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Joshua Jackson looks dapper in a bright blue suit while attending the CW, CBS and Showtime 2014 Summer TCA Press Tour held at the Pacific Design Center on Thursday (July 17) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The 36-year-old actor was joined on the red carpet by his The Affair co-stars Dominic West and Carolina Ravassa, Ray Donovan stars Liev Schreiber, Ambyr Childers, Paula Malcomson, Kerris Dorsey, and Vinessa Shaw, as well as Masters of Sex stars Lizzy Caplan, Caitlin FitzGerald, Teddy Sears, Allison Janney, and Annaleigh Ashford.
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Nepal's capital gripped by fuel price hike strike
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Police said they detained dozens of people for torching vehicles and forcing shops to close in Nepal's capital on Wednesday during a general strike to protest a hike in fuel prices.
The streets in Katmandu were mostly deserted, with schools closed and shops shuttered in response to the strike, which was called by university student groups. Police in riot gear guarded the main streets of the city.
Protesters torched a passenger bus and vandalized taxis defying the strike call, but no one was injured in the attacks, police said.
Police said they detained at least 80 protesters who forced shops to close and attacked vehicles.
The government increased the price of gasoline, kerosene and diesel fuel because state-owned Nepal Oil Corp. was in debt. Student groups demanded authorities reverse the decision and met with government officials to talk about the matter.

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During last season's grueling run to the Stanley Cup Finals a new post game show was born at CBC Vancouver called Seeking Stanley. The show, featuring hosts Shane Foxman and Karin Larsen, returns for another playoff run and will begin this Saturday, March 3rd following Hockey Night in Canada's After Hours. The original airings will be a half hour show running from 10:30 to 11:00pm and promises to give Canucks fans extra coverage of things they normally don't see on the highlights each evening.
We had chance to chat to Shane and Karin about the show, the social media components to it and what fans can expect from this year's show.
CanucksCorner.com: Like the Canucks, Seeking Stanley on CBC had a long run in last year's playoffs. This year you are starting things a little earlier, so what can we expect for this year's season of the program and why the earlier start this year?
KL: The earlier start is due to a perfect storm of scheduling of the Canucks on Hockey Night in Canada. Seeking Stanley has always piggy backed off "the big show", using the resources (cameras, video feeds, personnel) that Hockey Night has in place. Plus after an eight and a half month absence, it made sense to get the show out there early to remind people.
Seeking Stanley's primary objective is to provide bonus Canucks TV coverage, take the viewer behind the scenes, in the dressing room, coaches presser etc. Whereas Hockey Night is a national show that covers the games from a much broader perspective – we only care about the Canucks and our aim is to bring that local story to the BC fans.
CanucksCorner.com: I think it's safe to say that most fans were exhausted by the end of the finals last year. Can the same be said for the media, who may not be as emotionally invested, but certainly face hectic schedules as part of their job?
SF: Absolutely. By the time we got to the Stanley Cup Final we were exhausted. It wasn't the 14 hour days, it was the travel. Leave the rink in Boston at 1 am… you need to unwind…flight for Vancouver leaves at 6 am (You have to get up at 4). Not complaining though, it was an unbelievable experience.
CanucksCorner.com: Have you ever thought of having a social media component on the show? Perhaps have some local bloggers and Twitter personalities participate in a social media roundtable with the hosts?
KL: We hadn't thought of that specific application of social media in the show. We will have a social media twitter component in the show this year. It's still being worked out and will probably evolve as the show progresses.
CanucksCorner.com: Sticking with social media for a bit, have you considered holding a live "Tweetup" taping for Seeking Stanley or perhaps something like a town forum environment?
KL: A tweetup may be in our future. One of the reasons we hosted a media and blogger launch on Wednesday is because we recognize the importance of social media to engage and interact with our audience. Social media, particularly Twitter, is flooded with Canucks posts all the time and when there's a game, the Canucks and hockey related keywords are consistently trending. It's what people are talking about. We want to make sure we are a big part of that online experience.
CanucksCorner.com: Will the show be active during games and post game on Twitter and Facebook? Fans should follow the hashtag #SeekingStanley, correct?
SF: Yes, as far as the Hashtag goes we'll be using #seekingstanley, and yes, we will be active on twitter during the games and during Seeking Stanley. We want to be as interactive as we can.
CanucksCorner.com: Last season, Cliff Ronning was a guest on Seeking Stanley. Will he be back or will you incorporate more Canucks alumni this season?
SF: Cliff Ronning will be back. Not only can Cliff tell us what it is like "in the room", he also was part of the Canucks' magical 1994 run. He knows what it's like to play in game 7 of the Stanley Cup final. That perspective is invaluable.
CanucksCorner.com: What makes Seeking Stanley different from other Canucks focused shows?
SF: Access. Because the games are broadcast on Hockey Night in Canada, it gives us a great opportunity to take viewers were they seldom get to go. In the locker room, but not just for a 10 second sound bite of a player… we will let the viewers see and hear the entire conversation between reporters and players… we run the coaches' post game news conferences in their entirety, so viewers feel like they are in the room.
CanucksCorner.com: Finally, a prediction: Will the Canucks finally find Stanley, after seeking for all these years?
KL: As a born and raised Vancouverite, dear god I hope so.
SF: If not this year, when?
Our thanks to Karin Larsen and Shane Foxman for chatting with us about Seeking Stanley.
When: Following every Canucks Saturday HNIC broadcast and Canucks playoff games, starting March 3rd at 10:30pm
Where: CBC, CBCHD in BC.
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Miley Cyrus seems to be the scariest monster out there this Halloween — at least if you're part of Hollywood. And you're not Miley Cyrus.
The overly unleashed former tween pop star made her own mark on the holiday Wednesday by dressing as Lil Kim from the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards, complete with a single purple pasty on her less-ample-than-Kim's left breast.
That, of course, came after she tweeted obscene pumpkins carved to depict boy-on-girl and girl-on-girl sex acts to her millions of followers Wednesday (with the warning "xxxxxxplicit pornkinzzz #beware). And according to the New York Daily News, her male assistant got stuck wearing Miley's 2013 VMAs tongue-flashing teddy-bear onesie.
There was simply no escape from the cult of Miley.
Jenny McCarthy cut to the chase by dressing simply as Miley's tongue, tweeting a picture of the getup Thursday morning.
"Yes indeed I am Miley's tongue," she wrote, then referred to the singer's "Wrecking Ball" video: "I craved sledgehammers all day."
Joan Rivers, meanwhile, made her Miley even scarier than the real thing, showing up lumps and all as Miley-in-latex on E!'s "Fashion Police" Wednesday.
For Playboy's Halloween party over the weekend, Hugh Hefner and wife Crystal dressed up as Miley and Robin Thicke at the 2013 VMAs and snapped shots with Hef clad in Robin's "Beetlejuice"-style stripes and Crystal in a nude minidress, twerking him a la Miley.
At the same party, Paris Hilton donned a version of Miley's "before" costume from the VMAs — that devilish teddy-bear onesie.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan brought the Cyrus-Thicke pairing 100% mainstream on "Live With Kelly and Michael." We think Strahan one-upped Hef with suit authenticity, as the Playboy honcho's duds clearly displayed a prison identification number.
So remember tonight, if you're going out as Miley Cyrus, Hollywood has already been there, done that. And please, please, think of the children.
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"Compared to foreign women, American women are sexless. But their minds are almost constantly on sex. The American woman dresses sex, talks sex, dreams sex, reads sex, smirks sex, pretends sex, hints at sex, smells of sex, slinks sex, dances sex and wiggles sex, but take it from Mortimer, she is a cold, sex-starved potato. Her chief interest in men is what she can get out of them – or how she can enslave them."
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Lost in the wave of Shirley Sherrod, BP, financial regulation, SB1070, health care, and the overwhelming intelligence structure is this little thing called net neutrality.
Now, for many people (specifically many tech industry folk or just those who are concerned with internet freedom) net neutrality isn't something that should be lost in the shuffle. Advocates argue it is necessary to prevent the government or an Internet service provider from blocking certain sites (i.e. information).
Regarding the subject, Techdirt has a great post about the debate a new bill called the Freedom of Consumer Choice Act.
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MINOOKA – In contrast to the board of education meeting earlier this month, just one parent took center stage Tuesday to speak to the board about the proposal to eliminate class rank at Minooka Community High School.
A proposal was made by MCHS instructional leaders at the district's first November bi-monthly meeting that would eliminate class rank, as well as status of valedictorian and salutatorian at the school, beginning in 2015.
After hearing from many parents and several students who were upset about the proposal, the board of education agreed to remove voting on the issue from this week's board meeting.
The parents and students at the Nov. 7 meeting were against eliminating class rank, saying it helped motivate and challenge students and would hurt them in the long run. Several people spoke of the hard work put into accomplishing rank and having it pulled out from under them at the last moment.
Instructional leaders took a different view, showing research that indicates most colleges in their survey did not consider class rank for college admissions.
Further, the leaders said, class rank puts too much stress on students and may keep them from taking courses to further their college careers as they take weighted classes to compete for a higher rank.
Parent Elizabeth Kaufmann spoke Tuesday during the open session portion of the meeting, and provided a view different from other parents who spoke in the past.
Kaufmann said class rank could discourage students and excludes them from exploring other options. She also spoke of how different high schools include different courses to determine rank, making for an unlevel playing field.
"Now instead of doing our personal best, it's about staying in the game," Kaufmann said. "I encourage the administration and board to look at other avenues. This is one piece ... to make sure [students] are college and career ready."
MCHS administration will be conducting student, faculty and parent/community surveys on the issue between Monday and Dec. 3.
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Rare and beautiful, exotic animals have spurred an illegal trade worth more than $10 billion worldwide, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
Live animals fuel an illegal pet trade, while products made from exotic animals, such as medicines and ivory carvings, can fetch large sums in the underground market. Given the possibility of enormous profits, smugglers use inventive methods to get live animals and their products inside U.S. borders.
While the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service battles the illegal trade at the front lines, they are limited by staffing levels. At John F. Kennedy International Airport, for instance, there were just 15 agents to check the 46,514,154 passengers and 1,379,733 tons of air cargo that came through the airport in 2010. For every smuggler caught, there are many who go free.
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It seems an odd concept that fathers and fathering can change with the times, but they do.
There's my maternal grandfather, in a stiff collar and suit, unsmiling, standing tall before the camera. In the formal family portrait hanging on the wall, he is standing beside his wife, Grandma Annie, and she is holding their first child, my mother's oldest sister.
He was a first-generation American, a proud "Yankee" who came here by himself from Russia when he was 13. That can toughen up a kid. He died when I was 4. By all accounts he was an emotional, hot-tempered man, not particularly empathic and probably not aware of what the word meant. He didn't talk about feelings; men of his day didn't know how. His Canarsie apartment was his castle, and he was the absolute ruler of the family of four.
The only breadwinner, he worked as a tailor, earned a modest income and doled out every penny with an autocratic flourish. His oldest daughter (the one on Annie's lap in the photo) couldn't wait to get out of the house. She ran away when she was 16, into a doomed marriage.
My dad moved up the evolutionary ladder. He was pretty much an old-time father, primary provider, go-to guy for big decisions. Raising daughters was a mystery to him, so he taught us to fish and throw a ball when we were little. When we had crying fits and dramatic teenage meltdowns, he escaped into his books. Feelings, as a topic of discussion, were not on his radar.
But something happened around age 65. As he grew older, remarkably, he seemed to notice what was going on in the world of relationships, the shifting sands of gender roles. One night he actually got up from the table with a plate in his hand and brought it into the kitchen. A modest step, but there was no going back.


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Award-winning film composer, Chris Thomas, is hard at work these days. He recently scored the animated film, Cadaver, starring Kathy Bates and Christopher Lloyd. In 2010, Chris wrote music for the documentary, Woman Rebel. The film was short-listed for an Academy Award and nominated for an Emmy Award. In 2011, Chris won Best Film & TV Music at the eWorld Music Awards in Hollywood, and the Gold Medal Prize from the Park City Film Music Festival. In 2007, Chris was nominated for Best Orchestrator at the Academy of Film & TV Music Awards in Hollywood. He also orchestrated for the Sundance-winning foreign film, Captain Abu Raed. It too was short-listed for an Academy Award. That same year Chris was a music editor for Sony Pictures Dragon Wars, which became the highest-grossing film in Korean history. In television, Chris briefly orchestrated and conducted (though uncredited) on ABC's hit show LOST. He has also composed special features music for CSI:NY. Recently, Chris composed music for Samsung, Coca Cola, and the short film Thunder Chance, which won a student Emmy Award. In the concert world, Chris orchestrated and arranged large works for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Master Chorale's Easter Celebration at the Hollywood Bowl. His own works have been performed and recorded by the Hollywood Studio Orchestra, the Rose City Chamber Orchestra, University of Southern California Symphony, Angeles String Quartet, Fear No Music ensemble, Willamette University Chamber Choir, Oregon East Symphony, A-Sharp Youth Symphony and various American festival ensembles. Chris has also been in demand in the haunted house industry, even scoring music for the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride and Ghost Ship. He attended the University of Oregon (B. Mus. in Music Composition and B. A. in Political Science) and became involved with the Pacific Rim Balinese Gamelan and Chinese Opera. Chris left the Northwest for the prestigious Scoring For Motion Pictures and Television program at University of Southern California's graduate school. There he connected with Hollywood's A-list composers and filmmakers. Chris currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two cats.
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Everything your college roommate told you is true. Well, at least about the magic healing powers of the cranberry. Cranberry juice, long guzzled by paranoid sexually active women everywhere in an attempt to save themselves from the agonizing pain of a urinary tract infection, has been confirmed as having legit scientific capabilities for stopping not just UTIs, but other ailments. (Is it just us or do the antibiotics that treat UTIs inevitably lead to - ugh - yeast infections?) Professor Itzhak Ofek of Tel Aviv University took it upon himself to investigate the little wonderfruit and found that cranberries contain a non-dialyzable material molecule, which interacts with female (and female only) bodies only in a way that yields a sort of protective coating that pushes back bacteria. In the case of UTIs, this molecule has been shown to coat the bladder, thus preventing infection, but the same effect also takes place in the mouth, Ofek found, which is why he subsequently developed a cranberry-juice based mouthwash.
Oh and incidentally? Ofek's research also shows that cranberry juice keeps the flu away, too. No urinary tract infection, no cavities, no nasty-ass flu symptoms? Sorry, can't write more: Must run to store and buy biggest bottle of Ocean Spray we can find.
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Phoronix: Benchmarking Ubuntu Linux On The Google Nexus 7
Last month I delivered extensive benchmarks of Ubuntu Linux on the Google Nexus 10 using the recently released Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview. In that article were benchmarks from the Samsung Exynos 5 Dual (Cortex-A15) tablet against a range of ARM Cortex and Intel/AMD x86 systems. This article builds upon those earlier Ubuntu Linux x86/ARM results by now adding in the results from Ubuntu on the Google Nexus 7 plus more comparison processors have been tossed into the mix as well. This article offers Ubuntu Linux performance results for a dozen different Intel, AMD, and ARM systems. The ARM SoCs represented are from Texas Instruments OMAP, NVIDIA Tegra, and ARM Exynos families.
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For developers/enthusiasts thinking about a Google Nexus tablet for toying with Ubuntu or other Linux distributions on the hardware, I would definitely recommend the Nexus 10 over the Nexus 7 for the greater performance. The 16GB Nexus 10 carries a current price of $399 USD while the Nexus 7 pricing starts out at $199.
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The Samsung Exynos Dual really shows off what it's got! Need to compare it to the Qualcomm Krait (ie. Snapdragon S4 Pro) in the Nexus 4. Qualcomm's marketing material claim it to be an "A15 class" SoC; however, based upon my personal testing, I'd be surprised if it even were able to match the performance of the Tegra 3 (ie. Nexus 7).
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What I mostly got from those slides is that the Atom is terrible, but It's nice to see an inexpensive ARM SoC finally catch up with ~2006 mainstream processing performance.
I'm getting really excited by the possibility that in 2014 AMD might release a 16 core (or more) 64-bit ARM A57 APU with a full HSA implementation on a ~20 nm process. It just sounds really awesome to me right now and I think AMD might be heading in that direction.
In the last year (I think) AMD founded the HSA foundation in collaboration with the big ARM silicon companies, has announced they plan to have a full HSA processor available in 2014, purchased an ARM license to produce their own Cortex A57 designs and while they've only come out and said they're for microservers they did leave the announcement ambiguous enough for the possibility of wondering about desktop solutions as well, and ARM has said in 2014 they will be using a 20 nm process at TSMC. Package all of this together with their amazing new GCN graphics architecture that use low power and offer higher computer performance and then there is possibly a very attractive ARM product for desktop use at a low ARM production price.
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Nexus 10 does quiet well, and it's amazing how much more powerful it is over the Nexus 7.
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Get Ready to Pay More to Fly
Travelers are getting used to being hit with all sorts of fees as the price for air travel rises. MarketWatch's Jim Jelter discusses what extra charges to watch out for. (Photo: Getty Images)
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Every so often when I hear of tragedy in the media it stops me in my tracks and forces me to have a moment of reflection. Each time there is a tragedy, there are loved ones left alone in a wake of grief. I always say a silent prayer for the families, hoping they have no regrets of the final days spent with their loved one.
Fortunately for me, tragedy in my family has limited itself to the passing of a loved one after they've lived to a ripe old age.
But not everyone is that lucky.
I remember in 2001, in my hometown, at a rural intersection on a gravel road, two people met in an unfortunate circumstance. For both, the events of a routine day were changed dramatically–for one, that day changed their life forever.
An 18-year-old boy drove through a stop sign on a rural road and collided with a vehicle he couldn't see over the tall corn fields. A light shower the previous night wet the road enough so that dust was not evident by either vehicle.
The two vehicles collided and were thrown into a nearby ditch. One man only received minor injuries. The other lost his life.
Being a new mom to, at that time, a one-year-old son, that news profoundly affected me. I shuddered at the thought that a woman somewhere was receiving a call that has to be a mother's worst nightmare–from the sheriff's department telling her the news and asking which funeral home should be contacted.
That day, as the world went about its business, a mother began the grieving process for her son. That day the world kept going while her world stopped.
That day the boy's mother had probably kissed him goodbye, expecting to see him after work or from wherever he was going. That day she probably planned her own day's events without even a doubt she would ever get to hold her son alive again.
If only we could foresee the future and live each day as if it were our last. How often do we take that for granted?
From that day forward, I promised myself that no matter how busy I get, or how distracted I may be or angry I might be at a loved one, I don't ever want to go about my day without those I love knowing how very much I love them.
Some days are very hectic and when I'm running late, scrambling to get out the door, it could be so easy to forget to kiss the ones I love.
One morning my husband left the house in a rush and before I managed to stop him to say goodbye. That evening I told him I was upset that sometimes in the morning we get to be in such a hurry to begin our days, that we forget to take a moment to hug and kiss our loved ones.
I asked him, "Would you have time to kiss me before you left for work if you knew it was the last time you'd see me?"
He answered that of course he would.
"But we don't know when our last kiss will come and I would hate for it to be a day when one of us is running late and decided it could wait until we got home. By that time it may be too late," I said to him.
After that conversation, not a day has gone by that I have missed a kiss from my husband. Even when I'm angry at him I will tell him how much I love him. There is never a time when I end a phone call with my kids without telling them how much I love and appreciate them.
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Seriously though, right now I really am back into fountain pens - writing with my old ones and admiring the newer ones that I'd like to own. Collecting them is a different story, and will require the completion of the MBA, and then the securing of a salary commensurate with an MBA-level position in a pre-meltdown economy, but I did make a list of the brands I want in my collection, and some specific models from each range. I bought my first pen in 1995, a Waterman something-or-other that I still have (Thanks, Kat Campbell!!), and own a few nice examples of German and Italian models. I like my Pelikan M800, which is *Claaaassic* (inside joke: say "Claaaassic" in your best Danny Chew voice), and I really like the green Aurora Optima that was the third pen I picked up (around 2000 or 2001). Pens are cool because I am a romantic, and sometimes I fancy myself a writer so, if not typing, the writing must be done with an implement, and a fountain pen is a pretty neat tool for the job that blends simple functionality with incredible aesthetics...and I love my aesthetics! Not me, personally, but I'm a fan of sensory or sensori-emotional values.
And Formula One Championship Edition for PS3 is funnnn!
But I'm definitely looking forward to Codemasters' new F1 game! And the guys who appear in the podcasts below are, too! (I love that it's OK to publicly admit to liking - and playing - car racing video games after age 15 - definitely one of the perks of being a guy)!
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Microsoft Sued Because It Overloaded Surface Tablet With Pre-Installed Apps
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None of this was enough for one guy, however, as Andrew Sokolowski is now suing Microsoft claiming that Microsoft is misrepresenting the device. While he's seeking class action status, unlike many class action lawsuits that are all about money, it's actually nice to see that he's not seeking any money -- just asking Microsoft to stop misrepresenting the product.
I can't find the actual lawsuit on PACER yet, though I imagine it'll be up soon. On the whole, while I find it incredible (and so typically Microsoft) that Microsoft is selling the tablet loaded down with so much software, does that really require a legal response? The story is getting out in the press, and people must know that at least some of the tablets they buy have pre-installed apps on them. It seems like a situation where an informed consumer is likely to know that this is one of the downsides of buying the Surface, and it's not clear that Microsoft needs to be legally compelled to explain how much free space is on the device out of the box.


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The unidentified victim, 24, was pronounced dead at the scene and the alleged driver -- his 21-year-old girlfriend, also unnamed -- was treated for injuries at the hospital and is being questioned by police.
According to police spokesman William Kaempffer, officers responded to 93-95 Ash St. at 8:40 a.m. to find the victim pinned between a car and a wall at the back of the house.
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Kaempffer said police in the past have responded to domestic incidents involving the same couple.
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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) Sitting on the bench and clinging to a one-goal lead in the third period, the Phoenix Coyotes repeated the same line to each other: ``Let's go forward.''
They did just that, pulling out a late goal and a much-needed win.
Behind Jason LaBarbera's superb goaltending and an aggressive approach that led to Keith Yandle's second goal late in the third period, the Coyotes opened a critical homestand with a 3-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night.
``We stayed aggressive on it,'' said Coyotes coach Dave Tippett, who earned his 150th victory with the franchise. ``We were real determined to make sure we gained zones in the game, not coming back with the puck a lot, just a north-south game and go hard at the net. I thought we did a good job of that.''
Needing to make up ground in the Western Conference standings, Phoenix played its usual close-to-the-vest game, taking a 2-1 lead into the third period.
Instead of lying back like they did while blowing a pair of one-goal leads in the third period last week, the Coyotes kept attacking, moving pucks forward to keep the pressure on the Kings.
The ploy worked, leading to Yandle's sigh-of-relief goal with less than 3 minutes left after he beat Kings goalie Jonathan Quick on a tough-angle shot from along the boards.
Yandle also scored his 50th career goal in the first period, and Kyle Chipchura and Raffi Torres each had a pair of assists.
LaBarbera, in his fifth straight start in place of injured starter Mike Smith, made it stand with 39 saves, including 16 in the second period.
The win was the Coyotes' second in 10 games and moved them to 12th in the Western Conference, two points behind eighth-place Nashville.
``It was definitely a must-win for us,'' said Coyotes center Matthew Lombardi, who scored his fourth goal of the season in the second period.
Los Angeles had some good chances, particularly early, but had a hard time getting anything past LaBarbera; its only goal, by Justin Williams, came on a carom off a Coyotes defenseman in the first period.
Quick had 28 saves for the Kings, who finished a five-game road trip 3-1-1.
``Seven out of 10 (points) is pretty good,'' Kings forward Anze Kopitar said. ``It's not the way you want to finish, but we had some strong games, some character wins. We played a strong game tonight, but we just didn't finish.''
The Coyotes and Kings have had a simmering rivalry because of their proximity and it ramped up during a testy Western Conference finals last season.
The Kings won that series in five games and have continued to give Phoenix problems this season, winning three of four games, including back to back in Southern California last month.
The Coyotes had added incentive to knock off the defending Stanley Cup champions, needing to go on a big late-season run to get into playoff position after struggling for most of March.
Phoenix had a decent three-game road trip, earning four of a possible six points, but needs to start earning two points at a time instead of one with five teams ahead of them for the final Western Conference playoff spot.
The Coyotes got off to a good start against the Kings, getting some big saves from LaBarbera - one on a mini breakaway by Brad Richardson - and goal by Yandle midway through the first period after some good work along the boards by Chipchura and Torres.
They got a bad break just over two minutes later, when a cross by Williams bounced off Phoenix defenseman Michael Stone into the goal to tie the score.
Phoenix turned up the pressure midway through the second period and took the lead back when Lombardi flipped a backhander that sent the puck rolling on end and off the far post from the right circle.
LaBarbera had some big saves late in the period, stopping Jeff Carter on an odd-man rush and Trevor Lewis from close range in the closing seconds.
``As I told the team, we probably out-chanced them by quite a margin,'' Kings coach Darryl Sutter said. ``Give the goalie credit and we had a lot of guys who are in that situation who usually score in that situation.''
That put Phoenix up 2-1 heading into the third period, a precarious position for this team lately.
The Coyotes held one-goal leads in the third twice during their three-game road trip last week and lost both times, in overtime to Minnesota after allowing a goal with 54 seconds left and to San Jose in a shootout.
This time, Phoenix limited the chances against LaBarbera and earned some breathing room when Yandle squeezed a shot past Quick for his first two-goal game in three years.
``We played a good amount of time in their end and were able to find some goals,'' Yandle said.
Not to mention a bit of confidence and a spot further up the standings.
NOTES: The Coyotes recognized LW Steve Sullivan's 1,000th career game with a video tribute and ceremony before the game. Sullivan reached the milestone on Thursday against Nashville. ... Kings D Willie Mitchell will not play this season after having a second surgery on his injured knee. ... Coyotes D Zbynek Michalek missed his 11th straight game with a lower-body injury and LW Lauri Korpikoski his fourth straight with an upper-body injury. ... Phoenix C Rob Klinkhammer had an assist on Lombardi's goal, extending his points streak to five games.


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On my '69, I was able to see the hidden VIN under the cowl panel without removing the panel, by using a bright light and viewing thru the cowl vent slots... From a 'legality' of ownership perspective, he should at least verify that the VIN he's considering purchase of is actually the original VIN of the car by checking at least one of the hidden VINs. It appears he's not interested in a 'matching numbers' Camaro, or one with 'special mfg features', but just wanting a nice Camaro to drive. And the car he's considering admittedly is a 'modified' car. that said, and if he understands that then the only things he really needs to verify are:1) Is the VIN correct (this is a legal issue wrt ownership of the car)...?? If this isn't true.. then RUN..2) Does the car exhibit signs of improper rust or wreck repair? 3) Does the modified car have the features he desires in a driver Camaro (ie. engine, trans, brakes, interior, etc)?4) Were the modifications performed to his satisfaction?5) Does he LIKE the way the car looks and drives for the price ...?IMO the trim plate only states how Chevrolet built the car initially, and once a car is modified (and if the owner is happy with it), it really matters now at this point in time.


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Tuesday, September 03, 2013
Saving the Obama Presidency
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For reasons known only to himself, President Obama has decided to risk his presidency on the outcome of the congressional vote. As I see it, the best way to assure the destruction of his second term is to authorize a strike that makes almost literally no sense in terms of the public rationales that have been offered. There is literally no measure of what might count as "success," other than deterring additional use of chemical weapons. Given that there is no evidence that Assad ordered the use of those weapons in the first place, one might well imagine that he will make some efforts to make sure they are not used again. (There is something particularly indecent about the Obama Administration claiming that Commanders-in-Chief must be held responsible per se, a reversion, it appears to the Yamashita doctrine right after World War II. This, of course, is the Administration that has resolutely refused to hold anyone from the Bush Administration responsible for what is at least equally banned by international and domestic law, i.e., torture, or, for that matter, to pursue members of the Bush I Administration for their toleration of Saddam Hussein's use of poison gas against Iran and then Iraqis. )
"Given that there is no evidence that Assad ordered the use of those weapons in the first place"
Do you have some inside knowledge here to challenge Kerry's statements?
"has resolutely refused to hold anyone from the Bush Administration responsible"
You mean not for what just happened, but what happened years ago with doubt on making the case, so much in this very blog merely having his law school investigate Yoo was something most contributors were wary about?
"deterring additional use of chemical weapons"
I don't think bombing here is likely that helpful, but this is not a trivial thing.
I do think is an important moment including regarding the war power but don't think -- rightly or wrongly -- it is the moment to "save" his presidency. I also wonder the answer to Paul Winke's comment.
"So it's overdetermined that I hope strongly that a coalition of Tea Party Republicans and liberal Democrats, both responding to their constituents who are properly dubious about American intervention, will refuse authorization."
For once, I think you will get your wish.
That, of course, raises the question of whether the President will claim the authority to act regardless of what Congress says. Steve Griffin's excellent post indicates why this may be a true "constitutional moment," for if Obama were to defy a vote of non-authorization, I think there would certainly be (reasonable) calls for impeachment.
It is one thing to defend the country or even its allies without an AUMF/declaration of war because the state of war already exists. I can see no constitutionally valid rationale for starting a war without a AUMF/declaration of war and starting a war in the face of a congressional denial would be indefensible.
Obama has offered a display of ongoing foreign policy ineptitude that makes Jimmy Carter look like an decisive statesman.
Joe: "Do you have some inside knowledge here to challenge Kerry's statements?"
Do you have an independent proof that Kerry's not lying to us?
*I* remember the last time that the US government talked about WMD's. I also remember that they got away with it.
Sandy: "For reasons known only to himself, President Obama has decided to risk his presidency on the outcome of the congressional vote."
I disagree - he might in the future risk his presidency, but not yet.
Right now, if Congress turns him down, then he has a face-saving way out of a tight situation. If they support him, they've signed on to his war, *whatever* it is, up until the point of major US casualties.
I'm not an expert on the British parliamentary system. I know that in some systems, votes are treated as the equivalent of "confidence" (and "no-confidence") triggering resignation upon losing. I'm not aware that Cameron pulled out all stops, perhaps because he expected to win without doing so. Ironically, he went down on an anodyne resolution, rather than the "real thing" authorizing British military strikes, though, presumably, the vote for the former was treated as a proxy for the latter. Cameron would be out in a second, of course, if the Liberal Democrats wished to reverse alliances and join with Labour, but I assume they like the present arrangement.
In any event, I think that a British Prime Minister would resign had he said the kinds of things that Obama has been saying about the necessity of action and putting British credibility on the line.
I wonder if Kerry will be tempted to resign, since he has really been the cheerleader for action. (I presume not, since, save for the presidency, this is the job he's always wanted).
Yes, we are having a debate, of sorts Maureen Dowd provides a rowdy review of the debate so far in her NYTimes column today.
Jack Balkin's view on the need for a UN Security Council vote of approval seems in line with that of his fellow Yale Law School Profs. Oona A. Hathaway and Scott Shapiro in their NYTimes Op-Ed today "On Syria, a U.N. Vote Isn't Optional." Here's their penultimate [still my favorite word] paragraph:
"For all their wisdom, the United Nations' founders showed incredible lack of foresight in freezing in place a system in which five nations hold permanent veto power in the Security Council. Unfortunately, that's unlikely to change, despite almost uniform consensus that the configuration makes little sense. The question is whether we can manage to live with these shortcomings. If not, we have to think very hard about what the alternative might be — and recognize that it could be far, far worse."
This brings to mind the shortcomings of the Articles of Confederation that led to the Constitution.
Hathaway and Shapiro point to how much safer the world has been since 1945, attributable to the UN Security Council. Going back to 1945 and coming forward identifying subsequent events, how much safer has it actually been? Yes, things could have been worse.
Regarding the Security Council veto, Jack seems to suggest that it provides America cover.
Let the debate continue. But consider the strange bedfellowship between our SALADISTA and Sandy having a tea party. Of course our SALADISTA in going back to Jimmy Carter skips over the foreign policy fiasco of Bush/Cheney that heavily contributed to the Middle East quagmire of today. That aircraft carrier banner should have read:
Bush had a clear strategy (even if you disageed with it) and he obtained two bipartisan AUMFs from Congress and established an international alliance to implement it.
Obama drew an unplanned line in the sand he had no intention of enforcing to look tough during a TV interview.
Obama did nothing to enforce his line after the first chem attack and indeed tried to deny the attack even took place to avoid making a decision. The result was the slaughter of a second larger attack. With the television filled with images of dying civilians, Syria forced Obama's hand.
Obama had never laid the groundwork for an alliance to militarily enforce his line. When he tried to do so at the last minute, the Brits bailed and the Russians bribed the Cypriots to deny airbase rights. Now, the US stands nearly alone.
After blowing off Congress and ruling by decree since the voters fired the Democrat House in 2005, Obama crawled back to Congress to get political cover for a unilateral strike without offering a plan and while simultaneously aggrivating Congress by telling them he did not require their approval.
Utter inemptitude.
For some reason (or lack thereof?) our SALADISTA failed to reference in his facile retort the Bush/Cheney "slam dunk" that got Congress' attention/approval and the world's attention through Powell before the UN. Where were those WMDs? What was Iraq's role in 9/11? Actually, how clear was the Bush/Cheney strategy? There were many "OOPS" moments before the surge, and even the surge did not resolve matters. Bush/Cheney were the poster boys for our SALADISTA's "Utter inemptitude [sic and sicker]."
Does anyone know why Cameron hasn't resigned yet? Doesn't he know that Sandy's credibility is on the line?
Do you have an independent proof that Kerry's not lying to us?
This seems like saying "look a bird."
The statement was that there was "no evidence" -- I don't know how Prof. Levinson is able to so bluntly say this unless he has inside knowledge.
Not having looked at the evidence offered, including some only available to members of Congress, I am not fully able to answer your question. At some point, it is not something I'd be able to answer in full detail since at least some things are left on trust.
This might go toward consenting to military force, but I already noted that I'm dubious about that.
If there were "smoking gun" evidence that Assad ordered the use of chemical weapons, it defies belief that we wouldn't be trumpeting it. Did he wink and nod and suggest that he wouldn't be upset if chemical weapons were used? Who knows? The Bush Administration for years adopted a "bad apples" story to escape any higher-up from being held liable for war crimes, and, of course, Obama has completely acquiesced in that story. So why aren't the standards we apply to our own government applicable to the admittedly far worse(I'm not suggesting any moral equivalence) government of Syria?
As for Bartbuster's completely snarky comment, it simply illustrates why I'd love to ban him from this list. Not for a single instant has he/she made a single positive contribution to any of our discussions. Just do away!
Actually, the very first response to your post was just as snarky as mine. It would probably help your credibility if the entire context of your post was not so easily refuted.
Balkin seems to have a much more intelligent assessment of the situation.
What nobody seems to have considered is the no-decision possibility. If, say, Bernie Sanders, begins a filibuster, then we could either do nothing or make cloture easier. After all, there wasn't any cloture until there was a filibuster against WWI.
Bart: "Bush had a clear strategy (even if you disageed with it) and he obtained two bipartisan AUMFs from Congress and established an international alliance to implement it."
He did. Strategy 1 was to let OBL go free (and a whole bunch of Al Qaida), while running a column into Kabul, and declaring victory. Like the Soviets, and the British (several times).
Strategy 2 was to run a column into Baghdad, pull down a statue, and declare victory. IIRC, both Powell and Cheney pointed out in the 90's that the reason that Bush I hadn't done just that was because there was no plausible step 2.
As for the 'international coalition' of blah blah blah, that came down to the USA, the English poodle, and a whole bunch of platoons sent to sit in a safe place and raise a flag.
Kerry and individual senators have spoke of evidence that Syria (I take this to mean Assad, since the country isn't a democracy and all) used chemical weapons and the AUMFs offered by Senate and House Dems speaks of such "findings." Kerry said it was "beyond a reasonable doubt." I take this to mean they claim some sort of "smoking gun."
Wariness about such assurances is by now quite appropriate, but it is much harder to go to the other extreme and say there is "no evidence" or whatever. And, there very well might be a reason to not fully air all the evidence, depending on the secrecy of some of the sources. But, I thought I read somewhere that the Administration did submit 'smoking gun' evidence, though I don't know if is some place for the public to examine in full.
Bush published a National Security Strategy in 2002 and again in 2006. Obama published a National Security Strategy in May of 2010. I don't know if he plans to publish another. I've downloaded the 2010 document (52 pages) and plan to get into it starting later today. While at the current time the situation in Syria may not involve a national security interest, perhaps it will be revealing on the use of force when national security is not involved.
Perhaps the current debate should focus on America as the world's policeman, whether that role calls for strong international support. At present, there is not strong international support on the matter of Syria. Are there too many free riders? It isn't clear to me that there has been a debate on what some perceive as this American role or that there has been a genuine debate on our National Security Strategy. If our domestic house is not in order, can we perform these international roles?
Frankly, one of the pathologies of our thinking is the belief that "dictators" are omniscient within their countries. Assad may have more power than any single individual in Syria, but that isn't evidence that not a sparrow falls that he isn't responsible for. Even Hitler's Germany was more pluralistic bureaucratically than we tend to think it was (which doesn't mean that he wouldn't have deserved to hang for war crimes). One of the many points of Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers--yes, that again--is that neither the Kaiser nor the Tsar was capable of exercising snap of a finger control over their complex countries and bureaucracies (and, especially, militaries).
Again, we bend over backwards to avoid command responsibility in this country, but are promiscuous in assigning it with regard to countries (and leaders/dictators) we don't like.
As Adrian Vermeule constantly points out in his writings on US institutions, Congress, the Supreme Court, the "presidency" etc. are "theys," not "its." There may be some variation in the degree of "they-ness," but it's always valuable to ask tough questions instead of assuming that X is in control of any and all events.
I never saw the relevance of proving that Assad personally gave the order to massacre his people in holding the government and military of Syria to account. This is not a warcrime trial of Assad personally.
what Congress says. Steve Griffin's excellent post indicates why this may be a true "constitutional moment," for if Obama were to defy a vote of non-authorization, I think there would certainly be (reasonable) calls for impeachment. 英雄联盟代练 elo boost Fifa 15 Coins League of legends boostingPost a Comment
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This cake is exquisite. I could stop there and would have conveyed my message completely, but I'll carry on...the squidgy, juicy texture of this cake is almost indescribably lovely. It's similar to baked cheesecake – understandable given the ricotta – but doesn't have the cheesecake style base and is much moister. The soaked raisins burst gentle rum flavours on your tongue and the soft cake cushions them delightfully. As you can guess....I'm a fan!
I think that where any recipe requires soaking fruit in alcohol you should aim to soak for as long as possible, ideally 24 hours. This isn't vital and your cake won't be ruined if you can't, but more is always more! The longer soak allows greater absorption too so the raisins will be really plump and moist. As I soaked the fruit for 24 hours I used a little more than the recipe stated e.g. 6 tablespoons instead of 3...hic!
One warning though – if, like me, you taste the raw mix before baking, be prepared that the temptation to sit and eat the whole bowlful will be great. The only thing that stopped me was the thought 'if it tastes this great raw, how awesome will it be cooked?' I now know the answer: VERY!
How I wish this piece were here for me to eat right now:
You can dust the cake with icing sugar before serving if you want to. My eatership (as I have decided to term the eaters of my baking) never seem to like clouds of icing sugar on the top of their cake so I didn't bother.
This cake is best made the day before you want it as letting it sit overnight somehow makes it more succulent. As long as you keep it airtight or just wrap it in foil it will keep perfectly for a few days.
100g raisins
3 tablespoons rum (but Marsala would work if you don't like rum)
175g unsalted butter, softened
175g caster sugar
250g ricotta cheese
Vanilla extract to taste, I used about a tablespoon
3 eggs, separated
150g self raising flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
Icing sugar, for dusting before serving (optional)
How to make:
- Either the day before, or as early as you can, put the raisins and rum in a bowl. Ensure that all the raisins are sitting in the liquor and then cover and put aside. If preparing the day before, whenever you think of it, give the raisins a stir to make sure that they all get their share of rum.
- Preheat oven to 180°C/fan oven 160°C/350°F/ Gas mark 4 and line either an 18cm square tin, or a 20cm round tin with greaseproof paper.
- Cream together the butter and sugar until pale and fluffy. Don't skimp on this stage as I think it is the foundation of success. Take a tiny piece of the mix and place on your tongue. Press it to the roof of your mouth – if it's gritty the mix needs more beating. When it's smooth you can move to the next stage.
- Beat in the ricotta, egg yolks and vanilla.
- Stir in (beating is too tough on the raisins) the rum and raisin mixture including any unabsorbed rum.
- In a separate bowl whisk the egg whites until they reach the soft peak stage.
- Add a couple of spoons of egg white to the ricotta mix and fold in using a metal spoon. This slackens the mix and makes the rest of the egg white easier to fold in.
- Fold in the remaining egg white using light lifting and cutting motions.
- Fold in the flour and baking powder until the mix is thoroughly combined, then spoon into the tin.
- Level the surface, but don't press down too hard as you don't want to lose all the air you've been carefully folding in, and bake for 40 minutes or until the surface is firm to the touch and the contents don't wobble too much. It will firm up on cooling so it's a judgement call. Mine took almost an hour until I was happy it was set enough.
- The cake does flatten a little on cooling so don't worry that you've done anything wrong. Let the cake cool in the tin as it needs to firm up before you handle it.
- Serve dusted with icing sugar if you want to.
- Bask in glory at the wonderful thing you have made.
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_big_easy_ wrote:Are all tournaments as "well run" as this one?
Dukasaur wrote:_big_easy_ wrote:Are all tournaments as "well run" as this one?
No, this one is a bit unusual. In a lot of ways, and for a lot of reasons, it's atypical. You're not likely to see these problems on a regular basis.
Dukasaur wrote:_big_easy_ wrote:Are all tournaments as "well run" as this one?
No, this one is a bit unusual. In a lot of ways, and for a lot of reasons, it's atypical. You're not likely to see these problems on a regular basis.
kizkiz wrote:I see that the final is currently in round 14
Any idea when prizes will get sent out?
Swifte wrote:So, um, I won
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Project Update #24: Timeframe Update
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We write this update with heavy hearts as we have recently encountered several delays in production of classic boards that will make the November shipment goal impossible to achieve. Please take what small comfort you can in the knowledge that we are incredibly sorry for this delay and are doing everything humanly, and inhumanly, possible to fulfill your orders AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, and we are still very excited to ship you a high quality game. As you, the backers, are the most important part of the successful project, we wanted to take this opportunity to explain the source of our delays in detail.
Several of our classic board backers have contacted us, concerned that we have missed the late October shipping goal and are sacrificing work on the classic boards to focus on the engraved boards. While many of our recent updates have focused on Charley the Laser and the engraving process, this is simply because the classic board production has been largely out of our hands recently. We believe it's necessary to give you a comprehensive explanation of our current status, from the end of the Kickstarter project forward, noting the different production requirements of the different products we offer.
Classic Boards
Following the end of the campaign in late July, we immediately began preparing the classic boards for production. When we originally planned the project, we thought this would basically entail hitting a send button; how wrong we were.
This process began with a period of heavy quality control. The successful campaign and related publicity brought feedback revealing latent problems with the game boards that needed correction, as well as some excellent suggestions for improvements. As some of you may know, a post of our boards reached #1 on the front page of Reddit*. Answering and addressing concerns raised in the comments of this Reddit post was, alone, a multi-week process. This revision process entailed addressing issues on each map ranging from territory naming suggestions we received from local residents to re-allocating territories within regions. Every change made to the board necessitated corresponding changes to each card deck and play-testing to ensure balance.
The long revision and re-testing process was completed in late August/ early September. Once the process was complete and we were confident that each board was as close to perfect as we could make it, we were able to send the boards out for production. We knew at this point that the manufacturing process on the classic boards could take up to 60 days, but we were cautiously optimistic that we could have the boards back in our hands and ready to ship out by late October. It was at this stage that we encountered the unexpected delays that have pushed the production timetable back.
First, it was brought to our attention that we needed our boards to be in compliance with US and EU safety standards for consumer goods before we could get any order fulfillment (shipping) outfit to distribute them. The research and testing that went into ensuring compliance was an unforeseen process that took a number of weeks to complete. However, we were still optimistic that we had allocated enough time to make shipments the November shipping deadline.
Unfortunately, once we had the boards in compliance and orders placed with our manufacturer in China, we experienced further complications relating to matching the colors and designs we ordered. We were able to resolve this issue, but only by having the manufacturer make proofs of each board and send those express to North Carolina for our review.
Once these proofs were corrected and approved, assuring our backers would receive the exact boards we ordered, production began, albeit pushed back into October. The boards are currently nearing completion, at which point they will travel via container ship to the west coast, sit at customs for what we can only project will feel like an eternity (based on personal experience) and over land to our fulfillment center. Once these arrive at our fulfillment center, we have been assured they will go out immediately. We sincerely hope the boards can ship by mid-December. Again, we are genuinely sorry for this additional delay. We would have notified you sooner but wanted to assure everything was really in place and going forward this time.
Expansion decks are complete and undergoing play-testing now. We hope to begin production (with a two week turnaround) early next week. We apologize that these are going out later than expected, but we wanted to play-test them thoroughly and sacrificed speed for quality. Early results are promising.
Engraved Boards/Coasters
The engraved board production will be starting very soon, and we've been through a similarly long saga reaching this point. We were able to place an order for the laser within a week of the successful campaign. This laser (Charley) needed to be built in China, and assembled and calibrated in Las Vegas before being shipped to Durham, arriving in mid-October. We began testing engraving textures as well as wood types immediately. We then ordered an assload (official measuring unit) of wood, which is scheduled to arrive next week. Charley will begin producing the engraved boards immediately upon arrival of the wood.
Each engraved board must be produced individually, and the cutting and engraving takes several hours. Because of this, the timeframe for receipt of your engraved board is a rather large range, but we will notify each backer when their order has shipped.
Coaster production is kicking off as soon as the wood shipment arrives, and we intend to start engraving them within two weeks.
We realize you are as frustrated as we are with the delays and we again sincerely apologize. Our first Kickstarter project isn't going as smoothly as we projected from the start, but all things considered we think we have minimized the delays to the greatest degree possible and you'll be happy with the finished product.
We are sending out this update in an attempt to be as transparent as possible with you, and hope it answers any questions you have with this unfortunate news. As always, we want to hear from you directly with any concerns, and we invite you to message us on Kickstarter, or email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
* An impressive achievement considering the post was completely devoid of cats and gifs. This gif seems quite apropos to our recent delays.
kizkiz wrote:Looks like mine is waiting at the post office
Unfortunately, it has over £11 of unpaid customs charges
I've sent them an email to double check it is this board game prize before querying the costs
Anyone else got theirs yet?
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Jason Aldean Leaves 'Tattoos on This Town' at the 2011 CMA Awards
Jason Aldean gave the audience at the 2011 CMA Awards a taste of life in small-town America when he performed his single 'Tattoos on This Town.' Although he likely was full of anticipation as a top contender for several of the evening's awards, he seemed fully into the performance of the song about teenage antics, including drag racing pickup trucks and Mustangs up and down dirt roads and otherwise leaving 'Tattoos on This Town.'
Clad in jeans, a casual button-down shirt and his standard cowboy hat, Aldean seemed somewhat emotional as he took the audience on the sonic journey about growing up, love, pregnancy and war.
The song is the fourth single from Aldean's 'My Kinda Party' CD that also includes the No. 1 country single 'Dirt Road Anthem.' The duet Aldean sings with Kelly Clarkson on 'Don't You Wanna Stay' also became a No. 1 single off that album.


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Mild to moderate pain from tension headaches is one of the most prevalent medical complaints of the teen years. A tension headache typically comes on over the course of the day, producing a viselike pressure on both sides of the scalp and down the neck. "What happens is that the scalp muscles tighten around the skull," explains Dr. John Kulig of Boston's New England Medical Center, "usually in response to stress."
Migraine headaches, seen in 10 percent of adolescents, particularly girls, are characterized as attacks—that's how severe they are. When the pounding pain on one side of the skull is preceded by a visual disturbance, a person is said to have a migraine with aura. "The person will see bright, flashing lights, pinwheels or zigzag patterns," says ophthalmologist Harold Koller, who adds that parents often mistakenly attribute the optical illusions and headaches to eye strain. An aura may subside within minutes or continue for hours, while the pain lasts for several hours, on average. A migraine without aura strikes suddenly and persists for anywhere from three hours to several days. Migraines may occur frequently, as often as several times a week, or rarely, with years between episodes.
There are many possible causes or triggers of migraines, including stress, various foods and the constriction of blood vessels in the head and neck, which reduce circulation to the brain. In 2000, researchers at the National Institutes of Health discovered another cause: a malfunction in the back of the brain. Apparently, a trigger stirs abnormally excitable brain cells into firing off tiny impulses. The electrical charges ripple throughout the brain and brain stem, stimulating pain receptors along the way.
Migraine with aura:
Migraine without aura:
Headaches often accompany illnesses such as viruses, strep throat, allergies, sinus infections and urinary-tract infections. Other common causes include:
Headaches respond best to treatment when they're still in their early stages. If your teen has a tension headache, encourage her to lie down and relax, with her head elevated slightly. A hot bath or shower can help to ease the pain, as can placing a warm or cold compress on the forehead and/or neck. For migraine sufferers, you want to minimize sensory stimulation: Turn off the lights in the room, close the curtains, ask family members to keep the noise level down and so on. A cold pack helps here too, but do not apply heat—that will only make the pain worse.
Drug therapy: Tension headaches and migraines frequently respond well to a single dose of the over-the-counter analgesics acetaminophen or ibuprofen. According to the American Council on Headache Education, acetaminophen gets down to business more quickly, but ibuprofen appears to provide superior pain relief. If the symptoms recur, the next step might be a prescription for one of the "triptans": sumatriptan, zolmitriptan, naratriptan, rizatriptan. This family of drugs puts a halt to two in three migraines by blocking the action of the neurotransmitter serotonin. And because triptans are nonsedating, teens may be able to return to the classroom or to other activities more quickly, without having to sleep off the migraine. We never want to overmedicate, however, for fear of inducing rebound headaches. The phenomenon was discovered in the 1980s. Apparently, taking analgesics every day or every other day interferes with the brain's own ability to battle pain. The net effect is that over time the teenager begins to experience more headaches between doses. What's more, the medicines that once brought relief no longer seem as effective.
Put your finger on the trigger: Your pediatrician may suggest keeping a "headache diary" to help pinpoint the cause of your teen's headaches. In it, she writes down the following information:
Identifying and eliminating the precipitating factor of migraines—be it a certain food, a medication, a situation—can significantly reduce their occurrence. Some triggers, though, can't be avoided, like the stress of school. When researchers at the Palm Beach Headache Center in Palm Beach, Florida, studied nineteen hundred migraine sufferers aged twelve to seventeen, they discovered a fascinating (though not entirely surprising) pattern: Of the seven days of the week, the rate of migraines was the lowest (9 percent) on Saturdays and peaked (20 percent) on Mondays.
Relaxation exercises, taught by your pediatrician or a mental health professional, can help kids to handle stress with greater resilience. Another mind body technique, biofeedback, has proved useful in reducing both the frequency and the duration of migraine headaches. Psychotherapy, too, may play a part in treating migraines.
The tips below can help youngsters to avoid headaches:
Teenagers plagued by three or more migraines a month may be candidates for preventive (prophylactic) medicine, using antidepressants such as amitriptyline, as well as beta-blockers, calcium-channel blockers, or antiseizure medications.


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