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Nutscene jute twine offers the perfect combination of softness and strength, which has made it the favorite of British kitchen gardeners since 1922. This set gives you eight mini spools of twine in different colors, ideal for supporting plants as well as general household tasks and craft making.
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Rated 4 out of 5 by Shugee from Good to have a variety I like that this product is available in a multitude of colors. But it's helpful to note two things. 1) The colors can be different then what is pictured, since Nutscene twine is available currently in fifteen colors. 2) These are mini-spools not full size Which I don't have a problem with but it's good to be sure to know that upfront before purchasing. This purchase has helped lead me to the Nutscene website to order their lime green and heather colored twine and a couple other items. Very glad Williams-Sonoma offers this product and no regrets in ordering it. I've used it recently to wrap around a Weck jar to tie a ceramic spoon with a hole in the handle and it has made a beautiful food package gift.Date published: 2016-12-16Rated 4 out of 5 by Cindiful from Potting Shed Must Have This is the second time I have purchased this product because it is strong and durable. The colors are wonderful. I use it to support my tomatoes in the summer and have had no problems with it breaking down like the green tape I have used in the past. The only con I have is the smell. It has a strong scent like tar/oil, not sure why but it doesn't affect its function.Date published: 2016-01-03Rated 3 out of 5 by Kitchenchemist from Beautiful color but... Bought this after reading other reviews of the versatility of the product. The colors are beautiful but there is a strong odor of machine oil and the wrappers around the twine have absorbed some of the oil, indicating that there is a fair amount of it on the spools. Don't think I would use it around foodstuff or packaging that would absorb more oil from the twine. My husband inquired as to why I didn't realize this was to be used outside. What can I say?Date published: 2013-11-19Rated 5 out of 5 by Ellendy from Beautiful--And You Get A Lot! I never buy sampler packs because you don't get very much of any one thing, but in the case of this set of 8 multi-colored twines, you get tons. It comes in handy for wrapping food and non-food gifts and for decorating. I made a 5-color tie for a ristra of dried peppers to hang on my front gate. If I ever use it up, I will buy another set!Date published: 2013-06-25Rated 5 out of 5 by JacyJax from Perfect for My Plans I bought this jute twine for the colors and to use in rustic package wrapping as well as decorative napkin ties. The colors looked even better in person, and there is more twine per spool than I expected.Date published: 2013-06-21Rated 5 out of 5 by Anonymous from Colorful Twine The twine was absolutely perfect! The spools were larger than I expected, so I actually have more to use for different projects. The various colors are also vibrant which make the twine more versatile for use.Date published: 2013-05-18

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by John Galt
May 31, 2012 23:00 ET
Throughout the recent five years of American economic, political, and Constitutional crises the world chugged along with winners and losers selected by fate and foolishness as the erosion of our modern civilization continued from within. This system crash at all levels, morality, financial structure, religion, politics, and the viability of the nations impacted from this disaster is going to lead to some extremely long term changes in the world, some of which will shock the unprepared, and kill the unaware. There is, however, some good news:
The collapse is the easy part.
If one takes a moment to review modern history, the realization that the statement above is not a concoction of a historian from the skeptical point of view, but one of reality. The American people have been living in a bubble since 1991, created by politicians who over reacted to a garden variety slowdown in the business cycle by pressuring a then scheming Alan Greenspan into finding new ways to use the power of the Federal Reserve banking system to inflate and expand economic activity. Based on the charts below, the efforts of the political and financial elites was a resounding success until the end of the century.
Unfortunately for the proverbial powers that be, the effectiveness wore off when the bubble popped in 1999 and the theory that perpetual printing will cure all is beginning to lose out to the forces of natural business cycles, deleveraging, and economics. Eventually, as consumers ran out of money and earnings failed to keep pace with real inflation as opposed to the hedonically manipulated C.P.I., the velocity of money began to decline which meant that credit was collapsing not just at the consumer level, but across the economy as a whole. The chart below continues to verify this decline.
Thus every effort to avert a deflationary economic depression has been met with half measures of so-called "Quantitative Easing" which has done nothing to offset deflationary pressure but instead created price inflation in the face of a continuing economic contraction. The Federal Reserve has put itself into a liquidity trap with none of the benefits from monetary printing filtering beyond the banking sector and into the general economy. If in fact this had worked according to theory, the graph above would continued with a move back above the 1.7 level; instead it has collapsed to the lowest levels in over twenty years. Yet this little tidbit is comforting in the fact that it only indicates a greater risk of economic collapse without providing a timetable or the consequences thereof.
In Europe, Greece is the closest example to a complete collapse in its government, economy, and as a result civilization. Middle class citizens have been wiped out financially. Families are abandoning pets in record numbers and children in lower, yet expanding numbers. The dramatic suicides are now becoming an almost daily occurrence with each event drawing more and more attention to the futility of thinking that there is a pension or retirement program for the elderly to rely on. The collapse has not hit Greece at this time, it is just now beginning to accelerate. The election on June 17th will determine its future and if the powers in charge are able to work with the financial elites and rig the election, odds are the transition will be worse as the European Commission attempts to paint a happy face on to a revolution. The revolt that can be expected in Greece will eventually follow in Ireland, Cyprus, Hungary, the rest of the Balkans and possibly even Italy and Spain.
When that happens, then the crisis hits America square in the eyes, causing a chain of irreversible events that will reverberate around the world back to the source causing even greater conflict and disruption. Then and only then can we call it a "collapse" in the true sense of the word.
How would such an event look to the average U.S. citizen comfortably tucked in their insulated video game on-demand movie world with guaranteed government benefits and little risk ever endured in their life beyond perhaps an amusement park ride?
Imagine a world where elderly parents commit suicide so the children will have some properties and material to inherit so they might have the ability to survive just a little bit longer.
Imagine a time where seven year old children are abandoned by their parents on the side of the road with the family pets so some selfish yuppies can maintain the facade of their prior lifestyle.
Imagine an era of American evil where neighbor turns against neighbor to benefit themselves by creating and bearing false witness against them so they may be rewarded by the state, much like the inhabitants of the old Soviet bloc.
Imagine one meal per day of 1000 calories to survive.
This might sound mildly horrific to some and comical to others, but the truth is as Americans are put on the street and forced to endure the hardships that other Americans did during the Great Depressions of our past, the political class will promise solutions designed to create a more solidified authoritarian state to lock in their power and wealth to the exclusion of others. The fact that individuals continue to claim that this can not happen here have failed to watch the deterioration of our freedoms and the willingness of the average soul to fight for them. The consequences of decades of inaction and selfish desire to preserve each citizen's middle class McMansion fiefdom will supersede the Constitution because the government has ensured that Americans no longer review history or civics and thus the desire to preserve it.
Yet this is not the total collapse, this is still the easy part.
The hard facts which will emerge on the other side after a grand reset then trial and tribulation is the most difficult concept for most individuals to wrap their minds around. Throughout history this event has occurred over and over again, yet the same if not worse mistakes are made as societies emerge to the proverbial "other side." Think about the prior collapses of major societies in recent history and the results:
In 1917, a Russian monarchy gave way to a Communist dictatorship. While the former was evil, corrupt, and incapable of exploiting the nation's vast resources to recognize the era of the monarchies was coming to a close, the alternative as history has judged, was far worse committing and creating standards for atrocities that terrify sane men to this day.
In 1920's Italy, the post war economic implosion opened the door to a quasi-Socialist who learned how to manipulate the media and financial elites to achieve power and introduce a reign that eventually killed thousands of his countrymen in a fruitless series of wars and eventual defeat. The ego of a dictator knows no bounds as fascism was an honorable term in both Europe and the U.S. at that time.
In 1920's to 1930's Germany, a Weimar Republic emerged, barely blunting the concepts of Marxism but eventually falling to National Socialism which killed millions and set the stage for the Pax Americana. Sadly the peace has been squandered.
In 1930's America, the visions of a President with an obvious abhorrence for the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law lead to a dictatorship of "democracy" which almost destroyed the nation without external assistance. Thankfully some brave souls stood against this onslaught and prevented the collapse from expanding to the nation's heart and soul saving the U.S. from a hybrid Italian-Germanic model of total dictatorship despite the 1932-1935 attempts to rule via edict and Executive Order.
In 1947 China, a nation was formed from nation states under the guise of "Communist Liberation Ideology" as I like to call it and the end results was a state which perfected the art of genocide so efficiently that even the Soviet Union was horrified.
The list is endless with example after example from Latin America to Africa and around the world again but the point is that the collapse while painful will not be the hardship that everyone envisions. The people who have prepared for such an event will survive and perhaps thrive for a period of time during the anarchy and chaos which may reign supreme in their part of the country. This will give way to a new, highly technocratic police state in some nations but I fear in others a perpetual state of civil war could occur; encouraged by outside influences so as to distract the domestic populations from their own hardships.
No matter what we witness, what happens in the weeks, months, and years ahead the title of this article should provide some assurance that each and every day which passes now could be construed as the good old days.
As tomorrow could be the nightmare others call dreams, and freedom a fleeting memory only in our hearts.


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Use low-growing perennial plants and shrubs as groundcovers to cover slopes and rough ground or to replace high-maintenance lawns. Choose plants that thrive in your particular soil and climate.
First, calculate the number of plants needed. Space plants so that the distance between them is about equal to their maximum width. If plants are very slow growing, space them slightly closer. Spaced properly, most ground covers will spread and cover the soil surface between them by the third growing season. To determine a plant's maximum width, check with experienced nursery staff or reference books. Here's how to plant groundcovers.
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Prepare the Soil. Eliminate all weeds and grass from the area before planting. For large areas, use glyphosate herbicide, a rototiller, soil solarization, or a rented sod-stripping machine to clear the area of plants and grass. Solarize the soil by laying clear plastic over cleared and moistened soil (so the sun's heating rays can penetrate and heat the soil). Seal the edges with soil, and leave the plastic in place for 4 to 6 weeks.
Space Plants and Dig Holes. To know how many plants you'll need at various distances, use the following as a guide: 100 plants spaced 6 inches apart cover about 20 square feet; 12 inches apart, they'll cover 85 square feet; and 18 inches apart, they'll cover 200 square feet. Arrange plants in zigzag rows so they are equal distance from their neighbors. Dig holes to the same depth as, and two to three times wider than, the plants' root balls.
Plant. Water plants thoroughly a few hours before planting. If weeds are severe, consider covering soil with a water-permeable landscape fabric (see Tips below). Tip each plant out of its pot without pulling on the stems. Untangle circling roots gently with your fingers. Place in the hole so that the plant will grow at the same soil level as it did in the pot. Spread the roots and backfill with the soil that was removed from the hole. Press the plant gently into place.
Water and Mulch. Water plants thoroughly after planting to settle the soil. Spread 2 to 3 inches of organic mulch, such as shredded bark. If using landscape fabric, cover it with 1 to 2 inches of shredded bark. Pull the mulch 6 inches away from the plant stems. Maintain even soil moisture until the plants resume vigorous growth -- usually in one to two growing seasons. Pull weeds as they appear and replace mulch as needed.Tips
Prevent weeds by laying down a water-permeable landscape fabric. Overlap the edges by a few inches and anchor the fabric to the ground with wire or plastic pegs made for the job. Fabric is best used with shrubs, but not perennials with a creeping habit. To plant, make two crossing cuts in the fabric with a sharp knife, pull up the flaps, and plant through the opening.
Speed plant growth by scattering granular fertilizer or composted manure over the planting site. Choose a fertilizer formulated for your plants and follow directions carefully.
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Student housing project completed recently at Research
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To adapt to a changing medical environment, hospital
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The copy of "Business Adventures" Bill is holding in this picture is the actual book Warren Buffet sent him 23 years ago. You can see from the wear on the dust jacket, it has seen some use over the years. Pretty fun assignment. Thanks Ronnie!
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The Particulars
Harvard, the winners of seven of its last eight games and five straight, remains on the road for its final two contests away from Lavietes Pavilion. The Crimson travels to Brown Friday and Yale Saturday.
Scouting the Crimson
Harvard's five straight victories is the longest streak of the season for the Crimson, who sports a 16-7 overall mark and a 7-2 Ivy League record. Emma Markley continues to lead the team with 14.3 points, 7.3 rebounds and 2.7 blocks per game. Victoria Lippert is second in scoring with 12.3 points per game. Brogan Berry paces the team in assists with 6.0 per game and is third in scoring with 12.1 ppg.
The Crimson is shooting 43.2 percent from the field, which is second in the league and 44th in the nation. Harvard shoots a league-best 38.3 percent from beyond the three-point line and a league-best 73.2 percent from the charity stripe. The Crimson's 69.9 points per game is second best in the league, while its 36.9 rebounds per game ranks sixth.
Last Time Out
A pair of free throws from Brogan Berry with 47 seconds left held up as the game-winning points for the Crimson in a 69-67 win over Columbia Saturday night in New York City. Victoria Lippert scored a career-high 28 points, including 15 in the second half to lead the Crimson, while Emma Markley had 12 points, 10 rebounds and seven blocks.
The Crimson and Lions battled back and forth throughout the game. The lead changed 15 times and there were six ties in the 40-minute game that came down to the last possession. Columbia led 34-33 at the half and could never pull away by more than four. Harvard's largest lead was seven.
From Start to Finish
Harvard has led from start to finish in six games this season. The Crimson never trailed against Maine, Holy Cross, NJIT, Columbia (Jan.29), Penn (Feb. 6), Brown (Feb. 13) and Cornell (Feb. 19).
Gone Streaking
Harvard's five wins in a row equals the Crimson's longest win streak of last season. Harvard made it five in a row twice in 2008-09.
Rookie Honored
Victoria Lippert was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week Feb. 22. Lippert was a thorn in Cornell and Columbia's sides as she posted a double-double against Cornell and a career-high 28 points in the win over Columbia.
Lippert connected on her first eight shots and led the Crimson with 13 points at halftime against the Lions. She added 15 more in the second on an 11-for-13 effort from the field. Lippert was 4-for-4 from the free throw line and 2-for-2 from three-point land. Lippert had 20 points and 10 rebounds against Cornell to average 24 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.0 steals in New York.
Since We Last Met the Bears
Brown is 1-1 since meeting the Crimson Feb. 13 at Lavietes Pavilion to improve to 7-16 overall and 4-6 in the Ivy League. The Bears handed Penn a 54-42 loss one night before falling to Princeton, 64-38.
Hannah Passafuime paces the Bears in scoring with 10.0 points per game and 11.2 ppg in conference contests. Christina Johnson and Lindsay Nickel have also been a major part of the offense with 7.4 and 6.0 ppg., respectively. Natalie Bonds dominates the glass with 6.8 rebounds per game.
The Brown Series
Friday is the 70th meeting between Harvard and Brown. The Crimson has faced the Bears more than any other team in the league and leads the series, 38-31. Harvard has won seven straight against the Bears.
Since We Last Met the Bulldogs
Yale is 2-1 since facing the Crimson two weeks ago. The Bulldogs defeated Dartmouth, 70-66, Penn, 70-38, but fell to Princeton, 65-44. Yale's loss to the Tigers last Friday was only its third at home this season and first against an Ivy League team. Megan Vasquez and Yoyo Greenfield pace the offense with 11.3 and 10.2 ppg., respectively. Michelle Cashen controls the boards, averaging 7.3 per game.
The Yale Series
Harvard leads the all-time series with the Bulldogs, 40-27, and has won three straight. The Crimson has won 10 of the last 12 meetings.
Points in the Paint
Harvard scored 56 of its 88 points against Yale (Feb. 12) in the paint. That's 63.6 percent of the scoring under the basket for Harvard's best percentage of the season. The second best showing of the season was against Navy, when the Crimson had 40 of its 71 points scored in the paint.
When Brogan Berry Has…
Nine assists in a game, the Crimson is 3-1.
Eight or more, the Crimson is 5-1.
Seven or more, the Crimson is 12-2.
Moving On Up
Brogan Berry has 137 assists entering the weekend which ranks 10th on the Harvard single season assists list. She needs seven to move into ninth. She also only needs six helpers to earn a spot on the Harvard career assists list. She has 230 career handouts heading into the weekend.
Harvard Single Season Assists List
1. Jennifer Monti 178
2. Heidi Kosh 152
3. Jess Gelman 152
4. Jennifer Monti 152
5. Emily Tay 151
6. Maura Jealy 150
7. Emily Tay 147
8. Jess Gelman 144
9. Emily Tay 143
10. Brogan Berry 137
The Double-Digit Scorers
Emma Markley has scored in double figures in 19 of Harvard's 23 games, including 16 of the last 19 contests. Brogan Berry has 14 games in double figures, while Victoria Lippert has in 13 games and Christine Matera have 11 each.
February Factoid
Harvard is 167-67 in the month of February under head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith. The Crimson has gone undefeated in the second month of the year six times, with the most recent coming in 2007 (8-0).
Nationally Speaking
Harvard has four individuals ranked among the top 250 in the nation in nine categories. The team is ranked among the top 45 in five categories.
Brogan Berry ranks 12th in the nation in assists per game (6.0), sixth in assist/turnover ratio (2.54), 37th in free throw percentage (.847)
Emma Markley ranks 14th in the nation in blocks per game (2.7), 127th in field goal percentage (.432), 182nd in points per game (14.3), 182nd in rebounds per game (7.3)
Christine Matera ranks 34th in three-point field goal percentage (41.4), 45th in three-point field goals per game (2.5).
Harvard ranks 12th in three-point field goal percentage (.383), 21st in blocked shots (5.3), 30th in three-point field goals made (7.1), 41st in assist/turnover ratio (0.91), 44th in free throw shooting percentage (.732).
League Leaders (as of Feb. 22)
Brogan Berry leads the league in free throw shooting (.847) and assists (6.0). Emma Markley paces the conference in blocks per game (2.7) and Christine Matera leads the Ivies in three-point field goals made (2.5).
The Offense
Harvard ranks second in the Ivy League in scoring offense with 69.9 points per game. The Crimson leads the Ancient Eight in free throw percentage (.732), blocked shots (5.3 per game), three point field goal percentage (.383) and three-point field goals (7.1 per game).
The Crimson From Three
Harvard is averaging 7.1 three-pointers per game after 21 contests, which ranks 25th in the nation. The Crimson hit 11 threes against Boston College and Boston University and posted double-digit treys three times. Harvard is shooting 38.3 percent from downtown, which stands 12th in the nation.
Crash Those Boards
Jackie Alemany grabbed a career-high 13 rebounds against Cornell (Feb. 19). She is second on the team with 6.6 per game. Emma Markley pulled down 15 against Holy Cross and Northeastern for a new career high.
On the Bench
Kathy Delaney-Smith, the winningest coach in program history, is in her 28th season on the bench for the Crimson. Delaney-Smith, who has led the Crimson to 11 Ivy League titles, recorded her 400th career victory with a 68-47 win over Brown on March 7, 2008. She sports a 435-306 record 23 games into her 28th season.
Assistant Coach Bri Fecteau is back for her seventh season, while Kelly Finley returns for her second. She served as a volunteer assistant in 2008-09. Todd Earl, another Colorado State graduate, joins the staff as a volunteer coach this season.


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Last year we told you that a film based on the life of Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel was in the works with Audrey Tautou cast as the fashion icon. The mysterious film set for release next year has a name: Coco Avant Chanel, which translates roughly to Coco Before Chanel, is the back story to Chanel's life before she became an internationally recognized designer. British Vogue spoke to Tautou recently about her role and she stated:
I'm very happy with the script because it is about her youth and the elements which tell us what she would become and why her style is what it is today. . . . It gave me the freedom to be between the image of what people think about her [Chanel] but also her before her success.
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Woman found dead in Port Arthur apartment
Port Arthur Police detectives are working the city's latest homicide, Donzetta Vertnell Roberts, a 45-year-old Port Arthur woman was found dead Saturday afternoon in her Carver Terrace Apartment.
Police would not comment on how she died, other than to say she died from "wounds found on her body" according to a press release.
According to the release, a relative of Roberts was concerned when Roberts did not show up for work Saturday morning and went to her apartment to check on her. The relative's fear grew when Roberts' car was at the apartment complex, but Roberts apartment door was locked. A maintenance man opened the door for the relative to check on Roberts, and inside they found her deceased.
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Just got a sad email from Rachelle McKnight about her stolen Bianchi.
I am a very recent victim of bike theft in Astoria.
The bike was a mint green 1987 Bianchi racing bike with black tape
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in front of a heavily trafficked entrance. It was chained with a
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Mulund today is densely populated but still maintains its greenery and is one of the safest place to live in Mumbai. Earlier there were a lot of industries which have moved out making way for commercial and residential properties and projects. Its skyline has changed with modern skyscrapers replacing older factories. The tallest building is 45 floors high. [Read more…]


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The deposition of San Diego Mayor
One of Filner's defense attorneys on Tuesday filed a motion to quash the subpoena that required the mayor's presence at the deposition, effectively delaying it.
The treatment program started Monday and is supposed to go through Aug. 16.
A judge will take up the issue next month, on Sept. 16, to determine how the deposition will go forward.
In court documents filed Tuesday, defense attorney Harvey Berger said the City Attorney's Office was refusing to accommodate the mayor's treatment.
"There is no good reason to expedite Mayor Filner's deposition," Berger writes. "The lawsuit was only filed on July 22, 2013."
Berger included a note from a psychologist that states: "Robert Filner is currently under my care in an intensive treatment program and will be unavailable for deposition." The doctor's name is redacted from the note, dated Monday.
Filner's attorneys are also asking that any testimony Filner gives at a deposition not be made public until it is introduced at trial.
The City Attorney's Office requested the deposition as part of their investigation into the allegations. City Attorney Jan Goldsmith is representing the city's interest in the case.
"Obviously, Mr. Filner does not want to testify under penalty of perjury and will use every means to avoid having to do that," Goldsmith said in a statement Wednesday. "He can delay it, but he can't stop it. The first renewed opportunity to take his deposition is September 17 and we have rescheduled his deposition for that date."
The lawsuit against Filner and the city was brought by the mayor's former director of communications, Irene McCormack Jackson, who accused Filner of unwanted sexual advances in the workplace.
Because of the intense media coverage of the scandal, Filner's attorney has also requested that the case be moved to Imperial County, arguing that an impartial trial cannot be had in San Diego.
A judge will also take up that issue on the September court date.
Gloria Allred, who is representing McCormack Jackson, said she will fight a change of venue in the case.
"We are confident that an impartial jury can be found in San Diego County," she wrote in a statement to the media. "Mayor Filner is the Mayor of the city of San Diego. ... We believe that the case should be heard and decided by a jury of Mayor Filner's peers who reside in San Diego."
Judges, however, rarely grant a change of venue.


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I have no idea. Haven't seen enough of him to even come up with an opinion. I hope he does well because he's our player. Does he have a history of playing in centre defence?
given his injury woes i think hes behaved impeccably
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ROCKFORD — Competing through growing pain, Reghan Brands saw one of her lifelong goals become a reality last month.
The Gymnastic Academy of Rockford member was selected to the U.S. National Tumbling Team for 2014-15 following the conclusion of the USA Gymnastics Championships in Louisville, Kentucky in July.
"It was very exciting to hear my name called," Brands said. "I'm honored."
Brands, a Belvidere North sophomore, earned three top-five finishes at the junior elite level this season. Those performances and other criteria were the basis of her being selected to the national team. She placed first at the Kalon Ludvigson Invitational in Salt Lake City, Utah; third at the U.S. Elite Challenge in Spokane, Washington and fifth at the USA Gymnastics Championships in Louisville.
She joined Natalie Ory of Midland, Texas; Abby Rowe of American Falls, Idaho; Gretchen Schultz of Destrehan, Louisiana and Rachel Thevenot of Metairie, Louisiana as members of the national team.
"This is something that I worked hard for," Brands said.
What made her performance more impressive was she did it with an achilles injury that she said had been going on for a few months.
"It got really bad (at Kentucky)," she said.
Brands is now resting that injury and hopes to be back to tumbling in the next couple of weeks.
She's hoping for a quick recovery because in September she will begin trying to qualify for a second straight year at the World Age Group Competition that will be held Nov. 14-16 in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Even if she's not 100 percent healthy by then, she has a shot to be chosen.
"There are four from our group going to the camp and they can choose up to four for Florida," Brands said. "So I still have a good chance of going."
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LOOK: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Announce 'Push The Sky Away' Special Launch Event Shows In February
By Staff on January 16, 2013
When Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds released the lyric video for "Jubilee Street," we wanted to be wrapped up in those six minutes and thirty-eight seconds for eternity; we were completely transfixed by Cave's vocals, those sorrowful strings, and the delicate shakes of that tambourine. One of our interns nearly cried in traffic, when the track aired on KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic."
The song is that moving, and their March tour just can't come soon enough. The band clearly shares this same thought, because they have just announced four shows, spread all over the globe, between February 10 through February 21.
At these events, Push the Sky Away will be performed live by the band, with the addition of a choir and string section. The audience will also get to view Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard's short film about the making of the new album, which features commentary by the musicians, as well as producer Nick Launay.
Tickets go on sale this Thursday, January 17, at 11 a.m. EST. They can be purchased on the Nick Cave official website.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' launch event dates:
10 - London - Her Majesty's Theatre
11 - Paris - Trianon
13 - Berlin - Admiralspalast
21 - Los Angeles - Fonda Theatre


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Apple's Eddie Cue has been appointed to the board of directors at Ferrari, the Italian car maker announced today.
Cue, vice president of Internet software and services and a 24-year veteran at Apple, said in a statement: "I am pleased and proud to become a member of the board. I continue to be awed by the world-class design and engineering that only Ferrari can do." Cue has driven a Ferrari for the past five years.
Apple already has partnerships with nine car manufacturers with a view to bringing "Siri Eyes Free", a version of the iPhone's voice control software to them in the next year. Don't be surprised if Cue's appointment to the Ferrari board sees something similar on the way for the Maranello-based company.
Cue has worked in the past on iCloud, iBooks and the App Store, and now finds himself in charge of Siri and the troubled iOS Maps in the wake of Apple's recent management shuffle. Ferrari could well be looking to benefit from his expertise in dashboard software – an area where it would be generous to say it excels at this time, at least in comparison to luxury manufacturers like BMW and Audi. After all, Apple is known for making beautiful, intuitive and highly usable interfaces, and these will be a big part of the future of high-end automobiles.
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In-depth review: can Amazon's Kindle light a fire under eBooks?
Also Filed Under Experimental: NowNow
The Kindle's limited MP3 playback features are also filed under the Experimental menu, along with an answer service that sends automated search results to natural language questions you enter. Called NowNow, the free service gives you "up to three" answers to questions you type, "usually within ten minutes."
No, the three answers aren't yes, no, and maybe. I asked it "how does the Kindle compare with Sony Reader" and received three replies within a couple minutes, two of which cited Gizmodo blog postings, and a third referenced an enthusiastic endorsement of the Kindle by another blogger who gushed about its advertised features but admitted she hadn't actually received it yet. Somewhat ironically, she also apologetically praised its unrealized potential by noting that "future versions show promise (much like the Zune)."
Unlike the Zune, the Kindle is actually a pretty good product right now for the role it was intended, and Amazon has carefully danced around all of the pitfalls described in Why Microsofts Zune is Still Failing. It compares well against leading ebook readers, doesn't push expiring DRM subscriptions, and offers wireless features that sap the battery but actually do very useful things. While it's not sharp looking, the Kindle is at least functional and makes the most of its limited scope technologies.
NowNow also asked me to rate the answers it sent me as great, good, insufficient, or junk ("off topic or inappropriate"). I also received the answers from NowNow on my computer via email. Of the other questions I asked, some answers sounded like customer support replies based on bulletin board posts based on Wikipedia articles based on blog entries: informal, unauthoritative, and representative of the fact that a lot of people have spare time on their hands to copy and paste text around. Is Amazon harnessing this idle volunteer workforce, or just faking it with smart algorithms? It wasn't obvious whether NowNow is completely automated, tied into Amazon's Mechanical Turk, run by dedicated staff, or some hybrid of all those things.
Amazon has been working to muscle its way into search since starting the A9.com search engine several years ago. Through early 2006, A9 had been powered by Google. Amazon then partnered with Microsoft's Live search. Late last year, A9 downsized and discontinued more of its services. Curiously, when I asked A9 the same question I'd asked NowNow, I got entirely different answers, and Gizmodo wasn't even in the top ten.
When I asked A9 about NowNow I found out that Amazon also offers the same NowNow service online, although it is currently limited to a private beta. It appears that NowNow may eventually replace Amazon's marginal A9 search efforts. NowNow is currently only available to the general public from the Kindle.
A Calamitous Keyboard
Typing in queries brings us to the Kindle keyboard. It has the same "real" mini keys that smartphone pundits like to recommend over the iPhone's touch interface, although the Kindle keys have more spacing and are larger and easier to hit than most mobiles' keyboards. The keys themselves cover an area about as large as the iPhone's screen itself. The keyboard is extremely horrible to a degree that's hard to overstate.
Entering long passages of text isn't a strong point of the iPhone either, but it easily outclasses any text input features of the Kindle. This tends to make any Kindle features that require any text entry borderline impractical. While it's easy to select pages as clippings or bookmark them, don't expect to enjoy annotating passages in your ebooks. Entering text on the Kindle is about as silly as editing Office documents on a tiny key cell phone without a touchscreen.
Sony's Reader dropped its keyboard for the US market, apparently assuming that text notations were impractical for ebook reader users. While it's really not very practical to type in notes, it is important to have some mechanism for entering text, even if the keyboard is absolutely dreadful to use. Amplifying the really bad physical design of the Kindle keyboard is the slow display, which can't refresh fast enough to keep up with even the slowest typing.
That makes it impossible to see what's begin entered as you enter text quickly, and by "quickly" I mean getting in four characters between the slow page redraws. The keys themselves are fiddly chicklet things that require a significant press and make a plastic snap sound as you hit them. It's an experience comparable to clacking out text with an tape label embosser. Don't expect to be writing emails, entering web comments, or jotting significant notes in your books. They keyboard is really that bad.
Searching for the Words
The keyboard does comes in handy for entering short bits of text, such as when searching local content, searching the online store, asking short questions of NowNow, or searching Wikipedia. That last feature, which is a free part of the Kindle package, is slightly more useful than general web browsing, but is still hampered by the single page navigation limitations of the display.
Another built in search feature that can be handy is the lookup of dictionary definitions for words in any text. From any document, you can select a line of text using the scroll wheel navigation track and then chose Lookup from the menu that appears. You are presented with definitions for every major word on that line (below). This works pretty well, although again it involves a series of slow page turning delays. At least it doesn't require using the keyboard.
Room for Improvement
It's useful to look at the Kindle as more than just an oddly shaped, awkwardly designed bit of hardware. It's also a limited use, specialized computer so Amazon will be able to roll out software updates that offer additional features. One thing that would be nice is built in activation for Audible DRM, even if the Kindle isn't that ideal of an Audible client. Amazon could also add the ability to order other items from its online store.
Amazon won't be able to significantly improve upon its slow E Ink display or tragic keyboard with software updates, but expect the company to revisit the Kindle design in a year or so with better hardware features: a less worthless keyboard would be nice, a faster display might make a slight improvement, and a more attractive form factor would broaden its appeal.
Don't dream that a dedicated E Ink book reader like the Kindle will make a good web browser any time in the next several years, however. E Ink technology isn't really morphing towards an LCD replacement, but instead is getting thinner and more flexible. Refresh update speeds are getting better, but it would have to dramatically improve in order to edge around the problems plaguing the Kindle's web browser.
Beyond the Kindle unit itself, there's a huge amount of promise associated with Amazon's overall strategy to make content available digitally, particularly if Amazon opens up its ebook format to work on other devices. As a content retailer, Amazon seems better suited to selling content that works anywhere rather than trying to exclusively push its own hardware. Amazon isn't Apple; it's making money on content. Establishing a common ebook format would likely sell content faster than limiting it exclusively to a junior engineered reader unit. For that reason, its puzzling why Amazon didn't simply repurpose its existing Mobipocket format.
Love It and Hate It
Unlike a lot of other consumer electronics devices, the Kindle isn't a love it or hate it device; it's a bit of both. The Kindle's E Ink display, which is nearly identical to every other ebook reader because there's only one company that manufacturers them, is both efficiently readable and frustratingly slow. It makes it possible to closely emulate the printed page, but at the same time also hampers the unit's potential as a web client or really anything else but a dedicated ebook reader.
Amazon couldn't do a lot toward improving the ebook experience with hardware technology, so it tied in its real expertise: an online retail store that serves up fresh content. Next to the iPhone, that makes the Kindle among the first practical applications of the networked thin client devices that were talked about a decade ago but didn't immediately materialize. It's also a harbinger of other devices that make use of the existing mobile data networks without requiring an expensive contract.
How is it that Sprint is agreeing to offer data service for the Kindle without the typical $40 EVDO data service contract typically required of smartphones? Well for one thing, the Kindle is slow enough that users couldn't possibly drag down any significant amount of web traffic even if they tried. There's no way to tether the device to relay its EVDO data connection to a computer (although that would make an excellent hack). It appears Amazon pays Sprint a commission on content sales, allowing Sprint to make enough to cover the trivial amount of data traffic the Kindle generates.
The hardware itself is cheap and plasticky to the point of being embarrassing to use. It's not so bad hidden away inside the leather cover, but the spectacularly bad keyboard still pokes you in the eye every time you have to enter any text. The limitations of the slow display also painfully yank out your hair with every menu navigation. Bring up a menu and the display slowly repaints a selection of options (below). Pick one and there's another slow refresh of another menu, ad nauseam.
Fortunately, as long as you contain yourself to reading longer passages of text, those glaring flaws fade into the background. Inside the cover, the Kindle does a pretty good imitation of an actual book, and page turns are reasonable enough once you learn to ignore the screen flash. The ability to carry hundreds of books digitally and request new content wirelessly both offer compelling reasons to sign up with the Kindle.
Content seems reasonably priced, particularly since it is both conveniently delivered and backed up for you on the Amazon site in your account. Text searching, word lookup, bookmarks, highlighting, and clippings are all additional good reasons to consider going digital.
There are also some very significant drawbacks. Text annotations are no match for scribbling notes in a book; even if you can bring yourself to type out a note of consequence using the deplorable keyboard, you're still less likely to remember your notes, and you won't be able to mark up a quick doodle in the margin. Its clumsy note taking features makes it very unlikely that--as many pundits have suggested--students will somehow be able to give up their backpack of heavy books for a Kindle anytime soon. Even worse, few of those textbooks are likely to be available in Kindle format.
Will the Kindle Catch Fire?
While the innovative and seemingly well executed Whispernet service is a key feature of the Kindle, don't expect it to serve as a PC or iPhone replacement for browsing the web. It's handy that you can access Wikipedia and web sources from the experimental web browser at all times, but it has nothing on a real web browser with an LCD display that can zoom and scroll and quickly navigate around the page and across pages. The Kindle is a book reader with some other things tacked on, and the closer you stick to reading, the less frustrating your experience will be.
If you love books, the Kindle offers a great way to pack around lots of virtual content and grab new content on an impulse buy. At $400, it's not inexpensive, but it's comparable to other ebook readers that don't offer wireless shopping and downloads. The digital books and periodicals Amazon offers are also significantly more affordable than most ebooks that have been offered before, including Amazon's own Mobipocket catalog. That might play into why Amazon created a new format for the Kindle: to leverage publishers into providing cheaper content using some hype and marketing to generate a larger ebook market than has ever existed before. In that sense, the Kindle strategy does have some similarity with Apple's iTunes Store.
Amazon has a lot riding on the Kindle and is heavily marketing it on its website. Even if the new ebook reader doesn't burn down the house with an iPhone-like fervor among book readers, the Kindle plays into Amazon's retail business strategies in a way that makes it appear very unlikely that Amazon will drop ongoing future development due to an immediate lack of interest. That's a key advantage over Microsoft and Sony, neither of which has made anything from their ebook efforts. Amazon has very little to lose in marketing a digital expansion of its book selling business, and can afford to sustain a progressive rollout over several years.
Rating: 3 of 5
- Highly legible text
- Long battery life
- Exceptional wireless store for content
- Fair prices for most content
- Good selection for an ebook store
- Experimental web features can be handy in a pinch
- No extra data plan required
- Roller wheel navigation mitigates slow display updates
- Included cover hides most of Kindle's ugly bits
- Works with lots of free, unprotected Mobipocket ebooks
- Very slow E Ink display makes navigation clumsy and slow
- Cheaply designed keyboard makes text entry unpleasant
- Won't work with Amazon's own Mobipocket DRM ebooks
- Doesn't directly support PDF, AAC, rich text, or graphics without conversion
- Thickish, junior engineered device feels and looks cheap
- Experimental web browsing features have been oversold
- Extremely limited audio playback features
- Requires Windows for Audible authorization
High-quality unboxing photos:
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The battle at the top of the LV= County Championship intensified on Monday as Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire both completed victories and Warwickshire saw off Somerset to keep their hopes alive at the expense of their opponents.
Yorkshire completed a quick run chase under threatening skies to take a crucial victory over Sussex at Scarborough by nine wickets.
That saw them regain top spot in Division One, briefly held by Nottinghamshire after their five-wicket success over Northamptonshire at Wantage Road.
Alex Hales' century helped Nottinghamshire keep the pressure on leaders Yorkshire
After Yorkshire posted a massive 493 in their first innings, Luke Wright had been the biggest threat to their hopes of victory at North Marine Road, with his 113 a big reason they were forced to bat again.
Sussex were bowled out for 230, leaving Yorkshire with 39 overs in which to make 106, a target they reached in a little over half of those overs with one eye on the gathering clouds.
Alex Lees made 46 before being caught by Lewis Hatchett, while fellow opener Adam Lyth made it to the close on 39 while Kane Williamson was unbeaten on 15.
Yorkshire took the maximum 24 points from the match, putting them six clear of Nottinghamshire who were helped to victory over rock-bottom Northants by a century from Alex Hales.
A mighty six from Hales took him to 102 not out and lifted Notts to their victory target of 211 with more than a session to spare on the final day, and Hales' day only got better as he was included in England's squad for the upcoming one-day international series against India.
The match at Taunton was a battle simply to stay in the race, and it went Warwickshire's way as they completed victory by 215 runs, bowling Somerset out for 188 in their second innings.
Jeetan Patel and Recordo Gordon took four wickets each in a win that leaves Warwickshire 21 points off Yorkshire's pace, with Somerset now 35 back.
In the battle at the bottom, Lancashire completed a remarkable victory over fellow strugglers Durham, winning by one wicket in a huge result in the relegation scrap.
Lancashire were set a target of 107 for victory after bowling Durham out for 187, but ran into major trouble as they were reduced to 36 for five after a top-order collapse.
It only got a little better as the Durham bowlers feasted - John Hastings took four for 40 and Ben Stokes had three for 25, but from 90 for nine, Tom Smith (35no) and Simon Kerrigan (14no) held their nerve to steer Lancs home.
In Division Two, Hampshire landed their fifth win of the campaign and bolstered their promotion hopes by sweeping Kent aside by 196 runs in Canterbury.
The hosts had resumed on 95 for two, still 406 runs shy of victory, and three morning wickets only made defeat inevitable.
Darren Stevens put up some resistance, clubbing three sixes off the slow left-arm spin of Liam Dawson en route to 74, but he and Kent could only hold out so long.
Surrey ran out of time in their bid to beat Leicestershire, who were 232 for six at the close, still more than 150 runs behind.
They could thank an excellent partnership between Rob Taylor (40no) and Jigar Naik (42no) for frustrating Surrey.
Monty Panesar completed match figures of 11 for 168 as Essex eased to their fourth win of the season as they beat Glamorgan by 63 runs on the final morning at Swansea.
The victory keeps up Essex's hopes of getting into the fight for promotion, while it was Glamorgan's fourth straight defeat.
Glamorgan had required 111 to win with only two wickets remaining when they resumed on 237 for eight, and Essex swiftly wrapped things up on the fourth morning with Panesar making Graham Wagg his sixth victim of the innings before Tom Westley removed Michael Hogan to end the match.
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Of course, much of this is self-inflicted with all the Dream Team comparisons but it is silly nonetheless. At no point during this "game" against France did anyone with a skull full of working parts think the outcome was in jeopardy. But if the U.S. doesn't look flawless while its opponent simultaneously looks like it's in an infomercial trying to use the "other brand" then we'll continue to get articles like these.
Hardly dreamy, still dominant.
Kevin Durant scored 22 points, LeBron James added eight assists and the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team opened tournament play with a rough-and-ragged 98-71 win over France on Sunday.
It was far from flawless basketball - too many jump shots, silly fouls, poor shooting - but the U.S. men's basketball team wore down France with its talent, depth, speed and strength in the first half.
As Olympic openers go, there was nothing terribly dreamy in the beginning.
The U.S. men's basketball team held a slender one-point lead over France after one quarter but rallied to win with ease, 98-71, Sunday at the Olympic Park arena.
[LA Times]
There was nothing revelatory about the win, as Team USA pulled out the victory with a lot of NBA ball - three pointers off of drive and kick plays, lay-ins around the rim, and killer defense.
You know things are askew when the New York Post is one of the only outlets to make any sense of the game. With bonus food simile!
Team USA got off to as sweet an Olympic start as a good French pastry as the heavily favored Americans broke free after a tight first quarter to pummel France, 98-71, at the packed basketball venue in Olympic Park.
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"Where do bees get red pollen?" we were asked. "We've seen bees packing blood-red pollen at the entrance to a hive."
Well, one flower that yields red pollen is rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora). It's a drought-tolerant perennial, a succulent.
Interestingly enough, the blossom itself is neon pink or magenta, the kind that cyclists wear to be seen.
Rock purslane attracts its share of honey bees, bumble bees, carpenter bees, leafcutter bees and sweat bees. Other pollinators, including flies, land on it, too. It's a good plant to brighten your garden and to observe the wide variety of floral visitors.
Other flowers that yield red pollen include henbit (Lamium amplexicaule) and horse chestnut (Aesulus hippocastanum).
Bees collect pollen as a protein source to rear their brood.
"The importance of pollen to the health and vigor of the honey bee colony cannot be overstated," writes Norman Gary, emeritus professor of entomology, in his book, Honey Bee Hobbyist, The Care and Keeping of Bees. "Honey satisfies the bees' carbohydrate requirement, while all of the other nutrients--minerals, proteins, vitamins and fatty substances--are derived from pollen."
"Nurse bees consume large amounts of pollen, converting it into nutritious secretions that are fed to developing larvae," Gary points out. "During an entire year, a typical bee colony gathers an consumes about 77 pounds of pollen."
And some of it is red!
Honey bees in the pink?
If you plant rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora), a perennial succulent, be prepared for a posse of honey bees.
Our rock purslane is drawing so many bees that you'd never know there's a declining bee population and that there's a new sheriff (colony collapse disorder) in town.
They buzz, two or three at a time, toward a single blossom, and lug huge red pollen loads back to their hives.
We're glad to see there's so much interest in bees. A documentary making the rounds now is Queen of the Sun, an advocacy film probably playing in a theater near you. It's playing in Davis June 17 through June 23 at the Varsity Theater, downtown Davis. We saw it at a personal showing at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis a few weeks ago. The photography is stunning. Just as we prepared to watch it, one of the bee folks quipped: "This is a bee-rated movie."
For a good look at bee behavior, there's an online video titled "Bee Talker: The Secret World of Bees." Bee behaviorist Mark Winston, professor of biological sciences at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C., guides us "beyond the biology of the creatures to show us that our honey-producing neighbors have broader implications for humans and the plant."
For another good look at bee behavior, step out into your yard. (That is, if you have bee plants in your yard.) "Won't the bees sting you?" some folks ask. No worries. These bees are foraging. They're not defending their colony.
Unlike airplane pilots, honey bees don't file a flight plan.
They know where they're going because their sisters tell them with their waggle dances.
Pollen. Nectar. Propolis. All good.
Bees seem to really like the pollen on rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora). It's red, but they can't see red; red appears to them as black.
Gardeners who grow rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora) in their yards are accustomed to seeing bees gathering red pollen.
Beekeepers? When they open their hives and see all the different colors of pollen--including yellow, orange, pink, purple, white and red--do they know where the red might have come from?
Interestingly, last year a beekeeper in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., reported seeing red--red honey. Finally, she realized her bees had been sipping maraschino cherry juice from vats at a nearby maraschino cherry company and bringing red "nectar" back to the hives.
It didn't taste like honey. That's because it wasn't.
The New York Times noted: "A fellow beekeeper sent samples of the red substance that the bees were producing to an apiculturalist who works for New York State, and that expert, acting as a kind of forensic foodie, found the samples riddled with Red Dye No. 40, the same dye used in the maraschino cherry juice."
Bee can't see red but a lot of other folks did.
Picture this.
A light rainstorm strikes the garden, pummeling and shredding some of the blossoms.
As the rain lets up, a honey bee buzzes into a rock purslane blossom for a sweet shot of nectar.
She is not alone.
If you look closely, you'll see three green aphids on an unopened blossom next to her.
There are, entomologists say, about 450 different species of aphids in California.
One specie found the rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora).
Score: Beneficial insect: 1. Destructive pests, 3.
Caught between a rock and a...soft place...
You'll often see tiny sweat bees nectaring rock purslane (Calandrinia grandiflora) in urban gardens. This plant, a native of Chile, brightens landscapes with its pinkish magenta blossoms.You probably wouldn't wear this color if you were in the federal witness protection program. It shouts "Look at me!"
The old saying that "it's so loud it could stop traffic" applies here.
It certainly stops insect traffic. (The lure, though, is the pollen, not the color.)
Last week we watched a tiny female sweat bee (Halictus tripartitus) nectaring the rock purslane.
Then she crawled to the lip of the flower, peered at her surroundings, and took flight.


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I am delighted to welcome today's guest-blogger, author Cynthia Vespia. Cynthia was drawn to writing at a young age. After high school she established a successful career as a freelance journalist writing everything from features and fillers, to reviews and human interest stories.
Her first novel, a medieval fiction entitled The Crescent (iUniverse), was published in August 2005. The novel was unanimously praised as "an engaging, descriptive read" which prompted a sell-out at Borders Bookstore in less than one hour during the first official signing.
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We've been developing resources over the last few years to help define what sets GoAnywhere apart, and as a result, we've built a bigger library of case studies, added a growing collection of customer success videos, and continued to marvel at the growing list of comments that our customers make about our products on LinkedIn.
We've also built an MFT Checklist that provides a list of features and considerations organizations should investigate when talking with competing vendors. The latest evidence we have to support the fact that GoAnywhere is a comprehensive, flexible, well-supported and easy-to-implement solution that can help any industry automate, simplify and encrypt their file transfers is a product review in Computing Security Magazine. Highlights of the review include these:
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Here's the Reds lineup via baseballpress.com. I was looking at the radar earlier today and it looked like rain could be a problem tonight. How's it looking in Cincy right now?
. Zack Cozart (R) SS
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3. Joey Votto (L) 1B
4. Brandon Phillips (R) 2B
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6. Scott Rolen (R) 3B
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