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Last week was so busy! I am glad to start a new week. However, this week seems like it will be just as busy. At least I do not have any out of town trips this week. That will be a help. The little Beanes will be getting their picture made with Santa Claus on Wednesday, so at least I have some leverage for good behavior this week.
Our family is going to do something different this year. We will not be celebrating Thanksgiving until Saturday. So on Thursday, Mr. Homegrown and I are taking the little Beanes out to eat on Thursday and going to see the Muppet Movie together. I am so excited to be doing something fun since we can't be with our families on Thanksgiving day. And I will have extra time to prepare my house and kitchen for the influx of family coming in on Saturday!
Here is the line up for this week.
Fried Pork Chops
Thanksgiving at Cracker Barrel
The Muppet Movie
I will use these recipes as a guide to cook Italian sausage, potatoes, and veggies! Mr. Homegrown will have a great time cooking this for me (and no one will be in the house messing it up while I am on a mad dash to get everything ready for our Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow!)
I am linking up with Menu Plan Monday. Go over and check out everyone's menu and recipe ideas for this week. There is so much inspiration over there!
I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving!

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This Friday, June 20, is National Vanilla Milkshake Day! Make a dreamy vanilla bean milkshake in just minutes with ingredients from Vanilla From Tahiti.
Tahitian Vanilla Bean Malted Milkshake Recipe
Recipe by Vanilla From Tahiti
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3/4-1 cup cold whole milk, less for thicker milkshakes
1 teaspoon Tahitian vanilla extract
Seeds from 1 Tahitian vanilla bean*
2 cups Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream, preferably homemade
2-3 tablespoons malted milk powder, to taste (found in grocery aisle near dry milk powder or near coffee, tea, and cocoa)
1/4 cup malted milk balls, crushed
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So, yes the site we all knew as Footnote.com is no more. If you go there, this is what you get, in front of the new Fold3 website:
I think the answer to "So what does it mean?" misses the point.
I have so many questions. And this post on the official blog of Fold3.com does little to answer them. Some things are clear. The new focus will be on military records. They state that clearly: "This new focus will direct our content plans and allow us to organize the site around military records." So what does that mean for the non-military records digitized by Footnote? The blog post says: "You will still be able to access the great non-military records previously found on Footnote." In my mind I added a phrase to that ". . . at least for now." I mean, how does it make any sense to go to these lengths to re-brand yourself as a military-focused site and then have all these now (now) random non-military records on it? How long before those records get moved to yet another site? I mean, not that I really care as long as they are still available to the public (for a price, for the most part), but how does this make any sense? And I would guess that this means no new scanning projects of anything but military records, so there goes another way of increasing access to those kinds of records.
I found this whole thing confusing. Why? Why get rid of the name Footnote? And if you want to do that, why go with this military focus? In reading the comments on the Fold3 blog post, I found that I was not alone. Here are excerpts from some of the comments:
- One of the reasons I subscribed to Footnote.com years ago was the ability it gave me to connect the *stuff* in my files to records in published collections. Over the years, I have uploaded historic photos and letters that I have scanned from my own collections, tagged them with locations and names, and connected them to census records, passport applications, naturalization and military records available on Footnote.com. I can see that I'll need a new strategy for sharing those documents, none of which are military records. I don't care for the name, and think shifting an entire website's focus to just one type of records doesn't bode well for the "Other Collections." For what it's worth, I just changed my account settings so that my subscription will not renew when it runs out.
- I'm interested in Indian and slave records, not military. It was great when you were adding records from the Dawes Commission and state archives. This new direction is a big disappointment.
- No disrespect to our veterans, whom I esteem very highly, but I think the new name is a poor choice. As some others on here have said, any time you have to explain the meaning of your name, you can be sure it's a poor choice.I doubt we'll ever get the old Footnote.com back but please, please listen to the many disappointed customers and at least consider it. There's absolutely no reason you couldn't have continued to add military content to Footnote.com and by doing so you could have accomplished your goal to be the best military genealogical site while still retaining a name most genealogists recognize and respect.
- Just seeing these changes. Will you be including the other year's Census? I thought those were on here before.Also, since this site is a military collection now, what does the Woodstock collection have to do with this now?
- fold3 vs. footnote ? Strange. I'm not looking at military records. To me footnote was about all kinds of records. Why the narrow focus on the military?
- I find it very interesting that you state that footnotes "can carry a connotation of insignificance." That certainly is not true in genealogy and history! Aren't genealogists and historians your target audience?
- As a librarian who is trying to encourage the usage of this database this name change will make it even more difficult to promote. Did you find available domain names and flip a coin? At lease footnote had some reference to research. Perhaps you will spin off the non-military content and charge more for two different products!
- Footnote has been a major source of records for people of Native American heritage, such as the Dawes Rolls, the Indian census rolls, and the Eastern Cherokee applications. The name "Fold 3″ has nothing to do with that. Indian and census records have nothing to do with the military. What do you plan to do about all those records?
- As a Genealogy/Local History Librarian, I had pitched the subscription to Footnote.com to my library director as a way of gaining access to more of the types of records our patrons want. Ultimately, he agreed to the more costly Footnote Plus addition so that we could also have access to the Native American, African-American and Holocaust records, among others. This was about a month ago. Now I feel like the victim of a "bait-and-switch." I understand that the non-military records are still on the site, but for how long? And will you keep adding to those non-military records? Will you eventually migrate non-military records to Ancestry or somewhere else, where yet another subscription will be required? Library budgets and family budgets are being cut across the country. I sincerely hope this "re-focus" does not mean we'll eventually have to subscribe to yet another site and pay more for the same records we have access to now. I can speculate all day on the how and why for this change (and several of us in our library have wasted time on that already), but I have to say that the change to "Fold3″ is inexplicable at least and ridiculous at worst. Even after reading the explanation for the name change and the meaning behind it, I think it's an ill-advised move. My own father was a veteran, and he was honored with full military rites at his graveside. But the jump from the flag fold to the name for a records repository is head-scratching, indeed. I'm going to have to spend a lot of time explaining this to my patrons and reassuring them they still have access to the records we signed up for. My genealogy patrons knew what "Footnote" meant, and it never occurred to me that the name implied something "inconsequential." I've learned quite a bit from reading footnotes over the years!
Sorry to go on at length, but it was so tempting to keep adding more. You should really go and read them for yourself. Oh wait, here's one that's not really related to this matter but was too inflammatory to ignore:
- I too would like to know more about the renamed database and the partnership with the National Archives. As I recall, part of the agreement was that a record set would be made free five years after completion of digitization. Have others noticed that some record sets, for example, the Bureau of Investigation records, have been at 98 percent completion for years? Is Footnote/Fold3 taking advantage of a loophole in the agreement? That is, if digitization of the record set never reaches completion, the set will never become free. I look forward to an explanation.
So, why the change? I'm sure it all boils down to money in some way. Maybe they will eventually spin off another site for the non-military records and charge users for another subscription to that. Why the odd name? A pretty bad decision on someone's part, I guess. What will happen to the non-military records? The blog post says they will still be available on the site, but I wonder for how long and where they will eventually end up. Somewhere in Ancestry.com's vast domain, I'm sure. (Ancestry bought out Footnote a while back, in case you didn't know.) Is all this just a lot of fuss over a name? Possibly, but still, such an abrupt and significant shift in direction leaves a lot of room for speculation. Do you have an thoughts to add to the irate former-Footnote users' comments? I'll keep you updated if I learn more and please let me know if you hear more about this.


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Watkins Glen, N.Y. - The official Watkins Glen and Schuyler County Travel Guide produced annually by the Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce has arrived for the summer tourism season. Featuring a chapter-like format corresponding to the Chamber's tourism marketing brand the area is most famous for, themed sections include Arts, History, Culture & Shopping; Outdoor Recreation & Attractions; Hospitality, Wine & Culinary Excellence; and Water and Lake Activities. With decreased editorial and increased experience-based imagery, the new guide features high-end photography, links to videos, vacation planning deals/specials, website and social media references, testimonials and traveler tips. The guide again includes illustrated pull-out maps incorporating state, regional, county and village locations featuring colorful key attractions to the area as well. Designed each year, the guide is a lure-piece sent throughout the state, country, and world. It is available at the Chamber's Visitor Center, distribution centers, and can be download in an interactive format on the Chamber's website, http://www.watkinsglenchamber.com/. In 2010 130,000 guides were printed and delivered. 130,000 were printed again for 2011. Dixon Schwabl, an advertising, marketing and public relations firm out of Victor, NY designed the piece. Vanguard Printing of Ithaca, NY printed the guide. Both businesses are members of the Chamber. Now available for pick up at the Chamber office, guides can be reserved and ordered by contacting Katie Strawser, Visitor Center Coordinator at 607-535-4300 or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. ### Contact: Miranda O. Polmanteer, Director of Tourism and Marketing firstname.lastname@example.com 607.535.4300
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Thanks to the guys from the band Cerber for sharing their demo!
Cerber is a fresh new band from Poland. This trio plays Stoner/Sludge Metal with Hardcore influences. Their DIY demo called Z Prochu is a great start of this band. Their music is heavy, aggressive and grooving. The guitar riffs are stunning, just as the rhytm section is. The vocals are raw and brutal. The lyrics are part English and for a part Polish.
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J. Bradford DeLong
August 2001
William Easterly (2001), The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (Cambridge: MIT Press: 026205065X).
Today the industrialized world as a whole is embarked--half-heartedly, I admit--on yet another crusade to try to make the poorer parts of the world rich. The ideology behind this crusade--an ideology that I believe in--is called "neoliberalism." It has two guiding principles. The first is that close economic contact between the industrial core and the developing periphery is the best way to accelerate the transfer of technology which is the sine qua non for making poor economies rich (hence all barriers to international trade should be eliminated as fast as possible). The second is that governments in general lack the capacity to run large industrial and commercial enterprises (hence save for core missions of income distribution, public-good infrastructure, administration of justice, and a few others, governments should shrink and privatize).
However, this neoliberal crusade is not the first such crusade for economic development. Since World War II there have been at least six such crusades: the "building socialism" crusade, the "financing gap" crusade, the "import substitution" crusade, the "aid for education" crusade, the "oil money recycling" crusade, and the "population boom" crusade. All of them failed to spark rapid economic development. Does what went wrong then have any lessons to tell us about the future of the crusade we are undertaking now? Yes--and now is a good time to take a look back at the history of crusades-for-development since World War II, for World Bank economist Bill Easterly has just written The Elusive Quest for Growth (published by MIT Press), his own take on the largely dismal history of government-led programs to spark development.
These different crusades in the past overlapped in time, so there is no clear chronological sequence among them. Among the first, however, was the "building socialism" crusade. Easterly does not cover this: his concern is with the quality of advice provided to developing countries by western economists. But for much of the post-World War II period, the idea that the Soviet Union's development strategy in the 1930s had been a success and was worth emulating was a very powerful one throughout much of the world. Decreeing that factories, dams, railroads, and power plants be built; squeezing down the standard of living of the people to free up resources for investment; making foreign trade an instrument for state-led development rather than for importing luxuries for the rich--all these coupled with a degree of terror rarely if ever seen in human society had by 1950 created one of the world's two superpowers out of what had thirty years before been a poor, backward, war-devastated empire.
People at the time grossly underestimated the human cost of Stalinist industrialization. People grossly overestimated the extent to which the Soviet Union was an industrial economy. And few recognized how quickly the Soviet system would degenerate into corruption and stagnation in the absence of mass terror and a small set of readily-measurable industrial goals. Outside of Eastern Europe, economies that followed the central-planning road saw little if any economic progress, and did significantly worse than neighboring countries that did not try to "build socialism."
The second was the "financing gap" crusade. Based on W.W. Rostow's belief that a sharp rise in the share of national product devoted to investment stood a good chance of triggering a take-off into self-sustained growth, the idea was that industrial nations and international organizations could provide countries with large-scale aid to finance such an investment boom. This would, Rostow and others thought, both do good and fight communism by demonstrating, as Easterly quotes Rostow, "that communism was not 'the only form of effective state organization that can... launch a take-off'."
But what was to make sure that the aid would boost rather than substitute for domestically-financed investment? And what was to ensure that aid-financed investment would be economically productive, as opposed to being designed with an eye toward attractive pictures for politicians and corruption opportunities for the husband of the niece of the Vice-Minister of Finance? In Easterly's judgment, this approach was and remains a dismal failure because it focuses on macroeconomic aggregates and prestige projects rather than on incentives. In a way, it combines the worst aspects of central planning and market-based development: the top-down unrealism of central planning coupled with the vulnerability to diversion and hold-up found in markets where there is substantial monopoly power.
Closely associated with this second was a third crusade: the idea that the right way to pursue growth was through import-substitution industrialization. According to economists like Raul Prebisch of the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Latin America, the terms of trade were stacked against primary product-exporting developing economies. Only if they moved quickly to replicate the economic structure of the industrial economies could they avoid getting caught in a trap where they grew more and more and sold it for less and less. And only if, in the meanwhile, they used controls to cut down on luxury imports could their undervalued exports provide enough foreign exchange to support the build-up of the industrial sector.
It is fair to say that this crusade for development might have worked had governments been up to the task, and had the focus been on building those parts of an industrial base in which developing countries could credibly think they might develop a comparative advantage. But policies aimed at controlling imports produced high black-market premiums. As Easterly says, this creates "a strong incentive to get access to U.S. dollars at the official rate and resell them at the black market rate... fierce competition for licenses to buy U.S. dollars." And "anytime the main profit opportunity in the economy is to get around government rules, not much good is going to happen in the real economy." And too much of import-substitution industrialization--Argentina's attempt to build an auto industry, Brazil's attempt to build a minicomputer industry--had its principal effect in reducing the real incomes of individuals and the efficiency of firms that had to buy from local producers.
The other three stories are as depressing. In the 1970s the tripling of world oil prices created a problem: how were developing countries to finance their imports of oil. The answer was that loans would be made by money-center banks out of oil-country assets deposited in money centers. The result was a tremendous debt overhang that, when real interest rates on the debt and the real value of the dollar in which the debt was denominated rose, led to the LDC debt crisis of the 1980s, and the "lost decade" of development. At the end of the 1960s Stanford's Paul Ehrlich wrote a book, The Population Bomb, in which he predicted Malthusian disaster: mass starvation in south Asia and elsewhere before the end of the 1980s. This triggered a major push to provide people with contraceptives--sometimes whether they wanted them or not--that had little effect on economic development.
The belief that not physical investment but investment in people--human capital--education--was the key to growth was not far wrong. But according to Easterly the way that development advisors and governments went about promoting it was backwards. As he puts it, governments can pass laws requiring that people go to school (and getting clients of government politicians foreign aid-funded jobs as schoolteachers), but will people learn? "The quality of education will be different in an economy with incentives to invest in the future versus an economy where they are none." Where other things in the economy are going right, there is indeed a powerful link between more education and faster economic growth. But hopes that education alone can turn around an economy where much is going wrong have proved futile.
The failure of these development crusades over the past century does not have to leave us without hope. Easterly tells the story of the Bangladeshi garment industry, that grew from nothing at all in 1979 to $2 billion of exports--more than half of Bangladesh's exports--today. Noorul Quader's Desh Garments Ltd. agreed in 1979 that Daewoo of Korea would trade 130 of its workers in modern technology and administration. By the early 1980s Desh Garments felt that it did not need the assistance of its Korean collaborators any more. By the end of the 1980s 115 out of those 130 Korean-trained workers had started their own garment firms. By the mid-1980s the rapid growth of Bangladesh's garment industry had come to the attention of that "ardent believer in free enterprise, Ronald Reagan." In 1985 he imposed quotas to restrict U.S. purchases of Bangladesh-made clothing.
So what does all this tell us about our current crusade for development? In Easterly's view, there are a few big lessons from the history: "Prosperity happens when all the players in the development game have the right incentives. It happens when government incentives induce technological adaptation, high-quality investment in machines, and high-quality schooling. It happens when donors face incentives that induce them to give aid to countries with good policies where aid will have high payoffs, not to countries with poor policies where aid is wasted. It happens when the poor get good opportunities and incentives... It happens when politics is not polarized between antagonistic interest groups, but there is a common consensus to invest in the future. Broad and deep development happens when a government that is held accountable for its actions energetically takes up the task of investing in collective goods like health, education, and the rule of law..."
It is clear that the neoliberal policy prescriptions--try to make government honest and smaller (so it doesn't have its fingers in as many economic decisions), try to keep the macroeconomy stable, and boost world trade and thus cross-border economic links as much as possible--affect only a small proportion of these requirements for successful economic development. Neoliberal policy prescriptions have little ability to create governments that energetically invest in collective goods, a political system that enforces accountability, a national consensus for growth, and a commitment by donors to reward success only.
Thus there is a sense in which neoliberalism as we know it is a counsel of despair. Most of what is needed is beyond its reach. The hope is that privatization and world economic integration will in the long run help create the rest of the preconditions for successful development. But we are playing this card not because we think it is a winner, but because it is the last one in our hand.
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Much like Crytek began Crysis marketing with sweeping views of a tropical island jungle powered by CryENGINE2, Ubisoft has used this Far Cry 2 teaser to throw a coming out party for its "Dunia" game engine. We see romanticized views of anywhere Africa through a hazy film filter with little indication of actual gameplay, save for the obvious metaphor of brushfire – oh yes, there will be blood.
Once you're done gazing at the virtual safari, considering checking out MTV's chat with Far Cry 2 creative director Clint Hocking for some real insight into the FPS-cum-male weepy. "Yes, it's a shooter where you run around and machine-gun a bunch of people. But there are real characters in here who I hope you're going to develop a real relationship with," hopes Hocking.


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Heinrich SCHÜTZ (1585-1672)
Il primo libro de madrigali , Op.1, SWV 1-19 (1611)
see end of review for track listing
Sette Voci/Peter Kooij
rec. Protestant Church, Kirchheim, Germany, 10-13 January 2011. DDD
Booklet with texts and translations included
Secular Italian-texted music from a German Lutheran composer better known for his German-texted sacred music is not as much a contradiction as might first appear. Like many musicians before and after him, the 24-year-old Heinrich Schütz spent time learning his trade in Italy; in the case of some of his sacred music it's difficult to be sure exactly what he composed and what he transcribed from Giovanni Gabrieli and Claudio Monteverdi. He published this collection of madrigals as his Op.1 in Venice in 1611. Though described as the first book, there seem to have been no successors, so this makes an attractive pendant to his sacred music.
There already were two recordings of Book I of these madrigals:
- Carus 83.237: Dresden Kammerchor/Hans-Christoph Rademann - review
- Harmonia Mundi HMG501686: Cantus Cölln/Konrad Junghänel, a recent reissue at mid-price of a recording first released in 2000.
You can compare these with the new recording from the Naxos Music Library. The Dresden Kammerchor sing well but, as Johan van Veen points out, the employment of a choir in this music is quirky to say the least. Cantus Cölln give a much leaner-textured and more enjoyable performance. You'll also find two recordings there which are not available on CD in the UK: Hannover Orlando di Lasso Ensemble (Thorofon CTH2387) and Capella Lipsiensis, Berlin Classics 0021022); all five of these recordings, including the new CPO, are available for download from classicsonline.com in mp3 but CPO downloads from that source tend to come with only a truncated version of the booklet, devoid of texts. Worse, though there are lossless downloads of the CPO and Carus recordings at an attractive price from eclassical.com, the all-important booklet of texts is not part of the deal, even in truncated form.
The themes of these madrigals will be familiar to anyone who knows the Italian models, Monteverdi et al - the coming of Spring, the sweetness of love and the bitterness of loving in vain. Lost love is always more bitter than never to have loved at all and the outcome often presages the death of the lover. Schütz's main source is Guarini's pastoral collection Il Pastor fido - nothing, surprisingly, from Petrarch - but he may have composed the text of No.19 himself: it's addressed not to a beloved but to his patron, Landgraf Moritz, Italianised as Gran Maurizio.
Sette Voci are a small ensemble - actually there are nine singers on this recording, so their maths, like that of The Sixteen, is a bit approximate. They are very lightly accompanied by violone, chitarrone and keyboard (harpsichord or organ). I enjoyed their performance of these works as much as that of Cantus Cölln. You may be attracted by the price advantage of the latter but I see that at least one online supplier is offering the CPO CD for around the same price.
Schütz's sacred music is one of the delights of its period and while I can't claim that these madrigals quite equal it, they are well worth getting to know in these performances. The recording matches the bright, fresh sound of the singing and the booklet of notes and texts is informative, though printed in a small font.
Brian Wilson
Track listing
No. 1. O Primavera, gioventu de l'anno, SWV1 [3:22]
No. 2. O dolcezze amarissime d'amore, SWV2 [2:33]
No. 3. Selve beate, se sospirando, SWV3 [2:40]
No. 4. Alma afflitta, che fai, SWV4 [2:50]
No. 5. Cosi morir debb'io, SWV5 [2:59]
No. 6. D'orrida selce alpina, SWV6 [3:39]
No. 7. Ride la primavera, SWV7 [3:19]
No. 8. Fuggi, fuggi, o mio core, SWV8 [2:35]
No. 9. Feritevi, ferite, SWV9 [3:12]
No. 10. Fiamma ch'allacia, SWV10 [2:21]
No. 11. Quella damma son io, SWV11 [2:12]
No. 12. Mi saluta costei, SWV12 [2:56]
No. 13. Io moro, SWV13 [2:57]
No. 14. Sospir che del bel petto, SWV14 [3:00]
No. 15. Dunque a Dio, SWV15 [3:21]
No. 16. Tornate, o cari baci, SWV16 [2:16]
No. 17. Di marmo siete voi, SWV17 [2:45]
No. 18. Giunto e pur, Lidia, SWV18 [2:48]
No. 19. Vasto mar, nel cui seno, SWV19 [3:49]
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Richard Schaefer
Thank you very much and thank you all media members to be on the call, thank you to both fighters to be on the call. I remember a couple years ago we did a card called Action Heroes and then we, of course, just had another one a few weeks ago, Knockout Kings 2 and I think this card here from the Stub Hub Center would certainly fit perfectly into either one of those cards. Because one thing, which is for sure, that night, on Saturday night the 24th of August from Stub Hub Center, fists will fly, it will be heavy action and it's going to be a tremendous night of boxing again. It's exactly these kinds of match ups, which Oscar and I discussed with our matchmakers, Eric Gomez and with Roberto Diaz. It's these kind of match ups we like to bring to the fight fans.
First, we are going to go with the main event of the night, which is going to be pound-for-pound star Abner Mares defending his world title against Jhonny González.
Jhonny González doesn't need much introduction with a record of (58 -8, 46 KO's). I think that record speaks for itself. He's one of the most exciting fighters with devastating power in his fists. He wants to win that world title back. He is already a former two-division world champion and really an amazing warrior. I know he's been training hard, I know he's going to be ready and it is a pleasure now for me to introduce to you the former two-division world champion Johnny González.
Jhonny González
Now, first of all, I want to say good morning to all of you. Thank you very much for being here. It's a great honor and pleasure for me to be on this call. What can I say? The moment is near; the moment of the fight is near and I'm very excited.
Thank you, Jhonny. I'm going to now introduce Abner and then we can open it up for questions for both fighters.
Whoever you put in front of Abner he beats and not only beats but he looks sensational doing it. He clearly marched through all of these divisions and is finally now recognized as one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world. He is the reigning and defending WBC Featherweight World Champion. His background goes back to the 2004 Olympics and then, of course, winning Showtime's Bantamweight Championship series clearly put him in a place now where he is one of the best and one of the most exciting fighters in the sport.
There's a handful of fighters that you know when you see them fight you know it's going to be all action and you know it's never going to be a boring fight and in that group, in that very elite group, Abner Mares certainly belongs. He fought Daniel Ponce de Leon for the WBC Featherweight Championship on May 4th in Las Vegas to now become a three time and three-division world champion and instead of going and taking an easy fight, a little breather, he's going in against the always dangerous, as I mentioned before, Jhonny González. It is a pleasure and an honor for me to introduce to you the WBC World Champion and pound-for-pound star, Abner Mares.
Abner Mares
Richard, thank you for the kind words. Everyone, good morning. Happy to be here, happy to be on another press conference call and ready to give you guys another exciting fight come August 24th at the Stub Hub Center. I'm blessed, I can't wait and it's going to be really a magnificent night for the sport of boxing.
Thank you very much, Abner. I want to add that this fight is presented in association with Promociones del Pueblo, which is the promoter for Jhonny González. I like to open it up now for those two fighters for the media if you have any questions for Jhonny or for Abner please.
I wanted to ask you how to do you feel physically and do you think it's going to be easier for you this time around making weight? And also you talked about how you felt stronger and how your power carried, so if you can talk a little bit about that, too.
Well, good morning, first of all. I feel it's going to be a lot more comfortable making weight, yes, because I'm moving up on weight. This is the second time fighting at this weight class. But then again, I am gaining muscle, so it's not as easy, but then again it's not as complicated making weight. I'm not struggling and I'm going to be strong, I'm going to be strong come August 24th. I can't wait. Jhonny González is a tough fighter that I have in front of me and again, I feel strong physically and mentally.
My question is for Abner and Jhonny González. Hey, guys. Do you feel coming into this fight it might be a little bit easier since you guys used to be sparring partners years ago? Is that going to affect the fight?
I'll answer that question first. I don't think so. Not at all. I think I proved that last fight when I fought Daniel Ponce de León. We had sparred many times. We were gym partners, we sparred many times, like I said, and it didn't affect me or it did not affect him. I saw a different Ponce de León that night. I was able to win things out, but, again, you can't expect the same type of fighter when you spar them come fight night. So I'm not looking for that. I know Jhonny comes with his A game, so I got to expect a tough Jhonny.
No, not at all. That was many years ago; that was at the beginning of Abner's pro career when he was just getting started. I think he's demonstrated to the world and everybody that he's a three-division world champion and the class that he has. He's a tremendous fighter and one of the best in the division, so that, the sparring, has nothing to do with what we'll see on Saturday night.
Would there be an affect from the sparring in the past, that they know each other's styles?
No, not at all. I expect the best Jhonny González. He's going to come with his A game. That was many years ago we sparred. I appreciate my past sparring experience, because I learned a lot and gained some experience. But the winners will be the fans that are present and the fans in Mexico on Saturday the August 24th because they are going to see a great fight.
What do you expect going into this fight with Abner? How has the preparation been? How has training been?"
Like all my other training camps; I always prepare 100%, especially for the most important fights. I added even more on this training camp because I've said it in the past, I've said it in weeks past, Abner is the best featherweight in the planet right now and for me to take his place I have to be very well prepared. What I can assure you is we're going to give the public a great fight.
Jhonny do you think this is your last big fight and are you close to retirement?"
No, not at all. My body still feels great. My body's still responding in the gym and the trainings. I definitely think this is a very important fight at this moment and we are looking forward to it and then going up another division to the super featherweight and then at that point fight even bigger fights there.
There's been fighters in the past that in the early stages of the career have had tough fight after tough fight and there has been an affect on them. Do you think you're taking these fights at the right time or it's been premature?"
No, I'm not. I'd say they happen at the precise time. I've learned from every fight. I've gained experience and I haven't been beat up in any of my fights. I've learned a lot, gained experience and continue getting better and better and it's been at the right age.
Jhonny, how has it affected you now that you've been without your title for over a year?" What did you see in that fight between Abner and Ponce De Leon? Did you see any weaknesses or strengths or something that you saw when Abner won seeing that you lost your title to Ponce?
In that fight with Ponce De Leon I wasn't 100 percent mentally and physically there and that's apparent. You have to see the difference. Styles makes fights. Ponce De Leon is a southpaw. Abner's not a southpaw. He's a clean fighter. I can't say the same about Ponce De Leon. So I am coming in 100% prepared mentally and physically prepared and I think you're going to see it on fight night.
Jhonny, how frustrating was it to lose the way that you lost to Ponce De Leon after having established such a run in the division and successful title defenses?
I was not frustrated at all. I was prepared physically very well, but mentally I wasn't. I had some outside issues that affected me, some personal problems. I learned a lot experience wise. I went in there knowing that mentally I wasn't there and then the head butt just broke my concentration even more. But now I learned from that experience to not go in there that way and this time I'm physically and mentally prepared.
Can you shed light on any of the personal problems that you had?
It was personal. Family issues.
Given that you lost to Ponce De Leon and Abner beat him, and not only that Abner is ranked by The Ring as one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in the world, how rewarding and how easy is it to focus on a fight that could take you right back into the top level if you beat him?
You pretty much answered your own question. It's definitely motivating for the same reasons you said. He's the best fighter, I've been saying it, at 126 pounds and that's why we prepared 100% knowing that if we beat him we didn't just beat anybody, we beat the best. We've trained very hard in the gym. We've prepared ourselves very well, as we know he did. So what I can tell you is come fight night it's going to be a great fight for the public, the fans. Just like everybody's expecting it to be that's what we're going to give them."
In every fight probably up until now, even the Ponce De Leon fight, there's been an element of you have something to prove. The last fight you were looking for pound-for-pound performance, which you in fact turned in and were able to be ranked in the top 10 pound-for-pound. Now you're probably perceived as the favorite because of everything you've done and the fact that he lost to a guy that you just beat. How do you motivate yourself for a fight like this and is there any extra pressure now that you're the absolute favorite in this fight?
Well, first of all, no pressure at all, because I'm training the same way I train for all of my fights, all my previous fights, so I'm with the same hunger, the same desire to win every fight and to give a great show come fight night. I'm really glad and I'm blessed that people are seeing what I've been saying, that I'm one of the best fighters out there and I'm proving it fight after fight, fighting all these tough opponents. But as each fight comes to me, as each fighter keeps getting tougher and tougher there's always something to prove. With Jhonny what do I have to prove? I have to prove that I am now one of the best, I'm one of the elite and I have to beat Jhonny. I can't lose and I just have to win. It's a fight where I can't lose. And again, I'm fighting a tough fighter, an experienced fighter, close to 60 fights, 48 knockouts, great puncher, an experienced fighter. So his fight does not take anything away from me. I gain a lot.
Do you think, either from you or your fans, that they want to see something sensational? Your last fight you had a knockout against a guy that was coming to beat you. Is there an element of "I have to top what I did the last fight" given your status now?
Well, yes, there's always that. Well, I mean me, personally, there's always that room for improvement or for learning. I go in the gym wanting to learn something new, as I have been doing it fight from fight, because I've been taking all these different opponents, different styles, and now I'm fighting a different style, a unique style in Jhonny; a clean fighter, really finesse boxer/puncher. So I have to go in there and just be better, show a different Abner Mares. And I can't wait. Believe me, I trained hard, I trained differently for a different style, and you will see a different Abner Mares.
Come August 24th; a week from now you guys will see a different Abner Mares. You guys will see a tremendous fight from Jhonny and myself; a great fight. Boxing world wins. Can't wait to prove again that I'm one of the elite. And I want to thank Showtime, I want to thank Golden Boy for always giving me good fights, for putting me on great defense, and this is another great fight for boxing. Thank you so much to all the press and come join us August 24th and if you can't watch it on Showtime. It will be a tremendous fight. Thank you, Jhonny. Let's give the fans a great fight.
I want to thank everybody for calling in and for participating. I want to thank Showtime. I want to thank Golden Boy. I want to thank my promoter, Promociones del Pueblo, for having the confidence in me. I want to thank a great friend, a great fighter, a great champion, Abner Mares, for giving me this opportunity. And I also want to tell the public they're going to enjoy a great type of fight that only happens when two Mexicans fight. Thank you, all. Thank you very much."
I want to say something to Abner and I want to say something to all the media. First of all, this is going to be one of those fights, as I said in my opening remarks, you just don't want to miss.
But I want to make another statement. Abner Mares is a pound-for-pound star. When I look at these pound-for-pound lists, and I know that different people have different opinions, I believe that Abner Mares, in my opinion, without any question, belongs in the number two spot on that pound-for-pound list. We have Andre Ward there, a fighter I respect, who has had tremendous accomplishments. He won the super six tournament. Abner Mares won the Bantamweight Tournament. Both of them fought the best in their division. Look what Abner Mares has done since then, since winning the bantamweight tournament? Look at what Ward has done since then. No question, in my opinion, that Abner belongs in the number two spot.
You look at Juan Manuel Marquez, who I believe is in the number three spot. He got dominated, and I mean dominated every second of every round, by Floyd Mayweather, who in my opinion is the clear number one pound-for-pound star.
But there's no question, in my opinion, that Abner belongs there. Presently, Abner Mares is unquestionably one of the best fighters in the world; pound-for-pound. Make sure you tune into Showtime and if you are in Los Angeles or in Southern California make sure you show up at the Stub Hub Center, because it is a treat to see Abner Mares in action.
Now thank you, Abner. Thank you, Jhonny. I can't wait to see you guys in a week here in Los Angeles at the press conference, and then, of course, weigh in and fight night. It's going to be an exciting week. We can't wait.
Before I'm going to introduce Victor Terrazas I just want to make another quick comment.
The card is sponsored by Corona and AT&T and it will be televised live on Showtime Championship Boxing. The preliminary fights are airing live on Showtime Extreme at 8:00 p.m. Eastern, 8:00 p.m. Pacific. The Showtime Championship Boxing telecast double-header will be immediately following the premier of All Access: Mayweather versus Canelo, which will begin at 10:00 p.m. Eastern, 7:00 p.m. Pacific, and the event can be heard as well in Spanish using Secondary Audio Programming, SAP.
Tickets are still available, are starting at $25, $50, $75, $150, and the way it's looking is we are on track to have an other sellout event just like we did for Maidana and Lopez. In fact, current ticket sales are ahead of where we were with a little more than a week to go for Maidana and Lopez. So it's going to be another tremendous night at the Stub Hub Center, formerly known as Home Depot Center, in Carson, California.
Now Victor Terrazas is defending his world title against one of the most exciting punchers and action fighters in the sport, irrespective of weight class. Leo Santa Cruz is certainly going to be opening up the Showtime telecast with a lot of fireworks.
Victor Terrazas, with a record of 37-2-1, 46 KO's, of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, is the current WBC Super Bantamweight world champion. He's a patient warrior whose time has come now. He's 30-years old. Victor "Vikingo" Terrazas has only lost once since 2003, so he is coming off a tremendous run here. He's on an 11 fight winning streak coming off a 12-round win over Cristian Mijares on April the 20th that earned him his first world championship, the WBC Super Bantamweight title. He obviously has no intentions to give up that hard earned title, which he worked for his entire career, his entire life and he will defend it against the rising star, Leo Santa Cruz. So it's a pleasure now for me to introduce to you Victor "Vikingo" Terrazas.
Victor Terrazas
I can assure you all that it's going to be a great fight. Leo Santa Cruz is a strong fighter; he comes forward. He started from the bottom and he's been chipping at winning, getting wins, just like we all do. I now have the title and I'm going to go in there to defend it with all I have so that we can give the public a great fight. And the best man, the best prepared fighter will win that night.
Thank you Victor. Leo "Teremoto" Santa Cruz, with a record of (24-0-1,14 KO's), of Huetamo, Mexico, now lives here in Los Angeles, is, as I said, an action puncher, a volume puncher. A guy if I could see only one guy fighting for the rest of my life, I can tell you it would be Leo Santa Cruz.
And for Leo Santa Cruz to go back to Carson has a lot of good memories, because this is the place where he won his first IBF Bantamweight World Championship with a 12-round decision win over Vusi Malinga back in 2012. So this is, in a way, a homecoming and he wants to duplicate what he did back in June 2012. Here he is a little over a year later, and going for his next world championship, second world title, moving up fighting in the super bantamweight weight class.
He has defended his belt three times in 2012 with very exciting victories over Eric Morel, Victor Zaleto and Alberto Guevara. He appeared as well on CBS last December, where he generated over 1.7 million viewers making it one of the most watched, if not the most watched, boxing telecast of any platform, of any network last year. So, clearly, Leo Santa Cruz is another fighter which is marching towards that top 10, cracking that top 10 pound-for-pound list.
It's a pleasure and an honor for me now to introduce to you the former world champion, Leo Santa Cruz.
Leo Santa Cruz
Thank you very much for the words; I really appreciate it. I want to say greetings to everybody, and I'm very happy and excited for August 24th. I want to say that I'm ready. I'm training 100% and with my family over here, with my brother, my dad, and my whole team, I'm really ready. I know that with Terrazas it's going to be a great fight. He's a warrior. He's a Mexican fighter; he comes forward with pressure in the ring. I'm going to do the same, because I want that title. I know he wants to defend the title. I know how we are, that when we win something we don't want to lose it and I know he had struggled a lot for to win that title and that he's going to come 100% prepared too. But I'm the same; I want that title. I want to win the same title for the same fight and I'm going to go give everything and give the fans what they want, a great show and a great fight.
Is there anyone in your career that you have fought in the past that you believe that resembles Victor Terrazas fighting style?
Santa Cruz
I think he's like all great Mexicans warriors, maybe like Guevara, he'll fight as he comes forward. He has great techniques and great ring experience. He comes forward, attacking, working the body and working a few different techniques... But we're going to work that in the gym, we're working very hard, and we're going to fight.
How much of a difference has it been for the past two training camps, for the fight with Munoz and then fight for this, to train to fight at 122 as opposed to trying to make the bantamweight limit?
Santa Cruz
It hasn't even been the same. There's a difference, I mean the fighting with the weight class, before I'd have to go down to 118; it was a little bit more trouble. But we've been training the same, I think and doing the same. We have been doing different techniques that my dad's been teaching me with my brother, and we are learning different things with style, because he kind of drops his jab, so we're going to work on those things, like little mistakes we've seen on him on video we seen, and that's what we have been doing. So everything else is the same; we train 100 percent for every fight, we don't take any fight easy, we just we train hard.
On Leo Santa Cruz on the same fight card as Abner Mares on this card and on past cards.
What's the relationship between you two and do you see him as a potential future opponent, without looking past Victor Terrazas, of course.
Santa Cruz
No, if everything goes good I will win the title and hope to defend it. If the fans want the fight, I would want that fight. He's my friend, we talk good and everything. I wouldn't want to fight him, but if the fans want it we'd have to give it to them, because we have to give want the fans want and if they want that fight we will make it happen.
Yes, I can only echo that. If that's the biggest fight, which has an opportunity, which the fans want, the network wants, and has an opportunity to make a substantial amount of money for both fighters, then let's do it. And I know that Abner and Leo are the kind of fighters that never turn down anyone, they're always up for a challenge. Both of them, as I said, are just tremendous fighters and both of them are really super nice guys outside of the ring as well. They respect each other and they are both a pleasure to promote. So we at Golden Boy believe in the best fighting the best, and if it's going to happen with both of those guys, who are considered the best in these weight classes, we certainly won't be standing in the way.
Victor, how does Leo rank to the opponents you faced and what do you see as the most difficult aspect of his style?
No, I see him as very strong, obviously he's a young strong fighter, and stronger than my past opponents. And I've been saying it; it's a great honor to be on this mega card underneath Jhonny González, underneath Abner Mares. I'm very, very motivated. I'm very grateful and looking forward to it.
Leo, how does he rank to your past opponents and what are his most difficult aspects of his style?
Santa Cruz
Oh, I think out of my entire career he's the one with most experience, he is better than anyone I have fought in the past, he comes forward pressuring a lot. I think that his best attribute is the pressure in terms of punches, because he's like a Mexican warrior coming forward and I think he's going to come forward non-stop. If he's always going to be right there in front of me we're going to have a war. And, like he said, the better fighter is going to win the match, whoever trains hardest and whoever deserves it better is going to win the match.
Leo, how is your brother?
Santa Cruz
He's really good. Right now he is already gaining weight. He's been around. He's in the gym with me; he helps me out, give me water and things, like gloves and stuff like that. He's doing really good. Thank you.
How is that having him there? How is that for you emotionally? Does it add to your motivation?
Santa Cruz
Yes, it does. Before when I used to come train for my other fights he always used to stay home because his body was hurting and I was thinking maybe he was going to have to go to the hospital. He went to the hospital and then he came back, and then in a couple days he had to go back to the hospital so that really made me worry and I was not concentrating so much on the fight or on training. But now that I know that he's right here and his body doesn't hurt or he doesn't have something wrong with him it gives me more confidence, more ... and I am able to concentrate here in the gym. I am more relaxed and focused.
People have been the talking about the potential for a Mares/Santa Cruz fight for quite a while. How far away is a fight like that right now and potentially what venues do you see, or locations, Mexico, United States?
Well, I really don't want to talk about it, because, first of all, you have Leo Santa Cruz in a very, very difficult fight challenging for the world title, so I know that he has his work cut out for him. I know that Victor Terrazas is going to do whatever he can to defend his title. He waited all his life to get that title, so this is going to be one of those toe-to-toe fights and it's going to be a great battle.
So the same goes for Jhonny González. Jhonny González was world champion. He was mentally, physically not all there when he fought Ponce de León, he lost the title, and ever since that night he and his promoter have been waiting for a potential opportunity at the world title again and here with Abner Mares he gets it. So he is going to be wanting that title back and Abner is going to want to show why he is pound-for-pound one of the best.
So I think it's totally premature to discuss a potential fight between Abner and Leo. Let's see what happens August the 24th. I think both fighters should have maybe a couple or so title defenses and then we'll see, assuming everything goes well. But let's do first things first. In boxing people have that thing always like you do one great fight and before it's over people already talk about the next one. Let's enjoy what we have. Let's enjoy, let's kick back, and this is what that night, August the 24th is, it's about enjoying the sport of boxing. These are four Mexicans, these are four champions, and it's going to be one night in Carson where we can sit back and enjoy as fight fans, as sports fans, because those four guys are going to do our sport proud. So let's talk about that before we start talking about what's next.
The question is for Leo Santa Cruz. He hasn't had this much rest between fights in a while, so my question is did it help more physically or mentally? And also all this time off, even though it's only four and a half months, what did it allow him to prepare? How did he prepare differently having a little bit more time?
Santa Cruz
Well, yes, the timing it helped me a little bit, because I had more time to work on things that I had to work on. My dad has been watching videos and he has learned from my mistakes and things I need to improve on, and we've been working on those things. So I have had more time to work on those things and more time to prepare, like more conditioning and strength, stuff like that. But at the same time I think I prefer fighting more sooner. I know when I'm not fighting I feel uncomfortable; I want to keep on fighting. But the promoters and the managers know what they're doing, and I think my body needed to rest. I think that's a good decision they made. In my down time I learned a lot of new things and that helped me a lot.
Well, once again I want to thank everybody for having me on this call. I'm very excited, very happy to have been here. And also I want to remind everyone that when you get two Mexicans in the ring you can expect the best, and the best you will get on Saturday the 24th and the best will be the winner. Thank you very much.
Santa Cruz
I want to say thank you to WBC for this opportunity. I want to thank my manager, Al Haymon, Golden Boy, Richard, Showtime for this opportunity. On August 24th I'm going to go out there and give my best. I'm going to give it 100 percent to show the fans who I am and that I've come 100 percent prepared to give a good fight, same as Terrazas. I know he's coming prepared too, because he doesn't want to lose his title. And we both have struggled a lot to get to this point, so we both going to give a war out there and we're going to leave everything in the ring. I am very excited and happy for August 24th.
Thank you, Victor. Thank you, Leo. One thing I know, August the 24th it's going to be "show time" on SHOWTIME, baby! This is exactly continuing the trend SHOWTIME has established. No tune-ups, no lay offs, no nothing, just the best fighting the best.
And if you're not going to watch it live on SHOWTIME that Saturday night make sure, if you have an opportunity, to be there in Carson for a great summer night. And I don't think I have ever said this, but for $25 to see those two fights, it is the deal of the century. For $25 make sure you make it there. If you have never seen boxing come and see it, come and be part of it. The Stub Hub Center in Carson is one of the premier venues in the world when it comes to boxing, so make sure to be there, be part of it, and cheer these four warriors, these four champions on.
Thank you all for being on the call, and I can't wait for fight time for the first bell to ring a week from Saturday. All the best. Thank you. Good-bye.


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CFPB Delays Some Effective Dates
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is extending the effective date of several mortgage disclosures required by the Dodd-Frank Act that have to be included in the new TILA-RESPA forms. These new forms are expected to be finalized by early spring. The CFPB announced the delay on November 16.
Without this delay, these provisions were set to take effect January 21, 2013. It would have required lenders to change their disclosure forms twice.
"This is good news as it demonstrates the CFPB will respond affirmatively to the legitimate concerns of credit unions," says John Thomas, vice president Compliance & Advocacy of the Missouri Credit Union Association (MCUA).
MCUA filed a comment letter with the CFPB on these mortgage disclosures. To see the original story and comment letter, click here.
Other CFPB rules, including mortgage servicing and ability to repay rules, are not delayed and expected to take effect by January 21, 2013. To see the CFPB notice, click here.
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I'm so pleased to be the author of a guest editorial in today's Des Moines Register (Des Moines Register of January 2, 2016). A great opportunity to remind those over 64 that this is the year of doing some Advance Care Planning with your primary physician, proxies and loved ones.
I'll be kicking off my series of Advance Care Planning workshops with a presentation at Mary Greeley Medical Center's "Prime Time Alive" from 2-4 p.m. on January 19th (in Ames, Iowa, just 30 minutes north of the Des Moines metro).
FREE and open to the public, but pre-registration is appreciated:
More events to follow, if you can't make it to Ames on the 19th.


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When was the last time you forgot your phone at home and spent the whole day thinking about all the text messages and missed calls you got while you were away? How about that evening when your workout drained your energy away and made you too lazy to stand up, walk all the way to your phone just to reply to that text you just received — Oops, it was just your bank promoting their newest credit card!
We have the right apps for these occurrences: the ones that let you read your text messages straight from your computer, wherever you — and your phone — are. Even better, you'll be able to reply to messages, send new ones and even check your missed calls from your PC or tablet. Some apps offer even more advanced features, so it's worth checking them out to find the perfect one for you!
There's nothing I hate more than watching my expensive smartphone struggle just to display a simple SMS — you'd think manufacturers would have figured out how to get this to work smoothly by now but unfortunately, even on an HTC One X, the story remains the same. Thankfully, one of the great things about Android is that you can replace just about every app for specific functions with another of your choosing. If you're in the same boat and want to get to your texts faster, check out Textra.
Designed to be as quick as possible, Textra combines simple design with a short-and-sweet list of features that allows the app to make light work of displaying and composing messages, even on older phones. It does what it says on the box, and not a whole lot more. Best of all, though, is that it's free. Let's take a look at how fast Textra is, and how soon you can ditch your stock messaging app.
Text messaging – or SMS – is one of the most fundamental functions on any mobile device. Over the last few years, it has arguably taken over voice calling as the single most used feature on a phone. Sure, there have been numerous threats from internet-based multimedia messaging apps like WhatsApp, Viber, Line and more, but the sheer ubiquity of good ol' SMS text messages has been hard to beat and has kept the technology alive and kicking.
Surprisingly, there aren't a lot of good dedicated options when it comes to SMS apps on Android. A few stalwarts like Handcent SMS and Go SMS Pro aside, competition has been pretty scarce in this arena. That's why it's exciting to see a new contender in Sliding Messaging. I took the app for a spin to check how it fared against Go SMS Pro – which is what I've been using for years now. Here's what I found.
It's no secret that I have a lot of devices at my disposal including phones, tablets, computers, and even Google TV. I like that pretty much from any place in my apartment — or office, or coffeeshop I happen to be working at — I can use any of those devices to do things like read, check the weather, or whatever Internet-based task I have to perform. However, when it came to texting I was locked down to using my phone for a long time; all of that changed with MightyText.


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Police are appealing for help to trace the driver of a car, after reports that a man in his 20s was "knocked down" in Dungannon.
The 26-year-old is said to have sustained an ankle injury in the collision, which is understood to have taken place shortly before 6pm on Saturday, May 21 on the Coalisland Road.
The PSNI's Constable Scullion said: "We are keen to trace the female driver of the black Peugeot car involved so she can assist with our enquiries.
"If you were the driver of this car, or if you witnessed the collision, please contact the non-emergency number quoting reference 873 of 21st May."


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Going into the first of the 2014 NFL International Series at Wembley Stadium this week the main talking point has been that of the Dolphins quarterback situation.
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With Ryan Tannehill having a nightmare start to the season many Dolphins fans are calling for backup QB Matt Moore to be named starter.
Philbin: I'm The Boss
Tannehill came out in the Dolphins press conference on Wednesday and announced that he was starting after Head Coach Joe Philbin refused to name a starter:
"(I'm) taking the first snap of the game and playing the game," Tannehill said.
However during the Dolphins first media commitments after landing in London on friday morning, Philbin did shed a bit of light on the situation:
"The policy I told you about, the thought process I go through every single week is exactly the same, the chart that Jason releases those guys are going to be starters until I announce something different so thats one way to answer the question."
Hard Worker
Those who watched HBO's Hardknocks prior to the 2013 season will remember that Tannehill is a very hard worker off the field and takes all aspects of the game very seriously. Philbin was asked if he had noticed anything different with Tannehill's training regime this week, to which he replied:
"Ryan throughout his career has been very consistent he comes into the building early he stays late, he spends time on his film studies and you see on a continual basis so i see this every week"
Philbin also said that he had been in touch with owner to the Steve Ross:
"I spoke to him a number of times this week"
Philbin wasn't giving much away but if he has been in contact with the owner regarding the QB situation and Tannehill is still top of the depth chart then he's obviously on board with Philbin's decision and is behind Ryan Tannehill - for the moment.
Last Chance
So whilst it looks as though Tannehill has the backing of his coach and owner going into the match at Wembley Stadium, another failure this weekend - especially considering the 0-3 opposition in the Oakland Raiders - could mean he finds himself with the clipboard come week six.


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Beverley Library Chatterbooks
Group status: We've had our 4th meeting now and have made some selections for the winners...of course this may change before the 25th June. It's interesting that the older children in the group had different choices for the winner than the younger children!
This is the first year we have officially shadowed the Carnegie/Greenaway awards and we're really looking forward to it. We currently meet once a month at Beverley Library but during the shadowing we will be meeting once a week!
There are 10 of us in the group, a mix of boys and girls aged 7 - 11 years old.


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Book Review: The Pledge
The Pledge by Kimberly Derting. 2011.
In the country of Ludania, the language you speak determines your social class. If you forget your place, you will be harshly punished—or even killed. Seventeen-year-old Charlaina (Charlie) has spent her life trying to hide the fact that she can understand all languages. One false move could send her to her fate, which is why she must keep her ability a secret. Her life hangs in the balance the night she meets a mysterious boy named Max. He speaks a language she has never heard before..and she answers him.
The Pledge was one of those novels that really stayed with me long after I finished it. Partly it was the ending, because it left me hanging (and is meant to, because it is the first in a series). The other part was because the story in itself blew me away. I had never read anything like this before, and I was hooked from the very first page! Derting really made me feel as if I was a part of the story and that I had immediate connections to the cast of characters that she had created. Her gift of writing is spectacular as she brings small moments, specific emotions, and unique relationships to the written page.
One of the many fascinating elements of this novel is the Queen of Ludania. I have always been a fan of queens, especially evil ones! The Queen is dying, but she has magical powers that allow her to do many implausible things. I won't go any further than that, since I want you to get the full story yourself. I will tell you that the prologue for this novel is one of my favorite introductions ever! Don't miss it!
Max is one of the other characters that is a favorite of mine. Derting does a wonderful job of conjuring up the perfect male counterpart, and Max is definitely in my top five. I really enjoyed how he wasn't your typical broody Edward-esque character that you usually see in YA literature. He is honest and sensitive, and he will do anything to protect those he cares about. One of the moments in the book that solidified my faith in him was when he left a note for Charlie that said: I pledge to keep you safe. Definitely a positive male character for teen girls to swoon over!
The Pledge is a novel that is unlike anything you have ever read. Derting manages to combine elements of fantasy, dystopia, history, and romance that will have you begging for more. She has also devised a futuristic twist on the fairy tale that is spellbinding yet utterly original. You are going to love it (because you know I did)!
Please tune in tomorrow to see my exclusive interview with the fabulous Kimberly Derting!


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Salt/chlorinated water pools can be very dangerous to your dog, if for instance you take your dog for a swim. Dogs are not aware that the pool water is harmful, and if they consume it in large amounts this can result in hypernatremia (salt poisoning) or chlorine poisoning. Initial signs of hypernatremia or chlorine poisoning include vomiting and diarrhea, and it can progress very quickly. If contracted, it is important to bring your pet to the vet right away to be treated with IV fluids.
Stale water and dog water dishes shared by several dogs (as seen in some dog parks) should also be avoided, as dogs can potentially contract Parvovirus. Parvovirus can survive in cages, on food, and water dishes, and is a life-threatening viral disease. Hospitalization is critical for successful treatment.
Help to avoid hypernatremia and Parvovirus by carrying your own fresh bottle of water for your dog to have when on the beach or outside in the backyard or at dog parks.
Plants & Garden
Several pets will chew on plants in the yard. While most grasses are non-toxic, they can result in gastrointestinal upset when they are ingested, and cause vomiting. Some plants grown in the summer of particular concern, and should be kept away from pets are:
Tomato plants, rhubarb, poinsettias, and Easter lily. Tulips, Lily of the valley, Oleander, Kalanchoe, and Azaleas can be life threatening if digested in large amounts.
Be careful growing onions and garlic in your garden, as they contain thiosulphate, which is toxic to cats and dogs, and can cause hemolytic anemia. Symptoms of this condition include: lethargy, diarrhea, and vomiting.
Grapes also present a significant health concern for dogs. Ingestion of even small amounts of grapes can result in vomiting, diarrhea, and sometimes even acute renal failure. Veterinary care is required for treatment, and includes decontamination, IV fluid therapy, and close monitoring.
Wild Mushrooms
Although most mushrooms are non-toxic, not all mushrooms are. The main problem with mushroom ingestion in pets is the fact that there are so many different types of mushrooms that a specific type may not be easily identifiable. If digestion occurs, pay close attention to see if symptoms occur such as vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, tremors, and seizures. Also, take a sample of the mushroom for possible identification when getting veterinary assistance. The best option is to avoid the risk of mushroom consumption by inspecting your backyard prior to leaving your pet in the yard unsupervised, and disposing of all mushrooms that you are unfamiliar with.
Pesticides & Herbicides
Pesticides and herbicides these days are much safer than they used to be. Typically, when applied according to the label, they are relatively a low risk to pets. That said, pesticides can often contain bone meal which is particularly appetizing to dogs. Although it is not a toxicity concern, it can result in severe pancreatitis when ingested.
Ensure that your pets are kept off of the treated surfaces until the product is completely dry. Also, ensure that the containers of concentrated product is out of the pets' reach. The potential for toxicity in pets is increased if they have access to chew on the containers, or when the product is applied improperly. Glyphosate and 2,4-D are the two most common herbicides. Symptoms of ingestion include; lethargy, drooling, vomiting, and diarrhea. IV fluids are required for treatment.
While it is not poisonous for pets, heat from the hot summer weather can be deadly to pets. Since pets don't perspire as humans do, they are much more susceptible to getting heat stroke. Signs of heat stroke include rapid heart rate, heavy breathing, drooling, vomiting, faintness, and collapse. Pets should never be left alone in a car on a hot day, as they can develop heat stroke even quicker in a vehicle. To avoid heatstroke, bring water with you, let your pet get plenty of water, provide a shaded area with lots of air movement, and even bathe your pet in cool water.
In order to prevent all of these potential pet dangers, take all the necessary precautions, to avoid these risks. Clean up and inspect your backyard, carefully monitor your pet and what they are consuming in your backyard, garden, and at dog parks, carry fresh water with you and your pet at all times, educate yourself on the symptoms to recognize, and have an emergency procedure in place for your pet, so that you will be able to act quickly should urgent care be required.