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An admirer of fine art but without artistic ability
himself, Patryk Andrews works by day in a high finance
position that his well-to-do father had more than a little
hand in getting him. Gay and liberal, Patryk knows he's a
big disappointment to his parents, but thrives in a job
that leaves him more spiritually and emotionally empty
than his last abusive and dysfunctional relationship.
A gifted painter from an affectionate, supportive clan of
parents and three younger brothers whom he predictably
ruled, Keir Monroe is an artist who has lost his way after
the death of his lover three years previous. A chance
encounter with Patryk sparks Keir's creative spirit,
however, and more than a little lust.
But what starts off as a whirlwind physical obsession soon
turns into more than either Keir or Patryk ever bargained
for when both are faced with demons from their pasts...
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Genre: Alternative Romance (M/M): paranormal / angels
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Length: Novella (35,000 words)
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Recommended: "Zaras back and
shes trying to earn her wings to make up
for all the grief she caused for her
bother Zach and her old friend Quincy. Her
assignment is to bring together a very
unlikely match, Keir a starving black
artist who bartends and Patryk a spoiled
society suit. Though half the battle is
conquered for her when these soul mates
meet and connect, the other half of the
battle it to keep things running smoothly
when every day life takes a toll on these
two young men. Keir is a top whos been
hurt; Patryk is a bottom whos been
abused. Finding a common ground where they
can begin to heal isnt easy. Gracie
C. McKeever does an excellent job at pulling
the past characters and the new characters
together to create a tantalizing story
that will hold you spellbound to the last
word. Ingenues Choice is a
wonderfully written paranormal love story,
I Joyfully Recommend reading."
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"Ingenues Choice by Gracie C.
McKeever is the second book in the
Zaras Bois series. Ms. McKeever has
created a lively and fast paced story,
infusing contemporary social issues with
out of this world characters who add humor
and substance to a very lively plot. I
love how Zara adds her own flare and
personality to each situation she enters
while somehow managing to get her charges
together, sometimes to their own
mystification. The emotional ties between
Kier and Patryk are both very hot and
poignant. It is beautiful to see how two
people can be so perfect together. I cant
wait to find out what heaven has in store
next for Zara. Thanks go to Ms. McKeever
for such an intriguing story." Teresa,
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4 Tombstones:
"Gracie C. McKeever combines old
characters and settings with new and draws
the reader ever closer to the newly
maturing character of Zara, who is
becoming more likable by the day. The
second installment in the Zaras Bois
series, Ingenues Choice, is better
formed than the first in the series and
includes more dialogue with the two angels
that started it all, Micah and Jamaereh.
Fans of M/M and BDSM will appreciate the
eroticism of this tale and the growth of
the characters as they begin to heal old
hurts." Sarai, Bitten By Books
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"Ingenues Choice by Gracie C.
McKeever is the second book in the
Zaras Bois series. Again, I loved to
read how Zara manages to conquer this
challenge in her own unique style, witty
and humorous banter included. The
developing romance between Patryk and Keir
is very sweet and was a pleasure to read
about. The sex in this book is scorching
hot and there is some mild BDSM, too.
Gracie C. McKeever does a great job at creating a
lively and sometimes very funny story,
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dominant. Patryk is such a sweet
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him. Combining these three wonderful
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"So, where do you want me?"
"Oh, all kinds of places, but over there by the bed will do for now." Keir
pointed Patryk toward the ocean-size, four-poster bed that
dominated the room.
Patryk noticed the Velcro cuffs attached to each post, walked over to the
foot of the bed on suddenly shaky legs, and waited for more
Keir stood before his easel on the other side of the room, head tilted at
a slight angle and a thumb and forefinger cradling his chin as
he peered at Patryk.
Patryk averted his eyes, briefly catching the image of Keir's bare feet
peeking from the bottom of the pair of faded jeans he'd changed
into. He dragged his gaze up from the well-worn hem, glancing
over Keir's strong, denim-clad thighs before finally landing on
his fly. He let his gaze linger for a moment, noticing the huge
bulge, focusing on the sexy way the jeans hung on Keir's slim
waist and accentuated his ripped abs.
There wasn't an ounce of fat on the man's frame and Patryk's mouth dried
up at the idea of Keir's six-foot-four, lean-muscled body
dominating him before he quickly dropped his gaze back to the
floor. The sight of Keir's brown toes curling against the plush
gray carpet turned Patryk on as much as the idea of being at
Keir's mercy.
Oh, please put me out of my misery and take me now. Please!
Patryk cleared his throat before finally taking in Keir's contemplative
face again. "Is something wrong?"
"Nothing at all." Keir came over to the bed and stood a foot in front of
Patryk. His body immediately reacted to Keir's closeness. His
legs weakened until all he wanted to do was collapse back on the
bed and let Keir do whatever he wanted to him.
"Don't be afraid." Keir cupped his face.
"I'm not."
Keir gave him a yeah-sure look as he reached for the belt of the robe and
slowly unknotted it with one hand.
Patryk gasped as the robe fell open, and Keir rasped his thumbs over each
of Patryk's firm, hypersensitive nipples.
Keir slid his arms around Patryk, pulled him close, rubbing a thigh over
his balls, the rough denim material making his cock throb with
need. "Don't move."
Patryk didn't. He just moaned and fisted his hands at his sides to keep
from reaching for Keir the way he wanted.
"You follow instructions well. I like that."
He followed instructions very well, even when it killed him, and with the
way the man was torturing him, Patryk thought he would die long
before he felt the heated pulse of Keir's dick inside him.
"I want you primed and relaxed when I paint you."
Oh yeah, painting. That's what this was about. Not screwing. Not yet.
Just painting. Right. Got it.
But all of those thoughts flew out of Patryk's mind when Keir grasped his
shaft and lightly pumped it up and down.
"Are you relaxed?"
"Mmm." Was the man kidding? Relaxed? Wasn't the fact that he couldn't
communicate more eloquently beyond Neanderthal-like groans and
grunts evidence that Patryk was balancing on a fine razor edge
of lust and wasn't relaxed at all!
"Maybe this will help…" Keir thumbed the creamy pearl of pre-come from
Patryk's slit, lazily sucking the liquid from his thumb before
sliding to his knees in front of Patryk.
Yeah, that just might help.
"Remember. Don't move unless I tell you to."
"I won't." Patryk stood rooted to the spot as if already bound by Keir's
cuffs, and couldn't help thinking how Keir's deep voice and calm
words did more to restrain him than Derek's binding or
disciplining him ever had.
Christ, he barely knew this man!
"Oh, and one more thing, Patryk…"
He panted when Keir licked the head of his cock then glanced up at him
with those dark eyes that would have had Patryk turning into a
useless puddle on the floor if Keir weren't holding him up.
"What's that?"
"I don't want you to think about anything except what I'm doing to you."
He could do that. That was probably all he could do.
"Don't think. Just feel…" Keir took Patryk into his mouth in one long
swallow, the light stubble on his chin tickling Patryk's scrotum
as Keir sucked Patryk's cock hard.
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ORONO, Maine -- Tommy Lawrence (West Haven, Conn.) and Shaun Coughlin (Northford, Conn.) each threw complete game shutouts as the University of Maine baseball team swept a doubleheader from NYIT on Friday afternoon at Mahaney Diamond. The Black Bears won each game 1-0.
Lawrence struck out a career-high 14 batters in the game, while Coughlin tied his career-high by fanning nine batters.
Maine improves to 16-22 on the season with the doubleheader sweep.
In the first game, Maine scored the game's lone run in the bottom of the sixth inning. Troy Black (Mississauga, Ontario) led off the inning with a single to shortstop. Black advanced to second base on a sacrifice bunt by Brian Doran (Ayr, Ontario) and scored when Alex Calbick (Burnaby, British Columbia) singled to center field.
Lawrence did the rest, recoding his second straight complete game shutout. He allowed just five hits while fanning the 14 batters. The 14 strikeouts were just three shy of the school record for strikeouts in a game, albeit Lawrence recorded his 14 strikeouts in a seven inning game. He improves to 5-4 on the season.
John Duggan allowed one run on three hits for NYIT. He struck out three and falls to 0-6 on the season.
The second game was similar to the first as the pitchers once again stole the show. Maine scored the game's lone run in the bottom of the fourth inning. Nick Bernardo (Albany, N.Y.) drew a walk and scored when Colin Gay (Franklin, Mass.) doubled to the left field fence.
Coughlin allowed just three hits while striking out nine. He improves to 3-4 on the season. J.P. Lipovac allowed one run on four hits for NYIT. He falls to 0-6 on the season. NYIT dips to 3-35 on the season.
The two teams played a doubleheader on Friday, due to rain predicted for Saturday. The two teams return to action on Saturday, April 26 with a single game scheduled to start at 1 PM.

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Wednesday brought news of newly marked up Supporting At-Risk Children Act [see .pdf] that includes provisions from the Wyden-Portman Child Sex Trafficking Data and Response Act of 2013.
"Mark[ing]" up bills are changes, hopefully better changes, that are made to current laws and that is what the Senate did for the Supporting At-Risk Children Act by including what Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio were able to draw up in the Wyden-Portman Child Sex Trafficking Data and Response Act of 2013. [see .pdf]
The Wyden-Portman provisions require state child welfare workers to identify and document victims of sex trafficking within the child welfare system and requires those who work for the child welfare system to report information on missing and/or abducted children to the non-profit National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the National Crime Information Center (NCIC).
The reasoning behind it is the grim statistics that is the child welfare system and how most children victimized within the sex trafficking system had been involved in it in one way or another.
The press release made note of the "85 percent of trafficking victims" having prior child welfare involvement" in New York, Florida's "estimated more than 70 percent victims" having been in foster care" and Ohio's report of more than 1,000 children sex trafficked every year.
[Get free email subscription to Ohio Missing Persons Examiner to receive news and updates [click here].
Ohio's Senator Portman said, "This bill will help our nation's most vulnerable children, who far too often fall prey to sex trafficking. These children have been forgotten or disregarded by a system that was established to keep them safe, and this bill is a step in the right direction to ensuring that the goal of these institutions is met. By requiring child welfare agencies to report a child missing immediately, our bill will do a better job of keeping track of runaways and missing kids in order to prevent child victims of sex trafficking from falling through the cracks. Our bill also requires states take the necessary measures to protect and provide services to victims of child sex trafficking, ensuring that we treat exploited children as victims, not as criminals."
The average age of runaways is 12 (typically female) and last year's "safe harbor" law signed by Gov. John Kasich, although tougher on those who buy time with those trafficked and help the youth caught up in it, Linda Smith, head of Shared Hope International, believes it is still a "buyers market" in sex trafficking.
There is an averaged 40 percent of children sexually trafficked within the United States every year but with the mandated reporting of missing children to the NCIC and NCMEC, we should soon see this number dwindle.
See also: Several ways Lighthouse Youth Services in Cincinnati Ohio can help runaways
For more info: for those who live Ohio and want more information, please contact the Ohio Attorney Generals Office at: 800-282-0515 or local: 614-466-4986. They are located at 30 E Broad St #14, Columbus, OH 43215 (Transit: E Broad St & N High St). For directions, please see Google Maps
Ohio Missing Persons Community Support:
- Ohio Attorney General: 'In this traumatic time do not cut yourself off from others who can support you such as family, friends and clergy. Talk to your doctor if increased stress is affecting your health."
- Team Hope: The mission of Team HOPE is to assist families with missing, exploited and recovered children by offering peer support including empowerment, emotional support and coping skills from a trained volunteer who has had or still has a missing or exploited child.
Sources: http://www.finance.senate.gov/legislation/details/?id=a26af179-5056-a032-52a6-5825a153d839; http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/01/11/ohio-human-trafficking-efforts-improve.html; http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/01/11/ohio-human-trafficking-efforts-improve.html; http://oregonfaithreport.com/2013/12/wyden-no-child-sex-trafficking-in-child-welfare-bill/


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Morgan Spurlock's long-awaited documentary Comic-Con – Episode IV: A Fan's Hope will premiere April 6th on VOD (Video-On-Demand). Shot in and around the floor of the San Diego convention in July 2010, the film by the Super-Size Me documentarian is a collaboration between Spurlock, producer Thomas Tull, comic legend Stan Lee, writer-director-ubergeek Joss Whedon, and internet entrepreneur Harry Knowles. Besides spotlighting the many geeks and nerds and cosplayers that populate the show, the film also features interviews from famous faces such as Kevin Smith, Seth Rogan, Eli Roth, Kenneth Branaugh, and many more.
The project has already been available in book form since July 2011, with the hardcover edition published by DK with photography by Alba Tull.
The trailer puts the spotlight on three attendees: First up is Anthony Calderon, an avid collector who spends the show hunting down rare action figures and other memorabilia. The second is Skip Harvey, an aspiring comic artist seeking to show off his work to the biggest names in the business. The third is Holly Conrad, a cosplayer who debuted her now famous Mass Effect 2 cosplay line-up at the show including her own take on the game's hero (Female) Commander Shepard.
Comic-Con – Episode IV: A Fan's Hope will enjoy a special premiere event on April 4th at the Arclight Theatre at the Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles. The official site is here.


text: Romeo's Close Call Wake up Posted on Mar 31 , 2014 by Caroline Golon, guest contributor Print Home > Blog > Humor > Romeo's Close Call Wake up Tags: cat, cats I started the morning out okay. I started my meowmeowmeowmeowmeow just about the same time that the Running-Jumping-Screaming-FrozentheMovieLoving Creature started complaining about something from her room. Oh please oh please oh please don't let me miss BREAKFAST.Male staff grumbled and heaved himself out of bed and went to see what the Creature was yelling about. Of course, I took this as a great opportunity for an early BREAKFAST so I followed him in to the Creature's room. Then, I spied my favorite ribbon hanging out of the basket so I started playing with it. Before I knew it, the male staff member had left the room, shutting the door behind him. And I WAS TRAPPED. ALONE. WITH THE CREATURE. She waved at me through the slats in her crib. Then, she talked to me for a while which I suppose was kind of nice. But a little while later, I heard the female staff calling my name, the clinking of plates, and OMG BREAKFAST being served! LetmeoutLetmeoutLetmeoutLetmeoutLetmeout! HEY! I'm in HERE! Finally, the door opened and female staff peeked in. "Romeo?!" I gave her my best Grumpy Cat look and ran downstairs for BREAKFAST. These people better be extra nice to me today. Share this Article: Print


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Red Hat 6 and Oracle, status of certification
Red Hat 6 has been there a while, so what about certification with Oracle and when? Nothing yet on the Oracle support site, no press releases (maybe I missed one..). But Red Hat had a blog-post about it a while ago (august 2011):
We're pleased to announce that on Tuesday, August 9, we formally submitted to Oracle full certification test results of the Oracle 11gR2 database (Single Instance and RAC (including ASM) for x86 and x86-64) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Oracle database certification is a self-certification program whereby operating system vendors perform extensive testing and submit the results to Oracle for audit and approval.


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Things are warming up in Missouri. Like leave your windows open and enjoy the fresh breeze kind of warm. I can't wait to sit on the porch and drink lemonade and watch the clouds move across the distance. I think I might be a southern girl at heart.
In other news, I'm super excited to announce that Abby Larson and her fabulous team over at Style Me Pretty recently featured the Miller Wedding. I love inspiring brides and I'm so honored to be part of the team of vendors featured on SMP's lovely blog! YAY Kevin & Renee!
Lastly, I was absolutely thrilled when Lady Grey and her amazing team invited me to be part of the Grey Collective. I love how Grey Likes Weddings is teaming up vendors who love their clients and want to serve them in the most amazing way possible.


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How to Cook Skirt Steak: Easy Skirt Steak Video Recipes
There are a few different kinds of skirt steaks, so here are some skirt steak recipe videos to show you how to cook skirt steaks in a lot of different styles. From fajita style skirt steaks, to throwing well-seasoned meat onto a skirt steak salad, to marinating, and then cooking a classic skirt steak. Recipe videos are listed by type and if there are any great videos on easy skirt steak recipes, then please leave them in the comments and I'll add them later. The more the merrier!
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Skirt Steak Fajitasv
Skirt steak fajita is the cooked skit steak served with a soft tortilla.
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Steak Saladv
Make a quick & easy grilled steak salad with this simple recipe.
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Skirt Steak Skewersv
This steak skewers recipe is quite simple and should be yummy as well.
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Classic Grilled Skirt Steakv
This recipe is ideal to be cooked over hot charcoal. Go out-doors for that added zest.
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Marinated Skirt Steakv
Learn to marinate your steak right for that juicy, yummy skirt steak dish.
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Make your skirt steak extra spicy by marinating in a mix of all spices- chillies, pepper, cumin etc, and let it stay for a few hours or overnight for the steak to take in the flavor of the spices.


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|Most familiar syntactic frameworks recognize the category 'phrase', and are built around phrase structure relationships. However, the Word Grammar dependency model does not acknowledge the category 'phrase' as a primitive in the grammar; instead, all relationships are word-based, with phrases having no syntactic status. Here, I investigate the theoretical validity of the notion 'phrase' by examining the phenomenon in Welsh known as syntactic soft mutation, contrasting a phrase-based account with a dependency account. I conclude that an empirically adequate analysis of syntactic soft mutation must make reference to phrases as a category, thus ruling out the dependency account. A further theoretical question concerns the role played in the grammar by syntactically present but phonetically unrealized elements, including empty categories such as wh-traces and unrealized material in ellipsis. Syntactic soft mutation proves an interesting testing ground in these contexts, but the data again fail to support the dependency account. The conclusion is that a phrase-based account of the mutation is better motivated and empirically more accurate than the alternative dependency account.
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Wastewater collection and treatment systems are a source of bad odors, the most prevalent coming from hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a toxic and corrosive gas with a characteristic rotten-egg smell. Often overlooked, though, is that H2S is also a precursor to the formation of sulfuric acid, H2SO4, which causes the destruction of metal and concrete substrates and appurtenances within wastewater facilities.
Biogenic sulfide corrosion is a bacterially mediated process of forming H2S gas and the subsequent conversion to H2SO4 that attacks concrete and steel within waste-water environments. Also referred to as microbiologically induced corrosion, biogenic sulfide corrosion is a big concern to engineers and practitioners because it contributes to the considerable cost of renovation of deteriorated sewer networks.
Fresh domestic sewage entering a wastewater collection system contains an abundance of sulfates, SO4=. In the absence of dissolved oxygen and nitrates, these sulfates are reduced by a sulfate-reducing bacteria, identified primarily from the obligate anaerobic species Desulfovibrio to form H2S (via an esoteric reaction). Conditions favorable for producing sulfide within wastewater conveyance/treatment processes are:
Sulfide generation is a bacterially mediated process that occurs in the submerged portion of sanitary sewerage systems. It begins with the establishment of a slime layer below the water level, composed of bacteria and other inert solids held together by a biologically secreted protein "glue" or biofilm called zooglea. When this biofilm becomes thick enough to prevent the diffusion of dissolved oxygen, an anoxic zone develops under the surface. A fully productive biofilm layer, complete with anaerobic zone, takes about two weeks to be established in a typical wastewater collection system.
Sulfate-reducing bacteria located within the anaerobic microniche use the ubiquitous sulfate ion, SO4=, a common anionic component of wastewater, as an oxygen source for the assimilation of organic matter. As SO4= is consumed for oxygen, the S= byproduct is released back into the wastewater where it establishes a chemical equilibrium under normal wastewater conditions as 50/50 bisulfide ion, HS-, and dissolved hydrogen sulfide, H2S(aq). Upon turbulence or aeration, wastewater releases the dissolved gas as free hydrogen sulfide gas and more bisulfide ion is transformed into the dissolved gas form to replace that lost to the atmosphere. The rate at which H2S leaves the aqueous phase is governed by the Henry's Law coefficient for that gas.
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2K's COO David Ismailer is quoted in their piece.
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Leyte's Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival of Festivals 2013
Forty giant puppets will parade at the thoroughfares of Tacloban City to give additional attraction to the Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival of Festivals here this June 29.
Palo Mayor Remedios L. Petilla who at the same time is the chairperson of this year's major tourism event in Leyte said that they won't be part of the competition of festivals instead their puppets will be joining the parade and thereafter will perform onstage.
The giant puppets represent the characters of tourism attractions in Palo that include "Pamalandong Patron ha Palo," "Pagbalik ha Palo," and "Pasko ha Palo."
"The characters of these three big events in Palo will be portrayed by way of giant puppets," she said.
The lady mayor nonetheless said that they might join the competition next year.
Currently, they are not ready because they are yet to determine the theme of their festival amid the various interpretations of the town's history.
The Pintados-Kasadyaan Festival of Festivals is a grand celebration of two major festivals-the Pintados Festival that gathers various festivals in Eastern Visayas and the Kasadyaan Festival that provides venue for Leyte towns to showcase their respective festivals.
Pintados is now on its 27th year while Kasadyaan is on its 18th year, both held to honor Senior Sto. Niño, the patron saint of Tacloban City and the province of Leyte.
This year's participants to the Kasadyaan Festival include Hindang, Dulag, La Paz, Tolosa,Tanauan, Alangalang, Abuyog towns while Pintados Festival has Sta. Rita, Palo, Tolosa and three entries from Tacloban City.
In June 29 the parade will start at 9:00 a.m. at the Leyte Sports Development Center Gate 1 and will pass through Ninoy Aquino Avenue, Paterno Street, Sta. Cruz Street, Juan Luna Street, Avenida Veteranos, Real Street, Justice Romualdez Street, Rizal Avenue, back to Avenida Veteranos, Paterno Street, Sta. Cruz Street and Leyte Sports Development Center Gate 2. (PNA)


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Juniors Eric Brady and Ryan Eibner paced the Pirates, both shooting 5-over 218 over 54 holes to finish amongst a six-way tie for 23rd. Brady led the squad on the final day with a 1-over 72. He carded rounds of 74 and 72 Saturday before he duplicated his second round performance in round three. Eibner carded a 4-over 75 in the final round after posting scores of 71 and 72 in rounds one and two Saturday.
Senior Zach Edmondson finished tied for 62nd overall at 13-over 226 (70-78-78), shooting 7-over Sunday with freshman George Kilgore coming in tied for 64th with rounds of 77, 77 and 73 for a two-day total of 14-over 227.
North Carolina finished at 7-over 859 to claim the team championship by two strokes over second-place North Carolina State with a 9-over 861. Kennesaw State and host Charlotte finished tied for third with matching scores of 14-over 866. Davidson and UNC Wilmington tied for fifth-place at 17-over 869.
Jimmy Beck of Kennesaw State posted a 3-under 68 in the final round to overtake the field and claim individual medalist honors with an 8-under 205. Beck finished one stroke ahead of Charlotte's Franco Castro in the runner-up position at 7-under 206 with North Carolina's Michael McGowan capturing third-place at 2-under 211 followed by five others tied for fourth at 1-under 210.
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The Boston Ronald McDonald House opened its doors in Brookline in 1979, establishing itself as the eighth House in the country. The House was a dream of the Friends of the Jimmy Fund, a group of parents whose children were treated for cancer at Children's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's Jimmy Fund Clinic and other area hospitals. With the support of local McDonald's Restaurant owners and hundreds of generous people, companies and foundations, this dream became reality. Since its opening, thousands of children with cancer and their families have lived in the "House that love built" at a minimal cost and with much support.
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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Daddy Yankee is not dead. A fake Daddy Yankee death story today claims that he has died in a car crash. The story is not only erroneous, and is also not new. The same false report has been used innumerable times to kill off other celebrities this fall. But today, Daddy Yankee fans are furious.
At roughly 1:30 PM PST today, there are close to twenty tweet per minute about the fake Daddy Yankee death report. Daddy Yankee last tweeted to his followers roughly twenty hours ago. As result, some person(s) found it inventive to fuel fake death claims online today about the music great.
Like many celebrities victimized by fake death reports, Daddy Yankee is not a frequent twitter user. Two weeks ago, Akon battled fake death reports that surfaced, while he was out of the U.S. and not on Twitter for roughly two days. Daddy Yankee has only posted six tweets since December 11. He wished an early Merry Christmas to fans last week. And on Friday, he simply wrote "weekend".
The source of today's fake death report remains unclear. But an online report from Global Associated is erroneous. The report claims that Daddy Yankee died on Route 80 between Morristown and Roswell The fake report states "Witnesses have stated that Daddy Yankee's car crossed the double lines several times prior to the accident and hit the center lane divider causing the vehicle to flip and roll."
The report is fake. The same report has previously been used against other music leaders. Among the music celebrities victimized by the Route 80 story this fall are David Guetta, DJ Pauly D, and DJ Tiesto.
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Fake celebrity death stories often originate from several different sources and often via several different social networking methods. But in recent months, music celebrities are most often targeted with death stories concerning "Route 80?. In July, David Guetta was fictitiously listed dead in a car crash on Route 80. Then the same thing happened to DJ Tiesto. To no surprise, the same fake death story even exists for Armin Van Buuren.
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The fake Route 80 story uses the same photo, of a car not sold this century, flipped over. Buried on the bottom of the report is the disclaimer in super small font the reads "this is totally false". Fake additions to the stories even further confuse fans like "Local Team News 9 and "Highway Safety Investigators Board", entities that sound believable but are fabricated.
Fans nonetheless are furious. "Twitter always trying to kills somebody. Now they are saying Daddy Yankee is dead" wrote one fan moments ago. Another added "So is Daddy Yankee really dead?" Many were unsure about the fake report. "Somebody needs to tell me if daddy Yankee is dead or alive". Another added "someone please tell me Daddy Yankee isn't dead."
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Fake death reports have taken new form this year. In August 2011, Beyonce suffered a new breed of fake death reports fueled by Twitpics and Photoshop. Someone that weekend took a picture of Beyonce, then took a screengrab of a leading news website. With the use of Photoshop, they inserted Beyonce's picture into the screengrab and added the caption that Beyonce had died. They then tweeted the Twitpic. Fans who saw the picture believed they were looking at a real, current screengrab of the website announcing Beyonce's death.
Daddy Yankee is not dead, Beyonce is fine, there is no Route 80 and no celebrity has been snowboarding in Zermatt this weekend.


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Intel reveals more about Knights Landing chip due in 2015
Next generation Xeon Phi will be a 3TFLOPS chip with Omni Scale interconnect and 16GB of integrated memory
INTEL HAS DISCLOSED more details about its next generation Xeon Phi processor for high-performance computing (HPC), codenamed Knights Landing.
Knights Landing chips are due to be available in the second half of 2015, along with a new interconnect fabric known as Intel Omni Scale.
The chipmaker showed off the updates to its Xeon Phi many integrated core (MIC) platform at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2014 conference in Leipzig, Germany.
Intel announced Knights Landing at last year's event, but gave away few details other than that the chip will be a 14nm part, will be able to operate as a standalone CPU rather than a co-processor, and will have integrated on-package memory.
Now, Intel has disclosed that this chip will be based on a version of the Silvermont core used in Intel's Atom processors, with HPC enhancements including a low-latency mesh for inter-core communication. The first commercial systems with it are likely to ship in the second half of 2015.
Knights Landing will also have "at least as many compute cores" as the existing Xeon Phi products, according to Charles Wuischpard, VP for Workstations and HPC in Intel's Data Centre Group. This means at least 61 cores, while rumours have already indicated it may in fact be a 72-core chip.
The first Knights Landing chips will have up to 16GB of on-package memory, which offers five times the bandwidth of DDR4 memory, but this is expected to be in addition to DDR4 memory on the motherboard, not replacing it.
"One of the choke points in many applications used today is I/O and memory bandwidth, and this is specifically designed to remove that bottleneck," Wuischpard explained.
Knights Landing will in fact offer three times the performance of the current Knights Corner Xeon Phi product, offering over three teraflops in a single processor socket, Intel claimed.
However, with the Silvermont Atom cores it also continues Intel's approach to HPC, which is to keep as much compatibility as possible between its Xeon Phi architecture and its existing x86 chips with their huge installed base of software.
Knights Landing will also feature a new interconnect fabric that will be integrated onto the chip, and which Intel is referring to as Omni Scale. This will be the fabric used in future Xeon Phi chips, according to Wuischpard.
Intel is not giving away too much detail on Omni Scale yet, but said it is different from the current True Scale fabric in Knights Corner, which is based on quad data rate (QDR) InfiniBand technology, while maintaining software compatibility.
It will use Intel's Silicon Photonics fibre-optic technology, and will encompass a full suite of offerings including PCI Express adapters and switch hardware. Intel will provide an upgrade path from True Scale to Omni Scale, Wuischpard said. µ
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Date: October 15 2012
LONDON: Abuse allegations involving the late Sir Jimmy Savile have put the spotlight on police forces across Britain and the British Health Department.
It has emerged that Savile was first investigated by police ''for interfering with young girls'' when a nightclub manager in Leeds as long ago as 1958.
Savile's former bodyguard said that the TV host and DJ claimed to have paid officers to drop the case.
In 1988, Britain's Department of Health appointed Savile to lead a taskforce at one of the hospitals where the late TV star allegedly abused patients.
The department could be sued by victims as it was running the Broadmoor psychiatric hospital at the time.
Kenneth Clarke, who was health secretary in the Conservative government of the time and is now a cabinet minister without portfolio, said: ''I have no recollection of ever having met Jimmy Savile and no recollection of these events.
''The [department is] rightly now investigating to establish the facts.''
In a statement, the department said: ''We will investigate the Department of Health's conduct in apparently appointing Savile to this role.
''Although the framework for child protection and safeguarding for Broadmoor and other special hospital patients changed radically in 1999, we of course want to establish the circumstances and see if any lessons can be learnt.
''Had anyone involved in the appointment been aware of allegations of abuse against Savile, we would not have expected him to have been appointed.''
In further evidence that there were widespread suspicions about Savile, Tony Blackburn, a fellow DJ and presenter, said it was to his ''eternal regret'' that his former BBC colleague had been ''allowed to get away with these monstrous acts''.
The revelations raise serious concerns that the BBC covered up Savile's sex crimes at the time to protect the reputation of one of their biggest stars.
''He was not a nice man despite how the public viewed him at the peak of his success,'' Mr Blackburn, 69, said.
''There were always rumours circulating about him. The problem at the time was that rumour was always hard to translate into fact. Jimmy Savile was a master manipulator.''
Dennis Lemmon, now 80, recalled Savile, who ran a nightclub and employed Mr Lemmon as his minder, being in a bad mood because he faced a court hearing the next day for ''interfering with young girls''.
Mr Lemmon said: ''He was really worried but everything was dropped. I was told he paid them [the police] off.''
Scotland Yard said the number of likely victims had reached 60 and forces were pursuing 340 lines of inquiry.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has received more than 100 complaints.
Peter Watt, the head of the society's helpline, said: ''The number of incidents reported has reached treble figures, making him a hugely prolific sex offender - one of the worst I've ever heard of.''
On Friday, BBC director-general George Entwistle offered a ''profound and heartfelt apology'' to the alleged victims of Savile's sexual abuse as he announced that two inquiries would be set up. One will look into whether there were any failings over the handling of an abandoned BBC Newsnight investigation into Savile. A second inquiry will look into the culture and practices of the BBC during the years Savile worked there.
Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, said: ''We all have things to answer for but, clearly, the BBC has more questions to answer than the others because these things happened on our premises and he was an employee.''
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Money raised at the event will offset travel cost and other expenses for families and escorts of the four fallen airmen.
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Buckyballs are a desktoy that consist of 216 tiny spherical magnets. You can makes all kinds of interesting shapes and structures out of them (do a Google search).
I want to model them in a physics simulation, but I'm not sure how to do it.
Right now, I'm thinking calculate the sum of the forces between each of the buckyball's poles and each of the other buckyballs' poles, and update its linear momentum. Then calculate the torque that each of those forces causes about the magnet's center, and use that to update angular momentum.
The problem I'm having is how to model the magnets touching. It's easy in real life to make a long chain or a hexagon. How should I model the magnets actually running into each other to mimic this behavior?


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Hello everyone newbe on the forum.
I have a 96 gmc safari and my transmission is giving up on me as well as the rear end . both of them was rebuild already once .
unfortunetly the only thing I can afford now is to get these from a junkyard and do the swap my self (never done that before but Im sure I can handle it)
what year will fit to my van?besides 96 what do I have to watch out for ? and someone please turn the light on for me on these numbers 4l60e,700r4? is that how you identify
transmissions ? same questions would apply for the differential too. I was going thru the old forum but never really got an answer .all tranny swaps was for older
vans then mine . I was also reading that people were using trannys from other Chevys would that work for me to or no? this van is my daily driver so the only thing I am looking for is to get it back on the street , I listen to any input you guys make .
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There are 18 different species of penguins, and they vary in size and shape. The emperor penguin is the largest of all living penguins, standing at 4 feet and weighing 90 pounds. The smallest of the penguins is the little blue penguin, standing just 10 inches and weighing about 2.5 pounds.
Everything about a penguin is fine-tuned for swimming. Their body is rounded in the middle and pointed at either end, which is the perfect shape for sliding through water. Their powerful, flipper-like wings propel them through the ocean. Penguins are awkward on land, but their short legs and webbed feet are the perfect rudder system underwater. And unlike other birds, penguins have solid bones. This added weight counteracts their natural buoyancy and helps them move quickly through water.
Penguins use their torpedo-shaped body to shoot through water at speeds of 15 miles per hour or more. Some penguins leap into the air while swimming—a trick known as porpoising.
Penguin legs are short and strong. Their feet are webbed, with visible claws. Penguins walk with short steps or hops, sometimes using their bills or tails to assist themselves on steep climbs. Some species, like the rockhopper, jump from rock to rock. Antarctic species can move much faster over ice by "tobogganing" on their bellies, using their flippers and feet to help them move along.
Their tuxedo-like black and white coloring is extremely effective camouflage—known as countershading—which helps them hide from predators and prey in the open ocean. For example, if a shark or other predator swims below a penguin, the penguin's white belly blends in with the bright sunlight coming from above. Likewise, if a penguin swims below some fish it wants to catch, its black back blends in with the dark depths of the sea.
Different species of penguins can be identified by their head and facial markings. Penguins only eat seafood and swallow their food whole since they don't have teeth. They use their powerful, hooked beaks to catch fish, squid and krill. Their tongues have a rough, Velcro-like texture that helps them hold and swallow their slippery food. The New England Aquarium's 65 penguins eat nearly 600 pounds of sardine, capelin, smelt and herring every month. Most of them eat five to ten fishes every day.
Like many animals, penguins have a nictitating membrane, sometimes called a third eyelid. This is a clear covering that protects the eye from injury.
A penguin's tail is short and wedge-shaped. Adelie, gentoo and chinstrap penguins (known as brush-tailed penguins) have 14 to 18 stiff tail feathers, which they often use as a prop when on land.
Penguins have about 80 feathers per square inch—more than any other bird. Penguins need all of those feathers to keep warm and dry. The fluffy down at the base of each feather traps air near the penguin's skin. This air layer helps penguins keep warm, even in cold air and frigid water. When penguins are too warm, they fluff their feathers to release extra body heat.
The outer tip of each feather is stiff and small. Every feather tip overlaps with those around it, like shingles on a roof. This is what keeps penguins dry in the ocean. The tips of the feathers get wet, but the fluffy down stays dry and warm. Penguins replace their feathers, or molt, once a year. Every year during a two to threeweek period, they shed their feathers and grow a complete new set. This means penguins have to keep their feathers healthy for a whole year. Because of this, most penguins spend hours every day taking care of their feathers, a behavior known as grooming or preening. A grooming penguin first cleans each feather, removing dirt and water. Then it conditions the feathers by spreading out oil from a gland at the base of its tail.
Penguins are vulnerable to predators and cold temperatures during molting. The old feathers are no longer waterproof or insulating and the bird cannot enter the ocean to catch food or to escape land predators. Because penguins fast during the molting period, they must gorge themselves for a few weeks prior to
molting. They live off stored fat until new feathers grow in.
As in most birds, penguin hearing is thought to be good. Vocalizations (calls) are important in communication and mate recognition. Penguins have good vision both on land and under water, since they can change the shape of their cornea. The sense of taste in penguins has not been extensively studied. In general, the sense of taste is poorly developed in birds. Penguins' sense of smell may be more developed than early studies indicated since the olfactory lobe of a penguin's brain is large.
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A holiday to Italy offers magnificent discoveries for visitors of all ages. Adolescent and young adult visitors will be enthralled by the vivacity and intensity of the cities' nightlife, families will appreciate the vast number of children's activities, and people of all ages will be awed by the wonders which follow in astounding succession. The perfectly preserved Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, the staggering beauty of Capri, the Sardinian Costa Azzurra, the magical Tuscan Chiantishire, the world renowned spectacular grandeur of Venice, the Austrian/Swiss-style Alpine winter fun resorts, the thousands of boutiques dripping in elegant designer goods in Milan, and then there's Rome: the centre of the world for centuries.
A cheap holiday to Italy can take you to the home of the overwhelming history of the Vatican and its museums. Rome is the only place in the world where you can stroll through the preserved heart of the imperial capital of Europe, walk in the footsteps of Caesars, gaze upon vistas unchanged since edicts were being debated here controlling the affairs of huge swaths of Europe, Africa and Asia, and have a truly memorable cappuccino at a trendy bar on the Via Veneto or at the base of the Spanish Steps.
Hotels in Italy run the gamut from friendly, family run hospitality which is the extension of a rural home to some of the most decadent luxury hotels to be found anywhere and which by far exceed five star levels. To decide where to spend your family holiday in Italy is a powerful challenge, given the sheer variety of locations and cities which all differ so much from one another. From the northern elegance and modern intensity of Milan, Turin and Bologna, to the artistic wonders of legendary Florence, the glory which was and is Rome, the pantheon of wonders which orbit Naples, the Magna Grecia culture of Catania and Palermo, your biggest problem will be deciding where to go first.
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Italy is one of the world's greatest tourism centres, with tens of millions of visitors teeming into the country to explore its nigh on infinite variety of attractions. The past couple of decades have transformed the island of Sardinia from a sleepy fisherman's backwater to a centre of world of luxury with the development of the resorts on the shores of the fabled Blue Coast.
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Further south, winters are mild and predominantly sunny, with the prospects of even the slightest snowfall disappearing by the time you reach Rome, but as you approach the southern tip towards Sicily, you can find what would be termed early summer weather in the UK in the depths of January while the rest of Europe shivers under grey overcasts. Summers are glorious, hot and interminably sunny almost everywhere in the country.
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Sorrento is full of things to do to keep your whole party entertained. For the brave amongst you, why not try the Amalfi Drive? The road linking Sorrento with neighbouring Amalfi winds through the picturesque Mediterranean cliff tops, although it is not advised for those who suffer from nerves when behind the wheel - what a holiday to remember! For those of you looking for a snippet of Italian culture, then a number of churches, some dating back as far as the 14th Century, are open for general public viewing.
The area's attraction to the famous is also something which is evident within the town, with many of the cobbled streets lined with high quality shops and designer boutiques. The area also offers a number of festivals throughout the year which you may like to book your holiday to coincide with.
From the time the ancient Greeks established expansive colonies on the western coasts of Sicily until the Renaissance brought an unparalleled intellectual and artistic flowering, the history of Europe has been centred on this majestic country. The early Latin tribes who displaced the Etruscans in the fertile lands surrounding the Tiber River began a journey that soon saw them masters of the known world, imposing their culture and influence from the Scottish borders to Upper Egypt and all the way into eastern Asia.
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Harper boys best Junction 60-54
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Two more district wins during the past week brings the Harper High School boys' varsity basketball team that much closer to a league regular season title.
After defeating Mason 67-54 at home on Friday, the Longhorns were victorious over Junction Tuesday evening, 60-54, on the road.
Harper continues its schedule by hosting Center Point this coming Friday, then traveling to Nueces Canyon on Tuesday. Both games will start at 8 p.m.
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I agree that we have lousy leadership. I've argued that this County Commission is the worst government body in the state -- worse than the horrible Legislature and the inconsistent Birmingham City Council, combined. But folks, just as we get the services we're willing to pay for, we get the government we vote for. Not one of the five commissioners took office in a coup. We elected them. We'll probably re-elect some of them, too.
Until we do better at the ballot box, we shouldn't expect a whole lot. Be smug about these county money troubles all you want, but in reality, they're our money/service troubles, too. Those lines at the courthouse to take care of simple business we take for granted are going to be very, very long.


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REVIEW: 'Cars 2'
3 stars
Sequel to Disney/Pixar's 2006 Cars. Racing star Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) teams up with his best friend Mater for an international adventure... Now playing nationwide, click here for movie times and trailer.
As Pixar's most successful film in terms of merchandise, it's not surprising that a sequel to Cars was given the go ahead. Given the prestige of the studio, however, it's quite a surprise that this one's a bit of a backfire. An average follow-up to one of Pixar's weaker entries, Cars 2 is a kids-only outing that will be good for babysitting duties but won't be remembered in years to come.
The spin here is shifting this world of automobiles into the genre of the spy movie. It's a little forced, kind of like the spy-lite makings of Johnny English or Cats vs Dogs. There are some nice touches: Michael Caine voices a British spy who resembles an Aston Martin, there's a shady Moroccan Reliant Robin 'informant' and an evil professor with an oversized monocle.
Leaving behind the homely dustbowl of Radiator Springs allows for some globe-trotting. From the neon sheen of Japan to the sunny glamour of a Monte Carlo-esque locale, Cars 2 is a bright and breezy excursion that avoids the slow patches the original had and provides plenty of high-speed action scenes (all of which make good use of 3D, if you choose to see it that way).
Whilst there many more characters here (toyshops rejoice), too many of them are spread too thin across the plot. Owen Wilson's Lightning McQueen barely features as a supporting character, while we have to be subjected to the grating tow truck Mater (Larry the Cable Guy) in nearly every scene. Whose idea was it to give him a leading role?
Cars 2 lacks the heart and the emotional engagement of other Pixar films, turning out quite predictable and running a little flat. But it's fun for the eyeballs and younger audiences will be entertained so maybe give it a spin.


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Jim McLauchlin (yes, that's spelled right) is the president of Hero Initiative and helped found the organization in 2000. Jim has been a professional writer and editor for 23 years. He started his writing career in 1989 in Baseball Cards magazine, and worked for several years as a sportswriter. He logged an 11-year stint at Wizard Entertainment, where he was a senior writer and contributing editor for Wizard: The Comics Magazine and spent two years as editor-in-chief of Top Cow Productions. These days, Jim's work appears primarily in Playboy, SFX and Baseball America. He's also appeared in publications as diverse as Esquire and Xbox Nation.
Jim lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Lisa Marie, and their son, Logan.