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Anne Talbott Jessie, senior director of Ambulatory Nursing Practice at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, Va., recently presented a lecture to Davis & Elkins College nursing students. The grandniece of D....
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In a city with plentiful options for chicken wings, it takes something special to bring wing eaters in the door.
At Doc Sullivan's (474 Abbott Road, 822-1182), the standout is wings "Smitty's style." Jill Sullivan, who runs the kitchen, said the signature wings are bathed in a butter sauce imbued with a custom spice mixture that includes familiar flavors like garlic, and others that leave customers wondering.
Ground cloves and celery salt are among the less familiar ingredients in the mix, Sullivan said. The name, and the recipe, harken back to a bar named Smitty's that once occupied the current Doc Sullivan's space. In 1999, when the new owners took over, they got the recipe.
The place sells a lot of chicken during its 35-cent wing specials on Monday and Tuesday, when the bar can go through a batch of Smitty's sauce, about a gallon and a half, in two days.
The heat level is independent of the Smitty's seasonings. Smitty's wings can still be ordered hot, medium and mild. The kitchen uses Frank's Hot Sauce to boost the spiciness for each order. They cost $7 for 10, or $12 for 20, and come with celery, carrots and a custom blue cheese sauce with onions and sour cream.
On a recent weekend, Sullivan said, she met a couple from out of town who came into Doc Sullivan's and said their grandmother was a regular. "We wanted to go to Duff's or Anchor Bar," they told Sullivan. "But she made us come in here for Smitty's."
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Magistrate denies bond change
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ELKINS — A Beverly man charged with two counts of first degree sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl appeared in Randolph County Magistrate Court Monday....
Sorry MuckRaker....meant to give you an 'agree' click but hit wrong one.
Totally agree with your assessment. But then again....weasle lawyers never surprise me when their 'ridiculous' defense tactics. I don't know how they live with themselves defending child molesters. If we had a decent Governor and had majority of criminal-loving liberals out of our state's house....perhaps we would start giving child molesters more prison time than someone who jaywalks.
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He says right after Sochi, but I could see him changing his mind and deciding to go to the 2014 Worlds as well. I kind of expected 2014 to be his last season, as he's been around for awhile and has been injured. I'll miss him though!
He says right after Sochi, but I could see him changing his mind and deciding to go to the 2014 Worlds as well. I kind of expected 2014 to be his last season, as he's been around for awhile and has been injured. I'll miss him though!
Me thinks your dream of Kozuka winning Worlds was simply that even if he made it, a dream, but if you think Kozuka actually had a chance to win Worlds, then 110% for sure Takahshi definitely has that chance.
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Lets put it this way: I believe Takahashi can win. If you asked me to make a prediction, I'd predict Hanyu winning.
My hope for Kozuka was entirely a hopediction (hope rationalized as a prediction). Or more accurately, my hope was...
2013: Podium of Kozuka-Fernandez-Abbott (or Takahashi)
2014: Podium of Takahashi-Hanyu-Kozuka
2015: Podium of Hanyu-Fernandez-Song
2016: .... Ehh, you get the idea :D
My dream podium would be the same as yours for 2013 except replacing Kozuka with Takahashi. I love Fernandez and Abbott but dont except to ever see Abbott on a World podium at this point (please prove me wrong), while Fernandez definitely will be on one at some point IMHO (but who knows, who would have thought Oda would never make one, and he now clearly never ever will make one) but maybe not this year, maybe a better chance for next year if he ups his GOE and PCS enough he doesnt need to land 3 or 4 quads or need Chan or Hanyu to blow totally. I honestly dont get the love for Kozuka, he has nice programs, but I dont find his performance skills that great, I find he looks down while he skates, isnt that exciting or interesting despite the good choreography, and his elements are good but nothing special compared to the top guys. I think he could win another World medal someday (could, not neccessarily will) but I think his silver at the 2011 Worlds will always be his career high point. Frankly I wouldnt want a skater like him ranked that high, as it means someone like Chan has no competition and can win every event falling atleast 4 times, if someone like Kozuka is the best that is challenging him, since someone like that is no challenge to someone like Chan. I see him as the Japanese federation do, the perennial #3 if things all go as planned, an emergency #1 or #2 if others struggle, and what he is this year, off the World team, if he doesnt skate well.
Kozuka is one of those skaters who is just better seen live than on TV...something about the ease, edging and flow of his skating...The first time I ever saw him live was at Skate America this year, and I really get what the hype is about now..
I don't think any man in the top 5 being considered is a lock to win Worlds. It's going to come down to who lands their quads, who skates clean and who puts in the best performance. All of the men have failed at one time or another to fulfill all that. All I know is it's going to be a great competition.
My odds to win Worlds at this point would be:
Takahashi- 35%
Hanyu- 30%
Chan- 25%
Fernandez-5% (his odds to medal I think are quite decent, but not to win)
All others combined- 5%
Some might disagree with these, but what I think we can all agree on is the first 3 are quite close, and Fernandez is the only other possible but a real long shot to actually WIN this year. I really really hope it is Takahashi his year though. This will shock people but I would much rather Chan win than Hanyu. The hype around Hanyu lately is nauseating me, and his inflated PCS and even sometimes exagerrated GOEs are becoming an evcen bigger joke than Chans being guaranteed to win every event with 6 falls and all others clean for 2-3 years was. Now that Chans scores have come down to earth somewhat (PCS still overgenerous for some of his sloppier, more error prone skates, but you cant expect the judges to be perfect when it comes to their pets) and he has managed to shut up his loudmouth he used to bring to press conferences, and keep it in his head mostly at last, he isnt all that bad. On another note that other Canadian loudmouth Scott Moir has also kept his trap shut this year, even at the GP final where IMO he would have had legitimate reason to complain unlike many times he did in the past with no legitimate reason to, so maybe the CSA has clammed Chan and Moir up, and if they did bravo to them for that.
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Is Daisuke really planning to forego 2014 Worlds in Tokyo? Seems like competing there would be a perfect send-off for him. Regardless, it'll be sad not being able to see him skate after next year. Hope he wins the Olympics and another world title before he hangs up his skates.
My hope is he is not eclipsed by Yuzu if JSF sees him winning medals, posting huge scores. Dai may be number two man going into Sochi. For me. Hanyu is a decade behind in age but moreso style. He is wild energy out there. The beautiful control Dai has in every program. Of course he falls but quickly resumes his musicality. Not many men are so musical. In the last decade, Buttle? Lambiel? Matt Savoie was a great stylist and under rated. Evan is artistic tho not in the same league as Dai, Buttle, Chan, Lambiel.
One other male skater at the near top skates with elan like Daisuke- our very own Adam Rippon. He is a great skater-may he get his head together, his jumps and show us he is in the class of men that is very small.
If Dai is in the pantheon of great artists, who is with him? I will go back to the big names, big medal winners. These skaters are I believe Skaters skaters. John Curry brought a beautiful body line. He had a balletic influence on the men. Robin Cousins was so versatile, so he eeks in here. I think booth Boitana and Orser were elegant men with the nod to Orser. Toller was a dancer, painter, skater. He is the most unique, talented skater. His elegance tells me he is a Dai fan. Kurt was an athlete but his pro years proved he was a dancer at heart with Nyah, In the rain, many more. Chan is alone with Dai and Adam Rippon for sheer elegance in the ranks of Amateurs. Javi is all around good but cannot bring people to tears. Maybe Abbott belongs in this group. He isn't a consistent jumper but Les Mis is wonderful if you see an easier version. Jeremy skates frpm his heart with love.
It is sad when a great one hangs up his skates. I hope Chan stays in. I hope he doesn't win cuz you know he'll retire. Like Kwan, I want to see him at 25. He should be awesome.
I even hate to see Plush leave. That is like a death in men's skating. His style improves and I'm glad we see him still. Just a hanful of greats every four years. Actually every 8 years.
I think if one of Dai or Hanyu wins Worlds they will the Japanese number 1 backing for next year. If neither does then it is still up in the air.
Honestly, I do not wish Chan win the world this time. Takahshi or Hanyu would be a good choice.
It is hardly a news about Takahashi quitting competition after Sochi.
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We all knew this was coming unfortunately. Once he made comments about almost retiring a couple of years ago I knew. It's feels like it did for me when Buttle and Lambiel left.
I'm sure all my favs will be moving on after this Olympics.


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The story behind the Texas Rangers opening day panorama
While at a planning meeting an idea was thrown out about shooting a 360 degree spherical panorama during the pre-game ceremonies for the Texas Rangers home opener. I was very skeptical as to how this would look. It had been a while since we tried one and we never attempted it with so many people around on deadline.
After doing some digging we realized the stitching software had been vastly improved since we last tried shooting one of these. The biggest improvement is the ability to mask out areas that won't stitch properly. This was a big problem in the past. Anytime something or somebody would move from a stationary position as we were shooting various frames, then we would get ghosting in the final image. This will still happen since it is impossible to shoot all 6 frames at one time. So to pull it off it takes a little luck.
I chose to shoot the panorama during the National Anthem, since I knew people would be relatively still. Everything was shot and I was waiting on the B-1 bomber to fly over. It was supposed to happen when the National Anthem ended. As the song finished there was no bomber. I took a frame to be safe, but really wanted the plane in the shot. About 10 seconds went by, which felt like an eternity. I was afraid they would start rolling up the flag and that people would start to sit down. Thankfully the plane made it. I snapped the frame and went to transmit.
Here is a composite of what the 6 individual shots taken with an 8mm lens looked like before the stitching:
I used a Canon EOS 5D with a Sigma 8mm f2.8 lens (a full frame camera gives the widest view). A special tripod mount called a Nodal Ninja is used to make sure when moving the camera between shots that it is pivoted on the nodal point of the lens (this is the center of the lens where the light waves cross one another). If the camera does not pivot on the nodal point then you will get parallax errors when stitching because the perspectives will not match.
Line up for the first shot (use the same exposure for all shots) and make sure you have plenty of depth of field to keep the whole scene in focus. Rotate 90 degrees then take another, repeat 2 more times at 180 degrees then 270 degrees. Once those four are taken then you are ready for the sky. Point up and shoot. Then the last one is tricky: shooting downwards. Take your best guess as to where the camera was placed. I usually just pick up the whole tripod and shoot the ground from there. You will be in the shot, but don't worry you can use the new masking feature in PTGui to mask yourself out!
Here is a look a the PTGui interface before the final stitching was completed:


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Red Kelly.
Close thread.
After Kelly. Kelly not only went to the Wings rival, but won four Cups playing center for the Leafs, and had his jersey honored by the Leafs.
Meanwhile, the Wings didn't win squat for another 40 years.
That said, his jersey should be hanging from the JLA rafters today, regardless.
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With the 2011 NFL draft drawing ever nearer, teams up and down the board are giving more and more indications of their preferences for certain players. Patrick Peterson, the draft's top cornerback, seems to be the latest apple of the Carolina Panthers' eye. Panthers head coach Ron Rivera, a former defensive back in his own right, might be a big reason for that shift in the wind.
If Peterson goes first overall, the dominoes start to fall very differently. Until they fall in a more official way, we cannot know very much for certain, but here is a mock draft based on the best of what we know so far about whom certain teams like best.


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Source: CNN Money
quote: Insourcing production though doesn't seem like the right idea.
quote: Apple's R&D as a % of revenue is about the lowest there is in the tech industry. Like Sony, they're fast becoming a marketing company selling other companies' products by slapping their brand name label onto it.Unless they revive their in-house R&D and production, that name recognition is only going to carry them so far before people figure out that they can buy pretty much the same product elsewhere for a lower price. e.g. The Macbooks are designed and manufactured by Quanta, who also designs and makes most of the HP and some of the Dell laptops. Those HPs and Dells which are "copying" the Macbooks? They're not actually copies, they just look alike because they were designed and manufactured by the same (Taiwanese) people.


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Now I go back the other day and they get all pissy with me and snotty because I'm one pound over my ideal weight!!! Mind u I was not exactly skinny before baby I weighed 160 ill be 29 weeks on Wednesday and have only gained 15 pounds, but really one pound!!!!
Just curious if anyone else's office people sucked??


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Walk With the Animals
After nearly a decade of strife made the country a no-go zone for tourists, Zimbabwe is now undergoing a major economic revival, more political stability—and the return of its legendary safari guides. Welcome to the most intense big-game experience in Africa.
TANZANIA has a spectacular wildebeest migration that sends hundreds of thousands of creatures pounding across the Serengeti. Kenya has the vast open plains of the Maasai Mara, where big game is easily spotted alongside traditional herders. South Africa has private parks where you're virtually guaranteed a sighting of the big five—lion, leopard, rhino, elephant and buffalo—in just a day of game drives. But Zimbabwe, only recently reopening to an influx of safari-goers after nearly a decade of political and economic upheaval, offers something categorically different from anywhere else in Africa: the chance to track, approach and get very close to wild animals on foot.
"Everyone always tells you not to run," says Dave Christensen, as we climb down from the Land Rover and get ready to approach elephants and antelope drinking from a pool at Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe. "But my rule is this," says Christensen, who has been guiding walking safaris for more than 20 years. "Move very slowly near animals and don't ever back away fast or run from them—unless I tell you to. Sometimes getting out of there quickly is the only option."
Zimbabwean safari guides are known as the best on the continent. Apprentices must train for years under master guides and don't just learn to spot and track animals from the comfort and safety of their vehicles. Prospective guides spend years getting close to the animals, and before they can even take a rigorous weeklong field exam conducted in the bush—the toughest guide exam on the continent, by far—they must have shot and killed at least five big animals. (These are animals that need to be culled, not ones killed for sport.) Most guide candidates arrive with many more than five kills. When he took the test at 22 years old, Christensen became the youngest person ever to pass the exam until his best friend, Ivan Carter, now the most famous elephant hunter in the world, did so at age 21 a few years later.
Christensen, 44, who grew up in rural areas of Zimbabwe, sharpened his safari skills by spending his early career in the country's national parks: eight years in Mana Pools, much of that time as a canoe guide; five in Hwange; and four in Matusadona. By 2004, just as he was approaching the apex of his profession, Zimbabwe had become a deeply troubled place: White-owned farms were seized by militants, many of them claiming to be veterans of the war of independence, with the endorsement of Robert Mugabe's government. Opposition leaders were jailed. The economy spiraled into ruin as the country's once strong agricultural sector collapsed. The national bank frantically printed more and more currency, inducing crippling inflation. Millions of Zimbabweans were forced to leave their country to survive.
As Zimbabwe's economy went into free fall and political instability made it a no-go zone for most tourists, its safari guides were also forced to seek work abroad, mainly in Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa and Botswana. Christensen had gained enough know-how and professional recognition to partner with a well-known Kenyan guide, Justin Bell, and his company, Wilderness Africa, and strike out as a private guide—a kind of uber-guide, not wedded to a single park or country, who advises clients and accompanies them to select destinations.
But now, four years after Zimbabwe tied its currency to the dollar and a power-sharing coalition took control, stabilizing the economy and the government, Christensen and many others like him are starting to work again in the landscape they know best and love most. As these professionals return—and as tourists realize that the country is relatively safe (though it remains to be seen whether violence will erupt during next year's elections)—Zimbabwe's safari industry is rebounding. Even though occupancy rates in the high season (June to September) are climbing very fast, Zimbabwe's parks are so vast that the country offers a safari sweet spot: lots of big game; relatively few visitors; and parks that were somehow maintained even during the lean years of the last decade. When I ask safari industry insiders in neighboring countries where they most want to travel right now, almost all give the same answer: on a walking safari in Zimbabwe.
In contrast to neighboring countries, where a big game sighting often provokes a lineup of dozens of vehicles vying for the best view, in Zimbabwe, it's just you and the animals. Our local guide in Hwange, Dixon, stays behind in the vehicle and scans the horizon with binoculars as Christensen and I walk toward the pool of water. As we approach the elephants, he takes out a small plastic squeeze bottle containing fine white ash and puffs some into the air, gauging the breeze. We are downwind and, undetected by the elephants, cover the remaining ground quickly and quietly. As we get closer, Christensen motions for me to get down on the ground. I kneel, take out my binoculars and watch the animals drinking from the pool and splashing around with their young. A few elephants suddenly look up from the water. "They might have spotted us," says Christensen, "stay very still."
Suddenly there's a sharp honk from our car horn. Christensen looks back toward the driver, who frantically points behind us. Christensen waves for me to slowly lay down on the ground, then pokes his head up to have a look. Finally he sees, through his binoculars, what the driver is trying to warn us about: a pride of lions, stealthily approaching the nearby herd of antelope. After he spots the predators, Christensen motions for me to follow him back toward the vehicle. "The elephants didn't see us," he says. "They saw the lions. We don't want to get caught between predator and prey. We're going back to the car—now."
'In contrast to neighboring countries, where a sighting often provokes a lineup of dozens of vehicles vying for the best view, in Zimbabwe, it's just you and the animals.'
The lions spot us and reroute. By the time we reach the car, the antelopes have fled the scene and the elephants and lions are facing off. Lions don't normally attack full-grown elephants, but they sometimes prey on elephant calves. As we approach them in the vehicle, an elephant bull charges a lion as a few other lions look on. The elephant bull continues to chase the lion, holding him at bay and allowing the younger, slower elephants to put some distance between themselves and the super-predators.
As we watch the confrontation from safely inside the Land Rover, I realize what makes getting out of the car so special: Down on the ground, walking, where we'll spend the bulk of this safari, you have to earn what you see by following animals through the bush and approaching them gingerly so they don't bolt. There is also an undeniable adrenaline rush from knowing that the only thing protecting you from a fierce predator that could effortlessly rip your head off is the guidance and know-how of the guy standing next to you.
On the drive back to camp, I ask Christensen what he meant when he told us that sometimes you have to run. "A few years back I was guiding an older couple," he says. "We were approaching some elephants. An elephant cow started to sniff the ground, and she found our scent. Cows are fierce, but you can sometimes outrun them if they're tracking you by scent. We had no choice but to run. After about a mile, the woman stopped running, out of breath. 'I can't go any further,' she told me. And she meant it. She was done. But the cow was still approaching; it was just a couple of minutes behind us. 'I'm going to have to shoot the elephant,' I said. I took my rifle off my shoulder, readying a bullet. Somehow, after seeing that, she found a way to run for a half mile more, and we managed to lose the cow. That kind of thing is rare, but it happens."
OUR FIRST MORNING in Pamushana, a lodge operated by South Africa's Singita group and located in the southeastern part of Zimbabwe, in a private reserve filled with ancient baobabs, we're met by Difficult Makumbe, a professional tracker whose job it is to help us find rhino. Makumbe sits next to Fortune Masuke, our local guide. Their names illustrate a peculiar Zimbabwean custom: naming a child after the circumstances of his labor and childbirth. We drive out a dirt track until Makumbe spots some black rhino prints made earlier this morning, then we jump off the vehicle and prepare to hike. Makumbe picks up a long stick from the ground, sharpens its point with his knife blade and leads us into the bush. He places the stick on each rhino print he sees. At first he proceeds rapidly, skipping quickly from print to print. Then, when he loses the trail, he pauses, intently focused on the ground around him, and scans the earth for any trace of rhino.
Makumbe learned to track the way many Zimbabwean trackers have: As a child, he was in charge of his family's herd of cattle, and at the end of each day he had to find them to round them up. When he first came to work at Pamushana, he kept quiet about his tracking skills and was given the job of unloading food and drinks, setting up tables for sundowners and serving Pamushana's guests. The lodge sent him to a tracking school in South Africa for training and was surprised when he earned some of the best marks ever seen in the course. When he came back to Pamushana, he wasn't slinging soda anymore.
That morning Makumbe follows the black rhino tracks for two hours. Though we are feeling energized to stay on their trail, Christensen turns to me and says, "I think we should stop now. Tracking takes an incredible mental toll. Whenever we track for long distances we always switch off every hour or so, or you get completely exhausted." We don't find black rhinos that day, but at the end of our walk, we spot two white rhinos. "Rhinos have terrible eyesight," says Christensen, "so if they charge you just get behind a tree or some other nearby object and you're almost always safe." On this walk, I notice Christensen carries no gun. "If someone has to shoot a rhino here," he says, "I don't want it to be me."
Pamushana is the brainchild of American hedge-fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones, who built a trust to safeguard this land, located about 300 miles southeast of the capital, Harare, near the Mozambique border. We had reached Pamushana by private plane, before being chauffeured up a steep, winding drive that delivered us to a lodge built high into the hillside, looking down at a man-made lake and the wild plains beyond. For now, contributions to the trust help run the lodge, fund community development projects and pay for a rapid-response anti-poaching force—the reason that rhino are still so easy to spot here.
'Down on the ground, walking, you have to earn what you see by approaching the animals gingerly so they don't bolt.'
Pamushana is far and away the most lavish lodge in Zimbabwe and its reversal of fortune in the last two years marks the return of high-end tourism. "Just a few years ago we were empty over 300 days a year," says Jason Turner, a Zimbabwean who returned home to oversee the opening of Pamushana in 2007 after spending several years in the European and American hospitality industries. "Last year we had guests for over 300 days of the year." The lodge currently operates at a loss, but the plan, eventually, is to make the place self-sustaining and use tourism revenue to protect the park, employ local people and aid neighboring communities.
"One of the things we've had to convince people of," says Turner, "is that their money isn't funding a government they might oppose. About two percent of what guests pay goes to the government, the rest goes to the Zimbabweans who work here and feed their families from these wages. As people learn that, more and more guests decide to visit."
It's just possible, if you close your eyes on the way from Victoria Falls Airport to the Victoria Falls Hotel and only open them once you're safely ensconced inside its colonial-era walls, to encounter the nearby falls as travelers did long ago. From the veranda in the rear, as you sip a stiff drink, the iron bridge across the Zambezi River is visible in the foreground, across the lawn, down the canyon. In the background is a massive, foggy spray of mist that shoots up hundreds of feet into the air. Out the back hotel gate, there's a dirt trail, often occupied by baboons and an occasional waterbuck, that leads to the park entrance. Victoria Falls, viewed from inside the park, is grand, magnificent and completely mesmerizing, until you get so wet and cold that shivers send you running out of its footprint and back into the sun, the trail and, inevitably, to the Victoria Falls Hotel veranda. There, with Christensen, we meet a former guide he hasn't seen for years, Blessing Munyenyiwa, who trained in the national parks, earned his license, left the country just as Christensen did but had returned to work at this hotel.
When Zimbabwe's economy and safari industry ground to a halt, Munyenyiwa decided he wanted to learn American-style hospitality, so he headed to Orlando, Florida, where he trained to become a tour guide at Disney DIS 0.34 % World. After his initial screening he was selected to become a guide in the Animal Kingdom's Kilimanjaro Safari ride. He didn't tell his teachers that long before he donned his Mickey Mouse hat, he'd spent years in the wilds of Africa as an actual safari guide. He passed his final exam with flying colors, garnering some of the highest marks instructors had ever seen. "I was trained by the best," Munyenyiwa told them, still not tipping his hand.
Munyenyiwa's story reminds me of what's drawn these men and others like them back to Zimbabwe and its game parks. Many of Africa's safaris, no matter how magnificent the game-viewing, offer a kind of Disney World experience in which you watch from inside the ride as the world unfolds around you. But in this country, you can approach dangerous animals virtually alone, living the thrill of the hunt.
STRETCH FERREIRA, a tall, bearded 58-year-old Zimbabwean who has been guiding walking safaris for the last 25 years is definitely still living the thrill of the hunt. Before he started guiding he was a professional hunter, and though he lost the desire to kill animals, he's retained a hunter's mania for tracking his quarry. He's got lion on the brain.
Ferreira now runs a safari operation in Mana Pools called Goliath Safaris, a few hundred miles downriver from Victoria Falls on the banks of the Zambezi, just across the water from Zambia. It's the most old school of all the camps we visit, with traditional canvas tents erected just for the season and a spectacular location where you can look up from the breakfast table and watch hippos and crocs diving and surfacing on the islands in the river. The game concentration at Mana Pools is extremely high, especially during the dry season when the animals congregate on the flood plains, where fruit trees offer them much-needed food. Mana's elephant bulls, lions and wild dogs are all approachable—as long as you have a wily veteran like Ferreira at your side.
From the minute I arrive, Ferreira tells me that he is determined to help me have a "moment." When I ask what, exactly, he means by that, he just says, "You got to have one, then you'll know." Ferreira's camp is small—just seven tents—and usually filled with repeat visitors, who come not just for the wildlife and natural beauty of Mana but also to spend time with Ferreira, one of the great characters of Zimbabwe's safari world. As it's still early in the season, he doesn't yet have a good grasp of where the lions are hanging out during the day. Early each morning he drives off alone to track down his favorite animals so that he can bring guests back to see them.
The day we arrive Ferreira takes us to a pack of wild dogs he'd located. We turn off the main road and drive across a dry river and then Ferreira inches along a sandy road and, finally, rolls to a quiet stop. Christensen and I hop off the vehicle, and he tells me that we'll crawl on our bellies to approach the dogs. We plant our stomachs in the sand and start to slink toward the speckled animals lying listlessly in the shade. As we creep into range, they run off into the adjacent scrub. "That means their den is in the other direction," Christensen says. "They have pups in the den right now; they'll always lead us away from that place."
The next morning at Mana, Ferreira takes me out in search of my moment. We drive along the riverbank and he spots a middle-aged elephant bull known as JD—short for Juvenile Delinquent. Ferreira parks the truck, unsheathes his rifle, slings it over his shoulder and motions for me to follow as he stoops down and slowly walks toward the elephant. Whenever we set out on a walk like this, Christensen first preps his bolt-action rifle and then loads a pencil flare into his breast pocket. He doesn't believe in warning shots, but he does believe in first trying the flare, which tends to stop the charge. "The last thing a guide ever wants to do is kill an animal," Christensen says, "but you always have to be ready."
'"Even if he charges," warns our guide, "don't back away. If he sees you back up, things can get very bad."'
Zimbabwe is one of several African nations that still permits regulated hunting of big game, provided that hunters pay a sizable fee to the government for each animal they intend to hunt and kill only in designated private-hunting concessions. Though Christensen and Ferreira long ago renounced hunting for themselves, these two guides, like almost every guide of their generation, grew up hunting in rural Zimbabwe. "I'd shoot bushpigs as a teenager, then sell the meat for spending money," says Christensen. "What we do on safari is a lot like what hunters do when they track their prey and prepare for a kill."
"But we're not hunting for a trophy to hang over our mantelpiece," says Ferreira. "We're hunting for a moment between us and the animal. That's much more precious. And they don't end up dead!"
When we get close to JD, we slow down. Ferreira pauses and says to me intently, "Even if he charges, don't back away. If he sees you back up, things can get very bad." We walk to the tree nearest JD and then Ferreira leads me, stooped over, closer and closer to the enormous elephant. Finally he motions for me to sit down and we shuffle even closer. JD feeds on the tree that towers above us and then, after ripping out all he can chew, he approaches us.
A woman in our small group is alarmed and stands up to back away, and just as Ferreira said, JD seizes the opportunity to move in quickly to confront us, tusks waving near us. Ferreira picks up a stick and motions the elephant away, saying, "Easy, my boy. Easy JD." As JD backs up a bit, Ferreira turns to me and says, "Of course he doesn't understand what I say, but he knows my voice and he knows not to be afraid. I'm not a threat, so there's no reason for him to attack." By now JD has worked his way up to the tree branches right over our heads. He stretches out his trunk, stands up on three legs, pulls down huge hunks of the tree and then delicately manipulates them into his mouth. Ferreira motions to me to slowly exit the scene while JD focuses on his food.
As we walk back to the truck, Ferreira turns and says, "Now you've had your moment. You get it?" I nod.
As Ferreira starts to obsess again over finding lions, I think about the many moments that have set this trip apart. During eight days in the bush we've spotted lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino and, apart from the leopard, all on foot and at close range. On other safaris, my visual memories were, essentially, not unlike what you might find in any guidebook. Here in Zimbabwe, what I'm left with are vivid scenes of interacting with the animals—plotting how to find them, staying safe as we track, approaching them undetected. And then, finally, earning a moment.


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Three burglaries were discovered Sunday at University Heights apartments by college students returning from their winter break.
The burglaries occurred since Dec. 15 and all three were committed within a two-block radius.
Eight flat-screen television sets, an Xbox game unit and a shotgun were reported stolen from a Custer Street apartment.
On Northrup Place, five TV sets were reported stolen from an apartment, and two TVs, an Xbox, an alarm clock and a pair of sneakers were stolen from a West Northrup Place apartment, Northeast District police said.


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After traveling back to the Mountain State from South Carolina, one of West Virginia's "Rocket Boys" spoke to Buckhannon Rotarians at last week's meeting.
Roy Lee Cooke is a founding member of the Big Creek Missile Agency and one of the original Rocket Boys. A character in the movie "October Sky," played by William Lee Scott, attempts to portray Cooke in his youthful years growing up in Coalwood.
"The movie sort of presents the idea that no one ever supported us," Cook said. "But that's quite untrue, because in Coalwood, from the time that you were born, you were taught to serve other people, encourage other people."
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Roy Lee Cooke, one of the well known 'Rocket Boys' of West Virginia, visits the Buckhannon Rotary Club from South Carolina last week.
Cooke said that if anyone had a project, the community would get involved. He said that if a miner was injured, he was taken care of.
"It seems to me that what was central to the town (of Coalwood) was our little school, that little school on the hill," Cooke said.
When he heard about the movie, Cooke said he thought there wouldn't be anyone on earth that would be interested in a group of boys making rockets.
"The truth is, Coalwood, West Virginia in McDowell County, as impoverished as we think that it is today, was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful place to live," Cooke said, adding there were roads, sidewalks, ball parks, playgrounds, a couple schools, a couple churches, a newspaper and eventually, a swimming pool. "We had an ideal place to live in an unideal world."
Cooke began his college education at Concord College in Athens, but he didn't stay in West Virginia much longer. He transferred to and graduated from the University of Maryland. He said that when he left West Virginia, he left "practically forever." He said the things he learned in Coalwood are still with him today.
The problem with youth leaving the state after graduating from high school existed when Cooke was young, he said, adding that it hasn't changed. Every one of his friends also left the state, Cooke said.
Cooke and his friends Jimmy "O'Dell" Carroll, Homer Hickam Jr., Billy Rose, Sherman Siers and Quentin Wilson formed the Big Creek Missile Agency when they attended Big Creek High School together.
"We don't think one person can change a person's life, but one person in Coalwood changed six young men's lives in many ways," Rotarian Stephen Cain said about Cooke.
Cooke said people often talk about the country "going over the hill," but that another thing that hasn't changed is opportunity. Cooke said it doesn't matter what a person's background is or where they came from when it comes to opportunity.
"If you will get an education, or if you want to become a welder, if you get that training and apply it and have good work ethics, you have the same opportunity to get a piece of that American pie," he said.
Part of Cooke's piece of the "American pie" is the businesses he owns in West Virginia and South Carolina. He owns The Cooke Company, a company devoted to bringing new businesses and venture capital into West Virginia, according to the Rotary program.
He also owns The Empire Company LLC, a hotel developing business.
Cooke also graduated from the American Institute of Banking in Washington, D.C. He is now retired from banking after spending 25 years in the profession. He has been the president of Carolina Domestic Coal since 1986.


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Rose Hill School
Cherokee Strip Museum2617 West Fir Street
Perry, OK 73077
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|10 am to 4 pm
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Use of drones over Oklahoma Historical Society property is not permitted without written approval of the facility director.
Cherokee Strip Museum
The museum mission is to collect, preserve, and interpret the history of the Cherokee Outlet. In the 19th Century the United States government resettled Native American tribes from all parts of the country into Indian Territory. During this removal process, part of the northern portion of what is now Oklahoma was given by treaty to the Cherokee Nation as a "perpetual outlet west..." Officially called the Cherokee Outlet, the region became known as the Cherokee Strip. Eventually, the federal government relocated "friendly tribes" such as the Osage, Kaw, Ponca, Pawnee, Nes Perce, Otoe-Missouria, and Tonkawa in the eastern part of the Outlet.
After the Civil War, Texas cattlemen drove cattle herds to the railheads in Kansas for shipment to northern cities. By leasing the excellent grasslands in the Outlet to the Cherokee Strip Livestock Association, the Cherokee made a profit on their western lands. Pressure from "boomers" forced the Cherokee to sell the land to the federal government for $8,505,736 or about $1.40 per acre. The government was then free to open the area by land run to homesteaders.
The land opened at noon on September 16, 1893, in the largest land run in history. By horse, train, wagon, and on foot more than 100,000 land hungry pioneers raced for 40,000 homesteads and the valuable town lots. The Cherokee Strip Museum provides an opportunity to explore the remarkable events and people who made-up the history of the Outlet.
Located on the grounds of the Cherokee Strip Museum is a one-room school that houses the award winning living history program, "A Day at Rose Hill School." Throughout the school year, fourth grade students from across the state can experience a school day set in 1910 rural Oklahoma. The educational program is offered through a partnership between the Oklahoma Historical Society and the Cherokee Strip Historical Society.
A Teacher's Guide may be accessed at A Day at Rose Hill.
For more information, visit the The Cherokee Strip Museum's website at


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25 - Number of Points Scored by Chris Otule and Davante Gardner
Redshirt senior Chris Otule made his return to the court for Marquette in Sunday's home opener against Colgate and he got involved early scoring the team's third and fourth points of the game. After undergoing knee surgery, the use of Otule was going to be monitored early by coach Buzz Williams. Davante Gardner was seen as more of an offensive option, while Otule would work on defense.
Oddly enough, Otule did not record a single rebound in the game but was 5-for-5 in shot attempts for 11 points. His free throw in the second half gave the team their largest lead of the first half as the Golden Eagles led by 14.
Gardner was aggressive on defense and recorded six rebounds with four of them coming on offense. He was almost "automatic" from the free throw line hitting four of five shots.
21 - Number of Minutes Played by the Freshmen
Freshman Steve Taylor came to Marquette after averaging 18.1 points per game for Simeon High School. The jitters appeared to be present in his first collegiate game as he did not get onto the stat sheet until there were about five minutes left in the second half. He only attempted three shots and none of which were three-pointers. Expect him to come into the game with a different mentality on Tuesday night.
Jamal Ferguson closed out the game with a dunk. In his eight minutes of action, he picked up a rebound, caused a steal, and scored four points. Much like Taylor, he did not take a shot from the three-point line. The game against Southeastern Louisiana could serve as a chance for them to test their range.
One - Number of Three Pointers Hit By Jake Thomas Redshirt junior Jake Thomas got his first opportunity to show off his range that has been hyped up since he decided to transfer from South Dakota. He missed his first two attempts, before making sure that the third time was the charm. He had one of the team's six three pointers.
On defense, he was diving after balls and collected four rebounds. Four assists and one steal is more than what can be asked for from a bench player making his debut for Marquette.
Five - Number of players with nine or more points Last year, Jae Crowder and Darius Johnson-Odom carried the team's offense. This year's team has a much different look with multiple contributors. Jamil Wilson led the team with 15 points and Gardner was right behind him with 14 of his own. Seeing Junior Cadougan up with some of the top scorers speaks values about the transformation that Williams has been able to put together.
Does this team need a scoring leader? Trent Lockett or Jamil Wilson could be the faces of the team, but the scoring and defense could be left up to multiple people.
Lockett's debut consisted of seven points and seven rebounds. He was able to collect five steals and three assists. He was welcomed to the Golden Eagles with 19 minutes of action. Definitely will be an important piece of the team's build going forward.
653 - Number of Days Since Juan Anderson Has Scored More Than Seven Points If there was a changed man on the court on Sunday, it was Juan Anderson. He was one point and one rebound away from a double-double. There was a quick scare in the second half for him as his shoulder was being checked out by team doctors, but it was just scar tissue.
He played 21 minutes in the game and made a case for more playing time as the team starts to prepare for the Maui Invitational after their game on Monday. In the post game press conference, he admitted to not having seen this much time on the floor since his high school days.
In his last high school game, he scored 17 points. He is not there just quite yet, but he did surpass his seven points from his game against Arroyo High School on January 28, 2011.


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I like Jim Harbaugh.
He's had his ups and downs.
You can't forget the Mike Ditka insani-tirade in that awful Bears loss to the Vikings with the Harbaugh audible, the interception, and the 20 to nothin' Bears lead in the 4th going poof.
I was with my dad at the only bar in Prescott Arizona with cable.
Unbelievably, we were the only Bears fans.
A whole bar-ful of Viking fans in Prescott Arizona?
So I was pretty irate myself when Harbaugh threw the interception.
At first the dressing down by Ditka felt good, but after awhile I thought well...maybe he's been waiting 10 years to blow his stack ever since he decided to get that perm in '82.
We had to skulk out when it was over.
Anyway, Harbaugh.
You saw him in the 4th quarter against the Falcons, right?
Going crazy on the sidelines when it was ruled that Harry Douglas had caught the ball Harbaugh thought had hit the ground?
Wonder where he got that crazy act.
But..pure entertainment, and that kind of crazy seems to be working for the Niners.
That particular play is when I decided to do this painting.
One of the really great things about the Superbowl Sunday?
It'll be followed a week later by... Pitchers and Catchers Report Sunday.
Go Baseball!
The painting style is lifted from one of my fav painters, the great Francis Bacon.
I really like the post-modern
I really like the post-modern, neo-existentialist, illusory tiradist escapist feel to this work. And, more seriously, nice!
When I saw painting I though
When I saw painting I though of Ralph Steadman.
Great job!
and I thought of Edvard Munch
Surely, it's a nod to Francis
Surely, it's a nod to Francis Bacon, is it not?
... And I just saw the
... And I just saw the postscript. *Head slap*
Something to do with bats..
Something to do with bats...wooden and mammal.
you'll be seeing them soon
John Rocker, in 1999: "I'm
John Rocker, in 1999: "I'm not a racist or prejudiced person, but certain people bother me."
...I saw him mentioned in the twitterfeed banner and thought I'd read the article. I don't know if it's possible to be more over the top than he was.
"im not racist...but..."
"im not racist...but..."
yeah, just stop right there, guy.
"Matt garza [email protected]
"Matt garza [email protected]
Just finished my first bullpen of spring! Glad to be back on the bump!"
also, C.Carpenter (BOS) cleared waivers and outrighted to AAA.
"The Chicago Cubs invited 22
"The Chicago Cubs invited 22 non-roster players to major league spring training, including top prospect Javier Baez, the team announced on Friday."
McLeod-athon on the twitter
McLeod-athon on the twitter left sidebar courtesy of Bruce Miles from a Q&A event in Kane County on Friday night.
Bruce Miles blog on Kane
I'm a bears' fan, who went to
I'm a bears' fan, who went to Univ of Michigan and I've lived in Ann Arbor for over 20 years after growing up in Chicago etc. My brother went to Indiana and married a lady from Indie during the captain comeback years. I should be the ideal Jim Harbaugh fan and I detest him (though I respect his coaching ability). Is there anyone outside of SF who doesn't want to punch him in the face (figuratively)?
Jim [email protected]
Want a free mini e-book about Bill Veeck? @UChicagoPress is giving them away here: http://bit.ly/freebk
welly ready to take over as cubs #1 catcher...i'm ready for him to take over, too.
the expected Ks might be a bit high, but i like the rest of the package.
Tim are you working in guache
Tim are you working in guache now? Mixed media with pastels and watercolor? Nice work! More of this, please?
meanwhile, we now live in a
meanwhile, we now live in a world where the tax implications of trademarking the name "Kaepernicking" are discussed.
ChicagoCubsOnline [email protected]
ChicagoCubsOnline [email protected]
RT @Tcampana_24 On my way to Phoenix with @whit_law ready to get season goin ready for a #breakoutseason
good luck on breaking the
good luck on breaking the iowa cubs team SB record, guy.
fwiw, Chico Walker - 67 - 1986
When Chico was traded to the
When Chico was traded to the Angels, we got a guy named Todd Fischer who had made 9 MLB appearances, all out of the bullpen, the last of which ended with him getting the loss in an extra-inning game against the Red Sox without throwing a ptich. He entered the game and immediately balked in the winning run. After the trade to the Cubs, he apparently never played another inning of organized ball again after the trade.
...and the 2013 Baseball
...and the 2013 Baseball Season begins
Interesting article with John
Interesting article with John Mozeliak re: sabermetrics, player development, projections, and misc.
Scott Kazmir throwing 94
Scott Kazmir throwing 94 again? It might be a steal for Cleveland.
jed lowrie's career gets
jed lowrie's career gets screwed over...traded to the A's to be a part time player. chris carter and brad peacock going to HOU...OAK also gets fernando rodriguez. HOU also gets minor league catcher max stassi.
another mindblowingly stupid trade for HOU.
Lowrie's propensity for
Lowrie's propensity for injury has long made him a part time player.
for a team with little
for a team with little immediate need, even for a guy like lowrie, i would have left him and his $2.4m plugged into 600+ PA at SS to get something more than a sketchy middle-rotation ceiling pitcher, a A+ ball catcher with a bit of power upside, and a 160+K 1st/DH...especially for a team that doesn't need a 1st.
lowrie's not just a guy who plays SS, he plays it good enough to stay there. OAK will shuffle him around 2nd/3rd and bit of time at SS...as it is he'll probably steal more playing time at 3rd with OAK.
then again, i don't like c.carter...i think even at his best he's a 25-30HR guy while K'ing a ton. i'd rather gamble on lowrie's upside and worry about trading him mid-season or post-season. HOU's in no hurry and they got a sub-40m roster anyway.
Tim [email protected]
I watched #Cubs RHP Matt Garza throw at Fitch Park today. Long toss and off the mound, looked very strong. Pitchers and catchers Feb 10!
Today is the deadline for the
Today is the deadline for the Cubs to either trade, release, or outright Lendy Castillo.
Saturday and Sunday are not MLB business days during the off season, so the Cubs had to place L. Castillo on waivers no later than 2 PM (Eastern) last Friday so that he will clear waivers today (actually the MLB daily waiver report is issued at 1 PM Eastern, so the Cubs will find out in less than an hour if Castillo was claimed).
If he is not claimed off waivers, I would expect the Cubs to outright Lendy to either Tennessee or Daytona rather than to Iowa.
BTW, Castillo will NOT have the option to elect free-agency if outrighted, but he will be a Rule 55 minor league free-agent (6YFA) if he is not added back to an MLB 40-man roster by 5 PM (Eastern) on the 5th day following the conclusion of the 2013 World Series.
lendy makes it unclaimed and
lendy makes it unclaimed and is outrighted to AAA.
CF David DeJesus/Brett Jackson
SS Starlin Castro
LF Alfonso Soriano
RF Nate Schierholtz/DeJesus
C Welington Castillo
3B Ian Stewart/Luis Valbuena
DH Wilson Betemit/Trayvon Robinson
2B Darwin Barney
When did Cubs get Betemit and Robinson? And when did they move to the AL?
Yeah, I wondered about that
Yeah, I wondered about that too.
So, we are supposed to call this guy an "expert" prospect grader? He doesn't know what players are on which team?
editor 'effed that one up I'm
editor 'effed that one up I'm sure, over-aggressive copying and pasting probably and missed Rizzo..although he certainly won't be batting 7th.
no rizzo...schierholtz
no rizzo...schierholtz batting 4th...DH slot with those guys...seems legit.
Only Jesus could love a punch
Only Jesus could love a punch and judy no glove player like you-
pierre was always weak with
pierre was always weak with the bunt, but he knows way better than to handle a bat like that...hell, even pitchers in the AL know better than that.
Looks like Chris Carpenter's
Looks like Chris Carpenter's career is over. DL, not retirement, so he still gets a dozen millions this year.
Re: Can Hak-Ju Lee stay in the majors with an empty .280 BA because of his defense?
Yes. For a long time. Also gets a boost because he can run.
Obligatory Vogelbach question
Klaw: Obligatory reference to his weight
Re: Most overrated prospect, is it Mike Olt?
He'd be in the mix. Solid player, not a star. Syndergaard, but that may just be a function of unverified reports he threw 102 plus the coverage he got when he was traded. Also a solid prospect. I'm ignoring the guys like Ruf, Gattis, Junior Lake, Szczur, fringy guys who are treated by their own fans as future stars.
Re: How close was Pierce Johnson to Top 100?
Wasn't. Arm action scares me. Would at least like to see a full healthy year first, since he's had so much forearm trouble.
still going on, so there may be more
Hmm..I'm not sure I've seen
Hmm..I'm not sure I've seen any Cubs fans projecting Szczur or Lake as future stars...
maybe more optimistic than Keith Law is, but still.
"Orioles claimed INF/OF Ruzz
"Orioles claimed INF/OF Russ Canzler off waivers from the Yankees."
lulz. another week, another team. maybe he'll stick with this one.
Rahm wants Cubs and Roofies
Rahm wants Cubs and Roofies to make deal by end of the week-
Ryan Braun karma bomb!
Ryan Braun karma bomb!
''There was a dispute over compensation for Bosch's work, which is why my lawyer and I are listed under 'moneys owed' and not on any other list,'' Braun said.
''I have nothing to hide and have never had any other relationship with Bosch,'' he said. ''I will fully cooperate with any inquiry into this matter.''
Wrigley Field - NU baseball
Wrigley Field - NU baseball will be host to Michigan on April 20.
I'd hate to be an achilles
I'd hate to be an achilles tendon running around on that sod on April 29


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Apollo-Metropoulos Team Near Deal to Buy Hostess Twinkies, Other Cakes
Hostess Brands Inc. is nearing a deal to sell its Twinkie brand and other cakes to private-equity firms Apollo Global Management APO 1.38 % LLC and C. Dean Metropoulos & Co. for more than $400 million, said people familiar with the discussions.
A deal would serve as the opening bid in a coming bankruptcy-court auction for the assets, which include Dolly Madison and other brands.
The so-called stalking horse bid could be topped by other suitors at the auction, in which case Apollo and Metropoulos would likely be entitled to what's known as a breakup fee. One person cautioned a deal might not be disclosed until later this week, but the parties were putting finishing touches on the agreement Tuesday.
The deal, which includes several factories, caps Hostess's efforts to sell off popular cake and bread brands as it winds down operations this year. Hostess, based in Irving, Texas, in November announced it was shutting down and selling of its 30 or so brands and 36 plants, a move expected to result in the loss of more than 18,000 jobs. Hostess moved to liquidate after it failed to reach a deal on cost cuts with its second-largest union, representing thousands of bakers.
Hurst Capital, a fledgling private-equity firm run by 26-year-old twins, also vied for Hostess's cake brands, but appears to have fallen short of securing the stalking horse bid.
Apollo, the giant buyout shop co-founded by Leon Black, and Metropoulos, owner of the Pabst Blue Ribbon beer brand, have been looking to partner on a deal for some time. In recent years they've explored buyouts including of Sara Lee Corp. They emerged as the front-runners to snap up Hostess's cake brands and negotiations between them and the company picked up steam in recent days, leading to the expected deal, people familiar with discussions said.
Metropoulos is known for investing in well-known food brands, including Vlasic pickles, Lender's bagels and Mrs. Butterworth's syrups. Meanwhile, Apollo has been a player in food retail. The firm owns a majority stake in Sprouts Farmers Market, which has about 150 natural-food stores in the western U.S., and last year sold Smart & Final Inc., a chain of about 250 warehouse stores, to fellow private-equity firm Ares Management LLC. in deal valued at $975 million.
Flowers Foods Inc., FLO 0.53 % the Thomasville, Ga.-based maker of Tastykakes and Nature's Own breads, is offering up to $360 million in cash for five major Hostess bread brands—including Wonder and Nature's Pride—along with 20 plants and 38 depots. In addition, the baking company is offering $30 million for Hostess's Beefsteak rye brand. A judge Friday cleared Hostess to place those bread assets on the auction block on Feb. 28.
Hostess Monday debuted two more sale deals—one for a group of bread brands including Sweetheart, Eddy's, Standish Farms and Grandma Emilie's, and one for the Drake's brand, which made treats like Devil Dogs, Ring Dings and Yodels before Hostess began liquidating in bankruptcy. United States Bakery Inc., a Portland, Ore., company also known as Franz Family Bakery, is offering $28.85 million for the bread brands plus four bakeries, 14 depots and equipment. McKee Food Corp., the Collegedale, Tenn.-based maker of Little Debbie snack cakes, has submitted a $27.5 million bid for the Drake's brand and certain equipment.
—Ryan Dezember contributed to this article.
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When we think of notebook computers which use Intel Pentium
Dual Core, Core 2 Solo, or Core 2 Duo processors, the systems are usually
paired with an Intel Northbridge and Southbridge. Intel hopes to carry on this
tradition with its Centrino 2 platform which is slated to launch during the
NVIDIA, however, has plans of its own when it comes to
mobile platforms for Intel-based notebooks. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang recently called
Intel out on its integrated desktop/mobile graphics performance. Huang even
went so far as to say that NVIDIA would "open a can of whoop ass"
when it comes to its upcoming products.
It appears that NVIDIA's first few cans of "whoop
ass" are just now leaving the factory and they are labeled MCP79. MCP79 is
a new single-chip integrated chipset for "small form factor"
notebooks according to NVIDIA. Each variant of MCP79 incorporates a DX10-capable
GeForce graphics controller supporting Shader Model 4.0, NVIDIA's VP3 video
processor, and support for Hybrid Power/Hybrid SLI/Hybrid Performance.
In addition, MCP79 features a single-channel TMDS interface
for HDMI 1.2, support for a 1066 MHz FSB, 800 MHz DDR2, 1333 MHz DDR3 memory
support, 3 Gbps SATA/eSATA, NVIDIA DriveCache (similar to Intel
Turbo Memory), an NVIDIA GbE controller, High Definition Audio, TPM 1.2,
and up to 20 PCIe 2.0 lanes.
NVIDIA has plans for six members of the MCP79 family. On the
low-end, the MCP79ML lacks such features as RAID 0/1, PCIe x16, DisplayCache,
and DriveCache. The MCP79GLM will feature a Quadro-based graphics controller
instead of GeForce and the MCP79-SLI will support NVIDIA SLI as its name
implies. Other members of the family include the MCP79MH, MCP79MX, and
NVIDIA's MCP79 family will be going toe-to-toe with Intel's
Centrino 2 platform (Montevina) in
June. Montevina Northbridges will
include the integrated GM45/GM47 and the discrete PM45. The integrated Northbridges will incorporate Intel's new X4500 HD graphics processor (DX10,
HDMI, DisplayPort) which NVIDIA doesn't think too highly of at this point in
time. Like NVIDIA's MCP79, Centrino 2 chipset will support DDR2/DDR3 memory and
support FSB's up to 1066MHz.
Since the Centrino platform won't be a single-chip solution
like NVIDIA's offering, the GM45/GM47 and PM45 will be paired with either the
ICH9M or ICH9-M Enhanced Southbridge.
It's shaping up to be an interesting summer with NVIDIA and
Intel battling it out in the notebook platform sector. If flash manufacturers
could expedite their downward trend for solid-state
drives, the outlook would be even better for consumers.
quote: In addition, MCP79 features a single-channel TMDS interface for HDMI 1.2, ... High Definition Audio, TPM 1.2, and up to 20 PCIe 2.0 lanes.
quote: You do realize LPCM has a higher bitrate ...
quote: Audio data being carried across the HDMI link, which is driven by a TMDS clock running at a rate corresponding to the video pixel rate, does not retain the original audio sample clock. The task of recreating this clock at the Sink is called Audio Clock Regeneration.
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quote: Audio Data Packetization Each Subpacket of an Audio Sample Packet shall contain zero or one IEC 60958-defined "frames" of an IEC 60958 or IEC 61937 "block." There are two defined Subpacket layouts. ...
quote: Optionally, HDMI can carry a single such stream at sample rates up to 192KHz or from two to four such streams (3 to 8 audio channels) at sample rates up to 96KHz.
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Felicitas Vogler: World of Light Exhibition Catalogue
Patrick Elliott
Felicitas Vogler was married to one of Britain's greatest artists, Ben Nicholson, but she was also a celebrated photographer in her own right. Born in Berlin, she began her career as a writer. On a trip to England in 1957 she visited St Ives in Cornwall, where she interviewed Ben Nicholson. They were married just six weeks later, and in 1958 moved to Switzerland. This book, the first on Vogler in English since The Quiet Eye of 1969, includes photographs taken as far afield as Tibet, China, Japan and New Zealand. Like Nicholson, she is attracted to abstract pattern, and to the quiet grandeur and natural rhythms of the landscape.
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WASHINGTON – The shock and revulsion that shook the nation after Friday's elementary school shootings in Connecticut shook the political world, too, prompting some Democrats to speak more boldly than they have in some time about gun control.
President Obama only hinted at the issue in his tear-filled statement on the deaths of 20 school children, six adults and a deranged 20-year-old shooter, saying: "We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics."
But some other Democrats – including Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a possible presidential contender in 2016 – took stronger stands.
"We as a society must unify and once and for all crack down on the guns that have cost the lives of far too many innocent Americans," Cuomo said in a statement. "Let this terrible tragedy finally be the wake-up call for aggressive action and I pledge my full support in that effort."
Still, gun control remains a politically difficult issue, with most Republicans firmly resisting any reinstatement of the long-expired assault weapons ban or any other measures to limit access to weapons.
"I think we have to be careful about new, suggesting new gun laws," Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the incoming chairwoman of the House Republican Caucus, told the Washington Post. "We need to look at what drives a crazy person to do these kind of actions and make sure that we're enforcing the laws that are currently on the books."
Liberal Democrats, though, sounded as if they were ready to give gun control another try after years of leaving the issue on the back burner.
"We hear an awful lot about protecting the right to own a gun," said Rep. Louise M. Slaughter, D-Fairport. "Our nation has an equally somber responsibility to ensure that our children can go to school every morning and come home safely every night. I will always do everything that I can to ensure our children's safety, and if that means that we place commonsense controls on guns, then that is the price I will freely pay."
Meanwhile, Sen. Charles E. Schumer – a New York Democrat who played a key role in the passage of both the Brady bill and the assault weapons ban – said: "Perhaps an awful tragedy like this will bring us together so we can do what it takes to prevent this horror from being repeated again."
Some concrete challenges stand in the way of gun control, however. For one thing, Republicans control the House. And for another, Democrats such as Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, and Rep. Kathleen C. Hochul, D-Hamburg, take money from the National Rifle Association.
Higgins, who took $1,000 in campaign money from the NRA Political Victory Fund in March, released a statement not mentioning gun control but saying: "As a father and as a husband of a public school teacher, I have to say that the word that comes most to mind at a time like this is 'unspeakable.' This is a tragedy of unspeakable proportion, an act beyond comprehension."
Hochul, who took $6,950 from the NRA Political Victory Fund during her recent losing campaign, did not release a statement in wake of the shooting. Neither did Rep. Tom Reed, R-Corning, who took $2,000 from the NRA.
NRA supporters tended to keep rather quiet on Friday, but former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Republican, proved to be an exception.
"People want to pass new laws ... but this is a heart issue, laws don't change this kind of thing," Huckabee told Fox News.
Huckabee also tied school violence to efforts to remove God from the classroom.
"We ask why there's violence in our schools, but we've systematically removed God from our schools," Huckabee said. "Should we be so surprised that schools would become a place of carnage?"
On the other side of the political spectrum, though, Obama is likely to face new pressures from liberals and other gun control advocates to take a stronger stance than he has in the past on the issue.
In fact, that sort of pressure came immediately from one of the nation's most vociferous backers of stronger gun control legislation, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
"Calling for 'meaningful action' is not enough," Bloomberg said. "We need immediate action. We have heard all the rhetoric before. What we have not seen is leadership – not from the White House and not from Congress. That must end today."
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I've still been going over a bunch of the CBA stuff, (seriously, do they purposely make it more difficult than it has to be?) and I've noticed that in the language, they mention the team can only qualify if they have more than one player in arbitration. That specific arbitration is found in section 12.3(a), which is actually club-elected arbitration... so not what Smith is currently going through, as he elected to go to arbitration. As far as I can see, there's nothing about player-elected arbitration. It also reads:
So none of the RFA's in our system seem to apply here. Clearly, I really want to find a way to get rid of Samuelsson. Smith's arbitration does not seem to be the answer, though.


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The key benefit of hollow fiber bioreactor (HFBx) technology is the high cell density attained (>108 cells/mL) through the use of continuous media perfusion to feed cells and remove toxic wastes. These bioreactors consist of semi-permeable hollow fibers in parallel array housed within a polycarbonate shell (Figure 1).
There are two compartments within an HFBx: the intracapillary (IC) space within the hollow fibers and the extracapillary (EC) space surrounding the hollow fibers. The total volume within the polycarbonate shell that surrounds the fibers (EC space) depends on the size of the HFBx.
Typically, cells are seeded into the bioreactor EC space through a port on the top of the HFBx. Fresh medium is continually pumped through the lumen of the fibers. As the cell population expands, this medium feed rate is steadily increased to satisfy nutrient needs and prevent a buildup of metabolic waste. Depending on the average pore size of the semi-permeable hollow fiber membrane, larger MW components such as secreted protein (>10 KD) or viruses will be restricted from crossing into the IC space. Thus, concentrated product is typically harvested from the EC space at a steady rate for the duration of the culture.
Hollow fibers can be constructed from cellulosic, polysulfone, polypropylene, or polyethylene materials, thus allowing a choice depending on the characteristics needed for optimal protein or virus production. The vast majority of HFBx utilize cellulosic fibers for uniform cell expansion and production of mammalian cell-secreted products. Biovest International developed the first commercial-scale HFBx system in the mid 1980s, and ever since the most common application for this technology has been the large-scale production of monoclonal antibodies.
Hollow fiber bioreactors provide several fundamental advantages not found in other reactor systems currently used for virus production:
The threat of pandemic and avian influenza virus outbreaks and the need for vaccine preparedness to control these outbreaks has elevated interest in new production platforms that are less costly and cumbersome than current technologies. In this regard, embryonated hen's-egg-based vaccines are now disappearing in favor of mammalian cell-based vaccines, which, while more convenient and reliable than egg-based vaccines, add another level of complexity to the manufacturing process.
Facing the probability of pandemic outbreaks and the worldwide costs tied to annual human influenza A epidemics, there is a need for new manufacturing technologies utilizing flexible and modular design systems that can improve vaccine-production capacity.
Along these lines, Biovest established a cooperative relationship with the Department of Respiratory Disease Research at the Naval Health Research Center to test the hypothesis that HFBx is an effective and relatively inexpensive production platform for rapid and cost-effective large-scale propagation of pandemic influenza virus isolates. The Biovest HF Primer™ was utilized for these studies. The Primer is a small HFBx designed specifically for R&D of processes that are directly scalable to the larger, more automated HFBx systems.
Bioreactor-adapted Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) cells were grown in the presence or absence of fetal bovine serum in T-150 culture flasks and harvested at 80% confluency. 1x108 cells were added to a Biovest HF Primer unit through the EC portal and allowed to attach to the hollow-fiber membrane. Medium was continuously circulated through the bioreactor for 14 days until the total cell number reached approximately 1x109 cells.
On day 13, a separate flask of MDCK cells was infected with Influenza A/Mexico/4108/2009 H1N1. The following day the influenza virus-infected cells were collected, permeabilized, treated with a fluorochrome-labeled monoclonal antibody against influenza A virus nucleocapsid antigen, and the number of antigen-positive cells was counted using a fluorescent microscope.
Subsequently, 100 virus-infected cells in a 5 mL volume were introduced into the EC space of the bioreactor containing 109 uninfected MDCK cells. For the duration of this study, the bioreactor was maintained with continual medium perfusion in an incubator at 37°C with 5% CO2 atmosphere. To determine the rate of virus growth, samples (0.5 mL) were collected from the ECS at 24-hour intervals post infection (PI) and assayed for infectious virus.
Mark Hirschel, Ph.D. ([email protected]), is CSO, and J. David Gangemi, Ph.D., is senior bomedical consultant at Biovest International. James McSharry, Ph.D., is senior scientist at Ordway Research Institute, and Chris Myers, Ph.D., is laboratory director, department of respiratory disease research, Naval Health Research Center.
Mark Hirschel, Ph.D. ([email protected]), is CSO, and J. David Gangemi, Ph.D., is senior bomedical consultant at Biovest International. James McSharry, Ph.D., is senior scientist at Ordway Research Institute, and Chris Myers, Ph.D., is laboratory director, department of respiratory disease research, Naval Health Research Center.
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VIENNA, 14 December 2011 – The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has received high appreciation for its work from Norway, one of its largest donors, specifically for activities in one of the Organization's three thematic priorities – trade capacity-building.
"UNIDO appears to be delivering good value for money in the field of standards and quality, an area where the organization has a unique competence internationally, which also Norway has played a key role to develop," says a report released by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad).
The other two thematic priorities that UNIDO has traditionally focused on, according to its mandate, are poverty reduction through productive activities, and energy and environment.
The Norad study covers nine multilateral organizations and multilateral trade-related programmes which jointly have received 97 per cent of the Norwegian trade-related support since 2007 channeled through multilateral organizations.
Norad has found that UNIDO's activities are highly relevant with regard to the Norwegian Action Plan of 2007 for trade-related assistance. The report also states that the Organization has implemented measures in such Norwegian priority areas as low-income countries and Africa.
Norway continues to be UNIDO's second largest donor with project contribution totaling over USD 27 million in the period from 2006 to 2010. These funds are being used by UNIDO to promote trade with developing countries and trade capacity-building through standardization and quality assurance.
"Not only has Norway been one of the largest contribu¬tors of voluntary funds to UNIDO's technical assistance programmes, it has also become a reliable and appreci¬ated technical partner, especially in the area of trade capacity-building," said UNIDO Director-General, Kandeh K. Yumkella
Yumkella added that while the close collaboration between Norway and UNIDO and the funding activities related to trade capacity-building were expected to continue, cooperation between the two partners was expected to expand in the area of renewable energy and climate change.
"UNIDO is the largest provider of trade-related technical assistance in the UN system. As a result of in-depth field evaluations of ongoing programmes in Asia and Africa, UNIDO's partnership with the European Commission in this area has also grown in volume terms from about USD 18 million to over USD100 million in the past five years," said Yumkella.
The "Energy for all—Financing access for the poor" approach and the new partnership with Statoil also significantly complement UNIDO's approach to renewable energy for productive activities. They clearly correspond with the UN Secretary-General's Sustainable Energy for All initiative.
The Norad report, "Norway's Trade Related Assistance through Multilateral Organizations: A Synthesis Study Report 8 / 2011 – Study", can be downloaded here:http://www.norad.no/no/resultater/publikasjoner/evalueringer/publikasjon?key=387196
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The couple, who met when Buchanan appeared in Owen's music video for "8 Second Ride" and began dating after she starred in the video for his hit "Barefoot Blue Jean Night," tied the knot in a sunrise ceremony Monday morning in Owen's hometown of Vero Beach, Fla.
But there were no blue jeans on the beach.
The bride, 22, wore an Amsale gown and veil and the groom was casual in a white linen Armani shirt and Tommy Bahama drawstring pants – though both were barefoot on the beach as the sun rose over the ocean.
"That was my idea, because it's symbolic of the dawn of a new day and starting our new life together," Owen told PEOPLE.
The sexy Owen, 30, popped the question to Buchanan on stage at his alma mater, Vero Beach High, this past April after he sang "Don't Think I Can't Love You" – a proposal so spontaneous he didn't yet have the ring he designed himself. Back at their home in Nashville, he took a knee again and proposed properly.
Family-Only CeremonyThe intimate ceremony was a family-only affair. Lacey's sister Leah was her maid of honor, and Jake's twin brother Jarrod served as best man. His uncle, Ron Owen, officiated.
After the couple exchanged vows and their first kiss, the party walked to the patio of the Vero Beach Hotel and Spa for champagne, cake cutting and a sit-down brunch.
"I'm looking forward to being a husband, someone his wife relies and leans on," said Owen, who will hit the road with Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney on June 2 – though not before taking a honeymoon.
Added the bride: "He gives me so much love, that it's the best place of my life, and having the commitment of marriage means everything."


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400 litres of milk for 1 wheel of cheeseTo make one wheel of cheese weighing 35 kg, around 400 litres of fresh raw milk are needed. The cows that provide this precious raw material spend the summer feeding on meadow grass, and the winter feeding on hay. No additives to the cows' diet are permitted. During the long aging period, the cheeses are regularly turned over and rubbed with brine, which accelerates the aging process from the rind inward, and helps to give Gruyère AOP its unique flavour. The AOP label (registered designation of origin) guarantees that only cheese that meets the strict quality control requirements and relevant specifications can be sold as Gruyère AOP.
Pleasure at many levelsGruyère AOP belongs on every cheese platter. It makes an excellent dessert cheese, a tasty snack with crispy bread, and can be used in all manner of dishes. And of course, a genuine fondue always contains some Gruyère AOP!
La Maison du Gruyère a PringyA visit to the "house of Gruyère" is an experience for all the senses. Sounds from nature, and the fragrant scent of alpine meadows and of hay, accompany you as you venture into the world of Gruyère AOP. You can watch the cheese makers at work, of course, in the dairy; sample authentic Gruyère AOP specialities in the restaurant, with its terrace; and buy cheese from the shop, along with other specialities and gifts from the region.
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If March is supposed to go out like a lamb, it will need its heavy wool coat as winter apparently wants to stick around.
Wintry precipitation caused travel problems across the region on Monday, including multiple accidents and some road closures.
Between noon and 6 p.m. Monday, supervisors at both Blair and Cambria County 911 centers reported 44 accidents, 34 of them in Blair with many occurring on Interstate 99 and Route 22.
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Caroline Weyant, 16, walks along 25th Avenue with her friend, Rachel Hock, 15, after the two made a trip to the 25th Avenue Sheetz store on Monday afternoon. The boiler was off at their school, Great Commission School, so the two had the day off.
Supervisors at both centers said there were no major injuries reported and expected call volume to drop to normal levels through the evening.
An accident closed part of Route 350 between Philipsburg and Bald Eagle for a couple of hours on Monday afternoon.
The weather impacted local schools, with most districts opting to send students home early and cancel evening activities.
Hollidaysburg Area School District Superintendent Paul Gallagher said the district occasionally has problems delivering students to the Blue Knob area, as was the case Monday when two buses were unable to deliver home some students. Parents had to pick the students up.
"You never know what the weather's going to do," Gallagher said, adding that he was appreciative of cooperation the district receives from parents. "You have to do what's safest for the kids."
PennDOT spokeswoman Pam Kane said a squall came down faster than expected Monday, but all road crews were out and will be working 12-hour shifts until further notice.
She also said people should remember that interstate roads are as a rule, are taken care of first because of heavier traffic. Many forget that Route 22 isn't an interstate, she said.
Kane said people need to remember to use their headlights and seat belts, increase following distance between vehicles and slow down.
Anyone wanting to check on road conditions should dial 511 or visit 511PA.com, Kane said.
AccuWeather senior meteorologist John Dlugoenski said although spring is upon us, springtime weather isn't coming anytime soon and this March has been unseasonably cold.
For instance, the average high temperature for the first day of spring is 48 degrees, with a low of 30 degrees. The high for Thursday, the first day of spring this year, "it's not even going to get above freezing," he said and there's a chance of flurries that day, as well.
While conditions will have improved by today, there will be a chance of flurries or snow throughout the week, and temperatures will drop below freezing every night, he said, even dipping into the teens Wednesday and Thursday.
"Unfortunately, it looks like the current weather pattern will continue," even through the end of the month, Dlugoenski said.
Weekend temperatures are expected to hit the mid-40s and offer a bit of a reprieve, but they still will fall below the seasonal average.
"We're in a winter-type pattern."
National Weather Service forecasts predicted snow and possible thunderstorms overnight, with snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches and up to one-tenth of an inch of ice.
Temperatures will remain in the 30s today throughout the day, with wind gusts up to 35 miles per hour.
Mirror Staff Writer Kelly Cernetich is at 946-7520.


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