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Opera Colorado Gala is a grand affair
Editor's Note: This synopsis of Opera Colorado's Gala 2011 is adapted from material provided by the company's marketing director, Rex Fuller.
Three hundred seventy friends of Opera Colorado assembled at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House on Sept. 24 to take part in Gala 2011, an evening filled with as many twists and turns as an opera itself.
As they entered the lobby area, guests were welcomed by waiters bearing flutes of sparkling wine to enjoy in the 30-minute stretch that preceded a concert starring mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack and baritone Daniel Belcher, veterans of Opera Colorado's recent production of "Cinderella."
Included in their program of operatic arias and songs from the Broadway stage was Mack's rendition of "Carceleras," a song in the Spanish zarzuela tradition that tied neatly to the gala's South American theme. The concert also included performances from the Opera Colorado Young Artists, an ensemble of up-and-coming opera singers who are in residency with the company throughout the year, performing for schools and in the community as well as in Opera Colorado's annual mainstage performances.
The concert concluded with a re-vamped version of Be Our Guest from the Disney musical "Beauty and the Beast." The singers performed in front of the opera house curtain and used the clever rhymes of the song to invite the audience on stage for the silent auction. At the end of the song, the curtain rose and exposed a brilliantly lit stage filled with tempting auction items and a line-up of neatly dressed waiters from Kevin Taylor's at the Opera House holding trays of prosecco and hors d'oeuvres.
The evening's theme was taken from Opera Colorado's upcoming production of Florencia en el Amazonas, the company's first Spanish-language opera. The opera is set on a river boat traveling the Amazon River, which in turn inspired designers from Bouquets to create brilliant, tropical floral displays that decorated both the stage and the Chambers Grant Salon, where dinner was served.
One of the most popular items in the live auction was a gourmet dinner for eight that Opera Colorado's general director, Greg Carpenter, would prepare in the winning bidder's home. It was so popular it sold three times over, raising $15,000.
Once the bidding was done, guests adjourned to the Chambers Grant Salon for a three-course dinner that chef Kevin Taylor built around the flavors of South America: a hearts of romaine and red oak leaf lettuce salad complimented by hearts of palm, cashews, Manchego cheese, avocado dressing and Brazilian cheese bread; angus tenderloin of beef, sweet corn polenta cake, black beans, roasted plantains and collard greens highlighted by a smoked chile sauce; and a dessert of passion fruit mousse cake set off by a touch of bittersweet chocolate and Brazilian nut brittle.
Prosecco was served courtesy of Republic National Distributors and spirits were donated by Skyy Spirits. Dinner featured Clos du Val wines from Napa Valley, underwritten by Myra and Robert Rich.
After dinner, guests returned to the stage to dance the night away to the music of Funkiphino. "This is one of our guests favorite aspects to this event," Carpenter concluded. "Where else can you dance on the stage of one of the world's great opera houses? It is one of the many reasons this annual event has become a highlight of the fall social calendar."
All told, the fundraiser, sponsored by Faegre and Benson, Vectra Bank and The Publishing House, was a big success and exceeded expectations, raising much-needed funds to support Opera Colorado's education programs that serve over 30,000 students statewide.
"The generosity of our supporters who attended this event was overwhelming," Carpenter states. "Thanks to the outstanding leadership of co-chairs Mary and Tom Meade and Nancy and John Stamper, our fall gala served as the perfect kick-off to our end-of-year fundraising drive. Our guests always comment that this annual event on the stage of the opera house makes this event unique among Denver fundraisers."
"We are extraordinarily lucky to have volunteer leaders who are dedicated personally as well as financially to making the gala a hit," Carpenter added. "Their gifts of both time and financial support are vital to continuing our mission to enrich the lives of Colorado citizens through the music of opera."
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- Harvard men's tennis head coach and assistant coach Davie Fish and Andrew Rueb have been honored by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association as the Northeast region head coach and assistant coach of the year, respectively. This is the third time Fish has received the award while Rueb is a first-time recipient.
The last time Fish had earned the award was back in 2008 when the team went 17-8 and earned an Ivy League title. Subsequently it was the last time Harvard appeared in the NCAA tournament until this year. Fish was also saddled with the award in 1993 and 1998. This is the first such honor for Andrew Rueb who joined the team in 2007.
Harvard has had tremendous success under head coach Dave fish who has guided the team to 21 of the program's 29 Ivy League titles. Fish's teams also have 22 NCAA tournament appearances to its credit. Rueb has assisted the team to two Ivy League titles (2007-08, 2011-12) and two NCAA tournament appearances.
The coaching staff is coming off the second-best finish in Harvard history as the team went 23-3, winning an Ivy League title and making it to the second round of the NCAA tournament. The Crimson also saw both senior Jon Pearlman and freshman Denis Nguyen earn all-Ivy League accolades.

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If the fear of running out of power on an interstate has given you pause about buying one of the new gas-electric models — even with sky-high gasoline prices — then you understand one of the major sticking points keeping electric utilities from generating huge amounts of solar and wind-powered electricity.
Often called the holy grail of renewable energy, large-scale electricity storage is a requirement for utilities like Duke Energy), which must ensure 4 million customers' lights will stay on even when the wind stops blowing and the sun isn't shining.
Even when renewable energy is relatively cheap to produce, current costs to store huge amounts of solar and wind power can be two or three times the value, according to a recent report by the Electric Power Research Institute, an industry-funded nonprofit research group.
"The person who can invent a way to store large amounts of energy is going to be the next Bill Gates," says Jacques Besnainou, North American head of the French nuclear conglomerate, AREVA.
AREVA, like other major suppliers to the utility industry, is developing its own energy-storage system, as it supports growing demand for renewable energy.
In fact, a number of companies are involved in developing large-scale storage technologies, and those players may be worth a look by investors hoping to provide their portfolios with some juice.
Most utilities now rely heavily on pumped hydro storage to manage demand peaks and valleys in the electricity grid system. Pumped hydro uses water flowing downhill to turn large turbines and generate electricity. Excess power generated during slow demand periods is used to send the water back uphill again.
Pumped hydro systems account for some 127 gigawatts of energy storage capacity, or 99 percent of current storage worldwide, and there are nearly 40 active applications to build new pump hydro facilities, according to EPRI.
But pumped hydro takes a long time to approve and build. Meanwhile, a wave of new technology partly financed by $250 million in federal stimulus funding is expected to emerge beginning this year, helping to advance grid-integrated storage solutions, according to Dan Rastler, head of EPRI's energy storage program.
"This has been an area that's been growing in interest quite exponentially the last three or four years," he says. "The public and private venture capital firms have been looking at this space quite seriously."
Several players in grid-scale storage are startups or early stage companies with public company backing.
For example, privately held Xtreme Power, backed by more than $50 million in funding from investors including Fluor Corp. , BP and Dominion Resources, is building what will be the world's largest energy storage system for a wind farm.
The 36-megawatt battery storage system for Duke Energy's 153-megawatt wind farm in West Texas is expected to cost $43 million and be operational by late next year.
Pavel Molchanov, an alternative energy analyst at Raymond James, expects grid storage will remain "essentially a development stage market for the next two years." He doesn't cover any of the power storage stocks yet.
But some small- and micro-capitalization companies who are now focused on electric vehicles and other smaller scale systems could apply their technology to produce grid solutions, according to Molchanov and other industry analysts.
Small Firms, Big Bets
Investors, however, may need strong stomachs. Many of the companies are losing money.
Here's a snapshot of some of the players.
Beacon Power has developed flywheel-based storage systems and is currently using federal stimulus funds and grants to help develop 20-megawatt storage plants in New York and Pennsylvania.
Wall Street analysts expect the company to narrow its 2011 losses from those of last year ($22.7 million) as revenue rebounds. Beacon, however, reported only $5.5 million in cash as of March 31, and its shares have fallen 67 percent over the past year.
Valence Technology is a pure play in lithium batteries, which have been a focus of investors eyeing growth in electric passenger vehicles. Importantly, Valence makes batteries for heavy-duty fleet electric and hybrid vehicles , including trucks made by Electric Vehicle International that UPShas been testing in the U.S. Valence's focus on heavy-duty battery applications should help future development, says Michael Lew, an analyst with Needham & Co., who rates the stock a buy.
"Valence is well situated," says Lew.
A123 Systems , another key player in vehicle batteries, is developing 20 megawatts of storage for a power grid project in Chile being handled by AES Corp. . A123 said in February its shipments so far make it the largest producer of lithium ion batteries for power-grid services. Bank of America/Merrill Lynch on May 17 boosted its rating on the stock to buy from neutral.
Lew, the Needham analyst, says one of his top picks in energy storage isPolypore International ,even though the stock isn't a pure play in the space.
Polypore's Celgard unit makes ion-exchange membranes used in lithium batteries. The separators are used not only for electric-drive vehicle batteries, but also for systems being developed for grid storage connected with renewable energy, such as wind farms.
"They are very well situated on this energy storage space, just because of their market position," Lew says.
Celgard is in the process of more than doubling its lithium-ion battery separator capacity at its facilities in Charlotte and Concord, N.C. President Barack Obama visited the area in April to tout the $250-million expansions, funded in part by stimulus funds.
Polypore President and CEO Robert Toth, speaking at an investor conference May 17, said he sees longer-term emerging opportunities in energy storage systems as big battery players find ways to repackage batteries into applications for grid storage.
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"Am I the Only One?"
Should a mental illness prevent a woman from being a mother? Shelly made headlines when she agreed to be a surrogate for Amy and Scott, but later reclaimed the babies when she says she discovered that Amy had a mental disorder. It's an emotional Dr. Phil you don't want to miss!
As a gestational surrogate, Shelly delivered twins for Amy and Scott Kehoe. But weeks after the babies were born, Shelly and her husband, Paul, asked that they be returned. Shelly says Amy withheld critical information about her past, including a criminal record and having been diagnosed with a mental disorder.
Was Shelly within her rights to demand the return of the infants?
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"We're sitting here about to set mental illness back about 20, 40, 50 years!"
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"Why do you not have your babies at home with you?"
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PEETZ –Things could not have gone much better for the Peetz boys and girls on Tuesday night. Playing their first games of 2013, both teams walked away with wins over the visiting Creek Valley Storm.
The boys played in the second game of the night and made it count with a 77-48 victory.
"I was very proud of the way we came out from the Christmas break with a win. Our effort was great with what I would call our best team effort, with everyone making a contribution, from Tom Karnik's defense to Jeff Koester's rebounding. Josh Fiscus got hot from the 3-point line and we cruised to a easy win," said Peetz Coach Bill Fiscus.
Josh Fiscus did indeed get hot from the 3-point line, hitting 50 percent of his 3-point field goals for 21 points and he ticked on 13 others, including three from the free-throw line, for a 34-point performance with two rebounds, four assists and a steal as well.
Jeff Koester reeled in 15 rebounds to lead his team and tacked on eight points for good measure. Troy Clevenger tallied another double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds. Austin Crane also put up 10 and Tom Karnik had four rebounds, two assists, two deflected shots and a steal. Crane also added seven deflections to the effort.
The Bulldogs led 17-11 after the first quarter and put up 10 in the second to make it a 14-point lead headed into halftime.
The Bulldogs added 10 more to the lead in the third quarter before scoring 24 points in the fourth, nine more than the Storm, for the win.
The Peetz Lady Bulldogs set the tone for the night, taking a seven-point lead in the first quarter and never looking back as they ran to a 62-42 victory over the Lady Storm.
Four girls scored in double figures with Beth Berhardt leading the way with 18 points. Melissa Schumacher, the top scorer this season for the Lady Bulldogs, was right behind with 17 points; Morgan Burns scored 14 and Taylor Harless, freshman, put up 11.
Burns had six assists on the night; Schumacher led the team with five steals and Berhardt and Mallori Bjerke each reeled in eight rebounds.
The Bulldogs scored 19 points in the first quarter and held that seven-point lead headed in to the half up 31-24. In the third quarter the team tacked three more points to the lead before scoring 19 in the final quarter while holding Creek Valley to nine. Most of the points in the final quarter came from the charity stripe, where the Peetz girls shot 60 percent.
Both the Peetz boys and girls are 3-4 on the season and both set season highs for scoring with these wins. The teams host Briggsdale on Friday and then Merino on Saturday, making for a very busy week for both teams.
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They Call Me Sir Kukiby Kuki, CruiseMates Cruise Director
Unfortunately, this isn't an announcement that the Queen of England has awarded me a knighthood (although I do think I'm worthy of the honor). However, our recent cruise aboard Holland America Lines' MS Amsterdam led me to believe that scenario might be a possibility.
As with most cruises, on this Amsterdam sailing we had many experiences we felt were outstanding, and found a few areas we felt could use improvement.
But from my experience, Holland America has one singular strength: its Filipino and Indonesian service staff--especially the bar and deck staff. They truly take the effort to please a step further than other cruise lines. In fact, their efforts can make up for shortcomings in other areas. On day one of our cruise, every staff member I ran into approached me in a friendly manner and introduced him or herself. During the conversation, each one made it a point to ask my name. Even those with some language barriers took extra time and made an extra effort to be certain they were pronouncing my name properly before moving on.
The next time they saw me, they would greet me by name: "Sir Kuki," they called me for some reason (perhaps sensing my inherent nobility). This was typical of every one of them, whether they were providing me with some kind of service, or just greeting me when our paths crossed. Significantly, none seemed to care if they were selling me a drink, offering me a glass of water, or placing towels on my poolside lounger. Their interest in serving came across as genuine.
I'm not na�ve enough to think the staff acts like this without some hope of a gratuity, but with HAL's "no tipping required policy," there are certainly no guarantees for them. This desire to provide outstanding service might have been easier to understand if I had been tipping a dollar or two as I went, but that was not the case. It appears to be simply a miracle of Holland America's training process, combined with the natural personality of the individuals they hire.
By the second day of the cruise, all the service staffers were referring to me as "Sir Kuki" or "Sir MO." Even more impressive was the fact that they didn't limit themselves to a casual greeting. Each exchange consisted of some friendly conversation, and an offer to assist. I really began to feel like any request I made would be carried out, as if it were a direct order from their monarch.
I told Mrs. Kuki that I really liked the sound of "Sir Kuki." I suggested that I could easily get used to coming home from work every day and hearing her greet me, "Welcome home, Sir Kuki! Can I get you anything?" Her reaction, however, led me to believe that this isn't likely to happen.


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A limited edition Titanfall Xbox One controller (that's it, pictured) will be available at the game's launch this March, Microsoft said this morning. It will cost $US64.99.
The design is meant to evoke "a piece of military spec hardware transported from the universe of Titanfall," said the lead artist for Respawn Entertainment, makers of the game. The look here is inspired by the "C-101 carbine," a weapon carried by the pilots of the giant titan mechs.
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Elie necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 39 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
We are an online hair accessories store that specializes in high quality hair extensions.
We are looking for a very clean and inviting design - our current homepage is cluttered and we want you to fix that.
*** I think that our top header section takes way too much page real estate than it should
Our site is completely bi-lingual (English and Spanish) and we would like to have an indication for that on the homepage. In addition to these 2 languages, we are required by law to also have a 'French' link on our homepage.
Our target market is women between the ages 18 and 45.
We are looking for a very clean homepage design that will scream 'quality'. We would like our site to look like a specialized boutique and not like a mass market store.
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Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead is calling on the federal government to end federal protections for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone area.
Mead wrote to U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last week saying that the gravity of the bear situation around the nation's oldest national park cannot be overemphasized. Mead said bears killed four people in the area over the past two years.
Biologists estimate the Yellowstone area had nearly 600 bears last year. The area includes parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
Biologists say removing grizzlies from federal protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act could take a couple of years. Delisting bears could allow the states to schedule hunts.
Mead says Wyoming has invested over $35 million in the bear recovery effort over the last 28 years.


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Hong Kong has a serious smog problem.
So serious, in fact, that it's even affecting tourism.
Reddit user linuxjava captured an image of a faux skyline erected in front of the real Hong Kong skyline that tourists were using as a photo prop.
Instead of the smog-choked city in the background, it just looks like the couple lucked out and visited on a perfect, sunny day.
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Fla. lifeguard aids drowning man, gets fired
(CBS/AP) HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - A lifeguard who helped save a drowning man outside of his assigned patrol area was fired by his employer.
CBS Station WFOR reports that Tomas Lopez was fired Monday by Orlando-based Jeff Ellis and Associates because he broke a company rule and could have put beachgoers in his section of Hallandale Beach in jeopardy.
"We have liability issues and can't go out of the protected area," supervisor Susan Ellis told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "What he did was his own decision. He knew the company rules and did what he thought he needed to do."
The firing of Lopez has drawn harsh criticism; two other lifeguards have quit in protest.
On Monday afternoon a beachgoer had rushed to Lopez's stand asking for help. Lopez said he saw a man struggling in the water south of his post and ran to his aid.
The man had been swimming along an unprotected stretch of beach, Hallandale Beach officials said Tuesday.
"It was a long run, but someone needed my help. I wasn't going to say no," said Lopez, 21, of Davie.
By the time Lopez arrived, several witnesses had pulled the drowning man out of the water. Lopez said the man appeared to be semi-conscious and had water in his lungs.
Lopez and an off-duty nurse helped the man until the city's paramedics arrived.
After the rescue, Lopez said his boss asked him to fill out an incident report, and then fired him for leaving his assigned area.
"They didn't tell me in a bad way. It was more like, they were sorry, but rules are rules," Lopez said. "I couldn't believe what was happening."
The rescue was performed about 1,500 feet south of the protective boundaries set by Lopez's employer.
The unprotected area has signs alerting beachgoers to swim at their own risk.
Other lifeguards watched Lopez's area during the rescue, and were on the phone with 911 operators, the company said. "The beach remained protected at all times," Ellis said.
Two other lifeguards have quit in protest of Lopez's firing. One of them, Szilard Janko, told the Sun-Sentinel, "What was he supposed to do? Watch a man drown?"
Lopez became a lifeguard four months ago after passing the company's requirements, which include swimming and physical exams. The job pays $8.25 an hour, the lifeguards said.
Hallandale Beach began outsourcing its lifeguards in 2003 to save money. The city pays Jeff Ellis and Associates about $334,000 a year to provide four lifeguards and one supervisor at the beach year-round, said city spokesman Peter Dobens.
The company also provides lifeguard services at the city's pools as part of the contract. Its contract expires this year.
The man Lopez rushed to save, whose name was not released due to privacy laws, remained hospitalized Tuesday in intensive care, Dobens said.


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The purpose of the social work major is to prepare students for beginning practice in social work and to provide an educational foundation for students planning to pursue graduate studies in social work or other helping professions. The major provides a well-rounded academic and practice background in the generalist social work practice model. The social work program is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.
The curriculum requires majors to complete 72 credit hours, including 21 hours of liberal arts requirements, 45 hours of social work requirements, and 6 hours of electives. A student may declare a social work major when admitted to Bradley; however, in order to progress to the professional practice component of the curriculum, a formal admission is required during the junior year.
The professional practice component includes practice courses and a field practicum. Students will complete a minimum of 420 field hours in an approved community agency.
It is important for students to consult with their social work advisor each semester to ensure that the requirements for the major are scheduled in the proper sequence. An overall grade point average of 2.25 is needed to graduate with a B.A. or B.S. in social work. A student must attain at least a "C" in all required social work courses.
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- ECO 221 Microeconomics and ECO 222 Macroeconomics
- PLS 105 Introduction to American Government
- SOC 302 Sociology of Diversity or SOC 313 Race, Ethnicity, and Power or ETE 280 Exploring Diversity: Learners, Families, and Communities
- SOC 100 The Sociological Perspective
- BIO 101 Life Science I
- PSY 104 Principles of Psychology
Social Work Core Requirements (45 hrs.)
Social Welfare Policy and Services - 6 hrs.
- SW 250 Introduction to Social Welfare
- SW 355 Social Welfare Policy
Human Behavior & the Social Environment - 12 hrs.
- SOC 310 Sociology of the Family
- PSY 445 Abnormal Psychology
- SW 354 Human Behavior in the Social Environment I
- SW 358 Human Behavior and the Social Environment II
Research - 3 hrs.
- SW 260 Research Methods
- Social Work Practice 12 hrs.
- SW 350 Foundation for Social Work Practice
- SW 351, 352 Social Work Practice I, II
- SW 353 Social Work Practice III
Field Practicums - 12 hrs.
- SW 393 Social Work Practicum
- SW 395 Social Work Seminar
Electives - 6 hrs.
- SW 310 Child Welfare I
- SW 320 Child Welfare II
- SW 356 Topics in Social Work
- SW 490 Individual Study in Social Work
- SW 499 Honors Colloquium
- SOC 211 Contemporary Social Problems
- SOC 311 Comparative Family Systems
- SOC 312 Social Inequality
- SOC 314 Native Americans
- SOC 315 Gender and Society
- SOC 321 Individual and Society
- SOC 332 Juvenile Delinquency
- SOC 333 Sociology of Violence
- SOC 341 Medical Sociology
- SOC 343 Sociology of Mental Health
- AAS 200 Intro. to African-American Studies
- NUR 221 Substance Abuse
Students should consult the Social Work Student Handbook for recommendations regarding general education selections, electives, and BA/BS requirements, and for sample 4-year and 2-year course plans.
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With the exception of a single spin move by Dallas Cowboys star outside linebacker DeMarcus Ware to get past left offensive tackle Michael Oher and tackle quarterback Joe Flacco, the Ravens provided their quarterback with impressive protection.
During a 31-29 victory over the Cowboys at M&T Bank Stadium, the Ravens' offensive line held up well overall as they surrendered just three quarterback hits and one sack.
"We got the victory, and Joe had decent time to throw the ball on a lot of plays," Oher said. "That's what we want. We're happy to be 5-1 and go to Houston.
"Those guys were great. That's one of the best defenses we'll see all year. Those guys are great across the board. They do a great job at a lot of different things."
The Ravens had allowed four sacks in a 9-6 win over the Kansas City Chiefs, but had much better pass protection this game.
"We did a good job all day up front," said Flacco, who completed 17 of 26 passes for 234 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions for a 106.9 quarterback rating. "They're a pretty physical defense. They're a good defense, and they've got guys that can get to the passer. So, I think we did a good job all day of limiting that and getting the ball out of my hands. I think our receivers did a good job of beating the coverage pretty quickly, so I didn't have to hold onto it too long."
On the sack by Ware, offensive guard Bobbie Williams, who started his first game in replacing Ramon Harewood, got bull-rushed to the ground by defensive tackle Jason Hatcher.
"I think I did pretty well," Williams said. "I did trip that one play. I always think you can do better. I'm going to beat this film up and find a way."
Rookie offensive tackle Kelechi Osemele allowed two sacks and four quarterback pressures against the Chiefs, but improved this game blocking Victor Butler except for one pass deflection of a Flacco pass in the end zone.
The Ravens' line was given some sharp criticism during the week from the coaching staff.
"We knew we had a challenge," said Osemele, a second-round draft pick from Iowa State. "Coach [John Harbaugh] kind of called us out a bit. We responded and answered the bell, pride on the line and everything.
"On that one play, I need to stay square. I've got to get a better feel for plays like that. I didn't want to open the inside and prevent instant pressure. He ran around the edge and made a pretty good play."
Getting the Cowboys blocked is an accomplishment, according to six-time Pro Bowl center Matt Birk.
"They're as legit as there is," Birk said. "They're stacked with talent. DeMarcus Ware, everyone knows about him. Jay Ratliff, Sean Lee, one of the best linebackers I've ever played against. And they're very well-coached and have great schemes. We were fighting tooth-and-nail for every single yard we could get."


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Bart Becks necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 360 diseños de 113 diseñadores freelance.
SonicAngel is a new innovative music platform, scheduled to launch in November 2009.
We believe in music, we believe in the power of technology and we are convinced that a combination of both can change the way the music industry works today.
By embracing the possibilities of the internet and staying true to the core of music, our platform will enable artists and their fans to be in control again, from the discovery through the creation of great music to the performance
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3) Not crucial for this brief – but for info: we are thinking of having a 'changing' logo (google-inspired). We could have part of the logo fixed (featured in this contest), but have the lower end of the logo adapted to the style of music. For example: it could feature an acoustic guitare for singer-songwriters. The label will feature singer-songwriting, rock, dance, folk and maybe even classical music
4) for the moment we use the SonicAngel way of writing, but if it fits you design better it could be lower or uppercase.
5) Deliverables should include digital art in high, medium and low resolution psd/ayck/jpg/png form as well as the original layered file. We will use the logo online, but also on the albums of the artists, on promo material, on merchandise, powerpoint and all other documents and products.
6) to finalize: we are looking for a funky but professional logo to symbolize a innvative music platform. Preferably the logo features a "character" to give personality to SonicAngel. Ideally, this character would give us a "theme", and the character could be re-used in web pages, animations, 3D, promo, goodies and other.
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A former governor, a former mayor and a former congressman were among those who paid tribute today to the late Jerry Kopel, lawyer, lawmaker, pianist, journalist, gentleman.
"What a great life he led," said Rep. Beth McCann, D-Denver.
Kopel, who served in the House from 1964 to 1992, died in January. He was 83.


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Republican candidate for Senate, Carly Fiorina, was released from a hospital Wednesday, one day after she was forced to take a break from the campaign trail to treat an infection.
"Carly learned more than a year and a half ago that she, like millions of women, had breast cancer. After successfully battling cancer, she had reconstructive surgery this summer and remains cancer free today," said her Chief of Staff, Deborah Bowker, in a statement.
"However, this morning Carly came down with an infection associated with the reconstructive surgery and, as a result, she was admitted to the hospital to receive antibiotics to treat this infection," Bowker wrote.
Bowker went on to say that doctors expect Fiorina to make a "quick and full recovery."
"Since she was admitted to the hospital yesterday morning, Carly has been successfully treated for the infection she had as a result of reconstructive surgery following her victory over breast cancer," according to a statement from the Fiorina campaign. "This morning, her doctors gave her the good news that she will be released form the hospital today and can resume her busy campaign scheduled tomorrow."
Fiorina was scheduled to appear Tuesday in Coachella and Riverside. Campaign workers told the Desert Sun they were working to get a supporter to stand in for her in Coachella. In Riverside, she was scheduled to attend a discussion on job creation.
"We wish Carly Fiorina a speedy recovery and hope she is able to return to her normal schedule soon," said Rose Kapolczynski, campaign manager for incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer.
A poll conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California released last week shows Boxer holds a slight lead over Fiorina. Although the numbers have diminished since September, the poll shows Boxer still has the advantage when it comes to likely voters with 43 percent to 38 percent. Boxer's lead has slipped by two points.


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SpiralFrog has reached an agreement with EMI Music Publishing, one of the largest music publishers in the world, to use its songs and lyrics for a music download service scheduled to roll out in a beta version by November.
SpiralFrog, which announced its first deal with Universal Music Group last week, plans to offer free song downloads, with the service funded through advertising.
"This is just the start of signing major labels and music publishers to offer their catalogs to the users of SpiralFrog," said Neville Hobson, SpiralFrog spokesman.
SpiralFrog is one of several technology companies and music publishers forging alliances in an effort to suppress illegal music downloading, blamed by record labels for falling sales.
SpiralFrog said their service will be a high-quality alternative to file-sharing sites that are "characterized by poor-quality music, missing song details and spyware."
Music on SpiralFrog will be in Microsoft's Windows Media Audio (WMA) format and encoded with rules on how the track can be used, known as Digital Rights Management (DRM).
The record labels will retain the power to set restrictions on how a song can be used, Hobson said. It's planned that songs will be playable on a user's computer and transferable to two portable devices.
But the songs can't be burned to a CD, and they can't be shared with other people, he said. The songs will remain playable only as long as a person regularly logs into their SpiralFrog account.
The choice of format means the content won't be playable on Apple Computer's iPod media player, which dominates the industry.
Songs downloaded from Apple's iTunes Music Store will play on PCs or Macintoshes, but can only be transferred to the company's iPod media players. Users can buy individual songs or entire albums.
But Apple's competitors are experimenting with other business models such as subscription services, which allow access to thousands of songs at a time as long as the subscription fee is paid, and ad-funded free services, to lure users away.
SpiralFrog's deal with EMI will also allow users to search and display the lyrics from EMI's catalog, the companies said.
EMI holds more than one million copyrights, it said, and publishes artists including James Blunt, Eminem, Jay-Z and the Arctic Monkeys.


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GayDays' Plan to Bail from June Orlando Weekend in '19 Sows Confusion
A major player in the annual June weekend of LGBTQ events that brings thousands of travelers to Orlando from around the world is planning to split off and do its own thing in August next year - and that's roiling the ranks of the weekend's fans, some of whom assume this means the entire show is now moving dates and venues.
But not only is that not the case - the major players who are sticking to the traditional June dates are looking to rename the event in a bid to solidify the events that will carry on and give them a single more comprehensive identity.
GayDays is leaving the pack and striking out in summer 2019, as QueerCents reported recently.
QueerCents reported that GayDays will be using a new host hotel, which the article identified as the Wyndham Orlando Resort International Drive. The dates of the newly separate GayDays event will be August 13 - 19, 2019.
That does not mean that the annual June gathering won't go on as always, but it does leave a little bit of a vacuum in the June weekend's roster of organizations and events - a space that One Magical Weekend and Girls in Wonderland are already moving to fill. Among the proposals from the two groups: Coming up with a new name for the weekend's many overlapping opportunities for fun and socializing. OMW took a not-so-oblique swipe at GayDays in a Facebook post and a joint press release designed to clarify what's going on and enhance enthusiasm for those who look forward to the gathering each year.
" 'Let's be clear, a private company that started seven years after the initial gathering does not own the tradition, nor does anyone else, but we are committed to what started in 1991 and our dates are NOT changing!' said representatives from Girls in Wonderland and One Magical Weekend," the joint press release stated. " 'There are reasons that this date has held fast over the years and the date is the date. We will always kick off LGBT Pride Month the first weekend of June at Walt Disney World® Resorts!' "
At Facebook, OMW added, "Whatever alphabet we now call ourselves or whatever label we decide NOT to put on ourselves, we believe that 'Gay' is no longer inclusive enough" as a name for the overall panoply of events.
"So let's decide as a community what feels right to you - LGBT Days, LGBTQ Days, LGBTQIA Days, Diversity Days, Red Shirt Days...whatever!"
The Facebook post invited readers to add their own suggestions as to what to call the June gathering. Rather than a frenzy of ideas for the new name, though, the comments left under the post focused on clarifying just what was going on with the change. When one individual lamented what he saw as a "disparagement" of GayDays, OMW jumped in to defuse that idea.
"Truly, we are not competitors," OMW posted in response. "We all do something unique that attracts visitors. So to promote the weekend as a whole would benefit all of us. That is why we are going to create a community page and name the event. It will allow all of us to market collectively and individually. The name change is difficult, as it is hard to break a 28-year tradition. The fact that we point this out is not disparaging, just stating the truth. Our (the community's) celebration will remain and people will still call it what it started out as, but we will try and have a name that each of our businesses can use that will not infringe on a trademark."
The trademark being, of course, the name "GayDays," which OMW is looking to put out of the minds of June celebrants by coming up with a new, more inclusive moniker. "Diversely Thirsty Funshine Weekend," anyone?


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The subject is comedy. If it is not exactly true that it "can't get no respect," to quote the comic, it does get less than it deserves.
It has become commonplace to say that we are living in a New Golden Age of Television, or a Platinum Age of Television, depending on whether your point is that things are as good now as they were back when Lucy ruled the waves or whether your point is that things have never been as good as they are now.
On one level, since there has always been great television, this just means that people — critics, and the rest of you — have been given permission, by the self-creating zeitgeist, to take it seriously. And television has continued to take itself more seriously in turn: to raise the bar, to push the envelope, épater la bourgeoisie. It has become more purposefully daring but also more subtle in its aims and effects.
One not unreasonable result of this seriousness is that what looks most serious gets taken most seriously. Just as the Oscars have long overlooked comedy on film, from "The Sopranos" to "Deadwood" to "Mad Men" and "Breaking Bad," the New Golden/Platinum Age has been largely identified with drama. As reckoned by the website Metacritic, aggregating year's-best lists from 61 TV critics, only three comedies, NBC's "Parks and Recreation" and HBO's "Enlightened" and "Veep" — or four, if you include the line-walking "Orange Is the New Black," which Netflix is entering in Emmy competition as a comedy — made the top 20 for 2013. ("Louie," the comedy series taken most seriously by most critics, would surely have been there had it not taken the year off — though it would have knocked "Veep" off the list in the bargain.)
Meaning no disrespect to "The Good Wife," "The Americans," "Top of the Lake," "Scandal" or any of the other dramas on that Metacritic list, many of which I would bedeck with superlatives myself. But to my mind, whatever the Nielsen ratings or Twitter trends might seem to say, comedy is the day's great creative mode — the more stylistically radical, more structurally ambitious, more thematically various, more unpredictable form. (Of course, comedy has its predictable, conservative wing as well, which some simply call CBS, and most dramas have a comic streak.)
The New Golden/Platinum age is often charted from the 1999 birth of "The Sopranos," which, with its paradoxically charismatic central performance by James Gandolfini, launched an age of anti-heroes (and, rarely, anti-heroines), in which moral ambiguity, shocking violence and a garnish of (usually female) nudity ruled the day. Some will point out that it was preceded in much of this by "Oz," the Tom Fontana maximum-prison series.
But both were preceded on HBO by the equally groundbreaking "The Larry Sanders Show," which ran from 1992 to 1998 and is the show that, to my mind, really brings in the modern era. Garry Shandling's profane workplace comedy was a naturalistic farce that created a lot of current storytelling modalities, including famous people playing altered versions of themselves, the walk-and-talk now identified with Aaron Sorkin, and the use of improvisation.
Today, there is no dramatic equivalent to Comedy Central's "Drunk History," fashioned from a three-way collision of reality and artifice and inebriation (actually inebriated narrators recount actual historical events, which are brought to life by lip-syncing actors); or to its "Kroll Show," whose interwoven mock reality series lives in a space defined by chyrons and musical cues; or to the brawny surrealism of Adult Swim's adventure series "Eagleheart" or its white-trash supernatural soap "The Heart, She Holler"; or Scott Aukerman's not entirely mock-talk-show-with-fictional-through-lines "Comedy Bang! Bang!"; or Stephen Colbert's double-gainer irony on "The Colbert Report"; or the late "Community," which used parody as a storytelling device, borrowing styles from different precincts of television week to week with only the characters and the setting remaining the same; or the Tex Avery whipsaw rhythms of the even later yet still resonating "30 Rock."
We are in the habit of regarding tragedy as more meaningful than comedy because comedy lets us off the hook with a laugh, if not always a happy ending. And yet good comedy addresses, with an unclouded eye, everything that drama addresses as well as a lot of things that drama ignores: It finds fathomless interest in the small indignities of life and in the many minor peculiarities of human physiology, psychology, desire and intercourse, even as it puts the most tragic events in proportion — everything from flatulence to fatality is grist for its mill.
Contemporary TV drama tends to be exotic; it focuses people whose lives are bigger than ours, who are the victims or perpetrators or solvers of crime, who fight wars and suffer ghosts, who live in different times in different clothes and are subjected to more than usual amounts of stress. In the current empire of television, where cable is the tail that wags that network dog, sex and violence (and, distressingly often, sexual violence), those sensational standbys, have become increasingly common tools. I would hardly call them subjects — in most cases they are administered like shots of adrenaline and often glamorized. Even in the best, least-gratuitous dramas, the naked people of television tend to be unusually good-looking — and mostly women — which is what makes Lena Dunham's normal-body nudity on "Girls" so potent.
Comedy, by comparison, is local and lifelike. It is also inherently philosophical. The much-admired dialectical banter between Matthew McConaughey's Rust Cohle and Woody Harrelson's Martin Hart in HBO's "True Detective" is daily business to comedy, from "Mom" to "Broad City," from "Portlandia" to "Parks and Recreation," where belief systems and world views are constantly knocking against one another.
Comedy also goes to matters of sex and violence, sometimes stupidly, more interested in the shock than the meaning of the shock. But the best work holds them up to the light, turns them around, takes them apart. It is an art of examination, in a way. Is there any drama, excepting maybe "The Good Wife," as consistently smart and unflinching about these things as "Inside Amy Schumer"?
While television drama is all but locked into its hourlong format, with long arcs the custom even for highly episodic shows, comedy may be as short as a single line or as long as a season. It is a darting PT boat to drama's aircraft carrier. (Which is why it works so much better on the Internet.) It may be sketch-based or serial, naturalistic, fantastic, metafictional, scripted, improvised, live-action, animated, the voice of an auteur or the work of an ensemble; it may present real people fictitiously or impossible characters casually; and it may combine any of these elements as it pleases.
Some of this comes down to personal predilection, to be sure. That it feels more crucial to me to keep up with the Indianapolis family comedy "The Middle" than with the fantasy-realm family drama "Game of Thrones" is not because I have made a conscious decision about their relative (and anyway incomparable) merits. I get something I need from the comedy that I don't from the drama, though each is in its way a story of power and scheming and a clan set against the world.
It is something more than a matter of taste. Humor is a coping mechanism, obviously, and laughter (says the Reader's Digest) the best medicine. But it's also a way of being in the world: Comedy is tragedy plus time, in the familiar formulation. We are fools, and we are all going to die; that is funny and/or it's sad. But you might as well laugh.


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After reporting earnings, Apple's stock cratered to $457.78, an 11% after hours drop.
When earnings first hit, the stock fell 4.5% on worse than expected results.
The stock really started breaking down during the earnings call when CFO Peter Oppenheimer announced that Apple was changing its guidance method.
In the past, Apple would set comically low guidance, then annihilate it. Oppenheimer pretty much admitted as much, saying Apple was "conservative" in the past with a "single" data point for its guidance.
Going forward, Oppenheimer said Apple was going to produce a range of guidance that it felt it would be inside.
This is a radical change for investors. Although Apple had failed to destroy its own guidance in the last three quarters, analysts on the buy-side and sell-side still thought it was going to happen. When Apple basically came out and said, "We are not sandbagging any more," investors got the message.
And it wasn't a good message to receive.
The new sandbagless guidance is significantly below where people though it would be. In fact, it's right in line with what people thought Apple would say if it was still sandbagging.
So, Apple's real guidance is what people thought its fake guidance would be. And that means its growth is going to be worse than expected.
That's why the stock broke down. At first glance, the holiday quarter looked bad, but at least there was reason for hope based on guidance. On the earnings call, Apple crushed that optimism.


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NetCitadel necesitaba un nuevo diseño de banner publicitario y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 40 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
Firewall Builder (http://www.fwbuilder.org/)
NetCitadel develops a software application called Firewall Builder that makes it easier for businesses to manage their Internet firewalls. We are a small company that competes against several very large companies so we have to be better and faster than they are.
We try not to take ourselves too seriously, but we want our ads to look professional and polished.
Our target audience is systems, network and security administrators. Some people might call them "geeks", but they are our users and we are proud to have them!
They hang out on websites like ServerFault, Linux Forum, Slashdot, etc. and they tend to respond best to ads that explain how something will make their lives easier. Our users don't like gimmicks and things that are over the top.
The first ad is targeted a users that manage the built-in Linux firewall called iptables.
Ad Size: 728x90 (leaderboard)
This is the first of a series of new static banner ads for a new marketing campaign we will be launching. Each ad will be targeting different audiences but will need to have a similar look-and-feel of the first ad (this ad).
We want the banner ad to try and stay visually consistent with our website (http://www.fwbuilder.org). In particular we want the ad to try and use the same color palette.
We prefer designs that are clean and not cluttered, but there has to be enough there to catch the eye and interest of the audience.
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* Drag-and-drop GUI (evoke the feeling of motion) replaces need to type commands
* Easy-to-use
* Secure
Having the word iptables in the ad is very important. Some of the specific benefits we want to convey to our audience include:
* Save time
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Sample screenshot of the application attached. A free evaluation version of Firewall Builder is available on our website (http://www.fwbuilder.org/) we encourage the use of screenshots in the banner ad.
Example of current banner ad also attached.
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Maurice Quinlivan -Spokesperson on Jobs, Workers' Rights and Pay Equality
A native of Ballynanty Beg, Maurice Quinlivan comes from a well known Limerick family.
Educated at Hassett's Cross CBS, St. Nessan's Community College and the School of Professional and Management Studies (now LIT), from which he graduated with a qualification in Industrial Engineering and Training, Maurice worked in the travel agency business for many years as a Manager in London and of Budget Travel in the Crescent Shopping Centre.
Maurice was first elected to Limerick City Council in 2009 and was re-elected in May 2014, topping the poll with almost 25% of the vote. Now a full-time public representative, he is Sinn Féin's Group Leader on Limerick City and County Council and Chairperson of the Council's Road and Transport Strategic Policy Committee.
Maurice is a member of several groups dealing with drug abuse and he is a Director of the Midwest Regional Drug and Alcohol Forum. He is also a member of the European Committee of the Regions and the Southern Regional Assembly. Over the last six years he has earned a reputation as the hardest working councillor in Limerick city.
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U.S. pols react to Chavez's death
Right-wing bloggers cheered and other pundits poked fun at the news that Hugo Chávez had succumbed to cancer, but most politicians greeted it with somber relief — hoping the president's death would open a new era of freedom for the Venezuelan people.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), who chairs the House subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, released a statement, voicing her hope that the death of Chávez would give Venezuela the "opportunity to emerge from this oppressive regime and regain their democracy and human rights."
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Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) offered some words in Latin, releasing a statement saying "Sic semper tyrannis," meaning "thus always to tyrants." The freshman echoed Ros-Lehtinen's words for Venezuelans to take the opportunity to live freely adding, "I look forward to working in the House to promote a free, democratic and pro-American government in Venezuela."
Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, bade Chávez "good riddance" in his committee statement and welcomed the idea of the country being once again close to the United States.
( PHOTOS: Hugo Chavez with U.S. politicians)
"Venezuela once had a strong democratic tradition and was close to the United States. Chávez's death sets the stage for fresh elections. While not guaranteed, closer U.S. relations with his key country in our hemisphere are now possible," he said.
Rep. Joe Garcia (D-Fla.), who yesterday introduced the Venezuelan Liberty Act to the House, expressed his hope for a brighter future for the country as well. His act would grant permanent legal status to all Venzuelans who fled Chávez's rule.
"Today represents an opportunity for Venezuela to chart a new path, one that includes all voices, civil society and embraces democracy. If a new Venezuelan government embraces these principles, then I am confident that its future will be a bright one," Garcia said.
"The rule of Hugo Chavez is over," tweeted Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.).
President Barack Obama joined the politicians in extending a hand to Venezuela in hopes of "developing a constructive relationship."
"As Venezuela begins a new chapter in its history, the United States remains committed to policies that promote democratic principles, the rule of law and respect for human rights," Obama said in the statement.
Former President Jimmy Carter struck a more positive tone, expressing his condolences to Chávez's family, saying that while he has not always agreed with the dictator's manner of doing things, he "never doubted [his] commitment to improving the lives of millions of his fellow countrymen."


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Every family has its fair share of characters and mine is no different. It being the holiday season and all, I've wanted to make cheese logs and cheese balls for parties. I had a lovely memory of my grandma and I making these when I was little and so I asked her for her recipe. Along with the instructions came the story of Aunt Betty.
As you probably know by now, I come from a long line of farmers. Every once in a while, however, someone would leave the family business and move away to the big city. Such was the case with my great-great-great aunt Betty, my great-grandmother's sister.
Twice divorced (quite a scandal, I'm sure, back in those days but at least she married well with one husband a lawyer, the other a doctor) she left rural Texas to be an Oklahoma City socialite. Whenever she'd come home to the tiny north Texas town of Melissa to visit, she'd both fascinate and annoy her family with her fancy cars, her fancy clothes, her fancy travels and her fancy food.
In her later years she had to leave the city and ended up back in Melissa. Even though she had returned to her roots, she arrived with the experience of her many years of so-called sophisticated city living. And one of the spoils of this experience was her contribution to the holiday table—her cheese ball. It was unlike anything my rural relatives had seen before, and some sniffed that it was definitely not proper country food. But no matter, it was still a hit and my grandmother, fortunately, got the recipe from her aunt Betty.
I was the kind of kid who loved free food samples (OK, who are we kidding—I still love free food samples) and whenever we made a trip to the mall, a stop in Hickory Farms was a must for me because they were always giving away slivers of summer sausage and smears of cheese that came from a nut-wrapped ball.
When my grandmother suggested we make a cheese ball, back when I was eight or so, I was surprised that you could make something like that from scratch. Even though all the ingredients are natural, there's something sort of unnatural looking about it, if you know what I mean. To my uneducated eyes, a cheese ball seemed highly engineered, not something you could craft with your own two hands.
I was wrong, of course, and discovered that it's surprisingly simple. Cream cheese mixed with some Worcestershire sauce, a bit of garlic, a handful of nuts and the cheese or your choice is the basic recipe for a whole host of cheese balls and logs. And the best bit is that they taste delicious, look festive and have that retro appeal that makes people smile.
Now that the holiday season is in full swing, I plan on sharing these cheesy creations with my friends soon and often. While I don't think anyone today would consider a cheese ball terribly sophisticated, I'll smile when I think about how it shocked my ancestors when it made its appearance on the farm's holiday table, all those years ago. And, of course, I'll think of Aunt Betty.
8 oz. package of cream cheese
3 oz of Roquefort cheese (or any other soft and creamy blue cheese)
2 tablespoons of Worcestershire sauce
1 clove of garlic, minced
1 cup of crushed pecans
Mix the cream cheese, Roquefort cheese, Worcestershire sauce and minced garlic until well blended. Roll into long tube shape and then roll in crushed pecans.
8 servings
This recipe came from my Granparents' former next-door neighbor, Norma Gaydos.
Lisa Fain
2 cups of sharp cheddar cheese
1 cup chopped or ground walnuts
8 oz. package of cream cheese
1/4 tsp garlic powder or one clove of garlic, minced
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
2 tbsp minced onions
1 tablespoon chili powder or paprika
Mix together the cream cheese, chopped walnuts, cream cheese, garlic, Worcestershire sauce and minced onions until well blended. Roll the cheese mixture into a ball and then roll in chili powder (or paprika). Serve with crackers
8 servings
Lisa Fain


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Yesterday, ESPN Music(?!) reported that Ken Casey, vocalist for the Dropkick Murphys, did not want Jonathan Papelbon using his old entrance song. That song, "I'm Shipping Up To Boston," is reserved for the Red Sox closer, Casey supposedly said, and now that Papelbon is in Philadelphia, he's no longer welcome to it.
"They fucked me," Casey says via email. (You'll be shocked to know that his online handle contains both a Pogues reference and Larry Bird's number.) Casey insists he was joking, but the ESPN story played his comments as if they were legit. He doesn't blame interviewer Mike Trask:
"I don't think he meant to, but the story got edited down. It doesn't note the sarcasm and that we were laughing when I said it."
"Pap's a good friend and I'd never tell him that," Casey says, adding that he appreciates us using our platform to inform the world that ESPN took his words out of context. "Thanks for your help." Deadspin at your service!


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We've done the Worst Car For A Roadtrip and the Best Car For A Roadtrip, but Travis' Adventador Wedding Adventure got me thinking. What's the best bad car for a roadtrip?
A Lamborghini Aventador is absolutely terrible for a roadtrip, because it sucks gas and it has no cargo space and it's probably a bit uncomfortable over very long drives on rutted American roads, but at the same time it is amazing for a roadtrip, because Lamborghini. Travis made a great point the other day about why Lamborghinis are just so much fun over long distances:
But the more important part is that those trips become even more memorable than they'd already be. You have to be creative with how you pack to fit everything in the car. You have to find ways to compensate for the car's imperfections that you might not have thought of. You'll be annoyed. You'll get angry.
Call me sadistic, but I think that makes it even more fun. This time I really wanted a challenge, and I think the Aventador will give that to me. It has 5.3 cubic feet of luggage space for two people, and I've decided not to ship anything ahead. It's nearly eight feet wide. It drinks gas like Barney Gumble guzzles Duff. It doesn't have the ingredients of an awesome road trip car, which is what makes it the perfect one for me.
I'm hoping to take a long distance roadtrip myself in the near future, and I love a car that isn't boring. This one takes a little creativity then, and you will have to explain yourself to make it onto the next round, but which car would be the most awesomely terrible for a long, long drive?
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Intro Quest
Imperial Prison[edit]
At the start of Oblivion, you'll be given a brief introduction by the emperor. After this, you'll be asked to pick a race and sex and will be allowed to edit the appearance of your character. Don't worry about getting too meticulous at this point. You'll be allowed to edit your character if you find you don't like something before you get too far into the game.
This beginning part of the game will lead you through a series of tutorial quests. We'll hold your hand slightly more than normal through this section of the game to help you get started. Your first part of the Tutorial quest is to practice moving around. Follow the instructions to get a handle on the basics of motion. Hop around a bit and you'll find that your Fatigue drops down low enough that another tutorial prompt pops up. Sit around and wait and you'll find that your Fatigue naturally comes back if you sit still. Practice picking up and dropping some objects in this area and then walk forward to the end of your cell.
At the gates, another prisoner starts to taunt you. Just as he tells you that you're going to die in prison, the guards show up with the emperor in tow. Run back to the back of the cell and stand under the window and the troop will enter. When the emperor sees you face, he recognizes you as the one from his dreams. Learn the background of his attempted escape from assassins. Once he is done talking to you, they open a secret path and lead the emperor through. Thankfully, they leave the escape route open. Follow them through.
Imperial Substructure[edit]
Soon enough, assassins attack. The Blades fend them off, but Captain Renault dies. Watch the battle and don't join in. When it finishes, search the bodies to pick up some weapons and clothing. Make sure you equip the Akaviri Katana that Renault dropped and draw it, your first battle is quickly approaching. Two rats come charging at you. They are underpowered, even for you the beginning character. Swing your sword at them a few times to put them down. Once you do, search their bodies for some Rat Meat.
Walk forward through the hole in the wall into a darker cavern. You should have found a torch amongst the dead bodies in the previous room. Equip it and you'll pull it out with your left hand to light the way. Make sure you explore this room fully. You can find a chest with a a Blunt weapon that you might want to use momentarily until you get a better one and some Gold just to your right after you enter. You'll find some more torches and your first lockpicks around the rest of this room, as well as a bow and some iron arrows near a skeleton. Equip the bow and the arrows simultaneously and practice your aim on the bucket hanging over the well. You can retrieve arrows after you fire them and reuse them. Don't forget this as the game progresses.
Before moving on, look for the chest near the skeleton and try your hand at picking the lock. Follow the Tutorial to learn how and inside you'll find some Gold and a gem worth taking. Search the dead body of the Goblin Shaman to find several scrolls and other useful items, including the Iron Key. Use the Iron Key to open the door out of this room and continue on.
Through the door you'll be prompted to try out your magic. If you've been hit, equip a restoration spell and try it out. Otherwise, try an attack spell on the rat at the far end of the room. Either way, deal with the rat and then explore the room and open the chests you find. You'll be able to pick up your first Heavy Armor, which should be equipped immediately if you're playing a true melee character. Further down the path are two rats and a zombie. Zombies are slow, but powerful compared to your weak character. Try using some ranged attacks such as more arrows or some magic to deal with it.
Walk down through the small corridor until the room opens up again. There is a rat waiting around the corner for you to kill and take his meat along with a chest holding some lockpicks and potions. Kill the remaining two rats in this area and go around the corner into a room with some structural support beams going up to the ceiling. More rats wait for you here, though they should not be a problem by now.
Around the corner here you can find a chest with an Average lock on it. This can be difficult with your low Security skill. Inside of it you can get some gold, more lockpicks, and some torches. In the center of the room here there are some pieces food that you can use to make potions once you find the proper Alchemy tools, as well as a Rusty Iron Helmet, an Iron Warhammer, and a Rusty Iron Shield. Take some the equipment to bolster your defence before moving on. Before going up the stairs to the next region, open the chest to get some gold and, if you want it, another weapon.
At this point, you'll start to have to make serious decisions about what to keep. Look at the ratio between encumbrance and worth. You can sell all of this stuff once you make it to a town and you'll definitely want the gold to upgrade your inventory as soon as you can.
Kill the rat at the top of the stairs and move through the next area to find another. When you start going back down a small ramp, look for a bag on the left and you'll be rewarded with a potion and some more lockpicks. At the far end of this next room you'll find a barrel holed up in the wall with 4 bottles of Ale worth taking. As you try to go down the next tunnel, you'll fight another rat (yay!).
At the end of the tunnel is, besides a rat, your first opportunity to harvest some Alchemy ingredients that you didn't just find. Take a look at the mushrooms and plants to find some Wisp Stalks, and Cairn Bolete caps. Nearby is a chest with some restoration potions you'll want to grab before moving on as well as a searchable skeleton that holds some lockpicks. When you see some skulls hanging from strings, look to the right for more Cairn Boletes and some Sinkhorns. You may not successfully harvest these, but try anyways. When you're ready, go through the door.
Natural Caverns[edit]
Walk down the tunnel until you get an update on your quest. You can sneak up on this first Goblin, who incidentally is your first real enemy. Go into Sneak mode and get close enough to attack so that you can take him down before he can do much damage to you. Move slowly but keep moving. If the Goblin turns around he'll attack you with his full fury. In this room, there is a locked chest that holds some gold and tools. The most important items in this area are on the table near the fire. Grab the potion, Alchemy ingredients, and don't forget the Mortar and Pestle. Try your hand at Alchemy if it appeals to you at this time.
In the next room a bunch of Goblins are waiting. Run right through the tripwire blocking your path and it will set a trap off that will take out the first Goblin. Ahead on the left is a locked chest holding some arrows and lockpicks. Next to it is a dagger that isn't useful and a single coin.
Just up ahead you'll find some logs. Walk up to them and activate them and you'll watch them roll down the hill, crushing the two Goblins at the bottom. The chests down there contain some potions, arrows, and lockpicks. Practice picking the lock even if you don't care for the contents.
Up ahead is a large cavern. If you wait at the front, the weakest Goblins will come running at you and you can pick them off as they come. Have your healing spell at the ready and hit it anytime your health gets too low. On the far side in the glowing light is the powerful Goblin Witch. This guy has some powerful spells. If you're playing a marksman or magic game, try your best to sneak up on him. Otherwise, rush him and nail him with your best weapon to take him out quickly. Make sure you grab his staff and Petty Soul Gem, both high quality items at this point.
There are some rats on the lower level of this area which shouldn't be a problem. Make sure you explore everywhere. You'll find your first Hammers. These can restore your armor and weapons to new condition. Always use them immediately upon finding them. You'll also find some good items to sell later in the chest nearby where the Goblin Witch was first sitting, but you'll have to pick the lock to get them.
Once you have everything, walk up the cave tunnel near the witch's skull pot. At the top, look to the left for a chest with some more tools and then exit through the door.
Imperial Subterrane[edit]
There is a hole in the wall up ahead that you have to drop through to continue. You won't be able to come back to this are a immediately after you drop through, so go back now if you missed anything. Drop down and you'll find yourself back with the emperor. Walk down and watch them fight off another assassin attack. The guards want to kill you, but the emperor instead wants to talk. He'll ask for your birthsign. Choose it based on how you intend to play the game. You'll soon be able to change it if you have second thoughts. Continue talking to the emperor and then get your instruction from the guard. He wants you to stick close to the emperor and light the way. Start following them as they leave.
Along the way, you'll find a chest with some tools and you'll get a firsthand look at the Blades killing more assassins. Search their bodies as you go to possibly find some potions. Eventually, the troupe gets to a door leading to the next area. Before going through, look on the wall to the right for a raised chest. Open it to get some potions and then move through the door to keep following your group.
Inner Sanctum[edit]
When you come to a dead end, the emperor is left with you while the Blades deal with some assassins behind you. During this time, the emperor gives you his Amulet of Kings. He instructs you to take it to Jauffre at Weynon Prior. Just then, an assassin pops through the wall. Let it kill the emperor and wait for the Blades to come back and deal with it unless you like dying. Talk to Baurus and he'll tell you where to go to get outside. He gives you Baurus' Key which is necessary for escaping. He explains that the sewers can be rough, and then asks you to select your Class. Once again, you'll have the opportunity to change this soon. Once you have chosen a Class or created one, head through the opening that the assassin who killed the emperor came through.
Go through to the next room and look for another raised chest on the wall near the door. It contains some more potions that you'll find useful at some point in the future. Use Baurus' Key to open the door and go down into the sewers.
The Sewers[edit]
Walk down the stairs to enter the main sewer area. When you see the water running in the drain below you, look across to see the first Goblin. You can nail him with a ranged attack to kick things off or just get the jump on him. Another one comes running down the hall when you try to explore the far side and a rat is also waiting near by. Fight them and collect all of the items in the room and off of the bodies. You should find some Alchemy items and some tools.
Walk down the tunnel on the right. Go up the stairs and you'll find a bridge to cross. Open the gate on the other side and you'll come across one last rat to deal with. At this point, save your game. When you walk up through the next gate, you'll be asked if you'd like to change anything about your character. This is the last chance to do so, making this a perfect place to save your game and continue on if you ever want to create another character to play as.
City Isle[edit]
You're now free to explore anywhere you want. This guide will become significantly less detailed, as you should have a general idea how to play by now. We'll still point you in the right direction and tell you of any great items to find, but most of the exploration is up to you. The rest of this section will only take you through the main quest. For any side traveling or other quests, look through the other portions of this guide. Feel free to continue following what we do or strike off on your own.
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I hate bottled water with a passion. While our country has the cleanest tap water in the developed world we pay billions of bucks a year for an environmentally-damaging package of plastic, trucked all over the place, instead of walking to a sink. Without a doubt, drinking bottled water is one of the worst things you probably do daily.
Swobo hates bottled water too, and they've decided to combat the ubiquitous trend with a series of recycled bottles that have messages on them. The most interesting (though possibly not terribly effective) bottle in this Message in a Bottle program has printed on the side a letter to Nestle (who makes more bottled water than anyone in the US) explaining why they shold stop the practice of producing bottled water.
The flipside of the bottle has a printed address to Nestle, simply slap a stamp on there and it's good to go.
I don't think that a few bottles to a corporate giant will end their wasteful practices any more than I think that writing a letter to Big Oil will cause them to want to forget about drilling in Alaska, but I do think that the bottles can cause the people who read them to think about their behavior and possibly change their habits.
The one part of the project that bothers me is the last line on the Nestle bottle that warns the company to "stay out of McCloud, Ca." which is the site of a watershed under consideration for use by Nestle. I'm a bit uncomfortable with mailing anything that tells someone to "stay out of" some place, as that sounds like a bit of a threat to me.
I applaud Swobo for thinking this up, but as many commenters have posted on their forums have mentioned, it might have been a better idea to have put a post card in with every bottle so that people could mail the post card now and use the bottle for as long as possible. It doesn't really help the cause if one waits the average few years life of a water bottle to mail in the container when action could happen now instead.
The other bottle we have in the campaign is a tad more benign but more helpful I think. It lists all the things you can do with a "dead" water bottle, such as plant in it, rescue gerbils and so on and it's made me rethink my end-of-life policies towards bottles.…
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Made by Nordic Ware, this fry pan is NSF certified, meaning it meets the high-level safety standards for cookware used in professional kitchens. The heavy-gauge aluminum construction has a nonstick interior that cleans with minimal effort.
- Heavy-gauge aluminum for efficient heat conduction and superior durability.
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