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Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter Bring Burton and Taylor Back to Life
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People who actually knew Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton never called them Liz and Dick. The late actors abhorred the tabloid shorthand. They nicknamed each other Lumpy (referring to her body) and Pockmark (referring to his face). Acquaintances a… Read more

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I've been taking a class on photo books for the last three months, and while I have been working on a hand-bound hardcover accordion book (more on that later) I became inspired and made two small paperback photo books.
The first title, The Cartography of Farmers' Wives: Photography from 1915-1976, is a short paper-back book with sampling of photography from my great-grandmother and my grandmother. Many of the photographs are landscapes from eastern Washington, although there are a few portraits as well in this contemplative story of one families relationship with the land. I look at this book as a small meditation on a much larger project that I think will probably take me the next 2-3 years to complete. Now that I know I can complete a small project with some of the information and items I have in this collection of family history that has been handed to me, I feel ready to embark on the larger journey.
The second book, A Traveling Song is a small paper-back of Hipstamiatic images I took on my phone on the road-trip my wife and I took when we moved across the country from Washington, D.C., to Seattle, Washington, in 2009. We pretty much drove straight through, and most of the images were taken from the car window while passing through middle America.


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NASCIO recognizes Alan Shark, CEO and executive director of the Public Technology Institute.
The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) awarded Alan Shark, CEO and executive director of the Public Technology Institute, with the association's annual Technology Champion award, according to a Friday, May 11, announcement.
Shark was acknowledged for his efforts and contributions toward improving IT solutions, policies and practices. He received the award during NASCIO's Midyear Conference from May 8 to 11 in Baltimore.
"Alan has championed and practiced excellence in technology-enabled management and good government. He strives to improve state CIOs' awareness of strategic IT issues and solutions, as well as identify and promote best practices and innovations among the states," said Dugan Petty, NASCIO's president and Oregon's CIO, in a statement.
The Public Technology Institute, the organization Shark leads, draws its membership from local government executives and elected officials, and supports research, education, consulting and recognition programs.
Shark serves as one of nine state and local government advisers to the Commission on the Leadership Opportunity in U.S. Deployment of the Cloud – State and Local Government (known as the CLOUD2/SLG Commission), a group of industry executives helping to formulate recommendations and best practices for cloud computing implementation in state and local government.
NASCIO awards the Technology Champion every year to an individual who promotes excellence in both technology and government. Last year, NASCIO awarded both Aneesh Chopra and Vivek Kundra, the former Obama administration officials who were named the nation's first U.S. CTO and CIO, respectively.


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The Montefiore Einstein Division of General Internal Medicine's diverse research activity is supported by regular grand rounds, works in progress meetings, affinity group meetings, and award-winning mentors.
Faculty investigators from the Division of General Internal Medicine, as well as faculty investigators from other departments, are members of the Montefiore Einstein Center for Comparative Effective Research (CCER). The Montefiore Einstein CCER provides support to investigators to improve patient-centered outcomes in urban, multi-ethnic, under-served populations.
Faculty research news and accomplishments.
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Paul Gauguin offers two small, luxurious cruise ships – the m/s Paul Gaugin and the m/v Tere Moana – carrying 332 and 88 guests, respectively. The Gauguin is designed to cruise the South Pacific year round. The Moana carries privileged guests to Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Passengers are treated to Polynesian hospitality and The Gauguin features a watersports marina for paddleboarding, kayaking, and diving. Relaxation is further enhanced with all onboard gratuities included in the fare, complimentary beverages – including select wines and spirits, beer, soft drinks, hot beverages and bottled water; and complimentary room service.
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Tranquil Looking Indoor Pool
If you are planning to go for a classic or rustic look you should know the names of some of the great Tranquil Looking Indoor Pool you should have in your bedroom. To give a vintage look to your bedroom it is essential to have distressed furniture that has got a rustic appearance due to the effect of aging and time. To avail of such furniture you need to visit places that are famous for antique pieces of furniture. However these could potentially cost you a fortune. But with the growing popularity of rustic or classic theme there is artificially distressed furniture available that can be easily afforded by all in most shops.
Thus artificially distressed beds, dressers, bedside cabinets or a chest of drawers are some of the great furniture you should have in your bedroom. Given below is some of the furniture that you should include in your bedroom to give the desired vintage look.
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Information for Streamers and Letsplayers
Streamers and letsplayers (on Youtube, Twitch and other digital channels) are allowed to record videos from any 1C game unless stated otherwise - either on this page, in a press release or in the readme file/e-mail supplied with the game build. 1C Company allows streamers to monetize recorded videos. The videos may use in-game music and can be accompanied by a spoken commentary. This includes Let's Plays, previews, reviews, walkthroughs and similar content.
Technical Support
Before contacting our technical support, please prepare a detailed specification of your computer and exact description of the problem. It will help us to provide you with support in a fast, efficient way.
Information Required: Computer model (CPU, DVD-ROM, RAM, Video/Sound card, DirectX version, Windows version).
In order to get this information, please go to "Run" in your Windows Start menu and type "dxdiag" in the command line, then press the enter key. The DirectX diagnostics program will start. This will show all the relevant driver files installed on your system. In order to receive a text file of this information, click the button "Save All Information". You can then save a text file with all the information we require on your hard drive.
You will then be able to send this information to us via e-mail: email@example.com
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Please try below steps first before contacting our support team. In most cases, this will help you resolve your problem.
General issues
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Make sure you are using latest driver for your motheboard´s chipset, sound card and graphics card.
- http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html - drivers for ATi graphics cards
- http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us – Nforce chipsets and Nvidia graphics cards
- http://downloadcenter.intel.com/default.aspx - Intel chipsets and graphics cards
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- Update your DirectX - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&displaylang=en
- Download all updates for your Windows (via Microsoft update service).
- In case you have AMD dual core CPU, install AMD dual core optimizer - http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/dynamicDetails.aspx?ListID=c5cd2c08-1432-4756-aafa-4d9dc646342f&ItemID=153
- Scan your PC for possible viruses/malware/spyware (make sure your cleaning programs are up-to-date).
- Check your hard disk with Windows scandisk program, for possible disk errors.
- Disable any file scanning applications that run on your PC, before installing and running the game (antivirus, antispyware, firewall, etc.).
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- If you overclocked any of your hardware, set its clocks/values back to default.
- Delete content of your TEMP folder. Click Start - Run. Type %TEMP% into the command line and hit Enter. Delete all files and folders here. You will not be able to delete some of them, this is normal. Just skip them.
- Try reinstalling the game, to different folder than before. Do not install the game to \Windows directory or to the root of your system disk.
- Try running the game in windowed mode, if this option is available.
- Check that your PC meets minimum requirements of the game.
- Check if there is patch available for your game - http://www.1cpublishing.eu/support/patches
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- If you use Windows Vista, disable UAC (user account control). Go to Start - Settings - Control panels - User accounts. Click "Turn user account control or on off". Now, uncheck "User user account control to help protect your computer".
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- Make sure original disc is inserted in your CD/DVD drive, while launching the game and that the disc is not dirty or damaged.
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Windows Vista compatibility:
- If Windows Vista is not mentioned as supported OS in minimum requirements on box or in manual, we can´t guarantee that game will work onthis system without any issues.
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In a battle of teams just outside the playoff picture, the Houston Dynamo made two first-half goals stand in a 2-1 home win over the Portland Timbers on Sunday night at Robertson Stadium to move into playoff position.
After quelling early pressure from the visiting Timbers, who tested the Dynamo goal three times in the first seven minutes, the Dynamo took control 17 minutes in on a sterling strike from former Timber Adam Moffat.
Moffat — who came to Houston from Portland in a July 21 trade for Mike Chabala and Lovel Palmer — found the ball at his feet 38 yards away from goal after a Bobby Boswell attempt off a corner was blocked. Moffat wasted no time and hit a screamer that beat Portland goalkeeper Troy Perkins to the top right corner to give Houston a one-goal lead.
Houston continued to pressure Portland, controlling the possession and testing Perkins for the rest of the first half. Brian Ching added another Dynamo goal in the 27th minute when he slotted a shot past a diving Perkins for what would be the winning goal. Brad Davis — who was credited with an assist to return to the top of the MLS leaderboard with 11 on the season — took little time off an attacking throw-in to find Colin Clark, who nutmegged Palmer to set up Ching in the six-yard box. The veteran forward hit a professional finish by Perkins to double the Dynamo's lead.
Portland came out of the halftime break with the same energy the Timbers showed at the start of the match. Sal Zizzo started the pressure in the 50th minute, making a weaving run through the Dynamo defense and hitting an angled shot that Tally Hall stopped.
Portland pulled within one in the 56th minute when Zizzo — who was dangerous all night — found Darlington Nagbe with a cross at the back post. The rookie set up Jack Jewsbury with a header, and the Timbers captain hit a hard strike that caught a piece of Houston defender Andre Hainault before heading into the net.
Portland continued to attack, pushing the ball into Houston's defensive third, but the Timbers could not find the equalizer despite two chances in the final 10 minutes from Kenny Cooper.
The night was not all about goals, however. Portland saw forward Eddie Johnson carted off the field late in the first half. After a collision at midfield, Johnson — who was listed on Friday's injury report as out with a concussion — received attention on the field before being transported to a local hospital for observation.
With the win, Houston improves to 31 points on the season and will travel to New England to face the Revolution on Wednesday. Portland, meanwhile, stays on 26 points and will play at Sporting Kansas City Wednesday night. Both teams began a stretch of playing three games in seven days.
Portland Timbers (7-11-5) vs. Houston Dynamo (7-7-10)
August 14, 2011 -- Robertson Stadium, Houston, TX
Scoring Summary:
HOU -- Adam Moffat 1 (unassisted) 17
HOU -- Brian Ching 4 (Colin Clark 3, Brad Davis 11) 27
POR -- Jack Jewsbury 7 (Darlington Nagbe 2, Sal Zizzo 3) 56
Portland Timbers -- Troy Perkins, Lovel Palmer, Eric Brunner, David Horst, Mike Chabala, Sal Zizzo, Diego Chara (James Marcelin 46), Jack Jewsbury, Darlington Nagbe (Kalif Alhassan 73), Kenny Cooper, Eddie Johnson (Jorge Perlaza 39).
Substitutes Not Used: Mamadou Danso, Brian Umony, Rodney Wallace, Adin Brown.
Houston Dynamo -- Tally Hall, Hunter Freeman, Bobby Boswell, Andre Hainault, Corey Ashe, Colin Clark (Je-Vaughn Watson 69), Geoff Cameron, Adam Moffat, Brad Davis (Jermaine Taylor 80), Brian Ching, Carlo Costly (Cam Weaver 56).
Substitutes Not Used: Jason Garey, Eddie Robinson, Kofi Sarkodie, Tyler Deric.
Misconduct Summary:
HOU -- Adam Moffat (caution; Reckless Tackle) 9
POR -- Lovel Palmer (caution; Reckless Tackle) 54
Referee: Baldomero Toledo
Referee's Assistants: Fabio Tovar; Ian Anderson
4th Official: Juan Guzman
Attendance: 14,475
Weather: Cloudy-and-92 degrees
All statistics contained in this boxscore are unofficial


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Mora- I'm sure it's TOTALLY fine, but I would be nervous too. But as you well know, spotting is incredibly common in totally healthy pregnancies.
AFM- had another perfect ultrasound today. It is amazing how much of a difference a week makes. The baby seems so much bigger. I could very clearly see the brain, limb buds, and beating heart. The coolest part was seeing the baby move! It's so early in brain development that the movement is involuntary and is just muscular twitching, but still...it was amazing.
I had a really rough weekend. I was so tired and sick that I spent most of DH's first Fathers Day in bed. Hope it's better for the Tiger's game this weekend.
How is everyone? There are a few folks that have been pretty quiet...hope all is well.


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This is Rapid City. Not the real one, but a fictional one sat in a fictional mid-west. It is a city in a world where some people have super powers, and like everyone else, some of those people do good and some of them don't.
Rapid City Below Zero is a story about one villains revenge on another.
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Nicole - that's is soooo exciting! I love maternity clothes. I'm still also waaaay too early to be wearing mine, but the stretchy waist jeans are starting to look really comfy (I'm just bloating!). My last two pregnancies were 'winter' ones, so all my maternity clothes are sweaters and long sleeves. I'm going to need new clothes too!
Good luck at your u/s!


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Craig Carwise claims the key to his innocence lies in his groin.
The central Florida man is accused of going on a shooting spree in 2006, killing a man. He is now on trial facing first-degree murder charges. And prosecutors want to place him on death row because he has a prior murder conviction, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
However, Carwise claims the victim sparked the incident by shooting him in the groin. He claims he had no choice but to respond by firing 15 times, killing 34-year-old John Jones.
Now he wants the taxpayers to pay for the removal of the bullet, which has been lodged in his groin since the shooting.
If the bullet turns out to have been shot from Jones' gun, then it could prove Carwise was acting in self-defense.
Otherwise, his attorney says, prosecutors will argue that he simply shot himself as he unloaded on Jones.
However, the state nor the county wants to pay for the operation.
Now it's up to a judge to decide.


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STARS-Atlas Systems Mentoring Award
This annual award, sponsored by Atlas Systems, will be made to one library practitioner who is new to the field of interlibrary loan/document delivery or electronic reserves, and who has daily, hands-on involvement in the areas of borrowing, lending, document delivery, electronic reserves, material delivery, or resource sharing. This award is intended for a person:
- interested in a mentoring opportunity at ALA,
- who has been in the profession for less than two years,
- or who has recently accepted an interlibrary loan, resource sharing or electronic reserves position and has little or no experience in that area.
M.L.S. or ALA membership is not required for this award. Preference will be given to individuals who evidence greatest need of this stipend for the purposes of professional development, networking, initial or continuing education, and service to their local community.
The STARS Education and Training Committee will assign a mentor to the recipient for the conference to help them navigate through the conference experience.
Members of the STARS Awards Committee will be appointed by and will report to the STARS Executive Board. (unanimous decision at Exec Board meeting 2/11/08 and 6/30/08)
- Pamela Flinton, Head of Access Services, James Milne Library, SUNY College at Oneonta
- Danielle Cournoyer, Library Specialist, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
- Diane Leja, Access Services Manager, University of South Dakota I.D. Weeks Library


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AirPort Utility 5.4.2 for Mac
AirPort Utility v5.4.2 is the simple to use, setup and management utility for the AirPort Express Base Station, the AirPort Extreme Base Station, and Time Capsule.
Use AirPort Utility to setup and manage the following products:
- AirPort Express Base Station
- AirPort Extreme Base Station
- Time Capsule
In addition, AirPort Utility 5.4.2 provides several fixes, including:
- An issue causing AirPort Utility to be unable to read certain AirPort wireless device configurations.
- An issue causing AirPort Utility to sometimes be unable to discover an AirPort wireless device when Back To My Mac is enabled.
- An issue causing AirPort Utility to sometimes be unable to download firmware.
- An issue causing AirPort Utility to not correctly import Access Control Lists created in AirPort Admin Utility 4.x
- Added the ability in AirPort Utility to show all wireless passwords in the "Equivalent Network Password" sheet.
For the latest information on AirPort software, check Software Update in System Preferences or the following Apple website: Apple Support Downloads
Learn more about Apple Wi-Fi at: http://www.apple.com/wifi/
For more information on using Apple AirPort products with your Internet account, contact your ISP or go to the AppleCare Knowledge Base at:www.apple.com/support
Internet service provider (ISP) compatibility: Internet access requires a compatible ISP; fees may apply.


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Find Other Computers on a Network through Windows 8
Windows 8 is happy to help if you need to access files from another computer on your network—for example, grab files from the computer in your family room. In fact, the Windows Homegroup system makes it easier than ever to share files with other Windows PCs. Creating a Homegroup is as simple as entering the same password on every connected PC.
A network is simply a group of connected PCs, regardless of their operating system software — Windows 8, Windows XP, and so on — that can share things, such as your Internet connection, files, or a printer. Most people use a network every day without knowing it: Every time you check your e-mail, your PC connects to another PC on the Internet to grab your waiting messages.
To find a PC on your Homegroup or traditional network, open any folder and look at the bottom of the Navigation Pane along the folder's left edge.
Click Homegroup in the Navigation Pane to see a list of other Windows PCs in your Homegroup; click Network to see every PC that's connected to your own PC in a traditional (but more difficult to set up) network. To browse files on any of those PCs in either category, just double-click their names.
For more information about Windows 8 and its features, explore Windows 8 For Dummies, available online.


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Nevada Patient Busing
Nevada psychiatric hospital's busing of mental patients was disturbing to workers
LAS VEGAS – In the darkness of early mornings during his graveyard shift at Nevada's primary state psychiatric hospital, Gilbert Degala regularly walked patients outside and watched them climb into taxis bound for the Greyhound bus station on Main Street.
The scene made him uneasy.
Many of the patients, burdened with mental illnesses that caused them to become delusional, suicidal or violent, were being discharged from Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas to buses that would ferry them hundreds of miles away. They carried their discharge paperwork, enough medication to last them a few days, and up to a case of Ensure nutritional supplement for the journey.
Some of the men and women knew why they were traveling to places like Miami or Sacramento or Los Angeles, Degala said. They were returning to family or friends. But for a troubling number "there was no one to pick them up," he said.
Some patients, he and other current and former workers told The Bee, appeared disoriented or unstable and not ready to leave the hospital.
"I felt bad for these patients," said Degala, who as a mental health technician helped social workers and nurses manage clients. He wondered whether the men and women ever got on their assigned buses, he said, and what happened to them if they did.
He resigned last year along with many of his colleagues, he said, as working conditions became more stressful.
Patient care at Rawson-Neal – and its discharge practices specifically – have come under scrutiny in recent weeks amid revelations that the hospital has bused roughly 1,500 patients to states across the nation over the past five years, a third of them to California.
Since mid-2008, as the economy worsened and Nevada slashed mental health spending, the number of psychiatric patients getting one-way tickets out of Rawson-Neal steadily rose, according to a Bee review of Greyhound bus receipts purchased by the state agency that oversees the hospital. By last year, Rawson-Neal was busing patients out of Las Vegas at a pace of more than one per day, shipping nearly 400 patients to 176 cities in 45 states, according to The Bee's review.
The sheer scope of the busing program has raised questions in California and elsewhere about whether Nevada was systematically "dumping" indigent mentally ill patients across state lines, prompting criminal probes in Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as federal regulatory investigations.
In the weeks since The Bee published its findings, Nevada health officials have both revised and largely defended the unusual busing practice, saying Las Vegas is an international destination that attracts more than its share of visitors. They maintain the vast majority of the patients transported out of state were being sent back to their "home communities," where they had support systems or family to meet them.
Nevada's Health and Human Services chief has said that the increased pace of busing over the five-year period was not related to state funding cuts, and instead stemmed from a change in the hospital's internal approval process that has since been remedied.
Several current and former Rawson-Neal staff members interviewed tell a different story.
Though the employees offered different perspectives on the wisdom of sending psychiatric patients alone on bus trips across state lines, most described increased pressure in recent years to move patients out. And budget cuts, they said, were a driving factor.
"There is so much pressure now to get people out as soon as possible," said one longtime Rawson-Neal nurse, who requested anonymity for fear of losing her job.
"The administration has a meeting every week to talk about length of stay," she said. "Doctors are told, 'You need to get these patients out of the hospital.' "
According to the nurse, the pressure is most acute within the hospital's psychiatric observation unit, where patients are assessed to determine whether they need to be admitted for inpatient care.
Nevada cut mental health spending 28 percent between 2009 and 2012, cuts that brought furlough days, staffing shortages and widespread reductions in outpatient services and housing for the mentally ill, according to employees and area social services workers.
"The problem is that we don't have a place to send people," said the nurse. Mentally ill patients are filling hospital emergency rooms all over town, she said, and the ERs are sending patients to Rawson-Neal.
Many of Rawson-Neal's patients, she said, are chronically ill "frequent fliers" whose faces are familiar to staff members. Others are one-time visitors who had a mental break or abused drugs and "went off" while on their trip to Vegas.
At least once per shift, the nurse said, patients are so out of control that "we need to take them down" by force.
"Patients are being jammed down our throats," she said. "Sometimes the psychiatric observation unit will take in 10 patients all at once. You'll have ambulances backed up with patients. It's extremely stressful."
As pressures have mounted, busing patients from Rawson-Neal to locations out of state has become more common, workers said.
Toward the end of his tenure at Rawson-Neal, Degala said, "they were seeing too many patients coming in."
"They could pay the Greyhound bus station, set up a treatment plan and ship," he said. "It would be cheaper to give them a bus ticket than to keep them in the facility."
Busing policy born
Rawson-Neal, a collection of squat brick and stucco buildings in an arid landscape a few miles from Las Vegas' glittering Strip, opened in 2006 to great expectations for improving care for mentally ill people in southern Nevada.
The hospital has four 40-bed inpatient units along with the 30-bed observation unit. The buildings surround a large, open courtyard with basketball hoops and patches of grass. Patients typically arrive via the ambulance bay at the side of the facility.
Interviews with state officials have left unclear exactly when the hospital put in place its patient busing policy. A long-standing written policy calls for transporting patients back to their "home community in order to provide more appropriate care and to remove the burden of treatment from the State of Nevada."
The wording was revised in recent weeks, as concern over the busing practice spread, to remove the phrase "burden of treatment," and the state announced late last month that patients no longer would be bused without chaperones.
Whatever the origins, Rawson-Neal clearly was issuing bus tickets to patients in earnest by 2008. Its umbrella agency, Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services, has had a standing contract with Greyhound since 2009, said a spokesman for the bus company. That year, the hospital bused 238 people. By 2012, the number had grown to 396.
By hospital policy, social workers and doctors are supposed to work together to come up with a plan for discharging patients, with a psychiatrist signing off on the discharge. But in recent years, as budget pressures increased, the process became more haphazard, according to some current and former employees, with staff members employing a loose definition of friends or family when deciding where to send patients.
Bryan Peralta worked as a mental health technician at Rawson-Neal for eight months, ending in November of last year. One of the reasons he left the hospital was its discharge of patients "who were not ready" to be released, he said.
Peralta recalled one young woman who was sent to the Greyhound station while "she was still foaming" at the mouth and talking to herself. She had a ticket to California, but was sent back to Rawson-Neal by a bus driver before she crossed the state border, he said.
Staffers typically made a cursory effort to connect patients with relatives or friends, Peralta said. But "half the time it's not a mother or a sister, it's a friend or a distant relative," he said.
Krystal Chadwick is another former technician who left Rawson-Neal three years ago. Patients discharged to the bus station used to get fresh fruit, juice and other snacks to sustain them for the trip, she recalled. Now they receive bottles of Ensure.
"I didn't want to give them Ensure," she said. "They had a lot of travel ahead of them. Some person is going to Florida and all they have to eat is Ensure?"
Chadwick said she often worried that patients would relapse during their trips.
"These people are lost," she said. "They can't take care of themselves."
In reporting this story, The Bee reached out to dozens of current employees to get their perspective on operations at Rawson-Neal. The vast majority did not respond or declined to comment. Those who did talk asked for anonymity for fear of being fired.
One current technician who spoke anonymously echoed Degala's description of patients leaving without a treatment plan in place.
"Sometimes they say, 'I'm just going,' " he said. "It's wrong."
Brian Little, who left the hospital in 2012 after eight months, had a different recollection. He said that in his "limited experience" patients "were not shipped off without a plan."
The longtime nurse who requested anonymity said she also believed most patients bused out of state were stable enough to leave the hospital and had some kind of help waiting at their destination.
Her concern was what might happen along the way.
"A lot of them are not going to stay on the bus," she said. "They're going to get off and be on the streets, and maybe end up here again."
Criminal probes launched
The spotlight turned on Rawson-Neal after one of its patients, James Flavy Coy Brown, showed up suicidal and confused at a Sacramento homeless services complex earlier this year. Brown, who is 48 and suffers from schizophrenia, had been living in Las Vegas shelters for years.
He ended up in Rawson-Neal's psychiatric observation unit in February with symptoms of psychosis that suggested he was a danger to himself or others. After 72 hours, he was discharged to the Las Vegas Greyhound station with a one-way ticket to Sacramento, where he knew no one. He said Rawson-Neal doctors suggested he might like "sunny California" and told him to call 911 once he arrived.
He arrived in Sacramento out of both medication and food. With the help of police and homeless services workers, he landed in the UC Davis Medical Center emergency room. He has since reunited with his daughter from North Carolina.
Nevada officials have acknowledged making mistakes in Brown's case, saying the hospital "blew it" in busing him to Sacramento. But they insist his case was an exception and that the problems are not systemic.
"The most concerning thing to me is a narrative that we are dumping people," said Dr. Tracey Green, Nevada's state health officer. "We don't dump people."
Green defended the state of care at Rawson-Neal and said staffing ratios have remained consistent during her tenure. The hospital's staffing levels are subject to independent and federal review, she said, and have not been found lacking.
"I believe we do excellent work here," she said. "The bottom line is we will continue to do better."
Since the April policy change requiring that all patients bused out of state now be accompanied by an escort, no patients have been bused from the hospital, Green said last week.
"We think the transportation policy is right where it needs to be," she said.
As the furor over the busing policy has spread, Nevada state health officials conducted an internal investigation, which they say found 10 of 1,500 patients may have been placed on buses without support during the past five years. Two employees were fired following the investigation, and several others disciplined, said Mary Woods, spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services.
The hospital's discharge policies remain under scrutiny. City attorneys in Los Angeles and San Francisco have launched criminal probes to determine whether Nevada has been dumping its indigent psychiatric patients across state lines. They, along with Sacramento's city attorney and county counsels from Alameda and Santa Clara, have demanded a meeting with Nevada's attorney general to get more information on the patients bused to their jurisdictions in recent years.
In a letter to Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto last week, the attorneys said their preliminary investigations have found that Brown's case was not isolated.
The investigations "have confirmed that Nevada's practice of transferring mentally ill patients to California without an escort and without prior arrangement for an institution or responsible person to receive the patient is more widespread," the letter stated.
Late last week, an independent accreditation agency dispatched a team of investigators to Rawson-Neal in response to concerns about patient care. Its report will determine whether the state hospital can keep its federal funding and "gold star" accreditation status.
Patients through revolving door
Several former administrators and staffers blame the controversial busing practices on a lack of oversight, caused in part by instability at the top.
In its short lifetime, Rawson-Neal has had five administrators, one of whom lasted less than a week and another a few months. The turnover has created confusion about policies for admitting and discharging patients, current and former staffers said. The hospital's current administrator, Chelsea Szklany, is an occupational therapist who has been on the job since January 2012.
Jonna Triggs, who served as director of Southern Nevada Mental Health Services between 2002 and 2006, said busing patients "was never a standard or routine" on her watch. "Certainly we did send some people back home, but not hundreds a year and not the way it's being done now," she said.
Others say Rawson-Neal's problems reflect a broader fraying of the safety net for the mentally ill in southern Nevada.
Cuts to programs funded by the government have had a trickle-down effect on hospital emergency rooms and private agencies that run programs for needy people, observers said.
Last September, the Salvation Army in Las Vegas closed a 42-bed group home for chronically mentally ill people after grant funding was slashed, said spokeswoman Leslee Rogers.
A recent survey counted more than 14,000 homeless people living in Las Vegas, up from about 9,000 four years ago, she said. Many of the men and women living on the streets are mentally ill and end up in hospitals including Rawson-Neal, said Rogers.
"Yes, we get people all the time who have been dumped," she said. Some arrive by taxi wearing hospital gowns and slippers.
Maj. Robert Lloyd, the Salvation Army's Clark County coordinator, said the number of mentally ill people that the agency serves has risen dramatically during the past three or four years.
"We have folks show up from hospitals, completely unable to take care of their basic needs," Lloyd said. "When we get someone who is self-mutilating, who is eating glass or pounding their head against the wall, we are in over our head. We're not capable of dealing with it."
Lloyd said he understands the plight of hospitals that are overextended.
"They can only hold someone for so long and then they've got to do something with them. But if they're releasing them into a situation that's not stable, it's unacceptable."
Lloyd said staffers have tried to get such patients readmitted to hospitals but usually are unsuccessful.
"So we call the police, and the next thing you know they're out on the street again," he said.
"It's a revolving door."
For complete Bee coverage, including previous stories, an interactive graphic and a photo gallery, go to www.sacbee.com/leavinglasvegas
Feb. 12: James Flavy Coy Brown, homeless and suffering from schizophrenia, arrives on a Greyhound bus in Sacramento following a stay at Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas. He has no family or friends in Sacramento and doesn't know why the hospital sent him.
March 14: Michael Willden, director of the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, tells a legislative committee "we blew it" in Brown's case but that no "systemic" problem exists.
April 14: The Bee publishes a story based on Greyhound bus receipts showing that Rawson-Neal has bused about 1,500 patients to other states over the past five years.
April 18-23: An independent accreditation agency and the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles announce investigations into patient busing at the hospital.
April 24: Rawson-Neal changes its policy to require that a chaperone accompany all patients on buses.
April 29: Nevada officials announce that 10 out of 1,500 patients may have been improperly bused without support or housing at their destination in the last five years. They also announce the firing of two "medical staff" at Rawson-Neal.
Call The Bee's Cynthia Hubert, (916) 321-1082. Follow her on Twitter @cynthia_hubert.


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Due to our mutual ickies, I have again just put this together with the list of stores and slurls. Be sure to check out the awesome prices the amazing designers have made available to you!
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Marketplace URL: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/42073 - Rogue's
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MIDweek Sale Price: L175
Reg Price: L5
2. Item Name: Camp Fire large by Syrenz (bag) PIC
MIDweek Sale Price: L50
Reg Price: L99
Marketplace URL: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/45433 - DragonSoul's
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MIDweek Sale Price: L160
Reg Price: L320
4. Item Name: DragonSkull Complete Set
MIDweek Sale Price: L550
Reg Price: L1125
--------------------- .*´`'*:-.,_,.-* ☆ Poems of the Mists
Owner(s): Mahilwen Mistwalker
Store SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Nord%20Alesia/48/93/26
Marketplace URL: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/107775
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MIDweek Sale Price: L 250
Reg Price: L 500
2. Item Name: Book Table
MIDweek Sale Price: L 50
Reg Price: L 100
3. Item Name: Cafe Set
MIDweek Sale Price: L 100
Reg Price: L 200
--------------------- .*´`'*:-.,_,.-* ☆ Felicity
Owner(s): Felicity Overlord
Store SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Emerald%20Bay/211/202/302
Marketplace URL: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/7769?id=7769
1. Item Name: *Felicity* Gianna Stilettos - Rose (New Color)
MIDweek Sale Price: L175
Reg Price: L355
2. Item Name: *Felicity* Gianna Stilettos - Slate Blue (New Color)
MIDweek Sale Price: L175
Reg Price: L355
--------------------- .*´`'*:-.,_,.-* ☆ Pure Class
Owner(s): Poppylucy fairey
Store SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Koala/27/46/44
1. Item Name: Pure Class Dream Gown Pink
MIDweek Sale Price: L99
Reg Price: L350
2. Item Name: Pure Class Dream Gown Blue
MIDweek Sale Price: L99
Reg Price: L350
--------------------- .*´`'*:-.,_,.-* ☆ Fashion 4 Flirts
Owner(s): Poppylucy fairey
Store SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Muskeg/152/205/58
1. Item Name: Fashion 4 Flirts Black jumper and skirt
MIDweek Sale Price: L50
Reg Price: L200
2. Item Name: Fashion 4 Flirts Pink jumper and skirt
MIDweek Sale Price: L50
Reg Price: L200
--------------------- .*´`'*:-.,_,.-* ☆ ~THUNDERBOLT~ & K-Ks Designs
Owner(s): Thor Roxley/Kathie Kayor
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Store SURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rothbard/236/39/21
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1. Item Name: Midnight
MIDweek Sale Price: L75
Reg Price: L150
2. Item Name: SIlk Set for Men in White
MIDweek Sale Price: L75
Reg Price: L150
3. Item Name: Metallic Dress in Silver
MIDweek Sale Price: L125
Reg Price: L250
--------------------- .*´`'*:-.,_,.-* ☆ Naughty Naughty
Owner(s): Rusty Hammand
Store SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pelham%20Bay/7/107/22
1. Item Name: Santa's Sexy Helper
MIDweek Sale Price: L125
Reg Price: L300
2. Item Name: Holly
MIDweek Sale Price: L125
Reg Price: L250
3. Item Name: Plum Pudding
MIDweek Sale Price: L125
Reg Price: L275
Owner(s): Ariana Monaron
Store SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bubblegum/225/162/1025
1. Item Name: Seamless Snow and Blood Stained Snow Textures
MIDweek Sale Price: L49
Reg Price: L99
2. Item Name: Seamless Plaid Cotton Fabric Set 1
MIDweek Sale Price: 49L
Reg Price: 99L
3. Item Name: Sunflower Full Perm Textures
MIDweek Sale Price: 49L
Reg Price: 99L
--------------------- .*´`'*:-.,_,.-* ☆ AM - Designs
Owner(s): Andrea Maertens
Store SURL:http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fine%20Land/218/222/21
Marketplace URL: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/de-DE/stores/57145
1. Item Name: Outsim Landscaping # 866
MIDweek Sale Price: L 195
Reg Price: L 405
2. Item Name: Landscaping Mystic Garden # 865
MIDweek Sale Price: L 195
Reg Price: L 405
3. Item Name: Landscaping bloody Krypt # 869
MIDweek Sale Price: L 205
Reg Price: L 455
--------------------- .*´`'*:-.,_,.-* ☆ Made by .. Houses & Furniture
Owner(s): Lovely Zwiers
Store SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Scotland%20Inchcruin/61/73/23
Marketplace URL: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/42145
1. Item Name: Coach House *Toscana*
MIDweek Sale Price: L$ 199
Reg Price: L$ 599
--------------------- .*´`'*:-.,_,.-* ☆ Cerri's Booty
Owner(s): Cerridwen Lynagh
Store SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Whispers%20Magic/39/218/23
Marketplace URL:https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/85069
1. Item Name: Not Your Average Pilgrim
MIDweek Sale Price: L100
Reg Price: L49
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Owner(s): Yazmine Tsarchon
Store SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/StormWind/137/210/24
Marketplace URL: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/81117
1. Item Name: :jazzitude: Danielle: Earth
MIDweek Sale Price: L99
Reg Price: L249
2. Item Name: :jazzitude: Astrud: Earth Lullaby
MIDweek Sale Price: L99
Reg Price: L249
3. Item Name: :jazzitude: Asmodean: Earth Lullaby
MIDweek Sale Price: L99
Reg Price: L249
--------------------- .*´`'*:-.,_,.-* ☆ Amber-licious Designs
Owner(s): Amberlee Adder
Store SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pernucini/121/208/1383
Marketplace URL: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/83017
1. Item Name: Darling Bodysuit fatpack with breast appliers
MIDweek Sale Price: 193L
Reg Price: 387L
2. Item Name: Snowy Winter Unisex - green
MIDweek Sale Price: 49L
Reg Price: 99L
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Owner(s): Lyric derryth
Store SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Business%20District%20Indigo/145/206/23
1. Item Name: blah.BLAH.blah Off Shoulder Sweater
MIDweek Sale Price: L99 For the 6 color FAT PACk!
Reg Price: L199
2. Item Name: blah.BLAH.blah Retro Tie Dyed Tank FAT PACK
MIDweek Sale Price: L75
Reg Price: L199
--------------------- .*´`'*:-.,_,.-* ☆ Elegance by Elysa
Owner(s): Elysa Swansong
Store SLURL: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/GMI%20Tenanye/218/119/24
Marketplace URL: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/72425
1. Item Name: Elegance Penthouse Sofa
MIDweek Sale Price: L250
Reg Price: L500
2. Item Name: Elegance Master 'n slave Ottoman
MIDweek Sale Price: L150
Reg Price: L300
3. Item Name: Elegance Sky Pagoda (Moroccan)
MIDweek Sale Price: L125
Reg Price: L250
--------------------- .*´`'*:-.,_,.-* ☆ Closer to the Heart Creations
Owner(s): Sapphire Hotaling
Store SLURL:http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Genki%20Sudo/9/35/22
1. Item Name: AD FINAL_Carolling Snowmen
MIDweek Sale Price: L100
Reg Price: L250
2. Item Name: AD FINAL_Northwest Christmas Spirit Parlor Set
MIDweek Sale Price: L100
Reg Price: L500
3. Item Name: AD FINAL_Dancing Snow Couple
MIDweek Sale Price: L75
Reg Price: L150
--------------------- .*´`'*:-.,_,.-* ☆ .::WoW Skins::.
Owner(s): sawsan secretspy
Store SLURL:http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Infinity%20Club/203/111/22
Marketplace URL: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/46629
1. Item Name: .::WoW Skins::. Alessandra Skin
MIDweek Sale Price: L 45
Reg Price: L 70
MIDweek Sale Price: L 450
Reg Price: L 999
3. Item Name: .::WoW Skins::. Anais special edition
MIDweek Sale Price: L 150
Reg Price: L300
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Owner(s): Puchie Fallen
Store SLURL:http://slurl.com/secondlife/Country%20Meadows/31/223/28
Marketplace URL: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/91054
1. Item Name: Miss Measels
MIDweek Sale Price: L 200
Reg Price: L 400
2. Item Name: Contessa
MIDweek Sale Price: L 150
Reg Price: L 300
3. Item Name: Red Butler
MIDweek Sale Price: L 200
Reg Price: L 400
Owner(s): Letitia Saenz
Store SURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Parluck/90/219/70
Marketplace URL: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/46802
1. Item Name: Cheerleader Smile black sun
MIDweek Sale Price: L 49
Reg Price: L 199
2. Item Name: Cheerleader Smile white blue
MIDweek Sale Price: L 49
Reg Price: L 199
3. Item Name: Bounded Man black
MIDweek Sale Price: L 49
Reg Price: L 199
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Owner(s): Atiya baar
Store SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Trondheim/199/56/1501
1. Item Name: Seamless Snow and Blood Stained Snow Textures
MIDweek Sale Price: L99
Reg Price: L299
♡Best Wishes ♡
The Midweek Madness TEAM
Our Amazing VENDORS, OUR great Bloggers &
MidweekMadness Resident,
Group owners: Rogue Kinomis & DragonSoul Draconia
Vendors wishing to join MIDweek MADness Contact Midweek Madness or Rogue Kinomis in world for all the information you need to apply or stop by our Home Office (SLURL above!) for more information and an application.
HOW TO SUBSCRIBE and/or UNSUBSCRIBE: Just go to the MIDweek MADness main kiosk (See above for main office SLURL) and click our scribo or SL group joiner OR visit any of the stores in the list, click on the MIDweek MADness group joiner for our SL group.
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Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, Boxer Who Defeated Wrongful Conviction, Dies
Ordeal Was Publicized in Bob Dylan Song and 1999 Film Starring Denzel Washington
Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was a ferocious boxer who spent nearly two decades in prison after being wrongly convicted of a triple murder, a saga that inspired a Bob Dylan song.
Mr. Carter, who became a cultural touchstone during the civil-rights movement, died Sunday in Toronto at 76 years old. He had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.


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Mercy Corps has been working in Ethiopia since 2004. Ethiopia is Africa's second-most populous nation, and although the economy have been steadily growing, the vast majority of Ethiopia remains impoverished. More than 83 percent of the population lives in rural areas vulnerable to droughts caused by climate change as well as economic instability and conflict spillover from neighboring Somalia and South Sudan.
Back-to-back seasons of minimal rainfall led to a severe drought in 2016, killing valuable livestock and necessitating further humanitarian assistance in 2017. According to the U.N., the drought is worse than the 2010-11 drought because of consecutive droughts and a low rainfall forecast for the next few months. Find out how investing in resilience helps fight drought ▸
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Thirty-year-old Felekech Indriss lives far out in the countryside in a village called Fuchucha, within the Konso region of Ethiopia, too far from any school where she can be educated.
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Within Mercy Corps' PROSPER program, the Savings and Credit Cooperative project brings much confidence to women in the Konso district of Ethiopia. Once a woman has saved a small amount of money, she is able to join the savings co-op and become eligible to apply for small business loans.
Ethiopia: Reading, finally
They sit in the shade and practice writing for one hour each day, for five days a week. This is usually done in the morning, well before their daily chores begin. While they do this, their older children take care of the younger ones in order to support their mother's education.
Ethiopia: Helping Ethiopian mothers protect their children
It is astonishing to know that very simple solutions exist that will protect our youngest citizens against diseases, yet so few children have access to this basic health care in countries where it is most needed.
Ethiopia: Improving health and education in Ethiopia
Editor's note: Freelance photographer and Mercy Corps supporter Joni Kabana is traveling in Ethiopia and will be visiting our Empowering Ethiopian Girls for Peaceful Change initiative in the eastern part of the country.
Ethiopia: Girls in eastern Ethiopia access literacy and vocational training for the first time
In the city of Gode in eastern Ethiopia's Somali Regional State, Mercy Corps worked with a local vocational training center to set up a computer lab for local girls, in order to provide them with computer skills and literacy training.
Ethiopia: Water, health, safety and extra time
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Probably one of the most photography locations in Perth is the Matilda Bay or Crawley boat shed . It makes for some stunning photographs with the simple blue boat house sitting on the calm swan river .
Found this old image from last year of the Boat House when I was cleaning up some RAW files on my hard drives
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** "How many kids do you have? None? Why not? Don't you like kids? Let me interrogate you about this for half and hour and drag our heart out...."
** "You just need to try this herbal tea!"
** "Aren't you a little old to still be trying?"
And the winner of "Most Insensitive Comment from Ignorant People"...
** "Maybe God is trying to tell you something!"
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Trekking through Web Design Tips
The majority of Flash movies end up on Web sites. To help ensure that your Web site is as attractive and useful as possible, consider these pearls of wisdom, some of which apply to all Web sites and others are specific to those sites using Flash movies.
Set your goal
A general principle of Web design is to know why you have a Web site. Write out one main goal and perhaps one or two secondary goals. For example, the main goal of your site may be to sell used music CDs. A secondary goal may be to provide viewers with music reviews so that they can decide which CDs they want to buy. Avoid putting material on your site that doesn't help you reach your goal.
How does your Flash movie help you attain your Web site's goal? Perhaps your movie displays the covers of your most widely sold CDs and plays some of the music, giving viewers an instant understanding of your site's purpose. On the other hand, if your Flash movie just displays an animated logo, it may even distract viewers from the important features of your home page.
Keep pages clean and clear
Unlike television, the Web is an interactive medium. Viewers need to understand the purpose of your site and how to navigate it. Clutter and complex structures are counterproductive. You can use Flash to create a simple, compelling navigational system. But you must be careful when mixing and matching HTML and Flash elements in order to avoid confusion. Let all your buttons look similar — don't create five different shapes and colors of Flash buttons just because you can.
By default, the Flash HTML file loops your files. Looped short animations tend to look like the animated GIFs we all know and hate . . . and ignore. Avoid looped animation unless you have a good reason for it, especially if it moves across the Web page in a banner. Viewers may assume it's advertising.
Don't overwhelm viewers with color
Too many colors create a chaotic impression. While your Web site doesn't have to be dull, you don't want it to be overwhelming either. Of course, there's nothing wrong with full-color photographs or graphics, but use a maximum of three colors for the background, text, and navigational aids. Most of your Web content is probably text, which viewers expect to be mostly in one font and one color. Navigational aids, such as buttons and links, should be the same color throughout your site.
Use fewer than four fonts
To create a Web page design with maximum coherence and impact, you should probably restrict your page design to two or three fonts at most. It makes visual sense to use one font for the body of your text and one font for the headlines. You could perhaps use a third font for a logo or for some other special item, but this may look best if it has some kind of strong visual harmony with the other fonts you are using.
Use four fonts and people may start to think that you're designing a ransom note, not a Web page.
Be consistent
Each page on your site should have the same logo. Certain links should go on each page (such as a link to your home page) and be in the same place on each page. If you have other links, such as Search, E-mail, and so on, these should also be consistent throughout your site.
Text color, fonts, hyperlinks, backgrounds, buttons, and so on should all be consistent to avoid confusion and error.
If you're combining HTML and Flash content, use consistent fonts and colors for both.
As you may know, KISS stands for Keep It Simple, Stupid. Sketch out the map of your site and make sure the lines of navigation are short and simple. Don't use long explanations when a short one will do. Don't use lots of images when one will suffice.
Your Flash movies should also be as simple as possible. Animation goes by fast. If too many objects are moving at once, viewers don't know where to focus their attention.
Know who's watching and how
Many Web site hosts provide you with information on the browsers (including which version) and the resolutions used by your viewers. You may not be able to cater to everything out there, but you should try to create a Web site that the vast majority of people can see.
Many sites that use Flash offer a non-Flash alternative rather than force viewers without the Flash Player to download it. The non-Flash alternative has non-animated graphics in place of the Flash movie.
Remember that viewers on a screen with 640 x 480 resolution can see a lot less than viewers on screens with a higher resolution. Those with lower resolution may miss important parts of your Web page and Flash animation.
Support the Flash Player
You can choose to publish an HTML file that detects whether the Flash Player is installed on the viewer's computer. If not, it displays an image file. (You need to publish to one of the image formats at the same time for this to work.)
The default HTML text doesn't check for the Flash player, but it includes the location to download the player. In some situations, the Flash Player will download automatically when not available or a window will pop up offering the viewer the chance to download it. Many sites include a button that says, Can't see the animation? Download the Flash Player here, or something to that effect. The button links to Macromedia's download center.
Many Web surfers have no idea how Web sites are created and have never heard of Flash. Therefore, giving viewers a choice of Flash and non-Flash sites may not be meaningful. (Of course, if you're a Web site designer and you think potential clients viewing your site may be savvier than most viewers, you may have no problem in this regard.) In most situations, it may be better to use the words animated and non-animated. Of course, feel free to use the word Flash along with some explanation.


text: SmartArt graphics add color, shape, and emphasis to your text and data, and they're a snap to use. You can easily try out a variety of SmartArt graphics to see which one works best for getting your point across. An organization chart? A time line? A process with sequential tasks? Non-sequential items? With SmartArt graphics, you can experiment as much as you want with different formats and styles. You can preview styles before choosing one, so you don't have to apply styles over and over again to find the one you want. And after you apply a style you can customize it with colors, animation, effects such as shadows, bevels, and glows, and more.


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A Glamorous Garden Wedding at San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas, California
When Jillian Hunter (28 and a publicist) moved in to the apartment next to Adam Thayer (33 and a software developer), she got more than just a new neighbor. "Within days, we were casually hanging out, getting drinks with friends and going to dinner," Jillian says. A few weeks later they were dating. Six years after that, Adam proposed on their favorite San Diego beach. The couple's outdoor wedding at San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas, California, was an energetic fusion of glitzy old-Hollywood glamour and fresh, bright shades of coral and pink. Their ceremony also blended tradition and modernity: The bridal party walked to Maxence Cyrin's piano version of "Where is My Mind?" (originally by the Pixies), and Jillian (a proud Scot) entered behind a live bagpipe player. At the on-site reception, Jillian and Adam's 145 guests reveled in the "tacos and tequila" theme instead of the traditional dinner and dancing. In a nod to Adam's love of surfing, each table was named after a local surf spot. "One of my favorite places to be is the dance floor, so my goal was to have everybody dancing," says Jillian, who gave the DJ an "extremely curated playlist" to keep guests grooving. Though the planning process can be trying, Jillian and Adam tried to find joy in the personalized details and in having the day reflect their tastes and interests. "When it comes to marriage, never stop laughing or smiling," Jillian says. "A partner is there to share the ups and downs. Life is a crazy roller coaster, and it's so important to find time to smile and laugh with each other." —Carolyn Meers


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The NoteSlate is a 13-inch e-ink tablet that mimics paper. You can jot down notes with the stylus and store them digitally—so simple, yet so awesome. I'd never buy a Moleskine again. Coming out in June 2011 for $US100
I'm going to warn myself that this is probably too good to be true. But please, oh please, let this be real! The NoteSlate is supposed to come in various colours, lasts over 180 hours in battery life and can even listen to mp3s for some reason. I've been wanting something like the NoteSlate for a while now, let's hope it's real (and good). [NoteSlate via Kottke]


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NAIA Football Players of the Week ? No. 2
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Zach Dolph of Saint Xavier (Ill.), Albert Huntley of Cumberlands (Ky.) and E.J. White of St. Francis (Ill.) were named NAIA Football National Players of the Week, the national office announced Monday. Dolph, Huntley and White were chosen for their performances during the week of Sept. 2 – 8 and were selected out of a pool of conference and independent award winners.
Dolph, a Crest Hill, Ill. native, tied a career-best with 15 tackles to lead Saint Xavier's defensive unit in its 31-24 overtime win against defending national champion and second ranked Marian (Ind.) Sept. 7. The senior linebacker had 1.5 sacks in the game, none more important than his half sack in overtime that helped force a fumble to end the game. The Cougars allowed no second-half points in their season opener against the Knights. For his career, Dolph owns 10 games with double-digit tackles. He previously received the NAIA's defensive weekly honor on Sept. 17, 2013.
Huntley, a running back from Mableton, Ga., shined on special teams in the eighth-ranked Patriots 41-10 win over No. 25 Cumberland (Tenn.) on Sept. 7. The senior blocked a punt early in the second quarter, which was returned 15 yards to pay dirt, propelling Cumberlands to an early 14-0 lead. Huntley struck again in the fourth quarter with a 95-yard kickoff return for a touchdown to seal victory.
White, a quarterback from St. Cloud, Fla., set a school record with 429 passing yards in St. Francis' 43-26 win at Olivet Nazarene (Ill.) last Saturday. He completed 23-of-29 passes and tied a second program single-game mark with six touchdowns. The senior added 19 rushes for 95 yards en route to a career-high 524 yards of total offense for the game. Through two weeks of NAIA football, White leads the nation in pass efficiency (271.8), passing yards per game (429.0) and total offense per game (534.0). White has won the National Offensive Player of the Week award two previous times – Oct. 10, 2011 and Oct. 24, 2011.
For a complete list of all the national statistical leaders, click here.
For the complete NAIA Player of the Week calendar, click here.
Offensive Nominees: Stephen Anderson, Trinity International (Ill.); Darryl Fields, Oklahoma Baptist; Chris Allen, Friends (Kan.); Branden Cresap, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Dillon Baxter, Baker (Kan.); Davis Bloemendaal, Northwestern (Iowa); Derek Elliott, Valley City State (N.D.); Sam Rutherford, Montana Western.
Defensive Nominees: Weston Hazlehurst, Cumberlands (Ky.); Eugene Estes, Oklahoma Baptist; Marcus Carter, Friends (Kan.); Jason Olson, Robert Morris (Ill.); Garrett Griffeth, Hastings (Neb.); Andre Jolly, Baker (Kan.); Preston Powell, Dakota State (S.D.); Travis Bertelsen, Rocky Mountain (Mont.).
Special Teams Nominees: Nic Shegog, Oklahoma Baptist; Andrew Muzljakovich, Olivet Nazarene (Ill.); Rashad Flanders, Mayville State (N.D.); Kelton Evans, Bethany (Kan.); Jordan Pedersen, Doane (Neb.); Connor Smith, Carroll (Mont.); Stephan Straits, Taylor (Ind.); Josh Lewis, Avila (Mo.).
2013 NAIA Football Players of the Week (complete schedule)
Week 1 (Sept. 2)
Offense: Bryce Baker, Rocky Mountain (Mont.)
Defense: Zach Hollier, Grand View (Iowa)
Special Teams: Zach Keenan, Benedictine (Kan.)
Week 2 (Sept. 9)
Offense: E.J. White, St. Francis (Ill.)
Defense: Zach Dolph, Saint Xavier (Ill.)
Special Teams: Albert Huntley, Cumberlands (Ky.)


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Beverly loves to garden
I have been gardening for about 3 years. I love the results of all the flowers and plants. My mom gave me most of my plants, she has a beautiful garden. I love old things, most of the my things belonged to my dad and mom. Thanks for dropping by my place, come back and visit anytime.......smiles
Back Yard Flower Close-ups Front Yard Garden Huge (Half Acre Plus ) Medium (1,000 - 5,000 sq ft.) Side Yard
3 of 10: These things came from my dad also.....the trellis is an old bed frame.....my dad made the tire pot......smiles
4 of 10: This wall of tools are a tribute to my family...these tools belong to my dad and grandpa....smiles
7 of 10: This schoolday theme is a tribute to my dad (bus driver), daughter (teacher) the initials are my grandkid's names
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I love the personal touches! :):)
Hi Beverly,
Thanks for visiting my yard. Your yard and setting are GORGEOUS. Does your house sit on acreage? I love all the farm elements you display in your yard. I especially like the ladder up against the tree with the birdhouses. The colors are starting to change up here in Michigan. Happy Fall to you.
Hi Bev, If you are ever in Wisconsin stop and have a cup of tea, coffee or OTHER. Thank you for the viisit.
Good night Bev and thank you for visiting my little tweety birds. Smiles, Lark
Hi Beverly, thanks for your nice comments on my garden. I recognized your pics as soon as I brought up your page. Aren't you also on Rate My Space? I believe I have commented on your garden there before.. I love all your stuff also....I love incorporating old 'stuff' with my plants & flowers. Wished we lived closer! Have a great October 1!
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Hi Beverly, I am so glad to hear from you. Tell me your favorite thing you did in the garden or yard this season. What new plants did you get, from Mom or buy? You know I LOVE all your found objects that you use for art. Are you leaves starting to turn yet? Ours have ever so slightly started to turn. Our weather has been unseasonable cool and VERY LITTLE rain. Last night God watered everything, even in all the nooks and crannies. LOL
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What's up what up (etc...)
Hello, I'm Heems
I'm at least a compelling dude
Telling you my hellish views
Of life as a Telugu (zombie person)
(?) Punjabi writer (? person) asked me what my hobby is
I ain't have an answer, kicking it probably (I kick it)
I'm whack
Y'all whack
We friends, we all whack
Shouts to Small Black
All y'all could fall back
Can lick my ball sack
It's all facts
On all wax
All tracks
Aw snap
Linus mad cause I rolled a spliff with (?)
(?) about Tito's Tacos
Shredding on my microphone around the country
Has been a great experience, very humbling
Mumbling one thing
The fun thing is something
I have enjoyed doing
But It's tiring jumping
Up and down for people who praise me like one king
If I wasn't rapping I wouldn't be pumping
Gas, I would be sipping on a flask, bumbling
Drunken, chumming it up with you pumpkins
Wondering, why you feel entitled to be fronting
Latkes and Matzo for the posse, it's nothing
In other words, I got bread
I Googled Latke, turned out it's not bread
Not a pot head, or a dot head
I sip chai tea, do tai chi
To calm my nerves
Make this in New York, but they bump it in the suburbs
Four words: Shout out to the nerds
That buy our records
The great people in the herds
That buy our records
Yo, cop our record
If you wear a turban you can't be a cop, but you can shoot one
I want to make a movie, but I could never afford the things you need to shoot one
I'm hot even when I'm not, friend
My friend, you don't call me, my friend
I call you, "my friend," my friend
They let us in in '65
Want our labor, not our lives
Not our kids, not our wives
Lock us up when we sport knives
If you a turban you can't be a cop, but you can shoot one
Biddies, I scoop one
With finesse, like Grey Poupon
Shoop-a-doop, on a futon
Friction is physics, like Nuetron
Alec on the Gchat taking about the Unabomber
Real expensive Reed talking about DHARMA, or Criminal Minds
I got a criminal mind
Swimming with dimes
I'm betting online
They sweating the vibe
I ain't letting what's mine go
I get it with knives
But they, getting in line
To be, getting what's mine
Make it pop off like Peter with the sermon
Like, eric I'm herman
I'm cherished
Watching Cheaters and some Jeter, that's Yankees and Derek
My merits, y'all perish
I'm getting, cheddar and bettin' on André Breton
Mary Lou Retton sweatin' the cake I'm gettin'
Illuminati vettin', he'll join 'em if they let him
Probably be a trick, and they'll boil him
If they get him
Never liked rapping, but decided I'd try harder
Then I shot the cover of Spin, and tried Prada
So, went from, "Why bother?" to, "Fuck it, yo I'll holla."
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Saw a great poster in France, a magazine cover reproduced at enlarged scale.
The question (I think!) being asked was, where have the UFOs gone?
I don't know about the background to this, but I'm assuming the number of reported sightings has decreased significantly?
Either which way you look at this it's fascinating........


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Velo Orange JA Stein Crank Puller Stronglight 23.35mm
A hard-to-find crank puller for classic Stronglight or TA cranks. JA Stein pullers are offered in Stronglight size (23.35mm) and in TA Specialities size (23mm).
JA Stein tools are hand-machined in a one-man shop and are of exceptional quality, suitable for bike shop or home use.
Note that these do not fit standard 22mm Japanese or Italian cranks.
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ACI Announces Plans for Annual John G. Walsh Memorial Golf Invitational
By: Press Release | ACI
LONG BEACH, CA, January 9, 2013 – American Circulation Innovations, (ACI), has announced plans for its first annual John G. Walsh Memorial Golf Invitational this spring.
Proceeds from the tournament will benefit the John G. Walsh Memorial Scholarship Fund at Michigan State University.
"Our annual golf tournament has been a popular event for our industry clients and friends," said Keith Somers, ACI President. "Now we are giving it a new meaning through our relationship with the Walsh Memorial Fund."
Somers added that the specific date, location and details of the 2013 event would be announced in the next few weeks.
John Walsh, who had served as ACI's EVP/COO, died of cancer last summer. He is survived by his wife Cindy Stone-Walsh and their family. Before joining ACI, Walsh held senior executive roles with the Dallas Morning News, Orange County Register and other major newspapers.
"The support from the newspaper industry for John's scholarship fund has been very generous and heartwarming," said Cindy Stone-Walsh. "We are delighted that ACI is participating with the tournament."
"John made a tremendous impact here at ACI and in the industry," noted Somers. "This is simply one of the ways we can carry on his legacy and contribute to helping others."
ACI previously held its own annual golf event but has discontinued it to focus exclusively on the Walsh Memorial Invitational tournament, including plans for related fundraising events such as auctions and promotions.
"As only one of many who helped establish the John Walsh Scholarship, I am excited to partner with ACI to honor John's legacy and all the enormous contributions he made to the industry and the tremendous impact he will always have on us personally," said John Schueler, former publisher of The Tampa Tribune.
About ACI
ACI, headquartered in Long Beach, CA, and founded in 1965, is the nation's leading provider of multi-channel distribution services. ACI is the only company that offers publishers a full selection of delivery services, including paid home delivery, single-copy, TMC/niche distribution, Sunday Select targeted delivery and their trademarked "Do No Harm" launch strategy.
For more information regarding ACI and its services, please contact Randall Brant, VP Sales and Marketing or visit their website at www.acicirculation.com.


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Books, Movies, Music
JCPL Catalog
Reading programs and Book Groups
Kids & Teens
Kids Zone
Teens Only
For Parents and Teachers
Student Portal
Main Content
What is a Caldecott?
Thousands of books are published every year, and of those, some are judged to be better than the rest in one category or another.
One of those awards is the Caldecott Medal, which is given by the American Library Association to outstanding illustrated children's literature, or picture books.
The gold foil seal on these books lets people know the art inside is going to be especially rewarding.
"What's so important about art in a book?" you might ask, but can you remember Shel Silverstein's poems without his silly line drawings of dogs hanging over disappearing sidewalks, or of The Giving Tree, well, giving?
What would Green Eggs and Ham be without the improbable illustrations of Sam I Am and his friend in a box, in a house, with a fox, with a mouse...?
Whether it's something iconic like Where the Wild Things Are or something breathtaking like The Polar Express, the illustrations in our favorite books not only help us identify those works, but they also teach us something about the world of art.
This is especially important now as national leaders are recognizing the importance of art education in creating a flexible workforce than can take on our nation's challenges.
Randolph Caldecott was a British artist who lived from 1846 to 1886. Every Christmas for eight years he released two illustrated books priced at a shilling each. These became affordable and popular gifts for children, and as a result, he is recognized as the father of the modern picture book.
You might recognize his rendition of the poem Hey, Diddle, Diddle in the accompanying close-up illustration of the dish running away with the spoon. The entire public domain image can be found in the Wikimedia Commons.
Read more about the effort to add Art to the nation's educational emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathmatics at the Rhode Island School of Design's advocacy site: stemtosteam.org.
Also, check out our Best Books for Young Readers page for links to Caldecott and aother award-winning titles for children at JCPL.


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Teixeira homers, Yanks finish sweep of Blue Jays
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hiroki Kuroda pitched four-hit ball, Mark Teixeira hit a two-run homer in a four-run first inning and the New York Yankees completed a thorough sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays with a 6-0, rain-shortened victory Wednesday.
The game was called after a 58-minute rain delay before the Yankees could come to bat in the seventh.
Nick Swisher and Andruw Jones each had run-scoring hits in the first, and Dewayne Wise had two RBIs in a rare start for New York. The Yankees handed Ricky Romero his career-worst fifth straight loss and beat Toronto for the eighth straight time in the Bronx.
The Blue Jays not only are leaving town two games under .500 for the first time this season, they will be limping into Boston with two injuries. Brett Lawrie bruised his right calf flipping over a railing trying to catch a foul pop in the third inning. All-Star slugger Jose Bautista strained his wrist on a swing Monday night and was put on the 15-day disabled list.
Lawrie slammed his right leg onto an unpadded railing inside a camera well while somersaulting over the cushioned railing separating the deep well from the field next to the Toronto dugout. The 22-year-old tried standing up but immediately went down after putting weight on his leg. Several members of the Blue Jays' staff ran from the dugout to assist Lawrie.
X-rays were negative and he is day to day.
Blue Jays manager John Farrell saw this series as a chance help define the Blue Jays' season. Well, the Yankees outscored Toronto 18-4 and outhomered their AL East rival 4-1.
Headed to Oakland immediately following the game for the start of a six-game trip that begins Thursday, the Yankees wasted no time after a 51-minute delay at the start caused by some dramatic lightning and booming thunder -- but no rain.
Jeter led off the first with a double, the first of the four extra-base hits in the inning. Nick Swisher had an RBI single, Teixeira followed with his 19th homer, a two-run shot. With one out, Robinson and Jones had consecutive doubles to make it 4-0.
Wise had an RBI double in the fourth and a run-scoring single in the sixth off Romero. He started in center field, giving Curtis Granderson a day off. Granderson had started 89 of New York's first 90 games.
Kuroda (9-7), meanwhile, allowed a single hit in each of the second, fifth, sixth and seventh innings. He struck out the side in the second.
It was an encouraging outing for Kuroda after he was shelled in his previous two starts, 11 earned runs over 13 innings as his ERA rose from 3.16 to 3.67.
Romero (8-6) appeared to be emerging from a slump. He had yielded just three runs in 12 innings over last two starts after allowing 16 runs in the two starts before that. But he gave up six runs and 12 hits in six innings this time. The losing streak follows a stretch where he lost only once in 15 outings.
NOTES: Injured Yankees closer Mariano Rivera rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday morning. ... Several members of the Wounded Warrior Project rode hand-pedaled bicycles onto the field before the game as part of the Soldier Ride. Swisher greeted the injured troops and fans gave them a warm ovation. ... Former St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa delivered Colby Rasmus' World Series ring to the stadium Wednesday morning, but Rasmus was too busy to meet with La Russa. Rasmus was with the Cardinals last year until he was traded to Toronto July 27 as part of a three-team trade. The Cardinals went on to win the championship and La Russa retired. The relationship between Rasmus and La Russa deteriorated last year before the trade. But Rasmus said he didn't meet La Russa on Wednesday because he was too busy with family in town and pregame preparations.


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From W3C Wiki
<input type="datetime">
The date and time state represents a control for setting the element's value to a string representing a specific global date and time.
- User agents may display the date and time in whatever time zone is appropriate for the user.
- The value attribute, if specified, must have a value that is a valid global date and time string.
HTML Attributes
autocomplete= on/ off/ default
- on
The on state indicates that the value is not particularly sensitive and the user can expect to be able to rely on his user agent to remember values he has entered for that control.
- off
The off state indicates either that the control's input data is particularly sensitive (for example the activation code for a nuclear weapon); or that it is a value that will never be reused (for example a one-time-key for a bank login) and the user will therefore have to explicitly enter the data each time, instead of being able to rely on the UA to prefill the value for him; or that the document provides its own autocomplete mechanism and does not want the user agent to provide autocompletion values.
- default
The default state indicates that the user agent is to use the autocomplete attribute on the element's form owner instead. (By default, the autocomplete attribute of form elements is in the on state.)
- on
list= ID reference
Identify an element that lists predefined options suggested to the user.
If present, its value must be the ID of a datalist element in the same document.
max= valid global date and time string
indicate the allowed range of values for the element.
min= valid global date and time string
indicate the allowed range of values for the element.
name= string
Gives the name of the input element.
readonly= boolean
Controls whether or not the user can edit the form control.
required= boolean
When specified, the element is required.
step= any/ positive floating-point number
Specifies the value granularity of the element's value.
value= string
Gives the default value of the input element.
Example A
The following fragment shows part of a calendar application. A user can specify a date and time for a meeting (in his local time zone, probably, though the user agent can allow the user to change that), and since the submitted data includes the time-zone offset, the application can ensure that the meeting is shown at the correct time regardless of the time zones used by all the participants.[try it]:
<fieldset> <legend>Add Meeting</legend>
Meeting name: <input type=text name="meeting.label">
Meeting time: <input type=datetime name="meeting.start"> </fieldset>
HTML Reference
The HTML5 specification defines the Datetime state in 18.104.22.168.7 DATE AND TIME STATE.


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Re: I want to be unbanned!
First of all, I want to apologize for this. Through I've never used an engine or some-kind of chess software when playing , but I know that there is a reason for the staff to ban me. I was kicked out when playing, with a message Banning reason: Cheating - Under-rated player/Sandbagger.And I think this is what happened:
- Some time ago, when I created an account, I was preparing for a quick-play tournament. So, I often played with short time. However, I didn't play well in the pressure of time, so I often lost.
- Dated back to that time, I was not using a personal computer (I used computer with my younger brother). And when my using time is up, I passed the computer to him, not closing the tab I opened, intending to make it convenience when I sat back and continue to play (not signing in again)... My brother told me that he sometime play under my name. However, he has just started with chess, so he didn't play well, so he often lost.
- And now, when I'm out of that tournament, I started playing with very long time, usually 25 min + 10 sec, or 20 min, or 15 min, and I got good result.
- Now, I really care about the privacy. Because I read rules on this forum, and I know that 2 person use 1 name to play is not allow, and may cause some misunderstanding. So, there are no more idiot lose.
It look like I play under-rated, but I do not. If you think it's necessary, you may took all of my cubit. It's my fault to cause this misunderstanding, and I would happily to play again from the start, but please understand and allow me to signing in again.
Thank you very much, at least for reading this.
Best regards


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Super Rugby round four
Bulls claim first win at Eden Park
ESPN Staff
March 10, 2013
Wynand Olivier and the Bulls overpowered the Blues%]
The Blues' momentum shuddered to a halt on Sunday afternoon, the Bulls overpowering and out-thinking the early-season pacesetters in the first half before withstanding a fierce second-stanza comeback to claim their first Super Rugby win at Eden Park.
The Bulls did not impress everyone in their opening victories against the Stormers and Western Force, while the Blues had defeated the Hurricanes and the Crusaders in style to provide fans with genuine belief that they could contend for the title; but the Blues were fractured and disjointed in the first half, after coach Sir John Kirwan had made six changes to the starting team that had dispatched the Crusaders, and ultimately they gifted their opponents too much leeway.
"We didn't turn up," Blues captain Ali Williams said of his team's efforts in the first half. "Piss poor to be honest. I'm gutted. We'd earned some respect and then we've just lost it. We've got ourselves to blame. We didn't attack. We didn't play the game that we trained. It's a good learning curve. We're gutted. We're pissed off."
Bulls captain Pierre Spies, conversely, was very happy, saying: "We'll be thankful and humble. It's a great team effort to come here and win. In the second half, we felt we just had to be clinical against a team like the blues. They've got some aggressive runners with ball in hand. It was a clinical performance, a really hard effort."
The visitors were powerful and precise with ball in hand in the opening quarter, close to and through the ruck and particularly when they elected to go wide: they stretched the Blues and tries in opposing corners from wingers Lionel Mapoe and Akona Ndungane were the least they deserved from their performance that dominated possession and territory in the first half.
Kirwan said at half-time that his players had lacked "passion and pride" in the first stanza, that "you can't play football when you're getting bashed up", and the Blues were much improved in the second half after what was clearly a stern address from the coach at the interval.
They were first to score in the second half, through the boot of fly-half Baden Kerr after Bulls prop Frik Kirsten was penalised for a scrum infringement, and then claimed the lead through a try from Charles Piutau, the fullback slicing though the Bulls' defence to cap a flowing backline move after powerful phase play.
The Bulls hit back immediately with a try from Arno Botha after phases following a searing break from Ndungane and wonderful, desperate hands from replacement prop Werner Kruger, and extended their advantage when the Blues conceded a penalty through Kerr for a high tackle.
Each team then had opportunities to score tries: first Blues replacement prop Angus Taavao-Matau dropped the ball with the tryline gaping; then Bulls half-back Jano Vermaak dropped the ball over the line under serious pressure a couple of phases after a length-of-the-field counter-attack launched from the base of a scrum by No.8 Pierre Spies.
The Blues gave themselves hope of an unlikely comeback win when Rene Ranger outstripped the defence and ran over the top of a tackle to score in the corner after good lead-up work from fellow centre Francis Saili, but the Bulls showed discipline and composure to close out the game with a penalty goal from Morne Steyn, with the last kick of the game, rounding out the score.
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