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Consumers looking to buy a new car or a computer can shop around for the right price, but when it comes to health care, it's difficult to even find out ahead of time how much a procedure will cost. And when patients do find out, the cost can vary by thousands of dollars, depending on the hospital, according to a study released on Monday.
Researchers at the University of Iowa set out to see if they could learn, and then compare, the price of a common procedure -- hip replacement -- at hospitals across the United States. Of those they surveyed, only 16 percent could immediately provide a complete price, including the doctor's fees and hospital costs, for the procedure. And 47 percent of the hospitals came up with a figure only after health care providers were separately contacted.
When price estimates for the widely performed procedure were given, they ranged from $11,100 to $125,798, reported the study, which was published by the Journal of the American Medical Association in its publication, JAMA Internal Medicine.
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Pyro AV® by ADS Tech, today announced that Pyro Kompressor HD®, a PCI Express®-based accelerator solution that accelerates HD MPEG-2 and HD H.264/AVC encoding up to eight times faster than software-only video compression, is now shipping. For time- and cost-conscious video production houses, this translates into a much speedier authoring workflow. Integrated with Adobe® video software with support for Windows® XP and Apple® Mac OS® X Leopard platforms, the solution is a price-performance breakthrough benefiting both video professionals and prosumers.
The single-slot PYRO Kompressor HD board is powered by the Ambric Am2045TM, a massively-parallel processor with 336 RISC processors, delivering 1.2 teraOPS of video horsepower for consistently high throughput encoding, even for difficult, high-motion video content. A dynamic and affordable solution, Pyro Kompressor HD's high-quality MPEG-2 and H.264/AVC codecs enable compression for DVD, Blu-ray Disc, web streaming media, archival storage, IPTV, and VOD. It is based on programmable chip technology, so that PYRO Kompressor HD hardware is "future-proofed" and can be updated as video compression standards evolve and other types of video processing become available.
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We believe in preserving the long-term health of our home, the Vail Valley, and work diligently to protect it, just as our principals have done since founding the company 50 years ago.
We are Family
With over 100 brokers in 19 offices, most selling Vail Valley real estate for more than 20 years, and an unmatched support staff including Administrative, Marketing, Technology, and Closing Department we're more than just co-workers, we're family. And we work closely together with you on every detail to sell your most personal asset, from open house to closing day.
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Our doors are always open. Come in to one of our 19 offices situated in the most ideal locations throughout the Valley and find our friendly staff ready to show and sell your home.
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Slifer Smith & Frampton has been the proven leader in Vail Valley real estate for decades, listing and selling more property than any other real estate firm, maintaining leading market share in most neighborhoods. As a client, you will have the unique advantage of receiving the most up-to-date information on the entire market including new listings and projects, as we are involved in the majority of transactions.
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Luxury real estate is a global business. Through our exclusive international affiliations with Luxury Portfolio International® and The Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, we ensure that your home is positioned where discerning buyers and sellers are looking.
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We advertise every single week of the year in the Vail Daily. Our unmatched full color Real Estate Portfolio, a magazine style insert that highlights selected available properties, is placed in strategic locations throughout the Valley as well as in every paper Saturday and Thursday during peak seasons. We also offer competitive rates on classified ads in the newspaper as one of the Daily's largest advertisers, and on a regional and international level, we provide strategic advertising in the Wall Street Journal.
And our print marketing strategy doesn't end with newspaper. We feature in various local, regional, national and international magazines including Vail Beaver Creek Magazine, Vail Valley Magazine, Vail Lifestyle Magazine, Bravo! Vail Music Program Book, The Vilar Center for the Arts Program, Beaver Creek Magazine, Luxury Portfolio International
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A luxury marketing program exclusively for our high-end homes, The Luxury Collection presented by Slifer Smith & Frampton Real Estate offers an elevated level of exposure to help market to an affluent demographic. Residences selected to be a part of The Luxury Collection will have to meet the criteria of being over $5 million with unique attributes, priced competitively and of timeless value can be admitted into this unique marketing program.
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Know that not only will your home be a part of the largest marketing presence in the region, but also that you will have the support of a full staff when you choose to list with Slifer Smith & Frampton, exposing your property to millions of potential qualified buyers.


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Horn: With Mavs down, Stars have 'a little window of opportunity' to get Dallas sports fans behind them
Catch SportsDay On Air twice per week on Fox Sports Southwest, when Dallas Morning News experts discuss hot sports topics from the Cowboys, Mavericks, Stars, Rangers and colleges (check our TV listings for air times). Here are a few highlights from Monday's episode featuring Barry Horn and Kevin Sherrington:
On if Dallas sports fans will support the Stars:
Horn: "This is a good opportunity for the Stars. The Mavericks are down. There is a little window of opportunity until spring training starts. But there is a little window of opportunity if they get off to a hot start. If they get this Jamie Benn mess figured out, this team has an opportunity in a short window. The door is cracked open a little bit, and they may have an opportunity."
On if 48 games is enough to figure out who the best team in the NHL is:
Sherrington: "No, it's not. But that's alright. When you get to the end of any league, it's just the team that's hot then. When you get to the playoffs, whoever is hot, they win."


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Frackers Fund University Research That Proves Their Case
Jim Efstathiou Jr, Bloomberg
Pennsylvania remains the largest U.S. state without a tax on natural gas production, thanks in part to a study released under the banner of the Pennsylvania State University.
The 2009 report predicted drillers would shun Pennsylvania if new taxes were imposed, and lawmakers cited it the following year when they rejected a 5 percent tax proposed by then- Governor Ed Rendell.
"As an advocacy tool, it worked," Michael Wood, research director with the non-profit Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, said in an interview. "If people wanted to find a reason to vote against having the industry taxed in that way, that gave them reason to do it."
What the study didn't do was note that it was sponsored by gas drillers and led by an economist, now at the University of Wyoming, with a history of producing industry-friendly research on economic and energy issues. The researcher, Tim Considine, said his analysis was sound and not biased by industry funding…
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Doing Some Math on Fracking Propaganda
reader bob of upstate New York, Naked Capitalism
A story by the Associated Pressthat tried to do some jusitsu on fracking critics , claiming they were guilty of the same practices they accused the industry of using, namely, using bad science, ironically, it included a pro-fracking example of the same.
While there are many logical inconsistencies within this piece, the one major issue with fracking, waste water, is given a great spin:
An analysis by The Associated Press of data from Pennsylvania found that of the 10.1 million barrels of shale wastewater generated in the last half of 2011, about 97 percent was either recycled, sent to deep-injection wells, or sent to a treatment plant that doesn't discharge into waterways.
This is artful. Lets start from the beginning of the fracking process. Each well requires between 5-10 million gallons of fresh water (depending on the industry source for the estimate). We'll give the frackers the benefit of the doubt and go with 5 million gallons of water per well.
(24 July 2012)
Industry money and questionable ethics contaminate UT Austin fracking study
David Wogan, Scientific American
Remember that study out of The University of Texas last February that concluded there wasn't a direct link between fracking and groundwater contamination? It caught flack for seeming to being too easy on the fracking industry by suggesting that there wasn't a direct link between cracking shale and groundwater contamination. The study was great news for an industry fighting a PR battle over a politically-charged issue.
However, financial ties to the fracking industry were never mentioned in all of the announcements about the study, and not known until a new study put out Monday by the Public Accountability Initiative. The study's leader, Dr. Charles "Chip" Groat has significant financial ties to the fracking industry, to the tune of a couple of million dollars. From State Impact Texas:
Groat, a former Director of the U.S. Geological Survey and professor at the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin, also sits on the board of Plains Exploration and Production Company, a Houston-based company that conducts drilling and fracking in Texas and other parts of the country. According to the new report (and a review of the company's financial reports by Bloomberg) Groat received more than $400,000 from the drilling company last year alone, more than double his salary at the University. And one of the shales examined in Groat's fracking study is currently being drilled by the company, the report says.
Since 2007, Groat has received over $1.5 million in cash and stock awards from the company, and he currently holds over $1.6 million in company stock, according to the PAI report.
It's hard for me to read this news because I have taken courses from Dr. Groat and value his wealth of experience. But this is damaging to himself and the University…
(24 July 2012)
Nationwide Mutual Declines to Cover Fracking
John Daly, oilprice.com
Nationwide Mutual has become the first insurance company to decline coverage for claims related to hydraulic fracturing, a controversial energy production known as "fracking."
In a press statement "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE" posted on its website on 13 July, the Columbus, Ohio firm laid out in detail the reasons for its decision. "Gas and oil drilling has been going on in this country for many years in the west and southwest. Fracking is another variation of the gas and oil business. In recent years, oil and gas exploration has come to New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio."
Seeking to downgrade the possible impression that the statement represents a radical change of direction, the press release continued, "Nationwide has not changed our policies or guidelines, nor are we cancelling policies. Fracking-related losses have never been a covered loss under personal or commercial lines policies. Nationwide's personal and commercial lines insurance policies were not designed to provide coverage for any fracking-related risks."…
(20 July 2012)
U.S. calls New York anti-drilling lawsuit premature
Jessica Dye, Thomson Reuters
A lawyer for the U.S. government asked a federal court on Tuesday to throw out a lawsuit brought by New York state challenging proposed natural gas development in the Delaware River Basin.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Sandra Levy said New York could not challenge regulations that would allow development to go ahead until those regulations had been finalized.
New York and environmental groups sued the U.S. government in 2011 seeking environmental studies to determine the effect of gas drilling in the Delaware River Basin, which supplies water to about 15 million people…
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If you are near the oceans salt spray and you want a conventional looking home, we recommend a wood home that is re-treated with additional borite once the roof is on. Termites hate borite, and it is very worthwhile to re-treat all wood, especially cut ends and framing that may have been exposed to rain which can leach out borite from the factory treated lumber. The cost is very small, and well worth the effort. We make portable and non-portable versions of most designs, & financing is the same process as any conventional home, if you can get the bank to lend the money. Most of our clients take things in phases, doing the "rough-in dry-in" right away, and finishing the interior as funds are available. Let us show you how to get things going before something else pulls the money out of your wallet, further delaying your dream.
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I'm just cheering for Miami because everyone is totally ragging on them.
Am I jealous about what's going on in Indy? No, not really. Good on them for getting as far as they have this season, and they're in very good shape financially at the moment, as it'll be interesting to see how far they go over the cap when they have to sign guys like Hibbert, Collison, George, Hill to long term contracts.


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- We Are What We Eat and the Milan Design Fair"We are what we eat!" -- the infamous Feuerbach aphorism -- was the starting point for an event that took place at Tallulah gallery during the Milan Furniture Fair. Sustainable-food and green preparation methods were put prominently show in an eco-kitchen assembled using old, industrial pieces of furniture and reclaimed vintage elements. Mixing design with tasty delights, we couldn't have thought of a more delicious idea for an exhibit. Hit the jump to see all the highlights from We Are What We Eat!1
- We Are What We Eat and the Milan Design FairA 1940s industrial bench becomes the 'Eco-Kitchen' after being reworked by architect Dario Vecchi. This one-of-a-kind model employs a worn walnut pine surface for a rustic effect. The drawers are also reused.2
- We Are What We Eat and the Milan Design FairHere gym weights are used as castors for this colourful table called "Orto in Cucina" (kitchen garden). Made from old wooden pieces - in addition to the weights - the center of the tabletop is fitted a pot that can be planted with flowers or aromatic herbs.3
- We Are What We Eat and the Milan Design FairA waterproofed granary funnel is the sink of this cool kitchen. The fantastic dish-rack to the side allows water runoff from your dishes to water the plants below. Better yet, the dish-rack was previously a wine rack!4
- We Are What We Eat and the Milan Design FairYou can't have eco kitchen without eco-conscious food. Chef Marco "Quincy" Sala prepared the organic appetizers that were served up at the Tallulah Gallery. In the above picture we see cream of asparagus soup with an egg mimosa.5
- We Are What We Eat and the Milan Design FairBrightly colored finger foods become a declaration of love for nature. Only natural ingredients from Cascina de Vecchi in Milan were used.6
- We Are What We Eat and the Milan Design FairThis movable island was previously used in the 1940s as a place to store printing blocks at a printshop. Today it is an amazing kitchen module that's been cleaned, waxed and laquered in a bright blue.7
- We Are What We Eat and the Milan Design FairThese tidbits are made up with soft cheese and decorated with pistachio, carrot and savoy cabbage. A rainbow of easy to eat treats, we thoroughly enjoyed the wholesome taste of these organic creations.8


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She was born May 14, 1933, at Sanish, N.D., to the late Joseph I. and Ruth O. Woods Cavanaugh. She was a member of the St. Augustine Catholic Church in Dardanelle. She loved to play bingo, go shopping and eating with her friends, Lola and Roxie. More than anything, she loved spending Christmas and birthdays with her grandkids.
She was preceded in death by her parents; one daughter, Sandra Joyce Judkins; one sister, Arylis Taylor; and one brother, Joseph Cavanaugh.
Survivors include her husband, Roy Rector of Dardanelle; two sons, Wayne Alan Rector of Conway and Richard Dennis Rector and wife, Sunni, of Fort Smith; two daughters, Cynthia Marie Mullen and husband, Marty, of Rogers and Brenda Sue Borden and husband, Shelly, of Vilonia; two brothers, Pat Cavanaugh of Arizona and Jim Cavanaugh of Idaho; one sister, Rosie Danks of Minnesota; 10 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren.
Funeral Mass will be conducted at 10 a.m. today at Saint Augustine's Catholic Church in Dardanelle with Father James Melnic officiating. Burial will be in Brearley Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Michael Mullen, Christopher Mullen, Scott Borden, Tyler Borden, Jeff Wasson, Ricky Judkins and Brian Jones.
In Lieu of Flowers, Memorial Donations may be made to Saint Augustine's Catholic Church, In Care of Barbara Ray, 25840 North State Hwy 27, Dardanelle, AR 72834 or to The Susan G. Komen Foundation, 904 Autumn Road, Suite 500, Little Rock, AR 72211.
Arrangements are by Cornwell Funeral Home in Dardanelle. Online guest book and condolences at www.cornwellfuneralhomes.com.


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Communications via Satellite: The Basics
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This session is the starting point for the non-technical manager working within the global satellite market. Seminar leader, Dr. Mark R. Chartrand, will present a comprehensive program offering study of the technology and issues surrounding satellites. Find out how satellites fit into the total telecommunications market, who is doing what in satellite communications, major issues and trends in satellite delivered services and what the ambiguous terms, jargon and acronyms used in the satellite business mean.
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Coyotes take "'til death do us part" very seriously, never cheating on their mate, a new study has found. Men everywhere: Take note.
Researchers at Ohio State University genetically sampled more than 200 coyotes in the Chicago area for a period of six years and, in a surprise, found them to be 100 percent monogamous, Science Daily reported.
The coyotes included in the study separated only when one member of the pair died.
Researches concluded that sticking together might be a survival instinct for coyotes in urban areas like Chicago. Long-term pair bonding makes it easier to find food and ensures a large litter of pups, the study found.
The complete report appears in the Journal of Mammalogy.


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Anna Beck Designs gold earrings from The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel seen with Maggie Smith (Muriel Donnelly)
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SCREEN LEGEND: In the sequel to the hit movie, the all-star cast reunites for the sub-continental comedy The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Get ready for dazzling spectacle, exotic locales, and sassy one-liners from screen and stage legend Maggie Smith. In her role as Muriel, Smith ditches her gray and beige London wardrobe for the colorful silk saris of India.
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The "American
Journey 2.0" project will have support from 25 to 30 UM students
who enroll in a winter 2010 course designed to develop apps for
SYNC has proven
extremely popular among car owners, as SYNC-enabled vehicles sell
twice as fast as Fords that don't have the technology.
system currently offers drivers MP3 support, data-over-voice,
GPS, and text-to-speech features. UM-created apps could range
from driver habit observations to social networking apps.
of students in the UM class will be given the opportunity to develop
the apps they're interested in -- and they'll be judged by UM
professors and Ford officials. The most popular app will then
be used in a new Ford Fiesta model, UM and Ford said.
partnership is a win-win for both Ford and UM: Ford receives
innovative support from future software developers, while the UM
students get real-world knowledge -- and the ability to have their
apps utilized in future SYNC vehicles.
"We're going
to hand them this platform and say, 'build us something really
impressive,'" UM associate professor Brian Noble said in an
interview with Crain's Detroit. "This project has a high
reality quotient, we're connecting our students to a real
industrial problem and that's exciting."
Microsoft-powered SYNC system has gained popularity since its launch,
as car owners look to use a single in-car entertainment and
navigation system while driving.


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Decisions, decisions
Rowly Williams, TheRefZone.co.uk
March 7, 2012
Dave Pearson took the decision to postpone France-Ireland © PA Photos
Into the penultimate weekend of the Six Nations we go. It has been a slightly fractured tournament, with France's initial clash against Ireland postponed in what many said were controversial circumstances.
In truth, the only controversy was the scheduling of the match at a time of year when weather conditions had been deteriorating daily. Referee Dave Pearson did what any right-minded official would have done when faced with an unsafe playing surface, he said "sorry folks, adjourn to the bar". The fact it was a Test match and not a level 5 local derby mattered not. Pearson had nothing but player welfare at the heart of his 'match off' decision.
Later in the Championship, Steve Walsh popped into Twickenham to handle several hundred years of animosity, also known as England v Wales, and did so with (what many commentators felt), aplomb. Did the C word raise its head again? Well, briefly and only then depending which side of the controversy coin you came down on. England's last-gasp effort to score in the corner came down to a TMO decision which, after several views, gave the old Colosseum 'thumbs down' for David Strettle's attempt.
Several blurred, fuzzy and out of focus stills have been produced since the non-try, with suggestions and claims that a try was nearly, definitely, possibly scored, but when all is said and done, Iain Rammage's decision of 'inconclusive' was the only plausible call. A ball rolling from the palm and leaning against an outstretched hand is hardly 'holding' the ball when grounding, is it?
If the watching spectator, or TV audience, chose to, they could find what they might consider a controversial moment or two among any of the matches and cry foul, but of course referees have the bigger picture to look at, and it's a question of judging what is material in the context of the match, and was is not.
The cries that erupt from a stand as an attacking player perhaps mistimes a run, or by design finishes ahead of the ball with the pass then going to the next player, suggests a referee should whistle immediately, but the fact is that if that player is not material to that passage of play then why bother stopping it? The player has had no effect on the match, what the opposition does next, or committed some other material offence. If he does do any of those, then yes stop play and penalise, otherwise let the players play. At those ticket prices it's what the spectator wants.
Deciding not to whistle and make a decision is a decision in itself of course. Think about that for a second will you, because referees make this mental call to themselves multiple times in a match every week. It's why matches aren't littered with 50 penalties plus, why there is more than 15-20 minutes of 'ball in play' every week and why those decisions not to make a substantive call, allows referees to concentrate on getting the 'big ones' right.
It goes without saying that even then there'll be some mistakes and a few missed calls, but by and large the accuracy levels of the officials during the tournament have thus far exceeded any errors made. I've steered away from referee stats this time around because, while an important gauge as to how teams are playing and how often a referee needs to intercede in play, it's important to recognise they consider their more important role to be knowing when not to. Now that's a really good decision.
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June 25, 2009
KStew in Full Rocker Mode
Thanks, Estefania!
21 comments:
"Interesting" ! Really "Interesting". Smoking?huh?IT'S BAD FOR YOU Kstew , your too young to smoke , 19 yrs old and smoking?You should stop cuz you can cancer or get a bad illness from that shit that you smoke.Everytime that you smoke that shit , your taken your life away.My fav, grandma died from that shit and i don't want you die from the shit just cuz you smoke it and then got an illness and died.Take it from one of your fans please!Im not your mom to tell you what to do, just think twice and think if you really want to smoke that shit!ReplyDelete
Im 12 yrs old and going to 8th grade btw.You were my role model , but i don't think i want to look up to someone that smokes , and smokes weed , all the bullshit that can cause you to die or get an illness.Just think about what your doing , and think twice.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2009 at 4:55 AM
She never said she was role model. Nobody's perfect.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2009 at 5:24 AM
let the girl do what she wants. It's her life, she doesn't need to be a role model. Like 90 percent of people in Hollywood smoke.ReplyDelete
Kristen, you are rad.
- AnonymousJune 25, 2009 at 5:34 AM
If you have kept up with anything other than trash sites you would know she has been trying to quit...She is filming a movie here, It may be for the movie role!ReplyDelete
That's nice to know Anonymous June,2009 12:34AM. Made me a little happier!Thanks for telling me=) your a nice gal!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2009 at 5:51 AM
I love Kris. Sshe's a real role model for me and I'm not 12 :) I dont care if she smokes. Everyone smokes in this days. But I love the way she is and that's all. Btw, love her hair :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2009 at 7:06 AM
Who cares...if you want a role model, go read a book about mother Theresa or something...Why try to look for them in Hollywood? KS can do whatever she wants...she never asked you to look up to her.ReplyDelete
- funnyfunnyJune 25, 2009 at 7:43 AM
woooah hahahahah this convo is hilarious lmao XDReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2009 at 12:49 PM
I am sorry, but I am old enough to remember Joan Jett and the Runaways and Kristen Stewart looks so miscast! Joan Jett always looked tough and cool, even at a young age - Kristen looks like someone dressed up for Halloween in her mother's rocker gear with a bad haircut. I'm just not buyin' it.ReplyDelete
I agree Anon 7:49 AM. She's also not as pretty as Joan. Joan oozes cool. Kristen oozes awkwardness.ReplyDelete
I'm SO over this mullet.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 25, 2009 at 2:54 PM
Kristen Stewart can do it. Be a little more supportive. Plus, Joan is happy with the choice.ReplyDelete
i'm not digging the look....ReplyDelete
And for the smoking well, lots off stuff is bad for you, you know smoking is bad, but it's a choice you make, for me it does'nt define who or what you are or stand for..
that other pic is funny. lol. bahahahaha. first i didint even KNOW IT WAS KS before i read the title. i was like WHAT THE HELL?!?!?!ReplyDelete
her muller looks good
- AnonymousJune 25, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Ha! I've turned a new leaf, and will not be so judgemental about KStew. We all have our isses to overcome, and, no one is perfect; However, as a public figure, and the lead role in a tween flick, she soes act as a role model. Whether she signed up for that or not, is not really her choice.ReplyDelete
Unfortunately, too many of today's youth rely on the media and magazines to determine the norms of society, therefore, KStew is negativly affecting the youth in the sense that she is smoking, and the tweens think that it's cool.
It's sad that tweens are reliant upon the media to determine acceptable weight, ways to dress, and unsafe 'acceptable' habits (smoking/drinking)...but, that doesn't change that this is how it is.
So, in summary, though KStew deserves the right to lead her life the way she chooses, she should also be aware (as a public figure) that she does have an impact on the youth that consider her a role model.
She looks great with her new look, hair style.ReplyDelete
Great blog, Greetings from Buenos Aires.
- AnonymousJune 26, 2009 at 4:23 PM
I just saw a 1977 video "Wasted" of The Runaways, and Kristen Stewart is IDENTICAL to Joan Jett. She's going to be amazing in this. Check it out.ReplyDelete
thats no Bella....ReplyDelete
So.... let her work!
- AnonymousJune 28, 2009 at 2:09 AM
With KS's shoulders hunch like that, smoking and the costume, she looks like a thug. She's close looking enough to Jett but the thing about Jett are her eyes. They are the most beautiful dark brown eyes. KS doesn't have that and doubt she'll wear brown contact, but who knows.ReplyDelete
RenCullen, yeah, I agree w/ those that say best not to choose role models from Hollywood. KS does more than smoke ciggs. gees, that's the least of her problems. IMHO


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The LeBron James Skills Academy is underway in Las Vegas, and features 80 high school players and 25 college players.
Rodney Hood, who played his freshman season at Mississippi State, announced his transfer this week to Duke and is honing his skills at the camp.
He won't be eligible to play for the Blue Devils until 2013-2014, so keeping a sharp edge in a competitive environment like the James camp is essential for Hood, a 6-8 left-hander who average 10.3 points and 4.8 rebounds last year.
"Coach (Mike Kryzewkski) was pretty honest with me and told me what he saw for my future," Hood told ESPN.com this week. "He was specific and to the point. He said he can make me a better basketball player and one of the best in the country."
C.J. McCollum, who led Lehigh to a special postseason run last season, is attending, as is Doug McDermott of Creighton. Michigan has two players represented on the roster — wing Tim Hardaway Jr. and sophomore point guard Trey Burke.
Workouts began Friday and continued Saturday. Tournament games are Sunday and Monday.
Burke has also participated in camps hosted by Deron Williams of the Nets and Chris Paul of the Clippers, according to the Detroit News. Hardaway went to Kevin Durant's skills camp last month.
Penn State senior Tim Frazier was a first-team All-Big Ten selection. At this camp, he'll get major exposure playing in front of scouts.
"LeBron camp is an incredible opportunity for Tim to compete against the best players in college basketball," Penn State coach Patrick Chambers said in a school release. "Tim's hard work and commitment are paying off as he continues to develop into one of the best point guards in the country."


text: My dad currently rents an apartment but he's planning on buying a house about an hour away sometime this year or early next year. He told me that he'd like to get a dog once he finds a house because he works from home (he's a sales manager for an engineering company in Ontario) and would have the time for one. Plus, his girlfriend loves dogs even more than he does and she's relatively "dog-savvy". Here is what he told me: - Bigger (ie: fifty to sixty pounds, or in the medium-large spectrum) - Low grooming maintenance (ie: a quick daily/weekly brushing, not too much shedding) - Moderate energy (ie: is up for a hike, trip to the park but is also willing to hang around the house while he works) - Friendly with dogs/people - Generally healthy with a longer lifespan I'm thinking he should adopt a younger adult from the shelter which he seemed on board with, but he also expressed an interest in a puppy when he found Chow/Shar-Pei/Rottie mixes (which I highly doubt was the actual mix due to our area). So, I'm just wondering what sort of breed/mixes might mesh well with him? I'd love to see him get a bully mix but I'm not too sure of breed legislation where he's going to be living. He loves Moses, our Cocker Spaniel but had various Irish Setters throughout his childhood as well as a Boxer.


text: Went out to a private lake saturday just before the stom moved in to ocala area, fished for about 4 hrs the fish were turned on there was a giant school of 1/2 to 1 1/2 lbs bass chasing shinners in deep water followed them around for a half hour befor they went down. We also caught a good number of fish off the weed pockets in about 4 foot of water. Total for the day was 33 fish 28 bass 4 pickerel and 1 bluegill that took a fluke. All the fish were caught on watermelon and golden bream flukes including the big girl of the day this 5.6lbs bucketmouth.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A 39-year-old motorcyclist died in a crash early Tuesday morning after speeding up to flee from a police officer who activated his emergency lights, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
Police said Sgt. J.P. Morgan was patrolling the area near Atlantic Boulevard and Philips Highway about 1 a.m. when he saw a motorcyclist eastbound on Atlantic. Police said Morgan recognized the man as John Blunt and knew he had a suspended driver's license.
Morgan activated his emergency lights to attempt a traffic stop, and Blunt immediately accelerated at a high speed, estimated at more than 100 mph, police said. They said he continued eastbound on Atlantic, and Morgan immediately deactivated his emergency lights and notified the JSO Police Emergency Communications Office that he was canceling the traffic stop because of the man fleeing.
The motorcycle was last seen attempting to turn south onto Spring Park Road. Police said Blunt failed to negotiate the corner and exited the southeast corner of the intersection. Blunt's motorcycle struck the rear of a parked U-Haul truck, police said.
Blunt was taken to a hospital, where he died. Police said he was not wearing a helmet.
Police said their investigation is ongoing. They said there was no active pursuit at the time of the crash.
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Cards' bats come to life, but skid hits seven games
PITTSBURGH -- An offense unable to be jump-started over the first six games of this 11-game road trip awakened at PNC Park on Wednesday night, yet even with their ace on the mound, it would not be enough to pull the Cardinals out of their season-worst skid.
Russell Martin's two-out single off Trevor Rosenthal in the eighth lifted the Pirates to a 5-4 win in front of 31,679 at PNC Park. The win was Pittsburgh's fourth in this series and extended the Cardinals' losing streak to seven games, the longest in manager Mike Matheny's tenure.Full Game Coverage
PITTSBURGH -- An offense unable to be jump-started over the first six games of this 11-game road trip awakened at PNC Park on Wednesday night, yet even with their ace on the mound, it would not be enough to pull the Cardinals out of their season-worst skid.
Russell Martin's two-out single off Trevor Rosenthal in the eighth lifted the Pirates to a 5-4 win in front of 31,679 at PNC Park. The win was Pittsburgh's fourth in this series and extended the Cardinals' losing streak to seven games, the longest in manager Mike Matheny's tenure.Full Game Coverage
A 2 1/2-game division lead became a 2 1/2-game deficit in six days.
"They're doing what it takes to win," David Freese said. "They're playing the ball that we wish we were right now."
With a pulse on the emotions in the clubhouse and his eyes on the effort, Matheny insists that he sees a team not undone by a lack of urgency or energy. That's why the Cardinals, who made no additions before Wednesday's non-waiver Trade Deadline, are not looking to be sparked by a drastic shakeup. A big hit, a better pitch will do just fine.
"These times come, and a lot of people want to see panic. They really do," Matheny said. "I think maybe people that follow us and root for us want to see panic. I don't know. I just know that's not what's best for our club. I know they want to see an urgency. I know they want to see a passion. And if they don't see that, they're not watching close, because it's there."
Rosenthal inherited a tie score from Adam Wainwright, who labored for seven innings and 108 pitches. Neil Walker's leadoff single put the go-ahead runner onboard, and Pedro Alvarez's deep fly-ball out was enough to advance Walker into scoring position. That would be key when Martin followed with a single to left.
"I wouldn't have expected this by any means," Pirates shortstop Clint Barmes said. "Coming in, we knew it was a big series, and we've played a tough series so far. Games coming down to one big moment."
The night opened with two All-Star starters taking the mound, though the respective offenses picked apart both.
Jeff Locke, who shut out the Cardinals in April, allowed a career-high 10 hits and pitched a season-short four innings. Matt Holliday gave him particular trouble.
A day after grounding into a rally-killing double play in extra innings and then having a ball bounce off his glove and over the wall, Holliday hit safely in three at-bats against Locke. His first single drove in the first of two first-inning runs. He singled and scored in the third, then provided a two-out RBI single in the fourth.
The latter hit put the Cardinals ahead, 4-2.
"They came out with a real good approach and stayed with it," Matheny said. "We scored a few runs. Usually, when you have Waino on the mound, that's going to be enough."
But this would not be Waino at his best.
The Pirates had an answer each time the Cardinals scored. Wainwright gave up one run in four of the seven innings he pitched. The tone was set during a 26-pitch first inning that included a leadoff walk and two-out RBI single by fellow All-Star Alvarez.
"That is so frustrating," Wainwright said. "To come in here and know that they're looking for me to be the stopper, and I'm looking for me to be the stopper … I'm just real frustrated that the offense did a great job going out there against an All-Star pitcher and scores four runs, gets 10 hits and gets him out of their early. I'm not going to say I let the team down today, but they deserved more out of me today."
Walker drove a hanging curveball over the right-field wall in the third inning to narrow the deficit to one. A two-out single by Barmes in the fourth again brought the Pirates to within a run. Pittsburgh tied the score in the fifth, benefiting from the extra out provided by first-base umpire Paul Schrieber. Though replays showed Freese's throw beating Starling Marte to first, Marte was awarded the infield single.
Marte swiped second, moved to third on a groundout and scored on the Pirates' third sacrifice fly of the series. The only clean inning Wainwright had was his last.
"Our offense has sharpened up since we've been home," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. "We've had better at-bats. We're not chasing as much. … We fought, scratched and stayed in the shadow until we tied it, then got one up on them late."
The Cardinals' offense had plenty of chances to bail out their ace right-hander but lacked enough key hits to capitalize. Four innings ended with the Cardinals leaving two runners on base. Pete Kozma's strikeout ended the seventh with runners on second and third. Eleven runners were stranded in total.
It's the 23rd time this season the team tallied 13 hits but just the third in which the outcome was not in its favor. If there was a bright spot, it's that an offense that collected only 16 hits and three runs in the first three games of this series finally emerged.
Still, the Cardinals on Thursday are staring at the possibility of being swept in a series of more than four games for the first time since 1916, when the New York Giants swept them in a six-game series at the Polo Grounds.
"We are not finding the ways to win the game right now," Wainwright said. "It's a rarity for a team like we have to go through a seven-game stretch like we've gone through. … One thing we're not going to do is lose hope. We're going to go out there and continue to grind and continue to win games. We're confident we have a team that can go out there and win games. Now it's time to see what we're made of."
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB.


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Versatile Elmore fitting in with A's
By Jane Lee / MLB.com
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- When Jake Elmore first stepped on a baseball field, his Little League coach told the team, "Go pick your position." Elmore ran to first base.
Before long, he moved to catcher, then shortstop. In high school, he started in the outfield, before going back behind the plate again. His college career began in center field. But he returned to shortstop soon enough and, eventually, a move to second base followed.
In the Minors, he played everywhere but center field.
"So, yeah, I've never really stuck to one," Elmore said, smiling.
That's what made him so attractive to the A's, a versatile bunch who grabbed Elmore through a trade with the White Sox in late February. Since then, Elmore is 12-for-39 (.308) with a .400 on-base percentage in 18 spring games and has also sported a slick glove at third base and the middle-infield positions.
He'll begin the season at Triple-A Sacramento, providing the A's a quality piece of infield depth.
"He fits right in here as far as his versatility goes," said manager Bob Melvin. "He plays all of the infield positions plus for me. He looks just as comfortable in all those positions and gives you a tough at-bat. We've been giving him a lot of games, a lot of reps here, and he's impressed us.
"As far as depth goes, he's a guy that really gives you the potential to really play any one of those positions. And if he were to be here, could fill in at any of those positions, so he's been a nice pickup for us."
"I feel like everybody kind of has a role here, yet those roles constantly change for some guys, and that's the mold I fit," said Elmore, who played all nine positions in just 52 games for the Astros last year. "The word around the league is that the A's like versatile guys. Being able to play the three different positions, that was the biggest thing I wanted to show them, that I could handle third and short and second."
Cook progressing, but Opening Day status uncertain
PHOENIX -- Ryan Cook felt great after throwing 21 pitches to hitters on Wednesday, and the A's right-hander is finally nearing non-simulated game action.
Cook, who was set back this spring by right shoulder inflammation, would like to make his Cactus League debut on Saturday, though his employers have yet to say as much. Nevertheless, whether it's Saturday or another day, he's close.
But close enough to have enough time to be ready for the season?
"I guess it just depends on how it goes," Cook said. "If I get in there and I'm ready to go, then I'm ready to go. That's not my decision to make, I guess. All I can do is my best to be ready. We knew it was going to come down to the wire. I think I can still do it. In terms of the questions of my arm, there isn't any. Now it's just a matter of making pitches. Today I felt like I made a lot of pitches."
Cook used all of his pitches on the day and said more than once, "It went really well."
"I did everything," he continued. "I threw right-on-right changeups, threw my slider, all of it, just to work on stuff. It was nice being at game speed today. Obviously, the adrenaline isn't there, but the game speed, in terms of my arm and my pitches and my mental approach was there. I was trying to get guys out, as opposed to just throw 20 pitches.
"I'm getting ready now. I'm trying to get in a game as soon as possible and make the Opening Day series."
If Cook isn't ready by then, the A's are likely to have either Joe Savery or Josh Lindblom join a bullpen that is expected to include right-handers Jim Johnson, Luke Gregerson, Dan Otero and Evan Scribner, and southpaws Sean Doolittle and Fernando Abad.
Worth noting
• Lefty Drew Pomeranz has quietly been the A's best pitcher of late, allowing just two hits with 10 strikeouts and no walks over his last six innings, spanning three appearances. Overall, he has 14 strikeouts in 9 1/3 innings this spring.
The A's see more value in Pomeranz as a starter than a reliever, so they plan to stretch him out, even if that means starting him at Triple-A when the season begins. Should any one of their starters struggle or face injuries in the early goings, Pomeranz would seemingly get the first call.
• Righty A.J. Griffin, shut down for three weeks with flexor tendinitis, received a platelet rich plasma injection in his right elbow on Monday and mentioned Wednesday how his arm already feels looser than it has in a long time.
Griffin is expected to miss at least the first month of the season.
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Major Lee-ague, and follow her on Twitter @JaneMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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You know you've caught yourself doing this before. You're watching the latest video by your favorite female singer, but she's not the one that grabs your attention. It's the hunk (usually a lesser known actor or male model) that's been hired to provide the testosterone for the shoot. We took a look at 10 music videos (from artists such as [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Lady Gaga[/lastfm], [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Rihanna[/lastfm], and [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Taylor Swift[/lastfm]) that always had us wondering "who's that guy?" and came up with the answers for you!
1. William Levy
[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Jennifer Lopez[/lastfm]-I'm Into You
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If you're a Telemundo viewer, you might recognize William Levy from his hit show Trifunfo del Amor. We had no clue about that, but were just glad that J-Lo chose Levy to frolic around with on the beach, and not her husband [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Marc Anthony[/lastfm]!
We also found out that he made an appearance on the premiere season of Real Housewives of Miami, flirting with Alexia and modeling for a Venue cover.Vodpod videos no longer available.
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NEXT PAGE: Nathan Owens- Rihanna's California King Bed
2. Nathan Owens
[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Rihanna[/lastfm]- California King Bed
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The story goes that Rihanna handpicked male model Nathan Owens to star in her sultry video for California King Bed, and in our estimation, she couldn't have made a better choice. Owens' last major campaign was for the Gap's Denim Spring/Summer '11, but sharing Rihanna's California King Bed just may take him to another level.
Find out how Nathan went from working at Verizon to becoming a full time model!
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NEXT PAGE: Rick Gonzalez- Lady Gaga's Judas
3. Rick Gonzalez
[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Lady Gaga[/lastfm]-Judas
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He may not have landed the title role in Gaga's Judas, but his Jesus gets the sexy, sympathetic vote. With those deep brown eyes and muscular frame, it's hard to keep your eyes off Rick Gonzalez when he enters the frame escorting Mother Monster via motorcycle. The 31-year-old New York native may appear somewhat familiar for his many television roles as well as the Samuel L. Jackson film Coach Carter. But it was his role in the movie Pride and Glory that apparently caught the eye of Gaga's creative collaborator Laurieann Gibson, earning him the role of Jesus.
Check out Rick's moving speech from Coach Carter.
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NEXT PAGE: Adrien Galo- Britney Spears' Hold It Against Me
4. Adrien Galo
[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Britney Spears[/lastfm]-Hold It Against Me
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[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Britney Spears[/lastfm] has lots of scantily clad beefcake in her video for Hold It Against Me, but it's blue-haired dancer Adrien Galo that kept our attention. And we weren't the only ones. Shortly after the video aired, tons were flocking to the internet to ask who the blue-haired hunk was.
It seems the foxy Frenchman, who has also danced for Rihanna, started out as a gymnast, excelling in the world of sport aerobics. Check him out as he demonstrates his ultra-limber technique at a 2007 competition.
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NEXT PAGE: Spencer Hill- Avril Lavigne's What The Hell
5. Spencer Hill
[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Avril Lavigne[/lastfm]-What The Hell
If only we could all be so lucky as to have a possessive boyfriend as hot as Spencer Hill in Avril's What The Hell video! Possibly my absolute favorite in this lusty list, Hill has the kind of eyes that you could just stare into for days and nights on end.
The Kansas born actor, who in 2003 was named one of Cosmo's 50 most eligible bachelors, has had several small film roles, but to date nothing big. Please! Give this stud a TV show! I want to see Spencer Hill every week! For now I'll just have to be content with him in the video and the movie Circle of Eight.
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NEXT PAGE: Justin Young- Colbie Caillat's I Do
6. Justin Young
[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Colbie Caillat[/lastfm]-I Do
Rihanna may have handpicked her man from the internet but Colbie Caillat had to look no further than her own bedroom to find her sexy man for the I Do video. Boyfriend and bandmate Justin Kawika Young brings a refreshing sense of realism to Caillat's musical pledge of fidelity.
The hunky Hawaiian started out performing island music in his native land, before making the journey to LA. Check out his feelings on leaving the island and check out his musical style in this documentary short from 2006.
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NEXT PAGE: Guntars Asmanis- Taylor Swift's Back To December
7. Guntars Asmanis
[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Taylor Swift[/lastfm]- Back To December
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It may be a funny name, but there's nothing funny about the hotness that surrounds the brooding male model Guntars Asmanis who adds the requisite hottie factor to Taylor Swift's Back To December video. Taylor always seems to know how to pick 'em (see #10) and this time was no exception.
Check out the Latvian looker as he talks modeling.
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8. Josh Kloss
Katy Perry-Teenage Dream
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We can even stand having to see Kim Kardashian again for this hot peek at Josh in a Sketchers commercial.
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The underwear model who was a contestant on Nashville Star and later went on to be one of the stars of the Hulu web series If I Can Dream (where he took it all off for a racy Peta ad campaign), also happened to be in the pilot episode of Glee. We're still waiting for something big to happen for Justin, but we're not convinced it will be in the field of music. His next project is the HBO movie Game Change where he will play Sarah Palin's nemesis Levi Johnston. Take a look as he prepared with former American Idol contestant [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Brooke White[/lastfm] for their duet on last season's American Idol and as talks about his hero [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Elvis[/lastfm].
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The Oldest American Petroglyphs
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
Scientists now say that the petroglyphs at Pyramid Lake, Nevada, are the oldest in North America to have been age-dated. Though appearing confident about some details, they cannot yet identify the ancient peoples who carved those rocks. But the ancients did possess one characteristic that surprised secular scientists.
Lying inside a Paiute Reservation, the Nevada petroglyphs look well-crafted and aesthetic. Diamond-like patterns resembling fish scales and tight, regular designs, including shallow cup forms, adorn limestone boulders. The carvings also look similar to petroglyphs that U.S. Bureau of Land Management archaeologist William Cannon discovered at Long Lake in Oregon and described to Nevada State Museum's Eugene Hattori.
Hattori coauthored a study on petroglyphs at both sites, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.1 He explained to Mail.com, "We initially thought people 12,000 or 10,000 years ago were primitive, but their artistic expressions and technological expertise associated with these paints a much different picture."2
Not only was his idea of primitive ancients wrong, it's likely his age assignments are wrong, too.3
Secularists regularly express surprise over the advanced skills of these supposedly primitive people. But their surprise hinges on the purely imaginative idea that some kind of ape underwent a gradual transformation as it evolved toward humankind. This long process would have produced primitive, ape-like people (or people-like apes) who could have littered the globe with over two million years' worth of juvenile rock graffiti. Where is the archaeological evidence of this transitional creature?
Instead, the markings of even the earliest peoples are consistent with the creation hypothesis that people have always been people. After all, God made man in His image.
Secularists have shown surprise at finding well-formed artifacts all over the globe, like the world's oldest temple in Turkey. Its carvings included anatomically accurate animals and easily recognizable people.4 Ice-Age Germans mass produced spears, and Stone Age men decorated baskets in South Africa.5,6 Ancient American petroglyphs now add to the list of surprisingly well-formed artifacts. Whoever carved them was clearly already "advanced."
- Benson, L.V., E.M. Hattori, J. Southon, and B. Aleck. Dating North America's oldest petroglyphs, Winnemucca Lake subbasin, Nevada. Journal of Archaeological Science. 40 (12): 4466-4476.
- Nevada petroglyphs the oldest in North America. Mail.com. Posted on mail.com August 14, 2013, accessed August 19, 2013.
- The team carbon dated material beneath the glyphs as well as patina on their surface to derive their dates. But "carbon years" higher than just a few thousand are notoriously older than calendar years. See: Baumgardner, J. 2003. Carbon Dating Undercuts Evolution's Long Ages. Acts & Facts. 32 (10). See also: Thomas, B. North America's Oldest Inhabitants Found in Texas. Creation Science Update. Posted on icr.org April 5, 2011, accessed August 21, 2013.
- Thomas, B. Oldest Temple Topples Evolutionists' History of Religion. Creation Science Update. Posted on icr.org January 12, 2012, accessed August 20, 2013.
- Thomas, B. Eight Spears Found in German Coal Mine. Creation Science Update. Posted on icr.org October 8, 2012, accessed August 20, 2013.
- Thomas, B. 2011. Identifying Neandertal Man. Acts & Facts. 40 (3): 18.
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* Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.
Article posted on August 23, 2013.
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IT'S ABOUT 4.50am and a dozen of us gather in the frosty pre-dawn dark beside Tyagarah airstrip as Australian ballooning champion Thomas Dattler releases a small test balloon.
The fact he and his crew took out the national titles last year - and will travel to Michigan, US, to contest the world titles this year - is small comfort as the blinking red LED light disappears into the dark at about 1000 feet.
"It's going north-east so we won't be launching from here," he says.
"We'd be out at sea in no time - not so good without a steering wheel," he adds with a slight grin.
We pack into two troop carriers, one pulling all the equipment, and head inland.
From a dark lookout at the corner of Coolamon Scenic Dr and the Pacific Hwy, Thomas releases a second test balloon, which is immediately swept down into Byron Bay and out to sea.
The 12 of us pile nervously back into the troopies and head west as the excitement builds and the crew continue discussing launch options on the two-way.
As a local, I've often looked upon extreme-sport activities for bullet-proof backpackers with a little disdain, but this is different, very different. And from the moment we launch from a misty paddock somewhere near Bexhill, you know it.
The silence is surreal, the landscape - lit low from the sunrise - is just sublime, and the stillness is exquisite. This is not only reflected back to me in the faces of my 11 co-passengers, but that of our veteran pilot too, as he tells us we are scooting along at about 10 knots.
It may just be another day at the office for Thomas, but you know this man loves his job. His grin is infectious.
Unlike any other aircraft, balloons travel with the wind, so there is no friction, no breeze, no sense of movement and no sound. I wouldn't be laying it on too thick to call this experience ethereal - at 2000 feet the atmosphere sparkles, the horizon curves and stars still shine above us.
We gawk speechlessly as Thomas reveals more tricks, dropping altitude quickly to pick up a different wind direction (identified by squirting hair conditioner out the basket) and the chance to touch the tree tops near Nashua.
Filing photos and badly-thumbed commentary direct to The Northern Star's Facebook page, I resist the urge to photograph Hollywood nice-guy Simon Baker's hinterland spread as we float majestically overhead. I feel above such things today.
Only the sound of the burners break the quiet, lifting us over the next ridge, on track for a soft landing in another paddock, just outside of Bangalow.
Steadied by a pretty good champagne breakfast, I reluctantly return to work like a kid leaving Dreamworld for the first time, transported in every sense. The tourists may lap it up, but every local should do this at least once.
Where: Byron Bay Ballooning, 1 Old Brunswick Rd, Tyagarah (beside Tyagarah Airfield near Byron Bay)
When: 60 to 90 mins before sunrise
How much: $325 per passenger, includes champagne breakfast
How long: One hour flight, allow four hours for everything else
What to wear: Comfortable protective clothes (season appropriate) and closed shoes


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During two recent Rams' community events, Vitale was enlisted to kick off the opening ceremonies for the NFL franchise's fifth annual Playground Build as well as motivate student athletes during the 2013 NFL High School Player Development Camp at Festus High School.
Vitale is a professional speaker based in Little Rock whose diverse client base includes ESPN, Walmart, the St. Louis Rams, Tyson Foods, ARVEST Bank, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the University of Arkansas, and the Minnesota Vikings.
This marks the third consecutive year Vitale has been invited to speak on behalf of the Rams organization.
The Rams and Elite Football opened the NFL's first youth training academy that will give kids all the tools they need to learn how to play football the Rams way, both on and off the field.
The Rams hosted a youth football camp earlier this month, featuring the 2013 Rams rookie class, to debut the training academy.
The 20,000-square-foot indoor training and development facility in Chesterfield, Mo., is outfitted with state-of-the-art training equipment and video analysis labs. It also includes a turf field, Olympic-style weight room with Rams branded power mats, and a speed track with a laser timing system.
In conjunction with the new facility, the Rams created the Training Academy Leadership Board, led by Rams head coach Jeff Fisher. Other members include Vitale, Isaac Bruce, Jack Youngblood, Marshall Faulk, Orlando Pace, Torry Holt, broadcaster Kara Henderson Snead, NFL executive Joe Browne, professional wrestler John Cena, ESPN.com contributor Anna McDonald, Elite Football president Matt Biermann and Rams fan development manager Kyle Eversgerd.
Board members will contribute to the off-the-field curriculum known as the Rams Leadership Program and lead discussions around various leadership characteristics including teamwork, communication, dedication, perseverance, passion, and community service.
This summer, the Rams will kick things off by hosting three weeks of football camps for kids ages 6-14 in mid-July. For more information, please visit www.stlouisrams.com/trainingacademy.


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Most movie buffs can't wait for films they haven't seen to come out on DVD, Blu-Ray or par-per-view TV. Then there are the movie fans who
literally can't wait. If you're into downloading movies online that are still enjoying their first runs in theaters, there's no shortage of websites where you can do it. There's only one problem: it's illegal, and Hollywood is getting serious about punishing people who pirate their movies.
This week, five major Internet service providers (ISPs) – AT&T, Time Warner Cable, Cablevision, Verizon and Comcast – announced the Copyright Alert System (CAS), which is designed to stop you from illegally downloading movies, television shows and music. This new system, coordinated by the Center for Copyright Infringement in conjunction with the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America, involves six levels of alert – or "six strikes" – that an offending downloader will endure. The ISPs have not yet released their individual plans, but basically the alerts will follow this pattern:
· First offense: The user will receive an email from the ISP informing of the illegal download
· Second offense: A second email requiring confirmation of receipt, or a call from the ISP
· Third and fourth offenses: Requirement that the user watches an educational video about piracy
· Fifth and sixth offenses: The ISP slows down the user's bandwidth or, in some cases, terminates service completely\
"Implementation marks the culmination of many months of work on this groundbreaking and collaborative effort to curb online piracy and promote the lawful use of digital music, movies and TV shows," Center for Copyright Infringement executive director Jill Lesser wrote in a
blog post this week on the organization's website. "The CAS marks a new way to reach consumers who may be engaging in peer-to-peer (P2P) piracy."
The new system does not have any legal teeth, however. It is not a government program and offenders can't be prosecuted in any way. Essentially, the worst thing that can happen to you is that your ISP cuts off your Internet service – and there are some who question whether any ISPs will actually take that step. Also, the CAS can't track your downloads if you're using a private BitTorrent tracker, which is a server that regulates the communication between people downloading and uploading files. When the tracker is private, only select people get to use that website instead of the general public. Also, the CAS won't look at email attachments and other places.
Still, this new system heralds a renewed effort to stop online piracy by the film, television and music industries. "The entertainment industry is starting to flex its muscles on illegal downloading and they've now enlisted the ISPs to help them," says attorney Brian Albert of legal information website THELAW.TV. "That's a potentially powerful combination."


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Saturday Night Fever
Performance dates are highlighted in white.
The slick role of Tony Manero defined (at least the pre-Tarantino-resurrection of) star John Travolta's career. An entire genre of music—disco—practically can't be mentioned without a discussion of Saturday Night Fever. Manero escorts the audience into his world with an iconic swagger-cum-sashay down the sidewalks of Bay Ridge. Long before Brooklyn became an international travel destination, Manero aspired to break out of the borough of his father. Freedom to him was represented on the dance floor and embodied in Stephanie, a sexy Manhattanite. Brooklyn may have changed, music may have evolved; but 35 years after its initial release, Saturday Night Fever is stayin' alive.


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TYPO3 CMS is a Web Content Management System which features automatic creation of navigational menus, headlines, and other dynamic graphical elements, automatic conversion and scaling of images, the ability to present different templates based on variables such as client browser or country code, support for multiple templates on a site, and a built-in password-protection option. Pages can be timed to be shown on a certain date, be hidden on a certain date or just temporarily hidden. TYPO3 supports search in SQL-databases and redesigning of a website at once is just a matter of creating a single new template.
Embedthis Appweb is a fast, little embedded Web server. It is unmatched in efficiency and serves pages at native speed, using an event-driven, non-blocking core to serve multiple requests using minimal resources. It has integrated caching and the ESP "C" Web framework. Without compromising performance, it has extensive security controls and a rigorous security sandbox that helps protect the server and mitigate denial-of-service attacks. It is one of the most widely deployed embedded Web servers and is used in networking equipment, telephony, mobile devices, industrial control, and consumer and office equipment, and in high-performance Web services.
CGIProxy is a Perl CGI script that acts as an Internet proxy. Through it, you can retrieve resources that may be inaccessible from your own machine. The user is kept as anonymous as possible from any servers. HTTP and FTP are supported, and optionally SSL. Common uses include censorship circumvention, VPN-like setups, anonymous proxies, personal proxies, and others. Options include text-only browsing (to save bandwidth), selective cookie and script removal, simple ad filtering, access restriction by server, encoded target URLs and cookies, configuration by end user, and much more (currently over 70 config options). Javascript and Flash are fully supported. Messages are in 14 languages so far. Can be installed as a CGI script, a mod_perl script, a FastCGI script, or with its own embedded secure HTTP server. An online demo is available.
Open-Xchange Server Edition is a multi-tier, small footprint solution that integrates seamlessly into customer's architectures, enabling smooth start of operation based on services. The Open-Xchange Server Edition supports different Enterprise Linux systems like SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and Debian Etch. Users are presented with a highly advanced, improved, and intuitive browser based interface that meets all their email, calendaring, tasking, contacts, and document storage requirements. Further integrations like LDAP-support or ADS are possible. It's designed for medium organizations and educational and public administrations that want to have a customizable communication solution.
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Bluefish is a programmer's Web development editor written using GTK, designed to save the experienced webmaster some keystrokes. It features a multiple file editor, multiple toolbars, custom menus, image and thumbnail dialogs, open from the Web, CSS dialogs, PHP, HTML, Java, C, and XML support, external program integration (tidy, weblint, make, javac), and lots of wizards.
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I went back and found this colored picture of Madara and Sasuke. Manga 398 Page 1.
Yes its a cool picture, and now we can make some sense of it. Notice that it says "The one power able to keep catastrophy restrained". This says that Pain is NOT able to control the Tailed Beasts with his Rinnengan, his eyes aren't "The One". I take it a step further to say that Sasuke's Eyes are "The One's" that will be able to restrain it, not Madara.
IMPORTANT. I will take this opportunity add to the arsenal for those who believe Madara/Tobi = Obito. Ok so I zoomed in on Madara's face because I was trying to figure out his facial expression. I have the zoomed in picture at the bottom. Look at his left eye (right from our point of view). Compare that eye to every other ninja out there, and it looks swollen shut, possibly nothing underneath the eyelid. This side of the face is covered on Tobi. SO it makes sense the reason why Tobi/Madara has a mask covering his left side of his face, is to hide the fact that he is missing his left eye. OR he is hiding a more sinister eye bwahaha.
What do you all think?!?!?!?!


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A Warm Welcome Home from BC Divers
I was very touched when I was invited to come back to my roots and represent Project AWARE in British Columbia, my home province in Canada, where I first learned to dive. The diving community of British Columbia invited me, in cooperation with the Shaw Ocean Discovery Center and the Vancouver Aquarium, to speak about the inspiring initiatives Project AWARE works toward at home and abroad to protect the underwater world.
On the evening of April 26th, Langley Diving hosted a wine and cheese night at their store in Langley, BC. It was a great opportunity to meet local divers and to be able to personally thank all of them, particularly Robbin Knox, Project AWARE coordinator from Langley Diving who has put in a great deal of selfless energy and volunteer hours over the years leading numerous fundraisers benefiting Project AWARE Foundation.
I also had the opportunity to view the cutting edge "Exosuits" and subs at Nuytco Research Ltd. in North Vancouver, BC, followed by an interview discussing marine conservation with Peter Golding from Diver Magazine. That evening April 27th, I spoke at the Shaw Ocean Discovery Center in Sidney, BC. I shared the stage with Angus Mathews, Executive Director of the Shaw Ocean Discovery Center who encouraged citizens to take an active role in sharing and protecting the Salish Sea. I was especially interested to learn that this aquarium on the Salish Sea only takes in local animals with a focus on releasing them back to the ocean quickly in regular cycles. I got a chance to see a baby ruby octopus being nurtured – an experience I will not soon forget.
On the evening of April 28th, I presented to a full house at the Vancouver Aquarium. Dr. Jeffrey Marliave, Vice President of Marine Science at the Vancouver Aquarium, shared information on local efforts working with rockfish in Howe Sound. At the close of the event, I had the profound honor of having representatives of several local dive shops provide Project AWARE with a ceremonial check from BC divers totaling $3,369 CAD. These funds represent local fundraising efforts in the Vancouver area and on Vancouver Island from dive shops and organizations including Langley Diving's Finathon, Easter Egg Hunt & BBQ. They are warmly received and critically important to ensuring that harmful marine debris is removed from the ocean and sharks and mantas are protected.
Project AWARE is a grassroots movement which relies on support and partnership from the dive community and we are grateful for the goodwill and generosity of BC divers. We simply could not deliver world class marine conservation programs and campaigns without support and engagement from the dive community.
As Executive Director, I am humbled by the effort that went into this marine conservation weekend particularly that all costs were covered by local dive shops and donations from supporting local organizations. On behalf of Project AWARE Foundation, I extend a heartfelt thank you to all of the organizations that supported this trip to Canada including: Dive and Sea Sports, Frank Whites Dive Store, International Dive Centre, Ogden Point Dive Center, Langley Diving, Pacific Pro Dive, Ocean Pro Divers, Rockfish Divers, Ocean Quest Dive Centre, Sundown Diving, The Edge Diving Centre, Union Bay Diving, Vancouver Diving Locker, Wilson Diving, Northwest Dive News, Diver Magazine, PADI Canada, Vancouver Aquarium, Shaw Ocean Discovery Center and The Sidney Pier Hotel & Spa.
Contact Project AWARE today at email@example.com to discuss special events and guest speaker opportunities for your next fundraiser. We would love to meet you and help raise funds together for ocean protection.