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One of the biggest stories in the Premier League this season has been Jose Mourinho's utter snubbing of Juan Mata in Chelsea's first team.
Today's 2-0 win over Norwich was no different. The 25-year-old Spaniard was forced to watch the match from the sidelines as an unused substitute as goal-scorers Eden Hazard and Fernando Torres took care of business to move the Blues to the top of the table.
As Chelsea climb the Premier League ladder and compete with Manchester City and Arsenal for the title, many believe that Mourinho has been right all along: maybe Chelsea don't need their number 10 any longer.
So what is to be done about Chelsea's forgotten back-to-back player of the year? How should Mourinho deal with his incredibly talented attacking midfielder who has undoubtedly been the spark of Chelsea's offence since his transfer from Valencia in the summer of 2011?
It's quite simple, really. Include him.
If you're to tell me that two players as talented as Mata and Hazard can not play together in beautiful football harmony, that's just foolish. Mata has always been effective from either wing, a highly valued position in Mourinho's strategical formation. and why bench a player that can both score and distribute at a high pace from a wide position? It simply doesn't compute.
Mourinho has said time and time again that Hazard has a guaranteed spot on the left wing for as long as he is lucky enough to manage him, and there's no arguing there. The 23-year-old Belgian has easily been Chelsea's best player this year, leading the team in both Premier League goals (9) and (5).
Oscar is playing very well through the center and is pressuring opposing back-lines like a possessed maniac, much to the delight of his manager. Willian has come into his own in the side, and Schurrle has proved all year that he deserves a real role in this team.
But where will they be come the middle of March? When the season starts to wear on their bodies and the numerous competitions start to pile up (providing they take care of Galatasaray in the Champions League round of 16)?
I'd like to have the man that has brought set-piece mastery, blazing speed, and selfless decisions to the pitch for the last two and a half years on my starting eleven.
After 135 appearances for Chelsea, Mata has 33 goals and 58 assists. In terms of age, he is in the prime of his career, a perfect balance between experience and a youthful cunning.
Mata can fit anywhere in any formation, from right mid to in behind the striker in a traditional number ten role, which makes him that much more valuable to a club with a recent history of counter-attacking. He's the ultimate flexible midfielder, and can ideally fit in any offensive scheme that Mourinho decides to go with, whether it be a one, two or three forward set.
Ultimately, from a Chelsea supporter's point of view, it would be a real shame, and frankly a waste, to see the fan-favorite leave Stamford Bridge this January.
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Online AP Academy
What's New
OII announces grants to expand and study charter schools, provide information on alternative teacher certification programs, give families information about options under NCLB, increase access to Advanced Placement courses, and fund arts in education, Parent Information and Resource Centers, and school leadership.
Innovations in the News
South Carolina has programs for people in mid-career to become middle school teachers; plus information on charter schools and supplemental services.
Online AP Academy Will Provide Virtual Advanced Placement Courses to Low-Income Students
Virtual High School (VHS), an online education provider that collaborates with member schools across the country, is undertaking a new project: Online AP Academy. Online AP Academy aims to dramatically increase the participation of low-income students in pre-Advanced Placement and Advanced Placement courses. The academy will also help these students raise their success rate on AP exams.
Online AP Academy will create and deliver 45 pre-AP and AP courses in core academic areas in at least 52 schools around the country where more than 40% of the students are eligible for free or reduced price lunches. The online aspect of the project allows for expanded flexibility when scheduling courses.
In addition, the project will provide online professional development and mentoring to teachers in the participating schools through Netcourse Instructional Methodology (NIM). NIM is Virtual High School's 15-week, graduate online course that teaches the pedagogy of online instruction, as well as the content of the AP courses.
Virtual High School (VHS) has a seven-year track record of developing and delivering online courses, including AP and International Baccalaureate (IB), to high school students. Over 80% of students taking VHS AP courses have received a passing score of 3 or higher on the AP exams.
VHS received the Stockholm Challenge Award in 2001 for establishing standards for quality online courses. VHS's online design and delivery standards were also recognized recently in a joint publication of the National Education Association, the American Association of School Administrators, and the National Association of State Boards of Education.
It was recently announced that Virtual High School received a 2003 Advanced Placement Incentive grant from the Office of Innovation and Improvement to create the Online AP Academy. Additionally, VHS received a 1996 Technology Innovation Challenge Grant from the Department of Education. For more information about the Virtual High School, go to: http://www.govhs.org/website.nsf. For more information about the Advanced Placement Incentive Program, go to: http://www.ed.gov/programs/apincent/index.html. To read about the Stockholm Challenge Award, go to: http://www.challenge.stockholm.se/press_art.asp?IdNr=6
Note:The project plans to evaluate the success of the program through a quasi-experimental design involving a matched comparison group. This evaluation will measure the impact of the program on low-income students participating in AP courses and taking AP tests to measure the overall success of the students in AP courses.
What's New
OII announced grants to expand charter school activities.
OII announced grants to expand charter school activities, including training teachers and school leaders, serving students with disabilities, and turning traditional public schools that fail to make academic progress, into high-quality charter schools. A new research study on charter school achievement was also announced. For a press release on these activities, see http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2003/10/10092003a.html. (Oct. 9)
OII announced a grant to launch the new National Center for Alternative Certification.
OII announced a grant to launch the new National Center for Alternative Certification. The center will provide technical assistance to states and policymakers interested in creating high-quality alternative certification programs, and will develop a searchable database to connect potential teachers with alternative certification programs. OII also announced a grant to the New Teacher Project to reform teacher hiring processes in two urban districts and to improve teacher recruitment in one rural state. For information about these grants, see http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2003/10/10092003.html.(Oct. 9)
National Education Organizations
Three national education organizations-the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options, the Black Alliance for Educational Options, and the Greater Educational Options Foundation-have been awarded grants to inform families about their options under NCLB. See http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2003/10/10092003b.htmlfor more.(Oct. 9)
Advanced Placement Incentive grants
Advanced Placement Incentive grants have been announced, including one to the Online AP Academy (see feature). For the full list of the grantees, go to http://www.ed.gov/programs/apincent/awards.html. (Oct. 8)
Additional OII grant announcements
Grant awards for Arts in Education, Parent Information and Resource Centers, and School Leadership have also been announced. (Oct. 7)
Innovations in the News
Alternative Teacher Certification
South Carolina has many programs for mid-career people to become certified middle school teachers. Under No Child Left Behind, all teachers must be certified and highly qualified at their grade levels and content areas by 2005-06. Students who complete the university programs in South Carolina will be both. [More-Greenville Online] (Oct. 2)
One of the latest strategies in the ongoing hunt for math teachers is to recruit mid- or late-career professionals. As a lure to potential career-switchers, many universities have created education programs that streamline the certification process. [More-JS Online] (Oct. 5)
San Diego has a rich military heritage, and San Diego Unified School District wants to tap into that resource to fill a hole in its teaching ranks. [More-KPBS.com](Oct. 2)
Charter Schools
Ball State will consider sponsoring three more charter schools, and the university is looking for homes for the schools in Gary, Richmond, and Graysville, Indiana. [More-The Ball State Daily News](Oct. 3)
Students attending three Indiana charter schools showed significant improvement on national exams taken twice last school year. [More-IndyStar.com] (Oct. 3)
Supplemental Services
Online tutoring, free books, and parenting classes are just a few options available to students and parents at Mobile, Alabama's seven schools designated by the state as "Needs Improvement." [More-The Mobile Register] (Oct. 3)
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Madaí Rivera
Email: email@example.com
Phone: 785-532-6237
Assistant Director for Student Engagement
Trabajo con estudiantes y familias Latinas en Kansas y otros estados. Con gusto le atenderé en español. Favor de llamarme al 785-532-6237.
Fast facts
My degree: I graduated from K-State with a degree in elementary education, a dance minor, and an English as a Second Language endorsement. I earned a master's degree from K-State in curriculum and instruction.
My hometown: Dodge City, Kansas. I was born in Juárez, México.
College activities: Sorority member, Hispanic American Leadership Organization, LatiRitmo Dance group, KanDance, Indian Student Association, Mexican Student Association, Society for Appreciation of Bharatiya Heritage and Arts, parachute club, Bilingual Education Student Organization, and Kansas National Education Association.
My K-State experience
K-State was the only school that came to my high school to offer a bilingual information session for students and their parents. My mom and I attended and were very pleased with the information; we could tell K-State really cared.
Learn more about Madaí
Perfect choice
The moment I knew K-State was right for me was when I was awarded the K-State Bilingual Education Students Interacting to Obtain Success scholarship.
Create possibility
My best piece of advice for students is to apply for lots of scholarships.
Looking back
I have so many favorite college memories. A particular favorite is the first time I performed in McCain Auditorium for a SpringDance concert.
Real relaxation
While at K-State, everyone should visit the Rec Complex. It's a great place to release stress while working out. I love it!
Gaining experience
In college, I was a student worker in the Collaborative Intercultural and Multilingual Advocacy Center. They were very flexible with my class schedule.
Work hard, play hard
The secret to maintaining a good freshman GPA is a healthy balance between grades and social life. You need both to survive.
Chance to shine
The coolest classes I took at K-State were Dance Composition I and II because I had a chance to choreograph my own pieces and showcase them.
Making it click
As soon as I began working in classrooms at local elementary schools, I knew I'd found the right major.
Forging a new path
LatiRitmo Dance group was my favorite organization at K-State. I was with it since the group's conception and was president for three years. We always had lots of students from different backgrounds join to learn Latin dance. Our rehearsals and performances were so much fun!
Home sweet home
My favorite college hangout was my house. I always had friends over when I cooked yummy Mexican food.
Flying high
When my kids ask about my craziest college experience, I'll tell them about the time I skydived for the first time with the parachute club.
Spare time
I like to jog, skydive, ride motorcycles, travel and watch boxing matches (I attend some in Las Vegas).
Star power
I really admire Oscar De La Hoya. Regardless of being the world's highest-paid boxer, he continues to be humble and uses his fortune to help those in need.
What I crave
My guilty pleasures are pistachio ice cream and Mexican snacks!
Fear factor
The most surprising thing about me is that I panic if I see a spider.


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Upcoming Faculty Recital
Top HeadlinesDate: March 1, 2011
Contact: email@example.com
Website: www.howard.andrews.edu
Phone: 269-471-3560
Enjoy an evening of chamber music featuring works by Sergei Prokofiev and Jean-Marie Leclair performed by Andrews University faculty members Carla Trynchuk and Trina Thompson at the Howard Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 5, 2011. This faculty recital of violin and piano selections is part of the Howard Center Presents…2010–2011 series.
Carla Trynchuk is professor of music and string area coordinator at the Andrews University Department of Music. She has performed violin solos with orchestras across North America and Europe, including the Calgary Philharmonic in Canada and the Banatul and Iasi Philharmonic Orchestras. As a faculty-artist, she has volunteered at numerous summer festivals, given master classes worldwide and served as adjudicator for string and chamber music competitions and festivals throughout the United States and Canada.
While studying at The Juilliard School, she received a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music under the direction of Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. An advocate of contemporary composers, she has recorded the premiere recording of the Tibor Serly Violin Concerto with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, given the premiere recording of Kittyhawk by U.S. composer Randall Davidson in April 2001 and performed the Arizona premiere of Robert McBride's Violin Concerto Variety Day and Hartmann's Concerto Funebre.
Carla Trynchuk
Trina Thompson
Trina Thompson is assistant professor of theory and piano at the Andrews University Department of Music. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and holds a Bachelor of Arts from Walla Walla University and a Master of Music from Northern Illinois University. While in residence, she was awarded Indiana University's Chancellor's Fellowship and the Indiana University Music Theory Department's Dissertation-Year Fellowship.
Thompson studied piano performance under the guidance of Donald Walker at Northern Illinois University. Most recently, she taught written and aural theory on both undergraduate and graduate levels at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She was previously a member of the music faculty at Walla Walla University, where she taught theory and piano, directed the Piano Preparatory Division and served as interim departmental chair. Her doctoral dissertation, directed by Robert Hatten, focuses on the art songs of Debussy.
Tickets for the faculty recital are $10 for general seating, $5 for faculty/staff and free for Andrews students. Special rates apply for groups and Flex Series tickets. Purchase your tickets at the Howard Performing Arts Center Box Office or by calling 888-467-6442 or 269-471-3560. For more information, please visit www.howard.andrews.edu.


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DA008 - Johan NorbergOctober 15th, 2006
The Devil's Advocate is back with another English edition of our show. The show is recorded in Stockholm, where the Devil's Advocate met with Swedish Author Johan Norberg for a most interesting discussion.
The discussion focused on the following issues: the effects of globalization, how to explain the success of the Nordic welfare states and how these compare to the US, whether the role of the state in the economic development of the Asian tigers challenges the widely held belief that economic liberalism and political and individual freedom are inseparable. Finally we touch on Johan Norberg's vision of the good society and how to achieve it in a world where even right wing governments are at home with the notion of a big state.
The discussion - which is hosted, produced and edited by Jacob Mchangama and Lars Hvidberg - is available here (Right click or use rss, 72 minutes and 25 secs).
Quotes from the debate:
"It is correct that the wealth of the world is very unevenly distributed… the reason why it is unevenly distributed is that there is an uneven distribution of capitalism [..] The problem of the world today is too little globalization and too little capitalism."
"The bureaucracy in the Nordic countries defied many of the liberal suspicions of how they would act but at the same time they did it because they were born under a completely different system and in the long run I think it [the size of the public sectors] creates problems."
"There is an inherent problem of combining authoritarian government with economic liberalism. The problem is that you create new power structures you create other groups that are not as dependent on the government as they were before and then they can begin to challenge the old things."
"My moral ground for this is based on the idea that individuals are actually quite smart they are quite creative. That's why I think freedom is a good idea basically, because I think people can create wonders and that's what I think history has taught us. In the last 100 years of relative freedom we have created more than in the 100.000 years of oppression, slavery and feudalism before that."
"We don't see those strong classical liberal or libertarian influences in the big centre right parties that we saw 15 years ago or something like that. Partly I think it is because if you have power you begin to like it. That's what you can see with people like Bush who when suddenly he has power he wants to do all manners of different things to institute his ideas."
"It is time for a bit of a change in attitude from people like my self when we speak for changes. I think it is more important to create reforms that have consequences that follow later on rather than try to run straight into the system and getting a nose bleed. We should instead look at those reforms which might expand people's freedom and increase the demand for more freedom."


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Fairfield Ludlowe edges rival Fairfield Warde
BRIDGEPORT -- Charlie Meder was running on contact all the way.
Thanks to his aggressive baserunning, the Fairfield Ludlowe baseball team scored a rare win against its staunchest rival.
The Falcons scored two sixth-inning runs and held on for a 3-2 win over Fairfield Warde on Friday night at The Ballpark at Harbor Yard.
Meder had two hits, drove in two and scored that all-important run, helping the Falcons (7-7) win their fourth straight and sixth in seven games.
"We're starting to get pretty hot," Meder said.
Peter Cross recorded two sixth-inning outs to pick up his first win of 2013. Ludlowe beat its archrival for the first time since 2010 and only the second time in eight meetings.
"This was the type of game where someone's heart gets broken," Ludlowe coach Keith O'Rourke said. "Our heart's been broken many times against Warde ... the kids really just kept in the game mentally and were able to get the runs when it mattered most."
Justin Triunfo allowed two earned runs in 5 1/3 innings, taking a tough-luck loss, the sixth in seven games for Warde (5-9).
"(Triunfo) pitched a tremendous game," Warde coach Mark Caron said. "We made a couple errors there, and they capitalized."
Trailing 2-1 after 5½ innings, Ludlowe put its first two batters on in the bottom of the sixth. After Mike Kochiss singled and reached second on an error, Meder dunked a soft line drive to left, scoring Kochiss and tying the game.
Meder advanced to second on the throw home, then reached third on Mike Poudrier's sacrifice bunt. With the infield in, Mikey Arman hit a sharp grounder that Warde second-baseman Nick Nardone fielded and fired home as Meder broke.
"(O'Rourke) told me, `I want you to challenge them if he hits it on the ground,'" Meder said. "I was off once he hit it."
Meder scampered home and snuck his left hand onto home plate around Warde catcher Anthony Miller, giving the Falcons the lead.
"I thought the umpire was going to call me out, because the ball beat me there," Meder said. "I did a little hook slide ... and got the hand in there."
Victor D'Ascenzo pitched a scoreless seventh, earning his second save. After surrendering a single to Mike Foley, Ludlowe's senior reliever induced Tom Luckner to fly to left while Foley attempted to steal. Arman caught the ball and fired to first, doubling off Foley to end the game.
"I was hoping for a ground-ball double play," O'Rourke said. "We knew (Foley) was going ... (Arman) was playing shallow, and ... it was just meant to be for us tonight."
The Mustangs built a 2-0 lead after two innings, scoring single runs in each inning. Foley and Luckner reached on back-to-back errors in the first, then Foley scored on Taylor Carelli's double that put runners on second and third with none out.
Ludlowe starter Patrick Gutierrez settled in, striking out the next two before getting Nardone to ground to second to end the frame.
Foley's second-inning RBI groundout made it 2-0, but the Mustangs failed to score after.
Warde left three on in the first two innings.
"We had all sorts of opportunities," Caron said. "I'm sure they felt fortunate that they got away with a couple of big innings we could have had early that would've changed the game."
Ludlowe cut the lead to 2-1 on Meder's fourth-inning RBI single. The Mustangs had an opportunity to break it open in the sixth, loading the bases with one out and forcing O'Rourke to go to Cross.
Cross came in and struck out T.J. Tracey and forced Miller to fly to center, ending the frame.
"That's the role coach said I would be in coming into the year," Cross said. "I was there and took advantage of it."
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Records: Fairfield Warde 5-9; Fairfield Ludlowe 7-7. Batteries: FW--Justin Triunfo (L, 1-3), Reece Maniscalco (6) and Anthony Miller; FL--Patrick Gutierrez, Peter Cross (W, 1-0), Victor D'Ascenzo (S, 2) and Mike Poudrier.


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Kansas State's 2013 spring football practice winds up this Saturday with the Purple-White game starting 1:10 p.m. at Snyder Family Stadium.
Kansas State's 2013 spring football practice winds up this Saturday with the Purple-White game starting 1:10 p.m. at Snyder Family Stadium.
The game will be televised by Kansas State HD-TV.
Bill Snyder is beginning his 22nd season as Kansas State's head coach at age 73; his name has become an icon for Kansas State football and will remain so for generations to come. Snyder led the Wildcats to a Big 12 co-championship last season.
Most of the media attention has focused on Kansas State's need to replace eight starters from the defensive unit, but fans' interest during the spring game will be concentrated on the quarterback position.
Junior Daniel Sams and JUCO recruit Jake Waters are locked in a battle for the starting quarterback position.
Sams is listed as a sophomore and that's correct from an eligibility standpoint; however, he's actually a junior because he redshirted his freshman year at Kansas State. That's significant as Sams has been in the program for two full seasons and has the maturity of a junior in college.
Waters is a highly heralded quarterback; he led Iowa Western CC to a 12-0 record and a JUCO national championship in 2012. Last season Waters passed for 3,501 yards and 39 touchdowns and just five interceptions.
Those are remarkable stats. Nevertheless, the guess here is that Waters is destined to be the backup quarterback for Snyder.
Daniel Sams has extraordinary running ability and he knows the system. After practice last week, Snyder said, "There's not a number-one and there's not a number-two quarterback; they are taking equal reps with the ones and twos."
If Sams proves he is an effective passer, the job will be his. His athletic ability is remarkable and Snyder prefers a quarterback who has pass-run ability. Sams showed he can run during mop-up duty last season, but he's never had a chance to showcase his passing talent.
Kansas State fans will get their first look Saturday.


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Carmelo Anthony
Age: 28
From: Baltimore
Schedule: Group A: vs. France, July 29; vs. Tunisia, July 31; vs. Nigeria, Aug. 2; vs. Lithuania, Aug. 4; vs. Argentina, Aug. 6
Olympic experience: This is Anthony's third Olympics appearance. He was a bench player on the U.S. team that won bronze in 2004, and played a key role on the gold-medal winning squad in 2008.
What to expect: Anthony should earn significant minutes in London. He'll likely score in bunches, and could play a critical role in the U.S.'s pursuit of a second-straight Olympic gold medal.
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Joe & Nick Jonas: Double Date Night
Joe and Nick Jonas go out for a bite to eat in Hollywood on Sunday night (December 2).
The singing siblings were joined by Joe's new girlfriend Blanda Eggenschwiler and a mystery gal for Nick, before heading to the movies.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Jonas Brothers
Over the weekend, Nick and Joe were seen out with older brother Kevin for a movie and then performing at KIIS FM's Jingle Ball 2012. After the concert, the band stopped off for some dinner at Katsuya.
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Sri Ishopanishad
The 4 Defects of the Conditioned Soul
Namaste to all,
In the introduction of the Sri Ishopanishad, Srila Prabhupada lectured about the 4 kinds of defects of the conditioned soul namely: 1. he must commit mistakes 2. to be illusioned 3. cheating propensity 4. imperfect senses.
I have never forgotten this 4 defects eversince. Remembrance makes me a little more humble and more alert of my speech and actions. And increases my desire to be free from the conditioned state. The conditioned state is full of suffering and devoid of hope for peace and happiness. I hope by learning and practicing Krishna Consciousness, I attain the elusive peace and happiness.
Hare Krishna to all,
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Car Review
2012 Ford F-Series Super Duty: New Car Review
Pros: Great power for towing and hauling; numerous configurations and interior options; if you like chrome, the Super Duty deals it up in spades
Cons: Poor fuel economy; not easy to maneuver in small spaces; high-end models cost as much as some luxury sedans
Those in need of light-duty hauling and towing should be fine with any number of half-ton pickups. But when the work at hand requires towing numbers in the 10,000-pound range, a three-quarter-ton or one-ton pickup is the only option. To this end, you have a choice of Ford, Ram, GMC and Chevrolet. Toyota and Nissan don't play in this field, and it's probably good that they don't. Why? Because the people who buy these big trucks are a loyal bunch, and none more loyal than the owners of Ford's Super Duty trucks. The F-250, the F-350 and the F-450 dually comprise the Super Duty lineup, which is almost as extensive as the F-150.
Super Duty trucks can be had in a variety of configurations, including Regular Cab, Crew Cab and Supercab. Bed lengths also vary between 6 ¾ and 8 feet, and Ford offers the choice of a power gasoline V8 or a more powerful Power Stroke V8 turbo-diesel. The maximum tow rating for the Super Duty is 17,500 pounds at the hitch and 24,500 pounds with a fifth wheel. We understand that Ram and Ford are in a bit of a spitting war over which truck has the most power and best tow ratings, but really, both trucks can pull the same payloads. For the record, the Super Duty's Power Stroke diesel matches the Ram's high-output Cummins diesel's torque output of 800 lb-ft but bests it in horsepower and fuel economy.
Comfort & Utility
It might be hard to believe there's much leeway for comfort in a full-size heavy-duty pickup, but Ford has turned this conventional wisdom on its head. In the base XL truck, the interior is pretty basic, composed mainly of vinyl and hard plastics designed to take a beating. The XLT softens the interior somewhat, bringing softer seats, carpeting, power windows and locks and cruise control. The Lariat and King Ranch push the pickup-truck paradigm to new heights, offering lush leather seating, advanced audio and navigation, power adjustable pedals, power extendable side trailering mirrors, a rear-view camera, 10-way power driver's and passenger's seats, a power moonroof, heated and cooled front seats and Ford's SYNC communication, information and entertainment system.
The Regular Cab trucks feature a 40/20/40 front split bench seat, with the option of a 40/console/40 setup that features a fold-down console/armrest between the driver's and passenger's seats. Super Crew cabs feature a small rear seat that can be flipped up or folded down to increase cargo space. The SuperCab has under-seat lockable storage with a 110-volt inverter power point, a folding center armrest and dual integrated cupholders.
To make hard chores a bit easier, the Super Duty can be equipped with a stowable bed extender, a built-in tailgate stepladder and a spray-in bedliner. Also available are rear sonar parking sensors, auxiliary uplifter switches for adding aftermarket accessories to the existing electric system and Ford's Crew Chief telematics, which allow a dispatcher to know the vehicle's location, operating condition and performance.
The high-end King Ranch and Lariat versions of the Super Duty can be equipped with Ford's voice-activated navigation. The system is compatible with Sirius Travel Link and provides a 10-GB digital jukebox for storing music. The SYNC AppLink system is available on all trims and includes hands-free Bluetooth phone calling, voice-activated music searches and the ability to stream audio from your cell phone via Bluetooth music streaming.
Another interesting option is the LCD Productivity Screen, which shows various data such as fuel economy, towing information, angle of ascent and descent and four-wheel-drive data.
Performance & Fuel Economy
The standard engine on the Super Duty F-250 and F-350 is a 6.2-liter flex fuel V8 good for 385 horsepower and 405 lb-ft of torque. Optional on the F-250/350 and standard on the F-450 is the 6.7-liter Power Stroke turbo diesel that generates 400 hp and an astounding 800 lb-ft of torque. Both engines are connected to a heavy-duty TorqShift six-speed automatic transmission that offers manual shift ability.
There are no EPA ratings for the Super Duty, but mileage is expected to be in the low to middle teens. On diesel models, Ford offers two interesting options. First is the Live Drive Power Takeoff (PTO) that allows the transmission to power external accessories such as a snowplow or a truck lift, provided the diesel engine is running. The other is the exhaust brake function, which limits combustion by restricting exhaust, which helps maintain desired speed when towing.
Interior safety features include front, front seat side impact and front and rear side curtain airbags.
To help maintain control in all driving situations, the Super Duty includes four-wheel ABS, electronic traction and stability control with roll stability control and trailer sway control. Hill Start Assist and Hill Descent Control use the brakes to control the vehicle, keeping it from rolling backward on takeoff or descending steep hills too quickly. A factory-installed Trailer Brake Assist option eliminates the hassle of getting aftermarket systems installed.
Driving Impressions
For such a massive truck, the Super Duty is surprisingly manageable. If you feel comfortable behind the wheel of a Ford F-150, the Super Duty adds a bit more bulk up front but basically feels about the same. The fully boxed frame is impressively stiff, an important attribute for towing and hauling heavy loads. On the road, the ride is not luxury-car smooth, but it isn't harsh, either. The steering is tight and direct, and the cabin is fairly quiet, especially on the King Ranch trim.
Acceleration is good with the gasoline engine, but it's the Power Stroke Turbo Diesel that gives the Super Duty the power it needs to pull, haul and climb.
Other Cars to Consider
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USA TODAY Sports gets you ready for March Madness
AT THE WATER COOLER: After another head-scratching loss on Tuesday, Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim told reporters, "If you play well, seeding doesn't matter."
BRACKETOLOGY: Projecting the field of 68
CAUCUS: Debating coach of the year honors
The Orange have lost four of five — the latest a 67-62 home setback vs. ACC basement club Georgia Tech. Boeheim's logic makes perfect sense, but we all know there's a drastic difference between facing a No. 16 seed and a No. 15 seed in the field of 68. (i.e. Florida Gulf Coast vs. Georgetown last year).
As of today, Syracuse is officially a No. 2 seed in our bracketology projections. And that's likely where the Orange will remain heading into Selection Sunday.
Of course, success in the NCAA tournament hinges heavily upon matchups. It's completely hypothetical and perhaps far-fetched to suggest projected No. 15 seeds Mercer, Georgia State, Davidson or Boston University are capable of pulling off the upset of all upsets.
But it's far more important to point out just how vulnerable Syracuse is to support the bold headline on this article. Consider the fact that we were brainwashed for much of January and early February when the Orange were undefeated but not, by any stretch, dominating opponents. It's why Boeheim said in Syracuse's win against Maryland that the team's struggles aren't necessarily a flipped script.
In Syracuse's defense, the loss of Jerami Grant drastically hurts the team's offensive capabilities because it puts unnecessary pressure on All-Americans C.J. Fair and Tyler Ennis. At the same time, it also shows how bare the offensive cupboard is without Grant. If sharpshooter Trevor Cooney is misfiring, as he has the past few games, then outside of Fair and Ennis, we're looking at defensively reliable big men who are just as unreliable on offense.
CINDERELLA: Is Stephen F. Austin this year's FGCU?
Syracuse's 2-3 matchup zone can cause headaches for most teams, but as bottom-feeder ACC teams have proven, slowing the game down only exposes the weaknesses that had been there all along.
Seeding might not have a thing to do with how well a team's playing, true. But as No. 13 seed Vermont proved vs. No. 4 seed Syracuse in 2005, the wrong matchup can spell an early exit.
TIP-OFF: The bifurcated nature of the American Athletic Conference has resulted in No. 9 Louisville not facing many critical end-game situations this season. But when the Cardinals have, they've sometimes failed to execute as they did over the weekend against Memphis. The defending national champs face another squad from the league's upper tier tonight at No.18 Southern Methodist (7 p.m. ET, CBS Sports Network).
The Mustangs have endured a few hiccups in league play themselves but enter tonight's contest on a three-game run that includes a road triumph at UConn. Nic Moore (14.1 ppg, 4.7 apg) is SMU's offensive catalyst who will also likely have to deal with Louisville's Russ Smith on the defensive end.
ALSO ON DECK: A look at the rest of the marquee matchups on tap Wednesday. All times Eastern.
— Arizona at Oregon State (11 p.m., FOX Sports 1)
— Duke at Wake Forest (7 p.m., ESPN2)
— Texas Tech at Kansas (8 p.m.)
— Purdue at Wisconsin (9 p.m., Big Ten Network)
— San Diego State at UNLV (11:05 p.m., CBS Sports Network)
— Dayton at Saint Louis (9 p.m., CBS Sports Network)
— Rutgers at UConn (7 p.m., ESPNU)
— West Virginia at Oklahoma (9 p.m., ESPNU)
— Colorado at Stanford (9 p.m., ESPN2)
NUMBER OF THE DAY: 2. No.16 Saint Louis is experiencing something it hasn't all season — a losing streak. After winning their first 12 A-10 games, the Billikens have dropped two in a row. The most recent at always-formidable Virginia Commonwealth was perhaps more explainable than the home setback before it against Duquesne. Jordair Jett and Co. will try not to let the streak reach three Wednesday night as the Billikens host Dayton (9 p.m. ET, CBS Sports Network). The Flyers are coming off a résumé-boosting victory against Massachusetts and would like to get another.
WORDS OF THE DAY: "If you take 16 games in the Big Ten, shuffle them up, throw them out and let them fall, it might not have been a seven-game win streak, it might not have been a three-game win streak to start the league. But I like how hard they're playing right now, how smart they're playing." — Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan, whose Badgers have been a streaky bunch this season en route to their current 11-5 conference record. Wisconsin won its first 16 games and has now won seven in a row following a 1-5 slump. The Badgers have climbed back up to No.11 in the USA TODAY Sports coaches poll and go for eight consecutive wins tonight as they host Purdue (9 p.m. ET, BTN).
Scott Gleeson, a national college basketball writer/digital producer for USA TODAY Sports, is on Twitter @ScottMGleeson.
Contributing: Eddie Timanus.


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Oh, Gloria Lyrics
Mother's love, cornered and shaking up. The sun, bright on such a violent day, see the blood on the shattered dinner plates. Six years old, frozen still, I couldn't watch your rolling eyes escape. I could never be this brave without your face. Oh, Gloria, I owe you everything, everything. Devil's hands, wrapped tight around your neck, my feet kicking in defensive ways. Yeah, I can still envision blood on the shattered dinner plates. You sprung up... had enough. A second wind until the sirens came. I would never be this brave without your face. Oh, oh Gloria. I owe you everything.


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Let me start off by saying that I am currently a linux device driver developer for SAS storage controllers...so I consider myself a "to the metal" programmer. However, I also have quite a bit of experience with test automation, so I know both sides of the coin.
So as a rejoinder to this, I've heard hardcore C(++) and HDL also show a vast ignorance. To wit:
- (In regards to a distributed app) "Where is the exe that I can run to install this?"
- Recursion is stupid and should never be done because you can blow the stack (not realizing that other languages have tail-call optimization)
- Who have never heard of TDD
- Who have never heard of continuous integration
- Who think it is ok to rsh or telnet into remote machines
- Who thought that self-balancing trees were a new "invention"
I can't tell you how much prejudice I've seen with the "metal" programmers deriding web app and database guys. And yet if you ask them if they have ever done any themselves...they haven't.
My web application experience is extremely limited. I have played with a few web servers (cherrypy, pyramid, and jetty), and written some very small toy "hello world" kind of web apps. But I can tell you this...web programming is way harder than most "to the metal" programmers think it is. Same thing with database programming.
Figuring out network problems, understanding the topology of the system (are you using virtualization?), understanding either multi-threaded or asynchronous (reactor/proactor) servers handling several tens of thousands of requests simultaneously...none of that is easy.
And yes, everything I described is back-end development. But I think many "metal" programmers only think of the front end devs (the guys writing front php or javascript, css, adobe AIR or javaFX for example). But even that isn't as easy as you think. They deride that as "scripting".
I know EE's and CE's who just couldn't grasp closures in javascript or lambdas in python. Showing them python generators or classes that dynamically generated classes or functions was a real stretch for them. In other words, their idea that "scripting" languages are toy languages was simply ignorance.
For some reason, many "to the metal" programmers somehow think that being able to do bit manipulation, access registers, time the hardware with the software, and juggle virtual-to-physical addresses somehow makes them superior. Even desktop application developers don't have to worry about things like dependency management or networking issues.
The sad fact is, most programmers specialize and are therefore unaware of the difficulties faced by the kinds of programming others do. I am fond of an old chinese saying regarding religion, but which I shall paraphrase for programming:
"If you only know one programming style, you know none"


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Tampa Bay Times
Thankfully for Floridians, Hurricane Sandy skipped the Sunshine State. But that hasn't stopped insurance companies from giving Florida homeowners the run-around, according to Florida's insurance consumer advocate.
Robin Westcott penned a letter to Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty highlighting a new anti-consumer trend has emerged among the state's property insurers.
After a homeowner submits a claim, the insurance company digs into the homeowner's financial past to find evidence of a bankruptcy, lien, or foreclosure. If the homeowner has such a blemish on their credit history, the insurance company finds that the customer was never eligible for coverage, and then drops them, without covering their claim.
"This activity threatens not only homeowners' financial stability but also the state's economic recovery," wrote Westcott, calling the practice "potentially unlawful" and "abusive."
According to Westcott, several homeowners are being dropped from coverage after they file a claim, despite paying premiums to their insurers for years.
The insurance companies wait until the homeowner files a claim before dropping them due to ineligibility.
Westcott letter points out that Universal Property and Casualty Insurance Company is one of the insurers involved in the practice.
"This is a real-life Halloween trick that does not treat consumers fairly. We must give consumers relief from this game of 'gottcha'," Westcott wrote.
She has asked McCarty to investigate.


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Android Market website now supporting unofficial devices
There are two things Android could not live without – development and the Android Market (among other things). There are those few manufacturers that chose not to get approved by Google, and their devices end up being released without the Android Market (or Google Apps, in general). Once developers get ... Read More »


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Stock quotes from bash command line
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To get the stock quotes for NYSE listings create some file named stockval and add it to your PATH.
Then gedit the file with the text:
#!/bin/bash p=`printf "curl -s 'http://download.finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=$1&f=l1'"` price=`eval $p`; echo $price
Make that file executable
chmod +x stockval
Close out, and open a terminal. If you have the path correctly configured, execute the stockval command using the company symbol as an argument and it returns the stock price on the line below.
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BATON ROUGE — A St. Mary Parish lawmaker is considering legislation that would create an additional layer of approval for Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance to increase wind and hail premiums.
BATON ROUGE — A St. Mary Parish lawmaker is considering legislation that would create an additional layer of approval for Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance to increase wind and hail premiums.
Citizens, the state's insurer of last resort, was the source of criticism for coastal lawmakers last year when it hiked premiums in south Louisiana parishes by double and triple digits.
Sen. Bret Allain, R-Franklin, who represents portions of Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, said Gulf Coast residents realize their homes come with the added risks of natural disasters, but "they already pay their fair share of that risk" without the increases.
Residents in Allain's native St. Mary Parish saw an increase of 170 percent on wind-only policies last year.
In Terrebonne Parish, a 52 percent increase was implemented. In Lafourche Parish, it was 47 percent.
When applied to the average cost of a policy in each parish, the median increase means $900 more to policyholders in Terrebonne, $800 more in Lafourche and an additional $2,000 in St. Mary.
Franklin said his legislation, depending on the final draft, could force Citizens to seek approval of the House and Senate insurance committees for any increase exceeding 25 percent in any parish.
"Last year we tried to plead a case before a stacked Citizens (board of directors)," he said. "That was unfair, and this could be a better way."
Allain said the methodology for his legislation is still being worked out with participation from Senate Insurance Chairman Blade Morrish, R-Jennings, and others.
While the new rates may provoke sticker shock among coastal residents, Morrish passed legislation that was endorsed by Gov. Bobby Jindal last year that grants property insurance holders a two-year, temporary 10 percent break on their coverage, including the recent increases.
A similar break for coastal parishes was on the books for the five years following hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
Moorish's waiver will expire in 2015 and applies to Calcasieu, Cameron, Iberia, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Terrebonne and Vermilion parishes.
Citizens is state-mandated to be more costly than private property insurance companies in that it must charge 10 percent more than the actuarial rate, or whatever private companies are writing.
Treasurer John Kennedy called the increases "illegal" because private companies are not writing wind and hail coverage in coastal parishes, but Attorney General Buddy Caldwell issued an opinion clearing the increase last year.
In response, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon said his department has a responsibility to make sure Citizens does not become an attractive product for property owners, while officials with Citizens argued their wind policies have long been underpriced.
Citizens, according to its mission, is supposed to provide insurance to Louisiana residents who are "in good faith entitled, but unable, to procure insurance through the voluntary insurance marketplace."
The regular session convenes April 8.
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Crusader tennis defeats St. Marys 4-1 for D9 team title
DuBOIS – The Elk County Catholic Crusader tennis squad defeated the St. Marys Area Flying Dutchmen 4-1 at the DuBois Area High School tennis courts to claim the 2012 District 9 AA Boys' Tennis Team Championship on Wednesday afternoon in a match played under threatening skies that ultimately transitioned to a light drizzle just as the final match was finishing up. "I can't say enough about these guys," ECC coach Nick Caggiano said following the match. "I think this has been a long time coming for the past few seasons. I think we've been laying the groundwork for this day for a long time. My advice to them was to stick to their game, to play their shots, know their strengths, and to come out of the gates fresh-- and we certainly did."At second doubles, the Crusader duo of Scott Krellner and Alex Herzing defeated Gary Fledderman and Eric Uhl 6-2, 6-1 to give ECC a 1-0 lead in the match. The next two victories came in quick succession for the Crusaders as Ben Wortman defeated Michael Fox 6-0, 6-1 at first singles and Shane Mancuso beat D.J. Challingsworth 6-1, 6-2 to put the Crusaders up 3-0 and secure ECC's victory in the best-of-five contest. "Ben, Shane, and Scott Krellner and Alex Herzing really came out of the gate firing away," Caggiano said. Drew Meyer also picked up a win for ECC at second singles, defeating Evan Lepovetsky 6-4, 6-4 to make the score 4-0 in favor of the Crusaders. "Drew had a very hard-fought straight set win. It was very close," Caggiano said. "It was 6-4, 6-4, but it could have gone either way."The Crusaders' only loss of the day came at first doubles as the St. Marys Area duo of Jarrod Lipsey and Dalton Gennocro defeated Aaron Meier and Scott Reichard 7-5, 7-6 (8-6)."They played really hard," Caggiano said of Meier and Reichard. "They're two evenly matched teams in that court. It could have gone either way and they had some great shots regardless of the loss." The Crusaders are now 12-1 on the season and will advance to the opening round of the PIAA Class AA Tournament next Tuesday when they take on the runner-up of District 7 in Pittsburgh at a site and time to be announced.Wednesday's match marked the third year in a row that the two teams have faced each other for the D9 AA team title. The Dutchmen came out on top in the previous two match-ups, but the Crusaders improved each year and were finally able to take the win this season. "I've known some of these guys for a long time and we've become a family over the course of the years, so it's great to win this with them and to enjoy this one because we really had fun today," Caggiano said.In Class AAA, DuBois defeated Punxsutawney 3-2 to advance to Tuesday's PIAA Class AAA Tournament.The results of Wednesday's matches follow: First singles - Ben Wortman - EC defeated Michael Fox - SM, 6-0, 6-1. Second singles - Drew Meyer - EC defeated Evan Lepovetsky - SM, 6-4, 6-4. Third singles - Shane Mancuso - EC defeated D.J. Challingsowrth - SM, 6-1, 6-2. First doubles - Jarrod Lipsey and Dalton Gennocro - SM defeated Aaron Meier and Scott Reichard - EC, 7-5, 7-6 (8-6).Second doubles - Scott Krellner and Alex Herzing - EC defeated Gary Fledderman and Eric Uhl - SM, 6-2, 6-1.
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Jim Kinnamon of Shawnee showed up Sunday night at the Expo Center driving a pickup truck pulling a tractor with a front end loader. He was told to head to Bethel Road north of the river where the roadway was completely blocked because of a down tree.
Jim Kinnamon of Shawnee showed up Sunday night at the Expo Center driving a pickup truck pulling a tractor with a front end loader. He was told to head to Bethel Road north of the river where the roadway was completely blocked because of a down tree.
Another woman, a home health nurse, showed up at the Expo and wanted to know if she could help anywhere.
Billy Canada, who lives just outside the city limits, went and got on his tractor and moved trees which were partially blocking Coker Road south of 45th Street.
Police officers, firefighters, mainly volunteer type, but many also paid, emergency responders, sheriff deputies, drug task force personnel, the area game warden, OSBI, and Salvation Army officials and Red Cross personnel were among the several hundred who gathered at the Expo early and late Sunday night in the aftermath of the killer tornado which struck the area Sunday evening.
All were there with one thing in mind, how could they help and where were they needed.
Kim Narry, 17, a Bethel High School student, along with her grandparents went to a friend's cellar in the area of Shawnee Twin Lakes. They were among some of the fortunate ones.
They waited out the storm as they heard it pass overhead.
"We could hear it whistling as it went over us," she said late Sunday night. She said they weren't in the cellar very long, but it was long enough.
The volunteers and officials came from several different counties, among them Pottawatomie, Lincoln, Seminole, McClain and Grady.
Shawnee Police Chief Russell Frantz was in charge of coordinating the activity at the Expo Center.
"We're checking the damaged areas looking for victims, people who might be trapped. We're doing damage assessment," Frantz explained, noting also that power poles were down in some areas and there were reports of broken gas lines.
One of the teams was sent to the area of Garrett's Lake Road and Coker Road, several miles north of Shawnee.
Frantz said some of the damaged areas he was aware of included Lake Road and Walker Road, the Bethel Acres area, Garrett Lake Road and Coker, Bethel Road near 45th and the U.S. 270 area and southwest of the I-40 and U.S. 177 intersection where cars and truck were both reportedly blown off the roadway.
Pottawatomie County's State Game Warden Mike France said he was on vacation, but he heard there was a call for help and that is the reason he showed up.
State Sen. Ron Sharp, who was at the Expo, said his office had made contact with the Department of Public Safety Commissioner Michael Thompson and if needed Thompson would activate the National Guard. But Sharp said local officials said they were handling it OK at this time.
Assistant Tecumseh Police Chief J.R. Kidney made arrangements for a Tecumseh school bus to take those who were without shelter to either the Shawnee High School Athletic facility which had been set up as a shelter or to local hotels.
The school bus was sent to the Steelman Estates area, believed to be one of the hardest hit, where several trailer homes reportedly were destroyed.


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Six friends are trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside.
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Manning makes history as Broncos rout Ravens
Denver, CO – Peyton Manning put on a performance for the ages, and the Denver Broncos exacted their revenge for last year's heart- breaking loss to the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Divisional Playoffs.
Manning became the sixth player in NFL history to throw for seven touchdowns in a single game, as the Broncos spoiled the start of the reigning Super Bowl champion Ravens' title defense with a resounding 49-27 triumph Thursday in the season-opener for both teams at Sports Authority Field at Mile High.
Five of Manning's touchdown tosses came in the second half, as Denver turned a three-point halftime deficit into a comfortable 25-point cushion by scoring 28 straight points to start the second half.
Manning finished 27-of-42 passing for 462 yards and joined Y.A. Tittle, Joe Kapp, George Blanda, Sid Luckman and Adrian Burk as the only players in NFL history to throw for seven scores in a game.
Kapp was the last to accomplish the feat back on Sept. 28, 1969 with Minnesota against, fittingly, Baltimore.
Wes Welker, Julius Thomas and Demaryius Thomas each hauled in two TDs for the reigning AFC West champion Broncos (1-0), who finished 13-3 last season and had the No. 1 seed in the AFC before being upended by the Ravens in the postseason.
"It's fun to play quarterback when you have a lot of guys working hard and making a lot of plays for you," Manning said. "You never know what's going to happen in a game. I felt like we had to keep scoring."
Welker, a key free agent acquisition by Denver, finished with nine catches for 67 yards in his first game as a Bronco after spending the previous six seasons with rival New England.
Julius Thomas hauled in five passes for 110 yards, while Demaryius Thomas led all receivers with 161 yards on five grabs in the victory.
The defending champion Ravens have a much different look this season, with eight starters gone from last year's squad, including future Hall-of-Famer Ray Lewis, safety Ed Reed and wide receiver Anquan Boldin.
The departures were evident on the defensive side of the ball, as the Ravens (0-1) allowed a franchise-record 49 points in their first game since their 34-31 triumph over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII.
Joe Flacco finished 34-of-62 passing for 362 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions, while Ray Rice managed just 36 yards and a score on 12 carries for Baltimore, which went 10-6 in the regular season last year before running the table in the playoffs.
"Just one of those nights," Flacco said. "It was a pretty good game for a while and it got away from us."
With his team trailing by three to start the second half, Manning came out firing, finding Knowshon Moreno for eight yards before hitting Welker for 10 more on 3rd-and-9.
Manning's completion to Welker appeared to hit the ground before Welker hauled it in, but before Baltimore could challenge the ruling, Manning rushed the Broncos to the line and hit Demaryius Thomas, who made a defender miss before scampering 34 yards down the sideline.
Two plays later, Manning floated a beautiful pass down the left sideline for Andre Caldwell, who bobbled the ball before bringing it in just inside the left pylon for a 28-yard score and a 21-17 lead.
Denver then forced a quick three-and-out from the Ravens and on the ensuing punt, David Bruton broke through the line and got a hand on Sam Koch's kick, allowing the Broncos to take over at the Baltimore 10.
Manning quickly took advantage of the field position, hitting Welker on consecutive plays, including a 5-yard scoring strike to make it 28-17 early in the third quarter.
Following another Baltimore three-and-out, Manning completed three straight passes to move Denver to the Baltimore 15 before Montee Ball converted a 3rd- and-1 with a 4-yard surge to the Baltimore 2.
After an incompletion to Eric Decker, Manning found Welker all alone in the front right corner of the end zone for a 2-yard score and a 35-17 lead.
Following an exchange of punts, Manning added to his epic performance early in the fourth, finding Demaryius Thomas for a 26-yard score to make it 42-17.
Danny Trevathan picked off a Flacco pass on Baltimore's next touch and returned it 30 yards for what appeared to be a score, but Trevathan let go of the ball just before the goal line and the ball rolled out of the end zone for a touchback to nullify the touchdown.
Flacco then led the Ravens on a quick 5-play, 80-yard march, culminating in a 13-yard TD pass to rookie Marlon Brown to bring Baltimore within 42-24.
After a quick three-and-out from the Broncos, Flacco moved the Ravens deep into Denver territory, but Vonta Leach was stopped for a 6-yard gain on 3rd- and-10, setting up Justin Tucker's 30-yard field goal to make it 42-27.
The Broncos put the game away on their ensuing touch, as Manning tossed a bubble screen out to the left for Demaryius Thomas, who followed a convoy of blockers before outrunning the defense for a 78-yard score to account for the final margin.
"We gave them too many easy things," said Ravens coach John Harbaugh, who reportedly agreed to a contract extension earlier on Thursday. "Even right down there at the end, fighting like crazy to create a play, and gave them that touchdown at the end. That's the bottom line...you can't give them that many easy plays."
Lightning in the Denver area delayed the start of the game 33 minutes, and after both teams punted on their opening possessions, Flacco guided the Ravens on an 80-yard scoring march to draw first blood.
Bernard Pierce started the trek with a 14-yard surge before Flacco converted a 3rd-and-6 with a 29-yard toss to Torrey Smith for a fresh set of downs.
Smith picked up another first down with a tough 11-yard gain on 3rd-and-10 from the Denver 13 before Flacco faked a run and found Leach leaking out of the backfield for a 2-yard score and a 7-0 lead.
Denver used a turnover deep in Baltimore territory early in the second to even the score, as Chris Harris stepped in front of a Flacco pass on 3rd-and-9 and made a diving interception to give Denver possession at the Baltimore 24.
Manning turned the pick into points on Denver's next play from scrimmage, as he stood in the pocket and pumped to his right before finding a wide-open Julius Thomas down the middle for a 24-yard score to make it 7-7.
Flacco led the Ravens across midfield on Baltimore's ensuing touch, but overthrew Brown on 3rd-and-5 to force a punt.
Welker went back to field the kick and called for a fair catch at his own 5- yard line, but the sure-handed wideout muffed the punt and the Ravens pounced on it at the Denver 1.
Rice then rushed around the right end and into the end zone for a 1-yard score to give Baltimore a 14-7 lead.
Manning made up for Welker's miscue on Denver's next series, completing all four of his passes on a 6-play, 80-yard scoring march to retie the score.
Julius Thomas shook off a tackler and scampered 44 yards on 1st-and-20 from the Denver 33 before hauling in a 23-yard score from Manning on the next play to knot the score at 14-14.
After an exchange of punts, Baltimore turned its final drive of the half into points, as Flacco converted a pair of third downs to move the Ravens into Denver territory, but Dallas Clark couldn't corral Flacco's pass on 3rd-and- goal from the 7, setting up Tucker's 25-yard field goal to send the Ravens into the break with a 17-14 edge.
Game Notes
Manning has thrown 4-or-more touchdowns in 23 career games, matching the mark for most in NFL history set by Brett Favre ... Leach's touchdown was his first since the 2009 season ... Baltimore wide receiver Jacoby Jones left the game in the second quarter with a right knee sprain and did not return ... Baltimore had won its last five season-openers ... Smith finished with four catches for 92 yards to lead the Ravens ... Moreno carried the ball nine times for 28 yards while adding three catches for 37 yards for Denver.


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Special Challenge Match
Jimmy Rave with Prince Nana vs. the debuting Davey Richards
This was the first match I believe of the night. The show was supposed to start at 7:30 and I got there was 15 minutes before that. Anyway, Rave came out and right away gennerated a ton of heat. People started throwing rolls of toilet paper at him, which he picked up and threw back into the crowd. My friend wasn't looking and almost caught one right in the face lol. The match started off slow as nobody knew who Richards was so the crowd was pretty quiet but then they started getting all over Rave again when Richards started to dominate. Chants like "Fuck you Jimmy" and "Die Jimmy Die". There was also a man who kept getting up and yelling while wearing a Green Lantern shirt, so throughout the whole show we all chanted "Fuck Green Lantern". I was surprised at the outcome of this. Rave got dominated most of the match, then had a flurry where you thought he'd pull it out, but Richards wasn't having it. Richards won to my surprise.
1) Davey Richards beat Jimmy Rave. Pretty long match at over 15 minutes. Richards got the win with a double underhook brainbuster, and the crowd seemed into him.
I'm happy for Davey. I'm kinda surprised he debuted and actually went over against someone like Jimmy Rave. I'm sure Davey's in for big things in ROH. Good for him.


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Feminism is the Topic of This Year's Brigance Forum Lectureby Karen Handley • March 26, 2004 Share:
Dow is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. She received her B.A. from Baylor University, her M.A. from the University of Kansas, and her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Her teaching and research interests include rhetorical criticism, women's public address, popular culture criticism, and feminist theory and criticism. She has published articles on the rhetoric of the feminist movement and on feminism and mass media in such journals as Quarterly Journal of Speech, Text and Performance Quarterly, Critical Studies in Mass Communication, and Southern Communication Journal. She has also written another book, Prime-Time Feminism: Television, Media Culture, and the Women's Movement Since 1970.
Her lecture is free and open to the public. A reception will follow her talk.


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The Bucs (3-2) went 1-1 last weekend at the Elon Classic. ETSU captured a 1-0 victory over the host
High Point (3-2-1) enters Saturday's contest on a high note, as the Panters have won its last two matches. High Point picked up a 2-1 victory over previously undefeated Appalachian State, who is currently tied for sixth, in the NSCAA South Region. Prior to their win on Wednesday night, the Panthers recorded another win against a SoCon member; defeating Davidson, 3-2.
All youth soccer players and teams attending Saturday's match, and who are wearing their team jerseys, will receive free admission. The ETSU Athletic Department in correlation with the United States Youth Soccer Association, is conducting this event to help raise awareness and promote the benefits of playing youth soccer. September, is known as "Youth Soccer Month," by the United States Youth Soccer Association (US Youth Soccer) - who emphasizes soccer as the number one youth participation sport in America and leading contributor to the healthy lifestyle of millions of American families.
ETSU and the men's soccer team encourage all youth soccer teams in the Tri-Cities to join us on Saturday, and participate in micro soccer games on the field after the game. This is a great way for teams and players to interact with the ETSU men's soccer players and coaches. As always, the team will be available for autographs following the game on the south end of the stadium.
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The Learning Resource Center presents For the Love ... of Learning on Feb. 16 at the Bresler home. The evening, set for 7 to 10 p.m., features hors d'oeuvres, music by the Brian Sutherland Trio, a cocktail bar and an auction. Jennifer Leigh of Channel 8 will be the host.
Feb. 16 Is Big Night
The Learning Resource Center presents For the Love ... of Learning on Feb. 16 at the Bresler home. The evening, set for 7 to 10 p.m., features hors d'oeuvres, music by the Brian Sutherland Trio, a cocktail bar and an auction. Jennifer Leigh of Channel 8 will be the host. United Way of Central Florida will be honored during the event. Tickets are $50 per person, with proceeds helping youth afford programs at the Learning Resource Center. For tickets, visit secure.qgiv.com/for/lrcpolk. For information, call 688-9477.
Toast to Find Cure
The Watson Clinic Foundation Auxiliary's annual Wine and Cheese Social, known as Toast to Find a Cure, is 5 to 7 p.m. Feb. 10 at the Lakeland Yacht & Country Club. The evening, which includes guest speakers and a silent auction, raises funds for cancer research and educational endeavors at the Center for Cancer Care & Research. Sponsorship packages are available. Individual tickets are $50. Checks should be made payable to Watson Clinic Foundation, with Auxiliary in the memo line. Send checks to Linda Logan, Auxiliary Chairperson, P.O. Box 6257, Lakeland, FL 33807. For information, call 802-6220.
The Chalk for Charity event Saturday in downtown Lakeland will benefit Knights of Columbus Global Wheelchair Mission and Lakeland Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association charities. Vote for your favorite artist with tokens that cost $1 each or six for $5. You can also purchase mini-squares at $10 each for children or grandchildren to decorate. They will receive a packet of chalk.
Polk County Alumni Chapter of Florida A & M University will present its annual scholarship gala at 6 p.m. Feb. 9 in Sikes Hall at The Lakeland Center. Keynote speaker will be author and motivational speaker Jemal O. Gibson. Cost is $65. Call Doris Hicks, 815-9208.
Sandpiper Golf and Country Club in Lakeland will hold a Trash & Treasure Sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 9. There will be a huge white elephant sale, bake sale, raffle, 50/50 drawing and lunch/brunch. All proceeds from the 50/50 drawing will go to charity.
A fashion show and luncheon to benefit the Alzheimer's Association is planned for 11:30 a.m. Feb. 16 in the Hampton's Clubhouse, 900 S. Hampton Blvd., Auburndale. Tickets are $12. Lily Pad will provide fashions and there will be a lottery tree, money tree and 50/50 tickets. Call Ruth Segars, 669-9608.
Competitors are welcome to participate in the South Lakeland Mulberry Moose Lodge & South Lakeland Chapter's Amateur Back Yard Cook Off Feb. 16 and 17, beginning at 11 a.m. both days. There will be live music, drawings, lots of food and activities for the entire family. The event at 6125 S. Florida Ave., Lakeland, will support the Tommy Moose Program for the Polk County Fire and Rescue Department and other Moose charities. Call 647-2738, 412-2943 or visit moose2295.com.
Vanguard School will offer a night of food, fun and wine at its sixth annual live and silent auction from 5-8 p.m. Feb. 16. "Passport to the World of International Flavors" will be held in the Bartsch Memorial Gymnasium at the school, located at 22,000 U.S. 27, Lake Wales. Tickets are $20. Parents, students and those 12 and younger are free. RSVP to Debra Cohen, 676-6091, Ext. 1002.
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Derbyshire County Council (DCC) has been ordered to reveal the payout given to its former Chief Executive.
The authority has been warned by the Information Commissioner that it could be in contempt of court if it fails to disclose the sum awarded to Nick Hodgson.
DCC has launched an appeal against the order and said the information would be revealed in its annual accounts.
Mr Hodgson left the authority amid mysterious circumstances in June 2013.
Three months later, the Derbyshire Times submitted a Freedom of Information request to DCC about why Mr Hodgson left his £152,000 role and details of any payout to him upon his departure.
But the authority failed to answer our questions, saying Mr Hodgson had entered into an agreement which meant the terms of his exit would "remain confidential".
In a report, Andrew White, group manager at the Information Commissioner's office, ruled DCC had "incorrectly" withheld the details.
He added: "The Information Commissioner requires the authority to disclose the information.
"Failure to comply may result in the Information Commissioner making written certification of this fact to the High Court and may be dealt with as contempt of court."
Campaigning resident John Evans lodged the complaint with the Information Commissioner.
Mr Evans, of Darley Dale, said: "DCC is guilty of practicing double standards by on the one hand claiming that it is committed to openness and transparency in its activities while on the other hand covering up a settlement reached on behalf of taxpayers.
"The authority's decision to appeal against the order by the Information Commissioner is a continuation of its cynical attempt to prevent the public rom knowing and understanding what happened to Mr Hodgson."
A DCC spokesman said: "We're still going through a formal process with the Information Commissioner and it would be inappropriate to comment until the process has been concluded.
"It was always our intention to release details of the sum paid to Mr Hodgson in our annual statement of accounts, as we are statutorily obliged to do.
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10 April 2013
Vernalis plc (LSE: VER) today announces its audited results for the year ended 31 December 2012.
Financial Highlights
- Revenue up 20 per cent to £14.6 million (2011: £12.2 million) driven by 65 per cent increase in research collaboration income
- Research collaboration income was £8.7 million (2011: £5.3 million) including milestone income of £2.6 million (2011: £1.1 million)
- Frovatriptan royalty income was £5.7 million (2011: £6.5 million) down 11% primarily due to exchange rates with underlying sales made by Menarini flat
- Operating costs remain in-line with 2011
- Pre-exceptional loss for the year reduced by 19 per cent
- Balance sheet strengthened through £68.5 million of new equity financing (March 2012)
- Underlying net cash burn reduced to £4.5 million (2011: £6.0 million)
Operational Highlights
Cough Cold Commercial Pipeline:
- Collaboration commenced March 2012
- CCP-01 proof-of-concept achieved and milestone paid to Tris in March 2013
- First NDA filing anticipated mid-2014
- Four further programmes now in active development at Tris, with 505(b)(2) pathway based on comparative bioavailability confirmed on all five with FDA
- 2012-13 prescription cough cold season up substantially on 2011-12 with approximately 33.2 million prescriptions written in the 12 months to February 2013
NCE Development Pipeline:
Frovatriptan (marketed) (Migraine):
- Underlying Menarini sales €26.5 million (2011: €27.1 million)
- Menarini outlook for 2013 is for flat underlying sales vs 2012
V81444 (CNS diseases)
- Positive Phase I and Receptor Occupancy studies completed (May and Dec 2012 respectively)
- Plans underway to initiate Phase Ib/II POC study in H1 2013
V158866 (Pain)
- Positive results from Phase I study published at 14th World Congress on Pain (August 2012)
- Announced today, patients being recruited into a Phase II POC study (April 2013)
AUY922 (Cancer)
- Continues in multiple Phase I and Phase II studies with Novartis in a variety of cancers including breast, non-small-cell lung, gastric, colon and colorectal cancers
Tosedostat - CHR2797 (Cancer)
- Phase II trials in AML and MDS continue through Chroma/Cell Therapeutics, Inc
- Anti-inflammatory study results announced by Verona Pharma (March 2013)
- Future development focussing on bronchodilator properties of RPL554
- Addition to pre-clinical NCE pipeline of first product candidate from collaboration
Research Collaborations:
- New collaborations with Genentech and Servier (January 2012)
- Ongoing collaboration with Servier extended again (March 2013)
- Genentech milestones of $4.0 million in cash already earned in 2013
Expected Newsflow:
- Achieve multiple proofs-of-concept in cough cold pipeline
- Progress CCP-01 towards NDA filing
- AUY922 (Cancer) – Multiple Phase I and II study results (Novartis) (timing not disclosed)
- V81444 (CNS diseases)
- Initiate Phase Ib/II POC study (H1 2013)
- Complete Phase II POC study (H1 2014)
- V158866 (Pain) – Complete Phase II POC study (H1 2014)
- Tosedostat - CHR2797 (Cancer)– Phase II study results (Chroma) (undisclosed)
- Achieve milestones under existing collaborations (undisclosed)
- Secure new research collaborations (undisclosed)
Ian Garland, Chief Executive Officer, commented, "We performed very strongly in 2012, both financially and operationally, with significant progress in all three elements of our strategy. Revenues were up sharply and our loss and underlying cash burn were both reduced. We delivered proof-of-concept in the most advanced of our cough cold programmes and now have five active cough cold programmes in development with a first NDA submission planned for the middle of next year. We had a record 12 months in our research business, growing revenue for the fifth consecutive year, and reported positive results from two V81444 studies in our NCE pipeline. The outlook for 2013 and beyond is strong as we continue to build our self-sustaining pharmaceutical company."
Presentation & Conference Call
Vernalis management will host a presentation at 09.00am (UK) at Brunswick's offices, 16 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3ED today. It will also be available via webcast at http://www.vernalis.com/investor-centre/presentations-and-webcasts and www.cantos.com and via conference call, which can be joined by dialling: +44 (0) 20 3139 4830, Passcode 13117720#.
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Vernalis Contacts:
Ian Garland, Chief Executive Officer
+44 (0) 118 938 0015
David Mackney, Chief Financial Officer
Nomura Code Securities Limited:
+44 (0) 20 7776 1200
Juliet Thompson
Jonathan Senior
Brunswick Group:
+44 (0) 20 7404 5959
Jon Coles
Notes to Editors
About Vernalis
Vernalis is a revenue generating development stage pharmaceutical company with significant expertise in drug development. The Group has one marketed product, frovatriptan for the acute treatment of migraine, an exclusive licensing agreement to develop and commercialise multiple novel products focussed on the US prescription cough/cold market as well as seven programmes in its NCE development pipeline. Vernalis has significant expertise in fragment and structure based drug discovery which it leverages to enter into collaborations with larger pharmaceutical companies. The Company's technologies, capabilities and products are endorsed by collaborations with Endo, Genentech, Lundbeck, Menarini, Novartis, Servier and Tris.
Please click here to access the full PDF of this press release and here to access the Annual Report
Vernalis Forward-Looking Statement
This news release may contain forward-looking statements that reflect the Company's current expectations regarding future events including the clinical development and regulatory clearance of the Company's products, the Company's ability to find partners for the development and commercialisation of its products, as well as the Company's future capital raising activities. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. Actual events could differ materially from those projected herein and depend on a number of factors including the success of the Company's research strategies, the applicability of the discoveries made therein, the successful and timely completion of clinical studies, the uncertainties related to the regulatory process, the ability of the Company to identify and agree beneficial terms with suitable partners for the commercialisation and/or development of its products, as well as the achievement of expected synergies from such transactions, the acceptance of frovatriptan and other products by consumers and medical professionals, the successful integration of completed mergers and acquisitions and achievement of expected synergies from such transactions, and the ability of the Company to identify and consummate suitable strategic and business combination transactions.


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Jake Gyllenhaal, who stars in the recently released thriller "Nightcrawler," has parted with his gated compound in Hollywood Hills for $3,262,500.
The single-story home, built in 1948, sits on nearly two acres with expanses of lawn, mature trees, a swimming pool and a detached office. There are canyon, mountain and cityscape views.
The 2,826 square feet of living space, crowned by vaulted beamed ceilings, includes a central hall, a den, a family room, three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
Gyllenhaal, 33, has starred in such films as "Source Code" (2011), "Zodiac" (2007) and "Brokeback Mountain" (2005). He will be...


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This blog post at Qt Labs describes the plans surrounding QML and (eventual) benefits from aggressive GPU acceleration.
KDE has always been on the cutting edge of Qt, and they already have a significant QML buy-in (Plasma Mobile is implemented in QML). Continuing this process with desktop Plasma overhaul, while not yet a committed goal, would seem like a natural progression.
Additional notes from Thom
The process of moving Plasma over from the Graphics View architecture over to Qt Quick and QML won't be completed in a few snaps of the fingers. The plan is to make the transition over a number of KDE releases, during which more and more parts of Plasma are moved over to the new framework.
"Every Plasmoid, Containment, popup and window dressing (e.g. the add widgets interface, the panel controller, the activity manager, ...) that does direct painting needs to be moved over to QML," Seigo explains, "Thankfully we can do these one at a time with the results working very nicely with the current QGraphicsView based libplasma. This means we don't need to do a 'massive porting effort with a huge pause between releases'; each release can contain more and more QML driven elements and fewer and fewer uses of QPainter."
Some breakage may occur in the process of moving from libplasma to the binary and source incompatible libplasma2, but Seigo explains the impact will be very small. "The good news is that this is an almost completely internal set of changes. The design of Plasma lends itself very nicely to this set of changes, and the C++ classes in libplasma are nicely aligned as well," he notes, "So the external impact looks like it will be surprisingly small for anything written in Javascript or which uses QML for its user interface."
One concern raised in the comments is that these changes mandate the use of OpenGL. Seigo hopes they'll end up with a non-GPU render path as well. "This is all still work-in-progress and the plain CPU-rendered path is valuable to us in many use cases," he states, "I'm hoping that we'll end up with a proper OpenGL path (scene graph; OpenGL backend for QPainter just isn't a full solution) as well as a QGrapicsScene fallback."
Seigo does note, though, that eventually everything will move to OpenGL, and he's right. That's called progress, and cannot (and should not) be stopped. There's enough choice in the Linux world when it comes to less demanding (hardware-wise) desktop environments.


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Adult-supervised practice driving for adolescent learners: The current state and directions for interventions." J Safety Res. 2012;43(1):21-8."
Determining subgroups of teens for targeted driving injury prevention strategies: a latent class analysis approach." Traffic Inj Prev. 2012;13(3):258-64."


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The humble and diminutive bird's-foot-trefoil goes by a plethora of local names; Geoffrey Grigson, in 'The Englishman's Flora' counted over 70 (4). Many of these names, including bacon and eggs, refer to the delightful colouration of the flowers, which are a rich yolk-yellow, often streaked with bright red (2). Some, such as 'Dutchman's clogs' and 'lady's slippers' hint at the general shape of the flowers, which resemble old fashioned slippers or shoes (5). The long seed-pods, which are reminiscent of claws, are alluded to by yet other names, including 'granny's toenails' and 'Devil's fingers' (5). This familiar member of the pea family (Fabaceae) creeps along the ground; the stems and lance-shaped leaflets are typically smooth (6).
This native plant is common and widespread throughout Britain (2) (3). It is also found throughout most of mainland Europe, and occurs in Asia, north and east Africa, and in mountainous parts of the tropics (2).
Inhabits grasslands, such as meadows, downland, montane rock ledges, and hill pastures. It also occurs on sand dunes and coastal cliff-tops (3).
Common and widespread: not threatened (3).
This species is not threatened.
Conservation action is not required for this very common species.
For more information on British native plants and for details of how to get involved in plant conservation visit the website of Plantlife, the wild plant charity:
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I can heartily recommend Caroline's house. The house is terrific and Caroline was very welcoming and accommodating. Though she doesn't live in Sweden, it was easy to get in touch with her and/or her housekeeper and her neighbor, who helped with the rental.
We had a wonderful stay at this property. It is a large, clean, welcoming stone house typical of Gotland, with plenty of room for a group or two families traveling together. The third floor has two large bedrooms, one with a double bed. On the second floor is a living room, furnished with comfortable sofas and a piano, which was a great place to relax in the long summer evenings. There are also two bedrooms with two twin beds each in them on this floor, as well as (at least) two more bedrooms, each with bunkbeds. There's also one bathroom with a tub (with a handheld shower) on the second floor. On the first floor is a dining room, a half-bath, a shower, kitchen, a utility room and the washing machine. All the beds are comfortable and the windows are equipped with screens so you can have them open at night—we all slept very well! The eat-in kitchen is large and bright. It's stocked with everything you might need.
We used the dining room once or twice when it was raining, but when the weather was nice we sat outside, either at the covered patio in the back or the small patio at the side of the house, which gets sun in the morning—perfect for our first cup of coffee. My son (12) loved reading in the hammock in the garden. The garden is quite private, enclosed in the back by a fantastic lilac hedge that was flowering when we were there in June.
When you stay at this house you're surrounded by the lovely Gotland landscape with its fields and pastures. It is peaceful and quiet and not far from the beach. In the mornings we took walks along the country roads and during the day visited various wildlife sanctuaries for birdwatching or to visit old cultural sites, of which there are so many in Gotland. You have a choice of two villages nearby for groceries, banks, etc, though for much more than that, you'd drive in to Visby, which isn't too far. We also took a boat to Stora Karlsö. We visited nearby artisans (including a woman whose pottery I'd bought 20 years before in Stockholm!) and a few local cafes, as well as many of the beautiful old churches you see everywhere. We hope to return soon!


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Yokohama: Two goals at the start of the second half helped seal Rafa Benitez`s side a place in Sunday`s showpiece final against Corinthians, as their Mexican opponents faded after the break
Chelsea`s attacking midfield triumvirate of Eden Hazard, Oscar and Juan Mata sparkled as the Champions League holders coasted to a 3-1 victory over Monterrey during their Club World Cup semi-final at the International Stadium in Yokohama.
A well-taken first-half finish from Mata gave the Blues the lead, before a deflected Fernando Torres strike and an own goal from Darvin Chavez promptly after half-time helped see off the challenge of the Concacaf champions, although Aldo De Nigris did score a superb consolation late on for the Mexican side.
A bright start from the west London side was rewarded in the 17th minute when Mata opened the scoring in style with a sweeping finish after an intricate passing move involving Ashley Cole and Oscar on the left-hand side.
The Blues had come close to taking the lead on three occasions prior to the former Valencia man breaking the deadlock, with David Luiz, Hazard and Branislav Ivanovic all threatening.
Luiz in particular impressed for Chelsea, the Brazil international looking comfortable playing in an unfamiliar midfield role in the absence of Oriol Romeu, after the Masia graduate suffered knee ligament damage against Sunderland on Saturday.
Monterrey grew into the game after going behind, with Jesus Corona`s pace and trickery posing Cesar Azpilicueta problems down the left, and but for some wasteful finishing from Aldo De Nigris the Mexican side could well have equalised before the break.
Whatever Benitez said to his side during the interval seemed to do the trick as they came racing out of the blocks, scoring twice before the second half was five minutes old.
20 seconds after the restart Torres made it 2-0, following a blistering run and pass from Hazard down the left. The striker`s shot appeared to be going way off target before it took a considerable deflection and flew into the back of the net.
Chelsea then added a third just moments later courtesy of an own goal from Darvin Chavez. The former Atletico Madrid forward was involved once more, it was his enticing through ball that set up Mata, who then looked to pass to Oscar before the intervention of Chavez did the youngster`s work for him by diverting the ball past Jonathan Orozco.
The two goals in quick succession had appeared to have knocked the wind out of Monterrey`s sails before De Nigris smashed home a consolation goal in added time at the end of the second half to make it 3-1.
Benitez now has a chance to equal Pep Guardiola`s achievement by winning a second Club World Cup when Chelsea take on Corinthians in the final on December 16, after he won the tournament with Inter back in 2010.


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The name of Preston LeJeune, longtime E.D. White Catholic High School football coach, will live on at the campus through more than fond memories.
The name of Preston LeJeune, longtime E.D. White Catholic High School football coach, will live on at the campus through more than fond memories.
The school is naming the gym it built in 2009 after LeJeune who has spent the last 35 years working with athletics at the school.
LeJeune didn't come to Thibodaux for football. He actually left a coaching job to run a new Sonic Drive-In in Thibodaux.
"I had five kids at the time, so financially it was a good move," LeJeune said.
That didn't last long, however.
He signed on to work as the defensive coordinator for E.D. White in spring 1978 while still helping run the Sonic during lunch and after work hours.
Shortly after, the head coach position unexpectedly opened up.
"I didn't have my eye on it. ... I thought I should try for it because if someone else came in he could say 'Are you here to coach football or sell hamburgers?,'" LeJeune said with a laugh. "It was never a burning desire to be a head football coach. It just kind of fell in my lap."
He became the head coach in summer 1978, a position he held for 23 years.
"It was seven days a week and my thought process was always on football," LeJeune said. "I enjoyed the competition and the whole process: thinking about it, watching film and putting together a plan and then putting that on the field."
LeJeune's teams had a 69 percent winning record. He coached four undefeated teams, won 11 district championships and beat arch-rival Vandebilt Catholic High in Houma 17 out of 23 games.
LeJeune's 1981 team was a state finalist, losing 21-17 to John Curtis Christian in River Ridge in the finals in the first high school championship game played in the Super Dome.
"Afterward you would think we had won with our fans cheering us. The support was always wonderful. I won't ever forget that," LeJeune said.
LeJeune was named athletic director in 1992. He's overseen construction of a new running track; softball complex; locker rooms for boys and girls basketball, football and volleyball; a women coaches office; gym; and improvements to the baseball park.
"I"ve been around the block a few times and nobody will have facilities like this," LeJeune said as he looked over the new artificial turf field being installed in the school's football stadium.
The school will have a reception at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 20 to name the gym, said Kaye Constant, assistant advancement director and alumni director.
"It's such an honor and I am so humbled," LeJeune said.


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Medical records: Know your rights
Woman handcuffed after surgery sit-in
A Bedfordshire grandmother was handcuffed by police for demanding to see her medical records. Mary Kerswell, who's 67, asked for a copy of her records after her GP surgery tried to treat her for a kidney condition she didn't have.
Eventually, Mrs Kerswell staged an impromptu sit-in, refusing to leave the surgery until she could see her full notes. Olivia Paterson reports.