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Transfer news: Yaya Toure admits liking for Paris Saint Germain
Manchester City star Yaya Toure has refused to rule out a possible move to Paris Saint-Germain.
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Last Updated: 27/05/14 1:23pm
Toure's future has become subject to heated speculation after his agent suggested the Ivory Coast midfielder was underappreciated and disrespected at City.
Toure backed his agent's comments and he himself admitted he would like the chance to return to former club Barcelona at some point in the future.
Now Toure, who is currently with the Ivorian squad ahead of the World Cup finals which begin next month, has refused to rule out a possible future switch to PSG - who have been linked in recent days.
Talking to France Football and asked about the possibility of moving to the Parc des Princes, he is quoted as saying: "Considering the objectives in Paris, how could you not be attracted by such a club?
"PSG has become one (of the) strongholds in Europe. It would be an honour to be part of such a club one day. If I could help..."
Reports in France claim that PSG will turn to Toure if they lose Italian midfielder Marco Verratti - who has been linked to Real Madrid.
In the interview, the midfielder also played down suggestions a summer move could be on the cards.
"Given the magnificent season Manchester City have had, everyone talks about me and everything is open," Toure added.
"My agent, Dimitry (Seluk), is hanging on the telephone and he knows what he has to do, I have complete confidence in him.
"Nobody knows what can happen tomorrow, my attention is on the World Cup and we will see afterwards.
"Yes, I have said I would like to finish my career at Barcelona. You never know because football moves quickly, you never know."
Seluk reiterated his view from last week that Toure should be offered a job on City's backroom staff when he finishes playing.
"A role at City after his (playing) career? Of course. Like Real Madrid have done with (Zinedine) Zidane, for example," he said.
"Zidane played there and afterwards began working for the club.
"Yaya will need a club in the future. We do not want more money or a longer contract, anything like that, just the right attention.
"More attention on Yaya, and that he feels happy at the club, that is the most important thing.
"I will tell you one more time, we do not need more money."

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A Shippensburg man was charged with aggravated and simple assault and harassment after he punched a another man in the jaw during an argument.
The victim, who was not identified by Pennsylvania State Police, was taken to a local hospital with a broken jaw, fractured skull and bruises to the brain.
According to police John Emory Caldwell Jr., 28, punched the 30-year-old Shippensburg man, who fell backwards and hit the concrete at 8:34 p.m. Saturday at 156 Meadow Drive in Southampton Township.


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Edward, Elmhurst health systems announce plans to merge
Naperville-based Edward Hospital & Health Services and Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare plan to merge by midyear with Edward CEO Pam Davis set to lead the newly combined hospital network with a potential $1 billion in revenue.
Any possible workforce changes, renaming or re-branding of the new hospital system, or changes in other top executives are yet to be determined, spokesmen at each hospital said.
Edward has about 4,700 employees and 1,000 physicians, while Elmhurst Memorial has about 2,900 employees and 680 physicians. The final total may be about 7,600 employees and 1,680 physicians, the hospitals said.
Elmhurst Memorial, founded in 1926, and Edward, a former tuberculosis sanitarium converted into a hospital in 1955, each said their boards met last week to sign a letter of intent to merge.
The hospitals now face a review process and certain aspects of the proposed merger are subject to state and federal regulatory review. Once approved, the merger could be completed by midyear, the hospitals said in a joint statement.
No cash changes hands, so there's no value to attribute to the merger deal between not-for-profit entities, Davis said.
The Edward-Elmhurst merger is among a number of such transactions in the suburban health care industry. Others include Cadence Health formed in March 2011 after the merger of Delnor Health System in Geneva and Central DuPage Health System in Winfield. And Provena Health and Resurrection Health Care merged into Presence Health Care.
It's all part of what hospitals see as their best options for their physicians and the communities they serve, said Danny Chun, spokesman for Naperville-based Illinois Hospital Association.
"Hospitals in Illinois and nationwide are all looking at their options and trying to face the transformation and changes in health care, which are expected to accelerate," Chun said.
Naperville Mayor George Pradel said the merger makes good business sense and would "only enhance our health care industries" in both communities.
"They're two top-quality hospitals, and I think it's going to increase the availability of health care in both cities," Pradel said. "It's something that's really happening throughout the nation. People are combining efforts in order to reduce expenses and try to make better use of their resources. I think this is the wave of the future."
Pradel said he recently toured Elmhurst Memorial's "gorgeous" new location at York and Roosevelt roads, though he hasn't lost his hometown pride for Edward.
"It (the merger) won't take away from Naperville (Edward) because Naperville is head and shoulders above all hospitals in the area," he said. "I don't think it will hurt us at all. It will add to our economic development and also strengthen the two hospitals in the future."
Elmhurst acting Mayor Scott Levin said news of the proposed merger came as a surprise, and city officials "will be following it with a great deal of interest."
"Elmhurst Memorial is a very important part of our community," he said. "I hope it will work out well for them. It could be a very positive thing."
The Edward-Elmhurst merger also is expected to include Illinois Health Partners, Edward's partnership with DuPage Medical Group and many independent physicians, to jointly manage the care of nearly 100,000 HMO patients in the region. DuPage Medical Group has more than 370 physicians, including a strong presence in the communities also served by Elmhurst Memorial and Edward, the joint statement said.
Pam Davis said in a statement that she wants to reassure local residents and patients that board members intend to "preserve both Edward and Elmhurst Memorial as vital health care resources for years to come."
"The delivery of health care is changing rapidly," Davis said. "Hospitals are under tremendous cost pressure while being asked to take a much more active role in managing the overall health of patients. Together, Edward and Elmhurst can enhance the quality and cost effectiveness of health care while still maintaining our strong local community focus."
The hospitals also issued a joint financial statement, saying that while Elmhurst has "debt because of a new facility, they are generating positive cash flow and have a significant amount of days cash on hand."
The statement also said Edward was in a "very strong financial position."
Peter Daniels, president & CEO of Elmhurst Memorial, said in a statement that the health care systems are a good fit "because of our similar patient-centered and physician-driven cultures, our wide range of services, our shared commitment to providing high quality care, and our complementary service areas. We'll be big enough to offer a wide variety of locations and the latest services across a wide geography, and nimble enough to provide for, and react to, the local needs of our communities."
Whether Daniels will remain with the system isn't clear.
"Peter Daniels has played a key role in these merger discussions and continues to play a critical role at Elmhurst Memorial Hospital," said Elmhurst spokeswoman Sheri Scott.
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April 21, 2010
Guest Blogger Dr. Barbara Segal talks about what is abnormal fatigue, and what can be done about it
Distressingly, in lupus, often the tiredness persists even when the disease is "under control," a fact that has led many researchers to conclude that disease activity has little or nothing to do with the cause of the fatigue. Yet paradoxically, many patients report that the first symptom of a flare is a worsening or relapse of fatigue. Despite extensive research, many questions remain about the biology of fatigue.
One of the reasons that progress in understanding abnormal fatigue has been slow is that fatigue, like pain, is complex and subjective and therefore a challenge for researchers to describe and measure. Fatigue has physical (needing to rest, weakness), emotional (decreased interest, low motivation) and cognitive aspects (for example: problems with concentration). The physical and emotional impact of fatigue is not the same for each individual and can be present to varying degrees in the same person at different times. Also, the words used to describe fatigue such as tiredness, sleepiness, and exhaustion mean different things to different people.
Clearly, fatigue is very challenging problem and multiple factors potentially contribute. Not surprisingly poor sleep is a major factor. Two thirds of patients with SLE report poor sleep quality. Low mood, pain, lack of exercise and medications all contribute to the high prevalence of fatigue in autoimmune disorders. A comprehensive evaluation to address each one of these issues is a good place to start in turning the fatigue problem into a symptom that is manageable and not disabling.
Fatigue, Depression and Sleep Disorder
Both fatigue and pain are strongly associated with depression in patients with autoimmune disorders including SLE. Depression is particularly frequent in the first year after lupus is diagnosed when medications and inflammatory processes, as well as the challenges of coping with a serious unpredictable illness, can be overwhelming. People with depression typically experience decreased energy along with changes in appetite, memory problems, slow thinking, difficulty with attention, feelings of sadness and loss, and pessimistic thoughts.
Medication to treat depression is often very helpful in treating both the low mood and accompanying changes in appetite, energy and sleep. When daytime tiredness persists even in the absence of depression, poor sleep quality is often a major factor. Sleep disturbance can also be related to many different problems. When pain interferes with sleep, whether the cause is nerve damage, joint inflammation or fibromyalgia , appropriate treatment of the underlying cause is essential.
Sorting out the Cause
Fatigue that follows even minimal activity is frequently associated with deconditioning. Whether decreased physical fitness is the cause or the result of abnormal fatigue, a conditioning exercise program designed to gradually improve fitness is safe and effective in treating fatigue in SLE. Depression is often associated with fatigue that is present throughout the day and is not relieved by sleep or rest. The fatigue is typically severe in the morning, which is also the case when fibromyalgia is present. In fibromyalgia sufferers, patients are likely to awaken feeling unrefreshed, tired or exhausted.
As many as 20% of SLE patients are also experiencing the symptoms of fibromyalgia: widespread muscle pain that is not associated with tissue damage and diffuse tenderness. Because the pain in fibromyalgia is thought to be due to abnormal sensory pain processing, treatment with anti-inflammatory and narcotic analgesics is usually not effective, whereas pain medications that act specifically on pain pathways that are dysregulated may be beneficial. If treatment of depression or fibromyalgia is not helpful in improving poor sleep quality, a formal evaluation to determine whether there is a specific sleep disorder interfering with normal sleep patterns, such as obstructed airway or restless leg syndrome, can be useful. Delay in falling asleep can also be helped by exercising early in the day, avoiding alcoholic beverages after dinner and a establishing a relaxing gradual process of winding down before bedtime.
Unraveling the mystery of fatigue: the way forward
More effective treatments for fatigue are likely to be linked to the discovery of novel lupus biomarkers. Biomarkers can be any one of several types of measurable quantities that reflect the biology of a disease process and relate to the mechanism of the disease. Research is this area has been very exciting. A good example is the discovery that up-regulation of the interferon gene pathway is characteristic of lupus and Sjogren's syndrome as well as several other autoimmune disorders.
The interferon gene signature is a fingerprint for severe SLE that is more likely to be detected in patients with serious organ involvement (especially kidney and brain) and when disease is very active. Within the central nervous system, inflammatory molecules regulated by interferon play a role in causing symptoms that we associate with illness including decreased appetite, fatigue and abnormal sleep as well as depression. Other potential biomarkers for fatigue include genetic fingerprints (DNA and RNA messages within cells that are identifiable with modern technologies of molecular biology) and imaging techniques, such as nonconventional protocols for high resolution brain magnetic resonance imaging.
So far, while the results are preliminary and require further study, there are some clues that suggest that disruption in normal signaling between brain cells involved in monitoring stress and pain may contribute to fatigue in individuals with autoimmune disease. Another line of recent research suggests that increased oxidative stress and possibly mitochondrial dysfunction could play a role in causing fatigue in lupus as well as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. Future studies combining both high resolution brain imaging and molecular techniques capable of measuring abnormal proteins could provide answers to the mystery of the origin of fatigue. New insights into the two-way relationships between the immune system and the brain will shed more light on the origin of abnormal pain and fatigue. In the meantime a model that takes into account the complex physical and psychological aspects is the starting point for tailor-made therapeutic help.
You can learn more about fatigue on lupus.org.
Dr. Barbara Segal
Hennepin County Medical Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota
22 comments:
I have had lupus for 11 years and when I read articles like this it is comforting knowing I am not alone in my struggle. A friend of mine introduced me to MonaVie a fruit beverage with the acai berry as the main ingredient. I feel like I have been cured I sleep better I no longer suffer with fibromalagia I have more energy and no pain at all. Has there ever been a study on nutrition relating to lupus?
- Jan said...
Thank you, Dr Segal for addressing this distressing symptom. Because it is subjective and comes from different causes, it does not seem treatable, and therefore increases a sense of hopelessness. My favorite exercise is swimming but I do not live near an affordable pool now and SSD doesn't afford much. Thanks again for recognizing the importance of research in this specific area.
Jan Ross
- adugan said...
A very good read and will post on my Facebook wall. I have ADHD and lupus so I am hyperactive and then crash with fatigue from overdoing it. I lift weights and do 40 minutes of cardio a day, 60-80 minutes on weekends, that includes swimmung and hiking with my husband. Unfortunately I have avascular osteonecrosis in my right hip. I am 44 and need a new one but doctors said to wait longer. I cannot stand opiod agonists because of nausea so I will moan and gripe like the new drug-free Dr House from the tv show House.
- Antonia said...
To read your article make me feel so much better. My name is Claudia and I suffer of Lupus since 2004. My doctor discovered it after my second pregnancy. Since then my life changed a lot. I used to be a very active woman. But little by little I lost much of my energy of doing many things in one day. Now even I need a nap and that makes me feel so old, so useless. I tried to work this year and frantically it was so hard because I couldn't memorize some of the codes that I need to use a cash register. I really thought that I became a terribly lazy woman, that all those tiredness and nap things corresponded to a lazy woman. I still don't understand the real magnitude of a flare. Sometimes even I feel very anguish because it is supposed my lupus is not so severe. I don't know. But thanks for your explanation it really makes me feel understood by someone
Fatigue is the most frustrating issue in dealing with both lupus and fibromyalgia. It's difficult to describe to others how debilitating it is especially when you're a "do-er". Working full-time and attending grad school leaves no energy for anything else. I hope there is more research into this or at least more acknowledgement and awareness even among the medical community. Quality of life cannot be underestimated. This is one of the things that makes this disease so challenging.
I agree with many of the comments here. I am also a "do-er" and always have been. I was finally diagnosed Sept 2008 after knowing something was wrong since 2005 after the birth of my second child. I have levels of fatigue that I rank...The regular sluggish feeling I have daily, the can't get out of bed exhaustion after sleeping for nearly 10 hours and then finally the feeling that someone is actually pushing on my shoulders and forcing me to lay down. Laying down and taking a nap on a sunny day is the worst feeling when you have two healthy happy children running around the house. Thank you for the hope.
Thank you for your blog, and thank you to all who commented to share their experiences. I was diagnosed with Lupus SLE after my first pregnancy in 2002. I went from this active woman to someone who needed a nap after grocery shopping. I felt like a lazy "bad" mother. I agree with the other comment that one of the worse feelings is wanting to nap on a beautiful day. I can sleep for 10 hours and I still feel tired. Every morning I awake to fatigue. I try to remain positive mentally and to manage my energy levels. Thanks again. I don't feel so alone.
The word fibromyalgia should not even enter the conversation of lupus. Lupus victims suffer from a fatigue and general body ache that can be severe enough to prevent basic care, and for now is thought to be caused by elevated or over-active interferon A. Lupus patients in a recent study providing antibodies to interferon A had major relief in symptoms (study not yet released) validating the point. Just like the miserable ache and fatigue one has with a really bad flu, lupus patients suffer with varied levels daily. Fibromyalgia is intended to be a diagnosis of exclusion, when you can't find another cause...not the case in lupus. This diagnosis just makes lupus patients feel more useless and allows the physician caring for the lupus patient to avoid actively helping them. (and we have all experienced this!) As lupus patients, we need to insist we can have relief from our symptoms without just being told "exercise and take antidepressants". There is a strong bias against treating lupus sufferers with energizing meds such as provigyl and stimulants...but clearly we need it as much or more than the other patients deemed acceptable to receive these meds. Hopefully as more women practitioners become involved, lupus patients will cease to be thought of as tired for no reason!~
I was diagnosed with Lupus 2 years ago and this has definitely been the toughest symptom to deal with. I have found ways to overlook my joint pain and do different things to alleviate that pain such as excercising and maintaining a strict diet (i.e. no starchy carbs, red peppers, spicy food & dairy) but the fatigue I have found no solution to other than sleep. I get frustrated when someone is talking to me and Im falling asleep. I will definitely forward this to my family & friends so they dont think Im a sleepy head with no cause but this does make me feel so much better to know I'm not such a sleepyhead for no reason afterall.
I was diagnosed with Lupus in 1993mine is discoid lupus with skin involvement. I became very fatigued about 4 years ago. They started me on B12 shots and I have never felt better. Please ask your Rumy Dr to get more info on it.
I give myself a shot once a month.
I thought twice about leaving a comment since I am almost too fatigued to leave one. I was recently diagnosed with SLE and previously dx with bi-polar. I appreciated the blog stating the need for mri to detect the relationship possibilities between the fatigue factors and pain pathways. We are considering that approach now. I have been an avid Jazzercise person and have lost 60 pounds, worked through lots of pain and serious pain but think that the group support and music helped alot with the fatigue. Can't do much right now, but still attend 3-4 classes per week.
- Kaitlyn said...
Hi all,
My sister was just diagnosed with Lupus, and I was wondering if you had any ideas on how I can help her or any advice I can share with her based on your experiences.
I was just disgnosed with Lupus (SLE) after over 10 years of feeling so utterly miserable. It started when I was about 15 and I have spent the last 12 years seeing dozens of Psychiatrists and Doctors who all believed I was depressed. Yes, I was very depressed, but as I kept telling them, I am depressed because I am too exhausted to do anything - it wasn't that I didn't want to participate lifes activities, I just simply couldn't!
I finally found a doctor, who for the first time in my search, didn't act like I was lying about my symptoms and diagnosed me with SLE.
I wish now I had known to push for a Lupus test with previous GPs all those years ago.
I'm a little worried the severe tiredness may never go away, but hopefully now I won't feel so bad overall as I'm finally getting treatment.
- Carol said...
So helpful to read these comments. I was diagnosed summer 2010, with fatigue and headaches being my worst symptoms - muscle weakness and some joint pain following behind. I have been quite low since the diagnosis but finally got to grips with myself just after Christmas. I have started to swim every other day - could only do 4 lengths to start but am up to 20 already. Have put myself on a diet which is supposed to reduce inflammation and feel better after just 6 weeks having lost 7lbs. Still have bad days when getting moving and feeling positive is very hard. The lady who said she felt bad as she has been told she doesn't have the worst type of Lupus really struck a chord - same was said to me and I have been feeling such a fraud as the fatigue makes everything rather hard work - and I actually had to give up my very stressful job as I just couldn't concentrate or cope. But for the first time in 3 or 4 years I woke up the other day feeling really good - it was followed by two days of migraine - but I had that really good day - so I am going to keep on with the diet and exercise and stay positive!!
I empathize with those of you who feel like a bad parent. I wish I had the energy I should have to run around with my girls. Despite my lupus medications, antidepressants, and prescription sleep aides, I still have days when getting out of bed is near impossible.
I feel I am letting my life pass me by and watching my children get older. I can't get passed the guilt I feel when I can't physically spend time with them.
Despite the support I get from my family, none of them understand how it feels to be exhausted all of the time.
I only hope to get some relief some time soon.
Thank you, thank you so much for this site!
I was diagnosed with SLE in 1998. I've grown accustomed to well-meaning family and friends pushing me to join them in activities and then becoming hurt when I say "no".
Reading the stories on this site made me want to cry...finding out that someone understands the profound, crippling fatigue and the guilt and depression that follows.
God bless you all and thanks for sharing. I will visit this site often from now on.
It is refreshing to see that I am not alone in coping with the fatigue at its varying levels - and the related guilt for not being a part of LIFE. I began being treated for lupus-like syndrome in 2001 or 2001. Last year, I began suffering with severe headaches, as well as wide spread pain, which sent me into a downward spiral physically and emotionally. Now my GP has diagnosed me with depression (HA! I wonder why - besides feeling MISERABLE for 6 months straight, my job was being threatened at the time of the diagnosis, and since then I lost my job...hmmm) and he also tried tagging on fibromyalgia because I had widespread pain. I just don't believe that I have fibromyalgia. Thanks to new meds, my headaches are better now, but the extreme fatigue is making it hard for me to concentrate, which is really bad when I need to be searching for a job.
To those who say that their lupus isn't very bad, at least your doctor has given you a solid diagnosis of lupus. Many of my symptoms fit into the "not so bad" lupus category, but my current rheumatologist is calling it undifferentiated connective tissue disorder, which makes it only that much more difficult to explain to employers and others when I am so exhausted that I simply can't function.
Thank you to all who have posted on this site and thank you for this article! I really needed this information just now and now I must push myself forward!
Thanks for this article I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia and lupus nobody really understands all the pain and exhaustion that occurs with these diseases. Sometimes I want to do things so bad that when I finally get up the energy to do it I get so tired and in so much pain that I think it was'nt even worth it. All the tears later and days of excruciating pain , tiredness that follows. It is music to my ears that I am not alone in this fight for a pain and tired free life. Michelle
If I just have signs of Lupus such as an arm rash does it mean I have the subcutaneous version?
Anonymous again. If the skin will always be discolored, how do I know when to stop using the cortisteroid cream? When it is no longer itching or the skin is no longer thick?
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Anon: please give our health educators a call and they can provide you with some resources that may help you. They can be reached at 800-558-0121.
My mother-in-law is forever tired, goes back to bed and/or naps as well sometimes, hurts a lot of the time. She is diabetic, has arthritis in her hips, takes other medication) and has lost weight and her doctor doesn't seem to be concerned but as long as she has been tired (years), I think she needs to ask her doctor or another doctor to do an MRI or other tests to rule out anything that they might be missing. The lack of energy and being tired all the time keeps her from doing things but she doesn't seem to think that there's anything wrong and she said all blood work is normal but something just seems off. Suggestions?


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I have done some further tests on the 7520 problem reported at the top of this thread. I am working now with RC5.
I can report that the test as supplied fails for the 7520 case on two different hardwares, both the Fermi I used and also a C1xxx.
Also, I tried running just the single line at 7520 and sizes around it. After some other sizes e.g. 7540 all running O.K. I reran 7520 and that also ran correctly. The implication is that this is another issue around memory allocation and initialisation.
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Ron Costello Oval, William St, Shellharbour
Meet the players
Photographic highlights
NSW Cup ladder [end of last round]
The Newtown Jets used up yet another "get out of jail card" when they defeated the competition cellar-dwellers Shellharbour Dragons 22-19 in the NSW Cup match played at the Ron Costello Oval on Sunday afternoon.
Jets winger, Troy Savage, who ironically had played with the Dragons in 2009, dashed 90 metres to score the match-winning try in the final minute of play.
The Jets looked to be on course for a runaway victory when they bolted to a 14-0 lead midway through the first half, on the back of tries to centre, Tu'u Maori, fullback, Luke Towers and their makeshift halfback, Johnathon Ford, who was deputising for the injured Liam Foran.
Newtown then proceeded to go into hibernation and allowed the Dragons to score three converted tries and take an 18-14 lead, but the Jets rallied to draw level at 18-all through a try to winger, Richard Kambo right on halftime.
The second half was certainly a willing affair but one with very few points on offer.
The Jets were denied a try when they were held up over the line, and an upset result looked to be on the cards when Shellharbour centre Bronx Goodwin kicked a field goal to give the Dragons a 19-18 lead with four minutes left to play.
The Jets reached into their well-thumbed desperation playbook and created room for Troy Savage, who used all of his considerable strength and determination to score a remarkable match-saving try.
Newtown's coach, Greg Matterson, pointed to the Jets' run of penalties, their dropped ball and poor execution that invited the Dragons back into the game after his team had made such a strong start.
Once the Dragons were back in the contest and with the raucous support of their home crowd, they made the second half a real battle.
Centre, Tu'u Maori was judged Newtown's man of the match, and he has surely caught the attention of Papua-New Guinea selectors as they prepare to name their squad for the 2010 Four Nations tournament.
There were plenty of hard workers in the Jets pack, including front-rowers, Lopini Paea and Martin Kennedy.
Standing at a lofty 195 cm, Newtown's stop-gap halfback, Johnathon Ford, may well have set a record as being the tallest-ever number seven in the entire history of the Rugby League game!
This Jets-Dragons match will be shown on Fox Sports 2 on Wednesday afternoon, 28 July, at 5.00pm.
Newtown Jets 22 [Tu'u Maori, Johnathon Ford, Luke Towers, Richard Kambo, Troy Savage tries; Tu'u Maori 1 goal]
Shellharbour Dragons 19 [3 tries; 3 goals, 1 field goal]
Half-time: Scores equal 18-18
Officials: Referee, Rob Bowen; Touch Judges, Lawrence McDonnell, Matt Damaso.
Newtown's next NSW Cup match is against the North Sydney Bears at North Sydney Oval on Friday, 30th July, with this 21st round NSW Cup match timed to start at 7.00pm.


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Putters Should Just Be Putters
Anchoring a Putter to Your Chest or Stomach May Soon Be Illegal—and It's About Time
On Wednesday the U.S. Golf Association is expected to announce its much-anticipated decision on whether to ban anchored putting. This would affect belly-length models pressed into the stomach and the longer broomstick versions held against the chest. For the long-term good of the game, it should ban anchored putting outright, as most golf insiders believe that it will, even though the move will make many golfers angry.
In the last two years, the number of players using long, anchored putters has surged dramatically both on the pro tours and in the amateur ranks. Three of the last five major championship winners used long, anchored putters—Keegan Bradley in 2011 at the PGA, Webb Simpson and Ernie Els this year at the U.S. Open and British Open, respectively. At this year's PGA Championship, an estimated 50 of the 156 competitors wielded long putters, although some were not anchored.
"Is this what we want? Is this good for the game?" Mike Davis, the USGA's executive director, asked me rhetorically last year when I interviewed him after Bradley's win at the PGA. At the time, he honestly wasn't sure. Neither was he certain that the USGA and the R&A, which oversees golf everywhere but in the U.S. and Mexico, would ever need to adjudicate the issue.
Long putters have been around since at least the 1930s. Since the 1980s, they have been appearing sporadically on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. Orville Moody won the 1989 U.S. Senior Open with a broomstick. Johnny Miller, Paul Azinger, Vijay Singh and Adam Scott are among those who have long-putted their way to PGA Tour victories.
For the most part, the long sticks failed to provoke much controversy, since the players who resorted to them were few in number and generally did so only when back problems or the yips forced them to. "We'd hate to pull these putters away from them because golf is a game. It's for fun and recreation," Davis said last year.
Since then, however, the world has changed. Inspired by the success of a few, golfers and instructors began to perceive that anchored putting offered real advantages, even for players without the yips or other putting issues. Bradley, 26, and Simpson, 27, started using belly putters when they were in college, simply because they putted better that way. When golfers hear that, they can't help but wonder, "What am I missing out on?"
Youngsters have taken up long putters big time. At several elite junior tournaments this summer, more than half the field employed anchored putters, according to Golfweek. Earlier this month, 14-year-old Guan Tianlang of China used a belly putter to win the Asia-Pacific Amateur, thereby qualifying for the Masters. He has never putted any other way.
By late spring, long putters had reached such a critical mass, and stirred so much criticism among traditionalists, that the USGA and the R&A knew they had to act. "We appreciate that there is much speculation about this and that we need to clarify the position as soon as possible," Peter Dawson, chief executive of the R&A, said after the British Open. They promised a decision by the end of the year (Wednesday qualifies) and specified that any proposed change would not concern the length of putters per se—that is, it would not be an equipment regulation—but rather a rule of golf concerning the anchored stroke itself.
The prospect of a ban has prompted several longtime anchor putters on Tour, including Bradley, Carl Pettersson and Tim Clark, to say they will fight such a ruling any way they can. "I believe they [the ruling bodies] are going to have a couple of legal issues coming their way," Els said last month in China. "We are talking about people's livelihoods."
If anchoring is such a great way to putt, why ban it? For one thing, it's not clear that anchor putting is in fact a superior method. Some players love it, but many who have experimented with the style—Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk come to mind—returned soon enough to traditional putting. Many feel that anchor putting helps with the short putts but reduces feel on longer putts.
What is clear, however, is that anchoring a golf club against the body during a stroke constitutes a fundamentally different type of golf swing, and that gives the USGA and the R&A a defensible place to draw the line. Golf's regulators have banned nontraditional methods of striking the ball before. Pushing, scraping and spooning the ball were disallowed in 1883. Using a putter like a pool cue was banned in 1895. Croquet-style putting, in which a player straddles the line of a putt, was nixed in 1968, much to Sam Snead's dismay.
In and of themselves, none of these alternative approaches probably would have been disastrous for the game, but they diverged significantly from the traditional striking nature of a swing and it's hard to argue in retrospect that they would have made golf more popular or appealing. Mostly they would have made the game less coherent, more messy. To some extent, all sports rules are arbitrary. But hard and fast standards are what challenge athletes and bring out their best. Basketball arguably might be just as good a game if the hoop were 11 feet or nine feet above the ground, instead of 10 feet, but 10 feet over the years has spawned a specific, wonderfully entertaining style of play. Why change now?
If the USGA and R&A do propose a ban on anchored putting Wednesday, the measure won't be officially approved until those organizations' annual meetings next spring and won't go into effect for three years. That gives golfers time to adapt. Players with bad backs will still be able to use long putters, they just can't press the end against their bodies. Juniors will have no problem learning to putt the old fashioned way.
In the 1990s, golf's ruling bodies blew it when they didn't act fast enough to halt technological advances in balls and clubs. As a result, we are all stuck now with courses that are longer and more expensive to maintain than they need to be, and take too much time to play. Allowing anchored putting to proceed probably wouldn't have such sweeping consequences. But do we really want to deal someday with anchored chipping, anchored pitching and who knows what else?
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Materials companies help stocks to a slight gain
NEW YORK -- Higher earnings from energy and chemical companies nudged the stock market up Thursday.
The modest move extends a pattern seen this week: Even with plenty of earnings news from big companies, the broader market has shuffled between minor gains and minor losses.
Cabot Oil & Gas and Range Resources reported revenue and earnings that trumped estimates, sending their stocks up 7 percent. Cabot climbed $4.85 to $76.56. Range Resources rose $5.34 to $81.39.
Facebook soared 30 percent after reporting earnings late Wednesday that easily beat analysts' forecasts thanks to higher revenue from ads on mobile devices. Facebook's stock gained $7.85 to $34.36.
Nearly halfway through the second-quarter earnings season, the overall trend looks good, but not great, said Tyler Vernon, chief investment officer of Biltmore Capital in Princeton, NJ. "There have been some big disappointments, like Caterpillar yesterday, but we're seeing better and better numbers coming out."
The Standard & Poor's 500 index gained 4.31 points, or 0.3 percent, to close at 1,690.25.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 2.41 points, or 0.02 percent, to 15,544.65. The Dow was held back by Home Depot and Caterpillar, which warned of sagging sales on Wednesday.
The Nasdaq composite index gained 19.93 points, or 0.6 percent, to 3,599.53.
Analysts forecast that companies in the S&P 500 index will report earnings growth of 4.3 percent over the same period last year, according to S&P Capital IQ. At the start of July, the forecast was for growth of 2.8 percent. More than six out of every 10 companies have cleared analysts' earnings targets so far.
Eventually, improving profits should help push the S&P 500 index above 1,700 in the coming weeks, Vernon said.
D.R. Horton, the country's largest builder, and PulteGroup said orders for new houses jumped in the second quarter, but their results still fell short of what analysts had expected. PulteGroup also posted a 14 percent decline in profits
D.R. Horton dropped $1.82, or 9 percent, to $19.38. PulteGroup lost $2.29, or 12.4 percent, to $16.16, the biggest drop of any stock in the S&P 500.
"Housing is taking it on the chin," said JJ Kinahan, chief strategist at TD Ameritrade in Chicago. "I think what you're seeing a bit of today is people questioning what higher mortgage rates mean for housing."
In the market for U.S. government bonds, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note was unchanged from late Wednesday at 2.59 percent. Late last week, it was trading at 2.48 percent.
The 10-year yield acts as a benchmark rate for most mortgage loans. A sharp increase in the rate drives up mortgage costs and could slow down sales in the housing market.
It's still very low by historical standards thanks in large part to the Federal Reserve's massive bond-buying program. The 10-year Treasury yield hit a recent low of 1.63 percent on May 3. By contrast, it was trading around 4 percent in the summer of 2008, shortly before the worst days of the financial crisis.
The Russell 2000 index of small-company stocks set another record high, gaining 10.35 points, or 1 percent, to 1,054.18. The Russell has trounced other indexes this year, gaining 24 percent versus 19 percent for the S&P 500 and the Dow.
Among other stocks making big moves:
• Las Vegas Sands, a major casino operator, fell 57 cents, or 1 percent, to $54.38 after it posted lower revenue and income than financial analysts had expected.
• Visa rose $9.11, or 5 percent, to $195.86. Visa returned to profitability in its third fiscal quarter and reported strong revenue growth as the company processed more transactions worldwide.


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It's time to confront the central obstacle blocking a new progressive politics: the Democratic Party's abject fear of the truth that new taxes are going to be needed if the party is ever to offer–and finance–a dramatic program capable of mobilizing large numbers of working Americans, white, black and brown. The way forward is to go on the offensive by sharply delineating a strategy targeting America's plutocratic top 1-2 percent elite, plus the corporations they largely own. Changes in income and wealth patterns in recent years make it possible to do this without simultaneously alienating middle-income and middle-class suburban voters.
A progressive program worth fighting for would begin with fixing–improving, not reducing–Social Security; it would move on to prescription drugs, major reform of the healthcare system, support for broad-based college tuition assistance, serious daycare provision, an expansion of the earned-income tax credit. Public transportation, environmental and other infrastructure needs are also huge, between $60 billion and $100 billion a year in recent estimates. A serious effort might also add some tax relief for middle- and low-income families.
The first step is to stop compromising at the outset, thus eliminating any hope of offering something powerful that we can mobilize around over the long haul. Progressives must challenge the idea that the United States, the richest nation in the world, must always be the poor sister among the advanced nations–that our nonmilitary public sector, at 29.7 percent of GDP, must always lag behind Britain's (35.8 percent), Germany's (43 percent), France's (44.8 percent) and, of course, that of countries like Sweden, at 50 percent.
Most Democrats have been afraid to demand such a program–and for good reason: They have been unable or unwilling to answer the obvious question of where the money will come from. In the near term, deficit spending is a reasonable, indeed, inevitable option–both to move the economy out of the recession and to solve pressing public problems (beginning with the $67 billion state revenue shortfall). Ultimately, however, progressives must confront the tax issue.
Until recently, the Democratic Party, as a party, has been almost totally silent on taxes–cravenly so: Twenty-eight House Democrats and twelve Democratic senators voted for the Bush tax cuts. For the most part, the party has been on the defensive–reacting, after the fact, to each new Bush tax-cutting initiative. Even as Democrats fussed over how to respond to the last Bush offensive, the Administration has revved up its new campaign for greater elite and corporate tax cuts–and, amazingly, is now arguing that the poor are undertaxed. (Just ignore Social Security taxes, the most regressive part of the system, ignore the huge redistribution of income in favor of the rich in recent years, scrap all thought of capacity to pay as an element in tax policy, etc.)
If Democrats are unable to redefine the long-term politics of taxation, they will always be on the defensive, trying to play catch-up in response to each new right-wing initiative. To be sure, some members of Congress have put together a short-term stimulus package involving tax rebates, and some liberals have urged rescinding the Bush top income and estate reductions. But even if this were done, it would only take us back to where we were when Bush took office–which, in turn, would provide little capacity for Democrats to go on the offensive with a positive, longer-term program capable of exciting the basic Democratic constituencies.


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Survey Response Legend
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- OOpposes
- UUndecided
- NDeclined to respond. After research, position still not clear. See citation(s) in Notes.
- *Comment
- −Declined to respond
- Declined to respond. Position based on citation(s). See Notes.
Political Party Legend
- CConstitution Party
- DDemocratic
- GGreen Party
- LLibertarian
- RRepublican
Paul Rosenthal (D)
Candidate Info
Running for: Colorado House
Political Affiliation: Democrat
Survey Responses
Survey Questions
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- 1.Permitting healthcare and business professionals to opt out of performing procedures or providing services that violate their moral or religious beliefs.
- 2.Investigating Planned Parenthood regarding the potential sale of fetal tissue and failure to report sexual abuse of minors.
- 3.Allowing parents to use tax credits, vouchers, or educational savings accounts to enable children to attend any public, private, or home school.
- 4.Legalizing physician-assisted suicide.
- 5.Legislation which would allow members of the legislature more control over administrative boards and commissions.
- 6.Allowing private businesses to protect the safety of women and children by requiring individuals to use the bathrooms, locker rooms and shower facilities that correspond with their biological sex.
- 7.Enacting more restrictive gun laws in Colorado.
- 8.The relocation of Guantanamo Bay inmates to Colorado.
- 9.A single-payer healthcare system.
- 10.State legislation that protects unborn children who are capable of feeling pain, such as the federal Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.
- Question 1: Citation 1.
- Question 2: Citation 1.
- Question 6: Citation 1., Citation 2.
- Question 7: Citation 1., Citation 2., Citation 3.
- Question 10: Citation 1.
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== Primary goals ==
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* rich combo box: this combo box will support image and mix(image and text)
* rich combo box: this combo box will support image and mix(image and text)
* rich list: this list will also support image and mix
* rich list: this list will also support image and mix
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Revision as of 05:27, 4 May 2009
'Nebula' has been developed to make the widget in Eclipse rich and colorful,but the basic widgets are all the same and not enhanced. For example,the combo box widget still does not support an image item or a mix(image and text).Actually,there are many aspects for basic SWT widgets to be enhanced.If possible,I think these "enhanced" widgets can be a part of 'Nebula' before accepted by SWT.
Primary goals
enhance some basic widgets
- rich combo box: this combo box will support image and mix(image and text)
I have found that there are two ways of implements such a extended combobox widget: * Enhancing the Combo-Widget with Images: you can see it on page http://www.richclient2.eu/2006_03_03/enhancing-the-combo-widget-with-images/ * ComboBoxEx: you can see the introduction of this widget on page http://www.milewski.ws/2009/04/combo-box-with-images-in-swt/
The first implementation is a good way to fulfil such a function,in which it just make some modifications of combobox source code in swt.It is simple and we do not need consider much about cross-platform problem,because it just builds on basic widgets afforded by swt like primary combobox widget.But what the problem is: maybe the SWT group does not like this coding style and it is just a workaround to implement a function,thus should not be as a part of SWT.
The second implementation may be a good style that SWT group likes.But there are many problems in it,of which the most import is the cross-platform and we will deal much with Java Native Access library.
- rich list: this list will also support image and mix
There are not many solutions to solve this problem.I think it's a good and very fundamental function that SWT should support.And if this problem were well settled, a rich combo box supporting image,shown above,will be easily implemented.Because the combo box is just composed of three basic widgets:Text,Button,List,we can simplely replace the basic list widget with our rich list widget.The 'text' area may still only show texts;to solve this,the CLabel can be introduced to support image and text.
- rich button: this button widget will also support image and mix
Someone has put forward this problem in Eclipse's mailing-list,but there still are not very good solutions.I will have a careful talk with Nebula and SWT developers.Moreover,if this widget has been implemented,the following function will be well fulfiled.
some enhanced functionality
- a batch of rich buttons: e.g. if the button style as been set style_ok, a button containing a "ok" image will be created.And there are many styles will be supportd:style_ok,style_cancel,style_info,style_err,etc.
Source code
The code will be hosted on google code.


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04 November, 2012
Summer Patio Style
7 comments:
- Paige and Alise said...
LOVE that white dress with the gold accents! xo
- November 4, 2012 at 10:59 AM
- sasha said...
Hi Melissah,
I love this post, especially because you make lower end items look high end and chic! l'm all about buying things that look pricey for a bargain price! and while is my favorite color. it actually makes me miss summer! :(
I'm so happy I stumbled across your lovely blog.
I would love it if you could check out mine. If you'd like I'd love to keep in touch by following each other on GFC. Please let me know! ;)
Have a wonderful day!
- November 4, 2012 at 7:48 PM
- Mama of 2 boys said...
This is 'just' the kind of post I need to read right now Melissah, as I work out just what theme I'm going to go with for our backyard, once all the reno's are finished. Lovely inspiration here, white always looks gorgeous xo
- November 4, 2012 at 10:25 PM
we are going into winter here! i miss summer so badly.
hugs, Vanessa
- November 5, 2012 at 7:31 AM
- Nicoleta_B said...
Thats so adorable post,
I am very glad to follow you and hope to hear you soon. Hpe you'll follow me back :)
Lots of kisses,
- November 5, 2012 at 7:57 AM
- LED Outdoor Lighting Austin said...
I love the use of those white things on the patio too. Always a good look.
- November 13, 2012 at 4:52 PM
- Brielle Franklin said...
What a great design. We just got our steel patio installed a few months ago. I have been looking for the right decor to start decorating. Thanks so much for this idea.
- December 15, 2012 at 2:49 AM


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year 2008
What is the purpose of a gallery? What are the artists engaged in and what is the meaning of it? Why are some works of art hard to understand, while the others are so simple that I could make them myself? The educational project of Bratislava City Gallery entitled ART FROM CLOSE-UP mediates to young people between 10 and 15 years of age the view of the art from close-up. Within this project, Bratislava City Gallery symbolically leaves its gates to bring selected works of modern and contemporary Slovak fine art from its collections, in the form of reproductions, to schools all over Slovakia.
The second year of the project is aimed at the interconnection of modern and contemporary art, with which the young people usually do not have a chance to meet, with the world around us which is reflected by the art and which enables us to understand it deeply. The project ART FROM CLOSE-UP offers different angles of view of the works of art and their interconnection with real life. It puts them into broader contexts (literature, history, visual and media culture, family, relations, hobbies) and shows various possibilities of perception and interpretation of contemporary art, the story of which is not always dominant and readable as it was in the past.
In the project ART FROM CLOSE-UP, which was implemented between January and May 2008, more than 330 primary schools, primary art schools and grammar schools from all regions of Slovakia became involved. Based on seven reproductions of works from Bratislava City Gallery collections, including information about an artist and a work of art, proposals for discussion and creative activity within different subjects, the pupils under the guidance of teachers created their own interpretations. We received results of children´s work from almost 140 schools from different regions of Slovakia. From more than 3,000 works, the commission comprising art and gallery teachers selected 31 which are displayed at the exhibition in Pálffy Palace of Bratislava City Gallery. The criteria were as follows: representation of all the interpreted works of art, of different art genres, level of creativity of an approach, and participation of schools from many regions of Slovakia. Children´s works show different approaches and possibilities of work with the work of art and its use beyond the humanistic disciplines too. As for the implementation of the project, the decisive aspect can be considered the active engagement of teachers, stimulation of creative thinking and ability of young people to create, which is in various forms necessary for every sphere of life. The joy of the process of creation itself created significant part of the project, often more important than the final work of art itself. During the project implementation, many schools visited Bratislava City Gallery or a gallery in their surroundings; the children discovered and formed their own views of the 20th century art which they subsequently presented in "school galleries".
The project ART FROM CLOSE-UP shows one of the forms of gallery education which focuses on the mediation of values of fine art in the galleries to different age categories in the form of experience. It introduces art as a significant part of our life which can provide us with exceptional possibilities of education, entertainment and development of creativity.Daniela Čarná
Children's view of Slovak art of the 20th century
year 2006
Can be learning about and discovering art an adventure and fun? An educational project with the same name mediates art from close-up in a playful form to young people between 10 – 15 years of age. The City Gallery of Bratislava in that project symbolically steps out from its gates to bring straight into the schools Slovak fine art's modern and contemporary artworks in the form of reproductions of works of art from the exposition of the art of the 20th century (100 Years of Reality) by Ľudovít Fulla, Cyprián Majerník, Ján Mathé, Július Koller, Igor Kalný, Roman Ondák and Dorota Sadovská. The aim of the project is to interconnect modern and contemporary art, which young people usually do not have chance to meet regularly, with the actual world around us which is reflected by that art and it enables us to understand it deeper.
In the project ART FROM CLOSE-UP, which took place from the end of March until the end of June 2006, more than 330 primary schools, primary art schools and eight-years high-schools from the whole of Slovakia took part. On the base of seven sent reproductions size A4, containing information about the author and the artwork, proposals for discussions and creative activities the pupils under the leadership of teachers were creating their own interpretations in the frame of different humanity subjects. Their results were sent to us from more than 100 schools from different regions of Slovakia. From more than 2000 works a commission of art and gallery teachers chose 27 which are presented at the exhibition in the Pálffy's Palace of the City Gallery of Bratislava. Artworks in the catalogue and special web page www.umeniezblizka.gmb.sk will enable a little wider overview of children's interpretations.
The children's works can be divided in a simple way into two categories: works sourcing from the interpreted artwork which keep the outer connection with it and those ones which are freely inspired by it. They show different approaches and possibilities of work with an art piece and possibilities of its use not only within the frame of the art lectures but also within subjects like Slovak, history, ethics or religion. For the realisation of the project itself was decisive active input of the teachers and support of the creative thinking of young people and their ability to create which is in different forms needed for every sphere of life. The joy from the creative process itself was the main part of the project; many times it was more important than the resulting artwork itself. During the project more of the schools visited the City Gallery of Bratislava or a gallery in their surroundings; they discussed, discovered and created their own views on art of the 20th century which they presented in the "galleries in the schools".
The project ART FROM CLOSE-UPshows one of the forms of gallery education, which concentrates on mediation of art in the galleries and museums to different age categories in form of experience. It introduces art as an important part of our life which can offer unexpected possibilities of education, fun and creative activities.
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I just bought my first directional, a Wam 5'10
I am 150lbs (70kg), and currently ride 9m and 12m EVOs, mainly in 12-20 knots conditions, mushy waves
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July 23. 2013 9:32PM
Dave D'Onofrio's Sox Beat: Fuld a Ray of sunshine
Special to The New Hampshire Union Leader
Jul 8, 2013; St. Petersburg, FL, USA; Tampa Bay Rays left fielder Sam Fuld (5) works out prior to a July 8 game against the Minnesota Twins at Tropicana Field. (Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports)
Lester, Red Sox end Rays' winning streak
Sam Fuld
stepped between the lines at Fenway Park on Monday night, his team had already scored all three of its runs,
had already logged eight magnificent innings, and Tampa Bay needed only three more outs to beat the Red Sox.
For the Phillips Exeter product, it marked the 22nd time this season that he entered a game in the ninth inning or later, and the 25th time his appearance didn't include a visit to the batter's box — but it was the 50th time he was on the field to celebrate a win with his Rays.
And in a season Fuld admits has been somewhat frustrating, wins always have a way of making everything easier.
"It's been a frustrating year individually," he said, "but, you know, when I step back and look at it and put things in perspective, I'm glad to be here and glad to be part of this great team. It's so much fun to be part of this ballclub.
"I've had some trying moments this year individually, but when we win as frequently as we do, it makes it a lot easier to deal with."
Lately the Rays have been winning with a frequency unseen in the American League since 2006, with the 18-2 mark they took into Tuesday night the AL's best since the Twins won 19 times in a 20-game stretch seven years ago. Thanks to that surge, they took the field with a chance to move into first place by beating the Red Sox — just a month to the day after briefly being banished to the AL East basement. And Fuld played a role in 15 of those victories.
The frustration, though, comes from the offensive performance that is part of the reason he hasn't had a bigger role. In total he'd played 75 games this season, but through Monday he had only 132 plate appearances, which has made it difficult to recover from starting the year 2-for-his-first-26.
He didn't get his batting average above .200 until July 6, then it fell below the
Line again four days later, and was at .198 going into Tuesday — when the left-handed hitting Fuld wasn't in the starting lineup against Boston southpaw
Jon Lester
. He started only 30 of Tampa's first 101 games.
"It's difficult not getting a steady amount of at-bats," he said. "I just don't have the offensive performance I would've liked, but that's baseball. It's the hardest thing to do in sports, to come off the bench and play, or just play sparingly — though it's something I've had success with in the past and I've just got to keep being positive and grind it out."
Fuld's positivity came through in his smile as he spoke in Fenway's visitors' clubhouse, his attitude an acknowledgement of his team-first approach and of his confidence that he can do the job as
Joe Maddon
continues to call upon him. The Durham native did hit .429 off the bench in 2011, then .286 last year, and his repeated deployment as a defensive replacement says everything about what the manager still thinks of his glove in the outfield.
"The game is such a roller-coaster ride that you have to enjoy the moments when things are going really well, but when things aren't going as well as you like you just have to understand that's part of the game," Fuld said. "I think I have a pretty good perspective, and I don't get too down, and I'm happy to contribute any way I can."
It's easier to have that perspective, too, when the team's goals are in sight. And the Rays' are now in plain view. Fuld said this is the time of year when players start thinking about the postseason, start paying attention to the standings, and his fun-loving team is getting more excited about the possibility of getting back to the playoffs for the first time since 2011.
"If we get in, I think we have as good a shot as anybody," Fuld said, and what's particularly exciting about all that for the 31-year-old Granite Stater is that players like him have a chance to be big-time difference makers in October. Come that time of year, guys who can steal a base, or save a late-game run defensively, or come through with a pinch hit tend to see their importance magnified under the postseason microscope — and Fuld could well be in any of those positions if Tampa gets to the playoffs.
First, though, they've got a couple more games in Boston. And Fuld was planning to do some sightseeing while he's in town, since most of his visits here as a kid were exclusively to Fenway to watch the Sox.
Because the series featured four night games he wasn't planning to have time to visit New Hampshire, though he was able to get up there in April, when the Rays had an off-day built into their stay. He visited with his family in Durham, where his father is a dean at the University of New Hampshire, and he stopped by Phillip Exeter to practice with the baseball team while celebrating the 42nd and final season of coach
Bill Dennehy.
He and the prep schoolers worked out, they hung out, and the kids asked questions and got autographs from the big leaguer. "It was cool," said Fuld — unsurprisingly, given his penchant for enjoying his time on a baseball field, regardless of when or under what circumstances it comes.
"Especially the last month or so, it's been really fun," he said. "On a team level we're right where we want to be. We're playing great baseball. Everybody's smiling. We're just feeling good."
Dave D'Onofrio covers the Red Sox for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News. His e-mail address is email@example.com.


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Agreement Reinforces ARM's Position in Networking Space
CAMBRIDGE, UK – Mar. 25, 2003 – ARM, [(LSE: ARM) (Nasdaq: ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions today announced that Conexant Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNXT), a worldwide leader in semiconductor solutions for communications applications, has licensed the ARM926EJ-S™ embedded processor core for use in its recently launched family of high performance home network processors (HNPs).
"The ARM926EJ-S core is integral to enabling the higher performance of our new home network processor family and enables us to build on our leadership position in network management and security semiconductor solutions," said Chee Kwan, vice president of Broadband Access Products for Conexant's Broadband Communications segment. "With this new core, Conexant is able to leverage our already successful family of home network processors by offering products that support a broad range of uses —from secure wireless connectivity to higher-perfomance tasks such as voice over IP and virtual private network applications."
The ARM926EJ-S core provides a significant increase in speed, and a dual 32-bit AMBA™ AHB interface for increased data bandwidth, along with a full complement of operating system (OS) support and ease of synthesis. Conexant's collaboration with ARM also spans the primary family of ARM® cores to include the ARM7TDMI® core, the ARM920T™ core and the ARM940T™ core.
"Conexant has used ARM cores in a variety of products and continues to work with ARM processor solutions for high-perfmance networking applications," said Mohamed Ben-Romdhane, director of Intellectual Property and Software for Conexant's Broadband Communications segment. "Our selection of the ARM926EJ-S solution was based on the core's flexibility in supporting a wide range of operating systems, its enhanced DSP technology for voice and video, and its configurable cache and tightly coupled memory -- all of which make it an ideal platform for our next generation of semiconductor solutions for the broadband digital home."
"The market for home network processor applications remains strong. Research firm In-Stat MDR has predicted that the overall number of silicon devices in home networks will grow from 20.5 million in 2002, to more than 167 million devices in 2006, and we see ARM technology as a major technology foundation in that growth," said Mike Inglis, executive VP, Marketing, ARM. "As one of our longest established partners, Conexant's use of the ARM926EJ-S core will enable them to integrate high-performance, flexible features into a wide range of products for use in home network processors and other broadband communications products."
The ARM926EJ-S macrocell is fully synthesizable and features a 32-bit RISC CPU, enhanced DSP functionality, ARM Jazelle® technology, flexible size instruction and data caches, tightly coupled memory (TCM) interfaces, memory management unit (MMU) that supports leading operating systems such as the Symbian OS, Linux, and Windows CE. It also provides separate instruction and data AMBA interconnect-compliant AHB interfaces particularly suitable for Multi-layer AHB technology-based systems. The ARM926EJ-S core includes an enhanced 16 x 32-bit multiplier, capable of single cycle MAC operations.
About ARM
ARM is the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance, low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals and system-on-chip (SoC) designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides comprehensive support required in developing a complete system. ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming a volume RISC standard in such markets as portable communications, hand-held computing, multimedia digital consumer and embedded solutions. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com/
About Conexant
Conexant Systems, Inc., a worldwide leader in semiconductor system solutions for communications applications, leverages its expertise in mixed-signal processing to deliver integrated systems and semiconductor products through two separate businesses. The Broadband Communications business develops and delivers integrated solutions that enable digital entertainment and information networks for the home and small office. Mindspeed Technologies™, the company's Internet infrastructure business, designs, develops and sells a complete portfolio of semiconductor networking solutions that facilitate the aggregation, transmission and switching of data, video and voice from the edge of the Internet to linked metropolitan area networks. Conexant is headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif. To learn more, visit us at www.conexant.com or www.mindspeed.com
ARM, ARM7TDMI and Jazelle are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. ARM920T, ARM940T, ARM926EJ-S and AMBA are trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc (LSE: ARM and Nasdaq: ARMHY); its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM INC.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan; ARM France SAS; and ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.


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This sequel continues Swaverly's amazing work first presented in Silhouette. For those who are unaware of this technologically abundant series, all you need to do is think of 'Blade Runner;' a movie that proved to everyone the terrors and oddities our future may bring.
Main character, Michael Ares, is what you would call confused. He is living in San Francisco after a huge quake that changed 'normal' life as he knew it. No longer run by a government, San Fran actually belongs to a company called BASS. This 'Big Brother'-type company moved in and created the city-state, using their protection officers called, peacers, to keep the citizens in line.
BASS has a variety of things in the works, but one is a secret technological breakthrough that involves anti-gravity. If the technology works, BASS would become the imminent power in the world, upsetting more than a few other countries and rulers along the way.
Ares is actually at the helm of BASS – and not happy about it. Not only is he completely in the dark as to why he's inherited the mantle, but he also has to worry about a slew of attempts now being made on his life. More than one person wants him out of the way, including a powerful Chinese general.
All Ares has on his side is one friend he can trust. That friend just happens to have his own company that deals in protection – a gift that Ares definitely needs if he's going to survive the attacks on his life long enough to discover what or who is at the root of his deathly fate.
Although set in the 'near' future, this is a book that delves into serious futuristic technology, like aerocars and shoot-to-kill officers. The author has done a good job with this continuation, tackling the science fiction/suspense genre with gusto. Fans will most definitely love this follow-up, as they stand beside Ares and see if he can get through his adventure alive.
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Man ejected in crash between car, tractor-trailer on I-93
MANCHESTER - A Plaistow man is hospitalized in serious condition after his car was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 93 where he had come to a stop after running out of gas, according to state police.
Matthew Davis, 25, is in serious, but stable condition at the Elliot Hospital where he was taken Thursday morning for treatment of injuries he sustained.
He was ejected from his 1998 Jeep Wrangler and thrown into a jersey barrier separating the north and south lanes of the highway. State police said Davis told investigators he ran out of gas and was unable to push the Jeep off the road.
Davis was given first aid by Trooper Nathan Johnston and another person before Manchester Fire Department rescue crews arrived on scene.
The crash happened just after 12:30 a.m., north of the exit 6 off ramp.
Wesley Basler, 56, of Richford, Vt. was operating the tractor-trailer that rear-ended Davis' Jeep, according to state police. Basler also was taken by ambulance to the hospital for treatment of injuries he suffered in the collision.
Neither speed nor alcohol appear to be factors in the crash at this time, state police said.
Several lanes of I-93 were shut down for about four hours while the crash was investigated and the wreckage removed.
The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact state police dispatch at 223-4381.


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No duty the executive had to perform was so trying... (Spurious Quotation)
Many sources quote Thomas Jefferson as saying, "No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place." This is in fact a paraphrase of Jefferson's actual statement, in an 1801 letter to the merchants of New Haven, Connecticut:
"Of the various Executive duties, no one excites more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow citizens in the hands of honest men, with understandings sufficient for their station. no duty, at the same time, is more difficult to fulfill."[1]
The source of the above-mentioned paraphrase, which has been mistaken for a direct quotation, is John B. McMaster's History of the People of the United States, which describes Jefferson's statement as follows:
"Jefferson's reply to the remonstrance was a discussion of the tenure of office, and soon forgotten. But one sentence will undoubtedly be remembered till our Republic ceases to exist. No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying, he observed, as to put the right man in the right place."[2]
- ↑ Jefferson to the New Haven Merchants, Washington, D.C., July 12, 1801, in PTJ, 34:554. Press copy available online from the Library of Congress.
- ↑ McMaster, History of the People of the United States (New York: Appleton, 1921), 2:586.
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Further Sources
- Cunningham, Noble E. The Jeffersonian Republicans in Power: Party Operations, 1801-1809. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press, 1963. See especially Chapter Two, "The Party and the Patronage: The Initiation of Policy," which discusses at length the political context and meaning of the letter quoted above.
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Your doctor will determine which medications you should take, the amount (dosage), and how often you should take them. The treatment plan will depend largely on the severity of your asthma.
Guidelines developed by the National Institutes of Health recommend a "step-down, step-up" approach to asthma management. This simply means that you will first be given drugs at a dosage high enough to quickly bring your symptoms under control. Then, as your doctor monitors you with follow-up visits, the dosage may be lowered until you are taking the least amount of drug required to keep you symptom-free. Your doctor may also change your medicine.
If your asthma gets worse, your doctor will "step up" the dose back to a level needed to control your asthma.
The severity of your asthma will impact how fast your symptoms can be controlled, but you should start feeling better after treatment is started. For people with mild-to-moderate persistent asthma, the doctor should be able to fine-tune the treatment within 3 months. For those with severe persistent asthma, it may take up to 6 months. Even when asthma seems to be controlled, all people with the condition should still visit their doctor at least twice a year to make sure that they still have good control.
You may have more side effects from the medications at the beginning when you are taking higher doses. These are likely to get better if the dosages are lowered. Always tell your doctor about any side effects.
There are two major types of asthma drugs. The first type is called a long-term control drug. These medicines are used to PREVENT asthma attacks in people with persistent asthma. They must be taken every day to work well -- even when you have no asthma symptoms. If you have young children with asthma, your child can call these the "quiet" drugs -- the drugs to take every day, even when your child is NOT wheezing, coughing, or experiencing other symptoms. (This is a term the consumer group Mothers of Asthmatics finds useful.)
Click here to read more about the major kinds of long-term control drugs
The second type of asthma medicine is called a quick-relief drug. These medicines are used DURING an asthma attack to bring fast relief. With children, you might want to refer to these as the "noisy drugs" -- the ones to take when your child IS coughing, wheezing, having breathing difficulties, or feeling chest tightness. If you need these drugs too often, you should call your doctor.
Click here to read more about the major kinds of quick-relief drugs
National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Expert Panel Report 3: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma. Rockville, MD. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, US Dept of Health and Human Services; 2007. NIH publications 08-4051.


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Now we are decent way into the Premier League season, it is getting easier to tell if some of the summer deals made this season are paying off.
While it may be a little premature to talk up certain moves and writing off others, some Premier League stars are already showing that getting them in was a very good idea.
It is always a nice feeling for a football fan to see a new face at his club start well and indicate he may have been a shrewd managerial move, but an even better feeling is seeing someone do well after not paying a penny to sign him.
Be it a free transfer signing or a season-long loan, getting in a quality player and not having to shell out a hefty transfer fee gives all managers, fans and chairmen a warm glow inside.
With this in mind, GMS decided to pick out five players that did not require a transfer who have impressed the most so far this season.
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Just my thoughts...
Its to easy to offend someone else here in AntiOnline...
Someday, youll be having a good time posting and are posting answers to questions when you get a following reply that bluntly tells you that you have either insulted another member or they insult you because they were insulted. Then, the thread is hijacked and everyone is insulting and flaming each other. In steps a mod and threatens to close the thread if everyone doesnt act civil. Now, everyone is angry at you and the mod! Maybe the thread is closed and/or deleted and all those words were worthless.
Or it maybe youve tried to answer a post to be helpful to the best of your knowledge and someone makes a reply that seems to be rude and offensive. Sometimes its directed right at you. Isnt that hard to handle? Yes, but it is not impossible.
Maybe you have read these types of threads or maybe you have never, BUT please help AntiOnline because a better place for our visitors and members by remembering these few suggestions when posting...
FIRST, remember that it is very easy to misunderstand what someone is trying to say in their post. You can't hear the connotations inferred by the tone of their voice. That simply makes it harder to clearly understand what is written in their sentences. Neither can you see their facial expressions that would help you to understand their intended meaning. So, you may be reading something into their post that is not there.
Secondly, remember that this forum is broadcast all around the world and this forum has a diverse membership. The main language here is English. Even though a non-native speaking English person may well understand proper sentences, they may not know little about the idioms used by a native speaking English person. And there is a lot of different English being spoken. Let alone all the little shortcuts we take in our posts like no punctuation, nor capital letters, whatever. There are many cultures represented here and a slip of the tongue can cause confusion. (Or maybe thats a slip of the fingers!)
Thirdly, remember that all members are all unique. There are sub-cultures inside of cultures, and many different beliefs and value systems. There are many different opinions, as you can well see when reading posts.
I know that you are all valuable members of AO, you need to remember the things listed above and use extra care in your posts. There is no reason to insult someone to get your point or your opinion across to them and others. When being insulting, your point is usually lost in the emotions that it stirred up.
It will also be good to give the poster a benefit of the doubt. They may be saying something in sarcasm, or they may be innocently stating something in a way that is not the way you normally say it. As stated in other posts, it is best not to ASSUME that everything is an insult. It is even better not to REACT to the post. Give yourself time to think, which also gives the poster time to make it clear what they are saying. Is it too hard to ask what someone means by a certain statement rather than flaming them for it? No, its not. If youre not certain they are insulting, dont answer back with an insult. If you are sure they are insulting, then report it to a mod for them to take action. Yes, if you think the inappropriate post is by a mod, report the post.
At first glance, one can hardly tell if the poster is being funny, sarcastic, or right down mean. Certainly there are some really mean people out there that have every intent to insult others and hijack threads. Their only purpose is to stir up the emotions of others and to get them to react. These people need to be reported in their posts and not answered. Please, dont react and make yourself like them. They feed on your reactions, so dont help them to grow with flaming of your own. There is no benefit to you to take offense and answer back. If you do take offense and you feel you must answer their post, take the time to think and dont become a flamer by slinging mud, making jabs, gouging, or being mean as they were.
Please take care in choosing the words that you put in your posts. When we all think out our responses first, we will all find that the forum is a comfortable place to talk about anything. Being comfortable with our posts will also be fun and remove stress. This is not to say that one cant kid or jest. This is to say that you do it in a way that others realize that.
In summation, please do not readily take offense. By no means, offer something offensive. Be civil. Treat all members with respect, the same respect that you should be offered to you. And you will enjoy your stay!
Why someone has to start insulting, cursing, blaming, yelling, taunting, flaming, etc. etc. etc. at another member . If you can't act civil, then don't post.
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Bukittinggi's Pasar Aur Kuning And Pasar Atas, The Traditional Markets
West Sumatra is famed for its exquisite handicrafts producing rich gold and silver "songket" cloths on handwoven red, sky blue, royal yellow or deep green cloths, elegant embroidered pieces used at elaborate traditional weddings, fine embroidered "peranakan" wedding costumes, accessories and sandals, filigree work, woodcarving, embroidered muslim wear and prayer veils -or "mukenah",- and a whole lot more.
West Sumatra is also famous for its "rendang", complete "nasi Padang", hot dried beef "balado" and all kinds of tidbits and crackers to munch on or to take home to friends, kids and grand children.
So a visit to the beautiful West Sumatra highlands will not be complete without taking time to look around and shop at the Pasar Aur and Pasar Atas at Bukittinggi.
Pasar Aur Kuning
This is Bukittinggi's answer to Jakarta's Tanah Abang wholesale market. Located on the Jalan M. Yamin, somewhat away from the Jam Gadang town center of Bukittinggi, the Pasar Aur Kuning market – or more popularly known as just Pasar Aur – is a magnet for serious shoppers from all parts of Sumatra and Java, as well as for tourists from Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei.
With near to 1,500 shops covering an area of 2.3 hectares, Pasar Aur Kuning sells mostly textiles and textile products. Since West Sumatra is predominantly Muslim, here one can find a large variety of Muslim wear in choice colours, fashion and material, from the plain to the elaborately embroidered. This market also sells bedsheets, curtains, casual wear to carpets. Regular visitors vouch that prices here can be bargained down to as much as half of those elsewhere, of course depending on your bargaining skills. A smattering of the local Minang lingo will also help bring prices down.
Pasar Atas
Pasar Atas or the Upper Market is where you can find the most mouth watering Padang food. But beware, Padang food is known to be extremely chilli hot, as you can see from the red sauce dripping from almost all dishes.
But you must try what CNN Go calls the world's most favorite dish, – the Beef Rendang. The cubed beef has been marinated and cooked in many kinds of ingredients, resulting in the soft unforgettable meat dish which tastes heavenly eaten with steaming hot rice. Or try the Rendang balado, which is the dried beef version.
And everywhere in this market you can buy hot chilli by the bagfull to buy and bring home.
Another hot favorite dessert is the Pisang kapik, or the barbequed banana, that comes in sweet, sour or salty tastes added with ground coconut meat and brown sugar.
Other tidbits to take home or munch on the road are the many kinds of crackers made of casssava, potatoes or sweet potatoes, covered in cheese or chilli sauce.
Kota Gadang
Across Bukittinggi on the other side of the Canyon is Kota Gadang, a town famous for its fine silver filigree works crafted into miniature Minang houses, brooches and other accessories.
If you are looking for fine embroidery including gold embroidery, Kota Gadang is the place to go. Those interested may even visit homes where women are hard at work finishing their masterpieces.
Many Peranakan Chinese from Singapore and Malaysia will also look for traditional wedding accessories here at Kota Gadang, where are still produced some of the best Chinese embroidery as done in the days of the Chinese emperors.
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The battle for mobile device supremacy continues. When the iPhone hit the scene a few short years ago, it would have been inconceivable that a Linux-based upstart would overtake a device so alluring that people camped out overnight to buy one. Yet Android-based smartphone sales overtook those of Apple's device in mid-2010 and have accelerated ever since. Apple still leads the way in mindshare and innovation, particularly when it comes to tablets-and its sales numbers give the iPhone maker reason to be optimistic. According to Gartner, Apple's worldwide smartphone market share has nearly doubled year-over-year, going from 3.9 percent in Q1 2011 to 7.9 percent in the first quarter of this year. With iPhone 5 still to come, the mobile battle is only just beginning to heat up.
In conjunction with naming The 50 Best Apps For Getting Business Done, the CRN Test Center has also assembled reviews of 10 market-leading mobile devices on which to run these apps. Check them out.


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Were we superstitious, we wouldn't even mention that, thus far, there have been no homicides in Stockton this year.
Were we superstitious, we wouldn't even mention that, thus far, there have been no homicides in Stockton this year.
Frankly, we don't see this as a quirk but rather as a trend.
After a record 71 homicides last year - most of them involving firearms - there began a dramatic decrease in the rate starting in the last quarter. In October there were 11 homicides. In November, six. And in December there were four.
That decline coincides with beefed up police pressure, including California Highway Patrol officers on Stockton streets to supplement the city force. There is also greater cooperation between the city department and the county sheriff's office.
But a good deal of the credit seems due the city's Homicide Reduction Plan that targets illegal guns and gangs, especially in high-crime neighborhoods. Two teams of 11 officers, the Community Response Team, roam high-crime areas with an emphasis on gangs and violent criminals.
Not only is this police presence in troubled neighborhoods helping but so too is the officers' work to seize weapons.
Nearly four dozen weapons were confiscated during the first three weeks of January. That's nothing new, of course. In 2011, the department confiscated 701 firearms. Last year, 932. Given the numbers probably out there, even hundreds of weapons being grabbed by police won't stop gun violence. But it does mean there are hundreds fewer weapons in the hands of gangbangers, wannabes and run-of-the-mill punks and troublemakers.
Even more encouraging, police said, is the reaction of residents in some of the city's toughest neighborhoods. They like to see officers there, police said.
That's heartening because, as welcome and helpful as stronger police efforts are, they need the eyes, ears and cooperation of residents if they are to be more than reactive.