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Emerging Markets: And On It Goes
Thursday's shakeout in emerging-market currencies (and some developed ones too) "left many traders shaken," according to Citigroup. Well, Friday hasn't offered much let-up.
One frustration: no-one can agree on the cause. "The jury is still out on whether yesterday's selloff was caused by U.S. data, poor corporate earnings or the Chinese PMI. Whatever the reason, the real damage was done in emerging markets. All this provides a fairly nervous lead-in to next week's Federal Reserve meeting where the consensus appears to be that another $10 billion in tapering will result," said Jim Reid, a strategist at Deutsche Bank.
"Thursday's price action was consistent with traditional risk aversion behavior," said BNP Paribas' foreign exchange strategists. "Market participants struggled to identify a catalyst for the moves."
So, what's next? Some thoughts from the market:
Steven Englander, global head of G10 FX strategy at Citigroup:
"The sell-off in high-beta currencies, particularly in emerging markets, is driven by an abrupt change of tone among G10 central banks with respect to liquidity provision. The fear is that the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and even the Bank of Japan will become less dovish more quickly than had been thought even a few weeks ago. The question is whether one or more of these central banks will act to reverse this view, given that central banks talk all day about cooperation, but act only when disruptions abroad threaten national economies."
Paul Lambert, head of currencies at Insight Investment in London:
"At this stage I would say the market adjustment is orderly and reflects the shift in underlying flows. The Turkish lira and South African rand for example are not under pressure because of speculative attack but rather because of the lack of demand for their assets which is a problem when you have a big current account deficit. In the case of the good economic stories, like Mexico at this stage it's a case of overweight positions being adjusted rather than the market placing negative bets.
"For Hungary they are moving to an easier monetary policy and will an orderly adjustment of the forint I'm sure would not be unwelcome. I think that could all change though. After the unprecedented flow of funds into emerging markets since the financial crisis we are a very long way from where we could be in terms of equilibrium flows. If that is right then we may just be at the beginning of the correction in emerging markets."
Nima Tayebi, emerging market portfolio manager at JP Morgan Asset Management:
"Emerging market currencies are under pressure generically but it is interesting to note where the pressure points are localized. The sell-off began with the genuinely vulnerable currencies like South African rand and Turkish lira. In Turkey's case, the weakness was aggravated by the central bank disappointing markets by failing to hike rates in a meaningful way, following this by a series of ineffective direct dollar selling interventions. The weakness then spread to structurally sound currencies like Mexican peso and Korean won were the outlook is generally sound, but long investor positioning made shorter term traders feel they could squeeze some of these positions in an environment of market nervousness.
"Interestingly in markets where the fundamentals are relatively mixed and there is little market positioning, such as Philippine peso and Malaysian ringgit, the reaction has been fairly muted. So far there is nervousness but little signs of outflows. Also U.S. Treasury rates have actually been falling in recent days, unlike the rise which triggered the August sell-off. Eventually, lower U.S. rates could provide a reprieve to risk markets."
Timothy Graf, head of macro strategy at State Street:
"Today there is a lot more spillover to the Mexican peso, Hungarian forint, Polish zloty, South Korean won, that felt a bit safer in recent weeks. I can't call it a crisis yet, more of a slow-motion train wreck that, for countries like Turkey, South Africa, Brazil, has been going on for 12 months now. We'll see. I would say the Chinese yuan was your safe haven in EM but even that is starting to get scary.
"What interests me is how the theme of selectivity that many, including ourselves, were pushing the last few months is really getting thrown out the window. So, as nice as it is to think about relative value trades, they don't really work when liquidity gets poor and the demand for dollars overrides all."
Anezka Christovova, emerging market strategist at Credit Suisse:
"The direct intervention [of Turkey's central bank] yesterday proved utterly ineffective. The Turkish lira troubles combined with weaker China data appear to be weighing heavily on risk appetite.
"Hungary has allowed itself to become vulnerable to this kind of environment through the relentless easing. Front end rates are almost as low as Poland's but with a lot more risk attached. The low carry, low implied volatility and entry levels now allow the market to use HUF as relatively cheap hedge on EM problems escalating. So the HUF weakness is likely to extend further."
Bhanu Baweja, emerging markets strategist at UBS:
"The market is beginning to worry about EM and it should do so. So far we haven't seen a major adjustment in positions. Investors are worried but are still long, in particular in fixed income. Many of them still believe EM currencies will appreciate over the medium term. They will have to cut losses and close those trades.
"We are not in a currency crisis yet but there is a risk that this will happen. Panic is a possibility but there is no reason for it.
"For this selloff to end we must see real rates in EM increasing more significantly than real rates that US. We must see that valuations have moved enough."


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Saturday, 10/03/1998
New World Music Theatre, Tinley Park, IL
Set 1: Birds of a Feather, Farmhouse, The Moma Dance, Runaway Jim -> Arc[1] -> Down By the River[1], Moonlight in Vermont[2], Will the Circle Be Unbroken?[1] > Amazing Grace[3] > Uncloudy Day[1]
[1] Phish debut; Neil Young on guitar.
[2] Phish debut; Neil Young and Willie Nelson on guitar and Paul Schaffer on keyboards.
[3] Neil Young on guitar.
Notes: This single set performance was part of the annual Farm Aid benefit concert which also included Hootie and the Blowfish, The Del McCoury Band, Brian Wilson, Wilco, Martina McBride, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, and Neil Young. The set featured the Phish debuts of Arc, Down By the River, Moonlight in Vermont, Will the Circle Be Unbroken, and Uncloudy Day (although Will the Circle Be Unbroken was also played during the November 19, 1994 "Parking Lot Jam"). Neil Young sat in from Runaway Jim through the end of the set; Willie Nelson and Paul Shaffer sat in during Moonlight in Vermont. Four Native American dancers came onstage before Will the Circle Be Unbroken. Circle featured Willie Nelson on vocals. Amazing Grace was performed for the first time since December 31, 1996 (115 shows) and included instrumental accompaniment. This set was broadcast live on Country Music Television, though the beginning of Runaway Jim was cut from the broadcast.
Musicians: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon, Paul Shaffer (Guest), Neil Young (Guest), Willie Nelson (Guest)

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Trey: "Ladies and Gentlemen, sucking on the sac-vac of Boulder..."
Page: "His majesty, Phil Collins!"
Trey: "Ladies and Gentleman, Phil Collins will now perform Su-Su-Sudio!"
Fish: "Bike."
Trey: "He will now perform an ancient, unknown version of Su-Su-Sudio!"
It's a good rendition of Bike, and Fishman admits before the vacuum solo that "this song is just an excuse..."
That being said, if the highlight of the show is Bike, there are probably some issues, and this show has quite a few of 'em. It starts with a decent David Bowie and heads downhill from there, with some pretty bad slop in I Am Hydrogen, Bold As Love, Runaway Jim (with some old lyrics) Foam and YEM. Squirming Coil isn't sloppy, though. It's a total train wreck.
There are a few decently played tunes, (Weekapaug, Tweezer) but it's pretty weak. Some of my opinion may be affected by the recording speed on the first set, which gives it a little of the old chipmunk treatment. But speedy tape or not, it's a pretty messy show, IMO. 2 Stars.


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After the iPad was announced in January 2010, I wrote a blog post titled "iPad is a bit underwhelming," in which I pointed out that Apple was "trying to create a third category of devices somewhere in between a smartphone and a laptop, but the problem with the iPad is that it doesn't do anything that you can't already do with a smartphone and a laptop."
I wasn't entirely correct. Tablets like the iPad do make it easier to do certain tasks that are hard to do on a small screen with a tiny on-screen keyboard and drawing surface, and awkward to do on a larger laptop that you can't easily use while standing.
The market certainly didn't validate my comments. For the first few years of its life, iPad sales were spectacular. As of last month, Apple had sold a total of 200 million iPads during a period when PC sales were in a sharp decline.
As per competition, Apple is still the largest single tablet maker, but Android tablets -- some of which are much less expensive than iPads -- are collectively outselling Apple. According to Gartner, Apple had a 36 percent market share in 2013, down from 53 percent in 2012. Android tablets, meanwhile, claimed a 62 percent market share in 2013, up from 46 percent the year before. Microsoft had only 2.1 percent share last year.
But iPad sales are on the decline. During last week's earning report, Apple CEO Tim Cook reported that unit sales fell 9 percent from the same period last year -- the fourth sales decline in the past five quarters. But Apple's personal computer sales are going in the other direction. It sold 4.4 million Macs during the quarter, up 18 percent from the same period last year.
iPhones are also flying off the shelves, despite widespread reports that there will be a much-improved version coming out this fall. Apple sold 35.2 million of the little phones last quarter, a 13 percent increase over the same period last year.
As someone who called the iPad "underwhelming," it would be easy (though not really forgivable) for me to gloat over the decline in iPad sales along with the increase in Mac and iPhone sales, but even a few quarters does not necessarily indicate a permanent trend.
Just as some thought the PC was dying --Apple is one of the few companies not to experience a steady sales decline in its PC, the Mac, over the past few years -- I'm not about to declare the death of the tablet. To the contrary, I think tablets are here to stay and will play an increasing role in the technology landscape. One reason for this belief is the recent announcement that IBM and Apple are teaming up to promote iPad sales in large enterprises.
Young people are accustomed to touch-screen interfaces, and as they enter the workforce, more and more of them will want the simplicity of a tablet over a PC for many tasks. Tablets make sense for anyone who needs to consume data while mobile. It's a lot easier to take a tablet out of your bag or purse than to pull out a laptop if you want to look something up. And depending on the size and the brand, they can be cheaper than PCs, though that's not necessarily the case with some iPads.
Tablets also have some interesting uses where laptops can't go. Just about every pilot I know -- including all who work for American Airlines -- uses a tablet in-flight. In announcing its iPad program last year, American Airlines Vice President David Campbell said that "removing the kit bag (of paper-based reference material) from all of our planes saves a minimum of 400,000 gallons and $1.2 million of fuel annually based on current fuel prices. Additionally, each of the more than 8,000 iPads we have deployed to date replaces more than 3,000 pages of paper previously carried by every active pilot and instructor. Altogether, 24 million pages of paper documents have been eliminated."
Personally, I own an iPad mini and two Android tablets, but hardly ever use them, except for reading. I typically look at my smartphone several times an hour and use my PC and Macs throughout most days.
A lot of people have said that a PC is better for creating content while a tablet is great for consuming it. But I'm more likely to use my MacBook Air to watch video because I can easily place it on a table, airline tray or a pillow in bed without having to find a way to prop up the screen, And even though a phone isn't the best device for reading books or watching video, it's the one device I have with me all the time, so I often find myself reading or viewing on my phone simply because it's handy.
I don't know what future PC and tablet sales will be, but I do see a role for both. And apparently so does Apple which, last quarter, took in almost as much revenue for its Macs than it did for its iPads.
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Free paper shredding for citizens Nov. 28
Published: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 8:36 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 8:36 a.m.
The city of Hendersonville will sponsor a secure "Shred Day" for residents from 9-11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28 in the parking lot of Patton Park, 59 E. Clairmont Drive.
American Security Shredding Inc. will have a shredding truck to allow residents to dispose of sensitive materials. City residents are invited to bring up to two boxes (or 50 pounds) of paper items to be shredded. Suggested items are financial statements, canceled checks, credit card statements, payroll stubs, insurance forms, old tax returns, etc.
The public can drop off documents or stay and watch them destroyed. The event will happen rain or shine. If the shredding truck fills up before 11 a.m., the event will be over.
To make this part of a community outreach effort, the city is asking that residents coming to the event bring items to donate to the Storehouse and IAM. Both agencies are in need to help their clients during this season. Suggested items are canned fruits and vegetables, chili and beef stew, stuffing mix and canned hams.
For more information, contact Lu Ann Welter, City Planning, at 828-697-3088 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Industry watchers never cease to be surprised at the allure of starting a new airline. Sure, they've seen all the red ink. They've seen the history of the dozens of failed startups since deregulation in 1978. Still, there's always someone around who thinks he or she knows something others don't. And two new lines announced this month.
The more ambitious is Cal Jet Airways (www.caljetair.com), which proposes to fly to Mazatlan, Mexico, from Oakland, Los Angeles, Denver, Houston and San Antonio. Cal Jet is officially a charter operation, with flights actually performed by longtime charter operator Xtra Airways. Normally, I would expect an outfit such as this to emulate Allegiant's model, featuring air-hotel packages: At least so far, the website seems to focus on air-only bookings, but I expect that will change fairly soon.
Cal Jet clearly thinks it has found a "hole" in the system it can fill. No other lines operate nonstop from its U.S. gateways to Mazatlan, and connecting fares are high. Currently, Cal Jet features an introductory round trip of $499 from Oakland.
Flights on Xtra Airways are in 737-400s, in two-class configuration. Cal Jet calls it regular economy "comfort" class, which is a stretch; seating is actually the usual tight-pitch, narrow seating typical of economy in 737s and not "comfortable" by any rational standard. Planes also have a first-class section.
By chartering Xtra Airways flights, Cal Jet doesn't have to go through all the hoops of starting a completely new line, so it really could start operating as early as the posted first-flight dates in January. If you're headed for Mazatlan, this may look like a good deal. But buy with a credit card, just in case; if you have any big nonrefundable destination payments, buy travel insurance.
The newer announcement is from Elite Airways (www.eliteairways.net), an established charter operator looking to provide scheduled flights nonstop from several New England airports to Melbourne, Fla. Initial flights will be from Portland, Maine, but other candidate cities include Portsmouth, N.H., Worcester, Mass., and several upstate New York cities. Elite is featuring Melbourne as "alternative to busier airports in Orlando and Palm Beach." The line plans to start with 50-seat regional jets, but the company has access to bigger jets, if business warrants.
The airline posts no information on prices or schedules. But any startup using regional jets faces the problem that costs per passenger are high, and Melbourne is more than 70 miles from Orlando and 100 miles from Palm Beach.
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Link your Google profile to your Groups account
If you've used Google+, written a review on Google Maps, or added books to your Google Book Search library, you probably have a Google Profile. A Google Profile contains information about you such as a photo, location, occupation, school, and birthday. You can link your Google Profile to your appearance in a Google Group:
- Sign in to Google Groups.
- Go to the group you would like to join or have joined.
- If you have not yet joined the group, click Join group next to the name of the group. If you are already a member of the group, click the My Settings button, then click Membership and email settings.
- Check the box next to "Link to my Google profile and show my photo on posts." If you are a Google Apps user, your profile might be specific to your organization.
- Select your other choices for joining the group, including if you would like to use a nickname instead of your full name when posting to this group.
- If you choose "Use the full name from my Google Profile", your name in your Google profile will be used the group. For example, "Joe Smith."
- If you you choose "Use this nickname," your nickname followed by your name in your profile, in parentheses, will be used in the group. For example, "BigJoe (Joe Smith),
- If you choose "Use this nickname," and you don't have a profile linked to Google Groups, your nickname will be used in the group. For example, "BigJoe."
- When done, click Save.
Note: Refer to Create a profile if you do not have a Google Profile.
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- 2013 Twitter's Dick Costolo, and what you may not know about him
- Sep 15:
- 2013: Twitter IPO: How the company became an unlikely darling
- Sep 13:
- Twitter's IPO announcement leaves questions, concerns
- Sep 12:
- Twitter IPO: Venture Capital investors in line for big score
- Five things you probably didn't know about Twitter
- Twitter by the numbers
- Timeline: The road to Twitter's IPO
- Twitter files for long-awaited IPO
SAN FRANCISCO -- Twitter's IPO filing Thursday prompted two reactions: "Wow" and "Why now?"
While the San Francisco micro-blogging site has been widely believed to be on the path to an initial public offering that would boost the Bay Area's broader tech economy, most pundits hadn't expected it to happen until 2014. Sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital, Twitter's leaders repeatedly have insisted they're not focused on going public.
But with Wall Street fully recovered from an IPO lull that followed last year's botched Facebook debut, Silicon Valley's most anticipated stock offering since -- well, since Facebook's -- is officially in the pipeline.
"Why go public now? I'd say because it can," said Bill Tai, a venture capitalist with Charles River Ventures. His firm was among the first investors in Twitter.
The number of nationwide IPO filings through August was up more than 50 percent over last year, according to research firm Renaissance Capital. Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter noted that Internet stocks such as LinkedIn and Pandora have seen their share prices soar in recent months.
Answers about the timing -- or anything else -- weren't forthcoming from Twitter. Not only is the company now under "quiet period" rules imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, but it chose to file under new SEC rules that permit many details to remain secret for now.
The company used its own Twitter account Thursday afternoon to announce it had filed the confidential IPO plan. A spokesman declined to comment on such details as how much money the company hopes to raise from investors or when the stock offering might take place.
But the fact that Twitter is using a confidential filing hints to one detail about its finances: The new SEC rules that permit such filings limit them to companies with less than $1 billion in annual revenue.
That's why Karsten Weide, who tracks online media for the IDC research firm, was among those surprised by the announcement. "Their ad business is growing quickly, but it's still very small," he said.
Research firm eMarketer projects Twitter will sell about $580 million of online advertising this year and could see its sales hit $1 billion in 2014.
That's small fry compared to Facebook -- which the research firm expects to sell $6.4 billion worth of online ads this year -- or Google (GOOG), projected to sell more than $38 billion.
On the other hand, eMarketer's $580 million estimate is more than double what it believes Twitter took in last year.
Twitter was founded in 2006 by young techies Jack Dorsey, Ev Williams and Biz Stone. It's grown to more than 200 million monthly users who share their thoughts in bursts of 140 characters or less. (Twitter's own announcement about the SEC filing weighed in at a svelte 135.)
The service's rapid growth has produced IPO buzz for years, but rival Facebook's rough Wall Street debut quieted much of the excitement. While the Menlo Park company's May 2012 IPO set records with a valuation that topped $100 billion, technical glitches with early trades and doubts about revenue growth helped drop Facebook's shares from an initial price of $38 to less than $20 over its first year of trading.
Facebook has rebounded of late, however, pushing to an all-time high of more than $45 Wednesday after the company's most recent earnings report showed strong revenue gains.
"If Facebook had hit an all-time low, you can bet they wouldn't be coming out now," Tai, the venture capitalist, said of Twitter.
The warm market conditions notwithstanding, recent hires indicate Twitter's IPO plans have been in the works a while. Last month, it added the former CEO of Ticketmaster to spearhead new e-commerce efforts, and it also reportedly hired a stock administration analyst who worked on Zynga's 2011 IPO.
We ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.— Twitter (@twitter) September 12, 2013
Bloomberg News, citing an unnamed source, reported that Goldman Sachs would be the lead underwriter for the Twitter offering. Some observers said that would be a slap at rival investment bank Morgan Stanley, which led Facebook's IPO but was criticized for missteps that dampened its stock price.
"Twitter will learn from Facebook's flawed playbook," said Sam Hamadeh, CEO of financial analysis firm PrivCo. He said that while Facebook hurt itself by not going public until its revenue growth began to slow, "Twitter will IPO at just the right inflection point: While revenue grows in triple digits."
Hamadeh -- who describes himself as a confidant of Dorsey's -- also said Twitter plans to sell its shares on the New York Stock Exchange rather than the Nasdaq, whose technical snafus helped mar Facebook's opening day.
It may take months, however, for such details to be announced. The private IPO filing saves the company from having to reveal much of its financial information until just before its "roadshow" to institutional investors.
If Twitter's filing values the company at $15 billion, as Hamadeh predicts, it would represent a hefty uptick over the $8 billion Twitter reportedly was worth in April 2011, when it closed a massive $800 million funding deal led by Russian venture firm DST Global.
Tai -- who personally holds shares in Twitter by virtue of an angel investment in TweetDeck, which Twitter later acquired -- said someone recently offered to take them off his hands at a $13 billion valuation. He's standing pat.
Tai credited Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, a former Google executive who took the startup's reins in 2010 after infighting among the founders, for putting the company in position to make money from its giant user base. Costolo added resources to keep the crash-prone site afloat, and he's pushed to sell more advertising in the form of "sponsored" tweets from businesses and celebrities.
In the past year, Twitter has boosted revenue by opening its ad platform to outside developers and improving its ability to target ads to specific users. The company also forged partnerships with popular online sites like Pinterest and Spotify, as well as with television networks and advertising giant WPP.
Analysts say those moves show Twitter is serious about competing with Facebook and Google for advertising dollars.
Still, Pachter said the IPO is unlikely to inspire the same kind of frenzy that preceded Facebook's stock debut, since Twitter is a much smaller company.
Staff writer Jeremy C. Owens contributed to this report. Contact Brandon Bailey at 408-920-5022; follow him at Twitter.com/BrandonBailey.
March 2006: Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, working at a podcasting startup called Odeo, develops Twitter as an in-house messaging service. On March 21, Dorsey publishes the first tweet ever: "just setting up my twttr." Later in 2006, Odeo co-founder Evan Williams creates a new company called Obvious and buys Odeo and all of its assets -- including Twitter -- from investors.
July 2006: Twitter is launched to the general public.
April 2007: Twitter is spun off into its own company with Jack Dorsey as CEO, Evan Williams as chairman and Biz Stone as creative director.
March 2008: Twitter has 1.3 million registered users.
October 2008: Dorsey steps down as CEO and becomes chairman; co-founder Williams replaces Dorsey.
April 2010: Twitter has more than 100 million registered users.
October 2010: Williams steps down as CEO; Dick Costolo, formerly Twitter's chief operating officer, becomes CEO.
March 2011: Dorsey rejoins Twitter as executive chairman, focusing on product development.
February 2012: Twitter has 500 million registered users.
Source: Mercury News research
1. The first tweet from outer space was made by NASA's T.J. Creamer on the International Space Station in January 2010, according to NASA.
2. Twitter users in the Japan time zone posted a record 33,388 tweets per second as the new year began on Jan. 1, 2013, according to the Huffington Post.
3. Twitter has been credited with playing a role in civil disobedience around the world and in pro-democracy protests in Egypt, Tunisia and Iran.
4. Justin Bieber has more Twitter followers than anyone else, with 44.1 million worldwide, according to Twitaholic.com
5. A promotional tweet from Oreo, showing a cookie photographed in the dark, was shared more than 15,000 times after a power outage hit the 2013 Super Bowl, according to the Associated Press.
Source: Mercury News reporting.
Although it stands to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from its IPO, Twitter hasn't been hurting for cash, thanks to venture capital backers who could clean up themselves in the company's stock offering.
Source: Thomson Reuters; Crunchbase; Mercury News reporting


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GEORGETOWN, Ky. – No. 22 Georgetown finished 26-of-34 from the free throw line and used them to upset No. 7 Pikeville 83-76 Thursday night at David-Reid Alumni Gymnasium.
By way of comparison, Pikeville went 13-of-18 from the stripe.
Georgetown (18-5 overall, 10-5 in the Mid-South Conference) won on a night it turned the ball over 20 times compared to 10 for the Bears.
Pikeville (19-4, 10-4) took its last lead with 3:11 to play when senior guard Trevor Setty nailed two free throws to make it 74-73.
But a basket by freshman Deondre McWhorter with 2:13 to play put the Tigers on top by one and began a 10-2 finish for the home team.
The same thing happened in the first half, when Pikeville led most of the way. With 2:21 left the Bears got a basket by senior Terrance Saintil to push their lead to 35-31.
But the Tigers scored the final five, and a three-point play by senior Garel Craig with two seconds to play gave them a 36-35 lead at the half.
Craig was in many ways the difference in the game, scoring 19 points, pulling down six rebounds and dishing out five assists. Junior Monty Wilson led the Tigers with 20 thanks to 11-of-12 shooting from the line. McWhorter came off the bench for 15.
Senior Jamar Briscoe led all scorers with 26 for the Bears. Setty followed with 20 and added 13 rebounds for his fifth double-double of the season.
Junior Greg Magee came off the bench for 10.
Georgetown was 27-of-55 from the field (49.1 percent) and 3-of-10 from the arc. Pikeville, after hitting 12 of its first 24 shots, finished 30-of-75 (40 percent) and shot 3-of-18 (16.7 percent) from the line.
The Bears will remain on the road on Saturday, visiting St. Catharine for a 4 p.m. contest. Georgetown hosts U.Va.-Wise on Saturday.


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by Mickey Z
The coast-to-coast mall known as America just loves to sing the praises of its revolutionary heroes-the land-owning white slaveholders affectionately called "Founding Fathers." But America, the land of denial, would rather ignore the revolutionary roots and spirit behind its birth. In other words, if pamphleteer Tom Paine were around today, well, he might not be around today. Can you say "enemy combatant"?
We are often told actions speak louder than words but the life of Thomas Paine (1737-1809) tells a different story. Born in England, Paine eventually found a home as resident radical in the Colonies. His mutinous pamphlet, "Common Sense," was written anonymously, published in January 1776, and promptly read by every single member of Congress.
Time out: Every member of Congress read "Common Sense" (Insert your own punch line here).
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Paine's "Common Sense" went on to sell roughly 500,000 copies and helped inspire a fledgling nation to fight for its independence.
Hold on a minute; we need another time out: A seditious pamphlet sold a half-million copies in 1776. To perform a similar feat today, an author would have to sell more than 46 million books. I doubt even Oprah could make that happen. "Common Sense" stirred the spirits of colonial America by putting into words what those seeking freedom from British rule had been feeling for long, long time.
Viewed through the prism of the twenty-first century, Paine's prose reads, at times, like something one might hear at a hokey school play, for example:
"O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mind."
But, dated vernacular aside, "Common Sense" does make clear what Paine is trying to provoke, e.g.
"I have never met with a man, either in England or
America, who hath not confessed his opinion, that a separation between the
countries, would take place one time or other. And there is no instance in
which we have shown less judgment, than in endeavoring to describe, what we
call, the ripeness or fitness of the Continent for independence."
"Common Sense" popularized the concept that even a good government is, at best, a necessary evil. Paine effectively demonized King George III and argued against a small island nation like England ruling a continent on the other side of the ocean. Perhaps most importantly, "Common Sense" painted a post-independence picture of peace and prosperity. More so than the battles at Lexington and Concord-which preceded the release of Paine's influential pamphlet-it was "Common Sense" that served as the spark to light the revolutionary flame (which is today more honored in the breach).
* "These are the times that try men's souls," Paine once wrote. "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
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LETTER: Owners should be allowed to develop land
Published: Monday, June 24, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
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Dear Editor: My wife and I are residents of Second Avenue East in the Arlington subdivision. We are writing to give our support for the Aspen Heights development. We are speaking as residents who live close enough to the location to see it from our yard. We don't see any problems that it would cause. It will only be two-stories high and will look like regular houses.
We both think it will help the looks of the area. There are many old houses here that need renovations. It will also make the houses around it more desirable and more valuable. The owners of the property should have the right to do something with it. All they can do with it now is cut grass and pay taxes.
Vote "yes" on this project. It will help local workers and the neighborhood.
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Third arrested in connection with double shooting
Published: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 3:25 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at 9:55 p.m.
Thibodaux Police have made a third arrest in connection with a Sept. 25 double homicide.
Lynes Jones, 21, 478 Frederick Drive, Thibodaux, was arrested Monday and charged with accessory after the fact to the killings of Tre Scott, 19, and Jordy Williams, 27. He is being held in the Lafourche Parish jail on a $100,000 bond.
Police did not disclose Jones' suspected role in the deaths but said "detectives will continue to aggressively investigate this crime until all involved are brought to justice,"
The victims were found gunned down inside a car parked on Iris Street near Thibodaux Elementary School, and police said the killings may have involved a drug transaction.
"The evidence before us said they were there for a drug transaction," Thibodaux Police spokesman David Melancon has said.
Responding officers found marijuana at the crime scene, though Melancon wouldn't say how much.
Alfred Starks, 19, 311 Pelican St., Thibodaux, was arrested at the scene that night, police said. He is charged with two counts of second-degree murder.
Brian Jones, 18, 275 Sanders St., Thibodaux, was arrested Oct. 4 on two counts of principal to second-degree murder, police said. When he was arrested, Jones was in police custody for his role in another shooting tied to Starks. He is believed to have facilitated the Sept. 25 killings, Melancon said
Both men remain behind bars, and each faces a mandatory life prison sentence if convicted of murder.
The double murder, the second in the parish during a one-week period, brought September's murder total in Lafourche Parish to five.
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FREMONT -- The use of a health textbook some deemed inappropriate for students has been delayed, giving school district leaders time to consult the book's publisher over its chapters on sexual education.
The Fremont Unified school board held off on adopting "Your Health Today" on Wednesday night, after parents complained that its discussion of bondage, prostitution and other frank sexual topics was unfit for teaching ninth-grade students.
At the board meeting's outset, Superintendent James Morris recommended that trustees choose among three options. Two choices involved revising "Your Health Today" to varying degrees. A third option would create two different health courses, including an honors health class using the new textbook.
The five-member board decided that the district should work with the publisher to make changes to the book, creating a high school edition that will be age-appropriate for 14-year-olds.
The motion passed on a 3-2 vote, with trustees Larry Sweeney and Lily Mei dissenting.
District employees will bring a report on those changes back to the school board by January. Meantime, Fremont teachers temporarily will use last year's health textbooks.
Some book opponents, such as teacher Jonna Carlile, called for a fourth option: selecting a new health textbook.
"The settings (in the new book) were all adult settings," Carlile said. "There's nothing in there about helping a young person make the right decisions."
The board vote followed more than three hours of debate amid dozens of speakers and a feisty, standing-room-only audience of 250 people. About two-thirds of them waved yellow signs that read, "Remove College Textbook."
The majority of the nearly 60 speakers said they opposed using "Your Health Today."
"When I looked at the book, I couldn't believe the topics that were in there," parent Jim Schultz said. "Bondage? ... How is that a healthy thing to teach a ninth-grade student?"
Others who favor the new textbook waved green signs that read, "I support comprehensive sex education."
Supporters of "Your Health Today" warned the board and book opponents of being swayed by fear and emotion, rather than the facts.
"Please don't let your narrow views of human sexuality affect my child's education," said parent Sarah Jeske.
The controversy started June 25, when Fremont school board members voted 3-2 to buy copies of the book for $204,600.
The 392-page text was chosen among several books after a review process that included input from teachers and parents, district leaders said.
But community opposition built in recent weeks as news of the book's contents spread among district parents.
As of Wednesday evening, a petition on the website Care2 had about 2,500 signatures calling for the book's removal. A hard-copy petition also has garnered about 1,500 signatures, said Asfia Ahmed, a parent opposing the new text.
District leaders say they recommended holding off on using the new textbook after receiving feedback from parents and health teachers.
Morris said last week that delaying the book's adoption aligns with health instructors' goal of teaching the state standards in ways that are age-appropriate, accurate and sensitive.
"It will remain our goal when working with the publishers to make revisions to the text," he said.
Contact Chris De Benedetti at 510-353-7011. Follow him at Twitter.com/cdebenedetti.


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Ohio addresses shortage of doctors
July 7, 2013
MARIETTA — Dr. Dinh Vu had just finished up his residency at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey when he decided to bring his family practice skills to Marietta....
The headline "Ohio addresses shortage of doctors" is not supported by the report, which only refers to Washington County, a population of 63,000 among 11.5 million.
Reminds me of the time I met a guy in a Parkersburg tavern who expressed his lack of enthusiasm for the Buckeye State. He said "I've been to Belpre plenty of times and I don't see what the big deal is."
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Hey all I've been having a few issues with streaming content to me PS3 i keep getting DLNA protocol error 2104 and a bunch of network errors and I've searched for help on the issue but nothing seems to have worked. So i decided to try a complete uninstall and reinstall of PSM.
After installing it and setting my Navigation/Share Settings all it shows is C: instead of the Movies and TV folders.
anyone able to help me out please.


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CAIRO -- Islamists armed with anti-aircraft weapons and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a lightly defended U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi late Tuesday, killing the U.S. ambassador and three members of his staff and raising fresh questions about the radicalization of countries swept up in the Arab Spring.
The ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens, was missing almost immediately after the start of an intense, four-hour firefight for control of the mission, and his body was not located until Wednesday morning at dawn, when he was found dead at a Benghazi hospital, U.S. and Libyan officials said. It was the first time since 1979 that a U.S. ambassador died in a violent assault.
U.S. and European officials said that while many details about the attack remained unclear, the assailants seemed organized, well trained and heavily armed, and appeared to have at least some level of advanced planning. But the officials cautioned that it was too soon to tell whether the attack was guided or influenced by al-Qaida, or timed to the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Fighters involved in the assault, which was spearheaded by an Islamist brigade formed during last year's uprising against Moammar Gadhafi, said in interviews during the battle that they were moved to attack the mission by anger over a 14-minute, American-made video that depicted the Prophet Muhammad, Islam's founder, as a villainous, homosexual and child-molesting buffoon.
Their attack followed by just a few hours the storming of the compound surrounding the U.S. Embassy in Cairo by an unarmed mob protesting the same video. Wednesday, new crowds of protesters gathered outside the U.S. embassies in Tunis and in Cairo.
The wave of unrest set off by the video, posted online in the United States two months ago and dubbed into Arabic for the first time eight days ago, has further underscored the instability of the countries that cast off their longtime dictators in the Arab Spring revolts. It also cast doubt on the adequacy of security preparations at U.S. diplomatic outposts in the volatile region.
Benghazi, awash in guns, has recently witnessed a string of assassinations as well as attacks on international missions, including a bomb said to be planted by another Islamist group that exploded near the U.S. Consulate there as recently as June. But a Libyan politician who had breakfast with Stevens at the mission the morning before he was killed described security as sorely inadequate for a U.S. ambassador in such a tumultuous environment, consisting primarily of four video cameras and as few as four Libyan guards.
"This country is still in transition, and everybody knows the extremists are out there," said Fathi Baja, the Libyan politician.
President Barack Obama condemned the killings, promised to bring the assailants to justice, and ordered tighter security at all U.S. diplomatic installations. The administration also dispatched 50 Marines to Libya for greater diplomatic protection, ordered all nonemergency personnel to leave Libya and warned Americans not to travel there.
"These four Americans stood up for freedom and human dignity," Obama said in a televised statement from the White House Rose Garden, where he stood with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. "Make no mistake, we will work with the Libyan government to bring to justice the killers who attacked our people."
In Tripoli, Libyan leaders also vowed to track down the attackers and stressed their unity with Washington.
Yussef Magariaf, president of the newly elected Libyan National Congress, offered "an apology to the United States and the Arab people, if not the whole world, for what happened." He pledged new measures to ensure the security of foreign diplomats and companies. "We together with the United States government are on the same side, standing in a united front in the face of these murderous outlaws."
Obama administration officials and regional officials scrambled to sort out conflicting reports about the nature of the attack and the motivation of the attackers on Wednesday. A senior Obama administration official told reporters during a conference call that "it was clearly a complex attack," but offered no details.
The video began attracting attention in the Egyptian media, including the broadcast of offensive scenes on Egyptian television last week. At that point, U.S. diplomats in Cairo informed the State Department of the festering outrage in the days before the Sept. 11 anniversary, said a person briefed on their concerns.
It is unclear if television footage of Islamist protesters in Cairo may have inspired the attack on the embassy in Benghazi, a Libyan city near Egypt that had been a hotbed of opposition to Gadhafi, and that remains unruly since the uprising in that country resulted in his death. But Tuesday night, a group of armed assailants mixed with unarmed demonstrators gathered at the small compound that housed a temporary U.S. diplomatic mission there.


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Buddy Peace wrote: I've updated my blog page as well. I just wanted to give a history of how I got here I guess. I started yesterday and didn't stop, and while I know it is self indulgent I thought I'd get it out the way now and just have it up there as a kind of autobiography, in case people wonder who I am. I'm sure people will, I expect it! Hopefully this gives some idea anyway. It's way abbreviated but even like that it's crazy long... It's the only way I could do it...
Cheers, and if you read the whole thing you're crazy. But thank you. Okay not crazy... Dedicated. I appreciate it.
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Dave Matthews & Friends,
Friday, 12/12/2003
Bryce Jordan Center, Penn State University, State College, PA
Set 1: Bartender, Crush, The Stone, Lie In Our Graves, Dancing Nancies
Set 2: Save Me, Stay or Leave, Solsbury Hill, Gravedigger > Grey Blue Eyes, Up On Cripple Creek, Some Devil, Oh, Up and Away, American Tune, Too High, Dodo, Hey Bulldog
Encore: Will It Go Round in Circles?, So Damn Lucky
Notes: Emmylou Harris & Spyboy opened. The first set was performed acoustic by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds (no Trey).
Musicians: Trey Anastasio, Dave Matthews, Ray Paczkowski, Tony Hall, Brian Blade, Tim Reynolds


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Well I have read some rubbish in my time, but Bates interview in the YP is just about the greatest ever.
Bates, who had expected the takeover to be completed in August last year instead of December, told the Yorkshire Post: "What people won't be aware of is that two clauses were included in our agreement with GFH.
"One was that we could make no material change without consulting GFH, while the other was that Neil Warnock had to stay as manager.
"It meant any player bought or sold from June (2012) onwards had to be discussed and approved by (Leeds director) Salem Patel, on behalf of GFH.
"We were happy to do that because, as I say, we thought the takeover would go through during the summer.
"Unfortunately, it didn't and, instead, the deal wasn't done until December 21. A consequence was that we had to keep Neil Warnock.
"I wanted to sack him in October because I didn't think it was working out. But I couldn't because of what was happening with the sale."
Bates added: "The plan when I came in was to get Leeds back in the Premier League but, unfortunately, that has not been possible."
Have you ever read such tosh!!! Good riddance to bad rubbish!
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text: The conditions around Tahoe have been epic. I have been out just having yearly season fun. Here are a couple shots of riding the backside of Alpine Meadows days after it snowed and some turns behind my house. I hope everyone is getting their early season going. The TB172 is ripping. Have a good holiday season.


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LSU has 8 defensive players selected in NFL draft
Published: Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 12:50 a.m.
LSU opponents often felt as if they were playing an NFL defense when they faced the Tigers.
Turns out, they weren't wrong.
The Tigers had eight defensive players selected during the three-day, seven-round NFL draft.
LSU defenders started coming off the board Thursday in the first round when outside linebacker Barkevious Mingo went No. 6 to Cleveland; safety Eric Reid also went in the first round, No. 18 to San Francisco.
Four more LSU defensive players went Friday night in the second and third rounds, including defensive back Tyrann Mathieu to Arizona. Mathieu sat out last season after failing multiple drug tests.
Also taken Friday were: linebacker Kevin Minter (Cardinals); defensive tackle Bennie Logan (Eagles) and defensive end Sam Montgomery (Texans).
In Saturday's fifth round, cornerback Tharold Simon (Seattle) and defensive end Lavard Edwards (Tennessee) went in the fifth round.
Edwards was the only senior among the group.
LSU allowed an average of 307 yards per game last season, only good enough for third in the Southeastern Conference, though one of the best marks in the country.
It wasn't all good times for the former LSU players. Simon had some legal troubles during the draft.
He was arrested in his hometown of Eunice, La., Thursday night on charges of public intimidation, resisting an officer and a noise violation. He was released on bond. His agent, Peter Schaffer, said he is certain Simon acted appropriately and will be exonerated. Running back Spencer Ware from LSU also was selected in the sixth round by Seattle to give LSU a school-record nine players taken in the draft.
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Hope your knee problem is solved by now...but if not, I'd just like to mention it could be Hamstring/knee Tendonitus. They suggest Icing, Advil, strengthening exercises for the quads especially, and resting the area before going back to running or high impact aerobic exercise. My pain was also being felt behind the knee and top of kneecap at times-- also at it worst when bending the knee under resistance. So I'm going to try this approach first for releif...laying of the Zumba for a while : (
thanks for asking. funny timing too. I mean, the original problem last year was solved. that was popliteus most likely. but I have something else now in the back of the knee. and this one seems to be hamstring related.
I'm not sure what it is exactly. it's my left leg mostly. no pain at rest, no pain at the start of my runs, but I usually get it at about 40mins into running, it's a dull pain in the back of the knee (it is not kneecap, it is behind knee), and it slowly gets worse if I go on. on stopping it feels very stiff/locked, I have to do something like stretch the quads on that leg to make this "stiffness" go away. a few seconds of stretching left quads is effective at that.
a bit of walking and going up stairs helps too. I think it likes going up stairs because knee is flexed at every step and I noticed it definitely likes a flexed knee in general. e.g. sometimes when it gets really "locked" from some bad movement (sometimes happens during the day, not sure what movement causes this), I find relief by kneeling to keep the knees fully flexed for a few seconds. quadriceps stretching also has the same effect, very deeply flexed knee during quad stretch makes it feel "unlock".
so, after the run all that dull pain/feeling/whatever goes away in a few mins but when it started up about 2 weeks ago it was really bad because even walking was somehow off the next day, along with the dull feeling(not exactly pain).
I then figured out that when this problem started my running style was a bit "off" too, somehow I wasn't flexing the knee much while running - I was jogging easy-ish on a track, 2 days after a hill race(uphill, no downhill in race). then in this run on the track, at one point I started feeling a dull pain at every step at one specific point at the bottom of left hamstring=back of knee. I stopped after a few mins and I was ok, but next day when I went for an easy run, 20mins into the run I ran down a little hill and then it started up and wouldn't go away, and that was when next day even walking was "off". it was no longer a specific point, it was more general in the back of the knee.
anyway, walking is fine now, and I got my running style back to normal(I think..), but some runs are still no good. it seems it does not like downhill running much (I mean it will tolerate it for a while but I think downhill is more stress than flat terrain or uphill running).
OTOH, last run was a tempo run and that was fine, I think it likes tempo pace. slower paces throw it off somehow.
important: I just found out tonight that I cannot easily stretch out the hamstring on that leg with the problem (left leg) because it will feel too painful. I can convince it into stretching out on second or third try but it just doesn't feel right. and it now hurts in the hamstring muscle, it didn't hurt before, maybe I overdid this stretching...?? I don't know how to make it more flexible again or what caused it to be inflexible in the first place. this is what I need to figure out! I'm not sure if stretching is good at this point, as it made the muscle itself hurt afterwards (not behind the knee, but more up my leg). it still hurts, it did not hurt before I tried these stretches.. :bangs head into wall in frustration:
actually my hamstrings were never really flexible, but I want its flexibility back at the "baseline" because I think that would solve the problem! because, I can see that when running, when I swing my leg forward, I feel the pain/feeling right after that, I think it is when hamstring is trying to stretch out a bit before the foot lands on the ground..?? and because it can't stretch out properly, it's pulling on the tendon/tendon pulling on insertion at knee?? I could be wrong in my analysis of the situation though. just guessing, I don't know running anatomy too well.
I tried massaging around but I could not find any painful points/knots. but maybe I didn't look thoroughly enough. 2 months ago in april I had a similar issue on the same leg and then I was able to find a painful spot when massaging the hamstring, and massaging that point fixed it right away, at least it stopped bothering me back then. a difference was that in april it did not hurt during runs, only after runs.
on the whole it's better than when it started but it doesn't want to go away yet.. I cannot do long runs because of this
I'd be grateful for any tips on getting that hamstring flexibility etc. back to normal! and a few questions, does simple rest solve such a problem or do I need to take other steps too to fix this extra tight hamstring? (I assume this is what causes the issue.) was this stretching a good idea (causing muscle soreness afterwards)?
apparently stretching + massaging it was a good idea. the muscle soreness went away within 36 hours or so. and I was able to stretch it without problem, back at baseline flexibility.
I'm not sure what exactly did the trick, because I did both the stretching and massaging. also, after re-reading the old posts in this thread I realized the popliteus could be involved after all. so I played with that a bit too (not a lot of massaging though).
also, after the hamstring got released, I had a slightly sore popliteus. that went away by next day(the day after the hamstring soreness went away).
one more thing I found the position that probably caused the problem during running : standing, have one leg brought forward in the air and hold it there (meaning hip gets flexed maybe about/near 90 degrees), and then have the knee slightly extended (not full extension). this put a pull on the bad hamstring...I did not feel the pull on the good one. this is the position what the leg apparently was when I ran at an easy pace feeling the stiffness/dull pain in the back of the knee (around where popliteus is and a bit above it). when I run at a fast pace, it seems to be slightly different and fast enough paces did not pull on the hamstring and did not hurt it. - after I got the hamstring back to baseline flexibility, the pulling feeling was gone in this position too.
I'm sooo happy that I'm able to do longer runs now without this issue!! I think that re-reading the old posts here helped too, thanks
Everything still improving? There may be a change in your hip rotation as you change speeds, which would shift the load between inner and outer hamstrings somewhat. While that may explain some things, your goal should be to run all speeds with impunity.
The outer hamstring (Biceps Femoris) is a two-headed muscle with one main weak spot, in the center of the muscle belly as it crosses the femur bone, on the way from the OUTSIDE of the back of the knee to the pubic bone. The inner hamstrings run more along the inside of the bone, and attach to the INNER back of the knee on the way to the pubes. The one most likely to produce dull pain in the back of the knee is the OUTER hamstring. The two heads run fairly concurrent, the short head attaching directly to the femur under that spot.
The isolated stretch for the outer hamstring is done pointing the foot to the INSIDE, while the inner hamstring is stretched by pointing the foot to the OUTSIDE. Note this reversal. Here is a great web page on the fine points of this stretch...
Before closing the subject, it's important to remember that the added circulation massage brings, is not the only kind of circulation you need. The muscle won't be happy getting blood flow every now and then. When you are training for this sport, it's hard to find a chair that will keep the hamstrings happy, because you are sitting on them and cutting off the circulation these hard-working muscles need. Massaging them and sitting all day is like water-boarding your muscles. They need to "breath" freely all day. If you must use them, seek out chairs that put the least pressure on the belly of the muscle. There was a special chair called something like "balance" chair they used to sell in Scan stores and the like. They were kind of like the bottom half of a massage chair in that you are "sitting" on the un-muscled portion of your shins instead of your hammies. Good luck finding a car seat like that, lol. Keeping your foot on the gas pedal is one of the worst things you can do to these muscles. I have to reach under mine all the time, elevate them and massage them in traffic, especially during speed work season.
thanks for asking, luckily I've been fine since then. there were some residual symptoms first but they're gone too. but I'd like to make sure it won't come back. I did wonder if sitting is okay for them... I sit all day
is this the kind of chair you were talking about? http://www.allproducts.com/manufacture97/hanchen/product1.jpg
would it be any good if I just tried to sometimes keep my legs shifted a bit forward in a normal chair? kind of emulating the position in that pic above. that way, at least the lower half of the hamstring would not be sat on. don't know if this is a bad idea..
the good news is that I don't drive a car so no problems with the gas pedal.. did you mean that pressing on the gas pedal is a problem for the muscle?
btw, the painful spot that I had a couple of months ago was near that crossing point, that hamstring picture makes a lot of sense. it was probably outer hamstring that had the issue.
That chair in your link looks like a low-cost knockoff of the original, not just because of origin (some alternatives here...http://sitincomfort.com/kneechairs.html). It may help in some ways, but the concept of all these chairs is more back friendly than runner-friendly, because though the thighs are partly extended to take pressure off the hammies and lumbar, the hammies are kept in a shortened state. Better than the average chair? Probably. Better than staying active, probably not. Stay tuned... we'll soon be leaving our desks and conducting business from our iPads, lol.
Maybe a better office chair?
Woops I forget to address your other questions..
Slumping into a normal chair is not recommended because of the pressure on the sacrum and lower lumbar (L5-S1), the all-important upper glutes, the hip rotators underneath, and a tendency to pinch the glutes together. There's soooo much important running-related stuff going on in that booty, the slump is one of the worst things you could do. You could try adding some kind of bolster at the shins in a sort of mock-up to test the balans concept, though.
Having said that, a supported slump position, like in a la-z-boy chair, where the whole spinal curve is supposed to be supported, has been found to be one of the least stressful positions for your back. Imagine an office chair like that, with an iPad or some other screen suspended in front of you.. but you would probably fall asleep if you weren't jacked up on Starbucks, lol.
While the legs are straighter in a reclining chair and less prone to muscle shortening, there is the issue of constant pressure on the bottoms of the legs for runners to consider. I wouldn't sit in that position when recovering from speedwork, for example. These "balans" chairs solve most of that by shifting a lot of your weight to the unmuscled part of the Tibia, and away from the hams and glutes, while straightening the angle of hip flexion, which should benefit runners' hip flexors as well as the back. Wish there was a way to do something about the shortened hammies, but that would undercut the physics of the chair.
Congrats on living car-less, which is something I had managed to do at certain points of urban life. It's tough to find an alternative form of transportation, though, that is any easier on the body than walking, which if it's fast enough, makes you very lucky. I'm still unhappy with most of the bike seats out there. About the gas pedal thing... while that can lock your hip rotation (the same way using a mouse can lead to shoulder problems), for me, it is the relentless pressure on the outer hamstring, that seems to have it trapped on the car seat in the worst kind of way. I squirm after driving a while, and have to reach down and massage some circulation back into it. Cruise control, when I can use it, is a godsend.
Upon review of this whole post, which goes back over a year, the theme that emerges is that pain tends to move around, and one thing leads to another. This case history fits in well with current theories of muscle dynamics as I understand them. I too tend to train to the level that needs constant maintenance, but that's the athletic life, and we love it, don't we? I'm glad things are working out for you now. One thing you mentioned earlier that I did not comment on, is that a gentle stretch, after the relaxing massage techniques, seems to be the one-two punch for restoring muscle function. I wish all athletes understood this as well as you!
I've had similar pain behind my knee for the last 3-4 weeks. First felt it after a 19 mile training run. Never extreme pain, but enough to cause me to limp when I walk and when running. I did a lot of icing while I continued to train, but I haven't been able to get past it. Unfortunately I'm 6 days from my marathon. I've always had tight hamstrings so that may have contributed to this. Also I probably increased my mileage too quickly in my training. Next time I'll stick to the plan. This is my first running injury in 7 years.
After reading this entire thread, and based upon the ongoing pain, I'm fairly certain I'm backing out of this marathon. I feel as if I could probably finish unless something went horribly wrong, but I fear causing additional injury and not being able to run at all. I was really looking forward to the marathon finish, but its not worth risking my daily runs. After all these weeks of training its not an easy decision. Planning to see a doctor this week. Thanks for all the contributed information.
Knee pain from arthritis is a common problem for individuals of all ages. Individuals over the age of 65 are almost guaranteed to have some form of knee arthritis. The pain is usually sharp but can vary in intensity. This pain behind the knee is found to be on the joint line and in some cases it is also found in the front side of the knee.
Hey OP,
Glad to know your knee has healed now. I have been suffereing from the same exact problem as you originally had, for the past 8 months now. How did you get rid of the pain behind the back of your knee?
hey, well, I ran less temporarily until it got better, and I started to stretch my hamstrings regularly after runs.
Hope that helps
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SAN ANDREAS — The Calaveras County Coroner's Office has identified a pilot killed when his single-engine plane crashed Friday near the Calaveras County Airport as Russell Hackler, 68, of Danville.
Hackler was a well-known veterinarian practicing in Castro Valley. He was flying a home-built amphibious plane known as a Coot when it crashed.
Hackler was the only person in the plane when it went down at 3:42 p.m. Friday less than a mile south of the airport near San Andreas, the Calaveras County Sheriff's Department said in a written statement.
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STOCKTON - It will be a year before the walnut processing shed destroyed in a fire Friday evening comes back online, according to the Stockton Fire Department.
An official estimate for property damage related to the fire on East Main Street near Bird Avenue is not yet available, but crews were able to save some of the machinery related to sorting and washing the walnuts, said Matt Harris, chief's operator for the Stockton Fire Department.
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The Polk County Sheriff's Office Investigation Division is seeking information about a reported break-in from this weekend at Sunny Mountain Restaurant & Fish Camp.
Restaurant owner Amanda Greene told detectives that her fish camp at 4891 Highway 9 North in Mill Spring was broken into between 11 p.m. on Friday and 1 a.m. Saturday. The vehicle suspected to have been used in the crime is a late 1980s or early 90s model full-size Ford Bronco, which appeared to be blue in color with a white top.
Items taken from the restaurant include cash, antique signs and an antique model plane. The suspect was seen heading north on Highway 9 towards Rutherford County after the break-in.
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The function of the Mercer County Surrogate includes administrating wills, estates, and trusts of Mercer residents. The Mercer County Surrogate is elected for a five year term under the New Jersey State Constitution and is a Chancery Division clerk of the New Jersey Superior Court. The Mercer County Surrogate presides over the filing of wills that appoint executors, in order to transfer a decedent's real and personal property. The Mercer County Surrogate appoints an administrator to an estate where there is no will.
The function of the Mercer County Surrogate Court includes:
- administering wills, estates, guardianships, and trusts for Mercer County residents
- clerk of the Mercer County Superior Court
- assisting legal matters ranging from adoptions to incompetency matters
- managing the Minors' Intermingled Trust Fund, as custodian, for Mercer County minors
The Mercer County Surrogate Court is fully computerized and automated. Microfilm read-printers are available for reading or reproducing original wills and other relevant probate documents.
1) How do I begin the probate procedure? The person that wishes to be appointed to represent the Estate will bring a certified copy of the death certificate and the original Will. While the Mercer County Surrogate can begin the paperwork anytime after death, probate cannot be completed until the day following the tenth day after death.
2) Is the probate process expensive? No. Most probates cost less than $200.00.
3) Who has the right to be appointed when an individual dies without a Will? The surviving spouse or domestic partner has the first right. However, any heir may be appointed assuming they obtain the appropriate renunciations from any other heir who has an equal or prior right to be appointed.
4) What do I bring to Mercer County Surrogate Court? If you are probating a will, you have to bring:
- A certified copy of a death certificate;
- An original will. If an original will cannot be located, the will, to be admitted to probate, must be formally admitted through proceedings in Mercer County Superior Court.
- Please be advised that there are Mercer County Surrogate Court costs to probating a will and you are advised to bring at least $200.00 in check or cash, to the Mercer County Surrogate Court.
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18-year-old Penelope Soto became the face of a movement earlier this week after she flipped off a judge during her own bond hearing.
The South Florida teen returned to the same courtroom today, but the flippant demeanor that made her Internet famous did not.
"My behavior was very irrational, and I apologize not only to the court and you, but to my family," Soto told Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat through tears.
Earlier this week, a different judge sentenced Soto to complete a drug-treatment program after she admitted to possession of 26 Xanax bars.
Judge Rodriguez-Chomat remarked during today's hearing that Soto looked "completely different." He agreed to vacate her 30-day contempt sentence, saying he didn't want her to be labeled a convicted felon.
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A hand-painted gnome is shown on a window outside the Haddon Hill Cafe Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 in Oakland, Calif. Small paintings of gnomes that have popped up on utility poles have become a community sensation in Oakland, prompting Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to say Tuesday that it will keep them in place for now. The portraits on 6-inch blocks of wood began going up last year in an apparent effort to brighten up the blue-collar California city. There are currently more than 2,000 of the images on utility poles, with many screwed to the bases. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)


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Let's Just Get Through This Weekend
Next week is going to be fun around here.
Everyone knows that we are usually riding bikes when we aren't making coffee. Next week, we get to combine two of our favorite things, and also give away a bunch of cool stuff while we're at it. If you ride your bike to Verve between May 9th and 15th, we'll give you a raffle ticket (one per person, per day). That ticket will go into a drawing on Sunday afternoon for 3 great prizes. The drawing will be at 2pm on Sunday (you don't have to be there during the drawing to win). These are the prizes:
1st: V60 brew kit, Ceramic Slim Grinder, O.G. Mug, and 12oz bag of coffee
2nd: O.G. Mug and 12oz bag of coffee
3rd: 12oz bag of sweet bean
We'll also be doing a Facebook photo contest for those who can't pedal to the cafe next week. It's super simple: Just take the sweetest bike picture you can, and then post it on our Facebook wall. We'll pick our favorite 3 pics. All you have to do is shoot, post, and win. Winners take home the prizes below (yes, we'll ship them to you if you aren't in Santa Cruz), and will be announced on Facebook at 4pm PDT Friday.
1st: VCR Cycling hat, O.G. Mug, and 12oz bag of coffee
2nd: O.G. Mug and 12oz bag of coffee
3rd: 12oz bag of sweet bean
Have fun out there, and ride safe!
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andrew.r / May 12 2011 11:34 pm
where might one acquire one of dem bicycle tamps?


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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Judgment: Electronic Edition, by Charles GrayTable of Contents
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The absence of chimneys protruding through of morgue 1 of crematorium 2
7.91 As the trial progressed, it appeared that one of the main arguments advanced by Irving for denying the existence of homicidal gas chambers at Auschwitz, if not his main argument, is that the remains of the roof of morgue 1 at crematorium 2 show no sign of the chimneys which, according to the Defendants' case penetrated through the roof so as to enable Zyklon-B pellets to be tipped down into the morgue below. It will be recalled van Pelt claimed that crematorium 2 was the most lethal building of Auschwitz. In excess of 500,000 Jews lost their lives there, more than in any other place on the planet. It is the Defendants' case that the Zyklon-B pellets were fed into the chamber by means of wire mesh column which ran upwards through the roof of the chamber with the chimney protruding above roof level. The roof was made of reinforced concrete about 18-20cm in thickness with reinforcing bars within the concrete. If the chimney passed through the roof, argued Irving, the roof would to this day have five holes in it where the chimneys passed through the roof.
7.92 It is common ground that the roof of Leichenkeller 1 was supported by seven concrete pillars. The Defendants allege that adjacent to four of these pillars there ran hollow ducts or chimneys made of heavy wire mesh which protruded through holes in the roof where the pellets were poured into them and ran down into the chamber below. These ducts were 70 square centimetres in size but tapered at the top where they passed through the roof. It is Irving's case that these ducts never existed. He made that assertion because, he said, there is no trace in what remains of the roof of any holes through it. Furthermore the chimneys do not appear in the blue prints for the construction of the crematoria. Part of the roof of Leichenkeller 1 is intact, although it has pancaked down on to the floor. Irving produced a photograph which appears to show no sign of any hole in the roof. Van Pelt conceded in one of his supplementary reports that there is no sign of the holes. It would be impossible for chimneys of the size described by Tauber and Kula to have disappeared. Irving contended that, if the holes exist, it would be a simple matter to uncover the roof so as to find out if they are there. But no one has attempted this task and he wondered why not.
7.93 As for such evidence as there is of the existence of the ducts, most of it comes from some of the eye-witnesses. But, claimed Irving, they give varying accounts of the manner in which the pellets were introduced into the gas chamber and most of them (including Bimko and Bendel) have turned out to be liars. Irving claimed to have destroyed the credibility of all of them in his cross-examination of van Pelt. Olere's drawings were probably influenced by what he was told by others and in any event he was a fantasist. The photograph taken in 1942 and relied on van Pelt does not show the chimneys. The smudges on which van Pelt relies were probably barrels of tar parked on the roof during building operations. No such smudges were visible on aerial photographs taken in 1944.
7.94 At one stage in his evidence Irving appeared to concede that Leichenkeller 1 of crematorium 2 was a gas chamber but that it was used solely for delousing purposes. In the end, however, it was his position that he had not seen any evidence that there were any gas chambers at all there whether for delousing or extermination purposes. In his evidence he went so far as to say that, if anyone detected holes in the roof, he would abandon his libel action. As he graphically put it in his closing submission, Irving argued that "[the Defendants'] entire case on Krema 2 - the untruth that it was used as a factory of death, with SS guards tipping canisters of cyanide-soaked pellets into the building through those four (non-existent) holes ... had caved in, as surely as has that roof".
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With its victory over Serra, St. Francis certainly muddled this week's Mercury News football rankings.
Serra entered last week's game ranked No. 1, St. Francis seventh. In between, we had Archbishop Mitty at No. 2, Terra Nova at No. 3, Valley Christian at No. 4, Bellarmine College Prep at No. 5 and Sacred Heart Prep at No. 6.
We rank teams based largely on résumés, making it possible that one team's résumé can surpass another team's from week to week.
Such is the case with St. Francis. Before its win over Serra, St. Francis had a solid résumé but lacked a significant victory. That changed when the Lancers defeated Serra 41-34. Suddenly, St. Francis (6-2) had a resume deserving of a significant jump.
How significant? Well, the Lancers did not leap Mitty (8-0), which moved to No. 1, or high-powered Terra Nova (8-0), which moved to No. 2.
But we put them third based on these factors: The victory over Serra, which fell this week to No. 4, and close losses to Bellarmine (21-14) and Mitty (14-13).
Valley Christian (5-3) slipped from fourth to fifth because its résumé no longer is stronger than St. Francis' résumé. Valley beat Bellarmine (31-13) but lost to Serra (28-7), Mitty (14-13) and Vacaville (20-17).
Bellarmine (6-2), which slid from fifth to sixth, beat St. Francis but also lost by double digits to Serra (17-7) and Valley Christian.
Sacred Heart Prep improved to 8-0 last week but fell from sixth to seventh. The Gators' schedule factored into their ranking -- two nonleague games against "C" league opponents and one against a "B" league team.
And if you think Terra Nova -- the only non-West Catholic Athletic League school ranked in the top six -- is too high at No. 2, consider this: St. Ignatius has played Mitty, Terra Nova, St. Francis, Serra and Bellarmine. The Wildcats lost to Mitty by 18, Terra Nova by 17, St. Francis by eight, Serra by seven and Bellarmine by 14.
Palma also is in great shape to qualify, needing just one more win for the Monterey Bay League Gabilan Division title. Leland, despite a loss at home last week to Willow Glen, will represent the Blossom Valley Athletic League's Mount Hamilton in the Open with wins over Santa Teresa and Independence.
Milpitas also is rolling toward the Open, needing victories over Mountain View and Los Gatos to win the Santa Clara Valley Athletic League's De Anza Division. If Terra Nova beats Sacred Heart Prep on Friday, it wins the Peninsula Athletic League Bay Division title and qualifies for the Open. If SHP wins and beats Menlo next week, it wins the Bay title.


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Classified and Section 185A Data areas not included. "Section 185A" was previously called "Transitional". Prior Designation retained by operation of Law, but without measured violations. The former 1-Hour Ozone designations and classifications as of June 15, 2004, are being retained in subpart C of Part 81 for purposes of the anti backsliding provisions of 40 CFR 51.905. 40 CFR 51.905(c) references subpart C of part 81 for the areas affected by the anti-backsliding regulation.


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Because VSFilter.dll is installed into the AviSynth plugins dir, namely at:
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Thailand's 7-11 Operator Eyes Expansion to China, Neighboring Countries
By Payungsak Wiriyabunditkul
Thai company CP All is eyeing overseas expansion in China through the increasingly ubiquitous 7-Eleven convenience stores, hoping to replicate the huge success story in the Southeast Asian market it has created over the last two decades.
After enjoying rapid domestic expansion, the operator of the 7-Eleven chain in Thailand is seeking approval from U.S.-based franchise owner 7-Eleven Inc. to start running the stores in China, CP All Managing Director Piyawat Titasattavorakul said Wednesday at a news conference. It hopes to get the green light by year-end.
7-Eleven Inc. is owned by Japanese company Seven & I Holdings
CP All is planning to open 7-Eleven stores in one Chinese city near Shanghai, Mr. Piyawat said, without elaborating on investment details. Different store locations in China are allocated to different franchisees, according to a public relations officer at CP All. There are already hundreds of 7-Eleven stores operating in China, with 177 in Beijing and 102 in Shanghai as of January last year. In Thailand alone, CP All operates 6,800 7-Eleven stores.
At a time of urbanization and as Thailand sees an increasing proportion of the middle-class population, 7-Eleven has been rising rapidly in popularity since 1988, when CP All established the first branch in Thailand.
After getting the go-ahead by the U.S. franchise owner to operate in China, CP All will seek further approval to run 7-Eleven stores in Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
The company's move can be seen as an early step to fully capture the benefits from regional economic integration as Southeast Asian nations prepare to form the Asean Economic Community at the end of 2015. The bloc will bring together nearly 10% of the world's population into a shared economy of more than $2 trillion.
CP All is a unit of Charoen Pokphand Group, controlled by Thai tycoon Dhanin Chearavanont. CP Group, which has a vast interest in agricultural, livestock, and feedmill businesses in Thailand and China, is now struggling to pass a $9.4 billion deal to purchase a 15.7% stake in Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. of China Ltd. from HSBC Holdings The deal, if it sails through, would be the biggest-ever overseas acquisition deal by a Thai firm.
Expanding into foreign markets could prove to be fruitful in the long run but it is likely to weigh on CP All's profitability in the near term, analysts say.
"In the short-term, the company has to invest and test consumer behavior in those countries and it may not book profit during the initial stage. However, the plan will help drive the company's earnings growth in the long term," Asia Plus Securities' Vice President of Research Kawee Manitsupavong said.