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Candlewood Suites Harrisburg - Hershey
Candlewood Suites Harrisburg - Hershey
Quick Info
- Check In: 3:00 PM
- Check Out: 11:00 AM
- Minimum Check-In Age: 18
- Late Check Out Available
- Parking: Free
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- On-site Guest Self-Laundry Facilities
- Standard Wireless Internet service is free for all members
- On-site Fitness Center Available
- Outdoor Gazebo Grill
It's hard to leave your best buddy at home when you're traveling for extended periods, so we provide a pet friendly experience. Restrictions and fees apply.
Whether you are booking suites for a family reunion or suites for your company's training needs, Candlewood Suites hotels can accommodate your group.
Workout whenever you want: Candlewood Gym always has an open door and lots of aerobic and cardio equipment to make it easier to stick to your exercise routine, no sweat.
The IHG Green Engage system is an online tool that gives our hotels the means to measure their day-to-day environmental impact.
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Overall Experience
GREAT room, VERY friendly staff
September 28, 2016
When I stepped in the door Licia greeted me with a welcome
September 21, 2016
My wife and I stayed at the Candlewood Suites Harrisburg/Hershey on Sept. 17-18 for the RV show in Hershey. Fantastic staff! Very close to shopping,dining and all the attractions of the area. My wife loved the hot tub after walking all day at the rv show. Pool area was great. Can't wait to stay here again!!!!! Our rating 10!!! Thanks Candlewood for a great visit and stay in your area.
Great Staff at Check-In
September 18, 2016
My experience would not have been pleasant had it not been for Lisa J. who checked me in. Upon inspection of my room, I noticed the inside of the toilet bowl was dirty. The hotel was booked (no other room to move me to) and housekeeping was not on duty. Lisa came to my room with cleanser and a toilet brush and cleaned the toilet. She stated it was her job to make sure my stay was enjoyable. That is great customer service!!! Other than the toilet, my room was clean. I liked the layout. I suggest that Candlewood provide housekeeping daily. I was informed they only clean the rooms every seven days unless you pay a daily fee. I was unaware of this rule before checking in but it was of no consequence since I had only an overnight stay. I was also informed that a continental breakfast is not provided. I don't have a problem with that but most of my colleagues prefer a hotel that offers a continental breakfast.
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September 06, 2016
Stayed over the Labor day weekend . When checking in people in front of me was having trouble with their reservation. and the clerk gave them a handicap room to keep them happy and the was not handicap. that is wrong . Their is no one watching the pool or the cookout area. there was little kids running around in pool area no one watching and using the hotel. ring buoys as their own personal rafts . and the same people use the grills both nights we were there and seem like there was non hotel guest their and at the pool. very easy to do since the hotel does not watch for it.
Then on the second night since you have to ask for new towels since they only do housekeeping every 7 days . the girl working the desk was on her cell phone and told me to put them in the laundry the old ones and we will then get new ones . so they make their guest do house keeping also.
then checkout they have receipts in a box in envelopes with written room numbers on it like a kid did it and said get it my self not professional at all and with a system like that if someone took wrong one that is personal info that someone can get.
If they can change the way they are now and better watch overall and don't let locals run free in the pool or use the grills . Maybe it would be ok place but as of now stay somewhere else.


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The Southeastern Conference basketball tournament continues today without Auburn. That's not a surprise. The Tigers bowed out in the first round Thursday and saw its record fall to 14-16.
Wait 'til next year? That's all the Tigers can do. Jeff Lebo can hang his hat on that after three losing seasons in four years, though winning more games would be better. USA Today happened to write about Auburn signee Frankie Sullivan today. Sullivan gives Auburn hope. That story is below. First up is the season-ending-looking-ahead part of Auburn game story that appeared in today's Birmingham News:
That was part of Thursday's post-game wrap after Vanderbilt beat Auburn 93-82 in the first round of the Southeastern Conference in the Georgia Dome in front of 12,659 fans.
Lebo would like to have a full bench for next year, especially since he essentially played six players down a stretch that saw the Tigers lose 11 of their last 13 games. Auburn had some preliminary talks with the new College Basketball Invitational tournament earlier, though the Tigers' season could be finished.
What it will be remembered for is Korvotney Barber's broken hand in the 10th game, a bad foot that limited 7-footer Boubacar Sylla to three games and the lost season of Josh Dollard because of what the school called a medical condition. It can also be remembered for the tireless play of seniors Frank Tolbert and Quan Prowell.
Barber, Sylla and Dollard are expected back next year, and four signees are set to come on board who could give the Tigers more pop and certainly more depth.
Lebo, who has one winning season in four years at Auburn, could look to finding the ``dead-aim'' shooter, as he put it, that he desperately needs. That could be guard Frankie Sullivan of Uniontown or Tay Waller of Okaloosa-Walton College in Florida. Both are big-time shooters.
``We've got to be able to make some shots. We've got two scorers in the backcourt coming in,'' Lebo said.
Auburn also has 6-foot-8 Kenny Gabriel and 6-9 Johnny Lett signed.
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Frankie Sullivan didn't have to learn the system of R.C. Hatch High boys basketball coach Homer Davis. He grew up with it.
When Sullivan was in third grade, he was the junior high team's trainer, then coached by Davis. Sullivan would occasionally practice against the junior high players when Davis was short a player.
This past season, Sullivan, now a senior headed for Auburn, scored 51 points in the Alabama 2A title game, including 34 in the second half as R.C. Hatch (Uniontown) defeated Barbour County (Clayton) 81-69 for a state record 10th title.
Sullivan first cracked the varsity when he was in the seventh grade. In the six seasons he played for Eugene Mason and then Davis, he won five titles, missing only his eighth-grade season.
When Sullivan first joined the team, his skills were already evident, if limited. "All I could do was shoot," Sullivan said. "I was too little to go inside, but I had a crossover and a jumper."
The next year, Sullivan had developed enough to take over the state title game, something he has grown accustomed to doing. After R.C. Hatch won the title in 2007, Sullivan said his teammates didn't celebrate but talked about what they had to do to get back there again. He attributes much of that to Davis' no-nonsense approach to coaching.
"He sits you down, tells you what he wants, and there are no excuses," Sullivan said.


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For over 30 years our township government has been dominated by the Democratic Party. Thus, it is not a case of finger-pointing, but a fact that the responsibility for all of our woes falls on their shoulders alone.
Denial will no longer work; it is time for the smoke to be cleared to allow our residents to have full disclosure. This is not to say that there haven't been some good things happen, but good things are not causing us problems.
Fairfield Township needs a governing body that does not answer to any political entity. We do not need the Republican, Democrat, or any other organized political party dictating to our leaders. Nor do we need committee members that meet with small factions and take their guidance from them. We need township committee members whose only obligation is to Fairfield Township residents.
Over the years there have been so many misses in our township. There's been mismanagement, misappropriations, misconduct and misjudgment. We've had misstatements as well as misdirection over many administrations.
As Independent candidates for Fairfield Township Committee, we have no affiliation with any political party. As former Republican leaders, yes we do have friends who are still strong in the party; actually we have friends in both parties. We see that as an asset, for when you are an Independent it will take negotiating with both sides of the aisle to get a working team established to move our township forward.
Between now and Election Day, Nov. 6, we ask you to read the letters that we send to the newspaper. We hope to not only highlight the problems of our township, but suggest ways that we would try to resolve the problems.
Also, Fairfield Township has many assets, especially the versatility of our residents and their skills. We need a way to bring them together for the betterment of our township. We also plan to expose those who have spread rumors and made false statements during past campaigns in an effort to sway your votes. They change their allegiance almost weekly.
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On a chilly fall morning, Darlene Newsom greeted mothers and fathers dropping their children off at the child-care center at United Methodist Outreach Ministries. Some children didn't want to leave their mothers. Some seemed eager to play. One, upon request, gave Newsom a high-five.
The children would spend their day at the compound of classrooms and playgrounds near the rear of the shelter, filling time with play and art and reading.
Alma Gonzales, a 34-year-old mother of five, had dropped her two youngest off at the center. Her other three children were at school, having left on the bus that stops at the shelter. She would spend the day applying for jobs, she said.
Gonzales said she wasn't sure what she would do if care were not provided at the shelter. "I've tried (looking for work) before with them, and it's hard," she said. "I think I'd be on the streets if it wasn't for this."
There was a moment, four years earlier, when Newsom thought mornings like this one might come to an end.
To the people at the shelter, it always made sense that the place that offered needy families a place to stay would offer struggling parents a place to care for their children.
At the same time, the child-care facility at UMOM needed to make sense on paper.
It always had — until 2009, when state lawmakers voted to kill funding for child-care subsidies. Those government funds had been picking up 80 percent of the center's annual cost.
UMOM had two choices: close its child-care center or find the funds through its donors.
For Newsom, it was no choice. She knew the shelter housed an outsize number of single working mothers, families without homes of their own.
Without child care, those parents couldn't find work. Without work, they would stay homeless.
"If we're going to end homelessness, we need to provide for that," Newsom said.
On that day in 2009, she saw UMOM had only one option: "We're going to have to go out and raise that money."
Helping families
UMOM started in a gym attached to a church in December 1987.
The Rev. Herbert Osman was quoted in a newspaper story at the time saying, "We saw a big, carpeted gym that was empty at night, and thought, 'Why not?' "
At its height that winter, the gym housed 180 people. But those numbers quickly overwhelmed volunteer staff. By the next year, the United Methodist Outreach Ministries agreed to staff makeshift shelters at National Guard armories, where blankets and cots could be set up for the mostly single male homeless population.
By 1990, UMOM took over the former Sands Motel on East Van Buren Street and started using it as a family shelter that also provided career counseling and child care.
While other traditional shelters would separate residents by age and sex, UMOM would work to keep families together. By 1993 — the year UMOM applied for a grant from the inaugural Season for Sharing campaign — the 500-bed shelter housed 491 people, including 260 children.
Newsom took charge in 2002, when the center was starting to work on doing more than just being an overnight shelter. It was trying to find people a way out of homelessness.
But Newsom saw there was more to do. She wanted to put in a system at UMOM. Not all homeless people were the same, so they shouldn't be treated the same. Not everybody would be placed in a shelter. Some who didn't need a lot of counseling could be quickly placed back into housing, with just a helping hand. Others might need a little more intervention, maybe career or life-skills training, or alcohol or drug rehabilitation.
Others were serious cases. Freeing up bed space allowed the shelter to give those people the attention needed.
By 2009, the shelter had moved to another former motel across the street from its original location. It started providing on-site medical and pediatric care. There was a chapel for spiritual needs, a fitness center for physical ones. An on-site kitchen prepared healthy meals. There was a center where teens could hang out after school.
"It all boils down to that hope," Newsom said. A typical shelter would provide a roof, a meal and a shower, "but it didn't take you to the next level."
The key to that next level was the child-care center.
UMOM had long provided some child care. But in 2005, it started providing licensed and accredited care for both children and infants.
Without this center, Newsom said, parents would struggle to find a safe spot for their children while they worked or attended school.
It was the infant care that cost the most, not just in materials, but with required staffing levels. But Newsom said it was worth the effort.
"Otherwise, a single mom who has two children, what are we going to say?" she said. "We have a place for your 3-year-old, but you have to take the bus 10 miles for your infant? How does that work?"
The shelter could absorb the costs. Subsidies — a mix of federal funds triggered by state funding — were picking up most of the $1 million annually — close to 80 percent, Newsom said.
Then the financial crisis hit the state hard. Legislators looked for places to trim in the budget, and the subsidies for child care were on the block.
Newsom tried to fight the cuts through direct lobbying, taking the 60 or so kids from the child-care center and busing them to the state Capitol. For the children, it was like a field trip, she said. But she wanted lawmakers to see that the cuts would affect actual people.
Newsom set up meetings with lawmakers. She matched donor lists with legislative districts and tried to take donors to their lawmakers to help her make the pitch.
She wasn't successful.
Situation firsthand
After lawmakers approved the cuts, she was determined to keep the child-care center open.
Newsom said she penciled out a budget. She estimated how much she would lose in subsidies. "There's the number and there's the gap," she said. "And you start figuring out how you're going to raise that money."
Lawmakers had cut all subsidies for new enrollees, saving the state an estimated $55 million. Existing subsidies would disappear as each family fell off the center's rolls. The charity had a year, Newsom figured, maybe 18 months tops, before the money ran out.
She knew her population does not always engender sympathy, that the general public might think of it as throwing money away.
"The majority are single moms with two to three children who most likely don't have their high-school diploma or GED and have a poor work history," she said. They are in their situation because of "either bad choices they've made or the cycle of poverty they've lived in," she said.
To help these women, Newsom knew she would have to make direct solicitations to big donors who already knew the problem. She would work the phones, send e-mails and invite donors down to show them the situation firsthand.
Ed Portnoy, director of grants programs for the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, remembered being taken on a tour of the child-care center. Newsom wasn't emotional. But she was direct, he said.
"She said, 'We're going to have to close this place down,' " Portnoy said.
They walked by classrooms with children segmented by ages. They toured the shaded playground with the soft surface for the youngest ones. Newsom talked about the 35 children who were on a waiting list.
The Pulliam trust fast-tracked $50,000 of emergency grant money for the child-care center in 2009. It has given a grant for the center every year since.
A site visit was also key for the support of Renee Parsons, who with her husband, Bob, the founder of GoDaddy.com, were just starting their namesake foundation. Parsons visited UMOM in late 2009, after the subsidies had already been cut.
Parsons said seeing the center helped her understand the work it was doing. It made sense, she said, to have as many amenities close to where the families were.
"So people can get out there and don't have to worry about what's happening to the children," she said. "We felt it was making a difference and not just putting a Band-Aid on the problem of homelessness."
The Parsons Foundation eventually would give a $5 million donation to UMOM, allowing it to pay off the mortgage on its campus outright, saving it money on interest payments.
Doug Parker, chief executive officer of US Airways, said a facility like the child-care center can't be appreciated in the abstract.
"These are single parents or nuclear families, and they need to work," Parker said. "In order to do that, they have to have day care."
Parker is one of the donors who has visited his lawmaker, along with Newsom. When he has, he said, he has made it clear that he is there as Doug Parker, constituent, not Doug Parker, CEO of the hometown airline.
He is passionate about the issue, and the work of UMOM, he said, because it makes sense.
"As you walk through the facility and see those kids being loved and nurtured and someone taking care of them, you realize, as a parent, that's what you're looking for," Parker said.
He leads the Patrons group of UMOM. It is a group of high-dollar donors that spans the political spectrum, he said.
"But we agree on this," he said. "What Darlene is doing is really important."
Newsom was able to assemble enough money to keep the child-care center going, even as the subsidies disappeared at both a much faster rate and greater amount than she had anticipated in 2009.
Where the subsidies used to cover 80 percent of the cost of child care, they now cover 18 percent, she said.
More than 1,100 child-care facilities have closed since 2009, according to the Arizona Child Care Association.
But Newsom credits UMOM's success to having donors see the work the charity does up close.
"The puzzle pieces all fit together," she said. "We create that picture for them."
Hope ahead
It also creates a picture for the residents. One that allows them to see a future past the shelter.
Jenn Jones, 37, who became homeless for the first time a few months ago, said she had been at another shelter before UMOM. After breakfast, she and her daughter were ordered out. Some days, they would sleep in a city park.
"I never knew there were places for homeless families," she said. And the courtesy and care afforded her and her daughter by the staff have given her a measure of dignity.
"There's hope," she said. "There's life after this."
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Only 262 hospitals in the country received this year's award, and Allegiance Health is the only hospital in south-central Michigan to receive this designation.


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A well used to dispose of wastewater from oil and gas drilling almost certainly caused a series of 11 minor quakes in the Youngstown area since last spring, a seismologist investigating the quakes said Monday.
Research is continuing on the now-shuttered injection well in Youngstown and seismic activity, but it might take a year for the wastewater-related rumblings in the earth to dissipate, said John Armbruster of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y.
Brine wastewater dumped in wells comes from drilling operations, including the fracking process to extract gas from underground shale that has been a source of concern among environmental groups and some property owners. Injection wells have also been suspected in quakes in Arkansas, Colorado and Oklahoma, Armbruster said.
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The Northstar Disposal Systems brine injection well in Youngstown is being looked at as a potential cause of a series of earthquakes in the Mahoning Valley this year. Northstar voluntarily closed the well Friday so the site could be tested.
Thousands of gallons of brine were injected daily into the Youngstown well that opened in 2010 until its owner, Northstar Disposal Services LLC, agreed Friday to stop injecting the waste into the earth as a precaution while authorities assessed any potential links to the quakes.
After the latest and largest quake Saturday at 4.0 magnitude, state officials announced their beliefs that injecting wastewater near a fault line had created enough pressure to cause seismic activity. They said four inactive wells within a five-mile radius of the Youngstown well would remain closed. But they also stressed that injection wells are different from drilling wells that employ fracking.
Armbruster said Monday he expects more quakes will occur despite the shutdown of the Youngstown well.
"The earthquakes will trickle on as a kind of a cascading process once you've caused them to occur," he said. "This one year of pumping is a pulse that has been pushed into the ground, and it's going to be spreading out for at least a year."
Eugene Chini, supervisor for ODNR Division of Oil and Gas in Mahoning County, said the department has been working with Northstar and D&L to monitor pressures at the site over the weekend.
"They're making arrangements to flow the well back today or Wednesday to take all the pressure off," he said.
Chini said D&L founder and main shareholder Ben Lupo is cooperating in the department's efforts to investigate the well and its possible ties to seismic activity.
"They're probably going to cement off the lower portion on that well and one other, in order to eliminate any future pumping into the basement rock," Chini said.
The quakes began last March with the most recent on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve each occurring within 100 meters of the injection well. The Saturday quake could be felt up to hundreds of miles away but caused no serious injuries or property damage. Chini said there is no known damage to the well.
Youngstown Democrat Rep. Robert Hagan on Monday renewed his call for a moratorium on fracking and well injection disposal to allow a review of safety issues.
"If it's safe, I want to do it," he said in a telephone interview. "If it's not, I don't want to be part and parcel to destruction of the environment and the fake promise of jobs."
He said a moratorium "really is what we should be doing, mostly toward the injection wells, but we should be asking questions on drilling itself."
A spokesman for Gov. John Kasich, an outspoken supporter of the growing oil and natural gas industry in Ohio, said the shale industry shouldn't be punished for a fracking byproduct.
"That would be the equivalent of shutting down the auto industry because a scrap tire dump caught fire somewhere," said Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols.
The industry-supported Ohio Oil and Gas Association said the rash of quakes was "a rare and isolated event that should not cast doubt about the effectiveness" of injection wells.
Environmentalists are critical of the hydraulic fracturing process, called fracking, which utilizes chemical-laced water and sand to blast deep into the ground and free the shale gas.


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Lama Loppon Tsering Samdup is one of the few English speaking Tibetan Buddhist teachers in Australia. He was appointed a resident teacher of the Sakya Yigah Choeling centre in South Australia in 2000. Since then he has been teaching and leading retreats in various places around Australia and has now relocated to the Northern Beaches area of Sydney.
Loppon Tsering completed all studies of monasticism, Sutra and Tantra at Sakya College (one of the most prestigious Buddhist Universities) and has done many retreats. The title 'Loppon' is approximately equivalent to between a Master's and a Doctor's philosophy degree. Loppon also successfully completed a translation course at Dharamsala. He taught Buddhist philosophy to monks at his home monastery at Bir in India and traveled overseas with high Lamas as an interpreter on several occasions. Loppon is a highly qualified scholar and meditation master.
He possesses great compassion and wisdom. These qualities make his teachings profound and spiritual. Loppon is a very sociable character and very easy to approach. He has a good command English and teaches with a great sense of humor. He has a deep understanding of the Western mind. His teachings are clear, practical, enjoyable and profound.
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Fabric Used:Cotton flannel in frog/camo print
Pattern alterations or any design changes you made: I added some length to the 6 to make it closer to a 7.
Would you sew it again? Would you recommend it to others? I've sewn this twice already, previously with the matching top in sweatshirt fabric.
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Be sure to squeeze out as much liquid as possible from the spinach. Adding spinach that is too wet could upset the creamy harmony of the rest of the ingredients. This is part of BA's Best, a collection of our essential recipes.
Pistachio Dip
This savory mixture lands somewhere between dip and spread but it's dead on delicious. Like a holiday cheeseball...minus the cheese.
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Dates get even more Middle Eastern, dunked in tahini.
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An antidote to the many mayo and sourcream dips out there (which we also love).
Charred Onion Dip
Don't be shy about letting your onions get some char.
Herbed Labneh with Preserved Lemon
When using preserved lemons, scoop out the insides and only use the peel.
Feta with Sumac and Black Sesame Seeds
Set this up in advance and serve it at room temperature. The cheese will be soft enough to scoop with a cracker—and will taste better, too.
Three Onion Dip
Onions are loaded with umami flavor, as are anchovies, mushrooms, and Worcestershire sauce. Together, they make this dip especially hard to resist.
Cucumber-Dill Tzatziki
A cooling, slightly garlicky spread that's great with braised lamb tonight and possibly even better when added to a lamb sandwich tomorrow.
Salsa Roja Asada
For the best char, preheat your pan for at least five minutes. (And you might want to open a window—it's going to be smoky.)


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For Xacuti Masala:
In a pan saute whole kashmiri chillies, bong chilies, smashed ginger, whole garlic, black pepper, cloves, brown cardamom, casia, fenugreek seeds, shahi zeera, green cardamom, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, poppy seeds, ana seeds and grated coconut.
Pound them in mortar and pestle with goan vinegar, salt, turmeric powder, red chili powder, coconut oil and little water.
For Base:
In a different pan add coconut oil and finely chopped onion. Mix them well
Add Xacuti Masala into it. Combine it well.
Add little water, sugar, tamarind extract, and kokum.
Mix them well. Cover it. Simmer them for 30 minutes.
Add one by one boiled chopped potatoes and button mushrooms.
Cover it and let the potatoes and mushrooms cook for 10-15 minutes.
Serve the Mushroom and Potato Xacuti hot.
Key Ingredients: Mushroom, Potatoes, kashmiri mirch, ginger, garlic, red chilli, black pepper, cloves, black cardamom, black cumin, fenugreek seeds, cumin seeds, green cardamom, coriander seeds, poppy seeds, desiccated coconut, vinegar, salt, turmeric, coconut oil, onion


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When you look at the list of players that fill all the minor league rosters, you might wonder where they all came from, and what their chances are of making it to The Show.
I made up a presentation recently that looked at the top ten draft picks of the Red Sox and their high priced foreign signings for the past ten years. Included was some of the players that were missed by Boston.
In 2007 for example, Boston drafted Nick Hagadone with the 55th pick from the University of Washington (later traded with Justin Masterson to Cleveland), and then took Ryan Dent at number 62 out of high school where he hit two home runs in two years.
Since then Dent has advanced to AA, never reaching double digits in home runs and having an OPS in the .600's. His chance of ever reaching Boston are about 2%.
Boston could have selected Giancarlo Stanton, who was picked by the Marlins with the 84th selection.
2007 wasn't a total bust for Boston, as two high school kids drafted were Will Middlebrooks with pick 174 in the fifth round, and Anthony Rizzo one round later at number 204.
There were many players on the list who Boston paid a lot of money to sign just out of high school. They never advanced very far, but made a lot of money.
For example, there is one kid that Boston signed in 2007 when he was 16, and gave him $1,500,000 to play baseball.
His name is Michael Almanzar, born December 2, 1990. Boston took him from his home in the Dominican Republic and put him in Greenville, South Carolina when he was 17.
What did he do to deserve more than a million dollars when he was 16?
Where is this guy now? I was told to look him up and I did. He was playing third base for Salem, in now his fifth season in the Red Sox farm system.
He was hitting around .280 when I looked him up on July 16. On that day he began a 10-game hitting streak culminating in me writing this:
Last night Almanzar put his name with Ted Williams and Pinky Higgins. 16 straight times he reached base, including 12 hits in a row.
He even has a feature story on him today on MiLB.com.
Look at his last ten games starting the night when we found him in Salem.
His OPS is 1.604. 21 hits, four home runs, four doubles, and 21 RBI.
In baseball when you are a prospect and do well, you should move up the system.
In ten games this kid has done more than anyone in a ten game stretch. Please move him up to AA today.
He never made it to AA in 2012, but Almanzar just turned 22, and he will be going into his sixth year in the Red Sox system.
He hit .300 last year, much better than 2011, when he was one point under the Mendoza line.
If Almanzar could hit like he did for those magical ten games in July, he might be the next rising star to come to Boston.
The odds are that Almanzar was signed too early, and this will probably be his last year with the Red Sox organization.
Do you think Michael Almanzar will ever swing a bat at Fenway Park as a member of the Boston Red Sox?
A. 80% chance he will make it
C. Less than 20%
D. 0%. 2013 will be his last year playing professional baseball. Seven years to reach AAA is a long time riding buses.


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—To evaluate the impact of cotinine-confirmed smoking reduction during pregnancy on infant birth weight and gestational age at birth.
—Group analyses from a prospective, randomized smoking-cessation intervention trial using cotinine levels to assess smoking cessation and reduction.
—Four maternity clinics of Jefferson County Health Department in Birmingham, Ala.
—A total of 803 pregnant smokers and 474 never smokers with a fetal gestational age of 32 weeks or less at the first prenatal visit to a clinic.
Main Outcome Measures.
—Infant birth weight and gestational age at birth.
—Infants who were born to women who quit smoking (quitters) had the highest mean birth weight (3371 ±581 g), followed by infants who were born to women who reduced smoking (reducers) (3120±651 g), and infants who were born to women who did not change smoking behavior (no changers) (3043±587 g). The mean infant birth weight of infants born to the quitters, adjusted by mother's age, race, height, weight at baseline, and gestational age at delivery was 241 g heavier than that among the no changers (P=.0008) and 167 g heavier than the reducers (P=.04). The adjusted mean infant birth weight of infants born to the reducers was 92 g heavier than that among the no changers (P=.08). White reducers with baseline cotinine levels greater than 100 ng/mL had infants who were 241 g heavier than did white no changers. A 220-g difference was also seen in black reducers with a baseline cotinine level of 100 ng/mL or less. Although smoking cessation increased infant gestational age at delivery by 1 week, smoking reduction had little effect.
—Continine-validated smoking reduction rates were positively associated with an increase in infant birth weight. While smoking cessation must continue to be the primary objective for pregnant smokers, specific intervention methods should also be directed toward smoking reduction for women who cannot quit.(JAMA. 1993;269:1519-1524)
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If you are looking for something special for a dessert on the day this is a definite winner and will wow your guests. It's my take on the traditional sticky toffee pudding recipe, adding a truly Irish dimension with the addition of the Guinness. We make this in our cookery school to great applause, though we find that the measurements of Guinness can be a bit heavy handed!
Makes nine squares
For the slices:
150g stoned dates
120g dried apricots, chopped
150ml Guinness
120ml water
75ml whiskey
1 tsp bread soda
(bicarbonate of soda)
175g natural brown sugar
85g butter, softened
3 medium eggs, beaten
180g self-raising flour
100g chopped walnuts
For the sauce:
75g butter
75ml Guinness
75ml double cream
2 tbsp runny honey
1. Preheat the oven to 400F. Line a 9" square brownie tin with parchment paper.
2. Put the dates, apricots, Guinness, water, whiskey and bread soda in a saucepan. Place over a gentle heat until the dates soften and break down, stirring occasionally. This should take about four to five minutes. Leave to cool.
3. Using an electric mixer, cream the sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs.
4. Fold the flour, walnuts and the cooled date mixture into the egg mix and transfer to the prepared tin. Bake for 35–40 minutes, until firm to the touch. Leave to cool in the tin for five minutes before turning out on a cooling rack. Cut into nine squares.
5. To make the sauce, place the butter, Guinness, cream and honey in a saucepan and simmer over a low heat until the honey has dissolved and the sauce has thickened. Serve warm drizzled over the slices. This sauce is delicious with ice cream and it freezes well too.
Visit Catherine Fulvio's cookery school website here
*Catherine Fulvio is a TV Chef / proprietor, food writer and cookery tutor. The Wicklow native runs Ballyknocken Cookery School and Ballyknocken House.


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RaeVynn, it may take a while for your pics to be approved. You might do better using the image link and a photo site like Photobucket.
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RaeVynn, it may take a while for your pics to be approved. You might do better using the image link and a photo site like Photobucket.
Ah, thank you. Didn't realize they got the dreaded "must be approved" note.
[QUOTE=UniqueTII;918325]2 months later, here's today's update:
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/69525896@N08/7693373254/]7 months side[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/69525896@N08/]UniqueTII[/url], on Flickr
My gut is gradually disappearing. I haven't been lifting much for the past 7 months but I just started a new routine yesterday and I can't wait to see what changes it will bring![/QUOTE]
I am still slimming down slowly, although my deflated spare tire isn't going easily! I am down around 10 more pounds since that last picture with pretty much zero effort.
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/69525896@N08/8144766097/]10 months[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/69525896@N08/]UniqueTII[/url], on Flickr
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RaeVynn, wow! You can definitely see the changes, not only in size but in shape. You have more of a waist now.
Thank you. I need to get a more recent photo up... my face actually looks better now, as I've been eating more primal, and getting more essential fatty acids, my skin looks a lot better. :)
Unique, that picture concerns me, and I'll tell you why. That's [I]exactly[/I] what my body looks like. The reason it concerns me is because I'm not an otherwise healthy person. After all I've been through in the past year, I know pretty definitely that I have some sort of gastrointestinal problem, possibly an ulcer. I'm seeing a specialist for it this month. I also have insanely low B12 and folate, and my testosterone's half or less of what I'd like it to be.
Slowly over the months I've lost both the desire and the energy to sustain the most modest body weight workouts, just basic PBF stuff, and I'm unable to pack on any significant amount of lean mass, and as a result, I have that same spare tire/sunken waist thing going on. I reached my goal weight and then kept losing. I'm 6', 150 lbs and I still have a good amount of abdominal and thigh fat, while the rest of me is just skin and bones. I can't sit on a stone bench anymore without hurting my back, and even my forearms look emaciated. I could grab my pelvis and hand it to you. I've seen skinny women with fuller shoulders than me.
I don't mean to offend you at all, and if you're otherwise healthy I apologize for saying all this, but when I look at you, all I see is me and it makes me wonder if everything is alright. Any depression/anxiety, GI problems, muscle weakness/general lethargy, anger/irritability?
Hopefully someone can chime in with an opinion on the sunken waist thing - if that's just genetically determined body composition or a sign of muscle wasting. I mean, my mother told me my waist now is the same size as hers on her wedding day. And she's a tiny woman. Again, absolutely no offense intended with any of this. I'm mostly worried about myself here.
Hi Groks and Grokettes!
I was planning to wait until the 6 month mark to post pics but I took some today and noticed a bit of a difference and I'm only 16 days away from the 6 month mark anyway so here goes...
I started the PB on May 18th 2012 at 85.5kg (188.1lb), but didn't take this first picture (in green bikini) until July 2nd at 82.5kg (181.5lb)
The second picture (black) was taken today, November 2nd, and I am at 75.5kg (166.1lb), so I have lost overall 10kg/22lb, but there is a 7kg/15.4lb difference between the photos.
BTW I haven't lost my tan since going Primal - the light in the first picture is off (it's only just warming up where I live in Australia).
I hope you can notice a difference too and it's not just me!
(Also hoping the links work, using Flickr for the first time).
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/89536471@N04/8146594646/]beforepb_july2 - Copy (390x500) | Flickr - Photo Sharing![/url]
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/89536471@N04/8146561195/]duringpb_nov2nd2012 - Copy (500x375) | Flickr - Photo Sharing![/url]
Huge difference! Very noticeable.
not much of a difference, but I think my "thinness" is slwoly fading :)
Dude, that's a big difference! You look great!


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Nancy Yates, who graduated in 2009 with a major in Anthropology and a minor in Classical Studies, is now a graduate student in the Museum Anthropology program at Columbia University. This opportunity to study about and prepare for a career working with museums is offered as part of the anthropology department at Columbia, which allows her to take a lot of classes that are cross-listed with other disciplines.
When asked about her choice to attend Columbia, Nancy said, "It's Columbia, it kind of sells itself. But I was specifically attracted to the interdisciplinary nature of the program and its emphasis on practical applications of theory in actual museum jobs. I knew I didn't want to be on an academic track so it was important to me that I find a program that fosters professionals."
The program requires students to complete two internships while working on a thesis. Because of the experience and networking this will give Nancy, she hopes to find a job in New York with an auction house, museum, or similar institution in collections management where she can develop her love of object care, public access/interpretation, and navigating the modern world of museums.
Nancy became interested in the field of museum studies through her work with Dr. Bey in Kiuic her sophomore year. She started working in the ceramics field lab with fellow Millsaps alumna Betsy Kohut and became interested in collections access issues, storage and accession, and how archaeological projects, museums, and educations interact with each other generally.


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One of the last things Mary Lou Pitsch said before we parted was so genuinely wrought and void of self-pity that I get a lump in my throat even now.
It's just not something you would expect from a woman who is a quadriplegic, the result of a snowmobile accident in 1989, when Mary Lou was 21, with the whole world by the tail.
She would, by the way, dispute that the accident ever gave her any less purchase on the planet. After all, she grew to marry, have two beautiful kids, land a job, and trust in the Lord with all her heart, which suffered no permanent damage the night she lay in the snow, unable to move.
"It was a trail I knew well, going across a field. Hit a bump and went straight up, then fell off backwards. I hit my head and broke my neck. "I knew right away that something was majorly wrong."
"I spent from Feb. 7 until March 1 in the hospital, and then until June 9 at Mary Free Bed.
"Those dates don't go away."
It's not only the accident she's been able to overcome, but tragedy on both sides of it, the stuff of a twisted novel.
When Mary Lou, now 46, was 6, her father, Bill Van Pelt, was dismantling a barn on the family property near Byron Center when beams gave way. He was killed instantly.
Mary Kay Van Pelt was left to raise Mary Lou and Mary Lou's three brothers alone, though she leaned some on relatives, and this is in part how Mary Lou became so close with first cousin Jackie Chandler.
As two young girls, they reveled in trips to the Yankee Springs Recreation Area. They roasted hot dogs in the fireplace, collected fireflies in Mason jars, slept over in a pop-up camper in the backyard, and frolicked in Jackie's parents' orchard.
After the snowmobile accident, though, the VanPelt family suffered another unspeakable loss – that of Mary Lou's younger brother Duane, then 19, who took his life, just a year after Mary Lou was paralyzed.
About a dozen years later, Mary Lou's mother died of cancer, at 64. Today, that leaves just Mary Lou and her two older brothers.
So you might expect her to be overridden with sadness, wondering "Why me?"
But she'd rather kibitz with you about the time she and friends took a wild trip to Mexico to catch a Sammy Hagar concert. Or share her love of burritos and Snickerdoodle cookies, of soaking up the sun, of a gentle dog named Logan. And a husband Paul, daughter Colette, son Isaac.
She even sees mild humor in her ruined first engagement. Mary Lou ended up marrying her ex-fiance's second cousin instead, who had been dating Mary Lou's best friend. Today, Mary Lou works part time doing the books in a salon operated by the woman who would have been her mother-in-law.
She giggles. "Soap opera."
Adds cousin Jackie Chandler's husband Pat: "We need a flow chart."
Mary Lou's husband Paul, 47, calls himself a "garbage collector" a refreshing alternative to people who disguise their workaday world with euphemisms. In truth, he owns Elite Disposal.
Paul came this close to joining the Maryknoll order of priests. At one point, both worlds beckoned and "I felt my soul going in two completely different directions."
He chose a gal with wheels.
They were married in the summer of 1995 and Mary Lou conceived naturally. Both children were born of Caesarian section. Isaac celebrates a birthday this month. Colette milks upwards of 60 cows on a farm near their home in Jamestown Township.
I asked her if she ever feels sorry for herself. A moment floated by. "Yes. I'm human. You know? But at Mary Free Bed, they always said 'She's not doing the grieving process right.'"
Mary Lou's cousin Jackie looks to her as a role model: "You don't even understand what an inspiration you are to everyone."
Mary Lou just grins. "I'm just being myself."
According to Mary Lou, "God has a plan and we don't know what it is, but He makes it work."
She ties her accident, in act, to marrying the right guy and having "two beautiful kids," adding that "I wouldn't change my life at all if it meant losing any of that."
And then something I'll never forget:
"Being in this chair isn't that bad."
Tom Rademacher: Despite hardship, quadriplegic Hudsonville-area woman leads inspiring, humble life
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One of the last things Mary Lou Pitsch said before we parted was so genuinely wrought and void of self-pity that I get a lump in my throat even now.


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Thankfully, my mister was raised by a mom who was into eating some weird shit (there's a story about boiled seahorses) and hasn't eaten 'four-footed critters' in 20-something years, so he graciously accepts whatever cooked meat I put on his plate. I prefer my steaks on the way rare side of medium, and he's grown to appreciate it.
Chicken, though - different story. If it shows even the slightest hint of pink near the bone, he asks I cook it more...then whinges a bit that it's dry when he does eat it.
For the record, mine doesn't call anything gross - except to kid around with me about the amount of meat I'm eating/losing weight on - but he does request that his food gets cooked longer. I just let him cook it. Putting mine in at the very end is a great suggestion, and one I should have thought of long ago.
She totally copped to it, although she said used it as tea, never ate the seahorses.
I'd like to know where the hell to buy dried seahorses.
When the kiddos were little we trained them to say, " I think that might be too sophisticated for my palate", rather than "gross". Completely hilarious coming out of a 4yo!
50yo, 5'3"
CW-125, part calorie counting, part transition to primal
GW- Goals are no longer weight-related
Early on in our marriage we had a friendly competition each week to try and get 'meal of the week', just to stop us from sliding into an half-assed rut. Now we have kids, they have taken their appreciation of our cooking to another level, from 'meal of the week' -> 'meal of the century', or even 'meal of the millenium'.
Of course, that usually correlates with days when they forgot to have afternoon tea....
Disclaimer: I eat 'meat and vegetables' ala Primal, although I don't agree with the carb curve. I like Perfect Health Diet and WAPF Lactofermentation a lot.
Griff's cholesterol primer
5,000 Cal Fat <> 5,000 Cal Carbs
Winterbike: What I eat every day is what other people eat to treat themselves.
TQP: I find for me that nutrition is much more important than what I do in the gym.
bloodorchid is always right
I couldn't even salvage the meat since the joe sauce was thickened with corn starch and flour.


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Technical information
Begin of tour: Boudry station
End of tour: Boudry station
Access starting point: Trains from Neuchâtel
Access point of arrival: Trains to Neuchâtel
Technical requirements: Medium difficulty
Physical fitness: Medium difficulty
Distance: 34.5 km
Total altitude meters: 1280 m
Biking time: Approx. 4 to 6 hrs.
Season: May to October
Gastronomy: Boudry, Ferme Robert, La Grand'Vy, Ferme du Soliat
Overnight: La Grand'Vy, Neuchâtel
Various: Creux du Van, Lake Neuchâtel, Jura scenery
The difference in altitude between the starting point near Boudry and the highest point at Le Soliat must be a good 1000 m. When you get to the top, though, you forget all about the effort of the climb in an instant, as a vast panorama extending from the Bernese Alps to the Savoy opens up before you. Far below is Lake Neuchâtel. On the other side, your gaze is drawn to the mighty ring of rocks forming the Creux du Van. In the background, the gentle hills of the Jura extend as far as the eye can see. When you've finished enjoying all these views, it's back down to business. A great long downhill section on a wonderful singletrail leads down to Gorgier.
Tour Overview
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Boudry - Ferme Robert - La Grand'Vy - Creux du Van - Ferme du Soliat - Gorgier - Boudry
The route begins at Boudry station and takes you first towards the village. On the way down, you take the right-hand fork by the Restaurant du Pont and follow the cycle track signs towards Yverdon-les-Bains for a while. You ride for a good 1 km on a tarmac path above the vineyards towards Gorges de l'Areuse. This is where the long and sometimes steep climb up to the Creux du Van begins. You go past Ferme Robert to the mountain restaurant at La Grand'Vy. Then the trail follows the edge of the cliff face up to Le Soliat, but in places you will be unable to ride. A short downhill section leads down to La Baronne, before you begin the technically difficult descent to Gorgier. Continually following the footpath towards Boudry, you eventually arrive back at your starting point.
Pictures: www.tourenguide.ch
The careful planning of a tour will ensure that you also derive the maximum pleasure and enjoyment from it. Please take the time to contact the local information centre and enquire about route and weather conditions before setting off. Your intended trail may be fully or partially closed, depending on the time of year and weather conditions.


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The Internet makes it easy to pretend. Hide behind an e-mail address and you can invent a past or present for yourself that is more appealing than the mundane reality. As the punch line to a famous New Yorker cartoon puts it, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
Unless you post your photo at AmIHotOrNot.com. Then everyone does. The Web site allows people to rate pictures of other people on a scale of 1 to 10. It's a simple and crude idea that was conceived after a few beers, created practically overnight and has become instantly, hugely popular. "It's human nature to be voyeuristic," explains co-founder James Hong. Not to mention judgmental.
In a recent 24-hour period, 4,000 people submitted their photos and many more critiqued them. According to one tracking service, the traffic on AmIHotOrNot put it in the top 3,000 of all Internet sites in October. Not bad, especially considering it didn't even launch until the month was one-third over.
The public death agonies of the retail and entertainment dot-coms have been big news lately, and they've spawned a general sourness and despair about the Net itself. But as AmIHotOrNot demonstrates, a good idea that is well-executed can still become a phenomenon.
'My friend did not know about us using her picture and it would be best to keep it that way. Her final rating was 4.1. See why this should be a secret?'
- Anonymous site user
Yet if Hot is indisputably hot, that only makes Hong and his partner, engineering grad student Jim Young, more uncertain about their next step. "Sustainability is the big issue," says Hong. "Are we just another Internet fad that will be gone in a day?"
Fad or not, there would have been only one route to take two years ago: Get venture capital funding, hire a bunch of people, slick up the site and, as soon as possible, either sell to Yahoo or take the whole operation public. If Hong and Young were lucky, they would have become serious millionaires.
Ever since the dot-com crash began this spring, that road has been impossible for most and inadvisable for the rest. Once the best way to build a company, now it's seen as the quickest way to ruin it.
"Should we hire someone?" Hong asks rhetorically. "We're scared to. Too many companies have ramped up too fast - 'We're up to 80 people! We're up to 100!' - We're not claiming to know what we're doing. We just look around and see what's out there and try and learn from it."
It's hard to remain a purist, however. Hong, who is currently crashing in Young's house in Mountain View, Calif., knows he must convert this project into something that at least pays its own way. If only he could figure out how.
His daydream: You go into a clothing store, try an outfit on. A clerk takes a picture and feeds it to AmIHotOrNot.com, which for a small fee provides an instant poll.
Such a function is impractical at the moment. More to the point, one reason Hong's site is so much more popular than its many competitors and copycats is because it seems to have no designs on its users' pocketbooks at all, beyond a few ads. It's akin to Napster, the music-sharing site: If it weren't free and easy, the party would be much smaller.
Here's how the site works: Viewers choose whether they want to see men or women or both. Once a photo appears, you must vote on it to advance to the next picture. Then, accompanying that fresh shot, the previous picture appears in a corner of the screen, with a line noting what the person's average score is, and how many votes he or she has received.
In a succinct and probably accurate explanation on AmIHotOrNot's message board, user "caseyzero" explained, "Women are rated by a small number of women who vote based on general attractiveness and a large number of men who vote based on hormonal urges. Men are rated by a small number of women who vote based on general attractiveness and a small number of men who vote '1."'
Women who show a lot of cleavage do better than those who don't. As for men, one low scorer grumped on the message board, "Girls are just as insensitive as guys. If a guy has his shirt off, he's a 10."
How both the women and men who get scores of 2 or 3 got the nerve to do this in the first place is worthy of sociological study - and is another of the subjects discussed on the message board, which is a popular place in itself.
Overall, says Dan Bohan, president of the rating service Top9.com, AmIHotOrNot ranked No. 4 in the modeling category for October, with 377,000 unique visitors. "Not too many sites come on this strong, this quickly," Bohan said.
It was a hit from the beginning. The origin was a late-night conversation between Hong; his brother, Tony; and Young in early October. Fueled by a Heineken or two, someone mentioned that someone they all knew - memory is hazy on the details - was a perfect 10. Since these were all computer folk, the question arose about how you would design a Web site around such ratings. A three-hour conversation ensued. At the end, Young, the most technically minded, disappeared into his room for two days to build the site.
They tested it with some friends over the weekend and sent it out to more friends Oct. 9. Two days later, Salon.com wrote about it. Three hours later, they had to take the site down temporarily because it was getting too many hits. For an evening, they moved the site to the computers at the university in Berkeley that Young attends.
AmIHotOrNot is now professionally hosted, but it's still a fragile enterprise. Photos of celebrities, such as Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, have been submitted as pranks. Not so obvious are the pictures that appear authentic but were submitted by someone other than the subject.
One woman included an e-mail address on her picture. A reporter's message resulted in the response that two friends were posting this picture of a colleague as a lark.
"My friend did not know about us using her picture and it would be best to keep it that way," one of the women e-mailed. "Her final rating was 4.1. See why this should be a secret?"
An increasing number of photos have Web addresses that promote something. The site is self-policing - if viewers see something inappropriate, they're encouraged to contact the webmaster - but Hong says that's no longer enough, and all the photos will be screened. He's trying to keep the experience pure.
"We've been on the Internet since 1990, '91," says Hong, who is all of 27. "Before that, we were into bulletin boards. We're geeks. You know the spirit: It's OK to make money, but don't sell anyone out; don't do things just to make a buck. You've got to care about the people. They made you, and they can break you."
Dot-com executives from Amazon's Jeff Bezos on down say the same thing, of course. AmIHotOrNot has greater freedom because it doesn't have a payroll of hundreds. In essence, however, it's got the same problem as any other consumer Internet company: how to take a base of fans to the next level.
"It's a good problem to have, considering the alternatives," Hong says. "We're lucky." But he concedes that it's possible there is no business plan here.
As for the people whose ratings are low, all the entrepreneur can say is that he knows their pain. His photo, before it was retired, was rated 3.8.
"This means," Hong says, "that I'd better have a good personality.
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Smithfield Foods lays off 120 more at Virginia plant
RICHMOND, Va. -- Smithfield Foods Inc. said Tuesday that it is laying off 120 more workers as part of its previously announced closure of a Virginia facility that makes hot dogs and deli meat.
The Smithfield, Va.-based pork producer plans to close the Portsmouth plant in the middle of August, said Jeff Gough, Smithfield's senior vice president for human resources.
Layoffs at the Smithfield Packing Co. facility began in January, with more than 400 workers to be affected by the time the plant is closed.
The move comes amid the company's pending $4.72 billion takeover by China's largest meat producer under a deal struck last month with Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd.
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U.S. video game retail sales fall 25 percent in May
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NPD said total video game sales were $386.3 million, down from $517 million in May 2012. The decline comes as Microsoft Corp. and Sony Corp. are getting ready to launch new consoles later this year. The Xbox One, the successor to Microsoft's Xbox 360, and the PlayStation 4, successor to Sony's PS3, are expected to boost game sales over the holiday season.
U.S. consumer prices rise just 0.1 percent in May
WASHINGTON -- U.S. consumer prices rose slightly in May, as higher energy costs partly offset cheaper food. The small increase is further evidence that consumers are benefiting from mild inflation.
The consumer price index ticked up a seasonally adjusted 0.1 percent in May from April, the Labor Department said Tuesday. Over the past 12 months, prices have risen just 1.4 percent.
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MARONDERA, Zimbabwe -- William Mukurazita's deposit at the bank has four legs and moos.
Zimbabwe's first "Cattle Bank" has just opened its books in a unique kind of banking in which owners bring in their animals as collateral against cash loans.
For many rural poor in this southern African country once wracked by world-record inflation, it's the first bank account they've ever had.
"Cattle banking is the only way owners can get monetary value for their animals without having to sell them," bank executive Charles Chakoma told the Associated Press among fields and small farming plots near Marondera, east of Harare, the capital.
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I live by salt water and metal rusts. These planters are all plastic and snap together without any metal. And the appearance of them fit right in with my beach house decor!
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Very attractive and a nice size, but I was disappointed to see I had to purchase a liner to go on the inside of it before doing any planting. Since I only just purchased it I have no idea how it will hold up, but for now I am loving it.
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I have two of them flanking my patio and each one has a day lilly in them. They make me smile when I sit outside.The only draw back is because they are white they show all the dirt that gets on them.I think I will order two of the black ones.
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Payvment launched new features for users of its Facebook ecommerce platform that enable shoppers to easily share their Wish Lists on their Timelines. The features are designed to drive greater conversation around products and more powerful, personalized social commerce experiences, and they capitalize on new buttons that go beyond the Facebook "Like" button.
As an example of how the features work, Payvment said if a shopper clicks the Payvment "Want" button on a particular listing, the resulting post might read, "Jane wants a Gold Bangle Bracelet at the Shopping Mall on Facebook." Payvment explained, "These posts appear within Facebook ticker, so Jane's friend can now easily get her the ideal gift with a few simple clicks."
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by Dave Barry
There are few more inviting targets in America than the computer subculture, with its insidious jargon, frivolous obsessions and unending irritations. Fortunately, satirist Barry couldn't resist, and he takes dead-on aim in this relentlessly funny book.
Though his research included a visit to a computer trade show in Las Vegas, an event he calls Nerdstock, Barry writes mostly of his own misadventures with personal computing, focusing on his familiarity with the three magic words, Abort?, Retry? and Fail?, and his futile attempts to find a living person on the other end of a technical support line.
Barry admits to writing on a computer, but he holds no reverence for cyberspace or its boosters: "Let's not forget the hardware manufacturers, who are constantly coming out with faster and more powerful computers in a relentless quest to render obsolete the computers they talked you into buying last month."
Aside from a couple of rare lapses of taste, Barry shines, and he clearly knows whereof he spoofs. He concludes, "We cannot predict where, ultimately, the Computer Revolution will take us. All we know for certain is that, when we finally get there, we won't have enough RAM." (Crown, $22)
Picks and Pans Review: Dave Barry in Cyberspace
updated 09/23/1996 AT 01:00 AM EDT
•originally published 09/23/1996 AT 01:00 AM EDT