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Okay, so I plotted the average length of the top ten box office films for each year. I know more data points would have been nicer, but I've only got so much free time.
I like examining unexamined assumptions ("films are longer these days") - turns out this one might be true!
― 전승 Complete Victory (in Battle) (NotEnough), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 14:45 (seven years ago) Permalink
even more amazing is just *how* short they were 10 years ago. 107 minutes!
― piscesx, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 15:17 (seven years ago) Permalink
Excellent work. "I like examining unexamined assumptions"--for the folks on ILB, let me say that Bill James couldn't have said it better himself.
We need a data-analysis expert here. Your graph is persuasive, but a couple of red flags I'd raise: 1) is 10 films a year enough to start drawing conclusions (especially 10 that aren't random--maybe hits are longer by nature), and 2) maybe 2004-2009 is a blip; if you eliminate the last five years, you could say the length didn't increase at all from 1979-2004.
I don't know. I play a grade 6 math teacher in real life, but this one's above my pay grade.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 15:19 (seven years ago) Permalink
that graph is dominated by statistical noise
― caek, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 15:22 (seven years ago) Permalink
i dont mind long movies - if the movie is too long for itself thats another thing - like transformers 2 prob just shouldve been a commercial or whatever
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 15:27 (seven years ago) Permalink
xpost -- We could retitle it 'supernovae are brighter these days'
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 15:28 (seven years ago) Permalink
skewing results: 12-minute end credits for horseshit effects-laden stuff
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 15:29 (seven years ago) Permalink
no good comes of any thread where "meme" surfaces
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, June 16, 2010 6:24 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark
― once more Jagger faps the hivemind (symsymsym), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 15:42 (seven years ago) Permalink
The end-credits is a good point--wouldn't be surprised if they account for most of the seven-minute difference between '79 and '09. I'm often hanging around right till the end of the credits to get the name of some song that caught my ear, and they go on forever. It doesn't even have to be a film with lots of special effects, very few of which I see--it applies to all films.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 15:53 (seven years ago) Permalink
I have no idea what if anything I have learnt from this chart, but really I just wanted to see if I could web-scrape the data off IMDB, which I could, with 3 lines of Perl
(data is in a Google Docs spreadsheet here; some years have <50 rows of data because some movies didn't have a length showing up; data scraped from e.g. http://www.imdb.com/search/title?year=2010%2C2010&title_type=feature&sort=moviemeter%2Casc which uses imdb's own questionable "MovieMeter" ranking but the box office data gets pretty shaky the further back you go so eh)
― bauble metropolis (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 16:37 (seven years ago) Permalink
looks about right to me. my guess is the average length hasn't changed that much, but there are currently (like in the last 5 years) a lot more 2.5 hour+ trashy movies.
― caek, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 16:41 (seven years ago) Permalink
So if that is about right then I dunno if it's more true to say that the 00s and the 60s had a lot of really long films or that the 70s and 80s had a lot of short films.
Anyway, I have a short attention span and grew up with 80s films, so if the plunge downwards right at the end means the trend is turning round again then I'm all for it.
(I don't trust the data here a whole bunch btw)
― bauble metropolis (a passing spacecadet), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 16:49 (seven years ago) Permalink
that imdb moviemeter thing is sketchy, but i'd be surprised if the top 50 were a particularly biased sample of successful mainstream movies. i can totally buy that there isn't a gross trend in running length. imo this thread inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias although i agree that there are probably more really dumb long movies than there used to be.
i wouldn't trust any results based on a year that hasn't finished though, especially with award season to come, which will boost (usu. longer) oscar-type movies into the top 50.
― caek, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 16:56 (seven years ago) Permalink
the issue here, comparing the 1950s with the present, is b-movies, i.e. second features. they were shorter than the main feature because duh. but now we don't have b-movies so.
― moholy-nagl (history mayne), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 16:57 (seven years ago) Permalink
Would all those musical-overture segments (which I assume were included in running times) from the big prestige roadshow films from the '60s make a difference? Not sure if there were enough of them to matter, but they seemed to run two or three minutes.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:02 (seven years ago) Permalink
Of course, those films were already three or four hours long, so probably not.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:04 (seven years ago) Permalink
well we're in difficult territory with that. there is a question of whether you would have had to endure them when the film got rolled out into regular cinemas. i genuinely dk. but those films were relatively rare -- this is about whether your average programmer is longer now.
― moholy-nagl (history mayne), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:07 (seven years ago) Permalink
data doesn't matter. NO comedy/thriller/romance type movie that isn't some kind of visually stunning epic or intensely contemplative and/or suspenseful masterwork should EVER be over 120 minutes, and preferably not over 100 minutes. Whether there are more films like this than there used to be, all of them are too long.
― I can take a youtube that's seldom seen, flip it, now it's a meme (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:13 (seven years ago) Permalink
― moholy-nagl (history mayne), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:16 (seven years ago) Permalink
I bet that 90% of the films that check in at 150 minutes+ aspire to one or more of those things; how many actually achieve it, obviously many fewer.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:18 (seven years ago) Permalink
This is actually a significant factor in my cinema going now. I refused to see Avatar because of the length. I always ask how long something is before agreeing to go unless it's a new Coen Bros or something on that level.
― I can take a youtube that's seldom seen, flip it, now it's a meme (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:19 (seven years ago) Permalink
A four-hour Pauly Shore film? I'm guessing that's a pass for you.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:22 (seven years ago) Permalink
# of very long movies (over 130 minutes), by decade:
1950s — 581960s — 1211970s — 721980s — 551990s — 972000s — 112
# of very short movies (under 86 minutes), by decade:
1950s — 841960s — 481970s — 381980s — 261990s — 352000s — 13
(wanted to do a medium-length one for comparison purposes, but couldn't decide what range to use — there actually seem to be two separate frequency peaks within "medium-length", one in the mid-90s, another in the low 110s)
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:23 (seven years ago) Permalink
(all drawn from spacecadet's google spreadsheet data, in case that wasn't clear)
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:25 (seven years ago) Permalink
― I can take a youtube that's seldom seen, flip it, now it's a meme (Hurting 2), Wednesday, December 29, 2010 5:13 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― clemenza, Wednesday, December 29, 2010 5:18 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i think the premise of this thread is that that's not true. 2.5 hour action movies and 2+ hour comedies that obviously don't aspire to much are not huge outliers any more.
― caek, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:33 (seven years ago) Permalink
I upped it to 150 minutes before making that statement--I see few action films, unless it's something like Inception or The Dark Knight, both of which obviously have artistic aspirations, whether you think they get there or not. But you might be right, I honestly don't know.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:45 (seven years ago) Permalink
More action films without artistic aspirations plz
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:46 (seven years ago) Permalink
On the basis of those two, I'd agree. I'd still prefer the aspirations, though, in hopes of lucking onto something like the second Spiderman or Batman films, both of which I liked a lot.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 17:53 (seven years ago) Permalink
Hurting rlly consistently a foole this week
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 19:00 (seven years ago) Permalink
don't wanna get dragged into that people-showing-up-at-random-during-the-middle-of-films-at-the-cinema-in-the-olden-days argument again but check this out
― piscesx, Saturday, 21 April 2012 13:23 (five years ago) Permalink
it was a well known gimmick of Hitch's, don't think i've seen that poster before tho
― aboulia banks (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 April 2012 13:27 (five years ago) Permalink
IIRC that gimmick was used with Psycho only, because it was advertised as a Janet Leigh movie, and Hitchcock was afraid that people turning in late might miss her part of the movie.
― Tuomas, Monday, 23 April 2012 11:57 (five years ago) Permalink
― piscesx, Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:47 (five years ago) Permalink
it's amazing how they made the bold creative decision to make it into three movies. really makes me excited for the results.
― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:53 (five years ago) Permalink
169 minutes! holy Christ.
― piscesx, Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:54 (five years ago) Permalink
All too many other potentially great movies, from Titanic to Out of Africa
stopped reading here
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 13 December 2012 11:59 (five years ago) Permalink
― piscesx, Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:01 (five years ago) Permalink
This IS 40; 133 minutes for a comedy.
― piscesx, Saturday, 16 February 2013 16:37 (four years ago) Permalink
John Cleese going with the 'people rocked up in the middle of the film then left where they came in' line, which some ilx folk are/were skeptical about
― piscesx, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 16:33 (one year ago) Permalink
What's he on about - his "parents' generation"? We used to do this all the time when I was a kid. This is how I watched The Meaning of Life and Life of Brian.
― everything, Tuesday, 10 May 2016 18:53 (one year ago) Permalink
A 1:45 cut of Civil War would be better.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 00:14 (one year ago) Permalink
minute 45, right?
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 03:46 (one year ago) Permalink
― a poptimist consumed with celebrity culture and vacuous pop music (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 May 2016 05:53 (one year ago) Permalink
Too many unneccesary trilogies.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 11 May 2016 06:25 (one year ago) Permalink


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A skyrocketing number of students are seeking crisis counseling at East Carolina University, prompting the school to make sure it educates pupils not just on academics but also on how to cope with life's challenges, NBC News reported.
ECU reported a 16 percent increase in student counseling appointments in the past two years. Those involving a crisis were up 52 percent, according to a July report that shocked officials on the Greenville, North Carolina, campus.
"It wasn't just the numbers, it was the intensity and severity," said ECU Director of Counseling Valerie Kisler-van Reede. "It felt like something very different was going on — a lack of resiliency and the ability to cope."
As a result, the college has boosted its counseling staff and resources and also introduced a new program — Recognition, Insight and Openness or RIO — to teach students self-talk, journaling, mindfulness and other cognitive-affective stress management techniques. RIO was adapted from a California Polytechnic State University workshop and originated with Central Washington University.
A 2015 survey from the Center for Collegiate Mental Health at Penn State revealed that half of all students who visit the counseling services at the nation's colleges are experiencing anxiety, NBC News reported.
Some say this generation of college students is having a difficult time "adulting" — a slang term for behaving like a responsible adult.
But ECU officials say the problem is deeper, about resilience, and it begins long before they arrive at college.
"They say the millennials have failed, but have not experienced (that) failure," said ECU Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Virginia Hardy.

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Some crimes are so henious, that it is impossible to argue that the perpetrator did not know what he/she was doing. And the Delhi gangrape is one such case. In this case, where the accused was not onl y in a position of power, but was also responsible for barbaric acts like driving an iron rod into the victims body, he ought to be tried as an adult, because it is clear that he not only knew what he was doing, but was also reveling in it. And the law should be amended to make allowances for that. One possible suggestion that has already come up in the media, is that rather than setting a blanket minimum age, treatment to the juvenile offender can vary depending on mental growth and capacity to understand criminal responsibility. This makes much more sense, rather than treating a 17-year-old who rapes on par with a ten-year-old offender.
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Juvenile law after much deliberation was brought about in India to prevent juveniles from being classified as adults when facing the justice system. Juveniles, like others in prisons, are entitled to an attempt at being rehabilitated rather than being thrown into a jail and throwing away the key. By amending the law, that right is taken away and assumes that there is no scope for rehabilitation. The law is always made for a majority of cases and in this case, while it may seem horribly wrong it still means the juvenile has to be tried as per the existing law. An isolated case cannot be the sole argument to amend a law, it requires further study and only if proven that it merits a change, should it even be considered. At most the period of rehabilitation can be increased but to make drastic amendments to the law just to cater to the outrage over this single incident would be a folly.
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April 1, 2005
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Health & Welfare: Employees scheduled to work five or more hours daily
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Employee + Spouse $265.13/Month
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ATLANTA — Georgia Hospital Association officials say the industry has agreed on a plan that calls for extending and tweaking an expiring hospital tax that provides a key chunk of state health care spending.
The proposed changes would benefit private hospitals that lose money under the current design of the "bed tax," which is actually a levy on net patient revenue. The money is used as state matching funding to get federal money that increases Medicaid insurance payments to hospitals.
Association executives said the changes would make the program more lucrative for the state without harming financially teetering hospitals that serve a large number of Medicaid patients, most of whom are children.
What to do about the tax will be a key for state lawmakers in their session that begins Jan. 14. If the tax expires with no substitute, lawmakers would, in effect, add $650 million or so to the fiscal year 2014 shortfall for the Medicaid insurance program for the poor, elderly and disabled.
That would force lawmakers to make steep cuts to Medicaid payments for providers, replace the lost Medicaid money by cutting other public issue services, or a combination. There is uniform opposition among Gov. Nathan Deal and Republican legislative leaders to increase broad-based taxes to handle budget woes.
Association spokesman Kevin Bloye said that hospital representatives have presented the plan to Deal and that he is generally supportive. Deal spokesman Brian Robinson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Deal will present his budget proposal after the General Assembly convenes.
Bloye promised that hospital executives, along with local and civic business leaders from around the state, will lobby for the plan.
"We are arguing that this is an economic development and quality-of-life issue," he said. "It would be catastrophic to local communities" for hospitals to lose revenue, lay off health care professionals and deny care to patients, he said. "Some community hospitals would close."
There is political pressure not to renew or replace the tax, led by anti-government advocate Grover Norquist, author of the famous anti-tax pledge that many Republican politicians, including Deal, have signed.
Lawmakers adopted the tax in 2010 as state tax collections tanked because of the recession.
Hospitals in Georgia pay a 1.45 percent levy on net patient revenue. That will yield about $234 million in the budget year that ends June 30.
That money yields about $448 million in additional federal support for Medicaid. Hospitals then get a resulting 11.88 percent bump in their payment rates for treating Medicaid patients.
The program amounts to a redistribution of revenue throughout Georgia hospitals. Large private systems like Atlanta-based Piedmont Healthcare are net losers because Medicaid patients aren't a significant part of their patient base. The biggest net gainers are rural community hospitals and urban safety-nets such as Grady Health System.
Of course, private hospitals have stronger balance sheets in part because Grady and other, smaller hospitals serve patients who have no insurance or not enough coverage to pay for care.
Bloye said the industry plan would allow the tax to continue, while adding a second layer to help mitigate the losses for the private, wealthier hospitals. GHA's financing chief, Carie Summers, said private hospitals would pay a second assessment based on the number of all overnight stays, except those paid by Medicare, the federal insurance program for older Americans.
Like the patient-revenue tax, that money would be parlayed into more federal cash, with the resulting pool helping finance what would effectively be rebate payments back to the private facilities.
Bloye described the plan as a hard-fought compromise among hospitals with varying interests.
Rep. Terry England, R-Auburn, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and a supporter of the general hospital tax concept, called it a positive sign that the hospital groups had rallied around a common plan.
England said the proposed changes would reduce the number of hospitals who pay more in taxes than they get in benefits. He said Georgia's government would not keep any portion of the new revenue.
"Every dime of that then comes back to the hospitals and to the industry, so it all flows directly back to them," England said. "And it helps provide indigent health care to the state."
England was unsure whether the plan would be palatable to some of the staunchest anti-tax lawmakers in his party.
"I think with the hospital groups coming together on it, it makes things more palatable to folks than when everyone was all split," he said.


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Pope and Saudi king to hold landmark meeting
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict will meet Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah next week for talks expected to centre on Christian-Islam relations, the Vatican said on Wednesday.
The first talks between a Saudi monarch and a pope will take place on Tuesday. The king, currently in Britain, will be in Italy to meet government officials.
The Vatican does not have formal diplomatic ties with Saudi Arabia and relations have been strained. The Vatican has often called for greater rights for the tiny Christian minority there.
The Christians, mostly guest workers, are not allowed to practice their faith in public, the Vatican says.
Abdullah is custodian of the mosques in the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina, sites of pilgrimages by millions of Muslims every year.
Muslims around the world protested last year after Benedict, speaking at a university in his native Germany, used a quote that associated Islam with violence. He said he was misunderstood and later expressed his esteem for Muslims.
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He was born May 14, 1933, at Landis to Samuel Carol and Gertrude Lawrence Sutterfield. He was a retired barber and United States Navy veteran of the Korean War. He was also a retired Assembly of God evangelist and pastor. He enjoyed fishing, gardening and garage sales. He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Roselea Sutterfield; and a nephew, Russell Sutterfield.
Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Lea Sutterfield of Russellville; four sons and daughters-in-law, Dennis and Jan Sutterfield of Russellville, Tony and Betty Sutterfield of Bentonville, Michael and Rhonda Sutterfield of Cabot and Greg and Amy Sutterfield of Russellville; a brother, Bernard Sutterfield of Wichita, Kansas; 11 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. on Monday, June 4, 2012, at the Shinn Chapel with the Rev. Charles Kendrick and the Rev. Sidney Ray officiating. Burial, with military honors provided by the V. F. W. Rogers-Rye Post 2283, will be in Rest Haven Memorial Park under the direction of Shinn Funeral Service.
Pallbearers will be Christopher Sutterfield, Daniel Caudle, Austin Sutterfield, Caleb Sutterfield, Cameron Sutterfield and Jeff Davis. Honorary pallbearers will be Brian Moorehouse, John Sorrels, Gerald Chenowith, Jack Bishop and David Ewart.
Visitation will be from 4-6 p.m. today at the funeral home.
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A Preschool Lesson on Lachish
Last night as I was helping Jo Jo, my five-year-old son, brush his teeth before bed, I asked him who Naaman was. No, I don't typically quiz my preschooler on obscure Bible stories, but some weeks ago he had shown me a craft he had made during a Sunday school lesson about the leper healed by Elisha (2 Kings 5), and I had been impressed with his level of comprehension. The other day I had stumbled across that craft again, and I was curious to see how much he remembered. Not surprisingly, the words "Naaman" and "leper" failed to jog his memory, but when I mentioned that Naaman had been told to wash seven times, he said, "In the Jordan river." Needless to say, I was very pleased that he still remembered some details of the story.
It was at this point that Jo Jo turned the tables on me. "Daddy," he said, "I don't know if you know this Bible story, but my teacher told me about some people who shot arrows so far the people couldn't even see them and they used logs to break down the walls." Now, I'm not completely sure what Bible story he was referring to—for all I know his teacher could simply have been relating a scene from a movie about the Trojan War—but I said, "Well, that sounds like when the evil Assyrians conquered the city of Lachish." I then told him, "I can even show you pictures of the battle!"
Then, in lieu of a bed-time story, I fired up Accordance on my laptop, opened the Bible Lands PhotoGuide, and did a search for "Lachish." I then showed him a photo of the modern day tel, the walls, and the siege ramp built by the Assyrians.
As exciting as these pictures were to me, archaeological site photos won't hold a five-year-old's interest for very long, so I quickly moved on to the Assyrian reliefs which depict this siege in vivid detail. I showed him the Assyrian archers, spearmen, and slingers. I showed him the battering ram being pushed up the siege ramp to the base of the walls. I pointed out how the defenders on the walls were throwing torches in an attempt to light the battering ram on fire, and how the Assyrians were ready for this, using water to douse the flames.
Finally, I showed him the Judean prisoners prostrating themselves before the Assyrian king and begging for mercy, while other prisoners were being executed and tortured.
Okay, so it wasn't the most cuddly bedtime story I could have told, but it had plenty of the action and adventure little boys crave. I assured Jo Jo that even though the Assyrians were strong and terrible, God preserved the people of Judah and eventually the Assyrians were defeated. As I said, I could have told warmer and fuzzier stories, but here was a chance to reinforce the fact that the Bible story he had asked me about was something that really happened. And thanks to the PhotoGuide, it was easier than going to the bookshelf to find Green Eggs and Ham.


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I found this on tide line i have 2 now from around same place around coastal cliff. Is this fossil dog teeth or sea animal please help?????????????
I cannot think of any teeth that look like this. The pattern on them is reminiscent of hard wood and they do remind me of the center of a Date which has been worn by the sea!!
I would say not wood as they have a shiney enamel on them and all 3 are of similar shape and size, thanks anyway!!!!
Some times the most important aspect of identification is the location of the find. Looking at your profile I see that you have said that you live near the Queensland Museum in Brisbane Australia. Assuming that you have found these items near there I will make another suggestion. Brisbane Council has a Weed identification guide on its website which includes the tree Poinciana, Delonix regia. I believe what you have found is the seeds from this tree, they form in huge pods which then break open and the seeds are carried in waterways, often to the sea, for dispersal. If you do a google search for Delonix regia seed you will see what I maen.
My apologies u are totally right i looked it up and there it was.
Hi John,
Wow! I thought these were some kind of sea monster and DEFINITELY not seeds from a tree! Thanks a million for helping me find out something new about trees!


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Fast times in Bislett 800m
The women's 800m at the ExxonMobil Bislett is already shaping as potentially the fastest race of the 2010 season. With the Samsung Diamond League heading to Oslo, a quality field will face the starter's gun and quick times are virtually assured. Ireland's Karen Shinkin is responsible to ensuring a fast, even pace that can give all the competitors a realistic chance of completing the two laps in well under 2 minutes.
Reigning European Champion Mariya Savinova has a best of 1.57.56. The Russian enjoyed a string of fast times last season and was most impressive in Barcelona, her powerful finish carrying her to an emphatic victory in 1.58.22 over the surprising Dutch woman Yvonne Hak (an confirmed starter in Oslo) whose stirring second place in 1.58.88 reminded fans of the great Ellen Van Langen.
The ever enthusiastic fans in Oslo's will "lift the roof" off Bislett stadium if local hero Ingvill Måkestad looms up on the leaders shoulder at any stage in the last lap. The stylish Norwegian who boasts a personal best of 1.59.82 has enjoyed a remarkable return to athletics after injury curtailed her career in mid 2000s. She has meticulously prepared for this race and is undoubtedly chasing a new Norwegian record which the Bislett crowd would be immensely supportive of!
Britain's Jenny Meadows has looked first class so far this season, winning tactical races in both Shangahi and Hengelo and will be keen to revise her personal best of 1.57.93. Meadows has minor medals at World, World Indoor and European Championships and has developed a very powerful sprint finish.
Great interest will follow the World Champion Caster Semenya who is steadily regain her form. Her personal best is an impressive at 1.55.45, when she won in Berlin in 2009 and has already raced a couple of times in her native South Africa and has no fear of a fast pace.
Another former World Champion is Janeth Jepkosgei-Buseinei is also rounding into very good form. The Italian based Kenyan was world Champion in 2007, where she recorded her best time of 1.56.08. She has subsequently placed second in both the Olympic Games and another World Championships. Jepkosgei-Buseinei recently showed excellent stamina in the 1500m at Rome's Golden Gala, where she ran 4.04.87, just outside her personal best.
Two other Russians with outstanding personal bests are both coming to ExxonMobil Bislett Games to recapture their best form. Sevetlana Klyuka and Ekaterina Kostetskaya both represented Russia at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, both have personal bests in the 1.56 range and both are looking to capitalize on a period of excellent pre-season training.
When all these outstanding competitors come together in the atmosphere at Bislett, there is only one thing you can suspect ... fast times.


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Friday, July 20, 2012 - 12:30 p.m.
Rick Crawford was Ambrose Garrett's personal assistant. Detectives Armstrong and Murphy interviewed him in his office at Garrett Insurance. The interview was recorded with the witness' knowledge and consent.
- Detective T. Armstrong
- Detective S. Murphy
- Rick Crawford
Detective Murphy: For the record, would you please state your name, age and address?
Rick Crawford: My name is Richard Crawford, but most people call me Rick, and I live at 310 Thacker Loop. I'm 24. No, 25.
Detective Murphy: Thanks for taking time to talk to us today. I imagine things have been hectic this week.
Rick Crawford: I think every single client has called at least three times.
Detective Murphy: How are you holding up?
Rick Crawford: I'm doing OK. It's still hard to believe.
Detective Armstrong: How long have you worked here?
Rick Crawford: Since I graduated from high school. I hope I can remember how to fill out a job application.
Detective Armstrong: What was it like, being Ambrose Garrett's personal assistant?
Rick Crawford: Mr. Garrett was a man who knew what he wanted and didn't mince words. In that way, working for him was easy because I always knew exactly what he wanted from me.
Detective Armstrong: In what way was it difficult?
Rick Crawford: He would attend the different conventions. You know, nurses or dentists or plumbers. Garrett Insurance would have a booth and I'd have to staff it, talk people up. He'd always find a few pivotal people, and then we'd have to wine and dine them.
Detective Murphy: You'd go with Mr. Garrett?
Rick Crawford: He thought it would impress potential clients if his assistant was there at the table to take notes and retrieve whatever he wanted from his briefcase.
Detective Murphy: How did the two of you get along?
Rick Crawford: I worked for him long enough that I knew how to read Mr. Garrett and respond accordingly.
Detective Murphy: What first attracted you to the insurance business?
Rick Crawford: I don't know. I saw an ad in the newspaper for this job and I just applied. I've been here ever since.
Detective Armstrong: Did Mr. Garrett use the conventions to, shall we say, step out on his wife?
Rick Crawford: Not at all.
Detective Armstrong: You never saw him acting a little too friendly with other women, other men?
Rick Crawford: I never saw anything like that. He loved Delilah. I don't think he ever even noticed other women in that way.
Detective Murphy: Was he having troubles with any particular clients?
Rick Crawford: Mr. Garrett was a charmer when he wanted to be. Someone could call swearing, and 30 seconds after I transferred them to Mr. Garrett, he'd have them laughing.
Detective Murphy: Has that happened a lot lately, angry clients calling?
Rick Crawford: No. I'm just generalizing. Over the years, policies got lost, checks were late, claims were denied. You know.
Detective Armstrong: Did Mr. Garrett complain to you about anyone in particular?
Rick Crawford: It may seem strange, but we weren't really close in that way. I could read his moods, but he didn't talk about things other than business as it related to me. I mean he talked, but he was a salesman. It wasn't personal.
Detective Murphy: Did Mr. Garrett drink much at these conventions?
Rick Crawford: He drank socially. He was trying to make people comfortable enough that they would talk insurance and perhaps even sign on the dotted line. It was all about closing.
Detective Murphy: Did you see him drink on other occasions?
Rick Crawford: I only saw him at work or work-related events. Like I said, sometimes he drank socially when he was with clients, but I never saw him drink in the office.
Detective Murphy: Did he take drugs, gamble?
Rick Crawford: Not that I know about. That doesn't sound like him at all. What are you trying to do? Are you trying to make this his fault? Blame the victim?
Detective Armstrong: It's a little hard to believe that Mr. Garrett was such an angel. You've painted a picture of a man who does no wrong.
Rick Crawford: He was complicated. There was the side he showed the world and that's all he showed the world.
Detective Armstrong: You ever get a peek at the other side?
Rick Crawford: I could tell when he was acting because I worked for him so long, but what he was acting to cover up I really couldn't tell you. He didn't show that other side to me. I can't help you with that.
Detective Murphy: As long as you tell us the truth, you're being helpful. You are telling us the truth, aren't you?
Rick Crawford: Yes.
Detective Murphy: You're not just selling us a story to make us happy? To make Mr. Garrett look good?
Rick Crawford: Mr. Garrett was the salesman, not me.
Detective Murphy: Do you know anything about his life outside of work?
Rick Crawford: No, not really.
Detective Murphy: Do you know anything about his role in his neighborhood's homeowners association?
Rick Crawford: I know he was president of it.
Detective Murphy: How do you know that?
Rick Crawford: Sometimes he'd ask me to make copies of things: meeting agendas, meeting minutes, flyers, stuff like that.
Detective Armstrong: Did anyone ever call him at the office about association business?
Rick Crawford: Not very often. Anytime someone did, he wouldn't take the call and told me to tell the person to call him at home.
Detective Armstrong: How did they respond to that?
Rick Crawford: They weren't happy, but I didn't give them a choice. What Mr. Garrett said went, period. There was no way they were going to talk me into putting them through to him.
Detective Armstrong: You worked for him what, seven years?
Rick Crawford: Yes.
Detective Murphy: What leads you to believe he loved his wife?
Rick Crawford: The way he talked to her on the phone. Mr. Garrett was always having me order flowers for her. He never missed their anniversary or her birthday.
Detective Armstrong: Speaking of that, happy birthday.
Rick Crawford: Oh, thanks.
Detective Murphy: Doing anything special today to celebrate?
Rick Crawford: I'll visit my aunt. She's in a nursing home and always appreciates a little company.
Detective Murphy: Going to bring a little cake with you?
Rick Crawford: Probably not. She doesn't even always remember who I am.
Detective Murphy: That must be hard.
Rick Crawford: It is what it is.
Detective Armstrong: Let's flash forward to a possible future. It turns out your boss was murdered and we make an arrest. Who did it?
Rick Crawford: I don't know.
Detective Armstrong: What image flashed through your head? What was your first thought?
Rick Crawford: A random stranger.
Detective Armstrong: In my experience, people are usually killed by someone within their circle.
Rick Crawford: I wasn't saying a stranger killed him. That's just what went through my mind.
Detective Armstrong: OK, thanks. That's all we have for now, but we might have more questions later. Will that be a problem?
Rick Crawford: You know where to find me.
Detective Murphy: Yes, we do.
Interview ends - 12:48 PM


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OCEAN CITY- The only thing the Ocean City golf community enjoys more than hitting the links is hitting the links for a good cause, and perhaps no better opportunity to do that presents itself on Monday, May 11, with the 2nd Annual Cancer Awareness Golf Tournament at the Links at Lighthouse Sound.
This year's event will help raise funds for a cause near and dear to the resort community. Much of the proceeds from the event will go directly to the family of popular local Rob Chandler, also known as DJ Wax, whose now 16-year-old son Kameron Chandler continues his battle with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, an often deadly cancer of the blood.
Kameron was first diagnosed with the disease in 2005 at the age of 12, but after going through chemotherapy and radiation along with a bone marrow transplant, his cancer went into remission and he was given a clean bill of health. Unfortunately, his disease returned last October and he underwent another transplant in March and is now recovering in Wilmington.
Kameron and his family have a long and difficult road ahead of them and much of the proceeds from the 2nd Annual Cancer Awareness Tourney at Lighthouse Sound on May 11 will help. Also a beneficiary of the event this year is Terri Ford, who was diagnosed with breast cancer last April. Terri is currently undergoing gene therapy, which will continue until July, and some of the proceeds from the tournament will help with her mounting bills.
The tournament gets underway with registration at 11:30 a.m. with a shotgun start slated for 12:30 p.m. The entry fee of $150 per person or $600 per team includes a box lunch, a buffet dinner, beer and liquor, a silent auction and many prizes. Among the auction items will be several major sports jerseys donated by the Jersey Boyz including an autographed Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco jersey and a Washington Redskins tight end Chris Cooley autographed jersey among several others. For more information, contact Kristi Kruger at (410) 213-8961 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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I was a Christian. Mostly I was a Christian because my mother was a Christian, I think my father was too, but he rarely went to church or talked about it. All my friends were Christians; all the adults I knew appeared to be Christians too. The First Baptist Church in the small town in Massachusetts I grew up in was less than a half a mile down the road. My Great-grand father had donated the organ; my Grandfather had painted the picture behind the baptistery. This church was literally in my blood. From before I can remember, I went to Sunday school, as well as Sunday service. Going to church was just what you did, not going was unthinkable. This particular church, which was considered to be Northern Conservative Baptist, was only moderately fire and brimstone. Sure Jews, and probably Catholics, were going to hell but, I wasn't aware that any other kind of religious people like Muslims, Buddhists, or even atheists existed. There were also Methodists and Congregationalists, but they were almost like us.
Most of the organized activity in my life was either at school or at church. I went to Daily Vacation Bible School in the summer, later on I joined the Christian Service Brigade, a Boy Scout like organization, but with heavy Christian influence. The best thing about CSB was summer camp. It was up in Maine on the shores of Lake Bunganut. There were crafts, swimming, canoeing, campfires, archery and more. And of course, preaching, but not too much. It was great to get away from home and parents and meet a bunch of other kids, and some pretty neat counselors. Back home there were prayer meetings, testimony nights, bible quizzes with other churches. I sang in the church choir starting at twelve. I even helped clean the church with my best buddy who was sort of the janitor.
I was "saved" and born again with full immersion baptism. My name was entered in the church rolls and they gave me a real nice bible. I tried really hard to make contact with God/Jesus, to feel the presence of the Holy Spirit, but I never seemed to feel anything like it. I am now fairly sure that I never really believed in any of it. I'm sure that I did everything because it was the thing to do.
As time went on, doubt began to creep in. At first it was sex, in the form of masturbation, that started it. If God watches everything, he was watching me, and knew all of the nasty thoughts I was having about girls. The fun of what I was doing eventually won out over the fear of God. Then there was the behavior of the supposedly upright Christians. The deacon would gas unwanted puppies and kittens with lawnmower exhaust. People would stand up on Testimony night and tell us what good Christians they were, and then their actions would belie it. Conflicts grew between what I was told in church and what I perceived outside of church. I couldn't believe my Catholic friends were going to Hell because they didn't believe the way we believed, I couldn't believe that people in Africa would go to Hell just because they never heard of Jesus. As I learned about the real world and science, the Bible stories were harder and harder to take as real. It was the introduction to the Theory of Evolution in high school thanks to a wonderful biology teacher, and the religious resistance to it, that led to the most major crack in my faith so far. After this point, my religious involvement was mostly lip-service and inertia. My drift towards atheism had begun.
The rudiments remained. I still identified myself as Protestant on Navy forms, in Boot Camp and "A" School I sang in the Bluejacket Chorus at services in the Mainside Chapel every Sunday. Going and singing really didn't bother me, in fact I loved the old hymns (and still do), I just didn't believe the message anymore. Other than going to church to sing, my church going days were pretty much over, I just saw no reason to go except for weddings, funerals and baptisms. I was married in a church, by a minister, but that was really pro forma and to keep my wife's family happy. This was in Scotland and our Banns were actually cried.
For years I basically ignored religion, beginning to think of myself as agnostic, still not quite able to internally let go of it all. This was probably the result of the deep brainwashing I received as a child, the fear of hell, the fear of being condemned, the fear of the devil, the fear of taking that final step. Then around the 80's, things began to change. First came the Moral Majority and the beginning of religious involvement with politics. The obvious hypocrisy and lies that were coming from Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson were beginning to sour discourse in America. Then came 9/11 and I started digging into Islam, this was followed by the "Intelligent" Design movement. As I started digging into it, helped greatly by access to the internet, I came across some real atheists, starting with Austin Cline at About Atheism; this led me to Panda's Thumb, then to P.Z. Myers' Pharyngula, then on to Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and Dennett. I was learning about what atheism really is and found that there were many people who had let go of their childish fears. When I finally faced up to the idea, which is certainly true, that there is no god or gods and that religion is based on superstition and fear, I, like Saul on the road to Damascus, felt the scales fall, not from my eyes, but my brain. The Problem of Evil no longer existed, the perceived guilt of punishment for what was supposed to be bad behavior evaporated. I was no longer in fear of a capricious, spiteful god of the OT. I no longer had to try to reconcile the supposed miracles of Jesus with the real world. Although sometimes, in the depths of the night, I can still catch the dim whispering gibberish of the imp of religious nonsense that hides, desperately, in the dim corners of my brain.
My atheism is confirmed when I see all of what science and rationality can explain about the way the world and the universe works and, indeed, much of the way the human mind works; and then look at what religion, any religion, can explain. Religion explains nothing; virtually every truth claim it makes can be shown to have a natural explanation that can be supported by evidence and observation. Science is constantly making the box that religion keeps god in, the box of things that sciences does not (yet) have answers to, smaller and smaller. "Goddidit" explains vanishingly less and less. Nothing of what we know about the world and the universe that it is in requires any action from any god to explain it. God exists alright, god and angels and demons and miracles and heaven and hell all exist inside the human mind.
Now, the older I get, I'm in my sixties, the more I am absolutely convinced that the life I have now is the only life I get and that when I die I will only live on in the memories of those that knew me.
Red Mann
United States


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The plan I have in mind is that we ditch Andrea and go after Greg Oden to play Center and get either Derrick Williams or Enes Kanter to play Power Forward, this allows our frontcourt to be a defensive and offensive powerhouses. By trading Andrea we can get either draft picks or even Small Forward/Point Guard To Fill our need.
Step 1: Draft either Kanter/Williams
Step 2: Get Greg Oden through a signing or a sign and trade
Step 3: Trade Andrea, Weems and Amir for Small Forwards and Point Guards or Picks
List Of Point Guards:
1. Trade for Irving
2. Mike Conley
3. Kyle Lowry
4. Any You Would Consider Please List
List Of Small Forwards/Shooting Guards:
1.Alex Burks (Trade)
2.Klay Thompson (Trade)
3.Tyler Honeycutt (Trade)
4.Nicolas Batum
5. Andre Igoudala
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Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Sting, Billy Joel and Christina Aguilera have all signed on for a a televised benefit concert to aid victims of the recent storm that decimated the northeast. "Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together" will air at 8 pm ET tonight (November 2) on networks owned by NBC Universal (including NBC, MSNBC, CNBC and Bravo, among others).
Tina Fey, Kevin Bacon, Al Roker, Mary J. Blige, James Gandolfini and Jon Stewart are also scheduled to appear on the hour-long broadcast.
The show will be hosted by network personality Matt Lauer, with other network stars like Brian Williams and Jimmy Fallon set to appear. Money collected will be donated to American Red Cross relief efforts.
The Red Cross provides shelter, food, emotional support and other assistance to those affected by disasters like Hurricane Sandy.
To donate, visit RedCross.org, call 1-800-RED-CROSS or text the word REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.
— Brian Ives, CBS Local


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Device control pioneer FutureVideo Products, Inc. has unveiled Multi-View, a new digital video playback and synchronizing software solution. Multi-View provides simultaneous playback and synchronization of pre-recorded digital video media on a Windows 2000/XP-based PC platform.
Up to 24 digital video windows can be played back together and re-synchronized at any designated time. Multiple digital media formats are supported including uncompressed AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and others--when appropriate decoders are installed. In addition, each window may be re-sized, cropped, and positioned anywhere within the workspace.
An event log can be created for each video to mark specific interest points within the content. Continuous video playback between user-settable In and Out points is possible. Multi-View can be used for video post-production, aerospace, military intelligence, security/surveillance, geophysical, law enforcement, legal, medical, process control, and sports applications.
Multi-View is also compatible with FutureVideo's Media Commander MC-20PRO which can map all the application's shortcut keys into a convenient ergonomic control surface that includes jog and shuttle functions. By adding FutureVideo's Media Commander 100 modules, tape and disk media can also be directly controlled in a network of up to 16 VCRs and DVD players.


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Two big swings carry Blue Jays, Dickey to road win
ARLINGTON -- R.A. Dickey certainly wasn't at his best on Saturday afternoon, but he battled. And with the way the Blue Jays have been playing lately, that's all they really needed.
Dickey experienced an increase in velocity, but his knuckleball didn't have its typical movement. That would normally lead to a disastrous outing, but Dickey found a way to continuously pitch out of trouble while his offense took care of the rest.Full Game Coverage
ARLINGTON -- R.A. Dickey certainly wasn't at his best on Saturday afternoon, but he battled. And with the way the Blue Jays have been playing lately, that's all they really needed.
Dickey experienced an increase in velocity, but his knuckleball didn't have its typical movement. That would normally lead to a disastrous outing, but Dickey found a way to continuously pitch out of trouble while his offense took care of the rest.Full Game Coverage
Adam Lind and Colby Rasmus homered and Dickey allowed just one run over 5 2/3 innings in the Blue Jays' 6-1 victory over Texas at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.
"I was able to make some bigger pitches with bases loaded and runners in scoring position to manage the outing enough to win," Dickey said. "At the end of the year, you take out your four best and your four worst, it's the other 22 starts in the middle that are really who you are, and you have to try to win games like this when your team gives you a lead."
Dickey was provided with that lead early in the game when Lind lined a two-run shot off the foul pole in right field during the first inning. The homer came on a 1-2 pitch from right-hander Josh Lindblom and was part of a two-hit afternoon for Toronto's first baseman.
Rasmus increased the lead to four in the fourth inning when he skied one to right field on a 3-2 pitch. It was his second homer in as many games against the Rangers and his 12th of the year, which gave Toronto more than enough breathing room the rest of the way.
The Blue Jays added two more runs in the ninth, as Josh Thole slapped an opposite-field RBI single and Emilio Bonifacio brought home a run on an error by third baseman Adrian Beltre.
The high run total came despite the fact that the Blue Jays failed to record at least 10 hits for just the third time in their past seven games. They had eight hits on Saturday, but in part because of the homers, it was more than enough to get the job done.
The biggest positive is that the club hasn't been forced to rely solely on the heart of the order to get the job done every night.
"To have a good year, everybody has to be contributing," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "Now our pitching is starting to come together as well, and you have to ride that and play good baseball."
Dickey was handed an early lead during his last start as well, but he was unable to hang on. He ended up matching a season high with seven earned runs en route to a 10-6 loss to the White Sox, but he didn't experience a similar setback in Texas.
The 38-year-old was far from perfect, but he found a way to continuously pitch out of jams to keep his team in front. He recorded just one three-up, three-down inning and had multiple baserunners on during the fourth and fifth innings, but he limited the overall damage.
Dickey didn't reach the end of his rope until the sixth inning after he loaded the bases and allowed Nelson Cruz to score on a fielder's choice. That put runners on the corners with two outs, and Gibbons opted to make a move for the bullpen.
He appeared visibly upset with the decision and wanted to stay out and finish the sixth. But Gibbons brought in right-hander Neil Wagner, and he was the one who got the club out of the jam on a flyball to center field. Afterwards, Dickey downplayed the incident and said it wasn't a big deal.
"I wasn't anticipating it, that's for sure," said Dickey, who allowed seven hits and three walks. "I felt like I could have handled the situation, but Gibby's the manager and when he feels like there's a matchup he needs to take advantage of, that needs to be the way of it."
The Blue Jays have now matched their season high with a four-game winning streak. It's also the first time this year the club has won four consecutive games on the road.
The recent turnaround has been in large part because the pitching staff is finally starting to put it all together. Despite injuries to Brandon Morrow and J.A. Happ, the pitchers have posted a 2.31 ERA over their past 11 games en route to an 8-3 team mark over that same span.
Toronto now finds itself back to within five games of .500 for the first time since late April, while also closing the gap in the Wild Card race to 6 1/2 games.
"They've done a heck of a job," Gibbons said. "Early in the season, we struggled with the consistency of our starting rotation. We struggled in other areas too, but they're all starting to come together now. You can see it all starting to come together."
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB.


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Welcome to The Exmoor White Horse Inn
At the very heart of Exmoor, nestling by the bridge over the river Exe, you'll find The Exmoor White Horse Inn. Festooned in Virginia Creeper,
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Kick off your boots and unwind beside one of our log fires. Choose from over 150 Malt Whiskies and a fine selection of local real ales, savour our delicious locally sourced produce, and at the end of a fantastic evening, retire to a sumptuous room full of charm and character. It's no more than you would expect from an idyllic Inn, which offers its guests a warm and welcoming atmosphere in a true Westcountry style - a favourite all year round.


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A Farewell
"A Friend"
While traveling down this road of life some of us are fortunate enough to meet someone, every how slightly, that effects that road in ways that they would never know. Steve Wakefield, known to many on the Internet as "AoT", was one such person. Even though he and I only met once face to face, because of the Internet, I considered him one of the few true friends I had. On November 1, 2005 I learned that my friend had passed away on October 29 after losing his battle with cancer. This is a small attempt to try to explain just who this great man was, what he meant to Civil War community, his neighbors, and what his passing means to me.
Stephen Dyer Wakefield
Steve came into the WebAmerica chatroom in the mid 90s when just a few of us were starting to talk about the Civil War over the Internet. He stayed with the group when the WebAmerica room shut down. As we bounced around the Internet trying to find a home, there was Steve. Always with us, always giving us encouragement, and always sharing his immense knowledge of the Western Theater in which his beloved Army of Tennessee played such a huge role. We talked many times, about many subjects over the years.
While the WebAmerica chatroom was still up there came a young man to visit with us who called himself Henry. He came to us from St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee in the summer of 1997. What we found out was that Henry had cancer and was in the Ronald McDonald house there. What we did not know was that Steve had taken this young man under his wing because of his interest in the Civil War and bought the computer for the Ronald McDonald House so that Henry could join us in the chatroom. Then when Henry was sent home a few months later, it was Steve that sent him a dog, which Henry named "Sam" after Sam Grant (we know him as General Ulysses S. Grant). Unfortunately, a few months later it was Steve that stood by the grave site of young Henry, holding his mom's hand, as Henry was lowered in.
In 1999 I started what is known as "The Civil War Western Theater Discussion Group", or the CWWT. Over the years, this has become one of the premier Civil War discussion groups on the Internet with over 500 members and still growing. If it were not for Steve this discussion group might not exist. While we were still in the old WebAmerica Civil War chatroom, one evening the discussion turned toward the war in the west and how it seemed to be neglected in most books and discussions. As the discussions continued I made a comment about setting up a discussion group dedicated to the western theater. I let it drop at that. It was not too long before I got an email from Steve asking what happened to setting up a discussion group about the western theater. I wrote back and told him that it was merely a suggestion and I had not thought about really setting one up. He wrote back and reckoned as to how he thought I should. I wrote and told him that while I could do it technically, and I had the website as a platform to advertise it, I did not know enough about the war in the west to ask an intelligent question. He reckoned as to how that was not important, it was a learning tool, and if I would set it up he would be one of the first members and help me along as best he could. As I thought about a little more and contacted a couple of friends to see if they would help moderate it, I decided to do it. Thus the CWWT was born.
Now this is not to say that Steve and I always saw eye to eye about everything. As some the old timers in the CWWT might remember, in the early days of this discussion group Steve got his shorts all in a bunch and decided to resign. I wrote him and told him that I thought he was just as wrong as "snow in July" but it was his choice. He resigned and sent me a nice email (which I still have) explaining his decision. However, it was not too many months before he came back to join us again. Then some time back, when I was really having a hard time with the group, I wrote Steve and told him that I was getting all kinds of email about how the group was being moderated. A few praising me, but most were chastising me for being too strict about enforcing the rules. I explained all of this to Steve and told him that while I appreciated all of the input to the group he had made, I was thinking about just shutting it down. The hassle was getting to be too much. Between the email from the CWWT and the email from my website I was just getting overwhelmed, and what did he think. He wrote back and said, "First Sergeant (that was his name for me), let me throw your own words back at you, "I think you are just as wrong as snow in July but it is your choice." Needless to say the group is still there and doing well. Sometimes you just need a friend to put the solutions to your problems in simple terms.
Then when Hurricane Katrina hit Steve took several families into his home to provide shelter for them. I think there were five families altogether. I know he had his guest house full, and all the bedrooms in his home were full. All this was done even though he was suffering greatly from the effects of chemo for his cancer. He never spoke of his problems, his pain, his fears, he only spoke of theirs.
It is such a great thing to live in the age we do. No longer does a friend have to live next door, or even be someone you have to talk to once a week. It merely has to be someone whom you trust and know that he is just a key stroke away. Steve was such a person for me and he will be sorely missed. May the good Lord bless him and give him peace.
|This is the discussion in the Civil War Home Chatroom the day we were notified of AoT's death. Very, very moving and shows how much this man was loved.
|AoT's Essay
|This is something that AoT wrote for my website that I think you will really enjoy.
|AoT's Thoughts on the Confederate Flag
|This is something that AoT wrote concerning the display of "the" Confederate Flag.
|AoT's Discussion
|A discussion in the WebAmerica chatroom about the "Chattanooga Campaign" led by AoT.


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(NOTE: It is normally not the policy of the GHSA to publish specific rulings and/or penalties made against member schools. However, because of the intense publicity surrounding the investigation into Milton High School's boys basketball program the past few weeks, the following announcement is being made in the interest of accuracy.)
The Georgia High School Association has placed the boys' basketball program at Milton High School on probation for the 2012-13 season for violating GHSA rules in regard to "undue influence." This means the Milton team will not be eligible to participate in the Region Tournament or the State Tournament. The program will be on "Severe Warning Status" for the 2013-2014 season, but will be eligible for post-season play. Additionally, Milton High School was fined an undisclosed amount.
The GHSA defines "undue influence" as things done by one or more people associated directly or indirectly with a member school to induce or facilitate the transfer of a student to that school. Undue influence can occur even when there is no evidence of recruitment. In those circumstances, no school personnel initiated the conversation about transferring schools, but school personnel did engage in actions that induced and/or facilitated the transfer.
There was no evidence discovered that former Milton Coach David Boyd initiated contact with prospective transfer students and/or their parents or guardians. This investigation found no evidence that any of the transfer students mentioned in this matter had failed to have a bona fide move into the Milton service area. Therefore, all the students mentioned in this investigation are eligible to compete at the varsity level in the upcoming 2012-13 season.
Some of the undue influence issues involved using the school's summer workouts as a way to evaluate the talents of non-students who were considering transferring to Milton, facilitating the housing arrangements of families moving into the area, and offering help with communication about a student's collegiate possibilities before the player was a student at Milton.
It is important to note these penalties only cover the issues that were discovered during the recent investigation and submitted to the GHSA office. Any other discovery of past violations or any future violations could result in additional penalties.


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Basic Information
Name: Reborn
Nickname: Arcobaleno | Hitman Reborn
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Clan: Magnetism
Family: Luciano
Personality: Ciaossu! From the age of two I have acted like an adult. I was able to walk and talk at that age, I didn't like kiddy things and was much more advanced in everything that I could do compared to even people older than me. I like beating on my students and have a very stern attitude. Not much can slip by me. Although being very serious, I love having fun, though what I think is fun is usually different to others around me. I say "Ciaossu" which is a combination of the Italian and Japanese greetings "Ciao" and "Ossu".
Looks: I've always worn a suit, even at the age of two. Depending on how I feel it can change from a white suit to a black suit. I also wear a black fedora with a thick orange stripe running across the sides of the cone and on the brim sits my partner, Leon, a chameleon. I have black eyes any wear black boots. Under the suit I wear wither yellow or orange long sleeve polo shirts with a blue necktie underneath. Under my fedora I have long spiky hair that sticks up everywhere and long curly sideburns. As a baby I would also have a large yellow pacifier around my neck that I still carry with me in my jacket. I'm also quite tall, I seem skinny but i'm very well built.
Village Information
Village of Birth: Kumogakure
Village of Alliance: Iwagakure
Rank // Training Information
Rank: Kage
Earth - During my travels I have worked vigorously on my usage of the Earth element. With such intense training and years of practise, I have mastered the usage of earth to the extent where it takes but a single hand seal to perform all earth jutsu.
Taijutsu - While Earth is my main elemental affinity, I am also very skilled in the usage of Taijutsu. I worked on this style of fighting for a long time, aiming to make it a valuable strength that I can rely on. With the training i've done I can now move much faster than most shinobi. My body can handle all kinds of things and I have incredible stamina.
Fire - Complete
Wind - Complete
Water - Complete
Earth - Complete
Lightning - Complete
Your Ninjutsu:
Kenjutsu - In ProgressBackground Information
Ninjutsu - In Progress
Taijutsu - Complete
Genjutsu - Complete
Summoning - Stingrays
History: I was born in the village of Kumogakure with my mama and father. I had an older brother and we all lived in the same house hold, as you would expect. Mama didn't work and my dad owned a small restaurant that had become very popular. My brother worked with my dad trying to earn the money. I developed incredibly early, being able to walk and talk by the age of one and a half. People originally thought I was cursed or something was wrong with me, and truth be told, I was cursed. I wasn't a fan of regular clothes, nor did I think they were too comfy. It was later on when I tried on a suit for the passing of mama's brother, a Kumogakure shinobi, that I knew they were for me. With the suit I wore a fedora that suited very well. During one of my morning walks, I noticed something crawling in the bushes. I walked over and had a look to see what it was and what I found was a small friendly chameleon. I stretched out my hand to pick it up and it jumped up onto my hand and crawled up onto my hat and sat on the brim.
Cioassu~ I'm going to call you...Leon!
My family wanted me to work in the restaurant, but that wasn't my style. I sought adventure. Something that would get the adrenalin rushing and be fun to do. That's when I remembered mama's brother. He was a ninja and before he died, he used to tell my brother and I stories of all the thrill seeking adventures he'd been on. Leon, now my partner, seemed to agree too. So when I got the chance I enrolled myself in Kumogakure's ninja academy. I was four at the time and everyone seemed so shocked that I was there at such a young age. Not just that, I was top scoring in everything. It wasn't long before I graduated and became a ninja and it was just as I heard. The adventures I got to go on were amazing, I learnt so many new skills and loved the thrill of having to put myself at risk.
When I had grown up and became a very skilled ninja who was known all throughout Kumogakure, I decided it was time to take my adventures else where. The restaurant and my family was doing great, so they didn't really need me around. I left Kumo and began searching for new adventures to undergo and new things to learn. I met many people who all taught me so much. One of the places that i'll never forget is Amegakure. I stayed there for five whole months helping them defend their land from people who were trying to destroy it. It was a good test for me and made sure I was keeping my standards to par or above. It was always raining, so it seemed dull all the time. I told myself I was mentally training myself, the calming rain helped to think in dire situations but also helped me keep focused during battles because i've spent so long focusing on one thing. It was then where I decided to move on and continue my journey.
My next stop was the village of Iwagakure, it's also where I am now. There were so many people there, all were friendly and accepted me in with open arms. In the mountains of Iwa was a small mafia famiglia, known as the Luciano. I instantly became interested and went to visit Luciano Primo, Mathias. He is a kind man who always looks out for his famiglia. To him you don't have to be blood related to be family, he just had to like you. After a while I was accepted into the famiglia. From that day on, a new chapter in my life started and it was...
To Be Continued...
Other Information
Tonfa's - My preferred weapon of choice are tonfa's. I keep two sitting comfortably in the sleeves of my shirt. With a simple wrist movement I can make both fall from within the sleeves and land in my hands. They are reinforced with the toughest steel so they can't simply be cut down.
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Topic: Email Clients Not working.
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I'm new to iredmail and so far it seems to be a great product.
Could someone help me figure out why i can get roundcube to work just fine but not any email clients. Outlook, Thunderbird, droid/iphone. No clients seem to work.
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a person that I know lost her 2 yr old son to brain cancer last Christmas.
she is having a little girl for Christmas this year.
this quilt is the one Baby Lola will come home from the hospital in.
I asked the person for a favorite piece of her son's clothing to do the label.
what she gave me was a very green and blur Thomas the Train PJ top.
I had already picked the other fabrics for this quilt and had already known
I was going to applique angel wings to the center; with the label in the center
surrounded by the words "wrapped within my brother's love".
that plan went out the window with a lot of brain screaming trying to figure out
how to make this work...went to bed and as soon as I got snuggly warm
the idea just popped right up....so I got up and wrote it down so wouldn't forget it.
what you see is the idea that popped into my head.
Thank you Patrice for being able to walk my brain injury
thru how to square this up :)


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Mattingly unwilling to name permanent closer
By Ken Gurnick / MLB.com
MILWAUKEE -- Before Tuesday night's game, Don Mattingly was asked who his closer was.
"I don't know," the Dodgers manager said. "We'll see."
So, there you have it. The bullpen-wide slump that cost the Dodgers a sweep in Atlanta has the manager as uncertain about the late innings as the fans.
"I know who I want to use. But I don't know if I want to anoint anybody," said Mattingly, who seems to be leaning toward Kenley Jansen over Brandon League in high-stress situations based on recent use. "I'd really like to see the bullpen get its confidence back and some semblance of order and get the guys in the roles we designed.
"I know where I want it to go, it just hasn't gone there. They set the roles the way they are pitching. Now it's hard to say, 'That guy deserves that inning.'"
At the end of last year, League closed, Jansen had the eighth inning and Ronald Belisario the seventh inning. But League has a 5.51 ERA, Jansen has three losses and has allowed four homers and Belisario has allowed eight of 12 inherited runners to score.
"Last year it was one of our strengths, but now it hasn't went as well," said Mattingly. "But it's like the lineup with Matt, Adrian and Andre. You're going to keep putting them out there and they've got to get better. The only way they can gain confidence is by getting outs."
Assistant pitching coach Ken Howell, the bullpen coach until this year, reappeared Tuesday in the bullpen to assist his replacement, Chuck Crim, and pitching coach Rick Honeycutt to get the relievers back on track.
"He had been scheduled with the rehab guys and it's nice to have Kenny around," said Mattingly. "He's been at this level a long time."
Lasorda, Hough to rep Dodgers at Draft
MILWAUKEE -- Hall of Famer Tom Lasorda and current senior advisor Charlie Hough will represent the Dodgers at MLB's 2013 Draft next month.
It will be a comeback of sorts for the 85-year-old Lasorda, who was a late scratch last year when he suffered a mild heart attack at a pre-Draft function and was ordered by Commissioner Bud Selig to go to the hospital. He had a stent inserted into a clogged artery at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
"The doctors confirmed I do bleed Dodger Blue," Lasorda joked afterward.
The 2013 First-Year Player Draft will take place on June 6-8, beginning with the Draft preview show on MLB.com and MLB Network on Thursday, June 6, at 6 p.m. ET. Live Draft coverage from MLB Network's Studio 42 begins at 7 p.m., with the top 73 picks being streamed on MLB.com and broadcast on MLB Network. Rounds 3-10 will be streamed live on MLB.com on June 7, beginning with a preview show at 12:30 p.m., and Rounds 11-40 will be streamed live on MLB.com on June 8, starting at 1 p.m.
MLB.com's coverage includes Draft Central, the Top 100 Draft Prospects list and Draft Tracker, a live interactive application that includes a searchable database of Draft-eligible players. You can also keep up to date by following @MLBDraft on Twitter. And get into the Draft conversation by tagging your tweets with #mlbdraft.
Lasorda, special advisor to chairman Mark Walter, has represented the Dodgers at the Draft every year but one since 2002. He will be accompanied by Hough, one of Lasorda's all-time favorite players and former All-Star knuckleballer who now serves the club as senior advisor for player development.
The Dodgers will draft 18th in the first round for the second consecutive year.
'Superstar' win a welcome sight for Mattingly
MILWAUKEE -- A.J. Ellis called Monday night a "superstar" win, Clayton Kershaw's three-hitter backed up by homers from Andre Ethier and Matt Kemp.
Manager Don Mattingly called those home runs "nice to see for sure."
Also, it was pretty rare for both sluggers in the same game. The previous time it happened was over a year ago -- April 14, 2012. It was Ethier's fourth homer, Kemp's second, both snapping long personal droughts.
"I look at it as, 'Hey maybe this is a start to get it rolling,'" said Mattingly. "It would sure be nice to have those guys more consistent."
But before assuming that all is well, Mattingly issued his own asterisk when he noted Miller Park's reputation as a hitter's haven.
"As a hitter, you have a different mentality when you come to a place like this," he said. "Our place, you've got to get it good. Here, you get it at all and it's going to go. It's a good feeling for a hitter. Here, Cincy, Philly, Houston. As hitters, you don't have to crush it."
That said, Mattingly agrees with general manager Ned Colletti that the players need to produce, and the big names need to produce more.
"That's why they get the contracts," Mattingly said. "That's what we're counting on. Call it extra pressure, that's just the way it is."
Hanley among Dodgers progressing toward return
MILWAUKEE -- Manager Don Mattingly had generally positive news on most of the rehabbing Dodgers on Tuesday.
Hanley Ramirez tested his hamstring running in the outfield, and Mattingly said the shortstop continues to make progress, although he is still probably two weeks away from playing.
Josh Beckett was able to throw on flat ground without discomfort from a strained groin muscle, something he couldn't do in Atlanta over the weekend. He is expected to throw off a mound before he's allowed to run.
Scott Elbert could be back with the club in a week. He will pitch three times in four days this week in the Minor Leagues, but his fastball velocity has increased in recent appearances to 90-92 mph, according to Mattingly.
Mattingly gave second baseman Mark Ellis a scheduled rest Tuesday night (Skip Schumaker started) and said he plans to rest catcher A.J. Ellis for Wednesday's getaway day game, with Ramon Hernandez catching in his place.
Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Change the title of your post...just a little bit misleading
And i think you need to put down the crack pipe...a top flight DE for a 100 yr old QB....LOL
Welcome though
Right so Ive been working this ideaa in my heaad for a looong while now,,,,we should do a 3-wayy,,,trade John Abrahem to the 9ers,,, the 9ers trade Juilien Petersin to Greeen Bay (they need help at lb'er my sources have told me),,,and heres the kicker,,,,, ready?,,,,,,, we get Bret Frave!!! think about it fellas,,,this could be a real possibilliti,,,,,and best of all its completely feesaible!!!1 I love penny as much as the next guy,,,,but we have to look ahead to the future,,,and frave could turn around our entire franchis.
What are youre thoughts?
Change the title of your post...just a little bit misleading
And i think you need to put down the crack pipe...a top flight DE for a 100 yr old QB....LOL
Welcome though
We get screwed the hardest . . . awesome . . .
This isn't basketball.
DUMP! quick.
Guys, it's his first post, and not only that, but his SN is "Emotional Wreck." Take it easy.
Actualy,,,my name is Wreck,,,,Im scandanavian,,,and I get very emotional about the jets,,,thus the screen name.Originally Posted by RutgersJetFan
ah yea i dont think so!
good one though! welcome aboard fellow Jet sufferer!!
lol, my bad, welcome to the board.Originally Posted by Emotional_Wreck
Actualy,,,no i was kidding,,,,I do that sometimes,,,,Im actualy severly depressed.Originally Posted by RutgersJetFan
I get so Emotional Baby
Must be some great weed in scandanavia
Welcome to the board .
About your proposed trade - player-for-player trades are rare in the NFL. They just don't happen often. Three way trades are even more unlikely.
In your scenario, we'd be giving up a premier pass-rusher who's 27 for a QB that maybe has one more year left in him. It wouldn't be in the Jets best interest.
ive never heard such an obsurd trade thought.....your saying we need to rebuild for the future by trading for a guy twice john abrahams age?! makes no sense......favre is pushin 40
Yes,,,,now hear me out,,,frave ihas proven the last 4 years that hes still in the pime of his carer,,,its not his fault he threw all those interceptoins,,,his franchis left him out to dry,,,frave has another4-5 years left in that arm,,,we would be crazy not to consider bringing him in,,,,crasy i say!Originally Posted by jetsfan514
frave would bring instinct credibililty to this franchis and we would surely be wildcarde favortes.
Cut it out with the ,,, it's: ...
Im sry,,,Im still on remideial english.Originally Posted by BrooklynBound
Favre at this point in his career is a clone of Aaron Brooks only whiter.Originally Posted by Emotional_Wreck
"English m*ther****er, do you speak it?"Originally Posted by Emotional_Wreck
Sory to break it to you,,,, but Brooks is actualy a black man.Originally Posted by Ikeyman3
Im trying my best,,, please dont be condescending.Originally Posted by BrooklynBound


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Melting Pot: An ambiguous series combining minority and majority discourses
The RTBF (public Belgian television) can hardly be considered as a minority media. However, in the context of fictional production, the RTBF is not a powerful actor. Melting Pot is the only large-scale series currently produced by the channel. We can thus qualify it as a triple media exception: Belgian, French speaking, series. The fiction takes place in the Marolles district in Brussels. This area represents the "Belgian melting pot": a mix of people, languages, origins... But how are these communities and languages represented, notably the French speaking (a minority in Belgium and a majority in Brussels) and the Flemish (a majority in Belgium and a minority in Brussels)? The question makes sense in a country divided by a political crisis for more than one year and where the question of identity crystallizes the debates. This article will put in context the Belgian production of fictions. A content analysis of the representations conveyed by the series will constitute the main part of the communication. An interview with the producer will unveil their initial intentions.
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Feminism: the next generation?
In an essay that appeared in The New Republic, "Girlie, Interrupted: The Generational Progress of Feminism," Professor Christine Stansell reviewed several new books about feminism. A specialist in the history of gender in the U.S. who will teach a new course in the history of women's rights next fall, Stansell, an alumna, recently shared some observations on feminism today with the Princeton Weekly Bulletin. .
Here are some excerpts from that discussion.
Question: What is "first wave" feminism?
What we call the first wave was the movement that began in 1848 in Seneca Falls, N.Y., with the first gathering in the world devoted specifically to women's rights. Out of that meeting came what was at first a very small group of women -- for example, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth -- concerned with righting the wrongs society imposed on women. After the Civil War, that movement broadened and diversified, so that by the 1890s it became arguably the most broad-based social movement in the country. It culminated with winning suffrage in 1920.
Then, the discussion of women's rights went into abeyance. It's as if suffrage solved everything, though, for example, women were routinely excluded from juries, because of their domestic obligations, until the 1960s.
Question: And the "second wave"?
The second wave of organized feminism we can date -- depending on which you chose -- from 1962, and JFK's Commission on the Status of Women, or from 1965, and the founding of the National Organization of Women. These events began a debate that was then carried forth in the context of the civil rights movement. We still live in the midst of that movement, it seems to me.
Question: Is there a "third wave"?
There are a number of young women writers who are calling for a third wave -- or something, at any rate, with a new name, something they can identify with their own psychology of independence ...The young women take equality for granted, and don't want their mother's dusty old feminism.
To me, the problem is not that there is a sharp break with earlier feminists, but, rather, that there is so much continuity, so much contact between the generations. It's harder for younger women to cohere as a separate force, and they are looking for some kind of identity of their own. It seems that feminism is old enough to have produced its own vexed family dynamics.
Question: So what does the future look like?
The great problem no one has really addressed is how to create public social arrangements that allow for women's full presence in the world, that support women in not having to take on so many of the burdens of life at home, and to do so in such a way that still allows intimate life to flourish and families to flourish. Child care will keep on being an issue, abortion will keep on being an issue.
Question: As an alumna, and a faculty member, are you encouraged or discouraged by contemporary feminist consciousness?
If you compare universities in 1971 to universities in 2001, you are looking at two entirely different societies. When I came to this campus as an undergraduate, a woman couldn't walk across campus without encountering leers, snickers and funny looks. Now our women move with complete ease, not only around the campus, but around the world.
Sometimes I think I'm too sanguine, because I've lived through such a change in this incredibly male environment. Certainly, much remains to be done, but the most debilitating assumptions and suspicions about women are no longer operative, and this is a cause for joy.
Actually, universities are a paradigmatic case of second wave feminism with a third wave constituency. Those of us who began in the '70s in difficult circumstances are playing before an audience of young women who think our presence testifies to the fact that there is no problem.
It's a peculiar kind of moment.
Contact: Marilyn Marks (609) 258-3601


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More Than Meets the Eye
I thought this dress was called the Transformer dress, which is why I have an awesome title from their cartoon theme song, but it's called the Hulk dress, which I never got into. Transformer seems more suitable, since it can be worn several ways, just by adjusting the zipper: with sleeves, without sleeves, slightly unzipped or unzipped and folded with peekaboo shoulders. I chose to wear it with a blazer and tights, because my Floridian blood makes me shiver in these newly dropped temperatures. I'm pathetic…I'm going to leave when it gets below the 50s. Miku and I will head to a tropical island.
I feel like I should invest in Spanx, because every time I wear anything body-con, I find myself blowing my stomach out – which makes no sense! I should be sucking it in! A couple of different people said they do the same thing, so I guess I'm not the only one. Does anyone have experience with Spanx? I was looking at some in Nordstrom but I didn't know what type I should get. For this occasion, my blazer saved me. After a long day, Bobby and I went to the Lori Goldstein event, where we met up with Christine, Jordana, Claire, Karen and Audrey, among others. I ate all the macarons (made by Audrey) I wanted…and then continued the festivities with guacamole and other tex mex delights. Sorry, but food always wins over fashion – especially when accompanied by friends!
Outfit Details:
Hulk Dress – courtesy of Rachel Rachel Roy
tights – Target
Felicita heels – courtesy of Nine West
ADAM blazer – Gilt
Madison Brynne bag – courtesy of Coach
Love love,
Keiko Lynn


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Hi im molly. I've always loved monkey and my sister even calls me monkey so i just decided to just make it my user. I would have to say breaking dawn is definately my favorite book and i read them because my sister was obsessed with them and so were my friends. I guess i was kind of late but i absolutely loved them. I must say i'm not a huge fan of bella and although he's a total jerk sometimes, i like jacob. I also wouldn't say i have a strong stance on the whole edwqrd vs. Jacob debate and no im not furious that edward left in the second (although i did cry).
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Rutledge perfect at plate in Major League debut
Shortstop goes 2-for-2 with two RBIs using teammates' equipment
By Thomas Harding / MLB.com
DENVER -- Josh Rutledge's familiar baseball equipment lay beside his locker in an equipment bag, with airline baggage tags wrapped around the carrying straps. They didn't arrive at Coors Field in time Friday. His bats, his fielding and batting gloves, his shoes -- all of which helped him to an impressive performance at Double-A Tulsa -- will have to wait a day for their big league debut. Maybe they can do as well as the owner did. Rutledge started at shortstop and had two hits, including a run-scoring double, with a sacrifice fly and a walk in the Rockies' 6-2 victory over the Phillies at Coors Field. After making a scavenger hunt just to be able to take the field, Rutledge showed he could be a keeper. After the game, Rutledge stripped out of his borrowed gear but was wearing something else given to him that night. The remnants of a shaving-cream pie to the face that he received from teammate Tyler Colvin during a postgame interview. The prank is as old as the on-field star-of-the-game interview, but it's all new and welcome to Rutledge. "I haven't got a chance to shower yet, but that was definitely fun -- first game you get shaving cream in the face," Rutledge said. "That was awesome." In batting practice, Rutledge, 23, a third-round Draft pick in 2010 out of Alabama, wore injured shortstop Troy Tulowitzki's fielding and batting gloves, as well as used his bats, and he wore Carlos Gonzalez's shoes. By game time, Rutledge's bats were ones DJ LeMahieu left around after being sent to Triple-A Colorado Springs. Rutledge ended up using Tulowitzki's batting gloves and shoes, and took the field with Jordan Pacheco's spare fielder's glove. The most valuable item, though, was the scouting report from Tulowitzki, who is with the team rehabbing from left groin surgery in June. Rutledge's two hits and the sac fly came against Phillies veteran starter Cliff Lee. "He sat beside me before the game started and was telling me what to expect, and just have fun," Rutledge said. Rutledge's run-scoring double came after Colvin had grounded out and Pacheco had hit into a force play with two on base. The sacrifice fly was another strong at-bat, and he drew the walk despite being behind in the count against Phillies reliever Michael Schwimer. Rutledge also stole second after the walk. Rutledge hit .305 with 13 home runs, 27 doubles and 35 RBIs at Tulsa. Rockies manager Jim Tracy had seen little of Rutledge, who was not in Major League camp during Spring Training. Tracy will see a lot more of Rutledge, since the Rockies plan to start him regularly until Tulowitzki returns, which is not expected for another six weeks. Rutledge could play second base when Tulowitzki returns. "He played the game with a lot of poise, and it was very intriguing to see that," Tracy said.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Hardball in the Rockies, and follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The head of the environmental program at Bloomberg Philanthropies makes the case in this compelling video.
Rohit "Rit" Aggarwala leads the environmental program at Bloomberg Philanthropies. Previously, he was chief advisor to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on environmental policy, and led the development and implementation of the justly heralded PlaNYC. He also assisted Mayor Bloomberg on New York's participation in C40 Cities, "a network of large and engaged cities from around the world" that are addressing solutions to climate change. Bloomberg is the current chair of C40.
In this short video produced by Gen/Connect, Aggarwala succinctly makes the point that city dwellers are the most efficient users of environmental resources. As I have opined before, I think he's right. He also stresses that, to make the most of the urban dividend for sustainability, we need our cities to be safe and clean. Enjoy:
Photo courtesy of Flickr user Steve Eng.
This post originally appeared on the NRDC's Switchboard blog.