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LOS ANGELES -- Yesterday completed Dodgers right fielder Yasiel Puig's first full year in the major leagues. Today, he took the lead among National League outfielders in All-Star voting and earned NL Player of the Month honors for May.
And Sunday will likely mark his 162nd MLB game. Let's just call this the week of Puig.
It's all a far cry from the stories surrounding the 23-year-old Cuban when he showed up late to the Dodgers' home opener two months ago tomorrow and was benched.
Ironically, he was also late to batting practice before tonight's 7:10 p.m. game against the Chicago White Sox. But he had something of an excuse and won't be benched, as the Dodgers warmed up earlier than normal.
"I don't think he quite understands the system today," Manager Don Mattingly said.
Still, Puig's late arrival -- by something like 10 or 15 minutes, less than last time -- is a reminder that for all the growing he's done in the last year, there's still more to do.
Carrying a .340 average, 11 homers and a team-high 40 RBI, Puig is hitting third tonight against Chicago right-hander Hector Noesi.
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Adam Eaton CF
Gordon Beckham 2B
Jose Abreu 1B
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Alexei Ramirez SS
Conor Gillaspie 3B
Dayan Viciedo RF
Tyler Flowers C
Hector Noesi P
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Hanley Ramirez SS
Adrian Gonzalez 1B
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MEXICO CITY, MEXICO—The remains of more than 400 animal species, including fish from coral reefs, crocodiles, snakes, turtles, toucans, quetzals, and jaguars have been identified in 60 offerings found at the complex of the Great Temple of Tenochtitlán. The animals appear to have been prepared to be left in the temple so that they would maintain their shape with intact skin. "Such fauna has been found in sacrifices to the rain god Tlaloc and to Huitzilopochtli, god of war, from the fourth to the seven stages (1440-1520) of the Great Temple's construction. The animals are always exotic species, spectacularly beautiful, or with rough, spiny hides, sometimes dangerous or venomous," said Norma Valentin Maldonado of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History.
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Size26 m²
Floor No.0
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Address | Pogrelzstr, 1220 Wien, Austria |
Property type | Private room |
Property ID | PKKVKFSQ |
Acceptance rate | 89% |
Response time | A few hours |
Calendar updated | 3 days ago |
The large, bright guest rooms located on the ground floor of our row house in Kagran.
The house is located near the Alte Donau recreation area and close to the Danube Island.
The U 1 will take you quickly and directly to Stephen's or Charles Square.
On the ground floor of our small row house is located, except the guest room, the small guest bathroom, common kitchen with private fridge for guests and 2 terraces.
The guest room is large and spacious - with direct access to the terrace.
Water and electricity are included in the room price, Bed linen (beds are coated before arrival) and towels are also included. The bed has now a new mattress.
The cleaning fee applies to cleaning after leave, and weekly cleaning.
Washer and dryer can be used at an extra charge of 2 €.
The room has TV and DV/VHS Player as well as WLAN and is a beautiful, quiet and convenient place to stay.
With use of the kitchen, there are pots, dishes, herbs, oil and little things needed as well as a dishwasher.
If you have questions, just contact me.
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- Arrival and departure times by appointment.- Non smoking household, but there is no problem smoking
- Children welcome, suitable for small families.
- Household with cats, therefore not suitable for guests with dogs or cats and people with allergy!!
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Weekly rate for up to 2 guests | $ 294 US |
Monthly rate for up to 2 guests | $ 757 US |
Price for > 2 guests | $ 6 US per guest/night extra |
Details |
Maximum nights | 2 months |
Check-in after | 6 PM |
Check-in before | On arrangement |
Check-out before | Noon |
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Very kind, friendly hosts and homey atmosphere. Spacious, clean room full of plants. In the house also live cats who love fawning. The kitchen is well equipped.The neighborhood is very calm. To the bus stop is five minutes and the Bila supermarket is a few steps away.
Just perfect!
We have enjoyed the time!
Nice room, nice terrace, nice bathroom, love landlord!
Einfach perfekt!
Wir haben die Zeit sehr genossen!
Schönes Zimmer, nette Terrasse, schönes Bad, liebe Vermieter!
I personally liked this room a lot. The connectivity was good from this place. It was near to VIC (15-20 minutes). Even you can walk to station kagran where you had best shopping mall of the vienna city. The Metro connectivity is also very good.
Apart from this, they are very very good Host. I loved their company. They provide all possible help.They where very very helpful to me.
Gans was quiet surroundings, so slept well, but the bed / mattress was bad. Very friendly owners who have ourselves met at the airport. Room was cozy and clean. We were pleased.
Gans ruhig war die Umgebung, Deshalb gut geschlafen, aber das Bett/Matratze war schlecht. Sehr freundliche Eigentümer, die haben uns selbst abgeholt vom Flughafen. Zimmer war gemütlich eingerichtet und sauber. Wir waren zufrieden.
The accommodation was as stated and hoped for, very quiet, with the public one is but fast in the city center. Extra tip for cabaret friends: The "Orpheum" is within easy walking distance!
The room is really big and "rooming green" also refers to the institution itself.
The "cons" (rather small guest bathroom, no TV) were already in the
Description given so that you can live.
Most importantly: The interaction with the hosts was reckless and trusting and completely straightforward, thank you !!
Die Unterkunft war, wie angegeben und erhofft, sehr ruhig gelegen, mit den Öffentlichen ist man aber schnell in der Innenstadt. Extratipp für Kleinkunstfreunde:Das "Orpheum" ist in bequemer Laufentfernung!
Das Zimmer ist wirklich sehr groß und "Rooming green" bezieht sich auch auf die Einrichtung selbst.
Die "Nachteile" (eher kleines Gästebad, kein Fernseher) waren ja bereits in der
Beschreibung angegeben, damit lässt es sich leben.
Das Wichtigste: Das Miteinander mit den Gastgebern war rücksichts- und vertrauensvoll und gänzlich unkompliziert, vielen Dank!!
First look at the location of the place and the description. When you take that into account, you should be very satisfied with the room. The room was spacious and clean, so was the common kitchen, the bathroom was small but otherwise comfortable. It is located in a new developement with interesting spatial layout and quiet. A Billa market is within walking distance.
Very nice host
Great room
totally uncomplicated
Sehr netter Gastgeber
Tolles Zimmer
total unkompliziert
excellent solution for a leisurely stay in Vienna. the house is located 100 m from the bus which then leads to an underground station and from there go everywhere. there is a supermarket just in front of home. He lives on the ground floor where there is a large room with a relaxing atmosphere, with two double beds, wardrobes and bedside tables. another room where a single bed. private bathroom with shower, while the kitchen with every kind of convenience is common. garage for bicycles and cars. Internet .Laila and Gerard are very hospitable, kind and reserved. we thoroughly enjoyed it!
ottima soluzione per un soggiorno di piacere a Vienna. la casa si trova a 100 m dalla fermata del bus che poi porta alla fermata della metro e da li vai dappertutto. c'è un supermercato proprio difronte a casa. si vive al piano terra dove si trova una grande stanza dall'atmosfera rilassante, con due letti matrimoniali, armadi e comodini. un'altra stanza dove si trova un letto singolo. il bagno privato con doccia, mentre la cucina con ogni tipo di comodità è comune. garage per biciclette e posti auto. connessione internet .Laila e Gerard sono molto ospitali, gentili e riservati. siamo stati molto bene!
Wir haben uns sofort wie zuhause gefühlt. Ein sehr großzügiges, schön eingerichtetes Zimmer und gegenüber gleich die Küche sowie das eigene Bad waren fast wie eine eigene Ferienwohnung.
Die Küche ist - wie in jedem guten Haushalt - kommunikatives Zentrum, meistens waren wir aber allein dort. Die Katzen haben uns auch gleich akzeptiert, was für uns das Tüpfelchen auf dem I war. Unsere Fahrräder konnten wir sicher abstellen.
Wenn wir mal wieder Wien erkunden möchten, dann werden wir gerne wieder bei Leila und ihrem Mann anklopfen.
P.S.: Ja, eine leere Katzenfutterdose stand auch einmal in der Küche - um sie in den entsprechenden Müll zu sortieren.
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text: At UNC, "One Of The Worst Academic Fraud Cases In American History" Has Been Traced Back To One GuyIsaac Rauch2/09/13 12:00pmFiled to: Death to the ncaaUnc academic fraudNorth Carolina Tar Heelsacademic standardsjulius peppersCollege SportsNewsSportsAppic27EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink The University of North Carolina's academic fraud scandal has deepened and widened, and local officials have done the sensible thing in locating a fall guy. A brief refresher on why they need one: In December, an investigation officially found what had seemed probable from Julis Peppers' unintentionally public transcript: That many students, but particularly student-athletes, had received GPA-boosting grades in essentially bogus classes. They were passing despite being dramatically beneath the academic standards (as in, suffering from "serious literacy deficits") that ostensibly prevail at UNC. Former North Carolina Governor Jim Martin led an investigation into UNC that turned up a lone solid mitigating factor for UNC's administration and athletic department: some "athletic officials and academic support officials" had "raised questions with the Faculty Committee on Athletics" about these easy-A classes in the past. Earlier this month, Martin and his team of investigators retracted that finding. So, a scapegoat is in order, and they found a guy. Well, not literally. He couldn't be reached for comment and it's not clear whether and to what extent he's still affiliated with the university. But they picked a guy. UNC officials are saying that, like the device in the Superdome that was designed to stop blackouts and which caused the blackout, the director of academic support for athletes, Robert Mercer, was supporting athletes academically by failing to confirm that their independent study classes had any academic merit: Advertisement Advertisement The lack of tracking is doubly troubling. Today, UNC-CH is grappling with one of the worst academic fraud cases ever found at an American university after discovering that since 1997, the chairman of the African and Afro-American Studies Department and his assistant had converted scores of lecture-style classes into independent studies that had heavy enrollment of athletes.Mercer, according to a report commissioned by UNC-CH, was one of four officials with athletics ties who contended that he and John Blanchard, a senior associate athletic director, raised concerns about the classes to the faculty athletics committee in 2002 and 2006. That report, by former Gov. Jim Martin and the Baker Tilly management consulting firm, accepted their claims.If Mercer was concerned about those classes, why wasn't he tracking independent studies as he had been asked?"That should have been followed up on," UNC-CH Chancellor Holden Thorp said. "I wish it had been, because we would have caught all of this stuff."Mercer could not be reached for comment. In August, he was quietly moved from the director's post to a position outside of the academic support program.That dang Mercer fella! If only he had been a little more conscientious, the University of North Carolina wouldn't have tacitly supported sham classes at a bogus shadow institution for the last decade and a half, a practice that helped net the university untold millions in endorsements, booster donations, and brand awareness. Somebody find that guy!Previously: UNC Academic Scandal Continues, Reportedly Tolerated Cheating Sponsored Athletics Official Never Checked Independent Study Classes [Charlotte Observer]Reply27 repliesLeave a reply


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Ducks four-lorn after shutout loss to Sharks
SAN JOSE – Brutal starts have become commonplace for the Ducks during their recent downward spell and nothing at HP Pavilion on Wednesday night changed that pattern.
The Ducks allowed three first-period goals to San Jose and fell meekly, 4-0, in taking their season-high fourth consecutive defeat. All of this comes after going the first 27 games without consecutive regulation losses.
Joe Pavelski, Patrick Marleau and Brent Burns all put shots past Ducks goalie Jonas Hiller in the first 9:20 of the game. The Ducks (22-7-4) last won at home against Chicago seven days ago but now head to the Windy City to face the Blackhawks.
Instead of resting after a four-hour flight, the Ducks will work into the early evening to find a solution to their early-game woes.
"We knew that they were going to be coming," Hiller said. "We're just not ready again. I don't know. I wish we would know what the issue is. All the games we lost lately, we're just not ready in the first."
The Ducks offered little resistance as they failed to put anything of quality in terms of shots on San Jose netminder Antti Niemi, when they were actually able to get shots through. They've allowed nine first-period goals in these four defeats.
"You can't get behind consistently and constantly, 2-0 and 3-0 or 1-0 in the first period and expect to come back in this league," Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said. "Not at this time when every team we play is a desperate team. They know that.
"They've got to be ready from the get-go. It just has to stop. This has to stop."
Niemi stopped 22 shots for his 21st career shutout. Hiller made 25 saves as the Ducks were blanked for just the second time, the other occurring in the home opener against Vancouver.
Tommy Wingels put the finishing touches on the Sharks' home-and-home sweep of the Ducks with a shorthanded goal in the third period.
"We've got certain guys that are working their (rears) off and then we have continually a lot of the same passengers every night," Boudreau said. "Those passengers, we (need to) rely on.
"The guys that aren't playing well, we rely on them heavily because we were a 20-man team when we were successful. We can't do it with 10 or 12."
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Today's big release on Blu-Ray is one of director Brian De Palma's best and weirdest movies, the glam rock musical "Phantom of the Paradise" by Shout! Factory. A riff on"The Phantom of the Opera" (with more than a few dashes of "Faust" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray"), the film is a slap against the music industry that wronged the film's composer, Paul Williams, and, by proxy, the film industry that meddled with De Palma's "Get to Know Your Rabbit." As an added bonus, it features the single funniest reference to Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" in film history. Special features include three hours of interviews (including one moderated by Guillermo Del Toro), two commentaries, and a making-of documentary.
On the new releases front, the best option is most likely Mike Flanagan's horror film "Oculus," a creepy chamber drama about a woman who tries to convince her brother that their parents' deaths were caused by a haunted mirror. If horror's not your genre, you could always see what the fuss is over the latest YA novel adaptation "Divergent," or see if the Aaron Paul-starring video game adaptation "Need for Speed" is better than the reviews suggested. They're both better bets than the latest Christian panic film "God's Not Dead," or the poorly received comedy "Ping Pong Summer." And while Richie Mehta directed our first Sleeper of the Week, "Siddharth," his other film this year, "I'll Follow You Down" (starring Haley Joel Osment and Gillian Anderson), found mostly lousy reviews as well.
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In recent years, few American genre films have managed the extreme spookiness found in many of their overseas brethren. Even while "Oculus" plays by the book in individual moments, it manages to invent a shrewder context for the events in question. It's not the scenes that matter so much as the way they do (and don't) fit together. It uses subjectivity like a weapon. By contrast, last year's generally well-liked haunted house effort "The Conjuring" capably grappled with issues of faith, but failed to unite its bigger ideas with the rudimentary process for freaking us out. Read more.
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At one point Tris zip-lines down from atop the John Hancock Center. This scene is fun. Berger manages one lovely and surprising image: that of a hallucinating Tris floating in a reclining medical exam chair in an open field. The generic bulk of "Divergent" hits its marks and moves on. Woodley — excellent in "The Descendants" and "The Spectacular Now," where she played the bitchiest and the nicest young women on the planet, respectively — has the stuff it takes to anchor one of these dystopian jobbies. Here's hoping the second movie, scheduled to be released a year from now, rebels against the establishment in more ways than one. Read more.
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All movies borrow, but everything about "Need For Speed" embraces clichés and it's shameless narrative feels like a stolen patch-work of deeply familiar narrative tropes; the race against time motif is ripped from "Speed" and a zillion other action with momentous forward motion. The initially chafing, but then growing-on-each other dynamic between Paul and Imogen Poots—as his British love interest—is about as unimaginative as trapped-together-against-their-will romances get. Paul's bros—played by the multicultural collection of Ramon Rodriguez, Rami Malek, Scott Mescudi (aka rapper Kid Cudi)—are employed as stock comic relief caricatures, but otherwise are about as essential as the references to twerking (Cudi is particularly clownish and doing a routine dangerously close to goofy minstrelsy). Read more.
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Todd VanDerWerff, The A.V. Club
As in "Magnolia," the way these storylines come together is meant to provoke contemplation of a central thesis. But the frog shower in "Magnolia" provided more compelling proof of God's existence than anything in "God's Not Dead." The movie's deck-stacking arguments could be refuted in a matter of seconds by a pro-atheist subreddit. Sorbo leavens the film from time to time, but director Harold Cronk has absolutely no idea how to frame shots or pace scenes, and too many of them stretch on interminably and indifferently. Christian films are often done in by their need to follow a literal come-to-Jesus storyline, but at least movies like the Kirk Cameron vehicle "Fireproof" offer up an earnest intensity that makes them somewhat watchable. "God's Not Dead" reduces all of its characters to props in an object lesson. Read more.


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Earlier today, it was reported that comedian couple Yoon Hyung Bin and Jung Kyung Mi would be getting married next year.
However, recently, representatives of Line Entertainment have denied the news.They stated, "We have not heard of any detailed wedding plans or schedules from Yoon Hyung Bin. Since the two have been dating for a while, we believe reports of marriage have been surfacing. We'll reveal the good news when we hear it."
The reports of the couple's upcoming marriage plans had come about after various accounts from broadcast industry insiders who revealed that the couple will be officially announcing their marriage through the 12th's broadcast of 'Gag Concert', the show they met on 7 years ago.
However, with Line Entertainment stating they have no knowledge of such plans, it remains to be seen whether it is in fact a misreport or if the agency is trying to keep the news quiet for the actual reveal later on the 12th.
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Lot 399: Pablo Picasso, Venus et l'Amour Voleur de Miel, Lithograph
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Theon Greyjoy is dismayed when his sister arrives at Winterfell and won't help him hold it. His father doesn't want Greyjoys in a castle so far from the sea. And also, killing the Stark boys has only made the entire North hate him. Which is a shame, because he really only killed those two orphan boys that were sent to work at that farm. Bran and Rickon (and Hodor and Osha) are hiding out in the crypt at Winterfell.
Furthermore, because nobody outside the North knows that Bran and Rickon are supposed to be dead, Catelyn Stark has panicked about having four of her five children being held hostage. Although only Sansa is really a prisoner at the moment, she's worried about what would happen if the Karstarks have their way and kill Jaime Lannister. So she has Brienne take Jaime out of the Stark camp, which means that now Catelyn is a prisoner. Because Robb Stark puts her under arrest.
Over in Harrenhal, Arya learns that Tywin Lannister is about to make an unexpected attack on Robb's army. So she finds a way to escape! Specifically, she traps Jaqen H'ghar by his own weird rules. She gives him his own name, so he has to either kill himself or help her escape. And he does! So now Gendry, Hot Pie, and Arya are out on the road.


text: Placing ocean acidification into the wider context of global environmental change research SHARE THIS: Thursday, July 19, 2012Redfield Auditorium - 12:00 Noon Dr. Phil BoydDepartment of Chemistry University of Otago, New ZealandResearch into the biological threat of reduced pH, termed Ocean Acidification (OA), has yielded many insights over the past decade. Moreover, the findings from OA research have been successfully disseminated to a wide audience, extending well beyond the boundaries of the traditional scientific community. There is much to be learnt from the OA community by the fledgling research field which is investigating the effects of global environmental change on oceanic biota. In turn, much of the preliminary research into global environmental change reveals that the interplay of multiple environmental drivers on ocean biota results in either significant amplification or diminution of the effects of a sole driver, such as OA. Our growing appreciation of how global environmental change will manifest itself in turn lays down the challenge of understanding the complex interplay of a matrix of changing ocean properties and their biological implications. In this seminar, I will present examples of how we can better identify and catalogue biological responses, and subsequently predict the sign and magnitude of their feedbacks, by taking a holistic view of the effects of global environmental change.


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Triple Crown is expecting 120 youth teams to arrive later this week for the first baseball tournament of the summer.
But not all the players will be visitors to the Yampa Valley.
The Northwest Colorado Lynx will compete in the 11-and-under division, the Tri-County Trojans and Steamboat Springs Sailors will take the field in the 12-and-under division, and Steamboat will field a tournament team in the 14-and-under division.
"That's a pretty good showing for this area," Steamboat coach Mike McCannon said. His team will play the first game of the weekend at 8 a.m. Saturday at Klumker Field.
The 12-and-under team will be made up of a select group of players from Steamboat's Little League. McCannon is optimistic the team will be competitive but said winning will not be their focus this weekend.
"This can be a great experience for them," McCannon said. "I want my players to have a good time and hopefully win a game or two."
Unlike the Northwest Colorado Lynx and the Steamboat team playing in the 14-and under division, McCannon's team is not a traveling tournament team.
The Lynx is made up of players from Steamboat Springs, Hayden, Craig and Meeker and will enter this weekend's tournament with high expectations.
"Our goal is to win it," coach Shane Camilletti said. "I think we have a legitimate shot. ... I'll be disappointed if we are not up there."
The team will enter the tournament with an 11-2 record and is coming off a second-place finish in a Division 1 wood-bat tournament earlier this month in Grand Junction.
Players include Isiah Forsyth, Alan Capistron and Charles Wood from Steamboat. Ben Williams, Ben Fulton and Graig Medvesk from Hayden and Dylon Camilletti, Brentton Ivers, Louie Neil and Kulen Turner from Craig. Meeker's Trevor Matrisciano also will play on the team.
The Tri-County Trojans, a team coached by Rich Sadvar of Craig, also will represent Northwest Colorado in the tournament.
Harvey Lyon will coach a group of top 14- and 15-year-old players who have been traveling to a number of tournaments in Colorado and Wyoming this summer.
This weekend, the team's younger players will take the field for a shot at becoming the first team from Steamboat to win a Triple Crown baseball tournament.
The team is 4-8 this season, but Lyon said if his players bring their best game they have a great shot at advancing out of pool play and possibly winning the first-place trophy.
"Our kids have been playing some very good ball this summer," Lyon said. "I know they are capable of winning a Division 2 tournament."
The coach is hoping the team's first tournament win will come Sunday.
Last weekend, Triple Crown hosted 107 teams during a girls fastpitch softball tournament that took place in Steamboat, Hayden, Craig and Oak Creek.
"It was an awesome weekend," said Bill Piltcher, tournament director. "It was a great way to kick off the summer, and everybody had a great time."
The top four squads in divisions with 10 or more teams and the top two squads in divisions of less than 10 teams earned invitations to Triple Crown's national finals, which will be played in Park City, Utah, later this summer.
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Weird And Wonderful Typography – Yet Still Illegible
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It has been said that "we read best what we read most". This quote was used as a type specimen in Emigre magazine in the late 1980's by Zuzana Licko. It was written in defense of her typefaces, whose elemental shapes—designed with the strictures of the early HP laser printer in mind—challenged the commonly held notions of what made typefaces legible.
The paradigm shift—wrought by the personal computer, Postscript and desktop publishing—should have had a massive impact on the shapes of our typographic characters, just as the advances of the World Wide Web further changed the way we viewed words (even though letterforms change at the pace of the most conservative reader). Thus, radical innovations like Kurt Schwitters' Systemschrift, (a phoenetic alphabet from 1927), are doomed to fail.
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Use a mechanical hot press to create the base to which a microfluidic chip with channels can be bonded.
- Mechanical Hot Press
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- Set the temperature of platen 1 and 2 of the Hot Press to be around 330°F.
- Center a circular arrangement of Zeonex beads on one of the nickel plates.
- Place the nickel plate onto the bottom Platen of the Hot Press, and carefully place the other nickel plate on top without disrupting the arrangement of Zeonex beads.
- Pump the hydralic pressure handle until the platens touch and the pressure reading remains 0, and then wait 1 minute. This time allows the plastic to begin to warm and melt.
- Pump the hydralic handle until it reads 1000 psi.
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The collabo Canada has been waiting for! Ontario's Justin Bieber has hooked up with Toronto's Drake for "Right Here" in what's no doubt bound to be one of this summer's biggest hits, partly due to its sticky melodies and partly due to its being produced by Hit-Boy, the 25-year-old behind "Drop the World," "Niggas in Paris," and the new "Jay-Z Interview." Stream "Right Here" below (via 2 Dope Boyz) and you should also be able to find it near the top of the iTunes charts soon. Off the Biebs' Believe, out July 19.
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Beth Orton (born Elizabeth Caroline Orton, 14 December 1970) is a BRIT Award–winning English singer-songwriter, known for her 'folktronica' sound, which mixes elements of folk and electronica. She was initially recognised for her collaborations with William Orbit and the Chemical Brothers in the mid 1990s. However, these were not Orton's first recordings, she had released a solo album, Superpinkymandy, in 1993. Since the album was only released in Japan, it went largely unnoticed by international audiences. Her second solo album, Trailer Park, garnered much critical acclaim in 1996. Orton developed a devoted audience with the release of the albums Central Reservation (1999) and the 2002 UK top 10 album, Daybreaker. In her 2006 release, Comfort of Strangers, she moved towards a more folk-based sound and away from the electronic sound of her past albums.
American films and television programmes such as Felicity, How to Deal, Charmed, Dawson's Creek, Vanilla Sky and Grey's Anatomy have featured her music and provided her with exposure to a more mainstream American audience.


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My answer? No.
We all know how Batman Inc. #8 went and honestly to me I think that's as far as it goes. There's always going to be a boy wonder, but come on, this one was actually his son. 5 Robins he's had and 2 of them are dead. Now 1 may have come back but he's not alright in the head, not to mention quite the asshole which many fans can attest to. Now even if he may still be a fan favorite, is that what we expect to come from Damian if he magically comes back to life? I don't think he'd be too happy with how he died or that he was allowed to die.
There can be another Robin eventually, and I hope older and maybe a female for a change in pace. But, for a while he needs to stay solo and let his lack of responsibility for the only Robin to be his son to sink in.
Now you can also decide for yourself since Comicvine decided to ask creators this question at Emerald City Comicon. Check out what Joshua Hale Fialkov, Kyle Higgins, Brian Buccellato, James Robinson, Peter Nguyen, James Tynion IV, Matt Fraction, Josh Williamson, Jim McCann and Sam Humphries think about this topic.
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What is an opposite lexical relation? |
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Black bean salsa with mango gives this dish a Mexican taste without too much heat. I like to slice the chicken and serve it over a long grain and wild rice mix. —Terri Clouse, Connoquenessing, PA
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- 1 cup lime juice
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 5 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (4 ounces each)
- 1 can (15 ounces) black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 mango, peeled and cubed
- 1/4 cup minced fresh cilantro
- 3 tablespoons lime juice
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 teaspoons brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon minced jalapeno pepper
- In a small bowl, whisk the first six ingredients. Pour 2/3 cup marinade into a large resealable plastic bag. Add chicken; seal bag and turn to coat. Refrigerate 1-2 hours. Reserve remaining marinade for basting. In a small bowl, combine salsa ingredients; toss to combine.
- Drain chicken, discarding marinade. Grill, covered, over medium heat or broil 4 in. from heat 5-6 minutes on each side or until a thermometer reads 165°, basting occasionally with reserved marinade during the last 4 minutes. Serve with salsa. Yield: 5 servings.
Editor's Note: Wear disposable gloves when cutting hot peppers; the oils can burn skin. Avoid touching your face.
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BEAUMONT, Texas — The Griffith Truck and Equipment Gulf South Region added its ninth winner of 2013 at the Golden Triangle Raceway Park Friday night as Michael McNeil put his No. 25m in victory lane after going side by side with Christopher Bell for the first half of the night's feature.
Leading the first thirteen laps, McNeil surrendered the point to Bell who worked the cushion until contact with a slower car sent the Baytown Ford No. 31 flipping on lap 21.
Reacquiring the lead, McNeil crossed ahead of Aaron Reutzel with Ray Allen Kulhanek charging from 16th to third. Brandon Berryman came to fourth from eleventh with Blake Hahn coming from the tail to fifth after being involved in a crash on the opening lap.
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Patriots secondary focused on staying aggressive
It's the headstrong confidence bordering on arrogance that Devin McCourty wasn't afraid to show his rookie season when he picked off everyone from Philip Rivers to Peyton Manning to Mark Sanchez.
It's what made him an instant Pro Bowler.
To a degree, it's the ingredient that felt like it was missing last season when the Patriots secondary was the second-worst in the NFL.
But now, it's a mentality McCourty says the unit is trying to rediscover and then maintain throughout the season.
"We're just trying to be aggressive and be competitive," McCourty said. "I think all the way throughout the secondary, guys are just trying to develop an attitude. Defense has a lot to do with attitude, how you approach the game. So we're trying to keep an attitude and trying to do it day in and day out.''
It's intangible, but it's important.
"It's an attitude that we've got to always have," McCourty said. "As defensive players, we've got to be attackers. There's great offenses in this league and we've got to want to hit people in the mouth and go out there and play hard."
In his first season, McCourty accounted for seven of the team's 25 interceptions. Last year, he picked off just two passes. As a whole, the Patriots gave up 4,703 passing yards, struggling to keep some of the league's most potent passing attacks grounded.
Miami's Chad Henne, San Diego's Rivers, Buffalo's Ryan Fitzpatrick, Oakland's Jason Campbell, Dallas's Tony Romo, Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger, Philadelphia's Vince Young, and Indianapolis's Dan Orlovsky all ran up at least 300 passing yards on the Patriots secondary last season, picking on a unit that struggled with injuries and plugged in replacements on the fly (the one extreme Julian Edelman, who moved from wide receiver to cornerback).
In the Super Bowl, Eli Manning threw for 296 yards and one touchdown, but the biggest play was Mario Manningham's toe-tap grab along the sideline that ultimately set up the go-ahead touchdown in a 21-17 Giants win that made for a long Patriots offseason.
But with a healthy unit in training camp, the secondary is looking to put last season behind it.
"As far as trying to prove something, I just think we're trying to be ready to go this year," McCourty said. "Last year is over. Some good, some bad, but whatever it is, it's over. Now we're focused on this team and this year, and as a secondary we're trying to be there for this defense and be a big part of it, because we know we have to."
From Ras-I Dowling, who's impressed in camp after missing all of last season, to Patrick Chung, who's been nothing if not feisty so far after sitting out half of last season, the group will benefit from having some of the missing pieces it was depending on back in place this year.
Dowling is battling Kyle Arrington for the spot at right corner, and Chung is one of eight safeties on the roster competing for time. McCourty's even seen some work at safety in camp, which hasn't surprised him at all.
"When you play in New England, you kind of have to be ready to play anything," he said. "We've had receivers play defense. We've had everything."
The primary focus for the secondary in camp has been finding consistency by stringing solid days together.
The chatter about the secondary being the weak link last season is impossible to ignore, but they can't silence it all in training camp or in the preseason.
"I think we're doing a good job of coming out here, making some plays that are out there," McCourty said. "And I think guys are doing a good job of working hard at actually going in there watching the film and trying to correct what's been wrong on film and getting it done the next day. I think that's kind of exciting to see when guys are able to fix mistakes and we're not having the same mistakes over and over."
With Drew Brees and the Saints in town for joint practices before opening the preseason schedule Thursday at Gillette Stadium, McCourty said he realizes how much of a challenge the Saints offense poses and sees it as a chance for the secondary to get better.
"The game doesn't count, but the opportunity is there for us to go out there and get better," he said. "The better competition you go against, it can only make you better. Drew Brees is one of the top quarterbacks in this league along with what they have offensively at the tight end and wide receiver position. As a secondary I think we're just going to go out and play and try to get better."


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There have been a few questions raised about whether Hitman Absolution will be able to re-capture the ingenius design of Hitman Blood Money, or whether it'll just be a star-studded box of gimmicks like 'Hitman instinct' (otherwise known as 'see-through-walls-ability', or 'Batman's detective vision').
Those questions aren't about to be answered definitively by this new trailer, but the implication in this new footage is that Agent 47 may be able to go about his business in the old-fashioned stealthy way (as well as the psycho axe-wielding option). Without a full segment of gameplay from a level being played in a Blood Money-esque fashion, it's impossible to tell. But the voiceover is making the right kind of statements, at least.
See what you think for yourselves, with the video below. Hitman Absolution will be released on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 later this year. You can read John's preview of the game, here.


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Tararua police intend to keep the pressure on drug growers, a senior constable says.
"We're continuing to target drug growers and no one should sit around feeling smug and confident," Senior Constable Dave Kirk of the Pongaroa police said.
He said a raid on a Swinburn St property in Dannevirke yesterday was the latest in a series of successful drug raids Tararua police have executed in the past 10 months.
"We're targeting drug growers and will come knocking one day," he warned.
At 9.30am yesterday police from Dannevirke, Pongaroa and Norsewood armed with a warrant searched the Swinburn St address. "In a ... garage at the rear of the property we located nine cannabis plants approximately one-metre tall growing in planter bags. They were growing under heat shields, lamps and extractor fans inside a room that had been constructed of timber and lined with reflective tin foil," Mr Kirk said.
Police also found about 190g of cannabis plant material inside the house along with utensils used for consuming cannabis.
As a result of the search a 36-year-old Dannevirke man is due to appear in the Dannevirke District Court on Thursday September 13 to face charges of cultivating cannabis, possessing cannabis and possessing utensils for the consumption of cannabis.
"We're very pleased with the information which is coming in from the public and are acting on it as soon as possible. There's going to be no let-up by the police in these matters," Mr Kirk said.
The latest drug raid follows another in Pahiatua on Wednesday in which search warrants led to the arrest of two men. Constable Brad Hall of the Pahiatua police said the two warrants were executed with the help of members of the Armed Offenders Squad (AOS).
"We had done a risk assessment and because of previous incidents where there has been violence against police we called in the AOS to assist us in gaining entry to the property," he said. "It was just a precautionary measure. We also were assisted by a drug dog from Wellington which was very effective."
Mr Hall said cannabis was located at one of the properties but it was not a growing operation. Drug paraphernalia was also located at the address and a 36-year-old man was arrested and charged with possessing cannabis and possessing utensils.


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Richard Kendall Watson, 25, of Van Buren, Arkansas died Saturday, August 4, 2012 in his home. He was a member of the Van Buren First Assembly of God Church; a graduate of 2005 from The Believers Home School; an honorary member of Top Hands Riding Club. He was preceded in death by a nephew, Landon Watson.
He is survived by his parents, Richard and Teresa Watson, of the home; one sister, Kandatha Rose and husband, Greg of Van Buren; Maternal grandparents, Floyd and Mary Mongold of Natural Dam, Arkansas; Paternal grandparents, Dutch and Maxine Watson of Van Buren, Arkansas; a niece, Libby Rose , a nephew Logan Rose, both of Van Buren; a host of Uncles, Aunts, Cousins and friends.
Pallbearers are Richard Watson, Teresa Watson, Jerry Watson, Larry Gordon, Max Garrett, Zack Mankins, Blake Clemmons and Darren Overton.
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Studio Anjali hosts vinyasa yoga workshop
September 4, 2013
AVON — Studio Anjali at The Westin is hosting a vinyasa and backbending yoga workshop on Sept. 14 with Ty Landrum, a leading instructor at Boulder's Yoga Workshop.
Landrum is an advanced ashtanga practitioner and an avid student of the classical yoga tradition. His background in philosophy allows him to communicate subtle ideas in colorful and metaphorical terms. His workshops fuse the ancient wisdom of the classical yoga tradition with experiential explorations of the mind, body and breath.
Open to both beginner and advanced practitioners, the vinyasa workshop will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. on Sept. 14 and the backbending workshop will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The cost is $40 per workshop, or $60 for both sessions. Athletic Club at The Westin members can enjoy the workshop for $30 each, or $50 for both. For more information or to register, call 970-790-2051 or visit http://www.athletic clubwestin.com.
The signature of vinyasa yoga is the graceful integration of posture, gaze and breath. Vinyasa brings a tremendous expansion of prana — or vital energy — inducing a profound psychophysical effect. In this workshop, attendees will explore the idea of vinyasa as a contemplative form. Using some key vinyasa sequences with the breath as a guide, attendees will see how subtle changes in the quality of the breath can deepen our experience of the poses. The intention is to discover resources to cultivate a smoother, stronger and more rhythmic vinyasa practice.
Backbends are the most uplifting of the poses. They increase prana, while also teaching attendees to hold steadily in a posture of openness and vulnerability. In the ashtanga vinyasa system, backbends are integrated into every vinyasa, and each sequence concludes with a distinct sequence of backbends. In this workshop, attendees will learn to approach backbends with proper alignment, refined awareness and concerted movement. Techniques will be offered for progressive deepening.
Studio Anjali at The Westin Riverfront offers an extensive schedule of daily yoga classes, including vinyasa flow, hot flow, foundations, authentic yoga, Anjali restorative, kundalini and meditation.
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In this program, we are going to create an excel using java .By going through the steps of this example we can create any number of excel pages.
TutorialsIn this program, we are going to create an excel using java .By going through the steps of this example we can create any number of excel pages.
To make an excel page we can use third party POI APIs. This API is provided by the Apache Jakarta (Jakarta POI - Java API To Access Microsoft Format Files
) Tomcat. You can download POI.jar
form Apache Jakarta Project it is open source.
The POI project consists APIs for manipulating various file formats based
on Microsoft, OLE 2 compound Document format using pure word files using Java.
We can create, read or write MS Excel file using POI.
OLE 2 Compound Document Format is based on files including most Microsoft office
files as XLS and DOC.
The package we need to import is java.io.InputStream
The java.io.InputStream class is used to create file. We are creating
an excel file named "rajesh.xls " The org.apache.poi.hssf.usermodel.HSSFWorkbook
class is used to create an object of HSSFWorkbook, by which we will
write our rajesh.xls file. This object allow us to modify the excel
HSSFWorkbook class extends java.lang.Object.
HSSFWorkbook class is a high level representation of a workbook.You must create
the object of HSSFBook to read and write a workbook. It is top most class for
creating new excel sheets ,doc sheets etc.
You have to follow the following step to execute this example:
Steps :
The code of the program is given below:
<%@ page import="java.io.InputStream" %>
The output of the program is given below:
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Comstock House Voxophones
EditComstock House Atrium
EditVOXOPHONE 070
Two recorders can be seen in the elevator after the security lever is thrown in the Warden's control room; however, only the one on the right was visible before all that stuff you did.
EditA Leash
"I suppose the Siphon is a kind of leash. Yes, my father put it on me, but when the time came, neither did I remove it myself. What would happen if I took off the leash, and I found I was...as obedient as ever?"--Elizabeth
EditVOXOPHONE 071
Explore the crematorium (not an objective location) and find a recorder in one of the wooden coffins. The crematory is past the second Boy of Silence (on the way to the objective) and is next to the room with the white room/torture chair.
EditThe Value of Choice
"Our minds are born festering with sin. Some are so blighted, they will never find redemption. The mind must not be pulled from the roots. My children are without blame, without fault-- and without choice. For what is the value of will when the spirit is found wanting?"--Elizabeth
EditWarden's Office
EditVOXOPHONE 072
Behind the rear wall by the fourth Boy of Silence. You'll see this easily if you were after the gear.
"'Bring us the girl and wipe away the debt.' But in the end, he is the one who'll have to pay down all of our accounts, won't he? Where does his guilt start ... and mine end?"--Elizabeth
EditVOXOPHONE 073
There is a recorder in a room with a working movie projector. The recorder is next to the projector.
EditA Last Chance
"As the days pass, I believe less in God and more in Lutece. My powers shrivel as my regrets blossom. All of this because my father failed me. By the time I realized how far I'd gone, it was too late to stop it. But there is still one last chance at redemption-- for both of us."--Elizabeth
EditVOXOPHONE 074
In the Warden's chair in the control room with the jail cell switch.
EditSmothered in the Crib
"What I've done cannot be undone. I cannot stop what I have put in motion. But perhaps I can keep it from ever starting. He was my first hope, and now...he is my last."--Elizabeth
EditVOXOPHONE 075
If you didn't pick up the voxophone that was in the elevator before, there will be two available in the elevator after the security switch is disabled in the Warden's control room. This voxophone is referring to the one on the left.
EditEnding It
"Tomorrow, the leash comes off-- because all of this ... has to end. But even if I destroy the Siphon, will I be strong enough to see all the doors, and open whichever I choose? And if I bring him here, who is to say that he would be any match for the monsters I have created?"--Elizabeth
EditOperating Theatre
EditVOXOPHONE 076
Rescue Elizabeth and find three lockpicks. There is a locked door (requiring the aforementioned 3 lockpicks) between the two sets of stairs that led to the power switches on her torture machine. Open the door to the doctor's office and claim this recorder.
EditPavlov's Bell
"The procedure should help immensely with the ... issues we've had with the girl. Once the device is implanted, any efforts on her part to ... alter the state of things will emit a most painful electric shock. Pavlov made a dog salivate. We'll make this one weep."--Dr. Harrison Powell, December the 23rd, 1912
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Beltane v1 was distributed under the GPL. Unfortunately, its authors have decided to distribute Beltane v2 under a non-free license (no redistribution), and their web pages prominently mention v2. Thus, this project starts with Beltane v1, and sticks to free software references. Samhain, the package for which it is a frontend, remains free. As of November 12, 2004, this project has no maintainer. Please email (email@example.com) if you are interested in becoming the maintainer; the original authors appear to be making only occasional bug fixes to v1 at this point.
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Wii Media Centre (WiiMC)
WiiMC[1][2] (Wii Media Centre) is an open source media player for the Nintendo Wii.
- Attractive libwiigui-based interface, designed with the Wii in mind
- Picture viewer
- Music player
- On-line media support, including SHOUTcast, YouTube, and Navi-X
- FAT32/NTFS from SD and USB 2.0 (FAT32 recommended)
- Network playback via SMB, HTTP, and FTP
Install WiiMC
Setup The Homebrew Channel
This is a step-by-step guide of how to install the Homebrew Channel on your Wii console
Install the Homebrew Browser
Use this guide to install the Homebrew Browser
Setup WiiMC
You can then use the Homebrew Browser to install the WiiMC application
Using Samba
On the Wii
This is a pretty good video guide to setting up the WiiMC to use a samba share, although it's in italian. You get the idea though.
- For this you need to know your Linkstation's ip address
- Make sure you know the name of the samba share you setup
- Open WiiMC and go to "Settings"...Its to the right of the screen. Click "Network" down the bottom. Click "Add SMB Share"
- Using the details you grabbed before enter the name of the folder you are sharing (e.g., movies, music) and give it a "display name". They can be the same. Add your ipaddress, username and password.
On the Linkstation
For some reason the newest version doesn't work well with older versions of Samba, this probably has something to do with UTF-8 support. WiiMC uses a purpose built Samba implementation called Tinysmb[3] which was originally designed for the GameCube.
You can use an older version of WiiMC with the default older version of samba, or you can upgrade Samba using debian backports to use with the newest version of WiiMC.
With Samba 3.2.5 and WiiMC v1.04
Samba 3.2.5 is now Debian Lenny's included package, use this with WiiMC v1.04[4]. There is still some instability with Samba shares that have directories with alot of files/directories, it just seems to cause the whole system to crash. Also USB media doesn't work in this version well at all.
With Samba 3.4.8 and WiiMC v1.09+
Samba 3.4.8 is now in Debian Lenny's backports repository, you can use this with the newest version of WiiMC. [4]. This has pretty good stability for large directories, and of course USB media works well in this release. To enable backports you need to do the following:
- 1. Add this line:
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free
to your /etc/apt/sources.list.
- 2. Run: apt-get update
- 3. Run: apt-get -t lenny-backports install samba


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Nixon Signs Bill For More Access To Anti-Overdose MedicineResidents soon will be able to carry medicine to counter heroin overdoses without a prescription under a new law signed Tuesday by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon.
Police: Prescription Drug Addictions Cause St. Louis' Heroin RiseSt. Louis County police detective says four-of-five people who are addicted to heroin admitted they started using prescription pain-killers.
McCaskill says Missouri Needs Tighter Drug MonitoringMissouri is the only state without a prescription drug monitoring program.
New Study Shows Painkiller Misuse Increase in MidwestPrescription painkillers misuse soars throughout Missouri over the past decade.
Disease List for Illinois Medical Marijuana Could GrowDozens of conditions and diseases can qualify a patient to use medical marijuana in Illinois' new pilot program, but the list doesn't include post-traumatic stress disorder, arthritis or migraines conditions some other states allow.
Study: Missouri Prescribes More Painkillers Than IllinoisA new federal study finds it is a lot easier to get painkillers from your doctor in Missouri than in Illinois.
Ex-Players: NFL Illegally Used DrugsFormer St. Louis Cardinals wide-receiver Roy Green is among a group of retired NFL players says in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that the league, thirsty for profits, illegally supplied them with risky narcotics and other painkillers.
Study: Kids Given Codeine Despite RisksA local pediatrician says not to let your child's doctor prescribe the powerful painkiller codeine without talking about alternatives first.
Study Finds Link Between Painkillers and Heart Rhythm DisorderRecent study reveals that the most popular pain relievers may cause a possible heart disorder in the long run.
Heroin Abuse Group Focuses on Doctors, Junior HighOver the last six-and-a-half years, 1,645 people in the St. Louis area have died of heroin overdoses, a figure the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse calls "pretty horrifying."
Middle-Aged Women Experiencing Increase in Death from Painkiller OverdoseThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says approximately 18 women die everyday from a painkiller overdose.
2 Accused Of Missouri Painkiller Robbery SchemeA woman who reported being robbed outside a central Missouri pharmacy is now accused of taking part in a scheme to obtain and sell prescription painkillers.


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Miami, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) – Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami Field Division, and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CID), announced the sentencing of three additional defendants on charges stemming from Operation Oxy Alley, a coordinated investigation into pill mills in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Including the three defendants sentenced today, twenty defendants have been sentenced to date on an indictment unsealed on August 23, 2010, which charged thirty-two defendants.
The indictment alleged that defendants Christopher and Jeffrey George, twin brothers, operated, managed and financed four pain management clinics in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. According to the indictment and statements made in court, from 2008 to early 2010, these pill mills distributed approximately 20 million oxycodone pills and made more than $40 million from the illegal sales of controlled substances. Thirteen of the thirty-two defendants were doctors.
Today, U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra sentenced three defendants. Augusto Lizarazo, M.D., 70, of Jupiter, was sentenced to 4 years of probation and 36 months of home confinement. Dianna Pavnick George, 27, of Wellington, was sentenced to 30 months in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release. Denice Haggerty, 58, of Wellington, was sentenced to 30 months in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release. Dianna Pavnick George, Haggerty and Lizarazo pled guilty in October 2011 to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
At present, twenty-eight of the thirty-two defendants named in the indictment have pleaded guilty, including clinic owners Christopher and Jeffrey George. The sentencing hearings are scheduled to continue throughout February 2012.
The investigation and prosecution was the result of work by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. The FBI, DEA, IRS-CID were assisted by the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, the Broward Sheriff's Office, the Hollywood Police Department, the Boca Raton Police Department, and the Davie Police Department. Coordination efforts also included cooperation by the Palm Beach State Attorney's Office and the Delray Beach Police Department, Jupiter Police Department, West Palm Beach Police Department, Boynton Beach Police Department, Medley Police Department, Homestead Police Department, North Miami Beach Police Department, and Sunny Isles Police Department. This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Paul F. Schwartz, Lawrence D. LaVecchio and Strider Dickson.


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In a set that boasts rookies of Dryden, Lafleur and Dionne, it's hard to believe that a checklist would be the most coveted card, but that is the case with the 1971-1972 O-Pee-Chee (OPC).
In fact, the elusive Series One checklist (Card #111) is so highly sought after that some have called it the toughest OPC card to obtain.
"(The checklist) might be the hardest card from the '70s to find," explains Dale Weselowski, owner of Ab D. Cards in Calgary, Alta.
One reason for the card's apparent scarcity is that it comes from the first series, which is generally considered more difficult to find than Series Two. This, coupled with the fact that kids often marked checklists from this era, helps explain the dearth of high-grade examples. Of the 52 evaluated by PSA (as of this print date), only one has rated as high as a PSA Mint 9.
But while the checklist is the most lucrative card, the set, which is OPC's most valuable issue from the past 35 years, also boasts a number of other desirable singles. Comprised of two 132-card series (Series One: #1 - #132, Series Two: #133 to #264), this set could be formed from wax packs or vending boxes.
The differences between the two series are minimal. Mark Ironside, a savvy hobbyist whose set ranks fifth on the PSA Set Registry, points out that the card numbers on Series One singles are "thicker" than the numbers on Series Two. Also, Series Two cards are sequenced by team (followed by trophy winners and then all-star cards) while Series One singles are in random order.
Aside from the checklist, other notable cards in Series One include the Ken Dryden rookie, a Bobby Orr regular issue and sophomore singles of Gilbert Perreault and Bobby Clarke. Series Two offers the Guy Lafleur and Marcel Dionne rookies, as well as two additional Orr cards (a trophy and all-star card), a second-year Darryl Sittler, and special retirement cards of Gordie Howe and Jean Beliveau. Also included in Series Two is a checklist (Card #264), which is valued at approximately a third of its series one counterpart.
In a practice that has baffled many industry experts some hobby publications have listed Series Two commons at a higher price than Series One.
"It was always way easier by comparison to get the second series than the first - no ifs, ands or buts … I've always said that has been wrong. For 15 years, I've been saying it," says Weselowski.
Gerry Chartrand, owner of Gerry's Sports Cards in Dorval, Que., concurs, adding that high-grade cards from Series One are difficult to keep in stock.
"Low number cards in high-grade condition sell very well," he says.
The PSA Population Report also appears to support the theory that there are more Series Two cards in circulation. According to PSA data, there have generally been about 10 to 15 examples of each Series One common graded, while Series Two commons tend to boast between 15 and 25 examples.
Overall, the set's popularity can be attributed to a number of factors. Its biggest selling point is that it offers the rookie cards of three revered Hall of Famers (Dryden, Lafleur and Dionne) - and the fact that two of these legends toiled for the Montreal Canadiens doesn't hurt either, adds Ironside.
"Basically a lot of guys who collect hockey are Montreal Canadiens fans and two of their biggest rookies are in this set," he says.
Collectors have also embraced the design, which showcases the player's photo inside an oval on the card's front. While biographical data (in English and French), each player's career statistics, and a cartoon illustrating a little-known fact about the player are highlights of the light-green back.
"I think it's the nicest looking set from the '70s," claims Darren Styles, a Minneapolis-based hobbyist, whose set ranks second on the PSA Set Registry.
Ironside, who collects numerous vintage sets, agrees that the layout of the cards is the set's key attraction.
"The biggest reason (for the set's popularity) is that guys just happen to like that oval design and the colors, but unfortunately, when it comes to graded cards, they're tough to find," he says.
The PSA Population Report supports Ironside's contention. Of the 5,814 that have been submitted for evaluation, only around 7% have registered a PSA 9 Mint grade. In comparison, over 10 per cent of the cards sent in for the 1970-71 OPC set have graded PSA Mint 9 and close to 13 per cent have been deemed that grade for the 1972-73 edition.
Among the condition issues that make high-grade cards from this set scarce are OPC's inconsistent cutting practices.
"OPC is notorious for its jagged edge cutting," notes Styles.
Another byproduct of OPC's less-than-stellar slicing is bad centering. A high percentage of this set's singles are off center left to right - a problem further complicated by the fact that some cards are centered on the front, but not centered on the back and vice versa.
"They do tend to be off. It's not very often you are going to get perfectly centered (cards). I mean, the thing is people try to gauge it by today's standards … Those things were done in 1971, I mean they just hacked and wacked them," says Weselowski.
One fault that Ironside has uncovered is what he deems a "factory ripple."
"The thing with 1971 in OPC is a lot of the cards that came out of the vending cases have what I call a factory crease. It's not actually a crease. It's more like a ripple in the cardboard. '71 is famous for this and it's usually on the back of the card," he says.
Most hobbyists, Ironside indicates, can't even see this "ripple" and are dismayed when their cards come back assigned a lower grade by a grading company. Although he has no hard evidence, Ironside believes that these ripples are apparent on cards from wax packs as well.
"The ripple problem seems widespread enough that it was most likely simply a trait of the cardboard stock used in 1971," he adds.
Other common flaws on the backs of these cards include discoloration due to aging and gum stains, says Chartrand.
"People know they can use a nylon cloth to get it (a gum stain) off the front, but how do they get it off the back?" he asks.
One single card that's particularly difficult to find in high-grade condition is Card No .1, Poul Popiel. Of the 10 Popiel cards submitted to PSA, none have scored above a PSA 8.
"It's a condition sensitive set anyway and the cards 1, 2, and 3 on the top of the pile tend to get a hit a lot," explains Joe Henninger, a Bloomfield, Mich., native whose set ranks ninth on the PSA Registry.
The All-Star cards in Series Two are also tough to uncover in high-grade condition.
"All of the all-star cards seem to be harder to find centered - usually left to right centering is the trouble," explains Ironside.
With the cards being made on sheets, he points out, this means that horizontal cards like the all-star cards were sideways on the sheet, and, as a result, may have posed cutting challenges.
On top of the abundance of condition issues, the competition for high-grade cards from this issue seems to be increasing.
"I started collecting them probably a year, a year and a half, two years ago when nobody was really buying the '71s … I was buying a bunch of nine (PSA 9) stuff for very little. I was getting them for like $30 to $40 a piece. Then all of a sudden people started getting into getting their whole sets done and the price went up immediately," he says.
So far only one complete set is showcased on the PSA Set Registry. Clearly collectors who are trying to finish this issue in high-grade have their work cut out for them. And while they compete for cards of legends like Dryden, Orr, Lafleur, Howe and Dionne, they'll likely have to reserve their most tenacious battle for the coveted Series One checklist.


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The image below shows two errors and separate pages.The top half shows an error in displaying the difficulty for The Last Stand - Dead Zones quests on the quest page.The bottom half shows an error in the release date for the quests for Dawn of the Dragons on the game page. The release date seems to be proper when viewed on a profile page.
Looks like the same ol' AG glitches to me. They have probably fixed it by now.
This one isn't fixed, but it's on our list to fix.
Actually, I now vaguely recall that it was very difficult to change the dates for the online games without messing up the quests (something like that) and it was hard enough to get those type of quests working in the first place. Myself having programed a few things here and there can understand how extraordinarily difficult it can be to fix something so insignificant (i.e. the release date of the quests on the game page). The other glitch I've never seen before.
I found another glitch like this.When I rollover some quests on people's profiles sometimes it shows that 0-10 have completed it though thousands have. See:Happened on a few others also.
That one is interesting. Any persons profile in particular?
I got some more errors for you!Notice how I have ticked off not complete, there's a quest in there that I have yet to complete, but it's background shield, near bottom, says, "quest complete".
Very strange O.o I'll add that one as well, Hope I can duplicate it.
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