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Coronation Street is Britain's longest running soap opera, now running for over 50 years and has always been popular since the outset.
It's set in the fictional town of Weatherfield, which is on the outskirts of Manchester. It's actually filmed in Manchester itself so any of the outside shots will be familiar to anyone who knows the city.
On the street where it's set, Coronation Street, we follow the lives of all the families through all their ups and downs. The programme has dealt with a huge variety of storylines and always deals with them sensitively and presented with proper research having been done. Abortions and miscarriages, drug addiction, murders, domestic violence, death and destruction. If there are any serious issues being dealt with, they often have a phone number of a helpline for anyone to call if they're being affected by any of the issues.
And, of course, no soap would be complete if half the characters weren't having affairs and sleeping with anyone that comes along!
It's not all serious, however. There are a few comedy relief characters in the form of Steve McDonald, Lloyd Mullaney (played by Craig Charles of Dave Lister fame in Red Dwarf), Kirk Sutherland and Beth Tinker. These characters rarely have serious storylines and I think that's how it differs from Eastenders in that the whole programme isn't all doom and gloom when these characters are around.
Obviously it doesn't represent real life, there is no street in the world that has all this drama going on all at the same time, but then no one would watch it if it was based on real life as it isn't always that interesting.
I think Coronation Street is very entertaining with a good mix of serious and funny storylines with characters for everyone to relate to.
Coronation Street is a soap which has just celebrated their 50th birthday! It has shown over 7620 episodes over that period, and you can watch it on ITV1 on Monday at 7.30 and 8.30, Thursday 8.30, and Friday 7.30 and 8.30. Each episode is 30 minutes long and the show has and will feature many different actors and actresses.
The story is set in Greater Manchester, on a street, and if you hadn't already guessed it's called Coronation Street (!). The show is about characters that live on Coronation Street and how they all have their own problems, but their pathways all cross at some point.
The storyline features the usual soap material: pregnancy, pub-fights, the odd murder ect. Sometimes the show can be very simular to other shows, such as Eastenders, but Corrie character's make the show unique.
The storyline is difficult to keep continually running for 50 years, so from that aspect I think the writers, cast and crew have done a great job with the show so far, but, nowadays their efforts are becoming futile due to some of the reoccuring stories. Some of the episodes are slighty predictable and a little bit boring, but on the other hand, some episodes are interesting and keep you on the edge of your chair.
iv been a viewer since the first episode of this soap, i used to love it and would never miss it untill tonight ,i will never watch it again ! its bad enough a school girl moving in with chesney , let along her falling pregnent ! im not at all old fashioned i no what lifes about, but this story line,s bad writing. if the writer can,t do any better then this he should give it all up.
Coronation Street is a British soap which celebrated its 50th birthday last year. The soap is set in the fictional town of Weatherfield, in Northern England-Manchester to be exact. Coronation Street is shown on ITV, and there are normally five 30 minute episodes aired per week. The normal schedule for the show is:
Monday: 7:30-8pm
Thursday: 7:30-8pm
Friday: 7:30-8pm
Coronation Street is one of my absolute favourite programmes and it has been for around 12 years, and will probably continue to be for a long time. I currently live in France but I still never miss an episode, which some of my friends think is ridiculous (they may have a point) but I'm not going to lie about my love for this programme!
The soap is mainly set in one Street, which funnily enough is called Coronation Street. Like most soap operas there are several regular characters who feature in most episodes, these are mainly families and some of them have been in the soap for years, for example The Websters or The Barlows. Some of these characters and families are extremely well established and well known in the Street and have been in it for years. Ken Barlow however, is the only character who has been in the soap the full 50 years and featured in the first ever episode.
The street has several businesses such as the garage, the café, the corner shop, the underwear factory, the hairdressers, and most famously The Rovers Return pub. All the people who own/run/work for these businesses are regular characters in the soap, and all these places are often where various scenes are set. Apart from these places, most scenes are set in various characters homes, or in the street itself. I'd say most of the soap is set in the Rover's Return Pub, as every single character is in there at some point, most of them being regulars.
Coronation Street has dealt with many issues since I have been watching it such as sexuality, teen pregnancy, crime, murder, death, prostitution, rape, affairs, alcoholism, and bigamy. Obviously as it is a family programme and is shown fairly early, these issues have to be dealt with a certain way, and I personally think the soap has handled most of these storylines well.
Not only does the soap deal with big story lines and drama, but it also makes me laugh. More so recently than ever before, I find some of the characters hilarious. Steve Mcdonald is my personal favourite, but I also think Eileen Grimshaw, Rosie Webster, Sean Tulley, Sally Webster, and David Platt are all very entertaining. When the soap isn't dealing with big storylines there are normally smaller stories going on as well as short and entertaining scenes.
Many people argue that watching soap operas such as Coronation Street is a complete waste of time, as it is essentially watching a load of fictional characters go about their daily lives, with a few storylines thrown in. I can see where people are coming from with this argument, but for me it's just a couple of hours a week away from the real world where I can watch and enjoy a bit of light hearted telly about people who I can relate to in one way or another.
Overall, as I'm sure you can guess I love Corrie, as I think it has the perfect balance between dramatic and interesting storylines as well as funny and light hearted banter. Not only that but it's Northern and so am I.
Coronation street has been on our screens for over 50 years. Its such a great soap for all the family. I watch it, my mum watches it and so many people i talk to about it watches it. Overall it is really good, but it does seem like the writers are running out of stories as it does seem rather strange at times but its still good to watch. Cobbled streets and terraced housing i admit doesnt sound that fascinating but try it for a couple of weeks and you will certainly be hooked. Iv been watchign it since the age of about 11 and its just fascinating what stories the writers camn come up with next. Tram crashes, Murderers, fake deaths.... the stories just never seize to amaze me. For 11 years iv been watching it and i definately think i will be watching it for another 11 years.
Coronation street is a classic all time favourite soap for not only myself but for many many people, however in recent months Im not sure whether it has changed writers or the writers have simply gone a little mad.
The programme is on every monday at 7.30pm and 8.30pm, wednesday 7.30pm and then again on friday at the same times as monday so a double bill really.
It has been going for 50 years now and each and every year it has the craziest story lines and albiet many of them are based on real life, this life then goes into absolute madness mode and I feel lately their storylines have gone a little bit to far, so much so they are funny.
The tram line crash was quite spectacular and a very good storyline, however the breakdown of the marriage between kevin and sally is a little boriing now as well as the storyline with the dead colin and the murderer fizzes husband being almost humourous about his acts of murder. Im not sure where this storyline is heading but its certainly one that is now dragging and needs to be concluded. I havent felt this in the past with coronation street as usually storylines have gone on but have always been quite substancial and yet occasionally lately it has dragged in the wrong direction.
Dont get me worng however with such a popular soap and with some characters who have been in it long standing you never fail to familiarise yourself with this soap and it is endeering as well as funny and a mind number to watch in the evening to relax with.
One soap to watch for sure and possibly the only rival to eastenders.
Coronation Street is a soap opera set in the fictional place of Weatherfield, Manchester, and has been on our screens for 50 years. I must admit that I find that it can go through phases. Sometimes the soap is a must watch, and I go to the effort of watching it. Other times, like at present, it is not so good. There is one original cast member, who plays Ken Barlow.
Coronation Street follows the lives of the residents of the Street, and there is always plenty of drama. In recent years we have seen murders, teenage lesbians, switched at birth storylines. I do find the humour in the Street funny. Blanche who played Ken's mother in law came out with extremely funny one-liners, and her character is very much missed. The older residents of the street who have been around for many years, make the programme feel homely, and even if I don't watch it for a year, I know that when I start to watch it again, that I will recognise people. I like the fact that there are familes that stay in it for years, and we have seen their children grow up - e.g. the Platts and Websters.
Overall at the moment, I think the Street is going through one of its weaker moments. There are big storylines promised for it's 50th birthday celebrations, including the aftermath of a tram crash, which could see much loved characters killed off. I hope the Street starts to improve. I do feel that ITV have messed around with the scheduling in recent years, and that I never know when it is on. Generally though it is an entertaining soap opera, which I hope improves soon. I am happy to watch it every so often, but don't get upset if I miss it. I will definitely be tuning in for the big birthday episodes.
As I sit here in front of the TV multi tasking... (watching Coronation Street and rating reviews) I thought I would do a review on Corrie Street...
This british soap opera has been on our screens since December 1960 and is shown on ITV1 for 30 minutes each episode..
Its set in a small place called Weatherfield which is set in Manchester.. there is still one original character, William Roach, who plays Ken Barlow married to Deidre... Whereas in Eastenders it all seems quite young, I always look at Corrie as being quite an old fashioned soap... That probably doesn't do it justice as the story lines are just as current as Enders and the characters are a mix of young and old...however there does seem to be underlying currents of tradition and that may be because of how old the soap has been running...
You do find that the older characters seem to stick around for much longer and that newer characters tend to come and go... you also find that the street tends to have one main storyline going so sometimes you find that you don't see characters for some weeks... having said that they have two main storylines at the moment...Gail's trial and also Tony escaping from prison... however I do find that the bigger storylines do drag out for quite a while so I do lose interest...
I do prefer it to Enders though if I'm honest... maybe its because I prefer their storylines at the moment but I do find it more believable...
I've read that in December 2010 that they will be having some real juicy storylines to celebrate their 50 years so watch this space...
I have watched this program for absolutely forever , and sometimes i do wonder why i watch it all , i think it is probably because it has been part of my tv timetable for so long that i am frightened i might miss something , the key storyline at the moment is Gail Mcintyre, who is at the moment on trial for murdering her husband Joe Mcintrye , which she didn't do , but the police think they have a good case, they had only been married about a week and the went away to the lakes , and he wanted to fake his own death so she could claim on the life insurance, well it all went wrong and ended up dead. The police have even done a dirty deal with Tracey Barlow to get her to get gail to admit to the murder , so that she can have lighter sentance so that she would be able to see her daughter Amy more often, the climax of this saga finishes on friday 4th of June so i will be tuned it so see out it ends. Coronation street is now filmed in HD from the 31st May in honour of seige week , where Tony Gordon breaks out of prison in order to try to kill Carla and Hayley , the climax to this storyline is also 4th of June. Typical Coronation street , nothing happens for weeks and then the two big storylines at the same time .
Aaah good old Corrie, it's been on our screens since 1960, a soap set in the fictitious town of weatherfield which is a suburb of Manchester.
I must admit I'm a Corrie addict despite not being a little blue rinsed old woman. In fact it's fast catching up with Eastenders as my favourite soap. It is somewhat lighter and less depressing than Eastenders (which isn't difficult) with storylines taking on a less tragic stance than Eastenders. A recent comical story saw the long suffering Norris being held against his will by a slightly odd but undeniably harmless Mary Taylor ala Misery.
For me it is a light relief from Easties due in part to the fact that it's hard to take someone with a northern accent too seriously (not wishing to offend anyone), but it is true, if you try saying "theres been a Murder" in a scouse or Manc accent it doesn't have the same impact.
My favourite characters of all time include Curly Watts the sex bomb, Norris and Fred Elliot I say Fred Elliot who reminds me of the churchill dog : )
A more recent addition to the street is David Platts old cell mate Graeme, who is a butchers apprentice and a very funny character, currently pursuing the glamour puss and all round hottie Rosie Webster.
Through a mixture of comedic characters, light hearted storylines and northerness Corrie earns it's place as one of Britains best loved soaps, it's been around for donkeys years and hopefully will continue to be for a long while yet.
I think it's fair to say that 90% of you will have watched the occasional episode of Corrie and I'm sure I'm not the only saddo who is addicted but for the minority who haven't watched it I absolutely reccomend it to all soap lovers and anyone who gets fed up with the seriousness and morose tone of Corries southern counterpart.
Coronation street is the ITV's flagship soap and is on endlessly.
It's fair to say that I particularly detest soaps, they have over the last ten years or so started to take over TV programming with increasing hour 'specials' and tend to have Christmas Day major events. This tendency is for me a sad day for TV in general because it feels like the channel planners are being rather lazy and filling their time with soap rather than investing in interesting programme funding and taking a few risks along the way.
However, that's not Coronation streets fault and they are in a sense a victim of their own success. When it was originally aired, or at least in the Eighties when I cna first remember having to watch the programme at my Nan's it used to be twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays at 7.30 for half an hour. Now it's on at least 4 times a week and has alternate time slots and one night is one twice that night. So is it worth watching?
Well it's never been my favourite amongst the soaps, I've always viewed it as a bit dull and steady compared to more edgy 'younger' soaps whether that be Eastenders, Hollyoaks or Emmerdale. But it did have periods of being at least interesting viewing, when they had a lot of humour along with the stories with characters like the Duckworths and Reg Holdsworth.
Now the stories are dull, tend to be associated with the younger generation so have a high amount of sex, marriage breakups and fights. The humour and cutting dialogue has long since gone and the sense of it being a leading programme into a programme that has lost its way.
One final thing
Can Gail please stop going out with complete nutters and why do they find her attractive with her horrible hair do and wierd squeezed face?
I think it should go back to being a three times a week show, trim the number of main stars and concentrate on stories and not sex and violence.
If they don't with the loss of The Bill is it time for the show to go as well?
For as long as I can remember my mum has been a fan of this show and from the age of 5 and onwards, I ended up sitting in front of the screen while this was being played. As the years have passed I have a confession to make, I actually like this show.
Set in a suburb of Manchester,the fictional area called Weatherfield, the soap has been extremely successful and a mainstay for decades upon decades.
As you would expect from any of these soaps, realism is not the aim of the show. Instead what the show offers is some extremely over the top, action packed storylines. My street doesn't have even a sixth of the drama this show has. There are murders, muggings, suicides, affairs galore and yet more unpredictable happenings.
There are some excellent characters in this soap and it's a combination of long established characters as well as new characters. My favourite characters in the show are Steve and Lloyd as they inject some much neeed humour into the show and allow some breathing space from the more serious storyline. Both are excellent in their roles and really add value to the script.
Elsewhere I think some of the younger actors are more a hindrance than a benefit. Such as Ryan who seems far too wooden and his equally annoying girlfriend. The acting overall though is very good and some of the stars have great versatility as their stories are forever changing, placing differing demand on their acting.
Some of my friends shake their heads in disbelief when i admit I like this and while I have reduced my viewing of this show, I can't seem to shake it. However there is just something about it.
I wont bore you with the history of Coronation Street, that's why we have wikipedia. However for the past 8 years Coronation Street or Corrie has come out of the boring 'lets do gritty storylines' niche that so many soaps fall in to and has carved out a new one.
In Corrie's case they developed the startegy of having normal everyday storylines and injecting comdey into them. Yes they always do have one out there storyline, currently featuring Gail and her husbands accidental death, but it never feels too much. If you compare it with the other soaps such as Eastenders and Emmerdale, which usually have 5 gritty storylines and maybe one comedy storyline it can get very tiring and repetitive.
The characters always feel very established, even the newer additions seem to have cult followings due to thei likeable mannerisms. Becky and Graeme are probably the most notable. Older characters like Ken, Emily and Rita all still get their own storylines, which is nice to see as I hate having an all young cast. It just doesn't seem natural not to have old people.
Overall I really enjoy sitting down with a cup of tea watching Corrie which can be seen on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays however this is sometimes subject to change if and when the football is on.
I love soap operas and but I do not watch them all, I only usually watch Eastenders, Emmerdale and Coronation Street, but my all time favourite is Coronation Street and it is often called Corrie for short.
The very first episode was broadcast on the 9th December 1960, and it was recorded live at the time and it was broadcast in black and white, not colour. I even remember watching it in black and white and when the colour arrived, I was like oh wow, it was amazing seeing the switch of the colours, but some people will not remember that happening,
It is a about a street that is in Weather field, near Manchester, and the programme is famous for the cobbled street, and the street itself has old terraced houses on one side and new build on the other, it has a corner shop, pub, garage and a newspaper shop. It also has a health centre and chippie but they are hardly ever used in the programme which is a shame.
It's creator is Tony Warren and it is the longest British soap in the UK.
It is made by Granada now called ITV Studios.
One of the character Ken Barlow is one of the only original cast members and has been since 1960 and has been in the programme from the very beginning and he still remains a favourite with many of the public, he has had many wives and children and affairs and his story lines have been very good over the years.
Some of the old characters I remember, I am showing my age now, they were Ena Sharples, Elsie Tanner, Albert Tatlock, Minnie Coldwell to name a few and the landlady of the pub The Rovers Return was called Annie Walker and her hubby Jack, and they had a son called Billy.
It used to be aired on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays at 7.30pm for 30 minutes but now it is at different times, usually Monday and Fridays at the same time but Wednesdays changed to Thursday, and all the changes kind of make me forget it can be on the television as it can be different times sometimes, and also there are double episodes on Mondays and Fridays.
In the year 2000 on December the 8th it was broadcast live again to celebrate 40 years on the telly and the episode was an hour long and it all was fine on the day, everyone was kind of nervous as you can imagine but it went down well with the public and was successful.
This year it celebrates the 50th year and that is an amazing achievement in British television and I would think they are going to celebrate with something very special although it is rumoured there will not be another live programme, which is good because that has already been done before but they are thinking of doing some other ITV spin off programmes, but I am not sure what that may be.
I cannot imagine life without this soap as I have watched it all my life and I had just turned a year old when it was first broadcast.
You either love or hate this programme but I love it and it is my favourite soap.
I am sure everyone has seen at least one episode of this show but if you have not I suggest you take a look and see if you may like it.
I give it 5 stars.
Thank you for reading my review.
Coronation Street, the British soap that everyone has heard of, it is huge competition for its rival soap - Eastenders. It's so popular, that many pubs in tourist destinations through Europe now have soap nights, so holiday makers don't miss what's happening on the street! It takes up two and a half hours a week of our precious time, being shown ITV1 twice on Monday, once on Thursday, and twice again on Friday. Then god knows how many repeats on ITV2
Set in Manchester, Coronation Street compromises of a row of terrace houses, a couple of semis's, a garage, a knicker factory, hairdressers, two shops, a bookies, a taxi firm, a pub & a wine bar! All within 500 metres of each other! The soap tries to represent the typical way of life for the average family, with a few added murders!
There are the average hard working family like the Webster's. Kevin is a mechanic who runs a garage and his wife Sally works in Underworld sewing knickers. These have two daughters called Sophie and Rosie. Most people will know a true to family like the Websters, without families like this on the soap, it wouldn't seem true to life at all.
There are also the typical benefit seeking families shown, like the Windass's, Eddie Windass claims disability benefits, whilst working for a taxi company. I'm sure we all know of people similar to Eddie!
Other familes include the Barlows, Platt's, Grimshaws, and the list goes on. There are very likable characters, like Norris Cole who owns a sweet shop, very well played. The crazy thing is, that everyone who lives on Coronation St, works there, drinks there, shops there, have their cars serviced there and probably buy knock off knickers out the factory!
Most of the show is filmed in the Rovers Return, the streets very own pub. I am not sure how the pub makes a profit, as most of the drinks tend to be on the house, I wish i had a pub like this close to home! Everyone on the street knows everyone else, every wedding, funeral etc has everyone from the street attend. I suppose it saves spending money on extra's
I tend to find the story lines on Coronation Street a bit boring, not much really happens and sometimes you can watch an episode with nothing interesting at all. My girlfriend watches every one, but personally i don't bother until their is a murder or something to keep my interested. You can not watch it for weeks on end, and not really get out of touch with regards to what's happening, it doesn't take much catching up. A few years back there was a guy called Richard Hillman, he married Gail Platt, (who i can't stand) and tried to kill her, so I loved him for that. When they think of a story line like this, its well worth a watch. Unfortunately, as with all good characters, they ran out of stories for him and killed him off.
When i am watching a soap, i always tend to take them too seriously and seem to spend more time looking for mistakes than i do actually listening to the story. Characters drinking from empty cups is very common, doors without locks, walls that shake when a door is slammed and cars without tax discs. I guess it is just a soap and you have to look beyond this - just me being picky. One thing i will point out, which you should look out for when you watch it - you will see Kevin always has the same red metro in his garage for repair. Every time i glance at the TV it's there being fiddled with, ( If i owned that metro i would be complaining )
Overall, if you are bored, its worth a watch, there are the occasional funny bits that you can have a giggle at, but personally i find the majority if it boring, and a waste of time really. If i had the choice, i would watch Eastenders, there seems to be more going on and keeps your interest more.
Three out of five from me.


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Liquid air technology could boost the role of renewable energy
Liquid air technologies could help Britain tackle some of its toughest energy challenges, says a new report launched at Parliament today.
The report, "Liquid Air Technologies – a guide to the potential," shows how liquid air could help balance an electricity grid increasingly dominated by intermittent renewables; provide strategic energy storage to keep the lights on; sharply reduce CO2 and tail-pipe emissions from vehicles; and convert low grade waste heat into usable energy throughout the economy.
Published by the Center for Low Carbon Futures, Liquid Air Energy Network and University of Birmingham, the report explains how 'wrong time' renewable energy could be used to liquefy air as a means of storing energy, which could then be used to generate electricity when needed, and provide a convenient and low cost fuel for vehicles including buses and lorries.
A single gasometer-style tank of liquid air could make good the loss of 5GW of wind power for three hours - equivalent to almost 10% of the UK's peak electricity needs.
The range of potential applications is so wide that it could even be described as a 'liquid air economy'.
"While the idea of a 'liquid air economy' is no silver bullet," says Professor Richard, Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Birmingham, "it does offer a unique combination of energy, environmental and economic benefits. What's more, since liquid air is based on existing components and supply chains, a liquid air economy could develop far sooner than some other approaches."
A number of UK technologies are in development and demonstration with significant Government support, including transport applications starting field trials next year. University of Birmingham earlier this year won a 6M pound grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to open a dedicated research facility, the Centre for Cryogenic Energy Storage (BCCES) – a world-leading center for research into the liquid air economy and technologies.
Gisela Stuart, MP for Birmingham Edgbaston, welcomed the report at today's Birmingham in Parliament day. She said "I am very excited to have the Birmingham Centre for Cryogenic Energy Storage exhibiting today in Parliament; this first of its kind center is another example of Birmingham leading the way in innovation. The center will be a hotbed of new ideas, including liquid air technology."
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Castellanos called up to replace Kemp
By Alex Angert / MLB.com
LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers called up infielder/outfielder Alex Castellanos from Triple-A Albuquerque on Thursday to replace outfielder Matt Kemp, who was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained left hamstring. Castellanos made his big league debut as a defensive replacement in left field the eighth inning of Thursday night's 6-2 loss to the Brewers. He was welcomed to the big leagues with a 91-mph Kameron Loe fastball to the elbow in his first plate appearance. He successfully stole second base two pitches later, but had to return when Scott Van Slyke was called for batter interference on catcher Martin Maldonado's throw.
"It felt good being in a big league game," he said. "It felt like any other baseball game. Just a bigger stage."Kemp injured the leg scoring from first on Andre Ethier's double Wednesday night. He is expected to be sidelined at least four weeks. Coincidentally, Castellanos, who is ranked No. 13 on MLB.com's Top 20 Dodgers prospects list, returned on Saturday to the Albuquerque lineup after missing a month with a strained left hamstring. He was acquired last July from the St. Louis Cardinals for shortstop Rafael Furcal. Castellanos got the call from his Triple-A manager Thursday morning. His parents were at his Minor League game in New Orleans and on hand when he found out he would be heading to Los Angeles. "They wanted to come over here but they had the 14-hour drive back to Miami," he said. Manager Don Mattingly said the team plans to use Castellanos as an outfielder, which he played while with the Cardinals. He was moved by the Dodgers to second base this year, but Mattingly said they'll shift him back with three or four combination infielders already on the team. Offensively, he was a Pacific Coast League star before his injury, batting .379 with a 1.235 OPS, five homers and 19 extra-base hits in 22 games. Mattingly said Castellanos will more than likely be in the lineup Friday when the Dodgers take on the Rockies. "If he's swinging the bat, he's going to keep getting to play," Mattingly said. "I can't promise that he's going to come and get a long look. We're basically just trying to put the best lineup out and win a game."
Lilly set for MRI on Friday
LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers left-hander Ted Lilly, who hit the disabled list on May 24 with shoulder inflammation, said he will have an MRI exam on Friday and see if he will travel with the team on its upcoming road trip."My belief is pretty optimistic that it's not going to be something that is going to keep me out for a real long time," Lilly said. Lilly has been taking anti-inflammatory medication for an injury he said he first felt after winning a May 18 start against St. Louis, and again after his first loss of the year in Arizona on May 24. The 36-year-old lefty landed on the DL with shoulder injuries in 2009. He returned later that year, pitching in pain, before having arthroscopic surgery to clean up debris and labrum fraying in November. Lilly was on the DL to start this season and returned April 14. He's 5-1 with a 3.14 ERA. As for Juan Rivera, manager Don Mattingly said the outfielder sounded a little sore after playing for Rancho Cucamonga on Wednesday and woke up feeling tentative. He added there is no definite timetable and with happened to Matt Kemp reinjuring his leg, the team is taking a cautious approach bringing Rivera back. "We're not going to say he's coming to Colorado and ready to go first day," Mattingly said. "We need to be patient with Juan and make sure we are as sure as we can that he is ready to go." While Rivera woke up feeling tentative, Mattingly said Juan Uribe showed up Thursday feeling good after hitting batting practice on Wednesday and there's likely a rehab game down the road. With more good news on the rehab front, trainer Sue Falsone and Mattingly both said Mark Ellis likely won't need additional surgeries at this time.
Alex Angert is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Christie Surveys Damage to Jersey Shore on Helicopter Tour, Will Meet With Obama [VIDEO/PHOTOS]
A helicopter tour yesterday of New Jersey's coastal areas devastated by Superstorm Sandy had Governor Chris Christie emotional, angry, defiant and hopeful.He said Tuesday was a day for sadness for the lives, property and dreams lost in the wake of Sandy. Now the Governor wants New Jerseyans to start rebuilding a bright future.
Christie hopes to find an ally in Barack Obama when he meets with the President in the Garden State.
"One of the things I'm going to talk to the President about is getting the Army Corps Of Engineers in here as quickly as possible for us to begin the planning of the rebuilding of the beach and towns that lie tight next to these beaches so that's one of the things that I'll talk to the President about," said Christie.
"I look forward to spending time with the President and talking to him about the re-building of New Jersey, the Jersey Shore in particular," Christie added.
There's also the question of the millions that are still without power. The Governor said, "
Many of the areas Christie toured by helicopter on Tuesday were still too dangerous to use as a landing zone. Choppers did touch down in Belmar where the shore town's famed boardwalk has been reduced to sand and splinters. Mayor Matt Doherty looks forward to working with the Christie and Obama Administrations to return Belmar to its glory sooner rather than later.


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The bride-elect is the daughter of Amy Huynh of Russellville. She is a graduate of Russellville High School and is attending Arkansas Tech University pursuing a degree in nursing.
The prospective groom is the son of Steve and Angel Edwards and Sylvia and Sean Woods, all of Russellville. His grandparents are George and Wanda Domerese and Ann and the late DeWayne Edwards of Russellville. He graduated from Arkansas Tech University with a mechanical engineer degree and is currently employed by CenterPoint Energy in Little Rock.
The couple will exchange vows at 6 p.m. May 27, 2012 at Mount Nebo. A reception will follow. Friends and relatives are invited and invitations are being sent


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Not every goat named the state's best of breed also makes award-winning cheese, but such is the case for Sonara, one of 22 goats belonging to Anne Jones. Her Latte Da Dairy in Flower Mound is at the heart of a Texas artisan cheesemaking movement that's earning national recognition.
On her tiny farm, Jones crafts cheeses that rival the best in the world — and you don't have to fly to France to get them. Eating her cheese, we join the privileged few for whom what's utterly local is also world-class.
Twenty-odd goats on a plot in Texas may seem unlikely candidates to challenge the cheesemaking giants of Vermont and California. At the annual American Cheese Society competition, Jones' farmstead goat cheeses contend with icons such as Maytag Blue and Cabot Clothbound Cheddar. The stakes are high. Many contestants have been perfecting their recipes for years, some passing them down for generations.
Yet, starting with only two goats and no experience in cheesemaking, this veterinarian turned cheesemaker went from novice to star within a year. When she entered the American Dairy Goat Association competition in the amateur category in 2006, her kalamata olive feta took first place. Winning in the amateur category got her hooked, she says. She's been winning awards ever since.
Ultimately it's not about winning; it's about the goats and their cheese. In commercial operations, Jones says, "the goats aren't really the center of their world." Jones' "girls" are firmly at the center of hers.
This mentality has made Latte Da Dairy a lodestone for Dallas' growing locavore community. James Beard award-nominated chef Richard Chamberlain uses her cheese in his acclaimed Chamberlain's Steak and Chop House. Her cheeses are highlighted by the chefs at Ellerbe, Bonnell's and Cafe Modern in Fort Worth and at The
Oceanaire in Dallas. Their respect for her product is embedded in a profound admiration for local expertise — and for the importance of terroir, the notion that a product reflects the qualities of its native environment.
So it is with cheese. Especially with fresh cheeses like chèvre, there's nothing to hide behind: Each bite reflects the quality of field and alfalfa, the care the goats receive. What you're tasting is the character of the land and animals as much as the cheesemaker's artistry.
Protecting the purity of terroir is part of why you can't find Jones' cheese outside Texas — outside the Dallas area, in fact — unless it's on a judging table. Jones is not developing her cheese so it can resist the menaces of shipping or last a few extra days on a shelf in Manhattan. She's out to protect the integrity of connections between goats, land and cheese.
"People producing what they eat — that's really important," she says. "That's where it gets real." Hers is a cheese made at home from the milk of goats she knows by name. She makes this cheese for her community, and getting direct feedback is "one of the best things," she says. "It boosts your confidence that you're doing something right, something good." That something just happens to win national awards.
Rich Rogers, owner of Scardello Artisan Cheese shop in Dallas and a champion of Texas cheeses, carries Jones' goat Gouda, the only farmstead-produced hard goat cheese in the state and a strong seller in his shop.
Rogers was thrilled when Jones expanded her line this year to include aged hard cheeses. "I love her approach to it. I like it when a cheesemaker gets really good at making one kind of cheese before they move on. She's an accomplished fresh-chèvre maker and accomplished in her feta. She took all the right steps in making a new cheese for her. And it's phenomenal."
When people inquire skeptically about Texas cheese in his shop, Rogers says, "It's great to be able to say, not only do we make cheese, we make really good cheese."
Her success represents the victory of a Texas David over the Goliaths of the cheesemaking world.
After Sonara won Best of Breed at the State Fair of Texas this year, Jones could "confidently say that award-winning milk comes from award-winning udders." Despite her farm's fanciful name, she fits the competitive Texan livestock-raising profile. Her goats have won Best Udder and Best of Breed at multiple state fairs and livestock shows. They may have playful diva names like Xena Warrior Princess, but they are the purebred royalty of the dairy-goat world. "Their job is milk," Jones says. "It's about having a body that'll support milk production and mammary health."
"When you go visit her, you see how much care she takes with her animals," says Rogers, who has taken groups to Latte Da Dairy as part of his Texas Cheesemaker Tours.
Standing in zebra-print plastic clogs on her cement milking-parlor floor, Jones is a vet with a mission.
Jones blends scientific precision with mothering care and is as serious about cleanliness as about pedigree. Morning and evening milkings involve a systematic, surgical scrub. Each teat is dipped in disinfectant before and after milking, the udder washed and dried twice, and the teats given a final swab with iodine. She cares for her goats like a surgeon.
On one occasion, I held a doe's stamping leg in a dish of antiseptic while Jones ministered to her ailing hoof. When she's done, Jones is all nurturing care, thinking of nothing but their comfort. "I couldn't do it with 200 goats," she says. "I don't want to be huge. I want to keep it to where I can take proper care of the girls."
Eve Hill-Agnus is a Dallas freelance writer.
Get your goat: Latte Da Dairy cheeses
Plain chèvre: tangy, creamy, mousse-like
"The works" chèvre: encrusted with pepper flakes, garlic and dill
Mango-ginger chèvre: warm mango notes, natural sweetness and a touch of ginger heat
Plain feta: salty (brined) cheese with a firm texture between creamy and crumbly
Kalamata olive feta: tangy, deep-purple olive pieces add depth and richness
Piccolo brie: creamy, with a sweet, milky flavor and subtle earthiness
Argento Capra (silver goat): ash-coated, with contrasting chalky and creamy textures and a slight peppery bite reminiscent of blue cheese
Gouda: smooth, supple texture and warm notes of hay and caramel
Caerphilly: sharp and cheddarlike, with a crumbly texture
Available at all Central Market locations and the Cowtown and Keller farmers markets. Also served at The Oceanaire in Dallas and Cafe Modern, Bonnell's Fine Texas Cuisine and Ellerbe Fine Foods in Fort Worth.
Chocolate. Cheese. Good.
Anne Jones' latest concoction, chocolate goat-cheese truffles, may sound like a Willy Wonka whim.
On her product list, they appear with the fanciful tag "chocolate cheese!!!" and Jones could easily replace those exclamation points with question marks.
But the gourmet morsels won a ribbon at this year's American Cheese Society competition. Fresh chèvre and bittersweet chocolate pair harmoniously in a treat that's like tangy cheesecake meets chocolate mousse. This marriage of cheese plate and dessert course will appeal to chocolate and cheese lovers alike. It also mirrors a trend among high-end pastry chefs to create desserts such as chèvre panna cotta, aged-goat-cheese crème brûlée, and crème-fraîche devil's-food cake.
Bring home that sophistication by serving chèvre chocolate truffles with port or sparkling wine for the holidays.
Available at Central Market stores.
Eve Hill-Agnus


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I find it interesting to look through the suttas, commentaries and so forth and look at the different ways in which stream-entry is represented, and in particular, what needs to be done in order to achieve stream-entry.
After the Buddha (of whom it's interesting to note that little is said about any aryan attainment prior to becoming a fully-fledged Buddha), the next aryan in the Buddhasasana was Añña-Kondañña. In...
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As we see, stream-entry (at least) certainly occurs for Añña-Kondañña during the exposition of the sutta itself. Sometimes when mention of stream-entry or other attainments are mentioned at the end of a sutta, it is said that the attainment didn't actually happen then and there, but the person contemplated what was said, meditated on it, and found enlightenment. However, clearly this was not the case for Añña-Kondañña... he was not meditating, he was actively listening to a discourse.Gratified, the group of five monks delighted at his words. And while this explanation was being given, there arose to Ven. Kondañña the dustless, stainless Dhamma eye: Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.
Then the Blessed One exclaimed: "So you really know, Kondañña? So you really know?" And that is how Ven. Kondañña acquired the name Añña-Kondañña — Kondañña who knows.
Fast-forward several centuries to the days of the Mahavihara in Sri Lanka, and the commentaries tend to paint a very different picture on what is in fact required to attain stream entry. The classification of the vipassana-nanas (or "insight knowledges") is used to track the aspirant's "knowledges" and only at the very end of this process, is nibbana actually experienced, and with that, the eradication of the fetter of doubt, which is required in order to attain nobility in the Buddhasasana.
To me, there seems a certain disconnect here between the two examples, and I think it would be very interesting for us to discuss this, clarify and maybe find out precisely what is the best way to know what is required in order for us to attain stream-entry.


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Our Kind of Traitor, by John le Carr?®.
Our Kind of Traitor, by John le Carr?®.
David Brick
Santa Cruz CA
Atonement by Ian McEwan.
Good story of how things can get totally out of hand with false accusations. First McEwan book I've read, makes me want to read more.
My Life with Bonnie & Clyde by Blanche Caldwell Barrow
The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
I downloaded the free Kindle app onto my iPhone, and a few of the many free classic books they offered, to see if I would like using an e-reader.
Currently, I am reading Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi"
I am finding I like having a good book on hand in a small, convenient package to read a few pages whenever I have a few minutes. I may have to look further into this e-reader technology.
Kevin W.
'76 R90/6 (wei?e kuh)
'11 G650GS (Bill the Cat)
Der Weg ist das Ziel!
Just got a kindle and Tarzan of the Apes and The USAcycling rule book.
love the kindle 3 and may never buy paper again.
We're not here for a long time
We're here for a good time HUEY LEWIS
2007 R1200RT, 2014 R1200rt
Going Postal: The ups and downs of travelling the world on a postie bike - Kindle Edition - (Feb. 1, 2011) by Nathan Millward
If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance
Steppenwolf, at present. In the queue is On The Road, by Kerouac.
F.O.G.Rider, Rounder #6,
BMWRA Wisconsin Region Rep
MOA Biergarten co-chair
"NO ORDINARY TIME" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Pulitzer prize winner, about FDR/ Eleanor leading up to and during WWII. Good Read... (In between, maybe a little D. Koontz)
Phil W2GE
2010 R1200RT 2011 Husqvarna TE310 'Woods-Weapon'
New Sweden BMW Riders
iPhone5-> Zumo 660->SENA SMH10, Nuvi 500,
As for On the Road, the unedited version is available. Compared to the edited version it seems more complete and you don't have to juggle the aliases with who they belong to as their real names are used.
On the Road: The Original Scroll
I see they're making a movie of On the Road. I'm afraid to watch it. Movies from books usually never do the story justice. Though, I am interested in seeing how they pull off his rambling life and rambling writing.
I have been working my way through a series of books by Alexander McCall Smith that begins with The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency. This is definitely not typical detective genre material. It is set in Botswana and is more about life and the intricacies of how it is viewed from that setting.
Pass the mustard and UP THE REVOLUTION!
Pass the mustard and UP THE REVOLUTION!
Re-read Catcher In the Rye and read for the first time Fight Club this week.
Both books have quite a considerable bit of similarities between them, even the ending.
As soon as my wife is done with it, I'll be reading "In the Blink of an Eye" by Michael Waltrip.
2010 Suzuki GSX1250SEA
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So far so good.
The thing about traveling is, you never want it to end and you can't wait to get home.
I answer to Roy, Chief, or Sarg.
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Coldplay Breaks Itunes Record
Coldplay Breaks Itunes Record
GRAMMY winners Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto has sold more than 500,000 downloads in its first week of release, setting a record at iTunes worldwide, according to Billboard.biz. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 447,000 units sold across all formats, marking the third-largest sales week of the year for an album, behind Lady Gaga's Born This Way, which debuted with 1.1 million units sold, and Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV (964,000 units), and the biggest sales week for a rock album since U2's No Line On The Horizon debuted at the top of the chart with 484,000 units sold in 2009. The band has bypassed subscription streaming services as part of its marketing strategy. (11/4)
Live Nation Reports 3Q Results
Live Nation reported third-quarter net income of $51.7 million, up slightly from $51 million during the year-ago quarter, and a 3 percent decrease in revenue to $1.79 billion for the three months ending Sept. 30. Concert attendance declined 4 percent to 12.3 million during the third quarter, and concert revenue fell 7 percent to $1.28 billion. Ticket sales rose to 34.9 million and ticket revenue, including sales from Ticketmaster, increased 10 percent to $287 million. (11/4)


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Home organization: Modern designs for every room
Is this year's resolution to banish clutter, again? At least this time around you've got more options for help: desk organizers, closet helpers, even an ingenious medicine cabinet. The best new home organization tools make the most of space you have -- and don't look too bad, either. Keep clicking some of the latest for every part of the house, from home office to bedroom to bath.
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And be careful...the small bolts on the centerstand will break if you roll off enough times...seen about 6 bikes since my 05RT broke one and I quit doing that.I only weigh 190 and ride one up.
One set I replaced, the rider weighs maybe 150 and never rides off the stand...still broke. Your luck may be better...but they are a weak link and posted about here before. I think it was Greenwald who drug his down the road? The 1100's were a lot stouter and seemed to last a long time of rideoffs. In my old business it was called "Risk Assesment"


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In a few weeks, the first splashes of cash will begin to flow from a billion-dollar spigot of drought-relief programs in California.
The emergency aid package marks an aggressive push to help farmers forced out of work and others who don't have enough to drink. The measures also accelerate efforts to strengthen California's resilience to drought.
But the money represents just a tiny fraction of what California, with 38 million people and America's largest agricultural economy, spends on water every year — and what is needed to negotiate a future in which water will become more scarce.
"For the short term, it's a big chunk of money, an important chunk of money toward solving this problem. But, long term, our needs are great," said Steve Fleischli, director of the water program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Officials rushed to approve the relief funds in February, as the drought threatened to become the worst on record. President Obama visited the parched Central Valley to announce a federal aid package, and Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that directed more money from the state budget.
California is chipping in the largest amount, with packages totaling about $677 million, most of which would be covered by money left from two bond sales approved by voters in 2006. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is kicking in about $200 million.
A relatively small portion of the money, about $131 million, is going toward providing immediate help, mostly in the form of water and food, housing and utility subsidies, and job training for people hit hardest by the drought. Farmers with fallow fields or suffering livestock will get financial assistance as well.
Recipients will begin to see the start of that emergency aid within the next month, as officials determine who needs it most.
The $549 in bond revenues will be distributed in the form of grants to fund regional projects that conserve, collect, protect and reuse water. The first block of grants, totaling $200 million, are expected to be awarded in the fall. A second block will be distributed a year later.
A third chunk, about $77 million, will go to flood protection projects whose impact on the drought are more tangential.
In addition, $40 million from the state's cap-and-trade pollution program will be used to install more efficient water equipment in homes and commercial buildings, fund a pair of power-generation sites and help farmers improve irrigation techniques.
Another $3 million from the state's general fund will help improve the way California monitors groundwater supplies.
There is also money for public education programs.
In total, the aid could reach $1 billion.
But no one thinks that will be enough.
Around the time public officials were rushing to approve the relief packages, the Public Policy Institute of California was putting the finishing touches on a report that showed how, despite spending $30 billion a year on water management, the state was still shortchanging the system by at least $2 billion.
Ellen Hanak, one of the authors, said in an interview that while the new drought-relief packages will do some good, the state needed to take bolder, more sustained action.
"For the most part, what's in the rest of these packages, it'll help some," Hanak said. "But when you think of water management in these dynamic and growing economies, it's not like you do something and you're done. We need to continue improving the ability to be resilient in the face of drought."
With that in mind, Brown is pushing a plan that includes a controversial proposal to build two tunnels, at a cost of about $15 billion, that would divert water from Northern California to farms and cities in the south. But it faces opposition from critics who see it as old-fashioned, and a boondoggle.
At the same time, lawmakers are arguing over the size of a proposal to sell new bonds to fund more projects that would improve water quality, conservation and storage. The proposal is currently set at $11 billion, but it could get shaved down before it goes to voters for approval in November.
That measure, according to Hanak, would cover about half the shortfall identified in her report. She recommended adding a range of funding alternatives, including new taxes, surcharges, fees and property assessments.
There are also concerns about the current round of bond-funded grants.
In a February analysis of California's budget, the state Legislative Analyst's Office noted that in past years, grants made available from the 2006 bonds were awarded to projects that either didn't meet the state's water management goals or "would provide uncertain levels of benefits."
That, the agency said, could become a bigger problem in the coming rounds, which involve much larger amounts of money.
Anton Favorini-Csorba, an LAO analyst who specializes in water issues, said his agency's concerns may be alleviated if the next round of grants attract a large pool of high-quality applicants.
Finally, there's the challenge of making sure all this money gets spent well.
"I'd like to know what the accountability mechanisms are related to the amount of money that's being spent," said Stephanie Pincetl, a professor at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA.
State officials said the drought-relief measures, particularly the long-range ones, were subject to several layers of scrutiny, including internal audits, legislative oversight, and public hearings.
"I imagine interim hearings based on what was appropriated and what has been done to date — in particular from members in impacted regions," Department of Finance spokesman H.D. Palmer said.
But while those reviews might help ensure that the money goes to the right projects, the bigger challenge is measuring what impact it will have on the state's ability to weather the next drought.
That's because ecosystems change too rapidly to allow a clear window into a project's effects, Favorini-Csorba said.
There is also no reliable information on the statewide use of groundwater, which accounts for 30 to 40 percent of California's water supply.
The reviews "are at least a good start," Favorini-Csorba said, "but it doesn't get you to the next level, which is how much water you got out of it. That's very difficult to evaluate, and that would be the next step."


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OCEAN CITY — Traditionally, investors seeking calm waters have looked to sovereign debt in developed economies. This would explain, for example, the heightened demand for U.S. Treasuries in recent years. Today, however, many large multinational companies — though certainly not all — increasingly look like a better refuge for capital than many countries do. The shift stems partly from a new era of corporate conservatism that, in the wake of the economic crisis of 2008, prompted corporations to shore up their balance sheets, pay down debt and build cash reserves. For example, even corporate issuers of high-yield bonds now hold $2 of cash for every $1 of short-term debt, on average, according to Oleg Melentyev, a high-yield emerging market credit strategist for BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research.
At the same time, concern continues to mount over the precarious position of highly indebted euro-zone countries and the potential for contagion rippling across the Atlantic to the U.S., which has already suffered a debt-rating downgrade by Standard & Poor's. "It's easy to see how the situation could continue to spiral," Melentyev says. That has made corporate bonds increasingly attractive for investors seeking quality and yield — provided that they take care to be selective. "In terms of debt instruments out there right now," Melentyev says, "the corporate landscape is an island of relative stability."
Overall, many companies appear to be in good shape in terms of their relatively low probability of defaulting on debt and their ability to generate profits sufficient to cover their interest expenses.
"Leverage has come down, and with the Federal Reserve maintaining lower rates, interest expenses are lower as well," Melentyev explains. "Some issuers have benefited directly from lower rates, while others refinanced fixed debt to bring down their interest payments."
Although flagging confidence in the economy has fueled some speculation about a double-dip recession, even that would be unlikely to significantly derail corporate issues, Melentyev observes.
"During the years immediately following a recession, companies are cautious — no one wants to hire, borrow or invest," he said. "We have yet to see a return to more confident, aggressive behavior. So even if we go into a double dip, we're unlikely to see cyclically high default rates. That would require a more normal debt load on balance sheets, which we don't have today."
Despite this fairly benign default outlook, U.S Treasuries and cash remain the prime refuge for the risk-averse. But with five-year Treasuries yielding just less than 1% and interest on cash investments negligible and likely to remain so for the foreseeable future, investors could pay dearly for the safety those vehicles provide.
By comparison, investment-grade bonds — low-risk debt issued by companies enjoying a Standard and Poor's rating of "BBB" or higher — are currently yielding 4.8%, and U.S. high yields — the higher-risk debt of companies with an S&P rating lower than BBB — are at approximately 8.9%.
"The high-yield market is susceptible to a higher risk of default than the investment grade market, and there will be defaults," Melentyev cautions. "But in a diversified portfolio that contains high-yield bonds, you can still come out ahead."
While aiming for long-term performance, corporate bond investors should guard against the risk of inflation and climbing interest rates. Inflation has been steadily ticking upward, recently hitting its highest point since September of 2008. And though the Fed has pledged to keep interest rates near zero through mid-2013, interest rates will eventually begin to rise. Corporate bond investors concerned about principal erosion in an environment of higher interest rates should consider holding bonds with shorter maturities. As always, however, it's crucial to be selective when you're contemplating corporate bonds.
(A Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Advisor. She can be reached at 410-213-8520.)


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With less than two months left in the regular season, the Houston Dynamo are looking to close out their season in strong fashion and return to the playoffs after missing out last year. Currently in third place in the Eastern Conference, here are three things to watch for heading into the final two months of the season:
1. Road challenges
Houston's performance on the road this season has been well-documented. The Dynamo have failed to win away from Robertson Stadium but have been hard to beat, compiling a 0-4-8 record on the road.
While all the draws have helped the Dynamo stay within striking distance in the East, with five of their last eight matches on the road Houston will likely need to break through with an away win to stay in the top three of the Eastern Conference.
"We haven't gotten a win on the road, and I think this is a perfect place to start with our trip to Vancouver," midfielder Brad Davis said of the club's weekend visit to Empire Field. "We know there are going to be difficult games on the road, but we have to take it step by step, because we've put ourselves in a good position, and now we have to stay there."
2. Conference battles
With the Eastern playoff race growing increasingly tight, the best way to securing a playoff spot is by winning the head-to-head battles and finishing in the top three.
Houston has just three games left against conference foes, with two coming against teams that are currently ahead of the Dynamo: the first-place Columbus Crew and second-place Sporting Kansas City. The Dynamo will travel to meet those clubs Sept. 10 and Sept. 14 in back-to-back games that will go a long way in deciding the club's finish in the playoff standings.
"It's going to be a tough stretch, and we'll need everyone," left back Corey Ashe said. "If you look at the playoff race in the Eastern Conference, we all know it's going to be tight. But we're going in with our normal mindset, which is winning one game at a time."
3. Facing MLS' best
Of Houston's final eight matches, five come against teams that have among the best overall records in MLS, including road games at Sporting Kansas City (No. 2 in East), Columbus (No. 1 in East), FC Dallas (No. 3 in West), and a regular-season home finale against the LA Galaxy (No. 1 in West).
With a 2-5-7 record against teams currently in the playoffs, Houston will have to reverse its fortunes against the cream of the league's crop to emerge with a postseason berth. To boost the team for this stretch run, Houston signed 24-year-old Brazilian midfielder Luiz Camargo, who trained on Tuesday for the first time after last playing for Clube Paraná back on July 9.
"He looked a little leggy," head coach Dominic Kinnear said of his new acquisition. "It could be the travel, and he hasn't played for a while. He's good on the ball, but he needs a little more off the ball."
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com. Follow him on twitter at @Dynamoexaminer.


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Seaside Course
With its ancient oaks and cedars, along with the views of the salt march, sand dunes and St. Simon's Sound, Sea Island's Seaside Course couples a challenging golf course with the beauty of its natural surroundings.
Stretching to 6,945 from the championship tees, the elevated tee boxes offer a majestic view of the surroundings.
No stranger to tough competition, the course played host along with the Plantation Course as the site of the U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship in 2004. It also hosted the U.S. Women's Senior Amateur Championship earlier in 2006.
Seaside Tournament Yardages
Plantation Course
Liberal sight lines between holes create a parkland feel with breathtaking ocean views, ancient live oaks, lakes and flower-filled landscapes set up against an artful canvas of fairways, bunkers and greens.
Its "grandfather" was the Plantation Nine, which set the course for Sea Island's reputation for fine golfing. Rees Jones, during his 1998 redesign, combined the former Plantation Nine with the Retreat Nine to form what we know now as the Plantation Course.
Along with its sister course, the Seaside Course, the Plantation also hosted the U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship in 2004.
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Discussion in 'Mapping & Navigation' started by icebergstu, Sep 2, 2012.
This will work..
Thanks for the photo.
Has anyone used the AA batteries to power the unit yet? What was the battery life like?
Got City Navigator mapping so now I have set it up the way I wanted so it is really two machines in one replacing my old Aldi road GPS and Garmin 60 CSX.
I have set up two profiles:
The bike one opens up Oz Topo mapping and the menu has shortcuts to tracks, track manager, compass, tripmeter (with big symbols) and Profile change.
The car one opens up City Navigator mapping in the Nuvi display mode with Menu shortcuts to Where to, mark waypoint, trip meter (standard) and Profile change.
Allows me to navigate on tarmac to the start of a ride in Car profile and then select profile change to Bike profile, select a track file and hit the dirt.
This thing rocks.
Yeah this is what I have done too.
I have been using a Nuvi for the last few years for the car so know the things back the front. Great to just switch over to (ADV) as I call it and start layin down tracks.
The profliles are excellent!!!
All fitted now and hard wired to a switched supply, its great just having it fire up with the bike and shutdown when you turn off the bike, First test ride today.
Don't forget to create shortcuts to those profiles then you can just hit the shortcut, and voila, it's a whole different gps! I have multiple shortcuts to a profile for each mapset, making it easy to switch from a Nuvi like automotive setup to a Topo map with datafields, to an OSM profile, to a Geocaching profile. It's a great gps!
Already set up the profile change shortcuts and yes it is superb changing everything on the fly, mapset and display frikken awesome. Went bush riding today and it didn't miss a beat,
Went for a ride to Noosa North Shore on the weekend. Thanks Andy for the gpx files.
Was using the replacement 650t on it's first proper trip. Ended up having to use the tape & earplug trick on the way up to stop it switching off. As we were camping I was unable to recharge it, so switched to AAs on the way home. That's the first time I've had to do that. BUT, it still switched itself off at seemingly random times on the AAs.
Do I have another faulty unit? Do I need to use padding (earplugs) for the AAs as well?
Does hardwiring it in solve the switching off problems?
I really want to like the Montana, when it's working it's great but when it switches itself off in the bush it's a pain in the arse.
Appreciate your help.
Yep you need the earplug trick for either battery......even when using it hardwired.
Thanks Steve,
So even when I get the unit hardwired in, it will still need the earplugs in the battery compartment?
If that will stop the switching off, that's cool!
There is no chance of the water tightness of the unit being compromised? Affecting Garmin warranty?
i've tried my new montana 650t for the first time last week, coming from brisbane to sydney, and even if i'm still getting the hang of it there was one thing that annoyed me during most of the trip, the screen keeps rotating even when i'm riding asphalt. has enyone had the same problem? i wanted to know your opinion before i go back to the guys at ryda to ask for a replacement.
You can lock it in one orientation:
^ Setup > Display > Orientation Lock
You can lock into Track Up I assume?
Of course but that is not what is happening to JoaoPCF. Even if the Map Orientation is set to Track Up, the DISPLAY can rotate between Landscape and Portrait mode. So, doing as Emoto suggested will "lock" the DISPLAY from rotating when the built-in accelerometer thinks the unit is rotating (which can happen on any surface if there is enough vibration).
Thanks. I am trying to learn a little about the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comffice:smarttags" /><st1:State><st1lace>Montana</st1lace></st1:State>, I am probably going to end up with one. An awful lot of what is posted I do not understand.:eek1
yep, that's pretty much what happened. thanks for your help. i'll try it tomorrow


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Brother's cooking helps Sandoval slim down
By Joe Morgan / MLB.com
MIAMI -- An extra spring in Pablo Sandoval's step helped the Giants defeat the Marlins, 6-4, on Saturday night. Sandoval, who has shed 22 pounds in the past six weeks, beat out a grounder to first base to plate the first of four two-out runs in the fourth.
"That probably won the game for us, kept the rally going," San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said. "... He's doing all he can to beat [Miami first baseman Logan Morrison ] to the bag, and that hustle there won the game."
Twenty-two pounds ago, Sandoval said there's "no way" he reaches base safely on that pivotal play.
The Giants have more than one Sandoval to thank for Saturday night's victory. Sandoval credited his recent weight loss to the culinary talents of his older brother, Luis.
Luis Sandoval, 36, is Pablo Sandoval's full-time chef and travels with the 2012 World Series MVP. The eldest Sandoval brother recently graduated from a culinary institute in Miami -- the site where the benefits of the third baseman's new diet have begun to appear.
Pablo Sandoval plans to let Luis also cook for him during the offseason. When asked which dish his brother cooks that he enjoys the most, Sandoval responded, "Everything, man."
Weight problems have plagued Sandoval throughout his MLB career. Currently in the midst of his worst statistical season to date, the two-time All-Star has ample reason to continue with the successful diet cooked to order by his brother.
Sandoval previously made significant progress by losing 38 pounds during the 2010-11 offseason, but he failed to keep the weight off as time wore on. He hopes his new regimen will be enough to get him back into ideal shape.
"It's going to be important for me if I can come to camp in the same shape as I did in 2011," Sandoval said. "…I'm just going to keep working hard for the next season. It's important for me and my teammates, too."
Fortunately for Sandoval, his eldest brother chose to pursue cooking instead of professional baseball like the other Sandoval brother, Michael. However, Sandoval joked that Luis did not have much choice when it came to picking another pursuit instead of baseball.
"He never played baseball," Sandoval said of Luis, laughing. "He was real bad."
Pagan set to move rehab up to Triple-A
MIAMI -- San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy expects outfielder Angel Pagan to return to the Majors on Sept. 1. After success in the first two games of a rehab stint with the Arizona League Giants, Pagan could join Triple-A Fresno "in a few days."
"He felt good," Bochy said. "No issues there, so [he will] continue his schedule."
Pagan finished 0-for-2 with a walk and a run scored in the second game of his rehab assignment Saturday. He was limited to five innings after playing only three and finishing 0-for-1 with a walk Friday.
Pagan underwent surgery to repair a tendon on the inside edge of his left knee June 25. He has not played in the Majors since May 25 and aggravated his injury while running to first in a rehab game with Class A San Jose on June 20.
The switch-hitter was batting .262 with three home runs, 24 RBIs and 30 runs scored when he went down. He is in the first year of a four-year, $40 million contract.
Tight back keeps Scutaro out of lineup
MIAMI -- Marco Scutaro was out of the starting lineup Sunday after leaving Saturday's game with a tight lower back. He popped out as a pinch-hitter in the sixth inning of the Giants' 6-5 loss to the Marlins.
Scutaro is uncertain whether he will be available to start Monday night's game against the Red Sox. The second baseman will see how his back feels once the Giants return to San Francisco.
"It's fine," Scutaro said of his back. "I have to wait for the six-hour flight. It might be there."
Gregor Blanco batted leadoff Sunday in place of Scutaro, who is hitting .250 (11-for-44) with six runs scored since moving to the top spot in the order Aug. 5.
Joaquin Arias manned second base and batted eighth Sunday.
Scutaro is batting .303 with two home runs, 23 RBIs, 20 doubles and 49 runs scored in 106 games.
As expected, Posey sits in finale vs. Marlins
MIAMI -- Giants manager Bruce Bochy decided to give catcher Buster Posey his second game off in three days Sunday afternoon. He previously discussed the possibility prior to Friday's game against the Marlins.
Bochy wanted to sit Posey before the Giants return to San Francisco to face the Red Sox in a three-game series beginning Monday. The skipper hopes to keep the All-Star catcher fresh during the club's current stretch of 16 games in 16 straight days.
"We're in August, and it's a good time to give him a little bigger break," Bochy said.
Posey, who entered Sunday batting .319 (37-for-116) against left-handers, will be a key bat against Boston southpaws Jon Lester on Monday and Felix Doubront on Wednesday.
Giants not named Posey entered Sunday batting .247 (276-for-1,118) against lefties, a clip that ranks below the MLB average of .250.
"I want Buster out there," Bochy said of Monday's game. "We are facing a left-hander."
Backup catcher Hector Sanchez made Bochy's decision to spell Posey easier. Sanchez has shown some pop with his bat in recent days, hitting home runs in each of his past two games.
Sanchez hit a game-winning three-run shot in a pinch-hit appearance with two outs in the ninth against the Nationals on Thursday. One day later, he hit another three-run home run in the Giants' 14-10 win against the Marlins.
His recent power display has encouraged Bochy. Sanchez entered Thursday's game batting .213 (10-for-47) with only three RBIs and two runs scored.
"Hector's playing well," Bochy said. "He's swinging the bat well. ... Two three-run homers, that helps get you back in the lineup a little quicker."
Joe Morgan is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Kids are taking over our forum
Original post made by Molly, Ruby Hill, on Mar 20, 2009
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 20, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Molly, where's your mom and why did she let you on the computer to write this? Also, didn't she tell you that we use our "indoor voices" here?
a resident of Castlewood Heights
on Mar 21, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Hey Now,now, I think Molly has a point. I have been noticing that some of the comments have been by oviosly kids. And you have no right to call her a kid, when she probally is a very good parent who has not been liking kids mocking us
a resident of Pleasanton Valley
on Mar 21, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Excuse me Now, now??? I can assure you that I am no little girl. I have reported your comment as offense, and sure hope that they never let yu on here again!
a resident of Parkside
on Mar 21, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Let's worry about what we have control over. Who cares if it's kids or not....maybe they have something to add! If you don't think so, ignore it and move on. Personally if my kid cared enough to engage in these discussions, I would encourage them to do so.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Mar 21, 2009 at 8:51 pm
I'm sorry if I mis-took the original post for a joke of sorts; with all of the misspellings and grammatical errors, I was almost certain that it was another case of one of the kids that Molly was saying were "taking over the forum and mocking the serious discussions of the parents." To me, it seemed like the perfect set-up, the kind of bait that the kids she was complaining about would write to see what kind of reaction "the serious parents" would give.
I think that in re-reading the original post, one can see how someone might view it that way... and so I answered in a light-hearted manner, since she did say that parents should tell the kids in no uncertain terms to "STOP IMMEDIETLY" (sic, which means "misspellings are the those of the original quotee).
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Mar 22, 2009 at 12:12 am
Yes, because we NEVER have adults on these forums acting childish do we?
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Mar 22, 2009 at 8:26 am
Stacey is a registered user.
The above post was not made by me.
a resident of Foothill Farms
on Mar 28, 2009 at 11:06 am
I think this is just stupid.
a resident of Lemoine Ranch
on Mar 28, 2009 at 11:06 am
I agree with Brenda
a resident of Pheasant Ridge
on Mar 28, 2009 at 11:07 am
I don't think that this is stupid. Molly has every right to post this
a resident of Downtown
on Apr 2, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Come on people, comment comment comment.
This is getting boring!!!!
a resident of Grey Eagle Estates
on Apr 4, 2009 at 4:48 am
If you get offened by this you have issues. You need to realize this is a public forum so people are free to say pretty much whatever they please. If you want to have an adult conversation maybe you should try doing it without a computer. This is just a place to share view points. Dont take it too seriously.


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Audit: NSA Agents Broke the Law Nearly 3,000 Times from 2011 to 2012
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NSA lawyers argued in court that sometimes agents had to break the law due to technical limitations
Imagine if you had a job where you
operated mostly independently
and in an improvisational fashion. Now imagine it was
illegal for anyone who worked with you to disclose anything
about your interaction. Imagine if there was no way anyone would seemingly ever find out if you violated your workplace's rules or behaved unethically. Would you play by those rules? Or would you break them?
I. Above the Law? NSA Agents Behave Illegally on a Regular Basis, Audit Says
The answer if you're the
U.S. National Security Agency
(NSA) is apparently "break them".
In the wake of a recent white paper in which the NSA argued it "did its best" not to spy on Americans,
an internal audit leaked to
The Washington Post
indicates the NSA broke that promise not once or twice yearly, but thousands of times every year. The May 2012 audit revealed NSA agents had
abused their power
to either accidentally or intentionally
spy on Americans
and green card holders 2,997 times in the last year.
Despite the fact that the government documents that give the NSA officials their sweeping powers --
Executive Order 12333
(President Ronald Reagan, 1981) and the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978
50 USC Chapter 36
) -- strictly forbid them from spying on U.S. citizens, it appears that NSA agents violated that central premise, acting illegally on a regular basis.
The NSA argues it has to break the law sometimes to perform its duties.
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Violations ranged from simple carelessness -- for example, a typographical error that caused a U.S. citizen's phone records to be intercepted instead of a foreign suspect's -- to brazen violations of the law -- including the violation of a court order and willful unauthorized access to data from 3,000 Americans and green-card holders (potentially out of an agent's personal vendettas, etc.).
Another major violation was disclosed in an internal NSA newsletter, which revealed that the NSA was intercepting data from foreign web services passing
through fiber-optic cables in the United States
and diverting it to storage facilities. Frequently, U.S. citizens who used these foreign services had their communications illegally collected.
The NSA's lawyers defend these violations as "acceptable" to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court -- the secret court that authorizes intelligence agency spying -- arguing that it was technologically infeasible
to spy on Americans. The agency claimed it was unable to develop algorithms to accurately prevent it from illegally monitor Americans, so the best course of action was to break the law some of the time in order to perform its designated function some of the time.
NSA prefers the terms such as "unreasonable incident" or "operator error", rather than the term "illegal" to describe when NSA agents break the law on a regular basis and violate public trust.
[Image Source: The Washington Post]
The leaks are the latest embarrassment for the NSA, which recently admitted to monitoring 1.6 percent of global web traffic per day. Of that, the NSA admitted to thoroughly inspecting nearly 77,000 gigabytes of data on a daily basis -- the equivalent of
7.7 billion emails a day
, 2.5 million hours of 128 kbps mp3 audio, or 18,000 hours of 720p video [source:
II. Senior NSA Official: Sure we Break the Law Sometimes, "We're a Human Agency"
Past audits of other government spying programs
by other agencies have showed
similar levels of rampant illegal behavior
, so this problem is not only an NSA issue.
A senior NSA official is quoted anonymously by
The Washington Post
as defending this spotty track record,
We're a human-run agency operating in a complex environment with a number of different regulatory regimes, so at times we find ourselves on the wrong side of the line. You can look at it as a percentage of our total activity that occurs each day. You look at a number in absolute terms that looks big, and when you look at it in relative terms, it looks a little different.
The official preferred the term "unreasonable" to describe their agents' behavior when they violate the law, rather than referring to it as "illegal"
The NSA in 80s, 90s, and post 9/11-era operated largely under a complete shroud of secrecy. With essentially no accountability, other than within the agency, it was virtually impossible to know whether agents were breaking the law or were performing their legal duties.
The chamber of secrets began to open in 2008 with the passage of the
FISA Amendments Act
. While the act -- signed into law by then President George W. Bush greatly expanded the powers and scope of the NSA's spying mission in the name of fighting "terrorists", it also subjected the NSA to new yearly audits from the
U.S. Department of Justice
(DOJ) and the office of the
Director of National Intelligence
. The act also required yearly reports to Congress on whether the NSA was playing by the rules.
President Obama granted the NSA new powers in 2008, in exchange for regular audtits.
[Image Source: Reuters]
However, if Congress was made aware of these violations they kept strictly confidential until
whistleblower Edward Snowden
blew the lid off the agency's nest of secrets, including slides that seemed to show the NSA was promoting illegal monitoring of Americans on a massive scale.
Mr. Snowden is currently facing criminal charges under the Espionage Act of 1917 (
) for revealing these possibly illegal actions by NSA agents. The former NSA administrator has sought asylum in Russia while he works with U.S. and UK media to responsibly publish information on the NSA's alleged (and now perhaps
) misbehavior.
The NSA is at long last seeing its dirty laundry aired and being forced to answer to the people that are paying its bills -- the taxpayers. [Image Source: The People's Cube]
Following these publications, sources close to the NSA have felt compelled to for the first time leak some of those yearly audits, allowing the public a first glimpse at the agency's rampant history of violations and arguably illegal behavior.
Now the agency finds itself in an unfamiliar place of actually being held responsible for its chronic violations of the law. At last the people paying the bills -- the taxpayers -- finally have at least a modicum of information regarding the agency's violations of the public trust. And that surely has many at the NSA feeling a little uneasy.
The Director of National Intelligence [leaked]
The Washington Post [1]
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The First-Year Residential Experience (FYRE) is an educational, community experience for first-year students with goals of easing first-year student transitions, supporting academic success, and providing opportunities for meaningful interactions with peers, faculty, and staff outside the classroom. A signature of the FYRE program is its connection with the Integrative Core Curriculum themes.
First and foremost, FYRE is an opportunity for first-year students at IC to live together as a cohort. But, programmatically FYRE is much more! FYRE provides each new student with opportunities for reflection, growth, and exploration of their ICC theme to create a true living-learning environment. To accomplish this, we rely on two excellent resources for transitioning students: (1) a Resident Assistant (at a ratio of about 1:22) who serves as a peer mentor and holds, minimally, three structured points of contact with every student each year focused on transitional issues and academic goals, and (2) a Faculty Associate (at a ratio of about 1:36) who serves as a mentor, resource, and guide to exploring students' ICC themes through creative programming and small group interactions.
This coming academic year (2014-15) FYRE will expand to include all incoming, first-year students and will house them in six residence hall clusters: (1) East Tower; (2) West Tower; (3) Hilliard, Holmes, Hood; (4) Boothroyd, Rowland, Tallcott; (5) Landon, Bogart, Clarke; and, (6) Eastman & Lyon. With the exception of two Residential Learning Communities (HOME & Honors, located in Eastman & Lyon, respectively) and two floors of Clarke that will house upper-year students, these six residence hall clusters will exclusively house the class of 2018.
Given the expansion of the FYRE program, Residential Life seeks to recruit 48 energetic, dedicated, and student–oriented Ithaca College faculty to serve as Faculty Associates for the 2014-15 academic year. The Faculty/Staff Associate role, at its core, is designed to help students explore their ICC themes in residentially based groups and achieve a set of articulated learning outcomes. To this end, it is crucial that Faculty Associates are able to creatively design learning opportunities (i.e. "Theme Programs") for students outside of the classroom and effectively partner with Resident Assistants (and other Residential Life staff) to do so.
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