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- Don't comb with a bristle brush when your hair is wet, because it can pull hair out more quickly.
- In each case the slip was most likely applied with a brush or other implement, rather than being trailed in liquid form from a slip cup.
- She dipped it into the glass of water that was beside it and then put the bristles of the brush into the red paint that lay spilt on the floor.
- All it takes is a single brush of color across the lids or under the eyes or a touch at the outer corners.
- Two of the retired sheepdogs from the neighbouring farm occasionally come to visit us, and we make them welcome, give them a stroke or a brush and a few dog biscuits.
- A final brush of powder over DiCaprio's nose, a dip inside the corner of his eye, and it's take three.
- Stepping closer to carefully wind it around her shoulders, the light brush of his fingers against her skin was enough to send a shiver through her.
- She shut her eyes and wished Daiju and Suku were with her until she felt a light brush against her forehead.
- The car kept interpreting the lightest brush of foot against pedal as an invitation to perform an emergency stop.
- Then there is a therapy service, Aftercare, to treat people who have been traumatised by their brief brush with fame.
- His brief brush with crime came early yesterday morning while he was attending the annual UWI Splash fête at Bowen Marine, Chaguaramas.
- After a brief brush with academia, he slipped into the life of a freelance writer, producing company histories, TV scripts and a bit of Emmerdale.
- Shortly after the tragic incident people started to notice that every night a large fox with a black brush would come and lay across the old woman's grave.
- But the tail, drooping down the side of the shrine, is long and straight; and club-shaped at the tip, more like the brush of a fox than the curved tail of a dog, which is normally carried in an upright position rather than low down like that of a jackal, wolf, or fox.
- Not a muzzle or a brush of a fox is to be seen.
- The sound is almost like brushes on a snare drum.
- A wide variety of drumsticks, including hard sticks, soft mallets, and brushes, is used.
- The bass on the piano was heavily distorted and the drum brushes were too heavy.
- Thus, pump life has been limited by the wear of the brushes in conventional brush-type motors.
- It's a wonderful piece of machinery; brushes and tubes fit together perfectly.
- I realize that the brushes, which transfer the electric current, are probably the key, but come on!
verb[with object]
- He carefully brushed dirt and grit away from the skeleton he was unearthing with a tiny, soft-haired brush.
- 'So far, we have found five skeletons in this pit,' he added, carefully brushing the dirt from a left femur.
- Desiree walked to one of the windows, and tried to brush the dust out of it.
- Putting a brave face on it, I picked myself up, brushed myself down and carried on to school, buckled front wheel wobbling like a clown's car.
- Standing up, she brushed herself down and looked to her left.
- The Chief picked himself off the floor and brushed himself down.
- Keep your mouth clean by brushing your teeth at least four times a day (after meals and at bedtime).
- She taught me about what her grooming needs would be, everything from cleaning her face to brushing her teeth.
- I changed into a long t-shirt and clean underwear and then brushed my teeth, washed my face, and combed my hair.
- An Afro or wide-toothed comb is ideal for brushing tightly curled black hair.
- Each evening, she sat in a chair on the balcony, brushing her long auburn hair while watching the sun set over the ocean.
- She pulled her favourite hairbrush out of the top right-hand drawer and started brushing her long auburn hair.
- There are also many proprietary liquids and pastes that have a disagreeable taste and can be brushed onto surfaces that the horse favours.
- Brush the potatoes with a little melted butter or dripping.
- Once the pan is hot, brush the roast with the olive oil, and sear on all sides, approximately 8 to 10 minutes total cooking time.
- Lexi patted Jordan's cheek lightly and then brushed past him, so she could make her way towards his room.
- Lia tilted her head to the side, allowing his fingers to brush against her cheek, lightly.
- I gently brushed past them and walked to the side of the stage.
- Gold-brown hair fell into her eyes and he pushed it back, brushing it behind her ear, and cupping her cheek in his hand.
- Eave breathed out and stepped back, carefully pushing one of Raine's plaits behind her shoulder, brushing a loose strand away from her face.
- She reached up to push them away, but before she could Brandon brushed them away for her and tucked them behind her ear.
(as) daft as a brush
- British informal Very silly or foolish: the bright, cheeky lad is daft as a brushMore example sentences
- He was the prankster in the dressing room and his former manager once fondly referred to him as being "daft as a brush".
- I took my hosts' dog—a gorgeous cocker spaniel, daft as a brush—for a long walk.
- They would be as daft as a brush not to accept free shares.
Phrasal verbs
brush someone/thing aside
- Dismiss someone or something curtly and confidently: he brushed aside attacks on his policiesMore example sentences
overlook, pay no attention to, take no notice of, refuse to acknowledge, neglect, think no more of, forget about, have no time for, shut one's eyes to, turn a blind eye to, turn a deaf ear to;reject, spurn, flout;scoff at, laugh off, make light of, trivialize, belittle, minimize
- She had taken her prospectus to a colleague, but he dismissed the idea, brushing it aside with 'the industry is too broad.'
- Sure, one can have an opinion, but it can be brushed aside, shrugged off - it's just your point of view, after all.
- The 'because I say so' attitude of old seems to be disappearing - largely because street-wise, confident children are brushing it aside, demanding to be given the rationale behind requests.
brush someone/thing off
- Dismiss someone or something in an abrupt way: the judge brushed off his pleas for leniencyMore example sentences
ignore, disregard, snub, cut, cut dead, turn one's back on, give someone the cold shoulder, cold-shoulder, look right through, freeze out;jilt, cast aside, discard, throw over, send off, send away, send packing, drop, leaveinformal knock back, give the brush-off, give the heave-ho, give someone their marching orders, give someone their walking papers, tell someone to get lostBritish informal give someone the push, give someone the elbow, give someone the big E, bin offNorth American informal give someone the airarchaic forsake
- The Japanese didn't buy it, brushed it off and dismissed it.
- My ex tried to talk to the bitch woman after the game, but she at first ignored him and then brushed him off, saying that parents who complain are problems she doesn't have time for.
- He then went up to her and tried to start a conversation but she brushed him off and ignored him.
brush past
- Touch fleetingly and in passing: she brushed past him to leave the room
brush up on (or brush something up)
- Improve one's existing knowledge or skill in a particular area: brush up on your telephone skillsMore example sentences
improve, sharpen (up), polish up, better, enhance;informal rub up, bone upBritish informal swot up (on), gen up on
- Perhaps your reading comprehension skills need a little brushing up on.
- These camps keep children amused while allowing them to brush up on their acting skills, the backstroke or learn to play a sport.
- If I were him, I'd start brushing up on my typing skills.
brushlessadjective (chiefly technical)
- a brushless motorMore example sentences
- The Hydro-Foam is a remote control electric airplane powered by a brushless motor and lithium-polymer batteries.
- Intended for direct-drive applications in large inertia and high torque load systems, brushless torque motors deliver stall torque ranging from 2 to 1490 lb/ft.
- Motor designs include brushed DC motors incorporating advanced materials for high power/mass and brushless DC motors that are widely recognised for their reliability and tailored performance.
brush-like adjective
- Example sentences
- Safety systems include 'intumescent' plastic seals around doors - which bubble up when hot and seal the door - and cold smoke ones, brush-like strips, which are fitted flush with the door.
- Although the flower is white, it has up to 100 long, bright red stamens giving it a brush-like appearance.
- In the third and most recently-proposed model, the sidearms are unstructured polyelectrolyte chains, forming a hairy, polymer brush-like layer around the filament backbone.
Middle English: noun from Old French broisse; verb partly from Old French brosser 'to sweep'.
broom from Old English:
Old English brōm was the name of the shrub. Of Germanic origin, it is related to Old English bramble. The name was applied to an implement for sweeping in Middle English when it was made of broom, heather, or similar twigs. The history of brush (Middle English) is not so clear, but both the brush for sweeping and the brush as in brushwood come from French and are probably the same word.
Words that rhyme with brushablush, blush, crush, flush, gush, hush, hush-hush, lush, mush, plush, rush, shush, slush, thrush, tush
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noun[mass noun] chiefly North American & Australian /NZ
- A witness had saw a suspect throwing a flaming device from the side of the road into the brush here, which caught fire.
- The brush in southern California looks as if it will burn: It's dry and creepy.
- Ray climbed down the tree and looked around in the brush, without any luck.
- Sometimes he would tell gruesome tales about medical procedures practiced in the jungle brush.
- Her breathing was harsh and ragged as she stumbled through the brush, glancing back over her shoulder fearfully.
- Suddenly a brown-haired stallion came galloping out of the brush.
- Gwyn managed to make a warm fire out of a pathetic pile of dry sticks and brush.
- Build a brush pile near your feeder to make sparrows, towhees, and other shy birds feel more at home, but be sure it won't harbor roaming cats.
- A Cook County Forest Preserve District representative last week said brush pile fires, set to dispose of chopped trees and buckthorn, and prescribed burns pose no threat to the public.
- The unusual terrain of Etosha holds savanna grassland, dense brush and woodland.
- It inhabits the Savannah, brush, forest, river valleys, and semi-desert regions of Africa south of the Sahara Desert.
- Including the tents of anyone who was in K'nara somewhere hacking their way through the dense brush and getting beat up by opponents.
Middle English: from Old French broce, perhaps based on Latin bruscum, denoting an excrescence on a maple.
broom from Old English:
Old English brōm was the name of the shrub. Of Germanic origin, it is related to Old English bramble. The name was applied to an implement for sweeping in Middle English when it was made of broom, heather, or similar twigs. The history of brush (Middle English) is not so clear, but both the brush for sweeping and the brush as in brushwood come from French and are probably the same word.
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ok i goto a stupid private school and im scared its going to ruin any of my chances with basketball in the future since my school is small and private and we only play the very few other private schools in the area. We have a full team and regular games but nobody is serious like me about basketball. im not sure if i should move to public school for sports if im good enough near my senior year ?
do you think i can make a future in bball at this private school? or is it hopeless...
Got the college ncaa and
The size of the school should be no concern to you if you are a college type of player. So if you are indeed that good and you indeed work that hard your game will speak for you and it wont matter what school you are at. Now naturally bigger schools that are public and private will get a few more looks but all it takes is one look from a scout to see you or hear about you and it can lead to a scholarship. I suggest you keep working hard, be loyal to the school you are at and dont worry about if it is public or private. Each players path to college basketball is different and it is not always smooth so just hold on, have faith, and work on your game. If worse comes to worse you can try to walk on to a college team and work up from there. Keep your head up! Good Luck!
just make a name. there are recruits everywhere.
"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."-Michael Jordan
Okay...ussually kids want to go to private school. Small schools dont matter to scouts if the team is good. James McAdoo who is going to UNC is coming out of a private school with like 750 kids.Thats not alot, my school is a public school who has 2500 kids and we barely send kids to college for basketball.Oak hill is always a national basketball powerhouse, but it only has 150 kids. The first thing you need to do to get to college from your pivate school is make the team. Then you need to express your dreams to your coach.
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Our new motto
Published: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 6:38 p.m.
To the editor: Legend has it that Hendersonvilles true motto is The Place You Come to Die. The county commissioners took a large step forward to dispel that myth when they invested in the health and the future of Henderson County with the purchase of the Hendersonville Christian School property. They should be applauded.
I was shocked to hear that not one person came to the meeting to speak out against the purchase. Either the county constituents are also taking a step forward or they were too busy with Wheel of Fortune and their evening soup.
A large amount of credit should go to the county staff that tightened its budgets and put us in a position to make long-term investments when other counties are just struggling to survive.
Next stop is the Rail to Trail project.
Many wonderful people live in this town and are fully invested in its future. The rest will wait to die and leave nothing but complaints and naysaying. Soccer fields? Thats where people run, make noise and have fun. Dont disturb Pat Sajak!
I want our motto to be The Place You Come to Live. What about you?
Stephen Mace
Lack of courtesy
To the editor: Kudos to Judi Wellman for her suggestions to fellow Henderson County drivers. It warmed my heart to find out that there is another person who laments the lack of courtesy on the part of some drivers. Ah, Im not alone.
Not only do I use my turn signals (when did auto manufacturers stop installing them in vehicles?) when turning but also in parking lots just so those around me have some idea of where I intend to go. By the way, that yellow line down the middle of the road is supposed to be to the left of your vehicle. You truly shouldnt straddle it, especially on a curve when Im coming in the opposite direction.
Lets get rid of the dangerous habit of texting while driving, too. Not only are you endangering yourself, you are putting the lives of all using the road in peril.
These simple things would stop me talking to other drivers so much albeit they cant hear me but its better than road rage. Be kind to your fellow woman/man. You really dont want this 64-year-old to start texting while driving, do you?
Brenda D. Thorne
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To the editor: Less than 30 percent of adults have completed legal advanced health care directives. If you have not, others will be responsible for making your end-of-life decisions, and that is likely to be difficult for them and could not be what you would choose.
North Carolina has an excellent advanced medical directive law, which was updated in 2007.
On Saturday, starting promptly at 1 p.m., a free workshop will be held at the Pardee Education Center in the Blue Ridge Mall. At this workshop, you will be given the opportunity to obtain a legal N.C. health care power of attorney document. Knowledgeable people will answer questions and help you fill it out. Witnesses and a notary will be available. Please bring ID for the notary.
The workshop is a joint effort of Pardee Hospital and Compassion & Choices of Western North Carolina.
You must pre-register at the Pardee Education Center, as space is limited to 40 people. To register, call 866-790-9355. For more information, call 685-9995.
Preparing this document is an act of love for your family.
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- Oct 4:
- Yoenis Cespedes lone bright spot in Oakland A's loss
- Kawakami: Detroit Tigers' fast start silences Oakland A's, big crowd
- Oakland A's lose Game 1 of ALDS, 3-2 to Detroit Tigers
- ALDS notebook: Oakland's Coco Crisp says the A's need to have short memories after Game 1 loss to Detroit Tigers
- ALDS: Oakland A's fans keep faith, underdog status while rocking Coliseum for Game 1
- Justin Verlander might be peaking at the right time
- Dennis Eckersley says A's need to win Game 1 vs. Tigers
- A's Game 2 starter Sonny Gray hopes to keep up with Pittsburgh's Gerrit Cole
- Dan Otero becomes key cog in Oakland A's bullpen
- Oakland A's not planning to play little ball against Tigers
- A's-Tigers game times for Games 3-5 of ALDS
OAKLAND — Hours before the A's took the field Friday night, before the relentlessly thumping drumbeats, before the onslaught of towel-waving bleacher creatures and before the "Let's Go Oaklands," former outfielder Dave Henderson scanned the empty seats and dreamed of what would come.
"It's totally different here," Henderson said from the field at the O.Co Coliseum. "Because there's a constant noise, even when nothing is going on. And that creates energy. And when you're a player, energy is what you need when things aren't going well."
The Detroit Tigers were leading 3-0 in the seventh inning when this edition went to press. For the full story, go to www.mercurynews.com.
Henderson, who played in three World Series for the A's, returned Friday to christen Oakland's latest postseason voyage. He threw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game 1 of the American League Division Series.
When Henderson delivered a strike, the fans unleashed a mighty roar. Of course they did.
They were ready for this one, having had since Sept. 22, the A's most recent home game, to rest their vocal cords. And is if to show the world, or at least Commissioner Bud Selig, that this joint had more to offer than leaking sewage, they made enough noise to make up for lost time.
O.Co went loco.
They came wearing jerseys marked Cesepedes and Balfour and Donaldson (the new guard) and Eckersley and Fingers and Rudi (old). They came early enough to fill up the parking lots and came late in jam-packed trains like a BART out of hell.
They came wearing oversized glasses (in honor of spectacled second baseman Eric Sogard) and with bushy beards (a la right fielder Josh Reddick and others).
But they came. The announced crowd of 48,146 marked the largest crowd since the 53,974 that came for a Giants game on June 27, 2004.
"When you're on the verge of a playoff series like this, you start getting antsier and antsier as it goes along," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "And come yesterday, everybody was ready for this day to come."
On a 77 degree night, the stadium went tarpless. A's officials removed the covering from the third deck, as planned, to make room for the large postseason crowd.
"When you open up the tarps and get another 10,000-15,000 people in here, the volume just goes up tremendously," said Henderson, 55, who played for the A's from 1988-93. "You can feel it in deep center field, 300 feet away.
"There's passion here, and I think that it's the fact that we have trophies. We've been there, done that. We have that bravado that lets other teams know: 'We have some in the cabinet. We want more.' "
Sonny Gray, the A's preternaturally composed 23-year-old starting pitcher, spent his night trying to soak in the scene. Three years ago, as a student at Vanderbilt, Gray joined his buddies to go watch some pitcher named Justin Verlander.
"It seemed like he was the only guy people were talking about," Gray recalled Friday. "And I remember we were at some restaurant on the road and just watching him pitch and watching him throw 100 miles an hour in the ninth inning.
"We were just like, 'Wow, he's very impressive.' "
On Saturday, Gray will have a slightly better look. He will oppose Verlander in Game 2.
Verlander is a six-time All-Star and has won the Cy Young, MVP and rookie of the year awards. He has led the A.L. in strikeouts three times and beat the A's twice in the playoffs last season, including in an elimination game.
Gray has ... let's see ... 10 career major league starts. "The problem with Sonny Gray," Detroit Manager Jim Leyland said, "is that we don't know much about him, other than what we have seen on TV. And it looks pretty darn good."
The A's, of course, are accustomed to that story line: Established stars vs. nobodies. Big payroll vs. small payroll. Household names vs. household members.
Verlander, for one, isn't fooled.
"The A's are an extremely talented ballclub," the right-hander said. "They came in this year with a chip on their shoulder because — not necessarily inside the baseball world — but the media was speculating that they were probably a fluke.
"And for that reason, they went out there and showed that they are a playoff-caliber team and left no doubt about it."
The fans have a chip on their shoulders, too, and based on Friday night seemed to embrace their role as the rambunctious outsiders. Among the tailgaters was Adam Olson, a Walnut Creek resident, who has designed T-shirts saluting the eccentricities of each A's player. For famously foul-mouthed relief ace Grant Balfour, a Sydney native, Olson designed a logo featuring an "Aussie Swear Jar" -- 50 cents per profanity.
Balfour makes $4.5 million in base salary, which means he could afford 9 million swears. That sounds right about on the money.
Alas, the Major League Baseball Players Association was not amused and sent Olson's website, itsopeningday.com, a cease-and-desist letter regarding his player merchandise.
Olson toned it down Friday with a more generic look.
His new shirt said: "Oaktober."
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Graffiti artist crosses the picket line
Using large-scale photographs, high-definition video and sound works and imposing sculptures - or what Strange describes as ''house cuts'' - SUBURBAN traces the artist's recasting and destruction of abandoned or soon-to-be-demolished suburban homes across Detroit, New York, New Jersey, Alabama, Ohio and New Hampshire.
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TA1 Series Ultra-Thin Pocket HD Camcorder
- iFrame and MP4 Recording: iFrame and MP4 recording modes allow quick and easy uploading and editing of your videos on Mac and PCs
- Skype Enabled: Make Skype video calls on your PC or Mac using the TA1 as your webcam and mic
- Ultra-thin Design: Record FULLHD video anytime anywhere
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- Recording Format JPEG
- Image Sensor (Total) 1/4.1" MOS
- Total Pixels 5.33 megapixels
- F Value F2.8
Digital Zoom4x
Focal Length4.1mm
- 35mm Film Camera Equivalent 49mm (16:9), 59mm (4:3) [Motion Image]49mm (16:9), 39mm (4:3) [Still Image]
- Image Stabilizer Electronic Image Stabilizer (EIS)
- Still Picture Recording:4:3 0.3 megapixels (640 x 480) [4:3]
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- Shutter Speed: Motion Image Auto(1/30-1/4000)
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- Microphone 1ch, Monaural
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- Image Sensor (Effective)-Motion Image 2.93 megapixels [16:9]2.19 megapixels [4:3]
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This combination of Associated Press file photos shows, left, the General Services Administration telephone switchboard and its operators in 1951, and right, Siri, Apple's virtual assistant, on the Apple iPhone 4S in 2011, in San Francisco. The number of switchboard and telephone operators in the U.S. fell from 182,000 to 73,000 in 10 years through 2010 because of new technology. (AP Photo)


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Cheshire Fair offers new attractions, old favorites in 75th year
County fairs generally have a set batch of ingredients: old-fashioned, family-centered fun in the form of farm animals, fried dough and Ferris wheel rides.
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News 12 at 11 o'clock / Monday, Oct. 29, 2012
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Taking care of a loved one with a disability is a challenge all in itself, but one Augusta family is faced with a whole new set of challenges now that someone stole their son's handicap accessible van with his wheelchair inside.
"If you see a van with a handicap decal in the window and a wheelchair, you know someone in that building is handicapped and needs it," said Stephanie Darby.
But that didn't seem to matter to the thief who stole the van she uses to transport her disabled son, DJ.
"I'm hurt that someone could just take something like that," she said.
Thieves stole her 1998 model beige Plymouth Voyager, tag number PCW7560. The thieves also got away with her son's wheelchair.
"It was custom built at Shriner's for him. It was in the van and that's gone also," she said.
And her family isn't alone. We've gotten several calls the past few months from News 12 viewers needing help looking for their stolen van.
You may remember James Ivery, a disabled veteran whose van was stolen back in July.
It's becoming a trend, one that Darby can't understand.
"Disabled people, they're already having difficulty, so why make it harder?" she asked.
But investigators say all thieves are concerned about are dollar signs, and they can get big bucks for selling the vans to junkyards.
"You get more money for the heavier the vehicle, so vans, trucks, tractor equipment, all these items are constantly being stolen and sold to recycling centers," said Investigator Kendall Brown with the CSRA Metal Task Force.
And with extra lift kits and heavy wheelchair ramps, a handicap tag on a car usually means a much heavier vehicle.
Brown says they've been swamped with reports of stolen cars at scrap yards since July.
"We average about 2 to 5 recovered stolen vehicles at recycling centers a week," he said.
He says new laws went into effect in July, making it harder for thieves to sell copper wire. Now, Brown says they're looking for other metals to sell, like steel from cars.
"We're getting vehicles stolen off the side of the road, people's cars break down and the time they get back to fix it, it's already gone and it gets recovered at a recycling center," he said.
But Darby is just hoping her van, stolen a dozen days ago, hasn't been sold for scrap yet.


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jesusCrutch wrote: Pittsburgh:
A. "everybody or yall" = yinz/yunz ...this is the most overkill term in PGH. gets annoying.
B. "Soda" = POP
C. " Iron City Beer" = River water. EX: "i got fucked up on river water"
D. " Furthermore, and so on" = N'At. To be added at the end of a phrase randomly.
All together a very broad generalization of Pittsburgh language:
"Went dan (down) to Etna Beach (allegheney river) to do some fishin n'at. Saw some buddies a mine drinkin river water (beer) and i said, Yinz (you) guys drinkin some iron n'at?" - Taken from an actual conversation as it happened...


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Lakeland Hires Curtis Porterfield as Manager of Lakes and Stormwater
Published: Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 5:03 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 5:03 a.m.
LAKELAND | Curtis Porterfield, a lakes biologist for the county, has been hired as the city of Lakeland's new manager of lakes and stormwater.
Porterfield, 34, replaces Doug Gleckler, who died in late 2012 from complications after surgery.
Porterfield has served as lakes biologist for the county since 2007. He previously worked for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection as an environmental specialist for three years.
Porterfield starts on Monday.
He said he's familiar with the program at the city.
"I am eager to apply my years of experience and environmental science education to the manager of lakes and stormwater position," Porterfield said in a release.
Rick Lilyquist, director of public works, said city administrators picked Porterfield for his knowledge of lakes restoration, passion for the environment and desire to enhance the quality of Lakeland's surface water resources.
Porterfield graduated from the University of South Florida with a bachelor of science degree in environmental science and policy.
He will be paid a yearly salary of $71,905.
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Halos Medical Mission
By dlacher on Oct 30, 2007
Halos is a new Medical Mission that has started in Haiti with the mission and goal to:
- Our mission is to share the gospel of Jesus Christ and to serve God by providing free medical care to the people of Haiti.
- Our goal is to save Haitian children from disease and death and give them hope for the future.
I have a very personal connection to Halos do what I can to help it succeed. Halos will be officially dedicated on their next trip down. Our local paper just had a nice article on the work and history of Halos. If you are interested in helping out or heading down to help on the ground, please contact them directly or myself. There is powerful work happening and lives are being changed.
For what it's worth.


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ARNICA Overview Information
The flower of arnica is used to make medicine.
Arnica is applied to the skin for pain and swelling associated with bruises, aches, sprains, and arthritis. It is also applied to the skin for insect bites, muscle and cartilage pain, chapped lips, and acne.
It is also taken by mouth for sore mouth and throat, insect bites, painful and swollen veins near the surface of the skin (superficial phlebitis), sore gums after removal of wisdom teeth, and for causing abortions.
In foods, arnica is a flavor ingredient in beverages, frozen dairy desserts, candy, baked goods, gelatins, and puddings.
In manufacturing, arnica is used in hair tonics and anti-dandruff preparations. The oil is used in perfumes and cosmetics.
How does it work?
The active chemicals in arnica may reduce swelling, decrease pain, and act as antibiotics.
ARNICA Uses & Effectiveness
Possibly Effective for:
Possibly Ineffective for:
- Reducing pain, swelling, and complications of wisdom tooth removal.
Insufficient Evidence for:
- Bruises.
- Diabetic retinopathy.
- Muscle pain.
- Insect bites.
- Pain (post-surgical).
- Sore throats.
- Stroke.
- Chapped lips.
- Acne.
- Other conditions.
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Arnica is POSSIBLY SAFE when used in the amounts commonly found in food or when applied to unbroken skin short-term. The Canadian government, however, is concerned enough about the safety of arnica to prohibit its use as a food ingredient.
Amounts that are larger than the amount found in food are LIKELY UNSAFE when taken by mouth. In fact, arnica is considered poisonous and has caused death. When taken by mouth it can also cause irritation of the mouth and throat, stomach pain, vomiting, diarrhea, skin rashes, shortness of breath, a fast heartbeat, an increase in blood pressure, heart damage, organ failure, increased bleeding, coma, and death.
Do not apply arnica to damaged or broken skin. Too much could be absorbed.
Arnica is often listed as an ingredient in homeopathic products; however, these products are usually so dilute that they contain little or no detectable amount of arnica.
Special Precautions & Warnings:Pregnancy and breast-feeding: Don't take arnica by mouth or apply to the skin if you are pregnant or breast-feeding. It is considered LIKELY UNSAFE.
Allergy to ragweed and related plants: Arnica may cause an allergic reaction in people who are sensitive to the Asteraceae/Compositae family. Members of this family include ragweed, chrysanthemums, marigolds, daisies, and many others. If you have allergies, be sure to check with your healthcare provider before applying it to your skin. Do not take arnica by mouth.
Digestion problems: Arnica can irritate the digestive system. Don't take it if you have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), ulcers, Crohn's disease, or other stomach or intestinal conditions.
Fast heart rate: Arnica might increase your heart rate. Don't take arnica if you have a fast heart rate.
High blood pressure: Arnica might increase blood pressure. Don't take arnica if you have high blood pressure.
Surgery: Arnica might cause extra bleeding during and after surgery. Stop using it at least 2 weeks before a scheduled surgery.
ARNICA Interactions
Moderate Interaction Be cautious with this combination
- Medications that slow blood clotting (Anticoagulant / Antiplatelet drugs) interacts with ARNICA
Arnica might slow blood clotting. Taking arnica along with medications that also slow clotting might increase the chances of bruising and bleeding.
Some medications that slow blood clotting include aspirin, clopidogrel (Plavix), diclofenac (Voltaren, Cataflam, others), ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, others), naproxen (Anaprox, Naprosyn, others), dalteparin (Fragmin), enoxaparin (Lovenox), heparin, warfarin (Coumadin), and others.
ARNICA Dosing
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Northeast Quicksilver will begin having tryouts in Aug for the 2014 season. We have one open spot for a top notch pitcher. Tryouts will be scheduled on an individual basis to insure a comprehensive and fair evaluation.
Thus far this year the team has played in a number of College Exposure tournaments, and in it's five championship tournaments has three 1st place finihes earning a berth to the NSA National World Series in one along with a second and a third place finish. The team recently finished ninth in the FAST-Sports National Tournament in Florida
The team had a very successful 2012 season. In eight tournaments last year the team finished lower than third place only once and finished 7th in the Montreal International Tournament which the team won in 2011.
Northeast Quicksilver has been in existence for 18 years and is coached by Paul Churchill who has developed numerous relationships with college softball coaches which have resulted in recruitment and ultimate attendance of its players consistently each year to Div 1, II and III college softball programs. So, if you are looking for many games, college exposure, college recruitment assistance, top-notch competition at a very reasonable price - Northeast Quicksilver has it all !!!
See attachment below of Quicksilver Alumni who have gone on to play softball in college.
Also see our website at http://www.eteamz.com/northeastquicksilver/ or northeastquicksilver.com
To schedule your tryout call Paul Churchill at 978-423-7927 or e-mail at email@example.com
This is a great organization. I would highly recommend it to any girls looking to improve their game and get exposure and help with college recruiting
I have heard the same
I would highly recommend this team to anyone !
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Entertainer Adam Trent will present an evening of illusions, singing and dancing next month on the Leach Theatre stage at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Trent's performance will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, in Leach Theatre of Castleman Hall, 10th and Main streets in Rolla. The show is part of Missouri S&T's 2013-14 Leach Theatre Family Series.
Tickets are $16 for adults and $12 for youth age 18 and under and Missouri S&T students with a valid student ID.
Tickets are available online at leachtheatre.mst.edu or from the Leach Theatre box office. Box office hours are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call 573-341-4219 for more information.
Described as "Justin Timberlake meets David Copperfield" in GP4T Magazine, Trent's performance combines original pop music and dancing with innovative stage illusions and comedic wit.
This self-taught performer's show is part concert, part magic show and part stand-up comedy.
In the event that tickets remain, discounted tickets will be offered through the theater's Back Row Club. The seats in the last row of the theater will be sold one hour before each event for $10 each.
Adam Trent's performance is sponsored in part by Sunny 104.5 FM, The Coffee Mine and Comfort Suites.
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OAKLAND -- The A's locked up reliever Sean Doolittle with a contract extension Friday afternoon, just hours before prized prospect Sonny Gray showed once again that he also has the makings of a franchise cornerstone.
Gray kept the Houston Astros in check for six innings and cruised to his third victory without a loss this season, in large part because of a seven-run outburst in the first inning that catapulted the A's to an 11-3 win at the Coliseum.
A matchup between the top pitching prospects from the respective organizations -- Gray and Houston's Jarred Cosart — lasted less than one inning.
Gray did his part. It was Cosart who failed to live up to the hype. He departed after 39 pitches and seven runs on his ledger.
As so often is the case, the A's relied upon a formula that they call power and patience.
Wait for certain pitches, take some walks along the way and tee off when the desired pitches arrive.
"That's how you get starting pitchers out of the game," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "That's how you get to bullpens early. That's how you can beat good starting pitchers. ... That's been an attribute of ours for the better part of two-plus years now."
It worked to perfection Friday. Yoenis Cespedes started the A's onslaught with a two-run single after Cosart walked the bases loaded. Alberto Callaspo added a three-run home run and Josh Reddick drilled a two-run shot before Cosart got yanked with one out.
The A's batted for so long in the first inning that Gray warmed up in the bullpen, while Cosart labored on the mound.
Gray made it through the long wait just fine. Not that he cared, given the fact he benefited from the offensive explosion and it made his job that much easier.
Cespedes tacked on a solo homer in the second, which extended the lead to 8-0 and almost matched the nine runs the A's scored in Gray's first three starts combined.
Just about everyone got in the act offensively for the A's on Friday. Reddick entered the game in a 1-for-17 slump and without any extra-base hits all season.
He changed his fortunes in a hurry with a homer and a single in his first two at-bats. He added a single in the seventh.
"I felt really good up there," Reddick said. "It's the best I felt since opening night. I just got to build off of it, come back tomorrow and hopefully do the same thing."
This was the kind of game that players off to slow starts such as Cespedes and Reddick might look back upon and point to as a turning point.
Cespedes raised his average from .213 to .246 and Reddick from .098 to .156 with 3 for 4 performances.
"Actually helping the team for once felt really good," Reddick said.
Friday's contest also provided the A's a much-welcomed breather from the kind of games that typified their recent nine-game road trip, where the final six games were decided by three runs or less.
The A's no doubt would like to use some of the runs they scored Friday for the remaining two games of the series.
Then again, it might not matter. The A's improved to 21-5 against the Astros all-time. Friday's result and recent history suggest the A's are primed to pile up wins like cordwood based on the fact they play the Astros six more times in the next nine days.
Gray surrendered three earned runs against the Astros, or one more than he allowed in his first three starts combined.
But he was sharp enough to make it through six innings to give Melvin the luxury of not taxing the bullpen.
"He continues to be good without probably seeing his best game to this point yet," Melvin said.
"Right now, we're fine with this, but there's the potential for anything," Melvin said.
"It means everything that the organization thinks of you like that, that you're somebody that they want to keep around, they think that you can be a part of teams here for years to come," Doolittle said.
"It was probably a little more significant this time, a little higher up," Melvin said. "It may take him a little bit longer than when he came back during spring training."
Russell first hurt his hamstring in early March. He damaged the same hamstring in early April while playing for Double-A Midland. The young shortstop is expected to be sidelined at least until May.
Houston (Brett Oberholtzer 0-3) at A's (Scott Kazmir 2-0),
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I've got my PC connected to my 360 but I cant see my music. I can see my video files tho'.
I have moved my music to C:\Documents and Settings\Pete\My Documents\My Music and it still can't see them.
My music is in .MP3 format. I have converted one to .WMV and .m4a and they can't be found either? What format should my music be in for my 360 to be able to see them and where should they be, I have listed the location in the shared folders locations too.


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The Red Hot Sugar Babies at Southern Appalachian Brewery
Published: Friday, February 22, 2013 at 12:39 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 22, 2013 at 12:39 p.m.
The Red Hot Sugar Babies will bring the sounds of the Roaring '20s and '30s to Southern Appalachian Brewery at 822 Locust St., Hendersonville, N.C., at 8 p.m. Saturday.
The band consists of Joanne Domka (trumpet), Lois Jolly (trombone), Wendi Loomis (vocals), Mario Piccolo (guitar), Dan Patrella (banjo) and Bohne Forsberg (bass).
For more information, call the brewery at 828-684-1235 or visit www.sabrewery.com.
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Liverpool Message Board
That's How it's Done!!
Like I'd guessed / hoped in the previous thread from what I saw in training photos, we came out with probably our best 11, and a nice flat competent back 4, with tremendous balance in the mid and final third. Again, I DO NOT GIVE A ISHT who we slaughter at home 4-0, because in many years past, we haven't done, and this is what top sides and champions do best. Look at this way, WBA won at Old Trafford, we destroyed them 4-1, and then they should have taken all 3 points the Bridge but were hard done by a rubbish pk call today. Fulham held Arsenal to a draw, and caused Spurs (I think) a lot of trouble.. no such trouble today.
Anyways, it was easily our best and most complete 90" minute performance, and even with us being a little off and not getting a clear breakthrough in the first 20", we kicked on, and got everything we deserved, plus should have gotten a couple more. The only thing I would have liked to have seen, was Alberto maybe getting himself 15-20 mins to fill in that 10 role, and work with Suarez, Lucas, Allen and Moses. BUT, I think Coutinho needed the full 90 for fitness..
Lastly, and most know I would say this, but Skrtel was absolutely brilliant, since his troubles last season, and being dropped earlier in favor of Kolo, he has been sensational and man on a mission. The bullet header was his trademark, we could always expect 3-4 of those over the season, and some don't see it the way I do, but he looks very good on the ball. For me, at the moment, our finest CB. Scary how despite the stories of us never wanting to sell, I fully believe he was off to Zenit or Napoli, and we're lucky that didn't happen.
Well done Red Men! Hopefully everyone stays sharp and healthy for the international break, and comes back ready for a proper derby vs our bitter friends!!Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Quite right Jason. Our best 90 minute display and you're right to point out that, although Fulham were awful, it is possible to screw up against such teams.
Suarez, Johnson, Gerrard, PC and Henderson all outstanding for me.
Just a shame they BR screwed up and picked Skrtel rather than my pick Toure, could have been 7-0 :-)
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Yes but I'm conscious it was a against a Fulham side that decided to stay in Fulham.
I want to see us doing that against the United's, Arensal's etc. And so far we haven't so I'm very wary of where we are.
Crazy season though and the weekends results went our way for sure.


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The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi men's basketball team returns to conference play with a Friday afternoon matchup against Sam Houston State in Huntsville, Texas. The Islanders are looking to snap a 10-game losing string as they enter the bulk of league play, while the Bearkats have won four straight.
• The Islanders have one of the youngest teams in Division I, with an average age of 20 years, four months and three days heading into today's matchup.
• Texas A&M - Corpus Christi has played the 44th toughest schedule in the nation according to RealTimeRPI.com. The team's game against Oklahoma marked its third against a BCS conference foe this year.
• Junior Joy Williamson has scored in double figures in seven of the last eight games. He matched his career high with 14 at Oklahoma.
• The Islanders have split the season series with Sam Houston State in each of the last two seasons and four times overall. In the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons, SHSU swept the season series.
• Will Nelson scored 24 points and snared 14 rebounds in the loss to SFA, the first double-double for an Islander this season.
• Texas A&M - Corpus Christi is ineligible for the postseason because of poor results in the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate. No Islander who has played under Wilson had anything to do with the subpar score.
The Islanders and Bearkats will do battle for the 16th time since A&M - Corpus Christi restarted its intercollegiate athletics program in 1998. Sam Houston State holds a 10-5 edge in the series, including a 7-3 advantage in the last five years. The Islanders are 2-5 in Johnson Coliseum all-time.
Last year's contest against SHSU in Huntsville provided one of the signature moments in Willis Wilson's first season as head coach. The Islanders and Bearkats battled to the wire, and Hameed Ali's jumper from the corner with 0.3 seconds on the clock gave the visitors a 50-49 win over the Bearkats. In the contest between the teams in Corpus Christi, Steven Werner scored 23 points and had 12 rebounds as the Bearkats finished the game on a 13-4 run to rally past the Islanders, 61-53.
In the two games against the Bearkats last season, Johnathan Jordan averaged 11 points, 7 assists and 4.5 rebounds. SHSU's returning leader, Darius Gatson, averaged 8 points and 4.5 assists.
Despite the Islanders' struggles in the win column, the team has been surprisingly efficient when it comes to turnovers. A&M - Corpus Christi is averaging 12.4 per game – fewer than their opponents' 12.9 per game – and ranked 42nd in the nation as of Dec. 30. The Islanders posted just nine turnovers against Stephen F. Austin, their third game this season with fewer than 10 turns. Earlier in the year, the Islanders took care of the ball like no other time in program history.After posting six turnovers at Utah State – the second lowest total in school lore – the Islanders matched the school record with only five turns against Houston.
The Oklahoma contest was an obvious exception, though. The Islanders turned the ball over 18 times, and unlike previous contests where offensive fouls were the primary culprit, many of the turns were unforced. In fact, with the score 32-18, the Islanders turned in defensive stops on five straight possessions – but on each offensive possession that followed, committed a turnover. It marked just the third game this season that the Islanders had more than 15 turnovers (19 against TLU, 16 at Toledo).
Nonetheless, it is a marked improvement from the ball control for the team from last season. A&M - Corpus Christi averaged 15.2 turnovers per game and ranked 291st in the country out of 338 teams. The Islanders had 14 games with 15 turnovers or more last year, and just three with 10 or fewer.
The Islanders have played one of the toughest schedules in the nation this season, with RealTimeRPI showing their opposition as the 44th toughest in terms of Division I opponents. The Islanders are one of four Southland teams in the top 50, with McNeese State (4), Northwestern State (6), and Oral Roberts (50) also in that group. The website does not factor in games against non-Division I foes, of which the Islanders have played one (Texas Lutheran), as has Oral Roberts. Northwestern State has four wins over opponents not in D-I, while McNeese State has three.
The Islanders have played six games against teams that have at least nine wins, and seven of their first 11 games have come away from the American Bank Center. The Southland has three teams ranked in the top 100 of the RPI – McNeese (45), Northwestern State (63) and SFA (51).
The Islanders have one of the youngest teams in Division I, with an average age of just over 20 years, and are one of just a handful of teams nationally that have no seniors on their roster. In a fact that will make most reading this feel old, only one player – Will Nelson – was born in the 1980s. Just half of the Islanders roster is over 20 years old, and 10 of the players on the team are freshmen and sophomores.
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi is also one of just eight teams that entered the season with an average of less than one year of experience per player. The Islanders had 14 years of college playing experience among their 15 players, though only nine of those years were at the Division I level.
In total, the Islanders started this season having played a total of 2,933 minutes in Division I, which comes out to just under 196 minutes per player.
One of the major characteristics of the recent Islanders struggles has also been the number of offensive fouls they have commmitted. In the last seven games, A&M - Corpus Christi has 18 offensive fouls, accounting for nearly 20 percent of their turnovers. The Islanders had five offensive fouls at South Alabama, in a game they lost by just seven points, and four at Iowa. They committed three against UTSA in addition to two each against SFA, at Texas A&M and at Toledo. In a strange twist of the situation, the Islanders went without an offensive foul at Oklahoma, but had their highest number of turnovers since the season opener.
Among the Islanders, there is no personality quite like that of the appropriately-named Joy Williamson. The junior transfer's ebullient and energetic personality is matched only by his intensity and pace on the basketball court.
Williamson began the year as an excellent sixth man for the Islanders, and he still leads the team with 61 bench points on the season. He has been rewarded for his strong play with five straight starts.
The Oklahoma City native has been remarkably consistent on the year, posting eight games on the year with between 10 and 14 points. He is back over the 10-point barrier for his season average, clocking in at 10.2 heading into today's contest.
After struggling to the tune of 2-for-16 in the games against UTSA and SFA, Williamson bounced back in his return to his home state on Monday afternoon. Williamson matched his career high with 14 points, going 5-for-13 from the field to go along with a 3-for-4 performance at the line.
He hit at least one three-pointer in eight straight games, and leads the team with a .351 percentage behind the arc, and his .778 percentage at the line is second on the team. Perhaps most impressively, he has registered at least 30 minutes in eight of the last nine games, including a career-high 39 at Texas A&M. He is in the Southland's top 10 with his 30.5 minutes per game average.
His finest game came against Houston, as the guard's offensive ability shined brightly. He went 6-for-9 from the field for 13 points, filling the stat sheet in all other aspects of his game as well. Williamson snared seven rebounds, dished out four assists to no turnovers and registered three steals.
Williamson played two seasons at Redlands Community College, where he was coached by current Islanders assistant Yaphett King. The Oklahoma City native scored 18.7 points and grabbed 8.2 rebounds at Redlands after a standout high school career at Putnam City North High School.
The Stephen F. Austin contest provided one of the slowest starts in recent memory for the Islanders. Despite having several good looks at the basket, A&M - Corpus Christi opened the game coming up empty on their first 13 shots. By contrast, the Lumberjacks started the game 8-for-14 to open up a 16-1 lead on the Islanders.
The home squad rallied to hit nearly 50 percent of its shots the rest of the way (21-of-46), and used a 15-1 run around halftime to trim a 27-12 deficit to just one point at 28-27.
Unfortunately, the shooting divide has been a consistent characteristic of the recent struggles for the Islanders. In the last four games, A&M - Corpus Christi has not shot better than it did against SFA (.356), while the opposition has shot better than 50 percent in three of those games. The .293 shooting day at Oklahoma was the lowest offensive output this season, though the defense held OU to a .407 mark, the lowest since the opener against TLU.


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Speed Dating (Women 30-40, Men 30-45)
By chpschps on January 21, 2013 - 4:03pm
Come join the R Club team at our Speed Dating event for Singles. Rendezvous Club is Vancouver's most prestigious Singles Events Company. Whether you are looking for your soul mate or just looking to have a good time, we have something for everyone! With singles of all backgrounds attending our events, it is a sure way to leave feeling like you've connected with someone on a relationship or friendship level. Leave the butterflies at home because it is our pleasure to offer our daters a welcoming, fun-filled and exciting dating experience. Please visit our website http://www.rclub.ca for more information and call 604-729-5990 to register.


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(I'm not really sure it's a bug, sorry for that. Also, I tried to write it on the Bug Report, and got a permission error on posting)
Please see the attachment or this image : black-ship.net/~tukuyomi/stuff/public/misc/move_poly.png
Try to move/copy the draw next to it:
CTRL+A; CTRL+SHIFT+C; CTRL+V, then check flip (horiz or vertical), the drawing is somehow strangely reversed.
QCAD 3.2 on Windows XP 32bits. If needed, I can test later on Linux 64bits.


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Liverpool Message Board
Gutted that we are losing a quality keeper and leader - SM has big shoes to fill and it's a big risk bringing in any keeper to a club with expectations & media coverage. Let's hope he's up to it.
As for BR ...
"From last season, really, as a manager I was led to believe that we were going to get an offer for Pepe that would probably see him leave the club. On the football side, we have to protect the team, and at that stage we started our search for another goalkeeper."
Wasn't he quoted as saying that SM wasn't purchased as Reina's replacement?
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I agree and I think we're going to miss him. Simon has looked good so far in pre-season, and I have no doubt quality wise he's a strong replacement, but I think we're also going to miss the leadership on and off the pitch that Pepe provided. In a season where we've also lost JC another natural leader, we need to make sure players step up, are vocal and lead the team from the back.
I can understand the club ensuring we were covered as it looked very likely Pepe was off to Barca, so can't fault the club for bringing in cover. However at only 30 Pepe is still within his prime as a keeper so part of me wonders if it was a mistake letting him go. But it is what it is, and while I'd rather have seen Riena go out on a high note, rather than put out on loan waiting for Barca to pick him up next summer, I'll still wish him the best for the future.
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What is amusing to me about this is his indignant attitude when he says Brendan was out of order for punting him out to Napoli. He then shows his cake and eat it attitude by admitting that he was waiting for Barca to make an offer and then asking for a new contract if no offer came! So he gets a pay rise and then when Barca come calling next year he's off?
I don't blame the club at all for getting rid of a player who is just biding his time to leave. Sounds like a recurring theme at the moment doesn't it?
I've been saying it for a couple of seasons now - Pepe had gone stale and I'm glad we've got someone new who I have very high hopes for.


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NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. -- Investigators are still looking for the two gunmen involved in a fatal shooting on Sept. 29.
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NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. -- A 28-year-old North Augusta man is dead after an overnight shooting.
According to the Aiken County coroner, the victim is Travis Smith.
He was pronounced dead at Ridgeview Manor on Bradleyville Road around 3 a.m. An autopsy was scheduled for Saturday morning.
North Augusta Public Safety officers say a witness to the shooting said two black male suspects wearing hoodies approached Smith while standing outside the apartment B-417 with his girlfriend, Bianca Cauthen.
One suspect fired a single shot in the direction of the two as they ran back inside the apartment. Smith was found on the couch inside the apartment with a gunshot wound to his abdomen, according to investigators.
Smith and Cauthen were at the apartment complex visiting Cauthen's friend, Jessica Smith, at the time of the shooting.
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Photographer Mandi Raymond senses she is onto something. All she needs is for Matthew Ouimet, a relentless, adorable, undeniable 2-year-old, to hold a pose.
He cuts a riveting picture, seated on a wooden chair in the middle of a field, backlit by the setting sun. His shirt is off, revealing implanted catheters that dangle from his little torso. They are lifelines for Matthew, who suffers from the genetic condition Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1. The catheters are used during his six-days-a-week dialysis treatments. Dialysis is his bridge to a liver and kidney transplant and a relatively normal life.
At the foot of the chair is a chalkboard with the handwritten message: Become an organ donor. Raymond plays music on her phone to get Matthew's attention. He recognizes the tune from his favorite TV show and smiles, clasping his hands as if pleading for help. It's actually his sign for Mickey Mouse.
Raymond snaps the shutter.
"She knew as soon as she took that picture she had captured something pretty special," said Kristi Ouimet, Matthew's mom.
Kristi Ouimet and her husband Kelly, with the help of friends and family members, have been shuttling Matthew to dialysis treatments at UCSF Medical Center -- a 94-mile round trip from their Antioch home -- for 22 months, ever since he experienced end-stage renal failure at 5 months old. Matthew has been on the transplant list for 14 months.
The wait has been agonizing for the Ouimets, but in a way uplifting. It seems the longer Matthew waits for his organs, the more hearts he touches.
The picture, for example. It came about because of the Olivia Act, named for a 6-year-old girl killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings a few weeks after posing with her family for a series of professional photographs.
An anonymous photographer, touched by the story, challenged others in the field to donate their time and services to deserving families in their area. Raymond, an Oakley resident and mother of two, chose the Ouimets because she felt a personal connection to their story.
"Especially having a 2-year-old," she said. "Plus, five years ago I was pregnant and lost a set of twins. The thought of losing a child, and having two kids of my own, hit home."
Raymond contacted Kristi Ouimet. A sitting was scheduled, one that included the entire family, including Matthew's brother Patrick, 8, and sister Molly, 10, who has the same rare condition.
"We wanted to include some type of photo that would have a powerful statement behind it," Kristi Ouimet said.
Bingo. Raymond posted the picture of Matthew on her Facebook page. In two weeks it has received 45,000 views.
"It really did capture more than just a little boy in that picture," Kristi Ouimet said. "We've had quite a few people, including Mandi, say it wasn't until they saw this picture that they were compelled to be a donor. It's amazing how one photograph literally is going to save lives."
Kim Hollander is the executive director of the Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria Foundation, a New York-based nonprofit dedicated to the rare disease which afflicts Matthew and Molly.
"I've experienced other families going through the same thing," Hollander said, "but no one has done what Kristi has done, to put her life out there for everyone to understand. Seeing Matthew and Kristi on their video (produced by a family friend), you start to feel this major connection with the family."
When Hollander joined the foundation 10 years ago, primary hyperoxaluria was little known even in medical circles. People with the condition have a defective liver enzyme that ends up affecting the kidneys and other organs. While awareness has been raised, she believes Matthew can accelerate the process. She often shows his video when appearing before groups of patients and doctors, and will screen it at a gala fundraiser on May 30 in New York.
"No one walks away dry-eyed," she said.
"It was kind of surreal to hear that we're a part of that," Kristi Ouimet said.
Kristi credits the family's faith for getting them through the commutes to and from dialysis, the three hours of sleep she averages each night, the three times they were told organs were available only to find they weren't a match. She has come to believe that the interminable wait is part of a bigger plan.
"Absolutely," she said. "The longer this goes on, the more I know Matthew is destined for great things. There are so many people he has touched that I can't even comprehend."
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Let's just hope he has nothing to do with providing the party favors in the limo.
Stefan Montana bumped into the "Breaking Bad" star Thursday, after a performance of Cranston's Broadway show "All the Way." According to NBCBayArea.com, Stefan enlisted Cranston to record a message asking a girl named Maddie to be his date to Saturday's Los Gatos High School prom.
Cranston was a real sport, using his trademark voice to convince Maddie: "If you don't go to the prom with Stefan, then maybe your best course of action would be to tread lightly."
"Maddie would you go to prom with me?" A beaming Stefan asks next, standing right next to Cranston.
Stefan tweeted out a link to the YouTube video on April 11, which has been viewed more than 245,000 times. He later tweeted that Maddie had said "yes."
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Third-year coach Seth Thibodeaux and the Nicholls State baseball team released their 2013 schedule on Thursday and it includes 24 home games at Ray E. Didier Field and renews rivalries against LSU, Louisiana-Lafayette, Southern and Tulane.
The Colonels are looking to continue their strong run as of late. Last year the team won more than 25 games for the third consecutive season, while keeping alive its streak of winning records at home.
The first pitch of the season will come in Houston on Feb. 15, as the Colonels travel to face a team it will become familiar with in the coming years in the Houston Baptist Huskies.
HBU will join the Southland Conference in all sports next season, after establishing a winning tradition in the Great West Conference. The three-game series against the Huskies was originally scheduled to be played at Constellation Park, the site of the 2013 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament, but was moved to campus due to scheduling conflicts.
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SAN JOSE -- In pictures posted Tuesday on the Audrie Pott Foundation Web page, there is Larry Pott, the adoring dad through the ages, smooching his toddler's cheek, smiling as he crouches down to her level a few years later, and wrapping his arm around her shoulders when she grew into a teenager and dressed up in a pretty blue dress.
"From her first breath to her last and everything in between. What a great Daddy!" Pott's wife, Lisa, wrote in a note accompanying the photo collage.
A far different picture is painted in new court papers that called Pott's fatherhood into question in a case that made national headlines and shined a harsh light on teenagers, alcohol and cyberbullying. Larry Pott is not Audrie's biological father, claims a lawyer for one of the teenage boys accused of being responsible for the 15-year-old girl's suicide.
The court filing also claims Larry Pott and Audrie's mother, Sheila Pott, are at least partially to blame for the tragedy.
Larry and Sheila Pott, who are long-divorced, either knew or should have known of Audrie's "long-standing and serious emotional problems before her suicide and they should have sought professional help," according to the court papers filed by lawyer Philip Pereira in response to the Potts' wrongful death lawsuit.
Neither the Potts nor their lawyer would comment on the new claims Tuesday. But in a message posted under the collage of photos on the foundation's Facebook page, one woman commented: "The constant re-victimization of your family is unacceptable. So sorry for your continual loss."
The claims against the Potts forecast a nasty court showdown, and legal analyst Peter Keane, dean emeritus and law professor at Golden Gate Law School, said the legal tactic is "going to backfire" against the boys.
"It sounds to me that much of what's being raised is a lot of irrelevant smoke screen to attempt to get away from the main issue of whether or not the people being sued are responsible in any way for the loss of this child," Keane said Tuesday.
Audrie hung herself in her mother's home in September 2012, a week after she drank too much and woke up from a party at a girlfriend's house, partially naked with dirty messages scrawled on intimate parts of her body. She had been sexually assaulted, according to court papers. At least one photo was taken and shown around campus, the Pott family has said, which traumatized and humiliated Audrie and led to her suicide.
Three boys, all from Saratoga High School and friends or acquaintances of Audrie, were charged in juvenile court.
In the aftermath, Larry Pott and his wife, along with Audrie's mother, Sheila, held news conferences, formed a foundation in Audrie's name and spearheaded legislation to increase the penalties against teenagers involved in cyberbullying. It also spurred new conversations between parents and teenagers across the country about bad behavior, the power of social media and tragic consequences.
The Potts also filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the boys' families and in June added a fourth teenager: a girl who the Potts say was in the room and encouraged the boys to draw on Audrie and take pictures.
Pereira filed a five-page response to the claims on behalf of one of the boys on Dec. 27. Not only was Pott's suicide "set in motion by the plaintiffs years before the events," the response said, but also after an altercation between Audrie and two of her friends who are not named as defendants. Previous court records indicate that one of Audrie's friends ended their friendship after chastising her for a recent change in her personality and drinking too much.
Pereira also singled out Sheila Pott, but provided little context or explanation for his claims. He quoted former Superior Court Judge Dolores Carr in a 2005 court matter: "Ms. Pott, I would be remiss if I didn't look you in the eye and tell you what a mess I think you've made for many people ... because in this court's view, having ballet lessons and piano lessons and private school is really nothing in terms of the kinds of consequences your behavior has brought on your daughter."
When reached at home Monday, Pereira declined to comment.
Court documents obtained by this newspaper show that Larry Pott's paternity was contested in 2003 by a man who claimed he and Sheila Pott had an affair while the couple was separated. The case was dismissed, however. The Potts had reconciled before Audrie was born, and Larry Pott is listed as the father on Audrie's birth certificate.
Keane, the legal analyst, said the paternity claim does not diminish Larry Pott's right to file a wrongful-death suit as her father.
To contest paternity, the man needed to file his case within two years of the birth of the child, he said. In Audrie's case, the man filed a claim when she was 6.
"It doesn't matter whether biologically it was his child, even if you can provide by DNA that it is," Keane said. "Under California law, a child with parents who were cohabitating at the time, if the father holds himself out to be the father, he is by law that child's father."
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The members experienced a weekend of perspiration and inspiration with students from all over the state.
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SAN JOSE -- For a group of kids who struggled to adjust to the rigors of high school, 15-year-old Andy Martinez became their beacon for figuring it out.
Teachers say the sophomore, once considered an at-risk student, turned a corner over the past school year and learned the rhythms of school, on top of the rhythms of the homemade hip-hop tunes he wrote with a posse of friends and classmates.
"He was the life of our class," said Sue Tatro, a teacher who worked closely with Andy. "We were mostly silent (today). We didn't have anything to say. We cried; we prayed."
His ascendancy was tragically cut short Monday morning when, while riding his bicycle to Silver Creek High School, he collided with a pickup truck as schoolmates also heading to school looked on in horror.
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Andy was just two blocks away from campus.
Traffic investigators are still mining the details, but the prevailing narrative is that at 7:36 a.m. Andy was heading east along East Capitol Expressway when he and a northbound truck on Silver Creek Road crashed into each other, hurtling the youth onto the roadway.
Emergency crews performed CPR on Andy and rushed him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead about half an hour later. An exact cause of the crash has yet to be determined. The teen was riding a fixed-gear bike with a hand brake and was not wearing a helmet.
While authorities have not formally confirmed the victim's identity, several school and community sources confirmed to this newspaper that it was Andy.
The driver, who police say stopped at the scene and was cooperative, was visibly distraught as he watched investigators examine his truck. He declined to comment, saying police asked him not to talk about the collision, but did nod when asked by a reporter if he thought he had a green light.
A junior at Silver Creek walking by the crash site said the campus mood was somber and challenging given that final exams are being held this week. Graduation is Thursday.
"He was just a sophomore. There was so much of ahead of him," said the 17-year-old student, who asked not to be named out of privacy concerns. "Everyone is sad. It's the last week of school. It's supposed to be a party."
Once news broke of Andy's death, grief counselors were summoned to the campus of about 2,400 students. Principal Adolfo Laguna said he has visited the teen's family and vowed to provide any available resources to help the school community heal.
"We're going to do whatever it takes to support our staff, students and the family through this tragedy," Laguna said.
He added that the death is a poignant reminder of how careful motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists have to be around the school area, particularly during the morning rush. The intersection where Andy died has long been one of the city's busiest, with Capitol Expressway spanning more than 10 lanes and the Highway 101 connector just a quarter-mile away.
"We have to be more aware of what's happening around the schools. We have to take care of our youth," Laguna said.
Andy's family moved last year, Laguna said, and Andy had been riding a bicycle to school. Because of the move, he was due to transfer to another high school in the fall.
Meanwhile, those who knew Andy recalled his passion for music -- he had sights set on one day working in production -- and his efforts in class to take spray-painted "street art," as Tatro called it, and apply it to conventional art settings so that it would be regarded as more than mere graffiti.
"He was one of our most creative, one of our most fun," Tatro said.
By throwing himself into his school work, Tatro said, Andy bucked the stereotypes often associated with students in programs aimed at helping them catch up to more traditional study habits.
"When he came here, his test scores were high, which meant that there was a problem with the way we were teaching him," Tatro said, espousing the tenets of the "180 Degree" program that tailors learning plans for struggling students. "He's worked really hard to know (what) he needed to do."
Tatro said a memorial is tentatively planned for later in the week, and that a makeshift altar is forming in her classroom. Her original plans for a class final was to have students write about what they've learned about each other. It seems now that those essays will naturally flow into a more singular direction.
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The painful revelation raises uncomfortable questions about the response to the July 6 crash and has cast a shadow over a heroic response that saved most of the 307 passengers and crew aboard the doomed plane.
"There's not a lot of words to describe how badly we feel, how sorry we feel," San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White said at a news conference with San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault.
"We commit to continue to examine our response that day," Hayes-White said. "Could we have done something different faced with the challenges we had in terms of passengers still on an aircraft that was engulfed in flames ... and the need to get to those flames? We had fuel leaking. It was a very dangerous and volatile situation."
Ye Mengyuan, the 16-year-old victim, was covered in firefighting foam when she was run over, San Francisco police said. Officials haven't said whether first responders made an effort to dig through the foam to search for victims, or explained how her body ended up covered in foam.
San Francisco firefighters do not train with fire-retardant foam at SFO "because of the environmental impact," fire department spokeswoman Mindy Talmadge said Friday. But when they train for possible plane crashes at other locations, San Francisco firefighters are taught that one of foam's many uses is to smother fumes from leaking jet fuel and other chemicals so they don't trigger a fire, Talmadge said.
Instead of focusing on breaking through fire-retardant foam to look for potential casualties, San Francisco firefighters instead are trained to maintain "a blanket of foam" -- and apply more if it starts to shrink in size to reduce any fire hazards, Talmadge said.
They key is to maintain that blanket," she said.
San Jose firefighters don't use fire or foam for their mandatory FAA drills at Mineta San Jose International Airport but said they do train with both during annual drills at either Moffett Federal Airfield or Salt Lake City.
But the presence of foam can quickly overwhelm a mock crash site, San Jose fire Capt. Cleo Doss said.
"When we do start dropping a lot of foam in the area it's like skiing in a whiteout condition," Doss said. "You can't see anything."
Doss saw photos of the foam covering the burning Boeing 777 at SFO and said it was "chest high."
An investigation continues to determine exactly which fire rig or rigs ran overYe. Fire officials previously said each of the five personnel operating rescue apparatus at the crash site passed drug and alcohol screenings in the ensuing investigation. Asked Friday if any firefighters face disciplinary action, Hayes-White said, "At this moment, no. I consider it a tragic accident."
Before Ye was run over, Foucrault said, "She was alive at the time." She died of "multiple blunt injuries that are consistent with being run over by a motor vehicle."
An examination of internal hemorrhaging ruled out any chance the girl was already dead when the truck hit her, Foucrault said.
The San Francisco Police Department, which continues to investigate Ye's death, said her body was discovered in tracks in the fire-retardant foam that had been left by one of the San Francisco Fire Department's Airline Rescue and Firefighting rigs.
Ye and 16-year-old Wang Linjia were found dead after the crash. The Chinese schoolmates were ejected from the plane after the tail snapped off when it crashed into the sea wall that abuts Runway 28 Left. Both girls were seated near the rear of the aircraft.
A third fatality was reported July 12 when 15-year-old Liu Yipeng, who was found in the wreckage still strapped to her seat, died from her injuries.
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and Hayes-White have reached out to the Ye's family "to not only express our condolences and apologies but to also offer, if they are willing and interested, in sitting down so we can have a face-to-face meeting."
Asiana Airlines said in a statement that it "extends its sincere condolences to the families of all three of the decedents."
Retired San Jose Police Capt. Phil Beltran responded to a light plane crash that killed two men, and later drilled his team at Mineta San Jose International Airport on how to respond to the possibility of a commercial jetliner crash with mass casualties.
But no amount of drilling or mock exercises can prepare first responders for the chaotic site of a mangled jetliner, burning fuel, the screams of victims and the site of body parts, said Beltran, who ran the San Jose Police Department's airport division from 1997 to 2000 and is now the head of campus safety at Santa Clara University.
He remembered the "surreal" crash site near Lincoln High School in 1981 after a Piper Aerostar twin-engine plane landed in pieces, killing the two occupants who were the victims of a midair murder-suicide.
"There wasn't a part bigger than a foot and there was a fire pit where the engine went in and body parts everywhere," Beltran said "It was just two people but it was surreal. It was nothing you ever trained for."
Hayes-White has said that she did not think that any of the first responders had ever been through a similar emergency before.
Ken Burris, the former head ¿of the Federal Emergency Management Agency who responded to three plane crashes, told this newspaper that no amount of training can prepare first responders for the unique situations they will face in an actual crash of a commercial airliner.
"The difference is night and day," he said. "We try to simulate a live environment but it can't meet the real expectations of a very chaotic situation where there's a lot going on. It's all about trying to save the greatest amount of life in the shortest period of time."
Staff writers Robert Salonga and Mark Emmons contributed to this report. Contact Dan Nakaso at 408-271-3648. Follow him at Twitter.com/dannakaso.