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In both cases, dense snow squalls created white-out driving conditions that led to collisions affecting dozens of vehicles.
In Licking County, eastbound I-70 was closed near Hebron because of a serious crash at about 4 p.m.
Four township rescue departments transported victims to area hospitals.
Authorities said a tractor-trailer headed east initiated the pile-up by changing lanes.
In all, 16 vehicles were involved. No one sustained severe injuries.
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In Morrow County, the northbound lanes were closed for about 30 minutes and traffic remained slow for at least another hour.
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PACE co-rapporteurs reject legitimacy of "Abkhaz elections"
12.03.2012 – The monitoring co-rapporteurs
for Georgia of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), Michael
Aastrup Jensen (Denmark, ALDE) and Kastriot Islami (Albania, SOC), made the
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"The so-called parliamentary elections in Abkhazia, as well as the so-called presidential election that will take place on 25 March 2012 in Tskhinvali, cannot be recognised as legitimate. The unilateral declaration of independence of the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia is illegitimate under international law and therefore no legal or constitutional basis for these elections exists."
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We first put something up about Sherjill MacDonald on June 26th and it's slowly coming together. Fox Soccer already has MacDonald listed on their transfer list for the summer. Multiple reports have come out of the Netherlands confirming MacDonald's exit. This morning, Sherjill MacDonald tweeted in his own words in addition to sharing words of congratulations for well-wishers.
On being quoted as having rather stayed at Beerschot and joining Chicago...
very annoying if the media warp your words!! In any I'm very glad that I go to chicago!! 1/2— sherjill mac-donald (@mackie84) July 5, 2012
so have totally no mixed feelings as that stood in the newspapers the media always creates sensation, but I do not agree 2/2— sherjill mac-donald (@mackie84) July 5, 2012
On when he arrives in town...
@tomziemer am waiting for my visa bu i think next week !!— sherjill mac-donald (@mackie84) July 5, 2012
There are a couple of things to take into consideration here. First, there's the visa hang-up. Fire fans had to wait almost a month for Rafael Robayo's visa to clear this pre-season. Every visa situation is different. We don't know how long it will take for MacDonald's visa to clear.
Second, the Chicago Fire are working frantically to acquire another international slot. They could outright release one of the 8 international slotted players currently on the team. They could acquire an additional international slot through a trade with a MLS team and set a Chicago Fire historical precedent. Or they could sell one of their players like Marco Pappa, Sebastian Grazzini, or Rafael Robayo. If I had to guess, I would say selling Grazzini is the most likely scenario.
Grazzini's situation appears to be that he wants to be paid more than what he is getting paid right now. The Argentine's salary is much more than the reported $50,000 so you'll find little sympathy from me on the issue. He's not a DP but it seems he wants to be paid like one. You signed the contract, now it's time to live up to the terms. If Grazzini doesn't want to be here, time to ship him out and bring in someone who does. Cue Sherjill MacDonald.
What to expect from MacDonald
Anytime an international player joins the Chicago Fire, you don't know what they are going to bring to the table. Consider this though. The Fire brought Chris Rolfe in from Denmark's top football league. MacDonald is coming from the higher ranked Belgian Pro League. MacDonald finished second on his team in goals and assists with 7 each this year. That's a better rate in both categories than Chris Rolfe. Now, MacDonald will have to adjust to Major League Soccer and Rolfe did not. MacDonald won't be familiar with any of his teammates unlike Rolfe. However, there's no reason to believe MacDonald can't come in and be an impact player for the 2012 Chicago Fire.


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BTW, Obama Decided Not To Send In The Military To Rescue Our Benghazi Personnel
As Ace points out, on one hand Team Obama decided not to increase security at the Benghazi consulate. On the other hand
According to the Wall Street Journal, as the attack on the U.S. consulate was raging, Obama took a "wait and see" approach.
Ninety minutes after news of the attack reached Washington, Obama, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton, JCS Chair General Martin Dempsey, and a national security adviser convened for an oval office meeting in which they ultimately rejected the course of U.S. military intervention. Instead, they decided to reach out to the Libyan government to ask if they would send reinforcements.
When the U.S. personnel at the consulate left the main building for what was supposed to be a safe house, questions regarding the deployment of forces seemed moot.
But the battle was still raging, and Ambassador Stevens' life was close to its end.
So, essentially, US leaders on the other side of the Atlantic ocean decided to not bother doing anything themselves other than make a pleading phone call to the brand spanking new leadership of Libya in the hopes that Something would get done, abdicating their roles as protectors of US citizens.
Mary Joe Ambassador Stevens is unavailable for comment.
From that WSJ account
"There was no serious consideration at that hour of intervention with military force, officials said. Doing so without Libya's permission could represent a violation of sovereignty and inflame the situation, they said. Instead, the State Department reached out to the Libyan government to get reinforcements to the scene."
Yet, Obama sent two super secret special ops Blackhawks deep into Pakistan, 30 miles from the capital, loaded with SEALs, on a mission to kill Osama. That certainly was a violation of sovereignty, was it not? And isn't deploying our military to bomb Libya from the air previously a violation of sovereignty? Could they not have called the Libyan government and said "hey, we're sending military assets to protect our diplomatic personnel, deal with it"?
Let's review:
The U.S. ignores warnings of a parlous security situation in Benghazi. Nothing happens because nobody is really paying attention, especially in an election year, and because Libya is supposed to be a foreign-policy success. When something does happen, the administration's concerns for the safety of Americans are subordinated to considerations of Libyan "sovereignty" and the need for "permission." After the attack the administration blames a video, perhaps because it would be politically inconvenient to note that al Qaeda is far from defeated, and that we are no more popular under Mr. Obama than we were under George W. Bush. Denouncing the video also appeals to the administration's reflexive habits of blaming America first. Once that story falls apart, it's time to blame the intel munchkins and move on.
It's not like we have multiple warships capable of deploying military assets that could have provided security for the consulate personnel in the Mediterranean or something.
BTW, lots of sensitive documents were left behind, and the FBI still hasn't accessed the
crime scene terrorist attack scene.
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Congratulations to Harry Arutyunyan, WPT Legends of Poker Champion! ($576,369)
Level 37: 250,000-500,000, 50,000 ante
Season XIII of the World Poker Tour's televised season kicked off last week with the prestigious WPT Legends of Poker. A field of 593 entries generated a prize pool of $2,172,994. After nearly 37 levels of play, Harry Arutyunyan emerged as the newest member of the WPT Champions Club.
Here were the chip counts at the start of the final table:
Seat 1. Harry Arutyunyan - 3,670,000 (73 bb)
Seat 2. Taylor McFarland - 2,250,000 (45 bb)
Seat 3. Jeremy Kottler - 1,975,000 (40 bb)
Seat 4. Tyler Kenney - 2,555,000 (51 bb)
Seat 5. Mike Eskandari - 5,975,000 (120 bb)
Seat 6. Tyler Cornell - 2,525,000 (51 bb)
At 4:00pm local time, the players took their seats underneath the bright lights of the brand-new Season XIII WPT Final Table set.
The first elimination came 43 hands into the final table, when three-time WPT final tablist Jeremy Kottler departed. With the blinds and antes at 40,000/80,000/10,000, Kottler opened to 160,000 in the cutoff. Mike Eskandari called in the small blind, Tyler Cornell called in the big blind and the flop fell A83. Eskandari led out 225,000, Cornell folded and Kottler raised to 460,000. Eskandari's call brought the J turn, and he immediately shoved for effectively 1.055 million. Kottler gave it some thought before he called all in with KK -- a pair of kings with the nut flush draw. Eskandari led with A6 for a pair of aces. The J river was no help to Kottler, ending his run in 6th place for $83,075.
Next up was a double elimination on Hand #66. With the blinds increased to 50,000/100,000 with a 10,000 ante, Cornell shoved in the cutoff for 1 million. Harry Arutyunyan called on the button, Taylor McFarland reraised all in for 1.31 million and Arutyunyan called to put both players at risk.
Cornell: KJ
Arutyunyan: A10
McFarland: QQ
The board ran out A9322, giving Arutyunyan a pair of aces to eliminate Cornell in 5th place for $103,075 and McFarland in 4th place $145,640.
The remaining three players would battle for 38 hands before Tyler Kenney bowed out. With the blinds at 60,000/120,000 with a 20,000 ante, Kenney raised on the button to 240,000. Eskandari three-bet to 760,000, Kenney four-bet shoved for 3.535 million and Eskandari called quickly with 77. Kenney trailed with A2 and found no help from the J9539 board, ending his run with a 3rd-place finish for $213,600.
Heads-up play began with Eskandari holding a sizable lead against Arutyunyan, but what ensued was a legthy and hard-fought duel with the chip lead changing hands numerous times. Each player doubled up twice through the other, but on the 90th hand of heads-up play, a champion finally emerged.
With the blinds and antes at the 250,000/500,000/50,000 level, Arutyunyan raised to 1.2 million on the button. Eskandari three-bet all in for 7.85 million and Arutyunyan called with A8, leading Eskandari's A7. The board ran out J32106, spelling the end for Eskandari. His runner-up showing earned him $330,110.
With an impressive vertical celebration, Harry Arutyunyan punctuated the victory.
In addition to winning $576,369, which includes a $15,400 seat into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Borgata Casino in Atlantic City, Arutyunyan also wins:
- Monster 24K headphones
- Hublot King Power Unico Watch
- Bicycle Casino's Wild Bill Hickok trophy
- WPT Champions Trophy
And, of course, Arutunyan will have his name engraved on the one and only WPT Champions Cup along with all the previous WPT winners from the past 12 seasons.
Here are the final table results:
1st: Harry Arutyunyan - $576,369
2nd: Mike Eskandari - $330,110
3rd: Tyler Kenney - $213,600
4th: Taylor McFarland - $145,640
5th: Tyler Cornell - $103,560
6th: Jeremy Kottler - $83,075
Special thanks to our friends at The Bicycle Casino for their hospitalty this week, to our sponsors for providing such wonderful prizes, to Joe Giron for the photos you saw in today's coverage, and to you for following along with the coverage.
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Hand #194: Mike Eskandari Out in 2nd Place ($330,110)
Level 37: 250,000-500,000, 50,000 ante
Harry Arutyunyan raises to 1,200,000, Mike Eskandari moves all in for 7,850,000, and Arutyunyan calls with A8. Eskandari turns over A7, and he needs to improve to stay alive.
The board comes J32106, and Arutyunyan wins the pot — and the WPT Legends of Poker — with ace high and an eight kicker.
Mike Eskandari comes up one comeback short, finishing as the runner-up in second place, earning $330,110.
Harry Arutyunyan wins the WPT Legends of Poker, earning $576,369.
Hand #193: Harry Arutyunyan
Level 37: 250,000-500,000, 50,000 ante
Mike Eskandari raises to 1,050,000, and Harry Arutyunyan calls, and then checks in the dark.
The flop comes K102, and Eskandari checks behind.
The turn card is the 5, Arutyunyan bets 1,200,000, and Eskandari folds. Arutyunyan takes the pot.
Harry Arutyunyan - 11,050,000
Mike Eskandari - 7,900,000
Hand #192: Mike Eskandari
Level 37: 250,000-500,000, 50,000 ante
Harry Arutyunyan folds, giving Mike Eskandari a walk.
Harry Arutyunyan - 9,950,000
Mike Eskandari - 9,000,000
Hand #191: Harry Arutyunyan
Level 37: 250,000-500,000, 50,000 ante
Mike Eskandari raises to 1,250,000, Harry Arutyunyan moves all in for 8,900,000, and Eskandari folds, showing one card — the A.
Arutyunyan shows one card — the A — as he collects the pot.
Harry Arutyunyan - 10,250,000
Mike Eskandari - 8,700,000
Hand #190: Harry Arutyunyan
Level 37: 250,000-500,000, 50,000 ante
Harry Arutyunyan raises to 1,200,000, and Mike Eskandari folds 92 face up.
Harry Arutyunyan - 8,950,000
Mike Eskandari - 10,000,000
Hand #189: Mike Eskandari Doubles Thru Harry Arutyunyan
Level 37: 250,000-500,000, 50,000 ante
Mike Eskandari moves all in for 5,225,000, and Harry Arutyunyan quickly calls with AQ. Eskandari turns over 22, and he needs it to hold to stay alive.
The board comes KK7106, and Eskandari wins the pot with two pair, kings and deuces to double up in chips.
Harry Arutyunyan - 8,400,000
Mike Eskandari - 10,550,000
Hand #188: Mike Eskandari
Level 37: 250,000-500,000, 50,000 ante
Harry Arutyunyan limps for 500,000, Mike Eskandari moves all in for 4,675,000, and Arutyunyan tanks for a while before he folds. Eskandari takes the pot.
Harry Arutyunyan - 13,675,000
Mike Eskandari - 5,275,000
Hand #187: Harry Arutyunyan
Level 37: 250,000-500,000, 50,000 ante
Mike Eskandari folds, giving Harry Arutyunyan a walk.
Harry Arutyunyan - 14,225,000
Mike Eskandari - 4,725,000
Hand #186: Mike Eskandari
Level 37: 250,000-500,000, 50,000 ante
Harry Arutyunyan folds, giving Mike Eskandari a walk.
Harry Arutyunyan - 13,375,000
Mike Eskandari - 5,025,000


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Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. (USA) (NYSEMKT:MCZ)
The Company is a provider of video game accessories and software. It designs, manufactures, markets and distributes accessories for all video game platforms.
A short term call on an "old friend". I don't think it's got the current pipeline to surprise this quarter and it's not destined for another run. Of course a downthumb on a productive company with a core group of followers and a group of customers who doesn't seem to know what a recession is, at a mere $0.75 could bite......
One of the "funnest" penny stocks quarter after quarter...if you're on the right side of the trade.
This is one of my favorite penny stocks also, Third year in a row that I'm trading it. I've seen the pipeline problem before, and it still worked out for me earnings wise after next years 1st QTR.
We shall see...
And, Merry Christmas.
Yes, I pocketed the CAPS points on this one, but no one else has rec'd a downthumb so here I still am.
I'd consider playing this one up as well this time of year.
This is certainly one to "play" and not to fall in love with!!!
Penny stocks for me are to make things interesting, MCZ certainly does that!
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IE and Brown to Offer Joint Business Degree
Brown University and IE Business School in Madrid, Spain, will offer the joint IE Brown Executive Master of Business Administration (E.M.B.A.) degree. This is the first Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) degree to be awarded by Brown. Members of the Class of 2016, who start the program in March of 2015, will be the first to earn this joint degree.
Brown to Lead Study-Abroad Consortium
Brown University has partnered with six Ivy Plus institutions to launch an initiative aimed at improving study abroad opportunities for students. The Consortium for Advance Studies Abroad (CASA) will develop comprehensive program centers of study around the world. The first center will launch in Havana in the 2014-15 academic year.
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Global Experiential Learning and Teaching (GELT) Program
Deadline: June 25, 2014
The Office of Global Engagement (OGE), in partnership with the offices of Academic Development and Diversity, the Dean of the College, Dean of the Faculty, and the School of Professional Studies, is pleased to announce the 2014/2015 Global Experiential Learning and Teaching (GELT) grant program.
The GELT program provides funds for credit-bearing advanced seminars or capstone courses (undergraduate or graduate), in any academic discipline, that embed an international travel component prior to, during, or at the end of the course. The GELT program offers two forms of support:
- Phase One provides up to $4000 to support the development of a new course with an embedded short-term education abroad component.
- Phase Two provides up to $35,000 to support travel, accommodations, and related costs, for one faculty member and up to 12 Brown students.
For more information including eligibility and application requirements, please visit: http://www.brown.edu/about/administration/global-engagement/global-experiential-learning-and-teaching-gelt.
Core Fulbright Scholar Program
Deadline: August 1, 2014
The Core Scholar Program funds over 800 faculty and professionals to travel and work abroad each year. In addition, regular faculty who receive Fulbright awards may be eligible for a salary supplement from the office of the relevant Dean. For assistance in applying for Fulbright awards or for questions concerning Brown's support for Fulbright applications, please contact Joel Revill, Assistant Dean of the Faculty.
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Hailed by critics worldwide for her complete performances as both singer and actor, American soprano Jennifer Welch-Babidge is in constant demand for her sparkling vocal technique, natural stage presence, and both her dramatic and comic acting ability. Opera News lauds recent performances, "Jennifer Welch-Babidge served up some ravishing soubrette-singing. Her voice is agile and beautifully projected, with a lavish bloom and a silvery edge; she clearly loves the stage."
Ms. Welch-Babidge's 2005-06 season included a return to the Metropolitan Opera as Marzelline in Fidelio and appearances with Houston Grand Opera as Norina in Don Pasquale and Opera Carolina as Leila in Pearl Fishers. She also appears again with the Metropolitan Opera Chamber Ensemble at Carnegie Hall, with James Levine conducting. She then sings Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in Nashville and Mahler's Symphony No. 8 with the San Francisco Symphony, and finishes the season with Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro with Utah Festival Opera (where she has previously been seen as Gilda in Rigoletto and Liu in Turandot. Her future engagements include a return to the San Francisco Opera in the fall of 2006 as Adele in Die Fledermaus as well as both Moses und Aron and Fidelio with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and James Levine.
Frequently appearing on the Metropolitan Opera stage, her roles with the company include Marzelline in Fidelio, Chloe in Queen of Spades, Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Freia in Das Rheingold. She has also appeared at Carnegie Hall with the Metropolitan Opera Chamber Ensemble and James Levine. In recent seasons, her acclaimed performances encompass the title role in Lucia di Lammermoor at New York City Opera, Opera Colorado, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and Greensboro Opera Company. She made her San Francisco Opera debut as Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail and has sung Konstanze in the same opera with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Also at Opera Colorado she appeared as Gilda in Rigoletto and with Opera Pacific, sang her first performances of Violetta in La Traviata. Ms. Welch-Babidge made her debut in Japan as Adele in Die Fledermaus with Seiji Ozawa at the Saito Kinen Festival.
Ms. Welch-Babidge is a recipient of many awards, including the prestigious ARIA Award and Richard Tucker Career Grant, both in 2001. She was also a winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in the spring of 1997 subsequently joined the company's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. The soprano's other honors include a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation and an award from the William Mattheus Sullivan Foundation.
Ms. Welch-Babidge, a native of Aulander, North Carolina, is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts with a Master's degree in vocal performance. She lives in Utah with her husband, Darrell, and their two sons, John Chandler and Joseph.


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La Verne Can't Hold Off Rally, Loses to UCSC
SANTA CRUZ – The University of La Verne men's basketball went on a 10-0 run to start the game and led by as much as eight in the second half, but could not hold off a UCSC comeback bid as it fell 46-44 in a defensive struggle at the Kaiser Permanante Arena on Saturday.
La Verne drops to 7-12 overall and UCSC improves to 4-16.
La Verne led by 38-30 with 6:24 left in the game but committed fouls and turnovers that stopped the clock and gave the Banana Slugs a chance to get back in the game. After Cruz Mertens sank a three to put the Leos up by eight, UCSC quickly went on a 7-0 run fueled by five made free throws in less than three minutes to get within a point.
UCSC tied the game at 40-40 with a three by Jared Ponce and took the lead for good when Spencer Wells made a layup with 1:41 to go.
The game started well for the Leopards. Weston Newell opened the scoring with a layup, Niall Harrison pitched in with another and Evan Roberts hit a three to give La Verne a 10-0 lead five minutes into the game. The Leopards also limited UCSC 0-for-9 shooting to start the game.
La Verne extended the lead to 14-1 with 11:06 left in the first half after Harrison scored on consecutive possessions. However, they could only manage three more points the rest of the way and the Banana Slugs slowly chipped away until they finally took the lead for the first time with 3:27 left in the half on a James Townsend 3-pointer.
Townsend scored 10 of his game-high 14 points in the first half and grabbed eight rebounds.
Neither team could get its offense going. La Verne shot 32.1 percent from the field and went 3-for-21 from beyond the arc while UCSC just went 27.5 percent and 2 of 14 from the distance.
Harrison led the Leopards with 11 points in just 14 minutes played.
Ronn See pitched in 10 points, seven rebounds, four steals and three assists. Cruz Mertens scored eight and Josiah Sukumaran hauled in a season- and game-high nine rebounds off the bench.
La Verne returns to conference action when it hosts Redlands on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.


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I want to like Andy MacPhail. And given the last few Executive Vice Presidents of shit ass Baseball Operations that we've had, it'll will be quite the coup to actually do much worse. I'm even optimistic about the farm system.
But still, I wonder. Trading Tejada (for next to nothin') and Bedard were essentially obvious moves. We still have Roberts and Mora and Walker and Bradford and Millar and Huff and Gibbons and Payton. All of these players are fairly useless to us. So why are they here?
Further, we have a pretty low payroll. But are we investing in overseas talent? I don't expect us to get the next Dice-K, but what about the Devil Ray Japanese guy? That seems like a smart mid-level type signing...
I just fail to see how we are rebuilding given that we've made only two trades and a Rule 5 pick.


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Hey, all,
Just in case anyone is contemplating a trip to Fenway for the Cub series this July, there's still a limited number of tickets left on the Red Sox site (redsox.com). I was just able to get grandstand seats for the July 1 game - not great ones, but not terrible, either. The other two games only have standing room available, but at least it's in the park. Hope to see lots of you here!


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Nazr Mohammed Meets With Heat
Nazr Mohammed worked out and met with the Miami Heat on Thursday. The Heat are searching for another backup big man. Among available centers, the Heat are most intrigued by Emeka Okafor, who is still rehabiliating a back injury. Mohammed spent the past two seasons with the Chicago Bulls.
Nazr Mohammed Takes To Twitter To Announce He Is Resigning With The Bulls
If Nazr Mohammed's Twitter account is any indication, he will be back with the Bulls for the 2013-14 season. Nazr announced he will be be back for at least one more season, which would make it his 16th in the NBA. It was an easy decision because I really enjoyed my teammates, coaching staff, management and the fans. I felt that we exceeded everyone's.. — Nazr Mohammed (...
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Bulls Likely To Fill Out Roster With Minimum Salary Players
The Chicago Bulls have eight players under contract and are likely to fill out the rest of their roster with minimum salary players. Nazr Mohammed played for the Bulls last season on a veteran-minimum contract and expects to return for the 2013-14 campaign. "They want me back," Mohammed said. "I want to be back. Now it's the technicality of getting (the contract...
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Nazr Mohammed apologizes for his ejection
Nazr Mohammed apologized after Friday's game for his ejection during the second quarter of the Chicago Bulls' 104-94 loss to the Miami Heat. Mohammed reacted to a technical foul by LeBron James by pushing the Heat forward, who fell to the ground. Mohammed received a Flagrant 2 foul for his actions and was ejected. He vented on Twitter and apologized for his behavior, which cost...
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Heated Exchange: Nazr Mohammed Ejected After Shoving LeBron
The Chicago Bulls are undermanned and facing in what appears to be an impossible task of playing the NBA's best team, but they aren't about to back down to the Miami Heat. In Game 3 of the chippy series things have gotten heated once again. Bulls center, Nazr Mohammed took exception to King James getting tangled with him then tossing him to the ground. Mohammed, the 15-year veteran...
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Nazr Mohammed Ejected For the Stone Cold Shove of LeBron James (Video)
The shove wasn't necessary by Nazr Mohammed and LeBron sold it like The Rock selling a Stone Cold Stunner. To me that makes it even and Mohammed shouldn't have been ejected. Charles Oakley is just shaking his head right now. Nazr Mohammed Shoves LeBron James FYI, LeBron this is the proper way to sell a stunner.
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Nazr Mohammed ejected for shoving LeBron
Bulls backup center, Nazr Mohammed, was ejected in the second quarter of Friday night's Game 3 between the Bulls and Heat after shoving LeBron James to the floor.
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Bulls Hope To Keep Nazr Mohammed In Offseason
Gar Forman has told Nazr Mohammed to buy -- not rent -- a home in the Chicagoland area in the veteran center's homecoming to play for the Bulls. To that statement, Mohammed was adamant that he agrees and wants to staying with the Bulls past this season. "I like the sound of that," Mohammed said. "In a perfect world, you'd love to end your career in the city...
Chicago Bulls sign center Nazr Mohammed
The Chicago Bulls have signed free agent center Nazr Mohammed. The 14-year NBA veteran played for the Oklahoma City Thunder last season. He appeared in 63 games, averaging 2.7 points and 2.7 rebounds per game. Mohammed is a 35-year-old Chicago native who's also played for Charlotte, Detroit, San Antonio, New York, Atlanta and Philadelphia. Since being picked by Utah in the...
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A few days before passing away, Calvino was preparing a series of conferences surrounding the values that he considered where essential for the new and approaching millennium.
A prophetic imagination: Italo Calvino and his six proposals /
Creativity has its own prophetic outlook. At times, creative genius also makes itself known through intuitions that at the time may appear to be extravagant, risky, and even absurd, same which later reveal themselves to be innovative, vanguard: ahead of their time. Creativity thus is a type of sixth sense that reads in the existing symbols a panorama that makes the future possible, more often than not, with surprisingly surprising results.
On June 6th 1984, Italo Calvino received from Harvard University an invitation to teach the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, an honour conferred to creative minds like T. S. Eliot, Igor Stravinsky, Borges and Octavio Paz, among many other brilliant artists gathered to speak of poetry and their place in the contemporary world.
Unfortunately, Calvino died a few days before he was able to give the lectures he had prepared, on September 19th of the following year, which did not stop the texts from being published in a book entitled Six Memos for the Following Millennium.
"We are in 1985, and barely fifteen years stand between us and the new millennium. For the time being I don't think the approach of this date arouses any special emotion. However, I'm not here to talk of futurology, but of literature." Wrote Calvino as manner of introducing the lectures, because, indeed, that period was still somewhat removed from the later fever before the changing digits, the 1900s for the 2000s, and the effects this would have in the collective psyche.
This was, without a doubt, an unexpected selection of behalf of the writer. While his artistic colleagues chose to speak of specific aspects of poetry, music, architecture and other arts, Calvino thought of something that combined a manifest, a divinatory exercise, and a will on the qualities, he affirmed, would be necessary to retain in the coming millennium.
Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity and the unfinished Consistency make up the condensation of this endeavor, these six proposals of values that from an exclusively literary perspective —which also means sensitive, inclusive, humanist in the best sense of the word— the writer left a type of map for a future that is beginning to be built, always, from the present moment.
The Six Memos for the Following Millennium can be read in the light of a creative imagination, that which transcends consciousness to become real, and despite being the same that springs from fantasising, is also has the potential to be at once, the seed of that which Leibniz referred to as "The best of all the possible worlds".Tagged: Italo Clavino, writers, literature, Six Memos for the Following Millennium


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The night before the San Francisco 49ers went into Lambeau Field and beat the Green Bay Packers, they had a special guest. The 49ers had included Ric Flair's intro music during night before meetings throughout the season. Then, according to Flair, Justin Smith put in a request to get Flair to a team meeting. And so, we have this:
This is cool enough (well, at least for those of us who enjoyed professional wrestling at some point or another in our life. Following the game, Flair had a tweet, and The Iron Sheik threw out his own thoughts:
49ers win! WOOOOO! Congrats SF! Obviously my pep talk worked! WOOOOO! #OldSchoolRaw— Ric Flair® (@RicFlairNatrBoy) January 6, 2014
My brother the Ric Flair help the SF win tonight. He one of the best and I be happy for him because he a legend like Iron Sheik #49ers
— The Iron Sheik (@the_ironsheik) January 6, 2014
And yet the story gets even better. Flair is from North Carolina and has been a source of some inspiration to the Carolina Panthers. Naturally this makes his decision to fire up the 49ers an unbelievable betrayal. James Dator of Cat Scratch Reader provided a rundown of the level of this betrayal.
Ric Flair & Steve Smith are buddies. But Smith wasn't too friendly Monday. About Flair he said: "That San Francisco bridge has been burned."
— Tom Sorensen (@tomsorensen) January 6, 2014
Started asking Drayton Florence about Ric Flair, he interrupted saying, "I'm not talking about that" and turned away. A team spurned?
— Bill Voth (@billvoth) January 6, 2014
In reality this shouldn't be all that important, but I can't help but laugh at it. I suppose 49ers fans would be pissed off if a Bay Area native fired up a playoff opponent, but such is life, right?
On a side note, Steve Smith is expecting to play Sunday. He sat out Week 17 with a PCL sprain, but he anticipates coming back from that. But will anything allow him to overcome the heartbreak caused by the Nature Boy turning heel on him?
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Are Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart Moving Back to Old Love Nest?
A moving truck was spotted outside Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart's old love nest on Friday. Do you think this means the Twilight couple will live there once again? Rob put the home on the market following his break from Kristen. Have plans changed?
According to a report from Hollywood Life, the last time a moving van was seen outside of this same home was back in July, following word that Kristen Stewart had cheated on Rob with her Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders.
Might Rob simply be moving belongings out of their old love nest in order to transfer them to their new home? Maybe the home sold and Rob needed to remove the remainder of his personal items from the home so the new owners can move in.
Robert Pattinson has stayed with friends during the time he and Kristen were apart, and Kristen's been staying with her mom in a Malibu beach house she purchased. Are you dying to know where these two will live for this second time around adventure?
You can check out the photo of a moving truck outside of the Breaking Dawn Part 2 star's former love nest by clicking on the Hollywood Life link above.
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A RADical plan: RAD transit funding should be one-time onlyDecember 3, 2012 12:00 AM
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It's happened to all of us, and it's usually uncomfortable.
Someone we know well finds him or herself in a financial bind and asks for one-time assistance. We may know that the individual has been carelessly living beyond reasonable means, improperly managing the family budget or simply failing to tap into rightful sources of funding, but we acquiesce. Just this once, we might say.
That's the position the Allegheny Regional Asset District board is in now that it has awarded the Port Authority $3 million to help keep the county's transit operations running.
There is no doubt that reliable public transportation is an asset to the region, but it not the sort of entity that RAD was designed to assist. The 1-percent RAD sales tax charged on purchases in the county sends half of its dollars to municipalities and the other half to libraries, parks and arts and community organizations. These are destinations. This is the first time RAD money instead will fund a means of reaching destinations.
It should be a one-time thing.
The Port Authority applied for only a one-year allocation, but that's not necessarily the end of its requests. The authority has suggested in the past that it would return each year to make a case for funds, just as other RAD recipients do. That would be a mistake.
The RAD board has made an exception this year given that state has delayed for far too long the implementation of recommendations that could make more money available for roads, bridges and transit. But it should not make a habit of supplying money to the Port Authority. That's not its mission.opinion_editorials


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Berwick Rangers face Rangers
Berwick Rangers faced arguably one of the biggest league fixtures in their history. The 'Wee Gers' played host to the new Rangers at Shielfield Park on 26th August.
Police praise fans after Berwick match
Northumbria Police have praised fans who attended Berwick's home match against Glasgow Rangers.
More than 4,000 spectators packed into Shielfield Park yesterday afternoon to see the 1-1 draw. Three people were arrested for minor offences, but police have praised the behaviour of most fans.
Superintendent Derek Scott said:
– Superintendent Derek Scott, Northumbria Police
"I would like to praise the majority of fans who were mainly good natured and only interested in the action on the pitch.
"Public safety is always out number one priority, and given the rural location and number attending the ground, we had a policing plan in place.
"We have received reports that some sectarian chanting did occur and these reports will be fully investigated and reported to the relevant Scottish authorities."
Berwick earn Rangers draw
Berwick came from behind to earn a point against Rangers at Shielfield ParkRead the full story
Berwick Rangers prepare to face new Rangers on Sunday
Berwick Rangers are making the final preparations ahead of the visit of the new Rangers on Sunday. A full house is guaranteed.Read the full story
Berwick Rangers ready to face Rangers
Berwick Rangers are getting ready for what is arguably one of the biggest league fixtures in their history.
The 'Wee Gers' play host to the new Rangers at Shielfield Park on Sunday 26th August.
A full house is guaranteed at a club used to league attendances of just a few hundred.
Berwick have only beaten the Glasgow side once in their history, winning 1-0 in a Scottish Cup match back in 1967.


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Police responded to a gas leak explosion Wednesday evening on the Texas Tech campus. Around 9 p.m., an explosion occurred inside a lab at the College of Agricultural Science & Natural Resources Building (CASNR), located at 1502 Detroit Ave.
Tech spokesperson Chris Cook says a lab student noticed a faint smell of gas in a lab, and when he flipped the light switch off, there was an explosion behind a refrigerator. Cook says the explosion blew a 2-foot wide hole through the wall. He said there were no injuries and crews were able to contain the area shortly after.
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Boosted by his first win of 2013 in Jerez earlier this month, Dani Pedrosa continued his impressive run of form in France today to top the opening day of practice at the historic Le Mans track.A best lap of 1.34.035 put the Repsol Honda rider just 0.134s clear of world championship leader and teammate Marc Marquez in cool but dry...
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Oct 11
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revnev7 says:
And this season`s been even funnier!
Mar 12
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RidgeRacerHRC says:
...France legalised gay marriage a few hours ago
perhaps thats what distracted FLossi?? hahahahahahah
Jul 12
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wosihound says:
Tell you what was funny..
How all you senile mutherfluckers disappeared, tail between your legs after Qatar..
Amazing how flock mentality, a few brave pills and mutual wanking can affect your memory innit?
what are the odds on it being deathly quiet round here next week?
Like i said on this `ere forum at the time,a season`s worth of luck all used up in qatar. Never mind eh. Maybe everybody will crash in the rain,and Rossi will inherit the win! But don`t hold your breath Wosi,`cos you`ll die.
Sep 11
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TetsuoSama says:
It takes more than one race to establish the pattern of Rossi developing the Yamaha backwards.
I think we can all agree that the pattern has been established and it's now a fair point to make. Even over the course of this weekend, he's managed to turn a positive FP1 all the way around.
Absolutely, he's got a lucky break with the weather. If the lottery goes his way, doesn't change the fact that he's being exposed for the solid but not great rider that he always was.
whats the worst that can happen..old Flo will probably get his customary 4th position or even better if rain intervenes. Look at it this way, Pedrosa completely fucked up his qualifying too so its not just Flo. Hahaha there there Wosi..
Sep 10
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CBR11X says:
Le Mans, Saturday, May 18, 2013
Pos. Num. Rider Nation Team Bike Km/h Time Gap 1st/Prev.
1 93 Marc MARQUEZ SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 301.9 1'33.187
2 99 Jorge LORENZO SPA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 302.6 1'33.217 0.030 / 0.030
3 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Ducati Team Ducati 299.2 1'33.603 0.416 / 0.386
4 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 301.1 1'33.609 0.422 / 0.006
5 6 Stefan BRADL GER LCR Honda MotoGP Honda 303.2 1'33.634 0.447 / 0.025
6 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 303.1 1'33.639 0.452 / 0.005
7 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA GO&FUN Honda Gresini Honda 302.1 1'33.984 0.797 / 0.345
8 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 299.2 1'34.009 0.822 / 0.025
9 38 Bradley SMITH GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 302.4 1'34.222 1.035 / 0.213
10 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Ducati Team Ducati 297.1 1'34.242 1.055 / 0.020
11 41 Aleix ESPARGARO SPA Power Electronics Aspar ART 286.7 1'34.754 1.567 / 0.512
12 14 Randy DE PUNIET FRA Power Electronics Aspar ART 287.6 1'35.086 1.899 / 0.332
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weskit says:
last time we had this equation was 2009 i think. Unsure what the answer is.
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Nostrodamus says:
Yellow is such a naughties era colour. Qatar was an aberration - we all know that. Hell, Season 2010 to 2013 pre-season taught us that.
I realise it cannot be easy for you as you try to configure a way to turn the 46 tattoo on your arse cheek into a 93. Emmett's suffering under the same dilemma. Have a word. He's good at maths just like you.
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Firebird3 says:
I must admit, it is puzzling why Rossi can't go faster with the qualifying tyre, but his race setup times were good in FP2, so he'll be in the hunt for the podium tomorrow. Dovi was a second faster with the quali tyres on, so don't expect to see him anywhere at the front in the later part of the race.
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"All of our hoop houses are pretty much filled to the max," said farm manager David Robb. Harvestland has almost 20,000 square feet in a half dozen hoop houses, all but one of which are heated. They are kept at 40 degrees throughout the winter. "There's a wide variety of crops that do well."
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The Ergonomics of Wireless and NFC
I'm sick and tired of dealing with wires and anything that connects one device to another. It is a hassle. You trip over them and they break. You have to wrap them up and put them away. My solution to that? Wireless Technology and NFC.
In this past month, I've been trying to set up a system around me that made everything simpler, convenient, more relaxing, and ergonomic. Owning a Nexus 4 and a ThinkPad Helix with NFC built in, I purchased a few other products to experiment with. As a result, my interaction with my devices became so much more seamless. Let me elaborate.
NFC Bluetooth Speakers
Device: Sony SRSBTX300
Prior to buying these speakers, I owned a Bose Sounddock. Depsite them having an enjoyable sound, I found using them and connecting them to my phone/laptop to be way too much of a hassle. I had to connect an auxiliary cable each time I wanted high quality audio output. It made the overall experience unenjoyable. I could not move my phone/laptop more than 2 feet away from the speakers! This meant I either had to move the speakers close to my work station, or my work station close to my speakers. Overall, I ended up not bothering to use the speakers.
Then I purchased these sony speakers.
Using these with NFC bluetooth pairing made everything so much simpler. All I had to do was tap my phone/laptop on the speakers and voila, it automatically pairs and starts playing music. Better yet, I was no longer a prisoner chained to my speaker system. I could literally walk to another room and still have the speakers playing. And my remote? It was my phone, right there with me in my pocket.
If I wanted to, I could take these battery powered speakers with me. I would not have to worry about also bringing the charger and do the extra task of unplugging and plugging back in. There was also no worry of finding an outlet to connect it to. I could just simply grab the speaker and place it wherever and continue listening.
NFC Bluetooth Headphones
Device: Sony DR-BTN200
Prior to buying these headphones I used the ATH-M50s. Great sounding headphones but they had some thick ass wires that even made holding my phone a greater effort than it should have been. Again, similar to my experience with the speakers, the wires and weight of the headphones took away from how enjoyable my experience was with these. These ended up breaking due to a fray in the wire close to the headphone jack (another annoyance with wires!) so I ended up selling them for cheap and picking up the wireless headphones.
Enter Sony headphones.
I have fallen in love with these. They are light and super portable with enjoyable sound. Again, I found i ended up listening to music and using my headphones more just because of how much more convenient they are to use. I love how easy these are to store away when I'm not using them. I simply just take them off and lay it on my table. No need to wrap up the wires. By the way, the battery life is about 40 hours between charges!
After testing these out at the gym, I realized I didn't have to worry about having headphones on in fear of getting tangled with the wires. On my bike ride to the gym, I had my phone safely wrapped up in my jacket pocket, while I went through songs with the forward/back/play/pause buttons located on the headset. I did not have to pull it out and avoided the fear that I would drop it. Additionally I was able to answer and make calls with the built in mic and phone button on the headset. Then once I got to the gym I could easily do whatever exercise that I had without worrying about wires getting in the way. The best part about it? I did not take my phone out of my pocket once. In fact, it safely sat in my jacket in a cubby hole.
NFC Tags
I currently only use these in my car and am still trying to figure out more ways of making the most of these. RIght now, I use them for 2 things:
1. To send a message to a person I carpool with to come out of his house. This saves me from texting while driving.
2. A tag to pairing my phone to my Motorola T505 bluetooth FM transmitter. The tag turns on bluetooth, cranks the volume and starts playing music when paired. The only inconvenice is that I have to manually turn on the transmitter and set it to pairing mode. Ideally, I would like to have an NFC bluetooth pairing system built into my car but this does the trick for now.
Overall, I see lots of potential with NFC tags in making things more ergonomic.
Nexus 4 Wireless Charger
I know this thing is overpriced and maybe not worth it, but for the sake of my experiment I thought I'd try it out. After a month of using a wireless charger, I am spoiled by how convenient this is. This further adds to the simplicity of not having to deal with plugging and unplugging the wires.
There's a special kind of freedom and relaxation to being wire-free. Using NFC and wireless technology made me want to use my speakers/headphones more just because of how ergonomic and easy it was to use them. I no longer have to go through the hassle of plugging/unplugging and manually setting up bluetooth pairing.
What about you guys? What do you use NFC/wireless technology for? Any tips on how to improve my set up?


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It is just a good class, that's the long and short of it!
(We were spared the promised timed race through the "obstacle course" because semi-naked beach volleyball players were using the court...)
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Posted by Jenny Davidson at 2/04/2011 12:46:00 PM
1 comment:
- Danielle in Iowa in Seattle said...
An obstacle course sounds kinda fun! We don't do that in my boot camp class...
- February 4, 2011 at 1:23 PM
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"H(a)unted," "Terrifier" and "To The Villians" are also big tracks on the LP, and while there is no doubting that War From A Harlots Mouth can craft a meaty groove when they want too, it's all a bit samey. The problem is that the album doesn't pack many other memorable moments.
It's extremely heavy and blindingly technical, but the record suffers for that very reason, and most of the songs are hard to differentiate between – unless your mind is truly focused on listening to Voyeur, a fair chunk of it is going to fly by. The group have never been about writing easy to digest songs, but in a way their focus on crafting psychotically brutal compositions has become something of a cage for the band – and makes the almost conventional stylings of "Scopophobia" even more stark and unexpected.
This reviewer really wanted to enjoy this album, and War From A Harlots Mouth have certainly succeeded in birthing an a chaotic creation, but Voyeur is just lacking in the songwriting department. In fact, it's a criticism that could arguably be attached to the Germans' career, and though long time fans will definitely enjoy this album, newcomers and listeners on the fence (like yours truly), may find Voyeur a bit of a letdown. Not a bad album, just not memorable enough to be anything more than average.
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Salmon, who came into the championships with a personal best 1.70m and was tipped to take the silver medal, upset the seeding as pre-Champs favourite Lamara Distin of Rusea's High was second with 1.70m beating Edwin Allen's Shania Ingram on the count back for the silver medal.
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On Thursday, 15th October 2009, the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations hosted a major event to launch its 3 new series of academic publications. Held at the British Library in London, the event was well attended by people from various locations across the UK, along with several international visitors. Guests included several academics, such as professors Robert and Carol Hillenbrand, noted authorities on scholarship about Islam, cultural attachés such as the Honorary Khalid Nadeem, Director of South Asian and Middle East Forum, multilaterals and diplomats from the Commonwealth Secretariat and elsewhere, members of the media such as Hamid Ismailov, Head of Central Asia and the Caucasus department within the BBC World Service and leadership from various Muslim communities, among others. In addition, the CEO and senior management of the Edinburgh University Press were also present, as the publishers for these books in partnership with AKU-ISMC, and encouraged book sales during the evening. Speakers at the event included Firoz Rasul, President of the Aga Khan University who highlighted the role that ISMC plays within AKU through its research and publications projects and of the Institute as a space for generating new ways of thinking about Muslims, their heritage and their traditions. He was followed by Professor Carole Hillenbrand from Edinburgh University, who spoke first about Edinburgh University Press as serious academic publishers with regard to scholarship on Islam and Muslim societies, and went on to voice enthusiasm of EUP for the partnership with AKU-ISMC. Finally, Dr. Abdou Filali-Ansary, Director of ISMC, spoke about the context and significance of the four publications, briefly touching upon forthcoming volumes and finally, acknowledging the effort undertaken to publish four volumes within a year of formulating the partnership with EUP. The speeches were followed by a lively reception; with an elegant and sophisticated setting, delicious canapés and an energetic buzz of conversation; concluding a most enjoyable evening. Published in partnership with Edinburgh University Press, all four volumes are now available across the United Kingdom in all major bookstores and online at www.eupjournals.com/page/IslamicStudies.