text: Canada falls 2-1 to Sweden in Beijing August 12, 200812:00AM PDT Previous Next Follow Canada's quest for gold by viewing our special Beijing 2008 page. Lori Ewing (The Canadian Press) Canada is through the quarter-finals in the team's Olympic women's soccer debut, despite a 2-1 loss to Sweden on Tuesday in its final preliminary-round game. Lotta Schelin scored both goals for Sweden, while Melissa Tancredi scored Canada's only goal on a beautiful diving header in a near-full 58,000 Beijing Workers' Stadium. The Canadians were already through to the quarter-finals before they even stepped on the pitch for their game against Sweden - thanks to a 1-0 German victory over North Korea in a Group F game played earlier on Tuesday. But the game was crucial to setting up a favourable match-up for Friday's quarter-finals. They certainly did not get that, drawing the top-ranked defending-champion United States on Friday in Shanghai after dropping to third place in Group E. "They played very well, it was a high-level soccer game between two very good teams," said Canadian head coach Even Pellerud. "There was more at stake for Sweden of course, and you could see they were very pumped up for the task. So were my players. They had qualified, but the players kept their focus very well." Schelin's first goal came in the 19th minute when Victoria Svensson held up the ball before laying it off to the sprinting Swedish striker, who scored from just inside the 18-yard box. Her second came in the 51st minute. Swedish substitute Jessica Landstrom easily beat Canadian defender Rhian Wilkinson in a foot race down the wing, then passed the ball to a wide open Schelin, who hammered home the goal. Tancredi, who was back after missing Canada's previous game against China with an ankle injury, scored in the 63th minute, taking flight for a diving header off a cross from Amy Walsh. The number-nine ranked Canadians went into the game tied with China atop Group E with four points apiece. The top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter-finals with the top two third-place teams. The hard-charging Canadians had numerous scoring chances, but so did the Swedes in a back-and-forth affair that kept Canada's goalkeeper Erin McLeod and her Swedish counterpart Hedvig Lindahl hard at work all night long in the 58,000-seat Beijing Workers' Stadium. But number-three ranked Sweden, who dispatched Canada in the semifinals of the 2003 World Cup, proved too much for Pellerud's side with their superior tactical play. Now Canada must face an American team that has handed the Canadians a pair of recent heartbreaking losses. The Americans beat Canada in a penalty shootout during the final of the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament in Mexico before edging the Canadians 1-0 on an injury-time goal in the final of the Peace Queen Cup in South Korea. "There's a huge rivalry between them and us, we get excited to play the U.S. all the time, and now we get to do it in the Olympics," said Canadian captain Christine Sinclair. The Canadians finally had some relief from the heat, humidity and smothering smog that had plagued them in their two previous games in Tianjin, about a 120 kilometres south of Beijing. The recent rain here had dissipated the smog, and there was blue sky peeking through the clouds for the first time in a week. CANADA 18.Erin McLeod; 3.Emily Zurrer (5.Robyn Gayle 81'), 4.Clare Rustad, 6.Sophie Schmidt (13.Amy Walsh 46'), 7.Rhian Wilkinson, 8.Diana Matheson, 9.Candace Chapman, 10.Martina Franko, 12.Christine Sincliair (C) (2.Jodi-Ann Robinson 67'), 14.Melissa Tancredi, 15.Kara Lang Subs not used: 1.Karina LeBlanc, 11.Randee Hermus, 16.Jonelle Filigno, 17.Brittany Timko SWEDEN 1.Hedvig Lindahl; 5.Caroline Seger, 6.Sara Thunebro (4.Anna Paulson 86'), 7.Sara Larsson, 8.Lotta Schelin, 11.Victoria Svensson (C), 13.Frida Ostberg, 15.Therese Sjogran, 16.Linda Forsberg, 17.Charlotte Rohlin, 18.Nilla Fischer (9.Jessica Landstrom 27') Subs not used: 2.Karolina Westberg, 3.Stina Segerstrom, 10.Johanna Almgren, 12.Caroline Jonsson, 19.Maria Aronsson Previous Next


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The Wireless Power Consortium has published its recommendations for plugless in-car charging, primarily aimed at ensuring key fobs don't warm up and that phones don't become projectiles.
Guidelines (pdf, as dull as one would imagine) from the custodian of the Qi wireless-charging standard require physical restraints on the thing being charged, and charging coils at lest 15cm from a pocket or purse, distancing the standard from the power-grazing model of its competitor for the sake of expediency in getting onto vehicle dashboards.
The Wireless Power Consortium's guidelines cover installations conforming to the standard, which uses coils embedded in device and charger to induce a charging current. The rules for cars mainly involve ensuring the charging device is clipped into place, but interference with immobilisers and AM radio is also a concern.
"Mechanical means should be provided to hold a device being charged from becoming a projectile under normal vehicle operation. Examples could be retention clips, charging area device cover or a recessed cavity" says the recommendation in borderline English.
More interesting is the concern about what Qi might do to a key fob:
"The transmitter should be installed at minimum 15 cm away from any possible layoff of the key fob, handbag or driver pockets", which removes the possibility of an in-door charger for in-pocket charging as espoused by the Alliance for Wireless Power.
The Consortium has always been about throwing one's phone in the desk/bedside/dashboard and having it charge, while the Alliance (perhaps just for the sake of differentiation) promotes the idea of in-situ charging so one never thinks about power (wired or wireless) ever again. But that model requires greater range, and obviously needs to reach into one's pocket.
But the Alliance hasn't even got a standard written yet, while the Consortium is tidying up details of in-car voltages and dashboard placement, important for all those Lumia-wielding executives even if they will have to clip their phones into place. ®


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MELBOURNE, Australia — Li Na advanced to the Australian Open semifinals for the third time in four years, bringing fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska's 13-match winning streak to a shuddering halt.
Sixth-seeded Li, who lost the 2011 Australian Open final to Kim Clijsters only months before her Grand Slam breakthrough at the French Open, had a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Radwanska in Tuesday's first match on Rod Laver Arena.
"She's a tough player. I was feeling today against a wall," Li said. "She can hit everywhere, but without a mistake. I was feeling just very tough. You have to focus on every shot. Not every point, every shot."
Radwanska came into the Australian Open with titles this season at Auckland and Sydney, where she beat Li in the semifinals, but continued her poor conversation rate in Grand Slam quarterfinals. She's only advanced further once in seven tries — at Wimbledon last year, when she lost the final to Serena Williams.
Sixth-seeded Li will play the winner of Tuesday's later all-Russian quarterfinal between No. 2-ranked Maria Sharapova, who conceded only five games in her first four matches at Melbourne Park, and Ekaterina Makarova.
"At least now I'm in the semis," Li said. Sharapova, "has to play, so… Right? Now I can start now to enjoy my day. She has to fight, yeah. So that's better."
The quarterfinals on the other half of the draw will feature American teenager Sloane Stephens against Serena Williams, who is aiming for a third consecutive major title, and defending champion Victoria Azarenka against two-time major winner Svetlana Kuznetsova.
Stephens has heard a lot of advice from Serena Williams. Pointers on her groundstrokes, and even on her grunts.
It's been mostly gentle encouragement, occasionally spiced with headline-making comments from Williams, who has predicted the 19-year-old American will one day top the women's rankings.
As Stephens learned earlier this month, though, it's one thing to play with Williams, another to play against the 15-time Grand Slam champion.
With a comeback 6-1, 3-6, 7-5 win over Bojana Jovanovski on Monday, Stephens qualified for her first quarterfinal at a major tournament. Williams has already played at that level 34 times.
"It will be tough, obviously. It's quarters of a Grand Slam," Stephens said. "There won't be that, like, first time, 'Oh, my God, I'm playing Serena.' That's kind of out of the window now. So that's good."
Williams and defending champion Victoria Azarenka advanced Monday, losing just four games between them against Russian rivals. Williams beat No. 14 Maria Kirilenko 6-2, 6-0, and Azarenka defeated Elena Vesnina 6-1, 6-1.
On the men's side, No. 2 Roger Federer and U.S. Open champion Andy Murray stayed on course for a semifinal in their half of the draw.
Federer won 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-2 over big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic, advancing to the quarterfinals at a Grand Slam for the 35th consecutive time, while Murray took advantage of Gilles Simon's fatigue for a 6-3, 6-1, 6-3 victory.
Federer will face 2008 Australian finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, who beat friend and fellow Frenchman Richard Gasquet 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Murray, who ended a 76-year drought for British men in Grand Slam tournaments with a win at the U.S. Open, will next play unseeded Frenchman Jeremy Chardy.
Chardy spent some time in the offseason hitting against Williams in Mauritius, and they're both saying it has helped his game.
Williams also played Stephens at the Brisbane International earlier this month, winning their quarterfinal 6-4, 6-3 en route to the title. That night, Stephens said, she "lost to the best player in the world."
But there were times in the match when the American teenager was cranky, particularly when Williams unleashed some loud and long "Come ons" to celebrate vital points.
Stephens, looking toward her coach at one point, said the celebrations were disrespectful.
Later, she said she was just joking.
Regardless, it was a lesson. The friendly Serena from the locker room is the ultimate competitor — she's on a 20-match winning roll and has lost only once since her first-round exit at the French Open.
"Obviously every match is a learning experience," Stephens said. "But, I mean, you've just got to go and treat it like another match."
Well, not exactly a normal match, she said, but certainly no different from playing any of the other top three players.
"It just happens to be Serena. She's obviously one of the greatest players to ever play the game," Stephens said. "Without the titles, with the titles, it's still a tennis match. The court's the same size. You're still playing a regular person across the net."
Stephens and Williams ran across each other in the locker room Sunday.
"She told me I was too quiet on the court," Stephens said. "Then today I was thinking to myself, 'I'm really loud. Should I tone it down a little bit?'"
Williams thinks she's more like an elder stateswoman for the younger U.S. players than mentor for the likes of Stephens.
"I just feel like being the older one … maybe some of the younger players look up to me," she said. "It's hard to be a real mentor when you're still in competition."
And as the elder stateswoman, Williams said, "I feel no responsibility" when it comes to playing Stephens.
"I doubt she has any expectations of me to be responsible for anything," she said. "I'm here to compete and do the best I can, as well as she is. And she's been doing really amazing. I'm really happy. I have a tough match, so we'll see."
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Gobble Gobble Layer Cake
Borders – Brown – 1/4 yard of coordinating fabric
Cream – 1 yard of coordinating fabric
Bias Binding – I purchased 3/4 yards of coordinating fabric for this but I'm sure you could get away with less. I know there are tricks to getting away with way less, but I just cut them into strips on the bias and stitched them together, even then there was a lot left over.
Back – 1 1/2 yards of coordinating fabric
Batting – 1 1/2 yards (I used a 45″ batting similar to warm and natural.)
Step 1 – Pick 14 of your favorite pieces from the layer cake and cut them each into three, 3 1/4 inch strips. If I had to do it over again I probably would have used more of the layer cake squares and not worried so much about wasting them. I would definitely consider cutting up 2 or 3 more squares.
Step 2 – Once you have cut each of your 14 squares into 3 1/4 inch strips place them in piles of three, with each pile having three different pieces.
Step 3 – Sew each pile of three strips together.
Step 4 – Cut into three 3 1/4 inch strips like shown.
Step 5 – Arrange your strips on your floor or a big table how you want them too look. I didn't want any pattern at all. I tried to make sure that no two fabrics that had the same design were by each other. For the table runner you will need to arrange twelve squares by 3 squares for a total of 36 squares.
For the Table Topper you want to arrange 9 squares by 9 squares for a total of 81 squares.
Sew together a row at a time and then sew your rows together, always pinning at each seam.
Step 6 – BORDERS – First sew on two brown 1 1/4 inch borders on the opposite ends. Cut off even with the square blocks, then add the two long borders to the top and bottom and cut off any excess.
Step 7 – For the cream borders, cut into 5″ strips, and sew on the same way as the brown. Repeat steps 6 and 7 on your table topper also.
This is how the Table Runner and Table Topper should look with the borders sewn on.
Step 8 – Note: If you decided to have your topper and runner quilted draw on your scallops before hand so the quilter knows where to quilt.
I think everyone has a different way of doing this because everyone gave me completely different advice. Sooooo here is what worked for me.
First off draw a straight line in about one inch from the edges of your cream border all around the topper and runner. This is so the tops of your scallops are even. It would also be smart to draw a line where the down point of each scallop will be.
I used a plastic lid as my template. I tried many different sizes and the one that worked the best for me was a 5 1/2″ round lid. I first did my corners and then the four scallops in the middle and then tried to space out the rest from there. Overlapping your scallops will help a ton when it comes to getting them all even. And believe me I didn't used a black sharpie at first. I only drew over my disappearing marker with a sharpie when I new that my scallops were exactly where I wanted them to be.
Step 9 – Sew around the scallops and then cut out close to your seam. Sewing around it first will make it much easier to bind.
Step 10 – Make your bias binding. If you have never done this before you will need to cut 1 1/2 inch wide strips of fabric on the bias line on your cutting mat. Sew strips together end to end. You will need approx 7 – 8 yards of bias binding. Make your bias binding by first ironing strip in half. Unfold and iron one side half way into the the crease you made previously.
Step 11 – Now the fun part, sewing it on. Sew the raw edge of your bias tape with right sides of fabric together onto the topper or runner. Start in the middle of one of your scallops and line up the edges. I used 1/4 inch seam allowance and lined up the edges as I sewed.
When you get to the corner, keep your needle down but put your presser foot up. Turn topper or runner so the fabric is parallel with your presser foot.
Stretch the two scallops away from each other making it as straight as you can. Put your presser foot down (still stretching the two scallops apart) and continue sewing.
Step 12 – For me this is the fun part. After your border is sewn onto the top, turn your piece around and stitch the back of binding on by hand. When you get to one of the inside points of the scallop just pull the binding up into the scallop and stitch.
A fun new Table Topper and Table Runner to make your Fall Holidays a little more cozy!
If you'd like some ideas of what to do with some of your left over pieces of Gobble Gobble fabric visit my blog by clicking here.


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JimG. wrote:For me, it was the day I was told to keep my hands positioned parallel to the pitch of the slope I'm skiing on. Once I started keeping my uphill hand a bit higher than my downhill hand, my hips naturally angulated and I discovered the joys of good edge angles and carved turns.
Cannonball Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:58 am
The absolutley most basic and most valuable piece of snowboarding instruction came on day one. Weight your front foot, NOT your back foot. Same concept is true in sking but WAY more critical in beginning snowboarding. Weighting the front foot automatically staightens out the board and brings you directly down the hill (scary but good). Weighting the back foot swings the board around parrallel to the fall-line. Usually right after this happens you hit the ground so hard that you get a chance to taste you spleen
JimG. wrote: ...it's so interesting to see these responses and the thread that runs through all disciplines...that moment of clarity followed by a steep jump on the learning curve. It's funny because sometimes others don't see the improvement but you definitely feel it yourself. Can be real subtle.
Jay Suds wrote:my breakthrough "ahha" moment in skiing was probably focusing on looking down the fall line, and keeping my uphill hand in front of my body ... overall, this keeps me forward in my stance and my upper body quiet.
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SPRINGFIELD, IL (July 30, 2013) – Changes in funding, the economy and struggling state budgets have forced many school districts to slash their annual budgets, forcing teachers to spend significant amounts of their own money to get general classroom supplies. Fifty-three percent of educators in the Horace Mann Educator Survey for June 2013 reported school budgets for classroom supplies have been cut and many teachers reported using their own money to buy supplies for the classroom or for projects.
The 814 educators responding to the survey, report on what types of projects they planned for this past school year, or what materials they needed, but weren't covered by their school's budget. The top three projects were:
Teachers say budget cuts also impacted extracurricular activities (18%), music and the arts (18%), history and civics (16%), character education (14%) and parent activities (13%). Four out of five teachers reported having to abandon at least one project this year due to funding issues.
The survey also found that teachers continue to be generous with their own money even though 44% say salaries at their schools have been frozen.
The Horace Mann Educator Survey shows the amount of money a teacher spends can really add up. The June 2013 survey showed 30% of teachers surveyed spent anywhere from $200 to $400 on general classroom supplies and 13% spent more than $600. Three-quarters of teachers are spending over $100. These numbers were consistent with similar reports from a 2011 Horace Mann Market Research Survey.
Horace Mann is working to help teachers fund their classroom supplies. Partnering with DonorsChoose.org since 2011, Horace Mann and its agencies have contributed more than $2 million dollars to projects teachers have posted to DonorsChoose.org. DonorsChoose.org is a non-profit organization connecting teachers to donors who support classrooms by paying for supplies ranging from pencils and pencil sharpeners to books to iPads and even field trips.
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On teaching and libraries: excerpt from an interview of "Spiegel" with Umberto Eco
SPIEGEL: But you also said that lists can establish order. So, do both order and anarchy apply? That would make the Internet, and the lists that the search engine Google creates, prefect for you.
Eco: Yes, in the case of Google, both things do converge. Google makes a list, but the minute I look at my Google-generated list, it has already changed. These lists can be dangerous — not for old people like me, who have acquired their knowledge in another way, but for young people, for whom Google is a tragedy. Schools ought to teach the high art of how to be discriminating.
SPIEGEL: Are you saying that teachers should instruct students on the difference between good and bad? If so, how should they do that?
Eco: Education should return to the way it was in the workshops of the Renaissance. There, the masters may not necessarily have been able to explain to their students why a painting was good in theoretical terms, but they did so in more practical ways. Look, this is what your finger can look like, and this is what it has to look like. Look, this is a good mixing of colors. The same approach should be used in school when dealing with the Internet. The teacher should say: "Choose any old subject, whether it be German history or the life of ants. Search 25 different Web pages and, by comparing them, try to figure out which one has good information." If 10 pages describe the same thing, it can be a sign that the information printed there is correct. But it can also be a sign that some sites merely copied the others' mistakes.
SPIEGEL: You yourself are more likely to work with books, and you have a library of 30,000 volumes. It probably doesn't work without a list or catalogue.
Eco: I'm afraid that, by now, it might actually be 50,000 books. When my secretary wanted to catalogue them, I asked her not to. My interests change constantly, and so does my library. By the way, if you constantly change your interests, your library will constantly be saying something different about you. Besides, even without a catalogue, I'm forced to remember my books. I have a hallway for literature that's 70 meters long. I walk through it several times a day, and I feel good when I do. Culture isn't knowing when Napoleon died. Culture means knowing how I can find out in two minutes. Of course, nowadays I can find this kind of information on the Internet in no time. But, as I said, you never know with the Internet.


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The Canucks chased the Ducks all over the ice in their last meeting. Canucks fans are hoping it's Duck hunting season tonight.
The Vancouver Canucks look to avenge a lopsided side loss from earlier this season as they host the Anaheim Ducks tonight at GM Place. While the Canucks are riding a three-game home winning streak, the Ducks are sitting in last place in the Western Conference.
Hopefully for Canucks fans, this game will see a much different result than the first meeting between the two clubs. That game saw the Canucks jump out to an early 2-0 lead then surrender seven straight goals, en route to a 7-2 loss in Anaheim.
However, the Ducks have a pretty dismal record on the road, while the Canucks have the most home wins in the NHL. Moreover, the Canucks have won three straight and are 7-3-0 in their last 10 games, while the Ducks are only 4-2-4 in their last 10, and have the second worst road record in the entire league. The Ducks have also win only twice in their last eight games, but have managed to pick up extra points but taking four of those losses into extra time.
The Ducks still have their national-team calibre top line racking up points, along with their top two defencemen. If you take away their starting lineup, the Ducks' individual numbers are atrocious. With Teemu Selanne hurt and Saku Koivu underperforming against expectations, the Ducks secondary scoring has all but dried up.
The Canucks need to take advantage of a team that plays poorly on the road and has no potency past the starting lineup. The Canucks clearly love playing on the road and have two high-strength scoring lines at the moment. If the Canucks can play the same game against Anaheim, as they did against the LA Kings, the Canucks should see another two points. The Canucks were very effective at shutting down Anze Kopitar, and have proven that they can play a fast forecheck, choking style of game and take the game over with puck possession.
The Canucks need to win faceoffs to control the puck, stick to Getzlaf, Perry and Ryan like glue and they'll surely see their first four-game winning streak of the season tonight.


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I've seen all the brew guides at Hasbean, all of them very helpful.
Who would have thought there were so many ways to use the thing?
Not sure where I saw this but I put hot water in my mug to warm it and then pour from my mug into the press, then press back into the mug which still has some water in it. It pretty much fills back to level it was before and no need to then dilute. Also like it because I'm not throwing hot water away (being a tight. Yorkshireman this pleases me greatly......have you any idea how much it costs to heat water? WHAT YOU ARE NOW THROWING IT AWAY...???).


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CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — There was plenty of horror in the courtroom as Aurora police officers gave detailed accounts of the grim scene after a gunman killed 12 and wounded dozens others during a July rampage at a packed movie theater.
What was missing Monday was an explanation as to why James Holmes, 25, might have launched the attack. That's what drew dozens of survivors and reporters to the first day of what is expected to be a weeklong hearing to determine whether Holmes will stand trial for the shooting.
"I mean, basically my son came out here to go to school. He never came back. He came back in a jar. So I would at least like to know what happened," said Tom Teves, of Phoenix, whose 24-year-old son Alex was killed in the attack. "There's no way to understand this because there's no understanding it, but we want to know at least what happened."
Prosecutors have suggested in court that Holmes launched his July 20 rampage after flunking out of a neuroscience graduate program. Defense attorneys have said he is mentally ill. Daniel King, one of Holmes' lawyers, on Monday pointedly asked a pathologist who had just detailed each of the 12 fatalities: "You're aware that people can be found not guilty on the grounds of insanity?"
The hearing will be the best opportunity yet for survivors to find out about Holmes' mental state and the sequence of events that led up to the attack. It comes weeks after a shooting at a Newtown, Conn., school killed 20 children and six adults and increased scrutiny on the combustible mix of firearms and mental illness.
A bearded and disheveled Holmes showed little emotion as police officers struggled to hold back tears during their testimony, reciting a litany of heartbreak: discovering a 6-year-old girl without a pulse, trying to keep a wounded man from jumping out of a moving police car to go back for his 7-year-old daughter, screaming at a gunshot victim not to die.
"After I saw what I saw in the theater — horrific — I didn't want anyone else to die," said Officer Justin Grizzle, who ferried the wounded to the hospital.
Holmes watched intently as one detective showed a surveillance video of him calmly entering the theater lobby, holding the door open for a couple behind him, and printing out tickets to the midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" that he purchased electronically nearly two weeks earlier. Authorities did not show a video of the attack but say Holmes, wearing body armor, tossed two gas canisters into the packed theater, then opened fire.
When officers arrived, they saw people running out of the theater and trying to drive away. Others walked. Some of the wounded tried to crawl out.
Officers found Holmes standing next to his car. At first, Officer Jason Oviatt said, he thought Holmes was a policeman because of how he was dressed but then realized he was just standing there and not rushing toward the theater.
Oviatt said Holmes seemed "very, very relaxed" and didn't seem to have "normal emotional reactions" to things. "He seemed very detached," he said.
At one point, after arresting Holmes, Grizzle asked him if anyone had been helping him or working with him. "He just looked at me and smiled ... like a smirk," Grizzle recalled.
Inside the theater, the movie was still playing on the screen. An alarm was going off and moviegoers' cellphones rang unanswered. There was so much blood on the floor, Grizzle said, that he slipped and almost fell down.
Caleb Medley was wounded in the head, and Grizzle recalled the 23-year-old aspiring comedian struggling to breathe on the way to the hospital. Every time he thought Medley had stopped breathing, Grizzle said, he yelled at the man not to die. Medley survived, and his wife gave birth to their first baby days after the shooting.
Another man Grizzle took to the hospital kept asking where his 7-year-old daughter was. For about half of the trip, Grizzle said, he had to restrain him from jumping from the patrol car. At one point, the man opened the door and tried.
Sgt. Gerald Jonsgaard recalled not finding a pulse on the youngest victim, 6-year-old, Veronica Moser-Sullivan. Jonsgaard had to stop his testimony because he was about to break down in tears.
Two pathologists testified that the victims who died were shot anywhere from one to nine times. Matthew McQuinn, 27, who dived in front of his girlfriend to shield her from the bullets, was shot nine times.
Holmes is charged with more than 160 counts, including murder and attempted murder. The hearing will allow the judge to determine whether the prosecution's case is strong enough to warrant a trial, but it's rare for a judge not to order a trial if a case gets this far.
Legal analysts say that evidence appears to be so strong that Holmes may well accept a plea agreement before trial.
While prosecutors have yet to decide on whether they will seek the death penalty, such a plea could get Holmes a lesser sentence, such as life in prison; help the state avoid a costly trial; and spare survivors and families of those who died from the trauma of going through a lengthy trial.
Associated Press writer P. Solomon Banda contributed to this report.
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The Service Oriented Architecture stipulates a change in perspective for software purchase and development which traditionally limited itself to catering for the isolated needs of a department or sub-division of the Enterprise. SOA exploits emerging standards to facilitate the development and purchase of software so that the requirements of the Enterprise as a whole are satisfied. Thus, services are identified, defined and subsequently reused in orchestrations with other services that map to the processes which form the life arteries of the Business. SOA advises the use of a Service Registry to govern the initiative in order to ensure the proper re-use of existing candidate Services and their compliance to the policies of the Enterprise. That said, in recent times, with the explosion of APIs, the Enterprise has flung open its doors and windows and ripped off its roof in order to reach to the sky to exploit the vast array of cloud-based services on offer and include them in its software inventory. Thus, the New Enterprise has come of age and brought with it the need for a suitable form of Governance. With Anypoint Service Registry, MuleSoft are the first to offer a cloud-based Governance solution which allows the New Enterprise to securely register, discover, manage and monitor its services as well as the consumers of those services. With this post, we'd like you to see for yourselves how Anypoint sets the standard for next generation SOA Governance.
From Architectural Principles to Business Goals
The Service Oriented Architecture represents an attempt to have software development more aligned to the strategic goals of the Business. It strives towards a greater Return on Investment and Organisational Agility while affording the Enterprise the luxury of mixing and matching solutions from different vendors due to a more natural Interoperability between their products, as well as reducing the IT work load. These goals are achieved by embracing best-practice Guidelines in the design of solution logic. We wish to focus your attention on how Anypoint Service Registry collaborates with Mule Enterprise Service Bus to ensure that these Principles are consistently embraced for the success of your SOA architecture and hence the Business that it serves.
Service Discoverability
The New Enterprise needs to ensure rapid delivery of new orchestrations of existing IT resources to meet with its requirement for agility in response to changes in Business Process. To this end it is essential to ensure that as Services are developed, meta-information about their purposes, capabilities and limitations is stored in a centralised location and made easily accessible both to Service designers and to potential Service Consumers for reuse. With its Service Repository AnyPoint helps in this regard by cataloging Version Information, Interface and Message Schemas (e.g. WSDLs and XSDs), location Endpoints as well as Runtime Policies. Tags and Custom Taxonomies can also be applied to make search and discovery a lightening fast operation.
Service Loose Coupling
It is necessary that Services and their Consumers both evolve with minimum dependency on each other. Anypoint's Service Virtualization feature enables the dynamic lookup of Endpoints by allowing Service Clients to locate the Services through an Endpoint registered on the Service Registry which it will resolve at runtime to a concrete Service Implementation. The criteria for this choice can be represented by meta-data associated with each Implementation Endpoint on Service Registry. Thus, the contract between Service and Consumer remains the same but the runtime behaviour of the Service varies dependent on meta-data present in the service calls. The criteria can cover geographic region for example, or SLAs, language or customer category. Updating endpoint meta-data for your Services in Anypoint has no impact on the consuming Applications much less on the Services themselves.
Service Standardisation
Just as the Standardisation of Service Interface and Message definitions results in a natural interoperability between Services in a SOA Architecture because they all, as it were, speak the same language, it also produces a set of Services whose functionality is clearly understood for potential reuse. A Service defined on Anypoint can have any number of descriptive artifacts associated (per Service version). Artifacts such as WSDLs, XSDs and indeed anything that can add to the richness of understanding of the Service can be uploaded. The desired design commonality is not, however, limited to the technical aspects of the Service: cross-cutting concerns are ever present in IT architectures. Those of interest to the business fall in the realm of Policies governing Security, Quality of Service and Contract Compliance. Anypoint's Runtime Policy Management enables the centralisation of Policy application: when new policies are dictated by the ever changing business model, they can be applied at runtime in a global fashion or on a per-consumer-contract based approach. For example, Security Policies can be applied to a particular consumer of a Service or to all Consumers without effecting the uptime of the Service.
Service Abstraction
Care should be taken to avoid Service Consumer to Service implementation coupling which could be brought about by exposing too much information about a Service. The principle of Service Abstraction promotes the type of Information Hiding that should also allow the Service owner to provide various levels of Quality of Service according to agreements with any potential Consumer. Anypoint facilitates this abstraction with its Contract Management feature. Service Consumers can choose to tie their use of a Service to a Contract for that service which guarantees for them a Service Level Agreement. You could expose a Service on Anypoint which has a number of SLA tiers associated with it. Consumers who have signed up for a certain SLA will use the same service as those with higher expectations, for example some Consumers might have a rate limit of 10 calls per hour (or any time unit) while others may have a higher 50 calls. The differentiation is made at the level of the contract, so the Service has no knowledge of its multiple usage scenarios.
Secure Governance
All of the above functionality delivered by Anypoint Service Registry is realised while being particularly mindful of the tight security requirements of your Enterprise. Anypoint Service Registry is protected with the best the Industry has to offer in the area of Security. Communication between Mule Enterprise Service Bus and Anypoint is executed by way of a secure Agent protected by WebSocket technology and HTTPS. At no point in time are any information sets contained in the messages passing through Mule sent up to the Service Registry. Anypoint only has knowledge of the meta-data associated with a Service. Likewise, access to this same Service meta-data is strictly protected by OAuth 2 based access-control so that only registered Service Owners and Service Consumers can see it whether that be on Anypoint's UI or through its RESTful API.
See for yourself
We suggest you take a look yourself and see how Anypoint can help you guarantee the success of your SOA initiative.


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Brewers fall to Reds 4-3, finishing 3-4 trip
Milwaukee wasted a chance to leave Cincinnati with a four-game split.
Chris Heisey scored from first base on Todd Frazier's 10th-inning double into the left-field corner, and the Reds rallied to beat the Brewers 4-3 Sunday.
Milwaukee went 4-3 on a trip that began in St. Louis but still has the major leagues' best record at 21-11.
"This would've been an important game to win," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. "If you lose, you lose the road trip. If you win, you win the road trip. You wouldn't think one game could do that, but it does."
Chris Heisey drew a two-out, four-pitch walk from Tyler Thornburgh (3-1), and Frazier followed with a line drive that one-hopped the left-field wall. Heisey beat shortstop Jean Segura's off-target relay to the plate.
"That was a big series," said Brewers starter Kyle Lohse, who was in line to improve to 5-1. "They played us tough. They pitched really well."
Milwaukee has gone 14 straight games without scoring more than five runs.
"We've got to do a better job of battling," Roenicke said. "If it makes sense to shuffle, we'll shuffle, but I don't see where there are pieces to make those changes, so we have to do a better job. We get opportunities, and we're not getting the job done right now."
Brandon Phillips greeted reliever Brandon Kintzler with a tying 425-foot drive to center with one out in the eighth, Phillips' second homer this season and first since April 5.
Sam LeCure (1-1) pitched the 10th for the win.
Lohse allowed a season-high eight hits and two runs in 6 1-3 innings, including Brayan Pena's home run.
"It was a weird outing for me," Lohse said. "At first, they were super aggressive. I tried to use that, and they started taking. They made me work for every out I got."
Cincinnati starter Alfredo Simon, who hadn't allowed more than two runs in any of his first five starts, gave up three runs and five hits in seven innings.
Scooter Gennett hit Simon's third pitch of the game 357 feet into the right-field seats for his second homer of this season. The Brewers made it 2-0 in the third on Jonathan Lucroy's two-out, RBI single.
Pena hit the first pitch of the third inning 456 feet over the right-field wall for his third homer of the season, all in the last five days. He left for a pinch runner with a tight hamstring in the seventh.
Khris Davis restored the two-run lead with a solo homer in the fourth. Cincinnati again made it a one-run game in the bottom half on Frazier's sacrifice fly after Phillips led off with a double - his fourth hit in five at-bats since getting Friday off.


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We suppose it's Photoshop for the earth. Like magazine art directors make unsightly blemishes disappear from models, Google is making earth's obscuring cloud cover disappear.
"Mining data from a large number of Landsat images of each area allowed us to reconstruct cloud-free imagery even in tropical regions that are always at least partly cloudy," wrote Matt Hancher, tech lead of the Google Earth Engine on the Google Maps blog.
U.S. & World
After mining "hundreds of terabytes of data" from the U.S. Geological Survey and NASA's Landsat 7 satellite, Google as able to create a map of the earth with 15 meters per pixel. That means the resolution is sharper than ever seen before. Coupled with cloud removal, and users are likely to see the earth more up close than ever before. Still, Google will be working on minimizing the "stripes" and other less-than crystal photos from Landsat 7 images, which will likely be changed out with Landsat 8 images next year.
Most of the images are truly crisp and beautifully textured, so much so that one feels like a deity surveying its creation. Take a look so you can feel a bit god-like.


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Beat the Streak Report: Weekend, May 20-22
Big news, Streakers. Big.
Numero uno: Home Run Beat the Streak is back!
Pick one dude per day who you think is going to do some yardwork. String together the season's longest streak (at least 11 games) and compete to win 10 grand.
It's easy, it's fun and you could someday be mentioned in the same sentence as Kevin Mench. What's not to love?
Numero dos: Season Stats
Time to put away the notebooks and the calculators, Streakers. We're officially rolling out a mind-meltingly awesome new BTS Season Stats page for your perusing pleasure.
Want to know the batting average of your Streak picks this season? How about over the last month, or 10 days?
Well now you can.
There's also a record of your longest Streaks (and who ended them), as well as a breakdown of your most frequent picks this season and how they've fared.
So next time Carlos Gonzalez ends your precious two-gamer and you're wondering just how many times he's stymied your attempts to summit Mt. Three Games, you know exactly where to to find out.
Friday's picks:
(Make a BTS pick)
Oh, hello there …
• Ryan Braun: .500 AVG (4-for-8) since '06 vs. Rockies starter Jason Hammel
• Lyle Overbay: .444 AVG (4-for-9) since '06 vs. Tigers starter Brad Penny
• Carlos Lee: .400 AVG (4-for-10) since '06 vs. Blue Jays starter Jo-Jo Reyes
Feeling kinda spicy?
• Jorge Cantu: .467 AVG (7-for-15) since '06 vs. Mariners starter Erik Bedard
You'll thank me later …
• Michael Young: .182 AVG (4-for-22) since '06 vs. Phillies starter Roy Halladay
• Prince Fielder: .143 AVG (1-for-7) since '06 vs. Rockies starter Jason Hammel
Saturday's picks:
(Make a BTS pick)
Oh, hello there …
• Russell Martin: .636 AVG (7-for-11) since '06 vs. Mets starter Chris Capuano
• Ian Kinsler: .450 AVG (9-for-20) since '06 vs. Phillies starter Cliff Lee
• Adam Jones: .400 AVG (4-for-10) since '06 vs. Nationals starter John Lannan
Feeling kinda spicy?
• John Buck: .500 AVG (4-for-8) since '06 vs. Rays starter David Price
You'll thank me later …
• Evan Longoria: .167 AVG (2-for-12) since '06 vs. Marlins starter Javier Vazquez
• Adrian Gonzalez: .200 AVG (3-for-15) since '06 vs. Cubs starter Carlos Zambrano
Sunday's picks:
(Make a BTS pick)
Oh, hello there …
• Rickie Weeks: .750 AVG (6-for-8) since '06 vs. Rockies starter Ubaldo Jimenez
• Chris Coghlan: .625 AVG (5-for-8) since '06 vs. Rays starter James Shields
• Marlon Byrd: .500 AVG (4-for-8) since '06 vs. Cubs starter Marlon Byrd
Feeling kinda spicy?
• Conor Jackson: .500 AVG (9-for-18) since '06 vs. Giants starter Jonathan Sanchez
You'll thank me later …
• Jose Bautista: .083 AVG (1-for-12) since '06 vs. Astros starter Wandy Rodriguez
• Troy Tulowitzki: .188 AVG (3-for-16) since '06 vs. Brewers starter Randy Wolf
Leaderboard Time
Robinson Cano powered buddycrise to 30 games last night, tying him for the BTS season lead. Hey buddy, how many times have you picked Cano this season? You're not sure? Check your Season Stats!
Top MLB streakers
Austin Jackson: 11 games
Asdrubal Cabrera: 10 games
Corey Hart: 10 games
Corey Patterson: 10 games
Brandon Phillips: 10 games
(Make a BTS pick)
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@ Ian. That season stats section is a nice touch. But pass to your web gurus that it requires a refresh to get accurate stats.
For example, bringing up the season stats, here is my streak rate:
21/32 (66%) 16/21 (76%) 3/6 (50%)
After refreshing & now correct:
37/48 (77%) 22/27 (81%) 7/8 (88%)
This not a 1-time thing. Happens every time I bring that page up. Requires a refresh to get it right
@Ian, Sunday's picks you have Marlon Byrd 4-8 vs cubs starter Marlon Byrd.
Highest no selection is on page 9 with a streak of 13, back to 0.
LaV's List
Friday's Top Picks of the current Top2500,
155 Batters picked overall
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Ryan Braun 395 15.96
Jose Bautista 227 9.17
Ichiro Suzuki 171 6.91
Robinson Cano 145 5.86 (1RST)
Alex Rodriguez 109 4.4
Joey Votto 109 4.4
Matt Holliday 105 4.24
Victor Martinez 99 4
Todd Helton 68 2.75
Adrian Gonzalez 35 1.41 (2ND)
Asdrbal Cabrera 22 0.89 (3RD)
No Selection 20 0.81
Highest "No Selection" 😛 pg# 9 with streak of 13 back to zero.
Yesterday's Top2500 Reset rate was 22.21% with GABY SANCHEZ reseting the most.
There was also 24.39% PPD due to players not playing. These streakers do not reset, but did not increase either.
Got Pinched OR 1 AB Wonders
TOP2500 saved or reset by PHA (going to include any pinch hitters and/or double switch, 1 AB or More)
D Stubbs CIN, RESET 2, 10, 9 gamers
E Bonifacio FLA, RESET 3, 10, 10, 9 gamers
M Napoli TEX, RESET 1, DEF SWITCH was 11 gamer
C Gomez MIL, RESET 1, DEF SWITCH was 11 gamer
W Venable SD, RESET 1 was 9 gamer
C Jackson, RESET 1 was 9 gamer
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick
ihavebestdogever, 11, pg 25, 576, MARTIN PRADO (PICKED 29X)
Bloggers Reset Yesterday
LaVolpe, 10, RESET BY Jose Reyes
GL to all
Conor Jackson plays for the Oakland Athletics.
Martin Prado is in trouble right now for our last Top 2500 blogger.
Scorched the ball in his probable last AB to the 2nd baseman.
Braves need to bat around in the 9th for him to bat again.
I took A Rod yesterday and he went O fer while every other Yankee starting hitter got hits including Mark Teixeira. Today I have Teixeira and only after it locked did I realize that Mark is only 1 for 6 (now 1 for 7) against R.A. Dickey. A Rod got a hit in the 2nd inning while I'm still waiting to see if Mark will have an any inning hit. Teixeira and A Rod should have been reversed (I should have had Mark yesterday, A Rod today). I will end this funk.
3rd inning homerun! 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Maybe it works better to pick against the historical stats.
I wonder how many who picked Braun realize that he left yesterday's game with a sore shoulder. That's why I stayed away. (Now watch him get 3 hits.)
I may just put this game on hold for a bit. I have a streak going and then make two very good picks and so far I'm 0-2. This game is still going though, but dang!
Well, Robinson Cano takes down a few on the 1st page, including our current leader. From 30 to 0 without passing go, ouch!
Also, looking like Bautista may also be a sacrifice tonight; slight chance to come up 1 more time in the 9th
He's 5th up, so unlikely unless some hits or walks happen. My guy is second up in the bottom of the 8th, so we'll see.
Well now I need to hope for extra innings. 11 at least.
Hey Keith, can you do 2500 for tomorrow and Sunday please? I'll email you the files. I'm on nights this weekend, but I'll be able to get Monday.
Don't need the files. I pulled data today for my own use. I'll do it this weekend, no problem. I'll send you both days' files
Thank you sir.
Hey, look who broke out of his slump – Ethier. Wonder how many picks he'll draw tomorrow?
If anyone was curious as I was, Ethier drew 16 Top2500 picks on Friday. After breaking is 0-fer slump last nite, he drew just 17 picks Saturday. Guess not many ppl are jumping on his bandwagon until he starts a new streak greater than a couple.
That freaking bum.
Corey Hart: 0 for 6 with a sacrifice
I guess the only silver lining is that I know that I would never have made it past Friday with 100% certainty because Ichiro went 0 for yesterday too.
So now I can start fresh without regret.
Saturday's Top Picks of the current Top2500, 163 batters picked overall
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Ian Kinsler, 205, 8.2
Matt Joyce, 186, 7.44
Miguel Cabrera, 155, 6.2
Adrian Gonzalez, 141, 5.64 (Leader)
Adam Jones, 104, 4.16
Johnny Damon, 95, 3.8
Russell Martin, 94, 3.76
Jose Bautista, 92, 3.68
Ichiro Suzuki, 91, 3.64
Casey Kotchman, 81, 3.24
Robinson Cano, 76, 3.04
B.J. Upton, 72, 2.88
Jason Kubel, 58, 2.32
No Selection, 54, 2.16
Highest "No Selection" 😛 pg# 4 with streak of 15 back to zero.
Yesterday's Top2500 reset rate was 37.41% with J.Bautista resetting the most
Got Pinched OR 1 AB Wonders Top2500 saved or reset by pinch hitters and/or defensive switch, 1 AB or more
C.Gonzalez PH RESET 17, highest was 20-gamer
J.Lucroy PH SAVED 3, highest was 12-gamer
R.Spilborghs DEF RESET 2, highest was 10-gamer
A.Amezaga DEF 2ABs SAVED 1, 11-gamer
B.DeWitt PH RESET 1, 10-gamer
J.Sands PH RESET 1, 8-gamer
Bloggers Group Top2500
Top2500 Bloggers Reset Yesterday
ihavebestdogever @ 11 reset by M.Prado
I took Jose Batista today and I'm glad to see he has a hit. I have my first 2 game streak in 10 days. 🙂 🙂
As I posted the above Jose Batista hit a 3 run home run in the 6th. I'm glad to see some of my picks start to have multi-hit games. 🙂 🙂
Another home run by Batista in the 8th gives me my 2nd 3 hit pick of the season and first since April 17. 🙂 🙂 🙂
HRBTS: If I could pick & choose which days I wanted to play that game, without no-picks resetting me, I'd be golden. I've picked Bautista in BTS 3 times this year. Of those 3 times: 5 HRs, including 1 today & so I'm at one in HRBTS. Whoopy doo.
Make that 6 HRs in 3 games. Bautista is a monster
Tampa Bay top picks in the Top2500: BJ Upton & Damon are pinch hitter potentials. NL park rules & pitcher will most likely be pinched for at some point in the game; maybe more than once depending on the score/situation
That's exactly what happened: Upton walked, Damon singles
Phew. I've been watchin this whole inning hoping that Damon come up but the bats were getting short and Damon pulls trough. Onto tomorrow with my streak intact. GL to everyone else waiting.
*Hoping that he DIDNT come up. But that's neither here nor there now.
And I of course was hoping he'd come up but with a different result for the 4th place leader that picked him. One result, two different points of view.
Cubs pitching change for tomorrow night's game. Check your picks page before games lock tomorrow to see who's taking the mound.
Hey Keith, wanna send me todays files please.
You bored?
You betcha. At work.
Sent to your gmail account. Today is a hitters day. Gonna be a low reset rate I do believe
I noticed. Cano will be the big reset. Ichiro still on the board too.
You sure you sent it? Almost an hour later and its not there.
Yep, just forwarded to your hotmail account too
Just got it in my hotmail but it still hasn't showed up in gmail. Oh well, no biggie. Thx
I'll send Sunday's pull to both accounts shortly after games lock
HRBTS underway for those that like an impossible challenge.
Tip: One of my favorite strategies to get from zero to one in that game. Pick same homerun hitter during a series in a small ballpark, preferably against a inferior team. More times than not you'll get to one. What you do with it after that is up to you.
Sunday's Top Picks of the current Top2500, 145 batters picked overall
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Rickie Weeks, 343, 13.72
Ryan Braun, 236, 9.44
Joey Votto, 181, 7.24
Marlon Byrd, 127, 5.08 (*DNP)
Robinson Cano, 127, 5.08 (Leader Runner-up)
Adrian Gonzalez, 82, 3.28
Miguel Cabrera, 74, 2.96
Kevin Youkilis, 67, 2.68
Ichiro Suzuki, 62, 2.48
Jacoby Ellsbury, 62, 2.48 (Leader)
Matt Holliday, 62, 2.48
Placido Polanco, 59, 2.36
Andre Ethier, 56, 2.24
Ian Kinsler, 53, 2.12
No Selection, 46, 1.84
Albert Pujols, 43, 1.72
Brandon Phillips, 41, 1.64
Highest "No Selection" 🙂 pg# 14 with streak of 13 back to zero.
Yesterday's Top2500 reset rate was 14.2% with R.Cano resetting the most
Got Pinched OR 1 AB Wonders. Top2500 saved or reset by pinch hitters and/or defensive switch, 1 AB or more
J.Damon PH SAVED 95, highest was 23-gamer
B.Upton PH walk SAVED 72 that stay idle, highest was 17-gamer
V.Martinez PH RESET 10, highest was 16-gamer
J.Giambi PH SAVED 1, 10-gamer
R.Raburn DEF SAVED 1, 9-gamer
Je.Baker PH SAVED 1, 7-gamer
J.Cantu PH RESET 1, 7-gamer
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick
Nyy4life42, 7, 96, 2322, M.Teixeira
Top2500 Bloggers Reset Yesterday
(*) "Byrd Byrd Byrd, Byrd's the Word"
Most likely he will miss a few games, if not more, due to a nasty Bean Town beaning he took last nite
On the lighter side. Cubs won their 1st game in Boston since 1918, no that's not a typo
Hmmm, kinda gutsy I'd say. Top 2 picks (Weeks/Braun) are going against Ubaldo. Granted he's not been as dominant as last year so far, but he's very capable. We shall see.
Wow. With Rickie going down he takes almost as much as all of yesterday.
I picked Robinson Cano for the mere reason to avoid a series O fer against the Mets.
After missing the 1st 2 days of Home Run Beat the Streak I took Curtis Granderson.
Moments after that post Granderson goes yard! 1-0 in HRBTS! 🙂
I took Grandy too. Up to 2 I go. Now let's see if I can make it to 3 tomorrow. *crosses fingers*
The Grandyman also moves me to 2 in Hr.
Cano moves me on too. Up to 7.
Just curious if someone can tell me why I can't get to 2011 HRBTS directly? I have to change the 2011 to 2010 and then click on more games and HRBTS, then change the 2010 back to 2011. It should be easier, should it not?
You can get straight to the 2011 game from the main mlb fantasy page. There should be a link from Beat the Streak to HR BTS. Since there isn't I missed the lock time yesterday and would most likely have taken Batista.
OK, I see it now. I just wish it was on the top right of the page like last year under More Games. Would make it so much easier.
I picked along with the leader today with Jacoby Ellsbury.
Nothing personal, two reasons hoping Ellsbury goes 0-fer: 1) Leader & 3 others on 1st page have him & 2) Cubbies fan
lol, the Cubs could have won the game even with Ellsbury getting a hit!
Robinson Cano comes through in the 7th inning, up to 3! 🙂
Wow, just wow! *jaw drop*
Hey Keith, I got your email to both accounts but there are no attachments with either?
bonehead move, huh? try now


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Nine Inch Nails tickets on sale
Though its lights may be presently turned off, John Paul Jones Arena is about to get a lot darker. Industrial rocker Trent Reznor, a.k.a. Nine Inch Nails, will be coming to JPJ on Wednesday, November 5 at 7pm. Tickets for the show go on sale this morning 10am.
One of the most influential musicians of the '90s, Reznor started out as a 23-year-old burgeoning songwriter and keyboardist in Cleveland, frustrated that he couldn't put together a band that played his music the way he imagined it in his head. So, in 1988, he took a cue from Prince, and decided to start playing all the instruments except drums on his songs, and began recording and performing under the name Nine Inch Nails.
It didn't take long for the rest of the music world to take notice. Despite the fact that Reznor had no record deal with a major label and no Top 40 singles, Nine Inch Nails' 1989 debut Pretty Hate Machine's dark yet dance-able music captured the imaginations of a generation of angst-ridden teens who would go on to buy more than 3 million copies. It is the first independent-label album to go platinum in American recording history.
Building on the strength of his debut, Reznor made three key investments with his newfound wealth in the early '90s: he founded his own label, Nothing Records; he signed then unknown shock-rocker Marilyn Manson; and he moved into the house at 10050 Cielo Drive in Los Angeles, the house where members of the Manson Family (no relation to Marilyn) murdered actress Sharon Tate in 1969.
It was at this infamous address where Reznor recorded the Nine Inch Nails album The Downward Spiral. This 1994 album proved to be Nine Inch Nails' mainstream breakthrough reaching #2 on the Billboard albums chart, selling over 7 million copies worldwide, largely on the strength of the disturbing video for the single "Closer," which MTV famously refused to air in its original form. The album also contained the closing track "Hurt," which Johnny Cash covered in 2002 and became a surprise hit just months before his death. In 2003, Rolling Stone would rate The Downward Spiral as the 200th greatest album of all time.
Since this magnum opus, Reznor has continued to be a big seller, despite taking long hiatuses between albums. He scored two consecutive #1 albums with 1999's double-disc The Fragile and 2005's With Teeth. Recently, however Reznor has picked up the pace, putting out three Nine Inch Nails projects in less than two years (six if you count each of the instrumental Ghosts I-IV as an individual album). He's also continued to innovate on the business side of the music industry, selling his last two albums exclusively online, allowing fans to pay what they wished for the music (including $0), and encouraging computer-savvy musicians to remix his music by making it available through Creative Commons, an Internet-based non-profit that makes artistic material available online for any use for free.
Tickets for this show, however, will not be free. They cost between between $27 and $51.50, and they will be available through the JPJ website, or by calling 1-888-JPJ-TIXS.
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Is he the one who had the Cielo Drive house demolished?
He never bought the house on Cielo. Do any fact checks take place at this paper?
"Reznor rented the infamous Hollywood Hills house at 10050 Cielo Drive to record The Downward Spiral in 1993; he took the door with him before the owners razed the place."
Also, I'll add that you misspelled Beverly Hills as "Beverley" Hills, and the house was actually in the Hollywood Hills, which is a different area.
Tickets aren't too terribly expensive. I'm there!
Thanks for the correction, Lindsay.
Reznor could of recorded his album anywhere, but he chose to rent the Cielo house where six innocent people were brutally murdered. Why did he record there? Signs some creep with the stage name Marilyn Manson. Why pick that name? Takes the Cielo door that had Sharon Tate's blood on it for his new studio. Talk about disrespect for the dead. Making a buck and stealing fame off the backs of completely innocent murder victims. How would Reznor/MM feel if their family members were murdered then used/victimized again like that? There is NO excuse.
Oh good grief. It's just rock star behavior and badassery. Don't read too much into it.
Reznor has repeatedly stated that he didn't know the house was the Tate house when he rented it. I don't think he has much reason to lie about that - most of his fans would probably think it "cooler" if he had known.
Signing Manson was a shrewd business decision. Manson was profitable, and Reznor had a lot to do with that.
"Making a buck and stealing fame..." are you kidding? Reznor earned his fame with PHM and TDS. Manson earned his fame by being outrageous on one album and having a great producer on the next. The vast majority of folks who listen to either probably don't even know anything about the Tate murders, the Tate house or the Manson family.
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Starting a work from home business is an exciting venture for some and for others it is a complete waste of time and money. If you want to succeed you need to treat it like a real business, not just a like a new a hobby or pastime. If you're not certain that a home based business is for you, these 5 pros and cons will help you come to a decision.
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1. The Internet Has Made It Easier.
The internet has made it a lot quicker and much easier to start a business working from home. An online business can function 24/7 and have customers from all over the world.
2. No Special Qualifications Are Needed.
It does not matter about your age, education, background or technical skills. If you have the determination and the willingness to put in the work to make it succeed, you can do it.
3. Low Start Up Costs.
The set up costs for an online work from home business are a lot less than a conventional 'offline' business. You can even get start a home based business if you don't have your own products to sell as you can sell other people's products or services and earn a commission on each sale you make.
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The internet provides a huge market of different customers and there are an almost limitless number of products and services available to sell online.
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A work from home business can bring in a helpful second income to supplement your regular day job. Many people actually start this way and discover that they can generate a very comfortable income working from home full time, working the hours that they want without having to answer to a boss.
The 5 'Cons' For Starting A Work From Home Business.
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I missed the part where Charlotte Allen replied to her critics. It's a treat.
It's no small thing, of course, to stop a gunman, whatever his size, but there might have been more of a chance with a few men on hand. I asserted that the "feminized setting" that prevails at elementary schools and the education schools that train their personnel creates a culture of "helpless passivity" that puts women and small children at risk when a psychopath like Lanza decides to blow out the doors.
And an admiring audience failed to materialize, so she is explaining it all again.
No, I was not blaming any of the 26 victims or the parents who enrolled their kids at Sandy Hook. I am, however, blaming our culture that denies, dismisses, and denigrates the masculine traits—including size, strength, male aggression and a male facility for strategic thinking–that until recently have been viewed as essential for building a society and protecting its weaker members. We now have Hanna Rosin at Slate urging parents to buy their little boys Easy Bake ovens so they'll be more like little girls. Women are less aggressive by instinct, and they are typically trained to be nice. I praised and continue to praise the courage of the Sandy Hook principal, Dawn Hochsburg, and the teachers who gave up their lives along with her, but with some men on the scene who knew what to do, some of those lives might have been saved.
Might have been – well sure, but you could say that about anything. If Adam Lanza had tripped and fallen then lots of people could have jumped on top of him, too, and all the lives might have been saved. If things had been different they would have been different. Very true, but we already knew that. There have been other mass shootings where there were men present and many people were still killed, including men. It's not even clear why Charlotte Allen assumes none of the women present "knew what to do" – and of course it's completely unclear what she thinks there is "to do" in the face of automatic weapons.
I am also responding to David Weigel, who told me I gotten my facts wrong: that there are actually two men, a custodian and a fourth-grade teacher, on Sandy Hook's 52-person staff. He's right, and I stand corrected. This does help prove my point, though: just two adult men in a building containing 500 people — and it's not clear that both of them were at work that day. Indeed, a visit to Sandy Hook's staff website is a depressing experience, the sea of women's names. Why aren't there more men? Perhaps not enough want the job? But why? Because they are tacitly discouraged from careers in elementary education? It's certainly not the money, because union rules typically require kindergarten teachers and high-school chemistry teachers to be paid on exactly the same salary scale. Another depressing page on the Sandy Hook website is the "Safe Schools Climate" page. It's a page of links to "anti-bullying" resources. Yes, the Sandy Hook staff's idea of a "safe school" was a school where kids didn't say mean things about each other on Facebook! The Sandy Hook massacre was a tragedy, but it was at least in part a tragedy of the collision between feminist delusions and reality.
Jesus H Christ almighty – what is she talking about?? Is she claiming that feminism keeps men out of elementary schools? Wtf? Since when does feminism claim that elementary school teachers should all be women? The point of feminism is more that university professors should not all be men. And then, she finds a sea of women's names depressing. I find that depressing. Same old shit – imagine her saying that if you replaced "the sea of women's names" with "the sea of black faces."
And then the sneer about anti-bullying – and I feel like throwing up.
Maybe it's some kind of Sarah Palin "shake up those pesky liberals" shtick. Hooray for bullying.


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Transgender and Incarcerated: How do our jails treat some of the most vulnerable prisoners?
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Transgender prisoners – particularly women – often face harsh situations in Canada's jails. Without documentation or not having medically transitioned, offenders may face difficult questions when entering the prison system, not the least of which is what their gender is. Those who are non-operative or pre-operative are, by standard practice, sent to the prison that matches their sexed genitalia, said a spokesperson for Manitoba Justice. This is done regardless of how long they have lived as their identified gender.
A famous 2001 Canadian case saw Synthia Kavanagh, a 41-year-old trans woman who had begun hormone therapy and lived as female since she was a teen, placed in a men's prison and given restricted hormone therapy. This resulted in a reversal of the physical changes hormones had provided her. After her requests for gender-reassignment surgery (GRS) were repeatedly denied, Kavanagh attempted to slice off her genitalia out of desperation.
Kavanagh filed a complaint with the Canadian Human Rights Commission and eventually won her case in 2001. She received surgery at a cost of $14,000 and was then moved to a women's prison. This followed several years in segregation after alleged sexual assault and harassment at the hands of male inmates. Kavanagh's case illustrates all too well some of the hardships trans women face in Canada's prison system.
"They're mixed in with the general population, and they're assigned based on whatever sex organs they still have."
The case in Manitoba
In Manitoba, the Human Rights Code prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity in the provision of services. The Commission's website states, "Systemic discrimination is a form of discrimination that is often not intended. It takes place when a policy or practice that seems neutral has a greater negative effect on some people based on their protected characteristic."
Failure to reasonably accommodate a special need that is based on a protected characteristic is also prohibited in Manitoba. The Code has special status over all other laws in the Province of Manitoba.
Factors like self-identification, gender on official ID and any file history about past placements is taken into consideration before placing a transgendered prisoner, said the spokesperson for Manitoba Justice. "Placements also consider the individual's health and safety and any security concerns that could result. As I understand it, a transgender inmate in a correctional facility would likely be placed in an area with either a smaller population of inmates (i.e. not a dorm-style arrangement), or in other areas better suited to protect his or her safety."
The spokesperson said Manitoba Corrections has effectively managed trans offenders in the past and isn't aware of any significant incidents. Of a total inmate population of around 2,600, they estimate that there may be four to six transgender inmates in the provincial system at any time. The spokesperson said trans inmates have access to hormones if they have been taking them before coming in. The official was unable to say whether any pre-operative/non-operative trans women have ever been placed in a women's prison in Manitoba.
Manitoba Corrections does not have policies specific to transgender inmates.
The case for transgender inmates the same across Canada
In addition to provincial facilities, there are three federal penitentiaries in Manitoba. Correctional Service Canada's regional communications manager for the Prairies, Jeff Campbell said in an e-mail interview, "Pre-operative male to female offenders with gender identity disorder shall be held in men's institutions and pre-operative female to male offenders with gender identity disorder shall be held in women's institutions." For all placement decisions, individual assessments are done to ensure those offenders diagnosed with gender identity disorder (GID) have their needs for safety and privacy accommodated, Campbell said. This means that without genital surgery, an offender would be placed in a prison that corresponds with their physical sex, but possibly not with their emotional and psychological well-being.
In order for an inmate to be diagnosed with GID and access trans-specific medical care, they must see a psychiatrist who is a recognized expert in the area. This mirrors the process many trans people outside prison must follow to access healthcare. The process for inmates happens if and when such a psychiatrist is available, according to Correctional Service Canada policy. The policy states inmates with GID diagnosis are the ones who can initiate or continue hormone therapy.
The policy also says, "Sex reassignment surgery shall be considered during incarceration only when: a recognized gender identity specialist has confirmed that the offender has satisfied the real-life test." The real-life test refers to living full-time as one's identified gender for a year in order to qualify for surgery. For inmates, the real-life test must have been completed prior to incarceration. If they are eligible for surgery, Correctional Service Canada foots the bill. This policy amendment was enacted following Kavanagh's human rights victory.
Dealing with misidentification
One source OutWords spoke to has seen some of the effects of these policies on the ground. In a telephone interview, an employee of federal corrections described some of the ways trans women are treated in male penitentiaries and how some of them cope. "They're mixed in with the general population, and they're assigned based on whatever sex organs they still have," the source said. "Even if they've had breast augmentation and have been living fully as female and on hormones." Others could care less if they're in with the males, and "[those ones] only live as female part-time or by choice."
"But there are a couple in particular who live fully as female and identify as female and we call them by their female names… Most of them are forced to work the streets when they're out, and then they come in, and if they really want to affect change it's pretty hard, because they're kind of used as females within the prison," said the source. "In some ways for some of them it gives them a lot of power in the prison, because they have something to barter with. But for others who are sincerely wanting to change, and [who] live their lives as females socially, it's an added struggle for them. I think it's kind of shameful." The source described the situation as psychologically damaging and quite bad. "But I don't know what the other solution is either."
Prisonjustice.ca, an activist organization for trans prisoners, notes the connection between criminal activity, poverty and the isolation and stigmatization many trans people face. Incarceration rates within trans communities are disproportionate, and this is linked to the vulnerability of the trans population.
Moving forward
The federal employee said Manitoba Corrections is looking at work done by the Winnipeg police to help plan an expansion for its own diversity programs. "We're also doing it [federally], because we work with a diversity committee, and we're looking to bring in speakers and stuff from related organizations that have been successful in doing diversity training with their staff."
A guide put together by Joshua Mira Goldberg for the Justice Institute of British Columbia aims to provide criminal justice personnel with the information necessary to respond appropriately to trans people in the criminal justice system. It suggests a case-by-case approach to placing trans prisoners. "In some cases, it may be appropriate to place a prisoner according to their identity (e.g., placing a trans woman in a women's facility). In some locations, it may be possible for trans prisoners to be housed together in a special unit. In some instances, a trans prisoner may request placement in general population or protective custody… There needs to be a framework to guide the assessment."
Australia's model is a three-tiered policy that prioritizes prisoner safety. First, it is asked which facility would be safest for the prisoner. Then, the prisoner's general appearance and what gender they live as are considered. The last consideration is physiology and genital status.
An international academic study that looked at transsexuals within prison systems in North America, Europe and Australia found that only 29 of 64 correctional institutions said they would maintain existing hormone therapy if it had been prescribed prior to imprisonment. Sixty-two of 64 facilities said all inmates must wear the clothing appropriate to the institution regardless of the inmate's gender identity. And only 40 per cent of correctional services had policies addressing issues like hormone treatment.
Published in OutWords Magazine, May/June 2014
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Between Xmas, New Ywear and the weather i'm not expecting December's toys anytime soon. As long as they're here by the end of Jan i'll be happy.
Between Xmas, New Ywear and the weather i'm not expecting December's toys anytime soon. As long as they're here by the end of Jan i'll be happy.
Geez im receiving package's from ebay on every week, and i have hope that anoder will be the Skeletor...
I wanted him before new figures will be avaible on 15th this month, beacose i want to be sure that the package will certainly come to me with no problems :/
And now im not convinced to buy Man-at-Arms... Sad
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You guys noticed the parcel was sent from Germany as a priority parcel? I think what happens is DR is sending those figures by ship that's why it takes so long to get here and then they sort them out in Germany and send them from there to all Europe buyers.. Hence the ridiculously long delivery times. There is no other explanation, if it was International mail then it would be sent via plane and be here in 7-10 days.. That's the usual delivery time from US sellers to UK for me when I buy stuff from eBay..
hhm, I don't know. When they arrive in Germany it always says they were going via Auckland, New Zealand. If they do that way in a container on some ship, I am sure that would take even longer than the long time we are waiting for it.
I am sure they are sent via plane but why it takes so long?...no idea.
Received my Re-issue Skeletor and the Flying Stands this morning (12th).
I took a gamble and had them sent in the same box. I didn't have any customs charges. Not sure whether that's because I was lucky, or because the cost of the contents was low enough.
Still waiting on the Goddess and Randor. Anyone else get anything today?
still waiting for my king randor ...
''He-Man lives and possesses that key, I must possess all or I possess nothing!'' (Skeletor, 1987)
If in Europe they ship packages form Germany... well Poland borders Germany in the west, then I would get it first, beacose this is VERY close... but i dont have Skeletor yet...
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The last two months have been sloooow!
Up untill Scareglow the figs arrived here in Denmark within 25 days.
Now they take more than 30 days ... well, the King and Goddess
still have a chance at making it before the release of the new set of figs,
but still ... it's a drag to wait this long!
Armageddon will soon be here,
the sinners will meet their fate.
But I am calm and without fear,
as I feed upon my hate.
Is anyone else in the UK still waiting on their re-issue He-Man? My Scareglow came pretty quickly, but He-Man hasn't arrived yet.
I an usually more than patient, but am a bit worried about placing an order on Friday, when my figures from the order - 2 orders ago - still have not successfully arrived???
I wonder how long it will be till somebody actually receives Randor? How late on in January last year did Skeletor start showing up? It didn't seem like too long a wait.
Recieved my King Randor and Godess today, both in the same package as I combined them this time instead of ordering seperate and there were no customs fee's or anything.
OK game on......who's going to be last this time? No bet it'll be me.....
That's good news that Randor and Goddess are starting to show up.
Got Skeletor and Goddess today, no customs charge.
I ordered Randor separately a few days later, so he's not arrived yet.
Goddess, Randor and Skeletor figures arrived today and no Customs charges. That's two packages in a row without the extra cost - will it last?
I'm surprised to have received the figures before ordering the next ones - under four weeks' delivery hasn't happened for months for me!
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The people who usually get them late seem to be getting them early this time. Hope that doesnt mean the people who usually get them early get them late now lol.
It sure seems that way - Randy is here! That's Randor singular as in the Sub package - Goddess and RandorII are presumably shacked up in Customs waiting for the ransom note to get to me.
He's not my fav character so he's OK at best as a figure but it sure makes a nice change NOT to have to wait until last. Sorry Guys.
Randor and the Goddess in Edinburgh before Januarys figures go sale.That's more like it digital river!
Randor was sub and was posted 2 days before Goddess but both arrived together this morning. Must be the German efficieny. Any chance on that European distribution centre?????
Cool figures. Paint jobs are great on both. Love Randor's bushy beard.
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My Randor got here today too. That was a lot faster than I expected.


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Mostly it seems to have been a stable summer for the Whitchurch water voles. The colonies at Edgeley Road and Grocontinental have held their own, as have the ones at White Lion Meadow car park (near Tesco), at Mossfields and at Black Park Road. There's otter presence at the Black Park Road site, too. Unfortunately the vegetation at Greenfields, the country park, is currently too thick to get anywhere near the banks, so it's hard to tell how the population's going on there. There were certainly water voles at Greenfields Rise in late June because we had a sighting.
Less good is what's happened at the Prees Branch Canal nature reserve, where what used to be a thriving colony now seems dramatically reduced in numbers, with just a few signs near Dobson's Bridge. The most likely explanation is mink predation, as there's been no obvious disturbance to the water quality or banks.
The management of the brook along the back of Wayland's Road is also an issue, as all cover and food has been stripped along the whole length of both sides of this stretch. We're trying to find out who's done this then we can stop it happening again.
It's vital that landowners follow best practice in clearing out ditches and in cutting back riverside plants. If in doubt, ask – there's any amount of advice out there. Water voles are protected by law and it's an offence to damage their habitat.
(Thanks to Kate Long for writing this article)