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Bellevue, WA (PRWEB) February 27, 2013
ComputeNext, an IaaS cloud service brokerage focusing on the federation of on-demand compute, storage, and networking services from a variety of cloud service providers now offers the discovery, purchase, and use of cloud services in 21 different locations worldwide.
The cloud broker capabilities of ComputeNext are presented as an e-commerce platform, where IT organizations and cloud consumers can search for, use and manage on-demand software (SaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) from a selection of 17 cloud service providers, with deployment locations available in 21 different data centers.
Cloud Service Brokerage as an e-Commerce Portal
By accessing ComputeNext through the web portal, consumers of cloud looking to launch on-demand software and IaaS are presented with an e-commerce experience that enables them to define their required cloud services and choose from a variety of available offerings in order to find the best service provider for a specific workload.
The marketplace user interface functions as a single sign-on portal for cloud services, and a visual representation of the total inventory of services available for procurement from ComputeNext. Users can browse the marketplace and drill down through a variety of filters. This functionality makes it possible to sort based on price, look for opportunities to arbitrage cloud services, find a cloud service provider on a specific OS which matches a private cloud's internal platform, or geo-locate workloads with specific requirements by accessing choice in over 20 unique locations.
Search, Discover, Launch Multi-Cloud Services from a Single API
The ComputeNext API enables one-to-many access to the entire inventory of on-demand software and IaaS available in the marketplace using a RESTful interface and API calls. Cloud consumers are able to define workload requirements and launch services systematically using the API service. Access to the cloud brokerage portal through a single API provides abstraction of the API layer and account management typically found in multi-cloud deployments. Cloud consumers can expect faster time to market by reducing the need to build more than one API connector to access and deploy cloud services in such deployments.
Deploy IaaS Using jclouds, for the DevOPs at Heart
To assist the community gathering behind the DevOPs philosophy, ComputeNext has also provided documentation on how to write infrastructure as code to their growing collection of IaaS. This has been done by supporting the open source jclouds library, a library which enables developers to get started in the cloud by enabling deployments utilizing Java and Clojure development language. Accessing the cloud broker service using jclouds it's possible to deploy infrastructure programmatically and manage workloads with geo-location capability.
About ComputeNext
ComputeNext, a Bellevue, WA based technology company offers developers, ISVs and SME CIOs, choice in cloud service providers and eliminate lock-in. With the belief that a handful of IaaS providers cannot satisfy the world's computing demands, ComputeNext has built a marketplace for any cloud providers around the world to list and offer their cloud computing services to the public. As a cloud marketplace, ComputeNext delivers a transparent and transactional user experience with patented search and discovery technology to promote efficient computing.


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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Denver Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey made minor progress Tuesday in his recovery from a badly sprained foot.
He wore cleats and was given a helmet for the final practice of the week but was officially listed among the players who did not participate.
Per the league's injury reporting guidelines, that designation is for players who do not take any repetitions in team drills. Bailey did limited work in individual drills in the early portion of practice that was open to the media.
Bailey told USA TODAY Sports after practice that he felt slightly better about his chance to play Thursday against the Baltimore Ravens in the NFL's regular-season opener, but that no decision would be made until game day.
Bailey hasn't practiced since suffering the injury against the Seattle Seahawks on Aug. 17.
Bailey and the Broncos are considering both his pain threshold and the chances that he could further injure himself by returning too soon.
The Broncos will issue their final injury report on Wednesday. Tight end Joel Dreessen and running back C.J. Anderson will be ruled out as they recover from knee injuries.
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This is a project embarked on to provide women, children and Youth in deprived communities and off - grid with a clean energy to enable them to embark on their daily activities. Children and Youth use kerosine lamps to study and women use it to cook at night. despite the high carbon emissions from the burning of kerosine, it subsequently affects the health of the people.
The solar center is a small tent or house created and equipped with solar lamps. It has in it mini solar lamps which are given to women to use at night and return the next morning. moreover, it has in it a high voltage stationary solar lamp where students (children and Youth) go to study at night.


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Tavira is a Portuguese city and municipality, situated in the east of the Algarve on the south coast of Portugal. It is 28 kilometres (17 miles) east of Faro and 177 kilometres (110 miles) west of Seville in Spain. The Gilão River meets the Atlantic Ocean in Tavira.
The Moorish occupation of Tavira between the 8th and 13th centuries left its mark on the agriculture, architecture and culture of the area. That influence can still be seen in Tavira today with its whitewashed buildings, Moorish style doors and rooftops. Tavira Castle, two mosques and palaces were built by the Moors. The impressive seven arched "Roman bridge" is now not considered to be Roman after a recent archaeological survey, but originates from a 12th Century Moorish bridge. This was a good time economically for Tavira, which established itself an important port for sailors and fishermen. The area stayed rural until the 11th Century when Moorish Tavira started to grow rapidly, becoming one of the important (and independent) towns of the Algarve.
The city has since been rebuilt with many fine 18th-century buildings along with its 37 churches. A 'Roman' bridge links the two parts of the town across the River Gilão. The church of Santa Maria do Castelo, built on the site of a Moorish mosque, holds the tombs of Dom Paio Peres Correia and his knights. The church dates from the 13th century and the clock tower has been remodeled from the original Muslim minaret. A bust of Dom Paio Perres Correia who died in 1275 can be seen on the corner of the town hall. Its original economic reliance on the fishing industry has now passed due to changed migration patterns of Tuna and further silting up of the river Gilao. The population is in the region of 25,000 inhabitants (municipality of Tavira) supporting a military base whilst the surrounding area is still fairly rural and undeveloped. This is now changing due to the demands of the tourist industry and opening of golf courses in the near vicinity. The beach for this town lies past the salt pans and is reached by a ferryboat that takes the visitor to the sand-bar island known as Ilha de Tavira, part of the Ria Formosa. The island and beaches can also be reached from the nearby footbridge in Santa Luzia.
Tavira is one of the most delightful and architecturally-attractive cities in the Algarve. In recent years the architecturally attractive town has been scared by a new shopping center development but still attracts visitors and house prices have increased. The development of many golf clubs close to the town has also had an effect.
Algarve´s golf courses are among the best of the world. This region is known as a true golf paradise and widely regarded as the foremost golf holiday destination in Europe. Golf Courses in and around Tavira include: Benamor Golf, Quinta da Ria Golf, Quinta da Cima Golf and Monte Rei Golf
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I have a couple of musician friends and I've heard tales about life on the road, both positive and negative. The positives include nightly wild parties, meeting fans and new people in every city, getting to travel, and the overall epicness you'd assume that comes from life on the road. The negatives include minimal sleep, treacherous schedules, lack of food, and limited time to get to the gym. Needless to say, life on the road as a musican sounds fun as hell, but also extremely unhealthy. I have one friend in a rock band who survives off nothing more than cigarettes and energy drinks. He looks normal, but I'm sure his insides are a grey mush.
Having said that, Ellie Goulding appears to be the exception. Not only is she doing shows on the regular, but she appears to be getting in better shape than ever. I don't know where she finds the time, but she looks incredible. In some recent Instagram posts, Ellie showed off her rock-hard abs.
I guess she's squeezing in time for the gym after all.
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But now, nearly a year later, some of the glow is off that deal. 28.Jun cannot document the big $1.5 million valuation it announced for that shipment, although it continues to cite that the figure. Using what is said to be a list of the shipment's inventory compiled after arrival in Kosovo, an expert in donated medical supplies consulted by Forbes, who asked not to be identified, estimated the value at a lot less--around $500,000. A recent online post by 28.Jun suggests its out-of-pocket cost for the project was less than $40,000.
Eagle's Nest Foundation, the obscure Seattle-area charity that facilitated the shipment out of donated inventory it already had on hand and which 28.Jun says provided the $1.5 million valuation figure, didn't respond to repeated inquiries from Forbes seeking a detailed accounting. Eagle's Nest claims on its Web site to have shipped "over $80 million in medical supplies to more than 25 countries" since its founding in 2003. Yet the six years of its 10 years for which its federal tax returns are easily available, 2006 to 2011, show total charitable expenditures of just $453,000--none of that identified as donated goods. Although Eagle's Nest, based in the Seattle suburb of Mukilteo, has U.S. federal tax-exempt status and a formal classification as a public charity, it is not registered as a charity with Washington State regulators.
Moreover, all over this deal are the fingerprints of Universal Aide Society. That's a Nanaimo, B.C., relief agency that was stripped of its tax-exempt status in Canada following a government audit that concluded, among other things, it had greatly overstated the value of donated goods for tax purposes. Universal Aide played a key role through a third party in getting together 28.Jun and Eagle's Nest. Universal Aide and its director, Shirley Gremyachev, did not respond to a detailed request-for-comment message sent through its website.
Nanaimo is located on Vancouver Island, which is also the home of Filip Filipi, 28.Jun's founder and president. But Filipi, a 20-something music rapper, told Forbes he had never heard of Universal Aide or its checkered past and was unaware of its connection with the 28.Jun shipment until after questions were raised months later.
On top of all this, another Serb humanitarian group that first raised questions about the valuation also said the shipment actually went to a facility in Kosovo under the authority of ethnic Albanians, hated rivals of the Serbs. Within the fiercely proud and protective Serbian community this is quite an incendiary charge, especially about an organization that has raised funds from Serbs. It has triggered massive chatter on Serbian-language websites in several countries. 28.Jun says the facility is Serbian, as does the facility itself.
The controversy is yet another to arise in the philanthropic world over the valuation of gift-in-kind, as donated goods going to charity are called. Their noncash nature renders them prone to valuation exaggeration that can impress would-be cash donors, burnish reported financial efficiencies or enhance reputations. Forbes has been writing about this issue for a long time (see here and here). In November, World Help, a big international aid charity in Forest, Va. , admitted it had overvalued goods received by more than double. The nonprofit said it was the victim of fraud by a rogue consultant. Forbes took World Help off its annual list of the largest U.S. charities.
Last month, after our inquiries about valuation discrepancies, Cleveland, Tenn.-based Operation Compassion, No. 51 on the Forbes list, said it would reduce by as much as $250 million the $900 million it had reported in donated goods received from 2008 to 2011. Operation Compassion blamed a flawed valuation methodology. Charity regulators in the U.S., who call deliberate overvaluation fraud, are finally looking into the issue of overvalued donations.
Compared to Operation Compassion, 28.Jun and its humanitarian efforts are small beer. But unlike Operation Compassion, 28.Jun and its leaders played the big valuation for all the publicity they could get among among their fellow Serbs.
28.Jun was formed in 2011 and at various times has been described as being based in Chicago or Toronto. According to its Web page, the mission is to engage in "political, social and philanthropic functions pertaining to Serbian interests" with efforts that include "fundraisers, which go towards supporting Serbian interests and humanitarian efforts." It is now registered as a not-for-profit corporation in Canada, but does not appear to be registered as a tax-exempt organization in the U.S. 28.Jun received some attention two years ago when it complained of disparaging remarks about Serbs on the TV show, "Chelsea Handler Lately." The group's name comes from the date of the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 in which an army from the Ottoman Empire defeated a Serbian force. Redolent with religious overtones--the Ottomans were Islamic, the Serbs Christian--the conflict remains an important symbol of Serbian nationalism.
Once part of Yugoslavia and then Serbia, Kosovo is a region that in 2008 declared its sovereign independence--recognized by the United States and NATO and guaranteed in considerable measure by a continuing United Nations military presence. Serbia still claims Kosovo, even though Serbs are a small minority to the ethnic Albanians, who control the government.
Sometime in 2011, 28.Jun hit upon the idea of raising funds to send a humanitarian shipment of medical supplies to Gracanica. That's a Serb enclave of about 11,000 persons in Kosovo best known for a nearby 692-year-old Serbian Orthodox monastary. The name of the fundraising campaign: "Battle for Kosovo." At some point 28.Jun organizers were in contact with Milos Supica. A Serb who fled the Balkans as a youth and ended up in the United States, he is the long-time head of Direct Effect USA, a respected humanitarian agency he started nearly two decades ago in Stockton, Calif., as Save Serbian Children. Despite its name, Save Serbian Children has arranged shipment of supplies to the needy in a score of countries around the world. Now 73, Supica is retired from his career as a businessman in auto parts and repairs, relocating a few years ago to the more scenic Smokey Mountains town of Sevierville, Tenn.
Seeing the Canadian address of the 28.Jun leadership, Supica told Forbes that he contacted Universal Aide Society, also in Canada. Supica said he never had done business with Universal Aide but heard it was involved in humanitarian work. He insisted he was unaware at the time of its regulatory baggage, although that would have come up in a Google search.
Supica said Universal Aide director Gremyachev responded by email with a 1,500-item-long shipping list of medical supplies that could be sent by Eagle's Nest Foundation, the charity in Mukilteo, Wash., upon payment of a fee of $2,000, plus shipping costs. "I had never heard of Eagle's Nest," Supica said. He said the connection between Universal Aide and Eagle's Nest was never explained to him, but that he assumed they had been doing business together for some time. He said he forwarded the charity's name and contact information, and that 1,500-item shipping list, to 28.Jun. Supica, who said he had little more to do with the shipment, said he never mentioned the role of Universal Aide to 28.Jun.
Eagle's Nest was founded a decade ago by Jeanne and Dayoung Kimn. The charity's website says the couple acted "after two decades of experience traveling in developing countries to aid and train people in need." Eagle's Nest seems to operate almost invisibly. There has been scant mention of it in local media. Its address is a small out-of-the-way garage facility near a road leading to one of the many ferry terminals serving Puget Sound.
As for how it functions, the web site says the charity "receives medical supplies as donations from hospitals, clinics, supply companies, and private individuals" and that "all donations are tax deductible and receipts are available upon request." Given this language and the lack of any response to Forbes inquiries, it's rather difficult to square the $80 million-plus-of-donations claim on the Web site with their virtual absence from tax returns.
Over at 28.Jun, Filipi, whose Serbian grandmother fled Kosovo, said his organization got in touch with Jeanne Kimn. The $2,000 Eagle's Nest fee was paid, he said, along with shipping costs. In March 2012, a group of 28.Jun supporters gathered at the Eagle's Nest garage in Mukilteo to load--in front of their photographers--a standard 40-foot-long container with boxes. Filipi said the boxes were already filled and sealed. Jeanne Kimn, he said, was present and keeping track of things. The truck went to the nearby Port of Seattle, where the container was put on a ship. After transfer to a truck in Europe, the goods arrived in Kosovo sometime during the summer.
Filipi said he never saw a manifest or inventory with written valuations for each line or a written total at the bottom. But at some point, he said that Eagle's Nest informed 28.Jun that the value of the shipment was $1.5 million. That's the number that 28.Jun put out as it thanked various supporters, including Supica and Direct Effect USA. In a statement to Forbes, 28.Jun said, that figure was in emails copied to Supica and that there was no initial objection. "Given that Mr. Supica and Eagle's Nest have combined 30 years of experience in humanitarian work and that we were pioneers in this field, we felt no reason to doubt their estimation of the container's worth," 28.Jun said.
By its own account, 28.Jun had held fundraising events in 120 cities around the world for the project. But according to a bar graph chart that 28.Jun posted online, the total cost of the $1.5 million project was just $39,250, raised from online donations, fundraising events and contributions by members.
Eventually, Supica said he got to thinking. "I've been sending containers to various places, including Africa, for a long time," he said. "You can't put $1.5 million in one container unless it's gold." So he sent that 1,500-item list to a friend in the humanitarian assistance field to value. That estimate: $225,000.


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Some challenges for the methanol lobbyJanuary 11, 2013
The ranks of methanol economy adherents, especially as a transport fuel alternative, are growing, and Michael Levy at the Council on Foreign Relations Energy & Environment blog has noticed. Levy, however, is skeptical about methanol and has several questions for the methanol lobby that he feels must be addressed before any political action will be taken:
- What would the all-in cost of marginal methanol supplies be in a world that featured rapidly growing U.S. methanol production for transportation?
- How much risk would investors in methanol production face – and what would that mean for likely investment and production?
- What would the national benefits of an oil-to-methanol shift be? Or, put a different way, is a shift to methanol similar to increasing oil production, or to cutting oil use?
Many of the most important questions are answered – or, at least, the foundation of the answers can be found – in Nobel Prize winning chemist George Olah's Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy, which we highly recommend to any interested party.


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Skip to comments.Rush Limbaugh Live Thread Thur April 13, 2006
Posted on 04/13/2006 8:22:31 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
Operation "Saddam Exposed" (Iraqi Documents) April 12 2006 | jveritas
Posted on 04/12/2006 1:06:23 PM PDT by jveritas
Dear freepers
The Iraqi documents are revealing the truth about Saddam WMD, his relation to terrorism, and his crimes against humanity. These documents are proving that Saddam had always kept his WMD program reading and running in a secret way waiting the opportune moment to produce large stocks of them. Also Saddam not only had strong ties with terrorists but also his regime was recruiting individuals from the Iraqi military to launch terrorist suicide attacks against US interest.
Despite this smoking guns documents that prove that we right to go and remove Saddam regime, it seems that they are going unnoticed in most of the media except on FR, the blogsphere, the Weekly Standard, and few of our side Talk Radio Shows.
We should not expect the liberal media to embrace these documents and to be the first one to talk about it because just the few documents that we have seen already have shined the light of truth on their lies and the lies of liberals that they have been spewing for the last three years regarding Iraq and President Bush. However we should expect our side of the media, Talk Radio in particular, to be much more involved in spreading the truth and facts that these documents are revealing.
Thus we need to launch Operation Get The Truth Out to get the attention of our side of the media first and ask them to cover these very important Iraq documents. If you can please all help on this issue. We need to contact as many on our side of the media as we can and let the Truth Get Out, and once our side of the media start covering it, it will force the liberal media to talk about it as well, and hopefully our Republican politicians will talk about it too.
Four important documents you can contact our media about:
September 1998 Document: Secret Research Programs Related to WMD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1613509/posts
March 2001 Document: Saddam Regime Recruits Suicide Terrorists to Hit US Interests http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1610012/posts
Saddam Regime Document: Iraqi Intelligence met with Bin Laden in 1995 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1600579/posts
Document: Saddam Regime Training and Using Foreign Arab Terrorists As Suicide Bombers. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1600367/posts
Thank you all for your help.
The Truth is on our side.
God bless America. God bless our troops. God bless Free Republic.
Good to be you! Enjoy your time off.
Listening and lurking.
Hi ya CC
Good afternoon, Johnnie and thanks for the ping! Here in work, lurk, n'lunch mode!
Thanks for the ping Johnnie.....
How are you today? Thanks for having me in your thread.
Yes Rush, because the new economy had the tremendous boost Reagan created for the Economy to work from.
Wow best news I have heard all week.
Thanks for the ping!
jveritas was GREAT! He's from Lebanon and is really articulate...
I missed jveritas on Tony Snow show.
Please give me a rundown on the conversation.
or even very articulate.....
(I know- I am being smarmy again....it's Johnnie's fault...)
FITZGERALD'S FOLLY [Byron York]
I have a story up on the latest in the CIA leak case, in which Lewis Libby says that neither President Bush, Vice President Cheney nor anyone else instructed him to discuss Valerie Plame Wilson with reporters. That's news. But what is perhaps bigger news is not explicitly stated anywhere in the legal papers, and that is that prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald appears to be losing control of the case.
Since indicting Libby on perjury and obstruction of justice charges last year, Fitzgerald has said that he wants to keep the case narrowly confined to the question of whether Libby lied to the grand jury and obstructed the investigation. But actually trying the case -- and we're just in the discovery stage now -- has forced Fitzgerald to put forward a theory of Libby's motive and to try to place Libby's actions in the larger context of an alleged White House plot to punish Joseph Wilson. And doing that has forced Fitzgerald to open the whole pre-war intelligence can of worms and to argue at length about the White House's effort to rebut the arguments of critics like Wilson, which is not specifically part of the charges against Libby.
Yet even as he has fallen into the trap of widening his arguments to include the Bush case for war, making the case seem more and more like a political prosecution, Fitzgerald is still refusing to hand over evidence to Libby -- for example, documents relating to whether Valerie Wilson's CIA status was classified or not -- on the grounds that Libby does not need such evidence to defend himself against the narrow perjury and obstruction charges. So on the one hand, Fitzgerald is increasingly bringing the big picture into the case, and on the other he is desperately trying to keep the case tightly focused on the little picture. It's not going to work. Either through his own errors, or his own lack of insight, or perhaps just the impossible nature of the case, Fitzgerald is moving himself into an untenable position. And the case is really just starting.
Hi Everybody! Here buy busy......SONO mode on.
Yes, I usually have that effect on women
Do we even know who made these decisions to send him?
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How do you pay? *EDIT*
Question: How do you pay?
Total Votes: 207
When you go out to eat to restaurants and go grocery shopping, gas ect. Do you use a debit card or do you use cash?
If you use debit/credit has your account ever been compromised? Skimmed? My mom had it happen yesterday. Card was skimmed and used far away at a grocery store for a even $200. Bank declined and locked her card.
Quoting Mrs.Bryant1201:
Oh man if that happened to us I would flip shit on him! I would be sooo mad he payed for porn! too many free sites to pay for it! Such a waste of money! :( Him sitting on the couch with his head down denying it. That would be kinda funny.Quoting AdellesMom:
LOL!! That's be very awkward!
Quoting Mrs.Bryant1201:
Well i guess thats better then him using it for online porn! Then getting into a fight with your husband about it. Him denying it, you being pissed. Awkward!Quoting AdellesMom:
It sucked bad! LOL
They did find the WOW account. Nerdy gamer dude hacked into something and got some credit card numbers. I don't know what happened to him though. lol
Quoting Mrs.Bryant1201:
Oh man, that had to suck! at least she was polite about it. They couldn't find the WOW account? I would join and look for that person online! My dh is a gamer also. If its not gamefly or playstation network, time to be pissed!Quoting AdellesMom:
My bank did. I was out, and I was trying to figure out why my debit card wasn't going through. I knew had more than enough to cover my purchase. So, I called my bank. They said that someone had charged some crazy things to my account. Stuff for video games. At first, I thought it was hubby. He's a gamer. But, it wasn't him. He doesn't play WOW. LOL
The second time, I was treating my Bishop to dinner, and the card didn't go through. It was embarrassing. Thankfully, the waitress was nice and didn't say that the card didn't go through in front of him! LOL
Quoting Mrs.Bryant1201:
My mom works in fraud claims. She has seen some crazy shit. Alot of out of state charges. Who caught it first? You or the bank?Quoting AdellesMom:
Yes. The first time it was some kind of hacker. The second time it was someone from New Jersey.
Quoting Mrs.Bryant1201:
Thats good! Some banks take forever to process claims. Did they ever figure out who did it?Quoting AdellesMom:
Yes, twice. Thankfully, my bank resolved it in a timely manner.
Quoting Mrs.Bryant1201:
Ever had anything happen to your account?Quoting AdellesMom:
Credit or debit. I hardly carry cash anymore.
debit, almost exclusively. I hate carrying around more than $50-60 cash. I did have some fraud on my account once.. said my card was swipped in CA at a walmart a couple times.. the total was like $247. I got my money back, no hassle at all.
Quoting Crazy-Steph:
You need to find a new bank! Most banks credit your account for the amount within 24 hours. Then they fight on your behalf. Why would they freeze your account?Quoting Anonymous:
I couldn't I had bills to pay and if I disputed it it would freeze my account until it was resolved whuch takes a couple Weeks to a couple months
Quoting Crazy-Steph:
Did you dispute it through your bank?Quoting Anonymous:
Cash. I use to pay with my debit till a $40 bill was charged as $400 after I signed for the $40 . Restaurant refused to give back the $360


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When Lily Allen propositioned Simon CowellFebruary 6th, 2009 - 3:03 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 6 (ANI): Brit singer Lily Allen has revealed that she once accidentally propositioned Simon Cowell through a text message.
Allen, 23, described how the message got to Cowell, when she was having a chat with her godmother.
I was kind of seeing this guy and then it was over. So I texted my godmother in Jamaica and told her and as a joke I said, Maybe my next conquest should be Simon Cowell, the Sun quoted her as saying.
You know when someone is in your mind and you accidentally text them? He replied, Sorry? she added. (ANI)
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pubovaginalis muscle (anatomy)
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Pubovaginalis in the female is the equivalent of levator prostatae in the male. Both are members of the levator ani muscle group which act to separate the base of the pelvic cavity from the ischiorectal fossa lying inferiorly.
Both originate from the posterior pelvic surface of the body of the pubis bone. Fibres pass inferiorly, medially and posteriorly. On each side in the male, levator prostatae inserts into a midline raphe, the central perineal tendon, posterior to the prostate gland. In the female, pubovaginalis inserts into the central perineal tendon posterior to the vagina.
Both muscles act in co-ordination with the rest of levator ani to support the pelvic viscera. The innervation of levator ani is the anterior primary rami of segments S3 and S4.


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The group has written a report outlining 17 ways community colleges could increase their graduation rates. League President Scott Lay says the goal is to make community college more structured.
"Having mandatory orientation sessions, mandatory assessments and guidance of students. These are some of the practice changes that in many colleges it's already happening, our goal is to bring it to scale throughout the entire system."
Lay says right now, many students drop out because they lack adequate guidelines. He hopes the changes will help close the achievement gap that is still common at community colleges.


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Allen targets first victory
Joe Allen believes Swansea are on the verge of claiming their first win of the season against West Brom.
By Soriebah Kajue
Last Updated: 17/09/11 1:30pm
Joe Allen believes Swansea are on the verge of claiming their first Premier League win of the season against West Brom.
Brendan Rodgers' outfit have secured two draws from their opening four games, which under normal circumstances would represent a decent start to their campaign for a newly-promoted team.
But the pressure on the Swans is already mounting to glean their first win of the term, and their cause is being hampered by a defensive crisis.
Alan Tate, Steven Caulker and Kemy Agustien are all injured but despite this Allen believes they can end this fixture with three points.
"Every game is tough, there is no game you can put down as a nailed on win, but in camp we hope we can get that bit of luck we are due and get that first goal and first win," he said.
"Every bit of news we get at the moment seems to be bad, but there are always disappointments in football and I am sure we will balance them out with some highs."
Allen made his first start of the season at the Emirates last weekend and is poised to retain his place in the team and become a regular fixture.
"Saturday was my first start, which I have been looking forward to and the Emirates was not a bad place to make it," he added.
"There might be an opportunity for me to try and keep my place in the team and I am looking forward to a few more starts."


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National Trails Day is Saturday: How you can make the best of it
Family enjoying hiking in the North Cascades. Photo by Holly Werran, REI.
This Saturday, June 5, is the 17th annual National Trails Day – a day set aside to commemorate our country's 200,000 plus miles of trails. What better way to celebrate our wild places than by heading out for a hike or volunteering to clean up a local trail? Those very trails bring us solitude, enjoyment, inspiration and adventure.
National Trails Day is a celebration of trails that evolved from the report of President Ronald Reagan's "President's Commission on Americans Outdoors." In 1987, the report recommended that all Americans be able to go out their front doors and within fifteen minutes, be on trails that wind through their cities or towns and bring them back without retracing steps. The recommendation, called Trails for All Americans brought together a number of public and private parties, including American Hiking Society to launch National Trails Day in 1993.
So how will you spend National Trails Day?
Go for a hike! You can find trails most everywhere – from city parks to backcountry wilderness. Check with your local forest service office; PDF map of country with national forests outlined, national park and national wildlife refuge for hike ideas.
National Trails Day is also the perfect time to introduce your kids to hiking. Click here for ten great tips for hiking with kids.
Lend a helping hand! National Trails Day stewardship event are being held in almost every state. Check out the events happening in your state.
photo: Family enjoying hiking in the North Cascades. Photo by Holly Werran, REI.


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Josh Lucas was born in Little Rock, Arkansas to Don Maurer (an ER-doctor)
and Michelle (a nurse). He grew up traveling the South with his parents (who
were anti-nuclear activists) and younger siblings, two sisters and a brother; by
the age of 13, he had lived in 30 different locations, including the Isle of
Palms and Sullivan's Island, South Carolina. The family eventually settled in
Gig Harbor, a city in Tacoma, Washington.
Josh Lucas started acting in high school plays, and developed a strong interest in an acting career while attending Washington State University.
Lucas gained exposure after his roles in Sweet Home Alabama, A Beautiful Mind, and as Glenn Talbot in Hulk. In 2005, he co-starred with Jamie Foxx and Jessica Biel in the film Stealth, which was considered a major financial disappointment, losing $106.3 million at the box office.
Josh Lucas's current starring role is in the film Glory Road, in which he plays Don Haskins, a renowned basketball coach. Lucas met and consulted with the real Haskins, as well as with several other famous basketball coaches, during filming.
During filming of the upcoming film, Poseidon, Lucas snapped muscles on his left thumb during an accidental fall.
Joshua Lucas has dated actresses Salma Hayek and Connie Nielsen, but is currently single. In 2005, Lucas participated in a Canadian campaign to raise AIDS awareness among young people.
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Energy Neighbourhoods Competition for Cahir
The Cahir Tidy Towns Group have entered the Energy Neighbourhoods Competition for this coming year and if you are interested and not a member of the group you are still welcome to participate.
A lot of what is involved is only turning off unnecessary electrics around the house. Any group of five houses or more can apply and they do not need to be in the same estate. The savings are good on the household and registration can be made through www.tea.ie.
Tidy Towns have stored all their geraniums for next year with some new cutting taken from quite a few so hopefully they will winter well and we will see them again in the spring.
Each week we publish part of the adjudicators report and here is what they said about Litter Control:
"Your anti-litter campaign and patrols are working very well as litter volumes observed were minor in this well visited busy town. Your special focus on the car park at Cahir Castle seems to have been worthwhile. It was disappointing to note the accumulation of litter in a corner of the Ha Ha at the side of St Paul's Church. Litter was also seen on the ground beside the Cahir Engineering sign."
The Chairman of Cahir Tidy Towns would like to say well done to the boys on the Council, to Gerry and Dave and Seamus and also to the many members that put on the bib to keep the town tidy week in, week out. There are many others working away in their own areas and it is most appreciated and is noticed as per the report. Thanks again to all as we gained two points in this section.
There will be no meet this coming Wednesday night.


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Leelee Sobieski
- Birthday
- 1982-06-10
- Nickname
- LeeLee
- Birthname
- Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski
- Sign
- Gemini
- Hometown
- New York City
- Country
- United States
- Ethnicity
- White
- Height
- 5'10"
- Weight
- 120
- Job
- Actress
- Hobbies
- Shakespeare Her Dog
- Assets
- Long Legs Tall Gorgeous Eyes Huge Breasts
- Vices
- Odd Varying Appearances Huge Earlobe-stretching Earrings
Leelee Sobieski Introduction
Leelee Sobieski has been in a diverse range of movies since 1997. No matter what the subject of the movie, Sobieski lends her acting ability as well as her great looks to make it much better.
Leelee Sobieski Life Story
Leelee Sobieski was born in Manhattan in 1982. Her father is a French painter and her mother is a novelist and screenwriter, who is now Sobieski's manager. In 1998 Sobieski made her major motion-picture debut in 1997's Jungle 2 Jungle which starred Tim Allen. With the movie starring Tim Allen, it didn't get much attention which meant Sobieski didn't either. But in 1998 she recieved praise when she starred in the disaster flick Deep Impact. The following year, Sobieski played a Lolita in Eyes Wide Shut and according to some accounts, Tom Cruise was a dick on the set. Also in 1999, Sobieski played the good-friend-nerd in the teen movie Never Been Kissed, and she played the title role in Joan of Arc. Sobieski has also been in the movies Max, Here On Earth and, The Wicker Man.
Sobieski provides inspiration to bands too. The band Nine Days released a tribute to her called Leelee, and Superchic has also referenced her. Outside of acting, Sobieski attended Brown University for a short period of time, before "taking a break." "Taking a break," probably means she doesn't need college to make a living, so what's the point? At least that's what our girlfriend told us when she talked about "taking a break" in our relationship. Sobieski's most recent film is called Night Train, which reunites her with her co-star from 2001's Joy Ride', Steve Zahn.
A lover of wild and wacky huge earrings, she finally got her ears pierced in 2006 after her then-boyfriend gave her a pair of valuable antique earrings made for pierced ears, not realising that she didn't have hers done.
Leelee Sobieski on the Web
Leelee Sobieski: Look of the Day | The Fashion Spot Leelee relied on a jumpsuit by her husband, Adam Kimmel, to make a real impression. Who: Leelee Sobieski Where: The Shops at Target Launch Party New York City, New York Why we like it: Leelee…
We Trace Leelee Sobieski's Evolution Into A Stealth Style Icon (We ... Has anyone else noticed how ridiculously flawless Leelee Sobieski has been looking lately? Her recent onslaught of red carpet sartorial perfection has been a frequent topic of discussion for us–how long has she been such a ...


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I just texted my old boss and told him what a great boss he was.
I felt compelled to do this because every day — every single day — I am confronted by the Platonic ideal of The Bad Boss and had to remind myself that there are good ones out there, that this situation is hopefully temporary.
I got this job at least partly on the strength of my resume, which boasts my attention to detail and follow-through, and if my current boss ever thinks twice about those phrases, I'll probably be booted. I've had so many screwups here it isn't even funny, but my boss would bridle at the suggestion that they might in any way be his fault.
In my previous job, coworkers would "buddy-check" things for each other. I never really gave that phrase any serious thought until I used it here and got laughed at*. In my old job, we checked each other's work because we were human, and humans err. Better to take a minute to make sure it's right, right?
Here, I'm not allowed to automate certain aspects of my job — I'm not even allowed to use copy and paste, sometimes — because that would make me a "robot"**, yet absolute, superhuman perfection is expected of me always. And when my work is checked, it's not to make sure that errors are caught before they go out; it's to find something for which to yell at me.
I can't count the number of times I've made an error on a purchase order that wasn't caught by my coworker or boss, who must look over every document I send out***, but who share no responsibility for errors uncaught.
And the reason for the errors can be mostly attributed to the fact that my boss is a steel beam dropped in front of my train of thought, fifty times a day.
My boss is an interrupter, demanding instant answers with backing documentation for any question that pops into his head, whenever.
My boss has no respect for the head bent to a task, no concept of how someone on the phone might not want or even be able to carry on two different conversations at once, no idea that someone might need to just buckle down and fucking focus for half an hour to complete a complex and detailed task. No, my boss is going to scream, yell, interrupt, ask questions, carry on a top-of-the-lungs phone call within three feet of me at any moment during any day.
Even when I didn't even have a cube at my old job, and worked at a table in the midst of a score of other tables similarly occupied, no one at my old job — boss, coworker, whoever — would have dreamed of stomping up and demanding that I stop what I was doing to attend upon them, but Current Boss has no such inhibitions.
Our office is a 12×12 room with three desks and up to four people working at once. It is not a quiet place. There is no privacy. There is no calm or focus.
I can't wear headphones, so I have to listen to my boss endlessly berate and belittle helpdesk employees, the person at the corporation commmission, the scheduler at the doctor's office, his accountant, his fiancee, his ex-wife, me.
He recently called his fiancee a dumbass because she didn't know when the pro basketball season ran.
Current Boss — and with him, his sidekick, Coworker-Guy — love racist jokes, misogynistic jokes, forming opinions about powerful women based on their looks or how good they think she'd be in bed.
* * *
"What do you say to a woman with two black eyes?" my coworker asks me. I don't answer, but he continues anyway: "Nothing. You've already told her twice."
"Are you fucking kidding me?" I blurt. He doesn't understand why beating women isn't funny. I feel a little sick.
* * *
I have told them almost nothing about my personal life, restricting conversations to pets and cars. They don't know I'm in a band, that I love building websites, that my husband draws me buggs every single day. They haven't asked, so I'm not volunteering anything that can be used to deride me.
* * *
My boss forwards me uncommented emails, then explains in an exasperated tone when I ask him what I'm supposed to do with it.
He leaves un-notated paperwork in various places vaguely near my work area, then yells at me when I've failed to complete whatever unspecified task was associated with that paperwork.
"Call them and find out why they're saying I still owe them money."
"Well, has the check cleared your bank?"
"I don't know."
"Can you find out, so I have all the information when I call?"
"Just call them."
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I spent the first few months here wondering if I'd lost my mojo.
I'd come home, exhausted and upset, and wonder if my memory problems were worsening, if I was truly a bad worker bee.
As time went by, though, I'd still come home exhausted and upset, but then I'd wonder what I'd done to deserve this job. What had happened to me, that I was being subjected to this?
This job is like an abusive relationship.
One morning, a few days after a particularly bad day of me being screamed at for shit that was only partly my fault, my boss gave me a raise. I am pretty sure this is akin to flowers for your girlfriend whose lip you've split. I've been given random gift cards, sportsball tickets, a paid afternoon off. They do not always happen after some particularly psychotic mental abuse, but I feel they're related nonetheless.
I keep applying for any job I think I might be good at, and I've had a single interview that went nowhere, but I keep looking for an exit strategy — any exit strategy. I can't quit, because we'd lose the house****, but I am looking for anything that would mean even the slightest bit of respect for me and the work I can do — the good work I know I can do.
And in the meantime, I'll be remembering that there are good jobs, and bosses, out there.
* I get laughed at — literally laughed at, sometimes complete with pointing finger — for any number of things, such as my appearance and my belief that domestic violence isn't an appropriate subject for humor. It's a great workplace.
** I guess that's a bad thing? It's said derisively, but how robots are bad is never made clear.
*** To be fair, everyone's documents, not just mine, must be checked by the boss. Checked for what, I have no idea, because it's not for accuracy or completeness, that's for damn sure.
**** We may well lose it anyway, because this crap job pays less than half what I was making before, and what with one thing and another, we're on the financial edge and it's anyone's guess what falls off first.


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Please note, the items are seconds, samples and overstocks. They are sold 'as seen'.
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New York Yankees: Maybe the Offseason Wasn't Such a Bust After AllApril 28, 2011
So this past winter, the Yankees off-season plan was built mainly around the signing of Cliff Lee.
When he turned down a guaranteed seven-year deal for somewhere around $158 million from the Yankees to return to the Philadelphia Phillies for a five-year deal for about $125 million, many fans didn't know what the Yankees next move would be.
In fact, after I had found out around 12:30 in the morning the night of December 14 that Lee was going back to the Phillies, I too had wondered what the Yankees next move was going to be.
So slowly, the Yankees started to make moves for their 2011 roster.
They signed Russell Martin to be the catcher.
Bartolo Colon and Freddy Garcia were signed to minor league deals to compete for a rotation spot along with Ivan Nova. (Kevin Millwood was also signed, but he has yet to be called up from the minors.)
Andruw Jones was signed as the fourth outfielder.
Eric Chavez was signed to a minor league deal to compete for a spot off the bench.
The biggest signing was Rafael Soriano to a three-year deal to be Mariano Rivera's setup man in the bullpen.
Oh, they also did re-sign Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera too, can't forget them.
So, how's it worked out so far for the Yankees?
Lets start with Soriano, who right now has a 1-1 record with a 7.84 ERA so far in April. Last year, Soriano had a 1.73 ERA with the Rays and so far, has surrendered nine runs 10.1 innings pitched.
It's a little early to be calling Soriano a bust, but right now, Soriano has not looked impressive for the Yankees. He needs to be though, because he is an important part of that bullpen.
Remember when the Yankees signed Martin to be the catcher and everyone wasn't thrilled about it?
I do. I remember a lot of people's reactions, most of them thinking he was a shell of what he used to be and we might as well let Jesus Montero start.
Martin is only hitting .292 with six home runs and 16 RBI so far for the Yankees and has caught the majority of the games with Gustavo Molina getting a rare start here and there.
Nobody expected this from Martin and he's done a great job for the Yankees. He wasn't just given the starting catcher job. He's earned it.
Did anyone think in February that Eric Chavez would even be on the Yankees in 2011, much less contributing?
I'll admit, I thought Chavez would probably get hurt in Spring Training and would have to retire. Chavez hadn't played anywhere near close to a full season since 2006. (90, 23, 8, 33- number of games Chavez played in 2007-2010 in Oakland.)
Look at Chavez now.
First off, he's healthy, which is extremely important.
He's hitting well and he's still playing very good defense at third base. He's even been needed to fill in at times for Alex Rodriguez when A-Rod was out of the lineup with injuries or had a day off.
Chavez is hitting .348 with no homers and three RBI. He's come up with clutch hits, like he did against the Rangers on Sunday Night Baseball this month.
One of the Yankees needs in the off-season was bench help and a fourth outfielder spot.
There was rumors about bringing Johnny Damon back, but the Yankees went in a different direction with former Braves outfielder Andruw Jones.
The same Andruw Jones who hit .154 for the Dodgers, .214 for the Rangers and .230 for the White Sox these past three years.
I remember a lot of the reactions for signing Jones, the term "washed-up" and "has-been" were tossed around for the 34-year old.
Right now, Jones is hitting .316 and is starting in left-field on days where left-handed pitchers are facing the Yankees.
Jones' defense isn't what it once was, but he's a serviceable outfielder for the Yankees.
In fact, right now he's looking better than the current starting left-fielder Brett Gardner. Gardner is just marred in a bad month, hitting .145. He's only got three steals, struck out 20 times and an on-base percentage of .197.
Gardner's not getting steals because he's not on base, mostly because he strikes out more than he hits or walks (20 strike outs, 9 hits, 4 walks.)
With Gardner struggling, getting Jones wasn't such a bad signing after all.
Now, the last two, which so far have been the most crucial, because they addressed the Yankees biggest off-season need—starting pitching.
Like I said in the beginning, the Yankees missed out on Cliff Lee. Andy Pettitte retired and Javier Vazquez went to the Marlins.
The rotation was looking rather thin. It got even worse when Phil Hughes and his 13.94 ERA were put on the disabled list with a dead arm. It's only April and Hughes is already not on the roster.
Freddy Garcia, who nobody wanted and even the Yankees only wanted to give a minor league deal to, so far is 1-0 with a 0.69 ERA in 13 innings pitched and nine strikeouts.
In his first start against the Rangers, he had the Texas hitters off-balanced and off their game. In his last start against the Orioles, it was the same.
The only run he's given up was pitching in mop-up relief against the Red Sox in Fenway Park earlier in the month. As a starter, Garcia has yet to give up a run (six shutout innings against Texas, six shutout innings against Baltimore).
Garcia is not a power pitcher anymore, so now, like Mike Mussina and Andy Pettitte have done for the Yankees in the past, Garcia is becoming a pitcher, using location, movement and changing speeds to fool hitters.
Can Garcia hold up for a full season for the Yankees? Last year with the White Sox, he did make 28 starts and went 12-6 with a 4.64 ERA. So my guess is, he could.
When Bartolo Colon was the first starting pitcher following Cliff Lee signing with the Phillies, I was just in dis-belief.
At the time, I thought to myself, "This is what we're going after now? Really?"
A lot of you didn't even think Colon would even make the team and would have gotten cut before the season started.
After an impressive spring training, Colon made the team as the long-reliever, taking the job from Sergio Mitre.
When Hughes went on the DL, Colon wasn't just handed the job, he had earned it from pitching so well in relief appearances for the Yankees.
Every time Hughes pitched and bombed a start, Colon came in to clean up the mess. Colon did take a loss against the Red Sox for allowing one earned run (Hughes allowed six in two innings)
In two starts made, Colon is 2-0, pitching 14.2 innings, allowing three runs and striking out 13 batters. Colon has also gotten his ERA down to 2.77.
In Wednesday night's start against his former team, the White Sox, Colon pitched eight dominant innings, allowing one run on seven hits and struck out six to pick up his second win.
Many said last night that Colon looked as good as he did in 2005 when he won 21 games and the American League Cy Young Award with the Angels.
If Colon can hold up as well, just like Garcia, what a rotation the Yankees have formed with CC Sabathia (1-1, 2.73 ERA), A.J. Burnett (3-1, 3.52 ERA) and Ivan Nova (1-2, 5.82 ERA).
I know it's only April, but so far, all of these guys, minus Soriano, have been extremely productive and have played well for the Yankees so far.
Oh, and the Yankees are also 13-8 and in first place of the American League East right now.
Now, it's too soon to tell whether Martin, Chavez, Jones, Garcia and Colon will all hold up over the next five months and help the Yankees go on another playoff run, or if they get hurt and force Yankees GM Brian Cashman to make a trade in the middle of the season.
But for right now, Cashman's off-season, which some referred to as a disaster or even "shopping at the dollar-store" looks to be paying off.
Instead of spending $158 million and around $24 million per season on Lee, those five combined cost the Yankees around $10 million. Of the five, Martin had the highest contract with $4 million.
Who knew the Yankees could be so economical with their money and yet, still profit from it by winning.
Only time will tell if these additions continue to be successful for the Yankees.
For now, they've been better than expected.


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Catholic World News
President, publisher departs from OSV
January 29, 2016
Greg Erlandson is stepping down from his position of president and publisher of Our Sunday Visitor, the Indiana-based Catholic publishing company best known for its weekly newspaper.
Erlandson joined the newspaper's staff as editor in 1989 and was named president and publisher in 2000.
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Day 2: Full circle
We picked up our adventure in the state of Ohio, a picturesque visual of open dry land and silos. Because we took a little too much time the day before answering calls from Red Sox nation along the way, we decided to make a direct jaunt to Missouri. At this time, John Mellencamp was missing from the collection.
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Tyreke Evans wins rookie of year. Did Brandon Jennings deserve it?
April 28 UPDATE:
Evans received 67 first-place votes (491 points) from a panel of 123 sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada. Golden State's Stephen Curry finished second with 391 points and Milwaukee's Brandon Jennings finished third with 204 points. Players were awarded five points for each first-place vote, three points for each second-place vote and one point for each third-place vote.
Full voting results here:
Re: Brandon Jennings is ROTY
Bogut took HIS team to the playoffs.
Re: Brandon Jennings is ROTY
I know you're saying that because the Bucs are in the playoffs Jennings should get the nod for ROY. But in my opinion he and his lousy FG percentage were carried to the playoffs by his teammates, especially Bogut. It is between two guys who have already headed home for the season - evans and curry
Re: Brandon Jennings is ROTY
Jennings shot 35% from the field and averaged 12 ppg over the last 55 games of the season. ROFL @ ROTY
Re: Brandon Jennings is ROTY
Anybody who thinks BJ could take the warriors or kings to the playoffs, and that curry or evans would lead this buck team to the lottery are on something.
Re: Brandon Jennings is ROTY
Well, since the lottery means not making the playoffs, I'd say that with Evans or curry they would have. Hard to imagine that those guys would fit on the Bucks. It's not all about stats...
It's easier to make shots when you are on a losing team... it's like every game is practice, but when everything you do matters, it can lead even a decent shooter to shooting under 40%.
You're right, though, he wouldn't have lead the Kings or Warriors to the playoffs. LBJ probably couldn't have done that.
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Re: Brandon Jennings is ROTY
WTF? How could Curry and Evans NOT do what BJ did? Please explain.
This is a very stupid comment. Every game is like practice? You do realize that the kings and warriors actually tried to WIN some games, right? And that Evans was often the only legit scorer who could create on his own? And that teams would gameplan against him and put the team's best individual defender on him, right? He had to face guys like Kobe, Artest, Thabo, Battier, etc despite playing a lot of minutes at PG, because teams tried to stop him. And, he often guarded the best perimeter player on the other end.
You are crazy if you think that because they lost games that it was just chucking at practice.
Re: Brandon Jennings is ROTY
And he lost almost every one of those games, despite his stats or highlight plays.
If you watched the Bucks, you'd know that Jennings doesn't have the ball in his hands as much as Tyreke. Tyreke's ball domination would be a huge minus when it comes to the Bucks. And they could either put him at PG and let him drive every time while spacing the floor with shooters (the best possible strategy, IMO) or run him at the SG like they do in Sac town. The problem then is that they lose a shooter and space for Bogut.
The Bucks' have a very fluid offense with a lot of movement, the only player that really stops the ball is Salmons. If Kmart couldn't be effective playing with Tyreke, it's hard to see how Salmons could. It's still up in the air whether or not Tyreke would defer in the way a point guard should... or if he would get the ball to Bogut.
Tyreke is a very talented player, but don't just assume because he's on a team that they would be better. I'd say Curry has more potential to fit into the Bucks' system, but I am not sure if I buy that, either.
Despite what people say by looking at stats... BJ is a pure PG who is really great at pushing the ball and making the right pass. And the shots he bricks are usually open. Not that it makes it any better, but he's just had a bad shooting year. He's not a bad shooter or a bad shot taker. He is the type of guy you'd want running your offense.
wait a few years, you'll see what I mean. I wish Bogut had stayed healthy so you could really see the Bucks. They probably would have been the (edit) three seed, too. Say what you want about Bogut being good and Salmons being good and everyone fitting into their role and playing good D, but Jennings came in and ran the PG like a pro. That, to me, is much greater than scoring 20 ppg on a 25 win team. TWENTY FIVE WINS...
Re: Brandon Jennings is ROTY
and you are a retard. congrats :applause:
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Evans had multiple game winning plays, as well as a 35 point second half comeback in chicago. Without Martin's drama, the kings weren't that bad. With Martin, they only won 2 games.
You are assuming Evans would dominate the basketball with the bucks, which isn't the case. If he has a legit post option in Bogut (like he did with Landry after the trade), he has no problem giving up the ball. BJ averaged 5.7 dimes while Evans had 5.8 while splitting minutes at point. And he might have had more if his teammates could hit outside shots. It's a myth that Evans can't distribute.
[quote]The Bucks' have a very fluid offense with a lot of movement, the only player that really stops the ball is Salmons. If Kmart couldn't be effective playing with Tyreke, it's hard to see how Salmons could. It's still up in the air whether or not Tyreke would defer in the way a point guard should... or if he would get the ball to Bogut.
And as for Curry? Are you seriously saying he isn't a playmaker?
I didn't say the bucks would be better. I said with Evans or Curry, the bucks would still be a playoff team. What made them successful wasn't mainly BJ. It was a combination of factors with their rookie point guard being one of them, and Evans and Curry could make the same impact at least. Hell, there was a time Luke was the best PG on the team.
You just said he misses open shots, but he's not a bad shooter. That's exactly what an inconsistent shooter does: they are inconsistent. I don't see how being a more consistent and efficient scorer is a negative in Curry and Evans. It seems you want to penalize them for that.
We are having a discussion about THIS SEASON'S ROY award, not about how a guy will develop in a few years.
Hell, I think Collison could do what BJ did with the bucks.
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And about the practice thing, when most teams played the Warriors or Kings I doubt they put too much effort into defending Tyreke or Curry, compared to what they were doing against players who were on playoff teams (like Jennings). Again I'm just trying to explain what Smak meant so it's just a guess.
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Nah, he isn't. He doesn't have better numbers than Evans or Curry. He also has a big mouth, which probably doesn't help his case.
I do, however, think Jennings is the only guy of the three who's learning what it actually takes to win in the NBA. Skiles is doing a great job teaching Jennings how to run an offense, play defense, all while showcasing his own abilities. If you had to put one of the three on a winning team right now, only Jennings would thrive.
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Jennings didn't take his team to the playoffs. Bogut did. BJ was an key player on a playoff team, but not the one who lead them there.
Hell, with this kind of logic for ROY, Darko Milicic deserved it over Lebron James because he was on the championship team instead of the lottery team.
I mean really, I really believe in Jennings as a player, but if you watch these Bucks games, you know who's leading that team. On the other hand, the Kings didn't fall into the lottery because of Evans. They fell into the lottery because their team is bad. A top draft is most likely inherits a bad team. That's just the way it is. This should be basic sports knowledge.
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Yeah, Bogut was the better player, but Jennings played a huge rule in the Bucks year. He did a great job managing the team. He's learning how to win.
The Kings fell into the lottery because they suck. Evans had a good year, but I'm still not convinced he's a winner. The guy monopolizes the basketball.
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I was on KQED's Forum this morning with host Michael Krasny, comrade Carla Marinucci and Mother Jones editor Clara Jeffery. You can listen to the broadcast below.
My view on the story is pretty simple. Romney misspoke and said things he should not have said. He also hit on a truth, which is that close to half of Americans pay no federal income taxes. I am working on a Thursday column on the story.
I think the news media do not look good by harping on Romney's gaffes. Last week, when Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed, the Washington press corps was overly interested in a Romney statement on a tweet from the U.S. embassy in Cairo, while many took on faith the administration's dubious claim that a 14-minute trailer sparked the Benghazi attack. Worse, there has been little blowback against the administration's attempt to get YouTube to pull the video in the United States.
But don't take my word on this. Consider what Nate Silver blogged today:
I begin from the premise that there is reason to be skeptical that Mr. Romney's "47 percent" comments will have all that much effect on the polls. The news media often jumps the gun in declaring events to be "game changers" when they later prove to little effect on the numbers. Mr. Romney's comments about Libya last week, for instance, were supposed to be very damaging to him, but if anything the numbers have moved toward him since then.
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CORVALLIS, Ore. - Fifteen 4-H high school students from throughout the state have been selected as the Oregon delegation to attend the National 4-H Congress in Atlanta, Ga., during Thanksgiving weekend.
More than 1,300 4-H members from all 50 states and Puerto Rico attend the congress, which is often the highlight of a 4-H member's career. Delegates hear inspirational speakers, participate in cultural workshops, take part in a large-scale community service project and visit historical sites near Atlanta.
A state committee of the Oregon State University Extension 4-H Youth Development Program (http://oregon.4h.oregonstate.edu/) selects delegates based on overall achievement in 4-H projects, leadership, communication, citizenship and community service. Finalists were chosen for National 4-H Congress in June at the State 4-H summer conference at OSU.
Delegates chosen for the 2010 National 4-H Congress are:
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quote:Originally posted by death_2_angels:i know you guys say that it's all natural and most women are ashamed if they dont but i feel really embarressed.
Woah there! It can be natural, but I don't think I'd say that "most women are ashamed if they don't". That's pretty far from the truth of the situation, and if someone happens to be ashamed of it, then they shouldn't be. There's nothing to be ashamed of! The bottom line is that some women bleed, and some women don't. And there's no right or wrong about it. I didn't bleed or have pain the first time I had intercourse, and that certainly didn't make me feel ashamed.
You may or may not have a hymen at this point, it's hard to say. Hymens can erode away due to any number of factors...tampons, masturbation, horseback riding, gymnastics, other physical (or sexual) activities, etc. A hymen isn't like a balloon, doesn't pop suddenly, or even necessarily rip quickly...even during sexual activity, it can simply erode away gently. And no, your period has nothing to do with any bleeding that may occur. Check out those articles Smurf linked you to, there's alot of good information there. Also try searching the boards, there's a ton of topics about this.
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The national selectors have named the 14-man squad for to represent Guyana in the Regional Super50 2015 which is slated to commence on January 24 in Barbados and Antigua.
The squad reads: Leon Johnson (Captain), Veerasammy Permaul (Vice-Captain), Anthony Bramble (Wkp), Shimron Hetmyer, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Christopher Barnwell, Raymon Reifer, Rajendra Chandrika, Steven Jacobs, Assad Fudadin, Devendra Bishoo, Ronsford Beaton, Paul Wintz, and Jonathan Foo. The Coach is Esuan Crandon, Asst. Coach/Manager is Rayon Griffith and the Physio is Ernesto Gonzalez.
Guyana Jaguars is in Zone 'B' with Barbados Pride, Jamaica Scorpions, CCC Marooners and ICC Americas. In the first leg, Jaguars will play Pride on January 24, Scorpions on January 26, Marooners on January 28, and ICC Americas on January 30. In the second leg, the Guyanese takes on the Marooners February 3, Pride on February 5,Scorpions on February 7, and ICC Americas on February 9.
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3 held for duping people with false information to sell insurance policy
The Deccan Gymkhana police have arrested three people from Noida in UP from a franchise firm, which works for Tata Insurance Company for allegedly duping over 40 people in Pune by asking them to take the insurance policies and promising they would get a loan facility from Tata Capital at zero per cent rate
A complaint was registered by Ashish Krugar, the regional manager with Tata Capital. The arrested suspects have been identified as Sonu Sharma (23), Mohammad Juber (22) and Virendra Singh (21) all residents of Noida. They work as tele-callers for ASN private limited which is the franchise company for Tata Insurance and responsible for generating customers for the company.
"These people, while working as tele-callers called up some people in Pune and offered a plan of Tata Insurance and promised the customers that if they go for the plan, they would be entitled to receive loans at zero per cent from Tata Capital. By using the same modus operandi, they conned several customers from the city," said PSI Bhushan Dayma.
He said that they did this because they wanted to earn incentives and extra bonus points by acquiring maximum customers.
"There was no mention in the insurance policy that the customers who opted for these plans would receive a zero per cent personal loan. However, the accused projected the plan in such a manner that people, who obtained the plans accepted it blindly.
On an average, 40 customers, who have taken the plan from these three had paid Rs 10,000 as investment in the plan and drew cheques in the favour of the Tata AIA and sent to ASN Pvt Ltd.
"The incident came to light after a retired employee of Tata Capital, received a call and sensed something amiss and contacted the regional office in the city.
After that a complaint was registered by the regional manager of Tata Capital against the three accused for damaging the reputation of the company and providing false information to customers and using fake names while interacting with people on call," said Dayma.
Police have appealed to those who have got insurance plans from the accused, who posed as Manav Mittal and Dipak Mittal to come forward and contact the the Deccan Gymkhana police. "Those who have spoken to them on the phone and were promised they would get loan facility at zero per cent rate can contact a police station," said an official.


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Things to Do Around the Airport in Orlando, FL
Orlando, Florida, is well-known for large amusement park complexes like Walt Disney World and Universal Studios, but if you're stuck in Orlando on an extended layover or have time to kill before catching a flight home, you can take advantage of several lesser-known activities within a few miles of the Orlando International Airport. These range from zip-lining over gator breeding grounds to brushing up on your wakeboard skills to relaxing in a public park.
The Orlando Watersports Complex (orlandowatersports.com) is six miles west of Orlando International Airport. Here you can learn to waterski, wakeboard, wakeskate or kneeboard with the help of two cableways that run from 18 to 36 mph. Various admission passes allow for hourly or all-day training. At the Orlando Kart Center (orlandokartcenter.com), you can race go-carts in 10-minute sessions. The carts reach 65 mph, and the complex has short and long tracks to accommodate drivers of varying degrees of experience. Drivers must be at least 60 inches tall.
For a look at the little-known natural side of Orlando, try Boggy Creek Airboat Rides (bcairboats.com), four miles south of Orlando Airport. The company offers a range of scenic nature tours and swamp excursions on 17-person air boats. Boggy Creek is part of the central Florida Everglades, and you are likely to see alligators, turtles and wading birds as you cruise through wetlands and cypress swamps. If you're particularly interested in alligators, head to Gatorland (gatorland.com), 13 miles southwest of the airport. Here you'll find thousands of alligators and crocodiles, including the rare white alligator. Take the Screamin' Gator Zip Line for a view of an alligator breeding marsh from seven stories up.
If you want to brush up on your golf game while waiting for a flight in Orlando, you're in luck. North Shore Golf Club (golfatnorthshore.com) is a public, 18-hole course 11 miles east of the airport. The club has a full practice facility, including target greens, a pitching complex, a practice bunker and putting/chipping greens. Hunter's Creek (hunterscreek.com) is another public, 18-hole course 12 miles southeast of the airport. The pine-covered course has 13 lakes and five sets of tees. Private and group instruction is available.
Public Parks
If your kids need to release some energy before getting on the plane, you might want to check out one of Orlando's public parks. The 66-acre Barber Park, six miles north of the airport, has soccer fields, basketball courts, picnic areas, a playground and a dog park. Set on Barber Lake, the park also has fishing areas. The Ft. Gatlin Recreation Complex, nine miles northwest of the airport, has a tennis center, family swimming pool and playground.
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