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Opinion: The U.N.'s Human-Rights Abusing Council
WSJ assistant books editor Sohrab Ahmari on the rogue nations bidding for seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council. Photo: Associated Press
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Indian legal Academy and that ... in world capitals and foreign ministries they actually take this stuff ... seriously and the use that as a as a bludgeon ... aam to you know hideaway their own problems and last their own problems and turn that and a beacon of human rights on countries that already in their own cone constitutional systems ... protect these ... rights we talk about a minute left ... the Bush administration shuns the council ... the Obama administration has seen gains Jesus' al Heinze ... the results of that ... how should we treat this council should the U S participate in a battle ... 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The board of CarolinaEast Medical Center in New Bern has provided Havelock with 10 more automatic external defibrillators.
The board of CarolinaEast Medical Center in New Bern has provided Havelock with 10 more automatic external defibrillators.
Diane Miller, Havelock grants manager and spokeswoman, said the devices would be placed in police cruisers and city buildings.
"Our application was rejected by the foundation because we were not a 501(c)3 (nonprofit) but the board of the CarolinaEast Foundation, the hospital itself, chose to write a check to cover the cost of those defibrillators," Miller said.
A defibrillator was used to help save a man earlier this year at the Havelock Senior Center, and Havelock police officers have been trained on use of the devices. Still, the city did not have enough money to purchase more of the devices, Miller said. Each device costs about $1,500.
The defibrillators will be added to the eight already in city police cruisers. Money from the state 911 fund paid for those devices.
Three others are located at the Havelock Tourist and Event Center, the Havelock Recreation Center and the senior center. Havelock will now have one device in the city hall building, three at the recreation center, one at the senior center, one at the public works department, and 16 in city police cars.
Havelock Mayor Jimmy Sanders recalled an incident earlier this year when one of the devices revived a Carteret County commissioner who was having a heart attack at the New Bern Convention Center.
"These are amazing devices and we certainly thank the folks that take the time to learn the training, and we also thank the hospital board for caring enough to purchase these when there were few other opportunities for funding," he said.
The defibrillators are designed to help restart a person�s heart after a cardiac arrest.
"We have a saying in the EMS business that time is tissue," said Scott Dorsett, a firefighter/paramedic with the Havelock Fire and Rescue Department, who helps manage and perform checks on the devices. "The longer that you go without oxygenation to the heart and the brain, it decreases that person�s survivability chances."
Dorsett said the devices help get blood flowing to vital organs quickly.
"When someone�s heart stops, the blood is not pumping through the body, and oxygen is not being transported to the tissues," he said, adding that the devices increase the survivability from a heart attack.
While police have been trained on the devices, residents can go through a two-hour class to become certified on the defibrillators.
"What it does is it allows people in the community to be involved with EMS, so coaches and teachers are increasingly becoming AED certified," Dorsett said. "What we�re trying to do is get the community involved in the AED aspect."
"So what an AED does is it allows people in the community to be proactive and take charge of their own health care and save lives. What we want to do here in Havelock is increase the number of AEDs, increase the number of people that are certified, so that if an emergency happens, we�re prepared and we can increase the survivability of every patient that we touch in Havelock."
Classes on the defibrillators occur on a rotating basis. Call the Havelock Fire Department at 444-3753 for more details.

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David Haselhoff's daughter wants more respect for plus-sized models
Fashion weeks are not the friendliest events for larger women — or anyone else not tall, slim and perfectly put together. But Hayley Hasselhoff says there's no reason why plus-sized models shouldn't get the same recognition as stick-thin ones.
The 21-year-old model and daughter of Baywatch star David "The Hoff" Hasselhoff was making her debut catwalk appearance Friday at London's Plus Size Fashion Weekend.
The showcase coincides with, but isn't related to, London Fashion Week, but organizers hope larger models like Hasselhoff could eventually be included on mainstream runways.
"Calling it 'plus size' doesn't do it justice," she said after walking in a sneak-peek show for reporters. "It's about women with curves, and women of all shapes and sizes. I just hope one day (events like this) will get the same respect."
Hasselhoff, who says she's a U.S. size 12 to 14, has been modeling since she was 14. She's recently returned to the catwalk after taking time for acting classes.
The showcase, only in its second year, features four catwalk showcases of bridal wear, swimsuits and lingerie. It's still a small event, but is almost certainly going to grow — the average British woman's size is now a 14 to 16 (U.S. 10 to 12).
David Hasselhoff had planned to show up to support his daughter but pulled out due to work commitments.
Hayley didn't seem to think it was a big deal. "I'm not bothered either way," she said: "He's always in my heart."


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Ford's radical F-150 redesign is talk of auto show
DETROIT (AP) — Some call it a game-changer. Some just shake their heads. Either way, Ford's new aluminum-clad F-150 is such a radical departure from past pickup trucks that it dominated talk at the opening of the Detroit auto show.
Ford Motor Co. unveiled the 2015 F-150, whose body is 97-percent aluminum, on Monday. The lighter material shaves as much as 700 pounds off the 5,000-pound truck, a revolutionary change for a vehicle known for its heft and an industry still reliant on steel. No other vehicle on the market contains this much aluminum.
"It's a landmark moment for the full-size pickup truck," said Jack Nerad, editorial director for Kelley Blue Book.
The change is Ford's response to small-business owners' desire for a more fuel-efficient and nimble truck — and stricter government requirements on fuel economy. It sprang from a challenge by Ford's CEO to move beyond the traditional design for a full-size pickup.
"You're either moving ahead and you're improving and you're making it more valuable and more useful to the customer or you're not," Chief Executive Alan Mulally told The Associated Press in a recent interview.
But it remains to be seen if customers will accept the change.
"Trucks are put to such hard use. They take bangs and dings and a lot of hard use," Nerad said. "We'll see how the use of lightweight aluminum plays out in the field."
Ford is taking a big risk. F-Series trucks — which include the F-150 and heavier duty models like the F-250 — have been the best-selling vehicles in the U.S. for the last 32 years; last year, Ford sold an F-Series every 41 seconds. Ford makes an estimated $10,000 profit on every F-Series truck it sells. Michael Robinet, the managing director of IHS's automotive group, says the trucks account for about a third of the company's revenue in North America — $80 billion in 2012.
"Anytime you make a change with that vehicle, it's got to be well thought out, because you are really playing with the crown jewels of that company," Robinet said.
But Robinet said Ford had to make a change, since its trucks were heavier than competitors', hurting their fuel efficiency. Ford, which has been selling F-Series trucks since 1948, also has a deep understanding of its customers, he said.
"They wouldn't roll the dice on this if they felt it wasn't going to work," he said.
Competitors aren't panicking, but they're on notice. Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, whose company makes Ram trucks, said he'll be watching the Ford truck carefully. Still he believes cost is still a big barrier to the wider adoption of aluminum.
"We've looked at it, but right now I can't make the weight to cost benefit analysis to work. But it may be my fault," he said.
The 2015 F-150 goes on sale late this year. As for cost, Ford wouldn't reveal prices, but its truck marketing chief Doug Scott says the F-Series will stay within its current price range even though aluminum costs more than steel. F-Series trucks now range from a starting price of $24,445 for a base model to $50,405 for a top-of-the-line Limited.
Pete Reyes, the F-150′s chief engineer, said Ford expects to make up the premium by reducing its recycling costs, since there will be less metal to recycle, and by slimming down the engine and other components, since they won't have to move so much weight.
Aluminum is widely used on sporty, low-volume cars now, like the Tesla Model S electric sedan and the Land Rover Evoque. U.S. Postal Service trucks are also made of aluminum.
Up to now, Ford limited the aluminum on its trucks to the hoods and used steel for the rest. Robinet says the new truck has 20 times more aluminum on it than most cars now, at more than 660 pounds.
The move is bad news for steel makers because it signals a broader move to lighter materials, said Jeff Schuster, senior vice president of auto sales forecasting for LMC Automotive, an industry consulting firm. Aluminum, carbon fiber and even plastics will change the conventional thinking that cars and trucks have to get smaller in order to meet government fuel economy standards that require the fleet to get 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, Schuster said.
"I think the industry is fighting back," he said. Ford won't say what the new truck's fuel economy will be, but it will likely beat Chrysler's Ram, the current leader at 25 mpg on the highway.
Improvements in aluminum are also driving the change. Three years ago, for example, Alcoa Inc. — one of Ford's suppliers for the F-150 — figured out a way to pretreat aluminum so it would be more durable when parts are bonded together. Carmakers can now use three or four rivets to piece together parts that would have needed 10 rivets before, Alcoa spokesman Kevin Lowery said.
And Ford is able to take more risks. When the F-150 was last redesigned, in the mid-2000s, Ford was losing billions each year and resources were spread thin. But by 2010, when the company gave the green light to an all-aluminum truck, Ford was making money again. Mulally, a former Boeing Co. executive who joined Ford in 2006, encouraged his team to think bigger. After all, it was Mulally who led early development of Boeing's Dreamliner, which replaced aluminum with even lighter-weight plastics to be more efficient and fly further.
"Everything becomes more efficient once you take the weight out," Mulally says. He expects aluminum to be used across Ford's model lineup in the future.
General Motors Co. product development chief Mark Reuss doesn't anticipate widespread use of aluminum instead of steel, but thinks it could be useful in joints linking body parts and other high-mass areas. He says lightweight materials will be used mainly on larger, heavier vehicles, since that's where they have the most impact.
But makers of smaller cars, like Honda Motor Co., are using them too. Honda uses magnesium for steering beams and aluminum for hoods — among other materials — if they fit with a vehicle's design, said Honda's U.S. product development chief Art St. Cyr.
Ford is convinced truck buyers will accept the change. The company says the new truck will tow more and haul more. The frame — which does most of that work — is still made of high-strength steel, and the engine doesn't have to account for so much weight. It can also accelerate and stop more quickly. Aluminum doesn't rust, Ford says, and it's more resistant to dents.
Reyes says the company planted prototype F-150s with three companies — in mining, construction and power — for two years without revealing they were aluminum. The companies didn't notice a difference.
Still, Ford could have a tough time wresting customers from the competition, mainly Chevrolet, GMC and Ram, says Jesse Toprak, an independent auto industry consultant in Los Angeles.
"Movement between brands in the full-size truck segment is extremely minimal," Toprak says. "It's the strongest loyalty of any segment."


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Highlights: Toronto 3-2 Vancouver.
TORONTO, ON - In a dramatic Canadian derby clash in Major League Soccer, Vancouver Whitecaps FC (8W-5L-6D) suffered a heartbreaking 3-2 away defeat to Toronto FC (3W-11L-4D) on Wednesday evening.
In a match that came to life after halftime at Toronto's BMO Field, 'Budweiser Man of the Match' Darren Mattocks scored twice for the Blue and White, with his second goal in second-half stoppage time looking set to earn Vancouver a point in Southern Ontario.
However, The Reds continued their strong showing over Whitecaps FC at home after second-half goals from Luis Silva and Torsten Frings set up former Whitecaps FC midfielder Terry Dunfield to win the match with a dramatic header deep into second-half stoppage time.
Playing their fourth of five straight matches on the road, Rennie had to make two changes in his 4-2-3-1 formation. With Davide Chiumiento departing Whitecaps FC for Swiss club FC Zürich on Wednesday and striker Eric Hassli suspended, Mattocks and Camilo Sanvezzo returned to Vancouver's starting XI.
In the hot summer sunshine at BMO Field, Whitecaps FC looked sharp with their passing and possession in spells, with Camilo and Barry Robson each having a pair of chances inside the first half-hour.
Having looked more solid under new head coach Paul Mariner in recent matches, TFC had a handful of half chances before creating the two best opportunities of the half, as Ryan Johnson had two late breakaways. Whitecaps FC goalkeeper Joe Cannon saved from the Reds striker on 41 minutes before Johnson hit the post in two minutes of first-half stoppage time.
Where the first half was lukewarm, the second half was an explosion of action, with all five goals scored after the break. Whitecaps FC broke the initial deadlock with a well-taken goal from Mattocks on 50 minutes. The youngster slotted his rebound home from a very tight angle after Robson found him in the TFC box.
Vancouver's advantage lasted until just past the midway point of the second half, as TFC turned the match around with two goals in four minutes. Silva flicked home his first goal in MLS from Ashtone Morgan's low cross on 68 minutes before Frings drilled home TFC's second goal on 72 minutes after Whitecaps FC failed to clear a Toronto corner.
Suddenly, the 'Caps were chasing the match, but they kept pressing forward in the dying stages. After Young-Pyo Lee agonizingly struck the TFC post with a shot on 85 minutes, Vancouver levelled the match through Mattocks one minute into stoppage time.
Showing incredible leaping ability in the Toronto box, Mattocks out-jumped TFC defender Logan Emory and goalkeeper Milos Kocic to Jordan Harvey's looping cross and headed home his sixth goal of the season to make it 2-2.
Destined for a draw, TFC earned the final corner of the match, and used it to decisive effect in the fifth minute of stoppage time. Frings swung in his set-piece and found an unmarked Dunfield. His header planted in the top corner of Vancouver net to give The Reds their third league win of the season.
Whitecaps FC will have to put Wednesday's 3-2 defeat behind them quickly, as they wrap up their schedule of regular season matches versus MLS Eastern Conference clubs at Chicago Fire on Saturday.
Budweiser Man of the Match: Darren Mattocks
Referee: Fotis Bazakos
Attendance: 19,821
Scoring Summary:
50' - VAN - Darren Mattocks
68' - TOR - Luis Silva (Ashtone Morgan)
72' - TOR - Torsten Frings
90+1' - VAN - Darren Mattocks (Jordan Harvey)
90+5' - TOR - Terry Dunfield (Torsten Frings)
Match Stats:
Shots: Toronto 16 – Vancouver 12
Shots on Goal: Toronto 7 – Vancouver 3
Saves: Toronto 1 – Vancouver 4
Fouls: Toronto 10 – Vancouver 8
Offsides: Toronto 2 – Vancouver 1
Corners: Toronto 7 – Vancouver 2
38' - TOR - Luis Silva
63' - TOR - Terry Dunfield
71' - VAN - Alain Rochat
Toronto FC
30.Milos Kocic; 25.Jeremy Hall (4.Doneil Henry 29'), 27.Richard Eckersley, 2.Logan Emory, 5.Ashtone Morgan; 11.Luis Silva, 23.Terry Dunfield, 22.Torsten Frings, 6.Julian de Guzman (8.Eric Avila 60'); 14.Danny Koevermans, 9.Ryan Johnson
Substitutes not used: 40.Quillan Roberts, 3.Miguel Aceval, 15.Matt Stinson, 21.Aaron Maund
Vancouver Whitecaps FC
1. Joe Cannon; 12.Young-Pyo Lee, 15.Martin Bonjour, 6.Jay DeMerit, 3.Jordan Harvey; 28.Gershon Koffie, 4.Alain Rochat; 7.Sebastien Le Toux, 14.Barry Robson, 37.Camilo Sanvezzo (13.Michael Nanchoff 82'); 22.Darren Mattocks
Substitutes not used: 18.Brad Knighton, 8.Etienne Barbara, 19.Carlyle Mitchell, 27.Jun Marques Davidson, 31.Russell Teibert, 32.Greg Klazura


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VANCOUVER, BC – Vancouver Whitecaps FC announced today the addition of Honduran centre back Johnny Leverón – pending receipt of his International Transfer Certificate and visa. Per Major League Soccer and club policy, terms of the contract were not disclosed.
Johnny Leverón – Whitecaps FC centre back
- 20 appearances for the Honduran senior men's national team
- 83 appearances and nine goals scored in Honduras' Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional
- Captained the Honduran national team at the London 2012 Summer Olympics
"Johnny is a left-footed centre back who is very comfortable on the ball," said Whitecaps FC head coach Martin Rennie. "He's still young but he's captained the Honduran Olympic team and has already played a number of games for the senior national team. He has a very big upside and we are really excited to welcome him to Vancouver."
Leverón, 23, joins Whitecaps FC after spending three years with Honduran side Club Deportivo Motagua. In 83 appearances with C.D. Motagua in the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional, the 5-foot-11, 160-pound centre back scored nine goals.
"I am excited and very happy about this new opportunity in Vancouver," added Leverón. "I will give my all to the fans, club, and city."
Internationally, Leverón has made 20 appearances for the Honduran men's national team, scoring three goals. In 2012, the young defender played every minute while captaining his country in their four matches at the London 2012 Summer Olympics. On the youth side, the native of Yoro, Honduras, made three appearances for Los Catrachos in the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup and three appearances in the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
Johnny Leverón
Position: Centre Back
Height: 5-11
Weight: 165 lbs.
Born: February 7, 1990, in Yoro, Honduras
Hometown: Yoro, Honduras
Citizenship: Honduras
Last Club: C.D. Motagua (Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras)
How Acquired: Acquired by Whitecaps FC as a free agent on February 19, 2013
Whitecaps FC 2013 MLS season tickets start at $349, plus applicable service charges and fees. To secure a seat and for additional information about Whitecaps FC MLS season tickets, including Pitchside Club and suites, call 604.669.9283 or visit whitecapsfc.com/tickets.


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CIOs Seeing Benefits from Bigger Budgets
A sizable share of CIOs say they're working with larger IT budgets in 2012 than they did last year, according to the latest, annual Society for Information Management (SIM) survey. With a membership of more than 3,500 CIOs and IT executives, SIM conducts the research to assess how CIOs feel about a range of work-related issues. While overall numbers are still short of pre-recession levels, the tech-budget increase is fueled at least in part to a growing appreciation among organization decision-makers for the tech department's impact upon achieving business objectives. In fact, it's more likely these days that you're reporting to the CEO, as opposed to the CFO. And you have more leeway to hire better talent, as salaries for IT staff are going up. These and other factors have contributed to an overall sense of stability for CIOs, as their average length of tenure at their current position has increased considerably in recent years. CIOs and tech execs from 195 companies took part in the research.


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§ 20. Junius: His literary personality and antecedents.
It was in the autumn of 1768 that the political letters of the unknown writer who, later, took the pseudonym of Junius, gained the public ear. But we know from his own statement
that, for two years before that date, he had been busy in furtive, assassinating polemic; and it is possible that a careful search of newspaper files would result in the discovery of some of his earlier performances of 1766 and 1767. The time when he appears to have begun letter-writing tallies well with the objects pursued by him during the period of his known writings. He was an old-fashioned whig, and a warm, almost an impassioned, adherent of the former prime minister, George Grenville. Thus, the accession to power, in July, 1766, of the elder Pitt, now Lord Chatham, with his satellite, the duke of Grafton, after a breach with Lord Temple, Grenvilles brother, and their adherents, most likely, gave the impulse to Juniuss activity. It was not, however, till October, 1768 that he became clearly distinguishable from other writers in
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By that time, Chathams nervous prostration had rendered him incapable of transacting business, and the duke of Grafton was acting as prime minister in an administration which had become mainly tory. For some reason or other, Junius nursed a vindictive and unassuageable hatred against the duke, which it seems difficult to attribute only to the rancour of a partisan. The weakness of the loosely constructed ministry, too, would tempt their adversary to complete their rout by a storm of journalistic shot and shell. So, Junius, sometimes under his most constant and, perhaps, original signature C., sometimes under other disguises, continued to add to the fury and cruel dexterity of his attacks. The Grand Council ridiculed the ministers Irish policy and their methods of business. A legal job which was attempted at the duke of Portlands expense furnished another opportunity. Nor was Junius content with these public efforts to discredit his foes. In January, 1768, he sent Chatham an unsigned letter, full of flatteries for the sick man and of suggestions of disloyalty on the part of his colleagues. For the time being, however, Chatham continued to lend his name to the distracted ministry, which staggered on from one mistake to another. Those on which Junius, under his various
seized for animadversion were small matters; but they were damaging, and his full knowledge of them, secret as they sometimes were, gave weight to his arguments. His ability seemed to rise with the occasion: the prentice hand which may have penned Poplicolas attacks on Chatham in 1767 had become a master of cutting irony and merciless insinuation, when, as Lucius, he, in 1768, flayed Lord Hillsborough. The time was ripe for his appearance as something better than a skirmisher under fleeting pseudonyms, and the series of the letters of Junius proper began in January, 1769. They never, however, lost the stamp of their origin. To the last, Junius is a light-armed auxiliary, first of the Grenville connection, then, on George Grenvilles death in 1770, of the opponents of the kings tory-minded ministry under Lord North. He darts from one point of vantage to another. Now one, now another, minister is his victim, either when guilty or when unable to defend himself efficiently. Ringing invective, a deadly catalogue of innuendoes, barbed epigrams closing a scornful period, a mastery of verbal fencing and, here and there, a fund of political good sense, all were used by the libeller, and contributed to make him the terror of his victims. The choice and the succession of the subjects of his letters were by no means haphazard. His first letter was an indictment of the more prominent members of the administration. It created a diversion which made the letter-writers fortune, for Sir William Draper, conqueror of Manilla, rushed into print to defend an old friend, Lord Granby. Thoroughly trounced, ridiculed, humiliated and slandered, he drew general attention to his adversary, who then proceeded to the execution of his main design. In six letters, under his customary signature or the obvious alternative Philo-Junius, he assailed the duke of Graftons career as man and minister. Meanwhile, the agitation provoked by Wilkess repeated expulsion from the commons, and his repeated election for Middlesex, was growing furious; and, in July, 1769, Junius, following the lead of George Grenville, took up the demagogues cause. For two months, in some of his most skilful compositions, he urged the constituencys right to elect Wilkes. Then, as the theme wore out, he chose a new victim. Graftons administration depended on his alliance with the duke of Bedford, one of the most unpopular men in England. Junius turned on his foes ally with a malignity only second to that which he displayed against Grafton himself. A triumphant tone begins to characterise the letters, for it was obvious that the Grafton ministry was tottering to its fall; and Junius decided on a bolder step. His information was of the best, and he was convinced that the king had no intention of changing his ministerial policy, even if Grafton resigned. The king, then, must be terrorised into submitting to a new consolidated whig administration. The capital and, I hope, final piece, as it was called by Junius, who was conscious of his own influence with the public though he much overrated it, was an address to the king which contained a fierce indictment of George IIIs public action since his accession. It was an attempt to raise popular excitement to a pitch which would compel George to yield. But the libeller placed too much trust in his power over the ruling oligarchy and gave too little credit to the dauntless courage and resolution of the king. Lord North took up the vacant post of prime minister; and his talent and winning personality, assisted by the all-prevailing corruption and by the very violence of the opposition in which Junius took part, carried the day. It was the House of Commons which kept Lord North in power, and to its conquest the angry opposition turned. Junius now appears as one of the foremost controversialists on Wilkess election, and as champion of the nascent radical party forming under Wilkess leadership in the city of London. Other matters, also, were subjects of his letters, such as the dispute with Spain concerning the Falkland islands, and the judicial decisions of Lord Mansfield; but they are all subordinate to his main end. Ever and anon, too, he returns, now with little public justification, to the wreaking of his inexplicable hatred on the duke of Grafton, the pillow upon which I am determined to rest all my resentments. But the game was up. Clearly, neither king nor commons could be coerced by an outside agitation, which, after all, was of no great extent. The quarrel of Wilkes and Horne wrecked the opposition in the city. Junius saw his scale kick the beam, and it was only the too true report conveyed by Garrick to the court, in November, 1771, that he would write no more, which induced him to pen his final attack on Lord Mansfield, with which the collected letters close.
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Grenville Correspondence,
p. 380.
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A team-by-team look at the National League East entering spring training, including key players each club acquired and lost, and dates of the first workout for pitchers and catchers, and the full squad:
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Diego Forlan is willing Luis Suarez back to full fitness, even if it costs him his own starting place at the World Cup.
The former Manchester United striker, now 35 and plying his trade in Japan with Cerezo Osaka, has been thrust back into the Uruguay first XI after star man Suarez underwent knee surgery at the end of the Premier League season.
The Liverpool forward's progress is being monitored on a daily basis as medics assess what part he will be able to play in Brazil, where Uruguay face England in their second Group D game on June 19, and Forlan hopes Suarez is cleared to play a full part.
The 27-year-old visited his national team-mates at their training complex in Montevideo before the 1-0 victory over Northern Ireland and Forlan was heartened by his demeanour.
"I want the whole team to be healthy and ready for the World Cup so I want Luis to be back and ready for that," Forlan told Press Association Sport. "That would be much better for all of us. Luis came to the training ground in the morning to see us.
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Lol what? Lucky Star is somehow vastly different from the current reality? How exactly do you figure?
The anime that I'd want to live in the most is of course Oreimo.
Kirino and I have been together for nearly 2 years now and not a day goes by that I don't struggle with internal conflict at the realization that my imperfection of having been born in 3 dimensions will constantly confine me from being with my darling angel Kirino. If I could make this world into the world of Oreimo then Kirino and I could finally be together. I could hold her in my arms. Hold hands as we walk around Akihabara together, laughing at all the 'normals'. Ahh my heart is aflutter just thinking of it.
Of course, every wish fulfilled has unintended circumstances. Kirino and I have seen our fair share of romantic comedies of course. I'm completely familiar with the plot cliche concerning the unintended wish problem. In the case of Oreimo, I suspect that I would run into Kuroneko sometime in the course of my new Oreimo reality. I don't know if I would be able to handle the pain of being imprisoned for murdering Kuroneko when I'm finally living alongside Kirino. So we'd probably have to move to Greece or some other Muslim country where murdering little girls is legal.
I can't possibly suffer living in the same world as Kuroneko after all.
However... Kirino is love.
(pic related: Kirino's outfit when we finally go see a Soccer game we've been talking about for years)
Hmm so I would love High school of the Dead (Obviously because I just love zombie slaying)
and Gintama
All I wanna do is feel you melt on my tongue. *Matching theme with Amy*
These are all great animes to live in just to be part of the world the action interacting with your fave characters
Pokemon. No doubt.
I'd want to live in the same world as Madoka Magica, contract, and become a puella magi! I want the tragedy, that'd be kinda cool in a way..
I'd also want to live in the Accel World.
you only yolo once
I would probably pick Baka and Test because if school was like that I would definitely start getting good grades hahah
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Certainly not Naruto. I couldn't bear a life of filler arcs.
Sorry to break it to ya, but life is filled with repetition and filler until the next event.
Super Robot Wars.
Who knows, maybe I'll be an ascended extra and pilot a super prototype mecha.
I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.
Outlaw Star all the way , something about space and guns haha *PEW PEW*
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Fear-and-Hope wrote:
Certainly not Naruto. I couldn't bear a life of filler arcs.
Sorry to break it to ya, but life is filled with repetition and filler until the next event.
Knew that to begin with.
getting my learn on
Accel World FTW!!
Akame ga kill: Anime of 2014!
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Gantz since only the people that died are the only ones that know of the missions and aliens to kill, normal people wouldn't be able to see them or the aliens since they cannot be seen for some reason during the missions, it would be a cool and sad lifestyle though... you get to kill aliens but your friends might also die for realzzz too.
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RESOLVED, that the Duluth City Council hereby makes the following findings:
(a) That communities across the United States have designated August 5, 2008, as a National Night Out to celebrate community and neighborhood awareness and unity; and
(b) That the purpose of the National Night Out is to generate support and participate in local anti-crime efforts, to strengthen neighborhood spirit and police community partnerships, to heighten crime and drug prevention awareness and to send a message to criminals that neighborhoods are fighting back.
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Duluth City Council wishes to express its support for the National Night Out and the goals and purposes behind it.
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Duluth City Council hereby expresses its support for the 25th Anniversary National Night Out on August 5, 2008, and encourages the administration and the various neighborhoods throughout the city to facilitate and participate in the event by spending a night out with their neighbors.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: This resolution expresses support for and encourages participation in the National Night Out celebration to be held on August 5,2008. The event consists of neighborhood get-togethers and block parties throughout the city on the evening of August 5. To facilitate this event, the administration will waive the usual community event permit requirement for block party organizers who notify the police department before July 29 of their interest to organize a block party.


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Italy's Supreme Court of Appeal in Rome ruled that women who were wearing jeans at the time of their attack cannot claim to have been raped. Judges contended that jeans cannot be removed "without the active help of the person wearing it" as long as wearers fight removal "with all their strength."
Wednesday's ruling reversed the conviction of a 45-year-old driving instructor accused of raping an 18-year-old student. The instructor had been sentenced to 34 months in jail by a lower court in Potenza.
Italian feminists were quick to express their outrage at the court's decision. Female MPs including Alessandra Mussolini began encouraging their colleagues to wear jeans and engage in a "no-skirt strike" until the ruling is overturned. Mussolini commented, "This takes us back 20 years."
Feminist actor Franca Rame, herself a survivor of gang-rape, called Italian women protest the ruling and angrily stated, "There are so many ways of undressing a woman, by holding her down, threatening her, knocking her out with a punch."
Giuliana Dal Pozzo is the president of a hotline that helps victims of violent crimes. She reported that her hotline has been swamped with calls from women who fear the impact of the ruling. "I am shocked, almost incredulous, and scandalized by this medieval decision that now makes jeans chastity belts for women," said Dal Pozzo. "This decision is going to make it even harder for victims to take the step of pressing charges."
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LeTourneau University students in the Worship Arts program are planning to lead the university community, local area churches and the public in an event called "Revive," a student-led worship service from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27, in the S.E. Belcher Jr Chapel and Performance Center, at the university's main campus in Longview, 2100 S. Mobberly Ave., in Longview. The event is free and open to the public.
"Our heart is that through gathering and worshipping together, the Body of Christ would be unified further," said Ashley Bonilla, a senior Christian ministry worship arts major. "Please join us with your friends and family for an evening of worship, praise, prayer and rest in the presence of God."
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On the warmest, sunniest day you can imagine, in a place where those are few and far between, gloom prevailed Wednesday. Great Britain was Mudville, and mighty Casey had struck out.
When Andy Murray's final ground stroke settled into the bottom of the net in midafternoon, eliminating him from a chance to defend his Wimbledon gentlemen's singles title, a big gush of air was sucked out of the United Kingdom.
They take their sports very seriously here. So too their heroes.
They needed Wimbledon and a repeat surge of the national adrenaline that Murray had provided last year, when he had exorcised the ghosts of Fred Perry past.
It seemed like forever that they had waited for their next men's Wimbledon champion. It was always Fred Perry, 1936. That was 77 years, but who's counting?
They had remained hopeful, supportive. They even named a huge terraced viewing area with a giant TV screen behind Court 1 after one of their biggest hopefuls. For years, Tim Henman tried and tried, and never quite made it. But his name remains on the hill, even if that is unofficial.
Then along came Murray, their Andy, giving them the ultimate hope with an Olympic gold medal in 2012 right on the court where he would contest for the real prize, the Bye-Bye Fred Perry Trophy, the cup that says Wimbledon champion.
In 2012, before the Olympics, Murray lost in the final to Roger Federer and cried on Centre Court. Their hearts went with him. They had worried that he was boring, plastic, more a creation of tabloid journalism than a real person. Now they knew a heart beat within. They embraced him and could sense their wishes soon to be fulfilled when he won his first major title, the U.S. Open.
He was real. He could do it.
And he did, beating Novak Djokovic in the 2013 Wimbledon final. He climbed into the box seats to hug his support team and the entire United Kingdom hugged him back.
But sports is much like life. Now it was Wimbledon 2014, and, with Murray, there was a touch of what-have-you-done-for-us-lately. After all, Fred Perry not only won that title in 1936, but did so by repeating from the previous two years.
Why shouldn't Murray repeat?
It seemed to become even more crucial when England was quickly eliminated in the World Cup, a passion here even bigger than Murray. The first question to Murray in his pre-Wimbledon news conference was whether he would win here to soothe the hurt of the World Cup for a despondent nation. Yes, that was the word. Despondent.
A few days later, it got worse. A team from a big country across the pond that doesn't even call the sport by its correct name had qualified for the World Cup knockout round. Humiliation simmered amid the strawberries and cream. Every tabloid with another World Cup postmortem seemed to have an adjacent picture and story of Murray.
The 27-year-old Scot handled all this beautifully, better than anybody might imagine. At first look, and during interview sessions, he seems boring. He is everything but.
He went through his first four matches like the London Tube trains through the London tunnels. When he took Centre Court on Wednesday, he had won 17 matches in a row at the All-England Club. That, of course, included his Olympic run, his 2013 title and the four matches here in which he had not lost a set and only a total of 32 games.
He was playing well, but the pressure was building and there were signs. Kate and William were in the royal box. They don't show for any old match.
His opponent was a fast-rising Bulgarian, Grigor Dimitrov, 23. The day before, there was a buzz about how youngsters were starting to take over. Then 19-year-old Australian Nick Kyrgios took out Rafael Nadal.
Now, here was Dimitrov, who had won a lead-up grass-court tournament and had nine wins in a row on the fast surface. There was also the huge intangible. Dimitrov, a big, strong, good-looking guy, had once dated Serena Williams. Now he dates Maria Sharapova.
This was a guy who knew pressure.
And so it came to pass, with Centre Court jammed and Henman Hill overflowing, that Dimitrov brought his A game and Murray did not.
The Bulgarian won the first set, 6-1, and promise for British fans became hope. When Murray missed, the collective sound on the grounds was a gasp. When he made a good shot, the gush of joy sounded more like a sigh of relief.
The last hope was when Dimitrov went up a service break in the second set and Murray broke back. But in the ensuing tiebreaker, Murray made an ill-advised net approach and when Dimitrov passed him, the Bulgarian had two serves and a 5-4 lead. Deal over.
Hope fizzled early in the final set, and pathos took over when Murray hit an 83-mph second serve that went long and took Dimitrov to match point.
It was over, 6-1, 7-6 (4), 6-2. There was nothing left to say, although Murray said it well.
"He was the better player, from start to finish," he said, calling it a bad day at the office.
Half of men's tennis' Big Four is now out. Novak Djokovic survived a tough five-setter against Marin Cilic, Serb beating Croat. Roger Federer, the ageless wonder, dropped his first set of the tournament, but won in four over his Swiss buddy, Stan Wawrinka.
When Nadal was ousted Tuesday by Kyrgios — who predictably lost Wednesday to Milos Raonic — he said he was heading home to the beach in Majorca. Murray said he would head back to the practice courts "to get better."
The hero, and the country that made him so, are back to hoping.
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Chris Evans' 'heart isn't in' superhero films
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- 8 March 2014
'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' star Chris Evans no longer has the passion for superhero films that he once did
Chris Evans' heart isn't "in" superhero sagas as it was.
The 32-year-old actor - who is set to hit the big screen in 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier ' - is glad he starred in the Marvel films but admits he no longer has as much passion for the franchise as he once did.
He said: "I would never trade in the decision to have done these movies. I've been wildly fortunate. I just don't know if my heart's as in it as it once was."
The hunk plays the titular character, who is also known as Steve Rogers, in the sequel to 2011's 'Captain America: The First Avenger' and feels he can relate to his alter-ego.
He told GQ magazine: "Steve has everything he wanted, and he's still not quite happy. It's like he's in his adolescence, trying to figure out where he fits in, who he is and what he wants."
Evans hinted he'd step back from fronting films and would prefer to be involved in the filmmaking process because he isn't a fan of the additional responsibility an actor is forced to undertake.
He added: "I would imagine the world of a director is a little bit cleaner in terms of your responsibilities."


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VIA Introduces Extended-Range Pickup in Detroit
January 12, 2012 by RVBusiness · 2 Comments
VIA Motors unveiled what the company is touting as the world's first extended-range, electric hybrid pickup at the North American International Auto Show.
As reported by the Detroit Free Press, the pickup has a 4.3-liter V6 combustion engine, which is used only when the batteries need charging, coupled with a 150-kilowatt electric generator, according to the company. The line of vehicles, called eREV, also boasts a 402-horsepower electric motor and a 24 kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack, which provides up to a 40-mile range.
"This is the revolution. We call it the eRevolution," said Bob Lutz, a member of VIA Motors' board and the former General Motors vice chairman who has been dubbed the father of the extended-range Chevy Volt.
He explained that it makes sense for the electric sector to focus on the most-popular type of vehicle and the one that uses the most energy.
"Once you electrify, you will never go back," Lutz said.
The vehicle also can be used as a power source, be it for a hair dryer on a camping trip, arc welding at a job site or helping out at a customer's house during a power outage, according to Alan Perriton, VIA Motors' chief operating officer and a former GM senior executive, who demonstrated how light the 108-pound engine was by lifting it.
VIA Motors also makes extended-range SUVs and vans.
The base price for the pickup is $57,000, according to company spokesman David West, who added that six have been sold, all to Pacific Gas & Electric.
2012 is "the year we say goodbye to our addiction to oil," intoned the VIA Motors promo video that kicked off the company's NAIAS news conference.


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"Women Prophets of God's Alternative Reign" November 12, 2012, 9:30 A.M.
Dr. Barbara Reid, Professor of New Testament Studies, Vice President and Academic Dean, the Catholic Theological Union is the 2012 Lecturer.
The lecture will explore how the prophetic speech and acts of Mary, Elizabeth, and Anna set the stage for the major themes of Luke's Gospel and foreshadow the prophetic ministry of Jesus. These scenes pose challenging questions for contemporary preachers, teachers, and catechists.
This event is free and open to the public; students and groups from congregations are welcome.
The Robert Brawley Lecture in Gospel Studies is named for Robert L. Brawley, the Albert G. McGaw Professor of New Testament Emeritus at McCormick Seminary. It was established to address key issues in gospel studies, in honor of Dr. Brawley's work and expertise in this area of scholarship.


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You're familiar with the push-up, right? Well, trainer Bob Harper of NBC's "The Biggest Loser" has a few tweaks that he says will produce a more effective exercise.
What it does
The traditional push-up is largely a chest and shoulder exercise, done with elbows pointing out to the side while you lower the body to a few inches off the ground and then return to the starting position. And there's nothing wrong with it. But Harper's tweaks put the triceps to work and increase the range of motion.
What to do
Assume the traditional push-up position: Hands on the floor, a little wider than shoulder distance, and torso and lower...


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A two-car collision left three people, including a 7-year-old girl, hospitalized Friday morning.
A two-car collision left three people, including a 7-year-old girl, hospitalized Friday morning.
State troopers are still investigating what caused the collision, and the identities of the three individuals hospitalized have not been released.
What is clear is that a Chevrolet Blazer and a Pontiac G6 collided about 11:30 a.m. near the Exit 94 off-ramp on Interstate 85 in the southbound lanes, said North Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper J.W. Boozer.
After the collision, the Pontiac veered to the left and came to rest in the median. The Chevrolet veered to the right, crossed the off-ramp and overturned in the right shoulder.
There were three passengers in the Chevrolet.
A 7-year-old girl was ejected from the Chevrolet and later taken to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. She was conscious and breathing at the scene, Boozer said.
A male driver and female passenger of the Chevrolet were also taken to the hospital, Boozer said, adding both of those patients were also conscious and breathing.
William Buie and his 7-month-old grandson occupied the Pontiac and were uninjured. Buie, who was traveling back to his home in South Carolina, said his car spun several times after the collision.
Boozer said the investigation into the incident is ongoing.


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Seton Hall Invitational
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The freshmen men excelled at the Seton Hall Games on December 12th led by Ian Lovergie's (Castle Point, NY/Beacon) 3rd place in the high jump (6'2") and long jump 20' 9 ľ". Reggie Routier (Amityville, NY/Freeport) placed 5th in the 60m high hurdles (8.78), Andre Spears (Westbury, NY/Westbury) placed 5th in the triple jump (43' 1 ľ"). Tywaun Sanford (Freeport, NY/Freeport) placed 5th in the 400m (51.65) and Reuben Hairston (Freeport, NY/Freeport) placed 6th in the long jump (20'4").
Other notable performaces:
Four triple jumpers went over 40 feet: Spears – 41' 1 ľ", Hairston – 41' 11 Ľ", Routier – 41' 6" and Patric Santiago (Baldwin, NY/Baldwin) – 40' 5".
Freshman Kevin Desrouilleres (Spring Valley, NY/Ramapo) had a 40' shot put.
For the women's team, Sophomore Indiana Ripoll (New York, NY/JFK) placed 4th in her 800m section in 2:44.28 followed by junior Rachel Siegel (Medford, NY/Bellport) who was sixth in 2:50.63. Freshmen sprinters who ran the 200m were: Jamela Jacobs (Brooklyn, NY/William H. Maxwell) 30.42, Mariama Conteh (Bronx, NY/St. Barnabas) 30.98 and Cynthia Dumas (White Plains, NY/Good Counsel) 32.82.


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Photoshop: How to use the High Pass filter | lynda.com
This Photoshop tutorial demonstrates how to use the High Pass filter to sharpen original photography. Watch more at http://www.lynda.com/Photoshop-CS5-tutorials/one-on-one-mastery/61019-2.html?utm_medium=viral&utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=videoupload-61019-3003 This specific tutorial is just a single movie from chapter thirty of the Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery course presented by lynda.com author Deke McClelland. The complete Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery course has a total duration of 20 hours, and presents an in-depth tour of Smart Objects, Photomerge, Puppet Warp, Mixer Brush, HDR features, and more. Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery table of contents: Introduction 25. What Photoshop Can Do, Part 3: The Face Paint 26. Masking Essentials 27. Everything About the Pen Tool 28. Blend Modes Revealed 29. The Power of Smart Objects 30. Nondestructive Smart Filters 31. The Bristle and Mixer Brushes 32. Auto-Align, Auto-Blend, and Photomerge 33. High Dynamic Range (HDR Pro) 34. Actions and Batch Processing Conclusion
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Toronto snaps 5-game skid with 4-2 win over Tampa
TORONTO (AP) — Nazem Kadri passed another test with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The talented 22-year-old Kadri had three assists and Joffrey Lupul added a goal and an assist as the Toronto Maple Leafs snapped a five-game winless skid with a 4-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday night.
Kadri, a hot-button topic for the Maple Leafs in the past, leads the team in scoring with 30 points on 11 goals and 19 assists. And coach Randy Carlyle said his plan is to put Kadri's line — which includes Lupul and Nikolai Kulemin — against the opposition's top trio.
"We knew we had to come out with our foot on the gas pedal right away," said Kadri, who pointed to good chemistry with Lupul. "We're pretty much on the same page offensively. We know where each other are going to be before we're there."
Well, the trio got the job done against the Lightning's top line of Steven Stamkos, Martin St. Louis and Cory Conacher. Stamkos, the league's top goal-scorer, was limited to one shot.
"We're going to test Kadri against the best players," Carlyle said. "He wants that, he cherishes it and tonight it worked for him."
Kulemin, Dion Phaneuf and Tyler Bozak also scored for Toronto. Kadri's three points tied a career high, and he had a chance at a fourth point but was hauled down in front of the goal by Teddy Purcell midway through the third period.
Former coach Ron Wilson complained about Kadri's defense, but Carlyle said the youngster was never negligent in that area.
"The biggest emergence of Nazem Kadri is where and when in the game to try to use the skill moves," Carlyle said. "He was always good defensively. ... What happens in your transition from junior to pro hockey, it's the number of times that you expose yourself to the high risk, high reward and where you do and when you do it on the ice.
"That's really been the learning curve for Nazie. We always knew that he had skill."
Rookies Radko Gudas and Cory Conacher scored for Tampa Bay in the third, spoiling James Reimer's shutout attempt.
The Leafs, outshot 28-26, had been off since a 5-4 shootout loss to the visiting Winnipeg Jets on Saturday, with their last win coming March 6 — a 5-4 decision over visiting Ottawa.
Toronto gave up 16 goals during the slide with Reimer, 0-1-2 during that run, allowing eight goals on 76 shots.
Tampa Bay, while 4-6-0 in its last 10, came into the game off back-to-back wins over Carolina and Philadelphia that saw it score four goals in each game. The Lightning were without star forward Vincent Lecavalier, who reportedly suffered a broken left foot March 12 against Florida.
"It took us too much time to get our legs," Tampa Bay coach Guy Boucher said. "We're a hard-working fast team and it didn't look like that the first half.
"We looked like we were waiting to see what was going to happen out there," he added. "I don't know if it was because the guys froze or it was a road game —I can't tell you. But it wasn't a good game to start."
The game marked the return this season of 22-year-old defenseman Jake Gardiner, a member of the all-rookie team last season who has been playing in the American Hockey League for the Toronto Marlies this season after recovering from a concussion.
Lupul — making his 99th appearance as a Leaf — opened the scoring at 6:56 of the first period, completing a nifty tic-tac-toe passing play with Kadri and Carl Gunnarson that found him alone in front of Mathieu Garon as checker Alex Killorn went walkabout. It was Lupul's third goal in two games since returning from a broken forearm.
Mikhail Grabovski's power-play goal later in the period was negated by a tripping call on Lupul.
It took Tampa 10 minutes to record a shot on goal. Toronto eventually outshot Tampa 8-6 after 20 minutes but the home net was hardly a stronghold.
Defenseman Mark Fraser pushed Toronto's league-leading number of fighting majors to 30 early in the second period when he tangled — successfully — with B.J. Crombeen. Seconds later, Phaneuf added to the Leafs lead with a rising slap shot from the point for his fifth of the season at 52 seconds.
Bozak, with his eighth of the year, made it 3-0 after Kessel controlled a rebound at 6:53 and fed it to his center who was alone in front. Kulemin then padded Toronto's lead to 4-0 with his fourth on the season after neatly evading the trailing Gudas and snapping a wrist shot from the slot at 7:22.
That chased Garon, who gave up four goals on 14 shots, in favor of Anders Lindback.
Lupul was front and center throughout the night, sent to the penalty box early in the third for an illegal hit to the head that floored defenseman Victor Hedman. Lupul hit Hedman with his shoulder, leaving the big Swede dazed.
"By no means did I go after him and try and hit him in the head," Lupul said.
Garon returned to goal in the third period, as Lindback went to the dressing room. Boucher called it a lower-body injury.
"Hopefully it's not something that's going to keep him out for long," Boucher said. "He was doing really good for us his last four or five starts. Hopefully it won't last very long."
Tampa, 0 for 4 with the man advantage, was unable to profit from two early power plays in the third period. But Gudas made it 4-1 with a shot from the point that went through traffic at 7:44 for his first career goal. Garon then returned to goal, as Lindback went to the dressing room.
Conacher scored his eighth of the season at 17:02, tipping in a pass from Tyler Johnson in front, to cut the lead to 4-2.
NOTES: The contest was the first stop on a three-game Canadian trip for the Lightning, who play in Ottawa on Saturday and Winnipeg on Sunday. ... The Lightning downed the Maple Leafs 4-2 at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on Feb. 19 ... Conacher, a native of Burlington, Ontario, had a 62-person suite for friends and family at the ACC. ... The Leafs placed defenseman Mike Komisarek on waivers.


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The first stop in helping our bodies get clean is … you guessed it, FOOD. Today, we will talk about the importance of coloring our plate, organic foods, toxins in our foods, and washing our produce.
Coloring thy Plate
If you are not coloring your plate already, I highly encourage you to add rich and vivid greens, reds, oranges, purples, and yellows at every meal. Engaging yourself in this way of thinking not only fuels your body with more needed nutrients and fiber, and makes your taste buds happy but also allows you to be more acutely aware of what you are eating on a daily basis. For example: If cereal is your morning meal ritual, how about adding strawberries, peaches or blueberries on top?
Eat organic … as much as you can.
There are three main reasons I promote organic eating.
- Organic foods taste better and in general, are more nutritious ( nutrient rich soils!).
- It allows for a healthier Mother Earth. Pesticide – free trees, plants, and soils have more nutrients in them which in return gives us foods that are richer in taste and nutrition.
- A pesticide and chemical free world keeps us healthier. Less disease.
Pesticides and chemicals are sprayed on everything and are present everywhere. It is difficult to avoid them completely but we can do our best to lower our exposure with what we eat.
Do your best to only buy these foods organic ( dirty dozen):
Apples, bell peppers, carrots, celery, cherries, imported grapes, kale, lettuce, nectarines, peaches, pears, strawberries.
Wash your produce
Washing your produce correctly will give a greater impact of reducing your toxic exposure.
- Remove the skin off non-organic apples, pears, nectarines and potatoes.
- Create an acid wash. Mix enough water to mix with a cup of vinegar in a bowl. Place the produce in the the bowl and let sit for at least 10 minutes. Then gently scrub your produce.
Tomorrow we will talk about emmunctories. Not sure what emunctory is, then stay tuned!
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Over 32 GW of site concessions in nine zones around Great Britain were granted by seabed owner the Crown Estate in the UK's third round of offshore wind development.
It is expected to deliver up to 25 GW of wind power capacity to help meet the UK's renewables targets.
All nine Round 3 developers selected for concessions are currently embarking on appraisals of their allotted seabed zones to identify the key issues, including undertaking environmental and geophysical surveys and consulting stakeholders.
The site development licence for the Dogger Bank zone was awarded to the Forewind Consortium comprising German utility RWE, Scottish utility SSE and Norway's Statkraft and Statoil.
At 9 GW and covering 8660 square kilometres (3344 square miles), Dogger Bank is the biggest of the nine zones. It is large enough to house 13 GW of wind power generating capacity—enough to supply 10% of the UK's electricity needs.
As well as the challenges that would usually be associated with building wind turbines in up to 63 metres of water and between 125 and 290 kilometres (78 and 180 miles) from shore, the developers have to take into account the rich history that lies beneath the waves—as well as unknown environmental implications.
Dogger Bank has been proposed as a special area of conservation for its shallow sandbanks.
This would make it a strictly protected area under the EU's habitats directive.
"Over the past few months we have been trying to better understand what impact this might have," says Gareth Lewis, head of development at Forewind.
He says that an initial assessment shows that the project would at worst have a very small impact of less than 1% of the total area.
Since January the consortium has been undertaking environment and geophysical surveys, he says. These include the biggest boat based and aerial bird surveys that have ever taken place.
But potential problems could arise with the seismic surveys of the site.
"Now that we are moving deeper into oil and gas territory, we have become aware of the impact that their exploration seismic surveys could have on our own seismic surveys," Lewis says.
Oil and gas seismic sources are louder and penetrate deeper under the seabed—down to three kilometres compared with just 50 metres for wind.
This means they can impact wind surveys from up to 50 nautical miles away, he says. And with the latest round of licensing blocks for oil and gas exploration which will be awarded this month, more surveys could be coming to the area next year.
For the fishing industry Dogger Bank has been important for centuries.
"We are working with UK and international fishermen to understand the key areas of interest on the site," says Lewis.
But it is the archaeological significance of the area that particularly captures the imagination. Two famous sea battles took place at Dogger Bank: the first was between the English and Dutch fleets in 1781 and the second was in the First World War where the German vessel, the Blücher, was sunk with the loss of over 700 lives.
There are also further wrecks from WWI on the site, Lewis says. "Understanding the whereabouts of these battles will not only be important for understanding the maritime heritage but also for determining any ordnance or underwater hazards within the zone during the construction phase."
He says, going back a further 6000 years, in Mesolithic times Doggerland was a large inhabited island—one of the last parts of the land bridge that connected Great Britain with mainland Europe before it was inundated due to sea level rise after the ice age.
"Dutch fishermen have for years been recovering archaeological artefacts from the site. Our geophysics surveys will add to that knowledge base."
The Forewind consortium plans to develop the Dogger Bank zone in four tranches. Following consultations with stakeholders, it has identified the location of the first tranche.
Two years of stakeholder engagement, surveys and studies are in progress, leading up to a consent application at the end of 2012—with hopes for a decision a year later.
Next year, Lewis says that Forewind hopes to identify tranche B, with C and D to follow at further yearly intervals.
The project has already secured an offer from Britain's transmission operator National Grid for connection of 1 GW of output into the onshore network.
But Lewis warns of grid challenges ahead. "Far offshore has been made technically possible by new HVDC technology, however this has never been built for greater than 400 MW."
There is a way to go yet before developers will be comfortable enough to place contracts, he says.
In addition, plans for the new regime of independent offshore transmission owners (OFTOs) are a cause for concern.
"There could be a risk of timelines stretching because the OFTO would not be prepared to take on some of the early commitment risk that the developer would," Lewis says.
Furthest North
Facing a similar set of site constraints is the Moray Firth zone off the north-east coast of Scotland.
It is the furthest north of all the proposed UK offshore wind developments. The 1300 MW project is being developed by Moray Offshore Renewables (MOR), a joint venture of Portuguese utility EDP Renováveis (EDPR) and Britain's Sea Energy Renewables as the minority partner.
As well as the usual environmental and seabed conflicts, development is also constrained by cumulative and "in-combination" impacts, says Enrique Alvarez-Uria of EDPR.
The zone is next to the 920 MW Beatrice project that in 2009 was awarded a site development licence in the Scottish Territorial Waters round.
"It's obvious that there are impacts between the two projects and we are engaging in close discussions to look at the mutual benefits," he says.
The two sets of developers are collaborating to identify potential cumulative effects and to standardise their approach to site assessments.
In addition to the wind project under development next door, there are also two existing wind turbines and several oil platforms located on the edge of the zone.
MOR has split the zone into two areas and intends to develop first the eastern area where there are fewer constraints. MOR claims it is outside any conservation-designated areas, and outside the helicopter safety zone or shipping access routes around the oil platforms.
The area is located an average 26 kilometres from shore with water depths of 35–60 metres. Wind speeds average 9.75 metres a second at 90 metre hub height.
MOR plans to install some 200 turbines, generating between 1 GW and 1.14 GW.
The project is expected to generate its first electricity in 2016, with further capacity coming on line up to 2020. Alvarez-Uria says the programme is challenging but "doable".
Like the Forewind consortium, MOR sees a significant challenge in getting the wind farm's generation to customers.
As the northernmost project, the zone is far from load centres, with the result that it is penalised by high transmission charges in spite of its "tremendous" wind resource.
"We are also facing very high financial securities," he says, referring to the large sums of money that need to be paid upfront to secure a grid connection.
"On top of this we have the OFTO regime which is bringing uncertainty that can impact our programme."
Alvarez-Uria warns of the potential downsides to the joint ventures and strategic alliances that are being formed to take forward the next generation of huge offshore wind projects.
"We cannot disregard the inherent risks they bring. Challenges are everywhere and are going to be coming for many years so we have to ensure that our goals are compatible," he says.
With offshore wind being a very long cycle industry, there will be misalignments over time of goals, risk profiles and of diverse corporate cultures from countries such as Spain, Denmark or the UK. The players will have different incentives and resources, and evolutions in technology may disrupt some relationships, he says.
"I don't have a silver bullet for this, but having project-focused organisations is helpful," he says. Project oriented teams with clear roles that bring accountability and complementary skills and resources will help avoid redundancies.
"This will ensure the consistency that the supply chain is demanding to standardise and move away from designing on a project by project basis," he says.
As an example of the need to standardise, he points out that the substations deployed at every single wind farm so far have been of a completely different design.
"Industrialising is key. Offshore companies should leverage on scale—and utilities have scale in procurement, financing and IT systems."
Design one, then build many
Agreeing with the need to standardise is Steve Clarke, UK content manager at Mainstream Renewable Power. Mainstream is half of SMart Wind, a 50:50 consortium with Siemens Project Ventures, which bagged the 4 GW Hornsea zone.
The consortium makes much of its vertical integration with tier one suppliers. Siemens is expected to supply the turbines and substations while Mainstream will provide the development expertise.
The two main players are supported by Hochtief Construction and Beluga Shipping. "The intention is to design out as much risk as possible and place the remaining risk with the right experts best able to manage it," says Clarke.
"The overall objective being a reduction in capital cost and lifecycle cost."
The zone covers 4735 square kilometres and extends between 34 and 190 kilometres from the Yorkshire coast—equivalent to the width of England from Liverpool to Hull.
Water depths are mostly 30–40 metres but with maximum depths up to 70 metres. SMart Wind intends to develop the zone in eight smaller 500 MW blocks.
"Such modular development and construction gives a far higher degree of predictability to the supply chain and to the investment community as well. The idea being to design one and then build many," says Clarke.
Both Clarke and Alvarez-Uria stress the need to bring the costs of offshore wind down. "It is key that we deliver clean energy at competitive prices," says Alvarez-Uria. "We cannot rely on subsidies for more than a decade. It has to be in our mindset from day one."
Clarke adds: "Having seen the price of wind energy double, thankfully the curve is now going in the right direction." He points out that the industry is about to see greater competition in turbine supply with around a dozen new turbines being developed or already on the market.
Round 3 offers the economies of scale and opportunities for innovation to deliver less expensive solutions.
"Future gigawatts offshore will be delivered using new turbine foundations and grid system solutions and new install vessels too, all bringing significant reductions in capex and opex," he says, referring to capital expenditure and operating expenditure.


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