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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer faces a $10 billion decision in a few months.
The pivotal moment will come when the Chinese e-commerce leader Alibaba Group completes its initial public offering of stock — an enormous deal that triggers a provision requiring Yahoo to sell about 40 percent of its stake in the company. The sale is expected to generate a windfall that will intensify pressure on Mayer to revive Yahoo's revenue growth after years of lethargy.
"This is Marissa's moment of reckoning," says Moshe Cohen, a Columbia University business professor who has been tracking Yahoo's ties with Alibaba.
FILE - In this May 21, 2012 file photo, men walk past the corporate logo at the headquarters compound of Alibaba Group in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province. Alibaba Group is aiming to raise $1 billion in a long-awaited IPO likely to have ripple effects across the Internet. The Tuesday, May 6, 2014 filing sets the stage for the technology industry's biggest initial public offering since short messaging service Twitter and its early investors collected $1.8 billion in its stock market debut last fall. (AP Photo/File) CHINA OUT
Mayer acknowledged as much Wednesday during an appearance in New York at a conference hosted by TechCrunch.
"We know this is of critical importance to our investors," she said. She declined to say much more, citing securities regulations that restrict the public comments of executives involved in pending IPOs.
While the sale of Alibaba stock will be a short-term boon for Yahoo, it will also remove some of the financial scaffolding that has been lifting Yahoo's stock even as the company's revenue continues to slip. Most analysts say the Alibaba stake is the main reason that Yahoo's stock has more than doubled under Mayer because investors latched on to Yahoo shares as a way to get a piece of Alibaba's IPO.
With much of the Alibaba support going away, "it's time to rev up revenue growth," says BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis. "They will need to move the needle now."
One of the quickest ways Mayer could boost revenue would be to buy another company, something she will be in a better position to do after the IPO is complete, probably in August or September.
Although Alibaba is unlikely to set an IPO price until this summer, analysts estimate the Chinese company's market value at $150 billion to $200 billion. At that level, the 208 million shares that Yahoo is required to sell will bring in at least $10 billion. The Sunnyvale, California, company would still own about 315 million Alibaba shares that it could sell at a later date.
With that much money coming in, Mayer could afford to make a big splash by buying a hot startup such as rising social media star Pinterest or the ephemeral messaging service Snapchat. But those startups still aren't generating much revenue, an issue that would probably rattle investors if Yahoo dared to buy them. What's more, Yahoo could face competition from even richer bidders such as Google Inc. and Facebook Inc.
A more logical takeover candidate for Yahoo would be AOL Inc., another once-dominant Internet company that was outwitted by hard-charging innovators such as Google and Facebook, which built lucrative advertising networks around online franchises.
Gillis thinks the marriage could make sense for Yahoo because AOL has been more successful in online video — one of Mayer's top priorities — and has done a better job selling ads to other websites. AOL also has a long-running contract to get its search results from Google, an arrangement that might appeal to Mayer because she has publicly expressed disappointment with the revenue that Yahoo has been getting from a similar search deal with Microsoft Corp. If they were combined, Yahoo and AOL also could reduce expenses and make more money by eliminating overlapping jobs and operations.
A potential purchase of AOL got significantly cheaper Wednesday after the company's first-quarter earnings missed analysts' projections. AOL's stock plunged 21 percent, leaving the company with a market value of about $2.8 billion.
There's another reason a deal could come together: Mayer and AOL CEO Tim Armstrong have known each other for years, having both played key roles in Google's success while working at that company. Armstrong specialized in ad sales while Mayer focused more on design and engineering.
While he thinks an AOL acquisition could work for Yahoo, Cohen believes many investors are unnerved by the prospect of Mayer financing a shopping spree with the Alibaba windfall.
Through last year, Yahoo had purchased a total of 28 companies for a combined $1.4 billion since Mayer became CEO. Most of the deals consisted of tiny startups staffed by engineers who Mayer wanted to hire for their expertise in mobile applications. The one exception: a $1.1 billion purchase of blogging service Tumblr.
"She has been making acquisitions that haven't been producing revenue," Cohen says. "If she goes for even bigger acquisitions, the stakes will be even higher, and the market's confidence in her is not that strong right now. The market is worried the value from Alibaba could be destroyed."
Yahoo's stock sank $2.42, or 6.6 percent, to close Wednesday at $34.07. The shares stood at $15.65 when Mayer became Yahoo's CEO in July 2012.
"From a shareholder perspective, the big issue is what is going to happen to all that cash," says Macquarie analyst Ben Schachter. "People want to know, and she is being relatively coy about it. So there is a lot of uncertainty around Yahoo right now."
In her appearance at the TechCrunch conference, Mayer indicated that she would handle the Alibaba windfall similar to the way she dealt with Yahoo's more than $7 billion gain after selling another portion of its stake in the Chinese company in 2012: She set aside some of the money for acquisitions but earmarked about 85 percent of it for buying back its own stock, according to Schachter's calculations.
"We intend," Mayer said, "to be good stewards of the capital."
FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014, photo, Yahoo president and CEO Marissa Mayer speaks during a keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas. Mayer will face a $10 billion decision during 2014, after Alibaba Group, China¿s e-commerce leader, completes one of the biggest initial public offerings of stock in U.S. history, requiring Yahoo Inc. to sell about 40 percent of its stake in Alibaba. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)
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ShopSmart Poll: Nearly 40 Percent of Couples Fight About Messes More Than Money
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YONKERS, N.Y., Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Finances tend to be a common cause of marital squabbles, but an untidy home can also trigger a tiff. According to a new poll from ShopSmart, almost 40 percent of couples confessed to fighting about messes more than money. The March 2013 issue of ShopSmart, from Consumer Reports, features a full report on organizing and more survey results from its national poll of almost 500 couples about their attitudes toward household clutter.
"Our poll found that men and women have different opinions about being organized and dealing with clutter," said Lisa Lee Freeman, editor-in-chief of ShopSmart. "We've put together some simple, inexpensive strategies to help tackle organizing challenges before they lead to bigger issues for your home and your relationship."
When it comes to common tasks including driving, watching TV, or remembering birthdays and appointments, returning items to their proper place is the top point of contention between men and women. ShopSmart's poll found that when it comes to putting things away properly, women were a lot more likely to report being different from their partner (69%) than men (51%).
Overall, who's guilty of being the messiest in their relationship? When asked, 26 percent of women admitted that they were the messier partner compared to 39 percent of men who claimed to be.
ShopSmart's poll also uncovered what people do when their partner leaves stuff out of place:
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- 21 percent ask their spouse or partner to straighten up.
- 19 percent leave things as is until their partner puts them away.
- Women are twice as likely as men to dump messy or out-of-place items into their spouse or partner's personal space.
Despite overall discord about untidiness, ShopSmart did find something most men and women agree on: the two things that drive them crazy when out of place are keys and bills.
ShopSmart's national poll on mess and marriage is part of an eight-page feature story on organizing, available in the March 2013 issue of the magazine, which highlights affordable solutions for common, household organizing problems, cheap organizing tips and the best places to shop for organizers. For more information, visit www.ShopSmartmag.org.
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Before he grew all big and tall and confident? Well a funny thing happened on the way to puberty. As an intense part of his younger speech therapy days was daily rhyming and poetry. Now the young Boy 1 used to write beautiful poems and was quite unimpressed with his Madmother trying to make light of it with terms such as poo, bum, and the worst one - fart being used. Anyhoos, he soldiered through and with some one-on-one brainstorming sessions produced some pretty damn good poems. Most of which were lost in the drunk drive fiasco - remember that? No? Before blog time methinks.
Fast forward to the world of today. A writing contest is being touted at the school. Can be old, new, poems or prose. Both boys decide to submit older work. Boy 2's poem is one of the first things I posted when I started my blog. Boy 1's was even older. He wrote it in Grade 1, yes in those intense rhyming days. Now, I was so proud (as was his speechie) that I posted this on an autism poetry website. With copyright (whilst his christian name was on the piece, oh and age = 7, it was my name that appeared after the little circled c) held by moi truly! So, although I luckily had a copy saved in a file on my work pc, I figured save time google. Google is a very useful tool, let me say.
You wanna know what I found?
This poem (without permission I might add) has been used:
- in a brochure for an American university's autism programme
- in a sermon
- in a play
- on a FB page for a support group in Maritius
- in a school website
- in a book - this one gets me as it is a bestseller and the author should have known better. Am following this up as we speak.
I'm also wondering if the competition judges will accuse him of plagiarism seeing as you can google it and it comes up so many places. Am going to talk to the teacher today to let her know.
And no, I'm not posting it here, I've learnt my lesson on THAT one!
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Integrated Electrical Services, Inc. (IES) recently announced that it has concluded the sale of Key Electric Supply, its electrical distribution business. Key Electric Supply, located in Houston, Texas, is a distributor of wiring, lighting, electrical distribution, power control, and generators for residential and commercial applications.
Michael J. Caliel, IES president and CEO, says, "As we continue to assess our operations and focus on our electrical and communications businesses, we concluded this was a constructive opportunity to divest another non-core business. As we have stated numerous times, our strategy is to strengthen our core portfolio of electrical and communications businesses that are critical to the future success of the company and ensure the company is well positioned to make the most of upcoming opportunities. Moreover, we believe the transition of ownership to Elliott Electric Supply, Inc. will be a positive development for both Elliott and Key's customers and employees."
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I'm a sucker for a pretty pale pink, especially in the bedroom. Pink can be soft and romantic, not to mention great for the skin. That being said, it's tough to find a shade that's sweet but not saccharine, feminine but not girly. Here are some inspired blush boudoirs that get it right and some paint swatches to help you get the look in your own room.
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High-resolution magnetic resonance (MR) imaging studies have identified characteristic changes in brain structure — thinning of key cortical regions and reduced volume of structures such as the hippocampus — in persons with mild cognitive impairment, in individuals known to carry gene mutations that directly cause Alzheimer's disease, and in diagnosed Alzheimer's patients.
The current study, published in the Annals of Neurology, involved 87 cognitively normal older individuals and 32 patients diagnosed with mild Alzheimer's (matched for age, gender and education) who had enrolled in the long-term Harvard Aging Brain Study. Participants underwent both high-resolution MR imaging of brain structure and PET scanning with PiB to detect amyloid plaques.
The results showed that those cognitively normal individuals who had amyloid plaques also had structural changes similar to but less pronounced than the neurodegenerative changes seen in the symptomatic patients. Structural changes were most evident in areas comprising what is called the default network, which is known to be affected early in the course of Alzheimer's disease.
The study was well conducted, well controlled and used the latest techniques in brain imaging. This paper provides further evidence that amyloid deposition is occurring in the brain decades before the dementia stage begins, and in fact, even before cognitive impairment develops. It also supports the idea that the mechanism by which cognitive impairment and dementia arise is due to atrophy, or shrinkage, of the brain in selected areas as a consequence of beta-amyloid deposition.
*Becker et al, Beta-amyloid associated coritcal thinning in clinically normal elderly. Annals of Neurology, March 2011.
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Too fresh I wouldn't be concerned about, just don't apply too heavily or directly. I like to add my horse manure to my compost, it works wonders for the heap, and to my worm bin - they love it! If I use it directly it would be after a crop has come out and while adding mulch to the bed.
My only real concern around horse poo is I like to know when the horses were last "drenched" for worms, because if it is recent I could be carrying worm killing chemicals to my soil, compost and worm bin - not a good mix.
I have bought a large rubbish bin from Bunnings ($15.00) and put the poo in there and filled with water. Leave for a fortnight to kill the seeds. Use the water - about 2 inches in the bottom of the watering can and water on.
Actuall I got an interesting bug in there which I found was a rat-tailed maggot which turns into a hover fly that eats aphids. A bonus!
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Days after taking to his Instagram account to pan the notion of a "Spring Breakers" sequel as "lame," James Franco continued his social-media campaign against the proposed movie with another rebuke on Wednesday -- at the same time as the sequel began seeking funds at the Cannes Film Festival.
In a caption accompanying a photo of himself on Instagram, Franco wrote, "I want everyone to know that whoever is involved in the sequel is jumping on board a poison ship. It will be a terrible film, with a horrible reason d'etre: to make money off someone else's creativity."
Franco is irate that the sequel is being developed without input from him or Harmony Korine, who directed the original 2012 artsploitation movie starring Franco, Vanessa Hudgens and Selena Gomez.
"The original was wholly Harmony's creation and these producers are capitalizing on that innovative film to make money on a weak sequel," Franco wrote. He added, "I'm speaking up for Harmony and his original vision and for any creative person who cares about preserving artistic integrity."
"Spring Breakers: The Second Coming" was announced last week by the French sales and distribution company Wild Bunch and Los Angeles-based Muse Productions, which owns the concept.
The new film, to be directed by Swedish music-video veteran Jonas Akerlund ("Spun") from a script by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh (the novel "Trainspotting"), is being peddled at the Cannes market. On Thursday, attendees and passersby at the festival could see a banner touting the new film mounted on a facade near the Grand Hotel.
The banner had the same garish aesthetic and was placed in the same high-traffic spot as the ad pushing the first film to international buyers a few years ago, many of which responded enthusiastically at the time.
But unlike that banner, there were no images of famous actors on this one -- there are, in fact, no casting choices as yet on the film at all -- with Akerlund and Welsh's names providing the only brand recognition, after a fashion, anyway.
There were, however, a number of provocative images, including one of a pistol (partly) covering naked buttocks. (How much these images have to do with the script is not exactly clear.)
Attention at the festival is key to getting the film made -- the volume of sales Wild Bunch can drum up is directly proportional to the prospective film's budget, and even a greenlight in the first place. Those sales become an exponentially bigger challenge without an actor attached.
In that sense, Franco may not simply have been sounding off when he issued his Instagram denunciations. Potential buyers could be scared off by the idea that the film not only will lack the support of its original stars but face a campaign against it to boot.
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Hosted by the Grand Street Business Improvement District (BID), the annual summer celebration helped ring in the warm weather with live music, art shows and games for the entire family.
In addition to celebrating the first installment of the block party – with the second on June 28 from 2 to 8 p.m. - BID director Artineh Havan also joined the Green School and Ellie Balk to unveil a mural at the corner of Grand Street and Graham Avenue.
"The students of Green School and Ellie Balk have done a great job creating a lively mural," Havan said. "It adds value to Grand Street by artfully blending the values and truths of math, education, and community."
Nathan Affield, assistant principal of the Green School at 223 Graham Ave., has worked with students for the last month on painting the math-inspired design.
"Although digits of pi extend infinitely without repetition. Space confines force us to extend as many digits as possible and let the viewers imagination do the rest," Affield said. "This year we used a two-dimensional line graph in which each of the points represent the quantities of the digits as both positive and negative values reflecting the line graph image over the x-axis to create something that looks like a sound wave."
The students also painted the design based on patterns of prime numbers appearing in pi.
"Because of the central location and proximity to the B43 stop, the community was involved at every stage of the process," Affield said. "During our community day, Green School alumni, staff and their families worked to paint the brightly-colored design."
Many businesses located throughout the street fair - like Fresthetic at 552 Grand St. – helped to pitch in as they met with dozens of residents.
Owner Omar Cordero said special events like block parties and pub crawls hosted by the BID have played a key role in raising the visibility of the corridor.
"It's really good to get these people to come out and see what's here," Cordero said. "We get a chance to see people who don't usually see us."
Fresthetic put together an outdoor domino game in front of the store and invited passersby in to check out their supply of t-shirts, shoes, bags and jewelry.
"These events are just really good and we're glad it's back on this side of the street," he said.
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Shakespeare's tragedy requires a great actor in the title role, an imaginative director and set designer, and a professional cast, even in the smaller roles.
Trinity Rep, in a unique collaboration with the Dallas Theatre Center, scores an A+ on all fronts.
The lengthy (2 hours and 45 minutes) play moves smoothly through two acts, the first set on a stark bare wooden stage with only a chair placed at the center. The actors appear through a series of doors, followed by King Lear (the brilliant Brian McEleney), who holds your attention through the entire play as he shows his rage toward his three daughters, disinheriting Cordelia, his youngest (Abbey Slegworth), and driven out – and driven mad – by his other daughters (Angela Brazil and Christie Vela).
McEleney has captured the essence of a man filled with rage, shouting at the world, and eventually losing it completely. Today we would call it severe dementia.
The subplot concerns the Earl of Gloucester, who is destroyed by his evil son. Director Kevin Moriarty has cleverly changed the male role to female without altering the essence of the story. Phyllis Kay is now the confused, grieving mother who holds faithful to her other son and to Lear, acts which cause her much pain, both mental and physical.
"King Lear" is a difficult play to follow at times, and in the hands of the wrong company can be a boring, confounding disaster. But this is Trinity Rep, folks. And with the addition of actors from another great company, The Dallas Theatre Center, where the play will be presented later in the season, "King Lear" reaches new heights.
Michael McGarty's simple set is upturned, literally, at the stormy end of the first act, complete with more water coming down from above than witnessed in "Singing in the Rain."
Stay in your seat during intermission and watch the hardworking stage crew completely transform the set for act two. While they are drying things out, the actors are drying themselves backstage.
The play becomes more volatile in the second act, as Shakespeare kills off many of the characters. Moriarty has chosen a strange combination of knives, guns and sticks for the battle, with nary a sword in site. Costume designer William Lane has the actors in modern clothing, although the play is timeless.
While the spotlight is rightfully on Brian McEleney as the King of Britain, there are other outstanding performances by the supporting cast. Abbey Siegworth and Christie Vela come to us from Dallas, joining Angela Brazil to present three very different daughters. Trinity's talented Joe Wilson Jr. joins Dallas' Chamblee Ferguson and Trinity Rep grad Grant Chapman as their husbands.
While "King Lear" is unquestionably a tragedy, comic relief and some clever insights are provided by the king's fool, played with passion by Stephen Berenson.
And then there is Oswald, the steward to Lear's oldest daughter. The role is written as a minor character, but for veteran Fred Sullivan Jr., there are no minor roles. He takes the words written by the Bard and makes them ring with his clever asides and gestures, giving us additional – and much appreciated – funny moments amidst some very tense scenes.
This production of "King Lear" is Shakespeare at its best. It has the Trinity touch that has made our own Rhode Island treasure shine through the 49 years of its existence. It is a classic not to be missed.
A gentle warning: There is one realistic violent scene and some male nudity, neither of which I found the least bit offensive and both adding to the intensity of the production.
"King Lear" is at Trinity Rep, in the intimate downstairs Dowling Theatre through October 21. For tickets, call 351-4242.


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Lost Tapes
Posted 23 February 2009 - 08:07 AM
The two episodes I managed to catch last week were about the Gobi desert death worms and hell hounds. It would be an interesting show if it weren't for these snippets of "lost" video tape. Those segments seem to contain nothing but bad acting and even worse dialog.
Has anyone else seen this show, and what do you think if you have?
Posted 23 February 2009 - 08:56 PM
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Posted 23 February 2009 - 10:25 PM
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Posted 24 February 2009 - 01:13 PM
Just move your pointer over text below to be taken to Lost tapes: Animal Planet.
"WHAT IS LOST TAPES? Even in the modern age, reports of human encounters with mysterious and often dangerous beasts continue to surface. Lost Tapes is a first person, immersive experience of encounters with bizarre animals that science is reluctant to recognize.
WHEN IS LOST TAPES? Tune in every Tuesday night at 10 and 10:30 p.m. ET/PT for new premieres of Lost Tapes. Check the Lost Tapes Episode Guide and Site Map to see what's on next."
From the description it looks interesting. I don't have cable though, so I guess I wont see for myself.
p.s. If your on dial up it takes a long time for the page to load.
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Posted 06 April 2009 - 10:25 AM
I watched it for the first time recently, and it's more eerie than I thought it would be, especially for a show on Animal Planet!
I loved it, BUT I cant tell if these are re-enactments or true videos. The Skin Walker one scared me half to death LOL..That video seemed authentic. The kids in the water, not so much. The ones with the family crossing the border, was eeeeeeeeerie..But was it the real video? CE
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Mark Wahlberg & Taylor Kitsch: 'Lone Survivor' Luncheon!
Mark Wahlberg is sandwiched between his co-stars Ben Foster and Emile Hirsch while attending a luncheon for their latest flick Lone Survivor held at Monkey Bar on Wednesday (December 4) in New York City.
The three guys were joined by their co-stars Eric Bana, Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Ludwig, and director Peter Berg.
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Earlier in the day, Mark, Taylor, and Emile were spotted promoting the movie on The Today Show.
The night before, the guys were handsome while attending the premiere of the flick at Ziegfeld Theater.
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Wabash College Seniors Exhibit Their Art• April 5, 2007 Share:
Wabash College senior art majors Philip Ramilo, Will Clarke, Nic Bitting, and Dustin Beck will exhibit their work beginning Monday, April 16 in the Eric Dean Gallery in the Fine Arts Center. A reception will be held from 8-9:30 p.m., Monday, April 16, in the gallery. The Senior Show will be exhibited through May 13.


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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) After nearly a decade in the NFL, Aaron Rodgers doesn't need that many snaps in Packers preseason games.
There's not really much to prove for a quarterback who seems as sharp as ever in practice.
But backup play is at a premium, especially following a 2013 season during which Rodgers was sidelined for nearly two months with a collarbone injury.
Ten days into training camp, the Packers appear to have two competent candidates for a job that, realistically, few people in Green Bay would like to see either perform on a regular basis.
The first test arrives Saturday when coach Mike McCarthy's team travels to Tennessee to play the Titans in the preseason opener.
''Every time you step on the field, it's a huge opportunity, regardless of where you rank or where you are in the depth chart, it does not matter,'' quarterbacks coach Alex Van Pelt said Thursday.
Well, there is one big exception.
''Obviously, Aaron is a little bit different. But after that, guys are going out to compete and compete against the defense, put up their best performance. The chips fall where they may,'' Van Pelt said.
The coaching staff hadn't decided by Thursday morning on how Flynn and Tolzien would split reps Saturday, though there should be plenty to go around. Rodgers doesn't expect a big workload.
''I don't want to put anybody out, but I would think it's going to be light work, as we usually do,'' Rodgers said. ''The thing about this team, as you can tell, we're a pretty deep team. We have a lot of athleticism and talent in different areas. One area especially is quarterback.''
Last year in training camp, Vince Young, Graham Harrell and B.J. Coleman were among the candidates to back up Rodgers.
By the first week of September, all three were cut. The Packers signed Seneca Wallace and Tolzien, then added Flynn in November after Rodgers and Wallace got hurt. Flynn went 2-2 in four late-season games in 2013, helping to settle a Packers offense struggling without offense.
Wallace is now gone. But the offense appears to have benefited from having a full offseason of Flynn and Tolzien back in the system.
Flynn also has the benefit of having been somewhat familiar with the Packers already after having been drafted by Green Bay in 2008 before returning as a free agent.
Flynn is listed ahead of Tolzien on the unofficial team depth chart, though the order seems to be far from being permanently set.
''I've got to prove that I can still get the job done,'' Flynn said. ''I've got to prove that I deserve to be on this team.''
Still, offensive coordinator Tom Clements calls the process of getting the offense up to speed this preseason a ''much smoother operation'' with more experience behind Rodgers at quarterback.
The backups, perhaps even more than Rodgers, are tasked with getting younger players with whom they may be playing with on the second and third teams up to speed.
Tolzien has showed potential with his arm strength, and he performed admirably in two starts last season for someone thrown relatively quickly into the No. 1 quarterback job with just two months of preparation. According to Van Pelt, things are slowing down for Tolzien, which is a sign of a young player learning to grasp the system.
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GOING UPSTAIRS: The depth chart also revealed a tweak in game day operations, with Clements going to the press box and Van Pelt staying on the sideline. Van Pelt moved over from coaching running backs to quarterbacks this year to replace Ben McAdoo, now the New York Giants' offensive coordinator. With the staff change, McCarthy said he preferred the quarterbacks coach to stay on the field.
THUMBS UP: Defensive coordinator Dom Capers likes how linebacker Clay Matthews has looked so far in training camp. One of the game's top pass rushers when healthy, Matthews missed much of 2013 with a thumb injury that required two surgeries. Saturday would mark the debut of what the Packers hope will be an improved pass rush featuring Matthews and free agent acquisition Julius Peppers.
SITTING OUT: Safety Morgan Burnett is among seven Packers - but the only projected starter - who will not travel to Tennessee. Burnett is recovering from an oblique injury, a week after missing a couple days with an ankle injury. McCarthy hopes Burnett will return next week.
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Dec. 12, 2006
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Sophomore Jimmy Bartolotta scored over 30 points for the third time this season, junior Will Mroz broke out by adding a season-best 21, and MIT held off a late rally before pulling away for a 79-72 victory over Emerson College, Tuesday night, at Rockwell Cage. With the victory, MIT (5-5) secured its first home win of the season, while snapping a three-game losing skid heading into the Holiday break.
Emerson (5-4) looked poised for the road win early in the game as freshman Bryan Rouse followed up Saturday's record-setting 56-point effort with the first eight points. After Will Dawkins drained two free throws, the Lions enjoyed a 10-0 lead three minutes into the half. Rouse and Dawkins continued to carry Emerson for most of the first frame, but after equaling their largest lead of the night at 14-4, the Lions surrendered a 13-2 run over the next five minutes behind the hot hand of Mroz and post play of rookie Erich Bracht.
Securing their first lead of the night, the Engineers and Lions traded baskets for the rest of the half before back-to-back three's by Mroz and Bartolotta gave MIT a 31-25 lead with just over four minutes on the clock. The period closed with the Engineers in front, 38-32.
MIT stayed in front the entire second half, although Emerson remained in striking distance. A lay-up by Mroz with 11 minutes left gave MIT its largest lead of the game at 48-39, although back-to-back triples by Morales Hendricks and Ben Chase closed the gap to 58-55 with eight minutes to go.
Continuing the pressure against Tech's hardwood unit, the Lions got as close as one after Jeremy Shannon made it 69-68 with a jump shot and 1:50 left in regulation. Despite the push, the Engineers capped the tilt with 10 consecutive free throws down the stretch en route to their seventh straight win in the history of the series.
Bartolotta scored a game-high 32 points, including 22 in the second half. He finished 13-of-14 at the charity stripe, while adding nine rebounds, three assists and three blocks. Mroz scored in double-figures for the third time in four games, and made the most of his first start of the season by scoring 21 points on 7-of-11 shooting. Bracht also scored in double figures for the Cardinal and Gray. Scoring 11 points and adding a game-best 13 rebounds, Bracht recorded his fifth double-double of the year.
Despite a scintillating start, Rouse finished with 21 points and six boards on 9-of-13 shooting. Dawkins led a strong supporting cast with 13 points, while Hendricks (12), Chase (11) and Shannon (10) all scored in double digits.


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Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles Seeks Big, Diverse Voice for ABC's 'Duets'
Jennifer Nettles was finally able to let out a little secret on her blog. The female half of the duo Sugarland was relieved to announce to her fans that she's going to be one of the celebrity judges on the upcoming ABC show 'Duets.' Joining fellow judges Kelly Clarkson, Lionel Richie and Robin Thicke for the show, which will debut this summer, Nettles has to scour the country for two duet partners to join her on the show. In her blog, she dished a bit on what she'll be looking for in a partner.
"For my tastes, I'm looking for BIG voices, males and females, who can sing diverse, dynamic music," she wrote. "If you have a strong, dynamic, voice, and if you like singing all types of powerful music, you could be my guy/girl. Ladies, I know there are a ton of you out there. Guys, I need you too!!! I HAVE to find the yin to my yang. The ebony to my ivory. The Captain to my Tennille. The…you get the point. If you enjoy performing, and know you have chops, bring it on!!!"
But even in the midst of all the excitement, Nettles admitted to being a big nervous at lifting the curtain into her writing and recording life, as well as her relationship to the stage and everything that goes on when she's not performing. It's intimidating to invite cameras into your behind-the-scenes life, but the star is about to do just that.
"It's new and different for me," she admits. "Nonetheless, ever the pioneer woman, I like to walk myself into new and unknown territory. It's as exciting as it is nerve inspiring." Nettles says she's most excited about performing with the contestants and new experiences, as well as performing with her fellow artist judges. The winner of the entire competition will take home a record deal with Hollywood Records. In a recent trailer for the show, Nettles talked about what sets the show apart from other singing reality shows infiltrating the country.
"I think the element of performance with our partners on this show makes it different," Nettles concludes. "The concept of 'Duets' is so fresh because mentoring is active and participatory. Most of my greatest learning was from singing and playing with other performers throughout my life and career."


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Books to read before you die
CNN/Stylemagazine.com Newswire | 2/11/2014, 12:43 p.m.
By Jay Parini
I'm a lover of books, great ones and not-so-great ones. And I also love lists. So it didn't surprise me when Amazon recently came out with its 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime.
I was, however, more than a little shocked by the list, which crudely mixes categories, putting in a few classics, such as George Orwell's "1984" and Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," alongside "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain, "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis, and "Gone Girl" by Gillian Flynn. Really?
And do you think "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle should sit on the shelf of must-reads-before-dying with "Pride and Prejudice," the great masterpiece by Jane Austen?
In the novel category, should one read Jacqueline Suzann's truly terrible "Valley of the Dolls" instead of, say, Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" or -- the greatest of all novels -- "Middlemarch" by George Eliot?
For poetry, Amazon recommends Shel Silverstein's "Where the Sidewalk Ends" instead of the poems of Robert Frost or Walt Whitman or Emily Dickinson. For a great biography, we get Robert A. Caro's admirable life of Robert Moses. But what about James Boswell's "Life of Johnson," arguably the finest biography ever published?
Certain books here are familiar to high school students, including "To Kill a Mockingbird," "Slaughterhouse-Five," and "Catcher in the Rye." I don't myself like any of these much, if truth be told. One of my sons recently graduated from high school, and he complained that in the past six years he had been asked every single year to read "To Kill a Mockingbird." Surely there are other books about race relations in the American South?
I also wonder about including so many recent popular novels, such as Jonathan Franzen's "The Corrections" or "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz or, even more puzzling, "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt. These books made a splash, and continue to find readers, but any one of a dozen or more books could have been substituted for these, and the books in this category would certainly change with the decades. In the '20s, everyone thought you should read "Java Head" by Joseph Hergesheimer. In the '30s, you would have been asked to read "Seven Who Fled" by Frederic Prokosch.
I liked certain choices here, however: Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" is certainly the best book about Vietnam; more than that, it's a dazzling work of art. John Irving's "The World According to Garp" will always deserve readers, as will "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy and "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov.
But are these the 100 books you must read before you die or the 100 books Amazon will probably sell you before you die? The latter, I think.
If you're going to die soon, I suggest reading "Walden" by Henry David Thoreau, which didn't make Amazon's list. It's a sublime work of literature, a better memoir than any of the memoirs included here. And read "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" before you read "The Liars' Club" by Mary Carr or "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion. The latter are fine books, but they should not crowd out Thoreau or Franklin.
It's sad to see that Shakespeare and Tolstoy don't make the Amazon list. Nor do John Updike or Saul Bellow or Mark Twain. I'd say that only about a third of the books on Amazon's list are in any way essential reading. Buy these books, if you must. And die, if you must. But if you want to know what books you should really read before you die, look elsewhere.
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Installing bright 2-foot by 4-foot, three-lamp, T12 fluorescent fixtures 8 feet apart in dropped tiled ceilings was the common method of office lighting design in the 20th century. Lighting designers believed it was best to give people a lot of light, much more than is now recommended by ANSI and IEEE standards.
Back then, a recommended level of horizontal footcandles served as the most important criterion for evaluating an office lighting system. However, the ninth edition of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America's (IESNA) Lighting Handbook expands considerably on what constitutes good lighting and is the best reference until the re-release of IESNA's Recommended Practice for Office Lighting (RP-1). It's currently being updated to include the latest research in vision and technology, and it should be available later this year.
Office work involves a variety of visual tasks. The ease of each task depends on several factors, including an employee's ability to see and read office documents, the contrast of the task with the background, the luminance of the background, and how long the documents must be viewed.
Luminance differences. An undesirable ratio of the amount of light delivered on the work area to the amount of light adjacent to the area and in the general field of view of the worker can cause problems ranging from annoyance to noticeable glare. Thus, RP-1 recommends that the luminance within the immediate area should maintain a maximum bright-to-dark ratio of 3:1 with respect to the task. Greater contrast away from the immediate task area but within the field of view may be desirable to enhance visual clarity, depth perception, and a sense of spatial orientation. In these areas, a maximum ratio of 10:1 with respect to the task area is recommended.
One way to provide suitable bright-to-dark ratios with respect to the task — also called nonuniform lighting — is to restrict the lowest illuminance to a circulation area or a corridor adjacent to the area of general illumination. A task-lighting fixture installed at each workstation would provide even higher illuminance levels on the work surface.
Applying controls. Today's control technology helps to minimize unnecessary lighting use in an office throughout the day and to comply with various codes and standards. All applicable codes should be considered in the design, but they're never a substitute for a thorough analysis of proper energy use and economic tradeoffs.
Consider these general provisions for both manual and automatic controls:
Each separate office or area should have its own control switch(es).
In large open spaces, each defined work area should be grouped and switched independently.
When using single- and two-lamp fluorescent luminaires, adjacent luminaires should be placed on alternate circuits.
When using three-lamp fluorescent luminaires, the inside lamp should be connected to a separate circuit from the outside lamps.
When using four-lamp fluorescent luminaires, the inside pair of lamps should be connected to a circuit that's separate from the outside lamp pair.
When using electronic ballasts, consider using ballast models with high/low circuiting and/or with dimming capabilities.
Two of the most common automatic control systems used by lighting designers in offices today are based on the concepts of occupancy and daylight harvesting. In the former, infrared or ultrasonic motion detectors automatically turn lights on and off depending on activity in the space, thus saving on energy consumption. In the latter, a harvesting system continuously senses the level of daylight coming through the windows and skylights and turns off or dims the lighting system accordingly.
Numerous firms are applying a dimming system that allows each employee to use a wireless handheld remote control, computer commands, or a coded telephone message to customize the lighting level supplied to his or her work area by nearby ceiling fixtures.
Lighting design concerns. For the purpose of illuminating the work areas of an office, the general lighting in the ceiling can serve as both ambient and task lighting. This is best for private offices or special situations where separate task lighting is inappropriate. It's also possible to use localized lighting for task lighting fixtures and then provide a lower level of general, or ambient, illumination. A 30-footcandle to 35-footcandle level of ambient light is a typical design goal, but some employees prefer even less — on the order of 15 footcandles to 20 footcandles. A general illumination level is appropriate for most open plan offices that use vertical partitions and cabinets.
The work areas of an open office can be bullpen-like desk arrangements, desk and credenza combinations, floor standing panels that support work surfaces and storage components and partially enclose a space, and free-standing screens or panels between desks.
These kinds of layouts can present problems, though, because the panels and storage shelves above work surfaces may create undesirable shadows on the tasks and adjacent surfaces. Depending on how many are in the room, these panels will change the distribution of light and reduce the luminance on the work surface. As the number of vertical partitions increases, their reflectance becomes more significant. It's also important to note that dark finishes absorb more light.
General lighting luminaire types. The following types of suspended, surface, or recess-mounted luminaires for general office area illumination are usually installed in a pattern that provides completely uniform lighting throughout the space:
Open direct luminaires. Designed without any type of shielding, and unless equipped with reflectors, these systems radiate light in all directions. This type of illumination system offers very efficient lighting with high coefficient of utilization (CU) values, but it can cause visual discomfort and disabling glare.
Shielded direct lighting luminaires. These systems are equipped with some type of louver to prevent direct viewing of the lamps at normal angles of view. Infrequently used today, the opaque louver consists of flat vanes — sometimes called an eggcrate louver — made of plastic or aluminum in a longitudinal and lateral design. A louver with a depth equal to its width has a shielding angle of 45°.
The vanes of the more popular parabolic louvered troffers are manufactured with a parabolic surface. Light rays that strike the sides of the cells are redirected downward out of the fixture, optimally providing a cutoff angle of 45°. Thus, a minimum of reflected brightness from the fixture is seen on nearby CRT screens. The quality of a deep-cell parabolic louver depends on the type of metal finish and how well it cuts off light source glare.
However, the low source brightness of parabolic louvered troffers can create the appearance of a dark ceiling and dark upper part of walls. This "cave effect" can be reduced or eliminated with perimeter fluorescent "wall-washing" units and other methods.
Lensed direct lighting luminaires or troffers. Although these systems typically have higher efficiency and CU values than parabolic louvered troffers, they provide less precise glare control. Diffuser, clear refractor (usually a prismatic pattern), pigmented refractor, and hemispherical refractor lens types are available. The actual photometric performance of a lens is also determined by other factors, such as the reflector type and the number and type of lamps used in the luminaire.
Indirect lighting luminaires. These systems radiate light up to a reflective ceiling where it's redistributed downward. Such systems generally employ luminaires suspended from the ceiling, though cove lights and lights mounted to walls and furniture can also be used. Indirect lighting systems that use well-designed and properly spaced luminaires can provide excellent illumination, uniformity, and freedom from glare.
Recent designs that use T8 and T5 lamps in fluorescent indirect systems use lenses or imaging reflectors to achieve high luminaire efficiency by producing a broad batwing light distribution while allowing for close-to-ceiling mounting. This raises the CU of the indirect system to nearly that of a lensed troffer system.
Direct/indirect luminaires. These systems direct light both down and up to the ceiling in a suitable distribution pattern that reduces or eliminates the possibility of creating glare on computer screens in the office.
Recessed direct/indirect luminaires. Either rectangular or square in shape, these systems include lamps that filter output through a perforated lamp shield to provide soft, glare-free down lighting. At the same time, light is also evenly distributed and reflected off the matte finish of the main reflector to provide uniform indirect light distribution in the vicinity of the luminaire.
Like modern control equipment, lamp technology has improved significantly. Both the T12 fluorescent lamp and the magnetic ballast are now considered obsolete and have been replaced by the T8 lamp and electronic ballast. The latter offers reduced energy/operating costs, eliminates the annoying flickering common to previous generations of fluorescent lamps, and the T8 lamps also greatly improve color rendering. The T5 lamp, which is smaller and more efficient than the T8 lamp, is particularly suited for indirect and indirect/direct luminaires in offices and similar spaces.
Environmental components. The reflectances and textures of room finishes affect the light level and apparent brightness of the room. Dark finishes and heavy textures absorb light so it isn't reflected back into the room. Light finishes help to reflect more light into the space, thus making the lighting system more efficient. Lighter wall and ceiling finishes increase the measured light level and make the space appear even brighter.
Room boundaries have a strong influence on how a space is perceived and on the effectiveness of a lighting system. Room cavity ratio, which is the ratio of the surface area of walls to the floor area, is often used in lighting calculations to determine luminaire performance in an office space.
Additionally, natural light that comes through windows and skylights has an effect on a worker's perception of time and place, which is psychologically beneficial. However, the potential problem of distracting glare that comes from windows must be considered in the lighting design.
In the business world, so much time is spent trying to find ways to cut costs through improved efficiency, but oftentimes the effect the office itself can have on employee performance is overlooked in that equation. Lighting is one of the best ways to improve the working environment. Savvy building managers are discovering that a properly designed lighting system that takes employee comfort into account by reducing glare and increasing natural light may not ultimately be noticed by the workforce, but it will have a definite effect on the bottom line by making the office a pleasant place to work.


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Rogov hi,
your latest piblished TN for this wine is dated by December 2007 and marked as advanced. Back in July you wrote (on the old forum):
"My tasting note follows. Keep in mind of course that this was an advance tasting (already bottled but not yet ready for release) so the note may shift just a wee bit when the wine is released.
Galil Mountain, Syrah, Yiron, 2005 (Advance Tasting): Dark, almost inky-garnet in color, medium to full-bodied, with fine balance between soft tannins, spicy wood and fruits. On first attack raspberries and chocolate, those yielding to blackberries, cur-rants and a rich floral note. On the long finish the tannins rise along with fruits and an appealing hint of red licorice. Drink from release–2013. Score 91.K "
The wine is already released - are there any shifts in the note?


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SPA WATCH | Elemis Winter Warmer Delight
The ever intrepid Julia Rebaudo submits to the hands of yet another beauty therapist all in the name of research for beautywoome.com. Find out what she thinks of Elemis's Winter Warmer Delight...
EVER SINCE my highly successful Modern Skin Facial I' ve been a huge fan of Elemis and was impressed to see they have tailored a spa therapy treatment specifically for these grim winter months. An hour and 45 minutes of blissful pampering at this bijoux spa in central London frequented by the likes of Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Denise Van Outen and yes, even the BBC' s Loose Women? I' d have been a fool to say no.
As I probably mentioned before, just walking through the front door of the Elemis flagship spa is a pleasure; scented, warm and populated with pretty therapists padding around in perfectly manicured bare feet. Welcomed and offered green tea by my therapist Amy, I' m taken upstairs for my treatment into a room with sliding doors that makes up one half of a couple' s treatment room – couples treatments are very popular Amy tells me, although I wouldn' t be able to drag my other half into spa in a million years.
Anyway, a quick chat about my skin and massage needs and then I' m getting undressed and slipping into those little black paper pants, you know the ones, except, thoughtfully, Elemis offer both the g-string and brief variety depending on how modest you' re feeling. I' m usually not bothered, but for some reason I go for the comfy big briefs.
First up, body brushing with a special Elemis brush, while I lie melting into the heated bed, followed by Frangipani oil rubbed all over my bod and then a lime and ginger salt scrub. I' m so cosy and warm and my winter skin is feeling fresh and invigorated. I wash it all off in the shower then lay back down for the hot stone body massage which is quite simple divine. Special attention is lavished on my laptop-tense neck and shoulder muscles. Then my face is treated to a soothing facial not too far removed from the afore-mentioned Modern Skin Facial, lots of nourishing Visible Brilliance serum – basically just all the nice cleansing, nourishing, massaging bits of a facial, none of the extraction pain. At this point, predictably, I' m nearly asleep.
Final touch is a mini manicure with Essie products. I got for the moody Smokin' Hot colour from the winter collection, a beautiful sultry grey-purple, and am super impressed with the result aided by the Nail Corrector Pen and Quick-e drying drops.
Skin is super-soft and fresh-feeling, face is looking plumped and moisturised, neck and shoulders are relaxed and nails so beautifully manicured that everyone is commenting.
Elemis Winter Warmer Delight, 1hr 45mins for £125. Available until 31 January 2011 at Elemis Day Spa (2-3 Lancashire Ct, London W1S 1EX, 0870 410 4210). Find other locations here.
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Feb. 17: Actor Hal Holbrook is 88. Singer Bobby Lewis is 80. Comedian Dame Edna (Barry Humphries) is 79. Country singer-songwriter Johnny Bush is 78. Actress Christina Pickles is 78. Actress Mary Ann Mobley is 74. Actress Brenda Fricker is 68. Actress Rene Russo is 59. Actor Richard Karn is 57. Actor Lou Diamond Phillips is 51. Comedian Larry the Cable Guy is 50. Singer Chante Moore is 46. Guitarist Tim Mahoney of 311 is 43. Actor Dominic Purcell ("Prison Break") is 43. Actress Denise Richards is 42. Singer-guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day is 41. Actor Jerry O'Connell is 39. Country singer Bryan White is 39. Actor Jason Ritter ("Joan of Arcadia") is 33. Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt is 32. Actor Chord Overstreet ("Glee") is 24.
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Profile: Kawabatas in Japan spending cautiously
KOUNOSU, Japan (AP) — To understand why people are so cautious with their money five years after the financial crisis, The Associated Press interviewed consumers around the world. Here is a profile of one couple:
Names: Teruyuki and Haruna Kawabata
Home: Kounosu, Japan, a suburb of Tokyo
Ages: He is 36; she is 32
Teruyuki Kawabata is worried he could get laid off, so he lives frugally.
"Jobs for life are a dream," he says.
He and his wife, Haruna, rarely use credit cards. Their idea of splurging is a nice haircut or occasionally going out for Korean barbecue. They hope to grow their own food on a farm next to their newly built home in Kounosu and live off the land.
Teruyuki is what's known in Japan as a "contract worker." He does the same work as a full-time employee but without the job security of one. Japan's two-tier employment system has drawn fire as unfair, but is increasingly used by companies that want flexibility in an anemic economy to cut staff fast.
Teruyuki works for a major telecommunications company, but wouldn't give details because he's afraid for his job. "I'm not sure when my contract will end," he says. "... I may get fired tomorrow."
For all the uncertainty, the Kawabatas took a gamble recently. They took out a mortgage last year to build their home, which is on land that Haruna's parents own. They borrowed 28 million yen ($280,000) for 35 years at an annual interest rate that won't climb above 1.88 percent. They say they borrowed because they feared rates could rise.
The move is unusual. Since the financial crisis, Japanese have shed debt, not added to it, despite low rates that have made it cheap to borrow. Per adult, personal debt in Japan dropped 3 percent in the 4 ½ years after 2008, according to Credit Suisse.
In other ways, the Kawabatas are more typical of their generation. Both Teruyuki and Haruna, who works at a department store, were children when Japan's bubble economy burst more than two decades ago, so they never experienced the boom years of the 1980s. They have little interest in the stock market. They scratch out a living on their modest incomes, saving a little here and there.
"I don't see a goal in this economy," Teruyuki says. "Those are the times we are in."


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March 28, 2008
FORT MYERS, Fla. - For six innings, Leah Bogsted matched St. Olaf College's Katie Truax almost pitch for pitch. The two hurlers squared off in a grueling pitcher's duel that saw nothing but zeros rung up until the last inning. But it was Truax who got the best of the deal when the Oles eked out an unearned run off Bogsted in the top of the seventh and held on for a 1-0 win over the Engineers. MIT also lost by a run to Fredonia State, 3-2, as the Engineers saw their season ledger slip to 3-4.
In the first game, both pitchers were simply sensational. Truax allowed only three hits, while striking out 10; Bogsted surrendered six hits and fanned eight. Neither hurler allowed a walk.
Bogsted proved remarkably resilient in the third when she struck out the side, despite allowing two runners to reach after two were out. The senior matched that brilliancy in the fourth when she got the side in order after surrendering a lead off hit and the runner took second on a stolen base.
With the Oles' making three errors to MIT's one, Truax was also forced to make due during a few ominous moments. She was on target at the most crucial times as well, particularly in the opening frame, when a pair of miscues allowed Lily Keung to eventually reach second with two outs. Truax ended up striking out the side to get out of the jam.
In the top of the seventh, the St. Olaf's hurler was rewarded for her game-long effort when Ali Berens came through with a two-out single that plated the winning run from second. Truax got the side in order in the bottom half to improve her record to 2-0. Bogsted fell to 2-2.
Later in the day, the Engineers dropped a tough 3-2 decision to Fredonia State. The Blue Devils punched in the winning run in the fourth inning after advancing runners to second and third with two out. The visitors scored when the next batter grounded to third and the lead runner was awarded home due to catcher interference.
Trailing 2-0 after the opening inning, the Engineers got all their run production in the second on Kaitlyn McCartney's double to right center. The frame was set up when, after an out, Jessica Oleinik walked, Holly Jeffrey singled to right, and Jenny Li reached on a fielder's choice, with Oleinik thrown out a third. Jeffrey scored from second on McCartney's blast, as Li hustled in all the way from first.
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Kiss Narrow In On Release Date for New Album 'Monster'
Kiss fans can expect to hear the band's much-anticipated album 'Monster' in July, according to a recent interview with bassist Gene Simmons. He also revealed — hopefully jokingly, for all the mail carriers in the world — that the band's upcoming oversized photo book will weigh over 100 pounds.
According to Billboard, Simmons claims the new album is "either the best or one of the top three records we've ever done. It's like (1992′s) 'Revenge' meets (1976′s) 'Destroyer' — just guitar and drums, nothing else. No keyboards, no little boys' choir, no strings, no nothing." As a side note, this marks the first time in 29 years that the band's 1982 album 'Creatures of the Night' wasn't mentioned as a reference point when describing an upcoming release.
Now, back to this 100 pound book. We'd already seen proof of just how big the pictures were going to be, and it seems there's going to be a whole lot of them included: "It's something you can't put on your coffee table, 'cause it'll crush it. It IS the coffee table." We're putting the over/under for the cost of this baby at $500, anyone feeling lucky?
Kiss hit the road with Motley Crue beginning July 20 in Bristow, Va., and Simmons says fans can expect an extended trek — "Let's just say it's going to be a two-year long tour" — in order to include celebrations of their 40th anniversary as a band (1973) and the release of their first album in 1974.


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Difference between revisions of "Talk:Brazilian Portuguese phrasebook"
Revision as of 14:20, 20 September 2009
What's a lan house?
One of the phrases is "a lan house", which I've never heard of. I've heard of LAN parties (a bunch of people bring computers, connect them together, and do things); is a LAN house a place where one holds LAN parties? -phma 22:35, 4 Oct 2005 (EDT)
I think this page has gotten far too long to be reasonable for a travellers' phrasebook. I think the point of a phrasebook is to give a traveller just enough tools to survive their travel experience.
I don't think an extended comparison of Portuguese to Spanish serves that goal; neither do listings of US states or world nations in Portuguese. I think an exception to this last rule would be covering the major English-speaking nations (UK, USA, Canada, Australia, NZ) so people can say "I am from ____".
I've clipped out the Spanish comparison and VFD'd the geographical lists. --Evan 10:56, 28 Nov 2005 (EST)
Pronunciation mistakes
There are some obvious mistakes in the pronunciation section. I've corrected a few, but there are others (e.g.: the j sound is exactly as in French, i think the description is confusing and misleading). I think i can't use an account from neither "en.wikipedia" nor "pt.wikipedia", so I made anonoymous edits... Yuu_En/Yuu 15jan2006
External links section
I removed the following external links section in following the recent trend. Texugo 23:20, 24 January 2008 (EST)
In the numbers section, I have added that 'meia' for six is only used in Brazil. In Portugal this would probably not be understood. I've made an anonymous edit to avoid having to create an account for a small edit. I hope that is okay. AMC
beef, poached eggs, rice, ..., lettuce and tomatoes
There're 3 instances of phrases like this, with a completely different translation. What each of them is intended to mean? --DenisYurkin 05:18, 20 September 2009 (EDT)
So are they names of specific dishes / the way the dishes are served? Or what are they mean together? --DenisYurkin 10:16, 20 September 2009 (EDT)


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Phu Chi Fa
Earth : Asia : Southeast Asia : Thailand : Northern Thailand : Chiang Rai Province : Phu Chi Fa
Phu Chi Fa (ภูชี้ฟ้า) Forest Park is in Chiang Rai Province of Thailand.
In an area of outstanding natural beauty, this peak is (was?) a word-of-mouth secret with minimal crowds or touristic tackiness. It is not one of the largest peaks in Northern Thailand but its remote location, winding approach roads and final spectacular view makes it a trek worth making.
The area is today part of Thailand but the area is traditionally a 'Tai-Lao' homeland. The border division between Thailand and Laos created by the Mekong River (visible for the eagle eyed from the summit) is relatively new.
An outstanding array of rolling hills, verdant valleys and elegant peaks.
Flora and fauna
Farmland and orchards/vineyards turn to bush, scrub and grass near the summit.
Chilly, for Thailand, in the morning and a very pleasantly cool temperature throughout the day.
Get in
By Car
Driving is evidently the easiest option to get to the area, but be aware of the challenging nature of both the road and the (pickup truck) drivers upon it. Cars are available for rent starting at around 1000 baht per day (plus refundable deposit around 20,000 baht) at Chiang Rai airport and a full tank of petrol (~1000 baht) will get you there and back safely.
Directions from Chiang Rai (2.5 to 3 hours)
Leave the city southbound on Route 1 (Phahonyothin Road). Take the turn off for Road 1020 which will lead you south and then east. 1020 eventually splits in a rural town - with a left turnoff continuing as the 1020 and 'straight on' becoming the 1021. Follow the 1021 - you will begin to see signs for Phu Chi Fa and will take a left turnoff for the 1155 before reaching the town of Ngao. This road passes through some incredible scenery but you will need to keep an eye on signs at junctions - eventually you will come to a checkpoint, keep right. A little further you will reach a T junction - take a right, following the signs for Phu Chi Fa Forest Park. From now it is a direct road and you will see signs for the amenities - parking, camping, information, and the 'viewpoint', i.e. the peak.
To get there from Chiang Mai or Chiang Rai, try Thailand Hilltribe Holidays [1] who offer guide/driver/car service there
None encountered.
Get around
Once you're there, it's on foot all the way at these elevations.
Walk the final 750 metres on a dirt path to the summit and be rewarded with the immense beauty of the Thai-Laos border.
Enjoy a traditional song from local children in hilltribe costume as you climb. They will spot you, and those not astonished by your presence (assuming you are not Thai!) start singing - a smile or 'sawaadee kaaa(p)' as you pass by is fine but this is a rare circumstance when rewarding them with a few baht doesn't seem unethical - they are fun and friendly, and fascinated by 'farangs'. Rather than hassling you as they might at Angkor Wat they will return to happily playing shortly and rather than some cabal of gangsters, the money goes straight to their proud parents, invariably a few feet away. Those unwilling to support the 'use' of children for income could instead teach them a little of your language or compliment their song (dee dee!) or attire (suay maahk!).
There is a minimal amount of warm clothing and souveniers available for purchase at the final car park near the summit. Don't pay more than 80 baht for a scarf.
If you're not into instant rice porridge (sold at stalls near the peak), pack a lunch. There is claimed to be a 'pub/restaurant' near the top but we could not find it.
There are homestays available nearby. Keep an eye out for signage.
There is camping available very close to the summit. Essential for sunrise viewing.
You will pass some rather affluent looking townlands on the way up the mountains.
Stay safe
Don't push your luck with the edges of the climb, and drive cautiously. If tired, pull over somewhere safe and take a nap. Alertness is needed on these crazy corners which the locals have no worries about overtaking on.
Get out
There is little choice but to retrace your steps for most of the journey. Taking the 1021 eastward rather than westward back to the 1020 will bring you through Phayao Province, near Phayao itself and to Chiang Mai along very obscure roads in a little under four hours.


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Hickory Dickory Rock — Thursdays
Hickory Dickory Rock with Tim Jackman
Get ready as Tim Jackman hickory dickory rocks The Corner!
Join him for an all singing, all dancing, wild Woodstock-like ride of nursery rhymes and songs every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 11am to 12noon.
Hickory Dickory Rock is perfect for children under eight years old, their parents, carers and friends.
Unfortunately, sometimes Tim is unable to make a scheduled session, but we'll communicate this via the SLQ play Facebook page.
Please note, Tim will not be at the following sessions:
- Saturday 6 January
- Tuesday 9 January
Other activities will be available.
- Starts:
- 26th Jan 2017 11:00am-12:00pm
- Runs:
- Every week on Thursday, until further notice
- Venue:
- The Corner, level 1, State Library, Stanley Place, South Bank
- Cost:
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- Bookings:
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Opening Sequence
Trump attacks Pelosi for snubbing shutdown offer
VERBATIM: Democrats, Republicans spar over Trump's shutdown offer
Teen in MAGA hat denies mocking Native American
Super Blood Wolf Moon wows stargazers
Israel strikes Iranian targets in Syria
Four arrested over Northern Ireland car bomb attack
Meet the bikers aiming to unite Iraq
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How fun! What a surprise breakfast to offer the kids one morning. This little breakfast hotdog is actually a banana in disguise. Add a little yogurt, strawberries and kiwi and it looks like a real hotdog! It's a nutritious, yet fun, breakfast option.
- Frozen banana
- Yogurt
- Strawberry syrup/ food coloring
- Diced strawberries
- Diced Kiwi
- Small flour tortilla
Freeze banana for about 30 minutes. This will help the yogurt to adhere to the banana. Mix a small amount of strawberry syrup and or red food coloring to get the "hotdog" color. Spread onto the banana. Set banana onto a tortilla in an elongated bowl if possible. Add diced strawberries and kiwi for the condiments.
The kids thought this was a real hoot. Fun. For more kids fun foods.
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