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WINNIPEG -- Have you ever watched the usual weekly wrestling fare on TV and found yourself longing for days gone by, when imposing bruisers of various sizes and fighting styles duked it out in smoke-filled halls?
Well, keep the small venues, take out the smoke (thank you, smoking bans), add Winnipeg's "Outlaw" Adam Knight, and you're taken back in time with Knight's inaugural DVD, Hits, Highlights and Horrors, a compilation of eight of his favourite matches.
Wrestling since 1995, Knight uses his six-foot-five, 272-pound body to wrestle a believable, stiff-looking style.
A viewer could easily find himself wincing or even exclaiming "ouch!" watching Knight take on opponents like TNA's Samoa Joe, with whom Knight engaged in a nearly 20-minute back-and-forth violent encounter.
"Joe and I got along pretty good, had a very simple chat before the match, nothing crazy," Knight told SLAM! Wrestling. "I think my size surprised him and we worked accordingly, called very little and just went out there and fought. The only thing that was rough was the Muscle Buster; that wrenched my neck out a bit, but nothing I can't handle."
Other big names the Outlaw faces include Animal and Hawk, (The Legion of Doom), Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, and Buff Bagwell.
A contest against fellow Winnipegger and Ring of Honor's own Kenny Omega showed Knight could also work well against smaller, quicker opponents.
"It's always a pleasure to test my abilities against him," said Omega. "For a man of his size, he's deceivingly quick and agile. Top that with his natural ability to perform and you have one of Canada's greatest heavyweights. Wrestlers like him have certainly become a rarity these days."
Knight seemed particularly proud of his brutal chain match against Chi Chi Cruz, revealing it filled him with confidence about his own skills.
"I was very honored to be working the program with Cheech because he was one of the guys I was most intimidated of and respectful of when I was breaking in. His knowledge and abilities are second-to-none, and his willingness to go even-Steven with me throughout that feud meant more to me than I can say," Knight said. "In many respects, that series of matches were what convinced me that I could hold my own with anyone in the world and feel like I'm on the same page. The chain match was vicious and violent, and we both went into it with the idea of leaving it all in the ring, come hell or high water. To this day, it's one I get asked about by the fans who were in attendance."
Another notable match was against Moses Luke, a nearly 400-pounder who was probably wrestling closer to 320 back in 2001 when he and Knight locked up. A top rope leg drop by Luke was somewhat reminiscent of ECW's Balls Mahoney, a comparison with which Luke isn't unfamiliar.
"I used to get that a lot -- and I mean a lot -- even (Steve) Corino made jokes about it, saying how he has to tell Balls he has a twin in Winnipeg," Luke said, and later added: "I always had fun working with Knight, every time we got in the ring together."
Now, for those of you spoiled by the high production values of WWE and TNA, the single camera filming Knight's matches might seem quite primitive and maybe even a drawback. Maybe there's a solution for you. Dim your lights, turn up the volume, and put yourself at the camera's-eye-view, surrounded by rowdy spectators. And become engrossed in the action in the ring. You won't be disappointed.
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All paintings in this category are round.
A circle, or rather its three-dimensional aspect, a sphere, best reflects the sense of harmony in Mitkov's understanding.
A thing can easily be built in a circle if it is good, but not nearly so easily if it is evil.
Harmony is uncompromising and is at work everywhere in the Universe.
The most fascinating period is from 2012 on. Mitkov highlights two particular dates in it: 21.12.2012, supposedly the end of the world, and 10.02.2013, the beginning of the Age of Aquarius and the Chinese New Year. According to the artist, that was the time when the mankind chose its future 2000-year cycle and the good prevailed. Always positive, always filled with a lot of energy, Mitkov turned his latest period into a life mission. It is not about just composing paintings but rather about creating and putting enormous love into canvases. The painter believes a painting can make a real difference in a man's life.

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In Search of Adventure
Looking to game right now? In Search of Adventure is a collection of six low-level adventures well-suited for picking up and diving right in. You can literally pick up anyone of these short adventures, breeze through its background info in a few minutes while your players generate some level 1 characters, and be ready to go in no time. Save yourself a little more time by throwing one of the canned player hooks at your group and youre neck-deep in adventure in minutes.
You do, of course, have to know what it is youre looking for when picking up a published adventure off the store shelf. Granted some GMs are going to want depth, intricately-woven story lines, and continuity from one episode to the next. With some scaling and background work on the GMs part, it is somewhat feasible that all six of these adventures could be run as a series, probably taking the party through the entire heroic tier. Its a stretch to say that any of the adventures laid out in this work are meant to be interrelated though, and the weakness of the product as a whole might be that even with scaling youll be doing a lot of prep work if youre going to try to balance what is intended to be a 1st-4th level adventure for a complete party of characters that has already run through two or three of the other adventures in this compilation and attained higher levels. Reading through the adventures I found myself wondering if Id ever be likely to run enough very low-level adventures with one group or a number of groups to actually use all six modules without significant work on my part to scale them for groups that have reached higher levels.
But those who will find this product most useful are those groups that dont have a lot of time to do all that background work, and want a straightforward, combat-laden hack-and-slash romp through a modestly detailed environment. As stated above, canned hooks are provided to get you right in. There wont be ton of role playing in any of the adventures. Player parties will pretty much be lured into site-based adventures where theyll negotiate some traps before busting down doors and mixing it up in combat with the dungeon denizens that are simply meandering about waiting for heroes to deliver them to their doom.
With that said, I dont want to understate the creativity that has gone into In Search of Adventure. The cover and interior art are surprisingly good. While some of the interior work is stock art meant to just fill white space, a fair number of the illustrations are inspired and add a great deal of value to the work. Further, while the hooks developed for each of the adventures are just about as basic as you can get (more than one of the adventures suggests the clichéd bandits are attacking local caravans hook, for example), the storylines are all unique and each offers some flare that keeps things interesting. None of them takes the easy or predictable route that many low-level adventures do. Clever use of buffed-up, low-level creatures that will pose an interesting challenge to players seems to be a hallmark of the work as a whole. And as with Goodman Games other products, like the Dungeon Crawl Classics line, youre going to get a fair bit of new material and an appendix chock full of some good crunch (16 new monsters, about 5 truly new traps that arent just variations on what can already be found in the core rule books, and a few other goodies like customized rituals, diseases, and curses).
With In Search of Adventure, youre also going to get a well-written and laid-out piece of work. The GM info that is there to get you started is brief but thorough in each piece. Theres an intuitive flow to the reading and flow of encounters. Maps and reproducible handouts are well-rendered, clear, and accurate.
The six adventures, briefly, are King Dretch in which a minor demon has come into some arcane power not typically harnessed by his kind; Children of the Snake God in which an evil priest seeks to resurrect an ancient evil; in The Scorpion Queen investigating a mysterious drought lures the characters to an ancient pyramid; The Forbidden Crypt pits characters against grave robbers plundering the tombs of the Death Kings; characters will stumble upon maze-like ruins in Legacy of the Labyrinth and unwittingly release a slumbering evil (side note on this adventure: the intricate maze the party is to explore in this work is quite hefty and poses a mapping and table-top dilemma that seems like it would be hard to overcome during actual gameplay); and in Tides of Doom the player characters are all that stand between their region and a nascent cult bent on bringing a literal tide of death to the land.
I actually play tested King Dretch and found it to have an interesting flare that caught my players off-guard. They were perplexed to find the ultimate challenge to be a seemingly mundane foe who, in actuality, was a very potent adversary. We enjoyed the varied and challenging combat encounters. It was a great intro to the 4E system for this group that had never played 4E before, allowing me to highlight some of the intricacies of the new edition (especially combat rules) and allowing them to use a fair range of their characters scope and potential. While not under-utilized, there are only a few uses of the quest system and skill challenges in this adventure and throughout the entire work, and little in the way of role playing opportunities. Be that as it may, those can be injected by GMs who are willing to spend a little time developing them.
The final word is that, if youre looking to game now with little or no prep work, youre interested in diving headlong into 4Es combat system, and you want just enough flare to keep the game interesting, then youre likely to find In Search of Adventure to be for you. Further, if youre willing to do some work during the downtime between sessions, In Search of Adventure could potentially offer you an entire campaigns worth of material, ready to take your players all the way through the heroic tier. Either way, youll appreciate the very-good-quality production values, easy-to-use layout and flow, extra crunch material offered throughout the adventures and in the books appendix, and the various authors creative takes on some familiar foes and adventure themes.
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Many in the Arab media are labeling Israel's new unity government as a dirty political trick by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Kadima Party leader Shaul Mofaz. But some are noting that standard political analysis does not adequately explain why Netanyahu would prop up an opponent that polls showed him trouncing in early elections.
Both Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya commented during live coverage of the unity government announcement that Netanyahu needed Mofaz in the government before he could launch a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities.
The pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat also pondered if the unity deal was struck out of "fear of risking early elections, or [as] a prelude to military action against Iran?"
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Belgium is a country in northwest Europe. Founding member of the European Union, it covers an area of 30,528 square kilometres and has a population of about 10.7 million. From the end of the Middle Ages until the 17th century, it was a prosperous centre of commerce and culture. Upon its independence, Belgium eagerly participated in the Industrial Revolution and, at the end of the nineteenth century, possessed several colonies in Africa. Today, Belgium's strongly globalized economy and its transportation infrastructure are integrated with the rest of Europe. Its location at the heart of a highly industrialized region helps made it 2007 the world's 15th largest trading nation. Cultural life is nowadays concentrated within each language community and a variety of barriers have made a shared cultural sphere less pronounced. Anyway, the region corresponding to today's Belgium has seen the flourishing of major artistic movements that have had tremendous influence on European art and culture. Text extracted from wikipedia.


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In the summer of 1882, Martin Johnson Heade, an American painter known for his remarkable paintings of hummingbirds, traveled to Amherst, Mass., in amorous pursuit of one of his students – heedless of the fact that she was a married woman. Her name was Mabel Todd and her husband was an astronomer working at Amherst College.
But Heade was destined for disappointment. Todd was already falling in love with another man. Her romantic interest – and, eventually, her lover – was Emily Dickinson's married brother, Austin. Shortly after Heade's arrival in Amherst, Todd was invited to play the piano at the Dickinson homestead. To thank Todd, Emily Dickinson sent her a poem – about a hummingbird.
In Christopher Benfey's A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade, intellectual and personal plotlines intersect, intertwine, collide, and finish by creating a delicate pattern. It was a relatively small world in the 19th century so perhaps it is not too surprising that the lives of the American intelligentsia of the time were so interconnected. But it is fascinating – and Benfey's neatly pieced-together book makes for lively and moving reading.
Benfey's real subject, he tells us, is the "cluster of American artists and writers adrift during the seismic upheaval of the Civil War and its wrenching aftermath." If you've recently read Drew Gilpin Faust's forceful "This Republic of Suffering," then the anguish imposed on Americans by the Civil War will be fresh in your mind. Benfey's more narrow focus on this particular group of "remarkable creative minds, who survived the war and the loss of so many certainties" serves as an interesting amplification of Faust's thesis that the war altered Americans irrevocably.
Benfey teaches English at Mount Holyoke College. The hummingbird leitmotif, he explains, occurred to him when he discovered that so many of the period figures who interested him – Mabel Todd, Martin Johnson Heade, Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Ward Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe – were all "fanatical about hummingbirds." (The hummingbird was also a key figure in the debate over evolution started by Darwin's 1859 "The Origin of Species.")
Perhaps the hummingbird, with its tiny size, remarkable speed, and evanescence, seemed an antidote to the suffering of the war. Or perhaps these lively talents – many of whom flitted from passion to passion and not always wisely – saw something of themselves in the little bird. The many overlapping love affairs Benfey recounts seemed to bring more difficulty than succor. The various voyages made in search of peace or beauty (Heade to Brazil, Harriet Beecher Stowe to Florida, many of the period's celebrities to the Hotel Byron in Switzerland) did not always deliver.
Of course the emotional toll of the war was enormous. Harriet Beecher Stowe's son Fred survived the war but was destroyed by it. He hoped a long sea voyage might restore him but, instead, in 1871 he "stepped off the ship and vanished into thin air. He was never heard from again." His mother never got over the loss.
Even in her seclusion in Amherst, Emily Dickinson felt the war intensely. In 1861, she wrote that she would "have no winter this year – on account of the soldiers." Instead, she said, "when the Humming birds come down" she would shut her eyes "and go far away."
But for this cluster of thinkers, there is no escape from one another. Mark Twain, who visited Nicaragua a few months after Heade's trip there, bought one of Heade's Florida landscapes for his Hartford home. Henry Ward Beecher, whose infidelities nearly undid him, was a collector of both hummingbirds and Heade's paintings. Austin Dickinson and Mabel Todd blasted their own lives with their affair but in the end, it was Todd's connection with their family that saved Emily Dickinson's work from obscurity. "Almost alone among her contemporaries," writes Benfey, (and beginning with Dickinson's hummingbird poem), "Mabel Todd recognized the genius of Emily Dickinson's poems and shepherded them to a wider public."
Benfey closes his examination of these eventful 19th-century lives with a thrust into the future. In the 1940s and '50s, American artist Joseph Cornell became fascinated with both Heade and Dickinson and introduced the hummingbird into his own work. And so in a move that seems almost a feat of time travel, the little bird darted once again into another century of American culture.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) The NFL says there was a plan B to finish the Super Bowl on Sunday night.
The Superdome had a backup power system that was about to be used during the NFL championship's electrical outage but it wasn't needed because power started coming back at that time, Commissioner Roger Goodell said.
The NFL has contingency plans for game interruptions, regardless of the cause.
The 34-minute Super Bowl delay occurred when a piece of monitoring equipment sensed an abnormality in the electrical load feeding the dome, officials have said. But the game wasn't in danger of being postponed because of the backup system.
``That was not a consideration last night,'' NFL vice president of business operations Eric Grubman said at a news conference Monday. ``That is not what was at play.''
Goodell was sitting with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during the game. The Meadowlands will host next year's Super Bowl.
``We already had the conversation,'' Goodell said about avoiding a repeat of the blackout. ``This is clearly something that can be fixed, and it's clearly something that we can prepare for. And we will.''
Grubman said Goodell has the ``sole authority'' to enforce any contingency plans, and was in perfect position to do so Sunday night.
``He was there and he had the full reports,'' Grubman said. ``We were quickly able to determine we did not have a situation that would cause a permanent interruption in the game. There were no safety issues, we had multiple equipment and sources of power.''
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While declining to be specific, Grubman said the league has ``backup plans'' for continuing the game. Those plans all focus on playing the full 60 minutes, regardless of whether it is the same day or on another day.
So it's unlikely that the Ravens, ahead 28-6 at the time of the partial blackout, would have simply been declared the winners and awarded the Lombardi Trophy. In the end, Baltimore still won, beating San Francisco 34-31. The momentum shifted tremendously after the lights went back on, however, with the 49ers rallying to make it 31-29 at one point in the fourth quarter.


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The Coker Cross Country women did it again and repeated a second place finish! We are extremely excited about how well we are performing as a team. It is a great confidence booster for us to keep the "trophy train" going and continue to place together at the top. Not only are we performing well as a team, but individually we are getting faster and when it comes time for the championship segment of our season everyone should have the race of their life.
This past weekend's race was a bit more challenging because it was a 6k. It can sometimes be difficult to get in a groove because your body is used to pushing through the 5k and when you add the extra thousand meters, the race seems like a lifetime. Considering how early in the season it still is everyone was pleased with how they finished. All of us pushed outside our comfort zones and really went after it and it paid off well. Everyone on the women's side turned in 6k personal bests. The next time we will race a 6k will be at regionals on November 6th so we have plenty of time to improve. We didn't have our full eight compete this time and hopefully when people heal; we will have even more depth. The women are off to a great start early in the year and I could not be happier with how the season is progressing.
The men had an even tougher weekend; they raced Friday night and Saturday morning. On Friday night they raced a 6k at Claflin and took home the meet title and then the next morning they took on their first 8k of the season. Considering racing the night prior, the men raced pretty well according to their times.
We face more competition this weekend at the Citadel Invitational and everyone should be pushed. It will be a mixture of Division I and Division II schools in the race and I think that we will be able to hold our own and who knows maybe we will bring back another trophy. We are all very excited and we feel that this is our year to start a new era at Coker in cross country. Continue to show your support because every bit of it is deeply appreciated. And if you are in the area this weekend, swing over to James Island Park in Charleston to catch the exciting cross country action. As always happy running!
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The charges against billionaire hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen have "no merit" and Cohen will fight them "vigorously," said a spokesman for Cohen's firm SAC Capital Advisors in a statement to the media on Friday.
The statement came in response to charges from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that Cohen failed to supervise two employees who are accused of insider trading. (Reporting By Emily Flitter; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)
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INDIO>> Who says encores don't exist at Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival?
Arcade Fire proved just that closing out the final night of the festival by holding its own encore on the Coachella Stage despite having its sound unplugged minutes after the midnight curfew on Sunday.
With the help of members of the Preservation Jazz Hall Band, the Montreal rockers picked up their instruments, jumped off the stage and paraded into the open areas of the field while finishing up "Wake Up," from the band's critically acclaimed album "The Funeral."
Blondie's famed front woman Debbie Harry joined the band for two songs, including a cover of Blondie's "Heart of Glass," during the hour and half long set. The performance also included an appearance from the band's own bobble heads and a stream of confetti released into the air.
Lead singer Win Butler candidly took shots at festival organizers for its VIP areas and the anticipation of being unplugged before the end of their set.
During the set, Butler said "fake VIP room (expletive)," which elicited applause from the crowds. He told fans not to worry, it "super sucks," in there and they weren't missing anything.
"If the power cuts off, just keep (expletive) singing," Butler instructed the crowd.
And fans did not miss a beat. Almost on cue of the microphones being turned off,fans sang loudly along to the chorus of "Wake Up."
As the fans continued crooning, Butler attempted to keep the party going by using a megaphone while other members held instruments in their hands.
The set featured a number of songs "The Funeral," but spanned of the band's collection of work, including their most latest album, "Reflektor."
Song after song, fans in the crowd grew more pleased with the final acts selection emphatically singing along, as Butler called to the crowd that he was going to need all their energy.
Harry also provided back up vocals for the bands' "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)."
But Butler was not done down criticizing what the festival has become since the band first performed a decade ago, giving a shout out to "all the bands playing instruments at this festival." It was Butler's subtle way of criticizing the increased presence of electronic dance music acts like Calvin Harris who performed on the same stage earlier in the evening.
As the band wrapped up their performance, many gathered to the side of the stage chanting "one more song."
Jennifer Cortez, 29, of Carlsbad has seen Arcade Fire each time they have played at the festival.
"I thought it was incredible, the energy was palpable," she said. "I don't even have words, I'm all smiles."


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Though controversial civil unions legislation grabbed the spotlight at the end of the 68th session of the Colorado General Assembly, there were other highlights — and lowlights.
Coloradans got a bipartisan budget that puts government on a responsible course for the coming fiscal year, avoiding debilitating decreases to necessary government functions and programs. Per pupil funding for K-12 will stay the same, and higher education suffered a relatively small cut.
But on the downside, several important pieces of legislation were deep-sixed, including the ASSET bill, setting tuition for illegal immigrant students, and the telecom reform measure, which would have phased out subsidies for rural phone service.
It was a mixed bag, as far as we are concerned, but a productive session.
We were glad to see the Republican-controlled House and the Democratic-controlled Senate come together to support state personnel reform. Their collaborative actions will put a question before voters asking them to reshape antiquated rules on hiring procedures. We hope voters will be favorably inclined to support the changes.
However, we were dismayed that legislators saw fit to approve a bill limiting prosecutors' ability to charge juveniles as adults in certain circumstances. We believe this revision ignores previous juvenile justice overhauls that appear to be working.
It was a shame, in our minds, to see the ASSET legislation go down for a second time. This measure would have set a separate college tuition rate for Colorado high school students without legal status.
These kids, achievers looking to better themselves, must pay high out-of-state rates to attend Colorado colleges. We had encouraged state lawmakers to provide hope for these young people, but it was not to be.
Another bill that died that would have been of benefit to Colorado was the inactive-voter measure. It would have called on county elections clerks to send mail ballots to inactive voters who were otherwise eligible to cast ballots. The measure would have encouraged electoral inclusion, and it's too bad it didn't make it to the governor's desk.
There were several elections measures before the legislature, and another that failed would have required voters to show identification at the polls. If carried out properly, we did not think it would discriminate or bar people from exercising their right to cast a ballot.
One other unfortunate casualty of the session was telecom reform, which could have shifted money to rural broadband development. Perhaps it will pass in another session.
Though much of the political oxygen in the legislature has been sucked up by civil unions — and will be again with a special session beginning Monday — there are other important matters of state business that needed to be attended to.
On balance, we think Colorado's elected lawmakers this year compiled a reasonably good record of doing so.


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A Locally Based Model Goes Global
Development Marketplace winner Pachamama Coffee Cooperative (PCC) was featured in the New York Times not too long ago. Its newest initiative CoffeeCSA.org found its roots in humble beginnings. Springing from the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement which began in the 1960's in Switzerland, consumers receive their produce directly from the farmer through a household subscription paid for in advance. Then on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, the consumer cum subscriber receives a portion of the overall harvest.
CoffeeCSA.org is a platform that allows consumers to pay in advance for a coffee subscription ranging from one month to one year. There consumers have a direct link to farmers who grew their coffee in Ethiopia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru or Guatemala. And the advance subscription provides a more stable income to farmers. It's a great adaptation of an old model for coffee farmers who often live on only $2 per day.


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The Houston Dynamo have acquired forward Calen Carr from the Chicago Fire in exchange for forward Dominic Oduro, it was announced today.
Carr, 28, is in his sixth MLS season after being selected by the Fire with the No. 10 pick in the 2006 MLS SuperDraft. A speedy forward who was named Pac-10 Player of the Year in 2005 while a senior at Cal, Carr has been limited by injuries in his professional career. After returning from injury last season, he scored as a substitute in his first two games back, including against the Dynamo on August 21. He finished the 2010 season with three goals in only 538 minutes.
"[Calen] is versatile, can play wide, and has good pace on the field", said Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear. "I think he's a good player despite the fact that he has suffered due to injuries. I believe he'll fit well in (our) locker room."
Oduro, 25, scored six league goals for Houston in 44 games after being acquired in May 2009.
"We wish Dominic the best of luck in the future and thank him for his time here", said Dynamo president Chris Canetti. "This move comes at the appropriate time and is in the best interest of the organization. We are always seeking ways to improve the club, and we think this is a positive step forward. We are eager to benefit from the athleticism, skill and versatility that Calen brings to the team."
The Dynamo are next in action Friday night, taking on the Seattle Sounders at Qwest Field in Seattle at 9 p.m. in a match televised nationally on FOX Soccer and FOX Deportes. After a road match against the New York Red Bulls on Saturday, April 2, Houston will then play a Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup qualifying match in College Station, Texas, on April 6 against Sporting Kansas City.
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Ruth Duncan and Linda Currie are teaching MFR to physiotherapists in South Korea next month.
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I had always wanted to be a nurse but things took a different turn and I ended up in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry at the beginning of my career. After a period of ill health I got back to work and ended up living in the USA where I eventually trained as a massage therapist graduating from Humanities School of Allied Health, Florida in 2001. On returning home to Scotland I opened my own remedial massage business and continued to travel back to the USA to further my education in Myofascial Release, the John F Barnes approach. I completed my training with John in 2004 although return regularly to re-take classes and assist with John to further my experience. Until 2009 I was the only therapist in the UK who had completed all of John's classes but as word grows I am now joined by an ever growing group of great therapists. I began teaching myofascial release in 2004 in the form of Integrated Myofascial Therapy (iMFT) which is a unique blend of soft tissue and fascial techniques aimed at restoring balance, function and getting people back to a pain free active lifestyle. iMFT has gone from strength to strength and we are probably the biggest UK training provider specialising in MFR, but there is always more to do...... I also have an MFR treatment centre just north of Glasgow where I work with 3 other MFR therapist, all trained in the USA as well as having completed iMFT. We offer individual and intensive programmes and treat clients from all over the UK. Feel free to email us on email@example.com or call 0845 602 6274 View all posts by Myofascial Release UK


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See-Think-Wonder and Zoom In
Are two Visible Thinking 'Routines for Introducing and Exploring Ideas' that have students observe and think deeply about images (or objects).
For explanations and details on all the Visible Thinking routines go to http://www.pz.harvard.edu/vt/visiblethinking_html_files/VisibleThinking1.html
Finding Appropriate Content for See-Think-Wonder and Zoom In
Find appropriate thought provoking content by searching in the following places.
Flickr- you can find some really high quality thought provoking images on flickr. Flickr does not require you to sign up to search for images and you can find quality photos on any topic.
One example of this was bought to my attention by Richard Byrne writer of Free Technology For Teachers (The Best Education Blog out there!) in his blog post Bad Math in the Real World. Byrne identifies The Bad Maths Flickr Group (Check it out at http://www.flickr.com/groups/badmaths/) which has some fantastic images of Bad Math (majority of currency images in British Pounds) that could be used in the See- Think- Wonder routine to get students thinking about why the maths in these photos is dodgy.
A tip for searching tumblr
The inbuilt search on the tumblr site is not the best so I find it very useful to search for tumblr blogs and images using google search. I simply add tumblr to my searches. For example if i am looking for photos of bushfires for our inquiry topic of natural disasters I search for 'bushfire tumblr.' The result gave me all the photos #bushfire of tumblr but also a few dedicated blogs. One was BushFires which is a goldmine of photos and resources.
Simple is often best
google image search and google video search - a basic well known simple way to find images and videos.
Daily image sources
Flipboard- a flip magazine with a wide range of content including photos from various media. Available as a website, iOS app, and android app.
theguardianEyewitness- Free option provides one photo per day that is relevant to news items or of general interest. Also available as a website, iPad app and android app.
Nat Geo Today- jam packed full of fantastic images from NatGeo. Available as a website and iOS app
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- Longmont-area real estate
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LONGMONT -- The Longmont area home sales market has officially returned to its pre-Great Recession levels, according to Dene Yarwood, a broker/associate in Wright Kingdom Real Estate's Longmont office and the president of the Longmont Association of Realtors' board of directors.
"Everyone that was on the fence jumped off at once, and I don't know how we didn't have an earthquake," Yarwood said. "That's how quick the market changed."
Through the end of the second quarter, single-family home sales have increased 21.5 percent in Longmont compared with the same period last year. Sales are up 15 percent in the Carbon Valley and nearly 6.5 percent in Lafayette. Louisville and Boulder saw a drop in the number of sales: almost 4 percent and almost 2 percent, respectively.
Meanwhile, median prices in all five areas climbed across the board, with a jump of nearly 23 percent to $266,000 in the Carbon Valley -- Firestone, Frederick and Dacono -- on the high end and a 4.6 percent jump in Lafayette. The median sales price in Longmont through the second quarter was up 6.4 percent, to $259,090.
The other barometer of a strong sales climate, average days on market, also dropped in all five areas. The biggest drop was in Boulder, where the average time has dropped 57 percent, to 24 from 56 days.
"I'd say it has been strong from the start of the year; actually, from the end of December we started seeing days on the market drop dramatically," said Dave Wagner, a broker/associate with ERA Tradewind Real Estate in Longmont. He said the normally slow holiday season in December was anything but.
"I listed a house on Christmas Eve and sold it Christmas Day; I listed a house on New Year's Eve and sold it New Year's Day," Wagner said.
One of the challenges facing home buyers and their representatives in the real estate community is the lack of choices.
"The big story right now is multiple offers and finding properties for our buyers," said Yarwood.
According to numbers compiled on behalf of LAR by Kyle Snyder of Land Title Guarantee Co., there were 354 active listings at the end of June, compared with 430 listed at the end of June 2012.
But Wagner said that because homes are considered active listings until they're closed on, and sometimes, homes that aren't even built yet are counted as active listings, the number of houses to look at that are free and clear is much smaller.
"I would say it's less than half that," he said.
Builders are starting to build again, albeit slowly. While the number single-family construction permits pulled through May in Longmont -- the most recent numbers available -- were around 40 both this year and last, that's a dramatic difference from 2011, when just seven were pulled in the same time frame.
Wagner said it was the City Council's decision to remove the rules it had in place regarding affordable housing that is encouraging developers to build again.
Still, the selection hasn't caught up to demand yet, and that's leaving some people hesitant in putting their home on the market, Yarwood said.
"I think the biggest challenge that we have is that people who want to move up are hesitant to put their home on the market because they have no place to go, because it's kind of a circle," she said, referring to the extremely tight rental market in the entire Denver metro region.
Wagner agreed, saying he's seen families move in with relatives while they were in transition.
But even with fewer choices, putting a home on a market doesn't guarantee you'll sell it, Yarwood said.
"We can't be pie in the sky about our housing," she said. "All anybody's hearing right now is that homes are selling overnight -- yes, if they're properly priced and properly prepared."
"It's still important that they show well," Wagner added. "And if they show well they're moving really fast, there's no question about it."
He recommends potential buyers keep an eye on is interest rates, which recently went up to more than 4 percent on a 30-year fixed mortgage. Still extremely low by historical standards, the rates jumped, he said, rather dramatically in just a six-week period.
"That was the fastest move in interest rates in over five years, and that can really affect your buying power," he said.
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Giving Our Way to Success- by Dale T. Phillips and Vlad V.
Giving comes back around. Tess Gerritsen sparked the giving circle with so much of her time, energy, and money to aid Alzheimer's research – so it's nice that I got to thank her in person at Bouchercon, the world mystery conference.
On this site, Joe upped the ante with his guest post offer, raising even more funds – while helping writers at the same time – so we'd like to say "thank you" for this opportunity. We've been reading this blog and others like it for years, and a big part of our going Indie is due to pioneers like Joe – many of which you'll see mentioned on this blog from time to time. People like Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, David Gaughran, Laura Resnick, Bob Mayer, Joanna Penn, Vincent Zandri, Jude Hardin and Russell Blake have shared their journeys and experiences, and it's helped us to find our own paths in the new world of publishing. These folks and others, like Jane Friedman and The Passive Guy, offer incredibly useful advice to Indies for free. It's a lovely cooperative world.
Vlad V. and I are serious about our long-term writing careers, and we've found outstanding value in cooperation. For us, giving is the new way to achieve success.
As writers, we all give our stories to the world. We have to – without the sharing, we're nothing. Sure, we hope for some sort of return, some acknowledgment that what we present has value to others, and though we aspire to take care of our families while writing full-time, many of us would keep telling and sharing stories if we never saw another dime from it.
But the Indie writing life can be isolating and sometimes depressing, especially when you're struggling with sales, or when your manuscript just isn't turning out the way you'd like it to. Collaborating can be the solution to keeping your Indie fire stoked and white-hot. By working together for mutual advantage, we've made more traction in the last two years than we did in all the time of going solo and through traditional avenues. We had heard time and again about the value of collaboration, but it wasn't until a few of us began our own informal group that the advantages really started to emerge.
Sharing With Others Can Save You Money
Indies should be frugal, and many (like us) are striving for success on shoestring budgets. Collaborating can help you avoid financial mistakes, such as overpaying for cover design. One author at a show was brandishing his "great" book cover that he'd paid "only" $2000 for (think Barry Eisler's infamous "Green Garage Door" cover). Had he used one of our cover artists, he'd have got his cover – or a better one – at a quarter of the price.
Another big expense is editing. Working with other writers allows us to reduce the number of for-pay editing rounds we go through before a manuscript is publication-ready. While we still use professional editors in the final stages, we weed out many of the weaknesses in our early drafts, and thus minimize our financial outlay later on.
There are caveats here, however. First, be willing to give. When a collaborator sends you a manuscript, do your absolute best to find ways to improve it, because when another writer sees how much you care about theirsuccess, they care more about your success. It's a two-way street.
Second, work with writers who are equal or more advanced than you are in some aspect(s) of the craft, because that's how you get better. For example, Vlad is great at writing dialogue, while Dale's pacing is meteoric, and we've both learned from one another in a variety of other ways. Your local writing group might be a good place to start, but only if they're up to par. That's a subjective decision you'll have to make for yourself – but you can always start your own group and be picky about who you choose to work with. Maybe only the cream of the crop in your local (or online) writer's group would be interested in joining a more serious collaborative. There is often a correlation between a writer's knowledge of the craft and how seriously you should take their opinion, so surround yourself with the best writers you can find who want it just as badly as you do, and who are passionate about their work. Their skills are likely to rub off on you, and vice-versa.
Third, be honest. Many writing groups are too soft, and mere flattery doesn't help a professionally-oriented writer. This is a tough business that requires a thick skin, so don't be afraid to take off the gloves, provided your insights are constructive and will improve the work. In our group, we tend to give short summations of what we like about a piece in 2-3 sentences, followed by an in-depth analysis of its weaknesses, which may go on for many pages. Blunt honesty is abundant, and while it might be hard to accept, we try not to take it too personally, because the feedback invariably improves the work.
Diversification helps, too, so collaborate with a variety of writers. Don't limit your group to one genre. Vlad has a pair of horror publications out, and his latest, The Button, is Science Fiction. Later this year, he'll release his books for kids. Dale has a mystery series, a horror thriller, and story collections in a number of different genres. Exposure to other genres expands the skill sets and techniques available to you as an artist. For example, can your Action-Thriller featuring John Q. Mightystrong be given more depth with an intricate backstory, not unlike what you found in My Lesbian Breasts, Jane's character-based women's novel about two lovers suffocated by the social stigmas of the Deep South in the 1820s? Perhaps John Q. Mightystrong will be strengthened as a character.
Hemingway once said, "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master," so it behooves all writers to expose themselves to as many skill sets as they can, as often as they can.
We've found that cross-promotion can help build more buzz for author events. Are readers going to flock to a local bookstore to meet a single author they might not have heard of? Probably not, but they may come for half a dozen or more. Collaboration can extend your reach to readers and other industry players that you might not have had access to when you're doing all this solo.
When we find a new opportunity, we let the others know about it, too. Many have scored new interviews, bookstore appearances, reviewers, and signing opportunities we may not have heard about otherwise.
Want to work with groups of people who will help get the word out about your works? Use libraries, who are having a tough time in the modern book world. Joe's developing a program to get quality self-pub and Indie e-books into more libraries, a great thing. Dale connected with librarians while signing books at the Boston Book Fair, and was told how big publishers are screwing libraries with higher fees and more restrictions. So he offered his e-books to them for free, and 8 of his releases are now in a statewide pilot program, available in over 50 libraries. That's over 400 more chances for someone to find his work! And because of a comment on this blog, Dale contacted the Douglas County Library System, part of Joe's program, and has been accepted there as well. And where he gets in, he helps others of quality to do the same…
A great way to cross-promote is to write for charity. Dale gave a story to Nightfalls, a charity anthology edited by Katherine Tomlinson, which got him more connections and exposure. Using that idea, we're working with a local charity to produce a book of stories from a handful of local writers, of which all proceeds will benefit the charity. They'll promote us through a mailing list of 10,000+, as well as through their website and at live fundraising events, and we'll get people checking out our work, while supporting a great cause. Win-win, through collaboration!
We'll try anything to see if it helps. Giveaway bags are something we've done at a couple of big signings. Instead of simple flyers and business cards that end up in the recycling bin, we up the ante. Interested readers who stop by and chat get a bag of various goodies: candy, a free book or two, an inexpensive booklight, whatever. Hey, they do it at trade shows. We've had a number of delighted recipients, who tell others, and since our marketing info is built right in, it's led to repeat readers. Get a few writers each tossing in a treat, and you can get folks at a big show buzzing about your table. Not something you'll want to do every time, but a fun way of getting people to know your name and check you out.
Big publishers pay a lot of money to distribute ARCs in the hope of reviews, but as Indies, we do giveaways of e-books. The small press that published Dale's first mystery novel put it up as a giveaway e-book for a few months, long after its debut. With almost no promotion, over 3400 new people downloaded it, and even though many are Kindle-stuffing, he's bound to get some new readers from those, who will go on to buy his other works... But imagine the horror from a big publisher if you were to give away thousands of copies!
Even print can cost so little now for short works that it can be used for giveaways as well. By combining efforts with other authors, you can extend your promotional reach to a wider variety of readers.
We've also found that cross-promotion naturally leads to cross-selling, which has been a boon for us at live events. When a reader approaches us, and we don't have what they're looking for, we send them on to someone who does. We've seen more than one author push their book on a customer based on what the customer said they liked … even though that book had nothing to do with the customer's preference. It makes us cringe, because at the end of the day, it's better to give readers what they want, rather than deceiving them into a sale. At best, they'll never come back to your brand, and at worst, they'll bad-mouth your work to others.
Our host Joe does few public events anymore, but we've found that these live events have been more productive for us than online ventures, at least so far, because our fan base is still growing. We prefer the personal connections and have enjoyed the book shows and signings, where we can talk to new readers and get more people interested in our work. We've been building our fan base and list of email contacts one person at a time.
Forced Improvement
There are few things as satisfying to a writer as seeing his or her book in print after working so hard to bring a story from idea to publication, and the urge to hit the 'publish' button can be overwhelming. Collaboration can keep you from pulling the trigger too early.
After you've found your circle of collaborators and have begun to trust their judgment, hear them out. Both A Shadow on the Wall by Dale and The Button by Vlad were delayed by several months, because they needed concentrated work to make them much more than just good enough. But try telling a major publishing house you're not delivering on schedule, because you've got to kick the quality up a few more notches. They'd rather have the next-quarter profits, not the long-term book quality.
Baby Steps
Self-publishing isn't a sprint, or even a marathon. It's a long, lonely, cross-country journey (think Lord of the Rings) with fifty pounds of gear on your back, and perils all around. Collaboration makes the highs and lows of such a long journey bearable, and yes, even enjoyable. Writing is, after all, a manic endeavor, so when you can see the mountaintop, but all you're able to do is go another few feet up the slope, know that it's okay, because you're making progress.
Collaboration helps us understand what works and what doesn't work for other writers, so we can refine our own methods. Some writers can write 2,000 words a day, every day, 365 days a year. The rest of us have busy lives with day jobs, family, school, and whatever else might pop up. There's a ton of writing advice out there, the Do's and Don'ts from the greats, right down to your dear Aunt Betty. Writing every day is a big one. Can you write every day? Maybe not, but what you can do is further your career right now by taking baby steps that will help you eventually reach the mountaintop. Instead of berating yourself for missing a deadline, or feeling overwhelmed because you're falling behind on your blog, focus on what you can do to further your career at this very moment.
Reading, keeping tabs on the industry, writing, tweeting your brand, scribbling notes, editing – they are all necessary to get you where you want to go. Yes, by all means, familiarize yourself with the "rules" of writing, but don't be afraid to tailor them to your lifestyle, and discard the ones that are impractical for you.
Wrapup and Pitch
We're the pilots, not the passengers, in this new world of publishing, and we get to say where the plane is going. By continuing to write, publish and collaborate, someday we'll move up to Abundant Airlines. Joe has talked about mastering your fate in his collaboration with Barry Eisler, Be the Monkey. We're following their lead. Work with others, folks. Big publishing is about competition, but self-publishing is about cooperation and collaboration.
So you want to know what we're offering to share with you, right?
Check out Dale's horror thriller, Shadow of the Wendigo,
or the story collections listed on his website: www.daletphillips.com.
Drop him an email (firstname.lastname@example.com), tell him which book you want, and he'll send you a code for a free copy on any e-book platform (via Smashwords.com).
Or if you'd rather have a good action mystery, try his first one, A Memory of Grief, dropped to 1.99 on Kindle.
Vlad is offering The Button, his brand-new Sci-fi/Thriller, free to readers here for the entire month of April on any e-book platform.
Visit this Smashwords page: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/425039
and purchase The Button using coupon code: GS83H
Thank you for reading!
Dale T. Phillips – www.daletphillips.com
Vlad V. - www.TheVlad.net


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Ocelot G
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|Ocelot G support removed
|2007-05-09 (after the 2.6.21 release)
The Ocelot G is a hotswappable 6U CompactPCI card based on a 500MHz RM7000B processor and a Marvell MV-64340 system controller featuring three gigabit ethernet interfaces. The board has one PMC slot, two serial ports, 512MB or 1GB SDRAM ECC onboard, 512kB boot flash, 8MB MB flash. It uses PMON like all Momentum boards. Finally there is a watchdog timer, NVRAM and RTC. The Marvell system controller contains multiple NICs but only one of them is connected to the front blade of the board. A second can be connected through a transition board.
Linux support
Supported in Linux 2.4 and 2.6 but suffering from bitrot. Support did not include hotplugging or any of the other advanced features.


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|Integrity Toys dolls in boxes
with Charlotte Charades (Renamed Reiya) Lalaloopsy doll
I had been very patient these past few months...sort of. Since my Integrity Toys doll dealer no longer has a front shop, I normally wait for some dolls to arrive before I go and pick them up. It's also a great time to catch up and say hello to my awesome dealer since I don't see her as often. Today, I picked up my dolls and it feels like Christmas in July!
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Festive Lionguard leaving Tyria! I spotted a small announcement on the official Guild Wars 2 website, notifying player's that the Festive Lionguard located in Lions Arch will be leaving the game on Sunday, January 28th PST. This means that ugly woollen hats, socks … Continue reading
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One evening, a few weeks ago, I was contemplating a new bottle of Bols Genever, trying to find a new use for it in a cocktail. I started thinking of a New Orleans favorite, the Vieux Carré, a blend of rye whiskey, cognac, sweet vermouth, Benedictine, and two types of bitters.
Now, depending on the brand of vermouth used, I sometimes find that the Vieux Carré's request for equal parts whiskey, cognac, and vermouth is a little on the sweet side, so I often reduce the vermouth by a tad–down to 3/4 ounces instead of 1. Or if I want a boozier drink, I up the spirits.
Which is what I did here:
- 1.5 oz Bols Genever
- 1.5 oz Pierre Ferrand cognac
- .5 oz Dolin sweet
- 1 tsp. Benedictine
- 2 dashes each of Ango. & Peych.
Mix all ingredients in a double Old Fashioned glass over ice; stir.
My mention of this drink on Twitter sparked a brief conversation, and someone (Matthew Robold, I think) suggested naming it the Oude Plein, which Google Translate offered up as a Dutch translation of "old square." Works for me.
The Carousel Bar at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans remains one of the most reliable places in my experience to find a Vieux Carre, and they're served in these lovely flared OF glasses. For my variation, I used the closest thing in my cabinet.


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Since some hours ago photos from Panoramio up to ID 15,881,277 are included in Google Earth, this means almost half a million new photos since the last update.
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CHICAGO — Jesse Jackson Jr. is no longer a congressman. He submitted his letter of resignation to the Speaker of the House in Washington D.C. Wednesday and walked away from a 17 year career in public service.
After six months off the job, his father, Rev Jesse Jackson says his oldest son finally resigned so he could heal.
"Between the political office and the press and politics and his political position, he couldn't do it all," said Rev. Jackson.
At 47, Jackson Jr has more than his health to worry about. Reportedly the subject of a federal probe, in his resignation letter Jackson acknowledges he has erred.
It reads in part: "During this journey I have made my share of mistakes. I am aware of the ongoing federal investigation into my activities and I am doing my best to address the situation responsibly, cooperate with the investigators and accept responsibility for my mistakes, for they are my mistakes and mine alone. None of us is immune from our share of shortcomings or human frailties and I pray that I will be remembered for what I did right."
What he did wrong could be tied to allegations of misuse of campaign funds, to pay for home furnishings and a Rolex watch for his mistress, and maybe more.
Jackson's attorneys confirmed that he was cooperating with investigators and attempting to reach a resolution in the next few months.
Jackson hasn't worked for the constituents in his district for almost six months. Friends and critics alike have agreed for some time that the 2nd District deserves representation.
Friend and congressman Bobby Rush spoke with Jackson. "He sounded very very sorrowful," he said.
"He is recovering, and he had to make the ultimate choice between service of his constituents and dealing with his illness," said Jackson's brother, Jonathon. "We look forward to him speaking on his behalf sometime soon."
Jackson's wife, Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson, has not commented.


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Fear and HIV Prevention Shouldn't Mix
December 21, 2010
Think one part The Walking Dead, one part CSI and a dash of any anti-gay public service announcement (PSA) from the 1950s, and that pretty much sums up "It's Never Just HIV," the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH)'s newest PSA. In an attempt to raise HIV awareness among young men who have sex with men (MSM), this eerie and explicit PSA stresses that having HIV can make one more susceptible to developing bone loss, dementia and anal cancer.
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Since its Dec. 7 television debut, "It's Never Just HIV" instantly polarized the HIV and LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) communities. High profile advocates -- including Larry Kramer and Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD)'s Tokes Osubu -- have hailed this as a much-needed wake-up call for gay men. Kramer wrote, in a blog for ACT UP's Web site, "It's about time. This ad is honest and true and scary, all of which it should be. HIV is scary and all attempts to curtail it via lily-livered nicey-nicey 'prevention' tactics have failed." Osubu told NBC New York, "We're getting to the point where HIV is becoming the norm. It's okay, you can just take one pill and it will disappear. But that's not the reality."
The use of fear is not new when it comes to HIV prevention, and when looking at how far (or not far) we have come in the past 30 years, I can definitely understand why the NYC DOHMH may have relied on scare tactics to grab people's attention. New HIV diagnosis rates among MSM under the age of 30 are up 50 percent in the past eight years. Yes, that's a serious problem.
I also understand that a lot has changed since the disease was once called GRID (gay-related immunodeficiency disease): AIDS doesn't deplete social circles anymore thanks to antiretrovirals; the face of the disease has become more inclusive over the years; and Big Pharma markets living with HIV as painless and as easy as popping a pill every day. And despite everything we know about this disease and how to prevent it, we are still seeing naive and nonchalant attitudes among young men when it comes to HIV. Clearly, we have a lot more work to do.
But many of the large, national LGBT organizations -- the ones that have the most visibility, influence and funding -- need to take some responsibility for why HIV has fallen off their own community's radar as well. While some of these groups will occasionally lend a hand to HIV/AIDS organizations when it's convenient, they essentially have turned their backs on the epidemic and have taken up more "relatable" platform issues, such as marriage equality, adoption and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." And while I understand that the stigma of the early days has helped shape homophobia and misconceptions about gay people, now is the time for LGBT people to let go of that hang-up and re-own this epidemic as if it's 1985. HIV is still a gay disease.
But even if the kids just don't get it and would rather remain fixated on Lady Gaga and Beyoncé, or even if Gay Inc. is too busy playing respectability politics with straight America, that doesn't justify what the NYC DOHMH has done.
This PSA is not the answer. Not even close.
First, it's misleading. The ad simplifies the science around the association between HIV and developing other ailments, such as dementia and osteoporosis, by making it seem as if these things are a definite and will happen immediately after being diagnosed. These are diseases that may not happen at all and if they do, most likely they will occur much later in life. It's not that plausible that a 28-year-old, HIV-positive man will go dancing at Splash on a Wednesday night and look down to see that his femur has snapped in half. Not to mention, this could actually deter people from wanting to get tested since the ad claims that antiretrovirals don't necessarily stop one from developing these diseases. Ignorance for many is bliss, especially if it seems as if modern medicine won't stop one's anus from being riddled with bloody sores or one's brain from rotting.
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How Kerala is using the Internet to localize delivery of public services to citizens
I was intrigued by Kerala's Akshaya program. Kerala is uniquely, a most decentralized state, the only one of 17 in India to enact the Right to Public Services and, to open citizen service centers called Akshaya, run under the oversight of panchayats, 3-tier local self-governments, in 14 districts set within a 2 km radius of households. Akshaya was designed in its first phase in 2003 by the Kerala IT Mission to improve e-literacy in underserved areas and, in its second phase to provide a platform for government to citizen services through a public-private partnership. Over 60% of Kerala's 33 million citizens have been served by 2070+ Akshaya centers run by private entrepreneurs who collectively earn 30 million INR a month, creating employment for over 20,000 individuals. (For more details, see Akshaya Overview and UNDP Report on Akshaya).


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Daily log, May 20
Tiffin reports
William W. Krzyzak, 55, of Tiffin, was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and turn signal usage early Sunday morning.
A first-block Braden Court man reported Sunday morning someone rang his doorbell at 1:15 a.m. and took one of his solar lights.
A woman in the first block of Clay Street reported Sunday afternoon her vehicle was entered, and items were missing.
A person in the first block of Clay Street reported Sunday afternoon a theft from a vehicle.
A 200-block Front Street man reported Sunday afternoon a person living with him took his mower and tools.
County reports
A 1000-block South TR 119 man reported Sunday morning a tractor tire rolled from the road and destroyed part of his fence.
A 6000-block West CR 6 woman requested to file a fraud report Sunday afternoon.
Fostoria reports
A man was arrested and a person was taken to ProMedica Fostoria Community Hospital after an incident in the 400 block of Stadium Drive Saturday afternoon.
A man reported Saturday afternoon his daughter was assaulted at East Jackson and Buckley streets. An unknown group of females jumped her.
A person at City Park, 501 N. Vine St., reported Saturday evening his bicycle was stolen. He got it back but there was damage.
A citation of disorderly conduct was issued Saturday evening after a person reported a person took off from ProMedica Fostoria Community Hospital, 501 Van Buren St.
A person from Fostoria High School, 1001 Park Ave., reported Saturday night a baseball tower was broken into, and several items were stolen.
A 200-block College Avenue man reported early Sunday morning children threw an egg at his daughter, and it hit her in the face.
A 300-block North Union Street woman reported early Sunday morning her son was at a party and was jumped by several people.
A 300-block Hays Street woman reported Sunday morning her bicycle was stolen.
Fostoria accidents
Kristen R. Brown, 24, of Fostoria, was cited with assured clear distance ahead after an accident on SR 12 May 2. She was taken by Fostoria Fire Division to ProMedica Fostoria Community Hospital.
Robert E. Hoyer, 44, of Fostoria, was cited with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after a three-vehicle accident at North Countyline Street and Colonial Drive May 10. The other driver, Meghan M. Hyde, 23, of Fostoria, was taken by Fostoria Fire Division to ProMedica Fostoria Community Hospital.
Tiffin accident
A citation of failure to control was issued after a vehicle rolled back and struck the front of a cruiser in the 100 block of South Monroe Street early Sunday morning.
County accident
A person from the emergency room at Mercy Tiffin Hospital reported early Sunday morning the hospital was treating a man for an injury he sustained in a three-wheeler accident in woods on West CR 38.
Republic fire and EMS were called to a culvert on fire Saturday afternoon.
Tiffin firefighters were called to an alarm system activation at 235 Miami St. Saturday. There was no fire, and it was unintentional.
Tiffin EMS had two squad runs Saturday afternoon, a squad run Saturday evening, a squad run Saturday night and a squad run early Sunday morning.
Bascom EMS had a call Saturday afternoon. Bascom fire and EMS had a squad run Saturday night.
Attica EMS and Attica-Venice-Reed firefighters had a squad run Sunday morning and a squad run Sunday afternoon. The Echo unit assisted Sunday afternoon.


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Branden Kelliher spent his last day of classes at Lake Stevens High School eagerly awaiting a call from a Major League Baseball team.
It took a bit longer than he anticipated, but the call finally came.
The Oakland Athletics selected Kelliher in the eighth round of the Major League Baseball draft Friday afternoon.
Kelliher was the 252nd selection overall.
"It was pretty unreal," Kelliher said. "I'm truly blessed. It's a once in a lifetime kind of thing. We're just all ecstatic."
Baseball America projected Kelliher to be drafted between the second and fifth rounds. It took a bit longer than that, enabling him to make it home after school and celebrate with his family while watching a stream of the draft online.
He heard from an advisor that Oakland may be taking him with the next pick and, moments later, Kelliher saw his name by the Athletics' logo.
"There was a lot of hugging. Definitely a lot of screaming," Kelliher said after he got drafted. "… It was a big waiting game," Kelliher said. "I thought I was going to be taken in the second to fifth rounds. It started getting later and later in the draft and I didn't know what to expect."
The scouting service Perfect Game ranked Kelliher as the No. 1 high school baseball prospect in Washington state. It also listed him as the 39th-best right-handed pitcher in the nation.
Oakland was one of about four teams — including Seattle, Texas and St. Louis — that showed interest in the 5-foot-11 Kelliher. He expects to meet with the Athletics' Northwest scout soon to go out to dinner and discuss a contract.
Players taken in the MLB draft have until July 18 to sign with their respective teams.
"I feel really good about it. (Being drafted in) the top 10 rounds is pretty special," Kelliher said. "The Athletics have a really good organization and a really strong minor league (system). I think it would be really good for me."
The Vikings senior previously committed to play at the University of Oregon, and says he hasn't decided whether he's going to sign a professional contract or play for the Ducks next season. Kelliher plans to discuss it with his family and hopes to make a decision in the next week or two.
"I'm pretty excited about being drafted. And I've always wanted to be a Division-1 baseball player," Kelliher said. "Oregon's a good school and it would be hard to pass up on it. I have a lot of consideration and thinking to do."
In the meantime, Kelliher plans to celebrate with his family and attend Lake Stevens' Senior Dinner Dance, a special event for the Vikings' seniors on their last night of classes.
He also has several people to catch up with. The pitcher received numerous calls, text messages and Twitter notifications on Friday.
"My phone just blew up right after with all these text messages and notifications on social media," Kelliher said. "I gained 15 more followers right after (being drafted) on Twitter."
Kelliher said his most recent Twitter followers are mostly Athletics and Oregon baseball fans.


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Christie announced the addition of the 12,000-lumen LX1200 and the 7000-lumen LHD700 projector to its LCD lineup. Featuring XGA (1024x768) resolution, the LX1200 uses the 4DColor technology that incorporates a fourth (yellow) LCD panel. The LX1200 also features a mechanical light shutter to block light when required, inorganic LCD panels for long life expectancy and increased performance levels, and top-loading lamps for quick replacement. The LHD700 is a 7000-lumen full-HD 1080p (1920x1080) projector using a single lamp and 4DColor technology, making it ideal for auditoriums, corporate boardrooms, government, higher education, houses of worship, and fixed and rental staging. Its AutoFilter cartridge system monitors airflow for up to 10,000 hours while its extended lamp life minimizes downtime. With optional input slots, both projectors support additional video signals including HD-SDI or a network input card for control. Price: NA
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See a Picture of Adele's Son Angelo!
Finally the phantom baby shows his face! Even though Adele's son is about eight months old now, we have finally got a glimpse of the elusive Angelo Atkins-Konecki -- that is if the boy's name is, in fact, Angelo.
Adele and her boo Simon have yet to officially confirm the identity of their little bundle of joy, though there have been hints.
The new mom was snapped by paparazzi while she walking her little Angelo in London while dressed down in leggings, flats and an oversized top. According to E! Online, she was with another mom, who also had a kid in tow. How awesome would that be to have your kid play with Adele's? We bet she's a super cool mom.
We're guessing she's taking the time to be with her son before she goes back to recording new music, which she promised would be out mid-2014.
Either way, little Angelo is a cute little guy and he's lucky to have such an awesome mom!


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USDA leaders have not given up on stricter limits on farm program payments even if they have promised to work with Congress to find different ways for agriculture to contribute to deficit reduction.
Deputy Agriculture Secretary Charles Conner met with Delta Council leaders for 90 minutes prior to the organization's annual meeting in Cleveland, Miss., May 6, but apparently did not tell the farmers, merchants, lenders and other businessmen what they wanted to hear about payment limits.
Speaking at a press briefing after the business roundtable meeting, Conner said he was optimistic a "reasonable solution" can be found on the administration's budget proposals that meets the president's criteria for deficit reduction and is fair and equitable to farmers in all regions of the country.
"I have been involved in agricultural policy development for 25 years," said Connor, who served as staff director for the Senate Agriculture Committee before becoming President Bush's special assistant for agriculture in 2001. "And I am confident that we will do as we have done so many times and that is come up with a reasonable solution."
When asked about recent reports Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns seemed to be giving ground on payment limits, Conner indicated there had been no change in the USDA's position.
"The president's 2006 budget request does include the payment limit changes that we have proposed, and the secretary and I remain strongly supportive of the president's budget and all those provisions that are part of it," said Conner.
"Having said that, I think the secretary of agriculture and I would like to make clear that at the same time we want to work with Congress in order to achieve the president's objective of deficit reduction, and, as I pointed out to the members of Delta Council this morning, we believe the issue of getting a handle on the deficit is critical to the future of American agriculture."
Although no one in the administration has claimed credit for writing the proposals that would reduce the amount of direct, counter-cyclical and marketing loan payments an individual could receive to $250,000 — and eliminate the three-entity rule — some sources have suggested Conner as the author.
Conner, who grew up on an Indiana farm that is still operated by his brother, Mike, was endorsed for deputy secretary, the No. 2 position at USDA, by Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley along with other Republican members of the Senate Agriculture Committee.
Conner repeated statements by Secretary Johanns at a meeting in Memphis on May 4 that deficit reduction "is critical to the future of American agriculture, and it is critical most importantly for the future direction of the interest rates in this country.
"We believe interest rates are sort of the cornerstone of a strong farm economy and a strong national economy. We don't want to see a dramatic increase in interest rates, and we believe the deficit must be brought under control in order to achieve that objective."
Although Conner did not give much on payment limits, Delta Council leaders apparently gave him plenty of evidence of the strong feelings Sun Belt cotton and rice farmers have on the payment limit issue.
"Deputy Secretary Conner has been around Washington a long time, and he has been a very astute player in terms of domestic and international agricultural policies," said Bruce Brumfield, a farmer from Inverness, Miss., and former Delta Council president. "He heard us on Friday (May 6), and I believe that we will have a very strong working relationship with the deputy secretary in the months and years ahead that are certain to be important to the Delta economy."
The Delta Council annual meeting was Conner's first trip as deputy secretary after Secretary Johanns swore him in on May 2. President Bush nominated Conner for the position after former Deputy Secretary Jim Moseley left USDA in February.
"The name Chuck Conner is well-known throughout U.S. agriculture and, certainly, Delta Council has known and held respect for Chuck Conner for many years," said Ken Murphree, outgoing Delta Council president.
"We felt that it would be extremely important to Delta Council leaders for us to arrange a discussion regarding the business of Delta agriculture with Deputy Secretary Conner, especially with WTO negotiations, Congressional Budget Reconciliation activities involving agriculture, and the 2002 farm bill being in the news so much in recent months."
"The discussion did get a little heated at times," said one business leader who attended the meeting. "But mostly it was a frank discussion of the problems Delta farmers have with the president's proposals, particularly those who made investments based on the contracts they signed with USDA under the new farm bill in 2002."
In the press conference, Conner told reporters he thought any changes in the 2002 farm bill would be minimal under the president's budget proposals.
"It is difficult to achieve cuts in the farm bill without changing the farm bill at all because if you don't change it then there's obviously no measurable level of reduction," he said. "At the same time, I want to make it clear I don't see that there's a fundamental rewrite of the farm bill going on along with these cuts. These are changes designed to reduce slightly the cost of the program. We will still be working under the fundamental compromises we reached in 2002 when we begin the debate on the new farm bill."
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(Reuters) - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla, will host a fundraiser for New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie at their California home on February 13, the social networking site said on Thursday.
Zuckerberg and Christie, a potential presidential contender in 2016, have teamed up before, when the tech guru donated $100 million to the struggling public schools in Newark, New Jersey, in 2010.
"Mark and Priscilla ... admire his leadership on education reform and other issues and look forward to continuing their important work together on behalf of Newark's school children," Facebook said in a statement.
The blunt-spoken Christie is seeking re-election in November to a second term as governor. He took office in 2010.
Right now, he doesn't seem to need much help as his approval rating skyrocketed after Superstorm Sandy hit the state last October. A Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday found that three-quarters of New Jersey voters approved of Christie's performance and nearly seven in 10 say he deserves to be re-elected.
New Jersey Democrats also have not rallied behind a single challenger. State Senate President Stephen Sweeney has said he is considering running, but the poll found that Christie would easily defeat Sweeney.
Christie would also trounce Barbara Buono - who has said she will run against the governor - and possible challenger Richard Codey, the poll found. Both are Democratic state senators.
Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic in San Francisco and Hilary Russ in New York; Editing by Eric Beech