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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: Justin Hunter's first interview since tearing up his knee
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Now that my newspaper story is already online for the masses on GoVolsXtra.com, there probably isn't a better time to unleash Justin Hunter's full interview with the Knoxville media on my loyal blog followers.
Hunter's a good quote and a better kid. That shows through in what turned out to be a six-minute session.
(What ya been doing?)
"A lot of basic stuff, stretching, doing the bike now. Just getting my mobility back in my knee. Trying to get it straight."
(Your progress?)
"They said I'm a little ahead of the game, but my swelling is a little slow. By the time my swelling goes down, my quad should be back to normal."
(Tough watching the Vols struggle?)
"It's real hard, just sitting on the sidelines and watching. Sometimes I don't even want to go to the games because I know if I can't help them, it's not way my to do it. I just try to lift them up as best I can and help them out."
(Date when you'll be ready?)
"Middle of March, around the 16th. Something like that."
(When did you get over it mentally?)
"I'd say probably before the next game they played, Buffalo. I just had to throw it out the window. It's going to be there, it happens to a lot of people. I just try to forget about it and go on to the next thing."
(Talked to any folks about torn ACLs?)
"Eric Berry and a couple of coaches. They just say it's a common injury to get and don't worry about it. You'll be back on the field in no time."
(Did they fully recover?)
"Yeah, just basically some coaches and stuff. People in the field have come to me and talked about it and saying it's OK, it's alright. You're going to be back in no time."
(When can you lose the crutches?)
"Probably the end of November. Probably January sometime."
(Crutches can't be fun)
"I hate 'em, I've got to walk to classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays up the Hill. I try to get rides, call the T as much as I can. Sometimes they're always late so I've got to walk anyway."
(Worst previous injury?)
"I'd say a dislocated thumb. My thumb was laying in my palm in like 10th grade because I ran into somebody's knee trying to dive for a catch. And I played with it the next day. That wasn't that bad compared to this."
(Life without football tough?)
"I try to find other things to do, just try to play the game. If I can't play the game, I play the Xbox by myself sometimes just to try to get my stats up."
(Doing work to get better mentally?)
"They don't want me too distant from the team. So I'm there in meetings, traveling, I'm in V.F.L. every time and chance I get."
(Concerned you won't be back to full strength?)
"No, no. I really think I'll be coming back better than I was before. They really say that my leg will be stronger than it's ever been, so I'm just trying to push to get better."
(Spend time with Bray?)
"We're with each other every day, so I'd say 24-7 basically."
(Your thoughts when you injured the knee?)
"It didn't hurt. The pain wasn't really bad. I just thought my life was over because it was a knee injury and I'd never had one before. So I was pretty scared."
(It didn't hurt at all?)
"It kind of stung a little bit, but it wasn't any major pain. It was something just different, like I'd dislocated something."
(Talk to Brewer yet?)
"He asked me how did it feel, what did I feel like after the surgery. I told him he was going to be alright. He was asking me like what did the drugs do to me after I woke up. I told him he was going to be real sleepy and drowsy."
(How did your body twist like that on the injury?)
"As soon as I made that move, I knew the defense was going to try to run outside because they would think I was going to try to go outside. But as soon as I caught it, I was getting ready to plant inside and go and I think I just tried to do it too fast. One leg was on the ground and I was turning my body as it was on the ground."
(Da'Rick said only you could injure your knee that way)
"Yeah, it was real funny how it happened because I would usually do that out here on the practice field every day. To do it on the game field was dramatic."
(Tough not to be out with him?)
"It's real different since I'm not on the field with him. Because I know on the field with him, we were real joky and everything. It's been real hard since I'm not on the field with him since I haven't been out there with him. So it's kind of changed."
(Give him a hard time about his drop?)
"I was like, Man, come on. I told him his hands had to be closer together, but he said he knew he had dropped it and he should have had it. And he's going to make it better."
(Seriously, what was he thinking?)
"He was wide open and it was a touchdown pass and he was worried about it because he wanted to get another one back."
(Lots of support from fans?)
"A lot of people are sending me letters and stuff and telling me to get better real soon. I've been thanking them for that because it's real encouraging."
(Your daily routine)
"I get up, they're making me eat every morning. Taking me breakfast, trying to get me to gain weight. I go to meetings at 8, after that I'm in training, rehab, for like an hour-and-30 minutes at the most. After that, I go lift weights and try to go to class."
(More details)
"Stretching, knee-hab, getting my quad to contract most of the time. It's just basically getting my mobility back, trying to get straight and everything."
(That stuff hurt?)
"Yeah, but it's a little bit of pain. Oh yeah, that's basically what they want me to do and I've got to do one-leg workouts too. I think that's the hardest thing."
I regret that Justin Hunter finds that the T Access service is sometimes late and chooses to walk. We hate to think of Mr. Hunter trying to navigate campus on crutches. We discussed this among staff and suggest that Mr. Hunter try to call at least 25 minutes before his scheduled class time to arrange for a ride. The service is popular and first called are first scheduled/served. The service is also subject to the normal complexities of navigating a congested campus. KAT highly values its realtionship with UT and most all KAT co-workers are ardent UT fans. We offer best wishes for Mr. Hunter's continued successful recovery...KAT General Manager.


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Coalition for Secular Government
The Coalition for Secular Government advocates government solely based on secular principles of individual rights. The protection of a person's basic rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness -- including freedom of religion and conscience -- requires a strict separation of church and state.
- We oppose any laws or policies based on religious scripture or dogma, such as restrictions on abortion and government discrimination against homosexuals.
- We oppose any government promotion of religion, such as the teaching of "intelligent design" in government schools and tax-funded "faith-based initiatives."
- We oppose any special exemptions or privileges based on religion by government, such as exemptions for churches from the tax law applicable to other non-profits.
The only proper government is a secular government devoted to the protection of individual rights.
The Coalition for Secular Government seeks to educate the public about the necessary secular foundation of a free society, particularly the principles of individual rights and separation of church and state.
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About Diana Hsieh
Diana Hsieh (firstname.lastname@example.com) founded the Coalition for Secular Government in July 2008. She received her Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2009.
Her published writings include "False Excuses: Honesty, Wrongdoing, and Moral Growth" (Journal of Value Inquiry, 38:2, pg 171-185), "Dursley Duplicity: The Morality and Psychology of Self-Deception" (Harry Potter and Philosophy, pg 22-37), and "Egoism Explained: A Review of Tara Smith's Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist" (The Objective Standard, Spring 2007).
Diana current writings and projects can be found on her blog NoodleFood.

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SGA President resigns
Student body president, Justin Davis, issued a resignation statement today exclusively to The East Carolinian.
Davis wrote:
For three years I have been involved in some capacity with the ECU Student Government Association. During my time, I have grown both personally and professionally more than I could have ever imagined. I will forever be thankful for the opportunities I have been given during this time. However, there comes a time in each of our lives when it is time to embark on the next chapter. That time has come for me. I am stepping down as the student body president.
In making this decision, it has been very important to me that I remain completely transparent and honest with those who elected me concerning the reasons associated with my decision. That said, I am going to be very frank, while brief, in explaining my resignation: I no longer have a passion or heart for the Student Government Association. Please do not mistake my lack of passion for lack of caring. I deeply care about our great University, Student Government Association, and student body. I simply do not have the passion or drive to continue serving as the foremost advocate for a student body of such magnitude. I believe continuing to serve in this role would be a disservice to both the students and myself.
It is also time for me to direct more focus and attention to the original reason I came to East Carolina – to obtain an education. I think it is always beneficial, especially for those students who are heavily involved, to take a moment and evaluate our priorities. It is very easy to become consumed in things that will, if not careful, take precedent over the education that we are here to receive. Bottom line: I am here to receive a degree in political science not student government.
As most of you know, I am a Christian. Over the past few months I have re-evaluated a lot of my life and have determined what is most important to me. In doing so, I have been presented with several opportunities to serve and be involved with ministries that are becoming close to my heart. With my resignation, I hope to commit more time to serving these ministries and impacting lives therein.
You are left in good hands with a new student body president that is more than capable of leading you to the end of the school year. Matt Paske is an exceptional leader and someone who I greatly admire. I truly believe he will leave the Student Government Association better than he found it.
More important than any announcement I've made or explanation I've given, I want to thank all of you. Whether you voted for me or not, I have had eight wonderful months to represent the most amazing student body in the state of North Carolina. I have made mistakes, experienced failure, and had days that I just simply wanted to quit for no good reason. But I do not regret one minute of my time or experience as the Student Body President of ECU. So thank you all for giving me that opportunity.
I leave you all with one of my favorite quotes of all time by a man named John Wesley: "Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn." In whatever you do, be sure to do it with your whole heart and for the good of others.
God Bless,
Justin Davis
Philippians 3:7-9
For more on this story and an interview with Davis pick up the first spring edition of The East Carolinian on newsstands Tuesday.


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Kansas City Gets Speedy
Google announced the launch of Google Fiber today with this clever promotional video.
Google Fiber is an infrastructure initiative by the company which claims that — on average — it brings connection speeds 100 times faster than typical broadband access. Kansas City was chosen as its first rollout destination after a national search for the "best" community to develop it in.
Via Google:
Google Fiber is 100 times faster than today's average broadband. No more buffering. No more loading. No more waiting. Gigabit speeds will get rid of these pesky, archaic problems and open up new opportunities for the web. Imagine: instantaneous sharing; truly global education; medical appointments with 3D imaging; even new industries that we haven't even dreamed of, powered by a gig.
This doesn't mean that residents have immediate access to Google Fiber. Instead, neighborhoods that reach a threshold of signups will be prioritized to receive it.
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SELINSGROVE — A section of the Strip was closed to traffic for more than two hours Tuesday due to a natural gas leak.
Snyder County Emergency Services Coordinator Derick Shambach said a crew installing sewer lines near Routes 11-15 hit a gas line, causing the leak at about 11:30 a.m.
UGI spokesman Don Brominski said the utility sent a crew to repair the ruptured gas line after receiving a call from the 911 Center at 11:28 a.m.
The crew had to excavate an area near the line in order to shut it off, which took three hours. Service is expected to be restored to two nearby commercial and two residential customers within the next few hours, Brominski said.
State police and local fire police were called to the scene and closed all four southbound and northbound lanes between Park Road and Roosevelt Avenue in Monroe Township, Snyder County.
The road was reopened at about 2:45 p.m., but the traffic backup continued to cause problems.
Selinsgrove Area School District Superintendent Chad Cohrs said many students would be arriving home about 20 minutes later than usual as a result of the delay.
Snyder County Elections Director Patricia Nace didn't expect the temporary road closure to affect election results.
"If someone is serious about voting, they will find a way," she said.


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The Port Arthur News
Morris Fruge', 90, went to his eternal rest on June 28, 2013. He was born April 19, 1923 in Orangefield, Tx. and grew up in Port Neches, Tx where he graduated from Port Neches High School in 1942. He served in the Air Force during World War ll. He went to work for the Port Neches Chronicle, and then moved on to the Port Arthur News where he was employed for 26 years. He also spent time as Manager of the News Employees Credit Union and the Goodrich-Gulf Employees Credit Union.
He is preceded in death by his loving wife of 66 years, Rena Fruge' and survived by his sons, Terry Fruge' and his wife, Beth of Humble Tx, and Randy Fruge' and his wife Bonnie of Jonestown, Tx.; four grandchildren, Anthony Michetich and wife Dawn of Lago Vista Tx., Keitha Fruge' of Mission Viejo, Ca., Robby Fruge' of Houston, Tx., and Amy Fruge' of Humble, Tx.; one Great-Grandson, Marek Michetich of Lago Vista, Tx.
Visitation will be held at Levingston Funeral Home in Port Neches on Sunday, June 30, 2013 from 4:00 to 7:00 pm with Rosary at 6:30 pm.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Monday, July 1, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Port Neches with Reverend Monsignor Bennie Patillio officiating. Burial will follow at Oak Bluff Memorial Park.


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There was plenty of drama in July 2011 when Rupert Murdoch testified to Parliament about the phone-hacking scandal that has swept Britain, most obviously when Murdoch's wife, Wendi Deng, threw a punch at a protester who tried to splatter the media tycoon with a shaving cream pie.
But the upshot of the day was this: While Murdoch said he was sorry that his News of the World tabloid had hacked into the cellphones of possibly thousands of unsuspecting victims, including murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, the News Corp. CEO rejected suggestions that he was ultimately responsible for what had happened, saying he was let down by "people I trusted."
Murdoch also batted down questions about whether he had considered resigning his post, adding: "I think that frankly I'm the best person to clean this up."
Both Murdoch and his son, James, head of News Corp. subsidiary News International, displayed plenty of contrition. Murdoch called the questioning before a parliamentary committee "the most humble day of my career." James Murdoch said the hacking was "inexcusable" and that "these actions do not live up to the standards our company aspires to."
But Murdoch also claimed to be ignorant about many key points of the scandal:
• Murdoch said he didn't investigate after former News International head Rebekah Brooks admitted in 2003 that reporters had paid cops for information, saying, "I was not aware of that."
• He said he was not told about out-of-court payments approved by James to settle several phone-hacking cases.
• He said he had "never heard" of a News of the World reporter who was arrested earlier this year on phone-hacking charges.
Indeed, more than once the 80-year-old media baron seemed foggy about details and hesitant in answering questions, content to let his 38-year-old son do much of the heavy lifting.
At other moments he was almost defiant, occasionally banging on the table to emphasize his points.
And in contrast with his more strait-laced son, the elder Murdoch occasionally tried to leaven the proceedings with humor. Asked about his frequent confabs with British prime ministers, he told the committee, "I wish they'd leave me alone."
The highlight of the day came near the end of the proceedings. When a protester tried to hurl a shaving cream pie at the octogenarian media baron, Wendi Deng, Murdoch's 42-year-old wife, responded with lightning speed, throwing a punch at the man and, according to media reports, sending the pie straight back into his face.
Tom Watson, a member of the committee that had been grilling Murdoch, told him, "Your wife has a very good left hook."
Needless to say, the video of the incident immediately went viral, and Twitter went crazy with celebs and others expressing their admiration for Deng's quick reflexes. Katie Couric tweeted: "Wow wendy murdoch giving whole new meaning to the term tiger mother...insanity!"
The Murdochs' testimony came just a week after The News of the World, the tabloid at the center the scandal, was shut down.
In a statement to the paper's staff, James Murdoch said the tab's 168-year-old tradition had been "sullied by behavior that was wrong. Indeed, if recent allegations are true, it was inhuman and has no place in our company."
He added: "The News of the World is in the business of holding others to account. But it failed when it came to itself."
The paper allegedly hacked into the cellphone accounts of three murdered schoolgirls, victims of the 2005 London terrorist attack and family members of servicemen killed in combat. Published reports have indicated the phones of thousands of people may have been hacked.
The scandal has provoked a debate in Britain about whether journalists should consider themselves professionals and, as such, observe ethical guidelines.


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Geological Research at the IGS
Interactive map Web service for the National Spatial Data Infrastructure framework layers for IndianaMap
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|All Counties
|Richard Hill
|Other Researchers:
|Chris Dintaman, Paul Rohwer, Phil Worrall,
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|The C-TASC Crisis and Response Mapping Center (CRMC) is a statewide geographic information center to support emergency preparedness, response, and recovery. The state and local response agencies served by the CRMC are data producers and consumers. They require the use of coordinated geographic information system (GIS) framework layers to conduct their business. C-TASC recognizes and supports the work of the Indiana Geographic Information Council (IGIC) to build the IndianaMap as a statewide framework. C-TASC recognizes that the Indiana Geological Survey's expertise makes it well positioned to participate in a mutually beneficial partnership to support the IndianaMap.
|A mutually beneficial partnership between the Indiana Geological Survey and the Indiana Counter-Terrorism and Security Council (C-TASC) Crisis and Response Mapping Center is important as we build the capabilities of IndianaMap. The partnership will facilitate construction of an interactive map Web service for public display that will provide interactivity and downloading capabilities of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure framework layers for Indiana.
|C-TASC will provide the Web server hardware to the IGS. The IGS will host an ArcIMS Web server for each of the seven framework data layers. The IGs will develop an ArcIMS image map service to portray the framework data layers and configure the Web server for Web clients to download framework layers and metadata. The Framework image map services will be registered with the IndianaMap Data Clearinghouse. The IGS will provide framework layers currently available, along with metadata that is compliant with Federal Geographic Data Committee standards.
|The Indiana Geological Survey will host a Web site that will be available to C-TASC and the public to view and to freely download important framework data layers.
|The Indiana framework data layers have been identified by the Indiana Geographic Information Council as the most important set of geographic data to Indiana. These data are the foundation for all other geographic data sets, and they will be available to users all over the state of Indiana.


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Welcome to the UC Learning Center Support site. The UC Learning Center is the web-based, learning management system (LMS) UCR is in the process of implementing.
Within the UC Learning Center you will be able to:
- Register for learning activities.
- Launch online courses.
- Review the status of learning activities assigned to you.
- Review your transcript of completed activities.
- A web application containing both a query tool with extensive search capabilities as well as a series of pre-defined reports that provide easy access to commonly needed information.


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State Senators on Wednesday elected Sen. Vincent Gregory (D-Southfield) as Senate Associate President Pro Tempore.
Gregory was nominated by Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer, seconded by Republican Senator Goeff Hansen, and elected unanimously by the full Senate.
"Senator Gregory is a proven leader in both his current and previous professions, and through his time in the Marine Corps, in the Wayne County Sheriff's Department and in local and state government, he has dedicated his life to public service and serving and protecting the people," Whitmer said. "He is always collegial in his demeanor, judicious in his decision-making and ardent in his advocacy, and will serve this body well in this position."
In his new post, Gregory will serve as a formal officer of the Senate to support the Lieutenant Governor and the President Pro Tempore and will occasionally preside over the Senate.
"It is an honor to be elected by my peers to this important position in the Senate," Gregory said. "I have tremendous respect for this body, my fellow Senators and the work that we do, and I appreciate the opportunity to have a role in shaping and upholding our proceedings."
Source: Press release from the office of State Senator Vincent Gregory.


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The Costs of War project, which is based out of Brown University and debuted in 2011, analyzes the implications of the Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq wars in terms of human casualties, economic costs, and civil liberties. The project involves 30 economists, anthropologists, lawyers, humanitarian personnel, and political scientists from 15 universities, the United Nations, and other organizations.
Now, 10 years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003, researchers have released the first comprehensive analysis of direct and indirect human and economic costs of the war that followed.
Highlights from the report:
- More than 70 percent of those who died of direct war violence in Iraq have been civilians — an estimated 134,000. This number does not account for indirect deaths due to increased vulnerability to disease or injury as a result of war-degraded conditions. That number is estimated to be several times higher.
- The Iraq War will ultimately cost U.S. taxpayers at least $2.2 trillion. Because the Iraq war appropriations were funded by borrowing, cumulative interest through 2053 could amount to more than $3.9 trillion.
- Th $2.2 trillion figure includes care for veterans who were injured in the war in Iraq, which will cost the United States almost $500 billion through 2053.
- The total of U.S. service members killed in Iraq is 4,488. At least 3,400 U.S. contractors have died as well, a number often under-reported.
- Terrorism in Iraq increased dramatically as a result of the invasion and tactics and fighters were exported to Syria and other neighboring countries.
- Iraq's health care infrastructure remains devastated from sanctions and war. More than half of Iraq's medical doctors left the country during the 2000s, and tens of thousands of Iraqi patients are forced to seek health care outside the country.
- The $60 billion spent on reconstruction for Iraq has not gone to rebuilding infrastructure such as roads, health care, and water treatment systems, but primarily to the military and police. The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction has found massive fraud, waste, and abuse of reconstruction funds.


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Semmelknödel, a Bavarian specialty, are surprisingly simple to make. With egg and milk, they are related to other savory bread puddings such as stuffing, and indeed, are served at Christmas time with goose. They are also excellent in vegetarian entrées such as Creamed Chanterelles, or with any meat dish that has gravy.
Sauté the leftovers the next day in butter.
Serves 2, recipe doubles easily
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes
- 6 oz. day-old bread (3 rolls)
- 1/3 - 2/3 c. milk (75 ml)
- 2 tsp. butter
- 1/4 c. onion, minced
- 2 T. parsley, minced or 1 T. dried
- 1/4 tsp. dried marjoram
- 1 egg
- Freshly grated nutmeg (1/4 tsp. ground)
Making Semmelknödel
Cut or tear the rolls into small bits. Pour 1/3 cup milk over the bread and let it sit 5 minutes. Test it and see if it needs more milk. The bread should be softened but not dripping wet. Add enough milk to achieve this consistency.
Sauté the onion, parsley and marjoram in one or two teaspoons of butter.
Stir the egg and nutmeg with the bread crumbs, then add the onions and mix. Let the mixture rest for 10 minutes, then mix again briefly, taste and add more spices if necessary. The dough should be firm, with pieces of the crust still visible.
With wet hands, form 4 Knödel (round dumplings) and cook 15 - 20 minutes in simmering water. Do not let the water boil. You can make Knödel in any size, just adjust the cooking time accordingly.
Note: The amount of milk you need depends on how dry the bread or rolls are and how big they are. Normal sized rolls weigh about 2 ounces.
If the dough is too wet to hold together, add some bread crumbs, either from the package, or day-old.


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A trip trough the electro, IDM and experimental side of Vate
"Vate's new album (Volt) came out harder and darker into the electro music. These experimental tunes create a thick robotic atmosphere."
"This release from Vate is really top notch stuff. I dont know if its just cause i have been out of contact for a while, but this really just hit the right note with me. The first track ("Turismo") is just really trippy and really reminds me of the "trancy" stuff from the early 90's with a 2007 overhaul. The second track ("Orient Stress"), which is also featured on the previous release from Vate, has a pulsating tribal rhythm with growling basslines set to a slamming breakbeat. Almost industrial in some aspects. These billowing basslines continue through to the next track which is also a standout track. "Hertz" drops into a more minimal-IDM style and it slowly progresses into more distorted IDM sounds from here onward. Overall the album is fantastic and its highly recommended. Even if its just for the first few tracks as not all of them will appeal to everyone."
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"The experimental sounds and atmospheric synth make excellent background music while reading, writing, or drawing. This album reminds me of Skinny Puppy at their best because the sound is haunting and inventive."
From the very beginning of the record one finds that it is the same old good Vate we like so much. Turismo, the first tune of the LP is Tour de France of the modern era, when car rallies replaced bicycle ones. I have already written about the next piece, Orient Stress, and I can only repeat that it's the most energetic one composed by Vate. Highly recommendable mixture of industrial samples with electro mood. Mundo Libre is a little bit similar. Still nice beat and melodic keyboard. Hertz has a great, radiative mood. Info is too similar to the tunes from previous Aeronautica..., but for those who do not know this album it still may be catchy. Watt is a very mechanical tune with one keyboard melody being very much intruding and engaging. Amper is quite the oppposite, very ambiental and etheric. The eponymous tune is quite Autechre-like in its beat and composition, with only one a little bit annoying sample. Yo soy maquina is another obvious Kraftwerk-tribute in name, but more experimental in style. Summarizing, Vate created another extremely interesting concept album, dealing mainly with electicity. Something like Kraftwerk's Radioactivity on the jamendo scale of course. The cover is great so it's ten form me this time. I suppose it's Vate's Opus Magnum, as for now of course.
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DANVILLE — The Vermilion County Sheriff's Department continues to investigate a home invasion at a rural address north of Danville.
The sheriff's department responded to the reported home invasion at 12:47 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30.
Investigations Sgt. Bill Hurt would not release the address of the single-family residence, due to the ongoing investigation.
He reported that there were minor injuries involved in the incident and a vehicle was stolen and later recovered in Danville.
There have been no arrests.
Rumors about school lock downs and the post office being robbed in Bismarck are not true, Hurt confirmed.


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Anne Romney, wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, will headline a fundraiser for the Romney campaign and Republican Party on Wednesday evening in Lexington.
The fundraiser will take place at Stonestreet Farm located on the Old Frankfort Pike beginning at 5:30 p.m. Stonestreet is the thoroughbred farm purchased in 2005 by the late Jess Stonestreet Jackson, a world renowned vintner, maker of Kendall Jackson Chardonnay. Stonestreet Farm produced Curlin and Rachel Alexander, both named Horse of the Year and each a winner of the Preakness.
The fundraiser is hosted by the Jackson Family, Joe Craft and Kelly Knight. Craft and Knight are the finance chairs of Romney's Kentucky campaign and Knight was featured at the Republican National Convention announcing delegate votes by each state delegation.
Knight confirmed the fundraising event Tuesday to CNHI News.
"Yes, she will be joining us tomorrow night at Stonestreet Farm," Knight said.
Craft and Knight also hosted a fundraiser in Lexington last fall for Romney's primary campaign, an event attended by Romney and several high-profile Kentucky Republicans.
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Lorne Michaels likes to call the producing of live television comedy a "contact sport," but not because he brings a jock mentality to the game of getting a program on the air, or because he is cynical about the enormity of the task. Rather, the boyish, salt-and-pepper-haired. Michaels uses the term because he is among the few who still believe that sincerity is not a dirty word in the video village. The thirty-four-year-old creator of Saturday Night Live is well aware of the industry's knotty preconceptions about "successful" programming formulas, yet he is equally conscious of his own artistic goals and what he must do to realize them.
As we look back on the year in television, and in fact the last four years, it becomes apparent that, like it or not, there has never been another program on television to compare with Saturday Night Live. Granted, it owes as great a debt to Ernie Kovacs, Milton Berle, Red Skelton, Steve Allen, Jack Parr, Johnny Carson, Your Show of Shows and That Was the Week That Was as it does to improvisational comedy. But Saturday Night Live is truly greater than the sum of its current parts and historical appendages. It is living comedy, intensely personal, sophisticated, topical with a cutting edge and, while uneven, utterly riveting in its riskiness.
The son of a Toronto furrier, Michaels spent a sizable chunk of his boyhood watching television or hanging around the College Playhouse, a movie house owned by his grandparents. The Playhouse was just a few blocks from the University of Toronto, where Michaels enrolled after high school. In 1963, he cowrote and directed The U.C. Follies, a light comic revue that attracted the interest of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Three years later Michaels and friend Hart Pomerantz began to write for CBC Radio. The fledgling stand-up team soon grew restive with its small-fish, small-pond circumstances and headed for New York City, where the two performed at various clubs, principally the Improvisation. Noticed by Jack Rollins, Woody Allen's manager, they enjoyed a brief writing stewardship under Allen's wing.
"It was pre-Take the Money and Run," says Michaels. "I don't think that I added a single one-liner to his life, but he once called a joke I did brilliant, and that kept me going for four or five years." The gag centered on the notion that man could not have an original thought in this world. "Because whatever thought you were thinking," Michaels explains, "somewhere there was probably someone else also thinking that at the same time. And so it was a sequence of tracking that person down.
"But every time you called," Lorne concludes, "the line was busy!"
Not exactly a knee-slapper, but no worse than Woody's then-current quips about getting stoned and trying to give the Statue of Liberty a hickey.
As a team, Lorne and Hart were making little headway in the Big Apple. Shortly after an abortive writing arrangement with Joan Rivers, during which she reportedly paid them a pittance for their monologues (parts of which she used), they split up and Michaels returned to Canadian television for four more years.
At length, he was lured to Los Angeles to join the writing staff of The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show, an unmemorable mess that led to one season with Laugh-In, an equally unsatisfying experience. Michaels played no role whatsoever in the conception of the show and could rarely recognize even fragments of his own material by the time they were filtered through the rewrite staff. "I got an Emmy nomination for Laugh-In, but I felt like I was standing next to the guy who gets shot and you both get the Purple Heart," he confides.
He left Los Angeles in 1969 for Canada, only to return in the fall of 1973 as a writer for the Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour, a job that eventually led to a meeting with Lily Tomlin. "Lily looked at my stuff from Canada and asked me to work with her. The first time we met, we spent about seven hours talking. She was probably the formative influence on me. She was the first person I met who really cared about quality and getting it all right. At a point when I had very little self-confidence she said, 'I appreciate you and I appreciate your work.'"
Their writing collaboration resulted in Lily, a 1973 CBS special that won an Emmy and led to two more well-received Tomlin specials for ABC, which Michaels coproduced with Jane Wagner. These projects, and a highly rated Flip Wilson special, brought the twenty-nine-year-old Michaels to the attention of Dick Ebersol, head of late-night television programming at NBC.
Ebersol was interested in a proposal Lorne had submitted for "a comedy show, frank and intelligent, for young, urban adults." He asked Michaels to develop a pilot.
"I held out for three things, with the support of Ebersol," says Michaels. "One, no pilot, because if they saw it beforehand they'd say, 'You can't do that on television.' That was solved by the second demand – making it live. Lastly, I wanted a commitment for twenty shows." (He got eighteen.)
The possibilities were enormous but the pitfalls were terrifying. There hadn't been a live entertainment program on NBC for ten years. The brass were looking for a new, youthful audience, and Michaels seemed likely to attract it. He began contacting various talents he had encountered during his convoluted career in New York and Canada, among them Dan Aykroyd, a young actor he had worked with at CBC-TV; Gilda Radner, whom he'd met in Toronto through mutual friends; brothers Bill and Brian Doyle-Murray from Chicago's Second City company; Chevy Chase, a writer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour whom Michaels first bumped into while in line to see a Monty Python film; Herb Sargent, a TV veteran who had produced the first Tomlin special; John Belushi, a standout in National Lampoon's Lemmings stage show; and Tom Schiller, an L.A.-based documentary filmmaker whose father had been a writer on The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show.
Michaels appointed Schiller to be his personal assistant, flew to New York City and began to set up shop. There was a casting call at Nola Sound Studios on Fifty-seventh Street to select the show's repertory company and the hopefuls streamed in.
The field was eventually trimmed to a handful, and a "screen test" was videotaped on September 9th, 1975, with brief appearances by Aykroyd, Murray, Laraine Newman, Radner, Belushi, Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, actor George Coe and surrealistic comic Andy Kaufman, who gave a slow, eerie recitation of the song "Mac-Arthur Park" – twice.
By this time, it had been decided that there would be a different guest host and a musical guest each week, and Jim Henson's Muppets would be regulars. Besides Michaels, Chase, Schiller and Sargent, the other people designated as writers were Morris; former National Lampoon editors Michael O'Donoghue and Anne Beatts; Al Franken and Tom Davis, two seasoned stand-up comics from Minnesota; Rosie Shuster, who had worked for the CBC and with Tomlin; Marilyn Suzanne Miller, whose credits included scripts for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda; and New York gag writer Alan Zweibel. Although not officially hired as writers, Aykroyd and Belushi immediately began contributing heavily, especially material they performed together.
"I believed the show should look, for the first few times, as if the network had closed down for the night, and these guys snuck into the studio," says Michaels. "I wanted the show always to be perceived as an underdog." But contrary to popular belief and its underdog image, Saturday Night Live has been a resounding success from the start, its ratings steadily climbing despite the often seesawing quality of the comedy and the loss, in the second season, of cynosure Chevy Chase, and most recently Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi. Indeed, the opening show for the 1979-1980 season was the most highly rated ever.
Some 25 million viewers now tune in on a regular basis, and two Best of Saturday Night Live specials aired on prime time last year were so successful that a new thirteen-installment series has been assembled to air each Wednesday.
As its fifth season picks up steam, it's a little difficult to imagine a world without Saturday Night Live. How Lorne Michaels helped manage this feat is still a mystery to many. A man cautious around strangers, he has rarely spoken publicly about his creation and his relationships with his celebrated coworkers. He is known in the TV industry as a workhorse, an unflappable taskmaster and a softhearted romantic who admits he cannot bear to fire anyone.
In a series of interviews conducted in his Upper West Side apartment and at the Saturday Night Live office and studio at NBC headquarters in Rockefeller Center, Michaels finally talked at length about himself and his work. When our discussion began in the spring of 1979, Michaels was immersed in several outside projects that had been sparked by the show: acting as executive producer of a live-in-the-studio album for Gilda Radner that would metamorphose into the Broadway show, Gilda Radner Live from New York (which he directed); a soundtrack LP; and a film. He also served as executive producer of the controversial Mr. Mike's Mondo Video, a ninety-minute, late-night-special-turned-movie that would be billed as "The TV Show That Can't Be Shown on Television!"
Michaels has now embarked on several other independent ventures, including an investment in new video technology and a film deal with Warner Brothers.
Still, he insists that Saturday Night Live remains his primary passion. This is easy to believe as I watch him, in his customary rumpled white shirt, jeans and sneakers, hunched over his monitor in the center of studio 8-H during the eight p.m. dress rehearsal – done before a live audience – for the season opener with Steve Martin and Blondie. As he surveys on screen the program that is unfolding around him, he dictates last-minute refinements to assistant Cherie Fortis, most of them concerned with the length of the show and staging accuracy.
"Why the fuck is Steve wearing a bathrobe and shoes?" Michaels barks as Martin is routed from an off-screen shower by Bill Murray in a sketch ("Señor Lopez") about a door-to-door volunteer Spanish teacher. "Lose that stuff," he notes. "He should be in shorts and slippers!"
Later, he demands a curly white wig for Murray in a sendup of The David Susskind Show and then decides the Mr. Bill film is too long. In a few minutes, the final run-through will be over and he will rush to a series of rapid-fire conferences with the writers, cast and camera crew that will result in his canceling three sketches. The atmosphere off-camera is unusually strained, and nail biting is the norm among the weary staff as Alan Zweibel murmurs to Rosie Shuster, "Are you scared too?"
There seems to be no relief from the awful tension. And then, a camera dolly that has been separating Michaels from the rest of us rolls back, and we can see the haggard producer bent over his TV, his tired face bathed in the blue-white glow, giggling at the latest sketch like a teenager back home in Toronto.
"A little risky, but good, very funny," he whispers to himself with a sloppy smile at the close of the segment. "Really deserves to succeed."
At this moment, I am thinking the same thing about Lorne Michaels and Saturday Night Live.
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For advice relating to the specific requirements of referencing assignments, always consult your lecturer, supervisor or tutor as to which style is required.
At university, plagiarism is regarded as a type of cheating. Plagiarism is presenting someone else's work as if you created/wrote it yourself. This work could be written text, images, artwork, computer code or mathematical formulas. If you do not provide references to the source of the ideas or data you have used, then you are presenting someone else's work as if it is your own and you have plagiarised.
It is presumed that if you plagiarise, the intention is to deceive your lecturer and the university. You are pretending that you have satisfied the requirements of the course, when you have cheated by presenting someone else's work as your own.
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Examples of what constitutes plagiarism within different disciplines are useful resources to guide you in avoiding plagiarism.
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Monday, July 25, 2011
If Possible, Should Mets Re-Sign Beltran This Offseason?
by Jim Mancari
With all the hype this week surrounding Carlos Beltran and the trade deadline, I felt it necessary to throw in my two cents.
Most likely, before the week is through, Beltran will be playing for another team. I'm normally optimistic about matters concerning the Mets, but I'm definitely realistic when it comes to this impending trade.
Carlos Beltran will no longer be a Met when this week is through.
Besides missing time due to injury and the unfortunate Game 7 strikeout, Beltran had a fine Mets career. He's enjoying one of his more productive years this season as well.
So while Beltran will likely make another NL team very happy during the stretch run, he still will be a free agent after this season.
I've heard that some analysts believe the Mets would be wise to try to re-sign Beltran this offseason to a short-term deal.
I am very curious to hear what the fans think about this. I will present both sides of the argument to give everyone a clearer picture of what we are dealing with.
Beltran, when healthy, is an extremely productive all-around player. He hits for power, a decent average and has shown he can drive in runs in clutch situations. He also has shown surprisingly good range in the outfield, and there's no doubt in my mind that he can shift back to center if he had to (or another team wanted him to be their everyday centerfielder).
Next year's free agent outfield class will include Jonny Gomes, Raul Ibanez, Ryan Ludwick, Juan Pierre, Josh Willingham, Rick Ankiel, David DeJesus, Lance Berkman, Michael Cuddyer, J.D. Drew, Jeff Francoeur, Kosuke Fukudome, Xavier Nady, Cody Ross and of course Beltran.
Of this group, Beltran is by far the most complete player and will likely be the most sought after, except for maybe Berkman who's having a phenomenal offensive season.
Since he will be heavily pursued, there will be a hefty price tag associated with him. He's also a Scott Boras client meaning his agent will drive up the price. He'll likely command a two-three year deal in the neighborhood of $10 million per season, if not more.
Do the Mets have the money to make this deal, especially with the possibility of re-signing Jose Reyes on the table? Reyes will easily get a deal of six-seven years, $130+ million, which may cripple the Mets payroll.
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Aptean has launched a free online cost savings calculator to help manufacturers visualize the potential impact of eliminating paper-based, performance measurement on the shop floor.
California Firm Recalls FruitJuly 22, 2014 12:09 pm | Comments
A Central California company has issued a voluntary nationwide recall of specific lots of its fresh peaches, plums, nectarines and pluots over concerns of possible listeria contamination.
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A six-month review of federal job-training programs concludes that the government needs to better engage U.S. employers, improve the use of data, and boost apprenticeship programs so workers can earn while they train.
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The self-taught mechanic hand-built the first airplane engine after a slew of automakers rejected the brothers' request to build one.
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The failure of the Joint Strike Fighter to travel to England this week for a premier air show heaped further embarrassment on its developers as they try to convince skeptics that the $400 billion program was a price worth paying ...
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Scientists in GE labs recently cracked an important conundrum involving one iteration of the technology called solid oxide fuel cell, or SOFC. The breakthrough allowed the company to start building a new pilot fuel cell manufacturing and development facility in upstate New York.
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College football player allegedly kicked off team for kissing his boyfriend
Sep 11, 2012, 3:31 PM EDT
The head coach of the North Dakota State College of Science football team says that he dismissed linebacker Jamie Kuntz from the squad not because he kissed his boyfriend in the press box, but because he lied about it. But get real, say many observers and gay rights proponents: obviously, they say, the 19-year-old was kicked off the team because they found out he was gay.
It all happened in Pueblo, Colo., over the Labor Day weekend, when NDSCS, a small junior college in Wapheton, North Dakota, traveled to Snow College for a nonleague game. Kuntz, who says that he has ambitions to one day play in the NFL, was not suited up for the game due to a concussion — but was filming it from the press box. Kuntz's boyfriend was also in the press box, and at one point the two shared a kiss … which was seen by at least one of his teammates on the field.
When confronted by coach Chuck Parsons, Kuntz initially lied about the kiss, and said that he was not gay. But after returning to campus, Kuntz emailed the coach and admitted that he was gay, and that he was sorry he lied.
The next morning Kuntz's coach called him for a meeting.
"He said he didn't care what people did in their personal lives," recalls Kuntz, "but it was a big mistake to do that on a football trip. I said, yeah, I made a big mistake and I apologized again for lying. Then he handed me a letter and said he was kicking me off the team because what I did was 'detrimental' to the team and I was a 'distraction.'"
NDSCS bylaws allow the coaching staff wide latitude in disciplining players, who can be removed from the team for a variety of indescretions — among them "Lying to Coaches, Teachers, or other school staff." But Kuntz points out that other members of the team have been caught drinking, and others have "criminal charges and convictions," both misdemeanors and felonies. Another player had a house party that was shut down by Wapheton police.
"Nothing happened to him," says Kuntz. "He's still on the team. He played on Saturday. I don't feel that I should've been kicked off the team for this. It was a kiss. It was a mistake, but it was just a kiss. We weren't making out."
Kuntz withdrew from school two days after being kicked off the team. His mother found out he was gay a short time later, when he changed his Twitter profile from "athlete" to "gay athlete."
Also: Kuntz' boyfriend happens to be 65 years old. If that matters.
The college isn't commenting on the story, and is sticking by their coach's decision. But that is not sitting well with many. Outsports.com:
For context, this is the worst incident of homophobia in men's sports we at Outsports have heard in 15 years. When gay-positive messages are coming from so many corners of sports, it's sobering to see we haven't "won" yet. What's worse, gay people are not protected from homophobia in North Dakota. However, if someone were to make an ageism case, that might do the trick.
Would Kuntz have been kicked off the team for kissing a girl? Doubtful. What if the kiss had been with a 65-year-old woman? This is all getting confusing.
And it of course occurs in the wake of the controversy surrounding Ravens' linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo. The Ravens player was recently criticized by a Maryland politician for participating in a pro-gay marriage fundraiser, with Vikings' punter Chris Kluwe them offering his support of Ayanbadejo in a series of provocative tweets.
Kuntz says he hopes to transfer to the University of Minnesota or the University of Colorado and play football next season.
- cur68 - Sep 11, 2012 at 5:31 PM
I find it creepy that a 65 year old is making out with a 19 year old. That's gross.
- Glenn - Sep 11, 2012 at 10:02 PM
Substitute girlfriend for boyfriend and would the player have been kicked off the team? I suspect not … unless one of them was black and the other was white and it was in the fifties or earlier. Bigotry is an ugly thing.
- 1historian - Sep 18, 2012 at 12:26 PM
you want ugly? Take a look at a picture of the result of an abortion.
THAT is ugly
- lewp - Sep 11, 2012 at 10:25 PM
"Nothing happened to him," says Kuntz. "He's still on the team. He played on Saturday. I don't feel that I should've been kicked off the team for this"
So I have an idea…
Why not make it perfectly ok for guys to kiss each other in the pressbox? And while we are at it, why not let them have sex in the pressbox too? And, and, also, to make sure their rights are protected..let two guy screw each other in the press box? What's wrong with that??? And then, then, make it ok for three gay guys to have a 3 way ion the press box, you know, so we can proove everything is ok? I mean, we don't have to care who sees it right?? 8 year old kids are just gonna have to realize gays have freaking rights..and we can, you know..shove it down your throat..lolol pardon the pun…hahaha……
- Glenn - Sep 11, 2012 at 10:57 PM
Make up stuff and get angry about it, lewp. Your leaps of logic say more about you than what actually happened. Your imagination says more about your own personal fears than the fact of homosexuality. Fix yourself before you comment.
- lewp - Sep 11, 2012 at 11:07 PM
Glenn, I'm notb angry at all…it's my right to want to do this..You sound like you are the one thats homophobic….I'm free and I have every right to fantasize abiut kissing an old man in a pressbox. Whats wrong with you? You are just jealous of my imagination…perhaps you should try being with another man before you judge others…
- lewp - Sep 12, 2012 at 12:42 AM
And thumbs down to all of you too.
- manchestermiracle - Sep 12, 2012 at 12:39 AM
Homophobia. What a stupid word. You ain't scared, you're just an .
- manchestermiracle - Sep 13, 2012 at 12:28 AM
Looks like I got edited. A**hole isn't acceptable.
- openseason51 - Sep 12, 2012 at 3:56 PM
He should have been kicked off the team. It's gross.
- jason9696 - Sep 12, 2012 at 4:31 PM
I guess Kuntz doesn't like … you know.
- projectshadow316 - Sep 14, 2012 at 11:21 AM
I think it's more disturbing that his boyfriend is 65. That's….really weird, especially since the kid is only 19. Makes no difference, however. Regardless, to be booted off the team for that is hilarious or that fact that he lied over such a relatively insignificant thing.
- sabatimus - Sep 18, 2012 at 9:26 PM
Thanks for the misleading headline, bottom-of-the-barrel Chandler.
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The news that Al and Tipper Gore were separating shocked many who thought the pair had a rock-solid relationship, but the New York Post's Page Six is reporting another surprising development: a masseuse in Oregon is accusing the former vice president of sexual abuse during a $540 massage session.
The alleged encounter took place in 2006 at an expensive hotel in Portland, where Gore was visiting to give a talk about climate change. According to a police complaint, the massage therapist alleges Gore subjected her to unwanted sexual touching, the story says.
Her complaint reads, "I finally got out the door after being forcefully being pulled back in the room . . . a couple times and trying to leave, to be groped and fondled and have tongue kisses forced on me. . . . and that's when he's saying, 'You know you want to do it.' And I was just thinking, 'Oh my God.' "
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Open Thread: 2/27 Camp NotesBy
In case you missed it earlier, Joe Girardi announced his rotation for the first few Spring Training games. Here's the latest from Tampa on photo day…
- In a stunning turn of events, Chad Jennings has today's pitching and hitting groups. CC Sabathia, Michael Pineda, Hiroki Kuroda, Phil Hughes, and Freddy Garcia all threw live batting practice, as did Cory Wade and some minor leaguers. Everyone except Austin Romine and Robinson Cano hit (more on Robbie in a few bullet points).
- George Kontos will resume throwing on Friday after an oblique problem sidelined him last week. If that goes well, he'll follow up with a bullpen session. [Jennings]
- Andy Pettitte is in camp as a guest instructor and will be in Tampa for a few days. He's offered to throw batting practice but said he hasn't been tempted to come out of retirement. [Bryan Hoch, Jack Curry & Erik Boland]
- Sad news: Cano's grandmother passed away yesterday, so he's back to the Dominican Republic for a few days. Condolences to him and his family. [Hoch]
Here is your open thread for the night. The Rangers are playing the Devils, but that's it for local sports. Talk about whatever your heart desires here. Enjoy.
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Love the caption on that photo.
"Wait, why am I the only one taking photos in the crapper?"
Definitely one of the best captions this sight has ever put out.
I wonder what is in the stall.
The past few open threads have had clever and funny quotes. Great job!
Let us all hope that Alex doesn't end our season by striking out as he has done the last 2 years.
That would be sh____y.
My condolence to my guy and his family
So ARod has offered his apt to Jeremy Lin. Now that would be insanity!
I've been turned down by Bleacher Report a few times, so logically that would mean my writing is awful. But I really don't think it is. There is reason to question who the #2 starter is this season, but not the #1… for sure.
I like your writing!
You were turned down likely because you have more than 2 sentences per paragraph. In order to write for the bleacher report you need to write like this:
Hi my name is Tom.
I like baseball.
The Yankees are great.
The end.
5 reasons I like baseball.
It's fun.
I enjoy it.
I have a good time when I watch it.
Sometimes they hit homeruns.
Strikeouts are cool!
Boom, add two pages of advertising and you have a 9 page slideshow.
This is much better written and contains more well thought out points than anything I've ever seen on Bleacher Report.
Which Yankee whose primary position was catcher and had at least 1000 AB's in a Yankee uniform had the highest slugging percentage and OPS in team history?
Mike Stanley?
Yes. His lifetime numbers over 15 years were incredibly similar to Posada's. Posada was 3 points better in BA and OBP and 16 points better in slugging percentage over their entire careers. Stanley was never considered for the HOF in fact I don't think he was ever on the ballot. When the Yankees let him go to the Red Sox of all teams after the 1995 season some people complained, but he wasn't exactly missed and the Yankees managed to do alright for the next couple of years with an offensively inferior but a defensively superior catcher.
Mike you should have Photoshopped the picture. Take out the box and add a pair of feet and that picture would have had me dying.
Send that idea to NoMaas.
For a second I thought that might be the studio in Fenway park but then I noticed that Arod wasn't standing ankle deep in raw sewage.
PMR for shortstops.
Ouch. I suppose this could go in the article about players getting old, too.
At least Cano looks good.
Yadier is buying dinner! Wonder how much, if any, this impacts Russ.
I think I may be in the minority, but while Yadier is a real good catcher, I think the Cards are going to regret this deal.
It's paying him through his age 35 season – that's pretty risky for what is being rumoered (5yr/14-15 per)
Great defensive catcher, but he had been a better than league average hitter exactly twice in his career. A career wRC of 88 isn't bad for a catcher, but is 12% below overall league average worth 14-15mil even if you are a perennial gold glover?
When's CC win his 200th career game? Slight chance he could do it this year, but if not, I'd say early May, 2013.
Why is A-Rod taking a photo in the bathroom? This is not sarcasm I am genuinly curious.
He needed to be close to a mirror he could kiss.
(That wasn't a serious answer.)
Maybe that was the only available space for the pictures to be taken?
(That was a serious answer.)
They all did. Apparently it had the correct background.


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Mark Hayward's City Matters: Lost dog leads activist to a brush with the law
She was one of the first Queen City residents to start a neighborhood watch group in 2006, in response to the shooting of Police Officer Michael Briggs (who incidentally was shot just outside her back door). Each year on Oct. 16, Mitchell erects a memorial for Briggs beside her Lake Avenue house.
She's gone through the nine-week Citizen's Police Academy. She's worked for years to clean up the Adam Curtis skateboard park. And murals grace a couple of dozen garage doors in the center city, thanks to her effort to channel the artistic impulses of graffiti taggers into a more acceptable endeavor.
But last week, Mitchell stood eyeball to eyeball with the city police and an animal control officer and was threatened with arrest.
In her arms was a lost, pint-sized dog that she wanted to lodge until its owner showed up and claimed it.
No, insisted the animal control officer, it was his job to take the dog across town to the Manchester Animal Shelter.
Surrender the trembling dog, Neal Vogler told Mitchell, or she would be arrested, Mitchell recalled. Arrested and charged with theft of lost or mislaid property.
"He said 'I can charge you with this, and you can go to jail.' I said 'Really? Are you serious? This is bull----.' I was so mad," Mitchell said.
Police acknowledge the confrontation took place. Vogler's job is to take care of strays and lost dogs. That means bringing them to the animal shelter.
"I get where she's coming from, honestly," said police spokesman Lt. Maureen Tessier. "But you have to appreciate that the city employs these animal control officers for a reason."
The police don't know if a volunteer dogsitter will neglect or abuse an animal. And police can't be sending owners of lost dogs to houses of strangers they aren't sure of.
"A dog is almost like property," Tessier said. "We can't let somebody else hold onto someone's property."
Mitchell, who turned 58 this week, works the photo machine at a Bedford pharmacy. She lives in a two-family at the corner of Lake Avenue and Lincoln Street. Her son lives upstairs. She owns five dogs - two Chihuahua types, a pitbull, a pitbull mix and a boxer.
Mitchell said she often comes across lost dogs. If she knows where they live, she'll deliver them to their owner. In the past, she has used the neighborhood approach toward finding lost dog owners. Hold the dog. Call the cops and describe the dog. Give them your name and address. Have the cops send the worried owner to Mitchell.
That's what she thought would happen last Wednesday. She also told the dispatcher, she said, that she would drive the dog to the shelter if no one picked it up in 24 hours. Within 15 minutes, Vogler was knocking at her door. When Mitchell said she didn't want to give up the dog, three police officers joined him.
Mitchell said she didn't want the dog to undergo the stress of a ride to the animal shelter in a crate, and then being caged at the shelter while other animals are barking, howling and hissing.
She also can't believe police would charge her with theft. "If I was going to steal a dog, why would I call the police station and give them my phone number?" If she hadn't been scheduled to work, Mitchell said, she would have made police arrest her.
Mitchell said the police who came were courteous and sympathetic, but they told her she would either have to give up the dog or get arrested.
"I don't have anything really bad to say about the Police Department," Mitchell said. "It's sad the dog catcher had to waste their time coming up here."
The owner picked up the dog later that day at the shelter, avoiding a $25 overnight charge. Tessier said the animal control office checks to see if a dog's license is current and whether there have been previous infractions before it decides whether to issue a citation.
Tessier acknowledged Mitchell's participation in Crimewatch and advocacy role in her neighborhood. "We appreciate Cheryl's support," Tessier said.
In the past, police have allowed city residents to hold onto lost dogs until an owner is located, Tessier said. Then, the animal control office was understaffed. Now, it has two full-time officers, and their job is to take care of lost animals, Tessier said.
"If you have a loose dog, you call the animal control; you don't call Cheryl Mitchell," Tessier said.
Perhaps not so. Mitchell, who insists she wants no more dogs, said she's not going to ignore a lost dog.
Next time she finds a wayward pooch, she said, she just won't let Manchester police know about it.
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Insalata Caprese
Insalata Caprese (salad in the style of Capri) is a simple salad from the Italian region of Campania, made of sliced fresh buffalo mozzarella,fresh plum tomatoes and basil. It is seasoned with salt, black pepper, and olive oil.
Some variations include adding chopped garlic, parsley (Balsamic Vinegar, Italian Dressing, etc.)
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fresh buffalo mozzarella
olive oil
garlic cloves
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fresh basil, fresh parsley
balsamic vinegar
sliced plum tomatoes
Arrange mozzarella around the plate, drizzle with olive oil, spices and serve with crusty Italian bread.
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By Kelly Thompson
When Jim Thompson graduated from high school, becoming a technical communicator was one of the last things he thought he'd be doing now. Jim took a long journey before winding up where he is today.
When people graduate from high school, they have the big question of going to school or finding a job. Jim attended automobile classes at the local community college in Jackson, Michigan, in hopes of someday becoming a mechanic. After a couple years at Jackson Community College, Jim decided he would use his new skills and found a job working at a Sunoco body shop.
After a few years working at the Sunoco and starting a family, Jim decided he needed something to do with a little more structure and support, so he joined the United States Air Force. Throughout his Air Force experience, he lived in many places, such as Edwards Air Force Base, California; Oscoda, Michigan; and Little Rock, Arkansas. While in the service, he took the initiative to earn a bachelor's degree in Vocational Education.
After a 10-year career in the Air Force, Jim thought he would try his luck in the business world because his family was tired of moving from base to base. So, he wound up finding a job for a company called EDS answering customer service phone calls. After several angry customer calls, Jim soon became frustrated with his job and tried finding something new.
Two years following his customer service job, he finally found a job as a technical writer working for a company called MSX International, which specialized in automobiles and tractors. Technical writing is the area he finally found, as he said, "what I want to do when I grow up." He spent a couple of years at MSX before he realized technical writing was something he could do within his own home. Jim started his own business, JTech Training and Technical Writing.
Now he's developing training courses for Caterpillar but has also done jobs for such companies as Audi and Oldsmobile. His hometown is Jackson, Michigan, where he does most of his writing and training developing, but has to take frequent trips to Peoria, Illinois, the headquarters of Caterpillar, where he will meet with subject matter experts to learn more about the current project. He has also had to travel to Spain, Australia, and Canada for Caterpillar projects.
His advice for future technical communicators is to use the new technology. He said that a lot of the documentation that used to be paper-based is now electronic.
On most mornings, Jim wakes up around 5 am, and makes a fresh pot of decaffeinated coffee before heading to his basement office. After checking some emails and making a to-do list for the day, he heads back upstairs to make a small breakfast. Then he will spend a majority of his day talking with customers, writing, or, as he said, "Whatever it takes to meet that next deadline." He usually ends his day around 5 pm, and spends the rest of the night with his wife and kids.


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Yes you heard it right folks. I'm one of those people with the nasty habit of puffing away on a cigarette, every time I'm stressed/bored/anxious/drinking/[insert anything here]. It's not a habit I'm proud of and until now, quitting hasn't really been on my agenda. More important things like getting up in the morning and getting through the day, have taken precedence. Don't worry, the irony of that sentence isn't lost on me.
In my defence, I would like to say that I've been really good. Throughout both of my pregnancies I completely quit smoking. Something about subjecting my unborn children to that crazy addictive substance called nicotine, made me squirm uncontrollably. It just didn't sit right with me and so that is what kept me going through both occasions.
Now though it seems I've come to a crossroads. I quit now, while I'm young and look forward to the benefits of a life without those little white sticks, or carry on the way I'm going and potentially live a short life, where I don't get to see my children grow up.
In reality it's not as cut and dry as this, I really wish it was because I would have dumped the things a very long time ago. So many emotions, reasons, habits and lifestyle choices, factor in to a decision to smoke or not – which added to the addiction – makes for a very convincing argument not to.
What has tipped me over the edge though is my mother. Come Christmas day this year, it will be two years since she lost her battle with Cancer. Of course no-one knows whether her lifelong smoking addiction had any effect on her passing, but it still strikes a cord with me. My mother was only in her 50s when she died – she didn't even get to meet the twins and the granddaughter she'd always dreamed of. To go so young, with so much life ahead of her was tragic and it's something that I don't want to go through myself.
I feel like I owe it to my mother, my children, my partner and most importantly – myself – to quit this awful habit. I want to be there as my children grow up – to celebrate their achievements, comfort them when they need me and encourage them in their pursuits as adults. The cold, hard fact is I can't do that if I'm dead.
Sure, I could get knocked over by a bus tomorrow or spontaneously combust or something. Those things are pretty hard to avoid but smoking is something I can have some control over. So this month I'm joining the government's Stoptober Campaign, helped along with some advice and help from the Boots stop smoking service. I'm going to be blogging my journey each week for the whole of October, with the aim of being completely smoke free by the months end.
I know it's not going to be easy, nothing that's good for you ever is, is it? But I've made my peace with those sticks of woe and am up for a life free of them, once and for all.
Are you joining in with Stoptober? Maybe you've already quit – if so what advice would you give to someone who is breaking the habit?


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Our community was started in 1937 by Father Leo Lindeman at the intersection of 16th and Lynhurst with 201 parishioners. At that time Speedway, Indiana was a quiet town close to the Indianapolis 500 facility. Today, that intersection is extremely busy on the Westside of Indianapolis. In the midst of all the hustle and bustle, the parish offers a place of peace and refreshment reminding us that in the city there is a place and time to stop and pray.
Since 1937 the parish has grown to be a community of over 1,900 households, some 6,500 individuals. As you read in our vision and mission statements, we are a community that centers itself on the celebration of the Eucharist. Each Sunday we gather to remember and to retell a story, the story of God's faithful love for all people, of Jesus' redeeming love for all people, and of our mission to witness, to proclaim, and to help bring about God's incredible plan of saving love for all people.
For our parishioners, the website guides us to the many ministries and activities that help us live our vocations to be a life-giving sign and sacrament of Jesus' saving presence in the world. As you click on the five areas of ministry you see the many ways in which we serve or can be invited to serve. As you click on the calendar, you will see the many activities that take place here each day.
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