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A lull in big news stories means people are belaboring the fighting conversation again. Sports Illustrated, Fox.
Dallas 2, Vancouver 1 – Teeming with mediocrity.
Minnesota 2, Winnipeg 1 – Mikko Koivu scored both goals for the Wild. That is unusual.
Chicago 5, San Jose 1 – Good to see the Sharks are already prepairing to seize up against quality opponents.
Los Angeles 1, New York Rangers 0 – Let this be a lesson. You must always account for Tyler Toffoli.
Washington 4, St. Louis 1 – And on this, the day so many people labeled the Blues the best team in the NHL.
Columbus 4, Ottawa 1 – Won't we all be laughing when both of these teams make the playoffs.
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"I'm comfortable when he's comfortable… If (Dubnyk) keeps going lights-out, he'll stay in." – Coach Eakins on Bryz making debut
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He was impressive but like Demise said his defence needs patching up....that will come once within time though under Booth.
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I'm not sure if Booth is the ideal trainer for him. I'm not sure who is, but Booth hasn't improved Haye's defensive mistakes and it seems as if Groves may end up with some of the exact same flaws.
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I think Booth is the best promoter working in Britain right now. I also think he's very clued up on the PSYCHOLOGY of boxing. Whenever I've heard him whilst working as Haye's corner man I've been impressed by his little motivational talks and reasoning.
But insofar as instructing a fighter in the CRAFT of boxing I'm not so sure. I genuinely believe Haye likes to live on the edge and his guard kind of reflects this. But, still, I do think an old hand like ... say ... Emmanuel Steward could make significant defensive improvements whilst retaining most of the riskier elements that make David Haye David Haye.
Working closely with Haye must have an effect on Groves and I'm sure the kid considers him a mentor. Whether this will be good for Groves in the long term I'm not sure. I'm always wary of fighters who rely more on their athleticism than their guard to stay out of trouble. A solid guard will extend your career (look at someone like Bernard Hopkins), but athleticism has a nasty habit of deserting you when you need it most (around the age of 30, when the best fighters often do their best work). Look at Hamed.
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Groves is on the Mayweather v Mosley undercard going to be a legend!
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Wow! That's great for the kid.
I know he's a talented and he's quickly establishing a reputation for himself. But I didn't realise he had attracted THAT kind of attention. Although, given Hayemaker's affiliation with GBP I guess the pathway had been laid down.
I wonder who his opponent will be? It's pretty soon after his last fight and I'm not sure whether Adam Booth thinks it's a good idea to throw him in with a genuine player.
But then with Booth you never know. Groves might end up fighting for an intercontinental title ...
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its the same as degale tbh he has looked leaky in defence aswell
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best british prospect by a country mile.adam booth is a good trainer aswell despite what a few people think
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The State Assembly is preparing to vote on raising the minimum wage again.
Minimum wage was raised to $8 an hour in California in 2008.
Now, some lawmakers want to raise it to $8.25 next year and then gradually to $9.25 by 2016.
More money for low-wage earners may sound like a good idea but, some economists say the change would be bad for our economy.
Economist Mark Schniepp said "you raise the minimum wage, you raise the unemployment because firms don't want to hire at a higher cost. They are going to keep what they spend on labor constant."
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Bruce Davidson of Unionville, Pa., one of the world's top equestrian competitors, was arrested in Auckland, New Zealand, yesterday and charged with possession of marijuana.
A former Olympic gold and silver medalist, Davidson, 55, was arrested after sniffer dogs used by the New Zealand customs department singled him out at Auckland International Airport.
His son, Bruce Davidson Jr., also an equestrian, who answered the phone at Davidson's Unionville home last night, said his father was in New Zealand to compete in an equestrian event. He said his family would have no comment on the arrest.


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The American Public Works Association, acting through its Utility and Public Right-of-Way Committee, continues to play the lead role in bringing together the telecommunications industry and public works practitioners to foster responsible construction of telecommunications networks. APWA hosted a very successful "Common Ground Summit" in Houston during November 1999, which brought together leaders of the telecom and public works sectors to discuss common issues. APWA will sponsor "Communications Facilities and Public Right-of-Way Management: A Peaceful Co-Existence" in Atlanta, Georgia on October 16 and 17, 2001 as a continuation of the discussions. The current uncertainty in the telecommunications industry makes this a very timely meeting. To understand the telecom issue, it may be helpful to review the state of the industry.
The national and international build-out, the urban backbones, the reach to suburbia
Since the enactment of the Telecommunications Act in 1996, a wide array of new and established telecom providers have been hard at work re-networking the entire world. By 1999 they brought the national and international fiber optic "backbones" to the very edges of our major metropolitan areas. During this process they merged, they married or they consumed each other, leaving a smaller number of survivors, each with a nearly completed inter-city fiber optic network. But, to get to the customers (or put another way, to get to the revenues), the urban backbones needed to be built. These proved to be a lot more difficult to build than the inter-city long hauls which were built along highways, through cornfields and following railroad rights-of-way. In the cities the providers unexpectedly had to deal with congested streets, traffic, business interests, neighborhood concerns, and political complications.
In addition, municipal agencies were reluctant to issue needed right-of-way or street cut permits until they were convinced that all these companies could rip up all those streets and still maintain quality of life and quality of commerce for their citizens. APWA worked very hard to bring municipal officials and telecom company officials together, at one table, to understand each other's needs and responsibilities. The result of the hard work at the Common Ground Summit in Houston lead to the development of concepts and ideas that lead to tools and processes that ensured quality of life and commerce while respecting the goals of the telecom providers.
This tool kit can now be applied as we witness the next steps in the evolution of the new fiber optic networks...the completion of the urban networks and the reach to suburbia. The urban networks are under construction although running behind schedule. Next, fiber will follow the highways out of the core cities because of the available linear right-of-way. Where customers (real and potential) exist, fiber will exit the interstates and occupy the town roads and easements until it closes a loop on the targets of opportunity. The town municipal officials will likely have the same concerns as those of the municipal officials in the big cities. What's different now is that there is a willingness to work together. Towns in the know want as many competitive offerings as possible and telecom companies in the know want to be seen as good citizens and good neighbors.
The current financial slowdown
I am not an economist but from my own observation I think I used the right word, "slowdown." Two things are at play here: (1) a shakeout of non-viable ventures, and (2) a rationalization of the capital markets. On the shakeout, we have always been told that 80 percent of all new businesses fail in the first two years. It looks like the telecom sector is no different. On the rationalization of capital markets, those with money to invest now want to see revenues before they jump in. This is probably a healthy adjustment from the wild days of late 1999 and early 2000 when revenue was less important. The important thing to keep in mind is that the services and benefits that all these telecom companies promised to bring are still wanted, desired and demanded. And, as companies fall off the big board, others will fill the void and provide those services and benefits, and venture capital will return with more realistic control. It will get done but at a slower pace.
The relationship between bandwidth and real estate development
There is a growing awareness that there will be a direct relationship between property values and the availability of multiple bandwidth providers. As important as modes of transportation on our roadway systems were to commerce in the last century, modes of communications under our roadway systems will be the driver in the new century. Commerce will depend as much on "light-over-glass" as it did on "rubber-on-asphalt" in the execution of its business.
Information Technology, data storage, teleconferencing, outsourcing, work from home, the Internet, e-commerce, and things we haven't dreamed of yet will change the way we do business. Some indicators are:
Availability of the widest selection of fiber carriers will be one of the most important considerations in business location and relocation decisions. Those municipalities that recognize this and encourage the implementation of state-of-the-art telecommunications systems will be posed to reap the economic benefits-those that don't may fall behind.
If the suburban cities and towns are to be competitive with the core regional city or competitive with each other in pursuing new growth and opportunities, they need to be as technologically sophisticated and offer the same competitive telecommunications services as the core city or as their competing neighbor. Those suburban cities and towns situated on the highway system servicing the core regional city will probably find an abundance of fiber providers passing through or by their turf. The trick will be to get them to recognize the opportunities that your town has to offer. In real estate terms: "Location, Location, Location" will be replaced with "Bandwidth, Bandwidth, Bandwidth."
The answer to my opening question, "Boom or Bust"? Let's call it a "Slower Boom." If this brief update whets your appetite for more information on this exciting new challenge, then plan to attend "Communications Facilities and Public Right-of-Way Management: A Peaceful Co-Existence" in Atlanta, Georgia on October 16 and 17, 2001.
Robert Albee is a past president of the American Public Works Association and Director of Telecommunications Engineering for Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., Watertown, Massachusetts. He can be reached at (617) 924-1770 or at email@example.com.


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Inspired by complexities of vision, language and perception, Dr. Irene Abraham will showcase her artwork, Seeing is Believing, at Waldorf College Art Gallery from February 10 – March 22.
From a heavy metal rock musician to a poet to a professor – acclaimed writer Debra Marquart will read from her work and share stories of her unusual experiences at the Waldorf College Distinguished Writers Series on Tuesday, January 31.
Waldorf history majors and faculty will help elementary school children for the History Day contest.
Waldorf College has announced its dean's list for the 2011-12 fall semester. To receive the honor, students must earn a grade point average of 3.5 or better on a 4.0 scale and complete a minimum class load of 12 credits.
Waldorf student Britney Ott presented her work on graphic story telling at the Streamlines conference in Dubuque, Iowa.
Waldorf College Vocation and Service committee is organizing a fundraising event, Breadline, to raise funds for the local food bank and Kids Against Hunger on Saturday, December 17.
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The 30-year-old is in talks to play a villain in Star Wars: Episode VII, The Hollywood Reporter confirms. Driver's potential character is said to be the Darth Vader-like baddie of the franchise's upcoming film.
This is the latest casting news from the secretive Star Wars project. Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher are all rumored to return for the movie and reprise their roles from the original films. Fans will have to wait for answers until the seventh part of the space opera starts filming in London this spring.
Girls star Lena Dunham was quick to Tweet about Driver's rumored gig, but stressed it wasn't a confirmation that the often-shirtless actor landed the role.
We're VERY proud of Adam Driver re: Star Wars. He's about to rip a hole in da force. Is that a thing? I guess I should see those movies?— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) February 26, 2014
I confirm nothing bc I know nothing bc I'm on a plane with my dad! I just like Adam more than almost anyone, and JJ Abrams a whole lot too.— Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) February 26, 2014
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Dear Ann, I wasn't going to blog about this because it's kind of weird, but maybe that's why I should blog about it. Here goes: I appear to have knit two Kiris. Well, almost two. Kiri The First I made it to the 10th repeat (of 12) (they get longer with each repeat, did I mention that?). I was almost home. But bad knitting karma was just sucking the joy out of it for me. I kept making Mistakes of Inattention and Mistakes...Read More


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Long-term elder care languishes among the priorities of national healthcare agendas worldwide, according to new report from KPMG's Global Healthcare practice.
"Compared with other areas of social and medical policy, long-term care has received relatively little attention and investment, which reflects broader attitudes towards seniors," said Dr Loke Wai Chiong, Director, Global Healthcare Centre of Excellence, KPMG in Singapore, "By ignoring the problem of ageing, societies risk depriving an increasing proportion of their citizens of the basic rights of dignity, respect and healthcare, not to mention the impact on their communities and the economy."
Needed urgently are major breakthroughs in funding, patient-centred care and programmes to engage communities and ease societal acceptance if effective and affordable seniors care is to aid, and not hinder, thriving economies.
"With the number of people aged 60 and over expected to double to two billion in the next 40 years, the world's population is ageing at an unprecedented rate, which could lead to unwanted consequences for economies and societies," said Dr. Loke.
The candid commentary on the current state of eldercare and insights for ways forward are shared in An Uncertain Age: Reimagining Long-term Care in the 21st Century, a report commissioned by the Lien Foundation, a Singapore-based philanthropic organisation and researched by KPMG.
On the challenges facing eldercare systems today, Lien Foundation's Chief Executive Officer Mr Lee Poh Wah said, "As governments recognise the urgency for improved eldercare, they grapple with issues on cost, competing priorities and questions of sustainability. The answers lie beyond just enhancing quality of care. There is an overwhelming need for greater and easier access, as well as equity in healthcare systems. Respect for personal choices and control, and transparency in the costs of care are other key factors that could successfully transform care outcomes for the future."
Ultimately, say the report's 46 contributors, policy makers and eldercare experts must come together to establish necessary frameworks for new solutions and as well as methods for dismantling societal perceptions of ageing.
The current conditions of long-term care which project a dim outlook, according to the report, are poor coordination between healthcare, social services and community involvement, compounded by insufficient standards and legislation and most importantly, the affected individuals' denial and inattention to his or her realistic needs for long-term care.
The report notes that integrating care - by better coordinating the different healthcare professionals along the long-term care value chain and enabling higher quality, patient centred eldercare – is paramount.
"We have to think about long-term care from the perspective of community-based care and to re-imagine the resources that already exist in the community with a long term care viewpoint. We have to start thinking about how an organisation's services can be integrated into delivering long term care needs…. in a more efficient and client-centred manner at the community level," said Michael Adams, Executive Director, Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE), in the US.
The ongoing debate over long-term care, the report cites, still centres on the spiralling cost of care and how governments, private sector, society and families should best bear responsibility for it, especially now with the demand for long-term care services imminent. According to a May 2011 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report, "Sizing Up the Challenge Ahead: Future Demographic Trends and Long-Term Care Costs", total public spending on long-term care is expected to double from 1.4 percent to 2.8 percent of GDP in OECD member countries by 2050.
The way forward say the report's thought leaders, calls for enlightened solutions that address the issue across the broad spectrum of funding, patient care, workforce resources, the growing role of the community, and social issues, including the imperative to shift societal and individual notions of the elderly as positive contributors and valued citizens.
Richard Humphries, Senior Fellow, The King's Fund in the UK said, "There is a tendency to think about the ageing population as a future burden rather than thinking through the opportunities." The time is ripe to turn those burdens into opportunities."
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The report draws insights from 46 thought leaders, professionals and practitioners in the aged care sector across Australia, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Their comments and views were captured through a series of face-to-face and telephone interviews KPMG conducted between August and September 2012.
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Research InterestsI am an environmental epidemiologist focused on understanding the health impacts related to place. A large portion of my research uses spatial exposure assessment methods to determine the chronic health effects associated with exposure to air pollution, including cardiovascular and respiratory diseases and cancer. Given the spatially correlated nature of numerous social and environmental exposures, I integrate this research within a multidisciplinary framework to examine the interactions between social and environmental health determinants. For example, neighborhood socioeconomic conditions (e.g. deprivation and community belonging), built environment characteristics (e.g. neighborhood walkability and active transportation), and other environmental exposures (e.g. noise). Currently, I am working on a global cohort study to determine the cardiopulmonary health impacts from outdoor and household air pollution as well as examining co-benefits between air pollution and climate change reductions.
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For 25 years, EIA has been at the forefront of the global battle to halt the blood ivory trade.
In 1989, EIA's groundbreaking exposé revealed rampant elephant poaching and a booming global ivory trade, perpetrated by a network of criminals and corrupt officials in Africa and in importing nations. Our work provided key evidence that prompted the global community to implement a ban on international trade in elephant ivory.
Following the implementation of the ban, elephant populations in Africa began to recover from serious decline.
In 1999 and 2008, the 1989 ivory ban was seriously weakened by two legal international sales of ivory, one to Japan and a second to Japan and China. These market-stimulating sales, coupled with the changing economic and political situation in Asia, including the growth of China's middle class, led us to where we are today.
Africa's elephants are once again in crisis due to the explosive demand for ivory as an investment commodity from consumers in China, as well as other countries including Japan and even the United States. African elephants are undeniably in the midst of another poaching crisis—tens of thousands of elephants are be slaughtered annually in a killing spree fueled by the global demand for ivory.
Our Approach
EIA strives to eliminate illegal ivory trade and increase enforcement to protect elephants, both internationally, as well as in range and consuming countries. Using every tool at our disposal, EIA is committed to ending the elephant poaching epidemic.
EIA's investigations trace and expose the illegal ivory trade—we track elephant poaching in Africa, monitor transit activity, and reveal the illegal markets and flawed legal systems that sustain black market trade in consumer countries. Using our investigative evidence, we campaign for positive change in legislation and policies to close loopholes that facilitate ivory laundering and to increase penalties for poachers and ivory traders.
We work independently as well as in strong coalitions with like-minded non-government organizations as well as government and private partners, fighting for precautionary policies in the international and domestic arenas.
EIA's investigations into the illegal ivory trade have demonstrated repeatedly that any trade in ivory is incompatible with the conservation of elephants. We are firm in our resolve to combat all trade in elephant ivory: illegal and legal, international and domestic.
Combatting the Ivory Trade
Internationally, we champion a full and complete ban on all international trade in ivory, with no exceptions. We campaign for elephant range states and ivory consumer nations to ban existing legal domestic ivory trade and crack down on poachers and organized criminals by enacting and enforcing tough laws and regulations. To complement this work, we pressure ivory product retailers in countries like Japan to ban ivory product sales.
At home in the United States, we fully support the government's efforts to combat wildlife trafficking, including working towards a nearly complete domestic ban on ivory trade and treating wildlife as a serious crime.
Elephants are the heart and soul of EIA's wildlife campaign and protecting these majestic, iconic, and ecologically important species from the dangers of trade is at the top of EIA's agenda.


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- To serve, place one layer, topside down, on serving plate; spread with vanilla pudding; cover with banana slices then top with second layer. Make frosting, reserving 2 to 3 Tbsp.; color green and set aside. Spread remaining frosting on top and sides of cake.
- Using green frosting, pipe "Happy Birthday" on top of cake. Decorate with as many butterflies as you wish.
- Makes 10-12 servings.
- To make the butterflies: On a sugared surface, flatten purple gumdrop slices, one at a time, with rolling pin. Cut into 2-inch long strips for bodies. Split strips at one end and separate for "feelers". Secure "bodies"
- in frosting. Split orange or possibly lime gumdrop wedges and place a half slice on each side of body to resemble wings.
- Creamy Orange Butter Frosting:5 Tbsp. soft butter or possibly margarine 2 tsp. finely grated orange peel 3 c. confectioners sugar, sifted 2 to 3 Tbsp. Florida orange juice
- Blend butter or possibly margarine, orange peel, sugar and 2 Tbsp. orange juice till smooth and easy to spread. If frosting seems too thick, gradually add in a little more orange juice.
- Makes sufficient to frost one 9-inch 2 layer cake.
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|Amount Per Serving
|Serving Size 29g
|Recipe makes 8 servings
|Calories 27
|Calories from Fat 1
|Total Fat 0.1g
|Saturated Fat 0.03g
|Trans Fat 0.0g
|Cholesterol 0mg
|Sodium 0mg
|Potassium 107mg
|Total Carbs 6.84g
|Dietary Fiber 0.8g
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I have uninstalled and reinstalled My new version of SBM and it is still taking up to 5minutes to open. Is anyone else having this trouble? My SBM 1.0 works fine and opens right away. Can anyone please help me??
I have uninstalled and reinstalled My new version of SBM and it is still taking up to 5minutes to open. Is anyone else having this trouble? My SBM 1.0 works fine and opens right away. Can anyone please help me??
That's odd. It launches almost instantly here.
What method do you use to start it? (Double-clicking on the icon? Going through the Start menu? Double-clicking on a project file...?)
What do you see on the screen while you're waiting for it to load?
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I just tried going through the start menu to see if that link was any different and it looks like it is the same thing.
I had problems with my SBM 1.0 and they sent me a fix up but it wasn't the opening of the program that was the problem. The problem was that the pages wouldn't load when I clicked on the add a page.
I have been enjoying the program (I have just been leaving it open) but am really frustrated with these issues. I am starting to think that SBM is not the program for me. Hopefully this problem will get addressed soon so I don't start looking for another program or go back to just doing the regular scrapbooking.
Thank you for your help!
- How much memory does your computer have?
- What operating system are you running?
- This is a long shot but it could be due to slow hard drive performance...could you try defragmenting your hard drive?
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One other thing you could try: go to Edit > Preferences > Content, and turn off the options that let you see content from previous versions (i.e. from Scrapbook MAX! 1.0). I don't think having those options turned on should affect the startup speed, but it's an easy thing to try.
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I have now defragmented my computer and tried turning off the previous version.
No luck. I have now turned on the previous version back on so I can see and use everything.
Thank you again for your help.
Which version of 2.0 are you using, shanave? 126.96.36.199, 18.104.22.168, or 126.96.36.199?
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it's slow opening to me too, does exactly the same ...nothing that can tell me the program is opening, but it only takes two, three minutes maximum, which can seem a long time when you are looking at the screen..I ve only opened it twice after I downloaded it in the PC tonight, so I gotta see how it performs tomorrow...
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WXIA/ WATL has been my "news" home since 2006. I started my television career by packing everything I owned into my Honda Civic and driving to Cheyenne, Wyoming (yes, that's the square state on the left).
I did it again two years later (this time with a U-Haul) up the east coast to Buffalo, New York. Since 2006, I've been working at 11 Alive News as a Backpack Journalist.
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what do u mean u can IM people on the wii
I hope this comes out soon if at all. I've read it a couple of times and if I didn't want it to be true so bad I would have said RUMOR immediatly. But I am just too syched.
what do u mean u can IM people on the wii
Like an instant messenger. Just like AIM or MSN or Skype or whatever else you use. look at the source.
that sweet i hope u can actually do that or talk to them like on the 360 accept for those retarded kids who just sit and do nothing and talk
Video messenger would be cool!
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yeah clicking letters would be a drag
i wish u could talk into the wiii mote
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DETROIT -- Once again, the Detroit Tigers were forced to play without their star player after Miguel Cabrera was ejected in the third inning.
In the grand scheme of things, it mattered little as Detroit's biggest offensive weapon Sunday afternoon proved to be Philadelphia's hideous defense.
The Tigers, sans Cabrera, plated eight unearned runs in the sixth inning -- thanks largely to three Phillies errors and two bases-loaded walks. It keyed a 12-4 series-sweeping win at Comerica Park.
It was the Tigers' seventh win in eight games, keeping them three games ahead of second-place Cleveland in the AL Central.
The Phillies, meanwhile, are now 10 1/2 back of the National League East-leading Atlanta Braves after dropping their eighth straight.
Miguel Cabrera was ejected in the bottom of the third by home-plate umpire Chad Fairchild for arguing balls and strikes while batting with the bases loaded.
The ejection came a day after Cabrera, who returned to the lineup after a four-game absence Saturday, was removed in the fifth inning for precautionary reasons.
It was Cabrera's fourth career ejection. Prior to Sunday, his last ejection came on Sept. 8, 2012 against the Angels, according to STATS LLC.
-- Jhonny Peralta capped the eight-run sixth with a one-out grand slam to give the Tigers an 11-3 lead. It was his fourth career grand slam and the Tigers' first grand slam since Victor Martinez's on June 22 against Boston.
-- The Tigers tied the game at 3-all in the fifth, highlighted by Matt Tuiasosopo's run-scoring single with the bases loaded. A pair of RBI groundouts made it 3-3.
-- Cabrera's spot in the order came up with a total of 12 batters on base. Tuiasosopo, who replaced Cabrera after he was ejected, picked up his second RBI when he drew a bases-loaded walk in the sixth.
-- The Tigers saw 12 plate appearances with the bases loaded. They batted around the order in the sixth, which included three errors and two walks in a seven-batter span.
-- Lost in all the middle-inning chaos was the performance of Rick Porcello (8-6), who gave up three runs, all earned, and seven hits in six innings to pick up his fourth straight win. He struck out three and walked two.
-- The Tigers put at least two runners on base in all but one inning. They drew nine walks and went 6-for-20 with runners in scoring position. They stranded six.
-- Prince Fielder came to the plate three times with the bases loaded, but could only drive in one RBI. He finished 1-for-5 and grounded into two double plays.
-- Alex Avila hit a ground-rule double in the third inning, but was hitless in his next four at-bats with a pair of strikeouts. He has hit .250 (15-for-60) since being reinstated from the 15-day disabled list in early July.
-- Bruce Rondon gave up a run and two hits in the eighth inning. In his last five appearances, Rondon has a 4.26 ERA.
-- The last time a team allowed eight or more unearned runs in an inning was April 28, 2009 when the New York Yankees scored 10 unearned runs in Detroit.
-- The Tigers announced a sellout crowd of 41,326, marking their sixth straight sellout at Comerica Park. It's the organization's 18th sellout this year.
-- The Tigers outscored the Phillies 24-5 in the three-game sweep. The Phillies hadn't lost eight in a row since Sept. 18-24, 2011.
-- The last time a team had at least 12 plate appearances with the bases loaded was on Aug. 25, 2011 when the Yankees had 16 plate appearances with the bases loaded against the Oakland Athletics, according to STATS LLC.
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"We are just beginning to benefit from the re-pricing of legacy coal supply contracts at higher levels, which could drive significant earnings increases for many years to come."
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1) Take Action: Support the Clean Energy Economy
Before the Senate leaves for a month-long recess this week they will have perhaps their last, best chance to extend incentives for renewable energy and energy efficiency.
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Invasive species carried to our lakes and rivers in ships' ballast water can wipe out native species and cause costly problems for communities. Unfortunately, pending Senate legislation may hurt efforts to control invasive species by overriding stronger state laws and possibly even superseding the Clean Water Act.
Given the significant threat posed by invasive species, all available effective tools that can be used at the federal and state level to control them should be employed to keep them out and end their spread.
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The recent discovery of Sueki unglazed ceramics at an archaeological site in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, has experts rethinking the chronology of early exchanges between Japan and the Korean Peninsula.
The discovery revealed that the production of Sueki wares began in Japan in the late fourth century, 20 to 30 years earlier than archaeologists had believed, indicating that people from the Korean Peninsula who produced the ceramics arrived in Japan around the same time.
Horseback riding and iron weaponry were also introduced from the peninsula around the same period, bringing a wave of technical innovation to the country.
The ceramics were excavated from the archaeological site along with a cypress board that was dated back to 389 through dendrochronology, the science of dating events through the comparative study of growth rings in trees and aged wood.
One version of founding of Yamato:
Prince Homuda, an influential member of a Paekche royal family and a military leader close to King Kun Ch'ogo, had sometime earlier given thought to finding new territory where he could carry on the government of his kingdom in peace. He spoke with other members of the Paekche royal family about his plans to conquer an eastern land, "a fair land encircled [on] all sides by blue mountains." The Imperial Princes, who had similar ideas, agreed. King Kun Ch'ogo chose Prince Homuda to lead the Imperial Princes and a naval force on an expedition against the mysterious land to the East. After rebuilding his command with choice Paekche troops and with the blessings of King Kun Ch'ogo and a "solemn declaration of alliance," Prince Homuda marched east toward the Kaya territory, located a "port of passage" in the southernmost Kaya state of Imna, and set sail for a New World.
In the winter of 369 AD, Prince Homuda's expeditionary force landed on the northern shore of Kyushu at Hakata Bay on the westernmost of Japan's large islands. On the rich agricultural plain near the present site of Fukuoka, the new arrivals from Paekche established a foothold and began building settlements. They spent the next three years repairing and refitting ships, making weapons, training, storing provisions and getting ready to subdue the territory. Prince Homuda's army pushed eastward for six years, encountering fierce resistance from many of the clans in its path. After subduing its opposition by surrender,outright conquest, or death, the expeditionary force finally halted on the rich agricultural plain formed by the Yodo and Yamato Rivers at the head of Osaka Bay. Having gained control over the central part of the country, Prince Homuda proclaimed the creation of his new kingdom, taking its name from the surrounding region and giving the country its first official "name" - Yamato.
Prince Homuda, founder of the Imperial Clan, was enthroned in 390 AD, with an imperial title befitting his stature - King of Yamato. Until the mid-7th century, the word "Yamato" was written as "Wa" (a term used by Chinese historians), but read as "Yamato." The great flowering of Japanese history began on the Yamato Plain and in the area of the Nara Basin, where the emergence of the Yamato Kingdom set a foundation for future Japanese civilizations. As late as the 3rd century AD, there were no horses in Japan. The formal arrival of horses in Japan occurred in 404 AD, when the King of Paekche sent A-chik-ki with a stallion and a mare as tribute. A-chik-ki cared for the two horses in stables on the slopes of Karu, a site that became known as Mumaya-saka (Stable Hill). Thus, the horse eventually bred by the Japanese was not a local horse, but a breed introduced into Japan from Korea. [Needless to say, Japanese historians would not accept most of this version of the founding of the Japanese state.]
A nearly continuous flow of people from Paekche and surrounding kingdoms followed in the wake of Prince Homuda's expedition, sailing the Tsushima Strait to Hakata Bay. From around 400 AD, the Yamato Plain and Nara Basin were settled predominantly by immigrants from Paekche, as royal families, generals and their descendants staked their claims in the new land by building palaces and capitals. Many of these clans gained sufficient economic and military power to control to enjoy a hegemony over the surrounding aristocracies that made them both wealthy and powerful. During this period, the Yayoi culture dissolved into the newer Yamato culture as political alliances and outright conquest gradually brought about a loose-knit unity that coalesced most of western Japan into a nation .
Prior to the establishment of the first capital at Nara in 710 AD, most Yamato sovereigns lived in palaces built in or near the present-day village of Asuka, about 25 km to the south. At the time, the Asuka region was the political and cultural center of Japan, home to most of the Yamato kings who ruled before the 8th century. Unlike the situation in Korea, Yamato had no permanent capital city. When a king died, his successor usually transferred the capitol (site of his palace) to a new site in the Asuka region. Most of these palaces were, like temple shrines, fairly simple structures that could be built without much effort.
The Korean and Chinese clans that established roots in Japan were far more sophisticated than the native Yayoi culture and had knowledge, skills and technologies associated with a more advanced civilization. The Yayoi faced a markedly militaristic people with an appetite, if not fondness for warfare. Although the Yayoi jealously clung to the belief they were descendants of native gods, their primitive society underwent a radical change as it absorbed and adapted itself to a higher type of culture .
The cultural linkage among China, Korea and Japan produced a considerable amount of interchange among the Chinese of the Lolang Commandery, the people of Paekche and the Kaya Federation, and the inhabitants of Kyushu and islands in the Tsushima Strait. Envoys from Paekche visited Yamato as early as 367 AD and diplomatic embassies between Paekche and Yamato continued almost every year up to the death of King Kun Ch'ogo in 375 AD. His son and successor, Kun Kusu, continued this close relationship with Yamato Japan, cultivating friendships with Jin China on the one hand and Yamato Japan on the other. Because of the natural, intimate relationship between Paekche and Yamato, successive Yamato rulers maintained and administered a port facility in the Imna area (Mimana in Japanese) at the southern tip of the peninsula to serve as a direct short-cut crossing route to Japan. Kaya became a stopping off point for the many Yamato trade missions that traveled between Japan and the Lolang Commandery along the Taedong River. The Yamato who lived in Imna were neither colonists, nor conquerors, but agents who operated by permission from the King of Kaya, who restricted them to the immediate area of the port.
Historical and geographical circumstances have always put Japan on the periphery of major cultural centers, where it became primarily a recipient or borrower of cultural and technological innovations. Nevertheless, throughout its history Japan has always had the unique ability to work out stylistic refinements of borrowed technology and culture to suit itself. With the emergence of Yamato Japan, yet another major player stepped on to the stage, an ambitious, quick study that was ready, willing and able to take act out its destiny in the drama of Korean history.


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Lone Justice
In the rear cabin of a plane carrying the Irish rock group U2 from Houston to Phoenix on one leg of its current U.S. tour, bass player Adam Clayton was sitting in a plush armchair, nodding furiously to himself under his headphones. When he began slapping the arm of the chair with his palm, a writer traveling with the band asked what he was listening to. "Lone Justice," volunteered Bono Hewson, U2's lead singer. "They're going to be opening for us in the second half of the tour. They're from L.A. They rock like you wouldn't believe, but they've got this female singer in a long skirt who sounds like Dolly Parton or something." Suddenly, in that overloud voice symptomatic of the blissfully head-phoned, Adam blurted, "You don't doubt. It's there." He slapped the arm of the chair again. "It's great, man. It's got that sort of Stones rhythm section. It's unbelievable. Wow!" Adam handed the headphones over to the writer, who listened for a few moments and had to agree that "Wow!" was a pretty good word, at least on the basis of a first impression. After a lot more listening, it still seems more than appropriate. Maria McKee does sound something like the early Dolly, also like a less delicate Emmylou Harris. In the ballad Don't toss Us Away (written by McKee's half brother Bryan MacLean, a member of the '60s group Love) her homespun inflections begging her man not to leave the family even recall Willie Nelson. On the other hand, in just about every song she packs the power of a Pat Benatar—without the piercing Benatar edge—and the nerve-tingling self-possession of a Chrissie Hynde. (Not many men would want to be in the shoes of McKee's mistreating lover in Wait Till We Get Home, which she co-wrote with the group's guitarist, Ryan Hedgecock.) The 20-year-old Los Angeles native has clearly absorbed a lot: You can hear momentary flickers of Dylan and Springsteen. But she has also managed to subsume all these influences into an original style that combines the earnest plaintiveness of country with the lashing attack of rock. And there is just the right amount of leavening humor, such as the call-and-response intro to East of Eden or in the rousing, rushing Soap Soup, which was inspired by McKee's childhood experiences with her street-minister father. The band is straightforward, strong and resourceful: An example is Hedgecock concocting a writhing blur of sound to underscore one of McKee's exclamations in Working Late. There may not be an all-around more solid and exciting debut album in pop music this year. (Geffen)
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The G37 comes as a sedan, a coupe and a folding-hardtop convertible. The sedan and coupe come with rear- or all-wheel drive; the convertible is rear-drive only. The sedan has room for five while the other body styles can hold up to four people. Competitors include the BMW 3 Series and Mercedes-Benz C-Class, as well as the Lexus IS, Cadillac CTS and Audi A4. (Skip to details on the: G37 coupe, G37 convertible)
New for 2013
Infiniti has revised the model offerings for 2013. The G25, introduced for 2011 with a 2.5-liter V-6 as the entry-level sedan, will continue as a 2012 model until December 2012, when it will be discontinued. The G37 Sport Appearance Edition and Limited Edition sedans are also gone, leaving three sedans for 2013: Journey, Sport 6MT and all-wheel-drive G37x. The base G37 coupe also has disappeared, but an IPL (Infiniti Performance Line) convertible joins the lineup.
The G37 sedan features headlights that sweep back along the car, as well as a curved hood and large grille. Exterior features include:
- Standard xenon high-intensity-discharge headlights
- Optional adaptive headlights swivel in the direction of a turn
- Standard 17-inch alloy wheels
- Optional 18-inch alloy wheels
The G37 sedan seats five, though the rear center position is uncomfortable. Infiniti does not offer a folding backseat, something that competitors like the 3 Series and C-Class do. Interior features include:
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The G37 sedan's 3.7-liter V-6 makes 328 horsepower and 269 pounds-feet of torque. Mechanical features include:
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An annual conference for staff and volunteers of Massachusetts' museums and historic sites, historical societies and historical commissions. The conference--revived by MassHumanities (then the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities) and UMass Public History after the folding of the Bay State Historical League--is jointly planned by four partner organizations; each year a theme is selected (themes have including interpreting landscapes, writing beyond Academe, the history of energy and other topics) and a daylong conference organized that draws history practitioners from around the Commonwealth.
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State wrestling begins today, can the Lunas do it?
March 2, 2012 - Robert Collias
UPDATE 8:55 p.m.: After first day action, Punahou and Lahainaluna both have 12 wrestlers still battling. The unfortunate part for the Lunas is the numbers game — Punahou has seven semifinalists and five alive on the backside of the bracket, while Lahainaluna has five semfiinalists and seven on the backside. Based on those numbers, Punahou leads with 96 points, while Lahainaluna has 78.5. Kamehameha Kapalama is third with 63 points, but only seven wrestlers who will compete on Saturday and Mililani is fourth with 62 and eight still going. Read all about who advanced for the Lunas and the rest of the MIL in Saturday's paper.
In 2005, the Lahainaluna boys wrestling team fell just 2 1/2 points short of the state team title. The Lunas, without a doubt, would have won that state title if not for a seeding committee decision to allow the ninth-place competitor from the OIA into the 152-pound weight class instead of defending state champion Naihe Akoi.
Akoi was the MIL's first alternate as the fourth-place finisher after he walked onto the mat the league championships with a broken arm and defaulted his first match. With the MIL representation at the seeding committee in flux at the time, the OIA's first alternate made the field instead of Akoi when a spot opened up. Akoi had been cleared by doctors in the two weeks between the MIL meet and the state tournament.
The 2007 Lunas, led by state titles from Travis Okano and Lake Casco in their junior seasons, also brought home the runner-up trophy. Since 2005, the Lunas have not finished outside the top five.
This season may be their best chance since, as I wrote for today's paper. With Punahou possibly piling up five champions and perhaps little else, it will take all 14 Luna qualifiers to get there.
Maui High's Tau Lotulelei is the No. 2 seed at 189 and has a chance to carry on an impressive family legacy.
Here is a rundown of where the MIL champions were seeded, led by Molokai's Mikayla Pico, the league's lone top seed.
And here is the MIL championship story that was done on a football-like deadline because the meet ran about 2 1/2 hours longer than it was scheduled for.
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ELKINS - Wednesday marked the grand opening of Goodwill at its new location on the Beverly Pike, to the enjoyment of dozens of eager shoppers.
More than 150 people arrived in just the first three hours to check out the new store's selection and layout.
"I would say this is one of the best turnouts I've seen at an opening event," said Katie Hart, a retail marketing manager from Goodwill. "People tend to like these events because they are able to find really great deals and merchandise. We're thrilled to see so many people coming out to shop today."
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Goodwill associate Wendy Russell helps customer Heather DePalma check out with her newly purchased items at Wednesday's grand opening event.
Hart said one of the reasons for the move to the new location - in the Plantation Plaza with Hibbet Sports and The Dollar Tree - was that it has a more customer-friendly layout, allowing for more organization and easier access to merchandise.
Another major improvement, Hart said, is the fitting rooms are now larger, feature a return rack for discarded items and are handicapped- accessible.
"This new location is more typical of our newer stores," Hart said. "As well as being a better fit for customers, it's also a better fit for our company and a better fit for our employees because of the larger area to accept donations."
The customers in the store Wednesday tended to agree.
"There's something for everyone, young and old," said Kenneth Miklich of Beverly. "There's a lot of great stuff here."
"I love the new dressing rooms because they are larger and have a place to hang clothes," said Joni Cox of Elkins. "We were so excited we were lined up outside at 8 a.m. waiting to come inside."
The store offered promotions as part of their opening ceremony, including giving prizes to the first 150 customers.
There were also raffle prizes and giveaways with gift cards for locations like C. J. Maggie's, Kroger and Applebee's.
The Elkins store was not the only one in the area to receive a new look. The Buckhannon store just underwent renovations and an expansion. Pamela Geruschet, the district manager of the stores, said officials are looking to expand the district, which now has six stores, by adding a new location in Kingwood.
"It's great to be in Elkins," Geruschet said. "We have made an effort to be invested in West Virginia and we will strive to continue to be a a presence in the state for many years to come."
"We love when people come into the store to shop, but we always need donations," Hart said. "This spring, when you are cleaning up for the warmer weather, or are just thinking of making room and buying new things, think of us. We always have space and we'd love to accept what you have."
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State police are investigating an incident in which an officer with the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources allegedly shoved Michael Marino, the former Montgomery County commissioner and former district attorney, at his ranch Sunday.
"I was the victim of an assault," said Marino, 70, when reached by phone Tuesday.
About 5 p.m. Sunday, the conservation officer was performing a traffic stop in a parking lot at Marino's ranch on Anders Road in Skippack Township when Marino approached and questioned the officer, state police said.


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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama--Jackson County police arrested an escapee at a residence on Hill Top Road in Henagar, Alabama early Friday morning.
Police said Nathan Clark walked away from a work detail at the Stevenson Park where he was working as a Trustee on July 1.
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January 3, 2000
WOODINVILLE--Remember that old anti-war slogan, "What if we had a war and nobody came?" On New Year's Eve, as television stations broadcast joyous millennium celebrations from every time zone, some were saying Mayor Paul Schell's political career was over if a bomb did not go off in Seattle. Bye-bye, Paul.
Woodinville had several city officials, fire station personnel, and City Councilmembers on location at the city's Emergency Operations Center at the Fire & Life Safety District headquarters last weekend. To their relief, Y2K was a non-event.
"If anything happens in Seattle, we're always on standby, under the 'Mutual Aid Agreement,'" said Dave Leggett, Woodinville Fire & Life Safety Public Information Officer. Woodinville added one fire engine and one aid car to their usual staffing, Leggett said.
Ray Sturtz, Director of Community Services, and his assistant, Charleine Sell, began their shift at 6 a.m. Friday, monitoring CNN's broadcast as Y2K followed the sun from the central Pacific time zones, starting at the International Date Line. Auckland, New Zealand, was the first major city to experience the unprecedented potential phenomena at 3 a.m., Friday, PST. Since the Pacific Standard Time zone was one of the last to enter the new millennium, few surprises remained here.
Woodinville Finance Director Jim Katica went to City Hall early Saturday to restart the City's computer system, prepared to administer high-tech "Raid" to any virtual infestations of "millennium bugs." On New Year's Day, Marie Stake, Woodinville's Y2K liaison, said the exercise was good emergency preparation for all agencies involved.
John Urquhart, King County Sheriff's Office spokesman, said the County EOC at Boeing Field was scheduled to be "on alert" for three and one-half days--or longer if unexpected problems arose--starting early Friday morning through Monday afternoon. The Sheriff's Office was in the same mode as during the WTO conference last month, he said, with 250 officers on duty and 350 more on standby. The Woodinville EOC maintained phone links with the County EOC throughout the weekend.
The County EOC gathering of county officials, utility, banking, and law enforcement groups was formed to coordinate quick response to any potential problems, from potential service disruptions to resulting social unrest. The County follows the same agenda for flood or earthquake disruptions, said Urquhart.
The County EOC had the added advantage of direct Y2K-related reports from around the world, via international offices of several major Seattle corporations, said Urquhart. He recommended various online links, if people's PCs survived Y2K: www.metrokc.gov, King County's website, has an "emergency center" site with links to state and federal agencies, such as the state Dept. of Transportation (DOT), which can advise people on road closures, etc. That could be helpful if terrorists bomb any King County bridges, a possibility FBI officials warned against last week.
Any larger-scope problems would be handled by state and federal agencies, he said. That would include such potential problems as those related to the Soviet Union's warning that they could not predict how their missile systems would respond to Y2K, because they didn't have the money or manpower to update their military mainframes. Thankfully, that also proved to be a false alarm.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) opened its Regional Operations Center (ROC) in Bothell on a 24-hour basis from Thurs., Dec. 30, through Sun., Jan. 2. As the lead agency for the President's Council on Y2K Conversion Emergency Services Sector (ESS) working group, FEMA worked closely with state counterpart agencies, collecting, analyzing, and forwarding information on state critical sectors to the Council's Information Coordination Center (ICC) in Washington, D.C.


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- Papier-mâché letters, 1": B, A, B, Y
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- Coordinating scrapbook papers, three assorted 12" x 12" sheets
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- Cut four 3" x 12" strips from pink card stock; cut two from green card stock.
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- Repeat Steps 1 and 2 using coordinating scrapbook papers, if desired.
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