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Researchers from Penn State University found that when study participants ate a first course of soup before lunch they reduced their total calorie intake by 20 per cent, compared with those who did not begin the meal with soup. The meal-time calorie reduction from consuming soup can lead to weight loss without feelings of deprivation.
Watch out for cream soups! To promote weight loss, the researchers stressed the soup must be low-calorie stock based soup, not soups made with heavy creams. When preparing cream soups at home, use lowfat milk in place of cream to reduce fat and calories.
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Use in-season root vegetables, frozen mixed vegetables and lower sodium canned vegetables. The addition of canned tomatoes will boost flavor and help to tenderize meats as well.
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Oprah Winfrey was one of the principal speakers at Harvard University's commencement this week.
The media mogul and talk show host spoke Thursday during the afternoon exercises at Harvard's 362nd commencement.
Harvard President Drew Faust said Winfrey's journey to become one of the world's most admired women is "one of the great American success stories."
Through her private foundation, Winfrey has awarded hundreds of grants to organizations that support education and the empowerment of women, children and families worldwide.
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But I have no problem with people who post critical opinions of the home team on a message board.
Never booed a Jet, never will. Like many here I have complained and given an opinion, but that's what these threads are for. Some don't understand that part.
But I have no problem with people who post critical opinions of the home team on a message board.
Here is a big problem. When people boo it is ALWAYS assumed they are booing the QB. In reality that is not often the case unless the QB is just stinking it up. The fans can be booing a stagnant offense, bad play calling by the oc, pass drops and everyone and their dog (especially the media) will go into a tizzy suggesting they are booing the Qb.
Unless the Jets offense plays great all year there will come a time when the fans boo the offense, it is a given and no one should be surprised or indignant about it.
Im just going to think up a bunch of counter cheers every time they start calling for tebow. Hopefully it catches on.
when jet fans boo santa clause I will then consider us the worst fans in the league
For those who will boo Sanchez and clamour for Tebow:
You think 8-8 was a catastrophe? This isn't last years AFC West Tebow would be going against. He will have to put up points (a lot in most games) to compete let alone win consistently. Both the Jets and Broncos were 8-8 last year. Both teams lost their last 3 games. Broncos won their division. What does that tell you?
I wonder if this thinking has actually occurred to those who are falling over themselves to see Tebow be the starting QB?
He gets booed when deserved problem is many in the stadium dont know when that should be because they are uneducated football wise or dont
belong there.
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I've said it many times before. Our Jets home crowds are so infuriatingly pitiful compared to every other NFL team's home crowds.
When this crowd supports the team and makes some serious noise... we are reeaaallly tough to beat. Look at the last two playoff games in this building (er, location) as proof. If we could just get some home playoff games and the crowd was rocking... not one team in the AFC could withstand it. Not even the Chowds.
But our average crowd that mumbles, boos, and leaves early when one thing goes wrong and when the game is on the line... when other teams home stadiums are going ballistic?
1 big difference.
Sanchez has proven that he can get it done againt tough defenses, against the pats, and on the biggest stage.
Chad pennington was absolutley done.
And I VIVIDLY remember those punk @ss Pasts* "fans" booing the $HIT out of their beloved Brady and Belicheat after we whoop stomped their @ss out of the playoffs and Jets players were flying all over the field doing the JET...
What a fun time to be in Boston! hahaa!
Eff the QB's.
Gooooooooooooooooo Jets!
40 + years of lack luster teams and for the most part, crappy coaching
Pats own us
Giants own NY
can't win the AFCE with Brady out. ..Pennington and Dolphins did.
Watching expansion teams make it to the Super Bowl in less time then the Jets
2013, we'll watch the Bills win the AFCE
Lack of an Elite QB in 15 years
yeah, the fans have every right to boo
TEBOW is the only hope for the team on Offense. ... he'll pull out some wins this season for the Jets
You are simply supposed accept the criticism and promise to do better in the future. Please get with the program.


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Soto looking forward to Opening Day
Rookie catcher would be first to start season since '89
By Carrie Muskat / MLB.com
"I was just telling Henry [Blanco], 'Wow, I've never seen this locker room so empty,'" Soto said Wednesday. "I'm always in the second round [of cuts] who's sent to the Minors.
"It's good and rewarding, and it's starting to be real," Soto said. "It's starting to get to me in a good way. It's not more pressure. I played in the playoffs, I played in late September in the pennant race. It's not pressure, but I'm getting anxious and ready for this to start so I can get my dream on."
Soto, the MVP of the Pacific Coast League after hitting .353 for Triple-A Iowa last season, will be the Cubs' first rookie catcher to start the opener since Joe Girardi did so in 1989. Is he nervous?
"I wouldn't call it nervous -- I've been around and in tough situations," Soto said. "I'm just anxious because you work so hard to get here and you get the opportunity. I just want to work as hard as I can to stay here. This is what I've wanted to do since I was five years old."
He does have big league experience. Soto has been called up the last three seasons to the Cubs, and last year, got the nod to start two games in the National League Division Series. He has a .325 batting average in his brief big league experience, but was hitting .235 in 18 games this spring.
"He's had a little bit of a learning curve here in Spring Training," Cubs manager Lou Piniella said. "I don't think it was as easy as he thought coming in. He's starting to swing the bat here at the end of Spring Training, which is a good sign. At the same time he's done a very reasonable job with our pitching."
The Cubs have not given Soto any pitching plans or scouting reports to work on, and Piniella said he expected that to help Soto when the regular season starts.
"I can't wait," Soto said.
Carrie Muskat 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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The aspiring young scientists and engineers of Team 100, the Wildhats — a collaboration of Woodside, Carlmont, and Sequoia High Schools — WON the San Diego FIRST Robotics Regional Championship on Saturday March 6th. They shared this achievement with their two alliance partners, Team 294 from Redondo Beach, CA and Team 359 from Waialua, HI. Twenty-three students represented Team 100 in San Diego where they competed against 48 teams from all over California, as well as from Hawaii, Alaska, Michigan, Colorado, and Pennsylvania. Their 2010 robot, "HammerHead" was one of the most versatile robots at the competition - it successfully kicked soccer balls the length of the field, excelled in ball control, traveled over the steep bumps and suspended itself from the tower at the end of the match to gain bonus points. This win, an accomplishment requiring many late nights and weekends of labor, has earned Team 100 a spot in the FIRST Championships competition in Atlanta, Georgia on April 15 -17 where they will compete against all the other Regional winners.
Team 100 will be competing again this coming week at the Silicon Valley Regional, trying to repeat their victory in San Diego. Other SF Peninsula robotics teams competing are 253 (Mills), 751 (Woodside Priory), 840 (Aragon), 766 (Menlo-Atherton), 2144 (Sacred Heart), 114(Los Altos), 8 (Palo Alto), 192 (Gunn), and 1700 (Castilleja). FIRST brings the excitement of a sporting event to science and technology via robotics competitions.
Fifty teams will be competing in the FIRST Robotics Silicon Valley Regional at the Event Center at San Jose State University on Friday March 19 and Saturday March 20. This is a great family event and is free and open to the public. Qualifying matches will take place between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on Friday and on Saturday morning beginning at 9:00 a.m. The final elimination matches will be from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 on Saturday.
Each year, the robotics team, which consists of students from Woodside, Carlmont and Sequoia High School, enters the FIRST Robotics Competition. This program provides a fascinating real-world engineering experience for the students and helps them discover the value of education and careers in science, technology, and math. Students have the opportunity to learn first-hand about mechanics, electronics, fabrication, programming, animation, web-site design, and more, as part of this club.
Go to Web Link to find out more information about the FIRST robotics competition and the details about the Silicon Valley Regional.


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5254 North 53rd St.
Milwaukee, WI 53218
P. O. Box 8907
Madison, WI 53708-8907,
This matter comes before the Commission on both parties' motions for summary judgment. Both parties have submitted briefs and supporting papers relative to the summary judgment motions. Petitioner is represented by Henak Law Office, S.C., by Attorney Robert R. Henak. Respondent is represented by Attorney Veronica Folstad.
Based upon the submissions of the parties and the record in this matter, the Commission finds, concludes, and orders as follows:
1. On July 29, 1994, respondent issued petitioner a controlled substances tax assessment in the amount of $5,439.00, plus interest ($543.90)
and penalty ($5,439.00). The assessment was issued pursuant to the controlled substances tax statute. Wis. Stat. § 139.87 et seq.
2. Petitioner filed with respondent a timely petition for redetermination on September 26, 1994.
3. On January 24, 1997, the Wisconsin Supreme Court declared the controlled substances tax unconstitutional. State v. Hall, 207 Wis. 2d 54 (1997).
4. On October 13, 1997, the 1997-99 biennial budget act was published. In this act, the Wisconsin Legislature "retroactively reimposed" the controlled substances tax after amending the tax in accord with the Supreme Court's decision in Hall. 1997 Wis. Act 27, §§ 2979m & 9143(2v).
5. Respondent denied petitioner's petition for redetermination on October 24, 1997.
1997 Wisconsin Act 27
9143. Nonstatutory provisions; revenue.
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(2v) DRUG TAX. The legislature intends that, irrespective of the
constitutionality of the affix and display requirements under
section 139.89 of the statutes and the rules that interpret that
section, all other civil and administrative procedures that are
related to the civil obligation to pay the tax, interest and penalties
required under subchapter IV of chapter 139 of the statutes are
severable from those affix and display requirements and are to
remain in full force and effect. To the extent necessary to
effectuate the legislature's intent, the civil obligation to pay the
tax, interest and penalties required under subchapter IV of
chapter 139 of the statutes is retroactively reimposed beginning
with the effective date under 1989 Wisconsin Act 122, section
1. There is no genuine issue of material fact, and this matter is appropriate for summary judgment as a matter of law.
2. Respondent's assessment was void ab initioand could not be rehabilitated by the Legislature's re-enactment of the controlled substances tax.
The Supreme Court ruled that the controlled substances tax was unconstitutional on its face because it concluded that section 139.91 of the Statutes violated the privilege against self-incrimination. Hall, 207 Wis. 2d at 90. Because the controlled substances tax was unconstitutional, it had no legal effect:
An unconstitutional act of the legislature is not a law. It confers no rights, imposes no penalty, affords no protection, is not operative, and in legal contemplation has no existence.
John F. Jefke Co. v. Beck, 208 Wis. 650, 661 (1932). Moreover,
because the
controlled substances tax had no existence, any assessments made pursuant to the
tax are likewise void ab initio. Burlington Northern, Inc. v.
Superior, 149 Wis. 2d 190,
205 (Ct. App. 1989). See, also, Family Hosp.
Nursing Home, Inc. v. Milwaukee, 78
Wis. 2d 312, 325-26 (1977); Wisconsin Real Estate Co. v. Milwaukee, 151
Wis. 198,
205 (1912) (an assessment outside the taxing authority's jurisdiction is "void ab
and can never be rendered valid"). The Waukesha County Circuit Court recently
held that an assessment similar to the assessment at issue here had no legal effect
and was void ab initio. Gilbert v. Dep't of Revenue, Case
No. 99-CV-2198, Slip Op. at
4 (Waukesha Co. Cir. Ct. June 21, 2000).(1)
Respondent initially seeks to distinguish the present case from Hall because Hall involved the criminal prosecution for failure to comply with the controlled substances tax law, while this case involves the civil collection of the controlled substances tax. We see nothing in Hall to support this distinction. We read Hall as striking down the entire controlled substances tax law. The Waukesha County Circuit Court in Gilbert concurs. Gilbert, supra, at 4.
Thus, the assessment at issue here was clearly void ab initio. Respondent argues, however, that the 1997 budget act retroactively rehabilitated the controlled substances tax. Respondent argues that because the Legislature corrected the constitutional defects in the controlled substances law and then "retroactively reimposed" the tax, the assessment that was once without legal existence now has reacquired life. We don't see it that way. In Wisconsin Real Estate Company, supra, the Supreme Court held that an assessment issued outside a taxing authority's jurisdiction "can never be rendered valid." 151 Wis. at 205.(2)
conclude that an assessment with no legal existence cannot be rehabilitated by an
act of the Legislature.(3)
Petitioner's motion for summary judgment is granted, and the respondent's action on the petition for redetermination is reversed.
Dated at Madison, Wisconsin, this 16th day of October, 2000.
Mark E. Musolf, Chairperson
Don M. Millis, Commissioner
Thomas M. Boykoff, Commissioner
December 1, 2000 Petition for rehearing denied under § 227.49(3)
December 22, 2000 Appealed to Milwaukee County Circuit Court (00CV010543)
1 The Circuit Court's decision in Gilbert reversed an earlier Ruling and Order of the Tax Appeals Commission. Gilbert v. Dep't of Revenue, 1999 WISC Lexis 43 (WTAC 2000). The Commission held that, notwithstanding the validity of the assessment, the Commission lacked the statutory authority to entertain the taxpayer's appeal because the taxpayer did not file a timely claim for refund. Id. at 9-10. The Circuit Court disagreed, concluding that the Commission had such authority. Respondent has appealed the Circuit Court's decision.
2 Ironically, respondent arguably could have issued a new assessment against petitioner within the statute of limitations applicable to the controlled substances tax. Wis. Stat. §§ 71.77, 139.93.
3 Petitioner has offered other arguments to support his position. Because we conclude that the assessment cannot be rehabilitated, we do not reach the merits of these other arguments.


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As for concurrency, I know Erlang-like concurrency is perfect for declarative languages, you can get a similar thing (...) in Scheme (...)
Actually, you can get exactly the same thing in Scheme. Just use Termite [toute.ca]. (Probably not ready for prime time, but under actively development.)
any easy way to use hugs w/o emacs??
Um, yeah. On the command line. But I use ghc[i].


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I actually didn't like the Chandler trade at the time. Didn't think he was that great coming out of Charlotte. Still think he's a bit overrated to be honest. The only thing I liked about that whole move was how Bryan was able to unload Turk and get Barbosa - yet that still happened.
The Rudy Gay trade is much better. He's the most dynamic wing since Carter and we've had such crap players playing the SF spot that it's nice to have someone legitimate play there.


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Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is the process of identifying the sense of a polysemic word.
In modern WSD systems, the senses of a word are typically taken from some specified dictionary. These days WordNet is the usual dictionary in question. WSD has been investigated in computational linguistics as a specific task for well over 40 years, though the acronym is newer. The SENSEVAL conferences have attempted to put Word Sense Disambiguation on an empirically measurable basis by hosting evaluations in which a given corpus of tagged word senses are created using WordNet's senses and participants attempt to recognize those senses after tuning their systems with a corpus of training data.
One of the first problems that is encountered by any natural language processing system is that of lexical ambiguity, be it syntactic or semantic. The resolution of a word's syntactic ambiguity has largely been solved in language processing by part-of-speech taggers which predict the syntactic category of words in text with high levels of accuracy. [1] The problem is that words often have more than one meaning, sometimes fairly similar and sometimes completely different. The meaning of a word in a particular usage can only be determined by examining its context. This is, in general, a trivial task for the human language processing system, for example consider the following two sentences, each with a different sense of the word bank :
- The boy leapt from the bank into the cold water.
- The van pulled up outside the bank and three masked men got out.
We immediately recognise that in the first sentence bank refers to the edge of a river and in the second to a building. However, the task has proved to be difficult for computer and some have believed that it would never be solved. An early sceptic was Bar-Hillel who famously proclaimed that "sense ambiguity could not be resolved by electronic computer either current or imaginable". [2] However, the situation is not as bad as Bar-Hillel feared, there have been several advances in word sense disambiguation and it is now at a stage where lexical ambiguity in text can be resolved with a reasonable degree of accuracy.
The problem of WSD was first introduced by Warren Weaver in 1949 [3]. In 1975 Kelly and Stone [4] published a book explicitly listing their rules for disambiguation of word senses. As large-scale lexical resources became available in the 1980s, the automatic extraction of lexical knowledge became possible, disambiguation was still knowledge- or dictionary - based though. With the rise of statistical methods in CL in the 1990s, WSD became one of the main focus' of supervised learning techniques.
Knowledge based
Under this approach disambiguation is carried out using information from an explicit lexicon or knowledge base. The lexicon may be a machine readable dictionary, thesaurus or it may be hand-crafted. This is one of most popular approaches to word sense disambiguation and amongst others, work has been done using existing lexical knowledge sources such as WordNet [5] and LDOCE [6]. The information in these resources has been used in several ways, for example Wilks and Stevenson [7] use large lexicons (generally machine readable dictionaries) and the information associated with the senses (such as part-of-speech tags, topical guides and selectional preferences) to indicate the correct sense. Another approach is to treat the text as an unordered bag of words where similarity measures are calculated by looking at the semantic similarity (as measured from the knowledge source) between all the words in the window regardless of their positions, as was used by Yarowsky [8].
Corpus based
This approach attempts to disambiguate words using information which is gained by training on some corpus, rather that taking it directly from an explicit knowledge source. This training can be carried out on either a disambiguated or raw corpus, where a disambiguated corpus is one where the semantics of each polysemous lexical item is marked and a raw corpus one without such marking.
Disambiguated corpora
This set of techniques requires a training corpus which has already been disambiguated. In general a machine learning algorithm of some kind is applied to certain features extracted from the corpus and used to form a representation of each of the senses. This representation can then be applied to new instances in order to disambiguate them. Different researchers have made use of different sets of features, for example local collocates such as first noun to the left and right, second word to the left/right and so on. However, a more common feature set is to take all the words in a window of words around the ambiguous words, treating the context as an unordered bag of words. Another approach is to use Hidden Markov Models which have proved very successful in part-of-speech tagging. Realizing of course that semantic tagging is a much more difficult problem than part-of-speech tagging, [9] decided nonetheless to perform an experiment to see how well words can be semantically disambiguated using techniques that have proven to be effective in part-of-speech tagging. This experiment involved the following steps:
- deriving a lexicon from the WordNet data files which contains all possible semantic tags for each noun, adjective, adverb and verb. Words having no semantic tags (determiners, prepositions, auxiliary verbs, etc.) are ignored.
- constructing a training corpus and a test corpus from the semantically tagged Brown corpus (manually tagged by the WordNet team) by extracting tokens for the HMM bigrams.
- computing a HMM model based on the training corpus, runnig the tagger on the test corpus and comparing the results with the original tags in the test corpus.
The general problem with these methods is their reliance on disambiguated corpora which are expensive and difficult to obtain. This has meant that many of these algorithms have been tested on very small numbers of different words, often as few as 10.
Raw Corpora
It is often difficult to obtain appropriate lexical resources (especially for texts in a specialized sublanguage). This lack of resources has led several researchers to explore the use of unannotated, raw, corpora to perform unsupervised disambiguation. It should be noted that unsupervised disambiguation cannot actually label specific terms as a referring to a specific concept: that would require more information than is available. What unsupervised disambiguation can achieve is word sense discrimination, it clusters the instances of a word into distinct categories without giving those categories labels from a lexicon (such as WordNet synsets). An example of this is the dynamic matching technique[10] which examines all instances of a given term in a corpus and compares the contexts in which they occur for common words and syntactic patterns. A similarity matrix is thus formed which is subject to cluster analysis to determine groups of semantically related instances of terms. Another example is the work of Pedersen [11] who compared three different unsupervised learning algorithms on 13 different words. Each algorithm was trained on text with was tagged with either the WordNet or LDOCE sense for the word but the algorithm had no access to the truce senses. What it did have access to was the number of senses for each word and each algorithm split the instances of each word into the appropriate number of clusters. These clusters were then mapped onto the closest sense from the appropriate lexicon. Unfortunately the results are not very encouraging, Pedersen reports 65-66% correct disambiguation depending on the learning algorithm used. This result should be compared against that fact that, in the corpus he used, 73% of the instances could be correctly classified by simply choosing the most frequent sense.
Hybrid Approaches
These approaches can be neither properly classified as knowledge or corpus based but use part of both approaches. A good example of this is Luk's system [12] which uses the textual definitions of senses from a machine readable dictionary (LDOCE) to identify relations between senses. He then uses a corpus to calculate mutual information scores between these related senses in order to discover the most useful. This allowed Luk to produce a system which used the information in lexical resources as a way of reducing the amount of text needed in the training corpus. Another example of this approach is the unsupervised algorithm of Yarowsky [13]. This takes a small number of seed definitions of the senses of some word (the seeds could be WordNet synsets or definitions from some lexicon) and uses these to classify the "obvious" cases in a corpus. Decision lists [14] are then used to make generalisations based on the corpus instances classified so far and these lists are then re-applied to the corpus to classify more instances. The learning proceeds in this way until all corpus instances are classified. Yarowsky reports that the system correctly classifies senses 96% of the time.
Word Sense Disambiguation has several debates within the field as to whether the senses offered in existing dictionaries are adequate to distinguish the subtle meanings used in text contexts and how to evaluate the overall performance of a WSD system. For example, does it make sense to describe an overall percentage accuracy for a WSD system or does evaluation require specific comparison of system performance on a word by word basis.
See also
External links
- ↑ E. Brill. Transformation-based error-driven learning and natural language processing: A case study in part of speech tagging. Computational Linguistics, 21(4):543-566, December 1995
- ↑ Y. Bar-Hillel. Language and Information. Addison-Wesley, 1964.
- ↑ W. Weaver. 1949. Translation. In Machine Translation of Languages: Fourteen Essays, ed. by Locke, W.N. and Booth, A.D. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
- ↑ E.F. Kelly and P.J. Stone. 1975. Computer Recognition of English Word Senses, Amsterdam: North-Holland.
- ↑ Agirre, E. and Rigau, G. (1996). Word sense disambiguation using conceptual density. In Proceedings of COLING'96
- ↑ J. Guthrie, L. Guthrie, Y. Wilks and H. Aidinejad, Subject-Dependent Co-Occurrence and Word Sense Disambiguation, ACL-91, pp. 146-152.
- ↑ Y. Wilks and M. Stevenson. The Grammar of Sense: using part-of-speech tags as a first step in semantic disambiguation. To appear in Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 4(3).
- ↑ D. Yarowsky. Word-sense disambiguation using statistical models of Roget's categories trained on large corpora. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-92), pages 454-460, Nantes, France, 1992.
- ↑ Segond, F., Schiller, A., Grefenstette, G., and Chanod, J. (1997). An experiment in semantic tagging using hidden markov model tagging. In Vossen, P., Adriaens, G., Calzolari, N., Sanfilippo, A., and Wilks, Y., editors, Proceedings of the ACL/EACL'97 Workshop on Automatic Information Extraction and Building of Lexical Semantic Resources.
- ↑ Radford et al. (1996)
- ↑ T. Pedersen and R. Bruce. Distinguishing word senses in untagged text. In Proceedings of the Second Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Providence, RI, August 1997.
- ↑ A. Luk. Statistical sense disambiguation with relatively small corpora using dictionary definitions. In Proceedings of the 33rd Meetings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-95), pages 181-188, Cambridge, M.A., 1995.
- ↑ D. Yarowsky. Unsupervised word-sense disambiguation rivaling supervised methods. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Lainguistics (ACL '95), pages 189-196, Cambridge, MA, 1995.
- ↑ R. Rivest. Learning decision lists. Machine Learning, 2(3):229-246, 1987


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — LAX is the international hub for stars in and out of Hollywood, and a few celebrities were among the travelers caught up in the chaos following the deadly shooting at the airport Friday morning.
With time on their hands, they took to Twitter to update fans.
— "At #lax Some (expletive) shot up the place." — James Franco, who included a self-portrait in an airplane window seat. His publicist confirmed the actor was a passenger on a flight that landed Friday morning after the shooting occurred.
— "Currently waiting on the plane in a remote parking area. I am safe. Praying for the victims of this shooting." — Nick Jonas, who posted moments earlier that the flight he arrived on was set to deplane at the terminal where the shooting occurred.
— "Otw to lax and I hear there was a shooting at the terminal I'm going to. No Dallas for me this weekend, hope everyone is ok. I hate u LAX" — "Glee" star Mark Salling.


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Whats In Your Meat - Traceable Meat
Published on Fri, 10/25/2013 - 10:59am
When you sit down to enjoy a delicious steak hot off the grill, you might have wondered about the genetics, feed or the farmland from where your meat came, only for these things to remain a mystery. Now in this ever-changing world of technology, the time has come that you can know every aspect of the meat you're going to enjoy. Starting in October, there will be technology called Traceable Meat™ that will allow you to trace your meat from farm to table from your smartphone. The process uses a simple QR code and will give consumers access to genetic traceability for each and every piece of meat, including bloodlines and origins. Everyone using the Traceable Meat™ app will be assured that the meat they are eating is healthy and delicious.
Whether you know it or not, you may have been missing out on experiencing meat that is more flavorful and healthy. Now, when you look for the Traceable Meat™ logo in grocery stores and on restaurant menus, you'll be confident that your meat is 100% traceable – from farm to table.
"What's in your meat" can be answered with a simple app: Traceable Meat™. Available on smartphones, this app provides the most comprehensive information available in a fast, innovative way that helps consumers make more knowledgeable decisions about the meat they're buying, cooking, serving or enjoying in restaurants.
Pioneers in the Traceable Meat™ movement are George Callen, of Kings High Ranch, LLC, and Grant Robinson, Cane Ridge Cattle Co. "For over a century, the United States Department of Agriculture's meat grading system served as the guide for different cuts of meat and this grading system was broad and subjective, Robinson said. "Today, Traceable Meat™ sets new standards for the best and most complete and objective information available, including cattle breed, registration, origin, location, diet, age, inspection processes and grading. For professionals and consumers, Traceable Meat™ is the best way to have 100 percent assurance of the safety and quality of your meat."
"Traceable Meat™ was founded on innovation and excellence – where the latest technological advances help redefine and raise the quality of meat," Robinson said. "Through husbandry techniques and leveraging advancements in technology, Traceable Meat™ brings the finest meat to restaurant and home chefs and provides the answer: 'What's In Your Meat?™"
While information is important, creating a better way to deliver the information in a format that is easy to access and easy to use was a goal that was achieved through Traceable Meat™.
"Another benefit of using this app, is to encourage interaction and educate people about the important resources available to them," Callen explained. "The Traceable Meat™ app helps make consumers aware of the journey the meat takes - from farm to table." The innovative use of scanning QR codes delivers data that empowers and informs the consumer in only a few simple steps.
The requirements of ranchers and farmers participating in Traceable Meat™ translate into an assurance consumers get the best, most healthy product on the market. In a world where it is standard to cut corners and irresponsible cost savings result in sub standard products, Traceable Meat™ is the guarantee of healthy, flavorful, superior quality.
Meeting the desire of consumer safety standards and delivery to quality product, Traceable Meat™ maintains the high standards of genetic excellence, strong nutritional elements, environmental safety and humane processing to produce a top-tier product.
Professional chefs, home cooks, shoppers and diners want to know the sources and content of what's in the meat they're preparing and consuming. It's a simple question and the answer is now available – in a reliable manner and at your fingertips. Traceable Meat™ provides the most scientifically reliable and accurate system for tracing every piece of meat to ensure that the quality of meat purchased at a grocery store or restaurant is truly the best meat.
To consumers – both professional and home chefs – Traceable Meat™ is your guarantee that the meat you are buying is 100 percent domestically produced meat from trusted farmers. It is beef that carries the consistent meat characteristics renowned for superior taste, tenderness and marbling. Traceable Meat™ enables you to know you have the highest quality assurance regarding our products.
Debuted in late August at the American Wagyu Association meeting in Stowe, Vermont, Traceable Meat™ met with rave reviews from ranchers of all types of meat. One attendee said, "this product is long overdue and exactly what we all need for our farm."
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What's In Season: Corn
What's In Season: Corn
Summer has to be my favorite season in terms of produce. Strawberries, cherries, tomatoes, corn... the list of delicious, ripe fruits and vegetables that can be attained locally at farmer's markets is virtually endless. I've just started to notice the first ears of fresh, crisp corn at the grocers. Corn is a type of grass that dates back over 5000 years. The average ear of corn is 12 to 14 inches in length and contains about 400 kernels arranged in 16 rows. Most of the United State's corn crop comes from corn that is planted in March-July in Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, and Minnesota. The most common type is sweet corn that comes in yellow or white varieties. The kernel color has no affect on the sweetness of the corn.
When purchasing corn look for ears that have fresh, tight, bright green husks. Stay away from those that are yellowed and dried. If you can, peel back the husk a little to check out the ears which should be plump, bright, milky, and well rounded. The silk should not be brittle or brown but soft and moist with a light golden color. Eat your corn as soon as possible to enjoy maximum flavor, as it tastes best right after harvest (when the sugars are still retained). Keep in the fridge with the husks on until ready to consume.


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Shameka Ealy led the offense with six kills on nine attempts. Ashton Sitkowski added five kills and two aces. Taylor Hathcote was solid on the serving line and recorded four aces on eight attempts. Josie Dixon played well at the net with two kills and also had the match-winning ace.
The eighth-grade team (6-1) lost 17-25, 25-17, 12-15. Sydney Young and Annabelle Mcneill had four kills apiece. Rachel Prochazka anchored the defense with 14 digs and had a team-high five aces. Hanna Marasco added six digs. Baylee Knight and Cecilly Kidd each contributed two kills. Bheyleigh Nufer served well, as she had two aces and no errors at the serving line.
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The Russellville Cyclone tennis team lost to a Little Rock Catholic and Mount St. Mary on Tuesday, but RHS head coach Lisa Gray remains optimistic.
"I was pleased. We took three matches against tough teams," she said.
The boys lost 4-1 to Catholic, but were able to win one doubles match. Bryce Johnson and Frankie Williams defeated Miller and Reen, 8-5. Johnson and Williams lost to Brown and Kosenbret, 8-0.
In singles action, Frankie Williams lost to Michael Town, 8-0. Bryce Johnson lost to Lee Birch, 8-1. Marcos Aquilar lost to Edwin Saus, 8-0.
The Lady Cyclones lost to Mount St. Mary 5-2. In doubles play, the team of Mae Brown and Emily Autry defeated Sam Cook and Connley North, 8-5. Morgan Burris and Maliha Aniqa lost to Whitteker and Roberts, 8-1. Smith and Cindy Quinteras lost to Pryor and Carter, 8-4.
In singles action, Smith defeated Jennifer Calancey, 8-2.
Despite the losing outcome, Gray felt the team was moving in a positive direction.
"We're gaining momentum," she said. "And that's a good thing."
Russellville will host Fort Smith Southside at 3:30 p.m. today.
Pottsville-Dardanelle tennis
Pottsville defeated Dardanelle in tennis action Tuesday at Old Post Road Park.
In boys singles, Austin Dotson beat Mario Ribera 6-0, Braxton Fields defeated Heath Creekmore 6-0, Jason Morris beat Creekmore 6-0, Nathan Walker defeated Tyler Corbin 6-1, Morris beat Nick Calavita 6-1, and Fields defeated Ribera 6-0.
In the lone girls singles match, Skylar Hooper beat Alexa Meimerstorf in a tiebreaker 6-6 (7-2).
In girls doubles, Maggie Lee and Hannah Woodard defeated Madison/Crowe 6-4, Holt/Holland 6-0 and Jones/Reynolds 6-0. Courtney Dotson and Bethany Clair defeated Jones/Reynolds 6-1, then lost to Madison/Crowe in a tiebreaker 6-6 (7-5).
In boys doubles, Aaron Horne and Cody Waddle defeated Calavita/Corbin 6-0, Garrett Rhynes and Micah Prock defeated Calavita and Lorenzo 6-0 and Walker/Waddle defeated Creekmore/Corbin 6-1. Austin Dotson and Hooper defeted Holt/Holland 6-0 in a mixed doubles match.
RJHS East-Vilonia
Russellville Junior High School's East Lady Whirlwinds split with Vilonia on Wednesday at RJHS Gym.
The eighth-grade Lady Whirlwinds fell to 4-2 with their 25-17, 16-25, 10-15 loss. Arrison Gray had five points, including three aces. Susan Gray had four points with one ace. Kaitlyn Womack had two points (two aces), one block and one kill. Brittany Pehrson had two kills.
RJHS Eastside's ninth-grade won 25-19, 26-24. Shelbi Thompson had four points (one ace) and one dig in the first game, but trailing Vilonia 24-18, she scored five aces, two points, three kills and two digs to net the win for the Lady Whirlwinds (12-1).
Madison McKinley had two digs, one block and seven kills in both games. Katie Hefley had six points, one kill and one block. Victoria Teague had one digs and a two-handed save.
Shelby Scott and Shanece Seals each had three points, and Katina Curtis had two points (one ace) as the ninth-grade B squad fell 19-25.
RJHS East faces RJHS West on Monday, starting at 3:30 p.m.


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The Heidelberg Speedmaster CD 102 range (or SM 102 CD, as many people still call it, arrived in 1987 to complement the SM 102 range which soon became known as the "Classic" Speedmaster. CD stood for carton design, the double circumference impression cylinders making it more suitable for card than the single circumference Classic, which was designed to allow perfecting.
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Jamal is a pretty good blogger. If you haven't seen his latest, JC gives his thoughts on each Knick player. It me kind of revealing to hear that a few players weren't even mentioned by him. Maybe the roster is set now?
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It feels good to be here in NY with the guys again. We've been working out real hard and getting up and down the court. Some guys are looking really good and in shape. Were all still getting use to the new style of play but it will be fun and exciting for you guys to watch....
Just doing some of the things that we work on in drills, it will be tough to stop us once we start playing because the floor is so spaced and there so many different options....
So let me give you guys an update on what Ive seen so far out of the guys who have been involved in the workouts:
Wilson Chandler: Wilson has gotten a lot better from last year! His range has improved -- his ball handling and his athleticism was always there I think he's just more confident then anything now and it's showing. I think he'll have a really good year for us!
Danilo Gallinari: Gallo is still banged up a little bit,..so he's just been shooting and riding the bike...but this kid is very VERY confident!! He listens, works hard and wants to get better. Some of you guys may have booed him when we drafted him, but he is going to be a big time player for us one day!
Allan Houston: Hes back and looks a lot healthier than he did in his last comeback attempt last season...I think he may have rushed that one a little bit, but he looks a lot better this time! AND of course we all know his jumper is razor sharp!!!!!!! I can learn a lot watching him.
David Lee: We all know David's game by now - all out hustle, rebounds. The thing that will surprise you most is his jumper! He shooting it with so much confidence, I mean even three pointers! He shot one and I said to myself, "No way." And it went straight in.
Chris Duhon: Very solid, very unselfish. Can run a team. Makes good decisions, I'm going to like playing with him!
Nate Robinson: Still a blur. Shooting great and should be a great fit in this system, a la Barbosa! His athleticism still amazes me...
Working on his jumper
Pat Ewing Jr: Very athletic. but has been shooting it pretty good. Can block shots, something we really need!
Jared Jeffries: Jared really knows how to play, He's a smart player. He does all the little things to help teams win. I think he'll go back to the Jared he was in Washington.
Q Rich: Hes really stepping up as one of the leaders. Seems rejuvenated. Working on his handle, He'll play like he did in Phoenix.
Mardy: Lost some weight, so he's moving better. Very smart, really good defender!
Anthony Roberson: Has been a lil banged up, but when he shoots he rarely misses! One of the best shooters on the team. He plays like Eddie House but with a better handle!
Eddy Curry: It will be a transition for him at first because he's used to posting up. But he'll be on the perimeter a lil bit more....he'll get better adapted to the system the more he does it...but we need him...
Zach Randolph: Zach loves to play and he's been scoring and rebounding, doing his thing. Him and Eddy have had some nice match-ups. They look better on opposite teams (hahahah, just playing! I knew that would get a rise outta you guys!) I don't know what's gonna happen with all the trade talk and everything, but its good to see that, either way, he's not letting it affect him.
Danny Grunfeld: Ernies son. To be respectfully honest, he doesn't look like he can really play -- until you give him some space and he's hitting a jumper on you! But it's the quiet ones that get you...
Me: This will be very fun for me, This system is so wide open, so spaced! First day, I was aggressive offensively and making things happen. The next day I shot only three times in eight games, just to work on something different that day. I didn't play today, just rode the bike and did core. My back is a little sore (nothing serious!). Ill be back on the court tomorrow.


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i was using getch() funtion and storing the result in a int variable. But it didn't work properly. I did an 'add watch' on the program to see what the int varibale was.
int num;
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the add watch said num took on a value of 50 when i typed in the number 1, it also went to 49 when i typed in the number 2. Why can't getch() handle integers properly?


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Sequoia/Kings Canyon NP > Mount Russell > Climber's Log
Mount Russell Climber's Log
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|South face
Date Climbed: May 7, 2011
|Awesome climb, couldn't ask for better weather.
|Posted Jun 13, 2011 3:10 am
|Fine Summer Day
Date Climbed: Sep 12, 2010
|Posted May 23, 2011 7:18 pm
|Multiple times -east ridge
|First of several successful climbs. First climb was with my brother. Climbed again each year 2001-2005 with groups of friends
|Posted May 12, 2011 1:30 am
|East Ridge... Didn't Happen
Date Climbed: Apr 23, 2011
|Shut down by white out conditions and steady snowfall. Didn't make it past Russell/Carillon Col. Skied from saddle back down to Lower Boyscout Lake.
|Posted Apr 25, 2011 9:20 am
|East ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 31, 2010
|solo dayhike...beautiful day on our way home from vacation in Colorado
|Posted Feb 19, 2011 6:14 pm
|Whitney Loop
Date Climbed: Sep 15, 2007
|Climbed Mt. Russell as part of a 5 peak Whitney Loop. Up the MR and down MT.
|Posted Feb 4, 2011 12:53 am
Date Climbed: Nov 13, 2010
|Attempted the exposed East Arete, complete with loose early season snow...made it to 13,800 before exhaustion and sketchiness got the best of us. Will return!
|Posted Nov 16, 2010 12:51 am
|South Face, Right Side
Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2010
|Tricky finding class 3 route around the headwall.
Tried 2nd and 3rd chute to right of headwall, but
couldn't get through. Finally had success on diagonal
to left of headwall.
|Posted Oct 25, 2010 7:52 pm
|Bob Burd
|Traverse from Morgenson
Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2010
|Day 10 of the 2010 Sierra Challenge. The traverse from Morgenson is a tad scary! Trip Report.
|Posted Oct 23, 2010 8:20 pm
|East Ridge
Date Climbed: Oct 16, 2010
|Dayhike, turned back at 13.8k due to treacherous winter conditions. I guess we'll have to go back in the summer.
|Posted Oct 19, 2010 11:21 pm
|East Ridge
Date Climbed: Sep 16, 2010
|Hiked the East Ridge from Upper Boyscout. Fun day with Bob, Steve, Jillian, and Rich.
|Posted Oct 5, 2010 2:38 pm
|East Ridge
Date Climbed: Sep 25, 2010
|Dayhike with Vitaliy up the east ridge after a visit to Carillon. Very enjoyable route- will do again sometime.
Up Cleaver Col and down the standard scree slope.
|Posted Sep 27, 2010 1:54 pm
|east ridge
Date Climbed: Sep 5, 2010
|this is my favorite so far.
|Posted Sep 6, 2010 12:20 pm
|Great day-East ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2010
|Nice peak, nice ridge, nice views. The way down didn't seem as memorable as the way going up. Would like to try to fishhook
|Posted Aug 16, 2010 3:34 pm
|Fishhook Arete
Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2010
|Great day with MM. Only downside was a guide and 2 clients jumped ahead at the short cut at end of pitch 3 as I was seconding up pitch 1; we caught them by pitch 7; but let it go. Just sayin...
|Posted Jul 8, 2010 8:05 pm
Date Climbed: Jun 26, 2010
|Dayhiked E Ridge, via Nirth Fork route and bagged Carillon on the way down. Still a lot of snow for the end of June this year.
|Posted Jun 29, 2010 2:21 pm
Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2010
|Great Climb! Very cold so opted to start directly under the notch. Sun hit arete at 8:15 and started climbing at 8:30. Comfortable temps and very little wind. Summitted at 1:45 and back at Upper Boy Scout Lake via East Ridge at 4:15. Snow on approach to Iceberg lake and from Iceberg lake to Whitney/Russell pass. Everything else clear of snow. Small patch on N side of E. Summit on descent.
|Posted Jun 24, 2010 12:32 pm
|Fishhook Arete
Date Climbed: Apr 25, 2010
|Camped at Iceberg Lake. Perfect weather but a little sketchy with ice/snow along last 300ft of summit ridge.
|Posted Apr 26, 2010 4:36 pm
|Princess Buttercup
|East Ridge
Date Climbed: Sep 15, 2007
|"Are we done yet? I'm tired of being scared." Can't wait to go back and grab the north ridge.
|Posted Nov 30, 2009 10:42 pm
|Sam Page
|East Ridge
Date Climbed: Oct 4, 2009
|A Tussle with Mt. Russell
|Posted Nov 11, 2009 12:24 am


text: The League of California Cities has awarded the City of San Carlos one of their prestigious statewide Helen Putnam Awards for the City's work to eliminate a $3.5 Million Budget structural deficit through the use of Shared Services. The award was presented at the October 8, 2012 City Council Meeting. San Carlos won the award in the category of Internal Administration for its program titled "A Different Approach to the Budget: Cutting Costs & Adding Service." The city resolved a $3.5 million structural General Fund budget deficit and increased services to the public over an 18 month period. This was done in the areas of police, fire, parks maintenance and recreation services through a mix of shared services, contract services and becoming a Recreation Service Provider in partnership with the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, and the cities of Redwood City and Half Moon Bay.


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Britney Spears Taking Her New Puppy to the Vet | Pictures
Britney Spears and Her Boys Leave the Vet With a Pink-Cast-Clad Puppy
Britney Spears held her new puppy close as she headed into a pet hospital in Thousand Oaks, CA, yesterday. On the way in, the puppy was wrapped in a blanket and later emerged with one paw fitted with a bright pink bandage. Britney's sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James, were along for the trip, though they stayed outside with Britney's bodyguard during the visit.
Britney's new teacup-sized pal isn't the only thing keeping her busy lately. Last week, Will.i.am released the pair's new music video for the remix of "Scream & Shout." The unexpected Valentine's Day premiere was a treat for fans who responded with half a million views in less than one day. It was also met by rapper Eve's comment that Britney didn't sing on the track, causing Britney's team to set the record straight, saying the remark was "completely not true."


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Braden River High senior Matt McFall completed his first marathon, the Walt Disney World Marathon, Jan. 13.
The 18-year-old, who runs cross-country and track for the Pirates, finished the 26.2-mile race in 3:02.48. McFall finished second out all of the 18-year-old competitors and fifth overall in his age group (18 to 24).
McFall had previously run seven half marathons, but the thought of running a full marathon was something McFall always had in the back of his mind.
"Half marathons weren't challenging enough," McFall says. "I wanted the challenge (of a marathon). In the running world, the marathon is the ultimate test of endurance."
McFall began running his freshman year after deciding that cross-country would be one of the easier sports in which to participate. Since then, he has set the school record in the 1-mile and 2-mile, and this past cross-country season he set a new school record in the 5K, with a time of 17:14.
"The school record had always been a goal of mine, and I wasn't sure I would be able to do it," McFall says. "I wanted to be able to leave a legacy behind."
This spring, McFall is focused on dropping his time on the track; continuing his running career at the collegiate level; and eventually making the Olympic Trials for the marathon.
"The Disney Marathon was a stepping stone for a larger goal in the future," McFall says.
What did you enjoy most about your first marathon?
Definitely the finish. I've never been happier to stop running.
Would you ever consider running another marathon?
Yes, but I have to forget about the experience first. I have to forget about the pain, so maybe after college.
Do you prefer cross-country or track?
Cross-country. It's more of a team aspect, and it's a longer distance. There are more challenges because it's a larger race. You have to go a lot faster, and you have to deal with the elements of the landscape.


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1. INAUGURATION PARTY ETIQUETTE: Media and tech companies hosted inauguration events, although the scene at Google's luncheon with Elle at the National Portrait Gallery found host Susan Molinari threatening to shut down the bar if guests did not pay better attention to the speakers. Women's Wear Daily: "Each time a powerful woman showed up, guests were supposed to stop talking, listen up, and take notes on what a girl's got to do to make it in politics. After a few hours, the drill was beginning to get old." http://wwd.us/144WZjV
2. PRESIDENTIAL SUITES: It was a quirky idea—and generated global buzz—but no one purchased the Madison Hotel's $47,000 "Inaugural Town and Country Package," which included a "social media butler" to document your inauguration memories and a $5,000 shopping trip to Brooks Brothers. In fact, many Washington hotels did not sell their high-priced and high-perked packages, but that doesn't mean it was a waste of time putting them together. Politico: "Sold or not, these packages can be marketing gold for these hotels." http://politi.co/Wv8SKK
3. KUTCHER KEYNOTE AT MACWORLD: The tech company's expo next week will feature Ashton Kutcher, who will portray Steve Jobs in the film Jobs. The event is leaning heavily on celebrities this year. Macgasm: "Macworld Expo has also announced that Will.i.am will be speaking later in the day about the future of technology and gadgets. He will be joined by Intel's futurist Brian David Johnson. Other notable speakers include Fred Armisen of Portlandia and Saturday Night Live as well as John Gruber of the popular tech blog Daring Fireball." http://bit.ly/VMWLdu
4. NATIONAL HACKATHON: More than 30 events are planned across the country for this summer's National Day of Civic Hacking. NBC News: "The idea is to combine a bunch of public government data (census data, congressional records, etc,) with hackers and other techies who want to make something with it. Much of this data is already available, but perhaps not very visible to curious coders." http://nbcnews.to/Wnks9D
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COAST TO COAST: American Furniture Rentals is acquiring Agile Tradeshow & Event Furnishings but will remain a separate business entity. Jose Lopez, in addition to running Agile, holds an equity position in AFR.
BOSTON: Seth Greenberg, co-owner of Mistral, plans to open a new French restaurant in Fort Point by September. The 8,500-square-foot venue will reportedly have a 70-seat private dining room called the Chalet; it will serve locally sourced dishes and French cheeses. http://bit.ly/VMYjoP
CHICAGO: The Progressive Insurance Strictly Sail Chicago show takes place at Navy Pier's Festival Halls today through Sunday. On the docket are more than 200 daily seminars, a sailing simulator, a remote control sailboat pond, and more than 100 boats and accessories.
On March 10, Autohaus on Edens will host "Launch 2013: Driving Fashion Forward." A spring fashion show produced by Zzazz Productions, it will showcase items from North Shore boutiques. The evening will also include a student design competition from Columbia College, hair and makeup touch-ups from Red Door Spa, St. Germain champagne cocktails, and bites from Morton's the Steakhouse.
LAS VEGAS: A new operating agreement between Smart City Networks and Microsoft is intended to ensure that Microsoft's events such as Worldwide Partner Conference, Convergence, and Tech Ed have standard levels of connectivity and service when they meet at facilities that work with Smart City.
MIAMI/SOUTH FLORIDA: Tonight is the preview event for Long-Sharp Gallery's "Politics, Peace, and Passion, Reprise," part of Art Palm Beach at the Palm Beach County Convention Center.
NEW ORLEANS: After the DirecTV Celebrity Beach Bowl February 2, the SuperFan stadium will be transformed into a nightclub-like setting to host "DirecTV Super Saturday Night." The private event, co-hosted by Mark Cuban's AXS TV, will offer a performance from Justin Timberlake. DJ QuestLove will spin.
NEW YORK: The Altamarea Group, which owns chef Michael White's restaurants, has leased the SoHo space that once housed Fiamma. New York Times: http://nyti.ms/UUsNmI
Independent Fashion Bloggers will host its eighth IFB Conference at the Altman Building February 6 and 7.
The New York Lizard's Blizzard, a benefit for Monster's Kids, is Tuesday at Spin New York. The evening will feature a ping-pong tournament, a silent auction, food, and refreshments, plus a chance to meet the New York Lizards professional lacrosse players.
Event producer Engage Digital is partnering with KidSafe Seal Program to create the first Digital Kids Safety Summit February 11 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center.
Canard Inc. will cater tonight's Winter Antiques Show Opening Night Party at Park Avenue Armory.
Local event listings from Masterplanner: http://masterplanneronline.com/newyork
ORLANDO: B&B Junction has opened in the former Four Rivers BBQ location in Winter Park. The new burger-and-beer spot boasts farm-to-table practices and grass-fed beef.
"Taste of Pointe Orlando" is scheduled for April 28. The fund-raiser will include food from 12 of Pointe Orlando's restaurants such as Marlow's Tavern, Taverna Opa, and Cuba Libre.
TORONTO: Decor & More Inc. is promoting its chief operating officer, Bryan Bell, to president. Gregory Bell, previously a sales executive, will become vice president. Leslee Bell, current president and chief creative officer, will continue as partner and consultant.
The Toronto Tea Festival is February 2 in the Toronto Reference Library.
WASHINGTON: Tailgate Village at National Park is a new option for corporate entertaining before Washington Nationals baseball games. Set to debut in April, the service from Tailgate Cruiser will offer rentals and catering in a gated parking lot 50 yards from the stadium.
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The Golden Tulip Dammam Corniche is pleased to offer guests a selection of freshly prepared cuisine to choose from. In the main Tulip Restaurant, you'll find an array of international and Middle Eastern dishes to choose from, served up in a buffet or a la carte setting. Furthermore, the lobby's cafe provides light bites, sandwiches, pastries, and refreshing beverages when you're on the go or just want a snack. Naturally, to round out the options you can select from our extensive room service menu, at any hour of the day.
Tulip Restaurant
Relax with colleagues or family in the elegant, casual surroundings of the Tulip Restaurant. The restaurant provides a high standard of service and culinary finesse, offering a buffet of international standards to choose from. In addition to the daily buffet, there are also a la carte options available if you prefer a main dish. The restaurant is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.


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Chefs and restaurateurs recognized for their excellence and achievement in the culinary world.
The James Beard Foundation announced the recipients of its 2014 awards, which recognize culinary professionals for excellence and achievement in their fields and further the Foundation's mission to celebrate, nurture and honor America's diverse culinary heritage through programs that educate and inspire.
The 2014 James Beard Foundation Awards include:
In addition, the James Beard Foundation presented a lifetime achievement award to New York City restaurateur Sirio Maccioni and named Matt Haley, a chef, restaurateur and philanthropist in Delaware, its 2014 Humanitarian of the Year.
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Juniors Jeans Featuring Cool Cuts and Colors for Fall
You can never have enough jeans. They are one of the most essential and central pieces of everybody's wardrobe. You can wear them all year long, with any type of top, and to any event. In the fall you'll probably find yourself in jeans more often than not. Whether going out to catch a flick with your friends or attending a family get together, you'll be outfitted to the teeth in some of the best juniors' jeans around.
Skinny jeans have been called by many different names over the decades, including drainpipe jeans and pencil pants. While they fell out of fashion in the 90s in favor of the baggier styles, they currently are one of the bestselling jean styles, and they show no sign of letting go of their domination. Go for a classic fit juniors' skinny jean that hugs your legs closely but still retains a bit of slack. Match it with a long sleeve shirt, boyfriend cardigan and boots for a super laid back look. Super skinny jeans hug your body like a second skin. There's no slack whatsoever in in these pants. Balance the tight fit of the jeans with a billowy blouse. Released hem jeans give your fall fashion a down home country charm with a touch of DYI flavor. Borrowed from the boys but super flattering on you, boyfriend jeans are comfy and have the right amount of room to accommodate your curves. Put on a turtleneck and blazer, and you have a nice dress casual out that's' ready for brunch with your family or friends. JCPenney has it's finger on the pulse of fashion. That's why you'll always find the most relevant styles when you shop our juniors' department.
Jeans for Juniors': 3 Cool Ways to Style your Jeans this Fall
As one of the quintessential street wear items, jeans are everywhere! Here are three cool ways for you to rock jeans this fall. We massive collection jeans for juniors' for you to sift through, and check out the rest of our juniors' clothing to create these stylish looks.
1. Denim on Denim: Right now mixing and matching denim pieces together is every much in. Mix and match denim washes or rock the same wash from head to toe. Try a dark wash skinny jeans with a light wash denim shirt. Take the look one step further with denim shoes or break up the denim with your favorite flats, boots, or heels.
2. Distressed Hems: While most jeans still come with impeccably stitched hems, distressed hems are a hot new trend on the rise. Some styles even show case high-low distressed hems.
3. White Jeans: White jeans are a great pallet to play with. Yes, you can totally wear white after labor. You can mix and match any color with white jeans and look fantastic. Try going for an all-white look with a white sweater, jeans, and shoes. Add splashes of accent colors with jewelry and accessories. To make your all-white look the focus, opt for neutral colored jewelry and accessories instead.


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The primary treatment for ovarian cancer is surgery. The goal of treatment is to remove as much of the cancer as possible, while preserving the ovaries and their function. It may be used in combination with other therapies, such as chemotherapy, other medications, or radiation therapy. Comfort measures can be provided if the cancer is in advanced stages.
Talk to your doctor before treatment if:
- You are or think you may be pregnant—Treatment can affect the fetus, leading to birth defects. Pregnancy can change or delay planned treatment. Talk to your doctor about birth control options until treatment is completed.
- You plan on having children—Some forms of treatment may affect your fertility. There may be options available to preserve it.
It is recommended that ovarian cancer treatment is done in a hospital that specializes in gynecologic cancers. Your healthcare team will include doctors, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists, and other health professionals. It is important to maintain contact with your medical team, adhere to recommended treatment, and go to any recommended appointments for best outcomes possible.
Ovarian cancer treatment includes:SurgeryChemotherapyOther treatmentsRadiation therapyMedicationsLifestyle changes
Existing treatment protocols have been established and continue to be modified through clinical trials. These research studies are essential to determine whether or not new treatments are both safe and effective. Since highly effective treatments for many cancers remain unknown, numerous clinical trials are always underway around the world. You may wish to ask your doctor if you should consider participating in a clinical trial. You can find out about clinical trials at the US National Institutes of Health website.
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"Tremble! Be afraid! Recoil in despair! Cower in awe! And cry your heart out, because my art… is an EXPLOSION!"
Basic Information
Name:Deidara (デイダラ)
Nickname: Mr. Art
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Clan: Blast Corps
Deidara had slanted blue eyes and very long blond hair which he wore drawn into a half ponytail with the rest hanging down freely. The bang hanging over his left eye is what concealed his scope signifying that he was a long-range fighter, but, as shown in his fight with Sasuke, it was not permanently attached to his face. He also had mouths in each of the palms of his hands which were used for moulding his clay and under his cloak he wore a utility belt with two bags where he carried all of his clay. Deidara had one of his arms crushed by Gaara's sand, and the elbow of his other arm was blown into another dimension by Kakashi's Kamui. Deidara had his arms restored by having Kakuzu sew what was left of his arms with what appears to be a transplanted arm. His transplant was dark brown and had several wrinkles on it. Under his cloak, he wore a V-neck, sleeveless, midriff shirt with mesh armour underneath it along with pants, stirrups, and sandals.
On the left side his chest he had a large, stitched-up mouth for setting off his self-destruct technique. On his right index finger was his Akatsuki ring, which bore the kanji for blue or green (青, ao) and was teal in colour. He wore black nail polish on his fingers and toes.
During his partnership with Sasori, Deidara usually showed a cool, and relaxed attitude, never losing his smirk even while fighting an intense battle or when being blamed by his partner. However, his personality seemed to change to some extent after being partnered with Tobi, as he would easily get mad at his partner's childish and sometimes disrespectful behaviour. He also had something of a sadistic arsonist nature, rather he was not above enjoying a good fight, and he often blew up his opponents in a very brutal fashion. Deidara's most distinctive trait, however, was his love of art. He would respect any form of it, even if it disagreed with his own. Deidara also had a habit of ending his sentences with nasal-like grunts (…うん, …un), roughly translated as "yeah" or "hm". Deidara also seemed to respect the ideals of others as he allowed Gaara to move the sand he used to protect his village into the desert before kidnapping him, even going so far as to admiringly call him noble.
Deidara referred to his explosive ninjutsu as art, usually quoting "Art is an Explosion!" and seeing each bomb he made to be a significant accomplishment. He referred to his style as superflat, and claimed pop is dead. Deidara's pride as an artist makes him simply unwilling to accept that anything could defeat it, leaving him to abandon strategy in favor of tactics that let him show off his work.
Village InformationVillage of Birth | Iwagakure
Village of Alliance |Amegakure
Rank/Chakra Information
"My true art... You will see it!"
Ninja Rank | Sannin
Clay Techniques (Need Training) | Kyotōryū Taijutsu | Raiton
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Deidara's fighting style literally makes him a human sword. It's a unique brand of nintaijutsu that stands on the middle ground of Gentle Fist and Strong Fist. His taijutsu is a mixture of both technique and force adding to that the element of surprise of using the users body as a sword makes him all the more deadly.
Enhanced Speed: Deidara is less affected by air resistance. His training and methods makes him extremely fast, along with incredible stamina, being able to gain incredible momentum within a second and maintaining it for long periods.
Enhanced Durability: Being a human sword, Deidara has a body resistant to a variety of damages. His defense itself is his offense.
Cutting and piercing attacks: His ordinary attacks have the ability to cut. His hits are fast and precise which can help produce some lethal combinations.
Background Information
"Look at those fools. They have no appreciation for art. You have to feel art. And true art… is an EXPLOSION!."
Monologue of the Clay Master | Soul, Clay, and Art
Part I
Kazekage Rescue Arc
Deidara, with Sasori, traveled to Sunagakure to capture Gaara so the Akatsuki can extract Shukaku the One-Tail from him. Getting passed gate security with the help of Sasori's sleeper agent Yūra, taking out any guards watching the sky, Deidara found that the village was artistically worthy of being blown up. Despite the stealthy infiltration, Deidara was quickly confronted by Gaara, who knew he was in the village due to the clay bird he was flying on not matching any species native in the Land of Wind. Deidara was then forced into taking up the defensive, seeing Gaara's abilities to make his opponent worthy of him using his artistic ninjutsu on. Nearly being trapped in a prison of sand pulled from the surrounding desert, Deidara ended up losing his left arm trapped in some of the sand from Gaara's gourd, forcing Deidara to pull what remained of it off to prevent the sand from crushing the rest of him.
Deidara captures Gaara.
Seeing that he was nearly out of clay, Deidara hatched a plan that would end the fight: Using a C3 bomb on the village as a decoy with Gaara left defenceless in his act to protect Sungakure for Deidara to use a clay bird. Though Gaara's sand stops the scheme, Deidara reveals that some of the clay in the arm Gaara took had mixed with his sand. Detonating the clay as Gaara uses his ultimate defense, Deidara abducts his unconscious opponent with Kankurō in pursuit before Sasori gives Deidara time to escape. After waiting for Sasori, Deidara headed out with him to one of their hideouts in the Land of Rivers to extract Shukaku with the rest of the Akatsuki. When Team Kakashi and Team Guy were announced to be on their way to save Gaara, Deidara couldn't help but feel embarrassed about his lack of stealth in capturing Gaara.
When Team Kakashi arrived at their location, Deidara was given a meagre clue from Itachi as to what the jinchūriki of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox is like - the one who barges in and barks first. To test Itachi's clue, he sat on Gaara's corpse while waiting for the team, to see which of the shinobi gave a response first. This worked and Deidara, taking advantage of this, left with Gaara's body in order to lead away the jinchūriki, leaving Sasori to deal with Sakura and Chiyo. He was set on capturing Naruto to help him in his quest for greater stimulation to his art sense as he found Naruto to be "a canvas worthy of my artistry". Deidara noticed that Naruto was an extraordinary jinchūriki and felt more interested in fighting him than Kakashi Hatake. He tried to separate Naruto from Kakashi so he could fight Naruto and capture him with several different tactics, but ended up failing each time.
"Deidara" committing suicide.
Kakashi tried decapitating Deidara, but only managed destroying his other arm, giving Naruto a chance to retrieve Gaara and knock Deidara into the forest. Handicapped, Deidara was taken by surprise when Naruto appeared behind him and pushed him to the ground, repeatedly pummelling him without rest. Right before Naruto could kill him with a Rasengan; Deidara managed to switch himself with a clay clone and hid in a near-by bush. He watched in amazement as Naruto's anger caused him to enter a two-tailed form before Kakashi reverted it and Chiyo and Sakura arrived. Knowing Sasori must be dead, Deidara could only get in the last laugh about his partner as he prepared to leave. He was caught by Team Guy and forced to flee as he was now heavily outnumbered. Upon remembering his clay bird was still around, Deidara bit off some of it and used another substitution, allowing a Suicide Bombing Clone to take his place in an attempt to both kill his enemies and flee.
Deidara emerges from underground.
Some time later, a battered Deidara emerged from the ground, lamenting of his clone explosive failing before deciding to find his severed arm before it began to rot. A bit later, Deidara met Tobi and Zetsu after they found his severed appendage, stating he fulfilled his position in capturing Gaara when Zetsu wondered why he did not capture Naruto as well. He then comically tried to choke Tobi to death after being accidentally insulted three times by him when the masked ninja refused to give Deidara back his arm. At some point in time later, Deidara had what was left of his right arm sewn back on by Kakuzu along with a new left arm to replace the one Gaara had crushed.
Battle Information
Battles Won: Who brags anyways?
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How Much Booze Was Consumed at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party?
Vanity Fair, an airport magazine that throws an Oscar party with a "famously tight guest list," published an article bragging about how much booze was consumed / money was wasted at their Sunday night tent party. They also sent out an email press blast ("OSCAR PARTY BY THE NUMBERS") to encourage everyone to witness—and presumably write about—the excess. And so we shall.
So how much booze can Hollywood's elite consume?
Here is the Vanity Fair list, BY THE NUMBERS:
- Champagne Henriot: 596 bottles
- Casa Dragones tequila: 36 bottles
- Grey Goose vodka: 203 bottles
- Stella Artois: 240 bottles
- Storm Wines: 276 bottles
- My Essential Red: 96 bottles
- Happy Canyon Vineyards wine: 240 bottles
- Voss Artesian Water from Norway: 1,284 bottles (800 ml)
While much of the alcohol was probably donated and / or purchased at a steep discount, how much would it cost for an average boozehound blogger in Los Angeles to throw such a party?
Doing my own questionable math that relies heavily on the BevMo website and other sketchy online booze retailers, here is a rough estimate:
- Champagne Henriot: 596 bottles ($25/bottle) = $12,400
- Casa Dragones tequila: 36 bottles ($275/bottle) = $9,900
- Grey Goose vodka: 203 bottles ($30/bottle) = $6,090
- Stella Artois: 240 bottles ($18/12 bottles) = $360
- Storm Wines: 276 bottles ($30/bottle) = $8,280
- My Essential Red: 96 bottles ($25/bottle) = $2,400
- Happy Canyon Vineyards wine: 240 bottles ($36/bottle) = $8,640
- Voss Artesian Water from Norway: 1,284 bottles (800 ml) ($3/bottle) = $3,852
TOTAL (before tax): $51,922
This number also doesn't include the chocolate Oscars, engraved Zippo lighters, meals prepared by French Laundry chef Thomas Keller, coffee from Nespresso, and treats from the Bouchon Bakery available for each guest. Shitty lighters and free Nespresso? Total value: priceless.
After a dinner filled with truffle lasagna and Casa Dragones, guests were also treated to an In-N-Out truck where, inspired by their good pal Henriot, they ordered:
- Hamburgers: 27
- Cheeseburgers: 865
- Double-Double burgers: 515
- Grilled-cheese sandwiches: 17
- Bags of chips: 567
- Drinks: 577
Also expensive, no doubt, but much more delicious than $4,000 worth of water.
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Sh*t or get off the pot.
2nd rounders bust all the time....I can only imagine what you'd do if we had The Pats 2nd rounders who have busted
Back in the day, players would sit 3 years before they would start. Kareem McKenzie sat for 3 years before he got his chance with us
Lets see what VLad becomes before calling him a "bust"
IMO, the only round a player should be considered a "bust" is if he's a 1st that doesn't pan out
Try him at nose tackle!
cause he's young, talented, and while very slowly, is improving.
I actually saw some good pass blocking as well as run blocking but he got blown up a couple of times against the Chargers(who didn't)It was only in limited duty and the jury is still out but it's worth remembering he's been shunted from RT to RG to LG and has never really been given a run at a single spot.
Could be an Adrien Clarke style clusterfvck if we go into the season with him as our only viable option at either LG or RG or a pleasant surprise
When your position coach thinks you suck, you suck. The guy whiffs like crazy. He won't be starting. He'll get the QB killed. The Jets know he sucks, too.


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Lou Reed 17-Disc Album Collection Arriving Next Month"Lou put his heart into remastering these records."
JACK's Inside Track: R&R HOF 2015Pardon me while I ask a stupid question: how does Green Day get in over Nine Inch Nails when NIN garner the 2nd highest Fan Vote?
Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, ABBA Among 2015 GRAMMY Hall of Fame InducteesHank Williams, Neil Young, Bonnie Raitt, Aaron Neville and Chic are also among the artists who will have their songs and albums inducted into the 2015 GRAMMY Hall of Fame.
Green Day, Joan Jett, Ringo Starr Lead Rock Hall 2015 InducteesThe induction ceremony will take place Cleveland's Public Hall on April 18, 2015; tickets go on sale this Thursday.
Joan Jett, Bill Withers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Green Day Lead 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame NomineesLou Reed, Bill Withers and the Marvelettes are also on the ballot.
The Velvet Underground Announce 45th Anniversary Six CD Package, Including Previously Unreleased AlbumFans of the legendary band fronted by Lou Reed will finds lots to love in this extensive re-release.
Radio.com Minimation: Lou Reed's 'Dime Story Mystery'This installment is taken from a 1989 interview with Lou Reed, discussing his then-new album New York and the song "Dime Store Mystery."
Dick Wagner, Former Alice Cooper Guitarist, Dead at 71Dick Wagner, celebrated guitarist known for his work with Alice Cooper, KISS and Lou Reed, has died. He was 71.
Lou Reed Remembered by Velvet Underground Bandmate Maureen TuckerWhile both Patti Smith and Bono eloquently eulogized Reed back in November, Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker shared her memories of the frontman and songwriter with The Guardian.
Hear Macaulay Culkin's Pizza-Themed Velvet Underground Tribute BandFor all those people wondering what Macaulay Culkin has been up to lately, it seems he's been working on his music. Specifically, pizza-themed renditions of Velvet Undergound and Lou Reed songs.
Lou Reed Public Memorial Set for Thursday in New YorkAccording to Reed's Facebook page, the memorial will be held tomorrow (Thursday) from 1:00-4:00 p.m. EST at The Paul Milstein Pool & Terrace at Lincoln Center.
Morrissey to Release His Cover of Lou Reed's 'Satellite of Love'"He has been there all of my life. He will always be pressed to my heart. Thank God for those, like Lou, who move within their own laws, otherwise imagine how dull the world would be."


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Bid No. 05-39 NOTICE TO BIDDERS CONSTRUCTION Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received until 2:00 P.M. on July 6, 2005, by Janet Elliott, Contract Administrator, at 2740 Industry Center Road, St. Johns County Purchasing Department, St. Augustine, Florida 32084, for the Replacement of Lake Road Bridge over Ponte Vedra Canal. Bids will be opened promptly after the 2:00 P.M. deadline. All prospective bidders are strongly encouraged to visit the project site prior to submitting bids. Replacement of Lake Road Bridge over Ponte Vedra Canal: In general, the work includes removal of existing bridge (No. 784036) and construction of a new two-span concrete bridge in its place. The work includes, but is not limited to, maintenance of traffic, grading, drainage, removal of existing structures, flexible paving, minor bridge construction, concrete segmental retaining walls and landscaping. The Contractor must be pre-qualified under Rule 14-22, Florida Admi nistrative Code, by the FDOT Contracts Administrative Office, by the letting date in the above types of work. There will be a non-mandatory pre-bid conference at the St. Johns County Engineering Conference Room located at 2740 Industry Center Road, St. Augustine, FL 32084 on June 15, 2005 at 11:00 AM. Copies of Engineer s Bidding Documents may be obtained by bonafide General Contractors from HDR Engineering, Inc., 200 West Forsyth Street, Suite 800, Jacksonville, Florida 32202, (904) 598-8900, for the sum of $45.00 per set, which is non-refundable. Make checks payable to HDR Engineering, Inc. Any and all questions relative to this project shall be directed to St. Johns County Engineering Division at (904) 209-0110. Additionally, Package request forms are available by calling the DemandStar.com, Inc. System at 800-711-1712 and requesting Document #05-39. Many packages can be downloaded from the Internet. Check the agency s site for download availability and any applicable fees. Vendors registered with DemandStar.com can download most packages at no cost from their web site www.demandstar.com . St. Johns County reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids/proposals, waive minor formalities, and to award the bid/proposal that best serves the interests of St. Johns County. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FLORIDA CHERYL STRICKLAND, CLERK BY: Yvonne King, Deputy Clerk L1375-5 June 6, 13, 2005
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The majority of the people who play chose their main character's race because it appealed to them for one reason or another. Some people play a certain race because of the racial traits and the benefits they provide in a raid. The extra crit or intellect can be the defining choice when a raider is picking his or her race. A serious PvP player may choose his race based on the offensive or defensive racial traits for that race. For the average player, though, we choose our race because something appealed to us: the look of that race, the lore, or maybe it was the thought of how playing a certain race and class combination would play out.
My very first toon in WoW was a gnome rogue. The thought of something so small jumping out from the shadows and stabbing you in the kneecaps before vanishing made me laugh. I moved onto a dwarf hunter a few weeks later and never looked back. The dwarven race has always been my favorite because of their lore, the way they carry themselves, their attitude. When I think of dwarves, I think of Scotland and bagpipe music. In Wrath of the Lich King, I spent more time in the Howling Fjord than any other zone. If I could have taken the music from the Fjord and put it in Ironforge, my dwarf would have been drunk on ale and in heaven. Every character I have, save for my first rogue and my priest, is a dwarf.
What is your favorite race? Why does that race appeal to you? Are there any races that you can't stand to play or dislike in general?