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In 2003, Markham Council examined the preferred long term uses for the East Markham lands highlighted on the adjacent map. As the adjacent map shows, significant portions of these lands are owned by the provincial government (blue and green areas) and federal government (pink area). Our governments can follow-through with the GTA Greenbelt promise by protecting these public lands as part of the Rouge Park and a larger Rouge Duffins Greenbelt area which will "Link the Lake to the Moraine".
1. Add Provincial and Federal (Public) Lands to the Rouge Park
The public lands in East Markham should be added to the Rouge Park to:
2. Keep Agricultural Preserve lands in Eastern Markham in Public Ownership
In Pickering, Duffin Rouge Agricultural Preserve lands were sold to tenant farmers at approximately $4,000 per acre, well below the price that a competitive bidding process would have realized. The low sale price was based on the "agricultural use" which was to be guaranteed in perpetuity through legal "Agriculture Easements" signed by the Province, the Region, the Town and the property purchaser as a condition of sale. Unfortunately, many purchasers of these "Agricultural Easement" properties promptly took-out mortgages with companies controlled by land speculators and developers. These land speculators are now pressuring Pickering Council and the provincial government to remove the Easements and the agricultural zoning to allow windfall land speculation profits and the construction of subdivisions.
The troubling Pickering experience demonstrates the wisdom of retaining the large tracts of public lands in Eastern Markham in public ownership.
Although FRW firmly believes that the large tracts of public land should be added to the Rouge Park, we support plans to give long-term tenants an opportunity to purchase their homes and buildings on a one or two hectare lot. We also support 20-year rollover farmland leases with reasonable rates, if an environmental farm management plan is developed and followed, to allow good long-range farm business planning and investment decisions.
3. Expand and Enhance Tableland Forest Cover, Core Areas and Linkages
Markham has less than 4% of its natural forest cover remaining and Markham makes up almost 60% of the Rouge watershed. According to modern studies, at least 30% forest cover is needed to maintain healthy water quality in a watershed and river system. The York Region Official Plan has an objective of more than 25% forest cover.
Reforestation on public land is consistent with better water and air quality, better fish and wildlife habitat, better outdoor recreation opportunities, absorption of greenhouse gases (CO²), and progress towards Official Plan objectives. Therefore, a significant portion of the lands in Eastern Markham should be restored to native forest and wildflower cover. Protection, expansion and re-connection of natural features will be necessary to achieve OPA and environmental objectives and to increase wildlife corridor and trail linkages between the Rouge, Petticoat and Duffins Creek systems.
4. Treat Farmers Fairly and Support Environmental Farm Plans
Farming is an important part of the heritage of the Rouge's communities and landscapes. FRW encourages technical and financial support from governments to help farmers move towards environmentally and economically sustainable farming. For example:
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"I have mixed feelings about it...On the one hand I do believe it's rather violent and it sets a tone for people. On the other hand, you can turn on the television and see it, a child can see it from their homes on a regular TV and we're one of the few states that don't legalize it. Obviously legalization comes with regulation, and we may be better off having regulation."
"Members control the process...The bill is in the legislative process at this point. We have a committee-driven process and we'll see what happens. There's a lot of sentiment for it and there's a lot of sentiment against it."
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The Obama administration's interminable, entirely manufactured, hyper-politicized stalling — oh, excuse me, I'm sure I meant the extremely technical deliberative review process through which the State Department has been so earnestly and efficiently making steady progress, for five years — made all kinds of sense when President Obama himself was the one up for reelection. Despite the United States' dearth of pipelines in the face of the burgeoning shale revolution and the obvious merits of collaborating on a pretty straightforward infrastructure project with one of our biggest trade partners, an approval would have risked sending shockwaves of (entirely misplaced) environmentalist disappointment and indignation through the ranks of his progressive base as well as some of his self-fancied "green" donors of the deep-pocketed California and Manhattan set.
With this year's midterms, however, that electoral calculus could be changing: This year's mission is to protect the handful of vulnerable red-state Democrats whose loss would mean a partisan turnover of the Senate. I've been wondering if the Obama administration intended to merely keep delaying the decision until after the depth of his final-stage lame-duckery had been fully determined, but the presidential seal of approval would give Republicans one less thing with which to hammer Democrats in states where energy is a major issue, like Alaska, Louisiana, and Montana.
If the president does actually want to make a decision in time to tip the midterms, the State Department seems to be setting him up, reports the WSJ:
The Obama administration is set to complete a critical phase of its Keystone XL pipeline review next month, setting the stage for President Barack Obama to make a call on the politically charged decision in the thick of the midterm campaign season.
The State Department, which has been studying the project for years, aims to release a report on the environmental impact of the proposed pipeline extension in early or mid-February, people inside and outside the government familiar with the decision said Thursday. That would put Mr. Obama on track to make a decision by May or June. …
One person familiar with the process at the State Department said the environmental-impact report will be crafted in a way that gives the president wide leeway to make a decision. Another official said the report is expected to be relatively vague, so Mr. Obama would be able to cite it to support a decision for or against the pipeline.
Perhaps sensing the possibility of impending doom for the cause on which they have so inexplicably chosen to put a stake in the ground, eco-radical groups have been pushing the president to reaffirm and deepen his commitment to his climate-change agenda and further punish fossil fuels in the past few weeks — but we'll have to wait and see. If Obama does decide to kill the project, I doubt that those same senators will hesitate to come out swinging against the administration on yet another front, hard:
Some Senate Democrats locked in tough re-election fights, among them Mark Begich of Alaska, Kay Hagan of North Carolina and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, have said they might file legislation seeking to overturn the ruling if Mr. Obama reject the pipeline.
"At the end of the day, we may just have to push this issue pretty hard," Mr. Begich said in an interview.


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What are your planting intentions for corn in 2013 versus 2012?
1,500 respondents
U.S. farmers planted a record 96.9 million acres in 2012. Yet these acres yielded far from record production due to historic drought. How will acreage numbers shake out this spring?
An early December Farm Journal Pulse poll asked: What are your planting intentions for corn in 2013 versus 2012? Most farmers (54%) intend to plant the same amount of corn in 2013. Around 10% of the respondents plan to plant 1% to 10% more and 10% plan to plant 1% to 10% less.
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I am a woman, a wife, a mother of 3, a grandmother of 10, and happy to be still alive.
I was experiencing irregular bleeding as my menopause approached. I didn't pay much attention to it at first as my mother had a very weird menopause. On again, off again for several years. I thought I was just following the pattern. However, she ended up in hospital for a bowel blockage and there they discovered some kind of mass. Due to her condition, they hurried through getting the blockage cleared and closed her up again, intending to go back in after she recovered a bit. They scheduled her for February 2005.
On hearing about this, my GP wanted me to schedule some testing. After she did a manual exam, she immediately sent me for an ultrasound where they saw the lining of the uterus was thickened and an ovary was enlarged. She set me up very quickly with a gyn/onc in early December of 2004 and he verified that I had Endometrial cancer.
Surgery was scheduled for January 2005. I was hoping it could be done laparoscopically because it is easier on the patient and has fewer risks. Well, they did that, but I have been sorry ever since, for when they removed the ovary that was enlarged, it burst. It was verified that it contained Granulosa Cell cancer. Naturally that ended up all over my abdominal cavity.
Meanwhile, a week before my surgery, my mother died in her sleep so I never did find out what she had in there.
After my surgery I was given regular CT scans and it seemed things were good for about 3 years. Then the CT's started showing "cysts". They said that happens to everyone, people have cysts coming and going all the time. Except...these ones developed vascular systems, meaning they turned into tumours. The gyn/onc decided to wait as they were small and weren't growing fast as is apparently typical of Granulosa. However, I sort of fell through the cracks because I had to cancel an appointment due to being away on vacation. Then after for several months I wasn't able to get through to them to reschedule. Life kept happening and I'd call, then leave it for awhile. When I finally got another scan in November 2010, I was almost a year without a CT. The main larger "cyst" of 2.5cm had grown into a tumour of 14 cm. and there was another that was 10 cm, and a few smaller. Needless to say, that lit a fire under them.
They hustled me into my second surgery in January 2011. There they found the tumour stuck to the bowel quite seriously and had a hard time getting it off. I hemorrhaged and had to have 10 units of blood. Thankfully, my recovery went really well and quick.
Complications: One week after, when I went to have the staples out, everything looked wonderful, no red skin around the incision, no moisture. So she took them all out. The next night I sat on the edge of the bed and started to take my stockings off, when I felt this odd feeling like a zipper came open. Only it was my incision. No pain at all. Quite a bit of fluid though. I grabbed a bunch of tissue and hollered for my husband. Ambulance ride to the hospital. Due to an outbreak of a serious infection, they didn't want to keep me in the hospital so they sent me home overnight with the wound dressed but open. It was fine, no pain. I came in the next morning and they decided they weren't going to stitch it together again because there would inevitably be bacteria caught inside and I would surely get infected. So they dressed it and kept it open in order to heal from the inside out. I got daily visits from Home Care nurses and things went well. It was pretty slow, but I was in no discomfort and it healed after about 3 months. Meanwhile I was able to carry on my life up to however well I felt. I was still recovering from the surgery so I wasn't doing much dashing around anyway.
The next CT a few months later in the fall of 2011 showed a very large 14 cm tumour again. Again stuck to the bowel. Surgery in February 2012. This time they couldn't get the bowel unstuck so they had to take some out. They had pre-warned me that I could get a colostomy so I was "sort of" prepared for it, and thought that it would likely be for sure. It was. Also they found it had invaded the bladder so had to call in a Urology team during the surgery. They took out some of the bladder, then repaired it. They left in a stent for 6 weeks to keep the tubes open while it healed, and left in a catheter for 3 weeks. The catheter caused several bouts of infection, fever, shaking cold, really miserable. A few more trips to Emerg because of the infection. Finally it was all better, the stent and the catheter were removed and I was left with "only" the colostomy to deal with.
That has been the focus of my life for the past year. They said there was a possibility of reversal, but I'm not holding my breath. I have had a lot of trouble with getting it to stick and not leak. Lots of trouble. I have had nursing help ever since, although it is now reduced to once a month so they can keep track of the skin around it. I had a lot of trouble with that which made the leaking worse.
I have been fairly housebound since. I go to appointments but very reluctant to go anywhere I might have trouble with the colostomy. It makes rude noises and I have no control of it. If it decides to output suddenly, I am terrified that it will burst or leak. I carry supplies, but who wants to go into someone's bathroom and have to deal with that? The smell is an issue too. Pretty potent. I've been on forums dedicated to people with colostomies and tried various methods suggested. Some help, some don't.
They decided to give me radiation to try to sweep up stray cells after the surgery. That was done in May/June. 25 sessions. It went well, no side effects to speak of. The CT scan just done in February now shows the area that was treated seems clear. However... there are many tumours in the liver. Not operable. They might do radiation on that. They are also exploring options like hormone treatment, and possibly even chemo although chemo is not usually indicated for Granulosa Cell ovarian cancer. I am going for a liver biopsy on Friday and they are doing genetic testing on it and on the tumours from the last surgery. Then they will formulate a plan that they think will be useful.
I am now classed as an "Advanced" cancer patient and have been getting letters from the head of the Palliative department of the hospital. Pretty daunting.
So that is where I am up to now. Wish we could have met in better circumstances, but then I guess we wouldn't have met at all! Right? I am very grateful for the support of groups like this. I am very grateful for the care that has been given me by my medical people. The hospital is not a negative place for me for some reason, even though I see a never-ending parade of patients going through every time I'm there.
Looking forward to being a member here.


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The Whittling Chip card certifies that a Cub Scout has earned the right to carry a pocketknife to designated Cub Scout functions. Cub Scouts are encouraged to learn safety rules and the proper use of a pocketknife. Cub Scouts and Webelos Scouts may earn the right to carry a pocketknife to designated Scouting functions by completing requirements for the Whittling Chip card. Cub Scout-age boys may not use sheath knives.
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The Whittling Chip card
reverse side
When a Cub Scout completes the requirements they will be awarded a Cub Scout Whittling Chip Wallet Card and/or Patch. The Whittling Chip patch may be worn on the uniform shirt, centered on the right pocket as a temporary patch, or on the boy's patch vest. The patch is not worn as a pocket flap.
Age-Appropriate Guidelines
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The Age-Appropriate Guidelines show that a Tiger Cub Scout cannot use a pocketknife. Wolf, Bear, Webelos Cub Scouts can use a pocketknife and can earn their Whittling Chip. Webelos Scouts can also use bow saws. Boy Scouts can also use axes and earn their Totin' Chip by demonstrating proficiency with a pocket knife, ax, and saw.
Pocketknife Pledge
In return for the privilege of carrying a pocketknife to designated Cub Scout functions, I agree to the following:
- I will treat my pocketknife with the respect due a useful tool.
- I will always close my pocketknife and put it away when not in use.
- I will not use my pocketknife when it might injure someone near me.
- I promise never to throw my pocketknife for any reason.
- I will use my pocketknife in a safe manner at all times.
Pocketknife rules
A pocket knife is an important tool. You can do many things with its blades. The cutting blade is the one you will use most of the time. With it you can make shavings and chips and carve all kinds of things.
- Take good care of your knife.
- Always remember that a knife is a tool, not a toy.
- Use care to protect yourself and others.
- Think when you whittle or carve.
Things To Remember
- A knife is a tool, not a toy.
- Safety
- Always establish a safety circle. Place the closed knife in your hand and then extend your arm. Move your arm around you. If another person is within reach, move to a new location and try again to establish a safety circle.
- Properly hand off the knife. Never throw a pocket knife. Also be careful not to drop the knife. The proper hand-off procedure is to place the closed knife in your hand and offer it to other person. Only let go of the knife after the other person has #1 established a firm grip on the knife and #2 said thank you. The thank you indicates that the other person is now taking responsibility for the knife.
- Keep your knife sharp. A sharp knife is safer because it is less likely to slip and cut you.
- Handling a knife.
- How to open
- Cut away from you
- How to close
- Care and Handling
- Don't use on something that will dull or break it
- Keep the blade clean.
- Keep the knife dry.
- Carry a sharpening stone along with the knife.
Sharpening a knife
When carrying a pocket knife, you should also carry a sharpening stone. Sharpening stones are also known as "whetstone" or caraborundum stones. The stone should be about 1" by 3" in size.
- Place the stone on a level surface.
- Wet the stone with a little water or oil.
- Place the blade of the knife flat on the stone, then raise the back edge about the width of the blade itself, keeping the cutting edge on the stone.
- Draw the knife straight back toward you, or move it straight back and forth putting pressure on it only when you pull it toward you. This is always better than moving it in a circular fashion.
- Turn the blade over and repeat on the other side an equal number of times.
- Wipe clean on the sole of your shoe.
- It will take half an hour to sharpen a dull knife, but once sharp, a minute a day will keep it in perfect shape.
See also
|Cub Scout Leader portal
- Age-Appropriate Guidelines
- Tigers cannot use any knife, saw, or ax.
- Wolf, Bear, and Webelos Cub Scouts can use pocketknives and earn the Whittling Chip award.
- Boy Scouts can earn the Totin' Chip award and Paul Bunyan Woodsman.
- Awards and Cub Scout Awards
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Dark Castle reviewed by The Video game Critic
>> Tuesday, November 16, 2010
It's been eight years since the Video Game Critic published a CD-I review and I'm happy to report they've written a new article about Dark Castle CD-i. Not surprisingly, they comment about the slow, unresponsive gameplay that this game holds. Still, Dark Castle is a special game because it was the very first platform game on CD-i. Scrolling was a known problem for the CD-I hardware and it shows in Dark Castle. What did surprise me were the first good words about the amazing sound effects and the superb graphics. I don't really feel that way. The sound is OK to me, the graphics were low-res and muddy. And I actually didn't find the gameplay not that bad at all. Ofcourse it's nothing compared to the excellent platformers created by The Vision Factory (The Apprentice, Lucky Luke). Go read the review right here. We at Interactive Dreams published some history behind the Dark Castle CD-i port earlier before.
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OSHA's 6-Month Statute of Limitations Applied to Recordkeeping
In a long-awaited case, the scope of OSHA's 6-month statute of limitations period has been defined in regards to recordkeeping and standard citations. The 6-month limitations period was used as a potential defense to two types of alleged violations:
1) Not recording on the company's OSHA 300 log each recordable injury or illness within 7 calendar days of receiving notification of a recordable injury or illness (under the 1904.29(b)(3) standard); and
2) Not posting an annual summary of the full-time period from February until April 30 of the applicable year (under the 1904.32(b)(6) standard).
OSHA's statute, Section 9(c) defines the required time period in which OSHA must issue a citation to inspected employers as:
"[n]o citation may be issued under this section after the expiration of 6 months following the occurrence of any violation."
The employer AKM LLC d/b/a/ Volks Constructors argued that the citations were time-barred because they came long after the 7-day duty to log, and years after the 3-month posting period.
Again, the appealed citations related to Volks' alleged failure to 1) record injuries/illnesses on a "log" and on "incident report[s]," and 2) review, certify and post records regarding employee injuries/illnesses initially sustained between January 2002 and April 2006. OSHA inspected Volks' facility on May 10, 2006, and issued the relevant citation on November 8, 2008. A timeliness issue is presented in this case because, based on the parties' agreed upon facts, it was undisputed that OSHA issued a citation for these violations more than six months after the recordkeeping duties initially arose or "occurred." OSHA argued that the citations were timely because the violations continued during the 5-yr. retention period prescribed by the recordkeeping regulations. Volks argued that these violations were one-time events that were not continuing, and that the citation could be considered timely on the basis of the "discovery rule."
OSHA won in its case on the 7-day "recordable" (first type of recordkeeping cited) injury log because those types of records must be kept by employers for 5 years—not under any regulation but rather under section 8(c) of the OSHA Act.
Section 8(c) of the Act requires that "[e]ach employer…make, keep and preserve…such records…as the Secretary…may prescribe…for developing information regarding the causes and prevention of occupational accidents and illnesses." 29 U.S.C. § 657(c)(1) (emphasis added). This section goes on to direct the Secretary to "prescribe regulations requiring employers to maintain accurate records of…work-related deaths, injuries and illnesses…" 29 U.S.C. § 657(c)(2) (emphasis added). To implement these statutory mandates, the Secretary has promulgated regulations that effectively require employers to make records—specifically, record, review and certify information about employee injuries and illnesses, as well as keep and preserve, i.e. to maintain, such records for 5 years. See 29 C.F.R. §§ 1904.29(b)(2), 1904.29(b)(3), 1904.32(a)(1), 1904.32(b)(3), 1904.33(a) for such adopted regulations by the OSHA agency.
When is a Violation of an OSHA Recordkeeping Duty a Continuing Violation?
The OSHA review commission has long recognized that these duties must be considered when assessing whether a recordkeeping violation is of a continuing nature for purposes of the 6-month limitations period in section 9(c) of the Act. The commission first addressed this issue 18 years ago in the Johnson Controls, Inc., case, 15 BNA OSHC 2132 (No. 89-2614, 1993), where the employer erroneously and reportedly deleted the entry of an employee's elevated blood-lead level from its illness and injury log. OSHA issued a citation for that recordkeeping violation more than 6 months after the entry was deleted. In rejecting the employer's contention that the citation was untimely, the commission stated:
"[I]t is of no moment that a violation first occurred more than six months before the issuance of a citation, so long as the instances of noncompliance and employee access providing the basis for the contested citation[] occurred within six months of the citation's issuance.
"Just as a condition that does not comply with a standard issued under the Act violates the Act until it is abated, an inaccurate entry on an OSHA [log] violates the Act until it is corrected, or until the 5-year retention requirement of [the regulation] expires. Thus, a failure to record an occupational injury or illness as required by the Secretary's recordkeeping regulations…does not differ in substance from any other condition that must be abated pursuant to the occupational safety and health standards."
Then, in a Gen. Dynamics Corp. case, the review commission ruled that "Part 1904 creates an obligation to keep a log entry for each occupational injury or illness each day for a 5-yr. period." Since that time, the commission has consistently applied this approach (Johnson Controls) to recordkeeping cases involving issues of timeliness. See, e.g., Kaspar Wire Works, Inc., 18 BNA OSHC 2178, 2185-86, 2000 CCH OSHD ¶ 32,134, p. 48,411 (No. 90-2775, 2000) (rejecting an employer's contention that recordkeeping violations cited more than 6 months after initial failure to record but within 5-yr. retention period should be vacated as untimely).
As a result, storage duty records define the length of the continuing duty: here, 5 years.So, the 6-month statute of limitation period for "recordable" records starts to run only after the expiration of the 5 years required for storage. Correspondingly, the 3-month annual posted summary of injuries duty starts the count of the 6-month (defense) statute of limitation period when the summary no longer is required, i.e. May 1 of each year. MF
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The San Luis Valley in southern Colorado still looks much as it did one hundred, or even two hundred, years ago. Blanca Peak, at 14,345 feet the fourth-highest summit in the Rockies, overlooks a vast openness. Blanca, named for the snow that covers its summit most of the year, is visible from almost everywhere in the valley and is considered sacred by the Navajo. The range that Blanca presides over, the Sangre de Cristo, forms the valley's eastern side. Nestled up against the range just north of Blanca is Great Sand Dunes National Park. The park is an amazement: winds from the west and southwest lift grains of sand from the grasses and sagebrush of the valley and deposit the finest ones, creating gigantic dunes. You can climb up these dunes and run back down, as I did as a child on a family road trip and I repeated with my own children fifteen years ago. The valley tapers to a close down in New Mexico, a little north of Taos. It is not hard to picture the indigenous people who carved inscriptions into rocks near the rivers, or the Hispanic people who established Colorado's oldest town, San Luis, and a still-working system of communal irrigation in the southeastern corner, or a pioneer wagon train. (Feral horses still roam, as do pronghorn antelope and the occasional mountain lion.)
When I caught up with the Gilets Jaunes on March 2, near the Jardin du Ranelagh, they were moving in such a mass through the streets that all traffic had come to a halt. The residents of Passy, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Paris, stood agape and apart and afraid. Many of the shops and businesses along the route of the march, which that day crossed seven and a half miles of the city, were shuttered for the occasion, the proprietors fearful of the volatile crowd, who mostly hailed from outside Paris and were considered a rabble of invaders.
The Great Kurultáj, an event held annually outside the town of Bugac, Hungary, is billed as both the "Tribal Assembly of the Hun-Turkic Nations" and "Europe's Largest Equestrian Event." When I arrived last August, I was fittingly greeted by a variety of riders on horseback: some dressed as Huns, others as Parthian cavalrymen, Scythian archers, Magyar warriors, csikós cowboys, and betyár bandits. In total there were representatives from twenty-seven "tribes," all members of the "Hun-Turkic" fraternity. The festival's entrance was marked by a sixty-foot-tall portrait of Attila himself, wielding an immense broadsword and standing in front of what was either a bonfire or a sky illuminated by the baleful glow of war. He sported a goatee in the style of Steven Seagal and, shorn of his war braids and helmet, might have been someone you could find in a Budapest cellar bar. A slight smirk suggested that great mirth and great violence together mingled in his soul.
Celebrity sightings are a familiar feature of the modern N.B.A., but this year's playoffs included an appearance unusual even by the standards of America's most star-friendly sports league. A few minutes into the first game of the Western Conference semifinals, between the Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets—the season's hottest ticket, featuring the reigning M.V.P. on one side and the reigning league champions on the other—President Paul Kagame of Rwanda arrived with an entourage of about a dozen people, creating what the sports website The Undefeated called "a scene reminiscent of the fashionably late arrivals of Prince, Jay-Z, Beyoncé and Rihanna."
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After taking a 25-22 lead at halftime, Coker found themselves trailing by eight points with just four minutes remaining. The Cobras put together a 12-5 run down the stretch cutting the lead to just one, but missed a last second shot to win the game.
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Hayes scored a total of four goals in this year's World Cup. She had a three-goal effort against Ghana in early group play. With an additional goal against China, Hayes increased her international goal total to 16. Hayes and Schram will now return to the Penn State program on Sept. 16 as the Nittany Lions host Wisconsin.
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(BOSTON, September 13, 2012) — Transportation infrastructure may not be the most glamorous work of government, but it is a crucial part of the state's growth strategy, Governor Deval Patrick said earlier today at a meeting of the national Board of Directors of AAA.
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The former Republican Senator of Pennsylvania who threw his hat in the presidential race of 2012 has been elected the CEO of EchoLight Studios, a company that plans to "produce, finance, market and distribute faith-based, family films across all releasing platforms," according to Religion News Service. The site claims EchoLight has a "full pipeline of films with established directors and a growing cadre of 'faith and family' stars as committed as the directors and producers." The newly formed studio will release their first feature, The Redemption of Henry Myers on September 1st of this year. Then 2014 will see the release of Hoovey, a reportedly inspirational biopic about Illinois basketball player Eric "Hoovey" Elliott that boasts stars like Patrick Warburton and Lauren Holly, and will be helmed by Soul Surfer director Sean McNamara.
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I am preparing myself for this years (2012) GAMSAT exam. My GPA is just over 5.5 and very certain that wont be able to achieve good marks in GAMSAT. I would be lucky if I could achieve just the qualifying mark which is 50 in each section.
I think from this year we have option to choose up to six universities all over Australia. Though I live in Sydney, but I am ready to move to any place in Australia just for the opportunity to get into any medical school. Thats why; I wont choose University of Sydney- because its so competitive. Actually, I would like to avoid the top universities. So, could anybody please advise me which universities are suitable from my situation? Thanks.
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If you think that you're going to be lucky to achieve 50 in each section then picking a Uni won't be an issue because no one will take you.
Most will require at least 60+ to even get an interview. Someone might correct me (there might be an exception to the rule) but the days of getting in with a score in the 50s is over. It's just too competitive now.
So first step is work on your positivity...
Next is hit the books!
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Hmmm. Firstly, I think you need to be more positive, and focus on getting the best GAMSAT you can. Telling everyone (and yourself) that you're going to get a poor mark is bound to hurt you.
Cat is right with the advice to work on your positivity, and hey, if you do end up scoring poorly, at least you'll know where you stand within the cohort..... and that will help you make the best decisions for your future.
I know people who have sat GAMSAT 5+ times before finally getting into Medicine..... I guess it depends how hard you're prepared to work, and how much you want this?
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For me you should try to make your score better. Keep yourself motivated buddy. It is not good for you or will be helpful to think about your low marks. With such marks you will not be able to start yous study in any university. Hope you can understand.
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Yesterday we went to visit the Catholic church in Harelbeke, Belgium. We then went to Kortrijk, Belgium and of course Amanda had to go to the chocolate shop for Belgium chocolate. We did some window shopping, being tempted by some of the goods in the stores. The suits were out of my range, as is about everything with the exchange rate with the Euro/Dollar. We did snap a couple of pictures for your viewing pleasure.
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Afterward, we drove through the beautiful mountains to Luxembourg and went on a tour of many of the cities sights. We saw the Notre Dame there. It was gorgeous with a huge, high wall. Who would ever have thought? We ate lunch at Pizza Hut of all places. Talk about going for the local cuisine. I did have toasted bread with goat cheese on them (At Pizza Hut!) Did you know Luxembourg had a 1,000 year celebration? 963 to 1963. How is that for old? The downtown market area reminded me much of London or Manchester, but the architecture is different.
We finished our trip to Luxembourg and came back to Oostrozebeke, Belgium. We will visit Antwerp and Brugge in the next couple of days before we make our way to Paris.
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Last season's quintet of matches yielded just one win, and Mourinho's only piece of silverware since taking over at the Bernabeu, in the Copa Del Rey.
However, humiliation in the league at the Nou Camp and further disappointment over two legs in the Champions League eclipsed his sole achievement during a debut season in Spain.
Madrid could only watch on as Barcelona completed the double, outclassing Manchester United at Wembley following their La Liga triumph.
But a new season has brought renewed optimism. Mourinho made few decisive additions in the summer, while Pep Guardiola brought in Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas and Udinese winger Alexis Sanchez.
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With Barca officials having already confirmed their attention has now turned to becoming the first side in the Champions League era to retain the European Cup, Madrid could well waltz to the title prior to April's meeting at the Nou Camp.
If, as expected, Mourinho is successful in claiming a domestic title in the fourth different country that he's managed then where, in among his deluge of honours, does it sit?
Given the truly awesome size of opposition, the class of Guardiola and the brilliance of Messi, Xavi and Andres Iniesta, not to mention a spending power that is not that inferior to that of Madrid, then it represents as great an achievement that Mourinho is ever likely to earn during his managerial tenure.
At Porto, Mourinho was blessed with inheriting a team ready made for further glory and provided the finishing touch to a side already possessing the likes of Victor Baia, Ricardo Carvalho and Deco, winning the treble, including the UEFA Cup, in his first full season in charge.
Winning the European Cup the following season, despite coming at a barren time for Europe's heavyweights, is his most impressive achievement to date and helped earn him a birth at Chelsea.
Winning the Blues their first title in 50 years, and temporarily usurping Sir Alex Ferguson's United as English football's dominant force, was largely regarded as the true test of his managerial ability, but his inability to claim a European trophy, to the distain of owner Roman Abramovich, marred his time in west London.
His spell at Inter Milan - coming at a low in Italian football - albeit crowned with another European Cup, was dominated by Mourinho's constant bickering with the press, which eventually led to his departure to Spain.
Little will blight his success this season though. Barca have shown few signs of entering the twilight of their brilliance, and with the club's financial power not a decisive factor, Mourinho can revel in having out-managed his great advisory Guardiola.
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Using futures and options can actually be a more conservative marketing strategy than making cash sales. "Grain in the bin is speculating," says Brian Grete, senior market analyst for Pro Farmer.
"Hedging is more conservative, but that doesn't mean cash-only can't be conservative or hedging can't be aggressive," he said at the Tomorrow's Top Producer conference in Chicago. "Just keep downside price risk balanced with opportunity risk to match market conditions."
"The first thing you do is define basis," Grete says. That determines not only how you should market but which of more than a dozen market tools in your toolbox is best. "One hundred percent of the risk of true hedging is basis," he states. "Track your basis, comparing it to three, five or 10 years." Your second decision: are you bullish or bearish on the market?
To be an effective marketer, you not only need to understand marketing tools and when to use them, you also need to know yourself and how much price risk you are comfortable with. All tools, whether cash or a variety of futures tools, have their place dependent on market conditions, Grete says. In general, however, hedgers have more flexibility than cash sellers. That's because they simply have more tools in their marketing tool box, such as futures, both long and short, as well as buying and selling put and call options.
With options, however, consider this: "They capture 70% to 80% of a futures price move," roughly 80¢ for each dollar, not the entire futures price move, Grete notes.
One easy-to-make marketing mistake is euphoria during price run-ups. If corn prices reach $7.50, it's easy to develop the view that they will go to $8, $9 or even $10, he says. "Last year, corn prices hit $8.43, record prices, but it took the mother of all droughts to do that," Grete says. "At $7.50, demand starts to erode," making sustained price increases beyond that level difficult to achieve.
"I prefer sales of 10%, 15%, 20% as prices rise (incremental selling), but that is really hard to do when things are rockin' and rollin'," Grete acknowledges. Graduated sales are far easier than putting in stops on the way down, he says.
Both cash-only marketers and hedgers "normally" have 100% price risk on their crops. For cash-only marketers, after forward-pricing 10% of their crop, they are left with 90% downside risk and 10% upside price risk (opportunity risk). Opportunity risk can be minimized with a minimum price contract or a hedge to arrive contract (HTA). A minimum price contract gives opportunity for price appreciation, while an HTA gives opportunity for basis appreciation.
For hedgers, after forward pricing 10% of their crops, they are left with 90% downside risk and 10% upside risk. The opportunity risk can be reduced with a long call option or a buyback in futures. Downside risk can be reduced with cash sales, short futures (hedges) or long put options. Futures and options positions can be adjusted to the appropriate risk level, Grete says.
He suggested various marketing tools for a variety of specific market conditions.
Tools to use with poor basis:
- offensive hedge in the futures market
- defensive hedge in the futures market
- an HTA
- purchase of a put option
- deferred price contract
- doing nothing at all.
Grete adds, however, that there is a cost in doing nothing at all, with the view that basis will increase. Nationally, corn storage costs average about 4¢ per bushel per month, so for doing nothing at all to be most successful, you need a 24¢ improvement in basis over six months. For soybeans, national storage costs are even more, an average of 8¢ per month.
There are four basic market conditions and each requires a different strategy:
- Poor basis/bearish price outlook;
- poor basis/bullish price outlook;
- good basis/bearish price outlook;
- and good basis/bullish price outlook.
For example, tools to consider using with good basis and a bearish bias for futures include cash sales into the spot market, cash forward contracts, and minimum price contracts. Conversely, tools to consider using with good basis and a bullish bias are minimum price contracts; basis contracts; sell cash and buy futures, and sell cash and buy call options.
Grete says you can consider some market tools irrespective of basis: the "courage call" and writing covered call options. A courage call is buying an out-of-the-money call option that gives you the "courage" to make a cash sale when futures reach the strike price. Writing covered call options are selling (writing) a call option that "covers" or helps pay for the cost of a long position in a commodity.
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Which do you prefer in terms of internet connection?
I am using homeplugs right now since I have multiple levels in my house, it just works well so I can have internet access easily. I guess it isn't quite wired nor wireless. I am in the middle.
Honestly both, because it makes more sense to have a variety of methods. Wired for Desktop, wireless for portable devices. Of course, if you don't have a Desktop, then it doesn't matter.
I prefer wireless all the way, but that's because I am often running or doing activity outdoors, so connecting to wifi is my thing!
+1 on wireless! I'm lucky enough to live in one of the countries with really fast internet connections - I pay around $7 for a 500Mbps connection. It's more than good enough on wireless.
Andrei Whoa I'll take that Andrei. O_o
Wired. Wireless is great for general browsing and for laptops, tablets, phones, ect but for desktop... 100% wired. It is more reliable and more stable specially when doing a lot of things like downloading and gaming.
Wired nets me the fastest speeds.
Wireless here because I'm on the go all the time. I keep wifi active as often as possible so when I arrive home, I'm instantly connected.
allurbase +1
I definitely agree pal... I love my phone and take it everywhere with me.
These days, we all need our phones wherever we go. No surprise.
both but i love wired i know that there wont be any drops but my internet is bad anyways so go figure
Both baby, because my devices are stylin', while I keep filin'! YEAH!
DipStick Haha so you rap? Great... Give us another...
nougatmagnet Haha not now..
DipStick Hilarious dude!
allurbase I honestly don't rap all that much, I was just having fun.
wired if possible, wireless if i need to
DiamondBlitz i sometimes feel the same dude, well I guess it all depends
So I suppose everyone is about even on this... half wired half wireless. I wish they would put polls on this site... But I suppose that's if the forum software allows it.
DipStick oh I see.
DipStick Well don't expect it to all be roses... I mean I use data too, but not that much... I just need to connect to something faster ya know?


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Grilled Fruit Cocktail – BBQ And Grilling RecipesPosted by Cook in Mastering Fruit, Dessert, Dough BBQ And Grilling Recipes, tags: Barbecue Recipes, BBQ Recipes, Dessert Recipes, Dough Recipes, Fruit Recipes, Grilling Recipes
If you're thinking canned fruit cocktail, think again. Almost any cutup fruit can be tossed with syrup and chilled. Grilled fruits add a welcome flavor dimension in the form of caramelized sugar. Use any fruit you like, preferably a mix of acidic fruit such as citrus and sweet fruit such as pears. Here, we combine blood oranges, pineapple, peaches, pears, and sweet cherries in a ginger-almond scented syrup. Whichever fruit you choose, grill it in large pieces and then cut it into smaller pieces before tossing it with the syrup.
Prep: 30 minutes
Grill: About 10 minutes
Chill: About 10 minutes.
– About 6 skewers (soaked in water for 20 minutes if bamboo)
– Long-handled spatula or tongs.
Gas: Direct heat, medium-high (400° to 450°F)
Clean, oiled grate
Direct heat, light ash
12-by-12-inch charcoal bed (about 3 dozen coals)
Clean, oiled grate on lowest setting
Direct heat, light ash
12-by-12-inch bed, 3 to 4 inches deep
Clean, oiled grate set 2 inches above the fire.
2 to 3 blood oranges (10 to 12 ounces total)
2 cups water 22/3 cups sugar
One thumb-sized knob gingerroot, peeled and thinly sliced
1 teaspoon whole allspice berries
½ teaspoon almond extract
1 small pineapple (3 to 3½ pounds)
2 fairly ripe freestone peaches
2 fairly ripe pears
Juice of ½ lemon
6 ounces sweet cherries, such as Royal Ann, stems removed Oil for coating grill grate
8 mint leaves, for garnish.
1. Remove the zest from the oranges in strips, and put the zest in a small saucepan. Add the water, sugar, ginger, and all-spice. Bring to a boil over medium heat, then reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer until slightly thickened and syrupy, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from the heat, stir in the almond extract, and let cool to room temperature. Strain into a large bowl. At this point, the syrup can be refrigerated for up to a week or left at room temperature for several hours.
2. Heat the grill as directed.
3. Remove and discard the white pith from the oranges (your fingers or a paring knife will work best here). Break the oranges into segments and skewer them lengthwise so that the segments don't fall through the grill grate.
4. Cut off the spiky top and ½ inch from the base of the pineapple. Stand it upright and cut downward around the fruit to remove the peel and eyes. Cut lengthwise into quarters and slice off the core from each quarter. Set aside 2 of the quarters for another use (they can be refrigerated in a zipper-lock bag for up to 3 days and are great for snacking). Cut the remaining quarters crosswise into wedges about 1 inch thick.
5. Halve the peaches from the stem end to the blossom end and twist to separate the halves. Remove and discard the pits.
6. Peel, halve, and core the pears using a small melon baller. Immediately brush or rub with the lemon juice to prevent browning.
7. Pit and halve the cherries.
8. Brush the grill grate and coat it with oil. Put the skewered oranges and the pineapple, peaches, and pears on the grill (peaches and pears cut-side down). Cover and cook until nicely grill-marked on both sides, 2 to 6 minutes per side. The oranges will take less time; the peaches and pears should be tender and will take longer. If your grill has a temperature gauge, it should stay at around 450°F.
9. Remove the fruit to a cutting board. Dip the peaches in ice water for 1 minute, then peel off the skin while they are still warm. Let the fruit cool to room temperature, then cut into small pieces. Add the grilled fruit and cherries to the syrup in the bowl and toss gently to coat. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or up to 2 days.
10. Use a slotted spoon to transfer the fruit to martini or wine glasses and let stand for 20 minutes to take off the chill. Garnish with the mint leaves before serving.
– Vary the fruit: Replace the oranges with other citrus like tangerines or pomelos. Replace the pineapples with kiwi and the peaches with plums, nectarines, or apricots. You could also make a more tropical fruit cocktail by using papaya and mango.
– If you can't find fresh cherries, use about ¾ cup halved maraschino cherries (stems removed).
– If you can't find whole pineapple, use half of a peeled, cored golden pineapple. These are usually packed with pineapple juice in plastic tubs in the refrigerated produce section.
– After serving the fruit cocktail, use any leftover syrup to brush onto cakes or to serve with crêpes or pancakes.


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Name: Barbara Szpirglas
Age: 14
Country: France
Doodle for Google is a competition where we invite young people to design the Google logo in their very own style (this is called a doodle).
During the last few months we invited 4 to 17 year olds from around the world to exercise their creative imagination around the theme "I love football" and have fun redesigning the Google logo.
During the competition we received many adorable, creative and unique artistic pieces. We then had to choose the doodles that would serve as finalists in the competition. This task was one of the most challenging, exciting and enjoyable for us at Google over the last few months.
The public in 17 countries voted for their favourite local doodle which appeared on the Google homepage of that country for a day.
The 17 local winners were then put forward to a global vote, naming the single global winner of the entire contest.
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In 1990, Daniel and Florence Cathiard also fell under the spell of this beautiful estate. Since then, they have restored the 16th century tower, renovated the 18th century manor house, built two underground cellars, went back to traditional vine growing methods without chemical herbicides and set up their own cooperage. The perfect elegance, excellent balance and fine structure of Smith Haut Lafitte's red and white wines are the ultimate reflection of the current owners' total commitment to quality.


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Usually, a young woman would be on one side of a partition asking a series of quirky and often sexually suggestive questions of a trio of bachelors on the other side of it.
Without seeing them, and not being allowed to ask their names, occupations, ages, or incomes, she would think over their answers during a commercial break and then select one of the three for a date.
Occasionally, the roles were reversed and a man would do the selecting from a group of three "bachelorettes." The show did not use the term "spinsters" for its unmarried female guests probably because that word, so strongly associated with starched gingham and hair-in-a-bun prudishness, would have been out of place in the time period.
In 1978, a program aired in which Lange introduced "Bachelor Number One" as "a successful photographer who got his start when his father found him in the darkroom at the age of 13 – fully developed." Lange paused while the audience laughed appreciatively at the double entendre.
Then the host continued, "Between takes you might find him skydiving or motorcycling.
Please welcome Rodney Alcala." The audience saw Bachelor Number One, a handsome, dark-haired young man with a ready smile.
A registered sex-offender, Rodney Alcala got his 15-minutes of fame as a successful contestant on "The Dating Game" in 1978.
Before that appearance, he had already been convicted of raping an 8-year-old girl and had murdered four women.
He would go on to murder a 13-year-old girl.: On death row at San Quentin since 1979, Rodney Alcala, now 69, was sentenced in New York Supreme Court on January 7, 2012 to two concurrent 25 years to life in prison sentences for raping and murdering two women in New York in the 1970s. Crilley, a 23-year-old TWA flight attendant, was raped and strangled in her Upper East Side apartment.
Seven years later, the body of Ellen Jane Hover, 23, an aspiring orchestra conductor, was found at the Rockefeller estate in Westchester County.
Alcala pled guilty to the two murders on December 14.
He will now be returned to death row at San Quentin.
Since 2006, there has been a court-ordered moratorium on executions in California over the lethal-injection controversy.
Bachelor Number One Airing in the 1960s and 1970s, "The Dating Game" was a popular show about singles finding romance.


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The Media Myth Of The Assault Weapons Ban And The 1994 Elections Returns
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Media outlets are reviving the myth that passage of the assault weapons ban was the crucial factor in Democratic defeats during the 1994 elections as President Obama moves to institute a new ban on assault weapons.
In some cases, those media are citing President Bill Clinton, who, according to Politico's uncritical report on his January 19 speech, "said that passing the 1994 federal assault weapons ban 'devastated' more than a dozen Democratic lawmakers in the 1994 midterms -- and cost then-Speaker of the House Tom Foley (D-Wash.) his job and his seat in Congress." Clinton also credited the National Rifle Association for the Democrats losing control of the House in his 2004 autobiography.
By contrast, The Chicago Tribune reported that while Clinton and others have cited gun violence prevention legislation as the key factor in the 1994 election, "[o]ther factors were at play in the Democrats' 1994 loss: Congress had raised taxes in 1993 and fought over health care reform."
Indeed, as US News reported in a January 17 article, political scientists who have analyzed the 1994 election say it is "mythology" that gun violence prevention laws were the primary reason the Democrats were defeated. According to the article, headlined "Gun Control Laws Weren't Primary Reason Dems Lost in 1994" (emphasis added):
While the '94 election proved Americans wanted Democrats out of congressional power (more than 50 Democratic seats were lost), it's less clear if the weapons ban, or any one issue, was the primary reason for their loss.
"This is a mythology that has developed," says Philip Klinkner, who edited a book about the '94 elections. "That narrative stretches things way too far."
The truth, political scientists say, is that it can be attributed to a combination of factors, and the "assault weapons" ban was just one of several controversial votes that led to the loss.
With Democrats in charge of the House, Senate and White House, the 103rd Congress tackled a long, progressive wish list. The White House pressured legislators to take on healthcare reform (unsuccessfully), pass the North American Free Trade Agreement and raise taxes through a deficit reduction act, which was fraught with political land mines for congressional Democrats. None of the policies helped earn legislators points back home among their more conservative constituents.
"The vote for gun control mattered, but the vote for the tax increase and healthcare were more important," says Gary Jacobson, who has done a statistical analysis of what votes affected the outcome of the 1994 election.
According to Jacobson's analysis, the 1994 election results were largely due to a political realignment, with voters no longer splitting their tickets and instead voting for Republican congressional challengers in districts in which President Clinton had lost in 1992."Republicans won the House in 1994," Jacobson wrote, "because an unusually large number of districts voted locally as they had been voting nationally."
Indeed, as American Prospect contributing editor (and former Media Matters staffer) Paul Waldman has noted, an analysis of the impact of NRA endorsements during the 1994 election found that Republican challengers to Democratic incumbents received a 2-point boost from the endorsement; no other NRA endorsees received a benefit. Waldman points out that since only 9 NRA-endorsed challengers won by four points or fewer, "even if we were to attribute every last one of those nine victories to the NRA and assume that without the organization each race would have gone Democratic - an extremely generous assumption - the Republicans would still have gained 45 seats and won control of the House."
Recent history also demonstrates that Democratic House losses are not linked to gun violence prevention efforts or the work of the NRA. Republicans picked up 52 House seats in 1994, after passing the assault weapons ban. But they picked up 63 seats in 2010, after two years in which Congress had only expanded gun rights.
While the claim that the 1994 House elections swung on the issue of strengthening gun laws lacks evidence, it does have a clear beneficiary. As Jacobson told US News, the NRA has used this mythology "to frighten future incumbents and warn them that gun control is a losing issue," thus quashing future gun violence prevention efforts.
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text: As the youngest of four sisters, Eva Longoria was known as "la prieta faya" (the ugly dark one) around her family's Texas ranch. That nickname was rendered obsolete when she was crowned Miss Corpus Christi 1998 contest and sent to compete in an LA beauty pageant that she also ended up winning. She stayed in Southern California to work as a corporate headhunter and run the audition gauntlet. After guest spots on Beverly Hills, 90210 and General Hospital, she booked a two-year recurring role on The Young and The Restless in 2001. After a season on the under-performing L.A. Dragnet, ABC hired her again. This time she was one of the four leads and this time the Emmy-winning series, Desperate Housewives, was a mega-hit that ran for eight seasons. Onscreen as Gabrielle Solis, she courted her teenaged gardener, but offscreen it was Longoria getting the full-court press from San Antonio Spur Tony Parker after she attended an NBA game with her dad. The L'Oreal spokeswoman and two-time top-spot getter on Maxim's Hot 100 won her first big award, A People's Choice trophy for Favorite Female TV Star, in 2007. The same year she and Parker have two ceremonies in his native France to make their union legal. Three years after the lavish nuptials, amid rumors of his infidelity, she filed for divorce. Longoria, now a partner in several restaurants with chef Todd English and very involved in both Obama presidential campaigns, has since dated Penelope Cruz's younger brother Eduardo Cruz and Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez.


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To say the 1963 Corvette Stingray Splitwindow coupe is desirable would be a staggering understatement, but Google Streetview has spotted one abandoned and rotting away beneath a tree in Spokane, Washington.
We came this close to pushing the big red button, deploying the emergency Jalopnik search and rescue team to recover this poor, neglected split-window, but it's apparently not up for sale. Instead, we're sitting here lusting after an oxidized heap anyway. Doesn't this owner know there are gearheads in Detroit starving for Stingrays? Yes, it's in a rough state, but just imagine dropping a freshly rebuilt 327 in this car and cruising it around as-is — it would be the ultimate rat-rod.
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