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Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have finalized their divorce, three years after their headline-grabbing split.
The stars parted ways in 2011 after seven years of marriage, and Anthony moved to make their separation official by filing legal papers in April, 2012.
The union was officially declared over on Monday, when a Los Angeles judge signed off on their divorce and custody agreement.
Lopez was given primary custody of their 6-year-old twins Max and Emme, while Anthony will spend seven days a month with the kids. They will share joint legal custody.
However, there were strict rules about the children's care – their nannies must accompany Max and Emme when they stay with their dad, and both stars must use their "best efforts" to keep the youngsters out of the public eye and shield them from "aggressive news organizations and photographers," reports TMZ.com.
The former couple also agreed there was no need for spousal or child support. Anthony had previously handed over $18,000-a-month for their twins.
The amicable settlement is good news for Anthony, who was last week ordered to increase his child support payments to his second ex-wife, Dayanara Torres, to $26,000-a-month for the ongoing care of their two sons.
Meanwhile, the divorce will give Lopez a fresh start following her recent break-up from her dancer boyfriend Casper Smart

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No. 1 ranked Hollon takes the mound
Even the top-ranked 2013 prospect gets a case of the nerves coming into an event as a big as Perfect Game's National Showcase at the Metrodome.
"It's going to be amazing to play out on this field, I'm kind of nervous," Clinton Hollon said before taking the field for Game 9. "Last year I got to play out at the White Sox's place and it still wasn't anything like this."
Hollon is very aware of what it means to come into this type of event ranked number one.
"It's kind of a target on my back. I mean everybody down here is awesome. Can't take anybody for granted," Hollon stated, "Whether they're ranked number one or number one hundred, it doesn't matter. They are all good down here.
"Every kid out here has a chance to be drafted in the first round to the tenth round. It's just crazy."
Being ranked number one has not been an invitation for Hollon to let up. He's continued to work hard to improve coming into this summer.
Hollon looked good in Game 9 of the PG National Showcase. His fastball topped out at 94 mph, while he was consistently pitching 91-93 mph. Hollon has diligently worked on his slider throughout the season, and that work was evident in the sharp 78-83 mph offering he displayed in the game.
At the 2011 WWBA World Championship last October, Hollon's fastball topped out at 97 mph. In addition to the numerous Perfect Game events that Hollon has participated in, he also plays for the Kentucky Baseball Club and recently helped his high school team, the Woodford County Yellowjackets, win a state championship.
"I heard that I hit 98 a couple of weeks ago, but I didn't throw most of the year, so I'm just now starting to get into mid-season form," Hollon said. "Everything has felt good. I have a lot more control this year than I did last year."
Beauprez shines on mound, at plate
Derik Beauprez's (Cherry Creek HS, Greenwood Village, CO) invitation to attend the Perfect Game National Showcase came following a strong showing at the inaugural Perfect Game Rocky Mountain Showcase and the Colorado high school state championships.
Lasting impressions
• Green catcher/third baseman Michael Barash got the day's game action off with a bang, hitting a triple in his first at-bat while adding a double in the second. Colby Barnette followed Barash in the order and follow Barash's triple with a double, adding a single later in the contest.
• In the same game, Corey Ray hit the first home run of the event, although not of the usual variety. Ray drove a ball to deep left-centerfield and used his game changing speed to burn around the bases for an inside-the-park homer. Gold teammate Jack Kruger added one of his own, although was able to do so when the left fielder was unable to make a diving catch.
Chris Okey smoked a double to right-centerfield in the same game.
• Gold LHP Sean Brady looked as though he threw harder than his registered 86-89 fastball. He pitched aggressively, and wasn't afraid to climb the ladder to record strikeouts while mixing in a 78-81 changeup and 73-75 curve.
Teammate Brett Hanewich also pitched in this game, working at 88-92 with a promising 75-77 breaking ball. He also crushed a Derik Beauprez pitch that would have been the event's first home run had it not been pulled foul.
• A pair of Navy left-handers stood out in Game 8, starter Zach Farmer and Scott Moss. Farmer worked at 87-91 with his fastball, mixing in a low-70s curve while Moss used a loose and easy delivery to produce 86-90 mph heat and a promising low-70s breaker of his own.
• Columbia Blue starter Kevin Trader, a right-hander, also had a strong showing. He was 88-91 with a sharp 73-76 curveball. Teammate and fellow righty Canaan Cropper worked at 91-92 early, settling in at 89-90 for his second inning of work, showing a very loose and live arm with a projectable, athletic frame that could mean added velocity down the road.
• Among the offensive performances in Game 8, the second game of the day, Max Schuman hit a booming triple over the centerfielder's head, only to be followed by a rocket to left-center off the bat of John Sternagel for a double.
Torii Hunter, Jr., also of the Navy team, hit a two-run single in the game.
• Clinton Hollon was the main storyline for Game 9, with his performance detailed above. Steel catcher (playing with the Maroon team) Chuckie Robinson clearly recognized who he was facing, showing his enthusiasm rounding first after hitting a loud single off of Hollon. Brantley Bell, son of former big-league star Jay Bell, hit a pair of doubles in this content, including one that he laced down the right field line off of Hollon.
• Another right-hander from the Purple team, Andrew Church, had a strong performance. Church has good size and is an athletic, well-proportioned athlete that used a boring upper-80s fastball and solid mid-70s curve during his two innings of work.
Matt Brown, also of the Purple squad, hit a gapper to right-center for a double.
• Left-hander Robert Kaminsky stole the show in Game 10, the first time in which the Royal and Red teams took the field for game action. Kaminsky, whose start was detailedby Nick Kappel in a separate feature, using a low-90s fastball that peaked at 94 and a hammer of an upper-70s curveball to strike out all seven batters he faced.
Red teammate and fellow lefty Alexander Bostic also showed promise in this game, with very good size, a high waist and long, strong legs. He also showed a live arm with a 86-90 fastball and a sharp 72-73 curve.
Another left-hander, John Kilichowski, started the game for the Royal team, and he too was impressive in this game. Kilichowski showed the ability to change speeds well while mixing up his pitch sequence with a 86-88 fastball, a sharp 73-76 curve and a solid changeup.
Towering right handed pitcher Chris Oakley also took the mound for the Royal team, using his size to throw his 89-92 fastball on a downhill plane. His 75-77 curveball gives him two solid to plus offerings.
Skye Overton had the big hit in this game, hitting a ball to the gap in right-center, turning on the jets to leg out a double.
• Steel starting pitcher Adrian De Horta showed promise in his intial inning of work, working downhill with a 88-90 fastball and really nice 78 mph changeup. He also threw a 74-75 curveball, showing the ability to change speeds with three solid pitches.
• Navy pitcher Hunter Green made the start for the Texas Orange team in this game, with a fastball that sat at 88-90 mph and a sharp 79 mph slider while employing a low three-quarters delivery.
• Several big hits came in this game, starting with Travis Demeritte's rocket up the middle for a double in which the ball registered 99 mph off the bat.
Cavan Biggio, son of likely Hall of Famer Craig Biggio, hit the event's first traditional over-the-fence variety of home runs with a three-run blast over the wall in right field.
Catcher Nick Ciuffo hit a ball hard up the middle for a single. Overall the Texas Orange squad has a loaded lineup, including Biggio, Ciuffo, Clint Frazier, Austin Meadows, Reese McGuire and Will Haynie. Frazier's athleticism and speed are obvious, as he plays the game hard and makes the game look easy in doing so.
• Texas Orange starter Joe Jimenez has a big, sturdy 6-foot-3, 220-pound frame that enables him to produce low-90s heat. He also threw a sweeping 73-74 curveball, and overall showed a live arm with plenty of room for improvement and added velocity.
Be sure to read Jeff Dahn's player features on Austin Meadows,Brian Mejia and the two Dominican players participating in the National,Richard Urenaand Leury Vargas, as well as Travis Demeritte.


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Baylor's size and speed overwhelmed the third-seeded Bluejays (27-8) and their national scoring leader, earning a third trip to the Sweet 16 since 2010.
McDermott, who averaged 27 points this season, finished with 15 but had just three in the first half as Baylor built a 20-point lead. McDermott ranks fifth on the
Sixth-seeded Baylor (26-11) had five players score in double figures and shot 64 percent in one of the dominant performances of the NCAA tournament.
The rest of the West bracket may want to pay attention to this one. A team that looked like a wreck in January with a 2-8 start in the
In Baylor's two previous trips to the Sweet 16, it fell one game short of the Final Four.
McDermott, who carried the Bluejays back to the round of 32 for the third year in a row, had done it in spectacular style, leading the nation in scoring with a sublime shooting touch and uncanny knack to slither his way through defenders for layups and putback baskets.
McDermott spurned the chance to turn pro after last season, and this was the year the Bluejays and their senior-laden lineup were expected to drive Creighton farther into the NCAA tournament than any Bluejays team before them.
But Baylor's defense gave him nothing: neither space to shoot nor even chances for his teammates to pass him the ball.
And for all the talk about Creighton's maturity and bonding among longtime teammates, Baylor made the Bluejays look small and slow.
Baylor came out blazing from long range, knocking down five three-pointers in the first seven minutes. Kenny Chery made three and when Heslip, who was 0 for 6 in Friday's win over Nebraska, swished his first against Creighton, he mockingly shook the fingers on both hands as he loped back down the court.
McDermott, meanwhile, struggled to find any kind of space inside or out against Baylor's zone defense and badly misfired on his first attempt, a baseline shot that missed everything.
This rout was just beginning.
The Bears flexed their muscle early and often with a lineup built for the rigors of the Big 12. Austin is 7-foot-1 and he teamed with 6-10 forward Cory Jefferson in the frontcourt. When Creighton missed a shot, the typical result was three Bears under the basket with no Bluejays around.
Baylor's bench was just as intimidating.
When reserve forward Rico Gathers pushed his 6-foot-8, 270-pound frame through the lane for a layup, two Creighton defenders were powerless to stop him. By the time Baylor had built a 20-point halftime lead, McDermott had taken only three shots, made one and had two fouls.
Even when Creighton got a spark — Ethan Wragge made two three-pointers early in the second half — Baylor simply matched basket for basket, denying any hopes of a rally.
Soon it was showtime as Baylor's lead kept growing. Jefferson slammed down an alley-oop dunk as Baylor took a 58-34 with just more than 12 minutes to play. Gathers added another rim-rattler a few minutes later, his broad shoulders soaring to the basket to punctuate the night. When McDermott left the game with 2:31 to play, he hugged his father, Creighton coach Greg McDermott, before retreating to the bench and burying his face in a towel.


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Over the years it seems like a big reason so many people don't progress with greater speed in kiting as they are scared to drop their kite and or lose their board. You give new and intermediate level kiters tips to learn a new trick but many are hesitant because of these factors.
The tip of the day is don't be afraid to drop your kite (unless in big waves) and get comfortable relaunching it in varied conditions. Also, ditch the board leashes and gojoes instead get comfortable body dragging to your board. So go for it!
Also, if you want to progress, before your session: pick one or two tricks that you will try ten times in a row before doing anything else. Then commit to try the trick ten times and keep a count of your attempts regardless or success or failure.


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BOLINGBROOK – Police are working to determine if skeletal remains found Tuesday near the Bolingbrook and Romeoville border are human.
On Tuesday morning, the Bolingbrook Police Department was notified about bones found in an industrial area off Veterans Parkway in Bolingbrook, according to police.
Currently, police are examining the remains, trying to determine if they are human, Bolingbrook Police Lt. Mike Rompa said.
"If we cannot immediately determine what the remains are of, we will have them evaluated by a pathologist for professional review," Rompa said.


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Unfortunately things went a bit hyper busy over the last couple months. I've been involved in a couple interesting projects including music related material to video art. In some ways, I just couldn't get to writing material or make tutorials for this blog. Either way, I plan to return to blogging once I manage to straighten life out.
Either way, I guess I should keep the rest of this blog a bit more artsy. Here's some of the thing's I've been up to in no particular order and of course… this isn't all! 🙂


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We just raced past the 200,000 likes on Facebook, thanks to our fans. We'd like to give something back...
Click on the image above and post a reply with your or any song on the Facebook competition thread
To celebrate we are giving away FL Studio producer edition OR $200 IL VCash. All you have to do is click on this link and post your or any SoundCloud / YouTube music track as a reply to the Facebook competition thread.
Congratulations Nick Hendrix who was chosen by GoodShe (the Image-Line cat) to receive a copy of FL Studio Producer Edition in our Facebook 200 K competition.
Boring stuff: Only replies with a link to a Soundcloud or YouTube music track posted by the deadline on the Facebook 200K competition thread will be eligible to win. We will choose the winner on Tuesday 6th March 2012 (EU time) and announce it within 24 hours on Facebook. Image-Line reserves the right to appoint prizes by random cat-swat selection. Madeon and Charles Deluxe are not eligible, they win too much! :)


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Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z Trailer: A Slice of Side-scroller
Tecmo-Koei seems to be brushing up on NInja Gaiden's history if this trailer for Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z's side-scrolling mode is any indicator.
Travel back to the days of the Nintendo Entertainment System and check out how Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z would look after being given the retro treatment. This trailer for the side-scrolling mode calls to mind classic Ninja Gaiden action even though the game itself is still cel-shaded and in 3D.
The story, however, is told by using a series of single-frame cutscenes that are pixelated for that added retro effect. Check out the trailer above and watch Yaiba tear up zombies, cars and everything else that's offensive to his eyes in the 2.5D side-scrolling mode. Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z will be released on March 6, 2014 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.


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Given the short timing of this project we're just going to dive right in and get to work on this one. Just a month ago OCZ Technology released their new flagship consumer SSD, the Vertex 4. In our testing we observed a rather strange issue when reading data from the drives provided by OCZ. The issue had to do with single read requests for data, a single command. Both the 256GB and 512GB models provided to us would only read at around 200MB/s. This hampered the drives in several benchmarks and was even observed in several real-world tasks. The 200MB/s limit was surpassed when asking the drive to read two files, then up to 400MB/s. Three files read further increased the Vertex 4 performance to their maximum read limits. The ability to multitask with native command queuing (NCQ) is a great feature, but one that most consumers rarely take advantage of... we are just single task creatures, performing one step at a time.
When it comes to OCZ's house brand Indilinx, firmware changes, when needed, will be rapid. OCZ doesn't need to wait for a third party to get involved. As you know by now, Indilinx Infused at this time doesn't mean 100% Indilinx, but rather Indilinx programming and firmware sitting atop Marvell silicon. We suspected as much while testing the OCZ Octane, but without proof or a State of Solid State article between then and now, we kept our speculations to ourselves. Either way, none of this really matters because Marvell just makes the hardware and the SSD manufacturers come up with the rest. This is why every SSD based on Marvell controllers perform differently, from the Crucial C300 to the Corsair Performance 3; the changes in performance and behavior are pretty broad.
When it comes to the Vertex 4 update that should be available soon, the 128GB model gets the largest performance boost. This performance increase has more to do with the write speed than it does the 200MB/s read limit that we suspect the 128GB drive shared with the larger models we reviewed. Going back to the point made in the last paragraph, none of the other SSDs from other manufactures using Marvell controllers have achieved anywhere near 400MB/s write speed in a 128GB model. At the same time this article gets published online, our 128GB Vertex 4 will arrive. We hoped to tackle all three models in this article, but UPS cut off times aren't as flexible as we'd like.
Today we're focusing on the two largest Vertex 4 drives that are now shipping - 256GB and 512GB. In our previous review we concluded that both drives felt faster than what the benchmarks showed, but the 200MB/s read limit with a single request hurt the benchmark scores. We also noted that in some tasks the limited read at a single request did pop up in some real-world areas like Quick PAR and WinRAR.
Let's take a look and see the progress OCZ was able to make with their Indilinx Infused Vertex 4 in just a single month's time.
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text: Re-think MLV IBR Vaccines October 15, 2012 08:18 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Jim Dickrell Dairy Herd Management Dairy Editor Email Growing evidence suggests modified live virus (MLV) IBR vaccines are doing more harm than good when given to pregnant cattle. Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) is a herpes virus. Like all herpes viruses, IBR can go into a latency phase within the animal's brain. But when the animal is stressed with another shot of the live virus, the virus is reactivated, enters the blood stream and migrates to the ovaries and fast growing tissue like embryos and fetuses. Once there, it replicates and does its dirty work, says Chris Chase, a veterinarian with South Dakota State University. "Reproduction is a big problem with this virus," he says. "Diagnosticians now have enough experience with these episodes to say that post-vaccination abortion can occur following on-label use of vaccines with modified live vaccine IBR virus," adds Donald O'Toole, a veterinarian with the University of Wyoming. "It is not just a problem when MLV vaccines are used off-label, as has been known for years." Abortion storms and poor reproduction can result, says Doug Scholz, director of veterinary services for Novartis Animal Health. He points to a number of large, western dairies that were experiencing high numbers of abortions and poor conception rates when MLV IBR vaccines were given in the dry period and close-up pens. One dairy Colorado dairy was seeing nearly a 25% abortion rate and conception rates of just 30%. When the dairy stopped using the MLV IBR vaccine, abortions dropped to 8% and conception rates climbed to 45%. On a second dairy, pregnancy losses dropped from nearly 30% to less than 10% and conception rates jumped by 15% when the ML IBR vaccine was no longer used. At the University of Wyoming (UW), researchers were finding one or two aborted fetuses per day 30 to 40 days following a MLV-IBR vaccine given when Angus heifers were seven months pregnant. Total losses were 25% in the 55 heifers studied. "There was no other evidence of infection other than IBR," says O'Toole. "My recommendation: Use inactivated IBR vaccines on breeding females." The tendency for the IBR virus to go into latency is also a problem when young calves are vaccinated with a modified-live vaccine. When they're later stressed, the virus can be reactivated. While this may only cause a slight fever for a day or two in the vaccinated animal, that animal can also shed live, virulent virus to pen mates. If these animals are not vaccinated, an IBR outbreak can occur, says Clinton Jones, a veterinarian with the University of Nebraska. His bottom line: "Do not use a ML-IBR vaccine on young animals and do not mix unvaccinated calves." Inactivated IBR vaccines for both cows and calves are the preferred method of vaccination, say these veterinarians. "Inactivated vaccines will decrease symptoms during clinical outbreaks, and they eliminate the possibility of virus spread to the fetus," says Jones. For more information, contact your veterinarian, or go to www.virashield.com or www.youtube.com/cattletalk . Back to news


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A federal appeals court ruled this week that individuals who are blocked from commercial flights by the federal no-fly list can challenge their detention in federal court. A lower court had held that such lawsuits were barred by a federal statute limiting appeals of Transportation Security Administration decisions, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that because the no-fly list is technically maintained by the FBI, rather than the TSA, that restriction did not apply.
The case involved a Malaysian woman named Rahinah Ibrahim who had studied at Stanford. When she attempted to fly from San Francisco to Malaysia, she was arrested at the San Francisco airport, handcuffed in front of her 14-year-old daughter, and driven to the police station to await questioning by the FBI. The FBI decided that it had no use for her and ordered her release two hours later. She was finally permitted to board another flight the next day.
The no-fly list reportedly contains the names of tens of thousands of individuals whose airline travel is restricted by the government. It is not to be confused with the longer selectee list and the much longer watch list—if your name is on these longer lists, you'll get extra scrutiny but you won't necessarily be prevented from flying.
Once one's name is on the no-fly list, getting off it can be maddening. In most cases, the government won't even confirm that an individual is on the list, much less do anything to help people get their names off it. Monday's ruling is a small victory for those with the misfortune to wind up on the list, because it allows them to bypass the TSA bureaucracy and go straight to federal court.
But allowing watch list detainees to sue doesn't mean they'll win. The courts have been reluctant to second-guess measures the government regards as essential for airline security. In 2006, for example, the Ninth Circuit rejected civil libertarian John Gilmore's lawsuit challenging the requirement that he show ID before boarding an airplane. A California trial court will now hear Ibrahim's arguments, but it may very well buy government officials' claims that publicly disclosing the details of its no-fly procedures would imperil national security.
The government's treatment of Ibrahim is a good illustration of the silliness of the government's watch list approach. As my colleague Jim Harper puts it, "watch listing and identification checking are like posting a most-wanted list at a post office and then waiting for criminals to come to the post office." If the FBI or TSA genuinely suspected that Ibrahim was a terrorist, they should have been actively investigating her and preparing to arrest her; as a Stanford student, she can't have been hard to track down. If she wasn't a terrorist—and by all indications, she's wasn't—then harassing her at the airport is a gratuitous infringement of her civil liberties. The no-fly list allows federal officials to act like they're "doing something" about terrorism without taking responsibility for actually investigating and charging terrorism suspects. But compiling massive lists of suspected terrorists, 99.9 percent of whom are not actual terrorists, isn't making us any safer.
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Exercise for the present subjunctive in French III
Example: il faut (que vous travaillez).
que vous travailliez
1. Le professeur veut (qu'il revient). ____
(The professor wants him back)
2. Je doute (qu'ils réussient). ____
(I doubt they succeed)
3. Pierre est heureux (que vous avez) une bonne note. ____
(Pierre is happy that you have a good mark)
4. Le médecin ordonne (qu'elle part) se reposer. ____
(The doctor orders that she goes to rest)
5. Anne regrette (que tu peux) pas venir à la soirée. ____
(Anne regrets that you cannot come to the party)
6. Le prince veut qu'il embrasse sa soeur. ____
(The prince wants him to kiss his sister)
7. Le président suggère (qu'il fait) un projet sur la guerre. ____
(The president suggests that he does a project about the war)
8. Je pense (que tu es) trop grand. ____
(I think that you are too tall)
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Kathy Sdao Seminar: Why That "Treat Thing" Doesn't Always Work
Classical counter conditioning is a great foundation for working with a reactive dog. It's also very easy to do: a scary thing happens, and then you give the dog a treat. Over time, the dog learns that the scary thing predicts good things, which changes his feelings. He's no longer scared, which will hopefully mean that the fear-based behavior will disappear. Still, sometimes you'll hear someone say "I tried that whole treat thing, and it just didn't work..."
And you know what? I believe those people. Classical conditioning, while pretty straightforward, does require that you get some of the details straight. Kathy shared the errors that people commonly make that can prevent progress, or even worse, create even more problems. If you're struggling with that "whole treat thing," here are eight things you should check.
(If you aren't familiar with the basics of classical conditioning, check out this post, and then this one. Today's entry will make a lot more sense if you do.)
Make Sure Your Timing is Right
This is perhaps the area you can screw up the most. In classical conditioning, the second thing that happens is the most important because it is the one that will determine what kind of association is formed. If that second thing is positive, the association will become positive. If the second thing is scary, though, then the association will become scary, too. In other words, when you give the treat matters, and it matters a lot.
There are four basic ways to pair stimuli. Trace conditioning happens when there is a 1-2 second delay between the two stimuli. For example, if you want the dog to learn that a bell ringing predicts that food is coming, in trace conditioning, you would ring the bell, wait 1-2 seconds, and then give the dog the treat. Delayed conditioning occurs when the first stimuli is presented continuously for several seconds (the bell rings several times in a row), and then food is presented immediately. Simultaneous conditioning means that both stimuli are presented at the same time; you ring the bell and give the food at the same time. Finally, backward conditioning, like the name implies, is when you reverse the stimuli. You give the food and then ring the bell.
Although there are scientific uses for all of these, when it comes to training a reactive or fearful dog, both simultaneous and backward conditioning is basically useless. Simultaneous conditioning will simply have little to no result. Backward conditioning, however, is much worse. Instead of the bell predicting the treat, the treat predicts the bell. This can have devastating consequences. If a scary thing predicts food, then the food becomes associated with fear. When this happens, the mere presence of food can cause a dog to shut down or react. Not a good thing.
Most people don't set out to get this order wrong. We understand how it should work, but where we go astray is in assuming that the dog sees the scary thing at the same time we do. Therefore, you should be sure to give the treat only after the dog has perceived the stimuli/scary thing.
Make Sure You Avoid Rhythmic Trials
We humans are creatures of habit- when we set up training experiences, we tend to fall into patterns. Unfortunately, dogs are very talented at discerning patterns, so we need to make sure that our trials are not rhythmic. Kathy gave the example of working with a dog who is afraid of men. If she were to enlist a male friend and directed him to walk in and out of eyesight, it's likely that he would begin doing so at regular intervals. Unfortunately, what the dogs often learn in these scenarios is not that the presence of men predicts steak, but rather, that steak happens every 20 seconds or so, and if you get a positive association, it's very weak. You will get a far better result if you make sure that your trials are random and varied.
Make Sure There Are No Competing Stimuli
Since the second event matters most, we need to make sure that we know what it is. Sure, we might think the pairing is simple- see scary thing, get a treat- but dogs are highly observant. Does he know he's getting a treat as a result of the scary thing, or is something happening in between those two events? Common pitfalls include reaching in a pocket, or crinkling a treat bag as we get the snack out. Again, associations can and do happen in these situations, but they are weaker than if it was direct, with no middleman. Try to set up the situation to reduce as many competing stimuli as possible.
Make Sure You're Using a High Value Treat
Kathy advises that you use the absolute best thing you can in order to create the most intense response possible. Classical conditioning follows a pretty steep curve, which means that you'll get the strongest response possible fairly early on in training. Don't squander this opportunity by using kibble. Sure, the dog will learn that scary things predict food, and that's good... but it's not awesome. Think about it: do you want an, "Oh, yes, kibble, thank you" response, or do you want the "HOLY COW I JUST GOT RAW TRIPE" response?
Make Sure Your Treat Remains Special
Classical conditioning works best when the contingency is strong. In non-science speak, this means that it works best when the awesome thing that follows the trigger happens only when the trigger does. No matter how much your dog loves cheese, if cheese happens all the time, it becomes meaningless. For that reason, Kathy recommended that you have a treat that you use only for counter-conditioning. Actually, she said that it would be best if all food happened only as a direct result of the scary thing, but since that's pretty much impossible, practically speaking, she recommended reserving the high value treat for your counter-conditioning work.
Make Sure You Aren't Lumping Criteria
Remember what I said about competing stimuli? Well, that counts for the first stimuli as well as the second. Make sure you aren't trying to counter-condition against too many things at once. It really works best to tackle one scary thing at a time. So, if your dog is afraid of men, and he's afraid of people riding bikes, men riding bikes might be too much. Try breaking it down more if you can.
Make Sure the Trigger Always Predicts Good Stuff
Classical conditioning is not operant conditioning. As such, it is not maintained by intermittent reinforcement, and is much more prone to extinction as a result. Instead, for classical conditioning to work, the scary thing pretty much always needs to be followed by the treat. Every time the dog sees a scary toddler, a piece of chicken should follow. Every time. If toddlers appear and chicken doesn't, then the dog learns that toddlers are not a very reliable predictor. If you're lucky, the dog will still develop a lukewarm response. If you're not, though, the dog will not make an association at all, meaning that you're doing all that work for nothing.
Your job is to find a way to avoid the trigger when you're not training. This means either carrying chicken and going everywhere with your dog, or not doing certain things with your dog. And yes, this includes walks and going potty. Speaking of which...
Make Sure You Switch to an Operant Technique
Since classical conditioning requires a near 100% trigger-treat response, it simply cannot be considered a long-term strategy. At some point, Kathy said, you just have to switch to an operant training strategy. This might be something like auto-watches or emergency U-turns, or it might be something "fancier" like BAT or Look at That. The technique you choose doesn't matter as much as the fact that you choose an operant behavior for your dog to perform at some point since that can be reinforced intermittently, allowing you the ability to just relax and enjoy your dog sometimes.
As you can see, there are plenty of opportunities for you to undermine the work you're doing. This is just part of the reason I advocate working with an experienced trainer when you're trying to modify your dog's behavior. I know I certainly made plenty of mistakes along the way- I never did reserve the absolute best treat possible solely for counter-conditioning, and so of course, those treats happened all the time. I'm also often guilty of lumping criteria, and I'm sure I screwed up my timing now and then. Still, we muddled through, and while my efforts could have been better had I understood this information then, we did okay. But what about you guys? Any memorable mistakes? I'd love to know that I'm not alone in my training shortcomings...


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Fra: Charles Dickens Til: Marguerite Power
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Fra: Charles Dickens Til: Marguerite Power
Sprog: engelsk.
Broadstairs, Kent, Tuesday, July 13 1847.
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I have sent in several emails asking to become a beta tester for PocMail and no one responds - not yes, not no - nothing. I understand everyone is busy, but jeepers- can't they even take a minute to respond? has anyopne else run into the silent treatment?
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LOS ANGELES (AP) Mike D'Antoni postponed his debut on the Los Angeles Lakers' bench for at least another game Sunday night, giving the coach a few more days to recover from recent knee replacement surgery.
D'Antoni tentatively planned to take over when the Lakers hosted Houston, exactly a week after the Lakers hired him to replace Mike Brown. Instead, Lakers trainer Gary Vitti and D'Antoni's wife persuaded him to wait until he can move around a bit better on his new knee.
``I'm anxious to get out there and ready to go, but I don't want to be a sideshow,'' D'Antoni said.
Interim coach Bernie Bickerstaff led the Lakers against the Rockets. The Lakers went 3-1 in their first week under Bickerstaff, and D'Antoni announced he'll keep the veteran coach on his staff.
D'Antoni has been getting around without crutches for short distances since he arrived in Los Angeles last week, but the 61-year-old former Knicks and Suns coach isn't his usual spry self yet. He has attended two workouts with the Lakers, circling the court on crutches and sitting down whenever possible, but finally had to acknowledge he would have trouble on an NBA bench.
``My wife said, `Why are you doing this?''' D'Antoni said. ``And I kept being headstrong. (Vitti) kind of sat me down and said, `Mike, this is crazy. Somebody comes over, you're going to be bowled over. You're a sitting duck.'
``And I know my coaches aren't real nimble, so there's no way they're protecting me. They're hitting the streets. It was the smart thing to do.''
The Lakers formally announced they had hired Dan D'Antoni, the head coach's older brother, as an assistant coach before Sunday's game. Mike D'Antoni also said he plans to keep Bickerstaff, the longtime NBA coach and executive who joined Brown's staff in September.
``Bernie is a great coach and good guy,'' D'Antoni said. ``I've known him forever. It just means the world. He does a super job. ... He's (on the staff permanently), yeah. Unless he loses tonight.''
D'Antoni then smiled broadly.
Bickerstaff hadn't formally been told he was sticking around when he spoke to reporters moments after D'Antoni. Bickerstaff joked that the Lakers should be told that they were playing for his job.
``I think he and Steve Nash are waiting to make their debuts together,'' said Bickerstaff, who learned at the morning shootaround that his interim career would extend at least one more game.
Nash missed his eighth consecutive game Sunday with a small fracture in his leg that will keep him out until at least next weekend.
Although D'Antoni will speak to the Lakers before the game and again at halftime, he planned to watch his second straight game from the Lakers' locker room while getting therapy on his knee. He'll be joined by ``the Steves,'' - injured point guards Nash and Steve Blake.
``The hardest thing is to watch the game,'' D'Antoni said. ``I'm trying to do my therapy and she's killing me, and then you're watching the game and you're suffering there. It's not easy, but we'll get through this.''
The Lakers already have shown signs of D'Antoni's influence, playing two straight games at a speedy tempo they rarely used under Brown. Los Angeles scored more than 60 points in the first half Sunday night for the second straight game since D'Antoni's arrival, leading Houston 68-60 at halftime after making 67.4 percent of its shots.
Los Angeles hosts Brooklyn on Tuesday before heading out on a three-game trip beginning Wednesday night in Sacramento.


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Discovery once meant sailing right up to the edges of the known world, clutching maps whose imagery stopped cold at the frontiers, then venturing into unexplored terrain beyond. We're running out of places to conquer, forcing us to delve into the microscopic and the faraway, searching for new lands in the depths of the sea and the outer reaches of the galaxies. Digital maps, GPS and Google Earth (which now includes the oceans, sky and outer space) have greatly extended the range of armchair explorers, allowing them to plunge into an undersea abyss, stroll around Mars or Marseille or visit every crater on the Moon on a computer screen.
Printed maps required a traveler to possess a certain degree of graphic literacy; decoding and understanding the visual language of scale, icons, symbols, color systems and abbreviations took a little work. Plotting a trip held few surprises, except maybe for the pleasant realization that a destination was much closer than you thought, or the shock of finding a mountain range squarely in your path. Expectations were either met or exceeded upon arrival, when you first encountered the sights and smells and unfamiliar beds of your destination.
On computer maps, surprise often comes down to: what the heck will I get if I click on that icon? Their graphic systems are harder to decipher with consistency, since clicking on a single icon may lead to multiple unexpected results. The experience is by turns frustrating and delightful, introducing an absurd element of discovery to the cartographic realm. Along with the promise of knowledge, guidance and entertainment comes visual clutter and disappointment, prospects raised and hopes dashed.
The wealth of icons scattered everywhere atop Google Earth's view of the planet offers up a tantalizing amount of additional visual information and text, anchored directly to its physical coordinates. Like the litter that fills our landscapes and oceans, there is so much linked data; if you make the icons visible for every available option in Google Earth's Layers palette, you almost can't see the terrain. Activate one of the inscrutable blue squares on the Panaramio layer and a glorious photo might pop up. Then, alas, you also might get a 3-D rendering of the location. Instead of an image of a grand French château, you may be presented with something reminiscent of a video game. You could see a random detail shot of the locale, or an image of someone's prized new car dominating the foreground, the scenery becoming an incidental backdrop for conspicuous consumption. It can start to feel like a relative's vacation slideshow, browsing through many images that tell you very little.
On the flip side, the digital discovery process is often tremendously rewarding as well, leading to happy surprises from the highbrow to the low. An icon positioned near the front door of the Prado, in Madrid, leads to a gallery of 14 masterpieces scanned in such high definition that zooming in reveals the texture of the canvas in razor focus. When I clicked a random icon in the ocean off the western coast of Panama, it called up an irresistible BBC video about strange floating crabs. Who knew crabs could be charming? (Or that they float?)
In addition to the power to fly through earth and space, digital maps allow you to play with time. As far back in history as satellite data is available, the images can be called up to see what a locale used to look like. It's even possible for the past to coexist in the same time frame as the present: superimposing views of new buildings onto old maps of cities creates a palimpsest of centuries compressed onto your screen. Speaking of time, just rotating the planet and zooming in and out of views has a hypnotic quality, and an hour can pass before you know it. This may not be a boon to good work habits, but it can be a welcome escape if you're chained to your desk and need a lunch break.
Traveling through digital geographic environments is nothing like being there in the flesh, of course, but virtual exploration is ideal for people who aren't physically able to travel or to reach places—micro or macro—where ordinary humans can't go. A large part of the appeal is falling in love with a real landscape during a virtual tour, walking through the seductive images, seeing what lies around corners, how the sunlight hits faraway cities, without leaving your own home. You just might be inspired to book a flight to see the place for yourself (and snap your own pictures to upload and share). The online experience can seem curiously real on its own, too; at times it has a confusing near-authentic quality. When I got lost undersea looking for the wreckage of the Titanic and all I could see on my screen was a flat blue field of ocean, I felt a moment of panic, as if I were running out of air from holding my breath beneath the waves. If you are prone to carsickness, as I am, it is very possible you will get queasy during Google Earth's speedy flyovers. I can't read a map in a moving car and found that I have to avert my eyes from the screen when I blast from one continent to another on a digital journey. Art imitates life.
It takes more than a day to fly from New York City to Tokyo, so I wanted to test the duration of a Google Earth flyover—1 second? 3 seconds? I'm not sure if this was a programmer's idea of a joke, but when I typed in "get directions," Google Earth earnestly provided a cross-country auto route (turn right on Canal Street, make a left at the Holland Tunnel) to the West Coast, where I was then instructed to "kayak across the Pacific Ocean (6,635 miles)." Estimated travel time: 36 days, 4 hours. The age of exploration lives on.
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Clarkson University Offers Special Courses to North Country High School Students This Winter
Clarkson University's Project Challenge, a unique academic program for local high-school students, returns this winter with a choice of eight five-week courses.
The popular program is designed to offer area students in grades 9-12 an opportunity to participate in classes that are not commonly offered in their high-school curriculum.
Clarkson faculty and administrators teach the courses on Saturday mornings from 9 a.m. until noon for five weeks under the direction of The Clarkson School. This winter's program begins on January 11.
This year the program offers four new courses:
Information Technology in Our World: Just do IT! with Associate Professor of Operations & Information Systems Somendra Pant will have students explore the evolution of information technology, its role in modern business and what exciting study and career options are out there.
Students will discover how the field of psychology explores human behavior, thoughts and emotions from many perspectives in Psychology: More than Reading Minds and Lying on Couches! with Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer Knack.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Students with Clarkson School Associate Head of School Brenda Kozsan will provide students with a step-by-step framework through exercises, team activities, and role playing for boosting self-image, building friendships, resisting peer pressure, achieving goals, improving communication and relationships with parents, and success in high school, college and in life.
Writing Software and Changing the World with Associate Professor of Computer Science Jeanna Matthews will give students a solid introduction to the fundamentals of writing software. They will write some seriously fun software like a personality quiz that you could use on your friends and a text-based game and discuss careers in computing and the ways in which citizens with knowledge of computing can make a difference in the world.
Other courses include:
Engineering for Life with Clarkson Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. Student Melissa Richards will provide students with an opportunity to learn how engineers are able to design the devices we see everywhere around us. Students will even have the opportunity to design and build their own "Rec-Rube-y"!
Real Medicine with instructors from Clarkson's Physician Assistant Program will provide students with an opportunity to learn about the real world of today's medicine.
Blood and Guts: Medical History through the Ages with Assistant Professor of History Stephen Casper and Engineering Instructor Karen Buckle will provide students with an opportunity to explore a number of different case studies from actual historical medical records and advance medical problem solving skills.
Students can study the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment in The First Amendment in American Democracy with Associate Professor of Political Science Christopher Robinson. This class will examine how these freedoms are affected by wars abroad and terrorist threats at home.
Project Challenge courses will begin on January 11 and continue through the next four Saturdays until February 8, with a possible snow date of February 15.
Schools that have participated in the past include Alexandria Bay, Brasher Falls, Brushton-Moira, Canton, Chateaugay, Clifton-Fine, Colton-Pierrepont, Edwards-Knox, Gouverneur, Herman-Dekalb, Heuvelton, Indian River, Lisbon, Lyme, Malone, Massena, Morristown, Ogdensburg, Parishville-Hopkinton, Potsdam, Sackets Harbor, Salmon River, Saranac Lake, and Thousand Islands.
Interested students should first contact their guidance counselor to see if their school is participating. Participating high schools may sponsor all or part of the students' tuition.
If the school is not participating, the out-of-pocket expense for the program is $140 per student. Enrollment in all courses is now available, but space is limited.
For more information, go to http://www.clarkson.edu/projectchallenge, or contact Brenda Kozsan or Annette Green at 315-268-4425 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
Photo caption: Clarkson University's Project Challenge, a unique academic program for local high school students, returns this winter with a choice of eight five-week courses. Above, students in a past Real Medicine course practice their newly learned suturing skills.
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text: Apse is an American rock band signed to Spanish label Acuarela Discos and the UK label ATP Recordings [1]. The band has moved through many different musical styles since its inception, weaving together at various times shoegazer, Heavy Metal, gothic rock, post-punk, prog-rock, industrial, and post-rock influences; while at the same time dabbling in tribal, experimental, ambient and ethereal atmospheres. The most common lyrical themes have to do with spirituality, relationships with others (human as well as paranormal or divine), paranoia, power, and control.


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- One band member has ankle injury, another a bruised hip, a third a cracked rib
- Band postpones remaining November dates and will resume tour next month
- Band blames "icy conditions on the road" for the accident 80 miles east of Dallas
- Willie Nelson wasn't on tour bus when it crashes into a Texas bridge pillar
A tour bus transporting Willie Nelson's band spun out of control in a storm and crashed into a Texas bridge pillar before dawn Saturday, injuring three of five band members, according to police and the band.
Willie Nelson wasn't on the bus, the musician's website said.
The three band members were hospitalized, and Willie Nelson and Family postponed the tour's four remaining dates in November and will resume the tour as scheduled in December, the website said.
"No one suffered serious injuries. Paul English injured his ankle, Billy English suffered a bruised hip and crew member Tom Hawkins has a cracked rib. The other family members on the bus are sore but everyone is expected to recover fully," Nelson's website said.
Authorities had earlier reported that English broke his hip.
The crash occurred on Interstate 30 outside Sulphur Springs, and the bus driver was trying to negotiate heavy rains and winds, said Texas Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Sylvia Jennings.
The crash occurred 80 miles east of Dallas.
Nelson's website said the band believes the accident occurred "due to icy conditions on the road."
The bus was swept off the road and crashed into a bridge pillar, Jennings said. The bus was carrying five band members and the driver.
Willie Nelson and Family was scheduled to perform in Robinsonville, Mississippi, on Saturday, and in Jackson, Mississippi, on Sunday, the band's website said.


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Vist the Sustainable Seed Company! Our new Open Pollinated seed store.
Why are all the bees dying? Bee colonies across the nation are in serious decline. This
new, unexplained condition has become known as Colony Collapse
Disorder (CCD).
It is estimated that about a quarter of the 2.4 million
commercial bee colonies across the nation have been lost just
since last autumn, and in some areas the loss is almost 90
percent. The impact of this loss is enormous because honey bees are
the primary pollinators of much of the nation's food crops. Here in
California, producers of almonds, apples, alfalfa, avocados,
blueberries, citrus, tree fruit, and watermelons, among many
other crops, depend on a healthy bee population for crop
pollination. We need every bee! All bees come back to live on my sustainable farm in Sonoma County.
What can you do to help Honey Bees?
Plant Bee friendly plants
Report Bee Swarms Buy Organic
Become a Bee Keeper!
Is an insecticide made by Bayer killing all of our bees? Is "Colony Collapse Disorder" just a label for a corporate cover up?
Below are articles from around the globe.
France & Italy ban neonicotinoids. In the past six years, a new group of nicotine-based pesticides have emerged called neonicotinoids. The most common is imidachloprid. Ironically, these were originally manufactured to be less lethal. But about four years ago, French and Italian beekeepers complained that imidachloprid crop spraying was killing their honey bees. So the French and Italian governments banned the nicotine-based pesticides.
Germany bans chemicals linked to honeybee devastation Germany has banned a family of pesticides that are blamed for the deaths of millions of honeybees... The move follows reports from German beekeepers in the Baden-Wuerttemberg region that two thirds of their bees died earlier this month following the application of a pesticide called clothianidin."It's a real bee emergency," said Manfred Hederer, president of the German Professional Beekeepers' Association. "50-60% of the bees have died on average and some beekeepers have lost all their hives." Tests on dead bees showed that 99% of those examined had a build-up of clothianidin. Source/Full Story: The Guardian, May 23 2008
Jerry Hayes, Chief, Apiary Section, Florida Dept. of Agriculture, Gainsville, Florida: "The interesting thing about the Colony Collapse Disorder is that bees are leaving the colony and not coming back, which is highly unusual for a social insect to leave a queen and its brood or young behind. They are seemingly going out and can't find their way back home.
Imidachloprid, when it is used to control termites, does exactly the same thing. One of the methods it uses to kill termites is that the termites feed on this material and then go out to feed and can't remember how to get home. And it also causes their immune systems to collapse, causing what would be normal organisms to become pathogenic in them (bees).
What 60 Minutes didn't air The cause is imidacloprid, plain and simple," said David Hackenberg, the beekeeper who was the subject of a 60 Minutes story that aired Oct. 28.Hackenberg, who has tended bees his entire adult life, said he told 60 Minutes about this imidacloprid theory in these same direct terms. After editing Hackenberg's comments, however, the venerable CBS program quoted some scientists who said they weren't sure, thereby leaving doubt in everyone's mind. Here's the background you need to understand: The primary product used to control grubs on your lawn, or insects on your fruit trees, or termites in your basement, contains a chemical compound known as imidacloprid, a synthetic nicotine, which is most commonly marketed as Merit. No one debates that imidacloprid is toxic to bees, yet Bayer, the exclusive patent holder from 1988 until this year, denies its product causes CCD. The cause of CCD has been greatly disputed. Everything from radio waves to cell phone towers were blamed initially, with the most recent high-profile theory involving Israeli acute paralysis virus that was detailed in a scientific paper released Sept. 4. Many beekeepers and other scientists, however, state that the Israeli virus is only a symptom and that imidacloprid is the true culprit. Products that contain imidacloprid other than Merit include Admire, Confidor, Connect, Evidence, Leverage, Muralla, Provado, Trimax, Premise and Winne. Though imidacloprid has been patented since 1988, . its use on American crops escalated significantly in the past three years, just as products containing diazinon came off store shelves. In the case of bees, the imidacloprid apparently does not directly kill the hives, but disorients the bees and causes them to disband — at least according to beekeepers who are closely observing bees' behavior. That's why, when Colony Collapse Disorder is the problem, no dead bees can be found near the hive. That, said Hackenberg and others, is the biggest indicator that imidacloprid is involved. Entire Story
Source: Environmental News Network
Is Big Business Killing the Largest Labor Force on the Planet? The majority of the pesticides held responsible for the bee demise are produced by none other than Bayer Company (yes, the aspirin maker). The toxic pesticides pulled by Germany are largely manufactured by Bayer. But Germany is not the first to make such a move. Back in 1999, France banned the use of imidacloprid, and rejected an application from Bayer for clothianidin this year. What does this business amount to for the corporate giant ? For Bayer, imidacloprid and clothianidin account for $1.25 billion in global annual sales. Source & Full Story from Lohasian
Many hives were found in Florida recently to contain high levels of imidacloprid. A patented chemical, it is manufactured by Bayer. Out out of those 14 hives only one survived. What follows below is taken from Wikipedia. Seriously consider the next time you put any of the below listed brands on your pet, crops or lawn. If you use Advantage on your cat or dog it is in your home already.
The most widely used applications for imidacloprid in California are pest control in structures, turf pest control, grape growing, and head and leaf lettuce growing. Other widespread crop uses are rice, grains/cereals including corn (maize), potatoes, vegetables, sugar beets, fruit, cotton, and hops. Target insects include sucking insects (e.g. aphids, whiteflies, leafhoppers and planthoppers, thrips, scales, mealybugs, bugs, psyllids, and phylloxera), beetles (e.g. longhorn beetles, leaf beetles, Colorado potato beetles, rice water-weevils, wireworms, grubs, and flea beetles), and others (e.g. lepidopterous leafminers, some diptera, termites, locusts, and fleas).
When used for seed treatments, it is sold under the trade names Akteur, Amigo, Baytan Secur, Chinook, El Hombre, Escocet, Gaucho, Gaucho Blé, Gaucho CS, Gaucho Maícero, Gaucho MZ, Gaucho Orge, Gaucho Primo, Gaucho T, Gaucho MT, Gaucho XT, Genesis, Faibel, Ferial Blé, Férial Orge, Imprimo, Manta Plus, Monceren Extra, Monceren G, Monceren GT, Montur, Prestige, Prestige M, Raxil Secur, Seed-one, Sibutol Secur, Yunta and Zorro FS 236.
When used on citrus, coffee, cotton, fruits, grapes, potatoes, rice, soybeans, sugarcane, tobacco and vegetables as an insecticide spray, it is sold under the trade names Admire, Confidor, Connect, Evidence, Leverage, Muralla, Provado and Trimax.
It is marketed as Premise for termite control and Advantage in the US and Europe for flea control on pets. It is also sold under the trade names Merit, Admire, Confidor and Winner, as well as Hachikusan (in Japan).
An Ice Cream Company is wondering what is happening to the bees! Pollination is essential for ingredients in more than 40 percent of Häagen-Dazs flavors. For example, to produce our popular Vanilla Swiss Almond and Rocky Road flavors, we use more than one million pounds of almonds every year. Almonds, and are 100 percent dependent on honey bees for pollination.
A recent survey commissioned by the Häagen-Dazs brand showed that more than half of Americans are not even aware of the honey bee crisis.
The Defense Department has funded projects to use honey bees to locate land mines and biological agents that may be used in chemical warfare.


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Ask the Doctor: What Is Hepatitis-and-HIV Co-Infection?
Every month, HIV specialist Theresa Mack, M.D., M.P.H. -- an associate medical director at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital's Medical Group in Harlem, N.Y. -- will answer your most pressing HIV/AIDS questions.
Hepatitis is a viral infection that attacks liver cells. There are three main types of hepatitis: A, B and C.
Hepatitis A is a liver infection caused by a virus that does not produce long-term or chronic liver problems. A vaccine can help prevent hepatitis A infection, but if you get hep A, it will usually resolve itself within six months.
Hepatitis B and C can cause cirrhosis, cancer and death. A vaccine to prevent hepatitis B exists, and while hep B cannot be cured, it can be treated. No vaccine exists for hepatitis C; however, the treatment can cure it.
Hepatitis Risk Factors and Symptoms
Go here to read a complete list of hepatitis risk factors, but in the United States they tend to include the following:
- Hepatitis A: contaminated food and water
- Hepatitis B: sexual contact
- Hepatitis C: contact with infected blood, usually by sharing needles and syringes while injecting drugs
While it's often difficult to protect oneself from hepatitis A, hepatitis B and C are more preventable:
- Practice safer sex.
- Don't use injection drugs, or at the very least, never share needles.
- Enroll in a clean-needle exchange program.
- Don't share razors or toothbrushes.
- Patronize only those tattoo and body-piercing facilities that practice sterile techniques and use clean products.
- Get vaccinated against hepatitis A and B.
The three types of hepatitis share some symptoms, which may include general fatigue, nausea, yellow skin, vomiting, light-colored stools and dark urine. But many patients with hepatitis have no symptoms at all. It is especially important to know whether or not you have been exposed to hepatitis B or C.
If you have any of the risk factors -- and particularly if you do and are pregnant -- ask your doctor for a hepatitis C antibody test and hepatitis B antigen and antibody test. There is also a new "rapid test" for hepatitis C that provides results in 20 minutes, similar to the rapid test for HIV.
Hepatitis-and-HIV Co-Infection
Some people contract hepatitis B and C and HIV simultaneously. When one person is infected with two or more viruses, we say that he or she has a co-infection. Common HIV and hepatitis co-infections include HIV and hepatitis C; HIV and hepatitis B; and HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C.
In someone who has HIV, hepatitis B and C may cause liver damage and death quicker than they might in someone who does not have HIV. HIV-co-infected patients who begin HAART also risk severe liver damage. In fact, today the medications for HIV are so effective in fighting that virus that liver disease caused by hepatitis B and C has become the most common reason that people living with HIV/AIDS are admitted to the hospital or die.
Treatment and Cure
If you have been exposed to hepatitis B or C or both, your doctor will monitor your hepatitis viral load (the amount of hepatitis virus in your bloodstream). If the hepatitis B or C viral load is low or undetectable, your body has already "cleared" the infection, and treatment is not needed. However, if a liver biopsy shows that a high hepatitis viral load and/or extensive scarring (fibrosis) exists, treatment is warranted to prevent further damage.
Although hepatitis B can't be cured, treatments -- which include some of the same drugs used to treat HIV -- can decrease the amount of virus in the bloodstream and reduce the risk of liver failure. Hepatitis B treatment may consist of a combination of the following medications: adefovir, tenofovir, lamivudine, emtricitabine, entecavir, telbivudine and interferon. With the exception of entecavir, telbivudine and adefovir, these drugs also treat HIV. But while HIV treatment often consists of three-drug combinations, hep B treatments consist of one or two of these drugs. Importantly, an HIV-and-hepatitis B co-infection should be treated simultaneously because HIV drug resistance may occur if the hep B is treated first without also treating the HIV.
Hepatitis C can be cured with treatment, which consists of using two drugs simultaneously: ribavirin and interferon. The treatment-success rate for people without HIV is about 50-60 percent, depending on the hepatitis C strain; the success rate for HIV-co-infected patients is approximately 20-30 percent.
Unfortunately, many patients cannot tolerate the side effects of the medications for either hepatitis B and C or the required lifestyle changes, which include abstaining from alcohol for life.
As told to Tomika Anderson, a freelance writer based in Brooklyn, N.Y.


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Volume 63 Number 20
, Miami, Florida Friday, May 18, 1990
Price 50 Cnta
200.000 March In Paris
French Non-Jews Lead
Anti-Semitism Protest
By EDWIN EYTAN
PARIS (JTA) Close to
UoO.OOO people marched
through the center of Paris in
an unprecedented display of
solidarity with French Jews,
following the brutal desecra-
tion of the historic Jewish
cemetery in Carpentras four
days earlier.
President Francois Mitter-
rand was one of the marchers,
the first time since the end of
World War II that a president
of the French Republic partici-
pated in a street demonstra-
His presence was a measure
of the shock and outrage felt in
France over the incident, in
which a recently buried corpse
was unearthed and mutilated,
and 34 gravestones over-
Prime Minister Michel
Rocard took part in the
demonstration as well, saying
the great assemblage of people
would "show foreigners sha-
n by crimes like that of
I arpentras that although our
nation, like others, harbors a
w sick criminals, France is
cither racist nor anti-
But the revulsion apparently
a as not universal.
Only hours before the Paris
inarch, another 32 tombstones
were desecrated in the Jewish
cemetery in Clichy, a northern
o'.iarter of Paris.
Anti-Semitic slogans were
laubed with red paint on the
gravel and the cemetery walls.
Six headstones were painted
with Nazi emblems. Police
admit they have no clues, and
are urging witnesses to step
The body of the recently
disinterred man, Felix Ger-
mon, was again exhumed,
probably for forensic purposes.
The Parisians marched Mon-
Continued on Page 3
AJCommittee Honors
0 'Connor Despite Slur
By ALLISON KAPLAN
(JTA) Israeli
officials and
American Jew-
ish leaders reg-
istered protests
at the Catholic
here after Car-
dinal John
O'Connor called
the move of 150
Jews into Jeru-_
salem's Chris- O'Connor
tian Quarter "obscene" and
raised the question of whether
a "conspiracy" exists to drive
Christians out of the Israel.
In his column in the weekly
newspaper Catholic New
York, O'Connor said there
were "perceptions on the part
of some that the move of the
settlers is only a signal of a
conspiracy to grab land all
over Israel currently occupied
by Christians."
The archbishop opened the
column by stating that "what
has happened in Jerusalem is
obscenef' and that "the Israeli
government has acted repre-
The Jewish community here
is particularly unhappy that
such harsh words came from
O'Connor, who is considered a
longtime friend of both Israel
and American Jews.
Continued on Page 2
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FRANCE A Jewish man stands next to his brother's grave, one
of some SU desecrated in this south-central France town. Vandals
also dug up a new grave and impaled the body on an umbrella.
AP/Wide World Photo.
Church Leaders Lobby
For Palestinian State
Haifa Vandalism Suspects Caught
TEL AVIV (JTA) Two
Jewish men have been
detained for the desecration of
two Jewish cemeteries in
Haifa, in which 305 graves
were spray-painted with
rabidly anti-Jewish graffiti.
Police initially arrested a
41-year-old man with a History
of mental aberrations as the
prime suspect in the crime.
The second man, described as
a resident of a Haifa Bay town,
is a friend of the first suspect.
However, the police have not
ruled out an intifada-related
motive for the spray-painting
of violently anti-Jewish slo-
gans on tombstones at the
Kfar Samir and Hof Carmel
By HOWARD ROSENBERG
The United States must con-
tinue its dialogue with the
Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion to achieve peace in the
Middle East, the chairman of
the House subcommittee deal-
ing with the Middle East said.
"It is not feasible to obtain a
Palestinian-Israeli dialogue in
isolation or in disassociation
from the PLO," Rep. Lee
Hamilton (D-Ind.) told 125 vis-
iting members of Churches for
a Middle East Peace.
The pro-Palestinian group,
comprised of a dozen Protest-
ant denominations, held a
three-day lobbying effort here,
dubbed Washington Advocacy
Hamilton, who chairs the
House Foreign Affairs sub-
committee on Europe and the
Middle East, said the 17-
month-old U.S. dialogue with
the PLO "weakens what was
previously a Soviet monopoly
in dealing with the PLO."
Continued on Page 2
Shamir Nears Likud Rule
By DAVID LANDAU
Acting Prime Minister Yitzhak
Shamir made additional pro-
gress toward forming a nar-
row Likud-led government,
while the deeply troubled
Labor Party prepared for an
internal leadership showdown.
Shamir met with heads of
the ultra-Orthodox Shas party,
who reportedly indicated they
are prepared now to partici-
pate in a Likud government.
Shas' earlier position was that
it would support the new gov-
ernment, but not join it for two
months to test Likud's peace
With Shas" five Knesset
votes now more securely in the
Likud camp and talks going
well with other potential coali-
tion partners, Shamir is
expected to be in a position to
present a new government for
parliamentary approval by the
end of this week, or early next
week at the latest. But he may
have to ask for an extension of
his 21-day mandate from Pres-
ident Chaim Herzog.
Labor, meanwhile, appears
to be hopelessly divided.
Supporters of former
Defense Minister Yitzhak
Rabin are demanding a nation-
wide "primary," in which all
registered members would be
able to chose between him and
incumbent Chairman Shimon
Peres to lead the party. They
want to hold the vote within
the next few weeks.
The Peres camp is anxious to
postpone it, arguing that the
membership roles are out-
If Israel Doesn't Improve Absorption
U.S. May Permit More Immigrants
By DAVID LANDAU
If Israel does
not immedi-
ately make
absorption a top
the U.S. Con-
gress will come
under pressure
to raise the ceil-
ings on Soviet
Jewish immi- Re,ch
gration to the United States, a
prominent American Jewish
leader has warned.
Seymour Reich told the
Israeli newspaper Davar that
there was a sense in the organ-
ized American Jewish com-
munity that the Israeli govern-
ment was not focusing on man-
aging the Soviet aliyah and
that conflicts between various
ministries had thwarted
efforts to draw up a coordin-
ated policy for housing and
Reich, who is chairman of
the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish
Organizations, was quoted as
saying that unless Israel
makes absorption a top prior-
ity, there will likely be "an
explosion." He apparently was
referring to a public demon-
stration of frustration by
Soviet olim in Israel.
If Israel appears publicly to
be incapable of handling the
inflow, pressure will increase
in the United States to let
more of the emigrants in,
Reich told the paper.
Currently, the U.S. ceiling
on refugees from the Soviet
Union is 50,000, about 40,000
of whom are Jews.
News Scene
JERUSALEM (JTA) Israel announced
a decision in principle to reopen the Arab
universities in the West Bank that the
authorities shut down as trouble spots
when the intifada began 29 months ago.
NEW YORK Hundreds of church activ-
ists are lobbying in Washington this week,
among other things, to halt U.S. foreign
aid to Israel, in protest of its settlement
policies. Organized by Churches for Middle
East peace, the effort is part of a trend of
increasing activism against Israel on the
part of mainline Protestant church groups.
WASHINGTON U.S. Jewish groups
are worried that they may have to absorb a
larger tax bite from Uncle Sam and local
governments in the 1990s.
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Last night was a HUGE night for Democrats, and I would argue, a significant night for human rights. Obama was reelected for another term, which means the infamous 'Obamacare' isn't going away any time soon — so people who are in need of assistance with health care can still count on that (and now that I'm mostly-Canadian, I see access to health care as a human right).
Other big human rights wins from last night:
- 3 more states embraced same-sex unions, while another state voted down a discriminatory measure against same-sex couples
- Mr. Todd 'legitimate rape' Akin legitimately lost by a landslide
- Another creepy GOP candidate Richard Mourdock (he who claimed pregnancies due to rape were part of "God's plan") also lost
- Elizabeth Warren beat out the race-baiting and anti-intellectual Scott Brown
- and now there's the first openly-LGBT Senator in office, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin
So, all in all, a good night! That said, I think there are many people back home who aren't as giddy as I am after watching the President accept another term in office:
So this last half of my post is to whoever is out there in my life who reads my blog, and counts himself or herself as a Romney supporter: I know how you feel — why? Because I felt something similar only 8 years ago.
One thing about having this blog for as long as I have? In some ways, it's a living record of who I am. Granted, in the last few years since becoming a mama, and working full-time, I haven't been quite as active one here — but going back into the archives of this blog can be a pretty cool exercise in remembering who I was, years ago.
I dug back into the November archives and found this entry I wrote right after the 2004 presidential election was called for George W. Bush. Here are some excerpts from what I wrote:
Dejected. Deflated. Despondent.
I cannot believe Bush won. Cannot. believe.
I'm terrified.
Not only is he in charge of the Executive branch, but there's majorities in the House and Senate now. With 3-4 justices retiring within the next term (possibly) — I'm picturing an even more police state than there is now.
[…] UPDATE: Well. Ohio could still be up in the air. Who knows?
Sound familiar? Replace the odd word or two, and you'll hear similar murmurings from GOP friends (eh-hem, well, those of them who haven't unfriended you — I lost a friend last night who didn't like what I was posting on Facebook, apparently).
Thing is, I know what you're going through! I was in just the same place as you are, only 8 years ago.
It's kind of fascinating, in a way.
Anyway, dear GOP friend (or father) of mine, I hope that you'll soon get over your feelings of dejectedness. And I mean it, sincerely. I know what it feels like, and it's just no fun. Hang in there, and hopefully, with time, we can progress to feeling more like this:
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Last night around 7 p.m., 58-year-old Mark McCarpy walked into Dick's Sporting Goods in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, and asked to see a shotgun and ammunition. When the clerk complied, McCarpy pulled out a handgun and demanded the clerk undo the shotgun's gun lock. McCarpy then took the gun and ammunition, ran to the bathroom, and barricaded himself inside.
Police were called to the scene, and Dick's and surrounding stores were evacuated. He had no hostages. Authorities say McCarpy and police were in a standoff for four hours. Police never spoke to McCarpy, and sent a robot inside the bathroom. When the robot entered, police discovered McCarpy was already dead. He shot himself in the chest with the shotgun from the store. No one else was harmed.
McCarpy had a history with law enforcement. He was in a standoff with police in 2002. In 2010, he spent time in a mental institution.


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Author Notes: I created this bean spread for some heirloom Arikara beans when I wanted to make something like humus, but to explore different culinary terrain. Instead of sesame seeds, I substitute toasted almonds, and rather than garlic, I used leeks slowly sauteed in olive oil, into which I stirring my soft cooked beans. Then, because this dish seemed to be journeying from the eastern Mediterranean toward the Iberian Peninsula, I finish off the pureed paste with a splash of sherry vinegar and a dusting of smoked paprika. The final dish tasted almost like pâté, rich and flavorful, with a hint of sherry. It made a nice dip for raw vegetables and a great lunch spread on fresh bread accompanied by fruity salads. —Fairmount_market
Serves: 4-6
cup dried Arikara beans (or substitute white kidney beans)
sprigs thyme
3 1/2
cups water
leeks (depending on their size)
tablespoons olive oil
cup whole almonds
teaspoons sherry vinegar
salt to taste
smoked paprika
- Rinse the Arikara beans and cook them, covered, on very low heat with about 3 1/2 cups of water, the thyme sprigs and a pinch of water until very soft, about four hours. Add more water during the cooking process if necessary and when the beans are done, add more salt to taste.
- Remove the root and green stem from the leek, slice lengthwise, and wash thoroughly. Cut into 1/2 inch slices. Heat a large skillet over medium low heat, add the olive oil, and saute the leeks for about 10 minutes, until they are very soft, but avoid browning them. Add the cooked beans and their cooking liquid and simmer with the leeks to meld the flavors and reduce the broth. The final mixture should have about about a half cup of syrupy liquid remaining.
- Meanwhile, toast the almonds in a dry skillet until fragrant. Transfer them to a food processor and pulverize into a fine meal. Add the leeks and beans and process for several minutes until smooth. Add the sherry vinegar and pulse. Taste and add more salt if necessary.
- Transfer to a bowl and dust with smoked paprika. Serve with fresh vegetables or crusty bread.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Portable Side
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Leeks
More Great Recipes:
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USAID program to help African nations hits snag
The Obama administration's growing focus on west Africa hit a snag this month with the delay of a project to help two of the continent's poorest countries build "resiliency" to stem the growth of al-Qaeda-connected groups in the area.
The U.S. Agency for International Development had announced in June it was looking for contractors for a program called Sahel Resilience Learning (SAREL), that would "enhance the resilience of chronically vulnerable populations in these drought-prone regions. USAID defines resilience as the ability of people, households, communities, countries and systems to mitigate, adapt to and recover from shocks and stresses in a manner that reduces chronic vulnerability and facilitates inclusive growth."
Last week, however, USAID announced it was canceling the solicitation because no contractor had come forward. It said it would post the details again in hopes of finding a bidder for the program that would work in Niger and Burkina Faso.
Niger and Burkina Faso border Mali, where Islamic insurgents took over parts of the northern region of the country late last year before French troops drove them out.
The Sahel is a 620-mile-wide band of Africa just south of the Sahara Desert stretching from Eritrea in the east to Senegal and Mauritania in the west. Dominated by grassland, it has also suffered from the Sahara's southward expansion, which has taken a toll on agriculture.
Burkina Faso and Niger are part of the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership, a multiagency effort to stop the spread of terrorism. In February, a new U.S. drone base opened in Niger, which the U.S. Africa Command says is at risk from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and the Nigeria-based Islamic group Boko Haram. The command also says Burkina Faso is playing a larger role in counterterrorism in the area.
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That said, I'm still going to post about it. I guess because it's not so much inspiration I'm interested in at the moment as a kind of blatant desire to dress up in a secret costume. You know, the kind if inspiration that reminds one of the childhood and adolescent obsessions--as in, I actually won't wear XY or Z kind of make up because so-and-so in such-and-such doesn't or wouldn't (my goodness, I hate the tone of this post, but one must get back into the swing of things somehow).
Clever Nettle made a post about this back in the day, and I have to admit that from the moment I saw the movie I had many of the same fashionable fixations. First, I think it's safe to say that I'm almost totally obsessed with Inglourious Basterds. I know, lots of people liked this movie, but seriously. I think it's probably one of te best things to happen in a number of years. It made me sad, because I felt upon leaving the theater that I spend an awful lot of time watching movies that are okay, that are clever in one way or another be it a few funny moments or some prettiness that manages to seduce the magpie in me, but very rarely does an exceptionally well written and then, after all of that, well made movie come our way. It has everything, and not in the way that The Princess Bride has everything. It also had the unprecedented advantage of allowing me to be lost in the world of the film while not depressing me upon its end (what I mean here is that some movies, many in fact, make me quite sad because life is not like those movies--Marie Antoinette oddly was one of these, because it made me so sad that my world was not swathed in ridiculous pastel and insane hairdos and all of that. It is not even always so much an effect of story as it is images).
I get away from my point. Despite all the fantastic manifestations of storytelling, a pretentious statement if I ever heard one, I love nothing more than Melanie Laurent's costumes as Shoshanna Dreyfus. Little pleated cropped pants, fitted sweaters with that embroidered blouse, belts, hats, trench coats, red lipstick only sometimes! So terribly functional and feminine. I suppose it might be one of the things that triggered my intense ache for a more tomboy, masculine, bookish and tailored kind of style. I even just love the little way she pins her hair back and up!
I've been trying to keep my eye out for vintage pieces that fit the bill, and thankfully this cropped trouser look is popping up in a few places I also noted a few of these funny over-all type things from some vintage sellers, although they do tend to be pricey. If I ever feel like venturing out into the frozen wilderness that is my neighborhood, I suppose I'll be combing the trouser sections of both the men's and women's sections of local thrift stores.
I suppose the bottom line is that even as a grown-up (shudder), I cannot help but mimic my favorite movies, dress with what I have to best emulate and dress up as my favorite characters even if my own wardrobe items match in no recognizable way. I suppose it's a habit I'll never abandon completely, which is really alright anyway.


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SAN ANTONIO — The most important play in a game isn't always the one you remember most. Sometimes, it's subtle and doesn't even make the highlight reel. Sometimes, something as simple as a change in possession can be more important than a shot that does or doesn't go in.
The NBA has a way to use analytics to figure out just which plays had the biggest impact on a close game. It's a "leverage" model that was developed to evaluate and instruct referees by pointing out which calls or no-calls had the biggest impact on a game's result.
Here's the idea: At every point of a game, each team has a certain probability of winning. Putting the quality of each team to the side, when the game tips off, the home team has a 60 percent probability of winning and the road team has a 40 percent probability of winning. After the first basket, those numbers haven't changed much. But if the home team is up 10 with the ball and five minutes to go in the fourth quarter, their win probability (WP) is obviously a lot greater than 60 percent.
So, by calculating win probability both before and after a play occurs, it can be determined just how important that play was. Score, possession and location are the factors. And obviously, plays in the last few minutes of the fourth quarter (or overtime) in a close game are more important than any others.
Using the league's data model, we've determined the three most important plays of Game 4 of The Finals, a comfortable 109-93 win for the Miami Heat that evened the series at two games apiece
- Previous: Game 3 | Game 2 | Game 1 | The plays that got them here
The Heat didn't put the game away until they went on a 16-6 run midway through the fourth quarter, but the biggest plays of the night came before that, with the game still in the balance late in the third and early in the fourth.
3. +8.1 percent – Neal drains a 3
In the midst of scoring on 11 of their final 12 possessions of the third quarter, the Heat had a six point lead and looked to be taking control. But after a LeBron James miss in the post, the Spurs got the ball quickly up the floor. Ray Allen was able to get to Danny Green in the corner, but Green found a trailing Gary Neal, who (of course) didn't hesitate to jack up a 3 that pulled San Antonio within three with 1:39 left in the period.
The 3 changed the Spurs' WP from 31.3 percent to 39.4 percent.
2. +8.8 percent – Wade's and-one
On the very next possession, the Heat's first few options were well covered and Dwyane Wade had the ball in the corner. But when James slipped a corner screen, neither Green nor Manu Ginobili stayed with Wade, who drove, drew a foul on Green, and hit a tough bank shot as he was falling to the ground. He then converted the free throw to put the Heat back up six.
The play increased the Heat's WP from 60.6 percent to 69.4 percent.
1. +12.6 percent – James' steal leads to Allen's trey
Miami's lead was five in the first minute of the fourth quarter when Ginobili hit a rolling Tiago Splitter in the lane. As Splitter came down with the ball, he tried to kick it to Kawhi Leonard in the corner. But James, who had helped off Leonard, read Splitter's mind and took the ball right out of his hands.
(James' defensive anticipation was rather ridiculous all night.)
James raced up the floor, drew four Spurs defenders into the paint and got the ball to Norris Cole in the left corner. Cole was wide open, but spotted Allen on the wing. Leonard closed out on Allen, but a pump fake got him out of the way. Allen drained the 3 (one of only four the Heat made all night) to increase the lead to eight points.
Before James' steal, the Heat's WP was 67.6 percent. The change of possession increased it to 72.6 percent (+5.0) and the three made it 80.2 percent (+7.6).


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Turkish media this week reported that local authorities have been inspecting the carcass of a dead bird as a suspected Israeli spy. Sadly, the story is not satire, but rather another indicator of the worsening relations between Israel and Turkey, which is today prepared to believe even the most ludicrous allegations against its former regional ally.
Israel's Yediot Ahronot picked up the story on Tuesday, reporting that the bird was found dead by a Turkish farmer, who became suspicious after discovering it was wearing a leg band inscribed with the word "Israel." Of course, ornithologists regularly attach leg bands to migrating birds. And with Israel sitting right in the middle of the main Europe-Africa migration paths, such research is commonplace in the Jewish state.
According to Turkish media, the bird carcass was taken by Turkish security services, who paid special attention to the fact that one of the nostrils was larger than the other. They apparently believed the enlarged nostril was potential evidence of Mossad tampering.
Not too many years ago, such a claim would have been dismissed long before reaching official levels, let alone Turkish national media. But of late, the current Turkish regime has been conditioning its people to view Israel in the same light as many of the regional Arab states, which have been taken in by ever more bizarre conspiracy theories regarding Israel, its capabilities and its designs on the Middle East.
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Practically Posh (Kobo eBook)
Practically Posh is the budget babe's guide to the good life. Filled with thrifty tips and delivered with style and humor, this do-it-yourself handbook is designed for glam girls on the go who want to live large on their little paychecks.
Packed with brilliantly simple advice, Robyn Moreno teaches that it's about more than just finding deals—it's about finding pleasure in your present life. It is about being resourceful—working with what you have, then working what you have. Practically Posh is your bible for living as a bon vivant on a budget.
From how to score a seat at the trendiest restaurant and tips for being arty without being affected, to easy cheats for staying beautiful and advice on how to book your dream vacation now, the book includes anecdotes, sidebars, quotes, quizzes, and gorgeous photos to punctuate the information from Moreno and her team of experts.
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