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Tour to support new rule involving long puttersBy DOUG FERGUSON
The Associated Press | July 02,2013
Keegan Bradley grips his club as he leaves the ball short for par on the 18th green during the third round of the Byron Nelson Championship golf tournament Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Irving, Texas. Bradley bogeyed the hole but leads the field heading into the final round at 13-under par. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)JACKSONVILLE, Fla. The PGA Tour said Monday it would follow a new rule that bans the anchored putting stroke used by four of the last six major champions, asking instead Monday for a temporary reprieve for those who play the game for fun.
The announcement Monday after a PGA Tour board meeting is the final piece of confirmation from a major golf organization for Rule 14-1b, which will take effect Jan. 1, 2016 when the next Rules of Golf is published. The rule makes it illegal for players to attach the end of the club to their body when making a stroke.
Adam Scott used a long putter held against his chest when he won the Masters. Ernie Els (British Open) and Webb Simpson (U.S. Open) used a belly putter last year. Keegan Bradley in the 2011 PGA Championship was the first major champion with a belly putter.
The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and U.S. Golf Association proposed the new rule Nov. 28 and allowed for a three-month comment period. It formally adopted the rule May 21.
Finchem said in February the tour was opposed to the new rule because there were no data to suggest an advantage and no overriding reason to go down that road. The tours opinion was shaped by a players-only meeting earlier that month.
In making its decision, the policy board recognized that there are still varying opinions among our membership, but ultimately concluded that while it is an important issue, a ban on anchored strokes would not fundamentally affect a strong presentation of our competitions or the overall success of the PGA Tour, Finchem said in a statement.
The board also was of the opinion that having a single set of rules ... applicable to all professional competitions worldwide was desirable and would avoid confusion.
The decision to go along was not a surprise. The common ground by all sides was the importance of golf being played under one fundamental set of rules, as has been the case for hundreds of years.
The wrinkle that came out of the tours meeting was asking the R&A and USGA to give amateurs more time to adjust away from the anchored stroke. PGA of America president Ted Bishop was among those concerned that banning the stroke used for long putters would force too many people to quit the game out of frustration, at a time when golf is worried about decreasing participation.
The policy board continues to believe that extending the time period the ban would go into effect for amateurs would be beneficial for golf participation and the overall health of the game, Finchem said.
Finchem cited the USGA changing the groove configuration for irons in 2008. It was effective for elite play in 2010, but does not apply to recreational play until 2014.
But the decision on grooves was an equipment issue. Anchoring is a change in the actual rules of golf. For the USGA and R&A, which set the rules for the 600-year-old game, to allow amateurs more time to use anchored strokes would be created two sets of rules.
The PGA of America also said it would follow the new rule, while expressing concern about amateurs.
We continue to feel strongly that the amateur player needs a longer period of adjustment to this rule, Bishop said.
Neither Finchem nor Bishop recommended a date for amateurs.
Finchem also sounded a warning that the tour reserves the right to make its own rules for its players, and that the USGA pledged open and effective communication on any future discussions on the rules.
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In the 1930s, two German couples visited Palestine together. One couple, the Tuchlers, was Jewish. The husband in the other couple, the von Mildensteins, was the predecessor of Adolf Eichmann, Nazi propagandist and eventual war criminal. Baron von Mildenstein wrote an article about the trip, "A Nazi in Palestine," for a Nazi newspaper.
Both men in fact were ardent Zionists, of course for different reasons. Von Mildenstein believed that encouraging Germany's Jews to emigrate to Palestine was a practical solution to "The Jewish problem," and used his position to encourage his thinking with Hitler and Goebbels. As the Holocaust began to take shape, the Tuchlers sailed for Palestine. Remarkably, after the war, they reached out to their old friends the von Mildensteins, and the friendship was restarted, the couples remaining close and friendly.
"The Flat," a spellbinding documentary about family secrets, begins when the maker of this film, Arnon Goldfinger, joins his mother in cleaning out the Tel Aviv flat of his grandmother, her mother, who had just died at 98. They find the possessions of a lifetime, and among them, the long-ago newspaper article. His grandparents were friendly with a high Nazi official? More than that: Arnon's mother, Hannah, tells him that the couples resumed their friendship.
Unable to understand how this could be, Arnon begins unraveling the secrets of the past, traveling to Germany with his mother to visit von Mildensteins' daughter, still alive, and talk to family members on both sides and historians. That all these older people are still alert and articulate brings a particular interest to the wording of their conversations.
For her part, Hannah has no interest in this. "What for?" she says, implying that what's past is past. Who knows why anyone did anything? Von Mildensteins' daughter also seems disinterested in her father's activities, explaining that he was never a member of the SS and in fact, spent much of the war traveling in America and Japan. Even after Tuchler shows her a document in her father's handwriting mentioning his propaganda work with Goebbels, the most she can admit is that this has awakened her interest.
Is something being hidden? No. It's more that something doesn't want to be known. Both second-generation women in the film are willfully disinterested in their family's histories in the Holocaust, and a discussion about this between the Tuchlers on a train in Germany tiptoes around that as they discuss how to approach Edda Milz von Mildenstein, the daughter.
What we see in the meetings here between Jews and Germans are professional people — prosperous, educated, friendly — for whom mentioning Nazis or murder would violate taboos. Only the third generation became interested, a historian tells Goldfinger. In the second, the memories were repressed. One can imagine a vengeful Goldfinger storming down on the von Mildensteins, but in a way the reticence and ambiguity on both sides is more meaningful. You understand why "nobody knew" about the Holocaust. Everybody fervently wanted not to know.
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Lucas Cruikshank -- the viral video star who played the ultra-hyper "Fred" character in a Nickelodeon movie and several shows -- has revealed he's gay ... and naturally, he posted his coming out video on YouTube.
The 19-year-old actor made the announcement during a short clip with his friend Jennifer Veal -- who starred in the Disney Channel show, "Jessie."
During the video, Lucas says his closest friends and family members have known about his sexuality for years ... but he never felt the need to make an announcement to the world.
At one point, Lucas turns to Jennifer and asks, "How come you didn't have to make a video saying you're straight?"
FYI -- Lucas shot to superstardom by creating several YouTube videos featuring his annoying "Fred" character ... who had a crush on a girl named Judy. For some reason, they never hooked up.
I knew it when I seen his sex tape with Elmo a few years back. Didn't need a video to convince me.
F-A-G-! nobody gives a toss
Those femme guys make me want to vomit. It really is disturbing to me and a lot of others. LIsten to all his slippery little (s)'s. Homo gear locked in overdrive. Chill out queen.
I would be more surprised if he was straight! He needs to take some "butch it up" acting lessons.Not a good role model for young gay boys thinking about coming out.
Wow I didn't see this one coming!
Good for him. can not believe the amount of hatred and sheer ignorance there is in these comments. every one has a right to be who there even you small minded bigotted people
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I guess he thought no one knew? LMAO
Uh, I saw a brief little 2 second thing of his show once and figured it out. I don't think this is a surprise to anyone...
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This book details what happened in the Warsaw Pact states in 1989: Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bugaria. Each chapter is a short summary of a specific event in a location, and most chapters are no more than 3 or 4 pages long. The first half of the book explains the events leading up to 1989 and why Communism fell in that year, staring from about 1970. The second half is all about different events in 1989 throughout Eastern Europe. There is no discussion about events in the Soviet Union, except for going over the changes of leadership in the early 1980's and the policies Gorbachev enacted to allow the revolutions to take place. All together, a very detailed look at the events of the non-Soviet Communist states, with all six states nearly equally examined.
This book tells the story of the events leading to the gloried year of 1989 when Communism in eastern Europe fell. It is not really history but it is more than jourhalism and I think it is well -done. I found it consistently interest-holding and informative, even though I lived through those momentous years. One marvels at the boon Gorbachov bestowed on the world by his determined effort not to impede the revolutions in the six satellites. And that Bush 42 did so little to encourage them. A worthwhile book and easy to read.
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The principal reasons the Soviet empire fell was the USSR's disastrous decade-long war in Afghanistan, which is eerily reminiscent of the conflict the West is involved in now. Soviet generals of 20 or 25 years ago were saying almost identical things about their war against the Mujahideen (The Army of God) as NATO soldiers are saying now fighting the Taleban. Just substitute the names and it would be hard to spot the difference. Even more topically, many of the places where battles are being fought now are the same as then. Almost nobody predicted the sudden and speedy collapse of Communism--and its defeat was the last war that the West won. Almost nobody in politics, diplomacy, the military, the media or academia saw it coming. Least of all was it predicted by the intelligence agencies. Despite trillions of dollars and rubles spent on spying in forty years of Cold War--as well as a vast industry in espionage books and movies--the spooks in the East and West were hopelessly ill informed. The CIA consistently over-emphasized the strength of the Soviet bloc. Even in the Spring of 1989 the then Director of the CIA, Robert Gates, said the Soviets would use force to keep their hold on the East Europe states and, amongst other wrong calls, said the Kremlin would "never" let the Berlin Wall come down. Robert Gates is now US Secretary for Defense. Ronald Reagan was a great President, but he is admired for the wrong reasons. The classsic explanation for the collapse of Communism is that Reagan's tough rhetoric against the "Evil Empire" and his arms build-up defeated the Soviets. Quite the opposite is true. We can now take a more nuanced view. When he took a hard line Reagan got nowhere. In fact, it nearly led to a nuclear war by accident. He was successful when he took a soft line and began negotiating with the Russians, in particular with Mikhail Gorbachev. His greatness was in seizing that opportunity--not by ideology. It is hard to see why Reagan is a hero amongst conservatives at all. Western bankers did more to bring down Communism than did Presidents or Prime Ministers. Foreign debt forced a crisis in countries like Poland and East Germany and Hungary, which were spending three quarters of their income on paying the interest on loans from the West. The debt crisis--another topical theme now--was a vital factor in the story of 1989. The book reveals new information about how the first President Bush tried to slow down the process of change in 1989. He was worried the revolutions were happening so quickly that "global security" was at risk and that some of the East European dissidents were not ready to take power. There is a dramatic scene in the book when George Bush goes to Poland in the summer of '89 to plead with the Communist general in charge of the country to cling on to office for a while longer. —Victor Sebestyen
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So, You're Not Going to Bumbershoot … Go To Bumblefuck
While it will be difficult to tell here on Sound on the Sound and most local music publications, there are other things happening in Seattle this coming weekend that aren't Bumbershoot.
If you didn't have the cash to shell out or you hate big crowds or you're not into the headliners or whatever the case may be, but you still want to attend a kick-ass arts and music festival, you are in luck. Happening Saturday at the Underground Events Center in Belltown is Bumblefuck, the anti-Bumbershoot hosted by the fine folks at Bad Horses. Featuring 16 local bands and even more local artists, the event costs $5 to Bumbershoot's economy option of $30 a day. If you don't have $5 to spend, you can donate canned food, or bring supplies and make art and you'll get in for free. The event also needs volunteers to work the door and sell merchandise, if you do volunteer, your time and efforts will be rewarded with free beer and band merchandise. You can email email@example.com if you're interested.
The music starts at 3pm and goes until 2am with sets from folks like A Gun That Shoots Knives, Curious Mystery, Partman Parthorse and Spurm. If you're not going to Bumbershoot, let this be your alternative … or if you are heading to Bumbershoot and you're looking for a non-sanctioned after-party alternative, head underground in Belltown for Bumblefuck.


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Chubby Chimps Chugging Chocolate Milkshakes
Emergent Literacy
Megan Stephenson
Rationale: For children to be able to read and spell words, it is crucial for them to understand letters that stand for phonemes. They also need to have knowledge of and understand of alphabetic mapping and be able to relate it to understand the phonemes in spoken words. In some cases, phonemes are represented by digraphs, or two letters. We can refer to these as "letter teams". In this lesson, children will undergo the learning of a meaningful representation of the digraph /ch/ and fully understand how these two letters work together to create this phoneme. The concept of this lesson is for children to be able to recognize /ch/ by its letter symbols, a beginning sound in spoken words, and in written words. Towards the end of the lesson, I will briefly review some words with /ch/ ending sound but it won't be explicitly taught early in the lesson. The focus is beginning sounds.
Materials: Primary paper and pencil; clipboard; marker; chart with "Chubby Chimps Chugging Chocolate Milkshakes "; drawing paper and crayons; "Chips for the Chicks" By Geri Murray ; word cards with "ch" words, assessment worksheet identifying pictures with /ch/ (URL below).
1. Say: The way we speak and write is sort of like a code. Sometimes, it can be tricky learning what letters stand for. But, there are fun ways to learn how our mouth moves we make as we say words. Today, we will be working on the mouth move /ch/ and how the two letters c and h work together as a team to make this sound. When two letters work together to make one sound we call it a digraph, or "letter team". Let's learn more about how this letter team works!
2. Let's pretend we are hearing the sound of a train passing by! Have you ever heard that sound? It sounds like /ch/, /ch/, /ch/, right? Use your arms to chug with me like a train does "Choo, Choo, Choo" or /Ch/, /ch/, /ch/.
3. For the next step, we will review mouth move. Say: "What is your mouth doing when you make that sound? Is there any air coming out? Yes, very good. There is air coming out. This is because your tongue moves from the roof of your mouth to the bottom while your mouth forces the air out." We are going to practice listening for this sound and watch my mouth how it moves when I say the different words!
"Do you hear ch in chalk or shake?"
"Do you hear ch in make or chase?"
"Do you hear ch in shell or chew?"
"Do you hear ch in cash or chair?"
"Do you hear ch in shoe or champ?"
4. Say: Okay, now I'm going to say a bunch of funny words all put together in a silly sentence. This is called a tongue twister [on chart]. Let's try this together! "Chubby Chimps Chugging Chocolate Milkshakes." Okay let us say it three times together. Now that we can say this tongue twister, this time, let's says it and practice stretching the /ch/ at the beginning of off all the words. Can you hear /ch/ in every word? Say each of them slowly. Try it again and this time, break it off the word:" /Ch/ubby /Ch/imps /Ch/ugging /Ch/ocolate Milkshakes". I think we have got a good handle on listening for the /ch/ sound, now we can practice how to write it!
5. The student will take out primary paper, pencil, and a clipboard if needed and I will prepare him to being writing. Say: Remember, the letters c and h work together as a team to spell /ch/. Start with your pencil just a little bit below the fence, move your pencil up to the fence and back around, touching the ground, and stop your pencil just above the ground. There is your c. Now take your pencil to the sky, and move it straight down to the ground. Go back up to the fence, around, and straight down to the ground. Now you have your h. These two letters together make /ch/. Practice writing this combination on your own.
6. Say: Now, we are going to be able to use our skills of listening for this /ch/sound when we read this book, Chips for the Chicks. In this book, there are baby chicks, a couple of children, and a dog. They are all hungry and see a bag of chips. Throughout the story, we will be guessing who is going to get to eat the chips. I can't wait to read to find out more! As I read the book the first time, use this marker and mark next to every word that you hear the /ch/ sound in. After I read, we can go back and review these words together. Then, the student will read the text aloud with me and gain valuable practice with the /ch/ sound. Book: Chips for the Chicks by Geri Murray
7. Say: One thing we also need to talk about is that /ch/ can also be found at the end of the word. In most of the words we have seen and hear today, they begin with /ch/. We can also find the /ch/ sound in the middle or end of words. Listen to these word pairs, do you hear the /ch sound? CHURCH or CAST. FEET or FRENCH. BEACH or BEAM. SACK or SUCH. So, remember that you can find the /ch/sound in words in many different ways. Now, we are going to brain storm together and try to think of some more /ch/ words we know. [Pull out a sheet of paper and write words that you and the student brainstorm]
8. For assessment, all that needs to be done is handing out a worksheet. Students are to complete the partial spellings and color the pictures that include the correspondence /ch/.
URL FOR WORKSHEET: http://urbrainy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/sh-ch-words-240x339.png
Eldredge, J. Lloyd. (1995). Teaching
Decoding in Holistic Classrooms. New Jersey:
Prentice Hall. Pg. 63-64.
URL FOR WORKSHEET: http://urbrainy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/sh-ch-words-240x339.png


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HE is 15 going on 20, and always on about his own wheels. For now, ear candy thumping tinny and repetitive, he's plugged in to his fantasy ride while I drive Mom's Taxi.
It's a beautiful day, the beachfront blue and gold. So why would I write about the time my husband almost drowned in the riptide, or when I was mugged at knife point, right over there? Though both happened, true enough.
Forget that. Today is just perfect.
I park, and with a gruff "Laytr" our son scoots along the promenade hunched low on his bike, freewheeling. Black skinnies, grubby boxers. He has a worn backpack on his shoulder (tool bag), a jumbo cooler hooked clumsily on the handlebars. Sometimes we tease, say no wonder people love him, he's meals on wheels. He doesn't think it's funny. Today he's fully loaded and there's also a garden spade balanced — just — across the bike frame and his thighs. (I didn't ask.)
But the skate park is unfazed by difference. It's a riotous swirl of graffiti and colours that should clash, down here they rub shoulders.
Casually, our son unburdens, and knocks fists with a mate.
Keeping my distance, I give a half wave hardly higher than my hip. Me. Ma. My tag is that obvious. Then I walk away and leave him motherless with the pack.
Battered palms battling to survive the transplant. Kites. Clouds. Crowds. Daubs of saturated colour absorb the sky. The paving has been sectioned, the gouged promenade partitioned with orange mesh. There's no Snake Park anymore, but huge snaked coils of cable and sleeping pipes bask on red soil. Carefully I step past the tricky bits, and soon I'm bobbing along in the sunny surge. Beer boeps and muffin tops and happy saddle bags. All the young girls of summer in string bikini tops and boy shorts. Bare, gleaming shoulders.
Two ragged men have shaped a sandy molehill into a series of miraculous mountains — comic nudes and rugby beasts. One of the artists carries an empty Coke buddy to the tap. Fills up near a handwritten sign that offers Water for the Thirsty. He up-ends the bottle and drizzles the liquid through tiny holes in the lid, anointing. The sand darkens, then lightens. No sign of water remains. His partner smoothes and pats. Man 1 funnels a handful of mineral black to define the shark's gills. Man 2 places shells for eyes. A mean feat. For a coin, even for nothing, they write their names upon the sand.
Mounted police clip-clop into view, the big bay horses larger than life, nostrils flexed and snorting. Children squeal. But the policemen sit high and sure as sheriffs — they won't have rowdy cowboys kicking up dust in this part of town. No Siree. Reassured, a toddler offers anyone a taste of bright pink candy floss. Politely — gloved hand raised — an officer of the law declines, though he lifts his aviator shades and winks. Coyly, the child tucks her chin.
Nostalgia in the making is starting to smell pretty ripe but luckily a gritty breeze kicks up and blows it off. Along with paper, flapping past. Flags snapping at the lifeguard towers.
Soon it's just too windy and I turn back.
Touching base at the skate park, I notice what I hadn't before — beach sand everywhere, banked against the low walls, thick drifts in the quarter pipe and tricky hollows. Our son's standing around with his mismatched mates, pondering, bikes and gear lumped to the side. Goose. Housecat. Big Black … who can ride this rubbish?
Housecat saunters across to a painted bin. Peers in. Yeah, empty. Perfect. Rolls it over to the park. Then while one boy holds, the others start to scoop.
Okay. I'd wondered about the spade, what the deal was. It's mine, actually, a ladies spade, and he wields the thing as awkwardly as he does a broom when I've told him to get his room sorted.
Right now, he's zealous — digga digga dig and scoop, though he's so focused on maxxing the shallow spade that the toss tends to miss the drum, and any second I expect the Energiser Bunny batteries to conk. I mean, it's a massive job, and the other boys have only their hands, which are pretty full with this sandpit.
Eventually the bin is heaped. High five! Our son jigs with joy, hips happening. Laughter carries on the wind. But then (lip read choice swearing) the drum won't budge, it's too (l r c s) heavy. What now?
There's a temporary slump until ours truly is prodded into borrowing a skateboard, despite the shame — a biker losing face to the low level competition. But he does what a man's gotta do and the BMXers put their collective muscle to the wheel, tilting the overloaded drum a bit, and eeeeasing until suddenly — da dah! — they have a wheelie bin. Then they trundle off in triumph, two steering, three holding steady, the whole wacky arrangement wobbling across the uneven paving to the beach. There and back, time and again.
I'm not the only one watching. A curious crowd eggs them on against the odds, calling the numbers, so that when the mountains have moved, there's clapping and whistling enough to make you think Bafana have won.
The boys take their praise like seasoned players, and give a collective bow. And then they ride.
Hours later, the sun sinking into shadow behind the hotels, I drive back to the beachfront to schlep the boy home. Monday tomorrow. School.
Unwillingly, he catches my eye. Scowls.
I tap my watch.
He slumps, juts his jaw. Then presses both palms together in a brief beseeching.
Alright, another 10, I signal with one hand, palm flashing twice like a winking torch.
His head goes hmm hmm side-to-side.
Okay, I relent, call it 15, and my hand adds five to the existing tally.
And so there I am again, a mother waiting just a little longer, finding a seat (of sorts) on the bare metal frame of a bench that's been stripped and burnt.
A swarthy man asks if he may sit, and I smile, shrug.
"Ja," he says. "It's a free country, isn't it. These days."
I nod.
He settles down alongside me, tugging his trousers once at each knee and adjusting his backside to the thin, uncomfortable perch. Opens a bread bag and begins to scatter. From nowhere, pigeons swoop and land, pecking and shoving, crazy energised, though most of them have seen better days. Mouldy feet crusted with scabs. Bare, pecked heads, painfully pink. Only a bustling few are plump, glossy feathers glinting teal and purple at the throat.
"You bringing me luck," the man says. "I never had this much before. You must got magic, lady."
I smile, uncertain.
He's here from Cape Town visiting his daughter. A little holiday at the flats that side. Tilts his head. "She's a good girl," he nods slowly to himself, "'cept working every day but, so I come outside by myself for air. The old change of scenery." He laughs quietly, knowing he sounds predictable.
"Though Durban people. They not so friendly as the Cape," he adds, glancing narrowly at me.
Still, the two of us do well enough among the birds and the breadcrumbs, overlooking the boys. I laugh when he cracks a joke about cheeky female politicians — "That Helen de Zille! She makes enough noise for two women. No kak from no one, if you 'scuse my French."
I do, and in this way we get along okay, complete strangers killing time.
Jokes aside though, it's getting late. The bread is finished and the birds have flown.
"You should think of going soon," I say. "It's a bit dodgy here, after dark." I point to the floodlights. Half have blown. He takes it in. We both know that politicians have bigger things on their minds.
"Okay, so that's me for the day, then," he says, standing up, brushing the last of the bread from his lap, and we smile, again, and part. Over kedovers.
It is time. The last family dawdlers are packing up, a man carrying his daughter's shiny pink Princess bike to the car, glitter tassels streaming, a rim turning slowly as a ferris wheel. Against a cornered wall on the grassy slopes I see one of the sand artists stashing a cardboard box, unfolding a black plastic sheet.
In the gradual emptiness of the skate park, the BMXers squeeze the final ride from the dregs of the day. The red-orange sun is almost gone. Soon, the boys are only silhouettes. Even a mother can hardly tell one from another.
"Asheel!" a woman shouts, "Come! Why you won't come ey? You want I must call Daddy?"
A tall, slender boy waves glibly at her and glides past on a lightweight racing bike.
"Asheel! Come now habibi. Yalla! You can't stay like this forever!"
And Asheel wheels and winds, making large, lazy loops, circling the very last of the light.
SALLY-ANN Murray lectures in English studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban. (Her office looks out over the harbour, which helps.) She is a mad mom and an even madder writer, and her novel, Small Moving Parts, (2009) won the M-Net Literary Award and the Herman Charles Bosman prize in 2010.


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Cash & Cari
Cari's Estate Sale Contest
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After twenty-four years of fond memories, Bob and Trish want to sell everything they own and move west to be closer to their grandkids. Determined to liquidate a house full of fancy furniture and one-off collectibles, Cari challenges her team to a sales contest. Gretchen races ahead of the pack but Janel is hot on her heels. Meanwhile, Cari drops by a local barn and unearths some quality treasures for her own home. Back at her warehouse, she transforms a dusty old saddle into a deluxe rocking horse.


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Building's 'Front of the House' Also a Weatherman
A doorman who knows everyone"s name
One day, Carol Giordano struggled against a robust wind.
"I"m disabled, she said. "I walk with a cane. I had papers in my hand. Of course they flew everywhere.
Enter Louis Rios, 59, doorman since 1974, and all-around Good Samaritan.
"There he was, said Giordano. "Running after the papers. I didn"t expect it. It was so kind.
Rios works in a prestigious commercial building, at 733 Third Avenue at 46th Street, owned by the Durst Organization that houses the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, as well as UN World Food, Rodale Press and, at one time, the offices of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the late U.S. senator from New York.
He calls every entrant by name, even those who pass through his doors just once a week.
"There are hundreds of us in this building, marveled Jennie Powers, vice president of special events for the multiple sclerosis group. "Louis is the first person people meet when they arrive. He"s the front of the house for us. His face is in my head. He is always so present.
As "front of the house, Rios serves as watchman, good-natured nudge and confessor. He holds the elevator car for those in wheelchairs, or using canes or walkers.
"He asks what you are having for lunch, said Powers, "and reminds you to bring a sweater, an umbrella. He"s the greeter. He"s the weatherman.
"It"s almost like if they were family, said Rios. "A lot of people come in with problems from the outside. I let them take it out, it makes them feel good.
Rios was born and raised in Brooklyn with two brothers. His father died 10 years ago. He and his wife, a retired New York City schoolteacher, raised two daughters on the first and second floors of a three-family brownstone they purchased in Park Slope in 1977.
The couple likes to "get in the car, turn it on and just go. They"ve been to Vermont, London and Montreal, where they visited cathedrals and casinos.
"I"m usually pretty good with casinos, he said.
When it comes to his 35 years at the door, however, Rios is modest and nonchalant. "The building practically runs itself, he maintained, "nothing unusual happens here.
Yet tenants say he is unusual for his ability to be the eyes and ears of a building.
"I feel pretty good around him when I"m out there, Giordano said. "He"s watching out for me.
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Including files/modules into your project that located locally on your server is pretty straight forward right? But how do we require a file hosted on a CDN?
What is an AMD module?
What the jQuery AMD module definition looks like:
if ( typeof define === "function" && define.amd && define.amd.jQuery ) {
define( "jquery", [], function () { return jQuery; } );
What jQuery Says:
"Expose jQuery as an AMD module, but only for AMD loaders that understand the issues with loading multiple versions of jQuery in a page that all might call define(). The loader will indicate
they have special allowances for multiple jQuery versions by specifying define.amd.jQuery = true. Register as a named module, since jQuery can be concatenated with other files that may use define, but not use a proper concatenation script that understands anonymous AMD modules. A named AMD is safest and most robust way to register. Lowercase jquery is used because AMD module names are derived from file names, and jQuery is normally delivered in a lowercase file name."
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DesireDriven - One of The Many
I drew this Mokou morning. Quickly
My style of line is stupid. DRAW ALL WRONG
А вот это, дорогие мои, русские буквы, лол с:
nice puffy pants tho / Shut up. / gay / You're ruining it. / lol
I used ready-made palette from one group of vkontakte
Steampunk Touhou-girls
Marisa, Mamizou, Cirno
So fast
I drew it on my phone
Mokou. Alternative costume. It was sketch, but my friends think its art
First serious work in digital art
This costume is easy, i will change it
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2010-11 Game Recaps
Boxing with Hawks/Rangers, 11/1/10
Nov 2nd
Posted by Bartl in 2010-11 Game Recaps
Well, that was just frustrating. There's really no better way to describe it.
If you're going to give up a goal in the last 20 seconds of a period, take a penalty at the end of a period and then give up a game-winner after tying the game 28 seconds earlier, how the living fuck are you going to expect to win a game?
Adding to that, the Rangers played without Chris Drury, Vinny Prospal and Marian Gaborik.
The Blackhawks' 3-2 loss Monday to the New York Rangers spoiled the return of Brian Campbell, who looked like, well, like he's been out for a long time. However, he did play well, and you can't expect much out of a guy who hasn't dressed yet this season.
Unfortunately, Sean Avery was not taken out by a sniper during the game, which was something I actually bowed my head and prayed would happen before the game started.
Without further ado, here's your latest edition of "Boxing."
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Boxing with 'Hawks/Wild, 10/30/10
Oct 31st
Posted by Bartl in 2010-11 Game Recaps
This edition of "Boxing" is a bit more wordy in order to make it more recap-like. There's just not a ton to write about the Blackhawks' 3-1 win Saturday against the Minnesota Wild. The game was so boring, it's hard to even try and make shit up that's funny.
Either way, here's it goes. As always, there are two separate images — one for the summary, one for the actual box score. Click on the image to enlarge it.
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Boxing with Hawks/Oilers, 10/29/10
Oct 30th
Posted by Bartl in 2010-11 Game Recaps
Here's your "Boxing" from the Blackhawks diarrhea-inducing 7-4 loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Friday night.
Please note there will be no preview for tonight's game against the Minnesota Wild. Tim is out of town and I'm watching the Michigan State vs. Iowa game. You'll live.
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Boxing with Hawks/Kings, 10/27/10
Oct 29th
Posted by Bartl in 2010-11 Game Recaps
Sorry, sorry, sorry for getting this up so late. Tim put together a good recap and I'm having so much sympathy for Marian Hossa getting hurt that I'm starting to get sick. Without further ado, here's your "Boxing" from Wednesday night's Blackhawks 3-1 win against the Los Angeles Kings.
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Hawks Beat Kings: Antti Who?
Oct 28th
Posted by Tim Currell in 2010-11 Game Recaps
Blackhawks fans got to see the team put one in the win column at the United Center last night, and against one of the better teams in the league at that. But looking beyond the net result, that's where the good news ends.
Well, almost. The undisputed star of the game was Blackhawks goaltender Marty Turco, who turned away 33 shots for his fifth win in his last six starts. Turco's rebound control was nearly flawless, he was mindful of his now-legendary five-hole weakness, and with a little help from his three red, iron friends behind him he put on a Dominic Hasek-like display of acrobatics and aeronautics throughout the game. Turco now boasts a .927 save percentage, good for 3rd in the league among goalies with more than five starts.
Antti… Antti who?
Outside of the crease, however, the news ranged from bad to worse. The bad news was, apart from seeing score sheet contributions from unusual sources, Coach Joel Quenneville's line shake-up could hardly be called a success. Managing only 28 shots on goal — including a mere two from defensemen whose mothers call them something other than Duncan — the Hawks goal production continues to be a disappointment. The Hawks average under 3 goals scored per game, and they did nothing to boost that statistic last night. Were Kings starter Jonathan Quick in goal instead of backup Jonathan Bernier, the outcome could have been much different. And once again conditioning showed itself to be a weak spot, as was evident at the beginning of the third period.
Then, there's worse. Blackhawks powerhouse winger Marian Hossa left the game early in the second period with an undisclosed upper-body injury and did not return. No information was available after the final buzzer, and we will have to wait until a formal evaluation takes place today before we know the extent of his injury — and how much time he is expected to miss.
In case you have been paying too much attention to which porn star is in Charlie Sheen's closet this week, Hossa missed the first 20-odd games of last season with a shoulder injury that required surgery to repair. If that shoulder has been re-injured, we may be looking at weeks, or even months before his return.
Discount Hossa's contribution to the score sheet, and the Hawks are averaging just barely over 2 goals per game. That's not enough to keep a .500 record, let alone make the playoffs. Right now we are getting meager (that's putting it lightly) contributions from the likes of Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews, Dave Bolland and the youngsters in the forward ranks. If Hossa goes under the knife again, and these guys don't start to crank it up, it is going to be a season we will all want to forget.
Stay tuned here, and join us on Twitter if you haven't already for the latest news. We'll be watching the Marian Hossa injury reports come in as they happen, and we'll pass it along. Say a prayer, rub that rabbit's foot, or whatever it is you do. This could be big, for all the wrong reasons.
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Bupkis for the weekend: 'Hawks drop a pair to annoying division rivals
Oct 24th
Posted by Bartl in 2010-11 Game Recaps
Admittedly, I spent most of this weekend focused on on a college reunion for the Michigan State vs. Northwestern game and wasn't focused on the Blackhawks. The problem with that? I still saw enough shitting the bed that annoyed me.
The winning streak was nice, but the shortcomings we've been pointing out during those wins ultimately came back to bite us in the ass Friday night against the St. Louis Blues during the 4-2 loss in Chicago Jr. Then, Columbus did its best impression of the 'Hawks, coming back from two goals down Saturday to beat us 3-2 at the UC.
Here's my brief Sunday morning recap of what I saw. And this is all assuming you watched the games, so if you're looking for a traditional recap check the Blackhawks' official site….
♦ David Perron continues to shove his stick directly up my ass for dropping him on my fantasy team by killing the 'Hawks. The asshole has all of his four goals and four of his five points in two games against the Blackhawks. I only have myself to blame. Well, actually…
♦ Nick Boynton is officially playing like the guy who's been a castoff for a few teams over the past few seasons, sat in Rockford for most of last season and was a healthy scratch whenever possible during the 'Hawks Cup run. How Jen Patterson wants any part of this guy is beyond me, especially if she's ever seen him lace up his skates. Boynton is constantly out of position, and because of that is flailing around the ice most of the time wondering where he should go next.
He pinches when he shouldn't pinch, he falls for the slightest of fakes and is so slow Hans Moleman could run him down. He played like a complete pile of dog shit in both games this weekend, and the best part of the Blackhawks having the next three days off is that I don't have to watch Boynton attempt to be a hockey player.
♦ I'm not sure how many of you thought you'd ever say this, but Tomas Kopecky being out Saturday seemed to hurt the 'Hawks. His absence did allow for Kane/Toews/Sharp to get back together for the night and allowed Dave Bolland to get back with Marian Hossa and Troy Brouwer. But as much shit as Kopecky gets, he still plays solid, pretty fundamental hockey, which seemed to be lacking toward the end of the second and into the third.
♦ Speaking of Bolland, any excuses for his poor performance to date can officially be thrown out the window. Talk all you want about him centering players who aren't as talented like Fernando Pisani and Bryan Bickell, but Saturday he skated with one of the league's top goal scorers and a guy who should have been playing on the top two lines all season long. Bolland's 41.4 faceoff percentage is atrocious, and he simply looks like a kid skating around that needs a haircut.
Bolland has one goal and one assist in 10 games and I'm about ready to start calling out QStache to make him a healthy scratch to set him straight. It's becoming a nightmare to watch.
♦ Patrick Sharp is playing out of his mind. He's tied with Steven Stamkos for the NHL lead in goals and continues to be a very handsome man.
♦ On the other hand, Hossa has slowed down and has now been held without a point in three straight games.
♦ Both Marty Turco and Corey Crawford played well in their starts this weekend — especially Crawford. The kid gave us every opportunity to win and each of the three goals he gave up came on defensive lapses. Turco's performance was solid in St. Louis, but he needs to stop the Blues' third goal hands down. I understand there was traffic, but that's the second time this season — including the home opener against Detroit — that he let a weak shot trickle five-hole for the game-winner.
♦ Don't look now, but Kopecky has more points than Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane. This includes Saturday night's game when Toews had a goal and an assist in a game when Kopecky sat out. Kane hasn't scored a goal in five games. I'm assuming this won't continue for the rest of the season. However, if it does, the short blonde guy swinging from a noose off the Michael Jordan statue will be me.
♦ I understand Duncan Keith is leading the NHL by averaging nearly a half hour of ice time (29:44), but he's slapping that puck around like he's thinking, "I won the Norris, so I can do whatever I want." Now, to be clear, I don't think Keith is the type of guy who thinks that way. However, he's sure as hell playing like it. He's attempting to force pucks in places they have no business going even if there weren't three opponents in the way, and I'm failing to remember a time when I thought to myself, "Man, Duncs played really well tonight."
♦ This is just hilarious. Adam Burish apologizes for being a shitty video-game character.
Ok, I'm about done here. A combined edition of "Boxing" will be up tomorrow morning, then you can expect something from Tim either tomorrow or Tuesday.
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Boxing with Hawks/Canucks, 10/20/10
Oct 22nd
Posted by Bartl in 2010-11 Game Recaps
Sorry for getting this up so late, but I had some car issues I had to work with yesterday and there was a bunch of other shit going on that you don't care about. So, here's your latest edition of "Boxing" from the Blackhawks' shootout win Wednesday against the Vancouver Canucks.
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Boxing with 'Hawks/Blues, 10/18/10
Oct 18th
Posted by Bartl in 2010-11 Game Recaps
Here's your latest edition of "Boxing" from the Blackhawks' 3-2 OT win Monday against the St. Louis Blues. Sorry about not getting boxing going from the weekend games, but… actually, I'm not sorry. I was tired and lazy and you're still alive so whatever.
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Looking Sharp: 'Hawks take two with help from a very handsome man
Oct 17th
Posted by Bartl in 2010-11 Game Recaps
Patrick Sharp is a very handsome man. He's a pretty decent hockey player, too.
The man behind the looks had a pair of two-goal games in Friday's 5-2 win against Columbus and Saturday's 4-3 win against Buffalo. Sharp's performances also block that big spotlight beaming on Saturday's win that the 'Hawks pretty much should have lost.
But as my buddy Boston Joe told me earlier today when Michigan State struggled through a win against Illinois, "Good teams win." The 'Hawks still play like the champions they are when needed.
That was no more evident than during Friday's dismantling of the BJs. After the loss to Nashville and with Marty Turco sitting for two straight games, the 'Hawks needed to take advantage of a rusty Columbus team that hadn't played in nearly a week.
Sharp put 13 shots on net Friday. To put that into perspective, the 'Hawks had 21 shots Saturday as a team. He's simply playing like a man possessed. To me, it's clear when someone is playing like they have something to prove when the kid in them comes out. After each of Sharp's goals Saturday — which includes the game-winner late in the third period — he celebrated like he scored his first goal in pee-wee hockey. It was beautiful to watch, and he's showing he knew he had to put his name on the scoresheet even more this season with all of the departures during offseason. He's neat.
All right, onto the meat of this…
♦ Marian Hossa is a goddamn beast. A goal and an assist Friday, another goal Saturday. Him and Sharp have both potted five goals now and are clearly playing like men among boys. Not only is Hossa putting himself on the scoresheet, he's doing all the things we need to appreciate more: Kill penalties, backcheck like a mother fucker, control the puck and provide scoring opportunities for his teammates. Hossa is the ultimate example of unselfishness, he's got a six-game points streak and I have a gigantic man crush.
♦ There's been a Dave Bolland siting! He's been playing like Fat Albert on roller skates up until tonight, when he made a great move on Patrick Lalime to tie the game 3-3. Bolland also was 13-for-19 on faceoffs tonight after farting on the dot most of the previous five games. Hopefully we see more of Saturday's Bolland from here on out.
♦ Both of Brent Seabrook's assists tonight were gorgeous. He made a great pass on a 4-on-4 to spring Bolland and earlier fed a beautiful lead pass to Hossa for his goal. We haven't seen the 2009-10 Seabs until tonight, which isn't surprising given he's been playing nearly a half-hour per night. But Saturday his passing skills led to two big goals.
♦ John Scott is a 6'8″, 258-pound paperweight.
♦ Anyone else surprised the Sabres didn't at least try and stir up shit with Niklas Hjalmarsson tonight? I really felt we'd see some punches thrown or at least a monster hit from someone. Eh, whatever.
♦ O Campbell, Where Art Thou? Jassen Cullimore belongs in Rockford or on a couch somewhere. He played 18:54 in sheer terror and had me begging for Brent Sopel's ugly ass by the 10-minute mark. Also, the 'Hawks were out-shot 41-21 against Buffalo and let 32 go through against Columbus. PooP.
♦ What a week for Nick Boynton. He takes a dipshit delay-of-game penalty that doomed the 'Hawks against the Preds, took another dipshit penalty at the end of the game tonight against Buffalo and played a role in the hotness that is Jen Patterson getting fired from Comcast Sportsnet. Asshole.
♦ Back to some better stuff, Marty Turco played really well in both victories this weekend. He may scare the shit out of you and may lead you to brief moments of heart failure, but Turco makes the saves when they're need the most. The 'Hawks have made life difficult for their goaltenders so far this year, and Turco has stepped up.
I know there's more stuff I can add, but I don't want to make this too long. "Boxing" upcoming… when I feel like it.
'Til then…
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The Evil Troll & Company Steal One In The UC
Oct 14th
Posted by Tim Currell in 2010-11 Game Recaps
By now you've either seen, heard, or read about the Blackhawks' snooze-inducing loss to the Nashville Predators, Barry "The Evil Troll" Trotz leading his crew of injury replacements to a late-3rd-period game winner that sealed the deal against Chicago.
I'm not going to give you the blow-by-blow, as it will likely put you to sleep — just like the second period of last night's game did. Typical Nashville, but just like last year's playoff series, whatever it is they do, they seem to throw the Hawks off their game every time. Last night was no exception: the forwards could barely get anything going, and the defense looked like they all had their skates on the wrong feet.
Some quick thoughts about the ups and downs:
- Rookie Nashville goaltender Anders Lindback beat the defending Stanley Cup Champions in his first NHL start. So he's probably sitting at home milking the moose right now, thinking about last night's win and dreaming of his Ryan Miller-esque contract demands. Well, don't rub it raw there, Andy. Next time we see you it may be 50 shots coming at you instead of 25. Even blind mice find cheese every once in a while. This ain't over.
- Dave Bolland was easily one of the most consistent, over-performing players throughout the playoffs last year. Now he looks like he's playing over-40 Men's League. Is he injured? Sick, maybe? Did his hamster die? Something has to change there. He's a liability right now.
- Viktor Stalberg hasn't impressed me with any exceptional bursts of speed quite yet. What impressed me last night was his shot. The kid can unload, both slap shot and wrist shot. More accuracy, and he's going to have goalies wondering how it got behind them so fast.
- If Patrick Sharp hasn't fully recovered from whatever "undisclosed injury" he suffered last week, get him off the ice. Right now he's playing like old people have sex: slow and sloppy. We need him at full capacity, and if that means letting him have two weeks off, so be it.
- If there is one thing I would work on with this team right now, it's conditioning. The Hawks used to out-skate teams by 10 minutes into the second, and dominate by halfway through the third. That needs to happen again if we are going to put up good numbers this season.
- Corey Crawford played even better against Nashville than he did against Buffalo. He was screened on the first goal, the second was a deflection, and the third was a PK defensive lapse that left Joel Ward standing by the far post with enough time and space to smoke a cigarette and chat up the girls in the front row before snapping in the game-winner. Crawford has great reaction time, he's squaring to the shooter well, he's seeing the ice much better, and his rebound control is improving. Suffice to say I have a good deal of confidence in our backup goaltender.
- When Niklas Hjalmarsson comes back on Saturday, give Duncan Keith the night off. The guy is killing himself out there, and it doesn't help his game, and it doesn't help the team. He can't be two defensemen, he can only be Dunc. Right now he's being whipped like a rented mule, and it's going to take a toll.
- Speaking of which, I would like to see a return to the Niklas Hjalmarsson we saw during the last regular season. He's been trying to be a cross between Brent Sopel and Brian Campbell, and in the process he's turned into Alain Nasreddine. Stop it, Nik. You're no good to us this way.
- The Blackhawks had four — that's FOUR — shots on goal in the third. That means I had only four shots fewer than the entire team while sitting on my living room couch and arguing with my cat about whose roast beef sandwich that really was.
- It's my belief that this line juggling and musical defensemen is contributing to this crappy start. I know it's Coach Q's way of doing things, but you can't develop chemistry with guys who you only play with for three shifts a game. Look at it this way: it can't get much worse if we stick to set lines for an entire game. Why not try it once, see what happens.
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