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LSI said they are the $106 million Centric FCU in West Monroe, La.; the $19 million Compass Financial FCU in Medley, Fla.; the $225 million Earthmover CU in Aurora, Ill.; the $70 million R-G FCU in Belton, Mo.; the $52 million Sno Falls CU in Snoqualmie, Wash.; and the $27 million Tri-Cities Community CU in Kennewick, Wash.
The turnkey service includes collection of all types of debt, early-stage delinquency programs and use of the CenterPoint portal through Allied Solutions, LSI said.
LSI said it now provides lending and other member services and consulting to more than 300 credit unions, banks and mortgage companies.


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Awake File is a framework that allows Android and Java Desktop developers to very easily implement file uploads and downloads through HTTP. Security has been taken into account from the design stage: server side configuration allows you to specify strong security rules in order to protect the files. It allows listing, creation, and deletion of remote directories, calling of remote Java methods, and displays nice progress indicators to your users.
Awake SQL is a virtual JDBC Driver and a framework that enables remote JDBC access through HTTP. It allows Android and Java desktop app developers to use regular JDBC calls to access remote SQL databases in the cloud. It implements the main data types including blobs/clobs, and supports transactions. Security has been taken into account from the design stage: server-side configuration lets admins specify strong authentication and security rules in order to protect the databases.
grixec is a script that implements a few user-space commands that permit the running of batch jobs on the local computer or on any accessible computer where the user has an ssh account. Data, results, and execution parameters of each job are stored in a new directory for each run. Basic methods to sort out job directories by project and to document results are provided.
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OpenMobster is a mobile cloud platform to integrate mobile apps with Cloud services. These services can be anything ranging from your Corporate backend (CRM, ERP, etc.), to consumer Cloud services (Gmail, Facebook, etc). It features Seamless Data Synchronization: synchronizes and manages the life cycle of locally stored data. This data is then automatically/bidirectionally synchronized with the cloud. Push Notifications: app state changes are proactively pushed to an App from the Cloud server. The Push mechanism uses a pure network/socket based approach instead of clunky methodologies like sending SMS alerts or email alerts. The Push notifications happen inside the app's execution environment. In case of iOS, Push is based on the Apple Push Notification Service. Supported platforms: Android and iPhone/iOS.
PyMQI is a Python library for working with WebSphere MQ (formerly known as MQSeries) implementing MQI and PCF protocols. It allows one to connect to queues, put, browse, get messages, and to programmatically administer MQ objects. PyMQI has been used in production environments for several years and is known to work on Linux, Windows, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX with queue managers running on Linux, Windows, Solarix, AIX, HP-UX, and z/OS mainframe.
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Top five ways in 2013 to give
2013 has been an amazing year (but maybe I'm biased; it was my first year with World Vision!) From responding to natural disasters and refugee crises to bringing clean water to a new person every 30 seconds, we've been doing great work around the world this year, and we look forward to continuing this work in 2014.
You can help! Are you considering making one more tax-deductible donation before 2013 is over? Here are five categories that have been important in 2013 — to us, to our donors, and to the children we're serving. Make your choice today!
1. Annual sponsorship
Did you know that you can donate the funds to sponsor a child for a full year in one quick transaction? As the new year approaches, it's a terrific way to make a difference in the life of a child in 2014, while receiving a deduction on your 2013 taxes! Donate the full annual sponsorship amount of $420 before midnight Eastern time (9 p.m. Pacific) this New Year's Eve and claim it as a tax credit for this year.
Read our news article to learn more.
2. Sponsor a child in the Philippines
Last month, Typhoon Haiyan — the strongest recorded storm ever to make landfall — devastated the Philippines, killing almost 6,000 people and displacing more than 3.6 million.
Within the first month, World Vision had reach almost 150,000 survivors, providing food kits, hygiene kits, medicine, shelter, and more, and setting up Child-Friendly Spaces to help children recover safely. We are preparing a long-term plan to help as many as 80,000 households get back on their feet.
One of the best ways to continue supporting our recovery efforts in the Philippines is to sponsor a child. In a time of uncertainty and upheaval, you can provide stability for a child as well as protection, food, clean water, and other life-saving basics.
3. Make a one-time donation to our Syrian Refugee Crisis Fund
According to the United Nations, over a million children have fled with their families from the conflict in Syria. With 6.5 million people displaced and 2.2 million refugees now living in neighboring countries, this refugee crisis remains one of the top giving needs of 2013.
We're in the dead of winter now, with cold spells and snowstorms moving through the refugee camps and cities where the refugees are living — many in tents, often without warm clothes or blankets, not to mention warm water or hot meals. And diseases are springing up, including Syria's first polio outbreak since 1999.
4. "Follow your heart" — Sponsor a child in Guatemala
This past September, I had the amazing opportunity to lead a group of eight bloggers into the field to witness World Vision's child sponsorship at work in Guatemala.
We met mothers who were being trained and empowered to become guides within their community. We learned that malnutrition rates had been dramatically reduced through World Vision agriculture and nutrition training. We visited the youth orchestra program that is giving new hope for the future to today's generation through music. And most importantly, we got to see the huge, genuine smiles of the bloggers' sponsored children when they met their sponsors!
5. Where Most Needed
Needs around the world change every year — sometimes every day! — and it can be difficult to decide where to give your money to make the most impact. That's why one of our most popular gifts is our Where Most Needed fund, which we use to support the programs that need it most. Your gift will enable us to respond quickly in areas of greatest need, to help the world's most vulnerable children and families.


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The bizarre departure of HP CEO Mark
Hurd made
harassment were brought against Hurd which in turn uncovered
discrepancies with Hurd's expense reports. This breach of HP's
"standards of business conduct" resulted in Hurd's departure from
the company.
The woman who is at the center of this
strange turn of events has now been identified by several sources
including the New
York Times, Reuters,
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Press. The woman, 50-year-old Jodie Fisher, came forward and
released a statement through her attorney, Gloria Allred.
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I was surprised
and saddened that Mark Hurd lost his job over this. That was never my
intention. Mark and I never had an affair or intimate sexual
relationship. I first met Mark in 2007 when I interviewed for a
contractor job at the company. At HP, I was under contract to work at
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country and abroad. I prepared for those events, worked very hard and
enjoyed working for HP. I have resolved my claim with Mark privately,
without litigation, and I do not intend to comment on it further. I
wish Mark, his family and HP the best.
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The cool San Bernardino National Forest air crept across my face as I got out of my 2002 Kia Sephia. I somehow found myself at Bear Mtn. It's September. There's snowboarding. What's going on?
I start to walk towards the main entrance. Snippets keep entering my brain. Snowboarding, Bear Mtn, September 24th, what the hell am I doing here? Who are all of these people? Where did they all come from?
I make it past security and quickly realize exactly what's happening. I am at the 2011 Hot Dawgs and Hand Rails contest at Bear Mtn. Hot Dawgs and Hand Rails is the premier summer snowboard event, and this year was no exception. Being that this was my first year at this event, it was pretty crazy to see the all the different types of people that come out of the woodwork to watch snowboarding in September.
Clayton Shoemaker and his staff used 130 tons of ice to create one of the craziest rail jam courses I've ever seen. The course lay out went a little something like this: At the top of the course you had an option to hit either a wall ride rail that was on your right side, or one that was on your left side. Following that you had the main feature. Starting from riders left there was the giant wall ride with a creeper rail.
If you weren't feeling that you could slide the box, which had a drop big enough to crush even the strongest of Patella tendons. If you didn't want to nose-press any box, and you were more interested in lip-sliding some rail, then there were a bunch to choose from. There was a straight down bar, a close-out down bar, and a kinked rail. Just a side note, the kinked rail was gnarly. I think the flat of the kink might have been about three feet long, so if you were to slide through it you had to be on your game.
The event was supposed to start at two o'clock. But when does an event ever start on time? The answer to that is never, and this contest was no exception. It's all good though, because once practice started the action never stopped. Some highlights from practice included Spencer Schuburt and Alex Andrews riding rails like it was mid January with some of the cleanest style I've seen, as well as people starting to figure out the giant Red Bull wall ride.
Practice lasted for an hour, and then it was on. I don't think I've ever seen more tricks happen in one place in my entire life. Highlights include, but were not limited to:
Last year's champ Nick Visconti trying to defend his title.
Durrell Williams doing hard way spins onto the rails all day. He even grabbed one while he was gapping the kink.
Spencer Shubert doing a backside 360 Five-0 through the kink rail.
Cody Boan doing a wall ride to back-flip out.
Brandon Hobush doing fast, textbook switch back-lips all day.
Jonah Owen riding like a bat out hell.
Jake OE riding with no highbacks and his boots untied.
Dylan Alito doing a proper front blunt pretzel out.
Ryan Paul doing a switch frontflip to 5050. It was nuts.
Judging something of this magnitude takes a special skill and know-how. Fortunately, that's exactly what the judge staff of JP Walker, Seth Hout, Joe Sexton, and Lauri Heiskari have. These guys know snowboarding, and they knew just what it was going to take to win the ten thousand dollar first place prize.
Just because everyone was riding super well it does not mean that everyone could win. There could only be 4 humans to walk away with cash. In the end it was Melissa Evans for the ladies.
My personal opinion is that Desiree Melancon should have taken it. But she got worked so bad on the cross bar of a rail that she had to leave the contest early. She was killing it though.
For the guys, Jesse Paul took 3ed and a crisp G for his work, Brandon Hobush 2nd a cool 3 G's, and and taking the 10 G's was Ryan Paul.
As I walked back to my car it really hit me. That was truly an amazing event. It really is crazy to see what Clayton Shoemaker and his Bear Mtn. crew can do at the end of summer. I really can't wait to see what these guys come up with during the winter.
Thanks to Clayton , Rio Tanbara, and everyone at Bear Mtn for putting on such an awesome event. We can't wait for next year.
If you weren't at the event then check out these photos and pretend that you were there, and make sure that you get there next year.
And don't forget to check out our full video recap of the event right here.


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that was sick! heres another intersting clip
LOL its nice to see Jose getting back at Deron for all the times DWill made Jose look stupid. for example..
Ouch! Im not going to kid myself, DWill will always OWN Jose
http://www.tsn.ca/nba/story/?id=401575Last spring, the Toronto Raptors left mouths across their home-town agape when they selected a little-known Lithuanian, Jonas Valanciunas, with their fifth pick in the NBA draft.
Fans cried foul as the club imported yet another European that they had little-to-no familiarity with, and even now, more than a year later, most fans are still only peripherally aware of Valanciunas as an actual basketball player.
That means that for many fans, this weekend will represent the first opportunity many have had to watch Valanciunas in action as he suits up with the Lithuanian senior mens national team for his first tour of duty at the Olympic games.
No longer will fans have to satisfy their curiosity with YouTube clips or fawning praise from Raptors executives, they'll get to watch Valanciunas for themselves and, finally, begin to form their own opinions of the mysterious foreign centre.
Fans shouldn't let their expectations get too out of control though. While Valanciunas is loaded with potential, he is still just a 20-year-old kid playing in tournament full of grown men. He is by far the youngest member of his squad, and it is a testament to his skill and effort that he is being given any minutes at all at this level.
Country-mate and fellow 2011 draftee, Donatas Montiejunas, turned down the chance to play for his country over fears that he'd see no floor time in London - and he's nearly two years older than Valanciunas is and has a more refined offensive game.
So what should fans expect from Valanciunas this summer? Well, they should expect a big man with a relentless motor who chases down blocks and rebounds, defends with alacrity and finishes well in the pick-and-roll.
He won't back down from anyone in the post, and FIBA play is notoriously physical around the basket, and he knows how to play smart off-the-ball defense and makes the right rotations to help his teammates in team defense situations.
What fans shouldn't expect, though, is a ton of polish in his game. If you want an imperfect comparison, try and remember what Joakim Noah was like in his first year in the NBA. He was the very definition of all-out effort, but he had a lot to learn about the subtleties of high-level basketball.
The club won't be throwing the ball to Valanciunas down low to make plays, they expect that he'll have his fair share of fouls considering he'll be defending guys like Marc Gasol , Luis Scola and Nene and they know that playing him means that they'll have to accept a certain amount of young player mistakes' as he adapts to the level of competition.
That said, Valanciunas is an integral member of this club. Starting centre Robertas Javtokas had to leave the team this month after suffering a stress fracture in his foot, leaving the door open for a huge role for Valanciunas, who had been coming off of the bench ever since joining themens senior team last summer.
Valanciunas started in Javtokas's place in a friendly against Russia five days ago, and while the club would no doubt love to have someone with more experience in his place the already small Lithuanian squad will probably be forced to throw Valanciunas out to the wolves beginning with their first game on Sunday against basketball powerhouse Argentina.
Regardless of how he performs, Valanciunas is getting a much stronger basketball education his summer than fellow rookies Terrence Ross and Quincy Acy got earlier this month at the Las Vegas Summer League.
He'll begoing up against real NBA-caliber competition nearly every game, and he'll be doing it in games that actually mean something in terms of wins and losses. Experiences like this can only hasten his development into whatever player Valanciunas is destined to be, and for many Raptors fans this will be a great first taste of what the Raptors invested in last June.
He's far from a finished product but getting to see him in actual game action (and alongside fellow Raptor, Linas Kleiza) will be a great tease before he dons a Raptors jersey of his own in Toronto this fall.
BTW guys old news but still - Javtokas - our main C - got injured and isn't gonna play at olympics - so valanciunas gonna be the main center. goods news for anyone who wants to see valanciunas in action as much as possible
very interesting! lets see what this kid is made of..
Really hoping the first game will go like this again... Although it's unlikely. Argentina is still pretty damn strong.
Oh boy the commentators are brutal for the LT-ARG game.
Love the crazy Lithuania fans booing Argentina...
They need to let Kleiza run the offence more and feed the bigs, this guard play on LT squad is looking baddd.
well coach ain't giving much time for valanciunas even though he is the only C in the team. IMO he should let him play more
I'm concerned about JV's fouling "tendencies". He's going to foul A LOT in the NBA, staying on the court will be a problem for him. I just hope they work on this in training camp, he has great court presence and it'll prove valuable to our team.
I've made a wallpaper for JV (ultimate boredom). Everyone's free to use it
Sick wallpaper!
Thank you guys, appreciate it!
Btw, interesting find, L.Scola on JV after the game:
Source:"Valančiūnas turi labai daug potencialo. Šiandien jis žaidė neblogai. Tiesa, lietuvis dėl rezultato nelabai turėjo galimybių parodyti viską, ką gali"
Let me translate it:
"JV has a lot of potential. Today he played well enough. However, because of the result Lithuanian was unable to show all what he is capable of".
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News flash: Lithuania wins gold! .....in the breast stroke. I'm not being facetious, it's a bit of a surprise.
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announced this morning that the 4.2.1 update will be made
available for iOS devices later today. IOS
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comes to OS releases -- previously, the iPhone and iPod touch were
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that will be rolled out to all iOS devices include AirPlay and
4.2 makes the iPad a completely new product, just in time for the
holiday season," said Apple CEO Steve Jobs. "Once again, the
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bonus that Apple announced is that the Find My iPhone service will
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This isn't a troll thread, i'll be giving clear examples as to why it ruins the naruto name. Sorry for any typos im on a phone.
1:The original series was about ninjas. Stealth, tactics, sneaking up on enemies. Shippuden fight scenarios go like this. "character approaches enemy, uses jutsu in front of enemy, disregards anything with tactics, uses same jutsu over again until fight ends". This is how a fight in the original series went down. "character thinks of plan, character attemps to ambush, ambush fails, mixes taijutsu with some ninjutsu attacks, thinks of another plan, repeat. Now shippuden dis start like that "ie naruto and sakura vs kakashi, deidara vs gaara, sasori vs sakura and chiyo" but as the series progressed we get fights like team gai vs clones, naruto vs orochimaru, team kakashi vs sasuke (first time at the hideout), and naruto vs kyuubi. Those were all straight up lets fight without strategy. They're more fights like that where they don't implament strategy or stealth. Kakashi said when naruto appeared on the bridge to help sasuke fight haku that a ninja never uses their jutsu in front of the enemy and does anyone remember the code sentence from the forest of death team 7 used? Shippuden fights consist of nothing ninja related in regards to the first series which made use of it heavily.
2:Consistency is another issue. Its great that stories evolve but disregarding everything you write is just ridiculous. Ages don't add up with whats been happening with the manga. AO stated that yagura was under a genjutsu and thats why the bloody mist happened. Thats inheritantly not true as in 605 the ninja say they're from the bloody mist. We know obito was the one who controlled her so that doesn't add up. Kishi is always changing the strongest hokage like it was the third then fourth and now first. The timeline doesn't add up with the databooks which kishi wrote might I add.
3 the story doesnt have a ninja like feel. It usually makes me think i'm watching dbz or reading dbz. The key elements that make up a ninja are gone. Its not about strategy its abOut whoever has senju dna, sharingan, rinnegan, or who is a perfect jinchurriki. Remember when team 11 wasn't behind naruto in terms of power. For the majority of the series it was like that. Now they're weak and useless....like raditz. All jokes aside in shippuden team 11 character development was disregarded and only naruto, choji, and sasuke got powerful. Sakura kinda did but she lost her resolve somewhere. Another thing that irks me is how the five kage were stated to be powerful and in previous fight it was amazing seeing them wreck faces but against madara raikage wasn't too helpful and mei was good in the beginning but kishi forgot about those two and focused on onoki and tsunade. It seems silly to make someone appear so powerful yet make them look like fodder against the most powerful character. I'll finish with my next point.
4: kishi rushed through the end of shippuden. No kakashi 1000 jutsus, no end to the kages fight, no word from team 11 (which im just gonna start calling them team raditz). I mean naruto didn't feel rushed but shippuden towards the end was rushed. Major fights were left out.
Note this is just my opinion. I do love this series and support kishi by buying his manga, but to me shippuden just doesn't seem like a good successor to the naruto name. Its plagued by inconsistency, ninja elements are not as heavily there, and it feels rushed.


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Maybe someone should. I might understand why some monks might need to handle some money and drive cars in a modern city, for example to get to the hospital to visit and chant for a sick community member. Or to have a refrigerator since fresh lunch dana may not be available on all days in a modern Western city.Paribbajaka wrote: and hanging around listening to music.
This is obviously in addition to the widespread market of monks selling amulets, selling blessed bracelets, telling fortunes and giving lucky lottery numbers, etc. etc. etc.
Why is no one decrying their vinaya offenses?
However, hanging around and listening to music? That is totally inappropriate; violation of Vinaya and unseemly for a monk while lay people go off to work and don't even have that luxury in most cases.


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In Tanzania, we engage men to take a stand against violence and HIV.
On March 7, 2013, EngenderHealth was awarded the 2nd Avon Communications Awards: Speaking Out About Violence Against Women for our CHAMPION Project work to end violence against women.
Learn about our award-winning CHAMPION Project in Tanzania, where we partner with communities to speak out about violence against women and about the crucial role that men have to play in fighting the twin epidemics of HIV and violence.
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In Texas, we help teens protect themselves against pregnancy, disease, and violence.
Learn about Gender Matters (or "Gen.M"), our innovative project that is helping adolescent boys and girls protect themselves against pregnancy, disease, and violence in Austin, Texas, where teenage pregnancy rates are among the highest in the United States.
In the United States and around the world, we're engaging men in women's health.
In honor of International Women's Day 2013, "Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum," we interviewed two of our gender experts, Andrew Levack, MPH, Senior Technical Advisor and lead on our Gender Matters ("Gen.M") program in Austin, Texas, and Fabio Verani, MPH, Technical Advisor on our Gender and Men As Partners® program. Learn more from the experts why it's critical to engage men in women's health in the United States and around the world.
Why engage men in family planning and reproductive health?
Andrew: Research indicates that women's contraceptive use is much higher when their male partners approve of family planning. Men can also play a critical role in reducing maternal mortality and morbidity by recognizing when a woman is experiencing complications during pregnancy, and helping to decide if and when she should go for maternal health care.
Fabio: Men can also actively work to change negative attitudes in their peers. Men are often more willing to listen to other men. For instance, we can work with men who do not engage in gender-based violence to speak out against it amongst their male peers. Our CHAMPION Project in Tanzania is a perfect example of how we've engaged men to fight HIV and violence. We've seen success in working with men to talk about their stories and to reflect on their roles as men, and then to become leaders and mentors for other men in their communities.
What are some of the similarities and differences in our work with men and boys internationally and in the United States?
Andrew: The Men As Partners approach that we developed in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America brings participants together to become aware of, question, and redefine potentially harmful messages about what it means to be a man. We have used this approach in international settings to address maternal health, HIV, and gender-based violence. More recently in Austin, Texas, we are now applying it to prevent teenage pregnancy. In both international and domestic settings, we have found that men respond positively to a learning environment that is participatory, is safe, and allows time for reflection and introspection. We learned early from our international experience that change in gender-related attitudes is more likely to occur when messages are reinforced beyond an educational workshop. To do this in other countries, we mobilize marches around certain days like Father's Day; we organize public events and performances; and we use posters and media spots. In Austin, we are using documentary video, SMS text messaging, and Facebook campaigns to keep participants engaged months after our workshops end.
It's a cutting-edge approach to bring men and women together to discuss health and gender, as we do in Tanzania and in Texas. What's the philosophy behind this approach, and what needs to happen next?
Fabio: The philosophy is that gender is relational. For instance, if the norm is that men should be the breadwinners, then the norm for women is often that they should be the primary caregivers. We have realized that it's harder to create change within a community, or at a larger scale, without working with both men and women together. Even if our programming does not work with both men and women, we can at least make sure that programs working only with men or only with women are coordinated with one another.
Andrew: Moving forward, we need other large-scale sexual and reproductive health programs to address gender within their work. We also need national ministries of health, school districts, and national education plans to institutionalize policies related to gender equality.
Fabio: And we need more research coming from the field, especially research that shows the impact of these types of programs.
In which countries can you report the most significant impact from our Men As Partners and gender work?
Fabio: In Ethiopia, Men As Partners changed attitudes among young men around gender and impacted their behavior. Participants who were engaged in the workshop—but not those in a control group—reported that they used less violence over time and that their communication around condom use and HIV risks improved. In Tanzania, our CHAMPION Project has been successful in working with 350,000 people, most of whom are men, to prevent the transmission of HIV and to address associated gender issues, such as gender-based violence. And some very exciting news: Our campaign materials—television spot and print—for this project have just won this year's Avon Global Communication Award: Speaking Out about Violence Against Women. We received the award at the United Nations on March 7.
This International Women's Day, let's celebrate the advancement of women's health around the world, as well as the men who are our partners in this effort.
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At first sight, nothing could seem less intelligent than the design of a flying insect. From an egg laid in or on a food supply, it hatches into a slow-moving eating machine that keeps outgrowing its skin, so that it has to molt every few days. At the moment of molting, it is extremely vulnerable to predators and parasites. Then, inexplicably, it stops moving and grows a hard shell, inside which it completely redesigns its body from square one, to emerge into a thing with wings that launches itself into hundreds of cubic miles of atmosphere in search of a mate, and a food plant, with nothing to guide it but a few stray molecules - pheromones and plant odors - blowing in the wind.
The fact is, however, that this is a very efficient system for spreading the genes of that species around the landscape, and for locating food plants that would take an Earth-bound caterpillar days to find by dint of much hard crawling. The proof is that there are more species of insect than any other class of animal, and their biomass outweighs the mammals, even though the latter include all the elephants on earth and close to a billion overweight humans as well.
OK, that complicated life cycle seems an intelligent creation in the end. But what can we make of the further complications that led the Large Blue butterfly (Maculinea arion) to extinction in Britain? It entrusts a critical stage in its life cycle to the tender care of a single species of red ant that is particularly finicky about where it nests.
The story goes like this: The Large Blue lays its eggs in the buds of thyme - the culinary herb that grows wild in Europe - in the tight-bud stage. If the butterfly is ready to lay its eggs before the buds appear, or not until after they have started to open, the brood is lost. The eggs hatch after one or two weeks, depending on the weather; warm weather speeds hatching. The young caterpillars feed on thyme flowers for about two weeks during late July and early August, then fall to the ground where they are "adopted" by red ants (Myrmica sabuleti) attracted by a sugary substance secreted from a dorsal gland. The ants carry the caterpillar back to their nest, where it then gorges on ant larvae. While hidden from its own predators, the caterpillar spends 10 months as a predator in the ant nest, and then pupates there. After three weeks pupation the butterfly emerges during the four weeks mid-June to mid-July.
M. sabuleti is a warmth-loving ant that thrives only in short, dry grassland on hot south-facing slopes that are heavily grazed. If the grass grows higher than 3-4 cm and shades the ground, cooling it, this ant dies out and other species of ant take over - ants that are not interested in providing free food and lodging for Large Blue caterpillars. Taller grass also crowds out thyme.
What happened in Britain was a constellation of events that conspired to spell disaster for the Large Blue. One was the increased use of chemical fertilizers that promote vigorous grass growth, which kills off small wild flowers such as thyme. Then, sheep were pulled off the land by a change in livestock farming. For a few years, rabbits spread and kept the grass short in habitats favored by the butterfly, but in the 1950s myxomatosis (a viral disease of rabbits) was introduced and eliminated them. Pastures also were previously burned over, which kept the grass short, but this is no longer done.
So here you have an insect that depends for its very existence on a fragile chain of circumstances that is easily broken by bad weather, changes in exposure to grazing due to human intervention and disease, loss of its unique food plant, and loss of its protector ant species. If I were to design such a silly system I'd at least choose the most abundant, hardy species of ant to host my caterpillars, and ensure that they could feed on other plants beside thyme, and at other stages than the bud. To me, the case of the Large Blue is conclusive disproof of the theory of intelligent design.
Jack Woodall is director of the Nucleus for the Investigation of Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Institute of Medical Biochemistry at Brazil's Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. email@example.com


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I find myself in deep hope that the Mayans were right about Dec. 21 and that the earth will undergo a new alignment. Perhaps civilization will find some sanity, and mankind will finally recognize the connection that we all have with one another. If that doesn't happen soon, I think the days left of our time on this planet are limited. How much grief and war can this world endure? How much wanting and greed can happen before this whole place turns to ashes? I've lived yet another year and borne witness to even more atrocities and hate; nevertheless, I have developed a deeper love of all those who have touched my life, people who have emptied the self and have onlyclear being there. If love is the message that comes from this celebration of Christ, let us taste only sacredness in our relationships with one another. Don't let the particle you are return where it came from without learning this lesson of unity. There is hope for this world as long as your heart, my friend, is part of the new alignment. One spirit at a time, one kind act, and we can make the Mayan prediction come true! May this Christmas join our hearts and minds in peace and love.
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Source: ESPN.com"Who knows what the NBA is going to look like next year?" Jackson continued. "It's going to take on a whole different proportion. How long is it going to last? I think there are some people who are pretty convinced there's not going to be a year next year."
David Stern then turned around and issued Phil Jackson a $75,000 fine for his trouble.


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Crawford cleared to throw without restraint
By Ken Gurnick and Austin Laymance / MLB.com
LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers outfielder Carl Crawford continues to build arm strength following offseason Tommy John Surgery, enough for Dodgers trainers to give him the green light to bypass his cutoff man and throw to the bag when the situation calls for it.
"I'm glad to hear that, actually, because I think as much as anything, he's been throwing the ball pretty good," manager Don Mattingly said before Tuesday's game against the Padres. "I just don't think he's been feeling like he should be letting it go. So when the trainers tell him it's OK, I think it makes you feel better as a player. You can turn it loose."
That's good news for the Dodgers, as opponents have tested Crawford's surgically repaired left elbow in recent games.
On Sunday in Arizona, A.J. Pollack stretched a double in the ninth inning and later scored to win the game. On Monday, Padres first baseman Yonder Alonso stretched a ground ball to left field into a double in the fifth inning. Crawford fielded the ball after it deflected off third baseman Luis Cruz's glove and nearly threw out Alonso, but his throw was not on target.
"Carl was over in left-center on that play, and he went a long way to get to that quick and make a play," Mattingly said. "If that ball doesn't hit Cruz's glove to slow it down, I don't think he gets to second on that play. If the throw is on line, he's out."
Crawford has been a catalyst at the top of the order, hitting .396 over 13 games with a .442 on-base percentage and a team-high 12 runs.
"He's been a really good surprise for us," Mattingly said. "He's showing us what he can do, and giving us what we need. Part of our issues last year was the first couple guys in the order were not getting on, and that's been pretty good so far this year."
About the only thing Crawford has done wrong recently was wearing two different colored spikes on Monday, one white and one blue. The mismatched shoes commemorated Jackie Robinson Day, with Robinson's No. 42 stitched on the back, but Major League Baseball informed Crawford's agent that the outfielder should not mismatch his footwear in the future.
Dodgers' Howell deems Lilly ready to return
LOS ANGELES -- If and when the Dodgers need a replacement for the injured Chris Capuano, Ted Lilly is ready, assistant pitching coach Ken Howell said Tuesday night.
Howell accompanied Lilly earlier Tuesday for his third Minor League rehab start, where the lefty made 81 pitches in five innings for Class A Rancho Cucamonga, allowing four runs (three earned) on seven hits while striking out five with a walk.
Howell said Lilly showed considerable improvement from his two previous rehab starts.
"He looked tonight like a Major League pitcher," said Howell. "He managed the game, his pitches were crisper, he competed better. That's what I was looking for. He pitched better than the numbers indicate."
Howell said Lilly was up to the task of facing fellow Major Leaguer Chase Headley, who was playing for Lake Elsinore on his own rehab assignment. Howell said Lilly got three ground balls from Headley, one of them rolling for a hit.
With two of the next six days off, the Dodgers can go at least until April 24 without needing a fifth starter. By Thursday, if not sooner, they will decide whether to put Capuano, who strained his left calf muscle Tuesday night, on the disabled list. Capuano was starting in place of Zack Greinke, who broke his collarbone in last Thursday night's brawl with San Diego.
Lilly had a difference of opinion with management over whether to make a third rehab start, believing he was ready to pitch effectively in the Major Leagues despite allowing 10 earned runs in 12 innings in his first two.
Lilly changed his mind on Monday and agreed to make a third start, with the expectation that he would be activated if he pitched well. A player must agree to a rehab assignment.
Lilly is coming off shoulder surgery, and his Spring Training was interrupted by the flu and a rain-shortened start.
Capuano exits with strained left calf
LOS ANGELES -- Filling in for injured starter Zack Greinke, Chris Capuano left Tuesday's game against the Padres in the top of the third inning due to a strained left calf.
"It's a little sore. A strain, but not a full tear or anything like that," Capuano said after the Dodgers fell to the Padres, 9-2, at Dodger Stadium. "I don't anticipate it will be too long to heal."
Capuano will have an MRI either Wednesday or Thursday to determine the extent of the damage. He said he had a similar injury several years ago during Spring Training.
"It didn't take too long, a couple of weeks," Capuano said. "I hope the MRI shows it's not a very serious strain."
If Capuano requires a trip to the disabled list, the Dodgers will need to make a roster move, but with off-days on Thursday and Monday, the club won't need a fifth starter until April 24.
"We'll talk about it tonight," manager Don Mattingly said during his postgame media session. "[General manager] Ned [Colletti] was in my office before I came in here. We'll talk about what we want to do. We don't need a starter until the 24th. It's always nice to have an extra arm. But then we have to work through the roster and everything else."
Capuano said he felt his calf "pull" while covering first base on a grounder to end the second inning. The left-hander walked gingerly off the field and headed into the Dodgers' clubhouse. He returned for the third and walked the first batter he faced, Jesus Guzman, on four pitches. Mattingly, pitching coach Rick Honeycutt and team trainer Sue Falsone met with Capuano on the mound, watched him throw a few trial pitches, and then he headed off the field with the Dodgers trailing, 4-0.
"I came in between innings and we taped it tight around the ankle to take the pressure off the calf," Capuano said. "I felt I could sit back and push off, but the walk to Guzman, obviously, I wasn't able to drive off."
Capuano began the season in the bullpen and made his first start on Tuesday in place of Greinke, who fractured his left collarbone during Thursday's benches-clearing fracas in San Diego. Capuano allowed four runs in the first inning on five singles and a walk.
If Capuano is sidelined for more than a few days, Ted Lilly is likely to return to the rotation. Lilly has been on a rehab assignment in the Minor Leagues and appears ready to return to the big leagues after assistant pitching coach Ken Howell saw improvement in the lefty's outing with Class A Rancho Cucamonga on Tuesday.
Dodgers borrow Fenway ritual to honor Boston
LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers paid tribute to the city of Boston by playing Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" on the public-address system between the seventh and eighth innings of Tuesday night's game against the Padres.
"Sweet Caroline" sing-alongs are a tradition of Red Sox fans at Fenway Park.
The Dodgers also began games Monday and Tuesday night's with a moment of silence in honor of the people affected by the bombings at the Boston Marathon.
Hanley vows to shock by returning 'pretty soon'
LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers shortstop Hanley Ramirez predicts he'll return from his right thumb injury "way sooner" than the mid-May projection of the doctors who operated on his torn ligament.
"Everybody is going to be shocked," Ramirez said on Tuesday, having hit off a tee for two days and taken swings at soft-toss feeds. "It's going to be a surprise to everybody. It'll be faster than [mid-May]. I'll be in the lineup pretty soon."
Ramirez underwent surgery on March 22 to repair the injury sustained while playing for the Dominican Republic during the World Baseball Classic final, diving for a ground ball. At the time, doctors said he would return to the Dodgers in eight weeks.
Ramirez had been throwing despite wearing a plaster cast that covered half of his hand. The cast was removed on Friday and replaced with a removable splint taped to his thumb that allowed him to throw and hit. He said he's felt no soreness.
He said it's "definitely" been frustrating watching the Dodgers struggle to score runs while he's been out.
"I want to be in there," he said. "At the same time, I've got to be smart. It's a long season. It's not even 15 games. We've got to keep playing hard."
Mattingly isn't worried about Sellers' production
LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers manager Don Mattingly insists shortstop Justin Sellers is not to blame for the club's lack of run production.
The Dodgers have scored 37 runs in their first 13 games, third to last in the National League and the fewest in the NL West.
Sellers is hitting .176 (6-for-34) with one homer over 11 games, and has reached base at a .263 clip. Of course, the Dodgers fancy Sellers for his glove, not his bat. That's why the club decided to go with him as their primary shortstop with Hanley Ramirez sidelined by a torn ligament in his right thumb.
"I'm comfortable with Sells, especially defensively, we've gotten what we wanted," Mattingly said before Tuesday's game against the Padres. "Offensively, I shouldn't say I expect him to hit a little bit more. It's kind of, in a sense, you get what you expect. I think he can get better. I think he can improve."
The Dodgers are hitting .268 as a team, fifth in the NL. There's been plenty of traffic on the bases, but few runs to show for it. Los Angeles is second to last in the NL with 34 RBIs.
The Dodgers are third in the NL with a .343 on-base percentage. That leads Mattingly to believe the runs will come, regardless of what Sellers does at the plate.
"I feel like he's done the job that we've asked him to do," Mattingly said. "Again, you can try to find every place that we haven't gotten offense from, but Sells is not the problem with our offense. Our problem, again, is basically just not getting guys in. It's not being able to get the runs on the board. It's not a matter of being able to get enough guys out there. We should be able to carry Sells offensively, and really we have, other than not getting the hits when we need them."
Tolleson hopes to start throwing by end of month
LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers reliever Shawn Tolleson received an epidural injection for a bulging disk in his lower back on Tuesday and said he hopes to resume throwing within two weeks.
Tolleson made only one appearance after being called up to replace the injured Zack Greinke on the roster, walking both batters he faced on Friday night. But his back was already bothering him.
He said it is an aggravation of an injury he sustained in January. He believes it flared up between a Thursday night save for Albuquerque and his Friday night appearance for the Dodgers in Arizona. In between, the Isotopes flew to Omaha, bussed to Iowa, then he flew to Dallas en route to Phoenix.
"From all of that, it got tight," he said. "After I pitched Friday night, it got really bad."
Tolleson still has pain down his left leg, a typical symptom of a disk pressing on a nerve. He's already compared notes with Isotopes teammate Chris Withrow, who missed two weeks of Spring Training with the same injury.
"The epidural should help a lot and I'll fly to Arizona tomorrow to rehab," Tolleson said. "As soon as I'm feeling good, I'll jump back into throwing. I'm thinking two weeks."
He's been replaced in the bullpen by Josh Wall.
Ken Gurnick is a reporter and Austin Laymance is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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troublesome household pest could soon provide healthy benefits to
humans. Tissue from the brains and nervous systems of the common
cockroach contain bacteria
fighting properties that may help banish
serious infections. As a result, "superbugs" like MRSA and
E-Coli can be destroyed more than 90 percent of the time without
damaging human cells. Researchers from the School of
Veterinary Medicine at the UK's University of Nottingham identified
up to nine different molecules in the tissue of cockroaches and
locusts that were toxic to bacteria.The team of scientists
has discovered that the bugs secrete their own antimicrobials and is
currently studying specific properties of the antibacterial
molecules. Simon Lee, a postgraduate researcher and Dr.
Dr Naveed Khan, an Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology,
presented their findings at the Society for General Microbiology's
meeting this week according to physorg.com. "Insects
often live in unsanitary and unhygienic environments where they
encounter many different types of bacteria. It is therefore logical
that they have developed ways of protecting themselves against
micro-organisms," said Lee.The potency of the
antibacterial molecules found in these insects are now being tested
on various superbugs including Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas and
Burkholderia. "We hope that these molecules could
eventually be developed into treatments for E. coli and MRSA
infections that are increasingly resistant to current drugs. These
new antibiotics could potentially provide alternatives to currently
available drugs that may be effective but have serious and unwanted
side effects."


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Amazingly beautiful
I have eaten here a number of times now and enjoyed the food, service and ambiance more than any other Indian restaurant I've ever been to. I felt so confident in this restaurant that I finally talked my son-in-law from England into trying it!! After 12 years in the states he said he finally found a proper Indian restaurant! Being from England and being that Indian food is his favorite, I think that is a great compliment! Keep up the superb work Saffron!
-sher-e-punjab is an amazing place, the service was wonderful it might not look big and fancy but once you order one of there dishes the appearence of the building doesnt matter the naan bread is unlike anything ive ever ate before the aroma of the dishes still remains in my noise til now,the tenduri chicken is very flavorfull try it!!,and i love how you can hear them play indian music softly in the background who ever says they dont appreciate the great dishes that this place brings seriously doesnt know what good food is and shoudnt even be critiking negative comments because they are not true !!,, sher-e-punjab the greatest restaraunt to have ever been open in the cityof tucson..
The service is always great!!!!! The owner is friendly and the food is excellent! We have been going to the Indian Oven for the last 13 years, and our boys just love this wonderful, tasty, well-prepared food. There is nothing like a whole-hearty meal with meat, rice, and vegetables! We highly recommend
it to your family.
Been going to this restaurant for years. Excellent food. Great ambience. Lunch buffet is a
good value.
This is my favorite food ! My husband and I have been having lunch at the buffet every weekend for 10 years. Yummy.
Service was great, the server was a delightful and conversational woman. The buffet lunch was fantastic. I am a vegetarian so I stuck with the vegetarian items. Samosas were great, fluffy, and flavorful. The curries had a wonderful taste. I have never been to India Oven for dinner, but hope to in the future. I would recommend this place to anyone.
I found Saffron's food excellent. Value for money as well as quality on par w/ my experiences back home in the UK and Mother India herself. My only suggestion is to skip the buffett and order from the menu.
The service was fast the food was excellent, not expensive but we were to only ones there. Help rescue this gem.
After having spent a good amount of time traveling across India I would like to think of myself as picky when it comes to Indian food. I would say that the vegetarian dishes at Ghandis's are as authentic and delicious as I have had anywhere in the world. I highly recommend the Shahi Panner and the Malai Kofta. Their cream based curries are so good that my friend form Bombay said it tastes her grandma's cooking!!
**I would agree that their buffet is disappointing and not even close to on par with their dinner menu. So don't judge by the Buffet!!
I can honestly say that I have eaten at EVERY Indian food joint in Tucson and the food here is on par with the best of them. What makes this place different is that it is clean. My other favorite place has food that is just as good, but I worry what happens behind the scenes in the kitchen.
I found Saffron to be representative of proper Indian cookery. Admittedly, the buffet was OK, being aimed at an inquisitive, yet, uninitiated visitors. The real treats, however, are to be found by ordering off of the menu. Saffron's lamb Korma took me back to the days of watching my Mom and Grandma cooking Indian-inspired Indonesian fare. The smells of garlic, tumeric, bay, lemon grass and varied curries wafting from the kitchen was borderline intoxicating. Saffron's Owner and Kitchen staff know what they are doing.
BEST FOOD, BEST SERVICE, BEST PRICE. All the people that rave about Gandhi's either don't know indian cuisine, or they haven't eaten at Sher-E-Punjab.....leaps and bounds above the rest in town.
This place is amazing!! I have been to many other Indian restaurants and this one is by far the BOMB!!!! LOVE IT!
I moved to SE Arizona in 2007 and immediately starting looking for a first-class Indian restaurant. I believe that I have eaten at at least 75% of the Indian restaurants in Tucson and the surrounding area.
Simply put, Saffron Indian Bistro is the best Indian restaurant I have eaten at in Tucson, bar none. Nothing else even comes close. The sauces are exquisite, the meats are cooked to perfection, the rice is perfect, and the selection is broad. I have eaten at Saffron on at least 20 different occasions and have never had a meal that was less than excellent. The service has ranged from very good to excellent.
The owner of the Indian grocers where I get my supplies for home told me it is the only Indian restaurant that he will take his wife to.
I've eaten in fine Indian restaurants in NYC, London and other major cities in the US and Europe. Saffron holds there own against them and is among the five best Indian restaurants I have ever eaten in.
The food here is better than most of the other more expensive Indian joints around town.


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Ilyasova is not very good at guarding back-to-the-basket 4's and is therefor not a great option at the pf spot. That said, his offensive game MAY make up for it...
...but the same can sometimes be said about Bargs.
Don't hate me because I'm an optimist.
Also, though no one likes Bargs' boards, but with Sanders an emerging anchor as a help defender, Bargs would be an upgrade for them over Ilyasova, who can't guard Cs. They could then put Bargs on certain bigger guys, and allow Sanders to float as a blocker. As it is now, Sanders would project to have to do both those jobs somehow, because Henson is also not likely big enough to guard Cs. Oh, and Sanders still needs a year or two of filling out physically as well.
And for a team like Milwaukee, shedding money is always a concern. They gave Ilyasova that contract, but for them, I think they hoped he would take another step forward, and he just doesn't have it in him. Better for them to lose that year of salary now, and get a similar player back who is an upgrade offensively (even at worse %s, Bargs can do a lot more) which is where the team projects to be weakest at the moment.
*one thought on the Ellis aspect.....They flip Ellis and Marquis Daniels to Indy for Granger. This lets George keep playing at the SF a lot, and Ellis becomes an insane supersub for them. For Milwaukee, they desperately need a starting calibre wing of normal size. For this to work, I feel like maybe in our trade, we'd have to flip them AA...I hope...
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Really, it's not outlandish for Milwaukee. THey'll never attract a big free agent. Bargs would be a big upgrade as an experienced scoring big. He would not take any minutes from Henson and Sanders, who are emerging as the future of their frontcourt.
- 23.4 ppg, 6.4 Rb, 2.4 apg, 3.0 Stl, 21.4 shots, .435 efg%
- 19.7 ppg, 5.2 Rb, 1.6 apg, .9 Stl, 18.3 shots, .454 efg%
- 23.5 ppg, 6.6 Rb, 2.3 apg, .7 Stl, 18.8 shots, .466 efg%
The 1st set of numbers are ... HAIL TO THE KING numbers
The 2nd set are ... HELL OUT OF HERE numbers.
The 3rd set are ... HAIL TO THE KING OF HELL ... for 13 games at least (although the numbers reflect the full season)
- 1st set - Rudy's 5 game Toronto experience [40.1 mpg]
- 2nd set - Andrea's 2012-13 numbers [40.1 mpg matching equivalency]
- 3rd set - Andrea's 2011-12 numbers [40.1 again]
AB put up those 3rd set of numbers (in 2011-12), while being the prime focus of Defenses, and for which team expectations rested significantly on his shoulders. He also led the team in Simple Rating http://www.82games.com/1112/1112TOR.HTM . With more space to operate (via Rudy, Demar & Lowry), Bargnani should show a marked improvement.
2009-10 [with Bosh as #1] .... AB = .522 efg%
2008-09 [w/Bosh] ................ AB = .512 efg%
Add the fact that you have a 7 footer who's career FT% is .824, and you have yourself a potent 6th man guy.
What's the Point to all this?
Raptors should ride out Bargnani to the end of this season, then reassess. If he fits, then good. If he doesn't, then make changes. Play-offs (this season) are an extreme long-shot. Not making them means Raps can clear the slate (of their 1st round pick), and if not - top 3 pick via lottery -then all things turn out great, and Raps can grab a solid PG back-up for the 2013-14 season.
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Raps: Ilyasova
Bucks: Bargnani, Chandler
Nuggets: Mbah a Moute
I don't like this deal because I don't think it makes us much better. Basically, your trading one stretch four who's big enough for the position for another stretch four who shoots better but is likely to get pushed around. We don't have room at the 3 for him and I don't see him as an upgrade at the four. Basically it seems like a lateral deal. I'm actually for keeping Bargs until the summer to see how he meshes with this squad then going from there.
"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
To conclude i would be down to do this, i think this helps the team.
"Defense wins championships."
"Defense wins championships."
Eh, I'd still rather have Millsap. #MillsapOrNothing
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The one thing that worries me about the wait and see approach with Bargs, is that he was getting booed in his first home game back....and really, why? That's a terrible sign. You can't keep running out a player who might be a target for booing on your homecourt for 30 games. That isn't good for anybody, and it can't help his value (even if I don't know if it would hurt it). From a roster evaluation standpoint I'm all for it, but I'm not sure BC will have that luxury.
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we are incredibly lucky NO is so bad
Our offense needs to be more stable. I hope Demar wakes up and lowry to feed JV in the post. The post is the most consistent place to score from. We NEVER post JV, and rarely post Demar or Rudy up, though they should all be there in the short elbow to create the play.
The Baltic Beast is unstoppable!
gay has made some ugly shots tonight
Right as I say that, Rudy scores on a post up!
The Baltic Beast is unstoppable!
Wow KNOW YOUR ROLE AA
probably the ugliest 2 quarters of the season
yup, brutal by both teams, hopefully 4th quarter gives us something nice to see
Casey's love affair with Alan Anderson has seriously got to end.
when will we see a TradeAnderson hashtag? looks like he's playing for a contract and not the team
Rudy with another bad shooting night. That's three games in a role. He brings other things to the table but, he need to take better shot selections.
This is such an ugly game right now.
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Naruto Manga Chapter 599 Spoiler.......
The mask falls Tobi's face in the dimension of Kamui as he returns to the real world and the Naruto clone dissipates in this dimension.
Tobi tries to get up, clutching his face with his back to the alliance. Naruto triumphant look forward to seeing your face.
Kurama-Naruto: No mask to hide
Kakashi: Obito .... .... show yourself.
As Tobi-turns to the alliance shows her wrinkled face, an eye and an eye Sharingan Rinnegan. -
Gai: Kakashi ...! Do not think that's Obito.
Kakashi: How is this possible ... died during the war?
Naruto: Who is this guy?
Kakashi: Obito's dad is ... Ka ..
Kagami: My name is Kagami and clearly not dead Kakashi.
Kakashi: But ... that's Obito's right eye, I'm sure that ... as it is ...
Kagami: I guess if I'm going to explain how I found my son's eye, should start from the beginning.
Kakashi and Gai As you know, I was an elite uchiha ninja, Tobirama trained with me and was on track to become a senior officer in the uchiha clan. I was born in a family with only my mother, she never talked about my father, no one did, I assumed he had died in battle during the formation of the Leaf Village.
When I was young Tobirama and Hashirama took a special interest in me, Hashirama put me under the guidance of Tobirama, at that time I thought it was a privilege but I would realize that there were more reasons behind this.
A couple of days before the death of Tobirama, this drew me aside and told me about my father, Madara.
Kakashi: You are the son of Madara?!
Kurama-Naruto: I see, this makes sense.
Kagami: Kyubi let me finish.
Tobirama trusted not to betray him, told me that during the battle between Hashirama and Madara, both sides were running out, they both knew that if this continued both die.
Tobirama was still young at that time, and had not advanced their jutsu E / T enough to be the leader of the sheet, so my father decided to make a sacrifice.
Flashback ** **
Madara: Hashirama if we continue, both die, and leaf fall, however I want my clan lead the Leaf Village, ninjas do not want to be substitutable for another hidden village.
Hahirama: What are you saying?
Madara: disappear, I will not put in pie in the sheet again, you can go back and lead the village, while not bring harm to my clan, I said that if I discarded back, wanting to bring peace.
Hashirama: As I can trust you?
Madara: My wife just had our first child, we named Kagami, I trust, while my son is not betrayed by the Senju clan, not back.
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Kagami: Tobirama died a few days later in an ambush attack, leaving Hiruzen in charge. I continued to live in the village of respect for my father and the sacrifice he made until my son Obito died and that's when I had the help of Danzou to fake my death.
Gai: Why would you do that?
Kagami: There had been rumors that my father was still alive. I needed to find, after losing my son, was named Hokage Namikaze Minato, Kakashi became a hero, and my son was left with nothing. Danzou agreed to help on one condition.
Kakashi: That condition was that?
Kagami:'ll get to that soon.
After leaving the village was able to locate my father, he was old and his body was not in condition to fight.
He was angry with me for leaving the village, told him about Obito and introduced me to Zetsu, who was able to bring me Obito's body, where I caught her eye.
One thing that the legend was uchiha never had a father who took his son's eyes. The MS was activated immediately, the pulsating excitement of receiving his eye was enough to activate it, luckily for you I got the eye Kamui was for defense and you had the offensive.
I just needed my father taught me one thing, how to control the Kyuubi.
Gai: The condition ....
Kakashi: It was that ....
Kagami: The condition that the root help Uchiha coup in the Leaf Village, little did I know that the end game had really planned Danzou.
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