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Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence...
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Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth...and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.
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Alfonso Cuarón must have felt pretty certain that nobody would be coming to Gravity for the script. Though his reputation as a writer sings of creativity and deviation from the typical Hollywood fodder, every beat in his surprisingly linear outer space film feels not so much like an exploration of a fascinating story, but more like a means to transport an audience (that's us) to the next harrowing explosion of IMAX technology. On the surface, this probably sounds cheap - you signed up for a movie, not a roller coaster. But if it is the principal purpose of any movie to offer its audience an emotional experience, then Gravity is an unquestionable triumph.
In fact, it should say a great deal that the moreover typical narrative that throughlines this movie doesn't undercut the experience. Through the film's dazzling effects and a profoundly immersive directorial style, Gravity gives us something that feels altogether new. Sandra Bullock's new-to-space scientist Dr. Ryan Stone doesn't break the mold on action-adventure heroes of either gender, but you'll be adhered desperately to her every move thanks to the veritable space simulator that Gravity really is.
It's far more than just the benefits of IMAX technology that keep us feeling like we're inches from life-threatening danger at all times. It is Cuarón's flare for the construction of genuine tension. We open on a painfully slow climb up a mountain of dread, with a nauseated Stone struggling to repair a faction of the ship while a pseudo-nihilistic astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney, who can be paid credit for all of this film's moments of comic relief) jet-packs around her recounting stories of Marti Gras and romantic infidelity. All the while, aimless conversation and pleasant radio melodies notwithstanding, our chests grow heavier with anticipation of what is about to follow this mammoth single take. Disaster.
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And once it hits, we're gone. Drowning, treading for dear life for the hour and change to follow, thrown a leaky life preserver on occasion when Stone (our consierge through this unforgiving nightmare) manages some semblance of momentary sanctuary from the insatiable abyss all around her. Our anxiety never dips below barely sustainable as Stone efforts to lay waist to probability and fight her way back to safety. At no point in the entire real-time adventure do we feel liberated from Stone's danger. The magic of this movie makes us feel everything that she does, without allowing for even a second of comfort to be drawn from the fact that we, and Bullock, are in no real harm.
To reiterate, it is nearly miraculous that we can't, even if and when we really want to, grip at the refuge of the it's just a movie mentality, especially in the face of a plotline you might find occupied by a Ron Howard epic. No, we're far too deep by the time the danger strikes to conceive of a world beyond the one Cuarón forces upon us. He's strategic generous in his inclusion of Clooney's loquacious playboy: without a few trembling smiles, we might succumb to full-on nervous breakdown. But Cuarón peppers the pleasantries in just seldom enough to keep the titular sentiment so painfully alive.
Gravity is the sort of movie that demands as big a screen and as focused a pair of IMAX-framed eyes as possible. It doesn't offer much dramatic surprise - in fact, we're prepared for just about every big turn - but the shocks, the screams, the moments that make you cower and whimper and hope to dear God that Stone is going to be okay are plentiful. Beyond plentiful, in fact. They're the whole way through. So a great story, it might not be, but in its achievement of this degree of emotional immersion, Gravity is an unbelievable piece of work.
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TRAINING: My AM session consists of cardio such as running, swimming, plyometrics, speed and agility, followed by weight and circuit training. To end my morning session I complete an hour of Yoga. My PM session consists of grappling, wrestling, sparring, and MMA training.
When and why did you start training for fighting? I started training right out of high school when I was 18 years old with Jeff and Team Curran. I loved to compete in wrestling, so this was a way to continue down that similar road.
What ranks and titles have you held? No ranks, no titles....just lots of hard fights.
Do you have any heroes? Nobody comes to mind... I look up to my dad a lot though.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? This is huge for me. It's a good feeling to make it here. It just feels right.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? I am three classes from my first degree. Fighting seems to take the front seat a lot.
What was your job before you started fighting? I always coached wrestling and worked full-time during my career. Most recently for the past couple years I have been running a horse farm.
Specific accomplishments in amateur competition? I was undefeated, 4-0....no titles
Specific accomplishments in pro competition? I won some really tough fights at an early age against good opponents such as Eric Davila.
Ranks in any martial arts styles: I have been putting off my blue belt test for about four years now, lol. I have that to come in November under Jeff.
Favorite grappling technique: Takedowns
Favorite Striking technique: Right Cross
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At a glance
What: Moto X smartphone
Likes: Solid feel; customizable case; long battery life; Active Display feature shows alerts and time without gobbling up battery; motion processor allows users to launch camera without having to press a button.
Dislikes: Key feature -- ability to launch Google Now with just your voice -- rarely works, as does Motorola Assist app.
Specs: 1.7GHz dual-core processor; 4.7-inch 1280 x 720 screen; 2 megapixel front and 10 megapixel rear cameras.
Price: $200 for 16GB model, $250 for 32GB model; both with a two-year contract.
Web: www.motorola.com
I really like Motorola's new Moto X smartphone. In a way, though, that's disappointing: But for a couple of shortcomings I could have loved it.
Moto X is the first all-new smartphone to come from Motorola since Google took control of the company last year. With it, Google seems to be trying to break from Motorola's recent past of producing devices that only a geek could love.
Unlike the flat, rectangular shapes of the Droid line of phones, the new Moto X sports rounded corners and a gently curved back. Like many recent Android phones, it has a larger screen -- in its case a 4.7-inch one -- but thanks to the curves and the narrow borders around the display, it doesn't feels overly large. The back of the Moto X is made of plastic, but it fits tightly around its innards and seems solid. Overall, it feels great in the hand.
One of the cool things about the Moto X is that users can customize it when they order it. They can choose from among 18 different colors for the back of its case, two different colors for its front and seven different colors for its volume and power buttons. Users can also specify what wallpaper they want to have on their homescreens and the greeting the phone will display when they turn it on.
Right now, these personalization options are only available on AT&T, but Motorola expects the other major carriers to offer them soon.
The Moto X includes a high-resolution OLED screen that looks great. It also offers longer life than the average smartphone. Part of the reason for the curve in the back of the phone is to make extra room for a custom-designed, longer-lasting battery. Motorola promises that you'll get up to 13 hours of talk time and 24 hours of mixed use. I didn't test those claims precisely, but found that I was easily able to make it through more than a day of intermittent use without having to recharge.
Similar to Apple's iPhone 5s, the Moto X has a processor that's dedicated to detecting and tracking motion. This allows the device to track movements even when it's not in active use and its main processors are turned off.
For example, if you simply want to check the time, all you have to do is pick up your phone or pull it out of your pocket; you don't have to push a power button first. You also can instantly launch the camera from a locked screen by picking up the device and twisting your hand twice. It doesn't start as fast as if you had a dedicated camera button, but it's pretty quick.
The Moto X also includes a technology that Motorola calls Active Display. When locked, the screen will flash on to alert you that you have a new text message or email or other notification. Although other devices have similar capabilities, Motorola has designed Active Display so that it's judicious with your battery life -- it only illuminates the pixels it needs to display and it won't turn on the screen if the phone is upside down.
I wasn't as impressed with some of the other features in the Moto X, including one that is supposed to be among its chief selling points. The Moto X includes a feature that allows you to access Google Now, a Siri-like voice assistant, without having to press a button or even touch the device. By simply saying "OK Google Now," the Moto X is supposed to launch the Google Now service and respond to your requests.
However, I found the feature to be hit and mostly miss. For example, I tried to get it to set a timer while I was out running, but it didn't work. It didn't do anything even though I repeated "OK Google Now" multiple times.
Figuring that the problem might have stemmed from being outside in a noisy environment, I tried it again at my office and in my car. It worked maybe every fifth time. I even tried to retrain the phone to recognize when I said the key phrase. It still didn't work consistently.
Also disappointing was another key feature of the Moto X, an app called Motorola Assist. Among other things, that app is supposed, when you are driving, to read out to you any incoming text messages and to announce the names of any incoming callers. You're also supposed to be able to configure it to automatically send a text message in response to messages or calls alerting people that you are driving.
While the Moto X recognized when I was driving, it only rarely read out incoming text messages or announced the names of callers. Far more frequently, it would simply light up the screen without saying anything.
I wish those features worked better. Without them, the Moto X is still a very good phone. But so are a lot of other devices out there.
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In 1500, the Chinese and Ottoman Empires were more advanced than Western nations and South America was more advanced than North America.
The Great Divergence Begins
In 1500, the Chinese and Ottoman Empires were more advanced than Western nations and South America was more advanced than North America.
By 1731, an Ottoman writer asked, "Why do Christian nations, which were so weak in the past compared with Muslim nations, begin to dominate so many lands in modern times and even defeat the once victorious Ottoman armies?" [1]
Had they not been closed to and uninterested in the West then, Chinese scholars would have asked the same question. One answer is sea exploration.
The Age of Discovery began in 1415 when young Prince Henry (aka The Navigator) of Portugal, full of religious zeal, decided to wage war against Cueta, a Moor (Muslim) city close by in North Africa.
One of Henry's officers captured a prominent Moor which he held for ransom, receiving in exchange 10 blacks and some gold dust.
The easy victory and treasures available from conquest excited the cupidity of his fellow countrymen. [2] They built several forts and settlements on the West coast of Africa from which many slaves were brought into Spain.
Henry justified his actions claiming his purpose was to convert slaves to Christianity. "In Henryspeak, conversion and enslavement were interchangeable terms." [3]
Born into a prominent family in Genoa, Italy, loss of the family's fortune motivated young Christopher Columbus to seek his fortune at sea.
At 25, he sailed from Genoa only to be shipwrecked near the Portuguese city of Lagos from which Henry had launched his expeditions.
He made voyages in the Portuguese merchant marines and in the process became a self-educated master mariner.
Chris presented his plan to Portuguese King John in 1484 who, being familiar with the most current maps of the time, rejected the voyage as being too far.
Chris moved his family to Spain and in 1485 began a six-year courtship of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.
Preoccupied in 1491 with the "reconquista" of the Iberian Peninsula from the Muslims, expelling Jews and Christian heretics in the Spanish Inquisition, they said "no."
Ironically, it was a converted Jewish banker who convinced the royals to reconsider Columbus's "Enterprise of the Indies" — probably sealing the deal by offering to help finance it.
Exalting from the fall of the Alhambra castle in Granada, seat of Moorish rule in January, 1492, and relieved of the expense, they approved of Chris "sailing until I reach the Indies."
Columbus departed Palos, Spain, Aug. 3, 1492, in three ships crewed largely by Spanish seamen trained on Portuguese voyages.
He sailed for God, country, and personal profit and honor e.g., titles for himself and his boys.
Thirty-three days later, they sighted land in the Bahamas.
He sailed for China and Japan and to his death did not realize he had found a New World, an entirely separate continent between Europe and Asia.
His greatest achievement was not that but pioneering four new transatlantic routes.
Expecting to meet the Chinese Khan of which Marco Polo wrote, he found naked savages who thought he and his ships had come from heaven.
Protected by his delusion that he had reached the outskirts of China, he made three subsequent voyages, each around Cuba, convinced that he had reached Asia.
Columbus thought the natives "ought to be good servants" and "would easily be made Christians." [4]
On his second voyage with 17 ships, he sent home above 500 Indian prisoners who he suggested might be sold as slaves in Seville.
He said his decision was based on his experiences with the Portuguese taking men from Guinea with the intention of converting them then sending them home as missionaries.
He always felt called of God to his task.
Columbus introduced slavery to Cuba and Hispaniola (Haiti, Dominican Republic).
By 1792, Cuba had 84,000 slaves.
The Taino Indians were literally worked to death in the mines and fields and ultimately replaced by African slaves.
By 1873, 500,000, or one-third, of Cuba's population was slaves on lands owned by a few plantation owners favored by the Crown.
War, slavery and western diseases like smallpox eradicated the Taino culture and people.
Slavery endured to some extent almost to the 20th century in Cuba.
Neither indigenous nor imported inhabitants ever had any chance of creating their own culture or developing representative government.
War and revolution interrupted by corrupt dictators governed captive peoples throughout their history.
I don't think God was in on this.
`O Maker of the Mighty Deep,
Wheron our vessels fare,
Above our life's adventure keep
Thy faithful watch and care.
In Thee we trust, whate'er befall'
Thy sea is great, our boats are small.
Henry van Dyke, 1822
[1] Huntington, Samuel P., The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, NY: Touchstone, 1996.
[2] Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol.20, p779.
[3]Sandler, Martin W., Atlantic Ocean, NY: Sterling Pub., 2008, p34.
[4] Bergreen, Laurence, Columbus:The Four Voyages [1492-1504], NY: Penguin, 2012,p14.


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Red Sox - 000 002 002 - 4 8 1Jason Bay crushed a high fastball from John Lackey to deep left with two outs in the sixth, giving the Red Sox a 2-1 lead. RBI singles from Jacoby Ellsbury and David Ortiz provided some ninth-inning insurance.
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Lester started off on the wrong foot, allowing two hits and a walk in the first inning. He left the bases loaded and although he allowed an unearned run in the third, he also stranding two more baserunners. After Torii Hunter's single gave LA a 1-0 lead, Lester retired 13 of his next 15 batters, including striking out the side in the sixth. Only one of his 21 outs was hit beyond the infield.
Justin Masterson allowed a couple of singles in the eighth, but a bone-headed baserunning play from Vladimir Guerrero cut a potential rally short. Vlad, who can barely jog, tried to go from first to third on a pop single to short right and Kevin Youkilis gunned him down by -- seriously -- 35 feet.
Jonathan Papelbon took care of the Angels in the ninth -- as many of the "fans" had packed up their noisemakers du jour and gone home.
Ellsbury had three hits and a stolen base; he also reached on a three-base error by right fielder Gary Matthews. And he made a diving catch on a sinking liner for the first out in the LAA eighth. ... Pedroia walked twice, Yook singled and walked, Bay doubled and donged, and Lowrie singled and scored.
In the NL: the Phillies beat the Brewers 3-1 and the Dodgers beat the Cubs 7-2.
Jon Lester (3.21, 143 ERA+) / John Lackey (3.75, 116 ERA+)
Results of the ALDS Poll:
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Red Sox Angels
Jacoby Ellsbury, CF Chone Figgins, 3B
Dustin Pedroia, 2B Garret Anderson, LF
David Ortiz, DH Mark Teixeira, 1B
Kevin Youkilis, 1B Vladimir Guerrero, DH
J.D. Drew, RF Torii Hunter, CF
Jason Bay, LF Howie Kendrick, 2B
Mike Lowell, 3B Mike Napoli, C
Jed Lowrie, SS Gary Matthews Jr., RF
Jason Varitek, C Erick Aybar, SS
Lester finished 4th in the AL in ERA.
Lester 210.1 202 66 152 1.274 .256 .320 .368
Lackey 163.1 161 40 130 1.231 .260 .315 .435
W-L RS RA DIF EXPWL OPS+ ERA+So we hit better, get on base more often, have more power, score more runs, and allow fewer runs. ... Tell me again: Why the Angels are favoured in this series?
Red Sox 95-67 845 694 +151 95-67 108 114
Angels 100-62 765 697 + 68 88-74 96 109
Red Sox .280 .358 .447 5.22 4.28 4.01
Angels .268 .330 .413 4.72 4.30 4.00
Is it their closer? Which of these three closers do you like?
IP H BB K ERA OBP SLG WHIP IR/SCloser A has walked a ton of batters and his ability at preventing inherited runners from scoring is putrid. At least one writer gives huge weight to a worthless stat and thinks A is the AL MVP. ... I'm assuming you know who A & B are (think Angels and Boston). Any writers considering Frod for MVP should probably slot Joakim Soria (C) even further up on the ballot.
Lackey's last outing? 2.2 IP, 12 hits, 10 runs! In four September starts, batters pounded him to the tune of a 1.042 OPS (.356/.420/.622). Since July 5, he has a 5.42 ERA in 94.2 innings. ... He did well in his two starts against Boston, though: July 18 (7-5-3-2-6) and July 29 (9-2-2-2-4).
Before the issue of Josh Beckett's oblique forced a shuffling of the rotation, there was talk that Lester should pitch Game 3 at Fenway because of his poor road record this year. That will not happen, though Lester would be pitching Game 4 in Boston, if necessary.
Lester's splits from this season:
GS ERA IP H BB K AVG OBP SLGI think the home/road ERA split is exaggerated -- and, ultimately, should not cause anyone to worry. (For those who care, his home/road records were 11-1 and 5-5.)
Home 17 2.49 115.2 103 35 86 .240 .303 .361
Road 16 4.09 94.2 99 31 66 .275 .341 .375
First, let's note that in both 2006 and 2007, Lester did not have much of a split.
2007 IP ERA OPSSo why the bigger split in 2008? Well, two of Lester's worst starts of the year came on the road. He allowed six runs in five innings in Houston on June 28 and gave up seven runs in 2.1 innings in Toronto on August 23. If you toss out those bad days, his road ERA drops a full run -- from 4.09 to 3.09.
Home 23 4.30 .775
Road 40 4.72 .740
Home 49.1 4.74 .807
Road 32 4.78 .825
Of course, those starts did happen, but when you are working with a small sample size, a crappy outing or two -- for whatever reason -- can have a larger than deserved effect. Also, there is a touch of poor luck with his road BABIP (batting average on balls in play) -- a somewhat high .321.
Lester saw Los Angeles once this year -- April 23 at Fenway. 5-9-4-2-1, 80. The Angels won 6-4. Lester has pitched in Anaheim twice (once each in 2006 and 2007), allowing 14 hits, seven walks and eight runs in 8.1 innings.
According to the Globe, Beckett threw lightly on Tuesday: "30 throws from 60 feet, moved back to 90 feet and made 20 throws, then moved back to 60". Francona: "Everything was very encouraging. Everything was real positive." ... Plenty of additional links in Art Marrone's column.
BP's Joe Sheehan agrees with me: Red Sox in 4 (though he adds: "There is no result — a sweep, a five-game series, either team winning — that would come as a surprise.).
Finally: The Boston media is misrepresenting Manny Ramirez's latest comments about his time in Boston. The Herald's Gerry Callahan writes that Manny's "problem with Boston [was] us. You and me. Fans and media." Actually, what Manny said was this:
The fans in Boston got your back no matter what, but I'm talking about the people who write all this bull because it means so much to them.So: the fans are great and the writers are dicks. And that's the reason for the media's negative spin.
Remember: SHOTS = VICTORY! We're 7-for-7!
Other games today:
NLDS 1: Brewers at Phillies at 3
NLDS 1: Dodgers at Cubs at 6


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You're not a sprinter and you're not a pure distance swimmer. Your 50's & 1500's aren't as great as your 200's, 400's, & 500's. Your 100's aren't shabby. Let the D Divas take those 800's, 1000's, 1500's & 1650's. You're caught in the middle. You've got OK speed, but you can do those longer sets that make pure sprinters ill. You're well conditioned and tend to do well with back to back events. You're in great company, Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte are middle distance swimmers who have excellent 100's but not so great 50's. Man you can train.
This is the middle distance lane. Don't get lapped.
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When the AGCO farm machinery company bought a grain storage business two years ago, the purchase was considered unusual for a manufacturer of combines and tractors.
In 2013, the company expects the revenues of its GSI subsidiary to grow by 5 to 7 percent, thanks in part to increased demand for on-farm grain storage.
"Overall, the view is pretty positive," said Adam Fleck, farm machinery analyst at the Morningstar research firm. "The timing looks pretty good."
GSI, which makes storage facilities and automated livestock feeding equipment, is expected to contribute up to $750 million to AGCO's revenues this year, he said.
While that will amount to a fraction of AGCO's total sales — which the company projects to be $11 billion in 2013 — GSI helps the company hedge against fluctuations in the grain industry, Fleck said.
Higher grain production in North America has deflated prices, which is typically negative for machinery, but a larger crop sparks demand for storage, he said.
Also, reduced grain prices are expected to improve profitability in the livestock sector — which relies on such crops for feed — freeing up money for swine and poultry growers to spend on GSI's automated equipment, Fleck said.
"It tends to be more countercyclical compared to the combine and tractor business," he said.
GSI earns about 65 percent of its revenues from grain storage and 35 percent form its livestock systems, according to AGCO, which paid $930 million for the company in November 2011.
The subsidiary will contribute primarily to AGCO's sales in North America, where its revenues are projected to grow by 5 percent in 2013, according to a company presentation.
Sales in Europe, where much of AGCO's machinery is sold, are expected to drop by up to 5 percent, the company said. AGCO's South American sales, while smaller, are forecast to rise up to 20 percent.
AGCO's footprint in South America may also be a boon for its GSI subsidiary, as the Brazilian government has vowed to provide about $12 billion in subsidies for on-farm storage, said Fleck.
Currently, trucks loaded with grain get stuck in traffic while waiting to unload at Brazilian ports, so the country sees a need for on-farm silos, he said.
The investment will pay off for AGCO in the longer term, Fleck said. "It's probably going to take a few years."
The overall growth in farm machinery sales is expected to flatten out after several stellar years, largely due to lower cash receipts for farmers, he said.
Even so, the sector will probably remain healthy, Fleck said. "I don't think anyone is expecting a cliff-type fall off."


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Oh, I Didn't Know
According to the Moonlight
You Belong to Me
Music is Magic
Whose Big Baby Are You?
I'm Shooting High
I Love to Ride the Horses on a Merry-Go-Round
But Definitely
When I'm With You
You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach, Baby
Sing, Baby, Baby
You Turned the Tables On Me
One Never Knows, Does One?
Goodnight, My Love
He Ain't Got Rhythm
This Year's Kisses
Slumming on Park Avenue
You Can't Have Everything
Danger, Love at Work
Afraid to Dream / You Can't Have Everything
Please Pardon Us, We're in Love
My Fine Feathered Friend
Got My Mind On Music
Think Twice
This is Where I Came In
Medley: Alexander's Ragtime Band, International Rag, When The Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves For Alabam', Everybody's Doing It
Now It Can Be Told
Remember / Alone
Are You In the Mood For Mischief?
I'm Sorry I Made You Cry
The Vamp
I'm Just Wild About Harry
I Never Knew Heaven Could Speak
Rose of Washington Square
My Man
I'll See You in My Dreams
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
Blue Lovebird
Hawaii A
You Say the Sweetest Things, Baby
Moonlight Bay
America, I Love You
The Sheik of Araby
Get Out and Get Under
They Met in Rio
Boa Noite
It's All in a Lifetime
I Take to You
Where You Are
Long Ago Last Night
Romance and Rhumba
Tropical Magic
Ragtime Cowboy Joe
Sweet Cider Time
The Grizzly Bear
Why Do They Always Pick On Me?
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
You'll Never Know
Hello, Frisco, Hello
No Love, No Nothing
The Polka-Dot Polka
A Journey to a Star


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LOVES PARK — Alex Papini had a season to remember in 2013. He picked back up on Saturday night.
Last season the Machesney Park native racked up eight feature wins on his way to the Rockford Speedway track championship and an Illinois State Championship.
On Saturday, Papini was back on top, capturing the win in the 30-lap Late Model feature event. Papini outran seven-time Rockford Speedway track champion Ricky Bilderback on his way to the victory.
Papini started on the outside front row for the main event, next to Wisconsin driver Wayne Freimund. He pounced to the lead in the race's opening laps, bringing Bilderback along for the ride. Over the next 10 laps, Papini and Bilderback wrestled for the front, with Papini finally pulling away near the halfway point.
Bilderback closed the gap several times but never seriously challenged for the lead again in the caution-free race. Three-time track champion Jerry Gille finished in third, followed by Jake Gille in fourth and Jon Reynolds Jr. in fifth.
Byron's Pat Featherston won his first ever Sportsman feature race, taking the lead from Rockford's John Logan Jr. with nine laps remaining in the division's 25-lap feature event. Howie Ware finished in second for the second straight week and was followed by Johnny Robinson II in third.
Shawn Rickelman made it look easy in the Roadrunner division, powering to the lead on lap four of the 20-lap feature race, winning by a straightaway. The win was Rickelman's first Saturday night feature win.
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"The greatest asset I have discovered at the Moritz College of Law is the excellent combination of academic scholars in the area of property and real estate law, and professors with practical, real-world experience. As a result, the available academic and practical resources continue to grow. Students can take advantage of a rich curriculum including upper level courses focusing on real estate development, real estate finance, landlord-tenant law, redeveloping urban areas, eminent domain, and commercial leasing.
In my 2L year, with the help of the Moritz administration and Professor Rick Daley, I was able to help expand the available property and real estate law resources by founding the Real Estate Law Association. The group has an excellent board of directors and large student membership committed to increasing the educational, networking, and career development opportunities in this legal practice area."
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Real estate law and development is a dynamic, growing, and complicated area. Building
on the foundational first-year course on property, students may study the financing and
development of commercial and residential real estate transactions and investments in our upperlevel curriculum.
Moritz's Property course is a mandatory part of the first-year curriculum for all J.D. students. The course is a survey designed to explore the concept that "property" is not a thing, but rather "denotes legal relations between persons with respect to a thing." The traditional property course leads into a wealth of offerings for students interested in real estate development, and other property issues.
In the upper-level curriculum, a number of courses build on the Property foundation with regard to real estate. These include Real Estate Transactions, Real Estate Finance, Landlord-Tenant Law, Land Use Planning and Government Regulation, and Eminent Domain. Other groups of upper-level property courses involve wills, trusts, and estates.
Real estate and development law is a dynamic and growing practice area, and Moritz students have an unprecedented opportunity to get first-hand experience. The College offers an innovative, hands-on Real Estate Development Law course that is routinely praised by both students and potential employers. The course mixes simulated negotiations, city council meetings, and real estate deals to provide students the practical experience and knowledge that real estate development firms and law firms are seeking. The program fills a niche of providing hands-on learning in real estate development law and deals that American law schools often miss.
The ground-breaking course is different than traditional law courses in that it places students in the middle of simulated real estate deals. Students learn about the business, how to effectively represent their clients, and what to expect once they graduate. The course uses a case study approach, which emphasizes the needs of the client at each stage of the real estate development process (beginning with the initial acquisition of the project site through the ultimate sale of the developed project).
Moritz students can also further their experience as part of the Real Estate Law Association. The student group hopes to further discussion on the area of law, draw interesting speakers regarding real estate law, and host thought-provoking programming.
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PRINCETON, N.J. – The Columbia softball team put six players on All-Ivy League teams, as announced by the conference this afternoon. Junior Emily Caruthers was named to the first team, while first-year Emily Kenyon, sophomore Alix Cook and first-year Alyssa Swearingen earned a spot on the second team. Junior Emily Snodgrass and sophomore Liz Caggiano each garnered honorable mention status, respectively.
The total is the second highest in program history and the most since seven Lions took home honors following the 2006 season.
Caruthers was a spark-plug at the top of the lineup throughout the season, starting all 48 games and hitting .344 with 29 runs scored to rank among the Ivy League leaders. She broke Columbia's single-season and career stolen base mark this season, swiping 17 bags to rank third in the conference and now has 31 in three seasons. Caruthers also played an error-free centerfield and posted three outfield assists.
Kenyon emerged as the team's ace, picking up 10 wins with a 2.70 ERA and 146 strikeouts in 140 innings of work. Her strikeout total set a new school record for first-years and was the third highest single-season total in program history.
Cook posted the second highest single-season batting average in the school's history, recording a .366 clip with 20 RBI and 19 runs scored. She reached base safely in 44 of 48 games played and is the nation's sixth toughest batter to strike out after fanning just five times in 160 at-bats.
Swearingen patrolled left field in 45 games for the Lions, posting a .280 average with two homers and 16 RBI in a solid rookie campaign. She also came around to score 24 times and was second on the team with 11 stolen bases.
This is the second consecutive year that Caggiano has picked up an honorable mention nod. The sophomore catcher saw action in 39 games, hitting .270 with a pair of dingers and 13 RBI. Her presence behind the plate helped Columbia post a team ERA of 2.76 to lead the Ivy League.
Snodgrass tied a career-high by hitting .308 and was the club's top run-producer. She led Columbia with six home runs, 29 RBI and added 11 doubles. The designated player was named Ivy League Player of the Week on March 19 after batting .412 with five extra-base hits to help the Lions post a 5-1 record at the Rebel Spring Games in Kissimmee, Fla.
Sarah Onorato, Yale (So., C - North Reading, Mass.)
Kristen Rumley, Dartmouth (So., P - Katy, Texas)
Katie McEachern, Dartmouth (Fr., SS/OF - San Diego, Calif.)
*Kristen Rumley, Dartmouth (So., P - Katy, Texas)
*Alexis Borden, Penn (So., P - Yorba Linda, Calif.)
*Sarah Onorato, Yale (So., C - North Reading, Mass.)
Georgia Guttadauro, Penn (Jr., 1B - Carlisle, Mass.)
Hillary Hubert, Dartmouth (Sr., 2B - Grant Park, Ill.)
*Kasey Lange, Harvard (Fr., 3B - Ladera Ranch, Calif.)
Emily Gusse, Harvard (So., SS - San Diego, Calif.)
Stephanie Caso, Penn (Sr., SS - Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Emily Caruthers, Columbia (Jr., OF - Rancho Murieta, Calif.)
*Shelbi Olson, Harvard (Jr., OF - Lenexa, Kan.)
*Brooke Coloma, Penn (Sr., OF - Martinez, Calif.)
Jessica Melendez, Penn (Sr., OF - Miami, Fla.)
Katie McEachern, Dartmouth (Fr., Utility - San Diego, Calif.)
Erin Belles, Cornell (Sr., DP - Dallas, Pa.)
* unanimous selections
+ There are two shortstops and four outfielders on the first team due to ties in the voting
Emily Kenyon, Columbia (Fr., P - Monmouth, Ore.)
Morgan Groom, Harvard (Fr., P - Lowell, Mich.)
Alex Peyton, Princeton (Sr., P - Fullerton, Calif.)
Maddie Cousens, Princeton (Jr., C - Albany, Calif.)
Christina Villalon, Cornell (Sr., 1B - Robstown, Texas)
Samantha Erosa, Penn (Sr., 2B - Bronx, N.Y.)
Alix Cook, Columbia (So., 3B - El Segundo, Calif.)
Alyssa Schmidt, Princeton (So., SS - Rocklin, Calif.)
Alyssa Swearingen, Columbia (Fr., OF - Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.)
Megan Averitt, Dartmouth (So., OF - Alameda, Calif.)
Sydney Turchin, Penn (Sr., OF - Princeton Junction, N.J.)
Nikki Chu, Princeton (Sr., Utility - Carlsbad, Calif.)
Stephanie Regan, Harvard (Sr., DP - Humble, Texas)
% There are three pitchers on the second team due to tie in the voting
Liz Caggiano, Columbia (So., C - Bellaire, Texas)
Morgan McCalmon, Dartmouth (Fr., 1B - Norman, Okla.)
Alex Peyton, Princeton (Sr., 1B - Fullerton, Calif.)
Stephanie Thompson, Brown (Sr., 2B - Chino, Calif.)
Trista Chavez, Brown (So., 3B - San Pedro, Calif.)
Emily Weinberg, Cornell (Fr., 3B - West Windsor, N.J.)
Janet Leung, Brown (Fr., SS - Mississauga, Ontario, Canada)
Tori Balta, Yale (Jr., OF - Valencia, Calif.)
Lauren Li, Penn (Fr., Utility - Los Angeles, Calif.)
Emily Snodgrass, Columbia (Jr., DP - Canby, Ore.)
Elysse Gorney, Penn (Jr., DP - Orlando, Fla.)


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A selection of adventure run possibilities for 2009 and beyond in California's Sierra Mountains. New for this year is a section for the Northern California Coastal Ranges, which features an appealing mixture of old growth redwoods, rugged coastline, and snowcapped mountains.
- Middle Palisade: This peak lends itself to the fastest time of the Palisade group with a shorter approach and sustained scramble.
- Mount Sill: Known as the best viewpoint in the Palisades and an interesting route.
- North Palisade: The highest point in the Palisades subrange has a more technical finish.
- Clyde Minaret: The Minarets are gorgeous and this is a cool scramble.
- Mount Stanford: Named after my alma mater – a sweet mountain in the midst of a very rugged section of the Sierra.
- Arrow Peak via Bench Lake: Famous view of this symmetrical peak from Bench Lake.
- Mineral King Area: Tons of great scrambles here.
- South Guard/North Guard/Mount Brewer: Wild and remote; access from Kings Canyon on the westside.
- Mount Whitney: The Mountaineers Route is a classic.
- Mount Russell: Sweet scrambling routes on this mountain next to Whitney.
- Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne: A point-to-point 33 mile trail run through a spectacular canyon.
- University Peak: A cool looking mountain out of Onion Valley.
See Coastal Ranges after the jump.
Coastal Ranges:
- The Trinity Alps: Lots of sweet climbs here in the Klamath Mountain Range.
- Mount Shasta: Cool looking mountain and equally cool routes.
- The Lost Coast: Encompassing King Range National Conservation Area and the Sinkyone Wilderness, the Lost Coast is the most remote and wild stretch of coastline on the US West Coast.
- Miner's Ridge and James Irvine Loop: Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, known as one of the best redwood hikes in the world
- Look Prairie-Peavine-Thornton Loop: The biggest redwoods in the world at Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
- Grasshopper Peak: A high point in Humboldt Redwoods State Park with great views.


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Training: AM: Weights or Cardio, PM: Technique & Sparring
When and why did you start training for fighting? 1999. UFC got me interested in the evolution of martial arts and I wanted to test myself
What ranks and titles have you held? Cage Rage British champion, ADCC European champion
Do you have any heroes? Spiderman - with great power comes great responsibility. All the other guys in the gym, working so hard to do what they love no matter how hard the road.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? So much. It's the first taste of real fighting we all got and it is and always has been the real home for what we now see as the professional sport of MMA
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? Yes, pharmacology
What was your job before you started fighting? Pharmaceutical rep
Favorite grappling technique: Kimura
Favorite Striking technique: Left hook
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Jefferson County will tighten its purse strings next year.
The $468.3 million 2013 budget for Jefferson County, approved Dec. 4 by County Commissioners Donald Rosier and Faye Griffin with Commissioner John Odom absent, represents a 1.3 percent decrease over last year.
The adopted budget was $3.6 million less than what had been originally proposed for next year.
To help balance the budget, the county is dipping into reserve funds to make up a $20.9 million shortfall, including a transfer of $3.4 million into the social services fund.
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At a Kensington Palace costume event for her new Disney movie "Maleficent," Jolie told reporters Thursday that "we are thinking about it."
Joined by Pitt and her 12-year-old son Maddox on the blue carpet, Jolie was excited to visit the royal venue, joking "I am using it as an excuse to be a tourist."
The film itself was also a family affair. The couple's daughter Vivienne stars in the movie as the young Sleeping Beauty.
Jolie said she loved bringing her kids on set: "They lived on the fairy mound. They hung out with Elle (Fanning). It was magic."
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valgrindpp.pl is a post processor for .valgrind files created during make test.valgrind. It collects all these files, extracts most of the information and produces a significantly shorter summary of all detected memory access errors and memory leaks.
Recursively process .valgrind files in dir. If this options is not given, valgrindpp.pl must be run from either the perl source or the t directory and will process all .valgrind files within the distribution.
Number of stack frames within the perl source code to consider when distinguishing between memory leak sources. Increasing this value will give you a longer backtrace, while decreasing the number will show you fewer sources for memory leaks. The default is 3 frames.
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The haunting story of THE GIVER centers on Jonas, a young man who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with The Giver, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past....
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The haunting story of THE GIVER centers on Jonas, a young man who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with The Giver, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. With this newfound power of knowledge, he realizes that the stakes are higher than imagined - a matter of life and death for himself and those he loves most. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all - a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
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At the heart of any dystopian story - be it about warring farm animals, omnipresent elder siblings, or colorless societies wherein pain and inequality have been all but eradicated - there is meant to be something human. Something that shines through to show us just how close we are to the world onscreen and just how far away from it we need to get. But at the heart of The Giver - Phillip Noyce's film adaptation, not Lois Lowry's '93 intro-to-Orwell novel - we find no humanity. There is nothing remotely vital about the film, its themes, its world, or its characters. Thus, who really gives a damn what kind of hell they're all dealing with?
Brenton Thwaites is our hero - the exception among the heap of mindless drones (not to be confused with the movie's surplus of literal drones) that occupy the nameless society, or so we're meant to believe. In truth, Thwaites and his character Jonas are just as flat, vacant, and devoid of nuance as every other member of this pallid world. So when he is selected as the only villager capable of bearing the world's memories of joy, pain, life, suffering, and - most prominently - ethnic dancing, we're bored to tears by what might otherwise be an emotionally riveting journey into emotional maturity.
But Thwaites isn't the only issue. Jeff Bridges manages some combination of tired Sam Elliott, tired Bane, and tired Scooby Doo in his performance as the titular Giver, the man whose relationships with the society, Chief Elder Meryl Streep, and Receivers past and present are never illustrated with enough clarity to understand him as a man or a metaphorical function. Just like Thwaites' big moments suffer from a lack of substantial precedent, any message that Bridges' character is meant to unfurl falls as flat as the inflection of a dystopian resident.
Broad strokes are one thing; The Giver seems to miss the canvas entirely in its portrait of the importance of pain and experience. Without a single human moment to convince us of the importance of humanity, we're really left just staring at a confusing oscillation of the color wheel for 90 minutes.
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Rex Burkhead and Ben Cottonlead the 21-member 2013 Brook Berringer Citizenship Team that will be honored about 20 minutes before Nebraska's annual Red-White Spring Game at Memorial Stadium Saturday. Burkhead, a running back, and Cotton, a tight end, have won four consecutive Berringer Awards. Joining them are four teammates who also have completed their eligibility – wide receivers Taylor Dixon and Steven Osborne, tight end Kyler Reed and offensive lineman Seung Hoon Choi. All six display a similar love and dedication for volunteering in the community through Nebraska's nationally recognized Life Skills program.
The same is true for 15 more current Huskers who will receive Berringer Citizenship honors – senior quarterback Ron Kellogg III, redshirt freshman linebacker Michael Rose, senior cornerback Ciante Evans, senior wide receiver Quincy Enunwa, senior fullback C.J. Zimmerer, sophomore running back Imani Cross, senior tight end Jake Long, redshirt freshman tight end Trey Foster, redshirt freshman wide receiver Lane Hovey, junior wide receiver Tyler Evans, junior defensive tackle Jay Guy, sophomore offensive lineman Chris Long and senior offensive linemen Brandon Chapek, Spencer Long and Jeremiah Sirles.
The Brook Berringer Citizenship award is named in honor of the former Husker quarterback who died in a plane crash in 1996 after helping lead Nebraska to back-to-back national titles in '94 and '95. Berringer's statue with Tom Osborne is located in front of Memorial Stadium's north entrance. Osborne, Nebraska's Athletic Director Emeritus and Berringer's coach, will help present the 2013 honorees. Brook's sisters, Drue and Nicole, and other members of the Berringer family, will assist with the presentation.
Immediately after the Berringer presentation, N-Club President Matt Vrzal and other former Husker lettermen will recognize 21 first-time letterwinners, including Berringer winners Kellogg, Cross and Dixon who are also Berringer winners as well. Other Huskers being recognized for a first-year letter are cornerbacks Mohammed Seisay, Charles Jackson and Daniel Davie, wide receivers Taariq Allen and Sam Burtch, fullback Mike Marrow, defensive back Austin Williams, fullback Andy Janovich, linebacker David Santos, offensive linemen Mark Pelini, Zach Sterup and Ryne Reeves and defensive tackles Brodrick Nickens and Kevin Williams. Graduating seniors being recognized for their first letters include linebackers Micah Kreikemeier and Matt Manninger, defensive tackle Kenny Anderson, offensive lineman Nick Ash and tight end Conor McDermott.
McDermott also will be presented the seventh annual Cletus Fischer Endowed Scholarship, presented annually to a Nebraska football player who has 1) demonstrated a high level of athletic and academic achievement; 2) has completed both his academic eligibility and undergraduate studies; and 3) has plans to attend graduate school. McDermott was a key contributor at tight end last season and was a 2012 Academic All-Big Ten selection.
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Fourteen members of the Tuesday Study Club were present at the Dec. 18 meeting in the home of Myrna Eppeland. The ladies enjoyed a lunch prepared by Myrna Eppeland and Clarice Fastenau.
Fourteen members of the Tuesday Study Club were present at the Dec. 18 meeting in the home of Myrna Eppeland. The ladies enjoyed a lunch prepared by Myrna Eppeland and Clarice Fastenau.
Clarice and Myrna presented the program, "The History of Christmas and Christmas Music." Many of our Christmas traditions go back to early pagan festivals celebrated at the time of the winter solstice (about December 22).
These festivals were enjoyed long before the birth of Christ. The use of evergreen boughs, garlands, and wreaths; the burning of candles and Yule logs; giving of gifts; dancing; and feasting were part of these celebrations.
Early church officials took the date of one of these pagan celebrations, December 25th, and designated it as the birthday of Christ because they wanted a Christian festival to substitute for the pagan ones.
The music back in these early days was mostly sung poetry or chanting. Aulos (something like flutes) and lyres (something like harps) have been used since very early times.
As early as 130 A.D. the angels' song, "Glory to God in the highest" was sung in churches.
The monks memorized all the chants that they used until about 800 A.D. when musical notation was developed.
The word "carol" originally meant a musical dance, but later its meaning changed to mean a joyful religious song.
One of the most popular carols is "Silent Night," composed and first sung by Pastor Joseph Mohr and Organist Franz Gruber to guitar accompaniment because the organ was broken in their small village church in Austria.
The tune for "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" came from a song written by Felix Mendelssohn to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the printing press in 1840 in Leipzig, Germany. It was set to religious words in 1855.
The program included the histories of many well-known carols and concluded with two Christmas duets played by Myrna and Clarice.
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An estimated 100 people filed in to the auditorium at Boulder's New Vista High School on Saturday to listen to and participate in a youth-organized discussion panel addressing the issue of harassment and bullying of gay teens.
The panel, dubbed "GLBTQ Harassment: The Dark Side of the Rainbow," was organized by city of Boulder's Youth Opportunities Advisory Board members Malie Minto, 14, Michael Clymer, 16, and Nancy Contreras, 16. The trio was spurred to organize the discussion by 2011 data indicating that GLBTQ students in Boulder County were twice as likely to be bullied than their straight peers.
While there is no easy way to stop discrimination and bullying of GLBTQ students in schools, panelists, organizers and observers noted that even having discussions like the one held Saturday is a significant step in the right direction.
"It's a slow process but youth make a difference and we're making a difference here today, which is hugely rewarding," said Malie.
The five-person panel included B Mann, coordinator of Out Boulder's youth focused BOLD program, longtime Colorado legislator and public school teacher Dorothy Rupert and New Vista Assistant Principal Ivette Visbal. It also featured two young people with first-hand experience as gay students in Boulder County, recent Niwot High School graduate Daniel Sobrevilla, who identifies as bisexual, and Boulder High School Senior Reina Ross, 17, who identifies as pansexual and is co-president of her school's gay-straight alliance.
"Sometimes it's not about physical abuse," Sobrevilla said, relating his experiences with bullying. "(People) just cast you off. It changes you. It makes you a different person. It makes you seek attention."
A popular conversation topic Saturday was the common use of the words fag and gay as by high school students to belittle others. Reina said that even friends of hers occasionally use the terms without thinking. The panelist generally agreed that the best way to address the issue is through an open discussion in each school what the terms mean to members of the GLBTQ community and how it affects them.
Visbal, who identifies as a lesbian, noted that at New Vista no one is given detention if caught using fag or gay toward another student. Instead--in the vein of New Vista's restorative justice policies--the student is taken aside by instructors to discuss why what they said was hurtful and how they can repay the student they offended.
"It's based on speaking with the person. 'What we you thinking when you said that?'" Visbal said. "Nothing comes out of it other than an agreement, usually an apology. The student will say, "I will stand up at a community gathering and apologize and encourage the rest of the school to not do the same again because it hurt.'"
Many at the panel expressed hope that continued conversations and openness about the issue of bullying and discrimination against GLBTQ students will eventually lead to the end of such practices. Encouraging signs pointed out at the national level included the announcement last week that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a pair of cases related to equal rights for same sex couples.
U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, and Boulder Valley School District Superintendent Bruce Messigner attended Saturday's panel.
Polis, who is gay, is sponsoring a bill in Congress called The Student Non-Discrimination Act that would enact a federal prohibition on discrimination against GLBTQ students in schools and give them legal remedies to address that discrimination. In comments delivers to the audience Saturday, Polis noted that public schools are for everyone, and while districts like BVSD are already working to end discrimination, there is a long way to go.
"It's a really important issue to have community dialogue about and I applaud the Youth Opportunities Advisory Board for leading this effort in our community," he said.


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I would like to make a correction and apologize for my misspelling of Staff Sgt. Christopher Stout's name in the Letter to the Editor.
I incorrectly referred to him as Staff Sgt. Scott. I hope this in no way misinterpreted my expressing to people my sincere honor I had of being there for the memorial.
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Senthil (Senthil Kumar) drogyyy!!!
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, bear grylls man vs wild and footy tube,bad boys and , chicken fries ,cycling ,playing footy in beach,martin lawrence,hearing musics during exam days, roaming in footytube forums and channels, just chatting with jokers(footytube mods),walking in corridor with my useless school books,like to live with nature, eating some crunchy items. there are more things to write , but my hand are paining sorry
Crab, vegetables,exams, subjects,teachers(but my father is a teacher),those who don't know about me , no reply in chat box, reading books.
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I was funny cool and sometimes be clever.i like chelsea very much from 12 yrs old.careless fellow, funny ,editing my profile whenever i get bored, giving slaps to younger bro's,moody sometimes,friendly to everybody, to know well about me just chat with me, speaks barely english and thanks for reading!!!!
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Back after 6 years to footytube awesome :D
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Hey senthil, drogs heading to China/US?
(Next year will be our year - Arsenal)
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Martin named top netminder: For the second time this season, Kalamazoo Wings goaltender Joel Martin has been named as the Goaltender of the Week in the ECHL for January 21st-January 27th.
Martin went 2-0-1-0 last week and made 106 saves and had a 1.94 goals against average as well as a 0.946 save percentage. Martin also leads the league in games played for goaltenders with 38. In addition Martin leads the league with 2,294 minutes played and 1,153 saves.
Young Returns: Harry Young has been reassigned to the Kalamazoo Wings by the Albany Devils. In other transactions, the K-Wings placed defenseman Kyle Page on reserve and released forward Dwight Helminen.
Salute to Red Solo Cup Night: Toby Keith will be in attendance Wedneday night as the K-Wings battle the Fort Wayne Komets on a Salute to Red Solo Cup Night. Ok, so it is a Toby Keith impersonator, but it should be fun, right?
The game on Wednesday begins at 7:00 pm.


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KIRKSVILLE, Mo. – Coming off two losses that occurred in completely different fashions, the Truman State Bulldogs were ready to get back in the win column as they took on Lincoln Thursday night.
TSU got back to winning as they sent the Tigers back to Jefferson City black and blue after a 84-64 victory.
Truman scored 38 points in the final 15 minutes to turn a three-point game into a 20-point victory.
The run started when Tom Norton took over hitting a couple big threes and running the break for some easy lay-ups. Helping the Bulldogs cause was that Lincoln suddenly couldn't find the bottom of the net.
"It all started with our defense, we started making them take tough jump shots and that kind of wore on them when they couldn't get in the paint," said Truman head coach Matt Woodley.
Norton, who had 17, didn't lead the Bulldogs in scoring, Jaylon Jones had 19 to lead five Truman players in double-figures.
Seth Jackson added 15, Mike Carlson had 13 and Cole Myers had 12 to give the Bulldogs an extremely balanced scoring attack.
"We have done that a couple time this year, where we kind of just grind on teams and then give them that punch in the second half," said Woodley.
The second half was a different game as Truman almost tripled their scoring output from the first half.
"We shared the ball better in the second half and our guys did a better job of taking what was there. We settled for too many shots in the first half. In the second we were really aggressive and started to get some paint touches and we were able to finish the ball at the basket, which we weren't able to do in the first half," said Woodley.
Truman has only played four games in 16 days.
Included in those four games is the heartbreaking loss in the Quincy Tournament championship game.
"I'm proud of our team, with the exception of the Maryville game we have played really quality basketball since Thanksgiving. That was a really tough loss against Northeastern State, we had the game won and the kid made an unbelievable shot to beat us. I think we kind of had a hangover going into Christmas break," said Woodley
Truman followed that up with said performance against Maryville.
"We didn't practice the way we needed to, to beat a team as good as Maryville. But our last two days of practice have been our best all season," said Woodley.
Truman now looks forward to the meat of MIAA play, a schedule they enter with a 5-6 overall record, but 2-1 in conference.
They will get a chance to even that overall record and pick up a third conference win on Saturday when they travel to take on Lindenwood.
"We have to figure out a way to rebound the ball defensively before Saturday. They are a big physical team and we have to figure out how to rebound the basketball," said Woodley.


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After eight killer seasons, Showtime's "Dexter" came to a dead end Sunday night with a bizarre series finale that will undoubtedly prove polarizing to the show's substantial fan base.
No, it didn't leave viewers staring at a dark blank screen. And it didn't have the ghostly spirits of Dexter's many victims meeting in a church.
But it did leave our serial-killing vigilante (Michael C. Hall) in a place where few, if anyone would have predicted: All alone -- and bearded -- in a lumber camp, presumably located in the great Northwest -- far away from sunny Miami.
So he didn't wind up behind bars, but this was essentially a self-imposed prison. Earlier, in the hour, Dexter watched his sister Deb slip into a coma, the victim of Saxon's gun shot. Grief and guilt-stricken, he killed Saxon (with a ball-point pen to the throat), then took Deb off her respirator and lovingly deposited her body in the ocean -- where he typically left his victims.
And in his mind, Deb certainly was one of his victims.
"I screwed up your life," he told her before post-surgery complications brought about a major stroke.
After bidding a sad farewell to Deb, he proceeded to wreck his boat by plowing it into the raging storm and the Coast Guard reported no survivors.
But Dexter did survive -- if only to subject himself to lumberjack hell.
As for Hannah and Harrison, well they made it to Argentina after overcoming some major obstacles (ie: Elway), and Hannah apparently believes that Dexter died.
Why didn't he join them there when he had the chance?
"I destroy everyone I love," he explained in voice-over narration. "I have to protect them from me."
The episode, which, in some ways, felt like a cop-out, closed the book on the groundbreaking series and on a final season that won't likely be remembered as one of its best.
For years, fans wondered if Dexter would be nabbed by the Miami Metro cops -- at least the ones who didn't end up dead. In this episode, Quinn and Batista actually witnessed him killing Saxon -- via a jail video camera.
But they are so distraught over what Saxon did to Deb that they're willing to cover it up and make it look like self-defense.
"I wish I could have done it myself," says Quinn.
Suffice to say, that bright future Dexter had been looking forward to will never materialize.
So what did you think "Dexter" fans? Did you approve of the ending, or detest it? How do you think Dexter will live out his life? And do you think our main man looks pretty silly in flannel?


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Reliever Koji Uehara has reached an agreement with the Red Sox, pending a physical. The 37-year-old right-hander spent the last two seasons with Texas. Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said yesterday that he had tried to re-sign him before Uehara decided to accept Boston's offer.
Reliever Koji Uehara has reached an agreement with the Red Sox, pending a physical.
The 37-year-old right-hander spent the last two seasons with Texas. Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said yesterday that he had tried to re-sign him before Uehara decided to accept Boston's offer.
"We would have liked to have him back," Daniels said. "We made an offer early in the process."
Uehara had a 1.75 ERA in 37 relief appearances last year, holding batters to a .160 average.
Earlier in the week, Texas agreed to an $8 million, two-year contract with Joakim Soria, who is coming back from elbow surgery.
"Once we signed Joakim, we held back from making other proposals to relievers right now, just till we know what's going on with the rest of the club," Daniels said. "It's still an area that we need to continue to address, and that's why we tried to do it a little on the cheaper side while we look at some of these other things."
Meanwhile, the New York Yankees took a step toward filling their hole at third base yesterday by making a one-year, $12 million offer to free agent Kevin Youkilis.
A person with direct knowledge of the offer said that there was a good chance that Youkilis would take it, but that he also could consider two-year deals elsewhere. The Cleveland Indians are said to be interested in signing Youkilis as their first baseman and reuniting him with their new manager, Terry Francona, who managed Youkilis in Boston.
Youkilis was a three-time All-Star for the Red Sox, playing for their championship teams in 2004 and 2007 before a trade to the Chicago White Sox in June. He was in Boston yesterday for an event for his foundation, Youk's Kids.
The Yankees have an opening at third base because Alex Rodriguez will undergo surgery soon on his left hip, a procedure expected to sideline him until June. The White Sox signed one Yankee target, Jeff Keppinger, to a three-year, $12 million deal Wednesday, while Eric Chavez, who backed up Rodriguez last season, signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Youkilis, who turns 34 in February, has won a Gold Glove at first base but played 111 games at third last season. He hit a career-low .235 with 19 homers and 60 RBIs between Boston and Chicago last season.
Another former Red Sox player, free agent first baseman James Loney, officially signed his $2 million, one-year contract with the Tampa Bay Rays.
The sides agreed on the deal earlier this week at the baseball winter meetings, pending a physical. Loney can make an additional $1 million in performance bonuses.
Tampa Bay is hoping the 28-year-old Loney can have a bounce-back year. He started last season with the Los Angeles Dodgers, then was traded to Boston in July as part of the deal for Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford and Josh Beckett.
Loney hit a combined .249 with six homers and 41 RBIs for the Dodgers and Red Sox. He had 90 RBIs in 2008 and 2009 and 88 RBIs in 2010 for Los Angeles, but his production has dropped since.
Carlos Pe�a was Tampa Bay's regular first baseman last season and hit only .197 with 19 homers and 61 RBIs.
But as teams headed home from the winter meetings yesterday, the biggest free agents were still on the market. The availability of slugger Josh Hamilton and pitcher Zack Greinke held up decisions on other signings and possible trades involving Rangers star Michael Young and the Mets' Cy Young Award winner, R.A. Dickey.
With most clubs already packed up and leaving the sprawling, 2,881-room Opryland hotel, Philadelphia acquired outfielder Ben Revere from Minnesota for right-handers Vance Worley and Trevor May.
Hamilton could remain with Texas, and Seattle seemed to be interested. Greinke's options include staying with the Los Angeles Angels, moving up the coast to the Dodgers, or signing with the Rangers.
Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik said that after taking in information from other clubs and agents, it was time to return home and "cool your jets."
"There can be a domino effect," he said. "I think when clubs are focusing on a certain position, a certain need, there's options out there. And once one option goes away, then that changes the landscape of what a club would want to do. Everybody's got their ducks lined up in a row, and it's just a matter of how things fall. And there's timing involved."
The annual meeting wasn't much of a swap session. The Phillies-Twins deal was just the fourth trade over the four days.
Atlanta announced a one-year deal with outfielder Reed Johnson. But the 25-foot wide dais with a podium backed by MLB logos was used just three times: Yankees general manager Brian Cashman discussed Alex Rodriguez's hip injury, Major League Baseball announced an auction benefiting Stand Up to Cancer, and the Mets talked about David Wright's $138 million, eight-year contract, which had been agreed to last week.
The Yankees have been quiet, watching as catcher Russell Martin agreed with Pittsburgh last week and backup third baseman Eric Chavez went to Arizona during the meetings. Wanting to get under the $189 million luxury tax threshold in 2014, the Yankees are being cautious. Still, Cashman maintained it hasn't been a rough week for him.
"Because I don't read the papers as much as I used to," he said. "This year's marketplace, it might be strong in terms of the dollars being thrown around, but I don't think it's a strong market in terms of the available talent."
As the meetings ended, the Phillies were trying to obtain Young, the infielder who has been with the Rangers for his entire 13-season career and would have to approve a trade. Arizona was listening to offers for outfielder Justin Upton.
"It seems like when people leave the winter meetings, there's a bit of a quiet period," Red Sox GM Ben Cherington said. "People kind of get out of the frenzy, maybe take a step back and realize that maybe something they were talking about isn't such a good idea. Sometimes things get close and never end up happening."
For all the talk, the Dodgers have made only one big move since the end of the season, re-signing closer Brandon League. But they've been quite busy over 2012. After they were bought in May for $2 billion by a group headed by Mark Walter and Stan Kasten, Los Angeles added stars Hanley Ramirez, Gonzalez, Crawford and Beckett. The Dodgers face a Sunday deadline to reach a deal with South Korean pitcher Ryu Hyun-Jin, whose rights they gained for a $25.7 million bid.
Quite different from the days under the previous owner, Frank McCourt.
"You couldn't get an agent to return a phone call," Colletti said. "Now you've got them lined out the door."
Texas GM Jon Daniels was popular, too, given his interest in Hamilton and Greinke, and talks involving Upton and a possible a multi-team trade.
"It just makes it tougher, more than two clubs," he said, adding he had a variety of trade and free agent options. "There are a couple of big decisions that are going to impact the direction. We've narrowed it down, but there's still a couple ways we can go. Some of that is up to us, and some of that is up to the guys on the other side of the table."


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Hi all,
plz help me out from the problem i am facing
I am a junior developer and i am working on a already developed VB.Net project. many of the employees in my company (around
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also software repondes very slowly (some times it displays timeout error).
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Can anyone plz tell what might have gone wrong or what might be causing this issue??? any solution to this problem.
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