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In my 28 years of involvement with pharmaceutical R&D, I've seen no single issue that has generated more meetings, instigated more fervent debate, consumed more dollar investment, and generated solutions with less overall impact than what to do with our study data once a report has been finalized (especially the regulated GLP data). The average tox study report contains 500-1000 pages of data/results, often collected from 5-10 different LIMS systems that cross several departmental boundaries. In addition, increasingly these studies are conducted at CROs from around the globe or are licensed-in (or inherited via mergers and acquisitions) from other companies that had different processes and informatics tools. Finally, most large pharmas have study reports dating back at least to the implementation of GLP (1978) and many large pharma were still producing paper tox reports well into the late 1990s.
The veritable ocean of safety data at any one company (especially those with multiple research sites around the world) is itself staggering and when you think this is reproduced 10-20 times across the industry, the possible knowledge resource is mouth watering to anyone wishing to build in silico models of toxicity. Yet at most companies, to my eternal amazement, this information is so difficult to get at that it makes any kind of data mining or knowledge generation activity all but impossible. What is worse, even simple questions like "Have we seen this before?" are also nearly impossible to answer. Sadly and remarkably, most companies have very little access to their preclinical safety history. Here at CHA, this is the number one area that current or past heads of toxicology/preclinical safety tell us they would change if they had a magic wand. And with the advent of new high data volume safety assessment tools like high content analysis and toxicogenomics, the problem is getting worse at an alarming rate.
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In the mid 1990s, many in the preclinical safety field began to envisage a system that could be queried across all their safety studies to ask questions about their safety history and possibly generate new knowledge. A few brave souls began designing/building such systems based on the emerging field of data warehousing, and then started the long (and expensive) process of cleaning and moving all their LIMS data into the new warehouses. Some of these have now been in production for several years, yet the overall assessment of their value has remained fairly negative:
So, what is different now that leads me to believe this time it will be worth the effort?
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The plot is listlessly conventional, but Larry Elikann's direction is evocative, and Davis is marvelous as a woman hiding her compassion under a veneer of brisk competence, a woman whose courage is as inexplicable and obdurate as religious faith.
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"Peruvian cuisine does offer something different." —MELISSA ABBOTT, The Hartman Group
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A bus carrying 20 students crashed with another vehicle Friday in Vacaville.
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Since 2009, in group practice with Dr. med. Jens Hartmann in Düsseldorf, focusing on molecular orthopaedics and molecular medicine.
Founder and, until 2008, CEO of the Center for Molecular Orthopaedics in Düsseldorf.
2002 - appointed professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
1993 - founded ORTHOGEN AG, a biotech company
1992 - established medical practice in Düsseldorf
1991 - 1992 - chief physician of Neurosurgery Clinic in Osnabrück
1991 - 1992 - doctoral dissertation at the University of Düsseldorf
1990 - chief physician at the Orthopaedic Clinic, Düsseldorf University Hospital
1989 - certification as specialist in orthopaedics
1986 - 1989 - specialization in orthopaedics at Orthopaedics Clinic, Düsseldorf University Hospital
1985 - residency in trauma surgery, Düsseldorf
1984 - residency at Neurophysiology Institute, University of Düsseldorf
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This 48-lb. 2-oz. Chinook salmon was caught on Nov. 1 by Roy Milbrandt (pictured above) on the Columbia River beneath the Priest Rapids Dam. He fought the fish for 1 3/4 hours before landing it.
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Forty years ago today ...
Richard Nixon was still president, though less than four months away from being forced to resign ...
South Vietnam, 2½ months after Nixon proclaimed "peace with honor," was still two years away from being conquered by North Vietnam ...
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Mount Pleasant's James B. Edwards was still gaining ground of his own toward a Republican gubernatorial primary victory over retired Gen. William Westmoreland. Edwards then defeated 3rd District U.S. Rep. William Jennings Bryan Dorn in the general election to become our state's first GOP governor in 98 years ...
Palmer Gaillard was still Charleston's mayor ....
But on April 8, 1974, lots of folks around here, including me, were much less interested in such supposedly significant stuff than we were in Hank Aaron's quest to become baseball's home run king.
And when Aaron attained that throne by hitting No. 715 four decades ago tonight to break his tie with Babe Ruth, this then-20-year-old Braves fan cheered long and loudly.
My whoops and hollers weren't part of the in-person celebratory din at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
Instead, they echoed around my not-so-swank bachelor pad on East Bay Street. That not-so-sharp image, from my 12-inch, black-and-white Zenith, of Aaron hitting one over the left-field fence in the fourth against lefty Al Downing of the dreaded Los Angeles Dodgers, then rounding the bases with two happy fans joining him near third base, is forever etched in my mind's eye.
Vintage bargains
That cinder-block apartment cost me a mere $90 a month - and it was south of Calhoun. Renting downtown was much cheaper then.
So was baseball talent: The Braves paid Aaron $220,000 in 1974. Sports Illustrated reports that 51 current big-leaguers have long-term contracts for at least $100 million.
Factoring in inflation, Aaron's $220,000 rises to $1.1 million in 2014. Today's average big-league salary is nearly $4 million.
My ticket for a seat behind the third-base dugout was a mere $6.50 on Saturday night, Sept. 29, 1973, when Aaron hit No. 713, a three-run blast off Houston's Jerry Reuss, in the Braves' 7-0 victory over the Astros. The next afternoon, more than 40,000, including me, sat through a steady rain to see baseball history.
Only it wasn't the history we had in mind. Instead of watching Aaron hit 714 (and maybe 715), we watched Leo "The Lip" Durocher, Ruth's former New York Yankee teammate, manage his 3,717th - and final - major-league game, a 5-3 Houston triumph.
We also saw Aaron somehow hit three singles in four at-bats - despite Durocher's orders to Houston pitchers Dave Roberts and Don Wilson to not give him anything to hit. After all, Durocher's entitled his memoir "Nice Guys Finish Last."
Aaron then had to endure a six-month wait - and many more ugly letters - before getting his next shot at tying the record, which he did off Jack Billingham on April 4, 1974 in Cincinnati.
Even further back:
An April 29, 1966, the Braves played their seventh game in Atlanta - and my first as a spectator there. Aaron's gloriously swift, compact, powerful swing ended that game with none on and two out in the ninth: No. 405, hit off Carroll Sembera, beat the Astros, 4-3.
That one went over the left-field fence, too.
Trivia tester: What South Carolina native was that 1966 game's winning pitcher? (Answer at column's end.)
The bad old days
At age 18 in 1952, Aaron helped the Indianapolis Clowns win the 1952 Negro Leagues World Series.
At age 19 in 1953, the Mobile, Ala., native endured racist taunts while having to routinely eat and sleep separately from white teammates as the first black player for the South Atlantic League's Jacksonville Braves.
At age 39 and 40 in 1973 and 1974, he got bigotry-stained hate mail - and death threats - while closing in on that epic record held by Ruth, aka "The Bambino," aka "The Sultan of Swat."
And at age 80 tonight, Aaron's No. 715 will be honored before the Braves' home opener against the lowly New York Mets.
See, times can change for the better - and frequently do.
In 2007, a steroid-era sham who shall not be named here did best Aaron's grand final total of 755.
Yet we real fans know that "Hammerin' Hank" is still the real home run champ.
And it's still one, two, three strikes you're out at the old ballgame.
Trivia answer: Billy O'Dell, a lefty from Whitmire who pitched for Clemson before signing as a "bonus baby" with the Baltimore Orioles in 1954.
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Verizon to axe 'grandfathered' unlimited data plans
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1. android1234 (Posts: 137; Member since: 09 Feb 2010)
Wait im on 4G LTE unlimited right now, does that mean they can take it away, or its just for current 3G customers switching to a 4G LTE???
6. archangel9 (Posts: 233; Member since: 07 Feb 2010)
Yeah that exactly what it means
9. nb2six (Posts: 298; Member since: 27 Apr 2011)
Im right there with you. I've been 4G unlimited since the TBolt was released last year. I wont complain too much as long as I can get a sufficient amount of data for the same price point I'm at right now. 5gb for $30 would be more than enough. However, if they try to put me on the $30 2gb package, I guess I will have to go the way of Sprint or TMobile.
10. Jeradiah3 (Posts: 1032; Member since: 11 Feb 2010)
your LTE-unltd plan is most likely gone
28. biophone (Posts: 1956; Member since: 15 Jun 2011)
I bought a 4G thunderbolt for this very reason but had to switch due to it being intolerable. This article is unclear though if I stay on 3G will I lose unlimted data still?
Does anyone know of a petition I could sign against this?
Someone heeeellllllllppppppp!!! I only use 11 gb of data per year but U don't want to worry about this kind of stuff. Maybe i go to sprint even though I don't want to leave verizion. I can't do at&t or t-mobile. And sprint data speeds are barely tolerable.
Verizion you could atleast take me out to dinner because I like to get wined and dinned before i get F U C K E D!!!
52. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
If you UPGRADE you will lose your unlimited. They cant force you to change until you upgrade or change your plan, you and VZW are bound to the contract you signed.
58. biophone (Posts: 1956; Member since: 15 Jun 2011)
Alright follow up question if i get a 4g phone now can I keep unlimited then. What if i upgradeto a 3g phone.
59. bubbadoes (Posts: 960; Member since: 03 May 2012)
ok, then pay $650 plus for your next phone to keep your unlimited plan...Most customers are under 2 gigs anyway...so unlimited (only sounds good)...VW has promotions of 4gigs for $30 bucks when you upgrade to an LTE phone...this is more than enough data so axing unlimited really want bother me and I have 3 unlimited data lines on my plan
64. biophone (Posts: 1956; Member since: 15 Jun 2011)
Breakout is only 360. The 4gb deal won't last too!!!
73. Fallout09 (Posts: 421; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
Not so much. In most states carriers reserve the right to change the plan and prices at anytime.... as long as they provide you notice 30 days. With in 30 days after change, you can break your contract with no etf.
74. biophone (Posts: 1956; Member since: 15 Jun 2011)
As long as i can break my contract and go to sprint that is fine
114. sithman (banned) (Posts: 299; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
Probably will happen to them too.
85. fwinst (Posts: 64; Member since: 08 May 2010)
You don't have to upgrade. If you have an unlimited plan with VZW, your initial contract ended some time ago. They can, and will move everyone to tiered data plans. If you're concerned, call VZW customer service.
116. goos2134 (Posts: 19; Member since: 11 Dec 2011)
they can take your unlimited data anytime they want. it is a feature. You are not bound by contract to have a certain level of data just data. your contract says u will maintain a calling plan with them for at least 2 years and you will maintain a data pack on that phone not a certain kind of data. just data. when the share plan comes you will loose the unlimited data. or they will do what att did and cap your "unlimited" plan you just wont have overages.
129. theruleslawyer (Posts: 108; Member since: 23 Apr 2012)
Not really. They can unilaterally choose to change your contract. All you can do is leave. If they decided that unlimited data was dead for everyone tomorrow, they could do it. If you actually read your contract you'd know that.
132. jal033 (Posts: 2; Member since: 16 May 2012)
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100. som (Posts: 768; Member since: 10 Nov 2009)
A lot of our 3G base is on unlimited," Shammo said. "When they migrate off 3G they will have to go to data share. That is beneficial to us.
That is beneficial to us? not to the customers.
102. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 12979; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
Read the article. This should have been done a long time ago. People abuse data especially people with Android handsets.
131. sinfulta (Posts: 274; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)
Sounds like this is only going to happen to 3G customers from the way I read the article. Verizon for a fact wants EVERYONE off 3G. Which is one of the reason they are dumping 4G LTE over city over city over city so much quicker than anyone else. ATT adds 5 cities. Verizon added what? 24 just yesterday or day before. My guess is they want as many people off 3G as possible to free up tons of spectrum. Then once they're 3G network is blanketed by 4G LTE, they will reuse that spectrum to start working LTE revisions (Since they're are 8 possible revisions).
It's one of the reasons I think Verizon skipped straight to LTE and bypassed EVDO Rev B and C while Tmobile and ATT kept pushing they're revisions of HSPA+.
I work in the network field and help build site technology and I can bet this is what Verizon is up too. They want that 3G Spectrum free'd up from coast to coast. If this is what they are up too and will start working on 2nd revision LTE. They will be deadly by 2015/16. They will end up having so much coverage and so much spectrum it's going to be hard to match. This whole data thing is getting nuts. I'm on Unlimited with ATT and Verizon (work and personal) and I think I only use 500mb on each a month. I don't know what all you guys are doing. I work 45-50hrs a week and if i'm at home I have Wifi. I just don't have the time. Maybe I'm just old. (in my late 30's) lol
133. SprintLUVah (Posts: 10; Member since: 14 May 2009)
Sinful! Where the hell have you been? Haven't seen you comment on something for forever. I totally agree. Verizon is not stupid they are up to something.
135. greenrolaids (Posts: 56; Member since: 04 Feb 2012)
i watch netflix on my bus ride to and from work.
I hit 4gb on the 12th of this month.
I have unlimited with verizon, i dont know what to do.
I am expecting verizon to come out with some cool new phones in the next month. But my guess is that the new phones will come out in the summer to get all of us unlimited data users to switch over to tiered.
I just might have to buy the razr maxx before june 20th to keep my unlimited for a couple more years.
2. android_sucks (Posts: 111; Member since: 28 Jul 2011)
Go Big Red!!!!
103. Mxyzptlk (Posts: 12979; Member since: 21 Apr 2012)
I agree.
3. andreww.1993 (Posts: 3; Member since: 24 Sep 2011)
4. Ksupowercat13 (Posts: 15; Member since: 15 Jul 2011)
111. Lucas777 (Posts: 2137; Member since: 06 Jan 2011)
ya i just hope they dont give att any ideas..
5. bolaG (Posts: 468; Member since: 15 Aug 2011)
If they take away my unlimited data even though I'm already on 4g I will leave to Att. Their 4g is faster anyways and they get the best world phones as well. So F**CK you VZW if you do me like that.
8. archangel9 (Posts: 233; Member since: 07 Feb 2010)
ATT speed is very good but don't go over your data cap .$10 per GB. The CS isn't bad either. Or Tmobile. Give Sprint about 3-6/months for their LTE to get out and push.
26. ghostnexus (Posts: 96; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
At least with ATT if there is no LTE there is always HSPA+ before 3g
7. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
%^$^%$^$&^^&%@@^&%&(^% Verizon
53. remixfa (Posts: 14255; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
rasberries to you sir. :)
77. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
they better not touch my unilimited data or I will truly go darkside on them
11. iamcc (Posts: 1319; Member since: 07 Oct 2011)
Ohhhh no they didn't.
12. doubler86 (Posts: 320; Member since: 26 Jan 2011)
I didn't transition after the unlimited was cut off though. I got the droid charge when verizon was unlimited 4G for two months. I wonder if this will apply to me.
95. thatjackal (Posts: 15; Member since: 20 Sep 2011)
Hey, I'm an unlimited-LTE Droid Charge buddy, too. Not sure what they'll do to us, I'll probably call in later in the week. :u
13. shadowcell (Posts: 300; Member since: 28 Mar 2012)
I keep hitting F5 hoping this is just a fake article but it won't go away!
14. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
This is utter bulls**t. It sounds like Verizon is adopting Sprint's plan model, which, by the way, sucks balls. It won't allow for compartmentalization of those who have/want data and those who don't.
15. Zumo911 (Posts: 22; Member since: 02 May 2012)
this is BS - especially after the people have been waiting for the s3 to drop. highly disappointed in you Big Red
16. Sprintfan (Posts: 68; Member since: 18 Nov 2011)
Pretty soon there won't be any difference between Sprint and Verizons network in all of the major cities. Except Sprint will remain unlimited and cost you $30.00 less a month.
60. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
Didn't work out that way for me. Sprint is cool if you need unlimited everything. But I pay about the same with 4 lines on VZW as I paid with 2 lines on Sprint. Not to mention the speed is greatly improved.
91. EclipseGSX (Posts: 1717; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
you must have a kick ass family plan then
101. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
Nothing special. 1400 mins with 10 Friends and Family numbers for $80, two $5 text plans two smartphones w/unlimited data $60, and two feature phones for my parents $20. Sprint wanted $79 each for two Evos and another $50 a piece for my two feature phones for unlimited with those too...ouch!
Just about everyone I know has a smartphone so I told them about Whatsapp, Viber, and Tango, so I don't have to worry about unlimited minutes or text. These carriers have don't a great job at conviencing us we need unlimited everything, but if most of us take a minute to check our plans, we'd find that unlimited just cost us more in the end. At least it did for us.
143. wumberpeb (Posts: 453; Member since: 14 Mar 2011)
Whoever you spoke with at Sprint tried to hose you...4 people on a family plan, at most, would be $210 if all 4 were smartphones. 2 feature phones would be $20 less at $190. All 4 lines have unlimited data, text and any mobile to mobile. 1500 landline minutes...
The prices they gave were for individual plans. $80 a piece is one smartphone, unlimited mobile to mobile/text/web, $50 for feature phone would be individual plan for unlimited text and 450 minutes
145. Whateverman (Posts: 3262; Member since: 17 May 2009)
Lol...Looks like someone did try to hose me. That probably would have kept me with Sprint. At VZW I'm paying between $197 - $208, so it isnt much more.
130. theruleslawyer (Posts: 108; Member since: 23 Apr 2012)
Except Sprint's data will run at 56k modem speeds.
17. 14545 (Posts: 1535; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
Do it and I'm out. Seriously verizon, this is not away to keep my 2400 a year. Like I said, do it and I am gone. I am a heavy user, but not in such a way that is abusive. I use 6-8 a month, and if I don't get at minimum 10-12 gb on my "share plan" then you better not "axe" my grandfathered unlimited plan. I can save 50-70 dollars a month by going to Tmo, so F OFF verizon.
22. 14545 (Posts: 1535; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
PS, thanks iOS tards. Since bringing your crap device over to big red we have lost every perk that we used to have before bringing your junk device over to the network and killing it. Thanks. Sincerely.
32. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
I suspect you are more on target than you might imagine you are. When VZW did not have the iDevices, they had to fight for contracted subscribers. One of the ways they fought was with unlimited data plans. Almost overnight after VZW started selling the iDevices, the unlimited data plans became expendable.
This is what happens in a duopoly. Imagine how f*cked consumers would have been if AT&T had been successful in its attempt to acquire T-Mo. VZW would have f*cked its customers and AT&T-Mobile would have f*cked its customers as hard or harder.
45. 14545 (Posts: 1535; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
I realize this 100%. I had a few friends at VZW in sales, and they said that the iDevices are exactly what killed NE2. And I have no reason to believe that all things that have precipitated since then are a direct result as well. I mean they pay out the bunghole for the stupid POS iDevices. And they make everyone pay for it. Make the i Junk customers pay for their own crap. Force them on to limited data and leave us alone.
123. Wildmanfan (Posts: 238; Member since: 15 Jul 2010)
Amen to that brother! The iCrap is what is destroying the cell phone industry. Let them deal with this s**t. Leave us alone.
35. Forsaken77 (Posts: 553; Member since: 09 Jun 2011)
Now you know how us AT&T people feel ;)
39. 14545 (Posts: 1535; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
Yeah, I had cingular back in the day, and I couldn't stand it. But I thought, and I have no idea why, VZW would take the high road here and let legacy customers keep the plans they are on, even though upgrades.
93. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
AT&T let its customers keep their unlimited plans if they didn't activate tethering, and as far as I know, has no plans to get rid of them
99. guyver192 (Posts: 14; Member since: 27 Feb 2012)
They are not openly getting rid out it but the are slowing down the speed way before any tiered plan limit. I was all over the tech sites about Att throttling GF unlimited plans at 1.5 gbs with no warning. I think a Iphone user won in small claims court is what bought it to light.
124. Wildmanfan (Posts: 238; Member since: 15 Jul 2010)
But remember man, AT&T is catching up fast. If you go to cnet.com there was an article that spoke about how customer satisfaction is lower for Verizon and higher for AT&T. Surprisingly, Sprint took top honors. VZW went down 3 points.
IF AT&T is smart, they would do something to seperate themselves from the rest and turn the cell phone industry upside down.
36. taco50 (banned) (Posts: 5506; Member since: 08 Oct 2009)
You're going to blame the iPhone?! Wow just wow.
Android users use more data by the way.
38. 14545 (Posts: 1535; Member since: 22 Nov 2011)
I get your an idiot, but have you read a single article posted in the last two years on data usage? Every one says that iDevice users use more data. Google it.
44. biophone (Posts: 1956; Member since: 15 Jun 2011)
Taco is right android uses more data.
Howerver iphone cost carriers alot in subsidies. Get rid of unlimited too offset that maybe. Who knows.
47. biophone (Posts: 1956; Member since: 15 Jun 2011)
Article proving said point
92. EclipseGSX (Posts: 1717; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)
yea a year old article before the 4S, i'm sure that's really accurate now...


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These two were married a couple of months ago in Connecticut because it's not yet legal for them to marry here in Maryland. However, they chose to celebrate their union with a gorgeous, perfectly detailed reception at the Hyatt in Cambridge, Maryland. It's a lovely space, they staff was perfect, and everything was simply lovely. I felt incredibly privileged to be able to take the photos; these two are good friends of ours, so I wasn't just a photographer, I was also a guest. Only their nearest and dearest were present, and the whole event was a glorious celebration of a couple that's been together for 11 years.
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The suite was gorgeous. T is a total rockstar. And a ham. He loved mugging for the camera. I love this photo so much. The emotion is, to me, perfect.
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NEWPORT - McKenzie Truitt had 16 points to lead all scorers as East Juniata's girls basketball squad topped Newport 51-32 Friday in Tri-Valley League play.
"'Kenz had a nice night tonight," Tigers coach Travis Quici said. "She shot real well from the floor. ... McKenzie really stepped up tonight."
Kayla Pellman had 11 points for the Tigers.
"Kayla Pellman hit a couple of 3s early that really got us going," Quici said. "I also thought Paige Robinson played well tonight. It was just a total team effort."
Newport won the JV game, 36-30.
East Juniata (4-11) hosts Line Mountain Tuesday.
Girls basketball
Juniata Mennonite 44,
New Covenant 31
PORT ROYAL - Juniata Mennonite's girls basketball team held New Covenant to just three first half points en route to a 44-31 Allegheny Christian Athletic Association victory on Friday evening.
The visiting Flames drew within six late in the contest against the Lions bench, but coach Jeff Auker re-inserted his starting unit to ensure the victory.
"We started out really strong," Auker said. "We definitely had the height advantage and controlled the boards inside."
Christa Auker led Juniata with 15 points while Jenny Zimmerman tallied 12.
Juniata Mennonite (7-2, 5-1) travels to Sunbury Christian on Tuesday.
Shikellamy 61,
Midd-West 14
MIDDLEBURG - A rough first half for the Midd-West girls basketball team was only the beginning of a long Friday evening. The visitors from Shikellamy scored early and often en route to a 61-14 Heartland Conference victory over the Mustangs.
Christina DiBartolomeo led the locals with seven points.
Midd-West (5-8, 3-4) returns to the court Tuesday against Jersey Shore.
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Belleville Mennonite 58, York Country Day 44
YORK - Nate Metzler scored 19 points and J.D. Spicher added 13 to lead the Belleville Mennonite boys basketball team to its second straight victory - a 58-44 Susquehanna Independent Athletic Conference triumph over York Country Day.
The Trojans played without sophomore point guard Garrett Byler who missed the trip due to an illness.
"Not having Garrett was a big deal," Trojans coach Larry Kauffman said. "They recognized it right away and put the pressure on us."
Belleville Mennonite held a six-point lead at halftime, but Kauffman didn't think his team played up to its potential until late in the game.
"We really didn't start playing well until the fourth quarter," he said. "We missed some shots early, but they started falling for us. It's just nice to get a win and we'll take it and run."
The locals (6-8) entertain Juniata for the third time this season on Tuesday evening in Belleville.
Mount Union 60,
Williamsburg 42
WILLIAMSBURG - Friday night proved to be anything but a letdown for the Mount Union boys basketball team.
Fresh off a home win over fellow Inter-County Conference power Juniata Valley, the Trojans continued their hot streak with a 60-42 win over Williamsburg.
"It was a solid road win after a three-game week," Mount Union coach Joe Komir said.
The Loners proved to be the reliable scoring options as Antwaun led all scorers with 20 points and Mydell added 15.
But the real story was the Mount Union defense.
"We played very good defense tonight," Komir said. "We forced 18 turnovers."
Dalson Heinrich had 10 points to lead Mount Union's JV squad in a 39-32 loss to the Blue Pirates.
Mount Union (12-3, 9-0) hosts Bellwood-Antis Monday.
New Covenant 45,
Juniata Mennonite 32
PORT ROYAL - Things seemed to be going according to plan for the Juniata Mennonite boys basketball team after one quarter on Friday evening. The Lions had a 12-3 lead after eight minutes, but the Greyhounds stormed back to record a 45-32 victory.
"We came out and started trapping and got a nice lead," Lions coach Dennis Zimmerman said. "We went man-to-man in the second quarter just to work on it, but that was the end. We quit taking care of the ball, we stopped boxing out, and we just got really sloppy in the second half. That's all it took."
Luke Showers had 11 points to lead the Lions' attack.
Juniata Mennonite (1-10) travels to Sunbury Christian on Tuesday.
Huntingdon, Lewistown at Indian Valley
BURNHAM - Huntingdon's boys and girls swimming teams each went 2-0 on Friday afternoon against Lewistown and Indian Valley. The Bearcat girls topped the Panthers 53-36 and beat the Warriors 66-14. On the boys side, Huntingdon topped Lewistown 59-25 and defeated Indian Valley 60-11. Lewistown's girls beat Indian Valley 43-13 and the followed suit with a 37-16 win.
Two more Lewistown members qualified for the district meet. Meghan Becker won the 200 freestyle with a time of 2:41.31 and 100 backstroke (1:14.78). In addition, Avery Craig's time of 2:07.43 in the 200 freestyle also was good enough to meet the district qualifying time.
Other winners on the day included Sarah Bonson (100 freestyle, 100 butterfly), Becker (200 individual medley, 100 backstroke), Kylie Miller (50 freestyle) on the girls side. Craig had victories for the boys team in both the 200 freestyle and 100 butterfly while Cody Dunmire took a pair of seconds in the 50 freestyle and the 100 breaststroke.
"We're getting there - each week the times are getting better," Panthers coach Nancy Craig said. "It was a great swim meet with Huntingdon. We swam independently at Huntingdon for years and years. We wanted to thank the Huntingdon swim team. It was an extra meaningful meet."
And the Warriors felt very similarly.
"It was a big deal for us since we felt like a part of Huntingdon's team and they really made us feel that way," Warriors coach Connie Welch said. "Even though we had three teams there, it really felt more like one team and it was nice to host Huntingdon for a change."
For the Warriors, two individuals won their event. Kiara Noland took first in the girls 100-yard breaststroke with a winning time of 1:26.90. Thomas Andrie was first to touch in the boys 50 freestyle.
Erin Fite also had a good day, qualifying for districts in both the 100 butterfly and the 100 backstroke.
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A: Lewistown 40,
Central Mountain 34
B: Central Mountain 25, Lewistown 21
MILL HALL - Ashleigh Williams had 25 points and Paige Laughlin had 10 to lead Lewistown's junior high girls basketball team to a 40-34 win at Central Mountain Friday.
The 'B' game went the way of the Wildcats, however, 25-21. Bryce Papp had 11 points for Lewistown.
Lewistown (A: 13-1, B: 8-6) host Bellefonte Tuesday.
Junior high
boys basketball
A: Indian Valley 29,
Penns Valley 26
B: Indian Valley 23,
Penns Valley 19
SPRING MILLS - Indian Valley's junior high boys basketball team won a tight 29-26 decision over homestanding Penns Valley on Friday afternoon. Hunter Wright's 19 points led the Warriors (5-5).
The locals completed the sweep in the 'B' contest with a 23-19 victory over the Rams. Blake Hunter led the way with nine points as the Warriors improved to 5-6 on the season.


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Title: Men Cutting into Sperm Whale, Separating the Junk from the Case, on Starboard Side of Whaler CALIFORNIA, 1903
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After graduating from Lebanon Valley College with degrees in music theory composition and percussion performance, Justin Rugg '09 moved to Connecticut and immediately began auditioning for roles in local theater. He landed with Pantochino Productions in New Haven – a company that has now produced six of his original works.
Upon auditioning for Pantochino, Rugg met director Bert Bernardi. Bernardi was in the process of writing a Christmas show, but his usual composer was unavailable. Rugg volunteered to read the script and take a shot at writing the score for his first musical. The result was "Teen Santa," a punk rock musical about a kid who has superhero powers pertaining to Christmas.
"When I was at LVC, I learned classical composition, but Bert wanted it to sound raw," Rugg said. "I said, 'Let's get a live band.' We got a three-piece, local garage band. I had never written for guitar before, but by working with the band, I pulled it together."
Rugg was a percussionist in high school and performed in the marching band, choir, orchestra, and percussion ensemble at LVC. His acting career included roles in Wig and Buckle productions of "You're in Town" and "Fuddy Meers."
As a student-composer, he wrote two woodwind pieces that remain on file at LVC: a duet called "Scenes from a Carnival" and "Quartet for Small, Furry Rodents."
"I was always a theatrical, goofball kid. I was always putting on little shows in my house and showing my mom songs and scenes. I was always really enamored with the stage. I started being in plays in first grade, so it wasn't entirely new territory by the time I got to college."
Pantochino does not have a home theater. Instead, they take musicals on the road to venues around New Haven County. This year's Christmas show, "Glitz," is being performed at the Milford Fine Arts Center – a converted train station in Milford. The musical is Rugg's fourth full-length score and second Christmas piece.
"I never intended to write a Christmas show in my entire life," Rugg said. "It is one of the most daunting tasks that you can undertake. It is such a specific time of year and feeling for a lot of people. You want to evoke the right things without being 'old.' You want to also get your point of view across and be 'new' without being too 'in your face.' I loved writing it. You just want to do it justice."
Rugg's other credits at Pantochino include full-length musicals "The Brothers Grimm" and "The Groovie Ghoulies" and shorter summer camp projects about Aladdin and the Wizard of Oz for student participants ages 7–13.
Rugg has also staged two nights of original music produced by Pantochino, first at Firehouse 12 Cabaret in New Haven in February and later at The Duplex in New York City in March. The performance – titled "Predictable Heart: The Music of Justin Rugg" – featured a vocal performance by Broadway's Jenn Gambatese, who joined Rugg on stage and sang a song he wrote specifically for her.
"I'm content," Rugg said. "Right now, I'm writing an average of two to three shows a year. I'm working in a field that I wanted to be in that I studied for, which not a lot of people can say in this business. I get creative freedom and really have a good time."
For those pursuing a career in music or theater, Rugg offers a few pieces of simple advice.
"Try out for everything you can," he said. "Get your face and name out there and meet as many people as you can in the business. You also need to be as kind and patient as you can. People can only do as much as they can. As long as they're trying, I like to keep a level head."
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When Dennis Hopper passed away earlier this past May at the age of 74 due to prostate cancer, he left a remarkably varied body of work as an actor. Over five decades, Hopper appeared in more than two hundred films and television shows, some, maybe most forgettable, but rarely because Hopper chose to appear in them. Beginning in the mid-1950s, Hopper mixed appearances in film and on television, usually in supporting roles. Substance abuse, however, undermined Hopper's career multiple times (he went more than seven years without a film role at one point). Despite those setbacks, he continued to act, on television or in small, supporting roles. He also cultivated a talent for photography and, briefly, directing, most notably 'Easy Rider,' an existential biker flick that far exceeded its modest, low-budget origins as a B-level programmer.
Early in his career as an actor, Hopper crossed paths with James Dean, appearing in supporting roles in 'Rebel Without a Cause' and 'Giant.' The director of 'Rebel Without a Cause,' Nicholas Ray, obviously saw something in Hopper, featuring him prominently in several, non-speaking scenes. Hopper's character, a member of a rival group, says little (if anything), appearing in the foreground, once in a car, oddly rubbing his nose and later, at the Griffith Observatory, again central to a visual composition. Hopper had more to do in Dean's last film, 'Giant,' but it was in a Western, 'Gunfight in the O.K. Corral,' that he gave his first, truly memorable performance as an ill-fated Clanton. Family loyalty trumps his character's survival instinct, leading to a tragic, unnecessary end. A lead role in 'Night Tide,' a woefully underseen, low-key dark fantasy in 1960, did little to spur Hopper's career as a lead actor.
Despite early, sporadic success, Hopper developed a reputation as a "difficult" actor and combined with substance abuse, became unemployable for several years. Rod Serling, the writer-creator-producer of 'The Twilight Zone,' gave Hopper the lead role in a fourth season (1963) episode, "He's Alive," as a disgruntled young man seduced by the false promise of fascism as the answer for his socio-economic status and lack of success. As with every 'Twilight Zone' episode, there's a twist, of course (alas, a cheap one), but minus that ending, it's also one of Serling's best, sharp-edged political commentary. Rarely seen, due to its length ('The Twilight Zone's shortened fourth season was expanded into hour-long episodes and subsequently left out of syndication).
When Hopper returned to film work, it was again in supporting roles, twice in Westerns featuring John Wayne, 'The Sons of Katie Elder' in 1965 and 'True Grit' in 1969 as another character doomed to an early, violent demise. At the suggestion of then friend Peter Fonda, Hopper signed on to direct and co-star in 'Easy Rider,' a low-budget biker flick. Hopper, however, had other ideas in mind for 'Easy Rider.' With the help of writer Terry Southern (who wrote the initial draft of the script), Fonda, and Jack Nicholson (a writer-director in his own right), Hopper channeled the late-sixties counter-culture vibe into a romantic, romanticized ode to freedom and friendship (among other themes).
The surprise box-office success of 'Easy Rider' briefly gave Hopper carte blanche to make his next film, the aptly titled 'The Last Movie,' completely free of studio and producer experience. Hopper's substance abuse problems derailed 'The Last Movie.' An incoherent, muddled misfire, 'The Last Movie' ended Hopper's career as a director for almost a decade, with only 'Colors,' a 1988 cop drama co-starring Robert Duvall and a young Sean Penn, worth seeing or revisiting.
As an actor, Hopper tended to rise to the material (or conversely fall to the level of the material). His performance, if, in fact, it was a performance and not just a drug-fueled rant, in Francis Ford Coppola's hallucinatory Vietnam War drama, 'Apocalypse Now,' was and remains his first or second-most memorable (after his performance as violently sociopathic Frank Booth in David Lynch's 'Blue Velvet' in 1986). Hopper appears three-quarters of the way through 'Apocalypse Now,' a longhaired, bearded, raving photojournalist in awe of Colonel Kurtz's willingness to use genocide to control and build a new, "pure" society.
Hopper saw a mid-career resurgence in the mid-1980s with three, back-to-back performances, first as an emotionally and mentally disturbed, pitiable character, Feck, in 'River's Edge,' as Frank Book in 'Blue Velvet' the same year, and a year later, as an alcoholic assistant coach who stumbles toward hard-fought redemption in 'Hoosiers,' an arc that mirrored, however imperfectly, Hooper's own path, professionally and personally. Hooper received an Academy Award nomination for Supporting Actor, but didn't win (he wouldn't be nominated again).
That resurgence continued with roles in 'Red Rock West,' a 1993 neo-noir directed by John Dahl headlined by Nicholas Cage and, far memorably, thanks to Quentin Tarantino's dialogue and Tony Scott's direction, 'True Romance' in 1994. Hopper turned to high profile, high-paying villain roles in 'Speed,' and 'Waterworld,' released in 1994 and 1995, respectively. The next fifteen years saw Hopper take a series of undemanding paycheck roles, including the lead villain on the 2002 season of '24,' and a stint on the cable series, 'Crash' (based on Paul Haggis' Oscar-winning film).
By any measure, a five-decade career as an actor is an impressive feat. That Dennis Hopper managed to give memorable performances in supporting roles, some smaller than others, many worth revisiting multiple times, says much about his talents as an actor and a singular onscreen presence that barely dimmed over those decades.
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FLA president said other factories in China are much worse, and that Apple's Foxconn plants are "first-class"
The New York Times
released a report
on the poor treatment of Apple's suppliers' workers, weeks of Apple bashing ensued. But a new study from the Fair Labor Association (FLA) takes the opposite stance, saying that workers at factories like Foxconn are not being pushed to their limits -- they're just bored.
Auret van Heerden, president of the Fair Labor Association, is currently investigating the conditions of Apple's suppliers' factories in China after
Apple recently volunteered for FLA inspection
. Van Heerden recently visited one of Apple's main suppliers, Foxconn Technology Group, and found that the working conditions there were better than many other factories in China such as garment factories.
"The facilities are first-class; the physical conditions are way, way above average of the norm," said van Heerden. "I was very surprised when I walked onto the floor at Foxconn, how tranquil it is compared with a garment factory. So the problems are not the intensity and burnout and pressure-cooker environment you have in a garment factory. It's more a function of monotony, of boredom, of alienation perhaps."
Van Heerden explained that many of the workers come from distant rural areas away from their families, and are thrown into an industrial setting that they're not used to with people that they don't know. With this kind of boredom, alienation and homesickness, the young workers require emotional support, and the factories were not aware that this was the case. Van Heerden said that this emotional distress is what led to the suicides at Foxconn, not employees being overworked.
Van Heerden also sided with Apple in the respect that the company decided to join the FLA, which subjects the company to intense monitoring.
"Apple didn't need to join the FLA," said van Heerden. "The FLA system is very tough. It involves unannounced visits, complete access, public reporting. If Apple wanted to take the easy way out, there were a whole host of options available to them. The fact that
they joined the FLA
shows they were really serious about raising their game."
Last month,
The New York Times
published a report detailing the harsh conditions that Apple's suppliers' workers must endure. The article listed problems like long hours, exhaustion, lengthy overtime, unsafe working environments (a collection of aluminum dust from polishing iPad cases led to
two explosions in two separate Foxconn plants
due to poor ventilation), underage employment and crowded living conditions as some of the violations to Apple's supplier code of conduct. Despite violations to this code, which have been brought to Apple's attention repeatedly on an annual basis since 2007,
The New York Times
wondered why Apple wasn't doing anything to improve it.
Apple CEO Tim Cook fired back about the claims
that Apple doesn't care about its supplier's employees overseas. He sent an email to Apple employees stating that the company cares about each and every worker, and that he was outraged by the accusations which stated otherwise.
"As a company and as individuals, we are defined by our values," said Cook. "Unfortunately some people are questioning Apple's values today, and I'd like to address this with you directly. We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain. Any accident is deeply troubling, and any issue with working conditions is cause for concern. Any suggestion that we don't care is patently false and offensive to us. As you know better than anyone, accusations like these are contrary to our values. It's not who we are."
About 30 FLA employees will be spending the next three weeks at Chinese Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu to interview 35,000 workers. Each Apple Foxconn worker will be given iPads to complete a survey, which asks them the following series of questions: how were they hired, were they paid a fee, what are the conditions of their dorms/food, were their complaints acted upon, what is their emotional well being, and were they offered/did they sign any contracts and did they understand them.
After collecting this information, the FLA will create a full report of their findings. The report will be available in early March 2012.
Foxconn will not be the only supplier investigated by the FLA. Asian suppliers like Quanta Computer Inc., Wintek Corp. and Pegatron Corp. will be placed under the microscope as well at a later date.
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RE: Someone is lying
As Inigo Montoya said so well: "I do not think it means what you think it means." The description in the Bible is of piety, not socialism. You need to read the passage in Acts in context with the early days of the church.
The early church believed Christ was returning any day. So, they lived as if he were returning THAT day. Possessions were sold and people readied themselves for transport to heaven. It is a wonderful personal philosophy, to live as if Christ were returning today. But, it is neither socialism, nor communism, nor any other political theory.
Christians are constantly balancing the need to plan for the future and living as if Christ were returning today. We have to be careful not to chase money for love of money, but to not plan for the coming winter or retirement or whatever, would be to ignore the "daily bread" we are given by our Father. Christ didn't have any problem with rich people, per se, but he did recognize that most rich people love their money first and God second. Christians have to be ready to give up everything for Christ, not for others, not for a government, or a society, or even a charity organization. And, Christ WILL demand you give up everything to follow him.
To sum it up: This passage in Acts is describing love of God in the form of piety, not socialism.
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Eleanor Parker, one of the best and most beautiful actresses of the studio era, a three-time Best Actress Academy Award nominee, and one of the stars of the 1965 blockbuster and Best Picture Oscar winner The Sound of Music, died today, December 9, 2013, of complications from pneumonia at a medical facility near her home in the Southern Californian desert town of Palm Springs. Eleanor Parker was 91.
"I'm primarily a character actress," Parker told the Toronto Star in 1988. "I've portrayed so many diverse individuals on the screen that my own personality never emerged." At one point, wildly imaginative publicists called her The Woman of a Thousand Faces – an absurd label, when you think of Man of a Thousand Faces Lon Chaney. Eleanor Parker never altered her appearance the way Chaney did – her make-up (or lack thereof) made her either ravishingly beautiful or just plain heavenly pretty; but then again, she didn't really have to make audiences believe she could be turned into a spider à la Lon Chaney.
Whether as blind, embittered war veteran John Garfield's devoted girlfriend in Delmer Daves' remarkably subversive (even by 2013 standards) Pride of the Marines (1945) – co-written by future Hollywood Ten member Albert Maltz; a naive women's prison inmate harassed by lesbian warden Hope Emerson in John Cromwell's Caged (1950); or as the Baroness vying with Julie Andrews for the affections of Christopher Plummer's Captain von Trapp in Robert Wise's The Sound of Music, Parker was almost invariably able to convey the inner goings-on of her characters. A rarity for actors, then or now.
True, she could also go way over the top and resort to melodramatic mannerisms – e.g., Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), as former drug addict Frank Sinatra's manipulative, crippled wife. But even then Eleanor Parker was great to watch if only because she looked so beautiful.
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Born on June 26, 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio, Eleanor Parker began her film career as a bit player. Her minor role in the 1941 Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland pairing They Died with Their Boots On ended up on the cutting-room floor, but by the following year Parker was already getting cast in leads in B movies at Warner Bros.
Most notable among those was probably the D. Ross Lederman-directed Busses Roar (the apparent misspelling was Warners', not mine), in which Parker is one of several passengers aboard a roaring bus on its way from Los Angeles to San Francisco – but, with a saboteur on board, will it ever get there?
By the mid-'40s, Eleanor Parker has been promoted to leads and semi-leads in prestigious productions. Among these was Michael Curtiz's Mission to Moscow (1943), which would cause Warner Bros. quite a bit of embarrassment a few years later; the now largely forgotten Edward A. Blatt's Outward Bound remake Between Two Worlds (1944), in which Parker, Paul Henreid, and others find themselves aboard an ocean liner on its way to … where?; and Delmer Daves' romantic drama The Very Thought of You (1944), co-starring Dennis Morgan, and co-written by another future member of the Hollywood Ten, Alvah Bessie.
Critics generally felt that Eleanor Parker failed in her attempt to emulate Warner Bros.' Queen of the Lot Bette Davis, when she played the nasty, ruthless waitress Mildred Rogers in Edmund Goulding's 1946 remake of Of Human Bondage – ironically, a 1934 RKO production that Warner Bros. (wrongly) felt would damage the career of their up-and-coming contract player Davis. In the remake, Paul Henreid had the old Leslie Howard role.
After Pride of the Marines, Eleanor Parker's Warner Bros. movies were all A productions, but most of them weren't exactly critical favorites. She was Errol Flynn's leading lady in Never Say Goodbye (1946) and, alongside Ida Lupino, in Escape Me Never (1947); she donned beautiful costumes in the period drama The Woman in White (1947), opposite Alexis Smith, Gig Young, and Sydney Greenstreet; was Humphrey Bogart's leading lady in the action drama Chain Lightning (1950); and, along with Patricia Neal and Ruth Roman, wondered if the little boy who survived a plane crash was the ex-infant she had given up for adoption a few years earlier in Robert Wise's A Letter to Three Wives-ish Three Secrets (1950).
Better received was Irving Rapper's romantic comedy The Voice of the Turtle (1947), with Eleanor Parker as an actress wannabe and Ronald Reagan as the soldier she meets and inadvertently falls in love with. In the New York Times, Thomas M. Pryor wrote:
Miss Parker is altogether winning as the naive young actress who reluctantly falls in love while nursing the hurt of a newly shattered first romance with a theatrical producer. Miss Parker is consciously aping Margaret Sullavan's conception of the role [in the original John Van Druten play], but she brings to it the innocence and bewilderment of youth that is so essential and in this respect she is even more successful than was Miss Sullavan.
Also well-received was the harrowing, socially conscious Caged, in which Eleanor Parker is excellent as a terrified young inmate in a no-holds-barred women's prison, much too pretty and naive for her own good – just ask the brutal lesbian warden Hope Emerson – and doomed to return after learning during her prison stint that a life of crime would be her best bet. For her efforts, Parker was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award, but lost to Judy Holliday for George Cukor's Born Yesterday.
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Carl Froch To Face Sergey Tatevosyan, 3/23
Carl Froch hopes that defeating Russias Sergey Tatevosyan on the Hennessy Sports Cobras Hood event on March 23rd will help him secure a world title shot by the end of the year. [details]
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Bute just dominated this guy, so it seems like a very poor piece of matchmaking, Froch has already beaten several better opponents. I guess he'll want to stop Tatevosyan in order to make a statement, but it's a poor opponent for the Cobra. Hennessy isn't producing the goods for Froch.
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Bit of a sideways move but still a good test nonetheless. If Froch can get the ko then i will be very impressed and hopefully put him 1 step closer to a fight with Bute, which i'd back him in.
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Got my tickets today. £25.00 not bad price, Nottingham ice stadium is the Dogs Bollocks apart from **** beer.
Russian Opponent has beaten current European Champ, so cant be that bad. Anyway IMO no one with anythin to lose wants to fight Froch. He is too risky.
Froch will soon be Mandatory for someone soon. Currently no 3 WBC.
I think Calzaghe will move up to Light Heavy to avoid Froch.
Hennessy will deliver Title shot as he did for Junior Witter.
What would happen if for some reason Manfredo pulls out of Calzaghe fight injured say. Froch would definitely offer to step in as hes in Training anyway.
Calzaghe would ****e himself.
Also on Bill is John Murray who is one to watch for the future.
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This guy shouldn't be a problem to Froch. I still think he needs to fight one of the other top contenders, before he gets a world title fight.
I think team palle will try to make "Kessler - Bute" (if Kessler defends his titles against Andrade). They been talking about putting Bute on a Kessler undercard the last two times, and seem to have some good tv deals with the Canadians.
Joe C - i don't really know who he gets or wants after Manfredo, but he will most likely get an offer from Kessler again.
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Tatevosyan is a quite decent opponent - no more, no less.
It's a huuuuuge step up from Froch's last outing (Dodson). But for those who expected Froch's next opponent to propel him to the top of SMW it must be a dissapointment. About the same level as Magee - so hard to see that Froch is really going places.
Damn i wish Tatevosuan would thrash him. But admittedly the chances aren't great.
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ANADARKO Petroleum officials urged BP to drill deeper into the Gulf of Mexico well that caused the worst offshore oil spill in US history even after BP warned that doing so would be unsafe.
A BP executive and a geologist working on the Macondo well rejected Anadarko's urging to deepen the well, according to e-mails sent the week before the April 2010 deep-sea blowout.
BP officials said in the e-mails, unsealed this month in lawsuits over the spill, that the well's condition "provided for little to no margin to continue drilling" safely.
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Anadarko, which owned a 25% stake in the Macondo well off the Louisiana coast, contends that it was a passive investor and cannot be held liable for pollution fines from the spill, which sent more than 4-million barrels of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, closing fisheries and tainting shorelines from Texas to Florida.
Judge Barbier was scheduled at a hearing yesterday to get an update on the scope of a trial over the size of potential pollution fines against BP and Anadarko. The trial may take place this year.
The spill sparked thousands of lawsuits against London-based BP and Anadarko, as well as Transocean — the owner of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that burned and sank, killing 11 — and Halliburton, which provided cement services for the well.
Anadarko spokesman John Christiansen declined to comment on the e-mails other than to refer to the company's annual report filed on February 28. Given its "lack of direct operational involvement" and Judge Barbier's ruling that it was not negligent during the drilling operation, The Woodlands, Texas-based company said it believed its exposure to penalties under the Clean Water Act would not materially affect it.
"The company currently cannot estimate the amount of any such penalty nor determine a range of possible loss," Anadarko said.
Judge Barbier is weighing whether BP, Transocean and Halliburton were grossly negligent in their work on the well. For BP, such a finding could mean more than $17bn in environmental fines.
Those penalties would be on top of the $9.2bn settlement of most private-party lawsuits that BP reached in 2012. Anadarko paid BP $4bn to resolve its share of liability for those suits.
BP pleaded guilty to 11 counts of felony seaman's manslaughter, two pollution violations and one count of lying to Congress in connection with the spill. The firm agreed to pay $4.5bn in related criminal and civil penalties.
While Judge Barbier has concluded Anadarko was not negligent in connection with the Macondo drilling operations, the company remains potentially liable for spill damages and penalties under the Oil Pollution Act and the Clean Water Act.
The government points to the unsealed e-mails as proof Anadarko played an active role in assessing the well's safety.
After urging BP to deepen the well the week before the blowout, Anadarko agreed to a drilling halt, according to the e-mails. "In the event BP concludes it is safe and prudent to continue drilling," Anadarko said it "would not oppose BP doing so."
Anadarko managers continued to brainstorm about how to persuade BP to deepen the oil well in the future, according to the e-mails.
The internal communications "demonstrate how intimately Anadarko monitored the drilling of the Macondo well; how it failed to take any precautions despite BP's notorious prior safety and environmental problems; and how it failed to make inquiries at critical junctures," government lawyers said in a court filing.
The internal files will make it difficult for Anadarko to continue portraying itself as a silent investor in the Macondo site, says David Uhlmann, a University of Michigan law professor and former head of the Justice Department's environmental crimes division.
"Anadarko was more than just a passive investor and therefore is going to be required to pay substantially more to settle its liability for the spill," Mr Uhlmann said, based on the e-mails. "The fact that Anadarko may pay more, however, does not mean that BP will pay less. Each company will be penalised based on its culpability."
Transocean, which handled drilling operations at the well, agreed to pay the government $1bn to resolve its spill liability under the Clean Water Act. Anadarko could be facing a similar fine based on the e-mails, Mr Uhlmann said.
The third partner in the Macondo well, Mitsui & Company's Moex Offshore 2007 LLC unit, paid BP more than $1bn to resolve spill-damage claims stemming from its 10% ownership stake. It paid the government $90m to resolve all state and federal pollution claims from the spill.
Mr Uhlmann said the size of Moex's environmental fine was linked to its status as a true silent partner in the Macondo well.
In other e-mails, Anadarko employees discussed technical aspects of the well while drilling proceeded and expressed worries about BP's safety record. Two weeks before the blowout, Anadarko's lead geologist on the project e-mailed a fellow employee that Macondo was still having "well-control issues" and leaking "6.3-barrels of mud every 2 minutes" into the underground formation.
Drilling mud is used to lubricate and control pressure within the well. "Yikes, that sounds like a lot," the colleague replied.
The day after the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon, an Anadarko manager messaged co-workers who were discussing the company's stake in BP's well.
"I tell you, BP is up s*** creek; between the Texas City refinery fire, the Alaska pipeline leak, Thunderhorse almost sinking — not sure I would partner with them anymore," the supervisor said in the e-mail.
BP admitted responsibility for the March 2005 explosion at its Texas City plant, which killed 15 and injured hundreds at its largest refinery. The company, which has denied it intentionally endangered workers at the facility, paid more than $2bn to settle lawsuits stemming from the incident plus a $50m pollution fine.
In 2006, BP's Alaskan pipeline spilled about 200,000 gallons of oil at Prudhoe Bay. The company pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour pollution violation and paid a $20m fine to settle state and federal criminal claims.
Production at BP's Thunderhorse oil and gas platform, one of the Gulf of Mexico's largest, was delayed for about two years after Hurricane Dennis left the structure listing to one side in 2005.
The US is urging Judge Barbier to calculate Anadarko's fine for the 2010 spill at the maximum rate of $4,300 for each barrel, and only consider a lower rate if he determines there were extenuating factors. Clean Water Act penalties are not pro-rated based on fractional ownership of an oil well under the law.
"Anadarko on several occasions encouraged BP to drill deeper despite the risks" and that should expose the firm to additional liability for environmental fines, the government's lawyers said.
Anadarko is asking Judge Barbier to rule that the company should pay "zero" environmental fines and to reject the government's arguments that the e-mails show it had input into drilling operations.
While Anadarko concedes it approved Macondo's well design and drilling expenditures and had "limited access to certain forms of operational data," that does not mean it had "operational control" of the site "or contributed to the discharge."


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If your suede slippers have been waterproofed, any spill should be treatable with a quick application of a damp towel. For more thorough treatment, purchase a suede cleaning kit. Such kits should contain a suede eraser and small stiff brush. Use the eraser on the stain and then apply the brush.
If your suede has not been waterproofed and they get wet, remove the moisture with a clean towel. Do not use a blow dryer or heater. Once dry, restore the nap with a suede brush. A nail file or suede brush is effective in removing mud or scuff marks, as is the gentle application of softly textured sandpaper.
Leather slippers should only be cleaned or treated with products made specifically for leather shoes. A leather shoe cleaner can be used for removing dirt. After they're cleaned, let your leather slippers sit for a few minutes and then shine them with a soft cotton cloth.
If you want your leather slippers to age well, treat them regularly with a quality leather shoe conditioner. Your leather will absorb a natural conditioner easier than a synthetic one, and this will help keep your slippers soft and properly moisturized.
Clean the outer portion of your sheepskin slippers with a soft, damp cloth. A suede eraser can be used to treat scuff marks or dirt. You should also consider applying a water repellent and/or stain guard to the outer surface of your sheepskin slippers. If your sheepskin need to be washed, do so by hand using lukewarm water and a non-enzyme liquid soap designed specifically for leather products. Let the slippers dry naturally after washing, though you can use a towel to soak up excess moisture.


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