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Carew appreciates special bond with Twins
First pitch an honor for Hall of Famer and Minnesota legend
MINNEAPOLIS -- In 1985, the last time the Twins hosted an All-Star Game across town in the now-defunct Metrodome, Rod Carew was in the final season of a brilliant 19-year career, finishing up a seven-season tenure with the then California Angels.
Carew began it all with the Twins and played his first 12 seasons in Minnesota. But as fate would have it, that was the only season after 18 in a row that Carew wasn't selected to the American League team.
That's why when Carew was asked to throw out the first pitch before Tuesday night's 85th Midsummer Classic, the honor was that much more special.
"This was a lot of fun. Playing here all those years, I was really looking forward to it," Carew told MLB.com as he emerged from the Twins' clubhouse just before the game. "Working with the Twins organization and then being given the honor of throwing out the first pitch, yeah, it was exciting."
Carew, a Hall of Famer with a lifetime .328 batting average, is as synonymous to Twins baseball as longtime head coach Bud Grant is to Vikings football.
The late Kirby Puckett and Harmon Killebrew are lifetime Twins whose plaques also hang in the Hall. Add Carew, Bert Blyleven, Paul Molitor, Steve Carlton and Dave Winfield, the latter trio all with cameo roles in Minnesota. Carew played here from 1967-78 and has the Twin Cities logo on his plaque. He is again a spring presence, has an ongoing consulting role with the organization, and contributes off-field work for the Angels at the behest of owner Arte Moreno.
"I'm a Twin at heart, but I also have a halo above my head," said Carew, now 68. "The nice thing is, [Twins president] Dave St. Peter knows I played for the Angels for seven years. And he's OK with it."
Twenty-nine years ago, Major League Baseball didn't honor some of its greats during the final season of their distinguished careers. There was no such thing as a non-playing All-Star captain, an honor bestowed on Tony Gwynn in 2001, the last year of his career.
Times have changed now, and baseball honors its own.
"It has changed, and it's great that they're doing that now," Carew said without any sign of bitterness or rancor. "Guys like Derek Jeter, who has done so much for the game and carried himself unbelievably on the field and off the field, you couldn't ask for a better guy to represent Major League Baseball. I see that in Mike Trout. I see that in the way he plays and the way he goes about it. It reminds me so much of Derek when he was a young player."
Despite hitting .272, 29 points below his lifetime batting average of .311, Jeter didn't need anyone's largess to make the AL team. He was voted in as the AL's starting shortstop by the fans.
Carew, long a first baseman by then, hit a very representative .280 in his last season. It wasn't good enough to make the All-Star team. Eddie Murray, another future Hall of Famer, started that year for the AL at first base.
Carew hit .334 for the Twins and won five AL batting titles. He was Gwynn before there was even a glimmer of Gwynn, who won a record-tying eight National League batting titles and hit .338 in 20 years, all with the Padres.
In 1977, Carew won the AL MVP Award and the Major League Player of the Year. But that didn't stop the Twins from trading him to Angels before the 1979 season, largely for economic reasons. In one fell swoop, Carew's salary jumped from $200,000 to $800,000 a season, paltry in comparison to this age of the $3.2 million average salary, but big bucks back then in the first blush of free agency.
All of that, though, is now forgotten. The Twins, under the stewardship of the Pohlad family, honor their history. Blyleven has been a Twins TV analyst for the past 19 years, and on Sunday, he managed the World Team in the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game. Tom Kelly, who managed the Twins to their only World Series titles in 1987 and '91, was the U.S. Team skipper and, like Carew, is a consultant for the club.
"What's nice about it is that they brought all of us back to remain a part of the organization," Carew said. "I continue to do work for them on and off the field. I come in, I do some clinics for them, I do stuff in the community. I spend so much time doing things for the organization. I'm on the advisory board. It's nice. It's a good thing to spend the rest of my time helping the organization. It's good to be back here."


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Educating individuals about the costs of healthcare could save money and lead to a more efficient use of the healthcare system, report policy researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and Boston University School of Public Health. The study is the first to assess the effect of knowledge and perceptions of cost-sharing levels (the percentage of cost borne by individuals out of total healthcare costs) on self-reported and actual behavior. The study points to a need to examine how changes to cost-sharing might change consumer behavior to contain costs while still getting appropriate care.
Employers increase healthcare costs to employees partly to reduce their own costs and partly to motivate employees to use the healthcare system in a more cost-efficient way. The researchers wanted to identify how changing the cost-sharing levels affected how employees used the healthcare system. The study, published in The American Journal of Managed Care, found an association between the employees who were more informed about overall healthcare costs and their higher ratio of office visits to emergency room visits, when compared with the visit ratio of other employees who were less informed
"We know how much electricity costs us and we know how much our groceries cost, but, as patients, costs of our healthcare remain vague. As patients, we know that we might have a co-payment but we rarely know the underlying costs or the differences in costs depending on our utilization of the healthcare system. The complexity of the medical and billing systems have prevented consumers from understanding how best to utilize healthcare options to contain costs," said Amy Lischko, DSc, assistant professor of public health and community medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston.
"Respondents who were more informed about their specific copayments for office visits and emergency room visits were more likely to have more office visits and more likely to have fewer emergency room visits. Given the enormous costs of emergency room visits in contrast to office visits, it appears that more transparency about costs of healthcare services could help both employees and employers contain their respective expenditures on health services," said James Burgess, Jr, PhD, associate professor of health policy and management at Boston University School of Public Health.
Lischko and Burgess conducted a survey of approximately 1,500 employees of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, over a period of increasing copayments, to assess their knowledge of cost sharing and healthcare utilization. The survey data was merged with claims data for respondents and their dependents.
"Although this study cannot be generalized across the country, it does argue for developing strategies to educate patients better about their cost-sharing responsibilities so that costs for everyone can be contained. As we implement healthcare reform, and as insurance becomes available to millions of previously uninsured people, we have an unprecedented opportunity to provide incentives to use the system efficiently and to educate people about the effects of their behavior on overall health care costs," Lischko said.
Material adapted from Tufts University, Health Sciences by CFisher.

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As it works through its latest series of restructuring steps, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney (MS) says it also hiring advisors from rivals.
A recent recruiting effort netted nine advisors from UBS (UBS), Merrill Lynch (BAC), Wells Fargo (WFC) and LPL Financial (LPLA) with about $1.2 billion in combined assets and more than $8.3 million in yearly fees and commissions, according to a spokesperson who shared the information with AdvisorOne on Monday.
The news of these hires comes on the heels of further restructuring at MSSB, which continues to cut costs and take other measures to boost results while also fighting the challenge of departing advisors.
In July, Morgan Stanley, led by James Gorman (left) reported a 50% drop in second-quarter profits, which totaled $563 million, compared with profits of $1.19 billion a year ago. It also said that the number of MSSB advisors dropped 2% from last quarter and 6% from last year—representing a loss of about 1,050 advisors—to 16,934.
Last week, Wells Fargo Advisors said that over the summer it has added several teams and individual advisors from MSSB with about $860 million in assets under management to its traditional employee-advisor channel.
New MSSB Recruits
The latest additions to Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, which recently wrapped up its information technology/platform integration, include Keith Munera and John Wildemore.
The pair joined MSSB's Berwyn, Pa.-based office from UBS and now reports to branch manager Anthony Favoroso. Their combined production is more than $3 million a year and prior client assets totaled $315 million.
The Zaft McKinney Group is made up of Matthew Zaft and Connor McKinney. It recently moved to MSSB's Washington, D.C., office from Merrill Lynch. The team has total production of $1.8 million and assets of close to $219 million. It will report to complex manager Michael Maurer.
Angel Colina joined MSSB's Miami office from Wells Fargo. Colina now reports to complex manager Kevin McCarty. He has yearly fees and commissions of more than $2 million and prior assets of $240 million.
Mark Ralston moved to Morgan Stanley's office in Wichita, Kan., from LPL Financial. His new supervisor is branch manager John Dunlop. The advisor has had yearly production of $1.5 million and client assets of $143 million.
Leaving Merrill Lynch to join MSSB in Davenport, Iowa, were Christopher Agnew, Gary Hewitt and Darrell Henricksen, who now report to branch manager Nathan Stoffregen. The team's prior assets were more than $300 million.


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You can find the 1:6 Sideshow Exclusive Toht and a selection of other great Indiana Jones collectibles available to order at Sideshow Collectibles!
Of the many heroes and villains introduced throughout the course of the four Indiana Jones theatrical adventures, none is as memorable as the vile Arnold Toht. The slithery Toht was a Nazi agent tasked by Belloq to retrieve a medallion that would hopefully lead them to the location of the Ark of the Covenant. While he attempted to torture Marion Ravenwood for the location of the medallion, Indiana Jones showed up to teach him some manners. After their first scuffle, Indy eventually meets Toht again near the end of the film, when the Nazis capture him and Marion. They hold their eyes shut as the Nazis foolishly open the Ark, meeting their demise as they are melted alive.
With fans long-requesting a new Toht figure, Sideshow delivers an incredible 1:6 scale collectible complete with accessories to recreate all of your favorite moments from the film. Not only that, the exclusive version of the figure includes a 1:6 scale replica of the Ark of the Covenant to add even more display options to your Indy collection.
PACKAGING: Like most of the other Indiana Jones collectibles released by Sideshow and other manufacturers, Tohts packaging features a cracked, stone-like box with ruins bordering the top and bottom and an overall brown color scheme. The outside of the package also features images of the figure on all sides, with additional movie images on the back. The box features a side-opening flap that reveals the figure and his accessories packaged in separate trays facing each other with The Raiders movie poster behind the trays. The interior also features a synopsis of the film as well as a bio on Toht. The exclusive Ark accessory comes packaged within the shipper box in it's own plain white box with form-fitted Styrofoam to protect the collectible.
SCULPT & ARTICULATION: The focus of the sculpting ultimately lies on the head sculpt, and unfortunately, therein lies some issues for the figure. While I think that the sculpt and figure overall captures the look of the character, I think that the final product doesnt capture the likeness of Ronald Lacey. But a lot of the problem doesnt lie with the sculpt, but the paint application, which Ill get to shortly. The figure features the Sideshow 12-inch Prometheus body that includes around 30 points of articulation and allows you ample opportunity to create a variety of Toht-like poses.
PAINT & CLOTHING: Paint and Costume are two areas of the figure that I feel come up short in the quality department. If you look at photos of the prototype, you will see that the paint apps have been severely cut back, which in turn, affects the look of the figure and doesnt compliment the sculpt like it should. Toht features several articles of clothing to complete his costume including a shirt, pants, tie, jacket, and trench coat with belt. Unfortunately, you can tell that the materials used in the prototype were of a greater quality than the final versions as evidenced by the stiffness and fit of his suit and the slightly more tight leather coat in the original promo photos. But there are a variety of small details present that still managed to impress me including the much appreciated inclusion of the Nazi party pin, something that is often removed from collectibles to avoid offense.
ACCESSORIES: If this figure excels in anything, its accessories. While I wouldnt say the figure comes with an overwhelming number of items, its the quality things it does include that make all the difference. Not only does he include a removable hat and two sets of hands (both gloved and ungloved), he also has an extra hand featuring the scar that was burned into his hand by the Staff of Ra emblem. He can wield a hot poker, Luger pistol, or the collapsible coat hanger that Marion mistakes for some torture tool. My personal favorite accessory and most fan-requested feature is the interchangeable melting head to capture Tohts final moments in the film. The one accessory that fails is his included removable eyeglasses. Changed from the prototype, the glasses are now a lot thicker and bulky looking, which totally changes the look of the figure when wearing them.
Included only with the exclusive version of Toht, The Ark of the Covenant display item is a hefty polystone replica of the sacred artifact. Sideshow has done an excellent job capturing not only the intricate carvings that cover its surface, but they also chose an appropriate paint to give it a dull gold sheen. The lid is removable and reveals a surprisingly vacant and undecorated interior. Another key feature of the Ark is the two removable polystone poles. Each pole has been wrapped in a patterned fabric to add even more realism to the piece.
PRICE & OVERALL: While the figure does have some flaws, it doesnt make me any less excited to own another great addition to the Indiana Jones series. With the interchangeable head and awesome 1:6 Ark accessory, Toht is a must-have collectible for Indy fans of all ages. The 1:6 Sideshow Exclusive Toht (including the 1:6 Ark), which sells for $169.99, is in stock and available to order NOW while supplies last!
To see more photos of the villainous Toht, CLICK HERE.
Review Sample courtesy of Sideshow Collectibles
Review & Photos by Michael Klein


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How exactly do I swap?
Found a home you love? It's as simple as messaging the owner and taking it from there.
You can use our secure messaging to talk over the details - then when you're ready you just need to click 'agree'. Easy.
Have you got any insider tips?
Way too many to write here. But the ones you really need to know are:
- Invest in your listing. Making it look amazing and you'll spend way less time searching for swaps.
- Be open minded. Sometimes those opportunistic swaps turn out to be the best.
- Communicate. Members can sometimes exchange 10 to 20 messages via the site to confirm a swap and a phone call can definitely help too.
- Be thoughtful. Ensure your home is tidy and stocked up with the basics before your swap arrives. In turn, leave your hosts home as you found it.
Nail all those and you (and your swapper) will be perfectly happy. If you want to see more, check out all our home swap guides.
What about insurance?
It's always a good idea to talk to your home insurer before your trip to make sure you're covered while you swap and to give yourself a chance to take out any extra cover, should you need it.
Do we have to swap at the same time?
Not at all.
In fact, many of our members arrange non-simultaneous swaps, where your guest may come to stay with you in June, but you don't stay at their's until November, for example.
Another alternative to a direct swap is a Points swap, which is perfect for when you can't match dates or even destinations. Find out more about points here.
You must have an active membership for the duration of your trip.
How do members contact each other about home swaps?
Members contact each other about home exchanges through the secure messaging system within the Love Home Swap service. You will also receive an email to your own email address to alert you each time you receive a new message.
We ask that our members respond to all swap requests and messages, even if the swap request is not of interest to you.
Once you've made contact with members via the site, it's also a good idea to discuss your home swap on a phone call or via Skype to get to know your exchange partner more.
Do I have to add photos of my home straight away?
Photos are a really important part of your profile and members who add photos are 11 times more likely to receive home swap requests.
Don't worry if you don't have photos to hand when you join. You can return later to add photos or other details - simply follow the link in the Welcome email we sent you or go to the 'My Profile' section as soon as you have photos ready. We strongly recommend that you add at least one photo to your listing to get the most out of your membership.
Can I list more than one home?
Members can list as many properties on the site as they wish without any extra fee per home. Simply go to your My Account area, and click on the 'Add home' link. If you have any questions about how to do this, please contact email@example.com
How do I manage my property listing(s)?
Simply go to your 'My Account' area, and click on 'My homes' or 'Edit my profile'. You can add or deactivate a property any time (your property listing(s) will remain active on the site unless you choose to deactivate these). If you have any questions about how to do this, simply email firstname.lastname@example.com.
How many times can you swap during the year?
As a Love Home Swap member, there is no limit on the length or number of swaps that you agree throughout the year - it's all part of your single membership fee.
You will need to have an active membership for the duration of any swaps you agree.
How does the swap confirmation process work?
The Love Home Swap site takes you through the process of agreeing home swaps online in a simple and secure way. This covers the essentials and confirms your swap timings and other specifics.
You can start this process simply by clicking on the 'Agree Swap' button in the top right corner of any trip discussion.
For any questions, please contact us on email@example.com
Can you swap cars as part of a home swap?
Many members do, as you can save on hire-car costs, and even leave your cars at the airport for one another to save on taxis. But before you make the agreement, check that your insurance policy allows your exchange partner to drive your car - if an extra premium is charged, sort out who will pay.
What should you do to make your swap run as smoothly as possible?
Industry experts state that it is very rare for complaints about
theft or damage to be reported around home swaps.
Just to be on the safe side, it is advised for members to lock away any valuable possessions that you instinctively would not want to leave out on display.
Can I agree a swap beyond the expiry of my membership?
You must be an active member for the duration of any swaps or Points swaps you agree.


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PLYMOUTH, Mass. -- Massachusetts activists have announced plans to sue the owners of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station for what they say is the continuous pollution of Cape Cod Bay over the last 16 years.
The three activists, represented by Ecolaw, notified the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday of their intent to sue the plant's owner, New Orleans-based Entergy Corp. They say the Plymouth plant damaged the local ecology by discharging chemical pollution and water heated far above allowed standards.
The activists say Pilgrim has more than 33,000 violations of the Clean Water Act since 1996 and charge that the company could be liable for $831 million in penalties, at $25,000 per violation.
In a separate letter Friday, Ecolaw also told the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection it intends to sue the agency for allegedly allowing Entergy to damage the environment.
Pine duBois, one of the three residents who signed the notification to the EPA, said regulators have a duty to enforce anti-pollution laws. "Our ocean is not Entergy's dump," she said in a news release. "Cape Cod Bay belongs to all of us."
Messages were left for Entergy, the EPA and the Department of Environmental Protection.
Pilgrim was relicensed earlier this year after 6 1/2 years of review by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The relicensing means the commission has certified that the plant, built in 1972, can operate safely for another 20 years.
NRC officials have noted its staff devoted approximately 14,600 hours to the review, which was the longest of any renewal application in the agency's history.
Ecolaw said it notified state and federal agencies of its intent to sue under laws that allow citizens to act if the government fails to enforce the law.
The group told the EPA it's able to sue Entergy if the agency doesn't act within 60 days of the notification. And it says under Massachusetts law it can sue the Department of Environmental Protection if the state does not act with 21 days of its Friday notification to that agency.


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Beyond a love for Africa, he shared little
"Wanna share Sangria?" his text said.
"Sure. Just walked in. Wearing a gold jacket."
"I'm in a white sweat shirt."
I walked into the crowded bar looking for an African man who led a nonprofit promoting social entrepreneurship among people of African descent. That was all I knew about him.
I was deeply in love with Africa, having returned from my first trip there eight months before. I had spent two weeks there, teaching primary school children in a Nairobi slum to write their personal stories. My short visit there changed my life.
Africa was almost all I talked about. I had just launched a program matching Kenyan and U.S. children as pen pals, and I intended to return to Africa many times, helping children across the continent write their personal stories, and sharing those stories across the world.
Friends regularly introduced me to people who shared my passion for Africa, and who were doing work similar to mine. That's how I came to search for the man in the white sweat shirt on a Friday night.
I scanned the bar, my eyes dancing from one man to the next. He could be 30 or 80, for all I knew.
I found him. He had a beautiful, bald head, and a white sweat shirt like none I'd ever seen: casual, yet somehow regal and sexy draped over his lean body. He was in his late 30s, I guessed — mostly because he looked it, but also because I was 36 and he was gorgeous, so I needed it to be true.
I approached him, extended my hand, and groped his for a ring as I shook it. Delighted to feel none, I glanced at his other hand . Jackpot: He was single, or at least not married.
We spoke for hours in that bar, sharing tapas, sangria and our dreams for Africa. Our shop talk was productive and fulfilling, but it was the chemistry between us that led the evening's charge.
We met a friend of his at another bar. We danced close. We changed bars again. He spilled red wine on that white sweat shirt. We kissed on the dance floor.
He tried to go home with me that night, pretending he needed to get me home safely, despite my sobriety and possession of a car. I declined. "I don't move that fast." He laughed. He asked me out for the following night.
He was trouble. But he was everything I'd fallen in love with about Africa: warm, concerned for others and humble. And he was a PhD-level engineer who had made a life for himself here, after moving from Nigeria at 22. He impressed me.
But he was often distant. He refused, repeatedly, to accept my occasional Facebook friend requests. "I don't even add my mom or my sister," he protested.
We fought a lot, whenever I tried to concretize the illusory details of his stories: where he was traveling, why he'd shown up late, whether we were dating or broken up. But every time I asked, he assured me that he was with only me, even though his bellicosity and my mercurial nature combined to switch us more frequently "off" than "on."
On his birthday, 1 1/2 years into our relationship and two months into our latest break, I spied on his forbidden Facebook wall. What I was looking for, I had no idea, but it certainly wasn't this wall post: "Happy birthday my dearest husband. ur children re also proud of their dad."
Punched in the gut, I sat on the floor for 15 minutes, trying to breathe. When my lungs regained sufficient air, I called my friend Liz. Within the hour, our joint, simultaneous, over-the-phone Facebook investigation revealed the following: White Sweat Shirt was in fact married to the woman who had called him her "dearest husband." She lived in Nigeria, where he returned to visit twice per year. Her dearest husband doubled as the father of her three children, ages 8, 6 and 3.
There were photos and loving Facebook posts between them — none of which I'd ever seen, because I hadn't known to look on her page, where all evidence but the birthday note was stored.
I debated my options for months. I could reach out to tell him I knew, but why?
I considered calling her. She had written her phone number on a Facebook post, and I'd recorded it. But the only reason to expose his lies would be to enlighten a wife who was in the dark. And my gut said his philandering was a well-illuminated issue.
Six months later, eight months after my last conversation with him, and a few months after my begrudging acceptance that I'd been a hit and run to this man, I was shocked to receive an email from him.
"Katie, Happy new year to you. Long time, no hear. How are you, your family and job? Let me know you are doing OK."
I responded: "I found out you have a wife and children. Don't ever email, call, text or come near me again."
Eight minutes later, he sent the following reply: "Hey, Even if I do, what's wrong with that? As usual, u have a one-track mind and dictatorial in ur decisions — no surprises. Thought u have grown up but nope — still ur old unchangeable Katie Burke. Goodluck with that attitude. No more emails from me, for sure."
With this email exchange, we formalized the burial of Gold Jacket and White Sweat Shirt. And now my eyes are open for a new man, inside whose chest beats the gentle, strong heart I once thought I saw in one woman's dearest husband.
Burke is a writer, editor and former family law attorney.
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Tagetik, a global provider of Corporate Performance Management (CPM) and Financial Governance software solutions, today announced the availability of a new piece of research published by Gartner, Inc (NYSE:IT), "Case Study: CPM is a solution for managing the fast growth at UniCredit Group" through the Tagetik website.
UniCredit Group has implemented Tagetik 3.0 to unify Corporate Performance Management (CPM) processes: group data collection and consolidation of regulatory reporting, management and statutory reporting, budgeting and forecasting, executive dashboard, and financial reporting with group key performance indicators (KPIs) index.
Back in 2003, the company selected Tagetik 3.0 to manage and control its financial performance on group, regional and divisional levels with a single solution and chart of accounts for the entire group. In the past eight years, UniCredit Group has incrementally deployed 10 successful projects in three phases following a well-documented, high-level, long-term performance management strategy. Today, over 3,000 worldwide users manage the group's financial and regulatory consolidation process, whose key figures include approximately 500 consolidated companies (70% fully consolidated), and more than 6,000 financial accounts open on over 10 custom dimensions.
"Some of the world's strongest and most visionary banks and financial institutions, such as UniCredit Group, are using Tagetik 3.0 with successful results, receiving a highly intuitive, user-friendly solution which is fast to deploy and easy to maintain without costly external consultants or IT experts," explains Manuel Vellutini, Chief Operating Officer at Tagetik. "Due to the sheer size of the group, UniCredit opted for a modular Corporate Performance Management rollout to ensure short project cycles, fast results and high user satisfaction. In addition to minimizing manual work, the web-based solution delivers consistent information, transparent audit trails and documented workflows across all processes, having simplified both deployment and maintenance throughout the group."


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Some Yanks regulars could play against FSU
TAMPA -- Manager Joe Girardi said he hasn't decided which of his veteran players will take the field in the Yankees' Spring Training opener against Florida State University on Tuesday, though he will consider slotting some of his regulars into the starting lineup.
"I might put a few in there," Girardi said Saturday. "I've got to see where they are. Maybe one at-bat and get 'em going."
The Seminoles, meanwhile, are bringing along a few stars of their own.
Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Jameis Winston is part of the Florida State team that will face the Yankees at 1:05 p.m. ET on Tuesday. FSU head coach Jimbo Fisher, who led the team to the 2013 BCS National Championship, is scheduled to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.
Obviously well-known for his work on the gridiron, Winston also appeared in 41 baseball games as a freshman in 2013, starting 32 games as a hitter and making 17 relief appearances as a pitcher. Winston batted .235 with a .377 on-base percentage and recorded a 1-2 record and 3.00 ERA with two saves last year.


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All eyes on flamethrowing prospect Martin
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- A year ago, Hyun-Jin Ryu couldn't pick up a baseball without the eyes of an entire organization glued to him.
On Field 2 on Tuesday, Ryu threw live batting practice for the first time this spring and, other than a couple of reporters from Korea, nobody was watching.
Instead, the eyes of the organization were at Field 1, watching hard-throwing left-handed prospect Jarret Martin look very capable and in command against Yasiel Puig, Carl Crawford and Juan Uribe. The audience included general manager Ned Colletti and his posse, manager Don Mattingly and most of the staff.
"I was kind of aware of them. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't," said Martin, a 24-year-old from Bakersfield, Calif., who grew up a Dodgers fan and was acquired at the 2011 Winter Meetings from Baltimore in the Dana Eveland trade. "I was comfortable with it. It was the first time I've faced a lineup of Major League hitters and I was looking forward to it. It's a chance to show myself. You shouldn't be here unless you want to face the best."
A 19th-round Draft pick, Martin has struck out 351 in 348 professional innings, but also has walked 224. He said he made a mechanical "epiphany" during instructional league after the 2012 season by tinkering with his hand separation that improved his timing. He made a mental breakthrough five starts into last season at Class A Advanced Rancho Cucamonga after a chat with pitching coach Matt Herges.
"I just decided I was athletic enough to get the baseball across the plate, athletic enough and competitive enough," Martin said. "I started thinking about throwing the ball over the plate and stopped thinking about my mechanics on the mound. I'm aggressive, not low-key. I'm in-your-face, attack. It's part of the transformation I went through from starter to reliever."
That transformation came after 14 starts at Rancho Cucamonga and he was so effective in relief he was promoted to Double-A Chattanooga, where he walked 12 in 10 2/3 innings but posted a 1.69 ERA that earned him protection onto the Major League roster.
"What he does is hard to find," said Herges. "Mid-to-upper 90s with a potentially wipe-out slider. He realized last year he was fighting it. He needed to just go compete and that's when it clicked for him. It's like the fog lifted."


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Tips for Raising Money-Conscious Children
How do you teach your children the value of a dollar from an early age? Ballentine Partners chief wealth advisory officer Coventry Edwards Pitt tells WSJ's Tanya Rivero on Lunch Break. Photo: AP
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Multi-package-sending-letter-writing artist Daniel Zender (see previous loads here) sent Meathaus the latest issue of his Hydrochloric group art zine and two solo painting zines, Light Terrors and Best Seller and a note that says:
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Thanks Daniel. Check it out, Light Terrors has a multi-color silkscreened cover with full color interiors, Best Seller is an interesting concept of high-contrast b/w photocopied images of paintings, and Hydrochloric issue 4's theme is "summer." These are the contributing artists there, old pals and new, and whatta selection to browse (worth your bytes, proceed with the downloadin'):
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Apparently, what it takes to beat one IMAX 3D blockbuster from a well-respected director is another IMAX 3D blockbuster from a well-respected director. Tim Burton's Alice opened surprisingly strongly this weekend, knocking Avatar off the top of the international charts.
Cameron's colorful spectacular has been on top of the worldwide movie charts for the last 11 weeks, before this weekend's release of Disney's new Alice In Wonderland, which wasn't just the most successful opening weekend of a movie so far this year but, domestically, beat Avatar's opening weekend by more than $30 million. The movie grossed $210.3 million internationally, $116.3 million of which came from domestic audiences — despite poor reviews. Whether it'll end up having the legs to give Avatar's longevity a run for its money depends to be seen but, for now, consider this another victory for spectacle over substance.


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We had more fun with pastels today! Thank you Hodgepodge! Today we went with the Sunflower Tutorial. We had a lot of fun and it didn't take very long. And the mess was actually quite minimal ;-)
|Here everyone is working diligently.
|Here are the results! (From top to bottom) Little P; Peanut; Munchkin; and, of course, Mom ;)
I love the embellishments everyone put on theirs!
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|I should be worrying he'll fall out of a book case...but I'm not.
- What if I get in a car accident because I'm so tired I'm not paying close enough attention so I pull in front of a car and it slams right into me killing me instantly and leaving my children motherless? (That's a normal worry, right?)
- What if the little bump on Baby's forehead isn't a harmless cyst? What if it never goes away? What if kids tease him about it in elementary school 'cause kids are bratty? What if it's cancer?
- What if the fact that Baby still hasn't made eye contact with me means he's autistic? Sure, call me crazy (Doug has) but if in seven years we find out I'm right, I'll refer you all back to this post.
- What if after four healthy kids, this is the one who ends up with childhood leukemia?
- What if I slip at the top of the stairs when I'm holding the baby? Will I be able to hold him up out of harms way even as I plummet downward and land in a crumpled heap at the bottom? (I think about this pretty much every time I'm at the top of the stairs holding the baby.)
- Is he too attached to the binky? Is it causing nipple confusion? Is it messing with his appetite? (Sub worry: Is writing "nipple" on my blog going to attract a bunch of weirdos?)
- What if he stops taking the binky and STARTS SUCKING HIS THUMB! Doug will never forgive him! (This might be a slight exaggeration, but Doug definitely wouldn't like it.)
- Am I feeding him too much? Not enough? Too on-demand? Not on-demand enough? Am I ruining his chances of ever sleeping through the night?
- Am I neglecting him because I look at electronics too much while I nurse? I mean, I give him a lot of attention, I kiss him a LOT, and hold him pretty much non-stop, but am I still too distracted? I'm inside my own head too much. I need to talk and sing to him more.
- Is the laptop giving off electromagnetic rays that will give him cancer?
- Is my poor diet making it so he'll never love vegetables? I read that I should be drinking carrot juice to give him a taste for carrots. But I hate carrot juice! Instead I eat chocolate every day. He'll definitely have a taste for chocolate.
- I should watch fewer sit-coms like The Goldbergs, and more L.D.S. church talks so he grows up to be a prophet instead of a stand-up comedian.
|I love this picture though Doug wasn't thrilled with his receding hair line.
- Am I completely neglecting Max, Sam and Gabe?
- Am I spoiling Gray because I'm giving in to him so much because I don't want him to resent Baby?
- Do all of these irrational fears making me completely crazy?
Do they???
At least I'm not worried vending machines will become the dominant race. I have that going for me. (See Dr. Doofenshmirtz below...)
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After the Swiss frank breached a ceiling set by the country's central bank last September, the bank's interim chairman said that it would defend the currency. Markets are wondering just how far he will go.
Bloomberg reported late Thursday that Swiss National Bank (SNB) interim chairman, Thomas Jordan, who called the franc "very, very strong" in mid-March, has said that further measures to protect the currency would be taken "if there's a worsening of the situation."
The Swiss franc is more popular than the euro, and it shows. On Wednesday it breached a ceiling of 1.20 against the common currency that was set by the Swiss central bank on Sept. 6, and on Thursday it climbed again after a statement by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain that his country faced "extreme difficulty" in the wake of a bond auction that barely achieved its minimum target range.
Investors have sought out the franc previously as worries over the euro dominated markets, and this time there is another factor: Jordan only acceded to the post of chairman in January, after the previous SNB chief, Philipp Hildebrand, was compelled to step down over a currency transaction by his wife. Investors will be testing Jordan to see how far he will go to protect the set value of the franc.
"It's a wake-up call for the SNB," Peter Rosenstreich, chief foreign-exchange strategist at Swissquote Bank in Geneva, was quoted saying. "They've been very successful with their verbal intervention and this is a classic street fight between central banks and markets. Their credibility is going to be questioned and they'll have to respond in some way."
The bank has already kept its benchmark interest rate at zero as it works to combat the threat of deflation, and the SNB board member Jean-Pierre Danthine said earlier in the week that the franc was still "overvalued." He added that, while the franc cap helped exporters "avoid the worst," annual rates in consumer prices would continue to decline over the course of the year.
Claude Maurer, an economist at Credit Suisse in Zurich, was quoted saying, "Risk aversion has increased, people want to avoid the euro. The SNB was probably hoping for a more relaxed Easter break. Jordan's job won't get any easier."


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After the success of highly popular Angry Birds game, Finnish game maker Rovio finally launched the much awaited Amazing Alex. Back in May, Rovio acquired the popular iOS game, Casey's Contraptions from creator Noel Llopis. The recently launched Amazing Alex is nothing but the rebranded version of the Casey's Contraptions. The Amazing Alex is currently available only for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Rovio has also promised to launch this game for Windows Phone, Mac and PC in the coming weeks.
Petri Järvilehto, EVP of Games, Rovio, said:
"We're so excited for our fans to meet Amazing Alex. We've taken out time polishing a fantastic game and believe we're created something fun and accessible for all ages. We've had a lot of fun with the game, and we can't wait to see what our fans come up with!"
Amazing Alex is a basically a physics puzzle game that stars a smiling blond boy named Alex, who creates amazing chain reactions to get the job done with the maximum amount of fun. Amazing Alex has a set of 35 interactive objects. You can set up these objects to bounce, pop, bash and crash into each other and create a Rube Goldberg device.
This game consists of 100 challenging levels across four fun-filled locations. Android users can download the free, premium and HD version for $0, $0.99 and $2.99 respectively. On the other hand, iPhone and iPad owners can download the premium version for $0.99 and $2.99 respectively. Check out the official launch trailer below.
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Apart from the launch of Amazing Alex, we have good news for the Angry Birds fans and Samsung Smart TV owners. Samsung recently announced that it will bring the extremely popular Angry Birds game to its line of Smart TVs. This game will take advantage of Samsung's Smart TV SDK that supports gesture controls and voice interaction. The latest version of Angry Birds is compatible only with Samsung's ES7000, ES8000 and ES9000 Smart TVs. The owners of these televisions can download Angry Birds from Samsung TV app store. This game is expected to launch by the end of this month.
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The Various Ideologies of Romanticism
..."I will take a certain fixed proportion of Your slaves. I will lead them astray and fill them with false hopes. I will command them and they will cut off cattle's ears. I will command them and they will change God's creation." Anyone who takes Satan as his protector in place of God has clearly lost everything.
(Quran, 4:118-119)
In the previous section we looked at the effects of romanticism resulting from "romantic nationalism." Now let us look at some of the other manifestations of romanticism to see some of those calamities it has brought upon humanity. The first ideology we must examine is one equally as appalling as romantic nationalism: that is, communism.
Communist Romanticism
Communism was incepted as a supposed ideology of reason. Its founders, Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) had adopted the philosophy of materialism which, they thought, they could apply to the social sciences and explain the "laws of history." Marx distinguished various stages of history: advanced countries of the time, such as England, were living in the "capitalist phase." He predicted that, after this phase, there would inevitably follow a workers' revolution which would begin the socialist phase. He also predicted that this revolution would happen spontaneously, that is, arising from the initiative of the workers themselves, and that it would happen in England and other industrialised countries.
Marx's predictions did not come true, however. The fact that they would not materialise was evident within 30-40 years after his death. There was no revolution in England or in any other industrialised country; on the contrary, the social and economic conditions for workers improved.
Communism's Claim to Rationality is False
Marx's theory, then, should be considered as one of the many historical errors committed in the name of "social science," and should therefore have been abandoned. But, such was not the case. A group of individuals styling themselves "Marxists" attempted, with difficulty, to actualise Marx's unfounded predictions. Although the revolution Marx said would happen "spontaneously" did not come about at all, Marxists sought to incite the revolution through the establishment of organisations which would bring it about by force of arms. The most important Marxist to have tried to revise the interpretation of Marx, and to make excuses for his unrealised predictions, was Lenin.
The most well-known symbols of communist romanticism: the proletariat breaking its chains, figures with clenched fists, revolutionary songs defending socialism to the death.
Lenin asserted that it was not in advanced countries such as England where the revolution would occur, but in unindustrialised countries like Russia. He said that communism would be successful there, and from there would spread throughout the whole world. To realize his dream, he spent many years, both inside and outside Russia, making preparations for the revolution. The opportunity for him to come to power arose from the confusion caused by World War l.
The fathers of communism: Marx (left) and Engels (right). In the middle is a translation into Russian of Marx's Das Kapital.
Lenin's predictions, like those of Marx, came to nothing. Neither was the system he founded successful, nor did communism spread throughout the world. Today, the Soviet Union that Lenin founded has drifted into history, and the communist system it forced on those countries it occupied has collapsed everywhere. It is accepted that communism was the gravest and most unsuccessful political experiment of the twentieth century.
That Marxism was flawed has been proven, not only by its unfulfilled promises, and the collapse of the system it gave rise to, but also by the failure of the philosophy it was based on. The basic premises of the materialist philosophy, which is the basis of Marxism, have been discredited by the scientific discoveries of the twentieth century. For example:
Materialism asserts that the universe has existed forever and that matter, therefore, was not created. But the Big Bang theory, accepted in the twentieth century, indicates that matter and time were created from nothing. This theory proposed that the universe came into being from nothing 10-15 billion years ago, appearing as a sudden and small activity out of nothingness. In other words, the truth that the "Big Bang" theory reveals is that nothing happened by chance; that there was an activity out of nothingness, and after this activity, matter and time appeared. This theory completely discredits materialist claims and proves that matter, time, and the first activity, were created by God.
Materialism claims that matter and time are both "absolute;" that is, they are always existent, unchanging and stable. However, Einstein's Theory of Relativity proved that matter and time are not absolute, but merely perceptions subject to change.
Materialism claims that human mental functions and capacities can be reduced to a material explanation. However, the discovery of the brain's intricacies has shown the existence of various mental functions which have no corresponding feature in the brain, and has attested to the fact that human mentality exists beyond matter, and belongs to the "spirit."
Materialism asserts that living things were not created but, as Darwin's theory of evolution claims, came into being by chance. This claim has been discounted by scientific discoveries in the twentieth century, and it is now understood that there is an undeniable "design" in living things, leading to the fact that it is God who has created all life.
People who set themselves on fire for the sake of an idea or an ideology are actually possessed by an extreme form emotionalism. Because they fail to think rationally, they tend to react by committing acts which they falsely deem to be courageous.
If an ideology claims to be rational, but its claims do not stand up to the scrutiny of reason or science and, furthermore, if the plain facts do not bear witness to its validity, then that ideology's claims must be rejected. Those who have adopted this ideology must subject it to rational inquiry, and would then discover its invalidity and abandon it. If communists were people who used reason, logic and common sense instead of living in a romantic dream-world, communism would have been discredited hundreds of times by now.
Because the foundation of communism rests on romanticism, those who continue to espouse it can do so only contrary to the warrant of reason and science, and can defend it only with their eyes closed to the fact that it is obsolete as an ideology. Already when it was found that the basic predictions of Marxism were not going to be realised, it should have been put aside. However, it was not abandoned. Revolutionary movements have sprung up all over the world, trying to make Marxist dreams a reality by means of revolution, civil war, guerrilla struggle and terror means of attack.
The Soviet Union and the whole of the Eastern Block collapsed, Red China adopted a capitalist economic system. However, communism has still not been abandoned. Even today, throughout the world, communist organizations continue their activities. Despite the fact that they must know that the "revolution" they speak of is a fantasy, they continue to shed blood, just so as to not have to abandon communism. They frenziedly set themselves as well as their comrades on fire, as they sing communist marching songs, romantically, blindly and stubbornly holding on to their antiquated ideology.
This shows that communism is not an ideology based on reason, and that those who espouse it do so for reasons arising from something other than from a rational commitment to it. Many would regard the reason for such a commitment to merely be "fanaticism," "bigotry," or obsession called an "idee fixe." Upon further investigation, it becomes apparent that beneath this supposed fanaticism lies the tremendous influence of romanticism.
That is, communism also derives strength from the spell of romanticism.
Examples of Communist Romanticism
Initially, people are usually not aware of communism's romantic spirit, because communists always speak in terms of science, philosophy and rationality. However, communists develop their ideas out of a romantic outlook. In fact, they blindly reject those scientific findings, which do not fit their purposes, as "bourgeois." Stalin went even to the point of systematising this prejudice by creating an absurd distinction between "bourgeois" and "proletariat" science.
On the other hand, if we were to look in detail at communist publications, magazines, poetry or marching songs, we would discover that their ideology is bound tightly to romanticism. They have idolized certain ideas, developing excessive emotional attachment to them. The most important of these is the notion of "revolution." For a communist, revolution is the end of all evil and the beginning of everything good. They are hopelessly enthralled with a fantasy they know will never be realized. They do not attempt to examine their idea of "revolution" rationally, nor ask, for example, "For what purpose should the revolution be sought?" "What is the justification of a revolution in which masses of innocent people will be killed and the whole of society suffer?" "Can the living conditions of the poor not be improved without revolution?" "How will it affect the economy?" "How will the country then be governed, its inner conflicts resolved, and external threats be removed?"
One of the most disturbing aspects of communism was its attempt to present its leaders as figures with super-human qualities, working on behalf of the people, regardless of the fact that in reality they were criminals responsible for the death of millions of people. The purpose of this sort of propaganda was to entice people to feel an emotional attachment to their leaders, and thereby, to pardon their crimes
A communist does not see these questions as having any importance; his only goal is revolution. If he is to provide an answer to any of these questions, he will quote the typical and oft-repeated phrases from the books of Lenin, Stalin or Mao, but he will not himself think rationally for answers to these questions. What binds him most dearly to the idea of revolution are the emotive poems written or passionate marching songs sung of revolution. Communist literature frequently speaks of "the beautiful country covered in flowers" and "the red sun on the horizon." Actually, the relationship between a communist and his idea of revolution is comparable to a romantic love-story. There are communist booths at universities, book-fairs, and cultural centres; if you go into any of them, or into a communist bar or cafe, there you will see the many symbols used to give fervour to this romanticism. Posters of a mighty proletariat breaking his chains, figures with clenched fists, revolutionary songs about the struggle to the death for socialism, are the most common symbols of the romantic communist.
This romanticism is also sometimes reflected in the attire of the communists. A young communist will often been seen wearing a khaki parka and commando cap, identifying himself with the Latin American communist guerrilla Che Guevara, and no doubt in his room, among his personal possessions, you will find a poster of "Che." The only difference between him and a college student romantically obsessed with a Pop star, is the kind of star he has chosen; his is not a musician but a guerrilla fighter.
This poster is typical of Communist Romanticism's symbolism. These posters served to strengthen the emotional attachment the people have for their leader and his ideology.
Another interesting example to consider of communism's romanticism is the great delight they take in causing themselves pain and in making people feel sorry for them. For example, a communist militant might begin a "hunger strike" in prison, prepared to starve himself to death to achieve some petty goal. On the one hand, he feels pleasure in the pain that it causes him, and enjoys the sympathy others feel for him and his plight, while, on the other hand, he takes pride in being recognised among his friends as "hero."
The romantic pleasure that communists take in their pain can sometimes attain very high levels. Communists have committed some frighteningly savage acts in their demonstrations; for example, they have lit themselves on fire, they have tied one selected from their number to iron bars, poured inflammable liquid over him, set him on fire, and sung communist marching songs as he burned. As discernible from recorded images, the militants who perform these mindless acts of savagery are much like the crowds of Nazi gatherings; they undergo a "lapse of consciousness" and are captivated by an emotional and psychological trance.
It is possible only stubbornly for a communist to remain firmly devoted to his ideology, knowing that its ideals will never be implemented. This blind commitment to ideology is demonstrated in vaunts such as: "I don't care if it's wrong, I don't care if we are successful or not, I am a communist and I will be until I die." Certainly, a rational person would not behave in such a way. This blind dedication is like the kind of madness seen in the obsessive desire of a man for a woman who has deceived and humiliated him, but who, despite it all, refuses to stop loving her.
It has been demonstrated then, that communism is simply an element of the weapon of romanticism used by Satan to rob human beings of their reason, and to alienate them from faith in God. Despite its claim to be a rational philosophy and ideology, communism is rife with ideas that run contrary to simple reason and science. At least a century has now passed during which communists have continued to doggedly defend their ideology, making it clear that their devotion to the cause is a romantic one.
The psychology of the people gathered in the large communist rallies in Red China and Soviet Russia, was actually no different from that of the people in Hitler's Germany. The force that drew them unconsciously into partisanship was their subliminal romanticism.


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HighTower, the advisor-owned financial services firm, announced on Thursday that David Nelson has joined its Pagnato-Karp Group, based in Washington, D.C., as a private wealth advisor. Nelson, most recently a financial advisor at Merrill Lynch, began his new role at HighTower October 5.
"David's experience and commitment to acting in the best interests of his clients makes him the ideal fit for HighTower," Paul Pagnato, partner and managing director at HighTower, said in a statement. "Our partnership is built on restoring the fiduciary relationship between advisors and clients and leveraging the competitive power of Wall Street to ensure that it benefits our clients."
According to Pagnato, Nelson was a key member of Merrill Lynch's Global Wealth Management Group in Washington over the last decade, specializing in financial planning, portfolio design, and investment management for ultra-high-net-worth families and institutional clients. Earlier in his career, he represented Bank of America in its key correspondent relationships with money center and regional banks in New York and the northeastern U.S. Nelson began his financial services career at Merrill Lynch Capital Markets in 1986.
"There is simply no other firm that provides the same combination of technological sophistication, investment choices and opportunities for growth as HighTower does for its advisors," added Mike Papedis, HighTower's executive vice president of business development. "HighTower has built a model that is completely unique to the financial services industry. It's so compelling that we're seeing individual advisors eager to join the nation's leading partnership and benefit from what we've built."
Nelson is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the Washington Society of Investment Analysts. He holds an M.B.A. in Finance and International Finance from Columbia University and a B.A. in Cellular Biology from the University of California at Berkeley.


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Iceland was the last country in Europe to be settled. To this day, it is one of the most sparsely populated counties in the world.
Located in the middle of the North Atlantic, Iceland was settled by emigrants from Scandinavia and the British Isles in the tenth century. Due to Iceland's geographical location, it was mostly outside the influence of contemporary culture in Europe and America, until the late nineteenth century.
Icelandic culture has been shaped by isolation and the extreme forces of nature. These conditions have created a resilient people, where family ties are close, the sense of tradition is strong, and the bond with nature is tight. While strongly rooted in customs and traditions, today's Icelandic society is both modern and progressive.
A small country by most measures, Iceland has a high standard of living, extensive political freedom, and has taken an active role in sustainable development and commitment to the environment.
Through the centuries, Iceland has developed a unique tradition for storytelling and literature, beginning with the esteemed Icelandic Sagas of the tenth and eleventh century. In this fertile environment, Iceland has produced a number of talented writers including Nobel Prize laureate, Halldór Laxness (1955). It is no accident that Iceland's capital, Reykjavík, was the first non-English speaking city in the world to be named a UNESCO City of Literature in 2011.
Museums around the country celebrate Iceland's rich cultural heritage and tradition.
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A Country of Creatives
For an isolated culture in the North Atlantic, creativity is important. Ever since Iceland was settled in the 9th century, writing and music have been an integral part of life in the country; and have in recent years reached a large audience on the global stage thanks to the efforts of international pop stars such as Björk and Sigur Rós, as well as the wide readership of authors like Halldór Laxness, Arnaldur Indriðason and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir.
Clean nature
Icelanders have long enjoyed one of the highest life expectancies in the world. There is no definitive explanation for this, but a clean environment and a healthy diet and lifestyle probably have something to do with it. The Icelandic diet is rich in quality raw materials, farmed, bred and caught in an unpolluted environment, and produced with the utmost care.
Mysterious Iceland
Iceland is home to the largest glaciers in Europe, as well as some of the world's most active volcanoes, and is widely known as "The Land of Fire and Ice". But Iceland escapes definition. It is also the land of light and darkness. Its location, just below the Arctic Circle, makes for long summer days with near 24-hours of sunlight; offset by short winter days with very little sunlight at all. Fortunately, while winters in Iceland are dark, they are relatively mild and play host to one of nature's most spectacular exhibitions of beauty; the Aurora Borealis.


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Scarratt wary of Ireland threat
England centre Emily Scarratt views the elimination of New Zealand from the World Cup as evidence of the growing strength of women's rugby.
Four-times champions the Black Ferns were victims of their first defeat in the tournament for 23 years when they succumbed 17-14 to Ireland - England's semi-final opponents in Paris on Wednesday.
Bookmakers reacted to the end of New Zealand's title defence by shortening England to second favourites, but star centre Scarratt believes the result has repercussions that extend beyond Red Rose ambition.
Emily Scarratt is ready for a tough game with Ireland
"With New Zealand gone we see this as a great chance to win the World Cup, but we're not naive enough to think that other nations won't feel exactly the same way," Scarratt said.
"This World Cup was never just about New Zealand and that's been borne out by the teams who have reached the semis - us, Ireland, France and Canada.
"Ireland beating New Zealand shows where women's rugby is at now. It's no longer a two or three-horse race.
"It's about so many nations who have worked hard and closed the gap that was traditionally there."
Hosts France are the top seeds, but it is the increasingly fierce rivalry between England and Ireland that sets pulses racing in the first of the two semi-finals at the Stade Jean Bouin.
It was the Irish who ended England's seven-year dominance of the Six Nations when they won the Grand Slam in 2013 and while the Red Rose avenged their defeat earlier this year, the sides are well matched.
"We play Ireland every year in the Six Nations and the games have been getting harder and harder and harder," Scarratt said.
"They'll be so up for this game after beating the world champions and we know their confidence will be sky high.
"We know what Ireland bring because we play them so often - it will be a war of attrition as we try to find those small margins that make a difference in the game.
"Ireland v England is never without passion and fire. They've got pace in the backs and that brutality in the pack that every team needs."
England have made six changes following the disappointing 13-13 draw with Canada, among them the return of captain Katy McLean at fly-half.
McLean was controversially left out against the Canadians, but has been given the nod along with scrum-half La Toya Mason, wing Kay Wilson, prop Sophie Hemming, hooker Victoria Fleetwood and lock Joanna McGilchrist.
England team to face Ireland:
D Waterman (Bristol); K Merchant (Worcester), E Scarratt (Lichfield), R Burford (Thurrock), K Wilson (Bristol); K McLean (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks, capt), L Mason (Wasps); R Clark (Worcester), V Fleetwood (Lichfield), S Hemming (Bristol), T Taylor (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks), J McGilchrist (Wasps), A Matthews (Richmond), M Alphonsi (Saracens), S Hunter (Lichfield).
Replacements: E Croker (Richmond), L Keates (Worcester), R Essex (Richmond), M Packer (Wasps), N Hunt (Lichfield), C Large (Worcester), C Allan (Richmond).
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An undisclosed injury has forced light heavyweight Karlos Vemola (8-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) to withdraw from a fight against Luiz Cane (10-3 MMA, 3-3 UFC) at UFC 128.
Sources close to the event today told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) that a search is underway for a replacement opponent.
UFC 128 takes place March 19 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.
Light-heavyweight champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua defends his title for the first time against Jon Jones, a late-notice replacement for the injured Rashad Evans, in the headliner.
As MMAjunkie.com reported earlier today, Vemola vs. Cane was scheduled to air on a Spike TV "UFC Prelims" special. It's unknown whether the recent change will shuffle the deck of televised bouts.
Regardless of who steps in to Vemola's spot, it's a must-win situation for Cane, a heavy-handed foe who's hit hard times in his two most recent octagon outings. The trouble started more than a year ago when he proved unready for a big step up in competition against Antonio Rogerio Nogueira and was knocked out inside of two minutes at UFC 106. It took 17 seconds longer, but his next engagement ended the same way when French striker Cyrille Diabate put him out at UFC 114 in May.
The losses erased hype built from a three-fight win streak that included victories over Jason Lambert, Rameau Thierry Sokodjou and Steve Cantwell.
A third straight loss undoubtedly would signal Cane's UFC exit.
The latest UFC 128 card now includes:
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)
- Champ Mauricio "Shogun" Rua vs. Jon Jones (for light-heavyweight title)
- Urijah Faber vs. Eddie Wineland
- Jim Miller vs. Kamal Shalorus
- Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Nate Marquardt
- Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic vs. Brendan Schaub
PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike TV)
- Luiz Cane vs. TBA
- Edson Barboza vs. Anthony Njokuani
- Ricardo Almeida vs. Mike Pyle
- Kurt Pellegrino vs. Gleison Tibau
- Joseph Benavidez vs. Ian Loveland
- Raphael Assuncao vs. Manny Gamburyan
- Nick Catone vs. Dan Miller
Check back with MMAjunkie.com for an update on Cane's new opponent as it becomes available.
For the latest on UFC 128, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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Originally released in 2009, 5FDP's sophomore album features "Bad Company" and "Far From Home. Produced by the band and Kevin Churko (Ozzy Osbourne, in This Moment), the vinyl reissue is housed in a gatefold sleeve.
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On it's 2007 debut album, Five Finger Death Punch drags Heavy Metal, kicking and screaming, into a new era. Incorporating all we know and love about the old-school - the guitar solos, attention to songwriting detail, heavy vocals - with new-school melodic vocals and time changes, the band bridges the gap in grand style and at full speed ahead. The vinyl reissue ishoused in a gatefold sleeve and includes the 5FDP classic, "The Bleeding."
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When Shell announced that they would be exploring opportunities to drill for oil off of Alaska's coast, a grassroots movement of bad publicity was started. First there was the mini oil rig explosion in early June and then there was arcticready.com, a purported Shell social media contest gone horribly wrong.
The problem? While hilarious, they are also very, very fake.
While Arctic Ready has been around for a while, it has just started making the rounds again throughout social media platforms (and we've received a number of tips about it) thanks to a fake ad contest. Even though big businesses are occasionally inept at social media, a company like Shell is not dumb enough to entrust the internet with making posters and memes promoting a controversial plan like Arctic oil exploration.
The website is incredibly professional looking and full of content, but it is definitely a hoax. The front page, which has the phrase "For hundreds of years, explorers have battled the Arctic. Today, we're finally winning," should be a dead giveaway that this isn't real.
The gallery contest is also a hoax. As is the Twitter account @shellisprepared, which is pretending to respond to it. This all appears to be the coordinated work of The Yes Men, who specialize in duping people into thinking about issues.
But, for the future, here are a couple of Jalopnik's "Tips to Spotting an Internet Hoax:"
1 - If it's on the internet, assume it's a hoax (well, except this).
2 - Look at tip one.
You're welcome.
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This map is a supplement to the Native American Heritage map published in October 1991 and includes a complete index of that map. With illustrations of artifacts and a history of the nations first inhabitants, this map also includes a map of Alaska and information on the people of the Arctic.
Coverage Area: United States, southern Canada


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An Unfailing God
April 16, 2013
"For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us."
2 Corinthians 1:20
God can never fail because He is Jehovah God and we can trust Him. God's promises are as trust worthy as His character and you can rest in this. Knowing about God's character brings peace. He is the Eternal One who lives inside of you, and He is everything you need.
You cannot fully depend on your personal relationships with family and friends because they will fail you, but God will never fail you. He is unchanging and you can depend on Him yesterday, today, and forever. My friend, you are sealed forever by the Holy Spirit and God will never leave you or forsake you.
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