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Rays' Price hurts triceps, leaves game vs Red Sox
Updated:ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) (AP) Cy Young Award winner David Price has left the Tampa Bay Rays' game against the Red Sox with left triceps tightness.
Price departed with one out in the third inning in Wednesday night's game after allowing an RBI single to David Ortiz.
The left-hander walked toward the plate after delivering the pitch to Ortiz and appeared to grimace.
Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon, a team athletic trainer and the Rays infield all joined Price on the mound after the play. Price walked off the field after a brief consultation and was replaced by Jamey Wright.
Price has struggled this season and entered Wednesday's game with a 1-3 record and a 4.78 ERA. He was charged with four runs and five hits in 2 1-3 innings against the Red Sox.


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Overlooking a bend in the Tallebudgera River, our unique holiday house on the Gold Coast is set amidst 15 acres of gorgeous organic fruit orchards.
Centrally Located on the Gold Coast
Just a few minutes drive to the Gold Coast's sparkling beaches Bend of the River is a Queenslander homestead close to the surf, shops, cafes and farmers' markets but a world away from the trappings of city life.
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Patricia McMahon
Patricia McMahon, a lifelong Rockaway resident and former Broad Channel resident, died October 12.
McMahon was born in Rockaway Beach. She was a longtime member of the St. Virgilius Parish.
She is survived by her husband, Patrick J. McMahon; children, Timothy, Brian, Kelly, Patrick and Erin McMahon and Danielle Hartman; and 12 grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements were entrusted to the Denis S. O'Connor Funeral Home. A Funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Francis de Sales Church. All other arrangements were kept private.


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2010 Diffuser 3D Carbon?
I want to add a little bit to the exterior of the Focus and was thinking of a rear diffuser. I have a few questions though.
1.) Is there more than just the one from 3D carbon?
2.) For the 3D Carbon one it is listed under 2009-11 coupe, but I have a 2010 SES 4-door, how much do I need to do to make it fit.?
3.) Are they just held on by clips?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
There is a sedan kit and a coupe kit.
The diffuser is held on by 3m tape around the top, 2 screws in the edge of each wheel well and two small Z shaped brackets on the underside. You just take out the 2 plastic clips that hold the bumper on and put the bracket in and replace the clip.
You will want to make sure that the diffuser will come with the hardware!
Ok, so it is one piece I was thinking that the diffuser would just attach to the bumper where the plastic is already. If that's the case I'm just gonna wait till I can get the entire kit. Thanks
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Just to be clear, it's not a "Diffuser" it just sort of (not really) looks like one.
The stock SES bumper has a "Valance" insert and the 3DCarbon rear lip is one molded piece. The black part you see is just painted black to look like an insert.
There are other rear lip kits you can buy, but none of them are worth a crap and they're all designed to fit the SE bumper and not the SES.
Is there any thing more aggressive looking for the insert on the SES bumper
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Not one of my strong points.
I made my own.
This was my first attempt in making a rear diffuser. I like how it turned out, but I think it's too narrow. I was going to make one that went all the way across the rear bumper, but I'm abandoning the project and doing something else this year.
I'm doubt is does much, but I doubt the 3D Carbon one you're looking at does anything either. If this is the look you going for just go to the Home Depot and get some plexiglass. Make a pattern out of cardboard for the fins then cut out the plexiglass. I drilled and tapped the fins so the hole thing screws together. Then I wrapped the whole thing in 3M Di Noc.
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Yeah that's...... not really a "diffuser" either. Maybe by definition, but in order to be a functional diffuser, it needs to reach under the vehicle and direct airflow. Yours is probably directing airflow, but not correctly.
This is a more accurate depiction of a rear diffuser.
In today's automotive design, most cars have simulated diffusers because a diffuser is typically seen on sports/racing vehicles and if you make a car look sporty, you'll sell more of them.
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"Traditional societies are far more diverse in many of their cultural practices than are modern industrial societies," writes Jared Diamond in his recent The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? . Modern societies are outliers on the spectrum.
So it's rather weird that "psychologists base most of their generalizations about human nature on studies of our own narrow and atypical slice of human diversity. Among the human subjects studied in a sample of papers from the top psychology journals surveyed in the year 2008, 96% were from Westernized industrial countries . . . , 68% were from the U.S. in particular, and up to 80% were college undergraduates enrolled in psychology courses, i.e., not even typical of their own national societies" (8).
Some social scientists have given this phenomenon the acronym WEIRD: "Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic." And Diamond says they are "literally weird by the standards of world cultural variation" in areas like "visual perception, fairness, cooperation, punishment, biological reasoning, motivation to conform, making choices, and concept of self."
Diamond modestly suggests that psychologists could generalize more accurately if they broadened their samples.


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Something Fishy In the Gulf
Some of that fresh Gulf seafood is unsafe to eat due to high levels of mercury. Texas A&M Dr. James Simons says they're looking for the source.
"A lot of it comes from atmospheric deposition, which comes from coal-fired power plants and things like that. Of course you have spot contamination like the Alcoa plant that dumped a lot of mercury into Lavaca Bay many years ago."
Caroline Mann with the State Health Department says women of childbearing age and all children are advised not to eat nine species of fish, including shark, mackerel, and swordfish.
"Testing revealed that the mercury concentrations in some of the fish exceeded health guidelines."
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Barrowman, John, 1968-
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- (edtf) 1967-03-11
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- Glasgow (Scotland)
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- Joliet (Ill.)
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- Entertainment industry
- Singer
- Dancer
- Actor
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- found: Lloyd Webber, A. Songs from The phantom of the Opera [SR] p1993: container (John Barrowman)
- found: IMDb, July 25, 2002 (John Barrowman; b. Mar. 11, 1968, Glasgow, Scotland)
- found: IMDb, Feb. 25, 2011 (John Barrowman; b. Mar. 11, 1967, Glasgow, Scotland)
- found: Wikipedia, Feb. 25, 2011 (John Barrowman; b. Mar. 11, 1967; Scottish-American singer, dancer, actor, and musical performer)
- found: Wikipedia, Oct. 6, 2015 (John Scot Barrowman, MBE (born 11 March 1967), is a Scottish-American actor, singer, dancer, presenter and writer who holds both British and American citizenship. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he emigrated to the United States, settling in Joliet, with his family in 1975. Encouraged by his high school teachers, Barrowman studied performing arts at the United States International University in San Diego before landing the role of Billy Crocker in Cole Porter's Anything Goes at London's West End.)
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Latrobe Magnesium said it was in talks with other power stations in the Latrobe Valley, which might have an affect on the results of the Latrobe magnesium project feasibility study. It decided to defer completion of its pre-feasibility study from the end of March to the end of June.
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The New Facebook Challenge is the Mrs. Doubtfire "Hello!" Face for Suicide Prevention
The new Facebook fad is the Mrs. Doubtfire Face for Suicide Prevention. You just upload a video of yourself jamming your face into frosting or shaving cream or something like that, and shouting "Hello!" just like Robin Williams does in the movie. Then you nominate three other people to do it.
The initiative was started by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and even though they're not pressuring you to donate, obviously they'd be fine with that.


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Health Care Costs
With health insurance premiums continuing to rise, economists, the news media and others are sharing wide-ranging points of view about factors contributing to the overall cost of care.
At Sutter Health, we strive to provide patients with the safest, highest quality and most accessible care—while doing our part to make sure our services are affordable. In other words, we commit to providing great value—as opposed to being the least expensive provider of any particular service.
Of course we also know high-value organizations must offer services at a fair price. Several years ago we recognized that Sutter Health needed to step up to do our part in making quality health care more affordable. We've made significant strides by holding our annual overall average price increases for health plans to single digits in the past several years. However, we still have more work to do to reach our affordability goals for patients.
Read on to see how we're transforming and redesigning care management processes and approaches with an eye toward holding the line on costs while improving care.
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- Focusing on Affordability
- Questions & Answers About the Cost of Care
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Quality Leadership
We deliver comprehensive and personalized care through our integrated delivery network over a broad continuum—including surgery centers, physicians, outpatient care, general and specialty hospital care, and home health and hospice services. As a result of our integrated approach, we've raised the bar even higher on health care quality.
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Our Commitments
Not surprisingly, building a high-quality, integrated regional health care network like ours requires a considerable ongoing investment. From 2011, Sutter Health invested over $8 billion on advanced patient care technology and on facility construction and improvements necessary to meet the needs of our communities and California's seismic safety requirements.
To ensure our communities have an adequate supply of doctors close to home, we've recruited hundreds of physicians and established conveniently located care centers in scores of cities and towns all over Northern California. We created the Sutter Medical Network, in which physicians share a common commitment to provide consistently exceptional and affordable health care—when, where and how patients want to receive it.
Any comparison of hospital pricing in California must take into consideration the size of the provider's seismic obligation. Sutter Health has more critical (SPC 1) seismic building obligations than any other California health care organization. Sutter Health built or replaced hospital facilities in Crescent City, Roseville, Davis, Sacramento, Jackson, Modesto, Santa Cruz and Novato. Large hospital construction projects are underway in Castro Valley, Oakland, Santa Rosa and Sacramento. Another hospital replacement project was completed in Burlingame in May 2011. After securing local government approvals, Sutter Health expects to invest another $1.8 billion on hospital projects in San Francisco.
During 2012, Sutter Health provided record levels of care and services for the poor and underserved and other benefits for the broader community. Its 2012 commitment to community benefit was a record $795 million, compared to $756 million in 2011. This amount includes unreimbursed costs of providing care to Medi-Cal patients as well as investments in medical research, health education and community-based public benefit programs such as school-based clinics and prenatal care for low-income patients. Sutter Health hospitals cared for 22 percent of all Medi-Cal patients discharged in 2010 from the counties served by its network (per OSHPD; 2012 Medi-Cal data not yet available).
Sutter Health's commitment to providing charity care has continued to grow, reaching an average of more than $3 million each week in 2012. Sutter Health's traditional charity care contribution increased from $140 million in 2011 to $153 million in 2012.
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Focusing on Affordability
While quality and access will always be top priorities for Sutter Health, we also continue to implement more efficient ways to deliver our services, conserve our limited resources and spend wisely. Sutter Health's integrated approach has increased the quality of care provided by our physicians and hospitals and will continue to help make our services more affordable.
Although some people measure the cost of care solely in terms of a single specific service, we believe it's important to consider a patient's total cost of care. When doctors and hospitals work together in the same organization, it helps them spend less per patient on the total cost of care by developing best care practices and reducing unnecessary duplication of services, while providing seamless access and treatment for patients.
All across Sutter Health, we're transforming and redesigning care management processes and approaches to help hold the line on cost and improve patient care. For example, our hospitals established seven-day-a-week (versus traditional Monday-Friday) care management and supportive clinical services to make sure patients don't have to wait over a weekend for their care. If providing weekend physical therapy will help a patient heal better and faster, and return home sooner (thus avoiding a costly and unnecessary overnight stay), it's our responsibility to provide that care.
To prevent unnecessary, risky and costly hospital readmissions, we're improving post-hospital discharge care to help ensure patients take their medications and have follow-up doctor appointments scheduled before leaving the hospital.
We developed our own sophisticated analytical software that analyzes physicians' individual approaches to treating certain medical problems in order to develop doctor-designed best practices that improve outcomes and help keep services affordable.
Sutter Health has held annual overall average price increases for commercial health plans down to single digits in the past several years. Of course we have no control over whether these more moderate rate increases are reflected in what health plans charge consumers. Recently some health plans announced premium increases in excess of 20 percent.
It's important to keep in mind that health insurance premiums in California stand at or below the national median; Californians pay less than half what consumers in some other states pay.
We've made progress on our affordability goals, and we continue to seek better and more efficient ways to deliver our services, conserve our limited resources and invest wisely in our people, technology and facilities with the goal of continuing to be recognized among the highest quality providers of health care.
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Questions & Answers About the Cost of Care
Some health insurance executives claim and some news media have recently reported that large provider systems like Sutter Health make health care more expensive by demanding higher-than-average reimbursement from insurers. What is Sutter Health's perspective
Sutter Health believes its reimbursements from insurers are fair, and reflect our commitments and obligations to the communities we serve. Large insurance companies contract with us for services of their own free will. And there's plenty of competition in Northern California—from Kaiser, Catholic Healthcare West, Adventist Health, John Muir and the UC hospitals, and from many independent hospitals and physicians.
Sutter Health has held annual overall average price increases for commercial health plans to single digits in the past several years. Of course we have no control over whether health plans reflect our single-digit rate increases in what they charge consumers.
The health plans we work with are large sophisticated organizations that are very capable of representing the best interests of their clients as it relates to contracting. In the end, they have to balance all of those business decisions with all of their other stakeholders (e.g. Wall Street). Some health plans continue to announce premium increases in excess of 20 percent—and large profits.
In 1990, there were 23 major health plans operating statewide in California. Today, there are six major statewide health plans (Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield, CIGNA, HealthNet, UnitedHealthcare and Aetna), and a few other, smaller private insurers that serve particular regions of the state. Separately, Kaiser Permanente operates its own health plan, hospitals and physician groups.
Negotiated prices with insurance companies help fund Sutter Health's commitments to ensuring our communities have adequate access to physicians, as well as fund our commitments to quality, safety, convenience and free care for the poor.
Why are health care costs increasing at such a high rate?
The government pays less than the cost of care, so any inflation in health care costs must be borne by those who actually pay a market price. Since government-sponsored patients consume about 50 percent of the care in a typical health system, the cost shifted to everyone else is double what it would otherwise be. For example, if inflation is 4 percent, a health system's prices have to go up 8 percent to cover the increased costs of caring for government-sponsored patients when the government keeps its payments to doctors and hospitals arbitrarily low. Improvements in technology, drugs, and seismically-safe facilities all tend to drive the cost up faster than in other industries.
Health care providers, especially those like Sutter Health that invest in their communities, have significant financial commitments. For example, we are replacing paper records with electronic systems and replacing hospitals whose per-bed construction costs have more than doubled, from $1 million about a decade ago to over $2.5 million today. The other big cost driver is the success modern medicine has had in saving lives. Health problems that were once untreatable can now be treated, so we're seeing more and more people living with chronic conditions. We're glad to play part in saving and extending patients' lives, and we all need to be mindful that the costs of chronic care continue to be part of the nation's overall health care bill.
How will health insurance reform impact your costs and affordability goals?
Under federal health care reform, the government will provide health coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans, and it will cover the cost in large part by paying health care providers less. Medicare, which has for years underpaid doctors and hospitals, will reduce its reimbursement to Sutter Health by nearly $2 billion over the next decade.
Despite legal maneuverings and Congressional debate about the future of health care reform, we fully expect these deep government reimbursement cuts will continue along with demands that doctors and hospitals deliver more for less.
California already ranks last in the nation in reimbursement to doctors and hospitals for care provided to MediCal beneficiaries. California also faces a massive debt and reductions in MediCal payments are also a real possibility.
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Emergency room staffer Ryan Davis, dubbed "The Pen Guy" by his colleagues, had a simple idea that led to thousands of dollars in cost savings.
Louis Luis, a Supply Chain Director for Sutter Health's Central Valley Region, worked to streamline the purchase of artificial joints and cardiac rhythm devices leading to millions of dollars in savings.
Diane Brown used a creative approach to business card design that is expected to reduce purchasing expenses by more than $160,000.
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Date of Stay: December, 2010
Nice little park. It was a wet and rainy night when I arrived so I didn't see much. The lady in the office was very nice and friendly. It was easy to get in and not far from the highway. I would recommend this park as a place to stay.
Date of Stay: November, 2010
This is a real nice park. Even in November, it was nice. I was here for a week. Good Wi-Fi, cable etc. The neat little village of Fort Langley and all the shops. This is a great place to stay.
Date of Stay: August, 2010
This is a great RV park. I stayed two weeks simply because I loved the RV park, the people running it and the village of Valemount. The sites are large and all pull -throughs. There is little shade as trees still need to mature. The sites are gravel and grassed. Wi-Fi was great and I got 5 channels on the antenna. I needed some help with a small problem and the Park Host went to great lengths to help me resolve it. The village of Valemount is a nice place as well. The washrooms were clean the laundry had high tech industrial machines. I will be back to stay there again.
Date of Stay: May, 2010
This is a great park. Yes, a little ways from the City of Vernon but it is quiet and spaces are large. Many of the lots are privately owned but otherwise a nice spot. Lots are cement and flat. The only thing I found is Wi-Fi is there but you pay a fee and it can be expensive for a week. The staff are very good and I am actually planning are being there again in November. I stayed there in May as well as August. As far as signage, just look where you are going and you will find it. Use a map! Highly recommend this park.
Date of Stay: May, 2010
Stayed there just three nights. It was an OK place but I found some of the sites junky. Easy to get into and out and appears secure. You do hear the freeway if you are in the front. Otherwise it is an OK place to stay.
Date of Stay: January, 2010
Ignore the date stamp for my stay. I stayed in this park on a monthly basis last year from Jan to about May 2009 and again in September. I found it just fine and staff were good. The rates are higher because of the location. You are right there for everything in Vancouver. The spots are tight to get into if you are not good at backing but the park attendant will help you out. The place is always neat and clean and appears well run. I certainly will stay there again.


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Try Midway, they have the speedloaders:
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Hi, after a little research I bought a security 6 today. One thing that people kept reminding of is that this gun has been discontinued. Ok fine, but I'm sure that there is still a big accessory market for it. My question is can you fine people point me in the direction of a good website, or N AZ ( Prescott area) gun shop that I could find a speed loader and grips for the gun. I bought the gun at J & G sales here in Prescott, and they just suggested looking on the web.
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Try Midway, they have the speedloaders:
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The Security-Six,Service-Six, and Speed-Six were replaced with the GP-100 series in 1987. There's still some parts and accessories out there but they are getting used up. Don hume still has holsters for them if you need one. I have two and they are great shooters.
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There are two gun shops around 8 miles from downtown on highway 69 another going out of town to the south. I know how to get to them but don't know the names or addresses. Break out that old fashioned book called the Yellow Pages.
Have the exact same gun in .38 and love it. Rugged and dependble. My only problem is that it seems to be a bit heavy.
Good luck with it and I will be watching this thread to look for info as well.
Those are some very sexy guns, Baldy.
More links for you...
Great sale on the MK3A HKS speedloaders here:
This is the loader chart that shows what HKS speedloaders fit what guns (MK3A for Ruger Sec 6):
There are two stores on 69 in Prescott Valley. Prescott Valley Guns and High Noon has a range in the store High Country Guns on 89 south across from Safeway. All three carry speedloaders.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." -Mark Twain
oops. I forgot Mazys in Chino Valley. Great place with a fantastic gunsmith.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." -Mark Twain
I put a set of hogue monogrips on my security six. Absolutely love the gun. A person will never go wrong buying a security six.


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Ms. Nezhat Khosrowshahi appointed as a Trustee of the National Gallery of Canada's Board of Trustees
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Mr. Michael Tims, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Gallery of Canada, is pleased to welcome Ms. Nezhat Khosrowshahi as a new member of the Board of Trustees. Ms. Khosrowshahi's appointment was recently announced by the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages. The Minister's media release announcing this appointment may be accessed through this link: http://www.pch.gc.ca/eng/1369148050162
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The National Gallery of Canada is home to the most important collections of historical and contemporary Canadian art. The Gallery also maintains Canada's premier collection of European Art from the 14th to the 21st century, as well as important works of American, Asian and Indigenous Art and renowned international collections of prints, drawings and photographs. Created in 1880, the National Gallery of Canada has played a key role in Canadian culture for well over a century. Among its principal missions is to increase access to excellent works of art for all Canadians. To do so, it maintains an extensive touring art exhibition programme. For more information: gallery.ca
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Congress Should O.K. The Free Trade Pact
The U.S., Canada, and Mexico have hammered out a historic North American Free Trade Agreement that would produce a $6 trillion market, if approved by the legislatures of the three nations. For the U.S., the agreement would gradually eliminate trade barriers with our third-largest and fastest-growing trading partner, increasing trade and creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs in the export sector. And those new jobs are the reason why the U.S. Congress should approve the pact.
Advocates of the plan envisage such a boom in U.S. exports both because Mexico would grow faster and because there is a tariff gap between the two countries. Mexican taxes on imports from the U.S. average 10%, while U.S. tariffs on Mexican goods average just under 4%. All these tariffs would be eliminated over 15 years.
Still, the plan has a downside. Mexico has a per capita income of only $2,300--vs. $23,000 in the U.S.--so some relatively low-wage, low-skill jobs are sure to move there. But those jobs figure to be lost anyway--if not to Mexico, to Southeast Asia. Seen that way, the U.S. benefits more if the jobs head south, because 60% of Mexican export earnings are spent on U.S. goods--far higher than other nations.
Of course, that means nothing to the Americans losing jobs, and some retraining must be provided for them. Similarly, both nations must commit to strict environmental rules on both sides of the border. The Bush Administration insists it has both these problems licked. If so, the North American Free Trade Agreement can boost the economies of all three nations.


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Hurricane Ike — Day 2
Posted on September 17, 2008
I'm not exactly sure what my expectations were when I woke up this morning. I knew that it was going to be an arduous day because we were traveling to Houston and Galveston to assess damage and assist our units impacted by the hurricane. What's interesting is that as we were traveling to Houston, there were electronic signs on the highway telling drivers not to go to Houston or Beaumont, Texas. In hindsight, this was ironic because when we finally made it to Houston to visit local shelters in the Black community it seems as though "aid" was told not to enter these areas as well.


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Alfpaca - This exclusive fleece is designed to match your individuality. Knit from a private selection of multicolored yarn into a kaleidoscope of color and technology.
Thumb Loops - Now an industry standard for outdoor active wear, Kühl Clothing was the first in the industry to incorporate this feature into jackets and sweaters in 1992. Designed to act as a hand warming half over-mitt, thumb loops also aid in keeping sleeves in place when layering garments. Shown here on the Men's Flyr down jacket.
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I'd move a bedroom to the basement and take over the bedroom. When someone is asleep it doesn't matter if the room is dark. As I told my kids when I took over the den for my sewing room and they didn't like it at all, it's your home but it is my house. They never got the den back.
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Through the mysterious agency which works in schools and among servants, it was quite
well known in the morning that Sara Crewe was in horrible disgrace, that Ermengarde
was under punishment, and that Becky would have been packed out of the house before
breakfast, but that a scullery maid could not be dispensed with at once. The servants
knew that she was allowed to stay because Miss Minchin could not easily find another
creature helpless and humble enough to work like a bounden slave for so few shillings a
week. The elder girls in the schoolroom knew that if Miss Minchin did not send Sara
away it was for practical reasons of her own.
"She's growing so fast and learning such a lot, somehow," said Jessie to Lavinia, "that she
will be given classes soon, and Miss Minchin knows she will have to work for nothing. It
was rather nasty of you, Lavvy, to tell about her having fun in the garret. How did you
find it out?"
"I got it out of Lottie. She's such a baby she didn't know she was telling me. There was
nothing nasty at all in speaking to Miss Minchin. I felt it my duty"--priggishly. "She was
being deceitful. And it's ridiculous that she should look so grand, and be made so much
of, in her rags and tatters!"
"What were they doing when Miss Minchin caught them?"
"Pretending some silly thing. Ermengarde had taken up her hamper to share with Sara
and Becky. She never invites us to share things. Not that I care, but it's rather vulgar of
her to share with servant girls in attics. I wonder Miss Minchin didn't turn Sara out--even
if she does want her for a teacher."
"If she was turned out where would she go?" inquired Jessie, a trifle anxiously.
"How do I know?" snapped Lavinia. "She'll look rather queer when she comes into the
schoolroom this morning, I should think-- after what's happened. She had no dinner
yesterday, and she's not to have any today."
Jessie was not as ill-natured as she was silly. She picked up her book with a little jerk.
"Well, I think it's horrid," she said. "They've no right to starve her to death."
When Sara went into the kitchen that morning the cook looked askance at her, and so did
the housemaids; but she passed them hurriedly. She had, in fact, overslept herself a little,
and as Becky had done the same, neither had had time to see the other, and each had
come downstairs in haste.
Sara went into the scullery. Becky was violently scrubbing a kettle, and was actually
gurgling a little song in her throat. She looked up with a wildly elated face.
"It was there when I wakened, miss--the blanket," she whispered excitedly. "It was as real
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A running thread through the tensions at various South-East Asian regional forums over the past four years has been the uncertainty and insecurity generated by China's jurisdictional claims in the South China Sea.
China claims sovereignty over the disputed islands and adjacent waters in the sea and sovereign rights over relevant waters as well as the seabed and subsoil thereof – a claim that is in accordance with Law of the Seas (LOS) norms. But in addition, China's oceanic law enforcement agencies have unilaterally, and at times forcefully, enforced their writ across the more expansive political perimeter bounded by what is termed the nine-dashed line.
This is side-tracking attention from what ought to be the central issue: that China's claim to the primary land elements lying within the nine-dashed line – the Spratlys and the Paracels – is markedly superior to those of its rival claimants.
Alone among claimants, China is capable of coupling continuous and effective occupation of the islands, islets and reefs with a robust modern international law-based claim backed by relevant legal instruments.
In 1952, Japan renounced all title to the Spratly and Paracel islands to the Republic of China (Taiwan), by way of Article two of the bilateral Japan-Taiwan Treaty of Taipei. This treaty followed – and referenced – the territorial renunciations of the islands by Japan under the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty, which had not identified the beneficiary at the time – a treaty that was ratified by both the Philippine and (former South) Vietnamese governments.
Neither Vietnam nor the Philippines is bound by provisions in the bilateral Japan-Taiwan treaty, neither can produce a Spratlys-Paracels cession or reversion clause in their own bilateral treaties with Japan. Rather, their claims are supplementarily based on historical cartography in the case of Vietnam or for the Philippines, historical discovery – that is (incredibly) of a post-World War II vintage!
At the end of the day, ultimate title cannot be said to rest with any one party so long as a territorial claim is not resolved by way of a binding instrument between claimant states. At best, there are better claims and less-better claims to the territory in question. But given China's law-based claim is superior to that of rival claimants, why does it persist with the infamous nine-dashed line?
As the successor government of Taiwan, the mundane reason is that Beijing is proceeding from the claim line that it inherited from the Chiang Kai-shek regime as the baseline for negotiation and compromise in an open territorial dispute. But if China submitted an LOS-compliant claim to its outer continental shelf limits in the South China Sea, the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS), tasked with examining its validity, would almost certainly strike down parts of the submission.
The CLCS appears on track to de-recognising Japan's claim that the two high-tide elevations – the size of five tatami mats in total – within the Okinotori atolls in the Pacific are in fact islands capable of generating an exclusive economic zone (that is ironically larger than Japan itself).
By the same reasoning, many of the high-tide elevations under Beijing's control in the South China Sea would be found to be mere rocks.
Although CLCS findings are non-enforceable, it would dent China's case to certain disputed resource-rich zones within the Sea – hence its preference for the nine-dashed line.
The foremost motive for the nine-dashed line persistence is its intertwined character with the highly politicised, deterrence-based model of territorial dispute management that Beijing favours.
Territorial jurisdiction issues have never been treated as mere cartographic detail. They are tied to a larger political calculus of stability and good neighbourliness. In its maritime dimension, joint development of commonly held resources has been the established mode to implement this principle.
Here, Manila's misjudgment in abrogating its joint seismic study agreement with Vietnam and China in 2008 has been the principal cause of the swift deterioration in bilateral ties with China.
Furthermore, territorial settlements have never been concluded under duress, and China's rulers calibrate their approach between a hard-line and a flexible one to suit the strategic circumstances at hand. The nine-dashed line has conveniently served as a hard-line expedient that Beijing's competing maritime bureaucracies are not shy to lever to signal displeasure to other claimants.
So what are the enabling circumstances that would motivate China to set the nine-dashed line aside and adhere to best international practice in issuing forth maritime jurisdictional claims? Beijing has previously been willing to soften its inflated 'natural prolongation' principle with Korea and Japan to pursue fisheries and (in-principle) joint resource development, and the 2000 Gulf of Tonkin maritime delimitation agreement with Vietnam too was firmly in keeping with the highest international practices.
Given the fast-paced development of international maritime law, which is accentuating the gap between political calculus-based and rules-based orders at sea, it is in China's self interest to submit a Law of the Seas-compliant claim to its outer continental-shelf limits in the South China Sea. Beijing's gains in goodwill earned would far outweigh the territory, and resources, relinquished.
Such a move might also give China leeway to subsequently initiate a region-wide conversation on introducing limits to objectionable, threat-based activities in exclusive economic zones by foreign navies, under the guise of navigational freedoms.
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By Emily McKenna, June 6, 2012 - 9:11am
Emily asks: What is your favorite unconventional salsa ingredient?
Strawberries work quite well.
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I'm not sure about a salsa recipe, but once you find a good one, take a deep baknig dish, and put a layer of salsa. On top of that, place a layer of sour cream. On top of that, put a layer of cheese. Repeat these layers until 3/4 of the baknig dish is full, then finish layering your ingrediants until you end with a layer of cheese on top. Place it in the oven until the top layer of cheese ismelted, and remove from oven. Have fun and enjoy!
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
One Winner, No Losers
Triumphant Newtown
A GREAT GAME. We thought we'd watch an hour of Little League championship play before switching over to the Eagles-Steelers preseason game. It didn't happen that way. We stayed with the 11- and 12-year-old ballplayers who were giving their all to win the Mid-Atlantic Regional Final. And even though we were rooting for Toms River, NJ, against Newtown, PA, we couldn't be disappointed by Newtown's classy come-from-behind win. Both teams played with heart, skill, and discipline, and they did it before a national television audience:
Hulking TV trucks surrounded the posh Gianatti Little League Leadership Training Center and a red-white-and-blue hot-air balloon hovered above; nationally televised, the twilight game necessitated spray paint on Breen Field's brown patches and the addition of huge banks of portable lights; a spacious second-floor press box was teeming with reporters and photographers; and boisterous clusters of fans in Toms River red and Council Rock blue lined the walkway connecting the field with the player dormitories, from which the two teams emerged to tumultuous pre-game roars.
The network coverage had to put a lot of pressure on the youngsters, but they delivered the best game we'd seen all year. It featured good sportsmanship, crisp uniforms, and a little of everything that's best about baseball, including clutch hits, stolen bases, a pair of homeruns by the losing pitcher, and multiple star plays in the field by both sides -- a big league catch in the right field corner, a peg from left field that nailed a runner at third, a masterful block of home plate by a pitcher (!) that prevented a critical run from scoring, and an overall level of defensive play that was solid and intelligent. Likewise, the batteries of both teams were outstanding, as pitchers worked through deep counts for strikeouts and catchers called smart games while keeping most of the errant pitches in front of them. One pitcher, relieved of mound duty after four-plus innings of fine work, became the catcher for his reliever.
ESPN's microphones were frequently able to pick up the interaction between coaches and players, who were repeatedly told to lay off the high fastballs... and have fun.
You can read full accounts of the game from the Pennsylvania side and the New Jersey side, but neither quite captures, well, the fun of seeing good kids performing like champs with their parents and friends cheering them on, with none of the ugliness we've come to expect from the stands and from spoiled superstars on the field.
The play is moving to Williamsport now for the national championship games. If you need some cheering up about American sports, American kids, and American families, look for the games on one of your ESPN channels. You'll be glad you did.
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ROME (Reuters) - Diesel brand founder Renzo Rosso is considering expanding into jewelery and launching a new project in Japan to fuel growth at his fashion group despite the global economic turmoil.
Known as the "king of high-end casualwear", the rockstar-looking businessman is one of the most dynamic figures in a fashion industry threatened by a slowdown in its core markets.
A painful recession in southern Europe and a slowdown in China are forcing European brands to come up with new ideas to lure consumers back into their stores.
Accessories, which, like leather belts and perfumes, are more affordable than evening dresses, are the fastest-growing category in a luxury industry expected to grow 5 percent this year from 13 percent in 2011 at constant exchange rates, according to consultancy Bain & Co.
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This is a Good Sam park we picked out of the directory. It is rated 8.5-9.5-8 and has the nicest bathrooms we've ever seen. They have 50 amp on all the sites and free Wi-Fi and cable TV. We made good use of all the amenities. We were traveling south for a month away from the cold and stopped here for an overnight. We ended up spending 2 nights to do laundry and restock our supplies as everything was so convenient. It is close to I-20 which is very convenient and we were surprised that it was so quiet with no highway noise. The staff was very helpful and the park sparkling clean. We will make this our midway stop from now on.


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>> It might help to explain why you want to do this. There is probably an
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> Well, if you want to know, I've copied all the Mathematica
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> factual errors in them. I want all the built-in Mathematica help
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HYDE PARK, Wednesday—Last Monday, June 30th, UNRRA officially came to an end. This agency, established during the war, was the first great international organization to begin work after the war.
When it was decided last winter that we would not continue to support an international relief organization, I felt a certain sense of defeat. Much that was said at the time was true. We were told that Congress would appropriate no more money for relief administered on an international basis because they felt that, in certain countries, UNRRA funds had been used for political purposes by the governments in power. But when I listen now to what some of the people in Congress say, I wonder if we meant that we wanted to be sure these relief supplies were going to be controlled for our political purposes!
That may be wise, and perhaps starvation is a necessary threat to hold over people's heads. But I can't help thinking that, when we use such a threat, we are doing exactly what we blame others for having done. I wish that we could have gone on with an international organization for relief and rehabilitation and reformed that organization, instead of doing the job on the basis of helping people whom we alone decide are worth helping.
The decision is made, however, and we can only hope that it will be possible for us to give relief on a purely non-political basis, governed only by the needs of the people involved.
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I liked very much the statement made by Maj. Gen. Lowell W. Rooks, Director General of UNRRA, on the eve of the closing of all UNRRA missions in Europe. He recounted their achievements, which are considerable. Many nations have been tided over the critical period immediately following the war. And though we cannot look with equanimity on present conditions in Europe, still if there had been no relief of this kind, Europe would have been far worse off.
UNRRA's administration was sadly hampered at first when shipping was needed to win the war, and it was not until March 1945, two months before V-E Day, that their first full shipment was dispatched. Shipping was always one of their great difficulties. Once in Europe, they had good cooperation from the armies in moving staffs and supplies.
When UNRRA shipments are completed, the organization will have delivered nearly $3,000,000,000 worth of supplies in seventeen different countries. The value of relief provided after World War I was only about a third of what UNRRA has succeeded in distributing. It has conducted the largest peacetime shipping operation in world history.
About $1,000,000,000 was spent to help rehabilitate the internal economies of the receiving countries. $160,000,000 went for medical aid. $200,000,000 went for agricultural equipment, seeds, draft animals, tractors, and so on.
This is the beginning from which Secretary of State Marshall's economic plan can take off. We salute UNRRA for work accomplished. And we have high hopes for the recovery of Europe through its own efforts and through the help which Secretary Marshall has proposed.


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Because it's a Fashion & Style piece, let's get a few things out of the way in The New York Times' profile of Paris Review editor Lorin Stein. Who makes his suits? Kirk Miller. What exclusive bar does he frequent? The Wooly. What literary figure's photobooth portrait keeps watch over his office bathroom? Frederick Seidel. There are also the obligatory society notes such as what his parents do, where he went to school and, if the article were actually a Vows column, as it sometimes reads, which famous guests would be on the list for Stein's marriage to himself. Oh! But does he know someone who cross-dresses? Check.
With Style Section Bingo safely behind us, it's easier to focus on how "lifestyle" actually translates to "literature." In her description of a typical night on the town for Stein, Julie Bosman sets out her thesis: "Bacchanalian nights are practically inscribed in the job description." Well, if by "Bacchanalian" one means going to a book party, a magazine party and then to dinner with other professionals. Which kind of sounds like any job description where one needs to keep abreast of industry happenings.
So far, Mr. Stein seems to be handling both the social and the professional job requirements rather deftly. He has amped up that half-century-old Paris Review tradition, attracting a mix of writers, agents and magazine editors, perhaps more aspiring than established, and certainly more young than old.
"Some of it is definitely targeted," said Cary Goldstein, the publisher of Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing. "These are people he wants to work with, people he wants to get something from. He's always been doing this, but he doesn't do it in a smarmy way."
While the editing process itself is no bacchanal, the process of finding the talent and support (financial and otherwise) to produce a great magazine is nothing if not a social endeavor and naturally, a targeted one. As Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic points out, if Stein is to truly return The Paris Review to its literary roots as he hopes to do, "It has to provide beautiful, witty, rarefied fun of a distinct kind. The social stuff cannot be the heart of it. Lorin needs to make The Paris Review matter to people for whom literature matters."
But just as social events can create introductions and referrals and influence what makes its way onto the page among that very circle of people for whom literature matters, so too can those people let you know if you're straying from your mission. In that situation, it sure helps to have a drink handy, but by casting a wide social net, Stein opens himself up to new ideas, colleagues and criticism, not just more opportunities to get a drink.
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Definition of contort
transitive verb
: to twist in a violent manner features contorted with fury
intransitive verb
: to twist into or as if into a strained shape or expression His face contorted in a grimace of pain.
contortionplay \kən-ˈtȯr-shən\ noun
contortiveplay \kən-ˈtȯr-tiv\ adjective
Examples of contort in a Sentence
His body contorted with pain.
The boy contorted his body to squeeze through the gate.
Her face was contorted with rage.
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Circus contortionists are known for twisting their bodies into pretzels; such contortions tend to be easier for females than for males, and much easier for the young than for the old. When trying to say something uncomfortable or dishonest, people often go through verbal contortions. But when someone else "twists" something you said or did, we usually say instead that they've distorted it.
Origin and Etymology of contort
Middle English, from Latin contortus, past participle of contorquēre, from com- + torquēre to twist — more at 1torture
First Known Use: 15th century
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CONTORT Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of contort for English Language Learners
: to twist into an unusual appearance or shape
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: to give an unusual appearance or unnatural shape to by twisting His face contorted with anger.
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The Latin word torquēre, meaning "to twist," and its form tortus give us the root tort. Words from the Latin torquēre have something to do with twisting. A retort, or angry reply to another's words, twists those words back at the person. To contort is to twist the body in unusual ways. To distort is to twist something, such as the truth, so much that it appears to be something else.
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Karen and Carl Berndt, owners of Harbor Fish Market & Grille and Custards Last Stan in Baileys Harbor went live Thursday when they flipped the 'ON' switch on their new solar water heating system. The project, which took ten months to complete, included two very important people in the process:
The Cookery in downtown Fish Creek offers a variety of options. Although it had always been known as a breakfast hot spot, the restaurant suffered a devastating fire in 2008, which forced the Skare's to update the Door County classic. The restaurant re-opened in June 2009 after much anticipation. The


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Date of Stay: July, 2011
This is our second visit to this resort and it will not be our last. Park is very clean and laid out really well. It is VERY family oriented with tons of stuff to do for the kids. Between the playground, splash pad and jump pillow our children were not bored! This resort has the best store we have come across in the entire state and the staff is extremely helpful. We will definitely be back again.
Date of Stay: June, 2011
This was our second visit to this park and we will probably not return. There was nothing really wrong with it, it just isn't someplace we would go back to. The bathrooms were clean, but the pool was really dirty. The "store" was very poorly stocked, but the playground was nice.


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Literary Analysis & Argumentation
Section: Composition, Literature  |   School: School of Rhetoric
Literary Analysis and Argumentation is an honors-designated course that combines a focus on critical writing skills (thesis development, paragraph unity, logical structure of an argument, etc.) with critical analysis of a variety of literary genres and periods covering a broad range of topics. The course teaches skills in close textual analysis of literature and familiarizes students with literary criticism, as well as providing them with experience in crafting elegant, persuasive prose based on valid argumentation.
Prerequisite: Mastery of basic essay form and at least one prior high school course in literature or The Great Conversation Series


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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The Brunswick Inn has been awarded $10,000 in a lawsuit that claimed visitors were often confused by the similar name adopted by another establishment in the Maine town.
But the Portland Press-Herald, reports that the verdict this week from a federal jury didn't settle the question of whether the Inn at Brunswick Station can keep its name. The judge has asked for additional arguments from attorneys.
The Brunswick Inn opened in 1984 and has been operating under its current name since 2007. The Inn at Brunswick Station opened in 2011. Both are near Bowdoin College.
Because of the similar-sounding names, The Brunswick Inn said out-of-town visitors often mistakenly made reservations at the other hotel. The fire department even got confused once when responding to an alarm at one of the inns.


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Ice break-up on southern Lake Baikal and its relationship to local and regional air temperatures in Siberia and to the North Atlantic Oscillation
Limnol. Oceanogr., 44(6), 1999, 1486-1497 | DOI: 10.4319/lo.1922.214.171.1246
ABSTRACT: The calendar date of ice break-up on southern Lake Baikal has been recorded uninterruptedly since 1869. A strong trend to earlier thawing up to around 1920 (1 d per 3.3 yr) is followed by the lack of any significant trend thereafter. For the period 1931-1994, the timing of break-up is related to local surface air temperatures integrated over periods of 1-3 months. Although highest unimodal correlations are with the 3-month mean air temperature, a bimodal relationship between break-up and air temperature exists at shorter integration times, with break-up date being related not only to the air temperature prevailing during thawing (April) but also to that prevailing during the time of ice formation, when air temperatures are lowest (February). High frequency (interannual) fluctuations in the timing of break-up appear to be influenced mainly by the air temperatures prevailing during thawing, and low-frequency (interdecadal) fluctuations by those prevailing during ice formation. Whereas correlations with April air temperatures are always significant, those with February air temperatures are only significant during the latter part of this century, i.e., after cessation of the tendency toward earlier thawing.


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|Patriots Look Poised For Another Super Bowl Run
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|Inconsistency Will Continue For Bruins Unless A Change Is Made
Not too long ago, the Dale and Holley show on WEEI Radio made some comments about what Rasheed Wallace might be up to in his new retirement days. They revealed the fact that Wallace is still a resident of Massachusetts, living on the North Shore, leaving some speculation that Wallace may not have called it quits on the basketball world just yet. Could Rasheed Wallace come back to the Celtics again this year after the all-star break similar to what other veteran players (most notably P.J. Brown in 2008) have done for the C's in years past?
Wallace had many up and down moments for the green throughout the regular season last year. After all the excitement about him coming to Boston, there were often points during the year where fans would say how much of a waste of time and money he had become. He constantly jacked up three point shots and missed what seemed like 90% of the time. He also did not play his position of a center very well off the bench to back up Kendrick Perkins, allowing the Celtics to be one of the worst rebounding teams in the league. However, once playoff time came around, it seemed like there was a completely different Rasheed Wallace wearing number 30 for the Celtics.
At different points during the playoffs, especially at points when it mattered, Wallace turned it on for the C's. Although the numbers do not consistently show that he was better in the playoffs, pretty much everyone from the coaching staff, to the rest of the team, to the media, and to the fans would agree that the Rasheed Wallace in the playoffs was a better Rasheed Wallace than in the regular season. Wallace even made a public statement after the season was over, admitting to the fact that he was saving himself for the playoffs. This was a similar mindset to that of Celtics coach, Doc Rivers, who was saving just about the entire team for the playoffs by the way he coached them.
So if Wallace were to come back at the mid-season point for the Celtics, could he help the team? Most likely, yes is my answer. It's a similar situation when you think about the role of Shaquille O'Neal this year. He does not have to be the presence that he once was. He just needs to be able to come in and play quality minutes until Kendrick Perkins or sometimes Kevin Garnett can come back into the game. Also, considering the age of this team, a healthy big man that only has to play the second half of the season and potentially playoffs is always a good thing to have. P.J. Brown flourished three years ago in this role and was a huge help to the Celtics during their playoff run and eventual title win. Would they have beaten the Lakers in the finals without Brown? Tough to say, but even if they did, it would have been a much harder route than the one they took.
This, of course, is all speculation, and there is no actual truth yet about what Wallace is up to in staying in Massachusetts. You would think that a guy with the kind of money he has would not stay on the North Shore of the ol' Bay State. I love Massachusetts just as much as the next guy who has lived here all his life, but for someone like Wallace, what value does it have for him right now? Sure, he could take his kids to Salem during Halloween, but wouldn't he rather be lounging on the beaches of Southern Florida than out here for another most likely terrible New England winter? Wallace had a tough time deciding whether or not he would retire at the end of last season, so the idea of him returning to Boston for one last title run does not seem too far out of the question. Adding back the personality of Rasheed Wallace to this already fun-filled group of players in Boston would make what is already going to be a great season into an even better one.
Tags: Celtics, Doc Rivers, Kendrick Perkins, P.J. Brown, Rasheed Wallace, Shaquille O'Neal
I'd love to have an wrestling like return from Rasheed 'the Mean' Wallace. Dumb name, but I like it.
Sheed still has the talent to be above average and well above average wehn the adrenaline is pumping.
He better take care of himself, I want to see him later this year.


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Even for fans of the Legend of Zelda series, it would have been forgivable to miss Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons. After all, the games are over a decade old now – so there's a good chance that many people who love following Link on his adventures simply came into gaming too late to pick up these titles. That's unfortunate, since – despite being developed by Capcom subsidiary Flagship rather than Nintendo directly – these are a couple of the most interesting games in the Legend of Zelda series.
The most daring (for the time) aspect was the inclusion of a password system, where finishing one game gave you a code that you could use when starting the other game – unlocking additional content that would 'link' (ha ha) both of the titles together in a way that was extremely rare at the time. These games are now available from the Nintendo eShop for $4.99 each, for a limited time – and I've checked out both to give you an idea of what you've missed if you haven't given these games a go before.
The short of it is, these are a couple of gaming gems that are finally available on a modern system, thanks to the magic of the 3DS virtual console. At five bucks a pop – for a limited time – they're worth checking out. So if you're a Legend of Zelda fan who hasn't experienced these slightly more obscure entries into the series, be sure to hit the Nintendo eShop and check them out.
- Games: The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
- Developers: Capcom
- Publishers: Nintendo


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The Hazon food conference was my first trip out to California, and boy did I fall in love. After a few days hiking in Big Sur, where sheer cliffs dropped down hundreds of feet to the blue ocean, foam rising rhythmically around small mountains of eroded rock, stretching as far as we could see, I drove North to San Francisco to visit friends. These particular friends had made the move from New York a year before, and they accepted me and my travel buddy on their futon with only a few days notice. At the very least, I owed them breakfast, and in honor of my new surroundings, I tried a new dish.
Our baked eggs that day were made from what was available at the Ferry Plaza farmer's market. Baked eggs make a very easy, and pretty impressive main course for brunch. They're versatile as far as seasonality, since eggs, cheese and cream are year-round commodities, and the casserole on the bottom of the dish can change depending on the veggies currently in season. In December in San Francisco, our eggs included mustard greens, spring onions, shitake mushrooms and canned tomatoes preserved with garlic and a few leaves of basil. When I returned to New York in early January, I made my next batch with potatoes sauteed with garlic, onions, lots of ginger, kale, more preserved tomatoes and a few flax seeds sprinkled in for good measure.
The dish does take a lot of equipment and more time than your standard eggs, though the actual work is minimal. I used three pans, one casserole dish for the eggs, a slightly larger, deep baking dish containing just water, and a frying pan to precook the veggies. First, I preheated the oven to 375, then I dripped some olive oil into the frying pan and sauteed the shitake mushrooms with chopped green onions and the preserved tomatoes along with the garlic and basil that they'd been preserved with (you could substitute a small can of whole tomatoes, one clove of garlic and a few leaves of fresh basil when making this at home). I sprinkled in a half teaspoon of salt and pepper, greased my casserole dish and spread the pan mixture out on the bottom. It shouldn't be too thick on the bottom of the pan, because the eggs need to penetrate the mixture. Once I'd spread it out, I cracked enough eggs over it to cover the surface of the veggies. I carefully dribbled a little cream (in fact, we only had half and half, so I used that. The second time I made this dish I used milk, so it doesn't matter) and dabbed a few small bits of butter around the top as well. Finally, I grated an obscene amount of hard, salty cheese, in this case Gruyere and about 1/2 to 3/4 of a cup, and spread that out on top of the dish. The cheese should really cover the eggs. Think of it as a two crust pie, once crust is the veggies, and one is the cheese. A light sprinkle of black pepper, and the prep was done.
The casserole dish fits into the larger baking dish, which is filled with water in order to create a steam bath/double boiler effect inside the oven. The whole construction goes into the preheated oven for 30-40 minutes for an eight egg casserole, or until the eggs don't jiggle like a loose pudding when you jostle the oven rack. By that time, the cheese will be browned, the yolks will be firm and the whole dish will have infused each layer with flavor. It makes for a great excuse to turn the oven on hot for a while in the winter months.
I served mine with a salad based on the Winter Spark salad with young kale, garlic, pomegranates and mandarin oranges, all in season in San Francisco. With toast smeared with goat cheese and honey, we found ourselves on vacation in earnest, and as usual, a breakfast in gratitude for my friends' kindness and hospitality turned into a pretty good time for myself as well.
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Does This Look Like The Face Of A Guy Who Cut A Hole In His Shoe And Put An iPod In It So He Could Shoot Upskirt Videos?
AUGUST 21–A Florida man cut a small hole in the front of his shoe, inserted an iPod, and then went to Walmart and recorded "upskirt" videos, according to police who arrested the pervy auteur. According to an arrest report, cops were dispatched to a Walmart in Sanford When officers arrived at the store, customer Lillie Kent told them that she was shopping in the toilet paper aisle when she noticed a man "standing relatively close behind her." Kent added that the man "appeared to be attempting to sneak up behind her." After the man briefly walked away from Kent, he returned to following her and shadowed the woman all the way to the checkout line, cops reported. Kent told police that she had initially "observed a hole in the top of one of the man's shoes but didn't think anything of it at the time." However, at the checkout line, Kent confronted the man, who was carrying no merchandise to be purchased. She demanded to see his shoes. He refused and walked away. "Kent advised she began yelling," police reported. After being confronted by "an unknown man" who asked the male suspect for the camera, the alleged voyeur removed the iPod from his shoe.
First things first, kinda looks like my boss right? Or am I crazy? I think it looks a lot like him. Maybe Pres with a hint of downs or something. Anyway. Second, GENIUS plan by this guy. I really mean that. He's really onto something here. Nobody and I mean nobody looks at another person's shoes. Ever. Unless you're wearing something flashy or are tap-dancing nobody is going to look at your shoes and examine them for a camera. I'm actually shocked the guy got caught and now here we are talking about him on the blog. Although it sounds like he got a little greedy and was basically all up in the chick's ass while trying to get video up her skirt. Gotta play it cool. Every dude has experienced trying to look up a girl's skirt from time to time. It's human nature. You just want a peak. All in good clean, fun. The weirdos are the ones who try and video it, but hey, what can ya do. The best advice a guy can give to somebody trying to look up a skirt is two things: 1) Position yourself correctly (most important) and 2) let it happen naturally. This guy fucked up when he ran up on the woman and stood two inches away from her. Amateur hour dude. Looking desperate gets you caught 100 times out of 100. The move here is speed up a little in front of her, anticipate where she's headed next and make her have to walk by you. Easy as pie. How do you anticipate where she's going? All feel. The great ones have feel. If you don't have feel, you end up walking right up behind them and getting arrested. This guy doesn't have it. Get a new hobby.
PS- Curious move doing this at a Wal Mart. I've never been at a Wal Mart and said to myself, "Man, I'd really like to know what she's got going on up under there." Not once.


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Over the weekend, one of the developers in my group sent me some mail – he was seeing one of the registers in his code getting corrupted across a procedure call. He was quite surprised to see this, and asked me for any suggestions.
With the help of the info he gave me, I was able to figure out what had gone wrong with his code, and I realized that it'd make a great "what's wrong with this code" example.
There are three parts to the code associated with this "what's wrong". The first is an interface definition:
class IPsychicInterface
virtual bool DoSomeOperation(int argc, _TCHAR *argv[]) = 0;
class IPsychicInterface
Next, you have a tiny test application:
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
register int value1 = 1;
IPsychicInterface *psychicInterface = GetPsychicInterface();
register int value2 = 2;
psychicInterface->DoSomeOperation(argc, argv);
assert(value1 == 1);
assert(value2 == 2);
return 0;
The failure happened when the caller returned from psychicInterface->DoSomeOperation – upon the return, the ESI register, which is supposed to be preserved got trashed. Further debugging showed that the reason that ESI was trashed was that the stack was imbalanced after the call to DoSomeOperation.
There's one more piece of information that I was given that let me immediately realize the root cause of the problem.
I know that if I include that information, what went wrong should be blindingly obvious, so I'm going to be mean and ask you to tell me what the one additional piece of information was. The reason that the other developer in my group didn't find it was simply because he was looking at too much data – if I had pointed out that one piece of additional data, he'd have instantly figured it out too.
So the "answer" to this part of the "What's wrong" problem is "What single additional piece of information was I given that made this problem simple to solve?"