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BRISTOL - The Bristol Central baseball team was unable to generate much offense on Tuesday afternoon, collecting just four hits in a 5-1 loss to visiting Maloney.
Two of those hits came from Mike Lemke, who went 2-for-3 with two stolen bases and the only RBI for the Rams (3-2).
Maloney (3-3) collected 11 hits in the game, scoring three runs in the fifth and two more in the seventh.
Bristol Central 3, Plainville 1: The Rams improved to 3-1 last Thursday as Ken Knox turned in an outstanding performance on the mound, going the distance and navigating out of a bases-loaded jam in the bottom of the seventh.
The Rams struck first in the contest, jumping to a 1-0 lead in the third. Eric Gaudreau led off the inning with a walk and Dathan Hickey followed with a single. Mike Lemke's ground ball then scored Gaudreau before the Blue Devils retired the next two batters to avoid further damage.
Bristol Central added two more runs in the fourth to extend their lead. Jacob Santiago began the inning with a walk and Jaylen Dias singled. Kevin White followed with an RBI single, his first of two hits on the day. Gaudreau then knocked in Dias with a ground out for the Rams' third and final run.
Knox was in control throughout, scattering just four hits, while striking out eight. Plainville challenged in the seventh, scoring one run and putting the go-ahead run on first base with two outs. However, Knox was able to work out of trouble and end the rally. Knox came through with a strikeout of Robert Munson to finish the game, improving to 2-0 on the mound for the year.
Terryville 14, Litchfield 6: The Kangaroos enjoyed a big win over Berkshire League rival Litchfield at home.
Shawn Fulton had four hits, three runs and an RBI for the Kangaroos; while John Grimes had three hits, one run and one RBI; and Zach Harnish had three hits, three runs and an RBI. Brad Kozikowski was the winning pitcher.
Terryville 14, Litchfield 6: The Kangaroos again enjoyed plenty of offense, collecting 11 hits for a victory at Plumb Hill Field Complex in Litchfield.
Leading the way for Terryville (2-3) were Maria Cesare (2-for-3, 2 runs, 1 RBI), Alycia Calabrese (2-for-5, 1 run, 1 RBI), Amy Ieronimo (2-for-5, 1 run, 1 RBI), Alexandria Michaud (1-for-3, 3 runs), Samantha Stone (1-for-3, 3 runs) and Dominique Picard (1-for-4, 1 run, 3 RBI).
Shepaug 14, Terryville 3: Despite some solid offensive performances, the Kangaroos lost at home on Monday afternoon.
Shepaug pitcher Erin McGrath went 2-for-4 with two runs scored and five RBI at the plate as her team took a 13-1 lead through three innings. Both teams had 12 hits in the game.
For Terryville (1-3), Alexa Nelson went 2-for-3 with two RBI, Alycia Calabrese was 2-for-3 with a run, Lexie Gonska went 3-for-4 and Amy Ieronimo was 2-for-4.
Watertown 11, St. Paul 7: The Falcons fell to 1-2 after a loss at Watertown on Monday.
Annie Sullivan netted four goals and had an assist for St. Paul, while Ashley Suzio, Katherine Ciampi and Carolyn DelDebbio had one goal each.
Maddie Bernier and Alyssa Kaczynski combined on 12 saves for the Falcons.
St. Paul 7, Ansonia 0: The Falcons swept their way to a dominant victory at Peck Park in Bristol, as their top three singles players - Tori Kilbourne, Katie Pauloz and Sophia Penisse - did not lose a single game.
Caroline Badal also won in singles, with the doubles teams of Lizzy Etter and Ximena Varela-Marin, Nicole Wroblewski and Orenda Huang, and Lucy Min and Kamila Krawczuk all also winning as St. Paul improved to 4-1.
Bristol Eastern 6, Rockville 1: The Lancers won all the matches except No. 1 doubles on Monday, including three by forfeit. Justin Trottier and Ridhwan Abdulsalam won singles matches on the court, while Thomas Tefoe and Benjamin Chiasson won at No. 2 doubles.
Middletown 181, Bristol Eastern 216: Middletown's Derek Frame earned medalist honors with a round of 38 at Chippanee Golf Club in Bristol (par 35) on Monday, as the Lancers fell to 0-2 for the season.
Scoring for Bristol Eastern were Ally McMahon (50), Brendan McMahon (52), Mollie Lewis (54) and Kelsea Wryebek (60).
St. Paul 182, Seymour 205, Wilby 256: The Falcons swept their opening meet of the season on Monday, with Ryne Salius picking up medalist honors with a round of 40 at Chippanee Golf Club in Bristol (par 35).
Also for St. Paul (2-0), Marc Noujaim and Adam Ward each shot a 46, Sam Mazzarelli had a 50 and Noah DeFeo carded a 52.
Wamogo 188, Terryville 224, Shepaug 226: The Kangaroos split their opening meet of the season on Monday at Pequabuck Golf Club in Terryville (par 35), with Wamogo's Sean Brady earning medalist honors with a round of 42.
For Terryville (1-1), Mike Hills shot a 47, Mike Gudeczauskas had a 49, Christian Robinson scored a 60, Mike Cote carded a 68 and Anthony Garuti had a round of 69.
Bristol Central 111½, Platt 38½: The Rams won 12 events and swept six to roll to their third straight win on Monday at Platt High School. David Bowes led the Rams with wins in the 100, 200 and 400 meter races as well as being a part of the winning 4x100 relay. Elijah Ortiz was a double winner for the Rams with victories in both hurdle events.
Other winners for Central were Alrick Grant (800), Matt Roy (3,200), Luis Medina (long jump) and Mike Guzman (discus). Central also won all three relay events.
Bristol Central 88, Platt 48: The Rams improved to 3-0 (2-0 CCC South Blue) with a victory at Platt High School on Monday.
Triple winners for Central were Olivia Savino (100 hurdles, 17.24; 300 hurdles, 52.97; and 4x100 relay with Adalia Malick, Shy-Ann Whitten and Nicole Pizarro, 53.6) and Hannah Jones (1,600 meters, 6:05; 3,200 meters, 13.12.7; and 4x800 relay with Ashley Cummings, Alexandra Sirko and Paige Hinton, 11:36).
Other event winners for the Rams were Malick (400 meters, 1:04.82), Cummings (800 meters, 2:40.5), Pizarro (triple jump, 31-11½), Whitten (high jump, 5-0), Joana Lalaj (pole vault) and 4x400 relay (Cummings, Pizarro, Hinton, Malick, 4:30.7).


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THE BAT SIGNAL: Calloway Redefines "Gotham City Sirens"
DC Comics' three-part April crossover "Judgment on Gotham" treated readers to a Batman story of epic proportions. Playing out across the pages of "Red Robin," continuing in "Gotham City Sirens" and ending in "Batman," the crossover saw Azrael blazing a path of destruction through Gotham on orders from God (in reality, Ra's al Ghul). Testing Selina Kyle, Tim Drake and Dick Grayson by uncovering their worst mistakes and most painful secrets, writer David Hine orchestrated the event and was responsible for the third and final part in "Batman" #709 with artist Guillem March. The creative teams behind "Gotham City Sirens" (writer Peter Calloway and artist Andres Guinaldo) and "Red Robin" (writer Fabian Nicieza and artist Freddie Williams II) handled the crossover in their respective books.
Though the events of "Judgment" are done, for "Gotham City Sirens" the reverberations of Catwoman's actions will continue to echo through upcoming issues. As fans saw during the crossover, Selina abandoned Poison Ivy in the middle of her attempt to stop Harley from breaking into Arkham Asylum, a plot point in the book's current "Hell Hath No Fury" arc. Starting in issue #23, under the threat of a Harley/Joker team-up, the three women will have to reassess their relationship — and the result may spell the end of the Sirens.
In response to these events, "Gotham City Sirens" writer Peter Calloway swooped in to THE BAT SIGNAL to give CBR the low-down on the series' direction after "Judgment," the Joker's true feelings toward Harley Quinn and the challenges of writing Gotham's most famous women.
CBR News: In your issue of the three-part "Judgment on Gotham" crossover we saw Selina abandon Ivy and the Harley rescue attempt in order to chase down Azrael. Now that it's over, how will the events of that crossover affect "Gotham City Sirens?"
Peter Calloway: Part of the challenge of working on a crossover is how you incorporate it into the book. Especially with this one which was only concerning Selina. When I spoke to David Hine about what he had envisioned for the crossover, it was clear this was going to be about Selina and not Harley or Poison Ivy. So there was some engineering to set her off by herself so she could go do this story that is very personal to her. It was important to me that it was just Selina as this involved her sister. It will affect in the next two issues; the strings are being pulled apart, all the things that tied them together at the very beginning. I mean, they came together when Batman was gone and now he's back and so is the Joker. I think those are two very important things happening that can't be ignored in the larger universe. And that will resonate through the next few issues of the crossover.
In our last interview with you, you said you wanted to really work on reasons why these three women stick together. Are you using the end of the crossover and the current "Hell Hath No Fury" arc as a way to redefine the character's relationships with each other?
Yes, I'll definitely say that is the goal. When I started to write the book, like I said before, it's always been a challenge. The [Sirens] needed, at least in my own view, a different dynamic and I felt the way to do this was to pull them apart — not necessarily all the way apart, but enough apart so that they can reassess and come into it with a cleaner head. When it first started — and this not a criticism at all on what Paul
did, in fact I think it's a compliment — [Paul] made the beginning very messy between the three of them. It's wonderful and great, but it is messy and I think it's something that needed to be addressed. I think a lot of fans and readers felt that way as well, so that is the purpose of all of this.
Are you also using this point and time to take the book in a new direction, to make it your own and move it further away from what Dini was originally doing?
Its funny, I'm such a huge fan of his! I could not be more of a Dini fan, I think he's such an amazing writer and I love his work, but I don't have his voice. I think any writer feels this way. Your voice is your own, and to not be true to it, you end up with something that [is] a compromise on all aspects, a product that no one is happy with. To say that I want to make it my own book — I would love for that to be the case but I don't feel comfortable saying that! [Laughs] These characters have such a history and I'm such a fan of all of them. I remain a fan of these three women. What I love about them too, which is really cool with the idea of the book, is that they are so fiercely independent and they are so different and their morality is so checkered. I think that makes them all really interesting. It's the challenge of the book to try and make them seem like they would come together and be coherent. It's always intrinsically interesting to me, and I hope it is to readers as well. Hopefully we will come up with a solution that everyone will like.
Since you are such a big fan of Paul Dini, how do you approach writing his most famous creation, Harley Quinn? Especially in your current Harley-centric "Hell Hath No Fury" arc?
You know, reading the first set of issues that Dini did and when Harley had her own book, when she was introduced and first came in from the animated series in that first issue she manipulated Batman. I always thought that was the core of her ability. That is what she's good at and it comes from her therapy background. It was always something I wished as a fan they concentrated more on. So [on "Gotham City Sirens"] I got the opportunity to really show what makes Harley Quinn a villain and why she is so good at what she does — and in my view, the Joker is in love with Harley. He's in love with himself, but he's in love with her too, and maybe he's in love with her only because he sees her as an extension of himself. He's obviously a narcissist, but I think there has to be a mutual respect thing there. There has to be something he sees in her, and I think her ability to manipulate people is an important part of her character. So that's something I thought could be showcased here as she breaks into Arkham and she's manipulating people, using her knowledge. She doesn't have Poison Ivy's supernatural abilities and she's not as good of a fighter as Selina is, or as sneaky or stealthy. What she has is manipulation. She has these mental games she's good at playing. Actually, not to give too much away but coming up there's a great manipulation in issue #24. I think that's at the core of her ability.
It certainly was impressive that she was able to break into famous, heavily guarded Arkham Asylum with only a flower, a rusty nail and a handful of marbles. How did using trump cards to get into Arkham come to mind?
I was looking for a way to do that and ground it physically. I'm a big Warren Ellis fan and there's a great issue of "Planetary" where they find these trophies of analogs for Wonder Woman, Superman, Green Lantern, etc. As I do sometimes when I try to find inspiration, I flip through all the comics I have and the ones I really love, and that stuck out to me and struck a chord. Somewhere in the back of my brain a few weeks later I realized, 'Oh! It's objects!' I loved the idea that Harley has these and the ability to know these things. It was fun to write but it was terrifically hard. That was probably the hardest issue of "Gotham City Sirens" I've written, in terms of breaking in and forcing that much story into such a short period of time. And that was pretty soon after DC cut the other two pages out, so that made it even tougher.
Since DC's move to cut their books down to 20 pages is such a recent change, do you feel already that missing those two pages deeply affects your story?
It does, but it's a good thing! I think there are probably a lot of people who lament it, but in terms of storytelling I think it forces the writer to really focus in on what is actually important. A lot of times, and I'm as guilty of this as anyone, we have panels and pages between characters that are in there just because we like it and we think it's interesting, when in the larger scheme of things it doesn't really mean anything. I come from TV writing and that is all about limits. I think you see it with directors of movies; often their best work is when they are restrained by budgetary constrictions, or when they are not well known and can't afford the set pieces, and they are forced to really focus on what's important and what they can accomplish with the limited resources they have. There's a bajillion examples of that but when people get to do whatever they want — which is what every creative person aspires to do! — generally they turn out something that's not bad, but personal to them and it ends up not resonating the way their early stuff did.
So the long-winded way to answer your question is: I think it's a good thing. If you have a story that you sketch out for 22 pages and you can't get it down to 20 pages then you need to reexamine the process.
Talking about condensing stories, in issues #20 and #21, you literally condensed the secondary characters backstories into the shape of the trump cards Harley uses on them. Is that something you talked about with artist Andres Guinaldo beforehand?
Not too much. Andres and I — by the way I love him, I think he's fantastic! It's hard as he doesn't speak that much English; it goes through a translator so there's not much back and forth. Sometimes we do [talk] when he has questions or doesn't understand, but most of the time he gets it. He's a pro! I thought it was a tall order what I was asking. I was cramming; some of those double-page spreads have like seventeen panels in them! That was what was so hard about the script, getting those stories condensed that small. That's all I had. I had sketched it out, I had outlined the issue and I only had those pages to tell those stories. A lot of times that meant simplifying back stories. I had much more complicated back stories for all these things and more I wanted to tell, but I couldn't and I don't think the issue suffers for that. I think it's probably better. But it was very hard, and Andres did an amazing job pulling it off.
There have been a couple of different artists filling in since you started. Is Andres now the permanent "Gotham City Sirens" artist?
Yes, as far as I understand he is. We had Jeremy Haun for issue #18, and since #19 through #24 I know [Andres] is doing them and I think he's staying on after that. He's fast too, and the pages come out great. What more could you ask for in an artist?
You also have Guillem March doing cover art for "Sirens," which has gotten a lot of attention from fans and reviewers. How much influence do you have over what Guillem does on the covers? Do you talk about it beforehand?
When I do solicitations my editors ask for cover ideas. For #22 for example, I came up with a bunch of different things and came up with the idea of having Selina with an angel wing and a devil wing. That was all that I had — in my head I was like, oh she's standing and has two wings! [Laughs] But what he did on this cover is just amazing! Having her on her knees and sort of bloody, it's really unbelievable. For #20, the huge Joker face he did is unbelievable. On #20 I told him this was where Harley is going after Joker, and the two girls are going to try and stop her, so maybe they try to restrain her some way? And that's what he comes up with. He's got this cover thing down, he is brilliant. Then I saw his interiors for Batman #709 and it's just amazing. I know sometimes, especially early on in "Sirens," people weren't happy with it, but I don't know why that would be because he's unbelievable! I'm a big fan of his as well. DC has great artists.
Now you said that these next issues after the crossover will focus on pulling apart the Sirens. How would you sum up their relationships before this pulling apart process?
Very tense. This is what I was talking about with what Paul Dini did in those first issues which was sort of a master stroke: he complicated that cliffhanger ending of the first issue with Poison Ivy trying to get Batman's identity out of Selina, which I think is the core conflict to these three and something that can never fully go away. Harley has been the glue that kept Selina and Ivy from killing each other. Indirectly her influence has helped them get along or at least co-exist. One of the reasons I had her break into Arkham was to have her allegiance change so that glue that bound them before, even though it was really loose, is being really stretched. Again, another really long-winded way of saying very tense!
You've described Ivy and Harley as being a Thelma and Louise pair. But after Harley's recent actions, what does Ivy get out of this relationship?
That's a fantastic question, and that precise issue is going to be a big part of issue #24, so I don't want to give away too much. So I'm going to dodge your question by saying the answer to that is in #24.
Batman is also showing up in #24. Is this Bruce Wayne Batman?
It is indeed!
Will that be a big point of contention between the Sirens when you have Harley and her man go against Selina and her man?
That is exactly what's on deck, and is something I've always wanted to see. It's an interesting struggle. I mean you have Batman and his nemesis and two women that they both love and love them. I think that's fertile ground to play in.
What is drawing Selina back in these next issues? Is it because she is good and these are her friends?
More or less. Selina is so complicated. She's both incredibly loyal and incredibly independent. She has her own moral code that strangely enough doesn't stray too far from Batman's in a lot of ways. I mean yes, she lifts rich people of their jewelry, but she's essentially a force for good if you boil it down. Especially with everything she helped with in "Batman Inc." But it's complicated; it's complicated with their affair and that [Batman] has a son by another woman who is now Robin, all of that is the soapier aspects of the comic. Again, that's not a criticism, I think it's great.
In the current arc all of the Sirens have basically betrayed each other at this point. Moving forward, will the book lean in a darker direction as they try to redefine their relationship together?
I think there will be a time in which that's true, [but] if that is going to be true they'll have to come to some sort of arrangement, almost like they are in business together. That makes sense to me, and I have a reason that would all work.
And that's if they are able to come back together, which is going to remain a question mark. Talking to [editors] Mike Marts and Harvey Richards about this, it was important to all of us to pull them apart and have that be a question mark of where to go from there.
Touching on the characters popping in the next few issues, it's probably got to be a dream come true to write the Joker in "Gotham City Sirens!"
Oh man, yeah! It's the greatest! I've said this before but Gotham City in general is my favorite setting in all of media. I love it to death and have since I was a little boy and picked up Batman comics. It's a total dream come true and that's a mixed bag because it's great but it's terrifying and intimidating to write characters you've known and loved for so long. Especially with someone like the Joker. Some writers skew more psychopathic, others more humorous. I love both versions of the Joker so picking one and sticking with that is a scary, intimidating sort of thing. But the one I went with in issue #23 is the chaotic Joker who is probably less humorous in a lot of ways and sort of dark and strategic. He's the crazy lover of chaos.
With the Azrael crossover we had Selina's sister Maggie showing up again. To use Harley's terminology, is Maggie Selina's trump card? Is Maggie Selina's Joker?
You know I hadn't thought about it like that, but there are similarities between them. Selina is, for all of her bravado and independence, very loyal. She's very capable of love. That's not true of a lot of villains. I think that's why she has this great relationship with Batman and why her sister will always be, to use the expression of the Harley arc, her trump card. She'll always be the thing that makes [Selina] pause and can sort of manipulate her. There are definitely similarities between the Joker and Batman and Maggie and Selina. Ultimately the idea of it, when I was talking to David and Fabian Nicieza about this crossover, it's the Abraham and Isaac story. To have to make that choice of sacrificing your blood is a huge one, and something we all found interesting.
Is there a trump card for Ivy?
There is and it's something that we explore in issue #24. It's one of those things that is right there — it's not obvious but it's right there in front of us. It is something that is intrinsic to her character. Unlike Selina, her loyalty is to two things: plants and Harley. And the purpose of this arc is to tear that apart and reexamine that.
To circle back to the beginning, you described their relationship at the start of the comic as tense. How would you sum up their relationship now moving out of the three-part-crossover?
Hostile. I guess to make the analogy, if this was schoolyard politics, the first stage would be the girls whispering behind each other's backs, and now its this overt war that goes on afterwards. Or to think about it another way, it was all the reconnaissance and the espionage done between two countries before war, and this is the actual commencement of the hostilities.
To end this, we saw that you have been on the CBR forums chatting with the fans — anything you want to say directly to them here?
It's an exercise in self-humility to go on and see what people are saying about it! [Laughs] It's an important part of my process [and] it is cool to talk to the fans and to the people who care about these characters as much as I do. I was a fan first! It's hard being in this position because very early on I discovered as a writer you can't give the fans everything that they want. It would be unsatisfying.
But to answer your question: Hi fans! It's been great, and I love reading what people say, even the bad stuff. There are some really reasonable critiques, and people make good points. This is all part of the process of becoming a better a writer and trying to do better, which is a life-long process. It's invaluable, and it's an invaluable community.
"Gotham City Sirens" #23 hits stores May 25.
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Meet Sparkle Producers Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil
Mara Brock Akil remembers well the best advice she was given as a fledgling writer climbing the ranks in Hollywood. One night after working her usual 14-hour day on the comedy Moesha, a senior producer applauded Akil's work ethic and pulled her aside. She strongly urged her to avoid forsaking a personal life for her burgeoning career in television, suggesting she'd live to regret it if she did.
A few years later, while forging toward a career that would place her as one of few African-American women to write and produce shows for network television, she met Salim Akil. Married for 13 years, together they have worked on an array of hip and racially diverse series, including The Game, Soul Food, and Girlfriends.
This summer, the duo will become the first African-American couple to write, direct, and produce a major film with a remake of the 1976 cult classic Sparkle, due out in August. Sparkle also marks Whitney Houston's final appearance on film after her death from drowning and drug overdose in February.
This presents a two-pronged challenge for the Hollywood players: can they retell a beloved story while doing justice to the memory of a lost icon?
"Whitney was involved with this film before we were," explains Salim, who served as director. "This was a movie she'd wanted to make for a very long time, so we always understood the importance it held for her. We respected her ideas and she respected ours. It was a wonderful partnership."
Inspired by the musical group The Supremes and set during the 1950s and 60s, Sparkle follows a trio of sisters gifted in song but struggling to fight the demons of fame. In the late 90s, Houston approached the singer Aaliyah to costar as a sister with her in the film. After Aaliyah was killed in a 2001 plane crash, Houston put the film on hold.
More than a decade later, Houston and her producer partner Debra Martin Chase turned to reviving the remake. Salim Akil was coming off of directing his box-office hit Jumping the Broom, and after a few meetings with the producers and studio, the 45-year-old Oakland native knew exactly what the film needed besides him—his wife's writing touch.
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They began shooting Sparkle in Detroit, with Houston in the role of the aspiring singers' mother. A chilling subplot of the movie—which won't surprise anyone who's seen the original—is one sister's spiral into drug abuse that ultimately leads to her death. Houston was very careful that every line or event rang true. "Whitney would tell me point blank, I lived this and that's not the way it happens," says Salim. "She always was very honest and very real about what that life was about and she wanted the reality of it reflected in the film."
Salim said that he would always remember the 48-year-old Houston as happy, healthy, and ready to reignite her career. After her shocking death, the Akils made a decision to keep a low profile and focus on delivering the project Houston expected.
"Whitney liked Salim and Mara a great deal. She liked them as a team," says producer Debra Martin Chase, Houston's friend and producing partner for 20 years. "She felt good about their work and though she didn't see the finished film ... I think she knew she was in good hands."
The Akils maintain that they are committed to showcasing real diversity on the large and small screen without overly analyzing it. "You change the landscape in Hollywood with action, not words," says Salim. "It doesn't make sense to constantly talk about the lack of diversity in Hollywood. We all know it's there. My wife and I just want to change that conversation with our work."
Next on the horizon is the hour-long drama Being Mary Jane, starring Gabrielle Union as a successful single woman looking for love in Atlanta. The show is set to air this fall on BET as part of the couple's multiyear deal with the network, which the Akils signed after their popular show The Game was dropped by The CW. The cancellation spurred a letter-writing campaign that helped the show land at BET. "It's nice to be at a place where everyone understands the story and everyone understands the need for that story to be told," says Mara.
But through it all, it's their relationship that's the real guiding force behind their success. As Mara says, "We work well together at home and on projects because of the mutual respect we have. When you start from that point there's very little you can't do."


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1 tablespoon turmeric
1 tablespoon garam masala
2 teaspoons ground coriander
2 teaspoons ground cumin
2 teaspoons kosher salt
2 teaspoons Kashmiri red chile powder (or 1 teaspoon cayenne)
6 cloves garlic, minced
1/2-inch piece fresh ginger, grated (or 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger)
1 cup yogurt (plain or coconut)
3 pounds chicken breast, cut into large chunks
2 tablespoons ghee
1 onion, chopped
1 tablespoon tomato paste
5 tomatoes, chopped
3 green cardamom pods
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
1 cup heavy cream (or 1/4 cup coconut milk)
Salt to taste
1/2 cup fresh cilantro, chopped
Combine the turmeric, garam masala, coriander, cumin, salt and red chile powder to make a spice blend; divide the blend in half. Combine half of the spice blend with 4 minced cloves of garlic, ginger, yogurt and chicken; mix together by hand in a mixing bowl. Transfer to a resealable plastic bag and marinate for at least 6 hours (overnight preferred).
Warm the ghee in a skillet over medium heat. Add the onion and sauté until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and sauté until aromatic, another minute. Add the tomato paste, tomatoes, cardamom pods, white pepper and the other half of the spice blend. Stir to combine, then reduce heat to medium-low and gently simmer until dark and thick, about 40 minutes.
While the sauce is darkening, prepare the chicken. Skewer the chicken pieces and grill over direct high heat until cooked through, about 3 minutes per side, flipping once. Alternatively, broil in the oven, about 6 to 8 minutes per side. Allow the chicken to rest for 10 minutes, then remove from the skewers and set aside.
Once the sauce is dark, transfer to a blender and blend until smooth. Return to the skillet, straining through a mesh strainer to catch the cardamom shells and tomato skins. Stir in the cream; return to a simmer and cook until slightly darkened, about 10 minutes. Taste and add salt if needed.
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For my card I played with Butterfly with flower.
I used some paper from Summer fresh by Simple stories. I used one of the banners from a page as my sentiment. I used my blossom and large circle dies from Spellbinder. The butterflies dies are from cc design. I added some Robin's nest dew drops to the butterflies.
Here's a closer look at the digi that I colored with my copics. I added some zig clear on the wings of the butterfly to give some shine but it doesn't show very well on the picture.
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MINISTRY There are many opportunities here for those interested in offering their musical gifts in the form of Music Ministry service.
Our ADULT CHOIR is a four-part group of adults ranging in age from 18 to 80. This group meets every Wednesday evening (7:30 - 9:00 p.m.) during the choir season (mid-Sept.-May) to prepare for service to the Sunday 10:30 Liturgy. There is typically some type of additional Christmas Season offering (i.e. "Lessons and Carols", concert, etc.) The music selections are mainly traditional and in keeping with the current liturgies and/or celebrations. Social occasions such as "pizza parties" and an annual Choir Party are planned and held for this friendly group of men and women. All voice parts are welcome.
The CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE is an Adult group of smaller number. There are three instrumentalists and 5-6 singers presently. They rehearse on Thursday evenings (7:30 - 9:00 p.m.) and serve the Saturday 5:00 p.m. Liturgy. The style of this group is somewhat more current but they too enjoy serving up an array of traditional sacred music (often with a "contemporary" twist. ) This group welcomes new members, especially those who enjoy independent part singing.
Joining the Adult Choir and sometimes serving alone is our HANDBELL ENSEMBLE. This changing number group (currently 4 members) is a highly dedicated ensemble serving to enhance various liturgies with the beauty and unique sound of Hand bells and Choir Chimes. The rehearsals are planned according to need but usually occur on Tuesday or Monday evenings throughout the choir season. The time commitment is much less for this group but playing hand bells proves to be very easy and rewarding. New members who read music are most welcome. The CHORISTERS are the main Children's choir. They rehearse early on Wednesday evenings during choir season (6:15 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.) and serve at the Sunday 9:00 a.m. Liturgy. This young group of music ministers accepts members from 3rd - 8th grade boys and girls in treble voice range. Music for these children while "youth" centered includes much of the traditional repertoire of the congregation. Older children (7th and 8th graders) receive training as young Psalmists and Cantors as well.
During the Advent season, a younger group of children (Gr. K-3) make up the CHERUB CHOIR who prepare and sing for the Christmas Eve "Family" Liturgy in the school auditorium at 4:00 p.m. Information about rehearsals is posted in the church bulletin. All young children are welcome to participate.
There are further opportunities for individuals with extra leadership talent in the area of CANTOR MINISTRY. Mostly drawn from the Adult Choir and Contemporary Ensemble, these men and women serve to lead the sung prayer at liturgies throughout the year whenever choirs are not present. Training in Psalm singing and Cantor leadership is provided by the Director of Music Ministry.
Special instrumentalists of all kinds are most welcome to co-ordinate with the organist and plan additional musical offerings which would enhance our liturgies.
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Recent reports have shown that across the United States many children are not reading at grade level by the third grade. Why does this matter? Until the third grade, children are learning to read. From the third grade on, children must read to learn. A child not reading adequately by third grade begins to fall behind in all areas of learning—not just reading. These children are far less likely to graduate on time, if they graduate at all. In fact, 74% of children who are not reading at grade level by the end of third grade will not catch up in time to graduate with their class and are four times more likely to drop out of school. They cannot attain the same level of learning as their peers. So much depends on learning to read!
In late 2011 the Library gathered data from public schools across Hamilton County and mapped those schools to our branches. What we found is that the percentage of children reading at grade level by the third grade at these schools ranged from 46% to 98%, and in the communities served by nearly half of our branch libraries, fewer than 80% of the children are reading at grade level by the third grade.
Partnering to Solve the Problem
The Library is working with some 70 organizations, including the Strive Partnership, to launch a multi-year, multi-faceted campaign to improve third grade reading success in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. The Early Grade Level Reading Campaign will focus on three factors that impact grade level reading: attendance, kindergarten readiness, and summer learning.
To support this project, first we urge parents and other adults to make sure children attend school regularly. Again, the data shows that a student absent from school 10% or more of the time is far less likely to be reading at grade level by the third grade.
Next, our current programs to help prepare children for kindergarten must be expanded to reach all children. When children start kindergarten lacking the pre-literacy skills needed to succeed, data show that they never catch up to their peers. Two key factors in kindergarten readiness are access to quality preschool education and home visitations. Children in quality early learning programs earn $20,000 more per year as adults and save the state $19,000 per year in remediation and criminal justice costs.
Finally, we must stop summer learning loss. During summer vacation, children who do not participate in summer learning experiences like summer reading programs, visits to museums and libraries, summer camps or family trips fall behind their peers year after year until by the end of the fifth grade the gap between children participating in summer learning activities and those who don't can be as much as 2.5 to 3 years.
What is the Library Doing?
The Library offers many programs and services that can support the Early Grade Level Reading Campaign. First, we have a huge collection of reading materials for all ages. Second, we help prepare children for kindergarten by teaching the shared reading method to parents and educators. This reading technique helps children learn the pre-literacy skills they need to enter school ready to learn. Our Early Learning Express visits in-home childcare providers to offer shared reading training as well as books and manipulatives. Our Summer Reading program provides a valuable and free summer learning experience. Our educational and cultural programs are free and available year round at every Library location. Our Homework Central at the Main Library and Homework Centers at several branch libraries provide after school help for students, as does our Homework HelpNow online service that connects students to a teacher over the Internet when homework assistance is needed.
None of us can solve this problem alone, but if we work together to provide regional access to the resources needed, we can increase the number of children in our community reading at grade level. We owe it to our children to make this a priority for our community.


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You just can't predict lupus
Well, the one thing that lupus is always teaching me, is that it's unpredictable. You do everything a certain way hoping (pleading) that you will get a certain outcome, and then, it just seems to do what it wants anyways. So…. a month after increasing my imuran and adding NAC, my lupus is still flaring.Read more


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Back on July 8, syndicated columnist Liz Smith wrote that the poor reviews and tepid box office results for Melissa McCarthy's "Tammy" were a signal that it was time for the actress to try something new. "It's time to temper the vulgarity and stupidity of the persona that (no denying) has made her a big movie star," Smith wrote. But maybe the eulogies for McCarthy's career were a bit premature: "Tammy" earned an estimated $12.9 million at the box office over the weekend, putting its domestic total at $57.3 million after two weeks.
"It's going to be a profitable movie for us," Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. president for domestic distribution, told the New York Times on July 6. "We'll be fine. We will leg it out during the week." At that time, Fellman predicted that "Tammy" could gross $100 million at the box office, which would make it McCarthy's fifth feature to hit that mark. That "Tammy" only cost a reported $20 million means it could wind up being one of the most profitable films Warner Bros. releases this year.
That Melissa McCarthy movie that bombed last week is now ruining the narrative about her by becoming kind of a hit.
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) July 13, 2014
That's Mark Harris, who has been on the "Tammy" beat for the last few weeks. The writer and editor-at-large with Entertainment Weekly took issue with a lot of the coverage around "Tammy," especially when compared to how male actors are treated if they star in poorly reviewed features. (Harris took issue with how the New York Times described "Tammy" as a "vanity project" in its coverage of the film's box office.)
Actors get three duds before anyone notices. Melissa McCarthy has one #2 opener, and I'm reading career obits?
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) July 7, 2014
A male actor with McCarthy's 2011-14 box office track record wouldn't be getting "watch yourself" career advice right now.
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) July 7, 2014
By this time next week, "Tammy" will have passed "RoboCop," "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "Think Like A Man Too" on the yearly box office chart. Should it continue to depreciate at this clip throughout the next month, films such as "The Monuments Men" and "The Other Woman" will wind up behind McCarthy's comedy as well.


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Why should I write a blog? Do I have to tell anything of interest to you out there?
Until now I did not think there was sufficient reason. But as I increasingly experience weird things, I thought it may be time to share some of my thoughts and findings with you. I have studied physics and become a scientist because I am interested in understanding how our world really works. I am convinced that there is some reality out there, some indisputable truth, and we are able to get at least a glimpse of it from time to time. So it disturbs me deeply if I see irrationality pop up all the time, not only in political or philosophical discussions, but also in science.
What I want to offer is a reality check on some of the opinions put forward in some hotly debated issues. The one topic that prompted me to start this blog and that I am most knowledgeable about is climate change. There is so much noise out there about this important issue. Maybe I am just adding a little bit more ...
I will try to avoid pointless discussions and just post some hard facts that may help you to figure out who is providing serious information and who is just making noise or even spreading outright nonsense.
There are many topics other than climate change that catch my interest: Environmental issues, energy policy, peak oil, and so on. I will post on these if I think I have some credible information.
Finally, the word "check" in the blog's title also alludes to my favorite hobby: Chess. Playing chess is a fabulous reality check: If you lose your sense of reality, your opponent will quickly show you the truth - check and mate! So, excuse me if I may post some news about chess from time to time, even if it may appear somewhat unrelated to the rest.
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107 killed as crane falls on Saudi's Grand Mosque
Riyadh: At least 107 people were killed and 238 injured after a crane collapsed on to the Grand Mosque in the Saudi Arabia's holy city of Makkah, the media reported.
According to Al Arabiya television, Saudi Arabia has been hit by strong sand storms in the last few days.
Saudi authorities have launched a probe into the case, while 15 civil defence and rescue and medical panels have been deployed at the site.
The crane fell down because of the bad weather, which was working on the expansion operations at the Grand Mosque, Xinhua news agency reported.
After the conclusion of the current and final expansion, the mosque could accommodate more than three million worshipers in one hour.
Makkah, the holiest city for Islam, is preparing for the annual Haj, for which hundreds of thousands of Muslims are expected to arrive from all over the world later in September.


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Celani at NIWeek
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Francesco Celani demonstrated his LENR cell at NIWeek, as reported on at New Energy Times. Video was posted today of the testing, and Celani discussed some of his previous experimental work with his cell. more
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|August 9, 2012
|Posted by Jack Cole under National Instruments, Robert Duncan
A new video was posted today of Dr. Robert Duncan, University of Missouri physicist, speaking about LENR. Dr. Duncan's presentation was joined by Greg Marrow of National Instruments. There's not a lot of new information from Dr. Duncan, but NI's involvement and technologies are certainly interesting. They appear to be working hard to give LENR […] more
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Back in April, 2012, Robert Duncan gave a good presentation on LENR/cold fusion for National Instruments. Robert Duncan is the physicist, and associate chancellor of research, at Missouri University who participated in a 60-minutes interview in 2009. Sixty minutes asked Dr. Duncan to examine the claims of Energetics Technology of Israel with respect to their […] more


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The Environmental Law & Policy Center (ELPC) is the Midwest's leading public interest environmental legal advocacy and eco-business innovation organization. ELPC develops and leads strategic advocacy campaigns to improve environmental quality and protect our natural heritage. On issues such as smart transportation and clean energy development, as well as natural resources protection, ELPC advances community sustainability by advocating for both environmental progress and economic development.
ELPC is a recognized national leader on transportation issues, providing environmental policy support to the highest levels of government, informing the decision-making process and championing sustainability. ELPC has actively studied and promoted high-speed rail for more than a decade, believing that a third long-distance transportation option is needed to meet the challenges of the future in a safe, convenient, environmentally responsible way.
ELPC's vision is to build a modern, fast, comfortable and convenient national passenger rail system. Linking the Midwest's cities within a 400-500-mile radius through a regional high-speed rail network delivers travelers almost as fast as airplanes, at a fraction of the cost and pollution and in almost all weather. By serving downtown railroad stations, high-speed rail will enhance the economic vitality of our central cities. In addition to creating new jobs during construction and operation, high-speed rail pulls together the regional economy and promotes intra-regional business growth. Because higher-speed trains are three times as energy efficient as cars and six times as efficient as planes on a per-passenger-mile basis, they can reduce pollution and the need for new highways and airports that exacerbate sprawl.
In the last two years, high-speed rail has moved to center stage both nationally and regionally. President Obama has made high-speed rail his signature transportation initiative and has already backed his rhetoric with $12 billion. ELPC's policy analysis and strategic coalition-building across state lines with civic leaders, departments of transportation, and governors' offices throughout the Midwest has helped broker agreements to determine both short-term "shovel ready" priorities that create jobs fast, as well as important longer-term priorities. Reaching these agreements was critical to presenting a strong, unified proposal to federal leaders.
Additionally, ELPC works closely with the US Department of Transportation, Governors and Congressional members in several states on their high-speed rail initiatives. Those efforts paid off when over $3 billion in competitive federal grants were awarded to high-speed rail projects in the Midwest. When governors-elect John Kasich (R-OH) and Scott Walker (R-WI) proposed to divert $1.2 billion in these high-speed rail grants to highway projects, ELPC went into action, leading a coalition of business, civic, labor, and environmental leaders to oppose this threat. At press conferences, public hearings, and rallies, ELPC repeated the message that high-speed rail is good for jobs, good for the economy, and good for the environment; at a hearing in Madison, WI, more than 600 citizens showed up to support high-speed rail. ELPC kept the controversy a central news story for weeks in both Ohio and Wisconsin. Ultimately, the U.S. Department of Transportation re-allocated the funds to other states pursing high-speed rail. The day after that announcement, Talgo, a high-speed train manufacturer, announced its plans to close its Milwaukee plant and move to a more rail-friendly state like Illinois.
As ELPC's Executive Director Howard Learner has said in interviews, there is broad, bipartisan support for high-speed rail in the Midwest and throughout the U.S. Previous Republican Governors in Wisconsin and Ohio (Thompson and Taft) supported high-speed rail plans for their states, and Republican and Democratic governors and legislators in many states support it now, recognizing benefits for jobs, transportation, the economy and the environment. ELPC is continuing to work with leaders in the six participating Midwestern states as they spend the $1.8 billion still available for high-speed rail projects in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Michigan and as they prepare for the next round of federal funding. The organization also plays an active role in securing a long-term federal commitment to high-speed rail. If anything, this setback has demonstrated the importance of ELPC's work to continue to build civic support for these critical investments.
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Married Dave Dotson September 20, 1952.
Daughter of Clyde Otis & Pearl Vanetta Hedrick Howard
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Daisy Nadine Walters Dotson, age 62, of Gassville, died Oct 10, 1998, at the Baxter County Regional Hospital.
Mrs. Dotson was born June 9, 1936, in Chicago, the daughter of Clyde Otis and Pearl Vanetta (Hedrick) Howard. She was a retired real estate business owner, a member of the Columbus Primitive Baptist Church and a life member of the Hoevel-Barnett VFW Post Auxiliary in Bull Shoals.
Mrs. Dotson donated the land and financed the building of the Columbus Primitive Baptist church and enjoyed raising funds for the needy.
On September 20, 1952, in Williamson, WV, she was united in marriage with Dave Dotson.
Mrs. Dotson had lived in the area since 1976 after relocating here from Columbus, OH.
Survivors include her sons, Morgan D. Dotson and his wife Linda of Lakeview, Donald W. Dotson of Columbus and Paul G. Dotson and his wife, Martha of Wexford, PA; her mother Pearl Vanetta Howard of Gassville; her brothers, Claude Howard of Sarasota, FL and Gene Howard of Gassville; her sisters, Renie Eggers, Julie Justice, Maggie Justice and Josie Dotson, all of Columbus; nine grandchildren and nine great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews and a special friend, Katherine Saulnier.
Mrs. Dotson was preceded in death by her husband, her father, one daughter and one sister.
Services were held at the Kirby-Conner-Boaz Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. J.R. Cousins officiating.
Burial was at the Heiskill Cemetery.
Arrangements were by the Kirby-Conner-Boaz Funeral Directors in Mt. Home.
Kirby-Conner-Boaz Funeral Directors, Batesville Casket Company, and the United States Forest Service have provide for the planting of a tree as a living memorial and tribute to Daisy Nadine Walters Dotson.
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Pressure in a Centrifuge
A test tube filled with liquid of uniform density rho, as shown in the figure (see attachment), is spun in a centrifuge with angular frequency w. The test tube lies perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the centrifuge. The pressure in the fluid at the distance r0 from the axis of rotation is p0. You may ignore the variation in pressure with depth; assume that it is much smaller than the variation in pressure with radius.
a). What is the pressure p(r) of the fluid in the test tube at an arbitrary distance r from the axis of rotation?(Express your answer in terms of rho, r, omega, r0, and p0)© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com August 21, 2018, 1:50 pm ad1c9bdddf
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Football News Names Roche Preseason All-American
July 23, 2002
PULLMAN, Wash. --- Washington State senior offensive guard Derrick Roche was selected first team preseason All-America in Football News' college football preview issue.
The Kent, Wash., native has started 27 games during his WSU career and will be begin his senior season on the Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List. Roche was tabbed second team preseason All-America by The Sporting News.
Roche is not the only Cougar receiving high praise from the weekly publication. Senior quarterback Jason Gesser, junior kicker Drew Dunning, and junior defensive tackle Rien Long were all named preseason first team All-Pac-10.
Gesser threw for 3,010 yards and 26 touchdowns in 2001 and needs 2,397 passing yards, 1,984 yards total offense, and 17 touchdown passes next season to establish WSU career records.
Dunning connected on 18 of 22 field goal attempts during his first season in the starting role and was named the most valuable special teams player in the Sun Bowl victory over Purdue.
Long established himself as one of the premier defensive tackles in the conference last season after recording three sacks and 10 tackles for loss.
Washington State was tabbed No. 7 in Football News' top 25 poll. Cross-state rival Washington was three spots behind at No. 10, with Oregon State and Oregon coming in at No. 22 and No. 24, respectively.
The Cougars begin the season Aug. 31 in Seattle against Western Athletic Conference foe Nevada.
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I never know how many celebrity news items to drop in here among the international relations, natural disasters, politics, violence, etc., but I think it's only fair to include some lighter topics that we didn't write about, but that you might want to comment on, including a few of these stories below:
Adele has released "Hello," her first song in years. [Celebitchy]
Sandra Bullock spoke with BET about teaching her six-year-old son about racism in American culture. [US Magazine]
Bomb attacks in Nigeria have left over 40 dead and at least 100 wounded. [BBC]
Here are 11 facts things we now know since the Benghazi hearings. [CNN]
Jeremy Renner reminds everyone that fighting for wage equality is "not his job." [Daily Mail]
Five women are suing the Duggar-affiliated homeschool ministry for sexual abuse. [Jezebel]
Tony Blair has apologized for the Iraq invasion "mistake," and subsequent rise of ISIS. [CNN]
China has agreed to ban domestic ivory trade! Yay! [Jezebel]
Hurricane Patricia, the largest storm ever seen in the Western hemisphere, has left much devastation, but no loss of life, across Mexico. [Buzzfeed News]
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LIVINGSTON — As cold and flu season gets into full swing, there are many precautions you and your family should take to stay healthy.
"The common cold and flu can spread from person to person in several ways," explains board-certified internist Mindy Houng, MD, Practice Director from the Saint Barnabas Internal Medicine Faculty Practice. "The most common include breathing in air with droplets produced by coughing and sneezing, touching something with the virus on it (such as a counter top or door knob) and then touching the mouth, nose or eyes," she says.
Symptoms of colds and flu vary and may include one or more of the following: runny nose, congestion, sore throat, general weakness, fever, loss of appetite, coughing and sneezing.
Dr. Houng offers the following tips to keep kids and families healthy:
- Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when sneezing or coughing, or cough into your sleeve.
- Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. Germs are easily spread this way.
- Wash your hands often and after you sneeze. Use hand sanitizer when unable to wash your hands.
- Give each member of the household their own hand towel. Use different colors to help family members identify their own.
- Use child-friendly soap to encourage kids to wash their hands frequently and teach them to lather up their hands in the soap while singing the Happy Birthday song three times.
- Keep a safe distance from person who is sneezing and coughing.
- Regularly clean common surfaces such as countertops, telephones and chairs.
- If you are ill with the flu, stay home to avoid infecting others.
For further protection Dr. Houng stresses that now is the time to get vaccinated against the flu. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that everyone 6 months and older get a flu vaccine each year, especially those who are at high risk of developing serious complications like pneumonia.
"Those who have certain medical conditions including asthma, diabetes, and chronic lung disease, pregnant women and people 65 years and older along with their loved ones, house hold contacts and caregivers should get vaccinated," adds Dr. Houng.
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Autotuning Stencil-Based Computations on GPUs
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Finite-difference, stencil-based discretization approaches are widely used in the solution of partial differential equations describing physical phenomena. Newton-Krylov iterative methods commonly used in stencil-based solutions generate matrices that exhibit diagonal sparsity patterns. To exploit these structures on modern GPUs, we extend the standard diagonal sparse matrix representation and define new matrix and vector data types in the PETSc parallel numerical toolkit. We create tunable CUDA implementations of the operations associated with these types after identifying a number of GPU-specific optimizations and tuning parameters for these operations. We discuss our implementation of GPU autotuning capabilities in the Orio framework and present performance results for several kernels, comparing them with vendor-tuned library implementations.


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Daaaaaaaaaamn! Those are some ugly earrings! Everything else is spectacular though.
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Oh yeah I would hit that hard.
I would drink the water coming off her bottoms..Better yet I would eat the corn out of her shit!!!!!
I'd let fuck me with her dick.
probably has a sand turd in her dacks!
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..she is going to catch a cold!
I'd fuck her boyfriend just to get to fuck her...
I want twenty of these to go,please.
blonds are so overated me thinx
fuck, made my compass point north
Yet another potential travel companion 8p
where was that beach again??
id eat nachos out of that ass
Hmm! Wonders if you start jacking off tto the hot woman will they think its a compliment?
^ some do. They have told me and asked me to for them :)
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You get a woman like that and you gotta watch you back for the rest of your life....motherfuckers are gonna be after her constantly!!!
i love titties including natural ski jump ones. especially natural ones of all configurations.
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Wow! Look at the wave.
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Mom???? is that you????
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dam she looks like my neighbor, wait it is. very hot
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those earings look great on her!
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This book offers engaging and digestible lessons for couples navigating the life change that a cancer diagnosis brings. Dan Shapiro draws on his more than twenty-five years of clinical work as a health psychologist who has researched and worked with couples facing cancer, and on his own experiences of being both the patient (having and beating Hodgkinas lymphoma in his twenties) and the supporter/advocate (when his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer) to weave together insights on facing cancer while maintaining a strong relationship. And in Health gives advice in short lessons on the main areas of concern or conflict that can come from life with cancerafrom diagnosis to treatment and life post-treatment. Topics include: How to forge yourselves into a powerful team and evade common conflicts Dealing with physicians and getting the best care possible, along with tips for navigating the medical world Strategies for coping with the emotions that can interfere with your relationshipaanger, mood swings, spouse fears, and depression Distinguishing between supportive and draining people in your lives, and learning to invite and accept help Opening to new types of intimacy and making peace with dependence... a major center can feel harder than putting together a hybrid Toyota from part diagrams narrated in Japanese. And if you have to coordinate care between two or more doctors it can feel impossible. One of the problemsaand this isanbsp;...
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This is a list of free and open-source software packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses. Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source.[1] For more information about the philosophical background for open-source software, see free software movement and Open Source Initiative. However, nearly all software meeting the Free Software Definition also meets the Open Source Definition and vice versa. A small fraction of the software that meets either definition is listed here.
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Geothermal Workshop on the Western Branch of the East African Rift System (EARS)
Kigali, 11th March 2016 - The Energy Development Corporation Limited (EDCL) in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme & - the African Rift Geothermal Development Facility ( UNEP-ARGeo), the Icelandic International Development Agency (ICEIDA) and the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) hosted a Technical Workshop at Lemigo Hotel, Kigali from 9-11 March 2016 on "the Geologic Development and Geophysics of the Western Branch of the Greater East African Rift System (EARS)" to discuss the geologic setup and conditions that would support the development of geothermal systems in the countries of the western branch of the East African Rift System (EARS) which include Burundi, DR Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Geothermal exploration in the western branch of EARS has so far not succeeded in discovering utilizable geothermal resources. Part of the reasons are that (i) the systems in the west are not (or not clearly) associated with a magmatic geologic conditions, (ii) the nature and characteristics of the systems are not fully understood, (iii) experiences and research methods for geothermal exploration used in the eastern branch of EARS have been applied to systems in the western branch.
Around 60 regional and international geoscientists attended the workshop. The main outcome of the workshop was the understanding of the geologic processes and current state of the western branch of EARS region that account for the creation and sustenance of its geothermal resources.
Prior to the workshop, the 1st African Geothermal Center of Excellence Steering Committee Meeting (AGCE) composed of representatives of the African Union Commission (AUC), UNEP, the Government of Kenya, the Geothermal Development Company (GDC), the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen), Rwanda and Djibouti was held on 8th March 2016 at Rwanda Energy Group Limited (REG Ltd) Headquarters.
A side meeting of the Seventh ARGeo Steering Committee (ARGeo-SC7) took place on 09 March 2016 at Lemigo Hotel. All representatives of the six ARGeo member countries (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda) and partners (ICEIDA and AUC) participated in this ARGeo-SC7 meeting.


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Physicians Are Also Offended by Sex and the City 2
"Most doctors that I know would do everything possible to avoid use of hormone replacement therapy in a woman with a past history of breast cancer."
The Sex and the City sequel has already been critiqued for its insensitivity toward Islam, but now breast-cancer survivors and doctors are speaking out about Samantha Jones's unhealthy drug intake. Fans of the HBO series remember Kim Cattrall's character's moving battle with breast cancer in the sixth season, but the Sex and the City 2 filmmakers seem to have forgotten all about that, since half of Samantha's plot in the latest film revolves around her heavy consumption of medicine — specifically hormones — to defy her natural age, even though doctors caution against such measures in breast-cancer survivors.
"Most doctors that I know would do everything possible to avoid use of hormone replacement therapy in a woman with a past history of breast cancer," says Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society.
Elizabeth Cohen, CNN's senior medical correspondent, also notes, "Doctors generally don't recommend hormone therapy for breast cancer survivors, since some studies show it increases the chances of having a recurrence." But hopefully nobody was turning to Sex and the City 2 for medical advice in the first place.
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CLARK — In Ms. Kelleher's second grade class at the Valley Road School in Clark, students learned about different states of matter. In a recent experiment, students observed how gas bubbles from clear soda affected raisins that they dropped into their cups. They discovered that the carbonation resulted in the raisins floating up to the top of the cup and back down again. Students recorded their results and checked their previous predictions. Students Alexys Minch and Thomas Woods are pictured above. (Photo courtesy of Clark Public Schools)
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Kelly Osbourne is suing her former landlord for refusing to hand back a deposit she paid on a Hollywood apartment.
In the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ.com, the reality TV star claims she put down $18,700 as a security deposit on the West Hollywood pad, which has been home to fellow celebrities including Lindsay Lohan and Adam Lambert, but when she vacated the premises, her landlord failed to reimburse her.
Instead he sent her an email notifying her of an estimate of damages and cleaning expenses, which claimed her entire deposit.
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Emergency & Trauma Centre staff say thanks
Wednesday 14 Oct 2015
$15 million has been raised to redevelop The Alfred's Emergency & Trauma Centre as a result of your generosity.
To help us say thanks we gathered together some of the staff from the Emergency & Trauma Centre.
The Alfred received their largest ever single gift from the Eva and Les Erdi Humanitarian Charitable Foundation. The appeal itself was launched with a tremendously generous gift from John and Betty Laidlaw and widely supported by thousands of donors throughout the community.
The redevelopment will help us treat more people. It includes a new Rapid Intervention and Treatment Zone, a dedicated area to help give faster initial assessments to our emergency patients.
Your gifts, whether large or small, have contributed towards this remarkable project and for that we are truly grateful.


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