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Texas Holdem Nicknames
We visited a support group meeting (never mind which one) once where the speaker said you could recognize a good group if everyone there had a nickname. The same could be said of a poker room. In fact, Texas holdem nicknames come in a bewildering number of varieties.
You'll find nicknames for individual cards, combinations of cards, and poker players. Not only do famous players have nicknames—almost everyone we've ever played with on a regular basis had nicknames, too. We have fond memories of playing with folks like Doctor Tilt, Hero, Mister Frito-Lay, Rock, and Lobster.
We've listed as many well-known Texas holdem nicknames as we could think of below:
Playing Card Nicknames in Texas Holdem
Ace High Card
Pocket Rockets, Bullets, American Airlines, Alan Alda, Batteries, Snake eyes
Bandits, Exxon Valdez, and Joe Louis
Big Slick, Santa Barbara, Walking Back to Houston, Big Ugly off suit, Anna Kournikova, King Arthur
Big Chick, Big Slut, Doyle Brunson, Little Slick, Mrs. Slick, and Rocket Queen
Black Jack, Ajax, Apple Jacks, Hijacks, and Jackass
Bookends, Johnny Moss
Gimp Hand, McDerment, Rounder's Hand
Dead Man's Hand
Slap shot, The Sonnert
Mile High Club
High Five
Plane Crash, Stu Unger, Transvestites
Ashtray, Baskin Robins, Thrace
Little Slick, Hunting Season
King High Card
Cowboys, King Kong, Elvis Presley, Butchers of Baghdad, Ace Magnets, and Kangaroos
Divorce suited if it loses, Married suited, Mixed Marriage off suit, Othello off suit, and Royal Couple
Kojak, Bachelor's Hand, Starksy and Hutch, King John, Joking, and Just Kidding
Big Al, Ken, and Woodcutter off suit
Fido, Canine, What a Dog, Sawmill, Mutt off suit, Pedigre suited
Kate, Feast, Kokomo
Core, Fork
Commander Crab, King Crab, Sizzler, Alaska Hand
Big Fritz suited, The Zepik
Queen High Card
Dames, Snowshoes, Hilton Sisters, Siegfried & Roy, Divas, and Ladies
Maverick, Oedipus, Hawaii, Quack, and JQuery
Quint, Cutie, Q-Tip
Snow and a Ho, Bitch Called Hope
Computer Hand off suit, Dike
Nesquick, Sad ol Bess
Granny Mae
Shuli, and Housework
A San Francisco Busboy, or Windsor Waiter
Daisy, or Queen Liz
Jack High Card
Jokers, Hooks, Brothers, Jaybirds, Bowers, Rent boys, and The Two Jakes
Greek Passport, and TJ Hooker
T.J. Cloutier, and Braggers
Jacket and Jeffery Dahmer
Jack Daniels
Jackson Five
Flat Tire
Heckle and Jeckle, Jack Shit
Ten High Card
Binary, Bo Derek, Dynamite, TNT, and Dimes
Split, or Bowling hand
Sweet Sixteen
Dime store, Five and Dime, and Merfs
Over and Out, Ten Four, Good Buddy, CB Hand, Convoy, Roger That, and The Trucker hand
Kitchies, Hot Waitress
Terminator 2, and Doyle Brunson
Nine High Card
Barbara Feldon, Meat Hooks, Hitler's, Pothooks, Popeyes
Good lover, Big Lick, and Prom Night suited
Dolly Parton, Hard Working Man
The Sandy
Eight High Card
Snowmen, Pretzels, Piano Keys, Racetracks
The Hamilton
Big Brother and Orwell
Most Feared hand in holdem
Seven High Card
Walking Sticks, Hockey Sticks, and Axes
Pistol, Heinz, 007
Double Down, Ghost Dawg
Swedish Busboy
Beer Hand off suit, The Hammer off suit
Six High Card
Boots and Kicks
Bus pass
Billion Dollar hand
Blocky and Spanish Inquisition
Five High Card
Presto, Nickels, Speed Limit and Snakes
Jesse James, Money Maker
Bomber, Pick-up, Quarters
Four High Card
Sailboats, Darth Vader, Magnum, and The Harley
Waltz, and Books
Lumberman's Hand, The Principle, and The Answer
Three High Card
Crabs, Treys, and Pere Ghaf
Can of Corn, Little Pete, Polish Big Slick, Hooter's Hand Suited, and Crubs if clubs
Two High Card
Nixon, Quack Quack, Ducks, Desmond, and Swans
Single Card Nicknames
Alas, Clover , Bull, Bullet, Death Card , MasterCard, One Spot, Rocket, Seed, Sharp Top, Spadille , Spike, Spot, Tax Card
Cowboy, K-Boy, Knight, Monarch, Sergeant, Alexander , Charlemagne , Charles , David , Julius Caesar , One-Eyed King , the Man with the Ax , Suicide King , The Butcher of Baghdad
Cowgirl, Dame, Lady, Girl, Hen, Joy Girl, Painted Lady, mop-squeezer, Bedpost Queen , Black Maria , Calamity Jane , Helen of Troy , Judith , Molly Hogan , Dirty Gertie , Pallas Athena , Fanny Kaplan
Boy, Bower, Fishhook, Hook, J-Bird, J-Boy, Jackal, Jackson, Jacksonville, Jake, Knave, Valet, Fish Hook, Eunuch , Hector , Laughing Boy , Ogier , Lancelot , Roland
Big Cassino, Bo Derek, Dime, and Sawbuck
Neener, Nina Ross, Niner, Curse of Scotland, and Pothook
Fat Lady, Ocho, Snowman, 8 Land, Race track, Time travel, Hog Nads
Beer Card, Hockey Stick, Candy Cane, Mullet, Salmon, Walking Stick
A Boot, Sax and Sex
Five Spot, Pedro, Nickel, and Fever
Boat, Four Spot, One Legged Ace, Broken Ace, Sailboat, Sharp Top, The Devil's Bedpost
Crab, Butts, Trey
Deuce, Dewey, Curse of Mexico, Duck, Swan, and Little Cassino
Wildcard, Pagliacci, Old Maid, Trump Card, Imperial Bower, The Fool, The Fly, The Bird
Collective Single Card Nicknames
Coat Card, Court Card, Face Card, Figure, Liner, Paint, Paint skin, Picture, Picture Card, Redskin, Rembrandt, Royal Cards, Picasso, Monkey
Broadway Cards, and Honor Cards
Wheel Card
Pusher or Spot
Poker Hand Nicknames
Royal Flush
Having all face cards in the same suit from ace to ten. This hand is the highest hand in poker and will give you a win every time. Some other names are:
Straight Flush
|This is when a player has a hand of cards that are all the same suit and are in numerical order. For example if your hand was all hearts and your numbers were 2 3 4 5 6 this would be a straight flush.
Four of A Kind
|This is when a player's hand consists of the same card from each suit. If two players have four of a kind then the player with the higher card wins. Example: You have a Jack from each suit and the other player has a King from each suit; they win. Also known as Book, Case, or Quads and Aces - Four Pips.
|To have a flush you must have five cards all from the same suit. They don't have to be in order. An example of a flush would be A 9 7 3 2 of hearts. Also known flush of hearts or diamonds – Pink or All Pink, of clubs or spades – Blue or All Blue, or clubs - Golf Bag, Puppy Feet, Puppy Toes, Pups.
|When a player has cards that fall in numerical order but are not of the same suit. Example: . Also known as Steel, wheel or ten to ace – Broadway, and ace to five - Wheel, Bicycle, Bike.
Three of a Kind
|Hand where there are three cards of the same value and suit doesn't matter. Highest card wins if more than one player has the same hand. In holdem the term set refers to when a player has a pair in the hole and one matching card on the board, with trips referring to a pair on the board and one in the hand or three of a kind on the board. Three of a kind have nicknames as well - Trips, Set, Kings-Alabama Night Riders, sevens - Slot Machine, sixes -Devil's hand, Mark of the Beast referring to the Number of the Beast in the Book of Revelation deuces-Huey, Dewey and Louie.
Two Pairs
|Two pairs of cards. The higher value pair of the two pairs determines the rank with the best possible combination being aces and kings. If both competing hands are the same, the higher card in the remainder of the hand is the kicker or high card.
One Pair
|When a player has two cards of the same value. If more than one players have a pair the highest pair wins. If the hands are the same then the highest card left in the hand wins.
High Card
|When there's no player that has a qualified hand the one with the highest card wins. For example if there are three people playing and the hands are A 2 9 5 4, 8 1 3 6 9, and 4 5 2 9 6 then the player with the ace would win.
Full house
|A full house is commonly referred to as Xs full of Ys where X is the three of a kind and Y is the pair. Also known as Full boat, Boat, Full.
Texas Holdem Card Position Nicknames
The three cards placed by the dealer after all hole cards have been dealt and the first betting round has been completed. Comes from the sound the three cards in succession make when they hit a felt Poker table.
The fourth card dealt buy the dealer got its name because it can and will turn the tide of the hand. Another explanation would be when the fourth community card is dealt in a poker hand the hand is nearing an end.
The last card dealt buy the dealer got its name because the last card can sell you down the river. Also it's said that the term came from the Mississippi riverboats on which poker was played in the 1800's. Sometimes, cheaters would purposely deal a final community card that would improve their own hand. If caught, they would often be thrown overboard, into the river, thus giving the river card its name.
Texas Holdem Player Positions
Dealer Button
The Dealer Button position is considered the best position since she is the last player able to bet after the flop, turn, and river. Because of this luxury, the dealer button has the opportunity to steal the blinds by initiating a fairly large raise if no one has previously raised the minimum bet. So if the Button player feels that all other players are weak and they check to the button after the flop, turn, or river, he would have the chance to make a strategic raise in an attempt to steal the pot.
Small Blind
The first position immediately to the left of the dealer button is called the small blind. The small blind player is required to put half the minimum bet into the pot before the two pocket cards are dealt to each player. This is the earliest of positions since it is the first to act after the flop, turn, and river. As a result, this position is often referred to as the worst table position in poker.
Big Blind
One seat next to the small blind is the big blind. The player in the big blind is required to put the full minimum bet into the pot before the two pocket cards are dealt to each player. The big blind is considered to be an early position as well. However, there is a small advantage for this position. Just as the dealer button has the ability to steal the blinds after the flop, turn, and river, the big blind may place a strategic bet at the end of the pre - flop round to protect his blind since he is the last to act.
Under the Gun
The very first player to act at the beginning of the pre-flop round of betting is under the gun. This position is very much at a disadvantage. He has an early position and must take the first action before receiving any clues from the remaining players at the table in the very first round of betting. Unless he has premium cards, it is usually recommended that he does not make a large initial bet pre-flop because of the poor player position.
One of the later positions is the hijack. Some players in this position will use this seat to prevent the dealer button from stealing the blinds by making their own strategic bet. Since only two positions are left to act after the hijack following the flop, turn, and river, this could be a viable option in games with fuller tables.
Being the last position before the dealer button, the cutoff is the last line of defense to prevent the dealer button from stealing the pot after the flop, turn, or river. With this type of thinking, the cutoff may often make large raises before the dealer button gets his opportunity to do the same when there are signs that the remaining players at the table have weak hands.
Texas Holdem Player Nicknames
Better known as Eskimo. May not be the most famous player on the list, but looks the part and he continued playing the in a 2007 World Series of Poker $5,000 Razz event despite suffering three mini strokes. Clutching the WSOP tournament table to prevent officials from removing him late in the event, Clark added to his mysterious mystique and forever cemented his nickname in the annals of poker badass.
Lederer reportedly hates this nickname The Professor despite the fact that is it perhaps the most perfect on the list. His calculated studious approach to the game prompted folks to start calling him the Professor, a label his supposedly despises because he never went to college. He continues to help lead the poker world in its quest to get the online game regulated in America, more proof that Lederer is at the head of his class.
Chris Ferguson gets the most props in the poker world as a player who transcended his WSOP Main Event victory to become one of the best players of his generation, but El Matador, the 2000 Main Event champ, might lay a stronger claim. As the only person to win a WSOP Main Event and a World Poker Tour Championship, claiming Mortensen is one of the best tournament players to ever sit at the felt is no bull.
One year after Chris Moneymaker made poker a game celebrated around the world, Greg Raymer added to the momentum by wearing hologram sunglasses and protecting his card with fossils en route to another improbable win. Called the Fossilman for his affinity for the trinkets and his willingness to sell the items at the poker table, Raymer is dominant figure in the poker world and his nickname is one of those that will never be forgotten.
Thater became the first woman since 2004 to win an open WSOP bracelet event when she won a 2007 WSOP Razz event. She has taken the poker world by storm and become a bit of a celebrity, especially in her native Germany where she ranks among the best-known sports figures. Her nickname Miss Slick is a testament to her dominance of European Texas Holdem tournaments, but her skills go beyond Holdem and are apparent in other disciplines as well.
The story behind this nickname is that Harrington promoted the action tag to further his ability to deceive his opponents. This known rock is actually quite aggressive at the table, but his quiet, solid approach made the nickname Action the definition of irony, further hiding Harrington's very successful and aggressive strategies. Few are still fooled, especially after Harrington released his celebrated and complicated strategy books, but the simple nickname remains.
A Matrix-themed nickname may be more fitting for this computer nerd turned world class player, but his long-hair framed face and soft-spoken anger-free manner makes the comparison to Jesus, one of history's most famous figures too hard to ignore. He started wearing the long cloak, signature black hat and dark sunglasses to add to his rock-tight image, but his look is nothing short of a copyright worthy poker trademark.
There are other nicknames for the legendary Brunson, most notably the Grandfather of Poker, but Texas Dolly was a household nickname before poker was a household game. The undisputed king of the game has been compared to Babe Ruth, Wayne Gretzky and Michael Jordan, making his nickname's appearance on this list an absolute must.
An offensive and never stopping mouth can get you in trouble or even make you infamous. This is how Mike became known as The Mouth. Matusow has made millions at the poker table with his skill and was a walking billboard at the 2007 WSOP because he is easy fodder for ESPN cameras and one of the most recognizable names in the game. The railbirds line the ropes around his tournament tables hoping to hear and instant classic escape poker's most famous mouth.
His record alone in No Limit Texas Holdem tournaments would make Hellmuth world famous, but his brat-like table antics and immense self promotional skills make sure everyone knows who The Brat is. Even folks not familiar with poker know Hellmuth is a great player and great at freaking out on his lesser opponents. Norman Chad dubbed Hellmuth The Poker Brat and the countless fans who adore / hate Hellmuth ensure his nickname remains the number one item on this list.
This young poker player received his nickname BoostedJ based on his love of fast cars, and motorcycles. He has made quite a name for himself in the poker world since his third place finish at WSOP in 2009.
Also known as Amarillo Slim. Preston is one of the most well known holdem players to ever play the game. He received his nickname because of his physical appearance as a tall slim country boy from Amarillo Texas.
Phil Ivey is probably one of the most well known players of today. He has been given the nickname Tiger Woods of Poker for his skill and top position as a professional player.
Mike has done a lot to help popularize the game. He has commentated for the World Series Poker Tournaments on television and made great strides to show the world that poker is not just a game of chance but that it takes skills to win. For all of his hard work he has been dubbed The Ambassador of Poker.
Received his nickname Back to Back Flack after winning two consecutive Legends of Poker events in 1999, 2002, and 2003.
Steve is known by two nicknames Z which is from his last name and The Bald Eagle which he received due to his bald head.
Reese received his nickname Chip because he has the ability to win all the chips on a table when he plays.
Hoyt has several nicknames but is best known as Cowboy because he always wears a cowboy hat at the table. He has also been given Mr. Move All In by Phil Hellmuth and Nightmare from his aggressive style of play. He is a known to wear ear plugs when playing as to not be distracted by players such as Hellmuth who try to syke-out the other players.
Billy received his nickname The Croc after introducing himself as Crocodile Billy when playing against legend Johnny Moss while playing in a WSOP satellite event. Now he keeps his nickname fresh by wear crocodile shaped hats when he plays.
Todd is the son of poker great Doyle Brunson. He received his nickname Darkhorse early in his career. He was playing in an event that he was thought to be a huge underdog but ended the game the winner. He outlasted many players, even the great Chip Reese, to win.
His nickname The Devilfish was bestowed on him in 1997 by Stephen Au-Yeung. During the tournament Ulliott reduced Nguyen's stack to one chip, and the tournament director insisted upon still taking a one-hour scheduled break, over Nguyen's protests. Ulliott turned to Nguyen and said, We're taking the break, and in all fairness to you, I think you should go upstairs and think about your tactics. Ulliott went on to win, and the headlines the next day read, Devilfish devours the Master.
Otherwise known as The Iceman for his calm demeanor at the table.
Received his nickname Numbers for his playing style. He plays a very calculated game.
Received his nickname The Owl from Doyle Brunson for his ability to read everyone's cards and his thick glasses.
Because of his flashy clothes and jewelry and his fancy style of play Scotty was given the nickname The Prince of Poker
Has had three nicknames bestowed on him The Suicide King, The Hitman, and Spooky, for his unconventional style of play.
Barry has become known in the poker world as The Robin Hood of Poker. He was given this nickname after donating all of his tournament winnings to charity. He has continued to donate his winnings to charity every year since 2006.
Jerry was given his nickname The Shadow by fellow players because they said he was like their shadow. He would follow them where ever they went.
Has to be one of the most easily recognized players in the game. Wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt and blacked out sunglasses at the table gave him the infamous nickname of The Unabomber. Looks like murderer Ted Kaczynski when he wears a gray sweat jacket zipped all the way up, with the hood over his head, and sunglasses hiding his eyes.
One of the most famous poker players of all time is better known as Stuey. Later in his life after being gone from the poker scene for a while he was dubbed The Comeback Kid in 1997. Broke and in debt Ungar received the $10,000 buy in from fellow player Billy Baxter and went on to win the main event at WSOP.
Also known as durrr from his online poker name has been a fast rising start on the poker circuit. He has a career estimated tournament winnings around 1.4 million dollars.
One of the pioneers of the sport Nick Dandolos better known as Nick the Greek played poker until his death in 1966. It is said that he played against Johnny Moss and said one of the best known poker quotes of all time Mr. Moss, I have to let you go. This game is said to be the start of what is now WSOP.
Nicknamed the Orient Express, Chan is only one of three players to win the WSOP back to back, a feat that may never be done again.
AKA the Paul Bunyon of Poker, this ex professional athlete turned poker player has had great success at the tables.
Gave himself the nickname The Grinder to signify his determination and competitive spirit on the felt, he's had tremendous success on the World Poker Tour.
As you can see, everything and everyone in Texas holdem has a few different names to go by. Once you start playing live poker you'll quickly pick up on many of the common nicknames, but some of the more obscure ones may take a while to learn. Who knows, you might even start coming up with new nicknames of your own.


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Innovative, creative and experiential are three words described by the Southington Education Foundation (SEF) when reflecting on the lessons that over a dozen teachers in the district created for Virtual STEM University (VSU).
Last week, nine teachers unveiled their projects during a launch event held at South End School where other educators and Board of Education members attended. VSU is a web-based, educational resource for teachers that provide easy access to lesson design plans in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
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Irazabal said the lessons started off with WebQuest (the technology component of STEM), which students used to build their own background knowledge of dams, since they built one as part of the performance task. Session two involved reviewing the "performance task," which was the real-world application that combined all the lessons and ideas students learned. Sessions three and four involved conducting investigations or experiments for levers, pullies, force and pressure, followed by the planning phase of the performance task—building the dam, which served as the engineering component of STEM. Students took part in the math component of the project when they collected, organized and graphed data.
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Less than a year ago, Dawn Miceli, the former SEF chairman, came to the executive board with a proposal called the "five-prong commitment to STEM enrichment," said Galati. A major component of this proposal included the Virtual STEM University. With the support of former Southington Supt. of Schools Dr. Joseph Erardi, Miceli and Tony Sheffy (the director of SEF) brought the proposal into action.
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Former Av update: Rene Corbet
Remember Rene Corbet? For those that do, but wonder where he's been the last several years, the answer is: Deutschland. He's been a member of the Mannheim Eagles for the last seven years. And, last year's Eagles had former Avs Pascal Trepanier and Jeff Shantz on the roster. Good lord, I can't believe there is a man out there paying Jeff Shantz still to play hockey.
My most vivid Corbet memory is the two goals he scored in Game 2 of the '96 Cup Finals, against Florida. That, and him losing every single fight he ever got into.


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sneak peek: dana frigerio
Five years ago, garden designer Dana Frigerio, her architect husband and the family cat moved into this 1914 home located in the village of Blevio, right on the shores of Lake Como, Italy. The home is opposite the famous Grand Hotel Villa d'Este, and it had special significance for Dana, as it was once her grandmother's house. The antique furniture that originally belonged to her grandmother was the starting point for the home's design. Dana brought modern elements, such as the newly renovated kitchen, into the mix, and the result is a home with a past that functions for the family's present. Thanks, Dana! Special thanks to Cristiano Ostinelli for the lovely photos. — Amy Azzarito
Image above: The dining room is furnished with antiques from my grandmother, which date back to the end of the 19th century. The hanging lamp is designed by Ernesto Gismondi, the Metmorfosi sur Nur by Artemide.
Image above: This Chinese cabinet is used as our bar. I stenciled the gold flowers onto the wall to add a little sparkle above the bar.
The rest of Dana's home tour continues after the jump!
Image above: The paper notes chandelier is by Ingo Maurer. I love how the traditional crystal drops have been replaced by scribbled paper notes.
Image above: Hallway leading into the bedroom. The stripes were another one of my painting projects.
Image above: The bookshelves are from Ikea. Next year, we would love to take the shelves all the way to the ceiling.
Image above: I mixed the paint color for the bathroom. The light with gold garland is by Tord Boontje, the Dutch-born, London-based designer.
Image above: A pair of armchairs from my grandmother. They were originally green, and I redid them in an antique linen from Poland.


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Each year, thousands of grizzlies are killed worldwide for entertainment.
Diving deep into the controversy across Canada and the United States,
Trophy asks: can we truly justify killing these animals for sport?
Please visit the Take Action section for an update on trophy hunting in North America since the film was produced. There has been good news and bad and we need your voice!
Visit our Facebook page to find a screening in your area
Grizzlies are icons of the west and deserve a chanCe to survive and thrive.
Removing federal protection for Greater Yellowstone grizzly bears is opposed by a broad cross section of Americans.
- poll conducted by Remington Research Group on behalf of The HSUS and WWA, April 2016


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Working With SharePoint Search - Part 2
In this article, we will customize the search results page that we created in Part 1.
1. Open the search center (Select Search from the tabs bar) in your SharePoint site.
2. Select Edit Page from the Site Actions menu.
3. Click the edit link in the Search Box and select Modify Shared Web Part. Expand Scopes Dropdown. There are several options listed in the Dropdown mode dropdown. If you want to show scopes drop down on the search page, select "Show scopes dropdown" and if you want to hide it, select "Do not show scopes dropdown". It doesn't make sense to show the scopes drop down because we are searching only one scope that we added in Part 1.
4. To increase the width of the search box, expand Query Text Box and add "350" in the Query text box width field. Click Ok to save the changes.
5. Click edit link in the Search Core Results web part and select Modify Shared Web Part. Expand Results Display/Views. Enter "5" in the Results Per Page field. Enter "1" in Sentences in Summary field. This will reduce the cluttering on the results page. Select "Modified Date" in the Default Results View drop down to show the results sorted by the modified date.
6. You can also modify the appearance of the results page by modifying the XSL. Click the XSL Editor... button to open the editor. You will notice there are different sections in the stylesheet. You can change image paths in this stylesheet. You can also modify the text messages that appear on the results page.
7. Click Check In to Share Draft link to publish the changes. You will see the changes that you just made on the results page. There will be only 5 rows, only 1 line summary, etc.
There are some more interesting features related to search that we can take advantage of. For example, SharePoint provides a way to view search usage reports. We all know how important reports are for the administrators, senior managers and executives. Let's explore some of these great features.
1. Open SharePoint Central Administration and click on the Shared Services link. Depending on your needs, you can create more than one SSP. Click on Search usage reports to view some interesting reports. This page shows following reports:
a. Queries over previous 30 days
b. Queries over past 12 months
c. Top query origin site collections over previous 30 days
d. Queries per scope over previous 30 days
e. Top queries over previous 30 days
Good thing about these reports is that you can export them to other formats like Excel and PDF. For example, select "Acrobat(PDF) File" from the Select a format dropdown and click the Export link located next to the dropdown. SharePoint will prompt you to open or save the document.
2. Another nice feature in SharePoint Search is the Search Result Removal. Suppose some one mistakenly uploaded a confidential document which should not have been published and you, as an administrator, want to remove the document from the search results. What will you do? Click Search settings on the Shared services page. Under Crawl Settings, select Search result removal. Enter the path of the confidential document in the URLs to remove and click Remove Now button. That's it! The link(s) will be immediately removed from the index and yes, there is no need to start the crawl to re-index the site.
3. There are some more useful reports that I forgot to mention. On shared services page, click Search usage reports. Click Search results from the Search usage reports box on the left. This view shows following reports:
a. Search Results Top Destination Pages
b. Queries With Zero Results
c. Most Clicked Best Bets
d. Queries With Zero Best Bets
e. Queries With Low Clickthrough
4. You can create crawl rules of your own. On the Configure Search Settings page, click Crawl rules link and then click New Crawl Rule.
Enter a path in the Path field. You can exclude or include this path from the crawl process depending on your requirements. If you select Exclude all items in this path, all other options on this page will be grayed out. In that case, this path will not be included in the crawl process. If you include it in the indexing process, then you can make some more configurations which can be seen in the above figure. For example, you can enable the Crawl complex URLs option to include all types of URLs in the indexing process. You can also specify authentication and not only that, you can also select a certificate from the drop down if you select the Specify client certificate option.
5. You can enable or disable search based alerts by clicking the Search-based alerts link on the Configure Search Settings page.
Well, these were some of the nice features that are part of the latest SharePoint portal server. I am sure administrators will love these features.


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Young, Aretas William (DNB00)
YOUNG, Sir ARETAS WILLIAM (1778?–1835), soldier and colonial governor, born in 1777 or 1778, entered the Earl of Portmore's regiment as an ensign on 3 Sept. 1795. He purchased a lieutenancy in the 13th foot on 28 Nov. 1795, and a company on 15 Sept. 1796. He served with the 13th foot in Ireland during the rebellion in 1798 and in Egypt in the campaign of 1801, for which he received a medal. Between 1804 and 1806 he acted as aide-de-camp to General Henry Edward Fox [q. v.] at Gibraltar and in Sicily. On 17 Dec. 1807 he was promoted to be major in the 97th regiment, with which he served in the Peninsula campaigns of 1808–10 and 1811, and was engaged at the battles of Vimeiro, Talavera, and Busaco, at Redinha, the taking of Olivença and first siege of Badajoz. Whenever the fourth division was in movement, the light companies were entrusted to his charge, and during a part of the retreat of the army to the lines of Torres Vedras in 1810 those companies were embodied under his command as a light battalion. He received a medal for the battle of Talavera.
Owing to its thinned ranks the 97th was ordered to England, and Young was promoted on 25 Jan. 1813 to a lieutenant-colonelcy in the 3rd West India regiment, stationed in Trinidad. With five companies he joined the expedition against Guadeloupe in 1815, and received one of the badges of the order of merit presented by Louis XVIII. After his return to Trinidad he was chosen by Sir James Leith [q. v.] to command the troops in Grenada. On being ordered back to Trinidad in August 1816, the council of assembly of Grenada presented him with a sword. In 1820, during the absence of Sir Ralph James Woodford, he administered the government of Trinidad for four months, and on the termination of the period was requested to continue a member of the council. During a second absence of Woodford he filled the office of governor for nearly two years, and on his resignation in February 1823 received the thanks of every section of the community. In 1825 the 3rd West India regiment was disbanded, and in January 1826 Young was appointed to the newly created office of her majesty's protector of slaves in Demerara, retiring from the army by sale of his commission on 13 May, with permission to retain the local rank of lieutenant-colonel. On 25 July 1831 he was gazetted lieutenant governor of Prince Edward's Island, and on 9 July 1834 he was knighted. He died in Prince Edward's Island at the government house on 1 Dec. 1835, and was buried at the new English church. He married Sarah Cox of Coolcliffe, Wexford, and was father of Sir Henry Edward Fox Young [q. v.]
[United Service Journal, 1836, i. 380–3; Fraser's Hist. of Trinidad, 1896, ii. 126–7.]


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At Jacobson / Klein Inc. in Maple Valley, WA we have been providing the community with high-end residential construction for over 20 years. Our professional, caring team has over 50 years of experience in the industry. We offer a wide range of services, including custom homes, additions, remodels and feasibility reports, all within a design-build format. Plus, we always offer free estimates and consultations.
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Frequently asked questions
How can I find out more about Spadework?
You can come and have a look round the garden centre, café and farm shop at any time Monday to Friday 9.00am to 4.30pm and Saturday and Sunday 10.00am to 4.00pm. If you would like a member of staff to show you round and talk to you about how we work and the sort of training we can offer, please contact us and we can arrange a time for you to visit and meet with staff.
What should I do if I want to attend Spadework?
Once you have had a look round and If you decide that you might like to come and work with us, you will need to fill in an application and medical form and let us have it back. You will also need to talk to your Care Manager to check whether you will have funding to pay for your place.
Once we have a place and you have funding we will arrange a Taster day. A Taster day is a day when you can come and work with us, to see if you like it and if we are the right place for you. You may want to do a few taster days before you decide.
If all goes well on your Taster day we will arrange a date for you to start.
What job will I be given?
There are lots of different jobs you can do. You will tell us about your interests and what you hope to learn and we will help you to decide what jobs you might like to try.
Do I have to pay to come to Spadework?
Yes you do. The charge is £45.88 per day and this will be looked at each year to decide if it needs to be increased. A bill will be sent to you every 28 days and we will expect you to pay your bill within 14 days. We will accept payment by Cheque, Kent Card, BACS or Debit/Credit Card.
Do I have to pay for the days that I can not come, like holidays, medical appointments or sickness?
Yes you do. Once you have started you have to pay for each day we have agreed for you to attend, including the days that you do not attend because of holidays, medical appointments or sickness.
Can I reduce the number of days that I come to Spadework?
Yes, you will need to talk with us and give us two weeks notice.
What do I do if I don't want to come to Spadework any more?
You will need to talk with us and we will need 2 weeks paid notice.
Can I change my days that I come to Spadework each week?
Sometimes we can change your days. We will need to see whether we have any spaces on the days you would like to work.


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Title: Brother to Brother
Director: Rodney Evans
Starring: Anthony Mackie, Larry Gilliard Jr, Roger Robinson
Distributers: Peccadillo Pictures
Genre: Drama
Country of Origin/Language: USA/English
Rating: 15/R
Released: 2004
Length: 90 minutes
Rating: 3.75 stars out of 5
A guest review by Leslie S
Summary: A solid and ambitious film comparing racial and sexual politics in the Harlem Renaissance and the present day.
Critically acclaimed drama that invokes the glory days of the Harlem Renaissance. As an elderly man, poet Bruce Nugent meets a young black gay artist struggling to find his voice and together they embark on a surreal narrative journey through his inspiring past.
Perry Williams (Anthony Mackie) is an artist with potential. He's also a college student suffering intense loneliness and a need to be loved and accepted. Kicked out of home when his parents discovered he was gay, Perry struggles with real and perceived bigotry against his colour and his sexual orientation.
In his Black Politics class, a fellow black student picks on him for speaking of the gay social activist and novelist James Baldwin. A bisexual white student, Jim, is attracted to Perry but their fledgling relationship founders when Jim is presented as objectifying/fetishizing Perry's race, which both confuses and angers Perry.
Perry turns to his straight friend Marcus (the fantastic Larry Gilliad Jr, who played D'Angelo in The Wire) for support. Marcus has always been there for Perry and stood up for him at school when the other kids tried to beat him up. Marcus is a poet and early in the film he dismisses the compliments of a white fanboy. Perry calls him on his anger: "The same anger you feel towards white boys is the same anger brothers feel towards me because I'm gay."
Increasingly adrift and uncertain of his identity, Perry is startled one day when he meets writer/artist Bruce Nugent (Roger Robinson) in the homeless shelter where he volunteers. Nugent is a spry old man with clever charm and still with an eye for handsome guys. Over the next few weeks, Nugent relates tales of the days of the Harlem Renaissance (1920s-1930s), an explosion of African-American culture and intellectual life.
Poet, novelist, and painter, Nugent was the first African-American to publish an openly gay short story— 'Smoke, Lilies and Jade'—in the one and only issue of the groundbreaking black literary magazine Fire!!. Through a series of flashbacks shot in black and white, Nugent reminisces about his friendship with other leading writers of the time, such as Langston Hughes, Wallace Thurman, and Zora Neale Hurston. He tells of their joy in words and art, their relationships romantic and otherwise, and of the struggles and prejudices they faced not only from white people but also from within the black community, who regarded them as decadent and immoral for focusing their literary work on subjects such as prostitution and homosexuality.
Perry sees a lot of comparisons between life in the 1920s and his life as an artist in the present day. Nugent's experiences and their growing friendship help Perry to define himself as a young gay black man.
Brother to Brother is a film that asks a lot of heavy questions without being preachy and without giving the viewer any easy answers. The narrative thread is fairly slim—it's more a series of individual scenes than a cohesive story with a beginning, middle and end, but that doesn't matter. As the film unfolds, the parallels between 1920s Harlem and present day New York are both striking and sad in terms of race and sexual orientation.
The film doesn't ground itself in any particular year, so it feels contemporary even though Nugent died in 1987. The clothing and other references could belong to any time, which brings a sense of fantasy to the film and which underlines the sense of "risk and magic" that Perry gets from Nugent's recollections.
There's a lot of tangled issues in the film, and issues within issues. There's nothing clear-cut, which is echoed in Perry's confusion. How can a race fight for equality when it oppresses another minority? How can we claim to be a liberal and enlightened people when we condone attacks on minorities? Why does the fear and hatred of homosexuality cross the racial divide? Can black and white, gay and straight, ever be truly equal? These are incredibly important questions and the film doesn't attempt to answer them—it just puts them out there for the viewer to consider, and certainly it's made me think a hell of a lot over the past few hours.
The issue of casual racism, for example, or 'thoughtless' racism, when the person making the comment isn't even aware that what they've said may be considered offensive. Perry's lover Jim stumbles into this trap without even realising that his endearment, meant to be sexy, is actually something that Perry finds insulting and offensive. This type of racism is almost ingrained, as a scene in a 1920s flashback shows so powerfully. When Nugent first meets Wallace Thurman, he makes an excuse and leaves the room because "the sight of someone I admired being so black—it all came crashing down on me, seeing these prejudices within me."
One of the most memorable scenes for me was a sequence showing a white male publisher talking to Thurman, Nugent, and Hurston in turn about how they as black writers should change their voices to give the readers what they want. The audience isn't interested in truth or reality—they want their Harlem novels to be full of sex and violence. The publisher shows Hurston the biggest bestseller for the past six months—a book written by a white man that was so popular it started a craze amongst white people known as 'Harlemania'. "Imagine," says the publisher, "how the public would embrace the authentic Negro perspective" –before telling Hurston exactly how she and other black writers should write their books and what kind of language to use so their work could be 'accessible'.
There's a strong message of 'everything changes but nothing changes', especially as regards homosexuality. I really liked the exploration of interracial attraction that runs through both the 1920s and present day sections of the film. Nugent and his friends encountered prejudice and hatred from within their own community for being 'different', and this is echoed by a scene in which Perry is beaten up by a street gang for being gay. As I said, the parallels between the 1920s and the present day often made me feel sad that we've come so far and yet we still have such a long way to go, but at the same time the film is not gloomy or depressing but is actually quite uplifting.
This was writer and director Rodney Evans' first film, and it does feel like it at times. The script is a little clunky and self-conscious with some stating-the-obvious dialogue, and the cinematography is somewhat pedestrian. Nevertheless, this is a very good film that poses some hard-hitting questions. Quite apart from the intellectual side of the film, I loved discovering about the Harlem Renaissance and the writers and artists of that movement—my favourite parts of the movie were the 1920s scenes, which are absolutely gripping. I've given it 3.75 stars because of the issues with the script and cinematography, but don't let this relatively middle-of-the-road rating put you off. Brother to Brother is an important film that deserves to be watched.


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Carpenters In Action (CIA) met at the San Joaquin Council of Governments building in Stockton to show support for the rail extension connecting the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) with the Altamont Corridor Express (ACE). We filled the room up with 40 members from various areas, and we had 2 speakers Salena Durrell and Damon Thomas from Local 152E speak on how this project benefits everyone. The Vote passed anonymously 14-0.
"In Northern California our organizing programs are the most successful in the Brotherhood. We also provide service to our membership that is second to none. We could not achieve these high standards without the active involvement of our rank and file in the Carpenters In Action program!"
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Arti Joshi
Love & Relationship Coach in London, United Kingdom
Arti Joshi
Love & Relationship Coach in London, United Kingdom
This is a new adventure, since graduating from university in 2007, for 8 years I worked in IT but always felt a deep disconnect with my career. I knew I wasn't doing the work I really wanted to do or showing up in the way that I was born to.
And so, as of July 2015, I took the leap into my "unlived life". A journey to design a life according to my deepest desires and dreams, in true alignment with my values. It's authentic, vulnerable, messy but most definitely gorgeous!
I believe that to live a life in alignment with all the things most important to you, you need to take a leap of faith. A few in fact. Keep taking them. You won't get closer to some far away goal or distant dream, you'll soon realise that with each leap you're already living life the way you're meant to. And with each leap you take, however big or small, you're showing up to life and saying "I'm here! Really and truly here! All of me is in this".
Arti Designs Her Life is my blog but it's also my life in the making. I believe we should all leap in the ways our souls are constantly stirring us to and it's my intention to help birth these beautiful creations and help my clients to do the same. I believe everything is energy and the creations we put out into the world have a vibration all of their own be they relationships, careers, works of art, everything!
And so what am I currently working on? I am so honoured and grateful to been trained and mentored by Katherine Woodward Thomas as a 'Calling in "The One"' Love & Relationship Coach. To hear more about my work and if you would be interested in working with me to co-create and manifest miracles in your love life, click here to find out more.
In addition to that, writing this blog is a newly discovered and huge passion of mine so I intend to keep doing so and I'd love to have you along for my journey.
Thank you for stopping by. Wishing you Love. Light. Miracles. xxx


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He sat next to the judge in the witness chair. Of medium height and build with a clean shaven head, he recalled the night in the hospital where he lost his dad, role model, grandfather to his newborn son and best friend. In the small courtroom he spoke directly to the jury about the fear and apprehension the night his father was admitted to the ICU. He talked about the pain his father experienced just before his eyes rolled up in his head. He recounted running into the hallway, desperate, yelling for a nurse, for anyone to come to his father's aid. He described the profound loss, the hole left in his family's life after his father arrested and died that night, five years ago. I was sitting 15 feet away, almost directly in front of and facing this gentleman. Because the hospital and I were on trial for the wrongful death of his dad. Read more
Month: April 2017
His Voice
I pause in front of the door. On the other side, you all wait. A spouse, sons and daughters, sometimes with their own small children in tow. Today it's your husband and father you have come for. Yesterday it was someone else's mother. You have come from near and far, across the street and the country. Your weary eyes are unable to mask your sadness. Over the past week, you have witnessed a steady stream of nurses, residents, phlebotomists and x-ray techs file in and out of his room. Your dad has withstood a barrage of insults to his body. Radiation to his chest for daily x-rays. Needles piercing skin and veins for IVs and blood draws. Catheters inserted in his neck, his groin and his bladder. Still you hold on to a cautious optimism, clinging to hope. But family meetings usually imply things are not going well, and today is no exception. Taking a deep breath, I open the door and walk inside, leaving for now, the rest of the world behind. Read more


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Exhilaration - dickinson and Yeats songs
Track List:
Song (Christina Rossetti)
Ribh in Ecstasy (W.B. Yeats)
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (W.B. Yeats)
A Coat (W.B. Yeats)
The Lady's First Song (W.B. Yeats)
A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety (W.B. Yeats)
Exhilaration is the Breeze (Emily Dickinson)
It bloomed and dropt, a Single Noon - (Emily Dickinson)
Bee! I'm expecting you! (Emily Dickinson)
We Cover Thee - Sweet Face - (Emily Dickinson)
Wild Nights - Wild Nights! (Emily Dickinson)
What Inn is this (Emily Dickinson)
I should not dare to leave my friend (Emily Dickinson)
Still own thee - still thou art - (Emily Dickinson)
Exhilaration - is within - (Emily Dickinson)
Lullaby (Herschel Garfein)
all music composed by Gregg Kallor
Exhilaration - Dickinson and Yeats Songs is the premiere recording of Kallor's acclaimed song-cycles of poems by Emily Dickinson and William Butler Yeats, sung by mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala. The album also features Kallor's setting of Christina Rossetti's poem "Song," and a "Lullaby" with lyrics by GRAMMY®-winner Herschel Garfein.
Adriana Zabala, mezzo-soprano
Gregg Kallor, piano
Opera News
"Kallor knows how to make these words sing, and Zabala gives perfect flight to them."
Sequenza 21
"[These songs] are simply beautiful and poignant works that I hope more people hear... Well crafted? Definitely. Entertaining? Yes. Well performed? Absolutely. Lyrical? You bet."
Cleveland Classical
"Kallor's and Zabala's magical performance shrunk the hall to the size of an intimate club...
The highlight of the evening was the final selection, "Exhilaration," a song-cycle of nine poems by Emily Dickinson. The duo performed them without pause, and their delivery was spectacular...
This provided a mesmerizing conclusion to a concert where everything the performers touched turned into gold."
Jan Swafford
author of "Johannes Brahms: A Biography" and "Charles Ives: A Life With Music"
"Gregg Kallor is a splendid writer of songs. You find in his Yeats and Dickinson settings the virtues you look for in songs new or old but rarely find in such abundance: a fine-tuned ear, able writing for the voice, great imagination in piano color and texture, and steady sensitivity to the poetry. Most impressive of all, to my ears anyway, Kallor writes songs in which the voice part is the prime focus, partly because he is a true melodist (a rare quality always, more so in the last fifty years), equally because the vocal lines are distinctive and expressive and closely knit to the harmony. Sensitivity, subtlety, and consistency--these are his kind of qualities, and they're ones we need. So is beauty, and when you've heard Kallor's songs that's generally the first word that comes to mind."
Steve Staruch, Minnesota Public Radio
"There's something very natural about these pieces - I got the impression that the music that's on the disc has always existed."
Fanfare Magazine
"Kallor is clearly a gifted composer who handles the demands of the genre with considerable fluency and nuance... each [song] is sensitively wrought, without a false, shallow, or meaningless gesture, while revealing subtle relationships to the text."
The Emily Dickinson International Society
"Anyone lucky enough to experience a Kallor-Zabala performance leaves the classroom or the concert hall with a newfound or renewed love of poetry."


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When one first noticed Rupert Grint as the awkward, funny Ron Weasley in the first Harry Potter all those years ago, who would have known that the gawky redhead would end up the trio's most successful actor? Grint, relaxed, tired and a young man of few words, clearly had no idea that at a mature 18, success has come his way. He admits that doing Potter "really changed my life. I remember the auditions really well. how I was really scared and then I remember the day they sort of said we were going to be in it. That was amazing and really, really cool, so it's been a really good ride."
As Grint wraps up the latest Potter adventure, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix due out next year, Grint currently finds himself literally and figuratively in the driver's seat. In between shooting the Potter blockbusters, Grint is starring opposite his Potter mum Julie Walters in the more low-key British comedy/drama Driving Lessons. In a very different role, the actor plays an awkward teenager with a ferociously religious and over protective mother, who lands a job as an assistant to an eccentric actress, fostering a relationship that results in both growing up in the process.
Grint says that he has no particular criteria in choosing a role outside of the Potter franchise. In the case of Driving Lessons, "It just sort of came up when I was doing the fourth film. I was just reading the script and it was just something really different. I'd just been on the fourth one and for about 11 months, so it was just good to sort of be so different." Grint also loved working with Julie Walters in a very different capacity. "She's so funny and really easy to get along with. Also it's a really different sort of character she's playing rather than Ms Weasley, so it was quite a shock to hear her doing all this swearing," Grint laughingly recalls.
But Walters is not Grint's only leading lady in Driving Lessons. While Harry Potter ends up in love as the franchise continues, Grint is seduced by a gorgeous 20-year old Scottish actress in this film. "I was really not looking forward to it and was really very quite nervous," Grint laughingly recalls of his first love scene. "After all, you're in this tiny sort of set and the whole crew is watching, so it is a bit embarrassing, but the worst part is watching it back."
Life is great for the humble star of one of the biggest franchises in history, but Grint takes it all in his stride. "I left school when I was 16 because [ wanted to do this." Prior to landing Potter, the young actor says he always wanted to act. "I mean I've always been involved in like street plays and stuff like that at school and just got involved in drama." Yet he never expected the somewhat surreal adulation that came with the Potter films, especially during the films' premieres. "I've never really gotten used to it and it does get pretty crazy. But the fans are always really nice and there's never really been a problem."
On the latest Potter, Grint says there are marked differences between David Yates, director of Order of the Phoenix, and Mike Newell, who helmed the last one. "He's really cool, really laid back and a lot calmer than Mike Newell, who was really loud, would swear at you if you did it wrong and he was absolutely crazy. David's a really nice guy." Not giving too much away to non-Potter devotees, Grint promises the next film will be the darkest to date, "and I think they get darker as they go along. This one is supposed to be definitely darker with Voldemort coming back and so I think it's much more sort grown up."
Despite the cast's ascending ages, Grint confirmed that they're all signed for the final adaptation. "I definitely will do it", he says. As for life after Potter, Grint isn't looking too far ahead, as he still loves the franchise. "I'm just having a good time doing the films. I just want to go on, maybe do some other little stuff in between and just see what happens."


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Rooney given goalscoring challenge
New Manchester United manager David Moyes has stated Wayne Rooney is not for sale and challenged him to match the impressive goalscoring feats of club heroes.
Rooney's Old Trafford future has been the main topic amongst United fans since the beginning of May, when Sir Alex Ferguson claimed the 27-year-old had demanded a transfer for a second time. Though Ferguson's view of events has been challenged, the feeling has persisted that Rooney is looking for a move.
"I've had several meetings with Wayne," said Moyes. "I'm fortunate, I've known him since he was 16. He is not for sale. He's a Manchester United player and will remain a Manchester United player."
In his own assessment of the situation, Moyes repeatedly fell back on the status of great Red Devils of the past, and in particular the achievements of two members of the 'Holy Trinity' who were responsible of so much of the club's great history during Sir Matt Busby's days.
"It is interesting to see Wayne is only 50 goals behind Sir Bobby Charlton and 40 behind Denis Law," said Moyes. "We are looking to see how we get Wayne Rooney to get those goals which are going to challenge the likes of Bobby Charlton and Denis Law. I am more than happy to work with him to get success."
Charlton remains United's most prolific goalscorer, with 249. Law is second on the list with 237. Rooney ended last season with 197, behind only Jack Rowley in addition to the pair Moyes wants the Croxteth-born player to catch.
"When I went down to the training ground, I looked at the pictures of the legends that have played for this club," said Moyes. "I could see George Best, Denis Law, Bobby Charlton, Roy Keane and I thought Wayne isn't too far away from that.
"It's not too difficult to get the goals and he could be near to that. If he could do that he could be seen in the same light as those people."
He may be new in his role as chief executive but Ed Woodward would not require much experience to be aware once a player gets towards his final 12 months, their value plummets.
This time next year, United could not hope to get anything like the £25million they would expect to command as a transfer fee this summer if they sold to Chelsea, Arsenal, PSG or Barcelona, who have all been linked with Rooney.
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As the fourth grade boys recently finished up their first novel, Shiloh, they began a cross curricular project; combining Language Arts, Religion and Math. The class began to look for all the lies told by the main characters. Each boy was assigned a chapter to examine for lies. Some chapters had no lies while some had up to 7! Then the class created a "lying web" which is on display in the International building and pictured below. The class will also begin work on a bar graph analyzing the number of lies per character. Marty, the main character, who was also the biggest liar, is going to have the highest bar on the graph! The other graph is a line graph in which the number of lies told per chapter will be analyzed. The Graphs will also be on display in the International Building.
Here are what a few of the students learned from this lesson:
"Lies lead to more lies"- Jack
"Lies take us away from God"- Madden


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Famous Porsche tuner Gemballa has always been known for its outlandish modifications to the engines and exterior.
But now the company is taking automotive paint to a new level.
Gemballa actually ground up diamonds to put in the paint of the car. The way it refracts light has to be simply stunning.
The company said that "the challenge was to grind the diamonds into a size small enough for their intended purpose, without losing their brilliance."
The finish was created in three distinct shades: Pearl Diamond, Silver Diamond, and White Diamond.
If and when it becomes available, don't expect it to be anywhere near cheap. It's chock full of diamonds.


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The 11th Annual Light Up the Night Mardi Gras Parade is a scaled-down version of Saturday's grand parade. Many of the same floats will hit the streets again and probably some of the same revelers.
The Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras in St. Louis parade is the only nighttime parade in St. Louis and all the floats will be lit. The parade grows in popularity each year and because it's on Washington Avenue there will be plenty of libations for sale along the route beginning at 4 p.m.
Starting at 8 p.m., there is also an official after party at the Stadium Sports Bar and Grill in Lumiere Place.
PICTURES: 2013 Soulard Mardi Gras Partiers
PICTURES: 2013 Mardi Gras Parade