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SPOKANE -- Numbers don't lie: redshirt junior Mikaela Ruef will have to pay her own way to play for Stanford next season.
The program won't have any scholarship money for Ruef although she has played a big role in helping top-seeded Stanford reach its 20th Sweet 16 where it will play Georgia on Saturday night at the Spokane Arena.
Coach Tara VanDerveer expects to have 19 players next season after losing only senior Joslyn Tinkle once the current campaign ends. But schools are limited to 15 scholarships in women's Division 1 basketball. Ruef and three others essentially will be walk ons.
"I don't want it to end," said Ruef, who plans to earn a master's degree in civil and environmental engineering. "We'll figure out how to pay for it."
The 6-foot-3 forward from Beavercreek, Ohio, probably will have to work part time as well as attend classes and practices. She plans to apply for scholarships as soon as the season ends.
Her father, Mike, drives a school bus and works as a study hall monitor. Her mother, Katie, who works in information technology, was out of work for a while because of the economic downturn. She now works at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton.
The Ruefs' situation underscores the economic hardships highlighted by candidates making their way through Ohio in the recent presidential election.
Mike worked in the tool and die industry out of high school for 25 years but was laid off as the jobs transferred overseas. He is using a Pell grant for displaced workers to earn a secondary education degree, and hopes to teach math at a local high school.
Asked about the burden of sending three children to college Mike said Friday by phone, "Everybody's got it tough."
When Mikaela was 7, she told her mother not to worry about sending her to college.
"I'm going to play well enough you won't have to pay, Mom," the girl said.
Stanford will pay for Ruef's upcoming summer school but she has to fund two quarters -- about $28,000 -- to complete the master's program.
"How many people only have to pay for two quarters to get a master's at Stanford?" VanDerveer said. "She understands that's a valuable thing in the big scheme of things."
Ruef, after all, isn't a candidate to play professionally. She has started 28 of 35 games and is the team's second-leading rebounder behind Chiney Ogwumike at 6.6 per game.
Her rebounding, passing and defending have given the Cardinal (33-2) an element it needed to make its third appearance in the Spokane regionals since 2008. Stanford will need another balanced performance against fourth-seeded Georgia. The Lady Bulldogs (27-6) qualified for their 30th NCAA tournament and advanced to their 20th Sweet 16 under coach Andy Landers.
Ruef's post presence will be important because Ogwumike, the Pac-12 player of the year, can't do it alone. Georgia has two All-Southeastern Conference forwards with 6-2 Jasmine Hassel and 6-3 Anne Marie Armstrong.
Ruef didn't seem like a probable starter this season after missing all but three games a year ago because of a foot injury. She averaged 20.9 minutes per game as a freshman, but only 10.1 minutes as a sophomore.
Ruef, who wears a lost-in-the-clouds look on the court, hasn't let her blue-collar background bother her at Stanford. She recalled a professor once asking classmates which parents worked for the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Many hands shot up.
"I'm like, who's McKinsey?" Ruef said.
Then the professor asked if anyone had heard of Mary Kay?
"My mom totally sold makeup for them," Ruef said. "Nobody else in the class had heard of that."
Described by teammates as awkwardly social, Ruef is opening up this year. After scoring nine points Tuesday to help Stanford rout Michigan in the second round of the NCAA tournament, the forward addressed her inability to monitor time on the court.
"I have this habit of running to the ball at the end of the shot clock, even though I'm not supposed to," Ruef said. "When it gets that low, somebody has to throw it up there, so I figured, why not me?"
VanDerveer, sitting next to her forward, responded: "She doesn't care about her field-goal percentage."
But she and the family do care about the coming year no matter how difficult it is to pay for it.
"A master's from Stanford makes it that much sweeter," Mike Ruef said.
Contact Elliott Almond at 408-920-5865. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/elliottalmond.


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The best chance "Neighbors" has at making a box-office killing is that no one plays Seth Rogen quite like Seth Rogen. The second best is that teen boys and 20-something men will always laugh at jokes about breasts and sex toys
OK, I laughed at some of those, too. But -- and maybe this isn't fair -- if you're looking for "Neighbors" to join "Animal House" in the annals of great frat house comedies, expect to be disappointed. "Neighbors" isn't even on par with "Revenge of the Nerds."
Rogen plays Mac Radner, a guy making the transition from party dude to buckled-down adult, complete with idyllic new house, a lovely wife named Kelly (a funny, occasionally unhinged Rose Byrne), an incredibly cute new baby (women will swoon when they see how precious this baby is), and a stable if unspectacular office job.
Just when Mac seems to have talked himself into this way of life, college fraternity Delta Psi moves in next door. Led by Teddy Sanders (a very convincing Zac Efron), the lads break out sex, drugs and booze on the sidewalk before they even finish unloading the moving truck, while Mac and Kelly look on in horror. Bingo! We have the conflict that will produce hilariously uncomfortable situations scene after scene. Or that's the plan, anyway.
It works -- to a point. But I couldn't help waiting for the defining gag or peak moment in "Neighbors" that would have me still chuckling when I left the theater. It never came (a breast-pumping scene came closest). Instead, we see Mac and Kelly initially going way overboard to relate to their new neighbors in order to get them to keep the noise down -- way overboard. It's as if they somehow are witnessing the college party scene for the first time, and we are supposed to laugh at how awkward they feel. It's a clumsy setup (especially because you know Mac will end up being drawn to the parties). Having a frat party blaring nightly 10 yards away from a sleeping baby is more than enough to start a neighborhood war.
The neighborhood itself is another issue. Even though we see the frat boys making nice to everyone else to keep the complaints down, that's simply not enough to explain why this quiet neighborhood suddenly becomes a war zone, and only two people care. And when the police do come, they don't care, either. It's just weird -- even if it supports the idea that it's Mac and Kelly against the world.
The back-and-forth between the couple and the frat house has its moments -- especially when Mac and Kelly insert themselves into the parties on various sabotage missions (through parents will cringe at how much these two leave their baby alone). But in general, it seems the strategy by director Nicholas Stoller and screenwriters Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O'Brien was to make things as crazy and noisy as possible and hope it would be enough to make us laugh. Sometimes it works (air bags, apparently, have hilarious alternative uses, and there was a guilty pleasure in watching two guys viciously duel with sex toys). But often it doesn't (drunk dudes professing love for each other and Rogen smoking pot and saying things only a stoner would say aren't exactly fresh concepts).
Efron is mildly surprising, giving his character a certain emotional depth, especially as the movie progresses and it becomes obvious there's more behind his antics. (It is a bit difficult to watch Efron, who has been in rehab and has a recent history of substance abuse, without wondering how it would feel for someone in his shoes to make a movie in which his character pretty much drinks nonstop.)
There probably could have been an overall theme here about the difficulty of growing up -- on both sides of this culture war -- but any chance at that gets buried by the film's relentless chaos. And it's too bad the film doesn't capitalize on Rogen's natural chemistry with both Efron and Byrne (though the ridiculousness of a guy who looks like Rogen being married to a woman who looks like Byrne is so pronounced the film has to acknowledge it by referencing Kevin James movies). With some better writing, "Neighbors" could have been a much more substantial movie. Instead, we have a film that will entertain some younger moviegoers but will be dismissed by those who have seen enough clever frat movies to realize that this is not one of them.
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Poll: Americans Back 20-Week Abortion Limit
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(NEWSER) – Wendy Davis fans might want to look away: It turns out that more Americans support the 20-week abortion ban she filibustered than oppose it. In a newNBC/Wall Street Journal poll, 44% said they supported the limit, while 37% opposed. Even among people who described themselves as pro-choice, nearly one in five were fine with the ban.


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Today: Xoom breaks Silicon Valley's post-Facebook downturn in consumer-focused Web companies successfully going public. Also: Electronic Arts (ERTS) and Zynga settle their legal beef, Wall Street completes a stable week.
Xoom's success on open market could signal consumer Web is back
Silicon Valley web companies have found success in the IPO market since Facebook forced a freeze with its record-breaking initial public offering in May that quickly went sour, but the companies that found willing investors and rising stock prices were focused on enterprise money. Friday, an Internet company focused completely on consumer cash broke that string, as San Francisco's Xoom brought in $100 million and saw its share price shoot higher on the open market.
Xoom officials pointed out that their business model is not one that shows up a lot anymore -- taking a successful real-world business and translating it to the Web and mobile for the first time. While the Web has matured to the point that there are few of those models available, Xoom seems to have successfully brought international money transfers -- a huge business for the millions of immigrants in the United States -- for the first time.
"We are a disrupter," Xoom CEO John Kunze told the Wall Street Journal. "We've seen this play out before: An offline customer experience that is highly challenged, and [then] that experience is disrupted by digital properties with a better price proposition."
Even more than translating an offline customer experience to the Internet, co-founder Kevin Hartz -- an early investor in online-payments pioneer PayPal -- contends that the company offers a more secure product that is easier on the wallet.
"If you look at the traditional money-transfer companies, they're really fleecing immigrants who are working hard to support their families back home," he told Mercury News staff writer Peter Delevett in an interview Friday.
Growth is likely as well, with Congress and the president pushing for immigration reform that could help undocumented immigrants emerge from the shadows and create a path for other foreign-born, tech-savvy people to emigrate here.
"Anything that's good for immigration is good for Xoom," Kunze said.
Xoom sold 6.3 million shares at $16 apiece, bringing in $100 million at a valuation of more than $500 million, then saw its shares rise more than 50 percent in its first day of trading under the ticker symbol "XOOM" on the Nasdaq exchange Friday.
The company's final price was higher than its original target range, which worried PrivCo CEO Sam Hamadeh, who specializes in private companies. But on Friday, he was more than happy to be proven wrong.
"It's a great company, with strong earnings visibility and a recurring revenue model," Hamadeh said, "so I'm not at all surprised it's trading well."
The only pure-consumer-Web play in the IPO market since Facebook debuted in May was Connecticut-based Kayak, a travel-reservations website that had a successful debut not long after the Menlo Park social network, but was quickly acquired by rival Priceline. But Hamadeh saw signs that Web companies competing for scarce consumer dollars in the wake of the Great Recession had a chance in the debut of another San Francisco company last year, Trulia.
Based on Trulia's success, investors "will take another look (at consumer-focused IPOs), despite being burned so badly by Facebook, by Pandora, by Zynga, by Groupon, by frankly almost everybody. I honestly think they will take at least a second look as opposed to just hanging up the phone when underwriters call," Hamadeh predicted after Trulia's September IPO.
Trulia has an enterprise angle, however, offering real estate professionals a subscription service that Hamadeh says is "a must-have" in the industry. For that reason, it is usually lumped together with the successful enterprise IPOs Silicon Valley has enjoyed since Facebook, such as Pleasanton cloud-software company Workday, Sunnyvale Wi-Fi firm Ruckus Wireless and security company Palo Alto Networks.
That leaves Xoom alone as evidence that Web-focused companies dependent on consumer spending can find IPO investors as well as demand on the open market, good news for local startups like Uber.
Tech stocks decline slightly as Wall Street continues to trade flat
The rest of Wall Street was calm yet again Friday, none moving more than the 0.2 percent drop the tech-heavy Nasdaq suffered, completing a week when indexes stabilized after starting the year shooting higher.
In Silicon Valley, the SV150 index joined the Nasdaq in losses, losing 0.4 percent. Apple (AAPL) dropped after the impetus for its weak Wall Street performance was made public Thursday declining 1.4 percent as Apple bull Gene Munster predicted a new round of consumer devices and a group reported that billions of dollars worth of iPhones are sitting unused. Facebook dropped 0.6 percent after defending teenagers' privacy rights in its new Graph Search system, then announced after the bell that it was a victim of a hacking attack. Tesla declined 3.3 percent as it continues to deal with the fallout of CEO Elon Musk's battle with the New York Times on its Model S review. In a typical move on an IPO day, companies that recently went public dropped as investors sold shares to buy in to the next new thing: Ruckus took the biggest hit, dropping 13.8 percent; SolarCity dropped 3.6 percent, Workday declined 1.1 percent and Palo Alto Networks lost 1 percent. SunPower's (SPWRA) surprising positive run ended with a 5.6 percent drop to $11.45.
In positive moves, Google (GOOG) gained 0.6 percent to again establish all-time highs, moving near $800 with a close at $792.89 despite an outage early in the day. NetApp continued to move higher after its Wednesday earnings report, gaining 1.9 percent, and Yelp increased 2.4 percent.
Video game war has power turned off before big battle
Two of the biggest Silicon Valley names in gaming settled their dispute before they could do full battle in a courtroom, with Electronic Arts and Zynga calling off their legal battle Friday.
Redwood City-based EA sued the social-gaming company, claiming that it completely ripped off EA's "The Sims Social" to build "The Ville." San Francisco-based Zynga countersued, saying EA had attempted to block workers from leaving its offices to go work for Zynga.
Both companies confirmed the settlement, but no terms were released. EA stock dropped 1.1 percent on the day, while Zynga declined 1.5 percent.
Silicon Valley tech stocks
Up: Yelp, Intuit (INTU), VMware, NetApp, Netflix (NFLX), Juniper, LinkedIn, Google
Down: Ruckus, SunPower, SolarCity, Tesla, Jive, Zynga, Advanced Micro Devices, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Apple, Workday, EA, Palo Alto Networks, Yahoo (YHOO), Facebook, Symantec, Intel (INTC), Applied Materials
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Down 6.63, or 0.21 percent, to 3,192.03
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Up 8.37, or 0.06 percent, to 13,981.76
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Down 1.59, or 0.1 percent, to 1,519.79
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In my 23 years as a pastor, I've officiated at dozens of weddings. I've performed them on top of mountains, in huge churches, and in quiet woods. Some weddings I've officiated have had hundreds of guests, while others only had one or two witnesses. Some have had glorious music, with excellent musicians and singers glorifying God. Others have had no music whatsoever.
But there's one thing virtually every wedding I've ever witnessed or been a part of has had in common: Something always seems to go wrong. Groomsmen pass out. Flower girls throw tantrums. Brides are late. Photographers knock over flowers. When my wife and I were married, the officiant forgot to turn on the PA system, so that the only ones who heard any of the service in that huge church were the members of the wedding party.
Nearly 2,000 years ago, something went wrong at a wedding that took place in the Galilean town of Cana. Long before the reception was scheduled to end, they ran out of wine. That may not seem like a huge disaster to us, but in that culture at that time, it would have been unthinkable. Whether it was the result of poor planning or lack of funds, running out of wine at their reception would have been beyond embarrassing for a newly married couple.
But fortunate for them, one of the guests at that wedding was able to do something about that predicament. After he was alerted to the problem, Jesus averted the problem, not by purchasing more wine, but by turning water - plain old H20 - into wine. And not just any wine, but the finest, best-tasting wine.
There's no such thing as a perfect, problem-free wedding. There's no such thing as a perfect, problem-free life, either. The classic storybook ending, "And they all lived happily ever after," just doesn't happen. Every life experiences problems. Every marriage has challenges. Every family has conflicts. Every person has pain. There are no perfect lives because there are no perfect people. "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," St. Paul wrote in Romans chapter 3. And with sin comes problems and pain.
There are no perfect weddings or lives. But there is a perfect Savior. And with your perfect Savior at your side, you can be sure that every imperfection is covered by his forgiveness, every problem is directed by a divine plan that serves our good, every challenge is met with the strength to bear it, and every tear is dried by his promises. Trust him. Follow him. And know that one day, we will have a perfect, problem-free life with Him in heaven.


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I am trying to get the ps3mediaserver into my Synology DS211+ (Marvell Kirkwood mv6282 ARM cpu, 1.6Ghz, 512MB RAM).
Here is what I did so far, (following the steps discussed in this post http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=486).
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# Setup the JVM
if [ "x$JAVA" = "x" ]; then
if [ "x$JAVA_HOME" != "x" ]; then
> ipkg install ffmpeg
> ipkg install classpath
downloaded "pms-generic-linux-unix-1.40.0.tgz" to /opt
> cd /opt
> tar -xvzf pms-generic-linux-unix-1.40.0.tgz
> cd ./pms-linux-1.40.0
> chmod ug+x PMS.sh
edited PMS.sh as follows:
> ./PMS.sh
Now when PMS starts, I get the following error:
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GUI environment not available
Switching to console mode
[main] WARN 14:24:35.788 Error loading libzen: jnidispatch (/com/sun/jna/linux-arm/libjnidispatch.so) not found in resource path
Attached is my PMS.conf and the complete PMS log.
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BLACK FOREST — Investigators looking into the origin and cause of the devastating Black Forest fire believe it's likely that someone started the blaze, El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said Friday.
"I'm pretty confident that natural causes will be out the window," he said. With two deaths already blamed on the fire, investigators will focus on whether the cause was arson or an accident.
"We didn't have lightning in the area. Lightning is usually one of the contributing factors we first look at in the area when it come to natural causes," Maketa said.
He also said there were no rocks near the area of origin that could have been involved in a slide that would have created a spark.
Firefighters continued to battle the fire north of Colorado Springs that has consumed 15,700 acres and 389 homes since it started Tuesday.
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Andre Iguodala said the Warriors were atop his list of possible destinations. He's been eyeing the Warriors for a couple years now. But he thought, as had been the case in the past, the cards wouldn't fall right.
Suddenly, his phone rang, and he was a Warrior.
IGUODALA: "It just popped up. Didn't expect it. You kind of hoped for it the whole time, but you didn't think it would happen. You couldn't help but think, 'Man, it's something else going on.' I just didn't think it could happen."
Well, it did happen. The Warriors dumped three players, renounced the rights to two of its free agents, and parted with multiple draft picks -- all to the Utah Jazz. That cleared the salary cap space so the Warriors could sign Iguodala to a four-year, $48 million contract. And after years of being attracted to each other from afar, Golden State and the versatile swingman were united.
IGUODALA: "It's funny because when I was getting traded when I was in Philly, and I was like, 'Where would I go?' Golden State was in it back then."
The courting began on July 1. Iguodala met with the Warriors and expressed their desire to get him, and Iguodala confirmed the feelings were mutual. On July 2, the Kings offered Iguodala four years, $52 million, per USA Today's Sam Amick. But Iguodala said it was too early in the process -- "It was just too fast. I didn't want to rush into it. That's all." -- so he didn't jump at the offer. On Wednesday, the Kings pulled the offer. The Warriors hopes were still alive.
The two sides kept in communication. Iguodala chatted with Warriors point guard Stephen Curry (the two became friends on Team USA) and kept in communication with coach Mark Jackson. But with the Warriors $10 million over the salary cap and Denver unwilling to work out a sign-and-trade with the Warriors, Iguodala had all but given up hope. Especially since all the Warriors' eggs seemed to be in the Dwight Howard basket. Iguodala said he was even weighing other options.
But then he got that call. Golden State changed the game and sent Andris Biedrins, Richard Jefferson and Brandon Rush (all with one-year contracts totaling $25 million) to Utah. The Warriors then hammered out a deal with Iguodala. All this happened in the span of less than 24 hours.
It's still not official, not until the league moratorium ends on July 10, but Iguodala is feeling pretty good.
IGUODALA: "We can be a really good team with a lot of hard work. In the series that whole team had against us, you can see how this team can mesh well and play well together."
What makes the Warriors want Iguodala? He can play both shooting guard and small forward positions. He gives the Warriors a wing player they can run the offense through, some who can bolster the Warriors' transition game and finish at the rim. He becomes their best perimeter defender, with the athleticism to guard smaller players and the strength to guard bigger wings.
His outside shot is streaky and isn't known for being able to consistently dominant on offense. But with Curry and forward David Lee, Iguodala won't need to carry the Warriors on offense.
What makes Iguodala want the Warriors?
IGUODALA: "Mainly, the coach and the culture, the environment. I feel like they have a good culture there, a lot of great guys, great locker room. The way they've got those guys playing with such confidence, that comes from the coach. The way those young guys were playing against us, that's confidence. I saw Klay Thompson running full speed down the court, caught the ball, took two steps and shot the 3. His feet wasn't even set. That comes from coaching. I want to play with that kind of confidence."
"I'm a big fan of mark. Big fan of the guys they've got there. The way ownership was going a few years ago, it wasn't looking too good. But the way they've turned it around real fast ... And the fans in the playoffs, seeing that crowd erupt — you always wanna be in a good basketball environment. They have a great locker room. Their crowd was with them every single game, especially the playoffs. That was an awesome atmosphere."


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Kansas is in what is known as the transition zone. Cool-season grasses such as tall fescue and Kentucky bluegrass are better adapted farther north than Kansas and warm-season grasses such as Bermuda grass and zoysia grass are better adapted south. It is difficult to grow a lawn that is attractive throughout the growing season in Kansas. In addition, there are differences among members of these two groups as well. Though tall fescue and Kentucky bluegrass are both cool-season grasses and both struggle during hot, dry summers, tall fescue is better adapted
Why is the summer so hard on cool-season grasses? As temperatures increase so does the photosynthetic rate, but only up to a point. Cool-season grasses usually are most efficient at between 70 and 80 degrees F. Above that point, photosynthetic efficiency drops.
Less efficient photosynthesis means less food (sugar) made for the plant to use. Also, every living cell in a plant respires. In other words, each cell breaks down the energy captured in photosynthesis and uses it to fuel the cell. Respiration also increases with temperature, but it never stops. It continues day and night. Hot days and hot nights give cool-season plants a double whammy. Less efficient photosynthesis results in less food production, and high rates of respiration results in food being used very quickly.
Eventually plants start to run out of energy. They weaken and possibly die. Both turfgrass species try to avoid this by going dormant. Tall fescue has better heat and drought tolerance than Kentucky bluegrass and is better able to withstand these stresses. Although tall fescue is often damaged by hot, dry summers, it usually bounces back more quickly than Kentucky bluegrass. Even though bluegrass has the ability to thicken up due to the presence of underground runners known as rhizomes, it often is slow to do so. Tall fescue is a bunch grass and must be thickened up by overseeding.
— Scott Eckert is a Kansas State Research and Extension Agent for Harvey County. Horticulture is his specialty.


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SAN JOSE -- Coach Todd McLellan meant it as a compliment when he called Joe Pavelski "a greasy-type player" on Saturday after the Sharks earned a penalty-filled 6-3 win over the Calgary Flames.
"What that means is the three or four feet around him is always a battle," McLellan said of Pavelski after the Sharks won their fifth straight at SAP Pavilion to start the season. "It's never a soft issue at all. He competes in that area, and he gets to his next job.
"Just a competitive guy who has real good hockey sense."
Pavelski had two goals and two remarkable assists against the Flames, as he tied career-highs for goals and points in a game.
Pavelski's first assist came early in the first period. He won a battle for the puck in the Flames' corner with Calgary defenseman Kris Russell and fed a wide-open Brent Burns, who scored to give the Sharks a 1-0 lead just 59 seconds into the game.
It was the fourth time this season the Sharks have scored less than a minute into a game.
"Burnzie finishes that play off nice," Pavelski said. "It's fun scoring on the first shift. ... There are games where you can go all night with getting a chance, and to get one early was nice."
Pavelski also found Patrick Marleau open beside the net with a cross-ice pass for a power-play goal in the second period that gave the Sharks a 4-1 lead. Pavelski's second goal came on the power play as he redirected a shot from the point by Logan Couture midway through the third period for a 5-3 Sharks lead.
On a line with Tommy Wingels and Matt Nieto, Pavelski has a team-high 12 points this year, good enough for second in the NHL behind Sidney Crosby's 17 points. Marleau, who now has a point in each of the Sharks' first eight games, is tied for third in league scoring with 11 points.
"Pavs has been good all year, and that third line has been great all year," said Couture, who had a goal and an assist. "They're one of the reasons why we've been so successful. They contribute offensively and have done well defensively."
Along with going 3 for 9 with the man advantage, San Jose killed five of six penalties, including a hooking call on Scott Hannan after the Flames had cut the lead to 4-3, which included a short-handed goal by Mikael Backlund.
"It scored us three, and it allowed us to get the lead; it changed the momentum of the game," McLellan said of the power play. "But we also gave up a short-handed goal that kind of gave them some momentum."
The Sharks will try to take that momentum with them as they begin a five-game trip Monday at Detroit. The trip continues through Boston, Montreal, Ottawa and Los Angeles.
The win was Antti Niemi's 100th regular-season victory with the Sharks. He is 11-2-1 in 14 career games against Calgary, and the Sharks have an 8-2-1 record over the Flames dating to the 2010-11 season.
Havlat has been skating with the team but still "has a gap to close before he can play in a game," according to McLellan. Defenseman Dan Boyle has also not been placed on injured reserve, leaving the Sharks with just six healthy defensemen. McLellan did not have a further health update on Boyle, who had to leave the ice on a stretcher after an illegal hit by St. Louis' Max Lapierre on Tuesday, other than saying Boyle has been resting and working with the team's medical staff.
Sharks (7-0-1) at Detroit (6-3-0),
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Portisch vs Tal, 1964 1/2-1/2
Portisch vs Petrosian, 1967 1-0
Portisch vs S Johannessen, 1966 1-0
Portisch vs Larsen, 1972 1-0
Suba vs Portisch, 1984 0-1
Portisch vs DeFirmian, 1989 1-0
Portisch vs Petrosian, 1974 1-0
Portisch vs I Radulov, 1969 1-0
Portisch vs Karpov, 1975 1/2-1/2
Keres vs Portisch, 1967 0-1
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San Antonio (1972)
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Toluca Interzonal (1982)
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Biel Interzonal (1976)
Petropolis Interzonal (1973)
Palma de Mallorca (1967)
Sousse Interzonal (1967)
Moscow (1967)
Palma de Mallorca Interzonal (1970)
Amsterdam Interzonal (1964)
Stockholm Interzonal (1962)
Politiken Cup (2012)
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Selected Games of Lajos Portisch by StuporMoundi
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Milan 1975 by suenteus po 147
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The Rolla High School Drama Department and International Thespian Society Troupe 7826 is proud to present "Sabrina Fair" written by Samuel Taylor. This play runs March 7-9 at 7 p.m. in the Rolla Middle School auditorium.
Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the door. For more information contact Wendy King at firstname.lastname@example.com or 458-0140, extension 14310.
"Sabrina Fair" is a modern version of the Cinderella fable. It is set on Long Island in the 1950s and deals with the involvement of the wealthy Larrabee family and Sabrina Fairchild (Sam Sharpsteen), the daughter of the family chauffeur (Jacob Deen).
She is bright, well-educated and has just returned from five years in Paris. She has come home to find out if she is still in love with the younger Larrabee son, David (Nathan Graham). The elder son, Linus (Max Pfeifer), a cynical, good-humored tycoon who has taken control of the family fortune, detects Sabrina's feeling for his brother, and for his own amusement lays a trap to bring them together.
At the same time, Sabrina is being courted by a rich young Frenchman (Ben Harman). Other cast members include the beautiful mother of wit and perception (Lydia Kent Bagnall); the father, whose one passion is attending funerals (Daniel O'Day); the smart magazine editor who, as a house guest, is the interested observer (Taija Masterson), and other house guests and servants (Linda Foehrweiser, Gage Alan Graen, Alexis Lemister, Madison Hogan, Stevie Tupper, and Krystin Ward).
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Saturday, 06/02/1990
Greenstreets, Columbia, SC
Set 1: Uncle Pen, Dinner and a Movie > Bouncin'Bouncing Around the Room > Reba, Possum, LizardsThe Lizards, Fire
Set 2: Tweezer, DividedDivided Sky, HYHUHold Your Head Up > Love You > HYHUHold Your Head Up > Love You[1] > HYHUHold Your Head Up[2], YEMYou Enjoy Myself
Encore: Contact, GTBTGood Times Bad Times
[1] After Page played several measures of the second HYHU in the setlist, Fish said "There's one more verse to this," and then they played the final verse of Love You.
[2] Fish on vacuum. Trey repeated "Henrietta!" over and over again, singing it along to the music's conclusion.
· Bike and Call to the Post quotes
Noteworthy Jams: You Enjoy Myself
Average Song Gap: 4.06
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: It is unconfirmed whether Fire closed the first set or was even performed at all. Trey referred to HYHU as the "Henrietta Theme Song." After Page played several measures of the second HYHU in the setlist, Fish said "There's one more verse to this," and then they played the final verse of Love You. Fish also continued to play vacuum during the third and final HYHU of the set, which also featured Trey repeating "Henrietta!" over and over again, singing it along to the music's conclusion. In response to a fan requesting more Syd Barrett after the last HYHU, Fish spoke the first few words of Bike. Trey teased Call to the Post before YEM (as Fish was returning to his drum kit after HYHU). Before Contact, Fish said "We would like to perform for you now the bass-player-is-taking-a-leak-song." Fish then dedicated Contact to Paul Languedoc. Also before Contact, Page told the crowd that their bass player (whom Trey then referred to as "Michael Cactin") would become 25 years old at midnight. Trey added that Mike would now play everyone a love song.
Song Distribution:
4 Junta
2 Stash
2 Lawn Boy
2 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
2 The White Tape
1 A Picture of Nectar
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This show was part of the "1990 Tour."


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This article explores the development of process chromatography. Process chromatography was first applied to the removal of low molecular weight solutes from whey by gel filtration about 50 years ago. An analytical method using size exclusion chromatography was scaled up for insulin production in the 1970s, when ion exchange became a viable technology for the same application. Ion exchange was adopted as the industry workhorse as robust resins became available and formed the backbone of chromatographic processing of blood plasma fractionation in alternatives to and extensions of ethanol precipitation. Cost restrictions kept affinity chromatography in the laboratory until the production of MAbs made efficient immunoaffinity indispensable in high purity coagulation factor production in the 1980s. Since then, spurred on by the advent of biotechnology, an extensive toolbox of chromatographic methods has been developed, and a process chromatographic capture–purify– polish regime is ubiquitous. Affinity capture of antibodies on Protein A adsorbents is used throughout the industry with widespread discussion of affinity versus ion exchange. The emerging debate pitches chromatography against membrane separations. Column technology has advanced, but not to the "plug-and-play" status of membrane technologies. Axial flow systems still dominate, but advances in engineering may make radial flow accessible and technologies such as expanded beds more attractive. Process chromatography stands at the threshold of industrialization.
It is perhaps the inherent simplicity of the method which has made chromatography not just an analytical tool par excellence but the central enabling technology in all biopharmaceutical downstream processing.
The work of these mid-century laureates has its roots in the investigations of Mikhail Tswett, who, although he described the principles of his separation techniques applied to plant pigments in 1903, first used the term chromatography in 1906:
"....the different components of a pigment mixture, obeying a law, are resolved on the calcium carbonate column and then can be qualitatively and quantitatively determined. I call such a preparation a chromatogram and the corresponding method the chromatographic method."3
The early history and invention of chromatography are summarized by Ettre in two articles in LCGC North America.3–4
Following Tswett's experimentation with various adsorbents and mobile phases, researchers in the 1950s investigated protein chromatography on new matrices. Low porosity, hydrophobic styrene-divinyl benzene resins were readily available, but for protein separations, porous and hydrophilic supports were needed. The introduction of cellulose ion exchangers by Peterson and Sobers in 1956,5 cross-linked dextrans (Sephadex) by Porath and Flodin in 1959,6 and polyacrylamide (1961) and agarose (1964) by Hjertén,7–8 initiated a revolution in protein chromatography. The first supports, generally referred to as "gels," were largely unsuitable for use in process chromatography: one gram of dry Sephadex G-100 adsorbs 100 mL of water and has therefore only 1% dry substance and 6% agarose media and 94% water.
Ligands and Matrices
The commercial availability of a range of carbohydrate-based supports enabled the expansion of chromatographic techniques. At this point, the science largely bifurcated into ligand discovery and matrix improvement. Axén's9 introduction of cyanogen bromide activation in 1967 allowed the development of affinity chromatography, the invention of which was attributed to Cuatrecasas et al. (1968).10 Interactions between Protein A and immunoglobulins were under investigation by Sjöqvist's11 group at Uppsala University in Sweden in the mid-1960s but IgG purification using Protein A adsorbents generally is ascribed to the Lund researchers Hjelm et al.12 and Kronvall et al.13 Uppsala, however, is intrinsically linked to bioseparations from the time of The Svedberg (Nobel Prize, 1926), through the activities of the Institute of Biochemistry (The Biomedical Centre) and the research and product development at Pharmacia Fine Chemicals, now part of GE Healthcare.
The drawbacks of hydrophobic Amberlite IRC-5014 and Dowex resins for protein separations gave rise to the search in the 1950s for matrices that did not interfere with the separation on derivatized gels. In 1947, Boscott15 had described the use of solvent-treated cellulose acetate as a "satisfactory stationary organic phase for chromatography," which Howard and Martin termed "reversed-phase partition chromatography" (RPC).16 RPC has a continuous polar stationary phase and requires organic solvents, whereas hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC) has polar ligands substituted onto a neutral backbone and is run with an aqueous mobile phase. Although these related technologies of RPC and HIC were born in the 1950s, they did not come to commercial use until considerably later.


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For Stocks, Are Record Highs Warranted?
All the financial media can talk about these days is the fact that the Dow and S&P 500 are on pace to reclaim record highs.
The NY Times and USA Today have front-page stories on the matter, we've tackled the issue on the blog and in print and the blogosphere is all over it. The Dow is less than 300 points away — the record is 14164.53 hit in October 2007 — and the S&P 500 is less than 4% away from its own peak. It's been able to move higher even as its biggest component — Apple — has been a huge drag.
If and/or when these indexes hit these record highs, the natural question is whether the rally will continue to have legs.
This morning we pointed to one bear who remains skeptical. But others are optimistic about what lies ahead, especially as the small-cap Russell 2000 and the Dow transports have already jumped into record territory.
"The S&P 500's 11% advance off of its mid-November low has been impressive, but not necessarily demanding of a correction due to duration," says Sam Stovall, chief equity strategist at S&P Capital IQ. "The recovery has lasted 73 calendar days, versus the average advance of 169 days…between the end of prior 5%+ declines and their subsequent peaks since 1945."
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Others are also upbeat about the market's future prospects for a number of reasons. The Fed and other central banks around the globe continue to pump money into the financial system. The economy is gradually improving, earnings aren't terrible and the turmoil in Washington and Europe has waned.
From a valuation perspective, the S&P 500 trades at 13.72 projected earnings over the next 12 months, according to FactSet. That's below historical averages.
"The path of least resistance is clearly to the upside," says Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist at ConvergEx Group. "How much of these gains are in your pocket probably depends on your faith in unusual monetary policy, dysfunctional fiscal decision-making, abnormal market correlations, and still-missing reversions to the mean for everything from corporate investment to consumer confidence.
"Hardly a recipe for success, and yet here we are at 1500 on the S&P."
Colas says he believe stocks are "clearly setup for a pullback" over the next month, given the strong complacency that has engulfed investors of all stripes.
That said, he says stocks still look attractive over a longer-term time horizon. From Colas's morning note to clients:
- We're due for a pullback… U.S. stocks have been on a near non-stop tear since November, as fiscal-cliff issues and then federal debt-ceiling debates in Washington waxed and then waned. Corporate earnings – we are still in the throes of Q4 2012 reporting season – have been unremarkable, but steady. At the current run rate, the S&P 500 should be able to earn $100 – $110/share, putting current multiples at 13.6 – 15.0x earnings.
- All this good news is already baked into the market's pie, which means that near term we may have a tougher go than the last three months. There's still plenty of wood to chop in Washington, and consumer confidence has yet to incorporate the 2% increase in Social Security withholding which kicked in at the beginning of 2013. With a CBOE VIX Index sitting below 13, the market is simply not set up to take any substantive bad news.
- … But it should be temporary. If the last four years have taught investors anything, it is that the old saw about "Fighting the Fed" is still the financial equivalent of bringing a knife to the proverbial gunfight. As long as this narrative holds sway, U.S. stocks should continue to rally.
- About the only concern I have is when it comes time to change this paradigm. Fed policy goes in cycles, meant to counter the vagaries of macroeconomic growth. Markets have built in, at many levels, the current support offered by the Federal Reserve. At some point the economy will accelerate, and Fed policy will have to follow. History – and you have to go back to 1994 to see this – shows that moves in central bank policy can cause dramatic changes in risk appetites. But until we're closer to this change, equity markets look set to rally further.
To MarketBeat nation, what are your thoughts on the market at current levels? When will the Dow and S&P 500 hit record highs? And if they do, will the rally have room to run even higher? Drop your thoughts in the comments section below.
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LUMCON opens doors to public
Published: Monday, April 8, 2013 at 7:52 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, April 8, 2013 at 7:52 p.m.
Locals are invited to explore the world-class marine science lab in their backyard by attending the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium's open house.
The facility, more commonly called LUMCON, holds the open house every two years to showcase research and educational opportunities the marine research station has to offer. Housed in an elevated, hurricane-resistant building near the end of La. 56 in Cocodrie, scientists at LUMCON have produced ground-breaking research into the Gulf oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico dead zone and the marine environment off our coast.
"We hold this event to share our science and our education with the community," LUMCON Executive Director Nancy Rabalais said. "To let them know that we're here, and that we can help them in lots of ways with research and education. We want to encourage people to visit us — to bring their school classes for visits."
From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, residents can explore LUMCON's laboratories, learn about the science taking place, get up close and personal with a sea creature and even practice driving a model ROV, the remotely operated vehicles that help scientists explore undersea depths.
Admission is free. LUMCON is located at 8124 La. 56 in Chauvin.
LUMCON was formed in 1979 to coordinate and stimulate Louisiana's activities in marine research and education. LUMCON provides coastal laboratory facilities to universities across the state, conducts its own research and provides education opportunities in marine science.
Rabalais said LUMCON is the only marine research station of its kind in the state, and it is currently challenged by state and federal budget cuts.
That means the public's interest and understanding of what LUMCON does is more important than ever, she said.
The open house offers activities to engage little ones and their parents in science and exploration, said LUMCON spokeswoman Holly Hebert.
That includes a scavenger hunt that will lead parents and kids around the marine center, so they can learn about it together. Kids will be rewarded with a goody bag at the end.
Other games include fiddler crab races sponsored by Nicholls State University.
Visitors can make an artistic fish print to take home and check out an exhibit of coastal photography by students. They can also explore collections of preserved marine specimens and interact with live sea creatures.
There will be scientific demonstrations related to the Gulf oil spill, and information about some of the latest research LUMCON is doing.
The open house will also include a panel discussion on the state's coastal master plan and its impact on Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes. That discussion will be held from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
Presenters include Natalie Peyronnin from the state Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, Jenneke Visser with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and David Muth from the National Wildlife Federation.
LUMCON scientist Alex Kolker will moderate the panel, and audience members will be encouraged to ask questions about the plan.
Residents who can't make it down for the open house can visit at other times, Rabalais said. LUMCON is open to the public from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily for self-guided tours. Tours of 10 or more should make reservations at 851-2800.
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"Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."- Shakespeare, Hamlet.
In light of the British retreat from Iraq — whose true significance is well-covered by Juan Cole and Patrick Cockburn — I thought it might be a good time to revisit a piece from August 2006: "Goats and Hussars: A British Harbinger of American Defeat." The story, which originally appeared on Truthout.org, told of the precipitate abandonment of the British base of Abu Naji in the "safe" Iraq south — a retreat under fire from "friendly" Shiites.
The story was derided by some at the time as a typically overwrought piece of anti-war agit-prop. The general line (much cleaned up here, purged of the usual aspersions on one's parentage, patriotism, sanity, sexuality, etc.) went like this: "This is just a long-planned, tactical restructuring of forces; it does not in any way presage a larger British pullout — and certainly not an eventual American withdrawal under duress!"
But as Cole and Cockburn make clear, the situation in Britain's occupation zone has been falsely portrayed by the Anglo-American coalition all along — a deliberate deception eagerly accepted by a lazy corporate media (and abetted by the fact that Bush and Blair have turned Iraq into such a hell on earth that independent journalists can scarcely travel outside the tiny Green Zone enclave in Baghdad). The events of last August were in fact an accurate presaging of the current pullout, right down to the pathetic attempts to spin a military and political defeat into a ringing success for the "Coalition" — and the genuine triumph of violent Shiite extremists over the Bush-backed "Iraqi government forces" in asserting their dominance over the region.
The British retreat from Abu Naji was, as the article noted, a canary in the mineshaft, pointing the way to the latest withdrawal and foreshadowing the larger bug-out to come. There is really no other way for the murderous tomfoolery of Bush's idiotic and criminal invasion to end: under fire, in disarray, by fits and starts, in desperation and deception.
Certainly, better scenarios can be imagined. ("Better" being a highly relative term here; there are no good resolutions to this wilfully created horror, only less bad ones.) These would include: 1. Setting a firm timetable for a quick, orderly — and complete — withdrawal of the invading armies from Iraq. 2. Immediately opening direct negotiations with all nations in the region with the aim of mitigating as far as possible the instability, tension and rise in terrorism spawned by the aggression. 3. Convening an international conference with these same aims, as well as: securing Iraq's inviolability as it rebuilds from its ruined and supine condition; providing aid to help in its reconstruction, primarily through reparations from the US and the UK in acknowledgement of their blood guilt; possibly establishing peacekeeping forces, excluding those of the invaders, to provide security for reconstruction. 4. Opening America's borders to the many Iraqi refugees who will be forced to flee the harsh sectarian state that will be — and always was — the inevitable result of Bush's witless bloodlust in Iraq. 5. And, on a somewhat lesser level, turning over to the Iraqi people the billion-dollar Crusader fortress that Bush is building as a monument to his himself and his "conquest" (and his crony contractors).
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These are a just a few things that could be done to lessen the blow. But they will not be done — even when Bush and Blair are no longer in power — because too many in the American and British Establishments share the arrogant and ignorant assumptions that led to the invasion of Iraq and the brutal, blundering occupation in the first place. One such assumption is that the Anglo-American powers have the right and duty to dominate world affairs — and that they can, will and should enforce this right with military force, if need be. There is no figure in the national political firmaments of either country who does not buy into that unspoken — indeed, often unconscious — assumption. Or rather, there is no dissenter from that assumption who has the remotest chance of coming to power in either country.
And so the goat song will go on. (As Gore Vidal points out, "goat-song" is the literal Greek meaning for our word "tragedy": 'goat,' tragos, plus 'oide,' song.) The current British retreat, like last August's curtain-raiser, is the bad beginning; worse remains behind, and we will doubtless sup full of horrors before it's over.
And so the goat song will go on. (As Gore Vidal points out, "goat-song" is the literal Greek meaning for our word "tragedy": 'goat,' tragos, plus 'oide,' song.) The current British retreat, like last August's curtain-raiser, is the bad beginning; worse remains behind, and we will doubtless sup full of horrors before it's over.
Goats and Hussars: A British Harbinger of American Defeat
Chris Floyd | Truthout.org
August 31, 2006
Don Rumsfeld is fond of historical analogies when pontificating about Iraq; he particularly favors comparisons to the Nazi era and the Allied occupation of Germany after World War II. Unfortunately, any historian will tell you that Rummy's parallels are invariably false, even ludicrous. So we thought we'd give the beleaguered Pentagon warlord a more accurate and telling analogy to chew on.
Try this one, Don. Imagine that British occupation troops in, say, Hanover, had been forced to abandon a major base, under fire, and retreat into guerrilla operations in the Black Forest – in 1948, three years after the fall of the Nazi regime. And that as soon as the Brits made their undignified bug-out, the base had been devoured by looters while the local, Allied-backed authorities simply melted away and an extremist, virulently anti-Western militia moved into the power vacuum.
What would they have called that, Don? "Measurable progress on the road to democracy" ? "Another achieved metric of our highly successful post-war plan"? Or would they have said, back in those more plain-spoken, Harry Truman days, that it was "a major defeat, a humiliating strategic reversal, foreshadowing a far greater disaster"?
You'd have to wait a long time – perhaps to the end of the "Long War" – to get a straight answer from Rumsfeld on that one, but this precise scenario, transposed from Lower Saxony to Maysan province, unfolded in Iraq last week, when British forces abandoned their base at Abu Naji and disappeared into the desert wastes and marshes along the Iranian border. The move was largely ignored by the American media, but the implications are enormous. The UK contingent of the invading coalition has always been the proverbial canary in the mineshaft: if they can't make a go of things in what we've long been told is the "secure south," where friendly Shiites hold absolute sway, then the entire misbegotten Bush-Blair enterprise is well and truly FUBAR.
The Queen's Royal Hussars, 1,2000 strong, abruptly decamped from the three-year-old base last Thursday after taking constant mortar and missile fire for months from those same friendly Shiites. The move was touted as part of a long-planned, eventual turnover of security in the region to the Coalition-backed Iraqi central government, but there was just one problem: the Brits forgot to tell the Iraqis they were checking out early – and in a hurry.
"British forces evacuated the military headquarters without coordination with the Iraqi forces," Dhaffar Jabbar, spokesman for the Maysan governor, told Reuters on Thursday, as looters began moving into the camp in the wake of the British withdrawal. A unit of Iraqi government troops mutinied when told to keep order at the base – and instead attacked a military post of their own army. By Friday, the locals had torn the place to pieces, carting away more than $500,000 worth of equipment and fixtures that the British had left behind. After that initial, ineffectual show of force, the Iraqi "authorities" stepped aside and watched helplessly as the looters taunted them and cheered the "great victory" over the Western invaders.
The largely notional – if not fictional – power of the Baghdad central government simply vanished while the forces of hardline cleric Motqada al-Sadr, which already controls the local government, stepped forward to proclaim its triumph and guide the victory celebrations in the nearby provincial capital, Amarah. "This is the first city that has kicked out the occupier!" blared Sadr-supplied loudspeakers to streets filled with revelers, as the Washington Post noted in a solid – but deeply buried – story on the retreat.
British officials were understandably a bit sniffy about the humiliation. First they denied there was any problem with the handover at all: the Iraqis had been notified (a whole 24 hours in advance, apparently), the exchange of authority was brisk and efficient, and the Iraqis had "secured the base," military spokesman Major Charlie Burbridge insisted to AP. But when reports of the looting at Abu Naji began pouring in, British officers simply washed their hands of the nasty business. The camp was now "the property of the Maysan authorities and Iraqi Forces [are] in attendance," said Burbridge; therefore, Her Majesty's military would have no more comment on the matter. In this casual – not to mention callous – dismissal of the chaos spawned in wake of the Hussars' departure, we can see in miniature the philosophy now being writ large across the country in the Bush Administration's "Iraqization" policy: "We broke it; you fix it."
And where are Her Majesty's Hussars now? Six hundred of them have dispersed into guerilla bands in the wilderness, where they will survive on helicopter drops of supplies while they patrol the Iranian border. The ostensible reason behind this extraordinary operation is two-fold, said the doughty Burbridge: first, to find out if the Bush Administration is up to its usual mendacious hijinks in claiming that the evildoers in Iran are fuelling the insurgency among the happily liberated Iraqi people; and second, to do a little more of that Iraqization window dressing before finally getting the hell out of Dodge completely, beginning sometime next year, according to reports across the UK media spectrum.
Of course, the good major didn't put it quite like that. "The Americans believe there is an inflow of IEDs and weapons across the border with Iran," he told the Post. "Our first objective is to go and find out if that is the case. If that is true, we'll be able to disrupt the flow." The second aim is training Iraqi border guards, he added.
Yes, a few hundred men wandering through the wasteland, dependent on air-dropped rations, will certainly be able to seal off an almost 300-mile border riddled with centuries-old smuggling routes. And modern-day Desert Rats rolling up in bristling Land Rovers to isolated villages where Shiite clans span both borders will no doubt be gathering a lot of actionable intelligence from the locals. And of course it is much easier to "train Iraqi border guards" on the fly in the wild than at a long-established base with full amenities and, er, training facilities.
In other words, the British move makes no sense – if you accept the official spin at face value, i.e., that it's an act of careful deliberation aimed at furthering the Coalition's stated goals of a free, secure, democratic Iraq. But those in the reality-based community will see it for what it is: a panicky, patchwork reaction to events and forces far beyond the Coalition's intentions or control.
The other six hundred Hussars driven out of Abu Naji have retreated to the main British camp at Basra – another "safe" city that has now degenerated into a level of violence approaching the hellish chaos of Baghdad, the Independent reports. British troops who once walked the streets freely, lightly armed, wearing red berets instead of helmets, are now largely confined to the base, except for excursions to help Iraqi government forces in pitched battles against the Shiite militias that control the city. Harsh religious rule has long descended on the once freewheeling port city, again presaging the sectarian darkness now settling heavily across Baghdad.
Just a few months ago, the UK's Department of Defence was churning out "good news" PR stories about life at Abu Naji – such as the whimsical tale of the troop's pet goat, Ben, a loveable rogue always getting into scrapes with the regiment's crusty sergeant major, even though the soldiers "knew he had a soft spot for Ben." The goat, we were told, had enjoyed visits from such distinguished guests as the Iraqi prime minister and the Duke of Kent. Now this supposed oasis of British power has been destroyed, with the Coalition-trained Iraqi troops meant to secure it either fading into the shadows or actively joining in with the rampaging crowds and extremist militias. Meanwhile, the Hussars are reducing to roaming the countryside on vague, pointless, impossible missions, killing time, killing people – and being killed – until the inevitable collapse of the whole shebang.
The goat is gone. The canary is dying. The surrender and sack of Abu Naji is a preview of what's to come, on a much larger scale of death and chaos, as the bloodsoaked folly of Bush and Blair's war howls toward its miserable end.
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AskBaby Talk > IVF & Sterilisation Reversal > Getting Pregnant After Sterilisation Reversal Part 13..
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:57 pm
Post subject: Getting Pregnant After Sterilisation Reversal Part 13..
Evening ladies.. I have decided to start a new thread as the other was getting long.. and hopefully it will help with our bfps...
A warm welcome to all the new ladies that have recently joined.. XX
Here is a list of reversal ladies that had babies in the last 12 months
Rach Baby girl July 2011
Janeylou Baby girl January 2012
Meesh Baby boy May 2012
Lilemm Baby boy June 2012
Mand.. baby girl due shortly..
Huge congratulations to you all and good luck XX
Tubal Reversal 19/7/10
Angel Baby due 18/5/2011 (ectopic)
Angel Baby due 25/1/2012 (m/c)
Angel Baby due 21/6/2012 (m/c)
All 3 much loved and wanted xx
Last edited by Angelcake71 on Sun Jul 15, 2012 9:00 am; edited 1 time in total
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:06 pm
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Munchkin you arent too old hun... FX you get your bfp...
havent decided what I am doing yet.. just feel I need to get out and meet people.. job hunting isnt going too well.. I am lucky if I can a reply to my application..
Tubal Reversal 19/7/10
Angel Baby due 18/5/2011 (ectopic)
Angel Baby due 25/1/2012 (m/c)
Angel Baby due 21/6/2012 (m/c)
All 3 much loved and wanted xx
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:21 pm
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Yay 13 my lucky number.......love friday 13th!!
i went back to college a few years ago......loved it, got a whole load ov qualifications n met sum new friends along the way ....... hope u find a course u enjoy!!
Hope we all get r BFP's fx
Can't ava drink as i'm at the gym in the mornin (was there this mornin aswell )
if i wanna look good in mi weddin dress!!
went to the next sale n got the oh his shirt for the weddin, half price (12 we paid) n ad to get youngest sum things for his 2 day school holiday xx
Me 46 DH 50
Reversal op 24/11/09
IVF 22/09/13 failed
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 9:34 pm
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Oooh a new page!!! Xx
I'm hoping it brings you all luck and you all get that BFP, it's so much deserved!! Xx
Angel how r u hun? Xx
Sam nice to hear from you, I hope you get your BFP hun, and congrats on the weight loss!! Xx
Shelly it took me 15 months after my op to get my BFP, but in than time I also had a hsg and a lap & dye done to check my tubes!! Xx
Hope you all have a good evening ladies!! Xx
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 11:43 pm
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Evening ladies,
Magic Mike was hilarious! Not laughed like that at a movie for a long time. Ladies I recommend it Had a lovely meal. Braised beef in red wine and mushrooms, with pasta yummy and coffee semi freddo to follow, was gorgeous xxxx
Went really dizzy before and I couldn't stand up My temp just now was 98.82!!
Anyway I am so tired, so off to bed xxxx
Goodnight ladies
May thread 13 bring us all good luck and sticky beans xxx
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 8:56 am
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Morning ladies..
lovely to hear from you Lilemm ..hope you and Harry are doing ok XX
Pumpkin.. magic Mike sounds good XX
Shell I got a bfp 4 weeks after my op but it was ectopic. and have sinc ebeen pregnant twice but had a m/c before 6 weeks both times.. XX
Tubal Reversal 19/7/10
Angel Baby due 18/5/2011 (ectopic)
Angel Baby due 25/1/2012 (m/c)
Angel Baby due 21/6/2012 (m/c)
All 3 much loved and wanted xx
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 9:01 am
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Morning ladies,
Evie your a braver woman than me! Two girls I work with went to the next sale at 5:30 in the morning and it was horrendous! Also your not too old, My auntie was 43 (I think or older) when she fell pregnant with my cousin, she was 27 stone and unfit. So hang in there hun xx
Need the advice of ladies who chart.....I went to bed this morning at 1:30, read my book until around 2:30. I then went to sleep. I woke up at around 5:20, took my temp and it was 97.9. I then went back to sleep until 9:30 when I woke I took my temp again and it was 98.42. Now I know there is a certain amount of time you have to sleep to take your temp and I was wondering which temp to record in FF? oh and I woke at around 3:30 when Andy got in bed (the pain in the arse) Turned over, and sat up to get my phone.
Oh and ladies I will inform you again that magic Mike was the best film ever.....Lots of lovely men in hardly any clothes, thrusting and gyrating!!! I didn't drool once (promise)
Mand is your little princess making a move yet? I am so excited fro you xxxx
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 9:10 am
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Good luck ladies Fx with all the newbies a BFP is well
needed I love no: 13
Evie, thank you !! Yes Emily had a great. Birthday We only brought
her a few gifts ( she would rather play with saucepans ! ) but we had a lovely
special day Hope your ok ? Xxx
Hi to everyone else, Angel you back at slimming yet hun ?
Just moved my target for my last st
Pumps, you doing ok on yours ? Great weight loss hun
Hi to Lilemm, Meesh, Janey, Sam, Nat, Mand and all newbies. Xxx
Tubal Reversal 17/7/2008
Always in my heart Shannon, 23/10/2007 ~ 27/11/2007
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 9:39 am
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Mornng Ladies
Missed use guys iv been so bloody busy with packing for holiday next week and with Liam constantly feeding
Love the new thread fingers crossed we get lots of BFP you all deserve them so much
Shelly it took me 5 month after op to get my bfp
Hope everyone having a great weekend il try catch up on old posts later after lunch well thats if my 6 yr old kiki dont make me take her to the fair


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SAN FRANCISCO -- The Giants spent the first five innings Sunday holding their breath as Tim Lincecum labored. Now they're holding their breath until they find out more about the dislocated left pinkie finger of second baseman Joe Panik.
Lincecum allowed 12 base runners over five innings but limited the damage enough to earn his first win since July 11 as the Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-2 at AT&T Park. The Giants also picked up ground on the Los Angeles Dodgers for the second straight day and now sit 3½ games back in the National League West.
But now there's a fear the Giants could spend some time without the hot bat of Panik, who was injured making a headfirst dive into second base in the eighth inning. The pinkie was popped back into place by head athletic trainer Dave Groeschner, and Panik was replaced on defense in the ninth. He said X-rays didn't show a break.
"It's really going to be how it reacts tomorrow," Panik said. "Right now it's sore. It's going to be sore. It's just one of those things."
Panik referred to himself as day-to-day, and manager Bruce Bochy wasn't ready to consider what the Giants will do if Panik is out for an extended period. The team was flying to Chicago on Sunday night and has a day off Monday before beginning a three-game series with the Cubs on Tuesday.
"We'll talk about that when we're on the flight headed to Chicago," Bochy said. "My hope is it's not too bad. It really depends on how sore this is going to be tomorrow. The day off's coming at a good time for him."
Panik, a rookie who went 2 for 4 on Sunday, is hitting .419 over his past 12 games and .282 in 36 games on the season while solidifying the once shaky second base spot.
"He's really helped us here, and he's doing great," said Michael Morse, who went 3 for 3 and has reached base his last nine plate appearances. "He's proved why he should be here, and he's a big league player. He's a big part of this team and this organization, so I hope he's all right."
Panik remains hopeful that it's not serious and won't disrupt his season just as he's found his comfort level.
"It's one of those things when everything's going well, you don't want any setbacks," Panik said. "Thankfully, as of now, it's not broken, so it's good. You just don't want those things to happen and linger at this point in the season."
Lincecum had struggled in his previous four starts, allowing 20 runs and 28 hits in 17 innings. He wasn't great Sunday but found a way to last long enough for the win.
"I just tried to do my best to grind it out," Lincecum said. "Things weren't doing what I wanted them to do earlier. They started to a little bit later, but by that time my pitch count got up. I just did my best to grind it out, eke it out and leave everything on the field. I know I didn't have my best stuff."
Lincecum (10-8) was helped by catcher Andrew Susac, who threw out the speedy Ben Revere trying to steal second in the first inning. The first four Phillies batters reached base, but that caught stealing helped limit them to one run.
Philadelphia left seven men on base in the first three innings and had Lincecum on the ropes in the fifth. He hit Marlon Byrd leading off the inning and had a 3-1 count on Grady Sizemore before inducing a double-play grounder.
Lincecum was lifted after five innings and 97 pitches. Javier Lopez, Jean Machi, Sergio Romo and Santiago Casilla combined to strike out nine batters, a season-high for the Giants bullpen, over four scoreless innings.
"I thought Timmy's gutty effort saved us, because that game could've got out of hand there," Bochy said. "Of course, the bullpen stepped up. What a great job they did."
Giants (Ryan Vogelsong 7-8) at Chicago Cubs (Tsuyoshi Wada 2-1), 5:05 p.m. CSNBA


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The second book in Erin Bowman's gripping Taken trilogy, Frozen, will thrill fans of dystopian sci-fi series like Michael Grant's Gone and James Dashner's The Maze Runner.
Gray Weathersby has escaped Claysoot and uncovered the truth behind the Laicos Project and the Order's twisted plans. Determined to fight back, his small group of rebels is on the hunt for more answers and more allies—a search that will take them on a harrowing journey across a frozen wasteland, and even deeper into a world built on the Order's lies.
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Gray Weathersby escaped from the primitive town of Claysoot expecting to find answers, but what he discovered shook him to the core: A ruthless dictator with absolute power. An army of young soldiers blinded by lies. And a growing rebellion determined to fight back.
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it 1
pronoun[third person singular]
1Used to refer to a thing previously mentioned or easily identified: a room with two beds in it this approach is refreshing because it breaks down barriers
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- The great thing about an event like this is that it involves people from all walks of life and there is a real sense of camaraderie.
- Mrs. Henderson walked into the room holding a tray with his breakfast on it.
- But one voice truly stood out - and it did not belong to any of the private school pupils in the show.
1.1Referring to an animal or child of unspecified sex: she was holding the baby, cradling it and smiling into its face
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- We are now happily married and already expecting our first child - I hope it will be a girl.
- When the child was a child, it had no opinion about anything.
- Cumbria Police said the sheep appeared to have panicked as the men chased it.
1.2Referring to a fact or situation previously mentioned, known, or happening: stop it, you're hurting me
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- When the flag is up it means that a minimum inventory standard has been violated and more parts are needed.
- Oh, stop it, I'm blushing.
- It's not news that nitrogen prices are skyrocketing, and your customers will want to know why and what to do about it.
2Used to identify a person: it's me it's a boy!
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- From what I gathered, it was his mum on the line, and he seemed really taken aback at what she had to say.
- Was it you who told me the joke?
- Hi, it's me, Mandy, I'm in Italy.
3Used in the normal subject position in statements about time, distance, or weather: it's half past five it was two miles to the island it's raining
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- When it gets cold in Chicago, the snow way up to my knees, I still wear my sandals.
- It was now past ten o'clock.
- I hear it might snow tonight.
4Used in the normal subject or object position when a more specific subject or object is given later in the sentence: it is impossible to assess the problem she found it interesting to learn about their strategy
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- At the time, he found it frustrating that he could not figure out the right questions to ask.
- Does it matter what they think?
- It's difficult to absorb the costs and remain competitive.
5 [with clause] Used to emphasize a following part of a sentence: it is the child who is the victim
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- So the problem isn't that these things are unoriginal: it's that they're perceived as being original when they're not.
- It is the commander who is the first to take the blame for accidents.
- It wasn't until that moment that I realised we had nothing left apart from the clothes we stood up in.
6The situation or circumstances; things in general: no one can stay here—it's too dangerous now he would like to see you straight away if it's convenient
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- At other top clubs at the time, players often liked to enjoy themselves with a couple of beers when it was appropriate.
- We will not move in until it is safe.
- Washington is a good place, I like it there, but I really, really like to be in Texas.
7Exactly what is needed or desired: they thought they were it you've either got it or you haven't
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- Then we looked at Tim's original movie and thought, that's it.
- Bands either have it or they don't.
- He says that when he saw Wood's acting clips, he knew she was it.
8 (usually 'it') informal Sexual intercourse or sex appeal: the only thing I knew nothing about was 'it'
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- She did it with a boy when she was in high school.
- There has been an increase in amateur porn where real people do it for the cameras and beam their digital selves across the world via the Internet.
- I talk more about naughty stuff when I'm not getting it.
9 [attributive] (It) informal Denoting a person or thing that is exceptionally fashionable, popular, or successful at a particular time: they were Hollywood's It couple the company is renting out the It bags of the moment for as little as £10 a week
After It girl
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- With a mere 12 songs to the band's credit, the New York City garage rock quintet became the It band du jour following the 2001 release of Is This It.
- If the magazine isn't waxing lyrical about 'new boho' accessories, the new Fendi it bag or raffia accessories, it's asking 'Can you think yourself thin?'
- The company president predicted that the bags would all 'sell like hot cakes', nevertheless, fashion followers agreed there was to be no single it bag.
10 (usually 'it') (In children's games) the player who has to catch the others.
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- Elly tagged Karina and ran off, 'you're it.'
at it
- see at1.
that's it
- Montoya is harder to get past than Schumacher, and that's it really.
- I did not tell the truth when I should have done and that's it, sir.
- Their behaviour was - that's it - more American than British.
- And now Robbie's on the radio… that's it, I'm off to bed.
- I think that, having dived all the main wrecks, that's it for the Key Largo part of my trip.
- I'm meeting the lads for a couple of drinks in the union - and that's it.
this is it
- In all its glittering glory - this is it, the absolute best of everything Minneapolis and St. Paul have to offer: the 2004 Best of the Twin Cities Showcase Showdown!
- So this is it; after over 20 years of traveling the globe and chanting from the hilltops, the Boys have come back to where it all began.
- My mom would be thrilled if I came and told her well, this is it, I decided I would like to marry.
- Do whatever you feel you want to be remembered by, because this is it.
- At one point I thought this is it, I am going to die.
- Fear is about realising one fine day that there is no 'life is elsewhere', this is it, raw, painful and imperfect, without any of the finery.
- If poetic injustice means anything, this is it.
1That is the main point or difficulty: 'Is she going?' 'That's just it—she can't make up her mind.'
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2That is enough or the end: okay, that's it, you've cried long enough
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1The expected event is about to happen: this is it—the big sale
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2This is enough or the end: this is it, I'm going
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3This is the main point or difficulty.
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Palabras que riman con itacquit, admit, backlit, bedsit, befit, bit, Brit, Britt, chit, commit, demit, dit, emit, fit, flit, frit, git, grit, hit, intermit, kit, knit, legit, lickety-split, lit, manumit, mishit, mitt, nit, omit, outsit, outwit, permit, pit, Pitt, pretermit, quit, remit, retrofit, sit, skit, slit, snit, spit, split, sprit, squit, submit, transmit, twit, whit, wit, writ, zit
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sustantivo[mass noun] British informal, dated
Italian vermouth: he poured a gin and it
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- The lady was doubtful, but at last decided on Guinness, and the gentleman wanted a gin and it.
- I thought I'd been the perfect hostess till one of the dowagers asked for 'gin and it.'
1930s: abbreviation.
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Saltos de línea: it
sustantivo[mass noun]
Short for information technology. the development and use of IT are certain to bring about changes in education [as modifier]: basic IT skills
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VAIL, Colorado - Longtime area real estate broker Sue Rychel recently attended the Colorado Association of Realtors' Convention, held at the Sheraton in Downtown Denver. The theme of this year's convention was "Waves of Opportunity." Rychel learned about new technology, home staging, listing syndication and gained several new business connections. Rychel can be reached in The Solaris office of Slifer Smith & Frampton Real Estate, 970-477-5730, or go to www.SusanRychel.com.
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November 6, 2012
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HUDSON — David Reed is pleased to announce the engagement of his daughter Cynde G. Hansly to Philip Spitz.
Hansly graduated from UMass in Lowell. She is currently employed as a Direct Support Professional at Lakes Region Community Services.
Spitz attended Children's Ministry University. He is currently employed in Youth Ministry at the Salvation Army.
A wedding is planned for September 14, 2013.
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