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LAKELAND | A pump failure at Polk County Utilities' Valley View water plant triggered a boil water notice for 4,300 customers in the Lakeland Highlands suburban area south of Lakeland.
The plant's pump failed on Wednesday and the repairs, which cost $100,000, have been completed, said Utilities Director Gary Fries.
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Soros Signs Up With 'Ready for Hillary'
The pro-Hillary Clinton forces got a huge boost Thursday with the announcement that billionaire investor George Soros signed on with a super PAC trying to lure her into the 2016 presidential contest.
Mr. Soros will serve as a co-chairman of the "Ready for Hillary" super PAC national finance council, the group said. He gave a $25,000 contribution to the organization earlier this month.
Mrs. Clinton, of course, hasn't yet announced whether she'll enter the presidential race. "Ready for Hillary," an independent operation, is hoping to make the decision easier for her by demonstrating widespread support for her candidacy around the country.
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Mr. Soros has been a major contributor to Democratic causes over the years. In joining the super PAC, he sent a strong signal that he will align himself with Mrs. Clinton and help raise funds for her campaign should she enter the race.
That he would do so is "obvious," a person close to Mr. Soros said Thursday.
Mrs. Clinton would be the instant frontrunner if she jumps in. Now that her supporters have landed Mr. Soros as a donor, other Democratic hopefuls may be less inclined to challenge her in the Democratic primaries.
Potential Democratic presidential candidates in '16 include Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Vice President Joe Biden.
In the 2008 campaign, Mr. Soros favored then-Sen. Barack Obama over Mrs. Clinton. He gave an interview in January 2008 in which he said that while he backed Mr. Obama, he also had "very high regard for Mrs. Clinton."
"I prefer Obama because I think he would bring more radical change," Mr. Soros said at the time. "But if she is the candidate, I will be very supportive of her."
In a statement, Seth Bringman, a spokesman for Ready for Hillary, said: "We're thrilled to have him join. He has consistently invested in grassroots efforts. It means a lot that he would invest in ours."
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Texas A&M – Corpus Christi's intercollegiate athletics programs performed well in the latest release of the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate, the organization announced today. Thirteen of the 14 Islanders programs posted a four-year APR of 932 or better in the latest data set, which encompasses retention and eligibility data for the academic years between 2008-09 and 2011-12.
"Our coaches and student-athletes have done a tremendous job in the classroom over the last several years," Director of Athletics Scott Lazenby said. "We need to continue to be diligent in our pursuit of academic success, but this year's report is one I'm very pleased with."
The lone program with a multi-year APR below 932 was the Islanders men's basketball team, which saw its multi-year APR improve from 887 a year ago to 911 in the latest data. The team saw a strong performance for the 2011-12 school year, posting an APR rating of 957 for the first season of the Willis Wilson era.
"We were confident when we had the penalties last year that it was an isolated occurrence and that we'd be back to a strong level for this year," Lazenby said. "Coach Wilson and his staff have been outstanding in developing players that are not just talented on the basketball court, but have a strong sense of character that leads to scholastic achievement in the classroom."
In addition to the women's golf team, which was recognized for being among the top 10 percent of its sport last week, several other teams had strong performances. Softball (981), women's basketball (964), men's tennis (963), women's cross country (958) and baseball (950) all posted four-year APR scores of 950 or better. The softball and golf teams both registered perfect APR scores for the 2011-12 academic year.
The Association holds Division I institutions accountable for the academic progress of their student-athletes through the Academic Progress Rate, a team-based metric that accounts for the eligibility and retention of each student-athlete, each term. The most recent APRs are multi-year rates based on scores from the 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-2012 academic years.
Beginning with 2012-13 championships, teams must earn a minimum 900 four-year APR or a 930 average over the most recent two years to be eligible to participate. For 2014-15 championships, teams must earn a 930 four-year average APR or a 940 average over the most recent two years to participate in championships. In 2015-16 and beyond, teams must earn a four-year APR of 930 to compete in championships.


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What's the Best Exercise for Your Age?
If your typical workout routine never changes, you're missing out. Here's what you should be doing at the gym, based on your goals and your age
Your fitness fix: Focus on your core.
"There are so many benefits to getting in great shape even before you get pregnant," says Trink. "It will give you stamina and stability throughout your pregnancy and the childbirth process, and it will make getting back into shape after you give birth so much easier." Core function is especially important while you're carrying extra weight -- it can minimize back strain -- and learning how to activate certain muscles will make it easier to get them back post-pregnancy.
After you've had a baby, Pagano stresses how important it is to get back to your routine as soon as you've been cleared by your doctor. "There's a small window of opportunity when your hormones will actually help you lose a lot of body fat," she says.
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It's definitely good to exercise at every age!
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Resistance bands & mini weights here I come! I need to maintain, not minimize, &/or maximize. Great ideas.
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I'm in my 20's and I think it's really important to vary your routine and only do things that you enjoy, then you're more likely to stick with it. Also changing up your routine confuses your body and you are less likely to get used to doing the same exercise over and over, then you hit a plateau and have to change your routine. Some days I do Zumba, walk my dog, cardio kick-boxing or a more intense strength training workout. Even if I'm super lazy I'll still fit in a short walk or yoga, once you get going you almost always want to continue. It's good to have a workout buddy, if you know someone is depending on you to show up, you're more likely to follow through. Also check your local parks and recreation. Often they have free classes. Mine offers free yoga and Zumba. They also have great hiking trails which are free, so no need to pay for a gym membership.
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Eh. I'll be 30 in a month (not working like crazy and DEFINITELY not planning to get pregnant) and the only tip I found helpful was the reminder to work on my posture.
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This makes me think about my net surfing ;)
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The Warriors' Steve Kerr went out of his way to pick the brain of Bill Parcells in preparation for a future in coaching, and in his quest for knowledge, he turned to another Super Bowl-winning coach in Pete Carroll on Wednesday.
According to Seahawks.com, Kerr attended Seattle's training camp in Renton, Washington, in order to "soak in Carroll's coaching philosophy" before his first season as Warriors coach.
"As a young coach I just like to see people at work," Kerr told Seahawks.com. "And Pete obviously is one of the best. He's one of the most intriguing people that I've met and that I've sort of watched over the years as a football fan.
"I'm thankful that he gave me the opportunity to come visit with him."
Kerr, who might raise eyebrows in the Bay Area by visiting with Jim Harbaugh's archrival, is well aware of the history between the 49ers coach and Carroll judging from his tweet on the night of the Seahawks' 43-8 Super Bowl win.
"As Pete Carroll keeps throwing the ball in an attempt to get to 50 pts, somewhere Jim Harbaugh is watching saying 'what's your deal?'" Kerr joked in the tweet.
Carroll, who goes by the motto, "Always Compete," gave Kerr a close look at his style of coaching. At the start of a team meeting, Carroll broke the ice by pitting wide receiver Bryan Walters in a free throw shooting contest against Kerr, the NBA's all-time leader in career 3-point shooting percentage.
In the contest to see who could make more shots on a recreational hoop in 30 seconds, Kerr lost 6-4.
"I was more nervous for that moment than I was when I played in the NBA." Kerr told the website. "It was so cool to be amongst the Seahawks with Coach Carroll calling me up. It was almost surreal."


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Private-sector employment grew by a scant 0.8 percent in the Hudson Valley in December compared to a year earlier, the weakest growth for December in three years, according to figures released Thursday by the state Department of Labor.
For 2012, employment inched upward in Orange and Sullivan counties, while dipping a bit in Ulster.
Orange County's private-sector employment grew by 1,500 jobs in 2012, or 0.7 percent, and Sullivan County saw 100 more jobs for an increase of 0.5 percent. Ulster County's private sector dropped 200 jobs, according to the figures.
Most of the Hudson Valley's increase of 5,600 private-sector jobs for 12 months ending in December were in educational and health services.
The construction, manufacturing and information sectors shed a total of 4,700 jobs. Construction accounted for 3,000 of those lost jobs.
A shift into the positive column could occur this year with the construction of a new Tappan Zee Bridge and the Empire Resort project having the potential to create several thousand jobs, Johny Nelson, state labor market analyst for the Hudson Valley, said in the written report.
Statewide figures showed 34,300 private-sector jobs added in December, bringing the overall year-to-date private-sector job gain to 123,200.
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VAIL — Although she is most often categorized as a blues artist, Marcia Ball fits under many musical umbrellas. It's true that the Austin Music Hall of Famer has earned Grammy nominations and countless blues awards throughout her storied professional career, dating back to her first record in 1972. But the Texas native has also been known to knock out her fair share of New Orleans-inspired jazz rife with lively, steppy piano. Her music could even be classified as hoedown or folk rock. Above all, Ball considers herself a storyteller.
"That's one of the most striking aspects of my music. There are stories behind the songs, stories in the songs. I like to tell stories," she said. "I like to balance what we record so there's some up tempo and fun songs and also some serious things to think about."
In one yet-to-be-named track on her newest album (set for release this fall), Ball sings about the disparity between economic classes,"about people who have too much and people who have too little," to the powerful contrast of quick, upbeat instrumentation. Some songs address global topics such as environmental devastation and hunger, while others tell stories of her own personal experience and the savoir-faire of others.
"I write things down constantly. I'm a terrible eavesdropper," she said. "I'll write down a snippet here, a snippet there, sometimes on paper scraps. When it gets down to the real point of putting a record together, I go back into my stack of notebooks and legal pads."
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"The Power of Love" — one of Ball's most revered songs, was written about her husband during the early stages of their relationship. "I don't want his ego to get too big," she said laughing, mentioning that her husband also served as the inspiration behind the less cajoling "Find Another Fool," from the same 1989 album, "Gatorhythms."
She wrote "This used to be Paradise" about growing up in South Louisiana and witnessing the aftermath of the BP oil spill. Another heart-wrenching favorite, "Saint Gabriel," refers to the women's prison in Louisiana and was inspired by a woman who went to jail for killing her husband out of self-defense. Ball actually met with the woman and the song became pivotal in instigating her release from prison.
Although not as overt, the pianist's stories have provided a type of release for fans, too. Given that the subject matter sparks an emotional gamut, Ball's fans have told her that the songs have not only stayed with them but helped through rough times.
"The energy we expend is given back to us multifold," Ball said. "Somebody will come up after a show and say, 'That made me so happy. It helped me so much.' One woman wrote recently, 'I work with you all the time.' I am keeping her company — my music is keeping her company — as she works."
Although she has been producing and performing music for nearly 50 years, not a day has ever passed in which Ball could see herself doing anything else.
"I never take for granted the fact that I'm getting to do what I love to do, what people dream about doing — traveling around and playing music. If you can't have fun doing this, you need to re-examine your priorities," she said.
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AVON LAKE, Ohio (October 29, 2012)--Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney curtailed his campaign schedule as Hurricane Sandy took aim on the Eastern seaboard, canceling planned appearances Monday night and all day Tuesday.
Campaign officials said vice presidential running mate Paul Ryan will also scrap campaign rallies during the same time frame.
The decision was announced a short while after President Barack Obama canceled a planned rally in Florida to fly back to Washington, where aides said he would oversee the government's response to the threat posed by the storm.
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It's often said that we're living with our best teacher, and nowhere is that more true than with our children. No one has the ability to push our buttons the way our kids do. And no one offers us the opportunity to practice the things we preach — about love, forgiveness and staying centered — like our kids do.
Every parent wants to stay cool, calm and collected. We don't want to threaten to send them to bed without their supper when they've sassed back, or tell them they're grounded for a month when — yet again — they refuse to honor their curfew. But taking a deep breath or counting to ten can seem almost impossible in the presence of kids who seem to know exactly how to push our biggest buttons.


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PHOENIX -- There are divergent ways to look at the number of games outfielder Yoenis Cespedes played in his rookie season with Oakland.
You could look at the 129 games he played and focus on the 33 that he missed, including a stint on the disabled list in May with a strained left hand and a stretch in June when he missed nine of 10 games with a strained left hamstring.
Or you could look at the 129 games he played as 39 more than he'd ever played in a season. In 2010 he played in 90 games for Granma in Cuba, just before he decided to defect and take his chances in North America.
A's manager Bob Melvin just smiles when he looks at the 23 homers, 82 RBIs and .292 batting average Cespedes produced in those 129 contests.
"That just shows how tough a kid and how focused he is," Melvin said. "He had to deal with acclimating to a new country and a different brand of baseball and concerns about his family and his future. And he had to deal with being hurt most of the last two months of the season, playing through pain because we were in the race.
"He's very driven. It's one of his major attributes. You could see it from the minute he got here."
That was perhaps most evident when Cespedes left the Sept. 13 game with a sprained right wrist. Well aware that Oakland needed him, Cespedes was back in the lineup the next day. He hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning to give the A's a 2-1 lead in what would wind up a 3-2 win.
The A's went 12-7 in the final 19 games with Cespedes playing in all of them. He averaged .319, hit five homers and drove in 14 runs, all with a wrist that was crying out for some rest.
That level of focus may become the signature of the man who figures to be the Oakland cleanup hitter this season and for years to come. Once he chose baseball over track and field -- he was a high jumper -- it was all baseball, all the time.
He got his first baseball glove when he was 9. For the next three years, he alternated between the high jump and baseball until he put away his track spikes to settle on a career in baseball cleats.
"It got to the point where I just decided I liked baseball better," Cespedes said through interpreter Ariel Prieto. "I thought I could be good at both, but I just liked playing baseball better."
He liked baseball to the exclusion of almost everything else. When he wasn't in school, he was playing baseball, almost sunup to sundown.
"From the time when I'd wake up, the first thing I'd do was play," he said, "play until it got dark. Every chance. Even when I was in school, we had 30 minutes for lunch. I'd play baseball rather than have lunch. That's how much I liked it."
His desire to be on the field hasn't slacked. He objects to the thought of being more than an occasional designated hitter. And when spring training games are over, he cranks up some of his favorite Cuban rhythms on the music system in the clubhouse and goes through a grueling workout in the weight room that can last a couple of hours.
Where does that drive come from? Cespedes says no mentors have pushed him to be the hard-charger he is.
"It all comes from inside," he said. "It's just me. It's who I am and how I play the game. I've always had that drive."
Melvin is a believer.
"You don't see that in everybody," the manager said. "But you see it in everything he does. That's what separates him."
If the A's separate themselves from the rest of the AL West as they hope this year, Cespedes' drive may prove to be the driving force.
For Davis, that was no problem.
"The beauty of what I see with our hitters that I didn't see last spring," Davis said, "is that while there's a sense of urgency, they're not in any rush."
Davis went on to explain that he sees his hitters as having a clear idea of what they need to do to get back to their rhythms of the second half of 2012, when Oakland had one of the more dangerous lineups in baseball.
"They want to get there," he said. "But they don't feel the need to get there now. They want to get there by opening day. They have time to work on things now. I like that."
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Overall: it was a solid set 1 and a decent set 2. Not really a show I would listen to again.
Wednesday, 03/25/1992
Trax, Charlottesville, VA
Set 1: Wilson > Sparkle, SOAMeltSplit Open and Melt, Rift, Fee -> Maze, Glide > Runaway Jim, It's Ice > AntelopeRun Like an Antelope
Set 2: Tweezer > Mound > Reba, ATRAll Things Reconsidered, CoilThe Squirming Coil > YEMYou Enjoy Myself[1] -> Setting Sail > Horn, MSOMy Sweet One > CDTChalk Dust Torture, Cold as Ice > Cracklin' Rosie > Cold as Ice, GolgiGolgi Apparatus
Encore: Sleeping Monkey > TweepriseTweezer Reprise
[1] "White boys attack" theme in vocal jam.
· Call to the Post tease in It's Ice
· Follow the Yellow Brick Road and For the Love of Money teases in You Enjoy Myself
· Chalk Dust Torture Reprise tease
Noteworthy Jams: It's Ice (highly recommended), You Enjoy Myself, Setting Sail
Average Song Gap: 5.54
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: It's Ice contained Call to the Post teases from Page. Chalk Dust Torture Reprise was teased prior to Tweezer. YEM included a tease of Follow the Yellow Brick Road and several For the Love of Money teases from Mike. The YEM vocal jam was briefly based on a "white boys attack" theme. Setting Sail subsequently arose from the vocal jam.
Song Distribution:
7 Rift
5 Lawn Boy
4 A Picture of Nectar
3 Stash
3 Junta
2 The White Tape
1 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
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This show was part of the "1992 Spring Tour."
Overall: it was a solid set 1 and a decent set 2. Not really a show I would listen to again.


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1A group of people assembled for religious worship.
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3 (often Congregation) (In the Roman Catholic Church) a permanent committee of the College of Cardinals: the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
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The Mills River Volunteer Fire and Rescue's Annual Flower and Plant Sale will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the firehouse, 121 Schoolhouse Road, Mills River.
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Foodeducate is a nice one! and it's free, too i enjoyed it
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Great list, just wish they were also available on android :(
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Can't believe they didn't mention MyFitnessPal! Great for tracking calories, setting goals.. Also, if you have any FitBit products, their site is really good. I can't recommend the FitBit Aria scale and FitBit One tracker enough...such good products!
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Although this is a recycled article, some of these apps are very helpful. Check out Fitday. It's great!
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|Length Overall
|29' 2'' w/ swim platform
|Dry Weight
|5,100 lbs.
|8' 6''
|Tested Weight
|Weight Capacity
|Draft Up
|Person Capacity
|Draft Down
|Fuel Capacity
|101 gal.
|Air Draft
|Water Capacity
|24 deg.
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|Prices, features, designs, and equipment are subject to change. Please see your local dealer or visit the builder's website for the latest information available on this boat model.
|Std. Power
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|Tested Power
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|Opt. Power
1 x 375-hp MerCruiser 496 Magnum
1 x 425-hp MerCruiser 496 Magnum
1 x 525-hp MerCruiser HP 525
1 x 600-hp MerCruiser HP 600 SCI
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|Easy to view while underway.
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|V-shaped stern seats.
|Flagship of the Islander series.
Baja 277 Islander: Comfortable but Quick
By Capt. Bob Smith
The new Baja 277 Islander will be a hit with go-fast families that enjoy the power and the fun of a performance boat.
The 277 is the flagship of the Islander series and comes in two designs. The key difference is the seating arrangement in the aft cockpit. You can choose a traditional single-bench design or two V-shaped seats with a centerline walkthrough separating them.
She is 27'5" overall, with a beam of 8'6". The Islander weighs 5,100 lbs. and has a 101-gallon fuel capacity. This model draws 38" and has a 24-degree deadrise at the transom. Engine options include single 320-hp MerCruiser MX 6.2L Bravo I, 375-hp MerCruiser 496 Mag Bravo I, 425-hp MerCruiser Mag HO, 500-hp MerCruiser 525 EFI and the 575-hp MerCruiser 600SCI.
On Deck
In addition to the V-shaped stern seats, another thoughtful topside design is the corner-mounted head compartment which makes it easy for even a large fellow (yours truly) to get inside. Usually I have to fold into a pretzel and crawl inside. Higher gunwales improve safety, especially with the little ones onboard. The open design encourages conversation and camaraderie.
The Islander sports a full page of optional features and a double-column page of standard equipment. Six-inch pull-up cleats are standard along with a flush- mount stainless steel ski tow. An additional bolt-on swim platform with 3-step stainless steel ladder is also standard.
I thought the 34 oz. vinyl upholstered cockpit seating was especially comfortable. The aft bench doubles as a 25 qt. cooler storage. Drop-down Aero bolster seats are also standard at the helm and companion station. Peppered around the layout are jumbo cup holders. Across the top of the electrically powered engine hatch is a large sunpad.
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The helm station is arranged so that all important gauges are easy to view while underway. Livorsi performance controls have the trim on the handle. Livorsi II gauges are set in a custom panel and have red backlights for easy night viewing. The custom tilt wheel has a black satin finish. The full-framed windshield has a centerline walk-through.
In the head, the port-a-potti is standard as well as 12-volt lighting. The comfort of the seating in the open bow matches any Lazy Boy I've parked in. A large storage compartment is on the starboard side for big items.
For our test on the Intracoastal Waterway, I had three people on board and ¾ of a tank of fuel. The 277 Islander reached a top speed of 60.2 mph and had a cruising speed of 38.8 mph for a range of 213 miles on a full tank. She leapt on plane in 4.6 seconds and hit 30 mph in 9.3 seconds. While still having the throaty roar you expect from a Baja, she only produced a sound reading of 94 decibels at the helm at top speed. We would have expected 100 decibels or higher.
Baja's original concept drawings and the final product were amazingly close. I believe they have the design phase down to a fine art. If you are looking for performance, design and space, you will be very happy with the Baja Islander 277.
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GAFFNEY, SC-- Stoessel Cobb, 79, passed away on Thursday, March 7, 2013 at his residence.
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text: What i mean is, are your favourite characters in the TV series the same as they were in the book? For example, personally i never liked Eddard Stark, his honor always getting in the way of what i thought were the more rational decisions annoyed me way too much. And i found his dialogue a little dry, to be honest. But here, portrayed by one of my favourite actors, Sean Bean, he's maybe my favourite of the cast just because of the fact that it's Sean Bean and he's done such an admirable job. anyway, my favourite characters of the first book were Tyrion Arya Jon The Hound Dany but in the series my favourite characters have been Eddard Littlefinger - like Eddard has become my favourite because of his fantastic portrayal. he's just perfect. Viserys - again. i just felt he played the part of an angry, spoiled brat to perfection, so much so that i actually liked him for all the wrong reasons, and when he tries to steal the eggs i sympathized with him, as i did at the very end. in the books not so much Jaime - same deal as Viserys really. he manages to hit the right balance of arrogance and charm so that i find him endearing rather than annoying like i did in the books (until book 3) Tyrion is the only favourite of mine from the books that remains a favourite in the show. I think it's amazing how an actor can completely change my perspective on certain characters through their acting talent and demeanor. Anyway, discuss. Am i the only one who the series had this effect on?


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*Pronunciation is another thing entirely; I have discovered over the past few years that, despite its phoneticity, actually saying the word "mumpsimus" is quite difficult for most people. The Mumpsimus Guide to Proper Living suggests practicing the pronunciation of the word at least five times every morning and then five times before going to bed at night.
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STOCKTON - State transportation officials awarded an additional $10.5 million to a project to widen Highway 99 through part of Stockton.
The California Transportation Commission approved the funds among $64 million in allocations to 43 projects statewide.
The Stockton project is funded from Proposition 1B, the transportation bond passed by voters in 2006.
The project, at an overall cost of $250.5 million, will widen the freeway from four to six lanes between the Crosstown Freeway and Arch Road. In addition, it will improve or rebuild interchanges while adding auxiliary lanes, soundwalls and other improvements.
Last year, the commission allocated about $124 million to the project meant to reduce traffic congestion along one of the county's most-used roadways. That project is expected to start this year.
It's adjacent to another $250 million project on Highway 99 that has already begun. That project is to widen Highway 99 from Arch Road down to Highway 120 in Manteca.
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Tomorrow, more than 150 professors from New College of Florida and delegates from universities including Oxford, Harvard, Yale and Princton will don their academic regalia for the inauguration of Dr. Donal O'Shea as the fifth president of New College
O'Shea, 60, was named president of the college last March and started at the beginning of the current academic year, succeeding Dr. Gordon E. Michalson Jr., who returned to teaching after 11 years at the helm of the small liberal arts institution.
New College, founded in 1960 as a private liberal arts college, became part of the University of South Florida in 1975 and in 2001 was designated as the state of Florida's "honors college for the liberal arts." Its enrollment is about 850 students and earlier this month was ranked No. 3 "Best Value Public College in America" for 2013 by The Princeton Review. Annual tuition is $6,060 for Florida residents, $29,089 for out-of-state students.
O'Shea came to New College from Mount Holyoke, a women's private liberal arts college in Massachusetts, where he was dean of faculty and vice president for academic affairs. Mount Holyoke, one of the "Seven Sisters" in the Northeast, is the oldest college for women in the world and one of the most elite. The Princton Review in 2011 ranked Mount Holyoke No. 1 for "best classroom experience and No. 3 for "most politically active students." Its enrollment is 2,200; annual tuition is more than $41,000.
O'Shea holds an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Harvard; he earned his master's degree and Ph.D, also in mathematics, from Queen's University in Canada.
Q: How has mathematics prepared you for life in college administration?
A: First of all, mathematics is an academic discipline with rapid changes and many recent discoveries, and there is nothing like being in a rapidly advancing academic discipline to prepare one to be an administrator in an age of very rapid change in our higher educational institutions and systems.
On the purely technical side, mathematics deals with structure, and administrators deal with the same. The number skills, and the sense of scale that one develops in thinking about mathematics, are useful in reading and understanding balance sheets and long-term plans.
Being in a mathematics department also gives one experience interacting with many different sorts of people, including individuals who misunderstand or fear or loathe mathematics - the latter experience is very useful for college administrators.
Q: In what ways is New College similar to and different from Mount Holyoke?
A: They are both residential, liberal arts colleges with very fine students and faculty, so they are more alike than different. Mount Holyoke is older, and has more students and faculty. The biggest difference is that Mount Holyoke is a women's institution, so the mission is oriented towards women. The student and faculty population is much more geographically and ethnically diverse than that of New College. The weather is more diverse too.
Q: What are the biggest challenges facing New College, and how will you address them?
A: Providing a first-rate undergraduate education is very expensive, and the state cannot reasonably be expected to cover all the costs. New College has always been dependent on private funding to add the margin of excellence and hire and pay for the extra faculty that close interaction with students demands.
We will have to increase the level of private funding, and this will require even more attention to fund raising. We are also living in an era when knowledge has expanded rapidly, and no one institution can provide the coverage. We will have to collaborate with other institutions.
Q: Briefly outline your vision for New College.
A: To continue to provide a first-rate education that allows our students to continue learning, to live full lives, and to go out and transform their professions or disciplines or areas in which they choose to work. To have New College claim its place among the nation's great universities and colleges. To have New College be at the center of the Sarasota-Bradenton region and what will come to be recognized as one of the nation's great college towns.
Q: What's been the greatest surprise of your move to New College?
A: I've been impressed by the large number of other excellent educational institutions, and the sheer variety and depth of cultural events and human capital in the area.
Q: Bonus question: What's your favorite place on campus, and why?
A: This may be an obvious choice, but the bayfront, for its beauty and serenity.
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STOCKTON - Police are searching for a carjacker who stole a red 2003 Chevrolet Avalanche shortly before 8 p.m. Wednesday in the 9400 block of West Lane, authorities said.
The victim told police he was in his vehicle when someone approached him and asked to use his phone. The carjacker had his hand in his waistband, leading the victim to believe the man might be armed, police said.
The victim handed his phone to the man, who then asked for a ride and subsequently demanded the keys to the vehicle, authorities said. The carjacker took the vehicle and drove east on Morada Lane. He was followed by an older, black four-door Honda Accord occupied by three black men and two black women. The carjacker was described as a black man 20 to 22 years old standing 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 165 pounds.
STOCKTON - A 23-year-old man was robbed Wednesday after being picked up by a woman he met online and her two brothers, authorities said.
The robbery occurred shortly after 4:30 p.m. near Robinhood Drive and Claremont Avenue, police said.
One of the brothers brandished a handgun while the other went through the victim's pockets. They stole the man's money before fleeing in the vehicle, which was described as a white 1980s model Ford Mustang.
One of the robbers was described as a Latino man 17 to 19 years old standing 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 145 pounds.
Another was described as a Latina woman 18 to 19 years sold standing 5 feet tall and weighing 110 pounds. There was no description of the third robber.
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You need to feel sorry for Nikil Viswanathan because he's not going to feel sorry for himself.
This is a guy who came up with a spiffy, free website that automatically ensures you're among the first to check in for Southwest Airlines flights -- meaning you're more likely to board in the first group, find ample overhead space and get a seat near the front so you can bolt when you land. All without even thinking about it.
Totally cool. OK, not totally. Not cool at all with Southwest, which demanded Viswanathan, who just earned a master's degree in computer science from Stanford University, shut down the site. He did.
"It's a little sad that it's over," says Viswanathan, who enjoyed a couple of weeks in the sweet sunshine of adoration from Southwest passengers before the airline cracked down. "I'm also a little happy because I'm able to move on to other stuff."
Yes, he has the spirit of an innovator. When things go bad, learn and move on.
But this is all wrong. This derailed website is exactly the opposite of how innovation is supposed to work. Innovation is supposed to be open and free, creative and disruptive. Innovation is supposed to make our lives easier and be applauded vigorously when it does.
Viswanathan did it just right. He had a problem and like so many in Silicon Valley he turned to technology for a solution. Like innovators everywhere, he asked: "Why not?" But Southwest had an answer: "Because."
First, the story: When Viswanathan flew east last winter to visit his sister he confronted one of the challenges of being a Southwest customer. The airline works on a variation of first-come, first-serve for seating. Those who check in first are grouped together and allowed on the plane first to choose any seat. Those who check in later are put in a group and go on next, etc. The catch? Unless passengers pay an extra fee they cannot check in on Southwest's site more than 24 hours before the flight. So, fliers want to be right on top of it, exactly 24 hours in advance.
While Viswanathan was in Philadelphia with his sister, a light bulb went off.
"I was just thinking, 'I have an hour,'" he says. "'I could totally just write a program that automatically checks me in.'"
And so he began work on CheckIntoMyFlight.com, a site that takes your previously entered information and automatically checks you in 24 hours in advance -- right when Southwest's website starts issuing boarding passes. Viswanathan's code sat idle for some time and he tweaked it a little. In early October he launched the site. He posted about the site on Facebook. Friends told friends. A technology blog linked to it. Travel blogs started writing about it. About 800 fliers, he says, used the free service.
"What really excites me and what really got me pumped was I actually had people using this," says Viswanathan, 25, of Palo Alto. "And users loved it."
They did. Eric Pace, a civilian Air Force employee who lives in Washington, D.C., heard about the site from his wife, who knows Viswanathan's sister.
"I used it actually for two flights," says Pace, 34, who flies frequently to visit his wife, who's finishing school at the University of Texas. "They both worked perfectly as advertised."
So, everybody loved CheckIntoMyFlight.com. OK, not Southwest. Some fans of the site warned Viswanathan that his idea wasn't going to fly with Southwest. And when Hacker News, a blog big in tech circles, picked up on it one Friday in October, Viswanathan worried about being sued by Southwest -- which advertises with a big heart, but thinks with a business brain. "Then I found out that lawyers don't actually work on Saturday," he says.
No, he didn't get sued right away. But before long, he did receive a cease-and-desist letter, saying among other things that the program, which automatically interacted with Southwest's website, violated the airline's terms of service.
"Our standard line on this subject," Southwest spokeswoman Katie McDonald tells me as she launches into an incredibly standard-line explanation about valuing customers and touch points and policies and signature personal touches, all of which boils down to this: Southwest doesn't like outsiders coming between them and their passengers. Nothing to do with money, mind you, it's all about delivering that flier-friendly Southwest service.
Really? I ask McDonald. It doesn't have anything to do with the fact that Viswanathan's site could eat into Southwest's Early Bird Check-In program, which places passengers at the head of the check-in line for an extra $10?
McDonald wouldn't say that.
Does it have to do with advertising, and the thought that fliers using Viswanathan's service might spend less time on Southwest's site mulling hotel, rental car and vacation package offers?
Nope, McDonald says. "It's Southwest brand integrity," she says. "We don't even allow our fares to be sold on other sites. Everything that we do is through Southwest.com."
For his part, Viswanathan gets it that Southwest wants to protect its business interests. But for him it all seems so 2005. Don't computers exist, after all, to make our lives easier?
"Computers were designed to do this," he says. "Computers were designed to automate routine tasks for humans."
He's right. And it's only a matter of time before the idea is universally embraced. And when it is, you can bet that Viswanathan will be ready and waiting with just the thing to make your life easier.
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Sept. 30, 2010 -- Excess caffeine increases the likelihood of urinary incontinence in women, according to a new study that echoes the findings of previous research.
''Women who consume high levels of caffeine are 70% more likely to have urinary incontinence than women who don't," says Jon Gleason, MD, an instructor and fellow at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical School's Division of Women's Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery.
He is slated to present the findings Friday at the American Urogynecologic Society's annual meeting in Long Beach, Calif.
Caffeine sources include coffee, tea, beverages, foods, and some pharmaceuticals.
In Gleason's study, women who reported taking in 329 milligrams of caffeine a day -- about three cups of coffee -- or more had a 70% higher likelihood of having the bladder problem.
Urinary incontinence, or the unintentional loss of urine, affects more than 13 million Americans, mostly women. Women are most likely to develop it either during pregnancy or childbirth or with menopause and its hormonal changes, due to pelvic muscle weakness. But it's not a natural consequence of aging, experts say.
Caffeine and Bladder Problems: The Study
Previous research has produced conflicting findings about caffeine and bladder problems, Gleason says. So he looked at a larger group of women than those studied in previous research.
Gleason evaluated data on 1,356 women, aged 20 to 85, who had participated in the 2005-2006 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a large nationally representative survey.
The women kept food diaries on two separate days and also answered questions about bladder function.
Moderate caffeine intake, defined as about 182 milligrams a day, was not linked to urinary incontinence. But higher intakes -- 329.5 milligrams or higher -- were.
People who had a high caffeine intake were more likely to be aged 40-59, to drink alcohol, and to be non-Hispanic white.
Gleason found no links between urinary incontinence and body mass index, vaginal childbirth, or high intake of water.
What's Behind the Link?
''Only high levels of caffeine were associated with urinary incontinence," Gleason says.
What is it about the caffeine? "There is evidence that caffeine has a diuretic effect," he says. The diuretic effect increases the amount of urine you make.
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2 alleged burglars caught in the act, face charges
Published: Monday, September 30, 2013 at 1:21 p.m.
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Two men were arrested early Monday morning after attempting to gain entry to a South Ellendale Estates home while a woman was inside, the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office said.
William Lala, 22, of 209 Duet St., and Cye Lirette, 21, of 307 Wayside Drive, were both charged with one count of simple burglary of an inhabited dwelling and one count of simple burglary, Maj. Malcolm Wolfe said.
A woman had called deputies about 4 a.m. and reported that a stranger was trying to break into her home, Wolfe said. When she confronted the man, he allegedly ran away.
Deputies searched the area and spotted two men running away from a truck with its interior lights on, Wolfe said. The vehicle was allegedly packed with several laptop computers and gas cans.
After a brief chase, police caught up with both men, and found stolen credit cards in one of the men's pockets.
Lirette told authorities they burglarized two homes that morning and at least four vehicles in the Sandy Beach and Ellendale Estates areas, Wolfe said.
Deputies called an owner of one of the credit cards, who said the card became missing overnight.
The investigation is ongoing, and detectives say more charges could follow, Wolfe said.
Anyone with additional information about these incidents is asked to contact the Sheriff's Office at 876-2500.
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Robin Downward's Randall Theatre has been producing plays at a breathtaking rate while attracting an untapped audience through a pay-what-you-want policy. Downward also is a gifted actor, performing in his own productions and at other venues such as the Oregon Cabaret Theatre, where he sang and danced as Sherlock Holmes in "Holmes and Watson Save the Empire" and in Cole Porter's "Let's Misbehave." Downward also teaches an acting workshop called Character Creation. We visited at the Randall Theatre in Medford.
EH: What do you cover in your Character Creation class?
RD: A lot of what I do in the Character Creation class, drama therapists do from the standpoint of analyzing yourself as a person, and turning things that you have experienced into positive emotions.
If you're not comfortable with yourself and you have all these insecurities, how can you get outside and be a member of society? You create someone else, that you can then be, to get used to being out in public, and then you can be yourself again.
There are internal and external aspects of character creation. The external aspects are your age and your physicality. I heard a story about Dustin Hoffman. The first thing he does when creating a character is to figure out what his hands do; and the character grows physically from there.
From the internal aspects, you are dealing with basic personality traits. I give the class a list of 101 questions to ask yourself about your character. The job is to create a living, breathing person that has a past, present and thoughts about a future. Actors are creating a human being from scratch and from the script in a relatively short period of time. That is not easy to do well. Everything you need to know about the character is in the script, maybe in the text or the subtext, but it is all there.
From the aspect of the many thousands of little intricate things that make up an individual, that same process has to go into an actor creating a character, so that the audience then believes that they are who they are instead of, "Oh, well, they're just acting." That is a big aspect of the class, delving deeper into the text and the subtext and the sub-subtext to get out all of those idiosyncrasies and create everything of "who they are." It gets actors thinking about the characters as human beings rather than just characters in a script, and it translates into much more believable characters.
EH: How is your new pay-what-you-want policy working?
RD: It's great. All of our pay-what-you-want shows are making more money than the previous shows because we're getting more people, and even though they may pay less than we were charging for each ticket, there are more people in the theater, which works for everybody. For those who want to be sure of getting a seat, we also have reserve seating for $12. There is a minimum of a dollar, because some people were taking advantage. It also works from a marketing standpoint because there are more people in the theater, seeing what's going on, and going out and talking about it.
In June, Downward will star in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" at the Camelot Theatre in Talent.
The Randall Theatre's 2013 season includes "The History of America" (by the writers of "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)," "The Elephant Man," "Man of La Mancha," "Death of a Salesman" and "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" as well as other offerings. For tickets and information, call 541-632-3258 or visit its website at randalltheatre.com.
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) -- Deadly teen auto accidents have been making headlines across the county and many may find it surprising to learn it is the number one cause of death for teenagers.
Colorado has some of the toughest laws when it comes to getting your drivers license as a teen, but despite the Graduated Drivers License laws in place, more teens die from auto accidents than anything else.
It is a tough transition for parents to hand the keys over to their teen driver and according to experts, parents should take it serious.
"We did a lot of practice with him, everyday we would let him drive to school and we let him practice as much as possible," said local mom, Shellie Miles.
"I believe that parents have a great influence on their kids and the kids pick up a lot more from them than almost anywhere else," explains local State Farm Agent, Adam Hobbs.
Technology can also aid teens and parents when it comes to driving. State Farm Insurance Company has an App.
"It allows parents to have some constructive criticism if they are taking corners too fast, they're speeding, breaking too hard and those types of things," said Hobbs.
Despite all of Miles's driving efforts, her son still had a collision.
"And he had that accident and since then he is so careful so maybe that was a good thing."
Not everyone is as fortunate as Miles. Many teen driving accidents end in tragedy.
On Sunday in Texas, 5 teens were killed in a car crash, when the teenage driver ran a stop sign and collided with a truck carrying gasoline.
On the same day in Ohio, a teen driver was speeding when the SUV flipped over into a pond- killing 6 of them.
I asked Miles if she would do anything differently…
"Just to do that over and over again, knowing that [son's driving] is an issue, If I had been more mindful than I was," said Miles.