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Did Melo jump over Charles Barkley on that ball he chased down?
Did Melo jump over Charles Barkley on that ball he chased down?
You guys think Camby will receive some playing time today?
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Prigioni really needs to shoot every once in a while
prigioni got to shoot the ball !!!! against the heat he didnt take one shot!!! teams will wise up to that and only play him to pass
Melos defense is getting up there!!
"I'm more concern how Melo is gonna play with Lin" Joe Budden
Whenever Novak is on the court, the other team takes advantage of his weak defense.
Really loving Kurt Thomas!
Looking like a great pickup so far.
Brewer got away with a walk but I'll take it. We get robbed every night by the refs..
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Hamels named NL Player of the Week
By Paul Casella / MLB.com
Hamels started the week with a seven-hit shutout of the Marlins on Monday, marking his second straight complete-game shutout. He then pitched a scoreless first inning Saturday against the Brewers to extend his scoreless streak to 23 innings, making it the longest by a Phillies pitcher this season.
Though that streak came to an end in the second frame, Hamels went on to allow just three runs over 7 2/3 innings en route to his 14th victory of the season. He also tied his season high with 10 strikeouts Saturday.
With the two victories, Hamels improved to 3-1 with a 1.38 ERA in four August starts, and 14-6 with a 2.94 ERA this season. He sits just one victory shy of his career-high 15 wins, which he set in the 2007 campaign.
Paul Casella is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @paul_casella. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Former Cuban Leader Fidel Castro celebrated President Obama's controversial Nobel Peace Prize win early Saturday, saying the commander in chief's honor was a "positive measure" that was intended to criticize past U.S. leaders -- not Obama's achievements in particular.
Castro wrote in a column for Cuban media that he didn't generally agree with the Nobel Committee's decisions but that their choice on Obama was one he could throw his support behind. "I'm obligated to recognize that in this instance it was, in my judgment, a positive measure," he wrote.
The former leader indicted past U.S. administrations for their "genocidal policies," saying Obama should be celebrated for his divergent politics.
"Many will say that he still hasn't earned the right to receive such distinction. We prefer to see in the decision, more than a prize for the president of the United States, a criticism of the genocidal policies that not a few presidents of that country have followed," he wrote.
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BAMS officials: Guilford students will fit in
GUILFORD -- Is Brattleboro Area Middle School a large educational institution or a model for small-group learning?
BAMS administrators maintain both are correct answers.
That was the message at a Monday forum for Guilford parents about a month before town voters will chose whether to shut their small middle school and send seventh- and eighth-graders to BAMS.
Those students would be stepping into a much larger building. But BAMS officials emphasized small class sizes and said they take pains to understand each student's needs.
"The teachers get to know your children very well," BAMS Principal Ingrid Chrisco said. "We're only a two-year school. We do everything we can to create smaller communities within it."
Chrisco spoke to Guilford residents who crowded into the cafeteria at Guilford Central School. The meeting came four days after the Guilford Town School Board adopted a budget that shuts the middle school and tuitions those students to BAMS for the 2013-14 school year.
Board members have cited a declining enrollment as one reason for the move, and they also point out that the town will save about $80,000 next year by eliminating the middle school.
Board members also believe the larger, regional middle school can offer greater educational and extracurricular opportunities than Guilford can.
But the decision ultimately will be up to Guilford voters at Town Meeting, where residents will consider the school budget as well as a separate article authorizing the tuitioning of seventh- and eighth-graders to BAMS.
Monday's meeting was meant as an informational session. Chrisco started by running through a long list of programs at BAMS including BEAMS, a full slate of free after-school and summer programs.
The after-school programs -- which range from a baby-sitting course to intramural sports to a writers' workshop -- are offered five days a week. The program includes "a healthy snack, homework help, a wide variety of clubs and activities and transportation home on the activity bus," according to BAMS literature.
Chrisco also detailed the school's sports offerings and touted its foreign-language options, which include French, Spanish, Chinese, German and Latin. The latter two languages are part of a seventh-grade introductory course.
Raphael Adamek, a technology teacher and integration specialist, told the crowd there are 100 laptops available at BAMS.
"We're constantly working to keep those up to date," he said.
He also detailed the uses of technology in classrooms. That includes student-created podcasts integrated into English classes and exploratory courses in digital music, digital imaging and flash animation available to eighth-graders.
Such offerings are possible in part because of BAMS' size; Enrollment currently tops 250. That dwarfs Guilford, which would send just 21 seventh- and eighth-graders to Brattleboro next school year if the tuitioning plan is approved.
But BAMS science teacher Matt Betz took pains to tell Guilford parents that his class sizes generally are in the teens.
"We do a lot of activities in really, really small groups," Betz said.
He sought to reassure one Guilford parent who said her daughter is shy and needs time to consider questions before answering.
"We really get to know our students well," Betz said. "We have the time to get to know them."
That happens in part through the middle school's detailed transition plans for students. One handout at Monday's meeting was a three-page transition timeline tailored to Guilford students -- a plan that will go into effect, of course, only if the tuition proposal is approved next month.
Since Guilford would be sending both seventh- and eighth-graders to BAMS for the first time, Chrisco said middle-school staff also is experienced in introducing new eighth-graders into the population.
"It doesn't take as long to integrate as you might think," she said.
Monday's meeting was not contentious; parents asked questions about scheduling, discipline and other issues. Both during the session and afterward, several parents said they favored the BAMS option.
Marianne Lawrence noted that Guilford students already eventually make their way to Brattleboro Union High School.
"I feel that BAMS is a good transition for going into the larger high school," Lawrence said.
Will Wohnus, the parent of a Guilford fourth-grader, said the BAMS presentation was "very helpful and very comprehensive."
"We as Guilford residents will be remiss in not taking advantage of the opportunities in sending our kids over there," Wohnus said.
Though the idea of closing Guilford's middle school has been proposed and defeated before, Wohnus said that's "history."
"I think the town's changing," he said.
Others remain on the fence.
Lisa Holderness said she believes students would have a good experience at either school. During the meeting, she asked BAMS administrators for a tour of that facility.
"The program sounds spectacular," Holderness said. "But, in the end, it comes down to how it feels."
Guilford Selectboard member Anne Rider attended the session and said she has several perspectives on the matter: She's a former Guilford teacher, a parent and now a grandparent.
Rider said BAMS is the right fit for Guilford's middle-schoolers.
"I think, by the time kids are in seventh and eighth grade, they're ready for a broader perspective," Rider said. "I think it would be a very positive change for this town."
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Hurricane - lol you played against Styris? what was this for? B@stard for not walking eh! ha
Anyone else played against any of our team?
Hurricane - lol you played against Styris? what was this for? B@stard for not walking eh! ha
Anyone else played against any of our team?
Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings - say what you please about the rankings) yeah real crap.
Would like to see him in tests but not sure when he might get a chance TBH, with the number 6 spot hotly contested.
Edit: Hrmmm, should probably make some on-topic comment about the Champions Trophy... ummmm... I hope we win . Looking forward to it though, as like the short format and the fact that anyone except the Windies (who are fielding their C team) can win.
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Here are the odds from the TAB to make the final
1 $2.25 South Africa
2 $2.50 India
3 $3.20 Australia
4 $3.20 Sri Lanka
5 $3.50 Pakistan
6 $4.00 England
7 $4.00 New Zealand
8 $7.00 West Indies
I think SA and India deserve to be the top contenders but I think we should be ranked higher than 6th. Aren't we ranked 4th in the world in ODIs last time I checked we were.
I have placed $5 on us.
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Awesome Test XI
Tillekeratne Dilshan
Simon Katich
Ricky Ponting (c)
Michael Hussey
Michael Clarke
AB de Villiers
Brad Haddin (k)
Daniel Vettori
Peter Siddle
Dong Bollinger
Ben Hilfenhaus
We made a low score against them - and Styris opened the batting and he carried his bat. He didn't bowl in games when I played against him. He started bowling rather quickly the following year.
The TAB cricket bookie might be of the opinion that NZ can't make the final, hence is pushing NZ out to $4 as a way to attract cash, and improve his profit margin. I can ask him tomorrow if you like...
Anyway, not much more on our selection that hasn't already been said. Diamanti, Hopkins and to a lesser extent Patel are just muppet selections. Don't know what McGlashan did wrong to find himself on the outer as backup ODI keeper.
I made my posts prior to the ill fated compaq cup. My expectations of the team have gone down accordingly.
Hope the boys can pleasantly surprise me in the CT trophy.
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On a cloudy Saturday afternoon, the Toronto Maple Leafs prepared for their home opener at the Air Canada Centre. But a cab ride away, a similarly sized group of players who hope to take their place dropped the puck on their 2013/14 season. The Toronto Marlies opened things up against the defending Calder Cup Champions, the Grand Rapid Griffins. This was the very same team that eliminated them last year.
But what's the definition of them? There's a new coach in Steve Spott. There's a new team captain in Trevor Smith. In fact, only four skaters, both goalies, and the assistant coaches were involved in both elimination night and today's game. The Griffins were quite similar; a fresh start for both, if you will. So today's game was relatively normal in comparison to the storyline.
The end result? The opposite of last year's conclusion, a come from behind victory for the home team, as the Marlies won 4-3 in overtime.
The first period started off with dominance out of the Marlies, taking the first seven shots, and breaking up any play that got near the net. The reward for the effort was the opening goal – a smart pass back by Smith gave T.J. Brennan plenty of room to fire a wrister past Jared Coreau. The lead was short lived, however, as Tomas Jurco took in a cross-crease pass and tapped the puck past Drew Macintyre to tie the game. Just a minute and a half later, Riley Sheahan scooped up a rebound and half a net to work with to give the Griffins the lead, which was taken into the second period.
Coming back, things looked a little shaky to begin with; Greg McKegg and Korbinian Holzer taking early penalties. Cue the onslaught of calls against Grand Rapids, and the advantage tipped to Toronto's side. Brennan scored his second of game off a well aimed point shot, and shortly after, completed the hat trick to give the Marlies the lead.
Grand Rapids tied the game early in the third period, and kept it into the third. They had a prime opportunity to win the game as Andrew MacWilliam got tossed for a check from behind on Teemu Pulkkinen with six minutes to go, but the Marlies killed off the penalty and went to overtime. In the bonus frame, Grand Rapids took two penalties, one after the other, in surprising form (delay of game, and closing hand on the puck). Brennan switched from sniper to playmaker, feeding Trevor Smith to win the game for the Marlies.
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Dan Wilkerson To Fly Summit Colors in Debut This Weekend
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ST. LOUIS (September 23, 2013) -- Dan Wilkerson will make his 2013 NHRA debut this weekend in St. Louis, behind the wheel of the Summit Racing Equipment Shelby Mustang, with additional backing from Strange Engineering, Darton Sleeves, and Bryant Crankshafts. It will be the first national event appearance for "D. Wilk" since Norwalk in 2012.
The young Springfield, Ill. driver brings an impressive eight-for-eight qualifying record with him, having made the field at every national event he has ever entered as a professional. With the solid DNA he received from his father, veteran Funny Car star Tim Wilkerson, D. Wilk has proven to be a natural in the car, and he aims to keep his qualifying streak alive before the quest for round wins begins on Sunday.
"It's been way too long since I've been in the car, so you can probably imagine how excited I am to get back to racing and I need to thank the great people at Summit Racing Equipment before I say anything else, because without them we wouldn't have the chance to even be entered in the race," Wilkerson said. "We got some extra backing from Strange Engineering, Darton Sleeves, and Bryant Crankshafts and all of that adds up to the opportunity to get in the show and win some rounds. I can't wait to get out there.
"The best thing would be to get in solidly and then help out my dad by taking out a Countdown car or two, to help him move up in the standings. I don't have any doubt in my mind that I can do that, no matter who lines up next to us. Let's face it, the same guy who is in the Countdown right now, tuning and driving the Levi, Ray & Shoup Ford, is tuning my Summit Racing Equipment Ford, so my job is to keep it going straight and get it to the other end. It's great to have such a high-powered crew chief, that's for sure."
D. Wilk's racing career has been on hold for more than a year, but that doesn't mean he hasn't been busy, as he's made the transition from single college student to a married college grad who now holds down a full-time job at a Springfield-based accounting and tax preparation firm. This weekend's AAA Insurance Midwest Nationals, at Gateway Motorsports Park, will mark the first time D. Wilk has pulled to the starting line knowing his wife, Brianna, is behind his car. The couple was married last November.
"It seems like yesterday when I was just a kid, hanging around with my dad's team trying not to get in the way, so it's been kind of a fun whirlwind to get my degree, get married, and start a full-time job, but I still think about driving a Funny Car every single day," he said. "I want to be a good husband, to provide for Brianna the best I can, and I'm really serious about my work and very dedicated to it. But, on the other hand, I was a racer when she met me and she knows how much I love this. She's been very supportive, and it means the world to me to know that she's behind me.
"Right now, we still don't have any firm plans for me to go on the full tour, because we'll need some major sponsorship for that, but when that opportunity comes up I'll be ready. One of these days, if things work out right, my dad will be tuning and I'll be driving, and some lucky sponsor is going to get a heck of a team as their partner. Until then, I'll get out there whenever I can and I'm pumped up to be driving the Summit Racing Equipment car this weekend. It's a gorgeous car, and it would look great in the Winner's Circle."
And maybe, along the way, the kid can help out his dad with some key round wins over the Countdown competition.


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We had to check and make sure this was still the year 2013 when we read this! A family in South Carolina went to a local Wild Wing Cafe to have a going away celebration for one of their family members. After waiting for 2 hours the family was reportedly unable to be seated because one of the white patrons felt "threatened" by their presence!
Take a look at the story in the video.
So much for the post-racial melting pot huh? This is an awful story but it's good that it came out and the situation was exposed. This week as we honor the Civil Rights Movement, observe the 50 year anniversary of The March On Washington and as we think about and reflect upon those young people at lunch counters across the south who fought to end segregation in restaurants, it amazes us that this is still happening. We salute the family for coming forward with the info. We're sure it's a wake up call for many around the country…a much needed one indeed.


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Worcester Prep's recently held commencement exercises for Class of 2011. First row, from left, are Erin Cook, Anna Pavlos, Alexandra Schwartz, Bethany Parks, Devon Zorn, Madeline DiNardo, Brittany Flurer, Erica Martin, Carson Wigley, Kelley Chandler, Lauren Mollichelli, Alexia Buas, Haylea Reiner, Lyndsey Odachowski, Hope Evans and Rubab Ahmad; second row, Christopher Fisher, William Tyler III, Hunter Harmon, Christopher Duke, Wesley Scott, Tyson Mayers, Matthew Carey, Morgan Bissell, Stephen Nichols, Jeffrey Andresen, Michael Parks and Jackson Berger; and, third row, William Moore, Edward Launay, Regan Smith, Austin Gerachis, Christopher Nichols, Duncan McIntosh, Bradley Pedigo, Kyle Joseph, Bennett Mumford, James Moses and Thomas Edmunds.
About The Author: Steven Green
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- Makes 4 servings
- 4 1/2 cups bottled clam juice, divided
- 2 1/2 tablespoons butter, divided
- 2 1/2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 1/2 cup chopped white onion
- 1 cup arborio rice or medium-grain white rice
- 3/4 cup dry white wine, divided
- 4 6- to 8-ounce salmon fillets
- 3/4 cup chopped red onion
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 medium fennel bulbs, trimmed, halved, thinly sliced crosswise
- 3/4 cup chopped plum tomatoes (about 2 small)
- 1 1/2 cups (packed) baby spinach leaves
- 5 teaspoons chopped fresh tarragon, divided
- 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- Chopped fresh chives
- Preheat oven to 300°F. Bring 4 cups clam juice to simmer in medium saucepan; cover and keep warm. Melt 1/2 tablespoon butter with 1/2 tablespoon oil in heavy large saucepan over medium high heat. Add white onion and sauté until soft, about 3 minutes. Stir in rice. Add 1/4 cup wine; stir until almost all liquid evaporates, about 1 minute. Add 4 cups warm clam juice, 1 cup at a time, cooking until almost all liquid is absorbed between additions and stirring frequently, until rice is tender but still firm to bite and mixture is creamy, about 18 minutes.
- Meanwhile, heat remaining 2 tablespoons oil in heavy large skillet over medium-high heat. Sprinkle salmon with salt and pepper. Add salmon to skillet and cook until brown on both sides but still medium-rare in center, about 3 minutes per side. Transfer to baking sheet and place in oven to keep warm. Add red onion and garlic to same skillet and cook until translucent, stirring often, about 3 minutes. Add remaining 1/2 cup wine. Bring to boil, then add fennel and tomatoes. Cook until fennel is crisp-tender, stirring often, about 3 minutes. Add 1/2 cup clam juice and spinach. Stir until spinach wilts, about 1 minute. Stir in remaining 2 tablespoons butter and 3 teaspoons chopped tarragon. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Stir remaining 2 teaspoons tarragon and cheese into risotto. Season with salt and pepper. Divide risotto and fennel mixture among plates. Place 1 salmon fillet on each plate; sprinkle with chives.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories941
- Carbohydrates55 g(18%)
- Fat47 g(72%)
- Protein69 g(138%)
- Saturated Fat14 g(72%)
- Sodium2084 mg(87%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat9 g
- Fiber5 g(21%)
- Monounsaturated Fat17 g
- Cholesterol138 mg(46%)


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We love doing the live podcasting thing and in April, we'll be recording several live podcasts for your viewing and listening pleasure.
We'll be Featured guests at Skep-Tech, which takes place April 5th, 6th & 7th. You can view the schedule here.
Currently, we are going to be hosting and recording a panel discussion about skepticism and technology featuring Tim Farley, Greta Christina, Zach Weinersmith and Maggie Koerth-Baker. Yes, our plan is pretty much to shut up and let the rest of the panel talk. That panel will run from 7:00 – 7:50 on Friday, April 5th.
We also have two live podcast/interviews set up!
At 8:00 on the 5th, we'll be recording a podcast with Jen McCreight. We're going to be talking religion and Game of Thrones.
UPDATE: Jen has, unfortunately, had to cancel her appearance at the conference. We're working to secure a different guest and we'll update this post as new information becomes available. Hopefully we can get Jen on the podcast at a later date.
Instead, we've scheduled a podcast with Greta Christina to talk about her recent book "Why are you Atheists so Angry? 99 Things that Piss off the Godless."
At 9:30 on Sunday the 7th, we'll be recording with Zach Weinersmith
Skep-Tech is a free conference so we encourage you to register and join us!
Later in the month, the three of us will be at Omegacon Spring in Siren Wisconsin! The fall convention was where we recorded the legendary Drunk Molly episode so who knows what will happen this time? Date and time one this one is TBD because it is a slacker con and we'll do it when we feel like it!
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With 13 commitments and a relatively small class expected in 2012, the Texas Longhorn coaches continue to zero in on a handful of uncommitted players who have received scholarship offers from the UT staff.
One player who remains high on UT's list of priorities is Alief Taylor's Torrodney Prevot. The Longhorn coaches wasted no time in reaching out to the blue-chip defensive end once the spring contact period began on Sunday, and the UT staff is hoping to stay in touch on a weekly basis.
"Coach (Oscar) Giles called late Sunday night," Prevot said. "I wasn't by my phone so I called him back and we talked. We set up a calling schedule. I'll call him every Wednesday or something."
Prevot had been hoping to attend the Texas spring game on April 1, but instead decided to stay home after a trip to LSU the day before zapped his energy. He's hoping to make his way to Austin in the near future for an unofficial visit.
"Me and coach Giles thought of a date, around May 10," Prevot said of a possible visit. "It's still kind of up in the air right now."
This Friday, Prevot will make his way to College Station for a Texas A&M scrimmage. At this point, Prevot has a few schools that have jumped out and grabbed his early attention.
"It's the same ones as before - LSU, Texas and Texas A&M," Prevot said. "I've only visited those schools, so I don't know about any others right now. I might go to Oklahoma State this summer.
At one point in the process, Prevot had been contemplating a decision sometime in the spring or summer. He's now looking to slow things down a bit and take the process into the fall.
"I'm thinking of taking my visits and then committing early during the season," Prevot said. "I want to take my official visits, really map out the schools, see what they're offering, see how it is at the school."
Texas Tech stopped by Alief Taylor's spring practice on Monday and Giles is supposed to be there from Texas on Tuesday. Prevot said the extra attention won't change his practice habits and his main focus is simply to improve his overall game.
"I still play the same game, but some teammates try to move around faster, get into it more," he said. "I'm really just trying to improve more on my technique and using my hands a lot more. It's more repetition. And our coach has gone to some camps to learn techniques with the hands."
After the spring season concludes, Prevot will turn his focus towards summer workouts and some possible camp visits. The Longhorn coaches have "sent like 100 letters about their camp" and Prevot said he plans to attend.
"Actually, Texas is one of my top schools so far," Prevot said. "Austin is just a great place. They have a lot of events in Austin, so many things you can do as a college student."
The 6-4, 220-pound Prevot is ranked No. 9 in the Lone Star Recruiting Top 100. He recorded 53 tackles and 12 sacks as a junior.


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As promised, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has filed an appeal, asking for a new trial. Sandusky was convicted in June on 45 counts of child sex abuse. They motion also argues that the sentence of 30-to-60 years is "excessive" and should be modified.
Sandusky's defense team is arguing that the evidence was insufficient and that Sandusky's right to due process was violated because they did not have enough time to properly prepare his case. The motion for appeal will be ruled on by Judge John Cleland, who presided over the trial and sentencing.
Sandusky was sentenced on October 9 to at least 30 years in prison for sexually abusing 10 boys, and some of the abuse took place on school property while Sandusky was working for legendary head coach Joe Paterno.
In the 30-page court document, the Sandusky team made the following claims in asking for a new trial:
- Insufficient evidence to prove that Sandusky engaged in deviate sexual intercourse or related sexual offenses with the victims, corrupted anyone's morals or endangered anyone's welfare.
- The court was wrong to allow hearsay testimony about the abuse of a boy in the shower of a Penn State locker room.
- The court erred when it did not drop charges that "were so general and nonspecific" that Sandusky could not adequately defend himself.
- Prosecutors should have given Sandusky's team more of the discovery information it asked for
- Sandusky's team needed more time to go through reems of documents it was receiving even in the days before the trial began
- They missed out on using a sexual behavior consultant, jury consultant and other experts who either needed more time to review the case or had scheduling conflicts
- Jurors should have been sequestered
- Prosecutors should not have been allowed to call Sandusky a pedophile and sexual predator during closing arguments
The Sandusky sex scandal not only tarnished the reputation of one of the most respected programs in college football, it was the undoing of Paterno, who was fired and accused of not doing enough with reports of Sandusky's abuse.
Penn State's former president, vice president and athletic director were also criticized in an internal investigation for the way in which the school handled reports of Sandusky's abuse. The Freeh Report said the administrators and Paterno chose to protect the image of the school rather than the children.
In an exclusive interview in the days before his sentencing hearing, lead defense attorney Joe Amendola told NBC10 that they were anxious to get the appeals process started, which they could not do until Sandusky was formally sentenced.
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The arrest of an Indian consular officer in New York has escalated quickly into an international incident, one that doesn't appear to be dying down despite best efforts from U.S. officials.
On Friday, Indian protesters ransacked a Dominos Pizza outlet in a Mumbai suburb, demanding a ban on U.S. goods. Meanwhile, the diplomat's father has declared that he'll "fast to death" unless the charges are dropped and the U.S. apologizes.
The quick backstory: Devyani Khobragade, a deputy consul-general for India, was arrested, strip-searched and placed in a New York City jail cell on Dec. 12. She faces federal allegations that she was underpaying her Indian-born domestic helper and helped create false documents to cover her tracks.
Her lawyer, Daniel Arshack, has denied the charges and told the WSJ in an email that his client was "protected from prosecution by virtue of her diplomatic status."
So what body of law are we dealing with here? According to Peter Spiro, an international law expert and professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law, consular officials and diplomats are treated differently with regard to immunity. "Were this an Indian diplomat working in Washington, he or she would get immunity," he said.
But under the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, consular workers enjoy immunity only for acts performed as part of their consular duties. This distinction makes Ms. Khobragade fair game, said Mr. Spiro.
Section 29 of the Vienna Convention says, however, that "the receiving State shall treat [a consular worker] with due respect and shall take all appropriate steps to prevent any attack on his person, freedom or dignity."
Would a strip search be considered a violation of the "dignity" clause in Section 29? "It's not like there's precedent or a huge body of law out there on what constitutes a violation of dignity," said Mr. Spiro. But he said that there could be a possible argument that a strip search violates that clause.
However, Mr. Spiro said the whole incident was probably best viewed not through a legal lens, but through a political one. "This really is more about diplomacy than anything else," he said.


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The Picture of HealthAs an Eisenhower Medical Center patient, Cash Baxter was definitely in the spotlight, although it was not quite the kind to which he was accustomed. His emotional journey from prostate cancer diagnosis to unexpected complications would have left many daunted. This former Thespian, however, decided to take a showbiz approach. He put total confidence in his cast of caregivers, faced the life lesson and went on with the show.
With a name like Cash Baxter, (and yes, it is his real name) it is not surprising that his life's work is spent in the theatrical and creative arts. Yet Cash probably never dreamed one day he would play a starring role in a rare medical mystery that would take dedicated medical staff to solve.
A former actor and internationally known theater producer and director (including Broadway and off Broadway productions) and award-winning multi-media artist, Cash's journey began in 2003 during a routine physical exam. "I had no symptoms whatsoever and my regular internist said my prostate-specific antigen (or PSA) level was a little elevated," recalls Cash."He said it could be a bladder infection and prescribed antibiotics."When Cash returned to his physician after taking the antibiotics, the PSA was even more elevated. "He recommended I see a urologist."
Cash wondered if his family history was coming back to haunt him. His father died of prostate and colon cancer at 83. "It took five years for the cancer to take my dad,"Cash recalls, "and they didn't have all the modern treatments they have now, otherwise he probably would have lived."
Cash's doctor suggested a biopsy, which revealed microscopic traces of cancer. The cancer was so small that Cash was told he didn't have to do anything right away. He was, however, encouraged to get a second opinion. "Even though the cancer was small, it was still cancer," says Cash. He recalls the support of Dr. Betty Baxter, his wife of 48 years. "I am very fortunate to have had her, the love of my life, to completely support me and calm me down from the panic that I went into. She said, 'We're going to get whatever opinions we need and take the appropriate action.' That made me feel better."
Cash got a second opinion, and it was confirmed that the cancer was tiny enough that he could wait for treatment. However, the physician thought that with Cash's family history, he would be a perfect candidate for a treatment being done at Eisenhower Medical Center known as External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBT).
Betty, who already knew Alison Sachs, MSW, OSW-C, Community Outreach Director at Eisenhower Lucy Curci Cancer Center, called to schedule an appointment for Cash. "I still remember Alison telling me 'The bad news is you have cancer. The good news is it's stage two prostate cancer, which tends to be slow growing, giving you plenty of time to consult with your doctors to discuss your treatment options.' I was so completely confident in the people there and the way I was handled from the outset," says Cash. He was presented with treatment options and the various side effects he might experience. "The surroundings were so warm and the people were friendly. They told me there were no guarantees but said that this treatment is what has been recommended for me, and there was such confidence on the part of the staff. That confidence transferred to me."
Cash went on to receive 37 EBT treatments at Eisenhower Lucy Curci Cancer Center. "I had such experts helping me, and we kept laughing right through it. When things got a little unnerving regarding the external beam therapy I would just relate to my theater background and think 'This is just a terrific rehearsal for a science fiction film. It is a great new adventure. Now stand back and get my lighting right.'"
Cash's 37 treatments were all done consecutively on the five-day work week for eight weeks. As he was wrapping up his final treatments, Cash started to have some unexplained bleeding. "What made his case interesting is less than two percent of men treated for prostate cancer develop complications," notes John Stevenson, MD, Board Certified Radiation Oncologist at Eisenhower's Arnold Palmer Prostate Center, "but Cash fell into that two percent." Cash had a 13-millimeter (about one-half inch) radiation ulcer involving the anal canal that was not healing. That is how Cash Baxter became a star patient at Eisenhower Medical Center. His case became one that physicians would meet about and discuss on a regular basis.
Cash first underwent an experimental freezing procedure using cold gas to minimize the bleeding. Unfortunately, the procedure did not work and Cash began developing anemia. Still, he maintained his daily routines, teaching a full schedule with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at California State University, San Bernardino Palm Desert Campus where he is a Master Teacher of the plein air style as well as a teacher of art history and impressionism. He also taught Acting for the Camera workshops in Palm Springs, and he was continuing to paint and exhibit his work throughout the period of time he received treatment. "I've never been one good at sitting still," says Cash. "During that time I just had to look for the men's room first when I went to a new place, but I made it work."
In the meantime, he was becoming severely anemic and at one point required numerous transfusions. "It was a most unusual circumstance," says Cash. "I had so many people working to find out how to get me well. I began a series of CBCs [blood tests] and was very carefully monitored." Cash's physicians, Dr. Stevenson and Eisenhower's Michael Last, MD, Board Certified in General Surgery, consulted and made a recommendation. Dr. Last proposed that he perform a colostomy (a surgical opening from the colon to the abdominal wall), bypassing the bowel to give the ulcer a chance to heal completely. If successful, the colostomy could be removed in six to 12 months. "This was a very difficult decision for me,"Cash recalls. "I resisted it for a long time."
Then, he experienced tremendous pain. "Cash had an ulcer in the rectum that was causing pain," explains Dr. Last. Cash decided to proceed with the colostomy and wore the device for 11 months. He was carefully monitored, and in March 2006, Dr. Last took down the colostomy. "The procedure improved Cash's condition, making the bleeding minimal and manageable," says Dr. Last.
Cash feels an enormous amount of gratitude for the people who helped him through his ordeal. "I'm dropping in on my doctors and nurses all the time. We know each other. We're family," he says. As a way to give back to his newfound family, Cash loaned more than 15 of his paintings to the Eisenhower Lucy Curci Cancer Center and periodically rotates the collection. "I noticed a bare nail one day and was told it was a spot where a holiday decoration had been hung. I thought a painting was a small way I could say thank you for all they've done for me."
Cash is not at all ruffled by the fact that he was among the two percent of men who experienced complications."What was a very simple procedure and very precise, I simply reacted to with a bit of bad luck.What happened to me was highly unusual. As patients we must trust our physicians. I was lucky to have a place as supportive as Lucy Curci Cancer Center.What a joy it is to know you're in the right hands. I am also lucky to have Betty, who dealt with my ups and downs and kept me on the right track. I have been so fortunate all my life to have fans and admirers of my work. Now it is my turn. I am a forever fan of the people and the teamwork at Eisenhower Medical Center."


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I'm Nina. Music is my love, friends are my life.
From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm
foundation of fact and journeying together through
the murky marshes of memory,
into thickets of wildest guesswork.
- Albus Dumbledore
take me disappearing down
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twisted reach of crazy sorrow
to dance beneath the diamond sky
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let me forget about today until tomorrow.
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Discussion in 'Star Trek Movies I-X' started by wonderstoat, Nov 28, 2008.
Yep. As detailed in the novelization, but not compelling enough to add scenes to a movie.
Damn Right! And they can run it with Chimpanzees!
You forgot the trainiee.
Plus Koenig has to wear that Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit.
Joe, corny
Had him eating...
out of her hand.
This story is also told on the DVD special features, IIRC.
Nice save.
Uh...it got destroyed for a very good reason in Trek III though -- because Kirk was trying to save his f'n life. One of my favorite scenes of all Trek when the Klingons walk on to the bridge and find the computer counting down to 0. And Kirk is obviously upset at having to have destroyed it. Very dramatic.
I wish the producers had given us one scene - even one in passing - of her messing things up for Starfleet. Her absence from the rest of the film would have made so much more sense. It would have been cool watching her outfox Starfleet.
That really would've been fun.
I always gave her some of the credit of the space doors opening. For some reason I always thought that it would take Scotty and Uhura to get that open after Starfleet would have secured it. Not to minimize Scotty's contribution, it just seemed reasonable.
The novelizations of both II AND III had a lot in them that was cut from the final films. The whole Saavik/David subplot being the biggest chunk. Uhura's expanded part in the breakout of McCoy and the theft of the Enterprise was the other one.(Not only did she provide covert transport to the ship, but she hacked Starfleet Communications and scrambled them up so badly that only the Excelsior even knew about the attempt for some time. THEN she made a run for the Vulcan embassy.)
And it was better than having the old girl scrapped, which was what Morrow wanted to do to her.
I remember there being talk going about back at the time (early 80s) that got picked up on by some novel writers and the writers for DC comics that the Federation and Starfleet were undergoing a severe internal crisis, centered around it's becoming less and less of a "frontier" organization and starting the process of becoming a "mature" one.
Advances in communications meant that the local Captain on the scene had no excuse NOT to radio back to Headquarters for instructions on a regular basis, even duing crisis situations. "Cowboy diplomacy" (as Picard would later referr to it while speaking to Spock) was on it's way out the door. In essence, we were witnessing the beginning of the death of the TOS Federation and the birth of the TNG Federation.
In that contex, Kirk and his crew were seen as something in the nature of throwbacks to a way of doing things that was no longer in vogue with the Federation Powers that Be. Prior to the Genesis Incident, their record of success sheilded them from too much criticism.
Kirk comes out of the Genesis Incident looking weak and vulnerable, so the elements that were working towards his ouster seized the moment. That was why Kirk couldn't get an answer to the question of getting another ship. That's why Mr Adventure referred to Uhura's carrer as "winding down".
Kirk and company were to be basically swept under the rug and KEPT there. Only the "Whalesong Incident" saved their collective bacon.
Fairer to say that Vonda McIntyre did lots of extrapolation as she wrote the novelizations. There was never any scripts that had actual romance between Saavik and David, just suggestive cut-away shots, posed publicity stills, etc, in much the same way as Meyer shot the alternative version of the ST II elevator scene, to suggest (in some takes) that Saavik and Kirk were attracted.
Again, this wasn't scripted.
My understanding is that novelization writers work from at least a semi-final version of the script. Sometimes a major rewrite strikes portions of it or substantially alters them.
I know that at least one late version of the script of WoK (for example) has Saavik teasing David on the bridge in the final scene about "indeed being a bastard", which was part of the David/Saavik subplot.
Obviously THAT didn't make it into the final cut either.
*EDIT* FOUND IT! Link to the semi-final script...read the David/Saavik interactions, esp in the final scene:
They also have the script for TSFS, which doesn't have the Uhura material, but has more matieral continuing the David/Saavik arc.
It's also interesting that the TSFS script has the original plot configuration, OPENING with the discovery of Spock's torpedo, etc, which closes a LOT of the plotholes that developed in the final version>
It also has a reference to the "Hall of Ancient Thought"
Yes, of course, but Vonda McIntyre also did lots of extrapolation of her own as she wrote the novelizations.
Exactly, but the "subplot" was never actually there in the script. The teasing lines were the barest suggestion of an attraction, which McIntyre then had to develop into something more. It was more improvisation on set, and a hope (by Harve Bennett?) for what might come about if Saavik and David ever became the new Decker and Ilia of a series of telemovies, to carry the legacy after the departures of Nimoy and (eventually) Shatner.
Of course, at the time of writing "II", she didn't know that Saavik would end up have to do pon farr with young Spock in ST III, which further complicated the David scenes. IIRC, the novelization of ST II even had Saavik tinkering with the instructions for launching Spock's burial tube, not knowing if any of that would even be followed up in the writing of the third movie, if there was to be one.
Yep, and from that one line, McIntyre had to develop the whole katra-needs-to-reunite-with-body-one-more-time stuff, which is why Sarek was asking Kirk why Spock's body wasn't brought home.
I think my favorite scenes from the novelizations both involve the Project Genesis scientists- Khan's attack upon them in TWoK, and Carol's eulogies for them in TSFS. They're classic "wrong place at the wrong time" characters, and the novels elevate them beyond the brief cameos they get in the movies.
Kind of makes me wonder whether any books dealt with any of them besides Carol and David prior to the events of TWoK.
Which leads to one of my favorite lines:
My God, Bones, what have I done?
You did what you had to do... you did what you always do... turn death into a fighting chance to survive
When they do, you'll be able to track them here:
http://startrek.wikia.com/wiki/Vance_Madison (no listing yet for March)
Why did she lock him in there anyway? He obviously couldn't do anything to actually stop her, since 1) she outranked him, and 2) she could probably kick his ass if he tried anything.
Was she just pissed off about that remark he made about her career (which was not entirely untrue, mind you)?
Guess that proves a point: Never piss off Uhura.
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As expected the remaining preliminary-card fights from Saturday's UFC 139 event will stream live and for free on Facebook, UFC officials today confirmed with MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
The five-bout stream precedes a pay-per-view main card and Spike TV's "UFC Prelims" special.
UFC 139 takes place this Saturday, Nov. 19, at HP Pavilion in San Jose, Calif. Recent Strikeforce champ Dan Henderson returns to the octagon to meet ex-UFC champ Mauricio "Shogun" Rua in the night's headliner.
Bouts slated for the Facebook prelims include ex-WEC bantamweight champ Miguel Torres (38-4 MMA, 1-1 UFC) vs. Nick Pace (6-2 MMA, 1-1 UFC), lightweights Rafael dos Anjos (15-5 MMA, 4-3 UFC) vs. Gleison Tibau (23-7 MMA, 9-5 UFC), bantamweights Alex Soto (6-0-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) vs. Michael McDonald (13-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC), welterweights Matt Brown (12-10 MMA, 5-4 UFC) vs. Seth Baczynski (14-6 MMA, 1-1 UFC), and lightweights Shamar Bailey (12-4 MMA, 1-1 UFC) vs. Danny Castillo (11-4 MMA, 1-1 UFC).
The official UFC 139 card now includes:
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)
- Dan Henderson vs. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua
- Cung Le vs. Wanderlei Silva
- Brian Bowles vs. Urijah Faber
- Martin Kampmann vs. Rick Story
- Stephan Bonnar vs. Kyle Kingsbury
(Spike TV)
- Ryan Bader vs. Jason Brilz
- Tom Lawlor vs. Chris Weidman
PRELIMINARY CARD (Facebook)
- Nick Pace vs. Miguel Torres
- Rafael dos Anjos vs. Gleison Tibau
- Michael McDonald vs. Alex Soto
- Seth Baczynski vs. Matt Brown
- Shamar Bailey vs. Danny Castillo
The UFC first began streaming select fights live on Facebook at this
past January's "UFC Fight Night 23: UFC Fight for the Troops 2" event.
To access the preliminary-card stream, viewers must visit the UFC's
official Facebook profile (www.facebook.com/ufc) and push the "Like" button for the page.
For more on UFC 139, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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The Gang Gets Animated on the Always Sunny Christmas Special
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia finished it's season with a spectacular Christmas episode. Following in the footsteps of Community, the gang gets stop-motion animated while Frank tells a story from his hospital bed, where the gang visited their "dead" friend.
The entire episode is worth watching, but let me sum up the jist of what's going on here for you. Frank kicks off the episode is full asshole mode, purchasing Dennis and Dee's dream gifts for himself. Dennis and Dee decide that they're sick of Frank's antics—especially because he's not even their real father—until the bar gets a call from the hospital that he's dead. Okay, that about catches you up to this point:
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GROSSE POINTE PARK, Mich. -
Bashara was being held at the Grosse Pointe Park Police Department. Police have impounded his car. He was later taken to the Wayne County Jail.
Watch: Exclusive video of Bob Bashara at Wayne County Jail
Watch: Uncut: Bob Bashara arrested
Sources say Bashara was arrested for suspicion of trying to solicit the murder of Joe Gentz. Gentz has been charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder in Jane Bashara's death. He was a handyman for Bob Bashara, helping him with various real estate throughout the Metro Detroit area.
Sources say Gentz told police he was forced to kill the Grosse Pointe Park mother under the order of her husband.
More: Joe Gentz in more trouble behind bars
More: Bashara murder investigation history
Bob Bashara has been called a person of interest in his wife's January murder. However, Gentz has been the only person charged for the murder.
Watch: Uncut: Attorney 'disappointed' about Bob Bashara's arrest
"I'm deeply disappointed," Griem said. "I had been guaranteed by both the Prosecutor's Office and the Police Department that after four months of doing everything that he was asked to do by police officials if charges were brought they would not go out and arrest him. They'd give me a phone call and I'd be allowed to surrender him."
-- Police impounded Bob Bashara's vehicle on June 25.
Griem said he was not surprised by the arrest. He said he does not believe it is for Jane Bashara's murder.
"It's clear to me that he has not been arrested for the murder of Jane Bashara or conspiracy to commit the murder of Jane Bashara," Griem said. "We'll see what the evidence is and we'll go from there."
Griem said he expects Bashara will be arraigned on charges on Wednesday.
"If I had to guess I would say the court appearance would be Wednesday," he said.
Watch: Uncut: Griem expects Bashara in court this week
Stay with Local 4 and ClickOnDetroit.com for more information as it becomes available.
-- David Griem
Complete coverage: Bashara murder investigation
Grosse Pointe Park mother found dead in January
Jane Bashara was found dead in the back of her SUV in a Detroit alley on Jan. 25. She had been reported missing the night before.
Sources say a man named Joe Gentz was forced to kill the Grosse Pointe Park mother under the order of her husband.
Gentz has been charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
Bob Bashara has not been charged.
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text: Sex & Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective investigates and compares different constructions of sex and gender around the world. The course asks how cross-cultural variations force us to rethink assumptions about bodies, sexuality, gendered social roles, and work and family. How do people in different cultures come to consider and express themselves as "men", "women", or something else? What are the social forces that constrain them to act and think as gendered persons? Most importantly, what are the potential consequences of not conforming to those norms? The course will also consider how global forces such as militarism and religious fundamentalism influence sex and gender formations.


text: Hi, Could you guys recommend me a few frames that are similar to the KPS 88 in terms of feel, flex and plow through? I'm an all-court player, and I'm probably a 4.5. I'm currently using two 90-squared-inch Vantage frames with the following specs when strung: 364g, 31.5 cm, and about 340 for swing weight. I used to love my Vantage frames, and I thought I would never want to switch. But lately, as I've gotten into a better shape, I love the KPS 88. When I hit the ball cleanly, the way the frame flexes and the raw feel I get from it are addicting. I just can't put it down. I've tried to modify the Vantage frames to match the setup of my KPS 88 in terms of swing weight and balance. But it was unsuccessful. The Vantage frames became sluggish and muted. Even though their flex was listed as 60, they were not flexible, or they did not flex at contact like how the KPS 88 did. Thank you for your help.


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Wasp Society
Social wasps build an internal society or specialized workers. How do they do this on a genetic level? What makes a wasp do one task or another? The workers all support the queen of the colony. Scientists at the University of Bristol have sequenced the active parts of the genome – or transcriptome – of primitively eusocial wasps to identify which part makes a queen or a worker. The study, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Genome Biology, shows that workers have a more active transcriptome than queens. This suggests that in these simple societies, workers may be the jack-of-all-trades in the colony, leaving the queen with a somewhat restricted set of work tasks.
Studying primitively eusocial species like these wasps can tell us about how sociability evolves. Dr Seirian Sumner from Bristol's School of Biological Sciences and colleagues sequenced transcriptomes from the eusocial tropical paper wasp Polistes canadensis. All social species ultimately evolved from a solitary ancestor – in this case a solitary wasp, who lays the eggs and feeds the brood. But how does this ancestral solitary phenotype split to produce specialized reproducers (queens) and brood carers (workers) when a species becomes social?
In wasps, as in other Hymenoptera, sexes are also significantly genetically different. Wasps store sperm inside their body and control its release for each individual egg as it is laid; if a female wishes to produce a male egg, she simply lays the egg without fertilizing it. Therefore, under most conditions in most species, wasps have complete voluntary control over the sex of their offspring.
Eusocial is defined as living in a cooperative group in which usually one female and several males are reproductively active and the nonbreeding individuals care for the young or protect and provide for the group.
This paper gives a first insight into the secret lives of social insects. It shows that workers retain a highly active transcriptome, possibly expressing many of the ancestral genes that are required for our solitary wasp to be successful on her own. Conversely, queens appear to shut down a lot of their genes, presumably in order to be really good reproducers.
Long-standing analyses based on the fossil record holds ants and wasps in a clade known as Vespoidea, with bees as a sister group. The researchers reassess the relationships between the subfamilies of bees, wasps and ants and suggest that wasps are part of a separate clade from ants and bees, though further genome sequences and comparative data will help to resolve this controversy.
Dr Sumner said: "This finding would have important general implications for our understanding of eusociality as it would suggest that bees and ants shared an aculeate wasp-like ancestor, that ants are wingless wasps, and that bees are wasps that lost predacious behaviors."
This study suggests that novel genes play a much more important role in social behavior than was previously thought. Is society a result of genes or a result of the members of the society working together?
For further information see Eusocial or Article.
Wasp image via Wikipedia.


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Manual update of the Avira virus definition files
If you do not have Internet access to update your Antivirus, take the advantage and perform a manual update of your Avira virus definition files via the Avira Fusebundle Generator.
The following instruction applies only to Avira products starting with version 2012.
It is also highly recommended to perform an Avira product upgrade to the latest Antivirus version.
Update process of the virus definition files (VDF)
Created the VDF Fusebundle archive
- Use a computer with Internet access to download the current Avira Fusebundle Generator
- Extract the downloaded file: avira_fusebundlegen-win32-en.zip
- Open the extracted folder and double-click the file: fusebundle.exe
- The Fusebundle archive (vdf_fusebundle.zip) is created. The creation of the archive may last up to a few minutes
- Open the folder install and copy the new created vdf_fusebundle.zip file onto a data carrier (USB memory, CD-ROM, etc.). It is not necessary to extract the ZIP file
Updating the Antivirus
- Connect the data carrier to the computer without internet access
- Open the "Avira Control Center" via the Avira icon in the taskbar
- Click in the menu bar Update → Manual update, select the vdf_fusebundle.zip file from the connected data carrier and click Open
- Avira Antivirus updates automatically the latest virus definitions
Version 2013
The Fusebundle archive was generated for the Avira version 2013 and requires no further change.
Version 2012
When using the Fusebundles for an Avira version 2012 on a 32-bit or 64-bit operating system, enter the parameter platform=win32 in the "fusebundle.conf".
Affected products
- Avira Professional Security [Windows]
- Avira Antivirus Pro [Windows]
- Avira Internet Security Suite [Windows]
- Avira Ultimate Protection Suite [Windows]
- Created : Friday, April 13, 2007
- Last updated: Friday, October 16, 2015


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With yesterday's announcement that Jimmy Kimmel Live! would move to 11:35pm beginning on January 8, he'll for the first time go head to head with Letterman's Late Show and Leno's Tonight Show in exactly the same time period. Nightline will move its start time to 12:35pm, and get a 9pm Friday primetime hour as "consolation".
It's being painted as a bold move by ABC, but my guess is that, like everything, it's driven by the economics. It's very likely that Kimmel's show costs more than Nightline does, perhaps substantially more, and it doesn't make a lot of economic sense to put the more expensive show on later after the cheaper one. ABC has probably taken as long as it has to make the move because of the reported clout (or complaining, depending on who you read) that ABC News wielded to keep Nightline at 11:35.
But now that three broadcast networks (not to mention several competing cable shows that begin at 11) will all have comparably slotted talk shows at 11:35, who'll come out on top of the adults 18-49 ratings?
Here's some data for your handicapping pleasure:
2011-12 broadcast season to date (Sept-May):
- Tonight Show 0.9 adults 18-49 rating
- Late Show 0.8 adults 18-49 rating
- Nightline 0.9 adults 18-49 rating
- Jimmy Kimmel Live 0.5 adults 18-49 rating
May, 2012 sweeps period:
- Tonight Show 0.8 adults 18-49 rating
- Late Show 0.7 adults 18-49 rating
- Nightline 0.9 adults 18-49 rating
- Jimmy Kimmel Live 0.5 adults 18-49 rating
If you'd like to make things apples to apples, make your guess the ratings winner for the May, 2013 sweeps, since full season comparisons will be goofy.
Who ya' got?


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The top one looks like a Honeybee, the bottom one looks like a Hoverfly that is a 'bee mimic' (maybe Sericomyia silentis ???)
Hi Duckingwales,
Many thanks for your helpful reply. I looked at pictures of Sericomyia hoverflies and could see the same special pattern on all of them, although the shapes of the insects varied a bit.
I am delighted that my weed-filled garden is providing nourishment for actual honey bees! Earlier in the year there are hordes of bumble bees of various kinds, on the bramble flowers.
Neglect and laziness do have their uses after all.
From the little I've just read about Sericomya, it seems that it tends to live in boggy areas. The shady part of the garden that I found them in did get very water-logged when there was a lot of rain earlier in the year, but would that short period be enough to draw them in? Also, I have read that they tend to live in more Northern parts of the UK rather than in London's suburbia. Does anyone know about this? I don't remember ever having seen them before.
The hoverfly is Myathropa florea rather than a Sericomyia
Wednesday, 26 December 2012
Hi Eucera,
Many thanks for pointing out that my hoverfly is Myathropa florea rather than Sericomyia. Prompted by this I've collected a number of photos from All About Hoverflies, by CV Duke, from www.eakringbirds.com, and from Wikipedia.
Judging by these photos, the fake bee in my photo certainly does seem to resemble Myathropa or Epistrophe melanostoma, rather than Sericomya, but it's difficult for an untrained person such as myself to tell.
I learned other things from the sources I looked at:
The All About Hoverflies article explained that my hoverfly is probably female, as its eyes are further apart than the male's. The article has very clear photos showing this.
The eakringbirds article contained a map showing that Myathropa is more common in the south of England than in the north. I read in summer that Sericomyia is more common in the north. As I am in the south, I guess this also makes it more likely to be Myathropa.
I'm curious about Epistrophe melanostoma, as it looked very similar to Myathropa. Do you know anything about Epistrophe?
I'd like to include the photos I've gathered so that you can see for yourself, but I'm not sure if copyright laws would allow me to do this, so I've left them out. The pictures are easy to find, however, from the sources mentioned above.
Many thanks again,


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Brewers 'not in' on Lowe sweepstakes
GM Melvin sets to rest rumors that club is chasing 35-year-old righty
By Adam McCalvy / MLB.com
MILWAUKEE -- The Derek Lowe-to-the-Brewers rumblings can be put to rest. "We're not in on him," general manager Doug Melvin said of the free-agent right-hander. That did not exactly qualify as a new development, since team officials have said publicly all along that they did not believe Lowe was particularly interested in coming to Milwaukee. But it's likely that the real hurdle is Lowe's asking price -- $15-$16 million per season -- and the fact that he turns 36 in June and would be 39 by the end of a three-year contract or 40 after four years. Yet a handful of published reports speculated that Milwaukee could be a destination for Lowe. The Mets reportedly have made a three-year offer to Lowe in the neighborhood of $12 million per season, though agent Scott Boras disputed that such an offer was ever made, according to a post on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Web site Sunday. The Braves are seen as another contender, and the Phillies have also been mentioned. Melvin said he had spoken with Boras within the last month, but not about Lowe. Boras also represents two of Milwaukee's arbitration-eligible players: first baseman Prince Fielder and pitcher Seth McClung. Speaking of free-agent pitchers the Brewers are not making a play for, left-hander Mark Mulder joined a large group of family and friends on a Caribbean cruise last week. Also on deck were Melvin and Reds general manager Walt Jocketty, whose families meet for an annual year-end holiday. Mulder has pitched in just six games over the past two seasons because of shoulder woes, but he has been linked to the Brewers several times by the Boston Globe, which reported Sunday that Milwaukee and Oakland were, "big on the comebacking pitcher." Not so, at least from Milwaukee's standpoint. "I really haven't contacted his guy [agent Gregg Clifton]," Melvin said. Melvin returned to the office Monday and characterized it as a quiet day. A number of free-agent hitters have either found new homes or reportedly moved closer to signing, including Pat Burrell (Rays), Milton Bradley (Cubs) and Jason Giambi (A's), but the pitching market remained frozen.
Among starters, the Brewers have shown interest in Braden Looper, but Melvin last week downplayed the chances of a deal. Besides Lowe, the top remaining arms include Oliver Perez -- another Boras client who may be seeking a four-year deal in the range of $11 million per season -- and Jon Garland, who surrendered 237 hits and struck out just 90 batters in 196 2/3 innings last season. The Brewers are not particularly interested in either, but they could be players for Ben Sheets, who has pitched all eight of his big league seasons in Milwaukee."We're looking at everything right now," Melvin said.
Adam McCalvy 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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Shakespeare's True Face
Almost no one is pleased by Martin Droeshout's engraving of our beloved "Star of Poets". Here's the anonymous opinion of a writer for The Sun, reviewing Basil Brown's Supposed Caricature of the Droeshout:
"The abominable eidolon which appears in the First Folio, opposite BEN JONSON'S sly advice to the Reader to look rather upon the Booke than upon the picture, has been for nearly three hundred years the despair of everybody wondering what SHAKESPEARE'S physiognomy really was like.No human being ever even faintly resembled the Droeshout print.The face is as impossible as is the doublet of riveted boiler iron." ~Feb. 23, 1911, The Sun
Much to be preferred would have been something more closely modeled on the movie-star handsome face in the Cobbe Portrait, ("This is NOT Shakespeare", says Simon Andrew Stirling, in his blog "ART & WILL") or the immediately likable fellow teasing us with his ever-so-sweet-and-shy smile in the Sanders portrait.
Dream on, my friends. Ben Jonson, who surely knew "The AVTHOR", says this is our man:
This figure, that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut;
Wherein the Graver had a strife
with Nature, to out-doo the life:
O, could he but have drawne his wit
As well in brasse, as he hath hit
His face; the Print would then surpasse
All, that was ever writ in brasse.
But, since he cannot, Reader, looke
Not on his Picture, but his Booke.
Is Honest Ben playing with us? As a shrewd observer of his own times, and passionate imbiber of classic and continental literature, he's our best contemporary witness to what the real "Shakespeare" – whoever you believe that may be – looked like, inside and out. After all, these two enormous poetic egos haunted the same London taverns and bookstalls. They wrote their comedies and tragedies for the same actors. Both were born poets, as well as "made".
In the 1590s, both collaborated with that irrepressible satirist, Thomas Nashe. And both knew Francis Langley, lord of the manor of Paris Garden and owner of the magnificent Swan Theater. But there was one significant difference in each man's recorded acquaintance with this pugnacious entrepreneur. William Shakespeare and his side-kick Langley were never arrested for their threats of bodily harm to William Wayte in 1596. A year later, however, Ben Jonson went to prison for his part in writing the disastrous Isle of Dogs, which played at Langley's Swan. Soon after, the Poetomachia began, during which Shakespeare gave Jonson that famous, if elusive, literary purge.
No doubt about it, Ben knew our Author, and had reason to envy, and even resent him. When he assures us that the figure we see gracing Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies was "cut" for "gentle Shakespeare", he speaks from a uniquely privileged position. We sense that he expects posterity will know this, and thus take him at his word. With a poetic genius of Jonson's caliber, however, taking him "at his word" requires us to enter his own peculiar labyrinth of associative language.
Just as we do today, Jacobean followers of Jonson's irreverent parodies would have sifted his contribution to the First Folio for the inevitable left-handed compliment to the master. For example, why, in such a short piece of verse, does Jonson use the word "brass" twice? As I've learned by following one of the most brilliant Oxfordian researchers we have, by the time the word "brass" works its way through Jonson's literary digestive tract, he's wholly transformed its surface connotations.
Since 2002, Nicole Doyle has been sharing her insights into the mysteries of the Droeshout engraving – from its mismatched eyes to its "impossible doublet" – with members of the late Robert Brazil's Elizaforum. By placing these visual puzzles alongside Jonson's words, both in the poems he wrote for Shakespeare in 1623 and where he's used them in other works, she has shown – persuasively, in my view – that Jonson intended the reader to "read" Droeshout's disproportionate engraving as an emblem of Shakespeare's deformed literary "manners".
For Oxfordians, this means that Droeshout wasn't hired to cut a mockery of "the Stratford Man". His model – and Jonson's target – was "The AVTHOR", whom Jonson belatedly embraces as "his beloved" for this grand occasion. What we are seeing in this iconic emblem isn't Edward de Vere as he saw himself in the mirror, or the achingly human and noble being he made of himself in his art, but Edward de Vere through Ben Jonson's eyes: sans Right, sans Romance, sans Idolatry.
Most likely, Martin Droeshout began his task with an image already in existence, as the British Museum's website explains:
An engraving is not worked directly from life, but from a flat model, either a painting or a drawing. Droeshout must have been given a painting or drawing of Shakespeare as a young man, from which to engrave his plate.
Since Oxfordians do possess the advantage of a painting or two of our "Shakespeare as a young man" – one when he was twenty-four or so, and the other from when he was in his early thirties – we can readily compare these relatively honest (if not flattering) images of Edward de Vere with the First Folio's satiric cartoon. Here they are, left and right profile, side by side with Droeshout's engraving:
After viewing the Welbeck Portrait (top, right) in 1920, J. T. Looney suggested that:
…a very strong case might be made out for Droeshout having worked from this portrait, of Edward de Vere, making modifications according to instructions.
(Appendix II of Shakespeare Identified).
What do you think?
~Marie Merkel


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An esophagectomy is surgery to remove part or all of the esophagus, the tube that moves food from your throat to your stomach. After it is removed, the esophagus is rebuilt from part of your stomach or part of your large intestine.
Most of the time, esophagectomy is done to treat cancer of the esophagus.
Trans-hiatal esophagectomy; Trans-thoracic esophagectomy; En bloc esophagectomy; Removal of the esophagus - open; Ivor-Lewis operation
There are many ways to do this surgery. Talk with your doctor about what type of surgery is best for you. It will depend on where in your esophagus the cancer is, how much it has spread, and how healthy you are.
Laparoscopy is one way to do this surgery. A laparoscope is a tiny camera that is inserted into your belly through a small surgical cut. See also: Esophagectomy - minimally invasive
Open surgery is another way to do an esophagectomy. Two ways to do an esophagectomy using open surgery are:
Trans-hiatal esophagectomy:
Trans-thoracic esophagectomy:
Your surgeon may also examine and do a biopsy of the lymph nodes in your belly to see if the cancer has spread to them.
En bloc esophagectomy is another type of esophagectomy. It is the most invasive of these procedures.
Most of these operations take about 3 - 6 hours.
The most common reason for removing part, or all, of your esophagus is to treat cancer. You may also have radiation therapy or chemotherapy before or after surgery.
Surgery to remove the lower part of your esophagus may also be done to treat:
Esophagectomy is major surgery and has many possible risks. Some of them are serious. You should discuss these risks with your surgeon.
The risks from this surgery, or for problems after surgery, may be greater than normal if:
Risks for any anesthesia are:
Risks for any surgery are:
Risks for this surgery are:
You will have many doctor visits and medical tests before you have this surgery. Some of these are:
If you are a smoker, you should stop smoking several weeks before the surgery. Your doctor or nurse can help.
Always tell your doctor or nurse:
During the week before your surgery:
On the day of your surgery:
Most people stay in the hospital for 7 to 14 days after an esophagectomy. How long you stay will depend on what type of surgery you had. You may spend 1 to 3 days in the intensive care unit (ICU) right after surgery.
You will stay in the hospital for 10 to 14 days after en bloc esophagectomy
During your hospital stay, you will:
Many people recover well from this surgery and can eat a fairly normal diet after they recover. Talk with your doctor about the best way to treat cancer.
Esophagectomy is best performed at a center that routinely does this type of surgery.
Maish M. Esophagus. In: Townsend CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 18th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2008:chap 41.
National Cancer Institute. Esophageal Cancer Treatment PDQ. Updated 01/24/2011.
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|Note: These are the old toys, not the new ones
Someone named EVN tipped me off in email about some upcoming McDonalds, so I called the them up to confirm it.
Apparently another wave of ponies is planned for March 9th (though she told me not to quote her on that exact date), along with Transformers on the boys side. They don't know specifically what characters/designs will be available, but she did say they usually try to release new sets, so hopefully something awesome pops up.
I was also told that this is going to be a huge promotion, and they expect to sell out of them pretty quickly. I guess our rabid collecting last time around tipped them off? We didn't have much access to blind bags back then, so these and the five piece molded set were the only show accurate stuff we could get our hands on (Even if McDonalds toys aren't really known for their quality). It sure was funny trying to sneak into McDonalds incognito style only to be called out as the third guy to come looking for ponies for his "Niece" or "Sister". I'm sure it will be twice as funny this time around.


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DOVER - The Charleston Lady Tigers used a tenacious defense to overcome an early deficit Thursday and knock off Dardanelle, 50-36.
The Lady Sand Lizards jumped out to a 9-0 lead in the first quarter, but it wouldn't last past the second quarter. Kylia Melder and Shawna Hilton combined to score Dardanelle's first nine points as Charleston struggled from the field and didn't get its first points until there were 37 seconds left in the first quarter. The Lady Tigers would add another bucket with three seconds left to cut the lead to 9-4 heading into the second period.
Those four points were the start of a 14-0 run for Charleston, one of the top-ranked teams in Class AA. The Lady Tigers tied the game with 4:46 remaining in the second quarter and then 24 seconds later got a pair of free throws from Brittany Green, who would finish with a team-high 15 points. Charleston would never trail again.
The Lady Lizards had problems against the tough man-to-man pressure defense employed by the Lady Tigers, forcing Dardanelle (2-4) into several turnvoers and never letting them get the momentum back they had at the first of the game.
Dardanelle only got one field goal and one free throw in the second quarter as Charleston went on to a 21-12 halftime lead.
In the third quarter, Dardanelle did better offensively, but still had trouble stopping Charleston on the other end. The Lady Tigers led by as many as 16 points before taking a 35-21 lead into the fourth quarter.
With several players in foul trouble, Charleston broke off from its man-to-man defense and switched to a zone in the fourth quarter. Dardanelle put together its biggest offensive quarterand got as close as 41-32 with 2:44 to go on a pair of free throws by Hilton, but the Lady Tigers were 7-of-8 down the stretch from the free-throw line and the Lady Lizards were never able to catch up.
Melder finished with 13 points to follow Hilton in scoring, while Chelsey White added five.
Dardanelle returns to conference play today with a game at Lamar.