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The HTC 8X, Nokia Lumias and Samsung ATIV S are to be pushed by the carrier TIM in Italy. The latter is priced at €599 and is subsidised by TIM on the 300 €20/month plan or €10/month with the All Inclusive 700/1500 plan. Both are 30 month contracts, which is a little over the two year deals we are generally used to in Europe.
The HTC 8X, priced at €549, is available on 24 months plans with the choice of the 300 plan for €15/month or the All Inclusive 700/1500 plan for €10/month. Both the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 are also listed on the TIM website, but are not available with a subscription plan.
The Lumia 920 can be purchased for €599 (black and white), while the Lumia 820 is listed at €499 (black, white and red). It's good to see the ATIV S making its way to consumers. Note that all Windows Phones aren't available just yet, but are indeed listed.
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Bay Leaf and Pomegranate Garland
Drape this delicate garland over your mantel, banister, or mirror this holiday season and enjoy this magical -- and long-lasting -- holiday swag well into the new year.
Source: Martha Stewart
Rotary tool such as Dremel Stylus, by Dremel, from Home Depot
Dried pomegranates, from Curious Country Creations
Fresh bay leaves
Big craft needle such as Jumbo tapestry needle (No. 44758582), by Clover, from createforless.com
26-gauge floral wire (No. 82822306), by Panacea, from createforless.com
Use a Dremel rotary tool with a thin bit to drill through dried pomegranates, available at crafts stores.
Cut a piece of twine a little longer than you want the garland to be. Tie a double knot near one end of the twine, and thread the other end through a big craft needle. Send the needle through one pomegranate, so it rests against the knot at the other end of the twine. Make a second knot on the other side of the pomegranate to keep it in place. Make a third knot about 6 inches along the twine. Add another pomegranate, and secure with another knot. Keep making knots and adding fruit, spaced 6 inches apart, along the entire length of the twine.
Fill in the spaces between the pomegranates with bay leaves: Cut 6-inch sprigs, poke the ends into the hole in the pomegranate, and use one or two short pieces of floral wire to secure the sprigs to the twine. Continue, adding bay leaves between all the fruit. The "tassels" at the ends are leaves inserted directly in the holes.


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Click & the Kids
story and art by Betsy Page Brown
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Image: There are five pictures in a staggered line. There is a picture of a girl named Amy, a boy named Martin, a mouse named Click, a woman named Liz, and stars.
Amy says, "Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight. Gee, there are so many stars out I can't decide which one to wish on."
- Have you ever gone outside at night to look at the stars?
If so, what did you see?
[anno: Answers will vary.]
- Any group of stars can form all kinds of different pictures. Make a new picture from the stars used to make the Big Dipper. On a piece of paper, draw the stars used to form the Big Dipper. Now draw a new picture using those stars. You have just made your own star picture! [anno: Students' drawings will vary. Students should use the stars from the Big Dipper.]


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Life on Parole
Season 35 Episode 14 | 54m 47s
With unique access, FRONTLINE and The New York Times go inside an effort to change the way parole works in Connecticut and reduce the number of people returning to prison. The film follows four former inmates as they try to find work, stay sober and keep out of trouble while navigating their first year on parole.
Aired: 07/15/17Video has closed captioning.


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George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue someone who was trapped in an overturned truck, police said today.
Sanford Police Department Capt. Jim McAuliffe told ABC News that Zimmerman "pulled an individual from a truck that had rolled over" at the intersection of a Florida highway last week.
The crash occurred at the intersection of I-4 and route 417, police said. The crash site is less than a mile from where he shot Martin.
It's the first known sighting of Zimmerman since he left the courtroom following his acquittal last week on murder charges for the death of Martin. Zimmerman, 29, shot and killed Martin, 17, in Sanford, Fla., on Feb. 26, 2012. The jury determined that Zimmerman shot Martin in self-defense.
READ MORE: 'Justice for Trayvon' Rallies Bring Martin's Family to the Fight
The acquittal prompted dozens of protests across the country this past weekend and his lawyers have said that Zimmerman has been the subject of death threats. His lawyers said Zimmerman has been wearing a bullet-proof vest when he ventures out in public.
Zimmerman's parents told ABC News' Barbara Walters they too have received death threats and have been unable to return to their home.
Zimmerman's Parents in Hiding from 'Enormous Amount of Death Threats': ABC News Exclusive
"We have had an enormous amount of death threats. George's legal counsel has had death threats, the police chief of Sanford, many people have had death threats," Zimmerman's father, Robert Zimmerman said."'Everyone with Georgie's DNA should be killed' -- just every kind of horrible thing you can imagine."


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1916 marked the 300th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death and many of the pageants staged that year included references to his plays. In spite of the summer heat and frequent showers pageant participants in Deerfield, Massachusetts, posed in silk and velvet, for photographers Frances and Mary Allen. The allegorical figure of Vision, in a yellow mosquito netting dress, exuded grace and drama. Local resident Mr. Hyde, as Shakespeare, was described by the Allen Sisters as "a very clever imitation and likes the fun."
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As an exhibition of contemporary Puerto Rican artists, one might be tempted to hypothesize that Paraíso, on view this month at ltd los angeles, is meant to express a quintessentially Puerto Rican attitude, or perhaps act as homage to the land itself. What's primarily on display, however, is a state of mind: one shared by quite a few 21st-century contemporary artists, regardless of nationality. In[…..]


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Uncertainty abounds ahead of Turkey's election. Will a floundering economy spell the end for President Tayyip Erdoğan? After an a series of steps towards liberalization between 2002 and 2012, Turkey's AKP government showed its teeth in 2013: It announced plans to build a shopping mall on Gezi Park – one of the last green parts […]
June 20, 2018 / Claire Elder
This month's African Union Summit is poised to probe widespread corruption but a closer look at East Africa also reveals other pressing issues, not least rising political uncertainty, economic instability and violence. With the 31st African Union Summit around the corner, the African Development Bank recently underscored its support for East Africa's bid for industrialization. […]
June 13, 2018 / Robert Schwarz
For the first time since the end of the Cold War, an autocracy hosts the World Cup. Reason enough for us to uphold values such as inclusion, participation and fair play not only on the pitch but also in society as a whole. Because football and democracy have much more in common than it seems […]
June 09, 2018 / Daniel Kapellmann
Ahead of the Mexican election in July, a leftwing populist is the clear frontrunner amid exasperation with political corruption and snail-paced social reform. The Mexican presidential race was probably over the minute it began. Recent polls consistently put leftist populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador ahead, with a lead of at least 10 points versus the […]
May 14, 2018 / Sandra Weiss
South American countries are far too busy with their scandals and crises to be making progress with economic and political integration. And yet those crises could be exactly what gives Mercosur its second wind. The news coming out of Brazil recently is reminiscent of a political thriller. A president deposed under questionable circumstances (Dilma Rousseff) […]
May 08, 2018 / Hauke Hartmann
So he really did it. On May 8, US President Donald Trump decided that the economic sanctions against Iran suspended under the multilateral nuclear agreement should be resumed and even tightened and unilaterally terminated the agreement. Europeans should try to save the deal – and someone should explain to Trump the diplomatic ABC of the […]
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Liberale da Verona 'Dido's Suicide', about 1500 Oil on poplar, 42.5 x 123.2 cmNG1336Liberale da Verona 'Dido's Suicide', about 1500
This painting, probably made to be set into a piece of domestic furniture, depicts one of the most tragic stories of deserted love. Such paintings were often commissioned around the time of marriage. Although they were not aimed exclusively at women, they often – like this painting – told stories of virtuous females, who sacrificed themselves for the sake of their family and their 'patria'.
Liberale's painting is based on Book 4 of Virgil's 'Aeneid', which tells of the hopeless love of the widowed Dido, Queen of Carthage for the wandering Trojan prince Aeneas – hopeless because Jupiter, king of the gods, had decreed that Aeneas's destiny lay in Italy, with the foundation of Rome as a 'new Troy'. Virgil's Latin epic (left unfinished at the poet's death in 19 BC) provided an imaginative prehistory for what was, by his day, the very long-standing enmity between the peoples of North Africa and the Roman Empire. Like Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', Virgil's great poem was well known to 15th-century Italians, and indeed it remains part of the common European cultural heritage today.
Here, Dido plunges a dagger into her chest as she stands on a funeral pyre. The pyre is topped with a hexagonal piece of furniture, perhaps the bed (albeit a strangely shaped one) in which Dido had intended to celebrate the marriage she believed she had contracted with Aeneas. But he had departed for his ship, and was preparing to cross the Mediterranean to his new promised land. Dido's regal dignity is palpable; so is her deep distress and anger, conveyed by her positioning of Aeneas's helm and armour – symbols of arms and of the man, to paraphrase the opening of Virgil's poem – at her feet. Flames lap around the platform on which they are placed, ready to consume Aeneas's possessions and the body of the queen he had abandoned.
The architectural setting makes this private tragedy into a public event. Spectators, probably the members of her court, crowd the arcades and balconies of the portico and palaces around Dido's pyre, and spill out into the street. The artist has used the architecture to divide the painting into three approximately equal sections: Dido herself; the watching bystanders; and the landscape at the far ends of the panel. In the countryside at the right, military exercises are taking place. Presumably this is a proleptic reference to Aeneas's future military adventures in Italy. The seascape at the left-hand side of the panel probably alludes to his voyages across the Mediterranean: to Dido's court at Carthage, and then westwards towards Latium. Cassone paintings such as this often play havoc with time, linking narrative episodes which may have happened years apart, and Liberale's panel is no exception.
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"The product is fun and lets me flex my creative muscles every season, but the best part of working here honestly, is the team. The people I work with are amazing, and that counts for a lot in the design industry!"
Fun. Optimistic. Unexpected. These are just a few of the ways we describe ourselves at Gymboree. We're more than a clothing brand. We encourage every child's creative and independent spirit so they can start to discover who they want to be—and you could play a part in that. Sound like fun? Then you might be the perfect fit for us! Join our team!
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At Gymboree, we know our sales associates are a big part of our success. We look for team players who can meet the needs of our stores, while feeling empowered to make the shopping experience the best it can be for our customers. Our sales associates are a vital part of the Gymboree family.
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text: He Said She Said: Sleep by Mariel Hemingway and Bobby Williams He Said She Said: Sleep HE SAID: Bobby Sleep: I have to tell you along with exercise and nutrition, sleep is equally, if not more important, for our brains and bodies. It's necessary for recovery from hard work, long days, stress, playing hard and training even harder. To sleep well is to live well! To be able to create well! With great sleep, we get to wake up energized and take on anything that comes our way. I am fortunate to have set up my life in a way that most days I get to sleep naturally. This means I go to bed when I'm tired and wake up when I'm rested. My sleep time is usually 8 to 9 1/2 hours and even 10 1/2 to 11 hours happens several times a month, depending on how active the day was. Any sleep less than 7 hours is not enough for me. I am an early to bed, early to rise guy. Waking most days just before sunrise. Carpe diem... to seize the day! This is what I love. I'm like a kid who wakes up and cannot wait to get outside. For me there aren't enough hours in the day to do all the amazing things that life has to offer. In the U.S. it is said that at least 40% of the population does not get enough sleep (at a recommended 7 to 9 hours) with children and teenagers needing even more. With more sleep you will have the benefits of a better life! Here is a list of them: It raises your testosterone levels, boosting libido for both men and women. You'll be happier. You will have healthier skin and fewer signs of aging. You will be able to build muscle easier, by your body releasing your own natural growth hormone to repair cells, tissues, eyesight, hearing, our brains, hearts and lungs. All the functions of our body are repaired with a good nights sleep. Stronger immune system preventing colds. Memory and faster and higher learning skills. Sleep early staying as close to the natural circadian rhythm as possible. Up with the Sun and down shortly after the Sun sets getting the amount of sleep that is best for you. 8 plus hours. Where we sleep is important for proper rest. Cool, well vented with fresh air, in a dark and quiet place. Stick to a schedule as close as possible. Creating a pattern allows your body and mind to get in a rhythm Pay attention to what you eat and drink. Do not go to bed full. I stop eating and drinking about 2 hours before bed. Earn your sleep. Some form of movement or exercise everyday. Your body and mind will want to rest. Lower the lights 2 or 3 hours before you go to sleep. This will make your body produce melatonin. Turn the lights up upon waking up. This will tell your body and brain to get moving. Free your mind. I shut off my computer, cell phone, television and all the noise of the day. Winding down with reflection of the day and beginning to create what is possible for tomorrow. SHE SAID: Mariel For me, to be energetic and happy I organize my life in a particular way. I find time where I would otherwise be stressing over plans undone or future desires unmet to focus on being present. When your brain is in the here and now it is calm. How I wake up in the morning becomes the template for a day well lived and a night well slept. I am mindful, grateful, slow and quiet in the AM. I usually awaken with the sun, if I have gone to sleep early enough the night before. Sleep heals and rejuvenates my body. It purifies my thoughts and regenerates my brain function. It also helps me defy the aging process. At night my body can relax, recharge and rejuvenate. I used to believe that I was more efficient without a lot of sleep. Bobby made me realize that wasn't true. Now I get 8 to 9 1/2 hours of shut-eye and I LOVE it. I also take a short nap during the day and still welcome a long night of sleep. Because, like so many, I have a stressful life so I make sure I create a sleep environment on the inside (my physical body and brain) and the outside (the actual environment I am sleeping in) that is conducive to rest. I exercise everyday, eat well, and do something called Brain Wave Optimization to ensure a peaceful brain and restful night. Exercise makes it so my body is physically tired at bedtime, (it is like when my girls were babies, I would exhaust them so they would fall asleep easily and remain asleep all night). I eat a clean un-processed diet and drink no more caffeine by the late afternoon. Oh delicious sleep how I adore you now! Look into Brain Wave Optimization http://www.ensele.com/brainwave-optimization.html for helping with sleep issues. I have a device called Braintellect that balances the brain through sound, eases stress and helps with sleep issues. Order a Braintellect device from http://braintellect.com/product/braintellect-2/ref/145/ Create an internal sleep environment by eating healthy, exercising and learning to meditate. https://www.tm.org Women with sleep troubles might want to look into their hormone levels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioidentical_hormone_replacement_therapy Create a room that encourages peacefulness and rest. Black out your windows, use earplugs and if traveling use an eye mask to create darkness. Turn off technology at least 2 hours before you go to bed. The energy from computers and phones can keep you awake and restless. Go to bed early… 10pm should be the latest you turn in… at least during the week.


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Geoff Blum, who retired after 14 Major League seasons as an infielder (1999-2012), made the transition from the playing field to the broadcast booth in 2013. He returns to the TV broadcast booth in 2016 as color analyst alongside Alan Ashby and Bill Brown.
During his playing career, Blum played two stints with the Astros, totaling five seasons in Houston (2002-03, 2008-10). A switch-hitter, Blum was known as one of the top pinch hitters and utility players in the game, appearing at all four infield positions for nine straight seasons (2000-08). He appeared in the postseason on three occasions (2005-06, 2011). In 2005, Blum hit a go-ahead solo home run in the 14th inning in Game 3 of the World Series to become the 30th player to homer in his first World Series at-bat.
Todd Kalas, who is the son of Hall of Famer and former Astros broadcaster Harry Kalas, has 25 seasons of experience as a broadcaster in professional baseball. He spent the last 19 seasons (1998-2016) as part of the Tampa Bay Rays TV broadcast team. While his primary duties for the Rays were as pre and postgame host and in-game reporter, Kalas also handled play-by-play duties for hundreds of Rays games on both television and radio during his time there. He is highly-respected in the industry amongst his peers and by the many players he has interacted with. Known for his distinctive voice and personality, Kalas grew to be a popular figure with Rays fans as a result of his work on the broadcasts and was a two-time Suncoast Emmy award winner. Prior to joining the Rays, Kalas also had stints with the New York Mets radio (1992-93) and Philadelphia Phillies television (1994-96) broadcast teams.
A native Houstonian, Kalas was born at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston while his father, Harry, served as an Astros broadcaster from 1965-70. Harry would later call Phillies games from 1971-2009 en route to a Hall of Fame career. When the Phillies and Rays met in the 2008 World Series, Todd and his father called an inning together on radio during Game One of the Fall Classic.
After earning a degree in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University, Kalas began his baseball career as a broadcaster with the Triple A Louisville Redbirds in 1991, before joining the Mets in 1992.
Robert Ford was named to the Astros radio broadcast team as the play-by-play commentator on February 13, 2013. Prior to joining the Astros, Ford had served as the radio pre- and postgame host for the Kansas City Royals on 610 AM KCSP, the Royals flagship station, since 2009. He has seven years of experience broadcasting minor league baseball, having called over 800 games during stints with the Binghamton Mets, Kalamazoo Kings and Yakima Bears. Ford was twice named Frontier League Broadcaster of the Year (2003 and 2004). He also has extensive play-by-play experience in college basketball. He is a 2001 graduate of Syracuse University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism. Ford lives in Houston with his daughter Elena.
Steve Sparks joined the Astros radio broadcast team as the color commentator on February 13, 2013. Sparks, 51, has served as a pre- and postgame analyst for Astros television games over the last several seasons and has also filled in as a color analyst on Astros radio and television broadcasts. A knuckleballer in his playing days, Sparks pitched in the Major Leagues in parts of nine seasons (1995-2004) for the Brewers, Angels, Tigers, A's and Diamondbacks organizations. His best season was in 2001 while with Detroit when he went 14-9 in 35 appearances (33 starts) with a 3.65 ERA while leading the Majors in complete games with eight. He also tallied a career high in innings pitched (232.0) that season. Sparks, known not only for his pitching but also for his ability to read tea leaves, attended Sam Houston State University. He and his wife Michelle currently live in Sugar Land and have three children: Alexa, Blake and Chloe.
Francisco Romero enters his ninth season as the primary play-by-play voice for the Astros Spanish radio network. Romero joined the Astros after spending five seasons broadcasting Milwaukee Brewers games in Spanish on Telemundo Wisconsin. He also has Major League experience calling select games for the Minnesota Twins and Arizona Diamondbacks.
His additional sports broadcasting experience includes both football and basketball for the University of Arizona Spanish Radio Network from 1999-2008, as well as three seasons on the Arizona Cardinals radio halftime report. In 2003, the Arizona Daily Star named him as one of the Top 100 Sports Figures of Southern Arizona.
Former Astros catcher Alex Treviño, who wore the gear for the Astros from 1988-90, begins his 21st season with Houston's Spanish broadcast team. A native of Monterrey, Mexico, Treviño played for 13 seasons in the Majors, primarily as a catcher, spending time with the Mets, Reds, Braves, Giants, Dodgers and Astros organizations. Overall, he played in 939 Major League games and had a .249 lifetime average.
In September 2014, Alex was inducted into the Houston Baseball Media Wall of Honor for his significant and lasting contributions to the landscape of Houston baseball through his work in broadcasting. As of 2016, his 21 seasons in the broadcast booth were tied for the most in franchise history by a Spanish broadcaster with Orlando Sanchez Diago's 21 years.


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What's the first thing you crave when the weather warms up? Maybe it's a strawberry milkshake. Or a frozen pina colada? Maybe it's an extra-large smoothie that you're almost positive is good for you ... except wait, HOW MANY CALORIES does it have?!
I totally feel your pain.
I would happily suck down the majority of my summer meals through a straw -- except in most cases, that smoothie or shake is actually more likely to mess with bikini season than, say, a healthy lunch requiring the use of utensils.
Sigh. What's refreshing about that? Not much.
But here's something that IS refreshing: There are some amazingly delicious alternatives to your favorite summer sippers that won't derail your diet ...
Yup, it fights wrinkles (Dr. Oz said so!), plus it's yummy and under 150 calories! Done.
Makes 2 servings
1/4 cup unsweetened green tea
1 1/2 cups frozen mixed raspberries, strawberries, blueberries and blackberries
Pour chocolate milk, green tea and mixed berries into blender and blend until smoothie has reached desired consistency.
Pour smoothie into glass and serve cold.
Nutrition Facts
135 calories per serving, 6 g protein
Why eat your veggies when you can drink them?
1 small stalk celery, chopped
1/2 banana
1/2 cup apple juice
1/2 cup ice
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
139 calories per serving, 1g fat
What's your favorite summer sipper?
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You'd never want to define a hipster, but Forbes has gone and defined the best hipster 'hoods in America. And two California neighborhoods are at the top.
Los Angeles' Silver Lake neighborhood was named the nation's top hipster spot, followed by San Francisco's Mission District.
How to identify a hipster habitat? Forbes teamed with Nextdoor.com to rank neighborhoods based on walkability, local coffee shops, number and quality of food trucks, number and frequency of farmer's markets, number of locally owned bars and restaurants, and percentage of people "in artistic occupations." Nextdoor also did surveys and came up with an algorithm to identify hipsterish language on neighborhood site pages.
The two California strongholds edged Brooklyn's Williamsburg, which was third. East Austin, Texas, was ranked seventh, and Seattle's Capitol Hill was eighth. Oakland's Uptown neighborhood was ranked ninth. Houston's Lower Westheimer barely made it onto the list at No. 20.
So if you're looking for hipsters, now you know where to go. Thanks Forbes!


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On the Bliss site, they talk about tropes. This was a completely new term for me. I love when I learn things, so I started a research campaign until I read a million blogs with their opinions/explanations about "What is a trope." If you write romance, and even if you don't know what a trope is, chances are you already have a couple going in your WIP.
Tropes are popular story lines, ones readers love. They are great for inciting drama and ramping up emotions as well as stakes. Things like best friends falling in love after years of not being more than friends, or amnesia are popular. There are lots of other popular ones too, like boy/girl next door scenarios, accidental pregnancy brings a couple together, lots of things like this. I love the ones where a friend tries to set up another friend w/someone and the first friend ends up falling for the one they tried to set up LOL Been there. Done that. College. *Cough* Awkward.
Military related tropes are great right now too. We've had an active military presence in the Middle East – completely televised, media bombarded, for a decade now. We see coverage every single day. We all know people over there today or who have been there since 9/11. Those men and women are relatable and they are incredible as love interests. We want them to be happy. Look at what they've been through! Love the military folks in romance *Sigh*
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A stealth attack is one where the attacker acts remotely, is very hard to trace, and where the victim may not even know he was attacked. The researchers say this kind of attack is particularly easy to mount against a wireless network.
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Dwight Howard likes the Rockets. He likes their chances in the playoffs. He is ready to move on from his past, both with the Magic and Lakers. And a title might be the only way to do that.
There comes a point in a player's career where talking points can evolve into real talk.
Spin begets substance. The all-powerful narrative, if controlled in all the right ways and respected for its rightful place in the court of public opinion, can change for the better — no matter how bad the story may have been to that point.
Dwight Howard knows this, you see, and this much is clear as we enter the 2014 NBA playoffs: He wants a rewrite.
The Houston Rockets center has made amends for the Orlando Magic debacle, apologizing to his former team's loyal fanbase that suffered through the self-indulgent "Dwightmare" which led to him being jettisoned to the Los Angeles Lakers in the summer of 2012. He has been forthright about his decision to leave the Lakers and an additional $30 million behind last summer, noting how the Rockets' core of players was simply more attractive while keeping his many grievances about his time in Los Angeles to himself.
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Ask him about this Rockets team that has secured home-court advantage for a first-round series against the Portland Trail blazers by finishing fourth in the loaded Western Conference, and he'll emphasize all the tenets that — in a perfect world of basketball bliss — help good teams become great: togetherness, sacrifice, dedication. This is how a player that went from revered to reviled in these past few years can change the script.
"We have a great squad," Howard tells USA TODAY Sports. "You look at the guys we have on our team: We have a guy in James (Harden) who can get buckets for you at any time, and then we've got Chandler (Parsons), who has been playing great all year. Not only that, you have Pat (Beverley), who is playing great defense up top. You've got Jeremy (Lin). We've got Omer (Asik). We have a lot of guys."
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He mentions them all, it seems, as if he's afraid to leave someone out.
"We have a well-balanced team," Howard says. "And for me at this point, it's all about sacrifice for all of us. We have to find ways to sacrifice ourselves, sacrifice our bodies for the benefit of the team. That's the biggest thing."
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Some of the Lakers folks he left behind will chuckle because this was not the Dwight Howard they knew. As they see it, he didn't always value the group over the individual or seem so sincere when he spoke of sacrifice. But that was then, and this handpicked Houston situation that has worked out incredibly well is now.
As his friend LeBron James will tell you, winning is still the best cure-all for an image that has been battered and bruised. For all the talk of how the Miami Heat star and his associates became so much better at handling his public relations in recent years — and that is undeniable — the back-to-back titles quieted the crowd of critics around him more than anything else.
So it is for Howard, who is well aware that winning at a high level and perhaps even winning it all would work wonders for his world. Entering Wednesday's season finale, the Rockets already had won nine more games this season than they did when they were the eighth seed in the playoffs last season.
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Now comes the hard part, a first-round matchup against a dynamic Blazers team and the inevitable judgment that will come with their fate from there. It has been five years since Howard carried the Magic to the Finals, followed by a trip to the Eastern Conference finals in 2010. But he has had first-round series losses in the past three seasons. Returning to real relevance starts here more than anywhere else.
"All I want to do is win," said Howard, who averaged 18.4 points, 12.3 rebounds and 1.8 blocks a game this season while helping Houston improve four spots in the defensive ranking category (16th to 12th). "That's the only thing that matters to me. If we win, then everything falls into place. I can't control how people feel. I can't control any of that stuff, so that's not my focus. People are going to say whatever they're going to say about me, say I'm not playing as great or they don't talk about me as much. But that's fine. All you have to do is win. When you win games, nobody can say anything. So that's the only thing I'm going to do."
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But narratives change slowly, if at all. And while it has been almost a year since he wore a purple and gold jersey, the damage done to his image up until that point is still quite a ways from being undone.
That much was evident in late January, when he wasn't voted in by fans as an All-Star Game starter. Rockets officials were convinced that the player who unofficially took his place — Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love — was given a late boost at the polls by Laker Nation. Their alleged motive made perfect sense: by trying to keep Howard off of the starting lineup, they could not only exact a slice of revenge for his departure but also elevate the player (Love) who the Lakers are widely known to covet via trade or free agency in the summer of 2015.
The memories are still visceral for the ones he left behind, it seems. Howard not playing like himself because of the back injury that hadn't truly healed. Howard and Kobe Bryant trading proverbial counterpunches internally rather than forming a formidable 1-2 punch. Howard being ejected from his last game in a Lakers uniform, that Game 4 defeat at the hands of the San Antonio Spurs in which he described it all afterward that as "a nightmare, like a bad dream."
He's awake now, though, and the Lakers are the ones sleeping through this long and frightful night.
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The ripple effect of Howard's departure in Los Angeles was showcased in a perfect storm April 8 at Staples Center, when the Rockets' win vs. the Lakers made it official that his former team would have the worst record since the franchise relocated from Minnesota in 1960. Howard didn't play, as he was resting the sore left ankle that kept him out of 11 of Houston's last 13 games.
It was an unintended mercy move, in that respect, the salt of his situation still seeping into the open wounds of the Lakers fans on hand but not poured directly. Still, the vibe behind the scenes was nothing short of fascinating.
Long before tipoff and in the hallway of his former work home, Howard — who wore pants that were either bright pink or salmon, depending on the fashion critic — exchanged pleasantries with the half-dozen or so media members who used to cover him on a daily basis. Some were warm towards him, others not so much, as he made his way into the visitors locker room.
Unlike the Lakers, the Rockets were just fine without him on that night. They set a new season-high in scoring, winning 145-130 and embarrassing the home team with a 49-point third quarter. Yet even with Howard sitting on the sideline, the unhappy locals greeted their unwelcome guest with chants of "Coward" instead of "Howard" early on. Later in the evening, they would give 40-year-old point guard Steve Nash a standing ovation for passing Mark Jackson on the all-time assists leader board and moving up to third place.
Howard left the land where he'll never be loved later that night, but not before saying goodbye to the beloved Nash in that same hallway on his way out. A year before, they had teamed up for a 28-12 finish to the regular season that made it seem possible that Howard might stay. Days after Howard was gone, a candid Nash told reporters in early July that Howard "wasn't comfortable" in Laker Land and said, "If he didn't want to be here, there's no point for anyone in him being here." Now, they were chatting briefly and exchanging half-hugs before parting polar-opposite ways yet again.
"Hey," Nash told Howard as he headed for the exits. "Good luck in the playoffs."
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This is his unavoidable past, but it's starting to become his prologue. And these playoffs, inevitably, will play a huge part in how he is perceived.
"I feel great," Howard said. "We have a great chance. These other teams are seasoned, have been together longer, so of course they're going to have a little bit more experience when it comes to that as a team. But if me and James (Harden) do our part and lead these guys, we should have a great playoff run this year. We really want to win a championship, so that's our goal and our focus.
"For myself, the biggest thing is making my teammates better. That's my whole plan is to help my teammates in any possible way so they can be the best players that they can be. That's the only thing that matters."
Howard is happy again in Houston. You can tell that much by taking a quick glance at his Instagram account.
He routinely uploads pictures and videos of his teammates and all their shenanigans, this young and fun group that is such a better fit than the Bryant-dominated Lakers for Howard's personality. He praises Beverley's play from the latest game, gives a shout-out to reserves like Omri Casspi, Donatas Motiejunas or Francisco Garcia if they chipped in the night before.
"Adidas (photo) shoot with the fellas," he captioned recently on a picture of himself and four teammates chatting in the locker room.
"I love my team," he wrote on an entry in which himself and four teammates re-enacted a scene from the movie "Django Unchained" while having lunch together.
"Great pool workout fellas" read another with a picture of Howard and six other Rockets players looking like a swim team.
He shares personal reflections, too, including a picture of a stranger's hand that has a saying written in black ink, "They tell you to be yourself, and then they judge you."
"I like this," Howard writes.
It's a positive look for someone who has inspired so much negativity in recent years, the sort of personal style change that seems more and more genuine with every passing month. Yet still, as image-rehabilitating pictures go, it's nothing compared to the idea Howard and his Rockets pals posing in mid-June with a championship trophy in hand.
"I feel like it's going to be a lot of fun," Howard said of the playoffs. "We're very focused. All we've been talking about all year is winning a championship, so that's where our mind is. We can't wait. We're excited."
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I'm a late forties year old man who has lived numerous sexual experience in the past, until I met just in the beginning of this past year a wonderful interesting, woman with all the qualities and values that I needed. We started our first sexual experience a few months ago, April. The result was quite a disaster. I wasn't able to do any penetration on her. She insisted that she has a blockage, and I had no idea about blockage and wanted to leave her place. Now I tried to understand her, but her problem has two factors that I've never came across with a woman. One is that if I fucked her she would get vaginitis. She doesn't have any reaction when I fuck her. However, the scenario with her is the usual. She would get into her closet wear something very daring and sexy and give me a nice blowjob and …swallow. I would usually experience just straight penetration, in any position in my past experience with other women But would this mean that the sexy clothes and asking me if I would cum in her mouth, compensated for her inability to have my penis in her vagina? She asked me that I would have to eat her pussy often so she would feel something. The last time I did I was eating her pussy for two hours with a few breaks until she came. My question is can I take this any longer, and what is the connection with her vaginitis?
Hell, Dan, I don't know if you can take this any longer or not. What's clear to me is, things are pretty grim, not just for you but also for your lady friend.
Your story is a little difficult to follow. I'm gonna guess that English is not your first language, right? But here's what I think you're trying to say. You are a sexually experienced man in his forties. You've recently met an interesting woman that you like very much. Unfortunately, the sex sucks…and not in a good way.
Your friend experiences pain while fucking, but you don't know why. She says there's a blockage and tells you that intercourse will only lead to vaginitis, which is an inflammation of the vaginal mucosa and often associated with an irritation or an infection. While this is a pretty common problem, it should not be an every fucking time kinda problem…if you catch my drift. However, this little lady is happy to give you a hummer to make up for this. And just to show you there are no hard feelings — she'll even swallow your spunk. Well, she's a trooper that's for sure! Unfortunately, avoiding the fucking issue won't solve the mystery of why fucking is a real pain in the pussy.
The two most likely reasons for this painful fucking are: 1) the woman is not aroused enough before the fucking begins, or 2) there is an actual physical condition that might make fucking painful, even if she is aroused.
It's easy enough to eliminate the second option; all your woman friend has to do is pay her gynecologist a little visit and have her doc take a quick look around. If there is indeed a blockage, as she says there is, a gynecological exam will discover it and end the debate.
That being said, I'd be willing to bet that, in your friend's situation the first reason is the more likely culprit. This is often the case with pre-orgasmic women and your woman friend sounds like she may very well fall into that category. If your woman friend has lived all her adult life without having an orgasm, she will sure enough be conditioned not to expect one any time soon — either through fucking or by having you eat her out…even for hours. And hey, you're a trooper too for doin' that, darlin'!
I'd be willing to speculate that she's not particularly informed about her own sexual response cycle. Thus she's unable to provide you much direction on how to pleasure her without discomfort. A woman, particularly a preorgasmic one, must come to full arousal before her partner attempts penetration. A man, on the other hand, needs only to have a stiff dick. This obviously makes them (men) more ready and eager for the old in and out long before their female partner is ready and eager for the same. If you are guilty of this, and there's a good chance that you are, your woman friend's body will resist you, even if she desires to make a go of it.
Your woman friend could start getting over this by being better informed about her own sexual response cycle. If she doesn't know what turns her crank, she can't expect you to know what to do, even with all of your experience. Once she figures out how her body works, and this information will come best through masturbation, she'll then be able to instruct you on the subtleties and points of interest of her particular pussy.
Touch is very important to most women, especially in the arousal stage of things. Often women will want to be touched and caressed all over, not just on the sexually charged spots of her body like her tits and pussy. She ought to take you on a little touch tour of her body. Literally, she could take you by the hand and touch herself with your fingers. She should show you the kind of touch she likes in the places she likes to be touched. You guys will need to take your time with this. I can pretty much guarantee you won't get it the hang of this first time you try.
With her help you're gonna be able to see her arousal build. She could encourage you to use your lips and mouth as well as your hands. If she's not fully aroused, her pussy will be dry. But even if she is wet, you ought to use a nice personal lubricant to make her even more slippery and to facilitate penetration. I can't overstate the necessity of lots and lots of lube.
If you guys follow these simple steps, you will have greater success with your fucking. Your woman friend will experience great pleasure and she will, in turn, be a fount of great pleasure for you. In the end, your woman friend must take the lead in this. She must get to know her own body first, so she can teach you about it next.
Finally, let me turn you on to a couple of great resources. Both are SEX WISDOM podcasts. I suggest that you and your woman friend listen to these shows together. The first is an interview with author Mikaya Heart. Mikaya is the author of The Ultimate Guide To Orgasm For Women; How to Become Orgasmic For A Lifetime. It is by far the best book about women's sexuality that I have read in the past decade, if not longer.
The second interview is with sexologist, Dr Shannon Chavez. She is one of the co-founders of the revolutionary SHE (Sexual Health Experts) Clinic in Arizona. Theirs is a comprehensive interdisciplinary treatment approach to female sexual health needs.
Good luck
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June 23. 8200 block Stenton Avenue. Between 11:45 p.m. on June 22 and 2 a.m. on June 23, an unknown person forced open apartment door and stole a 22" Emerson Plasma television set.
June 28. 8100 block St. Martin's Lane. Between 12 a.m. and 3 p.m. on June 24, an unknown person removed glass pane from first floor window near rear patio. Also observed was a horizontal cut in second floor window screen. No entry was made to property.
June 29. 800 block Wolcott Drivenue. Complainant states that an unknown person entered a gold 1994 Geo Prizm and stole a T-Mobile Galaxy 3, Serial #484-574-2599, a black Crossbody shoulder strap bag, Wells Fargo Visa debit card, Citizens Bank debit card, Nordstrom debit card, passport and Bone sunglasses.
June 29. 7800 block Devon Street. Complainant states an unknown person went into his green Toyota Camry and stole a Kenneth Cole black briefcase, five soccer tickets, three wrist bands, papers with bank account information and a Social Security card.
Summary – Four crimes for week: two thefts and two burglaries.
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They looked into farming's crystal ball — and what they saw in the coming decade was "a future of decline for the world of agriculture."
Unless, that is, like Ebenezer Scrooge's Christmas epiphany, farmers "step up to the plate" and change their ways in order to confront the challenges facing them in globalized agriculture.
The report by the National Corn Growers Association's Future Structure of Agriculture Task Force, looking at some of the scenarios in the evolution of agriculture, was presented at the recent Commodity Classic in Nashville.
"Growers need to understand that nothing is guaranteed," said farmer Bill Horan, the task force chairman. "They must expect constant whitewater in the years ahead."
Farm policy is no substitute for rural development, the report says. "Current trends point to a severe shrinkage of farmers and rural communities in the next decade unless agriculture's stakeholders chart a new course."
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- "Value-added product agriculture, which attempts to produce high-quality food products in tightly linked food chains… offers many farm operations a management alternative… and should reward growers who add value through service or management."
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"The evolution of crop-based agriculture need not be feared," the report says. "As it matures, it can face a far different ownership structure than the highly concentrated livestock and poultry sectors. But, a healthy future structure will not evolve without a new course in federal farm programs and related policies."


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Never Take Another Puff
Video talks about my original use of the phrase "Never take another puff.:
Never Take Another Puff!
I said it every day of the clinics, it's in almost all my posts, and you see it at the end of each of these short articles. Even so, I still feel I cannot repeat it enough – NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF! It is not that I am afraid that you will like the cigarette and decide how wonderful going back to smoking will be. To the contrary, it will probably make you dizzy, nauseous, and generally sick. You may absolutely hate yourself for having done it. Even this, though, is not the problem.
The real danger is the reinforcement of the nicotine addiction. It is a powerful addiction. One puff can send you back to your old level of cigarette consumption within days. We have had clinic participants who have previously quit smoking for periods exceeding 20 years. One day they decide to try just one. Even after this great period of time, the first cigarette is enough to start the whole addiction withdrawal process.
They are again hooked on a drug and within days their full chemical dependency returns. All of the physical dangers, psychological problems, and tremendous expenses return to their previous levels. If you do not believe this can happen to you, come into the first or second night of my next stop smoking clinic. Listen to all of the new enrollees who are there to quit smoking. These are people who were once off cigarettes for a substantial period of time before, people who liked not smoking, people who loved not smoking, people who now need help to once again reclaim their nonsmoking status because of one tragic mistake. They were not immune to the first drag. The odds are, neither are you. Consider this the next time you have a passing thought for a cigarette.
Now you have a choice. You can remain an ex-smoker or you can become an addicted smoker once again. Consider both options carefully. Which way of life better suits you – a slave to a deadly weed or a truly free person? The final decision is yours. If you choose the latter, simply practice the following advice – NEVER TAKE ANOTHER PUFF!
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I'm on the morning of the last of my performances of the revival of 69Stories. Interestingly, this revival is a format somewhat different than previous iterations. More interactive. More real-time. Riskier-feeling for me, but it seems to work well.
The riskiness I experience is this: when I tell the stories, a part of me is there. I don't mean that in some kinda actingy way. I mean I rewind to how that felt, and pick up where that left off. I have the capacity to do total physical and emotional recall, and this is a lot cooler and a lot more fucked-up than it sounds.
Especially when you're recalling something that you…want. And won't ever have again.
I don't mean this in some kinda sad-sack, bust out weeping violins way, I mean it in a grounded, realistic fashion. No experience is cell-for-cell repeatable.
For better and for worse.
When I tell the story of the first time I understood that submission wasn't about brute force, that you could get there just from the whispered words of the right person? I won't ever have precisely that experience again. But I can stand there, night after night, and replay that braintape. Down to what my feet felt like. Down to the light sheen of sweat on the small of my back. Down to the inexplicable (well, not really but at the time, sure.) arousal and physical manifestation of the same that I experiences, making me slippery and dazed for a long, long time afterward.
You'd think this is kind of cool, and it is. Don't get me wrong. But there is a price to be paid, and when you unpack that shit, it sometimes doesn't want to go back into the place you packed it. It comes out, stretches, yawns, looks you in the eye grinning toothily and says
OK, you invoked me. Here we are. How do I look to you now? Have I changed in the years since we danced in chronological "realtime?" Have you distorted me? AM I really real? Slippery mercurial memory…catch me if you can, baby…
I've been doing some unpacking and I can't pretend it does not have resonance outside of a couple of hours onstage, because it does.
When I share about the events, people, sights and sounds that all add up to who I am today, and I have to look at it, objectively even, I feel an odd affection and detachment. My life = entertainment and What The Fuck is THAT about?
I know it isn't ONLY that. I know I am not only here to amuse and sing and dance.
At least I think I know that.
Sometimes I wonder, though. Is it REALLY better to have loved and lost than to never have loved? Because if you have never had that crazy-ass roller-coaster ride, you can't know how it is, right? And then you won't know how brutal the landing can be. And then you won't have to see how the taproots into your id won't ever ever be fully excisable.
Maybe that blissful ignorance at which I sneer, which I reject in favor of the beauty of The Experience, in fact carries its own intrinsic value?
Maybe. Maybe…but there is no story in that. And above all, I am here to tell. To tell on and about myself.
To tell stories…to be the kinky griotte for those whose stories are rarely told.
SO yeah, it is better. And worse. And I'll take it, thank you.