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Excellent Old Town Apartment A4
Storlek40 m²
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The apartment disposes a big double bed with a comfortable placing of 2 people and a high comfortable sofa-bed for another 2 people, which perfectly suites for small groups or family stays, wardrobe, table, kitchen with electric stove panel, microwave, WiFi internet, washing machine + tumble dryer, iron, hairdryer. We provide free of charge bed linen, towels and toiletries for your comfortable stay as well as city maps and other useful things. We are sure you will really enjoy choosing our apartment for your stay and pass the unforgettable time in our beautiful city. So, welcome to Prague!
In the closest neighborhood are two big shopping centers, one of which is a famous Palladium, the supermarket, number of little shops just around and a lot of great restaurants where you will be able to discover the spirit of the Old Prague. Just at 8 minutes walk is the Old Town square with its famous Orloj – the unique Prague Astronomical Clock, number of restaurants and old Prague's cafes and bars. This is a perfect location to visit the main sightseeing places of the Czech capital and to feel comfortably within the everyday's life.
This is a non-smoking apartment.
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Place is perfectly paced, close to everything in the center.
Denys was nice, reliable and helpful, flat super clean and in perfect shape.
I just have to strongly advice, to make the step before the flat more visible, it could be pretty dangerous. However, all fine.thank's
Het appartement was geheel nieuw ingericht. De ligging was dicht bij het centrum. Alles was lopend te doen. Ondanks de ligging toch erg rustig.
Er mag nog een spiegel in de slaapkamer. Is wel praktisch als huisgenoten onder de douche staan.
Wij hebben fijne dagen gehad in Praag.
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Fantastic location, close to everything. clean and fresh
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Great location and very nice looking: it was clean and well attented to! I definitely recommend this studio!
Our stay in this Appartement was quietly perfect - everything we needed for our short trip was included into the Appartement and it s really really central. We also felt save in this area and we really enjoied the wide - ragend opportunities to go out and for having dinner. The only Thing, which was kind of disturbing was, that there where some nondefinding loud noises every 10 minutes - but we just stayed in the Appartement for sleeping so it wasn t that problematic. We would defenitely book this Appartement again during our next trip in Prague - hopefully soon.
Nice small studio, in the heart of Prague in a quiet area and really central. Danny's was friendly and the apartment have all the amenity got a quiet stay in Prague.
Very nice apartment, little but near the center.
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text: Hundreds of bleating sheep jostle through the narrow alleys of the hamlet of Riffenmatt near Guggisberg like a slow-moving avalanche. This marks the approach of autumn: each year, on the first Thursday in September, the region's traditional Schafscheid ("sheep-sorting") takes place here. The flocks have spent the summer on the pastures, with shepherd and sheepdog; now they are to return to their various owners. The sorting method has barely changed for centuries. The farmers corral the sheep into a big pen, look under the fleece of each one for an identifying mark, and separate them into the small pens arranged all around. After the colourful event, a market and fair draw crowds from far and wide.

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MSI R9 290 Gaming Review
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Published: 15th February 2014 | Source: MSI | Price: £367.99 |
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Unsurprisingly the architecture that underpins the R9 290 is, slightly, shown up as lacking when it comes to Unigine Heaven. It's such a capable benchmark and free from the influence of driver tricks that it's a near perfect representation of the raw power available.
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The big problem with the R9 290 was the heat, so does the MSI Twin Frozr unleash the beast?
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mantle gave a good increase in performance there, especially given the CPU your using.
Only time will tell how much mantle will benefit gamers, lets hope Thief comes to market with full support for ALL GCN GPUs and works in Crossfire unlike BF4 at present.
One thing i will add here, the PCB on this MSI card is reference,so it is watercooling capable (checked by EK here), but also contains some of higher quality components compared to the reference card (MSI military class) and likely could be a higher binned chip.
Definitely worth considering for those water cooling or planning to watercool a 290, especially those who can't watercool immediately considering the stock card's noise levels and throttling. It also has a good looking backplate at stockQuote
My old MSi GTX 560 with the Twin Frozr II cooler, while being fine when it's idle sounds like an aeroplane while gaming.Quote
Hottest I have seen mine go is 74*c and that was during TW2 running round a section where the GPU is at 100% most of the time for a good 30mins.
The MSI one definitely still does a good job though, one thing I did notice though is in the GPU-Z in the review says the MSI gaming has 72 GPixles and 180 GTexels. My Tri-X only has 60 GPixles and 160 GTexeles, GPU-Z may be reading it wrong? Current version is 0.7.7, I noticed the on in the review is version 0.7.4.Quote
Scan lists it as only £10 cheaper than the 780 counterpart though. Wouldn't say it's worth picking up over that (Unless you're a serious AMD fan).Quote
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I like it's looks too. It would fit right in on my MSI G45 Gaming motherboard.Quote
MSI R9 290 is one of the BEST R9 series!Quote
Awesome review dude, but people commenting you gotta remember pretty much all AMD cards are terrible deals right now. .
Awesome review dude, but people commenting you gotta remember pretty much all AMD cards are terrible deals right now.
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LOOKING BACK: McMurray had to start at the rear of the field after changing engines Sunday morning. But it didn't take him long to march his way inside the top 10 and he was able to lead two laps before making his first pit stop. "The McDonald's team did a great job today," said McMurray. "The No. 1 Chevrolet SS was loose all day, but we were able to gain track position and stay competitive for the whole race." McMurray ended the day in 13th place.
ETC.: McMurray said life is a lot different around his house since his daughter, Hazel, was born last month. "Our first child was a little boy," said McMurray. "I have compared notes with other dads that have had a boy then a girl. It is a different experience. Hazel and Christian are doing very well."
56 MARTIN TRUEX JR., Toyota
Team: Michael Waltrip Racing
WHERE HE STANDS: 22nd, 24 points out of the top 10. Gained 12 spots last week.
BRISTOL RECORD: Finished third in the spring race a year ago. Has two top-three finishes in the last three events.
LOOKING AHEAD: Truex can't wait to get to Bristol. "All of the Michael Waltrip (Racing) cars ran well at Bristol last year so our whole shop is looking forward to this weekend," said Truex. "Hopefully one of us will get to victory lane this time around." Last year, the MWR cars ran third, fourth and fifth in the spring race.
LOOKING BACK: Truex was all smiles after finishing eighth at Las Vegas. "It's great to finish a race," said Truex. "We ran competitively in the top 10 and we finished in the top 10. The NAPA Auto Parts Toyota ran a little too loose on long green-flag runs. So, we need to figure out how to get our Toyota to hang on better. But, like I said, after two straight weeks of running well, but not finishing -- it's a relief to get a top 10 in the books."
ETC.: Truex feels "the biggest difference between the Gen-6 car and the Gen-5 car is the weight and speed. The Gen-6 has more downforce, more left-side weight, less right-side weight and it's much faster. It makes more grip so it is more fun to drive. I think the cool thing about the new car is it challenges you to drive it hard."
42 JUAN PABLO MONTOYA, Chevrolet
Team: Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates
WHERE HE STANDS: 23rd, 25 points out of the top 10. Gained one spot last week.
BRISTOL RECORD: Finished eighth in the spring race a year ago for his third top-10 finish in 12 starts.
LOOKING AHEAD: Montoya has high hopes for this weekend. "The Target team ran really well at Bristol last year," said Montoya. "Actually both of our cars ran well at Bristol last year so it should be a good weekend for us. Our cars have been fast (this year). We're just trying to find the right balance on the handling and it's getting there. We've made a lot of gains since last year and we need to keep that momentum going."
LOOKING BACK: Like his teammate Jamie McMurray, Montoya had to start at the back of the field after changing engines Sunday morning. But Montoya didn't have as good a car at McMurray and spent most of the race just trying to stay on the lead lap. "It was tough out there today," said Montoya, after finishing 19th. "It was not easy to pass and, with the long green-flag runs, it was difficult to get track position. We were able to fight back in the end and get back on the lead lap, but didn't have enough to get to the front."
ETC.: When asked if the last two seasons have been humbling, Montoya replied, "It is not humbling; it sucks. It's not about humbling. I've won at everything I've been in, and I came to NASCAR and I've been good. I know I can do it. To run where we've run, it hasn't been fun. It hasn't been fun for Chip (Ganassi, team owner) or Jamie (McMurray) or myself, or the crew chiefs, or the organization or Target. We know we have the right tools to make it work, and I think this year we've done enough over the winter that is going to put us in a better situation."
10 DANICA PATRICK, Chevrolet
Team: Stewart-Haas Racing
WHERE SHE STANDS: 30th, 35 points out of the top 10. Lost eight spots last week.
BRISTOL RECORD: Finished 29th in her lone Sprint Cup start. Finished ninth in the August Nationwide Series race.
LOOKING AHEAD: Patrick said she really "liked Bristol since the first time" she saw the track. "For me, I respond to the banking, which translates to grip and it's definitely there," adds Patrick. "We were having a decent run in the Cup car (last year), we were lead lap and top 20 after 440 laps and unfortunately were taken out, but I think all those events lead us to (having) more potential the next time around with a better baseline setup."
LOOKING BACK: It was a long, long afternoon for Patrick as she finished 33rd, six laps back of winner Matt Kenseth. "It was a real tough day, no doubt," said Patrick. "We knew we were going to have tough days, but this is not the kind of tough day we thought about. I was extremely loose the whole time. I felt like I was about to spin out on the front straight. We just have to figure out how to make it better and work our butts off to make sure that we never have this day again."
ETC.: Patrick said her poor run at Las Vegas "are the days you earn your money, not the days like Daytona, where you run up in the top five all day. Those days are great. These are the days that you have to be strong and you have to work through it and not let it drag you down."
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The owners and players have transformed the National Hockey League from a $3 billion business into a punch line. The cruel joke is a long one.
The NHL lockout hits the 60-day mark today, and there are only faint hints the work stoppage could end. Core economic issues still divide the league and the NHL Players' Association. Player contracting rights have halted negotiations. Most recently, deciding who should take a costlier hit from lost revenue has turned into a sore spot.
"The issues aren't all that complicated," NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said Tuesday in an email to The Buffalo News. "It doesn't mean we don't continue to be far apart on them."
The stalemate has made even diehards lose interest, and it cast a shadow over this week's celebration of the sport. At a Hockey Hall of Fame luncheon Monday in Toronto, emcee James Duthie opened the program by acknowledging the quarrel.
"There's two figures everybody's talking about," said the hockey host for Canadian sports giant TSN. "You know, if you could just stop saying all the nasty stuff about each other in the press, get in the same room together, figure it out, get it done. I'm of course talking about Justin Beiber and Selena Gomez, who broke up this weekend. I know everybody in the room is crushed about that.
"I've given up on the other two guys."
The other two guys are the key figures in hockey's drama, Commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA Executive Director Donald Fehr. They haven't met formally since Sunday and don't have anything scheduled. While they formulate their next moves, here's a look at where the labor talks stand.
Q. Is money still the main problem?
A. Yes. The sides continue to fight about how to split revenues and, more importantly from the union's side, how cash should flow to players in terms of their contracts.
Q. Can they split revenues 50-50?
A. That will be the end result, but it's not mathematically possible to do immediately. The players received 57 percent of revenues in the last collective bargaining agreement, and the contracts in place prohibit going down to 50 percent unless salaries are trimmed.
The players, who had a 24 percent salary rollback following the 2004-05 lockout, are steadfastly against losing any money they were previously promised. The NHLPA, which has agreed to go to 50-50 by year three of any deal, reportedly told the league last week it won't take less than the $1.88 billion share it earned last year, and it wants the number to rise 1.75 percent each year.
Q. Will the owners agree to that demand?
Not a chance. That number was 57 percent of a $3.3 billion pot. Since the revenue total will shrink because of canceled games, paying $1.88 billion to players this season would be even higher than 57 percent.
Q. What's the owners' alternative?
A. The league has devised a "make whole" provision. In its current form, any money players lose, up to $211 million, because of a shift to 50-50 would be repaid in subsequent years with 2 percent interest.
Q. Does the union like the "make whole" offer?
A. It estimates the $211 million the league promised is about $400 million short of what would really be needed to honor the contracts.
Q. Why is there disagreement over contract rights?
A. The NHL has proposed several changes to how and when players get new deals. The league's offer would limit contract lengths to five years; restrict salary fluctuation from year-to-year to 5 percent to end the front-loaded deals that exposed a loophole in the salary cap; grant unrestricted free agency at age 28 or eight years of service, up from 27 and seven; and make entry-level contracts two years in length instead of three.
Q. Will the players agree to those demands?
A. It is highly unlikely. Fehr said last weekend that contracting rights have a higher priority than revenue share.
"We've told them that both are important," Fehr said, "but as the share is limited, the player contracting rights become not only important but vastly more important."
Q. What else are they arguing about?
A. New wrinkles in the talks developed over the weekend. The sides have been basing most of their numbers on last year's revenue of $3.3 billion. Again, that total will shrink because of a shortened season and fan unrest.
Because the owners locked out the players, the union reportedly feels the shortfall should not come out of the players' share of revenues. The league will no doubt rebuff that view.
Q. When will more games be canceled?
A. All games through November have been scratched. For games to begin Dec. 1, a deal will need to be reached by Nov. 23 because the league would like to conduct a seven-day training camp.
Q. Who will win the negotiation?
A. The owners will likely make fewer concessions, but because of the NHL's tarnished brand, the answer continues to be: no one.
"If it keeps going like this everybody's going to lose, there's no way around it," Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby told reporters Tuesday. "Everybody's going to lose."
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A very dated word used by the upper-class British, and Americans that can't do impressions for shit.
Can be used for comedic value.
Usually found in sentences containing the terms; "Jolly good" "Old chap/chum" "Tea" "Wot wot" "I say" and "Earl grey"
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Usually found in sentences containing the terms; "Jolly good" "Old chap/chum" "Tea" "Wot wot" "I say" and "Earl grey"
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Old english word, used by Upper Classes (Private school types, Rugby Players, heirs etc.) to describe something or someone who absolutely brilliant cannot be exceeded.
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Turkish word meaning "scissors," a closely-guarded Eastern Mediterranean sexual practice. All that is known in the West is that it involves two parties, and a third person to "operate" them.
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Hockey fans who are tired of cancellation announcements may have to endure only one more. It appears all that's left is to either cancel the entire NHL season or announce the puck will finally drop.
The NHL continued to chip away at its schedule Thursday, axing two more weeks. All games through Jan. 14 are gone, bringing the leaguewide total to 625 – 50.8 percent of the season.
Commissioner Gary Bettman said earlier this month he can't envision teams playing less than 48 games, the number used for the lockout-shortened 1994-95 season. The league and the NHL Players Association reached a collective bargaining agreement Jan. 11, 1995, and games started Jan. 20.
It seems Jan. 15 is the target date this time.
"It's fair to say you're looking at the middle of January as the date by which this needs to be resolved and we need to be playing hockey," Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly told Team 1260 AM in Edmonton, Alberta.
The sides do not have negotiations scheduled, though things could change today. The NHLPA will conclude its vote on whether to allow the executive board to file a disclaimer of interest. If the players vote yes – which is all but certain – union leaders will be authorized to dissolve the NHLPA and step aside as the players' bargaining representatives. That, in turn, would allow the players to file antitrust lawsuits in an attempt to end the lockout. The league filed a lawsuit last week to confirm the legality of the work stoppage and also filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board.
"The fans are frustrated," Buffalo Sabres forward Thomas Vanek acknowledged this week. "They always relate to the player and probably look at us as being greedy, but I think the people that know more just beyond that really understand what we're going through. It's not about our greed. It's just about getting respected. Not even getting paid the right way, just let's have a deal that's fair for both sides. I believe we don't have that right now."
The Sabres officially lost seven more games Thursday, bringing the total to 42 of their original 82. They were scheduled to host Ottawa (Dec. 31), Florida (Jan. 3), Tampa Bay (Jan. 5) and Boston (Jan. 9), and they were supposed to visit the New York Rangers (Jan. 8), Ottawa (Jan. 11) and Chicago (Jan. 13).
The rest of the games will disappear unless the league and its players close significant gaps on key issues.
They have opposing views on contract term limits, yearly variance of salaries, the length of the collective bargaining agreement and how to transition to a 50-50 revenue split from a system that had players earning 57 percent.
The sides haven't sat together since Dec. 6, though they met separately with federal mediators last week.
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Firstly, I know almost zero about paperweights, but it does bear a passing resemblance to Peter Layton's landscape series. I don't know how he finishes off paperweights and could be wildly wrong!
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Examples of Modern HoneyJawns - Megan Fox, Beyonce Knowles, and Brain Bangley.
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adjective used to describe something as being between wonderful and fabulous
When asked how he was feeling this morning, Bob cheerfully replied, "Wondermous!"
door Carol Smith 29 juli 2003
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adj.: describing one being and/or looking both wonderful and marvelous; an expression of great happiness; optimism accompanied by the thrill of being alive
Ex. 1: "You are looking wondermous today!"
Ex. 2: Monday morning was anything but wondermous.
Ex. 3: The most wondermous part of the day was FREE ICE CREAM!!!!
Ex. 2: Monday morning was anything but wondermous.
Ex. 3: The most wondermous part of the day was FREE ICE CREAM!!!!
door trogdor0086 20 september 2009
A cross between the words wonderful and glorious;great,awesome,nice.
Brittany and Julia are wondermous people.
door Brittany 21 maart 2004
Wonderfully spontaneous, or Enormously wonderful (according to my ex-girlfriend)
We had a wondermous night together.
door JT 19 december 2003
Term used to avoid letting someone know/talking about what a horrible day you are having. Sarcasm can be added to the inflection if you truly do want to talk about it.
Random person asks,"How are you today?"
You reply with,"Just wondermous!"
You reply with,"Just wondermous!"
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додав Puff 23 Березня 2005
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Half twit, half dick; a real intolerable ass that loves to spew absolute nonsense.
My new co-worker is such a twick, you need earplugs to have a pleasant conversation with him.
додав ibichibi1 04 Червня 2009
Amalgamation of "twat" and "prick." A non-gender specific term applied to a person exhibiting genitalia-like qualities; generally a very pretentious or arrogant individual.
Wow, that president of BP Oil guy was a serious twick when he called us 'little people.'
додав jamestspock 07 Липня 2010
To cancel or temporarily interrupt a service paid for without notice to the customer when the provider wants to reduce costs and hopes the disruption will go unnoticed. From the acronym for Time Warner Cable (TWC) and the term "trick".
I was watching that show online and at a critical point the feed TWiCked! Argh!
додав Doctor Jargon 25 Квітня 2009
A contraction for totally wicked.
Generally used as an exclaimation
Generally used as an exclaimation
"Yo man, those new kicks are t-wick."
"Thats gnar that you shredded was t-wick."
"I had the most t-wick weekend in Canada, ever!"
"Thats gnar that you shredded was t-wick."
"I had the most t-wick weekend in Canada, ever!"
додав t-wickness 12 Червня 2008
A Teeny Weeny Dick,Someone that is an asshole, A small joint
or blunt
or blunt
Girl don't fuck him, I heard he's got a twick!
I hate my Boss he is such a twick!
We need a roach clip to smoke this twick
I hate my Boss he is such a twick!
We need a roach clip to smoke this twick
додав CoCo Blaze 02 Листопада 2007
when you hate a tick and a twich at the same time
look, she has a twick on her hard
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Just a season ago, Gabriel Landeskog was a rookie trying to fit in.
Now, he�s the youngest captain in NHL history and hoping to help the Colorado Avalanche snap a two-season playoff drought. The talented forward is following in some pretty big footsteps of Avalanche leaders before him, names such as Joe Sakic, Adam Foote and current teammate Milan Hejduk.
But he�s not too worried about that because �all I can be is Gabe,� he said.
Given the length of the lockout, Landeskog had extra time to prepare for his new responsibilities. Only, he really didn�t do anything special. There were no leadership classes or seminars on how to manage people.
No, he realizes the only way his teammates will follow him is if he keeps working hard and scoring goals.
And there, the 20-year-old should have little trouble. He�s always one of the last players off the ice at practice, and that spills over to game day, where he won the Calder Trophy last season after a year in which he scored 22 goals and had 30 assists.
�I don�t know if I�ve ever had a captain that young; I guess no one has,� said defenseman Erik Johnson, chuckling. �But it doesn�t change anything. Your captain is usually your best player. He doesn�t have to be Mr. Vocal in the locker room; we have a lot of other guys for that.
�So (Landeskog) just has to do what he�s been doing � being a good hockey player and one of our hardest workers and best players. When he does that, leadership takes care of itself.�
The shortened season actually may be a benefit for the youthful Avalanche, especially since games will be so tightly packed together. Fatigue? Hardly a worry with this group; they could skate forever. A grind? Nah, they�re just anxious to be back.
�We just have to play the right way,� defenseman Shane O�Brien said. �When we play fast, from north to south, we can play with anyone. It�s time for us to take the next step. There�s no reason we can�t be a playoff team. Anything less will be a huge failure.�
Defenseman Greg Zanon, who is sporting a scruffy beard that began as somewhat of a protest against the lockdown, thinks this team has the makeup to be a contender. Then again, at this time of year � actually in October, when teams usually begin � everyone thinks this is the season. Especially after what happened with the Los Angeles Kings last season, when they barely squeezed into the playoffs and ended up hoisting the Stanley Cup.
�Once teams get in there, anything can happen,� Johnson said.
It all starts with a reliable goaltender, and the Avalanche feel like they have two in youngster Semyon Varlamov and veteran Jean-Sebastien Giguere.
�There�s no doubt we have tons of confidence in both of them,� Johnson said.
In the offseason, the Avalanche added some scoring punch by bringing in P.A. Parenteau and John Mitchell. To begin the season, Parenteau will be on the same line as Landeskog and Matt Duchene.
�We have a little bit of everything on that line,� said Parenteau, who had 67 points for the New York Islanders last season. �Landy is a well-rounded player. Dutchy brings a lot of speed. Me? I like to pass the puck. Hopefully, we can make things happen.�
If only the Avs could make something happen with restricted free agent center Ryan O�Reilly, who led the team in scoring last season. He�s playing overseas until a deal can be worked out.
�We can�t worry about who�s not here and just who is,� Duchene said. �We�re all links in the chain and have to be strong so we can win.
�We�ve got a great group here. But it�s whoever gets out of the gate the fastest. First five games, if you win three, you�re right where you want to be. You can�t have a lull,� Duchene said. �If you have a tough start, it�s going to be over pretty quick.�
It�s Landeskog�s task to make sure everyone is on point beginning opening night tonight in Minnesota. He inherited the �C� on his sweater from Hejduk, who came back for another season but told the team he wanted to relinquish his role and be an assistant captain along with Paul Stastny.
So the team turned to Landeskog, naming him captain in September when he was 19 years, 286 days old. According to the team, that makes him the youngest leader in NHL history, 11 days younger than Sidney Crosby was when he took over as captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins on May 31, 2007.
�All through last year, I was playing without pressure,� Landeskog said. �This year, I�ve got to step up and be even better.�
The Avs are counting on that.
�He�s a 20-year-old kid, but he certainly plays like he�s been in the league a long time,� fourth-year head coach Joe Sacco said. �He�s in great shape, very fit, plays hard, plays with energy, plays hurt. He�s well-respected by his teammates.
�Those are the qualities we�re looking for.�
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on May 26, 2013 - 12:01 AM
In early April, the Niagara University softball team was reeling with a 3-21 record. And there was widespread discontent among players about the way they were being treated by first-year coach Ellie Chan.
When Chan stepped down under fire, veteran pitching coach Larry Puzan was called on to take over on an interim basis. The result was a sharp turnaround that left the players singing his praises, with many hoping he will wind up being hired full time.
"I hated the games when Ellie coached," senior third baseman Gabrielle Lustrinelli said. "I thought I was going to leave Niagara hating the school."
Complaints from players and parents prompted Niagara Athletic Director Tom Crowley to suspend Chan pending an investigation. Chan chose to resign, he said. Puzan was put in charge, and the midseason disruption galvanized the Purple Eagles.
"The rain cloud over our head was gone," Lustrinelli said.
Niagara went 13-9 the rest of the way, winning a school-record nine consecutive games at one point and qualifying for the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference playoffs for the first time since 2010. Jennifer Sansano, a St. Bonaventure transfer whom Puzan had been instrumental in recruiting, became the first player in the history of the Niagara softball program to win the MAAC Pitcher of the Year Award.
The Purple Eagles also rediscovered their joy for the game in the second half of the season.
"The joke was that I didn't know two of the girls on the team had any teeth," said David Wayne, the father of senior shortstop Alexis Wayne. "I'd never seen them smile."
Program disrupted
The Niagara softball program was a model of consistency and modest success for 22 seasons under coach Al Dirschberger. The Purple Eagles went to the MAAC playoffs four times and won a conference championship in 1998. They didn't win as often as some of their rivals, but with Puzan as Dirschberger's right-hand man, the program fostered a family atmosphere the players relished.
"We always prided ourselves on how tight our program was, with the community we created," said Melissa Markle, a 2009 graduate. "Our alumni, our parents, we are knee-deep in Niagara softball from March until May."
Last May, the Niagara Athletics Department announced that Dirschberger would be retiring to spend more time with his family. In truth, Niagara had decided it needed a full-time softball coach but wasn't offering a high enough salary for Dirschberger, who already had a full-time job. A few weeks later, he joined the Canisius College staff as an assistant.
Dirschberger suggested that Niagara keep the head coaching job part time and hire Puzan as a full-time assistant, following a model set by MAAC peers Marist and Siena. When that proposal was rejected, he recommended Puzan and another assistant, Felicia (Coffey) Kinney, to be his replacements. Kinney, a former player with one year of coaching experience, received an interview. Puzan, who is also the athletic director and girls' basketball coach at Niagara Catholic Junior-Senior High School, did not.
Feuds with players
In July, Niagara hired Chan, a Depew native who had a standout playing career at D'Youville College and Canisius and had coached at Erie Community College, D'Youville, Florida Tech and Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina.
Markle had played for Chan at the Empire State Games and initially supported her hiring. Markle called the current players and told them they would love playing for their new coach. Months later, she called them back and apologized for unintentionally misleading them.
Lustrinelli, Wayne, Markle and two other sources who asked to remain anonymous accused Chan of alienating the players in a variety of ways. Among the alleged offenses were personal comments about players, threats to revoke players' scholarships, stripping the team's three seniors of their captain positions and telling underclassmen not to follow their lead, and doling out insufficient funds for meals on road trips.
There was also what David Wayne described as "the fiasco in Florida." While he and several other parents were staying with the team during their spring trip, Chan left the team following games to spend evenings with her husband. On one occasion, two Niagara players had to drive equipment vans to a game. "It was unconscionable that she wasn't there," David Wayne said. "She sold it as a team-bonding trip."
"Mostly it was things that were away from the field," Lustrinelli said. "We're OK with a hard coach. I've had hard coaches all my life. This wasn't about playing time or anything like that. It was about off-the-field things."
"It wasn't the way our girls were used to being treated," Markle said. "The girls were miserable. They weren't enjoying themselves. To think there were going to be seniors leaving with a bad taste in their mouth was devastating."
Chan's detractors say Niagara should have vetted her more thoroughly. In 2008, she resigned from Florida Tech after administrators had canceled the season in March in response to a player mutiny. Lustrinelli said one Belmont Abbey player warned a Niagara player about how difficult it was to play for Chan.
When complaints began flooding into the Niagara Athletics Department, Crowley flew home from the Final Four to address the situation. Administrators deemed the players' concerns credible enough to suspend Chan before launching a full investigation.
Chan could not be reached to comment. On her Facebook page Monday night, she announced that she would be retiring from college coaching.
Salvaging the season
Puzan held a team meeting the night he was named interim head coach. He encouraged the players to air their grievances and then put them to rest. He recited one of Dirschberger's old mottoes and said the Purple Eagles were going to get back to doing what worked in the past.
A win over regular season champion Marist ignited Niagara's turnaround, and the nine-game winning streak pushed the Purple Eagles into the post-season. Sansano, who Puzan compared to the program's all-time great pitcher, Joni Sontrop, also played a key role.
"When she stepped on the field the team knew we had a legitimate chance to win any game she was pitching," Puzan said. "Any time a team has that kind of confidence in a pitcher, it makes you very hard to beat."
"Our team had some great chemistry," said Sansano, a Clarence native. "We faced a lot of adversity, and at the end of the day we came together and succeeded in our goal of making it to the MAAC championships."
Puzan took great care to promote team chemistry. He tried not to micromanage his team, allowing players to make mistakes and empowering his assistants, Kinney and Joel Patterson, and his seniors to lead from within.
"The way Larry coached, he treated them like adults," Wayne said. "The girls were very receptive to him, and they were playing with smiles on their faces. The knots in their stomachs were gone."
"This is a year none of us will ever forget, not because of her, but how we came together in the end," Lustrinelli said. "I get chills just talking about it. It was the best time of my life."
Another new coach?
Crowley said that there will be a national search for Niagara's next softball coach and that Puzan is welcome to apply.
"Stepping into the situation that he did, I thought Larry and the whole coaching staff did a nice job of turning the focus back onto the team and their commitment to making the MAACs," Dirschberger said. "They did an outstanding job. Sixteen years as an assistant and stepping into a difficult situation like that should demonstrate that Larry is right for the job."
Lustrinelli and Markle, however, believe that Puzan will not be considered, in part because he does not have a bachelor's degree. Puzan received his associate's degree from Niagara County Community College in 1986.
"There is nobody right now better to run that program than Larry," Markle said. "He has the players' respect, the parents' respect. Larry has always been that guy in the program. You won't find a single player that doesn't view him as a father figure. I text Larry every Father's Day. My heart broke when he didn't get the job last year, and it's breaking now that he isn't going to get it again. It's sickening that the university does not recognize that he is the best thing for the program."


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Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Sometimes, when far from home, the smallest things can mean the most to a person. Whether it's a friendly letter from a familiar place, a box of your favorite candy, or a copy of your hometown's newspaper, little, everyday items can mean the world to soldiers serving overseas. This was the case for Security Forces Patrolman Randy Lloyd Patton of the United States Air Force, who had no way of knowing that while over 7,000 miles separated him from his home here in the Lowcountry, students at Moultrie Middle School were working on a way to make home seem a lot less far away. It was also this act of kindness and appreciation that brought Patrolman Patton to the classroom of Mark Nadobny to thank him and his students for their consideration.
Patton paid Nadobny's 7th grade class a visit on Feb. 21 in appreciation of the care package he received last fall. While speaking to the class, Patton outlined his daily duties, gave a slide-show presentation of his photos taken while stationed in Kyrgyzstan, and showed the class what equipment he was required to wear while on base. Patton also gifted each of the children a utility bracelet that he made himself and awarded Nadobny a custom-made set of coins commemorating his time stationed overseas.
Every quarter for the past nine years, Nadobny and his class of 7th graders at Moultrie Middle School have selected a member of the military serving overseas and sent them a care package in appreciation of their service. This past fall, Patton was the lucky recipient of one such package while he was stationed in the Russian-speaking country of Kyrgyzstan, located west of China. The care package consisted of nothing more than tooth paste, candy and jerky, but when they come from a grateful group of kids back home, these items are cherished.
Patton, who returned to the U.S. right before Thanksgiving, said this was the first time throughout all his years of service in the military that he has received a package from an entire classroom of children. Patton also said that he put his gifts to good use, distributing a portion of the candy he received to the children at a nearby orphanage located in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.
Nadobny, who served in the United States Navy from 1992-94 and was stationed here at the Charleston Naval Base, noticed that a few of his fellow shipmates never received any correspondence. "Once I got out of the Navy and found a full-time teaching job, I made it a point to organize these care package projects," said Nadobny. "It's also a great way to teach current events as well as citizenship, goodwill and patriotism." Since he began teaching in Mount Pleasant, Nabodny has encouraged his classes to write soldiers in various branches of the military through a program offered by AnySoldier.com.
AnySoldier.com connects those men and women serving overseas with Americans stateside who are willing to send letters and care packages. Soldiers, like Patton, can sign up for the program and specify which items they prefer to receive and what utilities are available to them, such as microwaves, ovens, etc.
For more information on how to connect with those serving overseas, please visit AnySoldier.com.
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MARTINSBURG - Interstate 81 northbound will be closed for an "undetermined amount of time," according to an alert from Berkeley County Central Dispatch, as the result of the rollover of a box truck at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday. The accident occurred just past Exit 16 (North Queen Street).
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on February 21, 2013 - 7:14 PM
, updated February 21, 2013 at 11:40 PM
LOCKPORT – A Town of Tonawanda man, who kidnapped a 5-year-old girl from her North Tonawanda home last summer and sexually abused her, pleaded guilty Thursday after a judge said she probably would have allowed prosecutors to tell a jury about past similar crimes.
David J. Grover, 35, of Niagara Falls Boulevard, agreed to take a 15-year state prison sentence followed by 25 years of probation-like post-release supervision. Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas will make it official April 30.
Grover pleaded guilty to second-degree kidnapping as a sexually motivated felony. The sexual aspect lengthened the post-release supervision period and also forced him to register as a sex offender after he is released from prison.
The girl's great-grandmother told reporters that was important "so he can't hurt anyone else."
The incident occurred in the predawn hours July 28. Assistant District Attorney Robert A. Zucco said it was obviously a sexually motivated crime.
"What other reason does he have to take a 5-year-old girl from her home in the middle of the night?" Zucco asked in court.
Zucco said if the case went to trial, he and Deputy District Attorney Holly E. Sloma should have been allowed to tell jurors about Grover's 2007 conviction for taking another North Tonawanda girl on a car ride for several hours without permission. There was no evidence of sexual abuse in that case, but Zucco said, "It was a remarkably similar offense."
Defense attorney David C. Douglas said allowing that would sink Grover's hopes of acquittal.
"I think the prejudicial impact is insurmountable. The trial is over before it starts," Douglas said.
Zucco also said he wanted to introduce evidence about a 2004 conviction for attempted burglary in which Grover entered a Town of Niagara residence, nude from the waist down.
Zucco said Grover told his mother he was on cocaine when he took the girl in 2007. "This is this guy's fallback argument," he said.
Farkas said she was inclined to let prosecutors introduce information about the earlier incidents and asked if there was a chance of a plea right away. Douglas asked for time to talk to Grover, and the deal was worked out in about half an hour.
In another sex case Thursday, Farkas told a Wilson High School 10th-grader she will deny him youthful-offender status and send him to state prison for molesting a 5-year-old girl in Cambria between October 2011 and the spring of 2012.
Thomas E. McGrew Jr., 17, of Maple Road, was scheduled for sentencing Thursday, but it was postponed until April 25. Assistant Public Defender Michael E. Benedict asked for the delay so McGrew could serve as much of his sentence as possible in the County Jail.
McGrew faces up to four years behind bars. Farkas said he also will receive 10 years of post-release supervision.
Also Thursday, Brett E. King, 47, of 65th Street, Niagara Falls, was allowed to plead guilty to endangering the welfare of a child for "inappropriate physical contact" with a girl under age 11 between September 2010 and December 2011.
King originally faced a sex crime indictment that could have landed him in prison for 21 years, but now the maximum will be one year when he is sentenced May 22.
Zucco said it was "a one-witness case with a child being the witness." He said he offered the plea because of "the proof problems and to prevent the child from having to testify in open court."
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Embellish your garden, porch, or threshold with a strand of many-colored Tibetan prayer flags. The snapping of Prayer Flags in the wind evokes the sound of hooves of the Windhorse (Lung-Tha) galloping in the sky, riding the breezes and carrying prayers to the universe to benefit all sentient beings.
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Another name for a BSOD (blue screen of death), a term used to describe a fatal error in MS Windows. It represents a way of pronouncing it phonetically, but can also be used in textual form, usually to convey leetness.
Billy: "I don't like this computer, it's too unstable. I keep gettin these beesodds"
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one who has an incessant tendency to fluctuate the volume on a television based on anticipation of loud noises, crude language, or a sex scene despite numerous requests to stop.
"Hey volume officer, why don't you take your badge off for a minute and set the remote down."
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on March 2, 2013 - 12:41 AM
Sam Pellom stood on the floor of Alumni Arena on Friday afternoon and marveled at how things have changed.
In the mid-1970s, when Pellom was "The Franchise," as they called him, UB played in Clark Gym on the South Campus. A game might draw 1,000 people even as Pellom carved out his place in UB history. He was the country's leading rebounder as a sophomore.
Tonight, Pellom will be back at Alumni Arena accompanied by some 15 family members as his No. 50 uniform is honored with a banner. The atmosphere should prove electric. The Bulls will wind up and take another shot at Mid-American Conference rival Akron, which arrives on a magic carpet. The Zips are 23-4 and haven't lost since Dec. 15 while running the longest winning streak in the country to 19 games. They are ranked 24th in the USA Today Coaches Poll. Tipoff is 6 p.m.
UB (11-17, 6-7) needs to spring an upset or two over its final three games to move into the MAC's top five and avoid a first-round game leading into the Cleveland portion of the MAC Tournament. Could this one be within their reach? The Bulls led the Zips by as many as 20 points before falling, 68-64, on Jan. 26.
"Anytime we play Akron, whether they're 24th in the country or they're 100-and- something, it's always going to be a good game," said UB senior captain Tony Watson II. "We felt like we gave them that game. And from that game to this game we've gotten a lot better."
The Zips (13-0 in the MAC) are deep, with 10 players averaging at least 11 minutes. The center of attention, though, is 7-foot senior Zeke Marshall, a leading MAC Player of the Year candidate. Marshall averages a team-high 12.7 points, shoots 66.3 percent from the field and ranks fifth nationally in blocks at 3.6 a game. (UB junior forward Javon McCrea, another POY candidate, is 18th in blocks at 2.68).
The play of the big men should be of particular interest to Pellom, a 6-9 center during a playing career that included four seasons overseas and 196 games in the NBA. A Wilmington, N.C., native, Pellom was doing factory work and playing on the pickup circuit when he was "discovered" by a friend of Bulls coach Leo Richardson. Richardson paid a visit, offered Pellom a scholarship on the spot and welcomed into the fold a 22-year-old freshman who had grown eight inches since high school. (Current UB coach Reggie Witherspoon was a ballboy for those UB teams),
"That's how I got to Buffalo," Pellom said. "And I loved every minute of it. Glad to get away from home. Glad to go to college. That was the main thing, going to college."
Pellom remains UB's career leader in rebounds and blocks and had a 31-rebound game against VCU. His 16.2 rebounding average as a sophomore was tops in the nation. He played three seasons in the NBA, mostly with Atlanta, three years in Europe and one in Argentina. Basketball, as it turned out, was his ticket around the world.
"Coach Leo Richardson, I thank him to death for giving me the opportunity to do what I did," Pellom said. "For being here today, he gave me that opportunity."
Pellom was inducted into the UB Hall of Fame in 1983 but this is his first time back to Buffalo in 35 years. He's married with three boys and lives in Atlanta, where he's a manager for Walgreen's.
You wonder if he likes to drop his place in NBA history into the conversation now and then.
"I always do that, especially nowadays," Pellom said with a laugh. "Every chance I get I mention it. Everything that came off that backboard was mine. We had an assistant coach named Harry Huff and he'd say, 'Sam, if you don't get it, we ain't going to get it so you got to get it.' And that's what stuck in my head."
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Not only did Scott know the gestation period of a hippo, but he also tried to get me to make him a cup of tea. What a turbo data weasel.
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David Brooks writes that as legions of college graduates begin parading into the world (paper degrees in hand achieved with sides of seemingly insurmountable debt), we do so inauspiciously. That is, we are going about living our lives in entirely the wrong manner. Quite rightly, Brooks identifies the marching orders for each and every (relatively well off, economically) college graduate in the U.S.—the maxims by which we have been told, most likely since kindergarten, to lead our lives.
"Follow your passion, chart your own course, march to the beat of your own drummer, follow your dreams and find yourself." He calls this the "litany of expressive individualism," something pervasive throughout American society.
Of course, this is merely his set up for the turn of the article, which comes when he writes: "Today's graduates are also told to find their passion and then pursue their dreams. The implication is that they should find themselves first and then go off and live their quest. . . . Most successful young people don't look inside and then plan a life. They look outside and find a problem, which summons their life."
I'm reminded of the scene from the movie Fight Club when Tyler Durden, Ed Norton's cooler, hipper, I-don't-give-a-damn-about-material-possessions alter ego—the in-the-flesh Facebook page of the '90s generation—angrily relates how pissed off we all are because we've been told that, one day, we'll be rock stars and movie stars. And the "tragic" (read: obvious, but oblivious to us) reality is that most of us won't headline Bonnaroo or get hungover in Thailand.
Now, what Brooks harps on here is nothing new. The "millenial" generation has been getting a bad rap: we're flighty, self-important, narcissistic, and more concerned with our own accomplishments versus what we may contribute to some collective project.
As it relates to journalism—and writing more generally—Brooks's point that losing yourself in some bigger operation leads you to your strengths, and, eventually, your great contributions, is worth noting for any aspiring Jonathan Franzen. Before Black Hawk Down, there was Mark Bowden at the Baltimore News-American and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Before Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, there was debt-ridden and unsuccessful Hunter S. Thompson, writing cover letters to newspapers in Canada with levels of snark that would put Esquire magazine to shame.
For most writers, the payoff comes not in a multimillion-dollar book deal, or a first feature story printed in The Atlantic. Your pitch letters, for a time, will suck. Your articles, for a time, will be heavily edited. Your story ideas, for a time, will be greatly suspect and viewed as unambitious and unworkable. You will, for a time, probably have to slog it out at lesser known publications to build a clip file and gain (valuable) experience and knowledge in writing and editing. It took me two years working at the Loyola Greyhound before I sold my first story, to Chicken Soup for the Soul; it took me nearly three years before I sold my first story to a magazine. And it took a full four years before any of that previously acquired knowledge and experience earned me any sort of external recognition.
The case for gradual improvement, for moving slowly, for being willing to admit that you don't know it all, and that your success—however you define it—will in all likelihood require your paying your proverbial dues . . . it's a humbling reality, and one I'm still trying to learn.
Until I'm done paying up, I'm quite alright—for a time—being lost in the shuffle.
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Elkins residents cast their votes Tuesday evening for city election races that resulted in a new mayor and a new Elkins City Council member.
Van Broughton, with 495 votes, defeated incumbent Mayor Duke Talbott and current Third Ward Councilman Mark Scott, who received 346 and 208 votes, respectively. Broughton currently serves as a 2nd Ward Councilman.
In the 1st Ward council race, volunteer firefighter Lonnie Randall topped incumbent Charles Kinnison. Randall received 166 votes to Kinnison's 139.
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Elkins Mayor Duke Talbott shakes hands with Mayor-elect Van Broughton Tuesday night at City Hall in Elkins. Broughton defeated Talbott and Mark Scott to become the city's next mayor.
In 4th Ward, incumbent Councilwoman Nanci Bross-Fregonara defeated challenger Hollis Vance. Fregonara received 176 votes to Vance's 67.
According to Sutton Stokes, Elkins city clerk, there is a total of 4,515 registered voters in Elkins. He said 1,049 voters cast their ballot for mayor - approximately 23 percent.
Approximately 28 percent cast their ballot in Ward 1, 26 percent voted in Ward 2, 17 percent voted in Ward 3, 23 percent voted in Ward 4 and 20 percent voted in Ward 5, Stokes said.
Additionally, 1,014 voters cast their ballot for the council races - approximately 22 percent of the total registered voters.
Broughton said he is thrilled to be the new mayor and hopes to build upon the foundation set by Talbott.
"I'm really excited to get started. I know it will be a smooth transition," Broughton said.
Broughton said he spoke to Talbott Tuesday evening, following the results of the election. Broughton said he told Talbott, "You made great strides with this city and I want to continue that."
Despite losing his position as mayor, Talbott remained positive about the future of the city.
"I wish Van the best of luck and I'm willing to help him if I can," he told The Inter-Mountain. "We need cooperation to move forward. We need to work together."
Scott also was optimistic about the newly-elected mayor. Like Talbott, he stressed the need for cooperation.
"We need to work together to get things done," Scott said. "I wish Broughton all the luck in the world."
Like Broughton, Randall said his sight is set toward beginning to work with the other city officials.
"The people have spoken," he said. "They are looking for change, and change is what I can bring."
"I am looking forward to working with everyone on Council and the new mayor," Randall said.
Kinnison said he was encouraged by voter turnout and said he enjoyed the race.
"It's encouraging that people are getting involved in their local government," he said. "It was a good experience."
Bross-Fregonara, however, said she would have liked to see an even larger turnout, given the fact that three candidates ran for mayor.
"Overall, I was a little disappointed in the turnout," she said.
"I was hoping the enthusiasm would have carried on," she said, noting the amount of people who showed up for early voting.
For her own position, she said she wants to start working with Broughton.
"I tremendously look forward to working with Van," she said, "(and) I look forward to working with this great council we have."
Vance, speaking to The Inter-Mountain, congratulated Bross-Fregonara on her win.
"I'm certain she will do a good job," he said.
He said he was appreciative of the votes he received in the election.
"I'd like to express my appreciation for those who did vote for me," he said.
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