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When guys are hitting shots, we're good at feeding their fire and helping them keep things going. —BYU forward Brandon Davies
PROVO — Although BYU led by just one point, 47-46, at halftime in a game that featured fouls galore and points aplenty, the Cougars had the Santa Clara Broncos right where they wanted them.
In a run-and-gun shootout.
In the second half, BYU continued to put its foot on the accelerator and raced past the Broncos, 96-79, before a crowd of 17,228 at the Marriott Center on Saturday night.
Santa Clara just couldn't keep up with the Cougars' high-tempo pace.
"When we can score that many points," said guard Matt Carlino, "it's going to be a good night."
And it was a very good night for Carlino, who scored a season-high 28 points, including three 3-pointers, and dished out six assists and had two steals.
Carlino said that there wasn't much difference between the first half and second half.
"We're really well-conditioned," Carlino explained. "We keep doing our stuff. That can wear on a team after a while."
Carlino celebrated his stellar performance by receiving a few stitches above his right eye after the game. In the first half, Carlino got hit in the head and left the floor for a while. When he returned, he was wearing a bandage over his eye.
Meanwhile, guard Tyler Haws finished with 24 points and five assists and forward Brandon Davies chipped in 16 points and grabbed 11 rebounds — marking his third straight double-double.
"Everyone was contributing. Matt caught fire," said Davies, who also received stitches above his right eye earlier in the week after taking an elbow at practice. "When guys are hitting shots, we're good at feeding their fire and helping them keep things going. We're all unselfish guys. That's why we play so well together. We're willing to give up shots for someone who's feeling it. Matt did a good job of that tonight."
BYU improved to 18-6 overall and 8-2 in the West Coast Conference. Santa Clara fell to 17-7 and 5-4. The Cougars snapped the Broncos' five-game winning streak.
Carlino nailed the game-winning 3-pointer in last Thursday's victory at Pepperdine and has enjoyed the best stretch of his career over the past month.
BYU coach Dave Rose loved what he saw from Carlino on Saturday.
"Matt is showing progress with the experience. That's really important," Rose said. "He's handled it really well. He's handled the ups and he's handled the times when he hasn't played as effective as he wanted to. Right now, he's in a nice little spot. Our guys have learned how to play with him and appreciate what he does. He threw some passes tonight that were right on the money. Besides the shots he made, I thought his floor game was terrific."
The Cougars shot 58 percent for the game, outscored the Broncos in the paint, 50-30, and had a 20-4 advantage in fast break points.
"The way we finished the second half, our tempo was unbelievable," Davies said. "Matt got us going and we were all flying up and down the floor trying to catch him. That's the pace we like to play at. When we're playing at that pace, it puts teams on their heels. They're trying to slow things down."
In the first half, Santa Clara drilled 7 of 12 3-pointers, but in the second half, the Broncos made only 2 of 12.
"We just knew we had to step things up defensively," Davies said. "In the first half, they hit a lot of open 3s. They have great shooters. Those three guards are among the best in our conference. It's tough to get them stopped. We just emphasized it a little more in the second half and we were able to get stops."
The key to executing a high-tempo offense?
"Getting stops," Carlino said. "When we get stops, it's a lot easier to run because we catch a defense off-guard. When we're not getting stops, they can set up their defense. That's the biggest thing."
BYU led 54-53 with 16:30 left in the game when the Cougars went on a 14-1 run that put them up, 68-54. The stretch included 3-pointers by Carlino and Brock Zylstra. BYU led by as many as 23 late in the game.
Five Broncos scored in double figures: Kevin Foster (18), Marc Trasolini (15), Evan Roquemore (14), Raymond Cowels (13) and Brandon Clark (11). Foster and Cowels each connected on three 3-pointers.
"They're all capable shooters," Davies said. "They can knock them down all game long."
"Those guards are so hard to contain," Rose said. "They spread the floor. They can drive it. They can shoot it."
But the Broncos were no match for the Cougars in the second half.
BYU travels to San Diego on Thursday (8 p.m. MST, BYUtv).


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Whether you're looking for a style switch up, or you're ready to give your wrists a break from all that extra weight, it might be time to give those stacked bangles a day off. Rather than loading up your poor arms, invest in some gorgeous one-piece wonders that complete a look in one shot.
Necklaces, bracelets, and even earrings (with our approval!) can pull your outfit together in seconds, and provide a nice breath of fresh air to your style routine. We're not just talking about luxe gems, though we found those, too. Even wallet-wise pieces can do the trick. Click through to see how we'd adorn our ensembles in a flash, and lose some LBs the easy way.


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Friday, December 06, 2013
Chateau de la Barbee
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Lovely loely lovely..Looks autumnal ..here winter wonderland already..not quite wondcerland..grey..ReplyDelete
Always love your tea cups..
So beautiful! You're living a dream, my dear. When I took my daughter to Paris last spring we did a cooking class and it was the highlight of the trip. To take a cooking class in such a beautiful chateau is over the moon! C'est magnifique! xoxReplyDelete
Looks like you could be turning into a very good sous chef in the not too distant future, after all these cooking lessons. What a fabulous 2 days you have spent in the Loire.Vallee.ReplyDelete
How lovely - love the look of those foie gras papillotes. foie gras tastes good wrapped in just about everything. My favourite treat so far this year has bee foie gras stuffed figs. But I haven't yet ventured to cook foie gras for myself!ReplyDelete
It looks perfect! I am envious, of course! I'm going to repost this on my blog NoNoJulia (nonojulia.wordpress.com) once I figure out how to do it.ReplyDelete
You china cup painting is fantastic!!! If they ever mange to open up, this place is going to be such a success! Gorgeous!ReplyDelete
ahhhh to travel in France meeting great cooks with great recipes!!!ReplyDelete
I was on a diet of no sugar or carbs after our Thanksgiving holiday... Then I read your blog and saw that pie. I can now have my pie and not eat it too. Wonderful!ReplyDelete
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Fabulous petit vacance Carol! I could imagine myself there (with Bodhi the dog gambolling in the leaves) and curling up in front of le feu avec un the anglais :)ReplyDelete
You were treated like royalty, I see...Quite a unique & lovely setting in which to be a student...ReplyDelete
Bonsoir ma chère amie,ReplyDelete
Un petit séjour qui me semble bien agréable... Des cours de cuisine dans un cadre exceptionnel... C'est le top du top !...
Et quel régal !
Merci pour tes jolies photos... Lorsque tu feras le foie gras, j'arrive et je t'apporte aussi le mien !
Gros bisous ♥


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NDPTC delivers tornado awareness training in OklahomaUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Project Development/Business Manager, Social Sciences, NDPTC
November is not typically considered "tornado season," so the recent 62 tornadoes that tore through the Midwest, killing eight people and wreaking a path of destruction, reveal the critical need for preparedness and resiliency. Regardless of whether or not climate change contributed to the warm-season severe weather this late in the year and so far north, the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center (NDPTC) at UH Mānoa has been catapulted to the forefront of the effort to help communities be better prepared to respond to, recover from, and mitigate the devastating effects of such events.
"As a national center, supported by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), NDPTC must be responsive to the needs of communities across the country that face severe, damaging hazards from tornadoes and other natural hazards by translating the latest scientific information to improve warning, evacuation, sheltering and response capabilities of all communities throughout the nation," said Dr. Karl Kim, Executive Director of NDPTC. "The center is committed to building resilience through training, education, and dissemination of research."
Due to its experience with numerous tornadoes every year and expertise in tornado science, Oklahoma was chosen as the location for the first deliveries of NDPTC's Tornado Awareness course that is currently under development. Uncannily, the first two pilot trainings were in early November in McAlester and in Norman. Participants came from a wide variety of professions, and many Norman participants had first-hand experience responding to and recovering from the EF-5 tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma, on May 20, 2013.
The 4-hour Tornado Awareness course provides emergency managers, first responders and community members across all sectors with a basic understanding of the latest knowledge in tornado science, forecasting, warning and preparedness, allowing them to make better-informed decisions when severe weather threatens.
The training pilots were successful, and the feedback received will be used to make revisions in preparation for upcoming target audience pilots, which will likely take place in the Northeast and Southeast. National Weather Service members who attended the recent deliveries said that the course would complement their existing storm spotter training courses and would reach an even broader audience.
Said Gary Davis, Training and Exercise Coordinator for the Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security, about the recent deliveries: "The NDPTC Tornado Awareness course is a well-developed educational curriculum that successfully provides the basic understanding of tornado science, tornado warning and tornado safety from the citizens to the responders. This course is appropriate for all states, including states that do not experience much tornadic activity."
Added Richard Smith, Warning Coordination Meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma: "Tornado awareness and education is so important for anyone who lives in an area where tornadoes happen, especially those charged with making critical decisions in their communities. While some learn about tornadoes in NWS storm spotter training, those classes are often geared toward the more technical aspects of storm observation and reporting and may not reach everyone who needs the information. This new course provides decision-makers with the basic facts about tornadoes that will hopefully enable them to do their jobs more effectively."
Given that the demand for these deliveries far exceeded the availability of seats, NDPTC expects that there will be high demand across the country as tornadoes continue to be a threat throughout the nation.
To learn more about the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center, visit ndptc.hawaii.edu.


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Here is one of my favorite soundtrack cuts in Roy Ayers' "Coffy Is The Color" from one of my favorite blaxploitation movies Coffy. This soundtrack and movie was released in 1973 and feature the blaxploitation queen herself, Pam Grier. Showcased on tracks like "Coffy Is The Color", this soundtrack shows off Ayers more funk and souful side with compositions like "Coffy Sauna" and "Coffy Baby". Personally I think this soundtrack is right up there with other known blaxploitation releases like Shaft, Superfly, and Foxy Brown. If you can't hunt down an original copy there is no need to worry, as you generally find a reissue out there to tie you over. Overall, it's a great soundtrack written by an amazing artist from an all-time classic movie of it's time. What more do you need? Enjoy!
Roy Ayers - Coffy Is The Color


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Chivas USA tops FC Dallas 3-1
CARSON, Calif. (AP) — Oswaldo Minda scored in the 76th minute and Chivas USA rallied for a 3-1 win over FC Dallas on Sunday.
Down 1-0, Juan Agudelo tied the game with a left-footed finish in the 68th minute.
After Minda scored to give Chivas USA a 2-1 lead, Giovani Casillas added a goal in the 90th minute.
David Ferreira opened the scoring for FC Dallas early in the 57th minute.
FC Dallas played without suspended forward Blas Perez.
Ferreira scored his first goal of the season when he got past Chivas defender Joaquin Velazquez and slipped a shot between goalkeeper Dan Kennedy's legs.
Agudelo evened the score when he beat a pair of defenders and scored from just inside the penalty area.
FC Dallas' defense again gave Chivas some space on the eventual game-winning goal.
George John could not control a pass that fell to Minda, who took his time and beat FC Dallas goalkeeper Raul Fernandez.
Casillas scored in stoppage time on a counterattack.


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Haemonetics to Present at Citi 2013 Global Healthcare Conference
Feb 13, 2013, 08:00 EST
BRAINTREE, Mass., Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Haemonetics Corporation (NYSE: HAE) announced today that Brian Concannon, President & CEO, will present at the Citi 2013 Global Healthcare Conference in New York on February 26, 2013 at 1:30pm Eastern time.
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The public may access Mr. Concannon's presentation live via webcast at http://www.veracast.com/webcasts/citigroup/healthcare2013/25208346.cfm
About Haemonetics
Haemonetics (NYSE: HAE) is a global healthcare company dedicated to providing innovative blood management solutions for our customers. Together, our devices and consumables, information technology platforms, and consulting services deliver a suite of business solutions to help our customers improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of healthcare for blood collectors, hospitals, and patients around the world. Our technologies address important medical markets: blood and plasma component collection, the surgical suite, and hospital transfusion services. To learn more about Haemonetics, visit our web site at http://www.haemonetics.com.
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It's hard to believe, but that's what we're hearing from Capitol Hill. A resolution has been proposed in the House of Representatives that condemns Iran for the seizure of British sailors and marines, expresses support for our British allies. It's hard to see anything controversial in that. But apparently, the resolution has languished all week while Pelosi refuses to allow it to come to the floor.
Earlier today, Congressman Eric Cantor wrote the following letter to Pelosi:
Dear Madam Speaker:
Fifteen kidnapped British marines and sailors recently became the latest victims of a systematic Iranian campaign of terror and international defiance. The illegal seizure of the British forces is a signal that Iran views us as powerless to prevent it from realizing its aggressive ambitions.
For the sake of our standing in the world, our allies and most importantly the 15 British personnel and their families, I urge you to bring H. Res. 267 to the floor today before we adjourn. The resolution calls for the immediate and unconditional release of the British marines and sailors. It would also call on the U.N. Security Council to not only condemn the seizure, but to explore harsher sanctions to counter the growing Iranian threat.
A Republican Congressional staffer writes:
It is simply staggering to me that Pelosi refuses to stand beside America's closest ally. I literally would not have thought this possible, until I saw it this week.
Staggering, indeed. We'll see what happens this afternoon.
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June 26, 1935 - April 28, 2013
Dutchess County, NY
Joyce Valley Patterson, 77, a fifty-one year resident of Dutchess County, died at home on Sunday, April 28, 2013.
Born at home in Pulaski, NY on June 26, 1935, she was the daughter of the late Richard and Leota Valley. She was educated in Dryden, NY and graduated from college at Canton, NY in 1955. Joyce was employed by the Wappingers Central School District for more than 20 years, retiring in 1993 from Van Wyck Junior High School.
On October 20, 1956 in Dryden, Joyce married James G. Patterson, who survives at home. She is also survived by her sons: George and Scott Patterson; her grandchildren: Sean, Jimmy, Lindsey, Courtney and Leigh Anne; and her brother, Jerry Valley and his wife, Virginia of McKean, PA.
We will miss Joyce. She was truly a good person who loved her family fiercely.
Calling hours will be held on Wednesday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the McHoul Funeral Home, Inc., 895 Route 82, Hopewell Junction. The funeral service will be on Wednesday at 9 p.m., with Rev. Taylor Holbrook officiating. A graveside service will be held on Thursday at 10 a.m. at Fishkill Rural Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be made to the Hospice Foundation, Inc., 374 Violet Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601.
For driving directions, online condolences and memorial donations, please visit Joyce's Book of Memories at www.mchoulfuneralhome.com


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H.A.M. Sandwiches: 15 Other Dream Duets That Need To Happen Right Now
Andre 3000 & Eminem
Album Title: Strange Brew
Sounds Like…an oddball pairing. But Slim Shady has long professed his admiration for 3 Stacks' adventurous rhyme prowess. And both MC's throughout their careers have demonstrated epic wordplay and boundless imagination. Other than that, we can't come up with any other good reasons. But really, do we need them?


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NATO to discuss Libya training, Afghanistan
BRUSSELS (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and other NATO defense ministers plan to take up the issue of training Libyan security forces as that country battles insurgents flowing into the south from Mali.
Senior U.S. defense officials said Monday that the discussions are in the early stages, and come on the heels of requests from Libyan leaders for help from NATO, the U.S. and other nations.
Hagel and the other defense ministers will also discuss the transition in Afghanistan, as the U.S. and NATO prepare to withdraw combat troops at the end of 2014. He arrived in Brussels on Monday.
The officials suggested that while there has been pressure for the U.S. and NATO to decide the size of forces that will remain in Afghanistan after 2014, that announcement may not come during this week's two-day meeting.
The situation in Libya has become an escalating concern, as international leaders worry al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb may be trying to establish a safe haven in Libya. A largely French force ousted them from Mali in recent months.
The more detailed discussions about security aid from the alliance follow President Barack Obama's meeting with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen last Friday. Obama broadly indicated that the U.S. would support efforts by NATO to aid the Libyans, but offered no details.
The U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the issue publicly ahead of the meeting. They said the U.S. has been talking with the Libyans about the security training aid but are still considering what the specifics would be.
French officials believe some jihadists may have fled Mali along traditional drug and other contraband trafficking routes through Niger and into Libya.
The issue of NATO training aid was broached late last month during a news conference with the NATO secretary-general and Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan. But it was not clear then that this would be a major topic at the ministers' meeting this week.
"NATO will give us technical advice in terms of training. So we will have technical support. And we will be helped in training if we need to," said Zeidan after last month's meeting.
The NATO leader was cautious, saying that Zeidan's request will be discussed by the North Atlantic Council. He said it will involve a review of how NATO can provide training activities as well as technical advice.
He stressed that it "is not about deploying NATO troops to Libya." And U.S. defense officials said Monday that the training could take place outside of Libya.
They said NATO's experience training Afghan and Iraq security forces provides the expertise to do something similar with Libya.
On Afghanistan, there has been much debate about the size of the force after 2014. U.S. military commanders have talked about the need to keep as many as 20,000 NATO troops there, but that number is substantially higher than the one preferred by the Obama White House.
Gen. James Mattis, the top U.S. military commander in the Middle East, told senators he personally recommended the U.S. leave 13,600 troops in Afghanistan. He said he assumed the NATO allies would probably contribute "around 50 percent" of the U.S. total, which would be roughly 6,500.
"We have to send a message of commitment," Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee in March.
U.S. and NATO leaders said during a NATO meeting in February that they may keep between 8,000 and 12,000 troops in Afghanistan, but did not say how many would be American.
The military has also been pressuring the administration to announce how many troops would remain there, largely to reassure the Afghans of NATO's commitment.
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in early April that he was in no hurry to come up with a number, saying the U.S. should wait until summer or later and assess the strength of Afghan government forces.
But retired Gen. John Allen, the former top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, called on the White House Friday to announce a troop number decision.
He said Afghans need certainty on how many U.S. troops will stay behind before they will choose whether to side with the Afghan government or the Taliban.
The defense officials said the ministers are looking to develop a plan that would evaluate how many troops are needed to assist the Afghans, where in the country they would be placed and what level of military unit — smaller companies or larger battalions and brigades — they would advise.
The ministers are also expected to have their first session dedicated to cybersecurity, focusing more on how to beef up NATO networks and encourage nations to better secure their computer systems.


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Yeah, jeez, I just… I can't. I just do not have the energy for this one.
After spending three days attempting to get my post on the teacher's strike right, I was planning to write something light-hearted, something easy-going for the last post of the week.
Maybe Glenn Beck was coming back to TV? Haha that would do for a laugh!
Perhaps Amy Poehler and Will Arnett would break up, and for once I would be inexplicably saddened by a celebrity split? Oh the Markleyian irony one could imbue on such a topic!
But then I opened up the internet to discover that the big news of the day was that two attacks had taken place on the embassies in Cairo and Benghazi, killing four people, including the American ambassador to Libya, and that this outbreak of violence was not because the United States had done anything particularly imperialist or "bombing-esque" lately, but because some dipwad with a $1,000 budget made a apparently bigoted movie insulting Islam.
So I resigned myself to reading up and seeking an angle:
Was it fair to point out that the religious fervor behind the attacks could be more readily explained by the fact that Libya and Egypt are not just Islamic countries but Islamic countries with high unemployment, especially among young men? That when you have a lot of young men sitting around during the day with nothing to do it leads to combustible situations no matter the religion of the populace?
What about the filmmaker, who appeared to have made a movie with the explicit intent of pissing off a lot of people who share this faith in a struggling part of the world? That his intention was likely to incite a vitriolic reaction without any acknowledgment of the violence his own faith has perpetrated in the Middle East—the Occupied Territories not exactly being the best example of your religion's moral superiority?
But of course we live in an open society, so the idea that people can be killed over a movie, over any speech, is so totally absurd it almost calls out for further critique. Egypt's president wants the filmmaker prosecuted. For what exactly? You do not have a free society or a stable nation until people can criticize the majority religion and not expect lynch mobs to come to their door.
And what of presidential candidate Mitt Romney's enormous flub, what an old Republican foreign policy hand called his "Lehman moment"? What is it about presidential politics that makes it necessary to use every tragedy as a cudgel in electoral combat? And does the Romney campaign have any other policy ideas other than "Whatever Obama did, it was wrong and hurt America. Freedom. America. Liberty"?
Yet maybe most importantly of all, Libyans actually turned out on the streets with signs of support for Americans and for the murdered diplomat Chris Stevens. The scene was not Muslims burning American flags but holding signs written in red, white, and blue. Perhaps this is the kind of change in the Middle East we were hoping for? The kind that $3 trillion in Iraq could never buy?
Anyway, I found it all just too exhausting to even contemplate, let alone form a coherent thesis and execute that thesis onto laptop screen.
I wonder what Glen Beck thinks of all this? And do you think Amy and Will will stay friends?


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Review: Roxio Toast 10 Titanium Pro
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Few programs fall into the "must consider purchasing" category for a given computer, but on the Mac, Roxio's Toast has for years been amongst them. Originally a straightforward CD burning tool at a time when doing such a thing was difficult, Toast has evolved into a multi-format optical disc creator, a go-between for TiVo and iPod users, and now, a streaming solution to allow videos of almost any sort to be spooled from your computer to an iPhone or iPod touch. The latest version of Toast, called Toast 10 Titanium ($100), handles all of these things; Toast 10 Titanium Pro ($150) does even more.
Because our focus is on iPod and iPhone functionality, and because we've previously covered Toast in the past (Toast 8), we're not going to exhaustively discuss all of Toast 10's features; it is still primarily a disc burning and copying utility, albeit with such increasing scope that users will be amazed by everything it can handle. For instance, today's Toast includes some nice high-definition video authoring tools that finally enable Blu-Ray burner-less users to create high-definition DVDs that play on Blu-Ray players—a key issue for those of us with high-definition, AVCHD-format camcorders. Using AVCHD content, we successfully burned a high-def DVD and played it without issues in a PlayStation 3 on our first attempt, which was great.
The software also automatically creates archival disc versions of video files that have been created on AVCHD cameras, which due to folder structures and multiple files isn't as easy as it sounds. For camcorder fans, this is seriously useful stuff; those who want to burn HD discs get the feature for free with Pro or have to cough up $20 for a plug-in with the standard version of Toast 10 Titanium. (At press time, the plug-in is being given away for free with the standard Titanium, but this will apparently change within days.) Roxio also notes, with caveats, that Toast can "copy data, CD, DVD, and Blu-Ray Disks"—the caveats of course are that the discs can't be copy-protected or encrypted. In other words, home movie discs are okay, but anything in a theater or from Netflix is not.
But what about new features for iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV users? They're a little less exciting, but there: in addition to still being able to digitize your LPs or cassette tapes into MP3s, and batch convert files from one format to another, Toast 10 can now convert audiobook CDs into individually chaptered, bookmarkable files, capture streaming music into tagged iTunes tracks, and, as noted, stream video from your computer to an iPod or iPhone via the web. It can also transform high-definition videos into Apple TV, iPod, or iPhone formats, and continues to offer the TiVo transfer functionality introduced in Toast 8 two years ago. Generally, these features work well, but with some possible hiccups that you might want to know about.
The TiVo world has changed over the past couple of years, as Series 3/HD devices have become more popular and Series 2 devices have waned. TiVo Transfer handles HD video transfers to the iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV fairly easily—just select a file on your Wi-Fi connected TiVo and transfer it to your computer, then "Toast It" to get the file into iTunes—though there are still time, connection, and conversion issues to consider. Short standard-definition videos can be transferred in around an hour and then converted into an H.264 format, requiring an additional half hour or more depending on the speed of your computer. Connecting Elgato's Turbo.264 can speed up the conversion process, but not the transfer process, which depends on a stable and uninterrupted Wi-Fi connection; some of our transfers went flawlessly, others unexpectedly were interrupted part-way through and left us with playable but incomplete video files. As a general rule, videos were nicely, though not completely tagged by Toast 10 before they were auto-imported into iTunes, including the proper video category, episode name, and comments.
Unfortunately, Roxio's partnership with TiVo for this feature places the disc-burning company in an unusual situation: despite the program's considerable conversion acumen, TiVo exports are capped at 480x320 resolution, which works out well for the iPhone's screen—videos look and sound good in this format—but not so well for Apple TV users or those who watch videos on their Macs. So, if you were expecting to pull HD videos from your TV and convert them to Apple TV format, or just make the most of Apple's 640x480 portable device resolutions, a device such as Elgato's EyeTV Hybrid may make more sense. An HD TiVo one-hour recording of The Office saw its quality drop radically to meet the 480x320 limitation of the software, and adding insult to injury claimed to require an 8-hour transfer time. Significant TiVo-to-Mac transfer times are largely TiVo's issue, from what we've seen, but a Toast bandwidth-measuring tool with clues on how to speed up transfers would dramatically improve variations in those times.
Toast 10's streaming capability is interesting, and better implemented than something we saw from Equinux's TubeStick Hybrid last year. In Roxio's implementation, you can spool videos from your computer to any iPod touch or iPhone that can connect to the Internet, with minimal effort: your computer needs to be on, but you don't need to have your own FTP server or another dedicated web site to share video. Instead, you turn on a Toast program called Streamer, pick videos to share, and give the collection a short name such as "stream1." Streamer gives you a Roxio web link that can be entered into any browser to access your list of videos, and they stream—in streaming rather than full-fledged quality—right to your iPod touch or iPhone.
We experienced a hiccup in our initial testing: the program said that it set up the special Roxio web address, but we couldn't reach it. A few days later, when the software had been out for a little longer, it worked, and continued to work thereafter. The stability and bandwidth of your computer's network connection will also play a role in your ability to send videos out to streaming devices, but the method in which this works is pretty simple by comparison with what Equinux originally proposed people should do.
Otherwise, Toast 10 Titanium proved to be a stable, worthwhile piece of software, if bifurcated into a number of individual pieces that float in a folder. Some pieces, like TiVo Transfer, Streamer, and CD Spin Doctor, need to be loaded separately to handle obvious features and not-so-obvious ones; for instance, CD Spin Doctor handles music capture from streaming audio sources, figuring out tags and sending the results to iTunes, but doesn't handle audiobook CD importing—that's in the core Toast 10 program. The Pro version of Toast 10 includes additional programs such as Sonicfire Pro, SoundSoap, LightZone, and FotoMagico, which can clean up, enhance, or create audio and photo content for discs. If you're only using Toast for your iPod or iPhone, you probably don't need these extras, but take a glance at Roxio's site to see if any of them suits your needs.
As with the prior version of Toast that we reviewed, we don't feel comfortable issuing an overall rating to Toast 10 since a very substantial part of its functionality is outside the scope of what iPod and iPhone users need, but there's no doubt that the program continues to get better and more powerful every year. This year's enhancements will have the greatest appeal to users of high-definition devices, but if iPod/iPhone video streaming, TiVo transfer, or audiobook CD conversions are of interest, Toast 10 Titanium's tweaks make it even more compelling for the dollar than before.
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AngloGold Ashanti , the world's third largest gold producer, has suspended operations at its TauTona mine in South Africa due to a worker sit-in protest over a bonus payment, the company said on Friday.
"There are about 300 people doing a sit-in underground. Management is talking to them," company spokesman Alan Fine said.
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Another sit-in at AngloGold's Mponeng mine ended on Thursday, but operations there are only expected to resume on Sunday night as some repairs need to be done, Fine added.
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Petite has released four albums since her official debut in 2006. Her most recent effort, "Circus Comes to Town," was released locally earlier this year. But it is getting a bigger national push, beginning this month.
Petite credits her grandmother for giving her the push to get her music career under way. Having taught herself guitar in college she wrote a batch of songs.
"I wanted to make an album because my grandmother was getting older and she wanted me to collect all the songs I 'd written onto one CD for her," Petite said.
Unfortunately, the week that she was to record the album, Petite's grandmother passed away.
"So, three months later, we recorded what became the first record, 'Tiger Mountain.' And it all started because of my grandmother."
While the venue has Petite and her crew listed as a "blues" act, in fact, that is only one component of her music. Petite and her band cover a lot of stylistic ground, "from old-time songs like the Carter Family to more rock 'n' roll things like Bruce Springsteen, but in my style. And of course, I play my own songs," she said.
Indeed, Petite's music is closer to the classic sounds of a Buck Owens hoedown than to modern-day country pop, a la Taylor Swift.
Petite said she is keeping busier than ever. Upcoming events for Petite include several showcase events surrounding this year's Americana Music Awards in Nashville, a tour of the East Coast, demos for the next record and 2014 has a tour of Europe penciled in for March.
While she said she is thrilled by the inroads she has made so far, she's hoping to take things to the next level. Currently working a part-time day job to help make ends meet while pursuing music, she's looking at the possibilities in different facets of the music industry.
"I want to have other performers cover my songs," she said. "Really, that's the ultimate honor when it comes to being a songwriter. Right now, I tend bar a couple of days a week, and that's great. It gives me the opportunity to do what I have to do and the people there are nice enough to give me time off when it's needed. But either way, it would be nice to be able to make a living just with my music."
It's clear she loves her chosen path, for many reasons.
"It's hard to single out just one thing," she said. "I love the high you get when you write a song, or just from playing and seeing different places. On our last tour, we were driving down the 101 Highway and realized that we are just so lucky to get to see such beautiful scenery. There are just so many different cultures across the United States, different ways people do things and it's kind of neat to see that."
She said meeting new people is an enjoyable perk of life on the road, but notes it's also a lot of hard work keeping a music career going in 2013.
"There is always so much to do and there is a lot of stressful things that can happen, but at the end of the day, it's just so much fun to play in a band," she said.
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A Shawnee man and a passenger remained hospitalized in critical condition Thursday after being injured in an accident on Bethel Road Tuesday night.
A Shawnee man and a passenger remained hospitalized in critical condition Thursday after being injured in an accident on Bethel Road.
It's unknown what exactly happened as that accident remains under investigation by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
Storm A. Robinson, 20, Shawnee, and Jody L. Patterson, 38, Oklahoma City, both remained hospitalized in the ICU Thursday at OU Medical Center in Oklahoma City, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Both were injured in an accident about 7:12 p.m. Tuesday night on Bethel Road, slightly west of Lake Road in Pottawatomie County.
Trooper Tyson Wright's report shows Robinson was driving a 2006 Ford Mustang when that crash occurred.
The narrative on the trooper's report doesn't list anything other than the collision still being under investigation, although the driver's condition is listed as being normal at the time of that crash.
Robinson was pinned in the wreckage about 55 minutes before being freed by Shawnee and Bethel Acres firefighters using the Hurst tool, the patrol reported.
Robinson was transported from the scene by Medi Flight helicopter ambulance to Oklahoma City with internal, external and leg injuries, the patrol reported.
Patterson, who also suffered, internal, external and leg injuries, went by REACT EMS ambulance to OU Medical Center, the OHP reported.
The trooper's report does show both occupants of the Ford Mustang were wearing seat belts.


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While Zach Parise is busy making up his mind, the market for scoring right wingers is shrinking. Jaromir Jagr was tired of waiting for the dominoes to fall.
Jagr is moving to the Western Conference for the first time in his illustrious, Hall of Fame career.
Jagr, 40, reportedly signed a one-year deal worth $4.55 million with the Dallas Stars. If reports are correct, Jagr will play alongside fellow 40-year-old Ray Whitney, who signed with the Stars this week.
Jagr made $3.3 million with the Flyers last season.
Surprisingly, Jagr leaves Philadelphia after just one season with Claude Giroux, where he collected 54 points in 73 games. After losing to New Jersey in the second round, Jagr called it one of the most enjoyable seasons of his career.
"I feel lucky to have had the chance to play with him," Giroux told the Daily News. "He came in and right away tried to help out everybody on the team."
The Flyers were prevented from re-signing Jagr before the July 1 free agency period opened because of tagging space restrictions. They were either unable to re-sign him now because of one of three reasons: (1) Peter Laviolette wasn't willing to guarantee him a specific top-line role next season with special teams time; (2) they weren't willing to give him a $1.25 million raise; or (3) they are still knee-deep in the possibility of signing Parise.
Jagr is 8th on the NHL's all-time points list, just 70 behind former Penguins teammate Mario Lemieux. His $1.25 million raise will push his career earnings to just south of $106 million.
Jagr was noticeably slower in the playoffs and suffered from a recurring groin injury throughout the season. He vowed to be stronger for next season. Now, he'll be stronger in Dallas - with a more strenuous travel schedule. Jagr has spent his entire NHL career thus far with Pittsburgh, Washington, New York and Philadelphia.
Jagr was one of the Flyers' "Plan B" fallback options if they do not sign Parise. It may be time to start looking at their other "Plan B" in defenseman Matt Carle, should they not be able to bring in Nashville free agent Ryan Suter. If the Flyers do not sign any one of those 3 players, they will be forced to look at the trade market to fill their holes at right wing and on the blue line.
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The Paperboy: The Movie Where Nicole Kidman Pisses All Over Zac Efron's Face And Chest
If your internet connection is going in and out this morning, that's because Kim Kardashian is furiously refreshing The Paperboy page on Fandango until the BUY TICKETS button comes up, because that bladder wine-loving heffa wants to buy ALL the tickets! If Lee Daniels' upcoming movie The Butler (co-starring Matthew McConaughey as John Fucking Kennedy) is going to be a major shit show, then his new movie The Paperboy is the piss stream before the dump. The Paperboy made its debut at Cannes this week and so far many of the critics have declared it a campy piece of utter shit. That means I can confidently say that The Paperboy is going to be my favorite cinematic masterpiss of 2012!
The Paperboy is based on the novel by Peter Dexter and follows two brothers, the Texas T-Rex and Zac Efron, as they investigate (Princess Zac as an investigator? HA!) the case of a death row inmate played by John Cusack. This is the part that is already making me hand over my credit card number to buy a ticket. Nicole Kidman plays a trashy, sex crazed tramp who is obsessed with John Cusack's character and wants to marry him. With Nicole's help, Zac and Matthew try to figure out if John Cusack committed the murder he was convicted of. Vulture says that in the scene where Nicole first meets John Cusack face-to-face, she is so horny for him that she rips off her pantyhose before her pussy explodes into a hand-free orgasm. Please tell me that after Nicole's coochie seizure moment, Zac snaps his fingers and says, "Guuuurrrl, I'll have what she's having!"
As for that scene where Nicole R. Kellys Zac, I'll let Vulture give it to you:
Later in the movie, as Efron's romantic ardor for Kidman is at its peak, the two head to the beach, where he decides to cool down with a dip in the ocean. Naturally, he is attacked by CG jellyfish. (Only the sixteenth weirdest thing to happen in this movie.) Covered in sting marks, he barely manages to drag himself to shore, and when Kidman is alerted to the attack by some comely girls who surround Efron, she pushes them away, pops a squat, and out comes number-one. And yes, you get a close-up of the stream. This is a movie that often seems to be missing important transitional scenes or specific inserts, but you had better believe that when Nicole Kidman pees on Zac Efron, that camera is there.
Thank the Maybelline Gods for waterproof foundation, because if Zac's "maybe she's born with it" face got messed up in the making of that AFI-worthy moment, he would've had a hissy fit over that…pissy fit (sorry).
And I'm calling it right now. The Oscar goes to……Nicole Kidman's piss stream!
Here's Zac Efron still glowing from his golden shower facial at The Paperboy photocall with human marble pillar Nicole Kidman, Macy Gray, Matthew McConaughey and John Cusack.


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Mistrial in case of Hampton man charged with sexually assaulting 3 children
Trial begins for Hampton man in child sex assault case
BRENTWOOD - A judge declared a mistrial for a Hampton man charged with sexually assaulting three children after determining that the state's Division of Children, Youth and Families may not have disclosed all records related to the alleged abuse.
Leonard Aldrich, 64, will remain behind bars at the Rockingham County jail while lawyers prepare for a new trial. Aldrich has been in custody since his arrest Jan. 29, 2012. He is accused of sexually assaulting two young girls and a boy, now age 7, between December 2010 and January 2012.
The new information about the records was discovered shortly before noon Wednesday during the second day of trial when two witnesses offered contradictory testimony, according to Judge Marguerite Wageling. Prosecutors argue that the girl's mother walked in on Aldrich as he was sexually assaulting the two girls - ages 6 and 2 - and promptly reported the matter to police. The mother testified she was alone at the time, but the boy testified earlier he was with his mother during the incident and provided details to the jury.
"She was clear in her testimony that she was not with (him)," Wageling said.
Police reports about the incident made no mention of the boy. Defense lawyer Patrick Fleming argued for a mistrial, which was initially denied by the judge. The contradiction in testimony prompted a discussion between Wageling and the lawyers during a break in the trial. A DCYF worker overheard that conversation and recalled a conversation she had with the mother on the same topic, revealing that there may be a record of it that was not previously handed over prior to the trial, Wageling said.
Such a record, or records - however minor they might be - could be used by the defense to impeach a witness, according to the judge.
Prior to the trial, Wageling said she reviewed scores of DCYF records to provide to the prosecution and defense as they prepared for trial. She said obtaining records from the state agency proved to be troublesome early on in the case.
"We had some difficultly with that issue earlier," she said. "The court will make every effort to get to the bottom of it."
No new trial date has been set. Lawyers will meet with Wageling March 29.


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IT'S quite some drop to go from Wembley to Whitley Bay in the space of two seasons. So having survived it reasonably unscathed, it has to be hoped that Darlington can put up with having to face the likes of Warrington for another 12 months with similar stoicism.
This wasn't part of the recovery plan, with last night's 2-0 defeat to Ramsbottom having consigned the Quakers to a second successive season in the First Division of the Evo-Stik League, but having become past masters at shrugging off disappointment and setbacks, the club's supporters will surely not throw in the towel now.
After all, they've already overcome the heartbreak of being demoted five divisions, not to mention the negative impact of being uprooted from their home-town to ground-share 13 miles away. If you can come through that, another obstacle on the road to recovery need not prove terminal.
Speak to fans who have been regular attendees at Heritage Park, and they will extol the merits of the non-league game, not to mention the satisfaction that can be drawn from watching a team comprised largely of young players, winning more often that not. That will still be there next season, and there should also be the added bonus of a return to Darlington as the football club moves into Blackwell Meadows to become lodgers with the rugby side.
Yet the momentum that has sustained the club to this point is not infinite, and as former fans of the likes of Scarborough and Maidstone can attest, it is not a given that previously successful teams bounce back when they are asked to rebuild from scratch.
Last year's Northern League title represented the first rung on the ladder back to the Football League, but four-fifths of the job is still to be completed. And every step is generally more difficult than the last.
For most of the season, Darlington have looked more than capable of claiming one of the two promotion places on offer, but when their fate was in the balance last night, they were unable to see off a Ramsbottom side who finished ten points below them in the table.
Their job was hardly helped by a truly wretched refereeing performance from Kevin Mulraine, who bottled what should have been a straightforward decision in the very first minute when Ramsbottom full-back Owen Roberts hurled himself into a reckless challenge that resulted in Leon Scott leaving the ground on a stretcher.
Regardless of the fact that only 16 seconds had passed, it had to be a straight red card. Mulraine only issued a yellow, and immediately saw his authority disappear.
Yet for all that Darlington can justifiably claim to have been let down by the official, they were also out-muscled too often by a set of opponents whose rugged, committed approach proved decisive.
Darlington played the better football when they had possession, but if you're going to get out of a league like this, at times you have to be brutal. And Ramsbottom did brutal rather more effectively than their opponents.
Perhaps that is something for Martin Gray to reflect on as he looks to rebuild for next season, but as he comes to terms with an increasingly fractious night that ultimately saw him consigned to the stands as his fury boiled over, he can still take some satisfaction from what has been achieved in the last two seasons.
In the likes of Stephen Thompson, whose 49th-minute dismissal for diving effectively killed off any hope of a second-half revival last night, and David Dowson, whose low first-half strike was probably Quakers' best hope of a goal, Darlington boast two of the best players operating at this level of the game.
The hope, despite last night's defeat, is that they will not be playing in the First Division of the Evo-Stik League for much longer. The ambition of a return to former glories continues to burn brightly. And let's be honest, it wouldn't be Darlington if things went smoothly to plan.


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|Elaphurus davidianus Milne-Edwards, 1866
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|Jiang, Z. & Harris, R.B.
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|Boyd, M. & Maddison, N.
This species is listed as Extinct in the Wild. The captive population in China has increased in recent years, and the possibility remains that free-ranging populations can be established some time in the near future. When that happens, its Red List status will need to be reassessed.
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|This species is endemic to China. Père David's Deer has been recovered from the brink of extinction and has become a classic example of how to rescue a highly threatened species (Ebenehard 1995). In the mid 1980s, Père David's Deer was re-introduced into captive facilities in China, and populations established first in Beijing and then in Dafeng, Shishou and Yuanyang.
Fossils of Elaphurus bifurcatus, E. chinanensis chia, E. lantianensis have been excavated from the region east of Xi'an and south of Harbin. The modern species of Elaphurus, Père David's Deer (Milu in Chinese) evolved in the Pliocene period of the Tertiary, according to fossils excavated in southern Japan. During the Pleistocene period, it was known from Manchuria (Hofmann 2007). During the Holocene, P. davidianus was restricted to swamps and wetlands in the region south of 43°N and east of 110°E in mainland China (Cao 1993, Zhou 2007). However, the distribution of P. davidianus shrank and its population declined due to hunting and land reclamation in the swamp areas as human population expanded (Jiang and Li 1999). P. davidianus is believed to have been largely extinct in the wild 1500 years before the last head was decimated by the late 19th century during the Boxer Rebellion in Beijing.
During the Qing Dynasty (1616-1911), the Nanyuang Royal Hunting Garden contained a herd of P. davidianus in its 200 km² hunting ground. This hunting garden in the southern suburbs of Beijing was predominantly a wetland, consisting of swamps, ponds and lakes crossed by the Yongding River. The area had been sealed off from the outside world since the Yuan Dynasty (1205-1368) as a royal garden. The French missionary Père Armand David "discovered" P. davidianus in the Nanyuan Royal Hunting Garden in 1864. Realizing that the deer was an unknown species to the West, he persuaded the wardens to give him hinds and skeletons of an adult male, an adult female and a young male, and sent them to Paris in 1866, where the species was named Père David's deer by Milne-Edwards. In 1895, the surrounding wall of the Nanyuan Hunting Garden was destroyed by a heavy flood of the Yongding River, and most of the Père David's Deer escaped and were hunted. Only 20-30 animals survived in the garden. Then in 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion, the garden was occupied by troops and the remaining deer were shot and eaten.
However, before the demise of the royal herd of Père David's Deer in the Nanyuan Royal Hunting Garden in 1900, the deer had been introduced into private deer collections in the United Kingdom, Belgium, France and Germany. During the first decade of the 20th century, the 11th Duke of Bedford in the United Kingdom gathered the last 18 Père David's Deer in the world to form a breeding herd at the Woburn Abbey Estate, England. Only 11 of these deer were capable of reproducing (Bedford, 1951-52). Nevertheless, the heavily inbred Père David's Deer safely passed though the genetic bottleneck of inbreeding and adopted the vast open parkland of an English country estate (Jones et al. 1983).
The captive population started to increase (though with a setback during the First World War due to food shortage), and since the Second World War, the animals started to be spread through captive facilities worldwide, with the first captive animals being sent back to Beijing Zoo in 1956.
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Regionally extinct:China
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|After decades of ex situ conservation, the species breeds successfully in captivity (Beck and Wemmer 1983). In China there are now fenced populations in Beijing, Dafeng, Shishou and Yuanyang.
The first conservation reintroduction of Père David's Deer to China included two groups, of 20 deer (5 males : 15 females) and 18 deer (all females), in 1985 and 1987, respectively. All 38 deer were donated by the Marquess of Tavistock of Woburn Abbey (later the 14th Duke of Bedford), who also covered transportation costs of the first group. After a careful search and evaluation by a group of zoologists, botanists, wildlife managers and officers, the relic site of the Nanyuang Royal Hunting Garden in the southern suburbs of Beijing was chosen as the site of re-introduction, creating the Beijing Milu Park (39°07'N, 116°03'E), with an area of 60 ha. The deer in the park have received supplemental feeding year round (Jiang et al. 2000a).
The second re-introduction of E. davidianus was carried out in August of 1987, organized by former Ministry of Forestry and funded by WWF. A group of 39 Père David's Deer was selected from five zoological gardens in the United Kingdom, with the deer mainly from the Whipsnade Wild Animal Park. An extensive search, which covered a vast area in eastern China for a potential reintroduction site was conducted before a decision was made. The Dafeng State-Owen Forestry Farm was chosen, on the Yellow Sea coast in eastern China in a lightly populated area (semi-fossils of Père David's Deer have been excavated from the neighbouring counties, so this site is probably in its natural habitat). The introduced herd was released into three fenced paddocks, each about 100 ha in area. The reserve purchased another 30 km² land in 1995, more than doubling its original size. In 1997, the Dafeng Milu Natural Reserve was approved by the National Nature Reserve Commission as a national nature reserve. The Dafeng Milu Nature Reserve has the potential to host a large population of Père David's Deer. The reserve has kept the reintroduced Père David's Deer and their offspring on its land, and in 1998 the first group of deer was released from the paddocks into the wider reserve (Hu and Jiang 2002). In 2003, and 2006 another two groups of deer were released from the paddocks. There were 950 Père David's Deer in the reserve in 2006. The annual average population growth rate of deer in the reserve was 17.01%. This Père David's Deer conservation strategy calls for further expanding of the DafengMilu Nature Reserve (Jiang et al. 2000b).
The Beijing Milu Park is in the southeast suburb of Beijing with a limited area and is now part of a much larger 'Wetland Park' being established (2012-2016), whereas the DafengMilu Nature Reserve is located in a remote coastal region with little human settlement, where it is possible to acquire more land for conservation. Therefore, the Beijing Milu Park while keeping a healthy nuclear breeding herd of about 200 deer at the park, is shipping Père David's Deer to other sites in east China (Yang 2007) and in Hebei Province. The translocations thus reduced the grazing pressure on the park vegetation and expanded the distribution range of the Père David's Deer in the country. The average annual population growth rate for Père David's Deer in Beijing Milu Park from 1987-1997 was 17.3%. This Père David's Deer conservation strategy calls for an expansion of this artificial dispersal of animals to establish new sites (Jiang et al. 2000b).
E. davidianus from the Beijing Milu Park have been relocated to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in eastern China and Hainan Island in the South China Sea. In October 1993, a group of 30 Père David's Deer (8 males : 22 females) arrived and was released in a paddock on a small peninsular along the Yangtze River, Shishou (29°49'N,112°33'E). This site was later established as the Hubei Shishou Milu National Nature Reserve. The size of the reserve is 11.67 km². Another group of 34 Père David's Deer (10 males : 24 females) was transferred from the Beijing Milu Park to the Shishou paddock in the following year to enlarge the population. An additional 30 deer (15 males : 15 females) were released into the paddock of the reserve in 2002. The relocated deer reproduced in the second year after the relocation (Yang et al. 2002). By the end of calving season of 2006, there were 522 E. davidianus in the Shishou Milu National Nature Reserve. The annual average population growth rate was 22.2%. The birth rate and population growth rate in Shishou were significantly higher whereas the mortality rate was significantly lower than those of the Dafeng Nature Reserve.
In November, 2002, 30 E. davidianus (14 males : 16 females) from Beijing Milu Park and 20 from the DafengMilu Nature Reserve were introduced to Yuanyang Forestry Farm, Henan. These deer are in an enclosure on the Yuanyang Yellow River Nature Reserve (35°11'N, 114°15'E). In 2006, there were 53 deer in the Yuanyang Yellow River Nature Reserve paddock, but the sex ratio was predominately male biased (38 males : 15 females) (Li et al. 2007).
Currently, there are a total of 53 herds of E. davidianus in China. Nine herds have fewer than 25 deer, 75.5% have fewer than 10 deer (Yang et al. 2003). Such a small herd size raise question about the effective population size and health of population genetics, since those herds are isolated and there is no gene exchange. The artificially dispersed E. davidianus herds are similar to a meta-population. The viability of the meta-population depends on the man-made gene exchange process by the managers.
There are now four wild populations (not fenced) living in Hubei and Hunan provinces established by escaped individuals from Shishou Nature Reserve during severe flooding in 1998. The latest data from 2015 suggests that the wild population is about 600 individuals (M. Boyd pers. comm. 2015), surveys need to be conducted to assess the long-term viability of these populations.
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|Studies have been carried out on the behaviour, ecology and reproduction of Père David's Deer in Beijing since 1985, in Dafeng since 1986, and in Shishou since 2001. This species lives in low-lying grasslands and reed beds, often in seasonally flooded areas such as the lower Yangtze River valley and coastal marshes. It eats grass, reeds and leaves of bushes, can swim well, and spend long periods in water. It lives in single sex ormaternal herds. Animals reach maturity during second year. Gestation is 270-300 days. One, rarely two young are born. These are weaned in 10-11 months. Adults live up to 18 years. Data from the Dafeng Reserve suggests that female E. davidianus establish a home range of approximately 1 km² (Hu and Jiang 2002).
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|The species became extinct in the wild due to habitat loss and hunting. The size of the reintroduced population was only 120 in 1993 (Cao 1993), although has increased to over 2,000 since that time (Yang et al. 2008). Low genetic diversity has been identified as a long-term threat by Zeng et al. (2007) and Yang et al. (2008). It is unclear how much native habitat remains on which E. davidianus can exist in a free-ranging state.
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It is listed on the Chinese Red List as Extinct in the Wild, and on the China Key List - I.
Recommended conservation action includes:
1. Establish additional populations when and where appropriate, with the aim of re-establishing a genuinely wild, free-ranging population.
2. Conduct surveys of the four free-living sub-populations in Hubei and Hunan provinces to assess their long-term viability.
3. Establish a genetic management programme of all populations in China.
4. Develop conservation education programmes to raise conservation awareness among the local people and general public.
Following a trial release of this species in the Dafeng Reserve, China, Hu and Jiang (2002) concluded that future releases will necessitate either natural or artificial boundaries to alleviate conflict between introduced E. davidianus and farmers, on whose land the deer are likely to stray. These authors suggest a reintroduction model based on that of Oryx leucoryx in Oman (Stanley Price 1989).
|Jiang, Z. & Harris, R.B. 2016. Elaphurus davidianus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T7121A22159785. . Downloaded on 15 October 2018.
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According to a Parks representative, this is part of mandatory regulations set by the state Department of Environmental Conservation for developments in the park.
"The scope of work for the dam decommissioning will require the clearing and grubbing of vegetation, and the removal of embankment fill materials in order to create breaches in three locations as determined through a geotechnical and hydrologic engineering study," the spokesperson said.
Highland Park is currently under refurbishment as the city is adding walkways, lampposts and handicapped-accessible ramps.
Ridgewood Reservoir was once a water supply to Brooklyn from 1858 to 1959, a backup supply for Brooklyn and Queens until 1989, and was later decommissioned by the Department of Environmental Protection in 1990.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg transferred the property to to the Parks Department in 2004, where it has been under development for a park expansion ever since.
While Community Board 5 has been pushing to move the reservoir park development project forward, CB5 chair Vinny Arcuri is now hesitant over a large gated opening to the park, recently installed for construction purposes.
"We wrote a letter saying we have no objection of breeching the dam, but do object to a large gated opening that could invite vandalism," Arcuri said of the current project.
Arcuri explained that the board is concerned that the structure may become vulnerable to vandalism and a possible a haven for the homeless.
"People will think there will be vandalism," said CB5 board member Kathy Masi.
At the board's March 13th monthly meeting at Christ the King Regional High School in Middle Village, Masi and members of the board said they would like to agree on a solution, however some fear it is too late.
"They're going to do it anyways because it's a done deal," she said.
Parks responded, ensuring that only the gate on Vermont Place is expected to be tall enough to permit pedestrian access.
"The gates can be locked and will be locked as needed," a representative said.


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Final Stats
The Charlotte Hounds (2-5) defeated the Denver Outlaws (5-1) 18-15 on Saturday evening at Memorial Stadium in Charlotte, NC, ending the Outlaws MLL record 25 consecutive regular season game winning streak.
The Hounds got off to a strong start at both ends of the field and were able to outlast an Outlaws' offense that entered the game leading the MLL in nearly every offensive category. The Hounds defense held the Outlaws to a single goal in the 1
st quarter. It was the first time in the 2014 season that Denver failed to score 3 or more goals in the 1
st frame.
Outlaws Goalie, Charlie Cipriano made his first career start to replace injured reigning Goalie of the Year, Jesse Schwartzman. Cirpiano was kept busy by the Hounds offense that fired 30 shots on goal.
The surging Hounds offense was led by Captain Matt Danowski, John Haus, and Ryan Young each scoring three goals. Young's first goal extended his point-scoring streak to 23 consecutive games.
Hounds rookie Mike Chanenchuk scored his first career MLL goal on a dodge from the top of the arch down the right side. Chanechuk, the 11
th overall selection in the 2014 Collegiate Draft, was making his MLL debut and finished with 2 goals.
Curtis Dickson was the offensive answer for the Outlaws, who were missing John Grant Jr. at Attack. Dickson used his speed to beat Hounds defenders all evening and ended the game with 5 points (4g, 1a).
The Outlaws were able to capitalize on scoring opportunities in transition to beat Hounds defenders, who appeared unorganized at times throughout the game. Jeremy Sieverts and Drew Snider each scored three goals to propel the Outlaws offense, including one 2-point score from Sieverts on the man advantage. He now leads the MLL with four 2-point goals this season.
However, uncharacteristic turnovers hampered the Outlaws offense and gave the Hounds an advantage in time of possession and allowed the Hounds to control the pace of play.
Eight different Hounds players scored goals, including a blast from beyond the 2pt arc by long pole Mason Poli that gave the Hounds the 14-13 lead.
Poli scooped up the groundball off the faceoff, ran uncontested down the field and hit the top left corner of the goal with his shot. The goal came just 23 seconds after the Outlaws had taken the lead in the 4
th quarter and appeared to be gaining control of the game.
The Hounds would not relinquish the lead and closed out the quarter with 6 goals to silence the Outlaws and end the longest regular season winning streak in MLL history at 25 games.
Game Notes:
-Coca–Cola Player of the Game, Ryan Young scored three goals and extended his point-scoring streak to 23 consecutive MLL games.
-Danowski's three goals brought his career goal total to 148.
-Justin Ward scored four points (1g, 3a) for the second game in a row.
-Tim Fallon recorded a season-high 8 groundballs.
-Charlie Cipriano had a career-high 13 saves.
-The Outlaws were 1-for-2 on the Man Advantage.
-Tim Fallon won 18-of-35 faceoffs to help pace the victory; Anthony Kelly finished 17-35 for the Outlaws.
-The Hounds won the battle of shots (30-26), groundballs (27-24), and faceoffs (18-17).
-Denver returns to action on June 14
th vs. New York Lizards (3-3) in Denver, CO. Charlotte faces the Florida Launch (4-2) on June 14
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Do Apple users secretly lust after the Windows 8 tablets that have the guts of a full computer but in a tablet form factor? Modbook certainly thinks so. We first heard about the Modbook Pro back in July but weren't sure of a release date or pricing. Available now, the company is offering an Intel-powered tablet running Mac OS X that starts at $3,500.
Built by the same team behind Axiotron, which was known for turning MacBooks into slates before the company folded in 2008 when its backer Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, the Modbook Pro is the latest after-market mod device from the rebranded Modbook crew. Like its predecessors, the Modbook Pro only looks like a tablet: it doesn't have a touchscreen (OS X doesn't support touch controls), but it does come with a 1024-point digitizer from Wacom to give it some pen capabilities so you can sketch and annotate your screen captures similar to that of the Samsung Galaxy Note II.
Technically, the Modbook Pro is just a mid-2012 MacBook Pro stuffed into the body of a slate. So rather than sport a 13.3-inch Retina display, this tablet-wannabe has a 1280 x 800 resolution screen. Like a full laptop, the Modbook Pro manages to squeeze in a DVD burning SuperDrive, an Ethernet port, and one USB 3.0 port into a relatively small device. That said, no one will be confusing the Modbook Pro for an iPad mini competitor any time soon: the slate-like device weighs a hefty 5.4 pounds, so it feels more like a traditional laptop than a tablet.
For $3,500, you can get a dual-core 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 120GB solid-state drive (SSD) under the hood. But if you have even more money to burn, you can opt for the i7 chip, with double the RAM, a 480GB SSD, and even dual-boot Windows 7 (Windows 8 is not an option) for just under $5,020.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy a Windows 8 tablet and install OS X onto it? Would you spend this much on a super-powered OS X-running tablet?


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Harris Pleased With New Steelers Coach
Friday, January 26, 2007
By ALAN ROBINSON, AP Sports Writer
PITTSBURGH Franco Harris remembers the day it would have been a big deal that the Pittsburgh Steelers hired a black coach.
When Harris reported to the Steelers as a rookie running back from Penn State in 1972, black assistant coaches were uncommon in the NFL. Starting quarterbacks and middle linebackers were almost exclusively white. And there wouldn't be a black head coach for another 17 seasons.
This week, the only negative rumblings Harris detected in Pittsburgh about new Steelers coach Mike Tomlin is whether, at 34 and with only one season as a coordinator, he is somewhat inexperienced for the job.
"There's not much talk about it," Harris said Friday of Tomlin being the Steelers' first black coach. "That's what so great about sports: It opens many doors, it's broken down many barriers and gives people new perspective on how they see things. Again, sports has taken a lead in this."
Harris, one of six former black Steelers players in the Hall of Fame, stayed in Pittsburgh after his football career ended to start several successful businesses. He said he admires the way his adopted city has been a forerunner in advancing the cause of minorities in sports.
Two years after Harris joined the team, the Steelers became one of the first teams to start a black QB in Joe Gilliam. They later made Tony Dungy, one of Harris' former teammates, the NFL's first black coordinator.
The Pirates also fielded the majors' first all-minority lineup and Duquesne University produced Chuck Cooper, the first black player drafted by the NBA in Chuck Cooper. Yet Pittsburgh has one of the smallest minority populations of any major U.S. metropolitan area, with blacks making up only about 9 percent of the area's residents.
Harris said he also is proud that his former boss, Steelers owner Dan Rooney, pushed the NFL to adopt in 2002 a rule requiring teams to interview minority candidates for job openings. Harris' parents were of black and Italian descent.
"It was a great thing when they incorporated the Rooney rule _ to me, the most important step ever in this situation," Harris said. "It's about giving opportunity. And when you give opportunity, you really get to see the talent of people and get to meet them personally and build relationships.
"And when you meet with new people, you realize, `Wow, OK, this person is a great person.' When you see that, color and race really shouldn't enter into it," he said.
"It helped opened the door for me that may not have been opened had it not been for the rule," Tomlin said.
When the next NFL season starts in September, there will be attention focused again on the fact that Tomlin is black, Harris said. After that, he believes it will be all about winning and losing, not race, creed or color.
"In the start, it will be given a lot of play and a lot of attention," Harris said. "When things get going, you find that it's, hey, you have to perform, you have to do the job, can you pull things together? I'm just so happy he has the opportunity to do it, and that's what I'm really happy about."
On Friday, Harris paid tribute to Steelers receiver Hines Ward for his community service work by announcing that his picture will be on the boxes of the Super Donuts and Super Buns sold by Harris' RSuper Foods.
Harris' former coach, Joe Paterno of Penn State, is being similarly honored.
Coming from Franco Harris, He believes Tomlin is going to be very successful in the Burgh. I agree with him. This is a very exciting time for Pittsburgh and the fans.


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BEIJING (AP) — Their hopes raised and dashed, relatives of passengers on a missing Malaysia Airlines plane want a new plan to find it after the search was suspended following a new setback.
The 84-year-old mother of Australian passenger Rod Burrows no longer expects to live to see the mystery of Flight 370 solved.
"I doubt it will be in my lifetime," Irene Burrows said Friday from her home in Biloela in Australia's northeast. "All I just want is a bit of plane. It's all I want to know — where they are."
Tempers flared Thursday after the joint center set up to oversee the search for the jetliner that vanished March 8 said a robot submarine had found no trace of it in a section of the southern Indian Ocean where acoustic signals, or "pings," were detected.
Investigators have concluded that the area where the signals were detected is not the final resting place of the plane.
The search for the plane and the 239 people on board will be suspended for two months while more powerful sonar equipment is brought in, according to the Australia-based Joint Agency Coordination Center.
"Now they say the pings are not from the plane. It's March 8 all over again and I don't like March 8 at all," said an emotional Jacquita Gonzales, whose husband Patrick Gomes was the flight supervisor.
"We are on a roller coaster ride and we have just hit bottom again," she said.
Gonzales said sometimes she is an "emotional wreck" thinking about the fate of her beloved husband but wills herself to be strong. Their 29th wedding anniversary is on Sunday.
"Please find the plane, find my husband and all our loved ones," she said.
Authorities believe the plane, bound from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, turned sharply and flew to the southern Indian Ocean. Yet not a single piece of the missing Boeing 777 has been found.
The Malaysian official in charge of the search, Defense Minister Hishamuddin Hussein, visited Beijing this week, and relatives asked to meet him but got no reply, said Steve Wang, whose mother was on the plane.
"Something very disappointing has been announced and we want to know what his plan is," Wang said.
This week, the Malaysian government gave in to pressure from families of passengers and released 45 pages of satellite data it used to determine that the flight ended in the southern Indian Ocean.
"It feels like we have been fooled by the authorities. We are now back to square one. I expect them to keep searching. There can't be any closure until we find something," said Lee Khim Fatt, whose wife Christine Foong was a stewardess on the plane.
Lee said he cannot believe that such a big plane can't be detected by satellites and modern technology.
"If satellites can capture the image of a small car with its number plate, why is there no satellite image of this big bird, the 777? Are they hiding something from us?" Lee said.
China renewed diplomatic pressure on the Malaysian government on Thursday in a meeting between Premier Li Keqiang and visiting Prime Minister Najib Razak.
Beijing has tried to placate Chinese relatives of missing passengers by pressing their case with Malaysia while trying to avoid damage to relations with an important trading partner.
"We expect Malaysia to take the leading and coordinating role, come up with a new search plan for the jet at an early date, and take the investigation seriously," Li told Najib, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.
McGuirk reported from Canberra, Australia. Associated Press writer Eileen Ng in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, contributed to this report.


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Denver Museum of Nature & Science: Key Programs and Events
Included in this advisory are key programs and events at the
Denver Museum of Nature & Science, which aim to inspire
curiosity and excite minds of all ages through scientific
Genghis Khan Invades Denver - Now through February 7, 2010
Explore the culture, conquests, and heritage of the world's
greatest conqueror, when the treasures and stories of Genghis
Khan's 13th-century Mongol Empire are presented in Denver for the
first time. The Genghis Khan exhibition, at the Denver
Museum of Nature & Science from October 16, 2009, through
February 7, 2010, offers an adventure in the vast grassland of
Central Asia, amid the relics of Genghis Khan's reign.
Space Science - Life Out There
Tuesday, November 3 at 7 p.m. - $12 for members, $15 for
(Special Offer: 2 for 1 Tickets)
What is life, really? How did it begin on Earth and where
else might we find it in our solar system and beyond? David
Grinspoon, PhD, curator of astrobiology, and Ka Chun Yu, PhD,
curator of space science, offer a mind-blowing trip through space
and time. Search for clues to life, from the infant Earth
where life first arose to the mysterious, promising depths of
Saturn's strangely vibrant moons. The journey includes
state-of-the-art digital visuals and live musical interpretation by
House Band to the Universe. Presented with support from the NASA
Astrobiology Institute.
Children's Workshop - Fishy Tales of Sharks and
Saturday, November 7 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. - $40 for members, $50
for nonmembers
Dive deep into the world of sharks and whales. Using stories and
crafts, learn about the differences between sharks and whales. Ages
4 and 5.
Children's Workshop - Digging for Dinosaurs
Saturday, November 7 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. - $40 for members, $50
for nonmembers
Become a junior paleontologist and piece together clues to
prehistoric times. Dig for dinosaur bones, and visit Prehistoric
Journey to see amazing fossils. Walk like a dinosaur and touch a
fossil footprint. Create your own fossil to take home. Grades K and
Children's Workshop - Genghis Khan: I Spy! NEW
Saturday, November 7 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. - $40 for members, $50
for nonmembers
Explore the exciting new exhibition Genghis Khan. Become a
"Mongolian spy" and create new ways to smuggle a message or
information. Grades 2 and 3.
Children's Workshop - Mummy Mysteries
Saturday, November 7 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. - $40 for members, $50
for nonmembers
Uncover the Egyptian mysteries of mummification and the
afterlife. Learn about funerary rituals, inspect actual linen
wrappings, create Egyptian hieroglyphs, experiment with tools in a
"dig," and complete a field notebook to take home. Grades 4-6.
Behind-the-Scenes Tour - The Stories Behind
Expedition Health
Wednesday, November 11 at 6 p.m. - $20 for members, $25 for
Bridget Coughlin, PhD, the Museum's vice president of
strategic partnerships and programs and curator of human health,
was involved in the development of Expedition Health from
start to finish. She will share firsthand the science behind the
interactive exhibits, the secrets of the multimillion dollar
software programs, and unprecedented access to the plastinated
anatomical collections.
Genghis Khan - Mongolia: Ancient Landscapes,
Modern Treasures
Thursday, November 12 at 7 p.m. - $15 for members, $18 for
Mongolia's vast landscapes range from the ecologically
rich grasslands of the Asian steppe to the harsh Gobi Desert. The
Nature Conservancy and the Museum invite you to discover the story
of Mongolia's landscape today, and in the deep past, and to find
out why Genghis Khan would have felt at home in Colorado. After the
presentations, visit the Genghis Khan exhibition and enjoy coffee
and dessert.
Celebrating the Year of Darwin - Meet Charles
Sunday, November 15 at 4 p.m. - $15 for members, $18 for
Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the
Origin of Species and spend an afternoon with the affable
young Charles Darwin as portrayed by enactor Brian "Fox" Ellis.
Hear humorous tales of Darwin's training as a naturalist, his
insights into South American geology, his discovery of strange
creatures on the Galápagos archipelago, and the scientific evidence
that led to his revolutionary theory. Equal parts dramatic
storytelling, stand-up comedy, and show-and-tell, Ellis brings this
infamous man to life.
Genghis Khan - Beasts from the East: Conserving
Mongolia's Wildlife in the Gobi Desert
Tuesday, November 17 at 7 p.m. - $12 for members, $15 for
(Special Offer: 2 for 1 Tickets)
Mongolia's Gobi Desert may seem harsh to humans, but numerous
species call it home, including the last wild two-humped camels and
some of the world's largest vultures. Much of this wildlife is
threatened by loss of habitat, illegal or over hunting, and over
grazing by domestic livestock. Conservationists are working hard to
reverse these threats and safeguard endangered species. Rich
Reading, PhD, director of conservation biology, Denver Zoo, will
discuss efforts to conserve wildlife in the Gobi and his own
fieldwork over the last 15 years.
Space Science - 60 Minutes in Space
Wednesday, November 18 at 7 p.m. - FREE
Go "behind the stories" in space science using the best
images and animation available to help understand new developments.
Hosted by Museum space scientists Steven Lee, Dimitri Klebe, David
Grinspoon, and Ka Chun Yu, PhDs.
Children's Workshop - To the Moon and Beyond!
Saturday, November 21 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. - $60 for members, $70
for nonmembers
Is the moon made of cheese? Do "little green men" live on Mars?
Separate fact from fiction in this hands-on class. Discover the
evidence scientists use to understand the solar system. View
meteorites, create space crafts, and see a Planetarium show or two.
Grades K and 1.
Parent-Child Workshop - The Cutting Edge
Saturday, November 21 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. - $60 for members, $70
for nonmembers
Sharpen your scalpel and prepare to dissect. Cut open an organ and
then suture it back together. Dissect a sheep brain, heart, and
eyeball, and perform a close study of a frog's internal systems.
Learn about the latest about organ transplantation. PreK-1 with an
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The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is the Rocky Mountain
Region's leading resource for informal science education. A variety
of engaging exhibits, discussions and activities help Museum
visitors celebrate and understand the natural wonders of Colorado,
Earth and the universe. The Museum is located at 2001 Colorado
Blvd., Denver, CO, 80205. To learn more about the Museum,
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Many of the Museum's educational programs and exhibits are made
possible in part by the citizens of the seven-county metro area
through the Scientific & Cultural Facilities District.


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Good Morning! Can I tell you about my favorite thing to wake up to? I woke up (with my 7 year old's knee in my back), climbed out of bed and turned on my computer. I check my email and I found happy news. That is so rare for me. This email made me smile and gosh, I'm still smiling.
Let's see what else I can tell you about today. Today I will driving all over town going from one school to the next to watch my kids in their "feast". We made a banana bread for one (oh it looks good!) and bought pepperoni for the other (I'm all for easy). Tomorrow we go to my mom's house where she will be doing all the cooking. The best part about going to my mom's? She makes so much food for the sole purpose of sending us all home with leftovers. We even get a full pie to bring home. Now that is a great mom!
What are you doing tomorrow? Are you cooking? Are you going to someone else's house? Are you going to a restaurant and let someone else do everything while you sit back and relax? Now that would be great. Whatever you do, make sure you come back here. Why? Well, not only for the daily download link, but to show how Thankful we are for each and every one of you, I will be showing you all the FULL KIT! I know big right?