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This document describes a migration from Windows Vista to Windows XP on a Sony VAIO notebook computer. Although some of the details are specific to this particular make and model, the differences with other hardware should be trivial. Your mileage may vary, but probably not by very much.
The information in this document was believed to be accurate at its time of writing (December 2007 - January 2008) but is provided without any warranty of any kind whatsoever. The usual disclaimer applies.
This document is written based on the assumption that you will want to run MS Windows on your desktop for good and compelling reasons. Linux advocates need not respond. Yes, I am aware of the many advantages of Linux in comparison to Windows, but I am also aware of the reality that many Windows users are still tied in to the Windows platform and that Linux on the desktop is not a viable option for them at present. For many Windows users the decision to live with Windows in order to get their daily work done is a pragmatic one, and this migration manual has been written from that standpoint only.
Microsoft Windows Vista is one of the worst Windows versions ever. It's probably even worse than Windows ME was, which is no mean trick. Microsoft struggled with Vista for a long time, and it shows. Vista was released years later than was initially planned, and Microsoft's developers had been forced to scrap most of their code and start over from scratch halfway through the project. What finally emerged was an immature version of Windows, loaded with features that are ill-conceived or just badly implemented, and with severe compatibility issues. Driver support remains a problem long after Vista's initial release, due to the fact that Vista's design parameters continued to change until just before its final release. Vista's system requirements are downright bizarre, and it wastes computer resources like no other Windows version. No Windows release has been botched that badly since Windows 1.0 appeared in the mid-1980's. On the other hand, Vista has very few real improvements compared to its predecessor Windows XP, and it certainly does not make one more productive either.
Unless you really require Vista for some reason, the best way to reclaim your hardware may be to revert to XP. Windows XP requires less memory, less disc space and less computing power. On a laptop computer this means that under Windows XP your battery will last much longer than under Vista. XP is a relatively mature version of Windows, which means that compatibility with applications and hardware generally won't be a problem (as opposed to Vista). Last but not least, Vista comes loaded with "features" that are as annoying as they are useless, User Access Control being a prime example. XP may have its drawbacks (and then some!) but at least it's less aggravating to use than is Windows Vista.
Microsoft does not advertise it, nor do most hardware vendors. Neither will you find it mentioned in any Windows documentation or (at this time of writing) on the Microsoft website. Yet you do have the option to legally replace your installation of Windows Vista with Windows XP Professional. Your Vista End User License Agreement (EULA) is, with certain limitations, legally transferable to Windows XP.
There are a lot of conflicting stories making the rounds about what your actual downgrade rights are. Microsoft's EULAs and terms of use are complex and mystifying. Under the current licensing terms, you are allowed to downgrade your Vista Business and Vista Ultimate license to a Windows XP Professional license, including Tablet PC Edition and x64 Edition. This applies both to OEM versions of Vista (pre-loaded or not!) and to "boxed" Vista licenses. Some articles on the web state otherwise and claim that preloaded or OEM version are excluded from downgrade rights. This is not true. I just downgraded a preloaded OEM Vista Business license to a bundled (i.e. non-preloaded) OEM Vista license without any problems. Other Vista versions than Business or Ultimate (e.g. Home Basic or Home Premium) however cannot be legally downgraded. Users of those versions have my sympathy, especially as these versions are more then somewhat useless to begin with. Unfortunately that's the best I have to offer them. If there is a solution to get rid of these versions legally without paying for a new Windows license, I'm not aware of it.
I understand that holders of volume licenses (e.g. large companies) are applicable for downgrade rights as well, but I have no experience with that particular situation myself. The scope of this article is limited to single copies of Vista and XP.
There are several possible reasons why you may decide not to migrate from Vista to XP.
No support:
A migration from Vista to XP is not for the faint-hearted. While an experienced Windows user with a certain amount of technical background may find the process fairly straightforward, many end users may struggle with it. An important factor to keep in mind is that you generally do this without any form of support whatsoever. You're on your own. If that worries you, you might want to hire a computer techie to do the migration for you.
No warranty:
In most cases you will run Windows Vista because that's what came with your new computer. This is known as an "OEM version" of Windows. An OEM version is only sold with a new computer, and Microsoft will not support it. Instead you have to contact your hardware vendor for Windows support. This makes Windows support the hardware vendor's problem, and most hardware vendors see it as such. To them, support is overhead that does not generate revenue, and they are forced to support a product (Windows) that they didn't make in the first place. As a result, the quality of Windows support on OEM versions is generally less than stellar. Hardware vendors ship their products with a preloaded version of Windows, and that's what you're supposed to run. Their solution to any problem you may have is generally to re-install the out-of-the-box Windows configuration. Your hardware vendor will almost certainly consider a migration from Vista to XP a user-performed modification that voids the warranty.
Licensing considerations:
Other Vista versions than Business or Ultimate (e.g. Home Basic or Home Premium) cannot be legally downgraded to XP. Your only option in this case is to buy a "boxed" version of XP, which does not come cheap.
Driver support:
If your Windows Vista installation came with the latest hardware, no XP drivers may be available for that hardware. This can be an issue especially with a recent model notebook computer. If you need to use hardware for which only a Vista driver exists, you're stuck.
XP installation media:
You will need to provide you own LEGAL copy of Windows XP. That copy may already be installed on another PC, i.e. you won't need a separate XP license. The only requirement is that your XP copy be a legally obtained one. Pirated copies or "cracked" serial numbers are not allowed and won't work. (Oh, and you will be contacting Microsoft later on, in order to discuss the particulars on your XP license. So don't bother trying to use a pirated serial number. You'll be wasting your time.)
Contrary to popular belief, the XP version that you are about to install can be an OEM version. I know this for a fact; I have just done it. Several articles on the web state that you can only legally downgrade if you use a "boxed" version of XP and not an OEM version, but this is not true. (If it used to be true, it's not true anymore.)
A Vista Business or Ultimate user license:
It's probably redundant to say this, but you will of course need a legal version of Vista Business or Vista Ultimate to begin with. Your copy of Windows Vista may be a boxed version, or an OEM version, preloaded or not. As I already said above, some articles on the Web claim that preloaded and/or OEM version are excluded from downgrade rights. This is not true. I just downgraded a preloaded OEM Vista Business license to a bundled (i.e. non-preloaded) OEM Vista license without any problems.
You will need to obtain a full set of Windows XP device drivers for each and every device in your computer. While some devices (such as IDE or SATA hard discs in desktop computers) are generic and generally do not need driver software, the list of drivers required is generally longer than one would first expect. Your video card(s) and/or monitor(s), sound card, modem, network interface (both Ethernet and wireless), FireWire ports web camera, UPS, cellphone, Bluetooth interface, Infra-Red interface... et cetera ad nauseam. Don't forget things like power management on notebook computers or the drivers for the chipset on your motherboard!
There are several ways to compile this list. Go through your hardware manager and check the list of installed devices. Look up the specifications for your computer in the manufacturer's documentation. See what hardware-related programs are installed. If you have an A-brand PC, check the manufacturer's website to see which drivers may be available there for download. If your hardware manufacturer(s) cannot help you out, Google is your friend.
Some hardware manufacturers will offer a complete set of XP drivers for their computers. In my case it was easy: Sony has recently released a full set of drivers for XP. Until recently they told me that no such drivers were available, and that license agreements with Microsoft even prohibited them from shipping XP with this particular model. However they have now apparently given in to pressure from the market. Other hardware vendors (e.g. Dell) have followed suit and have reverted to shipping XP and providing XP support with their hardware in response to customer demands. (If that won't tell you how bad Vista is, I don't know what will.)
Sony has also published a manual on how to perform the installation of Windows XP with the aid of their XP driver set. Depending on the brand of your particular hardware, you may be able to obtain such instructions from your hardware vendor, or not. Give it a try and see what happens.
If you have completed the above preparations, you are ready to begin with the actual migration from Windows Vista to XP.
First and foremost, make sure that if al else fails, you will be able to restore your current Windows Vista configuration. In that case you can still use your system if your migration to XP should fail completely. The easiest way to do this is to make a full image backup of your hard disc, using Symantec Ghost or a similar program. If you are willing to revert to an out-of-the-box Vista configuration using the recovery discs provided with your computer, or the boxed Vista installation disc, you may skip this step. (I did.)
Some hardware vendors (including Sony) no longer provide CDs or DVDs with their computers. Instead they preload the images for the recovery discs on the computer's hard disc, and you're expected to burn the recovery CDs yourself. If your hard disc goes belly up before you've done that, you're "SOL" and you have to contact your hardware vendor to order (and generally pay for) a set of recovery discs. If you don't have a set of recovery discs, create them now from the harddisc images provided or contact your hardware vendor for clarification. I did not have any recovery media yet, so I burned two DVDs using the utility that Sony ships with the VAIO for that purpose. You will need these recovery discs should you ever wish to switch back to Windows Vista at some time in the future, so make sure that you do not skip this step. Also make sure that if you burn recovery discs yourself, these discs are actually readable and that the computer will be able to boot off these discs. Label the recovery discs and put them in a safe place. (And while you're at it, note the serial number for the Vista license on the sticker on your PC and keep a copy of that number with your recovery discs. You never know.)
The next step is a ground-up installation of Windows XP Professional. And I mean ground-up: remove all and any NTFS partitions on the harddisc that are currently used by Vista. You may or may not want to leave so-called "support" partitions in place. I didn't, since that partition merely served to reload Vista from the image on that partition. Seeing as I had just created the required recovery DVDs, there are more useful things I can use those 10 gigs for.
I created two partitions, one to be used by XP and one for data. You may or may not want to do it differently. I formatted the primary partition with an NTFS file system and went through the motions of installing XP. One reboot later I had a basic installation of Windows XP Professional OEM, which wanted to be activated.
If you install an OEM version like I did, do not attempt to active it yet. We will come to that later. You have 30 days in which to activate your XP installation; so don't worry about it for now.
This is one of the more tedious steps of the whole operation; you have to manually install all required device drivers and hardware support applications that may be required by your computer. In my case it was easy, as Sony has thoughtfully provided two software kits for this downgrade: a driver pack and an application pack. I followed the steps as outlined by Sony in their downgrade manual, which took me through the motions of manually installing 32 (yes: thirty-two) separate software components, starting with the Intel chipset drivers, through hotfixes not part of XP SP2 right up to a VAIO battery management application and a Sony-specific LAN setting utility. If your hardware vendor has supplied you with a similar set of drivers and instructions, just follow their procedure to the letter. If you have had to collect your own driver sets, use common sense: start with main board and chip set drivers, work your way up to peripheral drivers, and so on. Time and many reboots go by.
Test your installation thoroughly. I did not expect any real problems,
but in spite of Sony's preparations I did encounter a few. The VAIO's
built-in webcam refuses to work (the application used to set the webcam
controls seems to be defunct or missing, which means that its brightness
and contrast controls are stuck at zero). I contacted Sony's support
division to sort that out. Their response was decidedly unhelpful: I
was the only one with that problem so obviously I must have done something
wrong; the fault could not have to do with the downgrade driver package
as provided by Sony. And that was it. I was advised to try again and
that ended Sony's OEM support. (See what I mean by downgrade operations
being totally unsupported?) So far I have not manage to resolve this
issue. As the built-in camera of this particular notebook computer was
to be used for video conferencing, it's a bit of an issue, but I'll see
what I can do.
Another problem was that Internet Explorer 6 was agonizingly slow and took minutes to load a single page. I carry Opera 7 around on a USB stick because I can run it right off the stick without installing it first, and Opera loaded the same web pages with lightning speed. Other network functions worked properly, too, so the problem was obviously IE6. I solved that by downloading IE7 (using Opera) and installing that instead of IE6 (something that would have happened sooner or later anyway) and that solved the problem.
This is where the fun starts. You now have to contact Microsoft in order to activate your installation of Windows XP, using your Vista downgrade rights. This is not a standard option in Microsoft's normal activation procedures. That means that activation via the Internet is not possible. Neither will the standard procedure for activation via telephone help you out. Normal telephone activation involves an automated voice response system that guides you through the standard exercise of activating XP but makes no provisions for downgraded Vista licenses. It would have been trivial for Microsoft to at least add an option for downgraded Vista licenses to the voice response system that handles activation requests, but so far they haven't done that. Neither does Microsoft provide any instructions on their website, nor in their voice response system, on what to do in order to exercise your Vista license downgrade rights. One would almost get the impression that they don't want to admit that there is sufficient demand for such a service to warrant its existence... But I digress.
Here's what you have to do.
But all things come to those who wait. And wait. And wait. Eventually I was put through to a live operator at a real activation center (which, judging from the Indian or Pakistani accent of the operators, would have been somewhere in India or thereabout).
Assuming that you now have made it this far, again explain to the operator that you want to exercise your Windows Vista license downgrade rights after having downgraded Vista to XP and that you now want to activate the XP installation. Also explain that you have used an XP CD and serial number previously used on another PC. The operator will ask you for the (long!) string of digits given to you by the activation wizard, and will give you an only slightly shorter string of digits in return which you have to type into the boxes in the activation wizard. If the wizard does not accept the string of digits as valid, one of you has made a mistake. If the digits are accepted, Windows XP has now been activated.
And that's it! Easy, wasn't it?
At this point you might want to make a complete image backup of your XP partition (using Symantec Ghost or a similar product) because if you ever have to re-install XP to resolve a problem, you have to go through this whole process again. At that point you will probably curse yourself for not having made an image backup, so I suggest you do it now. Chances are that sometime in the future you will be glad that you did.
Good luck!
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On Friday 4th June, Millivres
Prowler Limited became the first British company to win the coveted Independent Press Award at the Lambda Award Ceremony. Publisher of literary fiction imprints GMP
(Gay Mens Press) and Diva Books, as well as the steamy Red
Hot Diva and Zipper erotic titles, the company forms part of the Millivres
Prowler Group, which also publishes international magazines Diva and Gay
Comment from MPG Books Publisher, Kathleen Bryson:
an independent British publisher producing queer books for the last twenty-three
years, we are thrilled that the Lambda committee has seen fit to honour an
international company.
We are a small and hard-working business and
the significance of this award is not lost on us. We believe that independent
publishing allows a multitude of voices to be read and savoured, not just
those of the mainstream or the best-selling. We are dedicated to publishing
high-quality books at reasonable prices for the international LGBT reader,
and are so pleased that the judging panel recognises our strength and commitment
to the wider lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. We are over
the moon!
Comment from Managing Director of Millivres Prowler Group, Simon Topham:
We are very proud and grateful to receive this prestigious award. The environment for independent publishers is difficult and even though we have a long and illustrious history as one of the world's first gay publishers, the last few years have been ones of tough decisions, hard work and innovation. So it's a great encouragement and honour to be recognised by Lambda.
MPG Literary Imprints
fiction, genre fiction and non-fiction with a lesbian slant
[Diva Books'] strength is in its growing
fiction list, which offers a wide variety of tastes and styles MSLEXIA
Big names head for the Diva list THE BOOKSELLER
literary and genre fiction, for gay and straight readers, incorporating Gay Times Books (anthologies and gift books)
- The Lambda Literary Awards are given for books of interest to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender readers.
- Millivres Prowler Ltd. is Europe's largest and longest established LGBT media group. Our four imprints are distributed in the U.S. and worldwide, and titles have been translated into Spanish, Dutch and German.
- Diva
Books was the first UK press to win a Lambda Literary Award in 2001
- In 2004, Millivres Prowler Group is also celebrating 30 years of business providing information, entertainment and shopping to the LGBT community
www.millivres.co.uk / www.lambdalit.org

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Self Winding Clocks
The Self Winding Clock Company was a manufacturer of clocks whose life span went from 1886 until around 1970. The company was located in New York City, though the business also had a branch which was located in Chicago. The company did a lot of work for a lot of famous business, including names like the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company on the Tower, Western Union, and the London Underground. The company did not make their own clock movements, but rather used movements made by other prominent producers. These names included names like H.C. Thompson, Seth Thomas, and Howard. The case style of the company was a lot like the style sported by the companies of Howard and Seth Thomas, and featured fitted winding devices mounted on various different case designs.
The company closed down in the 1970s, but the clocks they made are still considered collectors' items by many collectors.
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· Presidential Advisor, Reagan Administration
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Now that he has been safely re-elected, Barack Obama's personal foreign and defence views no longer pose any risk to him in domestic political terms. Unfortunately, however, the international risks caused by his radical ideology, naivety and simple ineptness, added to the damage already done in the first term, are increasingly apparent. The Obama Administration's failures to date cover the full spectrum of national security affairs. At the strategic level, there is utter incoherence in dealing long term with powers like Russia and China, or the swirling morass of conflicts in the Middle East. In the immediate future, the Iranian and North Korean nuclear and ballistic-missile programmes are speeding ahead as regional and global threats, without even effective tactical opposition by the United States and its allies.
Left to burn: There was no enhanced security before, during or after the September 11, 2012 attacks on the US Embassy in BenghaziÂ
These and many other dangers, new and emerging, were all present in Obama's first term. But only near the end of the long election campaign, in the September 11 terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, did many of the Administration's failures stand fully exposed to public view. Although Republican political leaders failed to communicate Benghazi's import to the voters (indeed, they essentially fled from the issue), its significance, domestically and globally, should not be underestimated. To be sure, identifying historical turning points is a tricky business. Events that, in their own time, seem sure to qualify can fade away, while obscure happenings later become, in history's judgment, major departures. Take Zhou En-lai's 1972 remark that "it is too soon to tell" about the consequences of the French Revolution. Or perhaps he was referring to the 1968 Paris riots; either way, Zhou's prudence makes the point.
But with events unfolding at a truly dizzying pace, we must still ask, even if hazardous, whether a turning point occurred on September 11 in Benghazi, with the murder of the American Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three others. Certainly, the attack and its consequences continue to roil the US political debate. Some commentators compare Benghazi to Watergate, noting sarcastically that no one died at Watergate. Neither the bungled burglary nor the terrorist attack materially disrupted the incumbent president's path to electoral victory, this time despite Obama's utterly lame explanation that the attack resulted from local outrage over an internet video ridiculing the prophet Muhammad. Nonetheless, the damage to Obama's second term, as to Nixon's, could be considerable. Obviously, occurring on the 11th anniversary of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Libya killings have added resonance, even though the 2012 butcher's bill was mercifully far lower.Â
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There are thousands of applications, or apps, available for download to a variety of devices. If downloaded to your phone, you can have these apps on hand whenever you need them. Apps can serve astounding, varied, and impressive purposes, and many are designed by entrepreneurial software designers. It is relatively surprising how many relate to sleep.
There are a variety of alarm clocks as well as sound machines that are meant to produce sleep-inducing background noise such as calming streams, rainstorms, or crickets chirping. There are apps designed to serve as sleep diaries to log your hours of slumber. If you are seeking dream interpretation, hypnosis, and various attempts at sleep analysis, your cup will runneth over.
Many of these apps seem to be of most benefit for entertainment purposes but there are also a few that may directly improve your sleep. Most importantly, having an app around might prompt you to place a special importance on your sleep. This may be all you need to sleep a little better.


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I know there is an official QB thread with plenty of Jake Locker comments (thanks ctrl+F!) and I was going to post this there but it looked ugly next to all the nice concise comments. I just wanted to see what you guys thought of him as a whole, since he's being considered as a possibility for the Niners in a number of mocks. I've watched most of his games in the past 4 years and basically, the guy worries me.
Full disclosure: I went to WSU and am well aware of my bias against all things purple, but I think both Mason Foster (LB) and Chris Polk (RB) are great NFL prospects - especially Polk when he comes out. That aside, here's what worries me about Locker:
He's always been the kid with incredible physical abilities just waiting to be unleashed. Always. The key phrase there is "...waiting to be..." For 3 years I've heard him and his coaches say the goal for the season is a 60% completion percentage. Years 1-4 respectively: 47%, 53%, 58%, 55%. Obviously that's just one stat and it does hinge on his receiver corps to some extent, but it illustrates a basic lack of significant improvement. With all his natural ability, it's tempting to say, "he could be coached up," and I think to some degree he could be. However, it would be nice to see a propensity for improvement during his stint as a 4 year college starter. Even if you throw out his freshman and sophomore years which were under Tyrone Willingham, one would HOPE to see some improvement after his Jr year and into his Sr year, especially considering Steve Sarkisian was brought in as head coach. (He was Pete Carroll's QB "guy" at USC and worked with Carson Palmer, Matt Cassel, Matt Leinart, Mark Sanchez etc.) However, he declined in almost every major category. I'm not saying he had awful numbers. Rather, he's always been the guy ready to bust out, and yet he hasn't even really improved.
He did show bursts of what he can do. The guy could throw a football through a wall, and sometimes, he hits his spots and looks like an NFL starting QB. However, he has yet to gain any kind of consistency with his passing. He'll make your jaw drop on a deep out one play, then throw a slant 4 feet too high on the next.
The running ability is there, for sure. He's extremely fast, elusive, and has run over many a Pac-10 defender. Then again, he's got an upright running style and is prone to injury because he's not much for sliding. I'm not sure how effective his scramble ability will be in the NFL where linebackers are bigger and faster, and he doesn't YET have the pocket passing game to keep them honest.
I think drafting Jake Locker as an immediate starter (or really as a starter any time in his first few years) would be a huge mistake. Given his physical ability, drafting him to a team with a serviceable veteran starter and a staff capable of teaching a QB how to succeed in the NFL seems like the best possibility for him. Is that the 49ers though? I honestly don't know. Can we survive with Alex Smith for a while longer? Can Harbaugh work magic with Locker? Is he worth a second round pick for the amount of uncertainty he carries with him? I'm not sure.
What do you guys think? Agree? Disagree? Especially if you disagree, what draws you to him and has you sold that he should be the next 49ers starting QB?


text: Another Sabbath album with Tony Martin at the helm and in my opinion another good one. "Cross Purposes" was the album that came after the ill fated reunion with Ronnie James Dio and its subsequent release "Dehuminizer". Although I am a huge Dio fan was really disappointed with the reunion effort and think that "Cross Purposes" blows "Dehumanizer" away. The music on this album sounds the most like classic Sabbath of any of the Tony Martin era recordings as the team of Butler / Iommi combine once again to produce some really strong material. Bobby Rondineli (Rainbow, Blue Oyster Cult, And Quiet Riot) is also on hand n the drum kit and delivers a fine performance. Although he seems to get slammed by many die hard Sabbath fans I maintain that Tony Martin is an incredible vocalist and this album produces some of his best work to date. Highlights include the opening track "I Witness", the heavy handed "Virtual Death" that has Geezer's signature bottom end written all over it, the ballad "Dying For Love", and the catchy rocker "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle". Tony Iommi has some really tasty guitar solos on this album and shows that he was still a very capable guitarist in the mid-90's. The album peters out for me a bit with the last two tracks "Cardinal Sin" and "Evil Eye" which are ok, but nothing spectacular. Overall I would rate this right behind "Tyr" as one of the best Sabbath albums of the 80's or 90's.


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text: Currently if you hold this real estate as an investment, your income and expenses are calculated and filed on a Schedule E. This is considered "unearned" income (income from a passive activity). Taxes are calculated on the income, but the customary taxes paid by self employed or working people who have "earned" income (FICA taxes) are not required to be paid. When real estate is placed in a trust, the trust itself files a tax return. After taxes are paid, I believe you will have less net income by placing this real estate in a trust. If it is only your wife and yourself, you can each leave your assets to each other without all the complications and extra tax expenses of a trust.


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The UFC held a press conference earlier today in Brazil to announce that the rematch between Anderson Silva and Chael Sonnen would be moved from UFC 147 in Brazil to UFC 148 in Las Vegas on July 7th. That's obviously a huge bout, but where does it leave the expected main event, the third bout between Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber for the UFC bantamweight title?
Demoted, that's where.
According to UFC officials, Cruz vs. Faber will now serve as the co-main event of the evening. The two men are currently coaching The Ultimate Fighter Live and were expected to carry one of the biggest cards of the year. Instead, that duty will fall on the UFC middleweight title bout instead.
This will be the first card since UFC 136 to have two title bouts. There will also be a fan expo in Las Vegas for the event over the weekend.


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Traffic is once again moving back and forth across the covered bridge in Quechee. Tropical Storm Irene walloped the span, cutting off a main route to the village for a year and four months.
"Very seldom did we head west for some reason. The bridge was out. We would have to go out to Dewey Pond and come in that way. It's just six minutes, I guess, difference, but it made a difference to us going west or just going east all the time," said Frank Medora of Quechee.
And it wasn't just commuters who were affected. Less traffic meant less business for area stores.
"There was the perception that we may or may not have been open. And, of course, we had been. We were only down for just a few days after Irene," said Andy Archie of Simon Pearce.
The New Year's holiday means big business for Simon Pearce. And now that the bridge is back open, shoppers have more time to spend money without the hassle of added minutes on the road.
"It was inconvenient to say the least," Archie said. "Having the bridge open literally for the locals and just being able to walk over to the bank or to the restaurants and having that open just for all the traffic coming off Highway 4 is just fantastic."
"There are so many people that I knew that wouldn't come over to this side just because the bridge was closed and I know they lost one or two businesses down on the green that we really enjoyed and hopefully they will come back if we get some more business around here," Medora said.
Back in March, voters approved a $1.1 million bond to repair the structure. But those who are connected to the span say the fact that it has reopened, is hard to put a price tag on.
A community celebration is being planned for this June once construction on the covered bridge is complete.
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Here are some stellar examples of gyotaku.
Here's a brief history of gyotaku.
Gyotaku (gyo=fish, taku=impression) is an ancient Oriental art form which uses actual fresh-caught fish to create lovely one-of-a-kind art prints on cloth or paper. Natural Impressions employs the traditional gyotaku techniques with modern twists, using fresh-caught Hawaiian fish and natural vegetation for spectacular results!
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Top 50 superhero movies of the last 10 years
10. 'Sky High' (2005)( August 27, 2012 )
One sign of a mature genre: It embraces parody and, in this case, the light touch of a modest family picture from Disney. Kurt Russell and Kelly Preston play the most powerful superheroes in the universe, through their son, who attends a high school for the gifted children of superheroes, has lingering questions about his potential: "The Incredibles" worked similar material with more imagination but as a silly-sweet exploration of the pragmatic side of the superhero genre's ramifications, "Sky High" is welcome.
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I don't see too many D800 whiners on similar fora... why do you suppose that is?
Because they finally got a camera they can be proud of after 10 years... The rest has been silenced by Nokinrumors
except, oddly enough, when polls are held by the Nikonians on whether people are happy with the D800, 90% of them say no.
when people make polls on CR asking if people are happy with the 5D Mark III, more than 70% of them say they wouldn't change a thing.
the world is full of people who will perpetually think the grass is greener on the other side. I'm just happy to see that many of these people use photography as an outlet for this sort of behaviour, where you whine and moan but can't afford to actually jump ship. it's a lot more expensive to have that kind of mindset when investing in the stock market.


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As miserable as nausea makes you feel, throwing up has a function. To figure out what's causing your nausea, it helps to understand why we ever have to vomit in the first place.
The Purpose of Puke
Our bodies have evolved to protect themselves. We are supposed to stay alive and do things to ensure that happens every single day. One of the things we've evolved is a protective mechanism against toxic things we might ingest, intentionally or accidentally.
If we eat something that's bad for us, there are several triggers that give us the urge to vomit (nausea). Taste and smell are two of the most powerful. If it smells or tastes nasty, it's probably not good for you.
If you didn't notice the taste or smell, that doesn't mean you're out of the woods yet. If someone else in your vicinity starts hurling up stomach contents, your body wants to join in the fun. The idea is that if everybody in your tribe or hunting party all ate the same nuts and berries then anything that makes your companion toss up lunch should make you do it, too. If it's bad for anyone in the tribe, then your body doesn't want it, either.
That's why when somebody around us starts vomiting, the sights and smells make us feel like joining. (How's that nausea now?)
Oh, but our bodies are not done yet. What if nobody else got sick or if you're all alone? You could still have eaten something bad for you. If it triggers trouble in the brain -- especially dizziness -- then your gut will decide to throw it out. We don't need any poisons in our system that could cause trouble for the noggin.
Armed with an understanding of why we vomit, we can now look at the most common causes of nausea and what, if anything, we can do about it. Although there are several individual reasons for vomiting, they all boil down to three basic things:
- Something irritates the brain
- Something irritates the gut
- Pregnancy
As you may imagine, things irritating the gut are more common than things irritating the brain, so you may be wondering why the brain gets top billing. Well, it's the brain. If you suddenly have nausea or suddenly vomit without first feeling nauseated, it might be something going on inside your melon, and that's not good.
Causes of Nausea Related to the Brain
Your brain works in a very narrow range of happiness. If it gets too much sugar, it doesn't work right. If it doesn't get enough sugar, it doesn't work right. It's too finicky to dine on fat and it needs a certain amount of oxygen. It can't be too warm or too cold and it can't be under too much pressure or too little. Basically, brains are high maintanence.
Since there are lots of things that can go wrong with the brain, vomiting is triggered by the brain way more often than it needs to be. An injury to the brain causing swelling inside your skull almost always triggers vomiting, but there is probably no reason why that would help the brain in any way. It's an unintended result of the body thinking any problem with the brain has to be because of something you ate.
However, knowing that brain malfunction will probably result in cookie-tossing reminds us to consider problems with the brain whenever nausea shows up for apparently no reason. There are some things affecting the brain that trigger nausea more often than others:
- Concussion or traumatic brain injury: This is probably the worst-case scenario. An injury to the brain leads to pressure building up or direct damage to brain tissue.
- Vertigo or motion sickness: Dizziness related to motion sickness or dizziness related to problems in your inner ear that feel exactly like motion sickness are major causes of nausea. Indeed, this is probably the most treatable cause of nausea. There's a reason that nausea and nautical have the same root word.
- Too much alcohol: Getting too drunk often results in vomiting. It's how this is supposed to work. You ingest something toxic into your body and the brain gets affected. At first the brain doesn't mind the feeling, but when it gets to be too much or you begin to feel too dizzy, the brain tells your stomach to throw out the leftovers.
- Carbon monoxide poisoning: Often, folks suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning won't even realize it. They'll be sick with headaches and nausea, feeling much like they have an infection.
- Heat illness and dehydration: Like I said before, the brain doesn't like to be too hot and needs just the right amount of pressure to work correctly. When it doesn't, it blames the stomach and empties out all the contents.
Sometimes, nausea and vomiting are triggerd by other things long before they affect the brain, which is usually better than waiting for a toxic substance to start playing with your noggin.
Causes of Nausea Related to the Gut
The mechanism that makes the digestive tract (the gut) want to vomit is a complicated process. The point is that it is supposed to evacuate the stomach when things aren't good for you. Bacteria, viruses and all sorts of toxins can trigger nausea and vomiting from the gut level.
Here are the most common causes of nausea related to the gut:
- Food poisoning: Not really "poisoning" at all, foodborne illness is usually a bacteria or other bug that's growing on Aunt Jane's famous chicken surprise casserole. There are some common bugs that get us -- salmonella, listeria and E coli are all culprits I'm sure you've heard about -- but they all cause two common symptoms: vomiting and diarrhea.
- Infections: Besides foodborne illnesses there are other infections, often viruses, that directly attack the gut. Norovirus is one such infamous bug. Often folks will say they have a "stomach flu" but it's not a flu at all.
Tips to Identify What Is Causing Your Nausea
Ultimately, the best way to identify the cause of your upset stomach is to rule out the easiest stuff first. Have you been drinking? Alcohol is a major cause of nausea, so even if you don't think you have a hangover from last night's party, you may still have a little leftover gift. Are you pregnant? The best way to check is with a pregnancy test kit right off the shelf. Are you on a boat? If not, then look for some telltale symptoms:
- Headache: problems with the brain. If you've recently taken a smack to the melon, a visit to the ER is a good idea. If other people in the house are experiencing the same problem, think carbon monoxide poisoning. Leave the house and call 911. The fire department can check for carbon monoxide in your house.
- Earache or stuffy sinuses: consider the ear. The inner ear is the way we stay balanced and upright. Sometimes, infection can throw the inner ear's equilibrium out of whack. This might be a case of vertigo.
- Something you ate: Most of the contaminated food we eat just gets digested like normal without any problem. Once in a while some bad pastrami can throw you for a loop. Food poisoning is more likely in folks who are really old, really young or have weakened immune systems.
Sometimes, nausea is a sign of a really dangerous condition and needs to be evaluated by a doctor. Other times it's just the body's protective instinct at work. There are some things you can try to treat nausea, but in many cases you'll just have to wait it out.


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Iraq and its people are rich in cultures, violence, and conflict. The early 20th century Middle East was controlled by Great Britain and had much European influence in the political spectrum. Britain ceded the lands back to the people in 1914. The method by which land was divided was, on most levels, arbitrary. Many country borders were drawn, dividing and joining groups of people. Iraq was set up around the ancient city of Babylon . It contains two main groups of warring factions. The north holds a group of people called the Kurds, whom most middle-eastern countries persecute. The Shiites and Sunnis are Muslim factions in the south warring both against each other and against the Kurds. Arabs—those who speak the language Arabic—make up 75% of the population. In 1918, the remaining British military support left. Few relevant events occurred for the next 40 years. 1958 brought about political change; a violent military coup removed the current leaders—the King, the Crown Prince, and the Prime Minister—and replaced them with their own general, Karim Kassem. This government lasted, quasi-democratically, until Saddam Hussein, the Vice-President, militarily ousted the President, took power, and set up a new style of government in 1978.
Saddam Hussein acted controversially since he took power in 1978 until his overthrow in March of 2003. To maintain his power, it is believed that he killed over 400 members of the Iraqi national congress and other political leaders. In 1981, Iraq re-ignited a long-standing dispute with the Iran . War between the Iraqis and the Iranians lasted for a number of years. The United States and Britain supported the Iraqis, giving weapons and monetary assistance. Soon after a cease-fire was negotiated between the warring countries in 1988, Saddam Hussein continued aggressions in his own territory. Hussein tested chemical and biological weapons upon the Kurdish groups in the north of Iraq during the 1980's. In 1990, Iraq renewed a long-standing border dispute with Kuwait . Kuwait is a country with large oil reserves, but more importantly, an access port to the Persian Gulf . Iraq is a landlocked country, and has to pipeline out, or negotiate with Kuwait to sell its oil. It claimed that Kuwait had taken too much of the shared oil reserves in the border area. Due to Iraqi threats and actions against Israel , the United States built defensive and offensive forces, and struck major military sites in Iraq . In addition to protecting its allies and economic interests, the United States hoped to halt any Iraqi buildup of weapons of mass destruction. These events are known as the Gulf War.
Following the Gulf War, the United Nations attempted to prevent Iraq from gaining a weapons stockpile to enable a strike upon its own people or another country. United Nations Security Council placed economic sanctions upon Iraq .
Resolution 687, April 3, 1991 , did the following:
Resolution 688, two days later, did the following:
The need for weapons inspectors became evident to the Security Council; and on August 15th, 1991 , the Council passed Resolution 707, allowing weapons inspectors to search the country for weapons of mass destruction.
Tensions in the beginning of the 21 st century grew again between the global community and Iraq . A heated debate over whether or not Saddam Hussein was in violation of Security Council resolutions limiting his country's abilities to build a weapons stockpile. The United States appealed to the United Nations and demonstrated a case justifying to them that Iraq was in violation of the Resolutoins. The UN did not agree.
United States and British forces on March 19 th , 2003 , led a "decapitation" attack against Saddam Hussein and his regime. The coalition forces both struck Baghdad from the air and invaded the country with a fast sweep from the south. US and British forces entered Iraq 's capital, Baghdad on April 5 th . Saddam Hussein was declared by the US to no longer be in power as of April 11 th . Daily advancements were made by coalition forces throughout the month of April, as coalition forces sacked the country and moved north and west to secure the entirety of Iraq in pursuit of finding Saddam Hussein. George W. Bush on May 1 declared the combat in Iraq to be over from an aircraft carrier in the Atlantic, however, the battle for Iraq is not complete.
The coalition's ability to restore order and services have been abated due to attacks by Saddam loyalists, widespread acts of sabotage, Shia militancy, and clashes between civilians and coalition troops. Heated debate is occurring over the setup and control over the new Iraqi government. A makeshift government is being established as the "governing council" in conjunction with the local council system. Debated internationally, correct representation of the Iraqi people in the new government has been called into question. Iraq 's chief industry, crude oil, is also in need of reinforcing infrastructure in order to give Iraq an economic independence. Currently, contracts for rebuilding Iraq and its economic ability have mostly been given to US corporations.
George Bush on September 23 rd addressed the UN General Assembly. He defended the war in Iraq , declaring that the Middle East is now more secure. Mr. Bush also requested assistance from the UN and its members for rebuilding Iraq helping to pay some of the bill for the war. The Security Council has debated a number of resolutions covering Iraq 's self governance ability and how Iraq should be rebuilt.
This is a very quickly volatile and dynamic topic covering a breadth of controversy. The situation in Iraq will change greatly until the meeting of our Model United Nations in November. It is imperative that all members of the Model Security Council keep VERY up to date as to provide for the most current debate. Also, all members should find as much information as possible regarding their country's own interests in the nation of Iraq , it's relativity in the Middle East , and how your country might be affected by proposed solutions. I recommend a number of publications and sources to keep up to date until the conference.
The Economist – www.economist.com and published weekly in print
The Financial Times www.ft.com also published in print, but kinda hard to find in MT
BBC www.bbc.com for a western perspective.
The UN itself www.un.org/Docs/sc/ to keep up to date on activity
The CIA World Factbook www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html for all country stats
The New York Times www.nytimes.com
The International Herald Tribune www.iht.com
CNN www.cnn.com very general knowledge about current events
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Item: Avalanche Transceivers: Uses, Limitations and Standards
Title: Avalanche Transceivers: Uses, Limitations and Standards
Proceedings: Proceedings of the 2000 International Snow Science Workshop, October 1-6, Big Sky, Montana
- Franz Kroll [ Asst. Product Manager, ORTOVOX Sportartikel gmbh Munich, Germany ]
Date: 2000
Abstract: A first and quick glance on a snow surface will, simultaneously, show reality and illusion. It depends on the prior knowledge of the observer. What the observer is able to see, would like to see andior wish to see is exclusively determined by their level of snow knowledge and short-term goals for the day at hand. Snow, made from water just as tears, can provide either high stability powder skiing or slab snow with a high probability of triggering an avalanche. A good way to insure a safe and fun filled day of backcountry skiing is to: • Take an avalanche course! • Be aware of the avalanche danger at hand!. • Develop a reasonable balance between risk and fun! • Practice with your avalanche transceiver, The large helicopter operations are exemplary in their responsible working of snow craftsmanship by being able to balance risk and fun. Avalanche experts suggest that you carry an avalanche transceiver, probe pole and shovel at all times in the backcountry. However, the reality is different!
Language of Article: English
Presenters: Unknown
Keywords: skiing, triggered avalanche, transceiver, avalanche danger
Subjects: avalanche transceivers backcountry skiing avalanche danger
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Maybe this will help to keep the site clean of too many trade rumors and talking about trades people think we should do. There's a lot of trade blabber out there right now with the deadline hitting on Tuesday (I think) so lets get it all out of our system in here.
- Oakland says EVERYONE is on the block...interested in Nnamdi Asomugha or one of their backs?
- Carolina has rumors flowing all over with Steve Smith and DeAngelo Williams but says none of them are on the block (which is crazy...why wouldn't they try to get something for Williams before he leaves on his own)
- Willis McGahee might be available
- One of our own wants us to go after Marion Barber since Dallas is now "out of it"
- Champ Bailey might be available for the right offer as Denver isn't quite ready for prime time.
What do you want to see the GM do? What rumors are you hearing? Lets make an effort to keep it all in one place so we don't end up with 10 fanposts about things that very likely won't happen...


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Orion Shepherds Bush is currently finalising detailed plans for the regeneration of Shepherds Bush Market.
With outline planning consent for the regeneration of the Market granted by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in March 2012, the scheme secures a vibrant future for the Market, which celebrates its 100th anniversary next year.
The regeneration of the Market represents a £150m investment into Shepherd's Bush. The scheme will bring a wide range of benefits to the local area, creating new homes, new opportunities for start-up businesses as well as rejuvenating Shepherds Bush Market.
The regeneration will make the most of the Market's size and diversity, providing space for visitors to meet friends in a comfortable, modern environment. The scheme will see new stallholders and businesses join existing traders and enable the Market to host a range of events designed to encourage a whole new generation of shoppers to the Market.
If you would like to know more about the exciting plans for the future of the Market, please get in contact with us using the details below.
Bush residents recently took the opportunity to find out more about the exciting plans for the regeneration of Shepherds Bush Market.
Three days of public exhibitions sessions in the Market and at the Bush Theatre were held to enable local residents to find out more about the plans.
We were delighted by the number of local people who turned out to see the plans and the positive response from the local community, with a majority of local residents telling us that, based on the plans, they believed they would use the market more often.
There were a wide range of opinions on what features residents would like to see at the Market, with a large number of visitors telling us they would like to see the market retain its independent nature and include more places to eat and drink. The views of the community will play an important part in the future of the market and so we were greatly encouraged that so many people took the chance to get involved.
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With the "super team" Miami now has, our aged C's can still beat them believe it or not!
The whole world might laugh at such a notion but only us C's fans knows it in our hearts that it can be done!
But 2 things needs to happen:
1. Rondo now needs to get A LOT BETTER with his outside shots (ala Mark Price!) for us to have a chance.
2. If Sheed retires officially, our C's really need to be wise with who they trade his contract for.
Given Boston's tendency to have dry runs in the 4th quarter capped by Game 7 against LA, our Big 3 then needs an additional "proven" [athletic] scorer as an insurance so that we'll never loose our lead in a crucial 4-5 min. span of the 4th quarter as lead blown is so energy-zapping & deflating!
With JO's signing, our C's now has a back-up center who can also score at times, what we need now is a proven athletic scorer to back-up Paul & Ray.
Someone who can handle the ball, penetrate & create his own shot, draw the opponent's defense to him then dish it out to any of the Big 3 (all outstanding shooters) to make the game easier to our aged Big 3.
In short, we don't need someone who's merely a spot-up shooter ala JJ Reddick.
Indeed, an athletic scorer/slasher will relieve a lot of pressure from Paul, Ray, & Rondo from having to create the shot for him. Also, athletic scorers tend to be better in defense (since they're athletic) versus stiff, spot-up shooters.
If we have a JJ Reddick type of player, it will only put a lot of pressure to our guys to create shots for that shooter thereby making our guys expend so much energy which we can't afford since they're older now.
We need someone who can really penetrate & make his shot against heavy traffic, not someone who can penetrate but cannot finish against traffic, like TA! (But his defense is valuable & that's why we need to keep him.)
We need someone like a young Tracy McGrady, or maybe T-Mac himself for a "sign & trade" with NY since T-Mac still has game & he's only 31 like Kobe. (And T-Mac is proven!)
But if T-Mac wants more money or doesn't want anything to do with Boston, then who else out there fits the bill who our C's has a chance to trade for Sheed's contract?
"Speaking of Miami..."
Shaq & Big Z will definitely follow LBJ. Shaq returns home for cheap as all he care about now in his last 2-4 years is to win while Z signs for the minimum. Beasley will be traded to make room for Miami to sign minimum salaried players while Chalmers may stay since his contract is small & that the Heat needs a PG who can shoot.
Does Beasley fit the bill of a young T-Mac?
Can we get him for Sheed's usable contract now that Miami will be looking to dump Beasley's +$6 mil. contract?
Or even if Beasely's not a slasher/penetrator/passer, "athletic" player like a young T-Mac, does he have game to compliment our C's both in offense & D?
Can Miami say, 10-peat?!
People can't blame LeBron now, his true colors really showed which is - winning triumphed over more money.
Now that's really commendable.
Just wished he ended-up in Boston but that wasn't possible.
Now the question is - how do we react in order to beat them & the Lakers in years to come & have the championship to ourselves instead of them?
The key lies in who we get for Sheed's usable contract.
Since it's quite usable for other teams, then we really need to get something VALAUBLE in return & useful for us too.
Long live the Celtics!!!


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Cinnamon is a healthy addition to any meal. Studies have linked cinnamon to improved memory, reduced total cholesterol and reduced appetite via blood glucose control. The blood glucose control could be the root of the fat loss claims made by Genceutics. Is cinnamon going to make you feel like you could go for days without eating? The simple answer is no, but the pathway by which cinnamon helps control blood glucose levels could curb hunger after meals.
Blood glucose spikes soon after a meal. This spike means the body is digesting the food. High-carbohydrate meals require more glucose so the spike is higher. After using up the simple energy carbohydrates provide, the increased supply of blood glucose is cut off and it plummets. The body may have trouble stopping that plummet at the right spot so a dip can occur in blood glucose levels. When glucose levels dip, the brain thinks more food is needed to help raise glucose and that dreaded hunger reflex kicks in. The body does not need more energy, but it also does not know the difference.
If cinnamon helps to control that dip after the spike, it make help to regulate the hunger reflex, but that has nothing to do with burning more fat.
Organic Cinnamon by Genceutics sells for $17.99 per bottle. This is priced higher than average, which is common for Genceutics products, likely due to the organic ingredients.
- Cinnamon may help regulate blood sugar.
- Cinnamon may lower blood cholesterol.
- May be linked to improved memory and cognition.
- Will not increase fat loss as claimed.
- Is not associated with weight loss.
- Price is too high for an inexpensive ingredient like cinnamon.
We are all for dieters grabbing some cinnamon and eating one of the healthiest spices on the planet, but that does not mean paying nearly $18 for that cinnamon is a good idea. Weight loss claims are not supported and research study links do not validate the online publication. We would skip this product.


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Pirates, FSN reach long-term agreement
Good news for those of us in the Pittsburgh area, or those who can pick up FSN Pittsburgh through their satellite provider. They don't mention how many years the deal covers. The big change is that FSN has committed to a minimum of 150 regular season games, while they'd been in the 120s in the past few years. All games will be in HD. They're also doing a minimum of 4 ST games a year, and additional Pirates programming.


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At 20 years of age, Michael Caldwell ran for the District 20 seat in the Georgia House of Representatives, and lost to incumbent Charlice Byrd by roughly 200 votes. Two years later, Caldwell gave it another shot, and came out on top, becoming the youngest active member of the Georgia State Legislature.
Caldwell was just a few days shy of his 23rd birthday when he won the July primary with 53 percent of the vote over Byrd, who is nearly 40 years older.
"For me, I saw that my incumbent was going to run unopposed again, and I had a problem with that," said Caldwell. "I'm a big believer that opposition creates accountability."
The general election in November was an easy victory, and Caldwell was sworn in last month to begin his first term.
"We've run what I call the most transparent campaign in state history," said Caldwell. "We disclose every penny we campaign with on our website, we disclose every vote we make on the House floor."
Caldwell said he is uncertain of his plans after his first term, saying that he just wants to get through the first two years in one piece.
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Written by Julie Silva Friday, 04 April 2014 08:24
Eight black puppies piled onto each other for naptime Friday morning in cage in a back room at Smith Ranch Kennels in Los Fresnos.
Their mother was a stray who'd had several litters before, but Christine Compton, president of Mission-based Forgotten Friends Texas Rescue RGV, rescued these lucky pups two weeks earlier. There were originally nine, but one foster family decided to keep its pup.
The agency works with Smith Ranch Kennels to send dozens of dogs from around the Valley to shelters in states around the country through the ASPCA.
"The only reason we could do this was because we had grant money. But this time there is no money. We're still going to apply," Compton said, adding that several fundraising ideas have fallen through because there aren't enough people to help them. "I'm just so tired of begging people for money. I want somebody else to do it."


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Last spring, lineup construction was one of the hottest topics of discussion surrounding the Red Sox. With so many weapon's at Terry Francona's disposal (not to mention the number of left handed hitters), the combinations were seemingly endless. Based on the 123 different lineups Tito sent out to the field last year, it appears he was in agreement.
This spring, our beloved Tito has been replaced by the affable, yet enigmatic Bobby Valentine. Although Bobby V's roster isn't quite as talented as Francona's 2011 situation; it's deeper, better balanced, and more versatile. Even more so than last season, the number of lineup combinations are simply dizzying. With new managers comes new ideas, priorities, and quirks. Bobby V has never been one who's willing choose a set lineup and stick to it. He's a tinkerer, one who throughout his career has averaged 122 different linups per season. As a master strategist, we can be sure he'll mix-and-match players in the lineup in hopes of uncovering an edge on the competition.
Despite all of this, Jacoby Ellsbury's positioning in the order is a hot button issue for a lot of fans and writers. He's long been the Red Sox's leadoff hitter, but many have questioned if he's outgrown the role in light of his offensive outburst last season. As a result, I thought I'd take a quick look at which spot Ellsbury might fit best in the Red Sox's 2012 lineup–with the caveat he will likely be moved around somewhat by Bobby V depending on a game specific scenario.
Should Ellsbury Hit Leadoff?
Despite popular conventional wisdom, Ellsbury's never been the ideal leadoff hitter. Sure, he has blazing speed and steals a lot of bases, but those are the leadoff man's secondary goals. A leadoff man's primary goal is to get on base. Although Ellsbury's career .354 OBP is above the league average rate, the issue is that it's primarily tied to his batting average. While this isn't a concern for him when he's hitting .321 (as he did last season), it becomes a much bigger issue if his batting average were to drop to the .260-.270 range. If such a scenario occurred, his OBP would plummet as well; thus creating an environment where Ellsbury would likely hinder run creation rather than promote it. While this might seem like an unlikely proposition, it's not terribly far fetched. This happened to Carl Crawford last season, when when his average crashed to a career low .255 mark, his OBP bottomed out at an unacceptable .289. He became an "out machine," which is what Ellsbury would also become in the same scenario. Since your leadoff man is supposed to set the tone for the top of the lineup, the last thing you'd want out of him is someone that creates a ton of outs. An ideal leadoff hitter would be someone who can not only hit for average, but also draw a healthy number of walks. Dustin Pedroia and Kevin Youkilis come to mind as the most obvious candidates for the slot if Ellsbury doesn't fill it.
Should Ellsbury Hit Second?
Having Ellsbury hit second is interesting for a couple of reasons. First of all, hitting second allows him the benefit of hitting behind a top of the order hitter, rather than eighth and ninth spots. This would theoretically give him additional chances to hit with runners on; thus increasing the potential impact of his plate appearances. Secondly, hitting second in the order takes a little bit of the pressure off of Ellsbury in terms of getting on base. While number two hitters still need to be good at getting on base, they aren't looked upon as much to "set the table." He'll be able to continue playing his game, while still being able to utilize his speed on the base paths. This appears to be a solid spot in the batting order for someone with Ellsbury's skill set.
Should Ellsbury Hit Third?
This is one of the more popular narrative these days. After jacking 32 home runs last season (only six of which were of the "Lucky" or "Just Enough" varieties by Hit Tracker Online), many have wondered if it might be time to move Ellsbury down to a more premium spot in the batting order. To an extent, this makes sense. Even more so than hitting second, he'd be afforded the opportunity to hit with runners on base by batting third. That said, there's still a question over whether or not his power is sustainable. History is littered with hitters that break out with huge powers one year, only to see them fall back to earth the next season. It's possible that some (or even many) of his line drive shots that reached the seats a few rows beyond Fenway's bullpen in deep right-center, turn out to be doubles or warning track fly outs in 2012. While I believe we'll see Ellsbury display 20-25 home run power for the next couple of seasons, I don't feel comfortable handing over such an important spot in the order over to him just yet. If he puts together a similar campaign in 2012, then fine. Until then, I'd rather leave the number three slot to someone that has a more proven track record.
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A 41-year-old man who was shot at a south side home just after midnight, has died, Tucson police said.
The man was shot at a home in the 2000 block of South Campbell Avenue south of East Silverlake Road, after a confrontation with a house guest, Sgt. Chris Widmer, spokesman for the Tucson Police Department, said. The victim died at a local hospital several hours later.
Between five and 10 people were at the home when the shooting occurred. Before police arrived on scene, "some of the witnesses left, some of the witnesses stayed," Widmer said.
The investigation is ongoing and detectives have not yet identified a suspect, he said.
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Adel - The accident happened around 6:00 Tuesday night at Sanderson Farms feed mill. One man was killed and another seriously injured.
Construction workers were erecting a cement wall onto a receiving station when the wall collapsed and fell onto two men. One was crushed under the wall, the other was partially trapped.
Investigators are trying to figure out what caused the wall to collapse. "The Adel Police and Cook County Sheriff's office are doing a preliminary investigation, and OSHA has been called into take over what needs to be done," said Adel Police Chief Bill Butler.
The men were employees of a sub-contracting company that is getting the feed mill ready for operation. Authorities have not released their names.
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I'm not one to wish an injury on anyone. But when I read this I just thought it was poetic justice.
I was surprised at the Mets for not taking stronger action. And surprised at Manuel for backing him up and then saying he can't say why he is backing him up because of legal issues. Really. From what I read of the incident his sort-of father in law (they are common law married) called him out and Rodgriguez's mother started yelling at the father in law who swore back at her. And so he began to pummel him. I understand backing up your mom. But beating up the grandfather of your children? Who is 30 years older than you? In public? At your work-place? With other families there? Wow!
I understand you are running a team and a lot of things are, and should be, ignored. But I also think teams should have high standards in certain areas. And if a team let's behaviour go then they start to become more and more dysfunctional. It just seems to happen to the same teams over and over, while the top teams seem to have more accountability.
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SPOKANE, Wash. - Tuesday morning, 4/29/14, just before 7:00 am, Spokane Police received a report of a Robbery at Indaba Coffee, located in the 1400 block of W. Broadway. The suspect indicated he had a gun (but no weapon was seen), demanded cash, and fled on foot.
Spokane Police Patrol officers responded to the call and were on-scene in less than one minute. Officers quickly located the suspect (within six minutes of the initial call) and detained him.
38-year-old Terral Lewis was arrested and booked into the Spokane County Jail on charges of 1st Degree Robbery and Possession of a Controlled Substance.
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Some people think playing video games will hurt your eyes, but that's not what a new study finds. Researchers at the University of Rochester have found that video games with a lot of action can instead improve your vision.
"What it is suggesting is that the video game playing, when there's high action during the video game it will actually enhance your brains ability to process the information it receives from the eyes. So in other words it can actually make you see things a little more clearly and sharply then you have been," said Dr. Cheryl Jost, an Optometrist.
Dr. Jost says it's important to remember that the study groups were just playing video games one hour a day, but if you play a lot of hours every day, you could end up with eye fatigue and that can lead to headaches, eye strain and dryness.
The research is in the Journal Psychological Science.
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If I were to, one by one,
Pick the bones from under my layers,
Strip them of damage and creation
And present them to you -
A settled way of apologizing -
Would you grind them down to
A huffable suggestion,
Or lay them next to you at night?
They would be clean, dry, and soft -
Like you said our love would always
No matter where the saggy body goes,
You could have my hand to hold -
The fingers and knuckles bendable to
Any will you please.
Makeshift - ghosts just wish to be
Rid of the sag - share their
Bones, unburied.
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Ok, I admit that is a bit of a stretch to find a Giants angle on this, and I know not many of you are as interested in this as I am, but...Nick Vander Tuig is a the only one of the Giants top 11 picks that hasn't signed yet, and it's for a very good reason. He is a Northern California kid, from Oakdale and has been a great big game pitcher at UCLA.
Strangely enough, UCLA has never won an NCAA baseball championship, in fact prior to 2010, they had only been to the College World Series once. I was always very annoyed by UCLA's inability to have a great baseball program even though they had every ingredient possible to do so, but that all changed with the hiring of John Savage in 2005 and could culminate in a big way tonight.
Go Vander Tuig and go Bruins!


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January 31, 2014
On Friday, Jan. 17, it was reported by news agencies that a Haitian judge investigating the assassination of Jean Dominique, a crusading Haitian journalist who was killed in 2000, recommended the indictment of former Sen. Myrlande Liberis-Pavert, a founder and former director of the Aristide Foundation for Democracy, along with eight others. No legal documents to sustain these charges have been made public.
September 2, 2013
On the 20th anniversary of the demise of my father, Fred Ali Batin Sr., the 18th anniversary of the Maafa Commemoration San Francisco Bay Area – the Ritual Sunday is Oct. 13, 2013; see http://maafasfbayarea.com/ – and approximately the 60th day of the hunger strike to end the inhuman conditions in California's Security Housing Units or SHUs, I just want to pause and reflect.
May 10, 2013
This Wednesday, May 8, tens of thousands of Haitians gathered at the Palace of Justice in Port-au-Prince to support former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who was summoned to court to be questioned about a 13-year-old murder investigation. The people of Haiti stand for justice, but they are against the misuse of the justice system for political persecution.
January 10, 2013
On Jan. 9, MASSIVE demonstrations throughout Haiti supported former President Aristide after he was summoned to court on frivolous charges seen as political persecution. People say that putting Aristide on trial is the same as putting the Haitian masses on trial and that the charges are meant to divert attention from the third earthquake anniversary and the theft of billions in aid. Speak out against the Red Cross for building a luxury hotel with aid funds. Rally Friday, Jan. 11, 4:30-5:30 p.m., outside Red Cross headquarters, 3901 Broadway, near MacArthur BART, Oakland.
July 22, 2011
On July 15, 2011, to mark the 58th birthday of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a gathering of volunteer medical doctors and nurses provided a free medical clinic in Port-au-Prince. This year was special because of the return of Haiti's first democratically elected and twice ousted president.


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The Rivalry continues tonight as Bobby V's Red Sox visit The M to take on Joe Girardi's Yankees. LHP Felix Doubront will go for Boston against Ivan Nova, who's making his third appearance, and hence will try to complete four frames.
The game will be televised on YES at 7 p.m.


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How much flash storage do I need?
I am going to be a college student next year and plan on upgrading to the new 13" Pro with retina display. My question is if I should upgrade to the 256 GB flash storage from the standard 128 GB. I would like to start saving my documents to google docs or dropbox next year, so I'm not sure how much that should factor into my decision. Any advice would be great!


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Inside Lacrosse presents the Division II All-Conference teams from the 2013 Face-Off Yearbook.
The Face-Off Yearbook is available for purchase in the IL online store.
The conferences have a different look from 2012, with the addition of the ECAC into Division II. And they'll have an even different look when we preview 2014, with the addition of the Sunshine State Lacrosse conference and the South Atlantic Lacrosse conference.
Conference Carolinas
A Riley Loewen Limestone
A James Shepherd Pfeiffer
A Corey Rich Limestone
M Tor Reinholdt Limestone
M Steve Tilmon Pfeiffer
M Dan Morrissey Belmont Abbey
FO Jake Ternosky Limestone
LSM Anthony Starnino Limestone
D Jeff Konko Pfeiffer
D Connor Doyle Belmont Abbey
D Tim Cloud Queens
G Hayden Kirk Pfeiffer
A Brian Scheetz Mercyhurst
A Matt Delmonico Seton Hill
A Dylan Lefebvre Seton Hill
M James Delaney Seton Hill
M James Chayka Mercyhurst
M Zac Reid Mercyhurst
FO Jimmy Cogley Seton Hill
LSM Grame Hossack Lindenwood
D Anthony Rusch Seton Hill
D Andrew Wagner Mercyhurst
D Matt Maccario Wheeling Jesuit
G Mike Grace Mercyhurst
Deep South
A Matt Obermeyer Saint Leo
A George Proechel Saint Leo
A Derek Watts Wingate
M Tom Cullop Catawba
M Greg Griffo Tampa
M Dylan Yonts Saint Leo
FO Robert Hutchinson Saint Leo
LSM Jasper Gantick Tampa
D Drew Stoltz Catawba
D Wayne Magee Tampa
D D.J. Lubs Florida Southern
G Joseph Fiorucci Tampa
East Coast
A Joe Leonard Molloy
A Luke Miller NYIT
A Mike Melnychenko Chestnut Hill
M Octavio Bernabo C.W. Post
M Mike Duddy Chestnut Hill
M Brandon Gamblin NYIT
FO Lou Riley Dowling
LSM Sheldon Burns Dowling
D J.D. Skura C.W. Post
D Danny McDermott NYIT
D Derek Muzio Dowling
G T.J. DiCarlo Mercy
A Tyler Prevost Le Moyne
A Greg Melaugh Merrimack
A Peter Donnally Saint Michael's
M Andrew Chadderdon Le Moyne
M Joe Celano Adelphi
M Corey Lunney Merrimack
FO Greg Puskudjian Adelphi
LSM Kevin Kennedy Adelphi
D Alex Cameron-Carter Le Moyne
D Jeff Melsopp Adelphi
D Josh Klepfer Le Moyne
G Jeff White Le Moyne
A Nate Jackson Notre Dame de Namur
A Jake Fritz Dominican U.
A Kevin Powers Dominican U.
M Kevin Nguyen Notre Dame de Namur
M Kade Robinson Colorado Mesa
M Jake Bernstein Dominican U.
FO Dylan Acevedo Dominican U.
LSM Brian Raaka Dominican U.
D Johnny Nitti Colorado Mesa
D Jordan Stillwagon Adams State
D Austin Franks Dominican U.
G Brad Bradenburg Colorado Mesa
More Face-Off Yearbook
- DI Top 20
- DII Top 10
- DIII Top 20
- ILWomen.com's Top 20
- Staff Debate: Who's Under-Ranked?
- DI Preseason All-Americans
- DII Preseason All-Americans
- DIII Preseason All-Americans
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University of Phoenix invites you to spend an evening with Dr. Kamran Mofid, PhD, Founder, Globalization for the Common Good Initiative. Dr. Mofid wll be speaking December 1, 2009 from 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. at the Biltmore Hotel located at 2151 Laurelwood Rd., Santa Clara, CA.
Dr. Kamran Mofid, PhD is a thought-leader in the disciplines of economics and ethics, consulting to business, academe, civil societies and governments. Dr. Mofid will be presenting a model of global capitalism that provides for an inter-civilization collaboration of economic reform that integrates developing and developed economies. Dr. Mofid's lecture will outline the necessary economic and ethical strategies needed to draw together the interests of all concerned parties in order to restore the world economy to its full health.


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