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SIKESTON -- The fourth time was the charm as Sikeston and DeSoto finally got to play after having the game snowed out three different times this year.
The Class 4, No. 1 ranked Bulldogs remained undefeated with a dominating 73-36 victory over the Dragons, who were formally a state-ranked team themselves, but have slumped in recent weeks.
The enormous DeSoto team, led by 6-foot-9 junior center Colin Ferguson, played the Bulldogs tough for a quarter, but Sikeston slowly was able to pull away and wear down the Dragons.
DeSoto (14-8) actually led 12-8 in the first quarter, and managed to tie the game at 16 apiece on Ferguson's slam dunk, but two Will Holifield free throws gave the Bulldogs an 18-16 lead after one.
"We were a little out of sync, but they had a lot to do with that," Sikeston head coach Gregg Holifield said. "They came in and they were prepared for our press. Sometimes you have to credit the other team. Coach (Allen) Davis always has his team ready to play. They were patient in what they were doing. They are very well-coached as we know. They just did a good job of staying within their game-plan and taking advantage of some things they had some opportunities in."
The Bulldogs still just led 20-18 early in the second quarter, but they took total control from there with a 29-2 run that spanned the second and third quarters.
Sikeston went on a 16-2 run to close the second quarter to lead 36-20 at halftime.
Holifield said his team finally was able to get the pace of the game to his team's liking.
"We were able to dictate tempo and force some turnovers and that created some buckets for us," Holifield said. "We were in a hurry offensively tonight. We just have to slow down a little bit sometimes, be patient, pass and cut and wait for things to happen. I thought as the game wore on we did a better job of that."
Sikeston put the game away with a 13-0 run to start the third quarter to lead 49-20.
"We didn't lose our composure -- we made a lot of mental mistakes but that's okay, they're all young, they're all juniors," DeSoto coach Davis said. "But I saw some good things. This is probably the most excited I've been -- I know we lost by 37 points, but when you're playing a team that's playing 12 kids and running them in and out like Sikeston, it's tough. I think when my kids are fresh we can play with them, but that word 'fresh' is hard to come by."
Sikeston out-scored the Dragons 18-4 in the second quarter and exploded for a 28-9 advantage in the third quarter to enforce the mercy clock the rest of the way.
"Sikeston's awful good and they take things away from you -- you're not going to get too many looks," Davis said.
Sikeston (23-0) was able to force 25 DeSoto turnovers and they out-rebounded the far bigger Dragons 25-24.
However, the Bulldogs had one of their poorest shooting nights of the year from the perimeter, hitting just 2-of-16 from 3-point range. They made up for it by hitting 26 of their 36 shots from inside the arc.
Sikeston was led by Darryl Howard's 15 points and six steals. Janeil Hatchett followed up with 14 points and six assists. Will Holifield added 11 points.
DeSoto didn't shoot it much better themselves, going 13-37 (35 percent) overall and making just 1-of-8 from 3-point range.
"We've been struggling," Davis said. "We had two kids quit -- leave the team. That's caused a little bit of a problem -- a little readjustment. We're just trying to find two starters to replace them."
The Dragons were led by Jared White's 14 points and five steals. Ferguson had 11 points and seven rebounds.
The game marked the first meeting between the two schools since a 2006 Class 4 Sectional meeting, a game that Sikeston won 64-45.
Sikeston will close out the regular season by hosting Bernie tonight for Homecoming. DeSoto will travel to Notre Dame tonight.
DESOTO (36) -- Jared White 14, Colin Ferguson 11, Jared Saffer 4, Joe Middleton 4, Alec Seals 3. FG 12, FT 9-12, F 18. (3-pointers: Seals 1. Fouled out: none).
SIKESTON (73) -- Darryl Howard 15, Janeil Hatchett 14, Will Holifield 11, Eldridge Gibson 6, Keldon Warfield 6, Corey Porter 6, Terry Jamison 6, Vashawn Ruffin 5, Kil'Ron Coleman 3, Caleb McGee 1. FG 26, FT 15-25, F 15. (3-pointers: Ruffin 1, Holifield 1. Fouled out: none).
The Sikeston J.V. team improved to 20-0 with a 72-30 victory over DeSoto.
The Bulldogs led 19-7 after one quarter and 36-12 at the half.
Every single player scored for the Bulldogs led by Kyland Gross with 16 points. Markeith Bratcher followed up with nine points. Cord Sheehy had seven steals.
The Bulldogs drained 10 3-pointers in the game with eight different players making at least one.
Jake Paterner led DeSoto with 10 points.
DESOTO (30) --Jake Petener 10, Jake Bennett 9, Jeremy Edwards 6, Sean Soloman 3, Sean Dennert 2. FG 11, FT 2-9, F 6. (3-pointers: Edwards 1, Soloman 1. Fouled out: none).
SIKESTON (72) -- Kyland Gross 16, Markeith Bratcher 9, Rayshundre Jackson 7, Reese Porter 6, Vashawn Ruffin 5, Aundrea Golden 5, Blake Flannigan 5, Jetterance Harris 4, J.T. Jones 4, Cord Sheehy 3, Jairius Ray 3, Chris Word 3, Caleen Crawford 2. FG 17, FT 8-10, F 12. (3-pointers: Bratcher 2, Gross 2, Ray 1, Jackson 1, Sheehy 1, Ruffin 1, Golden 1, Flannigan 1. Fouled out: none).


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Information Models of Acupuncture Analgesia and Meridian Channels
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AbstractAcupuncture and meridian channels have been major components of Chinese and Eastern Asian medicine—especially for analgesia—for over 2000 years. In recent decades, electroacupuncture (EA) analgesia has been applied clinically and experimentally. However, there were controversial results between different treatment frequencies, or between the active and the placebo treatments; and the mechanisms of the treatments and the related meridian channels are still unknown. In this study, we propose a new term of infophysics therapy and develop information models of acupuncture (or EA) analgesia and meridian channels, to understand the mechanisms and to explain the controversial results, based on Western theories of information, trigonometry and Fourier series, and physics, as well as published biomedical data. We are trying to build a bridge between Chinese medicine and Western medicine by investigating the Eastern acupuncture analgesia and meridian channels with Western sciences; we model the meridians as a physiological system that is mostly constructed with interstices in or between other physiological systems; we consider frequencies, amplitudes and wave numbers of electric field intensity (EFI) as information data. Our modeling results demonstrate that information regulated with acupuncture (or EA) is different from pain information, we provide answers to explain the controversial published results, and suggest that mechanisms of acupuncture (or EA) analgesia could be mostly involved in information regulation of frequencies and amplitudes of EFI as well as neuronal transmitters such as endorphins.
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- Setting up a workspace
- Working with the seven key selection tools
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All right, so I went ahead and made a few additional modifications to that layer Mask using a Smudge tool, and then I went ahead and saved my progress as Frog with one red foot.psd. And I forgot to mention up here at the top of the Layers panel you'll find a group called Quick Select. If you turn it on, you'll see all of those tricks that work along with the Quick Selection tool. You can make the brush larger by pressing ], you can make it smaller by pressing [ key, and you can delete from a selection by pressing the Alt or Option key. In this exercise we're going to transition to the Magic Wand.
Now, the Wand gets a fair amount of abuse heaped at it by a lot of Photoshop users, and not without reason, it can disappoint. But it has got some great underlying technology and it's important to understand that technology to really come to terms with masking inside Photoshop. Also, it's an extremely predictable tool, much more predictable on this behavior than the Quick Selection tool. And what that means is that you can achieve good results using the Magic Wand if you understand how it works and you understand its limitations. For example, let me give you a sense of where we're going with this project.
I've got this file called The frog wizard.psd, and it includes some layer Comps, and you can see those comps by going to the Window menu and choosing the layer Comps command. And you can switch from one comp to another just by clicking in front of its name. For example, if I click in front of Gold skin, I can see this gold skin coating that we'll be creating, once again, using the Magic Wand. And then we'll select that black background using the Magic Wand and we'll fill it with a kind of blue sky effect. After that, we'll add a few compositing effects. And then finally, we're going to add some type as you see right there.
And I'll go ahead and Zoom out a little bit so that you can see things better. So obviously the Magic Wand tool can be made to work. You can get things done with it, if you only know how. So let's take a look at how the tool is put together. I'm going to switch to this image. It's called Gradient demo.psd. And if you open the file, you should see a vertical guideline right down at the center. If not, then go up to the View menu, Choose> Show and make sure that Guides is turned on. And so obviously what we have going here is a dark to bright gradient that trends through orange in the center, just so that we have an easily identifiable color.
And then we've got this strip of blue right through the center of things, and these are all part of the background layer incidentally. I'm going to go ahead and select the Magic Wand tool from Quick Selection tool flyout menu, and you can also get to the tool by pressing the W key. And we're going to start things off by discussing the Tolerance value up here in the options bar, and then we'll take a look at Anti-alias, Contiguous, and Sample All layers in the next exercise. Now, the idea behind the Magic Wand is you just go ahead and click inside of a region of color that you want to select and then Photoshop goes ahead and selects by default the adjacent colors that are similar to the one that you clicked on, and by similar I mean the ones that fall inside of the Tolerance range.
Tolerance is measured in luminance levels. So bear in mind that a luminance level of 0 is black and a luminous level of 255 is white. So in this case, Photoshop has selected 32 luminance levels darker and 32 luminance levels brighter than my click point, and it is done so on a channel by channel basis, and I'll explain what's going on there in just a moment. But what this means is that you can select a larger region of the image by increasing that Tolerance value. Now, the easiest way to select the Tolerance value is to just press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac, and then let's dial in a different value, such as twice 32, which would be 64, and I'll go ahead and click in order to deselect the image, and then I'll click again in order to select a larger area.
So we're selecting 64 luminance levels darker and 64 luminance levels lighter than that click point. Now, it's pretty difficult to compare each one of these settings, because after all, this is a static modification. For example, if I dial in a new Tolerance value, so I went ahead and pressed the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac to select Tolerance, I'll dial in twice 64, which is 128. You're not actually changing the existing selection outline, what you're doing is setting the Tolerance for the next selection. So this time I'll click underneath the bar, and notice I now select 128 luminous levels darker and 128 luminance levels lighter.
But as I say, it's hard to really get a sense of what's going on just by clicking repeatedly inside this image. So I've gone ahead and created this group of Tolerance settings. I'll go ahead and turn it on, and you can see the various ranges of selected pixels that are associated with each one of these Tolerance settings. So I started at 8, then 32 is your default, 64 goes all the way around, notice this, the line is purple all the way around, 96 goes both directions as well, 128, all the way up to 224. I'm just working in increments of 32.
And then finally, if you set the Tolerance value to its maximum, which is 255, then you end up selecting the entire gradient without selecting that blue strip in the middle or the gradient on the other side. Now, there's been some dispute in the community over the years as to whether the Magic Wand tool selects 32 luminance levels by default, for example, in each direction, or a total of 32 luminance levels. If you have any interest in that kind of minutia, let me explain what's really going on. The truth is it's selecting 32 in each direction, and it works, as I was saying, on a channel by channel basis.
So I'll go ahead and switch to the Channels panel, and I'll click on the Red Channel for a moment. The easiest range to see in each one of the channels is 64 right there. So I'll go ahead and press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac, dial in the Tolerance value of 64, and then press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac. And now I'll go ahead and click on the guideline down here in the bottom gradient. And notice here in the Red Channel the Wand tool goes ahead and selects 64 luminance levels to the left, and also to the right, which goes ahead and eats up the entire gradient over here on the right-hand side.
But this edge right there is exactly even with that edge associated with the full color composite 64. If I switch to Green, and then I click in this area, then I'll select as much larger range as you can see. For one thing, I select right through that blue bar, and for another, notice that the edges of my selection go out beyond the composite range described by a Tolerance setting of 96. And then finally, when I go down here to the Blue Channel and then click along that same line, I go ahead and select to the far left of the image, and then I select 64 luminance levels to the right, which exactly aligns with the full color composite 64.
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BENTON - Scott County commissioners will send a letter to area legislators calling for an increase to the assessed value at which a county must go from third class to second class.
During their regular meeting Tuesday, commissioners agreed to send the letter along with news articles from the Standard Democrat and Southeast Missourian and drew up a list of lawmakers to send it to. Copies will also be sent to the Missouri Association of Counties, the County Commissions' Association of Missouri and Gov. Bob Holden who recently vetoed Senate Bill 199 which would have made the change.
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Commissioners expect becoming a second class county to cost Scott County an additional $200,000 each year because of requirements such as establishing a county auditor's office.
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The bid to print tax assessment lists was awarded to Edgar J. Rice Company of Springfield for $11,971.70 as recommended by Teresa Houchin, county assessor.
The assessor's office will only have to supply a disk with the assessment list data on it and the company will take care of all the printing, addressing and mailing.
"They're the only place in the state that does it like this," said Houchin. "They take care of everything."
The assessment lists will look slightly different. "They're not going to have labels," Houchin said, explaining the addresses will be printed directly on the statement instead of using a label.
Houchin said the company was highly recommended by other assessors. "I didn't hear one negative comment," she said.
Last year's assessment list mailing cost $12,478 and postage has gone up since then, Houchin said.
Houchin also reported that the Missouri Association of Counties dropped its lawsuit against the state for dropping the reimbursement rate per parcel from $6.20 to $5.50 and most recently down to $5 but may sue on a related issue.
The State Tax Commission froze the parcel count for counties indefinitely, according to Houchin. "It could be a month, it could be five years," she said. "So MAC is picking up a lawsuit on that."
The STC had promised not to drop below $5.50 following the first cut, Houchin said.
County officials estimated that with the rate cut by $1.20, the county is receiving about $30,000 less that it would have.
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Well it's nice to see the force behind Blu-ray finally putting out a Blu-ray drive. Sony has announced that its BWU-100A Blu-ray Burner will begin shipping next month. The drive will cost you $750 USD, which is the lowest price we've seen on a Blu-ray drive yet, and will be able to burn both 25GB and 50GB BD-R/RE discs at 2x, meaning it'll take around 30 minutes to burn a 25GB disc and 60 to burn a 50GB disc. Sony claims that their drive will also be able to burn most DVD±R/RW formats as well as CD-R/RW.
For those of you interested in using the device for Blu-ray movies, the BWU-100A will be able to do so, but only if your computer comes equipped with an HDCP-compliant video card from NVIDIA or ATI (or one of their many resellers). This means that, if you current video card isn't HDCP-compliant, you're going to have to run out and shell out more money if you want to use your PC as a Blu-ray player. Still, even with the new GPU, the price isn't nearly as high as we've come to expect from Blu-ray drives, making this one of the better deals on the Blu-ray side of the high-def DVD war. Now all Sony has to do is make sure the PS3 doesn't suck.
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Thanks to everyone who came out on Saturday to enjoy "Unite Potrero: A Community Wide Party!" Over 350 Potrero residents and community members participated in a fun-filled day of food, music, arts and crafts, family games, Zumba, and more.
In the coming months, the seeds that were planted in the containers will be transfered to the Texas Street Garden, and the community mural that was painted throughout the day will be hanging in the Rebuild Potrero office at 1095 Connecticut Street.
A very big thank you to the Potrero Recreation Center, the 25 volunteers that helped make the event run smoothly, and the Rebuild Potrero Community Building Group for organizing all of the details and making it happen.
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NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. -- This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Watergate break-in, but the man who shined the light on what what happening in the dark has essentially remained in the shadows.
He's the North Augusta man who noticed something small that turned into one of the biggest stories in American history, and he was never really recognized until his death years later.
In a quiet North Augusta graveyard, you'll find a quiet hero. His name is Frank Wills, and his tombstone in the Mount Transfiguration Baptist Church Cemetery reads, "Our native son in 1972 discovered the Watergate break-in."
Wills' discovery is a detail history seems to have all but forgotten.
We remember Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the famous Washington Post reporters who tied the burglary to the white house and to Richard Nixon's reelection campaign.
In 2005, we learned the identity of Deep Throat, the man known as the Watergate whistle-blower. After decades of silence, Mark Felt, a retired associate director for the FBI, finally came forward.
But Wills?
Not a lot of people remember the night watchman whose sharp eye started it all.
"Tape. It was a piece of adhesive tape," he told News 12 in an interview in 1997. He wanted to talk about what he noticed that night at the Democratic National Headquarters. He says it looked like someone had re-taped the door. He got suspicious and called police.
The rest is history, and Wills says he wasn't just left out of that history. He says he was treated like a criminal.
"Blacklisted," he said.
He says he also felt like he was being crucified just for doing his job.
In 1976, he says he got some credit for his role, and was thrilled to play himself in the movie "All the President's Men." However, he says that's the only positive recognition he says he ever got.
He told News 12 he feels like he helped change history.
"I sacrificed a lot," he remembered.
All he wanted was some appreciation.
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The town wasn't prepared for such a disaster, and relief workers struggled to manage volunteers, donations and other critical needs for more than 260 families left homeless. Dismayed by the lack of commercial community-recovery tools, the O'Neill sisters used online technology to co-found and build recovers.org.
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The tool debuted last April after a tornado devastated several Texas towns and allowed emergency officials to quickly put an infrastructure in place to manage and match community needs with volunteers and donations.
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Spread on a large table and cut into two inch squares that perfectly fit into our boxes.
Packaged in single variety 7 oz. boxes. $10.29
Chocolate Clusters
Peanuts, Cashews, Raisins, toasted Coconut, or crisped Rice are smothered in Milk and Dark Chocolate.
Packaged in single variety 7 oz. & 8 oz. boxes. $10.29
Almond Butter Crunch
Butter Almond Toffee squares dipped in Milk Chocolate and rolled in chopped Dry Roasted Almonds.
Packaged in 7 oz. boxes. $10.29
Non Pareils
The name means "no equal" which is why they have always been one of our best sellers!
We make them in Milk Chocolate, Dark Chocolate or Creamy White.
Sold in 8 oz. single variety boxes. $10.29
Assorted Truffles
Luscious Chocolate Ganache centers, mixed Milk & Dark.
Each box has: Raspberry, Rum, Champagne, Amaretto, Orange, Hazelnut, Cappuccino, Tiramisu & Black Forest.
9-1/2 oz. box: $13.20 | 15-1/2 oz. box: $23.45.
Fruit Slices
These delightfully fruity jelly slices are popular with kids from 1-100!
Sealed for freshness in a poly bag, then boxed ready to give or enjoy.
6 Flavors in the assorted box: Lemon, Lime, Orange, Cherry, Grape & Raspberry.
NEW! Pomegranate sold separately
8 oz. $6.40
72% Cacao Dark chocolate
A 72% cocoa content, dark chocolate for serious chocoholics!
We have a variety of items:
Almond Bark, Solid Discs & Bars, Truffles, panned Blueberries & Cranberries.
7oz. $10.25
French Creams & Crystallized Maple
Flavorful creamy fillings are covered by a delicate coat of crystallized sugar.
Assorted flavors, shapes, & colors.
Everyday assortment: peppermint, wintergreen, spearmint, lemon.
Christmas assortment: Cinnamon, Peppermint, Spearmint ~ HOLIDAY SHAPES!
Crystallized Maple: Assorted shapes.
Sold in 7 oz. boxes. $8.98
Cream Wafers
Our delicious cooked fondant is melted and hand funnelled into party mints. Flavors are: Wintergreen, Peppermint, Spearmint and Lemon.
Orange available: September - November.
Cinnamon Available: December - Mid February.
Shelf life -10 days. NOTE: sorry, we're not able to ship the cream wafers. These can be special ordered* and personalized for weddings and special events.
* Special orders available AFTER Easter thru the end of November.
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Definition of actualize in English:
verb[with object]
Make a reality of: he had actualized his dream and achieved the world record
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- Recognize the potential; actualize the dream.
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Best ADHD Blogs, Continued
ADHD & LD Resource Blog
A resource for those who want to learn about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Learning Disabilities (LD), and related topics
by Shane Hawk
When this stay-at-home mother's son was diagnosed with ADHD and learning disabilities, in 2003, Hawk says, "I knew nothing about either. I immediately began reading and researching to learn everything I could. I decided to share what I had found with other parents who were facing the same issues and questions that I had. I wanted to make their search for information easier."
In addition to traditional posts, Hawk's blog has news, product reviews, surveys, and polls. Hawk even sells low-cost used books on ADD and LD on her blog.
Quick Take
"When my son started kindergarten, I realized how far behind he was academically. His peers could all recite the alphabet and count past 10. My son could not. He has problems associating the sounds of letters with the actual letters. His handwriting was illegible. I thought something wasn't right, but his teachers encouraged me that he would 'catch up.' I wish I had known then what I know now. Of course, hindsight is always 20/20, right? We, as parents, know our children better than anyone. Therefore, if you believe your child may have a learning disability, please do not hesitate to have him tested."
Life with Fast Boy
The challenges of raising our ADHD son
by One Tired Mama
This blog wins points for its honesty, creativity, and ironic humor. The pseudonymous cast includes Fast Boy, an eight-year-old with ADHD; One Tired Mama, who is, well, one tired mom; The Boss Man, Dad, who also has ADHD; and Princess, Fast Boy's five-year-old sister.
Readers will commiserate with Tired Mom as she relates Fast Boy's ADHD shenanigans. Even though Tired Mom hasn't posted since November 2007, she remains among the best blogger-moms on the Web.
Quick Take
"Dear Fast Boy,
Thank you for acting up in front of the LMHP [Licensed Mental Health Professional] today. You have done a perfect job of demonstrating the type of behavior that I have to deal with on a daily basis. Usually people look at me like I'm nuts when I tell them how tired you make me. But not today. Today, they got to see, hear, and feel what I live with.
"Your screaming, arguing, running, and confrontational, almost-aggressive behavior was a perfect example of our lives together. The fact that you still had on your pajama top and underwear at 2 o'clock in the afternoon was icing on the cake. Lucky for her, she only had to stay for two hours.
One Tired Mama"
ADD Moms
Coaching, education, and support for women with AD/HD
by Brenda Nicholson
Brenda Nicholson's blog is polished and professional, warm and welcoming. Nicholson, who has ADD and has raised three children with the condition, offers specific, road-tested strategies for managing daily life with ADHD. Listen to her podcasts, "Tuesday Ten Minute Tips," raid her virtual pantry for meal-planning ideas, and try her day-planning system on this user-friendly site.
ADDer World
Riding in and out of the fog on the roller-coaster of life called ADHD
by Bryan Hutchinson & friends
This social networking site for adults with ADHD allows users to interact and contribute without committing to a blog of their own. Founded by Bryan Hutchinson, author of One Boy's Struggle: Surviving Life with Undiagnosed ADD, this Web community is small-town America, with an ADHD twist. Each resident has his own Web page, and everybody chats about everything — and nothing — over the proverbial backyard fence. The "townsfolk" of ADDer World range from straight shooting and esoteric to eccentric. Everyone is welcome here.


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excellent pizza.......need to expand. 2 hour waits are not good for business.
I had never had the pizza at Red Tomato Pies before, so thought tonight I'd give it a try. Wow, it was great! The staff were very helpful and friendly, and I loved the atmosphere. Very modern looking and the quotes on the wall were interesting to read while I was waiting for my pizza. I will definitely be going back for more pizza. Thanks Red Tomato Pies.
This was the worst pizza ever. The crust was flat and dry, kinda similar to frozen store bought pizza. The sauce was not evenly spread so parts were full of sauce other sections had very little. This pizza was so bad my dog wouldn't even eat the slice i put in his dish. Never again!
July 12, 2012
I am very sorry that you found your pizza experience not enjoyable. We would like the opportunity for you to try it again. It might also help us knowing what your crust choice was. We also are able to customize any ones experience. If you want extra sauce, less sauce, toppings under the cheese, more well done, or light on the black olives for example. I hope this might resolve the experience you had. Sincerely Jason from Red Tomato Pies
Best pizza I've ever eaten. Prices are higher than other places, but it is definitely worth it. You don't need to go anywhere else.
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5 Things you didn't know about penises
Men put so much emphasis on the size of their penis that it's no surprise that we no longer know what is considered "big" anymore. To them the size of their member coincides with confidence and sends a survival of the fittest message to other men out there.
However, guys who are insecure about their size will be happy to know that it turns out they all mostly share the same size (five to seven inches). They are also BIGGER than that of a chimpanzee's and other apes!Continue Reading >
Insecure men blaming women who earn more for erection problems make me SO angry!
Want to hear the craziest, most misogynistic news of the year? A new study has found that the "disruption of traditional social norms" can lead some men to have erectile dysfunction. That's right, ladies. If you just happen to be earning more money than your hubby, then it might mean that he can't get it up. Um, seriously?! That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard, guys. Are they seriously letting something as silly as who earns more money direct whether their penis can rise to the occasion or not?Continue Reading >
Tener la cintura delgada hará que goces más en la cama
Señoras y señoritas, está comprobado: no sólo a los hombres les resulta más atractiva una mujer con una cinturita, es que además los señores tienden a tener una mejor actuación en la cama cuando su compañera tiene una cintura, digamos, delgada. Así que ya no tenemos excusa y sí una tremenda razón para decirle adiós a la panza.Continue Reading >
Mami confessions: Would you leave your husband if he was impotent?
Although the title of the post of one of our group members Confessions could be taken as a joke, the truth is that impotence can cause many problems for a couple. According to the woman who left the anonymous comment, the issue of her husband's impotence is caused by a disease he's been dealing with for three years. She says he has been treated by a doctor, but nothing works and she no longer know what to do about it.
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Proskauer is committed to the recruitment and retention of attorneys of diverse backgrounds, sex, race, religion, and sexual orientation. We are a signatory to the 2003 Statement of Diversity Principles of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Restatement and Reaffirmation of Goals of New York Law Firms and Corporate Legal Departments for Increasing Minority Representation and Retention, the Statement of Goals of New York Law Firms and Legal Departments for the Retention and Promotion of Women, and are contributors to the ABA Fund for Justice and Education. Several of our lawyers serve as leaders of various bar association diversity task forces and committees. We have an active Diversity Committee, staffed by partners, senior counsel, and associates, that assists the firm in developing and maintaining policies and practices to promote a diverse attorney population.


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10 Years Later: Where in the World is Equal Weight Indexing Now?
Liyu Zeng
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Standard & Poor's
April 20, 2013
Often the most powerful investment ideas are simple. The S&P 500 EWI 10 years ago pioneered the simple concept of equal weighted indexing. It has now expanded in the U.S. into the S&P 100, a MegaCap index, S&P MidCap 400® and S&P SmallCap 600®. The equal weighting idea has also been applied to international equities, as well as in other asset classes such as fixed income indices and commodity indices. It has become one of the most popular alternatively-weighted ideas. While the headline cause of asset flows has been outperformance over market-cap indices, sophisticated investors have realized that equal weighting creates a different set of risk factor exposures than market cap weighting that seem to have worked over the long-term as noted in the paper. Furthermore, the concept randomizes factor mispricings in the market, and it can serve as a performance benchmark for alternative-weighted indices.
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Aced hole 15 @ elm creek 2day. Glo buzzz. Goin on an adventure 2morrow, gonna hit as many courses as possible..
I heard WB lake was full of knuckleheads, any truth to that? Doesn't seem as inviting as before...
Abe Froman wrote:The govt shutdown didn't affect any of the courses. None of them are state parks. It just reminded me of a delipadated walnut. Quality holes/ flow. Just not taken care of at all. And I refer to walnut in course design wise, not in reference of how its taken care of. Walnut is well taken care of last I saw
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I had hoped that we could "get away with one" this year, but alas . . . already on Facebook and Twitter the skirmishes are beginning.
Don't write "Xmas" – don't take Christ out of Christmas.
Post this to your status: Merry Christmas, not Happy Holidays!
Boycott X retailer – they had all kinds of Hannukah stuff but hardly anything for Christmas.
Never mind that the entire store (at least the one I visited) was covered in reindeer, Santas, snowmen, poinsettias, wreaths, candles, angels, holly, lights, and they had nativity sets for sale. I guess nothing short of a life-sized infant Jesus in a manger who tells the story of his own birth when you push a button on his chest will suffice. Perhaps millions of those are rolling down assembly lines in a Chinese manufacturing plant right now (a very depressing thought for so many reasons).
I understand the importance of Christmas to Christians. The birth of Jesus is hugely important and is a wonderful inspiring story that speaks to lots of people, not only Christians. I love the biblical Christmas story, and I cannot hear that Christmas classic "The Little Drummer Boy" without welling up in tears. The lines "I am a poor boy too" and "I played my best for him" just kill me. See? I'm getting teary just writing them!
But, the above protests are silly for the most part, and just stir up trouble at a time when all of us could use a stronger dose of peace, joy and goodness in our lives.
The demographic facts of our country call for a more generic holiday greeting like "Happy Holidays" since we've got the faithful of every living religion residing in the U.S. and they all have holidays this time of year. From October through late January runs a gamut of religious and cultural holidays from several different traditions, including Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Wicca, Bahai, the African-American culture, and the American tradition of Thanksgiving. So, it's not safe to assume that those who say "Happy Holidays" are part of a secret agenda to strip Christ from Christmas. They're probably just trying to cover all the bases. Most certainly, that's what retailers are trying to do: they want everyone's money, not just the Christian's.
And why, if your goal is to express meaningful greetings, would you want to wish someone Merry Christmas if they aren't Christian? Of course, Christians should wish other Christians "Merry Christmas" – that makes perfect sense. But, why not say "Happy Hannukah" to your Jewish friends, or "Eid Mubarak" to your Muslim friends? Or "Happy Holidays" to people in general because you don't know their faith? This is just being courteous and well-meaning.
Plus, in the age of twitter and texting, there's not much space to express greetings, so typing "Xmas" instead of Christmas leaves you 5 more characters in which to link to your favorite video of cats destroying an expensive Christmas tree (itself a problematic symbol for Christian purists . . . I'm just sayin').
Maybe we all could just drink a little decaf on this issue.
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Eight films are nominated, but only one will emerge victorious. Check out this compilation of the contenders for Best Picture from Fandango.
Calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards are growing over the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' second straight year of mostly white nominees, as Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith each said...
Were your favorite movies nominated for an Oscar this year? Click through for...View gallery
The Academy Awards'll look to inspiring characters.
Actress took to her blog to express her displeasure over Seth MacFarlane's performance emceeing Hollywood's biggest night.
Seth MacFarlane and Tina Fey already are saying no to next year. When did hosting the Academy Awards become a thankless job?


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The Maple Leafs had several chances to win the game in regulation but they couldn't beat Pascal Leclaire who was brilliant for the Senators.
In the shootout Jonas Gustavsson stopped Alexei Kovalev. Phil Kessel was the first Leafs' shooter and despite starting wide and without much speed, Kessel used some nifty moves to slide the puck past Leclaire. Jason Spezza was stopped and Nikolai Kulemin had the clincher.
Phil Kessel has been a thorn in the side of the Senators his entire career. Heading into the game, Kessel has more goals (11) and points (16) against Ottawa then any other club. This season in only four games, he has five goals and six points.
Saturday he was dangerous every time he had the puck. He scored the Leafs goal in regulation on a nice toe-drag and in the shootout he scored the winner on a great move.
Nikolai Kulemin has been one of the better Maple Leafs this season and that was no different Saturday against Ottawa.
Playing on a line with Kessel and Tyler Bozak, Kulemin who is very good in the corners and also had several chances to score but was denied until the shootout. Kulemin had season highs in ice-time 20:27 and shots six while also dishing out a hit and seeing 6:49 of power play time.
An area that the Leafs will need to work on over the last 18 games is the power play. The Leafs have gone 0-for-the-last 19 and that included a chance late in the game Saturday with a two-man advantage.
The Leafs first power play unit seems to have all the pieces to be effective. A great passer in Tomas Kaberle, a big gunner in Dion Phaneuf and a sharp shooter in Kessel.
Ron Wilson on the hit on John Mitchell:
"In the Olympics you get a 10-minute misconduct and possibly get kicked out," said Wilson. "Those are the hits that we've got to do a better job on, or have a penalty for a hit to the head."
Game Notes:
The Maple Leafs close out their three-game road trip against the Flyers in the CIty Of Brotherly Love.
The Flyers have dropped two straight as they are in a battle with three teams for the bottom three playoff positions in the Eastern Conference standings.


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All Sorts of Weird Stuff offers news and information about George R.R. Martin, in particular about his A Song of Ice and Fire series.
"When I was young, I read all sorts of stuff. One week it would be Lovecraft, the next Vance. It was all imaginative literature, or as my dad called it 'Weird Stuff.' It was all 'Weird Stuff.'"
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Mike S. Miller, the artist behind the Hedge Knight graphic novel from Dabel Brothers Productions, has recently put up a fantastic collection of items on eBay. Items include a copy of Fantasy Flight Games's Art Book, an original page from the graphic novel, a rare ltihograph depicting Rhaegar and Robert fighting on the Trident, and more.
The Westeros network consists of several different sites, including a forum and a wiki, for all your A Song of Ice and Fire needs.


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feature noun (QUALITY)
B2 [ C ] a typical quality or an important part of something:
› [ C ] a part of a building or of an area of land:
a geographical feature
B2 [ C usually plural ] one of the parts of someone's face that you notice when you look at them:
regular (= even and attractive) features
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featureverb [ I + adv/prep, T ]uk /ˈfiː.tʃər/ us /ˈfiː.tʃɚ/
B2 to include someone or something as an important part:
The movie features James Dean as a disaffected teenager.
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- His latest movie featured an all-star cast.
- Her latest fashion collection features shimmering iridescent materials.
- The concert features dancers, singers and musicians of all nationalities.
- He's been chosen to feature in the director's next movie.
- There are too many radio shows featuring idiots who call in and talk trash all day.
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- Choosing or creating a data source
- Using Mail Merge with Outlook contacts
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- Inserting address blocks and greetings
- Matching fields from a data source
- Previewing merge results
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Skill Level Intermediate
We have our mail merge primary file open. We've already auto-checked for errors in the Preview Results Group. Now we are ready to finish our merge, and combine our letter with the records from the data source to create personalized letters. There are two options for merging letters - three options in total. Send Email Messages, we will talk about in later video. So we are going to focus on these first two items. The first is to edit individual documents, and the second is to print documents. Here's how to think of these. The first really says, merge to a file that I can then examine and print.
And the second says, merge right to the printer. If you need to keep a copy of your merged file, for example proof that you generated all the letters, then you need to choose Edit Individual Documents, because Print Documents leaves you with no proof. If you choose Edit Individual Documents, Word will complete the merge and create one large file that contains all your letters. So let's choose that and say merge all records, and if we watch down here on the Status bar, you will notice Word ripping along, merging each of those individual records in, so that we have one long document that actually is 79 pages long.
All the different letters. And we can look at each of them, but more importantly, we can choose to print some of them. We can print 1 through 9. We can print letters 5, 7, and 22 if you wish. So you have the choice over exactly what prints, and you have a file that you can save when you're done. So I could save this as Letter Sent August 24th to vendor applicants. I am going to close this and throw it away. The other choice is to say, I'd like to send this right to the printer. Now, if you don't need to keep a copy of this document, that works fine.
But as soon as you choose Print Documents and set your settings in the Merge to Printer and click OK, Word starts kicking stuff to your printer. So if you need to have letterhead put in your printer, do it now - not after you click OK. However you need to have your printer set up, you need to do it right now, then come back, then click OK, because when you start, these will automatically merge directly to your printer. You note that there's nothing new here to save. So just head for the printer and pick up your letters. You know, the Merge itself is sort of anti-climactic. You know, a couple of clicks, and Word does the heavy- lifting required to generate the letters that you have created, using Word in a data source and making all of those other choices.
But when you do get to merge it, it's pretty cool, because you get to go pick up your product and distribute it however you need to. Here's the good news. Your letter is done, and in the future, if you want to reuse this letter again, the only thing you need to do is merge once again, in Word 2010.


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With over 1300 commercial testing labs in the United States, one out of every three samples is for water analysis. There has been an even stronger emphasis on mercury testing and its concentration in our water supplies. This application note describes the use of cold vapor atomic absorption spectroscopy as described in the EPA method 245.1 to determine mercury concentration in water samples including drinking, surface, ground, sea, brackish waters, and industrial and domestic waste waters.
Determine mercury concentrations in surface water samples. In addition to the water samples, pre and post QC checks (15 ppt standards) served to ensure instrument stability and accurate results.Principle of Operation
Discussion and Conclusion
The Mercurio AAMA-80 successfully recovered 100% of the 15 ppt Hg standards and processed 10 surface water samples with excellent reproducibility and accuracy without any interference.
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Libyan Oil's Comeback Is a Mixed Blessing
Oil producers should be careful what they wish for–and so should oil market traders.
Having been closed for a nearly a year by local rebels, two huge Libyan oil export terminals are set to reopen following an agreement with the government. But Libya knows full well that a sudden surge in exports, while good news on paper, could also hold a hidden curse.
Not one new Libyan barrel has been shipped out of the terminals since the agreement to reopen them. Yet oil prices have already shed around $4 on the news. In turn, Tripoli will get less revenue from its current, meager oil sales from smaller ports.
In theory, the troubled nation could immediately flood oil markets: even just one of the terminals being re-opened has enough oil in store to swiftly fill up to ten medium-sized tankers. But if that happened, "we fear there could be a surplus" on global oil markets, one Libyan oil official says.
So despite being hard pressed for revenue, Tripoli has chosen to play tortoise, not hare. It plans to release its stored oil only gradually and after consulting with the rest of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, a spokesman for the state-owned National Oil Co. told The Wall Street Journal.
Even after the oil in storage is gone, Libya could face challenges restoring oil flows from its fields in the medium-term. An NOC official has previously said a restart at oil fields may be delayed by pipelines clogged by waxy oil or out-of-order pumps.
All in all, there may be less oil than expected coming back to markets following the Libyan terminals' reopening. Traders should be wary of betting on a deep dive in oil prices.


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Definition of as bald as a coot in English:
(as) bald as a coot
Completely bald.
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- Hence if Balde were, well, bald as a coot, knobbly-kneed or of Bunteresque physique, he would duly be ridiculed for these signs of imperfection.
- One has luxuriant locks, their ever-changing style consuming the interests of fashion writers more interested in curling tongs than curling free-kicks; the other is as bald as a coot.
- Have you ever heard him say 'I'm as bald as a coot and have a massive collections of syrups' (wigs in rhyming slang to the uninitiated)?
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Stanley 51-616 16 Ounce Curved Claw Wood Handle Nail Hammer
- Exclusive rim temper reduces incidences of chipping or spalling
- Forged high-carbon steel head
- Fully heat-treated and polished bell face
- Curved claw with a smooth nailing face
- Overall Length: 13-1/4" / 337 mm
- Head Weight: 16 oz / 454 g
- Pkg Qty: 1
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Perhaps no tool is more cherished and coveted more than the trusty hammer. Since ancient times, craftsmen have relied on hammer devices to assemble, fasten and smash just about anything that they could swing them at. Stanley manufactures some of the highest quality hammers available on the market today, and the Stanley Wood Nailing Hammers are the classic version of this classic tool. The fully hardened, drop forged head will stand up to the toughest regular use, and the heat treated striking face is designed to offer a lifetime of reliable hammering without chipping or splintering. Many newer hammers feature handles made from fiberglass and other composite materials, and these designs do have their advantages; but many professional swear by that certain feel and touch that only a genuine wood handle can offer. The Wood Nailing Hammers are manufactured with a durable wooden handle that are anchored securely to the head, and it's guaranteed to give you that exact wood feel that so many people swear by.
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Aug 8, 2007 , 08:53 PM #1
Oprah's good health guys-
I wonder if anyone caught them Dr Oz and Bob Greene Oprah's good health guys last night on Larry King? They had a lot of intresting stuff to say pertaining to health and healthy living. They are also giving away a free DVD on how to prevent heat attacks. To learn more about their "Heart felt for life" project visit www.heartfeltforlife.com
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