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Talking about the campaign, Gaurav Seth, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications, MAX said: "The IPL campaigns on MAX have always been distinctive and path breaking. With the 'Aisa Mauka Aur Kahan Milega' campaign this year, we want to bring alive the obsession and passion of the IPL, which brings people together from across the country with their friends and families to enjoy the biggest extravaganza on Indian television. We look forward to yet another record breaking edition of the DLF IPL on MAX this year."
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There is a feeling that runners get. It happens at the starting line, right before the gun goes off. Amongst the stretching and the incessant leg shaking there is this feeling of intense excitement and runaway fear, the desire to simultaneously start the race and to turn around and jump back into bed.
On an early Sunday morning in Gettysburg, this sentiment was plastered across the faces of the hundreds of runners who had gathered on East Broadway for the start of the North-South Marathon. They pulled all the usual runner tricks — jumped up and down to keep warm, chatted with their friends to cool their nerves and cracked their knuckles to keep busy.
It was like any other gathering of people who choose to run 26.2 miles for fun, except that it was held on April 28, just 13 days after a horrific event in Boston that will undoubtedly always resonate with runners.
"It was a great race and it was destroyed," said Jim Mastrianni, a runner from New Jersey who ran in the Boston Marathon earlier this month. He finished the race and was on the train on his way home before the bombs went off that killed three and wounded hundreds.
Even before the bombings, Boston was more than just a race for marathon runners. It was their Olympics, their Disney World. Boston is the place where runners from around the country dream to run, which makes the events that happened there all the more painful.
"It was like Christmas was ruined," Mastrianni said. "It is my favorite race."
That is why Mastrianni and dozens of other runners showed up to run on Sunday with Boston on the mind. Boston is the goal. It is always on the minds of marathon runners, but this time around, the feelings were all the more poignant.
Dressed in an oversized Boston Red Sox T-shirt, Kathi Myers of Lancaster County stretched and prepared for what would be one of more than 50 marathons that she has completed in her lifetime. Myers has done so many, she said, that at this point she has lost count on an exact number.
"I just love to run," Myers said. "It has helped me through a lot. I am still trying to get to Boston actually."
Even though Mastrianni only finished running the 2013 Boston Marathon a few weeks ago, he also had his eyes set on 2014 Boston qualifying times. Like any true distance runner, Mastrianni is all about endurance, pushing himself to do his best in every race and, despite the tragic events that happened there, Boston is still his goal.
Now Mastrianni is on the path to finish five marathons in eight weeks , a path that began in Boston. After Gettysburg, he will travel to the Jersey Shore, the Poconos, and Lake Placid for races before that journey is up.
"My goal is to quality for Boston in each one," Mastrianni said.
At 7:30 a.m. on Sunday Mastrianni continued working toward that goal, along with 785 other runners, as they stood on the starting line bouncing around with that typical pre-race runner's feeling. It seemed as if nothing could calm them down when the voice of race director Lowell Ladd came on the stereo system.
"Let us think about the fellow runners and spectators that suffered through that tragic event," Ladd said of the Boston Marathon.
And for the first time all day, the runners actually stopped moving, stopped bouncing around and settled down for a moment of silence.
But before long they were moving again, off on their all too familiar 26.2 mile trek. When the runners returned about three hours later to cross the finish line, they looked like almost completely different people. No longer nervous or jittery, they appeared confident and strong despite the exhaustion.
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And by the look on his face as he winced away the pain, it was hard to argue that he hadn't.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton will sign copies of "Hard Choices," her bestselling book about her four years as Secretary of State, from 2:15 to 4:15 p.m. July 20 at Common Good Books, 38 S. Snelling Ave., St. Paul.
"This is big. I can't think of anything bigger," said David Enyeart, the store's event manager, adding that Clinton will be in the Twin Cities for another event and wanted to expand her book tour.
Enyeart said Clinton asked for few accommodations at the store, just "a comfy chair" and a slightly higher platform if she wants to stand for a while. "She's even bringing her own pen," he joked.
Clinton has Secret Service protection, but Enyeart says their requirements "are not too bad." They'll need the names of store staff working that day, and attendees will be subject to a wand search. Bags will be checked and only wallets and cellphones will be permitted in the store.
Tickets at $35 (plus tax) include a copy of "Hard Choices" and will be available at the store beginning July 12. Only ticketed customers will be permitted to join the signing line, and Clinton will sign only one copy per person. Customers who purchased a copy of the book at Common Good Books before July 8 may receive a complimentary ticket upon proof of purchase.


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Here's how RW members rated this race (100 votes).
In short: Thoroughly enjoyable, and priced just right!In full: The weather was warm, the skies were clear, and the sun shone down upon what seemed to be a couple of hundred runners ready to do two laps of the beautiful Bushy Park. With three car parks, there are plenty of places for competitors to park. It is also served fantastically by public transport.The registration process on the day was quick and simple. From there, a steward escorted us to the start line where an air horn marked the start of the run.The course was well marked in terms of direction, with the encourageable stewards on most corners. The 2Km and 7Km markers were a little short though. It's a lovely flat course, but can get very windy.Upon completion of the first lap, two ladies were stood offering bottles of water to passing runners. Pacing towards the finish was a joy as it was to a generous cheer and applause from both the locals and fellow runners. Numbers were noted as we passed the finish line and the queuing began to receive medals, t-shirts, and a voucher for Specsavers.For £10, it's just about right. Bushy Park on a warm day is one of my favourite runs, and thoroughly recommended!Date of review: March 7, 2010
In short: Beautiful day, great course, friendly marshals (thank you!) but finish hard to judgeDate of review: March 7, 2010
In short: Getting better. Friendly. Just needs a bit more professionalism.In full: I agree with other reviewers.In general,great. And better than last year. But sorry,lady with the 2k,7k placard didn't even have it pointing in our direction,even when she saw us coming.Would a 5k marker not be good too? Finish line indistinct (line of sawdust on ground?) But good value- water good,medal nice,tee shit basic but appreciated. Bravo. Oh, couldn't the starter be a bit more enthusiastic and welcoming? It is a FUN run!Date of review: March 7, 2010
In short: GREAT RACE .In full: Cannot Fault this Race, especially the Weather too and missed my PB by 8 seconds too (Darn it) . i'll be back as Arnie Says :-)Date of review: March 7, 2010
In short: Enjoyable park race with good facilities.Date of review: March 7, 2010
In short: Great weather, great surroundings, but needed better organisationIn full: I am sure the intentions of everyone involved were great, but would a few more distance markers have been out of the question?? And the few they had (3 & 7KM) were totally inaccurate. not much excuse for that to be honest - particularly as it was flagged on these forums last year. However, a t-shirt, medal and PB all for the princely sum £10 made it a pretty good morning.Date of review: March 7, 2010
In short: Beautiful day, location and run. Organisation, esp. at end not great.In full: Love running in Bushy Park. Great location for a 10k, and a lovely day for it. Went OK, but organisation seemed haphazard. Why no clear marker/indication for the Start line? Why was the 2k/7k lady standing at more like 1.5k/6.5k? Why no clear finish line? Not prepared for handing out medals/T-shirts at the end, so lots of people milling about not quite sure what was happening. Other than that everything was peachy! ;)Date of review: March 7, 2010
In short: Very friendly and enjoyable 10kIn full: First time I have run in Bushy Park and I will be back! Small number of people, but quickly got left at the back on a 01:03:30 PB! Still felt like I was running a race though - and thoroughly enjoyed! It is challenging as there is not the support on route of the big races, although scenery helps you focus! Date of review: October 7, 2009
In short: Very good but 2k/7k markers incorrectly positioned - about 0.5k out.In full: Generally good but for a couple of niggles including a water station at the half-way which included bottles of water on the ground without anybody to hand them out (although there was cups of water being handed out about 30m up). Would've been good to have more km markers out there, correctly positioned as well. Otherwise JPR Williams (ex-Wales rugby pro) was on hand to give out the medals and t-shirts (nice touch) and well worth the £10 entry fee.Date of review: October 7, 2009
In short: Flat, fast, low key race in a very scenic locationIn full: I really enjoyed this race. I do a lot of fitness work in Bushy Park and love the way it's very flat and very scenic. Only 120 or so runners made it quite a small race. The marshalls at the mid point and finish were very friendly and encouraging but the others around the course could have done with cheering up a bit!My advice for next time would be to clearly indicate the finish line as I wasn't sure when to stop at the end.Overall though, a really nice run out.Date of review: October 5, 2009
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The U.N. Committee on Nuclear Energy, the United States and Iran has resumed their talks today in Baghdad. Tehran says they are "willing to discuss potential intrusive, international inspection of secret military facilities."
The U.N. delegates have rising expectations that Iran might be seeking a diplomatic solution to the nuclear impasse.
The U.S. has a "wait and see" mentality. And Israel continues to warn that Iran is only buying more time, and their talk is nothing more than a negotiating tactic.
If you understood Farsi, the most widely used Persian language, spoken in Iran – what you probably would be hearing is . . . "We are willing to sit down and talk with you as long as you are willing to hear the same old rhetoric and broken promises. Personally we find your whole attitude to be intrusive, wanting to inspect our secret military facilities, but we can talk about it, until the 5th Friday of this month or the 6th Friday of next month, as long as we have time to build our bomb. Why, we will even be willing to show you a few empty store rooms in old areas we have cleaned up, sanitized areas where we used to work on nuclear projects. Give us a little more time and we will have our nuclear laboratories buried so deep you will never be able to find them. We have as much right to be a nuclear nation as Israel does. We could even stop our uranium enrichment. We already have enough fuel for the weapons we are making."
Talking is one thing, immediate action is something else. Broken promises between Islam and the Infidels are a whole other ballgame. Besides the negotiating that goes on behind closed doors, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said from Tehran that "policies of pressure and intimidation are futile." He urged the nuclear commission "to adopt policies to show good will to solve this issue," and said that Iran hoped "in a day or two we can bring good news" from the Baghdad talks.
Good news for the Israelis would be that Iran has stopped uranium enrichment and is shelving their nuclear ambitions right away.
Good news for the U.N. would be that Iran has decided to not break any more rules or sanctions and will cooperate fully with the world community. The U.N. wants a wide-ranging deal to bring Iran back into compliance with Security Council resolutions and assurances that Iran is not trying to build a nuclear weapon.
Good news for Iran would be if the talks continued, and agreements were drawn up to alleviate the international sanctions, so they can take their time to develop nuclear weapons and enrich their nuclear fuels.
The truth is that Western led sanctions are about to become even more severe and Israel is growing impatient to put a stop to Iran's folly.
Any official agreement between the International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran on how to proceed with the many complains and unsolved issues is going to take time to turn a plan into action. Time may not be on their side! A nuclear energy agency official said the Baghdad negotiations are about trying to figure out Iran's intentions and bringing Iran into full compliance.
Iran, the U.S. and the U.N. are on a nuclear seesaw, up and down, back and forth it goes. The problem is that no one really gets anywhere as long as they are on a teeter-totter and even a seesaw needs a little balance.
The problem with this nuclear seesaw is that someone has to have two feet on the ground while another has their head up in the clouds. Iran's goal seems to be, to knock the Christians and Jews off the teeter-totter. Some say the Classic Teeter Totter promotes cooperative play and helps develop motor skills among children, the immature ones. I say it is time to grow-up and face the real world. You can get hurt on a seesaw.


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Q109 preview calls for high iPod, modest Mac sales
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Apple should do fairly well in its fiscal first quarter results, set to be announced on Wednesday, says Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. While Apple -- like other companies -- has been hit by the ongoing global recession, Munster argues that the company will announce iPod shipments between 19 and 20 million. The figures are based on tracking by the NPD Group, and if accurate will substantially beat Street expectations of just 18.6 million.
Mac shipments are expected to be merely on par or slightly above Street expectations however, around 2.5 to 2.6 million, versus the Street's strict 2.5 million. A wildcard for investors may be iPhone shipments, as while Munster notes that he has held to 6.4 million units, it is unknown how much influence international carriers or the Walmart expansion may have. Shipments may be swayed most by economic problems in the US, where core iPhone sales reside.
Munster is calling for $10 billion in revenue, greater than the Street's $9.7 billion; EPS, though, is expected to be just $1.32, instead of the Street's $1.39. Apple's guidance for the March quarter is predicted to be $7.6 billion in revenue with a $0.90 EPS, 7 percent and 20 percent below consensus, respectively.


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I like film much better too, but I never understood the worry about battery dependency. Our film cameras are dependent on film, too. So carry enough film. And if you need batteries, carry spare batteries. No brainer there.
My worry in that respect stems from the kind of trips I take - next one is ten days in a tent in Snowdonia. My other half has one of those digital jobs made by Nikon and though she follows your "no brainer" approach of copious supplies of batteries, half way into that period even the supposedly wonderful lithium-ion ones are suffering from what I take to be an internal discharge issue. The low temperatures associated with North Wales will undoubtedly not help her batteries, though they will be of benefit to my film reserves!
This is another of those "clutching at straws" threads.
40. I use lab processing, but I have most of the necessary darkroom equipment, just havent had time to get involved. I have high end digital equipment and lenses, but only use that when I "have" to....for kid's plays, birthday parties, etc.
I'm 50, I have shot film for 46 years. (it runs in the family). I show a lot of color in my younger years but it never really turned me on. Came back to Black and White in the early 90's and it's been my main form of artistic expression since. I have used digital, but it simply doesn't have the overall feel I need.
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49. Started with 135 mm film (obviously) in early 1980's. Mainly "vacation shots" until 5-6 years ago when I went digital (350D). Learned a lot with that! Now mix film and digital. Love old folders from 1930's/1950's and medium format as well large format. Love the CLA of old shutters and stuff. Do B/W and colour at home. Scan negatives for computer use. Occasionally let a lab print some large pictures. Always on the learning curve...
50. Started with a pocket tele-instamatic in 1976 and then graduated to a K-1000 in 1978. Did the college newspaper and all that sort of stuff. Have a freezer full of way-to-much film and have processed my own everything since the early 1980s. Lately have amassed a bunch of gear - wouldn't quite call it a collection. Digital is fine but just like film better. Printing about 50% analog and 50% scanned and inkjet - goes back and forth depending what my free time looks like.
Will be very sad if and when color negative film goes away. Still have the K-1000 and use it weekly. No idea what happened to the pocket instamatic.
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55. My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic for Christmas in 1964. I never really did much photography as a youth - I grew up in a poor rural area where acceptable male activities generally involved gasoline, gunpowder, alcohol, some kind of ball, risk of injury, or killing something. We had a short-lived camera club my senior year and we got to spend a whole 2 nights in the darkroom at a nearby college. A Pentax ME Super was the first luxury purchase my wife and I made with my first job out of college. We used it for family snapshots for years and never gave much thought to learning about photography. Then, around 1998 I became the unofficial photographer for our daughter's gymnastics team, using lab scans to create really bad 8x10 inkjets for the other parents. In '04 I had a consulting gig in San Francisco and wondered why my photos looked so bad compared to others I'd seen of that oh-so-photogenic city. That's when the bug hit, really hard. I eventually got disgusted with the digital half of the hybrid process and decided to take control from start to finish. That meant switching to B&W; getting an old, fully manual, MF folder; and pursuing a darkroom of my own. The darkroom doesn't exist yet, but the equipment is there in the basement, waiting.
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This is another of those "clutching at straws" threads.
What does this mean, Ben?
I get the feeling you're referring a to a previous thread that I missed.
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You have a great online name - obviously I will have to call you Anode Voltage!
If I had to grade that post I'd give it a B+
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Great reportage, Synthese.
Never been to Pitti but your descriptions of it remind me so much of SIHH, the industry-only watch fair held in Geneva every January. Sheer madness percolating underneath the oh-so-controlled exterior sheen.
There is no greater privilege than to be a moderately well-informed outsider with a press pass to one of these fairs. Much is at stake - particularly in the watch industry, where seriously gigantic quantities of money and talent-hours are invested in all-or-nothing product launches which can make or break careers, even the brands themselves. I'm sure the #menswear industry is largely the same...
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After collapsing into bed following after pizza, I start dreaming that @Gettoasty and @gdl203 are playing dodgeball, and wake up drooling. I have to pee. I drank almost enough water to drown myself, which is a solid survival strategy, and proves to be worth it in the morning. My neck is killing me, though. I have a messenger bag, and walking around with a camera and a press kit and a pitti guide is actually a little painful. But I soldier on, and eat breakfast in the crowded nook while the hostess coughs up most of her lung.
My feet and head are both hurting, so I stop at the pharmacy for painkillers, drop one on the ground, and eat it anyway. The road to Pitti smells like garlic, and is paved with cigarette butts and the shattered dreams of the unblogged.
I go to the press room, and tweet a photo of someone's ass. I like to let my press pass dangle, so that everyone can see how important I am. David asks me to check over a tumblr post for him, I tell him that he spelled 'model' wrong. He says he really does mean 'modal', in a statistical kind of way.
Oh, of course.
I head back outside and aim for the showrooms, trying to avoid ending up in the background of people's photos so that @conceptual 4est can't identify me. It's like playing minesweeper.
Nuur and Roberto Collina strike me as hugely uninteresting. Pitti is even more crowded today, somehow, so I move on. I have no idea why the fuck the heat is on so high, or how the people in fur are still alive. I feel jaded already. I've covered almost everything I want to see already, and only a couple of interviews remain. The frame of my sunglasses is cracked, but they still work.
Haversack makes very, very nice clothes. I look at them for a bit and then continue. Esemplare is also nice. It's firmly Streetwear and the fabrics are interesting. Some jackets are much more striking than others, blending various textures ways that are largely successful. There are misses, of course.
One thing I note as I walk around is that I haven't seen anyone wearing the HMMM fiasco.
I see Greg, on his way to check out some knitwear, and he tells me that I look like a professional. I feel like one, dammit. Three days at Pitti and the world is mine.
I check out Orlebar Brown for Regis. Breaking with tradition, they are offering boldly-colored swim trunks with a selection of prints.
I double check my brand list and realize I still need to check out Steve Mono. On the way I spot a booth called Westage & Co., and can't resist dropping in, which is a good decision. Made in Korea, hunting inspired heritage outerwear that is actually pretty badass. I want the crazy shearling biker bomber and the indigo-dyed overcoat.
Is that Adam from le21eme? And Faust of SZ fame? I miss my chance to ask. Nanamica is still packed. Unity wants me to come back later. Christ, really? I am feeling ready for a nap. I've seen the same booths a million times now. I stick my head into Norwegian Rain and am firmly ignored by three people.
I have another Deep Thought. You can't tell why people are doing things unless you talk to them. These weird, context-less photos of wall swag and neon street style don't really communicate anything about the people who are wearing the clothes. There's a difference between not liking what people wear and disregarding their existence out of hand.
A group of models are throwing coconuts at a canvas backdrop on top of a faux croquet green, while other models tap croquet balls through wickets. Why, I have no idea. The scene is mobbed by bloggers. Circus music is playing. It does not seem to be ironic. I remind myself that I should stop drinking coffee.
I run into Greg while looking at Sea Green, and he tells me to look at a brand called GRP. They make knits that are interesting. Gitman bros has a print of denim butts. I move on. Someone is wearing Pyrex socks. I can't believe that's a real thing.
I make regular trips to the press room to tweet or whatever. I see David there, on his way back from Calabrese. We part ways. The sirens appear again, swaying down the catwalk with a bevy of photographers trailing behind them like dogs, puffing out their chests and ordering them to pose.
I stop and talk to Y-Project for what ends up being longer than anticipated. After talking to them about Mr. Serfaty's passing and the effect it had on the team, I don't really feel like taking photos and tell them I'll return in the morning.
The Fortezza is thinning out as people begin to push for the exits, off in search of parties and I don't know what. It's five. I know there are things I'm missing but it's getting harder and harder to keep everything straight.
There are many people here who are very rude, very pushy, like the Italian guy who interrupted my interview with Steve Mono to ask if he could buy a single card holder and walked off in a huff when the answer was no. It feels wrong; disrespectful to the clothing and to the people who make it. Of course, other brands exist only for that same seasonal pushiness, and those are brands that I largely avoid.
I meet up with David in front of the central pavilion and people-watch. We hang out at the wall and act like jackasses. Putting your foot on the concave concrete actually feels really nice, like a good calf stretch. I note that my lips are very supple, but that fibers from my jacket are sticking to them, and then I see a dude who looks like Lumbergh.
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Bulldogs Open Campaign With 4-3 Triumph Over Northern Illinois
DES MOINES, Iowa - The 30th-ranked Drake men's tennis team overcame a feisty Northern Illinois squad en route to a come-from-behind 4-3 victory in its season opener on Friday (Jan. 17) at the Roger Knapp Tennis Center.
The Bulldogs (1-0) dug themselves an early hole in the affair after dropping two of three doubles contests against the Huskies (0-1) to fall behind 1-0 entering singles action.
Drake began its slow climb back into the match in singles as senior Robin Goodman (Cambridge, England) registered a 6-1, 6-2 victory past Jovan Zeljkovic on court No. 4 to even the affair at one.
Sophomore Ben Lott (Newcastle, England) extended the Bulldogs' advantage to 2-1 on the strength of a 6-5 (0), 6-2 decision over Dor Amir at the No. 2 position.
Fighting back to erase a second-set deficit against Axel Lagerlof on the No. 1 court was junior Alen Salibasic (Tuzla, Bosnia & Herzegovina), who posted a 7-4 victory in the tiebreaker to secure a 6-2, 6-5 (4) triumph to give Drake a 3-1 lead.
Northern Illinois cut the deficit to 3-2 after a win by Frederic Cadieux at the No. 3 slot.
Junior Ravi Patel (London, England) fell behind 4-2 in the initial set of his showdown with Matt Lynch at No. 5 before rallying to clinch the tilt for the Bulldogs with a 6-4, 6-3 triumph.
In his first career match for Drake, sophomore Rakshit Rishi (New Delhi, India) battled Simon Fromont for three sets before suffering a 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 setback at No. 6.
The match was played under experimental scoring rules in place for the first month of the season where both singles and doubles are scored to six points. Tiebreakers are contested in both when the score is tied at five.
The Bulldogs return to action on Sunday (Jan. 19) as Drake battles No. 25 Tulsa in a 12:00 p.m. contest in Tulsa, Okla.
No. 1 Alen Salibasic (DU) def. Axel Lagerlof (NIU), 6-2, 6-5 (4)
No. 2 Ben Lott (DU) def. Dor Amir (NIU), 6-5 (0), 6-2
No. 3 Frederic Cadieux (NIU) def. No. 123 Matt Frost (DU), 6-3, 6-2
No. 4 Robin Goodman (DU) def. Jovan Zeljkovic (NIU), 6-1, 6-2
No. 5 Ravi Patel (DU) def. Matt Lynch (NIU), 6-4, 6-3
No. 6 Simon Formont (NIU) def. Rakshit Rishi (DU), 6-2, 1-6, 6-4
Order of Finish: 4,2,1,3,5,6
No. 1 Amir/Lagerlof (NIU) def. No. 8 Goodman/Patel (DU), 6-3
No. 2 Lott/Salibasic (DU) def. Lynch/Zeljkovic (NIU), 6-5 (3)
No. 3 Cadieux/Formont (NIU) def. Frost/Ben Mullis (DU), 6-5 (3)
Order of Finish: 1,2,3


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|Mode of delivery may influence neonatal responsiveness to maternal separation.
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|INTRODUCTION: Maternal-infant separation (MIS) is a highly stressful situation for the neonate. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A study was conducted to observe and describe the reactions of term neonates to brief maternal separation and restoration of skin contact within the first 48h of life, and to assess whether the mode of delivery influences neonatal responsiveness. A brief maternal-infant separation situation was videotaped to observe the reactions of the newborns within the first 12-48h of life. Characteristics observed in the newborns were: the Moro reflex, spreading out arms and feet, looking at the mother, presence/lack of crying, and some dichotomous variables (present or lacking); in mothers: adult speech, "motherese" speech, speaking to another adult present in the room, singing, clicking, tapping on the diaper, rocking, kissing the baby, touching toes, touching hands, changing position, making loving comments, calling the newborn by his/her name and touching his/her back. Crying on restoration of contact was measured. RESULTS: Ten neonates born by planned C-section and 21 neonates born by oxytocin-induced vaginal delivery were included. No behavioral differences were observed according to the mode of delivery. Neonates born by vaginal delivery took longer (64.8±8.6s) to calm down than those born by C-section (0.9±1.4s) (p=0.004). A correlation was observed between cortisol concentrations at birth and the time required to calm the baby down (r=0.41; p=0.02). CONCLUSION: Neonates born by a planned C-section cried much less on maternal separation, which might indicate an altered attachment behavior and altered response to stress. Further studies are needed to determine the potential long-term implications of variations in mother-infant attachment during the first days of life.
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After breaking its long road losing streak to start the season on Friday night, the Colorado Eagles had themselves in prime position late in Saturday nights game at San Francisco to win two-straight away from home.
But they sure didnt make it easy on themselves.
Colorado was up 2-0 with just more than five minutes left in the game when Jake Marto received a five-minute major and a game misconduct for slashing.
The Eagles killed the first three minutes of the penalty without much incident, but then created even more problems when Riley Nelson took a tripping penalty to give San Francisco two minutes of 5-on-3 action, down two goals.
As he did all night long, Kyle Jones stood tall and frustrated San Francisco throughout the power play. Then with 52 seconds left the Bulls finally put a puck past Jones on a rebound, setting up a furious last segment with San Francisco still on the power play and their goalie pulled to make it a 6-on-4.
The Eagles kept the puck away from Jones at the end and Jack Combs added an empty-net goal to seal a 3-1 win.
The star of the game was clearly the netminder. Jones stopped 31 of 32 shots for his seventh win on the season.
Colorado (10-10-1-2, 23 points) built the lead after withstanding early pressure from San Francisco (9-14-1-2, 21 points). Partway through the second period the Eagles slowly started to even out the play after the Bulls dominated early. Then just past the halfway mark of the game Kevin Ulanski put Colorado ahead off of a pass from Nelson. It was Ulanskis second goal since re-signing with the Eagles in November.
In the third period Combs padded Colorados lead with a goal assisted by Chad Costello. Then it was up to the penalty kill to finish off the game.
They did just enough, now with the momentum of two wins on the road, Colorado returns home to play a Tuesday-Wednesday set against the Las Vegas Wranglers, last seasons Western Conference champions.


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On July 19, 1989, a DC-10 en route from Denver to Philadelphia lost all its hydraulics and broke apart just outside of the Sioux City, Iowa airport, killing 110 of the 285 passengers and a single crew member, and risking the lives of everyone else on board. At that point, the rescue crew, which had spent months preparing for such an emergency, had its mettle tested above and beyond the call of duty. In this made-for-TV reenactment, Charlton Heston plays the jetliner's pilot (reprising a similar role from Airport 1975). The rescuers include Richard Thomas and James Coburn. Also known as A Thousand Heroes, Crash Landing: The Rescue of Flight 232 debuted February 24, 1992. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi


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The view of judicial-system abuse usually pushed by politicians and lobbyists, including some of the shills in our own Texas legislature, is of the barely-hurt-but-greedy auto accident or medical liability plaintiff who expects to back his truck up to the side of his lawyer's office and start shoveling his money into the bed. It's the welfare mother who wants to live large on the windfall from a lawsuit, rather than get a job or the grandmother who gets millions for spilled coffee. Tort reformers have made these kinds of stories—whether true or hyperbolic—their bread and butter for years now, and they have led to substantial legal "reforms," some needed, some not.
But in the internet age, the frivolous litigant has a new face. Righthaven LLC is a Nevada limited liability company that exists for what appears to be the sole purpose of bringing lawsuits for copyright infringement. Righthaven is what the Electronic Frontier Foundation calls a "copyright troll." Righthaven searches the media for instances of possible copyright infringement—usually unauthorized use of newspaper articles or photographs—and then contracts with the original publisher for an interest in that same article or photograph. It then turns around and files a copyright infringement suit against the alleged unauthorized user and splits the proceeds with the original publisher. Being a professional litigant seems to be Righthaven's only line of business. (Its sole web presence is www.righthavenlawsuits.com.) Presumably, this allows publishers to chase lawsuits and try to scratch up a little extra cash on the side without actually getting their hands dirty in the often messy world of litigation.
But Righthaven had a recent setback in a Nevada federal district courtroom. There, in the case of Righthaven v. Center for Intercultural Organizing, Hon. James Mahan granted summary judgment to the defendant on the grounds that its use of an article from the Las Vegas Review-Journal—a piece of which was sold to Righthaven by Stephens Media LLC, the publisher—constituted "fair use" within the meaning of the federal copyright law. The gist of the holding was that an assignee that holds a share of copyright purely for litigation purposes has a case that is much more susceptible to defeat by a fair use defense. Unlike Stephens Media, Righthaven isn't in the business of disseminating information, selling newspapers, or even licensing news articles and photographs to others. (The license it purchased from Stephens Media didn't allow it to do any of these things.) It's in the business of filing lawsuits against websites, bloggers, and anyone else against whom it can arguably assert claims. So a use of the article for its original intended purpose—disseminating information—becomes a transformative use within the meaning of the law and a transformative use falls within the fair use doctrine.
Of course, the claims Righthaven pursues are presumably claims that the original copyright holder feels aren't worth pursuing if it would actually mean expending any of its own time or resources. Litigation costs time and money. It results in an invasion of privacy and a public parading of facts that many would rather have remain private. The perception that plaintiffs hire a lawyer and then just sit back and wait for the money to roll in seems to be part of what has spurred the tort reform movement. And if an individual like the hackneyed greedy personal-injury plaintiff or a corporation like Stephens Media can avoid the awkward and time-consuming aspects, the uncertainties and worries, of a lawsuit, by simply contracting them away, it's bad news for our legal system. Litigation shouldn't be painless, but making it painless for its corporate partners is precisely what Righthaven appears to set out to do, while lining its own pocket in the process. One would hope that it's not only our federal judiciary that is taking notice of this new breed of litigant.
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Running Time: 110 min.
Production Date: October 1997
Director: Jim Gunn
Cast: Chantilly Lace, Raylin, Rayveness, Marilyn Starr, Jessie James, Jenny Worthington, Autumn Blaze, Delaine, Nicole London, and Miranda Wright
Initial Expectations: Strap On Sally is a pretty long running series which Jim Gunn directed most of if I recall correctly. I normally get a pretty good feeling about a series if a company has one person directing a good portion of it. Of course, there�s also Ed �Ewww� Powers and Randy �Leatherface� West who have done the same thing which reminds me why I should also be afraid.
Initial Reaction: It�s a good (and on the verge of very good) all girl feature.
Who Should Watch It : Fans of all girl action with a lot of toys.
Who Should Avoid It: Fans of all natural all girl sex or anybody who doesn�t like all girl sex.
Audio /Video Quality: The audio is sometimes horribly off balance. There�s also quite a bit of outdoor distractive noise. The video starts out looking very nice but is okay overall. There�s a slight grain throughout the feature and a few horizontal lines flash through at times like it was mastered from a previous or aged video.
Music: There isn�t music in every scene. Where there is music it�s cheesy porno music but it�s nicely balanced with the rest of the audio.
Menus: The menus are very basic but simple to navigate.
The Feature: Strap On Sally 12 starts off with a nice and basic opening credits showing each girl along as their name appears in the opening credits. From there it�s basically all sex. There�s a little warmup before each scene, but normally not a lot.
Jennifer Worthington starts things out with a little confession for Chantilly Lace. She loves being with her but misses the messy facial at the end of sex. Chantilly tells her not to worry because she has a little surprise for her and escorts her over to a beach chair. I haven�t seen Chantilly before and I wasn�t too impressed with Jennifer when I first saw her in Coming To Beverly Hills but this scene is starting to change my mind. She�s a cute natural blonde and she really gets into the scene. They undress a little and work over each others� tits before Chantilly goes to work fingering Jennifer�s pussy as she licks and rubs her clit. Chantilly lets Jennifer rub and eat her pussy next while talking very nasty. The sit on each others� face before Chantilly breaks out her strap on. Jennifer sucks Chantilly�s �cock� before lubing herself up and fucking Jennifer reverse cowgirl. Jennifer gets down for Chantilly to fuck her from behind next while spanking her. She pulls out and lets Jennifer have a huge load from the squirting dildo in her mouth which Jennifer takes like a champ. It�s a fairly hot scene with a good ending.
Jessie James and Autumn Blaze get their groove thing going with each other in the house. I had some hope for this scene right away as I remember Jessie being one of the best things about Sexy Carwash Girls . She has light brown hair, real tits, and a realistically cute look with a hint of naughtiness. Autumn apparently takes her first name from being in the third season of her life. She has red hair that looks slightly dyed and obviously fake tits. Autumn starts carpet munching on Jessie almost immediately followed by squatting over Jessie�s face so she can return the favor. They don�t wait too long before Jessie runs for the lube and toys and goes to work on Autumn�s pussy again. Jessie starts with a large dildo and then goes back for an extremely long strap on. She makes Autumn cum with the strap on and then grabs a large pink dildo to fuck Autumn�s ass with as Autumn sucks on the strap on lying by her face. Jessie puts the strap on back on and fucks Autumn�s ass with it after warming it up with the pink dildo. Jessie brings out a pink jelly double dong next and goes back for Autumn�s pussy, ass, and a double penetration. It�s a mildly warm scene that goes on way too long. Autumn didn�t do much of anything for me, so with her doing 95% of the receiving, it�s hard to find too much good about the scene.
Chantilly calls for an escort to start the next scene and then plays with herself with a vibrator. It�s definitely the most trash talking I�ve seen in a solo scene and sadly it�s enough to make her seem very fake. She stops so she doesn�t wear herself out and soon after Rayveness and Miranda Wright show up. This was one of the scenes I was really looking forward to since Rayveness really impressed me in A Peek of Pandora . She has great natural tits and a very realistic cuteness. Miranda looks slightly older than normal but carries it well. Rayveness tells Chantilly that Miranda is new to the game, so she�s going to start her out easy as Chantilly watches them undress from across the room. Chantilly confesses she likes feet, so Rayveness gives her a nice show of her feet as she takes her shoes off. They don�t play with each other much before Miranda starts working Rayveness�s pussy over with a large red jelly vibrator. Rayveness isn�t happy with how Miranda fucked her the first time, so she makes her fuck her again while spitting on in. She also talks dirty a little and makes Miranda talk dirty back to her. Rayveness starts out with some nice trash talking to warm up Miranda for her turn and by making her suck on the purple vibe she�s going to get. She fucks her hard with the vibe and both Rayveness and Chantilly do a nice bit of trash talking while Miranda�s getting fucked. Chantilly comes up for a closer look while she plays with herself and gives Miranda a few good spanks while she�s at it. It�s a hot scene and Miranda shows some decent potential. Once again, however, it�s Rayveness that really shines. I�m amazed at how little attention she gets. After this scene I think she�s about at the top of my list of �Most Under-rated Porn Stars�.
Jessie James returns once again to find Jennifer Worthington working her clit over with a pocket rocket while trying out Chantilly�s new love swing. Both seem excited to see the other and Jessie drops down to eat Jennifer�s pussy and asshole. Jessie�s too hot and strips down giving Jennifer the chance to give Jessie�s nipples a little attention. Jessie goes for her strap on right away and works on Jennifer in the swing making her squeal and purr. Jennifer gets out of the swing and the girls head over to a cushion on the deck. Jennifer puts on the strap on to give Jessie a taste of her own medicine. Jessie works on the strap on orally and Jennifer sprays her face with the squirting dildo. It�s another hot scene with very good chemistry but from the start of the scene you know that shadows are going to be a problem. .
Marilyn starts out as the meat in a Raylin / Nicole Landon sandwich. It�s a good place to be since Raylin and Nicole start out by both working on her tits before they move on to Raylin�s tits and Nicole�s pussy. Once again, the toys come out almost immediately and Raylin and Nicole put a double dong to its intended use. Raylin goes at it aggressively while Marilyn plays with Nicole�s tits first and then goes over to suck on Raylin�s tits. Marilyn gets her turn next as she sucks on the double dildo, Nicole works on her tits, and Raylin works on her pussy with her fingers, mouth, and a dildo. Raylin goes after Marilyn�s pussy with the same enthusiasm she worked with the double dildo, fucking her hard and spanking her ass. She has Marilyn and Nicole turn around on the couch next and fucks them both from behind. Normally I�d expect this to be the end of the scene, but Marilyn goes for the strap on and fucks Nicole from behind as Raylin spreads her wide. Raylin hops on Nicole�s back as Marilyn fucks her and has Marilyn fuck her ass with a toy as she pumps away on Nicole�s pussy. It�s a very hot scene and the most intense in the feature. I�m pretty sure it�s going to be watched again and again.
Jennifer and Jessie return once again only to be caught by Chantilly. Chantilly kicks them both out and calls a few friends. Pretty soon Rayveness, Miranda, and Autumn are back with the addition of Delaine. Chantilly goes to get a try of toys and each girl gets their choice. Autumn takes care of herself with a double penetration toy while Rayveness and Chantilly pair up and Miranda and Delaine pair up. Of course the strap on comes out again and this time Chantilly takes it up the ass as well as Delaine. Rayveness feels sorry for Autumn and brings her over for some strap on action with both herself and Delaine as Miranda watches and fucks herself with a double dildo. Autumn definitely wins the �Will she snap back?� prize in this movie. She takes a triple toy penetration with one in her ass and two in her pussy followed by a DP with two strap ons. I admit that I�m starting to like more hardcore features, but this kind of turned me off. I wasn�t too impressed with Autumn from the start and this didn�t do anything for me either. Finally, Rayveness and Delaine hose her down with the squirting dildos. If you�re into really hardcore scenes with a fairly unattractive woman, you�ll probably like this scene but the girls who did the most for me here were fairly underused.
Strap On Sally 12 has some great sex but overall lacks in some ways. Some scenes have almost no setup but there seems to be a thread of a plot running through the entire feature. It�s like the makers couldn�t figure out whether they wanted to do a feature film or an all sex feature. The girls do a good job and thankfully the sex saves the feature. The girls have good chemistry and seem to enjoy their job. The biggest fault here is Chantilly, which is sad since she�s the main character. She�s so vocal that she seems extremely fake and has an annoying voice. It�s still a hot feature and well worth watching if you like all girl sex, it�s just not quite as good as it might have been.
Extras: Bios are given for Jessie James and Chantilly Lace. They give a little personal information and another Pleasure feature to check them out in. The photo gallery contains a mix of about forty five full screen photos and snapshots that range from pretty poor to pretty good. Trailers are included Stray Cat, Evil Eyes, Looker , Prey, Shattered Vows, Intimate Strangers, Penetrator 2, A Clockwork Orgy, Eros Instinct, Poser, Flesh for Fantasy, and Back & Beyond . There are also several other covers listed. Most of the trailers are pretty decent trailers and many of the films are by Nic Cramer. Finally, there�s phone sex commercials and internet information.
Themes: Lesbian, toys, spanking, masturbation, rimming (female > female), group,
Raincoat Factor: Extreme
Overall: Currently, Strap On Sally 12 can be found online for between $13 and $22 with several stores offering it for under $16. If you like all girl features, it�s a good buy. There are a few problems with the transfer and the extras lack just as much. Although Autumn didn�t do anything at all for me and Chantilly didn�t either, most of it was very hot.
Note to Pleasure: The chapters seemed to be a little off. It�s like they�re about five seconds ahead of where they should be ending with the kiss at the end of the scene rather than the start of the action of the next scene. Combined with some of the audio problems it appears you could use a little better quality control. It�s too bad because there�s a lot of good here and it�s enough to want me to see more of the series.
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CHARLOTTE -- USA TODAY live blogged Vice President Joe Biden's speech at the Democratic Convention Thursday night. Here are highlights.
10:08 p.m -- Big finish, with more praise for the Big Guy: "That choice is to move forward, boldly forward -- and finish the job, and re-elect President Barack Obama."
Photos: Vice President Joe Biden speaks at DNC
10:06 p.m. -- Biden begins the wrap up by talking about the future as seen by him and President Obama, on items ranging from education to health care to civil rights to foreign policy; he also pays tribute to those who lost their lives fighting for the nation.
"My fellow Americans, we now find ourselves at the hinge of history," Biden says.
10:00 p.m. -- Biden rounds back to his main theme: America was down economically, but is coming back under President Obama's leadership.
"You never quit on America," Biden tells delegates. "And you deserve a President who will never quit on you."
He also whacks Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan for suggesting America is in decline.
9:57 p.m. -- Biden zeroes in on Romney himself, saying his jobs tour will have to be a "foreign trip" because of outsourcing.
Also says Romney's tax cut for the wealthy will be financed by tax hikes on the middle class.
9:55 p.m. -- Biden starts to critique last week's Republican convention -- says they didn't talk much about what their policies would do, starting with efforts to replace Medicare with "voucher-care."
The GOP talked about the nation's debt -- but didn't talk about how they have rejected Obama administration plans because they don't want to raise taxes on the rich by even one cent.
9:52 p.m. -- Biden cites the campaign slogan he coined: "Osama Bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive."
The crowd roars.
9:50 p.m. -- Biden begins to draw a second contrast between Obama and Republican Mitt Romney -- the approach to hunting Osama bin Laden.
Obama promised to take out bin Laden if he was in U.S. sights, Biden says; Romney said it wasn't worth "moving heaven and earth."
As it has throughout this convention, the mention of bin Laden's death drew standing ovations and chants of "U-S-A!"
Biden on Obama: "He said do it -- and justice was done."
9:43 p.m. -- Biden turns the speech toward Republican candidate Mitt Romney, saying he would bring a "vastly different" value system.
Contrasting the two candidates, Biden says Obama saved the auto industry, while Romney -- "the son of an automobile man" -- would have let it go bankrupt.
"I don't think he's a bad guy," Biden says of Romney, but he doesn't understand what saving the auto industry would help the whole country; he saw it "the Bain way," in terms of profits.
9:40 p.m. -- The praise of Obama continues -- "he never backs down."
Because of his decisions, "America has turned the corner," Biden says.
9:37 p.m. -- "Barack and I have been through a lot together. And we've learned a lot about each other."
Includes family stories, including how has father had to move to another state for a job.
9:36 p.m. -- Biden says his goal in this speech is to take people "inside the White House," in order "to see the President, as I see him every day."
His emphasis is on how bad the economy was when Obama became president -- "I sat beside him, as he made one gutsy decision after another."
9:34 p.m. -- Biden is emphasizing the leadership of "my friend" President Obama who has led the nation from "the brink" of another Great Depression -- "a mission we will complete."
9: 32 p.m. -- After thanking wife Jill and his family, Biden accepts re-nomination gets right to the point: President Obama, his boss, deserves re-election: Four years ago, a battered nation turned away from the failed policies of the past -- and turned to a leader who they knew would lift our nation out of the crisis."
Biden also jokes that he enjoyed hearing Jill say she's always loved him -- so why did he have to ask her to marry him five times before she said yes?
9:28 p.m. -- After a biographical video, Biden takes the stage to loud applause.
By David Jackson, USA TODAY
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If you lived in Carver County last year and you cast an absentee ballot, county officials checked to make sure your ballot's witness was a registered voter, the county elections manager testified Tuesday in Minnesota's Senate election trial.
Your witness was unregistered? Your ballot wasn't counted.
If you lived in Scott County, however, and you cast that same ballot with that same unregistered witness, your ballot likely was counted. Scott County officials don't routinely check to make sure witnesses are registered, that county's elections manager testified just after her Carver County counterpart.
It might seem like a minor technical difference, but it's key to the argument that Republican Norm Coleman is developing in his case to overturn Democrat Al Franken's lead after the race's official recount.
The registration question is one of a host of ways in which different counties treat absentee ballots differently, the Coleman legal team argues.
Those differences are unfair, unjust, suggestive of a fatal flaw and unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause, Coleman attorneys say.
It's created a logical, if not legal, quandary.
"It is certainly an issue. I use the phrase a conundrum. ... It might end up being a problem," said Edward Foley, an election law professor at Ohio State University who has been closely following the Minnesota Senate race aftermath.
It already is, Coleman lawyers say.
"This goes to the heart of our problem," Coleman attorney Joe Friedberg said.
The problem, the Republican's lawyers say, is not just minor, random mistakes on one or two ballots but whole sets of ballots being rejected or accepted depending on which county looked at them.
"I don't know (that) you can say there is not a systemic problem when you have Scott County doing one thing and Carver County doing something completely different," Coleman attorney Ben Ginsberg said.
According to Coleman's numbers, Carver County rejected 181 ballots because their witnesses were unregistered and was one of just 23 counties that rejected any ballots for that reason.
But, Franken attorneys say, Minnesota law is clear on what constitutes a legally cast absentee ballot, and the three-judge panel hearing the case has brought even more detail to the law by ruling certain categories of ballots illegal.
"There is one standard, and that is set by Minnesota law," said Franken attorney Marc Elias. "They want to expand that into some amorphous principle. ... That isn't the law, that's never been the law, and it's not a valid equal protection claim."
The argument and other court action make Coleman's eventual goal clear, Elias said.
"They are laying the groundwork for an appeal of some sort ... whether it is the state Supreme Court, or the U.S. Supreme Court, or the federal court, I have no idea," Elias said.
Ginsberg said the Coleman team is simply trying to deal with the situation in front of it.
This court "will want at the end of the day to not have an election that is riddled with fundamental problems," he said.
The Coleman argument goes beyond simply how counties treated absentee ballots before the election and the recount; it goes to how the three-judge panel has ruled on ballots during the trial.
The judges — Stearns County Judge Elizabeth Hayden, Pennington County Assistant Chief Judge Kurt Marben and Hennepin County Assistant Chief Judge Denise Reilly — on Friday ruled that 12 categories of absentee ballots were illegal.
But during the recount, similar categories of ballots were opened. And last week, the judges ruled 24 absentee ballots — that fell into the 12 now-barred categories — were valid and should be counted, according to the Coleman team.
"We respectfully believe the Court has created a significant problem by adopting standard ... which are materially different (that) have been applied previously," Coleman attorneys wrote to the judges Monday.
The Coleman attorneys want the judges to reconsider their decision.
Ginsberg insisted their goal is not to uncount any already counted votes.
"We are for counting all the votes," he said.
Uncounting specifically illegal cast votes might be impossible anyhow.
"You can't extract them. They are comingled," said Foley, the election law professor.
The Coleman legal team might run across another problem with its approach. The team has argued that there are fundamental problems in the way local elections officials handled absentee ballots because counties have differing results.
But the judges in the case have ruled that, basically, Minnesota's election system is sound — and the state's law on absentee ballots must be followed.
"There is no systemic problem of disenfranchisement in the state's election system, including in its absentee balloting procedures," the judges wrote last week.
The judges approved that language — and the barring of categories — despite briefs from the Coleman team illustrating some of the different standards from different counties.
Although last week's order may have created what the Coleman team believes is a "significant problem," it also did speed things up in the courtroom. Lawyers quickly dispatched more than 300 ballots from two counties Tuesday. It took three weeks to get 800 ballots into the court record.
Things may speed up even more.
Court action was delayed Tuesday morning as the judges worked with both campaigns' lawyers to streamline the evidence and "provide it to the panel as efficiently as possible," Hayden said.
"I do believe we are making progress," she said.
Once Coleman is done with his case, it will be Franken's turn to bring ballots into evidence.
On Tuesday, the judges gave Franken leave to expand and change the list of ballots he would like the court to consider. The Franken team must file its new list by the end of the week.


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Home Remedies For Dry Eyes
Lacrimal kerato-conjunctivitis or dry eye is an acute eye syndrome which results due to lack of enough moisture in the eyes. The most prominent symptom is very limited tears formation as required for the proper functioning of the eyes. It's first symptoms range from merely an eye irritation to burning of front eye tissues which often result in red eyes with blurred vision or causes a permanent physical damage to the tissues.
There is no single cause for dry eyes. The most common cause is insufficient blinking of eyes when working on a computer for long. People living in dry and dusty environment or those using dry air conditioning systems are easily prone to the disease. The symptom is common among older adults. Women on the verge of menopause also get affected by this syndrome due to an improper dose of medicines. Also, a lot of contact lens wearers usually complain of dry eyes.
The symptoms are not very severe, yet you need to consult a doctor if they become worse. However, thankfully, there are several home remedies for dry eyes that can help nip the disease in the bud before it does any further harm. Let us take a glance over the natural remedies that have been proved capable in curing the disease to a great extent.
1. Cucumber Slices : Of all the oldest home remedies for dry eyes, cucumber brings the best results. All you need to do is to lay down with eyes closed and place a cucumber slice on each eye for about 20 minutes. The cucumber juices soothe the eyes and eventually allow the eyes to retain moisture once again.
2. Soap : Often, a small particle entrapped in the eye might have caused the pain and irritation. Washing the infected eye with soapy water help removing the particle from within the eye. While using soap, make sure that you use gentle one and rinse your eyes with water several times after applying the soap.
3. Soaking Eyes With Towel : One of the most soothing home remedies for dry eyes is towel soaks. Dip your towel in warm water and dab it over your dry eyes for about 15-20 minutes. The eyes would easily soak up some moisture and feel rejuvenated.
4. Lavender Oil : Eyes react quite well to lavender oil vapours. Pour few drops of oil in a small bowl of water and then dip the cotton balls into the bowl. Place these balls on your eyes for about fifteen minutes. The eyes will imbibe enough moisture required for the time being.
5. Castor Oil : You can also try castor oil for immediate relief. The best way to apply castor oil is using a small dropper which absorbs enough oil. Smudge the dropper gently over the eyelids and the eye irritation would vanish in no time.
6. Fennel Seeds : Fennel seed and water mixture are a soothing element for dry eyes. Boil a teaspoon of fennel seeds in one cup of water and soak the cotton balls in the mixture. Resting the balls over the eyelids for about 20 minutes imparts moisture to the eyes and eventually relaxes the eyes.
7. Water : It is the ultimate solution for dry eye syndrome when you have none of the above mentioned stuffs at home. Wash your eyes with water incessantly, unless your eyes feel completely relaxed. Rinsing your eyes with cool water every morning helps you to avoid any possibility of occurrence of dry eye syndrome.
These home remedies for dry eyes are natural and hence have no side effects. Moreover, the best part about them is that they are capable of curing the dry eye syndrome faster than eye drops or any other medicines prescribed by the doctor.


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Asthenia Treatment
Asthenia is defined as a weakness, lack of energy and strength, loss of strength. This word is not much used in medicine today, even though it is an important part of myasthenia, a loss of muscle strength. These following are the list of symptoms of asthenia.
Asthenia is defined as a weakness, lack of energy and strength, loss of strength. This word is not much used in medicine today, even though it is an important part of myasthenia, a loss of muscle strength. These following are the list of symptoms of asthenia.
Weakness is an uncertain symptom. Weakness may refer to muscular weakness of a body area or whole body weakness. General weakness may also be caused by drowsiness, fatigue, prostration, syncope and malaise.
Lack of energy
This condition is described as when a person is lackadaisical and without energy.
There are various causes of this condition following are the list
Hypothyroidism is a condition that usually occurs when the thyroid gland does not secrete enough thyroid hormone. This gland is located in the front part of the neck, and it releases hormones that manage the metabolism and use of energy. The insufficiency of thyroid hormone due to hypothyroidism decreases the body's chemical processes and metabolism. This causes symptoms like fatigue and weight gain.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic fatigue syndrome is a usual chronic pain problem that causes intense fatigue that does not improve with rest.
It is a condition in which there is less than the normal number of red blood cells. Red blood cells transfer oxygen (O2) to tissues and organs to the body and permit them to use the energy from food. Without oxygen, tissues and organs specifically the heart and brain may not do their work as well as they should. As a result it causes fatigue and weakness.
Anxiety is simply defined as a feeling of nervousness, worry or fear. It is a common feeling when a loved one is not well or a project you are working on is late.
Diabetes is a term for a group of metabolic disturbance that affect the body's capability to process and use sugar for energy. Usually when a person eats then the pancreas which are located in the upper abdomen, secretes the hormone insulin to transfer glucose from the blood into cells where it can be used for energy. In diabetes, either the pancreas produce too little or no insulin, or the cells of the body don't respond to the insulin.
Depression is defined as a mental illness that causes continuous low mood and a sense of sorrow.
Fibromyalgia is a usual chronic pain disorder that causes tenderness, widespread pain and stiffness in the muscles and fibrous tissues throughout the body.
Treatment options:
If the healthcare provider doubts that you have an infection that has caused asthenia, he may prescribed antibiotics, either in a pill form or intravenous. Do not stop taking pills once weakness is gone.
Antidepressants are used for the treatment of depression and pain in adults. People having pain for a long period of time may become tired and depressed. This will cause weakness.
Medications like venlafaxine acts by obstructing the "reuptake" of the neurotransmitters norepinephrine and serotonin and declining the depressive symptoms and also decreases weakness.
Corticosteroids acts by reducing inflammation in many parts of the body.
Erythropoeitin is a substance that produces by the body naturally. This is a protein usually produced by the kidneys, which helps in making red blood cells. Darbepoetin alfa and epoetin alfa are similar drugs that act like this natural substance to enhance red blood cell formation. During chemotherapy, victims may not be able to produce sufficient red blood cells a condition known as anemia. Erythropoetic substitutes can treat anemia by enhancing the number of red blood cells in the body.
The central nervous system is a path for the brain to send messages to the body. It is highly alert, particularly when a person is experiencing pain. Victim may develop weakness or fatigue from chronic pain. Many narcotic analgesic act by obstructing pain messages like morphine sulfate and oxycodone.
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Another March Madness has come, and again we hear cries to change the 68-team format. Some are begging for a 96 team field, more wild cards, or other changes. Frankly, I think March Madness is one of the best tournament systems in existence, and doesn't really need fixing. Nevertheless, some point out a few weaknesses:
(1) Some teams that are left out are clearly better than some teams that get in. No matter what format, some team will see its bubble burst. That's life. With a 68-team format, if you don't get in, it's your fault: win more games. However, if you added just one more team to the tournament, they would probably get a 12 or 13 seed. What does that say about all the 14-16 seeds who do get in?
(2) Many first round (er - excuse me, second round) match ups are not very compelling. No 16 seed has ever won a single game. Only four 15 seeds have. 14 seeds aren't much better off. So you basically worked all year for a chance to go to the NCAA, and you are doomed from the start.
(3) Almost half the field goes home after playing just one game. About 3/4's go home after two. Your season is over quickly. Teams that do lose don't even have a chance to go on to play in the NIT, CBI, CTI or other tournament.
In addition, the conference tournaments before the NCAA's are a joke. You've battled all year to be at the top of your conference, now you have to play the 8th place 8-21 team that you've already pummeled twice for the "real" conference championship? Give me a break. We know the only purpose for the tournaments is to get an upset so you can get both your regular season and tournament champion in the brackets. This is the only place I know where you can win your conference and still not be recognized as the winner - go figure.
Here's a proposal to address all these issues: replace the lame conference tournaments with a national qualifying tournament. Here's how it could work:
(1) At the end of the regular season, the top 128 teams would be selected for the qualifiers. This would include at least two teams from every confrence, plus a bunch of at-larges. This would include all the teams who would have a legitimate shot of winning the tournaments anyway. If your bubble bursts on this one, you definitely deserve to be popped.
(2) The 128 teams would be divided into 16 different 8-team brackets. Teams from the same conference would be in different brackets.
(3) Each bracket would play off in typical 8-4-2-1 fashion. The winner of each bracket would go to the NCAA tournament and get a first round bye (1-4 seed). The runner up also would go the tournament, but not get a first round bye (5-12 seed).
(4) The losers in each bracket would play off in a consolation bracket. The winner of the consolation bracket would also go to the NCAA tournament with a 5-12 seed.
(5) The NCAA tournament would be reduced to a 48-team format, with 32 teams playing the first round, with first round winners playing the top 16 teams.
(6) The 16 runner ups in the consolation brackets, plus the first round losers in the NCAA tournament would play in the NIT tournament.
So, how does this address the weaknesses?
(1) Good teams left out: 128 teams would have a chance to EARN their way into the NCAA tournament. Good teams would be left out only if they lost two games.
(2) Bad first round match ups: First round NCAA tourney games would feature at worst a 5-12 seed match up. These would all be good compelling games.
(3) Go home too soon: The qualifying tournament would be a chance for every selected team to play at least two games. First round NCAA tourney losers could still play in the NIT.
(4) Terrible conference tournaments: These would be replaced with a compelling qualifying tournament. With a first round NCAA bye on the line, every team will be doing its best to win. Losing teams will be scrapping for the precious consolation bracket win. Plus, you'd get to see interconference match ups against the "big boys," not just the cream of the Southland Conference. There'd be plenty of Cinderella stories. Each conference would have a chance to send a bunch of teams to the tournament IF they win - putting a lot of bragging rights on the line.
Sounds like it would work to me - far better than a stupid 96 team tournament.
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Enhanced cognitive function and antidepressant-like effects after krill oil supplementation in rats
1 Department of Biomedicine and KG Jebsen Centre for Research on Neuropsychiatric Disorders, University of Bergen, Jonas Lies vei 91, Bergen, NO-5009, Norway
2 Aker Biomarine ASA, Fjordalleen 16, Oslo NO-0115, Norway
3 ETAP-Applied Ethology Department of Neuropsychopharmacology, 13 rue Bois de la Champelle, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, 54500, France
Lipids in Health and Disease 2013, 12:6 doi:10.1186/1476-511X-12-6Published: 25 January 2013
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effects of krill oil (KO) on cognition and depression-like behaviour in rats.
Cognition was assessed using the Aversive Light Stimulus Avoidance Test (ALSAT). The Unavoidable Aversive Light Stimulus (UALST) and the Forced Swimming Test (FST) were used to evaluate the antidepressant-like effects of KO. Imipramine (IMIP) was used as the antidepressant reference substance.
After 7 weeks of KO intake, both males and females treated with KO were significantly better in discriminating between the active and the inactive levers in the ALSAT from day 1 of training (p<0.01). Both KO and IMIP prevented resignation/depression on the third day in the UALST. Similarly, a shorter immobility time was observed for the KO and IMIP groups compared to the control in the FST (p<0.001). These data support a robust antidepressant-like potential and beneficial cognitive effect of KO. Changes in expression of synaptic plasticity-related genes in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus were also investigated. mRNA for brain-derived neurotrophic factor (Bdnf) was specifically upregulated in the hippocampus of female rats receiving 7 weeks of KO supplementation (p=0.04) and a similar trend was observed in males (p=0.08). Males also exhibited an increase in prefrontal cortex expression of Arc mRNA, a key protein in long-term synaptic plasticity (p=0.05). IMIP induced clear effects on several plasticity related genes including Bdnf and Arc.
These results indicate that active components (eicosapentaenoic acid, docosahexaenoic acid and astaxanthin) in KO facilitate learning processes and provide antidepressant-like effects. Our findings also suggest that KO might work through different physiological mechanisms than IMIP.


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Roasting the beets is key to this tasty salad.
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ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. -- Today we're turning our attention to the beet. Beet salads are all the rage these days, and this week's recipe is my take on how to cook the perfect pickled beet.
The cayenne pepper and mustard seeds give it a little bit of a bite, and the honey and apple juice help balance with a little sweetness.
These pickled beets are great in salads, of course, but they also make a really nice side dish or entrée all by themselves. ...