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The Kingdom of KandlazzaEdit
This is the largest Empire in Kerell. There is a population of about two million people, and so the GNP is about 70million gp. The large capital city, Kendlazzi, contains about 16,000 people, most of which commoners, but also an army of 160 troops (800 possible conscripts, who are War1 soldiers, or even Com1).
At currend, Kendlazzi is ruled by a lawful good mayor, who helps the people of Kendlazzi, as opposed to the evil tyrannical emperor. The town is also ruled by two lawful magical powers: a lawful good theocracy, and a lawful neutral cleric of St Cuthbert. The power centres all support each other.
The gp limit or Kendlazzi is 29,788 at current. In the town, there are a number of shops and services, such as an inn, a weapons and armour shop, a general store, and a clothes store. There is also an apothecary, who lives in the corner of the city, shadowed by tall flats. He sells potions and scrolls at extremely exhorbitant prices, and will force people to pay by... unconventional means.
Laws of the landEdit
- Arcane magic is strictly forbidden, punishable by the death penalty. To use it legally, you must obtain a license.
- The use of divine magic, unless provided from a lawful and/or good deity, is banned, and is treated in the same manner as Arcane magic.
- The possession of weapons, except from farming tools, is punishable by confiscation and a hefty fine.
- Theft, murder, assault and vandalism all give the offender the death penalty.
- Being drunk after the sixteenth hour is forbidden.
- It is mandatory for all people to install a scrying orb in their house, so the Emperor could see what they do and could send this information to the Thought Police. The removal of this orb is punishable by death.
- With this scrying orb also comes many posters, reading "Emperor Kandlazza is watching YOU", with a big scary picture of the Emperor. The incumbent Emperor is a facist, and a tyrant. Most Kandlazza Emperors were nice people, but this one likes to have total control.
Sometimes, the judge may "go easy" on you and instead of the death penalty:
- Cut off your primary hand (using your secondary hand will only allow you to use half of your str bonus, and not use two-handed weapons at all).
- Cut off your ears, causing you to be deaf for the rest of your life.
- Strip you of all possessions, except clothing.
- Jail you for at least ten years.
Barbarian TribesEdit
Near Kandlazza are many barbarian tribes, both orc and human. These tribes are constantly at war with the humans in Kandlazza, constantly pillaging the outer towns of the Empire. A typical tribe contains of no more than fifteen male warriors, fifteen females (which are prized heavily amongst both orc and human tribal culture) and twenty children (which are cared for by the females of the tribe at a young age, then the male at fifteen years of age join the army.) There may also be at least ten slaves, which are prisoners of war exploited by the orcs/humans Males tend to be either Bar1 or War1, and females, although normally staying as workers/slaves, may sometimes be warriors and/or druids.
The human and orc tribes, not only waging war on the Empire Kandlazza, are also at war with each other. These wars are fought in the wild forests to the north of Kandlazza. To the west of Kandlazza are mountains occupied by dwarves, who are at war with the orcs and sometimes taken as mercenaries by the Empire to kill the tribes.
Human tribe cultureEdit
Most tribesmen are warriors, with the occasional adept or druid. Most tribeswomen are druids who support the men in battle. The tribesmen wield poisoned spears, and they wear red and yellow tatoos on their back, normally in the shape of their standard (such as a snake, or a lion). The tribesmen ambush any prey, orc or traveller at any time possible in the forests. Once captured, the male prisoners are executed, but the female and children are not. They are only taken back to the tribe... where they are sacrificed to the gods. Humans sometimes take prisoners as slaves, but this practise is more prevailant amongst the orc tribes.
Orc tribe cultureEdit
As with humans, orcs are often warriors, but even the females are warriors/barbarians. Few are workers, and even the children (who mature at a very young age anyway) are also sent into battle. The elite soldiers often are wild barbarians who have rage powers beyond the imagination of the civilised world. Their main enemies are dwarves, and will catch and slaughter them on sight, or take them as slaves, as dwarves are brilliant engineers. (Better than Orcish engineering skills...)
The Republic of OmniniEdit
Omnini contains all knowledge known to the civilised races inside a giant library. To the savage races, Omnini is not a good target, as the books and magic found there is unusable to them. The Omninians have a magical library in their city (their only city, the republic is very small) which is a log of all magic known. There are many scribes, sages and learned people in Omnini, and very few are uneducated. There used to be a school of magery in Omnini, until the curse came several years ago, making the scholars very ill.
Omnini is only one square mile in area, but it contains a vast library inside which is a huge teleportation system. The teleportation systems allow transport into a Limbo, which is a free and empty space. The Omninians are suppressed by their neighbours to have only one square mile (after all, it was founded when a city rebelled against an Empire Kakados, now destroyed). The Omninians, therefore went into the Limbo to expand their land indefinately.
The School of MageryEdit
Main article: The School of Magery
As written by a wise sage: If into the School fate doth thee send, thou shalt find naught but weal but woe.
The school was built one thousand years ago by the "wisest mage in Kerell", whose name remains unknown. It was built underground, to prevent the assault of the school from orcs. The school is now evacuated after a curse spread around the region about twenty years ago. A brave young man restored order, but still no man has dared enter the caves of the school, as it is still populated by many monsters, both friendly and hostile.
There are many monsters in the School, and after the school was evacuated by the humans and elves several years ago, the savages such as goblins, orcs, kobolds, gremlins and even the occasional dragon have pillaged the underground school. There are also the spirits of the dead, who were students and professors unable to flee.
However, it may be worth entering the school. There are treasures of knowledge, and rumours of an Elixer of Life...
The Land of IsdantiaEdit
The reformed Empire Kakados, Isdantia lies north of Kandlazza, separated by an ocean. During its time as the Empire, Kakados was constantly at war with Kandlazza, sending a fleet or two to invade Kandlazza.
From Empire to RepublicEdit
The last Emperor of Kakados died one-hundred years ago, leaving no descendants. The politician Tasyn and his supporter Istana (who were plotting rebellion against the Empire anyway) took over and turned Kakados into the Socialist Republic of Isdantia.
As with all socialist leaders, Tasyn soon became corrupt, and people began to lose their faith in him. Tasyn was notorious for the murder of Istana, for the murder of millions of innocent halflings, and the corrupt system under which Isdantia was brought from a rich and wealthy country to a poor and lowly set of shanty towns. As a result, two wizards, Alaric and Mystellia, led a rebellion, killing Tasyn and all his socialist party, turning Isdantia into a Republic.
Tasyn might be redeemed for the ending of the Kako-Kandlazza war.
Relations with Empire KandlazzaEdit
Main article: Kako-Kandlazza war
During the times of the Empire of Kakados, Kakados and Kandlazza were always at war. When Tasyn came to rule, he started peace between the two lands, and it was peace that lasts until today. The Empire Kakados was hated by politicians such as Tasyn as his bloody wars against the two empires caused many deaths.
Today, trade florishes between the two great lands, but the people of Kandlazza are still inclined to fear invasion.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Just weeks after the 2013 Major League Baseball Draft and Saint Leo University's commencement ceremony, former Lions Daniel Torres, Rick Teasley, and Matthew Hewitt are making strides in their professional baseball careers. Torres and Teasley have both made their way across the United States to play for their respective minor league teams, while Hewitt has made the trip to Germany to play professionally.
On June 8, 2013, Torres was selected in the 20th round by the Seattle Mariners, and just three rounds later, Teasley got the call from the Tampa Bay Rays. The pitcher and catcher who played on the same team just months ago are now playing on opposite ends of the country.
Torres, who made his debut with the Arizona League Mariners on June 21, has now played in seven games, earning a .300 batting average in 20 at-bats. Torres collected his first minor league hit on June 22 against the AZL Royals, and has since ignited his bat, collecting six hits, five runs, one double, one RBI, and two walks. Torres' team currently sits in second place in the Arizona League West standings with a 31-25 record.
While Torres headed west, Teasley stayed on the eastern side of the country, making his minor league debut in the Appalachian League for the Princeton Rays on June 24 in Princeton, W.V. In his first minor league appearance, Teasley tossed a 2.1 inning shutout, allowing no hits and striking out two. Since then, Teasley made the move to the Hudson Valley Renegades in the New York-Penn League, a team that currently leads the McNamara division with a 10-5 record, which puts the Renegades in a prime position to participate in post-season play. In his total 4.0 innings pitched thus far in the minors, Teasley has compiled a perfect 0.00 ERA while allowing just four hits and one walk.
While his former teammates are still playing baseball in the United States, Hewitt, a Saint Leo graduate, is now 4,000 miles away from home playing for the Paderborn Untouchables of Paderborn, Germany. In his professional debut on June 23 against the Bonn Capitals, Hewitt tossed five innings, allowing just six hits and one walk while striking out five. The Untouchables currently stand in third place in their league with a 13-5 record.
To stay current with Torres, Teasley, and Hewitt as they continue with their baseball careers, be sure to visit SaintLeoLions.com. Also, be sure to 'Like' the Lions on Facebook and 'Follow' the Lions on Twitter.


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Stuart Pope Named CoSIDA Academic All-American
Nov. 26, 2013
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Junior midfielder Stuart Pope was named to the third team of the 2013 National Soccer Coaches Association of America and CoSIA's Capital One Academic All-American list, it was announced on Tuesday afternoon by the NSCAA office.
Pope is currently in her third year of undergraduate studies at Kentucky and holds a 3.95 GPA while studying equine science.
Pope becomes just the third UK women's soccer player to be named an NSCAA/CoSIDA Academic All-American and the first in seven years, joining Allison Peppers (1999) and Anne Oguedele (2006) as the only other recipients.
The Fayetteville, Ga., native had a breakout season, playing in every game that she was healthy for in 2013, scoring a career-high 10 goals, assisting on seven goals and scored an SEC-high tying five game-winning goals. Pope launched 39 shots, with 20 of them on goal, for a team-high .256 SOG percentage.
In her 18 games on the pitch, Pope played over 1,490 minutes and was awarded numerous awards throughout the season, including CollegeSportsMadness.com and Southeastern Conference Player of the Week honors on Sept. 9 and Second Team All-SEC in 2013, for her first-career SEC honor.
The junior scored in nine of her last 15 matches before injuring her knee in the LSU match, ending her season early.
Pope was one of five SEC players to receive the award, joining Caroline Brown (UT, 2nd team), Rafaelle Souza (Ole Miss, 2nd team), Danielle Au (SC, 3rd team) and Kendall Khanna (UA, 3rd team).
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Guy Sues Pizzeria He Tried to Rob
(NEWSER) – Nigel Sykes' attempted robbery of a Delaware pizzeria failed miserably—but he'd still like to get some cash out of the whole to-do. Armed with a gun, Sykes, 23, busted into the back door of Newport's Seasons Pizza in 2010 but eventually got tackled by employees. In a federal civil complaint, filed without an attorney, Sykes admits, "I committed a robbery at Seasons Pizza" but now alleges that the workers "unnecessary" roughed him up during that robbery, the News Journal reports. He wants $260,000 from the pizzeria, its employees, and Delaware State Police for his troubles.
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Author: Ollie Munden
Ollie Munden, aka Megamunden, combines nature's creatures, tattoo design, 1980s skate graphics and an essence of the Far East to create his beautiful concoctions.
As comfortable painting large scale murals as he is illustrating for advertising or publishing, it has been hard to escape Ollie's drawings over recent years. British Airways, Havaianas, Nike, Toshiba, Vodafone, Penguin and New Scientist are just a few of the many who have fallen for his distinctive creations.
Alongside commercial commissions, Ollie is finding more and more that he is being commissioned to design tattoos for private clients.
This tutorial guides you through the process of creating a repeating pattern for a T-shirt print. We'll focus on creating one main element that will function as the key character of the pattern. We'll then create elements that will make up the linking imagery – or 'glue' – that holds it together.
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This tutorial also shows you how to create shading and turn this into a bitmap shading effect, and how to duplicate drawings and reflect them, to create bold graphic designs.
While this design has been created with a T-shirt in mind, you can use the techniques to create everything from desktop wallpaper to textile designs.
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Stars Flock to Macy's 2012 Thanksgiving Day Parade
Kicking off the holiday season, Macy's held their annual Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City this morning (November 22) and there was no shortage of celebrity star power.
Representing the pop music world, Carly Rae Jepsen and The Wanted both showed up to give live performances much to the delight of the massive crowd.
Additionally, famous faces like Jimmy Fallon, Cody Simpson, Gabrielle Douglas, Trace Adkins, Colbie Caillat, Matt Lauer, Savannah Guthrie, and Al Roker all turned out for the festive fete.
Furthermore, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade also included performances by the Broadway casts of "Annie," "Elf," "Bring It On," and "Nice Work if You Can Get It," and plenty of colorful floats and massive balloons!
Enjoy the pictures of the stars at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City (November 22).
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The conflict between the ethanol industry and the oil and gas sector ratcheted up this week when the Renewable Fuels Association asked EPA, DOE, USDA and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch a multi-agency investigation into "the oil industry's highly discriminatory and unlawful conduct . . . that is impeding the delivery of renewable fuels to the American marketplace."
A letter sent by the association to the agencies focuses on recent events at Zarco 66, a Lawrence, KS, fuel station that was the first marketer in the United States to offer E15, which the trade group says "illustrates just how far Big Oil will go to obstruct congressional purposes in enacting the [federal Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS], limit the availability of renewable fuels in the American marketplace and, not coincidentally, bolster their campaign to repeal the RFS altogether."
The station, a ConocoPhillips franchisee, has a lengthy history of offering E85 (85-percent ethanol blend), using a blender pump that mixed the formula from two tanks, one carrying gasoline and the other straight ethanol. But the association says that because only certain vehicles can use E85, the oil industry viewed the station's sale of the high-ethanol blend as a "gimmick."
However, when Zarco 66 began offering E15, which can be used in any light-duty vehicle manufactured over the last decade, "the oil industry suddenly changed its tune."
The association charged that ConocoPhillips quickly threatened to terminate Zarco 66's franchise agreement and charge Zarco 66 hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties unless Zarco 66 started offering "premium" gasoline - a fuel that would replace the ethanol housed in one of Zarco 66's fueling tanks, and a gasoline that is likely to result in far fewer sales than the ethanol blends that would be available if Zarco 66 maintained the current ethanol contents.
"For franchisees like Zarco 66, the message that the oil industry is delivering is loud and clear: Stop selling renewable fuels, or face the consequences," the RFA letter alleged."
The trade group says the oil industry is enforcing the unlawful act of "tying" agreements which violate Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
"Here, the oil industry is forcing fuel stations to purchase and carry a product that they otherwise do not wish to carry (premium gasoline) as a condition for purchasing and carrying the tying product (regular gasoline)," the letter states. "Because franchisees are locked into franchise agreements (and such a lock-in effect is magnified when, as in the case of Zarco 66, the oil franchisor changes the terms of the relationship midstream), an oil franchisor holds appreciable economic power over the franchisee, which it is using to force franchisees to purchase premium fuel that they might not otherwise wish to carry."
The letter also alleges oil industry violations of the Gasohol Competition Act of 1980, which makes it unlawful to "unreasonably discriminate against or unreasonably limit the sale, resale, or transfer of gasohol or other synthetic motor fuel of equivalent usability."
The letter also charges the oil industry with violating the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act and ignoring the intent of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which detail the requirements of the RFS.
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Step 1: Prep work - Start with clean joints
To paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield, grout gets no respect. Grout can ruin an otherwise great tile job. And yet grout and proper grouting technique are often treated as an afterthought, like the final few half-hearted steps of a tired runner stumbling over the finish line. Grout deserves better. Your tile deserves better.
The keys to a professional-quality grout job aren't secrets shrouded in mystery. On these pages, we'll show you some tips and techniques that will help your next grout job go more smoothly and give your tile a professional-grade finished look.
Start by vacuuming out all that remodeling dust, debris and any chips of dried thin-set from grout joints (Photo 1). If there are high spots where thin-set has oozed out and dried, use a sturdy-edged tool to scrape it out and then vacuum again, including the tile surfaces. The last thing you want is to push all that muck back into the joint as you are floating your grout in.
Tip: Tape Off the Tile Before Grouting
For easier cleanup, tape off painted walls to protect them from grout. Also tape off trim or inset tiles that feature imprinted patterns with crevices (Photo 9).
Step 2: Mix the grout by hand
Pour some grout out of the bag into a mixing bucket. Pour water in a little at a time and start mixing by hand using a margin trowel (See "A Tiler's Best Friend" below). Tip the bucket toward you and roll it in a "cement mixer" style as you mix (Photo 3). Be sure to scrape any dry, unmixed grout from the bottom of the bucket with your margin trowel. Keep mixing until all the powder has been absorbed and it has the consistency of peanut butter. When you're getting close, dribble in water from a sponge. It only takes a little too much to create soup. And don't mix grout with a drill and mixing paddle. This method churns the grout and introduces air into the mix. That weakens the cured strength and causes a type of discoloration called "shading." Besides, we're trying to mix grout here, not make soufflé.
Let the grout "slake"
When your grout has reached peanut butter status, stop! Go and make a sandwich, take out the trash, whatever. Let the grout slake (rest) for about 10 minutes. This allows the chemicals in the grout to work their magic. Skipping this step may result in weaker, crack-prone joints. After slaking, the grout will feel a bit stiffer, but don't add more water. Remix the grout by hand again to loosen it up.
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Buy yourself a margin trowel for 10 bucks. You'll use it for mixing grout and thin-set, scraping out joints, cleaning buckets and tools, spreading mayonnaise, flipping pancakes....
Step 3: Load the grout float
You're now ready to grout. Tip the bucket toward you (like you did when mixing) and "drag" some grout with your float up the side of the bucket toward you. This pulls a "working batch" closer to you and makes it easier to scrape up a decent amount of grout onto your float. Push the float tight against the side of the bucket and scrape off a dollop of grout (Photo 4). Any excess that falls off will only fall into the bucket and not off the edge and onto the floor.
Video: Removing Tile Grout
Simplify ceramic tile grout removal by using a carbide-grit blade in a reciprocating saw or an oscillating tool. Both speed up this tough, tedious chore.
Step 4: Load the joints
Always grout the walls first, and after they're finished, the floor. That'll keep you from messing up a finished floor. Apply the grout diagonally across the tile joints to squish the grout into the joints (Photo 5). Use whichever side or corner of the float is necessary to fully compress grout into the entire joint. On vertical surfaces, apply grout upward. That way you won't drop so much on the floor.
Step 5: Clean off excess grout
After you've filled all the joints, make your first "cleanup" passes with the float. Your goal is merely to get as much excess grout as possible off the face of the tile. Hold the float at a sharp angle to the tile and scrape excess grout from the surface. Use a serpentine motion to make it faster and easier (Photo 6).
Step 6: Sponge the surface
Once the grout has started to harden (20 to 30 minutes), begin sponging (Photo 7). Don't use just any sponge, especially one from the kitchen; choose a "hydrophilic" (water-loving) sponge. They're sold near the tile supplies. Make sure it's damp, not wet, and sweep diagonally across the face of the tile and wipe the grout off the tile surface. On your first few passes, the grout will smear all over the tile and look like a mess—that's OK. Just rinse out your sponge often in a bucket of clean water (never in the sink) and keep wiping until most of the smeared-on grout is gone.
Step 7: Tool the grout lines
When the surface has been cleaned, begin "tooling" (smoothing and leveling) the grout lines with the sponge. Hold the sponge in your palm and, gently pressing down with your index finger, run the sponge over any grout joints that look too high or uneven (Photo 8). The goal is consistent, even-depth grout joints. Don't push too hard; let the sponge do the work.
Step 8: Towel off the haze
After all the joints have been dressed, step away for about a half hour to let the surface dry and form a haze. Then wipe away the haze with a towel. Regular towels work, but microfiber towels are the hot ticket for this task. With more fibers, they remove grout haze much quicker and cleaner than a regular towel.
Step 9: Caulk all inside corners
Don't grout inside corners. Inside corners that are grouted will always crack over time. Choose a matching color caulk designed to coordinate with the grout you've used. It's sold in matching colors near the grout.
Sanded vs Unsanded Grout
Sanded grout is stronger than unsanded grout and resists shrinkage and cracking better. As a rule of thumb, sanded grout should be used in joints larger than 1/8 in. Realistically, as long as you can force the grout into the joint, use sanded grout. But on soft stone tiles like polished limestone or marble, use only unsanded grout or you'll scratch the surface.


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well if youre buying youre canvas prestretched u dont need to know much...Originally posted by dcite@Sep 26 2004, 09:43 PM
i want to start using canvas.
anyone have any general tips, just some stuff i should be aware of?
also, are there any different types of canvas? what type/where should i get it?
thres different kinds of fabric... of course that affects its texture and all... also say its cotton, there fine weave, rough weave etc...
nothing to complcated there...
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LOS ANGELES - A new study by researchers from USC and England's University of Oxford indicates that large amounts of high fructose corn syrup in national food supplies across the world may explain the rising global epidemic of type 2 diabetes, making the sweetener an international menace, USC said today.
The study found that countries that use HFCS in their food supply had a 20 percent higher prevalence of diabetes than countries that did not, according to a USC statement.
The study focused on the use of high fructose corn syrup in 42 countries in North America, Europe, Asia and Northern Africa and its association with diabetes. The findings appear in the journal Global Public Health in an article titled, "High Fructose Corn Syrup and Diabetes Prevalence: A Global Perspective."
"HFCS appears to pose a serious public health problem on a global scale," said principal study author Michael I. Goran, professor of preventive medicine, director of the Childhood Obesity Research Center and co-director of the Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute at the Keck School of Medicine at USC.
"The study adds to a growing body of scientific literature that indicates HFCS consumption may result in negative health consequences distinct from and more deleterious than natural sugar."
Out of the 42 countries studied, the United States has the highest per capita consumption of HFCS - 55 pounds per year, according to USC.
The second highest is Hungary, with an annual rate of 46 pounds per capita.
Canada, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Belgium, Argentina, Korea, Japan and Mexico are also relatively high HFCS consumers while Germany, Poland, Greece, Portugal, Egypt, Finland and Serbia are among the lowest, USC reported.
Countries with higher use of HFCS had an average prevalence of type 2 diabetes of 8 percent compared to 6.7 percent in countries not using HFCS, according to USC.
"This research suggests that HFCS can increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, which is one of the most common causes of death in the world today," said study co-author Professor Stanley Ulijaszek, director of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
Complications from type 2 diabetes include blindness, dementia, gum disease, cardiovascular disease and an increase in lower limb amputations.
People with type 2 diabetes typically have a 10-year shorter life span than the general population.


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In the final reckoning, people are never that creative. That's true even when they think they're changing history. The explorer who goes to the ends of the earth is usually after fame, money, or both. The investor will ignore every warning sign about a too-good-to-be-true opportunity until it's too late and he's lost everything. The genius inventor announcing that he's creating an epochal advancement in technology will turn out to have some fairly mundane reasons for doing so.
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The cartel wars' corrosive corruption and psychotic butchery that have been progressively pulverizing Mexican society for over a decade have just now begun registering as more than a blip on the American cultural consciousness. One would think that such horror-film savagery and rock-and-roll street combat happening right next door, with a constantly mutating cast of heroes who turn out to be villains and villains who turn out to be monsters, would have grabbed more attention sooner. But, then, it was only after Clint Eastwood's American Sniper reimagined another murky conflict into a reassuring and essentially false good-guy crusader narrative that the public turned out in real numbers for an Iraq War film.
Now there is Denis Villeneuve's Sicario, set in a U.S.-Mexico border zone awash in drug money, paranoia, and double-digit body counts. Emily Blunt (painfully miscast) plays Kate, an FBI agent who during a seemingly routine raid in an Arizona suburb stumbles into a cartel kill-house where the walls are filled with dozens of plastic-wrapped corpses, like some macabre art exhibit. Pulling that string gets her yanked into a larger cross-agency task force swaddled in official hush-hush.
Wes Anderson isn't our greatest living filmmaker; his style is too narrowly defined for such a grand title. We tend to think of our greatest directors as both having a signature style but also being flexible enough to tackle many styles: Howard Hawks could move from urbane comedies to Westerns and epics, Martin Scorsese from urban grit to musicals and children's' fantasias, and so on. By contrast Anderson has one style, and each of his films simply refine it. All those twee little trinkets and fussy outfits could drive you mad, were one to watch too many in a row. But as perfectly Andersonian a spectacle as The Grand Budapest Hotel is, it also expands his reach in surprising ways. Being one of the year's most unique spectacles, it's also the first Anderson film made up of tragedy as much as it is comedy.
The prospect of spending an hour and a half with an actor in a car while they sweet-talk and argue with people on the phone would normally be straight tedium, a stunt by an attention-seeking filmmaker, or an actor desperate to gain notoriety with a bit of gimmickry just as their relevance dims. But when the actor is Tom Hardy, it's a different story. In Steven Knight's spellbinding Locke, Hardy darts through the tense screenplay with such graceful ease that his work feels more like something lived than performed. By the time this downbeat nail-biter is done, it feels justified to finally go ahead and say that Hardy is easily one of the greatest actors of his generation. Not that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association seems to have noticed; sadly, it's likely that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science will follow suit.
Want to know the difference 20 years makes? Two decades ago, Twitter was still 12 years away, Facebook a mere ten. Taylor Swift was four. Justin Bieber had just been born. The Matrix had yet to be released, and the only success Marvel could muster was the original Fantastic Four. If you live to be 80, two decades is one fourth of your life, and if you were a new parent at the start of 1994, your kid is either in college or moved back in with you by now.
Thomas Wolfe wrote the famous book You Can't Go Home Again way back in 1940, but its titular sentiment still applies, even today. You really can't recapture lightning in a bottle. About the best you can do is set-up your current situation to mimic the past as closely as possible, thereby hoping that, via karma or some unspoken magic, you can once again taste the fruits of your previous labors. That was clearly the plan for the Farrelly Brothers' Dumb and Dumber To.
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LONG BEACH — A man already on death row for the murder and sexual assault of a 14-year-old Fresno girl pleaded guilty Wednesday to the 1989 murder of a 15-year-old Wilson High School sophomore.
Royal Clark, 50, entered the guilty plea in exchange for a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Had he been convicted on all counts, Clark could have received the death penalty.
Clark also admitted using an electrical cord when he strangled 15-year-old Danielle Marie Haddon on or about Oct. 30, 1989, in her grandmother's home.
The teen was talking on the phone with a friend when she thought she heard someone at the door. Her body was discovered inside the apartment after her grandmother got home from work, according to the criminal complaint.
The case, however, remained unsolved for years, until a federal grant allowed Long Beach Police Department Cold Case detectives to run evidence found at the scene for a possible DNA match.
Long Beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell credited the grant with helping police find a suspect who would have otherwise never been found.
Clark, who was 27 at the time of the murder, was awaiting execution on San Quentin's Death Row when police announced the break in the case earlier this year. He was sentenced to death following his 1991 conviction on first-degree murder for the strangulation and attempted rape of 14-year-old Laurie Farcas of Fresno. He also has a prior conviction from 1985 for robbery on his record.
Clark is scheduled to return to the Long Beach Superior Court on April 26, for formal sentencing. As part of the plea agreement he can't file an appeal.
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The ensuing tirade concluded with a gratifying Clinton cannon ball: "Shame on you!"
cannon revealed that, "we have been living in separate houses for a few months."
"They won't say this out loud, but these guys all think they were cannon fodder for Pelosi and Obama," Trippi says.
When cannon woke up and grabbed Miller, Smith hit cannon with a bat.
I was aroused by a discharge of cannon, and found the camp in commotion.
Just then the welcome sound of the firing of cannon to seaward reached their ears.
cannon did not suffer from any disappointment as to the quality of the liquor.
There was no use trying to fight any longer with the "Chesapeake's" cannon.
On her arrival, the Portuguese troops received her under arms, and the cannon were fired off to do her honour.
c.1400, "tube for projectiles," from Anglo-French canon, Old French canon (14c.), from Italian cannone "large tube, barrel," augmentative of Latin canna "reed, tube" (see cane (n.)). Meaning "large ordnance piece," the main modern sense, is from 1520s. Spelling not differentiated from canon till c.1800. Cannon fodder (1891) translates German kanonenfutter (cf. Shakespeare's food for powder in "I Hen. IV").
A professional thief, esp a pickpocket: grand larceny, when a cannon lifts a wallet from a pocket
: You're too small to cannon the street-cars
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A pistol; firearm; piece: He holstered his own cannon (1900+ Underworld)
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When we talk about safety performance at Fermilab, we talk about the number of incidents as a way of measuring our performance. While it is a way to measure, it is odd to claim we had a good performance because we only had a given number of injuries. The only number that makes sense when it comes to injuries is zero. Goal Zero means staying healthy and avoiding injuries. Recently we have moved further from zero than in past years.
To help us achieve Goal Zero, I am launching a new campaign called Take Five. It is a method that has proved useful at other institutions and can be of help here at Fermilab. Take Five is a reminder to take your time. Take five minutes before a job to consider how to do it safely; take five seconds to think about what youre going to do before you do it; take five things to reflect on after the job is done. This simple exercise will help all of us avoid the issues that arise when we act too quickly. It also serves as a mechanism for our talented technical staff to provide feedback into work processes and make them better.
Striving for Goal Zero and using Take Five will be especially important during the upcoming shutdown. Many of you will be working in new environments, perhaps for a new supervisor or with unfamiliar colleagues. This is a time when we will be vulnerable to injuries and a time when Take Five can help.
We are all part of the Fermilab team and we succeed or fail together. Please think about Goal Zero and use Take Five during your work here and at home. It will help us achieve our goal of zero injuries during the shutdown and all year long.


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A winner will be chosen February 1st by Jamie O'Brien himself. Leave your caption in the comment section but remember, you must be a registered user on transworldsurf.com in order for us to contact you. Get creative, get wild, and get weird!


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High on the Alto 3880
Those of you who know me know that I'm an old ThinkPad guy, in more ways than one. I myself am older than many of you reading this — well on my way to AARP membership status as I reach 55 this November — and the ThinkPads I use on a daily basis are themselves old, namely a T30 and an R40.
ThinkPads are painfully utilitarian, amazingly solid, and like the Model T Fords come in a wide variety of colors as long as you choose black. For these reasons, ThinkPads lend themselves to being the laptop of choice for many laptop users, mostly developers. To make them more attractive — for loss of a better word — many a ThinkPad is embellished with stickers on the cover, rivaling the best of the NASCAR field. Mine is no exception: My ThinkPad does its laps with EFF, SCALE 10X, Oregon State University Open Source Lab, Open Source for America, two Google Summer of Code, and No Starch Press stickers gracing the laptop cover.
So when ZaReason sent me an Alto 3880 to put through its paces, my first reaction was, "Wow. This is too nice to put stickers on."
The Alto 3880's cover is a very stylish silver and should be kept in its pristine form. A look around the laptop before opening it shows that ports are readily available on the sides — with monitor, ethernet and USB ports conveniently located on the left side instead of on the back. While many might find this a simple design, ThinkPad users would be thrilled to know that the oft-inconvenient ThinkPad reacharound to plug in USB cables or thumb drives is not necessary here. In giving it the once over before opening it, the Alto is light in one's hands, but it still feels sturdy.
Opening the cover and pushing the on button reveals a screen with remarkable clarity contrasted on a black background and base. If you're a regular ThinkPad user, the keyboard is different — flat keys at the same level — and takes getting used to. With heavy fingers like mine, the pounding I would normally offer the ThinkPad feels like I'm mercilessly pounding this keyboard and suggests some behavior modification. But ultimately the keyboard is tough enough to withstand it and after adjusting to the new keyboard — wider than the ThinkPad's — it is easy to adapt to and to get accustomed to the additional real estate for your hands.
Performance wise, the Alto 3880 flies on the trio of distros I used on it, and without boring you with the minutiae, with one exception that turned out to be a software clash, the laptop performed without a hitch. With the 1366-by-768 resolution on a an remarkably clear 14-inch screen, the laptop would make a fine — no, make that an outstanding — replacement for my old ThinkPads.
I used three different distros on the Alto 3880, and each performed well, and each would make a fine choice for the person owning this laptop. The three contestants, for the sake of argument, are Linux Mint and Fedora — both which you can have preinstalled by ZaReason — and CrunchBang, which you can install on your own (until I convince ZaReason to make it a choice). However, as I understand it, if you request a different distro, ZaReason will install it. Or if you want no operating system, they'll send it like that, too. Unlike other Linux hardware vendors, ZaReason offers a wide choice in this department.
But I digress. Here's how the distros did:
Alto 3880 with Linux Mint: Originally, the laptop came to me with Linux Mint 12, which is the latest version of the distro with the GNOME 2.x-type desktop. The Alto 3880 did remarkably well with Linux Mint, which is growing on a lot of people (including me). Switching from MATE to GNOME to Cinnamon was a snap, and the performance was outstanding. In one instance on a busy morning where I forgot to plug in the laptop, I got just over four hours from the battery using multiple programs on Linux Mint.
Alto 3880 with Fedora 16: I'm waiting for the myth that Fedora is too "cutting edge" for the average user to go the way of the Studebaker and the hula hoop. It's just that — a myth — and Fedora 16 runs circles around just about everything else on this machine. After installing Flash so one can — oh, I don't know — participate in the wider Internet world, the distro and hardware handled everything I threw at it from a video and audio standpoint with aplomb.
Alto 3880 with CrunchBang Statler: The laptop has the horses, so to speak, to run the previous two desktop environments without breaking a sweat. So when faced with handling the Openbox window manager on CrunchBang, the distro soared. Also, the built-in camera worked flawlessly during a Google+ Hangout with the CrunchBang crew.
Alto 3880 strengths
Regardless of what distro is running on it, the Alto 3880 is remarkably versatile and handles a wide range of work without complaint. In fact, the only problem I had was helping my daughter solve what turned out to be a common GIMP and Banshee problem where the programs, both running simultaneously, weren't playing nice with each other — clearly not a reflection on the hardware. The screen is very clear and handles high resolutions flawlessly, which is a benefit for those who want to do things like watch videos or do intricate graphics work (Note: My daughter Mimi will be writing her own review of this laptop as well). Across the distro board, the audio and video performance was outstanding, with the onboard speakers sounding good enough to forgo plugging in speakers in some cases (though the speakers sounded good, too, when used to watch DVDs). the laptop itself is lightweight but solid, and the design is top-notch — this is a beautiful laptop.
Needs improvement?
There is a lot to like on this laptop, but the one thing that took getting used to is the keyboard. Again, this might be just something for the personal preference folder, but the keyboard at first tends to feel a little light to the touch. Also, the mouse button, which is a single bar at the same level as the touchpad operating on a centered fulcrum (click the left side for the left mouse button, right side for the right) is hard to adjust to when coming from hardware where the buttons are raised. To be fair, it would be difficult to imagine that a ThinkPad-like keyboard would work, design wise, on a laptop like this.
A final look
I don't have a rating system — stars, penguins, horseshoes, whatever — in place, but if I did I would rank the Alto 3880 very high; for the sake of argument, let's say 4.5 penguins out of a perfect 5 penguins. Its combination of sleek design and high performance make this laptop one that would easily draw me away from the ranks of the ThinkPad users. The retail price for this machine is $599, which many of you might think is a little high compared to what you could get at Best Buy. But when you consider that when buying from a Linux hardware vendor, you're not only getting a quality machine with a great OS, your purchase supports FOSS, for starters, by not putting another "sale" in Redmond's tally. With its wide range of capabilities and performance, the Alto 3880 is a laptop I would be proud to own and, if Uncle Sam is generous with a tax return, would be glad to purchase.
Screen: 14-inch HD, 1366-by-768 Glossy LED Backlit Display
Processor: Pentium B940, 2 GHz, 2 core, 2 thread
Memory: 4GB DDR-3
Graphics card: Intel Integrated HD Graphics
Hard Drive: 250GB 5,400 RPM (NOTE: Tested with 400GB HD)
Optical Drive: Combo CD/DVD burner
Audio: Speakers above the keyboard for quality sound output
Wireless: 802.11 B/G/N WiFi included and Bluetooth
Reader: 3-in-1 card reader — SD/MMC/MS supported
Camera: 1.3 Megapixel webcam included
Ports: HDMI and VGA monitor ports; Gigabit Ethernet port; ensington lock port; Headphone and microphone jacks; three USB 2.0 ports
Operating System: Your choice from a variety of Linux distros, or no operating system
Battery: Six-cell battery, up to 5 hours
Weight: 4.5 pounds
Price: $599
Coming tomorrow: This . . . is . . . STRATA! A look at the ZaReason Strata 6880.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)


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Miranda's friend, Sammy, dies of cardiac arrest, caused by ecstasy. She becomes dependent on drugs to keep her going. After realizing that she is becoming an "honest-to-goodness drug addict," she throws all the pills away and figures out who put ecstasy in Sammy's drink. ...
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Memory and CPU Usage Profiling
Much of the information on this page was gleaned from Chapter 25 of Real World Haskell.
It probably advisable to keep a separate branch specifically set up for profiling. That branch can just forked off a local ddc-head branch using:
darcs branch ddc-head ddc-profiling
After changing directory into the ddc-profiling branch I create a custom config in that branch by doing:
echo "BUILDFLAVOUR = devel_prof" > make/config-override.deps
The compiler can now be built using the make command.
Once we have the profiling version of the compiler built is a matter of running it on something appropriate. I usually choose the test program in test/90-Programs/Rover and run is as:
make cleanWar bin/ddc +RTS -hc -p -K100M -RTS --make test/90-Programs/Rover/Main.ds
This generates a profile output file named ddc.hp which can be converted into a profile graph using:
hp2ps -c ddc.hp
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Trevor was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and began his career as a teacher and sculptor. He taught both history and art at various schools in Northern Ireland and England, and then in 1960 he moved to London and worked as an advertising copywriter. It was at this time (1960–65) that Trevor began to publish his novels and short stories. Eventually he decided to move to Devon, England, and write full time.
His novels include The Old Boys (1964), The Boarding-House (1965), Mrs. Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel (1969), Elizabeth Alone (1973), The Children of Dynmouth (1976), Other People's Worlds (1980), Fools of Fortune (1983), The Silence in the Garden (1988), Death in Summer (1998), and The Story of Lucy Gault (2002), and Love and Summer (2009). He also wrote a number of highly acclaimed collections of short stories, including Angels at the Ritz and Other Stories (1975) and , The Hill Bachelors (2000), and Cheating at Canasta (2007). These are typically bleak tales featuring moments of reckoning in which characters can no longer seek refuge in the fantasies and illusions that had previously made their lives bearable.
His Trevor's story The Ballroom of Romance (1972) became a modern classic and was made into an award-winning television play in 1982. Other works by Trevor have been adapted for the screen, most notably the novel Felicia's Journey (1994), the film version of which was directed by Atom Egoyan and released in 1999. Influenced by the writings of James Joyce and Charles Dickens, Trevor possessed a keen skill for characterization and irony. His works for the most part focus on the psychology of eccentrics and outcasts.


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The Underdark is a literal underworld to the surface world for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing games. It is a vast subterranean network of interconnected caverns and tunnels stretching beneath entire continents.
Miniature Product DescriptionEdit
The source for the latest D&D miniatures release, the Underdark is a vast underground region replete with many iconic D&D monsters, including the infamous – and popular – drow elves. Per previous releases, the figures in this set are chosen from key D&D titles such as the Monster Manual, Book of Exalted Deeds, and Complete Adventurer. The set also features a wealth of characters from Forgotten Realms products such as Underdark, Unapproachable East, City of the Spider Queen, and the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting. Forgotten Realms novel readers will also recognize a range of familiar characters from best-selling titles. As an added bonus, eight miniatures will also have a second stat card that features epic-level stats specifically for high-level versions of those figures.
Booster pack contents
- Eight randomized, pre-painted, plastic miniatures
- Stat cards for each miniature, plus eight additional epic-level stat cards.
- Underdark set checklist
Item Code 967380000
Release Date November 2005
Format Boxed Set
Price $12.99 ; C$17.99
External linksEdit
- There is an article about the Underdark at the Great Library of Greyhawk.
- There is an article about the Underdark at Forgotten Realms Wiki.
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A recent series of studies shows that whey protein taken before a meal decreases overall food consumption during the meal. The most recent study confirms this effect and provides additional insight into how much whey protein is required to elicit this effect.
In the first study, subjects were tested on four separate visits. At each visit, subjects consumed a standardized breakfast. Then at 10:45 a.m., they received a shake containing either a placebo (with zero calories and zero protein) or a shake containing 400 kcal made up of either 13%, 25%, or 50% of whey protein (13g, 25g and 50g of whey protein respectively).
Ninety minutes after ingesting the shake, subjects were provided a pasta-based lunch and asked to eat as much as they wished.
There was a tiered reduction in the number of calories consumed at lunch as the percentage of protein increased in each whey shake.
The effect was stronger in men than women. For example, men who ingested the 50g protein shake ate 450 Calories less during lunch, whereas women who ingested the same shake ate only 200 Calories less.
The reason for the greater effect in men remains unclear, but regardless of gender, both men and women consumed less after drinking a whey protein shake 90 minutes prior to a meal.


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Well done. It would prevent them from using handseals too.
(Kanashibari no Jutsu) - Temporary Body Paralysis Technique
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Description: Kanashibari no Jutsu is an advanced Ninjutsu technique used to temporarily bind an individual or animal. With the person frozen in place, the ninja can either take the opportunity to attack or to retreat.
Now, let's say you were trapped in a house with a murderer, with no way out. With each second, your impending doom comes closer and closer...
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GARY Waddock will wait as long as it takes in order to bring the right players into Oxford United.
The U's head coach has only so far signed striker Danny Hylton as he shapes his squad for next season's campaign.
But while several other Sky Bet League Two clubs have made numerous acquisition, Waddock is prepared to sit tight to ensure that any new faces fit the criteria he is looking for.
"There is an awful amount of hard work and preparation that is being done here, everyone can rest assured of that," he said.
"I'm like every other fan and in an ideal world the whole squad would be assembled the day after Northampton match.
"But that just doesn't happen.
"You can't just phone up a player, meet him the next day and get every- thing done and dusted straight away – that's not the way it is."
The United boss added: "It is crucial that we make sure we get the right kind of people in.
"We know the types of player we want and we are all working extremely hard to make sure that happens."
Waddock has held plenty of meetings with potential signings and their representatives and is hopeful of transfer activity in the near future.
But the former Wycombe Wanderers boss says he will not be rushed into anything.
"My phone has constantly been on charge with all the use it's getting at the minute," he said.
"I have had numerous meetings with players and agents.
"We've missed out on one or two and when that happens you have to start the whole process over again.
"But it's the busiest time of the year by far and it's all about getting the right players in, which I am confident we will do."
The U's squad report back for pre-season at the end of the month, and while their boss would like to have added to his squad by then, he appreciates there are advantages of playing a waiting game.
Players still without a contract often drop their demands the closer it gets to pre-season, and with many clubs having already spent most of their budget on new faces, others can pounce.
"That's certainly one positive," he commented.
"Players want to look at their options and see what's out there, of course they do.
"But at the back of their mind as pre-season looms is that they have not got a club and want to be involved somewhere.
"We have kept the majority of the squad from last season and we weren't far away, so it's a case of making sure the new additions are the right ones.
"I'm willing to be patient to make sure that's the case."
Latest United news:
- Curtis Nelson proud to be named Oxford United's new captain
- John Lundstram salutes Oxford United's fans after Sheffield United move
- Mike Williamson so hungry to succeed after signing Oxford United contract
- Oxford United receive "attractive fee" for John Lundstram from Sheffield United
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Archives for January 2011
Sale of Sabres to Pegula Announcement Coming Thursday Morning
Pegula drew violations as gas driller
'In the course of making his fortune, the Florida billionaire negotiating to buy the Buffalo Sabres contributed heavily to politicians in a position to advance his business interests and established a less-than-stellar track record in the environmentally dicey business of drilling for natural gas, The Buffalo News has found.'
Prospective Sabres buyer wows panel
'"I've spent time with him on multiple occasions," Bettman said after a news conference in RBC Center as part of All-Star weekend. "I think he's a good guy. He has the resources. He's familiar with the area. I think when he lived in Pittsburgh he was a Sabres season-ticket holder. He obviously loves the game. He's investing in it on all levels."'
Sunday's Portland Coverage
Last-second goal lifts Pirates, 3-2 (Portland Press Herald)
Late game heroics lead Pirates into well-deserved break (Maine Hockey Journal)
Pirates Slide Past Whale (PortlandPirates.com)
Buzzer-beating Pirate Goal Stuns Whale (ProvidenceBruins.com)
Sources: Terry Pegula set to buy Sabres
'The Sabres' sale was updated at the NHL's Board of Governors meeting here at All-Star Weekend. Once the purchase agreement is announced, the sale is expected to close within a month, sources said.'
Pegula to outline plan to buy Sabres
'Recent speculation that suggested Pegula would assume ownership after meeting with the full board this weekend was unfounded, as was speculation he would attend the full meeting. He is not eligible to attend the governors meetings until he officially becomes a governor. A league source estimated that Pegula would close on the sale in the next few weeks, or sometime in February, assuming negotiations continue without complications.'
NHL All-Star weekend is showcase
'Ennis figured he would mosey through the airport Friday without much trouble considering he's a rookie from Buffalo who wasn't part of the main event. He was stopped by about 20 autograph hounds minutes after stepping off the plane.'
Saturday's Portland Coverage
'Tired' Pirates lose and drop to second place (Portland Press Herald)
Pirates can't make it five against the Bruins (Maine Hockey Journal)
Providence scores early and never looks back (Providence Journal)
Bruins Double Up Pirates (PortlandPirates.com)
Pirates Sign Bushee (PortlandPirates.com)
P-Bruins rob the Pirates (ProvidenceBruins.com)
Time for Darcy Regier to Show SomeOe Guts
"Come the deadline, if we hear Regier say "the market was too steep" to bring in players that could help him, it will be his own fault. There's no question. We also will not be able to complain about his being aloof, or that he's not learned from his mistakes in the past. He stated in the quotes that someone will set the market. Again, here's his chance."
NHL Trade Deadline: We're One Month Away!
""Most of us have players that we would make available even right now for a trade, either because they're underperforming and/or overpaid," Buffalo Sabres GM Darcy Regier told us this week. "But it's impossible right now to get an agreement on values. We're all hoping that we're going to be able to just charge a cost without taking anything back, and that's not reality. So I think, yes, we're all sitting around to the last day or two again [before the trade deadline]."
Friday's Portland Coverage
Pirates need break for some healing (Portland Press Herald)
Overachieving under the radar (TheAHL.com)
Sabres' Gerbe tuning up his game
'"The opportunities are going in now, opportunities that were there early in the year that he maybe would have passed up on," Ruff said. "He's shooting now. He's shooting more, shooting with more purpose, and that's helped him."'
Regier sees postseason within reach
'"I think we're moving in the right direction," said Regier, who feels the team finally has turned the corner from conference afterthought to playoff hopeful. "I do. I think from attitude to work ethic to commitment as a group, it's been very positive."'
Thursday's Portland Coverage
Injured, but still a big help (Portland Press Herald)
TV prompts new start time for Sabres-Capitals game
'The change was announced by the Sabres on Wednesday after NBC reached a deal to broadcast four games on that date as part of its Hockey Day in America coverage. Sabres-Capitals was originally scheduled to start at 3 p.m.'


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Bryce Harper Tweets Very Bryce Harper Photo
Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper will be out until at least early July after having surgery on his thumb.
The Tuesday surgery appeared to go well. After the operation, Harper shared a photo. The picture is very Bryce Harper.
On the road to recovery..Everything went great and I'll be back soon! Thank you to all the fans for the support! pic.twitter.com/66Wn7sxHQ9
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Okay, sorry that my travels in Italy pushed back the start of the new month, but let's get rolling here.
The wine of the month is Chianti, with specific focus on Chianti Classico and Chianti Classico Riserva.
I'll go into more detail in a 30 Second Wine Advisor article soon, which I'll cross-post here, but as most of you know, Chianti is the historic red wine of Tuscany, with a heritage of 700 years or so in the hill country that generally lies between the cities of Florence and Siena. Sangiovese is the dominant grape (75 to 90 percent of the blend under current regs), blended in a range of specified proportions with Canaiolo, a less familiar red grape, and a tiny amount (or none) of white Malvasia or Trebbiano and, under modern regs, a splash of up to 10 percent of "non-traditional" grapes like Cabernet Sauvignon. Chianti Classico is limited to grapes made in the central part of the region, generally considered best and most traditional; Chianti Classico Riserva is aged for a total of three years (in oak and/or in bottle) before release.
In our parents' time, Chianti was a lightly regarded wine, usually sold in the traditional wicker-basket-wrapped bottle called a fiasco and thought of as a rough, harsh red for spaghetti and pizza. In modern times, the Chianti industry has largely turned that reputation around, and Tuscan wines - both Chianti and the modern blends called "Super Tuscans" - earn considerable respect.
I've always loved them, for their warmth and structure and remarkable food-friendliness. A great Burgundy or Bordeaux or Barolo may make me sit up and take notice, but Chianti almost always makes me smile.
For this month's studies, we'll accept any style of Chianti, and (note the "PLUS" above), we'll also open the door to comparing and contrasting any other Tuscan DOC wine, from Chianti cousins Brunello de Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano to such lesser-known DOCs as Chianti Colli Senesi and Morellino di Scansano. But let's keep it to the DOC and DOCG categories, reserving the non-traditional IGT and Super Tuscans for another time.
You're also welcome to pop into the Forum Kitchen and talk about Tuscan food and recipes and wine matching. Tuscan cuisine is known for its hearty rustic simplicity, featuring grilled meats, considerable use of beans as starch (the rest of Italy jokingly calls Tuscans Mangiafazoli or "bean eaters"), and relatively little pasta.


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Robber Vs. 30-Year Iraqi Vet
A 30-year military vet is being called a hero after he stopped an attemped robbery in small-town Missouri.
The would-be robber picked the worst liquor store to rob when he ran into clerk Jon Lewis Alexander, who did four tours in Iraq and worked as a prison guard, private eye and a bounty hunter.
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Fox News strains to revive its phony New Black Panthers scandal
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Fox News is attempting to breathe new life into the phony New Black Panthers scandal it mercilessly and intensely hyped throughout the summer. National correspondent Catherine Herridge reported today on what she herself called "a routine meeting" at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights where "what we anticipated is a status report on their investigation" and "a draft report of somewhere between 25 and 30 pages, with the final report" expected "several months down the road." Given the fact that the Republican vice chairwoman of the commission has said the investigation is nothing more than an effort by conservatives on the commission to "topple" the Obama administration, Fox News' continued coverage should be seen as nothing more than its political activism masquerading as journalism.
Herridge reported live outside the Civil Rights Commission and said the commissioners "opened the meeting with a brief update," and then "began to discuss a letter that was sent by the Justice Department on August 11 to the commission, about whether the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is even handed in its application of the law, in this particular area. And then, the meeting quickly began to spiral out of control." Herridge explained:
Well, there are a number of frustrations. Members of the panel want to speak to personnel within the Justice Department about the investigation, and the handling under Eric Holder, the Attorney General, of the particular case in Philadelphia in November of 2008. They would like to talk to members, what they have told each other at the meeting, also in a number of written communications, is that they are not getting good cooperation and they have issued subpoenas but those subpoenas have not been enforced to date.
Of course, members of the commission have spoken to personnel within the Justice Department about the "handling under Eric Holder" of the New Black Panther Party case.
Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division testified exhaustively about the case in May, explaining, "This is a case about career people disagreeing with career people" over the merits of pursuing additional charges in the case. Abigail Thernstrom, the Republican vice chairwoman of the commission, has said that Perez's explanation is "perfectly plausible." Thernstrom has also said that the commission's inquiry "doesn't have to do with the Black Panthers," adding that conservatives on the commission wanted to use the case to "topple the administration."
Moreover, Perez directly addressed concerns over whether the DOJ is "even handed in its application of the law, in this particular area" in the August 11 letter Herridge cited. Perez pointed to the department's "ongoing work in Mississippi" where the Justice Department "filed a motion to prevent actions by defendants Ike Brown and the Noxubee County (Mississippi) Democratic Executive Committee on the grounds that the actions were motivated in part by racial animus against white voters." As I noted at the time the DOJ moved against Brown and the Noxubee Democrats, there is no plausible question as to whether the Obama administration is "even handed," having successfully obtained default judgment against Samir Shabazz, a member of the New Black Panther Party who carried a weapon outside a polling station on Election Day 2008, and has requested additional judgment against black leaders in Mississippi who were found to have discriminated against white voters.
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