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Off The Diamond, The Red Sox Are Red Hot
The Boston Red Sox have been delighting baseball traditionalists for years. While teams from Baltimore to San Francisco Bay have erected new fields, the Sox still play in Fenway Park, "which went up when the Titanic went down," quips Sox CEO John L. Harrington. And fans from Boston to Bangor and beyond have been dubbed Red Sox Nation for their undying loyalty to a team that hasn't won the World Series in 82 years.
Suddenly, though, big change is brewing in Beantown. On Oct. 6, Harrington put the controlling interest in the team on the block for the first time since the Great Depression. With Harrington promising to hand the club to the top bidder, "this team will command the highest price yet in baseball," eclipsing the $320 million paid for the Cleveland Indians in 1999, predicts John A. Moag Jr., managing director of Legg Mason Sports Investment Banking.
But if the new owners are to recoup their investment, they'll have to find a way to solve the Sox' most pressing problem: replacing or renovating Fenway, the oldest and smallest park in the majors. Harrington has been pushing an ambitious $665 million scheme to build a new park--the most expensive in baseball--within walking distance of the current Fenway. But with that plan still facing formidable financial and political hurdles, the new owners may be forced back to the drawing board.
The sale of the Sox has been looming for years. Thomas A. Yawkey bought the club for just $1 million in 1933, and after his death in 1976 and the death of his wife, Jean, in 1992, their controlling 53% stake went to the charitable Yawkey Trust, run by Harrington. Since then, says Harrington, "the question has always been when, not whether, to sell."
Prevailing baseball economics suggests that the club should be valued at $320 million to $340 million, figures baseball expert Andrew Zimbalist, an economics professor at Smith College. But Marc Ganis, president of Chicago-based Sportscorp Ltd., says that the huge emotional appeal of owning the Sox is likely "to drive the price far above what any cold-headed analysis suggests it is worth." He predicts that a bidding war could eventually push the price to some $450 million, of which the trust would get about $240 million.
Investment bankers and other observers envision at least four classes of bidders emerging. Boston-based developers--some of whom have land that could be used as a stadium site; companies whose business dovetails with baseball, like Aramark, which operates concessions at Fenway and already has an 18% stake in the team; media buyers out to acquire programming; and dot-com entrepreneurs and other near-billionaires who simply can't resist the ego trip of owning the Sox.
DISTANT DREAM. The first priority of whoever wins the Sox will be replacing Fenway. Harrington hopes they will complete his dream of a new 44,000-seat near-replica of today's park nearby. But in Massachusetts, opposition to public funding of stadiums is among the strongest in the nation, and the legislature has agreed to pony up just $100 million for infrastructure. Boston is supposed to toss in $212 million more for buying land and building a parking garage, but 7 out of 13 city councilors already oppose the deal. Worst of all, even if the city council went along, the Sox would still have to privately finance the $350 million cost of the stadium, plus any overruns. "It gets to be counterproductive," says Moag, since much of the increased revenues generated by the stadium would go to pay off the debt.
The upshot is that the new owners are likely to find a cheaper, less controversial way to replace Fenway--either by renovating the existing field or moving to a less costly site. In turn, that would free up more money to spend on players. And in the end, that may be the only way for the Sox to end the drought that has denied Boston a World Championship since 1918.


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By Karen Swallow Prior
November 8, 2011
I'm an English professor, so I'm a little biased when it comes to the topic of reading. I believe that reading widely and well benefits everyone. But for the Christian, reading holds particular theological and worldview applications. And I'm not talking just about reading the Bible, theology or guides to Christian living (although those are good for a Christian to read). I'm saying that the literary Christian is uniquely equipped to live out the Christian faith and to draw others to it because of a connection between being a faithful reader and a faithful Christian.
Of course, this isn't a revolutionary notion. The belief in the centrality to the Christian faith of reading—the centrality of the Word—goes back to the Reformation. In fact, it goes back much further than that, all the way to earliest Scriptures.
The book of Genesis relays the story of a God who used words to speak the world into existence, a God whose first assignment to humankind was to name (not count, confine or classify) the animals, a God whose first official communication with His people consisted of His words literally written in stone.
The fact that "Word" is one of the names for God (John 1:1) implies that language is part of His very nature. Human language, then, is a reflection of God in human beings, created in His image. In the Greek, "word" is "logos," and in both Greek philosophy and the Judeo-Christian tradition, its definitions refer to underlying structures of reason, logic, creativity and universal order. The practice of reading inherently develops an understanding of "logos," of both words and the Word.
Indeed, Christians are known as "people of the Book," an obvious reference to the Bible, the book of Books, which forms the center of our faith. Naturally, Christians should spend time reading this Book and promoting its spread throughout the world's cultures through translation and missions.
But reading other books is crucial for the Christian as well.
The same skills developed in reading books well assist in reading the Bible well. In fact, some of the most profound misunderstandings I've encountered regarding the Christian faith—whether from believers or non-believers—have stemmed from poor reading of the Bible: mistaking history for philosophy, for example, or poetry for science, or descriptive passages for prescriptive ones. In my experience, those who know how to read books well—whether works of fiction, drama, poetry, philosophy or religion—are better readers of the Bible, too.
Additionally, reading the world's literary masterpieces can be likened to fulfilling God's command to the Israelites to seize the silver and gold from the Egyptians and put it to the Lord's service. St. Augustine argued that because all truth is God's truth, Christians can put the "Egyptian gold" of secular philosophy (or, I would add, literature) into the Lord's service. And since Jesus said that the Truth will make us free (John 8:32), the truths we find within literature also help to free us. I think of the insights that can be found in the work of Homer, for example. Biblical examples of those who plundered the literary gold of the pagans include Daniel and Paul, both of whom were learned in the knowledge and books of their surrounding cultures and used that knowledge to point unbelievers to God and to glorify Him.
Furthermore, when we enter new worlds by reading literature, we imitate not only Daniel and Paul, but we imitate Christ also, who, according to Philippians 2:5-8, humbled Himself by becoming human in order to experience our humanity with us. When we read literature that depicts lives, places and experiences different from our own, we, like Christ (although in pale imitation), humble ourselves by stepping outside the ego-centric world of ourselves in order to share aspects of human experience unfamiliar to us. This is just what I experienced as a modern, white, American woman reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, a work about a world and a people vastly different from mine. In this way, reading literature helps us to fulfill the command to love our neighbors as ourselves. The more we know and understand our neighbors, the better we can love them.
Reading good literature serves oneself well, too, in one's Christian walk. Reading and weighing books in light of Scripture helps us to fulfill the commands of 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 to "test" all things; "hold on to what is good, and reject every kind of evil." It's important to note the order in which these commands appear. Before we can reject evil, we must hold to what is good. And before we can do either of these, we must test. Of course, we need not experience all things directly in order to test them. Literature offers a way to test ideas and worldviews vicariously so we can better distinguish good from evil, and crave meat not milk (Hebrews 5:12-14). When I read Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert as a young bride, I recognized for the first time my extreme romanticism, the worldview that led Emma Bovary into serial adultery and, ultimately, despair and death. In teaching me lessons that I never learned in Sunday School, church or the Bible, this novel changed my life and probably saved my marriage before I even knew what it might need to be saved from.
Christians too often reduce the meaning of "good" to the narrow definition of "morally good." But in God's perfect economy, "good" means both morally good (right) and aesthetically pleasing (beautiful). Thus, when God looked upon His creation and saw that it was "good," it was good in both senses of the word, morally and aesthetically. The fall, however, resulted in not only the corruption of the moral and the aesthetic realms, but also in their severance from one another. Both the moral sense and the aesthetic sense need to be reunited and brought under subjection through Christ. Developing our taste for the goodness and beauty of literature helps accomplish this. Good literature (like all good art) brings goodness and beauty back in union with each other and with truth.
Yet, goodness and beauty have a cost; we rarely reap their fruits from mere, easy, mindless entertainment. Philippians 4:8 admonishes believers to think upon the things that are, as the verbiage of the King James Version expresses, "honest" and "just," as well as "lovely" and of "good report," of "virtue" and "praise." Some mistakenly use this verse to argue for reading only sweet, innocent Pollyanna books. But such books are not just or honest depictions of the human condition or the fallen world. Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, for example, fits all of these descriptors from Philippians 2:8. Those who object solely to the subject matter of a man's sexual relationship with an adolescent girl need to consider how the book treats the subject lest they commit the same error of those who claim that the Bible endorses polygamy and misogyny. Depiction is not endorsement. Practiced readers understand this difference and recognize how the form of a work shapes its content.
Literary works that are well-crafted, substantive, and that require some investment on the part of the reader for the good reward of understanding are most worthy of praise. Such are truly the lovely books. Such are the ones that Christians should be consuming and creating—and enjoying.
Karen Swallow Prior is a professor of English and Modern Languages at Liberty University.
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"Depiction is not endorsement." Yes! (So often I have wanted to articulate that truth.) I agree, but I must assert that your depiction, Dr. Prior, of what reading can afford my soul /endorses/ reading. For, after reading your article, I feel inspired and challenged to read skillfully all kinds of books.
A hearty "amen" from another diploma-carrying English major re: literature in general.
Two thoughts of disagreement, though:
If you learned more from Madame Bovary about the dangers of romanticisim than from Sunday School or Scripture, is that an argument for placing great literature alongside Scripture, or is an argument that maybe you needed to be in a better Sunday School class? Great literature is great when it uniquely illuminates truth. I'm not so sure that we can go so far as to say it uniquely teaches truth, in a way that Scripture does not.
The other thought would be around Lolita, and other similar works (Lady Chatterley's Lover is one I remember you recommending). I do agree with the general principle that depiction doesn't equal endorsement. But there's a difference between depiction and description. If we who love words believe in their power, we have to be willing to acknowledge their power to harm. You don't put a chainsaw in the hands of a two year old. I think there's a similar argument to be made that we tread very, very carefully with putting works describing sexual sin in a graphic/enticing way into the hands and minds of young people (or even older people) who are vulnerable.
Then there's the issue of argument - my understanding is that there's strong disagreement about what Nabokov's argument actually was, as well as how contemporary society has viewed it. There's definitely a case to be made for thinking carefully about how writers have sought to actually influence cultural mores, but how we study that without ourselves being drawn under than influence and into sin is a trickier issue.
Thanks for the thought-provoking piece!
Great thoughts and questions, Rachael! I do agree about the need for better Sunday School. :) But I think that better Sunday School would come about through more integration of reading good books into church life; the reason Sunday School (or church)mightnot begood is, among other things, because of a lack of engagement with the "--isms" of the world as expressed in its cultural forms.
And I absolutely agree with not putting a chainsaw in the hands of a two-year-old (or my own hands for that matter!). But again, the more experience one gains in reading, the more one is able to bring those things under subjection rather than being subjeced by them. And, of course, one reader's meat is another reader's poison. We must, first and last, be led by the Holy Spirit.
Good memory in recalling that Lady Chatterley tweet from this summer! :)
Reading is so critical. It gives us the foundation to see God at work in every part of life. Abraham Kuyper's quote "All things have proceeded from the thinking of God, from the conciousness of God, from the Word of God." sums it up so well. As we read widely we see that God is at work everywhere. That is the vision behind a new community called "On Call in Culture." www.oncallinculture.com

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"Trophy Wife" comes back Tuesday (March 4) with a string of new episodes that promise nary a dull moment. Executive producers Sarah Haskins and Emily Halpern tell Zap2it it's a roller coaster ride, from Bert's birthday to Kate and Pete's do-over wedding.
"Bert's birthday provides Kate an opportunity to do something she's been wanting to do for a while, which is make some mom friends … specifically the moms from Bert's soccer team," says Haskins. "Bert's read 100 books, so he gets any kind of birthday party he wants. Kate goes over the top, the party goes over the top, it kind of gets out of control, but we set up some secrets that Jackie has been keeping from Kate."
One of the birthday surprises is a visit from "Bachelor" host Chris Harrison because Bert wants the reality romance host to give his mom a rose. We have to ask — is Bert a "Bachelor" fan?
"Bert could become a 'Bachelor' fan," says Haskins. "Our thinking is maybe Pete is a 'Bachelor' fan, it's one of his guilty pleasures. Lee Eisenberg, one of our EPs is a secret, and not so secret, 'Bachelor' fan and his love kind of came out in the episode."
RELATED: 'Happy Bert Day' photos
Speaking of romance, the two episodes immediately following "Happy Bert Day" are "The Wedding" parts 1 and 2, which the EPs tell Zap2it will fill in some of the adult characters' histories.
"Kate finds Diane and Jackie's old wedding videos when they're cleaning
out the garage and this makes her realize she wants a real wedding," says Halpern. "She
and Pete eloped, so the general arc of this two-parter is Kate's desire
to have a big wedding, have their family included and to really
represent that she's become part of the family.
"'The Wedding Part I' is when we'll get a chance to see and really understand the history of Pete's past marriages to Diane and then to Jackie," adds Haskins. "We'll actually see their old wedding videos, so people who are wondering how did Pete wind up with Diane or Jackie, they'll get some clarification."
"We haven't done a lot with flashbacks, but we started doing a little bit, so it's fun to see," says Halpern. "But it's not fun for Bradley [Whitford], who is wearing a variety of hair pieces."
The second episode in the two-parter will also introduce viewers to various people's parents, so Halpern says it's "a great way to introduce yourself to the family all over again, if you're new to 'Trophy Wife.'"
"Trophy Wife" airs Tuesday nights at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.


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Hailing from across the globe, thirteen winners of a Boys & Girls Club contest visited the Bridesburg Boys & Girls Club last week. What did they all have in common? Their love for the organization itself.
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Re: symbolic approximation (formular manipulation)
Zhe Hu wrote: > A formula in electrical engineering can be simplified after assuming, > e.g. R1<<R2, within 10% error tolerance. > > How this kind of "simplify" or approximation can be performed by Mathematica? > > For example, R1<<R2, R2<<R3 > > R1+R2 R2 R2 > --------------- ---> ------------------ ---------> ------------------ > R1(R2+R3) R1(R2+R3) R1 R3 > > > > I thought about replacing: R1->0.00001*R2, but that would eliminate R1 > completely from the formula (denumerator), which is not favorable in > some cases. One way is to figure out which are "leading" terms in numerator and denominator. This might be done as below. expr = (r1+r2)/(r1*(r2+r3)); {num,den} = With[{te=Together[expr]}, {Numerator[te],Denominator[te]}] vars = {r3,r2,r1}; InputForm[leadterms = Map[First, First[Internal`DistributedTermsList[{num,den}, vars]]]] Out[15]//InputForm= {{{0, 1, 0}, 1}, {{1, 0, 1}, 1}} What we see are terms represented as {exponent vector, coefficient} pairs. To recover them in explicit polynomial form we then do as below. In[16]:= InputForm[{reducednum, reducedden} = Map[#[[2]]*Apply[Times,vars^#[[1]]]&, leadterms]] Out[16]//InputForm= {r2, r1*r3} There are no doubt simpler ways to do this but the way indicated above is fairly extensible to handle cases where you might have "comparable" variables and hence may need to keep more terms. A remotely similar example is discussed at http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Conferences/325/ in the second item of the section "Examples of polynomial manipulation" Daniel Lichtblau Wolfram Research


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Next week the six wild card entries will prove their mettle in front of the judges who will decide which contestant stays and who will leave the show
It's the Wild card special on Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7 next week, where older contestants will challenge the six new entrants to a face off. Will it be RJ Malishka, singers Rahul Vaidya and Akriti Kakkar or Kainaat Arora, Kushal Punjabi or international dancer Tara-Jean Popowich?
Well we saw their entry last weekend and were not too impressed. Rahul Vaidya entered the show singing. Now we know that he is an amazing singer, but isn't this a dance competition?
RJ Malishka entered the show talking non-stop as usual. She requested Madhuri to teach her the Tamma tamma signature step, which she apparently, has been trying to master since childhood. Well we don't know about her dancing skills, but there doesn't seem much hope.
Being a Bollywood babe, surely Kainaat Arora must have some basic knowledge in dancing, but her entry on Jhalak didn't really give us any signs of it, nor did the singer Akriti Kakkar. While the Saturday saturday singer moved with grace, the Jhalak stage is a whole new ball game.
Telly actor Kushal Punjabi showed us his moves and with little help from a trained choreographer, we believe he can do wonders.
As for Tara-Jean Popowich, she was spectacular in her introduction itself. We could actually see the other contestants worrying about their future in the show.
If you ask us, Tara-Jean and Kushal have confirmed seats as the contestants of Jhalak, but who among the others will be the third wild card entry? Stay tuned to this space to find out!


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wow, halloween is coming, we will make this Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
Healthy Halloween Treats
Halloween used to scare me. My kids coming home with all that junk food sent shivers through my spine. But with a selection of healthy Halloween treats and snacks, it's a joy, a chance to play dress-up with the kids, and parade around the neighborhood at night, greeting friends, nibbling on healthy, all natural candies, marveling at carved candle lit pumpkins and houses decorated with creepy masks and hanging skeletons.
Along with chance to play dress-up with the kids with costumes we purchased from Halloween Express, this fun holiday is an opportunity to explore natural food stores for healthier treats. These kinds of markets are well stocked with natural candies: fruit leather and licorice in many sugar-free flavors: strawberry, raspberry, apple and grape. There are plenty of vitamin C lollypops, peppermints, and fruit juice sweetened sucking candies. You will find little bags of organic pretzels, animal cookies, different flavored potato chips and corn chips, small boxes of raisins, chocolates with scary Halloween caricatures on the wrappers like ugly witches and black cats on a pumpkin.
To add to the fun, you can create your own-bagged delights from the bulk bins with all natural pretzel mixes, malt balls, chocolate covered nuts and raisins. Best of all, you can make your own organic candied apples, chocolate-dipped dried fruits, date nut treats and maple syrup sweetened chocolate chip cookie treats that kids of all ages love.
To make your own candied apples, forget the artificial red dyes and sugary caramel coatings. You can dip your apples in agave nectar or rice syrup and then roll the glazed apples in ground up graham crackers or small chunks of all natural sandwich cookies, granola, chopped up raisins, figs, dates, or calcium rich ground walnuts and almonds.
Dried sliced pineapple, pears, apricots, peaches, and oranges half dipped in chocolate are beautiful and easy to make. Simply melt dairy-free chocolate in top of a double boiler over hot (not boiling) water. Then, put a piece of dried fruit on a toothpick or dipping fork. Dip it half way into the chocolate. Swirl it around. Lift it out, and let the excess drip back into the pot. Stick the bottom of the toothpick into an apple or pear to catch the chocolate drippings, while the chocolate cools and hardens.
When making your own chocolate chip cookies, take advantage of the large assortment of chocolate and carob chips available at your local health food store: organic dark and organic white chocolate chips, vanilla chips, peanut butter chips, dairy-free espresso chocolate chips, vegan carob chips and guilt-free, sugar-free chocolate chips sweetened with malted barley. Feel free to use any of these in the cookie recipes.
Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cookies are quick, easy and fun to make. I love shaping them with my hands, but you could also use a cookie cutter.
Makes 12-18 cookies depending on how big you make them
- 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour or spelt flour
- 1/3 cup canola oil
- 1/3 cup maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 3/4 cup chocolate chips
- 1/2 teaspoon mint extract
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Put all the ingredients except the olive oil into a large bowl. Mix them together briefly with a wooden spoon; then shape them into cookies with your hands.
To use cookie cutters, flatten some batter between your hands and place it on a pastry board. Press in a cookie cutter and shake gently. Pull away the excess. Repeat till you use all the batter.
Lightly oil a cookie sheet with olive oil. Put cookies on cookie sheet. Bake 10 minutes. Let them cool before eating.
Date Nut Treats
Kids love to make and eat these.
Makes 15 walnut sized balls
- 1 cup tightly packed pitted dates
- 4 tablespoons water
- Pinch of cardamom (1/4 teaspoon, or to taste)
- 1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon, or to taste
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts
- 3 tablespoons brown rice syrup or agave nectar
- 1/3 cup almonds, ground
Put the dates in a food processor with the water, cardamom, and cinnamon. Pulse on and off until finely chopped. Taste and adjust the seasoning, adding more spices, if desired. Transfer to a small mixing bowl.
Grind walnuts in the food processor, or coarsely chop them up. Mix walnuts into the dates and shape into walnut sized balls. Drizzle on and coat with brown rice syrup or honey.
Grind almonds into a meal in the food processor. Pour ground almonds onto a cutting board or plate. Roll date nut balls in almond meal and serve or wrap up to give away.
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text: Shell of an EggAfter an egg in the shell has been eaten, many persons break or crush the empty shell. Sir Thomas Brown says this was done originally, "to prevent house-spirits from using the shell for their mischievous pranks." (Book v., chap. xxiii.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894


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DIRECTIONS TO SITE OR BEST ACCESS POINT: Use Interstate 8 to Yuma, AZ. Take the 4th Avenue exit to Imperial County Road S-24. Go north approximately 22 miles to Senator Wash Road. Turn onto Senator Wash Road and follow it for approximately 3 miles to the South Mesa campground. Turn left, then proceed straight through the campground until arrival at the directional signing which will provide directions to North Shore.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF SITE: The recreational area is approximately 60 acres in size. There are many trees of various types and several secluded camping areas both on the water and further inland. Gravel beaches provide access to the reservoir. A dump station is available at nearby at South Mesa, but requires a fee from September 15 through April 15. Boat ramp available nearby; small watercraft can be launched from shore.
FACILITIES PROVIDED: Two vault toilets are available for use. Boaters can launch at Senator Wash Boat Ramp.
FEATURES: OHV riding opportunities, fishing, camping, watchable wildlife, watercraft recreation, swimming, hiking opportunities, solitude and sightseeing.
FEES / PERMITS REQUIRED: The fee is $10 per vehicle for day-use, $15 per vehicle for overnight use, or $75 annually per vehicle for up to 5 people per vehicle. There will be a $1 per person fee charged for each person over the 5 person limit. Visitors must pay daily fees at self-registration fee pipes located at the site or at the BLM Yuma Field Office (address below). Annual permits are currently available for purchase at the Yuma Field Office.
LIMITATIONS: Maximum stay is 14 days in any 28 day period. Trash collection is not provided. Visitors must pack out their own trash. Dumpsters are located across the lake at Senator Wash boat ramp and at South Mesa campground. OHV use is limited to existing roads and trails. Please Tread Lightly.
A valid Arizona license is required for taking wildlife (including fish) in Arizona. Details are available at the Arizona Game and Fish License Page.
ACCESSIBILITY: Vault toilet access for persons with disabilities is difficult.
Yuma Field Office7341 E. 30th Street Yuma, Arizona 85365Phone: (928) 317-3200 Fax: (928) 317-3250E-mail: email@example.com Field Manager: John MacDonaldHours: 7:45 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., M-F


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"Justified" and everyone's lovable, hat-wearing bastard of a U.S. Marshal, Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), will be back for another season. FX announced yesterday that they were ordering 13 more episodes of the series, to air in 2013.
The contemporary Western/Kentucky noir was created by Graham Yost and based on a character from Elmore Leonard. It's become one of FX's signature shows and my personal favorite of their crop of high-testosterone dramas like "The Shield," Rescue Me," "Sons of Anarchy" and "Lights Out."
According to Yost: "There are many reasons all of us on 'Justified' are grateful to get a chance to do another season. We get to do more work with amazing actors, writers, producers, directors, musicians, editors and a jaw-droppingly talented crew. We get to keep doing a show that appeals to a wide demographic: people in Harlan, retired US Marshals, criminals (we honestly did hear that), and, most happily, our guide, our muse, Elmore Leonard. Best of all, we get to keep doing a show on FX (and while that may sound like craven ass-kissing, when you look at their roster, you can't help but feel grateful to be on that list)."
"Justified" is in the middle of its third season right now, with episodes airing Tuesdays at 10pm — the finale's slated for April 10. Margo Martindale won an Emmy for her role as Mags Bennett, last season's memorable antagonist, and this season sees the addition of Neal McDonough and Mykelti Williamson.
Also award-worthy? The Emmy-nominated theme song "Long Hard Times to Come," from Gangstagrass. Here's the complete track, for your hip-hop/banjo enjoyment:


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J.B. Strauss
Height: | 6-1 |
Weight: | 200 |
Year: | Sr. |
Hometown: | Macon, Ga. |
High School: | Stratford Academy |
2013: JB looks to return to action this spring season and compete in the SAA Conference Championships. After spending the majority of the fall season recovering from injury, JB looks to redeem himself in the second half of the 2013-14 season.
Pre-BSC: Played his prep career for Stratford Academy in Macon, Ga., where he played on multiple sports teams. He lettered in four different sports and made the Georgia All-State team in three of them.
Personal: Son of John Strauss and Jeanie Mays... majoring in business administration... spent much of his senior year at studying for the LSAT and is looking to continue his education in law school after graduation.


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Kalicia, 5, and Chris MacGregor, 9, get ready to launch from Pebble Beach on Friday to float the river. With summer weather in full swing in the Yampa Valley, the popularity of tubing down the Yampa River has increased.
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Sometimes its cool to just look at photos of well-dressed people. Check out these pics of these stars from events over the past few weeks.
Pharrell Williams rockin it out w/ N.E.R.D at
2008 Pemberton Music Festival
I like the sweater very eclectic & grandpa-ish
Usher's Camp New Look at the Ferst Center for the Arts
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Chris brown was in LAGOS, Nigeria. Not Laros.


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Another soundboard?! That's right!
This time, you can listen to 12 songs from the original Half-Life, compressed enough to fit into 5 MB, though they still sound good. I've tried my best to recreate the original HL menu, even the vALVE intro.
NOTE: This may take a long time to load for dial-up users.
Rated 1.5 / 5 stars
That's only.. very.. in violation of copyright, and coincidentially very, very illegal.
Actually... it's very... not in violation because I'm not distributing them. There is no money involved.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
very cool
I love the music from half-life where did you get it
I got it from my HL cd that I got in the HL1 Platinum Collection. Just popped in the cd and used Windows Media Player to get it.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Where did you get the music?
I love the music in Half-Life 2. I think it is some of the best game music ever! I'm just wondering, where did you get the music? Or, if you got it on limewire or something, are these the real names? Also, it would be really cool if you could make one for Half-Life 2!
Rated 2.5 / 5 stars
to be honest, i had no idea what to expect when i first looked at this flash. i went into it thinking, this could be either really great, or absolutely terrible. to my surprise (As i thought it would be a little on the poor side) it was actually well-done. ill give you the run down now if you dont mind:
graphics: obviously, there really wasnt anything graphically in this submission. you just left everything black and orange, aside from the half life symbol (not ironically also black and orange). i would have liked to see some different pictures or drawings or something to make it appealing to look at and listen to. it was just extremely barren with only music links.
style: not much to comment on here. you did well making the overall flash. easy on the eyes layout, nothing complicated. i liked those aspects. but still, it just was lacking in pretty much everything else. maybe more colors too? just a thought.
sound: again, its hard to say much (but you probably dont believe that from the review, do you?). you did an excellent job with the quality of the music. it came out loudly and clearly. some of them were actually pretty good and easy to listen to. to be honest, ive only seen the game played once also :P but the sound was excellent. great job here.
violence: self-explanatory. nothing.
humor: same as violence
interactivity: i did have to click to play the songs right? maybe you could throw in a cheesy game to keep people listening and occupied longer. its tough to keep this up while doing other things.
overall: i think you did a great job with what you were trying to accomplish. you got the sound to come out well and had a wide variety of songs to choose from, all with decent lengths to keep you interested. would have liked more to be in the surrounding empty space, but thats just me. actually thought this was really well made. congrats.
5/10 and 3/5. would like to see more from you soon. also, a response would be much appreciated. thanks and good luck.
Now there's a nice, in-depth REVIEW. Most people (including myself) just make 1 or 2 line comments about the flash, so this was really nice to see for a change.
Now it's time to review your review:
Graphics: ...
No, it's not. Anyway, thanks.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
I've always wanted to hear these songs without having to play the game or anything.Where do you get them!?Great soundboard thingamabobber!
Can anyone tell me where to get it!?
I got them from the HL1 cd. I put in the cd and told Windows Media Player to play it.


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A Lament Over Jessica Simpson's New Show
Our resident poet has some words of wisdom for the star of The Price of Beauty.
-Betty's Poet Laureate
Oh, what has become of our dear Miss Jess,
You've gone from lovable ditz to one hot mess.
Lately you've sent all our tummies a turning,
When on live TV you're crashing and burning.
In promoting your show, The Price of Beauty,
You've strayed off message, abandoned your duty
Here's our first lesson regarding public relations:
Talk about your new gig, not your sexual frustrations.
Read The End of American Idol?
For example, Jessica, when you appeared on The View,
The only topic discussed was boys you did or did not screw.
We concede, we did want to hear about John Mayer,
Then we did, now please move on, we no longer care.


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Explaining Inattention to Children With ADHD
"In addition to being able to block out unimportant things we see or hear, we often have to block out unimportant thoughts. When I ask you to hang up your coat, you may be busy thinking about the play date you will have with your friend. Our brain has filters to block out unrelated thoughts, so that we can focus on what we should be paying attention to. If this filter is not working, you seem to be distracted because you are focusing on other thoughts."


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On May 28, 2013, the New York Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics issued an opinion stating "that the mere status of being a 'Facebook friend,' without more, is an insufficient basis to require recusal." (Emphasis in original). The sole act of friending an individual on Facebook does not create an appearance of impropriety, nor does it allow the questioning of a judge's impartiality.
The unknown justice inquired if recusal is necessary in a criminal matter in which he or she is Facebook friends with the parents or guardians of certain minors allegedly affected by the defendant's conduct. The justice indicated that the parents are mere acquaintances and that he or she can be fair and impartial.
The Committee cited previous opinions finding that there is nothing inherently inappropriate about a judge making use of a social network. Because interpersonal relationships are unique and fact-dependent, judges must ultimately determine the nature of their relationships.
Various judicial advisory committees have weighed in on judges' use of social media, with each reaching slightly different results.
In 2011, the Oklahoma Judicial Ethics Advisory Panel issued one of the most restrictive opinions, categorically prohibiting social media "friendships" between judges and court staff, law enforcement officers, social workers, attorneys, and others who may appear in the judge's court.
Several months ago, an opinion by the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility provided judges with a great deal of latitude in their online personas. While judges should disclose information believed to be reasonably relevant to a possible motion for disqualification, the mere fact than an online relationship exists is not automatically grounds for recusal. For example, a judge might disclose a social media connection with a party, lawyer, or witness, but state "that the judge believes the connection has not resulted in a relationshop requiring disqualification." Judges must take care, however, not to publicly endorse candidates for public office by "liking" online content.
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After eating a coconut soup at a Thai restaurant, I added coconut milk in my fish chowder recipe. The fresh, simple ingredients allow the seafood to shine. —Michalene Baskett, Decatur, Georgia
51 Cozy Slow Cooker Soups
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 2 teaspoons canola oil
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 1 package (10 ounces) frozen corn
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 can (13.66 ounces) coconut milk
- 1 pound uncooked medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 1/4 cup lime juice
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro
- 1 medium ripe avocado, peeled and cubed
- In a large saucepan, saute onion in oil until tender. Add pepper. Stir in the broth, corn, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in coconut milk. Cool slightly.
- In a food processor, process soup in batches until blended. Return all to pan. Add shrimp; cook and stir over medium heat for 5-6 minutes or until shrimp turn pink. Stir in lime juice and cilantro. Garnish servings with avocado. Yield: 5 servings.
Originally published as Coconut Shrimp Chowder in Simple & Delicious
April/May 2012, p41
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Presenting some of the best and most hilarious quotes by Miss Motormouth item gal on the eve of her 34th birthday
Born on 25 November, 1978, Rakhi Sawant has a penchant for shooting off some of the most choicest and most interesting comments any time there a microphone nearby. Call her offensive, ironic, outrageous, boorish or whatever adjective you could come up with, but you cannot deny the fact that when Rakhi Sawant talks – which she does, a lot – it is plain good fun! You may not see her in a lot of movies around the year, or even too much on television, for that matter. But the badass motormouth that she is, Ms Sawant has kept us well entertained and at times astonished by the wide variety of topics she dives into and has opinions on, some informed, some off the…err…cuff.
Well this year too the loose-lipped babe did not spare a lot of people. Her firepower comments were launched with equal malice and tongue-in-cheekiness towards one and all. So be it Baba Ramdev, or Anna Hazare, arch rival Veena Mallik or even the Saif Ali Khan-Kareena Kapoor marriage, everyone got a bit of Rakhi's crackling comments. Here are a few of her more special sayings. Ready to be astonished once again?
"Jo bhagwaan nahin deta hai woh doctor deta hai"
– On cosmetic surgery
"Mujhe Saif ki neeyat kuch theek nahi lag rahi hai. Kareena toh bohot achchi ladki hai, par mujhe Saif achche nahi lagte. Mujhe unki neeya theek nahi lagti. Mujhe aisa lagta hai ke women ko who tissue paper samajte hai. I don't think zyada tikega. So after one baby maybe. Kareena deserves a better husband!"
"Agent Vinod's children are almost as old as his girlfriend"
– On the Saif-Kareena marriage
"This Diwali, two big films are releasing at the box-office! I love Shahrukh Khan, I absolutely love him because I started my career with Red Chillies Production! Shahrukh meri jaan hai. And Son of Sardaar is also releasing starring Ajay Devgn! He is the strongest, like Angry Young Man! It is a mighty clash. I want to say to everyone that please help Shahrukh and watch his film"
– On the Jab Tak Hai Jaan vs Son of Sardar controversy
"Rahul Gandhi is a good bet. Hope he sees me today as I look very beautiful in the bride's outfit."
"Like Draupadi in Mahabharata, I want to marry all 16 of the contestants because all of them are great people."
"I want my man to approach me like Salman Khan, speak to me like Aamir Khan and kiss my hand like Shahrukh Khan."
"Saas bilkul Lalita Pawar ki tarha hona chahiye. Saal bilkul spicy honi chahiyem kyunki unki bahu mein itna spice hai!"
"No, I will check all suitors properly. I will test ride them all."
– On choosing a groom for herself on the show Rakhi Ka Swayamvar
"It seems Katrina really likes me – in Chikni Chameli, she is again following me"
– On Katrina's hit item number Chikni Chameli
"Who is Shahid Kapoor's girlfriend actually? Is it Vidya Balan, is it Karena Kapoor, is it Priyanka Chopra, is it Sania Mirza or who? Same with Salman. I want to ask him who is his girlfriend out of the four or 5 girls he is seeing, and when will he make friends with Shahrukh Khan?"
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Pavano eyes epilogue to new chapter
Twins' season in hands of Pavano
Though Pavano didn't earn a decision in either of those starts, he turned in strong outings in both. On April 19 in the Bronx, the righty limited the Bombers to one run on four hits over six innings. He struck out four and walked one, tossing an economical 89 pitches and leaving in line for the victory. The Tribe bullpen, however, couldn't hold his lead.
Facing the Yankees on May 31 in Cleveland, Pavano again exited his start with a chance at the win, tossing 7 1/3 frames of three-run ball. He scattered seven hits, striking out four and walking none. "Pav was here for a long time," said Yanks shortstop and captain Derek Jeter this week. "I know he had a lot of people talking about him. The thing with Pavano is that he has great stuff. He just didn't pitch when he was here. He pitched well against us this year. His whole thing has always been his health. When he's healthy, he knows how to pitch."Tale of the Tape
Game 3 startersTwins' Carl Pavano | Yankees' Andy Pettitte | |
Overall | 33 GS, 14-12, 5.10 ERA, 39 BB, 147 Ks | 32 GS, 14-8, 4.16 ERA, 76 BBs, 148 Ks, |
Key stat | 16 walks in 73 MIN IP | 14 postseason wins |
Career | 1 GS, 0-0, 1.50 ERA | 16 GS, 6-4, 4.59 ERA |
2009 regular season | 0-0, 2 GS, 2.70 ERA | 2 GS, 1-0, 2.77 ERA |
Career | 4 GS, 0-1, 5.89 ERA | 4 GS, 0-1, 4.76 ERA |
Loves to face | Robinson Cano, 0-for-5 | Jason Kubel, 0-for-3, RBI |
Hates to face | Mark Teixeira, 2-for-6, 1 HR, 5 RBI | Joe Mauer, 4-for-10, 1 HR, 2 RBI |
Why he'll win | Revenge on former team | Unflappable in postseason |
Pitcher beware | Must shut down lefties | Can't get by on stuff alone |
Bottom line | Needs to go deep into the game | Must hit spots |
After signing a four-year, $39.95 million contract with the Yankees in 2005, Pavano won only nine times in 26 starts. The impetus for signing Pavano was his World Series work with the Marlins against the Yankees in '03, when the right-hander made a start and a relief appearance, allowing one run and eight hits in nine innings. The Yanks lost that series in six games.
"I mean, it's tough," Pavano said. "It's definitely a black period in my career -- four years where I was kind of just treading water for awhile there. But obviously, with the way this year has gone, I have been able to go out there with sustained health and be successful. I got through the year, and everything has come full circle. I'm getting a start in the playoffs, I can't ask for much more than that." This season, a healthy Pavano went 14-12, 5-4 with the Twins. "He's been great for us, a veteran pitcher," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said before Friday's Game 2 at Yankee Stadium. "Coming over in August, we had a bunch of young guys who went to him. Having him sit and talk with even my young catcher, Jose Morales, has helped him out, as well as some of the young pitchers. Just the leadership you get from a guy who's been there and done it has been very, very important." Pavano's Yankees ills ranged from shoulder tendinitis to back stiffness to Tommy John elbow ligament replacement surgery during the 2007 season, after he couldn't pitch at all in '06. It's no wonder that when Pavano was introduced along with the rest of the team before the Twins' 7-2 Game 1 loss, he was lustily booed by the crowd of 49,464. Pavano was emblematic of a five-year Yankees era in which the player payroll of about $200 million a year produced not a single postseason series victory. Last year, the club missed the playoffs for the only time since the strike-shortened 1994 season. "There are definitely guys over there that I am fond of who I enjoyed playing with, but that was a frustrating time," Pavano said. "There were a lot of good times, but there were a lot of frustrating times that always stand out a lot more. I am thankful I got another opportunity after that to get back to where I was before all the frustrating times." Gardenhire was so chagrined by Pavano's Game 1 reception that he went over to him and gave him a hug."He got booed really bad," Gardenhire said. "I just told him he needed some love. He laughed and said, 'Thanks.'"
As the Twins surged to win the AL Central with 17 wins in their final 21 regular-season games, Pavano was a big contributor. Down the stretch, Pavano made seven starts and was 2-1 in his final three, winning at home against the Royals on the last day of the regular season. That 13-4 victory set up the one-game tiebreaker that the Twins won over the Tigers in 12 innings at the Dome on Tuesday. "It's a big game," Gardenhire said. "[Pavano] has faced them when he was with Cleveland, so it's not like it's the first time. They come back as well as any team in the game. It's the playoffs and it's the Yankees, and I would say from here on out, it's a must-win situation."Barry M. Bloom is a national reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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NEW YORK — Anticipating heavy traffic at its bridges and tunnels this holiday weekend, the Port Authority is deploying a full complement of toll collectors and urging motorists to allow extra time to reach their destinations.
The Port Authority is projecting 3.2 million travelers will use its crossings, including the George Washington Bridge and the Lincoln Tunnel, over the weekend.
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Monroe County legislator Ted O'Brien, D-Irondequoit, says he's the underdog in the New York Senate District 55 campaign against Assemblyman Sean Hanna, R-Mendon. He's outspent and has been targeted by two out-of-state groups.
The latest mailer, sent by Virginia group Common Sense Principles, is especially bruising.
"Ted O'Brien betrayed New York women by siding with a judge accused of sexual harassment," the mailer states. O'Brien said it hit local homes this weekend.
Common Sense Principles has not responded to repeated requests for comment about who they are and why they are involved in the SD 55 race. O'Brien said he sent his nephew to the address listed on the mailer, and only found a process server where thousands of other corporate entities used as an address.
The incident the group refers to happened in 1999, and did not result in any criminal charges.
O'Brien said his two young daughters have been questioned in school about the attacks against their father.
"We've used it as an opportunity to talk to our own kids about how to deal with bullies, this really is a bullying campaign," O'Brien said in a meeting with the Democrat and Chronicle Editorial Board Tuesday.
The Fair Election Practices Committee, a local bipartisan group that reviews election materials for fairness, has called other mailers by Common Sense Principles false.
Hanna has repudiated the mailers — legally these groups can have no coordination with the candidates they support.
O'Brien said that if the tables were turned and the mailers were being sent out on his behalf, "I'd tell them to cut it out," O'Brien said.
But, as it turns out, it's even illegal for a candidate to directly tell a independent committee to stop sending out mailers on his or her behalf, said David Primo, an expert in campaign finance with the University of Rochester.
"That would be coordination, and activities cannot be coordinated," Primo said. "Though there's a lack of clarity about exactly what that means."
A candidate can, however, make general statements to the media about ads sent on his or her behalf, but even the wording of such a statement could be enough to get a candidate in trouble, Primo said, although the Federal Election Commission rarely issues sanctions for such things.


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I'd keep one of the FX f/2.8 zooms lenses if I were to make this decision assuming you have the any of the 14-24, 24-70 or 70-200.
With so many people with quality cameras out there these days, a lot of quality pictures stems from being at the right place at the right time or from having work opportunities.
I don't see any attempt from manufacturers to try to have the DX sensors equal the D3/D700 sensor for at least 2 iterations after this current 24MP sensor. If there is one thing I'd envy with the D300 compared to the D5100, it would be the low-light autofocus. Maybe an SB-400 update with a small but much better autofocus assist lamp compared to one found on cameras would work for me.


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Apparently, Agnes had Clare, in Manitoba, then went to Winnipeg to work. Her Mother looked after the child until the nuns came and took her to an orphanage in St Albert, Saskatchewan. We don't know if her name was changed, but we have never been able to find her!
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New Delhi: With student protesters turning violent at Raisina Hill, Union Minister RPN Singh on Saturday appealed to young protesters to show restraint and assured them that strictest action would be meted out to the accused in the paramedical student gang rape case. "We have assured on floor of the House and on every platform possible that strictest action will be taken against accused. Police has been asked to show restraint but I want to tell boys and girls breaking barrierswon't help," the Minister of State for Home Affairs said.
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Police displays brutal force on protesters
Delhi rape case: Sixth accused held in Bihar
No courage to meet rape victim: Delhi CM
As the students marched towards Rashtrapati Bhavan, police erected barricades at the Vijay Chowk near South and North Blocks which house Home Ministry, Defence Ministry and Prime Minister's Office.
Police fired teargas shells and used water cannons to disperse hundreds of young students who were protesting for the second consecutive day at the high-security zone demanding justice for the 23-year-old gang rape victim.
Police action came as 'negotiations' failed at the Raisina Hill leading to Rashtrapati Bhavan failed and the protesters, comprising largely young women and men, tried to breach the barricades to push towards the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
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Antialiased oscillator?
I'm using different oscillators in Max: cycle~, tri~, saw~,..
Although they are antialiased, I still get very weird noises in the upper range. Does anyone else have this problem too?
I uploaded a short .wav on wetransfer to state the problem:
tri~, an antialiased oscillator is used. The problem in the high register is also audible in the tri~ help file.
it… sounds very different from what it sounds like on my system.
How did you record it? What's your Max audio settings? Which other objects are in the audio path?
It sounds really boosted in the low end, and the high notes are really hard to hear. On my system I *do* get banding going up there, at around 4khz I hear one really clearly, and at 8khz there's some somewhat loud sidebands as well, and going upwards from there it gets worse…but never as problematic as in your sound, and never as low-pitched.
I'm sorry…I forgot to eliminate the low-pass filter. The problem is however even more clear without it:
Probably there is something wrong in my patch, the tri~ help patch does sound better, but still with banding as you mention. Is there a way to solve this?
share your patch, otherwise no one can really help you without guessing a whole lot. This also sounds different than on my machine… Audiofiles aren't a help beyond stating that you have banding in your sounds.
actually, I take that back: it sounds like you're overdriving your output.
yes, actually my patch isn't the issue. I will be able to solve the problem.
The "real" problem is the fact that the Max oscillators have sidebands at around 4 Khz.
there is probably no solution for this..?
while cycle has interpolation, it is _not bandlimited like the other two you mentioned.
The "real" problem is the fact that the Max oscillators have sidebands at around 4 Khz.
Well, no, I'm saying tri~ sounds nothing like your sample on my machine – it honestly does sound like you're introducing odd harmonics, **which is why I asked about your patch**.
you can also see the sidebands in the tri~ help comparison thing.
And have you tried hipass-filtering below your fundamental?
Also, have you read about nyquist yet? tri~ generates very high frequency harmonics if you set your fundamental to 4khz, of course those will fold to some degree.
Hello again, I didn't notice your reply up till now. I know there was a problem in my patch. The "official" tri~ helppatch does sound very good, but even there I can still hear weard things in the high register, although of course not as obvious as my patch.
I'm not at home at the moment, I will do some research about nyquist and get back to you this evening, thanks for your help!
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27 November 2012 Last updated at 11:43 GMT
The Association of British Insurers has said thousands of people living in flood risk areas may be unable to get insurance next year, because the government has refused to provide funding to make premiums affordable.
Aidan Kerr from the Association of British Insurers told BBC Breakfast that a flood insurance fund was viable solution.
The Chair of the Flood Protection Association, which represents flood victims, Mary Dhonau, said the floods have had a devastating effect on local communities.


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STILLWATER, Okla. (AP)—Byron Eaton scored 23 points and Marshall Moses added 14 points and 18 rebounds Saturday as Oklahoma State beat Baylor 84-74.
The Cowboys (17-9, 6-6 Big 12) also got 20 points from James Anderson.
Tweety Carter scored a season-high 30 points for Baylor (16-10, 4-8), and Kevin Rogers added 11 as the Bears lost for the seventh time in eight games.
A 4-point play by Carter with 7:19 remaining gave the Bears a 64-63 lead, but Oklahoma State outscored Baylor 20-11 the rest of the way.
The Cowboys' closing run was fueled by Eaton, who drained a 3-pointer and converted a lay-up in traffic.
Oklahoma State hit just 6-of-18 from 3-point range, but converted 28-of-33 free throws and outrebounded Baylor 39-30.
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Vishwaroopam Release: A festive time for Kamal Hassan fans
Kamal Hassan's fans were never this upset in recent years (owing to Vishwaroopam's ban in the state!). What had hurt them the most is that the film was released in other parts of the nation after going through initial problems but not in Tamil Nadu. While some of the ardent fans visited neighbouring states Kerala and Karnataka to watch the film, few others eagerly waited for the film to hit the screens in Tamil Nadu itself without any other option.
The fans in Tamil Nadu waited for the release with bated breathe after the film got thumbs up from critics, and audience from other parts of India and world. However, after getting delayed for various issues for close to a month, the film is finally appearing before the Tamil Nadu audience today (February 7) and that has led to a festive atmosphere in the state.
Huge cut-outs and posters of Kamal Hassan are seen in front of many theatres throughout Tamil Nadu. Fans are leaving no stone unturned to show their love on the Universal Star.
Vishwaroopam is releasing in more than 500 screens and it is expected to reach 600 in the coming days. Their appears to be a huge demand for the tickets in every part of the state. Especially in Chennai, advance booking got massive response as tickets were sold in no time in many single screens and multiplexes. Theatre owners have hence increase the number of screens to meet the demand. It is the same case outside Chennai too, as the tickets for the next four days have been in huge demand.


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Saturday, 21 March 2009
Burka Blue: Afghanistan's first female band
Over at Slacker Chic, Mrs M makes this extraordinary find: Afghanistan's only all-female musical group, The Burka Band.
It's amazing how art finds expression under the most oppressive circumstances. The music has a hypnotic almost dopey effect parodying the internal world these women are expected to have. "My burka it is blue". How safe is that? And yet ...
Strangely subversive. Brilliant.
UPDATE: CSM suspects this is a clever scamming work of satire by an equivalent of The Flying Lizards. I say print the legend.
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- Ali Ben Salem, aged 78, continued to be harassed and intimidated by the authorities because of his human rights work and as a founding member of several human rights organizations, including the National Council for Liberties in Tunisia and the Association against Torture in Tunisia. He also hosts in his home the Bizerte regional office of the Tunisian League for Human Rights. State Security officers continued to be permanently posted in front of his house, and his telephone lines and internet access were cut. He was under constant surveillance and physically prevented from attending meetings on human rights. He continued to be denied a free health care card and a passport and so could not receive the medical treatment that he requires for serious back and heart ailments.
- Human rights activist and journalist Zouheir Makhlouf was released in February; he had been arrested in October 2009 and sentenced in connection with a documentary film about pollution in the Nabeul industrial area in north-east Tunisia. In April, eight police officers visited him and said he was under arrest. They beat him in front of his wife and children when he asked to see the arrest warrant, then detained him for seven hours at a police station. He had bruises and a broken nose when released. He was again beaten in December by a man in plain clothes believed to be a police officer after he left his home to report on unrest in Sidi Bouzid region.
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In January, during a visit to Tunisia, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism criticized the Anti-terrorism Law of 2003. He urged the government to amend the law's over-broad definition of "terrorism" and to restrict the law's application so as to exclude those who have been improperly convicted of "terrorism".
- Seifallah Ben Hassine continued to be held in isolation at Mornaguia Prison near Tunis. He had been held in isolation since 2007, far beyond the 10 days permitted under Tunisian law. He was convicted in 2003 under the Anti-terrorism Law and Military Justice Code, and was a defendant in six separate trials, including four before the Tunis Military Court. His six sentences totalled 68 years in prison to be served consecutively. He was arrested while travelling in Turkey where he says he was held incommunicado for a month and tortured before being forcibly returned to Tunisia.
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- Faten Hamdi, a reporter with Radio Kalima, unauthorized to broadcast in Tunisia, was attacked in February by two plain-clothes police officers in Tunis. The officers tried to force her into their car and hit her in the face, but she managed to get away.
Women judges who were among the ousted leadership of the Association of Tunisian Judges and had called for the independence of the judiciary faced continued harassment.
- Kalthoum Kennou was transferred from Kairouan to Tozeur against her will instead of being returned to her home town of Tunis. Other judges faced salary cuts without warning and denial of promotion.
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I'll Have Another: out to repeat Kentucky Derby win in Preakness Stakes
PICTURE: EquiSport Photos/Matt WooleyBodemeister favourite for Preakness after draw
USA: Kentucky Derby runner-up Bodemeister has been made morning-line favourite in the States to exact revenge on Churchill Downs conqueror I'll Have Another in Saturday's Preakness Stakes at Pimlico in Baltimore.
Pimlico odds compiler Frank Carulli makes Bodemeister his 8-5 market leader after the Bob Baffert-trained colt was drawn in gate seven of an 11-runner field for the second leg of the Triple Crown.
Derby winner I'll Have Another, a 5-2 chance on the indicative morning line, is unbeaten in three this year. He starts from gate nine as he bids to confirm the form of his length-and-a-half victory at Churchill Downs.
"I thought the draw was really good," said trainer Doug O'Neill. "I'm very happy with that. Being outside of the legitimate speed, most jockeys would be real happy with that."
Mike Smith and Bodemeister set sharp fractions in the Kentucky Derby before faltering close home; the Preakness is a half-furlong shorter.
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Baffert, who is chasing his sixth Preakness victory, was happy with Bodemeister's draw. "I think it's a good post," he said.
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#1 Polish far-right's 'no gay sex' logo sparks anger11-23-2011, 10:13 PMPolish gay rights campaigners on Wednesday denounced a court ruling that allowed a far-right movement to formally register a homophobic symbol as one of its logos.
"Such symbols tap directly into fascist, neo-facist and xenophobic traditions, and intolerance," Robert Biedron, a top campaigner and newly-elected lawmaker from the left-wing opposition, told reporters.
Biedron, who is Poland's first openly-gay member of parliament, urged the justice ministry to step in.
In a little-noticed decision at the end of October, a court allowed the small National Rebirth of Poland (NOP) party to register two symbols.
One was the Celtic cross, used by far-right movements internationally, while the other was a stylized illustration of gay sex with a bar through it.
The NOP trumpeted the court ruling on its website earlier this week, saying it capped a two-year legal battle.
Grzegorz Schetyna, a senior player in Poland's ruling centrist Civic Platform, accused the judge who made the ruling of failing in his duties.
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The NOP turns out regularly to oppose gay rights rallies in Poland.
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Do you have a source to support this because the owners are talking about lowering existing contracts under the new NBA. I'm not sure how rookies who have yet to sign would somehow be invincible to CBA renegotiation, especially seeing how they probably would not have signed contracts before the CBA ended.
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The Triton women have placed in the top five in the NCAA Championships three out of the last eight years. 2009 proved to be a banner year for UCSD on the women's side as Ahner led the Tritons to several meet victories, including a fifth consecutive California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) title. Two Tritons went on to win individual national titles in their events, paving the way for an unprecedented third-place team finish at the NCAA Championships and a final ranking of No. 2 in the U.S. Track and Field Coaches Association National Power Rankings. In 2016, Ahner was appointed to the coaching staff of USA Track & Field (USATF) for the Pan Am Combined Events Cup in Ottawa, Canada.
Ahner, who also serves as an assistant with the men's program, has over 25 years of college coaching experience, including 16 seasons on the La Jolla campus. She served as associate head coach for both the men's and women's teams in 2006 and 2007 and was an assistant coach for both squads from 2000-05. Known as one of the nation's most talented and versatile collegiate track and field coaches, Ahner's successes have spanned all three NCAA divisions.
Ahner joined the staff at UCSD in 2000 after nine years as an assistant coach at the Division I level. She spent seven seasons at her alma mater, the University of New Mexico, coaching the jumps and multi-events. While at New Mexico, Ahner's athletes dominated the high jump in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), as four different athletes won four consecutive WAC championships. Seven athletes achieved individual WAC titles in seven years and four broke school records. During her tenure, seven athletes qualified for the NCAA Division I Championships, producing one All-American.
After her stint at New Mexico, Ahner spent two seasons coaching jumps, hurdles and multi-events at Northern Arizona University, where four of her athletes were NCAA Division I qualifiers, including an All-American in the heptathlon. Five athletes achieved Big Sky Conference individual titles, while three set new school records.
Ahner's first 13 years at UCSD have seen her athletes rewrite the Triton record books in the men's and women's jumps, hurdles and multi-events as 10 out of the 12 records have been set by athletes during her coaching tenure. Her athletes have won a remarkable 47 CCAA individual conference titles and 26 have earned All-American honors. Under Ahner's guidance, Tritons have won four individual NCAA National Championships, and three were second place runners up, including Champions, Whitney Johnson in 2008 (triple jump), Christine Merrill in 2009 (400 hurdles) and Linda Rainwater in 2008 (heptathlon) and 2009 (high jump). Ahner has been selected as both the CCAA Coach of the Year and the NCAA West Region Women's Coach of the Year twice and the Tritons were named a USTFCCCA Academic All-American Team in 2009-2012 and 2016.
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Sunday, July 22, 2007
Memorial of St. Mary Magdalene
This morning, as our lectio, let us consider the first eight verses of the sixteenth chapter of St. Mark's Gospel. Mark was the first of the canonical Gospels to be written, probably in Rome, shortly after 70 AD. These eight verses from Mark 16 constitute the original ending of this Gospel. It is easy to see how this ending might be found unsatisfactory and how it prompted a later, different, more humanly satisfying ending to this Gospel (i.e., verses 9-20), which is the most succinct account of the life, death, and resurrection of "Jesus Christ (the Son of God)" (Mk 1,1).
This is mostly taken from my lecture last Thursday.
Mark 16,1-8:
"When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go and anoint him. Very early when the sun had risen, on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb. They were saying to one another, 'Who will roll back the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?' When they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back; it was very large. On entering the tomb they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a white robe, and they were utterly amazed. He said to them, 'Do not be amazed! You seek Jesus of Nazareth, the crucified. He has been raised; he is not here. Behold the place where they laid him. But go and tell his disciples and Peter, "He is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him, as he told you." Then they went out and fled from the tomb, seized with trembling and bewilderment. They said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid."
As a reflection let's consider a brief passage from pages 12-13 of the book Embracing Travail: Retrieving the Cross Today, by Dr. Cynthia Crysdale, a professor at the Catholic University of America. In these pages she takes up Mark's account when the women arrive "at the tomb on the first of the week ready to anoint the body, only to discover that it is gone." Crysdale asks, "Where is the salvation here? What is the theme of death and resurrection for these women?" Because, unlike the twelve, including Judas Iscariot, they did not betray or abandon Jesus during his passion and death, the meaning for these women "is not that of betrayal and subsequent forgiveness." In this encounter with the empty tomb it is not possible for them to discover "themselves as culpable murderers." Rather, just as they did as Jesus hung on the cross, at the empty tomb "they are 'looking on from a distance.'" Their response is a typically human one, they try to go back to doing to what they have always done, which, according to Dr. Crysdale, is to "take concrete care-taking action." But their encounter, their discovery of this world-changing, cosmic, event allows them no such comfort.
What this encounter with the empty grave forces them to do is to confront their powerlessness as sufferers of evil. "The moment of truth for these women," we learn, comes "when they must confront the dissolution of themselves, of their false assumptions." This moment comes precisely when they discover the empty grave. This is where we take up Mark 16,8: "This terse ending," Crysdale continues, "has baffled many for years" and "reveals how shocking this encounter must have been for these women" (pg 12)
"The possibility of resurrection challenged these women's powerlessness, as well as their traditional ways of coping. In watching the crucifixion these women had to come to terms with their own impotence in the face of evil. In the resurrection of Jesus this lack of power could be transformed. What also had to be transformed, however, was the women's traditional roles as 'copers' with evil (they were not able, after all, to anoint Jesus). They were confronted with the possibility of being true Selves, and this possibility was both exhilarating and terrifying. Whatever their response, new life was offered to these women not as a forgiveness of sins but as a freedom from powerlessness." (pgs 12-13)
Christ's resurrection, which for us is experienced both as a forgiveness of sins and as a liberation from powerlessness, also confronts us with the possibility of becoming our true Selves, of becoming the persons who God, out of the greatest love and the deepest goodness, made us and invites us to become in Christ. Therefore, today let's consider what it is that holds us back from becoming who the resurrected Lord beckons us to become- which is who we really are.
St. Mary Magdalene, apostola apostolorum - pray for us!
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I've got to balance out a 'yeah but' post with some praise. Thanks for the nice post on Saint Mary Magdalene including the lecture link.
From a sermon given by Pope St. Gregory the Great...
We should reflect on Mary's attitude and the great love she felt for Christ; for though the disciples had left the tomb, she remained. She was still seeking the One she had not found, and while she sought she wept; burning with the fire of love, she longed for Him Who she thought had been taken away. And so it happened that the woman who stayed behind to seek Christ was the only one to see Him. For perseverance is essential to any good deed, as the voice of truth tell us: "Whoever perseveres to the end will be saved."
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Swami Harinanda was taught or told personally by Ramana Marharshi to never accept payment and as Swami Harinanda would always say, Ramana Maharshi is never wrong.
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