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12 team 3-year keeper league; can keep 10 players, but only one that was drafted/kept from top 5 rounds last year.
Top 5 move up 1 round from last year, all others 2 rounds, FA take 18th round and up (17th, 16th, etc).
H2H weekly 6x6 roto; additional cats of BB-KO hitting, L, SV+HD.
The players I currently plan on keeping are:
Positional – Zobrist (11th), Stanton (14th), Profar (18th), Hosmer (19th), and Lawrie (20th).
Pitchers – Wainwright (9th), Zimmermann (13th), M. Moore (16th), Medlen (17th), and Dickey (15th).
Also viable: Willingham (18th) Matt Cain (4th)
I know this site practices patience with pitching and I already have a solid group of pitchers in the later rounds…but given my league's rules of starting (4) SP and (1) P mixed with it being a weekly H2H roto, does it change your thought process at all regarding top echelon pitchers? I went Votto in the 1st/Pedroia in the 2nd last year and that paid off in spades…
Our league LOVES pitching and you find all the anchors gone by the end of the 3rd.
This year I'm considering drafting Verlander, Strasburg, or Kershaw with my 1st pick (either 6th or 7th overall) if players like Cano, McCutchen, Fielder, and Votto are gone (still on fence with JUp and Cargo) and being pretty much done with pitching until the mid/late rounds. If I go hitter in the 1st I'd look at Price, Felix, maybe Greinke in the 2nd (or JUp, Cargo, Kemp, Hamilton in the 2nd if I go SP).
I think I'll write off an early SS based on having Zobrist and an early 3B and bank on Lawrie…other positions seem fair game.
Bonus question…it's been made known that Harper is available. What pair would you give up to try and him for this year and next in the 20th and 18th rounds? Profar and ???
Drafting Pitching Strategy
Who to start, who to bench. Grab that WW guy? Low priced rookie or high priced stud?
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If those four hitters are gone plus CarGo is gone then I would be fine looking at pitching. Those SP you mentioned are as good a shot at being stud SP as any of those hitters are at being stud hitters in 2013. I would have a hard time taking Kemp or Hamilton over Kershaw, Verlander or SS.
As for what to give up for Harper. Anything but Stanton would be fine by me.
As for what to give up for Harper. Anything but Stanton would be fine by me.
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Supporting young adults to make healthy decisions
College-age Minnesotans are at high risk for unhealthy behaviors during pregnancy. They are also at a crucial time in their lives for building their future and face unique parenting challenges as they balance school, work and family life.
Under health reform, Minnesota is helping college-age pregnant and parenting young people achieve their higher education goals and maintain positive health and well-being for themselves and their children.
Health reform also helps prevent unplanned pregnancies through education programs to decrease risky behavior and strengthen healthy development among Minnesota youth.
- How does health reform support young parents in college?
Minnesota has received $2.26 million to help college-age pregnant and parenting young people achieve their higher education goals and maintain positive health and well-being for themselves and their children. The funds support the Minnesota's Young Student Parent Support Initiative, which will:
• Expand current services to young parenting students on campus
• Start new student parent centers at state colleges and community/technical colleges
• Reach out to young student parents through innovative technology and media strategies
- How does health reform support healthy youth development?
Under health reform, Minnesota is implementing programs to decrease risk of pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among our most vulnerable youth. A three-pronged approach targeting teens, parents of teens, and caring adults will help to address Minnesota's high rates of teen pregnancies and births, as well as soaring chlamydia rates. These efforts include Ramsey County, the most densely populated and racially diverse county in Minnesota
Other populations in Minnesota that experience high rates of teen births and STIs will receive high quality medically accurate and evidence-based programs. These populations in Minnesota include young people of color and American Indian youth, youth in foster care or aging out of foster care, youth in juvenile detention or on probation, runaway and homeless youth, and youth in alternative learning centers. Minnesota will target these populations geographically, with a special emphasis on the top 25 counties with the highest rates in teen pregnancies.
Preventing Teen Pregnancy Among Marginalized Youth: Developing a Policy, Program, and Research Agenda for the Future
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The Boats are touring Japan this month. Read on for dates and details.
As we type this, Gareth Dickson is on stage in Abderdeen in an evening of live performance with fellow 12k labelmate Simon Scott. Stay tuned here for more photos from the evening and the shows they are playing together over the next few days.
We've unboxed a few 12k tshirts from the 2008 design by Ralph Steinbruchel and have put them in the 12k shop. only a couple of each size left… but we do have girl-cut, babydoll and strap shirts, too!
Simon Scott's Below Sea Level project has gone on pre-order today in the 12k shop. All editions, from the deluxe featuring the journal, a hand-inked sketch, a live recording and the CD or download as well as the regular CD or digital editions.
3 new releases from LINE are now available in the 12k shop.
We're very happy to announce that Gareth Dickson has a number of shows throughout Northern and Western Europe this month. Here's the schedule so far:
Thanks to a recent distributor return, a few more CDs of titles that have been out of stock in the 12k shop are available again.
We are very happy to announce, after many months of work, false starts, botched technology and patient beta-testers, that we have launched the new 12k online shop. We'll run down the new features below. Additionally, we're offering the entire 12k download catalog for 50% off as well as offering free shipping on all 12k CDs for the remainder of the month of April.
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This book, UNDER THE HOOD: Prague, is a selection from 200 photographs of the people who I found in the area of the a.m. 180 collective gallery in Prague. The pictures were taken on August 12, 2010 between 8 am - 10 am. They were shown the following evening at Freak Show II, a group show of Czech and American artists. The photographs were displayed in the gallery and on a clothes line in front of the space at Belehradska 45 in Prague 2. The participants were invited to come see and take their photos home.
This is the third book in the UNDER THE HOOD project. The first was of my neighborhood in Ridgewood, NJ followed by Los Angeles.
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www.caluniv.ac.in: Calcutta University Official Website
www.caluniv.ac.in is the official website of Calcutta University. Calcutta University was Formally established on the 24 January 1857, the University of Calcutta (also known as Calcutta University), located in the city of Kolkata (previously Calcutta), India, is the first modern university in the Indian subcontinent.
It is a state-government administered urban-based affiliating and research university. It has its central campus in College Street called Ashutosh Shiksha Prangan. Its other campuses are in Rajabazar, called Rashbehari Shiksha Prangan, Ballygunge, called Taraknath Palit Shiksha Prangan, Alipore, Hazra and South Sinthi.
For more information, please visit the official website of Calcutta University – www.caluniv.ac.in.
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The End May Be Near for Occidental Chairman Ray Irani
By Tom Fowler
Occidental Petroleum Chairman Ray Irani's nearly 30-year legacy at the oil and gas producer will be on the line at today's shareholder meeting in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Mr. Irani, 78, joined the company in 1983 and took on the chairman and CEO role in 1990, succeeding legendary Occidental founder and philanthropist Armand Hammer upon his death.
He was scheduled to the retire at the end of 2014, a departure imposed on him two years ago when investors unhappy with his oversized compensation forced him from the CEO post and replaced him with long-time heir-apparent Steve Chazen.
But investors may bring his time at the company to an end even sooner.
Some investors complained following a recent Wall Street Journal report that Mr. Irani tried to replace Mr. Chazen earlier this year with a former company executive. The perception that the board also mishandled plans for Mr. Chazen's succession led advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass, Lewis & Co. to recommend votes against Mr. Irani and against the company's pay plans.
The Occidental board made a highly unusual move earlier this week, reversing itself and saying Mr. Chazen would stay on through 2014, CEO and board pay would be cut, and former company CEOs would be prohibited from serving as chairman.
But it's not clear if the damage control will be enough. Advisory firm Glass, Lewis changed its mind and now recommends support for Mr. Irani's reelection, but ISS stood by the recommendation to remove Mr. Irani and Aziz Syriani, the lead independent director.
It's rare for chairmen to lose their jobs. Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman Ray Lane was narrowly reelected earlier this year with 58.9% of the vote, but he chose to give up the title — though not his board seat — soon after. In 2009 Bank of America Corp. Chairman and CEO Ken Lewis was effectively voted out of the chairmanship when investors voted to separate the two roles. He stepped down as CEO later that year.
If Mr. Irani or Mr. Syriani lose their positions, they will have until Oct. 31 to leave the board.
Mr. Irani could be offered a consulting contract with the company through the end of 2014, said one person familiar with the board's thinking, particularly given his Middle East contacts. A company spokesman said a separate announcement about Mr. Irani's future relationship with the company will be made following the meeting.
In either case, Mr. Irani will remain a large shareholder at the company. He currently holds more than 1% of the outstanding shares of the company, putting him in the top 15 of shareholders. That stake could grow depending on what kind of a parting package he receives.
According to the company's most recent proxy statement if Mr. Irani retired from the company at the end of last year he could have received a package worth more than $20 million. This includes more than $15 million in company shares tied to his long term incentive pay package, $5.7 million in life insurance coverage, ongoing medical and dental coverage for he and his wife, about $2.2 million annually to cover security services, tax preparation and financial planning services, club dues and travel benefits, and $800,000 for unused vacation time.
The shareholder meeting convenes at 10:30 a.m. PDT today.
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The O.D.: A Mixtape Daily Exclusive
Message to Green Lantern: Homie, make it happen! One of the great DJs in the game is on the road with Nas and Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley on the Distant Relatives Tour, and we're all hoping Green can convince Nas to do another mixtape .
"Perhaps," Nas said with a grin. "Green is that dude. I'm always knocking Green Lantern mixtapes."
Nas and Damian Marley's Distant Relatives joint LP came out Tuesday (May 18). Nas also appears on Capone-N-Noreaga's independent July 13 album, The War Report 2. Although Nas didn't specifically record rhymes for the album, he appears on a track called "With Me." Nore told us the Nas vocals were taken from an old studio session he had in the vault.
"It's all good," Nas said about appearing on the album. "That's a team outta Queens. It's all good."
What about C-N-N's business partner Raekwon? Nas was conspicuously absent on the Chef's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx … Pt. II, and he regrets it. Maybe he'll get on the Wu-Tang Clan co-founder's upcoming Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang album.
"It's been no discussions," Nas said about appearing on Rae's new project. "You know how the music game is. Everybody is out there grindin', making music. But his last album was classic. I definitely wish I was on that piece. So yeah, something in the future is definitely likely. That'll be good."
Finally, what's good with a new Nas solo LP?
"I talked to a lot of people I really like about my next project. But there's no one sitting there doing my album right now that I could speak of," he said. "This record here [Distant Relatives], I think it's gonna push me and D in our solo projects. I think any record we do, it's gotta live up to this record. It's gotta be as good or better. We set the standard with this album. I'm just excited about this record right now."
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Okay, you've been out a few times, or if lucky, a bunch of times, but the weather wasn't right. Global warming seems to have become Global Cooling. The baits you bought that the manufacturers almost swore would catch more fish than did those lures you bought in the past never even attracted a hungry fish. Your new fish locater has yet to locate the big fish you've dreamt about for years. Before Opening Day, you went to a fishing club meeting as a guest, but you haven't caught bigger or more fish. You'd practice catch-and-release, but you first have to "catch."
Don't fret. Better days are coming. You didn't drive up onto your drive-on trailer and end up in the back of your SUV, did you?
It's tune-up time! I don't mean for your outboard motor, but this might be a solution too. Nothing is worse than getting onto the water and you've either drained your battery while trying to start the motor, or your arm feels like it's not ever going to pull the starter rope again, let alone have the pain free strength to drive your vehicle home. Worse yet, you don't think you can lift a cold one after your embarrassing fishing trip.
Spend an evening making a list. You can check it twice, if you like. Keep the spectrum wide, and start listing things that require immediate action. By immediate, I'm suggesting things needing fixing so that you are again on the watery road to catching more and hopefully bigger fish. It doesn't pay to drag the problems into the summer followed by a droopy fall.
If you're favorite crankbait is running crooked, fix the problem. A little bend or turn of the lure connection can have you back on the straight and narrow. If the lure has a bendable lip, carefully bend the lip to guide your bait the way you want it to retrieve. Some anglers bend the line screw eyelets or the lips to make the baits curve around piers, rafts, and other obstructions that often attract fish.
Have you found that your tackle box is not tuned to the seasonal "tastes" of your chosen species? For example, is your walleye box set-up for minnow fishing but the walleyes are into hitting nightcrawlers and leeches?
Update it, if you want to catch more fish, or switch to another tackle box that is set up for the warmer water walleye bite. An investment in a second tackle box is not as ridiculous as some people tell us. We know the difference when we catch fish and they don't. Besides, we have more toys to play with.
Grab a coffee and sit down to think what you can tweak to improve you fishing. Not all of these things cost money. Stop using the heavy line that comes with spincast reels and switch to 4# line you might already have. Keep the slack out of you line when using bobbers. It's hard enough to get a good hook set when the line has a 90 degree bend in it. The added line bow means more line to straighten out before the hook gets pulled into the mouth of the fish.
It's time to go fishing.
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CHAPTER 8: A Stumbling Start
The first three weeks of clyde barrow's and Bonnie Parker's new lives as career criminals were notable mostly for bad decisions and worse luck. At times, their misadventures would have constituted slapstick comedy if lives hadn't been at stake.
After dark on March 25, 1932, the trio of Clyde, Ralph Fults, and Raymond Hamilton set out to commit its first robbery. They didn't have to go far. The Simms Oil Refinery was just a few blocks down Eagle Ford Road from the Barrow family garage in West Dallas. Clyde picked the fume-spewing target. He swore to his cohorts that a Simms employee had told him the company would have a large amount of payroll cash in its safe on the night of the 25th. It would be simple to sneak there under cover of darkness, cut through the chain-link fence surrounding the refinery, overpower a guard if one happened to be there, crack the safe, stuff their pockets with loot, and roar out of Dallas with their haul. Clyde anticipated a large take, perhaps as much as several thousand dollars.
As Clyde had promised his partners, cutting through the fence was easy. He hadn't known that four employees were still going to be in the building, but they were quickly subdued and tied up. The refinery safe was located and its door cracked open with a hammer and chisel. But then Clyde's foolproof plan imploded—the safe was empty.
The would-be thieves bolted. Clyde's initial attempt to lead his newly formed criminal gang had been an abject failure, and Raymond Hamilton let him know it. Though he was still only 18, Hamilton had been supporting himself through petty crime for several years. He'd begun by stealing and reselling bicycles, then graduated to stealing cars. After the Simms fiasco, Hamilton wanted the gang to focus on automobile theft. The individual takes would be much smaller than they might be from robbing banks or businesses, he argued, but at least you didn't have to wonder whether there was money in a safe.
From GO DOWN TOGETHER by Jeff Guinn. Copyright © 2009 by 24 Words LLC. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster Inc.
Fults and Clyde had a different plan. Their immediate goal was conducting the long-planned Eastham Prison Farm break, and for that they'd require a lot more money than they could earn by fencing stolen cars. To successfully pull off the Eastham raid, they knew, the gang would need additional members and a lot more firepower than the cheap weapons they'd used in the Simms break-in. Fults had some specific acquaintances in mind as recruits. He knew several crooks living in and around Denton who he believed would make enthusiastic, competent partners. But there was no sense asking them to join up without enough powerful assault weapons to overwhelm the prison guards.
The gang's current arsenal consisted of the cheap Saturday Night Special handguns that were readily available anywhere, plus a couple of shotguns. In the 1930s, almost every Texas family had a gun or two—it was considered strange to be weaponless. Small-caliber pistols and shotguns were available on street corners for a few dollars. These, however, were notoriously inaccurate even at close range. More upscale weaponry could be purchased in hardware stores. Every town of any size had one. There were no background checks involved when guns were purchased. Even Thompson submachine guns—"tommy guns"—were on sale for a few hundred dollars each. Those who didn't have nearby stores selling guns could send away for them by enclosing a check with the mail-order forms routinely found in popular magazines. For the Eastham raid, Clyde and Fults also wanted bulletproof vests and a large supply of ammunition. So Hamilton was overruled; the gang would try to make its Eastham budget in one grand haul. Fults preferred banks to small businesses. Even though Clyde had never tried to rob a bank, after the Simms blunder he was in no position to disagree.
While Bonnie waited at home with her mother, Emma, the trio of Clyde, Fults, and Hamilton staged a series of small stickups in and around Dallas to gather some traveling money. They couldn't stay in the area long. After the Simms break-in, the West Dallas cops were on the lookout for their old target Clyde Barrow. The decision was made to drive north and find a bank to rob somewhere far away from the local heat. Long-distance travel for business, recreation—and crime—had become much easier. The post-World War I Federal Highway Act added 300,000 miles of hard-topped interstate highways. In 1924, Rand McNally published its first national road map, making it relatively simple to plan out routes, and including many smaller state and farm roads as well as the major thoroughfares. Clyde loved the newfangled maps. Throughout his criminal career, they would be found in virtually every stolen car he abandoned along the way.
Clyde, Fults, and Hamilton drove through Oklahoma, Kansas, and Iowa before finally picking out a bank almost 900 miles from Dallas in Okabena, Minnesota. It seemed like a perfect target. The bank was set in the middle of a town square. There were roads leading away in several directions. But at the last minute, Clyde called the robbery attempt off. There was too much snow and ice on the local roads, he told Fults and Hamilton. Their car might skid out of control during the escape. It would be better, he insisted, to turn back south and find another bank to rob in a less frigid region. According to Fults' memoir, they'd seen one, the First National Bank in Lawrence, Kansas, that might do.
They had driven almost nonstop from Texas to Minnesota, pausing only for meals and gas. All three were exhausted, and when they took turns driving on the 400-mile trip back to Lawrence, each fell asleep at the wheel and let the car veer off the road into adjacent fields.
In Lawrence, Fults claimed in his memoir, they had enough money to check into a local hotel, the Eldridge. The next two days were spent casing the bank and the town. After the Simms fiasco, they wanted to be absolutely certain of success. They learned that the First National Bank's president usually arrived at 8:45 in the morning, with the rest of the bank staff showing up some 10 minutes later. There seemed to be only one guard, but as soon as the bank opened for business there was a steady stream of customers.
On the third day, the bank president arrived at the bank at his usual time. Clyde and Fults, brandishing shotguns, rushed into the building after him while Hamilton waited outside at the wheel of the getaway car. Clyde forced the bank president to open the vault, while Fults guarded two employees who arrived while the robbery was in progress. The Lawrence bank's vault wasn't empty. Clyde was given two bags of currency. Then he and Fults locked their prisoners in the vault and ran out to join Hamilton. A few miles out of town they stole another car. It all seemed ridiculously easy. The bank guard hadn't even arrived for work by the time the gang grabbed the money and fled. If the town cops made any attempt to pursue them, they never got within sight or sound of the thieves.
According to Fults, the trio fled 290 miles to East St. Louis, Illinois, where they paused to count their loot and discovered their take was an astounding $33,000. No old Lawrence newspaper accounts exist to verify or disprove Fults' claim, but $33,000 would have been enough to recruit and supply an army to assault Eastham Prison Farm. Fults might have been wrong about the location of the robbery as well as grossly exaggerating the take from it. But whatever the amount and whichever bank the gang robbed to get it, the haul was substantial enough to impress Raymond Hamilton. He wanted to hit more banks right away. Clyde and Fults refused. They wanted money to finance their Eastham plan, and now that they had some in hand they intended to buy guns and head back to Texas.
Fults knew of a pawn shop owner in Dupo, Illinois, who fenced high-caliber weaponry. It seemed more logical to make their purchases through him than at a hardware store where the shopkeeper might mention a substantial purchase of guns to the police. Fults and Clyde spent their shares of the Lawrence take on .45-caliber pistols, tommy guns, and bulletproof vests. Raymond Hamilton wanted nothing further to do with them or their Eastham plans. He took his cut of the money and left for Bay City, Michigan, where his father lived. Clyde and Hamilton had disliked each other from the beginning, and Clyde told Fults he hoped Hamilton "chokes on that wad of money."
Clyde and Fults drove back to Texas in early April, making a quick stop in West Dallas so Clyde could visit his family and spend a few hours with Bonnie. The cops there were still looking for him. Clyde's father, Henry, kept his radio on during the day, listening for police bulletins that might indicate his son's pursuers were nearby. When Clyde sneaked over to see Bonnie, he brought Fults with him. Fults had never met Bonnie before, but they liked each other immediately. Her mother was less friendly. Emma Parker refused to let "the cons" enter her house.
After the brief visit Clyde and Fults drove 40 miles north to Denton, where they met with four local crooks—Johnny Russell, Jack Hammett, Ralph Allsup (called "Fuzz" because of his burr haircut), and Ted Rogers, who eerily resembled Raymond Hamilton. The quartet was enthusiastic about the proposed Eastham raid, probably because they'd all done at least some local jail time. The new group called itself "the Lake Dallas Gang" after the area waterway. Clyde thought six assailants would be enough to pull off the raid. At night there were four picket guards outside Eastham's Camp 1 dormitory. If the Lake Dallas Gang could get the drop on them, they could then break the prisoners out of the dorm before the other guards sleeping on the second floor could wake up and stop them. While many inmates had tried to escape from Eastham, nobody had ever attempted to orchestrate a break from the outside. Eastham was considered too remote and forbidding. That meant the gang should have the advantage of complete surprise. What would happen to most of the escaped prisoners afterward apparently was not discussed, beyond helping as many as possible get clear of Eastham and arming them with the guards' captured weapons. They would then have to be responsible for maintaining their own freedom. But Clyde was especially concerned that Aubrey Scalley would be broken out. He was grateful to Scalley for taking the rap in the Ed Crowder killing.
In preparation for the raid, Clyde, Fults, and their new partners found an isolated spot by Lake Dallas to test the guns and vests they'd bought in Illinois. They were joined by another recruit known only as Red, who was an acquaintance of Jack Hammett's. The tests near the lake were less enjoyable. The vests, probably propped against trees, were perforated by every bullet striking them, and many of the guns wouldn't fire at all. The pawnbroker in Dupo had bilked Fults and Clyde.
To get money to buy a replacement arsenal, the gang members planned a simultaneous April 11 stickup of two banks located in Denton's main square, only to be scared off that morning when they saw two Texas Rangers sitting in a car parked on the square. It was odd that the Rangers would be hanging around in town. They usually arrived to investigate after a crime had been committed. Clyde suspected someone in his new gang might be an informer, but he had no proof and decided to go ahead with plans for the Eastham raid.
Besides its recurring need for better weapons, the Lake Dallas Gang was also having second thoughts about whether it had enough members to successfully carry out the Eastham attack. Clyde and Fults knew two brothers in Amarillo who might agree to join them, so they drove 365 miles northwest to the Texas Panhandle to track them down. Red had asked to come along. He brandished his .44 revolver and bragged that he'd "part the hair" of any cop that got in their way.
They arrived in Amarillo on April 13, but the brothers, never identified in any existing Barrow Gang lore, were nowhere to be found. Clyde, Fults, and Red turned back toward Dallas, but their car broke down in the small town of Electra about 200 miles east of Amarillo. Normally, that wouldn't have presented a problem. Clyde could have easily hot-wired another car. But an Electra city employee named A. F. McCormick found it suspicious that a trio of strangers had apparently parked in front of a warehouse, and he called Electra sheriff James T. Taylor to investigate. Taylor hurried over with J. C. Harris, another city employee. They arrived in Harris' vehicle just as Clyde, Fults, and Red left their stalled car and began walking into town, undoubtedly planning to steal another automobile. Taylor leaned out and asked the trio if they had a problem. Fults explained their car had died, adding they were from Wichita Falls. Small-town Texas sheriffs often made the assumption that young male drifters were up to no good. Taylor said he would have to take them into custody and check out their story. Instead of surrendering, Clyde pulled a .45 and told the sheriff and Harris to put up their hands. As they did, McCormick drove up in a Chevrolet. Fults, who had just relieved Taylor of his revolver, pointed the gun at McCormick and made him a captive, too. Then Clyde and Fults jammed into McCormick's car with the three prisoners. There was no need to make room for Red—he'd run away as soon as the confrontation commenced. Clyde later decided that Red was the traitor who had tipped the Texas Rangers to the aborted April 11 bank robberies in Denton.
Clyde and Fults hadn't anticipated having three hostages on their hands, one a sheriff. As Clyde drove south out of town he and Fults began apologizing to Taylor, McCormick, and Harris for causing them any inconvenience. About eight miles out of Electra, they pulled the car to the side of the road and let the trio go. Fults kept Taylor's gun, joking "We'll take good care of this." There was a clear risk in releasing three witnesses who'd gotten good looks at them. Kidnapping was considered a much more serious crime than car theft or bank robbery. But whatever mayhem Clyde and Fults were hoping to commit on Eastham prison guards, they intended no physical harm toward anyone else.
To elude potential pursuit, Clyde drove back north toward Oklahoma. Once past the state line, he planned to drive east for a while, then south back to Denton, where he and Fults could rejoin the rest of the Lake Dallas Gang. But they were barely underway again when McCormick's Chevrolet ran out of gas. Clyde wasn't necessarily negligent in checking—car gas gauges in the early 1930s were notorious for inaccurate readings.
Rural mail carrier Bill Owens, slowing down as he passed the stalled Chevy, was astonished when the two men standing beside the car leaped up onto his running board and forced him to pull over at gunpoint. Clyde got behind the wheel of the Ford; Owens was ordered into the front passenger's seat while Fults sat in the back. Owens expected to be shot. Clyde assured Owens that as long as he cooperated he wouldn't be harmed, but they had a scary moment on a toll bridge across the Red River and the Texas-Oklahoma border. Instead of stopping to pay the toll and call as little attention to the stolen Ford as possible—Owens was certainly cowed enough to sit quietly and not yell for help—Clyde crashed through a chain barrier and barreled into Oklahoma as a pair of bridge guards fired at the car. Though their shots missed, the guards called in a report and soon there was an all-points bulletin issued for Owens' vehicle. Clyde had the car radio tuned to a local station, and as they neared the town of Fletcher there was an announcement that state police were setting up roadblocks on major roads in the area. Clyde immediately swerved off onto a small farm-to-market road and told Owens to get out. The postman asked the outlaws to leave him his mailbag, and they handed it over. Then Owens asked what Clyde intended to do with his car. Clyde promised that he and Fults would eventually abandon the Ford "in plain sight" where the vehicle could be easily found. Owens requested a favor: would Clyde and Fults please burn his car rather than just abandoning it? If the Ford was destroyed, the government would be obligated to buy Owens a new one. Clyde was glad to oblige; he thought it was funny. A day later, the smoldering remains of Owens' Ford were discovered nearby. Clyde and Fults had stolen another car to complete their much interrupted trip back to Denton.
Nothing was going right. Clyde and Fults still didn't have high-caliber guns to blast their way past the Eastham guards, and they had lost Red instead of returning from Amarillo with two additional members for the Lake Dallas Gang. But Clyde and Fults remained determined to go ahead with the Eastham raid. The rest of the gang was agreeable. Jack Hammett offered to hit a hardware store in the nearby town of Celina and filch a new arsenal. Clyde and Fults said they'd travel east to Tyler and steal two cars large enough to haul escaped prisoners away from Eastham and fast enough to outrun any lawmen in pursuit. They'd meet back by Lake Dallas afterward and make their final plans for the attack. Clyde also wanted to get a message about the impending raid to Aubrey Scalley, and he wanted his girlfriend to deliver it.
Bonnie's involvement with the Lake Dallas Gang until then was strictly ornamental. She was Clyde's lover, available between jobs to offer moral support and physical comfort. But now she had a chance to get in on the action, albeit in a relatively risk-free way. Female friends and relatives visited Eastham inmates all the time. On April 17, Clyde and Fults drove Bonnie southeast toward the prison farm, hopping out of the car about a mile away from the main gate and letting her drive in alone while they hid in the woods. Bonnie played her role perfectly, telling the guards she was Scalley's cousin. Nobody was suspicious. This tiny girl obviously wasn't a threat. As a building tender, Scalley was able to enjoy a private conversation with Bonnie; ordinary cons were supervised while meeting with visitors. When she returned to pick up Clyde and Fults, Bonnie told them Scalley liked the plan and would be ready whenever his rescuers arrived.
It certainly meant a lot to Bonnie that Clyde trusted her enough to use her as a go‑between. Unlike her estranged convict husband, Roy Thornton, Clyde clearly wanted to include her in, rather than exclude her from, every crucial aspect of his life. The Scalley visit had gone so smoothly, and she had enjoyed being involved so much, that it seemed natural for her to ride along with Clyde and Fults when they went to Tyler to steal big, fast cars for the Eastham raid. Fults didn't mind her tagging along. They'd had several good conversations; he found Bonnie to be "articulate, thoughtful, and witty." Bonnie, in turn, felt the Eastham and Tyler trips gave her new status as a full-time member of Clyde's gang. Before leaving for Tyler, she told her mother she was finally moving to Houston to take the made-up job selling cosmetics there.
No one expected trouble when they set out for Tyler on the night of April 18. Clyde had a lot of experience driving away in stolen cars before anyone noticed. Still, Fults asked to stop on the way when they drove through the small town of Kaufman. There was a hardware store there, and he wanted to buy some ammunition. When he rejoined Clyde and Bonnie in the car, he told them the store had a fine selection of guns. The other Lake Dallas Gang boys were supposed to be stealing a new batch of weapons in Celina, but what would it hurt to swing back through Kaufman on the return trip from Tyler and swipe some there, too? It made sense to Clyde, and Bonnie was agreeable. It would just add to the evening's adventure.
Things went as planned in Tyler. There were many cars to choose from, and Clyde picked out and hot-wired a Chrysler. Fults stole a Buick. Both cars were big enough to transport several Eastham escapees as well as Lake Dallas Gang members, and they were fast, too. On the gravel road between Tyler and Kaufman, Clyde and Fults raced their new rides at speeds approaching 90 miles per hour. They were impressed with the massive vehicles, which rolled into downtown Kaufman around midnight, well after its townspeople had turned in for the night. While Bonnie waited in the Chrysler, Clyde and Fults began breaking the padlock on the door of the hardware store.
Unfortunately for the would-be gun thieves, Kaufman employed a night watchman downtown. He noticed the two huge cars and the men in front of the hardware store. He approached them with his gun drawn, Clyde spotted him, and the two exchanged wild shots. Clyde told his family later that he deliberately fired high. Then the watchman ran for help as Clyde and Fults jumped back into their cars and sped out of town, with Clyde's Chrysler ahead of Fults' Buick. Behind them, a bell began ringing loudly—the watchman's cries had been heard and someone was sounding the alarm.
The townspeople of Kaufman might have gone to bed early, but they awakened ready for action. In the few minutes it took Clyde and Fults to figure out an escape route to the main road back toward Dallas—there was no time to consult a road map now—the highway was blocked, probably with a pair of giant road graders. The fleeing criminals had no choice; they yanked their cars into U‑turns and drove back through town again, whizzing past a growing crowd of alarmed citizens and finally blundering east onto a narrow country road of packed dirt. There was no roadblock there. Clyde and Fults had cars that were undoubtedly much faster than any vehicles the country bumpkins they'd just left behind could use to pursue them. They hadn't gotten the guns, but they'd clearly gotten away. And then it began to rain.
In spring 1932, almost all the back farm roads in Texas were still dirt, and Clyde and Fults were driving down one of them. It had been raining recently in and around Kaufman County, and as the Lake Dallas crooks tried to make their getaway a heavy new storm struck. The already saturated farm road quickly deteriorated into thick, goopy mud, and the weight of the massive Buick and Chrysler sank the tires of the cars so deep in the sludge that the vehicles stuck fast. Try as Clyde, Fults, and Bonnie might to get them up and out, they wouldn't budge. The fugitives were drenched. The lighter, slower vehicles of their Kaufman pursuers would probably be able to skim over the worst of the mud. The trio had to abandon their immobilized cars and slog off on foot. They knew pursuit was coming. Everyone gathering in downtown Kaufman had seen the two cars racing away on the farm road.
The rain hammered down hard in the pitch-black darkness as Clyde, Bonnie, and Fults stumbled through sodden pastureland. When they came upon a farmhouse at about 1 am they pounded on the door to wake up whoever was inside. The bleary-eyed farmer who emerged had no car for them to steal, but he offered the use of his two mules. There wasn't much choice. Clyde and Bonnie clambered up on one mule, and Fults got on another, though not before it pitched him into the mud. The town of Kemp was a few miles away, and they guided their balky mounts in that general direction. Bonnie's splendid adventure had degenerated into complete misery. She was soaked to the skin, petrified at the prospect of imminent capture, and perched on the uncomfortable, bony spine of a mule. They had to ride bareback because the farmer had no saddles.
It was almost dawn before they finally reached the outskirts of Kemp. There was some relief in spotting a car parked in a driveway; it belonged to a local doctor named Scarsdale. They hot-wired the car and drove away, leaving the mules behind, but only got a mile out of town before Scarsdale's car ran out of gas.
Now they were really in trouble. The sun was up. The posse of angry Kaufman citizens had surely found the abandoned Buick and Chrysler by now, and learned from the farmer about the trio's escape by mule. The car theft in Kemp would arouse additional pursuit, from that town and the nearby community of Mabank. Clyde, Bonnie, and Fults were miles from anywhere else, with no way to get word to other Lake Dallas Gang members to come and rescue them. Shivering, scared, the trio had no option other than trying to hide in the brush.
Soon pursuers appeared. Led by the city marshal of Kemp and Mabank's chief of police, a motley pack of farmers and small-town citizens was painstakingly picking its way through the countryside, checking every gulley, grove of trees, and clump of underbrush. They knew the backcountry well, and their quarry realized it was only a matter of time before they were discovered. Clyde and Fults still had their handguns, but they were far too outnumbered to win a shootout.
They went undiscovered until about 5 pm when, in desperation, they ran across a road to a small store on the other side. A car was parked there, but before Clyde could get it hot-wired they were spotted and the posse was on them. The fugitives stumbled to the banks of nearby Cedar Creek. Clyde and Fults tried shooting over their pursuers' heads, but that only caused the posse members to start shooting, too, and they weren't trying to miss. Fults was hit in the left arm. It would be only a matter of moments before Clyde and Bonnie went down, too.
Clyde made a quick decision. He didn't want Bonnie to be caught or shot. But if they made another attempt to flee, she would be a liability. Bonnie would never be able to outrun the men chasing them. If Clyde slowed his own pace to match hers, they'd both be captured. But Clyde didn't consider surrendering. He'd sworn he'd never go back to prison, and meant it. His only remaining option was to try to get away alone, then see what could be done later about rescuing Bonnie and Fults.
There is no way to be certain what Bonnie thought as her boyfriend, Clyde, blurted out that he was abandoning her in a muddy creek bottom where she was being shot at by lots of angry men. If she begged him to not leave her, Clyde wasn't persuaded. Perhaps she summoned up a movie heroine moment and agreed that her lover should save himself if he could. Probably she was too panic-stricken to understand what he was saying. In any event, Clyde vaulted up out of the creek bed and ran straight toward the men firing at them. For once, he was in luck. The two closest posse members he charged were both reloading their guns. There was so much confusion that Clyde was able to run free while the posse descended on Bonnie and Fults. Clyde made his way back to Kemp, where he stole one car, drove a little way and stole another, and finally reached his family in West Dallas.
Back on the banks of Cedar Creek, as soon as Clyde had sprinted away Fults told Bonnie to give herself up. In his memoir, he said he suggested she tell the posse that she'd been kidnapped and forced to come along on the failed hardware store robbery with him and Clyde. Bonnie emerged and was immediately taken prisoner. Fults, still bleeding in the creek bed, was captured a moment later. Someone guessed he might be the notorious Oklahoma bandit Pretty Boy Floyd. The posse dragged Bonnie and Fults back into Kemp, where they were locked together for the night in the town's minuscule, one-cell jail.
Bonnie was calm enough to ask that someone examine Fults' injured arm. The local physician was summoned—Dr. Scarsdale, who was so put out by the theft of his car that he refused to treat Fults.
Fults was in agony. Bonnie, peering outside through a barred window, could see dozens of armed men ringing the jail, forming a guard to prevent anyone from rescuing the prisoners. On the night of April 19, 1932, just three weeks after they'd begun, it seemed that her glamorous criminal partnership with Clyde had come to a sudden, ignominious end.
Check out Jeff Guinn's interview on KERA: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde.


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Chris Curry decided, at a young age, that he wanted to make selling real estate a career. Being raised in a large family (9 siblings) of salespeople, he learned to work hard at everything he did. Less than one week after his 18th birthday in 1998, Chris passed the Florida State Realtor Exam, and became involved with a local real estate firm. Three years later, he decided that he wanted to sell in two markets-Gainesville and Lake City, Florida.
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NEW YORK (AP) - There's more work in store for Mark Messier's No. 11 New York Rangers sweater before it rises to the Madison Square Garden rafters.
Messier played at home with the Rangers on Wednesday night for the first time since he left for the Vancouver Canucks three years ago. Messier, who led the Rangers to the 1994 Stanley Cup title, re-signed with the team in the offseason.
The Captain will have to wait a little longer to dress in the traditional home white as the Rangers wore road blues.
The return against the Montreal Canadiens - the team Messier made his first Rangers debut against in 1991 - was combined with New York's celebration of 75 years in the National Hockey League.
"It's kind of special for the players for this year's edition of the Rangers to kind of get a sense of what it means to be a Ranger," Messier said. "For myself it's obviously a special night to be able to come back and be a Ranger again."
Messier, who started at center, certainly enjoyed the pregame ceremony in which he was introduced last, cloaked in shadow and smoke. Fans showered him with a four-minute ovation that brought a broad smile to Messier's face and he skated with his arms and stick raised.
And yet, the excitement and anticipation did not bother the man, who did not play any preseason games this summer in New York, Tuesday night.
"I slept like a baby," said Messier, who had an assist in the Rangers' opening-night victory Saturday night in Atlanta.
The deep relationship that developed between Messier and Rangers fans is one that is rivaled only by those forged in Montreal with Maurice Richard, Boston with Bobby Orr, Detroit and Gordie Howe and Edmonton with Wayne Gretzky.
"I think Wayne's connected to Edmonton and Mark's connected to New York," new general manager Glen Sather said. "It's terrific to see it, especially for me because I haven't seen Mark in these conditions for so long."
What made Messier's return possible was the hiring of Sather, the former Edmonton coach and general manager who won five Cups with the star center.
When Messier left the Rangers for Vancouver three years ago, the chance that he would ever play again for the Rangers was remote. The only hope for No. 11 to return in Rangers white would be when Messier was honored by having the number retired.
The Rangers even showed a video tribute when Messier came back to the Garden for the first time in an enemy uniform. Messier was left covering his face as tears flowed freely.
"The emotions then involved my disappointment at having moved on," Messier said. "I never wanted to leave New York and it was a reminder at how good a time it was here."
Messier felt his return would not involve tears this time as the Rangers' anniversary took center stage - honoring alumni and other former captains.
"It's a real celebration," Messier said.
Sather said he hoped Messier wouldn't show the tears that also were shed when he took back the captain's 'C' from Brian Leetch - his close friend, who took over the title when Messier departed.
"I hope he saves them until he gets the Stanley Cup presented to him," Sather said. "I'm sure it's going to be a great night and a pretty emotional moment for him.
"He's so sincere with the feelings he expressed when he came back and accepted the 'C' from Leetch. There aren't many people that can go through something as naturally as that and not try to mask it. He's honest, that's the way he is. That's what makes him so valuable and so acceptable in people's eyes."
Messier's departure from New York came amid a rift with then-GM Neil Smith and Garden president Dave Checketts. Smith's firing late last season and Sather's arrival made Messier's return a reality. When Vancouver couldn't meet his price, Messier seemed ticketed for New York.
"It's not a surprise," Messier said. "All things put aside it was the best decision to come back to New York. It was a tough decision to make and I would have loved to stayed in Vancouver and see it through because I know what would have happened."
What didn't happen in the last three years for Messier or the Rangers were playoff games. Something Messier, who signed a two-year deal with the Rangers, guaranteed would change.
Although the colors, the fans and the arena are the same, Messier is quick to point out the differences from his first stint in New York.
"I'm 39, I have less hair and am hopefully a little smarter," Messier joked. "It's completely different, it was a complete overhaul change."
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In 2005 Therma FM, Ltd. moved to the production site in Pržno near Frýdlant nad Ostravicí which provides sufficient capacity for the company´s further development in all mentioned fields of its activities.
The manufacture of toroidal cores is the main activity of our company, which responds primarily to the demand of toroidal transformers. These require specific components.
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Nowadays Therma FM produces magnetic circuits, toroidal cores, unicore cores, wound divided cores and beside this it sells CRGO materials or special amorphous and nanocrystalline materials.
A transformer is a power converter that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled conductors - the transformers coils.
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Toroidal transformers are built around a ring-shaped core, which, depending on operating frequency, is made from a long strip of silicon steel or permalloy wound into a coil or powdered iron. A strip construction ensures that the grain boundaries are optimally aligned, improving the transformers efficiency by reducing the cores reluctanceToroidal transformers are more efficient than the cheaper laminated E-I types for a similar power level.
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The toroids have a simple coil wound around a cylindrical structure, which is then bent into a doughnut shape. This merges the poles and creates an external magnetic field with regular polarities. A toroid coil also has the magnetic flux largely kept inside the coil to lessen magnetic radiation from the coil and sensitivity to the external fields.


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Earth Day was established in 1970 with the concept of focusing attention on environmental issues around the world, which currently includes 192 countries that highlight green and sustainable messages.
But 2014 brings an added urgency to combat climate change after a series of dire reports from the Nobel Peace Prize-winning scientific body, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warned that human inaction to curb carbon emissions would be catastrophic.
Media attention has been gradually shedding the ultraconservative and politically-induced stigma attached to the subject of climate change, which manifests itself in patterns of anomalous weather caused by a warming atmosphere that contains trapped carbon dioxide pollution.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson's "Cosmos" has not shied away from bringing up the subject on several occasions, to the ire of religious conservatives.
Most recently, climate change is front and center in a new documentary-style series that recently debuted on Showtime, "Years of Living Dangerously," which brings together an impressive array of celebrities, top-notch movie producers, directors and photographers to tell the alarming story of climate change impacts on the only home mankind has; Earth.
Executive producers James Cameron, David Gelber, Joel Bach were joined by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The collaboration began to open doors immediately to celebrities like Matt Damon, Harrison Ford, Don Cheadle, Jessica Alba and top-notch journalists like Tom Friedman of The New York Times, Lesley Stahl of 60 minutes and Chris Hayes from MSNBC.
Climate change, they say, is the greatest story ever ignored and they plan to help correct that mistake.
Each series is told in three parts, bringing together the devastating impacts of global warming from various regions of the world, revealing harsh and unrelenting effects on people's lives.
In the first episode, according to a report in the Daily News, Harrison Ford tells about the illegal deforestation and slash-burning that has run rampant in Indonesia for years, which not only reduces the number of trees to cleanse the atmosphere of C02, but pumps massive amounts of pollution-laden smoke from burning forests and peat back into the air.
Don Cheadle narrated one of the most fascinating segments with the discovery of an evangelical climate scientist in Texas, Katharine Hayhoe, who doesn't see her religion and climate change at odds with each other. She said, indeed, God is allowing climate change to happen, because he gave humans free will and the brains to make better choices.
Tom Friedman explored the connection between violence incited in Syria, with a 4-year drought and the associated stress of water scarcity across the Middle East.
Furthermore, on Earth Day, environmental organizations like the Natural Resources Defense Council are using the platform to enhance their environmental message to protect wildlife, the environment and fight climate change with various celebrations and educational events around the world.
In addition, practical suggestions are offered with energy conservation in mind for everyday use by families and individuals.
EcoWatch lists the following ideas that anyone can do to reduce their carbon footprint:
1. Take steps to make your home more airtight and reduce leaks.
2. Install power strips in your home and office, to automatically shut off computers and printers.
3. Upgrade your refrigerator and air-condition with energy efficient models.
4. Use and electricity monitor to see where the energy hogs in your house are located.
5. Use LED light bulbs, which last longer and are more efficient.
6. Use cold water when doing laundry.
7. Buy a fuel-efficient car.
8. Eat less beef products.
9. Reduce, reuse and recycle.
Environmentalists say the message of Earth Day should be a conscious effort every day of the year to conserve energy.
In addition, climate change, one of the most pressing dangers the world will experience, must be treated seriously by global governments, with far less complacency and much more urgent action.


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Each year, the ASPCA recognizes "No Pet Store Puppies Day" on July 21, to spread awareness of the thousands of dogs suffering in puppy mills – large-scale commercial dog breeding operations where profit is given priority over the well-being of the dogs. They live in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions for years on end, and may suffer from behavioral, congenital, and hereditary problems as a result of irresponsible breeding practices.
Because these dogs are sold in pet stores, among other places, pet store purchases actually support these breeding factories.
The story of Dusty, a Chihuahua rescued from a Kentucky puppy mill in February, is just one example of the horrors of that cruel industry Dusty was one of 40 dogs rescued from a deplorable commercial breeding facility where he was kept in inhumane living conditions lacking adequate veterinary care and socialization. When he arrived at the ASPCA's Behavior Rehabilitation Center at St. Hubert's Animal Welfare Center in Madison, N.J., Dusty was suspicious and fearful of new people.
During his treatment, the ASPCA's dedicated team of behavioral experts used scientifically sound techniques to reduce Dusty's fear of people to gradually acclimate him to unfamiliar objects, sounds, living areas, and real-life situations that can induce trauma or severe stress. Dusty thrived, learned how to walk on a leash, and became comfortable meeting new people. After graduating from the ASPCA Behavior Rehabilitation Center, Dusty was adopted into a loving home in June.
Dusty's story has a happy ending, but so many do not. Here are some ways you can help other puppy mill dogs on No Pet Store Puppies Day:
- Watch and share our latest video about why puppy mills are no laughing matter to spread awareness about pet store puppies.
- Enter our No Pet Store Puppies Day sweepstakes for a chance to win a one-year subscription to BarkBox.
- Send an email to the Secretary of Agriculture and urge him to stop the cruel import of puppies from overseas puppy mills.
- Help the ASPCA continue our fight against puppy mills by signing up for the ASPCA Advocacy Brigade to learn about legislation in your area that will help reduce animal suffering.
Most states have laws in place to protect dogs in commercial breeding facilities, with Connecticut, Minnesota, and Virginia being the most recent states to increase regulations of commercial breeders. However, there is still a lot of work to be done, as illustrated on NoPetStorePuppies.com, where consumers can view a database of more than 10,000 photos of USDA licensed dog breeders, taken during routine USDA inspections that allow the public to see where pet store puppies really come from.
For more information about the ASPCA's efforts to eliminate puppy mills, please visit www.NoPetStorePuppies.com.


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Nikki Ferrell or Clare Crawley will be the winner on the finale of "The Bachelor" and Juan Pablo Galavis will hand over that final rose. Are the pair still together though? That is a burning question that was answered on March 10 by The Hollywood Gossip.
As was reported earlier, the winner of the final rose on season 18 of "The Bachelor" was Nikki Ferrell. The season finale was filmed in St. Lucia. Nikki and Juan Pablo left the island a couple but it looks like there are no engagement or marriage plans.
As far as the future of the couple, the rumors are all over the place. Some say that Nikki and Juan Pablo will never get married. Sources say that Juan Pablo is still not over Andi Dorfman's diss and that he was never that into Nikki or Clare. Others say that production is pushing Juan Pablo to propose on the "After the Final Rose" special. That show is live so there's no telling if he will actually be proposing or not.
Monday night is the final night of "The Bachelor" season 18. Do you think Juan Pablo and Nikki are still together or do we find out the match wasn't made in heaven?


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Nurses at Mercy Medical Center – North Iowa and Mercy Clinics are being honored with The DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses. The award is part of the DAISY Foundation's program to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform every day.
The first award recipient of Mercy – North Iowa, Gretchen Crooks, R.N., was named during National Nurses Week, May 7. Crooks, who died March 24, was honored based on her dedication and compassion to her patients, her colleagues and the organization. "She was a nurse's nurse," said Kim Chamberiln, Vice President of Patient Services/Chief Nursing Officer, Mercy – North Iowa. Crooks' husband was presented the award on her behalf.
The not-for-profit DAISY Foundation is based in Glen Ellen, California, and was established by family members in memory of J. Patrick Barnes. Patrick died at the age of 33 in late 1999 from complications of Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), a little- known but not uncommon auto-immune disease. The care Patrick and his family received from nurses while he was ill inspired this unique means of thanking nurses for making a profound difference in the lives of their patients and patient families.
Each month, a Mercy – North Iowa or Mercy Clinic nurse will be selected by Mercy – North Iowa's Patient Care Experience Committee, which is made up of nurses, to receive The DAISY Award.
Nurses who work in direct patient care can be nominated for the award by a patient, his/her family or a Mercy associate.
At a presentation given in front of the nurse's colleagues, physicians, patients, and visitors, the honoree receives a certificate commending her or him for being an "Extraordinary Nurse." The certificate reads: "In deep appreciation of all you do, who you are, and the incredibly meaningful difference you make in the lives of so many people." The honoree also will be given a beautiful and meaningful sculpture called A Healer's Touch, hand-carved by artists of the Shona Tribe in Africa.
"When Patrick was critically ill, our family experienced first-hand the remarkable skill and care nurses provide patients every day and night. Yet these unsung heroes are seldom recognized for the super-human work they do. The kind of work the nurses at Mercy – North Iowa are called on to do every day epitomizes the purpose of The DAISY Award," said Bonnie Barnes, President and Co-Founder of The DAISY Foundation,
"We are proud to be among the hospitals participating in the DAISY Award program. Nurses are heroes everyday. Given the current national nursing shortage, The DAISY Award could not be launched at a better time. It's important that our nurses know their work is highly valued, and The DAISY Foundation provides a way for us to do that," Chamberlin said.


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July is usually a quieter month for costuming as people go on vacation and enjoy the coming of summer. However, there are two costume events coming up that are both Steampunk-related and outdoors so you can enjoy the warmer weather in lighter retro-Victorian garb.
Rivertown Revival
July 19
11:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m.
Steamer Landing Park, Petaluma, Calif.
The San Francisco Steampunks are going on a trip to the fifth year of this arts-based, community festival in Sonoma County. The location is at the appropriately named Steamer Landing Park near the Petaluma River. So Steampunk costuming is definitely welcome at this event! Visitors are encouraged to come in "Old West meets Victorian Carnival" attire.
All day long there will be music provided on five stages featuring Steampunk favorites El Radio Fantastique and 5 Cent Coffee. The Grand Art Boat Flotilla will have prizes awarded for artistic and engineering brilliance as well as for the lap race around the slough. There will be local artists and vendors displaying their crafts as well as food vendors from the area. You can also get married in costume for $5 if you register in advance on their website.
Obtainium Cup
July 27
3:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
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It is unkown why a Feudal Japan setting was singled out for mention. This could be meant as hint for the next game or the era could simply hold a personal fascination for Guesdon. Regardless of the reason, it was mentioned that the lore behind the Animus means that Ubisoft can literally pick any point in human history for the next Assassin's Creed game to take place.
Guesdon revealed that the pirate theme of Assassin's Creed 4 came about after positive reaction to naval combat first introduced in the series' third entry. The developers then decided that their goal was to make the best video game based upon piracy as they could. According to Guesdon, the team actually took more input from the Far Cry 3 player base for Black Flag rather than Assassin's Creed III.
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On my ski weekend trip to WA, I took a slight spill, landing backwards on my elbows. I was nervous because I'd been experiencing some pain in my right elbow for about three weeks prior. During my trainer workouts, it was suggested to me that I had injured joints or ligaments.
As I picked myself up off the snow, I straightened my elbow, expecting great pain. However, all tenderness was gone. Apparently, my elbow pain was due to the joint being out of whack and my fall had popped it into place.
The fall, although painful, had brought about healing.
As I headed down the hill, the wind whipping across my face and the powder wish-wish-wishing below my board, many thoughts passed through my mind. I remained boggled by the fact that my elbow no longer hurt and then it occurred to me that this experience was not unique.
Often times, falling (or failing) can bring healing to my life.
The thing about screwing up is that you can't dwell in the failure. There is only one choice and that is to move forward. I know many people who spin and stress and make mountains out of molehills, but frankly, that never helps.
I fail all of the time, but throughout the years, I've learned to pick myself up and move on…one step at a time. Eventually, I'm able to look back and see the lesson I was meant to learn. And in each failure, I learn something new and healing is brought to my life. Sometimes, it's profound and sometimes, the moving forward IS the healing.


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Hitzler, I; Oertli, M; Becher, B; Agger, E M; Müller, A (2011). Dendritic cells prevent rather than promote immunity conferred by a helicobacter vaccine using a mycobacterial adjuvant. Gastroenterology, 141(1):186-196.e1.
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Immunization against the gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori could prevent many gastric cancers and other disorders. Most vaccination protocols used in preclinical models are not suitable for humans. New adjuvants and a better understanding of the correlates and requirements for vaccine-induced protection are needed to accelerate development of vaccines for H pylori. METHODS: Vaccine-induced protection against H pylori infection and its local and systemic immunological correlates were assessed in animal models, using cholera toxin or CAF01 as adjuvants. The contribution of B cells, T-helper (Th)-cell subsets, and dendritic cells to H pylori-specific protection were analyzed in mice. RESULTS: Parenteral administration of a whole-cell sonicate, combined with the mycobacterial cell-wall-derived adjuvant CAF01, protected against infection with H pylori and required cell-mediated, but not humoral, immunity. The vaccine-induced control of H pylori was accompanied by Th1 and Th17 responses in the gastric mucosa and in the gut-draining mesenteric lymph nodes; both Th subsets were required for protective immunity against H pylori. The numbers of memory CD4(+) T cells and neutrophils in gastric tissue were identified as the best correlates of protection. Systemic depletion of dendritic cells or regulatory T cells during challenge infection significantly increased protection by overriding immunological tolerance mechanisms activated by live H pylori. CONCLUSIONS: Parenteral immunization with a Helicobacter vaccine using a novel mycobacterial adjuvant induces protective immunity against H pylori that is mediated by Th1 and Th17 cells. Tolerance mechanisms mediated by dendritic cells and regulatory T cells impair H pylori clearance and must be overcome to improve immunity.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Back when Yahoo was something hollered at a rodeo and no one could conceive of Googling anything, President Ronald Reagan signed an executive order that extended the power of U.S. intelligence agencies overseas, allowing broader surveillance of non-U.S. suspects. At the time, no one imagined he was granting authority to spy on what became known as Silicon Valley.
But recent reports that the National Security Agency secretly broke into communications on Yahoo and Google overseas have technology companies, privacy advocates and even national security proponents calling for a re-examination of Reagan's order and other intelligence laws.
Experts suggest a legislative update is long overdue to clear up what Electronic Frontier Foundation legal director Cindy Cohn calls "lots of big gray areas."
With the cooperation of foreign allies, the NSA is potentially gaining access to every email sent or received abroad, or between people abroad, from Google and Yahoo's email services, as well as anything in Google Docs, Maps or Voice, according to a series of articles in the Washington Post. It's impossible to know how many of Google and Yahoo's collective 1.8 billion accounts are affected, but in a single 30-day period last year, field collectors processed and warehoused more than 180 million new records — ranging from "metadata," which would indicate who sent or received emails and when, to content such as text, audio and video, the Post reported.
The Post reported that the NSA and its British counterpart, the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters, have intercepted and tapped into data funneled by Google and Yahoo through fiber optic cables, routing information in an NSA operation called Muscular. The information was provided to the newspaper by former NSA contract employee Edward Snowden, who is being sought by the U.S. for leaking classified information.
"Had the NSA done the same warrantless tapping at Google's Mountain View, California, headquarters, there's no doubt they would be violating the law," said Cohn, whose San Francisco-based non-profit fights for digital freedoms. "They're doing this abroad because they want that fig leaf of legality."
The NSA, in an online statement, says its collection operations comply with federal laws and orders.
Reagan's 1981 Executive Order 12333 for the first time in a public, written record allowed foreign covert action to be conducted from inside the U.S. The measure, amended several times after 9/11, outlines key rules for more than a dozen intelligence agencies. It spells out when spies are allowed to peek into mail, homes and electronics, identifies who has to approve of specific searches, and details how to carry out clandestine collection of foreign intelligence.
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In this album I intend to post pictures of Portuguese guitars. After all, being Portuguese and having chosen to dedicate my preference as musician to this instrument, I feel it's my obligation to show it to other guitarists.
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KENTFIELD, Calif.— February 9, 2010 — The Emeritus Students College of Marin has joined with the historic Larkspur Theater to create Sunday Salon, a new film series beginning Feb. 28, which is aimed at inspiring a lively discussion over a continental brunch.
Each mystery film – the titles will not be pre-released – will be followed by a film critic's commentary and a question and answer period.
The films will not be announced in advance to add to the intrigue, says Karen Hemmeter, co-president of ESCOM. "Bernice Baeza, executive director of the Lark Theater and film marvel, will find the best and most interesting selection to offer and open our eyes and minds to something we undoubtedly missed the first time around." This is an ideal partnership with another nonprofit in the community, Hemmeter says.
The classic, single-screen theater, built in 1936, is on the National Registry of Historic Places. After being shuttered for five years, the theater was renovated and reopened in 2004 as a nonprofit community film center.
"This is something I've wanted to do for years," Baeza says. "There is some great film out there that should be seen."
Baeza compares the salon to a film festival that is spread out over three Sunday mornings. Her goal is to pick films that are thoughtful and interesting but not necessarily commercially successful. Another aim, however, is to celebrate film and community.
"A lot of people in Marin love Sunday brunch but we don't always have someone to do that with," Baeza says. "This is a learning and sharing, social experience. Part of what we've been trying to do with the theater is get people away from the solo experience of being in front of the computer and come on down and have a social film experience."
While the films will be geared toward ESCOM members who are a mature audience, they have very diverse tastes. Baeza reveals little about her film choices other than to say she will avoid horror and gratuitous violence. "The films will be eclectic," she says.
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Safety Changes Are Small Comfort When Oil Trains Pass
A fiery oil train derailment in Canada killed 47 people a year ago, prompting regulators and railroads in the U.S. to make changes. Some who live near where oil trains travel are still worried, though.
Amy Roe with the Delaware chapter of the Sierra Club lives not far from where tank cars transport and store crude oil. Roe wishes the country would move away from fossil fuels faster. That plays into her opposition to oil trains, but she's also concerned about safety, especially after the accident that happened last July in Lac-Megantic, Quebec.
She's heard the arguments from railroads and oil companies that the vast majority of rail shipments arrive at their destination safely. "That is supposed to reassure us," she says, "but all it takes is one — like what we saw in Lac-Megantic — all it takes is one of those here, and our lives will change forever."
Fueling that fear is a series of accidents over the past year, among them a crash in North Dakota that prompted the evacuation of a small town in December. In April, residents of Lynchburg, Va., watched as a derailed oil train sent flames high into the air.
'A Lot Has Been Done'
The number of oil tank cars pulled by the country's largest railroads has increased more than 14 times in just the past four years. With oil drilling booms in places like North Dakota, where pipeline capacity is limited, railroads are a preferred method for transporting crude oil to refineries.
Patricia Reilly with the Association of American Railroads says her industry and regulators have made a series of changes designed to avoid accidents in the future.
"There's lower speeds. There's selective routes. There's increased track inspections. And this was not done a year ago," Reilly says. "People have to realize that a lot has been done to step up the safe movement of crude by rail."
Reilly says there's also a push to train more local fire departments and other emergency officials so they know how to respond when an accident does happen. She says there are more changes to come.
"The one piece of the puzzle that's missing is higher tank car standards," she says.
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One widely used tank car — the DOT-111 — came under scrutiny because it can be punctured during an accident. Canada already has mandated a three-year phase-out of DOT-111s built before October 2011. That's when some safety upgrades were made to the tank car design.
In the U.S., many of those cars are owned by oil companies, not railroads. Rich Moskowitz, general counsel for the trade group American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, says even before Lac-Megantic, his industry petitioned the Department of Transportation to require stronger tank cars.
"Refiners have voluntarily ordered and taken delivery on those cars, even though DOT still hasn't acted on the petition. In fact, by the end of 2014, refiners will have invested more than $4.5 billion in safer tank cars," Moskowitz says.
Moskowitz says it will take time to phase out all the older tank cars and build new ones. Once that's done, he says, that combined with the infrastructure improvements can make moving oil by rail safer.
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