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Yes, the junior did record three assists in the first three periods of Tuesday's Sea View League home matchup against Laguna Hills, but it wasn't until the fourth when he – and the Mustangs – came alive.
Baber recorded three goals and added a key steal in helping Trabuco Hills outscore the Hawks, 7-2, in the fourth period en route to a 13-9 triumph at Trabuco Hills High.
The victory improves Trabuco Hills' record to 17-5 overall, but more important, the win also keeps the Mustangs' league championship hopes afloat as they improved to 3-1 in league play, just one game behind first-place Tesoro (11-9, 4-0).
"We're in the hunt, but we're certainly not the favorite," said Mustangs coach Sean McMahon. "But beating Laguna Hills is a good step."
The Mustangs trailed, 7-6, heading into the final eight minutes of the game, but scored on five of six possessions – including four consecutive – to take a an 11-8 lead. Trabuco Hills' four straight goals were scored in less than two minutes, and two were by Baber.
"When we are clicking, nobody can stop us," said Baber.
Baber's first goal was a dagger in the heart of Laguna Hills as he threw in a shot from seven meters with one second left on the shot clock that gave the Mustangs an 8-7 lead.
"You can tell that deflated them a little bit," said McMahon.
If Baber's first goal deflated the Hawks, his third officially defeated them.
Trailing, 11-8, with less than two minutes left in the game, the Hawks seemed poised to draw within two scores after earning a power play. But an errant pass was stolen by Baber, and seconds later he scored to give the Mustangs a 12-8 lead.
"You could tell they were losing it (after my first goal), but it was important to keep pushing," said Baber. "It was evident (after my last goal) that the game was over."
Laguna Hills standout Austin Hwang tallied his sixth goal of the game with one minute left, but Trabuco Hills sophomore Robbie Hagerty completed the scoring with a goal with 44 seconds remaining.
"They just outworked us," said Hawks coach Blake Corbin. "We came to play, but they came to win. We were lazy on defense and unaggressive on offense.
"It's very frustrating. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. In the end, we just didn't get the job done."


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A former Bakersfield police detective arrested on a complaint of possessing child pornography was ordered Wednesday to be held in the Fresno County Jail based on a federal magistrate's findings he poses a flight risk and a public danger, a prosecutor said.
Christopher Kent Bowersox, 38, a seven-year veteran of the department until he resigned Feb. 10, was arrested Feb. 12 after an FBI investigation led to a complaint that he possessed child pornography and engaged in the receipt of child pornography, police reported. The charges are punishable by 10 to 20 years in prison, and fines up to $250,000.
He was represented in U.S. District Court by Bakersfield attorney David A. Torres, who said Bowersox had no property to post on his own behalf, which means he had nothing to secure his appearance at future court hearings. Torres declined further comment.
Bowersox is likely to be indicted sometime next week and then be arraigned Feb. 26 on whatever charges are filed against him by the federal grand jury, according to Torres and Assistant U.S. Attorney David Gappa.
Gappa said Magistrate Sandra Snyder ordered Bowersox to be held in jail.
An investigation of Bowersox began in November when an organization in Florida that scours the Internet for people involved in child pornography alerted Bakersfield police to Bowersox's alleged behavior.
Bakersfield Police Chief Greg Williamson, saying he was "thoroughly embarrassed and disappointed" by the case, said the investigation was turned over to the FBI and resulted in a federal complaint.
None of the alleged criminal activity is tied to Bowersox's work as a police officer where he had been on patrol, a anti-graffiti program and investigating property and white-collar crime, Williamson said.
But Bowersox's case is tied to a child pornography arrest of Nicholas William Beeman, about 24 years old, in Florida, the criminal complaint says. Beeman told police he was depressed over Internet contact he had with someone who discussed raping, injuring and murder of children, the complaint says.
A computer forensic review of Beeman's computer was traced to Bowersox, who admitted the conversations but said they were just fantasies that he never acted upon, the complaint says.
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Mark Sanchez was drafted out of USC and started off his first two seasons with a bang. He took the Jets to two straight AFC Championships, and even though they were both losses, it's still pretty impressive for a young QB. However the past two seasons, he hasn't been as fortunate.Over the past two seasons, Mark Sanchez has a combined 52 turnovers, which is absolutely gut-wrenching. Looking at a statistic like that, you could probably just throw all the blame on him for the Jets' pathetic seasons. In my book, he isn't entirely to blame. There is a reason Sanchez is turning the ball over so much and it's not all him. You don't just start two seasons hot, and then immediately play like garbage. Unfortunately, that's not how the Jets look at it.If you watch the Jets play, you can see how easily defensive lineman get to the backfield and Sanchez. Then, Sanchez is forced to check down to a running back or choose which of his wide receivers sucks the least. When you have no protection and ...
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Sumathi Ram has won the Tamil Nadu Government Award for her poetry collection 'Koditta Idangalai Nirappudhal'
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This poem titled 'Praarthanai' from Sumathi Ram's 'Koditta Idangalai Nirappudhal' (Filling The Blanks), roughly translated says, 'A girl whose father does not see her off at the school bus, should not see a father lovingly adjusting his daughter's uniform at the bus stop.'
The poetry collection won Sumathi the Tamil Nadu Government Award for modern poetry for the year 2010 from chief minister J. Jayalalithaa this month. "I'm happy that I received the award," says Sumathi. "But I wrote it for my satisfaction. I didn't expect it. More than anything, it earned me more readers and paved way for new friendships."
'Koditta Idangalai Nirappudhal' is a record of a doting mother's observations about her little girl. Sumathi lives with her 10-year-old daughter Shri in Coimbatore, away from her husband Ram, a film director. "The child's and my yearnings find form in the poems," she says. In fact, Sumathi first set out to write poems for her husband to tell him how she felt about living separate lives.
"But when he read the poems, he saw them as works of literature and took efforts to get them published," she smiles. Sumathi says that people connect with the poems since there are many who live far away from loved ones due to the demands of work. "It's nice to see that some readers draw comparisons between the poems and their lives," she says.
It was her husband Ram who encouraged her to write, says Sumathi. "He introduced me to books during our days at The American College in Madurai. He wrote a lot of poems and short-stories and I sent them out for publishing. I also took the liberty of editing his work at times." Sumathi gradually started writing herself — some of her poems and short-stories were published in literary magazines. But it was only in 2010 that her poems came out in the form of a book.
Dinner-table conversations, her daughter's antics with her pet dog, the naïve questions she pops up with time and again…Sumathi's poems are both funny and moving. "I wrote what I saw. Nothing in the book is imaginary," she says.
Sumathi is currently working on a novel. "It is about the lives of people from villages who migrate to the metros to earn a living." A short-story collection is also in the pipeline.
A collector who read poet Vennila's poem about the lack of proper toilets in girls' schools was so touched that he ensured that toilets were built for schools in his district. Says Sumathi, "Like Vennila, I too want to make a difference in society through my words."
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Taking a punch: insurers never anticipated a bear market so long and deep that it would ravage their variable-products businesses--and cause them to rethink how they conduct them. (Life/Health: Annuities).
That option isn't available to writers of variable annuities, which generate revenues based on assets under management. These companies suffer the extra burden of lower revenues from their product portfolios, lower sales and the detrimental effects of greater amounts at risk. Some industry leaders say the losses will drive the most significant changes in variable-annuity design in the past 15 or 20 years.
Only three years ago, variable annuities were a nearly $1 trillion industry as measured by total net assets. By Sept. 30 of last year, that figure had fallen to about $750 million.
How have variable-annuity writers been hurt by this deepest of bear markets since 1929 to 1932? Let's count the ways:
* Sales have dropped. Three major gatherers of variable-annuity statistics--Limra International, the Variable Annuity Research and Data Service (VARDS) and Tillinghast Towers-Perrin--independently have reported premiums failing from a high of about $137 billion in 2000 to somewhere between $111 billion and $113 billion in 2001. They report sales of $83 billion to $88 billion through the first three quarters of last year.
* Fee income has fallen in line with assets under management. The fees linked to assets include mortality and expense charges, enhanced-benefit charges and fees paid to managers (often third parties) of a contract's subaccounts. Administrative fees usually are flat charges.
* Higher costs to cover greater exposure to death benefits and living benefits. Variable-annuity premium was greater in 1997 through 2000 than in all of the product's prior history Most of those sold in the four years of that recent bull market now have death benefits that are "in the money," the phrase the industry uses to describe its net amount at risk. That means the amount the investor paid in premiums less any withdrawals is greater than the current value of the contract. In some cases, however, the net amount at risk is greater because insurers provided death benefits equal to the highest anniversary value, a guaranteed growth rate compounded annually, or some other mechanism.
The exposure to these higher benefits is costly in a couple of ways. One is that under generally accepted accounting principles, insurers are allowed to amortize over many years the expense of acquiring the business as long as the business meets profit projections. When profits fall short, insurers must account for these deferred acquisition costs sooner, thus impairing their reported earnings. Insurers using statutory accounting must have reserves protecting the benefits. Although there is no formula for calculating reserves uniformly across all 50 states, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants are working on one that would be required under both GAAP and statutory accounting.
* Less availability of reinsurance. Some insurers have reinsured the death-benefit risk, but industry experts report the availability of this reinsurance has fallen sharply.
* Greater use of insurers' fixed accounts within the variable-annuity contract. These fixed accounts have rates that insurers have guaranteed never to fall below a certain amount. Some are as high as 4%, and the higher utilization of these accounts represents another drain on insurers finances.
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A.M. Best Co. downgraded the financial strength of six insurers during 2002 and January 2003 due to variable-annuity related issues: Allmerica Financial, American Skandia, Merrill Lynch Life, Cigna, Sage Life and Axa Corporate Solutions Life Re. Companies with negative outlooks due to variable-annuity issues are MONY and Transamerica Canada. Overall, A.M. Best downgraded 53 life/health companies and upgraded 19 during the 13-month period.
The declines in fee-based income and the drop in sales are probably the most significant factors hurting the variable-annuity writers, said Eric Sondergeld, Limra International's corporate vice president and head of its retirement research center. "These companies have been accustomed to asset bases growing--and growing rapidly--and to using them to fuel new development," he said. Product development "slowed to a crawl" during the bear market, he added.
One part of the variable-annuity business that hasn't worsened during the bear market has been surrender rates. Sondergeld said surrenders have never been high and that they fell as the stock market swooned. He attributed the reduction to a lack of attractive investment alternatives and to the fact that many death benefits "came into the money."
Sondergeld found some irony in the death-benefit situation. "These benefits were kind of poked at by the press, and now these benefits have value," he said. "That's a good thing. So it's a kind of blessing in disguise. It demonstrates the risk associated with the markets, and here is a feature that currently has some value."
Nancy Kenneally, senior consultant with Tillinghast Towers-Perrin in New York, identified exposure to guaranteed benefits as having the most detrimental effect on variable-annuity writers. She said some companies, particularly those that attracted buyers with high-performing funds during the bull market, face deep exposure and have increased reserves they need to hold at the end of the year. Making matters worse, reinsurance on these benefits "continues to be pretty much nonexistent," she said.
But Kenneally said that dwindling fee-based income also has been a big concern and that greater use of fixed accounts, which don't generate much in fees, has hurt writers, particularly if they are crediting an attractive rate. "Some companies have had to close their fixed accounts in certain products, particularly in C-share contracts, in which there is no surrender charge," she said. "Also, high rates in dollar-cost-averaging fixed accounts have been a drain on profitability, but we have seen those enhanced rates come down quite a bit."
Insurers set up special dollar-cost-averaging fixed accounts to attract contract buyers by offering exceptionally high rates. The buyers would then be required to invest periodically-- usually monthly--into other subaccounts in the contract over a specified period such as 12 months until the special account was depleted. Kenneally said that such accounts designed to be depleted over six months averaged rates of 6.05% at the end of June and 5.7% at the end of September.
Many variable-annuity writers have been able to offset losses in that business by writing more fixed annuities, in which they have been crediting at guaranteed rates in the range of 3.5% to 4%, Kenneally said. Insurers' earnings from fixed annuities come from rates on the money they invest that are higher than the rates they pay to contract owners.
On the positive side, any stock-market upturn this year would likely have an immediate positive effect on the variable-annuity industry. "It would rebound fairly quickly," she said. "Typically, we don't see a lag in sales. Sales follow the market." The rebound would be slower in variable life because it is more a protection product than an investment product and because the underwriting process extends the time required for a sale to hit the books, Kenneally added.
Historical Crossroads
But simply treading water until the stock market rebounds might not be good enough for the variable-annuity industry. Rick Carey, managing director of professional services at VARDS and editor of The VARDS Report, said the industry might have to retool and reprice its products to reduce the correlation between fee income and assets under management.
"This industry is at a crossroads the likes of which we haven't seen for 15 or 20 years," he said. "It will have to integrate and institutionalize the retooling of products to make profitability based on other metrics, not on account values."
During the bull market, recommendations by distributors drove product design, which was a case of "the tail wagging the dog," said Carey. Insurers felt a need to match the competition. "In the bull market, everybody was making so much money you could price these things in any shape or form," he said.
But the bear market brought clarity to the situation, "and consulting actuaries have been counseling companies that they really need to get a hold of their profitability and shareholder value," said Carey. Reining in the demands of distribution might be "part and parcel" of exercising financial responsibility, he added.
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Carey said actuaries have told him this next generation of products is in the works. "These actuaries can't reveal their clients, but I understand these products are ready to be filed or already have been filed;' he said.
Part of the retooling might involve charging more for death benefits and living benefits. For example, guaranteed-minimum-income benefits are a "real bargain" for buyers today, according to Carey. "Many are priced at 25 to 35 basis points, which is not even at break-even;' he said. Guaranteed-minimum-income benefits, which come into play when contract owners are in the payout phase, are being "very well received;' said Frank O'Connor, senior industry analyst for VARDS. A typical GMIB guarantees an income floor even if the owner's variable accounts don't perform well. The newest kind of living benefit is the guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefit, according to Kenneally. It guarantees the contract owner can withdraw at least the net amount invested after the passage of a stipulated time--such as five years-- regardless of the performance of underlying investments. The owner might even be allowed to withdraw a nominal amount each year within the stipulated period. Kenneally said Hartford Life and ING have offere d annuities with the guaranteed minimum withdrawal benefit.
On the death-benefit side, new options include a 40% increase in the benefit to pay income taxes, said O'Connor. Unlike the death benefits of life insurance, those of annuities are taxable.
Regarding distribution, Carey said there is talk in the industry of more service-based compensation models along the lines of the managed-account business, in which the individual adviser rather than the product manufacturer earns a fee based on assets managed. But changes in compensation models might be easier said than done. The hard part for the industry is that some company usually is willing to take the risk of paying higher, transaction-based commissions to increase its distribution, Carey said.
Even if the industry is able to reduce its costs of distribution, its efforts to rebuild might be stymied by any regulatory requirement for higher reserves. Carey said some companies might have to reserve 10 or even 20 times as much as they do now "If such a requirement went into effect, a lot of companies would have to ask themselves whether it is profitable to be in this line of business," he said, adding that regulators don't expect any requirements to be so onerous that they could have a significant impact on the number of insurers offering variable annuities.
Carey said there is still much uncertainty facing the industry over the next three years. Measured in terms of net flows of money coming in, the industry is in worse shape than in terms of new sales. Net flows are new sales minus exchanges from existing annuities into new ones, and that gap has become very wide since 1996. In 2001, the industry recorded $106.6 billion in new sales, but only $30 billion of that amount was in net flow, according to data by VARDS. Through the first nine months of last year, new sales were $81.8 billion, but net flow was only $23.7 billion.
"If you're looking for signs of a rebound in the industry, you'll want to see net flows improve," Carey said. "And then there's the bear market. Company executives don't know where it's going. It's still an uncertainty. It could turn out to be four years and running, and that would force more people out of the business more consolidation."
Variable Annuity Sales by Product Type
(Jan. 1-Sept. 30, 2002)
Product Descriptions
* A-Share--Annuities with front-end loads
* B-Share--Annuities with traditional back-end loads (surrender charge period is typically 7-8 years or longer)
* C-Share--Annuities with no back-end loads (no surrender charges)
* L-Share--Annuities with short surrender charge period of 3 or 4 years
* Bonus--Annuities that credit a bonus (typically 3% to 5%) of premium to the policyholders' account value at contract issue. Presence of the bonus may come with a lengthened surrender period, higher product charges, a lower gross dealer concession, reduced profit margins or some combination thereof.
* VIA--Variable immediate (payout) annuities.
Total % of % of Product # of Premium # of Average Qualified Total Type Products ($ millions) Contracts Size Premium Premium A-Share 2 $221 1,247 $74,087 52% 0% B-Share 147 30,020 437,572 51,033 58 49 C-Share 49 15,750 294,222 93,791 68 26 L-Share 28 3,892 43,854 77,484 56 6 Bonus 35 11,137 128,060 72,953 53 18 VIA 3 238 1,662 143,378 79 1 Total 264 $61,258 906,617 $61,507 60% 100% Source: Tillinghast Towers-Perrin Variable Annuity and Life User Exchange Net Investment Returns by Fund Type Like the stock indexes, equity funds inside variable annuities fell sharply in the year ending Sept. 30, 2002, based on a weighted average net return. Bond funds provided positive returns, except for high-yield funds. 1-Year Weighted 5-Year Weighted Number Average Average Fund Category of Funds Net Return Net Return Growth 2,186 -19.6% -3.3% Aggressive Growth 772 -18.6% -4.7% Growth & Income 854 -18.6% -2.6% International Stock 768 -17.0% -5.1% Government Bond 110 7.2% 5.9% Corporate Bond 311 4.5% 5.5% High-Yield Bond 206 -3.2% -4.3% International Bond 54 5.2% 1.3% Money Market 188 0.8% 3.6% Balanced 380 -10.6% 0.4% Specialty 343 -5.7% 3.2% Total 6,172 -13.5% -1.2% DJIA -12.5% 0.8% S&P 500 -20.5% -1.6% Source: Tillinghast Towers-Perrin Variable Annuity and Life User Exchange
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NPA claims capturing 2 cops, 7 militiamen over offenses
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DAVAO CITY, Philippines—The New People's Army has captured two police officers and seven militiamen in the Caraga Region, in separate instances, in the past days.
Jorge Madlos, spokesperson of the National Democratic Front, said PO1 Ronald Alan Munez and PO1 Lemuel Espina were captured by NPA forces in Loreto town in Agusan del Sur on Sunday.
Madlos said the two policemen were allegedly behind extortion activities in a village in Loreto.
On Monday morning, communist rebels raided a detachment in Hinatuan town in Surigao del Sur, bringing with them three militiamen as captives.
Madlos said four militiamen in a hinterland village in San Luis in Agusan del Sur were also captured on Monday.
Also on Monday, NPA rebels raided the packing plant of Dole Philippines in Bukidon province and a plantation in Claveria town in Misamis Oriental province, burning heavy equipment.
Madlos said the captured security forces would undergo investigation to determine the gravity of their offense.
"The main reason for this is to send a message to political candidates that they must adhere to the policies of the revolutionary movement," Ka Oris told the Philippine Daily Inquirer by phone on Monday.
"Candidates should secure a campaign permit before they can make sorties to the (communist-influenced) areas," he said.
Lt. Col. Lydon Paniza, spokesperson of the 10th Infantry Division of the Eastern Mindanao Command, however, said in a text message that they have not received reports of the abductions.
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WHAMM is required for meiotic spindle migration and asymmetric cytokinesis in mouse oocytes
- Xin Huang,
- Lu Ding,
- Rui Pan,
- Peng-Fei Ma,
- Pan-Pan Cheng,
- Chun-Hui Zhang,
- Yu-Ting Shen,
- Lin Xu,
- Yu Liu,
- Xiao-Qin He,
- Zhong-Quan Qi,
- Hai-Long Wang
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WASP homolog associated with actin, membranes and microtubules (WHAMM) is a newly discovered nucleation-promoting factor that links actin and microtubule cytoskeleton and regulates transport from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi apparatus. However, knowledge of WHAMM is limited to interphase somatic cells. In this study, we examined its localization and function in mouse oocytes during meiosis. Immunostaining showed that in the germinal vesicle (GV) stage, there was no WHAMM signal; after meiosis resumption, WHAMM was associated with the spindle at prometaphase I (Pro MI), metaphase I (MI), telophase I (TI) and metaphase II (MII) stages. Nocodazole and taxol treatments showed that WHAMM was localized around the MI spindle. Depletion of WHAMM by microinjection of specific short interfering (si)RNA into the oocyte cytoplasm resulted in failure of spindle migration, disruption of asymmetric cytokinesis and a decrease in the first polar body extrusion rate during meiotic maturation. Moreover, actin cap formation was also disrupted after WHAMM depletion, confirming the failure of spindle migration. Taken together, our data suggest that WHAMM is required for peripheral spindle migration and asymmetric cytokinesis during mouse oocyte maturation.
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- Title
- WHAMM is required for meiotic spindle migration and asymmetric cytokinesis in mouse oocytes
- Journal
Histochemistry and Cell Biology
Volume 139, Issue 4 , pp 525-534
- Cover Date
- 2013-04-01
- 10.1007/s00418-012-1051-z
- Print ISSN
- 0948-6143
- Online ISSN
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Immunofluorescence
- Meiosis
- Spindle migration
- Asymmetric cytokinesis
- Mouse oocyte
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Xin Huang (1)
- Lu Ding (1)
- Rui Pan (1)
- Peng-Fei Ma (1)
- Pan-Pan Cheng (1)
- Chun-Hui Zhang (3)
- Yu-Ting Shen (2)
- Lin Xu (1)
- Yu Liu (1)
- Xiao-Qin He (2)
- Zhong-Quan Qi (1)
- Hai-Long Wang (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Organ Transplantation Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
- 3. Department of Reproductive Medicine, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Medical Center of Peking University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
- 2. Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Zhongshan Hospital, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China


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If the New York Post isn't correcting its terrible marathon coverage, what does it correct?
- By Elias GrollElias Groll is an assistant editor at Foreign Policy. A native of Stockholm, Sweden, he received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, where he was the managing editor of The Harvard Crimson.
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- @eliasgroll
It's been a tough week at the New York Post. When news first broke of the bombing at the Boston Marathon, the Post was far ahead of other media outlets, reporting that 12 people had been killed in the attack. It all seemed very plausible, and it wasn't out of the realm of possibility that the Post had some iron-clad law enforcement source feeding it casualty reports that bordered on the clairvoyant.
Then it all fell apart. Every media outlet not named the New York Post nailed down the death toll at three, and the Post was left looking rather silly. Then the paper reported that a Saudi national kept under guard at a local hospital had been named a "suspect." That too turned out to be false. Today, the Post managed to really outdo itself, splashing a photo of two dark-skinned young men whom the paper claimed were sought by the FBI. "BAG MEN," the headline screamed, "Feds seek these two pictured at Boston Marathon." ABC News tracked down one of the two men, a 17-year-old runner named Salah Barhoun, who said he had decided to watch the race when he couldn't run it. "It's the worst feeling that I can possibly feel," he told ABC. "I'm only 17."
Call it the tabloid death-spiral: attempting to make readers forget yesterday's inaccuracies with even worse conjecture on today's front page. When asked to comment on the article, Post editor Col Allan said he stands by the story:
We stand by our story. The image was emailed to law enforcement agencies yesterday afternoon seeking information about these men, as our story reported. We did not identify them as suspects.
This afternoon, the Post caught up somewhat to the facts, reporting that the two men on their cover had been cleared by investigators.
In all fairness, the paper has gotten some things right in its coverage. As Vanity Fair points out (for another priceless take on the paper's editorial strategy, see the Onion):
- The New York Post correctly reported that the Boston Marathon takes place in Boston, Massachusetts.
- "Boston" is spelled correctly.
- The current governor of the state is Deval Patrick
- Participants in the Boston Marathon are, in American English, colloquially referred to as "runners."
- Massachusetts General Hospital is a medical facility.
So what's going on at the Post? In its initial story on the attacks — the one that pegged the death toll at 12 — the paper has simply scrubbed its initial, inaccurate reporting from the story. The number "12" is nowhere to be found, nor is a death toll. Instead, the paper simply offers: "More than 130 people were injured today as multiple explosions rocked the Boston Marathon in a 'coordinated' terror attack." Meanwhile, its story on the Saudi "suspect" remains online without a correction, editor's note, or any kind of acknowledgement that it is completely false.
In situations like this, standard journalistic practice would mandate that the Post correct its inaccurate reporting. But since the paper isn't bothering to do so — on one of the year's biggest stories, no less — we have tracked down every correction the Post has issued in 2013 — four in total as far. That's right, over four and a half months of coverage, the Post has issued only four corrections by our count.
To assemble these corrections, we searched the Post's website using several methods, including its internal search tool, a Google site search, and an examination of its RSS feeds (the website does not appear to have a devoted section for corrections) .
Here, then, are the four corrections issued by the Post in 2013:
The Post reported yesterday that former Rep. Anthony Weiner had landed a job as a consultant with Concept Capital Markets, a brokerage firm. This is incorrect. The firm has not employed Weiner in any capacity.
In a story published in Tuesday's Post, a woman found dead on subway tracks in lower Manhatan [sic] was misidentified by a relative as an NYU student. Emily Singleton attended The Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater.
Editor's note: Yes, the New York Post really misspelled "Manhattan" in a correction.
In the April 10 Media Ink on potential candidates to lead Time Inc as CEO, the wrong job titles were reported for two rumored to be in the running. Former Time magazine President Eileen Naughton is now vice president of global sales at Google. Howard Averill is the Time Inc. chief financial officer.
A retired executive at the Food and Drug Administration claimed in a 1987 interview that a lawmaker stopped a probe into Herbalife. Also, Sen. Orrin Hatch, in the '80s, headed the Labor and Human Resources Committee and now is ranking member of the Finance Committee, which doesn't oversee the FDA. This information was incorrectly reported in a story on page 32 on March 29.
With that in mind, consider some of the corrections issued by the New York Times during the past week. From Monday to Thursday, the Times issued 28 corrections in total, the highlights of which are here:
An article on April 6 about the deaths of two horses at the Grand National meeting at Aintree Racecourse in England misidentified, in some editions, the race in which the horse Little Josh broke a shoulder and was euthanized. It was the Topham Steeplechase, not the Melling Steeplechase.
An article last Wednesday about Japanese restaurants known as izakayas misstated the name of a yogurt-flavored drink popular in Japan. It is Calpico, not Capilco.
An obituary on April 6 about the comic-book artist Carmine Infantino referred incorrectly to his work on the DC Comics character the Flash. The original Flash series was discontinued in 1949, and Mr. Infantino and the writer Robert Kanigher were assigned to create a new version of the character in 1956; the title was not "selling poorly" and "threatened with cancellation" at that time. And a caption with a picture of Mr. Infantino carried an erroneous credit. The photograph was taken by Bill Crawford, not by Marc Witz.
Never mind correct casualty counts, Times editors are apparently even concerned about the name of Japanese yogurt-flavored drinks. It's enough to make one wonder what the Post's editors do all day.
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Stepanek Reaches Hard-Court Milestone In Bogota; Pospisil Advances
Bogota, Colombia
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Fourth seed Radek Stepanek claimed his 200th match win on hard courts, Wednesday at the Claro Open Colombia in Bogota. The 35-year-old Czech, a winner of five hard-court titles, defeated Argentine Guido Pella 7-6(2), 6-2 after one hour and 42 minutes.
Canada's Vasek Pospisil, making his first appearance since winning the Wimbledon doubles title (w/ Sock), beat American Alex Kuznetsov 7-5, 7-5 to book his place in the quarter-finals. The third seed saved all three break points faced on serve and converted two of his four chances.
Pospisil will next face Australian Bernard Tomic, who knocked out fifth-seeded Colombian Alejandro Falla 6-1, 7-6(2). Falla has reached the final last year in Bogota (l. to Karlovic).
Pospisil's countryman, Peter Polansky, opened the day's proceedings by prevailing against Colombian qualifier Nicolas Barrientos 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the first round. It marked his first tour-level win since the 2010 US Open (d. Monaco).
Polansky will next play eighth seed Victor Estrella Burgos of the Dominican Republic. Estrella Burgos advanced with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Argentine qualifier Juan Ignacio Londero.
Also in first-round matches, Colombian Alejandro Gonzalez, the sixth seed, swept past Thiemo de Bakker 6-3, 6-4 in their first FedEx ATP Head2Head meeting. British qualifier James Ward led 6-4, 3-0 when No. 7 seed Matthew Ebden retired with a hand injury. Chinese Taipei's Jimmy Wang, meanwhile, beat Pole Michal Przysiezny 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-3.
In doubles, fourth seeds Ken Skupski and Neal Skupski teamed up to beat Estrella Burgos and Adrian Mannarino 6-4, 7-6(4), while Barrientos and Juan Sebastian Cabal edged Facundo Arguello and Michael Quintero 6-4, 4-6, 10-4.
In the evening's final match, second seeds Santiago Gonzalez and Scott Lipsky couldn't capitalise on a late second-set comeback, losing to Adil Shamasdin and Divij Sharan 6-2, 7-5 in 70 minutes.
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We were watching TV the other day, and it had a comercial for Amazing Race (or we were watching it ??). The comercial showed a group arguing and I said to my husband.
that would be us.. we would not survive that show. We just nit pick to much at each other. sometimes we just need to step away. not that we don't love each other, and usually get along famously, we do have our times, and when stressed it can be difficult, sometimes.. and i see that adventure to be very stressfull on a relationship.
so would you and your SO survive Amazing Race or would you Kill each other (not literally of course)


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COZY, COZY, COZY.......Wabi Sabi Cottage is a B & B.....with only two rooms...this ad highlights The Sheepscot River Suite. Joan, the Innkeeper is a RN & Maine native. She has sold over 17,000 scones at the local Coast of Maine Bookshop. Be sure to visit the cottage website for details. Visit historic villages of Damariscotta or Wiscasset in 10 minutes. Joan can pack you a picnic basket and send you off to the Mascongus Bay Lobster Company to buy your lobster dinner on the ocean. Wabi Sabi Cottage offers the Sheepscot River Suite with a huge bathroom (2 antique clawfoot tubs!) and a shower overlooking the Sheepscot River! Home made oatmeal raisin cookies in your room to greet you upon check in, and a peaceful breakfast overlooking the water each morning. Coffee/Tea available by 7am. The Innkeeper sets the breakfast table with homemade granola and her pastry of the day. Help yourself to the yogurt, fruit, juice and milk in the fridge that looks like a vintage icebox. Innkeeper makes full hot country breakfast on the weekends, including fresh eggs & bacon and homemade yeast raised waffles! Chocolates on your pillow at night. Designed by former resident architect of Colonial Williamsburg in 2010, this home is decorated to take you back in time when every hour of every day was spent on the tasks of daily living. How about 1910? B & B and living history museum too! Maine slate farmhouse sink. 1800's pie safe. The Post Office from the Seal Harbor, Maine General Store built in 1865 is built into the library wall. UNIQUE!
Joan Belcher was born in Belfast, Maine. Graduate of University of Southern Maine. Registered Nurse by vocation. Innkeeper by avocation. Daughter Christabelle lives in Palm Beach Gardens Florida with husband and son. Son Nate lives in Kennebunk, Maine with wife. Joan has a 'bakery' on the garden level of the cottage where she makes scones every morning. With a kitchen garden by the front porch and the family garden in the back and a root cellar to fill, she stays busy. She lives in paradise. 'Living in Sheepscot Village is like living in Brigadoon! You know the real world is only 5 miles away but you can pretend to be living in another century when life was about the art of every day living!'
Joan Belcher purchased this cottage in 2010
This property is in a historic village and near the ocean….what more could a girl want?
'That was an experience!' is the most heard phrase after staying as an overnight guest or a member of a group lunch reservation. A house tour finds you a vast collection of antiques that hark back to 1900's when the art of living took up all energy and time. From the antique cookstove, icebox, pie safes, and sink to the cash register, post office and general store collections.....every corner boasts an era gone by. The chickens in the backyard live in the Coop de Ville! The kitchen garden lining the softly curved brick walk into the cottage and the backyard vegetable garden. Homemade jam, eggs from the coop, Joan's homemade bread....breakfast doesn't get any better! Nearby Wiscasset with antiques stores will keep you shopping for days. Joan can recommend any one of many daytrips down peninsulas of Midcoast Maine. The Pemaquid Lighthouse on the Maine quarter, the Maine Botanical Gardens are a must see,....conservation trails, kyaking, even a trip to Freeport for the outlet shopping is enough to keep any and all busy. Rent Sheepscot River Suite at Wabi Sabi Cottage and have exclusive access to Joan's 'girl cave' to enjoy a cup of tea and nap on the bed outside!
Joan and Bill and Wabi Sabi were simply wonderful. It was like staying with friends whom we just met. Everything about our stay was relaxing and refreshing. The room, the food, the view, the hosts ... I just can't say enough of how wonderful our stay was. The only thing I would have changed -- I wish we would have stayed longer!!
If you have never visited Maine, this is the very BEST place to start your exploration. We were a short drive from many coastal towns -- each with it's own personality and charm. After staying at this wonderful B&B, we will have a hard time ever staying in a hotel while on vacation.
WABI SABI is the way to go!!!
Joan and Bill made us feel at home from the moment we arrived at Wabi Sabi. The cottage is charming, the grounds are delightful, and the food is fantastic! We stayed for a week and loved every minute. The location worked very well for us as we explored the beautiful state of Maine. We went as far north as Camden and as far south as Kennebunkport during our day trips, and we always had time to rest a bit before dinner. We particularly enjoyed spending time in nearby Damariscotta and Wiscasset, where we discovered several great restaurants and shops. The history of this area is so interesting.....we visited numerous points of interest and have a list of the places we want to see on our next visit! Wabi Sabi was truly our home away from home last week, and we appreciate the hospitality of these special folks who have become special friends.
Wabi Sabi Cottage in Alna, Maine is one of those rare gems where EVERYTHING is in perfect harmony! From the cheery sunflowers arching over the welcoming sign in front, to the freshly-washed sheets drying in the sun and soft breeze, to the tantalizing scent of homemade muffins baking, to the serene views of the water slowly rising and falling in the tidal river visible at the bottom of the sloping lawn, to the endlessly fascinating myriad of comfortable antiques…..everything has the effect of totally making whatever cares one might have vanish! And Joan, the owner, is also completely in tune with her guests, and an amazing multi-talented hostess. Bill is extremely helpful and knowledgeable. The cottage, though not old, has been built to give the feel of yesteryear, while staying completely, unobtrusively up-to-date. There's Wi-Fi, but the trappings of technology are all hidden away behind artfully designed cabinets, giving a welcome feel of "the way life used to be". There are two guest rooms: the larger Sheepscot River Room, where we stayed, has a beautiful view of the river, and a roomy bathroom with two clawfoot soaking bathtubs, plus a shower. Joan's absolutely wonderful breakfasts - served in a screened-in patio also overlooking the river, picturesque hen house, fresh vegetable garden, and sloping lawn – are amazing. Fresh-baked muffins, freshly homemade granola, fruits, a unique "French toast bread pudding", or eggs+ any way you'd like. This is truly a wonderful find, and we plan to return as often as we can.
Joan Belcher and Bill Wilbur provided extraordinary attention and care. Bill was even kind enough to buff out a paint smear on the side of my car, which occurred before my departure from the Boston area. I loved watching the baby chicks, nestled in their warm box, develop their first feathers. Delicious food. Beautiful, serene view of the Sheepscot River. A one-of-a-kind experience.
Relaxed environment that makes you glad to put down the electronic devices and soak in the peace and calm. The innkeeper is up daily at 5a.m. baking the breads (scones, bread, cinnamon rolls, donut balls, pies) for the day. The Sheepscot room overlooks the river and has a private bath with a shower and 2 claw foot tubs. If you are fortunate enough to be there for a dinner, you will indulge in homemade cooking while delighting in great conversation and uninhibited laughter. Antiques galore fill up every are of the house. Well worth a stop in at the ice cream parlor, but try to spend a night to get the full effect. Hope to return many more times in the future!
1 hour North of Portland, Maine (foodiest small city in America), 1 hour South of Camden (where the mountains meet the sea). 10 minutes from Wiscasset (antique haven). Watch the kyakers traverse the reversing falls while lounging on the screen porch overlooking tidal Sheepscot River. Pumpkin Festival in Damariscotta as hightlighed on the Today Show. Boothbay Harbor 28 minute scenic ride along the coast for a whale watch. 33 minute scenic coastal ride to the boat to Monhegan Island for a daytrip. 32 minute scenic coastal ride to the Round Pond Lobesterman's Co Op for a lobster dinner on the water. Maine Botanical Gardens a must see...even the children's garden is for adults to enjoy!
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Please find the agenda for tomorrow's meeting attached here: eGIS meeting notice and Agenda – May 2015
See you tomorrow!
Loyola Marymount is hosting a forum for the Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability – this one is focused on the use of LARIAC data for resiliency and sustainability. The event is free and open to the public.
Click here to view the flyer: LARC 3rd Month Forum at LMU CURes
Many of us are familiar with Esri Story Maps, and hopefully, many of us will visit exhibits and workshops about them at the upcoming Esri User Conference in July. Story Maps are a great way to add a "where" dimension to telling our story, or to just help explain something to someone. (It's not too late to enter Esri's Storytelling Contest, with winners to be announced at the Conference.)
While Esri Story Maps provide self-guided interactive presentations for the user, MapStory.org has been likened to the "YouTube of geospatial temporal data". Here, maps have Play buttons.
With initial development beginning in 2011, MapStory.org was launched in early 2013 by the MapStory Foundation as a community project, inspired by Wikipedia and completely built on open source software. One example shows the growth of the City of Los Angeles. Unknown to us, within weeks after our countywide city annexation data was first uploaded to the Los Angeles County GIS Data Portal, someone from New York City created this animated map. The same author later created a more elaborate animation showing the evolution of all of L. A. County's cities, including several cities that are now extinct.
With a free MapStory account, all it takes is a shapefile containing dates to create a story layer.
I wanted to play a bit more with both Leaflet, which is an open source Javascript library for mapping. A recent dataset that we downloaded from UC Berkeley contains all injury collisions in LA County from 2003 – 2012. Mapping the locations of fatal collisions would let me play with some of the cool features of leaflet, namely hotspot mapping, as well as referencing ESRI leaflet specific capabilities.
So on the map below you can see different types of fatalities (pedestrian, bike, vehicle, or all). I just put an IFrame around the actual web page: http://egis3.lacounty.gov/api/leaflet/samples/accident_fatalities.htm
Note that the way leaflet works, data is downloaded to your computer and rendered locally – so it will take a while to stream the data down initially.
LA County has released an update to our preferred technologies for GIS, which recognizes the value, increasing adoption rates, and power of Leaflet (http://leafletjs.com), which is an open source Javascript Library for mobile-friendly apps, along with the related data structure, geoJSON (http://geojson.org/). As well, this update recognizes the use of Socrata for the LA County Data Portal
We have also created a new page specific for our Preferred Technologies: http://egis3.lacounty.gov/eGIS/egis-home/preferred-technologies-for-gis/
For some examples of these in action, see this page: http://egis3.lacounty.gov/eGIS/gis-mapping-applications/simple-mobile-apps/ – these applications work very well for mobile devices.
This morning LA County launched its Open Data Portal at https://data.lacounty.gov/. Beyond GIS data, the data portal expands the scope of our open data efforts to non-GIS data, including budget and finance information.
Developer tools and Open APIs enable developers to leverage the data as a service, and to build applications against this data.
We have loaded some of the GIS datasets that we make available on our GIS Data Portal (http://gis.lacounty.gov/dataportal) onto this new portal, but for now will continue to maintain the GIS Data Portal in parrallel.
Mike Carson at SoCalGIS posted about Earthworks recently – so I took a quick look.
Interestingly, I found a scanned, georeferenced map of downtown LA (the first survey of the city) – I had seen the original at a recent Geospatial LA tour of the LA Central Library – I had thought it would be interesting to scan and georeference these maps, and they are already there!
So – for those of you who might want to see the older maps, take a loot. Here is a link to a search for the LA Area:
I requested a download of that map, so it should be interesting to see what arrives!
Please find tomorrow's agenda attached. Note that there is now a second page which lists the presentations by department. I have added it since the departments scheduled for tomorrow did not remember they were on the agenda, so they were not prepared. Please review.
eGIS meeting notice and Agenda – April 2015
If you use Chrome to access some of the County's GIS applications (the GIS Viewer and the Parcel Viewer, for example), and those applications are based on Silverlight, you won't be able to access them without making a settings change. Note – Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox will work just fine.
Why? Chrome is disabling support for NPAPI – see this post here: http://blog.chromium.org/2014/11/the-final-countdown-for-npapi.html
You can re-enable NPAPI by doing the following:
However – Chrome will finish deprecation and remove ALL support in September of this year. The County is moving to an HTML5 JAvascript platform over the next few months, but after that, to access the Silverlight applications you will need to use IE or Firefox
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October 17th, 2007 #1
Spartan Camp #15 - 50 gestures + Optional Study of
The aim is to produce 50 gestures by Sunday the 21st of October.
The gestures can be of anything, human, animal, cavorting capybaras....and can be in any media, digi or traditional is fine.
In addition to this, participants can choose to do a study comparing the human male and female hipbones (best if you show the femurs too), in any media. Black and White or Colour is fine.
Come on soldiers! Flex those muscles!!
PS...critting each other is highly encouraged!! Let's help each other get better!
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- Spartan Camp #13 - 50 Gestures and Optional Arm Study
Hide this ad by registering as a memberOctober 17th, 2007 #2
nice, lets rock!!!
October 21st, 2007 #3
Cmon ppl! nothing to crit.
I'm steadily getting later myself though, gotta work on that -.-
Overslept because of it last monday.
Ref used on female poses and the hips.
October 21st, 2007 #4
Very Nice Anthis, I think these look better than your last batch. The seated poses are looking good. Try doing some poses from your imagination too.
alright here's my poses, all from imagination
sorry there are so many images, i have to work smaller
Last edited by Howie; October 21st, 2007 at 11:40 PM.
October 22nd, 2007 #5
October 22nd, 2007 #6
All right, Metal-Mike said I should check this thread out. Sure sounds interesting! And for reference, is sites like www.posemaniacs.com ok?
October 22nd, 2007 #7
yeah man, basically you can do what you want as long it's in the realm of the guide lines. use ref, draw from imagination. the idea is to exercise as much as possible
i'll post mine later.
October 22nd, 2007 #8
Anthis - i know what you mean. i have to work on that too. Have to have these done on time!! youre gestures are coming along quite nicely man. keep it up
Howie - good ones man! keep the proportions in mind. Good job!
Aardvarkphil - sorry to hear. looking forward to seeing your in the next one
Sarcophagus - dude! try to find some time to participate on this. it's really cool and you totally see the benefit of it after a couple of runs!
Ok here are mine. i'm a little late this time. sorry
Optional Study;
I'll be putting up the threads from now on since Cwn Annwn is awefuly busy at the moment. See yah there guys!!!
October 24th, 2007 #9
Howie: Thanks. Yea, wasn't doing well the week before. Did the seated ones after your advice. Males are from imagination, but I needed ref on the females and their poses. Bit of a weak point.
Your technique seems to pay off well for balance and legs especially. The proportions (arms, body sizes) seem a little off sometimes, but that might be because of the photograph distortion?
MeTaL-Mike; Hehe, I used to spread them out over the week, but I'm only postponing now... Thanks.
Nice variation you got there. Among pose, expression and style. I like #2 and #15 (same guy?). #2 reminds me of half-life..... Some necks seem a bit thin (among the expressions, not sure if intended). What ref did you use for the hipbones? In my ref, the hipbones had the same width, but the female one was only positioned differently.
Late crit -.-
October 24th, 2007 #10
Anthis - I did not use any ref for the gestures. only the Optional study. i've got it from a book called "Drawing Cutting Edge Anatomy The ultimate reference guide for comic book artists" by Christopher Hart
I've got many ebooks on drawing and other stuff, just never have time to go through them all
October 24th, 2007 #11
all imagination. this was fun and tiring.
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October 24th, 2007 #12
*oops, wrong thread*
Last edited by Asatira; October 25th, 2007 at 06:53 PM."It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance, over brute force and cynicism." Craig Ferguson on Dr. Who
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October 25th, 2007 #13
Lohan and Asatira - good work guys but your posting in the wrong thread.
This spartan thread is a weekly thing and a new thread is being posted weekly in the Community Activities forum. check it out, a new one is up already. post these in there
cheers and thanks for joining
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October 25th, 2007 #14
oooooo snap im a fool
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October 25th, 2007 #15
hahahah, happens to the best of us man
October 25th, 2007 #16
Thanks, I wasn't really looking at the dates. I'll post in the current thread.
"It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance, over brute force and cynicism." Craig Ferguson on Dr. Who
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Just a few short weeks ago, critics and moviegoers alike went bonkers for X-Men: Days of Future Past, making it the highest-grossing installment of extremely popular comic movie franchise. So far the film has grossed $613.4 million worldwide, and it's got a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.
So why on earth would 20th Century Fox even consider replacing the director of this film for the next installment, due out in 2016? Because the director is Byan Singer, who is currently embroiled in a pretty huge underage sex scandal. And according to RadarOnline.com, Fox is very worried that this controversy could screw up X-Men: Apocalypse.
The issue is not whether Singer is guilty of having sex with minors at his famous gay Hollywood sex parties. No, no, no. According to a supersecret source who spoke with RadarOnline, Singer has provided Fox with "proof" that the allegations against him are false, and they don't care. Fox is just worried that Singer will have to spend copious amounts of time in court over the next 12 months instead of making their $300 million movie, which they really want to open in the spring of 2016. Thus, they want Singer to step back and be executive producer, handpicking a new director himself.
Singer doesn't want to give up Apocalypse, though. According to that same source, his lawyers are "going nuts because the deal was closed months ago."
So what's going to happen? It's anybody's guess. I can tell you this, though: die-hard X-Men fans would probably rather wait until 2020 and have Singer direct X-Men: Apolcalypse than risk having if ruined by some director in over his head.


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Two young hip professionals tumble reluctantly in love in this refreshingly simple, spicy look at '90s black bohemia. Yes, the plot meanders a bit, but the clever dialogue and sophisticated characters more than carry the film. A smart, romantic choice for a Saturday night at home.
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More than 200 people show up for bring-your-gun-to-church day.
"More than 200 people show up for bring-your-gun-to-church day."
Ken Pagano, the pastor of the New Bethel Church in Louisville, KY, recently invited his congregation to bring their unloaded firearms into the house of worship to "celebrate our rights as Americans!" Yesterday's bring-your-gun-to-church day, to which more than 200 people showed up, also featured "a $1 raffle of a handgun, firearms safety lessons and a picnic." Pagano reportedly thought up the event "after some church members expressed concern about members of President Barack Obama administration's views on gun control, though the president hasn't moved to put new restrictions on ownership." Since Obama's election, there has been a boom in gun sales, stoked largely by a multi-million dollar misinformation campaign by the National Rifle Association.


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BRAY'S BAYOU. Bray's Bayou rises just northeast of Clodine in northern Fort Bend County (at 29°43' N, 95°41' W) and runs southeast for fourteen miles to its mouth on Buffalo Bayou (at 29°44' N, 95°17' W). The stream is intermittent in its upper reaches. It traverses variable terrain surfaced by impermeable soils and, downstream, by calcareous clay. Mixed hardwoods and prairie grasses grow in the vicinity.
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THANJAVUR: The world famous Art Gallery situated inside the palace in the heart of the town here will soon be illuminated thanks to funds granted by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
A sum of Rs. 11 lakh has been allocated by the ASI for the illumination work, which is already under way.
The Art Gallery, which has been attracting even foreign tourists, has a rich collection of bronze icons, stone sculptures, paintings and other artefacts belonging to Chola and Nayaka periods.
Besides, the gallery provides information about the entire history of Tamil Nadu from the 9th century to 18th century AD. The stones as well as the bronze sculptures are housed inside the Nayak Palace building in three sections, namely the Pooja Mahal for stone sculptures, Indira Mandir for arsenals and the Rama Chowdam Hall displaying bronze sculptures.
The illumination would be done in such way to focus on the rare sculptures and statues, which have been attracting tourists from all over the world round the year, according to the Collector, M. S. Shanmugam.
Library to get facelift
Just close to the Gallery is the Saraswati Mahal Library, one of the biggest manuscript libraries in Asia, which is also getting a facelift.
The work on establishing a well-decorated entrance with colourful arches and paintings is currently under way on an outlay of Rs. 18 lakh. Major portion of the work is said to be completed.
A 'sthapathi' who is well versed with the art and architecture style of the erstwhile rulers of Thanjavur has been entrusted with the work.
Other facilities such as a cloak room to enable the visitors to deposit their belongings, an information centre, a special counter for the sale of the books brought out by the library and a mini book exhibition have been planned at the entrance of the library, say official sources here.
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- Genuine Briggs & Stratton Part
- Original Equipment Manufacturer Part
- Fits most 12Y000 and 185000 Model Briggs Engines
Arrow Tool Hanging Rack TH100$19.97
Extend the life of your tools by keeping them inside and off the ground. This hanging rack can be easily mounted on a wall in your shed, garage or basement to accommodate long-handled tools and organize smaller tools, such as screwdrivers, pliers and other hand tools.
- Two 25-1/2" channels
- Five separate large-tool holders that snap into the channel
- One small-tool holder that snaps into the channel
Oregon Semi Pneumatic Wheel 194231X427$8.97
Product Features:
- Oregon 72-033 Semi Pneumatic Wheel
- Hub: Plastic gear - white mag style
- Replaces 180773
- Size: 8 inch x2 inch
- Inner Diameter: 1/2 inch
- Hub length: 1-5/8 inch
Poulan 8x1.75 Rotary Mower Wheel 581009205$20.97
This Poulan Rotary wheel is an OEM approved, 8 x 1.75-inch gear-driven wheel. This wheel is specifically made for a Poulan self-propelled walk-behind lawn mowers.Learn More
AYP 46" Manual Zone Restart Engine Cable 183281$10.97
The engine zone restart cable's dimensions are total Length: 53 5/8'' Housing Length: 46 1/2''. Both ends are a cast "Z" Bend. Handle end wraps around handle, with a peg that locates and locks it in place. Often these pegs wear down or break when the cable starts to bind in the housing, causing a no-start because the cable wont move far enough to pull the engine brake switch to "on" position. Safety Zone Start cable fits many models of AYP, Husqvarna, Craftsman Sears walk behind mowers.
- Total Length (in.): 53-5/8"
- Housing Length (in.): 46-1/2"
AYP Idler Pulley 196106$25.97
The AYP Idler Pulley, model number: 196106, is an Original Equipment Manufacturer replacement part. The 196106 fits most lawn mower brads, such as: Husqvarna, Craftsman, Poulan, Poulan Pro and Weed Eater.
- Outer Diameter (in.): 5-3/8"
- Inner Diameter (in.): 3/8"
- Thickness (in.): 1-5/8"
AYP 8x2" Wheel with Dust Cover 193144$21.97
The AYP 8x2" Wheel with Dust Cover is a lawn mower replacement wheel that is a genuine OEM product. The 193144 replaces the following model numbers:111922X, 142204, 143427, 143596, 150340, 151156, 157179, 166917, 170263, 180755, 532140126, 700953, 701575, 750124, 750851, 850690 and 88558.
Product Features:
- Includes 1 wheel
- Includes 1 dust cover
- OEM specified product
- Outer Diameter (in.): 8"
- Inner Diameter (in.): 2"
AYP Mower Engine Control Cable 176556$13.97
The AYP Mower Engine Control Cable, model # 176556, has a Z bend on each end and is a replacement piece that fits models: AYP PO500N21R, PR160N21CHC, PR4N22SHA, PR550N21RH3, WM500N21R, XT625N21RH3.
- Conduit Length (in.): 45-3/8"
- Cable Length (in.): 52-1/2"


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