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Thursday, April 24, 2014
Day 4 of the MCT April Sneak Peeks
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wow TFS I love the little box/card/drawer this looked like it would be fun to make and the & sign stamp and die is awesome. Loved your card also with the tower!!! VickyReplyDelete
What a beautiful and romantique card you really captured the essence of the Gay Paris for sure just an outstanding job. Your birthday card/gift box is so cute, fun and one clever and creative idea.ReplyDelete
WOW Love the ways you've used all of Miss Emma's goodies.
LOVED all your AWESOME sneaks all week Stacey, SUPER job my friend!!! :)ReplyDelete
Both are gorgeous...love the hugs and kisses box!!!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous Paris card and love your chocolate kisses box!ReplyDelete
:) Janis
BEAUTIFUL!!! I love the colors you used in both of your projectsReplyDelete
Stacey, both of your projects are so pretty!! I love how you used a great mixture of Emma's older dies/stamps along with the new set (the vintage label die upside down is a great idea) Super cute projects!!ReplyDelete
- Wanda M.April 24, 2014 at 10:01 AM
Your first card is so elegant and I love the easel box card. I'm going to have to check out the tutorial. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Both are Fabulous & Fun!! WOW! Awesome!ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful day,
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Both projects are just perfect. I love that little bit of bling you added to the Eiffel Tower card. So perfect and super classy! And your hugs and kisses box is ADORABLE and so much fun. Great colors and everything! Hugs- GloraReplyDelete
Oh my goodness, I am drooling! Gorgeous! That ampersand is brilliant with the outside stitch! Hugs and kisses will never be the same, lol! Wonderful idea on the border for card #1! :)ReplyDelete
Stacey ~ Your first card is GORGEOUS! I LOVE all the details ~ simply stunning! Then your 3D project ~ ADORBS to the max! LOVE it! AWESOME job as always!ReplyDelete
Your card is gorgeous Stacey and love the adorable gift box too! You did an awesome job! Thanks for sharing and have a wonderful day! lindagk23ReplyDelete
oh ,yours are my favs of all!!! Beautiful!!!ReplyDelete
Wow, your projects are amazing. Beautiful job!!ReplyDelete
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J'aime le jeu Tour Eiffel! Printemps à Paris! I love the Eiffel tower set! Springtime in Paris! And your easel box card has sold me on the And Then Some set! That is so cute! And I absolutely love the fourishes that you stamped onto the striped paper for your card! It is so elegant and pretty!ReplyDelete
What a cute cute idea on the Hugs and Kisses Easel Drawer box card, and your Bon Jour card is so pretty!ReplyDelete
Wow Stacey, I love your card, so beautiful and love that border you created with the stamp! I also love, love that easel drawer/box, how cool that is and yes, I so love the ampersand! Cute, cute, cute! I can't wait for the blog hop tomorrow! I gotta wait until 11 am my time, but it is awful hard. lolReplyDelete
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Love the border of your first card. Very classy. Your second project is so fun, especially with your paper choices. TFSReplyDelete
resatwo at sbcglobal dot net
Just LOVE your Eiffel tower card....GORGEOUS!!!! The treat box is also very cute!!! Great job!ReplyDelete
Stacey, these are really great creations. You're so talented. :)ReplyDelete
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Oh my goodness. Your Eiffel Tower card is so gorgeous. I totally love your easel card/box. I'm going to go get the directions for that. Thanks for the link and for your lovely projects.ReplyDelete
Love the reds on the Paris card. Love the box with the easel card on top. Great projects.ReplyDeleteReplies
I love how you used the stamps to decorate your tower card. Your Easel Treat Box is an awesome project. Fabulous job on your projects.ReplyDelete
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Totally FANTASTIC! Your easel treat box is a wonderful idea and it is decorated so pretty!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing tour wonderful projects.ReplyDelete
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OK..your card is just gorgeous! And that little treat box is just so much fun!!! Love them both!ReplyDelete
Oh my and flourishes too... Wow.. I have to pick up this set...hehehe... Thanks for the share.. Awesome job.. email@example.com
Love the embellishments on your card , and the box is so cute, plus it has chocolate!ReplyDelete
Super easel box.ReplyDelete
Fantastic projects Stacey! Love the easel box! Both sets are must haves! Thanks for the inspiration!ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful day!
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Loved how you used the Vintage Label to make highlight the Eiffel Tower. Thanks for sharing the tutorial on how to make the easel card box.ReplyDelete
Wow such a beautiful card. I love the colors you used and that gift box is a perfect addition to the card.ReplyDelete
AWESOME job with both projects Stacey!! LOVE your Paris card...so beautiful with all the colors, designer papers and stunning LO!!!ReplyDelete
That super cute easel box ROCKS too!!! Such a fun idea!!!!
AWESOME job !!!
Stacey, your Paris card is absolutely gorgeous! You chose the perfect papers, and all of the elements tie together beautifully! And then your Hugs & Kisses box is just too cute! CLEVER idea!!!ReplyDelete


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This will be game two of their three game weekend series just prior to the All Star Break. In game one played on Friday night it was Boston with the 4-2 road win at Oakland and covering as a +103 betting odds underdog with the game staying under the listed total of 7 ½ runs. Boston broke a 2-2 tie in the top of the eighth innings as they push across two late runs to earn the victory. John Lackey gave the Red Sox seven good innings as the veteran right hander allows two earned runs and three hits in seven innings to pick up his seventh win of the season. Koji Uehara struck out the side in the ninth inning to pick up the save. The Athletics waste a pretty good start by right hander Jarrod Parker who goes seven innings and allows two earned runs. Reliever Sean Doolittle takes the loss by allowing two earned runs in seven innings.
The starters on Saturday will be left hander Jon Lester who will throw his twentieth game this season. The Oakland lefty is 8-5 with an ERA of 4.60 and WHIP of 1.37. A.J. Griffin will oppose Lester and is 7-6 with an ERA of 3.94 and WHIP of 1.14.
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Two days ago, I commented here, in regard to Barack Obama's experience eating dog meat as a child, that this illustrates perfectly this president's lack of understanding of America and her people.
Well, last night at the White House Correspondents Dinner in D.C., a slobbering display where mainstream media lapdogs and Hollywood hacks assemble to bow en masse to their dear leader, Obama decided to fortify my take on the true significance of his culinary adventures in canine by peppering his stand-up comedy act with a joke about his familiarity with the taste of pitbull.
The fact that Obama chose to boast about this event in the first place was bad enough, but now to joke about it….he just does not get it. Never has, never will. And his audience of simpering minions, many of them Hollywood types who beg the masses for donations to animal-welfare organizations they supposedly support, they did the man's bidding, laughing on cue, clapping on cue, anything to rescue their dear leader from the jaws of embarrassment. Those minions have worked mightily for years to cover for him — no matter the troubling nugget leaked from his mysterious past, no matter the gaffe uttered into a hot microphone — and they obeyed once more last night in lockstep obedience. As for me? I'm not laughing. Never have. Never will.


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Today, I will present you a few strategies about How to Get Rid of Cellulite if You are Already Skinny.
A common belief is that cellulite only affects overweight women. This is not true, cause even the skinny ones can be affected by cellulite.
Those people who are unhealthy, eat unhealthy diets and spend long hours sited or lying down are prone to cellulite.
I was one of the skinny women who had cellulite, and as you can see in the photo in the left, my cellulite was really bad!
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Katarina Build Guide by trex456
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Katarina Build
Middle Lane
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This is my first guide on here, but I've been using this build for quite a while. Bear with me if this talking section isn't exactly up to par.
What this guide is designed to do is get you so you can hop in on team fights, take damage while dealing your Katarina's ultimate, but stay alive because of the amount of health and spell vamp she gets from her Will of the Ancients. I have not yet been able to play ranked, but as soon I can, I will make edits to this if they seem like they need to be added.
Summoner Spells
The reason for choosing the Flash/Ignite combo is because you can use flash to escape being ganked in conjuction with ShunPo to a minion, preventing a pretty terrifying gank if you are in mid lane. You can also use it to surprise enemies at the distance you can cover with just these two abilities. Ignite is something that you can use with your ult on someone who is just not dying fast enough for you to be happy with. extremely useful when losing a foe to one of their turrets.
Farming is essential to any character, but the great thing about katarina and part of the reason you want to max out bouncing blades first is because you can use the strings of minions to hit otherwise out of reach champions. Bouncing them off of minions in a straght line to a champion is a great way to harass the other one in mid and keep them off your case. This is also a very useful way to pick at a foe's health until you can shunpo in and snag the kill before they have a chance to react/you have time to escape the turret.
Team Work
Using this build, I have been able to carry my team, while not being an AD heavy set up. Death lotus is best when used 1v1 or in the middle of a team fight since a team will sometimes have a hard time focusing the character stealing all their health with 4 other champs attacking them.
Pros / Cons
There are quite a few pros, and a couple cons to this build that I would like to explain.
First of all, the cons. Because of the way this build is set up, if you run into too many people or the wrong person in the jungle or on the way to a teamfight, you are probably dead because, other than health and spell vamp, you're not build for armor.
The biggest plus side to this build is the fact that because you have a lot of health by the end of it and so much spell vamp, returning to base will almost never have to happen as long as you can keep up the harassment on the enemies or keep getting minion kills with your spells. Also, chances are, unless the other team built a lot of magic resist, you will probably not have a problem running around ganking and taking out single targets.


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Through the support of our crowd-funded technology and donated equipment, we have been able to participate in the World Community Grid, adding over 40 years of CPU processing power to the search for cures for diseases and parasitic infections, as well as into the exploration of new resources for power and fresh water. Grid computing is a form of high-performance computing (Supercomputing) that involves breaking a major project into smaller chunks that can be distributed across many less-powerful computers to solve individual chunks before combining them all into a larger solution for the whole.
This distributed processing power also allows dedicated HPC systems to perform their wonderful calculations internally, while we are using the World Community Grid to demonstrate publically the capability of using normal desktop computers to accomplish similar results over a longer period of time. In our STEMulate Learning workshops, we have been using the magnificent Raspberry Pi single-chip computers as well as specialized hardware like the Block Erupters used by BitCoin miners, to illustrate various techniques for teaching and learning about high-performance computing without relying on multi-million-dollar equipment well outside of the average public school classroom's capabilities.
My original "Scrap-heap Supercomputing" workshops have since spawned many alternatives that educators can integrate into their curricula using equipment already near at hand in educational surplus equipment bins. I know many have asked why I have provided my designs and ideas freely, rather than packaging them for sale, but this is a legacy I own my parents – they taught me that knowledge and learning opens many doors and my father's own efforts to show teachers how to build designs for their students to learn from and within will continue long after his own retirement. He created a process known as "Cardboard Carpentry" that allows teachers to build everything from fish-tanks and soap-box derby cars to life-sized Pteranadon skeletons that hang in the gym and give kids the ability to visualize the lessons of the day in much more fundamental ways.
Today, I try to emulate the giving nature I was taught and share with others wherever the lessons may provide resources for further instruction and learning. By Tweeting the accumulated successes from the first STEMulate Learning Lab node (named "Delphi" by my workshop participants), students can review the progress of the nodes over the past several years to see what their own contributions can offer the world. They even identified when new systems (Monolith, Daedalus and Tantalus) joined the team and some have added additional support by joining the STEMulate Learning team and contributing their own computer's idle processing power to solving global difficulties when they are not using it.
STEMulate Learning alone has provided more than 40 years worth of combined CPU power, while the team has provided an additional 13 years to this effort, with other computers joining and leaving as our supporters have time and available resources.
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Whatever you do, make sure to share the lessons you learn in life with your children and our teachers! Every opportunity can add to their lives and there are many excellent programs in your area from Scouts to Makerspaces and public libraries.
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Gameheads Radio is a podcast that features students and mentors from the Gameheads program. We want to highlight members of our community as they talk about their work, share silly stories and document their development towards a career in the video game and tech industries.
In this episode, Dr. No sits down with Marcus Montgomery. Marcus has wears many hats. He's the Founder of We Are Game Devs, Lead Game Designer at Limbic, an active member of Blacks in Gaming (B.I.G.) and mentor and committee member at Gameheads. In this episode, Marcus discusses the video game industry, how he broke in and issues of diversity.


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It's been two decades since "Dubnobasswithmyheadman" made stars of Underworld and helped electronic dance music break out of the underground into the mainstream, but according to Karl Hyde, one-half of the influential British duo, it's an album that was never meant to be.
"I was done with albums and I was done with being in a band that went out and played," says Hyde, a few days before and collaborator Rick Smith take the stage at the Hollywood Bowl on Sunday for Underworld's only U.S. appearance of 2015. "I was learning to be happy in this kind of new genre for me, which was dance music, something that Rick was very passionate about.
"And I was very excited about putting out 12-inch records, and each one would sell more. These things were happening that had never happened before. We were having great fun and I was thinking, 'Why would we want to go backwards and make an album?'
"But Rick was very craftily putting this together and one day said, 'Guess what, we have an album,'" Hyde says. "And at first I wasn't happy."
That quickly changed, though, as the Hyde and Smith, who'd been playing together since 1980 with limited success, found themselves heralded by critics and fans alike for their new amalgam of electronic rock that blended trippy house grooves and techno with surrealistic and emotive lyrics, moving the feet as much as the mind.
Last year, at the urging of their inner circle, Underworld celebrated the record's 20th anniversary in concert, playing it in full at some British dates and mixed with songs from other albums at other shows.
Looking back at the genesis of "Dubnobass," Hyde says they had no idea that the songs they were recording, tunes such as album opener "Dark & Long" and "Cowgirl," were going to have the impact that they quickly did.
"Previous albums I don't think were as good," he says. "Previous albums we'd been trying to be something else. We'd been trying to get in the charts or we'd been trying to be like another artist, not ourselves.
"We deliberately weren't trying to be like anybody else (on 'Dubnobass')," Hyde says. "We wanted to be part of a dance scene that made music that made people happy, made people move, and do that as part of an outsider culture that was happening at that time.
"For us it was an acceptance that we'd always been outsiders, and that's why we never cracked the charts in the '80s."
Their label kept them updated as DJs in different cities around Europe started playing songs off the record, but it was a big gig at Brixton Academy in London, a show they'd played a few times, where they saw for themselves the kind of impact that "Dubnobass" had delivered.
"This one night, the vibe was like oil and water, it was very strange," Hyde says. "There was a dance crowd, which we were familiar with, but here were these indie kids. It was like two tribes. They were looking at each other like, 'Hey, what are you doing here? This is our band!' I nudged Rick and said, 'Hey, look at this.'"
That kind of cross-genre popularity is the norm today, and it's fair to say that acts like Underworld had a big hand in making that happen. Go to a festival such as Coachella today and the Sahara tent where the electronic and dance acts play draws the biggest crowds at times throughout the weekend. Even KROQ's annual Weenie Roast booked the dance artist Avicci as headliner a year ago.
"It doesn't surprise me because it's music to make you feel good, and if you've been at a festival all day, all weekend, when it comes to the last act you really want to let go," Hyde says. "And the big dance acts are fantastic at doing that.
"We've been headlining major rock festivals around the world. When it first happened it was weird. I remember going on after Korn at one festival and thinking, 'OK, this is weird.'
"But they're making music that's exciting people and turning people on, and we're doing the same in our genre," he says. "That's what we're all there for, to give people a good time."
The Hollywood Bowl show is their only U.S. date this year because Underworld is working hard in the studio on a new album, which they hope to have out in 2016 with a fuller tour to follow, Hyde says. And they're having fun making new music in no small part due to revisiting "Dubnobass," he adds.
"It got us to reconnect with our attitude, our state of mind, the things that we were excited by and interested in," Hyde says. "It's reconnected Rick and I with things that we stopped doing, because bands get bored and move on. We're no long that band that followed on years later after 'Dubnobass' and become an idea of itself."
By which he means that Underworld, having found its niche, got a little stuck, but now there's a renewed sense of freedom in the studio.
"When a band starts off they have no idea what they are, they just are," Hyde says. "And then after a while they get an idea of who they are and forget that idea of free-flowing experimentation.
"So it's more exciting than it was when we were doing 'Dubnobass.' We feel more kind of mischievous than we did back then. We've accepted that we're best mates and each bring something to the party.
"And we're having more fun than ever doing it."
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New school staff members, including seven teachers, greeted students Tuesday, the first day of classes in Mancos.
Superintendent Brian Hanson was happy to report less turnover than last year, when the district hired 13 teachers. He attributed the change to proactive mentoring by lead teachers in all the schools.
"It helped dramatically," he said.
The middle and high school had almost full retention with the exception of Amy Morrison, the high school Spanish and drama teacher.
One of the lead teachers for the high school, Cathrine Prenot, said she worked to create an environment where the teachers were supported.
"They knew their work was valued," she said.
The lead teacher roles will be maintained, but they will be scaled back now that Adam Priestley has started as the middle and high school principal. She said the lead teachers would be focusing on professional development and would not have as many administrative duties.
The one role that the district did struggle to fill was the school nurse position, Hanson said.
A licensed practical nurse was hired to fill the role at the last minute. The district did not get any applicants when it advertised for an registered nurse. The lack of an attractive salary was identified at the July board meeting as the main problem.
At Monday night's school board meeting, Hanson said that an LPN would be able to complete all the duties of a registered nurse except signing off on the health care plans that go with an Individualized Education Program for special-education students.
Hanson said the LPN may be able to write the plans and have them approved by registered nurses in the Durango school district.


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Canciones del Mar and Jaco adventure Reviews
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Adventure beach and natur Sep 01, 2011
Year visited August 2011.
Stayed at Canciones del Mar Boutique Hotel, nice beachfront, personal attention, excellent food by the chefs(bring your own catch and they will nicely prepare it for a few $). Just check out their website!
Very good deal to just take dollars, it is widely accepted in Jaco and you'll get back change in Colones basically at the market rate (we got 500=USD1.00).
Fairly safe to walk abt the city at any time but don't be surprised if you are offered drugs. Just say thank you and keep going, and they won't bother you.
They feel more like for locals but they are small and not really great, you'll have more fun just going to a bar/restaurant to hang out. You can walk in all of them with sandals and very relaxed outfit. Never was asked for ID, but surely don't be walking around with your Passport. The Beattle Bar is basically a brothel, and not really a stripclub.
RESTAURANTS: Best food I've ever had, from good beef cuts to excellent fresh seafood. There is many good restaurants but I fell in love with El Hicaco. You'll eat a lot of fresh fruits and have them served to you in any hotel for breakfast. Not worth going cheap on the food, nonetheless, the best food in town is at least $10 cheaper than the same plate in the US. Clarita's bar is fun for happy hour!
ACTIVITIES: All kinds of fund activities can be arranged and they will pick/drop you off in your hotel: horse-back riding, ATV, Ziplining, best fishing, surfing, National parks, diving, etc just to mention a few. Very affordable, I would say more in regards to fishing if compared with the US.
Neighboring LOS SUEÑOS is a luxurios gated community with a marina where one can also stay and enjoy basically more of the fishing. You can rent there condominiums. If you stay there, a visit to Jaco is more for a restaurant hunt.
MANUEL ANTONIO: Nice tourist area located 1 and a half hr from Jaco, more restful place with a lot of surfers and excellent views. Location basically a mountaneous region right in front of the coast. Check out its National Park.
ARENAL VOLCANO: Abt 3/4hrs from Jaco. You can arrange the trip but make sure to know ahead of time what are the periods more prone for eruptions.
Will offer more advises abt Jaco if asked. Peace out
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'Blonde' ran as an Apple Music exclusive for three weeks.
After being illegally downloaded more than 750,000 times, and floating around Pandora, Ocean's millennial-defining tour de force is now on Spotify. Before landing on the ad-supported, free streaming platform, the album was an Apple Music exclusive for its first three weeks online.
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Spotify has denied the reports.
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Terrace Trail has two common sections - Terrace North of and south of the junction with Kovach. Terrace Trail heading south of the Kovach Junction is a popular hiking and biking trail, with nice views of Kananaskis Valley and Kananaskis Country Golf Course; this section is often used as a connector trail for visitors completing an overnight hiking/backpacking trip which takes in Ribbon Falls or Ribbon Lake Backcountry Campgrounds and the Lillian Lake Backcountry Campground. The northern section of Terrace Trail heads from the Kovach Junction to the Ribbon Creek Day Use Area.
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A liquid called hydrogen peroxide is dangerous to living cells. It damages molecules and cells.
Living things have molecules called enzymes that break apart the H2O2 to inactivate it.
You'll test a few living things to see if they contain enzymes that break apart H2O2.
Use the pipettes to put a small amount of H2O2 into the wells of the tray. Test each of the vegetables for breaking down H2O2 - if they do you will see gas bubbles. You might need to smush them up to spill the enzymes out.
Build molecular reaction: make two H2O2 molecules. Now break them apart to make water and a gas. What gas?
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Singles results are on the PDGA tournament page; 39th Waterloo Results
In this website's Community Forum's Tournament page are the doubles results (197 teams), the winning raffle ticket numbers – please check your tickets as we still have a few unclaimed prizes – as well as CTP winners, Aces, Father Dave McC-Note Challengers, unclaimed silent auction prizes, and all our wonderful sponsors. 39th Waterloo Forum Page
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The Royals defeated the Brewers, 5-1, in Ocean View Little Leasgue majors action on Saturday.
AJ Valle was on the mound for the Royals, striking out nine during his four innings, no walks and no earned runs and Brandon Wood gave a solid showing for the Brewers keeping the game scoreless only until the Brewers managed to score off a dropped third strike.
This fueled the Royals and they came back swinging. With the score now 2-1 the Royals took control of the game with a RBI single, then Alec Muirhead hit a home run in the bottom of the fifth. The Royals increased their lead with three more runs off hits from Jacob George, Dylan Simonds and a RBI double from Jake Alvarez to score Ethan Eisen, giving the Royals a 5-1 lead.
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Pirates 6, Royals 5 (7 innings)
After the Royals made a furious rally from a 5-0 deficit to force extra innings, the Pirates pulled out the win when Owen Wessel singled to drive in Nick Madole in the top of the seventh.
With two outs in the seventh, Madole (3-for-3, two doubles, three runs) nearly homered, but his drive to center field struck the top of the fence. Wessel followed with a liner to center for the go-ahead run. The Royals didn't go quietly in the bottom of the seventh, loading the bases with two outs before Wessel retired the final batter on a grounder to first.
The Royals parlayed four hits and a walk into a four-run rally in the fifth. Adam Baggetta closed the gap to 5-3 with a double to right-center field and Nate Skorheim tied it with a dramatic two-out, two-run single.
A.J. Hurtado helped the Pirates build their 5-0 lead with a two-run single in the first and an RBI single in the second. Hurtado also was a force on the mound with nine strikeouts in 3 1/3 innings.
Samuel Mejia (3-for-3), Nick Skorheim (2-for-3) and Dylan Simonds (2-for-3) had multi-hit games for the Royals, who racked up 14 hits. Reliever Alec Muirhead pitched brilliantly to keep the Royals close, allowing no runs in 3-1/3 innings.
David Drigla contributed an RBI infield single for the Pirates, who also received singles from Gavin Kells and Quentin Custodio.
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Angels 6, White Sox 4
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Myers pitched well for the Angels, getting out of some tough moments, allowing no earned runs and no hits for the last three innings.
It was a great day for Angels' Micah Blake, starting pitcher, who had five strikeouts in the first three innings, and at the plate, went 3-for-3 with two doubles (fourth and sixth innings) and a walk-off home run in the ninth inning – winning the game against the White Sox, 6-4.
Jack Sles had two singles, and Sam Myers and Alden Landis had a single for the Angels
Chad Lux, Brandon Lieberman and Angel Zamora each had singles for the White Sox.
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Carl Frampton: 2017 could be my best year yet
Carl Frampton has said 2017 could be his best year yet.
The Belfast boxer is currently in America as he prepares for his rematch with Mexican Leo Santa Cruz on January 28.
Frampton has described the bout in the Las Vegas MGM Grand as a "dream come true".
When defeating Santa Cruz last summer to win the WBA World featherweight title, he became the first Northern Ireland boxer to win titles at two different weights.
Frampton has been named fighter of the year by several boxing publications - despite being snubbed by the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards.
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He is waiting on the official crowning by the Boxing Writers Association of America in the coming weeks.
Speaking to the LA Times Frampton said: "You want to check off boxes. My main objective was to become a world champion. I've done that. Everything else is a bonus.
"To be in the running is a huge thing, 2016 was a year I'll never forget and 2017 has the potential to be even better. I'm looking forward to kicking it off with a great fight. This is not for publicity and I'm not a spoofer -- this is going to be a good fight and there's no doubt about it.
"When I fight and spar people, I feel I improve the second time. I have a good boxing brain and can adapt to different situations.
"I know everything about Leo. If you look at all his fights, he fights the same way: head first, throws a lot of shots, very fit, very tough, very resilient. But I know about him and that'll be the difference."
Despite a large following of his travelling support expected to make the journey across - those who aren't making the trip will still be able to watch the bout on Sky.
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@thecherubs - just got a "Happy Valentine's Day - Don't Kiss the Curb" notice about this as Wheel Bands just launched for sale here (at a lower price than from manufacturer) - link below:
Emailed to get a competitive breakdown vs. others like Alloy Gators, etc... here is what the differences are per the correspondence:
What is the difference between Wheel Bands and other similar products on the market? Wheel Bands is the only made-in-the-USA option of the rim protection products (listed here). Another key difference: Alloy Gators and Rim Bands require tire deflation and press fit insertion of product near tire bead - a warranty and liability concern for OEM's and dealerships. For a more detailed breakdown of the differences, see analysis below on why we Wheel Bands is the optimal solution for Model S owners:
Alloy Gators - 1/2" wide hard plastic molded and adjustable to match radius up to 21" wheels. To mount, deflate tires and pound metal fastening clips in just short of tire bead. Lots of meat on the hard plastic to grind down before hitting alloy rim. Need to shave remaining plastic down to "near like new" condition or remove and replace entire unit to maintain appearance.
Rim Blades - 1/2" wide soft extruded rubber. Profile has foot to bend around and follow outer lip of wheel radius. Tapes on. Softer material offers some defense against curbing but not near as much as the Alloy Gator. Unlike Wheel Bands, the Rimblades product requires customer to wipe wheel surface with primer prior to application.
Wheel Bands - 1/4" wide hard plastic with formed in arc that flexes enough to match radius on wheels from 13" to 22". Mounting track tapes on. Second removable color insert piece snaps into mounting track. Because the product mounts only to the front face of rim (and does not wrap around the rim lip toward the tire bead area) there is not as much defense against curb rash as Alloy Gators. However, the snap-in color inserts are reversible or replaceable after curbing without having to remount entire device. The interlocking track and inserts also mean that repairs can be spliced in. No need to deflate tire and replace entire device if just one section is damaged.
My question would be what happens when it is time for new tires? Looks like the placement of these bands would guarantee their destruction when the old tire is removed.
My Tesla service advisor said that Wheel Bands (I didn't ask about other brands) interfere with their ability to attach a sensor to the tires used in annual wheel balancing, so I didn't buy them. Anyone else had an issue with this?
Wheel Bands last through tire changes on soft touch and no-touch tire change equipment that would normally be used on a $1,000 rim. Wheel Bands will be damaged if a metal pry bar is used to change the tire manually -- but still help avoid scuffs to the rim when using low grade equipment. (Note: with or without Wheel Bands, if a an emergency tire change needs to be done on low grade equipment at least check if the technician can do a "reverse mount." This may save your rim from being scuffed.)
The wheel balancing sensor concern is a first. Needs to be clarified. There is no known difference between how a Wheel Band or Alloy Gator would perform during wheel balancing. What Service Center was the service advisor located?
Jim Capo
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I put on Alloy Gagors. They are inconspicuous and provide excellent wheel protection.
I like the black+black look of Wheel Bands, see it a few places, blends nicely into the wheels...
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>The wheel balancing sensor concern is a first. Needs to be clarified. There is no known difference between how a Wheel Band or Alloy Gator would perform during wheel balancing. What Service Center was the service advisor located?
My reply:
It is the Los Angeles service center. My service rep sent me the following link, which was written by one of his other clients:
If you look at the other comments, not everyone had the same problem, but my service advisor said no one at the LA service center could figure out how to do an accurate alignment with the rim protectors on.
Rockville SC also told me not to install wheel bands
Thanks WSE51. Very helpful!
The problem described for Alloy Gator is wheel alignment not wheel balancing. A quick recap of the two service items:
Wheel Balancing:
Installing Wheel Bands does not affect wheel balancing. Along with our own tests, this has been verified on the precision balancing equipment in the 3M Automotive Center in Detroit. In the case of Alloy Gators, there is extra weight from using metal fasteners and a design that wraps around towards the tire bead area. Still, we have not heard of cases where Alloy Gators throw off wheel balancing.
Wheel Alignment:
The alignment problem described for the Alloy Gators highlights a major difference between Wheel Bands and Alloy Gators:
Wheel Bands are a tape-on/mount to the face of the wheel product. They do not wrap around towards the tire bead area such that they would interfere with wheel alignment equipment that needs to get into that same tight space.
Possibly some (or all) Tesla alignment equipment might mount something like this:
If so, you can see how it would be very difficult to properly seat the alignment tool around Alloy Gators.
Other alignment equipment designs mount across the face of the rim. This equipment mounts right over Wheel Bands with no issue. Same might hold true for Alloy Gators and this might be why in some cases there is no issue in performing an alignment with Alloy Gators installed.
In any case, it looks like we need to increase our outreach to more of the Service Centers to let them know Wheel Bands are a very different product from Alloy Gators. Thanks for bringing this issue to our attention.
Jim Capo
Wheel Bands - VP Engineering
NOTE: Since Wheel Bands mount to the face of the wheel only, they do not offer protection on the side surface between the face of the wheel and the tire bead. This is not usually where curb rash damage occurs during parallel parking and drive thru windows events. However, in cases like dropping a wheel into a pot hole, Alloy Gators can offer some protection where the Wheel Bands simply cannot.
I am looking for someone to install the wheel bands on my Model S with 21 inch wheels. I have the material now. I only need a technician with time and skill.
The individual needs to be in the San Francisco area.
Anyone with a recommendation?
I scratched my original 19" rims twice (same rim). When I switched to Gun Metal Grey Rials I just started being EXTRA careful not to curb them. About 1 year in and so far so good!


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ON TREND: Cape Cod Summer
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Outdoor gatherings and backyard barbecues are quintessential summer soirees. Cape Cod Summer is the latest design trend that buttons up your childhood summertime memories and brings them into the present with a seaside nostalgia. With well-loved designs and some vintage flare, you can celebrate summer in style. Our white farm tables make the perfect foundation – add on napkins in a class blue check print with our Hob Knob goblet and you've got a Patriotic party that can't be beat! We see the Cape Cod Summer design trend taking off at family reunions, company picnics and retreats, rehearsal dinners, and graduation parties this season.
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Style Inspiration: Formal Mixed Metal Romance at Carnton Plantation
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This styled shoot at the Carnton Plantation married sleek modern neutrals and mixed metals with heirloom china and soft lighting for a dramatically romantic design. Starting with the 8ft Grayson Farm Table, we added formal Black Chiavari Chairs and Mercer White Leather Couches for a timeless black-tie blueprint. Mixed metals of copper, gold, and rose gold throughout the tablescape brought this neutral palette to life. Our Rogue Shimmer Charger was the base for the place setting, topped with our Alabaster & Stone Earthen China and Black Pindot Napkins. To complete the look and add a bit of vintage romance, our Heirloom China Bread and Butter Plate added the perfect finishing touch.
The bold centerpiece bouquet by Lauren Marie Atkinson and rose gold stationery from Designs in Paper mixed with the unique brass geo terrarium holders kept this styled shoot from feeling too buttoned-up while adding to the mixed metals theme. We love this chic romantic look for a gala, elopement, or dinner party. It was all captured beautifully by the talented Jenna Henderson.
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ON TREND: Modern Lounge
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Lounges are now as essential to events as tables & chairs. The trend towards a sleek and sophisticated space at corporate events, social galas, or glam weddings is making Modern Lounges popular in event design. Chrome accents and clean lines accompanied with bright white seating give any lounge area a modern ambiance while still maintaining a professional look. We love how lounges create intimate spaces at events for guests to relax, for couples to snuggle and for attendees to socialized.
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Save on Rentals for Your Winter Events | Southern Events Party Rental
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Announcing our annual Winter Savings Special from Southern Events! We have discounted many of our most popular rentals for events from Dec 1, 2016 – March 1, 2017 including our farm tables, Vintage Prop Shoppe and all our specialty linens.
Here's the Fine Print:
- This offer is good ONLY for NEW Orders for events taking place between Dec 1, 2016- March 1, 2017. Events after that are subject to regular pricing – sorry!
- Inventory may be limited on some dates. Early bird gets the worm (or chairs, in this case)!
- 30% savings on specialty linens is for full-sized or overlays ONLY. Specialty chair ties, runners, napkins are not included.
- All standard service fees and delivery/pick up fees apply.
- Cannot be combined with any other discounts.
Contact our staff today to find out more and reserve items for your event, 615-595-8508 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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REMINDER: Save On Your Winter Events with Our Winter Savings Special
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There's still time to save on our winter events with our Winter Savings Special! We have discounted many of our most popular rentals for events from Dec 1, 2015- March 1, 2016 including our farm tables, cross-back chairs and all our specialty linens. Reserve your favorites by emailing us at email@example.com.
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Laid-Back Dinner Party with Christina Logan Designs
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The people behind Local Table believe in fresh local and tasty food. They also know they need a great table to serve from and asked Southern Events to help out for a recent shoot for their magazine. Christina Logan Designs was the brain-child behind this cool California Chic design. Think of this as farm-to-table meets relaxed rancher where a natural color palette blends with bursts of red, yellow and orange (be in food, flowers or a bonfire). We kinda love it. A lot 🙂
While we spend a lot of time on large productions including weddings and events with hundreds of guests, this style shoot reminded us how much of an impact a single, well-set table can have. An event is like interactive theater – one with a carefully designed set, lighting, colors, and space. The food, drink and dialogue give you a plot and actors/party-goers to bring everything to life.
Frenzel Studios capture this beautiful play in the images below – one in which to laugh, drink and be merry 🙂
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Donation Drive! Southern Events Teams Up With Bright Event Productions
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We are betting many of your landed some pretty amazing deals today – now that you are home with your Black Friday finds, we have an opportunity for you to pass on your good fortune to others. Southern Events is teaming up with Bright Event Productions for their Month of Giving BRIGHT. During the month of December, we are collecting donations for four local charities – Safe Harbor, Mending Hearts, Yana House and Noah's Ark. Our good friend, Laura Little works with these charities year round and we definitely need to shout out her efforts as well to bring all this together. These local charities work to help men and women coming out of the corrections system get back on their feet, service women with addictions and help save animals from hoarding situations. With your donations we can help a lot of people and animals in need!
All donations can be brought to the Southern Events Showroom (101 Alpha Drive, Franklin TN) during our regular hours of operation. You can also bring donations to Bright Event Productions Nashville Office (712 Rundle Ave, Nashville TN) if that is more convenient for you. Here's what we need…
- Dog Food
- Blankets
- Towels
- Sheets
- Men's and Women's clothing of all kinds (specifically Men's Winter coats, socks and underwear) – condition is not important on linens or clothes so clean out your closets!
If you have any questions, feel free to call our office at 615-595-8508. Please help spread the word – Every little bit helps!
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Escape to Narnia | Style Shoot from Southern Events
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Our gorgeous Narnia inspired photo shoot from earlier this year has us longing for cooler weather! We team up with Southern Soriee to create a wintry setting for a couple with a flair for the dramatic. For just the right amount of glimmer, our Mercury Glass really pops on top of our Farm Tables. The rustic setting creates the perfect atmosphere for creativity- and we LOVE the feel the photographer captured in this set. Cool, crisp, rustic, elegant- Narnia is the best word to describe the otherworldly feel of this shoot. When you chose your placecards, we recommend a scripted cursive to bring out the delicate side of mercury glass. Our Belmont Chargers with silver beaded edges compliment the assorted mercury glass votives keeping an elegant feel integrated in this vintage look.
As with most settings, the more lighting, the better! We have a wide variety of tabletop lighting available to rent to suit all of your unique event needs. If you're looking for the perfect vintage addition to the farm tables, we recommend our Cross-back Chairs or our Constance Chairs, which are pictured below. Our Abby Fine Silverware finalizes the look with swirling delicate silver patterns that perfectly adorn the tabletop.
Thanks to Jessie Holloway for her awesome pictures you see below of this unique and fun shoot – Enjoy!
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Nashville Venue Crawl this Sunday!
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Southern Events is Showcasing 4 Unique Looks
For those of you still on the hunt for a unique wedding venue, you need to check out Sunday's Nashville Venue Crawl. A perfect opportunity to visit four of Nashville top event venues in one afternoon as each will be staged for an event, complete with catering, cocktails, and vendor displays. Included in the crawl – Houston Station, Ruby, OZ and the Bridge Building. Southern Events will be showcasing top trends in wedding decor at Houston Station for our part of the crawl and we are super excited to share these with you!
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Bayt.com successfully wraps up fourth 'Virtual Education Fair'
News May 13, 2012 Rushika Bhatia 0 Tell a friend
Bayt.com, the Middle East's number one job site, in conjunction with Dubai International Academic City (DIAC), member of TECOM Investments' Education Cluster, has once again held its Virtual Education Fair (VEF), with a huge response. Over 12,000 registered students and 11 different education institutes took part in the online event that took place between 6th to 12th May 2012.
The fair followed on the successes Bayt.com has enjoyed with its virtual fair series in markets across the region, by providing a unique, fully-interactive online platform for academic and training institutions.
Dr Ayoub Kazim, Managing Director, TECOM Investments' Education Cluster, said: "Bayt.com's Virtual Education Fair is an innovative platform in academia, enabling both educational institutions and potential students to communicate with each other to understand and cover each others' needs. Thousands of students this year learned more about admissions, financial aid, institutions and academic programmes from the VEF. The initiative has not only benefited the students but also our academic partners at a fraction of the cost of traditional education fairs."
The VEF is a unique concept, allowing academic institutions and potential students the opportunity to interact though the flexible medium of an online platform, that is designed to mimic the real-life fair experience. Visitors are given access to traditional fair facilities that enable them to chat with the institutions, download their brochures, and exchange information, but with the added convenience of being able to attend from anywhere within the world. This year's VEF was a dynamic forum which provided students with the wide variety of information required to make the academic decisions that will define their future lives and careers.
"Bayt.com's VEFs are a part of our mission to empower people with the tools and knowledgeto build their lifestyles of choice, even from the comfort of their own homes," said Suhail Masri, VP Sales, Bayt.com. "At Bayt.com, we are committed to assisting all professionals who are interested in bettering their careers, whether it is by helping them find jobs or further education opportunities. This is our fourth VEF in the region, not to mention our very successful Virtual Job Fair series as well, and we look forward to many more to come."
For both students and participating educational institutions, there are minimal resource requirements in return for maximum exposure, meaning less costs and a higher return on investment than with a traditional education fair.
Through the VEF, Bayt.com and DIAC continue to demonstrate their commitment to furthering economic growth and talent development in the Middle East for the fourth year running. "Empowerment is one of Bayt.com's values," concluded Masri. "And we are passionate about empowering students with academic information and career assistance, as we are helping tomorrow's leaders and business professionals pave the way for future success."
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S Family at Makapu'u Beach Tidepools – Waimanalo, Hawaii | Honolulu Vacation Photographers
Evening / sunset session featuring the S Family at one of my favorite locations, the Makapu'u Tidepools in Waimanalo, Hawaii.
I very much enjoy photographing vacationing and visiting families! Most of the time they are in awe of the location and I'm glad to be able to show them a more secluded area of Oahu.


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Surrey Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) looks after a population of approximately 1,040,000, covering an area of 1,676 square kilometres that includes several large urban areas such as Guildford, Redhill and Woking, 64 miles of motorway, proximity to two major airports and over 200 special risks throughout the County.
As well as providing a response service to the people of Surrey, we focus our efforts on education - raising awareness amongst the most vulnerable people in order to reduce suffering caused by fires, road traffic collisions and other emergencies. We also work with partners in a number of areas.
Surrey's firefighters are trained to deal with a range of emergency situations, not just fires and road traffic collisions. These activities include working with other agencies to respond to accidents or emergencies in pipelines running through Surrey, dealing with emergencies that may involve hazardous or radioactive materials, and advising on fire safety requirements for building regulations.
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Details of services we charge for, such as incidents involving hazardous material, water and people locked in a property or a lift.
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The upsides of this build:
-100% crit chance w/ 2.5x criticals
-no one can run from you
-with ult up its near impossible to stop you without stuns
-damage ranges from 200(heavily armored) to 500+(unarmored)
-super high attack speed!
-3500+ hp at endgame
The downsides in this build:
-super expensive(40-50min on completion)
-weak early game, until you get the hammer you wont be claiming any hero kills and until you get 100% crit you wont be able to kill often.
-weak abilites(no super shield)


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By JEREMY SELLEW
The California Trojans softball team doesn't know when to quit.
If there's anyone doubting the Trojans, the Union Scotties will gladly testify.
To read the rest of this story, please see a copy of Wednesday's Mon Valley Independent, call 724-314-0035 to subscribe or subscribe to our online edition at https://e.monvalleyindependent.com.


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Unfortunately, there are a few who do not. They litter the trails with refuse; they mark up the signs and trails with graffiti; they allow their pets to run loose; and worse, they do not clean up after them.
As a regular trail user, I encourage any citizen who hasn't yet explored Chapel Hill's Greenway to discover the beauty and tranquility of these natural and paved trails.
But let me make a few suggestions: please travel on the right side of the trail and if you are with a group, don't hog the trail; allow room for others to pass. It's just common courtesy. If you are a cyclist, alert hikers and joggers that you are passing on the left. Bicycles used to be equipped with bells, but we don't see them very often today. So if you don't have a ringer or horn, just send a verbal alert that you are approaching. They will get the message.
Remember the Greenway Transportation System belongs to all of us. Share, enjoy and Happy Trails everyone!
Respect Our Greenways
The Town of Chapel Hill is fortunate, indeed, to have one of the finest "Green Transportation Systems" to be found anywhere in North Carolina. It's a wonderful emerald necklace comprised of 14 miles of paved and natural trails shared equally by hikers, joggers and cyclists alike. Many Chapel Hill residents take advantage of the winding, scenic trails to exercise and keep fit year-round. And they take pride in the Greenway treating it with the respect that it deserves.


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Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin wants to be reunited with Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, according to the Times.
The report suggests Arsenal have offered Bellerinto double his £50,000-a-week wages in a new 5-year contract, but the Spaniard could decide to turn down the offer in order to secure a move to Manchester City.
Barcelona are also believed to be interested in bringing the 21-year-old back to the Camp Nou, but the player is thought to prefer a move to the Etihad Stadium.
Bellerin left Barcelona for Arsenal as a 16-year-old in 2011 and has since established himself as one of the best right-backs in the Premier League.
He made his debut for the Spanish national team earlier this year and has made 1 assist in 9 appearances in all competitions for Arsenal so far this season.
Bellerin's contract with Arsenal expires in the summer of 2019, which puts the Gunners in a strong position to keep him at the Emirates Stadium.
It would be a big blow for Arsenal to lose Bellerin, especially to a direct rival for the Premier League title.
Even if Bellerin chooses to leave the Gunners, Wenger is unlikely to agree to let him join Manchester City, which could be good news for Barcelona.


text: Click Angelina Jolie's "interview" with E!'s Ryan Seacrest while on the red carpet during last night's Golden Globe Awards has hit the net! Some say she was being a total ice queen. Others say she kept quiet to allow her nominee beau Brad Pitt to shine in the spotlight. I'll let you decide. PLUS !!! Us Weekly confirms rumours that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have moved their growing family to New Orleans. On January 12, just a day after moving to The Big Easy, Angie was spotted getting cozy with the locals at restaurant Angeli on Decatur. She says, "We love it there. The kids are going to go to school there. Were really looking forward to it." According to their source, while Brad continues work on his many film projects, Angie plans on playing the role of low-key motherin the $3.5 million, six-bedroom, four-and-a-half bath mansion the pair recently purchased (their fourth house) in the French Quarter.


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A World Premiere Recording
Naïve OP 30438
Vivica Genaux's mezzo continues to gain authority, and her Teodosio executes martello effects with aplomb.
- Warren Keith Wright, Opera, December 2007
Vivica Genaux is well cast in the castrato role of the emperor Teodosio, her bright, edgy sound bringing the proper musical thrust.
- Judith Malafronte, Opera News, April 2008
All in all a stimulating achievement.
- Nicholas Anderson, BBC Music, November 2007
As Teodosio, Vivica Genaux also sings with panache, not least in the stirring vengeance aria 'M'accende amor l'ire guerriere in petto' where the coloratura is fiendishly difficult to carry off.
- Dominic McHugh, musicalcriticism.com, November 12, 2007
Vivica Genaux enchants as the Emperor Theodosio with the vividly colored timbre of her voice.
- Manuel Brug, Fono Forum, February 2008
You surely cannot go wrong with any recording that features Sandrine Piau, Vivica Genaux, Guillemette Laurens, Romina Basso, and Nathalie Stutzmann. All of them give performances that are consistently impressive and, more often than not, exemplary.
…this is a superlative achievement of significant musicological importance.
- Charles T. Downey, ionarts.blogspot.com, November 15, 2007
The opera Atenaide, written for an all-star cast in 1728, features some of the best known and most startlingly accomplished singers on today's early-music scene.
Mr. Sardelli and company performed Atenaide, for the first time in two centuries, in the Florence theater for which it was written. His handpicked singers are a who's who of stars…
- Lawson Taitte, The Dallas Morning News, December 2, 2007
The cast members totally inhabit their roles, inflecting with conviction every Italian word, and there are plenty.
The entire cast is admirably characterful and committed, and that the performance was recorded in the theatre for which it was originally intended, La Pergola in Florence, is perhaps what lends the drama such intense immediacy. This is an ideal recording of a flawed and fascinating work. Here is another essential addition to Naïve's outstandingly ambitious Vivaldi series.
- Dave Paxton, musicOMH.com, November 2007
This latest disc [in Naïve's series of Vivaldi's operas], Atenaide, is among the best yet: The opera itself shows the composer at his most dramatically ambitious; the music, particularly in the second half, shows his invention at its peak. Each role is like a Olympic event, and most of the singers in this knockout cast deserve a gold medal. The recitatives crackle, the orchestra playing is scintillating, and the recording was made in the Florence theater where the opera was premiered in 1728.
- David Patrick Stearns, The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 25, 2007
The essay by Frédéric Delaméa claims that Atenaide displays 'deep stylistic originality combined with formidable musical riches," and his view is supported by this consistently strong performance. Vivica Genaux, Nathalie Stutzmann and Guillemette Laurens all contribute some good dramatic singing…
- David Vickers, Gramophone, March 2008


text: Richard Haroutunian wrote: > > > Can anyone -- or everyone -- tell me what you use and what results you're > getting? If you can shed some light on other susp. mods like stress bars, > etc. -- please let me know. > > Although I would like to maintain the integrity of the 'comfortable Audi > ride -- I'd sacrifice it a bit to have tighter handling around corners, > etc. The only strut braces I've seen for the car are at TAP. > Richard: I believe what you are trying to do may be a very difficult compromise. Most changes in suspension to improve handling ( this includes performance tires) result in substantially firming or hardening the "comfortable Audi ride" you mentioned. I run H&R Springs (lowering 1.5 inches) combined with Konis. Excelent performance ride. Body roll practically non existent. High speed steering very precise. However if I hit a bump ( such as freeway concrete separators) with both front tires ( aspect ratio 60, @ 32 PSI ) at 65 mph. I feel the bump in my teeth !!! My advice if you are not going to drive for performance....leave the suspension as is . You may get other opinions from other Audi colleagues. HTH, Pablo.


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This is my third 'first person' p.o.v story, feel free to check out the others:
'You and Gibbs' /s/3331284/1/YouandGibbs
'Gibbs and You: I'm sorry' /s/3378249/1/GibbsandYouImsorry
My aim is to put you as the main character so you can really feel like you're experiencing the characters, the team, and the scenerio. It's really from a female point of view on the good ship 'You and Gibbs'.
Current rating only for this chapter, it will be updated if/when the story progresses in a more mature direction. I always appreciate reviews, and any input from you about you want in the future chapters, or what you did or didn't like.
Here's chapter one, and there's more to come. Enjoy.
I always appreciate reviews, and any input from you about you want in the future chapters, or what you did or didn't like.
I enter the dimly lit shed, my gun preceding me, the corrugated iron walls of the long building are covered in dirt and spider webs. My eyes sweep the room, it's as big as a house, full of wooden boxes and machinery.
The lights are on but the old yellowed bulbs are useless compared to the light spilling in from the door behind me. I'm a sitting duck where I am now. I check behind and beside the door, hugging the wall with my back as I scope out the east side of the shack.
It's quiet, save for the creaking of the grubby, open, aluminium window on the far side.
Gibbs follows me in, nodding to me as I signal that I can't see anyone. He takes the opposite side of the door to mine and begins to move along the wall as I do.
Ziva slips in next, her gun out in front of her, both hands grasping the handle, finger poised to fire. Tony and McGee are outside, ensuring no one leaves through any back exits from the building and maintaining the perimeter.
I scan the immediate area and reach the corner of the shed, it's full of dust and dirt which swirls gently as I creep along the wall. I point my gun ahead of me and dip my head as I go under a spiders web, my eyes flickering along the machinery looking for telltale signs of hidden enemies.
There are scuffle marks on the dirt which lies on the concrete floor, I follow them with my eyes, aiming my weapon at a pine box carrying a 'fragile' stamp in red on the side.
I know what's in the boxes, cheap imitation sculptures which contain bags of cocaine. This warehouse is full of these boxes.
I sniffed the warm air tentatively, a soft breeze kissed my cheek but there was no wind outside. I could smell the cologne of a man who had little taste in fragrances, maybe he was trying to cover his disgusting body odour or maybe he was just a cheapskate. Either way, the smell makes me want to breathe through my mouth to slake the nausea. It puts me on my guard, there's definitely someone else here.
I lock my elbows, both hands on the gun to gain more control over my weapon, readying myself from an attack on any of my exposed sides. I drop to the floor, peering around the boxes in front of me, straining to see the feet of the enemy.
There's a noise to my left, the man must have seen me. I dodge to the right and scoot round the other side of the box. Ziva is alerted by my motion and points her gun down towards where I'm searching.
I lift the gun to my face, elbows bent and chance a peek around the corner.
A shot cracks through the corner of the wooden pellet I'm leaning against showering me with splinters of pine. I duck for cover, one hand to protect my eyes and the other readying to return fire. I slip round the opposite side of the box from whence I came and fire in the vicinity of the person firing at me.
"Hold your fire! Federal agents!" I shout in the direction of the gunfire.
A shower of bullets crashes over head, I run while crouching rolling to my left behind a dirty red shelving unit. I aim through the gaps at the white shirted man who is firing on me and shoot the corner of the box he's in front of the scare him off.
"Cease fire and drop your weapon!" I yell. But I'm in a corner, boxes to my left, nowhere to go but where I came from.
Gibbs and Ziva are closing in on him.
"We have you surrounded." Gibbs shouted as he came up behind him.
This guy is probably just a pawn, freaked out and possibly high on cheap coke. I squeeze my eyes shut for a moment. He could go completely postal and in the very least injure one of us. I shake my head and rest my ear lightly on the edge of my cover, listening intently to his movements. He seems to be hesitating. Three against one, I'm surprised he didn't try to run initially.
Unless he's not alone. I almost radio Gibbs but think twice, he would have already thought of that. I slap myself mentally for focusing on this one person when there could be many more hiding around here.
I peer over my shoulder behind me, I'm fairly well protected here, at least for a short time. But someone could still sneak up behind me.
"Throw out your weapon and come out with your hands on your head." Gibbs says evenly, quieter now he's closer to the man.
I chance a quick peep around the corner seeing as Gibbs has his attention now. The man is fidgeting, his gun held loosely in one hand. He sees me looking at him. His eyes catch mine, locking me in a stare. His face looks more than nervous, he's definitely unpredictable. His hand twitches slightly, causing me to fall back behind the shelves and further back into the corner, knowing he's about to shoot again.
Sure enough he aims shakily towards me, popping a hole in a tin can causing it bend in the middle as it flies off the shelf and falls down with a clatter next to me. I shrink against the box behind me.
There's more gunfire and scrambling by the man, and I know Gibbs has taken him out.
I emerge from my corner to assist them, finger touching the trigger ever so gently, greeted by Ziva handcuffing the weeping man. He's emaciated and pale, the look on his face alone tells me he's an addict. One of them managed to shoot him in the leg and take his gun away.
I stay low as I head towards them, Gibbs looks up at me sharply questioning me with his eyes, but I'm calm and serious. I nod at him to let him know I'm okay.
"There could be more." I voice, even though he's way ahead of me.
It's his turn to nod at me, this time in agreement.
He tilts his head at Ziva to let her know to stay with this man while him and I continue to go through the warehouse.
Side by side we head towards the north end, keeping low and treading softly.
I see a foot.
Adrenaline bursts into my bloodstream, pumping fast and hard through every fibre of my body. My heart is beating loud in my ears.
I aim with pinpoint accuracy at the converse shod foot poking out from behind the barricade, Gibbs has picked up on my tense posture and signals for me to go round the other side. He holds his weapon in his right hand and rests that hand in his left.
I slip quietly behind the box and aim at the mans head, he's facing in Gibbs' direction. I crouch on the adjacent side of the box, half shielded, sure Gibbs is in position by now.
"Put down your weapon and come out with your hands up." My voice is steady and strong in the near silence of the metal shed and it echoes slightly in the rafters.
I hear metal scrape across the floor as he surrenders his gun in Gibbs' direction. We both come round the box at the same time, our weapons aimed at his chest.
"Hands on your head, lie down on the ground."Gibbs orders him.
The mans eyes catch mine and he stares into my soul with his coldly pale spheres. Even in the darkness I can see the pale grey locking onto me I shiver slightly, disconcerted by his stare.
His eyes flicker ever so slightly to my left, focusing behind me before locking with mine once more. The movement was so slight it was barely noticeable, barely.
I react immediately, swinging towards the point he'd focused on, the barrel of my gun faster than my eye. I leap to my new left, away from my would-be attacker. I see him clearly in the light from the open door. He already has me directly in his sights, his weapon moves as I move, following my jump smoothly and easily. I bring my arms to my face, readying to hit the ground and roll away from him as I land. But it's too late, I'm midair, unable to correct for his manoeuvre. I pull my trigger once before I see him pull his trigger, slow motion, the sound of the shot resounds in my head as though each sound wave is slowly beating my ear drum. My bullets headed in his direction, but I can't see if I hit him because my eyes shut reflexively as soon as I slam into the ground. Gibbs sounds far away. I swear I can hear the projectile break the skin of my shoulder just below my clavicle before I see or feel it.
It's an unusual sensation, a thick needle slicing through the skin. The area feels as though it's on fire, it swells as if with fluid. I slam into the dirt and scramble away from this man and his strange ammunition, releasing my trigger to fire at him once more. Gibbs shoots at the man who expertly dodges the bullets and heads towards Ziva and the back corner to escape.
I can hear my heart beat in my ears and Gibbs firing his handgun in the distance.
My hand flutters to the wound, expecting to find a piercing and blood. But it hits something foreign too early, a feathery end. I cast my eyes down and see the tail end of what looks like a very large tranquiliser dart fully emptied of its contents into my skin, blood soaks into my grey shirt.
I stare confusedly at the dart, brushing my fingers across the red and yellow feathers protruding from the end.
Oh my God, what was in that vial?
My shoulder begins to sting and burn outwards from the injection, down my arm and into my chest. I'm finding it hard to breathe, drawing in air sharply, hyperventilating. I assume it's the blood pumping the toxin around my body. And with my heart beating so fast, this is an imperfect time for this kind of wound. Every muscle tenses.
I hear myself make a short noise which sounds like a cross between a small scream, and a screech as I breathe in sharply.
I have to hold it together, I have to slow my heart rate and slow the process of this toxin through my system.
I consciously make an effort to breathe slowly and evenly, deep breathes in and out.
My arm collapses beneath me, the pain is too much. Tears collect in my eyes as I double over slightly in pain. My whole body fills with pain, shooting, stabbing, electrifying pain. Pins stabbing me all over my skin, crawling, fire. I roll over, every movement intensifies the horrors.
I suck air into my lungs until they feel they will burst, letting it out with a whoosh. I crawl to the nearest solid surface and collapse against it.
I try to reason with myself, it's just electrical signals, just feelings in my mind, electrochemical interactions. I close my eyes. The room feels like it's closing in, everything is too loud but I can't make out the separate sounds.
My eyes flick open, finger on the trigger as a man drops down beside me, I press the gun to his chest but he doesn't make any fast moves or threaten me in any way. My view is blurry but I can make out Gibbs' features, and I lower my weapon shakily and let it drop to the floor from my limp hand. I'm sweating, but cold, and shaking.
His hand hovers over the feathered end of the dart sticking out of my shoulder as he examines it. He looks my face over, his head tilted forward, his eyes dark and concerned.
He rests his hand on my other shoulder. It's warm and comforting, but I can smell gun powder and that horrible mans cologne wafting through the air.
I feel safer with Gibbs beside me and I bring a shaking hand to his arm and rest it there, it takes all my energy just to lift it. The pain is a constant, burning in my whole body now. But I can't let it take me over, I have to control myself.
Especially in front of Gibbs.
"It's some kind of poison, Gibbs." I say raspily.
His eyes flick to the dart protruding from my chest and back into my eyes. He's trying to read my hidden emotions, trying to figure out how bad the pain really is.
I'm not going to give in.
"Can you stand?" he enquires. My mind is slipping. I try to stand, leaning forward, wincing. I push up through my heels, leaning on Gibbs.
I see Ziva emerge from behind him, "I got him, Boss. Tony and McGee are taking care of it. They also found another two men outside trying to escape." She looks down at me, eyes on the dart.
"Any idea what was in it?" she asks me.
I suck in a sharp breath as a pang stabs me in the spine. "No. It's not a tranquiliser, it could be some kind of neurotoxin."
My mind is getting murky, I can't concentrate. I try to focus on Gibbs' face.
My head drops back and I slump slightly. My eyes are only half open. Gibbs jumps into action, immediately sweeping me up into his arms before I crash to the floor and carryies me out.
I can feel the sun on my face.
I'm scared but annoyed that I'm in this position, having to be carried by my boss to the vehicle. Absolutely helpless, dependant, weak.
I can hear Tony and McGee asking worried questions in my direction.
"Is she okay?" McGee's voice floats over me.
I release a moan.
"Boss?" Tony asks worriedly.
Gibbs doesn't reply, he places me gently in the back seat of the car, lying down, and races to the drivers seat, accelerating out of the property in a flash.
"Stay with me," he says, turning his head to catch a glimpse of my condition.
I'm staring back at him, eyes glazed, locking onto his eyes, determined to stay awake, begging him to save me in my mind.
Darkness enfolds me and every sense disappears.