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4-star all-purpose back David Williams from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has named a top three, but there is one program is his final group that stands out above the rest—Ohio State.
According to Josh Moyer of ESPN.com, Williams' top three will consist of Arizona State, South Carolina and the aforementioned Ohio State. While all three are quality programs and formidable options for the 4-star running back, it's hard not to see what the Buckeyes and head coach Urban Meyer can offer Williams.
In fact, Williams' admiration for Meyer is a reason Ohio State finds itself in the running back's top three, per Moyer's report:
The 6-foot-1, 192-pound senior said he chose those three schools because he felt most comfortable there. He said Arizona State felt like a "mini-Los Angeles," he admired Urban Meyer, and the Gamecocks had a great game-day atmosphere.
At this point, Ohio State has to be considered one of the premier recruiting schools in the nation once again, and most of that has to do with Meyer.
There's no doubting the fact that he brings a whole lot of prestige and credibility back to the head coach position, and Ohio State's 12-0 record in his first season is just a sign of things to come in the Meyer era of Buckeyes football.
Arizona State just can't offer those opportunities, and South Carolina—for as good as it's been—has to go through Georgia and Florida on a yearly basis just to have a shot in the SEC East, let alone win a championship.
If there's a close second for best fit or even a competitor for first, it's definitely South Carolina. Steve Spurrier's squad has been known to field some great running backs, and with Marcus Lattimore declaring for the NFL draft and Kenny Miles being a senior, there's going to be plenty of room opening up on their depth chart very soon (Arizona State has five halfbacks and running backs on their current depth chart).
As I pointed out, the Gamecocks have an extremely tough SEC East to fight through year after year, though, and they haven't necessarily shown the ability to rise to the occasion in big games.
Which school is the best fit for Williams?
He's also talented enough to compete for time within that group of running backs, so taking the shot to compete and play at OSU would be a great opportunity.
Finally, as if that weren't enough, Ohio State offers Williams the chance to play a bit closer to home. Columbus, Ohio is about two hours closer to Philadelphia than Columbia, South Carolina is, and it's infinitely closer than the state of Arizona.
Ohio State has quickly rebuilt under Meyer, and they'll provide a 4-star running back like Williams with a ton of opportunities. If the chance to win big and play for a great coach means anything, Ohio State should be the favorite in this instance. He'll also be a little bit closer to home, and he'll be able to compete and learn behind some very good running backs. Depth charts don't always mean everything in the decision making process, and in this case, all of the other positives the Buckeyes have to offer should be enough to overshadow that.
Plus, in time, he has the talent to end up being "the guy" in Ohio State's backfield, and that has to be a huge draw.
South Carolina and Arizona State are good options, but the Buckeyes are the best fit for him.


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We recently found that Wnts are required for the stability of synapses in mature hippocampal neurons. We have shown that blockade of Wnts with the secreted Wnt antagonist Dickkopf-1 (Dkk1) results in the rapid loss and shrinkage of synapses in mature hippocampal neurons (Purro et al, J. Neurosci, 2012).
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Lau v. Nichols
|Lau v. Nichols
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Decided January 21, 1974
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|Lau, et al. v. Nichols, et al. ( Alan Nichols- President of the school board)
|414 U.S. 563 (more)
94 S. Ct. 786; 39 L. Ed. 2d 1; 1974 U.S. LEXIS 151
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|Stewart, joined by Burger, Blackmun
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Lau v. Nichols, 414 U.S. 563 (1974), was a civil rights case that was brought by Chinese American students living in San Francisco, California who had limited English proficiency. The students claimed that they were not receiving special help in school due to their inability to speak English, which they argued they were entitled to under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 because of its ban on educational discrimination on the basis of national origin. Finding that the lack of linguistically appropriate accommodations (e.g. educational services in English) effectively denied the Chinese students equal educational opportunities on the basis of their ethnicity, the U.S. Supreme Court in 1974 ruled in favor of the students, thus expanding rights of students nationwide with limited English proficiency. The Supreme Court stated that these students should be treated with equality among the schools. Among other things, Lau reflects the now-widely accepted[citation needed] view that a person's language is so closely intertwined with their national origin (the country someone or their ancestors came from) that language-based discrimination is effectively a proxy for national origin discrimination.
Lau remains an important decision on the fourteenth amendment, and is frequently relied upon as authority in many cases (the San Francisco Unified School District remains covered by the consent decree that was ultimately entered into in the Lau case, and civil rights groups continue to monitor SFUSD's compliance with that decree).
[Lau v. Nichols, 414 U.S. 563 (1974); Lau v. San Francisco Unified School District, U.S.D.C., N.D. Cal., No. C 70-627 CW.]
The case relied on Section 601 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and not the 14th amendment.
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New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Wants to Bring His Girlfriend Home, but There Is One Problem: His Wife
There were gifts too. Caroline presented her mother with a cosmetics case. Andrew gave her hand lotion. And across town Giuliani's divorce lawyer Raoul Felder was preparing his own Mother's Day greeting. In the midst of the nastiest flare-up in the Giulianis' yearlong divorce fight, Felder showed that he cared enough to send the very worst.
"She's howling like a stuck pig," Felder told the New York Daily News, referring to Hanover's decision to remain at Gracie Mansion while seeking a court order to keep her husband's very public girlfriend, Judi Nathan, out. "She reminds me of the little kid who murders his parents and complains he's an orphan."
Felder's fusillade marked the latest low point in the bitter domestic drama involving the combative Giuliani, 57, Hanover, 51, and Giuliani's "very good friend," Nathan, 46, his companion for the past year. The story line has included plot twists worthy of the operas Giuliani so loves: revelations of the mayor's prostate cancer; his decision not to run for the U.S. Senate against Hillary Clinton; his wife's public accusations of infidelity; and his matter-of-fact squiring of Nathan around town as de facto first lady.
Not surprisingly, the latest showdown involves that most cherished New York City commodity: real estate. On May 3, fed up with reports that Nathan was attending public functions at Gracie Mansion, Hanover asked a Manhattan supreme court judge to bar her husband's "paramour" from the mayoral home. Nathan's visits, she declared in court papers, were an invasion of her intimate private space and should be stopped.
Felder, whose outrage is available by the hour, seemed incensed that Hanover's sealed request had leaked to the press. So when Judge Judith Gische refused to grant his request for a gag order on the proceedings, he decided to make up ground. "[Hanover] will have to be dragged from the chain of the chandeliers in Gracie Mansion by the next mayor," Felder said outside Manhattan supreme court on May 11, later telling PEOPLE, "They'll have to take her biting, scratching and clawing from the premises." Catching his breath, he branded her as a career-obsessed uninterested mother who "doesn't care what happens to the children" and was clinging to a dead marriage. "She's refused," he said, "to let people move on."
In useful counterpoint to Felder's overheated rhetoric were tales sympathetic to the mayor leaked to the feisty New York City tabloids. Among them: how Giuliani—banished to one of the mansion's tiny guest rooms while his wife occupies the two-room master suite—vomited through the night after drug and radiation treatments for his prostate cancer last fall and winter and was left to cope alone. What's more, Felder says, Hanover refused her ex's request to switch rooms (his is barely big enough for a bed) and regularly woke him at 5 a.m. by exercising in a room above. Most intimate of all is team Giuliani's startling revelation—supported by doctors—that hormone treatments, including the drug lupron, and radiation have left the mayor impotent (temporarily, he hopes) and so lacking in testosterone that he and Nathan cannot enjoy their relationship to the fullest.
All this should be enough to make the most hardened subway straphanger scream, "Enough already!" But lest the rest of the country miss out, David Letterman made the affair a national joke. "Mayor Giuliani's wife has banned his girlfriend from their home," the Late Show host quipped on May 9. "Hillary Clinton said, 'You could do that?' " Columnists took sides, with the The New York Times' Maureen Dowd urging Hanover to leave ("It's time for her to say 'Good night, Gracie Mansion' "). The New York Post's Linda Stasi told Giuliani, "You want out, pal? Then you get out." And the News' Pete Hamill suggested that both should vacate the premises. Sums up former New York City Mayor Ed Koch: "It's the craziest thing I've ever seen. It's all anyone is talking about."
It's hard to imagine Felder, a canny celebrity lawyer who has represented the exes of Mick Jagger, Liz Taylor and Anthony Quinn, talking at all without, at the very least, Giuliani's tacit approval. But you won't hear the mayor say that. "There shouldn't be harsh words about [Hanover]. There shouldn't be harsh words about me," Giuliani told reporters on May 14 during a trip to Milwaukee. Koch, for one, isn't buying. "Whatever his lawyer is saying, Rudy doesn't disagree," he says. "So, in effect, he has authorized it."
Through it all Hanover has remained mum and kept her lawyers on a relatively tight leash. Still, her attorney Victor Kovner calls Felder's comments" ludicrous, baseless and embarrassing to both him and Giuliani." Everyone who knows the first lady, he adds, "knows that Donna Hanover is an extremely caring person and an excellent mother dedicated to her children." Despite the onslaught, says Kovner, Hanover "is holding up well." As for the children, who attend private schools in Manhattan, "the hateful and scurrilous charges undoubtedly are reaching them," says a family friend.
So how did it all come to this? Six weeks after they met on a blind date in 1982, Giuliani and Hanover were so wildly in love that he proposed and she accepted. Within three months she had quit her job as a reporter with the NBC affiliate in Miami and moved to Washington, D.C., where he was an associate attorney general in the Reagan Administration's Justice Department. Their April 1984 wedding was the second for both but seemed blessed. "It was a nice, generally easy relationship," Hanover's friend Reese Schonfeld told PEOPLE last year. "I never heard a harsh word."
But by 1995 things had changed. That September New York Magazine linked Giuliani to Cristyne Lategano-Nicholas, then his communications director. Both Giuliani and Lategano-Nicholas, now 36, energetically denied any inappropriate behavior. Still, it was clear to friends that Giuliani's marriage had frosted over. "There was ice, no question about that," says Hanover's onetime boss, former WPIX-TV news director John Corporon, who made the mistake of introducing Hanover—who uses the surname of her first husband, Stanley Hanover—as Donna Giuliani in 1996. "She gave me a stare and said, 'Donna Hanover.' " In the years that followed, Hanover was absent from virtually all mayoral functions, throwing herself into an acting career with small roles in films including The People vs. Larry Flynt and Ransom and guest spots on TV's Ally McBeal and Law & Order.
Then, on May 10 last year, Giuliani blindsided her by announcing without warning, at a press conference, that their 16-year marriage had come to an end. At the same time he addressed his relationship with Nathan, the managing director of Changing Our World, a company that provides business services to charities. Diagnosed with prostate cancer days earlier and facing Hillary Clinton in his all-but-announced bid for the Senate, Giuliani said of Nathan: "I'm going to need her now more than maybe I did before."
A registered nurse who grew up in Hazleton, Pa., Nathan had moved to New York City from California with her daughter Whitney, 16, after a bitter divorce from millionaire businessman Bruce Nathan, 51, in 1992. Three years later she moved in with psychologist Manos Zacharioudakis, 37. As he recalls it, their relationship was already fading when Nathan met Giuliani at a Manhattan restaurant in early 1999. "She was all excited," Zacharioudakis says. "He invited her over with her friend. They joined him at his table, and a few weeks later she got invited to Gracie Mansion."
Nathan split with Zacharioudakis soon afterward and by March the next year was accompanying the mayor to civic functions, including the St. Patrick's Day Parade. She and Giuliani also became fixtures at his favorite haunts, Da Nico in Little Italy and Osso Buco, near Nathan's apartment on the Upper East Side. "They came in once or twice a week and sat on the balcony at a banquette," reports Osso Buco owner Nino Selimaj. "It's very romantic. I've seen them holding hands. They laugh and talk and seem very happy."
What Hanover objects to, apparently, is the possibility of such scenes playing out in her own home. Over the past six months Nathan has been a regular guest at events held in the function rooms and grounds of Gracie Mansion, even acting as hostess at a buffet dinner the mayor held this March for his staff and friends.
If Hanover has her way, those visits will end. The mayor, argues her lawyer Helene Brezinsky, "has flaunted his mistress" in the home he shares with his wife and children. But Felder says Nathan has never met the Giuliani children or visited the mansion's private quarters. Should Nathan show herself there, Hanover, it seems, is ready to pounce. Dallas businessman Roy Bailey witnessed the first lady's vigilance after a round of golf with the mayor on April 27. Having showered and changed in Giuliani's quarters, Bailey says he emerged to find Hanover right outside the door. "I don't think she was sitting in the hallway knitting," says Bailey. Adds Felder, with customary bluntness: "Someone has to say to her, 'Get a life.' "
So why doesn't Hanover just move out? Attorney Kovner, who dismisses the shower tale as "ludicrous," says his client and Giuliani, who formally filed for divorce last December, agreed to share the mansion "for the sake of the children" until his term expires on Dec. 31. "They don't agree on much, but there's no disagreement on that." (Felder begs to differ.) Besides, the $750,000 Upper East Side apartment the family shared before Giuliani's election in 1993 is sublet through the end of the year. And considering the price of East Side real estate, public housing may not look so bad: A three-bedroom apartment in the neighborhood sells for about $1 million; renting one could cost $10,000 per month.
Justice Gische may rule any day on whether Nathan should keep clear of Gracie. In the meantime, the besieged Hanover might be wise to heed the advice of one who has been there before. "Keep your head high," says Ivana Trump, a veteran, if ever there was one, of the dirty New York City divorce. "Let the son of a gun go, and say, 'I'm going to live my life.' "
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During Thursday's practice, Holmes was limited to pedaling on an exercise bike, pumping his arms and catching softly tossed passes from a trainer. Jets coach Rex Ryan said it "doesn't look good" that Holmes will play Sunday against 5-1 New England – a huge AFC East game for the 3-3 Jets.
Holmes has missed two games since getting hurt, and he seemed none too pleased to be asked how he was feeling during his weekly 10-minute media session Thursday.
"How am I feeling right now?" he said in response to that very question. "Like you guys are interrupting my treatment time right now. That's how I'm feeling. I was just on the rehab table, and I had to get taken off the table to come to do interviews."
Holmes would only say that his hamstring injury is "one day at a time" and would not offer specifics when asked if he has been able to do more exercises this week as compared to last week.
"Making progress every day, and that's all I'm looking forward to doing is continuing to make progress each day," he said.
Holmes said he was not giving a graded severity for his hamstring injury.
So what do the trainers need to see in order to clear him?
"I need to get healthy," he said. "There's a lot of muscles to heal by themselves, to be able to do what we do, (which) is run. I don't know anything else to do but run fast, and to allow the muscle to heal up on its own and be able to do what it's been doing for all these years."
As for whether this time off has allowed his left foot to further heal, he said, "I haven't been able to run since the Tennessee game, so I really don't know what I can do."
His daily routine involves stretching and icing of his hamstring, and on Thursday, he tried to simulate a game-like, pass-catching situation as best he could, while riding the bike.
"It's part of my game, something I can't allow myself to slack up at any point," he said of catching passes. "So the more I push myself on the bike and get fatigued, I want to continue to keep fresh in my mind that I still catch the ball at this time and just work on the little mechanics."


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A silver alert was issued Wednesday morning for a man last seen in the Villages.
Raymond Schultz was last seen on Whiting Way wearing black shorts, brown patriotic shirt and black shoes.
He is 78-years-old, stands 5 feet 11 inches tall with gray hair and green eyes.
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This is a list of names in which the gender is feminine; and the first letter is B.
There are 394 names matching your criteria. This is page 2.
BRANISLAVA f Serbian, Slovak, Czech, Slovene
Serbian, Slovak, Czech and Slovene feminine form of BRONISŁAW.
BRAŇKA f Slovak
Slovak diminutive of BRANISLAVA.
BRANWEN f Welsh, Welsh Mythology
Means "beautiful raven" from Welsh bran "raven" and gwen "fair, white, blessed"... [more]
BRATISLAVA f Serbian
Feminine form of BRATISLAV... [more]
BREANA f English (Modern)
Variant of BRIANA.
BREANN f English (Modern)
Feminine form of BRIAN.
BREANNE f English (Modern)
Feminine form of BRIAN.
BRENDA f English
Possibly a feminine form of the Old Norse name Brandr, meaning "sword", which was brought to Britain in the Middle Ages... [more]
BRETT m & f English
From a Middle English surname meaning "a Breton", referring to an inhabitant of Brittany... [more]
BRIANNE f English (Modern)
Feminine form of BRIAN.
BRIAR m & f English (Rare)
From the English word for the thorny plant.
BRIDGET f Irish, English, Irish Mythology
Anglicized form of the Irish name Brighid which means "exalted one"... [more]
BRIELLA f English (Modern)
Short form of GABRIELLA.
BRIELLE f English (Modern)
Short form of GABRIELLE... [more]
BRIGHID f Irish, Irish Mythology
Irish form of BRIDGET.
BRIGID f Irish, Irish Mythology
Variant of BRIGHID.
BRÍGIDA f Portuguese
Portuguese form of BRIDGET.
BRIGIT f Irish Mythology
Old Irish form of BRIDGET.
BRIONY f English (Rare)
Variant of BRYONY.
BRISEIS f Greek Mythology
Patronymic derived from Βρισευς (Briseus), a Greek name of unknown meaning... [more]
BRITANNIA f English (Rare)
From the Latin name of the island of Britain, in occasional use as an English given name since the 18th century... [more]
BRITNEY f English (Modern)
Variant of BRITTANY.
BRITTANI f English (Modern)
Variant of BRITTANY.
BRITTANIA f English (Rare)
Variant of BRITTANY.
BRITTANY f English
From the name of the region in the northwest of France, called in French Bretagne... [more]
BRITTNEY f English (Modern)
Variant of BRITTANY.
BRITTNY f English (Modern)
Variant of BRITTANY.
BRONISLAVA f Czech, Slovak, Russian
Czech, Slovak and Russian feminine form of BRONISŁAW.
BRONISŁAWA f Polish
Feminine form of BRONISŁAW.
BRONTE m & f English (Rare)
From a surname, an Anglicized form of Irish Ó Proinntigh meaning "descendant of Proinnteach"... [more]
BROOKLYN f English (Modern)
From the name of the borough of New York City, originally derived from Dutch Breukelen meaning "broken land"... [more]
BROOKLYNN f English (Modern)
Variant of BROOKLYN.
BRUNA f Italian, Portuguese, Croatian
Feminine form of BRUNO.
BRÜNHILD f German, Germanic Mythology
Derived from the Germanic elements brun "armour, protection" and hild "battle"... [more]
BRUNHILD f Germanic Mythology, Ancient Germanic
Variant of BRÜNHILD.
BRUNHILDE f German, Ancient Germanic
Variant of BRÜNHILD.
BRUNIHILD f Ancient Germanic
Old Germanic form of BRÜNHILD.
BRUNILDA f Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese form of BRÜNHILD.
BRYANA f English (Modern)
Variant of BRIANA.
BRYANNA f English (Modern)
Variant of BRIANA.
BRYANNE f English (Rare)
Feminine form of BRIAN.
BRYNHILDR f Norse Mythology, Ancient Scandinavian
Old Norse cognate of BRÜNHILD.
BRYNHILDUR f Icelandic
Icelandic form of Brynhildr (see BRÜNHILD).
BRYNJA f Icelandic, Ancient Scandinavian
Means "armour" in Old Norse.
BRYNN f English (Modern)
Feminine variant of BRYN.
BRYNNE f English (Rare)
Feminine variant of BRYN.
BRYONY f English (Rare)
From the name of a type of Eurasian vine, formerly used as medicine... [more]
BUFFY f English
Diminutive of ELIZABETH, from a child's pronunciation of the final syllable... [more]
BULAN f Indonesian
Means "moon" (or "month") in Indonesian.
BURGUNDY f English (Rare)
This name can refer either to the region in France, the wine (which derives from the name of the region), or the colour (which derives from the name of the wine).
Baako ⇔ Brandy
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The Most Expensive Apartments in Hong Kong
The major players of the Hong Kong Real Estate sector have long since competed for the title of the most expensive apartment in Hong Kong. The following infographic shows a time line of all records holders from 2004, showing how these super powers outdo one another and how the benchmark has been increasing over the years.
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Infographic References:
Mid-Levels Gehry flat sets record of HK$68,000 a sq ft - 13 November, 2012 SCMP
Opus flat Asia's dearest – 13 November, 2012, The Standard
Investigation of the development project of "39 Conduit Road" - 18 January 2012, News.gov.hk
Homebuyers not protected from potentially biased information - 29 October, 2012, SCMP
Buyer pays HK$60,000 psf for 39 Conduit Road apartment - 25 September, 2010, SCMP
Top of the pile – 14 October, 2009, The Standard
HK$283m buys Asia's most expensive flat - 24 November, 2007, SCMP
Prices of luxury flats reach Legendary heights - 19 October, 2007, SCMP
Arch penthouse sells for record HK$185m – 05 July, 2007, SCMP
Record price paid for a penthouse at The Arch – 05 July, 2007, The Standard
Legend site potential drives NWD to pay $509m more – 05 April , 2007, SCMP
Industry ponders exorbitant price paid for penthouse - 27 April, 2005, SCMP
SHKP over Moon as Arch flat goes for Asian record – 18 June, 2008, The Standard
HK$283m buys Asia's most expensive flat - 24 November, 2007, SCMP
Hong Kong Land Registry - http://www.landreg.gov.hk/en/
EPRC - http://www.eprc.com.hk/
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There are 178 names matching your criteria.
FAIRBURN English
From a place name which meant "fern stream", from Old English fearn "fern" and burna "stream".
FAIRCLOUGH English
From Old English, meaning "fair cliff".
FALKENRATH German
Means "keeper of the falcon" with falk from the Germanic valke for "falcon" and rath meaning "keeper".
FARMER English
Occupational name for a tax collector, from Middle English farme "rent, revenue, produce, meal", which was derived via medieval Latin from Old English feorm... [more]
FASHINGBAUER German
From Fasching, a German carnival (Fastnacht meaning "eve of the beginning of the fast", or the time before Lent) celebrated in Austria and Catholic Bavaria, and bauer meaning "farmer".
FAVAGER French
From the old French or Swiss word faverges or favarges meaning a "forge", hence a name for a blacksmith... [more]
FEHÉR Hungarian
Means "white" in Hungarian, originally referring to a person with white hair or complexion.
FEIGENBAUM German, Jewish
Means "a fig tree" in German.
FENN English
From a name for someone who dwelt near a marsh, from Middle English fenn meaning "marsh, bog".
FENSTERMACHER German
Means "window maker" in German.
FERMI Italian, Jewish
Locative surname coming from the town of Fermo in Marche region, not far from Rome... [more]
FERNANDES Portuguese
Means "son of FERNANDO".
FERRARI Italian
Occupational name for a metalworker or smith, derived from Latin ferrum meaning "iron", and thus an Italian version of Smith.
FERREIRA Portuguese
Denoted one from a town named because it was near an iron mine, from ferrum the Latin word for "iron".
FERREIRO Portuguese
Portuguese cognate of FERRARI.
FERRO Italian, Portuguese
Meaning "iron" from Latin, comes probably from a nickname for one who worked with iron.
FILIPOV Bulgarian, Macedonian
Means "son of FILIP".
FILIPOWSKI Polish
Either a patronymic from the given name FILIP, or a habitational name for a person from Filipow, Poland.
FISCELLA (1) Italian
Derived from the given name Fisco, Fisco being an archaic diminutive of FRANCESCO.
FISCELLA (2) Italian
Derived from Sicilian fiscella, the word for a basket used to conserve cheese... [more]
FITZGERALD Irish
Means "son of GERALD" in Anglo-Norman French... [more]
FITZPATRICK Irish
Means "son of PATRICK" in Anglo-Norman French.
FITZSIMMONS Irish
Means "son of Simmons" or "son of SIMON" in Anglo-Norman French.
FLEMING English
Given to a person who was a Fleming, that is a person who was from Flanders in the Netherlands.
FLETCHER English
Means "fletcher", someone who attaches feather flights to the shaft of an arrow... [more]
FLORES Spanish
Derived from the given name Floro, Spanish form of the Roman Florus which meant "flower".
FLOROS Greek
From the given name Φλωρος (Phloros) "green", from classical Greek χλωρος (chloros), or a nickname from the same word in the sense "greenfinch"... [more]
FONSECA Spanish, Portuguese
Originally belonged to a person who lived near a dry spring, from Latin fons "well, spring" and sicca "dry".
FORESTER English
Denoted a keeper or one in charge of a forest, or one who has charge of growing timber in a forest (see FOREST).
FORNEY English, Scottish
Name for someone who lived around ferns, from Middle English fern "fern" and heye "enclosure".
FOSTER (1) English
Variant of FORESTER.
FOSTER (2) English
Occupational name for a scissor maker, derived from Old French forcetier.
FOSTER (3) English
Occupational name for a woodworker, derived from Old French fustrier.
FOSTER (4) English
Nickname given to a person who was a foster-child or foster-parent.
FOTH Low German
From a nickname meaning "foot".
FOWLER English
Occupational name for a fowler or bird-catcher, ultimately derived from Old English fugol meaning "bird".
FRANCO Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
Cognate of FRANK (1).
FRANK (3) German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian
Name for a person from Franconia in Germany, so called because it was settled by the Frankish people.
FRASER Scottish
Meaning unknown, originally Norman French Fresel, possibly from a lost place name in France.
FREDERIKSEN Danish
Means "son of FREDERIK".
FREITAS Portuguese
Means "broken" in Portuguese, a name for one who lived on broken, stony ground.
FREUDENBERGER German
Means "friend of the mountain", from German freund, freud meaning "friend" and berg meaning "mountain"... [more]
FRISK Swedish
From the Swedish word frisk "healthy", which was derived from the Middle Low German word vrisch "fresh, young, frisky" and was one of the names handed out to avoid confusion in the army.
FROST English, German
From Old English and Old High German, a nickname for a person who had a cold personality or a white beard.
FUJIMOTO Japanese
From Japanese 藤 (fuji) meaning "wisteria" and 本 (moto) meaning "base, root, origin".
FURNADJIEV Bulgarian
Means "son of the baker".


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Janet Redman
IPS associate fellow Janet Redman is the former director of the Climate Policy Program. For more than a decade, her work has supported the transition from an extractive, fossil fueled economy to equitable, democratic and local living economies. To that end, Janet uses research, writing and strategic conversations to develop bold ideas in domestic and international policy spaces that redefine what is politically possible. She also practices nurturing deep relationships with grassroots organizations and networks in the global South and North is necessary to align policy advocacy with the goals of social, economics and environmental justice movements. Janet is currently the U.S. Policy Director at Oil Change International and serves on the board of directors of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives.
Janet holds a Master's Degree from Clark University in International Development and Social Change, where she focused her graduate research on regional trade integration and social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of Vermont.
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The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search Tuesday morning for a possible person in the water near the Charleston City Marina.
According to Petty Officer 3rd Class Anthony Soto, an overnight search failed to produce results and no sign of distress was found. No one was reported missing or overdue to the Coast Guard, he said.
Coast Guard crews have suspended their search around 8:20 a.m. pending any new developments, Soto said.
A security guard at the marina reported hearing a cry for help around 2:45 a.m., according to officials with Coast Guard Sector Charleston.
The Coast Guard launched rescue crews to search a four-mile stretch of the Ashley River. An Urgent Marine Information Broadcast was also issued, officials said.
A helicopter crew from Air Facility Charleston assisted in the search, along with rescue crews from the Charleston County Sheriff's Office and Charleston firefighters, officials said.
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Mount Edgecumbe (Alaska)
|Mount Edgecumbe
Mount Edgecumbe in December 2004.
|Highest point
|3,201 ft (976 m)
|3,201 ft (976 m)
|57°03′05″N 135°45′31″W / 57.05139°N 135.75861°WCoordinates: 57°03′05″N 135°45′31″W / 57.05139°N 135.75861°W
|Kruzof Island, Sitka City and Borough, Alaska, U.S.
|Topo map
|USGS Sitka A-6
|Age of rock
|< 600,000 yr
|Mountain type
|Dacite stratovolcano
|Last eruption
|2220 BCE ± 100 years
|First ascent
|1803 by Urey Lisianski
|Easiest route
Mount Edgecumbe is a dormant volcano located at the southern end of Kruzof Island, Alaska, of which it is the highest point. In the Tlingit language it is called L'ux.[1] Mt. Edgecumbe is a local landmark and a tourist attraction.
Mount Edgecumbe was named by British Captain James Cook in 1778 after a hill overlooking Plymouth Harbor, England, or possibly for George, Earl of Edgcumbe.[2] It had previously been named Montaña de San Jacinto (to La Pérouse "Mount Saint Hyacinth") in 1775 by Spanish explorer Juan de la Bodega to honor the saint whose day it was.[3]
Mount Edgecumbe can be ascended by a 6.7 Miles (one way), difficult day hike - Muddy and wet in places, last 3 miles steep climb, bears may be present.[4] The trail and original cabin were constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
False eruption[edit]
On April 1, 1974, a local prankster named Oliver "Porky" Bickar flew in and ignited 100 old tires in the crater, convincing nearby residents of Sitka, Alaska that the volcano was erupting. Round the rim of the volcano someone had spraypainted "April Fool" in 50 ft letters. Bickar had been planning the prank for four years.[6]
See also[edit]
- ^ Joseph, Charlie; Brady, I.; Makinen, E.; David, R.; Davis, V.; Johnson, A.; Lord, N. (2001). "Sheet'kwaan Aani Aya". Sitka Tribe of Alaska. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
- ^ Wagner, Henry (1937). The Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America to the Year 1800. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 385.
- ^ Orth, Donald J. (1967). Dictionary of Alaska Place Names, Geological Survey, Professional Paper 567. Washington: United States Government Printing Office.
- ^ "Mount Edgecumbe Trail". http://www.sitkatrailworks.org/. Sitka Trail Works Inc. Retrieved 10 February 2015. External link in
- ^ "Mount Edgecumbe". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution.
- ^ Lamont, Tom (1 April 2012). "The 10 best April fools". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2012-04-01.


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History, Hope (and Running)
I am going to talk about history for a moment – bear with me, it will make sense to running, I promise!
I am a college history teacher by day (runner by early morning and afternoon). And I often tell my students that history is not teleological, meaning that it does not always progress forward (it does not always get better). Rather, history shows us that people, societies, and nations move forward, then take giant leaps back, sometimes it goes sideways, and sometimes it seems static. College students often struggle with their disappointments in our nation's history. They become pessimistic and sometimes ashamed. For a long time, I didn't know how to help them with this. As much as I loved the study of history, I knew how hard it could be to remove the rose colored glasses and see the painful events and choices of our ancestors.
Then I realized, where we can find hope and optimism is by focusing on those who resisted and consistently fought to improve our country and world. From women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton who refused to accept that women should have a second-place status throughout the 19th century and men like W.E.B. DuBois who fought for civil rights 60 years before the Civil Rights Movement "began." These people who pushed, spoke out, and risked their lives are the ways to mediate a difficult history.
I was thinking about this today. (Here comes the running part!) Running is a lot like the study of history. It's not teleological, our runs don't always get better, longer, and faster. We might PR and then watch that PR hang around for way too long. Life sometimes gets in the way, we lose time for training. We face injuries. We slow down. BUT we keep running. It's easy to get discouraged, to ask ourselves what is the point? But we get up in the morning, we lace up our shoes, and we run one mile, five miles, twenty-six point two freakin' miles. We push through the challenges – that's hope and optimism in a daily action!
Isn't that awesome? Isn't that something to be proud of?? I certainly think so!


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• We performed a retrospective review of 178 previously untreated patients with primary malignant neoplasms of the parotid gland treated at our institution between 1960 and 1985. Patients were followed up for a median of 7.5 years. Fifty-nine percent underwent surgery alone, and 40% underwent surgery and radiation therapy. Univariate and multivariate analyses established the prognostic influence of cancer stage, cancer grade, histologic type, presence of lymphatic invasion, perineural invasion, tumor size, extension beyond the parotid gland fascia, cervical adenopathy, quality of margins, and patient age and gender. Survival was influenced most by tumor grade, tumor size, presence of positive cervical lymph nodes, and facial nerve invasion. The risk of local-regional recurrence was most affected by cervical adenopathy and tumor size. Distant metastases were predicted by tumor grade and size. At last contact, 39% of patients were alive and free of disease, while 26% had died of the disease. We analyzed the optimal surgical procedure and the rationale for the selection of combined treatment.
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August 1, 2008By: Betsy LeTourneau, Five Star Alliance
Big Treats for Little Guests at the Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel
Looking for a centrally London located family oriented hotel that treat the children like VIPs - consider the Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel in Belgravia, that is just two minutes from Knightsbridge or an underground station. Children will enjoy a range of goodies suck as bathrobes, bubble bath, board games including Kerplunk and Hungry Hippos and Nintendo Wii, along with amenities of kiwi fruit, strawberry, pineapple and marshmallows with chocolate dip, jelly babies and skittles all guaranteed to keep smiles on all faces. The babies in your family will enjoy baby bathrobes, baby packs, cots and high chairs. The Jumeirah Juniors Package offers two rooms for the price of one, full English Breakfast for four people, welcome in-room chocolate dipped cookies, complimentary access to the Peak Health Club and Spa and complimentary newspaper. This package is valid for Friday to Sunday stays and available until December 31, 2008, based on four people sharing two rooms and excludes the 17.5% VAT and 5% discretionary service charge. Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel combines sophistication and true luxury and contemporary elements in its' 220 rooms and 59 suites.
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Harare, Zimbabwe: The film, according to Makope, an ex-street kid, will follow the storyline of the book, "A Zimbabwean Street Story", detailing the lives of street children. In the book, street children speak about their predicaments, dreams and aspirations and how they wish to be accommodated in our everyday lives.
Makope used to live on the streets of Harare. Now, with help from nongovernmental organizations, he is filiming and writing about the lives of street children.
Having experienced street life for a while, Makope has found it very easy to talk about his experiences and of others living on the streets.
"It was written to help people from all walks of life understand that we are not their enemies, but rather that they are human beings who deserve to be treated kindly and with respect," said Makope. Makope said he was inspired to do projects about street children by Brendon Buzzard, an American who wrote about the lives of Zimbabwean street children.
The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, United Nations Volunteers and individuals such as Hazel Parsons and Lijiliana Vlacic have been on the fore front in helping Makope in his street children projects.Of the 450 children interviewed by Zimbabwe's National Council for the Welfare of Children, with support from UN Children's Fund (Unicef), 58 percent had become homeless during 2003.The United Nations Children's Educational Fund (Unicef) said the assessment indicated that the number of children in Harare and Chitungwiza, 35 km east of the capital, could be higher than the estimated 5,000.
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Beware of false dawns? No need to remind Villa fans of the need for caution and patience as the new Premier League season approaches.
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So Baseball Prospectus blogged this yesterday. Pure 80's Americana. Back when all that mattered in life was blow, baseball and unprotected sex just the way God intended. Honestly I read the description of Remy like 10 times and I still can't tell whether it was really in the magazine or Baseball Prospectus made it up? I think it's real, but either way it's hilarious. "Position – Infield/Sex God" It's got to hurt to only get a 5 on the buttocks scale though. And yes Remy totally got Eck's sloppy seconds.
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|From 15 April to 9 May the XI Moscow Easter Festival, directed by Valery Gergiev, will be presenting some one hundred and fifty concerts of symphony, chamber, choral and bell-ringing music in thirty-six Russian towns and cities as well as in Kiev.
In line with tradition, the annual music forum will open on Orthodox Easter Sunday and close on Victory Day. The marathon tour map will cover several regions ranging from Arkhangelsk and Murmansk in the north to Krasnodar and Kislovodsk in the south.
Valery Gergiev chose Sergei Prokofiev to be the symbol of this year's festival, and to mark the occasion especially for Moscow audiences there will be a series of performances of the composer's symphonies and piano concerti, the suite from his opera The Love for Three Oranges and highlights from the ballets Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella. Yet another gift will come in the form of Prokofiev's Egyptian Nights symphonic suite featuring renowned Russian artists Chulpan Khamatova and Yevgeny Mironov.
At the grand opening on 15 April at the Great Hall of the Conservatoire, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra under Valery Gergiev will perform Sergei Prokofiev's First and Fifth Symphonies and Piano Concerto No 1, the solo to be performed by Daniil Trifonov.
The festival performances will see appearances by outstanding pianists Denis Matsuev, Christian Blackshaw, Alexei Volodin, Olli Mustonen and Alexander Toradze, legendary Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto and soprano Nina Stemme, one of the finest Wagnerian sopranos of the present day, while the festival's younger participants include prize-winners of the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition. One traditional feature of the festival programme will be the Mariinsky Theatre's performances at the Moscow State University which never fail to be sell-out events.
As Gergiev stated at a press conference for the festival, the concerts "will be broadcast internationally; we have already come to an agreement with partners in Europe and America, and that means that people all over the world and not just in Russia will have a chance to discover this event."
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Dear Abby: I'm a 27-year-old woman who has never had a boyfriend or been kissed. I was never interested in romance or having a significant other. I felt strong being independent and taking care of myself. Now that I have a degree, a career and a house, I feel ready to try to let a man into my life.
I met a really nice guy a month ago. "Brian" and I have gone out several times and have a lot in common. He's a gentleman, and he says he's willing to wait for me.
I have been having a difficult time letting myself be physical with him. Even hugging is uncomfortable for me. Even though Brian said he'll be patient, I can sense his frustration. Physical closeness should come easily if you like and are attracted to someone. I feel abnormal.
I'm afraid Brian — and most men — won't be willing to wait that long. I'm afraid if I don't move faster I'll lose a great guy and never get another chance. What do you think? — Blocked In Boise
Dear Blocked: Being intimate with someone because you're afraid you'll lose him or it will be your last chance is the wrong reason. I think that the sooner you talk with a licensed therapist about your lifelong shyness and discomfort, the quicker you can understand the reasons for it and overcome it.
Dear Abby: I am planning my wedding in the fall. My fiance and I are paying for the wedding and reception.
I have worked at my job for a year, and I haven't always been treated well by a few co-workers. I am reluctant to invite these people because I'm worried about the repercussions if I do. I know they will judge every aspect because they did it to another co-worker.
I like a few of the people I work with, but I don't know if I can invite only them. What do I do? — Wedding Planner In Omaha
Dear Wedding Planner: What you do is invite only those people you truly want to attend your wedding. It's not necessary to apologize for it or to explain why. If you are put on the spot and feel you must give a reason, say that your guest list is limited because of financial constraints. It's far more tactful than saying they are being excluded because they are rude, awful people, and you don't want them anywhere near you on such an important occasion.
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Adopting an attitude of moderation in all areas of our lives is an easy and effective way of making certain that we can establish a groundwork of security in our day-to-day existence without depriving ourselves of life's little luxuries. This sensible and evenhanded approach to living allows us to dabble in the satisfaction of purely indulgent impulses while nonetheless fulfilling those worldly and private obligations that provide us with a foundation of well-being. We seldom feel deprived of the pleasures that give life its spice, yet we are also free from worries related to our overall security because we have provided ourselves with ample opportunities to see to our most basic survival needs. The commonsense attitudes toward maturity and frivolity you display in your choices and behaviors today will help you attain a state of moderate equilibrium.
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At The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua's 19th annual Celebration of the Arts over Easter weekend, I found myself thinking about words and their meanings.
It's not as simple as it sounds.
Take the word coincidence. We think of coincidences as random events that feel like they're not random - as though there's some deeper connection between them, just beyond our ability to grasp.
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Celebration of the Arts chairman Clifford Nae'ole (left) and kumu hula Charles Kaupu at the opening protocol.
The young dancers of Ka Pa Hula O Ka Ulu Koa perform in the lobby of The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua Saturday, during the 19th Celebration of the Arts.
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George Allan leads a painting demonstration as part of the weekend's hands-on art program.
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Maybe we're overdue for a new word.
At the Ritz celebration, the theme this year was E na aumakua, "A call to all things natural."
According to Clifford Nae'ole, the chairman of this unique cultural gathering, in Hawaiian culture an aumakua is "the embodiment of a loved one who has transitioned and come back as a form of nature."
Aumakua lore is full of sharks who have aided swimmers in distress. They can be turtles, or dragon- flies, or dolphins. They were likened in one of the weekend's workshops to Hawaiian guardian angels. But an aumakua could also be a tree, or a rainbow.
Aumakua were the subject of many art projects happening throughout the Ritz property last Friday and Saturday. They were addressed by speakers contemplating the interconnectedness of nature, or the relationship between Hawaiian spiritual beliefs and Western religion.
Onstage, aumakua came to life as day-glow creatures swimming and flying before the amazed eyes of kids and their parents in a magical black-light puppet show created by Rachel DeBoer.
After attending most of the events, I'm still not sure I can explain aumakua to you. But they are so cool! Like aloha itself, aumakua feels like one of those deeply rooted Hawaiian concepts ripe for the picking by hippies, New-Agers or Western embracers of Eastern spirituality.
On Maui, there's an annual ocean swim race named the Aumakua. I have a T-shirt from one race with a picture of a spinner dolphin on it, although I had never actually seen one in person. Aumakua seem to have something in common with the departed Japanese ancestors celebrated at O-bon dances each summer.
The Ritz celebration is where you go to learn more about these things. For almost two decades, it has been about all things Hawaiian, marking a line where ancient meets contemporary. It is a gathering place for teachers and practitioners of Hawaiian culture to talk to each other, and for the rest of us to listen and learn, to the extent that we can.
Under Nae'ole's visionary guidance, the celebration is a fount of ancient wisdom, a forum for contemporary challenges and a search for a better future. It's about the Hawaiian approach to these topics - but also an annual reminder that delving deeply into any one culture is to discover its ties to the universal truths running through them all.
Love. Family. Honor. Values. The fact that no matter what language you say it in, life is messy.
Held on Easter weekend - with its own symbols of spring, renewal and rebirth - the Ritz celebration is always marked by gracious hospitality and glaring contradictions. The lavish resort provides an incongruous backdrop to discussions of history's wrongs done to the first people of these islands in the name of Western "civilization," and the scars that still remain. The resort itself is an inadvertent reminder of economic inequalities that continue to this day.
It grapples with the question: Is there a place for conscience in an upscale tourist economy? Is the Hawaiian concept of "pono" - doing the right thing for the right reason - valuable as a management strategy? What is owed to what is sometimes called "the host culture"?
There aren't easy answers to these questions. But you go to the Ritz to ask them. Almost all of the events are free; while they're there for the hotel guests, the public is warmly invited to attend. I always run into lots of friends there.
Nae'ole has never shied away from controversy in programming the weekend. Sometimes it's fun; sometimes it's challenging. Not all Hawaiians agree with one another much less with everyone else.
The emphasis this year was on finding common ground. In Friday morning's opening protocol - with its chants, its traditional clothing and its ancient practices - a lot of young children and people who are Hawaiian in ways other than ethnicity, were welcomed through the entry portals.
That spirit of inclusion continued through the weekend, from keiki halau dancing in the lobby to George Allan demonstrating painting. Kumu hula Charles Ka'upu was a ubiquitous presence, speaking at workshops or chanting as the men of his halau, Na Kane O Ke Oneloa, left little to the imagination in a sensual hula at the celebration's signature luau.
Also great were the unscripted connections as you walked through the corridors. A display of historical maps connected the dots of island history, while providing a prologue for a nearby display by Hui O Wa'a Kaulua, Maui's Voyaging Society, where knowledgeable teenage girls spoke of their work restoring the 62-foot voyaging canoe Mo'okiha O Pi'ilani, which they will sail to the Marquesas in coming months.
The aumakua theme might not have resonated so deeply had my family not scattered our father's ashes in the ocean nearby, barely a month earlier. Visiting that spot, my wife and I noticed a tree standing above us, strong, alone, braving the elements on a rugged cliff with views of paradise in all directions. The tree was a lot like my dad.
An aumakua? Not so fast. In one workshop, I learned aumakua really belong to Hawaiians alone. It's a matter of genealogy. You don't get to pick them - the ancestors do.
And so, I finally realized, aumakua are stories. Stories are how we make sense of our world. We are our stories. And especially in Hawaii, with its powerful oral tradition and nuances of language, stories are an art, too, proudly taking their place among the others celebrated each year at the Ritz.
These thoughts were ricocheting around my brain Easter Sunday morning as I headed past the tree, down to nearby Fleming Beach for a last swim before heading home.
The sky was clear, the water flat. It was one of those glorious west side technicolor mornings when I noticed something moving in the water. Something black. A fin. And then more fins. And then something else, breaking the surface, doing its own Easter morning ascension, 10 feet straight up in the air, gleefully spinning several times before dropping back into the water.
Dolphins! A pod of them, stretching in all directions, maybe a hundred yards offshore. Were they extending an invitation? I swam out from the beach and soon was surrounded.
They moved in twos and threes, and fives and sixes, on one side of me or the other, or below, or behind, or gracefully fanning out ahead. Some were larger than I was, but the contented smiles on their faces, even up close, eye to eye here in their wild realm, left no room for fear.
Back and forth we went, one group disappearing, another taking its place. At one point there was a row of us, five or six, swimming abreast. All smiling.
I don't know how long I was out there. I don't know how many of them there were. The spinners were still doing their crazy joyful leaps when I finally headed back to shore.
When I turned to look for them again, they were gone. A lifeguard on the beach later told me there might be 100 in the pod, and their visits aren't infrequent this time of year.
It was Easter morning at the 19th annual Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua Celebration of the Arts where the theme was E na Aumakua "A call to all things natural"
That's how my story begins. A coincidence? I suppose that's one way to put it. Western minds aren't well equipped to go searching for aumakua.
But it's great to be available when they come looking for you.
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"The casting was incredible. Daniel Radcliffe IS Harry Potter. Rupert Grint IS Ron Weasley. Emma Watson IS Hermione. These young actors had a lot of pressure going into this film, and their performances were spot on. They really carried the film. Considering the hype of this movie, that's a lot of weight to put on the shoulders of these kids, but they pulled it off."
"Special credit has to go to Rupert as his performance is superb, he literally steals every scene he is in."
"Rupert Grint is the seasoned veteran of the group, actually having a few acting credits. He is also the cutest kid in the world who is not related to me. His face is as emotive as Robin Williams, and much more endearing. He wears his emotions pinned down by his button nose."
"Of the three, the one who stole the show for me was Rupert Grint. His portrayal of Ron Weasley (who has always been my favourite character) was spot-on, and the kid is a bloody genius, plain and simple. Just look at his facial expressions throughout the movie; they are priceless—my favourite being the look he shoots Harry when Hermione first walks-into their train car, the first time they meet on the Hogwarts Express—and they're sure to bring-out a laugh or two (or fifty)."
"There were two other characters who I did appreciate a little more, Ron, played humorously and believably by Rupert Grint, as one of Potter's nerdy friends at school, and Draco, the blonde, slick-haired "Reggie Mantle" of the academy, a boy who could easily pass for a young Zorin (Christopher Walken's character from A VIEW TO A KILL)."
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Hi everyone.
I'm toying with the idea of doing this next year, as it will fall on my fortieth birthday, so thought it might be a different way to mark the occasion!
Just been reading the website, and it looks like you need a Fidal card - what is this and where do you get it?!
Good luck to you all in the race!
Thanks - that puts my mind at ease a bit. It was a tough run, but not horrific, so hopefully with some rest this week I'll be able to race a decent time.
So today was to be my last long run before a half marathon in 2 weeks, and I was going to start my tapering from tomorrow.
However, due to family commitments which have come up today, I now can't race in 2 weeks time, but have found another race I can do next Sunday.
I did 21km today - if I take this whole week off will I be recovered in time to post a reasonable time next week or should I just forget it and plan another race in a few more weeks?
I wouldn't have said so.
I did my first Marathon in October, and was back up and running comfortably within a week. I guess everyone is different, but if you are sensible, and listen to your body you should be fine.
Does anyone have any photos of the event? There was someone taking photos just before the turn into the home straight, which would have captured people soaked to the skin and covered in mud, so he must have got some great photos!
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EDITORIAL - Catch of the day: The eyes of the fishing world are on Pittsburgh
The story of tournament bass fishing on Pittsburgh's three rivers has all the markings of a classic fish tale.
Let's start with the first catch. It was a whopper, BASS Federation's three-day Bassmaster Classic in 2005. Forty-seven anglers competed for a $700,000 purse, ESPN ran more than 15 hours of coverage and 8,000 fans cheered the final weigh-in at Mellon Arena.
After that resounding success, two big ones wiggled off the line -- a Bassmaster Major and the Forrest Wood Cup championship both chose other sites for 2007. But chasing the ones that got away has a long tradition in the world of fishing, which is why city and state officials were gleeful when they announced they'd snagged the world's richest bass event.
The first lines in the Forrest Wood Cup tournament, named for the founder of Ranger Boats, drop this morning and fishing continues through Sunday. First prize is $500,000 but the champion gets another half-million dollars if he fishes from a Ranger boat.
Make no mistake, this contest is nothing like going fishing with your Uncle Mitch in Moraine State Park.
First of all, there's the field. The pro division features 77 fishermen and all but two of them are from fishing's professional and semi-pro circuits. Professional Dave Lefebre of Union City, Erie County, is one of the frontrunners and can claim home river advantage as the only Pennsylvanian.
Then there's the gear -- $3,000 depth finders with split screens that simultaneously map the river, showing fishermen where they've been and what's happening under their boats. And those boats. A top-of-the-line bass boat can cost $15,000 to $60,000 or more.
The actual fishing doesn't lend itself to spectators, but the Family Fun Zone and Outdoor Show at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center is a place to meet fishing superstars, learn safe boating and fishing techniques and drive a life-size motorboat as it simulates conditions on a choppy lake.
Now this fish tale starts to sound like exaggeration. Every day, at 5 p.m., anglers arrive at Mellon Arena, each with five fish in his bucket, to have the bass weighed. Thousands of people will be in the stands and, as the needle on the scale stops, they will hoot and holler and cheer.
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11-Year-Old Raises $70K to Help Oil Spill Birdssandymaple
Like many of us, 11-year-old Olivia Bouler was devastated by the damage caused by the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. A frequent visitor to the area, she "sobbed uncontrollably" when she heard of how wildlife was struggling to survive in all that oil.
Moved to act, she grabbed her markers and paper, drew a picture of a cardinal and sent it along with a letter to the National Audubon Society
asking how she could help. Impressed with her giving spirit and her beautiful artwork, they suggested she draw more birds and offer them in exchange for donations to the Society.
Since mid-May, she's been doing just that. By drawing and painting pictures until her hands hurt, she's raised more than $70,000 to go toward the expenses involved in locating and cleaning birds, transferring them to a safer environment in Florida and paying for food and lodging for volunteers.
$25,000 of that money came from AOL, who featured Olivia's story and artwork on its homepage. That got her more attention from the media and more requests for drawings.
In fact, Olivia has been so busy drawing pelicans, herons and blue jays that's she neglected her music lessons and social life. Her mom, Nadine Bouler, had to reign her in a bit and limit her to 500 drawings, which have already been spoken for.
But that doesn't mean she'll abandon her efforts to help the birds that are suffering through this tragedy. She continues to offer prints of her original drawings via her Facebook page, which already has nearly 20,000 fans. Donations can be made through Olivia's artist page at AOL.
I can only imagine how pleased and proud Olivia's parents must be. And in a world where bad news is followed by more bad news, kids like Olivia give me hope that everything is going to be alright.
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Where I hang out: on the bed with mommy and daddy daddy works nights so leo sleeps next to him during the day
My favorite grubs: wet food he comes running when its time
My pet peeves: waiting for his wet food and when sammy wants to play
What I love about my owners: I love when she picks me up i lick her face and purr. i love when she gives me wet food
My cat hobbies: be adorable for attention he puts his paws on mommy and cocks his head to the side to be picked up
Pet motto: im a lover not a fighter sammy!
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On my birthday we went to the animal hospital and daddy was struck by leos beautiful coloring so we got him he was already neutered and declawed.
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