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Okay, it has been a long time since I've posted on this site - I believe it was during the playoffs last season, so forgive me if this topic is a total rehash of others. I knew this would be too long to be a comment by itself so I decided to put it up as a post. Also forgive the length! Wow, I had no idea I had this much to say when I started.
As you will have noticed from the title, I'm not too thrilled with Nate McMillan's in-game decisions as of late... Well, I'll be honest: I have to expand that to his general decisions and the direction he seems to be going right now. Read on if you're interersted.
Problem 1: Our All-Star Shooting Guard is not a Small Forward and is not excelling in that position.
Yes Brandon is sized similarly to a lot of guys at the 3 so that he shouldn't have to be facing guys with a large height advantage over him most nights, and it will only be those bigger guys who will really give him fits - like Gerald Wallace - but Brandon has distinguished himself in the league as a 2 and he would be best utilized at the position of 2 not at the 3. Some believe that it shouldn't be a big deal for Brandon to be playing the 3. I don't think they have taken into account how much Brandon has exploited the size differences he's had against other 2 guards up until now. Placing Brandon at the Small Forward position takes away the strength advantage and height advantage Roy is so used to having. Brandon is not well-equipped to defend at the SF position. He's relatively small and he's never been known as a fast guy who can keep fast guys in front of him. Roy simply doesn't have the physical strength or the length necessary to bother guys like Carmelo Anthony who he will likely have to play the next time we meet Denver if McMillan sticks with the current lineup. Sure, Brandon has shown some inspiring stretches and moments on defense, but have those been against anyone at the SF position? The defensive highlight that comes to my mind as the best example of Roy's ability to play defense was the blocked shot against Joe Johnson in a game last season (if I am remembering that correctly). Roy played Johnson to a stand-still and was excellent in that moment when the game was on the line, but Roy has never been the guy that brings that sort of intensity on the defensive end of the floor for 48 minutes and even if he was, I don't know if he would be capable of sustaining that sort of effort while trying to do the same on the offensive end of the floor as well, nor should he have to. I don't think I need to mention that Joe Johnson is not a 3.
Another issue with moving Brandon to the 3 while trying to gently work Miller into the starting lineup is that it is too much change at once for Roy to absorb. Nate has taken a player that is used to being the one with the ball in their hands, the star shooting guard that creates the offense who is very capable of taking advantage of mismatches by exploiting his strength over other 2s and he's made him to play a game that is essentially reversed every single aspect of his game that has enabled him to be an offensive power in the league. No ball in his hands to create on offense and pitted against same size or bigger guys who he can't really overpower to get his shot off. It is no wonder to me that he's been left really trying to figure out what his role is in this new scheme of things.
The last part of problem number one isn't as big of an issue for the team, but it may be a big issue for Brandon's mentality going forward and is something to consider: Brandon may even miss the All-Star game completely if he continues to play from the SF instead of the SG spot as the coaches aren't going to vote him into a position he hasn't been playing leading up to the All-Star break and he's not at the top of the list of Small Forwards to be sure.
Problem 2: The three-guard lineup has really not worked out well.
In fact, I'd venture to guess that the only reason it has worked at all is because we are playing sub-par, no, absolutely horrible teams and just about any lineup Nate could throw together would beat the likes of Minnesota or Memphis.
There are arguments that say, well we're without Travis and Batum so we're short at the three and that is why things are staying this way. It may be why Nate is sticking with this lineup, but I don't believe for a minute that it is the best decision, regardless of how poorly Webster is playing at the moment, after all, what is the difference between Blake playing the two and not hitting any shots and Webster playing the three and not hitting any shots? If both Blake and Webster are non-existent offensively speaking, then it shouldn't matter which one is in the starting lineup. That discounts Webster's better defense however and therein is another reason the three-guard lineup just isn't going to work: Both Rudy and Webster can play the three and one of them would be an improvement over Blake whether you favor offense or defense. All I know is that putting the issue of Blake vs. Miller – which I will talk about in a moment – finally to rest in favor of Miller would allow our best three currently available to play as the best three currently available and put our star 2 back where he's been successful his entire career.
Problem 3: Nate needs to wake up and realize he can't live out his dream to be the starting PG for the Sonics vicariously through Steve Blake.
Steve Blake is a better than average PG in the NBA, however he is not as good as Andre Miller at distributing the ball or scoring. It was reported that the Blazers signed Miller to be another creator that can get into the paint and score in order to take some pressure off of Roy over the length of the season. Another reported benefit which we were to expect is that he is an excellent distributor and has great court vision with the ability to run the fast break better than Roy or Blake. As far as I know, I think there was also the issue of what he could do to improve the ability to get the ball into the post to Oden and Aldridge. Miller creates an offense that usually features guys moving around which allows for penetration and easy looks, not standing around because the ball is being held at the top of the floor for 13 seconds out of 24 which was a major problem for the Blazers last season.
So far, there have been only a couple of games that McMillan has allowed Miller to play as Miller has proven he can play throughout his career and as far as I remember those games went pretty well. When Miller is running the offense without a lot of interference, Oden get the benefit of getting the ball in his hands down low, Aldridge gets to take advantage of his ability to run the court faster than anyone that can guard him in transition and Roy doesn't have to take a beating like a rented mule every night. The only foreseeable problem in my mind with a lineup of Oden, Aldridge, Webster (or Fernandez), Roy and Miller would be the adjustment that Roy needs to make in learning how to be more active without the ball to get easy baskets around the rim or to get open on the wings – something every great player that wants to win a championship eventually needs to do and just a slightly easier transition than his current assignment.
Nate has made statements – as well as Roy – that Miller would be better with the second unit because that unit could be the really active and fast unit that needs a better ball distributor. I do believe that they've made the choice to keep Blake in the starting lineup for two reasons and neither of them have anything to do with Miller being a better fit in the second unit. Nate has publicly stated that ever since he was a PG on the Sonics and they brought in Gary Paton to replace him in the starting five without allowing him the ability to fight for the position, he's been the type of guy to shy away from doing that as he thinks it was a mistake on the part of the Sonics. While I can sympathize with the frustration I am sure he felt in that situation, I do not agree that the approach he has taken in regards to the addition of Miller to the team has been a healthy alternative at all. In Seattle Nate had a reasonable case against Payton being named the starter without having played a single NBA game. That isn't the case with Andre Miller and it simply cannot be said that the situations were similar on any level. McMillan may see things differently, but Miller has statistically out-performed Blake nearly every year of his career in most categories except perhaps three-point percentage. Here are the details courtesy of www.nba.com
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Steve Blake is excellent at running an offense that needs a calm and steady hand, one that features players who may not have the best shot selection like Outlaw or one that tends to have more turnover problems when running as a rookie like Cunningham or a young and over-aggressive SG like Bayless (assuming Rudy gets the nod for the 3 spot with the starting group) and he would fit with Webster as they've played well together before. In my mind, there is no really significant reason that can be pointed to that is keeping Steve Blake in the starting five beyond McMillan's preference, except maybe Brandon Roy's opinion.
I don't think anyone needs to be reminded of the details about Brandon's penchant for playing along-side Steve Blake. He is obviously comfortable with Blake for several reasons, which are understandable, but the limitations and knocks on the team about not having a second scorer in the paint and not being able to get easy baskets aren't going to go away with Steve running the point. Miller is the better guard plain and simple.
I am hoping that Roy, having now played more than half of his time of this young season at the three and not getting any positive traction in that role, will see the benefits that Andre is providing for Greg (when he's allowed in the game which is point 4) and LaMarcus and realize that Miller is the best fit overall for the team's success and let McMillan know that he is fine with Blake coming off the bench. So far I'm not sure he's been able to get out of his usual introspective mode long enough to notice that LaMarcus and Oden excel when Miller is in the game, but I'm sure he's going to realize it soon. This should be the last straw that breaks McMillan's determination to have Blake in the starting five and when that happens, I think we'll finally see some dependable cohesion and fluidity to the offense.
Problem 4: As alluded to above, Oden needs to be in the game more. Nate is not his baby-sitter and Oden shouldn't be treated like a child to be managed rather than a man that needs to and is capable of learning.
Since the new rule of "one foul per quarter" was implemented, I've seen some upside and some definite downside. The upside is that Oden comes into the game in the second half as fresh as the first spring daisy after a soft rain shower. He dominates the other team's bigs because they are at this point starting to get a little tired. And while that is all well and fine, it would be very deceptive list as a benefit entirely. The list of reasons this idea will be detrimental in the long-term is longer than the single potential benefit in the short-term. For one thing, Oden looked out of sorts in the second-half of the game against Golden State when he finally came back in. Despite being dominant in the first quarter with the limited time McMillan allowed him when he did come back in the team didn't use him because without him and LaMarcus in the game during the second quarter, they had no post presence defensively or offensively and things had deteriorated to where they weren't able to really establish themselves again in the game.
However, beyond the Golden State debacle, there is an underlying problem with yanking Oden out of the game when he gets quick fouls. He's never going to learn to play through it. Yeah he might have a lapse in the minutes where both teams are trying to establish themselves, their positions on the floor and getting into a rhythm, but that doesn't mean he's going to continue to foul. Nate needs to let Greg figure it out for himself and if that means that Greg fouls out of a couple games, then so be it. Taking him out of the game is basically telling him that his coach doesn't think he's capable of playing the game without causing problems. In the long run is that the message you want your starting center who is supposed to be able to dominate defensively and be an offensive threat in the post? "You're not capable of learning how to play through this, so I won't let you try."
Greg's presence in the middle has been a boon to every aspect of the team's defense. Pryzbilla is a good defensive center, but Oden is exceptional even as a second year player in the NBA. Yes, we may have to not have him for a key stretch or two of a few games during the season because he's still learning not to foul, but in the long run, isn't that better than delaying the inevitable by keeping him on the bench for amazingly long stretches of games? Greg isn't a child and McMillan shouldn't be taking a punitive approach to how he allots minutes if he wants to field the best team they can.


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November 7, 2009
This year turned out to be a boom for camping, especially during the spring and summer. But now that the weather is cooling and fall becomes winter, some folks might think it is the end of camping. In reality, many people continue to camp year-round, finding that winter or snow camping has its own appeal... Read more »

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Labor Day weekend brought some spectacular old-school jam-bands and unusually cooperative weather to Central Ohio's premier outdoor music festival, Hookahville. Host band and headliner Ekoostik Hookah celebrated 12 years of its homegrown semi-annual music festival with Hookahville XXIV.
Infamous for soggy weather, especially at the spring event, the latest Hookahville showered fans with only clear skies and the quality musical acts for which it has become famous. The fall 2005 lineup included classic jam-band Little Feat and the jazzy witch doctor himself, Dr. John. Fans were also given healthy doses of lesser-known bands, such as upstate New York's eclectic Donna the Buffalo, Wisconsin's the Smokin' Bandits, New York''s turntable master DJ Logic (who sat in with Hookah for a few songs during the festival's first evening), and Virginia's Hackensaw Boys.
In the past, this Midwestern outdoor music festival has boasted attendance as high as 15,000 herb-smoking, tent-toting fans. Hookahville has become Ekoostik Hookah's own mini-Woodstock. "It attracts a wide audience," said the band's drummer Eric Lanese. "There are babies and there are grannies." The family-friendly environment revealed many tie-dyed children, as well as some wizened veteran stoners who were self-medicating with the kind herb long before the average Hookahville participant was born.
The merch tent offered each evening's Ekoostik Hookah performance on CD for $20. Made with inputs directly off the main mixing board, the sound quality on these discs is impressive and will leave any Hookahead satisfied. Few things can replace the thrill of a well-oiled stoner jam-band captured with studio-quality fidelity.
"Hookahville is the best party I've ever thrown," Hookahville founder and band keyboardist Dave Katz says. "It's just a big party. We put ourselves on a tremendous stage with great lighting and a top-notch sound system. We invest a lot of money to be sure Hookahville looks and sounds great."
After headliner Ekoostik Hookah mesmerized the audience for nearly four hours of tight improvisational jams on the main stage, musical entertainment was provided on the Historic Bluegrass Stage until 4 am each morning. Bluegrass Stage acts included The Maji, Mike Perkins, Rattletrap, Vince Herman (who jammed on stage with Hookah during the second evening and acted as festival emcee) and Delyn Christian.
Approximately 4,000 jam-band fans attended the latest edition of Hookahville. For a festival that has had as many as 15,000 attendees in years past, the numbers could be viewed pessimistically. But, according to Katz, Hookahville is about more than the numbers or making money.
"The numbers were definitely down a little from what I'd like to see, but that's been pretty consistent with most festivals," he says. "Gas prices, the economy, and I think people have gravitated to Bonaroo, as far as this part of the country goes. That has taken up a lot of the money out of the average concertgoer. Most people can only go to so many [festivals]. I think that by having the grandest festival of them all, Bonaroo has disturbed every other one a little bit."
Prior to Fall Hookahville, rumors circulated among fans that this would be the last Hookahville, or that it would be the final festival with the current band lineup. Band members, however, were quick to put such hearsay to rest. Prior to the festival, the band's management distributed a message on its Web site officially announcing that Hookah would be taking a multi-month hiatus for the he first time in its 14-year history.
"We don't have anything set in stone right now, such as a specific date to come back," says Katz. "The plan is to take a few months off and just let everybody sit back and relax. We haven't really discussed our future plans. But there is no truth to the rumor that there will not be another Hookahville."
Currently, the band has at least five side projects, including One Under, an ambitious and funky sextet featuring Hookah poet/songwriter Ed McGee and gregarious percussionist Johnny Polansky.
Hookahville Herb Report Card
Of course, this progressive, open-minded festival tucked in the middle of conservative Bush-voting country wouldn't be Hookahville without quality herb. Sour Diesel and Lemon G were among the most popular top-shelf strains making the rounds among Hookahville residents. A local strain called Dumpster, reportedly from the Ohio State University campus and sporting some Hawaiian genes, was recommended by the locals.
Throughout each concert, stealthy glass one-hitters and small pipes emerged, emitting the sweet smell of what is arguably nature's finest aroma. Canadian tokers would be shocked by the lack of joints, but Hookahville fans are fond of their glass. However, few grinders or water bongs could be found.


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Pulitzer awarded for book on largely forgotten case defended by Thurgood Marshall
Posted Apr 26, 2013 6:00 AM CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
Author Gilbert King says he thought a friend was joking in a text message that read, "Dude. Pulitzer."
It turned out the friend was serious, report the New York Times and the Orlando Sentinel. King wasn't even aware that his publisher had nominated his book called Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys and the Dawn of a New America. He won in the general nonfiction category.
The book is about a mostly forgotten incident involving four black men falsely accused of raping a 17-year-old white woman in Groveland, Fla., according to the Times. One of the accused men was shot to death by a posse. Two received death sentences and the other a life sentence.
Marshall and his staff lawyers at the NAACP persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the death sentences. After the ruling, the two defendants were shot, one fatally, by the sheriff, who claimed they had tried to escape. Marshall persuaded the governor to commute the survivor's death sentence to life in prison.
The Times interviewed King while the Sentinel caught up with him as he spoke to a book club at The Villages retirement community near Orlando. The appearance was scheduled before King won the Pulitzer.
"It's not just a crime story," King told book club members. "It's a story of America's history at a time that a lot of people are not aware—the pre-civil-rights movement right after World War II."
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While Johnnie Robinson's remains rest in peace at the Grace Hill Cemetery, the details of his death are still coming to light.
Fifty years ago last month, the 16 year old Robinson and four friends were standing in front of a gas station at the corner of 8th Avenue North and 26th Street in Birmingham.
They were exchanging words with cars full of white teenagers.
Doug McCall is the only one of those friends still alive today.
"All of a sudden something broke out, you know what I'm saying, when we were walking. I guess we said something too, you know. Cussing back at them and all that, but we had no idea, you know, that there's going to be no shooting," McCall recalled.
We found McCall's name by combing through a 1963 FBI report in the Birmingham Library Archives.
McCall told the FBI he was with Robinson moments before he died.
That was fifty years ago.
McCall has not spoken publicly about Robinson's death, until now.
"Nobody approached me and I just left it alone," McCall stated.
Multiple witnesses said they saw someone in Robinson's group throw a rock at some cars, prompting a police car to target the five teens.
McCall remembers a police car following him, his brother Lorenza and Johnnie Robinson to an alley off 26th Street.
McCall broke off from the other two and ducked into a two story building before hearing multiple shotgun blasts.
"I didn't know who had been shot, him or my brother. I did not know at the time right then. And when I run in the motel, you know there was a motel there near the service station there. So I run in there and told this lady and her husband, I guess that was her husband, could I hide in there because they were trying to kill us. So they let me hid in there," McCall remembered.
This autopsy chart shows Johnnie Robinson suffered multiple shotgun buckshot wounds to his back.
He died at the scene.
Records state that Birmingham Police veteran Jack Parker pulled the trigger.
To find out more about Officer Jack Parker and the other three officers in the car with him, we contacted the Birmingham Police Department.
We requested any records they had about the internal investigation conducted into Johnnie Robinson's death.
A spokesman told us it is their policy not to release information about internal investigations.
So we kept digging and found the information from a different source.
Back in 2007, Johnnie Robinson's brother Leon and sister Diane Robinson Samuels were seeking answers of their own.
So they filed a Freedom of Information Act Request with the Department of Justice.
After two years of back and forth with the DOJ, they received the FBI's complete file on Johnnie Robinson's death.
When asked why they did not give up, Leon Robinson responded, "Because we wanted to know the truth. We wanted to know what actually happened to our brother."
The file included statements made to Birmingham Police Internal Affairs by the three officers in the car with Jack Parker.
The driver, an Officer P.C. Cheek, stated, "I heard his shotgun and saw this Negro staggering across. He looked as if he tripped just as Officer Parker shot and started falling at that time."
When asked how many shots officer parker fired, Cheek replied, "If I remember correctly only two shots were fired."
Officer J.E. Chadwick, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, told investigators, "Just as we got to the alley - the sidewalk was very rough- we hit a bump and the gun went off. I did not actually see who shot."
Finally, Officer W.D. Haynie, who was sitting in the back seat with Officer Jack Parker, remembered, "Mr. Parker had the gun out of the window. Just as he fired, I saw the Negro stumble."
Even though the file did not include a quote from Officer Jack Parker himself, the FBI summarized Parker's statement in its letter to the Robinson family.
"Officer Parker stated that he fired his shotgun towards the ground, but some of the shots struck Mr. Robinson in the back as he was running away."
There were other witness accounts in the FBI file, but many did not want to sign a statement or testify.
"Six witnesses did not want to have anything to do with it because, in my opinion, they might be revisited later on," Leon Robinson claimed.
Doug McCall was one of those witnesses and he claims the police did revisit him and his brother.
He recalls police driving them to a local cheese factory.
"They had us scared. He said what are we going to do with them, talking to the others, what are we going to do? Let's get rid of them. So when they shot up against the wall, when they shot, when the bullets hit the wall, we were hollering, we thought we were shot. I was looking for blood," McCall said.
When asked if the police firing a gun over their ahead was an attempt to prevent them from saying anything else about how Johnnie Robinson died, McCall answered, "I think that was what it was about.
Evidence in Johnny Robinson's death was presented to both the Jefferson County and Federal Grand Juries.
Neither would indict Officer Jack Parker, who was never charged in the case.
Parker resigned from the Birmingham Police Department ten years after the shooting.
He died from lung cancer in 1977; he was 62.
"I know officer parker's dead, and there won't be no justice, but I still would like the world to know what went down," Leon Robinson concluded.
Doug McCall hopes breaking fifty years of silence will help history remember what happened to his friend on a day many will never forget.
"I am glad that it is all come to light, now, you know what I'm saying? I am glad you done find out about most of it, you know what I'm saying?" McCall asked.
Doug's brother Lorenza, who was the only witness with Johnnie Robinson in the alley when Robinson was shot, died in 1989.
The FBI reopened the Johnnie Robinson case in 2008.
After reviewing all the evidence, it informed the Robinson family they were closing its investigation because the person responsible, Officer Jack Parker, was deceased.
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Around late 40's and early 50's, C.S. Lewis wrote one of the best fantasy novel series of all time, The Chronicles of Narnia. Originally published in London in the 50's, Narnia remains one of most celebrated classic children's literature.
Just like most children fantasy stories, the stories of these novels deeply involves magic, mythical creatures, witch, knighthood, and battle between good versus evil. Narnia is the name of the magical realm in this chronicles, where animals talk, ogres and centaurs exist, and evil forces try to dominate it. To save that magical world, some kids from the real world are called and transported by Aslan the great lion as the chosen ones to save the realm of Narnia.
The Magician's Nephew explores the origins of Narnia. Here we can learn the creation of Narnia by Aslan and the coming of evil elements to that world. Digory Kirke is the nephew of the magician and after obtaining his uncle's magic ring, he and Polly Plummer his friend plunges into different realms, and in those adventure they encounter the White Witch, Jadis.
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A report by the deparment's inspector general found that Gonzales had mishandled top-secret documents concerning a surveillance program and detainee interrogations.
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In a statement, House Judiciary chairman John Conyers says he's "shocked" by the report's findings. He says Justice should explain clearly why it's declined to pursue charges against Gonzales.
At issue is how, and where, Gonzales stored the documents. The report says at the Justice Department, Gonzales kept the documents in a safe in a fifth-floor office that was not considered properly secure.
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A moment of silence please for Chicagoland Speedway.....
With its NASCAR date moved to cancel IndyCar's late-summer date and the possible open warfare between IICS, NASCAR, SMI, and ISC it appears the wildest track in the IRL's short history will be gone.
The Cup Series date now closer to IndyCar's (among the other recent Cup date moves) is NO accident. IT'S ON.
The moment Tony George went bye-bye, the IZOD deal and The Cowboy took over it appears the "good ol' boys" at NASCAR decided that it's time to treat the IRL as a real competitor. The 800 Pound Gorilla saw Bruton Smith buddying up with IndyCar and didn't even think twice. Your prestigious opening Chase race at Loudon? BYE! Atlanta? POOF! ONE RACE ONLY! Kentucky needs a date? Okay, but only to show them fellers what REAL racing is (complete with BS debris cautions and 10 second margins of victory) and how much better it is than IndyCar "racing" ("Racing" in IndyCar??? HAHAHAHA! Hear that Jethro? I made a funny!)
It's sad not only to see a once great race fade away, but it's possible the good people in Joliet may see its track slowly disappear as well. A Cup date during BEARS SEASON? REALLY???? You would stoop to that level? All this to cloak IndyCar's date in August?
Actually, this shooting themselves in the foot could be a blessing. Anything to spite one of THE WORST racing affiliated corporations in the land. It really is time to begin the Tiger Woods-level divorce with ISC.
But Chicagoland.... *sigh*
Anyways, with that off of my chest back to the preview of the race. Even with the ovals you should know the drill with those damn Red Cars and all....but which one?
THE FAVORITE (BEST RED CAR): Scott "Jenga Master" Dixon
Look at him. Like in the video he appears beaten and his title chances weak at best....only to prevail with such boring awesomeness. Adding to that is the extra motivation of Briscoe beating him by 0.00000000000001 of a second (or so) last year.
THE BEST OF THE REST (BEST NON-RED CAR): Tony "Yes, I do carry a jar of caramel everywhere I go" Kanaan
Just stay away from The Princess and you're good to go. What is it with you two and ovals and having to get together?
THE MARTY "SLOTH" ROTH BACKMARKER (NOT NAMED MILKA DUNO): (Insert KV Racing driver name here)
It's no longer funny. Why? On ovals it STOPS being funny.
So with yet another Red Car winning (and another KV car wrecking) the REAL question is the margin of victory. Will it be more or less than 0.001 of a second?
Considering this is the supposed final race of Chi-town, I'm thinking of a Viking funeral with all of its epicness. So 0.0000000000000000000001 of a second it is (with 6 passes for the lead on the last lap, give or take 5).
We'll miss you. Rest in peace.


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The Flyers overcame a two-goal deficit to get a much-needed win at Madison Square Garden Sunday.
Internet fame for Boston bullpen cop celebrating Red Sox grand slam
A Boston cop who works the Red Sox bullpen was just as excited to see David Ortiz tie the game as everyone else in the Fenway Park stands.
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Bruins take two for the road, spank Pens in Game 2
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The Rangers are two losses away from a premature and unsatisfying end to a season which began with Stanley Cup aspirations.
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Lundin Mining Corporation ("Lundin Mining" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a purchase option agreement (the "Option Agreement") to acquire an 80% interest in the Touro copper project located in northern Spain (the "Project") owned by two private Spanish companies (the "Vendors"). The Option Agreement gives Lundin Mining an exclusive option (the "Option") until October 1, 2012, subject to extension, to purchase an 80% interest in the Project, pending satisfactory completion of due diligence, including confirmatory and step-out drilling and other technical work currently being conducted by the Company.
The Option Agreement provides that:
Lundin Mining may earn an 80% interest in the Project by paying Euro €60 million (the "Purchase Price"), payable as follows:
Euro €10 million on the exercise of the Option
Euro €30 million when Lundin Mining makes a construction decision, subject to adjustment if the construction decision extends past 18 months from Option exercise
Euro €20 million on the start of commercial production
Upon the exercise of the Option, Lundin Mining and the underlying owners will form a new joint venture company which will own all of the assets of the Project, of which Lundin Mining will be an 80% shareholder and Operator of the Project
Upon a decision to construct, Lundin Mining will fund 100% of the Project costs, with those costs repayable preferentially with interest from surplus operating cash flows before other distributions
Lundin Mining will be granted options to purchase additional lands owned by one of the Vendors should such lands be required for the Project.
Mr. Paul Conibear, President and CEO of the Company, commented, "We are very pleased with the signing of the Option Agreement on the Touro copper project in northern Spain. We believe the project has the potential to be rapidly advanced and we are well on our way to making a decision on the option, having mobilized several drill rigs onto the property earlier this year. In addition to easy access to known mineral resources exposed in three pre-existing open pits, much of the copper mineralization within the Touro property is nearly flat lying, at or near surface. The project also benefits from significant modern, local and regional infrastructure in Galicia, an autonomous community with a rich mining heritage and pro-business attitude. We look forward to continuing to work with our partners to advance the project to the next stage."
The Touro Project
The Touro Project consists of 205 mining claims encompassing 57.4 square kilometers, and is located in La Coruña province of the Galicia region, in northwest Spain. Copper-gold mineralization is characterized by strongly disseminated to semi-massive and rarely massive sulphides comprised of a simple, coarse-grained assemblage of pyrrhotite, an iron sulphide, and chalcopyrite, a copper-iron sulphide, locally associated with some gold. The copper-gold mineralization is hosted within a generally shallow dipping layered succession of metamorphic rocks, the mineralized layers commonly ranging between 10 metres and 60 metres thick and known to exist close to surface over several square kilometres across the Touro property.
The Touro Project was previously fragmented into two separately owned parts, the core property formerly known as the Arinteiro Mine with a 6,500 tpd concentrator that was operated during the 1970's and early 1980's by Atlantic Copper and a surrounding,contiguous exploration property, held during this period by Peñarroya.Open pit copper mining ceased in 1986 due to depressed copper prices,and a large construction company related to one of the Vendors acquired the properties and have operated it as an aggregate business for many years. Uniquely, this property has not received any exploration or mineral resource study work since copper operations were closed. Lundin Mining believes the opportunity exists to define and expand a significant mineral resource at Touro. Recently, initiatives by the underlying Vendors has enabled consolidation of disparate mineral and surface access rights into a cohesive land and mineral license package consisting of at least 7 mineralized zones which are all open to resource expansion by step-out exploration drilling.
A historical resource estimate, non-compliant to National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101"), of 196 million tonnes grading 0.39% Cu, based upon a cut-off grade of 0.2% Cu, exists for the Project. Lundin Mining has initiated a drill program consisting of both confirmatory and step-out drilling focussed on both copper and gold potential with the intention of preparing a NI 43-101 compliant resource estimate as soon as practicable. Metallurgical test work and preliminary technical studies are being conducted in parallel to drilling to support a decision regarding the Option.
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Be on the lookout for any suspicious person(s). In the early morning of July 7th, 2011 between the hours of 1:00 -7:00 Am, 12 reports of vandalism on vehicles were received by BHPD officers from residents in the 6300 blk of Seminole St, 8500 blk of 60th Ave., and the 6300 blk of Osage St. Tires on vehicles are being vandalized by unknown person(s). Residents are reminded to leave a light on outside your home at night to deter thieves and vandals. Any information on the aforementioned please call the Berwyn Heights Police at 301-474-6554, or Det. Unger at 240-508-9944. For non-emergency 301-352-1200 or the Prince George's County Crime Solver at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477)
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If I were the chief executive officer of a publicly traded company and followed the fiscal/financial policies of the U.S. government since November 2008, I would be fired immediately.
Why doesn't someone with intelligence see what President Barack Obama is doing to our country? Most people cannot afford what is being proposed. Simply passing on the increased spending to children and grandchildren will only relegate them to living in a second-rate country in the years to come.
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We all know referees get a lot of flack from everyone, whether it is Basketball or MMA, it's just a tough and thankless job. In mixed martial arts, stoppages are usually the main point of contention, but what happens if the complaining gets too excessive, and the patience of the ref wears off?
It hasn't occurred in the UFC, but that's exactly what happened on one of the smaller regional MMA events.
The stoppage didn't look that controversial judging from this video, but nevertheless, the losing fighter's cornerman was clearly unhappy as he immediately gets in the ref's face. That's when things started to escalate. After a brief argument, the cornerman shoves the referee, and he in turn retaliates with a quick left hook that KOes the cornerman stiff, almost starting an all-out brawl.
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A man was "swiftly" approaching a Savannah-Chatham Metro Police Officer when he was shot.
That's what a police investigation revealed this week.
The findings of the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police investigation into the shooting of Timothy Maurice Williams by a Metro officer were shared with the Chatham County District Attorney's Office this week.
The two departments will confer on how the case proceeds.
The 23 year old Williams was shot at West 44th and Barnard streets about 3am on April 9.
A Metro officer responded to a call of multiple shots being fired when a resident waived him down. She was on the telephone with Emergency 911 to report that men were trying to break into her house.
The officer found Williams in the fenced back yard after the men with him had scaled a fence to escape. Williams, moved swiftly towards him.
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Since the shooting, the investigation has revealed that the three men were attempting to elude others who had been firing weapons at them when they jumped over the fence into the backyard.
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BARACK OBAMA is trying to split the difference on torture. He wants to move forward—no messy dwelling on the Bush-Cheney era—except that he'll look backward if forced. There will be no independent commission to hold top-ranking officials politically accountable. But, if Attorney General Eric Holder wants to prosecute the Bush lawyers who defended the legality of waterboarding—John Yoo, Jay Bybee, and Steven Bradbury—well, the president won't stand in the way. What does Obama gain by this approach?


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Frances Jones-Sneed, Ph.D., is professor of history, former department chairperson, and director of the Berkshire Center for the Study of History and Culture at MCLA. For the past ten years, she has researched local history in Berkshire County. She has published and presented on oral history research and African Americans and their sense of place. She co-edited , The African American Heritage in the Upper Housatonic Valley (2006) and is currently at work on mongraphs of W.E.B. Du Bois and Rev. Samuel Harrison.
Richard Courage, Ph.D., is professor of English at Westchester Community College of SUNY where he teaches composition and literature courses, including African American literature. He is co-author with Robert Bone of The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950 (Rutgers UP, forthcoming). He has published and presented on Richard Wright, James Baldwin, the New Negro and the New Poetry, African American narrative, African American visual artists, abolitionist texts, teaching writing, and distance learning.
Robert Paynter, Ph.D., is professor of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and author of Models of Spatial Inequality: Settlement Pattern and Social Process and co-editor of The Archaeology of Inequality: Material Culture, Domination and Resistance and Lines that Divide: Historical Archaeologies of Race, Class, and Gender. He is currently working with Warren Perry on a book on the archaeology of African American sites throughout New England and New York. This work will be the basis of his colloquium presentation on the everyday life of African Americans in the Northeast.
Leslie Brown is an Associate Professor of history at Williams College. She is the author of Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Urban South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008), winner of the 2009 Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from the Organization of American Historians for the best book in U. S. History written by a first time author. She is at work currently on several projects, including a monograph on African American women and migration, a book about the black life in the segregated south, an edited collection of interviews from the Behind the Veil Project, and a compilation of writing and speeches by Shirley Chisholm.
Charles Dew is the Ephraim Williams Professor of American History at Williams College. His publications include Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2001). Bond of Iron: Master and Slave at Buffalo Forge. (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1994). Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966; revised edition, forthcoming, Library of Virginia, 1998).
Joanne Pope Melish is an Associate Professor in the history department at the University of Kentucky. Her fields of interest include the history of racial production in the United States, slavery and emancipation, nineteenth-century American culture and social history, and nineteenth-century African American history. Professor Melish's publications include Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and 'Race' in New England, 1789-1860 (Cornell, 1998).
James T. Campbell is Edgar E. Robinson Professor in United States History at Stanford University. His research focuses on African American history and the wider history of the black Atlantic. He is interested by the ways in which societies tell stories about their pasts, not only in textbooks and academic monographs but also in historic sites, museums, memorials, movies, and political movements. His publications include, Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 (New York: The Penguin Press, 2006), and Race, Nation, and Empire in American Life (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007) (co-edited with Matthew Guterl and Robert Lee)
David Levering Lewis is the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University. Professor Lewis publications include W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 (1993); W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 (2000). Each Du Bois volume received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1994 and 2001) and the first Du Bois volume was also awarded the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize. Henry Holt and Company published W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography, a single-volume version of the two-volume life and times of W.E.B. Du Bois in July 2009. Mr. Lewis has compiled two editions: The Harlem Renaissance Reader (1994) and W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader (1995). A Small Nation of People: W.E. B. Du Bois & African American Portraits of Progress (2003), co-authored with Deborah Willis, was a commission from the Library of Congress.
Amritjit Singh is the Langston Hughes Professor of English and African American Studies at Ohio University. His research and teaching interests include African American Studies, and Modernism (esp. the Harlem Renaissance). He is a series editor of MELA (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas) from Rutgers University Press. He is co-editor (with Bruce G. Johnson), Interviews with Edward W. Said. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2004 (Public Intellectuals Series), Co-editor (with Daniel M. Scott III), The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina is chair of the department of English and teaches courses on the novel, biography, Bloomsbury and black literature of Britain and America. She is the author or editor of seven books including Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary 18th-Century Family Moved out of Slavery and into Legend, appeared in hardcover in 2008 with Amistad/HarperCollins; the paperback edition published in 2009. It is the story of two former slaves, Abijah Prince and Lucy Terry Prince, in colonial Massachusetts and Vermont, who became landowners and public figures, successfully defending themselves in court. Lucy Terry Prince is considered to be the first African American poet.
Gary Nash is Professor and Director, National Center for History in the Schools at UCLA. Nash led the design of the 1986 California History/Social Science Framework, the 1994 National History Standards, and the subsequent 1996 revised edition. In addition to many books he has authored, co-authored, or co-edited, Nash has made chapter contributions to more than thirty books, has published forty-five articles and over eighty book reviews, op-ed essays, and comments, including First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (2001)The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2005), The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution (2006), and Friends of Liberty: A Tale of Three Patriots, Two Revolutions, and A Tragic Betrayal of Freedom in the new Nation (2008).
JERRIANNE BOGGIS is the founder and Director of the Harriet Wilson Project. She also acts as liaison for the University of New Hampshire's Diversity Initiatives program and as special projects director in the Center for New England Culture. As a community activist, Ms. Boggis has developed several community programs that dealt with history and race. These programs served to raise awareness of New Hampshire's diverse heritage and increase the visibility of Black history in the state. Ms. She is co-editor of the collection of essays on Wilson, Harriet Wilson's New England: Race, Writing & Region.
David Levinson is Co-founder of Berkshire Publishing Group and is a cultural anthropologist specializing in contemporary social issues. Formerly vice-president at Yale University's Human Relations Area Files, an anthropological think-tank, David became "well-known for his multivolume encyclopedic works that describe world cultures" (Choice 1998). His local history, Sewing Circles, Dime Suppers, and W.E.B. DuBois: A History of the Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church, was published in 2006, as was the much-praised guide to African American history and culture in the Berkshires. His recent work is "One Minute a Free Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Struggle for Freedom," is co-authored with Emilie Piper.
Emilie Piper is a local historian and former librarian at the Berkshire Anthaneum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Ms. Piper is the author of One Minute A Free Woman: Elizabeth Freeman and the Struggle for Freedom. (Great Barrington, MA: Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area, 2010) with David Levinson, "Americans of African Descent: An Annotated Bibliography of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and Some Connecticut and New York Historical References Through the Civil War Period" (Pittsfield, MA: Berkshire Athenaeum, 2004), "Settling Northern Berkshire County" (2003); "Early Settlers on Lenox Mountain" (2002); "The Family of Agrippa Hull" (2001); and A Beginner's Guide to Native American Genealogy" (2000).
Dennis C. Dickerson specializes in American Labor History, the History of the U. S. civil rights movement, and African American religious history. He has written Out of the Crucible: Black Steel Workers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875-1980 (Albany, State University of New York Press, 1986) which chronicles the failed century long struggle of black steel laborers to attain occupational parity with their Caucasian counterparts. He also wrote Militant Mediator: Whitney M. Young, Jr. (Lexington, University Press of Kentucky, 1998) which analyzes the leadership of a major leader in the U. S. civil rights movement in the 1960s. This book was awarded the 1999 Distinguished Book from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Dickerson's new book, African American Preachers and Politics: The Careys of Chicago (Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2010) examines the intersection between religion and politics in the careers of two clergy/politicians during most of the 20th century.
Deborah Willis, Ph.D, is the Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and has an affiliated appointment as a University Professor with the College of Arts and Sciences, Africana Studies. Her work includes, The Black Female Body A Photographic History with Carla Williams (Temple University Press, Philadephia, 2002); A Small Nation of People: W.E.B. DuBois and the Photographs from the Paris Exposition (Amistad Press, 2003); Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers - 1840 to the Present (New York: W.W. Norton); Visual Journal: Photography in Harlem and DC in the Thirties and Forties (Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1996); Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography (The New Press, New York, NY, 1994); and VANDERZEE: The Portraits of James VanDerZee (Harry Abrams Publishing, New York, NY, 1993).


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This New Year, Do Something for Yourself and Someone Else
The holidays are over – 2011 has flown by and 2012 is upon us. Have you mapped out your New Year's resolutions yet? Are you going to exercise more? Quit smoking? Read more books?
I applaud you if you've chosen to make a positive change for yourself, but what if your New Year's resolution was about improving someone else's life too?
I'm not asking you to give up on your well-intentioned personal resolution; simply consider adding a piece to it that could benefit someone else. For example, if you're resolution is to eat healthier, you could also pledge to work at a food bank once a month.
This year, my resolution is to be more penny-wise (not eat dinner out as much, go to Costco, use coupons, etc.) so that I can save up for a vacation. I am also going to continue my support of the Blue Key campaign. Before you start brainstorming your own ideas, I want to tell you more about this cause.
I'm hoping you were able to go home for the holidays or were surrounded by friends and family. If so, you know what it feels like to belong somewhere, to feel safe, warm and loved. Now, imagine someone uprooting you from your home and placing you somewhere you don't want to be, where you don't know anyone.
That's how more than 43 million people who were forcibly displaced from their homes last year feel. These men, women and children from all over the world were removed from their homes due to conflict and persecution that was out of their control. Fortunately, there are people trying to help – The UN Refugee Agency, is working to provide services for 25 million of these refugees. However, UNHCR only receives 3 percent of its funding from the UN. As the needs of refugees continue to grow, the organization needs your help to keep performing this life saving work.
In addition to being a social media champion for Blue Key like me, you can also make a difference by supporting the Blue Key Campaign with just $5. For your donation, you get a blue key as a symbol of how you are helping to open doors for refugees worldwide.
When you're giving up caffeine for next year, maybe grab a Blue Key to replace your daily coffee. Perhaps you're pledging to get involved in social media – how about starting by sharing USA for UNHCR's Blue Key Campaign?
Whatever your New Year's resolution may be, what better way to hold yourself accountable than by doing something for yourself and someone in need?
Nicole Raisch is an Assistant Account Executive on Edelman's Federal/Government team. She is also a social media enthusiast, movie fanatic, and grilled cheese lover. Nicole grew up in California and recently moved to the Washington, DC area.
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New plan to create 150 apprenticeship placements in 100 days in Bradford
Updated 3:49pm Thursday 13th March 2014 in News By Rhys Thomas, T&A Reporter
The value of apprentices was underlined as a project to create 150 placements in Bradford within 100 days started last night.
Businesses in the district were challenged to recruit apprentices as part of Bradford's 150 in 100 Apprenticeship Challenge.
The project got under way at an event at the Midland Hotel in Bradford with more than 50 guests in attendance.
The challenge is a local partnership community campaign with the National Apprenticeship Service, Bradford Council, training providers and employers.
Companies interested in apprenticeship placements heard from speakers including Terri Schofield, who is an apprentice at Bradford-based Appris Management Ltd.
She told how she achieved 15 GCSEs and three A levels before going to university but then decided university was not for her. "Not everyone wants to go to university," said Miss Schofield. "It is important that we capture these people."
Russell McGrath, chairman of the Bradford Apprenticeship Develop-ment Group, said: "Apprenticeships have a long history of developing skilled employment and offering enormous value to organisations.
"The 150 in 100 Apprenticeship Challenge is important for the district. It brings together a wide range of businesses and shows how apprenticeships can help in developing a local economy which is high skill and high value."
Councillor Ralph Berry, the Council's executive member for children's services, said: "We want as many businesses as possible to sign up to the 150 in 100 Apprenticeship Challenge."
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Digital Assistant Data Bank: Toland ASC App Delivers An Invaluable (and Handheld) Resource2/14/2012 8:10 PM Eastern
Chemical Wedding consistently wows me with its offerings. A partnership of cinematographer Nic Sadler, Simon Reeves and Toby Evetts, Chemical Wedding has produced some of the most useful and powerful iApps on the market for film and video professionals. This month we'll look at Chemical Wedding's Toland ASC Digital Assistant.
Named after cinematographer Gregg Toland, ASC (Citizen Kane), this application is a virtual American Cinematographer Manual in your iDevice. The app was developed in partnership with the American Society of Cinematographers and takes the depth of field and field of view charts from the famous ASC Manual and makes them interactive in a phenomenal way.
The application allows you to select any of a number of camera configurations, with a wealth of cameras and lenses to choose from. The list includes both film and digital cameras of all formats and sensor sizes.
Once you've selected your camera/lens setup, the app brings you to the depth of field screen, where you input your selected lens focal length, shooting stop (aperture) and focal distance. The app returns your close focus and far focus depth of field. It illustrates the depth of field graphically on a focus bar, which updates interactively as you slide your finger up and down the bar to change the main focal distance.
Switch over to the field of view screen, where the application provides a silhouette representation of your current lens and its approximate field of view.
In the field of view window, slide your finger up and down the focus scale to change the focal position of the camera and the app will show you what that distance will give you in your field of view. What does an 18mm lens look like from 10' away? How about that same 18mm lens from 2' away? You can get a very quick representation of what you'll see with that lens (in a simulated image).
Toland's excellent exposure assistant tells you how many footcandles of illumination is necessary for your selected aperture based on your filters, frame rate, shutter angle and ISO. It will also show you what exposure compensation is needed by changing your shooting speed, shutter angle, filters or ISO.
Toland is an incredibly powerful application, but it is not for the casual shooter. This is a professional tool, and it is not necessarily very intuitive in its functions. Once you get the hang of Toland, it is, hands-down, the most powerful and accurate depth of field and exposure calculator on the market. It is designed primarily for feature filmmakers and for cinematographers shooting good old motion picture film, but it also applies to digital cinematography, and the digital tools are all available in the application's extensive database.
Chemical Wedding Toland ASC Digital Assistant
PROS: Very powerful, precise calculator. Huge database of cameras, lenses, filters and more.
CONS: Complex. Not necessarily intuitive interface. Designed for high-end professional film cinematographers.
BOTTOM LINE: This is the best depth of field, field of view and exposure calculator I've seen. Its complexity takes some getting used to, though. Most useful for professional cinematographers.
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The wellness sector is booming, but high consumer expectations and a growing compensation culture mean that liability insurance remains an essential purchase for spa resorts, health, fitness and beauty businesses.
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Whether it is to de-stress, lose weight, get fit or improve the way we look, more and more of us are turning to the wellness sector. Non-profit research institute SRI International estimates that there are around 289 million wellness consumers worldwide.
Hotels, spa resorts and specialist clinics are increasingly offering an ever wider range of products and services under the wellness banner. In particular UK spa resorts have enjoyed a renaissance of late, with the long awaited return of a natural thermal spa in Bath attracting over 200,000 visitors a year.
The industry – which includes the fitness and weight loss sectors, therapies like massage, beauty treatments, alternative medicines, right up to dental and cosmetic surgery – is big business.
Estimates from SRI International put global revenues at $2 trillion – the beauty and fitness industries are worth over $1trn alone, while the spa sector generates and estimated $60bn, and wellness and medical tourism $106bn.
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The sector is growing, driven by longer life spans and growing concern for health and fitness – and the wellness boom is not just a passing fad for the Baby Boomer generation. There is a large and growing younger generation of consumers interested in wellness in addition to an as-yet untapped local market in Asia and Latin America.
"The wellness sector continues to grow," says Asgar Hassanali of Lockton, which arranges insurance cover for spas, hotels and health clubs. "Almost every large hotel will now have a spa – it has become as important to their business as providing food."
The sector has also become a growth area for insurers, said Hassanali. Lockton also provides insurance for cosmetic surgeries, homoeopaths, and regulated therapies such as chiropractors, osteopaths and physiotherapists.
"The sophisticated large organisations with wellness products and services are increasingly looking to insurers and brokers for risk management support and insurance," he says.Risk and insurance awareness
Standards in the wellness sector have improved greatly in recent years, according to Hassanali. Insurers and brokers have helped the sector raise standards and improve risk management by promoting best practices and acknowledging the benefits of membership of a professional body, he adds.
"Most large corporate providers of wellness treatments – such as spas, clinics and hotel groups – have sophisticated risk management in place. Getting their insurance and risk management right is part of their business," says Hassanali.
Following a decade of improving standards, there is also a good system of registration and accreditation of therapists, which in turn helps commercial operators pick and choose the best therapists.
Compensation culture
Most of the 'feel-good' wellness therapies are relatively low risk if the therapist has been adequately trained, says Hassanali. However, problems arise when customers seek a wellness solution for a medical problem. To date there has been a distinct barrier between medical and leisure therapies, however when this becomes blurred it causes problems, says Hassanali.
There have been some expensive claim settlements in recent years where a massage has aggravated an existing condition, leading to paralysis. There has also been an instance where a customer sought treatment for a tumour through alternative therapy, when early medical diagnosis could have improved the outcome. However, such claims are rare, says Hassanali.
There have also been a number of high profile cases where customers have not been happy with the after effects of high street beauty treatments such as Botox. "It may work for most people most of the time, but when it goes wrong it can result in serious consequences," says Hassanali.
Day time television advertising 'no win no fee' legal services and media reports of compensation pay-outs for when treatments go wrong are driving more personal injury claims, said Hassanali.
"Consumers are growing more inclined to seek compensation when therapies and treatments go wrong or fail to live up to their expectations," says Hassanali. "They are becoming more demanding and their expectations are increasing. If they pay for a treatment they expect results."
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Historically spas and hotels have relied on therapists' own professional liability insurance, but increasingly resorts are buying one policy to protect against personal injury claims from customers. The majority of commercial health and wellness organisations now buy robust contingent insurance packages or look to cover all the liability risks under one policy, says Hassanali.
"We are encouraging clients to bring all their liability insurance into one policy. It is the right thing to do and is more comprehensive than constantly keeping on top of therapists contact details and insurance arrangements."
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Menards has opened a new home improvement store in Davenport and has plans for a 9-day Grand Opening Celebration that includes prizes, demonstrations, discounts and celebrity appearances.
The new Menards store is located at 6600 Brady Street in Davenport at the corner of Hwy 61 and West 65th Street. Family owned and operated since 1958, one of the special guests is Larry Menard. He'll be available at the store on Sun., April 13th from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Other celebrity and guest appearances:
John Gage, Chainsaw Carver: Mon., April 14th through Thur., April 17th from 9 a.m.- 5 p.m.
Fernando Vina, Former St. Louis Cardinals Infielder: Mon., April 14th from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. (Two free autographs)
A two-time Gold Glove Award winner with the St. Louis Cardinals, Fernando Vina was an outstanding second baseman who also had an impressive .282 lifetime batting average in the Major Leagues. Vina had stints with the Mariners, Mets, Brewers and Tigers during his 12-year career, making the All-Star team in 1998. Leg injuries resulted in Vina retiring in 2004 and he is currently a broadcast analyst with the Oakland Athletics.
Willie Gault, former Chicago Bears Wide Receiver: Wed., April 16th from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. (Two free autographs)
An All-American wide receiver and track star at the University of Tennessee, Willie Gault was drafted in the 1st round of the 1983 NFL Draft by the Chicago Bears. Gault was previously a member of a 4x100 World Record setting team race team that would have competed in the Summer Olympics had the United States not boycotted the 1980 Games. A wide receiver for the '85 Bears championship team, Gault caught four passes for 129 yards in the team's Super Bowl XX win. Gault played five seasons with the Bears and finished his career with the Los Angeles Raiders before retiring in 1993.
Billy Williams, former Chicago Cubs Outfielder: Thur., April 17th from 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. (Two free autographs)
One of the most consistent and clutch performers to ever play the game of baseball, "Sweet Swinging" Billy Williams was a legendary outfielder during his 16 seasons with the Chicago Cubs. Williams was the 1961 Rookie of the Year, 1972 Batting Champion, a six-time All-Star and established a National League record by playing in 1,117 consecutive games. As a tribute to his impact on the game, Williams was elected to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987 and his retired #26 hangs from the right field foul pole at Wrigley Field.
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For the past 34 years, Habitat for Humanity Kansas City has helped families get into their very own home, but now it's going beyond that and revitalizing entire neighborhoods.
The 2900 block of Flora Avenue in Kansas City, MO, is getting a facelift. Across the street, Edward Morgan, looks on from the front porch of the duplex he rents.
"To see these new houses coming up in the neighborhood is good," he said.
Volunteers built a stucco home from the ground up, but it's not just the new homes that look good.
One home is a foreclosure Habitat for Humanity got from a bank, and just next door a family-owned home is getting a fresh coat of paint and some siding repairs, with the help of Habitat.
"So you can have new construction, you can rehab projects, then you can have these home preservation projects. So you touch everyone in the neighborhood, and not just bits and pieces," said Lori Smith, executive director of Habitat for Humanity.
A new program, the Home Preservation Program, helps homeowners make minor repairs such as siding, guttering, roofing and weatherization, and homeowners only have to pay a portion of the cost.
"Habitat historically is not about giving a hand out, but giving a hand up. Empowering people to make their way with people in the community," Smith said.
It's able to expand on programs, because theirs has grown during the hard economic times because of their Re-Stores.
"They take reclaimed and new home building materials, and sell them to the public, and that generates up to $3 million a year," Smith said.
Meanwhile, Morgan is enjoying his new view that doesn't include boarded-up homes anymore.
"That's the thing, when they come in and they redo the whole block, the houses and all that, they get rid of a whole lot of other stuff that's not right. That's what I think, and that's a good thing," he said.
More than 60 volunteers will be working on the block Friday for the Rock the Block event, which kicks off the new Home Preservation Program.
They need your tools. If you have any lying around that you don't use anymore, drop them off on the 2900 block of Flora Avenue, Friday.
Homeowners living in the Boston Heights and Mount Hope neighborhoods can apply with Habitat for Humanity for the help, and the program hopes to expand to other neighborhoods in Kansas City, MO, next year.
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Sweet Abigail has grown up before viewers' eyes on Days of Our Lives. A model child, she did rebel against her parents during her teen years, but it was hard to blame her, considering her mother and father's on again, off again relationship. Now, a lovely young woman, she's enduring her own romantic woes and learning from her mistakes along the way.
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Paige and Ryanne Kettner (1994 to 1998; 2000 to 2001)
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Emily Montague (2007)
Kate Mansi (2011 to Present)
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A proud member of Salem's beloved Horton family, Abigail is the great granddaughter of Tom and Alice Horton and the only daughter of Jennifer Horton and Jack Deveraux. She has one younger brother, JJ.
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Abigail's first crush was on Max Brady. She dated Chad DiMera for several weeks, until she became obsessed with the older, married Austin Reed. Fortunately, she came to her senses and eventually realized that relationship was doomed from the get go. She was then torn between Cameron Davis and Chad; eventually losing her virginity to the latter. After a brief affair with EJ DiMera, she's now flirting with Ben.
A Child Is Born
Abigail Johanna Deveraux was born at the Horton cabin in 1992. When she was 8-months-old, she was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, after being exposed to polluted well water. Her parents, Jack and Jennifer, were devastated. Fortunately, a bone marrow transplant from Austin Reed saved young Abigail's life. Jack, however, was devastated to learn he was responsible for Abigail's illness. It turned out his adoptive father, Harper, had tricked him into signing papers that led to a toxic dumping, years earlier. Overwrought with guilt, Jack left Salem, believing Jennifer and Abigail would be better off without him.
Young Abigail grew closer to her mother and, in time, her new husband, Peter Blake. That is, until Jack returned to town, determined to expose Stefano's adopted son as a crook and get Jennifer and Abigail out from under his evil clutches. While Jack succeeded, he ended up shooting Peter in the process and was sentenced to life in prison for "murder." (Stefano had actually squired Peter away.) Eventually, Jack broke out of jail, and he, Jennifer and Abigail went on the run. The trio ended up joining a circus. They were eventually found by Peter, who made sure Jack was turned in to the police. Desperate to help Jack, Jennifer faked her death, and Peter revealed himself. In the end, Peter was sent to prison, Jack was freed, and the Deveraux family happily reunited. Jack, Jennifer and Abigail then headed to Africa to visit Jennifer's father, Bill.


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Hello Pounders!!!
We are in the middle of the Conference Semifinals of the 2013 Playoffs so I want to put in words some of my thoughts about how this could end and which teams will be in their respective Conference Finals.
Let's start with the Eastern Conference:
1st Semifinal: Miami Heat (1) vs Chicago Bulls (5) - Right now: Bulls 1-0
I guess we all thought that it was a big surprise when the final score was CHI 93 MIA 86. Nate Robinson had a hell of a game and all that...
Bu do you really believe that if their starters keep playing 40+ minutes all the series, Chicago has enough energy to win 3 more games? I don't know about you, but it seems improbable to me.
My prediction: Bulls are gonna be too tired to win the series and Miami will advance: 4-2 Heat
2nd Semifinal: Ney York Knicks (2) vs Indiana Pacers (3) - Right now: Tied 1-1
This series is as close as you may think. They're both good teams, with very good players (Paul George, Hibbert, Hill, Carmelo, Chandler, etc, etc) and some good defense (at least sometimes). Any team, if they stay focused, can win at home or away.
My prediction: this one may go to a game 7, but Knicks will survive: 4-3 Knicks.
Note: I really like George Hill, and I love Pablo Prigioni (because he's from Argentina, but he's also a great PG) so I'm divided in this case. I hope the best team will win, and no because of the refs.
Now let's move onto the Western Conference:
1st Semifinal: Oklahoma City Thunder (1) vs Memphis Grizzlies (5) - Right now: Tied 1-1
I guess this is the easiest series to predict. Memphis has a GREAT frontcourt in Gasol and Randolph and a very good PG in Conley. OKC only has Kevin Durant and that should be enough to reach the Conference Finals... if they played in the East. But this is not the case and I think they'll miss Westbrook too much.
My prediction: It won't take more than 6 games to Memphis: 4-2 Memphis (and it could be 4-1).
2nd Semifinal: San Antonio Spurs (2) vs Golden State Warriors (6) - Right now: Spurs 1-0
I could write a lot about this series. Game 1 was for the books and I hope Spurs won't let that happen again. Let's win by 10 or 15 in regulation, shall we?
But I don't think it'll happen more than once in the whole series. They are going to make us work for each win, and that's the way it should be. However, I think we can get out of this series and advance to the next round, where Memphis will be waiting. And that'll be a great rematch.
My prediction: Stephen Curry is good, and I mean REALLY good. Good enough to make his team win two more games, but no more than that: Spurs 4-2 (maybe 4-1).
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Our weekly temperature-taking of the mainstream media's opinions on the Washington Capitals.
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|What They're Saying
|It's been ugly at times, but the Capitals are still probably playing the best hockey in the division right now, which probably says more about the Southeast than anything else. I still think when the season ends, they're going to win it
|The Caps are showing signs of life. It's about time. Talk about leaving it a little late in the season.
|The Caps have won two straight on the road, three straight overall, and will look to try and solidify their playoff footing during a five-game, 10-day trip that brings them to Long Island, Winnipeg, Chicago, Detroit and Philadelphia.
|Just when you thought the Capitals were going to miss the playoffs, they pull off three straight wins to take back control of their own destiny.
|Have the Caps turned a corner? Have we asked this question countless times this season? They are four points clear of ninth and have the tiebreaker over everyone chasing them.
|Speaking of teams that are always up and down, the Caps have quietly gotten themselves back into the East's top eight. A gutsy win in Boston over the weekend did wonders for morale. If Alex Ovechkin (one goal in his last six games) could ever get cranked up, they could still easily win the Southeast title. Last week: 3-0-1
|Three straight wins doesn't seem like much, but it's enough to get the Caps into eighth in the East, even when the formerly high-flying club has two defencemen, Dennis Wideman and Dmitry Orlov, leading the team in scoring this month with four points in six games.
Key Injuries: C Nicklas Backstrom (concussion), D Mike Green (suspension).
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Which One Of You Has A Room Full Of Squirrels?
Readers, you really need to stop misbehaving. First you pretended to be Amy Gutmann and now one of you stole some squirrel sculptures because we said they were ugly. That's two strikes, guys! Things were better when you were just electing the officials we told you to vote for. There is nothing funny about fraud or theft. Well, except for this one thing: one of you has a room full of those squirrel sculptures.
You're going to bring home a girl/gentleman and she/he's going to say, "Why do you have all those ugly squirrels?" Or your roommate is going to get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and trip over one and say, "Ow, why do you have all those ugly squirrels?" Or somebody is going to come into your room without knocking and say, "Why are you having a tea party with those ugly squirrels?"
Anyway, stop stealing, guys, and if you're reading this, thief: put them back!
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