants make up the majority of their diet, supplemented by the occasional bird or rodent when other foods are in short supply. Due to the fact that Asiatic Black Bears eat such little meat, their large molar teeth are flat for grinding up vegetation more easily. In areas where human settlements have encroached heavily on the Asiatic Black Bear's natural habitats, they are sometimes known to raid agricultural plantations along with taking occasional livestock from farms.
Asiatic Black Bear Predators and Threats
The large size and ferocious nature of the Asiatic Black Bear has ensured that they have very few (if any) natural predators throughout their historically vast natural range. Tigers are the main predators of Asiatic Black Bears throughout Asia with the small cubs being particularly vulnerable to predation despite the fierce-some protection provided by the mother. Asiatic Black Bears are also more vulnerable in areas where their natural range overlaps those of other bears including Brown Bears in Russia and they are also threatened by packs of Wolves in some parts of their natural range. People however, have been and still remain, the biggest threat to the world's Asiatic Black Bear population as they are severely affected by the loss of their natural habitats to deforestation to either clear land for agriculture or increase the size of growing human settlements. They are also severely threatened by the hunting of them for their body parts that are highly prized in traditional medicines and despite the ban of their hunting in all countries with the exception of Japan, the trade still continues throughout their natural range today.
Asiatic Black Bear Interesting Facts and Features
The Asiatic Black Bear is known by a number of other names in Asia including both the Asian Black Bear, the Himalayan Black Bear and the Tibetan Black Bear which is where their scientific name originates from. The whitish v-shaped marking on their chest has also led to them being known as the "Moon Bear" in many regions and led to them being thought to have been most closely related to Sloth Bears and Sun Bears until very recently. Unlike the majority of other bear species. Asiatic Black Bears are largely nocturnal animals that spend most of the day time hours sleeping in nests or hollow trees or caves during the day, only coming out under the cover of night to forage for food. Asiatic Black Bears are known to feed on a wide variety of small animals and plant matter throughout their natural range with their exact diet being heavily dependant on their location on the time of year. A recent study conducted in Thailand however has revealed that Asiatic Black Bears there are known to feed on 160 species of tree-borne fruits alone.
Asiatic Black Bear Relationship with Humans
For 3,000 years people have hunted Asiatic Black Bears mainly for their paws and gall bladders as dried bile is used in traditional Chinese medicines and believed to contain numerous healing properties. This has led to them being captured and kept in bile farms particularity in China and Vietnam where their living conditions are often a great cause for concern for environmental activists and conservationists. This industry alone has contributed heavily to the severe decline in population numbers and coupled more recently with habitat loss could see Asiatic Black Bears disappearing completely from certain areas. Although cases are rare, they have been known to cause human fatalities in areas where settlements encroach heavily on their dwindling natural habitats and so many are often hunted as pests or threats, despite the killing of them being illegal. Asiatic Black Bears are often captured and kept as pets and captured in Pakistan to fight dogs, in a process known as bear baiting. Not only is this sport morally horrendously wrong but the teeth and claws of the Asiatic Black Bears are also removed before the fighting begins so they have no chance to defend themselves against the onslaught of the Bull Terriers.
Asiatic Black Bear Conservation Status and Life Today
Today, Asiatic Black Bears are listed by the IUCN's Red List as a species that is Endangered in it's natural environment and could become extinct in the near future if the situation continues without change. It is thought that populations could have declined by as much as 49% over the past 30 years alone and although no official estimates have been produced, it is widely believed that there are fewer than 50,000 left in the wild today. Despite the ban of their hunting throughout their natural range with the exception of Japan where numbers are thought to actually be increasing, Asiatic Black Bears remain heavily threatened by both hunting and habitat loss, along with the capture of them as pets, for sport or to spend the rest of their days in the misery of a bile farm.


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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), which provides the arbitration forum for resolving disputes between securities firms and customers, recently announced changes to the arbitrator selection process and proposed amendments to the Discovery Guide. As detailed below, these will impact the strategy and costs associated with defending customer disputes.
FINRA recently released Regulatory Notice 13-21 concerning a rule amendment, effective July 1, 2013, governing the criteria for who can serve as a Public Arbitrator. This rule change is significant because virtually all FINRA customer arbitrations are heard by three-person panels, selected by the parties, that are composed of a Public Chairperson and two additional arbitrators.
The FINRA Codes of Arbitration Procedure originally required that the two additional arbitrators comprise one Public Arbitrator and one Industry Arbitrator. An Industry Arbitrator had been defined as (1) anyone who has worked for a broker-dealer within the past five years, (2) a retired person who spent a substantial amount of time working for a broker-dealer or (3) an attorney who derives at least 20 percent of his or her revenue from representing broker-dealers. A Public Arbitrator was defined as anyone who is not an Industry Arbitrator.
The claimants' bar complained that the presence of an Industry Arbitrator skewed arbitration results in favor of securities firms and their registered representatives. In response to these claims, FINRA amended its rules in January 2011 to allow customers to opt for an "all public panel," which most customers have done since then. FINRA's statistics indicate that there has been a correlative increase in the percentage of cases resolved in favor of claimants. Indeed, since February 1, 2011, customers opting for all public panels have prevailed in 49 percent of cases. In contrast, customers opting for panels composed of public and industry arbitrators have prevailed in 34 percent of cases.
FINRA's newly adopted definition of Industry Arbitrator, effective July 1, 2013, adds new categories of financial professionals, including anyone who has worked for either a mutual fund or a hedge fund. Furthermore, the new definition requires anyone who previously met the definition of an Industry Arbitrator to wait for two years before qualifying as a Public Arbitrator. Thus, anyone who previously worked for a broker-dealer, mutual fund or hedge fund and any attorney whose firm derived 10 percent or more of its annual revenue from representing broker-dealers and some other financial market clients must wait for two years before qualifying as a Public Arbitrator.
FINRA stated that it amended the definition of Industry Arbitrator to improve customers' perceptions regarding the "fairness" of the FINRA forum. However, these amendments will have the effect of further curtailing the ability of parties to select arbitrators who understand the underlying issues in the arbitration.
FINRA has also proposed amendments to the Discovery Guide, which governs FINRA arbitrations. The proposed amendments provide for enhanced disclosure of electronic evidence and additional disclosures in "product cases," and require additional affirmations when a party does not produce all documents responsive to the Document Lists contained in the Discovery Guide.If the SEC approves these proposed amendments, they could be implemented as early as Fall 2013. These changes will substantially increase the costs of discovery.
Electronic Evidence Guidelines FINRA's proposed electronic discovery rule mimics the requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and encourages the parties to confer and agree regarding the format of electronic production. However, the proposed rule also suggests that parties should produce documents in the format in which the party keeps the document or a converted "format that does not make the document more difficult to use." The rule also gives authority to arbitrators to resolve discovery disputes and directs arbitrators to consider "the totality of the circumstances," which includes examining (1) whether the form of production is different from the original format of the document and (2) whether conversion to a new format affects the documents' "appearance, searchability, metadata, or maneuverability."
The rule filing that FINRA submitted to the SEC indicates that if the SEC approves the rule change, FINRA intends to provide guidance to arbitrators that will require parties to produce documents in an electronically searchable format with the metadata intact. However, the rule filing also indicates that FINRA intends to instruct arbitrators to consider the cost of electronic production when confronted with discovery motions. Although the rule filing indicates that FINRA recognizes that "additional guidance would raise arbitrator awareness" of cost issues, FINRA does not provide any insight as to the guidance it intends to provide.
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St. George is a town in Chittenden county, Vermont. It was formed in 1763 in N.H. from Addison county. The probate and court district for St. George is Chittenden. For more information, contact the town at 1 Barber Rd., St. George 05495. On the attached map, St. George is shown as 11 in Chittenden county.
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BBC Showcase paid tribute to fifty years of the Doctor in Liverpool last Tuesday night with the Doctor Who Showcase Symphonic Spectacular – a celebration of Murray Gold's epic music with some very special guests from across the galaxy.
Hosted by Mark Williams, who played Rory's Dad Brian, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Sense of Sound choir, ably conducted by Ben Foster, took fans on a whistle-stop tour of the Eleventh Doctors emotional highs and lows with some of the most exhilarating, tear jerking moments provided by soloists Keating-Roberts and Elin Manahan Thomas who, in particular, lent her voice to particularly moving soprano renderings of "Madman with a Box" and the gorgeous "Abigail's Song."
But wasn't all heartache; the Daleks once again showed up to accost conductor Ben Foster, while other notable villains such as the Saturnyne ladies from Vampires of Venice whose hissing and teeth-baring reduced one terrified audience member to shrieks.
However, there wasn't a dry eye in the house come the devastating climax, "The Final Chapter of Amelia Pond", where even the most hardened of Whovian's were reaching for the Kleenex once again as this beautiful piece played over heart-breaking scenes from The Angels Take Manhattan.
And with that final grace note, fans were left to reflex on the history of the Doctor and the emotional highs to come.
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95th Anniversary of Gallipoli Campaign
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This ANZAC Day marks the 95th anniversary of the start of the Gallipoli campaign, when tens of thousands of British, French and Dominion troops landed on the Turkish coast.
To acknowledge this anniversary, the Australian War Memorial's Research Centre is displaying previously unseen original letters and diaries relating to the campaign. The Research Centre's collection is a rich source of records that tells the story of Gallipoli in the words of those who experience it.
The display is titled Gallipoli Landings and reminds the visitor that few of those Australians who served on the peninsula landed in that initial wave of 1,500 men from the 3rd Infantry Brigade. Many experienced their own 'landing' in the hours, days and months that followed, while others, including nurses, served on the ships and islands off-shore. Despite great efforts over eight months and the loss of many lives, little progress was made. The ANZACs were evacuated in December 1915. By January 1916, the last British troops had been withdrawn from their positions at Cape Helles, and the campaign abandoned.
The varied experiences of those who served at Gallipoli can be seen in the letters, diaries and private papers from the Memorial's Private Records collection. The Memorial began collecting wartime letters and diaries during the 1920s and continues to collect the private records today.
The items in Gallipoli Landings were selected from recent Gallipoli acquisitions generously donated to the Memorial by members of the public. Some of the Private Records material has been digitised and made available through the Memorial's catalogue, for example, the note book of Chaplain Keith Single and diary of Private Harry Conigrave. We hope to provide access to more Private Records material online in the future.
Chaplain Single landed at Gallipoli on 22 August 1915 and kept a record of all the burial ceremonies he conducted, from his landing at Gallipoli until just before the withdrawal from the peninsula on 20 December 1915. Private Conigrave's diary records both the spectacle and the danger of landing at ANZAC Cove. Conigrave arrived at Gallipoli just over two weeks after the initial landing and he expresses his admiration for the men who landed on 25April 1915.
Also displayed, in the Research Centre's treasures showcase, will be an original diary and notebook of Charles Bean, Australia's official war correspondent for the First World War. The notebook and diary on display feature Bean's impressions of the landing on 25 April 1915 and make fascinating reading.
Bean was later appointed the Australian official historian for the First World War. His papers are considered to be one of the most important sets of records created by a single Australian. The collection, now displayed in its entirety on the Memorial's website, includes 286 volumes of diaries and notebooks.
To view the displays visit the Research Centre's showcases near the entrance to the Research Centre Reading Room.


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Go Big or Go Extinct in the New 'Pacific Rim' Trailer
Who's ready for some giant robots fighting giant monsters? If the answer is "me!" then you're in luck – we've got the newest trailer for Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim (or as I like to call it, Sons of Anarchy: Monster Edition since it has both Charlie Hunnam and Ron Perlman in the cast) ready for your consideration.
The new clip looks amazing. We learn more about how the Kaiju launched their attack on humanity (started in San Francisco, jumped around the globe from there) and how the Jaeger program works (two pilots, shared memories and all). This looks exactly like what we'd expect from del Toro: it's larger than life, gorgeously shot, full of interesting visuals, and if this clip is accurate, is filled with the kind of monster vs. mech action many geeks have been dreaming of since childhood.
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Serious Sam 3: BFE (abbreviated as SS3) is a sequel game in the Serious Sam series. It was developed by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital. The game has been released for the PC, Mac, GNU/Linux, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. The game is set prior to the events of Serious Sam: The First Encounter.
Serious Sam 3: BFE plays similar to Serious Sam 1; the player must reach the end of a level while constantly being attacked by hordes of enemies. Many features found in Serious Sam II, such as vehicles, have been removed. The score system is still in place, and like in Serious Sam HD, top scores are uploaded to online leader-boards, letting people around the world compete for the best scores. Secrets are also common, like in previous games. They hide not only extra supplies, they also have two extra weapons, the XL2 Lasergun and the RAPTOR Sniper Rifle, which are otherwise never found normally.
Several new features have been added in order to spice up gameplay. The first of them are iron sights for the SOP38 Pistol and M29 Infantry Assault Rifle. Iron sights let the player zoom in and make their gun perfectly accurate, but using it makes the player move slower. The player can also sprint, letting them run from one location to the next with ease, which is handy when doing things like looking for secrets. Finally, some guns, such as the Assault Rifle and the 12 Gauge-Pump Action Shotgun, must be reloaded from time to time.
NETRICSA has also been changed, as instead of giving plain text dumps regarding enemies and weapons, it lets the player see an enemy or weapon, and the machine pans around while showing bits of information regarding the subject. In addition, most information about what to do is communicated via cutscenes instead of information from NETRISCA.
Online multiplayer is back and splitscreen from Serious Sam 1 has been re-introduced. This lets one enjoy multiplayer with friends without having to connect online. Other players can play using Xbox 360 controllers or other keyboards and a mouse.
Serious Sam 3: BFE also has an Easter egg where a giant invincible Arachnoid will hunt you down. It only appears on pirated versions of the game. Click here to see a video of it.
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Serious Sam 3: BFE features several gamemodes for both online and offline. Offline, the player can play single player and Survival.
Online and in split-screen mode, the player can play Standard Co-Op Classic Co-Op, Coin-Op Co-Op, Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Last Man Standing, My Burden, Capture the Flag and Insta-Kill.
Serious Sam 3: BFE starts off with Serious Sam in a helicopter with Rodriguez, Jones and Miller flying around in a desert. Rodriguez complains about why his team is protecting a museum when Mental is attacking Earth, and Sam tells him that there is some important information in the museum. Rodriguez complains about how today is his birthday, and that he should be snorting coke off a hooker's breasts instead of going to protect a museum. The helicopter approaches the ruins of Cairo, but soon after they get into the city, a Major Biomechanoid shoots down the bird. Sam is tossed out of the helicopter because he didn't wear a seatbelt.
After recovering from his fall, he sees that he has landed on a roof and his helicopter has crashed. Sam gets in contact with Quinn, who asks what's going on. He tells her the chopper is FUBAR, but that he's still going to the museum, then ends the call. Soon after, Rodriguez calls back and insults him because he didn't wear his seatbelt. After a little snip from Sam, Rodriguez tells them that they're at the museum and that Sam needs to get his ass in gear.
Sam starts fighting through the city while only armed with a Sledgehammer. Along the way, he gets a call from Jones, who tries to tell him something, but a Beheaded Kamikaze can be heard and kills him before he can say much. Sam continues his fight through the city, and acquires a SOP38 Pistol along the way.
When Sam reaches the plaza near the museum, he finds the helicopter he was riding in. He calls Quinn and tells her that everyone is dead. Soon afterwards, predictably, enemies attack. Once again, Sam carves a path through them and enters the museum through its side.
After entering the museum, HQ informs Sam that Stein has important information, but will not give it to the Earth Defense Force until he is rescued. Sam makes another quip and goes to rescue him. However, after fighting through the museum, Sam finds Stein dead. His cell phone is still intact, so he grabs it and uploads the data on it to headquarters, then requests a helicopter to get him out of Cairo. With his main objective completed, Sam travels back through the basement to the surface. Right before he tries to leave, an Adult Arachnoid tries to kill him. Sam manages to defeat the creature, then leaves.
After exiting the museum, Sam is called by the helicopter pilot, Garret. He says that he's coming, but Sam needs to fight through the city and enter the large mosque nearby so that his helicopter will have a safe place to land. Sam reaches the center of the mosque and clears it out, but before the helicopter can land, it is shot down by another Major Bio-mechanoid. This time, the Bio-mechanoid faces off Sam and tries to kill him. Sam takes him out, and tells HQ what happened and states that he's going to see if he can find the crash site and save the pilot. HQ agrees, but before they cut off, they tell Sam that they believe there's a hidden chamber underneath The Great Pyramid.
Sam continues to fight through the ruined city and reaches another religious building, which has the remains of the helicopter sent to pick him up. He tells HQ that he's found the helicopter. Before he can get a good look at it, a strange creature binds to the helicopter, creating the Technopolip. Sam doesn't have the firepower necessary to defeat it, so he runs past it and enters a part of town that is filled with minigun turrets. He deactivates them while avoiding fire from the helicopter and the enemies that have been teleported in to stop him. After shutting down all of the turrets and making his way through the maze of streets, Sam finally finds a XPML21 Rocket Launcher and a Rocket Ammo Crate near a gate. He uses the Rocket Launcher to destroy the Technopolip. When it's dead, he calls HQ and tells him that he managed to "secure the bird". Quinn knows that the explanation is something she doesn't know about. She then tells Sam they're going to send another helicopter to pick him up and send him to the Great Pyramid in order explore what Professor Stein found. Sam tells her that he's going to take the scenic route, by actually walking out of the city on foot. She calls him crazy, but he shuts her off and walks through the gate that was near where the Rocket Launcher was found.
After going through the gate, Sam meets a Scythian Witch-Harpy and kills her. Soon after, more appear that are perched on ruined buildings. Sam kills them all, along with some other creatures that have appeared. He gets near an overpass, and decides to transform it into a shortcut by tossing C-4 Demolition Charges on its support pillars. Quinn asks what the hell he's doing, but before he can answer, he blows the support pillars up, thus making a nice shortcut. He then tells her that he's made a shortcut and climbs up the overpass.
Sam continues his fight through the city, and eventually reaches a very large field filled with a lot of ammo, Ammo Crates, health and armor. First, a very large flock of Scythian Witch-Harpies appear to kill him, but he manages to clear them out. When they're dead, an Alcor Class Warship appears and tries to take Sam out, by teleporting in a large amount of enemies and try to fry Sam with its laser beam. He exploits the Warship's weak points by firing explosives into them before it can warp in too many attacking forces. When the ship has taken enough damage, it flies away so that it won't be destroyed. After another quip, he calls HQ and tells them that just fought off an Alcor Class Warship and that he's found transportation to the Great Pyramid; an old car. Quinn tells him that they believe the Great Sphinx has a clue to figuring out what they need to discover and that it's hiding something. Sam says he'll go over it and disconnects. He then hops into the car and drives off.
Sam drives to a slum located near the Great Pyramid and is contacted by Quinn. She tells him that the researchers at headquarters are trying to figure out a riddle that Stein found that relates to opening up the Sphinx. Sam, disinterested, then disconnects and fights through the slum to eventually reaches the ruins near the Great Pyramid. After fighting though the ruins, he finds the Sphinx. Sam calls HQ and sees if they've made any progress as to how to enter the Sphinx. Quinn says they're still working on it, so Sam tells her he's going to Plan B. Sam finds an ammo crate with C-4 in it and starts placing C-4 around the Sphinx. After a back and forth with HQ, Sam blows up the Sphinx. After the dust has settled, Sam discovers that there's a hole in the center of the Sphinx. He jumps into it.
After going through the hole, Sam finds several traps that were set up to prevent intruders from entering. He manages to get past them, and starts traveling through a very long hall. At the end of it, he ends up in a room with pillars in it that has a metallic hallway in it. Unfortunately, the hallway has a door that's impossible to open, so he looks around to see if there's a way to open it. Hidden in the pillar room is another room that has a large mummy with a strange device on its left wrist. Sam picks up the device on to see what it does. He walks back to the door, and the device opens the door. Past the door is an elevator that leads to a gigantic room with a hologram of Karnak and Luxor on it. Sam contacts HQ about it uploads some pictures of it, along with uploading data in the map. HQ then tells Sam that he should leave the pyramid because there's a helicopter arranged to get him out. Sam asks who the hell would fly a helicopter right now, but it cut off.
He then finds another door on the other side of the room and rides it down. It leads to more ruins, but a Beheaded Rocketeer is waiting for him. Sam discovers that the Sirian Mutilator can be used as a weapon, and uses a beam it fires to decapitate the Rocketeer. He then leaves the pyramid through a small shaft. When he gets out he finds that he's at a large field that's past the Sphinx he destroyed. However, a large group of enemies, including sever Major Bio-mechanoids, attack. When they're all dead, his transport helicopter appears. He hops in it, and discovers that the pilot is Hellfire. She tells him that the data from the Great Pyramid is actually information about two power generators needed to power the Time-Lock. HQ has decided to send Sam to power them on.
After some flirting, Sam and Hellfire reach the outskirts of Karnak, the first location with a power generator. She asks if Sam needs some help, but he says he's fine. Sam fights through the outskirts and enters an old ruined building. Inside it, he discovers the Aurgian Cave Demons (whom Sam refers to as "space monkeys"). After defeating them, he solves a quick switch puzzle and finds a way back to the surface.
Sam appears in Karnak now, and continues to more forward while fighting Mental's forces. Eventually, he ends up near a dig site that leads to another Sirian metal door. This one is opened by finding four medallions in Karnak. Sam travels forward, where the finds four buildings that each contain a medallion. The Sirian Mutilator is needed for him to access each one.
After more fighting and finding a keycard, Sam manages to get all four medallions and uses them to open the door. Past it is an elevator, which leads down to an enormous area filled with blue lights on pillars. The bottom of the elevator leads to another door, behind which is a large pyramid-shaped object. Sam waves the Mutilator near it, which re-activates it. When it's active, Quinn calls back and tells him that the first generator for the Time-Lock is back online. She also gushes about how humans have never managed to activate Sirian technology until now, but Sam cuts her off so that he can ask where to activate the second generator and get back HQ and enjoy some cold beer. She tells him that it's in Luxor, and that when he's done, he can go back to HQ.
After the ride back up, Sam finds that one of the walls in the dig site has been knocked down, and that the door to the medallions area no longer works. With nowhere else to go, Sam jumps over the wall into an area filled with pillars. Soon after, a Khnum breaks through. Thankfully for Sam, there are a few C-4 Ammo Crates nearby, so he uses it to kill the Khnum.
With the Khnum dead, Sam continues his travels through Karnak. After fighting off some enemies, he finds a Witch-Bride of Achriman, who tries to crush him with her PSI abilities. Sam kills her, then wipes out the monsters that appear after she dies. Sam then finds a keycard that lets him leave the area the Witch-Bride was in.
After leaving the Witch-Bride arena, he discovers a Minigun turret. After letting it work its magic, he grabs the mounted minigun and uses it for himself. He then slices up a huge horde of Kleer Skeletons with it. He continues his travel through Karnak and eventually ends up in a huge yard that links Karnak with Luxor. More enemies appear to stop him, but he manages to kill them and enter Luxor.
Inside Luxor, Sam finds another Sirian metal door in a dig site. As with the other one, it requires that one find four emblems scattered throughout Luxor to open it. Once again, Sam finds the emblems, which are scattered around a bit more this time, and returns to the door. He opens it, which reveals another elevator that leads to a power generator. After activating the second power generator, the Time-Lock is finally online. Quinn contacts Sam to tell him that the Time-Lock is online, that its activation finally gives humanity a chance to defeat Mental, Team Charlie is being prepared to enter the Time-Lock and that Sam can finally get back to base and have some warm food and a cold beer.
Sam returns to Luxor's ruins, and finds that a ladder that leads from the dig site has fallen off. Thankfully for him, there's an old ruin that he can go through. He travels through it, finds a Khnum on a throne, kills it, and then blows up a lot of old ruined walls. After blowing them up, he travels through another hallway that leads outside. Unfortunately, there are a lot of enemies waiting for him. However, he finds a SBC Cannon and uses its extreme power to carve through the horde of monsters waiting for him.
He manages to reach the outskirts of Luxor. After clearing out yet more aliens there, Quinn tells him that an Alcor Class Warship is in the area and that the area can't be used as an extraction point. Soon after, the Warship appears, and begins teleporting in enemies. Sam uses the same technique he used on the first one in order to make it retreat, this time armed with the SBC Cannon. After landing enough hits, the Warship attempts to fly away again, however this time its rear side blows up, causing the ship to crash to the ground; Sam emerges victorious against the warship for a second time.
After defeating the warship, a helicopter lands. Sam hops in and starts talking like the pilot is Hellfire, but it's actually Wilson. When Sam is on-board, the helicopter takes off and starts flying to HQ. While in the air, Sam tells Wilson that it feels like he killed "half of the known universe" back in the ruins. Wilson tells him he had it easy, as Team Charlie is getting ready to enter the Time-Lock and try to kill Mental in the past. While talking about "milk runs", Sam notices a walker poking out from under the sand. He tries to warn Wilson about it, but Wilson uses it to fuel his rant about the various enemies in the game. The Major fires a rocket at the helicopter. Wilson tries to evade it, but it's too late, and the helicopter is shot out of the air. Sam is thrown out of the helicopter.
Sam recovers from the crash, and finds that he has lost his weapons. He tries to contact HQ about what happened, but his radio was damaged when he fell. Without any support from HQ, Sam decides to move forward and see if he can find Wilson. After some walking, he finds another Sledgehammer, and soon after finds some ruins with more weapons near it. It turns out that Sam has landed at The Lost Temples of Nubia. After some fighting, Sam finds his helicopter and Wilson's corpse. Since there's nowhere else to go, Sam pushes forwards through the Temples, fighting enemies like Technopolips, Major Bio-mechanoids and Khnums in the process. Near the end of the temples, he finds a huge canyon filled with enemies. Sam clears out the canyon and discovers that there's an entrance to an underground temple at the end of it. Sam travels through the temple and avoids several traps, such as a rotating pillar and a room filled with Hatchling Arachnoids.
After traveling through the temple, Sam discovers that Team Charlie have been taken out. Sam contacts HQ with a dead soldier's earpiece, Hellfire answers and tells him that HQ is under attack from Mental and that they won't last long. She advises him to hole up with as much ammo as he can find and take out as many of Mental's forces as he can before they overwhelm him. Soon after, a Gnaar sneak attacks and kills her. The Gnaar then tells Sam that everything is over and that he can't win. Sam replies back that he's going to kill and teabag every creature Mental sends at him. The Gnaar responds back by telling him that Mental is going to "moon" him. Sam tells him that he'll shoot Mental's ass off and hang it on a wall, and promptly hangs up. Sam decides that he's going to use the Time-Lock himself and try to stop Mental before he can wipe out Earth.
Sam fights through more ruins, and ends up in a slum. He finds a car that he can use to drive to the Temple of Hatsheput, where the Time-Lock is, but finds out that the car needs gas. Thankfully, there are several gas cans scattered throughout the slum, but Mental's forces continue to appear in order to kill him. Sam manages to put enough gas in the car, and finally drives off to the Temple of Hatshepsut. Unfortunately for Sam, his car runs out of gas near a large canyon. He then heads for the canyon, as he narrowly avoids being devoured by a Sand Whale. With no car, he is forced to travel by foot. Even worse, Mental sends a huge amount of his forces in order to stop Sam from reaching the Time-Lock, including multiple Technopolips, Sirian Werebulls, Khnums and legions of Kleer Skeletons and Juvenile Antaresian Spiders.
Against all odds, Sam managed to defeat every enemy that appeared, and ended up in a large, sandy area with the Time-Lock on the other side. However, while he was walking forwards, a strange creature, Ugh-Zan IV, appeared as Mental's last-ditch effort to prevent Sam from reaching the Time-Lock. However, soon after Ugh-Zan appears, a Sand Whale bursts from the sand and attempts to eat Ugh-Zan IV. This gives Sam an opportunity to run to some nearby ruins. Sam manages to find a Jetpack in one of the ruined buildings. Soon after, Ugh-Zan wrestles the Sand Whale away from him and begins attacking Sam. While flying, Sam noticed a few piles of scaffolding poles. He picks one up and waited for Ugh-Zan IV to start wrestling the Sand Whale again. While Ugh-Zan was distracted, he tosses a scaffolding pole onto his back. After Ugh-Zan fought off the Sand Whale again, lightning struck him, which damaged him so much that it briefly shut down his healing powers. Seeing how effective it was, Sam threw more scaffolding poles on his back. After a few more, the lightning strike was so powerful that it let Sam finish off Ugh-Zan IV with a few attacks from his own guns.
With Ugh-Zan IV dead, Sam gets to the Time-Lock. Sam calls Mental in order to threaten him one last time. However, his daughter, Judy Mental, picks up the line. He asks where her dad is, and she says that he's off destroying "a pissant planet in the middle of nowhere". He then told her that he's going to kill Mental, in which she responds to "Are you serious?" and Sam says "Why yes, as a matter of fact, I am". She then tells him that he needs to hurry, because Mental is going to moon Earth at any moment. Sam asks what she means by "mooning", but then sees that Earth's moon is heading towards the planet. Sam then runs towards the Time-Lock and threatens Mental one last time.
Soon after Sam hops into the Time-Lock, the moon crashes into Earth, destroying it. Humanity and Earth are now gone in the present, but there is still hope left thanks to Sam entering the Time-Lock.
Sam warps to the Hatshepsut of the past, and begins his mission to kill Mental.
Downloadable content (DLC)Edit
The only DLC released so far has been the Jewel of the Nile. It contains three all new single player levels, a new weapon, a new enemy and a new boss for $9.99 USD or 1200 MS Points.
Xbox 360 versionEdit
Serious Sam 3 was released on the Xbox 360 on October 17th, 2012. It is available through Xbox Live and on disc in the Serious Sam Collection, and is split into two parts on Xbox Live. The single player and co-op game modes are available in a package for 1200 MS Points, while the Versus modes and Jewel of the Nile DLC are available in a package for 1200 MS Points, but require that you buy the single player package first. There is also a demo with a slightly modified version of Broken Wings. The game has two player split screen mode, while up to four people can play online. The Jewel of the Nile is included in the Serious Sam Collection.
The X360 version of the game is the same as the PC version, but has lower graphics and, every time the player is killed, a tip appears that's related to whatever killed the player.
Console commandsEdit
For available console commands, see Serious Sam 3: BFE/Console Commands.
Croteam announced that Serious Sam 4 is in development, release date TBA.
Behind the scenesEdit
- An item, Super Armor has a model and code in the game, but never appears in any of the levels.


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PITTSBURGH -- The Point Park University men's basketball schedule features 16 American Mideast Conference games and three early-season tournaments.
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Point Park, which was 12-16 overall and 4-9 in the AMC last season, is a member of the AMC North Division. Last year was the first season since 2001-02 that the conference was not divided into North and South Divisions, but the league has reverted back to the alignment that it had the previous six seasons.
This year, the Pioneers will play a home-and-home series with each of the AMC North members, which are Notre Dame, Malone, Houghton, Roberts Wesleyan and Daemen.
Point Park will also play one game each versus AMC South members Walsh, Cedarville, Mt. Vernon Nazarene, Wilberforce, Shawnee State and Northwestern Ohio. Home games versus AMC South teams include Wilberforce (Dec. 1), Walsh (Jan. 21) and Cedarville (Jan. 30). The game versus Wilberforce is the AMC opener. Cedarville and Walsh were the top two AMC teams last year.
All 16 games versus AMC opponents will contribute to the Pioneers' conference record, although separate standings will be kept for each division.
The top three teams in each division will qualify for the postseason. The winners of the North and South divisions will square off in a North vs. South championship game with the winner receiving an automatic bid to the NAIA Division II tournament.
The loser of the North vs. South championship game will get a bye into the AMC tournament championship game. There they will await the winner of the four-team bracket that begins with matchups between the No. 2 team in the North versus the No. 3 team in the South and the No. 2 team in the South vs. the No. 3 team in the North. The winner of the AMC tournament will receive the conference's second NAIA bid.
Point Park has made the AMC playoffs seven of the last nine years. Last season was the first time since 2003-04 that the Pioneers did not play in the postseason. In 2006-07, Point Park won 29 of its first 30 games on its way to winning the AMC championship title and a No. 3 ranking in the final NAIA Division II poll.


text: Larry MahanRodeo ChampionBorn: 21 November 1943 Birthplace: Salem, Oregon Best known as: Rodeo celebrity of the early '70s Larry Mahan is one of the greats of professional rodeo and one of its first mainstream media stars. He started competing professionally in 1964, and by 1966 won his first of five consecutive all-around championships (he won a record-setting sixth championship in 1973). A champion in roughstock events (riding broncs and bulls), Mahan was also a trendsetter who helped professional radio gain exposure to a larger audience. He flew his own plane, wore loud plaid shirts, had long-ish hair and made appearances on TV talk shows and in magazine ads. He retired from competition in 1977, having somehow escaped major injuries after 1,200 rodeos. Now Mahan has a clothing line of western wear and appears occasionally as a television commentator (he hosts a show called Equestrian Nation). Copyright © 1998-2017 by Who2?, LLC. All rights reserved. |


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Zucchini is one of the most versatile vegetables. You can make it into pasta, grill it on a skewer, stir-fry it, or simply eat it raw [a squeeze of fresh lemon over top is a treat]. As it turns out, zucchini can also make quite a sophisticated appetizer with minimal effort.
And pesto… oh, pesto. A delicious mingling of what are arguably some of food's best flavors. All it takes is basil, a handful of cashews, lemon, and garlic to create a mouthwatering pesto. Pine nuts seem to be the go-to for most pesto recipes, but cashews work just as well and cost much less [stick around here long enough and you just might learn something]. This appetizer requires little prep and process which means you can make lots of these very quickly. And then watch them disappear off the table just as fast. These suckers are like Pringles – in the sense that once you pop one you can't stop.
INGREDIENTS [Makes 15-18 rolls depending on zucchini size]
2 zucchinis
1 container of cherry tomatoes [just enough for one per roll]
1/2 c. pesto
INGREDIENTS for the Pesto
1 c. fresh basil leaves
2 Tbsp. minced garlic
3/4 c. raw cashews
2 Tbsp. nutritional yeast [optional, but recommended!]
2 Tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/3 c. olive oil
1 tsp. sea salt
Start off by making the pesto – mainly because it becomes more flavorful the longer it sits. Combine cashews, olive oil, basil, garlic, lemon juice, nutritional yeast, salt, and pepper in a food processor. Pulse until the consistency is mostly smooth. Cover and refrigerate.
Chop the ends off each zucchini. Then, using a mandolin or vegetable peeler, start peeling long strips from the zucchini. Repeat until you've peeled enough strips for the amount of rolls you want to make.
Have the cherry tomatoes ready in a bowl and a stockpile of toothpicks. On a flat surface, lay out a slice of zucchini, portion a spoonful on the strip and smooth it out evenly. Cover 1/2-3/4 of the strip, otherwise it will be hard to roll and the pesto will ooze out everywhere. Place a cherry tomato near one end of the zucchini and start to roll the strip around the tomato. When you get to the end, spear the roll with a toothpick and set it aside.
Repeat the process until you run out of ingredients. If you have some pesto left over [exciting!], it will keep in the refrigerator for 2-3 days. To be honest, ours didn't last that long because we dipped whatever we could find in it until it was gone. The stuff is so good it's bad.
Simple, cute, and irresistible. What more can you ask for in a snackatizer?
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Old Saybrook — Police this morning arrested two Old Saybrook men who they say assaulted and attempted to rob a man of his firearms.
Joshua Griswold, 18, of 86 Mill Rock Road East and Michael Lawhorn, 23, of 1500 Boston Post Road, Room 9, each were charged with first-degree robbery, second-degree assault, criminal attempt to steal a firearm, second-degree strangulation and sixth-degree larceny.
Police said the assault was reported to themat 1:40 a.m. They said the 50-year-old victim said the pair attempted to steal his firearms and, when he refused to turn them over, they attacked him.
The victim was seriously injured and was taken to Middlesex Hospital Shoreline Medical Center in Westbrook.
After developing information on the suspects, police arrested Griswold and Lawhorn. Both are being held on a $100,000 bond, pending their arraignments Friday in Middlesex Superior Court.
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Help grow big things with the Boy Scouts of America.
Donate to the Voyageurs Area Council and give young people the chance to have fun, gain confidence, and become leaders who live the Scout Oath and the Scout Law.
Financial resources for the Voyageurs Area Council come from an annual Friends of Scouting (FOS) campaign, local United Ways, foundation grants, special events, project sales, investment income, trust funds, bequests, gifts of real and personal property, and your direct financial contributions.
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CustomRecentChangesSummary: How to create RecentChanges pages for selected groups
Version: 2006-08-20
Prerequisites: pmwiki 2.1
Discussion: CustomRecentChanges-Talk
Categories: Searching
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1.Changing RecentChanges formatOverwrite The default defined in pmwiki.php is $RecentChangesFmt = array( '$SiteGroup.AllRecentChanges' => '* [[{$Group}.{$Name}]] . . . $CurrentTime $[by] $AuthorLink: [=$ChangeSummary=]', '$Group.RecentChanges' => '* [[{$Group}/{$Name}]] . . . $CurrentTime $[by] $AuthorLink: [=$ChangeSummary=]'); The following example placed in local/config.php will display the title of a page and the change summary only, and uses a minus instead of three periods as spacer: $RecentChangesFmt = array( '$SiteGroup.AllRecentChanges' => '* [[$Group.$Name|$Group.$Titlespaced]] - [=$ChangeSummary=]', '$Group.RecentChanges' => '* [[$Group.$Name|$Titlespaced]] - [=$ChangeSummary=]'); The PageVariables list is useful to find possible things to include. If you want to change the format of the date, see Cookbook-V1.ChangeTimeFormat, and put that bit of code before the one described here. 2. Getting rid of minor changesInsert the following in your local/config.php if (@$_POST['diffclass'] == 'minor') { unset($RecentChangesFmt['$SiteGroup.AllRecentChanges']); unset($RecentChangesFmt['$Group.RecentChanges']);} Minor changes made after that will not be included in Site.AllRecentChanges or the per-group RecentChanges. If you change the RecentChanges information as per point 1, the code for ignoring minor changes must be placed somewhere after that. You can have "This is a minor edit" checked by default by editing Site.EditForm, changing 3. RecentChanges pages for selected groupsThe Site.AllRecentChanges page will display all changes in all groups. If you want to create custom RecentChanges pages for selected groups, you can do any of the following:
1. Use !! GroupA (:include GroupA.RecentChanges lines=20:) !! GroupB (:include GroupB.RecentChanges lines=20:) !! GroupC (:include GroupC.RecentChanges lines=20:)
2. Use (:pagelist group=GroupA,GroupB,GroupC order=-time:)
3. In the per-group configuration files (i.e., local/GroupA.php, local/GroupB.php, local/GroupC.php), create a special RecentChanges page to hold changes for just those groups. $RecentChangesFmt['Site.ABCChanges'] = '* [[{$FullName}]] . . . $CurrentTime $[by] $AuthorLink: [=$ChangeSummary=]'; Any per-group configuration file containing the above line will have its pages added to Site.ABCChanges (as well as the per-group RecentChanges and Site.AllRecentChanges). Note especially the *two spaces* before the first dot -- this is important for PmWiki to be able to correctly put new entries at the top of the list after each change. 4. Omit certain groups from the AllRecentChanges list1. The easiest way is to unset unset( 2. It is also possible to centralize omissions in First, you need to make sure the page name is resolved and optionally you can set variables to hold the group and/or page name(s). $pagename = ResolvePageName($pagename); $group = PageVar($pagename, '$Group'); $name = PageVar($pagename, '$Name'); Now you can do customization for a group... if ($group == 'SpecialGroup') unset ($RecentChangesFmt['$SiteGroup.AllRecentChanges']); or for a page name (that is, a page with a certain name that may exist in any group)... if ($name == 'Test') unset ($RecentChangesFmt['$SiteGroup.AllRecentChanges']); or for a specific Group.Page . if ($pagename == 'Main.WikiSandbox') unset ($RecentChangesFmt['$SiteGroup.AllRecentChanges']); NotesRelease Notes See Also
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The price of education has been sky rocketing in the past years and I'm sure that your income didn't! As we are all in the same boat, we might find solution to help your children to have the chance to go to school. Waiting for government's help is obsolete, especially with all the baby boomers coming to retirement. The government will have enough on its plate with the pension and health costs. However, there is a simple and easy way of helping out your kids.
In most countries, governments created plan where you can save money for a specific goal; children's education. In Canada, we call those plans RESP (Registered Education Saving Plan). The government will contribute according to the amount of contribution from the parents (20% of the contribution, up to $400 a year in 2007). Therefore, you will be not the only one to try to build a future to your kids.
The RESP works as an RRSP (Registered Retirement Saving Plan) in Canada. The money is invested in qualified financial products such as mutual funds, bonds or even stocks. The growth can come from paid interests or dividends and also capital gains. Taxes will be postponed until the child is starting to withdraw the money. It will then apply to his taxed income. As a student, your kid should not make much money. Therefore, he/she won't pay much tax on the withdrawals.
What if your daughter doesn't go to University? Depending on the type of plan and countries, you might have other solutions. Most plans are very flexible and allow withdrawals for techniques, college or for specific type of work such as electrician, plumber, and mechanic. Some plans are designed to be used for more than one child and can even apply to related kids as your nephews and nieces.
Worst comes to worst, Canadian plan allow the contributor to withdraw the money for other purposes as well. The only counterpart is that the government will take back is contribution plus the growth related to it. In the end, you won't loose your own money!
If you start at your son's birth you can pay off almost all his education. With a monthly saving plan as low as $25 a month, you will get $14,725 after 20 years! In this example, I'm not even counting the government contribution. With this additional contribution, you go up to $17,670 with a 8% yield. I'll let you figure how much you would get with a $50 a month contribution!
RESP's offer so many options that you must sit down with a financial consultant or your banker to choose the plan that will suit best your and your children's interest. All that to make your kids' future a little bit brighter!
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PROVIDENCE – Home prices in the Providence metro area rose slightly in July over the previous month, according to the LPS Home Price Index released Monday.
Prices in the Providence area reached $239,000 on the index last month compared with $238,000 in June, an increase of 0.3 percent.
The July figure represents a 4.1 percent rise over the July 2012 home price index of $230,000, but remains 22.8 percent below peak home prices in June 2006, when the index hit $309,000.
Nationally, the property price index climbed to $231,000 in July, up 0.6 percent from $229,000 in June. On a year-over-year basis, the U.S. home price index has risen 8.7 percent, up from $212,000 in July 2012, but still 14.7 percent short of the June 2006 peak level of $270,000.
The Providence metro area placed No. 33 in the LPS ranking of metro areas nationwide with the largest increases in home prices between June and July.
The LPS Home Price Index, compiled each month by Jacksonville, Fla.-based Lender Processing Services Inc., combines property and loan data in a repeat sales analysis of home prices as of their transaction dates. The LPS data covers about 89 percent of single-family residential properties in the United States.
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Flames acquire 2014 second round pick from Colorado
by Staff Writer / Calgary FlamesCALGARY, AB -- The Calgary Flames announced today that they have acquired Colorado's second round pick in the 2014 NHL Draft in exchange for goaltender Reto Berra.
The Calgary Flames have recalled goaltender Joey MacDonald from the Abbotsford Heat. MacDonald has played seven games for the Flames this season registering a 3-3-1 record along with a 3.17 GAA and a .885% save percentage. In 16 games with the Abbotsford Heat, MacDonald has a 3.00 GAA and a .909% save percentage.


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Research into neurochemical chemical reactions and limbic responses can only mean one thing: Single malt Scotch every day at tea time. Roy Hall will probably sue for infringement.
HighEmotion's Impressive Show Debut
The company has been working with scientists to understand neurochemical reactions to different source material. "We've discovered a threshold of authenticity which you must exceed to evoke a limbic response," I was told.
Using the striking Verastarr Audio SSA-644 6-channel power amp ($6000); VTL TL 5.5 Signature preamplifier; Atma-Sphere M-60 MkIII tube monoblocks; and Verastarr Grand Illusion Signature power cords, Nemesis X speaker cables, and Grand Illusion Signature RCA interconnects, the system was very impressive. The fullness of sound on Reference Recordings' classic rendition of Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances was as full as the percussion on Chesky's Marta Gomez debut disc was crisp, deep, and quick. I'd love to hear this system in a larger room. A most auspicious show debut.


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BOSTON — Even Jonathan Papelbon can't be counted on to save the Red Sox now.
And Boston keeps stumbling toward a playoff berth — or an epic collapse.
The Red Sox most dependable player blew his first save in 4 1/2 months when Robert Andino's three-run double in the eighth inning lifted the Baltimore Orioles to a 7-5 win Tuesday night and ruined a chance for Boston to extend its two-game lead in the AL wild-card race.
The Red Sox seemed headed for a three-game, wild-card lead over Tampa Bay, which lost to the New York Yankees 5-0 on Tuesday. But their struggles continued as they fell to 4-13 since leading the Rays by nine games on Sept. 3. They haven't won consecutive games since sweeping a doubleheader against Oakland on Aug. 27.
"My job when I'm called on is to go out there and finish the game," Papelbon said. "I didn't do that, so this game is on me and I take full responsibility for that."
The closer who had gone 21 games since last allowing a run on July 16 wasn't the only one blaming himself in the quiet Red Sox clubhouse after losing to the team with baseball's third-worst record.
Right fielder Josh Reddick said "it was the worst feeling ever" after his error on a two-out liner by Vladimir Guerrero led to two runs in the third and forced starter Erik Bedard to face four extra batters.
"We should have never had that close of a game," Reddick said. "I kind of hurt the whole team from bottom to top."
Papelbon said "There's no reason for us to sit here and say, 'The walls are crumbling down, start panicking.' That's not going to happen in this clubhouse. Nobody's going to hand us any wins. We've got to go out there and get it on our own."
Boston has seven games remaining and Tampa Bay has nine.
"We'll take that situation every day" with Papelbon entering with a 5-4 lead, second baseman Dustin Pedroia said. "We'll come out (Wednesday) and play our butts off. … We're good. We'll be all right. Take a deep breath."
Willie Eyre (2-1) got the win and Jim Johnson picked up his eighth save in 13 opportunities. Daniel Bard (2-9) had runners at first and second with one out when he was replaced by Papelbon, who entered with 30 saves in 31 chances.
Papelbon, who had 28 strikeouts in the 21 straight scoreless outings, struck out Chris Davis for the second out. Then Nolan Reimold singled to short left field, loading the bases, and Andino doubled down the right-field line for his third hit of the game.
"He's a tough pitcher," Andino said. "We all know who Papelbon is. You just try to get on top of a pitch and just put it in play."
But Papelbon was more upset with his 0-2 pitch that Reimold hit to keep the inning alive.
"Unacceptable," he said firmly, his hands on his hips.
Papelbon had his first blown save since May 9, the last time he entered a game before the ninth inning.
The Red Sox wrap up a four-game series with the Orioles on Wednesday night before playing their last six on the road, three each against the New York Yankees and Baltimore.
"Just the emotion of the games, I think, plays well for us," Baltimore manager Buck Showalter said. "We kind of, more than anything, just have some envy. At some point we want to be in their position."
Adrian Gonzalez drove in three runs with a two-run homer and a double for the Red Sox.
They went ahead 1-0 in the first on consecutive doubles by Pedroia and Gonzalez.
But Baltimore scored four runs in the third when starter Bedard threw 51 pitches and retired just two batters. With one out, Andino singled on a 13-pitch at-bat and scored on Nick Markakis' two-out double. Reddick then misjudged Guerrero's liner it by taking a few steps in then had it go off his glove as he went back, allowing Markakis to score.
After walks to Matt Wieters and Adam Jones loaded the bases, Mark Reynolds hit a two-run double.
The Red Sox cut the lead to 4-3 in the third on a double by Pedroia and Gonzalez's 27th homer of the season.
They went ahead with two runs in the fourth, helped by an error. With no outs, Marco Scutaro walked, Jarrod Saltalamacchia singled and Mike Aviles singled in the tying run. Jacoby Ellsbury's single loaded the bases.
After Pedroia struck out, Gonzalez grounded to first baseman Reynolds, who threw home for the force then let the return throw go off his glove. That allowed Gonzalez, who was several feet from the base when the ball got to Reynolds, to reach safely and Aviles to score the tie-breaking run.
Notes: Showalter was ejected for arguing a third-strike call against Weiters in the fifth. … CF Jones, who had an injured thumb, and 1B Reynolds, who was hit in the head by a pitch on Saturday returned to the Orioles lineup. … Ellsbury's single in the fourth was his 200th hit. It came one day after Gonzalez had five hits to reach 203 for the season. It's the third time the Red Sox have had two players with 200 hits in the same season — Wade Boggs (240) and Bill Buckner (201) in 1985 and Boggs (207) and Jim Rice (200) in 1986. … Guerrero and Jones were thrown out trying to st eal in the fourth by Saltalamacchia. … Josh Beckett (13-5) pitches for Boston against Tommy Hunter (4-4) on Wednesday night.


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Les Miserables
Martin Denton • New York City • Oct 27, 1999
Even as we are moved by the grandeur of Hugo's story, we are captivated by the remarkable stagecraft of director Trevor Nunn and the stunningly powerful score by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg. From the stark, desperate opening chorus of Valjean and his fellow prisoners ("Look Down") to the soaring passion of Eponine's song of unrequited love ("On My Own"), and from the heights of the barricades to the depths of the Parisian sewers, Les Miserables evokes, palpably and forcefully, Hugo's vision of a simple man made great by acts of justice and mercy, and of a group of visionary students who take on a grand lost cause because of its rightness, and fight for it to the finish.
In counterpoint, there is also the parallel tale of the policeman Javert, whose very belief system is destroyed by the existence of a man like Jean Valjean. And to provide darkly comic contrast, Les Miserables also gives us the Thenadiers, thieving scum who represent the worst of humanity; their final, taunting words--"Clear away the barricades and we're still there"--sadly all too true.
But it is the nobility of the heroes of Les Miserables that lingers in our consciousness. I know of no more effective moment in theatre than the one that follows the tragic and unnecessary annihilation of the rebel students on the barricades: a long, sustained silent tribute to the best qualities of humankind.
Les Miserables is, then, a brilliantly uplifting musical play. It is, too, a spellbinding pageant filled with romance, adventure, high drama and even some low comedy. It's totally theatrical... and entirely necessary.
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