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What a great thread for something that was put together so quickly.
STAT's Back!
After undergoing preseason knee surgery, New York Knicks All-Star forward Amar'e Stoudemirewill make his season debut on Tuesday night against the Portland Trail Blazers, a league source told Yahoo! Sports.
Amar'e Stoudemire takes a practice shot before the Knicks' home game vs. the Lakers on Dec. 13. (AP).
>Whether or not Carmelo Anthony returns from his hyper-extended knee on Tuesday, the plan remains for Stoudemire to come off the Knicks' bench. Anthony told reporters that he will test his knee in pre-game on Tuesday and then make a determination on returning to the lineup.
Stoudemire, 30, has been one of the NBA's elite power forwards and had come into training camp believing he had worked himself into the best shape of his professional career. Nevertheless, Stoudemire suffered a knee injury in October, underwent surgery on Oct. 21 and has been rehabbing the injury most recently in practices with the Knicks' D-League franchise in Erie and finally with the Knicks.
"We need him," Anthony told Yahoo! Sports' Marc Spears on Friday. "I know we are playing well, but the more bodies, the better, especially at this point where guys are doing well. We are ready for him."
The Knicks are 21-9, leaders in the Atlantic Division and a half-game behind the Miami Heat for the best record in the Eastern Conference.
New York: The Knicks have enjoyed two days at MSG Training Center for rare practice sessions and the chance to rest and recover from a three-game west coast road trip last week. Carmelo Anthony practiced one of the two days in New York but did not participate in all of the drills on Monday afternoon. Head coach Mike Woodson said the MVP candidate is day-to-day and Anthony added that he will most likely make a decision close to game time on Tuesday night. Tyson Chandler and Jason Kidd received recovery days after the two players logged major minutes during the road trip. Raymond Felton is out 4-6 weeks due to a fractured right pinky finger. At 21-9, the Knicks are a half game behind the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference standings and 5.5 games over the Nets for the Atlantic Division lead.
Portland: The Blazers entered the 2012-13 season with a new general manager and head coach. Additionally, Portland drafted one of the elite players in the NBA Draft by selecting Damian Lillard out of Weber State. Lillard joins a young nucleus that has aspirations of reaching the postseason after a 28-38 finish last year. This season, the Blazers have been up and down until a recent surge of five wins in seven games leading up to the matchup against the Knicks. Portland is now 15-14 overall and the contest in New York will kick off a four-game road trip.
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Definitely concerned about Amar'e's propensity to fall for fakes or leave his man against Aldridge. If he were to quickly get in to foul trouble, all the energy and expectation will be flushed down the proverbial lavatory.
What a great thread for something that was put together so quickly.
Humility is a virtue and pride is a vice.
Both STAT and Melo are gonna play tonight!
I'm so ready for this game. KY and kleenex prepared.
I hope Woody give him at least 4-6 minutes with Melo, and 4-6 minutes when Amare is the #1 scoring option.
Gameface On
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I just want to see how effective Stat's jumper is, that's what made him an offensive force in our offense.
STAT CITY!! He's finally back! Admittedly, I wasn't a supporter of STAT and wanted the front office to trade him. But its a new year and I'm willing to give him a chance to prove me wrong and make me eat some ****.
Go Amar'e, Go Knicks!!!!
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Written by Hyvaarin on 28.06.2007 at 11:25
Cool review, dude. I haven't got the album, but having heard most of it and one stage or another, I definitely agree with what you said about it.W.A.S.P. really are in a class of their own when it comes to this brand of metal.


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A New Matamoras man has pleaded guilty to a violation of the Clean Water Act by allowing oil and gas well wastewater to flow into a tributary of the Little Muskingum River three years ago.
Robert D. Armstrong, 54, also entered a guilty plea on behalf of his company, RCA Oil and Gas LLC, which was charged with the same offense, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Carter M. Stewart with the Southern District Court of Ohio.
Armstrong entered the guilty pleas Tuesday before U.S. District Court Judge Michael Watson, who had not set a sentencing date as of Wednesday afternoon.
But, according to court documents from Tuesday's hearing, joint sentencing recommendations agreed to by both parties in the case include 48 hours of imprisonment, followed by eight months of home confinement, with work release time, for Armstrong.
Also recommended is 12 months of supervised release during which Armstrong would complete 288 hours of community service.
He would also agree to arrange for publication of a quarter-page ad in an oil and gas industry magazine, listing the requirements for proper disposal of brine waste and the consequences for failing to do so.
The amount of any fine would be determined by the court.
The maximum sentence that Armstrong could face is three years imprisonment, a $250,000 fine, and a year of supervised release.
Armstrong initially pleaded not guilty to the offense when first indicted on Nov. 29, 2012.
The pollution violation took place in June 2010 at an RCA well off Monroe County 19, about five miles north of New Matamoras in Benton Township.
Armstrong had built a reservoir with an earthen wall to hold water he intended to use in the fracking process of a nearby well.
The reservoir contained approximately 2.2 million gallons of fresh water. But Armstrong had added thousands of gallons of brine or wastewater from the fracking process at two other oil and gas wells to the reservoir.
As a result of the addition, all of the liquid in the reservoir was classified as oil field wastewater.
On June 19, 2010, Armstrong used a backhoe to breach a wall of the reservoir, releasing the wastewater into Rockcamp Run. The reservoir contained about 800,000 gallons of wastewater at the time, most of which entered Rockcamp Run.
Analysis of wastewater from the reservoir showed significant concentrations of barium and sodium.
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Written by Void Eater on 29.05.2011 at 07:01
I've been somewhat warming up to this album. While I dislike most nu metal, it seems clear listening to this that Korn was actually trying to make something new. They couldn't have been in it for the money, because they had no idea money was to be made. It may have spawned some awful bands, but viewed by itsef is a decent album. If I was to review it, it would likely get a 7 or so.
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^ Actually they composed music too. It wasn't just pure luck which transformed into an album.


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NTSB faults pilot mismanagment' in Asiana flightBy JOAN LOWY
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The wreckage of Asiana Flight 214 lies on the ground after it crashed at the San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco in this July 6, 2013 photo. Nearly a year after Asiana Flight 214 crashed while landing in San Francisco, the National Transportation Safety Board is meeting to determine what went wrong, whos to blame and how to prevent future accidents.WASHINGTON Asiana Flight 214s pilots caused the crash last year of their airliner carrying more than 300 people by bungling a landing approach in San Francisco, including inadvertently deactivating the planes key control for airspeed, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded Tuesday.
But the board also said the complexity of the Boeing 777s autothrottle and auto flight director two of the planes key systems for controlling flight contributed to the accident. Materials provided to airlines by Boeing that fail to make clear under what conditions the autothrottle doesnt automatically maintain speed were also faulted.
The 777 has been in service 18 years and is one of the worlds most popular wide-bodied airliners, especially for international travel. Until last years accident, it had not been involved in a single fatal crash.
The boards acting chairman, Chris Hart, warned that the accident underscores a problem that has long troubled aviation regulators around the globe that increasingly complicated automated aircraft controls designed to improve safety are also creating new opportunities for error.
The Asiana flight crew over-relied on automated systems that they did not fully understand, Hart said.
In their efforts to compensate for the unreliability of human performance, the designers of automated control systems have unwittingly created opportunities for new error types that can be even more serious than those they were seeking to avoid, he said.
The South Korea-based airlines pilot training also was faulted.
Of the 307 people on board Flight 214, three Chinese teens were killed in the July 6, 2013 crash. Nearly 200 were injured, including 49 seriously. It remains the only fatal passenger airline crash in the U.S. in the past five years.
Boeing immediately rejected the notion that the 777s automated systems contributed to the accident, pointing to the aircrafts safety record.
The auto-flight system has been used successfully for over 200 million flight hours across several airplane models, and for more than 55 million safe landings, the company said in a statement. The evidence collected during this investigation demonstrates that all of the airplanes systems performed as designed.
The board didnt say that the autothrottle failed to perform as designed. But rather that its design, under certain circumstances, could lead to confusion as to whether it was controlling speed or in an inactive state.
The safety board did the right thing, said Ilyas Akbari, a Los Angeles attorney representing 16 of Flight 214s passengers. It took courage to call out Boeing because its an American manufacturer and one of the nations largest employers and exporters.
But most of the fault lies with Asiana and its pilots, Akbari said.
Investigators said the flights three veteran pilots made 20 to 30 different errors, some minor and others significant, during the landing approach on July 6, 2013.
Among the errors were that pilots didnt follow company procedures when they failed to call out notifications about the planes altitude, speed and actions they were taking during the landing approach. They also werent closely monitoring the planes airspeed a fundamental of flying. Instead, they assumed the autothrottle was maintaining the required speed for a safe landing.MORE IN National / World BusinessNEW YORK Its not just the musical Hairspray that will air live on NBC tonight. Full StoryOXON HILL, Md. Far from the Las Vegas Strip, MGM Resorts International opens its $1. Full Story
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Mitchell Freedman is the founder and president of both Mitchell Freedman Accountancy Corporation, specializing in business management and financial counseling for performing and creative artists and individuals with complex and unique financial needs, and MFAC Financial Advisors, Inc., a registered investment advisory firm. He is licensed as a CPA in California and New York. In addition, he earned the credentials of Personal Financial Specialist (PFS) in 1988 and Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF) in 2007.
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Move the Ghosts Aside, A New Yankee Centerfielder…
Anybody that played for the Mankato Moondogs is fine by me…
Introducing the newest Yankee, centerfielder Curtis Granderson! I have to admit that I was a bit reluctant when I saw the price tag (outfield prospect Austin Jackson and pitchers Phil Coke and Ian Kennedy). I was looking forward to a career with Ajax in center, and I had grown very fond of bullpen specialist Coke over the course of the past season. I wasn't particularly enamored with Ian Kennedy's attitude, but he did impress me with his return last season following surgery. Nevertheless, I recognize that the Yankees are a better team today than they were yesterday. Granderson hit 30 home runs with a home park that is pitching friendly. Move him to the wind tunnel known as Yankee Stadium and this guy is going to be electric in center field. He stole 20 bags this past season since he does have some speed.
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Granderson appeared in his first All-Star Game in 2009 and scored the winning run in the 8th inning following a triple. This play was huge for the Yankees because it gave them home field advantage in the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies. So, it appears that he was destined for pinstripes.
After dispatching valuable bullpen parts in Brian Bruney and Phil Coke, GM Brian Cashman needs to focus on rebuilding the bullpen. However, starting pitching should be the next course of action. I still think the Yankees need to address left field. I am not a fan of moving Melky Cabrera to left. I do not think he hits for the power that you need in left, particularly considering that Nick Swisher is average in right. I'd either like to see the Yanks re-sign Johnny Damon, or look elsewhere for a new left fielder. I would not be a proponent of moving Granderson to left either as I feel his speed is best served in center.
This commentary may be a bit premature since the trade has not been officially confirmed, however, at this point, it appears that it is a foregone conclusion that it will be. Interestingly enough, Granderson wears #28 for the Detroit Tigers. The number is available with the Yankees, unless Joe Girardi decides to upgrade his number to the new goal. So, perhaps Granderson is the missing link for World Championship #28. Time will tell. I have no problem with my friend Julia suffering another year of disappointment! J
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The Mankato Moon Dogs = big selling point. And Grandy is actually taller than Ken Rosenthal, which is another plus.🙂 I'm fine with moving Melky to left. I'd love to re-sign Damon though, if Boras is willing to do a one or two year deal and who knows about that. I wasn't as high on Coke as you were. (Did I really just write that? LOL!) If Marte keeps up his good work from the playoffs, maybe one lefty specialist is all we'll need. And if Joba stays in the pen and is effective…..Well, lots of "ifs."
Me? Have another disappointing year? I think not my friend!😉 It was an interesting trade for the Yankees – it remains to be seen if your guys gave up too much for him or not. I do like the name of the team – the Mankato Moon Dogs!
Yes, its official. Curtis Granderson is now the newest yankee. I got pretty pumped up when i saw the trade but when i saw AJax was traded thought this was a stupid trade. We will see…
I don't think a team winning has anything to do with a player wearing a certain number. You got the better end of the deal in my opinion–Jackson is unproven.
I may just have to look up a Moondogs item of clothing. Very sweet logo. And congrats on landing my favorite centerfielder in the game today, well besides Andrew McCutchen


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Dear all,
Word associations have been very important in the study of word meanings in cognitive science. Currently, different professors are trying to build a network of word associations in English. In order to do this, we need many native (or at least very fluent) English speakers to participate in a small fun tast that does not take more than five minutes. In the task, we present a short list of words and ask people to write down the first three words they think of after reading the cue word. In order to build the network, we need about 100 participants responding to every cue word for thousands of cue words. That implies that we need thousands of participants. It seems a lot, but we've done this before: we succeeded over the past few years of reaching about 80.000 perticipants in Flanders and in the Netherlands to do the task in Dutch. However, since English is THE scientific language worldwide, it would be much more interesting to build a similar network in English. So it would be great if teachers encourage their pupils (from age 16 onwards) or their students to spend five minutes of their time by visiting
As the dataset will be open for all interested scientists, you will help many of us by participating. It would even be better if participants spread this call by e-mail, facebook, or other means. If you have suggestions about other ways in which we can reach people willing to participate in this small task, please don't hesitate to contact us. My coordinates are given below.
With kind regards,
Professor Dr. Gert Storms
Department of Psychology
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Thanks for that!
If teachers are interested in how words are associated with other words (and if anyone who is interested wants to see how this is related to the meaning of the words): as soon as the network takes enough shape, we will provide a tool on the site in which you can type in a word and you can see the frequencies of the different responses. However, for the moment we have had 3000 participants, which is not enough yet. We could start with that application if we have about 10.000 visitors.
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Nights in Rodanthe, then, is just absolutely nuts about not working. It opens with a flashback to 1999 that pulls back to 2002, from which vantage point the main character tells a story set in 1988, which serves to comment on the situation facing her family in 2002, though since the 1988 frame is absolutely the only part we care about, it's sort of a weird situation where the meant and potatoes of the novel is a metaphor for a conflict that we only really hear about secondhand and don't care about even though Sparks makes us sit through 30 pages wrapping it-up. And the whole megillah is all in service to such a damn retread of Message in a Bottle, that the desperation with which Sparks moves through his entirely unnecessary plot convolutions end up being even more obnoxious than they were when it just seemed like shoddy structure - though I bet that Nicholas Sparks fandom is light on committed structuralists.
All of which is to say that Nights in Rodanthe, the 2008 movie based on the book (a return to Sparks's lucky charm producer, Denise Di Novi; incidentally, the six-year gap between the two makes it the tardiest of all Sparks adaptations extant as of this writing), is actually something of a pleasure to watch, because it fixes very nearly all of what is bad with the source material - the vast majority of which work was done via the simple but exquisitely wise decision to set the story in 2008, flashing back to other bits of 2008 (actually, the whole span from earliest to latest moment is at in the 18-24 month range, but it's so much more wieldy than the out-of-control flashbackgasm of the book that it hardly counts). Because, when the whole entire point of a story is to tell us that two people fell in love over a four-day span, there's really not much outside of that four-day span that we really need to see, nor especially want to. Except for the tragic part that keeps them forever separated, of course. It's a Sparks movie. If there wasn't a tragic part, we'd feel ill-used.
Anyway, Nights in Rodanthe might end up being the most successful of all Sparks adaptions, though "successful" means a very specific thing here. It's not the best - The Notebook has that one all sewed up just from its cast - but I suppose that is the most quintessential and complete in and of itself as a Nicholas Sparks joint, and that's partially because it exactly lacks the powerhouse acting of a Ryan Gosling or a Gena Rowlands, the admirable star-in-training presence of a Rachel McAdams, or the geniality of a James Garner. This film has to make do with Diane Lane and Richard Gere, both of whom are decent but rarely exceptional performers, but who are exactly right for this kind of story - while the acting in The Notebook imbalances it fiercely, the acting in Nights in Rodanthe makes it exactly itself. There may be no significant American actress better-suited to play the the author's beloved figure of a world-weary middle-aged woman with a quiet desire to love and be loved, to lust and be lusted after, than Lane; there is surely no significant American actor better-suited to play this particular love interest, a snappish, self-involved, guilt-ridden surgeon, than Gere. They are middle-of-the-road performers giving middle-of-the-road performances of middle-of-the-road material, and somehow all that thick mediocrity coalesces into a thunderstorm of the most lacerating, piercing averageness, so nondescript that its anonymity becomes its very personality. Nights in Rodanthe is like vanilla ice cream that tastes, not the most like vanilla itself, but the most like vanilla ice cream.
And, at the very least, it gives the leads a much better chance to spark their absolutely unsurprising but completely genre-satisfying chemistry than their previous teaming, Unfaithful, which I watched as homework for this review, and found to be objectionable and tedious and even vile in ways that not one of these Sparks movies have yet been, so that is a little ray of sunshine, I guess. I didn't watch The Cotton Club, since when it came out, Lane wasn't Lane yet, and Gere was only just barely Gere, so it didn't seem to count.
Nights in Rodanthe takes place in Rodanthe, which is an island community in North Carolina, and whose name is pronounced "Ro-DAN-thee" (unvoiced "th"), though Emmylou Harris, in the end credits song "In Rodanthe", persists in saying "R'-DAN-tee", and hell, she's a Southerner, so maybe she knows what's what. Regardless, the reason that there are nights spent in Rodanthe is that Adrienne Willis (Lane) needs some time away from her kids, sullen bitchy teenager Amanda (Mae Whitman) and energetic, neurotic young Danny (Charlie Tahan), and especially and above all, from her husband Jack (Christopher Meloni), from whom she has been separated for several months since he cheated on her; of late he has been making overtures of reconciliation, and it's putting her in a right state. So, in an act of kind pragmatism, her dear childhood friend Jean (Viola Davis) has asked her to spend the weekend taking care of Jean's old bed and breakfast while she is on a business trip to Miami. In the meantime, legendary plastic surgeon Dr. Paul Flemmer (Gere) is in town on a Secret Quest. Do you mind if I give it away? I don't care. He was cutting a cyst off a woman's face some time back, and she was that one rare patient who just straight-up didn't make it without anything going wrong, and now her husband, Robert (Scott Glenn), wants to meet with Paul and have it out with him. When I was reading the book, there was a particular line that made me call well in advance that the tragic ending would be when a grief-stricken Robert shoots Paul, and Adrienne cradles Paul in her arms as he bleeds out his life. I was so fucking far wrong that I don't even know why I was able to be so wrong, especially because in retrospect, it's not a very Nicholas Sparks ending.
Right, yeah, so Adrienne and Paul meet, and he's prickly but handsome, and she tries her best to be a good hostess but she s turned off by his standoffishness and refusal to take sack up and talk to the widowed husband, or express any feelings of frailty and pain over having driven his son, Mark (James Franco), all the way to Ecuador just to get the hell away from his emotionally absent father. Later they do Jack Daniels shots and make out after mocking Jean's kitchen; then they fuck during a hurricane.
It's sort of terrible, but magical at the same time. The overriding sense I have of Nights in Rodanthe is that it's a broad, absurdly trite movie made by hugely shameless people - TV director George C. Wolfe and TV writer John Romano and writer Ann Peacock, who has no TV experience, I am sad to say, all going a bit nuts in the face of the scope that anamorphic 35mm and a movie budget with movie stars can give them - and that it is precisely the movie that they all intended to make from the outset, not like Message in a Bottle, which seems to have drifted off course rather badly without anybody knowing how to fix it, or A Walk to Remember, which never seems to have had a clear direction to begin with. It's obvious as all hell, and criminally over-emphasis the Romance of the Beach and Sea in its visuals, starting with a torrid helicopter shot of the bed and breakfast - prior to this, I did not know that a helicopter shot can even be torrid - that renders the structure with such overblown lustiness that I was 100% sure it was a set, and a particularly fake-looking set at that. Turns out that it was a real rental property named Serendipity, which has since been moved on account of it being about to fall into the sea. That, God bless it, is how committed Nights in Rodanthe is to evoking the chintzy but urgent melodramatic flourishes of Sparks's writing: it manages to make an actual real-life structure look like a tacky embellishment of something that was overheated to begin with.
The fact is, dear reader, I don't know if I loved this movie or not - I did not, for certain, like it. I may have hated it. But there's something about it that is so hopelessly sincere, so totally unconcerned with how stupid it all is, for every moment, and how banal the characters and the actors playing them are in every emotional beat, that it's weirdly stimulating. Maybe it's just too plain to feel anything about it at all, and I am confusing boredom from ambivalence. But at least Scott Glenn gets to chomp on passionately melodramatic dialogue like it's beef jerky, so it has that going for it.
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- RickR said...
So I guess after three movies, the "pairing of Gere and Lane" is now, like, a Thing?
Screw that. Hollywood refuses to give me the reunion my heart so earnestly desires, which is Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. I don't care if they are old, drunk and/ or crazy. The two of them are so spectacular together onscreen, they could make even a Sparks movie not just watchable, but sublime.
Wait, what were we talking about again?
- Zev Valancy said...
I feel I must point out that, while George C. Wolfe has done some television work, he is primarily a theatre director, who won two Tonys (for "Angels in America: Millennium Approaches" and "Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk") and was Artistic Director of the Public Theatre for 11 years. Film/TV work is definitely a sideline for him.
Now how a black, gay theatre director whose work is generally far more stylized than it is realistic ended up directing this movie is truly a mystery for the ages. Because if there is a whiter, straighter, duller film in existence, I know not what it is.
- Tim said...
A Walk to Remember.
- Colin said...
PLEASE review Unfaithful.
- Tim said...
Believe it or not, even my masochism has a ceiling, and I think you just found it. Maybe if I didn't have the rest of a Sparks-a-thon; maybe if not for the Year of Blood. A lot of maybes. But I didn't take the best notes, and I'm no hurry to revisit it. Because holy shit, is it not any good.
- RickR said...
But I WILL push hard for you to review "War of the Roses", one of my favorite films.
- javi75 said...
Well, this review was fun after all, even for me.
"It's sort of terrible, but magical at the same time."
And could you be really surprised that an Adrian Lyne movie was bad?


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On Jan. 12, 2014, while in Corpus Christi, and in the presence of two of his children, Elizabeth and Officer Ortiz, the elder Ortiz collapsed. Noting that he had no pulse and was not breathing, Officer Ortiz initiated CPR as Elizabeth called 911 for emergency assistance. Officer Ortiz continued CPR until responders from Fire Station No. 8, and medics from Fire Station No. 10 arrived and took over.
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Ortiz, Sr., also a Sinton native, a former City Council member and a former mayor of Sinton, is doing well since the experience. He and his wife, Joan, have four children, Pauline, Elizabeth and Officer Ortiz, all of Sinton. Their other daughter, Laura Arce, of Laredo, co-authored the letter of nomination for the award, along with her aunt, Marty Garza.
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The East Branch of the Clarion River runs through the park and is regularly stocked with trout for excellent fishing. Charcoal grills, horseshoe pits, water and restroom facilities are interspersed... more info
Brush Hollow Ski TrailRoute 948
Ridgway , PA 15853
Scenic trail along Big Mill Creek. Three loops of ungroomed trails totaling 7.6 miles. The trailhead offers parking and restroom. Finding the trail: The Brush Hollow trailhead is located ten... more info
Bucktail State Park Natural AreaPA Route 120 from Lock Haven to Emporium
Emporium , PA 15834
This 16,433-acre natural area is actually a 75-mile scenic drive. The park provides a beautiful scenic drive along PA 120 from Emporium, through Renovo to Lock Haven. All along the road are... more info
Buzzard Swamp Wildlife Viewing AreaForest Rd. 157
Marienville , PA 16239
Most of the trails are not marked with diamonds, so watch the informational signs for directions. The skill level of the trails is easy and the terrain is relatively flat. Some of the trails are... more info
Chuck Keiper Trail15187 Renovo Rd.
Renovo , PA 17764
The Chuck Keiper Trail, located in Sproul State Forest, is a 52-mile trail that traverses the southern portion of the Fish Dam Wild Area and the Burns Wild Area. The trail is marked with orange... more info
Clarion Highlands Trail153 S. 6th Avenue
Clarion , PA 16214
Located on the top of the Allegheny Plateau. This trail passes over the divide between the Clarion and Allegheny Rivers. It follows the Old Clarion Secondary Rail Corridor. This is a great summer... more info


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text: ever since we started solids around 6 - 7 months (which LO has fought at home, but taken to at daycare), my 8.5 month old has excessive gas and farting. this is the case no matter what solids he eats. he did not have this problem before starting solids, and has been on medication for reflux for several months now. he wakes up about every hour or so at night, painfully farting. this is making life very difficult for all of us due to lack of sleep. what can i do to help my dear baby? anyone else having this problem? most of the foods we've tried are "gerber first foods" and then regular bananas. we can't do anything milk related b/c he has a milk allergy.


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Jacques jurors can be found nearbyApril 18,2013
BURLINGTON — The federal judge presiding over the case of a Vermont man charged in the sexual assault and killing of his 12-year-old niece in 2008 has changed his mind about combing the entire state for prospective jurors in the man's trial.
Judge William Sessions III told lawyers during a pre-trial hearing Tuesday in Burlington he now believes an impartial jury for the trial of Michael Jacques can be picked from a pool of up to 5,000 people in northern Vermont.
"The logistics would be extremely difficult for jurors coming up from Brattleboro. I'm convinced we can summon a jury from 5,000 in the northern part of the state," Sessions said.
Jacques, of Randolph, potentially faces the death penalty.
He has pleaded not guilty to charges that he abducted, sexually assaulted and killed Brooke Bennett.
Jury selection is scheduled to start Sept. 3.
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CLARENVILLE, N.L. - The RCMP say the Trans-Canada Highway in eastern Newfoundland remains closed today because of a landslide.
The Mounties say a landslide in the Northwest Brook area east of Clarenville forced the closure of the highway Saturday.
Police say officials are in the process of clearing the rocks and must evaluate the safety of the rock wall before reopening the highway.
Traffic has been rerouted through Ivany's Cove.
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Thank you!
Think of the haters in your life as sandpaper; theyll scratch you up time and time again but in the end youre polished, smooth, and spotless..while they end up useless
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Being alone lets me center.
The words of spiritual people who have attained peace and equanimity.
Hoop dancing.
[This message edited by InnerLight at 10:02 PM, September 9th (Monday)]
A good night's sleep.
A distraction - to put the stressor into perspective. Sometimes that is time with friends, or a movie, or shopping.
I have little time alone but what I do have is like gold. I either read or goof off on my tablet (damn you, level 79 on Candy Crush!).
Zumba, yoga...just gym time in general.
Time with good friends... ones who really know me.
Driving with the music cranked.
It all depends.
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Actually the gym was recommended by my dr as a replacement for ADs. There have been many studies that have shown intense workouts can have just as beneficial effects on things like anxiety, depression and even restful sleep.
I get pretty serious about my gym though, all notepads and tracking lol. But it gives me that thing I always have that I can control. And a time I don't have any other concerns.
I used to be able to include spending time with my dogs, but sadly, that's no longer an option.
Me: FBS (no longer betrayed nor a spouse)-62
Him: WXH-62
D-day: 2007 (two years before finding SI)
My new mantra: Argue Your Limitations.
'til the roof comes off. 'til the lights go out. 'til my legs give out, can't shut my mouth
Prayer, inspirational readings, moving my body in some activity.
Best thing I gained in my divorce - my freedom.
Life's good.
In the early days after S, it was reading. It kept my mind occupied.
And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
― Sarah McMane
If the is self imposed: list making of the things that I'm avoiding that are making me cuz that is usually what brings it out in me...avoidance
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Should I be concerned that my LO, who turned 9 months two days ago , exhibits the following?:
1) Still wakes up every 2 hours, at which time I either nurse him or give him a bottle. I am no longer exclusively breastfeeding. I did for 7 1/2 months but just couldn't keep up with his supply needs. I've managined to build some supply back up and I am able to pump enough for 3 4-oz. bottles per day while I work and one 4 oz. bottle at bedtime. At night, he won't nurse for long and wiggles or pops off constantly because he's easily distractable so I supplement by giving him formula when he wakes in the middle of the night. (I would love to give him breastmilk in a bottle but have exhausted my breastmilk supply with the bottle I give him at bedtime.) I'm stumped as to why he is still up every 2 hours if he's being formula fed during the night once he wakes after he's been put down for bed. Last night went like this:
9:00PM (late..it's usually 8-830PM) - Put to bed with 4 oz. bottle of breastmilk; Screamed for more, gave him 2 oz. of formula before he finally fell asleep
11:00PM - Nursed and then 4 oz. bottle of formula (I pump at midnight for supply)
1:30AM - 4 oz. bottle of formula; Wide awake for 1 hour
3:30AM - Awoke several times and nursed side-laying numerous times
5:30AM - Wakes; 4 oz. formula (I pump at 6AM to fulfill daytime supply needs)
2) At 9 months, he's not fully crawling yet. Has been getting up on hands and knees for nearly 2 months and is able to push himself backwards, but cannot move forwards and often just rolls over onto his back and rolls his way to where he wants to go or lays down on his stomach and squirms his way there (he's very frustrated while doing it). I can tell his arms are getting stronger and I've tried putting my knees against his feet to give him something to push off of, but have not made any progress in moving forward on all fours. He occassionally lifts his butt up so he's on his hands and toes and makes some progress, but only inches and then drops.
3) Refuses nearly all purees/solids and what I can get in his mouth, I get in against great resistance. Fights me tooth and nail. He will eat Gerber Graduate veggie stix and bitterroot cookies like there's no tomorrow though, but I don't want him eating cookies all day long and, yet, it's the only thing I can get him to eat! I felt awful last night when I got frustrated trying to feed him (my original goal was to get him to feed himself) some softened carrot squares. When he wouldn't eat it himself, I tried pushing a little piece in his mouth and he got pissed, leaving me feeling like a pushy mom- like I'm tormenting him and I don't want him to have a negative association between me and his eating. Does that make sense?
I know that some babies take a LONG time to start solids, but I'm concerned that his inability to crawl yet and his continued sleep issues has to do with a lack of nutrition or that he has development issues. He's extremely happy otherwise...very interactive with people. Is trying to talk. Plays well with his toys. Very attentive.
Any thoughts or suggestions?


text: Look - here's the facts: Carmelo is supposed to be the leader and best player on this team. It is, right now, his squad. If the team loses he takes the blame. That's the way it always has been in this league (blaming the best player for failures of a team), and it'll always be that way.


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Yahoo Leans on Facebook in Revamp of Home Page
Yahoo on Wednesday morning plans to unveil a much-awaited overhaul to its iconic home page, as Chief Executive Marissa Mayer looks to reverse a long-term decline in the time people spend on many of its sites.
The new home page has a stronger emphasis on tailoring the news articles and other content to individual visitora' personal interests, in part based on their Facebook accounts.
In effect, Yahoo will take information from a person's Facebook account, such as what their Facebook friends "liked" or "shared" on the social network, and use it to create a special set of constantly-updating news articles on its home page.
People will be able to change the kind of articles they see in their "news feed" by clicking on buttons that inform Yahoo that, for instance, they aren't interested in sports-related news.
In order for the new feature to work, Yahoo users must be "signed in" to their Yahoo account and separately allow Yahoo to access their Facebook account.
The move builds on Yahoo's prior efforts at partnering with Facebook, which over the years has taken away a significant amount of Web traffic and online-ad-revenue share from Yahoo.
Those who don't have a Facebook account will still be able to access a large amount of content on the site. Yahoo can customize what someone sees on the page based on their other activities on Yahoo sites, such as articles they previously read, as long as they are signed in to their Yahoo account.
In addition, the new home page will allow people to add personalized information such as current local-weather information, stock quotes, horoscopes, or notifications of their friends' birthdays. Such features are currently available through a service called My Yahoo.
In testing, users exposed to the new home page "were engaging a lot more, coming back more frequently," said Ms. Mayer in an interview. "We spent a lot of time listening to our users about what they want from Yahoo," she said.
She added that the news articles at the top of the home page, which are largely determined by Yahoo's editorial staff, would stay the same.
In the U.S., the Yahoo home page got 114.1 million unique visitors in December of last year, a 4% increase from a year earlier, according to data form research firm comScore However, important revenue-generating sites such as Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Search, Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance experienced double-digit decreases during the same period.
The Yahoo home page helps promote many of those other services, so the company is hoping the revamp will benefit those sites as well.
Mayer, who joined Yahoo from rival Google in the middle of last year, in December redesigned Yahoo Mail and said Tuesday that it has led to a 10% increase in daily active users.
She also has hired a number of new top executives and made four small acquisitions in order to add talent to Yahoo's ranks.
The company's revenue, the vast majority of which comes from selling ad space on its sites, has been flat or declining in recent years.


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Whats your age ?
Any advice really everyone started my first cycle I train hard and eat clean any tips and how much muscle will I keep after my first cycle
Whats your age ?
only way to know is do a cycle. maybe check out sarms for pct to try and keep some more of your gains. no way to tell tho
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I'm 21 5ft8 and about 12 stone 10% bf
Tony, are you sure running a deca sustanon cycle as your first go is the smartest plan ? Where did you get that idea, did someone tell you to run that cycle ? I would strongly suggest you drop the deca . Id be hard pressed to think you'll hear anyone suggest otherwise. Sustanon was also the wrong compound to start out with. Test E would have been far better due to the consistency of blood syrum lebvels. But since you say youve already started Id at least suggest you dose that sust 3 days a week.
Yeah they suggested it it's a guy from my guy he's huge and why should I drop it
I got told by the guy I bought it off too
I have already started this cycle with sus and deca guys my first week this week why is it the wrong idea to do this for my first cycle
not smart to run a 19 nor in your fist cycle. read thru the stickies here and make your own decision on what would be a smart first cycle. i personally would hold on to the deca untill a later time
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Tony, the guy you bought it off of isnt thinking about your well being in the long run. He would not have set you up that way if he was.
Did you already get your PCT stuff ? I hope I hope
I'm really confused now why is it a bad idea for them on my first what's the benifits and disadvantages
No haven't got any pct yet I bought a 10 week cycle
if you have a bad reaction how are you going to know what it is from? both of these are new to you and you dont know how your body reacts to just test!!!
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I know but what other advantages and disadvantages will I have :s
its not going to kill you but its just very poor planning. this is how you end up with boobs bigger than your moms.
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Oh Tony I just dont have time for this right now, but Im warning you, you can do a whole lot of harm to your endocrine system if you dont do this right. You could end up with bitch tits, impotent, sterile or just feeling like complete shit for a long time.
You are talking about hormones that create different side effects. If you dont have a familliarity to these hormones you will be hard pressed to treat your symptoms when they come along.
Please tell me you know what PCT is ?? You did not answer me if you had your stuff and that worries me.
Im not telling you not to run gear, but if you arent far in to this Id just stop all together. Trust me you want to do this the right way .
Lmao help me out then I train hard and have a good diet too what's needed as I have already started it
I do know what pct is but haven't got any thing for it as of yet
read the stickies they will give you everything you need. were not going to hand it to you. its all there for you allready
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What's stickys
oh dear I just saw you did answer me and you do not have pct . Also a 10 week deca cycle is bullshit. Please Please just stop this cycle right now, you can regroup and do it right. You were asking about keeping your gains and believe me the way you are going you'll be lucky if you keep anything good and you may end up keeping something you dont want. Ever heard of a man lactating ?
when you go to anobolic zone its the post ontop with a pin in it. just read the ones on top
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No I haven't wtf I'm so confused now
this is a sticky good luck
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this is just the start
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This account and all comments made by account holder are for entertainment purposes only, anabolic steroid use is illegal without a prescription.
Keepin Green.
Still so confused
Tony, just stop stop[ stop !!! Put the needle down and pick up the books. 1 week in you'll do no harm by stopping now.Believe me you can resume soon, but your not ready right now.


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Riding High
Woo wee. This weekend has been a pivital one for the Pirates. After the firesale of the week before, the Pirates had a big target on their backs. People have been doubting the moves and mentality of the Pittsburgh organization and the Bucs needed to step up and show what they were really made of.
Andrew McCutchen got the memo and delievered. In a big way. In Friday's 5-4 win over the Nationals Cutch collected 2 key hits. On Saturday he definetly rose to the occasion. Number 22 belted 3, count em 3 homeruns! It was truly a sight to behold. All 3 dingers sailed over the left field wall in about the same location. He hit one in the first, to lead it off, one in the fourth and one in the seventh. However, he did'nt stop there. McCutchen showcased his outstanding speed and laid down a bunt towards the third base line. He zoomed down to first and was in there with a key single. He ended up 4-5 in the game with a total of 6 RBI and 4 runs scored.
Andrew earned his first curtain call at PNC Park. Now I love a good curtain call. The player just completed an aswesome feat and it is so impressive to me that the fans recognize what went down and pay their respects to the player in a very loyal way. I for one think its filled with pagentry that can't be touched in any way. I take curtain calls very seriously and fondly remember two that took place at PNC Park that I was a part of.
Remember Derek Bell? If not he was a player for the Mets who was a solid big leaguer. He had some good seasons and was signe dby the Bucs one offseason. He started off the year slow and was booed for a good part of the first half. But one fateful Saturday night he belted his first dinger of the season and the crowd went nuts. I'm not sure if it was for his HR or that it put the Pirates up by one against the Astros in the 8th inning. Nonetheless, the corwd remained on their feet for a few minutes after he had touched home. Bell came out of the dugout after high fiving teammates and tipped his cap to the adoring Pittsburghers.
Just this year former Buc Craig Monroe followed in the similar footsteps of Bell. He was an off season acquistion and just getting used to the new club. He was a solid bench player and a likeable guy (the polar opposite of Bell in terms of personality). In a game against the Braves on a Saturday in April Monroe went haywire. He smashed 2 homeruns to starighaway center field that landed in the bullpen. It was great for Monroe to show his raw power and get his name out to the fans. After the second homerun I remember remianing standing and yelling "Hey Craigger" I was sitting behind homeplate close to the field but still a long shot if he actually heard me. Others around me began to stand and cheer loud and even louder than I was. It caught fire and the entire stadium was up and booming, the Craig came to the top step and showed his appreciation. I kind of take pride in the fact that I was kind of the firestarter.
McCutchen's big night was the number 7 top play on Sportscenter from the night. Sportscenter really did the game justice with about 5 minutes of coverage, honestly the most I have seen given to the Pirates in quite some time. It was awesome sitting on my couch watching the most famous sports show paying all this homage to Cutch and the Pirates. After the 3 minute long highlight the hosts talked about famous Pirates that hit 3 homeruns in one game. Willie Stargell did it as well as Roberto Clemente. Just seeing Andrew's face among these two MLB legends was inspiring. Even though he is so young Andrew has already left his mark and gotten the attention of everyone in the baseball world. It would feel like a dream if only Cutch can do the things "Pops" and "The Great One" did in a Pirates uniform.
Watching the national attention of the game made me want to laugh and say hey…I told ya so. Earlier in the week ESPN was bashing the Pirates left and right. Reporters on "Around the Horn" was harsh with the Pittsburgh ownership suggesting the MLB step in and kick out the owners. On "Pardon the Interruption" Tony and Michael were also tough and just plain rude. The Pirates won 2 games since the trade dealine and won them impressively. Although they lost 5-3 on Sunday they are still in good shape and poised to finish off the season competitively.
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Wining games is what it's going to take to quiet the Pirates' critics. Good luck!
Ha, Derek Bell once wanted to eat my brother's Cotton Candy when he was coming up with the Jays. Glad you brought him back in this post.
Nice to see McCutcheon doing well … Milledge has also been coming around. That could make for an interesting outfield. Especially for fantasy. Worth keeping an eye on.
Wow, your Andrew McCutcheon touched the sky 3 times. Very impressive. I hope your Pirates do well after all that trading. Fire sale is right.
*Although I miss a majority of the bunch, a lot our new aquisitions, (and call-ups,) seem promising. It's also great to see Ryan Doumit back on the field… Did you catch the game recently when he went 'yard' two times himself?
The only trade that still gets me is Milledge for Morgan, but I have to assume that it had more to do with getting Hanrahan than 'not needing' Nyjer. In my opinion, Milledge and Morgan are complete equals – players who can go 3 for 5 on any given day, and pull some acrobatic antics in the field.
I still hate thinking about Morgan, McCutchen, and McLouth in the field together – Above all else, the Pirates definently had one of the top 5 defenses in the entire league, (my opinion.) They're still sick in the field, but man – Sanchez, Wilson, etc… All unbelievable defenders.
I think the Pirates are going to be a hard team to beat between now and the end of the season, lot of young talent trying to make a name, it'll be interesting to see how both them and the Tribe play to seasons end…
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Ah yes, thank the baseball gods that there is someone to watch in Pittsburgh. That's the best part of fire-saling: the young kids get a shot at the big leagues and play under no pressure. Talented player for sure.
The Pirates could become the next Rays with all the young kids. Time will tell!
I agree with how you've described McCutcheon all year as the next big thing. I just can't believe some of the things he does to earn that honor! He's something else. I can see this guy being a high fantasy draft pick next year! He, Moss, and Jones are going to be a very special outfield next year.
The Pirates have been doing great! They're going to be hard to beat now! Has Cedeno played at all for you guys yet? Snell started for us and got a no decision. Considering that we played the Rangers, he was alright! Gave up 2 homers and that was it. He never smiles! What's up with that? Hehehe! I'm glad you like both of them, it comforts me to hear that. I'm even more glad that Jack is a good player and that he has a good attitude. Hopefully his attitude hasn't changed after coming to the Mariners although I saw him smiling and high-fiving the other M's in the dugout :] xoxo http://diamondgirl55.mlblogs.com
A C is so on fire right now.
I liked this kid when he played against the Rays in Spring Training, but who knew he had that power in him too.
Makes a few of those trades look like great ideas now.
Best thing is he is going to get better.
Awesome speed, quick hands, and plays a smooth outfield……..just what the Pirates need right now.
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