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Aguilera says trip to Rwanda was fulfilling
NEW YORK – Christina Aguilera said that although she went to Rwanda to help others, she ended up helping herself.
The 32-year-old singer visited Rwanda in June for a hunger relief effort. She said the experience helped her ground herself.
"It came at a time in my life when I really needed to be far removed from anything to do with work or being on camera," the Grammy winner said in a recent interview. "It came at a time in my life when I needed to sort of experience what's going on with the world beyond entertainment."
Aguilera has been a spokesperson for Yum! Brands' World Hunger Relief effort since 2009, and has also traveled to Haiti and Guatemala. She said being a mother — she has a 5-year-old son Max — made her feel more empathetic for those suffering from hunger around the world.
"It's so sad to think there's nothing that sets any of us apart," she said. "And when you go into the field, you really see that and feel that we're all one in the same, it's just we're born under different circumstances, and it's sad and I don't understand why, but I feel what I feel and I did what I can."
On her Rwanda trip, "The Voice" mentor served food to children and visited refugee camps, which she called "one of the most difficult moments."
"They had to escape everything and everybody they knew and loved, and it's just a lot to really open yourself up and feel all that," she said, on the brink of tears. "And you just want to help out in whatever way that you can, and obviously I get emotional about it when talking about it, but I think it's important to feel those things."
Yum! Brands Inc. is the parent company to KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. The company said its World Hunger Relief effort has raised nearly $150 million for the United Nations World Food Programme and other organizations since its launch in 2007.
Aguilera's PSA, which debuts Thursday, features her song "Light up the Sky."
She will return for the fifth season of NBC's "The Voice" on Sept. 23.
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"Iron Man 3" Review and Discussion Thread (spoilers)
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But seriously, I do agree with you that the suits did seem a bit more realistic in the first IM1. I wish we had Tony explaining to Pepper how he had implanted magic nanotechnology into his blood to able to call parts of his suits to him, instead of just implying everything.
Well it's worse than that. I didn't get into that part in my first post, but it kind of bugged me through the last half of the movie...
The implants in Tony's arm were somehow able to contact each suit piece in Tennesee from Miami. So utilizing some kind of satellite uplink? That is forward thinking...
Now each suit piece has sufficient propulsion to allow it to fly from Tennesee to Miami. The CGI made it appear that they had little jets... fueled by what? Every try launching a model rocket that far?
The complete suit's propulsion is supposed to be repulser based so that it doesn't need fuel. Fine, and this is actually a brilliant update from Stan Lee's original design. But these suit pieces aren't blasting repulsers to make themselves fly, and there would be no possibilty of them controlling their flight that precisely and decellerating like they did. (The joke of Tony taking the hit from codpiece notwithstanding.)
It just couldn't work that way according to the way the armour is depicted as working. So I have to suspend my disbelief, and then suspend my disbelief of that first suspension.
If the armour flew as one piece and then cracked open to encase Tony, I could have handled that.
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Lapu spearheads coastal cleanup
The Lapu-Lapu City government spearheaded a coastal and underwater cleanup on Monday morning along the seawaters of Crimson Resort and Hotel in barangay Mactan in celebration of the Earth Day and as part of the Kadaugan sa Mactan activities.
Sacks of garbage such as plastics, tin cans, bottles and fishnets were taken by the police and volunteer scuba divers.
James Montenegro, the resort's general manager, were thankful for the project, saying "We are looking forward to partnering again with the city and other volunteers for a similar but much bigger activity."
On Sept. 15, the resort will again host a coastal and underwater cleanup.
Mayor Paz Radaza, who was the guest speaker, also expressed gratitude to the resort's management for working with the city for maintaining the cleanliness of seawaters.
"Cleaning the seawaters is a challenge. Maintaing cleanliness should only be done on certain during occasions such as Earth Day," she said.
Radaza also thanked the Task Force Kalikasan headed by SPO1 Jomar Ybañez for being active in the apprehension of illegal fishermen.
Andy Berame, coordinator of Task Force Kalikasan, underscored the need to clean the city's coastal areas and underwater. He said there are ten rivers in Cebu and these would have caused filthiness and brought garbage to the island.
Each scuba diver who participated in the cleanup activity was given a certificate by Crimson resort. /CORRESPONDENT NORMAN V. MENDOZA
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- Saban Entertainment, Graz Entertainment
- Animation Studio: Akom Production
- Distributed by: Marvel Productions, Ltd.
- Cartoon Characters: Professor X/Charles Xavier, Wolverine/Logan, Cyclops/Scott Summers, Phoenix/Jean Grey, Rogue, Gambit/Remy LeBeau, Jubilee/Jubilation Lee, Storm/Ororo Munroe, Beast/Hank McCoy, Sasquatch/Dr. Walter Langkowski, Snowbird, Vindicator/James MacDonald Hudson, Puck/Eugene Milton Judd/Shaman/Dr. Michael Twoyoungmen, Heather McNeil Hudson, Northstar/Jean-Paul Beaubier.
- Voice Actors: Cedric Smith, Cal Dodd, Norm Spencer, Catherine Disher, Lenore Zann, Chris Potter, Alyson Court, Alison Sealy-Smith, George Buza; Full Voice Cast ...
- Directed By Larry Houston.
- Produced By Larry Houston, Stan Lee, Winston Richard, Joseph Calamari, Avi Arad, Sharon Janis.
- Written By John Byrne, Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum, Jack Kirby, Stan Lee.
- Music: Shuki Levy, Michael Kamen.
- Editor: Sharon Janis, John C. Walts.
- First Aired on November 20, 1993.
- Originally Aired on FOX TV (USA).
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
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Red Hat Acquires Makara
Red Hat accelerates Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution strategy with Makara acquisition.
Red Hat, Inc, providers of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, JBoss Enterprise Middleware and corporate sponsor of the Fedora Project, announced their acquisition of Makara, providers of cloud application management technologies, earlier today.
Via their Cloud Foundation, Red Hat plans to integrate JBoss Enterprise Middleware with Makara's Cloud Application Platform to offer a more comprehensive PaaS solution to Cloud customers and providers.
"Cloud Foundations is about enabling customers and developers to have an easy on-ramp to the cloud," says Paul Cormier, president of Products and Technologies at Red Hat. "With the addition of Makara, we aim to further simplify application deployment and management. We welcome the Makara team and look forward to accelerating our delivery of PaaS solutions to the market."
More information on this acquisition can be found in the press release and on the webcast.
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New release marks the arrival of AMD's unified driver strategy.
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A new study by IDC charts big changes in the big hardware market.
Windows Might Go Open Source
Azure CTO says Redmond has already considered the unthinkable.
Linux Mint Will Stay with Ubuntu
Lead developer quells rumors that the Debian version is slated for center stage.
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There's no denying Sage Francis's passion—for hip hop, for speaking truth, for expression itself. Nothing changes with Human the Death Dance, but where 2005's A Healthy Distrust dealt chiefly with today's dire sociopolitical landscape, here Sage looks inside to tackle all things personal. But don't worry, Sage-ophiles; unsurprisingly, his inner passions are still highly topical, if only because we've all had our fair share of heart-ripping love trysts.
As always, he's most effective when getting a little help from friends—whether it's Jolie Holland's alternately twangy and ethereal choruses (illuminating just how atonal Sage's own yelps really are) or Bryan Lewis Saunders's haunting, poetic bookends. He maintains his fetish for playing with vocal inner-melodies and flow variations, risks sounding more spoken word than boom-bap, and sticks to a militant flow polarizing enough to make you either a diehard fan or a vicious hater (especially within today's quickly cementing fall-in-line-or-get-dissed rap conformity).
Topics on Human are as far-ranging as childhood and death, and the beats are just dynamic enough to keep the thematic intensity tolerable, saving the disc from blunt tedium and elevating it to magnum opus manifesto. The numerous "love" songs are eclectically constructed narratives full of quirks and cryptic metaphors, which is damn sure more interesting than your typical rap approaches to relationships. Sage's more literate and relentlessly painful confessions may even beat out Slug's (sacrilege!), not for emotional immediacy, but ultimate poignancy. Plus, rap scene-indicting "Midgets and Giants" has a chanted chorus—You are really not all that dope—that's a perfectly succinct rebuff of the current mainstream manifesto "This is why I'm hot." Take that, shortie.
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The biography of Taneda Santoka. This page has biographical information on Taneda Santoka, one of the best poets of all time. This PoetrySoup page also provides access to the poet's poems, best poetry, quotes, and video biographies...if available.
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Throughout its history, Yale Law School has served as a center for groundbreaking environmental thinking. The Yale Environmental Law Association (YELA) aims to build on this legacy by drawing attention to all aspects of environmental law and related fields, through YLS community events, speakers and reading groups, and opportunties to connect and collaborate with other campus groups, as well as by working to promote sustainability in the use of law school facilities. YELA places special emphasis on the interdisciplinary, multifaceted character of environmental law and its relevance to a wide range of legal and policy issues.
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Ashley Ingram YLS '17, Environmental Justice Chair
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Crocea Mors
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Crocea Mors (Latin for "yellow Death") was the name given to Julius Caesar's sword, according to the legends presented by Geoffrey of Monmouth. In Middle Welsh versions, it is called Angau Coch ("Red Death") or Agheu Glas ("Grey Death").
The British prince Nennius acquired it when, during single combat with Caesar, it got stuck in his shield. It killed everyone Nennius struck with it. Nennius died fifteen days after the battle of a head wound inflicted by Caesar, and the sword was buried with him.
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ASHBURN, Va., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting today, Newshosting has announced that they will offer their top-tier, unlimited NHXL access plan in a two year bundle for only $189.60. That comes out to only $7.90 a month, which is the lowest unlimited downloads plan from any Usenet provider.
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SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Seoul Snow Jam, a three- day winter festival held at Gwanghwamun Square, downtown Seoul, closed on December 13 with the FIS Snowboard World Cup Big Air Competition as its grand finale.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced the nominees for the 15(th) Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards. The winners will be announced at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards live on Friday, January 15, 2010 at 9:00 PM ET/PT.
BANGALORE, LONDON and NEW YORK, December 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - White-Labeled Smart Application Platform to Enable Mobile Operators Deliver Next Generation Consumer Experience Infosys Technologies Ltd (NASDAQ: INFY) today announced the launch of Flypp(TM), an application platform which will empower mobile service providers to delight digital consumers through a host of ready-to-use experiential applications across the universe of devices.
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Only if budgeting and marketing, technology, and customer relationships are established can other new-business activities be successful. As implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) nears its moment of truth, when open enrollment in the healthcare insurance marketplaces begins on Oct. 1, 2013, the status of these functions can shed light on progress and problems.
The new Health Insurance marketplaces, or exchanges, have already displayed inadequacy in budgeting and initial marketing. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced that program budgeting has not included an adequate setting aside of funds to pay for required education and outreach for the new Health Exchanges.
This explanation has come after three years during which HHS has neither taken any clear actions toward mounting a major outreach effort to explain the ACA nor acknowledged the need for such action. We are not aware of any mailings to the public, TV public service programs, to recruitment of providers to distribute brochures.
HHS has now been reduced to seeking last-minute donations to support outreach efforts, demonstrating that initial budgeting failed to adequately prepare for this predictable need. (See Kliff, S., "Budget request denied, Sebelius turns to health executives to finance Obamacare," The Washington Post, May 10, 2013.)
Any testing of technology has been well hidden. Each marketplace must link to insurance companies that are to offer insurance policies for sale, and provide individuals and small-business employers with an easy-to-use and easy-to-understand software interface so that policies may be scanned and purchases made. Demonstration efforts should be common today across the country.
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Finally, any new health business must show that it understands potential customers, and must demonstrate this connection in a way that customers will recognize. To date, the marketplaces have not addressed this issue. There has been no recruitment of representatives who can be recognized by and speak effectively to those who will be seeking insurance coverage through an marketplace. There is no "image" for these businesses.
The status of the marketplace at this point indicates more than "growing pains." Rather, there seems to be a basic lack of understanding about the requirements for setting up and implementing successful "marketplace" businesses.
Healthcare organizations should not sit idly by and placidly contemplate this situation. Get-well plans are urgently needed. It may be time for those who are experienced in the development of successful healthcare organizations to voice their concerns—and even lend a hand. The ACA agencies are far afield from their usual tasks, and could use insight and assistance. But they may not yet understand the nature of the need, or show a willingness to ask for help.
Healthcare leaders can respond to this situation in several ways. In the very least, they may want to consider appropriate internal actions within their own organizations to adjust to the expected outcomes of the problems being encountered by the Exchanges.
Other managers may decide that direct intervention strategies are possible, by attempting to set up lines of communication to help steer the marketplaces in directions that will not only make them more effective with consumers but also reduce internal problems for the organizations managing the marketplaces. This approach will depend on healthcare leaders' ingenuity and ability in making their voices heard.
Enlisting third parties for communications may have potential in some cases. Healthcare leaders can cultivate an indirect relationship with a third party that already has a relationship with a marketplace, and with the manager's organization. There might be greater receptivity on the part of the marketplace manager, as efforts could achieve changes that will benefit all three organizations.
Ferd H. Mitchell is an attorney, Mitchell Law Office, Spokane, Wash., and a member of HFMA's Washington-Alaska Chapter.
Cheryl Mitchell is an attorney, Mitchell Law Office, Spokane, Wash.
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S. China Sea - the next big power playground
Publication Date : 25-04-2012
Major and smaller players wade into area Beijing regards as its backyard
Despite strenuous efforts by China to keep other global powers out of the South China Sea, recent movements suggest that Beijing has failed.
The United States, whom China is most keen to block, has boosted its presence there in the last week. It is holding military exercises with the Philippines and having a naval exchange with Vietnam.
As if that is not irritating enough for Beijing, even Russia has muscled in. Its state gas giant Gazprom signed a deal this month with Vietnam to explore reserves in the resource-rich sea.
It mirrored a similar exploration pact that India signed with Hanoi last year, and comes on the back of Japan's long-held influence in the region through years of infrastructure investments in Asean.
The waters China regards as its backyard are fast becoming the world's "next big power playground", say observers.
And much like the Balkan states in the last century, when big countries fought proxy wars in the region, many fear that the sea could become a conflict zone.
Singapore's Institute of Southeast Asian Studies senior fellow Ian Storey calls it a potential 'focal point' of great power competition.
The big boys hunger for control over the sea lanes where one-third of the world's shipping trade passes through.
"As tensions continue to simmer in the South China Sea, and the waters become increasingly crowded with new warships, I think it's just a question of time before we see a clash at sea leading to fatalities," he added.
None of the global giants wants to give China free rein over such a precious piece of watery real estate. They have the support of smaller Asean countries that are contesting China's claims and seeking to bolster their claims by internationalising the situation, say observers.
Foreign policy expert Yang Cheng from the East China Normal University said some claimants see merits in playing one major power against another.
Doing so could help the smaller players glean some benefits from the major powers clamouring for their support, he added.
"It seems like the tragedy of great power politics is now the smaller countries' comedy," said Dr Yang.
He said claimants could also become bolder in challenging China, believing that its army, the world's largest, would be restrained in its response so as to avoid conflicts with major powers.
This could be why Manila took a more hardline approach in the two-week stand-off with China over the Scarborough Shoal, which lies north of the Spratly Islands claimed by China, the Philippines and Vietnam, among others.
"But such mindsets could be dangerous. There is a limit to China's tolerance, especially as the solution to the territorial issues directly relates to the legitimacy of the authorities and many Chinese want the government to be more hardline now that the country is stronger," said Dr Yang.
Also, conflicts may occur if major powers misread conflicting signals and inconsistent policies emanating from China - a possible result of a struggle for money and power between agencies and local governments, said the International Crisis Group in a report this week.
Said its Northeast Asia project director Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt: "Some agencies are acting assertively to compete for a slice of the budget pie, while others such as local governments are focused on economic growth, leading them to expand their activities into disputed waters.
"Their motivations are domestic in nature, but the impact of their actions is increasingly international."
To assert its primacy, Beijing has been on a public relations drive to win more Asean friends.
Thai Premier Yingluck Shinawatra met top-ranked Chinese leaders in Beijing last week, while China's fourth-ranked leader Jia Qinglin visited Brunei.
Analyst Li Mingjiang of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies believes the visits are examples of China reassuring its neighbours of its 'benign and cooperative intention'.
He added: "These efforts will partly be helpful in stabilising the South China Sea contention."
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I have this and the minimalist (because i didn't do my research and missed the dualist). I love this setup as my go-to for backpacking trips. The pot is plenty large enough for one, two for coffee/tea.
The integrated cup is perfect for holding oatmeal, coffee or anything else. The included spoon is the only setback on kit. It's short, so doesn't get down to the really good stuff in the bottom of anything, and it has a tendency to collapse. I substitute a Backcountry titanium spoon the wifey bought me.
I use a penny stove. Currently, the stove, stand, wind screen, fuel bottle and lighter fit inside the soloist (in the cup so no scratches) for a small, tucked away kit.
One more thing: don't cook an empty pot. The wife (scapegoat) left an empty pot on the burner and melted the plastic lid. Wasn't too bad, but the lid was destroyed. GSI was good about providing a few replacements.
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Poses are a mainstay of yoga. We look to provide you with insight into the various poses, their origins and their value to your yoga practice.
Talasana: Palm Tree Pose January signifies new beginnings, a fresh, new, canvas on which to paint our intentions. The new year often inspires a commitment to living a healthier lifestyle, including caring for our bodies, stimulating our minds and seeking new, revitalizing experiences, or experimenting with balancing what we already do with practices that complement our lives. The key is patience. Changes, big or small, take time. It takes time
Instant Maui – Your 20-Minute Vacation
Take a Midwinter Break in Instant Maui It's the season of short days, long nights and monumental to-do lists. Potlucks, concerts, rehearsals (for those of us who play holiday concerts) and gifting take us out of our usual routines. At a time when our schedules are stuffed to capacity, often the first things to get knocked off our to-do list are those niceties we do to take care of ourselves.
Shoulderstand – Save Your Neck with Yoga Blankets
How Using Yoga Blankets in Shoulderstand Can Save Your Neck Looking to see the world from a new perspective? Going upside-down is one way to shift your point of view—literally. Inverted yoga poses are perfect for cultivating fertile creative ground in the body/mind. In addition to their many physical benefits, inversions are said to allow us to see with new eyes. When we turn upside down, the world looks different.
Urdhva Mukha Prasarita Padottanasana
Urdhva Mukha Prasarita Padottanasana: Hugging the Earth I'd like to propose an inevitability to accompany death and taxes: gravity. In fact it's arguable that gravity is more consistently inevitable than taxes, because there are ways to get around paying taxes if you can afford it. None of us escapes gravity. Gravity is responsible for keeping us from floating off the surface of the Earth. It is also responsible Earth's orbit
Hanumanasana: Take a Flying Leap
Hanumanasana: Take a Flying Leap A while back, I recounted the story of Anjaneya, a child prodigy—part monkey, godson of the wind god Vayu, and reincarnation of Shiva—that got himself into trouble for making a giant leap for the sun without the sun god's permission. Long story short, Anjaneya was not only absolved of his crime, after some wrangling with the sun god, but even elevated to god status. Dubbed
Baddha Konasana – Barre to Blankets
Baddha Konasana: Barre to Blankets During grade school, my sisters and I took ballet classes. We studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory with a lovely young dancer named Donna Ficker. A year or two into our lessons we had to find a new teacher when Donna's mother moved the family to New York, where her younger sister Suzi changed her name to Suzanne Farrell and joined George Balanchine in the New
Revolved Lunge – Settle In
Revolved Lunge aka Chaise Lounge Pose Born to Anjana (a supernatural woman) and Kesari (king of the monkeys), Anjaneya had magical powers and royalty in his genetic inheritance. His godfather was Vayu, the wind god. Anjaneya was considered to be the reincarnation of Lord Shiva. His auspicious pedigree made him a bit of a star among mortals. According to legend, Anjaneya once mistook the sun for a glowing piece of
Chaturanga Dandasana: Help from Your Hyoid
Chaturanga Dandasana: Help from Your Hyoid What's an eight-syllable name that, when spoken by a yoga teacher, elicits fear (or at least, a groan) in roughly half the population that practices yoga? The same phrase evokes a feeling of invincible awesomeness in many others. The answer: Chaturanga Dandasana (Four-Limbed Staff Pose). Chaturanga looks like a push-up, but it's not a push-up. It is primarily practiced as a transition pose in
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Bridge Pose: The Best Anti-Sitting Pose We all do it. Every day. Hunched over a computer, grasping a steering wheel, slouched on the couch or settled onto a meditation cushion—we all sit, sometimes for hours at a time. We take sitting in chairs for granted. It's the go-to position for pretty much everything we do on a regular basis. Like standing and lying down, it's something most of our bodies
Hasta Padangusthasana – Time to Fly
Hasta Padangusthasana – Take Off! Last month I wrote about Garudhasana (Eagle Pose), a pose that honors Garuda, the eagle god whose 40-mile wingspan caused hurricanes and dried up the oceans whenever he took flight. Garudhasana spreads our wings (shoulderblades) and our deep hip rotators, preparing us for flight. In a sense it is a jumping-off point for the expansion that April—derived from the Latin word aperire, meaning "to open"—


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KAPALUA, Hawaii Jonathan Byrd had heard all about the American drought at Kapalua.
It had been 10 years since Jim Furyk won the season-opening Tournament of Champions, and Byrd reached the same conclusion as most everyone else. Players like Stuart Appleby and Geoff Ogilvy, who combined for five of those wins, had been playing deep into the previous season in Australia. That or the fact Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson stopped coming to Maui.
"I said it was about time for an American to win," Byrd said. "I just didn't know it would be me. But I'll take it."
Perhaps it was no coincidence that a sudden-death playoff on Sunday came down to Byrd and Robert Garrigus, who won the last two tournaments on the PGA Tour schedule.
Garrigus was in danger of losing his card until winning Disney. In the previous domestic event, Byrd won a three-man playoff in Las Vegas by making an ace in near darkness for perhaps the most stunning win on tour all year.
"There's definitely some momentum," Byrd said. "I spoke earlier in the week about how Australians come in here, their game is ready and they come sharp and come hungry and they play well here. And maybe Robert and I, just getting a taste of victory at the end of last year, was enough for us to ride it into this week."
The way it ended? Not many saw that coming.
Byrd and Garrigus each closed with a 6-under 67 to finish on 24-under 268, and both had a chance to win in regulation.
Garrigus, in the second-to-last group, hit what he described as a "smoke, bullet draw" with a 5-wood to 12 feet on the par-5 18th, and his eagle putt narrowly missed. Byrd couldn't reach the green against the Kona wind, hit a weak wedge to 18 feet and his birdie putt for the win stopped short of the cup.
Garrigus had the advantage with his length - he has led the PGA Tour in driving distance the last two years. That didn't help him on the 18th in the playoff, but did on the second extra hole - No. 1, which plays 528 yards downhill but into the breeze.
Garrigus nailed it. Byrd didn't.
Byrd had a 3-iron left to reach the green. Garrigus had a 9-iron from the rough just beyond the end of the fairway.
It all changed from there.
Both left their shots some below the hole, a fast putt because it goes with the grain growing toward the Pacific. From 50 feet, Byrd played it perfectly, and the ball caught the top part of the cup and left him a tap-in par. Garrigus hit his a little firm and had 3 feet left.
He missed it.
"I just hit that putt too hard," Garrigus said. "I was trying to take all the break out of it, played straight and I pushed it a centimeter and it hit that lip and didn't go in."
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Michael Crain, a Fallbrook real estate broker who volunteers as president of the local community emergency-response team, said groups such as his are more adept at coordinating services than before.
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I went to the gym quite a bit and was working out a fair bit during the summer last year, until around October/November. Then I just stopped doing it. What I was doing was running for at least 30 minutes, and then doing many cardio exercises and some weight training. What I would do was eat a bit more, not overwhelming, but I had sushi and tuna, bananas and apple sauce, I ate spaghetti and chicken more often. I had chicken, stuffing, mac-n-cheese for Thanksgiving. But then I'd exercise a ton and work it off, and if I didn't exercise, I'd feel like shit, physically, emotionally and mentally. Now over the past about month, I've cut back even more, and in the process, lost weight.
Going to the gym felt extremely forced for me because I had/have absolutely no interest in doing it, but I'm going to have to do it and I will work it into my plans; I can begrudgingly make myself do it, and try to realize at the end of the day, it's beneficial for me to do so. But I don't consider going to the gym a tradeoff for eating more. I'm still going to eat within the range of foods I eat now, and work out also.
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You cannot use one of those drier things in too humid an environment, because it will only ever pull out the amount of moisture that is more then the surrounding atmosphere is carrying.
Also, the hot driers such as the one you describe are fast, but rob food of a lot of its flavours and boil off many natural preservative volatile oils/fats, long before all the water goes away. Fruits and vegetables don't have them, so it is no loss, but meats do and you are sacrificing quality for convenience.
Jerky done at room tempreture with a strong airflow is way better then trying to raise the heat to fight the humidity. You end p sort of steaming the food to death, rather then drying it.
The smoing suggestion was excellent, but I like using a small electric hotplate or electric frypan to heat the woodchips...much more control.
General rule of thumb, if you want lots of intense flavour transfer quickly because you are "cooking in smoke" instead of pure smoking, then small wood chips (sawdust) are you friend. If you want to take three days to smoke something then you go for the larger half-fist sized wood chips. You can also do a mix, putting in the large chips and getting them going, and then adding a handfull of sawdust to turbo-boost the smoke (I tend to do this when I open the door and rotate things around on their racks, Because a lot of the smoke gets out while I am doing it, I just toss in a handfull of sawdust into the chips, and five seocnds later...Lots of smoke again)
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Figures showed 156 cars near the lawnbowls centre at Kelvingrove were also spotted without the special passes issued to residents before the sporting extravaganza.
The council employed 452 parking attendants to patrol areas near the venues to target rogue vehicles, with more than half being stationed around Hampden.
During the road race and marathon events, 61 illegally parked cars parked were lifted off the roads.
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moreMen's fashion, particularly the trends involving undergarments, was once reserved for the elite; today it has become democratised, clear proof of social progress.The aestheticism of the body so highly valued by the Greeks seems to have regained a prominent place in the masculine world. Mirroring the evolution of society's values, the history of underwear also highlights the continuous, dancing exchange that exists between women's styles and men's fashion. Undergarments are concealed, flaunted, stretched or shortened, establishing a game between yesterday's illicit and today's chic and thereby denouncing the sense of disgrace that these simple pieces of clothing used to betray. In this work, Shaun Cole endeavours to re-establish for the first time, through well-researched socio-economic analysis, the importance of men's underwear in the history of costume from ancient times to today. A reflection of technological progress, this study is full of surprises and powerful reflections on man's relationship with his body. less
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LAS VEGAS (July 15, 2005) Undefeated and world-ranked Sultan Ibragimov, one of the most exciting and highly regarded heavyweight contenders in the world, headlines a nationally televised card featuring two 12-round bouts promoted by Guilty Boxing during September in Atlanta. The co-main event matches Ebo The X-treme Machine Elder, generally considered as the most promising contender in the lightweight division, in a World Boxing Association 135-pound title-elimination bout against Prawet Singwangcha..
The winner meets current WBA lightweight champion Juan Diaz in a mandatory title bout.
Ibragimov defends his World Boxing Organization Asia Pacific heavyweight championship against Friday The 13th Ahunanya.
Ibragiov, a silver medalist for Russia at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, has a record of 17-0 with 15 knockouts and is ranked No. 6 by the WBO while Ahunanya has a mark of 20-3-2 with 11 knockouts.
Both Ibrgaimov and his cousin, Timur, a promising heavyweight in his own right, are managed by Boris Grimberg, trained by Carlos Humberto Panama Lewis and represented in the United States by Sampson Lewkowicz.
Elder, who was born and raised in Atlanta and now lives in nearby Newnan, Ga., has a record of 22-1 with 14 knockouts while Singwangcha, from Thailand, has a mark of 26-2-1 with 16 knockouts and has won 21 straight dating back to 2000.
The 30-year-old Ibragimov, a southpaw who now lives in Miami, Fla., is a devastating body puncher and fights in an aggressive style reminiscent of Joe Frazier.
The 33-year-old Ahunanya originally is from Nigeria and now lives in Las Vegas.
The 26-year-old Elder, also a southpaw, was the WBO North American Boxing Organization lightweight champion, a title he won last October, until he voluntarily relinquished it in order to fight Singwangcha. Elder was scheduled to fight current WBA lightweight champion Diaz during April on an ESPN PPV show. That fight was cancelled after Diaz suffered an injury during training.
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Meanwhile, a tourist with a goatee enters the block from the northwest, so Jo Anne Bennett stops him and asks the same thing. "Yes," the tourist says, pointing down the street to his hotel. Bennett tells him why she's asking. "Oh, sorry," he says, "No, I do quite well."
But the man with the white cart isn't doing so well. So when asked, "Tonight, do you have some place that you consider to be your home or the place where you live?" he says, "No." And voilà: New York City's fourth annual census of the street homeless had found one.
An hour earlier all three women were sitting at the Group G table at Baruch College drinking coffee and eating granola bars with a couple hundred other volunteerspeople from church groups, students, social workers. The site was one of 26 citywide where more than 2,000 census takers were getting ready to brave the cold and count the city's street sleepers.
Onstage was Danny Farrell, a Department of Homeless Services official, explaining how the count works. "You need to sell it as comfortably as you can," he says. "You want to approach as if there were an invisible wall between you. You want to consider spatial boundaries. Don't just go right up to them. People who live on the street feel themselves in shark-infested waters."
To some in the room, it seems a little strange to take a street census in 25 degrees and darkness. The timing is deliberate. It's on a Monday to avoid pedestrian traffic and at the end of the month because that's when welfare benefits are running out. And it's in the middle of winter and the dead of night (midnight to 4 a.m.) because that's when only the most desperate people are sleeping on the sidewalks.
"I think it's to count those who are really living on the street, who are a challenge to engage," Fran Winter, the acting commissioner of Homeless Services, tells the Voice. It's a "snapshot in time" of the street population, she says. But it's also the stick by which the Bloomberg administration is measuring its progress toward a five-year goal of, by 2009, cutting the estimated street-sleeping population of more than 4,000 by two-thirds.
Midnight nears, so Farrell delves into the rules for the count: Volunteers are supposed to walk every sidewalk in their assigned areas once and speak to everyone they see. No doubling back to catch someone. No going into delis or bodegas, even if there's a homeless-looking person inside. No entering abandoned buildings. Only public areasbut if an alley way looks sketchy, a volunteer doesn't have to go there either.
The constraints mean that volunteers don't actually see too many homeless people. But to make up for any letdown, there are T-shirts and thank-you notes from the mayor when it's all over.
Group G bundles up. The coordinators split the group in two parts: Wagner, Sinclair, and Bennett get five square blocks in midtown, from 44th to 49th streets, between Fifth and Sixth avenues.
At this hour, Midtown is a land of vacant spaces and bright lights. Massive lobbies glow silently, a clean-swept plaza is fenced off and blanketed in street lamps, diamond store windows are empty but for bare plastic necks, and people are moving fast. Wagner, a social worker at the Center for Urban Community Services, makes the first approach and gets rebuffed by a man with a mustache and a satchel. Whether or not someone participates, and regardless of what they say, the volunteers have to answer Question 6: "Do you believe that this person is homeless?" The satchel man is a "no."
Around the corner, Sinclair, who works at a Homeless Services intake center, gets a fuzzy answer. "If he says he has 'a place to sleep,' what does that mean?" asks Sinclair. Is he homeless, or staying at the Ritz?
At one point, Bennett, a research scientist at the Department of Mental Health and Hygiene, sprints down a block to catch a guy getting on the M7 bus, snagging him just before he goes off the map. The whole count hinges on random paths intersecting: the chance that a homeless person is asleepor heading in the right direction at the right speedon the right street at the right time, isn't in a sketchy alley or a deli, and either admits to being homeless or really looks the part.
The white-cart guy makes the task easy. "He was so sweet," Wagner recounts as the group heads up Fifth Avenue. "He said, 'I'm working on it, I'm working on it. I'm gonna stay inside.' "
They turn left onto 46th, and Sinclair talks about work at the intake center. Sometimes the guys cry. "I used to cry a lot myself," she says, "because I saw the deterioration of men." Back on Sixth Avenue, they turn north. "Oh! Oh!" Sinclair whispers, and nods toward a doorway next to the Big Apple Delicatessen. There's a guy lying there. Wagner asks if he's warm enough; he has no gloves, but he says he is.
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