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R.I.P. Cuomo 2016 Presidential Campaign, 2010-2013
He has no chance of winning the race he hasn't entered.
Andrew Cuomo's presidential ambitions have been a constant source of speculation since he was elected in 2010, but now several Democratic activists in early primary states tell Politico it's already too late for the New York governor to run. While other potential candidates have been speaking, networking, and fundraising across the nation, Cuomo has avoided the national stage (possibly because he insists he isn't running) and with only 1,065 days until the 2016 election, he doesn't have time to make those connections. At the end, Cuomo's 2016 campaign regretted spending so much time doing its job, rather than enjoying all the ridiculous speculation political life has to offer.


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From Grand Theft Wiki
Events in 2010 concerning the Grand Theft Auto series.
Real life
- The Lost and Damned, The Ballad of Gay Tony, and the Episodes from Liberty City disc are to be re-released on the PlayStation 3 and PC April 13th in North America and April 16th in Europe. (has been delayed from March 30th)

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Police are investigating a Saturday night burglary at the Oakdale Yogurt Station on West F Street where the premises was ransacked and had equipment damaged, goods scattered, and items taken, including the business safe.
The Oakdale Chamber of Commerce is hosting a City of Oakdale candidate forum on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 6p.m. in the Oakdale City Council Chambers, 277 N. Second Ave.
Police are investigating an overnight burglary at the Oakdale Yogurt Station on West F Street where the premises was ransacked and had equipment damaged, goods scattered, and items taken, including the business safe.
Caltrans and the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) remind motorists during "Watch Out for Wildlife (WOW) Awareness Week" (Sept. 16-22) to remain alert while driving to improve safety for travelers and wildlife alike.
More than 30 residents of the Stearns Road area affected by the proposed North County Corridor project showed in force at the Oakdale City Council Chambers on Wednesday, Sept. 12. The Stearns Road route for the corridor is one of three alternatives developed since June of 2011 and would impact approximately 120 land parcels.
In an area known for good soil and a climate for premiere farming, there lays a plot of thriving and meticulously tended to plants just off one of Oakdale's main thoroughfares. The crop of choice for this urban gardener: medicinal marijuana and his own blend of "purple lush" and "cherry pie" varietals for a high-potency cannabis.
Anyone who has anxiously awaited the local newspaper to scan the classified listings knows that the rental market in most areas can be as brutal as an MMA match with opponents wearing brass knuckles. Generally speaking, it's not a walk in the park to find a quality, affordable rental that fits all the criteria you're searching for.
By a vote of 3-1 on Monday, Sept. 17, the Oakdale City Council moved forward to explore the privatization of the public works department by accepting requests for proposals for city park maintenance.
A discussion item relating to a potential water transfer to the City of Brisbane in the San Francisco Bay Area brought several community members to the podium to provide public comments to the Oakdale Irrigation District Board of Directors at the Sept. 18 regular meeting.
The falling out between the Oak Valley Foundation and Oak Valley Hospital continues as former Executive Director Amy Thompson filed suit against the hospital and its former CEO John Friel claiming wrongful termination, breach of contract, and interference with protected civil rights.
Military veterans in and around Modesto, Stockton and neighboring areas are invited for a special service session from Thursday, Sept. 20 through Saturday, Sept. 22 at the following locations: Modesto American Legion Post 74, 1001 S. Santa Cruz Ave., Modesto and American Legion Post 16, 2020 Plymouth Road, Stockton. For the Modesto location, on Saturday, Sept. 22, the event will be moved to the Modesto Moose Family Center #1608, 821 Fifth St. Modesto.
The falling-out between the Oak Valley Foundation and Oak Valley Hospital continues as former Executive Director Amy Thompson filed suit against the hospital and its former CEO John Friel claiming wrongful termination, breach of contract, and interference with protected civil rights.
The California Highway Patrol (CHP), in partnership with the National Park Service, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Public Utilities Commission, Modesto Police Department, and San Francisco Police Department, conducted a surprise bus inspection in Yosemite National Park on Sept. 7-8. The bus inspection was planned in support of the nationwide campaign to improve tour bus safety.
When Oakdale Parks and Recreation Supervisor Linda Royalty approached the Wednesday morning Downtown Merchants Meeting asking for sponsors for disadvantaged youth, Oakdale residents Frank Clark and Farrell Jackson knew they needed to step up.
Native Alabama man and Vietnam veteran Richard Hall knows what it's like to be injured in the line of duty and left to fend for himself as a damaged civilian.
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The 'Hot Hand,' Revisited
Hot and cold "streaks," a staple of sports announcers' patter, are dismissed by many statisticians, who say the terms reflect a misinterpretation of random sequences. But a new study of nearly 310,000 free throws taken by NBA players from the 2005-2006 through 2009-2010 seasons found evidence that such streaks exist.
Basketball players take one, two, or three free throws after a foul is called, but the usual number is two. Players tended to make 70 to 80% of their second shots, and they made more of their second than first shots (as they homed in on the target), the study found.
But it also found that the probability of the second shot going in was conditional on whether the first went in: If the first went in, the second was 1.4 to 4.6 percentage points more likely to do so.
The authors say it's not completely clear whether "success breeds success" or whether players move through relatively good and bad stretches of playing, but they lean toward the latter interpretation. The main point is that performance didn't vary randomly around season-long average.
The classic paper on streaks, "The Hot Hand in Basketball: On the Misperception of Random Sequences" [pdf], by Thomas Gilovich, Robert Vallone, and Amos Tversky and published in Cognitive Psychology 1985, also looked at basketball free throws.
"The Hot (Invisible?) Hand: Can Time Sequence Patterns of Success/Failure in Sports Be Modeled as Repeated Random Independent Trials," Gur Yaari and Shmuel Eisenmann, PloS ONE (October)
PS, 7/18/12. This post has gotten renewed life, thanks to a Twitter exchange about the hot-hand phenomenon. Here are the statistician Andrew Gelman's interesting comments on this study (which were published in March, but I only learned of them today). The takeaway: The authors probably identified a small "statistically significant" effect, but they were answering the wrong question, in a sense: the perception of hot hands surely remains overblown.


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text: Northern Illinois' 65-30 victory over Toledo has opened a lot of eyes, including those of Paul Myerberg of Pre-Snap Read. Myerberg was very impressed with not only the victory, but how the Huskies have played the last seven games. In his post the day after the game, Myerberg admits to misjudging NIU at the beginning of the year and feels the Huskies are the best team in the Mid-American Conference.


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The Flint Hills Soccer Club (FHSC) Earthquakes won the 13-and-under gold division of the Sporting Kaw Valley Cup last weekend in Lawrence.
The Earthquakes went 2-0-1 in pool play by beating the Wichita Rojos 2-0, tying the FHSC Scorpions 1-1 and winning 1-0 against Sporting Kaw Valley Arsenal.
In the championship game, the Earthquakes shut out the Wichita Rojos 2-0.
Earthquakes players include Joey Crespino, Trace Dillon, Hunter French, Carson Gros, Dylan Haar, Parker Hafen, Cole Herpich, Parker Holborn, Ben Hulsmeyer, Cade Hupp, Max Kiracofe, Mitch Hutchinson, Matthew Long, Josh Priddle, Aidan Proctor, Brett Seaton, Michael Turnley and Luke Wichmann.
The team is coached by Bill Turnley, Scott French, and Troy Dillon.
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I think if the grouped tracks can appear as an icon, which when clicked shows all the sub tracks in that group.
Right now theres very little use of grouping.
Eg if under drums tracks, shakers, hats, bells, cymbals etc can be grouped and the grouped ones appear only when icon is clicked.
Something like dropdown menu.
Someone had made a very nice swf file regarding the same.


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Memphis To Review Discipline, Other Policies After 20 Officer Arrests
November 21, 2012 06:51:00 am
Memphis today will announce a wide-ranging review of police policies after the arrests of 20 officers on various charges this year, reports the Memphis Commercial Appeal. "The immediate issue is going to be the disciplinary process," said Chief Administrative Officer George Little. Police Director Toney Armstrong "quite correctly sees the need to review all policies," Little added.
A report this year from the Police Executive Research Forum noted that Memphis operates a "full service" police department, with officers responding to "even the most minor calls from citizens." Little said, "There are some big questions that need to be answered." In some cities victims of minor burglaries in which only one or two items are stolen, and motorists involved in minor accidents can file reports online. "Do we make every call for a cat that is in every tree or every car window that is broken into?" Little said. "That's some pretty important stuff that we're going to have to address."


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Today it seems people are attached to their gadgets, especially teenagers.
Although many adults are just as guilty, whether you are eating at a restaurant or shopping for groceries, chances are very high you will see grownups on their phones while in the company of others.
We often speak about distracted driving, it kills - it's that simple. Have you ever considered the damage that distracted texting can do to your friendships?
Hanging with your friends is not hanging with your friends if you are spending time on your phone.
Give your time to the people you are with, they will appreciate you more.
Being considerate to those around you, including a waitress or a cashier is something everyone needs to be more conscience of.
Distracted living has become a way that many people conduct themselves, but isn't time we recognize it for what it really is --- rude!
#iCANHELP Campaign recently released their latest video DISTRACTED to remind us that people matter. They continue to bring to the surface the positive things you can do with social media in an effort to delete negativity online.
Today is Tag Someone Thursday and they replaced Hump Day with Happy Help Day! In conjunction with DISTRACTED, their earlier message of STACK IT hit home with many parents.
Join #iCANHELP on Facebook today and follow them on Twitter.


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When 65 percent of homeowners say they are "very confident" that they know their mortgage rate, most of them are overconfident.
Jeff Bartlett, deputy auto editor for Consumer Reports, explains whether he believes the impressive Impala is an outlier in the General Motors family, and how he measures affordability.
You have been given a two-year extension to refinance your underwater home under HARP.
With mortgage rates dropping, homeowners are quick to realize the double benefit of refinancing now. Not only do they get a low rate that reduces their monthly payments, they are also locking in a shorter duration to be free of debt sooner and build up home equity faster. Freddie Mac released a report recently that shows
Banks are making money from fewer mortgages, but next year looks quite different.
It seems that mortgages, and the housing market in general, are on the front burner for the Obama administration heading into election season.
Applications for mortgages jumped 23 percent last week, largely due to homeowners taking advantage of record-low rates to refinance, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. The refinance portion of total mortgage activity was 82 percent. But as a Bankrate article points out, although rates are low, mortgage fees are about to rise. Congress is set
Hoisted from the comments to this post about a three-day shopping period for mortgages, reader Debra James explains why she reluctantly decided not to refinance into a 15-year mortgage, even though she will forfeit the application fee. Instead, she will keep the current mortgage and make extra payments that would pay off the loan in
Yesterday the Federal Reserve took a symbolic step in the direction of more accommodative financial conditions by announcing that they will reinvest proceeds from maturing bonds back into Treasury securities. This will keep money in the financial system and help keep a lid on long-term interest rates, such as mortgages. But this is a small
As I noted last week, the Home Affordable Refinance Program is a bust. And I've never succeeded in getting a straight answer as to why. In comments from a post last week, Andy Boyum writes: "HARP is a joke!" He says that, because his loan has mortgage insurance, he can refinance only with his current


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Euphemism for a "pissing contest". See also Bathroom.
See also Bathroom, Scatological.
I.e., a toilet paper roll glued to the top of an empty tissue box and rubber bands as strings. See also Bathroom.
The P-Mate is a revolutionary way for women to pee discreetly without having to pull down their pants and squat. See also Bathroom.
The small, silver handle that flushes a urinal. Why's it called a dick stick? Well, think about the last thing your hand touches before you touch it. And then think about all the guys that preceded you. See also Bathroom.
A precursor to the dressing drink. See also Alcohol, Bathroom.
For those who really want to show off! See also Bathroom.
Show-off! See also Bathroom, Men.
Hands off, gentlemen. It's for the ladies. See also Bathroom, Hygiene, Women.


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Field Journal: Finding Ghosts
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The team encounters one of the most poorly known birds in the world—an elusive kingfisher previously glimpsed just once in the wild.
Field Journal: The Link Between Conservation and Nutrition
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This summer, Georgina Cullman from the Museum's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation worked in the Solomon Islands on a project that looks at food security, nutrition, and how local communities produce and consume their food.
Celebrate National Dog Day with the Museum's Working Dogs
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Meet the dogs trained to find droppings from big cats, polar bears, and other potentially endangered wildlife species.
Field Journal: Lorises After Dark
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Mary Blair, assistant director for research and strategic planning at the Museum's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, is blogging from the field during this summer's expedition to Vietnam.
Field Journal: The Last Stop, on Vanua Lava Island
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With four weeks of fieldwork behind us, our team had become a fine-tuned machine.


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Nowhere to Run
Nancy Bush
August 2012, Romantic Suspense
Zebra, $7.99, 384 pages, Amazon ASIN 142012501XPart of a series
Per the FBI: Serial murder is a relatively rare event, estimated to comprise less than one percent of all murders committed in any given year. However, there is a macabre interest in the topic that far exceeds its scope and has generated countless articles, books, and movies. And you can add this poorly written and researched book to the mix. The reason that you are just getting this August release now is that it took me forever to read it. I started in September, and then put it down for over two months. Finally I just had bite the bullet and force myself to finish it.
Livvie Dugans sixth birthday didnt start out well and ended horribly. First her younger brother Hague, attempted to blow out her candles. Then, even though Hague didnt finish dinner he got a piece of her cake. But her mother gave her an even larger one, and let her stay up and watch cartoons, which Livvie thought was grand. But she wakes up disorientated after falling asleep on the couch. Why did her mother leave her there? It is only when she opens the door to the kitchen that she discovers her mothers dead body, hanging from the ceiling.
This childhood incident damaged Livvie. She even spent about a year at Hathaway House as a teen, trying to learn to ignore the triggers that sent her heart racing and her body shaking. Desperate to get out, she instead learned how to dupe the staff. Since then she has lived with the sense of being watched and has this irrational apprehension that someday the bogeyman will find her. Intellectually she knows her mother committed suicide, but her subconscious tells her otherwise. Still, she keeps to herself, and lives almost off the grid.
Livvie is disturbed when a local law firm contacts her. How did they track her down? But they seem only to have a benign purpose - her mother left a sealed envelope to be delivered to her after she turned twenty-five. But who are the people in the pictures, and why did her mother send it to her? Since she doesnt trust or even like her adoptive father, she turns to Hague, her mentally unstable brother, for assistance, but he is deep within his own paranoia. She returns to work one day after a late lunch to discover her co-workers have been massacred. Even though only a few people know about the pictures, Livvie knows that this is because of her. The bogeyman of her childhood has finally struck.
On the run, Livvie kidnaps a stranger at gunpoint, and demands that he take her to his home, so she can hide out, away from the police. Soon August (or Auggie) is more than a captive. He becomes her sounding board as she discloses her terrors and anxieties.
August Rafferty had just come off an undercover assignment when his lieutenant orders him to watch for Livvie Dugan. He saw her leave her apartment on foot and followed. It wasnt in his plan to become her captive, but what better way to keep an eye on her. But Auggie never dreamed that he would have to fight off his awareness of her as a desirable woman.
I have been very vocal about my dislike of serial killer books. It is not that I havent enjoyed them before. It just that so many of the books portray the murder as this sick, perverted, debauched deviant, like in this book. While it is not completely accurate, I can somewhat accept it. The biggest problem though is an overused device of giving the reader the killers point of view, hoping to create fear and revulsion, writing like, "Do you hear me bitch? Do You?, or He felt himself harden as he thought of her, and his cruel smile widened as he reached down inside his pants and began rhythmically stroking himself, part of the ritual, part of the beginning. Sigh is there any serial killer that is portrayed any differently?
The start of Auggie and Livvies relationship is based on lies. I am tired of heroes without integrity or ethics. Plus, Ms. Bush never convinced me that the relationship had any longevity.
Most of the book is filled with red herrings, rather than time spent on characterization. And while not all of the characters are unlikeable, I didnt find anything to admire about them either. Auggies sister is on the force too, and the next book in the series will be about her. And guess what? This small community has another serial killer.
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Palindrome week mania is here. In simple terms, this odd holiday means that every date this calendar week are the same read backward and forward in the United States and elsewhere. Coupled with freebies on Tax Day 2014 and ahead of Easter Sunday, this quirky holiday should be very interesting, citing an April 14 NewsMax report.
Palindrome week history dates back to the 17th century and was made popular by English writer Ben Jonson. Essentially, the derivation of the word was taken from the Greek rook, "palin," (not Sarah) and "dromos" (not drones). Simply put, a palindrome is a word, element, phrase, string of words, or phrases.
Words like Hannah, eye, racecar, and mom are popular words. And strings of words like, "Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?" "Do geese see God?" and "Murder for a jar of red rum" are examples of palindrome phrases.
While it's Palindrome week in the United States, the whimsical holiday is only celebrated in other countries that have a dateline that begins with the month in this format: 12/12/1234. And while some people are fascinated about the reversibility factor and use this week to share another trending Twitter hashtag, one person has another take on the so-called cause for celebration.
According to MyFoxNY, astro-numerologist Lloyd Strayhorn, who calls the week of palindromes a "phenomenal date," it is more than just acknowledging dates, words, and phrases that appear the same in any direction. To him, this month has a lot more significance.
For example, for 10 days in a row, if you add up all the numbers or digits in that dateline's day, it will give you that particular date. The example Strayhorn uses is today, April 14, where 4+1+4+1+4=14. In fact, it's the only month that does this, but only every century. So, in the spirit of Mr. Spock from Star Trek, who says "Live long and prosper," if you're lucky, you may likely see another instance 100 years from now.
Finally, another point is worth mentioning. A deeper look into the date's numerology yields some other forms of symbolism or meaning: "Four is the number that rules the odd and unusual," Lloyd said. The number "one" stands for principle and foundation, the number "four" is the sign of Aquarius and represents a state of being "high strung and very sensitive."
Does Palindrome week have any significant meaning to you?


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Walker's Pace: Men Jump Seven Spots, Women Two
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Coming off a sweep of the Pacific-10 Conference championships, both teams moved up in the latest. USTFCCCA poll.
The men had the biggest jump among teams in last week's top 25, climbing seven places from No. 20 to No. 13. The women bumped up two spots back to No. 3, where they have resided for most of the outdoor season.
The conference meets over the weekend also produced a pair new teams a top the polls. Florida moved back to No. 1 in the men's polls and Texas A&M regained the top spot in the women's poll.
The NCAA West Preliminary Rounds next week at Hayward Field will feature men's athletes from No. 2 Texas A&M, No. 5 Texas Tech, No. 6 USC, No. 7 Arkansas, No. 8 Texas, No. 9 Nebraska. No. 10 Baylor, No. 11 Arizona, No. 13 Oregon, No. 14 Stanford, No. 16 Oklahoma, No. 17 Brigham Young, No. 10 Washington, No. 21 Iowa, No. 22 UCLA, No. 23 Arizona State and No. 25 New Mexico - yes that's 17 of the nation's top 25 teams headed to the NCAA West meet, whereas only eight of the top 25 men's teams are bound for the East Preliminary Rounds at Indiana.
It is the same story on the women's side, where the West Preliminary will feature No. 1 Texas A&M, No. 3 Oregon, No. 5 USC, No. 6 Oklahoma, No. 7 Arkansas, No. 8 Arizona, No. 9 Baylor, No. 10 Arizona State, No. 11 Texas, No. 13 Nebraska, No. 15 Texas Tech, No. 16 Washington State, No. 17 Colorado, No. 18 Kansas, No. 19 Kansas State, No. 20 Southern Illinois and No. 22 Stanford. That's 17 of the top 25 teams headed West, and eight headed East.
Also, the Pac-10 has released the list of air dates for the Pac-10 Track & Field Championships. In the Northwest, the first and only broadcast with be Thursday at 5 p.m. on Root Sports (formerly FSNNW).
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Ahead of this week's theatrical release of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, 4J Studios announced that the Xbox editions of Minecraft will be receiving a new DLC based upon the upcoming film and comics. Like many add-ons previously released for the popular block-building title, the Guardians of the Galaxy skin pack will give fans a variety of new avatar skins to use within the game. Providing players with a further look at the upcoming DLC, the official website for Xbox Live Arcade released a new batch of screenshots on July 28 to show off Minecraft's new licensed skin pack.
Along with revealing additional images depicting the upcoming skins, a few new details for the add-on were also confirmed. The Guardians of the Galaxy skin pack will include a total of 24 new playable avatar characters that are all connected to the Marvel property. When the DLC was first announced, fans were only shown examples of for skins from the team's core members including Star Lord, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Gamora, and Drax. Rounding out the other 19 skins will include other figures from the comics such as Adam Warlock and even the villain Thanos.
While 4J Studios console ports of Minecraft appear on both Xbox and Playstation platforms alike, the Guardians of the Galaxy skin pack has only been confirmed for Microsoft systems at this point. The DLC will release on the Xbox 360 as well as the upcoming Xbox One version of the game. To this date, all previous Marvel based content for Minecraft has been Xbox exclusive which makes it unlikely that the Guardians of the Galaxy add-on will be heading to the PS3 and PS4.
There currently isn't a release date attached to Minecraft's Guardians of the Galaxy skin pack. The DLC will likely launch soon while interest in the Marvel franchise is high due to the movie's upcoming release.


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Gabriel Morin has been cooking for 25 years, but he is now celebrating his most recent accomplishment -- operating the Mirror Lake Diner for one year. Located on Main Street in Kamas, the diner lies at the gateway of the Mirror Lake Highway.
"I've been cooking since I was 14," Morin said. "[Opening a restaurant] was the right progression -- it was the next step for me."
Morin is from Maine and grew up in a very small town where he said the only place to work as a teenager growing up was a "dairy shack" which sold burgers and shakes. Those were his formative cooking years where he learned to make things such as ice cream from scratch.
While attending college, Morin needed a night job, which ended up being cooking as well.
"I had to learn how to make soups, sauces, how to butcher, how to budget," Morin said. "And that's when I really started to enjoy food."
Morin, who lives with his wife Betty in Francis, said he would drive past the space at 35 S. Main Street "again and again" with thoughts of opening a restaurant there. When a for-rent sign went up last January, he put in an offer and opened up on May 22.
Since then, Morin said the Mirror Lake Diner has served between 32,000-33,000 customers. He said his location is ideal, since it is right at the foot of State Road 150, which is booming with tourists in the summer.
"We have the locals and the tourists [come here]," Morin said. "The locals think we're expensive, but the tourists think we're cheap."
The diner's hours are 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Morin has been in the process of formulating a new menu, which will allow customers to order both breakfast and lunch dishes all day.
The menu will boast classic diner favorites such as corned beef hash and steak and eggs along with more out-of-the-box dishes such as the Duchesne Tunnel B.L.A.S.T. (which stands for Bacon, Lettuce, Avocado, Sunflower Sprouts and Tomato). Morin will also create an option for customers to create their own burger with a variety of toppings.
There is also an ode to Morin's roots on the menu. Both the Maine Lumberjacks Toast and the option of blueberries on the Mirror Lake Cakes pay homage to the Pine Tree State.
"I'm from Maine, so we're really serious about maple syrup and blueberries," Morin said.
The diner also honors the beauty of the area as well, with photographs of Utah landscapes framed on the wall -- and also for sale -- courtesy of Charlie Lansche.
Morin hopes to provide more than food and service to diner-goers, however. With hikers, anglers, campers and more stopping at his restaurant before heading up to the Uinta Mountains, the diner will offer road, trail and campground information, as well as Forest Service pamphlets. Firewood will also be sold at the restaurant this summer.
In a best-case scenario, Morin said he will have a beer and wine license by the end of June, at which point the diner will stay open later for dinner. His restaurant can already expect more traffic this summer, especially when the Tour of Utah rolls into town on August 8. The race's Stage 5 finish line is slated to be in Kamas.
The Mirror Lake Diner is located at 35 S. Main Street in Kamas. For more information, call 435-783-0110 or visit mirrorlakediner.com.


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As anyone who at least casually follows Magic set design knows, creating a block is a time-consuming process. To help mitigate this, much of the work is done ahead of time, in what R&D overlord Mark Rosewater refers to as multi-year plans, usually in the context of seven years.
On Rosewater's blog, he often talks about these plans - and when user northjayhawk asked, "I know you have said that you try not to have +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters in the same block, and I do prefer the former more than the latter, but -1/-1 counters once in a while are cool. In the current 7-year plan, will any of the future blocks feature -1/-1 counters?" he answered:
I'll say this, right now (and things can change) there is at least one block in the seven year plan with -1/-1 counters.
The current seven-year plan is only a little underway, and the fact that Rosewater's answer is subject to change means that the next -1/-1 counter block is more than two years away, since this is the current design turnover time. Still, -1/-1 counters mean one thing in particular is likely - the return of the Phyrexians, the most iconic faction to use -1/-1 counters in recent memory. Whether this means a third Mirrodin block or an invasion of another plane is still unclear. A new setting that has a different flavor justification for using such counters is also possible - much more likely than a return to Shadowmoor (sorry, fans of that plane) since the dual Lorwyn-Shadowmoor setting was poorly received.


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The Black Hole of a Woman's Purse
Posted by admin | Posted in Mind Organization, Personal Organization | Posted on 12-10-2012
Many men will say in a joking way that they are "scared" to look in their wives or girlfriend's purse. There is something about a purse that seems to intimidate or put them off. But what women truly know is that keeping your purse organized is a lot harder than it seems.
Sometimes your purse just seems like a cavernous black hole where things disappear, never to surface again. Your lipstick, keys, cell phone and other valued items all go missing. How do you truly keep your purse organized and the items in it labeled properly?
Begin by taking everything out of your purse and cleaning your purse thoroughly. A lot of women discover through this exercise that they are a) either carrying way too many things or b) truly need a larger purse for needed items. This little exercise is the best way to discover.
Once you've got everything in front of you, it's time to sort. Make three piles: must-keep, recycle/refuse and reconsider. The first two are probably quite easy. You are going to want your car keys and cell phone with you at all times. But do you need to carry your allergy medicine – when it is not allergy season? Or what about the sixteen lip glosses? Make the tough choices and lighten your load.
Refill your purse now will ONLY your must-have items. It will be such a treat to see that your purse is surprisingly light. But are you truly being honest with yourself? There may be other items that you need to carry – that you aren't including. This exercise only works when you are including everything you really need or don't need. Sometimes you discover you need a larger purse, which is a better discovery than to have to reorganize your purse again.
Understand that organizing your purse is an ongoing process. The savvy woman does light organizing of her purse every couple of days. She'll add and subtract items as she needs them. She may also occasionally add personal id labels to certain items in her purse.
Many of us get busy and okay, a little forgetful of exactly what we've put in there. But getting rid of seasonal items or things you only use on weekends can truly do you a favor.
As you organize your purse, make sure to ICE your telephone and include the same info in your purse. ICE is In Case of Emergency contacts you add to your telephone. If anything happens this means someone can easily contact someone on your behalf. Add the same information to your purse on an index card (remember cell phones sometimes don't have power).
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LEGO Marvel's Avengers Console Launch Update
Greetings true believers… crikey, it seems like an absolute age since I last wrote a blog post here. For those that don't know me, I'm Arthur Parsons - the Game Director at TT Games working on the console version of LEGO Marvel's Avengers. You'll be glad to know that the fabulous team at TT Games and I haven't simply been lazing around; in the time that has passed since my last post we have been hard at work revisiting the Marvel Universe to make LEGO Marvel's Avengers the best it can be. Which, believe it or not, is out NOW!!!
I've been very quiet because we have been working our socks off (not literally as there are a few pungent socks in the office) to make LEGO Marvel's Avengers, our second trip to the Marvel Universe, bigger and better than anything we've done before.
Now that the dust has settled, and our socks have been laundered and put back on, we can look at what we have made with an immense sense of pride. We can't wait for all of you to play the game and see all of the amazing things we have put into the game. We set out on the project to make sure we looked at everything that makes the LEGO games so great and added to them. So you are going to see an awful lot of things in the game that you may not have seen before, however we'll get back to that later.
First and foremost, what is LEGO Marvel's Avengers??? In a nutshell, the spiritual successor to LEGO Marvel Super Heroes; however, this time we are retelling the stories seen in Marvel's The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron movies, obviously with our unique brand of humour and fun. In addition, we have included content from some of the other fabulous Marvel movies, including Marvel's Iron Man 3 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. And that's just scratching the surface. This game is the Marvel Universe as seen through a pair of Avengers glasses – a celebration of Avengers content from cinema, comics and TV. We have made it our mission to include fun content from all areas of the amazing Marvel Universe, and I have no doubt that you will really enjoy playing the game. We have a bigger character roster than ANY LEGO game that we have previously made, and have tried to include everybody's favourite characters. Each of these characters have unique moves and powers - just as you would imagine them to have - and unlocking them and then trying them all out is so much fun. We have characters that you will all know like Iron Man, who this time around is able to change into a variety of Iron Man suits by simply selecting them from his Jarvis interface. We have Hulk, Quicksilver, and all the characters you'll expect from the movies. We have also included lots of other wonderful characters, like Dr. Strange, Hulkling, White Tiger, Wiccan and even Marvel's very own T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur. The roster on this game is epic!
Added to the huge roster we have reworked the combat in the game, Avengers is about working as a team, and what better way of doing that than teaming up. As such you can Team-Up characters to complete puzzles, but most exciting is being able to Team-Up characters together to perform awesome combo moves. Teaming up each of the core Avengers results in a unique move, while you can Team-Up all of the other characters to perform a special combo move. It really is a fun new way to defeat enemies in the game.
We've also expanded the amazing open world game experience. This time you can explore what our version of New York has to offer, but on top of that you are able explore a host of other locations around the world, including Malibu, Washington, South Africa and more. This game is HUGE!!!!!
There are sooooo many iconic moments in the Marvel movies, and we have lovingly recreated each and every one of them, many of them incorporating the terrific LEGO playsets that you may well have at home like the Hulkbuster set. It's so much fun being able to bring together our love of comics and our love of LEGO into a game that offers so much. I could go on endlessly about everything that is in the game, from the voice work in the game, the authentic soundtrack, the new vehicles, however I don't want to spoil your adventure. Needless to say all of us here at TT hope that you enjoy the game when you play it, and if you do please don't forget to keep an eye out for the additional content that we are currently working on, which includes DLC packs for Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Black Panther, Dr Strange, Captain Marvel, Masters of Evil, as well as content that will be exclusive for PlayStation for Marvel's Ant-Man and Captain America: Civil War.
Now you know why I've been quiet for so long… we've really been hard at work. So please enjoy the fruits of our labour, and until next time… Excelsior!
LEGO Marvel's Avengers Handheld / Open World
Hi there, for those who missed my last post – my name is Steve Thornton and I am the Game Director of the handheld version of LEGO Marvel's Avengers. As Game Director, my job is to ensure we're making the best game we can, and the easiest way for us to improve our games is to listen to our fans. We read every review, user comment, email and tweet we can get our hands on before, during and after development of a game, so that we know what our audience wants and how to give it to them. So we know something people have been asking for since as far back as LEGO Batman 2 is to have a free-roaming open world hub experience on handhelds. This is obviously a huge technological challenge for a handheld game, and it's something we have been working up to for years; experimenting with bigger and better hub areas, third person cameras and creative ways to stream in content for players.
I'm incredibly pleased to announce that for the first time ever, we have a full free-roaming open world hub city on handheld; a full 1:1 scale rendition of the console Manhattan city hub is playable on both Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita, with no breaks, cuts or loading screens. Although capturing the console scale was important to us, we knew we couldn't sacrifice life or activity, so the handheld city is also fully populated with traffic and pedestrian systems, props and Free Play content. In fact, there are over 100 Free Play objects in the city, connected to 15 handheld exclusive "hub challenges" – a few of which I will reveal in this post, the rest you'll have to discover for yourself in the mean streets of Manhattan.
Hub Challenge #2 – Vintage Set
Avid Avengers fans might remember that in the movies Agent Phil Coulson collected vintage Captain America trading cards. By looking closely at the films and official material, our artists were able to fully recreate the actual design of these cards in classic comedy LEGO style and they now act as a cool new collectable in our game, scattered across Manhattan. Collecting one immediately spins it into view, adds it to a gallery menu, and rewards you with a voice clip from Clark Gregg aka Agent Coulson himself.
Hub Challenge #7 – Character Building
Something that's extremely exciting is a handheld exclusive Free Play storyline starring some very popular (and very current) comicbook characters. At first they seem like a set of seemingly unrelated side stories starring characters like Daredevil, Dr Strange and Moon Knight, but it soon becomes clear there is a greater conspiracy afoot in the city, and a villainous mastermind the heroes will have to unite against.
Hub Challenge #8 – Hydraways
There are hidden Hydra hideouts or "Hydraways" all over Manhattan. Once you get hold of Red Skull's iconic HYDRA Coupe from Captain America: The First Avenger, you can release a special radar pulse that reveals these Hydraways, and exposes the back-up memory terminals of that dastardly HYDRA scientist, Arnim Zola. Once the Hydraway is revealed, his tape decks are ripe for the smashing.
Listening to fans, we also know that although gamers value exclusive content, they also want the console and handheld experiences to become ever closer and offer the same feel and features. On this project we've worked closer with the console team than ever before, to ensure that the core features that define the LEGO Marvel's Avengers experience are fully present on handheld. Many of these are traversal mechanics for blasting, boosting and leaping your way through the open world hub, including not only the Iron Man flight system and Quicksilver super speed, but the awesome Hyper Jump and Super Climb mechanics that bigger characters like Hulk can use to charge jump through the streets and smash up the side of skyscrapers. We spent a long time tweaking and balancing these mechanics to ensure they had the right weight and responsiveness, and they feel genuinely great to use.
As well as the characters traversal mechanics, we also have a full vehicle driving system, and players will be able to grab any vehicle they see on the street (you're on important world-saving heroic business after all) but also use the vehicle spawn anywhere button to drop a car, bike, truck or tank on the nearest street, or find helipads on nearby rooftops to spawn copters, chariots and jets. New vehicles to spawn will be unlocked by completing story levels and challenges, many of which have special weapons and abilities, such as a nitrous boost.
But the Manhattan hub isn't only used for Free Play. During the main game, the hub is used as a way to connect the ongoing storyline of the MCU levels with exclusive hub missions. Covering the behind-the-scenes moments that didn't make it on screen in the movies, the hub missions are designed to feel like playable deleted scenes from the MCU. For example, an early mission covers Nick Fury being called to the P.E.G.A.S.U.S. base where the Tesseract is behaving strangely, covering his rendezvous at a hidden SHIELD base in Manhattan, and a drive in his decked out SHIELD SUV from Winter Soldier. Another covers Maria Hill rallying the SHIELD agents who retired after the HYDRA scandal back to action, so that they can pilot the mothballed Helicarrier to Sokovia. But as ever, we have injected a dose of LEGO fun, with Nick Fury having to help Agent Sitwell choose a wig for a date before he can borrow the base access chair, and Maria Hill disappointed to discover that if she's going to get the old band back together, she'll need to shake the ex-agents out of their newly found mundane jobs.
I could go on forever about the hub content, but I don't want to spoil all the surprises in store. As I said at the start of this post, I'm incredibly impressed by what the team has accomplished this time. The design and art teams went above and beyond, pushing for a bigger and better city for players to explore, and somehow the tech and code teams squeezed it down onto the handheld screen with no cuts, breaks, bad lag or loading screens. LEGO Marvel's Avengers is out on both console and handheld platforms on January 26th.
LEGO Marvel's Avengers Handheld / Playing The Movies
Hello! My name is Steve Thornton, and I'm the game director for the handheld version of LEGO Marvel's Avengers, coming soon to Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita. Since its explosive E3 reveal this summer, LEGO Marvel's Avengers has been blowing the minds of gamers all across the world with its amazing trailers, character reveals and demos… but the handheld version has remained mysterious, without a single screenshot, tweet or teaser to ogle. Well rest easy 3DS and Vita fans, we aren't hiding. The handheld version is bigger than ever, jam-packed with exciting features that we're really proud of, and there are some big reveals on the way in the VERY near future. In the meantime though, I wanted to dispel some of the mystery and give you all a first look at some of our content, while providing some insight into how we approached the games design.
When I watched the first Avengers film in the cinema, long before I ever dreamed I'd be working on a game of it just 3 years later, there were immediately a dozen scenes that jumped out as being perfect videogame sequences. The pacing, the boss fights, the skydives, the chases, the big battles and grand set pieces, it was all there. For me, the most important and exciting thing that sets videogames apart from movies is the power of interaction. Interaction is what allows videogames to elevate their audience from a spectator and put the action in their hands. No longer watching the heroes on the big screen, gamers get to rip through the sky as Iron Man, they get to smash through walls as Captain America, and they get to punch a big alien fish in the face.
I think when people pick up the videogame version of their favourite movie, they want to live and breathe those iconic, memorable moments, from the big screen. They've already watched them from afar, but this is their chance to play them. With that in mind, it was important those scenes that jumped out in the cinema, those moments everyone remembers, are front and centre in our LEGO videogame. More than ever, I think fans will be very impressed with the accuracy we have pushed for between the game and the films. I've included a few of my favourites below, see if you can recognise these iconic sequences!
Skydiving down the side of Stark Tower as Tony Stark, while the MK7 pod chases after him
Attempting to escape Hulk as he rampages through the engineering deck of the Helicarrier
Getting the Helicarrier's damaged fan started with a manual push from Iron Man
Following Captain America's orders, and blocking the Chitauri portal as Thor, using a super-charged Chrysler Building as a conductor
Tearing through the backstreets of Seoul as Black Widow, in a daring attempt to get Captain America's fallen shield back to him before Ultron gets the upper hand
Wiping the smile of Loki's face and showing him who the "puny god" is with a few well deserved Hulk smashes during a stylish disco party. (Ok, we might have added the stylish disco party.)
Using Quicksilvers super speed to snatch civilians out of harm's way as a runaway train crashes through the streets of Seoul
As well as putting these movie moments in the hands of gamers, one other thing that was very important to us in making LEGO Marvel's Avengers was creating a varied and versatile experience for players. The Marvel Cinematic Universe is such rich and diverse source material, with so many characters, powers and types of action to draw on, we knew the game had to be just as rich and diverse. As we're always listening to the fans, we also know that more than ever, players want fresh and exciting gameplay options to mix up the classic LEGO gameplay they know and love.
This was just a really quick sneak peek at some of our levels and sequences, we have so much more still to show, and some really exciting new features still to be revealed. Thanks for reading. Oh, and just before I go, one last screenshot for you, live from the inside of Iron Man's helmet…
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Florida's Pasco County Schools Adding Hours to School
The penalty of failing FCAT according to the state legislator is that children have to spend an extra hour at school to continue there learning. Nothing like force feed education to have kids embrace learning.
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I'm working on some project where I'm using the Beagle board - xM Rev C. Power supply is 5V/2A adapter. My task is porting Linux Angstrom on the board but I have some problems. I have choosen Linux 2.6.32. I found a milion tutorials how to run Linux on the BeagleBoard-xM (BB) (for instance on this blog) using prebuild images (from Narcissus or downloaded from git repo) but no one has explained how to run Linux which I was build with cross compiler. I need to change the Linux kernel, build it and run it on the BB-xM Rev C. Problem has appeared when I copied uImage on the SD card of the BB. When I powered up my board, booting process stops on
Uncompressing Linux........... done, booting kernel
uImage was build with
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi- uImage
Linux was configured with
omap3_beagle_defconfig config file which is intended for the BB-xM. My uEnv.txt file have following content:
dvimode="hd720 omapfb.vram=0:8M,1:4M,2:4M"
console="tty0 console=ttyO2,115200n8"
NOTE: I have only connected on the BB power supply, serial and ethernet cable, nothing more.
Does anyone have any idea or advice? Where I'm wrong? How to debug?


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GLLOs: Building a bridge between police and the gay community
It's graduation day for a new class of Gay and Lesbian Liaison Officers or GLLOs. SX gets the lowdown on how the program is building a bridge between the force and the LGBTI community. Cec Busby reports.
Next year will mark 25 years since the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Officer (GLLO) program came into being to better equip NSW Police with strategies to assist members of the LGBTI community that are victims of crime.
Inspector Amanda Calder of Central Metropolitan Region told SX there are currently around 150 active GLLOs across the state and she described the program as being incredibly important to assist with making LGBTI and gender diverse communities feel more comfortable when dealing with the police.
"We're gay friendly and it gives an LGBTI person someone to speak to that is well-versed in the issues that affect them," she explained.
Calder said a GLLO can be particularly important when LGBTI people have had few, if no dealings with the police.
"Dealing with the police can be stressful in itself, so to know you can come in and request to speak with a GLLO can just make things a little bit easier for someone."
Calder, who has undertaken the GLLO training herself, said it touched on all areas of LGBTI issues. "Members from PFLAG, ACON, the Gender Centre and Twenty10 all came in to speak with us," she said. "It meant we all took away a better understanding of the intricacies and diversities of the LGBTI community, so it has been wonderful."
Calder said the impact of the GLLOs can be felt both externally and internally.
"It says to both police officers and members of the community that we support LGBTI people and we have an understanding of what people in the LGBTI community face on a day-to-day basis. We hope it shows police are here to help people. The GLLOs offer specialist expertise. If we can bridge the gap between the police and the GLLOs, and the GLLOs and the community, that's a wonderful thing."
GALLERY: NSW Police officers completed their GLLO training last week, which included a meet and greet with the LGBTI community. Photos by Cec Busby. View the full gallery here
- TOPICS: Gay and Lesbian Liaison Officers, GLLO, GLLOs, NSW Police


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Generally, the only way that summer is minimal is in the amount of clothing which we're all not wearing when we're outside. From an aesthetic standpoint, spring and summer's bright colors, prints and natural textures tend to lend themselves to a more maximal look, particularly once you add sun-fearing accessories like wide-brimmed hats and big sunglasses. This summer, though, one part of your look is going to be very minimal, if designers get their way: your shoes.
Designers at every point in the footwear price range are betting that you'll need but two measly straps to hold your feet in place for the next few months, and although we covered the thick ankle strap trend, these shoes take things to the next, even more minimalist, level. Be cautioned, though – high heels this bare are only for the professionals among us because they offer little support or structure for the foot. If you're brave enough, check out our picks below.


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A college education opens doors - for you and for your life. It can mean new skills, a better job, a career, a promotion, a higher salary, a way to pursue areas of interest and an opportunity to challenge your mind. We can help you succeed as you begin or continue a college education.
Adult Students at UW-Manitowoc
Adult students, often called returning adults or non-traditional students, are ages 22 and over. At UW-Manitowoc, almost 28% of our students are returning adults. That means you'll benefit from services designed with the adult student in mind, such as:
- Advisors specialized in the needs of returning adults students
- One-on-one assistance in the application and admission process
- Career and academic planning assistance
- Day, evening and on-line courses
- Learning Center offering free academic assistance
- Child care reimbursement
- Returning adult student organization, Adult College Experience (ACE)
- Financial aid, veteran's benefits and scholarship assistance
Adult Student Advisors
Our Adult Student Advisors are dedicated to meeting the needs of adult students. They can talk with you about starting or returning to college, credit transfer, career planning, financing your education, course planning, balancing your responsibilities, and anything else you have questions about. If you would like to set up an appointment, contact the Student Affairs Office by phone at (920) 683-4707.
Returning Adult Student Organization
ACE (Adult College Experience), is UW-Manitowoc's non-traditional student organization. For more information, contact Sr. Student Affairs Coordinator and ACE advisor Julie DeZeeuw at 920-683-4707.
More Reasons to Choose UW-Manitowoc
In addition to the specialized services and personal attention we offer, there are a host of additional reasons to choose UW-Manitowoc, including
- You can earn an Associate's Degree from the University of Wisconsin
- You can start studying toward one of over 200 majors
- Class sizes are small, and you can get to know your professors
- Tuition is the lowest in the UW System
- You can stay right here in your community
- You can even complete a UW-Milwaukee bachelor's degree in Organizational Administration, Communication, or Information Resources right on the UW-Manitowoc campus
Getting Started...
Call Julie DeZeeuw (email@example.com) to help you get started on the application process at 920-683-4707.
Or, you can simply follow the steps below to get started:
- Complete the online application form at apply.wisconsin.edu.
- Remember to submit the $44 application fee.
- Since you're over 21, you do NOT have to take the ACT or SAT tests that other students do. You might also be able to get credit for any other courses you've had since high school or since earning your GED.
- Request that transcripts from your high school (or the score sheet from your GED) and transcripts from any other schools you may have attended since high school be sent to the UW Colleges Office of Admissions, 780 Regent Street, Madison, WI 53715
Call the Office of Student Affairs (920-683-4707) and ask for an appointment. If you can't get in during regular business hours, ask for special arrangements. We'll find a way to see you!
For on-line help and advising, check out the site listed below. This site also has a great section called "careers". It includes sections about different majors, and about assessing your interests and abilities to begin finding the right career for you. www.uwhelp.wisconsin.edu


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The Mill Basin Day Camp, located at 5945 Strickland Avenue in Brooklyn, with bus service available from all west end communities, promises summers of fun and adventure for your children and teens. With three pool slides, an outdoor pool, baking center, video game room, handball courts, soccer fields, day trips, arts and crafts, dance studio, movie theater, computer room, indoor pool, gymnastics and more activities that we can name, there is something for everyone at the Mill Basin Day Camp.
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The Truth About Forever
by Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever Chapter 2 Summary
- Macy's mom is hosting a fancy-schmancy open house cocktail party at their home to sell the new houses her company builds.
- Wait for it… BAM. Another flashback.
- She and Macy's dad had run a carpentry business called Queen Homes together; in fact, that's how they'd met and fallen in love. Awww. The family that hammers together, stays together…
- But Deborah had eventually pushed her husband to expand. Instead of just working on individual houses, or even small subdivisions, they began building an entire neighborhood, complete with a business district and everything.
- They were super successful, but when Macy's dad died, Deborah blamed herself for causing him the added stress.
- Back at the party now, Macy helps her mom take care of the guests. Schmooze, smile, point the way to the bathroom, you know.
- She pops outside to get another box of flyers from the garage, when, suddenly... another flashback hits.
- This time it's about Jason training her to take his place at the library for the summer.
- His two co-workers—both girls—adore him, and so, of course, they can't stand Macy.
- When she pointed that out to him, though, he got all impatient; that type of thing's not important to him.
- Flashback over, and Macy's in the garage now, getting flyers.
- Someone jumps out from behind the bushes and screams, "Gotcha" at her, so the flyers go… well, flying.
- Turns out it's Bert, one of the caterers. He had thought she was someone else.
- Someone else, as in, the really, really hot guy who shows up a second later.
- They apologize, help her pick up the flyers, and then the head caterer calls for them.
- Macy heads back inside to the party, where there's suddenly a loud crash from the kitchen.
- Deborah is not happy (understatement of the year), and she sends Macy to go talk to the caterers.
- In the kitchen, meatballs are rolling all over the floor, and Delia, the (pregnant) head caterer, is trying to calm her toddler, send out more appetizers, and cook some new ones to replace the meatballs—all at once. It's chaos, but her employees don't seem to care.
- When Macy can get a word in, she tells Delia that her mom's mad… right as another crash comes from the living room.
- Delia asks Macy to pitch in and help with the baking, and it turns out she's actually pretty good at it.
- Another one of the caterers, named Monica, is apparently not so great at it. She's super slow, but somehow also incredibly accident-prone.
- Macy's mom comes into the kitchen to find her and then confronts Delia about the evening's mishaps.
- Delia apologizes and calms her down by offering to comp her remaining balance. She also tells her what a great help Macy's been.
- She tells Macy she'd hire her in a heartbeat, and Macy heads back out to help her mom with the rest of the party.
- Once it's over, Macy goes up to her room and checks her email.
- Jason has written, but just about stuff he needs Macy to do for him at the library. He's just not a gushy guy.
- Macy crawls out of her window to sit on the roof, where she hears all the Wish Catering employees below.
- Delia, Monica, Bert, and the hot guy, Wes, are packing up their van, when Bert reminds Wes—his big brother, apparently—that Macy's dad used to be their track coach.
- Macy is startled that someone knows her as anything but the girl whose dad died, and watches them drive away.
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The Stamford Symphony is fortunate to count among the members of its team a dedicated group of people who assist at our concerts and in our administrative office. Our volunteers, who staff our gift shop, the Founder's Room, and our concierge desk, are essential to the success of our organization. Office volunteers assist with technology, marketing, education, and development initiatives.
Ways to Volunteer
Because people have different interests, the Symphony staff will work with you one-on-one to find a volunteer assignment that you will find fun and challenging. We have several volunteer opportunities available at our administrative office during the work week, but some volunteers prefer to undertake special projects at home in their spare time. Many volunteers help out at our weekend concerts at the Palace Theatre. If you would like more information, please contact:
Barbara Bosch
Phone: 203 325 1407 x10
Fax: 203 325 8762
Mailing address: 263 Tresser Boulevard, Stamford, CT 06901
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Stamford Symphony Volunteers
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Sloshed: How to Drink Your Way Through the Entirety of Saint Patrick's Day
With the proper training, forethought, and mental toughness, you'll be able to make it out in one piece.
It's unclear when, exactly, people decided the best way to honor Saint Patrick's contributions to Irish culture was to binge-drink like an Arizona State frat brother, but that's what happened. And so, it's a holiday usually avoided by the gentleman drinker. This is a shame. There is a proper time and a place for everything, and Saint Patrick's Day is as good a time as any to drink a shit ton of green beer and blended whiskey. The trick is knowing how to do it the right way.
If done properly, you'll be able to hit the bars as soon as they open and maintain a steady buzz right up until last call. (Or at least until midnight.) Think of it like marathon drinking: You'll be willing yourself to complete a task of endurance, and your body will protest the whole way through. But with the proper training, forethought, and mental toughness, you'll be able to make it through in one piece. Here now, the official Sloshed Saint Patrick's Day Drinking Schedule and Pacing Program.
First, ask yourself this question:
Will Your Body Be Able to Handle This?
• Have you been actively drinking for five-plus years? Like any endurance sport, the key to surviving is knowing how your body will react to the extended hardships it will be forced to undergo. Seasoned drinkers will know their bodies best.
• Is your calendar free for a couple of days after Saint Patrick's Day? You sort of get a pass this year because Saint Paddy's falls on a Saturday, but trust me when I say you'll still be feeling it a little on Monday.
• Do you want it? We need your full commitment here. Things are going to get pretty bleak around hour eleven.
• Are you Irish? On second thought, forget this last one. Doesn't matter.
Pre-Patrick Prep
This program is developed for people who have consumed alcohol nearly every day in the past two months, or who have at least had one drink before noon in that same time frame. If this doesn't sound like you, better luck next year.
For everyone else, you'll want to establish your pace before the big day. A couple days beforehand (today, for example), buy some Irish beer and a bottle of Irish whiskey — go for a blend; the nuances of single-malts will be lost after you drink, like, three of them — and get to work. Knock back a shot of whiskey, and chase it with a beer. Wait fifteen minutes. If you're drunk, tap out now. If you're happy and wanting to break into a jig, then your Saint Patrick's Pace per Hour (SPP/H) is one drink. If you feel nothing, have another shot and another beer and wait another fifteen minutes. Repeat until you're ready for that jig. Count how many drinks it takes, then divide that number by two. That's your SPP/H.
Make a note to measure this accurately. Saint Patrick's Day is a distance event, not a sprint. Don't worry about how much you can drink. Focus instead on finishing the whole day under your own steam, with all your limbs intact. There is pride in crossing the finish line.
Your Saint Patrick's Day Itinerary
Let's do this.
6:00 a.m.: Get up, shower, brush your teeth. The bars will be open soon and you will be there. Eat a PowerBar and drink, like, a gallon of water. This is the most responsible thing you will do all day.
6:45 a.m.: Call your drinking buddy and check in. You did arrange to have a drinking buddy, right? You need friends now because your brain is probably telling you that being up this early just so you can start drinking is a dumb-ass idea, and like all dumb-ass ideas, you need your buddies for encouragement.
7:30 a.m.: You should be on a bar stool by now. Order a whiskey, Irish. Toast your competition and slug it down. Visualize outlasting them.
7:32 a.m.: Time for a beer back. Order a stout. Guinness is fine; Murphy's is better. Consult your SPP/H while you can still see straight and drink accordingly for the next two hours.
9:30 a.m.: Breakfast! Find a diner, or a pub that serves food. Do not drink booze at breakfast. Others will mock you or say it is essential to winning this race. Ignore them. Focus on hydrating and eating protein. You are the tortoise. You are the tortoise.
11:00 a.m.: Pre-parade refueling. First: Duck into a bar and do a shot. Second: Find a liquor store and buy as big a bottle of whiskey as you need to fill your flask and your buddies' flasks. (Having your own flask is mandatory.) Then figure out where you're going to watch the parade. (Watching the parade is also mandatory.)
12:01 p.m. Congratulations! You've made it through the morning! Only twelve more hours to go! Take a celebratory nip from the flask.
1:00 p.m.: Parade whiskey-sipping for the next couple hours. Drink enough to keep yourself from giving up, but not so much that your body gives up on you. One technique is to focus on the parade itself — use the distraction to regulate your intake. Look! A marching band!
3:00 p.m.: I'm sorry, I shouldn't have yelled about the marching band earlier. It's all love, bro. Seriously. Hey, did you bring any snacks? You're probably super-hungry. Find an out-of-the-way place and order as much food as you can handle. Drink one beer while you're at it, but lay off the whiskey for a bit.
4:15 p.m.: Throw up.
4:17 p.m.: Feels so much better, right?
4:18 p.m.: Find a convenience store. Drink two Vitamin Waters and eat a banana. A breath mint wouldn't kill you, either.
5:00 p.m.: Track down your friends. They will inevitably be at a bar called Paddy O'Kellerhan's. This bar will be crowded.
5:30 p.m.: Time for another shot, followed by a black-and-tan. Drink that fast, and order a lager. Nurse that one.
6:00 p.m.: Keep an eye on your friends, especially the one over in the corner that's wearing the green Dr. Seuss hat and pretending to be a leprechaun.
6:30 p.m.: Help break up the fight between your leprechaun friend and the real-deal Irish dude who told him to knock it off. Then find another bar, but put the leprechaun in a cab home. You don't need that kind of trouble.
6:50 p.m.: At this point, there will be a strong temptation to drink something other than straight beer or whiskey, possibly something that begins with a car and ends with a bomb. DO NOT DO THIS. The addition of Baileys this late in the game will end you. Get a Guinness.
7:30 p.m.: Throw up again.
7:35 p.m.: Feels good every time, right? Re-commence drinking; try to remember what your SPP/H is. Feed off the energy of the other revelers. If you need a jolt, find a jukebox and play something good. "Welcome to the Jungle" is never a bad choice.
10:20 p.m.: Time for some more food. If the bar has it, great. If not, find a food stand or somewhere else quick. Anything longer than fifteen minutes and you'll crash.
10:40 p.m.: Back at the bar. You're in the home stretch now, so open the throttle. Get one bottle of whiskey and enough shot glasses for everyone who's still standing. If you're going down now, you're all going down together.
11:00 p.m.: Sit in a circle and keep refilling those shot glasses. Sip, don't shoot. Tell stories that start with, "This guy right here lemme tell you about this guy right here "
12:15 a.m.: Check out the watch. You made it. Finish whatever's in front of you, nothing more. Stand up, leave under your own strength. Walk home if you can, cab it if you can't.
12:45 a.m.: Drink as much water as you can handle before you go to bed. It won't do too much good, but it won't hurt, either. Glory and sleep will be your spoils tonight. Happy Saint Patrick's Day, champion.


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The Wolverine Way - Go Like Hell and Never Back Down
by Douglas H. Chadwick
Ten years ago, a bad-ass wolverine mountaineer we called M3 got busy expanding his territory from the east side of Montana's Glacier National Park into Canada. When this two-year-old bumped up against the turf of a long-established male known as M6, M3 took it over, claimed the older guy's main squeeze – the female F15, and kept right on enlarging his crown-of-the-continent empire. Grown thin and scruffy, M6 wandered away southward, never to be seen again.
Shortly afterward, M8, the yearling son of M6 and F15, turned up in one of our Glacier Wolverine Project's log box traps. Judging from the bloody gash on his face, he, too, had run into Mr. Badass. The team patched up M8 a bit before turning him loose. Across the Divide, Alex "Buck" Hasson was wintering alone in a cabin, skiing out to keep tabs on several radioed wolverines on the park's west side. To locate a signal, he usually had to go for miles. But early one morning, he stepped from the outhouse to find a gulo 40 feet away: M8.
[Above: A wolverine in the wild. Glacier National Park, Montana. Photo: Steven Gnam]
Buck tracked the wandering male 30 miles southwest to a mountain ridge overlooking the town of Columbia Falls, then west into the Whitefish Range. M8 was headed up the backside of the ski area now known as Whitefish Mountain Resort. After talking the ski patrol into letting him ride the chairlift to the summit with them, Buck used his radio antenna to fix M8's location atop the next peak over. The wolverine was feasting on a deer carcass, Buck later learned from an avid out-of-bounds skier. That the man also tended bar at the resort had nothing – nothing! – to do with how this info actually got passed along. Here in Montana, we're all science all the time.
M8 padded 90 miles farther west to the Idaho-Montana border. Before winter was out, the hunter-scavenger's story came to an end in the jaws of a bobcat trap. But in March of 2012, scores of Whitefish Mountain skiers and boarders watched a wolverine lope beneath Chair 1 en route to the nearby remains of a deer (most likely killed by a cougar.) This time, the media spread the story statewide.
[Photo: Steven Gnam]
When wolverines make the news, that's news in itself. These are unbelievably strong, insanely bold, untamed ultramarathoners given to scaling almost sheer mountain walls and confronting full-grown grizzlies over carcasses. But the public never used to hear about them. And even as their numbers slipped to 300 or fewer south of Canada, the government kept denying them protection, arguing that not enough was yet known about Gulo gulo to take steps toward ensuring this species' survival. To me, that was like pointing to somebody drowning and having the lifeguard shrug and say, "I dunno, dude. It's really hard to tell what's happening, 'cause that person keeps sinking out of view… ."
Wolverines criss-crossed mountainsides as far south as the Sierras and New Mexico before steel traps, guns, and predator poisons spread through the West. Until recently, enclaves remained only in remote parts of Montana, Idaho, and northern Wyoming. Then came news reports about a few animals in Washington's North Cascades. A couple showed up in Oregon's Wallowa Mountains. One made headlines after it ventured 600 miles from the central Idaho wilderness to Lake Tahoe, California. Another trekked 500 miles from Wyoming's Tetons to Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. This doesn't necessarily mean that wolverines are making a comeback. Reports by casual observers, often dismissed as unreliable, suggest that gulos made southward forays in earlier years as well. The main difference today may simply be that a lot of folks are paying closer attention.
[Photo: Steven Gnam]
While it's hardly gulomania, there has been an unprecedented surge of interest in wolverines from wildlife experts and the public alike lately. Researchers with limited funds to hire assistants have outdoor recreationists happily volunteering to beat themselves up in tough terrain following long-mysterious, bad-ass beasts for free. New technology has also helped scoop up more data with improved GPS collars for the animals and better automatic cameras to set up at bait stations. Given the jump in knowledge about what used to be North America's least-understood big mammal, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service may finally offer wolverines federal protection, possibly by the end of this year. At the same time, officials are discussing re-introducing some to Colorado and California.
Long portrayed as solitary, vile-smelling, and dangerously pissed-off 24/7, gulos turn out to have intriguing social bonds and a playful side. They also emerge as an icon of two great issues affecting everyone's future. The first is global warming; wolverines are so closely tied to deep, lingering snowpacks and year-round cool temperatures that they stand to lose two-thirds of their Lower 48 habitat before the century's end. Second, since Lower 48 wolverines keep to high mountain ranges where individuals strongly defend territories as large as 500 to 1,000 square miles, they never become very abundant in any one area; to maintain healthy numbers over time, populations are going to need corridors of intact wildlands that let them travel safely across large enough regions to keep in contact with other groups, exchange genes, and adapt to shifting conditions. Those requirements, which all native species share, can be summed up in a phrase embraced by Patagonia: Freedom to Roam. It's all about saving the connections – between wildlife communities, between ecosystems, and between us and nature.
I want to pass along one more piece of wolverine news. This winter, we learned from an automatic camera at a bait station in Glacier Park that M3 is still around. He's 12 now, elderly for a wolverine, but looked fine and fit. I'm also writing to thank Patagonia both for having made this wolverine semi-famous by publicizing his 2007 winter ascent of Glacier's highest peak by the awe-inspiring M3 route (he did the last 4,900 feet almost straight up in 90 minutes) – and for making wolverines as a whole leading spokesanimals for the landscape-level Freedom to Roam conservation strategy. It's doing my favorite bad-asses all kinds of good.
[Recent shot of M3 at the Glacier National Park bait station near Elizabeth Lake. Photo: National Park Service]
[M3 tugging on the bait, bad ass as ever. Photo: National Park Service]
[Volunteers Sally Kintner (NPS) and Pam Murray (PCA) check the camera site. Photo: National Park Service]
The Wolverine Way by Douglas H. Chadwick is now available in paperback from Patagonia Books. It reveals the fascinating natural history of the wolverine, the habitat threats that face them, their social structure and reproduction habits. Wolverines, according to Chadwick, are the land equivalent of polar bears in regards to the impacts of global warming. The plight of wolverines adds to the call for wildlife corridors that connect existing habitat that is proposed by the Freedom to Roam coalition.
[With thanks to Steven Gnam and Dr. Waller for sharing their photos with us.]


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Elijah Burke Speaks On CM Punk's Comments About Him, Possible WWE Return
The following are highlights of a new interview with Elijah Burke:
On his WWE departure and a return: "No main reason for departure except with all of the creative changes, writers switching from brand to brand, I kinda got lost in the shuffle. "Black Thursday" came and almost 15 wrestlers got let go. It was their call, I wasn't in any program or being used as I was in a rebuilding faze. I look forward to returning to the WWE when the time is right for both parties, and hopefully that will be sooner than later."
On Vince McMahon: "Vince is great. He was one cool cat! Never had a bad experience with him. Anytime you can walk up to boss and say, What's up dawg and give some him some dap, that should let you know what type of man he is. As a matter of fact, when he came out on ECW with the doorag on after Wrestlemania 23…. Take a wild guess who that doorag belonged to???"
On CM Punk's comments about him: "Never heard them… People mentioned it to me via social media, but I have no thoughts on it. EVERY thought that I ever had about Phil, he knows them because I told him to his face, and I'd like to think that he'd do the same, but I have no thoughts or comments about what was or may have been said. What would that say about me to say something behind Phil's back or in an interview where he can't respond for himself?? I mean, what type of person would do such a thing?? Not I, not Pope."
On TNA: "I enjoyed my time with TNA as they gave me the ball and allowed me to run with it. What was really awesome was that Pope was NEVER scripted as Vince Russo allowed Pope to be Pope and would literally say, "Nobody knows what Pope would do except you." I enjoyed working with him and others in TNA."
Check out the complete interview at PWMania.com.


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Bajaj RE 60, the much discussed ultra low cost car has been finally unveiled ahead of 11th New Delhi Auto Expo. But according to Rajiv Bajaj, the top honcho of Bajaj Auto RE 60 is not a car but just a four wheeler. Bajaj RE 60 is company's maiden product in four wheel category and which is (according to company) going to redefine city commuting. Bajaj RE 60 is powered by a 200cc fuel injected DTS-i engine which produces a maximum power of 16 PS. There are two variants (a passenger variant and a cargo variant) of RE 60 on offer and company has not yet announced the prices of RE 60. But we expect the base variant will carry a price tag of less than one lakh.
Bajaj RE 60 boasts 35 km/liter fuel efficiency and emits just 60gm/km which looks ultra eco friendly. The top speed of Bajaj RE 60 which weighs 400 kg is limited to 70 kph. Bajaj Auto will be producing RE 60 in their Aurangabad plant. The same plant rolls out Bajaj Auto's three wheelers as well. By sharing manufacturing facility with three wheelers, Bajaj RE 60 managed to save 350 Cr for the company. Bajaj will produce almost all components of RE 60 in house. A CNG powered Bajaj RE 60 is also available.
The concept of Bajaj RE 60 sports a set of body colored bumpers and stylish alloy wheels. The dashboard houses a central speedometer cluster, in-built fare meter (similar to auto rickshaws) and seat belts. Bajaj RE 60 has 44-liter boot space and 95-liter under seat storage which could be sufficient for city commuters.
"Last century was scooters, this century was motorcycle. We have made a remarkable transition from a scooter to a motorcycle company. We've gone from selling cheapest scooters in the country to some of the most expensive motorcycles. For the last 8-9 quarters, Bajaj Auto has been the world's most profitable auto company. There has been valid criticism that Bajaj has not done justice to its 3 wheeler business even though we are largest in world. We have been urged to do something dramatic for the 3 wheeler business, as dramatic as the transformation from Chetak to Pulsar. These are a host of features that are not normal for this segment just like when we launched Pulsar. It's a testimony to our engineering," said Rajiv Bajaj, M.D of Bajaj Auto during the launch ceremony.
So who would be the targeted customer..? Nano buyers? we doubt. Bajaj RE 60 comes nowhere near to Tata Nano in many aspects. Be it overall design, styling, build quality or engineering. Probably Bajaj RE 60 may soon eat some market share of three wheelers which is again ruled by Bajaj Auto. We think it is a sensible alternative for auto rickshaws. RE 60 will definitely give improved commuter comfort by protecting them from weather.
By the way another candidate is expected in this segment is from Piaggio. Piaggio MT3 was made it's debut last year in Italy and is expected to hit India in 2-3 years down the line.
Anyways an interesting development to watch. Stay tuned..


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"In what may be the smallest art gallery in the United States, you can discover the whole world." Blake Gopnik reports in The Washington Post. "Or at least its airport terminals. Atlanta, Berlin, Vilnius, Bangkok, Calgary -- all up there on the walls of Curator's Office in Washington. Charles Cohan, a 47-year-old printmaker and art professor based in Hawaii, has transformed diagrams of these terminals and 43 others into a room-filling installation called 'Airfield.' Each terminal is represented by a simplified aerial plan of its facilities, turned into a clean black shape and printed onto a 22-inch square of fine paper. 'I've always been interested in the way in which knowledge is ordered and codified,' says Cohan, 'and in its translation into the artistic medium I'm working in.' His almost-abstract prints, with their luscious blacks, can look as much like letters or symbols or hieroglyphs as like diagrams of actual structures. Cohan is also fascinated by the high-security 'nether zone' of the airport terminal itself. He cites 'the contradiction between the supposed freedom the airport represents, in terms of arrival and departure and transport and travel, and yet within that there is increasing security and surveillance. With the luxury of the freedom of travel, there is anxiety in the hub or epicenter of that travel, which is the terminal.'"
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The "Terminal" series is virtually identical to a series I did several years ago called "Terminal Diagrams." My images were done in encaustic and were exhibited in a gallery in Healdsburg, California.
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