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Training On FreeMotion Surpasses Fixed Isolated Training To Build Strength, Increase Balance And Decrease Pain Levels
Study Demonstrates that Free-Form Resistance Training can Yield Greater Results than Fixed-Isolated Training
(March 4, 2008, COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.) - In a recent study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, Keith C. Spennewyn, director of the Health and Fitness Specialist program at Globe University, demonstrated that free-form exercise equipment has advantages over fixed-form devices for the development of strength, balance and the reduction of pain.
Results of the study showed incredible gains and benefits in the FreeMotion training group. FreeMotion users had a 58% greater increase in strength over the fixed-form group. Their improvements in balance were 196% higher over fixed and reported an overall decrease in joint pain by 30%.
"These are very exciting findings," states Lisa Renee Tumminello, FreeMotion Fitness Senior Project Manager for Strategic Business Development. "We have long known that integrated functional training on FreeMotion equipment can yield outstanding benefits for the user. To have these principals validated with such impressive results reinforces our position that FreeMotion training offers the greatest strength carry-over to real life."
The purpose of the study was to compare measures of strength and balance between people exercising on free-form (FreeMotion) vs. fixed form resistance training. Participants were separated into two groups and followed a 16-week resistance-training program with either FreeMotion equipment or fixed-isolated equipment.
Spennewyn, Keith C., Strength Outcomes in Fixed Versus Free-form Resistance Equipment: Applications to strength training and FreeMotion exercise equipment, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, January 2008, Volume 22, Number 1.


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|Pearl Harbor attack felt in Holyoke
|Written by Chris Lee
Dec. 7, 1941 is a date many if not all Americans know. It was a day of grim horror for the United States.
Japan launched an early morning attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor 68 years ago, which ultimately resulted in the United States becoming militarily involved in World War II.
The force of the attack was felt in Holyoke as three youths were lost.
"This community suffered a loss," Lucille Miles said recalling the event. She was in Denver at the time and remembers heading down Colfax Avenue. The newspaper boys were announcing the story on the street corners.
"It took a while to soak in," she said.
Miles' husband L.B. was stationed in Sicily, Italy but knew John Zeiler, Richard Owens and James Lindsay who all died during the attack.
Lucille thinks L.B. went to country school with one of the boys but she knows he knew all three of them.
She mentioned it was a dying wish for L.B. to visit Pearl Harbor and see the names of his friends at the memorial. He never got the chance.
Holyoke loses three in attack
Printed in the Dec. 25, 1941 issue of the Enterprise was:
"Reported as missing following action in the performance of their duties and in service to their country were John Zeiler Jr., Richard Allen Owens and James Lindsay. The three young men, all seamen in the United States Navy, were stationed on ships in the Pacific Ocean, according to last information received from them."
It wasn't until February of the next year that the fate of the three was revealed.
As stated in the Feb. 5, 1942 issue of the Enterprise:
"Two young seamen, Richard Allen Owens and James Lindsay, sacrificed their lives in service to their country Dec. 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor, Holyoke relatives were notified this week by the bureau of navigation of the United States Navy department."
"Previous information, sent by telegrams the weekend of Dec. 20 and 21, stated the youths were missing in action following the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese."
"Mrs. Winifred Rehfeld Lindsay, wife of James Lindsay, received a telegram Friday, and Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Owens, parents of Richard Allen Owens, were notified by telegram yesterday morning concerning the fate of their sailor son."
It was reported the two telegrams said "after exhaustive search, it has been found impossible to locate the seamen, and they therefore have been officially declared to have lost their lives in the service of their country as of Dec. 7, 1941. The department expresses to you its sincerest sympathy."
In the following week's Enterprise, John Zeiler, Jr., elder son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Zeiler of Holyoke, was reported to have sacrificed his life in service to his country.
The VFW would eventually be named Zeiler-Owens-Lindsay Post #6482 in honor of the three youth who lost their lives.
The three weren't the only ties to Pearl Harbor from Holyoke and Phillips County. Many others were in the armed forces.
Kenneth Jonte, Merle Mutchie, William Dahmke, Stanton Smith, Herbert Oltjenbruns were all reported to have been stationed in and around the Pacific including the stations at Pearl Harbor and Hickan Field, two of the bombed places in the Hawaiian Islands.
Survivor interviewed by Denver Post
Dahmke was recently interviewed by the Denver Post for being a survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack. In the article, it states he was stationed on the USS Tennessee, a battleship moored next to the USS Arizona. When the bombing began at 7:48 a.m., he was sleeping on a cot he'd towed on the captain's deck after returning from shore leave.
Dahmke said his cot tipped over a couple of times and he didn't realize what was going on until he stood up and looked over the side to see the planes coming in.
He said everything was on fire and he could smell the burning oil. He was asked in the article if he thought they would get hit. He replied with, "We thought we'd be dead. But they missed us."
Dahmke was also asked how long he was on the captain's deck. He replied, "probably four hours or so. When we went to general quarters, we fired some shots, but pretty soon they figured we couldn't really do anything, so they told us to stop. We stayed on that bridge and watched everything."
One of the big questions the Denver Post asked him was if he remembered seeing Zeiler. He said he saw him on the dock when they were coming back from Liberty. "That was the last time I saw him. He was on the Arizona," Dahmke added.
When Dahmke returned to Holyoke he said he walked up to Zeiler's house but didn't knock. He wishes he had but he didn't know what he would say and still doesn't know what he would've said.
Marian Kaup remembers playing High 5, a game that doesn't get played too much anymore, at a card party when, through word of mouth, she heard about the attacks on Pearl Harbor. She said the evening was ruined. "Everyone seemed very quiet and shocked," she said.
Nelson Ekberg of Wray couldn't remember much about the tragic day due to a brain injury but enjoyed reading about a story about a Japanese war plane pilot in his Our Daily Bread book recently.
In the Holyoke Enterprise #2 story of the Century, "Three youths are reported lost in Pacific," in 100 Years, Celebrating a Century of Hometown News, it talks about the backgrounds of Zeiler, Owens and Lindsay. The story was recapped from the Dec. 25, 1941 edition of the Enterprise.
"Zeiler, an outstanding athlete, graduated from Holyoke High School with the class of 1940. Shortly after his graduation, he enlisted in the United States Navy. After receiving his preliminary training at the naval station at San Diego, Calif., the youth returned to Holyoke to visit his parents and other relatives and friends, prior to being assigned to a ship."
"Zeiler left Holyoke Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1940, to assume his duties on the ship to which he had been assigned."
The Dec. 25, 1941 article continued, "Lindsay, whose former home was in Pennsylvania, completed four years naval service last Sept. 19. Due to the war emergency, he was held in service. He had been stationed in the Hawaiian Island territory several months. The young Pennsylvania youth and Miss Winifred Rehfeld, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Rehfeld, were married in California. Mrs. Lindsay returned to Holyoke in the summer of 1940, and has since been at the home of her parents. Their son, Terrill James, was born in October of 1940. Mr. Lindsay last visited his wife and son in October, one year ago."
"Owens enlisted in the naval service in June of 1936. On June 13, 1940, when he had completed four years of service in the navy, he reenlisted for another period. A graduate of Holyoke High School, he was employed two years in the Phillips County Courthouse prior to enlisting in the Navy. The youth last visited his parents and other Holyoke relatives and friends in July of 1940."
War has and always will affect loved ones close to home. The 68th anniversary of Pearl Harbor is just one date in history when spouses, sons, daughters, mothers, fathers and all family members are remembered.

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Personally, I want a Mac and PC app that can perform the PIM functionality Outlook claims to offer.
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Local Sync to a Blackberry (8330) using Blackberry Desktop 6 (PC) (NOT using BES). Local wired sync.
Sync between Zimbra on Mac and Windows, local if possible.. or via Exchange or Google Apps domain.
I cant find much documentation on any of this. Zimbra Desktop seems to be targeting is a very simple single user who does not sync to a handheld and does not need to access things over the web. Zimbra's other product offerings seem to require a Zimbra server, BES, or Exchange. Documentation does not seem to discuss access to Google Apps domains.


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So the rumors of Bethanie Mattek's marriage to JPS Insurance President Justin Sands are true and you know what? Here are the pics to prove it!
The marriage took place on Saturday, November 29, 2008 at Edgewater Beach Resort in Naples, FL.
In typical style, B's wedding was far from traditional (I mean FAR) and it seems "zebra" was the theme of the day: she worked an all-black Romona Keveza wedding dress and Marciano zebra print stilettos and wore a 5.5 carat custom engagement ring paired with a wedding ring made from 3.5 carats of black + white diamonds resembling zebra stripes.
Flowers arrangements were created from purple orchids, white lilies, and white hydrangeas and the cake, continuing the theme of the day was made from vanilla and strawberries and a layer of chocolate mousse.
I wonder what it says about the bride when her dress is straight up black? I have my guesses. And her hair, well, it's giving me flashbacks to those egg pods from Aliens. Creepster!
In any case, she's done The Corpse Bride justice and I'm sure she couldn't be more proud.
Congrats again B - can't wait to see you (and your "fashions") back on court soon. You'll be missed in Melbourne!
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
PHOTO OP: Bethanie finds zebras (or The Corpse Bride) inspiring, wears all-black on wedding day
Labels: Bethanie Mattek, celebrity, gossip, photo op, tennis
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She looks gorgeous and that is such an original idea going for the black wedding gown. I hope we see her back on the court in the not to distant future.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 14, 2009 at 11:13 PM
aww this is cute.ReplyDelete
Call me crazy but I love this. Love the hair, love the outfit, love the idea.ReplyDelete
I simply adore people who do the whole unorthodox wedding thing. The typical Hollywood princess kinda weddings make me puke!
Seriously, congrats, Beth! You go!
- Tennis ObserverJanuary 15, 2009 at 4:54 AM
Four Weddings and a Funeral...ReplyDelete
omg, perspective and taste is a wonderful thing!great guys that you love it, but me def hates it!the shoes i'd rather die then wear them, even just try them on!they look something Heidi would wear for a ball in the mountains!and the hair, well, scary!who ever did it should get taken her/his hairdresser certificate promptly!the dress is whole another horror.i mean, obviously people with such fashion or life expression do things like that, can't really say what lies behind, but taste definetly not.actually, she would look as a nice lady if someone finally dresses her tastefully!dress is just Halloweenish,only thing I like is the groom!he's kinda cute, southern look get me my cowboy hat,waistcoat and a horse cute!ReplyDelete
I don't like the dress, I don't like the hair, and the shoes are oh my UGH. But I always thought I'd wear black on my wedding day.. And my best gay like totally went through the roof.ReplyDelete
This is IF I ever got married, that is.
Sarah Jessica Parker wore black on her wedding to Matthew Broderick, and she said she regretted it. To be honest I like the colors on this wedding. No matter what, weddings are supposed to be about the couple so I hope they will be happy in their new life! Congrats B!
- johanneJanuary 15, 2009 at 7:09 AM
You definitely cannot accuse her of being boring, and that is something I have to give her props for! Congrats on your marriage, B! And keep up the crazy :)ReplyDelete
sonja: TOTALLY agree about the Hollywood Princess look. BARF.
- AnonymousJanuary 17, 2009 at 10:12 AM
I have no problem with a black wedding gown, but i DO have a problem with the flowers. And discussion of carats always makes me a little ill. But they look happy, so best wishes B.!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 13, 2009 at 6:12 AM
Yooooooo im sittin next to her brother Andrew right now!ReplyDelete
IRS2007 SAYS WOW.....WHAT A BEAUTIFUL COUPLE. ENJOY YOUR MARRIAGE PRETTY LADY, BUT DO HURRY BACK TO THE COURTS. (Isk & Tsk Youyousova)ReplyDelete


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If the blue areas are supposed to be water then their bump map is inverted. They look like big bubbles of water suspended on top of the sand.
That in and of itself could be a pretty cool premise for a fantasy world or region, but I don't think it's what you're going for here.


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Hello folks
I need an map for a story Im working on. And if I like the map and the story will come in the stores what is what Im hoping for.
My idea of the map:
Im making an medieval styled fantasy so I would like a map without roads and citys.
The citys and roads I will add myself.
I would like to have 4 continents of earth size.
Continent 1:
-Mid size European themed land.
-Much forest and some big rivers
-Some alpines
-A few lakes
-Maybe 1 or 2 plains
- One or two great forests
- one Mediterranean area
Continent 2
-Like Africa
-Some livable areas at the coasts
Continent 3:
-Like #1
Continent 4:
-Some good livable lands
-Much dessert
-A harsh plain area
I found an good map. The style I liked very much.
It would be great if it could get done this month so I can write my book.
The maker will hold all the rights until the book get published.
When it gets published I would like to buy copyrights!.
Manny thanks!.


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10 Gorgeous Outdoor Dining Spaces That Haunt Our Dreams
Dining Inspiration
Long weekends always put me in a lazy, hazy mood, a let's-scroll-through-Pinterest-for-pretty-things mood. On my mind this past Memorial Day weekend: gorgeous, colorful, fantasy outdoor dining spaces that are the stuff of dreams.
It's not that all of these are huge or have amazing views (although some of them are and do), but they're simply beautiful setups that make you sigh and imagine what your loved ones or group of friends would look like in that setting, what you'd serve at the table, how long you'd all eat and drink into the night...
What does your dream outdoor dining space look like?
(Image credits: Debi Trelaur/Chronicle Books via Houzz; The Hunted Interior; Christian Dohn via Houzz; Lonny; Amber Gress via Style Me Pretty; New Eco Landscapes via Houzz; The Home Improvements Group via Houzz; Better Homes & Gardens; Michael Calderwood for Architectural Digest; House Beautiful)


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May 25, 2016
Tallahassee, FL - Florida State plays its final ACC game of the regular season on Saturday against Maryland. The Seminoles could take the Atlantic Division and a bid for the conference championship game with a win. But they'll be up against the second-ranked defense in the ACC.
"They run the same kinds of things our defense runs," said Rashad Greene, a sophomore wide receiver. "So, you know, we face that everyday. We face that all year. So it's something that we're familiar with. We'll just go out there and try to execute."
Florida State has an opportunity to exploit a depleted Maryland offense. The Terrapins have lost four quarterbacks to season-ending injuries and now they're starting a linebacker under center.
"It's hard to look at it and say 'oh, they're only going to stick to this or they're only going to stick to that,'" said Telvin Smith, a junior linebacker. "But you never know what a team can come out doing and I feel like that's what Coach is getting us ready for. We don't know what they can come out doing."
"They're gonna stay with what they do - they'll have wrinkles and tricks I think and different ways they'll go about it," Head Coach Jimbo Fisher said. "They'll be a base offense. They'll do what they have to do."
The 'Noles have history on their side - they've won five in a row against the Terps including last year's 25 point victory.
"Like I tell you all all the time, it's big because it's the next game," Greene said. "It's a step to where we gotta get in the future and that's our main focus trying to go out here and get better and, you know, come out here with a win."
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HANOVER, Md. (WUSA9) -- Maryland State Police say they have found hundreds of fake Apple iPhone and iPad parts after a raid of two stores at Arundel Mills Mall in Hanover.
The raid happened last Friday at the Cyberion store and the ST Tech Pros kiosk after a 7-month long investigation about the possible sale of counterfeit Apple products from these two stores.
Police released a partial list of the items they say were being sold as authentic factory replacements:
Police say they also recovered "counterfeit packaging materials, computer equipment used for the design and printing of the packaging material, and computer equipment believed to be used to clone phones."
Apple experts confirmed the items were counterfeit, according to police. Police say the estimated value of the counterfeit items totals more than $89,000.
Investigators will present their information to the Anne Arundel County State's Attorney's Office for review regarding potential charges, but no arrests have been made yet, according to police.


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Video: Update: Goliath Davis is out
Saint Petersburg, Florida - Former Saint Pete Police Chief Goliath Davis has been fired as a city administrator in St. Petersburg.
Davis has been at the center of controversy, most recently for not attending the two funerals for the fallen St. Petersburg police officers this year. Mayor Bill Foster met with Davis yesterday.
At a press conference Friday afternoon, Davis said his dismissal came after heavy criticism from local talk radio, and that, plainly stated, he was "fired for not going to a funeral."
Davis defended his decision for not attending the funerals earlier this year of Officer Jeffrey Yaslowitz and Sgt. Tom Baitinger.
"My reasons for not attending the funerals of those officer was legitimate, because to do so would have exacerbated my mental, and physical well-being," he says.
While Davis explained his emotional reasons for not attending the fallen officers' funerals, he never really explained why he did attend the funeral for cop killer Hydra Lacey.
A largely sympathetic audience often applauded and cheered Davis throughout the press conference.
Davis first made the announcement of his departure earlier Friday, as he told the people he supervised that today would be his last day at City Hall.
The decision was actually made on Wednesday, Davis' birthday. He says he was about to have a birthday breakfast when Mayor Bill Foster called him to a meeting and informed Davis he was out.
Foster says he lost confidence in Davis, and that the decision was in the best interest of the city.
Here's the official statement from Mayor Foster's office:
ST. PETERSBURG, FL (March 4, 2011) - Citing a loss of confidence, Mayor Bill Foster relieved Dr. Goliath Davis of his duties as Senior Administrator of Community Enrichment on March 4, 2011.
As we advance this great City during extreme budgetary times, the Mayor will take this opportunity to re-organize departmental structures within the City, thereby consolidating Community Enrichment with other departments. Housing will become a part of Leisure and Community Services; Codes will go under City Development; and, the Business Assistance Center will become a division of Planning & Economic Development.
"This is the first of many organizational changes being discussed as we move to create greater efficiencies, while advancing the mission and goals of a city with limitless need and limited resources," said Foster.
"This management team will work together in unison, from a common script, toward a common goal of seamlessness and economic sustainability. We must not keep doing the same things as we did in the past and expect a different result, but must re-invent ourselves to attain a different and more positive result. Time is not on our side, and there is no time like the present to take bold and positive steps to assure our continued quality of life for all residents."
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REGIONALREPORT Charlotte
In December, media outlets reported that Lowes Cos. had pulled its advertising from the cable-TV series All-American Muslim under pressure from the Florida Family Association, which claims the TLC program promotes Islamic fundamentalism. This upset liberals, both political and religious, who claimed the retailer had been cowed by a right-wing extremist. Thats not so, Lowes says.
A national coalition of religious groups asked two Charlotte pastors to deliver petitions to Lowes Mooresville headquarters urging the company to resume its sponsorship. The Rev. Russ Dean of Park Road Baptist Church and the Rev. Jay Leach of Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte left satisfied that Lowes hadnt bowed to bigotry but simply had put business first. Senior Vice President Brian Peace told them Lowes pulled its ads because the companys Facebook page had become a battlefield in a holy war. This, Leach tells BNC, was not going to help get customers. The company had canceled the commercials, Peace told them, even before it got the Florida Family Associations grievance.
Lowes admits they didnt get in front of this thing, Dean says. (Despite repeated requests by BNC, the company didnt provide comment.) Specifically, the ministers say, Lowes release regarding its decision was ambiguous. I wish business decisions werent always motivated by the bottom line, Dean says. They left extremes to rule the day again.
CHINA GROVE Hitachi Metals North Carolina will invest $60 million to expand its plant here within four years, adding about 65 employees to the 65 it has. It will produce magnets for hybrid and electric vehicles and pay an average annual wage of $43,108. Rowan Countys average is $36,036.
CHARLOTTE Benefits administrator Infinisource Holdings will move its headquarters here from Coldwater, Mich., and create 162 jobs within five years. Average annual pay will be $81,296. Mecklenburg Countys average is $51,584.
SALISBURY Seamus Donaldson replaced Bruce Jones as president and CEO of Community Bank of Rowans local market. Donaldson has 12 years experience in banking, most recently serving as Community Banks senior vice president and chief credit officer. Jones joined his wifes property-management and realty company.
CHARLOTTE ACS, the information-technology division of Norwalk, Conn.-based Xerox, is laying off 96 employees here. Most work part time processing transactions for a client. It employs about 2,200 statewide.
STATESVILLE Goldsboro-based Pate Dawson Co. will invest $8.5 million and create 49 jobs at a new distribution center here within three years. Average annual pay will be $47,531. Iredell Countys average is $36,348.
CHARLOTTE Lash Group will add about 450 jobs, most of them here, this year. The health-care consultancy is expanding after its parent, Valley Forge, Pa.-based AmerisourceBergen, acquired two companies.
CLEVELAND Daimler Trucks North America will add more than 1,100 mostly recalled workers at its Freightliner assembly plant here and 100 at a components plant in Gastonia by year-end. The Portland, Ore.-based company employs more than 4,800 in North Carolina.


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Flameslinger is an Elven archer with incredible aim. In fact, he is so good that he wears a blindfold just to prove it. When he was young, he rescued a fire spirit from a watery doom and was gifted an enchanted bow and magical fire boots that he now masterfully uses to defeat evil throughout Skylands. With the scorched earth he leaves behind, you can always tell where he has been.
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The U.S. Forest Service has adopted a new rule that will allow the agency to fast-track the destruction of motorized trails, the American Motorcyclist Association reports.
On Sept. 12, the Forest Service published a final rule in the Federal Register that adds three new "categorical exclusions" to its national Environmental Policy Act regulations "for activities that restore lands negatively impacted by water control structures, natural- and human-caused events, and roads and trails."
Categorical exclusions allow the agency to act without preparing a costly and time-consuming environmental assessment or environmental impact statement to determine the project's impacts.
Among other things, the new rule allows the U.S. Forest Service to obliterate "unneeded and unauthorized roads and trails" without doing an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement. The rule can't be used for recognized National Forest System Roads and National Forest System Trails.
When using the categorical exclusion related to roads and trails, the rule says U.S. Forest Service officials "will conduct appropriate scoping and public involvement assuring that citizen views are taken into account in an appropriate manner given the context of the decisions being made."
The rule also states that "this category will not be used to make access decisions about which roads and trails are to be designated for public use."
When the Forest Service sought public comments on the proposal last year, the AMA expressed concerns that the proposed rule would "allow a categorical exclusion from the current environmental review to accelerate the pace of road and trail deconstruction. In other words, these new categorical exclusions will make it much easier for the Forest Service to reduce the number and mileage of trails."
The AMA also asked why a categorical exclusion wasn't proposed for instances when the Forest Service restores trails for the safety of users.
"Now, more than ever, it's important for all riders to contact their local national forest and get on the contact list to be notified when the local forest plans to take any action on trails," said Wayne Allard, AMA vice president for government relations. "Since the Forest Service can move quickly to destroy trails, we must be prepared to move quickly to voice our concerns as motorized recreation enthusiasts when we can."


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most phones have an 'auto-detect settings' option when setting up activesync. does anyone know how this actually works? It doesn't work for us, I've always assumed its because we don't use zimbra for our incoming mta, we have a email gateway.
The way i always assumed it works was you put in your email address, the device looks up the mx record for the domain part of the address, then tries to connect to port 80 or 443 and look for activesync capability. but since our mx records point to a system other then zimbra it never works.
can anyone confirm this or know of another way to get it to auto-detect settings for a setup like this? maybe some kinda of dns entry?


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I usually ride in my Circle Y; I love it.
There's a really nice tack shop in Frannie, WY.
I have been overseas with the military for the majority of my career, and now that we are headed back to Wyoming (don't know where yet), I want to hunt the wilderness areas horseback.
What saddles are you guys using, and what panyard systems and so on?
Where is a good place to go for back country tack?
Looks like the prices on quality mules are high, and I don't have a lot of mule experience.
We used to have our share of BLM Burros that guarded our sheep at night when I was younger. Kind of like a tall dog that eats grass.
Was thinking of trying to find some Norwegian Fjord mares (2 or 3) and a mammoth donkey jack. Eventually having our own mule program. Then again I have zero experience around mules. So maybe not.
(I am about 20 months from moving so if your selling horses can you please wait till I get back. I don't even know where I am going to be living.)
I usually ride in my Circle Y; I love it.
There's a really nice tack shop in Frannie, WY.
Arise... Kill, Eat! - Acts 10:13
As far as panniers go I buy from Davis tent in Colorado. They have about anything for packing. They are resonable prices too. They have a pannier that is really tough. Can't think of what it's called now but check out their site. I bought a wall tent from them too. Good people.
You can also consider renting horses. I have stock, and have also rented. The rental stock actually did very well for me. As far as tack goes, I prefer the standard decker packsaddle with traditional bars rather than "improved" bars. It is harder to manny stuff onto the "improved" version, IMO. The traditional bars are just as easy to hang panniers off, too.
Renting stock from Wyoming horses has worked well for my group. The horses are not perfect but most are pretty damn good.
I like to have one or two good horses that i own personally. My best 2 have passed away in the last year. I actually was pretty choked up when they died. Cancer for both of them.
The main benefit besides financial to renting is that those rental horses have been used all summer and are in much better shape
I am not a horse expert. Won't buy one unless it is ten plus years old. The number one mistake is the guy who borrows someones "good" horse that is a pasture ornament. It is a wreck more often than not. Damn horse was probably broke and in shape five years ago.
Pasture ornament=bad
Rental horse=usually pretty good
Just my humble opinion
10-12 years yep that's perfect. We are on the same page.
We got a lot of use in Montana and Wyoming when I was in highschool out of a blue roan appy/percheron cross named bacon he was 14 when we bought him and wasn't 100% sound but for $800 in 1990 he was a good deal. Old man road him well into my military career, and he beat the heck out of all the high dollar 6-9 year old stock horses the old man had. Even a Poco Bueno Quarter Horse geilding that was almost $14,000.
Of course the Poco Gielding could almost rip the horns off of a steer roping.
Edelweiss, take a look at outfitters supply, they have a ton of riding and packing gear. You may not necassarily buy anything from them but you'll get a good handle on what you'll need. IMO your right on track with a 10-12 year old, they still have plenty of years left and you don't have the hassles that come with the younger animals. I think were all looking for 10 year old horses with 20 year old brains
Just had another thought, if you don't already have it, get "Horses, Hitches and Rocky Trails by Joe Back. This paper back book is considered by many (myself included) to be the packers bible. It is very good reading and comes in handy as a refresher course for some of the rigs that we don't use very often.
Edelweiss- Do you have packing experience or are just starting to get into it? I make my living packing horses and mules and agree with Bitteroot that the Decker system is by far my favorite as well, but it is definitely not the popular one, compared to the sawbuck system. I have packed Deckers exclusively in Idaho and Montana, but now have to settle with the sawbuck as i spend most my time working in Wyoming now adays. If you want to move past weekend warrior and be a successful backcountry hunter with horses it will definitely be beneficial to learn different hitches used for packing and not rely on one of the "TrailMax" type panyard systems for everything. The book mentioned above is a great one. Also the "Packers Manual" by Bob Hoverson is a good read, and one of my favorites is "Packin' In on Mules and Horses" by the one and only Smoke Elser.
I ordered a couple books and DVDS that Packing In on Horses and Mules rings a bell. Been a few weeks, mail is slow down here to us couple months.
I have zero packing experience, my father guided when I was very small in the Hoback and Shoshone in the 1970s and early 1980s. He was one of the founders of pack horse races in Fremont, County Wyoming. Saying that it's been a long time since he packed anything, he's got 5 titanium joints now. I'll get set up with those books and pick you guys for answers.
I really appreciate all the information you guys have passed along.
I am going to be teaching school somewhere in Wyoming, we don't know where yet. I am waiting on the Veterans Affairs outfit to tell me where I have to teach for troops to teachers.
Hopefully I can get a lot of summer experience packing after we get set up.


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President Obama says large parts of the federal government are more efficient, transparent and accountable than at any time in U.S. history. Do you agree?
Obama says lots of things. He likes to hear himself talk and he likes to be in the spotlight..
Trouble is 90% of what comes out of his mouth is just words with no meaning.. and 70% of it is lies..
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Old news, DustOff.
"The separatist New Black Panther Party, described as a hate group by a civil rights organization, is standing by its $10,000 bounty offer for the capture of the man who shot Trayvon Martin, despite vehement opposition from, among others, Martin's family.
"We're here to make them do their job," organizer Mikhail Muhammad said on Monday. "We will support Trayvon's family, but we are military."
"Martin was shot February 26 by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer, while walking back from a Sanford, Florida, convenience store. Zimmerman, according to friends and his attorney, Craig Sonner, said he killed Martin, 17, in self-defense.
"The fact he hasn't been charged in Martin's killing has outraged many in the United States, including people who believe Martin was considered "suspicious" because he was black. Zimmerman is a white Hispanic."
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I liked the OJ thingy, DustOff.
Good on ya!
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GOP lawmakers blame Obama administration over failed missile tests. Four high-ranking Republican lawmakers criticized the Obama administration on Friday for three failed tests of the country's missile-defense system, saying budget cuts and neglect are to blame. Sens. James Inhofe, R-Okla., and Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., along with Reps. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., and Mike Rogers, R-Ala., sent Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel a letter faulting President Obama for allegedly gambling with national security by cutting funding to the program. They claim this hampered the ability to conduct vital tests needed to make sure the "ground-based midcourse defense system" (GMD) worked properly and conduct regular maintenance. The last successful GMD intercept test was in 2008. Since then, there have only been three attempted intercept tests and two flight tests -- the most recent of which was in January, and was successful. All of the intercept tests, however, tanked. The latest test fai
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willgrr, that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel quote thingy?
That's not a scandal, in case you were wondering.
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Try again...
"Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned lawmakers Wednesday of severe and unacceptable effects on the U.S. military if Congress doesn't end the automatic spending cuts projected to slice $52 billion from the defense budget for 2014."
Just like in a good movie, the plot thickens.
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"The government has collected $2.09 trillion in revenue so far this budget year, according to the June report. That's 14 percent more than the first eight months of the previous budget year.
"It has spent $2.6 trillion so far, or nearly 5 percent less than the same stretch last year. The decline partly reflects the impact of the automatic spending cuts that began in March. Defense spending is down 7 percent. A better job market has also helped lower spending for unemployment benefits almost 25 percent."
Don't tell centerish about those "automatic spending cuts" aka sequester being partially responsible for lower deficit spending in June.
Also, don't talk about what this Obama cabinet member said yesterday...
"Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned lawmakers Wednesday of severe and unacceptable effects on the U.S. military if Congress doesn't end the automatic spending cuts pro
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willy...<o keeps talking and the lies and B/S keep coming. The scandals keep coming...how many more different gov agencies are or will come worth...talking points you say...after Benghazi really...sum kinda sad
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What Boondoggle? Carney unaware of $34M military HQ troops won't use
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney apparently isn't reading his hometown paper.
The Washington Post carried a fairly explosive story on Wednesday about a $34 million military headquarters in southwestern Afghanistan that probably will never be used by U.S. forces. A scathing inspector general letter was also released Wednesday morning on the war-zone boondoggle.
But asked on Thursday whether President Obama was outraged by the waste, Carney said he hadn't heard anything about it.
"I would have to take the question. I haven't seen the report," Carney said.
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I think the perspective that I thought needed broadening was yours, Veritas, not Issa, Rush, Fox.
You can pass judgment all you want to. That is your "right" and you don't have to be correct even part of the time to do it either.
Don't news pundits "pass judgment" every time they cover a story? It seems there are no non-political people in this world anymore, lefties, righties or in-betweenies.
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Veritas, if I have the time to do it, I will.
Otherwise, you could broaden your perspective by not thinking the worst and then trying to find something credible by these sources yourself.
Don't worry. Your brain won't explode. I promise.
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Child Poverty Rate (Rank Among States)
#1 Mississippi RED
#2 New Mexico BLUE
#3 District of Columbia BLUE
#4 Louisiana RED
#5 Arkansas RED
#6 South Carolina RED
#7 Alabama RED
#8 Kentucky BLUE
#9 Arizona RED
#10 Texas RED
Veritas is close, but no cigar. Just 7 out of 10 on the child poverty rate rankings.
Isn't it true that you can make statistics say anything? I just did.
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Well, I looked at frac . org again and found the 104 pg. pdf file "Profile of Hunger, Poverty and Federal Nutrition Programs."
I picked one designation, "child poverty rate - rank among states," and determined the 10 states with the highest rank.
Then I went to wiki for a list of "US state legislatures" after Nov. 2012 elections and found those 10 states, whether they were blue or red.
Here's the list...
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"...I believe the statement (Veritas' own) stands until proven untrue...
"Sorry, anything Issa, Rush, Fox says has no credibility...Nadda!"
So Veritas is able to predetermine that any statement coming from these certain sources already has no credibility. Very interesting.
What's good for Veritas is not good for anyone else, that "standing by a statement until it's proven false" business.
So we're to believe ALL statements made by Issa, Rush, Fox have been proven false, not to mention the ones they haven't made yet, all because they have "no credibility" in Veritas' mind?
Sure, nice work if you can get it.
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Prejudice and Voting in the 2012 Presidential Electionpublicreligion****/.../prejudice-and-voting-in-the-2012-presidential-elect...?CachedMay 13, 2013 - Prejudice and Voting in the 2012 Presidential Election ... women, welfare recipients, and gay and lesbian couples: "Allowing illegal immigrants...
veritas this is why little <o won in 2012 and now he knows nothing of the scandals on his watch???...WOW not only Romney, but we the American's who lost in 2012
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Demographics of How Groups Voted in the 2012 Presidential Election****ropercenter.uconn.edu/elections/how_groups.../voted_12.html?CachedDemographic breakdown of how groups voted during the 2012 Presidential election. Candidates include Barack Obama, and Mit Romney.
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Obama can say whatever he wants, but it doesn't make it true.
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locomotive,you did it by the numbers so that these simple minded people can't disagree with the truth... The simpletons aka namexxx, leftwing, veritas are now heading to Florida to put some wind in their sail from TS Chantal...and to claim that they live there to collect FEMA money
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Now centerish/namexxx can do some color coding for the Huff Post data cited.
I gotta run...
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"Ten States that Rely Most on Food Stamps" Huffington Post, 11-8-12
10. South Carolina 18.2% of population
9. Maine 18.6%
8. West Virginia 18.7%
7. Kentucky 18.8%
6. Louisiana 19.2%
5. Michigan 19.7%
4. New Mexico 19.8%
3. Tennessee 19.8%
2. Oregon 20.1%
1. Mississippi 20.7%
"Of all the disastrous consequences of the economic crisis, perhaps the most devastating is the idea of even more Americans struggling to feed their families.
"Recent statistics from the USDA indicate that 14.2 percent of the U.S. population was using food stamps in February 2011, or around 44.2 million total, up from 33 million just two years before in 2009."
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Now for the color of the top 5 states...
Oregon BLUE
Illinois BLUE
District of Columbia BLUE
Mississippi RED
New Mexico LIGHT BLUE
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Food Research And Action Center April 2013
"Increases in SNAP caseloads between April 2012 and April 2013 occurred in 39 states and the District of Columbia. The three states registering over-the-year percentage increases of eight percent or higher were MD, IL, WY."
frac . org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/snapdata2013_april . pdf
This pdf has data of "SNAP Number of persons participating" in 3 different tables detailing changes in 1 month, 1 year, and 5 years. A 4th table details the "share of population participating" with "data as of July 5, 2013."
#1 Oregon had 50.3% of its estimated population participating
#2 Illinois had 24.8%
#3 District of Columbia had 23.8%
#4 Mississippi had 22.3%
#5 New Mexico had 21.4%
And North Dakota? 8.4%
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ND is one of the nation's biggest welfare queens.
When you ignoramuses complain about foodstamps -- you're complaining about yourselves.
Oh yeah, and ND is also the #1 beer guzzling state. So, you're not just a state of moochers -- you're also a bunch of drunks.
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You nitwits keep referring to food stamp consumption but don't accept that most of the States at the top of the list are Red states. Just like the Bush era of Federal government, the Republican states are being terribly miss managed. But, keep on with the talking points.
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"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
Margaret Thatcher
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Online advertising systems bring in direct revenue to companies like Microsoft and Google. Occasionally, anomalous system behavior of malicious user intent can affect the health of such systems. Therefore, such systems require prompt and precise analytics to predict, pre-empt, detect, and diagnose problems such as sudden drops in revenue or new styles of click-fraud occur. Towards this, we are working on a set of projects to analyze these complex systems and keep them running in a healthy manner
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Book review: David Petraeus' war of ideas
'The Insurgents' tells how the general and other academics fought to change military tactics in Iraq
If you were hoping for a biography of former Army Gen. David Petraeus — an important and interesting figure even before the extramarital affair scandal that resulted in his resignation as CIA director in November — Slate columnist Fred Kaplan's latest book isn't it.
But "The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War" is probably more important, idea-wise, than a biography might have been.
The book is a description of how various military academics, with Petraeus possibly in the lead, arrived at the same unpopular conclusion in the mid-2000s: That counterinsurgency, or small-war, tactics were needed to avoid losing the Iraq War.
Why unpopular? Kaplan depicts then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Pentagon as a toxic place where no one was allowed to challenge the Bush administration's view that Iraq could be invaded quickly and then handed back to its citizens to govern.
When that idea fell apart after the 2003 invasion, Rumsfeld famously didn't want to hear the word "insurgent" — a description of those resisting the new Iraqi government with guerrilla attacks.
The premise of Kaplan's book is that Petraeus and his intellectual compatriots fought their own guerrilla war of ideas to steer the U.S. military toward a new Iraq strategy.
Kaplan calls this group of military thinkers COINdinistas, playing off the military shorthand for counterinsurgency, COIN.
What are counterinsurgency tactics? It's the "clear-hold-build" strategy that the United States eventually adopted in Iraq and Afghanistan. Simply, it instructs U.S. troops to fight off guerrilla attackers and establish order in a village, making it safe for civilian authorities to enter and rebuild a working government.
That formula requires lots of American boots on the ground, which dictated the troop surges in Iraq and later in Afghanistan.
Petraeus got interested in these ideas during his college days at West Point. Meanwhile, most of the Army was fixated on how to fight the next major tank war in Europe.
The book does discuss Petraeus' formative years — including how he met his wife, daughter of the West Point superintendent, and how friends and foes viewed that as an early sign of the intense young officer's aspirations to greatness.
But Kaplan also devotes substantial ink to the lesser-known COINdinistas and how their thinking evolved. He is very thorough. Despite his clean, journalistic prose, the first few chapters feel like a book report on their early reading lists. If you are not a military wonk, the first 100 pages are a hard slog.
It's noteworthy that Kaplan's depiction of this fight of ideas is basically bloodless. He barely mentions the main reason for the Iraq War's unpopularity — the grisly American body count.
I'm curious why he made that choice. It might have offered an interesting contrast to his portrayal of how Petraeus and his intellectual compatriots battled for change in military policy — largely a paperwork fight. They convened conferences, rewrote manuals and authored articles for small military journals.
"The Insurgents" doesn't give us much insight into why Petraeus went so spectacularly off the rails last year, after being considered the most famous general of his generation and a possible presidential contender.
When the scandal broke, Kaplan rushed out a postscript. (In a Slate story, he also named Petraeus' mistress as Paula Broadwell, the general's biographer.)
His conclusion on Petraeus seems to be that the wily, wiry Army man worked his policy magic by forming a loose coalition of like-minded military scholars. Kaplan even calls it a "cabal."
These people traveled the same rarefied paths: Ivy League grad school, Rhodes Scholarships, teaching tours at West Point. (By the way, who knew that brainy Army officers got such cushy assignments? Beats the corporate world.)


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Phil Alperson said residents, employees and visitors in the area can expect delays and intermittent road closures from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. today.
Across Rockville Pike, NIH has advised its employees to enter and exit on the Old Georgetown Road side of campus "to help alleviate traffic backups" on Rockville Pike.
Base spokesman Joe Macri declined to elaborate on the anticipated delays, saying, "In the interest of force protection, we are unable to discuss specific security measures taken."
President Barack Obama visited wounded troops on the base on Dec. 20, a pre-holiday closed-to-the-media session that didn't cause any significant added traffic.
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Residents say they didn't see anything, but they heard it all.
"We heard like pow, pow, pow, pow, pow about four to six shots," said Beatrice Manning.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says on Wednesday night a man was shot and killed right in front of this mobile home on 35 Talley Avenue.
The victim has not been identified and no arrest has been made.
Eyewitness News spoke to family members of the victim who refused to talk out of fear the gunman might strike again.
Residents say after hearing the shots they couldn't believe what they saw when they left their homes.
"We seen the lights and we came outside and we saw somebody laying on the ground," said Manning.
Family members of the victim say a man came over asking if they had any cigarettes. Next thing they know he was opening fire killing the victim just feet from where I'm standing.
The victim's family members say they didn't know the shooter and say they don't believe he was from this area.
"Do you all feel safe here?"
"Not really if someone can just walk up and shoot you. I really don't feel safe," said Manning.
Officials with G-B-I say they don't have a motive at this time, but say this is a very active investigation.
Lakeland, Georgia - May 27, 2011 -
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is investigating a deadly shooting that took place in Lakeland, Georgia at around 10pm on May 25. One person was shot and killed near 35 Tully Avenue. GBI does not know the cause of the shooting, nor do they have any suspects at this time. GBI is asking people to come forward if they have any information about the shooting.
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COLUMBUS - It's amazing the difference in emotions in just a week's time.
A week ago, area competitors in Division II were racking up berths in the state track meet left and right.
However, once again this year, the Division II state meet was simply a different story for area competitors who ran into a very tough field at the Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium on the campus of Ohio State University.
However, Martins Ferry got on the scoreboard for the second straight season thanks to senior standout Sean McGee.
The shotputter earned his second consecutive All-Ohio finish with a throw of 53-ft-11 3/4, which was good enough for seventh place. He was a fifth-place medalist last season.
McGee had some anxious moments during the event. Throwing in the first flight, McGee had just one mark on the board at 52-ft-0 3/4. However, it was good enough to squeak into the finals as the ninth thrower. From there, he moved up the ladder on his second-to-last throw.
"It was a little nerve-wracking waiting through that second flight," McGee said. "Once, I got in the finals, I knew all of the pressure was off and I only had three more throws left in my career, so I just let it all go."
Though disappointed he didn't finish as high, McGee was still pleased to get on the podium again.
"I never expected to be All-Ohio twice in the shot," McGee said. "I wasn't too bad as a freshman, but I never thought I'd be here twice."
Cambridge's Eric Fox finished second in the pole vault. He soared over 15-feet and trailed only three-time state champion Matt Rowland of Bellevue.
On the track, only three area competitors qualified for the Division II running finals.
St. Clairsville junior blazer Jaylon Brown continued his mission to get back to the awards podium after missing out last season in both the 100 and 200 meter dash. He finished with a time of 10.95 in the 100 and is seeded sixth in today's final.
In the 200, Brown turned in a 21.93, which gained him an automatic berth in the final by virtue of his second-place finish in his heat. He owns the fourth-best time in the field.
Indian Creek's Alex Young continued his rise to track and field fame in the 400 meter dash. The Redskins' everyday shortstop has tamed one of track's most grueling races each time out since joining the team for the postseason.
Young ran around the Owens oval in 50.16, which was good enough for second in his heat and fifth-best overall.
Steubenville junior Robert Hayden grabbed the final spot in the 100 meter dash final, turning in a 11.07.
Several athletes, however, will compete today in distance races and field events in Division II.
St. C. senior Alyssa Robinson will try to end her brilliant prep career in grand style once again this morning. She'll go after a repeat state title in the shot put. She enters with the second-best mark in the field.
Robinson competed and finished 12th in the discus throw Friday. The Penn State signee launched the platter to a mark of 114-ft-1.
Red Devils' seniors Amy Castle and Julianna Madzia will be in the distance races. Castle will run in both the 1,600 and 3,200, while Madzia earned a trip here in the 3,200.
St. C. senior Drake Walker will run in the 800 meters this afternoon as well.
Union Local's Kylie Russell will take part in this morning's pole vault.
Indian Creek's Max Lewis will join Walker in the 800 meter field this afternoon.


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Duda and Davis have so many glaring holes in their swings that any success either of them has with the long ball speaks volumes not about their talent, but about the increasingly shabby lack of quality pitching extant throughout the game of major league baseball. Selig's lame answer to this mediocrity will no doubt be to further expand the number of franchises to Mexico City and La Paz, Bolivia.
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"Iron Man 3" has been crowned the highest-grossing film of 2013 after raking in $1.2 billion at the global box office.
Robert Downey, Jr.'s latest outing as Tony Stark and his superhero alter-ego easily trumped "Despicable Me 2," which claimed second place with $918.4 million.
"Fast & Furious 6" raced into third with a $788.7 million haul, while "Monsters University" ($743.6 million) and T"he Hunger Games: Catching Fire" ($738.3 million), which was only released last month, placed at four and five, respectively.
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This individual succeeded Minerva McGonagall in the post of Head of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This individual was on his/her post sometimes between 2011 and 2017 after Minerva McGonagall went into retirement as she was "getting on a bit."[1]
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High blood pressure (hypertension) is defined as high pressure (tension) in the arteries, which are the vessels that carry blood from the heart to the rest of the body.
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