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Xiaomi MI-2 for China Telecom will be available on January 26
Xiaomi's MI-2 Android smartphone has been out since last year, but so far there was no version of it available that would work on China Telecom.
That's the country's smallest carrier, and the only one to use a CDMA network. Hence, the lack of compatibility so far.
But that's about to change. The cult phone maker announced on its own website that a MI-2 made for China Telecom will be offered for purchase starting on January 26. That's this Saturday, by the way, and you'll be able to pick the MI-2 up from Xiaomi itself starting at 12 pm. The price will be the same as the other version – 1,999 yuan (that adds up as $322 or €242 going by today's exchange rates).
The China Telecom version of the handset was recently granted certification for sale on the Chinese market, so its release was really just a matter of time.
If you prefer your phone to be on China Telecom's network and want to get a Xiaomi MI-2, we suggest you be ready at 12 o'clock sharp on Saturday, since this version of the smartphone will probably sell out in mere minutes – just like the unlocked GSM/HSPA version always does when it goes on sale from time to time.
The Xiaomi MI-2 comes with a 4.3-inch 720p HD touchscreen, a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 APQ8064 processor, an 8 MP rear camera, a 2 MP front-facing camera, 2 GB of RAM, and 16 GB of built-in storage space. It runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
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Prague is the most popular tourist destination in Eastern Europe. The city suffered relatively little structural damage during WWII and so much of the city has remained intact. With some of the most spectacular architecture, Prague is a modern day medieval city.
In the city's center is the St Charles Bridge. The bridge is over 600 years old. Other than by boat, it was the only way to cross the river for nearly five centuries. The bridge is lined with statues of saints, 30 in all. It connects the old town with the castle district.
A visit to the St Charles Bridge today is crowded with musicians, painters, merchants, and tourists. There are many remarkable sites to see in Prague and, while it is a necessity to cross the St Charles Bridge to get between tourist destinations, the bridge is in itself an amazing site. Prague is truly a glimpse into a different era.

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Have you visited the Currier lately? If not, you should visit the newly renovated Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, NH. Featuring some of the world's best known artists, painters and sculptors the museum is a bright and modern facility where you can spend several hours browsing, learning and enjoying the everchanging world of art.
Visitors are greeted by a towering sculpture entitled "Origins" that is over 35 feet tall at the entrance of the museum. The bold red and grey structure was created by Mark di Suvero and may be seen from the adjacent streets. Inside the entrance there is the main desk, a shimmering gift shop and a diorama of the Zimmerman House encased in glass.
The grounds on which the museum stands were bequeathed by NH Governor Moody Currier (1884-86) and wife Hannah to establish a place where the general public could appreciate art. Governor Moody had previously held positions as a principal at Hopkinton Acadamy and as president of the Amoskeag Bank thus giving him a good social standing. He and his wife were active patrons of the arts, although they were not themselves artists. The Currier Gallery of Art was established after Mrs. Moody's death in 1915.
The building, renovated and reopened in 2008, has ample space for studios, a library, and an auditorium along with a cafe and Winter Garden. There are padded wooden benches for viewing in many areas.
The highly polished parquet wood floors, beautiful tile work and modern upscale design would rival museums in any international city. In fact, the museum has received an award from the American Institute of Architects.
In the galleries, you will find works of Claude Monet, Childe Hassam, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, as well as more modern artists such as Georgia O"Keefe and Jon Brooks. The upper level contains antique furnishings, Samuel Dunlap chest of drawers, Grandfather clock by Levi Hutchins and several silver items made by Paul Revere. An original Tiffany shade is also on display. Many more artists are represented at the Currier.
For children visiting, the Currier has a special activity center called The Discovery Center on the main floor. Within it, there are coloring and sketching tools, and information about printing in forms of displays and videos. A gallery of artwork made by previous visitors is displayed on the wall. Maybe your little ones would like to add theirs to the collection!
The lower level hallways contain more works of art including one area that presents work done in the onsite studios. This work is for sale and interested parties may inquire at the front desk.
In addition to maintaining the museum, the Currier offers trips to the Zimmerman house, a Frank Lloyd Wright design and the only one in this area. Visitors are shuttled to the house from the museum; you must reserve a spot as spaces are limited. There is an additional cost for this trip.
The Currier Museum of Art is open daily except Tuesdays. Admission is free on Saturdays from 10 AM-12PM. For more info visit http://www.currier.org. or plan to visit the museum at 150 Ash St. Manchester.


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When winter hits, forget skinny tires. It's all about snow-hungry fat tires. Here, you'll meet a fat-tire pro and find gear to pick up.
Epic Biking owner Dan Burton.
Dan Burton, owner of Epic Biking in Saratoga Springs, began life as a computer programmer. Then biking saved his life. "As a computer programmer," he explains, "I spent a lot of time sitting at a desk. I got overweight and my cholesterol got real bad. A bunch of guys at work were into mountain biking, so I started biking with them."
Biking daily reversed his health decline and turned him into a biking believer and two-wheeled adventurer. Now Burton is the owner and evangelist at Epic, a shop he opened in 2007. His journey to health and bikes may even take him to the South Pole.
"I have some fat bikes right next to the front door of my store, so I would get asked about them all the time and I'd tell people about Eric Larsen's attempt to bike [on one] to the South Pole. One customer told me that when he won the lottery he would take me on a biking expedition down there. I didn't take him seriously, but couldn't get the idea of going out of my head, so I started working on a plan to make it happen," Burton says.
Now, Burton trains six days a week, waking up at 3 a.m. to fit in longer rides–all in anticipation of the month he'll spend fighting Antarctic headwinds on his uphill journey to the earth's southernmost point. Don't worry about him though; it's good for his health.
45NRTH Wolvhammer Biking Boots
You wear boots for every other winter activity, why not try some SPD-compatible cleats with the power of ancient Vikings inside? $325, fatbikes.com
Time ATAC Allum Pedals
Good engagement in icy conditions plus bigger platforms to prevent embarrassing slippage. $80 Epic Biking, Saratoga Springs, 801-653-2039.
Pearl Izumi PRO Softshell Lobster Glove
Warmth, dexterity and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle chic -- there's no downs ide to the Lobster Glove. Cowabunga! $75 Pearl Izumi Outlet, Park City, 435-615-7800
Arc'teryx lncendo Tights
A superb moisture-wicking base or solo layer. Not only are these tights slimming, they also prevent sweat-induced hypothermia. $89, rei.com
It's understandable if you're skeptical of another beefy-bike investment. You can rent a fat-bottomed beauty at your local shop-Freddie Mercury would be proud.
Epic Biking
1306 N. Redwood Rd.
Saratoga Springs
$45 a day
3232 S. 400 East
Salt Lake City
Call ahead to confirm avaliability and rates.
White Pine Touring
1790 Bonanza Dr.
Park City
$65 a day
Saturday Cycles
605 N. 300 West
Salt Lake City
$25 a day
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LOS ANGELES—The new "mandatory condoms for adult performers" initiative enacted as a city ordinance by the Los Angeles City Council in January may now be law, but that doesn't mean the debate over the issue is not still raging. That debate moved to the pages of The Huffington Post today, where Steven Hirsch, the founder and co-chairman of leading adult studio Vivid Entertainment, and Michael Weinstein, the president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, squared off by presenting their arguments side-by-side, complete with links to supporting information.
Huffington Post has also framed the debate as a sort of in-house referendum, with people asked to vote pro or con before being able to read the differing positions, and then again afterwards, to see if the arguments changed anyone's mind.
We wouldn't want to be HuffPo spoil-sports by explaining either position, so we'll just link to the first page of the debate here, and may the best man (i.e. Hirsch) win.


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The WNCW Academy is offering new 2015 classes?
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David Klein, an associate in the firm's litigation practice, represents corporate clients, financial institutions, and individuals in a variety of litigation and other disputes, with a particular focus on real estate litigation and financial services litigation. He frequently litigates in state courts, bankruptcy courts, and federal courts throughout the Atlanta metropolitan area. He also maintains a corporate and transactional practice for some of his small business clients.
Prior to joining Weissman, Nowack, Curry & Wilco, he maintained a real estate litigation and transactional practice at a mid-sized firm in Gwinnett County. While in law school, David served as a representative and treasurer of the Student Bar Association, as the membership editor of the Elon Law Review, and as a member of the Moot Court Board. In the Profession
David is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, Real Property, Creditor's Rights, Appellate and Young Lawyers divisions and serves on the executive committee of the Real Property section. He is licensed to practice in all Georgia trial and appellate courts; Northern, Middle and Southern U.S. District Courts of Georgia; and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. David has also been admitted pro hac vice to the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
He previously served as a Board Member and President of his neighborhood Homeowners' Association. David also participates in the Atlanta Lawn Tennis Association (ALTA) and K-Swiss League Ultimate Tennis. He also enjoys playing golf. David, his wife, and their daughter reside in Johns Creek.Representative Cases
In re Rogers (Bankr. N.D.Ga.), Case No. 13–22983–JRS
Through a bench trial, successfully attacked the Debtor's claimed exemption of a profit sharing plan with a value in the six-figures, bringing the plan into the bankruptcy estate to be liquidated for the benefit of creditors.
Confidential Settlement
Recovered six-figure amounts in two separate garnishment actions for a client.
Assisted in obtaining a six-figure settlement against a debtor and family members in a fraudulent transfer action concerning a large tract of land and apartment complex.
In re Cherwenka, 508 B.R. 228 (N.D.Ga. Bankr. 2014)
Successfully argued on behalf of a creditor that a debtor's annuity was not exempt from his bankruptcy estate. The court held that the debtor's two lump-sum contributions to the annuity in 2003 far exceeded the yearly limitation under the IRS code in effect for that year. The court also held the annuity could serve as a flexible investment vehicle for the debtor, rather than solely for purpose of the substitute of wages in retirement. The account therefore was not an "individual retirement annuity" for purposes of the IRS Code, and thus could not be exempt from the debtor's bankruptcy estate.
Thompson-El v. Bank of America, N.A. et al., 759 S.E.2d 49 (Ga. Ct. App. 2014)
Successfully defended real estate agent and brokerage that served as property manager to a bank which foreclosed on a residence. The former owner asserted several claims against the agent and broker, including a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress. The Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court dismissal the former owner's complaint with prejudice.
U.S. Bank v. Otayek, 447 Fed. Appx. 84 (11th Cir. 2011)
Successfully defended bank that purchased property at a foreclosure sale and filed an eviction against the former owner. The former owner attempted to remove the state court eviction action to federal court on grounds that his civil rights had been violated. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court's remanding of the case.
John Souza v. 17th Street Apartments, LLC, Sup. Ct. Fulton County, Ga.
Won summary judgment for owner of condominium unit on grounds of judicial estoppel where potential purchaser of unit sued for a return of his earnest money almost six-years after executing the contract, and had failed to disclose the potential claim against the owner in his bankruptcy schedules filed months before the filing of the lawsuit.
Crystal Rochester et al. v. Two Under, LLC et al., Sup. Ct. Cobb County, Ga.
Obtained dismissal of action initiated by former owner of property and emergency cancellation of lis pendens against property purchased by a small business client at a foreclosure sale.
Obtained a six-figure confidential settlement for landlord in commercial lease dispute with tenant, personal guarantor, and other entities who were utilizing the space.


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GAYTMs win top prize at prestigious advertising awards in Cannes
They were a hit on Oxford Street during Sydney Mardi Gras and now, ANZ's uber-camp GAYTMs have a struck a chord with judges at the Cannes Lions 2014, taking the top honour at the annual advertising awards.
The jury at world's biggest annual awards festival for professionals in the creative communications industry awarded ANZ's GAYTM campaign the top honour – a Grand Prix award – in the Outdoor category.
Matt Boss, ANZ Managing Director of Marketing said: "We're very pleased that this flagship campaign celebrating diversity, inclusion and respect has been recognised at such a prestigious event, particularly considering the global brands that were also shortlisted".
The GAYTM campaign, produced by ad agency Whybin/TBWA, featured ten decorated ATMs, installed around Sydney earlier this year, as part of ANZ's sponsorship of Sydney Mardi Gras.
VIDEO: Check out this video of how the GAYTMs were created
Artists were individually commissioned to embellish the ATMS, with many using a variety of materials including rhinestones, glitter, jewels and sequins.
Not everyone took to the campaign's liking, however, with two of the GAYTMs vandalised in March.
GALLERY: Check out some of the GAYTMs
- TOPICS: ANZ, Cannes Lion, GAYTM, GAYTMs
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Anxious fans of "Sons of Anarchy" can rest a bit easier now that the cast and crew have begun sharing production photos form season 7. Filming is underway and slowly the photos are making their way into the media, thanks to Enstarz on June 25.
FX Vice President of Media Relations Dominic Pagone shared a number of photos via his personal Twitter account. Most are behind the scenes shots and one appears to be a promotional shot that we may see more of the season premiere gets closer. Check out the slideshow to see for yourself.
Individual photos of Mark Boone Junior who plays Bobby Elvis, Davids LaBrave who plays Happy, Katey Sagal who plays Gemma and Drea Matteo who plays Wendy were shared. There is also a group shot of Charlie Hunnam who plays Jax, Niko Nicotera who plays Ratboy, Tommy Flanigan who plays Chibs, Kim Coates who plays Tig along with LaBrave and Junior. The shot shows them all looking serious as smoke from a fire or explosion billows just behind them.
Season 7 is going to be the final season for the motorcycle club saga. With the death of his wife Tara in the season 6 finale, Jax will be in crises mode. He has no idea his own mother, Gemma, killed Tara. Maggie Siff, who played Tara in the first 6 seasons recently spoke to Zap2It about how she imagines the series will end.
"It's an interesting question. It's hard to imagine Sons of Anarchy ending happily but I can imagine some kind of redemption for some people along the way, maybe," she said.
Siff said that since her murder scene in particular, she receives recognition when she goes out in public. "I encounter it in weird ways. You know, like when I go to the supermarket," she noted. "A woman walked up to me yesterday in the supermarket crying. I feel like there are certain women who were really, really moved and were like 'Oh my God, what happened?' and were genuinely shocked."
"Sons of Anarchy" Season 7 will air in the fall of 2014 on FX. Though a date has not been set, it is believed that the show will follow the pattern of previous seasons and begin in late September.
Suggested Links
- 'Sons of Anarchy' season 6 will be released on DVD and Blu-ray in August
- 'Sons of Anarchy' season 7: Gemma sneak peek, Jax heading for jail
- 'Sons of Anarchy' season 7: Details on Marilyn Manson character in last season
- 'Sons of Anarchy' season 7 production begins soon, will have new female sheriff
- 'Sons of Anarchy': Theo Rossi talks about Juice and the final season


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All CRS meetings are at this hotel unless otherwise indicated.
CRS Committee schedule is subject to change.
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The schedule listed below is organized by date and time.
Click on the Combined Schedule link on the left to view a chronological list of all published NAR Governance, Affiliate and Conference meetings.


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Feb. 12, 2012
TEMPE, Ariz. - Behind pitchers Teagan Gerhart and Nyree White, the No. 9 Stanford softball team downed UC Santa Barbara, 11-0 in five innings, on the final day of the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Ariz. The Cardinal starts the season 4-1 overall, while the Gauchos drop to 1-5.
Gerhart started the game in the circle, throwing 2.2 scoreless, hitless innings with four strikeouts. White entered the game with two outs in the bottom of the third and finished off the perfect game.
Stanford opened the contest with a three-run first inning. The Cardinal took advantage of two miscues by the Gauchos. Senior Sarah Hassman reached on an error by pitcher Shelby Wisdom. She was brought home on a double to left centerfield by freshman Hanna Winter. Winter advanced all the way to third as UCSB center fielder Jessica Soria. Wisdom loaded the bases after hitting senior Ashley Hansen in the back and then walking junior Jenna Rich. Winter was able to score on a groundout by sophomore Danielle Miller and Hansen came home on a sacrifice fly by sophomore Caitlyn Pura.
The Cardinal added two more runs in the top of the second as Hansen hit her second home run of the season, a two-run shot that scored Hassman as well.
Stanford tacked on two more runs in the third inning to take a 7-0 lead over UCSB. With one out, senior catcher Maya Burns singled to left field and then senior first baseman Jenna Becerra doubled to left to put two runners in scoring position. After Hassman drew a walk to load the bases, Winter ripped a single through the right side to score Burns and Becerra.
The Cardinal reached the eight-run mark in the top of the fifth to put the run-rule into effect. Freshman Tylyn Wells reached on a fielder's choice and advanced to second on an infield single by Winter. After the Gauchos intentionally walked Hansen, Rich hit an RBI single to score Wells. Stanford added three more runs, including a two-run single by sophomore pinch hitter Tegan Schmidt.
Up next, Stanford will play a mid-week contest at UC Davis on Wednesday, Feb. 15. The Cardinal will then return to The Farm to host the Stanford Nike Invitational, Feb. 17-19. Stanford will face Nevada, Bradley and Pacific.


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The governor of Texas, Rick Perry has been indicted, fingerprinted, and booked on two (2) felony charges on abuse of power allegations. He maintains his innocence and vows to stay in office.
Regardless whether you feel the indictments have merit or is political, the fact is a grand jury of his Texas constituents found merit to indict their sitting governor following an investigation on a complaint filed against Gov. Perry. According the Houston Chronicle, several members of the Texas grand jury dismiss allegations their decision was political.
Despite these judicial developments, Gov. Perry remains in office and will continue to consider a possible run for the Republican nomination for president of the United States.
But at this moment, in an editorial on Gov. Perry's indictment, The Washington Post demonstrates complete intellectual hypocrisy and full editorial dishonesty through the minds of Mr. Fred Hiatt, its editorial page editor and Ms. Jo-Ann Armao, its District editorial writer.
When you balance the editorial position of The Washington Post on Gov. Perry against its nearly four (4) year editorial onslaught against District of Columbia Mayor Vincent C. Gray, you not only see hypocrisy, but also arrogance.
This is another example of The Washington Post's shameless disregard for editorial decency. In its repeated editorials against Mayor Gray, this editorial board and Ms. Armao committed the very intellectual offenses for which it finds faulty in the indictment of Gov. Perry.
I have long ago lost respect for editorials initiated by Ms. Armao on the District, particularly local politics. Her commitment to due process is suspect and her conversational outreach to respecting varying views clearly does not exist. What is further disappointing is the silence and duplicity of her colleagues in her unabashed attacks and mischaracterizations on Mayor Gray.
The United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Ronald C. Machen, Jr. has been investigating Mayor Gray throughout the mayor's term of office. While Mr. Machen has been nibbling around Mayor Gray, he has not brought any charges against Mayor Gray and in my opinion will not.
In the absence of an indictment and conviction, the collaboration and coordination effort to smear Mayor Gray in the public by Mr. Machen and Ms. Armao, has been a corrupt joint enterprise and a clear abuse of office and privilege.
Despite this fact and ignoring Constitutional principles of due process and rights accorded to Mayor Gray, the editorial board of The Washington Post led by Mr. Hiatt and Ms. Armao published many editorials, op-ed opinions, and articles to designed to press for the resignation of Mayor Gray.
Yet, no such similar editorial commentary and news articles against Gov. Perry.
The repeated editorial double standard evidenced by The Washington Post (and others in the local media) is not so shocking albeit distasteful.
The important issue here is not the guilt or innocence of Gov. Perry or Mayor Gray.
It is the utter lack of editorial ethics and standards exhibited by The Washington Post, Mr. Hiatt, and Ms. Armao.
There is little integrity left in the intellectual foundation of The Washington Post led by Mr. Hiatt and Ms. Armao.
The past editorial attacks by The Washington Post and Ms. Armao against Mayor Gray show a clear hostility directed at him and reflects its subliminal support for the disdained U.S. Supreme Court Dred Scott concept Mayor Gray has no rights which The Washington Post is bound to respect.
In this editorial, The Washington Post, Mr. Hiatt and Ms. Armao display a reckless disregard for due process, but reveal its newspaper vendetta against Mayor Gray which is senseless, heartless, without integrity, void of ethics, lacking a noble principle, and respecting his rights under law.
Rather than issue an ALS #ICEBUCKETTCHALLENGE to the editorial board of The Washington Post, its publisher Ms. Katharine Weymouth, Mr. Hiatt, and Ms. Armao, I challenge them to display within the pages of The Washington Post core values of "Integrity first, Service before self, and Excellence in all we do."
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We lost Graham to the world on Friday September 4th.
This page is focused on the solo artistic output of one of the most iconic and distinctive voices in New Zealand Music. Graham Brazier's first solo album "Inside Out" was recorded with the help of his friends from Hello Sailor and Th' Dudes' on a shoe string budget and was completed very quickly. "Inside Out" is now justifiably known as a kiwi classic.
"Not Too Skinny Not Too Fat The Legionnaires are where it's at"
In 1982 Graham assembled a group of musical mercenaries to tour and promote Inside Out he called this band "The Legionnaires"
The first release by The Legionnaires was the 12″ EP "Strange Faces at The Oasis".
The EP earned the band a top ten hit written and sung by Harry Lyon "You Bring Out The Worst in Me" hit the charts and led to the band being asked to perform a set on the Radio with Picture's TV series of Live At Mainstreet concerts.
The bands segment was filmed on May 13th 1983 and was released by Mushroom on LP and Cassette. The album became a best seller with the flip side containing songs from the "Dance Exponents" Live At Mainstreet gig.
Graham revised the band lineup in 1984 with Lyn "Vinnie" Buchanan" the only remaining original member besides Graham. The second Legionnaires release on 12″ E.P was "Nosferatu" c/w "Shanty Town" and "Waiting Room" on the B side. Despite Graham's best promotional efforts New Zealand Radio steadfastly refused to play the disc.
Graham's self produced second solo album "Brazier" was released by CBS New Zealand in 1988.
The album spawned three singles the first "Spellbound" b/s "Rags To Ruins" featured the backing vocals of the talented Margret Urlich and a great saxophone solo in the bridge. The second single "Satelite Town" with B side "Maddona Falls" was written about urban decay in a small New Zealand town and finished with the trade mark Brazier harmonica solo.
For the "Brazier" promotional tour he assembled a 10 piece band named "Brazier and The Corner Boys".
Artwork Courtesy of Peter Vaughan Adams
Between Hello Sailor tours Graham put together the original Legionnaires for a few reunion shows. More lucrative, however, were his Doors Tribute shows which packed the crowds into pubs wherever they played.
"East Of Eden" was released in 2005 by Murray Cammick's Wildside Records. It contained many songs that had been written over the previous few years but had never been released commercially. Rikki Morris brother of Ian Morris who produced the first Hello Sailor album handled the production with the noted exception of "Long Gone For Good" which was produced by Alan Jansson who produced the number one single "How Bizzare" by OMC (Pauly Fuemana).
Promo for the East Of Eden album.


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The Stent-Industrial Complex Comes Together For Safety Study
When we wrote yesterday about how a new player is grabbing stent market share, we alluded to the fact that there's been a lot less market to share lately, especially in the U.S.
The market for drug-coated stents has been shrinking partly due to worries about blood clots forming long after the devices are implanted to prop open the arteries around the heart.
Now, all those companies fighting for market share are joining together to launch a great big study that aims to figure out the best way to reduce the risk of clots, the WSJ reports.
Abbott, Medtronic, Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson will all participate in the $100 million, four-year, 20,000-patient project. The basic question they hope to answer: Should patients be on aggressive blood-thinning treatment for one year after receiving a stent, or should they stay on blood thinners for at least 2 1/2 years.
Sanofi-Aventis and Bristol-Myers Squibb, which co-market the blood thinner Plavix, will participate in the study as well. Eli Lilly and Daiichi Sankyo, which are waiting on U.S. approval of their Plavix-rival prasugrel, are on board, too.
It makes sense, obviously, for all these players to be sharing the burden here: Figuring out a clear, safe drug regimen for patients who get drug-coated stents would be a good way to get the market growing again, so that all the players can go back to fighting over who gets the biggest slice.
Bonus Complex: This project reminds us of drugmakers' joint effort to look for genetic markers that will predict which patients are likely to suffer rare but nasty side effects.


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Many sellers new to eBay are concerned with having all the right tools to get their business started off on the right foot. One essential tool is a digital camera. It is common for sellers to use the camera on their mobile phone as a convenient free option. More advanced smartphones usually take perfectly good photos, and using a mobile phone camera makes listing to the eBay Mobile App quick and easy.
Also, since many sellers test the waters on eBay for a few months before investing in expensive tools, the camera on a mobile phone or tablet makes perfect sense. Other cameras preferred by eBay sellers include Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, and Kodak.
There is a great discussion on an eBay seller Facebook group with had quite a few comments about different brands of cameras and advantages and disadvantages each. Read the full discussion here.
A few tips for taking photos for eBay listings:
1. Zoom in as close as possible to the item, all the way to the edges. For mobile customers looking at a small screen, this is crucial to getting a sale.
2. Always use a solid background. Poster board or a length of solid colored fabric works fine. Avoid laying the item on a patterned bedspread or kitchen floor. Try to be as professional as possible.
3. Avoid any distractions in the photo, such as a pet or child. Although cute to you, this may be a turn-off to buyers.
4. Consult the eBay Photo Guide here - it is a free download offered by eBay and will help guide you through the process of staging your item, editing photos, and other basic photography tips.
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Multiple good options are available to the night crowd this weekend, so let's see what the coolest of the cool choices are.
Let's start with The State Room, where buzztastic band Alabama Shakes headline Thursday night in a sold-out gig. While I surprised, I'm also impressed that a band with little to no radio play and making their first trek to SLC sells out a concert in advance. Local country rockers The Trappers open the 8 p.m. concert. Check out a video of the Shakes right here:
Also Friday night, as part of City Weekly's annual band competition, check out country rockers Bronco and The Trappers, fresh off their previously mentioned gig, will be at Burt's Tiki Lounge for a late-night of rock 'n' roll starting after 9 p.m. Tickets will be available at the door.
And Friday at The State Room, mandolin legend David Grisman will front his Bluegrass Experience project for what should be a fun night of tunes starting at 9 p.m. If you like good bluegrass and virtuoso playing, this is where you'll find yourself. Tickets are still available.
And finally Friday, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony will be performed by the Utah Symphony. This will likely be the best attended of the ongoing countdown of the Greatest Composer's symphonies, so get your tickets early. A performance is also slated for Saturday night at Abravanel Hall.
And finally Saturday, Philly indie-rockers Dr. Dog will headline at The Urban Lounge. Tickets were going fast as of Thursday morning, so don't dawdle if you want to be there. These guys harmonize like angels and are intense performers. Purling Hiss opens the show, which should start about 9:30 p.m. Expect a raucous crowd.


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Has any one else read this??? I just finished it
Geoffrey Wentworth, a war hero and rising political star, never wanted to be the Earl, but when his brother dies, he knows his dutytake up the responsibility for his familys estates. His mothers definition of duty differs from his, however, and can be summed up in one wordheirs. When Geoffrey rushes home to answer her urgent summons, he finds himself host to a house full of women, all vying to become the next Countess of Stratford. But his love is Parliament, where he wields his influence and reputation to better the lives of ex-soldiers, until a tempting houseguest and a secret from his past threaten his freedom and his heart.
Liliana Claremont, a brilliant chemist, doesnt want to be any mans wife, much less a Countess. If she had tuppence for every time shed been told her place was filling the nursery, not experimenting in the laboratory, she could buy the Tower Bridge. However, when she receives a coveted invitation to the Earls house party, she trades in her beakers for ball gowns and gladly takes on the guise of husband hunterfor the chance to uncover what the Earl had to do with the murder of her father.
Liliana believes the best way to get the answers she needs is to keep her enemy close, though romance is not part of her formula. But it only takes one kiss to start a reaction she can't control...
I was a little apprehensive because this was a debut novel and I'v recently had a little bad luck when it came to new authors but I'm so glad I picked it up.
Its sweet book with endearing characters, The premise isn't something that hasn't been done before but its a well told story and the falling in love aspect (and lets face it, in a romance novel its kind of the most important aspect
... at least for me) is IMO well depicted and believable, the reader can see the H and h's growing respect and regard for each other whats more the couple doesn't tumble into bed till at least halfway through the book
The text was sprinkled with random chemistry references which might have been a creative way to stay true to the heroine's personality but unfortunately kept disrupting the flow of the story for me
I had a few issues with how the author wrapped up the mystery side of the story
in particular the location of the treasure and the ease with which the H got off for supposed treason, (I would have been happier if they never found the treasure at all)
but the flaws weren't enough to mar my enjoyment of the book.
overall grade :B
I would love to hear what you guys thought of the book
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I also enjoyed Sweet Enemy. Well-written and I enjoyed the slowly-evolving love story.
Unlike you though Ash, I loved the scientific details and how author Heather Snow adapted the knowledge of chemistry and science to the time.
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I enjoyed it even though I usually don't read Regencies. It wasn't ground-breaking or truly innovative, but the writing was very good. The only thing I was ho-hum about was the suspense/mystery subplot. Not many authors can balance building a credible romance with a mystery and Sweet Enemy lacked the proper tension that would have made Geoffrey and Liliana's conflict juicier. By the time he figured out she finagled an invitation to search his home, I found his reaction a bit over the top because the book tended to drop Liliana's reasons for being at his home for chapters at a time. Oh and I found Liliana's chemistry background a bit underwhelming since she was mostly a healer as opposed to a chemist involved in the advances of the day, but I supposed it had to be toned down to keep the focus on the romance. However, I do like Snow's writing and would definitely read her next book.
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Thomas Herre, Fond du Lac city manager, and Tony Barthuly, Fond du Lac police chief, presented "Diversity: A City in Transition," which offered a broad perspective on the demographic changes that are taking place in the City. Another session, "My Life in Protective Services," was presented by Edgar Ramirez-Tellez, Fond du Lac firefighter, and Lt. Tina Braun of the Fond du Lac Police Department. They provided a candid and personal overview on their experiences as minorities in carrying out the duties of their professions.
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Delta Airlines is getting plenty of feedback for mixing up some serious geography and cultural aspects of the world after sending a message on social media on Monday about the 2014 World Cup. With Team USA playing Ghana, the world was watching to see if American players would be up to the challenge. Perhaps that is why Delta Airlines wanted to get in on the action and share some local culture on a Twitter post. According to USA Today on Tuesday, the photo showed the final score of the game, 2-1, with a photo of the Statue of Liberty next to the U.S. score and a photo of a giraffe next to the Ghana score.
The only issue is that Ghana isn't really known for the giraffes. Ghana is a significant petroleum and natural gas producer, one of the world's largest gold and diamond producers, and is projected to be the largest producer of cocoa in the world as of 2015. The country is small, but it is home to Lake Volta, the largest artificial lake in the world by surface area.
So after the big World Cup tweet blunder Delta Airlines did exactly what any good airlines would do, and they apologized. The mix-up moment didn't go away and Delta was obviously hoping people would overlook the incident, but it appears a few of the Twitter users decided to share a few parodies of the interpretation of where Ghana was and how it exactly had to do with giraffes. It was all in good fun, but the mistake probably should have never happened in the first place.
So who does the USA play next in the World Cup? Portugal and before Delta Airlines sends out any more tweets cheering on the American team, they should send out a research team to see what the country is famous for so they get their social media message correct. One thing for sure is Portugal is not famous for giraffes either.


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Via David Stockman's Contra Corner
At age 27 Lucy Steigerwald still knows how to call a spade a spade:
…. the war on drugs is still raging. And we need to keep remembering it's truly a war. This means half the people in our bulging prisons are both casualties of and prisoners of war. And while we keep progressing with recreational legal marijuana laws…. we cannot forget about the people who are still being punished due to the most dangerous moral panic in U.S. history. Legal precedent be damned; letting every single nonviolent drug criminal out of prison today would be the right thing to do.
Amen! Washington's massive, mindless and monumentally meretricious war on drugs is surely one of the largest social policy disasters ever launched from the corridors of the beltway. It has plagued the continent with savage drug cartels that thrive on government created scarcity and the artificial 1000-fold elevation of drug prices which finance military-scale distribution networks. It has cruelly recruited millions of young people, especially in low-income neighborhoods, to a perilous life as drug smugglers, mules, runners and dealers or busted them for minor possession—-and then consigned them to extended sentences in the criminal training camps which comprise the nation's bulging prisons. And it has foisted upwards of $40 billion per year on taxpayers for no valid purpose of state than to protect people from their own choices, habits, addictions and self-harm.
At long last the lunacy of the War on Drugs seems to be dawning on even mainstream voters and politicians, as reflected in liberalization referendums across the nation. But as a reminder of how the Nanny State can burrow itself deeply and intractably into the daily life of society, Lucy Steigerwald makes another cogent observation:
I'm 27, but I still remember a time when nobody – nobody – with any kind of shot at winning political office dared discuss ending the drug war.
Funny thing. I am 68 and went to work in Washington at a time when nobody—really nobody—had even thought of starting a drug war.
So the lesson from the nation's finally fading War on Drugs could not be more clear. Beware of politicians promising to "fix" problems that are not any business of the state in the first place. These schemes of uplift and betterment presently grow into cruel, intractable abominations.
By Lucy Steigerwald
…the moment the scorched policy of the war on drugs slows at all, it is tempting to pull a "W" on the aircraft carrier and declare "mission accomplished." But in May 2009, the Obama administration's drug tsar, Gil Kerlikowske, declared that they weren't going to call it "the war on drugs" anymore. After all, said Kerlikowske, "people see a war as a war on them. We're not at war with people in this country."
The Obama administration has made some token shifts towards less draconian methods of fighting, such as drug courts – which have their own problems – but Kerlikowske was basically lying. War is a nasty, disturbingly accurate, word for what the government has done for 40-plus years (mostly with public approval or at least indifference). The Korean War wasn't a "police action," and the door-busting, life-ruining parts of the war on drugs did not end after their general decided calling a spade a spade was bad PR.
That switch, and other meek rhetorical gestures, have been pure show on the part of the hypocritical Obama administration until they began to timidly improve last year with some unofficial sentencing reform guidelines….(but) the legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado and Washington State in 2012 truly did change the game. Weed was legal, really legal, for the first time in 70 years. And so far, Attorney General Eric Holder— – who is also backing more concrete sentencing reforms now –– has let those states be.
Everyone – particularly the heroic drug policy folks who made this possible– deserves to celebrate this victory. I'm 27, but I still remember a time when nobody – nobody – with any kind of shot at winning political office dared discuss ending the drug war. Not even medical marijuana was a safe enough subject on which to opine. You didn't so much as come out against such things as they didn't come up for debate at all. In the past five or so years, we have moved from that to this – this being mainstream politicians like Republican Governors Chris Christie (NJ) and Rick Perry (TX), and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, all declaring that drug laws need to be changed.
Marijuana reform is a popular issue for people, and the politicians are finally trying to catch up. It is incredible that it now safe enough an issue for non-libertarian, pro-big government politicians to endorse a truncated version of a drug war truce. But we can't declare victory yet. This 40-year nightmare has ruined too many lives and busted too many civil liberties to count. The cause, like all of America's ill-advised, brutal adventures do at first, sounded so nice – a drug-free society. The result was the largest prison population in the world, and less freedom for all of us.
This war has long been global as well as domestic. We have a Drug Enforcement Administration that acts like the Central Intelligence Agency in Latin America, and has colluded with the National Security Agency at home. The United States has browbeaten other nations into following its warped example on drug policy. In Mexico, powerful drug cartels have killed 60,000 people and US policy has made that worse. And why bother repealing Posse Comitatus' restrictions on soldiers enforcing law at home, when you can just make police indistinguishable from an army?
There is very little about this campaign against drugs that is not a literal war, at least since {Richard Nixon} made it so. And it needs to end now.
We need peace more than we need legal propriety. We need to end this war,free all the prisoners, and never again trust the architects of misery and social engineering – especially when they began to sell their next grand adventure.


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Pharma Funded Study Says Their Antibiotics Help with IBS[06Jan11]
The practice of pharmaceuticals funding for studies on their own drugs is stupid. There's no way in hell I'm going to trust this antibiotic really helps. The doc even admits the results are in the lower spectrum of clinically relevant. Data can be easily manipulated to be more favorable than it really is.
The use of antibiotics is boarding on ludicrous levels. It's in our soaps, in our food and in our bodies.
Two weeks of treatment with an already well-known antibiotic appears to offer relief to those suffering from at least one type of irritable bowl syndrome, new research finds.
IBS is a common gastrointestinal ailment that's marked by abdominal pain, severe bloating, diarrhea or constipation, or both. Treatments for the condition are few and usually involve dietary and lifestyle changes.
Two industry-funded studies, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, looked at patients with diarrhea-predominant IBS — a form that only a minority of IBS patients have.
A total of 1,200 patients took either 550 milligrams of rifaximin or placebo pills, three times a day, for two weeks. Overall, 41 per cent of patients on rifaximin reported "adequate relief" for at least two weeks, compared to 32 per cent on dummy pills.
The treated patients said they had less bloating and abdominal pain, and improved stool consistency. The benefits lasted for the 10 weeks they were followed.
In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Jan Tack of the University of Leuven in Belgium, noted that the difference between the treated and the untreated groups was "in the lower spectrum of what is considered to be clinically relevant." But the results were nonetheless notable.
The study was designed and funded by rifaximin's maker, Salix Pharmaceuticals Inc. — a fact disclosed by the researchers.
Salix, which markets rifaximin as a treatment for traveller's diarrhea under the name Xifaxan in the U.S., is seeking to expand the drug's use to IBS. A decision from the Food and Drug Administration is expected in March.
Tack urged doctors to proceed with caution until more research is done on rifaximin in IBS.
He notes that with the high prevalence of IBS – as many as one in five Americans and Canadians are thought to suffer from the condition – there are worries about how the large-scale use of poorly absorbed antibiotics would have on antibiotic-resistance.
For that reason, he urges the antibiotic be restricted to those who haven't responded to other IBS treatments.
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Amplify'd from www.wndu.com Imagine not being able to eat a meal ever. That's life for people with Crohn's Disease, a chronic condition that attacks the body's digestive tract. Now, some folks are turning away from traditional medicine to keep the disease in check. It's a drug-free solution that's not easy. "I've been practicing for four…
H. pylori treatment – Ulcer Therapy May Also Treat Crohn's Disease
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No more surgery, no more drugs. Stem cell treatment could be a last ditch effort for patients who have nearly had all life squeezed out of them due to this disease and its unfavorable medical treatments. Amplify'd from www.medicalnewstoday.com Cellular therapy with stem cells is revolutionizing the focus of treatment of many serious diseases. Replacing…
Old Study – Parasitic worms may offer effective treatment for Crohn's disease [14Dec04]
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Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians
Eldridge, Roy (David)
Roy Eldridge in Harlem (1952)
Photo by Marcel Fleiss
Roy Eldridge's bold and harmonic bounce tested the trumpet's limits during the Swing Era, and sparked a new appreciation for the horn: his rhythmic passages laced with tritone substitutions forged the link between Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie.
Born David Roy Eldridge on January 30, 1911 in Pittsburgh, Roy had developed a musical ear by the age of six, playing drums to his mother's piano renderings. An amateur pianist, she passed away in 1922 when he was eleven years old.
Roy's older brother Joe, a budding saxophonist, took the young drummer under his wing, and in 1925 included Roy in a rehearsal session that he had organized, a session that included future Duke Ellington cornetist Rex Stewart and saxophonist Benny Carter. After observing Roy's fascination with Stewart's playing, Joe convinced Roy to pick up the trumpet.
Rex Stewart's half-valve effects and powerful stylings had a major influence on Roy. But he was attuned to other players as well, like saxophonist Coleman Hawkins. Eldridge memorized a set of Hawkins' solos, including his solo on the hit stomp, The Stampede, recorded in 1926 by the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra by Columbia Records. Stewart also performed a solo on the tune.
Eldridge delighted local audiences with his ability to perform sax solos note-for-note on the trumpet and was soon asked to join a touring carnival band. He'd already been expelled from high school in Pittsburgh for dating a white girl. So at 16, accompanied by his friend and future swing percussionist, Alvin Burroughs, he was more than ready to hit the road. Working the carnival circuit had its ups and downs, during 1927 Eldridge was stranded twice, the second time in Little Rock, Arkansas.
He returned to Pittsburgh in 1928, where he led his own band under a pseudonym, Roy Elliott and his Palais Royal Orchestra. Restless, ambitious and competitive, he practiced around the clock - including on band breaks - and left his hometown a second time within weeks.
He tore through a series of gigs from Ohio to Michigan and onto Wisconsin. Among the most significant was an eight-month stint with bandleader, pianist Horace Henderson and the Dixie Stompers. Sadly the band was never recorded although Horace's older brother, bandleader Fletcher Henderson, later performed many of their arrangements. Eldridge's stint with the Dixie Stompers, led directly to a short spell with a close friend of Horace Henderson, banjo player and bandleader Zach Whyte and his territory band called the Chocolate Beau Brummels.
Throughout 1929 and the first half of 1930, Eldridge performed for drummer and bandleader Speed Webb. He closed this early chapter of his life with one final gig in Milwaukee with Johnny Neal's Midnite Ramblers, where he was run out of town after being heard cussing in the background of a live radio broadcast.
In November 1930, Eldridge headed straight to Harlem where he gained work with a number of dance bands starting with bandleader and reedman Cecil Scott, who like the Henderson brothers originated from the rich jazz cradle connected to Wilberforce University in Ohio. Cecil Scott's Bright Boys headlined at the Savoy and Roseland ballrooms with a variety of hot dance arrangements, a precursor of mainstream swing with which Eldridge and his versatile range quickly excelled.
Over the next two years he preformed pianist bandleader Charlie "Fess" Johnson in a ten-man ensemble that headlined at Small's Paradise, considered to be one of the Big Three Clubs in Harlem. It was during one of the performances at Small's when saxophonist Otto Hardwick quipped to Eldridge, "You really are Little Jazz," and the name took.
Playing a year later with Hardwick and banjo-playing bandleader, Elmer Snowden, Eldridge appeared in a 1932 short film called "Smash Your Baggage." The film featured a smoking dance scene that also revealed the "Little Jazz" showmanship of five-foot-four, 118-pound, Roy Eldridge, which can be Googled on YouTube.
The watershed event of Eldridge's life came in 1932 at the Lafayette Theater when he first heard Louis Armstrong live on stage. Eldridge was humbled at the way Armstrong could lace together a solo with a beginning, middle, and end that would climax with clear snapping notes in the upper range. Considering this an invaluable lesson, Eldridge returned to Pittsburgh and the proverbial woodshed.
After stints with his brother, Joe and other bands including Will McKinney's Cotton Pickers, he arrived back in New York in 1935 and signed with Teddy Hill's Savoy Ballroom band as the principal soloist. His jaunty syncopated style pushed the needle of ballroom swing toward a more sophisticated, modern swing that could be heard in Eldridge's first recordings. Released on CD by Classics in 1996, the album The Chronological Teddy Hill, 1935 – 1937 features Eldridge's cutting edge style on the tracks, "When Love Knocks At Your Heart" and "Lookie, Lookie, Lookie Here Comes Cookie."
During the depression years Americans had few luxuries other than a radio, and late night remote broadcasts were the only way for most people to hear all-black bands. Young Dizzy Gillespie tuned in nightly to Teddy Hill's Savoy Ballroom Band and attributed much of his style to Eldridge's swinging solos.
The demand for Eldridge's blaring high note performances led to numerous freelance jobs and to the instant success of new band under his name. Headlining at the Famous Door on 52nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, he recorded his first major solo album, Roy Eldridge, Little Jazz Trumpet Giant, which vaulted him into swing band stardom by the end of 1935.
His first stop was with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, producing transitional modern-swing solos like, "Stealin' Apples and Blue Lou," whichcan be heard on the Sony jazz collection CD set, A Study in Frustration/The Fletcher Henderson Story, Disc. 3. In 1936, Eldridge also recorded with clarinetist-bandleader Benny Goodman, vocalist Billie Holliday and pianist Teddy Wilson.
Driven by his growing ambition, Eldridge packed up for Chicago to headline at the Windy City's sole equivalent to 52nd Street in New York, The Three Deuces Club. His eight-man ensemble included brother Joe on sax and was featured seven nights a week on radio.
Eldridge staged a comeback in New York in November of 1938 at the Famous Door and was soon recording with composer and tenor saxophonist Leon "Chu" Berry, recording Body and Soul. Eldridge's solo in the tune turned the heads of uncountable trumpet players who began to imitate Eldridge's licks. By then, Dizzy Gillespie had taken his chair with the Teddy Hill Orchestra, a gig due to Diz's similarity to Eldridge in sound, style and range. Amid copycats galore, Roy Eldridge closed the 1930's as the trumpet king of swing.
In 1941, he became the first African-American member of drummer Gene Krupa's band, in what should've been a heady period in Eldridge's life. Despite masterful instrumental and vocal performances alongside the band's gifted singer, Anita O'Day, he suffered through numerous racial incidents. To his dying day, Eldridge believed that Gene Krupa's subsequent marijauna arrest was punishment for having a black man in his band.
Krupa disbanded in 1943, the same year Eldridge won the title for outstanding trumpet player in Down Beat Magazine's Readers' Poll.
Touring with clarinetist Artie Shaw's band from 1944 to 1945, he recorded the hit tribute "Little Jazz," which can be heard on Disc 4 of the Roy Eldridge Little Jazz Trumpet Giant box set, which spans the peak of his career.
For the next few years Eldridge continued freelancing and leading small ensembles, but with the post World War II emergence of bebop his style began to wane in popularity. Then in 1948, promoter Norman Granz enlisted Eldridge to tour with Jazz at the Philharmonic series. In 1950, Benny Goodman cajoled Eldridge out of a funk by inviting him to tour in Europe.
Eldridge stayed on in Paris for a year, recording a series of mainstream jazz albums that won acclaim in Europe and the U.S., which effectively carved out his legacy in jazz. He returned to New York in 1951, and for the next two decades recorded with his early inspirer, saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, his childhood friend Benny Carter, pianists Count Basie" and Oscar Peterson, sax masters Stan Getz, Johnny Hodges and Sonny Stitt, and vocalist Ella Fitzgerald.
Celebrated for his speed, his crisp high-note attack and valve bending solos, Roy Eldridge earned a reputation as a perpetual battler on stage. He loved to jam against other trumpeters, never satisfied until he felt certain that he had whipped their pants off. He jammed, freelanced and led bands in the 1970s and ended up headlining at Jimmy Ryan's club in New York until a stroke ended his playing career in 1980. He died three weeks after his wife of 52 years on February 26, 1989.
In 1982, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) named Roy Eldridge a Jazz Master, the United Sates' highest honor for a jazz musician. He is also one of only thirty greats to be inducted into the Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.
Select Discography
The Chronological Roy Eldridge 1935-1940, Classics 1996
After You've Gone, GRP/Decca, 1936-46
Roy Eldridge Little Jazz Trumpet Giant, Proper 2004
Roy Eldridge in Paris, RCA 1950
Little Jazz: The Best of the Verve Years, Verve, 1951-60
Roy and Diz, Verve, 1954
Just You Just Me, Stash, 1959
Montreux '77, Original Jazz Classics, 1977
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USA Network is going to be the place to watch the men's hockey! USA and Czech Republic hit the ice on Wednesday to battle it out. With some great Olympic hockey televised, there is no doubt that hockey fans are going to be either watching the USA men's hockey game or they will be tuned to MSNBC to check out the Canada versus Latvia hockey game playing at the exact same time. According to Fansided on Tuesday, the opening 10 or 15 minutes of the USA game will be the most important as it sets the tone.
Why all the Olympic men's hockey on one day? Canada, Sweden, the United States and Finland have all received byes into the quarterfinals and will face their opponents on February 19. With all the brackets being finalized it's time for the teams to battle. Luckily the games are all being seen on NBC channels on television plus there is live stream available.
USA versus Czech Republic airs on USA Network on the TV starting at 12 p.m. ET. There is also live stream of the game seen at NBC Olympics Live Extra or NBC Olympics.com. With all the interest in who wins the men's hockey games it is safe to suggest that unless there are two televisions sitting side by side people are going to be using the remote intensely on Wednesday.


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As you can see, english class didn't do me any good, for my run on sentences are infamous amongst my friends.
Ugh. and the scroll over thing to show if it's a group, user, premium, or super group, whatever... is that really necessary? I did't really care, I just wanted to look at art work.
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Devil Dog Mako and Dad
I tried to warn Dad that Mako had a criminal brain. He didn't heed the warning and Mako systematically, over time, unzipped his pants, unbuttoned his shirt and stole the pizza right off the plate! I kept telling him that Mako would strip him naked one day. It never happened but Mako had even tried to unbuckle his belt. Dad just didn't grasp the concept that adolescent Airedales couldn't be trusted. You don't let them near your belt buckle, or, worse yet, the zipper to your pants (Yikes!) - nothing good will ever come of it. He thought that it was funny. That's until Mako ripped a chunk out of Dad's Motor Trend magazine (he was trying to steal it) while Dad was reading it! What was different that time was that Mako tore a hole in the very article that he was trying to read. Then, and only then, did he realize that Mako's thievery was serious!
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I have this web service that's running on nginx and fastcgi(php-fpm). The web service is used by some embeded http clients which will need to send some arbitrary http request headers when they are using the service. For example:
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These reflections are taken from the book "Pro-Life Reflections for Every Day" by Fr. Frank Pavone which is available for purchase at: ProLifeReflectionsForEveryDay.org
"To refuse to take part in committing an injustice is not only a moral duty; it is also a basic human right" – (The Gospel of Life, 74).
Reflection: One of the key battlegrounds in the fight for life is to defend the freedom of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, judges and other professionals to refuse to violate their conscience as they carry out their work. At times this freedom is secure, and at other times, fidelity carries a high price.
Prayer: Lord, provide light and strength to all those who may face the loss of their jobs in order to maintain their integrity. Protect us all as we do what is right. Amen.


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I just did a fresh install of centos and spent ages adding all my standard libraries. Is there a way I can easily take a copy of this build and deploy to another new server?
You can use any disk cloning tool like clonezilla. It supports many file systems including ext3 and ext4 (the most common in Linux environment).
from the machine you want to copy to (boot from a live disk or network boot, format the hdds, and mount them somewhere. cd to that location (root of the hdd to be copied)) then run the following (copies everything perfectly over and securely)
This will take quite a while (depending on network speeds). Now all that is left is installing your bootloader (if you're using grub, simply grub-install /dev/yourhdd_andPartition
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WWTC gives back to community with Project Graduation
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The Beta Nu Chi Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society at Western Wisconsin Technical College (WWTC) is participating in Project Graduation … Feed a Body, Feed a Mind, an initiative designed to help alleviate hunger and illiteracy in the community. Graduating students and their guests are asked to bring non-perishable food items or books to the college graduation ceremony to be held Friday, May 13 at 7:00 p.m. at the La Crosse Center. Collection barrels will be positioned near the box office. All donations will be given to The Salvation Army of La Crosse.
WWTC received their charter from Phi Theta Kappa in March. The 75 student members quickly adopted the society's nation-wide cause to collect donations for local non-profit organizations.
"Such a simple gesture of bringing a canned food item or book to our commencement ceremony can help improve the quality of life in our community," said Lee Rasch, WWTC president. "We are excited to have this opportunity."
"As a new student organization on campus, we are pleased to be at the helm of this initiative," said Dan Rooney, WWTC Phi Theta Kappa advisor. "We are proud to give graduating students the chance to give back to the community that has supported them throughout their college experience."
For more information on Project Graduation, please contact Rooney at 608.785.9216 or firstname.lastname@example.com. To learn more about WWTC programs and services, please call 608.785.9200 or visit the WWTC Web site at wwtc.edu.


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Chimdi Chekwa
5'11, 191 pounds | Cornerback | Ohio State
Strengths: Is fine when he's playing off man coverage and has an extra step to turn and run with receivers. Reads the ball pretty well in the to cut and break quickly. Is naturally long and knows how to use his length to his advantage. Likes to quickly jump in front of the receiver and bat the ball away. Has very good timed speed (4.38 seconds at the Combine), but doesn't always play up to it. Has lined up on both sides of the field and in the nickel. Played gunner on special teams.
Weaknesses: Chekwa really struggled when Ohio State tried to use him in press coverage. He doesn't have the body control or fluidity to turn and run with his receiver. Poor on his transitions. Was consistently beaten on the outside. Needs to get stronger or he'll really get pushed around a lot in the NFL. Is a drag down tackler who will have trouble against power possession receivers. Lack of body control allows quick ball carriers to beat him in the open field.
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Crazy Woman Picks Fight With Man Twice Her Size In Parking Lot [Video]
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Is this the craziest woman on the planet? We're legitimately asking. She's definitely very keen and vocal about fighting some dude twice her size. Terrifying and infuriating behavior, both with all the barefoot jumping around and the super annoying shit-talking.
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