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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Coker College Head Cross Country Coach Kevin Kelley is pleased to announce that Stephanie Shaw has signed a National Letter of Intent to run cross country for the Cobras starting in the fall of 2011.
Shaw is a native of Aiken, S.C. where she is a standout cross country and track and field runner for South Aiken High School. A six-time letter winner in track and cross country, Shaw has also been named All-Region twice in track and field and three times in cross county. She is a two-time John Hoorman Award winner for cross country and was a South Carolina All-State selection in 2009. Her personal best 5K time is 19:47 and her best mile time is 5:56.
The Cobras will begin their 2011 season in September at the Eye Opener Invitational in Spartanburg, S.C.


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A small group of British retirees learn that the life they want to live might not be the life they need to live after pooling their resources to spend their twilight years in a unique setting located in India. Upon arriving at the once-opulent Marigold Hotel, however, the eager pensioners come to realize that rumors of the building's restoration have been greatly exaggerated. But just when it starts to seem that the privileged seniors have been swindled out of their life savings, they summon the courage to sever their ties to the past, and embrace their new life with a sense of wonder and adventure. Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, and Dev Patel star in this uplifting comedy-drama from director John Madden (THE DEBT, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE).
Cast List
John Madden - Director, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE (1998)
Thomas Newman - Composer
J.A.C. Redford - Music, ONE NIGHT WITH THE KING, (2006)
Ol Parker
Peter Francis
Tim Cavagin
Deborah Saban
Craig Irving
Steve Single
Bill Bernstein - Music Editor
Double Negative Limited
Deborah Moggach - PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005)
Alistair Hopkins
Tina Jones - Set Designer; Set Decorator
Sham Kaushal
Daniel Phillips - Makeup; Hair Styles
Ben Davis - Director of Photography, LAYER CAKE (2005)
Rajeev Mehra
Prachi Agrawal
Katie Driscoll - Graphic Design
Udayan Baijal
Ishika Mohan
Tony Lewis - Music Editor
Joshua Cole
Judi Dench - Oscar-winning British actress, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
Dame Judi Dench - Oscar-winning British actress, SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
Diana Hardcastle
Bill Nighy - British actor, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, UNDERWORLD
Patrick Pearson - Actor/"Closing Numbers"
Ronald Pickup - British Actor
Maggie Smith - Oscar-winning British actress, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
Dame Maggie Smith - Oscar-winning British actress, THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE
Tom Wilkinson - British Actor
Penelope Wilton - British film & television actress, SHAUN OF THE DEAD
Richard Cubison
Celia Imrie - British Actress, mostly television, mid '70s-present
Jay Villiers - Actor
Neena Kulkarni
Sara Stewart - Scottish actor, LONDON VOODOO (2004)
Lucy Robinson
Lillete Dubey - Actor, MONSOON WEDDING (2001)
Rajendra Gupta
Liza Tarbuck
Denzil Smith
Paul Bhattacharjee
Paul Bentall
Josh Cohen - Actor
Honey Chhaya
Simon Wilson
Dev Patel - Actor
Seema Azmi
Jagdish Sharma - Indian Director, SAPOOT (1996)
Sid Makkar - Actor
Glen Davies
Catherine Terris
Ramona Marquez
James Rawlings
Hugh Dickson
Raoul Marquez
Louise Brealey
Bhuvanesh Shetty
Shubhrajyoti Barat
Narendra Kumar
Hem Acharya
Kailash Vijay
Tena Desae
Vishnu Sharma
Sandeep Lele
Neeraj Kadela
S.N. Purohit
Shiv Palawat
Mahesh Udeshi
Gagan Mishra
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- Genre: Comedy
- Rating: PG-13 (MPAA)
- Release Date: January 2017
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"Parker's script keeps the mood determinedly upbeat....Pleasant, picturesque, proficiently played..." - 03/01/2012 Sight and Sound
"[I]t's a pip to see these players be so...British....The cinematography shows off the overwhelming sensory stimulation of the place..." - 05/11/2012 Entertainment Weekly
"John Madden, who directed Dench to an Oscar in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, shows a sure hand with all his actors. Dench is a resilient marvel." - 05/10/2012 Rolling Stone
"[A] refreshing, mature fairy tale....A delightful, droll and entertaining comedy of manners with an estimable cast..." - 05/03/2012 USA Today
"This exceptional ensemble makes aging in exotic climes feel effortlessly real, never over-reaching, appropriately fraught. Dench in particular paints a moving portrait..." - 05/04/2012 Los Angeles Times
"THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL brings together some of Britain's top-shelf acting treasures for a story of late-life awakenings and self-discovery in India." - 05/04/2012 Movieline


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Tested by Capt. Vince DanielloAs the sport of wakeboarding is evolving so are the boats that pull wakeboards. In the infancy of the sport, ski boats were used with weight added to the stern to create large wakes. More recently, we've seen dedicated wakeboard boats: either ski boats modified from the factory to create big waves or purpose-built boats specialized for wakeboarding. But several new wakeboarding disciplines seek to emulate the tricks skateboarders and snowboarders perform with fixed apparatus like ramps and rails. For wakeboarding, floating implements typically made from PVC pipes are used in place of the fixtures set up on land. These implements would be disturbed by a large boat wake, so in a reversal of previous trends in the sport, some new wakeboard boats are being built to generate small wakes. Since personal watercraft make about as small a wake as possible, Sea-Doo seized this opportunity with a modified version of their GTX 4-TEC, the Vans Triple Crown Edition.Other than some unique equipment for wakeboarding, Sea-Doo's wakeboard PWC is essentially a stock GTX 4-TEC. The most significant addition is the telescoping tow pylon, which keeps the end of the tow rope a few feet off the water for better "air". Personal watercraft have pulled skiers for years, but the attachment point for the tow rope is usually close to the water. With wakeboarders trying to go as high as possible, they don't want to have a tow rope pulling them down, toward the water. The pylon retracts below the handle at the rear of the seat when not in use, completely out of the way during normal PWC riding. The pylon also features two handles mounted near the top to allow a passenger to hold on while riding backwards. There are also toe chocks at the stern of the boat to give this passenger foot support. The Vans package includes a custom cover and graphics package and an additional storage tray for the forward storage compartment, tailored to the needs of wakeboarders. For more information about the basic boat variations, log onto our tests of the GTX 4-TEC, 4-TEC Limited, and 4-TEC Supercharged models. These boats utilize Bombardier's new four-stroke motor. All four versions we tested showed this engine to be a great match to the boat, with aggressive performance and all of the advantages of four-stroke technology, such as low emissions and greater fuel economy. Since most of my boating is done in salt water, I was particularly interested in the closed-cooling system. Until now personal watercraft pumped water from outside the boat through the engine to keep it cool. This sometimes led to internal corrosion and maintenance issues. Bombardier's new cooling system works more like the radiator and cooling system in your car (or more specifically, the heat exchanger and cooling system on freshwater cooled boat engines.) A mixture of antifreeze and water is circulated through the engine. This mixture is cooled by passing through a modified ride plate on the bottom of the boat. From the outside, this ride plate looks just like previous versions, but it is actually a bundle of cooling channels sandwiched between two plates. The antifreeze mixture from the engine passes through these channels where the heat is absorbed into the surrounding ocean or lake, with no outside water passing through the engine at all. This system should prove to be a huge maintenance-saver. Only time will tell.Also a fairly new feature, Sea-Doo's learning key is a replacement kill-lanyard fitting that limits the maximum RPM of the engine for less experienced riders. I was skeptical of how the boat might perform without full power, so I ran it at length with the learning key in place. While I certainly missed the horsepower, the PWC performed adequately and I had plenty of fun. The technology that makes this learning key work also provided the advantage of making each kill lanyard unique to its specific PWC, working just like keys to a car to prevent unauthorized use. If you are like me, though (I lose keys regularly) you might consider purchasing an extra lanyard/key and securing it with a tie-wrap somewhere out of sight in the engine compartment.There are no features on Sea-Doo's Vans Triple Crown Edition that keep it from being used as a standard personal watercraft. The retractable tow pylon would suit skiers and tubers in addition to wakeboarders, particularly the handles that allow a backwards-riding observer. In fact, the raised tow pylon and reduced wake should make it easier for beginning skiers. Factor in the maneuverability, fuel savings, and lower purchase price of a personal watercraft over a ski boat, and this becomes an attractive, multi-faceted watersports vehicle.
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- Top speed for the Sea-Doo GTX 4-TEC Vans Triple Crown Ed is 55.8 mph (89.8 kph), burning gallons per hour (gph) or N/A liters per hour (lph).
- Time to plane for the Sea-Doo GTX 4-TEC Vans Triple Crown Ed is ~ seconds.
- Time from 0 to 30 of the Sea-Doo GTX 4-TEC Vans Triple Crown Ed is 2.9 sec. seconds.
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In six seasons as the head football coach at Sacred Heart University, Mark Nofri has already secured himself a place in the conversation of program greats. He enters the 2018 campaign, his seventh as head coach and 25th with the program, with a 37-32 record, including back-to-back Northeast Conference titles and Coach of the Year accolades in 2013 and 2014.
Nofri earned his second consecutive NEC Coach of the Year award in 2014, leading the Pioneers to their first-ever national rankings and second consecutive berth in the FCS Playoffs. SHU defeated nationally ranked Delaware, on the road, and Bryant, at home, for the program's first-ever wins over nationally ranked opponents. Nofri and the Pioneers went 9-3 in 2014, with a 5-1 mark in league play as they earned the league's automatic FCS berth on the strength of a win at Wagner. For the second time in as many seasons the Pioneers travelled to the Bronx to take on Fordham in FCS action.
The 2013 season marked a resurgance for Sacred Heart Football. In his second season as head coach - the first without the interim tag - Nofri spearheaded an eight-game turnaround as SHU posted a 10-3 mark and made its first-ever FCS Championship appearance. The Pioneers finished the NEC regular season at 4-2 and on the strength of a win over Duquesne in the regular season earned the league's postseason berth. That accomplishment earned Nofri his first NEC Coach of the Year accolade.
Nofri coached Pioneers have also seen recognition at the national level. SHU has had five players earn All-America honors. Gordon Hill (Second Team) and Jaime Martinez (Third Team) earned Sports Network All-America following the 2014 campaign. The year prior, Troy Moore, Keshaudas Spence, and J.D. Roussel were each named All-America as well.
The Pioneers have been well represented in the New England and NEC postseason award announcements as well. SHU has had 28 All-NEC First and Second Team selections in the past three seasons, with 14 in 2014, and have had five All-New England Selections. The squad captured three major NEC awards in 2013, including running back Keshaudas Spence as offensive Player of the Year, defensive tackle Troy Moore as Defensive Player of the Year, and quarterback R.J Noel named NEC Rookie of the Year.
In 2014, Sean Bell earned Capital One Academic All America as selected by CoSida, Second Team honors - the first football player in school history to do so and only the third student-athlete. He would go on to earn the NEC Football Scholar-Athlete of the Year award as well.
The longest tenured football coach in school history, Nofri began his coaching career at Hamilton College before coming to Sacred Heart in 1994 as a part of Gary Reho's coaching staff. He graduated from Keene State in 1993 and earned his Master's of Education from Sacred Heart.
During his first five seasons at Sacred Heart, Nofri coached the defensive backs. The Whitesboro, N.Y. native's football background includes a coaching stint at Hamilton College where he worked with the defensive backs. His playing career included stints at Dean College and Canisius.
During his time at SHU, Nofri helped guide the Pioneers to an undefeated season in 2001 (11-0) and the Northeast Conference Championship. The Pioneers long-time linebackers coach, he produced several All-Conference and All-American linebackers during his time as an assistant, including Jayson Jarrett '01, Kayode Mayowa '02, Craig Capurso '02, Jon Corto '06, Chris Mandas '11 and Justin Sexton. Mayowa was the 2002 Ernie Davis Award winner while Corto played four seasons in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills.
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Victoria Mekosh, 81, of Hoschton, died Tuesday, December 9, 2008.
Born on October 12, 1927, in Columbia County, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Michael and Joanna Matlock Locke. She was retired from Merck Pharmaceuticals, where she was a lab technician. Mrs. Mekosh was preceded in death by a son, Gregory Mekosh.
Survivors include her husband of 61 years, Peter Mekosh, Hoschton; daughters, Gloria Lachman, Sellersville, Pa., Victoria Rosenbaum, Nicholson, Patricia Mekosh, Dublin, Pa., Joanna Mekosh, Hoschton, Donna Allen, Middleburg, Fla.; son, Peter Mekosh Jr., Jackson N.J.; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
A Funeral Mass will be held Wednesday, December 17, at 11 a.m., at the Ukranian Catholic Church in Warrington, Pa., with a visitation to be held one hour prior to the service. Burial will be in the St. John Neumann Cemetery in Chalfont, Pa.
In lieu of flowers, make memorials to the National Parkinson Foundation, Inc., Office of Development, 1501 NW 9th Ave./Bob Hope Rd., Miami, Fla. 33136-1494.
Evans Funeral Home, Jefferson, is in charge of arrangements.
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The public works department will be starting road reconstruction on a portion of Ford Farm Road. The estimated date to begin is May 22.
The portion of road to be worked on starts at the bottom of the hill on the north end of the road and continues to Ridgeview Drive. During this time a crew will be excavating the entire width of the road down approximately two feet in depth and putting in a new road bed with drainage. The estimated length of time for the project is one month. Paving will follow at a later time date but should be done this summer.
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A once a week bus service is available by reservation to town residents on Wednesdays and Fridays. Riders are picked up at their homes by a friendly volunteer driver in a COAST minibus. The minibus is equipped with a wheelchair lift and can take up to two individuals who are in wheelchairs. No pets are allowed, but service animals are permitted. Each rider is allowed up to two shopping bags and the bags must be able to be safely stowed under the seat. the bus brings riders to grocery stores, pharmacies, shopping and services in Rochester. The cost is $5 around trip, exact fair is required. For more information or for reservation, contact Jeff Donald at 603-743-5777 x 120.
The town's beach passes will be available beginning Monday May 14 at the recreation office. Residents must show proof of residency & identification in order to purchase a pass. Resident beach pass is $25 and the resident boat launch pass is $50.
The fire department is offering CPR classes on May 14 and 31. If interested contact the fire department and leave a message with your name, telephone number and the day you prefer. Theses classes are limited in size and will be filled on a first serve basis.
Fire Chief Nick Marique reminds everyone that you need a burn permit for outside burning. Fire permits are free and issued from the fire department. Residents who do not obtain a valid fire permit can be fined up to $2,000 per violation.
E-REG is now available at the town's clerk office. You can register your vehicle, renew your dog license and request vital records. To access, log on to http:/miltonnh-us.com.
The trustees of the trust funds are seeking volunteers to plant flowers and beautify local town sites for Memorial Day. Historically the trustees have coordinated the planting of flowers at Veteran's Hill, Nute Library, Milton Mills Library, town's beach, police station, town hall, triangle in Milton Mills, fire station and the Town of Milton signs. The flowers are planted in memory of Geneva and Daniel Lockhart who generously provided funding for such a project. The trustees will provide funding for the sites not to exceed a budget of $75 per site. Contact Lisa Stewart at firstname.lastname@example.com if you are interested in volunteering.
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The public works department will be starting road reconstruction on a portion of Ford Farm Road. The estimated date to begin is May 22.


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In his latest bid to avoid catching tax evaders, or evade catching tax avoiders, nobody is quite sure which, George Osborne has unveiled his latest plans to cut down on 'soap dodgers'. At a press conference to announce the initiative, he explained that the amount of tax HMRC is missing out on by 'poor people and those of a travelling nature' not using the hygiene product could run into to tens of pounds a year.
'These people that refuse to wash are creating a stink among some of my wealthiest friends,' the Chancellor told the assembled media. 'When your nostrils are under that sort of attack from your 'staff', how are you supposed to remember how many zeros to put in the earnings sections on your tax return' he said before adding 'It shouldn't just be the aristocracy that get close and intimate with their Cussons.'
Many high profile D-list celebrities have already been highlighted as taking part in 'soap avoidance schemes' on the TV show 'I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here'. However, under the Chancellor's plans, those involved in such schemes will face a jail sentence where there can be rehabilitated and trained in the art picking up the soap.
Ed Miliband has come out to criticise the Chancellors lack of focus on the real problems in the economy and huge focus on soap. Wet, very slippery and slightly fragranced, Mr Miliband said plans to clean up the problem of soap dodging were just another example of the coalition 'talking flannel'.
It is believed that 'Operation Soap Dodgers', which it's hoped will bring an additional £34.90 into the government coffers, will cost the taxpayer an estimated £150m. Critics of the plan point out that money would be more than enough to save Lewisham A&E from closure. However Mr Osborne was stubborn in his defence of the plan.
'There are hundreds of Accident and Emergency departments all over the country people can use, but these soap dodgers are one of only a very few excuses I can find to distract me from taxing my friends fairly,' he said. 'That's why it is now this government's policy to 'get tough on grime, and get tough on the causes of grime'.


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I have some good news, I was finally able to transfer and continue my career within walking distance of my residence. Goodbye commute! I am going to miss the people I've worked with and served for years and will especially be missing a flirtationship I have been having throughout this period. A flirtationship is a rapport with someone that is not a relationship, but does involve consistent flirting over a period of time. Those involved in a flirtationship may or may not want to take it further. It's not a bad arrangement for an asexual. Many times, flirtationships end when they become relationships. Other times, one or all parties become disinterested and it comes to a halt that way. In this particular case neither of these is the case. It's all circumstantial. I am not interested in taking it to another level. All good things must come to an end. I don't actually believe this but it is certainly a good thing that is coming to an end
Reflecting on this experience, I can certainly say that I had an advantage in that sexual tension was on my side, as it usually is in these situations. Still, being cautious was key as there is a line that doesn't need to be crossed. It's never a good idea to "heat up" a sexual person unless one plans to make some serious compromises! I've made sure to not get too heavy and use all eye contact, facials, and body language in that level of the flirtation. The verbal end of it on my part was playful teasing, about mundane details about personality, clothing, habits, hairstyle, and similar material.
So how does a person behave when a flirtationship ends abruptly like the one in question is about to do. Should I just go about my business as usual and leave unceremoniously? An emotional goodbye that is the antithesis of the casual nature of our time together? Do I call out sick the final week to avoid the situation altogether? Decisions, Decisions, oh what a ponder!
All I can do is use the one thing that will never fail me. Asexual Prowess. I've discovered that I have sharp asexual prowess that I can use to solve problems like this. By going with what feels natural, my asexual prowess kicks itself into motion. Through asexual prowess my mind will be in the clear and I will maintain a calm outlook to aid in the all important decision-making process.
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Re: Asexual on Sexual "Flirtationship"
Flirtationships are all about fun! Don't call in sick, flirt right up until the last minute. Then share a hug.
Re: Asexual on Sexual "Flirtationship"
Why not flick them an email, and continue this lovely little flirtation you have going via chat, from time to time?
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Re: Asexual on Sexual "Flirtationship"
Haha I have never heard that called a flirtationship but I like that word! I will sometimes have these with sexuals because they dont know that I'm uninterested in anything but fun!
Re: Asexual on Sexual "Flirtationship"
if you had a bad meal would you stop eating?
Flirtiation for me has always been about fun..showing someone you get on with that because your asexual your not emotionally dead
and more importantly..I like it
Flirtiation for me has always been about fun..showing someone you get on with that because your asexual your not emotionally dead
and more importantly..I like it
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Overall the XFX DD R9 270X 1050M is a quiet card. The fans are inaudible in 2D mode, and virtually silent in 3D mode. We heard the fans only on a couple of occasions, but even then it was relatively brief, most users will notice any noise. Temperatures in idle are great. During 3D load XFX allowed a bit higher temperatures for the GPU in order to keep the fans silent. In majority of games we measured up to 75 degrees Celsius. After overclocking we measured up to 85 degrees Celsius, but the fans remained silent (we overclocked the GPU at 1200MHz from stock 1050MHz). Once the game is started and the GPU starts heating up, there are no abrupt fan speed changes.


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A Junk panel has been added to the Inventory to provide greater clarity in item classification.
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The "integrated systems" test, which encompasses the final integrated avionics systems testing with the spacecraft prior to launch has been successfully completed. An MSL flight system "baseline test" also has been performed. This was a state of health check for the rover, descent stage, cruise stage, science instruments and cameras.
The Flight Readiness Review will be held on Nov. 18. Closeouts of the spacecraft and the Atlas V fairing are scheduled to follow on Nov. 19.
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Phillies 6, Marlins 4
Jonathan Papelbon was ready when Charlie Manuel went to his
closer a bit earlier than he usually does.
Papelbon worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth, then
finished the Philadelphia Phillies' 6-4 victory over the Miami
Marlins on Friday night.
"Anytime Charlie calls on me, I'm ready, willing and able,"
Papelbon said. "I look forward to every opportunity."
Hunter Pence hit a two-run homer and Hector Luna had three RBIs
for the Phillies, who have won seven of nine. Pence, Carlos Ruiz
and Placido Polanco each had three hits.
Logan Morrison and Justin Ruggiano homered for the Marlins, who
had won three straight. Miami had 13 hits and left 12 runners on
The Marlins brought the tying run to the plate in the ninth but
center fielder John Mayberry Jr. made an acrobatic catch on
pinch-hitter Greg Dobbs' fly ball to end the game. Mayberry got
turned around the wrong way, but reached out to snare the liner
just in front of the warning track before rolling to his back.
"Papelbon said I made an easy catch look hard so we'll go with
that," Mayberry said. "I don't think I got any style points, but
I'm happy to make the play."
Said Manuel: "I'm glad he caught it. He turned a few ways
though. I don't think you teach that route. But he caught it,
that's the big thing."
Kyle Kendrick (2-4) allowed eight hits in 5 1-3 innings, but
held Miami to two runs. The right-hander, who was coming off a
seven-hit shutout against St. Louis on Monday, struck out four and
walked three.
"I got in some jams and was able to get out of jams," Kendrick
Mark Buehrle (5-5) gave up four runs and a season-high 11 hits
in five innings for the Marlins. The left-hander was 4-0 with a
3.19 ERA in his previous five starts.
"Just a bad day at the office," Buehrle said. "I gave up too
many hits early and didn't go long in the game."
Luna hit a run-scoring double in the seventh to give the
Phillies a 6-2 lead. But Morrison and pinch-hitter Ruggiano started
the eighth with consecutive home runs against lefty Antonio
Morrison drilled an 0-2 pitch to deep right before Ruggiano
belted the next pitch over the wall in left-center for his first
homer of the season in his second at-bat with Miami.
Bastardo walked the next batter, John Buck, and was replaced by
Jake Diekman. The left-hander struck out Chris Coghlan, then gave
up consecutive singles to load the bases before being relieved by
Manuel was out of right-handed relievers.
"I wanted to win the game … and I wanted to put my best on
the mound," Manuel said, adding he wouldn't make a habit of doing
it. "This early in the season if you're not careful you can
overwork your guy. If you do it every now and then, that's
After getting Omar Infante to pop out to shortstop, Papelbon
struck out Hanley Ramirez looking. Ramirez reacted angrily to the
called third strike, barking at umpire Kerwin Danley and tossing
his equipment behind home plate.
"We had too many chances," Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen said.
"We got a lot of hits but not the big one. When you don't take
advantage of that, you don't deserve to win the game."
The game was delayed by rain for 48 minutes in the top of the
fifth inning.
Luna hit a two-out, two run single in the first and Pence
connected in the fifth to help Philadelphia build a 4-1
Giancarlo Stanton, who had 12 homers and 30 RBIs while hitting
.343 in May, staked Miami a 1-0 lead with a run-scoring double in
the first.
The Marlins loaded the bases in the third and fourth, but failed
to score. Morrison grounded into an inning-ending 3-6-1 double play
in the third, and Infante lined out to Kendrick to end the
Philadelphia right-hander Jose Contreras left in the seventh
with right elbow soreness. The 40-year-old Contreras was making his
17th appearance since offseason surgery on his right elbow.
After throwing his fifth pitch of the inning, an 89 mph
fastball, Contreras grabbed his right arm and staggered to the
ground on the grass between first and second before leaving the
Philadelphia general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said Contreras
would have further tests Saturday and likely would be placed on the
disabled list.
"I think he got hurt pretty bad," Manuel said.
NOTES: Miami SS Jose Reyes went 3 for 4, extending his hitting
streak to 12 games. . Philadelphia OF Shane Victorino was not in
the starting lineup for the first time this season after receiving
a cortisone shot Friday to relieve discomfort in his right hand.
Victorino entered as a defensive replacement in the eighth. .
Phillies RHP Vance Worley, on the DL with inflammation in his right
elbow, threw a bullpen session and could start Monday's game
against the Dodgers. . Phillies slugger Ryan Howard said he is
making progress in his rehabilitation from an Achilles tear that
has sidelined him all season. . Marlins RHP Ricky Nolasco (5-3,
4.26) is scheduled to face Philadelphia LHP Cole Hamels (8-1, 2.43)
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The RTI CAN MultiMessage Blockset is an extension for Real-Time Interface and can be used for combining dSPACE systems with CAN communication networks and for configuring these CAN networks.
The RTI CAN MultiMessage Blockset is an extension for Real-Time Interface and can be used for combining dSPACE systems with CAN communication networks and for configuring these CAN networks.
Working with large hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) systems means working with a considerable volume of CAN messages. Moreover, test environments and database container (DBC, FIBEX, AUTOSAR) files change frequently during the development process. CAN configuration updates in large models and parameter changes can be done with just a few clicks.
Parameters can be accessed directly in ControlDesk and AutomationDesk via user trace files. The Bus Navigator is also supported for easy handling of CAN configurations, including messages and signal manipulation in ControlDesk. Numerous test cases can be created via flexible manipulation at the message and signal levels. The current value of the signals in messages can be defined. Messages can be transmitted spontaneously (kick-out) and can also be enabled. They can also be transferred directly between two CAN buses, unidirectionally or bidirectionally, via the Gateway block, without message or signal manipulation. The message transmission and signal manipulation option can be changed during run time.
The strong point of the RTI CAN Multi Message Blockset is handling complex CAN setups, especially in hardware-in-the-loop applications. You can control, configure, and manipulate a very high number of CAN messages from one single Simulink® block. Not only does handling become very straightforward, but the size of the model files is also reduced. This cuts code generation time and build time. CAN descriptions can easily be read in from communication matrix description files such as database container files (DBC), ASAM-MCD2D (FIBEX), AUTOSAR System Template files or ARXML files. CAN, J1939 formats and also the CAN FD (Flexible Data Rate) protocol with a much higher data rate and an extended payload data length are supported as well. These functions make the RTI CAN MultiMessage Blockset a time-efficient and cost-effective solution for managing complex CAN setups.
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"Apple could face disruption to its iPad sales in China after a court rejected its claim to own the iPad trademark in the country and a rival sought to halt sales of the tablet device in two Chinese cities. The developments are the latest in a long-running dispute between Apple and Proview Technology (Shenzhen), a struggling Taiwanese-owned company that registered trademarks for the name IPAD in many countries long before Apple conceived its smash hit tablet computer." Apple is clearly copying from this innovative Chinese company. If Apple fanatics are actually consistent (*), they would condemn Apple for this clear case of theft.
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Enrique Oregon Maciel, age 70, of Butterfield, died at his home on Sunday, May 27, 2012.
Enrique Oregon Maciel, age 70, of Butterfield, died at his home on Sunday, May 27, 2012. Funeral services will be 1 p.m., Saturday, June 2, 2012, at Sturm Funeral Home in St. James with Rev. Matthew Natsis officiating. Burial will be at the Butterfield City Cemetery in Butterfield. Visitation will begin at Noon on Saturday at Sturm Funeral Home in St. James. You may send the family condolences online at www.sturmfh.com. Arrangements are with Sturm Funeral Home in St. James.
Enrique was born January 23, 1942, at EL Valle Guerrero, Mexico, to parents Isauro and Bacilia Oregon Maciel. He grew up on the family farm where he help on the family farm until joining the Mexican Army at age 18. He served in the military from 1960 until 1968, during that time he helped build the subway sytem in Mexico City and played an extra in a John Wayne movie filmed in Mexico. In 1968, he moved to the United States and worked as a migrant farmer doing custom harvesting. He lived in Yakima, Wash., Southern California before moving to Lincoln, Minn., where he worked for Green Giant and in a turkey processing plant in Litchfield. In October 1977, he moved to Butterfield and worked for Butterfield Foods until his retirement in 2005. Enrique took pride in his yard care and loved making his place look good. He enjoyed spending time in nature, fishing and gardening. He adored his grandchildren and took pride in all of his children. Two of his greatest enjoyments were becoming a US Citizen in 2005 and winning a scratch off lottery grand prize. He enjoyed playing cards and dominoes. He also enjoyed Sunday drives.
Enrique is survived by his children, George (Rachel) Gonzalez of St. James, Yolanda Gonzalez (Jorge Escobar, Jr.) of Mission, Texas, Karen Maciel (Manuel Rodriquez) of Butterfield, Roberta Maciel (Jose Vidana) of St. James, Chantal Maciel of Mankato; ex-wife; Flor Hernandez of Butterfield; 18 grandchildren and one great-grandchild; siblings, Macedonia of Mazatlan Sinaloa, Mexico, Justina of Chula Vista, Guerrero, Mexico, Roberto of Mexico City D.F., Mexico, Sarah of Santa Fe, N.M.; many nieces and nephews.
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Kristen Stewart has been named the spokeswoman for Balenciaga's newest fragrance, Women's Wear Daily reports.
The 21-year-old Twilight actress will be the face of the new scent – which will be released in the fall!
"Kristen embodies the modernity of the new Balenciaga fragrance with her unique sensibility and intelligence" creative director Nicolas Ghesquière said of Kristen.
"Balenciaga has always stood out to me," Kristen told the magazine. "Even when I first began to consider fashion and admittedly rarely knew the brand I was wearing, I always recognized and loved Balenciaga."
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Amy Adams, Christian Bale, and Jeremy Renner round out the all-star cast, and fill it with all-star style. "When you're working on a David O. Russell film, the characters are all beautifully complex," says the film's costume designer Michael Wilkinson, who has worked on a variety of movies, from Garden State to The Twilight Saga: 1 and 2. "It's an opportunity for the costumes to be original and very detailed." Keep reading to go behind the scenes of the film's disco-glam wardrobe with Wilkinson, plus shop our inspired by picks.
"Sydney (Amy Adams) is really great, because we see her go on such an amazing journey in the film. She develops a style that is very modern for the period. It's very confident, simple, and streamlined, like the Halston aesthetic. He was designing for the contemporary American woman who wasn't into fuss, anything rigid, or very layered."
To channel this look: pair a plunging necklace with a pendant necklace.
"Sydney (Adams) has such a finely tuned elegance. She starts off a wide-eyed girl from a small town who arrives in Manhattan, then falls in love and sees this opportunity to transform into the person she always wanted to be."
"When we first meet Richie (Bradley Cooper), he's this guy who works at the FBI and wears polyester suits and garish ties. Then he meets Irving (Christian Bale) and Sydney (Adams) and falls under the spell of their romance. He wants to make a splash, so he starts wearing leather jackets and buys a silk scarf to give some flare to his eveningwear when he goes to Studio 54."
To channel this look: style a wide-brim floppy hat with a shearling coat.
"I know the womanswear is getting lot of attention, but I am really proud of the menswear in this film. I was able to get in a lot of subtle detailing that really helps differentiate the characters." [Note: Adams' character is carrying Gucci's Bamboo Lady Lock Handbag ($3200), which is currently available.]
"Irving (Bale) has a very aspirational way of dressing, like a sophisticated businessman, even though he's a hustler. There is sense of combining wonderful textures and patterns and this gentlemanly tailored vibe, even though it's through a Bronx filter."
"Richie (Bradley Cooper) is just this simple guy from the suburbs; he sees possibilities and is very ambitious. In his own way, he's also dressing to make an impression, like buying cool sunglasses and a coat with western styling."
To channel this look: team oversized sunglasses with a slinky jumpsuit.
"Like many of her colleagues of the period, Sydney doesn't wear a lot of foundation garments, and she wears many plunging necklines that have a certain confidence and sophistication."
To channel this look: try a brightly hued wrap dress.
"We looked at cheesy magazine shoots and advertising and high fashion, so we had a sense of the zeitgeist and pop culture our characters would be exposed to. I went deep with my research and referenced photographers like Allen Tennenbaum and Richard Avedon. We also looked at fashion designers like Halston, Diane von Furstenberg, Gucci, Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent, that were having a creative moment at that time."
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PITTSBURGH (AP) The offensive line has been a sore spot for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the past few years.
However, the group has been injury-free through training camp, and the high draft picks appear to be jelling in their third season together.
The proof is in the pristine condition of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's jersey. Through four series of play during the first two weeks of the preseason, Roethlisberger's No. 7 is squeaky clean.
''I think they're doing a good job,'' Roethlisberger said. ''I think the cohesiveness of that group, they're going to be hard on themselves. (But) I thought they did a good job, because I didn't have a grass stain on me, which is usually a good thing from my perspective.''
Roethlisberger isn't getting ahead of himself. He's spent most of his career playing behind a patchwork line ravaged by injuries. It's an issue that's only gotten more widespread recently.
The five players - center Maurkice Pouncey, guards David DeCastro and Ramon Foster and tackles Kelvin Beachum and Kevin Gilbert - have missed a combined 63 games since the start of the 2012 season.
''Sure, we've been together for a few years now, but we haven't always been healthy together,'' said Pouncey, who tore two ligaments in the 2013 opener against Tennessee and missed the rest of the year. ''Hopefully, we'll continue to stay (healthy.)''
Despite the mishmash nature of the line, the Steelers are committed to the group. Pittsburgh signed Pouncey to a six-year extension in June and signed Gilbert to a six-year deal on Tuesday.
Any offensive success the Steelers have enjoyed during the preseason has related directly to Roethlisberger's commitment to getting rid of the ball quicker. He threw a pair of touchdown passes in a win over Buffalo last Saturday, one on a quick slant that Antonio Brown turned into a 76-yard score the other on a 16-yard pass to Markus Wheaton.
Roethlisberger didn't need much time to get it to Brown. Wheaton's touchdown took longer to develop, yet Roethlisberger had plenty of time to throw against one of the NFL's best defensive fronts.
''It's still the preseason, so we have to take pride in that,'' Foster said. ''But we have to keep working hard, because we can't have him on the ground. He makes a lot of plays when he's standing up, so we have to make sure we keep him that way all the time.''
Beachum did an excellent job guarding Roethlisberger last year, and he's off to a great start this season.
''Well, we've had some success, but we can't think about that,'' Beachum said. ''I need to keep working at it to continue to improve, and each of us feels that way we're going to continue to get better as an offensive line.''
Foster believed the line has improved its cohesiveness through excellent communication. According to DeCastro, there are other factors as well.
''I'm in the best shape that I've been in for the past three years, and I think the same can be said for the entire O-line,'' DeCastro said. ''I think we're all feeling good about how things have gone. We're improving all the time, communicating really well and are very cohesive. But we're not satisfied. So, we'll keep working hard each day to try to take our game to an even higher level.''
Notes: The Steelers will be minus several players on Thursday when they visit Philadelphia. ... TE Eric Waters (concussion) OL Bryant Browning (dislocated shoulder), CB Shaquille Richardson (knee injury), center Cody Wallace, (fractured finger), LS Greg Warren, (torn meniscus) and LB Jordan Zumwalt (groin) are out. Safety Will Allen (hamstring), RB Tauren Poole, (hamstring), CB Devin Smith (hamstring) and FB Will Johnson (hamstring) are questionable.
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Investigation of Outbreak of Infections Caused by Salmonella Saintpaul
CDC is collaborating with public health officials in many states, the Indian Health Service, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate an ongoing multi-state outbreak of human Salmonella serotype Saintpaul infections. An initial epidemiologic investigation in New Mexico and Texas comparing foods eaten by persons who were ill in May to foods eaten by well persons identified consumption of raw tomatoes as strongly linked to illness. A similar but much larger, nationwide study comparing persons who were ill in June to well persons found that ill persons were more likely to have recently consumed raw tomatoes, fresh jalapeño peppers, and fresh cilantro. These items were commonly, though not always, consumed together, so that study could not determine which item(s) caused the illnesses.
Recently, many clusters of illnesses have been identified in several states among persons who ate at restaurants. Most clusters involve fewer than 5 ill persons. Three larger clusters have been intensively investigated. In one, illnesses were linked to consumption of an item containing fresh tomatoes and fresh jalapeño peppers. In the other two, illnesses were linked to an item containing fresh jalapeño peppers and no other of the suspect items. Other clusters are under active investigation. The accumulated data from all investigations indicate that jalapeño peppers are likely to be a major cause of this outbreak. Fresh serrano peppers and fresh tomatoes remain under investigation. Investigators from many agencies are collaborating to track the source of the implicated peppers and other produce items.
An FDA laboratory detected Salmonella Saintpaul with the outbreak strain fingerprint pattern in a sample of jalapeño pepper obtained from a distribution center in McAllen, Texas. The distributor is working with FDA to recall the contaminated product in the United States. The peppers were grown in Mexico; investigators are working to determine where they were contaminated.
The Laboratory Services Division of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment detected Salmonella Saintpaul with the outbreak strain fingerprint pattern in a jalapeño pepper provided by an ill individual. The state health department is working with the FDA to determine the origin of the jalapeño pepper.
Since April, 1307 persons infected with Salmonella Saintpaul with the same genetic fingerprint have been identified in 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada. These were identified because clinical laboratories in all states send Salmonella strains from ill persons to their State public health laboratory for characterization. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (3 persons), Arkansas (19), Arizona (56), California (11), Colorado (16), Connecticut (5), Florida (3), Georgia (40), Idaho (6), Illinois (115), Indiana (20), Iowa (2), Kansas (21), Kentucky (2), Louisiana (2), Maine (1), Maryland (38), Massachusetts (29), Michigan (26), Minnesota (22), Mississippi (2), Missouri (20), Montana (1), New Hampshire (5), Nevada (13), New Jersey (16), New Mexico (106), New York (39), North Carolina (28), Ohio (10), Oklahoma (25), Oregon (11), Pennsylvania (13), Rhode Island (3), South Carolina (2), Tennessee (9), Texas (495), Utah (2), Virginia (31), Vermont (2), Washington (17), West Virginia (1), Wisconsin (13), and the District of Columbia (1). Five ill persons are reported from Canada; four appear to have been infected while traveling in the United States, the travel status of the fifth ill person is unknown.
Among the 1269 persons with information available, illnesses began between April 10 and July 13, 2008, including 38 who became ill on July 1 or later. These numbers include those with estimated onset dates as well as those with reported onset dates. The latest reported onset date is July 12. The latest estimated onset date is July 13. Patients range in age from <1 to 99 years; 50% are female. The rate of illness is highest among persons 20 to 29 years old; the rate of illness is lowest in children 10 to 19 years old and in persons 80 or more years old. At least 253 persons were hospitalized. A man in his eighties who died in Texas from cardiopulmonary failure had an infection with the outbreak strain at the time of his death; the infection may have contributed to his death. A man in his sixties who died in Texas from cancer had an infection with the outbreak strain of at the time of his death; the infection may have contributed to his death.
The outbreak can be visually described with a chart showing the number of persons who became ill each day. This chart is called an epidemic curve or epi curve. Please see Interpretation of Epidemic Curves During an Active Outbreak. It shows that the number of persons who became ill peaked during May and decreased in June. The average number of persons who became ill between May 20 and June 10 was 33 per day. The average number of persons who became ill between June 11 and June 20 was 19 per day. The outbreak appears to be ongoing, but with fewer new illnesses reported each day. Illnesses that occurred recently may not yet be reported due to the time it takes between when a person becomes ill and when the illness is reported. This takes an average of 2-3 weeks. Please see the Salmonella Outbreak Investigations: Timeline for Reporting Cases for more details regarding the 2-3 week time period.
Only 6 persons infected with this strain of Salmonella Saintpaul were identified in the country during April through June of 2007. The previous rarity of this strain and the distribution of illnesses in all U.S. regions suggest that the implicated food is distributed throughout much of the country. Because many persons with Salmonella illness do not have a stool specimen tested, it is likely that many more illnesses have occurred than those reported. Some of these unreported illnesses may be in states that are not on today's map.
Health officials have worked continuously since late May to investigate this outbreak. CDC has sent 39 people to the field, which includes seven epi-aid investigations, to work with other public health officials. The investigation is complex and difficult. One difficult aspect is that people often have difficulty remembering exactly what foods they ate, and remembering specific ingredients in those foods is even more difficult. Although laboratory testing of foods might help identify the source, perishable foods that were consumed by ill persons are often not available to test. When food items are mixed together and consumed in the same dish, all the items may be statistically linked to illness. In that case, determining by statistical means which item caused the illness can be difficult or impossible. Tracing suspect produce items back to processors and growers is an integral part of the effort to identify a single source and a possible means of contamination.
Clinical features of Salmonella Infection
Most persons infected with Salmonella develop diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps 12-72 hours after infection. Infection is usually diagnosed by culture of a stool sample. The illness usually lasts 4-7 days. Although most people recover without treatment, severe infections may occur. Infants, elderly persons, and those with impaired immune systems are more likely than others to develop severe illness. When severe infection occurs, Salmonella may spread from the intestines to the bloodstream and then to other body sites, and can cause death. In these severe cases, antibiotic treatment may be necessary.
Advice to consumers
FDA is advising consumers that they should avoid raw jalapeño peppers and foods that contain them if they were grown, harvested, or packed in Mexico. Jalapeño and serrano peppers grown in the United States are not connected with this outbreak. Commercially canned, pickled, and cooked jalapeño peppers are also not connected with the outbreak.
This new advisory is based on evidence gathered during a multi-week, intensive investigation conducted in partnership with FDA and several states to find the source of the contamination which led to the outbreak.
FDA continues to advise persons in high risk populations, such as the elderly , infants, and those with impaired immune systems to avoid eating raw serrano peppers from Mexico or food made from raw serrano peppers from Mexico until further notice.
FDA has indicated that tomatoes on the market today are safe to consume.
Consumers everywhere are advised to follow the general food safety guidelines below:
* Refrigerate within 2 hours or discard cut, peeled, or cooked produce items
* Avoid purchasing bruised or damaged produce items, and discard any that appear spoiled.
* Thoroughly wash all produce items under running water.
* Keep produce items that will be consumed raw separate from raw meats, raw seafood, and raw produce items.
* Wash cutting boards, dishes, utensils, and counter tops with hot water and soap when switching between types of food products.
Consumers are reminded that vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet and that cooking vegetables kills bacteria, including Salmonella.


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mikecorrales necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 31 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
This is a book website for a book that will be publicly available next year. The writer likes clean and simple design, but still wants something that looks fresh and current (web 2.0ish). We just need a really fresh uncoded template. Please see the full design brief for more details and examples of other sites the designer likes.
The Magic of Groundhog Day [dot com]
Desired Color Scheme:
neutral colors (see examples in creative brief)
Desired Style:
clean, elegant
Accepted File Formats:
Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
The current site at [The Magic of Groundhog Day dot com] needs to be redesigned. "Groundhog Day†(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground…%28film%29) was a movie starring comedian Bill Murray in the early 1990s. This writers book, which comes out in February 2008 is a self help book about making positive change in your life using the movie as a parable.
The writer likes clean and simple design, but still wants something that looks fresh and current. He likes his current site, which we did using a template but he doesn't love it. He would like to see other design concepts, using the content that's already there. For some design inspiration, his favorite author sites are:
He would like to see different ideas to make his website more along the lines of his favorites above. Are you up for the challenge?
 One final thing: We had discussed having a calendar worked into the design as part of a faded background. It's an optional touch, but the whole book and movie revolve around the same day in February (the 2nd) being repeated over and over. How you want to or can interpret that graphically is up to you. Remember also, that February is winter in the Northern Hemisphere and the story is about a blizzard, so imagery should be somewhat wintery feeling.


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Mewtwo (Japanese: ミュウツー Myuutsuu) is a Psychic-type Legendary Pokémon introduced in Generation I. Giovanni hired scientists from Cinnabar Island to create it, which they did using Mew's DNA. It is the final boss in Pokemon Ranger: Guardian Signs. Right after that, it gains levels of power, forcing the player to fight it twice. It later rescues Rand from a different dimension. It is the highest level Pokémon to be caught in Pokémon Fire Red and Pokémon Leaf Green, appearing at Level 70 in Cerulean Cave. It ranks 3rd in Pokémon statistics, behind Black/White Kyurem and Arceus. It has 680 base points, behind White/Black Kyurem's 700 and Arceus' 720.
AppearanceEditMewtwo is based loosely off of Mew with feline features. Its body is purple and it has three fingers on each hand. Mewtwo has a faint purple Aura emerging from it at full power.
Special abilitiesEditMewtwo is highly adept at using its Psychic powers, displaying telekinesis and telepathy as well. It uses it's telepathy to communicate with humans and translate the Pokémon language. It is able to Fly and erase people's memories as seen in Mewtwo Strikes
Mewtwo's anime debut was in Battle of the Badge! where Giovanni used it against Gary, who referred to it as an "evil" pokemon. Mewtwo again appeared in It's Mr. Mime Time briefly. Mewtwo also appeared in Showdown at the Poké-Corral! where it escaped from Giovanni's gym, as seen in the movie. Mewtwo has been the focus of a few movies, being the main Pokémon in Mewtwo Strikes Back and in Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon, under the control of Dr. Yung. Mewtwo was also the star of the movie; Mewtwo Returns.
In the mangaEditIt was created by Blaine in a laboratory and went on a rampage, almost destroying Cerulean City. When Red heard about "The Monster of Cerulean City", he decided to catch it. After a single encounter with the tornado that was Mewtwo, he met Blaine. Blaine told Red of his condition, how if Mewtwo continued to rampage, both Blaine and it would die. Blaine then continued to show Red his disfigured hand, a mark that he shared with Mewtwo, and concluded his talk with Red, declaring he intended to kill Mewtwo, in order to put it out of its misery, and also to save his own life. Red later encountered Blaine attempting to finish Mewtwo. Red, after stopping Blaine's attempted suicidal killing of Mewtwo, caught it using his whole team, and launching Pika with the Master Ball in its mouth, catching Mewtwo for Blaine. Blaine decided to train and raise Mewtwo as his own. Later, Mewtwo appeared alongside Blaine, battling a child helping them train. Blaine assisted Yellow from then on out, being paired with Yellow by Sabrina's Alakazam. In this setting, we learn that Mewtwo needs to rest in its Poké Ball, and if it was released for too long (over 5 minutes), it would die. It then appeared again in the FireRed and LeafGreen chapter, being loaned to Red by Blaine. It aided the Pokédex holders in stopping 9 Forretress from blowing up Neo Team Rocket's airship with Explosion, and with fighting Deoxys. Since then, it is unknown if Blaine and it died, or if it is back on Cinnabar Island, training with Blaine.
Name originsEditMewtwo's name comes from the word 'Mew', which is like a cat meowing, and 'two' because it's a clone of Mew. It is based on a DNA scientific cat
- Although it is a clone of Mew, it comes before Mew in the Pokédex possibly because Mew is a Mythical Pokemon and Mythicals always come last in the Pokedex.
- Mewtwo was created from one of Mew's cells.
- Mewtwo is the only Pokémon thus far to be created as a result of cloning, but not the only one to be created scientifically. The only other Pokémon to be created scientifically are Castform, Porygon, Porygon2, and Porygon Z.
- Other Pokémon whose existence is aided by science are Fossil Pokémon and Genesect.
- Mewtwo is the only Legendary Pokémon that can be caught in exactly the same place in every generation.
- Mew and Mewtwo's character designs were based on Giygas (his form in Mother), the most frequent final boss and major antagonist of the EarthBound series.
- Mewtwo originally had the highest base stat total, being 680. It was joined by other Legendary Pokémon after Generation 1, but was finally surpassed by Arceus in Generation IV.
- The title "Mewtwo Strikes Back!" has a small reference to the title of the Japanese version of EarthBound which is "MOTHER 2: Giygas Strikes Back!". However, this may be a more likely reference to Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
- Mewtwo is compatible with almost every TM.
- There was a rumor of a Mewthree, but it was revealed that it was just Mewtwo in armor. In Mewtwo Strikes Back, it was revealed that the scientists who created Mewtwo were about to start making Mewthree, but Mewtwo destroyed the lab.
- Mewtwo is playable in Super Smash Bros. Melee, but didn't appear in the sequel Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Lucario appears in its place.
- Although it was created by scientists, it has a shiny form, possibly another creation of scientists.
- In Generation V, Mewtwo was given a signature move, Psystrike.
- Team Rocket's Mewtwo's birthdate is dated February 6.
- According to the manga Mewtwo contains human cells from gym leader Blaine.
- Despite being genderless, Mewtwo's mental voice sounds masculine in the two movies it has been featured in.
- Contrary to a fan feud (which Mew is stronger?), Mewtwo has a higher stat total than Mew, meaning that it is superior to it's original DNA counterpart


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BOSTON (AP) — The Detroit Pistons' playoff hopes likely faded away a couple of weeks ago. They can still have a say on who might get there.
Andre Drummond had 18 points and 22 rebounds, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored seven of his 27 points in overtime and the Pistons beat the Boston Celtics 105-97 on Sunday.
Reggie Jackson added 17 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds for the Pistons, who won for the third time in four games after a 10-game losing streak.
Evan Turner had 23 points and Jae Crowder 19 for Boston, which lost its third straight. With the loss, the Celtics fell out of the final position in a tight race for the Eastern Conference's eighth and last playoff...


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Driving with Plato : The Meaning of Life's Milestones, by Smith, Robert Rowland
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 2/14/2012
|p. xi
|p. xiii
|Being Born
|p. 1
|Learning to Walk and Talk
|p. 9
|Starting School
|p. 20
|Learning to Ride a Bike
|p. 32
|Taking Exams
|p. 45
|Having Your First Kiss
|p. 57
|Losing Your Virginity
|p. 69
|Passing Your Driving Test
|p. 80
|Casting Your First Vote
|p. 92
|Getting a Job
|p. 104
|Falling in Love
|p. 116
|Tying the Knot
|p. 126
|Having Children
|p. 137
|Moving House
|p. 149
|Going Through a Midlife Crisis
|p. 162
|Getting Divorced
|p. 173
|p. 184
|Living the Third Age
|p. 195
|Going Out in Style
|p. 206
|p. 219
|Further Reading
|p. 223
|p. 225
|Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.
Being Born
Jean-Luc Godard, the doyen of avant-garde cinema, declared that every story needs a beginning, a middle, and an end—but not necessarily in that order. What about the story of your life?
If you're talking to a friend, you could start the story of your life with your first love or your last job, for example, and work forward or backward, making your story like any other story, subject to all sorts of cutting and pasting that undermines the notion of a simple beginning, middle, and end. You certainly don't have to begin with birth.
When it comes to your life as you live it, however, a different law applies: your life as lived is affixed to a chassis of biology, and the chassis's chassis is real time, which for you begins when you slither out of the womb. The story of your life and your life as lived denote two quite different things. On the one hand, there's your biological progress, and on the other hand, the edited version of that progress as narrated. In the spirit of Godard, Martin Amis once wrote a novel called Time's Arrow, which "begins" the story at the end and works back, but being a novel, of course it could. When it comes to living your life, that colored-in bar stretching from a starting to a finishing line, it can go only one way.
However you picture that starting point, a starting point is what the momentous event of birth emphatically is. Birth marks the beginning of life independent of umbilicus, placenta, and amniotic fluid. No one is actually born in their forties; if the prospect is so freakish, it's because life is only ever given to us from the beginning, its gift never secondhand or recycled, but always delivered brand new. To cite a classic storytelling device, a life that starts in medias res ("in the middle of things") is unimaginable: birth and beginning go hand in tiny hand. What's more, because it's the beginning of something (i.e., you), the creation of the uncreated, this beginning-energy is also a breaking-energy, a dislocation of the flat line along which a world-without-you would have otherwise continued. Your birth is the constructive interruption that alters the tableau of things, making it resize and reshuffle around your newborn self. More than the filling of a vacancy, this is the kneading into significant form of a formerly nothingish dot. In your own microcosmic way, you are a unique cosmic event, a little Big Bang.
That life begins at birth would appear to be one of the most solid facts we can start from, and yet since the advent of ultrasound technology and the opportunity it provides to peer inside the baby-bearing womb, our thoughts about when life begins have got rather muddled. While many continue to think of life beginning with birth, others say it starts with conception, and a few insist it begins somewhere between the two, in the slow-motion bloom of the fetus's consciousness—meaning that the front end of the colored bar has a gray area.
What makes that area gray isn't only the biology, as it happens, or even the ethics of abortion that dogs it: it's the philosophical question of whether, despite all this emphasis on starting points, yours is a beginning at all. Even though your expulsion from the mother's body jump-starts your career as a singleton, as an entity with edges de-soldered from anyone else, this effect of singularity stemmed from a cause—namely, the amorous clash of parental chromosomes. Unless yours was a virgin birth, you'll have had two biological parents, on whom your being born depended. Your "beginning" didn't come from nowhere—it was caused by something before you, meaning the singleness you achieve upon being born is something of an illusion; you are actually the result of a process that began long before your conception. The phrase being born suggests a launching into fresh individuality, but it could also be construed as the mere unfurling of the latest leaf on a very long stem whose base extends well back into history.
Similarly, the very notion of being "caused" by your parents might be subject to doubt. I'm thinking here of David Hume, luminary of the Scottish Enlightenment and arch-proponent of empiricism, the doctrine that puts direct observation above abstract theory. Hume was particularly exercised by the false or hasty conjoining of cause with effect, and his famous example was billiards: one ball strikes another with the predictable consequence of sending it off in a given direction. But once in a while something unexpected will happen, and the first ball will backfire, skid, or bounce. The lesson is that a single exception can invalidate the rule, so you have to consider each event on its merits; in this sense, theories are for the lazy, mere ready reckoners that help you slog along with a working, but imprecise, knowledge of the world. So what might be the empiricist attitude to birth? Every time a baby is born, you'd have to prove, rather than assume, that it was the fruit of two human loins.
If that sounds tedious or absurd, just remember that the virgin birth itself was an exception so compelling that it gave birth in turn to a world movement. Yet even the virgin birth was not without a cause, which, if you believe it, was the first cause of all: the Prime Mover of the world, otherwise known as God. Assuming God is the creator, his unique selling point would be that there's no cause that causes him, a marvel that medieval theologians called the causa sui. This makes being born—whether you're a creationist who traces it back through your parents to Adam and Eve, or just believe that all creation is God's own—a direct result of Him. As a deriving from God, and thus a deriving from something derived from nothing, this is the first of three senses in which birth can be seen as a miracle. The second sense would be as described by atheist parents who, dismissing divine intervention in their child's birth, nevertheless feel the wonder at this appearance of new life and the astonishment that from the simple sexual clasp of mother and father, a child, in all its complex, miniature perfection, is born. What about the third?
The third sense of the miracle of birth belongs to the baby itself. All of us were born—you wouldn't be reading and I wouldn't be writing this otherwise—but most will have forgotten the experience. Hardly surprising, given the evidence that earliest memories tend to come from the age of three. True, we can consult a huge amount of literature about childbirth, but it's mostly to do with the birth of other people. Even if your own birth was meticulously documented, such objective accounts hardly replace the subjective report that would be so valuable to have. This remains chronically elusive, and yet some people testify that they continue into much later life to dream about their own birth, a fact worth dwelling on in case these dreams give a clue as to the paradoxically forgettable experience of what is most seminal in our lives.
Birth dreams are not quite the same as memories, and leave a shadowy, sentic impression, more a feeling than an image; people speak of a sensation of pressure on the head, for example. Nor are they like such common dreams as being naked in public, which are painfully clear. These so-called birth dreams resemble occlusions of the soul, dark spots on the psyche that, like animals at night, just about stand out from the darkness that surrounds them. For these reasons, birth dreams correspond to what Plato called anamnesis, which, as the word suggests, is pretty much the opposite of amnesia. Except there's a crucial distinction, for Plato, between remembering and not forgetting: the latter harbors experiences in the mind without putting them in its grasp. This is anamnesis, and it's likely that birth dreams fall into this category: a not-forgetting, as opposed to a clear recollection, of what's beyond one's conscious reach. The memory of birth is gone, yet not completely lost.
Perhaps that's not so extraordinary. Why wouldn't you preserve, somewhere in your being, as in a fossil record, the trace of its founding event? To efface it would be weirder. It does imply, however, that whatever our age, we carry the whole of our biological past in the present, like a walking palimpsest of experience, or a cliff face in which each stratum, as you go down, speaks to an epoch older than the one above, and all are on show. If under the category of anamnesis Plato says you can intuit things you don't remember experiencing, or re-cognize what was never cognized the first time around, then being born provides the perfect material for it. It was an event that came upon you without you even knowing. It's in this that the miracle consists, the surprise from nowhere that inaugurates who you are.
To others, however, the miracle of birth is misery, the gift of life a curse, and with this we meet the empiricist's bÊte noire: existentialism. Whereas empiricism calls for vigilance over the detail of what is, existentialism draws the grandest conclusions about what is and is not; it treks beyond the annotating of activity in the foothills of experience to the high ground of generalization and the sweeping panoramas it affords. Take Jean-Paul Sartre, who would have said that being born is a poisoned chalice, because it offers you life but withholds the meaning to go with it, like winning a sports car and immediately losing the keys. For a start, being born was entirely out of your hands—the very origin of your life, and you didn't have a say in it! Birth happens to you, rather than your determining it, and that leaves you affronted by the arbitrariness of your own existence, which, in any case, could already be reduced to the chance encounter nine months earlier of Joe Sperm and Jane Egg. Not to mention the throw of the dice that made you appear in a random year, in a random location, and of a random gender, ethnicity, and class. Things scarcely improve as you grow up; anyone with eyes to see will observe how everything that happens happens as a result of equally arbitrary causes—an event as major as the First World War starts with a minor to-do about an Austrian duke, one thing leads to another, and hey presto, the dogs of war are let loose. There's obviously no God. Believing in one is just a comforting delusion, and so no overarching sense is to be made of anything. From birth you're consigned to beetling about on your patch of the forest floor, moving twigs from A to B.
For all that, Sartre manages to pull something from the fire, realizing that precisely because there's no transcendent meaning, there's no bar on creating one for yourself. If being born is an inauspicious fall into a mire of meaninglessness, you can rationalize it as a necessary preparation for a great life that might ensue—a greatness that can't, however, be left to chance. In response to the classification in Twelfth Night that "some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them," Sartre would have rejected categories 1 and 3: you've got to make your own luck, and you do so, above all, by redeeming the accident of your birth and taking it upon yourself to act. Part of this philosopher's appeal to the class of '68 who rioted in the streets of Paris (the very streets that Jean-Luc Godard had just been filming) was his antiphilosophical emphasis on action as a means of giving life a purpose—an emphasis he'd borrowed from Karl Marx, who claimed, "So far philosophers have only interpreted the world—the point is to change it!"
But you don't have to be so brazen. Being born has a number of natural consolations. Not only do you get to live, but because, before birth, you weren't living at all, you also might have a useful inkling of what's to come on the other side. The time before birth could be a rehearsal for the time after life (or death, not to beat about the bush), which should relax any fear of dying that grips you. And even if Sartre is right, and being born means being cast into a landscape of hopeless contingency, there's another way of looking at it. While he said you're morally required to convert the position you find yourself in at birth, of being merely en-soi ("in yourself") into being pour-soi, or "for yourself," thus making the passive active, his opposite number in Germany, Martin Heidegger, saw pretty much the reverse.
First of all, you can't be without being somewhere, and when you're born, you take up space on the planet and in a particular geography. All being, therefore, is being-there, connected to the earth. Far from getting cut adrift in a Sartrean wasteland, being born means finding a place, and belonging.
Second, if your being has to exist in a place, it also has to exist in time; being born means entering time's river, so to speak. Rather than, as in Sartre, having to grope for a sense of direction, you are from the moment you're born, directed in time, taken forward in an element or medium that activates your being—after all, if you didn't exist in time, you'd be as frozen as a statue. Taken together, that means birth is the gift of time and space, the two main facets of being. Before birth, you have neither, but your coming into the world means being presented with everything that is.
© 2011 Robert Rowland Smith Ltd.


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