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The remarks of the Muncie Postmaster on March 5 invite further comment. Any diminution of service by USPS, including Saturday delivery of magazines, letters, newspapers and advertising, invites competitors' access to Americans' mailboxes on Saturday.
At stake are not only the jobs of 500,000 postal service employees, but also 7.5 million industry jobs. The postmaster general's proposal is blatantly illegal because of existing legislation in effect.
Dismantling America's only universal communications network is unconscionable because it heralds a death spiral of declining service and diminishing revenue. Hours have been cut at 10,000 post offices nationwide, restricting citizens' convenience, and dozens of processing and distribution centers, including Muncie's on Cowan Road, are slated for closure.
Already, Dow Jones, parent company of the Wall Street Journal, seeks an alternative Saturday delivery system.
The USPS survey Todd Mansker cites includes disingenuous questions of doubtful veracity. For example, patrons have been asked which do they prefer, a bankrupt USPS or five-day delivery?
Last month the real problem became apparent again with the release of first quarter fiscal year USPS financial results. A $100 million profit turned into a $1.3 billion loss because of an unfair, unnecessary and unprecedented $1.4 billion future retiree health benefit prefunding payment, decades in advance.
This writer suggests the public seek redress from Congress. In my former career, as a USPS city letter carrier, I delivered mail for 34 years in Marion and Muncie. Also, I am a proud member of Muncie National Association of Letter Carriers (AFL-CIO) Branch 98.


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| The poet Sunthon Phu (or Sonthorn Phu) wrote in the 19 Century the story of Phra Apai Mani, in which the same named prince was kidnapped by the female giant pee Seue Samut. She transformed herself into a beautiful woman, in which Phra Apai Mani fell in love and he became the father of a son.
After many years Phra Apai Mani found out the truth, grabbed his son and ran away from her. For the avoidance, a family of mermaids helped him. In the beautiful daughter of the mermaids Phra Apai Mani fell in love and became the father of his second son, Sutsakhon.
But the story was not over yet - it just starts.
The story of Phra Apai Mani was published in a 2003 Thai fantasy film.
Some of the figures were built on small islands in Puek Tian . A wonderful sight and one definitely worth visiting !
|With the Magic Flute Phra Apai Mani could not only deceive the people and stun, he even managed by the sound of his flute, that the soul is leaving the body and die.
Pee Seua Samut is here build as a 6 meter figure and she stands in the water, pointing towards the rock where Phra Apai Mani sits and plays his magic flute. With her right hand she beckons him.
The flowers, the Pee Seua Samut carries are renewed daily.
According to the legend, Pee Seua Samut is still angry that she has lost Phra Apai Mani. Each year she attracts a man into the water and she let him drown.
Take car when you want to go swimming, because in Puek Tian are strong shallows and currents! Beware there to go swimming. Otherwise you can carry the curse of Pee Seua Samut.
Sudsakorn, the son of Phra Apai Mani and a mermaid is riding on a tame dragon.
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I am having one of those weeks where everything seems to be related. You know, you are mulling over an idea and almost everything that you read or hear seems to fit in with it?
And, that Dear Reader, is what is happening to me. Fascinating, I know. Allow me to explain…
I took part in a great workshop last week on the issue of the Millennium Development Goals and what comes after them. There was talk about more goals, better goals, less goals, more inclusive processes, high-level championship, grass-roots consultations, etc., etc. After about an hour, I made an intervention, asking simply whether or not the time for fine-tuning was done. Maybe, I posited, the entire "development" project was finished: we'd tried all possible permutations over the last eight decades, and now maybe it was time to admit defeat and move on to something else.
In a room full of development practitioners you can imagine that this question was about as popular as…well, you get the idea. The notion was immediately dismissed, and the conversation returned to a debate about how to fix development, rather than discussing replacing it outright.
So with this in mind, I then encountered Dave Betz's post on Dylan and how it relates to–may indeed alter–Clausewitz's notions of the links between war, policy, and society. Then I read Thomas Rid's post here on KOW. He, too, asks a similar question, in a different field: when does deterrence end?
I have wondered about this before in these pages. What if the entire foundation of an idea is faulty, rather than just certain aspects of it, or the particular way in which it was implemented? How far do we go before 'calling it', and shifting our attention to developing a new idea or system? How come we tend, though, to get caught up in 're-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic'?
It occurred to me that what happens sometimes is that we base these larger projects (development, COIN, deterrence) on quite fundamental premises, and that it is sometimes these premises that are at fault. No amount of fine-tuning could ever resolve the shortcomings; the flaws are in the recipe, not the baking process, as it were.
For example, take the logic at the heart of the idea of deterrence:
If we are seen to have the ability to severely punish any would-be attackers, then they will make a rational calculation and refrain from attacking us in the first place.
This applies to deterrence at the micro (arming a bank guard, say) and macro (developing a hardened, redundant nuclear capability) levels. And if it holds true, then deterrence works.
But what it doesn't hold true? What if having an armed bank guard only escalates the problem by ensuring that any would-be bank robbers would just try and 'outgun' the guards? One could say that the problem was one of application: the armed guard was not sufficiently armed, and therefore did not really serve as a deterrent. The solution? Usually we would try provide more and better weapons to the guard. And then we know where this goes…arms race, escalation, measure/counter-measure, ad infinitum. At some point, maybe it would have been better to adopt a different strategy altogether, rather than fighting so hard to make the first strategy work.
As a logical matter, what we have here is an enthymeme; an argument that depends upon an unstated (or unsubstantiated) assumption. A classic enthymeme is "If I study hard, I will go on to attend King's College London." This statement utterly relies upon the unproven (but yet widely and passionately held) assumption that there is a positive relationship (even a causal one) between studying hard and getting to go to university. In reality, there are a host of other factors at play: timing, funding for the university to provide places, funding for the student to afford to live in London, etc. etc.
Many of our complex endeavours (such as fighting wars, or developing societies) are also predicated on enthymemes. Despite their seriousness and cost (in times of lives and finances), the fundamental ideas underpinning these activities are often untested.
"If we protect the population, then we will defeat the insurgents."
"If we provide aid money and do a lot of projects in a country, then we can eliminate poverty and improve well-being."
We believe in these foundational concepts and then work hard to bring them about, often ignoring the setbacks we encounter, chalking them up to faulty implementation, bad sequencing, or poor prioritization.
This is where we might want to try something different.
But wait, I hear you asking. Shouldn't we try and be practical? As Rob Dover has written recently, don't we, as academics, need to strive to be Thomas-like in our work?
- Being useful can take many forms, though. As this is an academic blog, it may be useful to look at the scholarly literature for inspiration. Robert W. Cox speaks about this issue with some insight, looking at 'problem solving' approaches and 'critical theory' approaches:
Problem solving takes the world as it is and focuses on correcting certain dysfunctions, certain specific problems. Critical theory is concerned with how the world, that is all the conditions that problem solving theory takes as the given framework, may be changing. Because problem solving theory has to take the basic existing power relationships as given, it will be biased towards perpetuating those relationships…
Cox doesn't rule out problem-solving approaches, but rather introduces that notion that sometimes, they are responsible for causing us to miss the forest for the trees, as it were. Too much fine-tuning, rather than just moving on altogether. (I have written a bit about this recently, looking at it through a Kuhnian lens).
[ As an aside, I think this relates to something else that Dave Betz has asked earlier here on KOW: "Is there any truth in the aphorism that good tactics can't save bad strategies?" For me, the answer is almost (but not 100%) always true: a badly conceived strategy can rarely be saved through excellent implementation. If it can be, then most likely the tactics themselves changed the strategy, rather then just executing it. More than singling out one aspect of the strategic process though (again, whether we are talking about fighting wars or developing nations), we need to be properly mindful of the entirety of the process: the ends AND the ways AND the means AND the underlying causal logic have to be sound for something to work properly.]
By trying to be problem-solvers, rather than taking a more critical approach, perhaps we merely prolong the difficulty. What does that mean in practice? For a start:
- We need to learn to not fall in love with our own ideas. Wanting something to work is not enough. Drinking the Kool Aid is not helpful. Being a 'problem-solver' can sometimes blind us to the reality that the core proposition is just plain dumb. A problem-solver shouldn't become a cheerleader.
- We have to understand our assumptions. Sometimes we don't dig deeply enough to expose the assumptions upon which our strategies hinge. We have to expose the building blocks of our strategies so that they can be scrutinized. We can't get caught up in the rush to 'get it done'; time spent on analysis of the key premises is seldom wasted, I always say.
- We should demand proof of causal relationships. It can be easy to fall under the spell of powerful ideas like "If you build it, they will come." But as academics and advisors to practitioners of public policy, we need to be more critical. Does that causal link actually exist? Do we have any evidence to support that it does? If we don't and we aren't in a position to stop the project or strategy, at least we can spell out a programme for measuring or gathering evidence that would be useful to test the claims at a later stage.
- We need to learn when to 'give up'. Flogging away for decades on a project that is doomed to fail from the outset is not a productive use of any body's time, talent, or money. We have to muster the moral courage to call it quits and move on to a different (and hopefully better) idea at some point.
Now that really would be useful.


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December 13, 1926-June 9, 2014
Georgetown seems quieter with Mark Smith gone. In his 63 years of living on the Georgetown Divide, he was never still. Even when he was off on an adventure, or traveling, or at his cabin near Butte, Mont., his energy was felt. With the help of others, his dreams continued to become real. "His presence was larger than life," said Glenda Gau, who worked for him as a Jeep adventure consultant.
An adventurer, an explorer, an outdoorsman, a visionary, a community benefactor, an historian, a promoter, a storyteller, a prankster, a generous friend, an animal lover, a forceful opponent–he was all those things and more.
In his 87 years, Smith was a Marine, a logger, a pilot, a real estate broker, a lumber business owner, a deputy sheriff, a building contractor, an airport manager and a developer of residential neighborhoods and a commercial center.
Smith was an active member of the Georgetown Rotary. To encourage tourism and boost the local economy in 1953, the Rotary members, with Smith in the lead as Jeepmaster, put together a four-wheel drive road trip from Georgetown to a camp at Rubicon Springs, along the historic Rubicon Trail. It was the first Jeepers Jamboree. Jeepers Jamboree is now in its 62nd year and continues to organize Jeep trips to Rubicon Springs every summer.
While Jeepers Jamboree concentrated on Rubicon trips, Mark went on to create Jeep Jamboree USA in 1982. Now the largest Jeep adventure organization in the world, Jeep Jamboree USA provides 30 road trips a year in different and difficult terrains across the country, exclusively for Jeep owners.
Smith was a consultant to Jeep for 60 years, helping develop the vehicles' off-road capabilities and popularize the brand. He built a four-wheel drive course, duplicating sections of the Rubicon Trail at the Chrysler Proving Grounds in Chelsea, Mich., and a Severe Off Road four-wheel drive course for the Army and Marine Corps at the U.S. Marine Corps base at Quantico, Va. He trained military and law enforcement in off-road driving.
In the introduction to the book he published in 2004, "Driven by a Dream: Mark A. Smith's Journal," Smith said, "Yes, I have lived on the edge — to make dreams come true, chances must be taken, and many of my dreams have come true." To him, the word "No" was a challenge, not a barrier. He welcomed challenges.
A history of service
Smith spent his formative boyhood years in northeastern Nevada, where he was able to fill his days exploring with his dog, "Jeep," named after Eugene the Jeep in Popeye cartoons. His father was a self-educated mining engineer. His love of exploring was encouraged by his mother, who reveled in ancient history and exploration stories. Her two brothers would take him hunting and fishing, and taught him outdoor survival skills. His father's brother, Mac, was Smith's role model to become a Marine. Mac was on the USS Phoenix in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and was given a citation for shooting down a Japanese Torpedo Bomber during the attack.
When World War II broke out, the mines were closed and Smith's family moved to Oakland. During the last two years of high school, Smith worked part-time in the Ordinance Department at the Alameda Naval Station. He joined the Marine Corps, but by the time he was trained and assigned to duty, the Japanese had surrendered. His ship was sent on a nine-month goodwill cruise, visiting every major port in South America. That was followed by a tour of the ports in Europe and the Mediterranean.
Smith remained in the Marine Corps until 1947. He used the G.I. Bill to learn gunsmithing and take a Commercial Pilot course.
He met his wife, Irene, at a convention in Fresno. They were married on April 1, 1951. The San Joaquin County license was $2. Smith put one dollar on the counter and told his bride-to-be, "It's a partnership; where's your dollar?" Embarrassed, she paid her dollar. That was the beginning of 63 years of partnership in life and in business.
Settling into Georgetown
After the wedding, the couple visited Irene's sister, Rose, and her husband in Georgetown. The Smiths were on the way to Las Vegas, Nev., where each had a job waiting. Rose and her husband had a small grocery store in town. Irene was offered a job in the store, and Charlie Wentz, a logging contractor, offered Mark a job in the woods. The Smiths decided to give Georgetown a try.
Mark and Irene had a series of jobs and businesses as they settled in the community and raised four children: Mark Robert, Gregory John, Patti Irene, and Jill Irene.
Eventually, Mark and Irene started a real estate business, which Irene took over as Mark pursued other enterprises. He bought a World War II surplus Jeep and rode over the Rubicon Trail to Rubicon Springs. He fell in love with the beauty of the place. That was the spark that lit the way for Jeepers Jamboree. In 1985, Smith and 19 others would purchase 400 acres from Bohemia Lumber Company. It was incorporated as Rubicon Soda Springs, Inc.
In the 1950s, there were not many homes in Georgetown. In 1958, Smith created the first new residential neighborhood. The homes in Rolling Hills south of town are on half-acre to one-acre lots within walking distance of Main Street.
Mark Smith's real estate business needed a good location. He built two offices along Highway 193 south of the main intersection in town. One building was for the real state office, and the other for lease.
A later residential neighborhood Smith built was near the intersection of Lower Main Street and Empire Creek Canyon. The 100-acre site with mostly three-acre parcels filled with homes quickly.
People purchased lots in their new neighborhoods with existing tall pines and hired local contractors to build their homes, put in drives, dig wells and install septic systems.
In 1958, Smith started dreaming about a commercial center that would reflect the mining towns he grew up around. He broke ground for Buffalo Hill Center in 1978. The 12-acre site was built in four phases, as financing became available. Instead of leveling the property, the center sits on five levels. It is anchored by the 20,000 square-foot Mar Val Food Store. Current tenants include the El Dorado County Sheriff substation; Mark Greenmun, the town dentist; the Georgetown Gazette newspaper office; the Marshall Medical Clinic; and Jeep Jamboree USA. The former St. James Catholic Church on Main Street, built in 1923, was rescued by the Jeepers Jamboree committee in 1980, and now has a prominent place in Buffalo Hill Center where it serves as a Jeep museum. The landscaping displays an outdoor museum of mining and western artifacts. At the entrance, a 1,200-pound steel buffalo greets visitors.
Smith's last residential project was on Hotchkiss Hill, two miles east of Georgetown on Wentworth Springs Road. He wanted three-acre lots. County planners had other ideas. The final solution was five-acre lots, many with grand views.
Another Rotary project was the Georgetown airport. Smith was the Rotary Club chairman in charge of the airport project. When the airport was dedicated in 1962 with a 3,200-foot runway, it was accompanied by a fly-in. County Supervisor Gene Chappie presented Smith with an "Airman of the Year" award for his efforts. From 1969-72, he was manager of the El Dorado County airports — Georgetown, South Lake Tahoe and Cameron Park.
During the recession of the early 1970s, gas was rationed, and people were not moving to rural areas. The federal and state environmental quality legislation affected the Georgetown timber and business economy, causing residents to leave the "hill" to work or move altogether.
Smith was a member of the Georgetown Advisory Committee when it was assigned the task of developing the first Georgetown Area Plan for El Dorado County. Supervisor Joe Flynn wanted the committee to reflect the diverse interests of the community residents.
Also on the committee was Teresa Lengyel, who had moved from Los Angeles in the 1940s because she believed it was becoming overcrowded. Lengyel bought 100 acres of forestland east of Georgetown where she and her husband raised their family. She viewed Mark's activities as representing everything she objected to. He, in turn, found her opposition more difficult to get over than the biggest boulder on the Rubicon Trail. Neither gave an inch, and each went on to leave their own legacies.
Smith left the committee to go on his dream trip. Fred Lambert, a local surveyor, replaced him. The committee was able to come up with a plan the community accepted, and the County approved it in 1979.
A big challenge
In 1977, at the age of 50, Smith had a serious surgery. His father had died of heart problems in his early 50s, and Smith didn't know how much time he had left, so he decided he needed a big challenge — a Jeep trip from the southern tip of the Americas to the northern end. He built a new home behind Buffalo Hill Center for Irene, "just in case," and left the new Buffalo Hill Center in her hands.
For 12 years, Smith had dreamed of conquering the ultimate challenge for a Jeep — the Darien Gap. The Darien Gap is the uncompleted section of the Pan American Highway, a paved and dirt road that goes from Tierra del Fuego in South America to Prudhoe Bay, in Alaska.
The Darien Gap is a 250-mile stretch of jungle and swamp between Panama and Colombia. The dangers from snakes, insects and poisonous plants make the trip a test of survival. Others had tried and failed. With the help of native Choco Indians, they came through, and in record time.
At the core of Smith's Expedición de las Americas were seven men from El Dorado County and three from out of state. They started with seven CJ7 six-cylinder Jeeps in November 1978, driving through war zones and drug-smuggling areas in South and Central America. They returned to Georgetown for rest and vehicle repairs on March 19, 1979. On the trip north, the party dealt with snow, ice, whiteouts and below-zero temperatures. They made it to Prudhoe Bay and were back home on April 23, 1979. They had covered 21,000 miles in five months, two days, and set several records.
In his book, Smith said, "We were not sponsored by anyone. We stayed nonpolitical and non-commercial." He said they did it for the adventure and the challenge.
In recognition of his accomplishment, Smith was invited to join The Explorers Club in New York, whose members include Admiral Byrd. He was also inducted into the Off-Road Hall of Fame.
Smith spent the next decades traveling the world as a Jeep consultant and for his own Jeep Jamboree USA, now the world's largest Jeep adventure company. Family and friends usually accompanied him. When in Georgetown, he enjoyed the home he built for Irene with her and his dogs, first Jeep, then JJ. He had an office in Buffalo Hill Center, where he did business.
Son Robert, who works for the U.S. Forest Service, joined the Expedición de las Americas for the California to Prudhoe Bay portion.
Son Greg, a licensed building and cement contractor, built many of the buildings in Buffalo Hill Center, as well as homes in the area. He handled field operations and pre-scouting for Jeep Jamboree USA. Daughter Patti has taken over the real estate business and handled helicopter dispatch operations for the Rubicon trips. Daughter Jill is president and CEO of Mark A. Smith Off-Roading/JJUSA. Her husband, Pearse Umlauf, is vice president and general manager.
Smith's grandchildren are Greg's daughters, Sadie Smith and Tami Bears, and Patti's son, Charles Bishop Dunham. Tami has a daughter, Alexis Bears.
Mark and Irene supported the community in many ways. In 2013, they were awarded the Marshall Foundation Helping Hands Award for 27 years of dedicated support. Mark was honored as "founding member of the Georgetown Rotary Club; founding member of the Marshall Hospital Board and spearheading hospital fundraising on the Divide." Irene was recognized for "creating music programs for children on the Divide; starting a thriving women's music program; volunteering her talent playing the calliope for most 4th of July celebrations on the Divide as well as Founders Day in Georgetown; and always ready to provide a meal to friends and neighbors who were sick."
Success didn't change Smith. In the acknowledgement of his book, he said, "No man lives in a vacuum nor can any man succeed at anything of importance alone. I've been telling stories for years of my adventures but without a push, endless encouragement and both personal and professional friendships, I doubt I would have ever started in the direction my life has taken nor been able to complete my story."
Former El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Eddie Keller became friends with Smith in the 1970s when Keller joined the Georgetown Rotary. Now retired, Keller and his wife, Davis, would have dinner with Mark and Irene often.
"He was delightful, unique. He loved to stir things up. We had a lot of fun. There was never a dull moment," said Keller. As an example, Keller mentioned the controversial speakers that Smith would bring to the Rotary meetings to surprise the members. "He was totally community conscious and had a sense of kindness and generosity," he said. "He was a legend among off-roaders and sold more Jeeps than anyone."
The Kellers had signed up to go on another adventure with Mark and Irene in September, this time to the Peruvian Amazon. Daughter Patti and her husband, Steve Rubick, Glenda Gau and Georgetown resident Jane Oates were scheduled to round out the party.
After that, Smith was looking into a trip across Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Smith's last public appearance was at the Divide Chamber of Commerce mixer on June 3 at the Georgetown Gazette office in Buffalo Hill Center. Not everyone there knew who he was or that he owned the center. When it came time for his turn at self-introductions, he simply said, "I'm Mark Smith. I collect rusty things (referring to all the historical artifacts around)." Irene followed: "I'm Irene Smith. I clean rust." A partnership to the end.
In Mark's words from his book, "When I'm gone, if there is another world out there, I'll probably be exploring it with my dog in my Jeep."
A memorial service is being planned for late summer or early fall. A notice will be posted on jeepjamboreeusa.com, and on facebook.com/jeepjamboreeusa.
(Note: I met Mark Smith in 1976, and as often happens over time in a small town, his family and my family became good friends.)


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The UK is creating a new cyber strike force at a cost of up to £500 million (US $800 million), according to the Daily Mail.
The strike force will be built by the British military in conjunction with Government Communications Headquarters, and will form an offensive arm to complement Britains existing cyberwarfare defense infrastructure. Army physical fitness tests will be eased to allow qualified personnel to be recruited for cyberwarfare.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond told the Daily Mail that this is the new frontier of defence. For years, we have been building a defensive capability to protect ourselves against these cyber attacks. That is no longer enough. You deter people by having an offensive capability. We will build in Britain a cyber strike capability so we can strike back in cyber space against enemies who attack us, putting cyber alongside land, sea, air and space as a mainstream military activity. Our commanders can use cyber weapons alongside conventional weapons in future conflicts.
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Four eastern Kentucky high school students could be expelled from school after a basketball trip in northern Kentucky.
The Laurel County Superintendent says three North Laurel Assistant Basketball Coaches have resigned.
Monday night the four boys allegedly involved in inappropriate behavior went before the county school board and could be expelled.
A father of a North Laurel Basketball player says the team was at a tournament in northern Kentucky two weekends ago.
One night while the team was staying at a hotel he says his son walked in a room as four students took pictures of a freshman who was stripped of his clothes.
Now those students could be kicked out of school.
Barry Tiller says a freshman on the North Laurel team was aggravating his teammates by calling rooms and waking the boys up.
Tiller says in the end, the others sought retaliation, "The player who the retaliation was against, he was out on the balcony, he was stripped down and he had his behind up in the window and they took a picture."
"I can confirm one-hundred-percent that there were no drugs or alcohol involved," North Laurel Principal James Durham said.
The four boys who were allegedly involved in taking the boys clothes off and taking the picture were at the county school board meeting.
The superintendent says they will be giving their side of what happened that night.
The principal says a decision whether or not the four students will be expelled will be made during the meeting.
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Dropbox buys Audiogalaxy, music streaming to follow?
updated 02:38 pm EST, Thu December 13, 2012
Peer-to-peer music acquisition sparks speculation
Popular cloud-storage provider Dropbox moved to further differentiate itself from competitors today, acquiring Seattle-based music streaming service Audiogalaxy. While Dropbox has not yet commented on the acquisition, Audiogalaxy, in announcing the deal, said its team was excited to bring "great new experiences" to Dropbox's more than 100 million users. The peer-to-peer streaming service is no longer accepting new users, but its current users can continue to use the personal streaming features of the service.
A post on Audiogalaxy's company blog confirmed the acquisition, saying that subscribers would be able to continue to access mixes until December 31 of this year. The post gives little else in the way of information on what users might expect from the service.
Audiogalaxy's history dates back to the early years of music file sharing. The service began as a peer-to-peer client software solution, a sort of competitor to Napster. Since dropping out of that sphere in 2002, Audiogalaxy has gone through a number of iterations, finally becoming an online cloud music player to which users could upload DRM-free tracks for replay anywhere.
The financial terms of the deal are as yet unknown.
A move into cloud-based music streaming would bring Dropbox into stiffer competition with Apple's iCloud, Google Drive, and Google Music. Dropbox, a leader among independent cloud storage providers, has been improving the capabilities of its service as other tech giants move into the cloud arena. Dropbox users are currently able to use the service as an automatic photo backup option, and the company is said to be working on improving its ability to stream video to mobile and desktop devices.


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Right now I am using yurbudz, but even these have issues, though they are the first EVER to not completely fall out. I know I have problematic ears because even before I was running I had problems keeping them in on the elliptical.
Any you guys can suggest? I don't mind spending $ if they stay in.
The Sennheiser PMX 680 Sports Earbud Headphones have a rigid plastic back that wraps around your head and I can't make them fall out. Prior to finding these, I hated every design I ever tried and none of them stayed put for me. They also hold the buds slightly out of your ear canal and aim the sound at an angle to your eardrum so you have much better situational awareness. At reasonable levels of volume I can still hear ordinary conversation and approaching cars perfectly. They are extra-cheap at the moment because they are being replaced with a newer model (that I don't like as well).
Please try these! Sound great, really cheap, last long, and never fall out! I love these headphone.s I use to run through at least 2 pair of headphones a month, but these are really good.
I've had these Sony MDR-J10's for years. Not used this model for years, I've literally used the same set for years.
The sound is fine (after all you're out running not DJ-ing a gig at the nightclub), they stay put, they're cheap and like I said, they've lasted forever (the little plastic "tail" the cable comes out of is there to give sweat a place to collect/drip as opposed to getting in the speaker).
You're going to kill someone if you wear headphones when you run! How could you be such a selfish person!
(I use a cheap pair of Phillips I got in a two pack at Costco)
Funny thing about the earbuds: I've gotten so used to pushing them back in that it's become habit. I even make the motion when I am not wearing them. I wish I'd stop doing that.
"You're going to kill someone if you wear headphones when you run! How could you be such a selfish person!
(I use a cheap pair of Phillips I got in a two pack at Costco)"
It's funny, 10 years ago the topic of earphones was banned from the running forums I frequented because it became so divisive. Now that most races allow them it's become much less of a topic but there are some holdouts that still run hot about seeing people with them in their ears.
Recent race--HM 1:42:08 Next race--Tobacco Road Marathon 4/16
Check out buds made by Polk Audio. I got a pair that wrap out the ear and they have great sound
Sometimes I wrestle with my Demons.
Sometimes we just snuggle.
Damn...Now I gotta get rid of my headband!!!
I have a set of Panasonic headphones that wrap over the ear....I've used them for a year now and are just ok...They stay on, but not in so I've found that I still have to use my headband...But as stated above it keeps the sweat out of my eyes so It's all good.
Use some duct tape in the summer rather than a headband.
Sounds like a hell of an idea...I'll give er a go tonight!
I ran my first race this past weekend and had mine on....Won't do it again. I'll continue to use them for daily running but will leave them at home for any further racing I might do. I found it almost as distracting as the people that were using the race as their daily gossip session 3 wide on a one lane race (cut in half by returning runners as it was an out and back)
I use Bowers & Wilkins C5 In-Ear Headphones - amazing sound and fit well. They are however pricy (they were a gift). The only draw back is getting the cord settled as it can cause a bit of noise (I wrap them around my iPhone to make the cord shorter and it does the trick).
I have never raced with them but don't care if anyone else does.
How does the "over the ear" style work with sunglasses?
Not very well....I just have the arms outside my headband...I must look like a complete dork!!...hehe..For the times I've run without a headband I just have the arms ride above the over ear thing but that sucks. I'm looking at the Bose IE2 for that reason. Right now I've got more stuff to put on than a fighter pilot!!
I love Sennheiser PMX 680. They stand up to long distance runs mile after mile delivering great sound. A tremendous value for the price!
I bought these little plastic holders that fit over the ear and hold the earbuds in place. They work great. I'm sure they look dorky and/or hearing aid-like but I figure it's good to set expectations as I move into that stage of life anyway.
I don't run with headphones any more, but when I did, the only thing that would stay in my ears was the Shennheiser behind-the-head headphones, None of the earbuds I tried would ever stay in my ears for more than a few steps (this was true running or not running - earbuds just didn't work well with my ears). The Shennheiser worked pretty well and were durable, but sometimes on my longer sweatier runs they would fill up with sweat and start to sound funny.
"It was then that our army raised a shout, and such a shout I never since heard; by what signal or word of command, I know not. The line was more than a mile in length...yet they shouted as one man."
I had the exact same problem, tried a million different headphones, $5 cheap ones to $100+ pricey ones and everything in between, nothing worked until I tried these: http://www.amazon.com/X-1-Powered-MM-IE1-BK-Momentum-Headphones/dp/B00AJE4VK2/ref=sr_sp-atf_title_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1376674694&sr=8-3&keywords=x1+headphones I've had these since May when it started getting really hot where I live. They're extremely lightweight which I think is what makes the biggest difference. I absolutely LOVE them, they never ever fall out or even feel loose at all. They come with a tiny clip and a volume control on the cable that I usually clip to the strap of my tank or shirt collar, which also helps with the weight of the cable not dragging the ear buds down at all and prevents the cable bouncing in my face . I completely forget about them actually and can just focus on my run and the beat of the music
+1 on the Sennheisers. I live in South Florida. Wasted my money on Yurbuds. They still fall out. The Sennheisers never fall out. Plus they allow you to hear car horns or other necessary noises to avoid getting hit and becoming road kill.
When I'm gassy, I tend to Fartlek Post 45 PRs 5k 22:16 (2014), Double 5k 21:41 (2015) 4 Mile 30:53 (2014), 10k 53:24 (2013)
I don't know if anyone else has mentioned it...I half read what others wrote. I have bose earbuds. I have small ears and they work so well for me. they have different size buds to that comes with it. I hope you find something that works for you!
although, on a personal note, I can't listen to music while running. so far it's been very distracting for me.
it's just me,
I had the Sennheiser PMX 680s and loved them until I squashed them and they broke. I got the 685s as a replacement but I think there is a real design flaw with those. The inline controls are very high in the cable so you have to clip to your shirt. Inevitably it gets sweaty and in my experience starts to malfunction. On separate iPods it eventually starts cycling through all the playlists and other crazy stuff.
I have just ordered some more 680s and my advice would be to do the same if you can find them.
PBs: HM 87:09 (3/15) | M 3:16:07 (10/14)


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Rory McIlroy, Nike sued by Oakley over contract
Oakley is suing golfer Rory McIlroy and apparel giant Nike for an alleged breach of contract. The suit, which was filed in a federal court in Santa Ana, Calif., on Dec. 10, names both McIlroy and Nike as defendants. Details of the filing are not available through the federal court's online system, but ESPN's Lester…Read More


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Human rights bodies call for torture billComment on this story
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Marikana mineworkers' allegations that they were tortured while in police custody demonstrated the urgent need for SA to have legislation forbidding the practice in place, MPs heard on Tuesday.
Judith Cohen of the SA Human Rights Commission said the country's failure to put in place laws against torture had earned it the ire of international human rights bodies.
Events at Marikana, where 34 Lonmin miners died in a police shooting and almost 80 were injured, with a further 279 detained, highlighted the "urgent" need for such a law, Cohen said. She was speaking during public hearings at Parliament on the draft Prevention and Combating of Torture Bill.
Other human rights bodies, including the Women's Legal Centre, the Southern African Catholic Bishop's Conference and the Centre for Constitutional Rights also made submissions to the National Assembly's justice committee, which is processing the bill.
Many of the submissions said the bill's current definition of torture fell short of that set down by the UN Convention Against Torture.
The rights bodies have urged that the legislation properly reflect the seriousness of the crime and define torture as a distinct offence, with effective penalties.
In a joint submission, the Women's Legal Centre, the Sex Worker's Education and Advocacy Taskforce (Sweat) and Sisonke Gender Justice argued the bill should also address torture inflicted on sex workers.
Stacey Leigh-Miller of the Women's Legal Centre said that according to their statistics, in Cape Town alone, 37 percent of street-based sex workers and 20 percent of those working in brothels often experienced violence.
But ANC MP John Jeffery challenged this: "I'm sympathetic, [but] is it really appropriate for this bill?"
As it presently stands, the bill does not hold the state accountable for acts of torture perpetrated by officials acting on its behalf - nor are there any guarantees for redress, reparation or compensation for victims of torture. - Cape Argus
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The concept of appliance deployment often ignites the debate over energy consumption in the data center, as this has been a key focus for companies seeking to reduce their cost of operation.
A recent NEI (News - Alert) white paper focused on the concept of energy consumption and how the enterprise is seeking ways to become more powerful and improve performance, all while reducing overall costs.
The idea of "going green" emerged a few years ago and while some companies immediately paid attention to the environmental impact they could make by changing their energy consumption, most waited until the rising costs of power and cooling forced IT organizations to take a harder look at becoming more efficient—in terms of their power consumption.
The biggest challenge in the data center is to determine the best approach to appliance deployment, while also increasing utilization, availability and computing densities—while they also attempt to lower costs.


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Marshall gets $10,000 for pharmacy scholarship
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Marshall University's School of Pharmacy has received a $10,000 gift for student scholarships from West Virginia-based Fruth Pharmacy.
The Huntington school announced the donation on Friday.
Marshall officials say their relationship with Fruth Pharmacy is fundamental to the growth of the school.
Recipients of the scholarship must be from Cabell, Jackson, Kanawha, Mason, Putnam, Roane, Wayne or Wood counties in West Virginia, or from Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Pike or Washington counties in Ohio. They also must have an interest in community pharmacy.


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Property Division
If you are going through a divorce (Dissolution of Marriage), you will likely have incurred debt and/or have acquired assets. Both you and your spouse were not only in a romantic relationship, you were also partners in building together a financial future. You paid bills together. You discussed larger purchases together. You did your budget on the kitchen table after Sunday night's dinner. You saved what extra you could. You finally bought your first house, etc.
Everyone's financial picture is different. The Waters Law Firm doesn't pretend to know yours or even begin to place all our clients into "cookie-cutter" financial plans. Some clients are upside down on their mortgages; others need help distributing their retirement plans. What if one party helped the other to go to law school, should they be compensated? What if one party received an inheritance from their grandparent and stuck the money into a mutual fund? What if that same party's inheritance was used to pay for a kitchen re-model? Does this matter? Could a lawyer argue re-characterization of the asset and win, thereby the party losing the inheritance exception and adding it in with divisible marital property? Yes.
The point is that property division is a very contentious area of law. Besides parenting time and possibly maintenance, property division will likely have to be litigated at Permanent Orders. The good news though is property division treats both parties the same. Again, Colorado is a no-fault state, so the Court will simply divide the marital property into each party's share by what is "fair and equitable." Usually this means taking property (both debts and assets) acquired during the marriage and allocating them equally.
Free legal tip: The one time a Court will award one party more assets and punish the other party with more debts is when there is "marital waste." One example of this is gambling. When one party deliberately wastes marital property then they will be saddled this more debts and granted less assets. In fact, the party who is wasting marital property may even have to compensate the other party over time, above and beyond, paying child support and spousal maintenance.
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The scents of summer
After you've moved all your tank tops and shorts to the front of the closet, it's now time to freshen up your beauty cabinet too. The best place to start is with a light and fresh fragrance that reminds you of summer. Think fresh and light scents with notes of coconut, vanilla, gardenia, and citrus to have your scent transported to a tropical island. Beauty hint: spritz a little on post-shower so the scent stays with you longer.


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Colo. cops fatally shoot suspects in stolen pickup
The suspects rammed patrol cars during the chase
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DENVER — Colorado officers opened fire on a stolen pickup that rammed patrol cars early Friday.
Two suspects died. Investigators declined to say whether they were killed by gunfire or the crash. No officers were hurt.
A third, uninjured person in the pickup was taken into custody, Adams County sheriff's Sgt. Candi Baker said.
The crash occurred just north of the Denver city limits.
Baker said the pursuit began at about 2 a.m. Adams County deputies, the Colorado State Patrol and police from the suburbs of Westminster and Federal Heights followed the pickup, which was equipped with a tracking device.
Baker said the pickup rammed three marked patrol vehicles, and a deputy and a Westminster officer responded by opening fire. The pickup then crashed into a retail greenhouse.
No names have been released.
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Captain Shea Weber leads the Nashville Predators into battle Thursday night versus the Colorado Avalanche at Bridgestone Arena. Winners of seven out of their last ten, the Avs will be desperate for a win in their continued battle to capture a playoff spot in the Western Conference. The Preds will look to recapture their own sense of desperation from a year ago that launched their deepest-ever playoff run and transformed them into a Stanley Cup contender this season. (Photo: John Russell/NHLI via Getty Images).
Into the Looking Glass
One year ago today the Nashville Predators were a different team. They were still hard to play against; still hard-working and well-coached. Their corporate outlook was also the same: do whatever it takes to win, get into the postseason, and get as far as possible. That's pretty much always been their M.O.
Six times previous to the 2011 postseason they had succeeded in their annual quest to make the playoffs. Each time they battled valiantly, but lost in the first round. 'The little engine that could,' they were often called, mostly because of their dearth of big-name stars and the limited budget under which the team was typically constrained – particularly so following their sale in 2007 to a group of local Nashville businessmen, whose pooled resources was enough to save the team from leaving Music City, but not on a par, realistically, with the NHL's big-time franchises, who routinely spend to the salary cap and subsequently harbor the league's most dynamic and talented players.
For even partially succeeding against that kind of a handicap, and accomplishing the unlikely task of getting some of those post-sale teams into the playoffs, Head Coach Barry Trotz and GM David Poile have often been lauded as 'magicians' and 'miracle workers.'
And as such, despite being one of the NHL's most consistent playoff teams over the previous seven seasons, the franchise was still never touted as a Cup favorite or expected to advance much further than the first round. Everyone respected Trotz for his annual feat in transforming Nashville's proverbial sow's ear into a silk purse, but no one really took them seriously as Cup contenders.
The assumption still held that as soon as most of Nashville's homegrown talent reached the point in their careers that they could leave via free agency, they'd be off to greener pastures, to organizations that could afford to give them their commensurate payday and provide a real shot at having their names inscribed on the Stanley Cup.
And while all those assumptions were true to a degree, Preds fans were confident that if only the team was able to break through that seemingly mystical first round barrier that things might change; that the culture might evolve; that the franchise could rise above the limited course to which it seemed eternally bound.
One year ago today, the Predators were a different team. They still suffered with the same issues of their aforementioned predecessors. They were a team of great potential, but that potential had only made brief appearances throughout the season, as witnessed by its penchant for streakiness that was alternately exhilarating and maddening to the fans.
To make matters worse, as a result of their wildly inconsistent play, on March 8, 2011, following a frustrating overtime loss to the San Jose Sharks at Bridgestone Arena, the Preds found themselves in tenth place in the Western Conference standings (and just one point out of eleventh).
I remember clearly that night after the loss, the number of solid Preds supporters who voiced legitimate doubts via social media channels as to whether Nashville had the chutzpah to break through the inconsistency that all but completely clouded their wonderful brilliance.
Fortunately, for everyone who bleeds navy blue and gold, that game served as the Predators' wakeup call and immediately following that loss they turned the corner. They changed their culture; and in the opinion of many, their destiny.
From that point in early March, 2011, Nashville reeled off an amazing 11 wins in the regular season's final 16 games. From the lukewarm waters of 10th place, they entered the postseason tournament steaming; a solidified unit that would go on to achieve the most successful playoff run in franchise history.
One year ago today the Nashville Predators were a team of hope. By the time the season was over, they were a team of expectation.
Perspiration vs. Desperation
Nashville's moment of clarity came when they realized that the playoffs don't start in April, but rather begin the moment a team becomes desperate enough to leave everything on the ice, every single night.
It's not just about effort; it's not just about talent; it's about will.
It's about transforming a group of hockey players into a team of Desperados.
It's not about working hard; that's a given in this most physically demanding of all professional sports. Even losers sweat. In the battle of desperation versus perspiration, desperation wins every time.
Sometimes that's a tough thing to have to be reminded of.
Last Tuesday night in Nashville, the Predators looked into a mirror when they took the ice against the Los Angeles Kings, but apparently they didn't notice the resemblance until it was too late. The Kings currently occupy a similar season's profile to that of last year's Predators team, struggling among 4-5 others in the attempt to claim the eighth and final conference playoff spot. They played the game as if their lives depended on it, overpowering their hosts 5-4 in a contest the Preds believe they let get away from them.
L.A. left town with two points and Nashville fans left the arena wondering if anyone had managed to get the license number of that truck that had just run over them.
That's how Desperados play the game.
More importantly, it won't be the last time in the regular season that the Preds face a team with that type of mentality. Oh no; they're just getting' started.
Running the Gauntlet
Despite their seemingly secure position in the current playoff standings, over the next ten days, Nashville will face a gauntlet of competitors against whom they must find their inner-desperado or risk being run out of the rink.
Tonight at Bridgestone, the Preds face another hot and desperate team involved in that end-of-season playoff scrum. The Colorado Avalanche are currently light years beyond the proficiency level of the team that Nashville faced on back-to-back dates in January, both resulting in Predators victories.
The Avs have won two in a row and seven of their last ten. Like the Kings, they're playing their best hockey of the season at a time when they can afford to do nothing less. They are currently tied with Los Angeles and San Jose with 74 points, all three vying for that eighth spot (with San Jose officially maintaining it at the moment, based on the tiebreakers they hold over the other two teams). Just a point ahead of them, the Phoenix Coyotes sit in seventh place with 75 points.
Speaking of the Coyotes and Nashville's old playoff nemesis, the Sharks, four of the Preds next five games will be against all but one of the teams involved in this 'go hard or go home' sprint to the playoffs.
After entertaining Colorado tonight and the Detroit Red Wings ('nuff said there, right?) on Saturday, Nashville hits the road to visit Phoenix, San Jose, Los Angeles, and the Anaheim Ducks. The Coyotes and Sharks are the only two teams in that lower-tier group who are currently playing losing hockey. The Phoenix has dropped four in a row and is in danger of falling out of the top eight if they can't snap out of it pronto. Likewise, the Sharks have lost three straight; including every bit of what little wiggle room they had just a few days ago.
Never mind the history of how tough Phoenix and San Jose have played the Preds in their own barns; if ever you could count on a pair of teams to be playing desperate hockey at this time of the season, it would be these two. The Preds will have to match or exceed that desperation level if they expect to come away from these games with any points at all.
And depending on how the schedule plays out over the next week, don't discount the chances of Nashville's final opponent of the roadtrip, the resurgent Anaheim Ducks, to still being in contention for that eighth playoff spot by the time they meet on March 18. Anaheim will be playing hard, if for no other reason than to kick a little snow into the face of the team that eliminated them from the playoffs last season.
The Playoffs Start Now
Once again there are 16 games left to play on the regular season schedule. Almost without exception, the Predators will gaze into the looking glass each time they take the ice. What they'll see in most of their opponents is a reflection of themselves in a similar circumstance, at a similar point in the season a year ago; the point in which they became a different team, and changed their destiny.
Will they recognize themselves? Will they find that same level of desperation to enter the playoffs even stronger than they were in 2011?
Now's the time to find out.
The playoffs start tonight.
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Last weekend, Fuller, Tebow and I were having fun heading out to various outings and gatherings. Damon was busy measuring, cutting, and nailing. Progress on the storage situation in our mudroom/ laundry room was happening! It was wonderful.
And then Monday, it started raining. And it's been raining. Well, it's been raining on and off, but enough "on" so that progress halted for the week.
It's been frustrating. Damon had a good momentum going and has been wanting to get going again. And I have been
whining and moaning patiently waiting to get my kitchen completely back. Right now, it is pretty cramped and confining. The laundry room shelves are making the space in front of the sink into our own personal "Fat Man's Squeeze." My island counter space is cut in half due to objects previously on shelves temporarily vacationing on the island. And the microwave has been moved, making it kind of comical when Damon goes to use the microwave and heads to the counter where it used to be.
I loathe making breakfast/ lunch/ dinner/ midnight snacks because of the lack of space. And if I get food prepared, I loathe cleaning up. Then again, that part isn't related to lack of kitchen space.
So, the weather. We need it stay dry so Damon can continue working. He has to use the backyard as his cutting area. If he can't cut, he can't install and if he can't install, he can't make cubbies and shelves. And if he can't… well, you get the idea. We need dry weather so we can keep this project moving. So, everybody say it with me..
Rain, rain, go away! Come again some other day! (Just not Sunday or Monday or Tuesday, just in case he can't finish on Saturday.)
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I went to Irving Plaza the other day to pick up tickets for MUTEMATH and 30 Seconds To Mars at Roseland Ballroom on April 21st and was told that the tickets to this particular show were only available online. WHAT!
Don't get me wrong, anybody who has kept up with this blog knows that I'd do just about anything to see MUTEMATH live, but being charged an additional $12 for EACH TICKET on LiveNation.com or Ticketmaster.com is where I draw the line. Normally, I bypass these insane fees by just purchasing at the venue box office but this is the first show in New York City where MUTEMATH's tickets are NOT available for purchasing directly from the box office. Is there any logical reason for this? Does the decision come from MUTEMATH or 30 Seconds To Mars? I'd love to know why any band would subject their fans to the incredible rip-off that is ticketmaster and livenation.com.
Sadly, it looks like I won't be going to this show in April. I don't understand why the band(s) don't just give fans the choice of buying online or at the box office. It's a damn shame, really.


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The Supreme Court says you know pornography when you see it. When we saw the Ferrari F60 in person and experienced first-hand its ability to warp the universe around it while at rest, we realized it's absolutely pornography. »
Ferrari Builds 200-Ton F1 Driving Simulator, Gives Us This Picture
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|BACKGROUND: Cocaine abuse has been implicated in multiple cardiovascular complications. Coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs) and ectasia occur in 0.2% to 5.3% of patients referred for angiography and are associated with atherosclerosis, Kawasaki's disease, and several rare disorders. After observing CAAs in multiple young cocaine users, we investigated the prevalence of CAAs among cocaine users undergoing coronary angiography. METHODS AND RESULTS: Clinical and angiographic characteristics of 112 consecutive patients with a history of cocaine use and coronary angiography were compared with a control group of similar age and risk factors from an existing angiographic database over the same time period. Coronary angiograms were independently read by 3 reviewers blinded to cocaine use. Cocaine users were young (mean age, 44 years), predominantly male (80%), and cigarette smokers (95%). Control patients had higher rates of diabetes (33%) and more severe coronary artery disease (P=0.01). Previous myocardial infarction was common in both groups (45% of cocaine users, 38% of control patients). Despite the frequent history of myocardial infarction among cocaine users, 48% had nonobstructive coronary artery disease. Among cocaine users, 34 of 112 (30.4%) had CAAs compared with 6 of 79 (7.6%) in the control group (P<0.001). Cocaine use was a strong predictor of CAA by univariate and multivariate analyses. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first description of an association between cocaine use and CAA. The prevalence of CAA among cocaine users was higher than expected (30.4%), given such a young cohort. Cocaine use may predispose to the formation of CAA, which may in turn be a contributing factor to myocardial infarction.
|Aaron Satran; Bradley A Bart; Christopher R Henry; M Bilal Murad; Sumaiya Talukdar; Daniel Satran; Timothy D Henry
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|Type: Journal Article Date: 2005-05-09
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|Title: Circulation Volume: 111 ISSN: 1524-4539 ISO Abbreviation: Circulation Publication Date: 2005 May
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|Created Date: 2005-05-17 Completed Date: 2005-12-27 Revised Date: 2007-11-15
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|Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Cardiology, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, USA.
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Engine Company Casserole
1 pkg. (26-32 ounces) frozen shredded hash brown potatoes
1 pkg. Jimmy Dean® Hearty Original Sausage Crumbles
2 cups (8 ounces) shredded mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup (2 ounces) shredded Parmesan cheese
1 cup chopped fresh tomato
6 green onions, sliced
12 eggs
1/2 cups milk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1. Spray a 6-quart slow cooker with cooking spray. Layer half of the potatoes on the bottom of slow cooker.
2. Top with half of the sausage, mozzarella and Parmesan cheese, tomatoes and green onion. Repeat layering.
3. Beat eggs, milk, salt and pepper in large bowl with a wire whisk until well blended.
4. Pour evenly over potato-sausage mixture.
5. Cook on low setting for 8 hours or on high setting for 4 hours or until eggs are set.
6. Serve as is, or on a tortilla with salsa and cheese.


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'Loose' Tony Romo makes the cut at Pebble Beach, shoots solid 19-under with partner Tiger Woods
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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — Tiger Woods walked from the putting green to the driving range at Pebble Beach on Saturday morning. There, he found playing partner Tony Romo. The two chatted for a moment before heading off to the 10th tee for the third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
Within moments, Romo feigned dropping back to pass. The Cowboys quarterback took three or four drops, showing different types of passes to Woods. The twosome was loose and they played like it all afternoon.
Woods made five birdies in a six-hole stretch, Romo birdied five holes and the duo surged from 50th in the pro-am to a tie for 15th at 19-under 195, 12 shots behind the leaders, Padraig Harrington and J.P. McManus.
. Woods moved up to third in the pro standings at 11-under 203, four shots behind Charlie Wi. Woods has not won an official PGA Tour event since 2009.
Woods and Romo will be paired with Phil Mickelson and Houston amateur Skip McGee in the penultimate pairing of the day. The foursome is scheduled to tee off at 11:29 a.m.
Romo and Woods both birdied No. 10, setting the tone for the day. Romo ended up earning four shots for the team.
The first came on a birdie on 11. After Woods missed a birdie putt, he used his putter to point to the spot for Romo to aim. Romo promptly drained the eight-footer.
"I've played with Tiger a few times," Romo said. "When he steps over a shot, he goes right into his routine. At the same token, he knows that there's 300 yards you've got to walk between shots. He has the ability to turn that off a little bit, talk and be normal."
Romo birdied Nos. 15, 1, 2 and 7 in addition to 10. He easily could have had more. On 16 and 17, he had consecutive shots from off the green lip out — a chip on 16 and a shot from the bunker on the 17th.
The birdie on 15 came after a nice shot from a bunker left Romo with a tap-in.
Romo has been popular all week with his prodigious shots. Although he is hitting from the white tees, Romo is outdriving Woods and the other professionals on many holes.
Briefly: Hunter Haas, a Southlake resident who attended Oklahoma, and OU football coach Bob Stoops posted the lowest team score of the day, a 12-under 60 at Pebble Beach, and are tied for ninth in the pro-am at 21-under 193. … Also at 193 is the team of Josh Teater and Dallas amateur Todd Wagner. … Hunter Mahan of Colleyville and Dallas' Tom Dundon are tied for 14th at 195. … Defending pro-am champs D.A. Points and actor Bill Murray lost out on making the cut on a tie-breaker. Murray spent Saturday tromping around Pebble Beach in fatigues reminiscent of the clothing he wore while blowing up the golf course at the end of Caddyshack.


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Three college classmates Jim, Dixie and Ginger, purchase a ghost in an online auction. Thinking its a joke, they have no idea theyve just bought the spirit of Katie Malone, an abused Irish servant girl chained outside by her owner until she froze. When a black wooden box arrives in the mail, Dixie and Ginger make wishes in hopes the ghost will fulfill them. Even after their wishes come true they dont believe in the apparition until stranger things begin to happen. In a warped and violent attempt to appease her new masters Katie murders a professor who gave Dixie a bad grade a sorority girl whod given Jim the cold shoulder has her arm chopped off Jims rival turns to ash. Clearly theyve unleashed the vengeful spirit of poor Katie Malone. Jim, Dixie, and Ginger try to rid themselves of the poltergeist, telling her shes free, but this rejection only fuels Katies rage
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Teacher Finds Her Joy
Today I was reminded of little joys I get from my profession. I will admit that lately I've been feeling all frustrated and stuck in a rut (professionally, at least) and I have really been thinking about perhaps shifting gears and taking on a job that will allow me to bring home a bigger paycheck. But then I gave it some thought and I realized that where else can I get a job that will allow me to have the schedule I have now and the freedom to take on different types of tasks and roles?
Then out of the blue, one of my students texted me and told me that her heart was so full today and that she was very happy. Although it wasn't me that did that for her, I realized, that feeling that she has, that's what I feel when I see my kids graduate and become their own people. I love how our conversations evolve from theoretical concepts to more lived experiences. I find joy in being a part of all of that. I also love it when they feel comfortable to talk to me about issues such as how to handle their relationships, whether or not weight loss pills are advisable and what to do about certain things that they go through. While I do maintain a comfortable distance from them, I realized that I find joy in letting them be part of my life as well
And so for now, at least, I think I still belong in the classroom. Correction: I KNOW this is where I belong.
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Hurricane Sandy caused water damage to the set of OperaDelaware's 'Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci,' which kicks off at The Grand in Wilmington on Sunday afternoon. The sets have been fixed, and condensed rehearsals are getting cast and crew ready for Sunday's opening show.
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The storm's effect has even leaked into Wilmington's arts world - the sets from OperaDelaware's upcoming production of "Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci" were found partially submerged in floodwaters earlier this week at the opera company's headquarters at the city's Riverfront.
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There are moments, and then there are Moments, the kind that tattoo themselves into your memory bank, making them hard to forget easily. The NBA had its share during the 2000s, certainly more that can be summed up in a few sentences.
Here's a Top 10, confining the good and not-so-good moments to the on-court kind only that helped shape the decade.
10. Greg Oden out for the season, 2007 (and now, this one). When they drafted Greg Oden first overall in 2007, the Blazers had visions of another Bill Walton. Careful what you wish for. Oden quickly adopted Walton's black cat and underwent microfracture surgery on his right knee. And then, just last week, he fractured his left patella. He doesn't deserve this. Nobody does.
9. Cavaliers draft LeBron James, 2003. After a 17-win season, there wasn't really much of a surprise what the Cavaliers would do with the first overall pick. Still, it was a major moment for the franchise, to be able to draft a local (well, Akron) and add instant buzz to a city long associated with professional sports heartbreak. LeBron made the Cavs good and Cleveland a destination. Imagine.
8. Celtics-Bulls first-round playoff series, 2009. This is what playoff basketball is all about: intense, dramatic, big shots, big stops, seven overtime sessions and a seventh game. The Celtics and Bulls engaged in an unanticipated all-timer. The Bulls were just happy to be there. The Celtics and their Big Three were humming for another championship run. But once Derrick Rose scored 36 points in his playoff debut to carry the Bulls to an OT Game 1 road victory, it was on. Biggest game: Bulls extend the series to the limit with a three-OT thriller in Game 6. Biggest performance: Ray Allen's 51 points. Biggest loss: Kevin Garnett, bum right knee. Celtics won but, honestly, didn't we all?
7. Tim Duncan and the Spurs sweep to their fourth title, third this decade, 2007. LeBron James reached the championship round, a bonus for a league that anxiously looked for a transcendent star cut in the Jordan mold. But the NBA Finals didn't last as long as the hype. Duncan and the Spurs didn't have quite the same appeal but made quick work of the Cavs and formed a lasting legacy.
6. Malice at the Palace, 2004. In the context of crashes, this was no fender bender. An ugly and dangerous moment pushed the NBA into mainstream America's everyday talk and was a nightmare for David Stern, always sensitive to the league's image. The cable news shows treated the story like a Thanksgiving turkey, making the meal last for weeks.
5. Dwyane Wade's brilliant NBA Finals, 2006. Given what was at stake, nobody in the decade played better over a stretch of games as Wade did against the Mavericks. In rescuing the Heat from an 0-2 deficit, Wade delivered a performance worthy of Jordan and averaged 34.7 points. That series gave him commercial and critical acclaim. Until then, he was just another good player.
4. Michael Jordan un-retires and retires for the final time, 2003. Initially, he had the perfect exit strategy: dropping the championship-winning jumper over a fallen Bryon Russell that gave the Bulls title No. 6. But the competitive itch still needed scratching, so Jordan had the bright idea to join the Wizards and squeeze himself into the ownership picture. His level of play didn't drop too dramatically during his two seasons, but nobody harkens to the D.C. days when sifting through their memories of Jordan.
3. Kobe scores 81 points, 2006. For someone who took plenty of grief throughout the decade for shooting too much, nobody seemed to mind when Kobe launched 46 against the Raptors. That's because he made 28. Including seven 3-pointers. And he made 18-of-20 from the line. It was truly epic what Kobe did over 42 minutes. And just think, he would've needed another quarter to catch Wilt.
2. Summer Olympics loss, 2004. A team coached by Larry Brown and led by Duncan, LeBron, Allen Iverson and Carmelo Anthony would beat anyone. Except Argentina. And Lithuania. And Puerto Rico, which won by 19 and shattered the USA's dominance in Olympic hoops. While the international competition was slowly catching up even before the Athens Games, it was still shocking to see the USA taking a beating and the bronze.
1. Shaq-Kobe combo is broken up, 2004. Only in Los Angeles, home to the stars, could a high-profile breakup register big on the Richter scale. They didn't come any higher than Shaq and Kobe, who won three straight titles together and looked to be the best combo since peanut butter and jelly. But typical for couples these days, there were irreconcilable differences that forced owner Jerry Buss to act as mediator and make the call to keep Kobe. It made you wonder what Kobe and Shaq could've accomplished had they put their egos aside.
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