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I want to cover a couple of things with this post. First of all, I was thrilled to be contacted a couple of weeks ago to see if I would be interested in having Dine & Dish be the blog of the day for July 1st on the Sony Pictures site for the movie Julie & Julia. Of course, I was thrilled to be a mini-part of what I can only assume is going to be a must see film for all of us in the food blogging community. Make sure to visit the movie site each day to see what other blogs were hand picked to be the Julie & Julia blog of the day!
For those of you who are not familiar with Julie & Julia, it is a movie based on a book based on a blog by Julie Powell. Julie decided one day when she was trying to find some great purpose in her life, to spend 365 days devoted to making each recipe out of the famed Julia Child cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1. Just as Julia Child paved the way for TV chefs today, Julie Powell paved the way for all of us food bloggers out here. Her blog was honestly one of the first times I had heard about the world of food blogging.
My friend Julie Lackey gave me the book Julie & Julia and I loved it and related so much to it! I can only imagine that I will be just as entertained by the movie (starring Meryl Streep and Amy Adams).
Now, for the next part of this post. Being a mom of four kids makes it very difficult to get out to see movies at the theatre. A couple of years ago, some friends and I started a group called Chicks & Flicks.Chicks & Flicks is a mixed group of friends who get together about every 6 weeks to watch a movie in the theatre. We've seen "chick flicks" and we have watched movies our husbands would have enoyed as much, if not more, than us. If we were all to be there at one time, there would be about 15 of us in attendance. On most occassions, we have between 6-10 women. It is a great time, no pressure, no preparation needed kind of night. Our group was recently written about in our local Shawnee Magazine. To read about how you can start your own Chicks & Flicks movie group, check out the article. I shared a lot of great tips to getting your movie group started! I think it would be a great idea to have Julie & Julia be your first movie together. You can bet my group will be heading to the theatres on August 7th to check out Julie & Julia, the movie!


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Tim Turi writes - "Earlier this week I was surprised by the time I spent playing Rare's Kinect Sports Rivals. The Kinect's upgrades to responsiveness and accuracy are immediately apparent when steering an invisible jet ski. My surprise continued when checking out Ubisoft's motion-controlled fighter, Fighter Within. I squared off against a European journalist to test my might. See if all the sweat I shed was worth it."
YOU will NOT see the END OF THIS DAY!
Anyway, highly, highly skeptical.
i think it's good for one reason.physical fitness.as person who takes his health serious,this is a good way for humans to be active.be healthy my friends.
Kids and family's will love this!
Have not seen anything like this for the ps4 yet and at the of the day it's a big market!
Man says to wife he wants a console it's £350+ look this one we can all do,this have fun with the kids and friends and family when they come around.
It's a good bargaining tool and am speaking like this because am getting the Xbox one and my wife is looking forward to kinnect, she loved it on the 360 dance central and fruit ninja so on.
I do understand what alot of,people are saying about it not being a gamers choice but I really have had fun nights with friends and family playing it.
This looks silly. Kinect is for bowling and exercise games. Not fighters. I do not want to get up and air fight my friends. give me a Stick and or gamepad.

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Zynga Pulls Out the Glue Gun
Jun 27, 2012 8:32 AM PT
Zynga made a number of announcements at its Unleashed event in San Francisco Tuesday, most of them aimed at the same goal: making its services "stickier" to its players.
"Social games have become a crowded marketplace," Scott Steinberg , digital game consultant and principal in TechSavvyGlobal.com, told TechNewsWorld. "It's hard to sustain interest because you have thousands of free games competing for users' attention.
"Loyalty is pretty low and churn rates are pretty high," he continued.
What Zynga showed in its announcements, he said, is that it's trying to expand its portfolio and introduce more hit games to maintain interest in its titles and services and grow its community.
"It's trying to create stickier experiences that'll keep players coming back for longer and have them more involved," he explained.
Leap Into Multiplayer Games
At Unleashed, Zynga announced new additions to its "Ville" game line. "The Ville," available now, allows players to build a house of their dreams and share it with their friends. "ChefVille," online soon, gives players their own four-star kitchen where they can create appetizing dishes virtually and later in their own homes.
Other additions included a new casino game, "Zynga Elite Slots," expected to be online soon, and an update to its arcade game, Ruby Blast, which was launched last week.
Zynga also pulled the wraps off a number of community and developer initiatives. It demonstrated its Zynga Friends Network, a social network for players of the company's games. It includes features such as chat and multiplayer, or synchronous, gaming.
The introduction of multiplayer gaming is very interesting, according to Pietro Macchiarella, an analyst with Park Associates. Up to now, Zynga games have been asynchronous -- a player plays them at their leisure without regard for other players, he explained.
"Now Zynga can afford to have synchronous games because it has such a huge user base that it always have some players online," he told TechNewsWorld.
It's estimated that Zynga has 292 million users, 65 million of them using the service on a daily basis.
Wooing Developers
Multiplayer games also tend to be sticky attractions, added Steinberg. "Multiplayer connectivity better keeps players in games because there's a bigger a sense of community and persistency around those games," he said.
On the developer front, Zynga announced a new API layer, which it will be making available to third-party developers, and its Zynga Partners for Mobile program, designed to give mobile game developers an opportunity to use the company's platform to obtain an audience for their offerings.
New platform partners were also revealed by Zynga. They include 50 Cubes, Majesco and Portalarium, who are joining in the Zynga fold.
While publicly effusive about its relationships with third party developers, it remains to be seen how they work in reality, according to R.W. Baird analyst Colin Sebastian. "There's a channel conflict there," he told TechNewsWorld.
"How much data do they really want to share with other developers?" he asked. "How much of their user base do they really want to share?"
"I wouldn't count on the third-party platform part of the story as really driving their business," he said.
Cautious Sharing
Nevertheless, Zynga could be a great resource for game developers, maintained Steinberg. "Zynga is a major player in social games and has the ability to activate tens of millions of users," he observed. "If it's able to bring some of that weight to bear for partners, then it could be a tremendously beneficial and successful partnership for those partners."
A key challenge to any social game maker these days is discovery, he explained. "You can have the greatest game in the world but if no one knows it exists, then it's utterly worthless."
"With so few opportunities on mobile and social to publicize yourself," he continued, "having the weight of Zynga behind you may be very effective."
"At the end of the day, though, developers don't want to cede their IP; they want to cede as little as their user base as possible," he added.


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I bought the drop shackles for my 02 F150 Harley Davidson, and was very impressed on the ease it was to install them. It took me all about 1 hour, and probably about 3 weeks for my truck to settle out. Recommend these shackles.


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>Health and Nutrition>Cortisone shot for Insertional Achilles Tendinitis?
Gotta Flee Em All
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
I have an opinion on this, but want to make sure I understand your view before I posit it.
A Saucy Wench
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
One day at a time
Somewhat threadjacking question....a few years ago I was in PT for achilles stuff and they did a treatment where they applied steroid through a gel and used electric current to drive it in to the tendon. Crap I am totally losing my terminology. It was the same type of electrical PT that I had had before, but they put steroid on the pad. I know at the time they said it was something that was just being tried, not standard yet. I've never heard of it since. Anyway, I only mention it because it seemed to work so well for me and theoretically had the advantage of localized steroid but without the risks of injection scarring. It cleared up my tendonitis in one application.
Has anyone else ever had this done?
Those who try, fail! Those who do what it takes to succeed, succeed!!
Thanks everyone for the advice. I decided to go ahead and get the Cortisone, but please be assured that I took everyone's advice into consideration. I also asked my Ortho about the tendon weakening it and he mentioned that the tendon ruptures are actually associated more with shots into the tendon 2-3″ above where my shot would be.
I decided to go ahead with the shot under the following conditions:
* I would only get ONE shot in my right heel. I may get one in my left heel in the future, but I'll only do one shot in any given area. I'm hoping that one shouldn't cause an issue with tendon weakness.
* I'll see how the shot works out and if I find that it doesn't help or the pain returns, then I'll explore other options or simply give up on running.
I made the appointment and went this morning to get it. After all the build up of people telling me how it would hurt, including my Ortho who said it would sting, it was actually a very easy procedure. I felt a prick from the first needle that he used with an anesthetic, but after that initial prick, I felt very little. To be honest, I don't know all the fuss was about with regards to the pain.
My heel is a little sore right now (an hour later) and I imagine it will be this way throughout the day, but I'm really glad there was no pain and that it didn't hurt like everyone else said it would. And believe me, if there was pain involved, I would know…..I'm a huge wuss when it comes to needles and pain!!
So, now I will rest the heel for a couple days and my Ortho said I can run again on Saturday.
My fingers are crossed and we'll see how this works out…..
I would take oral steroids or get a shot in the hip before I would get a shot directly into the tendon. I think your concerns are founded and the general education I received was fairly clear that soft tissue injections do very little to help and may harm. (As opposed to joint space injections, which often do help.) Systemic steroids from pills or shots in the hip are helpful and are lower risk. I do not know the latest in the literature on this, but I think it may be worth asking your ortho for some.
Trent, digging up old post but ...
Exctly what does the cortisone shot do and/or why would oral steriods be better? Should have asked earlier but had one directly into my tendon this morning. Since not recovering as I would have liked Dr. said " well we could wait or do the shot" i asked him of down side and he said "none .. either it works or it doesn't" so I thought it was a no lose situation.
BTW ... My shot hurt like a mother for a few seconds. Should have known when Dr. asked that I not kick him. but he said would be normal needle prick, which started off as that and thought to myself why would anyone kick someone from a needle prick, but then dug it into the tendon and $%^#!!!!! Dr "Oh there is a nerve right there might have hit that?" You think. Oh well the major sting only lasted a few seconds, hopefully it helps.
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard... is what makes it Great!


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Political Participation in Five Sections of Milan: Baggio, Barona, Comasina, Forlanini, Perrucchetti, 1964 (ICPSR 7307)
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This study interviewed residents of five sections of Milan, Italy: Baggio, Barona, Comasina, Forlanini, and Perrucchetti. The five sections were selected according to the following criteria: (1) genesis of the neighborhood (compact municipality, pre-war settlement spurred by industrial development, recent industrial development), (2) type of residential areas (subsidized versus non-subsidized), (3) morphological characteristics of the section (unplanned versus planned development), and (4) degree of efficiency of infrastructures and services (according to their efficiency index). Questions probed respondents' socioeconomic mobility, political awareness, relationships with neighbors, places of origin, and familiarity with Milan and its cultural-political life. In addition, respondents were asked about their knowledge of events in the neighborhood, the types of leisure activities in which they participated there, their family life, and their levels of involvement in political and social activities in their neighborhood. A subsample of 450 respondents were reinterviewed with a second questionnaire that probed more deeply into political and associational participation. Findings of this study were edited by the Lombardi Institute for Economic and Social Studies (Istituto Lombardo per gli Studi Economici e Sociali -- I.L.S.E.S.) in November 1964, and later appeared in Quaderni di Sociologia special issue, July-December 1967, XIV, pp. 3-4.
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Shell begins offshore drilling in the Alaskan Arctic
With the approval of the Obama Administration, Royal Dutch Shell began drilling into the ocean floor of the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska yesterday morning. The controversial operation, which has been vehemently opposed by environmental and Native groups, will likely only last a few weeks this year until the Arctic winter sets in. The U.S. government has said that Shell must complete operations by September 24th, however the oil giant has asked for an extension.
"We look forward to continued drilling progress throughout the next several weeks and to adding another chapter to Alaska's esteemed oil and gas history," Shell wrote in an online statement. " We're proud to be offshore Alaska, and we're extremely proud of the preparation we've put in place to do it right."
Extreme weather, floating ice, and remoteness are just a few of the challenges that faces any fossil fuel exploitation in the Arctic, and environmental groups say Shell hasn't proven itself ready to drill safely. The oil giant, which spent $4 billion on Arctic oil drilling, has suffered costly and embarrassing delays all year, including an oil spill containment barge which is still harbored in Washington State and undergoing retrofitting.
For its part, the environmental group, Greenpeace, has been conducting a protracted, multi-pronged campaign against Shell and other fossil fuel companies in the Arctic. To date, the group has gathered 1.7 million signatures to declare a global sanctuary in the Arctic, which would prohibit oil drilling and industrial fishing.
Shell has succeeded in obtaining a restraining order against Greenpeace, fearing that the group will try to interrupt its oil operations as it has attempted with other companies.
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Countdown to Spring Training: No. 7, Staying healthy
We've run into a logjam on our countdown to spring training. So MoreSplashHits needs to play a little catch-up on our list of things to consider as the Giants prepare for the 2011 season.
During the offseason, the pundits have commented that one of the keys to the Giants' success in 2010 was avoiding injuries.
And while the Giants didn't have a key injuries to their top stars, the 2010 season was not devoid of pain.
But the real key for the Giants was finding key players to step up when they did suffer injuries.
Consider these 2010 injuries to potential opening day starters: OF Aaron Rowand (broken jaw), 2B Freddy Sanchez (shoulder surgery kept him out to late May), SS Edgar Renteria (assorted injuries kept him on DL more than not), OF Mark DeRosa (season-ending wrist surgery in June), and OF Andres Torres (appendectomy in September).
But the Giants found quality replacements for these players: OF Andres Torres (for Rowand), 2B-SS Juan Uribe (for Sanchez and later for Renteria), C-1B Buster Posey (who played 1B, sending Aubrey Huff to LF for DeRosa), OF Pat Burrell (for DeRosa) and OF Cody Ross (for Torres).
And in the bullpen, when lefties Jeremy Affeldt and Dan Runzler got hurt, the Giants added Javier Lopez.
While you can never predict injuries, there are some injury issues to watch this spring.
Freddy Sanchez: Sanchez had a clean-up surgery on his shoulder in the offseason. The Giants have said the procedure would put Sanchez two weeks behind his teammates in preparation for the 2011 season. With setbacks, that could put opening day in jeopardy. But Sanchez has said he only expects to be limited for the first week of spring training, and should be in spring training games by early March.
Mark DeRosa: DeRosa was hitting off a tee by the postseason last fall after his June surgery to fix his previous procedure, which he called a complete failure. He should be ready to go this spring. But with two wrist surgeries in less than a year, fans will want to keep a close eye on DeRosa.


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Flipping for his core
This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's Dec. 9 One Day One Game issue. Subscribe today!
The Mag: What was your body like growing up?
Simon Dumont: I was always short, but I was pretty strong. And I had super-strong legs. I have a really strong dad, and my mom's super-athletic, so I got good genes. I found the gym relatively young, largely because I knew if I wanted to do this for a long time, I needed to utilize the gym.
In the past two years, my entire body composition has changed, largely because of injuries. I've had a lot of injures in the past, but I'd never had surgery until I tore my ACL. Normally, it was "deal with the pain" or cast it up or take two weeks off, so I had never focused that hard on getting super-strong in recovery. But when you have surgery and are laid up for six to nine months, you really have to focus on getting in the best shape of your life. I couldn't ski, so my job was to get as strong as I could and do that to 110 percent. Now I'm by far in the best shape of my life.
How did you get started skiing?
My mom got me into it when I was about 3 years old. She just threw me into a harness, and I started skiing. Before that, I was a gymnast. My mom thought I was going to go to the Olympics for gymnastics. I was winning tri-state and regionals, but it got a little overwhelming, so I turned to skiing. I did moguls for about a year, but coaches would get mad at me if I wanted to hit jumps or slide rails, so that wasn't for me. When I was 13, I went to Mammoth for my brother's snowboard nationals, and I was skiing in the park hitting some of the biggest jumps I'd ever seen. Some folks saw me, and I got invited to an X Games qualifier. I ended up qualifying, and I've been doing it ever since.
What body parts are most essential for skiing?
I would say legs, core and glutes. All of that is crucial. People ask if I lift upper body, but I hardly ever do. It's not crucial to skiing, except for falling. I don't fall on my legs. So if you're strong on top, hopefully when you fall it won't hurt quite as badly.
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Simon Dumont
Simon Dumont has been a competitive freeskier for more than 12 years. He first competed in the X Games at age 14, in 2002. Since then, he's won nine X Games medals in Big Air and SuperPipe.
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What do you do to train?
Monday is usually chest, back and legs, and I do half an hour to an hour of cardio. I like the bike because I get a lot of quad and hamstring strength without a lot of impact.
Tuesday will be similar: cardio, core and maybe shoulders.
Wednesday is a long cardio day, like an hour on the bike, or I'll go bike outside for 30-50 miles. I don't really ever do arms, but I'll do it with others if they want. Maybe I'll throw in some biceps or triceps.
Thursday is back, chest, legs and cardio.
Friday is another cardio day, plus core. And my core is usually an hour to an hour and a half, not just 20 minutes or so.
For core workouts, I do hanging straight-leg lifts, dragonflies (lie on a bench and lift the whole body), planks, weighted planks, rollouts with a barbell, and stuff with pulleys and the stability ball. I do a lot of stabilizing work, instead of just a bunch of crunches. I want to prevent rotation, especially with having a bad back. I want to stabilize my core.
I could go in the gym and be a meathead and just get huge, but I want to be as strong as I can while also as fast as I can. I want to be the best athlete I can be, so I don't want any one part stronger than the other. And this isn't just to be athletic and compete at a high level -- it's to be functional for the rest of my life.
What do you do for body maintenance?
We are lucky enough with the ski team to work with physical therapists, which is super-crucial coming back from injury. But you have to make sure you're with the right one -- sometimes they hurt me or don't really do a good job for me, so you have to find a good one with good communication.
Another big part of my maintenance is learning how to use all the mechanics in a proper way. For instance, if you're doing squats, making sure your knees are over your toes. Things like that to prevent injuries in the future.
One more thing: The road bike has been saving me since my knee injury. I'm not a runner -- I'm short and have had back injuries. But with the road bike, I can get strength in my quads and hamstrings, I can get cardio to keep my weight down and keep me light, and it's great to get my body warmed up. At my age, to get your body warmed up every day feels great. If I don't bike, I feel 35 years old, but if I get my body going, I feel young, I feel good.
What do you tell yourself when you feel you can't train anymore?
That's the soreness factor for me. If I don't do something, my legs and back get sore. Getting to the gym is usually the worst part, but I overpower that because I know I'm going to feel so much better after -- not just physiologically but also mentally. That's another big reason I did work out while I was injured; I couldn't do much else, but I could at least go to the gym to release some endorphins.
And then the Olympics. That's obviously the big goal, but you can't be thinking about that all the time. You need weekly goals so you can achieve something on a regular basis. You need smaller goals to be psyched and have that escalating excitement and motivation.
How has your training evolved over your career?
I'm more educated now. I understand the body better. When you have injuries, you learn how the body actually works. There's so much more to it than just going in and lifting. There's a lot more science. Now I have it down to the exact amount of breaks between exercises.
How important is your diet to your physique?
I eat in relation to what I'm going to do. I like to eat all day, just munch, with a big meal after the gym because it'll be a four- or five-hour session. But if I'm out biking, I eat more. If I'm going to travel, I'll eat less -- maybe some nuts or a salad -- because I'm not expending energy. I think of it as fuel, like for a car. If you're running at a high-performance level, you need high-performance fuel.
But at the same time, I have cheat days. I won't say I can't have something. If I want it, I'm going to eat it. But If I eat something carb-loaded or sugar-heavy, maybe I'll go for a walk or go do something to feel a little better. When I eat something my body isn't used to, I can feel the difference.
I eat very high in protein at all times because that's what makes you feel full. I eat double meat a lot. Greek yogurt in the morning is a big one for me because it's really high in protein and probiotics. If you get a vanilla, it's kind of sweet, so it feels like a dessert, and I'll add in peanut butter or granola or fruit and a little chocolate milk. Stir that up, and it feels like a dessert, but it's also full of protein and good stuff.
What is your must-have training food?
Chicken. I eat lots and lots of chicken. A lot of people are into supplements, but the only supplement I might do is whey protein after a workout. Most of the time I just go with chicken after a workout. Or sushi. That's high protein and lean, too. And I love steak, but I can tell that it's a little harder for my body to process than chicken or fish.
What do teammates, friends and family say about your muscles?
I feel like everybody looks for secrets. How'd you do that? What's your secret? … I work really hard. I go to the gym and work hard, and then I want to leave, but I stay another hour and work even harder. My whole day revolves around being healthy, being in shape, feeling good, and hopefully performing at the highest level. I know what I need to eat and when I need to eat it, and that's the biggest thing.
What are your favorite and least favorite things about your body?
My least favorite is how damn injury-prone it's been the past two years. My core is probably my favorite because it relieves the pain in my back. I have to avoid hyperextension, arching my back or sitting for too long. My hamstrings get tight, and I'll have pain in my back. That's that maintenance part again.
What about your body would surprise readers?
That I'm not that tall. I'm 5-6.
What do you want readers to know about your body?
If you are going to lift and you are serious, figure out why you want to do it, so you have inspiration when you don't want to go. Don't think about it as a diet or regimen -- it's a lifestyle. If this is how you want to live for the rest of your life, and you want to be healthy, and you want to be different, this is your lifestyle. I don't diet, I don't deprive myself, but this is my choice and how I prefer to live.
And make goals, but make them attainable. Sure, you have an end goal, but you need baby steps to get there -- maybe every week or every three weeks -- because you don't want to get discouraged.
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By Ben Golliver
Cleveland's franchise player will be back earlier than expected.
The Cavaliers announced Monday that point guard Kyrie Irving, sidelined since Nov. 19 with a broken hand, has been cleared for full-contact practice on Monday and is expected to play against the Lakers on Tuesday.
Irving was initially expected to be sidelined for four weeks and miss 15 games. Instead, he's back after three weeks and, if he plays against the Lakers, will have only missed 11 games. That's good news for the Cavaliers, as Cleveland has gone just 2-9 without him and currently sits in the Central Division basement with a record of 4-17. His absence was made worse by an ankle injury to rookie guard Dion Waiters, which has left Cavaliers coach Byron Scott with a three-man backcourt rotation of Jeremy Pargo, Daniel Gibson and Donald Sloan. Not exactly a winning combination.
One of the league's most promising young players, Irving currently ranks No. 8 in PER among point guards and is expected to challenge for an All-Star spot, should he stay healthy the rest of the way. He was sidelined the last three weeks with a hairline fracture in his left index finger, what he called a "freak injury" and a "minor setback." Irving, just 20, broke his hand last summer, missed an extended period of time with a concussion last season and suffered a toe injury that forced him to miss most of his one and only season at Duke.
Scott will surely welcome Irving back with open arms. On Sunday, Scott was fined $25,000 by the NBA for complaining about the officiating during a recent loss. Earlier this season, Scott said that his team, save Anderson Varejao, "sucked" during another loss.
Irving, 20, is averaging a team-high 22.9 points, 5.6 assists, 3.2 rebounds and 1.1 steals in 35.2 minutes per game this season.Steve Nash Steve Blake Nash could return from a leg injury sometime this week following surgery on his abdomen


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How Much Truck Can You Get for $30,000?
You might be shocked to learn just how far $30,000 can go in the world of pickup trucks. While it's easy to find a loaded mid-size truck for that amount, many buyers will be surprised to discover that a $30,000 budget will also include well-equipped versions of several full-size pickups. We've provided six examples of mid-size and large trucks that give buyers brawny engines, impressive features and excellent capability for under $30,000.
Chevrolet Silverado LS 4WD Extended Cab
Thanks to several strong incentives, the Silverado can be had with an extended cab, four-wheel drive and a long list of standard features for just a hair over $30,000. The base price of a four-wheel drive Silverado LS with an extended cab is around $34,000 including shipping-but the automaker's current offer of $3,500 cash back on the truck means it will cost just over $30,000 after rebates. So truck shoppers on a budget can get the benefits of four-wheel drive and Chevrolet's roomy extended cab without settling for the stripped down Work base model. Instead, they can opt for the Silverado LS, which offers remote keyless entry, power windows and locks, satellite radio, a chrome front bumper and GM's useful OnStar telematics system.
Ford F-150 STX 2WD SuperCab
For truck shoppers with a budget in the $30,000 range, the F-150 STX is easily the best value in the F-Series lineup. Although its base price of $30,435 including destination slightly exceeds our price cap, Ford's current incentives-including up to $2,500 cash back-help keep it affordable. Compared with the stripped down F-150 XL, we prefer the STX because of its longer list of standard features: it adds cruise control, remote keyless entry, an iPod hookup, power mirrors, power windows and power locks for less than $2,000 compared with the truck's base trim level. It also includes the automaker's roomy SuperCab configuration and a 302-horsepower V6 that's rated for towing more than 6,000 pounds. And while the pricier XLT adds foglamps and automatic headlights, we find it hard to justify the truck's $840 price jump-especially since we're already stretching our budget.
Ram 1500 Express 2WD Crew Cab
While its base price of around $31,500 including destination may seem daunting, a Ram 1500 Express Crew Cab is easily available for under $30,000 after factory incentives that provide up to $3,200 cash back. That's great news for buyers interested in a full-size crew cab pickup. The Ram 1500 Express is one of the best deals on the market and the top value in the truck's lineup. That's because crew cab versions of the pickup offer a long list of standard features not found in competitors, including an iPod connection, heated power mirrors, automatic headlights, an AM/FM/CD player and power door locks. The Express package makes the truck even more appealing, adding the Ram's signature 5.7-liter Hemi V8, dual exhausts, foglamps and 20-inch alloy wheels.
Nissan Frontier PRO-4X 4WD Crew Cab
With a base price of around $31,500 and manufacturer incentives of $2,000 back on all 2012 models, truck shoppers interested in a well-equipped mid-size pickup can get an upscale Nissan Frontier PRO-4X well within a $30,000 budget. And while the mid-level Frontier SV, which starts at $29,135 with four-wheel drive and a crew cab, is certainly less of a financial stretch than the PRO-4X, we think the off-road-oriented model earns its higher price. In addition to including four-wheeling goodies like skidplates, off-road suspension and hill ascent and descent control, the PRO-4X also offers upscale features like Bluetooth, steering wheel audio controls, foglamps and a Rockford Fosgate stereo with an iPod hookup. The PRO-4X also includes four full doors and four-wheel drive that is teamed to Nissan's 261-horsepower 4.0-liter V6, making the truck highly capable whether cruising on the pavement or tackling a muddy trail.
Toyota Tacoma PreRunner 2WD Double Cab V6
Many truck shoppers consider the Tacoma the best choice for buyers interested in a pickup with legendary reliability and durability. We agree-and we think the PreRunner Double Cab is the best value in the truck's reasonably priced lineup. With a base price of $25,390 including destination, the PreRunner Double Cab easily fits into our budget, leaving buyers ample room for options. We'd add the popular $1,705 SR5 package, which is headlined by a rear-view camera and steering wheel audio controls. We'd be very tempted to also include the $1,930 navigation system, which comes with a JBL stereo and Toyota's new Entune information and entertainment system. Even with those luxurious options, we'd still remain under our price cap, and we'd have no regrets about buying one of the best mid-size trucks available today.
Toyota Tundra 2WD Double Cab Long Bed 5.7L
Truck shoppers interested in a durable, brawny full-size truck with an eight-foot bed would be wise to check out the muscular Toyota Tundra. Starting from just $30,695 with destination, the long-bed Tundra Double Cab easily falls into our price range after incentives from the automaker, even with its mighty 381-horsepower 5.7-liter V8. Buyers will also enjoy the truck's long list of standard features, which includes dual-zone climate control, cruise control, remote keyless entry, curtain side airbags and 18-inch wheels. A crew-cab CrewMax model can be had for just $1,200 more, but it's hard to ignore the great deal provided by the roomy extended-cab model with the Tundra's largest engine.
What it means to you: If you shop around for great deals and incentives, you may be able to find even better prices than these on some of the latest pickup trucks.


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Billabong reveals debt woes, posts huge loss
Published: February 22 2013 - 9:58AM
Troubled surfwear retailer Billabong has downgraded its expectations for underlying earnings in the full year after posting a $537 million dollar first-half loss and reported that it breached its debt covenants following huge writedowns.
The company also says it's continuing discussions with two parties that have made takeover offers for the company, and due diligence is scheduled to conclude at the end of March.
Billabong's net loss in the six months to December 31 compares to a $16 million dollar profit in the previous corresponding period. The result included $567 million in impairments to the company's brands and value, most of which was not in cash terms, Billabong said.
The company's shares were down as much as 7.1 per cent, but recovered to be 4.4 per cent lower to 87 cents shortly before 11am today. No interim dividend will be paid.
Billabong CEO Laura Inman backed away from one of the key targets of her transformation strategy for the leisurewear group - a promised $239 million in earnings before interest tax depreciation and amortisation by the 2016 financial year.
''I'm not going to comment on that,'' Ms Inman told analysts on a conference call when asked if the target was still achievable.
She added that the main focus at this stage is stabilising the business and getting the right people in place.
Debt woes
The surf and streetwear retailer revealed that it was in breach of its debt covenants thanks to $567 million worth of writedowns for the half year ending December 31, efffectively leaving it at the mercy of its banks. The situation has since been remedied but at a price.
Billabong said it has agreed to move ''as soon as practicable'' to a secured banking arrangement with its financiers ''whereby the company will grant security over the majority of its assets''.
The breach forced Billabong to classify $270 million of borrowings as current liabilities on its balance sheet.
Sales revenue fell in the period as conditions remained difficult, particularly in Europe, it said in a statement on Friday.
The company now expects its underlying earnings in the year to June 30 to be between $74 million and $85 million, down from its previous guidance of $85 million to $92 million.
Chief executive Launa Inman also said the benefits of the company's reduction in stores and suppliers would not be seen in the 2012/13 financial year.
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Hultzen hurls four scoreless frames in AFL
Texas League MVP Adams homers, drives in five runs for Peoria
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"I'm not the guy that's gonna dodge autographs. I love giving autographs, I'll do that all day," said Hultzen, the Mariners' top pick in 2011. Indeed, the lefty was in the middle of signing for fans Monday when he opened up about his stellar outing. "It's been a lot of fun, I enjoy doing that stuff, I like giving back."
On the mound, he was just as enjoyable, throwing four scoreless innings in his fifth professional start as the Peoria Javelinas blanked the Salt River Rafters, 8-0, in the Arizona Fall League.
Hultzen struck out five and held the Rafters to a pair of hits without a walk for his first win. He threw 49 pitches -- 33 for strikes -- in lowering his ERA to 1.62.
"I felt good. [It was] another battle, getting ahead of hitters," he said. "Sometimes the first couple guys, you fall behind, but you get out there and try to get outs. The biggest thing with me is getting ahead of hitters, you can do a lot more that way, so that's the big thing for me. And as the seasons gone on, I've felt better and better."
The left-hander out of Virginia worked a 1-2-3 first inning, striking out the first two batters he faced, then worked around a two-out single by Brian Cavazos-Galvez in the second.
"A lot of the times I'll come out and struggle with the first couple hitters, fall behind, give up a walk or a hit, so that's definitely a confidence booster," he said of the first frame. "To have a strong first inning, that does a lot to your confidence."
He worked a perfect third and struck out two more in the fourth after Adam Eaton started the frame with a leadoff single.
The Mariners prospect hit 94 mph with his four-seamer on the ballpark radar gun and sat in the 92-93 range for most of the outing. He took a seat after closing in on the 50-pitch mark.
"I'd love to stay in there, but the Fall League is about winning and getting work in and getting everyone in there," he said. "I'd like to stay in there, but I understand why we come out pretty early."
Hultzen went 3 2/3 innings in his previous start Oct. 26, allowing two hits and one run with a walk and five strikeouts. He was perfect through 3 1/3 before allowing a solo homer to Brodie Greene, then issuing his lone walk and a double before getting the hook after throwing 58 pitches.
His next start will come Saturday in the AFL's All-Star event, the Rising Stars Game.
"I'm really excited for that. It's a great event, and I feel honored to start that game," Hultzen said. "It's crazy to think about. It's an honor to be in this league and be named a Rising Star, and even more to be named the starting pitcher. It's kind of been a whirlwind the last few days. I'm looking forward to it, though, it's going to be fun."
As far for the AFL experience itself, Hultzen has soaked it all in in his first post-college taste of baseball.
"It's been a lot of fun. These fans are great, they come out, they're very supportive of us, and I really appreciate that as a player," he said.
Reigning Texas League MVP Matt Adams (Cardinals) homered and drove in five runs and Padres third baseman Jedd Gyorko added three hits -- including a homer, three RBIs and three runs for Peoria.
Adams doubled in a run in the third, smacked a three-run homer in the fifth and added a sacrifice fly in the sixth. He's only batting .225 in 17 AFL games, but he's amassed multiple-hit outings in half of his last six.
Astros left-hander Dallas Keuchel (1-2) suffered the loss after being tagged with five runs on 10 hits in 4 1/3 innings.
Danny Wild is an editor for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I like to keep records of things in my PM box, like people who I beta for, it is always nice to be able to look quickly and see who wished you happy birthday, or who asked you do do what and when. So I was wondering, if we could have bigger PM inboxs, that allow us to store more messages.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 75.7 points, or 0.6%, to 12,760, the S&P 500 climbed 10.9 points, or 0.81%, to 1,357 and the Nasdaq Composite was higher by 28.6 points, or 1%, to 2,872. The FOX 50 was higher by 6.5 points to 950.
Microsoft's (MSFT) acquisition of the Internet telephony company is the largest in the technology-behemoth's 36-year history.
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"We are doing this because we are confident about demand for our vehicles and the economy," GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson said in a release.
On the economic front, import prices jumped 2.2% in April, far higher than the 1.8% economists forecast. The increase was led by a 7.2% increase in petroleum import prices and a 5% increase in the price of imported industrial supplies
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Gas prices on the consumer level have begun moderating somewhat, but remain close to the record high of $4.11 a gallon set in 2008. A gallon of regular gas cost $3.95 on average nationwide, up from $3.76 last month and $2.81 last year.
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On the foreign exchange market, the euro gained 0.37% against the U.S. dollar and the greenback fell 0.15% against a basket of world currencies.
Traders have been keeping a close eye on Greece's debt crisis after Standard and Poor's slashed the country's debt deeper into junk status on Monday. Rumors also swirled Tuesday about potential talks to restructure the country's sovereign debt -- a move that analysts say would have significant international ramifications.
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Wendy's/Arby's (WEN) cut its 2011 profit expectations due to rising commodities costs. The fast food chain also reported a first-quarter loss of $1.4 million from $3.5 million the prior year.
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The photos show long-haired girls with flowers in their hair. Some are posing seductively in bikinis, bellbottoms or with bare midriffs. Others are dancing, drinking, smoking or listening to music.
The young women have one thing in common: they had their pictures taken in the 1970s by a photographer who dealt death.
The photos were recovered by Huntington Beach homicide detectives in July of 1979 from a storage locker in Seattle rented by Rodney James Alcala, a freelance cameraman who turned out to be a serial killer.
He was sentenced to death last month after he was convicted of five counts of first-degree murder for the sexual torture and strangulation murders of four women in Los Angeles County, and the kidnap and murder of a 12-year-old girl from Huntington Beach, during a 20-month killing spree in the late 1970s.
Huntington Beach Police released the photos to The Orange County Register one month ago after a jury voted to give Alcala the death penalty.
Detectives wanted to know: are the mostly smiling models in Alcala's photo gallery still alive? Or did they become murder victims?
They have been able to identify 21 young women in the photo catalogue after they were inundated with phone calls, e-mails and other contacts, but none matched up to a missing persons case or an unsolved homicide from the 1970s.
Some of the females who posed for Alcala phoned in and identified themselves, said Huntington Beach Police Capt. Chuck Thomas. A few even remembered the time they posed for a glib-talking photographer.
But detectives are still seeking the identity of more than 100 other females – and at least two young men – who posed for Alcala during the years he was roaming the streets torturing, sexually assaulting and murdering young women.
Huntington Beach Homicide Det. Patrick Ellis received more than 500 phone calls and nearly that many e-mails after the photos became public.
Many of the phone calls were from relatives of females who were murdered more than three decades ago, or who have been missing since the 1970s. (Click here for a timeline showing where Alcala lived and visited during the time period.)
The callers were seeking answers, or closure, or both, Thomas said, and many of the calls were heartbreaking. He said one call came from a parent who was adamant that one of the photos in Alcala's catalogue was that of their murdered daughter, only to learn that Alcala was in custody in Orange County when the young woman was killed.
"These relatives are desperate for answers," Thomas said.
Other calls rushed in from cold-case homicide detectives around the world, seeking information about Alcala's murderous method of operation to see if he could be responsible for cold-case murders in those jurisdictions. One of those calls came from Denmark after a detective there identified the background in one of Alcala's photos.
Police officials from Seattle, New York, Phoenix, Albuquerque and New Hampshire re-opened cold-case murder investigations because of the renewed interest in Alcala caused by the publication of the photos.
Detectives in some of those jurisdictions have ruled out Alcala as a suspect in some unsolved homicides after they studied a timeline developed by HBPD and learned that their killings occurred during times when Alcala was in custody in other cases.
Will Delker, senior assistant attorney general in New Hampshire, said cold-case detectives in his office have reviewed the photos and are looking at unsolved murder cases there between 1968 and 1971 – when Alcala may have been living in New Hampshire as a fugitive from a rape and attempted murder case out of Los Angeles County.
The photos were taken before July 24, 1979, when Alcala was arrested and charged with abducting and murdering 12-year-old Robin Samsoe, a ballet student kidnapped as she rode a friend's bicycle in Huntington Beach.
Alcala was tried twice, convicted twice and sentenced to death twice – in 1980 and 1986 – for murdering Samsoe, whose decomposing remains were found in the hills above Los Angeles 12 days after she went missing. But both convictions were reversed on appeal.
Before he could be tried a third time, Alcala was linked by DNA evidence to the torture slayings of four women in Los Angeles County during a 20-month spree in between late 1977 and mid 1979.
Those cases were merged with the Samsoe case into one prosecution in Orange County.
Prosecution evidence presented during Alcala's eight-week trial revealed that he was a freelance photographer in the 1970s who approached some of his victims with a camera and a smile, telling the girls how pretty they were and asking them to pose for his lens.
Deputy District Attorney Matt Murphy suggested to the jury that Alcala positioned the bodies of his victims into horrific postures, and may have shot pictures of them afterward.
Huntington Beach detectives, while investigating the Samsoe murder, recovered hundreds of photos of young women – taken by Alcala before his 1979 arrest – during court-authorized searches of Alcala's Monterey Park home and a rented storage locker.
Alcala is also a suspect in two New York state murders, including the July 15, 1977, slaying of restaurant heiress Ellen Jane Hover, 23, who disappeared after leaving her Manhattan apartment. A year later, her bones were found in a shallow grave in a rugged section of the Rockefeller estate in Westchester County, authorities said.
Alcala has long been a suspect in the death of Hover because he was the last person to see her alive. Alcala was interviewed about Hover's disappearance and admitted seeing her on the day she disappeared, but he denied knowing what had happened to her.
Her body was found within 100 feet of a spot where Alcala once brought another young woman for a photo session.
He is also a suspect in the June 12, 1971, rape and strangulation of Cornelia Crilley, a 23-year-old TWA flight attendant whose body was found in her Manhattan apartment on 83rd Street. Authorities say Alcala's DNA matches genetic material found at the crime scene.
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First Baptist Church of Russellville Women's Ministry Team Members are making final preparations for their first Women's Conference with guest speaker Lisa Harper. The conference will begin from 7-9 p.m. today and 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Saturday. Harper is a national speaker with Women of Faith, Women of Joy and was formerly on staff with Focus on the Family. Her topic will be "Busyness Is So Not A Spiritual Gift." Also featured is Laura Cooksey as worship leader. Tickets are available at the door for $40 each or $20 per student. For more information, call the church office at 968-1316 or online at www.fbcruss.org."
Revival Sunday through Wednesday
Flatrock Worship Center will host a revival at 9:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m. Monday through Wednesday. The evangelists will be the Rev. Dean and Peggy Caldwell. Everyone is invited. For more information or if a ride is needed, call Pastor Ronnie Birge at 264-5587.
Teacher training Sunday
River Park Church of Christ will conduct a teacher training for the children's ministry at 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Participants unavailable Sunday may contact Brian.
Precept Bible Study
Precept Bible Study began Thursday with a study of I Peter. The class meets from 9:15-11:30 a.m. and 7-9 p.m. on Thursdays in Room W-208 at First Baptist Church (FBC), Second Street and El Paso Avenue in Russellville. Participants may choose which time to attend.
A nursery will be provided for preschool children on Thursday mornings only by contacting FBC at 968-1316 to arrange ahead of time if participants are bringing children.
Books may be picked up in the lobby at FBC for $20, which is not to be paid until class time. For more information, call Wanda Carter at 968-4654 or Sue Pate at 968-4842.
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Buick LeSabre Steering/Suspension
Bushings on the A-arm?
Have the tires and wheels been checked with a RoadForce balancer? That will show up belt problems and quality problems in the tire and wheel.
Tire rod ends, inner AND outer?
Mounts (4? or 6?) holding the engine cradle to the front of the unibody? On several Bonnevilles I've read about problems with rust around the rubber bushings--I don't recall just how it occurred. Search for engine cradle or stub frame bushing?
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bigbluebuick Posts: 6Thanks for the quick reply,
The tires & wheels were checked with a computerized diagnostic system. I'm not sure it it was "RoadForce." The Service center is billed as state of the art for what its worth. Its a real AAA car care center - not just a private garage endorsed by AAA, so I believe its on teh level w/ top quality gear.
2 transmission mounts were replaced (not motor mounts) The diagnostic report i received from the techs did not mention a problem with rust around the bushings, however It is worth investigating.
The tire rods & bushings are all new as well.
I have two issues; don't know if they're related.
2003 Buick LeSabre Custom
93000 miles
1. I have a grinding or moaning sound in the front end, when driving about 30-50 mph. Even a slight turn to the right, stops the sound. Outside this speed range, the noise is greatly reduced or gone. Two people suggested it is likely a CV joint/axel. I was thinking it might be a wheel hub.
2. I get lots of vibration when braking. Pads and rotors were changed out a little over a year ago, and rotors don't look worn down.
What do you think? Thanks in advance for your help.
>Pads and rotors were changed out a little over a year ago, and rotors don't look worn down.
The moaning could be wheel bearing. If you turn left on a curve, the sound should get stronger, rougher, louder. Then you turn right on a curve, and the load is taken off that right wheel, and the noise is almost gone. My second bearing, a replacement, gave those same symptoms a few weeks back. No play in bearing for wobble nor any in and out play.
GM's spec on in-out play is .05 inch. That's not the wobble that most people like to test, it's straight in and out.
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Sorry; front rotors were changed a little over a year ago. None of the four look worn down.
I jacked up the front, and had very little wobble on both sides, but no discernible in-out play.
Here are some pictures I took, showing how greasy the left (driver) side is. The right side is free of grease and oil. Maybe this is an indication of something.
Well, I guess the pictures didn't load, even though they showed up in the preview. Anyway, the left side is quite greasy throughout the whole axle area, both on the axle, and on surrounding components.
I'll try the pictures again.
Pictures have to be hosted on another website, such as photobucket.com. Then you link to it there with the address given by photobucket.com with your picture.
You paste that address into the post here, select the whole thing, and click on the IMG button in the row of buttons down below the post composing box.
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Here are links to the pictures:
Yep, that's what I did the first two times. The pics showed up in the preview, but not in the final posts. Ended up just posting the links.
It's hard to place where that is and what's above it for me. My thoughts are that the material looks gooey, not just oil leaking from the seal there? If it were, it would be fresher and liquid in appearance.
The coolant can leak from the bypass pipes for the heater on the side with the water pump. That coolant mixed with oil seeping down from the valve covers which can develope seeps may be mixing to give that gooey look.
You also can have oil coming from the oil pressure sensor above the oil filter. Some have trouble with that giving a 130 lb. reading as it fails and some get a seep through the plastic part of the unit.
You need to wipe everything clean and start over watching where the material comes from. Usually it's gravity bringing it from higher up.
I've read that there's a leak detection powder to spray on the area and then the new oil tracking down shows up really well. And there's an ultraviolet additive for the oil and with a cheap LED ultraviolet light, you can see where the new oil is coming from.
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Getting ready to replace the rear shocks on my '04 Lesabre, and after doing some reading ordered the Monroe MA822 Max-Air shocks. The job looks relatively simple (even for a DIY such as yours truly), but I've read some conflicting info regarding whether my Lesabre has a threaded or clamp-on air hose connector for the air leveling system, and thus whether I need an adapter kit on hand before I start the job. My initial interpretation is that I *won't* need any adapter, but I'm just not sure. Can someone advise?
Figured I'd ask here before I get started and find out I'm short an essential part
Thanks in advance.
Just wiggle to loosen the old clampon plastic is what I had to do.
Also, do not let the left wheel drop completely. The rod for the height adjuster is on the suspension part; letting the arm fall free when taking the shock off overextends the sensor that it connects to.
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Thank you, sir! That's great info and you essentially predicted my next question - whether I needed to support the wheel independently.
Thanks again!!
If I recall, I took off the tire and then supported the arm with a large block of wood. I lowered the car jack to take some tension off the top and bottom of the shock.
I recall something about the nuts used on the old shocks. They corroded to the bolt of something. I had to replace one of them with a corrosion plated
bolt from the local hardware store.
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Perfect notion on the wood block support. Job is getting simpler as I read this
Re the bolts...as I was researching this project, definitely saw some cautionary info on the risk for breaking some of the bolts, and that it was a good idea to have a handful of M8x1.25 bolts on hand just in case.


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Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated October 12, 1881.
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Letter from GEORGE PERKINS MARSH to SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD, dated October 12, 1881.
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[Only signature is in Marsh's hand] Rome, Oct. 12th 1881.
Prof. Spencer F. Baird, c c
Dear Baird
The excessive heat and drought of last summer drove every body, the government included, away from Rome &, though the sanitary condition of the city has improved in proportion as the "Popality" has lost in power, public distrust still continues, and Rome is almost deserted. For the first time in twenty years I have spent my vacation, not in the Alps, but in the Champagne country of Tuscany, and I have passed my time in giving a final revision to my works, even including Man & Nature, of the defects of which I am, I will not say as sensible as you can be, but still sufficiently so to be willing to devote a few hours of my remaining strength to making it, not good indeed, but less bad than it now is. I have this to say in its defence, that, though it has taught little, it has accomplished its end, which was to draw the attention of better prepared observers to several of the questions discussed in it.
I now wish to make available, if possible, some of my -------------------------------- Page -------------------------------- early observations on facts of interest. The Vermont rivers, White River & Water Queechee, are nearly parallel in their general courses which are about ten miles distant from each other. I had in my boyhood a good fishhook acquaintance with the piscatory population of both, the species being most numerous in White River, whose bed lies some hundreds of feet lower than that of the Water Queechee, & is consequently less liable to severe frosts. The Connecticut River salmon in primitive times entered the mouths of both rivers, but their ascent was checked at Hartford on the Water Queechee by a natural dam of from 70 to 80 feet of nearly perpendicular height. But a single salmon was ever taken above this dam--one, however, weighing six pounds, was caught above this fall about the close of the last century. Although it happened before my birth, this rare and important event, was a frequent subject of conversation afterwards among the elder brethren of the angle of whom I, like other truant boys, was a reverent follower. Before this "fish story" was verklungen, as the Germans say, another marvel was announced which threw Jonas's Whale into the shade. One of the genus boys, about 1810, was seen marching into town, dragging by a fish-line an eel weighing six or seven pounds which he had caught in the Water Queechee at a point where it flowed through my father's grounds, and of course I, as one of the heirs of the lord of the manor, -------------------------------- Page -------------------------------- am responsible for the truth of the story-and besides, I knew the boy well myself, so one historical fact may be considered as fairly established. So much for Queechee River. In the comet-year of 1814, I was sent to school at Royalton, on White River, and I proceeded at once to investigate the truth of the boys' report that Royalton was in a different icthyological province from that of Woodstock. The very first day I caught several specimens of a fish unknown in the Water Queechee which the boys called dais, and I also secured several fresh-water clams, a bivalve equally unknown to my native waters. I was taken to a millpond in which, as I was credibly assured by a boy, eels were taken. This last surprising fact was accounted for, by the ancient fisherman of the region, from the circumstance that the banks of the White River were more generally cleared of woods than were those of the Water Queechee, it being a law of nature as those hoary sages affirmed, that eels were never found in forest-streams, but only in waters whose shores were cleared & brought under cultivation. How far are these observations in accordance with those of others, and do they suggest any food for thought to your gaping soul?
'Seeing' as Tom Fuller says, 'I have this much waste paper,' I will cover it with another report. About the same period to which I have referred above, the small millpond in -------------------------------- Page -------------------------------- the village of Woodstock was drawn off to repair a leaky dam, and in the mud at the bottom of the pond were found great numbers of swallows clinging with their bills to the branches of the willows which fringed the pond This I did not see myself, but I heard it testified to a by a great number of the people of the village. You are therefore at liberty to believe or disbelieve, though as to the rest of this letter it is a matter of faith which you are to swallow unquestioningly whether you believe or not.
Love to Mary and Lucy.
As ever, your old friendGeo P Marsh


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Piedmont (Italian: Piemonte, Piedmontese and Occitan: Piemont), a territorial division of northern Italy at the foot of the Alps consisting of the provinces of Alessandria, Cuneo, Novara and Turin. Later Aosta and Vercelli were added and still later, Asti. History is related back to 49 B.C. The house of Savoy rose in 1000 A.D. In those ancient times only persons of rank, the podesta, clergy, city officials, army officers, artists, landowners were entered into the records. To be recorded at this time, at the beginning of recorded history, was of itself a great distinction and indicative of noble ancestry. The family were the ancient Lords of Perlo in Piedmont.
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Stalwart Downs lost to DL, and Takahashi returns
By Alden Gonzalez / MLB.com
"Last couple days I've been trying to throw and get through it, but it didn't loosen up," said Downs, placed on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday and eligible to be activated no sooner than Aug. 13. "I couldn't get it extended, and it's kind of one of those deals where you kind of have to suck it up and do what's best for yourself, do what's best for your team and get a fresh arm up here."
That fresh arm is lefty Hisanori Takahashi, who was recalled from Triple-A Salt Lake three days after being sent down.
Downs, who hasn't had shoulder issues since labrum surgery as a college freshman in 1995, isn't sure how long he'll be out or what the initial rehab plans will consist of.
"I'm hoping it's a two-week deal, but we'll see," Downs said. "We'll do what we can, as usual, to get back as fast as we can."
"I think we're comfortable with the fact that it's not going to be anything that's going to push him back too far, but it's probably something that's going to need a couple of weeks to settle down," Angels manager Mike Scioscia added. "We're going to take it one step at a time. Right now it's a very minor issue and we want to keep it that way."
Downs has been one of the most consistent Angels relievers all year -- and last year, too -- but has struggled a bit recently. He gave up just one run in 30 innings in the first half, but has surrendered nine of them, on nine hits and six walks, in five innings since the All-Star break.
The 36-year-old lefty, who has dodged two prior trips to the DL this season, doesn't believe his current injury had anything to do with his recent struggles.
"There's no excuses for what happened the last couple of weeks," he said. "It's baseball."
Without Downs, their crucial lefty complement to righty Ernesto Frieri in the late innings, the Angels suddenly need guys such as right-handers Kevin Jepsen, LaTroy Hawkins and Jason Isringhausen to play bigger roles, especially since no reliever was added before the non-waiver Trade Deadline.
Frieri (.494 OPS) and Hawkins (.453) have been good against opposing lefty hitters; Isringhausen (.714) and Jepsen (.708) have not. Takahashi, with a 4.37 ERA in 35 innings, is expected to remain in more of a long-relief role.
"We'll lose matching up later in the games, turning a guy around, neutralizing power," Scioscia said. "There's a lot of things that Scott brought from a left-handed perspective that we might not be able to do. But there's no doubt the arms we have are good and hopefully are going to hold leads as good as we've been."
Ailing Haren to be replaced by Richards on Wednesday
ARLINGTON -- Dan Haren, nursing stiffness in his right side, won't make his scheduled Wednesday start against the Rangers, after all. Instead, he'll be pushed back to Sunday, for the series finale against the White Sox, with Garrett Richards starting on Wednesday instead.
Haren didn't throw a bullpen session on Tuesday, but long-tossed and threw pain free for the first time since suffering the injury. The 31-year-old right-hander says the current issue is unrelated to the stiff lower back that landed him on the disabled list in early July and may simply be a product of bad mechanics.
"This wasn't as frustrating as it was before, just because of what the doctors have told me," Haren said. "Right when I did it, they said it was normal for something like this to pop up. Getting that little bit of extra extension, I'm going to pull on things that I haven't been working on for the last couple of months. I got into bad habits mechanically, like I told you guys after my first start, my second start, I told you I was mechanically out of whack. That could've kind of played a part in it. I think I'm kind of lucky that I dodged anything bigger. Avoiding the DL is always a good thing."
Haren is 8-8 with a 4.59 ERA in 19 starts this year, but has given up only three runs in 12 innings since coming off his first ever DL stint. Shortly after giving up one run in six-plus innings in a win over the Rays on Friday, Haren thought the pain in his right side would land him back on the shelf.
But "every day, we've done a little bit more than we thought we were going to do, so that's a good thing," Haren said.
Richards will match up against Yu Darvish on Wednesday, with C.J. Wilson facing newcomer Ryan Dempster in Thursday's series finale against the Rangers. Then, against the White Sox, it'll be Zack Greinke on Friday, Ervin Santana on Saturday and Haren on Sunday, which could then buy the other starters an extra day of rest.
Richards, with a 3.91 ERA in 48 1/3 innings this year, will be on seven days' rest and will be making his first start at Rangers Ballpark.
"I'm going to go out and I'm going to pitch my game," said Richards, who has a 1.59 ERA in 5 2/3 career innings against Texas. "I'm going to attack guys; I'm going to pitch in and get ahead early."
Deadline passes, Bourjos still an Angel
ARLINGTON -- Shortly after acquiring Zack Greinke from the Brewers for three prospects on Friday, Angels general manager Jerry Dipoto found Peter Bourjos near the batting cage, patted him on the back and said, "See, I told you I wasn't going to trade you."
The conversation didn't last much longer than that. It was Bourjos' turn to hit.
"I just said, 'I'm happy here,' " Bourjos recalled, "'and hopefully this is going to be where I play my whole career.'"
For now, he'll settle for the next two months.
Bourjos has been floated around in rumors for most of his short Major League career. But this year, because Mike Trout had assumed the everyday role in center field and Bourjos has been confined to the bench, it was perhaps more prominent than ever. And with the Angels pursuing a starting pitcher, and sporting a pretty barren farm system, the belief was that Dipoto would have to include Bourjos in a deal to acquire a frontline guy.
But the Angels were able to get Greinke by giving up shortstop Jean Segura and two Double-A starters, John Hellweg and Ariel Pena. At that point, Bourjos figured he was safe.
But at 3 p.m. CT here on Tuesday, when MLB Network monitors showed the Trade Deadline countdown at "0," several of Bourjos' teammates gave him a mock standing ovation anyway.
"I'll probably still sleep the same," Bourjos said. "I think just during the day, my phone won't be blowing up like it usually is, with my buddies texting me, 'What's going on?' "
Despite historic night, Morales not in lineup
ARLINGTON -- One day after becoming the third player in baseball history to homer from both sides of the plate in the same inning, Kendrys Morales' bat was autographed and sent to the Hall of Fame.
And it wasn't in the Angels' starting lineup.
Despite Morales' magical sixth inning in Monday's 15-8 drubbing, Angels manager Mike Scioscia stuck with what he's done for most of the season, sitting Morales against a left-handed starter to get the right-handed bats of Vernon Wells or Peter Bourjos in the lineup.
Morales wants to get a chance to play every day and find rhythm, but isn't getting it.
"I'm not surprised; they've been doing it all year," a solemn Morales said in Spanish. "I'm not sure what's happening, but there's nothing you can do."
It's not like Morales is on a tear, per se. Before hitting a two-run homer off righty Roy Oswalt and a grand slam off lefty Robbie Ross in the sixth, he had just three hits in his last 28 at-bats, with 14 strikeouts.
Scioscia believes Morales has been swinging the bat a lot better from the right side, but he also believes that continuing to give Morales a day off against a lefty will benefit him in the long run, and overrides any potential momentum.
"There are going to be times obviously when Kendrys will hit against left-handed pitching," said Scioscia, who went with Wells in left field and Mark Trumbo at designated hitter against lefty Derek Holland. "But I think right now, we're certainly going to keep him fresh. It's almost like a natural break you can get at times against some lefties."
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Gonzo and "The Show", and follow him on Twitter @Alden_Gonzalez. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended the screening to help raise donations for William's animal conservation charity, Tusk Trust. Looking absolutely stunning in a peplum Matthew Williamson dress, Middleton and her husband endured the rain as they walked towards the BFI Southbank. Prince William was a perfect gentleman and held an umbrella for Middleton while strolling down the red carpet.
The Disney Nature film, directed by Guy Ritchie, features a pride of lions and a family of cheetahs in Kenya. This movie highlights the animal welfare crisis and how these cats must fight for their survival each and every day.
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When the Green Bay Packers signed Julius Peppers to a three-year, $26 million contract that included a $7.5 million signing bonus, they allowed themselves to get out of the contract after just one season should Peppers prove to be over the hill at 34 years of age.
If the Packers release Peppers in 2015, it won't come cheap. He would cost $5 million in dead money against the salary cap next season, but that's the price of adding a potential difference maker to a unit that's underachieved ever since winning the Super Bowl following the 2010 season.
In the event that the Packers want to find the next "Elephant" end in this year's NFL Draft and a potential successor to Peppers, they might look in the direction of Missouri's Kony Ealy.
At 6' 4" and 273 lbs., some people think Ealy is a 4-3 defensive end, some think he's a 3-4 end, and some think he could even be a 3-4 outside linebacker. Ealy calls himself, "a hybrid."
"I'm an athlete," said Ealy at the NFL Combine. "I've been able to move around. Fortunately Coach Stec (Dave Steckel) at Missouri, the defensive coordinator, put me in good positions to do so, and I think I did a good job of showing my athleticism."
To say Ealy is an athletic is an understatement. At the NFL Combine, he did the three-cone drill in 6.83 seconds, the best among all defensive linemen, one of only two under seven seconds and .14 of a second better than the next-closest player.
If there's a player Ealy compares to at the NFL level, it's probably another former Missouri product, Aldon Smith of the San Francisco 49ers. Smith was a player thought to be an ideal fit as an end in a 4-3 defense but has succeeded as a linebacker in the 49ers' 3-4 defensive system, utilized primarily as an edge pass rusher.
"I compare myself to Aldon," said Ealy. "He's a freak athlete. He gets off the ball. He probably had a little more sacks than me in college in my career. And J.J. Watt when it comes to pass deflections."
During his junior season in 2013, Ealy had 42 tackles, 14 for a loss, eight sacks, three forced fumbles and six passes broken up in helping to lead Missouri to the SEC East title and being named first-team All-Conference. In three total college seasons, Ealy accumulated 27 total tackles for a loss and 12.5 sacks.
Considering he faced left tackles the likes of Jake Matthews of Texas A&M, Greg Robinson of Auburn and Antonio Richardson week in and week out in the SEC, Ealy's statistics come as all the more impressive.
Not everyone thinks Ealy can be an outside linebacker in a 3-4 system, however.
"As far as Ealy is concerned, ended up liking him more than I expected to, and I think he's a 4-3 defensive end," said Mike Mayock of the NFL Network. "I don't really think he's an outside linebacker.
"I think to compare him to, say, Smith who came out a couple years ago. He's not quite as athletic as Aldon Smith, but he's a little more physical, a little better against the run. So I think he's probably a base 4-3 end, and I think he'll go somewhere in that 20, 23 range in the first round."
The Packers fall in that 20 to 23 range with the 21st overall selection in May's Draft, but they'll have to decide whether they want to invest another first round draft choice in an "Elephant" type of defensive end with players like Peppers, Nick Perry and Mike Neal all under contract for at least the next two seasons.
Perry and Neal both have a lengthy injury history, but both have also shown to be effective when healthy, and that's where issues may arise. NFL teams can never have enough good pass rushers, but if players like Ealy, Peppers, Perry, Neal, Mike Daniels and Datone Jones are all healthy, the Packers may find it difficult to find room to put them all on the field at the same time.
Even if the Packers feel as if Ealy is the best player available at No. 21, they might feel an obligation to fill a position of greater need such as safety, inside linebacker or a big receiver target.
Presuming they couldn't pass up Ealy, however, the Packers would be getting a player ready for the challenges of transitioning from college football to the NFL.
"Just being more serious about about the job and knowing that you don't have any instructions, there's no class, there's no friends, it's strictly business, just everyday grind," said Ealy. "You get in, you work on getting in your playbook. Knowing your plays is really key and also working on technique."
Brian Carriveau is the author of the book "It's Just a Game: Big League Drama in Small Town America," and editor of Cheesehead TV's "Pro Football Draft Preview." To contact Brian, email [email protected].
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