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Why is this the BEST pie recipe you've got? Why this pumpkin? Small, individual portions are less fuss + really cute to serve. It's a fun twist on the traditional thanksgiving pie. You eat it with a spoon. Your home will smell divine for hours on end. It tastes better after it sits. People will leave happily full...and...yum, rum!
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Downtown Manhattan in the 1980s became the epicenter of a vital American improvised music scene. Some of the musicians had come to free improvisation through a background in jazz, but even if their recordings are found in the jazz sections of record stores and libraries much of the music, in actuality, bore only a tenuous relationship to jazz. For the most part there was not the melodic, harmonic or rhythmic foundation of even the freest of free jazz. Musicians performed in varying combinations, sometimes without any set parameters, and sometimes within a relatively open framework of instructions or cues ("structured improvisation"). While there were some similarities in intent and execution with the music of the post-Cagean or Fluxus composers, these downtown improvisers often performed in ad hoc formations without a designated leader or "composer." For the musicians, as well as the audience, much of the musical interest lay in the sonic surprises that arose out of the interplay of empathetic, adventurous musicians. Musicians utilized extended techniques on standard instruments as well as playing prepared and homemade ones. Listeners as well as players had to be on their musical toes.
Perhaps the most significant model for this group of musicians was the work of a number of musicians in Europe who, over the course of the 'sixties and 'seventies, developed the genre that has ultimately become known as "European Free Improvisation." The most important of these musicians, at least from the standpoint of theory and proselytism, was British guitarist Derek Bailey, who referred to the form of improvisation he espoused as "non-idiomatic."
By far the best-known musician to emerge from the downtown improv scene was John Zorn. Zorn garnered much attention in the 'eighties for his "game pieces," structured group improvisations based on enigmatic diagrams and cues, and often named for sports (e.g. "Hockey" and "Archery"). Zorn, as nominal composer and "prompter," would bring together many of the top downtown improvisers for performances and recordings of these collaborative works. Zorn himself played down any Cagean connections, expressing instead his preference for the work of European composers such as Stockhausen and Kagel as models. A saxophonist by training, Zorn was as likely to play duck calls in his game pieces. Zorn's voracious musical appetites found him in a wide variety of musical settings, including avant-garde jazz and rock-oriented groups (Locus Solus in the 'eighties, and later Naked City and Painkiller). Zorn broke through to a wider audience with his major label release, in 1985, of The Big Gundown, eclectic rearrangements of the film music of Ennio Morricone. Zorn's high-profile recordings for Nonesuch brought wider attention to the downtown scene in general.
Lawrence "Butch" Morris is a bridge between loft jazz and downtown improv. Morris arrived in New York from California in the 'seventies and played jazz cornet at the lofts, but he soon developed a personal form of structured improvisation he calls "conduction," which utilizes a language of physical cues to shape pieces in real-time by groups of improvisers.
Jim Staley, in addition to his work as a trombonist, provided one of the most important venues for improvised music at his Tribeca loft, Roulette.
Pianist Wayne Horvitz was involved in a range of musical projects during the 'eighties, but his role as a bootstrap impresario is much less known. In 1979, Horvitz and a group of musicians who had recently arrived with him from Santa Cruz rented a rehearsal space in the West Village that they named "Studio Henry." They began presenting concerts there, and it became the most reliable venue for downtown improvisers for several years. After a time, drummer M.E. Miller, a member of the original Studio Henry group, took over the space and kept it going until 1982. In 1987 Horvitz became the first music curator for the Knitting Factory, leaving his imprint on the club's programming direction. A number of the downtown improvisers were simultaneously active in the alternative rock scene, among them Tom Cora, Fred Frith, and Elliott Sharp (who all, incidentally, moved to New York in 1979). There were no fixed borders between improv, rock, "new music" and jazz in the downtown musical world of the 'eighties.
Though free and structured improv were particularly fertile areas of pursuit for these musicians, many of the improvisers had strong jazz credentials and played in groups that were more specifically jazz-oriented. Among the most important downtown jazz figures of the period were saxophonist Tim Berne and drummer/composer Bobby Previte. Zorn, Horvitz and Previte even recorded an album of tunes by hard-bop pianist Sonny Clark for an Italian jazz label. The Microscopic Septet, co-led by saxophonist Philip Johnston and pianist Joel Forrester, played pure jazz with a downtown, postmodernist sense of humor and irony. The advent of the Knitting Factory in 1987 was an important catalyst for a revitalized downtown jazz scene, as younger players with sensibilities that went beyond jazz orthodoxies were welcomed and cultivated by the club. In the late 'nineties, another venue, Tonic, began presenting a similar range of music to the Knit (originally programmed by John Zorn). Zorn opened his own alternative music space, The Stone, in 2005. As of 2007 Tonic has closed and the Knitting Factory presents mostly rock acts.
From 1979-82, Studio Henry was the center of activity for most of these musicians, and beginning in 1987 the Knitting Factory served that function. In the intervening years there was no single spot that represented the heart of the scene, and musicians were as likely to perform in the mostly rock or music & performance art venues listed in the section on downtown rock after punk. One of the most supportive of these clubs for a time was Chandelier, run by performance artists Uzi Parnes and Ela Troyano. In 1985, the experimental music loft Roulette presented a festival of improvisers that included most of the important musicians on the scene; a recording of highlights was issued by the cassette magazine Tellus. Among the other venues that presented many of these musicians were Neither/Nor, an alternative bookstore, and Inroads, a performance space and gallery in Soho.
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The tall man, the one he decided to refer to as Ape-boy, glared at him, then abruptly nodded.
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Too bad his cock paid no attention in the least.
Taking a deep breath, and thankful for the long cut of his suit jacket that hid his rising problem, Jason stepped aside and watched as Ape-boy gestured to another of the boy toys to check out the room. A red-haired man, slightly shorter than Ape-Boy, stepped through the door, and after a discreet amount of time, returned and gestured them inside.
"Thank you." Ape-boy briefly nodded to Jason and the manager before escorting Cyprus to the door. "Your attention is"--he glared at Jason--"overwhelming."
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"Keep her safe." Jason nodded, before excusing himself and making an exit toward the staff rooms that had been set up for his use.
"Safe behind bars," he muttered to himself and stopped in front of the door to his room. The nanocyte strand guarding the door remained unbroken, so he cautiously unlocked the door and entered the room. He secured the door behind him and moved to scan his surveillance equipment.
"Now, Ms. Reid, let's just see how good your boys are at keeping you safe."
Even if they found a few of the bugs he'd planted in the room, they would not find them all. And there was still his audio feed and the mechanical sniffers he'd installed, just in case there was some illegal drug use. At this point, he would do anything to take her down.
Now it was time to sit back and watch the Cyprus Reid show, where the climax would hopefully end with a standing ovation as she was carted off for a lengthy jail term.
"I love my job sometimes." Jason chuckled as he settled in front of the monitor while the images appeared on-screen.
"Lights, camera, action."


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Mind Candy Chief Acton Stepping Down
The chief executive officer of British children's entertainment company Mind Candy is stepping down as the company tries to crack the difficult mobile children's games market.
Michael Acton Smith, 39, who has run the company for 10 years and become an icon of the London tech scene, said he will step down when the company finds a new chief executive.
Mr. Smith, known to fans as Mr. Moshi, posted the news in a YouTube video. He sat on a couch in front of a wall decorated with colorful Moshi characters, with a pile of notebooks at his side he said were "filled with ideas and sketches and scribbles and doodles" for new stories and characters. He spoke directly to the camera for nearly three-and-a-half minutes.
"I've been doing some deep thinking, and I am self-aware enough to know that I am much better on the creative side of business than the operations side," he said. "Maybe it's time that I've moved into a more creative role."
"We have ambitions to one day take this public and run multiple brands in geographies all around the world, and I think we need someone with a very different skill set to mine to do that," he said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
The privately held company has had one major success with the creation of browser-based Moshi Monsters, a game world that let children "adopt" characters, play games and pay a monthly subscription for access to more content on the site. Mind Candy has just started rolling out other brands to try to become more than a one-hit wonder.
The company boomed over the last few years, reaching £46.9 million ($80.4 million) in revenue in 2012, up from £7.6 million ($13 million) in 2010, the last year for which numbers are publicly available. But Mind Candy had trouble replicating its U.K. success in the U.S., and struggled to figure out a mobile strategy as children gravitated toward tablets and phones, and away from computer browsers.
Mind Candy officials framed the move as a typical shift for a small and growing company started by a visionary who steps aside for so-called adult supervision.
"Larry Page and Sergey [Brin] did it at Google, Pierre Omidyar did it at eBay, Bill Gates did it at Microsoft," said Saul Klein, a partner at Index Ventures and a Mind Candy board member, referring to the hiring of Eric Schmidt as Google CEO in 2001. "This is how Silicon Valley businesses get built."
In an interview, Mr. Smith said he will remain CEO until the company finds a replacement, and then move into a yet-untitled role running the creative side of the company.
Geoff Yang, a founding partner of Calif.-based Redpoint Ventures, said it was "very common" to see a good founder be replaced by someone who takes a company to the next level. "You usually don't make a transition like this when things are going really well, but it doesn't mean that things are going poorly," he said.
Mind Candy has been searching for ways to grow within the constraints and challenges of the mobile market. A big revenue driver for Moshi Monsters – subscriptions – wasn't an obvious answer. Apple Inc. wouldn't allow the company to use a subscription model, a spokeswoman said.
"We're not alone in finding this a really challenging space at the moment," Mr. Smith said. "It's frustrating and it's sad, because if we can't as an industry make this work, then no one is going to be able to make amazing and magical mobile games for kids."
So-called in-app purchasing, when users buy things like extra powers or access to new levels, is a touchy area for children's companies because of fears that parents will wind up with an unexpectedly massive bill. On Thursday, for example, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon.com Inc. over children's alleged unauthorized purchases.
"The game industry is in turmoil, and this could well be a part of that," said Tero Kuittinen, managing director at U.S.-based consulting company Frank N. Magid Associates. He said there are a number of children's game environments that have struggled to make the move to mobile gaming, including Moshi Monsters Village, which the company rolled out over the past year.
"It's a flop, so it's possible that this disappointment was a real setback for the company," Mr. Kuittinen said of Moshi Monsters Village. "It's clear that they absolutely have to figure it out, because you can't cling onto the PC environment anymore."
Last week, the company launched its attempt to do just that—a new app called PopJam, an Instagram-like social network for children to create drawings, share photographs and connect with other people and brands. Thousands have signed up so far, Mr. Smith said.
"We want to be Disney 2.0, the next-generation entertainment company," Mr. Smith said.
Mr. Smith said he will remain a full-time executive, a board member and will keep his shareholdings that make him about equal-part owner with venture capital firms Accel Partners and Index Ventures. He said he isn't a majority shareholder but declined to give a specific figure.


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Sandoval's mother safe after San Bruno explosion
SAN DIEGO -- Pablo Sandoval was relieved that his mother, Amelia, safely evacuated the house he is renting in San Bruno, which was threatened by a massive blaze touched off by a ruptured gas line Thursday.
Sandoval said his mother went to stay with her other son, Michael, who is preparing to participate in the California League playoffs for the Giants' Single-A affiliate in San Jose.
Sandoval didn't learn of the fire and evacuation until after the Giants' 7-3 victory over the San Diego Padres. He said he wasn't concerned about the house or any property there.
"Only my family," he said. "My family is the most important thing to me."
Giants manager Bruce Bochy said he learned of the fire and the impact on Sandoval when G.M. Brian Sabean informed him after the game.
"My prayers are with everybody up there," Bochy said. "This sounds like it's a bad one -- a real tragedy."
It's Phil Cuzzi, the umpire whose botched call July 18 directly cost the Giants a game in the standings.
Replays clearly showed that Travis Ishikawa was safe with the winning run in the ninth inning, but Cuzzi called him out, and the Mets won in extra innings at AT&T Park.
Asked about the play by a pool reporter immediately after the game, Cuzzi said Mets catcher Henry Blanco "made a decent attempt to put the tag on him." The explanation struck a nerve with Giants players, who facetiously grumbled they didn't realize umpires were allowed to reward effort.


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A British computer games fan has become the first in the world to start queuing for the new ''Call of Duty'' - days before it comes out.
Taylor Pelling, 19, is already queueing for ''Call of Duty: Black Ops II'' ahead of its global release on Monday.
Black Ops 2 is expected to be one of the biggest entertainment releases of all time.
It is the sequel to a game which earned a billion dollars in 16 days.
James Cameron's Avatar, Hollywood's biggest-ever hit, took 17 days to hit the same figure.
[Related: Apple 'running out' of iPhone 5s]
Taylor is waiting outside HMV Oxford Street in London - where he is sleeping in a tent.
Student Taylor, of Twickenham, is thought to be the first person in the world to start queuing for the game.
He says staff at the shop are looking after him - giving him food, hot drinks and letting him use the toilet.
Taylor said: "I've attended a few midnight launches, but I have never been first in line. This time I was determined.
"I love Call of Duty and I know the launch is going to be pretty spectacular, so being at the front of the queue to buy it will make it an even more memorable experience.''


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Fresh Lime Salsa Picante
This fresh, homemade salsa makes a flavorful topping for grilled chicken or fish.
Per Serving: 28 Calories, 7g Carbohydrates, 1g Protein, 0g Fat, 0g Saturated Fat, 8mg Sodium, 1.3g Fiber
Serves 5
4 ripe roma tomatoes
1/3 cup freshly squeezed lime juice
1 large onion, peeled and diced
2 jalapeno peppers, seeded and minced
1 T. chopped fresh cilantro
1 T. chopped fresh parsley
Clean and chop tomatoes.
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At the moment, my very favorite magazine is Apartemento. I know the latest issue got out some time ago already, but it takes a little bit time to get it on this edge of the world. Today I finally found it. I'm fascinated how Apartemento is appreciating creative individuals and their life but doesn't hide people behind the polished interior photography.
(I have to say that I'm really into architecture and interior design and that's why my next book will be about houses.)
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I got my entrepreneurial start at a young age, orchestrating cousins into theatrical plays and charging neighbors admission. Since then, I've spent over a decade mentoring and funding early stage web software companies in Colorado, NYC, Texas, and beyond.
Most recently, I'm the Chief Product Officer at Techstars, a global ecosystem for entrepreneurs based out of Boulder, Colorado. I've been with Techstars since it's early days in 2009, have run 8 programs and have close to 90 companies in my portfolio. I'm on the Board of Directors for SimpleEnergy, Pana.com and the Entrepreneur's Foundation of Colorado.
Entrepreneur Magazine named me One of the Most 7 Powerful Women to Watch, Business Insider named me one of the Coolest People in New York Tech and an Extraordinary Woman in New York Tech, and Marie Clare named me one of the NewGuard, all proof that women out there doing cool stuff are in hiding, because there are definitely more amazing ladies out there than me. You can read more about me in Elle, hear me at SXSW, or just stalk me on Twitter.
I'm married to the love of my life and have 2 young children under 5 who still don't sleep through the night. But they keep me honest, playful, and acutely aware of how short life is.
I love all things outside and you'll often find me on a trail run, a mountain bike ride, or skiing. I love to travel to places that are radically different from anything I've experienced before. I have a big fat Greek family with all the hilarity that ensues. I love pushing my limits, learning new things, being competitive and having fun. Most entrepreneurs will best describe me as tough love, but the values I hold most dear are trust, transparency, honesty, and helping those around me live up to their full potential. In fact, at Techstars, we call it #givefirst. I love movies but hate TV, I never watch the news, I love parties but hate small talk, and email is slowly becoming the bain of my existence. I have way more ideas in my head than I have time to blog about, so you'll see me go through writing spurts (then silence). Oh, and my mom is my hero.


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18 Years of the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
Via Elle
If you consider the scrunchie a relic from aerobics classes gone by, think again. The '90s phenomenon is back in a big way, with designers like Marc Jacobs and Missoni working luxe versions into their Fall 2013 collections. Jennifer Aniston's stylist recently told us that he "loves a scrunchie." Here, the women who wear the throwback accessory best—plus some modern iterations for your own ponytail.
Hillary Clinton made the scrunchie a power symbol in the 1990s. Might there be a return of red, white, and blue hair embellishments in 2016?


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ACUSHNET — Claire F. (Warsoski) Camara of Acushnet passed away July 13, 2014 after a courageous battle with cancer. Beloved wife of Donald E. Camara. Loving mother of Tracy Fortin of Acushnet, Wendy Rezendes of Palm Coast. FL, and Christi Dubois of Fairhaven.
She is also survived by 4 grandchildren and 1 great-grandchild. A Memorial Mass will be held on Saturday, July 19th, in St. John Neumann Church, 157 Middleboro Road, E. Freetown at 11 am.
In lieu of flowers donations can be made in Claire's memory to Community Nurse and Hospice Care, 62 Center St., Fairhaven, MA 02719. To sign the guest book visit www.mackinnonfuneral.com.
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In an emphatic vote for change, the French have elected Nicolas Sarkozy, the 52-year-old son of Hungarian immigrants as their next President. As in the first round on April 22, the turnout in Sunday's second round of voting was an impressive 85%, signalling the extraordinary degree of interest in the elections. In the end, for all the opposition talk of Sarkozy being too radical, voters were clearly less enthused by rival, Socialist Party's Segolene Royal's more timid approach to reform.
Fortunately so. The French economy is among the laggards in Europe, with rising unemployment, especially among young immigrants. Morgan Stanley, the US investment bank in a recent report, called France the 'New Sick Man of Europe'. Sarkozy represents the voice for change in France's cosy social model: a 35-hour work week, generous pensions, unemployment benefits, rigid hiring and firing laws and protectionist trade policies. He has promised to cut taxes and loosen France's tightly regulated labour market to stimulate faster growth in the world's sixth-biggest economy.


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Kenny to Bring Some "Orange" to ESPN
Kenny Chesney has parlayed his passion for football into another opportunity to shine a spotlight on his beloved University of Tennessee.
In February 2011, Kenny and video director Shaun Silva released The Color Orange: The Condrege Holloway Story on ESPN. The film chronicles the life and career of the UT football player who was the first African-American starting quarterback in the Southeastern Conference. Kenny, who wore Holloway's number when he played high school football, also serves as the documentary's narrator.
Now the film will be included in ESPN's Storied documentary series, which focuses on athletes and coaches of the SEC. The Color Orange will make its debut in the series on Jan. 13.
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India has long been the home of dirt-cheap tech for the masses, and now you can add an Android tablet to the mix. The Aakash (Hindi for "sky") tablet is being sold for the equivalent of $45 to the general public, with subsidized $35 versions selling to students and teachers. In local currency it's about 1,700 Rupees. The basic tablet is being made by budget manufacturer DataWind.
There's not a lot of info available on the tablet hardware, but we do know that the 7-inch device is running on 2.2 Froyo, like most Android smartphones at the moment. Since video conferencing is mentioned by the Human Resource Development Minister, we can conclude that there's at least some kind of webcam included. The low-cost devices are intended to "lift villagers out of poverty" by teaching them basic computer skills, including word processing and web browsing.
The Indian government intends to get the Aakash tablet into the hands of no less than 10 million students across the country. If they succeed, that would make India the #1 user of Android tablets, even if they won't be showing up on Google's activation press releases any time soon. And before you ask, modders, no, it isn't being sold outside of India.


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New Jersey Boy Cries His Way Into Politics
An adorable clip of 4-year-old Jesse Koczon crying because he was "too small" to be governor of New Jersey became a viral hit on YouTube and snagged his family a $10,000 prize from America's Funniest Home Videos. The video also drew a humorous response from Gov. Chris Christie (or his staff), who tweeted: "Don't worry Jesse, people gave plenty of reasons why I couldn't be Governor, though being too small wasn't one of them."
Now the boy will get a chance to be governor, after all — even if just for one day. Christie is set to sign a proclamation Wednesday naming Jesse, now 5, honorary governor. He'll give Jesse, his twin brother Brandon and their family a tour of the governor's office.
Dawn Koczon, the twins' mother, said the boys went crazy on Tuesday when they heard they were going to meet the governor. "They both just started jumping up and down, and they were screaming," she said. Brandon declared himself and his brother "the luckiest kids ever," Koczon said.
The video was shot on Election Day 2009 after the Koczons took their twins to their polling place. The children wanted to vote too, but a poll worker told them they were not big enough. Jesse began to cry, and the tears continued well into the car ride home. Koczon flipped the camera on, asked her son why he was crying, and he replied: "Everyone tells me that I'm too small to be the governor of New Jersey."
The boys, who live in Old Bridge, wrote the governor thank-you notes ahead of the big day. Jesse knows he's going to meet the governor but the proclamation naming him honorary governor is going to be a surprise.
Christie may be in for a surprise of his own. Jesse's career ambitions have already changed, his mother said.
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Olympic Update: Judo Gold, Badminton Controversy
South Korea won its first medals on the judo mat and fencing piste at the Olympics on Tuesday, with the added bonus of overtaking North Korea in the overall medal standings. There was yet more controversy involving the South Korean team, however, this time involving apparent deliberate poor play in badminton.
Judoka Kim Jae-bum earned revenge for a defeat in the final of the Beijing Olympics to Ole Bischof of Germany by beating his rival with two shoulder throws in the final of the men's 66kg competition.
"I really wanted to take on Bischof again, and my wish came true," Kim said after finally adding Olympic gold to an array of world and Asian titles.
In fencing, there was something to cheer about after the heartbreak of a day earlier, when South Korea's Shin Ah-lam had to be escorted out of the arena in tears after losing her semi-final due to an apparent fault in the timing of the match.
Choi Byung-chul took bronze in the men's individual foil, becoming the first South Korean man to take a fencing medal after four Olympics.
"I am honored to earn the first fencing medal for the country," he said. "Now that I have the first one out of the way, I hope my teammates can cheer up."
Photos of the distraught defeated fencer Shin appeared on the front pages of several national newspapers in South Korea on Wednesday and criticism of the decision was widespread online, with some netizens calling for a boycott of the rest of the Olympics.
That controversy wasn't the last for the South Korean team. Four South Korean shuttlers were charged by the Badminton World Federation along with players from China and Indonesia for apparent deliberate poor play on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.
South Korean pair Jung Kyun-eun and Kim Ha-na won their match against world doubles champions and No. 1 seeds Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang of China but the players were booed for all making simple errors and warned by the tournament referee. Both pairs had already qualified for the knock-out stage before the match. The result meant that the Chinese pair avoid playing the No. 2 seeds before the final.
In the subsequent match South Korea's Ha Jung-eun and Kim Min-jung beat Indonesia's Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii but those players were also warned for deliberately losing points.
Park Sang-soon, a spokesman in Seoul for the Korean Badminton Association, said the KBA is still trying to determine what happened during the matches.
After a relatively poor start to the Games for the South Korean team, the head of the nation's Olympic squad said that South Korea's goal of ten gold medals and a top ten ranking is now "extremely tough." South Korea now has three gold medals.
The team can at least take some heart from having overtaken North Korea into fourth place in the medal standings after Tuesday's double medal haul, with North Korea failing to add to its tally.


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The Wayne County Emergency Management Agency and Escambia Operating Company report a gas well leaking hydrogen sulfide has been stopped and the well is secure.
Officials say the air quality has been monitored during the past 36 hours, and it's safe for residents to return to their homes and all the evacuated residents have returned to their homes.
A 1-mile radius around the site was evacuated July 19.
Hydrogen sulfide is a poisonous, flammable gas which gives off the smell of rotten eggs. It can deaden a person's sense of smell so a potential victim may be unaware of its presence.
Escambia Operating Co., LLC says it is launching an investigation to determine the cause of the leak. The company says cleanup will begin as soon as possible.


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More on Rare NFL Scores
Two months ago, the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the San Diego Chargers 11-10, marking the first time a game ended with that score in NFL history. On Sunday, before the Steelers-Chargers rematch, there was a new first score: The Philadelphia Eagles beat the New York Giants, 23-11. "The swirling winds played havoc with any ball in the air, and also helped skew the score: This was the first game in NFL history to finish 23-11, the Elias Sports Bureau said," the Associated Press noted.
New scores shouldn't come as a big surprise, though. Though many games end in common scores such as 20-17 — which has happened more than 200 times in the history of the NFL, the AFL and their predecessors going back to 1920 — about two-thirds of scores that have occurred have happened fewer than 10 times. And about one in seven games end in scores from that long tail.
Just this season, nine other games ended in scores that had never been seen in an NFL boxscore before — according to the nifty scores tool on Pro-Football-Reference.com — though none appear to have been commented on at the time. And more than a dozen other games ended with scores that had been seen only once or twice before.
Eleven new scores in a season of 264 games (so far) is a relatively high creative output, but not so surprising. There were also 11 new scores in 2004, and 14 in 2002, according to Doug Drinen, a mathematician at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., who maintains Pro Football Reference. You might expect a diminishing return over time, as there is a fixed amount of scores in the double digits. And indeed, every year from 1950 to 1955 featured more than 10% of games ending in first-ever scores, but that hasn't happened since 1968 (19 of 188 games). Still, there is plenty of room left for new scores: There are 401 scores, with each team held to 50 points or less, that have never occurred. That's from a pool of
2500 1,275 possible scores in which either team can score either zero points or any total from two to 50.*
As for 23-11 itself, it's not so unlikely. After the 11-10 game, I wrote that one 11-10 game in history sounds about right, given the likelihood of a team scoring 11 points or 10 points. A final score of 23 points is about a third less common than 10 points, so the same conclusion holds.
Wake me when a team finishes a game with exactly four points. As far as I can tell, that's happened only once, on November 25, 1923, in a game between the Racine, Wisc., Legion and the Chicago Cardinals — who, incidentally, had been called the Racine Cardinals before the Wisconsin franchise joined the league, because they played on Racine Ave.
The Legion won 10-4, thanks mostly to quarterback Wallace Andre "Shorty" Barr, about whom the Chicago Daily Tribune reported the next day: "This stocky young gent displayed a remarkable point scoring versatility, for in addition to running up six of the Racine points on a neat touchdown around the end of the otherwise impregnable Card line in the fourth period, he registered the four points of the Chicago eleven, being downed for two safeties." Barr took the second safety deliberately as Racine was running out the clock late.
And now, if somehow you haven't had enough, here are more tidbits on rare NFL scores this season:
• The first time the Eagles and Giants played this season, the Giants' 36-31 win was just the second such final score in history. Should the Eagles advance to the Super Bowl, they'll face a team against whom, earlier this season, they played to an unusual score. Philly's 15-6 win over the Steelers was just the third ever, while the Baltimore Ravens' 36-7 rout of the Eagles was equally rare. The NFC championship is also a rematch of a regular-season game with an unusual ending: The Eagles beat the Cardinals 48-20 last time, just the fifth instance of the score in history. None of these scores were as unusual as the Eagles' 40-26 defeat of the 49ers, the first such score ever. The Eagles' 41-37 loss to the Cowboys was the second-such score ever. And those two teams, incidentally, each won games by 44-6 scores this year; just three games had ended with that score before this season.
• The New Orleans Saints won only eight games, but three of them were memorable: The first-ever 51-29 score and 37-32 score, and the second 29-25 score. The Saints also became just the second team ever to play in a 34-32 game; they lost that one.
• The New York Jets also were particularly pioneering. They lost to the San Diego Chargers 48-29, the first game to end in that score, then bounced back to beat the Cardinals 56-35, also a first. That score is notable because each team scored a multiple of seven points, or a touchdown and extra point. It demonstrates that very high scores are rare, even when they're a simple combination of sevens and threes. Later in the season, the Jets beat the Rams 47-3, another first.
• In addition to their memorable losses to the Eagles and Jets, the Cardinals had two other rare scores among their five other losses. Their 37-29 loss to the Giants was the second-ever for that score, and their 47-7 loss to the New England Patriots was the first game to end with that score since 1968. The prior week, the Pats beat the Oakland Raiders 49-26; that score may seem familiar because it last appeared in the 1994 Super Bowl, but before then it had occurred just once.
• The other three final scores in this past weekend's playoff games were less memorable. The 35-24 final was the 23rd ever; 33-13 had happened nine times before; and 13-10, 146 times, making it the fourth most common.
• On their way to becoming the NFL's first 0-16 team, the Detroit Lions made more-obscure history, losing to the Packers by the first-ever 48-25 score.
*Correction: There are 1,275 possible scores in a football game in which neither team has more than 50 points. This post previously and incorrectly said there were 2,500 such scores. For an explanation of the calculation, see this comment.


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India has reacted strongly against "inhuman" killing of two of its soldiers by Pakistani troops in Poonch. India has warned Pakistan of a "proportionate response" after its army brutally killed and mutilated two Indian jawans on Tuesday, Jan 8.
Amid escalating tensions on Line of Control (LoC), fear of a war loom large between the two neighbouring countries. However, both the countries cannot afford to go on a war at this point of time.
"India and Pakistan cannot, must not, allow (the killings) to propel in the direction of war," said a report in Pakistani Newspaper The News International.
Pakistan has accused Indian troops of killing one of its soldiers.
Defence Minister AK Antony on Wednesday said that the killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani troops was highly provocative. "The way in which the Indian soldiers' bodies were treated is inhuman," Antony added. He also said that India will register a strong protest against the ceasefire violation by Pakistan.
India has summoned Pakistan High Commissioner Salman Bashir to lodge a protest over the brutal killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani Army troops. Sources say the External Affairs Ministry, Defence Ministry and Intelligence agencies are assessing the situation. Sources say that the response from the Indian side will be measured as Indian officials see the value in the India-Pakistan dialogue process.
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid called it 'inhuman' and 'ghastly'. "It is Absolutely Unacceptable, seems like a clear attempt to derail dialogue. A Ghastly incident. This is inhuman. Extremely Myopic by Pakistan. This is not how civilised people behave, specially a neighbour. Extremely distressing. We need answers from Pakistani side. We will take it up," Khurshid said.
Reacting to the ceasefire violation by Pakistan, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley said the Indian government should now deal with Pakistan cautiously. "Indian Government should now deal with Pakistan very cautiously, red lines should be drawn," Jaitley said.
"The gruesome way in which the Pakistani Army killed the two Indian soldiers is a warning to India," Jaitley added.
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1A member of a North American Indian people of south central Washington State.
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- Indeed, his case studies of the Yakima and the Pima Indians provide extraordinarily vivid examples of the effects reclamation had on local power relations, although one could pull many other instances from his book.
- The effective population size of the Nuu Chah Nulth was estimated (from anthropological data) by WARD et al. 1991 to be N 600, a number we take for the Yakima as well.
2 [mass noun] The language of the Yakima.
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A native New Yorker, Tony has been giving intuitive counseling sessions (group and individual/meditation meets) on the East and West coast for over twenty years, and has been prominently featured in printed media (from Marie Claire Magazine to The New York Times), radio and television shows. At an early age, he was drawn to the life and legacy of Edgar Cayce, and he first became aware of his own psychic abilities in adolescence. Tony is interested in the work of healers like Marianne Williamson, Dan Millman and Caroline Myss. He also feels a strong kinship to the deep spiritual investigations of Joseph Campbell and Andrew Harvey. Recently, Tony has taken their inspiration and quest further by offering workshops with people like therapist and shamanic counselor Nancy Arann.
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The MIT Public Service Center is looking for 140 MIT volunteers to join students, staff, faculty, and alumni from Boston College, Boston University, Harvard University, Northeastern University, and Wellesley College in volunteering at Cradles to Crayons' Giving Factory on October 18-21, 2011.
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This week was pretty busy in the land of Baltimore technology. Here are some of the cool things that happened.
* Baltimore Tweet maps: Dave Troy, 410 Labs cofounder, and Chris Whong, head of Charm City Networks, collaborated online to develop a map of Baltimore-based tweets. You can explore this map's geo-located tweets from Baltimore people, collected on Aug. 27. Chris even overlayed vacant housing on the map, so you can see people tweeting in the midst of, or near, a plethora of vacants in Baltimore. Expect to see more data-driven online collaboration among Chris, Dave and others in the tech community, who are eager to use cheap/free tools — such as Google Fusion Tables — to bring all the data together and alive for us.
* Hunt Valley's Instagram competitor: Lifeclip, a new app that wants to challenge Instagram's hegemony, will debut Saturday, Sept. 1, in the iPhone App Store. It's the product of Hunt Valley-based Latman Interactive, a company that makes online games. I've played with the app — it's cool and powerful. And the company seems to have its marketing campaign on track. It's Twitter account already has 161,000 followers. But with all sorts of photo-sharing apps already out there (dozens? hundreds?), can Lifeclip rise above the noise?
* Baltimore's CIO-MG: Chris Tonjes, who came to Baltimore from DC government, is tasked with the Herculean challenge of modernizing the city's information technology infrastructure. He spoke about what he's trying to do at the Baltimore Tech Breakfast on Wednesday, and he's been very engaged and actively listening in the Baltimore Tech Facebook group. For a good recap of Chris's talk at the Tech Breakfast, head on over to Technically Baltimore (there's video, too).
* Edutech rising: A Baltimore "edutech" startup called Common Curriculum, disclosed this week through the Securities and Exchange Commission that it has raised $160,000 in debt out of a planned offering of $320,000. The company makes online software that helps teachers get better organized and quickly build their curriculum, while also connecting better with students and parents. Vincent Talbert, a cofounder of the successful Bill Me Later, which was bought by EBay/Paypal a few years back for nearly $1 billion, is an investor. Scott Messinger is the company's founder.
* Grand Prix recharged: A Baltimore tech company called NV3 Technologies will debut its new custom-made trailer that's able to charge up to 72 mobile devices, at the Grand Prix of Baltimore this weekend. The company makes interactive kiosks that can rapidly charge mobile devices in 15 minutes. It's also piloting a project in Baltimore where it's installing quick-battery chargers in the backs of taxi cabs. If the pilot goes well, the company will likely expand its marketing to reach cab companies all over the country. I wrote about the company in detail here.


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NEW DELHI: To remove fear of mathematics from the minds of students, there is need to integrate Vedic system in NCERT textbooks as it is easier to learn and can help develop competence among students, experts said today.
"Vedic Mathematics method is easier in solving problems as compared to modern mathematics. There is a need for integrating Vedic Mathematics with modern mathematics which NCERT follows to develop competence among students to solve mathematical problems faster than computers and calculators," Atul Kothari, National Secretary of Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas told reporters.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio � Matt Barnes struggled with control but
surrendered just one run in five innings as the Pawtucket Red Sox beat the
Columbus Clippers, 4-1, on Monday night in a game twice delayed� by rain.
Andres Torres homered to lead off the game, and Deven Marrero had
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Barnes (4-6) walked five batters and struck out only two. He
escaped a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the bottom of the fifth inning when
Giovanny Urshela grounded into a double play.
Will Middlebrooks drove home Corey Brown with an RBI single in
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and another in the eighth, when Brown singled home Marrero.
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LANCASTER, Calif. Authorities say a Southern California prison inmate was found dead in his cell, and his cellmate is suspected in the death.
State corrections officials say the inmate was found unresponsive in his cell at California State Prison-Los Angeles County early Tuesday and was pronounced dead at the scene.
State officials say 42-year-old Aaron Alvarez is the suspect in the case and has been placed in a segregated unit pending investigation.
The victim, whose name has not been released because relatives have not been notified of his death, was serving a life sentence for aggravated sexual assault of a child that began in 1999.
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A 30-YEAR-OLD pilot has been critically injured in a gyrocopter accident in central Queensland.
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Would you dangle upside down to get a meal? It's all part of everyday life for a nuthatch - one of my favourite birds to watch. They're not afraid to hang upside down or run headfirst down tree trunks while looking for food. But then they have long, curved claws to help them hang on to the bark.
I wonder how many people saw nuthatches at the weekend as part of Big Garden Birdwatch? Send us your results and we'll be able to find out!
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Well, it's finally here. The big weekend. You've done the preparation, you can only sit back and watch.
Which is exactly what we want you to do! For just one hour on either Saturday or Sunday please sit down, take a look out of the window and count the birds in your garden. Oh, and then submit your results, even if you don't see anything. We still need to know.
For more information on how to take part see the Big Garden Birdwatch website. It's so simple!
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I'll be taking part too, I wouldn't dream of missing it! I've been doing the Birdwatch since I was fresh-faced youngster staring hopefully out of the patio doors, watching entranced as blue, great and coal tits flew to and fro on their own little missions.
Back then it was only for YOC (now Wildlife Explorers) members. I'm glad that in 2001 the powers that be allowed adults to take part too! Last year 609,177 people took part. Where you one of them?
They're pretty simple, my tactics. But it's my last Big Garden Birdwatch in this house, so I'd like it to be a good one.
I don't have a garden, there's a few plants to attract insects, ivy on the walls where blackbirds nest in spring and a tree across the courtyard. Hung there is a feeder. Or, as it's known in my house, the 'finch swing', on account of the number of finches regularly seen on it! Green-, gold- and chaffinches are all regulars. The goldies appeared just after my Birdwatch hour last year, so I hope they'll turn up during it this year.
Woodpigeons, collared doves, blackbirds and dunnocks skulk around underneath the feeder, hoovering up any seeds the messy-eating finches drop. I know it's not a competition, but two years ago I scored a record 12 species. Star bird that year was a blackcap. More of these migrant warblers are spending their winters in the UK and with this year's mild winter, perhaps we'll see a few more this year.
So, I'll be watching early(ish) on Saturday morning, with my trusty Birdwatch bacon sarnie. It's all part of the tradition, it just wouldn't be the same without my bacon sarnie! I'll let you know what I see.
What are you hoping to see? Do you have any Birdwatch traditions? Let me know and share in the fun of the world's largest wildlife survey.
I'm not going to lie - the Birdwatch can be a worrying time.What biscuits will I have with my cup of tea? Can I sit in my favourite chair and still see the garden? Will the birds know I'm watching them and not turn up?Ok, so I'm being silly about the first two, but every year we get people telling us that during their hour Birdwatch their usually bustling 'bird-opolis' of a garden is strangly empty.Now some of this is just bad timing. Not many people have the luxury to be able to stare out the window all day and see that actually there are quite a lot of periods of bird inactivity in their green space. This is perfectly normal - most birds wander over a wide area in search of food.However, some of it might be due to slightly less obvious reasons.Just as the cold weather of previous surveys brought a surge of birds flocking into gardens, so the incredibly mild weather of late could have the opposite affect. With the countryside not covered by frost and snow there have been plenty of berries and insects still available for our birds to eat.
It'll certainly be interesting to see what kinds of birds people are seeing this weekend, and in what numbers.Which is why no matter if you saw 20+ or no birds at all, we still really want your results. Happy Birdwatch everyone. And in case you're wondering, I'm rather partial to custard creams. Although ginger biscuits are always tasty. No, hang on, make that bourbons....


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Homeowners who have flowering pear trees should check for signs of fire blight even if they pruned infected trees last year, says a Purdue Extension specialist in ornamental and fruit diseases. The warm, moist temperatures last spring were ideal conditions for fire blight to thrive. Trees are most susceptible to the potentially devastating disease if a freeze occurs after blooming, as happened last year. Jana Beckerman said hundreds of cases of fire blight were reported in 2012; some neighborhoods had more than 100 infected trees.
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Reading this mb I note an expert TJ. Do you think we hit $20 before we go to $15? Thanks in advance for your reply... TJ if you can't answer maybe Lib or Vise will answer.. We value of your opinions
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TJ and Lib,
I heard from Lib (although he is on ignore), but I have not heard from you 2 yet. I really need to know if we are going to hit $20 before we get to $15? Thanks in advance for your help!
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DOVER — Based on results from five of the county's 13 communities Tuesday night, Dennis Vachon was leading the race for Strafford County Register of Deeds.
Vachon, who told Foster's he was running for the post because of his long record of public service, said the position fits well with his background as an attorney and licensed real estate broker.
"My legal experience will be especially helpful at the registry, which oversees the county's land records office where deeds, mortgages and plans are filed."
While the cities of Somersworth, Dover and Rochester had not submitted their election results by deadline Tuesday, Vachon had deputy registrar of deeds Lynn Williams trailing his vote count with 7,781 versus 6,888, respectively.
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Marietta will soon be the location of a completely new private school, as a group of parents and educators have come together to form and open the Veritas Classical Academy beginning at the start of the 2014-2015 school year.
Veritas Academy is a non-chartered, non-tax-supported school that will open for students in fall for pre-k through sixth grade.
Operating under a classical method of education, the private school was formed by local parents, teachers and citizens who said they were dissatisfied with the current state of the public school system, specifically the Common Core curriculum standards.
"This has been in the works since last summer when it became apparent that Common Core was in to stay," said Khadine Ritter, of Marietta, one of the school's founders and a parent. "There is something better that should be offered. Not being in a big city, we don't have a lot of options."
Common Core is a set of expectations adopted by Ohio in 2010 that creates model curriculum that students must learn in each grade, backed up by corresponding standardized tests.
Ritter and her husband, Kevin, were both among Veritas' early founders.
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Informational meeting: Today at noon in the Washington County Public Library basement meeting room (space is limited).
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Classical education lectures (free): 7 p.m. Monday, March 3, March 17, March 31, April 7, April 21, May 5 at Washington State Community College Arts & Sciences Building, Room 106.
The academy's board of advisors includes scholars and local educators, including Marietta High School Spanish teacher Jade Thompson and Marietta Middle School English teacher Steve Parlin.
Marietta City Schools Superintendent Harry Fleming said Thursday he was aware of the school's development and opening and was aware of the district teachers involved, but said without knowing more about the situation that he did not wish to comment.
John Charlton, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Education, said that a school that operates without any kind of charter can operate almost completely autonomously.
"If they are not chartered, then we have almost no authority over them," he said.
Under Ohio Administrative Code, Veritas Academy will be able to operate free from most state education standards, but must hold a school year of no less than 182 days. Parents or school administrators must verify that a child is enrolled, and the school must report that it is in compliance with those rules during the fall of each school year.
Ritter said the inspiration to start the school came from a desire to give children the opportunity to be educated in the way that many people's parents and grandparents experienced in school.
"We're returning to what we used to do," she said.
Ritter said the board plans to start with grades up to six, but after the school is opened will begin adding grades yearly until Veritas Academy becomes a full pre-k through 12th grade school. By that point, without a charter, seniors will still receive a diploma, though it will be outside of the state of Ohio's official guidelines.
"They'll still take the same ACTs and SATs, still apply for college just like everyone else, and they'll still get a diploma," Ritter said.
Veritas' classical curriculum stresses memorization early on, and soon develops into middle school and high school, where students are expected to integrate critical learning into the study of a variety of liberal arts subjects.
Curriculum is designed to reject outcome-based learning, but instead stresses facts, logic and intelligent language, according to the school's website.
The school is structured by clusters, where two grades will be clustered into one.
Veritas is also not considered a religious school, but rather one that reaffirms religious values taught at home.
"You can recognize some of the elements of classical education. It's not something we experience because it's not taught generally anymore," Ritter said. "That used to be the method of education."
The school has garnered the support of some local educators and former ones, as well as parents in the region.
"The founders are a group of local parents that have their children in different schools; some in private, some home-schooled and some are or have been in the public setting," Ritter said. "We are all disappointed with the options that are available now."
The board hopes that by establishing a competitive school with high standards of its own, that other schools in the area will be pushed to improve.
"The adoption of the Common Core in the schools have made things that much worse," Ritter said. "Common Core isn't the problem, it's only just a symptom."
Families can begin to apply to Veritas on March 1, and interviews with students will be conducted soon after in March and April.
A location for the school is still in the process of becoming official, but the board has already begun the process of recruiting and interviewing teachers, and a detailed curriculum, dress code and tuition plan is outlined at the school's website.
Thompson and Parlin, the Marietta teachers currently serving on the school's advisory board, did not return calls for comment Thursday.
A informational meeting will be held in the basement meeting room of the Washington County Public Library in Marietta today at noon. Though it is open to anyone, the room capacity is limited to 25 people. Ritter said the meeting is designed to better educate interested parties about the curriculum and the application process.
Veritas will also be holding a series of free lectures throughout spring to educate potential families about classical education at Washington State Community College in the Arts & Science Building in Room 106.