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John and Sheila had planned their escape for years and were excited to finally be underway.
On a crisp fall New England morning, they left Newport, RI, on Mary Ellen, their 40-foot sloop, cleared Block Island, and set a course straight for the Caribbeanor so they thought.
But on day four John realized they were in big trouble. The weather forecaster on the Single Sideband radio advised him that Mary Ellen was sailing right into a developing gale. John was told to expect 45-knot winds with seas building to 20 feet by the following afternoon. His best option was to change course and head for Bermuda.
"Damn," John muttered. He knew they could reach Bermuda but he had no approach charts for the island. How could he safely make landfall on a reef-strewn shoreline without the guidance of the chart? "Why on earth did I leave Newport without charts for alternate landfalls en route to the Caribbean?", thought John. Should he risk attempting landfall at an unfamiliar coastline or should he press on into the path of a strengthening Atlantic gale?
Fortunately, John and Sheila made it safely to Bermuda. Not only did they get the information they needed to make landfall at Bermuda but they also got it in minutes. Here's what happened:
While on the daily SSB weather net, John put out a call to anyone anchored in Bermuda. He immediately got an answer from the owner of Piper. Like the Mary Ellen, Piper was en route to the islands. But she had made a scheduled stop in Bermuda. The owner was waiting for favorable weather. With his guidance conveyed over the SSB, John and Sheila got safely into Bermuda and dodged the potentially dangerous storm.
This is a true story. Sue and I, then on our way south and anchored in Beaufort, NC, heard the forecast on our SSB. Then we heard the call for assistance, followed by the response from Piper. Had Piper not responded, we were ready to help. (We had charts of Bermuda aboard Safari and from our anchorage on the Carolina coast, could have provided waypoint and other navigational information.) I am certain that many other listening sailors would have also been ready to assist, if needed.
It is important to be able to plug into local knowledge via the SSB radio when cruising. Sailors new to the area could become aware of this bar off Newport, Rhode Island.
This is one reason why today's cruising sailors are not racing off to replace their single sideband radios with newer satellite-phone technology. Cost is another factor, but I'll address this later.
Sue and I almost didn't buy an SSB radio for Safari. We didn't want to buy old technology and be stuck with a piece of equipment that we thought would be going the way of the eight-track tape player. Many people we'd met had expressed the same opinion. But most of these folks hadn't been cruising and hadn't been using an SSB radio on a regular basis.
Although we had bought our single sideband radio primarily for safety, we've discovered that it's also our central source for communication, as well as entertainment. Now, after a lot of experience on the water, we've come to realize the value of the SSB to our cruising. The sat phone and the SSB actually serve two very different purposes. Ultimately one day, we'd like to have both aboard.
With SSB radios, the distance your signal travels and its clarity will depend on the atmospheric conditions, the frequency you're operating on and the time of day or night. In addition, it takes a little time and patience to learn how to operate an SSB at full potential. But the SSB allows us to accomplish something that is unique: reach hundreds or even thousands of fellow sailors at once. Best of all, you can ask questions and gain valuable information from the people who are out there doing it. And you don't need to know a single phone number to reach them. Who better to talk the Mary Ellen into Bermuda than a sailor who had just made landfall there?
|Larry connects to a world of cruising sailors via the SSB radio.
Nearly everywhere you cruise you find a network of sailors willing to help one another. The single sideband is a way that information is exchanged. Options range from nets to set frequencies that are used for hailing, distress, or general communication. Many of the nets run by cruising sailors are controlled nets, which means there is a pre-determined structure or format that's followed every day. These nets center around any needs that cruising sailors in an area may share in common. Weather, repairs, emergencies, contacting friends, or just general informationlike who has the cheapest diesel on the East Coast-might be discussed. (By the way, it's on the ICW at Coinjock, NC.)
Down the road when satellite phone prices drop considerably (particularly airtime) and Internet connections at sea can be made more easily, the newer technologies may take over. But today and in the foreseeable future, the single sideband radio remains the lifeline that connects cruising sailors. We certainly are not giving up ours.
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An appliance manufacturer has a machine that polishes the stainless steel exterior on the finished doors of appliances to a fine brushed look on one of its popular designs. The polishing head's speed is powered by a servovalve hydraulic system that allows them to maintain the selected speed of the brushes. The servovalve control electronics incorporate a feedback signal from the hydraulic motor to ensure a constant speed for the brushes, regardless of the pressure applied.
This process had been in place for several years, and other than occasional maintenance fixes, worked well. They did a good job of maintaining the ISO cleanliness code and temperature of the hydraulic oil. Oil samples always came back reflecting good maintenance practices they had in place.
A problem developed where the maximum brush speed could not be achieved, but the circuit for advancing and applying pressure worked just fine. See the accompanying circuit.
The coils of the servovalve were wired in parallel, and when the resistance of each was measured, they both appeared to be fine. Technicians checked the signal coming out of the amplifier card to the servovalve, and it also seemed fine. They then replaced the servovalve with a new one after verifying the continuity of the cable going to the valve.
The system worked fine part of the time, but not consistently. Any idea what could be wrong?
Soution to Appliance Manufacturer has Sluggish Polishing Machine
The polishing machine's servovalve has two coils that controlled the tilt of the torque motor. When wired in parallel and properly wired in relation to their polarity, the coils produce enough force to fully stroke the valve. However, if one coil is open, the valve only has half the force stroking the torque motor. Therefore, the valve cannot open completely. This reduces the maximum flow capacity, which slows down the response time of the valve.
The fact that the polisher would work fine part of the time indicated that hydraulics was not the problem. I found that if the cable feeding the valve was moved to a certain position and held there, the system operated properly. Closer inspection of the cable, where it entered the connector, revealed a solder joint of one wire with a "cold joint." This wire separated from the terminal when the cable was bent in one direction, causing loss of power to one of the servovalve's coils. Re-soldering the wire to the terminal solved the problem.


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THURSDAY, Aug. 21, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- An American doctor infected with the deadly Ebola virus while doing missionary medical work in West Africa will be released Thursday from the Atlanta hospital where he has been slowly recovering for several weeks.
Dr. Kent Brantly, 33, was working for the Christian aid group Samaritan's Purse, treating Ebola patients in Liberia when he fell ill. He and fellow aid worker Nancy Writebol, who also contracted Ebola while working in Liberia, were flown to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta early this month, where they were treated in an isolation unit.
The 59-year-old Writebol is also expected to the released soon from the medical center's isolation unit, but it wasn't immediately clear when she would leave the hospital.
Brantly and Writebol shouldn't endure long-term illness or disability because of their brush with the deadly virus, according to one of the United States' most experienced Ebola experts.
Dr. Joseph McCormick, regional dean of the University of Texas School of Public Health in Brownsville, told HealthDay that both aid workers most likely haven't endured any permanent organ damage or contracted a lasting chronic illness from the Ebola virus. And both should emerge from their struggle with immune resistance against future Ebola infection.
He said most survivors "get pretty much back to normal" over time, but admitted "this is something we know less about than we should."
McCormick is one of the very few U.S. physicians with first-hand experience with Ebola. As an officer with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he belonged to the team that investigated the first Ebola epidemic in 1976, which occurred in the Congo, as well as the next two African outbreaks of Ebola.
Ebola victims who survive -- the virus kills 60 to 90 percent of those it infects -- first must deal with the loss of body mass caused by their illness, McCormick said.
"Over a period of two to three weeks, in addition to becoming physically very weak, they lose a lot of body mass," McCormick said earlier this month. "It's difficult for them to move around at all, and it takes some time for them to regain the ability to eat much."
Patients with Ebola experience terrible headaches plus body and muscle pain. "They have a tremendous sore throat, to the point where they cannot swallow their own saliva," he said.
There's not a lot that doctors could do for Brantly and Writebol, besides monitoring their vital statistics, providing pain medications, and encouraging them to eat and drink, McCormick said.
When both aid workers do make a full recovery, they likely will have one much-envied health advantage over most people, McCormick said -- a naturally acquired immunity to Ebola.
"They absolutely build up immune resistance," he said. "If I were out there right now running the program in West Africa, I would be looking for people who are far enough out of recovery that they feel well again. Those are the people I would be training to take care of patients, because they are the least likely to become reinfected."
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed 1,350 people so far. Ebola cases have been reported in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and, to a lesser extent, Nigeria.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), deaths are occurring most frequently in Liberia, which now accounts for at least 576 of the fatalities. Nearly 2,500 people have fallen ill across West Africa, which has now seen more infections during the current outbreak than in all of the previous two-dozen Ebola outbreaks combined, the Associated Press reported.
Symptoms of Ebola include a sudden fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, headache and sore throat. This is followed by vomiting, diarrhea, rash, poor kidney and liver function and, in some cases, both internal and external bleeding.
Unlike diseases such as tuberculosis or flu, Ebola isn't spread by breathing air from an infected person. Transmission requires direct contact with blood, secretions, organs or other body fluids of infected living or dead persons or animals, the WHO said.
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ADV is short for "Applied Diligence and Valuation" which is basically the explanation of the core competencies that I will offer to my clients when I work for them. I also like the way that it could be considered an abbreviation for terms like "Advice", "Advantage", "Advance", etc., that can also be used to describe the services that I will provide.
I am an astute financial mathematician, and am able to value any business. My experience in corporate finance has now enabled me to be in a position to offer this full advisory service to potential clients.
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My main initial focus is the look of the business card. I want something simple that looks sleek. To this extent, it does not need to incorporate a logo, but can do if you think one will improve the outlook.
The title of the business can be either "ADV Partners" or "ADV Corporate Finance".
The business card should be landscape in orientation.
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The Carthage College football team (2-1, 0-0 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin) closed out its non-conference schedule on Saturday night, Sept. 22 by trouncing Lakeland College (0-3), 49-9, on Saturday, Sept. 22 at Art Keller Field in Kenosha, Wis. The win was the Red Men's ninth in a row over the Muskies.
Carthage took a 17-0 lead in the first period. The Red Men scored on their second drive, with Shane Covington scoring from the four-yard line to cap a five-play, 56-yard drive. Brett Bukari drilled the first of four field goals, this one a 37-yarder, at 4:14 to make it 10-0, and Reggie Miller scored on a 40-yard touchdown run with 44 seconds remaining in the period for a 17-0 lead. Lakeland scored its only touchdown at 5:27 second period on a three-yard carry by Dylan Van Straten to cut the lead to 17-7. Bukari's second field goal, a 42-yard boot, upped the lead to 20-7 at 4:04. A touchdown pass from A.J. Simoncelli to Pete Djurickovic with 1:08 to play in the half made it a 27-7 game at halftime.
Bukari connected on his third field goal, a 38-yarder, at 12:00 third period, and the lead went to 30-7. Free safety Alex Vitkauskas returned a fumble recovery two yards for a touchdown at 11:36 third period, and the Red Men led, 37-7. Backup free safety Zac Pallissard was credited with a safety on a blocked Lakeland punt at 10:26 to make it a 39-7 contest. Bukari's fourth-and-final field goal, a 19-yard boot at 5:33 third period upped the Carthage lead to 42-7. Lakeland collected a safety at 7:56 fourth quarter to make it 42-9, and Red Men reserve quarterback Jeff Eder Jr. scored on a four-yard carry with 3:43 left in the game to close out the scoring at 49-9.
Carthage rolled up 353 total offensive yards, 201 rushing and 152 passing, while Lakeland was limited to just 62 total yards, 15 on the ground and 47 in the air. Red Men kicker Brett Bukari (Jr., Bloomfield Hills, Mich./Beverly Hills-Detroit Country Day) tied a Carthage game record and set an Art Keller Field mark with his four field goals. Bukari tied a mark set by Lloyd Griffin at North Park University in 1984. Quarterback A.J. Simoncelli (Fr., Downers Grove, Ill./South) completed 16-of-31 passes for 150 yards and rushed for 62 yards on six carries. Derek Bellamy (So., Sacramento, Calif./Monterrey Trail) ran for 60 yards on eight carries. Defensive end Tyler O'Brien (Sr., Cary, Ill./Cary-Grove) led the Red Men's defensive unit with seven tackles (6 solo, 1 assisted), including two and one-half tackles for loss and a sack.
"We were obviously in command the whole way," said Carthage coach Tim Rucks. "We were the better team tonight, and more importantly, we played better football. We went about things a little better this week. The no-huddle offense worked to our advantage, and it really shut off the Lakeland blitz. We made A.J. Simoncelli's life a little easier tonight than we did against Wartburg last week. He's going to be a really good quarterback, and you'll see that as the season goes along. This game did a lot to help his confidence, as well as the confidence of the whole team. Now things get more difficult, as we get into the CCIW-part of the schedule. I love the challenge. It's the best league in the country, and we'll see that in the next seven weeks. We're a work in progress, and we just need to focus on getting better each week."
Carthage plays host to North Park University (1-2, 0-0 CCIW) on Saturday, Sept. 29 in Carthage's Homecoming game, as well as the conference-opener for both teams.


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Vector Aerospace Helicopter Services North America (HS-NA) will provide maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) support for Blackcomb Aviation's fleet of Rolls-Royce M250 engines under a five-year contract signed by the two companies. Under the agreement, Vector will also supply MRO for Blackcomb's fleet of Turbomeca Arriel 1 and 2 Engines, and Eurocopter AS350, AS355 and EC130 components.
Vector's Regional sales director for Western Canada, Eric Hicks, and Blackcomb's President and COO, Jonathan Burke, shake hands in front of a Eurocopter EC130B4. Photo courtesy of Vector Aerospace
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Giovannucci, Daniele (2007) The New Local: Linking Geographical Indications and Organics. Paper at: 1st IFOAM International Conference on 'Marketing of Organic and Regional Values', Germany, August 26 - 28, 2007. [Unpublished]
Kasterine, Alexander and Bolwig, Simon (2008) Airfreight, organic products and Africa. Speech at: BioFach Congress 2008, NürnbergMesse, Nuremberg, Germany, February 21-24, 2008.
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Niggli, Urs; Schmid, Heinz and Fliessbach, Andreas (2008) Organic Farming and Climate Change. International Trade Centre (ITC), Geneva.
Pierrot, Joost; Giovannucci, Daniele and Kasterine, Alexander (editor): International Trade Centre (Ed.) (2011) Trends in the Trade of Certified Coffees. Technical Paper, no. MAR-11-197.E. International Trade Centre, Geneva.
Ton, P. (2007) Organic Cotton: An Opportunity for Trade. International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
What's happening in this picture?
The first person to guess what's happening to me in this picture wins a prize. No fair if you've already seen this picture elsewhere and know the answer. Post your answers in the comments, please. Tweet
11 comments:
- WhySharksMatter said...
Either you need to start using more dandruff shampoo, or something is spawning.
- Tue Apr 28, 10:06:00 AM PDT
- Fish Whisperer said...
In a snow storm out of the water.
- Tue Apr 28, 11:57:00 AM PDT
- Sharky said...
Something sexual.
- Tue Apr 28, 09:36:00 PM PDT
- Mark Powell said...
You guys, always thinking of sex when you see my picture. Come on, get outta the gutter.
Think smaller.
- Tue Apr 28, 11:14:00 PM PDT
- Alain Fréchet said...
Easy,first you say it is you, then you double click the picture place the cursor on tghe picture and it says "mark+in+bloom.jpg" so you search Mark Powell bloom and you get the answer :
Alain Fréchet
- Wed Apr 29, 10:20:00 AM PDT
- Mark Powell said...
Alain wins, it's the later stages of Puget Sound's annual plankton bloom, now turning into "marine snow" as large and variable particles dominate.
- Wed Apr 29, 10:24:00 AM PDT
- Alain Fréchet said...
... and he wins what ?
- Wed Apr 29, 10:29:00 AM PDT
- Mark Powell said...
An invitation for a personally-guided tour of any location on Bainbridge Island that's been featured on Swim Around Bainbridge: http://swimbi.blogspot.com/ Where do you hail from, Alain, and are you planning a trip to the Seattle area anytime soon?
- Wed Apr 29, 10:31:00 AM PDT
- Missy "Photographer Sydney" John said...
You are asking for an okay sign.
I'm I correct?
- Tue May 05, 07:38:00 PM PDT
- Mark Powell said...
No OK sign request, I'm in the water alone and only interacting with my camera.
- Tue May 05, 07:40:00 PM PDT
- Edward "diving Boracay" Martin said...
You just want to take a look at your face underwater.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Was that meaningful for you?
Yeah, we know that the playoffs are still a long shot, but that's what makes this next stretch of the season fun: Every game is going to at least feel like it matters. And did you see the reaction of the players after tonight's game? Hell, the Jays fans were outcheering the Yankees fans at the Dome tonight!
Now let's move to the Roll Call...
A.J. Burnett: Wicked awesome. Has he pitched a game as a Blue Jay better than tonight's?
Adam Lind: More awesome than awesome. We can believe how often we're referring to him.
Lyle Overbay: A gritty awesome gamer with the glove. That was an amazing game saver in the ninth.
Johnny Damon: No longer an option in centerfield. But thanks to Joe Girardi for putting him out there tonight.
J.P. Arencibia: Drove in his 100th RBI of the season tonight. At least someone in the Jays system is going to reach that milestone.
11 comments:
- fantasybaseballmacbookpro said...
AJ is pitching well this year...wait...contract year for him. He can officially opt-out of his contract and become a free agent. Like Cito said he's going to sign somewhere else. Come on...if Livan Hernandez can find a job in the majors AJ can easily find a team who will offer a ridiculous amount of money.
Happy to see the Jays taking one from the Yanks.
It would be nice to see Halladay,Burnett, Marcum, and McGowan as the starting rotation next year. If Marcum and McGowarn could stay healthy and pitch like they should we should have a decent trio.
Maybe with the iPhone and Blackberry Bold revenue the Jays might be able to get Mr. Rogers to open his wallet again for a HR/RBI guy in the off-season.
- August 19, 2008 at 10:26 PM
You don't know how much Yankee fans wanted Melky out of the mix. Now look at what they've got, a step closer to not contending.
- August 19, 2008 at 10:36 PM
- Darren Priest said...
I love that "Johnny D" is being blamed for the loss. Fucking "Johnny D." Welcome to the twilight of your career zone. Cowboy down and out, but RICH!
- August 19, 2008 at 10:45 PM
- fantasybaseballmacbookpro said...
Contending? Are you kidding me. The Yanks are out unless the Rays and Red Sox completely fall apart.
If you look at the numbers the Yanks need to put together a crazy finish. If they want to finish with more than 90 wins they need to have a 27-13 record. Then the Rays need to finish with a 15-24 record. The Red Sox need to finish with a 500 record of 19-19. Does anyone here think this will happen???? Come on, realistically think this will happen?!?
I know anything can happen, ask the Mets from last year. But looking at the numbers and percentages, the Yanks are not competing for a playoff spot. They are competing for a nice end to the historic building that Ruth Built.
BTW...Melky should have been sent down in early June. This guy just simply sucks after starting out hot. I wonder who is going to give Giambi a contract for next year after his decent 08 season so far. Wouldn't mind adding him to the DH spot of the Jays. Too bad he won't come with price tag that fits our budget.
- August 19, 2008 at 11:14 PM
- eyebleaf said...
senor tao-age, i was at the game, and drunk, tonight...and it was a fuckin beauty.
i love, LOVE, jesus damon. my mom could have caught that ball in the 8th. love him!
and AJ, what the fuck can you say about AJ? he's a dear.
and just for the record, i called adam lind's home run tonight. AND i've got a witness.
and fuck darryl rasner. mother fucker.
- August 19, 2008 at 11:21 PM
This is completely unrelated, but it's really funny if you click the "Next Blog" tab/icon at the top and see what pops up. Could not be more unrelated to this blog. Regardless of that digression, Adam Lind is a stud. What a jack tonight. Keep the faith.
- August 19, 2008 at 11:23 PM
Did anyone catch Lind and Burnett sitting on the bench next to each other after Lind's HR, both of them w/their caps off? They look like friggin twins
- August 19, 2008 at 11:40 PM
- MK Piatkowski said...
I loved the absolutely joy after BJ's last out. Did you see Ryan? Never mind, did you see Doc? Have we EVER seen Doc that happy?
I hope we keep getting games like this because they have more fun, and by extension, we do. Right now, they believe, and so I do too.
- August 20, 2008 at 12:07 AM
- The Ack said...
Fuck, even Campbell was stoked...."AND DAMON DROPS ANOTHER ONE!!!!".
Just think how devastating that loss will be to the Yankees....imagine if Vern had dropped that ball in thr 9th? Or if Rios got nailed trying to stretch a shit-ass single and wasn't even close?
- August 20, 2008 at 12:13 AM
- Torgen said...
Hasn't Damon been DHing for a while? So it's understandable that he'd be rusty. Of course, that doesn't mean our hitters shouldn't exploit that every chance they get.
- August 20, 2008 at 1:40 AM
The next time somebody bitches to me about how releasing Reed Johnson was a bad move, I'm not even going to go into the career batting numbers of Shannon Stewart vs. Johnson anymore.
I'm just going to point out that if they had kept Johnson, Adam Lind would probably still be in Syracuse. Which would be even more ridiculous than keeping Stewart over Johnson was... in retrospect.
- August 20, 2008 at 8:12 PM


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• US officials believe plane my have be deliberately flown west
• Malaysia PM confirms plane was deliberately turned off course
• Communication systems turned off 'deliberately'
• Plane flew for 7 hours after losing contact
• Have Chinese satellites spotted the wreckage?
• Two million participants in 'crowd sourcing' search for plane
• In pictures: The hunt for MH370
• Malaysia Airlines plane crash: timeline
• Video: Search and rescue extended
We are going to wrap up the live blog now. For the latest developments please keep in touch with our world news page.
20.07 James Wood, brother of Philip Wood, one of three Americans aboard MH370, said that the Malaysian prime minister's announcement "gives us a little hope, as ironic as that might sound".
"If they're wanting to hurt people they would do it right then and there. But if they're wanting to do something later then at least it gived us hope that there's still life and that we're going to have an opportunity to see our family again."
Could the Malaysian plane have entered Indian air space without India knowing? India's radar "not always turned on" http://t.co/hVxfTQXK39— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof)
March 15, 2014
Zaharie had 18,365 fly hrs, if rpts of erratic ups & downs #MH370 are correct, No Way it was Zaharie behind wheel. http://t.co/aoy4XinxV8— George Hatcher Sr. (@GeorgeHatcher)
March 15, 2014
16.24 Pretty comprehensive summary of the sequence of events that occurred on MH370 according to what investigators have pieced together - although it is debatable whether the crash theory is the most probable, as the clip asserts.
16.13 BBC World Service report with Greg Candelaria who says he was having dinner with his wife at a Houston restaurant when they both received a breaking news alert on their phones about the missing plane he had been scheduled to take.
Aviation expert David Gleave provides his opinion on the possible scenarios that may have befallen MH370.
15.12 The captain of flight MH370, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, has a YouTube channel, which shows him liking clips from Richard Dawkins and Eddie Izzard and posting his own videos on how to fix an ice maker or how to tune an air conditioner to save electricity.
14.43 A brief recap on today's events:
1. Malaysia has confirmed reports that the diversion of MH370 was a deliberate act.
2. Last signal from MH370 was five hours later than previously thought.
3. The families of those on board have raised their hopes that the plane might have landed somewhere
4. The missing aircraft could be as far north as Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan or as far south as the southern Indian Ocean.
5. China has expressed its anger that Malaysia has only today provided substantive information
14.41 A man who has relations with passengers onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 clasps his hands
13.44 Blogger and aviation safety specialist Christine Negroni writes that the British company, Inmarsat - akin to "the brainy bespectacled girls at the dance" - has become the centre of attention as it received the pings which have proven that MH370 must have been flying for over seven hours after take off.
When I called the company for details on this unconventional use of airplane monitoring, David Coiley, business director for the aeronautical division told me, "We have been asked to be a technical advisor to the Air Accidents Investigation Branch," he told me, "and we are unable to comment further."
13.30 A decent explainer by the Washington Post on why we know MH370 kept flying for hours. The now famous ACARS "handshakes" do "not necessarily" show the plane's location. Also, the quality of the information the Malaysian's are working with depands on what the airline paid for, says Bill Waldock, an air crash investigator and a professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Think of it like a cable TV package...more expensive ACARS packages come with a console that can receive short faxes or send basic messages. Depending on what an airline is willing to pay for, its planes will be able to take advantage of more and better ACARS features.
13.07 Eight-year-old Syira Nazia Hutabarat works on a wellwishing picture for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
13.05 Indian navy ships supported by long-range surveillance planes and helicopters scoured Andaman Sea islands for a third day on Saturday without any success in finding evidence of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, officials said.
Nearly a dozen ships, patrol vessels, surveillance aircraft and helicopters have been deployed, but "we have got nothing so far," said V.S.R. Murthy, an Indian coast guard official.
The Indian navy's coordinated search has so far covered more than 250,000 square kilometers (100,579 square miles) in the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal "without any sighting or detection," the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The search has been expanded to the central and eastern sides of the Bay of Bengal, the ministry said.
12.49 China is pretty furious that it has taken a week for Malaysia to brief the public that flight MH370 was deliberately turned off course after its communication system was manually shut down.
China's Xinhua state news agency said that Malaysian PM Mr Najib's announcement today was "painfully belated".
"And due to the absence - or at least lack - of timely authoritative information, massive efforts have been squandered, and numerous rumours have been spawned, repeatedly racking the nerves of the awaiting families," it said.
It remains unclear as to whether Malaysia had indeed kept silent or if it was just corroborating the information it received before it went public like it said.
Some are speculating that Malaysia was concerned about revealing the fact that the airliner could have flown to Central Asia as it would in turn lead to speculation that the country's jihadists could be involved.
Here is a video of the - mainly Chinese - passengers' families reacting angrily to Malaysian PM's statement.
12.23 The change in tone of the briefings given by Malaysian authorities have raised hopes in China, where most of the passengers on board the jet came from, that the plane may have been hijacked instead going down in the ocean.
Many users of China's online social networks shared a news report of a woman who said she had received a missed call from her father, who was on board the plane.
The unnamed woman "said she had gotten a missed call from her father onboard, and the number said 'powered off' later when she called back," the Beijing Times reported.
"A hijacking is better than a crash," said another user of Sina Weibo, a Chinese version of Twitter. "Hope Malaysia will not come out and deny it later."
12.12 And here's a photo of guards outside the gated complex where MH370 pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah lives.
Mr Zaharie is a very experienced – almost wonkish – pilot according to his colleagues.
He is being cast as the elder statesman to the exuberant youth of co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid (see post at 11.58).
But the truth is little is known about either men as of yet. Much more likely to emerge later today.
12.08 AFP is reporting that because Malaysia has confirmed the airliner was deliberately diverted, attention is returning to the crew and the passengers, particularly the Iranians with the stolen passports.
For me there's only a few scenarios," said Paul Yap, an aviation lecturer at Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore.
"First the people involved in the deliberate actions are the pilots, one of them or both of them in cahoots.
"Then we have a scenario where terrorists make the pilots change course and switch off the transponders under duress, maybe threatening to kill passengers," Yap said.
Adam Dolnik, a professor of terrorism studies at the University of Wollongong in Australia, said he still doubted that organised terrorism was behind the Malaysian plane mystery.
While a group like Al-Qaeda "would love to bring down an airliner", a Malaysia Airlines plane made little sense as a target and the stolen passports had an "amateurish" element, Dolnik said.
"Terrorists don't do (hijackings), because the chances of success have gone down," he said, citing the challenge of bringing weapons onto a plane and subduing other passengers.
11.58 Journalists wait outside the house of Fariq Abdul Hamid, co-pilot of the Malaysia airlines missing flight MH370, in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.
This is the chap who was photographed with two female passengers, one of whom was donning a pilot's hat, in 2011, apparently breaking post-9/11 rules by opening the cockpit door to passengers. One of the women, Jaan Maree, reportedly said they were allowed to stay in the cockpit during the entire one-hour flight and that Fariq Abdul Hamid was smoking.
11.37 If the area border areas of China and Central Asia are indeed where MH370 has gone - as is the most likely scenario according reported briefings by unnamed Malaysian officials - attention will naturally turn to western China's Muslim Uighur ethnic minority.
Uighurs were allegedly responsible for an attack in the south-western city of Kunming on March 1 that left 29 people dead and injured about 140 others.
On Friday Reuters ran a rare telephone interview with Abdullah Mansour, the leader of the rebel Turkestan Islamic Party, who said the group had plans to attack China.
"The fight against China is our Islamic responsibility and we have to fulfil it," he said from an undisclosed location. "China is not only our enemy, but it is the enemy of all Muslims ... We have plans for many attacks in China."
Also check out Malcolm Moore's piece "Has the global jihad reached China?"
11.11 Our correspondent Dean Nelson reporting from Kuala Lumpur has filed a summary of recent developments vis-à-vis Malaysia Airlines flight.
The Malaysian prime minister had ordered his search operation to switch from the South China Sea, where the plane's position was last clearly recorded, to the Indian Ocean, after new information confirmed the plane had been turned back en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing by people on-board who had deliberately switched off its radar and communications systems.
His comments, which were made in a statement to journalists at an airport hotel, stopped short of calling the seizure of the plane a "hijack" but stressed the investigation would now focus on the passengers and crew members to identify suspects.
10.59 Chinese state news agency Xinhua is reporting that two Chinese vessels are heading to the Strait of Malacca.
The Haikou Missile Destroyer left the Gulf of Thailand, where it has been searching for 70 hours, last night and will arrive in the Strait of Malacca today to join another Chinese ship Haixun 31.
The second vessel, Yongxingdao, equipped with underwater robots and rescue boats, will be dispatched to the Strait of Malacca from the Gulf of Thailand shortly.
10.40 According to the BBC's Myanmar correspondent Jonah Fisher, Malaysia is briefing journalists that officials there think the plane is most likely on the China/Kyrgyzstan border - not attributed.
Being briefed by Malaysia officials they believe most likely location for MH370 is on land somewhere near Chinese/Kyrgyz border.— Jonah Fisher (@JonahFisher)
March 15, 2014
10.35 The two suspected routes the flight might have taken, as described by the Malaysian PM, are the so-called northern and southern corridors.
According to the New York Times:
The northern corridor passes through or close to some of the world's most volatile countries that are home to insurgent groups, but also over highly militarized areas with robust air defense networks, some run by the US military. The arc passes close to northern Iran, through Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, and through northern India and the Himalayan mountains and Myanmar. An aircraft flying on that arc would have to pass through air defense networks in India and Pakistan, whose mutual border is heavily militarized, as well as through Afghanistan, where the United States and other NATO countries have operated air bases for more than a decade.
The southern corridor, from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean, travels over open water with few islands stretching all the way to Antarctica. If the aircraft took that path, it may have passed near Australia's Cocos (Keeling) Islands. These remote islands, with a population of fewer than 1,000 people, have a small airport. To the east of that route is Western Australia.
#MH370 Just saw convoy of unmarked vehicles leaving pilot's gated community. 2 guys from Malaysian Police HQ. 1 police car, 2 cops 4 2 hrs.— Gloria Riviera (@griviera)
March 15, 2014
10.13 Incredible schematic detailing just what a 4,000-mile radius looks like (the distance the plane could have travelled at 539mph for over seven hours). Diagram also gives the best guess for the route the flight took.
This @washingtonpost map really sums up the extent to which we have no idea where #MH370 is http://t.co/GjR4Hg9HwI pic.twitter.com/9MZIfkkpO0— Jules Mattsson (@julesmattsson)
March 15, 2014
09.58 Should be noted that the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, the means by which investigators know the plane was flying for 7.5 hours, sends out "handshakes" which just say the plane had not suffered a catastrophe but do not tell us anything about MH370's location. As far as we know, the plane could be anywhere within a 4,000-mile radius of Kuala Lumpur.
09.55 The Washington Post's report quoting a Malaysian official telling an AP reporter that the plane had been hijacked has been updated – interesting quote from a US commercial pilot cum aviation lecturer.
"You've got an airplane that's continuing to fly; you've got systems that are becoming non-operational. It had to be a deliberate action to turn them off," said Ron Carr, who spent 39 years flying for the U.S. Air Force and American Airlines before becoming a professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. "Somebody's clearly operating the aircraft. I have a hunch it was hijacked."
"There's a lot of World War II airfields left over," he said. "They might want to hold the plane for ransom or hold the passengers for ransom, or they might want load the airplane up with high explosives and fly the airplane into a target someplace."
"They shouldn't be missing for a week," Carr said. "But then again, Amelia Earhart has been missing for many, many years. That ocean's big, and it can swallow things up rather quickly and rather completely and hardly leave a trace at times."
09.42 Here is a video of the press conference by Malaysian PM Najib Razak a couple of hours ago
09.35 The New York Times overnight posted a story which says that Malaysian military radar appears to have picked the plane up flying west, changing directions and altitude - all indicators that someone was steering it long after it stopped communicating with the ground. The fact that the radar was picking up several changes in direction and altitude strengthens the case that someone was flying the jet and that it was not just on auto pilot after a possible depressurisation/hypoxia scenario befell MH370.
09.00 Now that a deliberate act - hijacking or sabotage - is believed to be behind whatever happened to the missing plane, investigators are focusing on the flight manifest for clues as to who might be responsible. Malaysia police, after denying media reports that they had raided the pilot's house for several days, said they raided 53-year-old Zaharie Ahmad Shah's residence.
08.30 Good morning. As you will see from the our blog which started on Friday morning and finished Saturday morning, the Malaysian government has confirmed unnamed reports saying communications systems on the Malaysian Airlines flight that went missing a week ago were manually shut down and the airliner deliberately flown off course for 7.5 hours.
The confirmation was issued in a press conference by Malaysian PM Najib Razak, who said it was partly based on signals sent by the plane for several hours after take off, which could not have been sent were the plane to have crashed. He said the world was witnessing an "unprecedented aviation mystery" and that evidence was consistent with a deliberate act (i.e. hijacking or sabotage by the pilot).
Mr Najib said that the plane could be anywhere from "Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to northern Thailand, or a southern corridor stretching approximately from Indonesia to the southern Indian Ocean".
Investigators, many from the US, have now stretched their search as far north as Kazakhstan, assuming the plane flew north-west.


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The fearless and combustible talent known as Lauryn Hill will widen her post-prison Homecoming tour to include a performance at the 9 Mile Music Festival set for Feb. 15 at the Miami-Dade County Fairgrounds.
The festival is a daylong celebration of the life and values of reggae star Bob Marley, and this year includes two stages of reggae, reggaeton and dancehall performances by Marley's sons Stephen, Damian and Julian, along with Sean Paul, Tito El Bambino, Mavado, Chronixx, Ken Y and others.
Best known for the influential R&B solo album "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill," the former Fugee was released from a Connecticut prison in October after serving three months on tax-evasion charges. A short list of New York-area Homecoming concerts followed.
The extra time for reflection appears to have merely added fuel to her ire for The Man (a new song, "Consumerisim," offers a fiery speed-rap response) and her confidence: Hill's website says she now "finds herself in a place where she can once again live and breathe the art that has brought her to the forefront of our psyches, and has earned her place as being one of the most prolific and thought-provoking artists of our time."
The reviews so far have been up to the hype, with The New York Times' Jon Pareles describing the "extraordinary gifts" Hill put on display during a November Bowery Ballroom show:
"Though her voice is lower and raspier than it was when she emerged in the 1990s, she is a supercharged soul singer who stokes her songs all the way through, and her rapping is breakneck, articulate and vehement. She's also an improvisatory, drama-building bandleader. Throughout her two-hour set, her musicians were watching for her signals; to bear down on a vamp or silence it, to unveil pretty, elaborately planned vocal counterpoint from her three backup singers or to whip up a churchy fervor."
Advance general-admission tickets for the 9 Mile Music Festival are $57.83 (includes taxes, fees and parking), with VIP tickets $179, at 9MileMusicFestival.com. The Miami-Dade County Fairgrounds are at 10901 SW 24th St., Miami. Gates open at 12:30 p.m. and canned food donations will be collected to benefit Curley's House.
Get daily updates on South Florida entertainment and things to do at SouthFlorida.com, on Twitter at @BenCrandell and Instagram /BenCrandell.


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FALUN, Sweden (March 22) – In the second stage of the mini-tour on Friday, Kikkan Randall (Anchorage) skied into third place, leading three Americans into the top eight. Along with her third place finish, Randall earned bonus time for the next stage of the tour. Norwegian powerhouse Marit Bjoergen took the win. After the men's race, Andy Newell (Shaftsbury, VT) moved into eighth place in the mini-tour overall standings, the top spot for the U.S., as the tour heads into its third stage on Saturday.
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The times were really tight out there and I'm happy to be on the podium. I think we had great skis today and I'm really psyched for our performance as a team. Two more races to go now, hope we can keep this momentum rolling! The course was short but challenging. The downhill turn that everyone was concerned about was definitely a little wild but safe enough.
It's been an interesting last 24 hours here in Falun, but with a seemingly happy ending. Yesterday after previewing the course there were concerns from several athletes that the new technical downhill section was going to be unsafe. We called an athletes meeting and went back and forth with the jury to try and find a compromise on a safer course. For me, as the athlete rep, it was a lot of running around yesterday. But in the end I'm glad we found a good solution and everyone agreed to start today.
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And so it comes to pass that on June 17, 2014, roughly a full month after most everyone -- current company included -- wrote the Kansas City Royals off entirely, they take a half game lead in the American League Central over the Detroit Tigers. For those of you keeping track at home, that makes your AL division leaders Toronto in the East, Kansas City in the Central, and Oakland -- the best team in baseball without much competition at the moment -- out West. It'll probably save time at this point if we just start listing the teams that aren't surprising us with their performances this year (Cubs).
Of course, baseball history is full of really funny June division leaders -- on June 17 of last year, for instance, the San Diego Padres were one game out of first place in the NL West. They'd be over eight games back by mid-July and would be looking forward to next season by the time the All-Star Break rolled around.
These next few weeks right now are the regular season at its most narratively unpredictable, because this is the decision-making moment: Are you in or are you out? Right now, about two-thirds of the teams in the league still have very viable paths to the postseason in their eyes; and while some of them will fall by the wayside much like San Diego did last year, there was another California team in the NL West last year that reached a turning point in late June... and responded by going 47-8 from June 22 to August 17, putting them firmly in control of their own playoff destiny.
It is unrealistic to expect any team to ever rip off a stretch of games like the Los Angeles Dodgers did last year, and when it does happen it's worth noting that the Dodgers have just about the most talented roster money can buy. This year's Royals aren't last years Padres or Dodgers, and whether or not they're actually the team that can give the Tigers their yearly run for the Central will depend primarily on two things: first, the extent to which they believe a lineup centered around Alex Gordon, Salvador Perez and a whole lot of praying can continue to pay the bills on offense, and second, the extent to which they value James Shields.
A simple glance at the box scores will tell you the Royals of the last 14 days or so aren't the same squad from the first couple months of the season; the team's .800 OPS over the last two weeks going into Tuesday night's contest is over 100 points higher than the team's season .684 (and if you narrow things down to the last seven days, the Royals have a .900 OPS and are the hottest offense in baseball). Why? Well, who knows why. Sometimes these things just line up: Gordon, Perez and DH Billy Butler are looking like a legitimate middle-of-the-order core, while Eric Hosmer, Omar Infante, and Lorenzo Cain are more than helping the cause around them. Alcides Escobar is right there with them, making it a bit less surreal that the light-hitting shortstop has been the Royals' second or third best hitter on the season. Even Mike Moustakas is back from the minors and hitting the ball all over the field, if still not for much power.
It's easy to argue that Billy Butler -- and to a lesser extent Omar Infante -- were due. Infante's had up years and down years at the plate his entire career, and second basemen do age quickly into their thirties, but not so quickly as to turn a career .717 OPS hitter (92 OPS+) at 32 years old into a .644 OPS guy with no power whatsoever the very next year. The other guys I'm not as willing to give the benefit of the doubt. Hosmer is a rollercoaster ride himself, but the ups are "league-average starting first baseman" while the downs are "cut bait, move on." And Moustakas is Hosmer without the ups.
But this is the roster that Dayton Moore and the Royals have gone to war with, and to its credit it is a strong roster defensively with Escobar and Infante up the middle and some combination of Jarrod Dyson, Lorenzo Cain and Nori Aoki nailing down center and right field with Gordon in left. Perez has emerged as one of the better all-around young catchers in the game, and Moustakas and Hosmer can handle themselves at the infield corners. But this bunch isn't going to continue to OPS .900, or even .800; they'll be lucky if they keep this going long enough to get the team OPS over .700 on the year, even for just a little while -- and the lineup as is needs some serious improvements if the Royals are going to make a real go at this thing. That is to say: if the Royals aren't going to sell at the deadline, they've got to actively buy.
The first thing they need is a third baseman to take over for Moustakas so he can go back down to Triple-A and actually find time to grow there as a hitter, instead of the constant shuttling back and forth he gets. The lack of a back-up plan for Moustakas last year was striking, and while offseason acquisition Danny Valencia certainly can play a bit of third, he's a platoon bat who should only see action against left-handers. He's not a guy a contending team can just hand the job for the entire season, and despite what he's done over the last week, neither is Moustakas.
Kansas City could also use an upgrade in the outfield; Cain and Dyson work well as a centerfield platoon, though Cain has shown enough against right-handed pitching this year that he deserves the shot the team is giving him right now. Ideally Cain would take the starting job over entirely, Dyson would be a good 4th outfielder bench type and the Royals would get someone besides Aoki to lock down right. Complicating matters is the fact that Kansas City has spent a lot of trade chips over the past few years already, and would be well-served to hang on to most of the ones they have left, if at all possible.
No matter how much Wil Myers' poor 2014 may have emboldened the hearts of Royals fans everywhere who thought the James Shields trade with Tampa Bay was a steal, it is probably best if KC stays out of the Ben Zobrist sweepstakes. He's not an especially good fit as an everyday right fielder, and third is just about the only position he hasn't played a significant amount of in the past few years.
Buying low on Chase Headley, assuming the Padres are selling -- and they should be -- would stabilize third base for the rest of 2014. Headley gets a change of scenery and hopefully picks up the pace a little bit going into free agency, and if he stumbles and Moustakas plays his way back into the starting lineup, well… so be it. For right field, Alex Rios is having a very solid season for Texas and shouldn't be the kind of guy that costs a top-level chip. Rios immediately becomes the second or third best hitter on the team, while Headley's .630 OPS is still a decent improvement on what Moustakas has spent most of the season doing.
The Royals are lucky, in a sense, because all their entire deadline checklist involves is rehabbing the lineup into something that could credibly be league-average the rest of the way, and then rely on the pitching staff they've already assembled to do the heavy lifting.
But that brings us to our second pivot point: James Shields.
Shields is unlikely to be a Royal in 2015 even if Kansas City doesn't deal him at the deadline; there will be the usual noises about trying to find the right number of dollars and years, the exclusivity window will expire, the Royals will hit him with a qualifying offer that Shields will gladly decline and he'll go collect his $140 million or so from the New York Yankees while the Royals will nab another first rounder.
That is how things are likely to go. But I'd be willing to bet just about any arbitrary amount of someone else's money that in Dayton Moore's heart of hearts, he would like nothing more than to lock Shields up for the rest of his career. Shields is the kind of pitcher that excites the GM's particular scouting tics -- recall that for all his other faults as an executive, Moore remains one of the best pitching evaluators in the game. Moore was so convinced that Shields was the answer for his team he traded an elite MLB-ready prospect at a position of dire need to get him, willing to bet that he wasn't actually making his team worse in the short or long term.
Obviously one does not trade the staff ace when one is in first place regardless of who the ace is or who the general manager is, but soon the bats will cool down, the Tigers' pitching will stabilize somewhat and this will once again in all likelihood be a chase that Detroit leads and Kansas City follows, trying to fend off Cleveland, Chicago, and the Twins as they go. But at this point, Shields is likely not getting traded regardless of what happens in the standings between now and the deadline.
The pitcher represents not only the guy Moore wants at the top of his rotation but the urgency behind the 2014 Royals, as they face down the prospect of slipping into same amount of nothing after this year as they have all the years prior to it. Being in first place by half a game in mid-June may not mean a whole lot to some, but it's time to see if the team Kansas City spent so much time and effort putting together can get to October from here. The Royals have the best group of pitchers in the American League outside of Oakland and the AL Central is wide-open space. Slap a tire patch on third base, find one more bat you trust, and go.


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This is from a few days ago, when I went up to see my parents with the boy and puppy in tow. Luckily the rain held out, so Mellan was able to get some swim time in! 🙂
You will need the following…
- Eyes: Apricot Pink pigment (peachy-pink base), Juiced eyeshadow (dirty orange), Pink Freeze eyeshadow (pastel pink), Expensive Pink eyeshadow (pink with peach), Texture eyeshadow (warm brown), Hush eyeshadow (soft pink-based highlighter), Feline kohl power (black), Plushlash mascara (black)
- Cheeks: Petticoat mineralize skinfinish (raspberry pink)
- Lips: YSL Forbidden Burgundy lipstick (deep berry), Luminary lustreglass (pink with purple opalescence)
- Brushes: 266 (firm, angled brush), 249 (flat, firm brush), 239 (fluffy shadow brush), 129 (dense blush brush)
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Easy Chicken Cordon Bleu
|Easy and relatively diet-friendly Chicken Cordon Bleu
I've been through my archives, updating recipes that don't have photos, and this is a super-easy version of Chicken Cordon Bleu that was one of the things I ate regularly when I first started cooking the lower glycemic index way. This one is changed a bit and lightened up from the recipe I first posted, with less cheese, less half and half, and a bit of seasoning on the chicken before browning. I also used Canadian Bacon to reduce the amount of fat, and all these changes make the new version more South Beach Friendly.
6 chicken breast halves
12 pieces Canadian Bacon
6 oz. Gruyere cheese sliced into 8 thin slices
(Don't substitute, the nutty taste of the Gruyere makes this dish.)
1/4 cup chicken stock
1/4 cup half and half
1 T olive oil, for browning chicken
1/2 tsp. poultry seasoning (I used Penzeys)
Bake about 20-25 minutes, until cheese is melted and mixture is hot and bubbly. Serve hot.
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Eye of Newt is a potion ingredient of unknown effect, an eye taken from a newt. The phrase is also featured in the song "Something Wicked This Way Comes."
In "bloodthirstier" times in wizarding history, before the passage of Legislation regarding animal cruelty, young wizards and witches were expected to personally pop out the newt eyes they were using in potions.[1]
Behind the scenes
As featured in "Something Wicked This Way Comes," this phrase and in fact the title of the song itself originates from the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (Disc 2)[2]
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film) (Mentioned only)
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- ↑ Pottermore History: Toads
- ↑ Go to Classroom, then Potions, and then the Quiz.
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Is Chris Martin pulling a Dave Grohl?
During a recent Coldplay show in Australia, Martin dropped numerous hints that his band might be taking some kind of hiatus.
"This is the last big show for three years or so," the singer told the crowd last Wednesday, Billboard reports. "I don't want to stop." That, coupled with an earlier comment assuring the audience "that we're going to play for you the best f—ing show in our life," have people wondering if there might be a short break in order for the "Fix You" band.
Of course, none of that means the band will be leaving us completely. For one, we know for sure that drummer Will Champion will enter our televisions next year via HBO's Game of Thrones. Moreover, the hints dropped throughout the show indicate a hiatus from playing live — leaving open the possibility that the band could spend some of the next few years writing and recording their next album. And, probably, getting some sleep.
Either way, thugh, Coldplay seems grateful. At one point during their visit Down Under, Martin told the crowd, "Thank you for the greatest job on earth."
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Well i completely forgot once again that i had this. So not really a lot has gone on. So since it has been since January since i have last posted. i'll do a speedy update.
So in Feb we went to St Jo, and saw Emily and Chey. It was a good time.. just crappy weather. It was snowing, so thankfully we didn't get snowed in. Took us forever to get to his sisters house. And then Driving into St Jo..wow. could only go about 5 to 10 miles an hour. So that was the only exciting thing in Feb, and prob the next few months. HAHA. Well then in May, Brad Decided we needed to get us a dog. Me being me.. didnt really want one. I'm more of a cat person. well in July (5 weeks to the date he was born) We got Zeke. he was born May 29th. He was one of a litter of 7 boys! He is a Min Pin/ Chihuahua mix. We werent expecting him just yet. But the mama dog went dry and so we got him. I had to bottle feed him still at the time, then he decided he didnt want it.Zeke at only 5 weeks old. He was less then a pound.
How could i say no to this cute lil guy! he was so tiny he fit into the palm of my hand!my little guy sleeping.
Zeke actually picked out his own name. i said many names over and over and Zeke is what he'd look at me when i said it. So it stuck as Zeke. =)
Well anyway, Brad doesnt work at the Canteen anymore. They more or less got rid of him. Cut him completely off the schedule and then had a coworker send him a txt that he was fired. Crap if ya ask me! So he's just working at weathercraft.
In July, the Flying J merged with Pilot (sounds more like a buyout to most people) And here next month the restaurant is going to close down and become a Denny's. I will not be working for Denny's. I guess im getting transfered to the C-store to continue doing deli.
Anyway. Last month my Friend Val from highschool moved in with us for awhile till she gets on her feet. And then Bj and i celebrated our 3 year wedding anniversary. It was also our 4 year anniversary of being together. Who woulda ever thunk'd it =D.
Val and zeke. He found himself a new girlfriend! its her "cuddle bug." Val Recently started working at ShopKo and they are being douches for the most part. So we are trying to find her something else. Zeke is now as of tomorrow 19 weeks old. And weights 5 lbs now! Zeke sleeping a week ago. How could you not love this =D
zeke saying hi to the camera the other day.
Brad, Socks and Zeke sleeping on the couch.
Oreo Hit a year old at the end of may. He Hit a growth Spurt, and he is BIG! not fat, but LONG. And naughty. He doesn't like brad for some reason and gets called Mama's boy.
Other then that. Things are good here. Had a few rough patches. But we are getting over the Hurdles and getting back on the right tack of things!


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CHAMPAIGN -- During his post-game news conference after Illinois' 57-55 victory over IPFW, Illini head coach John Groce couldn't stop praising his point guard Tracy Abrams.
CHAMPAIGN -- During his post-game news conference after Illinois' 57-55 victory over IPFW, Illini head coach John Groce couldn't stop praising his point guard Tracy Abrams.
"This guy right here," Groce said while giving Abrams three hard slaps on the back. "Without him tonight, we probably don't get it done.
"He willed us. He had that look in his eye."
Groce gave Abrams a hug on the floor because he was proud of Abram's leadership on the floor especially when Illinois trailed 35-27 at halftime. Abrams had just three points, yet he was the most vocal player in the locker room before the second half.
"He's an extension of what I want said, and what I want echoed and tonight he did that at the highest level I've seen him do it since I've coached him," Groce said.
Abrams added: "Coach has done a great job just helping me grow up as a player and person off the court and just always being open to learn."
He led the second-half charge, scoring 12 while the Illini increased the defensive pressure. Abrams finished with 15 points and four steals, both season-highs as the Illini forced IPFW into 11 second half turnovers, none bigger than a critical steal from Rayvonte Rice down the stretch.
With Illinois up by two with 26.4 seconds to go, Rice denied the initial pass to IPFW's leading scorer Luis Jacobo and then stole the ensuing pass to all but seal the victory.
"It was just something I saw and took advantage of," Rice said. "Coach said do what we had to do to stop them and got in that lane."
Rice, who finished with a game high 17 points, let out a sigh of relief when the final whistle blew as the crowd of 15,638 at the State Farm Center exploded with cheers.
This came just days after Rice hit the game winner against UNLV on Tuesday.
With a quick turnaround from that last game, Groce said he knew it will take a level of maturity for his team to play well in this game. There was little time to install a game plan in practice with the team being forced to travel from Las Vegas Wednesday. They practiced on Thursday before sharing a Thanksgiving dinner together, likely the first time for most of the freshmen being away from home for the holidays.
"Those young guys will be okay," Abrams said. "We're glad we can learn from it with a win," Abrams said.
Both of IPFW's losses this season entering the game had come by just one point each and they were without Jacobo in those games.
"Watching them play after Vegas, I thought 'oh boy'," Groce said.
The Mastodons 6-foot-9 big man Steve Forbes created matchup problems all game for theIllini, but he fouled out on an offensive foul with about 30 seconds left in the game and a chance to tie the game. He finished with 11 points and five rebounds while Jacobo added 15 points.
This game might have reminded those watching of last season's game against Gardner-Webb. Then the Illini had a quick turnaround after a long road trip after wining the Maui Invitational and needed a game-winning three pointer by Tyler Griffey to seal a 63-62 win.
The Illini continue to march on under Groce in the month of November. Since he became coach of the Illini last season the team has not lost in the month — a perfect 15-0. This is also the third consecutive year the team has started at least 7-0.
IPFW started this game by knocking down six of their first nine shots, while the Illini went through a period near the end of the first half where they couldn't even get a shot off. On seven consecutive possessions Illinois committed a turnover, and IPFW capitalized for a 12-3 run to end the half. The Mastodons shot 53.6 percent in the first half, including four-for-nine from three, and were aided by 11 Illini turnovers.
"The first half I didn't think we were very tough," Groce said.
Groce credited a large part of the Illini's improved effort to Abrams and his leadership in the locker room in the second half.
"Everybody wants to talk about his shooting," Groce said. "You can shove that where you want to shove it. Dude's a winner."


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Baseball thanks veterans for their service
Baseball and veterans: two of the most American institutions in the country.
And, now more than ever, they're closely linked to one another.
Baseball and veterans: two of the most American institutions in the country.
And, now more than ever, they're closely linked to one another.
Across Major League Baseball, players and coaches will don Marine Corps-licensed jerseys and caps on Memorial Day, along with participating in a moment of silence before all games on Memorial Day weekend.
And that's just the start.
"The league itself thinks veterans are very important," said MLB vice president of community affairs Tom Brasuell. "We have a program called Welcome Back Veterans which was a vision of one of the owners [Fred Wilpon] of the New York Mets to make sure that veterans who were returning from Iraq and Afghanistan had the services they needed when they returned. Initially, we were providing grants to a number of non-profits who were helping vets and their families return to civilian life with jobs and job training, mental health and housing issues."
In 2009, the Robert B. McCormick Foundation partnered with MLB on what is now known as the Welcome Back Veterans Initiative, chipping in 50 cents to the dollar on MLB's initial $10 million donation.
Now, the Welcome Back Veterans Initiative sponsors seven university hospitals nationwide for research and treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) to aid veterans.
Major League Baseball on Wednesday announced another $10 million donation to Welcome Back Veterans, bringing its total donations to the cause to $23 million.
"All of our teams support veterans in a number of different ways," Brasuell said. "Some have pregame ceremonies. Some have military appreciation days. On Sunday home games, the Padres players wear camouflage uniforms. Most teams, when they are visiting the Nationals, will go to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC. All of our clubs either have discounted or free tickets for veterans and active service members, as well."
In the middle of the second inning of every home game, the Cincinnati Reds recognize a "Hometown Hero" on top of the home dugout.
"[The Hometown Hero program] began as we looked for a way to fulfill all the calls and emails we get requesting for vets and family members on leave to throw out ceremonial first pitches," Reds promotional events coordinator Patrick McGrath said. "We cannot accommodate all the first-pitch requests, so through internal brainstorming we came up with the Hometown Hero program."
Marine Corporal Chad Ohmer, a Purple Heart recipient, was the Hometown Hero recognized Friday.
During a foot patrol in Afghanistan in May 2012, Ohmer and four other Marines were clearing an underground tunnel when an IED exploded, injuring two of Ohmer's fellow soldiers. As Ohmer came to their aid, a second IED was triggered and struck Ohmer himself.
Ohmer was thrown 20 feet by the blow and suffered serious injuries, including to both legs. He had to apply his own tourniquet before being airlifted to a local medical hospital.
Yet Ohmer, who is still undergoing intensive physical therapy and uses a wheelchair, stood on his own two feet as he was recognized Friday.
"Being recognized by the Reds is a big deal for me," Ohmer said. "Being a big Reds fan and having professional athletes turn and say that they look up to me and they appreciate me and the things that I've done, it really means a lot to me."
Ohmer was stopped many times by fans who wanted to shake his hand and offer their thanks. Several young fans even asked to have their photos taken with Ohmer and his father, Dave, who wore his son's miniature Purple Heart pin on his cap.
"When there is true appreciation for another human being, a person feels something deeper than a normal applause from a crowd," McGrath said. "Every game, no matter what the outcome is on the field, there is a standing ovation at the ballpark for the person or persons being recognized on the dugout.
"It brings a sense of pride to our fans to know throughout Reds Country there are these men and women who give the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom."
But the appreciation for veterans isn't confined to Cincinnati.
It'll be on display on baseball's biggest stage, the All-Star Game, at Citi Field this summer.
Major League Baseball is offering a "Tribute for Heroes" program in conjunction with People Magazine. A direct descendent of the "People's All-Stars Among Us" program, which ran from 2009-11, Tribute for Heroes focuses on current or active servicemen and women.
Nominations were accepted from the public on MLB.com, and a panel comprised of retired generals and MLB players alike will narrow down the applications to three per club. The public will vote to select one serviceperson to represent each team in New York City for the Midsummer Classic.
"These men and women have sacrificed their time for our freedoms and to maintain our way of life," Brasuell noted. "We think it's appropriate that any chance we get for us as a league to recognize them, it is the right thing to do. We can't thank them enough for their service."
Meggie Zahneis, winner of the 2011 Breaking Barriers essay contest, earned the job of youth correspondent for MLB.com in the fall of '11.


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The former The Smiths frontman axed several gigs on his North American tour last month (Jan13) after being admitted to a hospital in the U.S. for treatment, with a spokesman blaming a bleeding ulcer.
Now it has emerged the veteran rocker has been diagnosed with Barrett's oesophagus, an abnormal change in cells in the throat. Symptoms can include chronic heartburn, difficulty swallowing, chest pain and vomiting blood, and the condition is associated with an increased risk of oesophageal cancer.
Morrissey was also treated for concussion but remains upbeat about his health, joking with fans that he has now suffered every illness known to man, and he has vowed to return to the stage in time for his gig in Las Vegas later this month (Feb13).
In a statement, the star writes, "The reports of my death have been greatly understated. Once admitted to the William Beaumont Hospital at Royal Oak in Michigan, I received treatment for concussion, a bleeding ulcer, and Barrett's esophagus (sic). The positive from all of this is that there are now no known ailments left for me to try. I am fully determined to resume the tour on February 9 at the Chelsea Ballroom in Las Vegas."


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