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December 30, 2009
Kristen behind the scenes of Speak
I heart Speak big time... I heart Oregano a little too *tear*
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- Lorabell
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kris nd oregano were cute together! and am sad they broke up...am a robsten shipper tho...loolReplyDelete
I bawled my eyes out when I saw this. Then I saw it again a few weeks later and I was still crying like a baby. The Stew put in a fucking awesome performance!ReplyDelete
they were cute together! but it was puppy love. r&k is the real deal (;ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2009 at 6:27 AM
Im glad Im not the only one that liked Oregano and Kristen together! I thought they were cute. But I still love Kristen and Rob together......urrgh I cant choose lolReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 30, 2009 at 9:24 AM
kristen and micheal r still together and there was and there is no such thing as robsten ok k and r together so plzz ppl try to convise urself that they rnt togetherReplyDelete
I'll have to add "Speak" to my Netflix queue. Looks like an interesting movie and I heart Michael Angarano. I do, I do, I do. I love me some "Sky High" - matter fact I think I'll wait it now since I can't sleep.ReplyDelete
@TJB: OME, you've not seen Speak?! It is out-standing! And Micheal *sigh* he makes me smiley!ReplyDelete
- Lorabell :)
Yeah I think Speak was one of my favourite Kristen movies, she was brilliant in it, and so young!ReplyDelete
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Speak is such an amazing film, and Kristen proved her acting chops hardcore with it. She's in every scene, she carries the movie, and does is flawlessly! Ladies, if you haven't seen it yet, do so ASAP!ReplyDelete
I know Kristen and Micheal broke up a while ago, but I still don't understand why..?? And how? And when??ReplyDelete
I just watched this movie and OMG it's A-MAZING!!! :D:D (L)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 31, 2009 at 7:13 AM
Did anyone else see towards the ending when Michael was kidding around with Kristen, haha that was cute, and ironic. :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 1, 2010 at 9:39 PM
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The LA Galaxy Under-18's were unable to overcome a pair of early defensive breakdowns on Tuesday as they dropped their second game of the Development Academy 2-0 to the Dallas Texans.
Dallas scored two goals in the first half with strikes from Broady Hickey in the 17th minute off a penalty and Christin Soldat, who capitalized on a defensive breakdown seven minutes later. Following the Texans two goals early, the Galaxy controlled the run of play throughout the second half, but were unable to cut the lead to one. That doesn't mean that they didn't have plenty of opportunities, however, as LA was unable to find the back of the net.
Heading into the final match day, Group 8 remains wide open as the Texans lead the way with four points, the Galaxy are in second with three, New England Revolution with two, and San Jose Earthquakes with one.
The Galaxy can assure a place in Finals Week with a victory over New England and a Texans loss or tie to the Earthquakes on Thursday. If Dallas defeats San Jose then they will qualify for Finals Week regardless of the Galaxy result.
Heading into the final match, Yi believes that his players will be focused and ready on Thursday.
"I get the feeling from these guys that I don't have to say much. They know what they have to do. I strongly believe that we should have gotten something out of this game with the amount of possession and clear chances that we created for ourselves in the second half," Yi told LA Galaxy Insider. "No one likes to lose, but you have different reactions to a loss and I'm pretty upbeat going into New England. The effort that these guys put in -- besides two plays -- was outstanding."


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Oh, fine. Your supportive emails dragged me back onto the Internet — tempting as Leah Culver and iJustine's offer to link arms and walk off the Internet with me into the sunset was. Someone reminded me that my contract specifies I'm bound to write for one hundred years or until my first gray hair, whichever comes sooner. So back to whoring.
D6 is all but done for, and the moguls are ready to retreat from the Four Seasons Aviara Resort. But why fly home alone? Their planes are parked at Palomar. And the Wall Street Journal conference attracts real money, not just fickle Valley money. Here are the three ways they'd play it to pick up a lady friend, right in the lobby. Don't try this, startup types — you don't have the pull.
Go with the girls with phone numbers and stated hours. Whether it's the principal or his PA making the calls, this will narrow the field enough to give him a chance of scheduling with an escort who's available today. He could try for a girl working the hotel, but only if he's flirted already and just couldn't find a way to pop the question, "How could I convince you to fly away with me?" If she's got a price, she'll say so. Otherwise, an assistant can do the work of finding a date.
Offer a premium. No need to wait for her to explain that a last-minute travel request costs more that her standard fee; moguls would just ask right away. Since they're talking money now, which is usually off-the-record, they'll be extra precise in their language around sex. No winky innuendos about the very private nature of the jet — they'd just come out and say, "I'd like to cover your expenses and give you a bonus for taking time for me on such short notice."
Treat her like a client you want to spoil. Big business brains can do the thinking for her. They'll tell their girl she only needs to get into her lingerie, a long coat and state-issued identification (she doesn't have to show it, just have it available for the pilot), and then take the Town Car charged to their account. A last-minute trip to San Jose or New York doesn't call for a fantastic dress to wear out to dinner after, but they'll likely be gentlemanly to offer her enough of a bonus to fly home that night, or a hotel to freshen up in.


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NZ's Best Competition Just Got Better
Tuesday 29 April 2014
The New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF) New Zealand's Best short film competition will now have a combined prize pool of over $14,500 with the addition of a cinematography prize in 2014.
The inaugural Allen Guilford Cinematography Award has been initiated in honour of the late Allen Guilford by the New Zealand Cinematographers Society (NZCS). The prize will include a cash prize of $2,000, a unique crafted and engraved Pan Glass, and a one year membership to NZCS.
The Award is the latest addition to NZIFF's only competition strand. The Madman Entertainment Jury Prize, a cash prize of $5,000 for the Best New Zealand Short Film, The Friends of the Civic Short Film Award for distinctive creative achievement, a cash prize of $3,000 and the Audience Award, 25% of the net box office takings from the screenings in the four main centres (in 2013 valued at $4,500), will also be awarded at the closing night of NZIFF in Auckland. In 2014 the combined prize pool for NZ's Best short film competition will be approximately $14,500.
NZCS will provide a three member jury to judge the award-winning short film. The Allen Guilford Cinematography Award will be presented by the NZCS president Richard Bluck at the closing night of the Auckland leg of NZIFF, Saturday 2 August.
NZ's Best Selection
NZIFF programmers Bill Gosden and Michael McDonnell will shortlist the NZ short films for a guest selector. An announcement regarding the guest selector will be made later in April. Acclaimed filmmakers Roger Donaldson and Alison Maclean have previously guest selected the NZ's Best short films.


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There is simply no way to say with any degree of artfulness so I won't even try:
Los Angeles Dodgers' owner Frank McCourt is a vile piece of shit who not only ruined what was once the classiest franchise in all of sports but should also face legal consequences if allegations are true that he did reportedly not pay any taxes on $105 million he siphoned from the Dodgers' for his own personal use.
Ruthless. Litigious. Nasty. Dishonest. That's just a small smattering of the descriptions that the media have applied to McCourt, prima facie proof that all professional sports teams, like the Green Bay Packers, should be community-owned so fans don't have to witness the destruction of an institution they love.
Some are saying they are shocked by Wednesday's news of Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig appointing a trustee to take over operations of the Dodgers. Given McCourt's track record, I have no idea why. Perhaps the most vigorous defense in his favor comes from Tommy Lasorda, a profane clown when he managed the Dodgers and even more of a profane clown on the talk circuit. Lasorda says McCourt really loves the Dodgers, which is like saying that Hannibal Lecter really loved his victims before he ate their livers.
McCourt's face is a Rorschach of arrogant vanity, the perfectly coiffed white hair falling just above the ear on the sides and of fashionable length in the back, the sunglasses concealing the narrow eyes deep in squirrelly thought on ways to squeeze more money out of the franchise by raising ticket prices and lowering payroll.
There is speculation that Selig will actually try to force a sale of the Dodgers under the "best interests of baseball" clause, something he threatened with the Texas Rangers. The debt on the Dodgers is about $430 million, and the last straw for Selig came when McCourt took out a $30 million personal loan to make payroll.
Club vice chairman Steve Soboroff described Selig's actions to reporters Thursday as "irresponsible," citing a 20-year television contract with Fox valued at $3 billion. But the Dodgers have no credibility, and Selig is not one to make unnecessary waves.
Selig is clearly embarrassed by the allegations that have come out in divorce proceedings from his estranged wife Jamie McCourt, which revealed the millions that were reportedly taken from the Dodgers for personal use. In a court filing in 2009, McCourt said his liquid assets were less than $1.2 million and that he never used any money from the Dodgers' franchise for personal expenses. But other court documents indicate otherwise. Some of those uses are said to have included:
- The hiring of two sons of the McCourts for a total of $600,000, even though it appears they may have done virtually no work for that money, something the IRS is reportedly investigating."
- $150,000 a year on haircuts.
- Seven country clubs.
- Two homes in Malibu for $46 million and two in Holmby Hills for $26.5 million.
Most owners are and always will be insecure nerds no matter how many hundreds of millions they have inherited from their daddies for fun and games. It goes back to when they were kids, picked for baseball only because they owned not only all the bats and balls and bases but also a perfectly manicured stadium with a retractable roof.
At least most baseball owners like baseball, but I don't think McCourt ever did. The elegant legacy of the Dodgers, stretching back into the days of Brooklyn and the leadership of Branch Rickey and then Walter O'Malley, meant nothing to him. As article after article indicates, his real interest was to develop a parking lot the Dodgers owned into a football stadium and other commercial property.
It is inaccurate to say that the Dodgers have not had success under the McCourt reign of self-enrichment: The team has made the playoffs four times. But as ESPN the Magazine pointed out, the credit belongs to General Manager Ned Colletti, who creatively structured deals to bring in free agents as McCourt lowered the team payroll from roughly $120 million to $95 million.
If Selig made a bold move in wresting day-to-day control of the Dodgers, he also made a terrible one in ever allowing McCourt to buy the team in the first place. But in the endless conflict of interest that is professional sports, it actually made perfect sense since Rupert Murdoch and Fox Entertainment, which televises MLB games, was fissuring millions on the team and wanted out. McCourt's hatred for baseball was palpable—in trying to buy the Red Sox at one point he had plans to tear down Fenway and build a new stadium—but Selig ignored such sentiment in the best interests of Rupert.
Read the original article on The Daily Beast. Copyright 2011.


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Destination Cheyney Brings Students To Campus
November 9, 2012
About 250 students and family members visited campus on Friday, November 9, for Destination Cheyney. The college visitation was organized by the new Executive Director of Enrollment Management, Eric Hilton, Ph.D. and his staff. Most of the students were from Philadelphia and surrounding counties. Others came from New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Massachusetts.
The Marian Anderson Music Center served as base for a thorough introduction to all that Cheyney University has to offer. The goal was to help parents, students and counselors better understand the admissions process and quality of academic and student life at CU. Staff from the admissions office, student leaders and many faculty members were on hand to greet the guests and answer their questions. Energetic performances by the band, cheerleaders, dancers, and choir added a nice flair to the day.
To present a realistic university experience to the visiting students, mock classroom and faculty presentations showcased a range of University programs: Business Administration and Fashion Merchandising, Hospitality and Leisure Studies, Natural and Applied Science--including Math and Computer Science, Education and Leadership Studies, Humanities and Communications Arts--featuring Graphic Design, Theater, Art and Music, plus Social & Behavioral Science-- including Political Science, Psychology & Criminal Justice, and Guidance and Counseling.
Following lunch at Ada Georges Ballroom where guests got to sample all kinds of college cuisine, student leaders and representatives from Student Life, Residence Life and Student Activities held a panel discussion for the guest students. Meantime, across campus, visiting family members learned about financial aid and residence life from a panel of experts from University College, Residence Life, and Financial Aid.
"The Office of Admissions will be following up with these students and encouraging their admissions application to the university," Hilton said. His staff will also send personalized notes, thanking them for their attendance.
According to Hilton, parents and counselors expressed appreciation for answered questions and at least one remarked that Cheyney gave them "a good feeling about the comfort level." He also said one student remarked, "I love this school. I just got accepted and my future looks bright."


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Rendigar wrote:Thetravellor wrote:Doesnt work at all, failed 3 out 3 tries - bear and mech stun
1st off, did you follow the note after the attack list?Rendigar wrote:Note: If Corefire Imp is stunned before using Cauterize just pass and use it after recovering, then switch to carry pet
The bear will either stun the imp (in which case you Cauterize after it, then swap carry pet in and out) or it will stun your carry pet when you swap it in (which is fine). I'll have to go out there and run with that comp again and see what the numbers look like. The bear stun is a guaranteed thing and the strat has always worked in spite of it. The mech stun is not, but I remember winning even with it happening (albeit a tighter victory). The bigger risk is a crit with wind up along with the stun. I'll try and do this today and get right back to you.
Yes I followed it to the letter, and my pets are the same build as yours. I was losing by a huge margin, usually only having the carry pet alive early into the third pet.


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Knoxville (WVLT) - Friends say the McClung buildings lone commercial tenant, custom cabinet-maker Ernie Gross, vows to reopen his business, once he finds a new site.
The future is far less clear for the man who'd been buying up the McClung properties for the past sixteen years.
Volunteer TV's Gordon Boyd has his story.
Mark Saroff is not talking on camera yet, but says he will, soon, and will address what many have called Knoxville's battles with him over blight and what many downtown boosters insist, could-have-should-have-been.
"One of our most significant sets of buildings from our history as a rail-hub for the southeast our warehousing heritage," says Kim Trent from Knox Heritage Inc.
"The possibility for an incredible skyline on I-40 as people through town to see lofts and businesses right there in those buildings, and we've lost that," says Dan Tiller from KCDC.
A century plus-legacy in cinders. A decade's promises in shambles.
"It's a really sad day, Mark Saroff was very dedicated to this project," says Knox County Commissioner and friend Greg 'Lumpy' Lambert.
"He had a vision of what he wanted to see happen," says friend and Knoxville City Councilman Steve Hall.
The man City Councilman Steve Hall, and Commissioner Lumpy Lambert call friend put out his first major vision for McClung nine years ago, 90 lofts and 40,000 square feet of commercial space.
"I wouldn't say he's been a difficult person to deal with, but I wouldn't say he's been an easy person to deal with either," says Dan Tiller, from the Knoxville Community Development Corporation.
KCDC started dealing with Mark Saroff five years ago, on a grander redevelopment plan, more condos and businesses
"They turned his proposal down because he did not submit a financial plan or a timeline," says Tiller.
"I think he tried to get Bicentennial Neighborhood funding, I think he tried to get tax increment financing programs, I think he tried to get direct large grants from the city," explains Kim Trent, from Knox Heritage Inc.
KCDC says Saroff put forward a second plan only after officials had threatened to let other developers bid, or take the buildings through Eminent Domain.
The County Trustees Offices say Saroff still owes six years worth of back taxes on three of the buildings that burned.
Buildings headed for tax sale.
"It's very easy to get behind in your taxes when you've got a lot going out and not a lot going in," says Lambert. "I'd seriously doubt if he had enough insurance to actually cover the mortgages on those buildings."
Saroff's major mortgage holder describes all the buildings burned as uninsured, or underinsured.
Saroff's friends say too many people are kicking him when he's down, simply because he wanted to do things his way.
Preservationists say now, everybody suffers, when the development challenge is a series of vacant lots, rather than a huge complex, full of character.


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Minnie Transcends Cooperstown
As a youngster, I was mesmerized by the electrifying talent of Minnie Minoso. So, when I was asked to be part of the White Sox team to make the case for Minnie's Hall of Fame candidacy, it was one of the joys of my professional life.
As word came today that Minoso was three votes shy of the 75 percent needed for election, it hurt. It hurts because it would have meant so much to Minnie, who has said, "My last dream is to be in Cooperstown–to be with those guys. I want to be there. This is my life's dream."
Minoso's candidacy doesn't come up again for another three years and who knows what will happen then. As disappointed as we are right now, the truth is that while the Hall of Fame is the ultimate for a ballplayer it's not the only thing that measures a major leaguer. If the love and respect from fellow Latino players, teammates and the city of Chicago mean anything, Minnie is in a shrine all of his own.


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Notes: Bucs explain losing Shelton
Littlefield defends decision to let Tigers claim slugger
By Ed Eagle / MLB.com
Shelton after all, was selected as the Pirates' 2003 Minor League Player of the Year just months before being scooped up by the Tigers with the first overall selection in the Rule 5 Draft.
Pirates GM Dave Littlefield answered that question Monday.
"As we evaluated Shelton at that point in time, we definitely liked his bat," said Littlefield. "But the thing we weren't confident about was his defense and where he was going to be able to play [defensively]."
As surprising as it might seem now, the Pirates also had concerns about Shelton's ability to hit for power in the big leagues. After being promoted to Double-A Altoona in 2003, Shelton did not have a home run in 122 at-bats.
"In retrospect, it was a mistake," said Littlefield. "If I had it to do all over again, we certainly wouldn't have [left Shelton unprotected]. As we are now seeing, the power is obviously there."
"I tip my cap to Chris," Littlefield added. "He's obviously performing well and I hear he's improved his defense as well."
Starters must step up: Pirates manager Jim Tracy certainly doesn't need a stats page to know that his starting pitchers haven't carried their weight during the first two weeks of the season.
But the numbers are quite telling.
Entering action Monday, the Pirates ranked last among the 16 teams in the National League with a 6.45 team ERA, a figure that is nearly three-quarters of a run higher than the next worse team. Pirates starters have gone 2-7 with a 7.25 ERA through 14 games. A Pittsburgh bullpen that has been overtaxed due to consistently brief outings by the starters is 2-3 with a 5.25 ERA.
On the other hand, the Pirates ranked second in the NL in both fielding percentage (.988) and home runs (22), sixth in team batting average (.271), and they've been successful in eight of their first nine stolen base attempts.
"There is one element of this club (starting pitching) that we have to see consistency from," said Tracy. "It's going to make us a very competitive club. If all of these other elements stay in place and hold their own, we're a formidable opponent for anybody we play against. But you can't climb out of five- and six-run holes every day. You can't do it."
At least for the time being, Tracy said Monday, there won't be a shakeup in the starting rotation.
"Not in the immediacy of the situation," Tracy said. "I don't want to have those guys out there feel like you are just completely jumping the gun now."
Tracy did, however, let it be known that changes will be forthcoming if his starters don't step it up several notches in the very near future.
"I want to also make it perfectly clear we are definitely interested in results," said Tracy. "We're going to get to the point where we expect to see some of those very favorable results.
"In the interim, do we sit around every day and talk about different possibilities? We certainly do because I want it very clear to this group of players, like I said to them on the 22nd of February, we're looking at moving forward. And we're looking at dramatically improving this club."
The top internal candidate for a spot in the big league starting rotation is southpaw Tom Gorzelanny, who has gone 1-1 with a 2.57 ERA and 19 strikeouts in 14 innings during his three starts with Triple-A Indianapolis. Because Gorzelanny started Monday, he would not be able to join the Pirates staff until Saturday, at the earliest.
Ian Snell, assuming the Pirates don't skip him the next time through the rotation, is in line to start Saturday against the Houston Astros. Tracy said Monday that Snell was not in immediate danger of losing his starting job.
Tracey praises Cards, La Russa: Don't expect to see the kind of on-field confrontations between the Pirates and Cardinals coaching staffs that occured during Llyod McClendon's tenure as the Pittsburgh skipper.
Tracy, who as manager of the Dodgers was eliminated from the 2004 playoffs by the Cardinals, holds the Cardinals and their manager, Tony La Russa, in very high regard. As Tracy sees it, the Cardinals are an organization to be emulated.
The Cardinals have dominated the Pirates during their run of four playoff appearances in the last five years, particularly in Pittsburgh. The Redbirds have won 30 of the 40 meetings between the two teams since PNC Park opened in 2001, including eight of the last nine.
Paulino gets the nod: Catcher Ronny Paulino got his first start Monday night after being recalled from Indianapolis a day earlier to replace injured backstop Ryan Doumit.
Paulino had two hits in just four at-bats with the Pirates as a late-season callup last September. He's hoping to make a bigger impression during his second go-around in the big leagues.
"Now that I was here before, I know how everything goes and what I have to do during the games," said Paulino. "When you have a chance, you have to do the best you can and work 100 percent to stay."
On deck: The Pirates and Cardinals will continue their three-game series at PNC Park on Tuesday at 7:05 p.m. ET. Southpaw Oliver Perez will take the ball for the Bucs against former Pirates right-hander Jeff Suppan.
Ed Eagle is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A hypnotist's assistant has walked free from court this lunchtime (Wednesday) after a jury cleared him of sexually assaulting a woman in a pub beer garden after a show.
Self-styled hypnotherapist Steven Vallo, 67, had been helping out a professional comedy hypnotist with his show at a pub in Calderdale last summer, but he found himself charged with sexual assault after he attempted to recreate one of his feats.
Bradford Crown Court heard how Vallo, who helps people to quit smoking and lose weight, was approached by the woman after the show and asked to hypnotise her so she could experience the feelings of sexual pleasure that her partner had enjoyed after being put under by Mr Lee.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, alleged that during the session in the darkened beer garden of the pub Vallo put his hand up her dress, brushing her vagina over her underwear, and also kissed her twice on the lips.
Vallo, who has been practising hypnotherapy for 25 years but is not a member of any official organisation, denied three charges of sexual assault over the incident and told the jury: "I'm a healer not a feeler."
After just over two hours of deliberation the jury of ten women and two men unanimously cleared Vallo on all three charges.
Vallo told the jury that the woman was insistent about being put under and he said OK we'll give it a go.
He said his initial attempt to hypnotise the woman was interrupted by another pub-goer shouting "wake up" at the top of his voice.
Vallo suggested that they should call it a day, but the woman said she wanted to start again.
He said he then used a different technique which involved the woman choosing "the man of her dreams" and she selected the "Fifty Shades of Grey" character Christian Grey.
Vallo said the woman was obviously into the character and started to make noises consistent with love-making.
"She was rubbing herself between her legs with her hands," he added.
Vallo admitted that he had given the woman a "peck", but insisted he was simply saying good night and thank you before going to meet two other people who wanted to see him about quitting smoking.
He accepted that the woman had not in fact been hypnotised during the session that night, but he insisted he had not put his hand up her dress.
During cross-examination Vallo, a married man of Alder Grove, Illingworth, denied "talking dirty" to the woman and rejected suggestions that he had taken advantage of the complainant and touched her sexually.
The woman alleged that when Vallo put his hand up her dress her heart started racing and she felt scared.
"Did you feel able to say anything?" asked Mr Askins.
"No," replied the woman.
The woman suggested that she "froze" and was unable to speak out or walk away.
One of the woman's friends told the jury that when she came back into the pub she was not her normal self and later told them: "He's touched me up."


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Does this mean they are giving up on Lee? Can the other players on Memphis play with the blackhole double double no defense machine?Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Report: Clippers send Randolph to Memphis for Richardson
Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - The Los Angeles Clippers reportedly cleared some cap space for 2010, sending forward Zach Randolph to Memphis in exchange for forward/guard Quentin Richardson.
Several media sources are reporting the exchange. Randolph is set to make $33 million over the next two seasons, while Richardson makes $9 million in 2009-10, the last year of his deal.
Not only does the deal clear significant cap space for Los Angeles, but the Clippers will also receive an $8 million trade exception because of the salary differences.
League rules prevent the deal from being completed until next week.
Richardson has now been traded twice in a week and comes back to where his career began. The 6-foot-6 DePaul product was traded from New York to Memphis on draft night in exchange for Darko Milicic.
The 29-year-old, who was the Clippers' first-round pick in 2000, averaged 10.2 points in 72 games for the Knicks last season and holds a 11.5 career points per game average. He spent the first four seasons of his career with the Clips, averaging a career-high 17.2 points per game in his last season with the club in 2003-04.
Randolph, who split last season with New York and Los Angeles, will head to the Grizzlies after putting up over 20 points a game in 50 combined contests with the two clubs. The 27-year-old has career averages of 16.7 points and 8.3 rebounds in 506 career games with Portland, New York and the Clippers.


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Horse Owners: Be Prepared for Natural Disasters
- Oct 1, 2013
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Know where you can take your horses in an emergency evacuation. When possible, make arrangements with a friend or another horse owner to stable your horses well beyond the region at risk.
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Natural disasters can strike anywhere at any time, and pet owners have the added responsibility of including their animals in their emergency plans. When your pet is a horse, planning requires even more consideration, so consider these tips for protecting equine companions in the event of a disaster.
Cindy Gendron, coordinator for The Homes for Horses Coalition, said, "Different types of disasters call for different responses, from evacuating your horses to keeping them safe in a barn or in a field. Once you understand your options, the next steps are developing a plan, organizing your resources and practicing and training for possible scenarios. If a disaster does strike, you'll be ready to protect yourself and your horse."
Planning for a Disaster
- Permanently identify each horse by tattoo, microchip, or brand. In your records, include the horse's age, sex, breed, and color. Keep this information with your important papers.
- Keep halters ready for your horses. On each halter attach a luggage tag with the following information: the horse's name, your name, email address, your telephone number, and another emergency telephone number where someone can be reached. At the time of evacuation, consider additional temporary identification such as a leg band.
- Place your horses' Coggins tests, veterinary records, identification photographs, and vital information—such as medical history, allergies, and emergency telephone numbers (veterinarian, family members, etc.)—in a watertight envelope. Store the envelope with your other important papers in a safe place that will be easy for you to access, so you can take them with you when you and your horses evacuate.
- Prepare a basic first-aid kit that is portable and easily accessible.
- Be sure to have enough water, hay, feed, and medications on hand and easily transportable for several days for each horse.
- Make arrangements in advance to have your horse transported in case of an emergency. If you don't have your own trailer or don't have enough room in your trailer for horses, be sure you have several people on standby to help evacuate your horses.
- It is important that your horses are comfortable being loaded onto a trailer. If your horses are unaccustomed to being loaded onto a trailer, practice the procedure so they become used to it.
- Know where you can take your horses in an emergency evacuation. When possible, make arrangements with a friend or another horse owner to stable your horses well beyond the region at risk.
- Contact your local animal care and control agency, agricultural extension agent, or local emergency management authorities for information about shelters in your area.
If you Cannot Evacuate Your Horse
- Have a back-up plan in case it's impossible to take your horse with you when you evacuate. Consider different types of disasters and whether your horses would be better off in a barn or loose in a field. Your local humane organization, agricultural extension agent, or local emergency management agency might be able to provide you with information about your community's disaster response plans.
- Share your evacuation plans with friends and neighbors. Post detailed instructions in several places—such as the barn office or tack room, the horse trailer, and barn entrances—to ensure emergency workers can see them in case you are not able to evacuate your horses yourself.
Things which could add to the complexity of the situation and require additional planning include having exceptionally young, exceptionally old, or mobility-impaired equines; having stallions or especially high-strung horses; having a large number of horses; or being located far from a main road.
Natural disasters can occur anywhere, any time. Prepare ahead and be sure to include your horses in your emergency plans.
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I Am Alive Cheats
Here's the full Trophy list; with enough practice, you should be able to get 'em all.
Trophies (contributed by Guard Master)
There are 7 Bronze Trophies, 4 Silver Trophies, and 1 Gold Trophy.
|Do it once (Silver)
|Finish the game once(any difficulty mode)
|Elevator repair service (Bronze)
|Repair the elevator for the people stuck in High Rise level
|Fifth quick kill (Bronze)
|Perform 5 Machete quick kills while being bullied
|First Machete quick kill (Bronze)
|Perform your first Quick machete kill while being bullied
|Five victims helped (Silver)
|Help or rescue 5 victims
|Machete quick kill, the third (Bronze)
|Perform 3 Machete quick kills while being bullied
|My first rescue (Bronze)
|Help or rescue your first victim
|Some tomatoes for her (Bronze)
|Provide tomatoes to the hungry lady in Downtown streets level
|Survivor (Silver)
|Finish game in Survivor mode
|Ten victims helped (Silver)
|Help or rescue 10 victims
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|Ultimate rescuer (Gold)
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Yes the MP7040A supports over-burning. It can also burn to 80M CD-Rs. It could also be the brand of CD-R media that you're using. I use Acer, Memorex, and Smart & Friendly 80M CD-R's. Ahead has a listing of all compatible drives and which features they support. What program are you using to burn CD-R's with? Not only must the drive support over-burning, but so must the CD-R burning software. Do you have the 1.40 firmware for your MP7040A? I do recommend disabling DMA for the CD-RW drive and I would use the following setup.
Primary Master = Hard Drive
Primary Slave = Hard Drive
Secondary Master = CD-ROM Drive
Secondary Slave = CD-RW Drive
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I use cdrwin 3.7f, nero and easy cd pro 95. I use princo 74 and 80 mins cd's. My setup
PM: pri HDD
PS: cd-rom
SM: second HDD
SS: CD-RW. I have disabled the DMA
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text: We do a similar thing here at FSL. We have two sets of nodes (compsingle and compdual). They are single and dual nodes and the dual nodes have faster CPUs. We do not want users to have to worry about to which nodes they are submitting jobs. We do this with a scheduler. You could do it with a pipe queue as well if you create an alternate router and have that process do the work. 1) Set the properties to all nodes to either switch1 or switch2 depending on the location. Also, add the property comp to every node. 2) Turn off the default scheduler. set server scheduling = False 3) Write a small script (c-shell, perl) for every iteration: - Takes in all available jobs in the pipe queue (qstat -a) - Determines the number of nodes available (pbsnodes) - decides where the job is going to go, switch1 or switch2 (qstat -f <jobid>) You can ignore jobs at this step if there are not enough resources available to run the job. - runs qalter on the job to rewrite the -lnodes line (qalter) - Run the job to the execution queue. (qrun) - sleep When users run their jobs, they will submit to the generic 'comp' nodes. Since you are using node properties to specify which nodes are being used, only one execution queue is needed. Sorry you didn't get an easy answer. If you know perl ripping though the qstat and pbsnodes information shouldn't be too difficult. Craig On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:36:59PM -0400, Joey Raheb wrote: > I've posted this message up a couple of times already with no response, I'll > try one more time. I would like to try something new with PBS. We will soon > be adding more computers to our cluster and therefore will require another > switch. Since the bottleneck in the communication exists in the switch-switch > communication (1000 MB/s duplex) we would like to run all parallel jobs within > the same switch since bandwidth is near theoretical max within the switch. My > idea was to create two execution queues named switch1 and switch2 (each would > only send jobs to nodes on each respective switch) and one route queue which > would direct jobs to either switch1 or switch2 depending on the number of > nodes requested and the free number of nodes available. I thought there would > be an easy way to do this, but I am finding that there might not be. Maybe > PBS is not the correct queueing system, does anybody have any suggestions or > ideas of how I can implement the above?? > > Joey > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1 > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf -- Craig Tierney (ctierney at hpti.com) phone: 303-497-3112


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The Teanaway > Bean Peak > Climber's Log
Bean Peak Climber's Log
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|Bean Creek Loop
Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2016
|Combined with Earl's, Mary's and Judi's. Great time, my first in the Teanaway! Trip report here.
|Posted Sep 17, 2016 4:00 pm
|By Bike!
Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2015
|Went up Stafford drainage and took Standup over to Bean Creek, then up Bean on foot. Rode bikes back down to Beverly.
|Posted Aug 24, 2015 1:30 pm
|N Ridge
Date Climbed: Jun 6, 2015
|What Fred said. Still a nice way to go - we made a loop of it by hiking the trail around to the saddle between Bean and Volcanic Neck, climbing Volcanic Neck and then hiking over to bean and down.
|Posted Jul 4, 2015 10:13 am
|Fred Spicker
|N Ridge
Date Climbed: Jun 6, 2015
|Climbed with Moni. Ascended the N Ridge and descended the SW Ridge and down into the basin to the trail. We learned the hard way that the first weekend in June each year is when the Seattle Mountaineers do their "Scramble Class" on Bean. We were overwhelmed by around 30 of them on the summit. If you want solitude, pick a different date.
|Posted Jun 7, 2015 6:39 pm
|Spectacular views
Date Climbed: May 17, 2014
|Spectacular views of Mt. Stuart made the climb well worth it. Just a modestly steep ascent up a snowfield.
|Posted Jun 11, 2014 1:52 pm
|With Shawna and Lex
Date Climbed: May 24, 2014
|Climbed this first then Earl. Fun scramble and almost never exposed.
|Posted May 25, 2014 1:01 am
|7 Peak Day
Date Climbed: May 20, 2014
|Traversed Earl, Bean, Volcanic Neck, Devils Head, Bean, Judis, Marys, and Bill with Heather Anderson. 13 hours and 40 minutes round-trip.
We ended up on the summit of Bean twice. The most difficult part of the day was scrambling over and around the gendarmes on the southwest ridge leading over to Mary's.
|Posted May 24, 2014 2:08 am
|Bean Peak
Date Climbed: May 17, 2014
|Snow was melted off of ridge line and summit. Sweet views!
|Posted May 20, 2014 11:41 pm
|Snidely Whiplash
|Climbed it Countless Times
Date Climbed: May 14, 1989
|And it's always fun. Done as a ski trip on my first ascent.
|Posted Nov 11, 2013 3:04 pm
|Brian Jenkins
|Cool scramble
Date Climbed: Sep 20, 2013
|Came over from Judi's Peak with Flanders. Skirted a brown dyke on the right on the way over and then up through orange slabs scrambling up to the summit from the southwest. Descended the ridge to the north over to Volcanic Neck after.
|Posted Sep 22, 2013 3:05 am
|Earl-Bean traverse
Date Climbed: Jun 30, 2012
|Highly recommend pairing Earl and Bean. The scramble from Earl to Bean is YDS 2 to 3 depending on what you want. Minimal exposure if the line is chosen with common sense. We descended the SW side of the summit pyramid and immediately dropped down to the meadow below. Would have continued down the ridge if the weather had held.
|Posted Jul 1, 2012 12:57 am
|Bean Peak
Date Climbed: Jul 31, 2009
|One of the HOTTEST days of the year was my ascent day, and it was still one of my favorite trips ever. Great, short trip and more scrambling toward Volcanic Neck and devil's Head
|Posted Mar 12, 2012 5:46 pm
|Teanaway Summit Frenzy
Date Climbed: Sep 28, 2010
|Part of a 6-Summit amble throughout the Teanaway
|Posted Aug 22, 2011 12:50 pm
|Earl and Bean
Date Climbed: Jun 13, 2009
|Did Earl and Bean together. Great day, great views.
|Posted Feb 16, 2011 5:56 pm
|Dodged the western crest rain
Date Climbed: Aug 22, 2010
|Climbed Bean with BeauDaddy and Zephyr. Beau led the way up the scramble which was easy Class 3 at the crux. Knocked off Mary and Judi's Peak as well that day. The rock is excellent!! Great peak to end on!!!
|Posted Aug 23, 2010 12:57 am
|Great, sticky rock...
Date Climbed: Jun 27, 2010
|Did a solo trip to Earl in the morning and Bean in the afternoon... The views really are amazing. Lots of fun scrambling the rocky ridge that separates the two. Bean was more technical, which actually made it more fun out of the two.
|Posted Jun 27, 2010 10:55 pm
|Another Loop
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2008
|Fun loop trip via Beverly, Fourth Creek, and Bean Creek trails. Easy walk up from the north and better as a scramble from the south.
|Posted Nov 4, 2009 11:21 pm
|Bean/Earl/Volcanic Neck/Mary's
|Did a bunch of peaks in a long day around May of 2004. http://www.willhiteweb.com/teanawayriver/earl_peak/bean_203.htm
|Posted Oct 7, 2009 12:28 am
|Nice Rock
Date Climbed: Jun 6, 2009
|Climbed with Teri. Did Earl first then traversed ridge and dropped into Bean Basin - not planning on Bean. Began exploring the basin and the next thing we knew, Bean was "right there" LOL. Did a sporty line up the face and descended via the standard route. Easy scramble on great rock.
|Posted Jun 18, 2009 1:41 pm
|Bean from VN
Date Climbed: Jun 8, 2008
|Climbed with Volcanic neck and Earl
|Posted Jun 8, 2009 5:19 pm


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It is a given that this ad offended a lot of people. They shouldn't not be offended (/me counts the negatives to make sure he got that right) just because it wasn't "aimed" at them. It's the other way around: the companies in question (both LJ and QSOL) should be prepared to accept the vitriol they caused by running the ad.
That's like saying that David Chappelle's humour insults "white trash" because it ignores their presence in the ghetto.
What you are saying is like saying the KKK can say whatever it wants to and no one should complain because their message is targetted at white supremacists, and not people who are off


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The 66-year-old Norton woman who was shot a by a hunter in the woods behind her home on New Year's Eve is now speaking out about the incident that left her maimed, in pain and unable to walk without the use of a cane.
The 66-year-old Norton woman who was shot a by a hunter in the woods behind her home on New Year's Eve is now speaking out about the incident that left her maimed, in pain and unable to walk without the use of a cane.
Cheryl Blair said her life has been turned upside down by the incident, in which a .50-caliber lead ball blasted through her hip, shattered the top of her pelvis and pulverized all of the muscles that had allowed her to walk.
"It has been an ordeal that I wish that I didn't have to go through," said Blair, during a telephone interview on Saturday. "But it is what it is. I just have to fight as hard as I can to get my life back together."
Blair was shot by John Bergeron, an off-duty state trooper who lives down the street, who told police that he was hunting when he mistook the tail of one of Blair's dogs for that of a deer's and fired his black-powder rifle in her direction. Blair was walking her two golden retrievers through the woods behind her home, which she said was a twice-daily routine for her for the past 25 years.
Now, Blair said she has been mostly confined to her home — barring short strolls around the backyard with her dogs — and she lamented that it has been a vast turnaround from her active lifestyle before the shooting incident. Blair approximated that last week, when she transitioned to the use of a cane after relying on a walker to get around the house, was a halfway mark in her road to recovery.
On Saturday and Sunday, however, she was able to enjoy the company of her family, including three children who serve in the military. Blair and the other women from her family prepared a ham and turkey dinner for Easter.
"I love cooking," Blair said. "We all cook together for Easter. We have 16 people here. So I've got help."
Blair declined to comment on whether she is working to have Bergeron compensate her for damages and medical bills. "I can't get into that," she said.
Blair said Norton Police and the Massachusetts Environmental Police interviewed her about the shooting incident two weeks ago as part of an investigation. She said she was expecting the State Police to interview her as well during the occasion, but said "they got called away on another incident that happened at the time."
Blair said she is unsure of what's going to happen with the investigation, but said she wants Bergeron's hunting license to be revoked. Thus far, Bergeron has not been charged with any crime and has faced no penalty.
"I firmly believe there should be some type of consequence," she said. "That is my belief. ... I don't know what the outcome is going to be or has been."
Blair said she wasn't going to make a judgement on whether Bergeron is receiving special treatment because he is a state trooper. "I'm not going to answer that," she said.
Blair also responded to questions from some observers — along with Bergeron, as he is heard saying during the 911 call — about why she wasn't wearing an orange hunting vest when taking the twice-daily walk that ended in her being shot. Blair said she wasn't hunting so wasn't required to wear one; that the private land behind her home wasn't at all known for hunting; and that, most importantly, if Bergeron would have properly identified his target like a responsible hunter — rather than shot at a partially identified target, at what he believed was a deer's tail — then it wouldn't have mattered either way.
"I believe if he knew what he was aiming at, I believe he never would have shot," she said. "I have never felt unsafe in those woods. I have never run into a hunter. I don't ever hear gunshots back there."
For Blair, it's been a slow, painful recovery. Just last week, an infection sent her back to the hospital.
She spent two months in the intensive care unit at Rhode Island Hospital — during which she had 10 surgeries to address her wound — followed by a stay in rehab until Feb. 27. Blair now receives intravenous antibiotics every day while her husband redresses her wounds daily, along with frequent physical therapy work.
Since the moment she was shot, Blair resolved to fight. She recalled the moments of Dec. 31 lying on the ground in the woods, when she was overcome with fear and pain, but maintained the will to survive.
"I didn't allow myself to close my eyes," Blair said. "I just needed to remain conscious, and I was coherent the whole time. ... I felt that as long as I was awake I knew that I was alive."


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Quote Sheet – MLS Regular Season
Chicago Fire vs. Columbus Crew
Toyota Park – Bridgeview, Ill.
Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014
Chicago Fire Head Coach and Director of Soccer Frank Yallop
On talks with Jermaine Jones
"I actually spoke with Jermaine yesterday and I wanted to put forward our club and what we thought of him. We'd love him to join us. I've done that. He has an offer, it's not officially turned down because we have not heard anything back. We are still waiting. I think it was a big offer. Andrew [Hauptman] stepped up and put out a good contract offer. I think he's thinking about it and we will probably find out in the next couple of days. We have a few guys we have, sort of, a domino effect, lined up if you like. If one doesn't go, then we have to move to the next one. The closer it gets to the end of the window, those guys decide to move on and we are scrambling. But, we have some interest in some players and I'm sure we will get something hopefully done in this window for sure. I'm hoping it works out."
On Jermaine Jones' interest to join the Fire
"He's a nice kid, he's receptive, he wants to play in MLS. He's coming from a big contract and I think that anytime you have that in your background, if you want to come and play somewhere then you have to commit yourself to do that and it's maybe not as much as you like, but, it's the market value we have in this country and I think if he comes to the understanding that it can work out, and it's a good offer. It's pretty much up there for us and for the league. I'm hoping he thinks about it and takes it, but, again I'm not Jermaine and he's going to decide. We're just waiting to hear back."
On transfer talk being a distraction to the team
"No, not at all. Unless a player arrives or we sign him then it's more of a talking point. Speculation is speculation. We have no idea if he's going to sign with us or sign with somewhere else. Until you get a contract signed, like I said a couple days ago, you don't know what's going to happen. They have options, good players have options. I said it to my staff earlier, we can sign bad players because it's easy, but to sign good players it's difficult because everyone wants them and that's our issue. We are trying to get the best players we can for the club, we obviously need help in certain areas. If you go into the game tonight, it's sort of déjà vu. We've all sat here before and said the same thing: it's frustrating, maybe we didn't play great, we could have maybe gotten something more out of the game but didn't. Again, I'll say we are not quite ready to get over the hurdles of winning games and dominating play. But, it will come, we are working on some stuff, and we are trying to build for the future, which is important."
On the frustration of giving up a goal
"Your whole talk at halftime is to see the game out, let's try to get a second goal. All the things you talk about as a team to make sure they don't get into it. I thought we did a nice job in the first half. It was an even-ish game and I thought we shaded it to get the goal. It's just one of those nice professional performance. Second half and from a long ball with a broken play and boom, boom, boom, here goes [Federico] Higuain and he scores. You know right after halftime, is the worst time because the tactics you talked about three minutes earlier are useless. Now we're depressed again and I don't think it got into our guy's mind to get urgent and get moving forward. We still had a couple of chances, but I didn't think our urgency, and it's not from a lack of effort, it's more like a lack of knowledge I think a little bit to go and our urgency to go and try to win the game. I think we were trying to protect what we had and maybe go and see if we can win it. When I wanted us to go out and try and win it."
On the possibility of acquiring players from within MLS
"We don't have much to trade. That's an issue when you're trying to get people in the league. We have a first round draft pick, but sometimes that's not as valuable as you think it is. But we're always looking to improve the team. When you have a window coming up, and have one or two spots we can focus on, it sometimes becomes who's the best player. And if we're getting Jermaine Jones, we'll take him. For sure. He makes us a lot better than we are. If we want to get a certain player, a forward or attacking midfielder, or whatever we're trying to do, we're trying to get the best available. But, again, it's a domino effect. It's not easy. It would be nice to get some more options. I see a team, our guys, I love them to death; they try hard, they're desperate to win, they're very frustrated when they don't. But I think it's where we are: we're not quite good enough to get over the hump and dominate games. It's up to me to make sure that I get players in that can do that. Whether it's in this window, I'm trying my best to do some moves that will really benefit the team. But I don't want to panic, because I think the club has done that in the past, and now I'm paying for that a little bit from last year, to be honest. But I want to make sure we're building for the future, and make sure that come this window, the next window, and the next window after, that we make some solid, clean, good decisions that build the team from the back up. I think that that's my big focus right now: not to panic, and just build, and make sure we're solid."
On conversations with Chicago Fire Owner Andrew Hauptman
"I've spoken to Andrew for the last week every day for at least half an hour or forty five minutes. He's completely on board. Whatever we want to do, he's completely put up whatever funds we need. Obviously, there's maybe a little bit of a limit, that we're not going to go crazy with everything, but real substantial amounts of money, Andrew's ready to pay. He's determined to let me do my thing, and let me and Brian [Bliss] get after it. I said to him last night, 'it's not easy to do; it's not a quick fix, you have to make sure that you're building in the right direction, you have to get everyone on board, you have to see what you have to start with, and then you can start to piece together what you think is right.' And it's a little unfortunate we haven't had more results to help that along and not make it desperate. But, I think we're in the right direction. I feel good about some targets we have right now, in this window, and moving forward in January. End of the season will give us a little more scope to do some stuff too."
On Harry Shipp's absence from the Starting XI
"I honestly thought the team played well enough to win the game against Vancouver, and I wanted to reward that group that went out there. In our game tonight, we go a goal up, and we did ok; I wouldn't say we were dominant, and completely outplayed Columbus tonight. For the first half, I thought it was pretty even. I go back to Harry, he's in his rookie year where it's not easy, it's tough, it's a lot of games, a lot of minutes, a lot of training. He's taken more photographs now than he ever did, and everyone's filming him. That wears on you. Once he gets back to playing soccer, he'll be okay, but just a little tired right now."
On Patrick Ianni's performance with Jeff Larentowicz in defense
"I thought he did well again tonight. I could look at the goal again; it looked a little disjointed and sloppy. I think Jeff missed, not missed a header, but this fella flicks it on, and I don't know what happened. I haven't seen the tape, I have to look at them. But I feel pretty comfortable with those guys there. I think they work pretty hard, work well together. I think Jeff's a solid influence back there, and whoever he plays with will be okay. But I'm pleased with the two performance. They didn't give up a lot of goals and a lot of chances, and I think that's good."
Chicago Fire goalkeeper Sean Johnson
On having to make multiple saves in a short amount of time
"I think in those moments we were really pushing to get the go ahead goal – it's what the game needed. As a goalkeeper, I just have to be alert in those situations and not switch off – anything can happen – especially when you're pushing for a goal. I'm going to have to come up and make saves when we're going to try and find a goal for the lead. It's just one of those things. On the night, I think we were the better team, we were just unfortunate."
On the draw:
"It was a disappointing result having been up 1-0. You always want to go out and win the game after being up. You don't want to let it slip away, especially at home. It's a tough spot in the season for us. We're tying a lot of games, we're not playing badly but need to find it within ourselves to go out and do what's necessary to win games. We haven't found an answer yet, but obviously by the results, but we have to keep searching. Once we do find it, we really have to buy into it and keep that going for the rest of the season so we can make a push for the playoffs."
Chicago Fire defender Gonzalo Segares
On play of the back line
"I think we're doing fine. We had a clean sheet the last game and this one there was an unfortunate bounce or we could have had another one. It's frustrating because we're fighting every game, and then we have a situation like that. But we're doing fine, Jeff's a guy with a lot of experience even though he hasn't played there much he feels comfortable and we both have done well. I think he's adapted pretty quickly and done a great job."
Columbus Crew Head Coach Gregg Berhalter
On the match:
"I think we are disappointed to not come away with three points after a sluggish first half. In the second half, we created enough chances to win the game. That's a little bit disappointing. I think the reaction at halftime was everything we were looking for. So that was good. That was a positive."
On getting fresh legs in the second half:
"We wanted to make some subs. Obviously we knew Chicago had three games this week against Tottenham, and Vancouver and we wanted to take advantage of that. We put some new guys in, and hoping they will be effective as they have been in the past."
On the hand ball in the first half:
"Honestly, I haven't seen anything. So I can't comment on it. I need to look at it again."
On generating more chances in the second half:
"We identified spots that we knew where guys could get the ball to be dangerous. They were wide open. We just weren't finding them in the first half. We were giving the ball away. Our main principle was to take care of the ball and we weren't doing that. We needed to be patient and find those gaps between the midfield line and the defensive line, more towards the inside, then we can turn and play from there. I think we did that. But besides tactics, to me it was the will, it was the will of the guys, the belief in the guys, and I missed that in the first half. That's what we communicated to the guys at half time. We said you have to show more. It's not good enough."
On the team's mental mind set versus the knowledge the Crew haven't found success at Toyota Park in many years:
"I don't think so. I think today was a perfect opportunity to get three points. That's not to discredit Chicago but I thought we were there. We were in position to do it."
On playing Michael Parkhurst on the right:
"You see when he gets forward he's accurate in his passing, he's calm, and I thought we needed a little bit more accuracy in that position."
Columbus Crew Midfielder Wil Trapp
On the match:
"I thought the first half was a little slow. We started not the way we wanted, not urgent enough. Then giving up the penalty kick was unfortunate, but I thought the second half we came out obviously right off the bat. It's something we've been kind of looking at which is great. Not a pretty goal but a goal nonetheless. I thought we created a lot of chances. Sean Johnson made some big time saves for them. We were a little unlucky not to come away with three points."
On what the coaching staff said at halftime:
"He wasn't happy with our first half. He gave us some pointers about what we could do to fix it. It's mostly just a mentality sort of thing. We really didn't need to change too much tactically or technically, it was kind of just a desire sort of thing."
On battling the Fire in the standings and as rivals:
"Yes, they are definitely our closest neighbors, the noisy neighbor I guess you could say. We had a great crowd come out today. The east is tough. There's a lot of teams vying for those playoff spots. These are big games. To come away with a point we aren't happy with but it's better than no points at all."
On a three match unbeaten streak:
"It's great. We would prefer it to be three wins in a row. But every game from here on out is important."
Columbus Crew Forward Adam Bedell
On the match:
"I thought we came out a little slow in the first half. It was kind of slow paced both ways. Unlucky with the penalty kick call. Moving into the second half, I thought we came out on fire. No pun intended. Off the kick off, scoring the goal was huge. Got us into the game. I thought we dictated the play in the second half. We are happy with the second half. Hopefully we can start the game next weekend like that."
On the sluggish first half:
"I don't know what it was. Sometimes that's the way the game goes. Maybe it's a little bit of communication too. Not talking, not asking for the ball. But I thought we did better in the second half realizing where the spots were and I thought we exploited those areas and it lead to some of our chances."
On having a few excellent shots on goal:
"We had enough chances to win the game tonight. Obviously Sean Johnson stood on his head a couple times there with Ethan's shot from the cross, it was an unreal save. You put it on net, and nine times out of ten that goes in the net. You stay positive and keep trying to get those chances. They'll go next time."
On Michael Parkhurst's All Star call up:
"It's well deserved. It's great for him, it's great for the club. He's going to represent the club very well."


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Opinionated people expand your horizons. You don't have to agree with their opinions, but you at least have to think about what they say, and sometimes that will open your horizons.
Tony Avent, founder and owner of Plant Delights Nursery in North Carolina, loves bright and gaudy plants, loves to push the hardiness zones — the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture revision backs him up on that — and likes to bring new plants to the market.
He is also using more native plants, he told a packed room at New England Grows in Boston earlier this month during his lecture, "100 Perennials I Wouldn't Garden Without."
"We have to celebrate native plants not because they are native, but because they are great plants," he said. "Other plants are good too. I mean, what would they say if someone said only native people could come into your garden?"
Avent really likes bush clematis, as opposed to the vine clematis that are more popular.
"There is a whole series of native bush clematis than no one even knows," he said.
One of them is Clematis ochroleuca, which blooms in late spring with pendulous, fuzzy creamy white bells, and then has a wonderful ochre-colored seed heads in the fall. It grows to about 15 inches tall.
But there also is a bush clematis from Asia, Clematis integrifolia "Rose Colored Glasses," that offers pink flowers.
Seven of Avent's top 100 plants are echinaceas, a native plant that has grown in popularity over the past couple of decades — since varieties began being developed through tissue culture rather than by seed. Tissue-culture plants allow you to have the shape and color you want, but they do have a disadvantage.
"Using plant clones, you have to plant in the right spot," Avent said. "With seed-grown plants, they might die back, but they will reseed themselves in a better location."
He praised "Fragrant Angel" as the top of the white echinaceas, and says it will rebloom. That led to a comment about fragrant plants.
"There is fragrant and there is horticulturally fragrant," he said. "With horticulturally fragrant, the catalog says it is fragrant, so you get close and think you can smell it. The really fragrant flowers, you can smell." ("Fragrant Angel" is a truly fragrant echinacea.)
"Fatal Attraction" and "Solar Flare" have black stems, and Avent says "Solar Flare," which is new, has an unusual color — not pink and not peach, but something in between that is highly unusual.
A final echinacea I will mention is "Hot Papaya." It is 3 feet tall; double flowering, which means slightly fragrant, bright-orange pom poms; and continues through the summer. "You think, 'A plant can't look like that,' " Avent said.
Baptisia, another native, comes in a wide variety of styes. Avent said it is a plant in which "it doesn't matter where they come from. In this case, provenance doesn't matter."
He said Baptisia "Carolina Moonlight" looks as good as a lupine. He thinks B. "Cherries Jubilee," a new introduction with cinnamon-colored flowers, is "the best bicolor. It beats them all, hands down."
For something different, he recommended Baptisia leucophaea "Butterball," which, at a foot tall with pale yellow flowers covering the plant, is a rock-garden plant.
Phlox "Minnie Pearl" is a naturally occurring hybrid discovered in Mississippi and sent to Holland, and the Dutch are now selling them back to the United States. They are white, grow to about a foot tall, and are mildew-free.
Avent advised people not to trust catalogs when they say plants are mildew resistant, because they usually aren't. And most phlox are susceptible to mildew.
Phlox paniculata "Jeana" is another one with "zilch mildew with lavender pink blossoms on a 4-foot plant." Avent said it was growing in a field of different phlox, and "all the butterflies come to this one. It blooms all summer long."
He said "Peppermint Twist" with pink and white blooms is the type of gaudy plant he loves, and that "Triple Play" goes a step beyond the other phlox because it has variegated foliage.
An import for which Avent has recently developed a fondness is Asparagus cochinchinensis, a fern that — if you have both male and female plants — produces great berries on 5-foot-tall plants and turns as yellow as amsonia in the fall.
He also recommended some good peonies. Paeonia ostii is a wild species peony from China that grows from seed, gets 5 feet tall, and produces 150 flowers a year. "It should be in every single garden," he said.
"Bartzella" is an intersectional peony, standing about 3 feet tall with light-yellow flowers.
"Intersectional peonies result when herbaceous peonies are forced to have sex with tree peonies," Avent said. "The flower heads are 10 inches across. They have the sturdiness of a tree peony, but they die back to the ground in the winter."
Avent said when "Bartzella" was introduced, it cost $260 a plant, but the price has now dropped to $75, a relative bargain.
Aralia cordata is a 7-foot-tall plant that does well in semi-shade and produces 2-foot tall flower spikes. It has bright-gold foliage, and does well in sun to light shade.
Another one of Avent's gaudy plants is Delosperma "Fire Spinner," a new introduction that has eye-like flowers or bright-orange flowers that morph to magenta.
Avent said the longest blooming perennial in his garden is Tricytris ravenii, called toad lily, going from June to frost, with speckled blue flowers on a 3-foot plant. It grows in light shade.
These are less than a third of the plants on Avent's list of 100 plants, but they are some of my favorites. You can see a lot more of the offerings at plantdelights.com.
The website has a lot of offerings that would not be hardy in Maine — although all of the ones Avent mentioned in his talk would have been hardy in at least part of Maine. But the plant photos are great, as are Avent's plant descriptions.
Tom Atwell has been writing the Maine Gardener column since 2004. He is a freelance writer gardening in Cape Elizabeth and can be contacted at 767-2297 or at:


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Soulja Boy frequently shows off his stacks of cash online, posing with stacks of bills in his hands, but to keep things rolling in nicely it seems that he's resorting to selling his verses for $500 a pop. This revelation was made after viewing his SODMG website, which has a drop-down menu for "Packages," which include fees ranging from Twitter shoutouts to beats, which will also run you $500.
Album sales from his last EP, "The DeAndre Way," were dissapointing, so maybe this is a way for Soulja Boy to recoup some of his money. What do you think?


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To be fair Zonealarm's Internet Security was turned off when the virus arrived via a MSN link.
Within minutes, if not seconds of it's arrival the LAN cable was pulled (physically) to ensure minimum effects of the rest of the LAN and prevent information being removed from the PC.
The symptoms are:
program %windows%\system32\vwklerax\lsass.exe tries to access the internet each time the pc starts (ZASS asks if it should).
This program is 75 Kbytes long as opposed to %windows%\system32\lsass.exe which is 13 Kbytes long.[*]The %windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file has been raided and all access to anti-virus web sites have been blocked.[*]Zonelabs Internet Security's "Load ZoneAlarm Security Suite at startup" becomes
unchecked so that next time I boot no protection is given.[*]Windows Explorer options to show hidden and system files becomes switch off
so that you can't see the rogue folder vwklerax or the rogue lsass.exe (not even with a search for hidden files and folders).[/list]
BUT when I run a byte scan of the whole disk and even the rogue lsass.exe file ZASS does not complain.
Is this a new virus or doesn't ZASS work?
Any suggestions?
Operating System:Windows XP Pro
Product Name:ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite
Software Version:6.5


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Chondroitin Sulfate, Glucosamine's Effects on Equine OA
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Researchers learned that treating mild osteoarthritis by supplementing with chondroitin sulphate and glucosamine sulphate has longer lasting effects than previously thought.
Photo: The Horse Staff
Monitoring equine joint disease and determining the effects of nutraceutical agents, such as chondroitin sulfate (CS) and glucosamine (GlcN), is difficult to say the least. However, a group of Brazilian researchers recently determined that analyzing urinary glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) could be helpful, especially in mild osteoarthritis (OA) cases.
Raquel Baccarin, DVM, PhD, professor of veterinary medicine at University of Sao Paulo, recently led a two-part study analyzing the urinary excretion of GAGs (polysaccharides abundant in joint cartilage) in both healthy and OA-affected athletic Warmblood horses and evaluating the effects of CS and GlcN on mild equine OA.
"Since glucosamine is a precursor for GAGs ... supplemental glucosamine or chondroitin sulfate may help to prevent cartilage degeneration and treat OA," Baccarin explained.
Researchers analyzed urinary GAGs in 20 healthy horses and 27 horses diagnosed with mild OA. The team found that OA-affected horses excreted more urinary GAGs than their healthy counterparts.
Subsequently, six of the OA-affected horses received two treatment protocols, administered two months apart:
- 10 mL of intramuscular CS + GlcN given every five days for 25 days; and
- 800 mg of oral GlcN every day for 25 days.
Researchers systemically collected urine samples during and after each treatment protocol, up to Day 184 post-treatment. They found that GAGs, especially CS, appeared and remained at high levels in the urine for about three months after the end of treatment, indicating the compound was well-distributed in the body.
"This finding suggests even higher turnover of cartilage rates, perhaps in an attempt of the cartilage to regenerate itself," reported Baccarin.
Each horse underwent a physical examination, which included joint palpation and manipulation, lameness grading, joint flexion tests, and radiographic evaluation, before and 60 days after starting each treatment protocol. After CS+GlcN treatments, the researchers' assessments revealed significant improvement in flexion tests, slight decrease in joint volume and lameness scores, and slight improvement in radiographic scores.
The team concluded that urinary GAGs are reliable indicators of cartilage turnover rates and can be useful in monitoring joint disease. They also found that supplemental CS and GlcN had beneficial effects on mild OA in horses.
"These results suggest that treatment protocol proposed for mild osteoarthritis has a longer than expected effect, and that supplementation with chondroitin sulphate and glucosamine sulphate can be prescribed in an interrupted pattern throughout the desired treatment period, alternating three months of supplementation with three months without," Baccarin said. "Research is still being conducted to determine quality of tissue repair in supplemented animals to further justify supplementation."
The study, "Urinary glycosaminoglycans in horse osteoarthritis. Effects of chondroitin sulfate and glucosamine," recently appeared in Research in Veterinary Science. The article is available online.
About the Author
Casie Bazay, NBCAAM
Casie Bazay holds a bachelor of science degree in education from Oklahoma State University. She taught middle school for ten years, but now is a nationally certified equine acupressure practitioner and freelance writer. She has owned Quarter Horses nearly her entire life and has participated in a variety of horse events including Western and English pleasure, trail riding, and speed events. She was a competitive barrel racer for many years and hopes to pursue the sport again soon.
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Kanye West is really, really good at being himself. Playing the roles of others? Not so much, apparently.
Before the rapper made his acting debut in a cameo role in Anchorman 2, the rapper tried out for a part in another Will Ferrell film, 2008's Semi-Pro.
According to Gawker, West's audition tape was very unlike the general quality of his music – which is to say, it was bad. Really bad. He mysteriously wore an afro wig in the audition tape and seemed uncomfortable in his own skin, which cost him the part to Andre Benjamin, aka OutKast's Andre 3000, who's currently starring in the Jimi Hendrix biopic, Jimi: All Is By My Side.
Related: Kanye West's New Album Could Come This Fall, Single Even Sooner
"This is for the role he lost to Andre Benjamin and it's very obvious why — he's a terrible actor," an anonymous tipster told Gawker. "He's wearing a ridiculous afro wig that he brought himself to the interview. He seems insecure and wooden through the whole tape, including some gems like: 'I did it much better in my dining room' and after the audition asking 'It's not great like I leave the office and not-so-great?'"
But not everyone had that perspective. According to Alison Jones, who served as the Semi-Pro casting director, Kanye West wasn't awful.


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Courage is the story of Alfred and Jerzy - two brothers who witness a brutal incident on a local train: a couple of hooligans harass a young woman. Jerzy stands in her defense. Alfred hesitates and becomes a helpless bystander as his younger brother is thrown off the moving train. After this incident, Alfred tries to cover up his lack of courage... The film, with the excellent role of Robert Więckiewicz as Alfred, is acclaimed as one of the best Polish films in recent years.


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Romney sons, Christie make nice
The bad blood between Mitt Romney's world and Chris Christie seems to be abating: two of the former GOP presidential nominee's sons attended a fundraiser for the New Jersey governor in California this week, a source told POLITICO.
The event was held Tuesday night at the home of a local businessman in La Jolla, where the Romney family has a mansion and splits its time.
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Christie had "very good conversations with both" Matt and Craig Romney, according to the source familiar with the event.
It was put together by Scott Baugh, a local Republican county chair who was on Romney's finance committee, the source said.
Romney aides — and other Republicans — were enraged with Christie when he praised President Barack Obama just before the election for his response to Hurricane Sandy. Romney, as a former governor, understood where Christie was coming from, POLITICO's Glenn Thrush and Jonathan Martin reported in their post-election eBook about the final phase of the 2012 campaign.


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July 1, 2013
Kelly Finkowski, Manager Sports Outreach; Shannon Smith; Benjamin Purrington; Karen Hughes, Director Outpatient Rehab; Chris Kane, VP Rehab Business Unit
Catholic Health AthletiCare, which provides outpatient physical therapy and other rehab services, recently awarded two scholarships to high school seniors for the sixth year.
Athletic trainers and therapists from Partners In Rehab & AthletiCare outpatient clinics volunteer their time in fundraising efforts to provide two $500 scholarships each year.
In order to apply, graduating students must meet the following criteria – attend a high schools contracted with AthletiCare's Sports Outreach Program or whose parent or guardian is employed by Catholic Health; and plan to pursue a degree in Athletic Training, Exercise Science, Physical Therapy, Physical Therapy Assistant, Occupational Therapy, Occupational Therapy Assistant, or Speech Therapy/Pathology at an accredited college or university.
In keeping with the mission, vision and values of Catholic Health, students must submit an application that includes an essay on their intended allied health field of study and how faith-based values have impacted that decision. Letters of recommendation, volunteer or work experience, and the demonstration of one of Catholic Health's values in their own life are some of the criteria considered by the committee.
This year, Benjamin Purrington (Grand Island High School), son of Mary Ann Blest (Human Resources), was one of the scholarship honorees. He will be studying physical therapy at Daemen College in the fall.
"I am a people person and want to learn more about the people I care for than simply what is wrong with them. It is my desire to learn what is important to them, and like Joe (Baumgarden) did for me, give them the tools to safely achieve their goals," stated Ben.
Shannon Smith (Orchard Park High School) plans on studying exercise science at SUNY College at Brockport and continuing on to becoming a physical therapist. Having experienced physical therapy as a sports athlete, Shannon "loves the individual attention given to each patient. Also, no two bodies are exactly the same. Therefore, each patient's rehabilitation plan will be unique and different."
Congratulations to Ben and Shannon. The AthletiCare staff wishes them both great success in their studies!


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The overall level of support for the law is relatively unchanged in recent months, with 47 percent opposing it. But an Associated Press-GfK poll shows that only 21 percent of independents approve of the law, a new low in AP-GfK polling.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the 2010 law in the next week or so. Most of the law's major changes aimed at extending health insurance to more than 30 million Americans who now lack coverage have yet to take effect, including the requirement that most people have health insurance or pay a penalty. The insurance mandate has been among the least popular aspects of the law. Provisions that have gone into effect include extended coverage for young adults on their parents' insurance and relief for seniors with high prescription drug costs.
But whatever people think of the law, they don't want a Supreme Court ruling against it to be the last word on health care reform. More than three-fourths of Americans want their political leaders to undertake a new effort, rather than leave the health care system alone if the court rules against the law, according to the poll.
Large majorities of both opponents and backers of the law share the view that Congress and the president should start anew. The lowest level of support for new health care legislation comes from people who identify themselves as strong supporters of the tea party. Even in that group, though, nearly 60 percent favor work on a new bill.
Gary Hess, a Republican from Discovery Bay, Calif., wants the high court to throw out the entire law.
But Hess, 77, said he favors the provision requiring insurance companies to cover people regardless of their medical condition. "There needs to be compromise on both sides," the retired school administrator said.
Garrett Chase, 51, said he hopes the court leaves the law in place but agreed with Hess that the politicians should get back to work if it is struck down. "I live in the ghetto, and I see people dying every day," said Chase, an unemployed car salesman from Baltimore. "They can't get help because they can't afford it."
A new health care bill doesn't seem to be in either party's plans. Republicans say they will try to repeal whatever's left of the law after the high court rules and then wait at least until after the November elections to push replacement measures. Democrats say Obama will push to put in place whatever survives.
A narrow majority say the outcome of this year's presidential contest between Obama and his presumed challenger, Republican Mitt Romney, will have a big effect on the nation's health care system. Republicans, at 58 percent, are most likely to see a link between the election and health care. Forty-eight percent of Democrats and 42 percent of independents believe the election will have a great deal of impact on the health care system.
Obama's approval rating on handling health care was unchanged compared with polls in May and February. Forty-eight percent approve and 50 percent disapprove of his handling of the issue. Independents' disapproval of Obama on health care topped 50 percent for the first time since October.
The Associated Press-GfK Poll was conducted June 14-18 by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications. It involved landline and cellphone interviews with 1,007 adults nationwide and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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