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See? I told you I'd get back to multiple blog entries per week.
I've blogged about the dangers of envying peers before, but I feel it's time to take a closer look at this topic.
For the uninitiated, success in this business comes largely from luck. Yes, you can write good books. Yes, you can promote like crazy. But the magic balance of the right book at the right house at the right time remains largely beyond the control of the writer.
In some cases, success if the result of hard work and talent.
In some cases, success comes when the publisher isn't expecting it.
In some cases, success comes because a few key people at the publishing house force it.
But in most cases, it's an unrepeatable combination of events that leads to a whole bunch of folks buying your book for some unforeseeable reason.
Lately, I've been watching the success of some of my peers. By success, I mean:
1. Lots of books selling.
2. More money/bigger contracts being offered.
3. More opportunities presenting themselves for more sales and more money.
Publishing mimics most other facets of life, in that the more successful you are, the more successful you are. Why this is true is beyond the scope of this blog.
What is within the scope of this blog is how we, as writers, should react when someone we know lands the big deal that we would ritually sacrifice our entire family for.
I believe that envy and jealousy are useless, because they dwell on things that have to do with other people, not with us.
Unfortunately, part of being a writer is being imaginative. It's super-easy to imagine a million dollar movie deal, a #1 bestseller slot, and a seat on Oprah (on her show, not on her personally.)
We all have the lottery dream; the huge life-changing success that transforms our lives and ourselves.
When this dream actually happens to someone we've heard of, or someone we know personally, it's a natural reaction to wonder: Why not me?
But just because the reaction is natural doesn't mean it's correct. Or healthy.
Your critique buddy, who just signed a contract for more money than you've made in your whole life, simply got lucky.
It doesn't matter how hard they worked to get this deal. And it REALLY doesn't matter how hard they worked compared to you.
They got lucky.
Besides, that's their life, not yours. Envying it won't make you a better person. Wishing for it won't compel the forces that control the universe to make things fair. Dwelling on it won't make your books sell more copies.
So how do we handle it when everyone around us is flourishing and we must deal with tragedy after tragedy?
Remember the following:
Life is a race with yourself. The only person you should be comparing yourself to is you. Every time you write, speak in public, or promote yourself, it is within your power to do better than the previous time.
No one deserves success. If you believe there's some grand scorekeeper who is keeping track of how hard you're struggling, you're wrong. Luck determines who wins the lottery. Stick your sense of entitlement in your ear.
Luck favors the prepared. All you can do is try your best. The more you do, the more chances you'll have to succeed.
No one is ever satisfied. This may sound odd, but even those writers who you are convinced live lives of splendor and fortune still want more out of life. The secret isn't about getting more. It's about being happy with less.
So how should you react when your peers are living your dreams?
There's only one reaction that's acceptable.
Be happy for them.
Celebrate the success of others. It should never make you feel bad about yourself. Someone else doing well means that good things actually do happen in this very tough business, and one day they might happen to you.
Especially since you work a lot harder and you're a lot more talented. :)
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
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- DP World Tour Championship, Round Four
Metronomic McIlroy denies resurgent Rose
On a day that was billed as a shootout between the world's top two players, it was instead Justin Rose who provided the greatest challenge to Rory McIlroy at the DP World Tour Championship, but even his heart-stopping putt at the 18th could not stop the world No. 1.
McIlroy and Luke Donald, the world's leading duo, started Sunday's final round with a share of the lead. It seemed the ideal climax to the season as the 2012 PGA and European Tour Money List winner took on his 2011 equivalent, but the real battle became McIlroy v Rose as the former eventually won by two strokes.
It was a quite miraculous rise from Rose, who threatened to match the largest comeback of the year - set by Ernie Els at The Open - having started the day six shots off the pace. A course-record ten-under round of 62 had him on course for victory when he entered the clubhouse, but McIlroy still had three holes to play.
The signs of drama were there from the opening hole as Rose made birdie at one and two, reaching the turn at four-under for the day. A further birdie followed at ten before two more sandwiched an eagle at the 14th.
However, Rose's best was still to come. Facing a monster putt for eagle at the 18th - with a birdie by no means a certainty, the Brit set his ball off slowly, giving it just enough to climb over the ridge on the green. Almost stopping, Rose's ball strained to gather pace, eventually stopping an inch from the hole. It was sheer brilliance from the 32-year-old, who completed on 21-under.
At that stage McIlroy had just drained the 15th to move to 20-under, and a third consecutive birdie at the next took him level with Rose at the top of the leaderboard. A clinical sense of calm and drive was etched into his face, and his swing was proving a thing of beauty.
A wonderful iron shot at 17 set up McIlroy's chance for a fourth straight birdie, this one to take the lead, and the pump of the fist told the story as the ball dropped. Having bogeyed two of the front nine, McIlroy was now steamrolling over the back end of the course, and he simply stood with arms aloft as a fifth consecutive birdie sealed his victory on 23-under.
"It's unbelievable. I said at the start of the week I wanted to come here and hold two trophies on the 18th green, and that's what I've managed to do," McIlroy told Sky Sports.
"I didn't get off to the best of starts, like the first three days, and I saw Justin making a charge - I heard the cheers at the last and presumed he got to 21-under. So I knew I had to do something special. I couldn't have wished for the season to end any better."
McIlroy had been feeling unwell for most of the week, but said his condition improved ahead of the final round. "I felt OK today, I didn't feel good last night, but I just had to summon all my energy for these 18 holes," he said. "I just needed to hole a few more putts.
"The tee shot on 17 was very important. It's not a hole that you look at as a birdie chance. It was a tough pin today, over 200 yards into the wind and I hit a great five-iron to give myself a cushion going into the last."
Donald never got involved in the final fight as he struggled to match playing partner McIlroy, reaching the 16th at level-par for the day. He picked up a shot at the 486-yard par-four to move level with Charl Schwartzel on 18-under in third place, but Donald will have had greater expectations.
Elsewhere in the field, if one man threatened to match Rose's effort it was Sergio Garcia, who signed for an eight-under 64 to finish level with Padraig Harrington on 14-under. Garcia eagled the 18th for the second time in a week to complete a positive end to his season.
Robert Rock was back on 11-under, one ahead of Chris Wood and Ian Poulter, while Lee Westwood's disappointing week saw him finish on four-under.

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The importance of voting, the significance of upcoming elections, the problem of prescription drug abuse in Kentucky and even unclaimed money were all topics touched upon by Democrats at Wednesday night's Jefferson Jackson Dinner at Claudia Sanders Dinner House.
The event, the primary fundraiser for the Shelby County Democratic Party, drew about 200 from Shelby and surrounding counties and even farther-flung areas.
Some notable figures addressed the group, including U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth of Louisville, the keynote speaker, Speaker of the House Greg Stumbo, who served as master of ceremonies.
Also speaking were Secretary of State Allison Lundergan Grimes, Attorney General Jack Conway, State Treasurer Todd Hollenbach and State Auditor Adam Edelen.
Local Democrats who attended included Shelbyville Mayor Tom Hardesty, Shelbyville City Council members Donna Eaton, Shane Suttor and Mike Zoeller, magistrates Hubie Pollett, Eddie Kingsolver and Tony Carris, Sheriff Mike Armstrong, County Clerk Sue Carole Perry, Jailer Bobby Waits, school board members Doug Butler and Allen Phillips and Simpsonville City Administrator David Eaton.
Shelby County Democratic Party Chair Fielding Ballard kicked off the event by remarking on the merits of President Andrew Jackson, and how he epitomized the qualities for which the Democratic Party stands, but those who followed turned that atmosphere around as they took turns roasting Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell.
Or maybe not so negative, because no one seemed to be taking offense at the jokes about McConnell.
Stumbo entertained the crowd with a story about his grandfather, Wayne Stumbo, who was a coal miner.
"He was the most solid Democrat I ever saw in my life," Stumbo said. "They were kidding him one day down at the service station about how strong a Democrat he was, and they said, 'Wayne, if the Devil ran, you'd vote for him as a Democrat, wouldn't you?' He thought about it for a minute and said, 'Not in the primary, I wouldn't.'"
Yarmuth, a Louisville native and Yale University graduate who founded the weekly paper Louisville Eccentric Observer in 1990 and owned it until 2003, is un his fourth term representing Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District.
"I may not have the great fortune to represent the great people of Shelby County, but as Kentuckians, we have plenty in common," he told the crowd. "We love basketball and bourbon, and we have a mutual dislike of Mitch McConnell."
Yarmuth spoke more seriously about the election coming up next year.
"The election in 2014 is not just about who is going to represent us; this is a national election," he said. "This will be the most significant election in 2014. It will be essentially a presidential election. The attention of the nation will be on it, and by God, there's not going to be anybody who sheds more blood, sweat and tears next year, working for a Democratic victory in the United States senate race than I will be, and I hope all of you will join me."
Grimes, who has been mentioned as a potential opponent for McConnell, looked around the room, said she was impressed with the showing of Democrats from around the area.
"Thank you to those in northern Kentucky all the way over to Anderson and Frankort [for attending]," she said. "We've got Bourbon County represented here tonight, Spencer and especially Shelby County."
Grimes said Shelby County was special to her because it's the home of her close friend and mentor, Martha Layne Collins, and because it's county clerk, Sue Carole Perry, assisted her on working on voting issues.
"We've been doing great things in the office of secretary of state, making sure that all eligible Kentuckians have access to the ballot box. That's what Democracy is all about," she said.
Grimes asked the crowd, "Do you recall that presidential election back in 2004 when that secretary of state down in Florida by the name of Katherine Harris determined that thousands of overseas ballots didn't need to be counted?"
Other Democrats who outlined their accomplishments included Hollenbach, who said he was proud of being able to get unclaimed money back to its owners
"The tricky part is getting back to them; I set a pretty ambitious goal to get money back to the people," he said. "So far, have gotten back eighty-one million, but my goal is to make it one hundred million."
Conway touted the success of Kentucky's Cyber Crime Unit.
"The cyber crime unit we created is now a model for the entire country," he said. "We have taken four hundred thousand porn images of children off the Internet in the past three years alone. We've done it with a conviction rate of one-hundred percent."
Conway also spoke emotionally about traveling around the state, speaking to students at all grade levels about the dangers of becoming involved with prescription pain killers.
"I think about a little girl in Winchester who came up to me and said, 'Mr. Conway, my parents were pill heads,. So I had to go live with my aunt and uncle, but they died, and so now I live with my cousin,'" he said.
Edelen talked of walking a long, hard campaign trail and getting to know the people first hand, including one woman who got right to the point when she answered the door.
"She said state your business, so I said, 'Well, ma'am, my name is Adam Edelen, I've come a long way, and I'm running to be your taxpayer watchdog, and I guess my business is asking for your vote,'" Edelen said. "She said, 'Honey, you've got it, but, as long as I've got you here, my business is selling quilts and pickled beets.' My mother didn't raise a fool. Fifty-five dollars later, I had a quilt and a jar of pickled beets."
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With Ubuntu 12.04.2, the kernel team introduced the idea of the "hardware enablement kernel" (HWE), originally intended to support new hardware for bare metal server and desktop. In fact, the documentation indicates that HWE images are not suitable for Virtual or Cloud Computing environments. The thought was that cloud and virtual environments provide stable hardware and that the newer kernel features would not be needed.
Time has proven this assumption painfully wrong. Take for example the need for drivers in virtual environments. Several of the Cloud providers that we have engaged with have requested the use of the HWE kernel by default. On GCE, the HWE kernels provide support for their NVME disks or multiqueue NIC support. Azure has benefited from having an updated HyperV driver stack resulting in better performance. When we engaged with VMware Air, the 12.04 kernel lacked the necessary drivers.
Perhaps more germane to our Cloud users is that containers are using kernel features. 12.04 users need to use the HWE kernel in order to make use of Docker. The new Ubuntu Fan project will be enabled for 14.04 via the HWE-V kernel for Ubuntu 14.04.3. If you use Ubuntu as your container host, you will likely consider using an HWE kernel.
And with that there has been a steady chorus of people requesting that we provide HWE image builds for AWS. The problem has never been the base builds; building the base bits is fairly easy. The hard part is that by adding base builds, each daily and release build goes form 96 images for AWS to 288 (needless to say that is quite a problem). Over the last few weeks -- largely in my spare time -- I've been working out what it would take to deliver HWE images for AWS.
I am happy to announce that as of today, we are now building HWE-U (3.16) and HWE-V (3.19) Ubuntu 14.04 images for AWS. To be clear, we are not making any behavioral changes to the standard Ubuntu 14.04 images. Unless users opt into using an HWE image on AWS they will continue to get the 3.13 kernel. However, for those who want newer kernels, they now have the choice.
For the time being, only amd64 and i386 builds are being published.. Over the next few weeks, we expect the HWE images to reach full feature parity including release promotions, and indexing. And I fully expect that the HWE-V version of 14.04 will include our recent Fan project once the SRU's complete.
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A Brief Survey of Vertical Gardens, Plantscrapers, and Edible Restaurants
What we like to think of as the greatest French invasion since Ladurée opened its doors on Madison Avenue, Patrick Blanc's revolutionary mur végétal was installed at The New York Botanical Garden last month. Described as "mesmerizing and seductive," the Orchid Show is not only the nation's largest exhibition of the mysterious, exotic plant, but it's also one of the few places in the States where you can experience what Time Magazine called one of The 50 Best Inventions of 2009: the vertical garden.
Inspiring architects and designers the world over to explore everything from vertical farms, skyscraper greenhouses, living murals, and restaurants with edible façades that take the notion of locavore to another level entirely, our favorite green-haired botanist has helped to usher in the post-industrial era's successor — a new design epoch that we think should be classified as The Age of the Plant.
From Plantagon's skyscraper farms in Sweden to the world's first vertical forest in Italy to Singapore's modern reinterpretation of the hanging gardens of Babylon, click through to check out our favorite living projects that are a welcome sign of today's wilder, nature-loving times.
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Every year World Post Day celebrates the establishment, in 1874, of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), with its headquarters in the Swiss capital Berne, it is the second oldest international organization worldwide.
The purpose of the day is to create awareness of the role of the postal sector in people's and businesses' everyday lives.
Every year, more than 150 countries celebrate World Post Day in a variety of ways. In certain countries, World Post Day is observed as a working holiday. Many Posts use the event to introduce or promote new postal products and services. Some Posts also use World Post Day to reward their employees for good service.
In many countries, philatelic exhibitions are organized and new stamps and date cancellation marks are issued. Other activities include the display of World Post Day posters in post offices and other public places, open days at post offices, mail centers and postal museums, the holding of conferences, seminars and workshops, as well as cultural, sport and other recreational activities. Many postal administrations issue special souvenirs such as T-shirts and badges.
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The UPU in cooperation with UNESCO has, for the past 40 years, organized an International Letter-writing Competition for young people aged up to 15. Entries must reach the UPU International Bureau no later than 30 April each year.
Each year's theme is different, and the theme for 2012 is: "Write a letter to an athlete or sports figure you admire to explain what the Olympic Games mean to you." The theme coincides with the Olympic Games being held in London, England, in 2012.
The Olympic Movement seeks to create a better world through sports, by promoting the universal values of excellence, friendship and respect. With these values in mind, young letter-writers are invited to send in their submissions no later than 30 April 2012. All submissions become the property of the UPU.
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In the meantime, I want say thank you to my gal Laurie for all her help. She's an amazing Product Girl contributor. Didn't you love her Nars posts from last week? She's helped Product Girl grow since she came on board and I can't thank her enough for it.
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Queensland Raceway hosts the Coates Hire Ipswich Super Sprint, where the Australian V8 Supercar Championships thrills racegoers. You can also have the V8 Race Experience where you get behind the wheel of a race-prepared V8 – Ford or Holden – and feel the buzz of driving with a pro at your side guiding you. Or take your own street machine, hot rod or import for a spin in Powercruise.
For drag racing, Willowbank Raceway hosts the Winternationals – the largest drag racing event outside the USA, which has all the top pro categories including fire-breathing Top Fuel Dragsters. Test 'n' Tunes lets you race the clock or your mates with your own car or bike in a safe, controlled environment.


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VIDEO: FIBA: Day Five Wrap
GRANADA, SPAIN — There will be no easy games on the A-B side of the 16-team bracket at the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup. Outside of Spain and the United States, there are probably nine second-tier teams in this tournament, and six of those nine will be in Madrid starting Saturday.
Throw in Spain and there's basically one opponent (fourth place in Group B) you might choose to face on that side of the bracket. And Spain will likely get that opponent. So there are bound to be three very good matchups in the round of 16. Good news for fans, bad news for a bunch of teams hoping for a medal.
Brazil (3-1) is one of those teams. And while it can't avoid two other second-tier squads in the round of 16 and quarterfinals, it did the next best thing: likely avoiding Spain until the semis with what will probably be a second-place finish in Group A.
The Brazilians still have one game to play (vs. Egypt on Thursday), but look good for second after beating France on Saturday and picking up another huge win, 81-73, over Serbia (2-2) on Wednesday.
It was a game of wild swings. Brazil's offense looked better than it had in a long time in the first half, scoring 48 points on just 33 possessions. A turnaround jumper by Leandro Barbosa gave Brazil a 16-point lead at the half.
As good as the Brazil offense was in the first 20 minutes, Serbia's was better in the next 10. It turned that 16-point deficit into a four-point lead with an incredible 32-12 third quarter. Serbia then led by as many as seven early in the fourth.
But Brazil wasn't done. Sparked by a couple of huge Marquinhos Vieira 3s, they went on a 12-0 run to go back up five. Serbia couldn't get anything done offensively as Tiago Splitter drew two straight charges on Miroslav Raduljica, who also went 1-for-4 from the free-throw line down the stretch.
Former Hornet Vieira (known as Marcus Vinicius when he was in the NBA) hit one more big 3 and finished with a game-high 21 points, having shot 6-for-9 from beyond the arc.
Though they have Marcelo Huertas and Leandro Barbosa in the backcourt to go with three NBA bigs, Brazil can struggle offensively if they're not hitting 3s. The 6-9 Vieira hit two on his team's first three possessions of the game and the floodgates opened from there.
"We need him," Huertas said afterward, "as much as we need Leandro's speed or for our bigs to dominate in the post. For us, when the guy has a day like he had today, we know if we set a good screen or find him open in the corner, that ball is going in.
"The guy is tall. It's very hard to contest a shooter like him."
Brazil got here with a wildcard invitation, having gone 0-4 at last year's FIBA Americas tournament. But they were an obvious pick, with the ability to put a much better team on the floor than they did in 2013 and having played well at the 2010 World Championship and 2012 Olympics.
Both of those years, they lost narrow decisions to Argentina in the first knockout round (round of 16 in '10, quarterfinals in '12). They'd love to avenge those losses this year, and they clearly have their eyes on a medal. Wednesday's win was a big step toward that, because you can't medal if you lose to Spain or USA before the semifinals.
"For us, it's big," Huertas said. "We want to go as far as we can in this competition. We really feel we have a team that can compete at the highest level."
More notes from Brazil 81, Serbia 73…
- After an ugly start to Monday's game against Spain, Brazil coach Ruben Magnano changed his lineup, starting Anderson Varejao instead of Nene. The move worked, with Brazil jumping out to a 14-4 lead.
- Suns draft pick Bogdan Bogdanovic hit a gutty, step-back 3 during Serbia's big third-quarter run, but was rather quiet otherwise, scoring eight points on 2-for-7 shooting.
- Barbosa is 31, but still has some game left. He's averaged 11.5 points and has shot 6-for-13 from 3-point range through four games. Against Spain on Monday, he was the only Brazilian player who could get anything done offensively. Barbosa and Shaun Livingston should be an interesting back-up backcourt with the Warriors.
- Unless it can beat Spain on Thursday, Serbia is looking at a fourth-place finish in Group A and a round-of-16 matchup with the winner of Thursday's Argentina-Greece game on Sunday. Raduljica downplayed the significance of his team's two losses to France and Brazil. "It didn't affect us, because we don't calculate are we going to win or lose. Of course, we want to win every game. It's just how we go out on the court, do our best, and try to win."
Other games of note…
Group A: Spain 88, France 64
Spain (4-0) passed test No. 2, which was slightly tougher than Monday's game against Brazil. France (2-2) withstood a quick start from the hosts to come back and tie the game late in the first quarter. But a buzzer-beating three from Juan Carlos Navarro gave Spain the lead for good.
Despite a flurry of third-quarter turnovers and fouls by their opponent, Spain didn't really open the game up until early in the fourth. Their second-half energy wasn't as good as it was against Brazil or in the first half.
Pau Gasol (15 points, four rebounds, two blocks) didn't dominate as much as he did against Brazil, but brother Marc (17 points, six rebounds, three steals) and Serge Ibaka (10 points, eight rebounds, two blocks) picked up the slack.
- Spain has four NBA bigs on its roster, but only uses three in its regular rotation, with Victor Claver at the end of the bench. So Marc Gasol played the first 14:35 of the game. In fact, the whole Spanish starting lineup played the entire first quarter.
- Nicolas Batum couldn't really take advantage of a mismatch with the smaller Navarro. Batum scored 11 points on 5-for-15 shooting.
- 2013 draft pick Joffrey Lauvergne got a good test, starting against the Gasol brothers. He mostly held his own, but Pau's size, in particular, gave him trouble. He shot 3-for-9, struggling to finish in the paint.
- Lauvergne said Wednesday that the Nuggets offered him a contract this summer, but it wasn't enough for him to come over. He signed a more lucrative two-year deal with Khimki, with a buyout option next year. Denver still retains his rights.
- Lauvergne is really too small to play the five, but that's where France needs him with their veteran centers missing the World Cup. (Rudy Gobert backs him up.) If he's going to play the four in the NBA, he'll need to be able to shoot. He took a couple of threes on Wednesday and his form looked OK, but both were off the mark.
- Evan Fournier wasn't in the France rotation, but finally showed a little offense, scoring nine points on 4-for-7 shooting in garbage time.
Group B: Puerto Rico 77, Philippines 73
Another close game, another heartbreaker and elimination for the Philippines (0-4), who led by as many as 14 in the second quarter and by three, with the ball, with 2:30 left in the fourth. They committed a couple of bad turnovers in the final two minutes and J.J. Barea came up huge for Puerto Rico (1-3), who stayed alive with the win.
Barea pulled up for three to tie the game with 2:10 left. He then converted a tough drive with just under a minute to go to give the boricuas the lead. He finished with 30 points on 8-for-15 shooting, getting to the line 12 times and still asking for a foul call whenever he didn't.
Andray Blatche had 25 points and 14 rebounds for the Philippines, which will have one more shot at a win against Senegal on Thursday.
More Day 5 notes
- Mexico's loss to Australia makes it even more likely that they will finish fourth in Group D and be USA's opponent in the round of 16 on Saturday.
- Slovenia (4-0) trailed by three early in the fourth quarter and didn't play Goran Dragic at all in the final period, but managed to remain unbeaten with a 93-87 win over Angola.
- Gorgui Dieng finally had an off night, shooting just 4-for-12 as Senegal got hammered by Argentina.
- Donatas Motiejunas recovered well from not playing the entire second half against Australia on Tuesday. He had 18 points, seven rebounds and five assists in Lithuania's win over Korea.
- Greece remained unbeaten in Group B with a 76-65 win over Croatia. Incoming Rockets rookie Kostas Papanikolaou had his best game of the tournament, scoring 14 points on 7-for-10 shooting.
Big games on tap for Thursday
There's still a lot to be determined on the final day of pool play.
- Senegal can clinch a surprise trip to the knockout rounds, but needs to hold off the pesky Philippines team (8 a.m. ET).
- The winner of Finland-New Zealand (9 a.m. ET) will have a chance to squeak in out of Group C with a decisive point differential.
- Lithuania (3-1) and Slovenia (4-0) have both clinched spots in the knockout rounds, but their game (3:30 p.m. ET) will be for first place in Group D and a chance to avoid the U.S. until the semifinals.
- Argentina (3-1) and Greece (4-0) are in the same exact situation on the other half of the bracket. The winner of their game (4 p.m. ET) will take first place in Group B and avoid Spain until the semis.
- Spain gets its last test of group play against Serbia (4 p.m. ET, NBA TV).


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GOP: Fighting words from Obama
Republicans had some sincerely nice things to say about President Barack Obama's second inaugural address.
It was delivered flawlessly. The president mentioned God and the republic. You certainly can't top Beyoncé's rendition of the national anthem as the coda to the ceremony.
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But the GOP's attempts to be nice couldn't conceal its real feelings about the content of Obama's address, delivered before lawmakers from both parties on the Capitol's West Front. Republicans really didn't like the liberal policy agenda that Obama outlined, including just about every progressive priority and only some of their own, including hugely controversial topics like gay rights, income inequality, climate change, gun control and immigration.
In fact, Republicans complained that the 18-minute speech sounded much more like a sharply edged partisan campaign speech meant to set up a fight than an inaugural address intended to inspire togetherness and unity with soaring rhetoric.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama testifies to the power of government)
"The words were code for a progressive agenda. I'm hoping that the president will recognize that compromise should have been the words for today, and they clearly weren't," said Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), a frequent Obama critic who has zealously pursued a contempt case against Attorney General Eric Holder.
"We were hoping that he would use this day to reach out to all Americans and all parties. He clearly did not."
Republicans are aware of the larger import of Monday's ceremony. Obama will be sitting in the Oval Office for the next four years, he's riding high in the polls and he's already forced the GOP to retreat on increasing taxes since his Election Day victory. They know the Obama of 2013 is not the same Obama of 2009. Gone are the urgent calls for bipartisanship. Instead, they find a commander in chief who knows what he wants and is willing to use all the tools at his disposal — including the unmatched bully pulpit of the presidency — to get it.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) congratulated Obama on his second term, and she urged both parties to seek bipartisan solutions to the many problems facing the country.
Yet as for Obama's speech, Collins — one of the few remaining GOP moderates in the Senate — wasn't a fan. "The speech was more of a campaign-style speech than I expected," Collins said. "But he delivered it very well, and it certainly resonated with the people who came."
( Also on POLITICO: Obama: Medicare, Social Security changes only on my terms)
"Maybe it was just the final stage of the campaign, and now we can all get to governing," Collins added.
But just as Obama seemed to be in campaign mode Monday, Republicans were more than happy to meet his volleys.


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Beyonce + Tina Knowles Address Fake Bump and Surrogacy Rumors
Despite all the rumors that surrounded Beyonce and baby Blue Ivy, the 'Single Ladies' singer has kept calm and pretty much laughed off all of the conspiracy theorists. The World's Most Beautiful Woman kept her cool in the new issue of PEOPLE, scoffing at the haters who claim that her bump was fake.
When asked about the surrogacy rumors, Bey shrugged them off like the class act she is. "That was crazy. It wasn't hurtful, it was just crazy," she said. "[I thought] 'Where did they come up with this?'"
Someone who didn't take the rumors so lightly? Beyonce's mom, Tina Knowles. "I thought it was very unfair and very cruel that someone would think that someone would be that diabolical to keep up a charade like that for nine months. As a mother it was painful for me to hear the crazy rumors," Knowles said. "And I even had people ask me, which was so ridiculous."
Knowles also addressed the now infamous Australian TV interview that first sparked and amplified rumors of a faked pregnancy. "It was a fabric that folded — does fabric not fold?" the protective grandma said. "Oh my gosh, so stupid."
We have to agree with Bey and Knowles on this one. It's pretty sad that people can't just be happy for Beyonce and Jay-Z, but thankfully, their fans helped drown out the foes. Knowles told the mag, "There was so much love and well wishes from all over the world — it made it easier to deal with the stupid rumors."


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Emil J. "Joe" Trainor
Emil J. "Joe" Trainor of Cold Spring, NY died suddenly on Tuesday, January 4, 2000 at the age of 64.
Born in Manhattan on February 11, 1935 he was the son of the late Eugene and Bijou Katzenstein Trainor. Mr. Trainor was a self-employed computer graphics designer. He has been an area resident for the last 20 years and was a member and deacon of the First Presbyterian Church of Philipstown. A skilled magician, he was a member and held leadership positions in several magicians' guilds.
Survivors include three daughters from his marriage to Peggy Hastings Sanford; Caroline Salazar of Cold Spring, Elizabeth McNiel of Memphis, Tennessee and Abagail Bolebruch of Gloversville, NY. His four grandchildren, Elizabeth, Stefanie, Juan Jr. and William Salazar also survive him.
Calling hours took place at the Clinton Funeral Home, Cold Spring, on Friday. Funeral services were held at the First Presbyterian Church of Philipstown on Saturday, January 8, 2000. The Rev. William Weisenbach officiated. Private cremation took place in Ferncliff crematory in Hartsdale, NY. Arrangements were under the direction of The Clinton Funeral Home of Cold Spring.
J. Lawrence A. Pariseau
J. Lawrence A. Pariseau of Garrison, NY died on Saturday, January 8, 2000 in Stony Brook Medical Center in Brookha-ven, NY at the age of 76.
Born on November 15, 1923 in Salem, MA, he was the son of the late Clephas Ovila and Elmina Brillant Pariseau. He was a retired air freight handler for American Airlines at LaGuardia Airport in Queens. An area resident for 10 years coming from Flushing, Queens, he was a charter member of the Flushing Volunteer Ambulance Corp., a World War II Navy Combat Veteran and a parishioner of Our Lady of Loretto Church.
Mr. Pariseau was predeceased by his wife, Dr. Andree' Marie Louise Pariseau on August 25, 1996.
Survivors include four children, The Rev. Denise P. Mantell of Matawan, NJ, Daniel L. Pariseau of PA, Lawrence D. Pariseau and Chantal Monroe, both of Garrison. 11 grandchildren also survive him.
Calling hours and services took place at the Clinton Funeral Home on Tuesday, January 11, 2000. Services were officiated by his daughter, the Rev. Denise P. Mantall. Private cremation took place at Ferncliff crematory in Hartsdale, NY. The family has requested donations to St. Jude Children's Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105. Arrangements were under the direction of The Clinton Funeral Home, Cold Spring.
Janet Lane
Funeral services were held last Sunday for Janet Lane, a long-time resident of Putnam Valley. She had resided in Lake Peekskill for nearly forty five years before making her home with her late husband Jesse in Florida in 1975.
Originally from Forest Hills, NY, she was active in Jewish religious affairs. She was a charter member of the Forest Hills Jewish Center. She is also known in Putnam Valley as one of the early founders of the Reform Temple of Putnam Valley in the mid-1960's. For many years she served as the Treasurer for the Sisterhood of Temple Israel in Lake Peekskill.
In the mid-1950's, as an active member of the Putnam Valley Democratic Club, she testified before a special New York State Committee headed by then-Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz supporting the right of voters to choose their residency for voting purposes in support of Putnam Valley voters from New York City. That case opened the way for continued voting by residents at a residency of their choice.
She is survived by three sons, George, Michael and Stanley. Survivors also include five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held in Larchmont on Sunday, January 9, 2000.
Harry James Brown
Harry James Brown died at age 74 in Melbourne, FL.
He was born on December 28, 1924 in Bowdoinham, Maine.
He was the son of the late Maxamilla and Carl Brown.
He moved to Cold Sprig as a child where he resided until he entered the military at age 17.
He retired as Staff Sgt. after a 26-year career in the US Army. He was a veteran of World War II and the Korean War.
He is survived by two daughters, Robin and Leshia of Melbourne, FL; a sister, Mrs. Kenneth (Marion) Smith of Daytona, FL; several grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
Ernest Amato
Ernest Amato died December 18, 1999 at his home on Fishkill Road, Nelsonville.
Mr. Amato was born in Cold spring on April 18, 1928. He was retired owner of Amato Builders and a lifetime member of the Cold Spring Fire Company.
He is survived by his wife Karin (Hale) Amato; two sons, Jeffrey of Cold Spring and Alex (at home); three daughters, Mary Post of Poughkeepsie; Toniann Sabatini of Kent, NY and Jillian of East Boston, MA; 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Also surviving are two brothers, Anthony and Edward of Cold Spring and two sisters, Rose Salvas of Newport Richey, FL and Dolly Metta of Bridgeport, CT.
He was predeceased by two brothers, Frank and Albert Amato and two sisters, Josiphine and Ella.
A Mass was held on December 21, 1999 at Our Lady of Loretto Church, Cold Spring.
Interment was in Cold Spring Cemetery, under the direction of Auchmoody Funeral Homes, Inc.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Cold Spring Fire Company or Hospice of Westchester-Putnam, 100 South Road, Mount Kisco, NY 10546.


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I Steal Anne Hathaway's Oscar Hair and Makeup
As unofficial president of the girls-with-short-hair club, I was elated to see major celebs sporting pixie cuts at the Oscars this year: Halle Berry, Charlize Theron, and Anne Hathaway. And when Van Michael Miami Salon asked me to be the short hair model for their Deco Drive Oscar makeover story, I, of course, said yes. A celeb-style makeover: that's a no-brainer. With Leslie Munsell giving makeup transformations and Jessica Richardson killing it in the celeb hair department, it went a little something like this: Annie Vazquez of The Fashion Poet getting her reverse chignon updo and makeup on a la Jennifer Lawrence. In lieu of Anne's awful high beam hinting gown, I'm wearing my vintage beaded dress and Pour la Victoire shoes. Me pretending to be Anne Hathaway, Jalene as Reese Witherspoon in old Hollywood waves, Crystal as Jennifer Hudson in sleek and straight and Annie as Jennifer Lawrence all done up. I'm rocking…Read More


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On Saturday, 130 drawings of Massachusetts servicemen and -women will hang in the Pembroke Town Hall. The portraits are part of a traveling exhibit by Woburn artist Gina Johnson, who has sketched many of the military members with Massachusetts ties who died while or after serving in Iraq or Afghanistan since Sept. 11, 2001.
On Saturday, the seventh anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, Elaine Crudup will go to Pembroke Town Hall to see her son's portrait. Army Spc. Jesse Crudup of Pembroke died of a pulmonary embolism in 2008, four years after his return from Iraq. Elaine Crudup said her son was "never the same" after serving in the war. She attributes his death to depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
On Saturday, a portrait of Crudup will hang in Pembroke Town Hall along with 130 other drawings of Massachusetts servicemen and women. The portraits are part of a traveling exhibit by Woburn artist Gina Johnson, who has sketched many of the military members with Massachusetts ties who died while or after serving in Iraq or Afghanistan since Sept. 11, 2001.
Johnson included members of the military who died either by their own hand or because of a service-related illness.
"This is my wall of all my heroes, and I think that anybody who voluntarily goes into the service and puts their life on the line – regardless of whether they come home and meet their death – they are my heroes," Johnson said.
The exhibit, "Faces of Remembrance," is especially meaningful in Pembroke, which has lost three men to the Iraq war, including Crudup.
Marine 1st Lt. Brian McPhillips, 25, was killed on April 4, 2003, in a firefight in Iraq. Army Pfc. Matthew Bean, 22, died in a Navy hospital in Maryland on May 31, 2007, days after being shot in the head by a sniper in Iraq while searching for three kidnapped U.S. soldiers.
Johnson said the portraits can remind people that there is a face behind every name.
"It's like meeting that person," she said. "One of those images will just etch its memory in your heart so it becomes more than just a name."
Elaine Crudup heard about Johnson's traveling exhibit from her sister, Janet Salwa, who saw the display at a Lowell Spinners minor league baseball game. Salwa stopped in her tracks in front of Jesse Crudup's portrait.
"Her nephew was looking back at her," Johnson recalled. "She was almost too shocked to talk to me."
When Crudup heard about the portrait of her son, she contacted Julie Caruso, chairman of the Pembroke Military Support Group, to see about getting the exhibit brought to town.
"It's beautiful," Crudup said of Johnson's sketch of her son. "She did an awesome job. It looks just like him."
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The CES 2012 exhibition held in Las Vegas from Tuesday, January 10 to Friday, January 13 saw some new and interesting announcements and releases. One such announcement made by Sigma, one of the major manufacturers of cameras, lenses, flashes and other photographic accessories, unveiled the world's first 180mm f/2.8 macro lens that features a 1:1 magnification ratio. Apparently, out of the only two pre-production models, one of them has gone missing.
The Sigma APO Macro 180mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM is the world's first 180mm macro lens that offers a magnification ratio of 1:1 and a large maximum aperture of F2.8. The lens is a successor to the older 180mm F3.5 EX DG macro. The new lens features Sigma's proprietary Optical Stabilizer (OS) technology and the wide aperture features faster shutter speeds in low light and a narrow depth of field.
The lens also has three "F" Low Dispersion (FLD) glass elements, which have an equivalent performance to a fluorite glass. These FLDs are included to provide correction for color aberrations and an inner focusing system minimizes aberrations that occur as shooting distances change.
At 1:1 magnification, this lens has a focusing distance of 18.5 inches, which is a greater working distance than shorter focal length macro lenses, making it advantageous when taking pictures of highly sensitive subjects like butterflies.
The lens is compatible to Sigma's tele-converters, and the focal length can be extended to 252mm f/4.5 using the AF 1.4x EX converter (404mm equiv.). It can also be extended to 360mm f/7 via the AF 2x EX converter (576mm equiv.), however, in this case you'll lose the AF though.
According to the president of Sigma Corporation of America, Mark Amir-Hamzeh –
"Our first 180mm macro was very popular with macro photographers and we're certain that discerning photographers will be very impressed with its new technical and performance upgrades. The Optical Stabilizer technology and faster maximum aperture will make it even easier for users to capture the close-up, intricate details in the tiny world around them. We've released some really incredible products in the past year – there's truly something in our lineup for every type and level of photographer."
There are no further details available about the lost lens; however, it's definitely worth hundreds of dollars. Sigma, however, has not revealed the pricing and availability of the lens yet.
Complete Specifications of Sigma APO Macro 180mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM
Principal specifications
- Lens Type: Prime lens
- Max Format Size: 35mm FF
- Focal length: 180 mm
- Image stabilisation: Yes
- Lens mount: Sigma SA
- Maximum aperture: F2.8
- Minimum aperture: F22.0
- Aperture ring: No
- Number of diaphragm blades: 9
- Elements: 19
- Groups: 14
- Special elements / coatings: 3 FLD glass elements
- Minimum focus: 0.47 m (18.50″)
- Maximum magnification: 1x
- Autofocus: Yes
- Motor type: Ring-type ultrasonic
- Full time manual: Yes
- Focus method: Internal
- Focus notes: Floating focus system
- Distance scale: Yes
- DoF scale: No
- Diameter: 95 mm (3.74″)
- Length: 204 mm (8.03″)
- Sealing: No
- Filter thread: 86 mm
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The term "otitis media" means inflammation of the middle ear, usually due to colds or allergies. The inflammation often leads to ear infections. Otitis media is a common childhood illness that usually requires a doctor's visit. In adults, it is a less frequent but quite disabling cause of ear pain.
Otitis media occurs most often among infants and young children because their inner ears are less developed and at an angle where bacteria, viruses, and other irritants can easily enter through the throat. Otitis media is often accompanied by a stuffy, runny nose. Many children get acute cases that go away within a few days after treatment with antibiotics. Some children, however, get recurring bouts of otitis media. This can lead to the build-up of middle ear fluid (otitis media with effusion). Children who have recurrent or chronic otitis media with fluid build-up may experience difficulty hearing, which can lead to problems with speech and language development later on.
Early signs of otitis media are ear pain and discomfort. Children may have trouble sleeping, lose their appetite, or show signs of irritability. Other symptoms include hearing loss, snoring, mouth breathing, fever, headache, vomiting, and diarrhea.
The Eustachian (pharyngotympanic) tube is a drain that connects the nose and throat to the middle ear. It allows fluids from the ear to drain down the back of the throat, and keeps pressure equal on both sides of the eardrum. When the tube becomes blocked, either by swelling, inflammation, or mucus, fluid in the middle ear can accumulate and an infection can develop. People with chronic ear infections usually have allergies that play a key role in blocking the Eustachian tube.
Other factors that can lead to otitis media include exposure to cigarette smoke, cold or flu (which are especially common in day care centers), bottle-feeding while lying down, and pre-existing upper respiratory conditions.
The doctor will ask detailed questions about your child's symptoms, previous ear infections, family history of allergies, and potential exposure to environmental allergens.
The doctor will then examine your child's ears with an otoscope, which allows the doctor to see the eardrum and look for inflammation and fluid build-up.
Early treatment and prevention of otitis media is important, because of the associated hearing loss.
Some cases of otitis media require antibiotic treatment, but many do not. An acute ear infection deserves pain relief, either from oral medicines or from ear drops. If your child has recurrent otitis media due to bacterial infection, the doctor may recommend giving antibiotics as a preventive precaution. If your child's recurrent or chronic otitis media continues to be a problem, the doctor may refer you to an ear, nose and throat specialist who can discuss surgical remedies like insertion of tubes in the ears or removal of the adenoid glands.
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If the doctor finds that your child's symptoms are caused by allergies, the doctor may refer you to an allergist who can then recommend steps to prevent symptoms, such as allergen avoidance, allergy medication, or immunotherapy.
American Academy of Pediatrics Subcommittee on Management of Acute Otitis Media. Diagnosis and management of acute otitis media. Pediatrics. 2004 May;113(5):1451-65.
Ramakrishnan K, Sparks RA, Berryhill WE. Diagnosis and treatment of otitis media. Am Fam Physician. 2007 Dec 1;76(11):1650-8.
Teschke R, Schulze J. Risk of kava hepatotoxicity and the FDA consumer advisory. JAMA. 2010;304(19):2174-2175.
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BATON ROUGE — LSU guard Jeanne Kenney had endured a rough week, emotionally and physically.
BATON ROUGE — LSU guard Jeanne Kenney had endured a rough week, emotionally and physically.
It began with the death of her grandfather, whose funeral she missed when a snow storm prolonged a road trip. Then she was diagnosed with a stress reaction in her left foot, leaving her unsure if she could help LSU against No. 8 Kentucky.
Kenney managed to push all of that aside on Sunday, turning in the finest performance in her three seasons at LSU on a day when the upset-minded Lady Tigers could really use it.
She hit all five 3-pointers she attempted on her way to a career-high 22 points, and LSU upset No. 8 Kentucky 77-72 on Sunday.
"We needed this win. I was going to play," Kenney said, allowing for a slight, appreciative smile. "I needed my team and my team needed me."
Kenney had to miss her grandfather's funeral on Friday when a major snow storm in the Midwest postponed LSU's game in Missouri from Thursday night to Friday afternoon. Unable to find a flight home, Kenney went ahead and played Friday in honor of her grandfather, Cliff Beaulieu, who used to attend all her home games, and would often remind his scrappy granddaughter to hold her follow-through on her shot and not take so many charges, because he worried about her getting hurt.
But Kenney struggled in LSU's overtime victory at Mizzou, going 1 of 6 from the field.
"My mindset was Missouri was going to be a dedication game, and then I went in there trying to do too much," Kenney said. "So I, honest to God, tried not to think about that (on Sunday), because once you put emotions into it, I'm already an emotional person on the court, and I just needed to do enough."
Still, LSU went into pre-game warm-ups uncertain if Kenney could play at all until she told coach Nikki Caldwell, who had already decided against starting her, that she could give her at least limited minutes.
Kenney saved the Lady Tigers (17-10, 8-6 Southeastern Conference) in a reserve role, finishing 7 of 8 from the field and 3 of 4 from the foul line in 26 minutes, and hitting a critical 3 right after Kentucky had tied the game at 64.
"Jeanne responded like her grandfather would have wanted her to," Caldwell said. "Today she was one of the most courageous players that I have had an opportunity to coach. ... Her presence on the floor was definitely felt by her teammates."
A'dia Mathies scored 20 and Jennifer O'Neill 15 for Kentucky (23-4, 11-3) which saw its four game winning streak snapped.
"That was a terrific game. It's a hard one to lose," said Wildcats coach Matthew Mitchell, who remained one victory shy of tying former Kentucky coach Terry Hall's all-time school record of 178 wins. "LSU just played a great game of basketball and executed at critical moments. They had a really good day on offense and we just couldn't slow them down. I didn't think we played poorly."
Theresa Plaisance recorded her fifth double-double this season with 20 points and 13 rebounds, while Bianca Lutley added 15 points for LSU, which shot 52.9 percent (27 of 51) , including 7 of 11 from 3-point range.
Kentucky shot 44.6 percent (29 of 65), but was only 6 of 23 from deep. LSU also outrebounded a Kentucky team renowned for its defensive play, 34-32, en route to its second upset of a Top 10 team in two weeks (having beaten then No. 9 Georgia 62-54 on Feb. 10).
LSU did have a potentially significant setback, however, when starting center Shanece McKinney left the game late in the second half with an apparent leg injury that required her to get help off the court. She had five blocks. Caldwell said she wasn't sure McKinney would be ready for LSU's next game against Alabama on Thursday, but expected her back this season.
LSU never trailed in the second half and led by as much as nine in the final 20 minutes when Plaisance's layup made it 49-40.
The Wildcats kept pushing back, with Mathies' 3 cutting the Lady Tigers lead to 62-60. Mathies later pulled Kentucky into a tie with her reverse layup with 4:03 left, but LSU did not wilt, thanks to Kenney, who drilled a 3 and a jumper in succession to make it 69-64 with 2:13 left. Kentucky never got closer than three points after that.
"We did a good job fighting to get in our position, but I think we just had some mental lapses at the end of the game," Mathies said. "When you drop a play, you have to turn around and execute, and that's something that didn't happen."
The teams were within four points of each other through most of the first half, with Kentucky taking a 24-22 lead on O'Neill's jumper.
That's when LSU started a 21-6 run covering most of the last 7:10 of the half. It began with Lutley's free throws, followed by Kenney's 3-pointer on her first shot of the game. Danielle Ballard's driving scoop and Adrienne Webb's back-court steal and quick jumper from the lane gave LSU nine straight points. Kenney made all three of her shots during the first half, all from 3-point range, and added a pair of free throws in the final minute of the period, giving her 11 points in a span of 6:19 and staking the Lady Tigers to their largest lead of the game at 43-30 before DeNesha Stallworth's short jumper made it 43-32 at halftime.


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Au Revoir, Eartha Kitt
She was a bad-ass who didn't complain very often but also didn't take any shit. Fled the States. Demanded equal treatment for women in the industry. Got stuck with some industry-branded Cruella DeVille-type nympho image. An incomparable cabaret singer.
"There's no cabaret around the world that I know of," she said in a recent interview. "It's all gone the way of business, too much business, therefore the soul of the business has gotten really very lost. Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything."
She taught James Dean dance lessons. Stood up to Lyndon B. Johnson over Vietnam at the White House. Was spied on by the FBI. Orson Welles called her the most exciting woman in the world. When asked which records she'd want on a desert island, she always said her own.
Eartha Kitt died today, joining an esteemed list of other entertainers who shuffled off on Christmas Day: W.C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin, Dean Martin and James Brown. So long, sweetheart. We'll spin "I Wanna Be Evil" over Tofurky and pumpkin pie tonight.
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Very mild forms are common in all people. This can include the feeling of 'spacing out' for a bit. Another example would be someone having the sensation of being separate from their thoughts as though they are an alien in their body.
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Tesla S all electric car: we'd like to call this the first showing of the new model S, however a closer peak at the show car reveals it is exactly that and no more, as doors were fixed shut, interior a mock up and the "chrome" finishing strips around windows etc were cracking under the heat of the show's spotlights. Still, it's not scheduled to come out the factory doors 'till 2011, so the cake's got time to bake. It is at least an elegant and realistic shape that has a great chance of breaking into the mainstream if it can pull off it's range and power goals at an affordable price. Their website announces $50,000 price tag, 300 mile range, unnecessarily fast acceleration, and sufficiently high top speed. Remarkably there's room for 5 adults + 2 kids, as well as a front and back trunk.
Next to it, a fetching yellow Roadster Sport, that is available now, is a useful reminder that the future model S is a realistic proposition; even if the Roadster's price compared to a petrol engined Elise makes you gasp. Remember how expensive a large Plasma screen TV was 10 years ago? And now? The 700th electric Roadster was delivered at the Frankfurt show to a German law student.
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Tesla Motors delivered its 700th vehicle Tuesday at the Frankfurt Motor Show, where the world's leading electric vehicle manufacturer unveiled the production version of the Roadster Sport.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk handed the keys to an electric blue Roadster Sport to Lennart Hennig, a German law student in Bonn. Tesla has also delivered cars to customers in England, Switzerland, France, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Spain, Monaco and Sweden.
"I am a socially responsible consumer who considers the environmental impact of my purchases," said Hennig, 24. "As soon as I saw the Tesla web site in 2006, I knew I wanted to support a company dedicated to making more and more affordable vehicles so that mainstream people could have cars with a lower carbon footprint. I plan to drive this car every day so that people can see for themselves that the future of mobility is electric."
The 700th delivery came less than a week after Tesla opened a store in Munich (Blumenstr.17) — its first regional sales and service center in continental Europe. Tesla opened its flagship London store in June and will open a store in Monaco later this year.
"Many of our customers are die-hard European sports car aficionados who switch to Roadsters over concern about climate change and the dangers of foreign oil addiction," Musk said. "And some customers buy the Roadster simply because it will beat the Porsche 911 or Audi R8 off the line every time."
Tesla's Full 2010 Model-Year Lineup On Display in Frankfurt
Musk and Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen unveiled the production version of the second-generation Roadster and the even higher-performance Roadster Sport supercar. The Frankfurt Motor Show also marked the European debut of the Model S, an all-electric, seven-passenger sedan that Tesla plans to begin producing in late 2011. Photos are available online.
The Roadster 2, which Tesla is building and shipping to customers now, features an array of enhancements over the first-generation car, which Tesla began producing last year. Those include a more powerful heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system, more comfortable seats and a far more luxurious dashboard and cabin. The interior is quieter than its predecessor, and the ride is forgiving over harsh surfaces — without sacrificing handling performance.
The Roadster Sport, which Tesla is also building and shipping to customers now, is an even higher performance car that does 0 to 100 kmh in 3.7 seconds, compared to 3.9 seconds for the standard Roadster. The Sport includes a more powerful motor, custom-tuned adjustable suspension and forged wheels. A customer's Roadster Sport sprinted the quarter-mile in 12.643 seconds in late July, setting a new record in the U.S. National Electric Drag Racing Association.
The acclaimed Roadster – which has better acceleration than a Porsche 911 or Audi R8 and is twice as energy efficient as a Toyota Prius – is the only highway-capable electric vehicle for sale in Europe or North America. It's the first EV to travel more than 300 km per charge and the first EU- and US-certified Lithium-Ion battery electric vehicle.
The Roadster has an estimated average range of about 400 km per charge and produces zero tailpipe emissions. In April, the Roadster set another significant EV record when it traveled the entire 390-km course of the Rallye Monte Carlo d'Energies Alternatives on a single charge – from Valance, France to Monaco, through the Alps. The Roadster was the only car to finish the course – and at the end it still had 61 km left on the charge.
The Roadster qualifies for numerous tax benefits in Europe, including sales, luxury and use tax waivers in Scandinavia and exceptional incentives in Holland, making the car an unquestionable bargain compared to internal combustion engine vehicles. The relatively high cost of petrol in Europe dramatically lowers Teslas' total cost of ownership relative to gas-guzzlers. Eventually, Tesla expects sales to be roughly split between North America and Europe.
About Tesla
Tesla Motors remains the only automaker worldwide manufacturing and selling highway-capable EVs. The company achieved overall corporate profitability in July and has delivered 700 Roadsters to real-world owners so far. Tesla's goal is to produce increasingly affordable cars to mainstream buyers – relentlessly driving down the cost of EV technology. Tesla also sells patented power train components to other automakers, including the battery pack and charger for the electric Smart, built by German carmaker Daimler.
Tesla sells cars online and operates showrooms in New York, Seattle, London, Munich, West Los Angeles and California's Silicon Valley. Tesla will soon open stores in Chicago, South Florida, Washington DC, Toronto and Monaco.
The Roadster beats nearly every other car for acceleration yet is twice as energy efficient as a Toyota Prius and has a range of approximately 400 km per charge. The Roadster costs about €10 to recharge with 100 percent renewable energy, and it's faster than street-legal Porsches and Ferraris. The Roadster consumes no gasoline whatsoever, never needs routine oil changes and requires far less maintenance than internal combustion engine vehicles or complicated hybrids, resulting in dramatically lower total cost of ownership than a conventional car.


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Both Mum and Dad work in offices, but it's hard for a very little boy to understand what they DO all day, and why they're SO tired when they get home and can only play for a little while. With the help of his grandmother, who takes care of him, our young narrator tries to experience their workaday world, day after day, at home in a pretend office . . . and he gets really, really tired, too. . . . TatÃnek i maminka pracujà v kanceláři. Pro malého chlapce je téměř nepochopitelné, co celý den DÄšLAJà a jak to, Ye jsou veÄer TAK unavenà a hrajà si s nÃm jen malou chvilku. S pomocà babiÄky, která o nÄ›j peÄuje, se náS malý vypravÄ›Ä pokusà ve své pomyslné kanceláři zaYÃt svÄ›t vSednÃch pracovnÃch dnů... a také zaÄne být unavený, opravdu unavený...
Mommy, Daddy, and Dorothy's brother, Martin, all wear glasses. But not Dorothy. She knows that glasses make people see better, and she wants to see better, too. Never mind that she can see perfectly without them. She feels like an outsider in her own family, and so she draws glasses on her face and on all her toys. But when she tries on her Daddy's glasses, she gets a big surprise! Vsichni z Dorotciny rodiny, maminka, tatinek i bratr Martin, nosi bryle. Jenom Dorotka ne. Vi, ze s brylemi lide lepe vidi. Take chce videt lepe, i kdyz dobre vidi i bez bryli. Citi se ve sve rodine odstrcena, a tak sobe i svym hrackam bryle vyrobi. Kdyz si ale jednou nasadi tatinkovy bryle, ceka ji velke prekvapeni!
Mary wants to play with her friends Clara and Ana, but they're playing with their dolls, and Mary doesn't have a doll. Her mother suggests that she make one using wool and cotton and other things that they have around the house. So Mary makes a beautiful doll, but then she realizes: Her doll has to breathe, and how will it sneeze? What can she use for her lovely doll's nose? Mary by si chtela hrat s kamaradkami Klarou a Annou. Ale ty si hraji se svymi panenkami a Mary zadnou panenku nema. Maminka ji tedy poradi, aby si ji vyrobila z vlny, bavlny a jinych veci, ktere doma najde. Panenka se Mary moc povede, je krasna. Ale prece jen ji jeste neco chybi. "Jakpak bude panenka dychat a jak smrkat?" uvazuje Mary. Z ceho by sve krasne panence mohla vyrobit nos?
Jonah, like many little boys, is afraid of the dark. His older brother, Gor, and his baby sister, Arpi, share the bedroom with Jonah. But it's still a scary place at night, what with monsters under beds and on chairs, and who knows what's lurking in the spooky cupboard? But when Gor promises Jonah his favorite toy soldier if he'll just try not to be afraid, Jonah is too excited to sleep. Will the scary dark keep Jonah in his bed? Jonas se jako spousta jinych malych chlapcu boji tmy. I kdyz v pokoji spi se svym starsim bratrem Gorem a malickou sestrou Arpi, nahani mu místnost v noci hruzu. Vsechna ta strasidla pod postelemi a na zidlich! A kdo ví, co ciha v temne skrini? Jednou mu Gor slibi, ze kdyz se nebude bat, da mu za odmenu sveho oblibeneho vojacka. Jonas se tak tesi, ze z toho nemuze usnout. Odvazi se v desive tme vylezt z postele?
Grandpa had 27 grandchildren, all who loved him, and shared the mangos he brought home every day. Grandpa and mangos always brightened the day. But grandpa was getting sick, losing his memory and the ability to even cut the mangos. He was slowing leaving his grandchildren. DÄ›deÄek mÄ›l 27 vnouÄat. VSechna jej milovala a on se s nimi dÄ›lit o manga, která domů nosil kaYdý den. DÄ›deÄek a jeho manga vYdy prozářili den. Stalo se vSak, Ye dÄ›deÄek onemocnÄ›l. PostupnÄ› ztrácel paměť a pak uY nemohl ani sekat manga. Pomalu svá vnouÄata opouStÄ›l.
Moush is having a bad day. His sister yelled at him and his mother scolded him. He hides in the closet and decides to run away from home. He begins to prepare by collecting things to take with him: his favorite coat, his schoolbag. But can he take from his home everything he would like to have with him? MuS má Spatný den. Sestra na nÄ›j kÅ™iÄà a maminka mu hubuje. Schová se tedy do SatnÃku a rozhodne se utéct z domu. PÅ™ipravuje si vÄ›ci na cestu: oblÃbený kabát, Skolnà taSku... MůYe si ale z domova vzÃt vSe, co by si přál? Product Details
Andy's family is moving to a new house. His mother, his father, and his sister all pack up their favorite things. But Andy can't pack his favorite thing: It's growing in their backyard! It's a beautiful cherry tree, and Andy will miss it terribly. He picks some cherries to bring to the new house, and the family eats them with their lunch. When he mentions how much he misses his tree, his mother has a wonderful idea! Andyho rodina se stehuje do noveho domu. Maminka, tatÃnek i sestÅ™iÄka, vSichni si s sebou berou své nejmilejSà veci. Ale Andy si svou nejmilejSà vec zabalit nemůYe. Roste totiY na jejich dvorku za domem. Je to krásná tÅ™eSniÄka a Andy vÃ, Ye mu bude moc chybet. NasbÃrá proto alespoň nekolik tÅ™eSnà a vezme si je s sebou do nového domu. Celá rodina si na nich pÅ™i obede pochutná, a kdyY se Andy zmÃnÃ, jak moc se mu po tÅ™eSniÄce stýská, dostane maminka bájeÄný nápad!


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Rail is a natural monopoly and should be run as a true service for the people, never for profit.
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Privatisation drives up prices and encourages companies to make too much money out of a public service.
Start using commercial nous instead of political dogma and keep the East Coast line in public ownership.
East Coast showed good profits, yet ScotRail being handed to Abellio in April. Scotland needs trains suitable for time/distance travelled, not suburban ones.
The British system is a joke across Europe. That heavily subsidised private companies can be based in tax havens frankly offends me.
We need to go back to the days you could buy a ticket at the station, and change trains or travel times without extra expense. It's stupid that driving is now cheaper.
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Need more early Sunday morning train bec most start at 9am in my local Herefordshire the first train to Birmingham is 10-20am it is not good if I go to toy fair at NEC which my dad taking to Great Malvern to catch first train on Sunday morning is 09.06 am while on holiday in Swiss the train timetables are 7 day with all same trains times !
You do of course like a joke. here in my village , rural mid wales, we have a bus stop, on saturday there was a man standing waiting for a bus , when i asked he told me that on line the timetable showed that 2 busses a day come into the village. well he was a little disapointed at the thought of another 5 mile walk into town. The bus has not come up to the village for more than 7 years. everyone has no choice but the drive a car.
Bus ridership is down 15 - 20% due to internet shopping and uber..
Glasgow has the best commuter rail outside of London...
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Keith Williams, head of the UK government's Rail Review thinks there's 'no clear consensus' for public ownership of our railways. With recent polls showing 76% in favour, we beg to differ. Please ensure you sign and share our petition before the Rail Review deadline on Friday 31 May 2019. ...
Bring our railway into public ownership - tell Keith nowStop rail industry plans for *even more* privatisation!
You can also respond to the Williams Rail Review consultation directly here https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/williams-rail-review
for any long distance ad hoc travel in the uk, especially for families, rail is financially the 4th option now.
The problem with the review is if he recommends renationalisation the government will ignore it.
Do any of you actually remember the railways under nationalisation. No funding, poor management. Out date rolling stock, closures of many maintenance yards and loss of jobs, horrendous safety record, do I need to go on. What we need to change is the way the railway contractors are managed. That's the way to ensure an efficient railway.
He won't because a) he's biased towards his tory paymasters, and b) he's an expert and any government appointed expert is going to be a Rupert that knows sod all about what they're looking after.
The British Industries should have been renationalised when tony blair took office. All British Industries need immediate renationalising NOW. GAS, ELECTRIC, WATER, BUSES and TRAINS. N O W !!
Why Grayling should go ? Not only has he failed with rail but has also failed in the Home Office with disastrous probation reforms.
You cannot Nationalise under EU Animal Farm Law....
Surely it can't be stoopedad
He paid by Failing Grayling! So will report what he's told to do
Surely the conclusion and findings have been written already. Or am I just getting pessimistic?
Worst web design ever, I'm only fighting through this crap because it's important.
BRS for me HS2 is a white elephant
Tessa Padden, Iona PaDun, William Duncan, James Caldwell, Jamie West, Irene West and all those who ever worked or knew somebody who worked in the railways.
Has he got his fingers in his ears, eyes shut and singing la la?
Public utilities should be just that I.e. public owned.
Power, Water and sewage, health and core transport should be services not profit bases for overseas owners.
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His report says: "The Special Rapporteur heard a great many complaints from people in rural areas that the privatisation and deregulation of public transport outside London had made trains unaffordable and led to many bus routes being cut. The resulting isolation and inability to afford basic transport had serious negative consequences in terms of access to jobs, schools, health care and community engagement. Local authorities have often simply abandoned their responsibilities by relegating key services to the private sector and failing to take any regulatory measures to ensure basic service provision. Abandoning people to the private market in relation to services that affect every dimension of their basic well-being, without guaranteeing their access to minimum standards, is incompatible with human rights requirements."NEW TODAY: We've just released our final report on our visit to the UK, which finds that the UK Government is doubling down on anti-poor policies, and that sustained cuts to social support violate the UK's human rights obligations.
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Even MrsT was opposed to the privatization.
WI have talked about this and hope to be able to Find a solution. As long as London is ok it seems that the rest of us are ignored. Like so many things.
Right I will support re-nationalisation if the next Labour manifesto gives a guarantee the they will make it their first priority to lower fares by 3% year on year for their term of office.
WI have talked about this and hope to be able to Find a solution. As long as London is ok it seems that the rest of us are ignored. Like so many things.
BRS we want
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Britain Must Take Back Richard Branson's Awful TrainsIn 2017, pundits were shocked by Jeremy Corbyn's call to renationalize rail — and the broad public support that greeted it. You only need to board one of Richard Branson's rolling torture chambers to see why.
I caught a train in China, three weeks ago. I travelled from Beijing to Shanghai, a distance of 819 miles. I sat in the 16th carraige of 16, first class and it took five and three quarter hours. On the ticket it gave the price, 933 Yuan (about £105), the car 16, and my seat. There was nobody standing. Every time we stopped, the very long train fitted perfectly in the station platforms. The speed was shown on the wall, mostly well over 300 kilometres per hour.
China Rail IS NOT a privatised railway
Going by them to Edinburgh tomorrow. Nice smooth quiet clean trains. Say what you want about Branson he gives value for money. He also treats his workers very well
Branson and all the other train operators put profit before service , if you look in the rest of the world train travel is the cheapest form of travel we have it so wrong , I love a train journey but just can't take out a mortgage every time I want to go some where
It's gone to far too ever be possible to recreate the BR of professional Railwaymen and women.
Like every industry that's been privitised.
Lost the skills and experience of the professional team.
And replaced by
Anyone who has worked with professional proud BR staff will fully understand.
The rest like everything else you haven't a clue.
The future of the railway is
Not very well.
Driverless train because it is safer I can see.
Better tell Branson GET IT SORTED OR LOOSE CONTRACT!
And WHO will be paying for Nationalization of NATIONAL GRID and now RAIL SERVICES and perhaps BRITISH STEEL cause "comrade" Corbyn wants to lend another £100bn if TAX PAYERS WITH VOTES ALLOW IT....we shall see!
Nottingham to portsmouth, change at London. What with delays, changing stations, some of them minor stations before London & 1 local rail strike. Took me 18hrs & 5days pay lost for being 2hrs adrift. I was in the royal navy. The year was 1977. British rail no thanks. This wasn,t the 1st time either.
Whilst I am all for renationalisation, I really cannot fault Virgjn West Coast. I've used them quite a bit and mostly been happy with punctuality and friendliness of staff.
in general i agree but have to say as a partick thistle season ticket holder living in cumbria i get a great service . from carlisle to glasgow central. cheap trains (£13/14 return clean , punctual and loads of room.
One fact most people don't know is Branson contracted out the maintenance of his Pendolino trains to a French company called Alstom who are now making hundreds of UK staff redundant.
How many commenting here actually use trains on a regular basis, I.e. as commuters or regular travellers ?
I used Virgin between Birmingham and London as a daily commuter for around five years with little problem and at an average cost of £38.00 return without restriction.
And British Steel !
What's wrong with Virgin Trains? You can get a deal from London Euston to Dublin for £47 using them. An excellent travel day for those who don't want to fly where it costs £25 just for your bag.
I live on west coast main. Use the Virgin service fairly regularly to and from London and it is great.
Using Northern Rail or TPE to get to Manchester or Barrow or Leeds is a NIGHTMARE!
Branson got too big for his boots ! The staff at the sharp end are amazing, it's the director level who just ain't got a clue about running a rail company !
Branson has no idea about the railway system and yes Re Nationalise the whole network and companies back into one big business
The trouble with nationalisation is that the tax payer will spend billions bringing the system up to scratch only for the Tories to flog it to their friends for nothing if they get back in power.
I think the writer isn't a train traveller
Virgin trains are the only ones id defend.. theyve always been cheaper, faster and more reliable then london midlands for me
You could buy a ticket from any station to any where not just Great Western on one track
Riddled with factual errors... poorly researched and badly written.
Brandon's Virgin is the best of train lines.
West coast much improved
If you want to knock privatisation of rail look at Northern or Arriva.
Literally no competition so how is it fertile ground for enterprise? Regulation is pointless it's essentially organised racketeering.
GWR trains are bad too. Very uncomfortable seats. The one I went on went from Penzance to Paddington, no buffet service, the toilet wasn't working (new train) and there were no seat reservations. The seat I had reserved was a forward facing seat, but the actual seat was backward facing at a table, so didn't mind that someone was sat there. These are apparently built by Hitachi.
Branson's trains are a joke. They're ludicrously expensive unless you book weeks in advance. He doesn't deserve a railway. He's a complete cut throat.
The class 390s don't belong to virgin they are leased from angel trains so who runs the service would still have the same trains
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Surely they should be called the railway dividend grabbers
If I had my zealous views that rail privatisation works, what would the answer be ? It would have been complete figments of my imaginations.
The biggest problem with British Rail was successive governments weren't interested in it, particularly as a public service.
No public service runs well if it's privatised. Too many chiefs competing with one another and very little in the way of actual service provision. I do remember BR and it was better than this crippled system.
Ah yes, competition. I'm London based, so only one franchise goes through my station. It's clearly not that type of competition.
It must be the other type where a potential franchisee will attempt to underbid the competition and then profit (Have less cash left to improve the service).
It does sound attractive, the idea that those who don't travel on trains don't have to fund them, but once again, the franchisees are running at a profit or dumping them back on the public purse.
So if a franchise can be profitable, surely it can be profitable in public hands. We have a situation currently where only unprofitable lines are paid for from taxes.
Well said we want it back in Public hands (OURS ) not the French, German or Dutch state
I'm sure there will be free market fanatics and "libertarians" screaming their empty little heads off about how the state should never be allowed to run anything and how incompetent governments are. Well, they have had their chance to "prove" how much better the unfettered free market supposedly is at running our railways. What they have consistently overlooked is the fact that true competition cannot and does not work as advertised on our rail network.
Why? Because all privatisation actually did was to split up the network into a bunch of regional monopolies. There are hardly any instances where you can choose between train operators to take you from one station to another, and even when you do find a token example, there is no real difference in pricing anyway. The same is true for the bus network, where for any given area, there is usually only one company operating buses - so you can only choose between operators by moving from one county to another.
What you want is someone like Elon Musk running the railways but not in the private sector.
What she said was precise and accurate. Bring back British Rail, but properly funded (we could just give it the money we're currently giving the franchises) and let it get on with running the railways.
In this interview they allowed the guy from the franchisees to suggest, unchallenged, that more freedom to them was the answer to our expensive not fit for purpose rail system, sure let's allow an obviously flawed group of operaters to have even greater autonomy, he also quoted how well some foreign railways are run, well once again he was unchallenged by the interviewee who failed to mention that many of our European partners actually do run UK railway franchises at great profit to them from UK taxpayers, I do not profess to know the answers to a modern honest good value railway but it's obvious that a public transport system should not be governed by profits and shareholders, as it is at present where profiteers can bid for franchises as with Virgin, take millions of tax payers money to help run them, then when it becomes less profitable, drop it leaving the UK tax payer once again with the bill, a Tory mantra!
We want proper rail transportation bring back BRS
"I wasn't alive when British Rail was operating".
Wow, definitely feel old now!
She nailed it!!
Tired argument from the presenter using anecdote as history rather than knowing the facts and gets shut down by informed young woman.
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Junior Leanne Crockett scored 22 points, connecting on a career-best six three-pointers, but Central Connecticut State University (10-17, 7-10 NEC) fell to Long Island (19-9, 13-4 NEC) by a score of 73-61 at home Thursday night. Crockett also finished with 12 rebounds to tally her team-leading eighth double-double of the season. Her six three-pointers tie her for the third best three-point performance in a single-game for a CCSU player.
The Blue Devils jumped out to a 14-8 lead as Crockett fueled a 7-0 run from 17:49 to 14:04 in the first half. Crockett started off the run with a three-pointer off of a pass from senior Emily Rose. Junior Kerrianne Dugan then connected on a driving layup before finding Crockett off of an inbounds play to take the six point lead.
LIU then went on a 22-4 run to take a commanding 30-18 lead with only 5:22 to play in the opening frame. Junior Justine Stevenson was integral in the Blackbird run, starting it off with a layup to breakup the Blue Devil streak. Just over one minute later she connected on a traditional three-point play to get within one point of CCSU. She downed another two-point jumper with 11:47 left in the half as she recorded seven points during the stretch.
The Blackbirds went into the break with a 35-22 lead after shooting 48.3 percent from the floor and connecting on three out of six from beyond the arc. Long Island held Central to only a 27.6 percent field goal percentage and two out of 13 from three-point range during the first 20 minutes of play.
LIU continued to lead during second half action as junior Chelsi Johnson picked up the scoring, tallying six out of the Blackbirds' first 15 points of the final period. The Blue Devils finally started to make their way back into the game when they trailed 60-44 with only 7:23 to play in the game.
CCSU connected on three straight jumpers from beyond the arc to get within seven points. Crockett started off the run with a triple, followed by three-pointers from Dugan and sophomore Alexzandria Dowdy. After Long Island's Connie James interrupted the three-point barage with a layup, Rose came back with a fourth straight triple for Central to make it 62-56 with just over five minutes left to play.
That would be as close as the Blue Devils would come as Long Island went on to the 73-61 victory in New Britain. The Blackbirds shot an astounding 58.3 percent in the second half to give them a 52.8 percent field goal percentage for the game. LIU also connected on five of nine from beyond the arc.
Junior Heidi Mothershead led the Blackbirds with 19 points, while James almost recorded a triple-double as she finished with 16 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists in the victory. Johnson and sophomore Ashley Palmer also scored in double figures, recording 13 and 12 respectively.
Crockett led the Blue Devils with her 22 points and 12 boards. Her six three-pointers moved her into third place in CCSU annals for career triples as she now has connected on 103 in her two seasons at Central. Crockett also tied teammate Rose's CCSU record of 52 three-pointers in a single season. The senior recorded 52 during the 2007-08 season.
Junior Justina Udenze and Dugan also finished in double-figures for Central. The former recorded 12 points, five assists and two blocks, while the latter finished with 11 points and nine rebounds in the defeat. Rose chipped in with eight points, including two from beyond the arc.
Central Connecticut will now travel to St. Francis (NY) for its final regular season game of the season. A win in Brooklyn will put CCSU as the six seed in next weekend's Northeast Conference Tournament at St. Francis (PA). With a loss to the Terriers the Blue Devils will still earn a berth into the league tournament.
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