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April 20th, 2011 (1:38 PM). Edited April 21st, 2011 by Miss Doronjo.
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Rachel Yane
"Ugh, do I REALLY have to talk about myself? ...Is this on camera? OH GOD, WHERE IS MY MAKE UP?! Erm, well, anyway, people describe me as a very passionate, and for some reason, an eccentric individual. Sounds hefty for an 18 year old, right? Well, why am I so passionate? Well, a person named Oumagae told me that its because I get angered too easily by the littlest things. Who is she to tell me that I have an anger problem?! Shame on her for living!! On the other hand though, she also told me that I'm pretty emotional in general; whether it is I'm too kind, or that I'm too sad, and so on. You might also be wondering why I'm also so eccentric. People have always told me: "Rachel! Your insanity is one of a kind!" Those banana heads...I would think that the only time I was crazy was when I was too obsessed with paw pads (I'm still am though). Haha...well, this is embarrassing to talk about myself, but I'm also kind of a scatterbrain. Yes, even I admit it, leave me alone. I'd always forget a pokemon's moveset; for example, how was I supposed to know that a Pikachu can learn Thunderbolt? WHO MAKES UP THIS DRIBBLE? Also, I break every machine easily. Like for instance...my baby brother's last Game boy? BUT! I KNOW I CAN DO IT! I'm also learning how to cook from my mother; next up in my lunch menu? Octopus pie! With real live octopuses! So you know your eating it fresh. Can't wait to try it, right? I'd be always there for my friends. Except when I can trade them for a quarter; then I say: 'Push off, losers!' Hah, well, when comes around, goes around I suppose. I can warm up and be open to people more easily. I don't understand why people prefer popularity over eccentricity; popularity is waaaaay overrated, in my opinion. So! I love my eccentricity, and YOU SHALL TOO!
"...Wait, are you STILL here? Would you get out for a scooby snack? Okay, okay, want my history? Fine. I was born in the tranquil city of Blackthorn; which is located in Johto; my father, a successful business consultant with the Silph co. company, whilst my mother was an aspiring pokemon researcher and off-time breeder. I was the youngest of three, having an older brother and sister and given the significant age difference between the two sisters and their elder brother, whom had long begun his pokemon journey when I was barely six years of age; my sisters had a tendency to be favored. Whilst on the exterior of my family seemed peaceful, my father was frequently called out of the region which caused an increasing strain upon the marriage as neither was willing to sideline their work.
Initially I would cling to older siblings, however while in the beginning my brother would regularly return home, this gradually became a rarity due to his increasing accomplishments as a trainer allotting him access to distant lands. My older sister would attempt to fill this void, albeit it was short lived as my parents would part company although neither was able to admit such was permanent. Unfortunately, my sister was for the time being forced to move with my father whilst I remained with my mother.
This arrangement was particularly difficult upon myself, who idolized my siblings and with my sister venturing into coordinating; we had little time to keep in touch. Additionally, Blackthorn was well known to produce quite elite trainers, who specialized in Dragon pokemon, thus I was sometime shunned for seemingly withdrawn and introverted personality as it was an indication of weakness by some. So, I decided to be a little quirker; to show off my eccentricity, and prove the world how good of a battilier I can be. Or not be. HEY! THAT WAS SHAKESPEARE! I WIN! Anway, time would pass and I, all of only sixteen would come across an injured Feebas and although nervous of the pokemon, I decided to care for it whilst it recovered. Such was to become my first step into the world of pokemon training…
Okay, now get lost-- I mean, bye.
...No really, get lost."
Pokemon 1
Milotic (F)
Milotic was found, as a Feebas in the outskirts of Blackthorn; near the Dragon's Den. When Rachel found it, Feebas was hurt pretty badly. The cause was known, but Rachel still decided to take care of it. A few days later, Feebas was in good health. Rachel was still a beginner with pokemon then, so she decided that this Feebas was going to be her first pokemon. With a year of training, and battiling against a few gyms and trainers, Feebas evolved into a Milotic, and thus, Rachel gave it the nickname: "Amer" named after her beloved sister.
Milotic is actually a bratty pokemon; Milotic have a tendency yo be very beautiful pokemon, so Amer the Milotic have a tendancy to show off its beautifulness, porving itself to be more superior to other pokemon. In battle, Milotic is a pretty powerful pokemon, and thus, it gets over-confident at times too.
Moveset (up to 6): Twister, Recover, Mirror Coat, Ice Beam, Aqua Tail,
Pokemon 2 –
Gabite (M)
Still a beginner pokemon trainer, Rachel found Gabite as a Gible, in the Ice Cave near Blackthorn City. Now, the Ice Cave was quite an unorthodox location for a Gible to appear, which intrigued Rachel. Gible was a little feisty pokemon, however; it demanded battles from all the pokemon it met up with, and knocked out each one from what Rachel saw. Rachel eventually decided to face the Gible with her Feebas, however, she forgotten that Feebas only learned two moves: Splash and Tackle. Splash was useless, so she had to go with Tackle for the match. The Gible was tough however; it knew moves such as Bite and Sand Tomb, which overwhelmed Rachel's Feebas. Rachel then thought of a strategic move. She threw a rock at the Gible, distracting it. Yeah, nice strategic move, right? Which led the way for her Feebas to unleash a Tackle attack against it, knocking it out. Rachel then threw a Pokeball at it, thus capturing it. After a year of training, and gym battling, Rachel gave it the nickname "Octopus" based from her signature cooking dish: Octopus Pie.
Personality: Gabite is a hot-blooded pokemon; always rushing in to do battles. It also loves sparkiliy things...It would pause in a middle of a battle to stare at something shiny; for example, one day it saw a skarmory sparkiling against the sun.
Moveset (up to 6):
Sand Tomb, Slash, Flamethrower, Outrage
RP Sample
Blackthorn City was always peaceful. Thus, it was giving the nickname: "A Quiet Mountain Retreat". Blackthorn City was also home to many Dragon Type Trainers, on account of they challenge the Blackthorn City Gym, and its leader, Clair, who specialize in Dragon-Type pokemon. It was also home of the fabled Dragon's Den, where many Dragon-type pokemon and other types of pokemon are home to.
One day...
"This battle will now begin with the challenger , and the Blackthorn City gym Leader, Clair using two pokemon each! When both pokemon of one side are unable to battle, the battle is over! In addition, only the challenger is allowed to substitute pokemon during battle!"
The Blackthorn City gym was spacious; its roof was cut off to allow pokemon that are able to fly, fly frreely, and the gym's floor had a pool of water with many platforms on it to allow pokemon to stand on, even in the body of water. A gym match was about to begin. Clair stared heavily at her opponent; the challenger of the match. After a few brief moments, Clair finally spoke.
"You. State your name."
The challenger had a red hat on. She also had a red coat, with a black and white mini-dress. She wore black socks with red shoes to match her outfit. She slowly raised her head, to reveal her face that her hat covered. She finally replies to Clair after a while. "The name's Bond. James Bond." The challenger said with her face revealed. Clair blinked. "...I was under the impression that James is a males name. You are female, are you not?" She asked. Rachel got embarrassed. "OKAY, OKAY, my name is Rachel. Rachel Yane. But come on! That James Bond bit is cool!! PURE. GOLD." Clair closed her eyes in utter dis-amusement. "I could care less," she replied. "NOW! I, Clair, am the worlds best Dragon-type master--" "Liar." Rachel interrupted. "What... did you just say...?" Clair said, displeased. "EVERYONE and their mom knows that Lance is the worlds best Dragon master. He's the Johto champion for Machop's sake." "FORGET HIM," Clair said angrily. "I am the true dragon master in this case -- in your case. Understand?" Rachel rolled her eyes. "Yeah. Sure. Whatever." She said with pity. "Good," Clair said. "Now! As the Gym Leader, I will use my full power against any opponent! Choose your first pokemon!"
Rachel started to hesitate, as she juggled her first pokemon in its pokeball unintentionally, until she grabbed a hold of it. "Alright! Octopus the Gabite! Lets get going!" She announced as the pokeball started to open; revealing in a white light, her Gabite, one Rachel nicknamed Octopus, because it reminded her on how much she enjoys cooking those Octopus Pies she loves to bake. "Gaaaaaabite!" Octopus cried as it revealed itself. Clair chuckled. "Octopus is the name you gave to a dragon-type pokemon?" she mocked. "That is a disgrace to the majestic Dragon pokemon!" Rachel was uninterested on what Clair had to say. "Oh blah, blah, blah," she sassed. "Nicknames aren't important! Lets get this showdown over with!" Clair sent out one of her pokemon. "I chose you...Dragonair!" she said as her famous Dragonair appeared. "Dragonair!" it quickly cried upon arrival. Rachel never fought with a Dragonair before, even with all the Dragon pokemon she faced in the last year when she first became a pokemon trainer. So this was a first.
"Dragonair vs. Gabite..." the referee said. "Let the battle...BEGIN!" Gabite! Use Slash attack!" Rachel ordered as Gabite obeyed. It started running, skipping across the platforms, towards the awaiting Dragonair sitting in the pool. "Dragonair! Use Agility to dodge!" Clair ordered. Dragonair's gem on its neck glowed. Its body glowed, which then "zip" it dodged Octopus's Slash attack before it could even reached. Dragonair was faster than the eye could follow. Gabite stumbled a little in mid-air, as it finally got its closure, and managed to land on its feet on a nearby platform. "Agility doubles my Dragonair's speed!" Clair explained. "Now watch this! Dragonair! Use agility to get behind your foe!" Rachel hesitated. "Octopus! Watch out behind you!" But it was too late. Dragonair was faster than Octopus could react. "Dragonair, Dragonbreath!" Clair ordered by then. "Dragon...breath...?" Rachel questioned. "Ew, Clair, has this have anything to do with your breath?" "Laugh all you want," Clair said. "Dragonbreath is a powerful Dragon-type move that sometimes paralyzes your opponent! NOW! Draognair! Continue your attack!" "Octopus! Dodge it!" Rachel tried to command. Octopus was about to jump to dodge the incoming attack, when...it stopped. It stared at the blue jewel placed on Dragonair's neck. It was in complete awe. This came from Octopus's fascination of shiny things. Meanwhile, Dragonair's blue jewel glowed. It released a blue-green gas towrds Octopus that ultimately numbed Octopus's entire body. "Now, Dragonair! Iron Tail!" Clair commanded. Dragonair's tail glowed; it used its tail to slam on to the numb Gabite, causing it to crash onto the nearby wall. Octopus stumbled and wobbled, then it slumped and hit hard against the floor.
"Gabite is unable to battle!" the referee said. "Dragonair is the winner!" "Return, Octopus!" Rachel gauntly said. She had almost forgotten Gabite's true weakness to shiny objects. perhaps if he blinded Octopus's eyes, that would it make it all better. At least, that's what she thought. "Choose your final pokemon!" Clair suggested. "Lets see you get a taste of Amer the Milotic!!" Rachel said as she threw another pokeball. This time, the Pokeball revealed a Milotic nicknamed Amer, from that name was the name of Rachel's sister, the one who she lost contact with after her parents got a divorce. "Milotic vs Dragonair!" the referee stated. "Let the battle...begin!" "Amer! Use Ice Beam!" Rachel called out as Amer obeyed. It swiftly swiched the hairs it has and released a blue beam from its mouth. "Dodge with Agility!' Clair once again ordered; as Dragonair, once again had enough speed to dodge Amer's Ice Beam, all thanks to Agility. "You can try, and try, but your attacks will never reach my Dragonair!" Clair stated as Rachel started to sweat. "My Dragonair however, can greatly damage your Milotic! Now Dragonair! Thunderbolt!" With Dragonair's blue jem started to glow again, it released a bolt of energy towards Amer. "You're finished!!" Clair explained. "Not with the power of god-modding!" Rachel explained. "Amer! Use Mirror Coat to bounce it back!" Clair was surprised. "M-Mirror Coat?!" she shrieked. "Mirror Coat is a move that bounces special moves right back at double the power!" Rachel smiled. "Well, la dee da, you know how the move works!" Rachel chuckled. "I promise to give you a cookie after this battle!" In any case, Amer activated a special pink barrier which defected Dragonair's Thunderbolt, right back at the Dragonair, at twice the power. Dragonair cried in pain as after the blow, the Thunderbolt resulted in paralysis. Clair could only watch in anguish as Rachel commanded Amer's next move: "Use Ice Beam!" Which Dragonair couldn't dodge this time, because of the paralyzing hax. Dragonair stumbled and crashed on the pool water it was swimming on. It stopped moving.
"Dragonair is unable to battle!" the referee announced. "Milotic is the winner!" While was jumping up and down like a lunatic on caffeine, Amer didn't seem to care; it swayed its red hairs back and forth to prove it won the match with more style. Clair returned her Dragonair back into its pokeball. "Not bad," she complimented. "But don't celebrate just yet! Next I choose...Kingdra!" Clair sent out her final pokemon, a Kingdra. "Dra...Dra!" it cried upon arrival. It was swimming in the pool of water. "Kingdra vs Milotic... Let the battle...begin!" the referee announced. "Amer! Use Ice Beam!" Rachel ordered as once again Amer delivers a Ice Beam. "Dive underwater to dodge!" Clair cried out as Kingdra complied. It dove underwater which led the Ice Beam completely off its mark. "Now, use... HYPER BEAM!" Clair ordered. "Oh...crapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapcrapCRRRRRRAP!" Rachel panicked as Kingdra rose and released a powerful orange beam. "...that's what I WOULD of said If I didn't have this! Amer! Mirror Coat!" Amer once again put up the same pink barrier to deflect Kingdra's hyper beam right back. "Oh please, I'm not falling for THAT again," Clair explained. "Dive underwater to dodge!" Kingdra obeyed, which again, the re-bounced Hyper Beam completely missed it. "Hmph...what are you going to do now?" Clair said. "You can't mirror coat forever! And even if your Milotic was able to reach my kindra underwater, my kingdra's speed FAR out-passes it!!" Rachel started to think. "Well FINE! I WONT INVITE YOU TO MY BIRTHDAY PARTY ANYMORE!" Rachel pouted. "Amer! use Ice beam on the pool!" Clair got confused. "The...pool?" Milotic obeyed, which its released blue beam striked the pool, freezing it, causing the surface to be completly blanketed by frozen ice. Kingdra couldn't move from where it was swimming. "Oh...OH NO!" Clair cried. "Now Amer!" Rachel started to order. "Move in and use Aqua Tail!" Amer slithered its way to the suspended Kingdra as its tail glowed with 2 aqueous rings. Amer then use its tail to slam down he top of Kingdra's head as hard as it could, causing the ice to break. Kingdra was hit so hard that it sunk a little, then it floated back up. It stopped moving. "Dra..." it tried to cry out.
"Kingdra is unable to battle! Milotic wins! So! The victor is...Rachel!" "VVVVVVVVICTORY SCREECH!!" Rachel yelled happily after winning the match. "Please...don't," Clair begged. "Just take the stupid badge and go. Its the Rising Badge." "Can I...do a victory pose?" Rachel asked in glee. "DO IT OUTSIDE!" Clair yelled.
Meanwhile...right outside the blackthorn gym, a mysterious man was wearing binoculars, seeming to have watched the battle between Rachel and Clair. "She's perfect..." he mumered.
Rachel exited the gym, holding her Rising Gym badge in the air. This was her 8th gym badge; she had aquired all of the Johot gym badges. Rachel was actually a trainer not but about two years ago, training non-stop with her two pokemon: Octopus the Gabite, and Amer the Milotic. Rachel wa'ted to finally get back home, until...the man who was watching her appeaerd right before Rachel's eyes. He had a black suit, with black pants and sunglasses; you know, the ones that those "O-M-G I AM AN IMPORTANT AGENT" guys wear. "Who are you?!" Rachel asked, suprised. "And...why should I care." "...You don't need to know who I am," the mysterious man replied. "But...I know you. I have been watching your battle skills for some time now--" HOW DARE YOU WATCH ME TAKE A SHOWER!!" Rachel yelled. "Um...I said your
. Leisure time, I can care less about. But in any case, I am part of a organization concerned about the natural disaters happening in parts of this world."
This was true; natural occurances were happening so much lately. Last time as Rachel can recall, there was a small hurricane near Cherrygrove City, as well as a small tsunami near Olivine City. What Rachel is about to hear, however...was something that carried on to her mind. "We suspect it has something to do with...Arceus." Rachel got confused. She had never heard of a pokemon named Arceus. "What's an...Arceus?" she asked softly. "...is it delicious?" "Arcues is said to be the god of all pokemon," the man replied. "Its a supposed legend, but...we suspect it may be the cause of all this." Rachel looked down. She was worried about Arceus. What if the natural disaters was to happen towards the peaceful Blackthorn City? "How would you like to join us?" the man asked briefly. Rachel didn't know what to say. This was asked out of the blue; straight from winning her final gym badge. Rachel closed her eyes, wondering in though. What would her mother say? What would her siblings say? Then...
"Will there be cake there?," she asked. "DAMN IT, I can't do heroic stuff without my cake." "...Yes, I promise there will be cake," the man promised. "My treat. "ALRIGHT THEN! SIGN ME UP FOR...WHATEVER IT IS YOU GUYS ARE GOING!" Rachel said excited. "WHO DO I BEAT UP FIRST?!" "You will go Mistralton City in the Unova region," the man said. "The ferry leaves tomorrow to go to the airport with your first mission. Good luck." Rachel thought it would be best not to tell her family and get involved in this. Soon, she went to the local mart and bought some supplies for the trip. "That will be 100 yen," the clerk said. "...Rip-off artist." Rachel insulted while she handed over the money. The day after, she arrived at the Oilvine City Port, where she found the boat leaving for for the airport. She managed to get aboard, but she almost forgot her ticket because she wanted to play rock, paper, sicssors with the local Magnemites. However, she then realized that Magnemites HAD no hands, so she just went aboard. "We will be arriving in the airport in 15 minutes." the announcement said.
During the ferry ride, Rachel had all the time to think about her decision. She always loved her siblings, as well as her parents, so she thought it was wrong to leave them behind. She glanced at the pokeballs of her two pokemon: Amer the Milotic and Octopus the Gabite, wondering how she should tell though about her decision. 15 minutes later, she arrived at the airport where she found the airplane leaving for Mistralton City in the Unova region. "We will be arriving in Mistralton City in a few hours," the announcement said. "HEY LADY!" Rachel yelled. "WHERE THE HELL ARE MY PEANUTS? I mean come on! Air rides aren't complete without them."
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* A fundraiser for Dave Grohl Alley in downtown Warren is planned Friday at Trumbull Art Gallery.
''Back Alley Blues and Tattoos'' will feature music by Damian Knapp, appetizers and beverages, displays about the alley project and its history, and a chance to see the work of tattoo artist and painter Thad Minnick, which currently is on display at TAG (for those who didn't make it to the opening last weekend, the work of Thad and his father, Kip Minnick, definitely is worth checking out).
Jennifer Campbell of the Downtown Warren Events and Promotions Council said proceeds from the event will be used for the renovation and upkeep of the alley. In addition to adding new artwork to the space, Main Street Warren hopes to install lighting and other enhancements.
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On display at the event will be photos of Grohl's visit for the alley dedication in 2009, some of the alley artwork and the champagne bottle autographed by Grohl.
''Back Alley Blues and Tattoos'' runs from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday at TAG, 196-198 E. Market St., and the gated alley space behind it.
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Tickets can be purchased at www.gleek-sneak3d.com through Aug. 2. It appears the closest screening to Trumbull County will be the Cinemark theater in Valley View.
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Page to Stage lets audiences watch - and comment - on the evolution of ''Fat Camp,'' which is described as a coming-of-age rock musical comedy.
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Veep's Matt Walsh to Sow Wild Oats With Shirley MacLaine and Demi Moore
And Jessica Lange.By E. Alex Jung
And Jessica Lange.By E. Alex Jung
Rose's debutante dress, Edith's transformation, and more.By Katie Van Syckle
Including Billy Joel, Shirley MacLaine, and Carlos Santana.By Margaret Lyons
From Edie Sedgwick's iconic pixie to Agyness Deyn's platinum boy cut.By Christina Han
Along with some new cast members.By Andre Tartar
It's far more than a nighttime soap for Anglophiles.By Matt Zoller Seitz
You haven't lived until you've seen Angela Lansbury's "improvised rhythmic dancing."By Eliot Glazer
And the Internet's limited "tolerance for emotional knowledge."By Denise Martin
Let's go back to the future, specifically to the third season premiere of Downton Abbey.By Eliot Glazer
Downton is haunted, apparently.By Amanda Dobbins
Jack Black stars in Richard Linklater's amusing film about a small-town Texas murder.By David Edelstein
He kills Shirley MacLaine ... but she had it coming.By Kyle Buchanan
It's Shirley (or "Mrs. Levinson," if you're nasty)!By Eliot Glazer
Though her hotel accommodations leave something to be desired.By Amanda Dobbins
Game on.By Amanda Dobbins
It has an ethnic twist.By Caroline Bankoff
Murder! Rich ladies! Linklater!By Mike Vilensky
Plus: 'Entourage' producers developing a 'female-centric' comedy for HBO.By Josh Duboff
Oh Robert Altman, where art thou?By Mark Graham
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Cute and funny illustrations by French illustrator Vaïnui de Castelbajac – in this series Vaïnui builds on witty word-play to create little scenarios.
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Cute and funny illustrations by French illustrator Vaïnui de Castelbajac – in this series Vaïnui builds on witty word-play to create little scenarios.
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Wait. wait. wait. what?
That just about sums up my reactions to Li Wei's awesome acrobatic/stuntsman/scaffolding/staged photos. Have a nice weekend, and please do not try this at home (unless you're wearing bright pink tights – that seems safe).
Via ItsNiceThat
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Dear readers, I hope your weekend went well, and your St. Patrick's day – if you enjoy celebrating for such frivolous reason (I know I do).
Keeping with collage-style illustrations, I hope you enjoy these little artworks by Mathilde Aubier as much as I do. This French illustrator creates cool textured characters with sponges or cats or other things as body parts.
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I tend to avoid using the adjective "weird" as a compliment while referring to someone's artworks – but after having a look at Ted Parker's funny and weird drawings you might agree with me. The cigarette-smoking-dog has to be my favorite, but they are all so hilarious – and potentially creepy if seen in real life.
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BALTIMORE – Phil Hughes can cleave his season into two halves. It is not a difficult activity. In a four-start stretch from April 18 to May 4, he resembled the pitcher the Yankees always hoped he might be. He allowed just six earned runs in 28 innings, with 30 strikeouts and five walks.
The trouble, of course, is his other four starts. In those outings, he lasted just 13 1/3 innings and gave up 21 runs. The nadir occurred in his last start, when he could not complete the first inning against Seattle. The Mariners pummeled him, posting seven runs in the process.
After that awful night, Hughes insisted he would lose sleep over the coming days. That prediction came true, he explained before Monday's game against the Orioles.
"It was tough," Hughes said. "I think it's the first time I've not gotten out of the first. It was especially tough, the last one. It took me a couple days to get over it. It's never something you want to go through. But it is what it is. And I'm excited about tomorrow, and officially putting that one out of my memory bank."
Manager Joe Girardi had little doubt Hughes would show well on Tuesday at Orioles Park at Camden Yards. He felt confident Hughes could leave the past where it belonged.
"I think Hughesy turns the page pretty well," Girardi said. "I don't think he'll focus on what he did his last start. I don't think it will enter his mind."
Yet the brutality of the evening is hard to forget. The Mariners roped six hits off Hughes in the last start. The backbreaker was a grand slam by former teammate Raul Ibanez. As Hughes reflected on his outcome, he found a technical flaw. He often rushed his delivery, which prevented him from locating his fastball properly.
"I felt like I was on the side of the ball a little bit," Hughes said. "That tends to make my fastball come over the middle of the plate. So in my bullpen, I just tried to focus on staying behind the baseball."
Pitching coach Larry Rothschild was able to aid with this problem in recent days. It's been an occasional thorn in Hughes' side during his tenure as a Yankee.
For Hughes, the ability to command his fastball is paramount for success. He lacks a devastating secondary option. Thus as his fastball goes, he goes. This was the differentiating factor between his success and failure this season, he explained.
"It's all fastball command," Hughes said. "The days that I've had good command of my fastball, I've been able to work everything off that. Those were the good ones. The bad ones were me falling behind, and trying to figure something out.
"When my fastball's there, locating it, then I have a good chance to be good that day. If not, I need to do a better job of recognizing that earlier and throwing more offspeed pitches to try to counter-balance that."
The Yankees can only hope his fastball command is there on Tuesday. But at the very least, Giradi quipped, Hughes hasn't been over-worked as of late.
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The New York Giants have the most improbable playoff scenario of any NFL team alive.
According to Bovada, they have 75-to-1 odds to win the Super Bowl. Just to put that probability into perspective, that's the same ratio which Bloomberg reported the Cleveland Browns had before the season began.
What needs to happen on Sunday for the G-Men to tip toe into the postseason is so complicated that NFL.com doesn't even attempt to explain it in its Playoff Picture.
Green Bay Packers Beat Minnesota Vikings
This one isn't difficult to imagine.
Green Bay would be resting its starters if it wasn't screwed over by the replacement refs against the Seattle Seahawks. Instead, it'll play like a first-round bye is on the line. Because one is.
Adrian Peterson rushed for 210 yards against the Packers in Week 13 and Minnesota still couldn't win. They'll sweep the Vikings and keep New York alive.
Detroit Lions Beat Chicago Bears
And this is where the Giants need a miracle.
Detroit has lost seven straight games, which is the longest losing streak in the league. The Lions have been able to keep it close several times, but they almost always find a way to escape with the L.
While Jim Schwartz's crew doesn't give the G-Men much reason to believe, Chicago's offense should. Jay Cutler has thrown 14 interceptions this season and been sacked 36 times. The Bears should be heavily favored in this ballgame, but they're erratic enough to lose to the Lions.
Washington Redskins Beat Dallas Cowboys
New York knows as well as anyone what Robert Griffin III is capable of.
RGIII and the Skins are on a six-game winning streak and have shown no signs of slowing down. In their way are the Cowboys who just lost to Washington in Week 12. At home, the Redskins should take care of business and come to the Giants' aid.
New York Giants Beat Philadelphia Eagles
Oh yeah. New York needs all of that to happen and it needs to come away with its own victory.
Philadelphia is 1-10 in its last 11 games, so the G-Men's opposition is easy prey. Of course, Philly beat them in their first meeting and the Giants have lost their last two games by the combined score of 67-14.
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Graded NM-MT 8 by PSA. Striking high-grade example of one of the key cards from the classic 1953 Bowman Color series. This is also one of the most distinctive of all 1950s cards, featuring an outstanding candid image of Mantle, Berra, and Bauer in the dugout of Yankee Stadium. The offered card has four sharp corners, a crystal-clear image, snow-white borders, and is centered slightly to the bottom border (60/40 T/B). The reverse of the card is perfectly clean with an extremely tiny fleck of paper turned up on the reverse along the top edge. This is an exceptional high-grade example of one of the all-time classic 1950s gum cards. Reserve $500. Estimate $1,000/$1,500. SOLD FOR $1,293
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It took just 7 days, but the Chesapeake Funspiel is sold out. Congrats to everyone who made it in. Draw times will handed out around mid-December, so keep checking back to http://www.chesapeakecurling.org/aliens-in-the-hack.
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Rising country star Charlie Worsham has toured with the likes of Taylor Swift and Brad Paisley, but a career setback taught him more than rubbing elbows with the stars.
"Want Me To," the latest single from Worsham's debut album, "Rubberband," peaked at No. 46 on the country charts, far below Worsham's expectations.
"It was released back in December," Worsham said. "I still thought it was going to be No. 1 and bought more things (for Christmas) than I should have."
But the single's failure to climb the charts turned into a blessing, he said.
"I'm more grateful for what I get to do than I've ever been," said Worsham, who returns to Amarillo for a 9 p.m. Saturday show at Midnight Rodeo, 4400 S. Georgia St. "I felt like dog (expletive) for a couple of months ... then I woke up one day and realized that my perspective was way off.
"I was getting to walk out and play for 8,000 people every night, and playing music that I enjoyed playing, around people I enjoyed being with, sleeping on a bus instead of on a van," Worsham said.
"I'm not where I want to be, maybe, in my career, but ultimately over the long haul, I know I'll get there," he said. "It's not about getting there, it's about what I get to do every day."
Currently, that's touring with country music superstar Paisley when Worsham's not doing his own solo shows.
"It's just pure fun, absolute pure joy," Worhsam said. "I relate to him as an artist so much, obviously, and have that much more to learn from him because he is a (guitar) player as well as a singer, a damn good one.
"It really is a joy," he said. "It's always fun to get to play with great musicians who challenge you, but I'd not expected to get to play with Brad as much, and I eat it up every chance I get."
Worsham's also beginning to work on a follow-up to his 2013 debut album.
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November 20, 2012 | Adaptive clinical trials might be globally embraced if the current preoccupation with fixed trial designs was viewed as an "engineering problem" requiring a lot of talk and teamwork between adaptive design experts, said Michael Krams, MD, vice president & head of the neurology franchise at Johnson & Johnson (J&J).
"This type of innovation will happen once we get out of the Tower of Babel and start building Empire State Buildings." The skyscraper in Manhattan went up in a surprisingly short 30 months.
Krams was speaking last month at Transforming Drug Development: Delivering Innovation and Efficiency Through Adaptive Clinical Trials* in Bethesda, Maryland. He is widely considered the ultimate champion of adaptively designed trials, having implemented them at Pfizer, Wyeth, and now J&J (see, "Michael Krams, Biting the Adaptive Trials Bullet," May 2007). But more important than the trials themselves is the potential beneficial impact of adaptive designs on societal health, he said.
Reformulating entrenched processes to favor adaptive designs requires top-down leadership and the enabling infrastructure at individual companies as well as industry-wide collaboration, said Krams. A cooperatively developed and published "integrated blueprint for efficient support infrastructure" is among his key proposals for moving the industry from a "fast-to-milestone to a fast-to-patient" mindset. The education piece is also crucial and might include high-level workshops, university courses on the pharmacological basis for adaptive trials, and efforts directed at change opponents within individual companies, he adds.
To take root, the adaptive approach needs to be implemented across therapeutic sectors, if not entire companies, Krams said. At J&J, every new molecular entity declaration prompts a roundtable meeting to map out a development strategy using scenario analysis to scout out opportunities across study programs. Support from not only drug supply management but also finance is critical, as study budgets might range from $1 million to $20 million versus traditional point estimates.
Regulatory challenges are real, too, but not insurmountable. Quite possibly, the "right customers within the [regulatory agencies] aren't being addressed," Krams said. "I go to the people who own the problem, like Rusty Katz [director of the FDA's neurology products division]. I explain to him for disease modification for Alzheimer's…there is no way without combination therapies and preventive strategies that we will solve the problem." Krams' candor worked. He was invited back to discuss his adaptive approach and Katz is becoming one of its champions.
"It's all about change management," said Krams. "If the objective is to get to the correct answer, then the decision-making framework needs to identify the best research question and the best way to answer that question in the most cost-efficient manner." Instead, large companies "incentivize for faster-to-next-milestone thinking." The quality of phase III studies is consequently "a societal problem of incredible dimension," he said. "Billions of dollars are wasted because we don't talk enough." Outcomes would likewise improve if more time was spent analyzing study results, planning subsequent ones, and key experts "endorsed" patients into phase III trials.
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"Can we think of building solutions for dementia as an engineering problem?" Krams challenges listeners. The problem with Alzheimer's disease is that it starts a decade or two before it is clinically visible and yet trials involve patients already diagnosed with dementia. PET imaging could be looking for amyloid deposition in the brains of patients pre-diagnosis. Information could also be borrowed from Down's syndrome research, where all clinical trial subjects produce sufficient amyloid protein precursor to guarantee the development of Alzheimer's disease.
A very large epidemiological and natural history study currently seeking funding will build a "biomarker-based GPS system to [triangulate] the position of an individual on the trajectory of developing dementia," said Krams. "Eventually, we'll take large longitudinal studies, like the Framingham [Heart] Study, and make a pharmacological interventional trial out of it."
Individual biomarkers are of no interest, Krams said. "It's the relationship of many biomarkers to each other that gives away the fingerprint." Development of a map for familial Alzheimer's would be followed by a similar one for the sporadic variety. Eventually, it may be found that therapeutic intervention is of benefit before the first amyloid deposition occurs. "Implementation is not a trivial thing," he adds. Biomarkers will have to "read out early and clearly demonstrate a relationship to something that happens later that is of relevance clinically."
The beauty of this proposed umbrella study is that a variety of treatments could be explored simultaneously and those that look promising would move into confirmatory trials, said Krams. It's the sort of adaptive approach already happening in oncology and that the U.K.'s Department of Health is particularly keen on broadening to new therapeutic areas. When drug development becomes more adaptive and thus more "networky" [sic] in this way, the focus shifts from individual trials and study programs to what is scientifically sensible and of central interest to regulators: what is most beneficial to patients.
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"Lacking the bare necessities of life." The Microsoft Encarta Dictionary offers this concise definition to explain the word "indigent."
If a person is lacking the bare necessities of life, even death can be a burden. When an indigent person dies, who is to pay to provide a funeral, burial or cremation?
Some larger metropolitan areas are experiencing the problem in multiples of indigencies, in rising numbers because the national economy has worsened. In Tiffin and Seneca County, the numbers are smaller, but the reality remains the same. Somebody has to pay when an indigent person dies.
"We provide $750 for an indigent burial if the person is a resident of the city of Tiffin," Mayor Jim Boroff said. "Last year I had just maybe three. This year, to my recollection, as I look at it, we've only had two. So they are not really on the rise."
Each year the city of Tiffin allocates between $3,000-$3,500 to pay for burials of indigent people, Boroff said. Family or friends of indigent deceased people - if there are any family or friends - can add another $750 for a total of $1,500 if they have the means, said Robb Mack of Hoffman-Gottfried-Mack Funeral Home.
The cost of a funeral and burial of an indigent person cannot exceed $1,500, Mack said. The average cost of a funeral is normally more than $6,000.
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DAYTON - Renata Richardson already had picked a name for her first child: Jazmyn Rose.
She was stockpiling gifts such as baby socks, hats and a bassinet.
But the baby died a month before she was to be born. Richardson was crushed not only by the death but because she knew she couldn't afford the cremation, which would have cost $600 to $1,200.
She had lost her job as an advertising manager months before and couldn't find another in the slumping economy.
''That's the last thing I wanted to do for her, and I knew that I couldn't do it,'' she said.
Richardson, 25, of Davie, Fla., joined a growing number of people seeking help with burial and cremation costs as the recession triggers layoffs and foreclosures and rocks the family budget. Local governments - already cutting their budgets - are stepping in with taxpayer dollars.
The numbers are up at coroner's offices from Los Angeles to Dayton to Chapel Hill, N.C. Some states and cities have increased their budgets to meet the demand.
''They basically tell me they can't afford it,'' said Lt. David Smith, who tracks down families of the dead in Los Angeles County. ''Everybody we do get ahold of is washing their hands of it.''
The median cost of a funeral for a family, including casket and vault, is about $7,300. The cost to governments, which don't arrange funerals, can range from $150 for basic cremation to $1,400 for burial.
Most states don't require relatives to pay for the burial or cremation of the poor. Governments step in if the dead had no assets and the families cannot pay or cannot be found.
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Broward County in Florida, which is partially funded through property taxes, paid for the cremation of Richardson's baby.
The city of Dayton did the same for Debra Hunt, whose 32-year-old daughter, a cancer patient, died in February. Cremation would have cost $1,000, and Hunt had $400 in the bank after quitting her job with the Dayton school system to be with her daughter.
The need for financial help reached the point that Renee Donnell, owner of Alamance Funeral Service in Burlington, N.C., started a fundraising campaign to create a burial fund. To raise money, she has helped organize plays, dinners and a silent auction. Several families have applied for money since the fund was created in October.
Donnell said the economy is partly to blame; a woman whose husband had just lost his job was among those receiving money.
''We're seeing it so much more,'' Donnell said. ''I decided we needed to do something about it.''
In Dayton, the number of indigent cremations jumped from 37 in 2007 at a total cost of $24,000 to 53 in 2008 costing $34,500.
Over a six-month period, Los Angeles County handled 80 percent more indigent bodies from the coroner's office from 2007 to last year.
At the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Chapel Hill, the number of bodies relatives refuse to take financial responsibility for has nearly doubled - from 17 in 2007 to 33 last year.
The economy is a common topic at meetings of the National Funeral Directors Association.
''Based on what we're hearing from our members, families are reporting more difficulty paying for funerals given the recent state of the economy,'' said Jessica Koth, spokeswoman for the group.
More people are asking the Funeral Consumers Alliance, a South Burlington, Vt.-based watchdog group, how to pay for a funeral ''without going into bankruptcy,'' said Executive Director Josh Slocum.
''People are unprepared for what the financial responsibility is going to be,'' said Clark County (Nev.) Coroner Mike Murphy, whose jurisdiction includes Las Vegas. ''Some people are so financially strapped they don't have anything to give.''
In the rough economy, more people in general are spending less on funerals and, in some cases, selling their cemetery plots.
The recession is also reducing revenue for local governments. Layoffs and decreased consumer spending hurt tax revenue. Foreclosures cut into property taxes.
West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin proposed an additional $300,000 in his budget for indigent burials after the number exceeded estimates by nearly 240 last year.
The city of Findlay - where the number of indigent bodies has jumped from four a year to as many as 15 - paid $11,745 for burial or cremation last year. This year, the city has budgeted $14,800.
Because of its own backlog, the Los Angeles County Morgue stopped cremating bodies from the coroner's office in February. The coroner is using $45,000 from another fund to pay for the cremations until another solution can be found.
Some coroner's offices also report a jump in the number of unclaimed bodies, whose relatives can't be found.
Local governments decide whether indigent bodies are buried or cremated. Many pick cremation because it is less expensive.
Overall, cremations are becoming more common. In Franklin County, the number of cremations increased from 2,926 in 2006 - before the economic meltdown - to 3,318 in 2008. Burials fell from 4,591 to 4,378.
The U.S. cremation rate has been steadily climbing since 1960, when it represented 3.6 percent of dispositions. The rate increased from 33.5 percent in 2006 to 34.9 percent in 2007, the year of the latest available statistics.
Cremated remains are often held for a time to allow families to surface or to find the money to pay for the cremation. If that doesn't happen, the ashes are sometimes poured into a common grave with a simple marker or spread over a body of water, a mountain or a canyon.
Burials are in plots designated by the cemetery with little fanfare and often without markers. The Hunt family also held its own memorial service.
''It's sad,'' said Sandra Yocum, chair of the religious studies department at the University of Dayton. ''There is something about honoring those who have died that is very deep in our human psyche. That's a loss to us as a whole.''
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The mayor uses his discretion when the city receives a request for indigent burial money. If the deceased person has any assets at all, those assets should be used instead of city funds, Boroff said. Before the city considers a request, local funeral directors already have reviewed the financial options carefully. Requests to the city come from the funeral directors.
"There are three funeral homes in town," Mack said. "We don't want to abuse it. That (money) comes out of the city budget; and the bigger picture, the county budget. We don't want to abuse that."
Mack said Tiffin is a family-oriented community. Even when it seems a person has no family, that impression could be wrong. People usually step in when someone dies in Tiffin or Seneca County to provide for a funeral, Mack said.
If a family does not have much money to spend, Mack said the best thing to do is be honest and up-front with the funeral director from the beginning. Funeral directors at all three Tiffin funeral homes said they are willing to work with families who have limited resources.
"A lot of times, Jen and I at the funeral home will typically work it out with the family because the city itself is having some difficult times with the current economy," Eric Shook said. Shook operates Engle-Shook Funeral Home. Jen is Shook's wife.
"I don't want to take advantage of that (city indigent burial) fund, so a lot of times we try to make it work in-house with different payment options, reducing our costs and helping the families out," Shook said.
Shook said casket manufacturers offer less expensive options that are still attractive. A less expensive casket helps reduce the overall cost of a funeral and burial. Shook also noted his funeral home is the only funeral home in the county to have a crematory. Cremation can be a less expensive option, Shook said.
Shook, like other funeral directors, said pre-arranging and pre-paying for funerals can make things simpler on families when a person dies.
Unfortunately, truly indigent persons do not have the means for pre-arrangements.
"One of the little know facts is that each township, under state law, each township is responsible for providing a burial space for any of its residents if they are considered indigent," Richard Traunero said. Traunero operates the funeral home bearing his name.
"Most of the township trustees are not aware of this," Traunero said. "Sometimes when that happens to a resident in a township we have to educate the trustees to the state law, but for the most part they have been very cooperative.
"We really don't have that need very often (to apply for indigent burial funds). There is usually someone involved who can at least come up with something and help us meet some kind of expenses. Most of the funeral homes are going to be willing to work with people to come to some kind of agreement, some kind of an equitable resolution for everybody involved."


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Eastern Vvanderfell hates outlanders, I get it. But why would the people refuse to trade with me? It's money. Everyone loves money. Luckily had the recall spell ready or I'd have to hike back through the barren wasteland areas.
Racists ain't the most logical of persons.
Derped on through the Cave of Ordeals with few problems thanks to some timely Magic Armor usage... although, my callous lack of caution when dealin' with this one floor of a poe and four armored Lizalfos ****ed me real hard. I'm not stupid and jumped down there with all five enemies alive; bomb arrow'd three Lizalfos t' death and got impatient, so I foolishly jumped down. Now, here's the problem: ya can't block a poe's attack. You can't attack a Lizalfos until it attacks you, and by that time the poe will of attacked and ****ed up your timing. Naturally, one decides to kill the poe first.
... 'Cept that doesn't work either, since as Wolf Link your jump attack will grab one enemy (or miss finishing the poe 'cause of ****in' bad programming...), leadin' to you gettin' hit. I had to use two fairies from that one floor... ._.; Certainly would've done my pride good to three-heart run the cave without usin' a single item, but oh well. Didn't use any other fairies at least, though I did pop my Fairy Tears t' tear apart those three Darknuts quicker. At that point I realized I missed a howling stone and never got the Great Spin... would've been mighty helpful since I was at full health 'til floor 40-somethin', but obviously was unnecessary.
Now all I gotta do is beat SS' boss rush in Hero mode during a six-heart run and I'll be good. It's an actual challenge since you can't use potions/fairies. I sure as shit won't beat it in one go, that's for sure...
I have deduced Animal Crossing t' be inferior to Minecraft in every way, 'cept structure... in which case such a quality is only limitation.
'Course, I've barely played AC: Wild World, so that may be a hasty conclusion I'll take back later. Doubt it though.
Minecraft probably is better. I still really like Animal Crossing, and if I knew more about Minecraft I'm sure I could argue areas that Animal Crossing is better in.
And of course, New Leaf > Wild World
There are none. Even when comparing vMinecraft to AC... or so my two hours of logged game time tells me.
Speakin' of logged game time, I caught a Neosquid. Which is funny since my gates ain't open... And we ain't even playin' the same game... ... ...
If you're into designing the interiors of houses, like I am, that's somefin. Animal Crossing also has actual characters, I don't recall Minecraft having any characters. Not sure how complex the skins in Minecraft get, but I'm leaning towards Animal Crossing having better character aesthetic customization. I'm sure there's more.
Minecraft is the better game, the little time I've actually spent in Minecraft tells me that. Animal Crossing is pretty laid back and I can see where some people would find it boring, though it does beat Minecraft in some areas, as stated.
Throw me back in the water you piece of shit
If you're into house buildin', then Minecraft utterly destroys AC. ... But only if you're willin' to learn, as it ain't anywhere as simple as plunkin' down a bunch of blocks. Don't get me started on interior buildin' neither, it's bloody mad all the things you need to memorize t' make a proper 'n good house in Minecraft.
I've yet t' see where AC bests Minecraft at all, 'sides the fact it's much less of a time sink. Ya don't need t' build objects from scratch and really dig int' your creativity like one would do in Minecraft. T'is the only thing "better" 'bout AC from what I can tell. And to be fair that is quite a good thing when players who have a life are the concern.


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HEIRLOOM apples are maturing just beyond the Blue Mountains and soon Granny Smith will be in the ute heading to Orange for the annual apple harvest. From Borry Gartell's and Gaye Stuart-Nairne's Mount Canobolas orchard and vineyard last year we collected the wonderful Cox's Orange Pippin, Lady of The Snows, Crofton, Lord Lambourne, Five Crown, Carrington and Bramley's Seedling. These are a mix of what English orchardists and fruiters call 'cookers' and 'eaters'. One of our customers was delighted that we could find for her Bramley's Seedling, which is 'without doubt the definitive English cooking apple, and in terms of flavour ranks as one of the world's great culinary apples', according to orangepippin.com.
'Although England has produced a large number of excellent 'cookers', Bramley is so dominant that the others are largely forgotten,' says orangepippin. 'Most cooks reach automatically for the trusty Bramley, and it is equally prevalent in commercial apple bakery products in the United Kingdom. Its key feature is the very high level of acidity, and the excellent strong apple flavour it lends to any apple dish.
'In England a clear distinction is made between 'eaters' and 'cookers'. English apple cookery usually calls for apples which cook to a puree – and the intense acidity of Bramley's Seedling guarantees the lightest and fluffiest of purees. This contrasts with the traditions of other countries, notably France and the United States, where cooks often prefer apples which keep their shape in cooking. For this reason Bramley's Seedling is not as well-known outside England as some of the other popular English apple varieties. It is quite widely planted in gardens in Denmark (where by 1938 it was considered to be the fourth most popular variety grown) and is now becoming popular in the USA as a result of increasing interest in English apple varieties.'
Orangepippin says that Bramley's Seedling trees are extremely vigorous – at least a size larger than most other apple varieties on any given rootstock – and reasonably easy to grow, but that a single tree needs two different pollinating apple trees nearby to ensure successful pollination.
Bramley's are also notably long-lived. The bicentenary of the discovery of Bramley's Seedling in 2009 was matched by the original tree, still alive in the same garden in Nottinghhamshire, England, where it was planted as a pip by a young girl, Mary Ann Brailsford, in 1809. Orangepippin says Bramley's takes its name from a subsequent owner of the house, a Mr Bramley who allowed a local nurseryman to propagate it in the 1850s on condition that it was given his name.
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"I had reached the point where I lost the will to live," she writes in her blog, Grease & Glamour.
"I gave up on my dreams," she continues. "I shut myself off from my loved ones and close friends. I developed alopecia and lost my hair at an alarming rate, where on bald spot the size of a dime turned into six half-dollar-sized ones all over my head within three weeks."
Yang's next move was to buy a one-way ticket to Iceland. She sold "80 percent of [her] disgustingly huge closet for extra cash," quit her job, declined to renew the lease on her apartment, and began to travel the world with a cardboard cutout of her dad, who died at 51 from cancer. Yang's father, she wrote, "Sacrificed his entire life for others – his parents, his children, his wife, his family and his friends."
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"I hope my story will inspire you to take a chance, and to never give up hope," Yang writes. "For years I chased success and sacrificed happiness, but success lives where happiness lies. Don't chase success, chase happiness and success will come. Happy Father's Day to you all."
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The Coca-Cola Co. has a formula for growth in the volatile economic climate: sell more of its drinks in emerging markets and evolve its stable of products at home, where concerns over sugary drinks are intensifying.
The world's biggest beverage maker, which also makes Sprite, Fanta and Dasani water, said the strategy helped it sell more of its drinks in every region during the third quarter, with global sales volume up 4 percent.
In its flagship North American market, Coca-Cola has been relying on a shifting mix of drinks in response to changing consumer tastes and criticism over the role sugary drinks play in fueling obesity rates.
The 2 percent increase in sales volume in the region was driven by what Coca-Cola refers to as its "still beverages," such as Powerade sports drinks and Fuze teas. Coke Zero, which was introduced in 2005 as a better-tasting alternative to traditional diet sodas, saw growth of 9 percent. But overall sales volume of its sodas in the region was flat from a year ago.
In Europe, volume rose 1 percent but revenue declined 8 percent because of unfavorable currency exchange rates and a less profitable mix of products.
Companies that do a lot of their business overseas are hurt when the dollar is strong because sales in other countries' currencies translate into fewer dollars back home.
As growth slows in developed markets, countries such as India have become a greater focus for Coca-Cola. During the quarter, sales volume in the country rose 15 percent with the Coca-Cola brand up 34 percent. Coca-Cola announced this summer that it would accelerate investment in the country over the next eight years.
Emerging markets such as India represent far greater growth potential for Coca-Cola. The company estimates that per capita consumption of its drinks in the country is 12 servings a year, compared with 403 servings a year in the United States.