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Definition of sierra in English:
1A long jagged mountain chain.
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- In the far north-west, the splinter-like peninsula of Lower California, with its high sierras, is a southward extension of the Sierra Nevada.
- It was treated to a carefully controlled, often intimate account that explored the foothills as thoroughly as the high sierras.
- This meant that Sonoran rivers, which originate in the eastern sierras, had to be diverted.
2A code word representing the letter S, used in radio communication.
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Mid 16th century: Spanish, from Latin serra 'saw'.
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By Steven Russolillo
After a three-hour trading halt, the Nasdaq Stock Market is back in business.
All of the securities listed on the Nasdaq resumed trading at 3:25 ET. So far so good: The Nasdaq climbed toward session highs, up 0.9% at 3633 with less than 30 minutes to go in the trading day.
One little-known company was thrust into the spotlight this afternoon: Atlantic American Corp., an insurance company with an $81 million market cap, was the first security to start trading at 3 p.m.. That's what happens when your ticker symbol is "AAME."
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The Maple Leafs and Senators played an even game for most of the night. With the Leafs leading 3-2 and just 35.3 seconds left in the game the Senators thought they had tied it but Jesse Winchester was ruled to have kicked the puck past Vesa Toskala and the goal was waved off.
The Leafs were able to hang on for the final seconds as they won their fourth straight at home for the first time since 2006-07 when they won nine consecutive at the ACC.
Mikhail Grabovski continues to be one of the top Leafs of late. Despite having his six-game point streak snapped, he continues to force have create chances for himself and his linemates.
Grabovski was orginally credited with scoring the winning goal on Monday but it was later changed to Francois Beauchemin. After a slow start, Grabovski has recorded 24 points in 33 games this season.
The defensive pairing of Jeff Finger and Garnet Exelby were both rock solid against the Senators. Although not known for his offensive skills, Exelby had two assists and finished the game plus three. He also had some big hits and blocked two shots.
Finger has been back in the lineup for the last two games and although he missed some third period action, Finger finished the night plus two. Both Finger and Exelby bring a physical element to the blueline.
It was another typical edition of the Battle Of Ontario with lots of hits and of course one fight.
Exelby threw some nifty hip checks; Finger nailed Jarkko Ruutu and Mike Komisarek made a thunderous check on Alexei Kovalev. First Star, Komisarek led all players with five hits and Third Star Alexei Ponikarovsky added four on the night.
Francois Beauchemin on winning at home:
"It's huge for us especially right now. We need every point we can and against a divisional game we don't want to give those teams any points. So it was great to win in regulation tonight."
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I wanted to complain about the way Sikeston Kindergarten is making the car riders leave after school. My daughter gets out at 3:30 p.m. and by the time I pick her up it's almost 4 p.m. This is ridiculous. I can't afford to burn up my gas waiting in line 30 minutes to pick her up. When I park and walk to go and pick her up inside one of the school workers told me I couldn't do that. Something needs to be done about this issue quickly.
I'm calling concerning the Sikeston DPS. What I wanted to say was that I got pulled over the other day by an officer and he was extremely rude. I asked the officer about it and he informed me that he doesn't get paid to be nice, he gets paid to do his job. That's all I needed to say.
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Mike your latest editorial explaining how the Mexican government exporting its poverty by illegal immigration to the U.S. will be remembered as one of your best pieces of journalism. It required a lot of courage for you to speak the truth about this touchy subject. But the fact is this culture is being overwhelmed and the population growth numbers support the truth of your article. I am as well disappointed in Mr. Bush's arrogant cowboy style. He refuses to admit that he is wrong about anything. Equally damaging to our country is a budget deficit created by Mr. Bush and a Republican controlled Congress that has a larger deficit than the past 42 presidents put together. Further, much promise is offered by the medical community for cures in diabetes, Parkinsons and spinal cord disorders using stem cells that are not a result of abortion that this president pigheadedly refuses to budge and allows our country to be overwhelmed by illegal immigrants, continues to print inflated money and disallows research on and allow cures for our loved ones. I too would not vote for him again if I were allowed to vote for him for a third time.
This is in response to Not fit to eat. Obviously this person does not have any children in the Sikeston school system. They do have vegetables, whether it be corn, carrots, potatoes, peas or something. I would be more than happy to give them a copy of the lunch menu if they don't have one. It's okay to have a fun meal. It's the parent's responsibility to have a balanced dinner. One fun lunch is not going to hurt anybody.
The person complaining that their child could no longer have sodas and desserts at school when they want them should watch the show, "I am killing my kids." A school system should have the right to regulate school lunches. They should be healthy and balanced. I admire any school district that has the best interest of the children in their mind instead of the uneducated parents. Just look at the menus of other schools, all they serve is junk and even offer more junk and sodas in snack bars. Is money in mind or health? Tacos, fish sticks, mozzarella dunkers, fries, sodas, pizza, are all junk foods. What happened to vegetables, fruit and cooked meals such as stew, meatloaf, chicken? Are lunch room workers so hard to find that know how to cook? What's going on in Southeast Missouri schools? A school lunch may be the only prepared meal a child might receive that day. Do you really want it to be junk also? I, for one, do not want my tax dollars spent on promoting junk food in the schools.
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No She Said No
By Hermione Lee
Published: December 28, 2003
To Dance in the Wake.
By Carol Loeb Shloss.
Illustrated. 560 pp. New York:
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $30.
James Joyce said, in 1934: ''People talk of my influence on my daughter, but what about her influence on me?'' Or so the Joyce biographer Richard Ellmann was told, 20 years afterward, by Joyce's close friend Maria Jolas. At around the same time, Ellmann also interviewed Carl Jung, who in 1934 had ''treated'' Joyce's daughter. Lucia Joyce and her father, Jung told Ellmann, were ''like two people going to the bottom of a river, one falling and the other diving.'' In the matter of his daughter, Ellmann commented, Joyce was ''foolish fond like Lear.''
Lear, Jung and Joyce: what hope could there be of rescuing the drowned voice of the mad daughter from such powerful father figures? Carol Loeb Shloss's strenuous, emotional attempt to fish Lucia up from the depths of incarceration and obliteration has to do battle with very weighty pressures, giving her book a strained, excitable, defiant air. For its project of resuscitation to succeed, it must claim that Lucia's ''influence on'' Joyce was indeed paramount: that they were creative collaborators, like-minded modernists, ''dancing partners.'' ''Joyce's art surrounded'' Lucia, Shloss says, ''haunted her from birth; and she in turn was part of the life that surrounded the maker of that art. She gave him the means to fling it amid planetary music.'' ''The place where she meets her father is not in consciousness but in some more primitive place before consciousness. They understand each other, for they speak the same language, a language not yet arrived into words and concepts but a language nonetheless. . . . In the room are flows, intensities, unexpressed longings.''
I quote so much because this sort of fervid glop is served up on many pages. It is a rhetoric that damages the book's credibility, making it read more like an exercise in wish fulfillment than a biography. I lost count of the incidences of ''We can imagine'' or ''It is safe to imagine'' or ''We can speculate'' or ''We can picture her'' or -- most revealingly -- ''I like to imagine'': ''Among all the letters that were destroyed, there was one, I like to imagine, that expressed Lucia's gratitude to her father for persisting in his belief in her.'' And then again, perhaps there wasn't.
Lucia, the second child of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, was born in 1907 in the pauper's ward of a hospital in Trieste. Her parents were extremely poor, and her childhood was spent moving from one flat or hotel room -- or country -- to another. Meanwhile her father tried out numerous money-making schemes (importing Donegal tweeds to Europe was one that didn't come off), taught, drank and wrote: first ''Portrait'' and ''Exiles,'' then ''Ulysses'' (which ''grew up'' alongside Lucia), and then, for 17 years, ''Finnegans Wake.'' By the time she was seven, in 1914, Lucia had lived at five addresses, always cooped up with her brother, Giorgio: ''You are locking us up like pigs in a sty,'' they were said to have shouted once to their departing parents. (An incest plot is hinted at but not spelled out.) During World War I, the Joyces moved from Trieste to Zurich to Paris. Lucia, passing rapidly from school to school, knew some French, Italian and German, showed musical talent and, in her teens, began to study dance. Starting with a course of eurhythmics at the Jaques-Dalcroze Institute in Paris, she worked, in the 1920's, with a succession of radically innovative dance teachers.
There was, first, Isadora Duncan's peculiar brother, Raymond, who went in for Greek tunics and sandals, pacifism and vegetarianism, and flowing Dionysian rhythms. Then, Margaret Morris (William Morris's granddaughter), advocate of expressive open-air dance as a recipe for health, and her talented colleague Lois Hutton, who formed a group of bohemian, experimental women dancers in the South of France called Les Danseuses de Saint-Paul, one of whom, for a time, was Lucia. Other mentors were the brilliant Jean Borlin, whose primitivist and surreal collaborations with Paul Claudel, Darius Milhaud and George Antheil rivaled the Ballets Russes in notoriety and influence; Elizabeth Duncan (Isadora's sister) and the German pianist Max Merz, whose Salzburg school promoted Aryan body-worship; and Lubov Egorova, Diaghilev's colleague and a ferocious teacher. The best feature of Shloss's book is its vivid, informed description of these experimental dance groups in 1920's Europe, and her account of how Lucia came into contact with modernism and surrealism while her father was writing the ''Wake.'' But, as relentless as Egorova, Shloss has to push this parallel to its farthest possible point -- and make Lucia into a collaborator on the ''Wake''; as it were, its co-author.
What Shloss can prove is that Lucia had talent. An interviewer in The Paris Times in 1928 praised her skills as choreographer, linguist and performer, and predicted that when she reached her ''full capacity for rhythmic dancing,'' James Joyce ''may yet be known as his daughter's father.'' But it was just then that things began to go wrong. In 1929, Lucia's plans to teach dance fell through; she either gave up or (Shloss's theory) was forced by family opposition to discontinue her career. There was a series of disturbing events: her father's eye operation, her mother's illness, her brother's affair with the older, married Helen Fleischman, the Joyces' civil marriage, 26 years after they started living together, and the shock of discovering she was illegitimate. ''If I am a bastard,'' Lucia was said to have screamed at Nora in one of their rows, ''who made me one?''


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One of the wildest looking vines is the giant Dutchman's pipe Aristolochia gigantea, a native of Brazil. With its heart shaped leaves, and huge, carnivorous-looking flowers, the vine is quite an eye-catcher. San Diego Zoo visitors often assume the vine's dark flowers, which resemble curved, large-bowled pipes, are carnivorous. The flowers don't eat insects, however, but just attract and briefly capture them in order to get pollinated.
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Hello, my name is Michael Warner and in October 2006 back in Phoenix, Arizona I took the quantum leap and was released from the corporate world to start my own business YogiMichael(SP) teaching fitness and yoga state wide. Instructing classes such as All Levels Yoga, Chair Yoga, Yoga Flow, Gentle and Restorative Yoga, not to mention, I am trained in Body Ball, Keiser Cycle, Pilates and Essential Oils usage. Upon request, I also teach privates lessons at home, individual and group sessions as well as corporate wellness; please call for pricing and availability.
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Then, I completed a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training (YTT) program with Jordan & Martin Kirk from At One Yoga in late 2003. I proceeded to receive additonal training with Mary Bruce (Mary is THE BEST) and her amazing Restorative Yoga intensive yoga training in April 2006 followed by the Level 2 Advanced Anusara training by the Kirks at Yoga Village in July 2006 to receive an official 200-hour Anusara Yoga Certificate (LIFE CHANGING, Miss you guys).
I recently have relocated to Seattle, Washington while still missing my AZ yogin. To date I have been practicing for over 15 years now and teaching around 7,000 classroom hours for over 10 years while connecting with more than 17,000 glorious souls. I AM BLESSED!
I incorporate a rich blend of training, talent and expertise to my class offerings whether at a traditional yoga studio, college classroom, community recreation, doctor's office, private client's home, corporate setting and/or wellness/healing center. My versatility is represented by the variety of classes I teach; all levels yoga, chair yoga, core yoga, restorative yoga, yin yoga, yoga flow, Pilates and meditation are just a few. I also bring a strong core emphasis from my studies throughout my corporate gym guidance. I combines my education in counseling and psychology with the knowledge I have gathered through years of practice and studies. Whether you are a beginner or more seasoned yoga practitioner, my style of teaching will guide you towards a balance practice of optimal wellness for the mind, body and soul.
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Area: 18,704 sq miles
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- In a 2008 study of academic achievement for 3rd and 6th grade students in 16 Latin American countries, the Dominican Republic came in dead last in the areas of math, reading and science.
- Dominican Republic Preschool Enrollment is around 32%.
- The Dominican Republic's public investment in education is 2.3% of their gross domestic product, which ranks 122nd out of 132 countries.
- Around 85% of poor Dominican parents have never completed primary education.
- For every 100 Dominican children entering formal education, only 75 complete grade 4; 63 complete grade 6 and only 52 complete the 8-year primary level. This situation is even worse in rural areas where most schools stop at grade 5.
- The Dominican Republic was ranked 101 out of 177 countries in terms of literacy.
- The Dominican Republic high school enrollment rate is 61%.
- The HIV/AIDS rate among the adult population in the Dominican Republic is 1.1%, although it is much higher in batey communities.
- As of 2008, the Dominican Republic's population of over 9 million included (unofficially) more than 800,000 Haitians. Bateys such as Caraballo are experiencing a great increase in Haitian residents since the January 2010 earthquake.
- The primary school dropout rate in the Dominican Republic is 14%.
- Only 12% of low-income students who start high school will complete their studies, compared to 62% of those from higher income brackets in the DR.
Data from UNICEF, World Bank, United Nations, UNESCO, OECD, Wikipedia, USAID Basic Education and Policy Support and American Association of Fundraising Counsel, Programa de Promoción de la Reforma Educativa de América Latina y el Caribe (PREAL), December 2006; United Nations (UN), 2005; United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 2004; Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 2008; UNESCO 2008.


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While sailing from Turkey to Greece, we anchored next to a small island in Turkey called Bouzukale, Having a Sailors House Restaurant owned by 1 small family that live in it too and connected to the world only by sea, i spotted a dry tree behind the restaurant that is perfect as a subject for what my shoot. After dinner, all went back to the sail boats to sleep, I waited under that tree with my tripod, family slept too, generator stopped and all of a sudden the stars lit the sky. I used a small torch light to lit the tree and a very high ISO to get the result that i wanted.
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Despite popular belief, cats and dogs can really get along. Several factors determine on how easy it is to train cats and dogs to co-exist, including both animals' ages and previous history with other pets. However, the most important factor is how owners go about in introducing the two animals to each other.
There are a few steps that need to be taken before beginning the process. First, the owner needs to make sure he/she is always in control of the situation and monitors both pets until they can get along. Second, the owner needs to see which pet is dominant. They can figure this out by observing the dog in the cat in the same environment; the animal that walks towards the other one is dominant while the one that looks away is submissive. Contrary to animal stereotypes, the cat is usually dominant.
Introducing the animals to each other is a slow process. In the beginning, the owner should keep an eye out on the submissive animal. Allow both animals to smell each other's belongings, such as chew toys and bedding. When they are accustomed to each other's scent, let them observe each other in the same room. Afterwards, let them approach each other at their own comfortable pace. This can take as long as a few days or weeks.
There are certain behaviors that need to be discouraged. A dog and cat staring at each other needs to be stopped with a firm tug at the dog's collar and an authoritative "No" to the cat. In the animal kingdom, staring an animal down will usually lead to a fight. Cat should not be allowed to make angry swipes at the dog or hide for long periods of time. Swiping leads to aggressive behavior from both animals, and hiding for hours only makes the "getting to know you" process longer. Pet owners also need to watch out for excited dogs. Excitement and wild actions dramatically increases the cat's stress. Be stern when calming the dog down.
In addition, there are a few behaviors and steps that should be encouraged. Positive behavior should always be rewarded verbally or physically. (Be careful of giving out treats, as this can create competition between the two animals.) It is also important to give breaks to the animals. Allow them time apart to decrease the level of tension and stress they may be feeling.


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Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D.H. Lawrence
Clifford Chatterley
Character Analysis
When we meet Clifford, he's a good looking man. He's got a "ruddy, healthy-looking face" and "challenging bright eyes. His shoulders were broad and strong, his hands were very strong" (1.7). If it weren't for the wheelchair, he'd be breaking hearts right and left—especially because he's an aristocrat, and who doesn't want to marry a man with a title?
But there's something off about him. "In his face," the narrator says, "one saw the watchful look, the slight vacancy of a cripple" (1.7). (Don't look for political correctness here.) As the story goes on, Clifford degenerates. That ruddy, healthy face becomes fat; his bright eyes become "canny and shrewd" (19.38). Hilda sees right through him: she sees his well-bred expression as "sulky and stupid" (7.72). Earlier, we learn that "his manner was often offensively supercilious, and then again modest and self-effacing" (2.12). Well-bred and aristocratic, or fat and vulgar?
Clifford's story is sad when it's not infuriating, because it seems like, under different circumstances, he could have been something special.
My Lord Chatterley
He certainly has the breeding for specialness. Clifford's title and estate come with a heightened sense of his own importance, which includes a possessive feeling toward the trees on his estate: "He felt they were his own through generations. He wanted to protect them. He wanted this place inviolate, shut off from the world" (5.7). Now, the thing is that Clifford is only a baronet; he's barely an aristocrat. Baronets have titles, but they're not peers: they don't get to sit in the House of Lords, and they actually don't get be called "Lord," only "Sir."
He might be on shaky ground with the whole "lord of the manor" business, but that doesn't keep him from being "rather supercilious and contemptuous of anyone not in his own class. He stood his ground, without any attempt at conciliation" (2.11). Connie wishes she could connect with the miners of Tevershall; Clifford has no interest in them at all, or only interest "as objects rather than men, parts of the pit rather than parts of life, crude raw phenomena rather than human beings along with him" (2.14). He doesn't feel any connection with other people, not even his wife. No wonder she escapes to the arms of the gamekeeper.
The hypocrisy is that Clifford thinks it's other people who refuse to connect with him. When Connie leaves the room without kissing him goodnight, he watches her "with sharp cold eyes" and complains silently about the "depths of callousness in her" (10.375)—as though she could possibly want to kiss him.
But Connie's got his number. He may lord it over the servants, but she sees what he's really like: "a little vulgar, a little common and uninspired; rather fat" (9.3). All he seems to want out of Connie is the knowledge that he owns her, that he can do what he wants with her. That's probably why he refuses to give her a divorce; not because he really wants her around, but because he wants to know that he's got control over her.
As Connie (i.e., the good angel) loses her influence over him, and Ivy Bolton (i.e., the bad angel) gains it, Clifford becomes uglier and uglier. It's an ugliness that masquerades as success:
When it was a question of affairs, he was an absolute he-man, sharp as a needle, and impervious as a bit of steel. When he was out among men, seeking his own ends, and "making good" his colliery workings, he had an almost uncanny shrewdness, hardness, and a straight sharp punch [...] In business he was quite inhuman. (19.38)
The language here—"impervious," "uncanny," "inhuman"—warns us that there's something nasty going on with Clifford. He may think that he's completely separate from the miners, but in fact he's becoming more and more like them every day. Like them, he's an object, something elemental rather than truly human. Even Connie sees it, noting that "His very intensity and acumen in the affairs of the pits seemed like a manifestation of madness to her, his very inspirations were the inspirations of insanity" (15.4).
The Men of Modernism
Clifford has his own character arc—and it's definitely a downward one—but he's also a stand-in for all the men of his generation, impotence and all. When his friends ask his opinion about sex, he gives a non-answer, saying that it "perfects the intimacy" between two people (4.38). His response, the narrator says, makes him as "uneasy as a woman in such talk." This womanliness makes him a typical man of his generation, the kind that Mellors scoffs at, the "sort of youngish gentleman a bit like a lady, and no balls" (14.15).
Another typical thing about Clifford is that he's not willing to admit that anyone is better than he is. "People must be more or less at his level, or below it," Connie realizes, feeling"the tightness [...] of the men of her generation. They were so tight, so scared of life!" (1.167-168).
With all the modern talk about being equal, Clifford refuses to admit that he's not at the pinnacle of his class or his gender. He does become a fairly successful writer because he writes extremely modern stories that he wants to be "of the best, ne plus ultra" (2.18), but the stories are empty. They have "no touch, no actual contact. It was as if the whole thing took place in a vacuum" (2.18). As empty as his own life is, his stories are just as bad—they're the kind that have unlikeable narrators and no satisfying ending. (Hmmm, we feel like we've read something like that...)
The War
But maybe we can't actually blame Clifford. He may be unlikeably modern, but it's modernity that's made him this way—modernity in the form of the war, the "great shock of his maiming" (2.13). Connie realizes that his soul has received a "wounding shock," that "the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache" (5.100).
We're talking about "shell shock" here, a term that comes directly out of the trauma of World War I. The book even begins with shock: "Our's essentially a tragic age," the narrator says. "The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins" (1.1). Clifford, unluckily for him, is one of those ruins.Clifford Chatterly's Timeline


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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Leave it to the A's to bang out 16 hits on the same night that they broke the American League record for strikeouts in a season.
A 9-3 A's victory over the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night perfectly illustrated the contradiction that is Oakland's offense.
Some of the numbers are downright ugly, yet the production over the second half of the season is a big reason that the A's (88-67) are closing in on their first postseason spot since 2006.
"Despite those numbers, we're having a great year and winning ballgames," right fielder Josh Reddick said. "We'll just kind of throw that stat out the window as long as we're scoring runs."
The A's have taken two of the first three in this four-game series at Rangers Ballpark, and they have climbed to within three games of first-place Texas in the A.L. West with seven games left.
They also remained a half-game behind Baltimore for the A.L.'s top wild-card spot but are two games ahead of the Los Angeles Angels for the second spot.
The A's struck out 11 times, giving them an A.L.-record 1,333 on the season, breaking the mark of 1,324 "achieved" by the 2007 Tampa Bay Devil Rays, who went 66-96.
Oakland has won this season due in large part to great pitching, and they got a solid six innings from right-hander Jarrod Parker (12-8).
But their hitters have also offset their mind-numbing strikeout totals to a degree.
The A's are tied for eighth in the major leagues with 182 home runs, light years ahead of the 114 they hit last season. Though they rank just 11th in the A.L. in runs, they are third with 348 since the All-Star break.
"The fact that we have so many strikeouts, yeah, that does bother me," A's hitting coach Chili Davis said. "The fact that we're playing well kind of nullifies that, because we've got guys with power. And when you have power, you're gonna have strikeouts."
The A's scored five runs in the top of the first and chased Texas left-hander Martin Perez after just two-thirds of an inning. They were helped greatly by two terrible misplays by Rangers center fielder Josh Hamilton.
Stephen Drew went 4 for 5 with two RBIs to lead the A's.
Reddick got two singles to snap a 0-for-30 streak. After his first hit in the seventh, the A's jokingly called for the ball. They were surprised somebody threw it in.
It was heavily marked with messages by the time Reddick showed it off to reporters. One of the remarks: "10 broken bats, three broken helmets."
So far this series, rookie starters Dan Straily, Tommy Milone and Parker have pitched a combined 182/3 innings and allowed four earned runs.
As the rotation currently stands, Milone would be on turn to potentially pitch the A.L. wild-card game Oct. 5, though Parker could go on three days' rest.
Blackley entered this season with 1 year, 42 days of service time, but he spent the entire 2005 season on the disabled list, which was mistakingly added to his time.
The change means all five starters in the A's current rotation are rookies. Factor in Blackley's stats, and the A's have set Oakland rookie records for wins (49), innings pitched (8021/3) and strikeouts (647).
Parker's start was the 94th by an A's rookie this season. For some context, the most rookie starts by a team to make the postseason was 69 by the 1952 Brooklyn Dodgers, according to stats expert David Feldman.
"I just remember kinda after, once I was on the ground, it sounded like a jet was flying close by," McCarthy was quoted by ESPN The Magazine. "I could hear just a ringing. I kept asking, 'Is there a plane overhead? What is that noise I am hearing?' "
McCarthy, 29, has made an encouraging recovery since he was struck by a liner off the bat of the Angels' Erick Aybar on Sept. 5 and required brain surgery. He's expected to attend Friday's home game against Seattle and be honored for being the A's nominee for this year's Roberto Clemente Award.
He told ESPN the Magazine that he might be able to start physical activity in a week or two, and he's hopeful of being cleared to travel with the A's if they make the postseason.
He will be a free agent this winter and plans to continue pitching.
A.l. West race
W L Pct. GB
Texas 91 64 .587 --
A's 88 67 .568 3
A.l. wild-card race
W L Pct. GB
Baltimore 89 67 .571 --
A's 88 67 .568 --
L.A. Angels 86 69 .555 2
Tampa Bay 85 70 .548 3
Magic number
6 Combination of A's victories and Angels losses for A's to clinch a wild-card spot.
Big number
1,333 The American League record for strikeouts by a team in a season set by the A's on Wednesday. The 2007 Rays held the previous mark at 1,324. The A's, who struck out 11 times Wednesday, have seven games remaining.


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Macro Horizons: One Day to Go and the Mess Continues In Washington
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WRAP: With one day to before the U.S. Treasury's designated D-Day for when it runs out of cash, investor attention everywhere is completely consumed by the ongoing failure of America's political system to deal with the basics of economic governance. (Fund your government, pay your debts.) But out there in the real world some interesting developments are taking place in the global economy, most notably the rise of Europe as a lender to everyone else.
Simply because its sluggish economy has shut down its import machine while Gemany's export machine keeps running, the euro zone is increasingly saving more than it is spending. This is happening while deficits are the biggest concern for many emerging market countries. When–if–we get through the U.S. political standoff, the question of how this imbalance eventually rights itself will be one that global investors and currency traders will need to take into mind.
U.S.: With just one day to go before the U.S. government is deemed to run out of cash and 16 days into a government shutdown, the hopes that had arisen on Monday for a Senate-based agreement that could lead to a reopening of the government and raise the debt ceiling have given way to farce. Negotiations in the Senate were put on hold Tuesday while the House Republican leaders devised an alternative bill they hoped would both placate their most hard-line members and offer a path out for a broader deal that the President could eventually sign into law. But by the end of the day, House Speaker Boehner had to withdraw the bill because he didn't have the numbers to support even that one. Senate Democrats and Republicans have resumed negotiations on their own bill, which is expected to reach a compromise that would reopen the government at current spending levels and raise the debt ceiling until into the New Year. Meanwhile, Fitch put its U.S. rating on watch for downgrade and indicated that the political brinkmanship itself could see a loss of its Triple-A rating. U.S. stocks were pummelled Wednesday but futures are higher today, with the market betting that the trapped House GOP will have to cave to a compromise bill from the Senate.
Mr. Boehner's political career is in tatters. He is now faced with a choice: to go down with or without the ship. He can prioritize his standing among rebellious Tea Party Republicans and hold firm with them, or he can avoid the market turmoil that will happen if the Thursday deadline is crossed by bringing whatever bill the Senate delivers to a divided House without full GOP support. He'll lose favor with the GOP base in doing so but at least it will mean that a minority of moderate Republicans can join forces with the Democratic majority to save whatever is left of the U.S. fiscal reputation. Mr. Boehner and others may be betting that there is more time beyond Thursday–with an actual default not likely until later in the month–but the broader damage to confidence in America's financial management is occurring regardless and will only get worse if the Thursday line is crossed. The government's commitment to the "full faith and credit of the United States" is now seriously in doubt.
U.S.: Mortgage Bankers Association composite index +0.3% vs. +1.3% last week; refinancing index +3.3% vs. +2.5%; purchases index -4.8% vs. -0.7%.
With the Fed now seen on hold for the rest of the year, lower rates have led to a stabilization in household demand for mortgages after some sharp declines over the summer. But the gains are entirely driven by refinancing with purchases dropping sharply. That could well reflect the fact that the uncertainty associated with the political crisis in Washington is deterring people from making big purchases even while those with a home are more than happy to exploit lower rates by refinancing debts.
U.K.: The unemployment rate was 7.7% in the three months to August against 7.6% expected; jobless claim fell 41,700 in September against expectations of a 25,000 fall; average earnings rose 0.8% in the three months from a 1.0% rise in the three months to July.
The headline unemployment number might have been modestly disappointing, but the underlying trend will cheer Britain's coalition government. The number of people claiming jobless benefits fell at the biggest rate since mid-1997 to reach the lowest level since the start of 2009. The government won't be so happy about the average earnings rate, which is the lowest on record, and given an inflation rate running at some 2.7%, means real wages are declining at around a 2% rate. But with no wage-driven inflationary pressures apparent, the Bank of England will be encouraged to maintain its extremely accommodative policy for a long time yet.
EURO ZONE: August trade surplus €7.1 billion against €4.6 billion in August 2012.
Euro-zone exports fell, but imports fell even more, boosting the August trade surplus to the biggest outturn for that month since 2002. The July surplus, meanwhile, was revised down slightly to EUR18.0 billion from EUR18.2 billion. The euro zone continues to gain in competitiveness relative to the rest of the world–albeit in the bad way: through a collapse in domestic demand. What's more, the burgeoning trade surplus shows that internal imbalances within the single currency are becoming external ones, which will cause unease among the region's global trading partners. It's noteworthy that this surplus is arising at the same time the trade deficits in many emerging markets–particularly India, Turkey, Indonesia and Brazil–have become a serious concern for foreign investors. The Chinese surplus has come down, as has the U.S. deficit. So it seems like the problem of global imbalances has simply shifted its axis from the China-U.S. divide to one encompassing Europe and other developing nations.
EURO ZONE: September harmonized consumer price index up 0.5% on the month and up 1.1% on the year, in line with expectations.
Core inflation came in slightly firmer than the headline number, suggesting the European Central Bank's expectations that the recent drop in price pressures was a temporary blip could be accurate. But with inflation running at its lowest rate since early 2010 and well below the ECB's target of just below 2%, concerns about deflationary risks still seem well founded.
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U.S.: 10 am. National Homebuilders Association housing market index for September. [Expected 57 vs. 58 in August.
The interest rate-spurred summer slowdown in mortgage applications isn't yet having an effect on gauges of home prices such as this one. That could start to change.
ICELAND: 11 a.m. EDT (3 p.m. GMT). Central Bank of Iceland decision.
The key issue for Iceland is not interest rates but capital controls, which have been in place since the extreme crisis of 2008. Last week, the central bank warned that private-sector borrowers are running out of cash with which to repay their foreign creditors, a legacy of the massive debts racked up before the meltdown five years ago. Those comments stoked fears of another crisis and were a signal that the capital controls aren't going to be removed for some time.
U.S.: 1:30 p.m. EDT. Cleveland Fed President Sandra Pianalto speaks at Northeast Ohio Real Estate Convention.
Ms. Pianalto's views don't typically influence the market much, but there is an especially high degree of interest in Fed officials' comments right now, with the government in crisis, the chairmanship about to change, and uncertainty surrounding the central bank's intentions over its bond-buying program.
U.S.: 2 p.m. EDT. Federal Reserve Beige book report for September.
Last month's report said economic activity grew at a "modest to moderate" pace in July and August across the 12 Fed districts. The report provides an important foundation for Fed policy decisions, but unfortunately it will now be seen as too backward-looking. It won't yet show any impact from the government shutdown and fiscal crisis, which took hold at the start of August.
U.S.: 6:45 p.m. EDT. Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher participates in debate at the Intelligence Squared U.S. Debate in New York.
SINGAPORE: Merchandise trade for September. [August nonoil domestic exports -6.2% on year.]
Singapore isn't a big economy and its trade statistics tend to be volatile. Nonetheless, its role as a major shipping hub means its data are seen as an important bellwether for economic activity in the Asian region. Investors will be hoping that August's drop in exports was a one-month aberration.


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Eighteen wickets fell in 78 overs in the LV= County Championship match at the Emirates Durham ICG today before bad light ended play with Durham on 92 for eight in their second innings, leading Somerset by 210.
Chris Rushworth took a career-best 6-58 to dismiss Somerset for 132 after they were initially undermined by Graham Onions. The England seamer claimed the first three wickets and finished with 4-41.
Under grey skies the ball swung and there was just enough seam movement for the bowlers to find the edge.
There were two catches each for Durham's three slips, while four of their own batsmen edged to Somerset wicketkeeper Craig Kieswetter, giving him seven in the match.
The day's top-scorer was Jos Buttler, who hit two sixes in making 35 off 54 balls, but immediately after lifting Rushworth over the rope at midwicket he tried to work a fuller delivery to leg and was bowled.
After Onions had reduced Somerset to 39 for three, batting did not look too perilous while Buttler and Kieswetter were putting on 42.
But after going wicketless in his opening five-over spell, Rushworth returned to take three wickets in quick succession before lunch and three more afterwards.
He was helped by some fine slip catching from Paul Collingwood, Scott Borthwick and Ben Stokes.
After finishing third in the national bowling averages last season, Sunderland-born Rushworth was a late call-up for the MCC side against champions Warwickshire in Abu Dhabi last month.
Today, Durham's lead of 118 looked invaluable as they slumped to 20 for four.
Peter Trego matched Onions' effort by taking the first three wickets, starting when left-hander Mark Stoneman was caught behind in the third over. Then Will Smith offered no stroke to a ball which swung in and bowled him for a duck.
Trego also nipped one through Keaton Jennings' forward defence to hit off stump.
There were also three wickets for Alfonso Thomas, who pinned Collingwood lbw with the last ball before tea then swung one away from Stokes to have him caught by Kieswetter.
Top-scorer in the first innings with 49, Stokes again dug in to make 22 off 60 balls, taking enough sting out of the attack for Phil Mustard to capitalise with some bold strokes in reaching 23 not out.
There were still 15 overs of the day's allocation to be bowled when the umpires consulted for a second time and decided the light was too poor to continue.
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When City Attorney Tom Perkins' proposed changes to both the solicitation and anti-littering ordinances summer, the hot topic was free newspapers delivered by The Dallas Morning News, such as Al Dia and Briefing. Several council members complained that the newspapers end up littering yards and neighborhoods.
A few weeks back, the council's quality of life committee met with Perkins in a closed session to discuss the issue further. This morning, Perkins was back for an open briefing, after which the committee unanimously approved a set of recommendations.
Under the plan, newspaper deliverers will have to put the free newspaper on or near the front door.
"They can hang it, they can use a rubber band, or they can place it at the front door. But they have to actually walk up and deposit it now," Perkins said.
This way, if the resident has a "No handbills" sign, they deliverer will see and be forced to move on.
"They were throwing it from a passing car, they couldn't see that this house doesn't want handbills," Perkins said.
But of the proposal is adopted, they will see it.
"If you've got a no handbilling sign, that person is going to walk to the front door, they're going to see, and they cannot leave it," Perkins said.
The full council will be briefed on the proposal some Wednesday soon.


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Lenovo IdeaTab Lynx review: first look
With two days to go until the Windows 8 launch, we've enjoyed an hour or two with all Lenovo's new devices: and the IdeaTab Lynx promises "the ultimate flexibility between work and play". So can it deliver?
The design is fundamentally similar to the Asus Transformer Prime, with all the intelligence packed into the tablet but an optional keyboard base for when you need to get some work done.
This has the extra advantage of bosting the battery life from eight hours for the tablet on its own to 16 hours, plus it includes two USB 2.0 ports (the tablet itself offers micro-USB, micro-HDMI and microSD).
Lenovo has decided to sell the Lynx as a tablet with the base an option, which is a shame: without it, there's nothing obvious to distinguish it from the cluster of Windows 8 tablets.
For example, while the 11.6in screen uses IPS technology – and has the viewing angles we'd expect because of it – its resolution of 1,366 x 768 is commonplace. We also found it to be a little grainier than we'd ideally like, although this effect is less noticeable if you push the screen up to its full 400 nit brightness.
It's a multi-touch screen with five points rather than the ten of its larger sister, the Yoga 13, but that isn't a big issue for a small-screen machine. After all, there's barely room to lay two hands on a screen this size.
The keyboard is a decent compromise between girth and usability, with enough travel on the keys to give touch typists something to respond to. That said, if you think you're going to be using the keyboard frequently then you should consider a convertible tablet – it will be more comfortable to use for long periods of time.
The advantage is that, when you are in tablet mode, it's light. According to Lenovo it weighs 640g, which increase to 1.3kg with the dock. Certainly we'd be happy to use it one-handed for a good length of time.
We have more mixed feelings about the design. The grey colouring is a little subdued, but the honeycomb pattern feels nice when you're holding it.
As with all the Windows 8 tablets we've used – and note the IdeaTab Lynx runs Windows 8 rather than Windows 8 RT, so you don't get Office 2013 bundled but you can install your own desktop software – it's nippy. This is despite it using a dual-core Atom processor and 2GB of memory.
We don't yet have UK prices, but in the US the 32GB version of the Lynx will cost $599 for the tablet and $149 for the base. With the likes of Asus being more competitive on pricing, we suspect Lenovo will have to drop down to make an impact with the Lynx.


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by Gina Biber
– The Capitol Hill Times –
France has done a number on my social skills.
Each year, when I migrate back to Seattle around Christmas time, I'm made aware that, by American standards, I have grown more antisocial.
On my last trip, for example, hung over with jet lag and wide awake around 5 a.m. (God bless America that things are open this early), I wandered into a grocery store for some breakfast essentials. Just a handful of people were milling about the aisles, and when I crossed paths with a man also hunting for orange juice, my acquired instinct was to skirt around him unnoticed; his was to lock eyes, smile and say, "Good morning." Startled, I muttered back a weak "Thanks. You too," and reminded myself: Gina, you're in the United States now. You're allowed to be friendly with complete strangers. Smile, for Pete's sake. Things that were once automatic became forced.
You see, what is considered customary and polite in one country can be taken the wrong way or even deemed offensive in another. While Americans tend to view conversation as a tool used to exchange information, the French use conversation as a means to establish, maintain or build a relationship.
In the States we speak freely wherever we like, sharing or taking what tidbits benefit the listener, or ourselves, and don't give much weight to who is on the receiving end or if we see them again. On the contrary, the degree of information that the French exchange is always relative to how profound the connection is. Acquaintances, for example, might make small talk about the weather or this or that product (facts), while close friends are permitted rich dialogue about political interests, religious convictions and so on (feelings). For the same reason, strangers, like the one who I crossed paths with at the grocery store, or the ones that I find myself next to at the bus stop or inside my favorite coffee shops, do not make small talk or even need to acknowledge the other's existence. Doing so demonstrates a desire to build a relationship beyond the momentary exchange. Even making eye contact and smiling can be confused with flirting.
To complicate things further, the French language has a formal and informal way to address each person, like English's difference between "thou" and "you." You need to figure out where you stand with the person that you desire to converse with before you open your mouth, since every verb is conjugated with the formal or informal tense. Employing the wrong form is a way to intentionally or accidentally disrespect another.
"Vous" is used as a sign of respect for someone older than you or in a superior position, like a friend's grandparents or your professor, and "tu" is the informal pronoun given to people who you are friendly with, like family, friends and, generally, people of the same age group or younger. It's not always obvious.
Beyond who you can chat with (and how to address them), the French also follow a dissimilar operating manual regarding how to carry on a discussion. Cultural anthropologist Raymonde Carroll likens American dialogue to jazz or a jam session, where everyone shows up with a different instrument, takes turns playing solos of varying lengths, and then packs up when the exchange is satisfied, leaving with no commitment or need to be seen again. Americans are trained to be patient listeners, silent until the other person finishes speaking; we ask questions when our conversation-partner seems to possess information that we would like to acquire, and offer our own expertise. We speak when there is something to be said and are not alarmed if the conversation dies, knowing that it will pick up again when new information arises.
In France, this style of conversing appears boring—tiresome when responses are lengthy, and egotistic if everyone engaged doesn't have an equal opportunity to talk. For the French, a conversation's subject is less important than the relationship being maintained. Discussion is executed like a ping-pong match, where talk is the ball, and it is your job to pass it to your partner, who will return it right back to you, and so on. If you hold the ball instead of passing it, the fun is gone, the game is over. An exchange is fragile and like a houseplant needs to be cultivated and cared for, which is often accomplished by interrupting, as it shows your interest in what the speaker is saying and keeps the talk in motion, the ball bouncing back and forth. Americans watching this from the outside are baffled, wondering how anything worthwhile can be said among so many interruptions and subject changes, not realizing that the French, in their own way, are making an effort to be polite, just as we are when we do the opposite.
Now that I have an upcoming trip to the States, I am trying to undo all of the mannerisms that I have picked up over the years. I would rather be considered a weirdo and a flirt in France than thought a jerk at home.


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|well my first labour was witout any pain relief. i had mild contractions all day but kept warm(v.imp) and walked about alot.then by 8pm i was squattin with pain and went to hospital as contractions one wasnt stopping yet the next was coming. i have a high pain threshold.had my daughter by midnight mostly either on toilet or on knees leaning forward.i tore a lil. i even broke waters just before midnight myself with pushing. But best to listen to ur body and watever position u know u get strong contractions. Go with that unless u want a long intense labour.
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|my labour was painful but i kept very active and ended up having her in the knelling position as it seemed to ease all the pain and was such a relief i believe for me it was the best way to do it as i tried lying on my back but the pain was more intrence that way however it was down to the midwife and my lovely partner to coax me into the kneeling pisition as all i could do was scream
|by xxxkellyxxx
|14th May 2010, 3:19pm
|My first labour i was very actively walking about or using a birthing ball, along with no pain relief at all. Which helped relax me, although in the later stage i was told to lie down on my left hand side, to enable the midwifes to do as they needed. I think the more active you are and less pain relief like Epidural you have the easier the baby finds it. Although again we are all different and whatever your pain barrier is you need to listen to your own body aswell as the advice from the professionals.
|by Marydoll
|26th Jan 2009, 9:41am
|I think at the end of the day you should pick whatever position is the most comfortable for you, people see lying down as the conventional position but i was up on my knees through most of my labour and it really helped! I had to lie down at the end to make it easier for the midwife but it did't make it easier for me. This time im having a home birth and whatever position feels comfortable at the time is how I'm going to give birth :) good luck!
|by AbbyNDave
|23rd Oct 2008, 8:53am
|I was told that if your on all fours that there is a less chance of you tearing during labour.
I would like to do that but then i wouldnt be able to have an epidural would i ??
which would you recommend? on all fours and gas and air or laying on my bak with an epidural??
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Premier Subscriber Services Received blind mailing offering undoable prices for New York magazine renewal Fountain Hills, Arizona
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What Price Safety?
"Cheapskate" columnist Neal Templin writes:
In today's "Cheapskate" column, I wrote about how the steep market declines forced me to switch to a more-conservative allocation for my 401(k).
My new mix should protect me better in market downturns. But it also means I can expect my portfolio to grow more slowly in good times. Here's a more-detailed look at the numbers.
Until recently, I kept my portfolio 50% in stocks and 50% in bonds. Over the coming months, I gradually plan to switch to a portfolio with 30% stocks and 70% bonds.
Lowering your stock allocation makes your portfolio quite a bit less volatile. Consider a 60% decline (that's the actual number worldwide equities declined from October 2007 though early March 2009). If your portfolio is half stocks, you'll end up with a 30% loss. If your portfolio is just 30% stocks, your loss will be a much more moderate 18%.
Often, your actual losses will be less because bond prices often rise when stock prices sink. That wasn't the case last year when the prices of most bonds, though not Treasurys, sank as well.
So how much do you give up on the upside?
Suppose the stock market rises 60%. With a 50/50 portfolio, than equates to a 30% rise, assuming bonds stay level. With a 30/70 portfolio, your gain will be just 18%.
Now, in the real world, gains usually come over many years. I asked William J. Bernstein, a financial author, for some help in calculating the future returns of 50/50 and 30/70 portfolios.
Mr. Bernstein uses very conservative numbers. He estimates stocks will average real gains, or after-inflation gains, of just 4% over the coming years. He sees bonds posting even more measly real returns of 1%.
With the 50/50 portfolio, that translates to average real returns of 2.5% annually. A $100,000 portfolio would grow to $128,000 over 10 years and $164,000 over 20 years.
The 30/70 portfolio would produce real returns of 1.9% a year. A $100,000 portfolio would grow to $121,000 over 10 years and $146,000 over 20 years. Considering the additional safety, it's a not a huge difference.
Now, of course, if stocks do a lot better than real returns of 4%, the calculus changes considerably. If stocks post real returns of 6%, the 50/50 portfolio grows to $141,000 over 10 years and $199,000 over 20 years.
The 30/70 portfolio grows to $128,000 over 10 years and $164,000 over 20 years. That's a more sizable difference, particularly over 20 years.
Bottom line: There's no free lunch. If you want safety, you're going to pay for it with lower returns.


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BluePhoneElite is the easiest way to manage your phone via bluetooth on the Mac.
BluePhoneElite is a utility that connects and automates processing and display status information of Bluetooth mobile phones.
Call Features
- Dial and answer calls from your desktop
- Log calls with time, duration, caller and notes
- Display caller ID using your phone's phone book or Apple's Address Book
- Pause iTunes and DVD Player or set iChat away message when a call is in progress
- Customize a variety of visual and aural call notifications
- Export calls to iCal, Address Book or external files
- Trigger AppleScripts for different call events
SMS Features
- Send and receive messages using email-style SMS Center or SMS Chat
- Archive SMS to disk using hierarchical folders
- Pop-up incoming SMS on-screen
- Export SMS to iCal, Address Book or external files
- Trigger AppleScripts for different SMS events
Other Features
- Proximity detection controls iTunes, iChat, DVD Player and the screen saver
- Display battery and signal strength, power source and network name in the menu bar
- Power saving option disconnects phones when power is running low
- Customizable interface options like dock visibility, menu bar visibility and font sizes
- Localization: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (US, Australian, Canadian & UK), Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish
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This app ROCKS! Im using my macbook as a handsfree device, works great. SMS, calls etc.. works.
No more need to take my phone out of the pocket..
It doesn't work at all with my w850i.
I am usingthis with sony ericsson w850i and its been a treat even in beta!
I downloaded this ages ago, only to find it didn't work with my phone. Now I have a new phone and new versions have been released, but it still finds previous install data from the time-limited demo and won't run. I'm not gonna shell out just to see if it works yet :(
As an update, the new beta supports speakerphone, and has a much cleaner interface! This is especially cool if you have a bluetooth headset, because now you can connect the headset to your computer and use it as though it's connected to your phone -- a huge benefit for our phones that can only connect to one bluetooth device at a time!
The downside, though, is that the beta is currently extremely buggy. My RAZR V3 isn't playing nice with it at all -- but hey, it's just a beta! The more than stable v1 series is still available for people whose phones aren't fully implemented yet.
It's a great product and I'd love it to be a speakerphone as well. This is a problem with the OS X BT stack rather than the software, OS X needs to have a handsfree profile.
I love this app, but i do agree it needs some work on the UI, personally i'd like to see some MMS functionality added and the speaker phone addition would be really cool. It would be nice to have updates done within the software like acquisition does (sorry but ite gets annoying having to quit the app and then install a the update)... These are just minor suggestions but other wise this app is great and it seems to impress windows users, but more than that it's much easier to type something out on you mac than use that damn keypad.
Could do with more regular updates, and a more attractive interface. I, for one, would pay twice the going rate if this thing had the UI elegance of BuddyPop, which unfortunatly seems to choke on text messaging for me.
Also, it's a shame that it takes a workaround (forwarding) to send the same message to multiple recipients.
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Received postcard 2/3/11 saying valid age information was not submitted. Called that same day to ask why that info wasn't requested on the rebate form. Was told by "Robin," that she could take that info over the phone and would reprocess our $12 rebate immediately.
March 10, 2011, I received a check for $5.00--NOT the $12 receipts were submitted for. When I tried to call and inquire (several times) 1-877-819-4280 as to why I got $5.00 instead of $12, no one ever answered the phone.
I would not waste my time filling out coupons or submitting to this company again. Ripoff artists.
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A new promotional video for Upstate's College of Medicine features several current students and another who graduated in May and is now a physician.
"Four Students, Four Years, One College" is Upstate's second collaboration with Solon Quinn Studios of Syracuse. The company also produced "The Upstate Difference," a one-minute video targeting prospective students for all four colleges at Upstate.
The new, 2 1/2-minute video traces the path of four years of medical school from the perspective of an Upstate student in each of the four years — Marika Toscano, Natalie Mora, Sam Schueler and Ryan Cuff. Other medical students assisted with the project, and will be in a subsequent video.
The students were interviewed last spring at Solon Quinn Studios in Syracuse, then videotaped in the fall at Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital. The students discuss why they have chosen to pursue a career as a physician and how Upstate's College of Medicine is helping them along that journey.
"I grew up with a brother who has muscular dystrophy," Marika says. "Medicine has always been really involved in my life, and that is my motivation for studying. When it feels like I can't fit anything else in my brain, I just think, well, I can because these other people will need me to in the future."
Sam talks about attending physicians who have taught him and inspired him every step of the way.
"I just think of having all these experiences that continuously push me to be better than I was the day before," he says. "That's what Upstate means to me."
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'Locked in' Adrian Beltre rips Rays for three hits, four RBI in Rangers' win
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Texas Rangers left fielder Josh Hamilton (32) follows Texas Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus (1) to the plate to score on a hit by Texas Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre (29) in the third inning against the Tampa Bay Rays in MLB baseball action at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas on Monday, August 27, 2012.
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Frequently asked questions about parking permits
Where do I purchase a parking permit?
Business Office, Behmler Hall
How much does a permit cost?
$112 yearly or spring semester $60.
Where do I park my car and which permit do I purchase?
For on-campus residents, we recommend the following lots:
- Blakely Hall—South or East Lot
- Clayton A. Gay Hall—South Lot;
- David C. Johnson Independence Hall—East Lot;
- Green Prairie Living and Learning Community (GPLLC)—East Lot
- On-campus apartments—East Lot;
- Pine Hall—North Lot (designated areas only).
- Spooner Hall—South Lot;
Please be attentive to the no overnight parking areas.
Faculty, staff, and students can purchase a permit for any parking lot. South and east parking permits can only be used in those two lots. North and west parking permits can also be used in the south and east lots. West parking permits can be used in south and east lots also, but not the north or central lots.
Where can my visitors park?
Call Campus Police at 320-589-6000 or 320-287-1601 to register your visitor's vehicle information or pick up a visitor parking pass at 10 Camden Hall. There are visitor parking spaces located in each lot.
What if I drive two different vehicles?
You can purchase a duplicate permit from the Business Office for $10.
What if I sell my permit?
The transaction should be done at the Business Office and you will need to remove your current permit and the new purchaser will be given a new permit.
Where do I display my parking permit?
Permits must be suspended from the rearview mirror with the permit numbers facing forward.


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A combination of "slutty" and "guttered". When a person is so fucked up they'll do the original sin with anyone, really.
Mike: Dude, dude... Sheila. Soo sluttered right now.
Frank: I'M ON IT.
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Can you define these popular missing words?
To "slut" or "flooze" with immoral qualities.
Da way she sluttered at da club was commendable.
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