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Busses – Celestial Shore and The Interest Group
"Take it down and tear it apart." Busses frontman Dave Brett delivers the words like a mission statement on "Metal," a new song announcing a step forward for a band that's made its name around its native Philadelphia for stretching the parameters of indie rock. Both that song and "Shangrila" capture the trio at ease, leisurely adrift, stretching out grooves and suspending melodies in between. Bright chords drift out of Brett's guitar amp bathed in warm colors as his elastic voice reaches into higher registers while Jason Bachman's pillowy synthesizer and bass set a pulse reinforced by Nick Apice's shuffling, syncopated drumming. It's a bold step away from the punk and progressive rock influences worn proudly and unpredictably on its eponymous debut, but that's not to say the band has lost its taste for the bombastic. It's just that now, the music swells into overdrive where it may have once sprinted, inviting us to savor the ride.
Celestial Shore's debut EP California Eden clocks in at four tracks in seven minutes flat. In that brief span, it shifts gears recklessly between multithreaded, intensely melodic motifs – the collected effect is one of gunning your '41 woody straight off the pier, smack through the loop-de-loop, and out into the surf. The Brooklyn trio followed this EP with the Place Aux Dames 7″ on Double Denim Records, and an all-analog split tape with Shopping Spree out last year on Prison Art.
The band will release their debut full-length record entitled 10x on September 3, via Hometapes and Brad Oberhofer's Local Singles Records. Mixed by Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), 10x expands on Celestial Shore's earlier outings with more fully-developed song structures, offering more room to employ its growing bag of tricks – the odd beats dropped here or there, muscly breakneck spazzouts, and ecstatic wind-up reveries that immediately distinguish their sound and feel.
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text: I know the season isn't even close to being over, but I would like to know if Dallas is going to use the money they get back from Finley and Bradley to use on free agents. They could easily over pay for Deng, Maggette, and Diop. They are getting over 23 million dollars from Finley and Bradley and those three guys won't even come close to that amount.


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Big Island police have identified a man whose body was found Friday at the bottom of a cliff in North Kohala as 42-year-old Patrick S. Yamura of Hawi.
Yamura's body was found Friday evening at the bottom of a cliff near Kapanaia Point in North Kohala. He was officially pronounced dead at North Kohala Community Hospital.
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Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan has been a one-man wrecking crew in Detroit today. Ryan has 106 passing yards, a touchdown and an interception against the Lions. He also got it done with his feet, scrambling up the middle for a touchdown from the one-yard line in the first quarter.
Ryan was averaging 244 passing yards a game with 1,465 passing yards on the season and 8 touchdowns through his first six games of the 2011 NFL season. Ryan's passing yards per game is down nearly 11 yards per game from last season.
Ryan was ranked by Yahoo! as the 14th ranked quarterback heading into Week 7 taking on the Detroit Lions who rank 6th against the pass.
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TEDxYouth@MileHigh showcases brilliant thinkers and accomplished doers as a means to accelebrate innovation and social impact.
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Loren Cobb
Loren Cobb is an applied mathematician and statistician who specializes in dynamic spatial models of general social processes, including epidemics, public health emergencies, refugee problems, population flows, economic collapse, ethnic cleansing, governmental dysfunction, and civil wars. Loren has written numerous simulation models of societies in extreme distress; these models have been used for the past 16 years in international civil-military-police exercises in complex humanitarian emergencies, disaster relief operations, United Nations peacekeeping operations, and refugee resettlement issues. He has taught at the graduate level in departments of mathematics, statistics, epidemiology, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and computer science. He has facilitated more than 50 high-level exercises in national strategy formation in eight nations of Latin America, and has taught international negotiation and crisis management for the Organization of American States. He is the director of the CU-Denver Statistical Consulting Service, the director of the CU-Denver Statistical Consulting Service, and an associate research professor at the CU-Denver mathematics department. Loren holds a doctorate in mathematical sociology from Cornell University.
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart is an aviatrix and on-air personality at 9NEWS Colorado. Flying is her passion and she is currently training and planning for a flight around the world in a single engine aircraft. Amelia recently recreated Amelia Earhart's transcontinental flight from Oakland, CA to Miami, FL as a completion of her instrument training hours. Amelia recently launched the Fly with Amelia Foundation, a nonprofit that provides free aviation-based educational curriculum to grades K-12 and a scholarship to fund flight training for the next generation of female pilots. Amelia also works with many charity groups on special projects and events, some of which include Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, Denver Active 20/30, and The Morgan Adams Foundation.
Ryan Ford
Now known internationally as a top parkour athlete and coach, Ryan started training parkour in 2004. Since then, he has performed around the world for organizations such as the U.S. Department of State, Cisco, Nokia, HP, BET, and K-Swiss. Additionally, Ryan has been featured by the New Yorker, TIME, and ESPN. In 2006, he established the western hemisphere's first formal parkour classes. Recently, Ryan has turned his gym, APEX Movement, into one of the world's leading parkour gyms, with four locations, an elite pro team, and a leading coaching certification. Ryan also has a renowned parkour training video series on YouTube called Demon Drills, which has over 2 million views and 14,000 subscribers. Thanks to his work on YouTube, he was invited into YouTube's prestigious Next Trainer program and soon thereafter, joined the prominent FitFluential group as a fitness ambassador. Ryan is from Golden and graduated in 2009 from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Emma Hutchinson
Emma is an environmental activist, musician, world traveler, and optimist. She is a senior at Fairview High School in Boulder, and has also lived in Australia and Brazil. Emma is very interested in how environmental issues and economics overlap, and hopes to be a liaison between science and policy in the future. Starting this fall, she plans to study Biology and Environmental Science at Stanford University. She lives in Boulder with her parents, sister Laura, and three pets.
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Ietef Hotep Vita aka "DJ CaveM" of the hip-hop group Moetavation is an all-around VEGAN "B-Boy" utilizing his gifts to serve as an: "O-G"-organic gardener, MC, educator, graffiti guru, breakdancer, world traveler, and award-winning community arts activist. He is a Denver native, hailing from the historic 5 points area and has been a long time community activist. In addition to the entertainment realm, Ietef has always been heavily involved in education. He has taught various after school programs focused on Hip Hop culture with Swallow Hill Music School and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theater. He is the founder of the Brown Suga Youth Fest, an annual event that brings together holistic healers, educators, artists and the youth for presentations, discussion and networking. He is an educator for the African American Studies college preparatory course for Metro State College at Thomas Jefferson High School for the spring 2010 semester. He is also an Eco-Cultivator for the local organization Blue and Yellow Logic whose focus is diversifying the "green" movement. In this position he introduced gardening, recycling, composting and other environmental lessons to 20 high-risk young adults during the 2009 growing season. Ietef is an organic gardener with the East Side Growers Collective and is working as the Site Manager and Community Coordinator for the Denver Metro Area for Urban Farming. Urban Farming is an organization based out of Detroit, Michigan focused on building community gardens all over the country. He is securing new community garden sites in food deserts across the city in which he will engage the community; teaching them how to grow food, maintain the land, build compost, and harvest.
Eric Larsen
Polar adventurer, expedition guide, dog musher and educator, Eric Larsen has spent the past 15 years of his life traveling in some of the most remote and wild places left on earth. In 2006, Eric and Lonnie Dupre completed the first ever summer expedition to the North Pole. The duo pulled and paddled canoes across 550 miles of shifting sea ice and open ocean. Eric successfully led his first expedition to the South Pole in 2008. In November 2009, Eric returned to Antarctica for the first leg of his world record Save the Poles expedition. This time he completed a 750-mile ski traverse to the geographic South arriving on January 2, 2010. Two months later he was dropped off at northern Ellesmere Island for a winter-style North Pole Journey. The international team reached the North Pole 51 days later on Earth Day - April 22, 2010. He completed the Save the Poles expedition by reaching the summit of Mt. Everest on October 15th, 2010 becoming the first person in history to reach the world's three 'poles' within a year. Eric's other expeditions include dog sledding in the Canadian Arctic, training trips to Hudson Bay and countless dog sled races (including the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon). He has summited Mt. McKinley, ridden his bike across the United States, been a backcountry ranger in Alaska and a white water canoe guide in Colorado. Eric has dedicated his adult life to sharing his love for the outdoor world with others. As an educator, Eric strives to connect people to places and issues. In recognition of those efforts, Eric was elected as one of Outside Magazine's Eco All Stars in 2008. Eric travels extensively giving motivational and educational lectures to schools, universities, non profit organizations and corporate groups. He is also finishing the documentary COLDER about the Save the Poles expedition. Eric lives Boulder, Colorado with his partner Maria Hennessey and their baby boy, Merritt.
Swathi Kompella
Swathi Kompella is a 12 year-old, 7th grade honors student at Campus Middle School, Greenwood Village. Swathi lived in Omaha, Neb., before moving to Colorado with her family in 2008. Swathi enjoys playing violin and performing classical Indian dance and has performed at cultural events including Colorado Dragon Boat Festival in Denver. Swathi is interested in pursuing an advanced science degree and career, with a primary interest in medicine and related fields. Swathi represented Campus Middle School in robotics competitions and her team won awards in school district-wide and statewide competitions.
Jonathon Stalls
Jonathon Stalls is an enthusiast for equality, social entrepreneurship, and people-powered transit. He is founder and lead itinerant at Walk2Connect where he builds and promotes long-distance walking program for individuals, groups and neighborhoods. In 2010, Jonathon completed an 8 1/2 month, 3,030 mile walk across the United States, generating half a million dollars in loans to entrepreneurs across the world through Kiva.org. He recently finished walking the 490-mile Camino de Santiago pilgrim path across northern Spain. He holds a bachelor's degree in design and entrepreneurship from Metro State University in Colorado. He resides in the Park Hill neighborhood of East Denver.
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The Pimsleur language learning system is an audio-based program ideally suited to beginners. It allows students to become accustomed to the sounds of a new language while picking up vocabulary and grammar rules.
Pimsleur courses are available in more than 40 languages. All languages are presented in a similar format: audio lessons which introduce core vocabulary and grammar concepts while reinforcing previously learned material with systematic repetition.
Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese
There are five Pimsleur Mandarin courses:
- Quick and Simple – 8 lessons which introduce the fundamentals of Mandarin pronunciation and vocabulary
- Instant Conversation – 16 lessons designed to get you speaking Mandarin as quickly as possible
- Comprehensive One – 30 lessons
- Comprehensive Two - 30 lessons
- Comprehensive Three - 30 lessons
All Pimsleur lessons are about 30 minutes long, and should be done at the rate of one per day. The lessons begin with a review of the previous day's material and build on the knowledge you have already acquired.
Audio Only
Pimsleur courses are available on CD or cassette. There are no workbooks or written exercises – the learning material is strictly auditory. Since this is contrary to traditional teaching methods, some people may have difficulty making the switch from visual-based methods of reading and writing.
Nonetheless, Mandarin is ideally suited to this audio approach for several reasons:
- Mandarin tones must be mastered right at the beginning of study. This is best done with a listening / repeating approach.
- It is best to leave the study of Chinese characters until basic speaking skills have been mastered.
- Pinyin, which can serve as an intermediate step when learning to read and write Chinese, can actually hinder correct pronunciation in students who haven't thoroughly learned Pinyin pronunciation.
Pimsleur Method
Pimsleur lessons are built around a set of core vocabulary words which you practice in a question / answer structure. New vocabulary is introduced at regular intervals, and previously-learned words are re-introduced at set intervals.
The Mandarin course starts off with English explanations and prompts, but these are gradually phased out as the course progresses. You are prompted to say Mandarin words and phrases from memory, and after a short pause, a native Mandarin speaker says the correct words. This allows you to anticipate correct answers, a key principal of the Pimsleur method.
Each lesson begins with a dialogue. By the end of the 30-minute lesson you should have learned enough Mandarin to be able to participate in a similar conversation. There is plenty of repetition to enable you to master the pronunciation along with the proper tones.
Beijing Accent
Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese is presented in the Beijing dialect - the standard for Mainland China. This is a suitable choice for students who expect to visit China, and the Beijing accent will certainly be understood in other Chinese-speaking countries such as Taiwan and Singapore.
The Comprehensive One course has a short explanation of how Mandarin is spoken in Taiwan, but students who are planning to go to Taiwan should not get too hung up on the differences. The Pimsleur course is still excellent for acquiring basic vocabulary and pronunciation skills.


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Gail E. Dodge, a nuclear physicist who has taken a leading role in atom-smashing experiments at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) in Newport News, has been appointed chair of the Old Dominion University physics department.
Since joining the ODU faculty in 1995, Dodge has juggled classroom teaching and the birth of a daughter with investigations of sub-atomic particles.
She won the College of Sciences Faculty Excellence Award for 2003 and since this spring has been the principal investigator of a $1.7 million Department of Energy grant that supports research by ODU nuclear physicists at JLab.
"We are very pleased to announce this appointment," said Richard V. Gregory, dean of the College of Sciences. "Dr. Dodge will bring her enthusiasm for research and education to bear on the physics department and will play a vital role in bringing further national recognition to this department. We look forward to a very bright future for the department under her guiding hand."
Gregory announced the appointment Aug. 31.
"Gail Dodge is a fine physicist and an excellent teacher," said Provost Thomas Isenhour. "She is well organized and a leader in ODU's outstanding department of physics. I am sure that she will be a terrific chair."
Dodge said she had thought that someday she would want to be chair of the department, "but the opportunity came quicker than I expected." She said she could
"take the plunge at this time only because I am a member of a strong research group in a harmonious department. The faculty has been very supportive."
She said she hopes the physics faculty can be expanded in the near future. "I think ODU's push to be among the nation's top 100 public research universities is important, and to play in that league, the physics department must be bigger," she said. She would be pleased, she added, if the department could branch into other fields such as experimental condensed matter physics or astrophysics.
Eleven members of the university's 20-person physics faculty make up a nuclear physics university research group that is one of the nation's largest. The internationally diverse faculty includes three Russians, two Serbs, an Armenian, a German, an Italian, an Australian and an Irishman.
Dodge did postdoctoral research at the Free University in Amsterdam, but her roots are in New England and all of her formal education came in the United States.
She credits a high school teacher in her hometown of Wenham, Mass., with setting her on her career path. "He, remarkably enough, had a Ph.D. in nuclear physics," she said. As inspiring as this teacher was, however, Dodge was not sure when she entered Princeton University whether she would choose physics or political science as a major. "I chose Princeton because it was strong in both and I could do either."
She earned a doctorate from Stanford University in 1993 and has focused since then on experimental nuclear physics. Most recently, she has researched the angular momentum and excited states of the neutron.
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KNOXVILLE (WATE) - The campaign to sell wine in Tennessee grocery stores now has support at the highest levels of state government.
Bills changing the rules on wine sales seem to come up every year in the state legislature, and every year so far those measures have failed.
But this time, Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and Tennessee House Speaker Beth Harwell have gone on record as backing wine in grocery stores.
Both told the Associated Press they're supporting the latest proposal, which adds a local vote.
Harwell and Ramsey now have the opportunity to reshape key committees that could advance a wine in grocery store bill to the house and senate.
"It's critical that the committee is a level playing field where we can actually have a debate there," said Jarrod Springer, executive director of the Tennessee Grocers and Convenience Store Association.
The change is favored by large supermarket chains such as Kroger, Publix and Costco.
The latest proposal would allow each county to hold a referendum on whether to allow grocery stores to sell wine, similar to a liquor by the drink or a liquor sales referendum.
"The issue is definitely going to be before the legislature this year," said Sen. Becky Duncan Massey.
Massey said she has received a number of emails from constituents interested in having wine in grocery stores.
She's undecided on the measure, citing concerns of impacts to liquor store owners.
"As a rule, I will tend to side with small businesses. I feel like that our small businesses are such an integral part of our community that's it really important to protect those. I'm one of those that say never say never. I'm going to have to see more or less the proof in the pudding," Massey said.
Ashe's Wine and Spirits owner Thad Cox Jr. said the proposal could undermine the state's effort to curb underage drinking and would hurt his business.
"I think they're trying a different tactic, but I wish them the best of luck. We're obviously going to stand by what we got. I got employees here that can potentially lose jobs. It's going to be a tough issue," said Cox.
A Vanderbilt University poll conducted last year found at least 60 percent of Tennesseans support allowing wine in supermarkets, even when the survey question noted arguments that the change would hurt small businesses.
"I would like to see it in grocery stores because I wouldn't have to make that extra stop to pick up my wine or drive to Gatlinburg or Knoxville," said Jamie Roberts of Dandridge.
"Most people go to liquor stores for their wine. It'd be a lot easier and faster, it'd boost sales at grocery stores," said Michael Meyer of Knoxville.
State Rep. Bill Dunn was formerly on the state and local government committee. Dunn said he's also undecided on the issue, but cites concerns with the negative effects of expanding the availability of alcohol.
"I see how much alcohol costs the taxpayers of the state of Tennessee through loss of life, broken lives and broken families," Dunn said.
Gov. Bill Haslam said he doesn't oppose or support the issue, but his administration won't take on the issue this year and will leave it up to lawmakers.
"I think there are a lot of consumers that would like that. I think the arguments against it are, I think you can control it better under its current situation in terms of making certain everyone gets carded that's supposed to," Haslam said. "Second, you have some business people that have gone into business under certain presumption how it's going to be sold. Changing the rules mid-game may be a little difficult. I think the legislature will have a healthy debate on it this year."
Lobbyists on both sides have been spending a lot of money.
The Tennessee Wine and Spirits Retailers PAC had given more than $128,000 to state candidates and committees.
Meanwhile, the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of Tennessee gave more than $205,800 in the recently-completed election cycle, tripling the amount it spent in the 2004 cycle.
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Construído en la primera mitad del siglo XVII siguiendo esquemas renacentistas. De planta en forma de L, el ala de mayor altura es también la más antigua. A destacar el almohadillado en torno a la puerta, los dos escudos y el amplio alero bajo el tejado. La estructura que se eleva sobre éste corresponde a la escalera interior, construida en el XVII. En la segunda ala, de fecha más reciente, apreciamos una bella galería neorrenacentista con cinco arcos en ladrillo, que incorporan cerámicas de Talavera en su fachada norte.
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Europe is generally agreed to be the birthplace of western culture, including such legendary innovations as the democratic nation-state, football and tomato sauce.
The word Europe comes from the Greek goddess Europa, who was kidnapped by Zeus and plunked down on the island of Crete. Europa gradually changed from referring to mainland Greece until it extended finally to include Norway and Russia.
Don't be confused that Europe is called a continent without looking like an island, the way the other continents do. It's okay. The Ural mountains have steadily been there to divide Europe from Asia for the last 250 million years. Russia technically inhabits "Eurasia".
Europe is presently uniting into one political and economic zone with a common currency called the Euro. The European Union originated in 1993 and is now composed of 27 member states. Its headquarters is in Brussels, Belgium.
Do not confuse the EU with the Council of Europe, which has 47 member states and dates to 1949. These two bodies share the same flag, national anthem, and mission of integrating Europe. The headquarters of the Council are located in Strasbourg, France, and it is most famous for its European Court of Human Rights.
In spite of these two bodies, there is still no single Constitution or set of laws applying to all the countries of Europe. Debate rages over the role of the EU in regards to national sovereignty. As of January 2009, the Lisbon Treaty is the closest thing to a European Constitution, yet it has not been approved by all the EU states.
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Plea Agreement Will Send Man To Prison For 40 Years
An El Cajon man who has worked at a preschool and a day-care center in the San Diego area faces four decades in prison following his guilty plea to sexually exploiting minors and distributing child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Thursday.
» Sign Up For Breaking News Alerts» Like Us On Facebook» Follow Us On TwitterCorey James Loftin, 23, admitted in federal court in San Diego to receiving and distributing sexually explicit images of children, persuading minors to perform sex acts and soliciting an adult to engage in lewd conduct with juveniles, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.According to the plea agreement, between 2008 and April 2011, Loftin used a computer to communicate by video with two Pennsylvania girls both born in 2001 -- to get them to engage in sexual behavior.During the same time frame, Loftin sent text messages to a man to ask him to video record himself performing various sex acts with one or both of those girls and then send the videos to Loftin. That man is being prosecuted in the Middle District of Pennsylvania and entered guilty pleas earlier this year.Loftin also admitted that on or about March 15, 2010, and Jan. 17, 2011, he used a cellphone camera to take "upskirt" photographs of two girls under age 7 at a San Diego-area preschool where he worked.Finally, Loftin admitted to receiving and distributing child pornography depicting the two children from Pennsylvania and other unidentified children via the Internet.At the time of his arrest in April 2011, Loftin was working at a local preschool and had babysitting ads on the Internet, according to prosecutors. He previously had worked at Cuyamaca College Child Development Center.Loftin is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 24 to a stipulated 40-year prison term.Authorities did not release the name of the preschool where Loftin worked.


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By miracle of miracles we managed to get our family out of the house for dinner last night. The task included getting a 9 month old baby, and two little girls ready to go. My one little girl does not want to wear socks or shoes right now, so this was a bit of an ordeal, but we got through it.
We went to a Hibachi style Japanese restaurant that is about a 30 - 45 minute drive from our house. My husband, our oldest daughter and I had been there before , but our other two kids and my parents had never been before. My husband and I had been wanting to go back for 2 years or so now. We got a new Entertainment book that other day and it had a deal in there for this restaurant so you could save up to 14.99 on your meal depending on what you ordered.
Well with a coupon and all you kind of have to go don't you? LOL! It was really funny because as soon as we talked about maybe going to dinner that night our 4 1/2 year old that had been there with us before said " why don't we go to that place where they make the volcano at our table?!" That is exactly where we were thinking of going...how do kids know these things?
We had a fabulous dinner, and the kids were all very well behaved considering the excitement and all. The baby fell asleep on the way to the restaurant and woke up mid way through the chef cooking our dinner at our table. ( Why I left the house without my camera, I do not know) But I looked down and the baby is awake and just taking it all in. His eyes were like saucers. I got him up in to my lap just in time to get the full view of the onion ring volcano that spouted fire.
All the kids,,,and adults,..loved the show and the meal immensely. Even the baby got to have some rice and sauteed zucchini, but just a few bites. The one time I went to put the fork in MY mouth he squawked at me like HEY! WHERE'S MINE! lol.
It was a great night!
Saturday, October 18, 2008
I Got Out to Dinner
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1Oprah Winfrey Breaks Down Over Her Love for Gayle
No, not her sapphic love, although she does address those rumors. In a new Barbara Walters Special, the Queen of the World answers tough questions about many aspects of her life, but in this clip, we see her get emotional over Gayle King, her oldest and best friend.
When Barbara asks what makes their bond so much stronger than most, Oprah wells up and says, "She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want and she is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person."
She goes on to say that the rumors of them being gay upset her only because it means that someone must think she's lying about her sexuality, something that she has no reason to do. I mean, that makes total sense. You think that Oprah would pass up the chance to be the most powerful woman in the world, the most powerful black woman in the world AND the most powerful black lesbian in the world? Just doesn't sound like her style to me.
Anyway, it kind of killed me when Oprah said that she was crying over Gayle in the interview because she wasn't sure if she's ever expressed her feelings that clearly to her in person. I celebrated Besties Day on December 7th, but don't forget that it's always a good time to remind the people in your life of how much you love them.
December 9, 2010 at 11:00 am by Molls
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Of course she didn't express her feelings to her directly. Why? Because it's alllllllll about Oprah and the megalomaniac that she is. It's so much more preferable to do such things only when she can have a an audience to show just what a truly sensitive person that SHE supposedly is. When are people going to pull their heads out of their asses about this woman and come to realize what a genuine narcissist she has truly become?


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The Contract Murder of Kathryn Ann Martini-Lissy
At The Hotel
A short time later, Detectives Lloyd Davis and David Poppe met inside Room 305. After receiving a briefing from Officer Ellis, Davis officially took over the investigation. Just as the maid had reported, the detectives observed that the television was on, as were several lights in the room. The detectives were pleased that the maid had left everything in the room exactly as she had found it. One look was all it took for the seasoned detectives to determine that Kathy had been the victim of a vicious homicide. The detectives took notes as they observed the partially-clad form, and speculated that she might have been raped. They could see quite clearly that she had been physically assaulted and possibly strangled.
As Davis was making his preparatory observations, Sergeant Cline arrived. Davis was pleased to see that Cline was accompanied by Donald Ray Schuessler, a laboratory technician who had worked for the Eugene Police Department for about six years at that time. Schuessler's duties included processing crime scenes and completing comparison analysis of certain types of physical evidence, including fingerprints. Schuessler and Cline were followed into the room by Ken Champion, a field investigator for the Lane County medical examiner's office who had arrived separately.
Noting that strangulation victims are not a pretty sight, the detectives observed many of the typical signs of death by asphyxia, such as clenched hands, discoloration of the lips and face, and markings on her neck. As they gathered around the bed they observed that the victim's body lay across the width of the bed, not in a lengthwise position in which a person would normally lie when sleeping. A slightly damp hand towel from the rack in the bathroom lay at the foot of the bed. After viewing and photographing the body exactly as it had been found, the investigators, after Champion gave his okay, turned the corpse over onto its back.
The victim, they noted, was a brunette woman with a slim figure who appeared to be in her mid-to-late twenties. Her body was cool to the touch, likely at or near room temperature. She was wearing a diamond wedding ring set on her left ring finger, and a silver ring on her right ring finger. She was also wearing a watch with a gold band on her right wrist. There was no other jewelry on her body. The detectives tentatively identified her as Kathryn Ann Martini-Lissy from the hotel's guest registration records.
There was a small amount of blood, coagulated and sticky, that had trickled out of her nose and mouth and had run down the sides of her face, the cause of which could not be immediately determined. On the bed near her body lay a loose tuft of hair which, they observed, apparently had been torn from the victim's scalp, possibly during a struggle with an assailant.
"She was only going to stay for one day, as far as we know," the hotel manager told the cops. The manager also informed the detectives that Mrs. Martini-Lissy had stated in the guest register that business was the nature of her visit to Eugene and that she represented Portland's FNB Financial Company, a subsidiary of the First National Bank of Boston.


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As the 2013 NFL Draft approaches, it is interesting to look back over the last decade or so of Dolphins' drafts to get an overall picture of how well the team has done in drafting and developing players. After spending a few hours looking at drafts from 2000 to 2012 (the post Marino era), the results are disheartening to say the least. In summary, the Dolphins have consistently failed to draft enough starter-level players, impact players, and lost much of their developing talent to other teams.
All Draft Picks Since 2000
The first look at the information is a round-by-round quantity of the players drafted, broken into 5 categories: total players drafted in round, starters, back-ups, busts, and Pro Bowl players. I've defined starters as players either starting 48 games or more than half of their games played in their career. Busts are players who have played less than 16 games total in their career (less than one year in the NFL).
- 1st Round: 10 players 7 starters 3 back-ups 0 busts 2 PB Player (Long, Brown)
- 2nd Round: 13 players 8 starters 4 back-ups 1 busts 1 PB Player (Chambers)
- 3rd Round: 14 players 5 starters 7 back-ups 2 busts 1 PB Player (Smith)
- 4th Round: 10 players 3 starters 4 back-ups 3 busts 1 PB Player (Soliei)
- 5th Round: 13 players 3 starters 5 back-ups 5 busts 0 PB Player
- 6th Round: 17 players 2 starters 10 back-ups 5 busts 1 PB Player (Bell)
- 7th Round: 20 players 1 starters 11 back-ups 8 busts 0 PB Player
So what can be learned from this information? Before anything can be learned, it must be mentioned that the years covered by these drafts encompass many different GM's and coaching staffs, so anything positive or negative is shared by a large group of people and not just the current administrative group the Dolphins have. Ireland figures into 5 years of these drafts (2 out from the shadow of Parcells) and Philbin 1 year. I'll look more into the last 3 years separately later on in the posting. Here are some general thoughts about the above information:
- In 12 years of drafting, the Dolphins have only picked 6 Pro Bowl players (and only one All-Pro player) with only Long going multiple years (4 years). There have been other PB Dolphins - Williams, Wake, Starks, Incognito - but these were through a trade, undrafted FA, and FA. Long was the last PB player picked (in 2008). This shows clearly the unbelievable lack of impact players the Dolphins have had on the team over the last decade.
- Of the 29 starters drafted, 7 of them have gone on to start for other teams more than with the Dolphins. Over half the back-ups have done most of their work for other teams as well (including 9 of the 14 back-ups in the first three rounds). That is a lot of talent leaving the Dolphins. Some of this may be the nature of free agency, but if you take only the 22 players who started for the Dolphins - that is less than 2 a draft - over a period of 12 years! Yikes!
- The Dolphins don't find a lot of hidden gems in the later rounds. Only Brandon Fields has been a 7th Round starter. And only two starters from the 6th round.
Top Players in Each Round Since 2000
Here is a list of the top 5 players in each Round to show the quality of the players selected per round. I've excluded the 2012 picks because of their short amount of playing time (so Tannehill, Martin, and Miller do not qualify, although could be included if they play well this upcoming year).
- 1st Round: Jake Long, Mike Pouncey, Ronnie Brown, Vernon Carey, Vontae Davis
- 2nd Round: Chris Chambers, Todd Wade, Sean Smith, Samson Satele, Chad Henne
- 3rd Round: Kendall Langford, Wade Smith, Channing Crowder, Morlon Greenwood, Seth McKinney
- 4th Round: Paul Soliei, Randy McMichael, Brian Hartline, Travis Daniels, Deon Dyer
- 5th Round: Rashad Jones, Donald Lee, Chris Clemons, Arturo Freeman, Nolan Carroll
- 6th Round: Yerimiah Bell, Rex Hadnot, Donald Thomas, Lex Hilliard, Charles Clay
- 7th Round: Brandon Fields, Kevin Vickerson, Derrick Pope, Devin Aromashou, Fred Evans
There were some struggles in some of those rounds to come up with 5 worthy players! More thoughts:
- When Vontae Davis is the 5th best 1st rounder of the last 12 years, you know you are in trouble. The fall-off after him is even more depressing - either Ted Ginn or Jared Odrick (who can still turn out to be a very good player).
- The Dolphins have been much better at finding and developing offensive lineman in the first couple of rounds more than other positions. So many more misses on skilled positions (QB, RB, WR, CB) than the grunt positions.
- Where the Dolphins have failed most is in the 2nd and 3rd rounds. Truly a barren wasteland of picks. Out of 27 opportunities (not including all the 2nd Round picks traded away) in these two rounds, having Seth McKinney as your 10th best player - uggghhhh. Or possibly even worse, Kendall Langford as the second best player!! Only Chambers was a playmaker from these two rounds over this period. A bunch of defensive "solid" players, lineman, and a QB that didn't step up.
- 4th round has been a boom or bust round. Three really good starters and then a huge fall-off.
- Did you know that Travis Daniels (Chiefs), Kevin Vickerson (starting for the Broncos), and Devin Aromashou (Vikings) are still playing? So are Fred Evans (Vikings) and Rex Hadnot (Chargers). And Jason Allen (Bengals), Randy McMichael (Chargers), and Derrick Hagen (Raiders) also played last year as well and still have jobs. Who knew?
Lessons Learned
Overall, this has been a fairly depressing study of the Dolphins' history of drafting. After looking at this information it is so clear why the Dolphins have only been to the playoffs once in the last 10 years. Teams really are built through the draft and the Dolphins have not only drafted poorly, but maybe more importantly, have not been able to find impact or Pro Bowl caliber players either. Even many of the developmental players the Dolphins have drafted seem to have blossomed on other teams after being cut or let loose in free agency. Most without any return compensation to the Dolphins. The Patriots for one have always signed Dolphins cast-offs and turned them into productive players (Ninkovich, Thomas, and Welker last year, but easily over 10 players total since 2000).
The Dolphins have found some good players in the undrafted free agency pool (Wake, Bess, Carpenter) and with players cut by other teams (Welker), but these players don't fill in nearly enough for the lack of quality players missing from the draft. The quantity of busts as I defined them don't seem too out of proportion, but going beyond that definition to expectations and potential you find a lot of other disappointments even in players that have become back-ups in the NFL for their careers (Jamar Fletcher, Jason Allen, Ted Ginn, Eddie Moore, John Beck, Philip Merling, Patrick Turner, Derrick Hagen, Lorenzo Booker, Taylor Whitley, Travis Minor, Shawn Murphy). All these players had much higher ceilings and for whatever reason never fulfilled them with the Dolphins or other teams. Throw in the multiple lost picks for Ricky Williams (2 1st Round picks), Brandon Marshall (2 2nd Round picks), AJ Feely (2nd Round pick), and Dante Culpepper (2nd Round pick), and you are left with a wasted decade of finding and developing talent for the Dolphins.
The Ireland Years and his "3-Year Plan"
The last three years have had mixed results so far. 2012 gave the Dolphins 2 starters (Tannehill, Martin), and four back-ups (Miller, Randall, Matthews, Kaddu). Miller is set to start this year, the other back-ups will be fighting to make the team (can't even list Egnew as a back-up at this point). 2011 gave the Dolphins 1 starter (Pouncey) and three back-ups (Thomas, Clay, Wilson). None of the back-ups are potential starters at this point. 2010 gave the Dolphins four starters (Odrick, Misi, Jerry, Jones) and two back-ups (Carroll, Spitler). Carroll and Jerry will be fighting for starting jobs this coming year.
So that is 8-9 starters potentially out of the last three drafts, which is a full player per year better than the average of the last 12 drafts average. At this point, you can say that Ireland is doing better than his predecessors. He'll have to get 3 starters and maybe more importantly some impact players in the 2013 draft to keep the slight positive momentum he's created the past few years.


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Various industry analysts are totting up the iPhone 4 sales figures for Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) new iPhone launch day. Based on 600,000 pre-orders, 100,000 sales in Apple Stores, 50,000 in Best Buy stores, and an additional few hundred thousand in countries other than the US it is certainly over 1 Million. … Read the Full Story →
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News reports about the possibility of new iPhone 4G / HD on Verizon network are probably exciting to read but it is worth noting that speculation and rumors reach new high just before the WWDC and often don't see the light of day. Today TheStreet reported on a new research note from Rodman … Read the Full Story →


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PEORIA, Ill. -- Prosecutors have charged a teenager in connection with Thursday night's shooting near Grinnell and Folkers.
Two young men were shot and prosecutors say Robert Sanders, ,15, was the initial shooter.
Sanders is charged with Attempted Murder and will be tried as an adult.
His bond is set at $1.5 million.
Sanders is accused of shooting a 14-year-old boy after asking him if he was was a member of the "Bomb Squad" street gang.
A companion of Sanders allegedly shot a second teenager because he was a witness to the initial shooting.


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The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office and the Louisiana State Police celebrated National Police Week with a special ceremony on Tuesday morning.
Tuesday's memorial service and roll call honored the officers' sacrifice in the name of public safety.
A special color guard and flag-raising marked the start of the ceremony.
It was part of a salute to fallen officers that was held outside the Sheriff's Office administration building on Broad Street in Lake Charles.
"National Police Week is a way for all law enforcement across the country to recognize those officers that came before us and the ones that are currently serving now … and the ultimate sacrifice men and women pay for their departments and the people that they serve," said Chris Guillory, LSP Troop Commander.
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SP Setia's Fulton Lane architect visits MalaysiaGet Daily Property News in Malaysia, News Powered by PropertyGuru Malaysia
World-renowned architect Karl Fender (pictured), Founding Director of Fender Katsalidis Architects, will visit the country this weekend (29 to 30 September) to promote SP Setia's Fulton Lane development in Melbourne, reported Bernama.
The project, which is now under-construction, will comprise two towers with 778 apartments located close to the famous Queen Victoria Market and within the Melbourne Central Business District.
Meanwhile, Fender will be at the JW Marriott Hotel to talk about the multi-million dollar project which he calls a "development of distinction".
Choong Kai Wai, Chief Executive of SP Setia Melbourne, said "Melbourne is enhancing its reputation as the most liveable city in the world, it is the sporting, cultural and food capital of Australia."
"We enjoy a fantastic lifestyle and a lot of Asians, especially Malaysians and Singaporeans, are calling Melbourne home," he added.
SP Setia, one of the largest property developers in Malaysia, has expanded into Australian market with the purchase of its second prime site in Australia's premier boulevard St Kilda Road.
The developer is offering Fulton Lane buyers with a 10 percent interest rate earn on the part purchase price paid for the units.
"Purchasers will earn interest on the part purchase price paid, which is a first for any company. Bank interest rate on deposits in Australia is currently about four percent per annum," said Jeffrey Ong, Sales and Marketing Manager at SP Setia.
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In Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Emily Bergl may play the greedy Mae Pollitt, but offstage, she's an art-loving, disco ball-collecting, tea-making and robe-wearing Broadway sweetheart. Check out her cozy backstage home at the Richard Rodgers Theatre!
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Pippin's Kyle Dean Massey takes us exploring the secret passages of Broadway and a softball game in the latest epiosde of Fresh Prince.April 18, 2014
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Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Envelop your space
A deep color is an incredibly effective way to dramatically change your space. Darker colors create drama, so don't be scared of them. You may have seen my column on paint colors last year, where I showcased this picture of Sherwin Williams color "Caviar". Trust me--this color makes this room. Now, the air quality alert comes up: Sherwin Williams may have trouble making this color VOC-free, so buy a different brand (like Benjamin Moore's Natura). They can match up the color and keep the chemicals out of your air.
Interior Design: Ramsey Interiors
Photo: Matt Kocourek
Hang Sheers
Contrary to popular belief, you don't need to shut out the world with opaque shades in every room. If you add a light-colored, romantic sheer on top of that dark, dramatic paint, you'll have a room that just about anything will look good in. Sheers can be super sexy and peak curiosity, so play that up. In terms of budget, I think West Elm has a great selection of hardware and drapes for great prices. For about $200 per window, you can buy the hardware and the sheers, and all you'll have to do is hang them up.
Photo: www.westelm.com
Add Funky Mirrors
A mirror may be a tried and true designer tip, but I am telling you--it works. A mirror does double duty by adding art and depth to a room simultaneously. Add to that a design in the mirror, and you have gotten three for one. Mirrors like these, from Ballard Designs, can completely transform a room for a small price. In this case, a set of two is only $229.
Photo: www.ballarddesigns.com
Aim High
Far too often, people only have furniture at one height. Imagine your interior space as a city skyline where the eye is lifted up and down as it passes through. Achieving height is crucial to making this plan effective. One of my favorite pieces for adding height is a vertical bookcase. This one, from Design Within Reach comes in two heights, $198 and $298 respectively. When full, it's an amazing conversation piece as people are in awe of how you manage to keep that many books from falling over. And you can use them in the bathroom for towels, by the fireplace for wood, or think up your own clever ways to put them to use.
Photo: www.dwr.com
One Accent Color
If you are on a budget and you want to change things up, try spending your money on one accent color alone; perhaps two that are close in hue, like the plum and red shown here. Whether at flea markets, yard sales or at your local stores, buy a few bold accessories. Just 5 items of the same color in the same room will transform your space. Remember the interior skyline when you are doing this: a rug on the floor plus a few pillows a bit higher plus a tall lamp plus a piece of art on the wall and you've rounded your space from low to high.
Design by Kelly Taylor Interior Design; photo: Nat Rea
Use What You Have
If you don't yet know about www.kreatelier.com, I am happy to introduce you. Proprietors Pernilla and Line will take the old chair you were thinking of tossing on the street and turn it into a one-of-a-kind gem for any room of your home. Imagine this dingy chair becoming the conversation piece in your living room. With myriad interesting fabrics and a unique creative eye, these ladies will completely recreate the most tired items you have for much less than the cost of something new.
Photo courtesy of Kreatelier
Add Graphic Interest
The chairs on the previous slide definitely fit this bill. Another easy way to light up a room is with a bold, graphic rug. In this room, the table and chairs are also vibrant, so the walls are neutral. Just as easily, the walls could be a vibrant color, and the table and chairs could be virtually anything. In other words, take the furniture you already have, and put a bold rug underneath it. You'll be shocked at how much this changes the space. This 100% 5' x 8' wool rug from www.cb2.com is only $349.
Photo: www.cb2.com
Shop Consignment
This may sound obvious, but so often we forget to recycle what is already out there. The best new store of this kind in Providence is housegalleryri.com. Proprietor Kate Keizler has stocked this place with amazing finds for near ridiculous prices. The ottoman pictured is a mere $72.00 and in perfect condition! If you need to add some cute furniture on a budget, here's a way to do it, buy local and recycle. These are purchases you can feel triply good about.
Photo courtesy of Kreatelier
Choose Accessories Well
One thing I know is that it's easy to walk in a home store and buy up $200 worth of "stuff" that won't make a difference in the bigger picture of how your house feels. Rather than stock up on candles, and cute serving trays, spend $200-$500 at a time on big items that you will really feel the effects of. This is the same theory I bring to clothing--spend the most on what's on the outside; underwear is not what most people are looking at! A lamp, a piece of art, a funky bookcase, a small table--all of these items can be useful and visual aids to making your house feel more like home.
Handblown glass lamps by Tracy Glover, www.tracygloverstudio.com
Kyle Hoepner Says...
I am going to leave you with some great advice from Kyle Hoepner, the Editor in Chief of New England Home Magazine. "Treating just one wall--or even a portion of one wall--in a special way can create a center of attention that transforms the feel of the entire space. This works best if you then arrange furniture and art in front as a formal display." Kyle recommends:
Wallpaper only the recessed niches on either side of your fireplace or line them with panels of mirror.
Hang ceiling-to-floor sheers behind your sofa and its flanking end tables, leaving the rest of the wall exposed (or run the sheers all the way across).
Line one end of the room with cork, or upholster it in burlap, and create a gallery wall of your paintings, drawings, and photography.
I love hearing what you want to know. Please, feel free to post on my Facebook page anything you'd like to see written about in this column. I'll put a call out every now and then, but my page is open to wall posts, so bring on your ideas, questions and what's making you crazy at home or at work!
Kelly Taylor has 15 plus years of experience in the field of interior design. She is the 2012 recipient of New England Home magazine's "5 Under 40" award for excellence in design as well as Rhode Island Monthly magazine's 2012 Gold Award for residential interior design. She practices residential and commercial interior design in Providence, Rhode Island. Please find her on twitter at @ktidnet, visit her website at www.ktid.net or check her out on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/


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Get ready Buffy fans, because your favorite vampire slayer is headed back to the big screen.
Warner Bros. have announced that "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" will be returning to kick some ass in a franchise reboot. While die hard fans might be bummed to learn that Joss Whedon will not be involved, the studio has pinned their hopes on scribe Whit Anderson (pictured to the right) and believe her take on the character will be successful.
Speaking with the LA Times, Charles Roven (who is producing the new film via his Atlas Entertainment shingle) said, "Generally, I wouldn't have said 'Let's revive this,' but Whit's take is pretty compelling and a lot of fun, and it's interesting to see all of this re-imagined. This is a completely new reboot. Tone is extremely important and you want the audience to realize what is at stake and the peril is real, but at the same time what's going on should be fun and inviting and keep everyone engaged. It needs to be relevant to today, too, and that is what Whit has found a way to do." He adds, "There is an active fan base eagerly awaiting this character's return…. While this is not your high-school Buffy, she'll be just as witty, tough and sexy as we all remember her to be."
Obviously, these are early days and there is no word yet on plot details, a director or casting (though how do you top the bonkers casting of the 1992 film that had, among others, Donald Sutherland, Paul Reubens and Rutger Hauer). But Anderson, who was a fan of the television series, has a deep respect for the character saying, ""The thing that was so wonderful about 'Buffy' is what made it special was so timeless. The deep struggle she had with duty and destiny, that tug between what you're supposed to be doing and what you want to be doing. The fate of the world is on her shoulders but some days she wakes up and she just doesn't want to do it. And are we doomed and destined to love someone? That conflict was very interesting to me. Those are the things I loved about her and her world. She also represents — like all the heroes — something empowering for us. She's reminds us of what we could be if we were in our top form, the best of us if we were at our very best, and even then we still see the vulnerability and doubts she has inside. That's where we all connect."
Sunny | November 23, 2010 3:29 AM
What needs to happen is this: true Buffy fans....nay, Joss Whedon fans...need to just skip this film. When it releases and the net profit is a big fat zero -- hurt them the only place they can feel it -- then maybe the fans will feel vindicated. Joss -- we're with you.
swell | November 22, 2010 10:24 AM
I typically scoff at fanboy outrage as well, but what stock does Buffy have as "brand recognition" if non-fans seem to be actively dismissive of the central conceit. Why piss off the one group who would be guaranteed to drop the cash to see another spin on Buffy?
Handing the reigns to one of Whedon's cohorts who have solid careers going in Matt Reeves or Drew Godard or multiple others would be a good first step. But without Whedon's creative input, or at the very least his blessing, Warner Bros is needlessly risking damage to a potential brand, not to mention bad blood from Whedon and his "coaching tree" who are quickly gaining some punch in Hollywood and by all statements are very much against the idea.
Aaron G | November 22, 2010 10:02 AM
i have zero interest in buffy, but she's cute. she should play buffy. then i would care. also, lol @ fanboy outrage over this.
swell | November 22, 2010 9:54 AM
yeah, this is being met with massive scorn from the fan community and an idea that was considered too stupid to have made it this far.
i'm sure Brett Ratner's Twin Peaks reboot is just around the corner...
sarah | November 22, 2010 9:06 AM
Why can't Hollywood leave well enough alone.
BtVS was classic and there is no way a film is necessary, especially one without Joss Whedon. The only way this would be worth watching is if they did a movie based on the Buffy Season Eight Graphic Novels.
Thanks Hollywood for desecrating yet another classic.


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"Smokin" Joe Frazier passed away on Monday night after a brief battle with liver cancer.
Frazier was 67 years old.
Born in Beaufort, South Carolina in 1944, Frazier won gold at 1964 Olympics in Tokyo before turning pro the following year. Frazier had a career record of 32-4-1, winning 27 bouts by knockout, and won Muhammad Ali's vacated WBA Championship in 1970.
Frazier successfully defended his title against Ali in the "Fight of the Century" at Madison Square Garden in 1971, the first of three epic matches between the two boxing legends that culminated in Ali's win over Frazier in the "Thrilla In Manila" in 1975.
"I will always remember Joe with respect and admiration. My sympathy goes out to his family and loved ones," Ali said in a statement released on Monday night.
Scott Christ, Founder and Managing Editor of Bad Left Hook, had this to say of Frazier when word of his passing spread on Monday night:
"I'm not someone who is old enough to truly romanticize this era of boxing, but as much as I don't want to do the cliche, "They don't make fighters like that anymore" sort of thing, this much is true: Joe Frazier was a special fighter. He was humble, he was true to himself and what he believed, he was powerful, relentless, and he had no fear between the bells."


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Apple has one more thing to unveil on September 9, the much fabled iWatch
Re/code reports that Apple is planning to unveil a new wearable alongside the next generation iPhones on September 9.
Comex 2014 preview: Tons of tech deals under one roof!
Are you one of the over 800,000 visitors of Comex every year? With over 650 exhibitors showing off their latest IT and consumer electronics ware every year, you better be! The year's show starts on August 28; and as usual, we're giving you a sneak preview of some of the best deals to be had a week in advance. Check back often as we'll be updating this article as more deals come through.
11 must-have gadgets for your next vacation
We've rounded up the most useful travel gadgets for every holiday destination, so whether you're heading off to the sandy beaches of the Maldives, or the hustle and bustle of New York City, you'll find what you need here.
SingTel announces new Unlimited Fiber Plan, promises no traffic throttling
Web junkies rejoice, SingTel has just announced a brand new high-end fiber plan that promises uncapped downlink and uplink speeds and we have the screenshots to prove it.
ASUS ZenFone 5 LTE available in Singapore on August 30 from S$249
ASUS Singapore today announced that the ZenFone 5 LTE will be available for purchase on August 30 from S$249.
Sony Xperia C3 available in Singapore from August 30 at S$468
Sony Mobile Communications unveiled the Xperia C3, a 5.5-inch smartphone running a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 quad-core 1.2GHz processor, 1GB RAM and a 5-megapixel wide-angle front-facing camera. (Updated with retail price in Singapore.)
Klipsch adds new Reference R6M earphones to its Reference series
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HTC to release world's first octa-core 64-bit smartphone?
A teaser image posted on HTC's Weibo page seems to indicate that it will be releasing an octa-core 64-bit processor smartphone at IFA on 4th September.
HTC announces the 4.7-inch Desire 510, its most affordable 4G smartphone to date
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Seagate ships world's first 8TB hard disk drive
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RugGear unveils rugged Android tablet, the Ultra Tab 7.0 - RG900 for S$830
RugGear, the leading manufacturer of the world's toughest phone, unveiled its first Android tablet, the Ultra Tab 7.0 - RG900. It is designed to be used in any extreme environment with its IP67 rating for water and dust resistance. It also has some degree of protection against drop-shock impacts.
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Ralph Lauren debuts fitness and health-tracking t-shirts at the U.S. Open
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what do you think about when you think about sudan?
this blog is about the daily life of an expat teacher in sudan. not the only story but a different one.
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I looked surreptitiously at my watch. I had been sitting for almost 45 minutes in a BMW outside my house on Nile Street, Khartoum, listening as Zeinab extolled the virtues of Islam. The time had flown by.
I hadn't invited her inside because compared to her massive family home, further down the Nile in Soba, my poky apartment was a bit dire. Plus I didn't have any food and my air conditioner wasn't working. But I couldn't get out of the car and just leave her.
An hour earlier, we had been kicked out of her ex-husband's house. She had taken me there ostensibly for a tutoring session with her ten year old son, whose exams were coming up. It was obvious to everyone that she just wanted to see her children.
We had come in to find Khalid praying with his father. Khalid stuck his tongue out at me from his prayer mat, then looked at his mother and bent down for another rak'a. Zeinab led me inside and a servant brought me fresh mango juice and chocolates. By the time Zeinab came back, the juice was gone and the chocolate wrappers surrounded Sawsan and I on the floor, where we lay colouring in pictures of Disney princesses; Khalid could be heard shouting to his cousins on the roof.
'Ta'ali ya Krista', Zeinab said and disappeared out the door.
I sat in the car and tried not to watch Zeinab's whispered argument with her ex-husband in the driveway. She was gesturing angrily, her hands aggressively close to her ex-husband's face. His hand rested calmly on the head of two-year old Hamoudi, who was hugging his mother's knees.
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On her third, failed attempt to reverse out of the driveway, Zeinab turned and asked me if she was doing the right thing, I told her she was. But how would I know?
We drove erratically down Sixty Street, fast but in silence, until suddenly, Zeinab looked at me and told me her ex-husband had said he wasn't giving the kids back. A bus pulled out suddenly in front of us and she swerved to avoid it, slamming the horn and swearing passionately in Arabic.
Stopped at the lights, a child beggar carrying her sleeping toddler stuck her hand through the open window. Zeinab gave her a fifty pound note and a blessing.
She told me she had already given up her job as a doctor because her family drama distracted her. She was working as a financial adviser in a petroleum company instead: less emotionally taxing but just as time-consuming. She told me it's not what she wants, that she can't afford the time but she needs the financial independence. She told me that family law here isn't like in the west. She told me she was afraid. Truly afraid, that he will keep her children. She stopped talking then, but her hands kept shaking.
I looked at her staring determinedly ahead, cheeks wet with tears and I felt there was nothing I could say.
So I asked her what Islam taught.
As Zeinab told me about how Islam has helped her, I was transfixed, although I couldn't tell you what she said. I remember clearly even now, 10 months later, how the anger visibly disappeared. The lines between her eyebrows disappeared, her hands relaxed on the steering wheel and fell into her lap, her back straightened. Her wry smile returned.
Finally, she told me she didn't know how she would have survived without her faith.
I almost knew what she meant. And I almost felt envious.
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Your child will love travelling in comfort with the compact Phil & Teds Smart Lux luxury stroller.
When you're out and about
Featuring a sleek urban design, it looks as good as it feels to push along, with air-filled rear wheels and front wheel suspension offering all terrain manoeuvrability that lets you roll confidently over cobblestones and pavements.
Keep your little one nice and snug
The Smart Lux stroller is designed to cope with the fact that your child's needs change all the time, including over the course of a single day.
Thee main seat can be easily switched between lay flat mode, forward facing and parent facing - ideal when your baby wants the reassurance of seeing your face as your travel.
As your child grows
As your child gets older, they love the stimulation of watching the world around them as they travel, so simply move the seat to forward facing.
There's a total of 21 riding options all together to grow with your child from birth to 4+ years. An extendable sunhood provides additional protection when it's hot.
The Smart Lux also converts into a full travel system, with the bassinet and car seat accessories available separately.
Useful info:
- 3 modes – lay flat, parent facing and forward facing
- Suitable from birth to 20 kg (approximately 4 years)
- Air rear wheels
- Front wheel suspension
- Telescopic fold
- 5 point safety harness
- Slimline – 55 cm wide
- Easy access parcel tray
- Extendable sunhood
- Weight: 11.9 kg
- Phil & Teds Smart Lux Compact Stroller
Attach the double kit to the Phil&Teds Dot Buggy (sold separately) to turn it into an incline. Can be attached at front or rear.
The double kit adapts your buggy from 1 kid to 2 as your family grows.
- 2 Recline positions.
- One hand recline
- Can be customised with different coloured liners. (Sold separately).
This double kit can be used on the Dot Buggy (sold separately in 3 colours).Colours: Apple, Chilli, Flint.
Phil & Teds Dot Buggy - Chilli
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Phil andTeds most compact incline yet - Dot is fully featured and ready to make your life in the city with kids in tow a whole lot easier. Because Dot is their smallest inline yet, it fits seamlessly into the smallest car trunk, and glides through narrow doorways. It is super compact, yet has a full size seat. In true Phil and Teds form Dot adapts from 1 kid to 2 as your family grows.
Dot has an innovative one hand fast fold which enables you to quickly fold the buggy in one smooth action, pop it in the car and get going. The simple pull and side release is safety out of junior's reach, yet still convenient for you. The main seat reclines for a comfortable ride to a lie-flat position (best for newborns, and still brilliant when they're 4!). Dot's ventilated seat performance system is contoured to provide increased postural support. Super-comfy! Snug carrycot available (sold separately 3KRLN).
- Multi position handlebar.
- Large sun canopy with flip out visor and peek-a-boo window.
- Can be customised- liner and carrycot hood mix and match colour options (available separately).
- Compact nifty 10 inch (59 cm) pneumatic wheels so easy to manoeuvre through tight spaces and multiple terrain.
- Unique tailfree harness so no more dangle bits. Improved frame locking clip for fast secure and intuitive locking function.
- One hand lay back for sleeping- also safety certified for carrying one child in the back and none in the front.
- Removable fabric sling- no tools required.
- All plastic footwell-no fabric for easy clean.
- Folded Dimensions:76 x 59 x 26 cm. Unfolded width 59 cm.
- Age range newborns to 5 years
- Main seat max load 20kg/44ln
Create the colour combo that reflects you and express your individuality. Mix and Match your stroller with a different coloured sun hood to protect your child from the sun, wind and dust. Ultra easy one hand adjustability.Colours: Black, Cherry, Sky.
This Phil and Teds Navigator Buggy features an innovative auto stop design to give you peace of mind when you're out and about.
When you remove your hand from the handle the brakes are automatically applied so there's no danger of your precious cargo rolling away if you're momentarily distracted.
It's suitable from birth through to 20 kg (approximately 5 years) and can easily accommodate 2 children for a family day out by attaching the Navigator Double Kit (available separately – see item number 3VUTV).
The seat has a 5 point safety harness and adjustable neck support to ensure your youngster is nice and secure, with a deep and comfy design that's ideal for an afternoon nap. It also fully reclines so is perfect for newborns.
The sun hood protects their delicate skin from any harmful rays and also boasts handy storage pockets for snacks or essentials when you go for a stroll. This buggy comes with clever engineering and air filled tyres that make tackling curbs and uneven terrain a breeze.
Useful info:
- From birth to 20 kg (approximately 5 years)
- 5-point safety harness with shoulder pads
- Adjustable handle with foam grip
- Sun hood with handy storage pockets
- 12 inch air filled tyres
- Strong plastic foot well
- Bumper bar
- Lockable wheel for multi terrain
- Multiple seat positions
- One hand double kit recline
- Adjustable neck support
- Double kit sun mesh
- Globally safety certified EN1888:2005
- Max load (main seat): 20 kg/44 lbs
- Width: 59 cm
- Weight: 12.5kg
- Phil and Teds Navigator Buggy