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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA - University of Massachusetts Boston Women's Soccer Head Coach Amy Zombeck (Claremont, NH) was named the 2009 Little East Conference Women's Soccer Coach of the Year, while Kristin Mulry (Holbrook, MA) was selected a LEC First Team All-Star and Samantha Place (Newton, NJ) earned Second Team All-Star honors it was announced today by the conference. Zombeck earns the award for the second straight year.
Zombeck becomes the third coach in school history to earn multiple Little East Conference Coach of the Year accolades, joining Charlie Titus (Men's basketball 1996-97 & 2005-06) and Myles Berry (Men's Lacrosse 2001, 2003, 2006; Men's Soccer 2006). In her fifth season at UMass Boston, she has guided the Beacons to a 14-5-1 overall record, including 5-1-1 in LEC play to tie for the second-best mark in conference play and earn the number three seed in the LEC tournament. UMass Boston won a tournament quarterfinal match over University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 4-0, for the second straight year and advanced to the conference semifinals match two days later, before falling to eventual league champion Eastern Connecticut State University, 4-0, on November 5. The Beacons earned their first-ever ECAC New England tournament bid as the sixth seed and will play University of New England at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 11 in Biddeford, ME. UMass Boston strung together a school-record nine-match unbeaten streak from September 15 to October 10 as part of a record-breaking campaign that has seen the team establish school standards for victories, goals (59), assists (44), points (162), shutouts (nine), goals against average (1.03) and corner kicks (91). The Beacons' defense has been one of the biggest reasons for their success this year, ranking third in the LEC in goals against average, while owning a streak of 456:18 minutes without a goal allowed from September 26 to October 17, which included four consecutive shutouts. UMass Boston's offensive output has been outstanding as well with an average of 2.95 goals per game to lead the conference and rank 38th in the nation. The Beacons also have six players with 10 or more points for the first time in school history. A former All-American at Keene State College, Zombeck's recruiting classes of the past four seasons have paid dividends this year. She took over a program that had not won more than three matches in a season since 1997 or any Little East Conference matches and is now the program's all-time victory leader with 33. Zombeck is the only women's soccer coach in school history to win a playoff game for the Beacons. Prior to her arrival in 2005, UMB had not had a player named to the All-Conference team since 1997, but Zombeck has seen her players named to the All-Star squad on eight occasions and one Rookie of the Year. She also saw multiple players earn league player or rookie of the week honors this season, including two offensive player, two defensive player, four goalkeeper and two rookie of the week awards.
Mulry earns a spot on the LEC First Team as a forward after being selected to the Second Team a year ago to become the first offensive player in school history to earn All-Conference honors in multiple seasons since Shannon Murphy in 1996 and 1997. The sophomore, who has earned Offensive Player of the Week honors twice this season, currently leads the league with 1.75 points per match with 35 points in 20 matches and is the LEC's top goal scorer with 16 markers for 0.80 per match. The forward also ranks third among conference leaders with three game-winning scores, a total which is also the third-most in a season in school annals. She has made the most of her shots, scoring on 39% of her 41 shots, while putting 68.3% of her shots on net. Her point and goal total is the second most for a season in school history, while her total of five multiple-goal matches is good for the second-most in school history. A graduate of Hingham High School, Mulry became just the second player in school history to register more than one hat trick in a season with her second three-goal output coming in a 5-0 victory over Rhode Island College on October 31.
In just two seasons, Mulry has established herself as one of the most prolific scorers of all-time at UMass Boston. She has netted 30 goals and racked up 64 points for the second-highest total for both in school history, while tying for the program standard with nine multiple-goal efforts, including three hat tricks. Her five career game-winners place her second among the Beacons' career leaders as well.
Place is named to the Second Team backfield for the second straight season to become, like Mulry, the first player in school history to earn All-Conference honors in each of her first two years of collegiate soccer. The sophomore started the season slowly, recovering from offseason knee surgery, but has still managed to play in 18 of 20 matches. She has matched her totals from a year ago with six points on two goals and a pair of assists to lead all UMass Boston defenders for the second straight year. She is one of two Beacons' defenders to notch a game-winning tally this season with the deciding marker in a 2-0 win at Plymouth State University on October 23. Place earned Defensive Player of the Week honors for the week of October 19-25 and has started each of the last 11 contests. A Kittatinny High School product, she has been a major reason for the dominance of the UMass Boston defense with a school-record low goals against average and shutout total. One of the Beacons' most tenacious players on the field, she has helped them hold opponents to one goal or less in 14 of the 18 matches she has seen action in.
For her career, Place has played in 34 matches, while making 23 starts. The New Jersey native has 12 points on four goals and four assists and has helped the UMass Boston defense record a 1.50 goals against average.


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OK it does make a TERRIBLE racket.
Any hints PBers how to fix a noisy fan?
Does it need a bit of A-1 oil (or is that steak sauce?)
The heat/Canicule will do that to you... ;)Delete
As always, thank you for your posts.
Your fan rattle may be a loose screw or loose cover, tighten your screws and reset the cover. I
think the oil was "3 in1".
Steve FL
I need to get a Phillipshead screw driver tomorrow
Something makes me think it requires internal surgery
oh yes, i love those less sugary french desserts. their fruit always seems more flavorful too.ReplyDelete
Boy would I love to figure that one out!
Their fruit tastes fruity not like cardboard
And the aromas
Love the aquarelle!.. and yes I see M.Cassel's pastries are definitely a notch well.. many more above..I do not mean to be unkind to your corner store....but c'est visible comme tout!
And his signature in chocolat..could even be in the shape of an artists' palette.
I asked J about the fan:) he said maybe the blades are off?:)
The fan's not terribly ugly though.. blue:)
The desktop computer is what I ahve to trace with..so upright and a bit away..
Not trying to make excuses..:)
Bon dimanche Carol~
Love the watercolor! I laughed at the notion of the people being so hot and the pastries being all cool in behind the counter! They sure look yummy and beautiful though. Maybe I'll at least run over to the farmers market for some of those berries. Mouthwatering!ReplyDelete
Yum regarding the desserts. I could eat my weight in any of those. Maybe a screwdriver and some WD-40? Is that Sharon's dog, Ghetto?ReplyDelete
You and Veronique and Carla had NO desserts? Perhaps you should re-evaluate the company youRe keeping ... :-)
As for the hot people and cold pastries...naturellment, les peoples chaud would not want to eat pastries chaud?
Thank you for the link...
very funny "the blasted heat sans cesse!"!!!
We didn't have dessert but we had ice cream!
If you had put those pies in front of me I would have willingly ate them!
After you made those pretty watercolors did you proceed to do so?
I just bought a fan I spotted out walking this morning early.
Now to figure out how to put it together
No instructions natch...
Lovely. I'm so happy you bought/found a fan! It can make it bearable. We are so spoiled with air conditioning everywhere.
If you figure out that fan thing, share it! Mine just rattles -- I think it is off kilter, like a chair or table with a short leg and when you move, it wobbles. I use a fan less than 10 days a year -- unfortunately, last week I used up about six of them. Even went to bed with the frozen cooler ice wrapped up in a t-shirt, clutching it to keep cool. Good luck.
Meanwhile, I'll take even the plain Jane pastry over most one can find here! They are wee works of art!
I discovered the front cover was on upside down for one
But the wings are bent unfortunately so they scrape the cover just less so now that I switched the cover...
Carol, I just want to tell you how much I love your blog. When you moved from New York to Paris I was a little worried, but of course the blog is even better now.
And I also want to thank you for a couple of books I'd never have discovered if not for you - Vivian Swift's When Wanderers Cease to Roam and Bringing Up Bebe.
Good luck with the fan. If it's any consolation the same situation happens here in Sonoma Co. California each time we have a heatwave. I bought a lovely standing fan at the very beginning of our last heat wave. I RACED in when the temperature in my casa become unbearable - I was lucky to find a great fan on sale. It seems unlikely to feel excited about a fan purchase but I'm sure you understand!
WD40 or the french version of it is always a good place to start.
Also, look for a handy-man also very useful!
Best of luck,
Know any French handymen?
I could really use one!
I got a fan on sale this morning and somewhat fixed the other one so now I have TWO fans.
Plus cross ventilation
You make me miss having a hubs. I'm like you, not interested in fiddling with mechanical things. That's when it's nice to just hand it to a man. They like that stuff.
French food tastes better as isn't loaded with chemicals, GMO, dyes, pesticides, etc. Here one has to go to the source and buy organic. i.e. I'm in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Earthbound Farms is just 4 miles away in Carmel Valley.
Those pastries look wonderful. So agree...I like lots of fruit, no sugar if possible, and just a touch of crust.
Wishing you cool!
I am sorry but I am laughing about you finding a fan in the garbage...what would the odds be on that...is the blade hitting the protection cover ?
I know...too bizarre
Surely it was Karmic destiny that brought me to Paris
I never found a fan in NYC! ;))
You live a charmed life!! I mean what are the odds of finding a fan in the garbage to use when you needed one even if it did rattle. Now I hope you can get the other one together without it rattling. :)) Was 96 degrees here today. yikes. I even put a fan on our chickens. :)ReplyDelete
I'm addicted to making fruity tarts this summer but now that I'm stuck in bed am salivating at your photos here, Carol. Stay cool. I got my air conditioner during the cool weather when nobody was thinking of it... Scottish reflex?ReplyDelete

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text: Student Profiles Mónica Guzmán '05 Mónica Guzmán '05 Hometown: Somersworth, New Hampshire Major: Sociology, with a minor in Film Studies Why did you come to Bowdoin? I loved the size, the quality of education, the traditional feel, and the kind of unsung grandness that came out even in the Viewbook. After just one visit, which lasted about a half hour since it was rainy and cold and Dad and I had already seen all we needed to see, I was hooked and applied Early Decision. How did you decide on your major? Oh, this was fun. I walked into Bio 105 - an intro to bio lab - my first semester of my first year with only a few doubts that this was my calling. Reality struck when I realized what a klutz I was in lab and that there was no way I could handle actual test-tube-and-Bunsen-burner research. Then I followed psych for a while, which was fine - until I took Sociology 101 my sophomore year. Before that class, I wasn't even sure what sociology was, but it became pretty clear that it basically summed up all the stuff I'm really passionate about. I haven't looked back since. What has been your favorite class at Bowdoin? Any and all classes with Film Professor Tricia Welsch, hands down. Film Studies at Bowdoin is not a big department, but it might as well be with her at the helm. If I had it my way, all students would be required to take at least one of her classes. No joke. I've taken Film History I and II and a class called Images of America in Film with her. She stuffs so much interesting information into her lectures that you have to wonder how it's possible that there's still so much time for everyone in the class - all 50+ of us - to discuss it all. Time flew by in those courses against my will. And let's just say they didn't complicate my decision to minor in Film Studies. What extracurricular activities do you participate in? Do you have an on campus job? I'm Senior Editor of the Bowdoin Orient, the independent student-run newspaper and the oldest continuously published [college] weekly in the U.S., where I also write a weekly film review column and contribute other stories. It's long hours, hard work, and extremely rewarding. Somewhere around 1:30 a.m. we start playing Mad Libs with the stubborn headlines on the front page. I'm a stickler for perfection and something of an unofficial typo fiend, notorious, I guess, for sending our section editors back to their layout to reprint their pages at 2:30 in the morning - just when they thought it was safe to put on their jackets and head for the door. I am also a paid Writing Assistant for the Bowdoin College Writing Project, which I love, and hold a job projecting movies for the film department. In town, I work at our local independent theater, the Eveningstar Cinema. It's fun to hold the actual stuff of movies in your hands, thread it through the machines, turn down the lights in the theater and watch the magic happen. It makes you look at film in a different way to be on the other side of the projectors. Have you studied abroad? My junior year was one of the best of my life. In the fall, I went to Madrid, Spain, with a program called IES. Since I was already fluent in the language, they let me take three courses at the local university (150,000 students!). One was a politics course, and two were in sociology - including a particularly eye-opening one called Sociology of International Inequality. At the English Lancaster University in the spring, where I enrolled directly as an international student, I took three more sociology courses - one about consumer culture, another on global media, and a third on "information cultures" (the sociology of such things as the internet, artificial intelligence, and cell phones). I also took a course in French cinema and one on political propaganda with this wacky professor who had an even wackier accent. Sociology is taken far more seriously in Europe, so taking those courses gave me valuable perspectives I couldn't really get in the U.S. I traveled as much as I could while I was over there. I'm a big advocate of the whole process: The way I see it, you wouldn't need a really good reason to study abroad. You'd need a really good reason not to. Have you done any independent studies? I'm doing two independent studies right now - one, a project analyzing the semiotics of news talk shows on CNN, Fox News, and PBS, is with [Professor] Kirk Johnson in Sociology. The other is a screenwriting project for the Film Studies Department with Tricia Welsch. What's your best Bowdoin memory? Oh boy. There have been a lot of good times, but I'd still have to go with my first week of freshman year up in the fourth floor of Moore (the BEST first-year dorm). It was a whirlwind of new people, perspectives, and possibilities. I'll never forget it. What are your plans after graduation? I've wanted to go into journalism since freshman year, and have interned in the summers to get acquainted with the field. After graduation, I'm attending a six-week seminar at the Poynter Institute for Journalism in Florida. In August I'll be moving to Texas to begin a two-year fellowship with Hearst Newspapers, which owns 12 newspapers across the country, including the Houston Chronicle and the San Francisco Chronicle. As a fellow, I'll work as a reporter at three of their papers for eight months each. (Yes, this is the same "Hearst" who invented yellow journalism 100 years ago whom my idol Orson Welles ridiculed with brilliance in my favorite movie of all time - Citizen Kane.) After that, I plan to work a couple more years as a reporter or magazine journalist and then get my masters in journalism. What's the one thing you think a Bowdoin student has to do/has to see before he or she graduates? Ummm...one thing...well, if you're not from around here, make sure you at least familiarize yourself with the lobster cracking process, whether you eat the succulent beauties or not. And don't forget the plastic lobster bibs. But no - what everyone really needs to do is pick a warm autumn night when the leaves are starting to fall, spend about an hour walking through the "whispering pines" around campus, then sit for a while on the lit-up steps of the Walker Art Building [Museum of Art] overlooking the Quad. There's nothing quite like it. Story posted on April 15, 2005 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


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Cristiano Ronaldo nets pair in Real Madrid win: Champions League
Zlatan Ibrahimovic scores 4 goals for PSG
Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic warmed up for their World Cup playoffs meeting with high-scoring displays for Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League on Wednesday.
Ronaldo's two goals lifted Madrid to a 2-1 home victory over Juventus in the marquee matchup of the day, although the Portugal star was topped by Sweden's talismanic forward.
Ibrahimovic struck four goals — including an unstoppable long-range strike — as PSG outclassed Anderlecht 5-0 in Brussels.
"Score a goal like this, it is good for the memory," Ibrahimovic said of his third goal, which was applauded by the 25,000 Anderlecht fans. He returned the applause to each corner in turn. "It was a big honour for me."
Defending champion Bayern Munich routed Viktoria Plzen 5-0, with Franck Ribery scoring twice, and Bayer Leverkusen won 4-0 against Shakhtar Donetsk.
Madrid, PSG and Bayern all lead their groups with three straight wins, and Manchester United heads Leverkusen by a point after edging Real Sociedad 1-0.
Manchester City also won, 2-1 at CSKA Moscow, though the main talking point was racist abuse targeted by Russian fans at City's black players and reported by City's Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure.
The incident happened during a week-long UEFA campaign to highlight its fight against racism and CSKA faces a partial stadium closure for a future home match.
Galatasaray beat Copenhagen 3-1, with Wesley Sneijder and Dider Drogba adding to Wednesday's star-studded list of scorers, while Benfica levelled late in a 1-1 draw with Olympiakos.
Three weeks ahead of their scheduled first-leg clash in the Portugal vs. Sweden playoff, Ronaldo now leads Ibrahimovic 7-6 atop the Champions League scoring table after just three matches.
Ronaldo took only four minutes to strike against Juventus, rounding goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon to score from a tight angle after taking a clever reverse pass from Angel Di Maria.
Juventus was level in the 22nd when Spanish forward Fernando Llorente pounced on a loose ball after Iker Casillas dived low to push out Paul Pogba's far-post header.
Ronaldo got the winning goal in the 29th from the penalty spot after Giorgio Chiellini wrestled Sergi Ramos to the ground as a free-kick cross came in.
Chiellini was red-carded in the 48th when he raced alongside Ronaldo and caught the Madrid forward's face with a raised arm.
Ibrahimovic fell one goal short of Lionel Messi's Champions League record of five in a match, yet was no less memorable.
A 17th minute tap-in was followed by a nonchalant back-heel in the 22nd, a long-range screamer in the 36th and a dipping volley in the 62nd.
Left in the shadows
The French champion's fourth was scored by Uruguay star Edinson Cavani who, not for the first time this season, was somewhat left in the shadows.
Bayern outgunned Plzen, as expected, with 35 efforts on goal to none by the Czech champion.
"We played well but Plzen didn't make it hard," Bayern winger Arjen Robben said.
Ribery opening the scoring from the penalty spot. David Alaba made it 2-0 at the break, and a second-half stroll was completed by Ribery, Bastian Schweinsteiger and substitute Mario Goetze.
Man City was frustrated soon after arriving in Moscow by the poor condition of the green-painted pitch, and left angered by home fans' treatment of its black players.
"For me as an African player it is always sad to hear something like that and we need to do something about it," said Toure, who said he informed referee Ovidiu Hategan of the abuse during the match.
Sergio Aguero eased the visitors' mood with two goals in the first half, carrying City clear of CSKA into second place behind Bayern.
Manchester United took just 69 seconds to score against Sociedad, when Inigo Martinez clumsily booted the ball into his own net after a shot by Wayne Rooney came back off the post
United created ample chances to extend their lead, though the Spanish visitors struck the frame of David De Gea's goal in both halves.
Stefan Kiessling scored two valid goals for Leverkusen in his first game since being credited with an infamous 'ghost goal' through the side netting in a Bundesliga match. Simon Rolfes, with a penalty early in the second half, and Sidney Sam also scored.
After Olympiakos led Benfica in the 29th from Alejandro Dominguez's goal, a heavy rainstorm made the pitch almost unplayable in the Stadium of Light in Lisbon which hosts the final next May.
Oscar Cardozo equalized in the 83rd in a goalmouth scramble.
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That just about blew my mind. I remember that like it was 5 minutes ago. Thank god someone had that on tape. I use to go around singing that "psycho for when your mind goes, for when you've had enough, of doing grown up stuff" and nobody knew what the hell I was singing.
I thought there was another line after that though that said "for when your looney parnets, give you the inheritance" Maybe that was a different version or something.
anyway, thanks.
Nick's ads for their Looney Tunes show actually showed some understanding of the cartoons' spirit. Much cleverer than CN's later campaigns (what little one saw of them... CN was visibly more interested in building its own properties up).
Of course, Nick wasn't all wine and roses... there WAS that later ad smugly announcing Bosko's departure from the rotation. ("Sorry, Bosko.")
That was back when Nickelodeon didn't totally keep pushing out horrible cartoon shows.
Oh my goodness, what an amazing find.. I'm sitting here at work and this song randomly popped into my head. I remembereed the words so clearly. I went on working and it was just stuck in my head, so I decided to google it and was UTTERLY SHOCKED to find it. Awesome, awesome find, you made my day!
100% ditto on John Mazz's comment. I'm absolutely astounded to have found this.
Same here! I've been singing that song in my head for gosh, over TEN YEARS. Thanks so much for sharing it!!
Another thank you! I didn't think it would be this easy to find something like this. I have started singing this song at random times throughout the years and have gotten so wierd looks!
I was trying to figure out the name of this classical song.... all i had to do was google "psycho or when your mind goes or if you had enough of doing grown up stuff" to find what i was looking for. this is AWESOME.
now, does anyone know the name of this song?
This is an awesome find. The classical music is Allegro from Eine Klein Nachtmusik (though shortened, of course).


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The fragile economic recovery could be derailed — along with financial markets — if leaders can't forge some sort of agreement or interim step by Jan. 1 to better align revenue with spending. New Year's Eve could turn somber as Americans ponder an end to Bush-era tax cuts that would expire in the morning. What's more, automatic spending reductions would affect everything from domestic programs to the Pentagon's budget.
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This fund's 5- and 10-year returns rank within the top 5 percent of its large-cap blend peers. It was a standout performer during the financial crisis, losing a relatively small 27 percent in 2008 while the S&P 500 plunged 37 percent. The team that manages the fund looks for businesses with the financial strength to hold up well even if the economy slows down. FMI Large Cap recently owned a relatively compact portfolio of 27 stocks, led by 3M Co. at 5.3 percent of the portfolio and Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett's company, at 5.1 percent.
This fund's 5-year return ranks in the top 3 percent among its peers, and its 2008 loss was a relatively small 26 percent. It's one of the standout managed funds at Vanguard, best known for index funds. With an expense ratio of just 0.31 percent, it's among the lowest-cost managed funds. The emphasis in the portfolio of around 50 stocks is dividend-payers. Recent top holdings include PepsiCo, Johnson & Johnson and Occidental Petroleum. Don Kilbride has run the fund the past six years, and has more than $1 million personally invested in the fund.
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Music majors learn skills that they can apply to a wide range of career choices. Listed below are but a few options when it comes to having a career in music.
Music Industry - This broad field encompasses everything from publishing, recording, repairing, building, tuning, export and import. Typically, training and experience in business is desired for these choices.
Music Teaching - Private schools, private companies, public companies, elementary and secondary schools and colleges all look for quality music training.
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Vanessa Hudgens and Sarah Hyland pose for a cute pic while out to dinner at Disneyland on Friday (December 28) in Anahaim, Calif.
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It seems Teresa Giudice has finally caught wind of those pesky infidelity rumors that not only has her husband Joe Giudice cheating on her, but also fathering a child out of wedlock.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey star is now denying the rumors to Popeater, while Joe also denies the rumors in the latest issue of InTouch Weekly.
"Who started that? Danielle [Staub]?" Teresa asks when queried about the infidelity rumors by PopEater. "She is pathetic and has way too much time on her hands."
The rumor which alleges Joe has been having an affair with a woman named Tara G. hit the net a few weeks ago. The rumor then grew legs once the reunion episode aired, with people alleging that Danielle was referencing a lovechild by Joe when she brought up Teresa's nephew. But as we reported yesterday, it seems Danielle was indeed talking about a nephew of Teresa's.
"It's totally false," says Teresa. "Trust me, Joe gets enough love IN our marriage, he doesn't need to look anywhere else. Unlike Danielle, I know how to keep a real man happy!"
As for who this Tara G individual might be, a source tells Popeater "Joe is not cheating on Teresa," adding that "there is no Tara G. People saw Joe and Teresa out to dinner with Tamra from the 'Real Housewives of the OC' the night of Joe's [truck] accident and it got reported that that was his girlfriend. Tamra = Tara. But Teresa was with them both!"
In the latest issue of InTouch Weekly, Joe laughs off the rumors, stating that he and Teresa "still make love once, sometimes twice a day." Why thank ya Joe for that TMI detail.
Back to this Tara individual, there's still no proof that this person even exists or that Joe is cheating. We however received an email earlier this week, with someone telling us that the girl's name is Tara F., and that she is blonde with blue eyes, 100% Sicilian and speaks fluent Italian.
The tipster also alleges that Tara F. "makes her own money working for a major fashion brand in Philly. Rumors are that Joe wants to separate from Teresa, sell the house and live with Tara in NJ or PA. She just bought a farmhouse on 8 acres in Bucks County."
And the plot thickens…
In other news, the ladies appeared on the Today Show this morning, during which Teresa played coy on the story about her sister-in-law joining the cast. And when asked about Danielle being fired by Bravo, the ladies did not confirm or deny the story, simply stating that Bravo has yet to confirm anything to them.


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Author Notes: I hate Celery....but have just fallen in love with Celeriac. This weekend, I made everything Celeriac - celeriac mash with red wine poached pears and venison, celeriac soup with bacon,carrots and onions (using the leftover mash) and this warming, fresh salad of Celeriac and Apple! I love it. I served it with toasted french bread a la baguette slices and salt-baked sardines —Kitchen Butterfly
Serves: 4
lemon, halved and juiced
Salt and pepper to taste
a celeriac (about 200g)
sweet, crunchy eating apples
teaspoons mayonnaise
teaspoons creme fraiche
teaspoons wholegrain mustard
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slices of toasted, buttered baguette and fresh or tinned sardines
Lemon slices to garnish
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- Put lemon juice in a bowl and add a pinch of salt to it. Stir to dissolve.
- Peel the celeriac with a vegetable peeler or a knife. Do the same for the apples.
- Wash and then slice both the celeriac and apples into thin slices. Cut each slice into matchsticks and toss in the lemon juice
- Combine the mayonnaise, cream fraiche and mustard and add to the celeriac-apple mix.
- Check seasoning and adjust if necessary.
- Serve right away if you like or leave to 'bloom' in the refrigerator for a few hours. Sprinkle on herbs just before serving.
- Accompany with smoked fish (sardines or mackerel go well) and slices of toasted & buttered baguette.
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Talaiasi Tiueti Kata Finau
Sexual violation (x2) of a 73 year old Dargaville woman, plus grievous bodily harm and aggravated robbery in her home in October 2011
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Northern Advocate story 20th November 2012
A man who sexually violated a 73-year-old Dargaville woman in her home, dressed in some of her clothes, beat her up then drove off in her car has been sentenced to nine years' jail. Talaiasi Tiueti Kata Finau, 25, a Dargaville meatworker, previously pleaded guilty to two charges of sexual violation, disfiguring with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, aggravated robbery, reckless driving and failing to stop on October 15, last year.
Justice Rodney Hansen said it was violent sexual offending and made an order Finau must serve at least four-and-a-half years before he is eligible for parole. He also warned Finau if he was convicted of another serious violent crime after his release he would serve out that sentence without parole and if convicted of murder he would be sentenced to life imprisonment. The court heard how Finau had been drinking and smoking cannabis, had gone to a party and then on his way home about 4am had stumbled through the garden of the elderly woman.
Finau tried the back door but it was locked and as he walked around the side of the house he fell into the swimming pool. Finau went through an unlocked ranchslider, stripped naked and walked upstairs where the woman was sleeping. When the woman woke she told Finau she had money in her purse and took him downstairs and tried to get him out. He physically assaulted her and sexually violated her a number of times throughout the attack. After dressing himself in her clothes, Finau forced the woman downstairs to the garage and made her show him where her car keys were.
He tried unsuccessfully to force the woman into the laundry and she tried to escape. From that point she remembers nothing but Finau told police he beat her. Eventually she crawled on her hands and knees to a neighbour's house. Finau stole the car and members of the public alerted police to his erratic driving. Police chased him, eventually stopping Finau in Wellsford. Since the attack the woman had had surgery and plastic surgery and had lost her sense of smell. She was unable to eat solid food for eight weeks and had been left disfigured.
Finau had been in New Zealand since 2006. He was married with a six-year-old boy but the wife is with their son in Tonga. Crown prosecutor Mike Smith said preventive detention was applicable in this case because of the violence, direct sexual attacks, the use of weapons and the home invasion. "This was a truly terrifying crime committed on a member of society that deserves protection," Mr Smith said. Defence layer Richard Garbett said Finau lost two jobs in New Zealand because of his substance abuse.
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Clarence Miller: Colorado's "101st Legislator" dies
Clarence Miller, a developmentally disabled man who was such a fixture at the Capitol he was called the 101st lawmaker and was allowed to sit in on high-profile meetings in the governor's office, died today in his sleep.
Miller would have turned 64 on Saturday. For years, he celebrated his birthday in style, with both the House and the Senate announcing there was a cake for him in the rotunda.
"His life was the Capitol and everybody there was his family," said former Gov. Bill Owens. "We benefited from his presence."
"He knew everything that was happening in the building," said lobbyist Jason Hopfer.
Miller was considered the Forrest Gump of Colorado politics because of his uncanny ability for showing up at high-profile events and getting his picture in the paper. He was in the front row (before being tossed out) when Britain's Princess Anne appeared at the Episcopal Cathedral years ago and he also wrangled a great seat during the mass said by Pope John Paul II at Cherry Creek Reservoir in 1993.
"Clarence had an irrepressible spirit and a beautiful heart," said former Senate President John Andrews. "His political IQ and wicked wit were astounding. He did more to humanize the Capitol than all of us politicians put together."


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - House Speaker John Boehner's backup plan that would simply extend low income tax rates for households with incomes below $1 million a year "cannot pass both houses of Congress," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Tuesday.
Reid, a Democrat, said Boehner instead should focus on reaching a broad deficit-reduction deal with President Barack Obama. "Now is the time to show leadership, not kick the can down the road," Reid said.
Last July, Reid's Democrats passed a bill in the Senate that would have continued low tax rates, which are set to expire on December 31, for families with net incomes below $250,000.
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Hot Trend: Green is the New BlackBy Betsy Cummings
August, 2009Ad specialty companies are increasingly greening their operations in an effort to save the environment, lower expenses and appeal to growing sensibilities of their customers. Find out how they're doing it.
Peter Tu remembers the exact moment of inspiration. At home one night a little more than two years ago, he was watching An Inconvenient Truth – the Oscar-nominated documentary about Al Gore's environmental passions. It wasn't Tu's choice of movie – his daughter was watching it as homework – but it was one that changed his outlook forever. It moved Tu to think about how he could go green himself, and over the next year, he began making small but steady changes within his distributorship, AnyPromo.com (asi/117065).
"It all started with something little," says Tu.
He and his 12 employees made basic environmental changes, such as turning up the thermostat a degree or two, and using more energy-efficient lighting. They also looked at ways they could reduce paper usage, cutting down the number of boxes they went through each month from five to less than three, with each box containing 5,000 pages of paper (the company hopes to go completely paperless within the next two years). Then, Tu and his company invested in energy-efficient LCD computer monitors for each employee, at $150 a pop, moved from desktops to laptops (yes, laptops use much less energy), and asked staff to power down all computer equipment each night before going home.
Tu, whose company is based in Chino, CA, where the state's energy rates vary by season, can't say for sure exactly how much his company, with $1.5 million a year in sales, is saving through these efforts, but he says he and his team feel more satisfaction this year for their accountability toward the green efforts they've put in place.
And Tu is not alone. As more distributors and suppliers focus on the environment, they're doing so not just through the sale of eco-friendly promotional products, but also by changing core operating procedures and manufacturing methods, and making sure that companies they work with are doing the same. What was once considered a social gesture is starting to pay off in a business sense, as well. "We're getting to a point where it's starting to make sense to invest in these sound practices," says Patrick Penfield, assistant professor of supply chain practice in the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University.
Business Decisions
The go-green movement isn't something that companies are doing just to look good. This isn't just a brand-building effort in the hopes of appealing to new customer sensibilities. This is a business decision – one predicated on both saving money and increasing sales.
In fact, an early 2009 study by A.T. Kearney Inc., a global management consulting firm, found that companies committed to environmental sustainability practices have enjoyed greater performance in the recent economic slowdown. Why? The study's authors point to better long-term business practices, stronger corporate governance, and greater risk management, among other factors – traits often seen in eco-conscious companies.
"With rising fossil fuel costs, customers searching for environmentally responsible companies, and a mounting need for greener products, business has jumped on the green initiative and reaped the financial benefits," says Heather Gadonniex, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Greening Your Business, and principal at Green it Group, a sustainability consultancy in San Francisco.
Though almost none of the distributors and suppliers reached for this article had formulas to prove the monetary value of the green programs they've implemented, all are fully committed to expanding their individual company's operations in eco-friendly ways.
For distributors like Kris Robinson, vice president of PromoShop (asi/300446) and founder of www.ecopromos.com, a Web site dedicated to "growing your brand responsibly," going green is about more than making changes in the office. "You have to change your lifestyle in your business and personal life," Robinson says. "A lot of people out there want an order to sell a polypropylene bag, but they don't know why they're supposed to be selling it," he says. "You're either going to embrace this movement or you're just out to make a quick buck."
That's what Mark Trotzuk, CEO of Boardroom Custom Clothing (asi/40705), decided two years ago after realizing that not only were the environmentally conscious products he was selling deceptively green, but that he could have an impact on processes outside of his Vancouver-based company. "Most of the people in our industry, including myself, buy the finished component and restock it and sell it," Trotzuk says. "Very little of them actually are involved in the process of getting raw materials, processing raw materials, coloring raw materials, putting raw materials together and getting it over to the U.S."
But it's in the supply chain that 90% of a product's impact on the environment is felt, Trotzuk says. "Therein lies the biggest challenge, because a lot of that product you're not in charge of." Certainly, supply chain supervision is beyond the scope of daily operations for the majority of distributors and suppliers. But that doesn't mean they can't remotely influence the processes of companies they work with. "All companies should start the conversation with suppliers about their environmental footprint, and ask for data and information when it's available," says Andrew Winston, a green business expert and coauthor of Green to Gold.
For smaller distributors, "While the threat of leaving one supplier for another may not carry weight, at least the smaller company can be more informed and make choices when possible to find the lowest footprint option," Winston says.
When Trotzuk first started pitching Fortune 500 companies whose executives insisted that products be environmentally progressive, not just in materials but in the way they were manufactured, Trotzuk realized his eco-conscious promises could only go so far. "I'm giving my spiel to a large corporation who's very ethically sound and they say, 'Thank you for using bamboo and recycled polyester, but come with me, we need to ask you some questions,'" Trotzuk says, recalling certain conversations.
That's when Trotzuk would be introduced to other due diligence officers in the company who posed much more daunting issues. "Mark, you're not a chemist. How can you test the waste water leaving the factory to make sure it won't harm the environment?" – that was a typical question he was asked. At first, Trotzuk didn't have an answer. They were right: How could a stateside supplier with no access to a Chinese factory's waste water determine if it was eco-friendly or not?
Pitching and landing the business of the country's major household brands was so important to Trotzuk that he took measures to answer those questions, going so far as to join Bluesign, a third-party auditing firm for the textile industry, at a cost of $20,000 a year. Trotzuk says this was a sound investment, since he receives quarterly certifications regarding the factories he uses abroad that he can then share with end-users.
New Practices
As the movement grows, more distributors and suppliers might develop what Fairware, a supplier in Vancouver, devised – a survey and code of conduct to make sure that every vendor Fairware works with complies with the company's environmental standards.
What once seemed overly aggressive is now starting to be a more accepted practice among the industry's suppliers and distributors, says Denise Taschereau, Fairware's cofounder. Taschereau says the industry is still trailing the consumer marketplace when it comes to making environmental demands, but that's changing. "When we started this company four or five years ago, we would call vendors and get long pauses" in response to statements about the survey Fairware insisted on giving to every vendor, as well as the company's environmental code of conduct. "Now, I feel that people have a much better understanding of what we're talking about" on the environment and issues of social compliance, she says.
With environmental chatter a mainstay of the media and policy-makers these days, it's no surprise that the ad specialty marketplace is quickly trying to play catch-up.
For industry executives already familiar with environmental issues, the world's focus on global warming is a rallying cry to do more now. Jordy Gamson, president and CEO of The Ice Box (asi/229395), in Atlanta, took what he knew from his 12 years in the recycling industry and applied it to the renovated office space his company moved into two years ago. "When we designed it we took the environment into account," says Gamson of the 1940s office building they gutted and revamped near downtown Atlanta.
For starters, the entire building was designed to let natural light into every office but three, so that staff can work without turning on office lights (installed with energy-efficient bulbs, of course). The company, which has 33 employees and does $10 million in annual sales, plans on going completely paperless by 2011, Gamson says.
He won't be alone. Many promotional product companies we talked to said going paperless was one of their biggest goals in the next few years. At Selco (asi/86230), in Tulsa, OK, they're almost there, says CEO Mark Abels. Several years ago, Selco had both the fortune and misfortune of taking on a multitude of orders after one of its competitors shut down. Where once the company's normal load for watch dials averaged 75 dials a day, suddenly that number skyrocketed and "between Seiko and Hamilton, we had something like 10,000 dials in our backlog, probably more than we made all year," Abels recalls.
Working with a consultant, he and his team began evaluating their order processing methods, including how orders were taken in, tracked and moved through the company's office. They discovered that most of it was done on paper. Work orders could run as long as 25 pages. "We were spending a lot of time filing," Abels says. Nothing was viewed on a computer, but instead was printed for review, including more than 100 faxes a day. "It just seemed very wasteful," Abels says, thinking back.
When staff printed an e-mail "to look at it for two minutes and then throw it in the shredding bin" Abels says, he decided it was time for a change.
In 2005 Selco bought a new computer system and implemented it company-wide so that all 20 Selco employees could view, edit and work on orders through a single computer system, rather than print out and pass along reams of orders on paper. With the exception of production, where orders are still printed out for review – but on a more limited amount of paper – all orders are reviewed via computer. "We've probably gotten rid of 90% of the paper" the company uses, Abels says, and with it, hours of filing and waste management, freeing up staffers to focus on other tasks.
The system also extends to outside vendors and customers whose bills, orders and other communications are all now handled electronically. That saves on postage, and makes communications between Selco and other companies faster.
In addition, Selco also allows its production team to work four days in the summer, when orders can be handled in a shorter work week. It not only cuts back on utility costs, since the air conditioning and lights in the production space are turned off when not in use, but has cut employee fuel costs by 25%, Abels says.
It's just one more everyday trick that companies in the ad specialty market are using to green their operations.
Besty Cummings is senior writer for Counselor.


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After a 32-day journey in which Hampshire's boys basketball team went 6-2 during an 8-game stretch on the road, the Whip-Purs finally came home Saturday afternoon.
And Hampshire senior Tyler Crater used the welcome home mat more like a springboard.
The 6-foot-3 Crater grabbed a layup missed by Ryan Cork 2 minutes into the game and slammed it home with both hands, which invigorated the crowd into a frenzy. The dunk, Crater's first in a game, served as a linchpin for an incredible shooting exhibition. Crater drained 8 of his first 9 shots, including 7 straight, scoring 20 points in the first half en route to a game-high 26 in Hampshire's 64-53 Fox Valley Conference Fox Division matinee win over Grayslake North.
Crater (10 for 16 overall) outdueled Grayslake North guard AJ Fish, who dropped 14 of his 25 points during that stretch as Crater and Fish made it a two-man show for the first 16 minutes. Hampshire (15-3, 4-1) shot a 65 percent clip on 15 for 23 shooting while Grayslake North (11-6, 2-1) saw a 57.6 percentage on 15 for 26 shooting.
"Ryan and I coach (the) 7th grade teams and we had some games this morning so I was out there shooting with them all morning and I think that got me ready to go," said Crater.
Hampshire's third-straight win and fifth in its last seven games saw the lead change hands once in the first half along with 6 ties. Crater gave the Whips some breathing room just before halftime when he dropped the second of his five 3-pointers from the left corner for a 5-point lead with 2:30 remaining. After a North basket on the next possession, Crater nailed his third 3, making it 33-27. Cork's Steve Nash-like pass from the point that threaded the needle through the lane to Crater on the right block made it 7-point lead as Hampshire marched into the half up 5 on a 13-8 run.
"I think both teams in the first half shot real well," Hampshire coach Bob Barnett said. "But in the third quarter both of us cooled off. I think there was a stretch of 3 minutes neither team could get one to drop. But the way both teams shot in the first half, that's going to happen."
The iron became unkind as Hampshire won the third quarter 10-4 on 3 of 12 shooting from the field. Even worse, the Knights went 2 for 16 as Fish was 1 of 7 and Danny Mateling (14 points), who scored 11 in the first half going a perfect 5 for 5, was 0 for 4.
"We got stops, we held them to 10 points but we couldn't get anything going offensively," Fish said. "It's hard to play defense when (Crater's) hitting every single shot,"
North coach Todd Grunloh went further.
"I mean for one of the first times in a long time there was almost all one-on-one. Not like selfish, forced shots, but it was almost like clear out, let's attack our man and shoot a jumper that was open," he said. "We didn't have the team aspect of the game where we've had the ball movement the last 10 to 12 games I'd say."
Hampshire held a 31-21 rebounding advantage as Shane Hernandez (11 points) hauled in 6 rebounds.


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Against Wind and Tide
Letters and Journals, 1947-1986
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, edited and with an introduction by Reeve Lindbergh
Pantheon: 358 pp., $27.95
"A woman writer is 'rowing against wind and tide,'" Anne Morrow Lindbergh told her daughter Reeve in 1972, quoting Harriet Beecher Stowe. "We cannot — or only with the greatest difficulty — produce a great 'body of work.'… And it isn't just being a woman. It is some other deeper conflict between art and life." Ultimately, Lindbergh made art from her life; this posthumous collection joins five earlier volumes of diaries and correspondence that explore her experiences with the subtlety and drama of a good novel.
As Reeve Lindbergh notes in the introduction, her mother "struggled with issues men and women have to face in every era." The central issue for Anne was a lifelong battle to reconcile two equally powerful impulses, for connection and autonomy. Her warm, intimate letters show her wholly engaged with her family and friends, yet she also felt a consuming need to conserve a private space within that was not accessible even to those she most loved. "It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core," she wrote to her husband, Charles, in 1951. "Only through one's own core can one be really related to others. … [W]e must always allow each other to be free to go back to the tap-root place or work that connects us to ourselves again."
Charles certainly felt free throughout their marriage to be away for long periods of time, leaving Anne to cope with five children (ranging in age from 15 to 2 as this volume begins in 1947). He was hardly a stereotypical male chauvinist — indeed, he pushed her to write more and get bogged down less in domestic minutiae — but his absences contributed to her inability to focus. In a blisteringly frank diary entry from 1953, shortly after the publication of Charles'Pulitzer Prize-winningmemoir of his historic transatlantic flight, "The Spirit of St. Louis," Anne set down her complicated emotions about his achievement and their relationship.
"Twenty years of living with me have gone into that book," she wrote. It wasn't just that she had helped edit and shape "The Spirit of St. Louis"; its entire text was imbued, she felt, with habits of introspection and analysis he had learned from her. "Four books of my own have been swallowed up in it," she commented bitterly. "He has written HIS book & I have never written mine.... The struggles to keep life — marriage — children afloat have not left enough extra for me to write with."
She had facilitated his writing during an anguished time when she was so miserable that she started seeing a psychiatrist, a step that Charles angrily opposed. The contrast between her support and his hostility made Anne understandably bitter. What made her unusual was her ability to stand back and see that she was complicit in her own failures, and that it was not Charles' fault she lacked the confidence (and egotism) to put her work first.
In fact, Anne did finally produce "her" book just two years later: "Gift From the Sea," a quietly feminist text published eight years before Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique." Its long run on the bestseller lists shows "how many unhappy women there are in America," she commented wryly; she herself seemed to be feeling better, judging by letters and diary entries from this period.
You would have to read A. Scott Berg's biography of Charles, however, to learn that Anne was having an affair with a man who had been her doctor and would remain a close friend after the romance ended. Although Reeve Lindbergh refers to their "loving friendship" in her introduction, it is perhaps natural that she says nothing explicit about the relationship. There are several other instances in which Anne's allusions to unspecified difficulties would have made more sense to the reader if they had been clarified in footnotes; since these usually occur in letters to her children, it's likely the editor is guarding her family's privacy.
These minor omissions do not detract from the wonderfully rich sense of Anne's personality and preoccupations conveyed in "Against Wind and Tide." While the five previous volumes, edited by Anne in the 1970s, delved deeply into periods of a few years, this one covers four decades of growth and change. We see her coming to understand that Charles' absences were necessary for him while matter-of-factly voicing her feelings of being "abandoned and put upon." She learned to make her own plans and firmly refused to adjust them to his last-minute demands. She continued to be grateful for the worlds he had opened up for her while realizing she had worlds of her own to explore.
Nurturing her children through crises accompanying their entry into adulthood, she displayed an extraordinary ability to lovingly accept their choices and defend them against Charles' often severe criticism without indulging in recriminations or encouraging them to see their father as the enemy. Her letters amply justify Reeve's moving tribute in the introduction: "She addressed our joys and sorrows with the gifts of her openness and wisdom, her willingness always to listen, never to judge."
Her generosity to others came from that inner core she found so difficult to preserve during the crowded, hectic decades of child-rearing and marital stress. But somehow she managed to achieve the precarious "balance between solitude and sharing" crucial to her fulfillment. The sorrowful yet serene pages chronicling the years following Charles' death in 1974 reveal a woman saddened by loss but content with what remains.
"At least this writing in my diary lets me tap down to a deeper, quieter level," she wrote in 1985. "It is worthwhile, even if not a book."
Now that it is a book, bringing to a poignant close a six-volume odyssey sensitively tracing the arc of one woman's life, we can see that with her diaries and letters Anne Morrow Lindbergh did in fact create the great "body of work" she feared she would never produce.
Smith is a contributing editor for the American Scholar and reviews books for The Times, the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Post.


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Coming Home: Bulldogs confirm Belmore trial details
The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs will make their on-field return to Belmore Sports Ground on Sunday, 12 February when they take on the Sydney Roosters across all grades - the pinnacle of which will be a twilight First Grade trial fixture between the Bulldogs and Roosters National Rugby League squads.
Members will have the first opportunity to secure tickets to the day, which will feature all five Bulldogs sides - NRL, NSW Cup, Toyota Cup, SG Ball and Harold Matthews Cup - in action.
The NRL match, kicking off at 5pm, will be the second of three trials for the Bulldogs in the lead up to the 2012 season, following on from a 4 February clash with St George-Illawarra (venue TBC) and preceding a 18 February match up against the Canberra Raiders in Wagga Wagga.
Stretching back to the first Premiership match played at Belmore back in 1936, just one year after the Canterbury-Bankstown Club entered the competition, the ground has been considered the Club's spiritual home.
In October 2011, the Club moved its football and administration base back to the venue, opening the doors on a $9Million Centre of Excellence. Nearly two years in the making, the facility is the equal of any high performance sports centre in the country, featuring the best in training, administration and recovery facilities, all aimed at helping to prepare the Bulldogs in the best possible fashion for the rigours of the season ahead.
The First Grade fixture on February 12 will be the first time the Club's top squad will play on the ground since Premiership matches were moved to Sydney Olympic Park in 1998.
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how to run nikto using namp
Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire
I'm assuming that you're asking how to run Nikto...
A breakdown of the switches, command parameters:
more information:
Hope that gets you on your way.
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thanks for it. But do you how to run it using namp the latest readme says that it can be run with nmap i want to how it is done
Nikto will use nmap to port scan if you specify the 'nmap' option in the Nikto config file. This is technique is specifically outlined in the second link i gave in my previous post.
Nmap is installed separately from Nikto as well.
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- Eighty-three Thousand Youth: Selected Findings of Eight Population-Based Studies
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This books sounds promising. Many stories are sorted in this book..
At the first time this books seems interesting and fruitful.
But i am asking if some read this book already. Do you recommend buying and in the first place taknig time and effort to read it?..
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TORONTO — What began as the germ of an idea, two brothers pursuing a jointly held dream of winning the Stanley Cup together, took a firmer grip overseas in an unlikely spot, the Czech Republic.
It was 2004. Scott and Rob Niedermayer were far away from their roots in British Columbia, helping lead Canada to a gold medal at the world championships. This represented a rare, treasured opportunity for the brothers to play together. They relished those games in Prague and so the Niedermayers started discussing an extended partnership.
"We knew our careers were coming to where we didn't have a lot of time to play, so we knew that we wanted to experience it before it ended," Rob Niedermayer said in a telephone interview. "Everything just sort of worked out that way."
Said Scott Niedermayer, speaking to reporters last week: "We wanted to be in a place where we thought we would have a chance to win."
The emotional apex for the Niedermayer brothers came in Anaheim three years after Prague. Scott joined Rob in Southern California and their vision became reality when the Ducks beat the Ottawa Senators, punctuated by Scott handing the Cup to his younger brother on that transcendent night in Anaheim in 2007.
If that was the high point for the brothers, then Monday served as an exclamation point for the smooth-skating defenseman Scott, who was inducted in the Hockey Hall of Fame. He was joined by defenseman Chris Chelios, power forward Brendan Shanahan, pioneer Geraldine Heaney in the women's player category and the late Fred Shero as builder. At the induction ceremony, Shero was represented by his son Ray, the general manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The video introduction to Scott's speech was done by Rob and Scott opened by gently teasing his brother about "stealing" his material.
Niedermayer mentioned a long list of family, friends and former teammates, including the Devils' Scott Stevens, who he thanked for "teaching" him how to become a pro. He broke up, briefly, talking about the Stanley Cup moment with the Ducks, passing the trophy to Rob when the brothers achieved their dream of winning together.
Scott Niedermayer serves as an assistant coach for the Ducks and the organization considers him its first player to reach the Hall of Fame. Playmaker Adam Oates and Finnish icon Jari Kurri, both Hall of Fame members, had brief turns with the Ducks but reached the Hall of Fame for their achievements with other teams.
Niedermayer won four Stanley Cups (three in New Jersey), the Norris Trophy (the league's best defenseman) in 2004 and the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff most valuable player in 2007 as well as gold medals for Canada at the Olympics in 2002 and 2010. His third Cup with the Devils came at the expense of the Ducks and brother Rob, in 2003, and it took an emotional toll on both brothers in the handshake line.
Scott would go on to sign with the Ducks as a free agent on Aug. 4, 2005, and his decision to leave New Jersey was not as effortless as it may have appeared. Niedermayer said it was hard to leave and his younger brother stayed out of the process by design.
"I never wanted him to ever feel pressure, I know that was a very tough decision. He took a long time," Rob said. "He knew how I felt. I thought, take a step back and he'll make the decision that's best for him and his family."
The defenseman arrived with big-time credentials and a minimalist touch in the dressing room. Randy Carlyle, then the coach in Anaheim, addressed the immediate effect of Niedermayer on the Ducks, who were one piece away from putting it together.
"Scotty was the glue for our team, He did everything to support the hockey club," said Carlyle, now the Toronto coach, in an email.
"Very calming influence and delivered big time [overtime goals, series-clinching goals], feel very fortunate to have been around a player and person of this quality."
Teemu Selanne of the Ducks spoke of one specific play after Niedermayer joined the team.
"I remember once he joined the rush and they got a turnover, got a two on one," Selanne said. "Scotty just turned around and beat the guy getting backwards and made it a two on two. It was amazing. So smooth. It looked like he wasn't even trying."
Teammates marveled at his effortlessness on the ice. Opponents used other words. Chelios joked with reporters about hating Niedermayer's smoothness.
"It was almost like Paul Coffey," Chelios said. "He was well rounded and it just killed me to see guys who made it look so easy because I felt like I was fighting and scratching for every inch."
Niedermayer made a distinct and lasting impression on Kings defenseman Willie Mitchell. Mitchell's first NHL team was New Jersey and he played briefly for the Devils in the spring of 2000. By then, Niedermayer had won a Stanley Cup, with the Devils in 1995.
"You would see him in the locker room and he'd go out there and play 30 minutes," Mitchell said. "He wouldn't have a drop of sweat on him on his head because he's such a good skater. You'd never notice a mistake because he could skate back and cover up for it."
Mitchell speculated that Niedermayer would have received much more attention in his playing days had he been in a major Canadian market or a short car ride away from New Jersey.
"The Devils, even with all the success they've had, they know they are second fiddle to the [New York] Rangers," Mitchell said . "If you take all the success they had there and his success and moved that just across the river.
"Can you imagine? His career and how much more attention it would have had."
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I. The Principles of Disease
Diseases fall into two main groups, diseases of the channels and collaterals, and diseases of the zang and fu organs.
Diseases of the Channels and Collaterals
These are the diseases of the superficial channels of the body—arthritis and acute strains are examples of this type of disease. The internal yin and yang balance is normal but the flow of qi and blood through the channels is disrupted. This usually presents with pain and is called a disease of 'bi' or blockage of the channels. If the flow of qi and blood is restored then the pain will go. This is the main therapeutic principle that is applied for this type of disease.
Diseases of the Zang and Fu Organs
These are the diseases of the internal organs of the body where there is an imbalance of the yin and yang within the body. Neurasthenia and asthma are clear examples of this type of disease. To treat these problems it is essential to be able to make a clear traditional diagnosis and to know the rules of point selection.
Diseases that Combine Zang and Fu, and Channel Disorders
A disease of pain, such as migraine, may combine these two ideas. Migraine is usually a disorder of the gan-liver but there is also a blockage of the flow of qi and blood in the channels around the temple, resulting in pain. The channels and collaterals, and the zang fu, will therefore both require treatment in this disease.
II. Principles of Point Selection
Diseases of the Channels and Collaterals
The principle of treatment for these diseases is to select the local points (Ah shi points or acupuncture points), and also a distal point on the channel that crosses the painful area. The local painful points are quite simple to find when the patient is examined, but the distal points are a matter of experience. There are no rules for the selection of these distal points, they have just been handed on to us as a product of empirical experience.
Local points
The local points are outlined in the discussion on each disease. There are common painful points in each type of disease and these are included in the prescriptions. The disease may not be typical, and the local points may vary a little, so do not follow the prescription blindly but examine the painful area and use the points that seem most relevant. The tender point, or the Ah shi point (both mean the same thing) also has a part to play in this type of disease. If you find a very tender area that does not seem to be an acupuncture point then use it as well as the local acupuncture points. The tender point is often an acupuncture point that you have not learnt.
Distal points
These are part of the basic grammar of acupuncture and they just have to be learnt. The easiest way to do this is to give a list of the most important distal points, with their uses.


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Black Eyed Peas frontwoman, Fergie partied it up at the grand opening of Butter NC on Feb. 20 in Charlotte, North Carolina. Fergie belted out her hit 'I Gotta Feeling' at the club while sporting some brand new fringe. What do you think of her new look? Do you like the face-framing bangs or do you prefer her longer, center parted locks? – Marta Topran


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BERLIN, Vt. — Vermont has been awarded $30 million in federal funds and insurance payments toward the replacement of its state hospital in Waterbury, made unusable by flooding from Tropical Storm Irene, officials said Tuesday.
Gov. Peter Shumlin and others made the announcement while marking the start of construction on the Green Mountain Psychiatric Care Center. The 25-bed facility will sit next to the Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin, and serve as part of a nearly $43 million project to replace the state hospital.
The care center is expected to cost $28.5 million, and open in March or April of 2014, Shumlin said. The rest of the project entails smaller facilities in other parts of the state, including 14 beds in Brattleboro, six in Rutland, eight in Morrisville, and a few beds at a temporary facility in Middlesex.
More than 50 state officials, representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, former workers at the now closed Vermont State Hospital and others gathered on a muddy patch of ground next to the Central Vermont Medical Center to celebrate the progress toward replacing the Waterbury hospital.
State officials had talked of closing the hospital for more than a decade. Its antiquated building — first constructed in the 1890s — was blamed for its loss of federal certification, and about $10 million a year in federal funds as a result.
The governor said the new facility should enable the state to restore its federal certification.
"When we get those reimbursements back, we will pay for our entire new system in federal dollars in roughly a year and a half," Shumlin said.
Irene hit in 2011, and has been credited with providing the impetus for getting the project under way.
"We all know that the state hospital that was flooded was an inadequate facility that was decrepit and did not dignify the extraordinary quality of care that we deliver to our most vulnerable mental health patients," Shumlin said.
Once the Waterbury hospital was closed after the Winooski River spilled over its banks during Irene, "we didn't have the option of doing what government does so well: waiting, thinking, planning, deliberating, arguing and hoping for a better day," the governor added.
He thanked state and federal officials, though he drew a laugh in noting Vermont would not be getting everything he asked for from FEMA, quoting "the great philosopher Mick Jagger," the lead singer of the Rolling Stones: "You can't always get what you want, but if you try some time, you just might find, you get what you need."
Shumlin said FEMA and the state's insurance company are expected to roughly split $30 million of the $42.8 million needed for the new mental health facilities. The Legislature last year set aside $18 million toward construction of new mental health projects.
Vt. to get $30m for new psychiatric facilities
BERLIN, Vt. — Vermont has been awarded $30 million in federal funds and insurance payments toward the replacement of its state hospital in Waterbury, made unusable by flooding from Tropical Storm Irene, officials said Tuesday.