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Mary J. Blige has the same pain and grit in her voice of having lived a very full life as artists like Billie Holliday, Etta James and others. For a burgeoning hip-hop generation, Blige's voice and signature style of taking a hip-hop beat and adding her soulful vibe to it so changed the sound of music that she became the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul. Although "You Remind Me" was the first single, when "Real Love," hit the airwaves, it immediately became the summer joint that catapulted Blige into the spotlight.
Born Mary Jane Blige in January 1971, the Yonkers, New York native is the direct musical descendent of Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan (everyone has heard Blige's rendition of Chaka's "Sweet Thing"), and when her debut album What's the 411? dropped, she turned the world of R&B on its head.
Led by the innovative eye of then-nineteen year old Uptown Records executive Sean "Puffy" Combs, Mary's look was the opposite of the R&B vixens ruling the charts. Puff put her in a man's suit in the video for "I'm Going Down," and she donned baseball caps and knee-guards for performances of "Real Love." Generally, she exuded a ghetto soul style so many could relate to.
Blige's troubles evolved as did her music, substance, and style. A tumultuous relationship with K-Ci of Jodeci, a group also developed by Puffy at the time, sent the singer spiraling through emotional turmoil that came out in her music. The album, My Life, was a turning point for Blige, with songs like "Be Happy" giving credence to her growth and desire for peace of mind.
The masses related to Blige because her troubled world was so real, and her very real desire to change resonated with so many young women. By the time she got to the Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis produced "No More Drama," we were beginning to see a new Mary, one who believed in her mission and her voice and was striving for self-acceptance.
Several albums and a supreme love found in Kendu Issacs later, Mary gave us The Breakthrough. With her voice in top form, she damn near took home all the Grammys the following year and gave a beautiful performance of the album's smash shingle, "Be Without You," (with a little Bette Midler thrown in) and promptly ascended to the throne as a healed woman.
Blige has shown her longevity, diversity (she's appeared alongside Elton John, U-2, Sting, and others), and continued appeal to the masses and she's only gotten better, time after time.
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They're coming by the busload to see our public Montessori schools
Surely, you've heard me say it before. Milwaukee Public Schools' family of public Montessori schools is unrivaled in the United States. No other city can boast seven traditional public Montessori schools plus one district charter Montessori program.
Among MPS' group of eight schools there is a rare Montessori high school program (at MacDowell), a groundbreaking public Montessori charter (Highland) and schools that are among the highest performing in the district. One of them, Fernwood, is one of just five or six percent of schools in the entire state that was credited with "significantly exceeding expectations" last year.
But don't take my word for it. In a report a couple years ago the Milwaukee NAACP said MPS' Montessori schools offer the best opportunity for African-American kids to get a great education in the city.
And now, folks are coming by the busload to check out the schools.
On Friday, March 7, a bus full of folks from Madison is coming to town for the "School Bus Tour of Milwaukee Public Montessori Schools."
The bus will leave Capital City at 8:30 a.m. and make stops at Craig Montessori on the Northwest Side, Highland Community School – now in larger digs in the former MacDowell Montessori building at 17th and Highland – and Fernwood Montessori.
While at Highland, the edu-tourists will enjoy lunch arranged by the community at Maryland Avenue Montessori School. You see, these schools are also a model of how individual programs within MPS can collaborate and share ideas (such as the annual Montessori summit, which took place in January).
The tour was organized by former Craig Montessori teacher Melissa Droessler, who returned to her hometown of Madison to open that city's first public Montessori school – Isthmus Montessori Academy – which is seeking a charter with Madison Metropolitan School District.
"On Feb. 13, Isthmus Montessori Academy submitted an application to become the first public Montessori school in the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD)," Droessler wrote in a Facebook post. "That application detailed the work of Dr. Maria Montessori along with the successes of public Montessori Schools in Milwaukee, other locations in Wisconsin and beyond. But as Montessori educators, we know that nothing compares to seeing our educational philosophy in action.
"Ride the bus with us and learn about how the most innovative education model in America is actually more than 100 years old and changing lives every day! We'll ... tour three of Milwaukee Public School's eight Montessori programs, meet their educators, students and school leaders, and have a robust conversation about the opportunity that Isthmus Montessori Academy hopes to bring to MMSD in 2015. This is a not-to-be-missed opportunity for school board members, MMSD leaders, community funders and interested parents."
The tour was coordinated with the help of MPS board member Meagan Holman – whose children attend an MPS Montessori – and Jenni Hofschulte.
"We're proud to show off the teachers, staff and students that have made our Montessori schools so successful," says Hofschulte, a Maryland Avenue Montessori parent who also serves as coordinator of the Montessori Milwaukee advocacy group.
"It's only right that they should serve as models to other cities seeking to add public Montessoris to their school districts' portfolios."
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Title: Pruning of non-native nectarine tree from Lakeway TX
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QUESTION:Could you describe when and how a nectarine tree should be pruned? Or, give us a resource for such information? Also, when and what type of treatment/pesticide (?) should one use on it in the Austin area to prevent any sort of problems when it starts to bear fruit. We had approximately 100 lbs of fruit last year (first yr. to produce) but it all had to be destroyed due to fungus or scale? Thank you very much.
Prunus persica, nectarine tree, probably originated in China. It does not grow in the wild, but is only a cultivated plant. The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center is dedicated to the growth, propagation and protection of plants native not only to North America but to the area in which the plant is being grown; therefore, the nectarine falls out of our realm of expertise.
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Man allegedly sexually assaults woman while driving in Palo Alto
Original post made on Aug 19, 2014
Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, August 19, 2014, 7:59 AM
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a resident of Triple El
on Aug 19, 2014 at 12:55 pm
This article is unclear about the contact with the police,
placing it at both 9 am by the victim and 3 am by the rescuing Menlo Park citizen.
Did the rescuer call Menlo Park Police? Did they not inform Palo Alto Police?
a resident of Downtown North
on Aug 19, 2014 at 1:07 pm
Whoa! Why would a woman get into a car with an unknown driver at 2:30 a.m.? Or 9 a.m., for that matter?
a resident of Menlo Park
on Aug 19, 2014 at 1:29 pm
Pearl is a registered user.
What was this female doing walking the streets at 2:30 a.m.? [Portion removed due to disrespectful comment.] Guaranteed, if you're walking the streets at late hours, you're a prime target for all the wackos and deviants out at that hour trolling the streets looking for victims.
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07 May 2012 10:57 GMT | Politics, Latin America, Mexico
The frontrunner in Mexico's presidential race has fended off rivals' attempts to paint him as a liar with corrupt backers, emerging from the first of two debates with analysts saying his large lead appeared in tact.
Enrique Pena Nieto, the candidate seeking to return Mexico's former ruling party to the nation's highest office after 12 years, was accused of lying about his record as governor of the state of Mexico and maintaining ties to unsavory elements of his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
He came under particularly relentless attack from Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the third-place candidate of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party.
Lopez Obrador showed pictures of Pena Nieto with disliked political figures from the past PRI administrations, attempting to paint the 45-year-old candidate as a tool for the return of the autocratic and corrupt party that ruled Mexico for seven decades before it was voted out of power.
"Who is Enrique Pena Nieto, really?" Lopez Obrador asked, as he held up photos of Pena Nieto grinning alongside a political mentor accused of stealing public funds, and a former president the leftist described as one of the clique of power-brokers behind the PRI candidate.
Gaffe prone
Pena Nieto has a reputation for scrupulously preparing but making errors while improvising.
He has been criticized for limiting his public exposure and cancelling appearances at academic forums, part of a strategy of avoiding confrontations with his rivals.
In the rare face-to-face confrontation, Lopez Obrador and the second-place candidate, Josefina Vazquez Mota of the ruling National Action Party, appeared to be hoping to force a damaging gaffe from the man who leads the race by as many as 20 points in most polls.
Mexico's first major female presidential candidate showed the cameras a blown-up cover of an Economist magazine profile of Pena Nieto that she said showed that he had lied about reducing homicide figures during his term as governor of the state of Mexico.
"There are two ways of lying," she said. "One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics."But Pena Nieto avoided any significant error, striking back at his rivals with responses that grew increasingly aggressive and heated as he described cases of corruption among Lopez Obrador's aides as Mexico City mayor, and accused Vazquez Mota of absenteeism as a federal legislator.
"They seem to have come to an agreement," he said of his two main opponents. "They're coming with knives sharpened."
'No knockout blow'
Al Jazeera's Franc Contreras, reporting from Mexico City, said the debate was full of "political sparring from all four of the main contenders, but no clear knockout blow".
"That means it's very likely that Enirque Pena Nieto ... will remain the clear frontrunner," he said.
"Many people thought he was going to slip up," said Jose Antonio Crespo, an analyst at the Centre for Economic Studies.
"His performance, without being spectacular, was sufficiently better than expected, and he can come away without such bad marks."
With questions agreed-upon beforehand, Pena Nieto stuck to his themes of change and competence, and parried Vazquez Mota's critiques as based upon incorrect information, a frequent refrain from his team in the first month of the campaign.
Only woman
Pena Nieto opened the debate by describing Mexico's economic performance as the worst in 80 years, saying "there aren't enough jobs, and the ones that exist don't pay well".
Vazquez Mota went on the attack against the former governor's record minutes into the campaign, saying the state of Mexico had one of the country's worst economic records under his administration.
"It doesn't cease to surprise me that he talks about objectives that he was never able to achieve in the state of Mexico," she said.
She emphasized her role as the only woman in the race, and sought to de-emphasize her ties to the party that has governed for the last 12 years.
"I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen," she said. "I'm a different candidate ... different because I don't belong to powerful, privileged groups, because I'm honest."
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Tickets are now on sale by calling 732-901-7000 option 2, in person at the BlueClaws Box Office, or online by clicking here. See below for a seating chart.
TNA World Heavyweight Champion Eric Young leads the list of IMPACT WRESTLING Superstars, along with Bully Ray, the Olympic Gold Medalist Kurt Angle, Ethan Carter III, "The IT Factor" Bobby Roode, "The Samoan Submission Machine" Samoa Joe and many more of popular IMPACT WRESTLING Superstars. A list of stars that will appear at this event will be known at a later date.
In the above photo, Section 101 is on the bottom left (in right field), with Section 108 behind home plate, and Section 115 in the bottom right (in left field), the same as all BlueClaws games.
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Gay man and woman in court battle over children
Monday 08 November 2010
A gay man and woman are fighting a bitter court battle over their two children born by artificial insemination.
The woman and her civil partner, who cannot be named for legal reasons, took the case to the Court of Appeal today to try to overturn rulings allowing the father a joint residency order.
The father met the mother after he placed an advert in Gay Times in 1999 which read: "Gay guy wants to be a Dad. White, handsome, solvent 30s, professional, in happy relationship, non-scene, has everything but kids.
"Looking for a similar female couple who wants to have kids. I require little involvement. I have a lot to offer."
June Venters QC, representing the mother and her partner, told a panel of three judges headed by the Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger, that the children, a boy of nine and girl of six, need to know which is their permanent home and her clients considered they were their parents.
The father, who has been with his partner for 25 years, won a shared residence order in a county court for the children and an order they should live with him for 152 days of the year.
The couples sat at either ends of the court bench as Ms Venters said that from birth the mother and her partner had been their primary parents and should have been granted a joint residency order and the father defined contact periods.
She said making a residence order between the biological father and mother had "marginalised" her partner, who was regarded as a primary carer by the children.
The county court ruling had "sent a wrong message" and her clients wanted the children to be "very clear" who everyone was in their lives, said Ms Venters.
The recorder who heard the case in the county court, said he was struck by the intensity of the dislike for the father felt by the mother and her partner, said Ms Venters.
She said her clients found him domineering and controlling and they should have recognition that they are a family.
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Where were you during the O.J. chase?
I remember exactly where I was 20 years ago today, the night O.J. Simpson captivated the entire nation with his slow-speed chase through Los Angeles.
I was at Hooters.
It was a few weeks after I returned to Milwaukee for the summer after my sophomore year in college. I had just started working as an intern in the corporate communications department at Johnson Controls. My friend, Eron Laber, and I decided to drive to Chicago to watch game five of the NBA finals.
Being 20 and underage, and with just one fake ID between the two of us, we settled on Hooters as a possible place to sneak in. It was the first and last time, actually, I've been to a Hooters. They didn't even card us.
Before the O.J. shenanigans, I remember mostly the tension in the air from the World Cup, which was being held in Chicago. On one side of the bar, drunken Germans chanted loudly, while confused Bolivian fans were raising a ruckus of their own on the other side. It felt weird that few people were interested in the NBA Game, which of course, was interrupted by O.J. and the slow white Bronco.
I remember sipping a Miller Lite and eating some fried food, watching the scene play out in a dreamlike state. Eron and I expected O.J. to shoot himself in the head on live TV, or a European soccer fight to break out. Neither happened.
I also remember the ride back. I was staying with my grandma that summer, and our freeway exit was Brown Deer Road. We ran out of gas on the off ramp, and coasted into the gas station on Brown Deer and Port Road. It seemed like a fitting end to a surreal night.
Where were you when O.J. took off?
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In response to numerous requests, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) clarified the form and scope of its proceeding to review wholesale residential high-speed Internet access services, which was launched on February 8, 2011. Canadians will have an opportunity to share their views at a public hearing starting on July 11th in Gatineau, Que. The CRTC will also hold an online consultation. Details of both the hearing and consultation will be announced shortly.
Although the scope of the proceeding will not be limited to reviewing usage-based billing proposals, the CRTC intends to focus on issues such as:
The CRTC will not be expanding the scope, as requested by several parties, to include the billing practices for retail Internet services. There is no evidence that market forces are not working properly in this unregulated market.
Finally, the CRTC will not review, as was also requested by several parties, the overall regulatory framework for wholesale high-speed Internet access services. The overall framework was not part of the decision that is being reviewed, and it would not be appropriate to initiate such a wide-ranging review within the current proceeding.
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Melbourne: Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge`s new born baby is distantly related to Count Dracula, the 15th century prince who was the inspiration behind Bram Stoker`s famous vampire, according to genealogists.
Experts also traced the family tree back to an Islamic sultan, who is believed to have descended from the Prophet Mohammed, Essentialbaby.com.au reported.
Kate gave birth to the baby at 4:24 pm on Monday at St Mary`s Hospital in London.
Prince William was alongside her during the delivery.
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I just could not disagree with this more- whoever the new coach is, he is going to have great talent on defense (quite possibly could be the most talented d in the whole NHL the next 2-3 year). Also set at goaltender IF Pekka returns to his old form (a big if at this point I admit).
But who exactly on on this team can't stand or undergo a system change?? If anything, some of the young talent we have at forward NEED A SYSTEM CHANGE. Smith, Wilson, Forsberg, Jarnkrok, heck even Stalberg- you think those guys are best suited for a Trotz-like system??? I think its just the opposite- a system change could be just what many of our forwards need............
We absolutely do NOT need to blow it up...........
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 days – interviewed at Aflac (Baltimore, MD) in March 2011.
I a nutshell, as others have stated, AFLAC has incredibly deceptive hiring practices. They tell you many positions are open but, in reality, there is only one--SALES. I was told there are SALARIED customer service positions but, the guy who "interviewed" me just kept insisting I would really rather be a sales person. Very little was said about this so-called cust service position. He did say something about possibly doing cust service part time to earn some base salary but also still doing sales--but he was very vague about it. I got tired of wasting my time with this deceptive go-nowhere sales pitch disguised as an interview and just told him we would keep in touch--as he was trying to get me to commit to go to training now before I even said I wanted the job so I could "see what it's all about." Then I kept getting calls from inept phone reps who have no record of anything since they keep no database and told me they are not able to delete my name from their list since their is no central database to delete it from. I don't know how this company gets a reputable reputation when it can't even be honest in the interview!
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WILMINGTON -- I can't wait for this series to begin. I can't wait to see how the Bruins have handled their week of rest and preparation.
I can't wait to see if they are fully capable – as I believe deep down they are – of upsetting the Penguins. I can't wait to see if we're looking at the chance of a second Stanley Cup rally in three years in the big parking lot in front of TD Garden.
When you cover a team for a certain period of time, and you're around the players and coaches on a regular basis during their work day, you get a feel for what they're like. Their temperament, their moods. You watch extra-closely during practice which, thanks to the Bruins and the NHL, is very open. How many sports would open their FULL practice to the public in the middle of the playoffs? There was even a trumpeter on hand to serenade the Bruins on Friday morning before their final Ristuccia Arena practice.
During their shortened season, I had been around the Bruins on a limited basis during the week but most of my energy in the last three months, after the Patriots lost to the Ravens in the AFC championship, focused on the Celtics.
When they went out in the first round to the Knicks, it was finally time to immerse myself in the Black and Gold.
Let me make something very clear: I very much enjoy covering the Patriots, Celtics and Red Sox when they are all in season. They are all organizations filled with great people and true professionals, even if some (ah hem, Patriots) talk a little bit less than others.
But the Bruins in the Stanley Cup playoffs are different. Once an actual series begins, it's ups and downs every other night. It's hand-to-hand, stick-on-stick combat for 60 minutes and maybe more.
The Bruins are a hard-working group of players that love the sport, make the ultimate sacrifice of mind and body for the sake of the team and it shows.
Bruins fans are as loyal as they come and the real fans were either in the building or still watching Game 7 against Toronto when it appeared all hope was lost with 11 minutes left.
When that game was won, the bandwagon got a lot bigger.
This is a team that has it all – recent championship success, a mix of veterans like Zdeno Chara, Patrice Bergeron and Dennis Seidenberg and now, 41-year-young Jaromir Jagr, to go with new blood in Brad Marchand, Tyler Seguin, Dougie Hamilton, Torey Krug and Matt Bartkowski. There's the top line of David Krejci, Milan Lucic and Nathan Horton, all of whom peaked at the right time in the 2011 Cup run. There's young goalie in Tuukka Rask, entering the prime of his career. There's the tenacity of Shawn Thornton, Gregory Campbell and Daniel Paille, a key factor in the victory over the Rangers in the second round.
Throw in a general manager in Peter Chiarelli who has added the right parts at the right time over the last three seasons and a coach in Claude Julien who has the perfect temperament for his team and you have a team fully capable of knocking off a highly-skilled Penguins team in a seven-game series.
Everyone covering the Bruins has exhausted their creative reserves trying to come up with cute ways of getting into the minds of players and coaches this week. Julien was actually asked Thursday if he gets away from hockey for a while by singing karaoke.
"Karaoke is definitely not my style, not because I don't like to go there, but I can't sing. That's admitting your weaknesses. No, I mean, I go about my own business. What you see in me here in Boston is what you see in me for the most part. I know for a fact I'm not a self-promoter, I don't need that in my life, I love my job. I like going out there and doing my job and doing what needs to be done. For me, winning – and I said that when we won – I was so happy for the guys around. It really, that's just the way I am."
Bingo. Just the way he is. The players understand it. The fans understand it. That's Julien's style. He wasn't going to change it after 2010. He wasn't going to change it after winning the Cup the next year. And he's not going to change it now.
"I can't change myself," he said. "I accept myself the way I am and I'm comfortable with it. I guess the biggest thing is, I spent most of my career in the minors and the one thing you want to do is treat your players with respect. I'm not saying we weren't in the minors, but those bus rides and things, you build some appreciation for the game and for everything else."
As Bill Belichick proves every time he stands behind a microphone, it really doesn't matter if the fans or media like his answers. All that matters is what goes on in the dressing room, and whether the players listen to and respect the coach. We all saw with the 2012 Red Sox what happens when a coach/manager fails in this.
"At one point, it's treating them with respect, but I always said, that fine line that exists between respect and authority," Julien said. "I always keep that in my mind. They know who's in charge, but they know that there's some respect there and they can come knock on my door any time they want. There's a time when you can joke around with them and then on game days and before games, they'll see me just like they are, my head is into the game and it's all about focus. So there's some intensity in myself when it gets close to games. Guys have learned to know me, just as I've learned to know them."
When you have the respect of the players, you can let the leaders in the room lead. Doc Rivers is a master of this with Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and more and more with Rajon Rondo. Julien has no worries in that regard at all.
"There's some great leadership in that dressing room," Julien said. "We've said it all along. They police themselves extremely well. Every coach will tell you that you can give your team a message, but at the end of the day, it's how they take it and how it's shared and delivered to one another. You can walk out of the room and some players might say, 'He's full of you know what', or they might say, 'Listen, he's making sense. Let's make sure we follow that.' So that's where leadership comes in huge. We've had some great leaders here in the past and right now in the present."
In the present, this series reminds me a lot of watching the Eric Lindros-led Philadelphia Flyers with John LeClair and the Simon Gange-Danny Briere Flyers of three years ago with loads of scoring but a big question mark in goal.
So far, Tomas Vokoun has been the answer, in part because the firepower in front of him has taken away most of the pressure. But that was against Islanders and Senators. Vokoun has a 1.88 goals against average. But how much has he really been tested?
The Bruins have the firepower to test Vokoun much more than the Senators and make this a game won in the corners and in physical battles.
Who wins? I'll take the Bruins in seven.
The Bruins may or may not win this series but I really can't wait to see how it unfolds. As Claude Julien joked Friday before taking off for Pittsburgh, "Yeah, it's been a good week. Should be a real fun series. Four days straight of this stuff and you're loading up with four questions a day. You probably don't sleep at night."
Thankfully, the jokes about questions and karaoke end Saturday night.
Now to the Trags Bag for a sample of what Bruins fans are thinking about the Penguins in the Eastern Conference finals:
@Big3Sports Great sign for the B's. Health = major factor in playoffs.
@oldtimebasebal1 I felt Bruins were on fumes last time they played Pen's. I can't help but think this extended rest benefits B's more than Pen's????
Law Professor Michael McCann calls in to talk about how Tom Brady can fight the NFL in court.
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Butch and Tom discuss Tom's Top 50 Pats of the Bill Belichick era feature as he nears his top 10. They also get into more Deflategate talk on the heels of Mike Florio's report this morning that Goodell's decision will be announced this coming week.
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Michael joins Ben and Sam to discuss the wild NBA Free Agency period and the upcoming Celtics season.
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In the final hour of the "midseason finale" as DJ likes to call it, the crew discuss more about the future of the Bruins franchise, the possible power struggle in the front office and who should be the head coach going forward. They talk to intelligent and talented Fluto Shinzawa about all of these thing and more in an excellent interview, and finally, DJ says THANK YOU!
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Junior Seau's daughter denied chance to speak at her father's HOF induction. Dan LeBetard addressed the Colin Cowherd suspension. Jack Trudeau pulled over with absurdly high BAC.
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Mikey Adams and Lenny Megliola get 36 glorious minutes between games of a Monday doubleheader, and after an 11-1 Red Sox loss, to vent about the declining state of the team.
Mikey Adams and Lenny Megliola talk to #RedSox great Bill Lee, The Spaceman, about the current version of the Sox as only The Spaceman can describe things.
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It's time to grade Texas A&M's first season in the SEC:
OFFENSE: Remember how the Aggies' offense was supposed to struggle without Ryan Tannehill running things and a redshirt freshman replacing him at quarterback? Yeah, that really worked out. Thanks to the minds of Kevin Sumlin, offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury and a Heisman Trophy winner in Johnny Manziel, the Aggies ran over most of their new opponents in 2012 with the SEC's top offense. Texas A&M averaged a league-high 558.5 yards per game (third nationally). The Aggies also led the SEC in rushing (242.1), passing (316.5) and scoring offense (44.5). A&M registered more than 400 yards in 12 games and more than 600 yards in seven games. Johnny Football became the first freshman to ever win the Heisman and broke the SEC record for total offense with 5,116 yards (3,706 passing and 1,410 rushing). He also totaled 47 touchdowns and led the SEC in rushing yards and rushing touchdowns (21). Manziel had a special year, but he also got help from a dynamic receiving duo in freshman Mike Evans and senior Ryan Swope, who combined to catch 154 passes for 2,018 yards and 13 touchdowns. Uzoma Nwachukwu only caught 26 passes, but he added seven more receiving touchdowns. When Manziel wasn't darting past or slipping by defenders, A&M's running game mostly went through running back Ben Malena, who finished the year with 808 yards and eight touchdowns. Christine Michael added 12 more rushing touchdowns. A&M was also equipped with one of the top offensive lines in the country led by Luke Joeckel and Jake Matthews. Grade: A+
DEFENSE: The Aggies ranked seventh or lower in the SEC in the four major defensive categories, including ranking 12th in pass defense (250.7 yards per game). Teams scored 36 touchdowns on the Aggies and averaged 21.8 points per game. The Aggies surrendered 20-plus points in seven games, including allowing 57 points in a back-and-forth win over Louisiana Tech. A&M might have had some issues when it came to slowing down the yardage and points, but in its two losses, the Aggies allowed just 20 and 24 points. The Aggies gave up 390.2 yards per game and grabbed just 16 takeaways. Defensive end Damontre Moore became a real star. He was one of the top defenders in the country, tying for eighth nationally with 12.5 sacks and seventh with 21 tackles for loss. He also led the Aggies with 85 total tackles and nine quarterback hurries. The defense, which was relatively young in the back end, might have had a little more bend than the coaches would like, but it rarely broke down and held an Oklahoma offense to just 13 points in the AT&T Cotton Bowl. Grade: B-
OVERALL: The Aggies were supposed to struggle in their first year in the SEC, but flourished instead. Johnny Football was a major reason why, but Sumlin instilled an extremely tough personality during spring ball that carried over to the season. Alabama might have been crowned college football's national champion, but after a 41-13 beat down of Oklahoma, the Aggies made a solid case for being the nation's top team -- and A&M was the only team to top the Crimson Tide with a 29-24 win in Tuscaloosa. The defense needed to be bailed out by the offense at times, but even with no bye week during the regular season, the Aggies never seemed to slow down. If not for the opener against Louisiana Tech being postponed, the season might have been even better with a game under the Aggies' belt before taking on Florida. A&M wasn't as sharp against LSU, but was in serious contention for a BCS bowl game late in the year. Grade: A
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SHENZHEN,China, Nov. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- This year's China Hi-Tech Fair (CHTF) kicked off on Nov. 16 and will go until Nov. 21. During the two days following Nov. 17, exhibitors intensively released their new technologies and products at special activities organized by CHTF at Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center.
This is an enhancement of the function of CHTF as a platform for trading and transferring of research results and technologies, serving effectively to promote integration, connection and optimization of innovative factors such as technology, capital, information, human resource and market and helping exhibitors reap substantial gains from their displays in CHTF 2012.
At present, releasing activities include Business Match for Hi-Tech Projects, Road Show for Project Financing and Purchase Conference for Overseas Buyers.
The Institute of Crop Sciences of CAAS (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences) unveiled their studies about dwarf abortion wheat and creation and application of efficient breeding of this species. This project won the First Prize of the National Award for Scientific & Technical Advancement in 2010. Leading the world, it is one of the major original innovations with intellectual property right exclusively owned by China.
Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIAT of CAS) announced the results of its first Qrobot Cup International Contest of Robot Development & Application and presented awards to the winners during the releases.
Lenovo made a debut of some of its innovative products, including the world first 360-degree foldable tablet "IdeaPad Yoga" at the release. Shenzhen Yifang Digital threw a release conference for Yifang Windows 8 styluses, and Shenzhen HSAE had a release of new products jointly with Intel.
Harbin LiveChain Technologies Co. Ltd. displayed LiveChain Health Cloud at the information release.
The world leading intelligent video analysis technology developed by Anxin-China Holdings Limited for security & protection was revealed. Anxin has obtained an American patent for this technology, which is now an international leader in video analyzing.
There are more technical innovations to be witnessed at CHTF releases, including vehicle fuel cells developed by Sunrise Power, LED tunable light bulbs (G60K-02, 7.5W), an energy saving new product of Shenzhen Collection Enterprises, medlar juice and coffee produced by Merchants Bureau of Ningxia Autonomous Region, the BNW electric rice cooker of Shenzhen Bens Intelligent Electric Appliance, and OATOS enterprise cloud application of Shenzhen CONLECT Information Technology.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that HPM Networks will exhibit at the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. For 20 years, HPM Networks has been integrating technology solutions that solve complex business challenges. HPM Networks has designed solutions for both SMB and enterprise customers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Chuck Piluso presented a study of cloud adoption trends and the power and flexibility of IBM Power and Pureflex cloud solutions. Prior to Secure Infrastructure and Services, Mr. Piluso founded North American Telecommunication Corporation, a facilities-based Competitive Local Exchange Carrier licensed by the Public Service Commission in 10 states, serving as the company's chairman and president from 1997 to 2000. Between 1990 and 1997, Mr. Piluso served as chairman & founder of International Te...
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