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What a beautiful 'tiel you are, Tybo, from your stunning yellow crest, to your spiffy grey vest, to those trademark, "rosy"cheeks of yours! Everything about you makes me smile...your beauty, your sweet and gentle personality, and most of all, your love for your person! What a wonderful best feathered friend your human has in you, sweet one! You and she/he have only been together a short while, but already you two have forged one very special, everlasting bond of love and trust! What a terrific team you two make, what happy memories you two will be making over the many years to come...best friend for life!
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Three Duffield men have raised more than £11,000 for Cancer Research by cycling all the way to Monte Carlo.
Three Duffield men have raised more than £11,000 for Cancer Research by cycling all the way to Monte Carlo.
Russell Taylor, Nigel Williams and Gerard Varin took just nine days to complete their epic 1,000-mile journey.
The intrepid trio came up with the idea for their adventure in the Pattenmakers Arms, Duffield, after they each had a relative who experienced cancer.
And with the help of their families and support driver Terry Chisman, they crossed the finish line on Thursday, July 3.
Nigel said: "After 15 months of planning we finally cycled victorious into Monte Carlo.
"Our huge appreciation goes out to our sponsors, those who have donated to Just Giving, but mainly to our families for being so understanding."
Before setting off Nigel said he was doing for someone who has beaten cancer and another person whohad not.
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Ted Siefer's City Hall: Manchester elections held thrill of victory and near victoryBy TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
November 09. 2013 9:38PM
In his victory speech Tuesday night at the Derryfield Country Club, Mayor Ted Gatsas conceded that he was a little nervous in the weeks heading into the election. This was his 13th general election in the year 2013. "I'm a pretty superstitious guy," he joked.
As we all know by now, Gatsas won reelection by a respectable 6 percent margin, but it was the closest race in his three campaigns for mayor.
And superstitions aside, some of the credit had to go to Patrick Arnold, the 30-year-old Democratic alderman who was a political nobody a year ago. Besides coming within 1,000 votes of the mayor, Arnold denied Gatsas the clean sweep he had in the previous elections.
Arnold won Wards 3 and 4 and came within 13 votes of winning Ward 9.
But there's another conclusion to be drawn from the election: Gatsas prevailed despite what appears to be an effective get-out-the-vote operation by the city Democrats.
It's notable that the largest single vote-getter Tuesday was Alderman-At-Large Dan O'Neil, even though he was scarcely challenged during the campaign.
O'Neil received nearly 2,000 more votes than he did in 2011. In addition, the Democrats could claim the only takedown of an incumbent: Ward 10's Phil Greazzo, who lost to Bill Barry.
And yet Gatsas still won by a comfortable margin, including in Ward 10. He also had his widest margin of victory in Ward 8, where Erika Connors, the Democrat incumbent on the school board, crushed Republican state Rep. Steve Vaillancourt, 62 percent to 31 percent.
Gatsas, it's safe to say, has an appeal among city voters that transcends partisan loyalties.
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Based on the atmosphere at the Derryfield versus the Pint Publik House, where Arnold held his campaign party Tuesday night, you could have been confused as to who the victor was. Then and since, Arnold has been pretty excited about his performance in the election.
"I couldn't be more proud about the issues we raised and how to meet those challenges," Arnold told me as he was on his way out of town for a vacation.
So what's next for Arnold? He gave the distinct impression that city voters have not seen the last of him.
"The filing period for 2015 isn't for 515 days," he said. Not that he's counting.
"Between now and then, we're going to continue to be talking about issues of importance to Manchester residents and continue to be involved in the process," he said.
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Things got pretty tense in Ward 10, where Greazzo, a strong fiscal conservative, was defeated by Barry, a former police officer who had strong union support.
From Greazzo supporters there were accusations of public employee intimidation and campaign improprieties, and from Barry backers came harsh allegations over Greazzo's management of the Manchester Dog Park, his, ahem, pet project.
The tension appeared to carry over to election night. There was an incident between Barry's wife and Greazzo when he went over to congratulate Barry.
Apparently, she was less than gracious.
Greazzo said he didn't want to go into detail and "stir the pot."
In any case, it appears Greazzo and Barry have since patched things up.
"He called to apologize," Greazzo said, referring to the interaction with Barry's wife. "Bill and I were friends before the race started; we were Facebook friends," he said. "When he told me he was going to run, I pointed out some of the pitfalls. Politics is a rough game."
And Greazzo notes, it won't be long before the next election. "We'll see what happens in two years," he said.
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There may have been another Republican casualty in Tuesday's election: Will Infantine, who again lost his bid for an alderman-at-large seat.
Prior to the campaign, Infantine had been the chair of the Manchester Republican Committee, but he said he's not interested in returning to the leadership role.
"I'm done with city politics," he said. "I've given 10 years. I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly." Infantine declined go into detail on his decision, but he did note that this year's city election was the catalyst.
Infantine was caught in something of a tug-of-war between the city's Republican establishment, led by Gatsas, and his old buddy Joe Kelly Levasseur, who is, well, his own brand of Republican. Levasseur has had an increasingly tense relationship with the mayor - and he's repeatedly gone after the Manchester Police Department, both at City Hall and as an attorney.
But this election was further proof that, like him or not, Levasseur has a solid and steady core of support in the city.
He first won election to the at-large seat in 2011 with 6,829 votes, and he won it again on Tuesday with nearly the same number, 6,811 votes.
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After the excitement of the election, the school board meeting Tuesday feels a bit like having to go back to class after summer vacation. But there is something exciting about the meeting: it's going to be held at Dyn, the premiere Internet technology company at the Millyard. Field trip!
Superintendent Debra Livingston said at the last school board meeting that she wanted to build ties between the board and the business community and to help "give us a new picture of how to be very innovative and how to supply future training."
It also might be a good setting for the first update on the development of the Manchester Academic Standards. The business community has largely been supportive of the Common Core standards, arguing they will help ensure a well-trained work force. As Livingston presses forward with her district-based alternative to Common Core, she's going to have to make the case to opponents of the standards that they are still a worthy foundation.
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Model of a Second World War canteen lorry, England, 1939-1945
Mobile canteens or 'Food Flying Squads' were run by the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) in England during the Second World War. The canteens provided food and refreshments for people displaced from their homes because of air raids. They also catered to men engaged in various air raid and rescue duties. The WVS worked closely with the Ministry of Food (whose name is painted on the side of the lorry). The Vauxhall Motors plant at Luton made a number of vehicles for the war effort, including canteen lorries. The company commissioned a series of 1:8 scale models to be made for a touring exhibition about their vehicles – of which this is one. This model was made by Basett-Lowke.
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The fires were practically inevitable.
With gusting Santa Ana winds pushing 90-degree temperatures in the midst of a three-year drought, it wasn't so much a question of if, but when and where the blazes would erupt. Much of Southern California has been under a red-flag warning — extreme fire weather — since Sunday.
While fires have ignited in various parts of the region, San Diego County felt the most heat, declaring a local emergency Wednesday afternoon. The proclamation, signed at 1:25 p.m., says 20 structures have been damaged, opens the county to state and federal funds and asks Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency in California's southernmost county, according to the county's emergency website.
A handful of wildfires forced thousands to evacuate their homes — some of which burned. Highways, schools and recreation areas closed while firefighters from surrounding agencies helped local fire crews battle the blazes that charred thousands of acres.
In Carlsbad, about 30 miles north of San Diego, flames from the Poinsettia Fire engulfed suburban homes and shot up along canyon ridges in the worst of the blazes that broke out Wednesday during the second day of a sweltering heat wave.
Thick black smoke darkened blue skies over the Pacific Coast city known for its Legoland California amusement park. The park was closed Wednesday because of a power outage caused by the fire.
Over the past two days, at least six wildfires scattered within about 10 to 20 miles of each other have broken out in north San Diego County, prompting officials to seek assistance from other fire agencies around the state.
Fire departments from Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties have sent crews and equipment, known as strike teams, to assist in the firefight. Strike teams generally consist of five engines, 20 firefighters and a strike team leader.
The Los Angeles Fire Department and The Verdugo Unified Command — a coalition of a dozen Los Angeles County firefighting agencies including Pasadena, Monrovia, Montebello, Burbank and Glendale — each planned to send at least one strike team Wednesday, according to department spokesmen.
Four strike teams from various departments in San Bernardino County were deployed Wednesday, according to Tracy Martinez, a spokeswoman for the county Fire Department.
The teams were deployed with smaller equipment used for battling brush fires.
Canyons were ablaze with walls of flames racing between ridge-top homes and freeways. At least two firefighters suffered minor injuries — one heat-related and one from smoke inhalation.
Thousands were asked to evacuate their homes — including in Carlsbad — after the blaze erupted about 10:34 a.m. Wednesday and spread through heavy brush before jumping into residential areas.
Despite a state fire report of 30 homes burned earlier in the day, Carlsbad Fire Chief Michael Davis said he knew of just three homes destroyed and about a dozen damaged, all of them in the same neighborhood.
The wind-driven wildfire tossed embers onto roofs and trees, igniting them. Firefighters found themselves evacuating people and battling the blaze at the same time, Nick Schuler of Cal Fire said.
The fire's forward spread had been stopped, but hot pots remained, he said. More than 50 engines were coming in from around the state to help.
"There's days of work to be done" before the fire is doused, Davis said, adding that "this fire's fingered in all locations."
A steady stream of residents stopped at a roadblock on a four-lane thoroughfare as they tried to return home to collect valuables.
Richard Sanchez watched nervously as a plume of black smoke rose near his home. He had left his house an hour earlier in sandals to run an errand.
"All I want to do is get there and evacuate," Sanchez said. "We have a plan, but I can't execute it."
As authorities yelled "Please evacuate!" in Joe Post's Carlsbad neighborhood, he grabbed a garden hose and doused a palm tree in flames between his home and his neighbor's. He debated about leaving his home but was worried what he might find upon returning.
"Work water, work!" he shouted, spraying down charred landscaping near his home.
The scattered fires prompted schools to be evacuated in at least three communities, including the campus of Cal State San Marcos, where the San Marcos Fire scorched a hillside behind the 10,000-student university.
At least 20 school districts will be closed today, according to the county's Office of Education.
Meanwhile, the Highway Fire was chewing up 600 acres 20 miles north of the university near Fallbrook, forcing the shutdown of a stretch of Interstate 15.
On the nearby Marine Corps base, Camp Pendleton, which borders Fallbrook, a separate 1,000-acre blaze, dubbed the Tomahawk Fire, led to residents in military housing also being asked to leave.
The causes of the various fires were under investigation. One blaze spread from a burning vehicle on coastal Interstate 5 to roadside brush near the northwest corner of Pendleton.
Authorities reported 50 percent containment of the 2.42-square-mile Bernardo Fire that broke out Tuesday and forced thousands to flee the Rancho Bernardo area of San Diego. In Santa Barbara County, a 600-acre blaze near Lompoc was 50 percent contained.
Triple-digit temperatures and the drought were setting conditions for an unusually busy firefighting season, state fire officials said.
The heat wave and red-flag warning are expected to cease this evening.
Staff Writers Greg Cappis, Brian Day, Beatriz Valenzuela and Melissa Pinion-Whitt and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Barbara Kasoff has a message for women business owners: If you don�t like the way government regulations affect your business, stop whining and get involved.
The founder of Women Impacting Public Policy, a group that lobbies lawmakers on behalf of women-owned small businesses, isn�t shy about telling women they need to take charge if they want their businesses to succeed � especially when it comes to government policy.
�You, the woman business owner, need to get involved,� Kasoff says.
Female business owners are a growing force in the U.S. There were more than 8.3 million women-owned businesses in the country as of 2012, up 54 percent from 1997, according to a study commissioned by American Express. The most recent census figures available on businesses show that there were 7.8 million women-owned businesses in the country in 2007. That was nearly one-third of all non-farm businesses in the U.S.
�We are part of all the discussions,� says Kasoff. �No longer are we in a situation of being told what will happen. We�re part of the team.�
WIPP has over one million members across the country including those in 68 affiliated advocacy groups. Kasoff is particularly proud of WIPP�s success in government contracting issues. The group lobbied for the Women Owned Small Business program, which took effect in 2011, under which the government targets granting 5 percent of eligible federal contracts, or about $20 billion, to companies owned by women. Its most recent success: In late December, Congress approved a defense spending bill that removed caps on the size of those contracts. Caps that other small business owners didn�t face.
But those achievements haven�t been easy. First, she says, she had to get women owners to realize that government policy does affect them. And that they have to join forces to get the changes they want.
�If we didn�t have all of us working together, we never would have had the WOSB program at all. We would never have won the challenge to have the caps (on contracts to women-owned businesses) removed,� Kasoff says.
Kasoff had already been a business owner when she founded WIPP in 2001. She had owned 11 Voice-Tel franchises, which supplied voice messaging services, in Michigan and also owned Voice Response Corp., which provided call center services as well as voice messaging. She sold the businesses by 1999, and continued working for Voice Response until 2002.
Even with her success, Kasoff had questions about what the government could do to help her as a woman business owner. And she didn�t feel that her opinions were being heard in Washington.
�I was a business owner and I didn�t see that I had a voice,� she says. �I looked around and I didn�t see that anyone could help me.�
So she did what she now urges other businesswomen to do � she got involved.
Kasoff spoke recent with The Associated Press about the issues that women business owners face. Here are excerpts of the interview, edited for clarity and brevity:
QWhat led you to found WIPP?
AAs a business owner, I networked, I did all the things that business owners do � be grouchy, complain. How am I going to get the answers? How do some people get the government contracts? How come some business owners are always in the front pages of the newspaper? Who�s representing me as a woman business owner? That�s when I jumped in, got a group of people together, said, this is my idea, and they said, we�ll support you. I surprisingly got bought out (of my business), and so I started doing this full-time.
QWhat challenges do you still face in getting more contracts for women-owned businesses?
AThis is a wonderful issue, a challenging issue, but wonderful because there is an enormous opportunity ahead of us. The challenges are to make sure that the congressional goal of 5 percent (of federal contracts being set aside) for women business owners is met. In 2011, only 3.98 percent of our government contracts were awarded to women business owners.
It�s been a primary challenge to build awareness and enthusiasm among women owners for the opportunity that�s out there so we can get them to compete successfully. We�ve got to work together, the public sector, the private sector. It means partnerships with the Small Business Administration, with the SBA district and regional offices and its Women�s Business Centers.
QWhat has stood in the way of women getting more government contracts?
AWomen business owners did not recognize the revenue opportunities. They weren�t educated (about them). They didn�t have the tools and resources from the public and private sector. Nobody was focused on it, nobody said, here�s a gap and we have to meet it. We need to smooth out the legislative kinks and barriers that still exist, make sure we�re working together with the SBA, to give women training, to get women registered on SAM (Systems for Award Management, the federal contract awards database) so that they can take advantage of the opportunity.
QCongress created the 5 percent goal for contracts for women-owned businesses in 1994. It�s never been met. Why has it taken so long for women to win more contracts?
AGovernment is a big ship to turn. It takes time. Change does not come overnight. Some of the more positive things I see are the government�s recognition and ability to bring together partners like WIPP or American Express Open and other corporate entities. When you build together these public and private sector partnerships, you�re going to increase the opportunities. I think it�s been slow. It�s been just a year in terms of the WOSB program � it seems like forever. We�re treading water; we�re not seeing the gains. They�ve resolved some legislative issues like the cap (on the size of contracts for women-owned businesses), but also they�re putting together the partnerships and starting to scale the effort. We�re willing go to out on a limb, and believe that by the end of 2014, we�re going to hit that 5 percent. And I want to exceed that 5 percent.
QIs it harder for women business owners to get a loan?
AAccess to capital is tight for all small business owners, whether male or female. But at this point, women have to work harder in order to be successful. You don�t hear the stories you used to hear as much now � like, �I have to bring my husband in to get a loan.� But some of it is still here, and some of it frankly has to do with education and preparation by women owners (before they apply for a loan). But as women business owners are becoming more mature business owners they are ramping up their ability to have the right infrastructure in order to successfully get loans.


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Using optional members in your types can be useful if you want to reduce bandwidth usage— Connext DDS will not send unset optional members on the wire. They are especially useful for designing large sparse types where only a small subset of the data is updated on every write.
This section explains how to define optional members in your types in IDL, XML and XSD and how to use them in applications written in C, C++, Java and in applications that use the DynamicData API. It also describes how optional members affect SQL content filters.
The // @Optional annotation allows you to declare a struct member as optional (see Table 2 Declaring Optional Members ). If you do not apply this annotation, members are considered non-optional.
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An optional member is set when it points to a valid value and is unset when it is NULL. By default, when you create a data sample all optional members are NULL. The TypeSupport API includes the following operations that allow changing that behavior:
Set alloc_params.allocate_optional_members to true if you want to have all optional members allocated and initialized to default values.
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Once located, the object is removed. The veterinarian can sometimes do this with an endoscope down the puppy's throat or the other direction up through his rectum, or with surgery. Any internal damage is repaired. If surgery can correct the problem before peritonitis sets in, most puppies fully recover. Should tissue die, the damaged sections of the intestine may be removed, and the living portions of bowel reattached; these puppies typically have a good prognosis.
Most puppies outgrow indiscriminate munching. The best course is preventing your dog from swallowing dangerous items. Choosedog-safe toysthat can't be chewed into tiny pieces, and supervise object play. Anything a child would put in his mouth is fair game for puppies. Puppy-proof your home by thinking like your dog, so that you won't be caught off guard when your dog eats the rubber bumpers off the door stops.
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Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker appears to be of to a great start on Hideo Kojima's home turf. Media Create's sales charts, covering April 26 through May 2, put the PSP title's first week sales at 434,000 units. This is just shy of MGS4's 464,926 unit debut from 2008.
Peace Walker caused a sales surge for the PSP. While Sony's portable hardware is pretty consistent in topping the charts in Japan, it did so with authority this week, outselling second place PS3 nearly two to one.
Despite its huge numbers, Peace Walker wasn't the number one selling game for the week. That honor went to Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2. At over 600,000 units, the Square Enix DS sequel outperformed its predecessor, which sold 594,000 units in its first week back in December 2006.
Here's the full software chart:
- 1. Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 (Square Enix, DS): 624,000
- 2. Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker (Konami, PSP): 434,000
- 3. Super Street Fighter IV (Capcom, PS3): 81,000
- 4. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo, Wii): 44,000 (3,760,000)
- 5. Super Street Fighter IV (Capcom, X360): 28,000
- 6. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, Wii): 28,000 (2,739,000)
- 7. Friend Collection (Nintendo, DS): 27,000 (3,157,000)
- 8. Katei Kyoshi Hitman Reborn! DS Fate of Heat III (Takara Tomy, DS): 24,000
- 9. NieR Replicant (Square Enix, PS3): 21,000 (81,000)
- 10. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo, Wii): 20,000 (1,867,000)
No, Nintendo hasn't gone and released a new Wii Mario Kart game. That's the same Mario Kart that was released in April 2008. Its sudden rebound is likely due to family purchases leading up to the Golden Week holiday.
Outside of PSP, the big story in the hardware race this week was Xbox 360. Microsoft managed a two-fold increase by bundling Bayonetta and Forza 3 in the latest incarnation of its legendary "Value Pack" hardware bundles.
Here's the full hardware chart. Last week's totals are in parenthesis.
- 3. Wii: 30,757 (23,691)
- 4. DSi LL: 25,569 (16,676)
- 5. DSi: 15,628 (10,640)
- 7. Xbox 360: 4,943 (2,214)
- 6. DS Lite: 4,068 (2,789)
- 8. PSP go: 1,890 (1,544)
This week saw no new releases owing to the holiday period. The next charts from Media Create will presumably consist of long selling titles.


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The $500,000 Illinois Derby (G3) at Hawthorne features a full field of 14, including three-based in the Free State: Pretension, Hakama and Done Talking. Local riders Javier Santiago, Julian Pimentel and Sheldon Russell will be aboard, respectively.
"He made a really nice move in the Gotham and got about two lengths away from Hansen at the top of the lane right before that one took off," Grove said. "Edgar Prado rode him because Javier (Santiago) got sick in the jocks room that afternoon and told me he could have finished third but was riding to win the race. We got beat two noses for third."
Grove indicated the colt would likely be pointed to the $1 million Preakness® Stakes (G1), the middle jewel of the Triple Crown, at Pimlico Race Course on May 19. The Frederick, MD native saddled Norman Asbjornson in last year's race.
"I really think the experience helped make me educated on which races to pick to try to get graded money," added Grove. "I really watched who was going where so we have a chance to get that graded money. We really didn't want to run against Hansen again, the Florida Derby looked like it was going to come up tough and the Arkansas Derby was too far to go. This horse, in the morning, is as good as or better than Norman was a year ago at this same point so he is giving us confidence to travel down this road. The owner Mr. (Irving) Kidwell really wants to run in the Preakness. It would fulfill a life-long dream. If he happens to win Saturday, we might get Derby fever but the plan has been Preakness."
Hakama's owners Harry and Tom Meyerhoff have already lived the dream, winning the 1979 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes with Spectacular Bid. Hakama (6-1) defeated Pretension in an optional claimer at Laurel Park on January 4 and was a solid second in the Private Terms at Laurel on St. Patrick's Day.
The only off the board finish for the son of First Samurai, who is trained at the Fair Hill Training Center by Mike Trombetta, was a troubled sixth in the G3 Withers Stakes in early February. Trombetta used the Illinois Derby as a springboard to the Kentucky Derby and Preakness six years ago with Sweetnorthernsaint.
"The horse has just one blemish," Trombetta said. "He just hasn't broken through and run that big one yet. It is a wide-open race and worth taking a chance. I am hoping he will tell us he is ready for the Preakness. He has been close but we need him to take it to the next level. This is a different scenario because Sweetnorthernsaint had already run a 100 Beyer heading into this race. We need to see this guy improve by four or five lengths."
Done Talking (20-1) finished in the money in his first four starts before off the board finishes in the G2 Remsen (November 26) and G3 Gotham (March 3). The Hamilton Smith trainee produced a bullet 5-furlong work at Laurel Park on March 24.
"He is very professional," said Russell, who rode the son of Broken Vow to a score at Parx Racing in November. "He was very impressive that day and was very mature for his age. I have been aboard him in the morning and he is working lights out. The key will be getting a good trip from the outside post (13 of 14)."
Sagamore Farm's Tiger Walk will represent the state in the $1 million Wood Memorial (G1) at Aqueduct. The Tale of the Cat offspring won a pair of races at Laurel Park last fall before solid finishes in the G3 Withers (third place) and G3 Gotham (fourth) to begin his 3-year-old campaign. John Velazquez will be aboard the Pimlico Race Course-based colt for trainer Ignacio Correas.
"He is facing the most difficult race of his career," Correas said. "He is training really good and we have had some time to work on some things. Hopefully he responds and takes us to Kentucky. We feel he is sitting on a big race and that he will love the distance (1-1/8 miles)."
Correas will also saddle promising 3-year-old filly Millionreasonswhy in the G3 Comely Stakes on the Wood Memorial undercard. The daughter of Grand Slam won the Wide Country Stakes at Laurel on March 3 off a 6-1/2 month layoff. She is the 2-1 second choice.
"We were looking for a big effort in that race," added Correas. "The race was very valuable to where we want to go (Kentucky Oaks). She is training unbelievably well and should not have any trouble with the one-mile distance."
The $750,000 Santa Anita Derby (G1) includes three runners from the powerful Bob Baffert stable. Baffert has five Preakness wins on his resume, winning with Silver Charm (1997), Real Quiet (1998), Point Given (2001), War Emblem (2002) and Lookin At Lucky (2010).
The G1 Kentucky Derby is four weeks from Saturday on May 5. The Preakness (G1) is two weeks later at Pimlico with the Belmont Stakes (G1) set for June 9 at Belmont Park.


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Marseille midfielder Joey Barton has apologised to former Manchester City team-mate Dietmar Hamann for the "offensive and untrue" comments he made during an argument on Twitter.
The spat escalated on Monday when Hamann responded to Barton tweeting a rumour that team-mate Loic Remy was set to snub Newcastle for QPR, suggesting the former R's skipper should keep out of other players' business.
But, after a series of increasingly vitriolic exchanges between the former Premier League duo, Barton initially tweeted an apology before releasing a full statement to make amends and draw a line under the events.
"On Monday evening tweets exchanged between Dietmar Hamann and I went beyond the boundaries of banter, opinion and common sense," he wrote on his personal website joeybarton.com.
"I accept that my comments were offensive, untrue and related to matters of a personal nature, of which I had no knowledge.
"I have apologised to Dietmar personally and now wish to apologise through the same social media channels that I used to make them, as well as my own website."
A number of Barton's tweets made reference to Hamann's family and personal life, for which the 30-year-old apologised, and maintains the former Liverpool midfielder is a "fantastic ambassador" for football.
He continued: "I appreciate my comments have caused Dietmar and his family some distress and I fully regret that.
"I also appreciate that my comments should not have been made, as they could have damaged Dietmar's reputation, which should remain intact as a fantastic player and ambassador for German Football, as well as the game in general.
"Dietmar and I have now agreed to draw a line under the unfortunate exchange and neither of us will be making any further comments on the subject."
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Marseille midfielder Joey Barton has apologised to former Manchester City team-mate Dietmar Hamann for the "offensive and untrue" comments he made during an argument on Twitter.


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BTE-Dan's ship is essentially an iconic replica of the famous starship, and may not be practical.
"I would love to see 1,000 people go to Mars, but I need convincing that they need to be on the Enterprise to do so," said Crowl.
Other engineers said the similarities between BTE-Dan's ship and the Enterprise are only skin-deep.
"He wants to build something using foreseeable technology that just looks like the Enterprise," said Marc Millis, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center. "It's nowhere close to being what the Enterprise is."
Still, the site received so many visits soon after its launch that it crashed, revealing how appealing the idea is to many people.
Today's technology Though some aspects of the Enterprise are far out of reach today, many are within our grasp, and some are part of our daily lives. Sliding doors, futuristic in the 1960s, now welcome almost every grocery store visitor, and today's flip-open cellphones resemble Star Trek's tricorders. The touch-screen devices ubiquitous today even look like those used in the 1990s episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation."Today's technology
"If you had shown someone an iPad in the 1990s and told them it was 23rd century technology, they would have believed you," Richard Obousy, co-founder and president of Icarus Interstellar Inc., told SPACE.com.
Advances with 3D printers also provide opportunities for voyages through space, allowing the replication of parts while using materials found at the destination. Andreas Hein, an aerospace engineer also with Icarus Interstellar, suggested that it might not be long before such printers make food similar to the way meals were synthesized by replicators on the Enterprise.
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Obousy agreed that nuclear rockets could provide the necessary thrust, pointing to the large, multi billion-dollar projects around the world seeking ways to unlock fusion as an energy source. Of course, such projects primarily focus on powering homes and cities on Earth, but once unlocked, fusion could be used to travel through the stars.
Word games can be powerful ways to help remove you from the traditional mindset that tends to produce generic, unoriginal ideas. If you're trying to get out of an idea rut, try adding a few games to your meeting to drum up some out-of-the-box thinking.
One great word exercise is creating a "word storm." To create a word storm, write down one word, and then brainstorm a whole slew of words that come to mind from that first word. Try thinking about the function of that word, its aesthetics, how it's used, metaphors that can be associated with it, and so on. Let the ideas flow naturally, and don't over think it -- this is meant to be a creative exercise.
Once you've listed out a bunch of words, group them together according to how they're related to one another. The goal? To come up with those less obvious words or phrases your audience might associate with whatever project you're working on.
You can record the word storm on a piece of paper or a whiteboard or by using this online word storm tool to create a visual map -- which you can save, export, and send to the team after the meeting.
Mind mapping is another powerful brainstorming tool to visualize related terms and ideas. Create a diagram starting with a central idea, and then branch out into major sub-topics, then sub-sub-topics. You can create mind maps either on paper or a whiteboard, or by using something like MindNode app .
Finally, another word game you could try is coming up with what Creative Bloq calls "essence words": Words that capture the spirit, personality, and message you're trying to put across -- even if they seem crazy. You might find that it helps spark other ideas down the line.
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While there are many ways to use visual prompts in brainstorming, creating a mood board is one of the most common -- especially in coming up with new branding and design concepts.
A mood board is simply a random collection of images, words, and textures focused on one topic, theme, or idea. Like with mind mapping, the visual components of the mood board can be anything branching off that central topic.
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Nothing gets the creative juices flowing like a little improvisation. This may sound silly, but hear me out: The more relaxed and playful the environment is (without being distracting), the more your team will feel comfortable thinking and sharing freely with one another.
Our initial application focuses on the set-up and deployment of self-experiments (Step 2 in Figure 1 a). In our process, individuals generate a list of hypotheses that narrow which trigger foods to test (i.e., independent variables). The application will use relevant medical knowledge, the individual's personal experience, and/or the expertise of a medical provider to help generate testable hypotheses (storyboard in appendix). The individual then configures a self-experiment by setting their personalized symptoms (i.e., dependent variables). They also choose a start date, a study duration, and a time for daily reminders to enter symptoms.
When self-experimentation begins, the application shows the individual a schedule of which days to avoid and which days to consume the experimental trigger food, following a completely randomized SCD as previously described. The application shows sample meals for trigger and non-trigger food days (i.e., experimental and control). The individual is instructed to eat an otherwise consistent meal during each day, varying only the food component being tested. During each day of the experiment, the individual is also instructed to log peak symptom severity using a subjective scale at a defined time after eating the test meal (e.g., 4 hours). At the end of the experiment, findings are summarized and interpreted ( Figure 4 ). The results include a P value on the likelihood the trigger food is causing IBS symptoms by chance. The individual may choose to re-run the experiment with a different possible trigger, or share the results with their medical provider for recommendations on how to avoid this trigger.
Screenshots of pages from our mobile app prototype. From left to right: study schedule, result summary of past studies, and results of a study.
Screenshots of pages from our mobile app prototype. From left to right: study schedule, result summary of past studies, and results of a study.
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Essay by Bill McKibben
Photograph by Robert Kakarigi
I'm writing these words on a computer powered by the solar panels on the roof of my house—that's the good news. We're learning, as we've seen in these pages, some new ways that we might power our lives. But might is the operative word. It's not going to be easy, and however well we manage the transition away from oil and coal and gas, the world we create won't be the same. To understand why, consider the intrinsic merits of fossil fuel: It's easy to get at (just stick a drill in the ground, or, tragically, blow the top off a West Virginia mountain), easy to transport, and incredibly rich in power. One barrel of oil, for instance, contains about 5.8 million Btu, or the equivalent of the force exerted by a peasant working 3,625 hours on a farm. That would be, oh, about 15 months' worth of work in the fields. Fossil fuel is magical stuff.
Renewable energy, by contrast, is certainly plentiful. In any given hour, more energy from the sun reaches Earth than is used by the whole human population in any given year. The trouble, of course, is that it's the very opposite of coal or oil. Instead of being concentrated, it's diffused. There's a little bit everywhere, except at night, when there isn't any at all. The same with wind and with many other alternatives. This doesn't necessarily make them impractical. We may be out of silver bullets, but perhaps we've got enough silver buckshot. Still, it's very hard to see quite how we'll power the world we're used to living in. Look at the whole apparatus of our society as you head to work or school today: the thrumming of the engine in your car, the whir of the machine that makes your coffee (not to mention the ship that carries the coffee to our shores and the roaster that makes it taste good and the machine that washes your cup). All of them depend primarily on the burning of the barrels and lumps of ancient biology now running short and threatening to wreck our climate.
We've somehow got to transform all that so that the ultimate power comes from somewhere else—and we have to do it without breaking the planet's economy. Money, in fact, becomes almost as important as Btu in these calculations. If we can't do it at a reasonable cost, it's unlikely that we'll do it at all, both because we'll run out of cash and because we'll run out of politicians willing to vote for expensive projects.
There are, happily, some real possibilities. To start with, we waste a lot of energy: The average American uses twice as much as the average western European, even though our standard of living is no higher. The Belgians don't have a secret technology; they merely have a region that, because fuel prices have been high for 50 years, learned how to economize. Some of the difference is technological—building codes call for more insulation, and cars are held to higher mileage standards. But much of it is behavioral—people have learned to take the train instead of drive, to travel on the schedule of their community, not just their own whim. Some of that will be hard to translate back onto our shores; our suburban sprawl is a machine for burning energy. But there's plenty we can do, beginning with replacing those incandescent lightbulbs. Why not buy a hybrid car or, better yet, one of the new plug-in hybrids soon to be on the market? Efficient appliances pay back in no time. If you take the commuter train, you can read a book on your way to work. In a strange way, the good news is that we're so energy obese that cutting the first, say, 20 percent won't be tough at all. It'll be like losing weight by cutting your hair.
After that, though, things get harder. Trade-offs start emerging. Some are huge: How much risk will you put up with from a nuclear power plant? Others are aesthetic: Community resistance to windmills on a nearby ridge or shoal seems to be diminishing as the new energy calculus gets clearer. And some trade-offs are very personal: Would you be willing to eat a lot less meat? (By some measures, livestock production accounts for as much greenhouse gas as driving.) Or might you change your diet to eat close to home, forgoing those January strawberries from across the globe? Oh, and that overseas vacation? The jet to get you there will almost certainly burn more fuel than anything else you do all year.
The truth is, though, that none of these individual choices will add up fast enough to materially affect the amount of carbon in the atmosphere or the amount of oil left in the big fields of the Middle East. There simply aren't enough people paying real attention. The momentum of our economy is too strong, especially since we need change to come so quickly. Rajendra Pachauri, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 alongside Al Gore, said recently that unless fundamental shifts were under way by 2012, the feedback loops driving climate change would take on an irrevocable life of their own. In the United States, 2012 means this President, most of these senators. It means us.
Given that time frame, only two things could radically change our trajectory. One is a World War II–scale commitment to technological change—almost literally as during World War II, in fact, except that this time instead of Detroit automakers shifting to tank and plane production, they start building plug-in hybrid cars and locomotive engines. And change wouldn't stop at the factories. If we're going to electrify the country's vehicle fleet, as Al Gore has proposed, we'll need a massively revamped transmission grid, one capable of bringing solar power from the desert Southwest and wind energy from the nation's midsection. It's not like the Apollo program, which focused all our technological prowess on three men. This is more like getting everyone to the moon. One bonus: This huge undertaking is the most promising stimulus for a limping economy. And it mostly has to be done at home. No one is going to put a house on a boat and send it to China to get insulated. Solar panels mean guys with hammers up on roofs.
Boosting technological investment is only half the answer. We also need to fix the set of economic incentives that drives our energy system, so that capitalism can go to work helping us solve the problem. Until now, free markets have made the problem worse, not better. That's because they get no signal about carbon: Since there's no cost to pour it into the atmosphere, there's no way for markets to work their magic. But an international treaty that capped the amount of carbon we could emit would, in effect, put a price on CO2, one high enough to reflect the damage it's doing. (Some experts have called for an oil depletion tax on every barrel of oil as well, using the funds to prepare us for the post-petroleum future.) Both candidates for President last fall supported some form of a cap on carbon emissions, which would have the effect of driving up the price of coal and gas and oil and hence driving down demand. We know this strategy works. It's why when oil prices spiked last year Americans suddenly started driving less almost for the first time in our history. But it's also politically painful, especially in the current economic downturn. To give it any chance of passage, you'd need to figure out how to rebate directly to taxpayers the money you collected from selling the permits to pollute, a strategy that President Obama embraced in his campaign.
So far we've been talking mostly about the West. But if you think the prospect of a new energy system is economically painful here, imagine how all these equations look to, say, the Chinese. They've just now begun industrializing, and the main fuel they have to drive their quest for modernization is coal. It's plentiful and relatively cheap—maybe a few cents a kilowatt-hour for them to mine and burn. If you travel in China, you see endless new gleaming silver towers holding up the transmission lines that dip and swoop like the Great Wall across the countryside. All that coal burning is producing endless sulfur and soot, which makes the average Chinese city a gray and sunless place. That's a price they've been willing to pay, just as we were willing to pay it at a similar point in our history.
That two-new-coal-plants-every-week pace, though, is also producing huge amounts of carbon dioxide. In 2006 China passed the U.S. as the biggest emitter of CO2 on Earth. There are four times as many Chinese as Americans, of course, and they're using their energy to pull people out of poverty, not to build a new round of suburban starter castles for entry-level monarchs. They're building easier lives the same way we did, and in fact they're probably paying more attention to the environment along the way. (The Chinese lead the world in renewable energy deployment, largely because they've put millions of solar hot-waterheaters on urban rooftops.) So on moral grounds, we can't call them out. But the atmosphere doesn't care much about morality, only carbon. Somehow we have to strike a deal—with China and with the rest of the developing world. A deal that helps them afford the price of the new energy we need for them to use if the world is not going to fall over the cliff of peak oil or watch temperatures soar past the breaking point. By ourselves we can't solve either problem: They don't call it "global" warming for nothing.
The best prospect for such a pact—and hence the last best chance for really changing our energy future—may come later this year in Denmark. Diplomats from around the globe will meet in Copenhagen in the fall to agree on a new treaty that will replace the expiring Kyoto accords. It will attempt to sharply reduce fossil-fuel use in the developed world and funnel resources from rich countries to poor ones so that they can develop without burning their mountains of cheap coal. Call it a Marshall Plan for energy, with the same mix of generosity and practicality. The Chinese have suggested that one percent of our GDP might be the place to start. That will be a tough number to sell to American voters.
But then, this whole package of challenges adds up to the toughest thing humans have ever attempted. And part of the trouble is that we come at it with so much momentum: Energy use continues to shoot upward even as it becomes clear that we must dramatically change course. Delay of even a few years will be catastrophic. It's a timed test, where at some point in the not too distant future we'll have to put our pencils down and simply live with the answers we've come up with. And since nature doesn't grade on a curve, it will require every bit of ingenuity—technological, economic, and social—that we can muster.
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The spon.sors of this ceiobra- lion feel thai, although the Jew,- ish slule has only been in exist- ance one year, and a very slprmy pear al llial, it has al¬ ready fulfilled, in a full mea¬ sure, the historic objectives of a Jewish slate in our lime. II has raised the prestige of Jews the world over in the eyes of their neighbors, and it has serv¬ ed as a haven for persecuted Jews, when It opeTied its doors to the unimpeded flow of immi¬ grants from the Jewish DP camps-of Europe and from the per.seculions of- the Arab coun¬ tries. The spon.sorlng committee is, therefore, inviting the Jewi.sh community of Columbus to par¬ ticipate in the celebration and Thanksgiving for the many fold joys of this occasion, and lo those who -gave ihclr lives for the consummation of our ago old rlrcam and lo remember those who reoenlly lost Ihoir lives in the holocaust of Nazism, ho- cause no sui h h'lvon wis aviil alilo f >i them It - UJF Division Workers to Hear Native Palestinian Day by day, reports coming from General Campaign Chair¬ man Leo Yassenoff reveal that the 1949 United Jfewish Fund drive is^'maklng substantial progress, kicreased sulMcriptions were revealed al the three Divisional meetings conducted last week—Doclor-^Denllsl—Optometrist Division, headed by 0r. Louis Mark; Food, Restaurant & Bars Division, Jack Sher, chair¬ man; and Lawyers ^ Accountants Division, -Troy Felbell chair¬ man. Mr. Yassenoff, in reviewing last week's events, said that the jxiCAL RABBIS ON giving and the wholehearted In- cMrBCH PROGRAMS leresl shown Is most significant. J" ¦ ¦ Il evidences their realization Starling Itfmbrrow on station that in this "year of homecom-1 WHNR, Rabbis Nathan Zelizer, ing" for hundreds of thousands' ¦'<'''o™<^ Folkman and Harry of displaced per.sons, c'oiumbus K-'iPla" will deliver addres.ses on ;in(l American Jcwrv mu.st rise ; "i<- Church of the Air program lo the opportunity of finishing:"'""'"'? '^"^ "^""'^ °' ^^y- ''^°'" tho greatest humanitarian j'" "¦ "'• '° ^''¦•^^¦ movement in modern limes, i The schedule: May 1, Rabbi More than that, it di.sciosos that I Zolizer: May R, Rahbi Folkman; the men who have nndorlakon 1 May l.l. Rabbi Zelizer; May 22, the .task of raising funds under- i Rabbi Folkman; an^ May 29, stand that thoy must sot thojU'dilji Kaplan. example of giving in greater measiir'c than ever bofor'o. .Mr. V issemiff sIroKsrd. On tho schodiiio for noxt wook : lie two more vory importiint Division dinner meotings —' Meld Mfg.. Fabricating & Wasto^ Malorialjj. Joseph S. Summer,,i th iirman. VVodnosday. (;::iO pm.. it Iho Maramor: and tho Retail liddes Division, headed hy I ( h irlos Y. Lazarus, with Rich-' nrd Abel as co-chairman. It in- (iudcs the Apparel, Jewelry & 1 urnilure groups, which are to metl Thursday, (i:30 p. m., also al the Maramor. The speaker for these two meetings wiil be Shoshana Ad- moni; a native Palestinian who has jusl returned from Israel and who wiil have a .timely first hand report on events there, Hor message shoultl give a true picture of how thou.sands of our brethren ate' cared for as they (Oontiuued on Face 4) UJF WOMEN URGED TO SUBMIT CARDS Att<'ntlon all Majom of the rnilcd Jewish Fund Wom¬ en's DivlNioii; Vour woi'kovs' l>le(l}j;(':oj^i-ds muHt be Nubmitt- 'fidity. May 4. Inul deadline. Please comply. v(} by Woilni'Si That:^(he fir COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN TO INDUCT NEW OFFICERS NEXT WEEK ¦ Newly elected officers and board members uf. the Council of Jewish Wome.fl will be in¬ ducted into the office at th^ closing meeting of the season, Tuesday al Bryderi Rd. Temple, 1 p. m. Mrs. M. J. Papurt will be in¬ stalled as president, by Mrs. Si¬ mon Lazarus, along with- the following. officers and board member^: Mrs. Jack Resler, 1st vice-president; Mrs. Herbert Levy, 2nd v-p; Mrs. Irving Lack¬ rltz, 3rd v-p; Mi-3. L.'l. Praver, recording secretary; Mrs. Joseph Horchow, auditor; Mesdames Al¬ bert Goorey, E. J. Gordon, Jef¬ frey Goldsoll, E. J. Schanfarber, Arthuf Loeb, Jr., Bernard Feit¬ iinger. Harry Roth, A. B. Wein¬ feld, Morris J. Fox, Louis Ru¬ ben, Sidney Putchat, Maurice Sher, Herbert Linick, Maurice L. z8x, Charles Radow, Marvin Frank and Theodore Simson. Mr. Norman Nadel, dramatic and music critic of the Colum-, bus Citizen, will be presented by Mrs. Leonard Slern, program Chairman, in a review ot current plays, "The Season on '^BrttSd- CLERGYMEN TO HEAR DR. HESCHEL LECTURE AT INSTITUTE ON > JUDAISM The Inslilule on Judalsrn for Clegymen of FrankHn •Coiinty wili be conducted at the Temple TIferelh Igr^l Wednesday, from 10:30 a. m. lo 4 p. m. - Dr, Abraham Heschel. Professor of Jewish Ethics and Mys¬ ticism at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York will deliver one lecture in the morning—'MewLsh Mysticism as a Way tif Life"—and another lecture in the afternoon—"Jewish Ethics as a Way of Life." Prof. Heschel is a great authority on the subject. Rabbi Nathan Zelizer', Chair¬ man of the Inslilule, will speak al 1 p. m. on the sub>ect, "How the Synagogue Functions." ¦ The Clergy will l)e guesis of the T. I. Sisterhood for a lunch¬ eon al noon, served In the veslry room of the Temple. This Institute Is sponsored by Broad St- Temple, Bryden Rd. Temple and Hiliei Foundation. Air local Clergy are cordiaily in¬ vited. . ^ ' Other participants wiil in¬ clude Rabbi Jerome Folkman, Rabbi Harry Kaplan, Rev. Fr^ . George T. WolZ, Rev, Dr. Donald*; Timmerman, Mrs. Harry Getz, • Mr. Lguis Schlezlnger, and Mr. Richard Grundstein. Last year, tho Institute on Judaism was held at the Bryden Road Tempie with the three Rabbis as hosts. way," Mrs. S. R. Hirsch wili of¬ fer the opening prayer. A dessert luncheon, beginning promptly at 1 p. m., arranged by Mrs. Louis Madison and her committee, will precede"_the meeting. Members havyS been a.sked to bring a bai/'of soap which will be sent to the chil¬ dren al Maubuisson orphanage In Ftance. Tax stamps are also requested to be brought to the meeting. LOCAL .MAN N.XMEI) Dr. n. W. Abramson and Mr. Daniel Harrison were elected to serve as members of the Board of Governors of the newly forra- ¦ed Midwestern Stales Region of the American Association for Jewish Education. The newly formed -Midwes¬ tern Slates Region was organiz¬ ed al a Conference held in Chi¬ cago Mar. 27. The Region will concern itself with the develop¬ ment of Jewsib Education in ih^ Midwestern Communities. DEOICATION SERVICES The War Memorial Chapel at the Hiliei Foundation will be dedicated at services on Friday, May 6, at 7:30 pm. Rabbi Selwyn Ruslander, of Dayton,- will he guest speaker. A plaque bearing the names of 50 hoys who died during World War 2 will be presented. The Jewish community is cor¬ dially invited. escbel "HONOR THY MOTHER" "Honor Thy Mother" Suntlay, May H; Mother's Day, by planting a tree in Israel In her honor or memory. No more fitting gift or tribute could be found loday, ono weclc before the firsl anni- verrtary of the birth of Fsrael. A siJeclai Mother's Day certificate is available jusl by .calling Hadassah's J.N.F. Ttee Chair¬ man, Mrs. Maurice Zox. EV. 2147. 'Do it now so that this cer-. tlflcale will be received on time. Jewish National Fund today is, a tremendously important part of Hadassah's work since land must be available for all refu¬ gees reaching Israel's shores. Planting trees Is one way we can all help in this project. Grundstein, Luckoff Candidates For B'nai Brith's Guardianship Richard H. Grundstein and Seymour Luckoff were nominated for Guardian of B'nul Brllh this week at the regular meetfng of Zion Lodge, No, 62. Two past-presidents of.the local B'nai Brith placed the names in nomination for the election on May 24. Justin Siilman pre¬ sented Luckoff's name and I. M. Harris nomlnaled Gijundstein. Both are young men who have been- active in B'nai. Brith and civic affairs. Luckoff is a member of the re¬ tention, membership and execu¬ tive CGmmtllees of, the Lodge and has served as assistant pro¬ gram chairman. He Is also sec¬ retary of the Main St. Mer¬ chants Association. Grundstein has served on. the retention, member.ship, and elec¬ tions committees and did oul- s I a n d 1 IJ g work for the B'nai Hrith leaiti In the recent March of Dimes. He has also served on Rod Cross campaigns. The office of Secretary is a :i-way proposition. Nominated iasl Tuesday were Gene Hamei "GRKBN FIELDS" "Green' Fields." a Yiddish movie, will be shown Sunday, 8 p. m., at the Hillel Foundation. This movie is sponsored by the, Graduate-Fatiuity Ciub. off, Robert Horowitz and Saul Sokol. Olher "noinlnations without op¬ position were rnade for ¦ Presi¬ dent, Herljerl Wise; first Vice- President, Leon Friedman; 2rid vPres., Sam Topolosky; Warden, Donald Snitier; Treasurer, WaK ter katz; and Chaplain, Abra¬ ham Gertner. Gertner is now president. The election wili be al Broad St. Temple. Tuesday May' 24. Arrangements for at)sentee bal¬ lots wiil have lo be made in ad¬ vance'wlih Jack L Ratner, eiec¬ lions tommlttee chairman Mr. Grundstein m 1 '-1,1 ^ ^1 Mr. liUcboU —!>
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text: Shooting: Story Story Posted 08-21-2013 Joe Mantegna's Gun Story Mantegna talks Gun Stories, shooting sports, and his favorite gun. Outdoor Channel had the opportunity to talk with Joe Mantegna, actor and host of MidwayUSA's Gun Stories. Learn how he became interested in guns while growing up in Chicago, being a gun advocate, and what separates MidwayUSA's Gun Stories from other gun shows. OUTD: Can you tell us a little bit about the show MidwayUSA's Gun Stories? JOE: In Gun Stories, we track the firearms that have had an impact on history. In other words, significant firearms throughout, not just the history of America, but history of the world – spanning hundreds of years. So in addition to firearms buffs, people who are interested in history in general and how firearms made an impact on world history will find this show interesting. OUTD: What makes this gun show different than other gun shows that are on TV? JOE: Well first of all I'm on it so that makes it a little different than other shows on TV (laughs)! But also, we've gone the extra mile in the quality show we are making. Right now we are shooting in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, which is an incredible location not just for someone interested in the history of firearms but for those interested in the history of the West. We shot in some great places in Hollywood and saw how the magic of Hollywood is able to incorporate firearms in their industry. It's a real comprehensive show in terms of historical firearms for people who have a passing interest in it and for people who have an avid interest in it. OUTD: Tell us about your personal involvement in the gun world and how you became an advocate in the gun industry. JOE: My personal involvement didn't start at a really young age; I didn't even shoot a gun until I was well into my late teens. But I got exposed to trap and skeet and sporting clay shooting as a teenager and really enjoyed it. I learned about firearms in the proper way and realized that the shooting sports, be it hunting or target shooting, is an incredible world and sport where you meet incredible people when it's done correctly, safely and professionally. It's something that has been around for hundreds of years and obviously has a huge following and I'm glad to be part of that community. OUTD: How do you think guns tell history in a unique and different way rather than just a historical look? JOE: It's funny because you say the word guns and it's one of those hot button words where people have a certain reaction to it. But bottom line, if you really think about not only the history of our country but the history of the world, firearms have played a significant part as a tool used in different circumstances. Going back to the Revolutionary Way, it guaranteed our country its freedom, and it's preserved our freedom over a myriad of wars since so it's had a tremendous impact just on allowing us to be the country we are today. So regardless of a person's stance or personal feelings on it as a word or as a sport or interest, there is no denying that firearms and guns have had a tremendous impact on not just our day–to-day life, but on the history of our country and every country on this planet. OUTD: And a lot of people look at it as a pure political issue and it's so much not. JOE: First of all, I wouldn't be doing this show if I felt it was a political issue because I'm probably the most non-political person you're ever going to find. I've tried to make it my goal to be nonpolitical in life. I've been in an independent politically since the time I was able to vote. And for me, the second amendment is not a political issue; the right to bear arms is not a political issue. You have to make adjustments along the way and I think even our founding fathers realized that things had to change with time and so you make little adjustments. But at the end of the day, there are certain inalienable rights that we have which are important. We are certainly still a country that every four years we freely go out and elect someone without people rioting the streets and killing each other, causing turmoil or overthrowing a government or having a dictator step in and take over, so the system seems to have been working for a long time. I think our second amendment right is just as important as a lot of our other rights. We have a freedom of speech, we have a freedom of assembly, religion, and we have a freedom to keep and bear arms as a populace. And you have to be responsible, you can't just be some knucklehead abusing that right. It's not a political right, the constitution says "we the people" and that's everybody. OUTD: Tell me how a kid from Chicago started shooting. JOE: Not like you think! I got exposed to shotgun shooting because right along Lake Michigan there was a beautiful old shooting range for skeet shooting that was built back in the 30s. Unfortunately it's not there anymore but that's where I cut my teeth on it and realized, wow, this is really something. And I was taught by people who really understood the shooting sports and understood the care, safety, almost the privilege you have of doing it and doing it correctly and not abusing it and obviously dealing with things that can be inherently dangerous. I was taught the right way and exposed to it the right way and I am a proponent of exposing it to other people in the right way. And that's why the shooting sports are as popular as they are today and hopefully will continue to be so. OUTD: What's your favorite gun and why? JOE: From the ones we've covered here on Gun Stories, my favorite firearm would be the 1911 Colt 45 ACP. I actually got into practical pistol shooting back in my mid-20s and started to compete and got up as high as B class at one point. And then technology got too overwhelming. I knew what it was like to swap barrels, have my guns ported and throated and get special sights and things like that, but once they started getting into lasers and all that, I thought, well, this is going in a different direction. I'm kinda old school that way. When given the choice to carry a certain side arm in various television shows or action shows I've done, I've always opted for the Colt 45. I have a fondness for that caliber and that particular firearm so that's what this old school guy would carry. OUTD: What guns have had the biggest impact in the industry? JOE: Anyone that watches Gun Stories is going to learn which guns have had the biggest impact since that's what this show is all about! The AR15, ultimately the M16, had a big impact in terms of our military. Again the Colt 45 1911 is something that has been maintained for so long and is still viable not just in terms of a gun but in caliber. The BAR is fairly historical. You could just go down the list of every gun we've covered on the show, and because the list is so long, we can fill up a lot more seasons talking about guns that have had an impact on history – from bolt action to semi autos. There's everything from pistols to rifles to shotguns – the 870 Remington shotgun was very important and to this day still is. Anyone who is an enthusiast will immediately understand and it will resonate with them. And people watching for the first time that don't know anything about firearms but have an interest in it will learn a lot, too. I've been involved in the shooting sports for about 40 years now and I learned quite a bit doing the show. 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Weiss not locking anyone into bullpen roles
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The Rockies look as if they'll have a solid and versatile bullpen, judging by the accomplishments of some relievers and the potential of others. If anyone can say the group will be a strength, it's right-hander LaTroy Hawkins.
The 2014 season will be the 20th in the Majors for Hawkins, 41. The 2007 Rockies club that went to the World Series is one of the 10 teams that have employed him. Only 19 pitchers in the history of the game have made more appearances.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The Rockies look as if they'll have a solid and versatile bullpen, judging by the accomplishments of some relievers and the potential of others. If anyone can say the group will be a strength, it's right-hander LaTroy Hawkins.
The 2014 season will be the 20th in the Majors for Hawkins, 41. The 2007 Rockies club that went to the World Series is one of the 10 teams that have employed him. Only 19 pitchers in the history of the game have made more appearances.
The free-agent signings of Hawkins and lefty Boone Logan, the durability of righties Matt Belisle and Wilton Lopez, and the growth of younger pitchers such as lefty Rex Brothers and righty Adam Ottavino give the Rockies many options. There are other relievers who could have an impact, based on experience or youthful talent. But even taking all this into account, Hawkins has been around long enough to know that he doesn't know what will happen.
"You just never know," Hawkins said. "We just have to go out there and pitch and at the end of the year we'll know if we had a good bullpen, a decent bullpen or a bullpen that was a soft spot when [chief baseball officer] Dan O'Dowd and [senior vice president of Major League operations] Bill Geivett were putting this team together."
For now, the plan seems solid. If the Rockies carry seven relievers, just one spot is up in the air -- and even that isn't available if lefty Franklin Morales, who has pitched capably out of the bullpens of the Rockies and Red Sox, doesn't end up in the starting rotation.
If the Rockies go with eight relievers, as often is the case, experienced candidates are onetime Rockies closer Manny Corpas and former Reds setup man Nick Masset; less-experienced options are righties Rob Scahill and Chad Bettis, who learned under fire last year. Speaking of fire, it comes from the right arm of Tommy Kahnle, who was taken from the Yankees in the Rule 5 Draft. Down the road a bit, the Rockies have 2009 top Draft pick Tyler Matzek, a left-hander who quickly took to bullpen pitching during the 2013 Arizona Fall League season.
For a club with a small- to-mid-market payroll, that's a decent amount of talent and depth on the roster. But even manager Walt Weiss isn't blindly expecting what's on paper to stay that way all season. That's why Weiss isn't yet hammering out roles for his relievers. Even at closer, where Hawkins has the job -- but Weiss reserves the right to use Brothers and could eventually place the job in Brothers' left hand -- there is wiggle room in case injury or performance dictates.
"It's tough to go an entire season where everybody in the bullpen pitches only one role," Weiss said. "Versatility is important down there. Of course, guys will fall into certain slots in the game, but that doesn't mean they necessarily have to stay there. The bottom line is, we're trying to get through nine innings and pitch effectively."
"I'm not worried about creating a role for every guy down there while we're down here [in Spring Training]. That stuff works itself out, and it evolves over the course of the season."
In their last two playoff campaigns they proved fit for evolution.
In 2007, left-hander Brian Fuentes went into the year as closer, but was affected by an injury. Corpas took the job and helped the team to the World Series. Late in 2009, when the Rockies were trying to clinch their playoff berth, Huston Street was felled by injury. Morales earned the save in the game that clinched a postseason berth.
But the evolution of last year's bullpen helped extinguish the Rockies' once-high hopes. With Rafael Betancourt as closer, there was a stable relief corps that had Brothers as primary setup man. But Betancourt was lost three times with injury -- the last leading to season-ending elbow surgery. Brothers became closer and wasn't affected -- he finished with 19 saves and a 1.74 ERA in 72 appearances. But games were lost before he could get into them because the Rockies became shaky in the setup role that Brothers vacated.
Brothers enters the season not only ready to accept his role but confident there is talent to adapt over the course of the season.
"We added a lot of veteran leadership, and those guys have done it a long time," Brothers said. "I definitely believe whatever is thrown at the bullpen, it'll be handled."
The Rockies need bounce-back seasons from Belisle (5-7, 4.32 ERA in 72 games) and Lopez (3-4, 4.06 in 75 games), but there may be help if the heavy workloads of the past continue to affect Belisle and Lopez this season. Ottavino (1-3, 2.64 ERA) pitched well in some late-game trials toward the end of last season, and has a jack-of-all-trades mentality to pitch where needed, and Hawkins, Brothers and Logan -- who is gradually beefing up for the season after having bone chips removed from his throwing elbow during the offseason -- all are versatile.
Belisle, 33, is a veteran who is more concerned with the job being done than who gets the credit.
"A strong bullpen makes any team better. A strong bullpen that doesn't get taxed, is rotated well, is going to make any team better. It's going to help pull you out of jams. It's going to save games on the road that need to be won. There's no doubt that we have that in place this year."
Hawkins, who became the Mets' closer last season and earned 13 saves after the start of August, believes in the talent as much as anyone, and is eager to find out if it translates into success.
"The bullpen is one of the most unstable components to putting a team together," Hawkins said. "You know what you're getting but you don't know what you're getting. You've got to play out the season."
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb.


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Thursday, August 2, 2012
Dodgers drop disappointing series against Diamondbacks
Now, Arizona has played well of late, but the Dodgers failing to use the momentum from the Giants' series is somewhat disappointing.
The biggest problem was the home runs allowed by Dodger pitching. Aaron Harang, Chris Capuano and Stephen Fife combined to allow six home runs in the three-game series. That is not a formula for winning. Hopefully it was just an aberration, but Harang and Capuano are regressing to the mean as we speak.
But all isn't lost. There are still two months to go and the Dodgers are in a good position to win the division. But like the past when the Dodgers and Giants are battling for the division, it will likely come down to the final week of the season. Until then, the Dodgers need to take care of business ... and hope the hitters remember how to hit.
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- AnonymousAugust 2, 2012 at 11:08 AM
Well, they picked up a .240 hitter, a .260 hitter and a reliever who is 0-5. Everyone seems so excited about these moves, and they could turn out great because the recent poor performance of these players is probably anomalous, but those numbers above are the reality right now.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 2, 2012 at 11:30 AM
Your confused if you think the Dodgers aren't dramatically better. Baseball goes beyond the numbers. Hanley is a spoiled Dominican that got tired of losing in Miama. Hence Manny. He's a huge upgrade over Juan Uribe whos hitting 195 with 2 homers. Shane Victorino is hitting 40 points higher with a much higher OBP then the Dodgers had in the leadoff role. He's averaged almost 100 runs scored the past few years. Theres a reason why the analysts believe the Dodgers are most improved. As for your 0-5 comment..a relievers record is nearly irrelevant. Check out Kenley Jansens ERA next to his record..it doesn't add up. If you knew baseball you would've posted something that makes sense. Baseball is a chemistry game. If they just play well individually and start to mesh they will score enough runs to win. It doesn't change the fact our rotation won't hang in a playoff series though.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 3, 2012 at 8:02 AM
The trades are an improvement for sure just based on the stats. lets not forget we got some relief arms to go with with the bats and improved defense. I see the Dodgers trying to shorten games to keep the staff from blowing games after the 5th inning.ReplyDelete
We do need a stud number 1 starting pitcher to have any shot in the post season and I hope its Cliff Lee. We should see if this happens real soon.
- AnonymousAugust 3, 2012 at 10:09 AM
why do we need Uribe? Abreu could at least hit. Cruz has potential and Gordon will be back---plus we have Ramirez-----Bobby got the shaft!!!!!!ReplyDelete


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They're back! The original housewives of bravo are returning for their 5th season tonight.
The Real Housewives of Orange County have pretty much been in the headlines for the past few months. Whether it be Gretchen Rossi's leaked photos, Lynne Curtin's eviction saga, or Vicki Gunvalson's trashy bar behavior, It's safe to say these six women will be keeping us entertained for weeks to come.
The DailyBeast caught up with the OC Housewives to discuss their new season, and changes in their lives. Vicki claims the show has negatively affected her insurance business, leading her to almost not return for the 5th season. "I almost lost a very large client of mine—a $2 million client—because he Googled me and said he didn't like what he was seeing on the TV show," Gunvalson, 47, told The Daily Beast.
Bravo promises the upcoming season will address the financial woes of some of the ladies, including that of Jeana Keough, who's divorce and a down real-estate market prompted her to quit the show to focus on work full-time. She will be leaving the show after 3 episodes. Jeana however reveals other reasons for leaving the show, "I just didn't feel appreciated by the girls or the network," she said.
Tamra Barney, 42, will be one of the housewives dealing with financial woes. Her home is currently listed as a short sale, and she has had to let both a nanny and a maid go to save cash. This season will also deal with Tamra doing a lot of arguing with her husband Simon Barney. "He did not want to come back this season, and I did," she said. "He's very private and conservative. We're having a lot of financial problems, and he just didn't want to expose that."
Tonight's episode will show Gretchen reflecting on the death of her deceased fiance, and confronting Tamra about the things Tamra said about her last season. It will also feature Vicki skydiving, and Lynn contemplating having a facelift.


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April 27. 2013 12:12AM
Man airlifted to hospital after fall down stairs at Sugar Hill party
SUGAR HILL — A Massachusetts man was flown to a hospital after injuring himself during a fall at a party Friday night, police Sgt. Rick Ball said.
Michael Richer, 26, of Millville, Mass., was drinking with a group of friends when he fell down stairs on a porch at a 383 Hayward Lane home about 9 p.m. Friday, Ball said. The man was "relatively unresponsive" and was flown to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon for treatment.
He was listed in stable condition at the hospital on Saturday, a nursing supervisor said.