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With its relentless quest for nuclear weapons, the Iranian regime represents a serious and growing threat to our national security. Sadly, our nation�s ability to counter that very threat is being hamstrung by another problem � President Barack Obama�s sheer desperation for a legacy foreign policy achievement. The unfortunate result is that Iran may soon be handed a highly advantageous deal, putting it closer than ever to its ultimate goal of a nuclear bomb.
The United States has no bigger or more dangerous adversary in the Middle East than the radical regime in Tehran, led by the so-called supreme leader. Iran has attacked Americans and undermined our national interests for the past 30 years, ranging from the 1983 Iran-sponsored terrorist attacks on the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Lebanon to the Iran-sponsored roadside bomb attacks on American troops in Iraq during the latter years of the Iraq war.
Iran has the blood of hundreds of Americans on its hands, and that must be foremost in our minds as context when we deal with Iran on any issue of national security, including the P5 plus 1 negotiations. The very premise of negotiating in good faith with such a rogue regime � the foremost state sponsor of terrorism on the planet � is pure fantasy, especially when it comes to nuclear weapons.
Even if you can set aside that skepticism long enough to assess the merits of the emerging deal, the magnitude of the president�s reported concessions to Tehran is breathtaking, as are its implications. His emerging deal would preserve a robust Iranian infrastructure for enriching uranium for the next 10 years, keeping the mullahs right on the front doorstep of the nuclear weapons club and implicitly recognizing their right to enrich. After the 10-year deal expires, all bets are off, and Iran would be within short reach of a bomb. The president�s deal also ignores Iran�s shadowy ballistic missile program and would do little to restrict Iran�s plutonium track for acquiring a nuclear weapon.
Even if the terms of this deal were perfect, it would still have a fatal flaw: It requires us to assume good-faith disclosure on the part of a regime that has in the past lied and deceived regarding its nuclear program as a matter of standard practice. We are supposed to trust that the world�s foremost state sponsor of terror is not hiding any underground enrichment bunkers or other nuclear facilities or squirreling away unknown inventories of centrifuges, uranium or other nuclear materials? That is a lot to ask.
In essence, the emerging deal would jettison the longstanding U.S. policy of preventing a nuclear-armed Iran in favor of a feeble 10-year containment plan that will basically cement Iran�s status as a nuclear-threshold nation. In other words, accepting this deal would mean resigning ourselves to the fact that Iran will have the bomb one day. I simply refuse to do that. Such an outcome would be terribly dangerous for the Texans I represent.
The White House says opponents of this deal are simply in a �rush to war,� which is insulting to the intelligence of Americans everywhere. There are options available other than diplomatic negotiations and war, but the president does not want you to think about those. Instead of accepting a lopsided deal that lights the path for Iran to the bomb and revives the economic engine it needs to get there, it is time to bring to bear devastating sanctions on Iran, with the credible threat of decisive American military action as a backstop and a last resort.
In the long run, the mullahs will never abandon their nuclear weapons quest unless they believe America has the means and the will to do whatever it takes to prevent them from getting the bomb. In the short run, Congress will need to intervene to avert this very bad deal and put America�s boot back on Tehran�s neck. Doing so will likely necessitate overcoming Obama�s veto of upcoming legislation. It is necessary for the safety of Texans and all Americans.
� Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, is the Senate Republican whip. He can be reached at www.cornyn.senate.gov. He wrote this for The Dallas Morning News.


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Ingredients (serves 8)
- 4 x 400g cooked lobsters
- 100g butter, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, bruised
- 200g baby salad leaves, dressed with lemon and olive oil
Lemon remoulade
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 2 egg yolks
- 200ml light olive oil
- Finely grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons lilliput (tiny) capers
- 2 tablespoons chopped tarragon
- 2 bulbs baby fennel, shaved
For remoulade, process mustard and yolks in a food processor until well combined. With the motor running, add oil, drop by drop at first, then in a steady stream until thick and emulsified. Add lemon zest and juice, and process to incorporate. Stir in remaining ingredients, season and refrigerate until needed.
Twist heads from lobsters and discard. Cut tails in half lengthwise and devein. Melt butter with garlic in a pan over low heat, then discard garlic. Brush garlic butter over lobster flesh and season.
Preheat a chargrill pan over high heat, then add lobster halves, cut-side down (in batches), and cook for 1 minute each side until lightly charred and warmed through. Place a lobster half on each plate, drizzle with a little remaining butter and serve with remoulade and salad leaves.


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MB: Moulin Rouge- Magic, Illusion, Dance, Cabaret Acts
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016 from 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM (PDT)
Event Details
Tricky Tuesdays at the SJ Improv. Join us for the longest-running magic show in the Bay Area, led by a quick-witted master of sleight of hand and grand illusion - Majinga the Magcian with Magic Genii, Mystical Maya and the cast of the Magique Bazaar - returning to the Improv for a full evening length show that attracts new and loyal fans show after show.
June brings some sizzle to the stage ala Moulin Rouge. Plenty of magic and grand illusion featuring the lovely ladies of the Magique Bazaar. Premiering the alluring tease of Fantasy in Feathers, a fan dance to heat up the night.
Be a part of our magical family for an evening of mystery, laughter, magic, spectacle, music and circus arts. Experience the world of magic+unique=magique.
Doors open 7:15pm
* Please note - there is a 2 item minimum from the Improv menu
Parking Tip: There is a Pavillion Garage at 150 S 2nd St. It is a flat rate (less than $10) if you enter after 6pm:)
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Industry expert highlights public Wi-fi risks
Those in the market to compare phone plans to get a better deal on their home line may like to consider the benefits of a bundle which includes internet access.
Apart from the advantages associated with increased communicative capability at home, an industry specialist has highlighted the dangers of using public Wi-fi spots instead of a fixed-line network in the safety of your own house.
Industry specialist Unisys has urged internet users to be aware of the issues surrounding access to private information that using devices on public networks can create.
John Kendall, security program director of Unisys Asia Pacific, said that while young people in particular are embracing new communicative technologies like laptops, smartphones and tablets, they may not be aware of the increased risk to privacy that goes hand-in-hand with using those devices on public Wi-fi networks.
He added that work-related public Wi-fi use is on the rise and data privacy is becoming more of an issue.
To reduce the risk of privacy breaches, Mr Kendall suggested users lock access to their devices with a hard-to-guess password that is changed regularly and be aware of who can read your screen when you are sitting near other people.
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Detroit Lakes Fire Station
417 Main St. W, Detroit Lakes, MN
The DLFD Stop, Drop and Run5K/10K run is a new annual fall fundraising event, taking place in Detroit Lakes, MN. The separate 5K and 10K courses will wind their way through our unique neighborhoods, business districts, and along the shores of beautiful Detroit Lake. Proceeds from this fundraiser will help offset the costs of training, tools and equipment for the volunteer members of the Detroit Lakes Fire Department.
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By Bill Brunelle
Experts predict that consumer spending will grow this holiday season by as much as 4.5 percent. If the early forecasts are correct, then holiday spending will top last year's growth of 3.6 percent, according to Deloitte. The numbers are encouraging, but the results won't come automatically. For small and local retailers, the key is knowing how overall consumer spending growth can translate to growth for your business.
While consumer spending is expected to grow, the way that consumers spend money may not change dramatically. Online sales will be high, and the season may begin earlier. These are trends that retailers have seen year after year, so retailers big and small should be able to plan ahead. If a strategy worked well last year, assuming it wasn't 2016-specific, you may consider going that route again this year.
If you're ready to mix things up, the following tips make for a good starting point:
1. Start Now
Let's face it: The holiday shopping season hasn't begun on Black Friday in years. Big boxes and national chains now entice consumers out of their houses on Thanksgiving Day — and in reality, many consumers have already started their holiday shopping by the time they put the turkey in the oven. According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), more than half of consumers began researching their holiday purchases in October or earlier. Purchasing still seems to begin for many consumers in November, but 33 percent will begin crossing things off their lists before November. In other words, the time to launch your holiday strategy is now.
2. Prioritize Online Engagement
Whether your business maintains an e-commerce platform or not, it's important to pay attention to what consumers are saying about it online. Particularly during the holiday season, consumers may try to get in touch with your business through social media, email or elsewhere. Be sure to respond to their comments, questions and reviews, even when you're busy preparing for the Small Business Saturday rush. Answering a simple question about a product or service your business offers could convert a hesitant consumer into a loyal customer.
3. Give Small Business Saturday Your All
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4. Create an Experience
Many holiday shoppers don't need another pair of shoes to gift wrap. Increasingly, consumers desire spending money on experiences rather than on material items. Consider offering holiday shoppers a unique, seasonal experience that doesn't require them to walk down long aisles under the fluorescent lights of the big-box stores. For instance, you could host an intimate, after-hours shopping experience for your most loyal customers or a family-friendly shopping day with holiday crafts to entertain the young ones. You may also be able to offer an experience that customers can gift to their loved ones, such as a future DIY class or weekend outing.
5. Promote Your Policies
According to NRF, three-quarters of holiday shoppers checked return policies before making a purchase last year. Big-box stores and national chains can often have inflexible return policies that are hard to find. As a small business, you have the opportunity to make decisions on a local level. Consider implementing a more flexible return policy for the holiday season and promote that policy for all customers to see.
As you plan for the holiday season, keep in mind that you know your local community better than forecasters and big-box stores do. Holiday spending totals could be affected regionally by the recent hurricane activity in the south or by other factors specific to your neck of the woods. Use your familiarity with the community to guide your holiday strategy, so that you can connect with local shoppers for the holiday season and beyond.
Bill Brunelle is co-founder of Independent We Stand, a cause-marketing campaign sponsored by STIHL, which is dedicated to educating communities about the importance and strong economic benefits of supporting locally owned businesses. Independent We Stand inspires small business owners across the country to celebrate their locally owned status and help consumers understand the importance of supporting them.
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Spring is here, and the Koel cuckoos are making enough noise to drive us crazy. Other animals are less noisy and more fun to watch. Flying foxes are feasting on bottlebrush blossom and loquats in my local streets each night. In my parents' backyard they're feasting on mulberries. So are we.
We eat mulberries on our cereal, Alloronan makes mulberry smoothies, and my mum serves them with berry liqueurs (like creme de cassis) and icecream for dessert. Recently I made mulberry muffins.
These mulberry muffins are very moist and super-crumbly – you'll need a plate. The LSA and almond meal give them a pleasant nutty flavour. Of course the big moist mulberries hidden inside are the highlight. I can see why the flying foxes are so enthusiastic about them.
250g brown sugar
80ml oil
1 egg
250 g mulberries (stems cut off)
100g almond meal
100g quinoa flour and 100g rice flour (or 200g gluten free flour blend)
50g LSA (linseed, sunflower and almond meal)
2 tsp baking powder
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celcius.
Combine the wet ingredients in a bowl.
Sift in the dry ingredients and combine.
Gently stir in the mulberries.
Divide the mixture between 12 muffin cases.
Bake for approximately 20-25 minutes, or until risen and springy on top.


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Mag. Dr. Alfred Gerstl, MIR, University Assistant (post-doc) at the Chair of East Asian Economy and Society, was asked to comment on the crisis management of the Malaysian government for the Austrian news show ZIB 24.
You can see the full interview [in German] in the following link.
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CHARITY Dingle looks set to expose Tom Waterhouse's secret in Emmerdale.
The pub landlady - who is played by actress Emma Atkins in the ITV soap - has finally noticed something suspicious about her daughter Debbie's mysterious boyfriend, and she's going to expose him.
Tom has remained away from the village while seducing Debbie as part of his bizarre scheme, but never one to shy away from a mystery, Charity became too intrigued to not meet him.
The conwoman convinced Debbie that she was worried about her being ashamed of her and felt that was why she hadn't introduced multi-millionaire Tom to her.
It forced Debbie to convince Tom to come to the Christmas lights switch on in the village and make himself known.
But when Debbie revealed the good news and left to go home, Charity admitted her scheme was really about finding out who Tom is.
Diane told her Debbie wouldn't be ashamed of her, and Charity replied: "I never thought she was, I was just laying it on thick to be honest to make her feel bad to get her boyfriend to play ball.
"Worked a treat, eh?"
However, while Charity is preparing to face down Tom it could reveal the real reason he is so interested in Debbie, as his manservant Graham pointed out.
"Her mother, is that wise?" asked Graham, hinting that Charity could be the one to recognise Tom and his plan.
Graham added: "What about your other commitments? There's a conflict of interests."
But with Tom playing a round of indoor golf at the time, could Tom be behind the golf course deal that's leaving the Dingles homeless?
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zesty and delicious
Cocktail Sauce
This cocktail sauce goes with almost everything: sandwiches, burgers, and also barbecues.
- 3 g salt
- 100 g ketchup
- 2 tbsp. cilantro
- 50 ml pineapple juice
- 20 g Mayonnaise
Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl and season well.
Pour through iSi Funnel & Sieve into an iSi Whipper, screw on 1 iSi Cream Charger and shake vigorously. Cool in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours.
Goes superbly with sandwiches or prawn skewers.
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Inspiration can cover from the most unexpected places.
The other day at work, I started to listen to this true crime podcast that was on my suggested list for so long.
And I as I listed to more episodes of Dark Poutine (yes, that's the name), I started to really like the show.
Then I started craving poutine!
If you're not familiar with poutine, it's a delicious Canadian dish of fries, gravy & cheese curds.
It's what I imagine to be the perfect drunk food.
So because I love you guys, here is the recipe!
For the Gravy:
1 cup of chicken stock
1 cup of Modelo
1 tablespoon of Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon of white pepper
1 teaspoon of salt
2 tablespoons of flour
2 tablespoons of butter, unsalted
1/4 cup of white onion, chopped
For the Fries:
3 cups of waffle fries*
1 cup of cheese curds
1 pound of chorizo
1/4 cup of green onions, chopped
1/4 cup of jalapeños peppers, chopped
Start by making the gravy: melt butter in the pan over medium heat.
Once the butter is melted, add in the flour until it is cooked, making a roux.
Add in the onion & cook them until translucent, then stir in the mustard.
Add in the chicken stock & the beer to the pan.
Then mix
your ass off while the gravy comes to a boil. Then reduce the heat, letting the mixture thicken.
While the gravy cooking, brown the chorizo in a medium-sized pan.
Make sure you drain the chorizo because it is very oily, and the last thing you is greasy fries.
I chose to use frozen waffle fries* instead of making fries from scratch because, bitches be hungry.
After the fries are done, I spread them out on cookie sheet, & topped it with the cheese curds & chorizo. Pop it in a 400 degree oven for about 10 minutes, or until the cheese melts.
Drizzle on the gravy, green onions, and jalapeños.
Crack open a beer, tune into Dark Poutine, and enjoy your meal!
Happy eating, eh?
Sorry, I had to!


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Book Condition: Fine
xlvii, 402, (2) pp. Publisher's original decorative gilt boards in green cloth. Aeg. Frontis and numerous other illustrations by Hugh Thomson. First edition with Thomson's illustrations. Gilt very fresh and bright. Internally clean. Fine copy.
Title: The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne
Illustrator: Thomson, Hugh
Categories: Literature, Illustrated,
Edition: First Thus
Publisher: London, MacMillan & Co 1905: 1905
Binding: Decorated Cloth
Book Condition: Fine
Size: 8vo
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Class of 2016
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Join us for performances of Robert Schumann's Papillons Op. 2 and excerpts from his Sonata in F Minor Op. 14, given by HPU piano faculty member Robert Hallquist. To conclude, Hallquist will partner with HPU violin faculty member Matt Kiefer in Schumann's Violin/Piano Sonata in A Minor Op. 105.
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Arne Bigsten
+46 31 786 1358
Room number: E-520
Postal Address: Box 640, 40530 Göteborg
Visiting Address: Vasagatan 1 , 41124 Göteborg
Arne Bigsten
+46 31 786 1358
Room number: E-520
Postal Address: Box 640, 40530 Göteborg
Visiting Address: Vasagatan 1 , 41124 Göteborg
Department of Economics
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Box 640
405 30 Göteborg
Visiting Address: Vasagatan 1 , 411 24 Göteborg
Arne Bigsten is Senior Professor of Development Economics at the University of Gothenburg. He has been visiting at Oxford University, Nairobi University, Keio University, University of New South Wales, and Université d'Auvergnes. He has done projects for the World Bank, IMF, UN, ILO, Sida, IFPRI, OECD, WIDER, African Development Bank, UNIDO, and the European Commission. He has been Chairman of the African Economic Research Consortium, Vice-Chair of the European Union Development Network, and Vice-Chair of the Economic Council of Sweden. He has supervised about 50 completed PhD theses, published a dozen books and 65 refereed journal articles.
Bigsten has coordinated a large number of research projects on development issues, mostly on African economic development. The projects have concerned poverty, income distribution, trade, industrial development, foreign aid, and institutional reform. He has been extensively involved in work on the impact of international economic relations on development, starting with the large comparative study on the impact of the coffee boom in the 1970s in Kenya and Tanzania. He was engaged in the Regional Program of Enterprise Development in the 1990s, which collected panel data for manufacturing firms in African countries and produced path-breaking work on African manufacturing. He coordinated a large survey of Ethiopian households, which generated a unique panel data set covering more than a decade. He has also worked in projects on taxes, institutions and development. He is currently working on the impacts of globalization and new forms of aid.
Tax Innovations and Public Revenues in Africa
Ahlerup, Pelle, Baskaran, Thushyanthan, Bigsten, Arne
Journal of Development Studies, 51:6, s. 689-706, 2015
Factor Proportions, Openness and Factor Prices in Kenya 1965-2000
Bigsten, Arne, Durevall, Dick
Journal of Development Studies, 44:2, s. 289-310, 2008
International Coordination and the Effectiveness of Aid
Bigsten, Arne, Tengstam, Sven
World Development, 69, s. 75-85, 2015
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'The Aid Effectiveness Agenda: The benefits of going ahead' - A commentary on the final report
Arne Bigsten, Sven Tengstam
London, ODI Overseas Development Institute) and European Development and Cooperation Strengthening Programme, Report 2012
International Coordination and the Effectiveness of Aid
Arne Bigsten, Sven Tengstam
Helsinki, Finland, WIDER, Report 2012
Comparative Advantage and African Development
Arne Bigsten
The Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa (eds.: E. Aryeetey, S. Devarajan, R. Kanubr and L. Kasekende), Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, Chapter in book 2012
Chapter in book
Offshoring and Occupational Wages: Some empirical evidence
Arne Bigsten, Dick Durevall, Farzana Munshi
Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Journal article 2012
Journal article
The Aid Effectiveness Agenda: The Benefits of Going Ahead
Arne Bigsten, Jean-Philippe Platteau, Sven Tengstam
Brussels, European Commission, Report 2011
Smallholder Diversification and Income Growth in Zambia
Arne Bigsten, Sven Tengstam
Journal of African Economies, Journal article 2011
Journal article
Utvecklingens ekonomi och politik, 2:a upplagan
Arne Bigsten
Lund, Studentlitteratur, Textbook 2011
Industrial Strategies for Economic Recovery and Long-term Growth in Africa
Arne Bigsten, Måns Söderbom
African Development Review, Journal article 2011
Journal article
Fiscal Capacity and Government Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa
Thushyanthan Baskaran, Arne Bigsten
Göteborg, University of Gothenburg, Report 2011
The Persistence of Poverty in Ethiopia: A tale of two measurements
Arne Bigsten, Abebe Shimeles
Applied Economics Letters, Journal article 2011
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It is often not clear how best to help people make healthy changes. In the case of tobacco or alcohol consumption, there is good evidence that financial disincentives, such as increasing sales taxes, do deter these harmful behaviours. But these approaches are not suitable in many situations. There is increasing interest in the use of financial incentives, such as small cash rewards, to promote particular desirable behaviours.
Evidence to date about the effectiveness of financial incentives is mixed. The NIHR has funded a range of studies exploring the use of incentives in different circumstances, and how people feel about them. This Highlight explores this evidence and considers how incentives can be helpful in healthcare, for who and in what circumstances.


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Monday, April 26, 2010
Somewhere along the way, things turned from a sunny yellow to a cluster of verbs, adjectives and facts.
The smooth edges of childhood became a tear drop of maturity.
Gone, were the echoes of hear-says, murmurings, and words of wisdom that came from the both of you.
One voice lies silent; a place of sleep inside a world of cement.
Oh yes, I hear the other voice. It seems to be locked inside the lacelike sleep of lost minds.
What did you say?
Oh, that's what I thought you said.
No, I was not prepared to stand upon the stage alone.
8 comments:
- Balachandran V said...
How true that it is when we lose our parents that we become really alone! They were there all the time, bringing you up,caring and loving you. You always took them for granted and believed they will be there forever. One can only pray for a miracle that will bring your mother back from the dark void of a lost mind.
Beautifully written, Sandy!
- April 26, 2010 at 8:02 PM
- Sandy said...
Thank you Balan, for the read. I do pray for a miracle in some way. She is lost as she is. I do not mean to place such a risqué picture, but at birth we are unclothed. I feel this way, at times, without my parents. Alone and defenseless. Silly, I suppose..
- April 28, 2010 at 9:08 AM
- anilkurup59 said...
I guess that the umbilical cord is severed not at birth but when we lose "them" later in life.
- May 5, 2010 at 4:16 AM
- Sandy said...
You know anilkurup,I never thought of it that way but that is how it is. Don't you think? A final cutting, in death.. Thank you so much for the visit....
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Summation by Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus)
Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, 1560-3 Kamiyamaguchi, Hayama, Miura 240-0193, Japan
Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Behav. Sci. 2012, 2(2), 50-56; https://doi.org/10.3390/bs2020050
Received: 6 February 2012 / Revised: 13 March 2012 / Accepted: 21 March 2012 / Published: 27 March 2012
Recent empirical evidence for complex cognition in elephants suggests that greater attention to comparative studies between non-human primates and other animals is warranted. We have previously shown that elephants possess the ability to judge the difference between two discrete quantities, and unlike other animals, their choice does not appear to be affected by distance or overall quantity. In this study, we investigated Asian elephants' ability to perform summation, as exemplified by the ability to combine four quantities into two sums and subsequently compare them. We presented two discrete sums (3–7) to the elephants by baiting two buckets; they were loaded sequentially with two discrete quantities (1–5 pieces) of food per bucket. All three elephants selected the larger grand sum significantly more often than the smaller grand sum. Moreover, their performance was not affected by either distance to the bait or the overall quantity evaluated. Studies report that the performance of other animal species on similar tasks declines as distance to the bait decreases and as the overall quantities evaluated increase. These results suggest that the numerical cognition of Asian elephants may be different from that of other animals, but further study is required to elucidate the differences precisely. View Full-Text
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CAIRO — Security forces and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood exchanged fire outside a hotel in Cairo on Thursday, in a sign of political tensions in advance of the fifth anniversary of the 2011 revolution this month.
The gunfire at the Barceló Cairo Pyramids hotel caused only superficial damage to the front of the building and to a tour bus parked outside, and no injuries were reported. The episode represents another blow to a tourism industry that has been devastated by terrorist attacks and political unrest.
The Islamic State's affiliate in Egypt claimed to have brought down a Russian passenger jet in October, killing 224 people. But the government said that the violence on Thursday stemmed from civil unrest in which tourists had not been directly targeted.
The exchange occurred when about 15 people gathered on a side street and fired homemade flares at security forces stationed outside the hotel, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
After the guards shot back, someone in the crowd fired a homemade pellet gun at the hotel, breaking a window in the front of the hotel and a window on a bus that was being used by a group of Arab Israeli tourists.
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Okay, humor me for a minute and imagine I have a giant-sized burlap sack. It is over-flowing with exactly 7 billion unique flower seeds. You pick just one. You take it home, pot it in a little pot, set it on a windowsill, and water it. What is there left to do? Just to sit … Continue reading
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The writer behind 'The Gladiator' and 'Les Miserables' films, William Nicholson, is about to reveal his latest film at the London Film Festival.
The double Oscar nominee has directed Annette Bening and Bill Nighy in 'Hope Gap' - a family drama based on his play - 'The Retreat from Moscow'.
'Hope Gap' will show at selected cinemas this weekend as part of the BFI London Film Festival which starts on Wednesday.


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I have always loved Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman. So back in 2007 I decided to dress up as her and create a homemade Wonder Woman costume (it was difficult being that I am a guy). I prepared for Halloween months in advance. I went to tons of fabrics stores searching for the right colors and material. I finally found the perfect red, blue, and gold.
I will say that although I designed it. I didn't not put it together as I do not know how to sew. I had the red bodice made. I cut out a bird with the gold and glued it on. I bought white stars that iron on to the blue panty area. Glued on the gold belt and bought a gold rope and Velcroed it onto the belt.
The hardest part of creating a replica of the original Lynda Carter WW costume was replicating the boots. Luckily I walked into a Big and Tall woman's shoe store and right as I walked in were these red knee hi suede boots. To my amazement they were size 13's. A PERFECT MATCH! I took them to a cobbler where I had him cut them into the pointed style and added white leather for the top and for the stripe.
I found silver bracelets at a street vendor and the cape was sewn together with long flowing pieces of red, white, and blue fabrics and iron on stars to match. I will say that my homemade Wonder Woman costume was a hit at the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade in the West Village in NYC. I had a bit of a hard time walking but other than that very close to the Lynda Carter version. Hope you all enjoy the pic


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18 July 2009
100th Post!
I started this blog almost exactly one year ago and have finally made it to 100 posts. Pretty exciting. Over the past year my interest in keeping a music blog has escalated beyond belief. I started it out of the longing I had to write about my favorite topic and as the months progressed it morphed into a forum for me to dissect my thoughts, divulge some personal secrets, and share my overwhelming excitment of finding a sensational new artist (which has to be my favorite thing of all).
I've managed to meet a few new people, find dozens of other fascinating blogs, and bother all my friends about the website constantly. On the eve of my 100th post I am making a pact with myself to write everyday when possible and spread the word a little further about this silly little blog because the thing is: it's not silly. I put a lot of work and thought into my posts and I'm proud of them. This is not the typical music blog by any means. I'm not in the business of reviewing albums or commenting on all the same music news that you can find in greater detail on the larger sites. I just want to bring my own spin to things you may have heard before but passed by. Whether a song is a day old or a decade old, I want to give it the proper due. I would never be able to post on something I wasn't completely enthralled with and that passion is hopefully being conveyed in every topic I cover.
I promise I will only continue to get better. I strive to make people interested in the music I love so very much. Even if this kind of music is not your thing, I hope you can laugh at my over the top enthusiasm. And I'll be honest, I really want more readers! I want to start debates about who the greatest singer/songwriter is or have contests where people can win crazy things like a poster of Earth, Wind, and Fire. Ha.
I just love this tiny blog so much. Why? Because I love music so much.
In upcoming posts, I will be covering the Paul McCartney concert at Citi Bank (Shea Stadium), All Points West music festival, and the craziness that I hope will ensue as I work the David Cook show here at my own venue. I'll also be working at Warped Tour tomorrow so there could be a few good stories there (I'm hoping not to see any of the bands though - I've been to Bamboozle before and wanted to kill myself). Bottom line: A lot of music is happening.
Here are some favorite photographs to commemorate this day:
(The cat picture courtesy of me: the owner of the most musical cat in the world, Charlie Margarita Chaplin)
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- thom said...
Man, I have fallen so behind with reading my blog list. Life circumstances, you know. I'll catch up. Anyway.
This post made me happy. So much blogging, and music blogging in particular, seems to be about posturing, and it's really refreshing to see someone who displays an earnest passion for the material about which they are writing rather than the usual posturing. I hope that I stick with my own blog to the 100th post and beyond, and that I can do it with as much style, individuality, and energy/passion as you do.
Also: your own venue? what? If I'm reading this correctly, that's awesome.
Also also: that cat picture is ridiculously adorable.
That's all for now. Maybe I'll write a new post in my own blog one of these days, after I finish this damn move.
- July 21, 2009 at 7:17 AM


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Peter 'Paul' Hughes
Peter "Paul" Hughes was born on July 1, 1936 in Madison Wisconsin, and grew up in Highland Park, Illinois just outside Chicago.
He received BA and MA degrees in English Literature from Northwestern University, and also studied acting at the Art Institute of Chicago.
His main vocation was teaching in underserved communities in Los Angeles and for a short time in New York City.
For all of his adult life Paul had an overarching interest in spirituality. He was born into the Episcopal Church, and after an extended and trying period in his life in the 1970's, embraced and was embraced by the Roman Catholic Church.
Being the spiritual searcher he was, in the mid 1980's he began exploring Zen Buddhism. He studied with many Zen teachers from the Robert Aitken lineage, most notably Fr. Patrick Hawk, a direct Dharma heir of Robert Aitken, and a Redemptorist priest. Paul participated in literally scores of retreats with Fr. Pat beginning around 1990 until Fr. Pat's death in 2012.
While through all his spiritual practices, he embraced in equal measure the teachings of Zen and Christianity, Christ remained the exemplar for him.
Paul began to share his deep knowledge of Zen with inmates at the Multnomah County Jail in the mid 1990's and continued this work at the Oregon Correctional Institution until the time of his death.
We know from messages he left on his phone that Paul died a peaceful death after becoming lost on a walk from a camp he had made with a friend in the Ochoco Mountains of Central Oregon.
Paul is survived by his wife Laura, his spiritual son Emmanuel Ananda, and his cousin Harriette Crunk.
A funeral mass, memorial and potluck will be held on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 5:00 PM at Cook Park, 17005 S.W. 92nd Ave in Tigard.
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A stylish thriller with both unique qualities and very mundane ones as well, Irvin Kershner's Eyes of Laura Mars never quite reaches the heights of suspense and sophistication to which it aspires.
The Production: 3/5
A stylish thriller with both unique qualities and very mundane ones as well, Irvin Kershner's Eyes of Laura Mars never quite reaches the heights of suspense and sophistication to which it aspires, but it's still a lot of fun watching the filmmakers' attempt to get there. With a fine cast of acting stalwarts and a wonderful view of a New York City which has long since passed, Eyes of Laura Mars is certainly worth a peep.
With her controversial book of graphic photographs right on the verge of being published, chic urban fashion photographer Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway) begins having a series of unsettling mind's eye visions in which close friends are being murdered by an ice pick killer one-by-one. Assigned to protect the frightened artist is Manhattan detective John Neville (Tommy Lee Jones) who doesn't much like Ms. Mars' work but greatly likes the alluring and provocative artist. But she's surrounded by people who are not to be trusted: her sleazebag ex-husband Michael Reisler (Raul Julia), still hanging around and looking for handouts, her ex-con driver Tommy Ludlow (Brad Dourif) who adopts a suspiciously possessive air around Ms. Mars and her models, and her agent Donald Phelps (Rene Auberjonois) who desperately wants Laura to keep working at any cost. As her friends and co-workers keep dropping like flies, the focus of the investigation begins to narrow to one particular suspect.
The John Carpenter-David Zelag Goodman screenplay has set the scene of the mystery amid the chic urban jungle of late 1970s New York, and the sensational graphic photography of Helmut Newton and Rebecca Blake adds a great deal of unsettling ambiance to the gripping tone of the piece. Unfortunately, the mystery isn't all that hard to figure out especially with one gigantic piece of information planted early in the movie and which eagle-eyed viewers will latch onto easily which makes the identity of the killer pretty easy to spot. To his credit, director Irvin Kershner doesn't revel in the graphic gore and violence that ice pick murders most assuredly would generate, and the clever means in which Laura sees through the eyes of the killer (hazy, desaturated imagery which is modeled on a videotape-like blurriness which Laura sets up to explain to the detective what she's seeing) also helps obfuscate the most extreme portions of the violence. Kershner also handles some of the fashion montages with some impressive flair beginning with the messy casualness of the makeup trailer leading into the extremes of the shoots themselves done with staccato cuts and jumps, involving music and movement in most engaging fashion. But more should have been done to develop the romance between Laura and John to make it something we really care about rather than just something of the moment, and too many of the murders all happen on top of one another dissipating their shock and emotional effectiveness lessening their impact for the viewer.
With the movie beginning and ending with Barbra Streisand's "Prisoner," we're reminded that the title role was originally intended for her with her then-boy friend Jon Peters producing, but Faye Dunaway is a more than reasonable replacement giving a performance of jangled nerves and disbelieving shock as her friends drop one-by-one. Tommy Lee Jones' Southern accent seems a bit fish-out-of-water surrounded by the genuine brogues of his fellow New York police officers (especially Frank Adonis' Detective Sal Volpe who seems to live and breathe Little Italy), but his performance as dedicated detective John Neville seems earnest and true. Rene Auberjonois offers great sophistication as Laura's hardcore agent, and Brad Dourif offers another of his off-kilter comrades who's a victim of circumstances. Real-life models Lisa Taylor and Darlanne Fluegel ring completely true as models Michelle and Lulu while Raul Julia does what he can with the vastly underwritten role of Laura's unbalanced ex-husband Michael.
Video: 4.5/5
3D Rating: NA
The film is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 with 1080p resolution using the AVC codec. While sharpness is never razor-edged, the transfer is certainly acceptably clear and clean throughout with no signs of any age-related artifacts. Color is more than adequate without ever being deeply saturated, and the "Laura visions" of the murders are appropriately soft focused and lacking color vibrancy. Black levels are excellent seen especially at Laura's gallery premiere which really offers the best sequence for strong contrast and vivid sharpness and color. The movie has been divided into 12 chapters.
Audio: 5/5
The DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono sound mix offers a very era-appropriate sound design. Dialogue comes through quite effectively throughout, mixed professionally with the tense music of Artie Kane and the sound effects which reflect late 1970s New York. There are no age-related issues like hiss, flutter, or crackle.
Special Features: 1.5/5
Audio Commentary: director Irvin Kershner shares some memories about making the film at the beginning though it's not very long before he begins merely describing what we're seeing on the screen.
Overall: 3/5
Eyes of Laura Mars might have been an even more effective thriller than it turned out to be had the writing been a little more detailed with more extensive characterizations and some better development of the plot to ratchet the suspense more keenly and create a more complex puzzle for the viewer to solve. Still, the Mill Creek release of the movie on Blu-ray will likely please fans of the stars and the movie while others may prefer a rental rather than a purchase even with its pleasing low price.


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Weather: windy, looking like a thunderstorm, but just occasional rain.
Number of people: 3 stoppers, no walkbys.
Number of hecklers: 0!
Pages of notes: 3.5
People who got the Peanuts reference: 1
Pictures taken with permission: 1
Dogs seen: 1
Dogs pet: 1
Money raised for Environmental Justice League of RI: $0.00
This was the second time the Sankofa Market was happening in conjunction with Sowing Place. It's pretty new and it's also set back off the street. So far, most of the people who've talked with me at this event have been involved with Sowing Place as vendors, artists in residence, etc.
I talked with two kids about yellow, white, and purple clover.
Some conversations:
I'm undocumented, and one of the major things I'm anxious about right now is the state of immigration in this country. It's very scary. We don't know what's happening. Trump, one of the things he was running on was this attitude toward immigration, and he doesn't actually know how it works—he's talking about building a wall, because he doesn't know that most of us come on planes. We just have overstayed visas. He doesn't know how it works, but he wakes up and decides one day to end the program that I'm on. … So what's the next thing he's gonna cut? When he ended DACA it was a big deal because people cared, but then something else is on the radar next week. There's crisis after crisis and it makes it hard to take a collective approach.
Would you say it's a feeling that's always with you, or comes and goes, or–
It's seemingly always with me. It's part of my identity, it keeps me on high alert. 'Cause it's not just me, it's my entire family. I've been talking about it, trying to educate people. 'Cause the whole narrative of immigration in the US is this xenophobic anti-Latino narrative, but you've got like Irish old men living in the Bronx who are undocumented and nobody knows about it because they're white. So I've been trying to talk more, and, more publicly, about my own Black immigrant experience.
How are the conversations going?
They go well. I feel like I'm changing minds. I've been writing poems about it and it's new territory for me, that I'm starting to write about it, because it's so stigmatized. If my mother knew she'd have a heart attack. But being out and open, especially in the face of all this—when he ended DACA I was like, Let me start to be vocal. And when I talk to people I know, since they realize it's me [that's affected by this], they start to care. I have this visibility and maybe power, as a performer and as an online voice especially. I don't have a huge following but I know people pay attention to what I say, so maybe I should put a tweet about this in between the tweets about poop or whatever. I'm also trying to find my stride as a writer. Poems are great and I love them, but I really wanna do essays, write about ending stigma, talking about status and citizenship. People are like, "Go back to your country," but the country I was born in doesn't do birthright citizenship.
What I'm concerned about is this natural gas plant. We need to figure out how to get them to listen to us. One of my coworkers has been a powerful advocate, and she got me involved. We had an event at our church, and that got a lot of people to know about it. We need to be able to eat the food that we grow in the ground, and breathe air that's in our backyards. When I would go to these meetings, a lot of white people showed up, but we need people in the Latino and Southeast Asian communities to talk to each other. They want to know about it, but people don't understand.
And I know that the agencies and so on don't make it easy to understand.
When they had the hearings, they took people out of a public space into a side room like they were interrogating them. One person from our church, he said, "I thought I was doing something wrong." There's not enough of us to tell them that this is the wrong position. We need to make them understand that [they] are a public servant, they work for us—not the opposite.


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A father accused of taking his 2-year-old daughter during a supervised visit at The Grove appeared in court Wednesday after being charged with kidnapping and child stealing.
Jack Perry faces up to 14 years in state prison if convicted, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
During a hearing at the Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown L.A., a judge postponed Perry's arraignment to Monday and set his bail at $1 million.
Police had previously said the suspect would not be able to bail out due to unrelated charges against him in Florida.
The kidnapping and child-stealing charges came a day after Jack Perry and his daughter, Lucia Perry, returned to the L.A. area from Palm Springs after the Los Angeles Police Department said a witness tipped had off investigators.
The 31-year-old British national was accused of kidnapping the little girl on Christmas Eve at the Fairfax-area mall. The court-appointed individual supervising the visit "lost sight" of the pair, and immediately notified LAPD patrol officers at the mall.
On Monday night, the pair was found at a Palm Springs hotel, which Jack Perry was accused of renting under a fictitious name.
Lucia Perry was located inside and appeared to be unharmed. She was reunited with her mother, Elise Perry, Tuesday morning.
"I've never felt so happy in my life," Elise Perry said at a news conference that day. "I can't say thank you enough."
Authorities in Miami-Dade County, Florida, have indicated they want to extradite Jack Perry for unresolved warrants.
KTLA's John A. Moreno contributed to this report.


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Desktop notifications for Windows
Need to have notifications in the action centre on Windows 10 also preferably make the desktop client a UWP app (I understand it is not currently) for full integration of notifications and (hopefully) Cortana
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ed hansberry commented
Don't know why it was removed, but for a brief time a few months ago, the desktop icon on Win7 and 10 had a notification badge. Would love for that to be brought back.
Jason commented
I would prefer that I don't get a Windows notification for every addition or change to channel. There will be a lot of noise. Ideally, I would like a visual when I open the Team App to point me to the channels that have changes. Something like a color square next to the channel with the change, or it is highlighted. Something to tell me to take a look. It then disappears once I have reviewed the change.
Nathan Wells commented
Yes - essential!
Rodrigo Jordán commented
Desktop version has problem with notifications (Mac and Windows). Sometimes we don't receive notifications about new comments on conversations..
Also, notifications on iPhone device don't work.
How can we follow a conversation if the teams doesn't notify well ?
The notifications on Mac OS are not quite well, would be a good idea to improve this... Maybe adding a counter in the doc icon indicating the number of updates.
Rick Kissel commented
Note, this should work in the browser interface on any platform...Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Ole Markus With commented
This is a pretty obvious feature and Skype for Web already has this working pretty well.
Notifications are dismal. The need improvement to compete with Slack
Desktop app does not show any indication of a missed notification. I see another thread talking about adding color.... a lot of color blind people find that impossible to notice. Please use Badges or Windows 10 notification popups or similar. It needs to be in your face when you've missed a chat!
Lee commented
I would have though this would be a standard thing..but apparently not!
So that you could show banners when the browser is hidden or minimized.


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How giving women in developing countries sustainable livelihoods can reduce domestic violence
Sydney, 22 November 2017 - Opportunity International Australia says the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November and the United Nation's 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, put the spotlight on the millions of women in developing countries who remain trapped in a cycle of poverty because of domestic violence.
Robert Dunn, Opportunity International Global Executive Director and Opportunity International Australia CEO, says: "We need to look at domestic violence as an aspect of poverty, although it occurs in all social classes and goes beyond poverty.
'A world free of poverty will not be realised until we have a world free of violence. Domestic violence in developing countries is an issue we need to urgently solve.
'One of the main reasons women in India are excluded from the workforce and continue to live in poverty is domestic violence, with 1 in 2 women impacted by it.
'Opportunity International Australia provides small loans to women in India, so they can build businesses, earn livelihoods, lift themselves out of poverty. This empowers them, gives them dignity, builds their self-confidence. They gain rights, become valued by their family and community, are seen as economic assets rather than burdens, which helps to reduce domestic violence.
'Opportunity partners with a domestic violence organisation in India, My Choices Foundation, which trains women to be PeaceMakers. PeaceMakers work with women, girls and families in India to give them choices to live lives free from violence, abuse and exploitation.
'PeaceMakers educate women about their rights, empower them to change the dynamics of power and control in their lives. They also work with men, because men are part of the solution, are key to breaking the cycle of gender-based violence.
'Opportunity also partners with Healing Fields Foundation in India, which trains women to be health leaders in their communities. The health leader program teaches women about how to prevent domestic violence, how to support women who are experiencing it.
'Gender-based violence is a human rights issue we must urgently solve. On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and during the 16 days of activism, let's join together as a global community and eliminate it,' he added.
If you would like to help Opportunity reduce domestic violence in India, click here.


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Although it creates challenges, I'm proud that Ethan is feisty and determined. I'm also happy that he does have some laid back tendencies (thanks to Matt). We've been dealing with separation anxiety for months. I'm currently reading Elizabeth Pantley's No Cry Separation Anxiety Solution. I learned about separation anxiety in my college courses and techniques on dealing with it through my work with families, but her book has already taught me even more. We hope her suggested techniques will assist us through this time. We would like to do whatever we can to make the transitions easier on Ethan and us. It's heart aching to watch him melt down when he hears the car keys or senses that it's time for Matt or me to leave him.
Ethan cries every day when Matt leaves for work and on the days when I drop him off at school. The crying and tantrums are short lived and he is able to be redirected but his meltdowns have caused injuries. He drops to the ground and throws his head to the floor. Sometimes he'll bang his head into the ground, leaving a red mark that usually clears quickly. One day Ethan was having a tougher time transitioning and started to tantrum while we were in the bathroom. He was slamming the bathroom cabinet doors, letting me know that he was not happy about Daddy leaving. I saw his hand was headed for the bathroom drawer and I went to reach for him but I was too late. He pulled the drawer out and it landed on his foot. I'll never forget the look of shock on his face and then his scream. His foot turned purple and swelled immediately. I scooped him up and attempted to put an ice pack on it but he kept pushing it off. He couldn't walk on it. I try not to joke about this but he looked like he was doing this move from the Karate Kid :)
I called his doctor, just in case. I really didn't think it was broken. They scheduled us an appointment for that afternoon. By the time of his appointment he was beginning to use his injured foot so I was doubting a fracture/break even more. His doctor sent us for xrays. I didn't think about the fact that I was pregnant and wouldn't be permitted in the xray room with him. I had to hand him off to two technicians and listen to him cry for me from the waiting room next door. They thought they had gotten sufficient pictures of his foot and stated that there were no fractures. His doctor suggested Motrin for the pain and to try to keep him off of it as much as possible (easier said than done... he's a toddler!). I sent him to school the next day, sans shoes, and passed the instructions on to his teachers.
Over the next 4 weeks Ethan ran, kicked balls, and continued his other usual activities. I noticed that he limped occasionally. I continued inspecting the injured area of his foot and grew concerned that after 4 weeks his foot still had a bump and bruise. I took him back to the pediatrician who sent us for more xrays. This time I called Matt to meet us there. Matt went back with Ethan to have the xrays taken and said that it was difficult to hold Ethan still for them. I can't imagine how difficult it was for the technicians during the first set of xrays. The new xrays revealed that Ethan's little foot is in fact fractured! My poor boy has been walking around with a fractured foot for 4 weeks! The doctor felt that it appeared to be healing on it's own so it did not need to be in a cast. We are thankful for that and hope that it continues to heal on it's own. We were instructed to limit his activity so he hasn't been running around as much. We'll return to the doctor to have it rechecked in another week.
The corner of the drawer caused a little cut too :(
p.s. Today is Ethan's 18 month birthday. This boy has been bringing us joy every single day for 18 months!


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NCAAB Plays for 3/14
Well that was a fun day/night. I went 3-1 on my full game plays which were all sent out to you this morning and added to that by going 5-1 on live plays which were all posted on my Twitter account. An 8-2 day is just what the doctor ordered and hopefully this is finally the springboard we need to get us going as have another 3 weeks of hoops to go. I wanted to make sure I got this out tonight as tomorrow is filled with day games and sending it tonight makes life much easier for those who want to tail. Also as I mentioned earlier if you are into live betting turn on your notifications on my Twitter handle as I'll be tweeting out all live plays I make for the rest of the season. Here's what I'm going with for Thursday….
Georgetown (+2.5)
Florida (-3)
Penn State/Minnesota Ov 135