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4AD reissue one of their classics as a remastered vinyl version and 24-bit WAVs. Originally released in 1990, Heaven Or Las Vegas is now seen as one of the seminal albums of that decade. Being the Scottish group's last album on 4AD, it would be become their most commercially and critically successful. With Elizabeth Fraser's joyful and breathy high-pitched vocals, their dreampop guitar chords and funky bass lines, their characteristic shoegaze aesthetic sounds vital even now. Its rhythms have a meditative, psychedelic feel to them, but it is the catchy hooks that really place Heaven Or Las Vegas in the highly regarded position it occupies today.

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Probate Ensures Orderly Distribution of Assets After One's Death
When a loved one dies, there is a procedure in place that helps ensure the orderly distribution of assets to his or her beneficiaries as designated by last will and testament, or one's legal heirs in the event that no will exists.
Probate is the process whereby the court appoints someone to manage the estate as a "personal representative." An executor is named by the decedent in his or her will. An administrator is nominated, generally by the decedent's family, if there is no will. One or more individuals, a bank or trust company, or a combination may be named. An administrator must be a resident of Illinois. An executor must be a resident of the United States of America, but need not be a resident of Illinois. Each executor or administrator must be approved and appointed by the court.
The duties and responsibilities of a personal representative, either an executor or administrator, are defined primarily by the Illinois Probate Act and the Internal Revenue Code. Generally, if the decedent left a will, it is the responsibility of the person in possession of the will to file it with the circuit clerk within 30 days. It is then the responsibility of the person named as executor to ask the court to probate the will. A will need not be probated in every instance.
Among the personal representative's duties with the court are the following:
- Publish or provide required legal notices
- Prepare an inventory listing real estate and both tangible and intangible personal property
- Approve or contest claims filed against the estate
- Petition the court as necessary in the management of the estate's assets
- File periodic and final accountings reporting receipts, disbursements and distribution
The duties related to property are as follows:
- Collect and inventory all assets of the estate including any that may be held in decedent's safe deposit box
- Preserve, manage and insure assets during administration
- Take action to manage the decedent's business
- Secure valuation and appraisal of assets
- Sell property as required to meet the objectives of the estate
- Review the decedent's life insurance policies and help the beneficiaries collect them
- Consider Social Security and other claims
- Determine whether the decedent had any unfulfilled contractual obligations or was the recipient of such obligations by other parties
- Determine the nature of joint tenancy assets, if any, and consider their inclusion or taxability within the estate
- Arrange for transfer of stocks, bonds, bank accounts and other assets
- Distribute the estate in accordance with the will or, if none, to the heirs, as determined by law
Finally, there are financial duties that are required. They include:
- Keep records of all transactions
- File or assist in the filing of the decedent's final income tax return
- File the necessary income tax returns as fiduciary for income and expenses generated during the course of administration
- Review decedent's records to determine whether any gift tax returns were or should have been filed
- File federal estate tax return where necessary, making such elections as are appropriate
- File necessary state estate tax returns and provide for payment of all taxes
- Provide beneficiaries with appropriate tax information
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"Sachin (Tendulkar) has a stiff back. And so he was asked to take it easy. He did not come out to field in the later half of the day," Indian team physiotherapist Andrew Leipus said.
Leipus, however, said that the batting genius was an absolute certainty for the coming tour to Pakistan. "The problem is indeed very minor. These things are part and parcel of cricket."
Tendulkar has been undergoing physiotherapy under the guidance of the physio and has been advised to take rays as also follow some exercise routines.
Tendulkar's discomfort showed as he put up a dismal show with the bat, being dismissed three times in succession on miserly scores of 0, 0 and 4.
Tendulkar, who had skipped a batting stint in the team's net session on the opening day of the three-day conditioning camp, also did not come in to field when his side India 'A' came on to field in the afternoon session.
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Basically, my lines are FULL of air. And I've had several different people tell me several different methods. (None of which have worked)
The hard way:
2.) push in the clutch.
3.) close the nipple bleeder.
4.) pull out the clutch.
5.) repeat.
The problem with that was, when I put my finger over the nipple and opened it, I could feel air being sucked in. Then it was pushed out when I pushed the clutch in. I gave up because I assume thats not supposed to happen.
The other hard way.
1.) Put clear tubing on the nipple.
2.) fill the line with brake fluid, put the other end into a battle of brake fluid.
3.) Proceed to do it the open nipple, push clutch, close nipple, lift clutch method
This didn't seem to work because I saw air bubbles just sitting in the line. So I gave up on that.
As of now I pulled the nipple bleed out completely. Someone told me that eventually, fluid should flow out the other end.
I've searched the forums for help, thats where I got most of this info. But alas, I MUST be doing something wrong. I half suspect that there is another leak in the lines somewhere, since I got into mess due to low clutch fluid which led to a poor preforming clutch. However, its most likely very slow.
In summary, can someone tell me a fool proof, straight forward method to bleeding the clutch? Or, point out what I'm doing wrong? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.


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In 2012, a Pew Foundation Survey on religion revealed the rising number of religiously unaffiliated Americans — sometimes referred to as "the rise of the Nones" (not to be confused with "The Rise of the Nuns," a movie script that's been floating around in my head since the day I discovered "nunzilla"). Of course, labeling millions of people "Nones" (as if they stand for nothing) is a bit disingenuous. In reality, the study showed that most of the Nones self-identify as "spiritual but not religiou … [Read more...]
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Grab some popcorn,the crucifixion was for entertainment
It is in the crucifixion of the desert rabbi, Jesus of Nazareth that we come to discover the pleasure and pain of the spectacle. In psychoanalysis, the term to denote the experience of pleasure and pain is embodied in the French word, jouissance. A better direct translation would be: orgasm.Why do I make this distinction? Because, today, especially in the West we are drawn to anything that is centered around the spectacle. The pleasure of entertainment but the discounted pain of knowing it is … [Read more...]


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CANADA STOCKS-TSX turns higher as National Bank, other financials gain
TORONTO, May 24 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index turned positive in early Friday trade as fears that the U.S. Federal Reserve will roll back its stimulus program were offset by a rise in National Bank of Canada and other financial stocks. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index was up 2.70 points, or 0.02 percent, at 12,660.79 in mid-morning trade.
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I just checked and I haven't gotten around to doing a monthly link round-up since March. Oops. There's so much good stuff that I share on Facebook and Twitter. Today I've compiled some of the recent best. But first some blog business:Pagan Families has joined Pinterest! Definitely still figuring things out over there. Come check us out and help us figure out how to pin stuff you want to see. In celebration of Birth On The Labyrinth Path's first birthday, Wild Mother Arts is offering us a … [Read more...]
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This is a discussion on New member from Missouri within the New Members Introduce Yourself forums, part of the Welcome To DefensiveCarry.com category; Just came across this forum, looks like alot of great info and people....
Just came across this forum, looks like alot of great info and people.
Hello And Welcome !
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Welcome from NE Florida.
"Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual change; but this change is not [an improvement]. For everything that is given, something is taken."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Greetings from PA
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NRA Certified Instructor & NRA Life Member.
"To own a gun and assume that you are armed
is like owning a piano and assuming that you are a musician!."
http://www.rkba-2a.com/ - a portal for 2A links, articles and some videos.
Welcome from Pennsylvania. Plenty of great info and people here, just like you mentioned!
Howdy from the country side orf NW Missouri.
Welcome -
"To disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them."
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"Gun control is a job-safety program for criminals."
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Welcome aboard from Colorado!
"I no longer list firearms I own as a signature. Why give them another list to use when they come to get them?"


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Sweet when's the install? And will post pics when ur done..
Take lots of pictures step by step if u can!
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Looks good not sure I like the gloss paint bezel on a stock interior but appears to be good work. iPad mini Install Idea
2012 WRB 4DR | SPT Exhaust | Cobb Short Throw | Rally Armour | WC Lathe Werks Custom TI Knob | Kartboy Shifter Bushings | Stoptech Pads & Brake Lines | JBK Elements DRL | OEM STI & Morimoto Mini H1 Quad HID Retrofit | XSB LED Angel Eyes | GrimmSpeed Lightweight Crank Pulley | Perrin Cold Air Intake | CNT Catted Divorced Downpipe W/Titanium Wrap and Grimmspeed Heatshild | Grimmspeed Pink Radiator Shroud & Alternator Cover
CFLip2x 2012 WRB WRX Build
Just threw this together real quick not a fan of the color myself but I had the paint and clear so I used what I had on hand, running a Pioneer AVH-P4400BH with a PAC adapter for the steering wheel controls, an Alpine MRP-F300 to Alpine sps-610c conponents up front and sps-610 coaxials in the rear and a JL 500/1v2 running a kicker cvr-12 in a sealed box was running a 10in JL W6 in a HO BOX but took up way to much room currently


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Our old friend Errol from Toronto sent me a link to the Twisted Wheel Scooter Club's recent rally video. The Club has been a staple of the Toronto scooter scene for the past few years. For those who have never visisted our Canadian friends, the video shows a ride into the countyside and proves that they really do have a summer season. The club events are documented in the video along with a gaggle of scooters (+150?). My only question is "where are the vintage scooters?". Maybe in Toronto they prefer reliability over nostalga.
Toronto 2009 Twisted Wheel Scooter Club Rally
DubFx, Not the Usual Human Beat Box
I am trying to keep up with a number of demands these days and at the same time prepare for the big move to northern Virginia. Most of my Internet time activity has been relegated to late-night surfing and listening to other people's podcasts. In among the usual Stumble-upon ad-supported sites I happened upon this Vimeo video of DubFx. He is an Australian named Ben Stanford. Credit goes to geeksaresexy.net for compiling several of his performances. This is a seven minutes sample of what he does, a little long, but stick with it and you will hear something unique.
Denver's Vintage Moto Gets News Coverage
I mentioned this museum, Vintage Moto (closed in 2013) in a post after my last trip to Denver. A few days ago, a local Denver TV station did a story on the owner Jim Dillard. He has an amazing collection of small displacement Italian motorcycles from the 1960s.
You can see an article about Jim at the following link.
Changing Travel Plans
On the heels of deciding we would move to Northern Virginia I have been flooded with reconsidering a whole series of decisions including canceling plans to get to Amerivespa 2009. I am hoping that next year I will be settled and can make the trip to where ever it is been held.
Several friends have asked "how are you going to get all your scooter toys to Washington DC?" So far no one has taken the next step to say, "I can take care of a few scoots if you aren't going to have room"
At the moment I am not worring about that. ScootRichmond is working on my Ducati moped and my 180ss. Since a 1965 Ducati replacement stator is non-existant, Dave is doing his magic modifying the electrical system. I have had to go back to Henry Hogben, in Canada for a new cylinder/piston since the little bug was only pushing 50lbs on a compression test. I have been wishing that I could watch over Dave's shoulder as he brings the little sucker to life. But for the next few weeks I still have a regular job.
Good News…for me.
I have been pondering this post for the past week. It was about this time seven days ago I accepted another dream job. However, like owning a vintage Vespa, it comes with both risks and rewards. Those of you who know me might say I am a professional do-gooder. I have always worked in social services and in the past ten years, probably through sheer persistence or luck have become a minor celebrity influential in advocacy and politics, mostly in Virginia.
In August I will be moving to the Washington DC area to continue my do-gooder ways, but it means leaving the Richmond scooter community behind. To some of you, this means nothing, but you must understand that old Richmond has a traditional southern village feel and outsiders are not easily welcomed into the grits and fatback circle that is the south. Amazingly, the Seven Hills Scooter Club is a southern anomaly. It is a curious combination of carpetbaggers, old-timers and young southerners who all flock together around our love for scooters. Regardless of your ride or your scoot-cred, you are never an outsider and anyone who shows up, dues paying or not is treated like a member.
Many thanks to Chelsea, Rick, Ed, Brendan, Dave the Mechanic, the myth legend known as Munn and many more club and ScootRichmond patrons for support of Scootercast and being so kind to an outsider. I will be attending my last Friday night parking lot scoot-in tomorrow night at ScootRichmond to witness the movie madness of "This is Spinal Tap" and revel in one more inclusive event that welcomes even an aging, slightly socially inept scooter nerd like me.
Scooting Back into Your Life
If I were Catholic I would be saying, forgive me father, it has been four weeks since my last post. For those of you waiting for the disparaging words of self loathing and apologies, forget it. The fact is, I have a busy life and the best I have been able to do is store up the scraps of notes I have been making in anticipation of a soon to come barrage of insights, reflections and clever anecdotal scooter stories. All I can say is you'll have to be the judge of that.
One point of interest in my life has been the travel I have been doing over the past few months. I have been out to Denver, where on my way to check out the new Ducati Streetfighter
I stumbled upon a basement motorcycle museum that contains almost every vintage Italian motor bike I have ever lusted after. While driving down Market Street I caught a glimpse of a 90cc MV Agusta out of the corner of my eye. Since Market Street is one way, I circled back around the block and pulled up beside a fully restored masterpiece. Next to the bike sat a small sign pointing to a basement entrance of a warehouse that is Vintage Motos It houses hundreds of original and restored motorcycles, including Ducati, Giliera, Italjet, Motoguzzi, Parillia bikes and more. Most are under 250cc. What makes this such a find is that in order to do a quality restoration, one the best reference points is having access to an original specimen and at Vintage Moto, they have one of just about every 50s or 60s Italian bike imported. They even have a few rare scooters, like the 1956 Rumi Formuchino (Little Ant).
So here's my returning gift to you, a new place to check when trying to source parts or a place to go to get a first hand view of what a real Italian import survivor look like. For a small fee, you can ogle, touch (if you talk nice to the owner), speak Vintage Italian and take lots of detailed pictures. Check out all my pictures from the museum HERE.
Stay tuned for a new podcast and a recap of my recent visit to Seattle and a return to my roots in the Pacific Northwest.
LA Latebirds Moped Video by LAEdge
I got an email this week from Imiuswi Aborigine pointing me to the March 2009 Flock Yeah rally. The event was put on by the LA Latebirds Moped Club along with help from the Choke Motorcycle Shop. The following video of the rally is done by LAEdge. Nicely done mi amici!
1977 Mopeds Racing – Episode 93
2009 PoliniUSA Cup – 2 stroke racing just stepped its game up…. from Harold Smith on Vimeo.
I got an email this past week from Graham, talking about how he and a friend were streaming moped and scooter racing on the on the internet. Anything with a tech bent always catches my eye so I started to look into what they were doing. They were using Mogulus a very reliable video streaming and archiving service that adds chat to the stream. It is one of the streaming platforms, like Stickam that seems to always get good reviews. But when I saw the high qualify moped racing video that Graham and Harold had put up on Vimeo, I was convinced. I needed to talk with these guys.
There are a few die-hard moped riders here in Richmond and even though I have a 50cc bike myself, I have always thought of them as under powered. The PoliniUSA Cup races feature mopeds and other bikes including scooters that have been modified, mostly with Polini aftermarket parts. These things scream! Listen to the podcast with Harold, then look for the streaming video at mopedracing or poliniusa the first weekend of each month starting in May. Don't miss the kitted pocket bike races featuring little spitfires packing 4bhp. They do the knee-sliding like the superbikes do.
Moped links to explore
- Moped Army website
- Creatures of the Loin – San Francisco
- 1977 Mopeds – everything moped
- Hell's Satans – Richmond
- The Latebirds – Los Angeles
Music for this show is by Olio and The Redline
Scooter Rallies and a Pinball Championship – Episode 92
The 7hills scooter club rally is coming up in a few weeks. That is usually a ride out into the country, with camping and bonfires in an area where club members can stay out of trouble and avoid doing too much damage to themselves. The 2009 Dogwood Classic scooter rally will be held at Heavenly Acres Campground in Stanardsville, VA Friday, May 15 to Sunday, May 17.
Another big spring rally here on the east coast is the New York City Scooter Club block party, which is scheduled for the end of May. Their club motto is: If you have a Scooter, you're in the Club. The block party, held in Brooklyn and attracts scoot fans from all over the northeast. I am jealous of our New York friends. They have a vibrant scooter scene and at least a dozen legitimate scooter shops to choose from in the New York city area.
Here is taste of what they have:
- Brooklynbretta
- McCarren Motors
- Scooter Bottega
- Scooter City Inc.
- Scooters Originali
- Vespa Brooklyn
- Vespa City
- Vespa Jersey City
- Vespa Queens
- Vespa Soho
- Zoom Scooter
In my world, scooters are connected to many of my other interests and activities. One of those interests is a life long fascination with pinball machines. Nick Bennett happens to be one of those fellows whos life is dominated by pinball. I came across Nick's website a
few months ago, while referencing the Las Vegas Pinball Museum and later heard from him in an email about this summers European tournament. Although a bit of a digression from scooting, I think you will find this conversation interesting and most likely will see some similarities in Nicks passion for pinball and our passion for scooters. Listen to the podcast for all the details
Music for this show is by Telling on Trixie a New York based band that has gathered a big web. I first heard about Telling on Trixie two years ago at podcamp New York. Checkout their website.
Building an Electric Vespa Scooter – Episode 91
It is a regular occurrence in my life. I easily become fascinated with a new idea. A few months ago it was retrofitting a vintage Vespa with an electric motor. I have no useful experience or knowledge related to this interest, but that never stops me. I found that one resource for pursuing such a project is Sound Speed Scooters in Seattle. They offer an impressive conversion package at a hefty price, just over $1500, not including batteries.
Luckily the electric vehicle community is alive and well on the internet. I turned to the V is for Voltage Forum. Much of the forum is devoted to motorcycle and scooter conversions. It has sections on all the basics and not so basics of electrifying your favorite ride without electrocuting yourself. I searched the forum for Vespa and found Jake Stept's blog with pictures detailing the build of his small frame conversion he has named the Rezistor
Jake spoke with me on the SCTRCST podcast from his home in Portland Oregon. I was impressed. He tackled his project having no experience with electric motors or conversions. Now I can't stop hearing the whining sounds an electric Vespa in my head. You can see a Sound Speed video here or check out Jake's Rezistor here.
Pod safe Music for this show is from the Podsafe Music Network and features the Redline a Chicago based band.
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Nunley Strong in Relief to Lift No. 8 Softball in Series-Clincher
April 19, 2014
LEXINGTON, Ky. - University of Kentucky softball pitcher Kelsey Nunley came on in relief to throw six strong innings for the win, while senior infielder Krystal Smith hit a solo home run and sophomore infielder Nikki Sagermann hit another game-winning roundtripper in the fourth inning, pacing No. 8 Kentucky to a historic 7-5 series-clinching win over Arkansas on Saturday night at John Cropp Stadium.
The win was the ninth consecutive for Kentucky (38-8, 12-5 Southeastern Conference), which is the second longest winning streak in school history. The Wildcats set the school record for consecutive wins to start the 2014 season with 12 victories in a row. Entering the season, no team in program history had won nine or more games. In 18 years of UK softball, this is the seventh time a team has won eight or more games in a row with six of those streaks coming under seventh-year head coach Rachel Lawson.
Kentucky's 38 regular-season wins this season tie the school record for most wins in a regular season. The 2013 team posted a school-best 41 wins overall, including 38 in regular-season play.
"It starts in the circle and we have got great performances out of all four of our pitchers," Lawson said. "I have to give them a lot of props for that. Most importantly, offensively, our team knows that they are never out of it. They are starting to gain a lot of confidence and playing the game a little bit smarter. We are doing different things. We are hitting the long ball, playing the short game, hitting behind runners. I just think it is great because we are growing and it is a good time to be doing that as we push towards the end of the season."
Saturday night's win over Arkansas was the seventh straight SEC win for Kentucky, which sets a program record for consecutive league games won. The previous record of six games was set in 2011 and 2013. The victory clinched the series for Kentucky, who has now won five league sets this season, which ties the second most SEC series wins in program history. The Wildcats also won five league sets in 2011 before claiming six league series in 2012.
"I think the great thing about this team is we are winning games a lot of different ways and a lot of different people are contributing," Lawson said. "Last night, it was the bottom of the order getting a lot of hits and today we got some big hits and got it done on the mound again. I think it is such a balanced team and we are getting great effort out of everybody and we are getting different types of effort every single day. It is good because we are able to match our player's strength against the other teams. Again, just really happy with the balance."
Kentucky's balance was on full display Saturday night, starting with Nunley, who came on to start the second inning and tossed six innings, allowing two runs - one earned - on seven hits with four strikeouts. The native of Soddy Daisy, Tenn., earned the win to move to 19-4 on the season with a 1.85 ERA. Nunley has 46 career wins in her short tenure with the Wildcats, which ranks third on UK's all-time wins list.
Senior pitcher/infielder Lauren Cumbess started in the circle, allowing three earned runs on three hits in one inning of work. The senior answered with her bat in the bottom of the frame, however, earning a two-out, two-RBI single up the middle to cut into the Razorback's lead. Krystal Smith went 1-for-3 in the game with her second home run of the season, while Sagermann continued her impressive hitting with a 2-for-3 night with two RBI and a home run. On the season, Sagermann leads UK with 10 homers and 37 RBI and has recorded an RBI in 12 of UK's last 16 games. Junior catcher Griffin Joiner and sophomore infielder Ansley Smith each posted singles.
"I think the great thing about today is that our offense did continue to chip away and get the lead and maintain the lead, which was nice," Lawson said. "Kelsey did a great job again today of coming in and shutting them down. They have such a great offense the fact that she was able to keep them off balance and keep the runs down was a big boast for us today."
Arkansas (25-22, 3-14 SEC) started freshman Sydney Wright in the circle for the second consecutive game. Wright went 1.2 innings, allowing four earned runs on two hits with one strikeout and five walks. Sophomore Kelly Young came on in relief and tossed 4.1 innings with UK scoring three earned runs on four hits. Wright got the loss, moving to 4-6 on the season with Young getting a no-decision.
Offensively, Arkansas was paced by multi-hit games from junior Devon Wallace, sophomore Stephanie Canfield and senior Clarisa Navarro. Wallace and Canfield each recorded RBI, while senior Jennifer Rambo had a two-RBI single and freshman Parker Pocklington had an RBI.
Arkansas scored first in the game for the second consecutive night, getting three runs in the first inning behind a RBI double from Canfield and two-RBI single by Rambo. After UK responded with two runs in the bottom of the frame on Cumbess' two-RBI single, the Wildcats posted two runs in the second inning to grab a 4-3 lead it did not relinquish. Krystal Smith started the rally in the second by flying out before Ansley Smith was walked, senior Emily Jolly was hit by a pitch and Joiner was walked to load the bases for pinch hitter Breanne Ray, who hit an RBI groundout to tie the game. Arkansas walked Sagermann intentionally to load the bases before UK scored the go-ahead run on a wild pitch to go up 4-3.
Krystal Smith increased UK's lead to 5-3 with her solo home run in the third inning before the Razorbacks cut the lead to 5-4 with an RBI single by Wallace in the top of the fourth. Kentucky responded in the bottom of the frame, again, with Sagermann launching her fourth home run in the last three games, putting UK up 7-4. The home run was the game-winner for Kentucky, marking the third consecutive game-winning home run from Sagermann.
Arkansas added a run in the seventh inning on an RBI single from Pockington before Nunley got senior Jayme Gee to strikeout with the tying runs on base to end the game.
The Wildcats conclude the series with the Razorbacks on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET at John Cropp Stadium. Live stats, free radio and live video (subscription required) will be available online at UKathletics.com. The entire UK team will sign autographs after the game, while the first 100 fans into John Cropp Stadium on Sunday will receive a set of 2014 softball trading cards.
Single-game tickets into John Cropp Stadium are $5 for adults, $2 for seniors (65+) and youth (6-18). Children ages 5 and under are admitted free of charge. Tickets are all general admission, and can be purchased by calling the ticket office at 1-800-928-2287. Tickets are also sold at John Cropp Stadium prior to each game, and all sales are cash only. Gates open one hour prior to first pitch. Fans that show the #SocialSpecial softball photo at the gate that was put on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram earlier this week, will receive free admission for up to four.
For the latest on UK softball, follow "@UKsoftball" on Twitter and Instagram or like Kentucky Softball on Facebook.
Kentucky 38-8, 12-5 SEC
Arkansas 25-22, 3-14 SEC
Kentucky - No. 10 in ESPN.com/USA Softball Top 25; No. 8 in NFCA/USA Today Top 25
Arkansas - not ranked
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Now that he's out of the World Cup competition, Landon Dononvan is hitting the talk show circuit to talk about his adventures in soccer.
And last night (June 29) the Team USA midfielder stopped by "The Late Show with David Letterman" to kick some soccer balls at a moving taxi outside the Ed Sullivan Theatre.
The man who was accused of attempting to obtain money illegally from David Letterman last year will spend six-months in a New York City jail.
Robert "Joe" Halderman was led out of a Manhattan court in handcuffs on Tuesday (May 4) after he was given his jail time and sentenced to 1,000 hours of community service.
The man accused of attempting to obtain money illegally from David Letterman was given his sentence on Tuesday (March 9).
According to TMZ, Robert Halderman was just sentenced to 6 months in jail, 5 years probation and 1,000 hours of community service.
Stepping out for a promotional appearance, Paris Hilton was spotted paying a visit to "The Late Show with David Letterman" yesterday (February 3).
The "Simple Life" babe looked absolutely fabulous as she posed outside the Ed Sullivan theatre in a sparkly blue dress with black heels.
More details from David Letterman and the extortion case have been made public - and there is even more behind it.
On Tuesday, arguments from an attorney for defendant Robert Halderman, the CBS producer accused of trying to blackmail the talk show host with details about his affairs with women he worked with, brought on new questions.
Out promoting her new album, Carrie Underwood was spotted in New York City arriving at the "Late Show with David Letterman" earlier today (November 2).
Looking cute and fall weather appropriate, the "Cowboy Casanova" singer donned jeans and animal print heels with a blue top underneath a gray puffy vest.
According to the latest reports, $2 million wasn't all that made Joe Halderman blackmail David Letterman – it was jealousy, spilled a source.
Back in August, Halderman found the host and his girlfriend Stephanie Birkitt, who was also his assistant, kissing while in a car in the driveway of his home.
As details continue to become known about the affair between David Letterman and "Late Show" staffer Stephanie Birkitt, there are reportedly "trashy" love letters that are soon to be uncovered.
According to a report, Burkitt wrote Letterman a series of notes prior to and during their trysts. "It's her musings about them. It's trash," said an inside source.


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Sad to see that CPU is still a key factor in ill performance score. Ran cb with stock speed on my 3930k and GeForce 670 and got 80.75 then again with my OC which is 4.45 and got 99.84. A 25% ogl gain because of my CPU speed.
Loved the play on the old cb scene though. I agree it'd be nice
To see an update to it to allow team render tests but that is more specific to a c4d user and not general benchmarking tool. Nice to see that my overclock maintains a consistent multiplier now. How does the 12 core have such a significantly better multiplier than all the other 6 and 8 core systems? Does the single core not go into turbo or something?
How'd you get up to 4.45? New cpu? Are new ones that much better than the previous generation?


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When it comes to insurance – use the internet and shop around!
OK – so this is old news to pretty much everyone. We all know that if you are a dummy and just renew your insurance each year without shopping around then you will be paying a high price. But I had not realised how much.
My epiphany came at dinner last night. I got my comprehensive car insurance renewal from AAMI. It broke $900 on a private use car, rating one, no accidents for at least a decade and agreed value of $15,000. I thought this was a bit steep and the subject came up at dinner. When I realised my price was higher than that for a 20 year old female (one accident in last 2 years and car worth more than $15,000) I thought I had better shop around on the net.
First, let's see what AAMI on the net quoted? Hmmm. Problem – they ask for enough information to work out that I am an existing customer so the internet quote came in at $1500 plus!
OK, let's try some others? Basically around the $600-$700 range – which sounds a bit better. So I went with one of them.
In 15 minutes I saved over $300.
The broader lesson – the internet makes search much easier. It is a great tool for consumers. And bricks and mortar retailers generally – not just insurance companies – hate it because it increases competition. Have a great Christmas and shop around on the net in the New Year!
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I had a similar experience. On combined house/contents and car insurance I saved over $1500 by switching away from AAMI. In previous years, AAMI had been cheaper than competitors.
AAMI must be pretty silly to quote you such a high price because they think you are a captured customer. If you are searching for a quote on their website, you are anything but captured. You are a likely churner.
I assume that, being a clever bloke, you were comparing like with like. For example, is the flood cover the same? One policy may cover you for the road gutters overflowing if it rains heavily, the cheaper one may not. That's one of the differences I found in my 15 minute look.


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"It's baaaaack!" Fox returns to falsely suggesting public option will not "save us a lot of money"
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Fox & Friends repeatedly falsely suggested that the public option will not "save us a lot of money." In fact, according to a July 22 report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the "public plan" would "reduce the federal budget deficit by about $15 billion" in 2020 and would save "about $68 billion" through 2020.
Fox responds with disbelief to "Democrats ... saying" public option will save money
Doocy and Kilmeade falsely suggest public option will not "save us a lot of money." On the July 23 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade both falsely suggested that the public option would not save the country money:
DOOCY: Meanwhile, remember the public option? Gone, right? Nope, it's baaaaaack! Democrats pushing it again, saying it's going to save us a lot of money.
Later in the show, Kilmeade said:
KILMEADE: If you don't succeed, try, try again. Democrats bringing the public option back from the dead. Only this time they claim it's going to save money.
In fact, CBO projects that the public option would save "about $68 billion" through 2020. In a July 22 letter to Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA), chairman of the House Ways and Means health subcommittee, CBO released its analysis of the budgetary impact of adding the "public plan" option to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act:
This letter responds to your request for an analysis of a specific proposal to add a "public plan" to the options available through the health insurance exchanges that will be established in 2014 under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or PPACA.
CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimate that the proposal would reduce federal budget deficits through 2019 by about $53 billion. That estimate includes a $37 billion reduction in exchange subsidies and a $27 billion increase in tax revenues that would result from changes in employment-based coverage, partly offset by an $11 billion increase in costs for providing tax credits to small employers. (The proposal would have minimal effects on other outlays and revenues related to the insurance coverage provisions of PPACA.) The bulk of those effects would occur in the second half of the decade; the savings estimated for 2019 are about $14 billion. Although CBO and JCT have not yet extended to 2020 the models they use to estimate insurance coverage, the proposal would probably reduce the federal budget deficit by about $15 billion in that year, bringing the total budgetary savings through 2020 to about $68 billion.
Fox previously advanced false claims that the public option would increase the deficit. During the debate over health care reform legislation, Fox advanced false claims that a public option would increase the deficit. For instance, on the November 9, 2009, Fox & Friends, Fox News correspondent Mike Emanuel repeatedly advanced Sen. Joe Lieberman's false claim that a "public option plan" would lead to "debt [that] can break America and send us into a recession that's worse than the one we are fighting our way out of today." Emanuel called Lieberman's comments "interesting." However, CBO had shown in several estimates that the public option proposals would either reduce or have no impact on the deficit.
Fox's Johnson absurdly rejects CBO score
Johnson: CBO report is "a phony analysis." Later on the July 23 Fox & Friends, Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. said the CBO report stating that the public option will save money through 2020 is "a phony analysis." From Fox & Friends:
JOHNSON: What they've done in a five-page letter -- and we should really, you know, look at that. The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, is saying -- in just a five-page letter -- we're going to save $68 billion off the deficit.
DOOCY: Well that sounds pretty good, if that's true.
JOHNSON: Sure. They're challenging the Republicans. They're saying, hey, Republicans, you want to walk the walk, you know, on the deficit? We have a plan here. We're going to reduce the deficit in America. But you know, part of that projection, Steve Doocy, is they said, well, the way we're going to reduce the deficit is insurance costs will be lower and, therefore, people will have higher income and, therefore, they will pay higher taxes to the federal government. And that's how we're going to reduce the deficit. I mean, it's a phony analysis.
Fox has a history of rejecting CBO reports with which it disagrees
Beck mocks CBO score of health care reform: "Well, that's a party in my pants." On the March 18 edition of his Fox News program, Glenn Beck asked: "How would the CBO numbers even make any difference? You know, 'Only 900 and' -- what is it -- '$954 billion.' Ooh. Well, that's a party in my pants. Thank you for sending that one by. How does that make a difference?"
Doocy: "[C]an you really rely on the numbers that the Congressional Budget Office comes out with?" On the March 19 edition of Fox & Friends, Doocy claimed, "Democrats say it will reduce the deficit by more than $100 billion over the first decade." After guest host Dana Perino responded by saying, "Well, but there are other members who say that it actually will cost $2.4 trillion over the 10 years once you add it all up," Doocy asked, "Because, can you really rely on the numbers that the Congressional Budget Office comes out with?"
Perino: "[C]an we trust these numbers?" Introducing an interview with Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) on the same edition of Fox & Friends, Perino said: "Nine-hundred and forty billion dollars over the next decade. That's the preliminary price tag for the Democrats' health care bill, according to the Congressional Budget Office. It also says the plan will cut the federal deficit by $130 billion in that time, but can we trust these numbers?" Weiner said the score "came out really better than we thought it would. It was a great savings number, and so the deficit hawks now have things that they can point at and say, 'You know what? This really does save money.' " Perino then asked him, "But do you think ... that those numbers can be trusted later on?"
Johnson: "I don't expect or anticipate that their numbers are real." On the same edition of Fox & Friends, Kilmeade said that the "average person" would say, "[I]f a plan costs $940 billion, tell me how I'm saving 130 billion. So it doesn't make any sense." Johnson then noted that Perino had asked, "Do we really trust these numbers?" and claimed that "if you read carefully the latest CBO things, they say, 'Well, we don't usually project out another 10 years.' And there's so many variables and so many wiggle words that I don't expect or anticipate that their numbers are real." He later said, "I think we're being spun."
Hannity calls CBO score "budgetary gimmicks and tricks." On the March 18 edition of his Fox News program, Sean Hannity stated that the CBO score of the health care bill reflected "budgetary gimmicks and tricks" and said it is "[f]lat-out dishonest" that the score didn't contain separate legislation that cancels scheduled cuts in Medicare payments to doctors. After guest Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) claimed that "the only way that [Democrats] pay for those additions is to reduce seniors' health care benefits on their Medicaid or raise taxes," Hannity responded, "[W]hy would the CBO not highlight this to give a truly educational, informational, you know, scoring of this to the American people?"
Hemmer asks Juan Williams: "[D]o you believe" the CBO long-range forecast? On the March 18 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom, Fox News contributor Juan Williams called the CBO score a "deal-maker" because it will "reassure those independents and, by extension, those Democrats that have been on the fence because they are deficit hawks" because of the deficit reduction. Co-host Bill Hemmer then said to Williams: "That's 20 years out. You've lived in Washington a long time. Do you believe that?"
Fox Nation headline: "CBO Score Called a 'Lie.' " On March 18, Fox Nation posted a National Review Online article under the headline, "CBO Score Called a 'Lie.' " From Fox Nation:
By contrast, Fox News touted "favorable" CBO score of the GOP health care bill
Fox's Shively touted "favorable" CBO report on GOP health care bill and advanced false GOP claim that GOP plan would lower premiums more than Democrats' plan. On the November 5, 2009, edition of Fox & Friends, contributor Caroline Shively adopted the GOP spin by reporting: "Now, on the other side of the aisle, Republicans have gotten favorable reports from the Congressional Budget Office on the cost of their health care bill. GOP lawmakers say that means premiums for millions of families will be almost $5,000 lower under their plan, compared to the cheapest plan in the Democrats' exchange." In fact, the $5,000 difference Shively cited ignored premium caps in the House Democrats' plan. As Media Matters has noted, because the Democrats' health care bill provides premium caps on a sliding scale based on income, the lowest amount that a family would have to pay in premiums is significantly less than the GOP alternative. Shively's Fox & Friends report ignored that the GOP plan would not cover most uninsured Americans. Shively also did not report that the CBO estimates indicate that House Democrats' bill lowers the deficit more than the GOP's proposal.
America's Newsroom attributes Republican talking point to CBO. On the November 5, 2009, edition of America's Newsroom, co-host Martha McCallum claimed: "The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is saying that the Republican bill ... will carry lower costs for Americans. The CBO estimates that health insurance premiums would be nearly $5,000 cheaper under the Republican reforms than the Democratic ones." In fact, CBO never made that claim. The comparison was based on calculations done by Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee. From America's Newsroom:
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So what, aftermarket HID headlights and fogs, CTS-V bumper, and aftermarket lower V grille plus aftermarket upper grille, both in black? That everything or am I missing something?
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Oh and how much was the bumper painting? Did they match the white diamond well or can you tell the difference?
Lower grille is oem from a v just plasti-dipped...considering an oem v upper with badge plasti-dipped as well...bumper is in flat white primer for now. Im lazy and cheap. Lmfao.


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Broadway Bares in SF: Stripping for A Good Cause
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HIV-Positive Man Takes the Lead at SF AIDS Foundation
For the first time in recent memory, a man who's living with HIV is leading the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, one of the largest AIDS-based nonprofits in the country.
Yale Grad's Essay Tears into SF AIDS Foundation
A senior essay by a recent Yale graduate blasts the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, questioning the nonprofit spending millions of dollars to establish a health center in the Castro
STAGE Goes 'To Broadway, From Hollywood With Love' for APLA
This year's Southland Theater Artists Goodwill Event (S.T.A.G.E.) raises the curtain on May 9 with a star-studded cast at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills, raising funds for AIDS Project Los Angeles.
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Mondo Guerra shocked not only "Project Runway" viewers when he announced he was HIV-positive; in an interview on the web series "TakePart" Live, he reveals how the show helped him come out as HIV-positive, and become a positive spokesperson.
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In an effort to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic and raise a million dollars toward finding a cure, HIV activist, Jack Mackenroth has partnered with global gay social app Moovz to launch The Shower Selfie Challenge.
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This Halloween, I did what any sane economist would do on this fine day- I drove to New Haven to experiment on trick-or-treaters with Dean Karlan. When I explained this to my students, I mentioned that back when I was little parents were super afraid of people putting razor blades and other unsafe objects into kids' candy (Dear Mom: This was apparently an overblown concern), whereas now it seems like one of the biggest things that parents have to watch out for is this:
Yes, that is Dan Ariely in a bee costume. You're welcome. And it's particularly thematically relevant, in fact, since Ariely conducted one of the experiments that I describe below. Anyway, it's pretty typical when conducting research to write up a literature review that summarizes previous work related to the question your research is trying to answer. In addition, sometimes a literature review also touches on previous work that has been done using similar empirical methods, even if the topic of that work doesn't perfectly match with the current research question. Therefore, I took it upon myself to find out what existing economic research has been done on trick-or-treaters. Obviously. (This is actually somewhat difficult to do, since if I search EconLit for "Halloween" I only get papers about the Halloween effect in stock returns.)
Study 1: Daniel Read and George Loewenstein (1995), "Diversification Bias: Explaining the Discrepancy in Variety Seeking Between Combined and Separated Choices"
Overall, this paper investigates whether people exhibit a diversification bias (i.e. choose more variety for the sake of variety) when they are asked to choose ahead of time what they want to consume in several future time periods compared to when they are asked sequentially at each point of consumption. In order to test whether differences in choice bracketing drives the difference in preferences, the researchers have one group of trick or treaters choose two candies (from a large selection of 3 Musketeers and Milky Ways I think) at one house and another group choose one candy at one house at one candy at a second house. Even though the difference in framing is trivial, since both candies go into the pillowcase or plastic pumpkin for later consumption, all of the children who were asked to pick two candies at once chose one of each kind, whereas only about half of those were were asked to make two separate choices did so.
Study 2: Kristina Shampanier, Nina Mazur, and Dan Ariely (2007), "Zero as a Special Price: The True Value of Free Products"
In this paper, Ariely (of the aforementioned bee costume) and his coauthors examine whether making a product "free" in an explicit sense (but not in an opportunity cost sense) biases consumers towards consumption of the free product, even when they have to pass up a better deal in order to get the free item. To answer the question, children were presented with three Hershey's kisses and then asked whether they want to trade the kisses for a fun size or a regular size Snickers. In one condition, children were told that the fun size Snickers is free (FREE!) whereas they would have to trade in a kiss for the regular Snickers. In a second condition, children were told that they could either trade one kiss for a fun size Snickers or two kisses for a regular Snickers. Even though, in each case, the question to consider is whether it's worth it to give up one more kiss in order to get the regular Snickers (and I think we can all agree the the regular Snickers is the better deal), far more children opted for the fun size Snickers when it was FREE!
Study 3: Santosh Anagol, Sheree Bennett, Gharad Bryan, Tiffany Davenport, Nancy Hite, Dean Karlan, Paul Lagunes, and Margaret McConnell (2008), "There's Something About Ambiguity"
This study shows the correlation between ambiguity aversion (being biased against gambles where the relevant odds are not salient) and a child's choice of costume. In this study, the researchers find that children who won't take an ambiguous gamble over a clear one (as measured by a quick choice experiment) are more likely to have chosen costumes that are more conventional and commonplace.
Actually, this last one is but the first in a series of fun Halloween experiments that Dean Karlan has done, all of which are helpfully cataloged here. My personal favorite is the one that shows how kids' preferences for fruit over candy can be strengthened by showing them a picture of Michelle Obama.
Anyway, I feel like I don't need to write a whole lot about this year's experiment, since a reporter for the LA Times wrote more than enough about it here. That said, you may have noticed that the article was published on Halloween, so there are no experimental results to be found. In other words, we hadn't done this yet:
Empirically, here's what Maria (my RA, pictured above) and I have got so far:
- Children with parents who made rules about how and when they could eat their candy were more likely to choose fruit as their treat. Put another way, children who chose fruit were more likely to have rules about how they could eat their candy. We hypothesize that this is because the fruit is not subject to the same consumption restrictions as the candy, and this adds to its appeal.
- Parents are more likely to make rules for children that eat their candy faster than they intend to. (This was measured by comparing how long children expected their candy to last this year to how long they reported it lasting the previous year.)
- Strangely enough, children whose answers indicated that they had defied their parents' rules were more likely to choose fruit as their treat.
- The correlation between whether a child planned his costume well in advance and whether he was going to be organized about how to eat his candy was too noisy to establish statistical significance. (See the illustrative caveat about the logistics of the study below.)
- For some reason that I can't intuitively explain, children who went with their first choice of costume were more likely to choose candy over fruit, even when controlling for other observable factors.
- Also for some reason that perplexes me, children who were surveyed by either Dean or myself were significantly more likely to choose candy than the other kids, so I guess one important thing that we learned is that we are inadvertent candy pushers.
It's probably not surprising that trying to elicit coherent and accurate responses from young children is pretty challenging, but I think the following photo underscores how much the Halloween element adds to the difficulty:
Yep, that's a Yale undergraduate trying to get answers from a kid in a box. Research ain't always glamorous, people.


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This is NOT about blurting all over to gain anything from anyone.
I believe sharing is useful, that's always been the purpose of this blog, to share, in hope that others can understand themselves through someone else's open thoughts and feelings.
Writing is one of the few ways I can actually express myself and get my thoughts out.
I don't know how to deal with this. It's always been the case, but I've had stuff to get on with which, perhaps, preoccupied my mind. Who really knows.
I've been finding recently, dad just pops into mind and sets me off. Mainly at night, when things wind down, bang, tears stream. Don't know where it comes from or how to avoid, but it hits.
The main feeling is regret.
Why wasn't I with him more when I could have been? Christmas is going to be weird. He was such a good, talented, skilled, inspiring, loved person. He'd been through so much. Why couldn't I accept how ill he really was? Did I really know? Such a waste of a beautifully creative mind.
The worst part, and it feels selfish for thinking it, but I've lost the one person that I feel understood me. I could be talking about anything, and things just trail off, because I didn't really need to say it because he understood. Like I pick a subject and he'd be like telepathically "Don't get me started boy". heh.
When I think about things, I have this one, main, lingering and consuming thought, that he'd have been there, at my side non-stop if roles were reversed. As much as I was, I should have done and been there more. I'm sorry.
All I can really do at the moment it try to be brutally honest in hope to make some sense of things.


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BP has reconfirmed the company's ongoing commitment to Oman and its continued support to BP Oman's operations for a transitional period following the purchase of its 49 percent shareholding by Oman Oil Company (OOC.)
BP have operated in Oman since 1957 and floated BP Oman on the Muscat Securities Market in 1998. The company has a retail network of 74 service stations.
"Oman is the only location in the Middle East region where BP has had an interest in filling stations and we felt the operation would be better served by a local shareholder," said BP Group Vice President responsible for the Middle East and Caspian, Richard Paniguian.
Paniguian advised that BP will however continue and where possible expand its air, lubricants, oil trading and marine bunkering businesses in Oman. As examples he cited BP Marine's contract to supply fuels and lubricants at the fast growing port of Salalah and expected completion of agreements with the new 116,000 barrel per day refinery in Sohar for a 10-year offtake agreement.
Additionally BP Oman has started work on a state-of-the-art filling station at Wadi Al-Bahais, which will feature a solar canopy with power provided by BP Solar. — (menareport.com)
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Microbial flora in eyes of current and former contact lens wearers
Fleiszig, Suzanne M. & Efron, Nathan (1992) Microbial flora in eyes of current and former contact lens wearers. Journal of clinical microbiology, 30(5), pp. 1156-1161.
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Microbial flora from the right eye conjunctival sac of 84 consecutively presenting contact lens patients were compared with cultures from both surfaces of their lens after aseptic removal and with the flora of their storage cases. Similar results were obtained from contact lens and conjunctival cultures of each individual; however, there was no correlation between storage case isolates and lens or conjunctival flora, suggesting that in uncomplicated lens wear, the eye is highly efficient in eradicating microorganisms introduced via handling. Conjunctival flora during daily contact lens wear was similar to the conjunctival flora of a matched control group of non-lens wearers. However, bacteria that are considered to be part of the normal ocular flora were isolated significantly more often from former contact lens wearers. The data also indicated that the use of nonperoxide chemical lens disinfection was associated with a higher proportion of positive cultures for pathogenic microorganisms than the use of other forms of disinfection, for both current and former contact lens wearers. The isolation of potential pathogens was particularly common among elderly subjects using thick contact lenses for extended wear. These changes to conjunctival flora may contribute to the increased risk of ocular infection associated with contact lens wear.
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A three-hit shutout pitching peformance by Holly Bruntjens in the opening game of Saturday's (April 11) matchup against the Hillsdale Chargers was impressive, but so too was the outcome of the second game as the nationally eighth-ranked Ferris State softball team rallied from a 5-1 deficit with a five-run sixth inning to post a 9-7 win and complete a Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) doubleheader sweep at the FSU Softball Field in Big Rapids, Mich.
Game One - Ferris State 6, Hillsdale 0
Ferris State pitcher Holly Bruntjens (Gladstone) threw a three-hit shutout against Hillsdale Saturday (April 11) afternoon as the nationally eighth-ranked Bulldog softball team blanked Hillsdale, 6-0, in its opening game of a home league doubleheader.
Bruntjens, a senior, improved her record to 9-3 on the season as she struck out seven Hillsdale batters in the complete-game decision. Offensively, eight different Ferris State batters produced at least a base hit with senior first baseman Amanda Jager (Kalamazoo/Comstock) and freshman third baseman Makenzi Peterson (Big Rapids) tallying a squad-best two hits as part of the Bulldogs' 10 total for the contest.
The Bulldogs scored an unearned run in the bottom of the first inning before scoring two runs in the third on four hits. A pair of RBI singles by junior designated player Rhea Flores (Dearborn Heights/Southgate Anderson) and Makenzi Peterson accounted for the two FSU third-inning runs.
Ferris State upped its lead to 5-0 in the fourth frame with a pair of unearned runs and tacked on one more in the sixth inning as a result of Holly Bruntjens' run-scoring single.
Game Two - Ferris State 9, Hillsdale 7
The Ferris State softball team scored five runs in the sixth inning to take its first lead of the game en route to a come-from-behind 9-7 game two win over Hillsdale Saturday (April 11) in Big Rapids.
Ferris State had trailed 5-1 through the first four innings after the Chargers tallied four runs on two hits with a FSU error in the fourth inning. But in the top of the sixth, the Bulldogs' offense was able to get back on track as Ferris erupted for five runs on as many hits coupled with three Charger errors. The decisive hit came off the bat off sophomore shortstop Lynsay Weaver (Bay City/All Saints), who smacked a two-run shot over the center field fence for her third of the season to give FSU a 6-5 lead.
FSU would post three more runs in the seventh on just one hit, but was aided by two HC errors. A RBI sacrifice fly by Weaver and a two-run scoring double by sophomore outfielder Rachel Wade (Canton) represented the Bulldogs' final three runs in the game. Hillsdale would make the outcome close in the bottom half of the seventh as the Chargers scored twice to get within two runs (9-7). However, senior pitcher Holly Bruntjens was able to get HC's Devon Trimmer on a flyout to right field for the game's final out and preserve the win.
Bruntjens, in relief of junior starter Kayle Stevenson (Holland/West Ottawa), posted the win as she threw three-plus innings in relief. Bruntjens, who upped her record to 10-3 this spring, struck out four and allowed two hits. Stevenson received the starting nod against her former team and pitched 3.1 innings while striking out five and giving up five hits to go with four runs.
For the game, four different Ferris State batters recorded at least two hits apiece - Rachel Wade, junior second baseman Amanda Harrington (St. Joseph/Stevensville-Lakeshore), sophomore catcher Rachel Mueller (Santa Clarita, Calif./Valencia), and Lynsay Weaver.
The doubleheader wins improved Ferris State's record to 26-4 overall and 12-2 in the GLIAC to date this season. Ferris has presently won nine of its last 10 outings and 15 of its last 17 encounters.


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Manitoba's Progressive Conservatives launched their northern strategy Wednesday, in part to dent the governing NDP's grip on the region.
It includes a tour by Charleswood MLA Myrna Driedger, who met with business and First Nations leaders in The Pas -- the same day NDP Education Minister James Allum was in town to announce four capital projects to improve schools.
Driedger will be in Flin Flon today and Swan River Friday. She's accompanied by the PC mining critic, Spruce Woods MLA Cliff Cullen.
PC Leader Brian Pallister said the party's Northern Lights, a Progressive Conservative Framework for a Northern Strategy, is the beginning of a push by the Tories to develop policies on northern development. The PCs have already set up an advisory council of northerners to provide direction and advice.
Key starting-point areas for the Tories include jobs and training, mining, healthy living, infrastructure and tourism and culture.
"The goals here are pretty clear," Pallister said. "We want to develop a plan for the whole province, not just for one piece of it. The north is a viable, vital part of our economic and social future. We're looking to develop better ideas. If we have better ideas, maybe we earn the support of people."
Allum said it's odd Pallister would make his announcement in Winnipeg.
"He didn't leave the city," Allum said. "To me that speaks volumes about his personal commitment to the north."
Allum also said the NDP's record in the north is well-established, including the opening of the new $82-million, 84,400-square-foot University College of the North campus last month in Thompson.
"To me, it's a sign of our government's ongoing commitment to try to make sure there are opportunities for kids to position themselves to get a good education and stay in the north," he said, adding Pallister's plan ignores proposed hydro development. "Keeping the north strong for northerners, especially aboriginal northerners, I don't see that in what Mr. Pallister is suggesting."
Pallister travelled to Thompson and Flin Flon a month ago to meet with civic leaders in the lead-up to developing his party's northern strategy.
The four northern ridings and Swan River have been held by the NDP for nine consecutive elections.
"The reality is no one should govern this province that doesn't have an idea of what they want to do with northern Manitoba and how they want to help northern Manitoba become stronger and better in the future," Pallister said.


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Malvern College gave us Jeremy Paxman but what has this quietly conservative educational establishment done to deserve this? Journalist and climate-change denier James Delingpole has been appointed writer-in-residence at his old school.
Rich parents who have paid an arm and a leg to have their boys and girls brought up in a safe environment (fees: £10,600 a term) may wonder what he will tell the little blighters.
"I've been given a broad brief," the author of Watermelons: How Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing your Children's Future tells me. "I'll be tackling subjects such as how to solve a crossword puzzle, climate change, music, maybe cross-country running. I hope to teach students to think for themselves. I'll tell them about Galileo, who held out against establishment beliefs, and those Australian scientists who won the Nobel Prize when they told us stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria, not by nervous stress."
Delingpole, who was at Oxford with David Cameron, says the school has changed. "It's now co-ed but the girls are quite scary," he says. "They're much more sophisticated than the boys."
He won't accept payment. "I just want to give something back to my old school," says Delingpole, whose daughter has been offered a bursary under a music scholarship."I was invited back to Radley, where I disgraced myself saying it's where people send their sons when they can't get them into Eton."
Oh, do let's be beastly to the Hun (and his Gallic chum)
Martin Amis has joined David Cameron in raising the European hackles. The author, who has left these shores for the US, has trashed Britain and is now turning his attention to the Continent.
"My father once said there's a correlation between a nation's cuisine and its people," Amis tells US magazine Guernica. "England, nice people, nasty food; France, nice food, nasty people; Spain, nice people, nasty food; Italy, nice people, nice food; and Germany, nasty food, nasty people [laughter].
"And I've always thought there must be something terribly wrong with the German character. It's a young country and a German only feels comfortable being with the masses. They have very little talent at creating an inner life, privacy."
Lest the French feel left out, Amis attacks them for failing to confront their collaboration with the Nazis in the Second World War. "First, you get beaten in three weeks. Then you enthusiastically collaborate. It's just shameful but you must face it. That certain snobbery of, certainly, the Parisian — combined with a denial of your historical legacy — is just awful."
Helen shows how to grin and Blair it
Helen McCrory and her Homeland star husband Damian Lewis, pictured, were at a pre-Bafta event at Asprey's New Bond Street store. McCrory has played Cherie Blair twice to great acclaim. "I examined her almost like an animal, from the outside, looking at her physically," she said. "I used to read all the reviews but I do less now because they often become personal. I remember when I was doing The Seagull and a reviewer described Judi Dench's arse as too big to play Madame Arkadina. It's so puerile and I'd like to say I don't care but of course I do."
A Chow is down but business is on the up
Even the guest of honour can fall sick. Restaurateur Michael Chow was kept away from the Knightsbridge outpost of Mr Chow by a cold last night, sending his wife Eva in his place to celebrate the restaurant's 45th anniversary. Guests including Yasmin Mills and her friend Chloe Baird Murray, left, and fashion designers Melissa Odabash and Julien Macdonald, pictured above, made up for Mr Wong's absence. Tamara Beckwith, below, appeared to be sucking on a lollipop but in fact it was one of many Chinese delicacies on offer.
Michael may be advised to get well soon before his wife adds another property to his portfolio on her next visit to Europe. "I'd like to open a Mr Chow in Paris," Mrs Chow mused. "I love everything about it, and the colour of the place. One day, maybe."
The Royal on Becker's bedroom wall
To Chelsea's The Little Black Gallery to mark the closing of Bruno Bisang: 30 Years in Polaroids attended by Holly Valance, Boris Becker and Henry Conway. Becker's wife Lilly says she and her husband are passionate about photography, not to mention Britain. "We have a huge portrait shot of The Queen above our bed," she tells me.
Was it Wolf Hall or Fifty Shades of Grey?
Maybe it is not only Joan Smith who is averse to Hilary Mantel. "Wolf Hall is 'better' than Fifty Shades of Grey but which one did I get through in a day?" tweets Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Pyscho. "Which one took me two weeks to get to page 277?"
Gloucester comes to praise King James
Earlier this week I mentioned that the Duke of Gloucester, formerly Prince Richard, is involved in plans to re-inter King Richard III in Leicester, York or Westminster. The Duke is patron of the Richard III Society and the King was himself Duke of Gloucester.
However, he has also told of his admiration for another ancestor, King James I of England and James VI of Scotland.
Speaking at a reception at the Skinners' Hall in the City to mark Japan400 — celebrating 400 years of British trade with Japan —the duke said the king was an intelligent man who noticed, when he first came to London from Edinburgh, how mercantile strength led to prosperity. "He also had the good sense to marry a wife from Denmark, as I have done," he said.
Another reason for his fondness for Japan, he told me afterwards, was that his late brother Prince William, who died in a plane crash in 1972 aged 30, worked for the Foreign Office in the British Embassy in Tokyo.
We must prevent extinction - says Sir David Attenborough
Sir David Attenborough told guests at the Natural History Museum that we have a moral duty to prevent extinction. He was speaking at last night's opening of the exhibition Extinction: Not the End of the World? "When the natural world is healthy, we are healthy," he said. One guest was so taken with his words she said she would lay down her life for the Panamian golden frog.
This birthday is a cut above
Philip, the barber of St James's, was, as he has been for six decades, at his post at Briggs in Ormond Yard today. But today is special. The Cypriot barber, surname unknown, is celebrating his 90th birthday.
Philip has already received cards from Stephen Fry, Lord (Peter) Brooke and Lord Sheldon. Customers come from Buckingham Palace, Whitehall and Lambeth Palace but he is the soul of discretion.
One regular does recall Philip letting slip that his previous client, very senior in the royal household, told him the Queen Mother had invited him round for supper. He asked: "About eight, ma'am?" Her Majesty replied: "Well, could you come either before eight, or after half past eight, as we'll all be watching 'Allo, 'Allo?"Reuse content


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VENICE, ITALY – Venice has teemed with boats for centuries, but a tragic gondola death has stirred anger on the canals and could change the face of the floating city's most famous waterway.
The tourist's funeral was held Friday in Germany accompanied by a delegation of gondoliers, but tensions have risen between the boater-hatted sailors and pilots of motorized "vaporetto" (ferries) that ply the island city.
Five people — two gondoliers and three vaporetto pilots — have been placed under investigation over the Aug. 17 crash, which killed Joachim Vogel, a professor who was enjoying a gondola ride with his family.
With gondola and vaporetto pilots blaming each other for the accident, the chief of the Venetto region, Luca Zaia, said the proliferation of motorized transport means the water traffic depicted in 18th century paintings should be a thing of the past.
The city has meanwhile proposed that shipping rules be overhauled to limit Grand Canal traffic by barring morning gondola rides on the channel, heavily restricting docking and reducing the number of goods barges and private motorboats.
"What happened was probably fate, but there is also the problem of regulating ever more intense traffic on the Grand Canal," Venice Mayor Giorgio Orsoni said as he outlined his 26-point plan in August.
Orsoni is also calling for new drug and alcohol rules for the gondoliers and regular testing after police found that the pilot of the gondola that was carrying the German family had cocaine and hashish in his system.
The gondoliers are a tight-knit community who have been a feature of the city since the Renaissance. They are a popular if sometimes pricey draw for tourists drawn to their singing traditions and striped sailor shirts.
In the accident, which is still being investigated, the vaporetto apparently swerved to avoid one gondola, only to crush another with its stern against the dock near the Rialto Bridge.
Traffic along the Grand Canal averages 3,000 boats a day and peaks at around 4,000 on some days. Lined with palazzi that were built between the 13th and 18th centuries, the canal is an iconic image that has inspired poets and artists since time immemorial.
Traffic has been a problem since long before the accident, and earlier this year the canal was shut for a day to reduce air and water pollution and highlight the damage done to its banks by the boats' wakes.
The gondoliers who row along it are now fighting to defend their reputation and have even staged a demonstration with their sleek black boats to protest against the increase in motorized traffic.
Nicola Falconi, the main representative of the gondoliers, said the traditional rivalry between the two groups had turned "ugly" since the fatal accident.
Tourists polled in the city said they were shocked by the accident, with some saying it had changed their minds about taking a gondola ride — once a must for any visitor.


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Turkmenistan upholds the importance of quality education by joining Global Campaign for Education
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, 24 April 2008This week the beautiful Ruhnama secondary school in Ashgabat, capital city of Turkmenistan kicked off a nationwide celebration of the World Education Week, globally organized by the Global Campaign for Education and UNESCO. Students and teachers of the newly established school specialized in mathematics and physics gathered together early in the morning to add their voices that every child in the world has the right for quality education and raised their concerns about inequalities and exclusion in education, which still persist in many countries.
The campaign, supported by the Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan and UNICEF, aims at boosting children's participation to address education issues and increase their understanding that quality education is a key to achieving economic growth and development, health of nation and democratic society. Participation of the first Deputy Minister of Education, Ms. Gulshat Mamedova and UNICEF Representative, Dr. Waheed Hassan, and national media in the opening ceremony in the school attached significance to this event, which simultaneously took place in about 120 countries worldwide, and enabled children to learn about the importance of quality education.
In addition to the lesson, in which school students found out about examples of inadequate education in the world and were able to compare these examples with national education environment, the school management organized a poster contest among juniors and a composition contest among senior students who could choose from two themes "The School of My Dream" and "Why is it Important to Learn". Similarly, children had fun by playing various games and drawing pictures. Similar activities would be replicated in all schools in the country during this week so that all children of Turkmenistan will have a chance to contribute to the global campaign.
Not only this campaign had an advocacy power to attract politicians to speak about importance of quality education but also it brought joy to children and strengthened more teacher-student relations. As one of the active school students, Enejan Hojanazarova, 15 years old, expressed, "I love my school and my teachers. I am very happy that I am able to go to school and learn many things. I wish that those kids who are deprived of good learning in some other countries were as lucky as me. When I grow up I will become a math teacher and will do all my best that all children in my country are well educated."
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World Record Broken
More than 7.5 million children, adults, teachers and campaigners took part in the Global Campaign for Education's "World's Biggest Lesson". The world record for the largest simultaneous lesson in history has been broken already – and the numbers are still coming in. The World's Biggest Lesson focused on providing a quality basic education to everyone especially the 72 million children and 774 million adults who are currently missing out. All over the world Politicians and Ministers went back to school, were taught the lesson by children before being asked what they planned to do to make sure everyone gets a quality education.