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The former Tottenham striker is looking for a winter-break move, and enjoyed spending a six-week spell with Villa last season
Battering Aston Villa is one thing. Going toe-to-toe in a must-win Champions League clash with the Boys from the Bernabeu is quite another
In TV's best feel-good moment since London 2012, Helen Flanagan made it past the finishing line. And out of the starter's blocks, even
Tetchy Gunners boss says whether the club and Theo agree new terms or not, the England flank ferret will be scurrying for Gunners until summer
The title race goes down to the final Grand Prix of the season after Fernando Alonso drove his Ferrari in third place in Austin
"He's a beautiful player to watch and as a Liverpool fan I hope I'm watching him for many years to come," says the Anfield chief
Liverpool's wonderkid could be gone before Christmas in theory – but Anfield boss Brendan has no doubts he'll be pulling a cracker with young Raheem
Brendan Rodgers was an academy coach at Royals when youngster was coming through the ranks PLUS Heskey looking to stay Down Under
England's owl has seen plenty of decent efforts down the centuries, many in the good old days when the balls had laces and were made of offal
Spanish 'ace' has gone 470 Premier League minutes without a goal, and Chelsea boss Roberto has had enough ahead of must-win trip
Defeat of European champions Chelsea means West Brom are a serious force in the Premier League now screams upbeat poacher Peter
Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Rio Ferdinand all looked to be out of legs as Manchester United near a crucial three weeks of their season
Brendan Rodgers is balancing the need to pay the wonderkid enough to keep him, but not spoil him
The Canaries boss was full of praise for his goalkeeper, saying his impressive form wouldn't have been missed by Roy Hodgson
Every year it seems to be the same race between the Christmas decorations appearing... and Chelsea's trophy hopes fading
Jack reckons Arsenal's Spanish maestro should be nicknamed after Barca ace - or possibly Diego Maradona (though not the 2012 edition presumably)
There's a line where positive thinking turns into self-delusion - and it looks like Villas-Boas has crossed over to the other side and isn't coming back
Toffees could – and should – have broken into the top three, but after dominating the first half they let strugglers steal all the points
Former Rotherham striker knew he'd score the vital penalty, just like he knew Royals would hold their own in the Premier League
Young Brazilian striker was wanted by Harry Redknapp, then by Andre Villas-Boas, and thought to be ripe for move, until now...
Eddie Hearn says Bute has three weeks to prove himself after Froch's third-round knockout win at the weekend
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It was the P45 Derby, and QPR boss Sparky was the loser, as former Scunny physio Nigel Adkins marshaled his Southampton side to an away victory
The 20-year-old claimed a narrow victory in the omnium event and secured Britain's only medal on the final day
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Swansea make it back-to-back defeats for Toon, and some worrying season-on-season numbers leave boss Pards counting cost of ongoing injuries
Roy Hodgson wants the Crystal Palace flyer to nail down his England senior future – but in theory the decision could still go either way
The former England coach says England will not get many better chances to beat the Wallabies after losing at Twickenham
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The elderly Spurs goalkeeper has lost his place in favour of young Frenchman Hugo Lloris – but Southampton could offer him a home
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The Daybreak star found himself in the bottom two with former Westlife singer Nicky Byrne
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Classic Mirror cartoon strip is made into show and will hit the small screen in the New Year
Researchers compared 115 popular household products at Asda, Ocado, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose online over 12 months
Next year's show needs to be an honest contest rather than another cynical pantomime
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Team GB is alone in the world
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Leveraging Technology Solutions appointed Bradley Gay senior business consultant, based at its Buffalo office. Most recently Gay was program/project manager at Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield. Leveraging Technology Solutions is a Rochester-based software consulting services provider.
Lawley Benefits Group appointed Bob Madden employee benefits consultant. Madden previously was a vice president at First Niagara Benefits Consulting and the Gernold Agency for the last 17 years. He graduated from the University at Buffalo and Erie Community College.
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Sports Archive
Men's Hockey Splits, Still Top of WCHA
SCSU's men's hockey team wrapped up their final regular season home stand of the season with a pair of WCHA meetings against Michigan Tech over the weekend. St. Cloud State was victorious on Friday night 5-3. SCSU went one for three on the power play in the contest, scoring during the first man advantage of the game. Drew LeBlanc made the game 1-0 early in the first period and from that point on SCSU dominated. The Michigan Tech Huskies made an attempt at a comeback in the third period, scoring three goals but were unable to get anymore pucks past goaltender Ryan Faragher. Faragher made 42 saves in the contest.
Saturday night was senior night, featuring a ceremony that honored the careers of Taylor Johnson, Ben Hanowski and Drew LeBlanc prior to puck drop. (Listen to KVSC's Senior Salute from the broadcast here.) The night proved to be an emotional turmoil for the SCSU as they fell to the unranked Huskies of Michigan Tech 5-1. Michigan Tech wasted no time scoring in the game notching their first goal at the :28 mark of the first period to take a 1-0 lead that they never gave up. St. Cloud State took 37 shots in the contest but only one was able to get past MTU's goaltender Jamie Phillips. Jimmy Murray scored the lone goal for SCSU with just under three minutes remaining.
St. Cloud State does remain in the top spot of the WCHA with a two-point lead over Minnesota and North Dakota. With the win Friday the Huskies secured a home ice spot for the first round of WCHA playoffs March 15-17th. St. Cloud State dropped in USCHO polls this week to eighth place and is now tied for tenth place in the all-important PairWise rankings.
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by Will Ashworth | November 22, 2013 11:58 am
We're heading into the busiest time of the year for retailers, which means it's time to look at who's will come out of the holiday season on top.
Walmart (WMT[1]) and Target (TGT[2]) have a lot riding on the holiday season, and there are plenty of questions up in the air about the discount giants. How are they doing as we enter the 2013 homestretch? Do they have what it takes to grow in 2014? What's their long-term prognosis?
I'll take a look at different aspects of both businesses, and pick a winner.
Target's most obvious move is its Canadian expansion. In August I wrote about the problems[3] it was having north of the border, all focusing around customer service, or the lack thereof. By the end of the year TGT expects to have 124 stores open coast to coast, from a standing start of none at the end of February. That's quite an accomplishment regardless of its mixed results, but so far, Target has missed the mark in almost every conceivable way.
TGT hasn't lost its confidence, though. CEO Gregg Steinhafel told analysts Wednesday, "Initial sales in Canada have fallen well short of expectations … [But, we remain] confident we will reach our long-range financial goals in our Canadian segment." Those goals call for $6 billion in revenue by 2017, although the Target Canada website[4] suggests it could take up to 10 years. Regardless of the timeline, I've gone on record[5] several times suggesting that the number is in fact … too low. You might not think so now but Target is going to get the job done.
Walmart's big initiative right now is its full-court press on holiday shopping. With comps in the dumper, it's matching Black Friday prices from Target, Best Buy (BBY[6]) and others. The Deals will start Nov. 22, six days before Thanksgiving, when it will open its big sales event two hours earlier at 6 p.m. Bill Simon, Walmart's head of U.S. operations had this to say about the event: "Black Friday is our day — our Super Bowl — and we're ready to prove once again that no one does it better than Walmart."
While it's true Black Friday ranks as the biggest shopping day of the year, these moves hardly sound like the bold initiatives needed to keep the world's largest retailer growing long-term. As InvestorPlace's Adam Benjamin points out, its troubles[7] in China, Brazil and India seem far more pressing to its long-term success than any moves it makes on turkey day.
Winner: Target
When earnings are in flux, as they are with TGT, we need to move away from the traditional earnings-based valuation metrics to measures not directly tied to the bottom line. Looking at price-to-sales and price-to-book, the two stocks are almost identical in their valuation multiples. Historically, both are also trading around their five-year averages with Walmart's P/B a tad higher than normal. But there's certainly nothing out of the ordinary that stands out for either stock.
To break the stalemate I thought I'd look at each company's operating cash flow as a percentage of its market cap, essentially flipping the P/CF ratio providing an operating cash flow yield. (I've used operating cash flow instead of free cash flow because of Target's increased expenditures for Canada.) In this example, Target's OCF yield is 13.2%, 360 basis points higher than Walmart's. Once Target reaches its more normalized level of margins in Canada, I believe this gap will widen.
Winner: Target
The numbers are in, and they aren't pretty for either retailer.
Target announced Q3 earnings Thursday, and the obvious blemish in its press release is the 46% drop in net earnings — down to $341 million on $17.3 billion in revenue. The quarter looks a little better if you back out the Canadian business, with a 2% increase in revenue year-over-year, and a 0.9% same-store sales increase.
Canada's EBIT loss for the first nine months of the year is $612 million or $0.95 per share. On the surface, that's tough to swallow, but investors knew these losses were coming — you don't open 124 stores in one year without a whack of overhead hitting the books. Going forward, TGT should see a ton of improvement just by opening more stores and sharing expansion costs over a wider network.
Walmart's Q3 earnings were less than stellar, but it did manage to grow them by 2.8% year-over-year — up to $3.73 billon. Unlike TGT, the company is at least heading in the right direction. That comparison is a bit unfair, however, because Target's Canadian operation is still in start-up mode. Walmart's international outposts, including Canada, are fairly mature with better margins. A fairer comparison is to examine both companies' U.S. operations.
In the third quarter, WMT same-store sales dropped by 0.1% in the U.S. — its third consecutive quarter with declining comps. Target's comps were up 0.9% in Q3, although both companies missed analyst estimates. Walmart's operating income in the quarter grew 5.8% to $5.1 billion. Target's declined by 8.8% to $1.5 billion. On the top line, Walmart's revenues increased 2.4% in the quarter compared to 2% for Target.
Winner: Walmart
I'll keep this short and sweet.
WMT doesn't appear to have many catalysts that can make its stock move. TGT, on the other hand, has two potential catalysts that aren't currently reflected in its stock. The first — Canada — is a huge shadow hanging over the company. Uncertainty creates buyer reluctance. Until investors can see the light at the end of the tunnel, its stock will remain under pressure.
The second catalyst is its U.S. segment, which needs to lower its SG&A margin. To that end, it announced in October that it was laying off 150 employees at its Minneapolis headquarters. While it's never fun letting people go, one look at its income statement speaks volumes about its cost controls. It can and will do better.
Winner: Target
I've recommended Walmart in the past, and I think it makes a decent core holding in most portfolios. But when compared directly to Target, there's no confusion — Target's the better stock for the next 2-3 years.
As of this writing, Will Ashworth did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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'Aurora Rose' heroine balances babysitting, monster mashing
Meet Aurora Rose, the ultimate babysitter.
Adding a supernatural mythos and a fresh new heroine to the "chosen one" pop-culture trope, the Arch Enemy Entertainment digital series Aurora Rose follows a 16-year-old girl who's destined for greatness and fights the forces of evil while also navigating the angst and obstacles of everyday high school life.
"A babysitter in her most natural form is a protector of children. What if you threw in the mix that she's protecting these kids from monsters of some shape or form?" says Jason Stevens, the co-writer of Aurora Rose alongside Arch Enemy founder William Wilson.
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Every Tuesday, USA TODAY will exclusively present new pages from Aurora Rose starting with the first issue. (One of the variant covers features female models from the Sigal Models and Talent Agency.)
Arch Enemy, the company behind the sci-fi action series F-00 Fighters, is also teaming with the rock band Chester French to give Aurora Rose readers a free download of Perfect Girl, one of the songs from the group's new album Music 4 Tngrs (out today).
"It's a fantastic song, and I think it pairs perfectly with the project," Wilson says.
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Filling out her iPod isn't on Aurora's top priority list, though. She's proactive in making money by babysitting and creating a foundation for her future, much to her own social detriment.
She feels a tug of responsibility and isn't quite sure why she'd rather care for kids on a Friday night than look for a date. However, there's a great reason why: Aurora's the latest in a centuries-long line of protectors who keep children safe from their nightmares.
"It's not just a personal motivation. It's actually something that's in her blood," says Aurora Rose artist Taylor Bills.
In a way, Aurora's a superhero because of her dual identities, according to Wilson. "Her full-time job is living in the real world, and at night she has to babysit, make $10 an hour, fight the forces of evil and hope she doesn't burn the house down."
Bills adds that "she doesn't get a lot of sleep," and the creators intend to explore the way her babysitting life impinges on everything else, from her school work to relationships with friends. She's even dozing off in the first issue.
But fans will have to wait a little while to get to know Aurora — and she won't realize her true destiny for a while, either. Many of the early pages in the first issue focus on setting up the mythology, such as the backstory of the ancient Templars vs. the Brotherhood of Sleep, an ancient cult and the main antagonistic force in Aurora Rose.
A child's imagination is a powerful thing, Stevens says, and the Brotherhood — which Stevens borrowed from John Carpenter's horror flick Prince of Darkness— has found a way to use kids as a conduit to create creatures that only Aurora is capable of eliminating.
"She's the wall between the good stuff and the very bad stuff in the world, and once you take that wall and knock it down, it's a free-for-all," Stevens says. "They've got to take her out because they know she has the power to stop them."
Adds Bills: "The monsters coming out of the closet and from under the bed are cool, but it's the larger story that I think will keep people interested."
There is a figurehead of the Brotherhood fans will meet — "A familiar character in a roundabout way," Stevens says — and a certain high school mind-set will be a key to the core theme and mystery.
"Everything isn't what it seems," Wilson says. "But when you're 16 years old, you think it's a certain way because of how you feel — not because of the reality. You're dictating off of emotion, you're not dictating off of using your mind and thinking things through."
Stevens found Aurora one of the harder characters he has ever had to write because, as he admits, he's not a teenage girl. Yet he found her voice, personality and insecurities in chunks, like with interplay between her and her best friend Juju.
While Aurora's naïve to the ways of the world at first, Stevens says, "she's not a ditz by any stretch. She has all these situations suddenly tossed into her lap, and it's just the tip of the iceberg.
"When you compound that with the ups and downs of being a normal teenage girl, it can make for some interesting writing."
And in designing Aurora, Bills wanted to show her being torn in several different directions, from being involved in school and an after-school job to actually having to save the world. So, she has hair that's messy and all over the place, Bills says. "She struck me as someone who would always have the wind-blown look."
Many of today's strong female leads owe a lot to the title heroine of Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Stevens admits that Aurora has some Buffy DNA in her. But there are also elements of Adventures in Babysitting, John Carpenter's original Halloween and even some old-school Lynda Carter Wonder Woman in the series, too, all with a 1980s Spielbergian bent.
"Wonder Woman was our Buffy, not Buffy," Wilson says. "Wonder Woman was always saving Steve Trevor — Steve Trevor wasn't saving Wonder Woman. He was the guy always getting knocked out and tied in a chair."
Many have lamented the lack of such characters in the current comic-book landscape, and Wilson feels his super babysitter is a role model unlike most any other superheroine.
"The comic-book industry's mad that women don't read, but when you make books about women who look like strippers, I don't think my girlfriend would read those books. I know my ex-wife wouldn't," Wilson says. "When we created Aurora Rose, we wanted a book that Jason's daughter Lauren could read — you wouldn't feel like, 'Oh my God, did you see what she did on page 22?!'
"It's one thing when you do a gig and a celebrity asks you to make a gun-toting maniac book. It's another thing when you create art and you know you have to give it to your mother."
Plus, it's hard to worry about teenage things like boys, texting and being cool when there is so much on Aurora's plate, Stevens says. "She's a woman who has to grow up. She's doing the most noble thing a woman can do, and that's protect the child."
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The Frank Langella-starrer Robot & Frank won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize this year at Sundance and is the first release from Park Pictures Features, the feature film division of commercial production house Park Pictures. Commercials helmer Jake Schreier is making his directorial debut with the Christopher Ford script. James Marsden, Liv Tyler and Susan Sarandon co-star. It opens August 24.
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Are we being punked?
So it's like Romero's MONKEY SHINES but with a robot instead of a monkey and without the terror.
You must kill in a pitch meeting!
At the pitch meeting for this, someone should have said, "Turn it around. Have the robot be retired living in seclusion with its robot brain implanted with the memories, emotions and algorithms of the troubled HAL-9000 computer from Kubrick's 2001, then have Langella be a sociologist who comes to comfort and evaluate the robot and tries to help the robot fit back into culture by getting it a part-time intern job at a small-town library. Then see what happens when the troubled lonely robot strikes up a friendship with Sarandon!"
Saw ROBOT & FRANK at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Twas a packed house, and the whole crowd sounded like it enjoyed the film. (Lots of belly laughs and such.) I thought it was a great mix of humor and thoughtfulness in a great take on the buddy film genre.
Why why why do trailers have to tell the whole story!
Trailers are too long and detailed because "that's the way trailers are done" and Hollywood hates change. I've seen worse, but yes, this could have hinted he adopts the robot as a partner in crime and left more to our imaginations.


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Start with teaching just the primary colors - red, blue, yellow and green. Once your child recognizes those colors, go on to teach the secondary colors - orange, purple, brown, black etc.
Find the Color
Play a color identifying game with your child by asking, "Can you find two things in your toy box that are red?" or "Tell me three things in the kitchen that are blue." Do a color hunt around the house. Simply walk around the house and identify everything that is blue, red, and so forth. Do the same thing when you are outside. When you are in the car, ask your child to watch for a car or truck of a particular color coming from the other direction!
Paint By Color
Find a simple picture such as a bunch of balloons or some flowers, a dinosaur or a clown. With a felt pen or crayon, color round circles of each of the primary colors on the corner of the page. Then label them numbers 1 to 4. Write the numbers in different places on your picture for your child to color. Your child will learn numbers and colors at the same time!
Color Day
Turn a blah or rainy day into a fun day by naming it a special color day. Example: Blue Day. Help your children dress in all blue and do the same yourself. As a surprise, make a special blue snack such as blue jello or add blue food coloring to your child's milk.
Make a "Book of Blue Things". Fold a piece of construction paper in half. Fold 3 or 4 sheets of white filler paper in half. Staple the white paper inside the blue construction paper to make a book. Get some old catalogues or magazines and ask your child to find or cut out all things that are blue. Once you have an assortment of pictures, have your child glue them in the book. Talk about the pictures your child has chosen.
Make a paper collage of different shades and textures of blue paper. Have your child tear the different blue papers into small, medium and large pieces. Glue the paper onto white cardboard, construction paper or a piece of posterboard. You can even help your child create "scenes" by having a light blue sky and a darker ble ocean. Keep it simple and keep it fun!
Make a marble paint picture. You will need a shoe box(or other box with a lid), a piece of white paper cut to the size of the shoe box, 2 or 3 marbles and tempura paint in different shades of blue. Place the paper in the box. Pour several drops of blue paint on the paper. Drop the marbles in the box and close the lid. Shake, rattle and roll the box around in different directions until the white paper is all "painted".
Get out some spoons, bowls and cookie cutters and make blue playdough. Click here for play dough recipe.
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Pour milk into a shallow glass dish. Drop 4-5 drops of red food coloring into the milk. Drop 4-5 drops of yellow near but, not on the red. You now have a red area and a yellow area.
Drop 2-3 drops of clear dish washing liquid between the two areas. Watch the action! Voila... orange!
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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: Death Registrant..
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 01:12:48 +0100
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In article <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Des <DesnospamGrenfell@
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>What is the usual practice for registering a death?
>In particular, who would normally be responsible for registering the death
>when a person dies in a hospital or nursing home.
Next of kin, relative present at the death, householder where the death
occurred, head of institution where the death occurred, 'person causing
the body to be buried; which might be a 'significant other' or social
services if the person was totally alone.
> And even more
>specifically, would the fact that the doctor of a nursing home registered a
>death indicate that the deceased had no known next of kin?
Unusual for a doctor to do it. Was he the owner of the nursing home and
only incidentally a doctor? Hope he didn't certify the cause of death as
well. Could mean there were no kin or no kin within the country or able
enough to register within the time. Personally, I would be ever so
slightly suspicious if it was done 'in house' and the Social services
were no involved. Who benefited by the will?
Eve McLaughlin
Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society
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Bravo 3 wears a gas mask for an unknown reason and complains of Frank referring to him as "the gas mask guy". He constantly questions the Chief's orders, and according to Chief's last moments of life, he blames Bravo 3 for jinxing him. Bravo 3 is also responsible for Bravo 2's death after shooting him point-blank range with his shotgun. Bravo 3 was about to kill Frank as well, but the invisible killer got to him just as he was about to fire on Frank, killing him with a giant spike.


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Enjoy music, hot chocolate, a bonfire and visits from winter
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Homewood businesses offer specials all night with musical trolley
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Provo • Florida Gulf Coast, the No. 15 seed that shocked No. 2 seed Georgetown on Friday night in the NCAA Tournament, gave BYU's basketball team further proof that Mercer will be a formidable opponent in Monday's NIT second-round game at the Marriott Center.
Mercer downed Florida Gulf Coast 77-70 at home in Macon, Ga., on Jan. 2 en route to winning the Atlantic Sun Conference regular-season title. The Bears lost just 60-57 at FGCU on Feb. 28, then fell to the Eagles 88-75 in the championship game of the ASC Tournament on March 9.
"We are in for a challenge," BYU senior Brock Zylstra said.
Ever since No. 7 seed Mercer downed No. 2 seed Tennessee 75-67 in Knoxville on Wednesday night, BYU coach Dave Rose has been reminding the Cougars that the Bears have won six straight postseason games, including the Collegeinsider.com championship game last March in Logan against Utah State.
"All of our guys understand that this is a very good basketball team," Rose said of 24-11 Mercer. "Hopefully, our guys are impressed with this team, because they are good. They are a really, really good basketball team."
A team that not only won at Tennessee in the NIT opener, but also at the SEC's Alabama (66-59) and at the ACC's Florida State (61-56), which pounded BYU 88-70 in New York last November.
"A lot of us watched the game [against Tennessee]," said Tyler Haws. "They are a tough team, went right at Tennessee, weren't scared at all."
Moving up the charts
With 37 points on Tuesday, Haws became the fifth player in BYU history to score 700 points or more in a single season, joining Jimmer Fredette (who did it twice), Devin Durrant, Danny Ainge and Michael Smith. Haws has scored 706 points and has scored 20 points or more in 22 games this season, tied for fifth in school history.
"We just want to keep playing and go as far as we can," Haws said Friday. "That's what teams do in March, and hopefully we can get this next one."
Injury update
Sophomore forward Josh Sharp missed Tuesday's game with a strained Achilles tendon and has not practiced in more than a week. He is doubtful against Mercer.
Junior guard Raul Delgado did not play against Washington due to a tailbone injury but has practiced the last two days and should be available to play Monday.
Mercer and BYU will be meeting for the first time on Monday. ... The Cougars are now 13-8 in NIT games, and 7-1 in NIT games played in the Marriott Center. ... Mercer is 8-2 in its last 10 games. ... After downing Washington 90-79, BYU teams coached by Rose are 44-0 when scoring 90 points or more.
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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2: It could have been scene out of a Hollywood movie as two men on a motorcyle were chasing another man on a motorcycle, shooting at him.But it happened in Bermuda yesterday and landed one man in the hospital with a non-life threatening gunshot wound.Around 5pm on Saturday, police responded to a report of gunshots in the North Shore Road, Band Room Lane Pembroke area.
A Police spokesperson said: "It appears that a man was on a motorcycle when two men on another motorcycle gave chase, shooting the victim at the junction. The 20 year old Pembroke man attended King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for treatment of his injury, which is not believed to be life threatening."
Police said a full investigation into this firearm incident is underway and are appealing for anyone who may have witnessed any suspicious activity in the area, particularly anyone who may have seen two men on a motorcycle chasing another motorcyclist in the areas of Glebe Road, North Shore Road and Band Room Lane around 5pm Saturday. Please contact police on 295-0011 or the independent and confidential Crime Stoppers hotline on 800-8477.
In a related incident, after police established a cordon at the scene of the shooting, a man on a motorcycle rode through the cordon on North Shore Road and proceeded on to Band Room Lane.
As a result, the man was forcefully taken off his motorcycle. He appeared to be intoxicated and was arrested on suspicion of impaired driving. He was then taken to Hamilton Police Station where he was processed and detained. A court appearance is anticipated in due course.


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Forget the awards, forget the fashion, this year's Grammys was all about the music. With tons of performances that included tributes, newcomers, legends and musical comebacks, the Grammys provided something from every genre of music.
Miguel and Wiz Khalifa took the Grammys stage for a mini performance — something new to the Grammys. If you didn't know who Miguel was before, you certainly will be able to recognize the crooner after last night's performance. The duo performed Miguel's hit song "Adorn," and even got a nod from Kelly Clarkson during her acceptance speech.
Carrie Underwood belted out her hit songs "Blown Away" and "Two Black Cadillacs." Her dress, which had digital images playing on it, was a bit distracting, but this country starlet never disappoints when she hits the Grammy stage.
Elton John joined Ed Sheeran to perform the Grammy newbie's hit song, "A-Team." Elton John is always amazing and Ed Sheeran is sure to win many Grammys in his future. Their performance was sweet and mellow, a nice change of pace from the usual awards show performances.
Bruno Mars was joined on stage by Sting, Rihanna, Ziggy Marley and Damian Marley to perform a tribute to Bob Marley. Together, they definitely brought some island flavor to the stage with this upbeat tribute that is sure to put a smile on your face.
Justin Timberlake returned to the Grammys stage after a four-year absence. Being the most-talked about performer of the night, JT performed his latest single "Suit & Tie" with Jay-Z and also performed a new song for his upcoming album called "Pusher Love Girl."
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Few things rub me the wrong way as much as poseurs masquerading as pastors. If that sounds unduly harsh, forgive me, but I don't think this is undue.Al Mohler recently published a piece on Joel Osteen's equation of Mormonism with evangelical and Catholic Christianity. … [Read more...]
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Honoring PETER GOLDSMITH as a recipient of the "2013 Outstanding Advocate for Science & Technology Award" presented by the Science Museum of Long Island, February 6th, 6pm to 8pm, at Westbury Manor
Science Museum of Long Island
Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 6:00 PM (EST)
Event Details
Recipient, "2013 Outstanding Advocate for Science & Technology Award"
The Science Museum of Long Island recently named Peter Goldsmith as a recipient of a 2013 OUTSTANDING ADVOCATE FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AWARD. Peter will be honored on Wednesday, February 6th at the Westbury Manor for his outstanding contributions toward the advancement and education of science and technology.
Please help support Peter in his goal to raise a minimum of $1,000 for this important fundraiser.
Proceeds support the Science Museum of Long Island's programs and services for the children and families of the region!
A summary of Peter Goldsmith's impressive list of accomplishments:
Peter Goldsmith worked for CBS Records as Director of A&R Operations under the mentorship of Clive Davis. He then joined Grumman Data Systems from 1975 – 1995 and was Director of Operations. In this capacity he traveled around the country supporting the many Grumman won Information Technology programs at NASA and other government sites. In 1995 he was put in charge of Project Long Island, and in the fall of 1997, a not for profit organization was formed called the Long Island Software and Technology Network or LISTnet.
Peter was elected Chairman and President of LISTnet, which in 16 years has grown to nearly 1,000 member companies with 80 Corporate Sponsors. Some of LISTnet's major events are LISA (Long Island Software Awards), Tech MELT, BEST, T³ (Twenty Top Techies), the Diamond Awards and the Techonomic Awards. There are also 18 Special Interest Groups (SIG's) and four Councils for CEO's, CFO's, CIO's and the ECHO Group. The purpose of LISTnet is to promote our region as a Technology Center of Excellence, and help Tech Companies grow their business. The four legs of LISTnet are Software/IT, Healthcare/IT, Smart Energy and Wireless/Mobility. In 2012, the LI Tech COMETS program (Connected Organization Mentoring Exciting Tech Startups) was started and three Long Island startups were selected for a six month mentoring program.
He has a BBA from CCNY and received a MBA with honors from St. John's University in 1978. He is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, was elected to Who's Who in the East and Who's Who in Finance, and is also an Adjunct Professor at Hofstra University. He is on the Stony Brook Universities' Computer Science Advisory Board and their College of Engineering & Applied Sciences Dean's Council, the Board of Energeia, the Board of Governors for Touro Law School and the Secretary and Board member of LI Angel Network. He was awarded an honorary Doctorate degree from Briarcliffe College in May 2001, received the "Have a Heart" Award in 2004 from the American Heart Association, the Touro Law School's "Friend of Justice" award in 2006, and the Rough Rider Award in 2007 from the Boy Scouts of America. Married to Joyce, they have one son, Matthew, who has his own criminal practice in New York City.
The inaugural ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AWARDS takes place on Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 6pm to 8pm, at Westbury Manor. To register or for more information, call Tracey Gittere at (516) 222-0550 or email@example.com
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05 January 2004
Abbas Oweid stood next to what was left of Saddam's dam and swept his hand across the grey desolation of sand, dust and broken homes to the north. "I knew all these villages" he said. "Take this down in your notebook; you should remember the names of these dead villages: Mahamar, Manzan, Meshal, Daoudi, Djezeran Nakbia, Zalal, Abu Talfa, Jdedah, Ghalivah, Um al-Hamadi, Al-Gufas, Al-Khor, Al-Hammsn ..."
It was too much. I couldn't keep up with Mr Oweid. The sheer scope of Saddam's destruction of the Marsh Arabs had outpaced the speed of my handwriting. But then, far across the rubble of bricks and broken doorframes and dried mud, there came the cry of a bird.
Mr Oweid's face broke into a smile. "Where the birds are, there is the water," he said, and rested on his heels, a man the Arabs like this who had found the right aphorism for the right moment. But it was true. The birds are returning because the water is trickling back into the thousands of square miles that Saddam drained for 10 years.
You can hear it, gurgling, frothing, sucking its way into old ditches and dried-up streams and round the little dirt hills upon which the Shia Muslim Marsh Arabs built their homes before Saddam decided to destroy them.
I sat on a little boat here yesterday, puttering up the broad Salal river, and saw an old mud and concrete house with a new roof and new palm trees planted around it and a small, green boat pulled on to the dirt embankment. The bullrushes and reeds are gone and there is no tree higher than three feet. But one family has come back. Even Mohsen Bahedh, whose family fled to the safety of Iran during the long and terrible self-imposed drought that Saddam inflicted on his people, is thinking of returning.
He sat beside me in our little boat, his left hand holding a Kalashnikov rifle, his right resting on the head of his five-year-old son, Mehdi. "There were 12,000 families here and they all left," he said. "We had fish and fruit and vegetables and birds and water buffalo and our homes, and Saddam dried us out, took all our water away, left us with nothing."
Our boat slowed at one point because the water level rose six inches in front of us, a literal ridge of higher water that fell back to the river's normal level on the other side. "Underneath us are the remains of a Saddam dam," Mohsen said. "It makes the water run over the top of it. So we can still see the dams, even when they are no longer here."
Saddam's destruction of the Marsh Arabs was widely condemned outside Iraq, although you have to come here to appreciate his ruthlessness of purpose. After the Americans and British encouraged the Shia Muslims of Iraq to rise up against Saddam in 1991 then betrayed them by doing nothing when he wiped out his opponents deserting Iraqi soldiers and rebels who wanted to keep on fighting retreated into the swamps of Howeiza and Amarah and Hamar where the Marsh Arabs, deified in Wilfrid Thesiger's great work so many decades ago, gave them sanctuary. Iraqi helicopters and tanks could not winkle them out.
So Saddam embarked on a strategy of anti-guerrilla warfare that puts Israel's political assassinations and property destruction and America's Vietnam Agent Orange into the shade. He constructed a set of dams, hundreds of them, to block the waters flowing into the marshes from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. He diverted the water through new artificial waterways one of them was called the Mother of All Battles river which irrigated the towns and cities that remained loyal to him. The only water allowed into the marshes were the runoffs of fertilised fields, so the Marsh Arabs' cattle walked into the centre of the streams to find fresh water. In the end, there was no water left.
An entire Sumerian society, whose reed and wood homes were modelled on those of the ancient Sumerians, and whose brides were brought to their weddings in flower-covered boats, was destroyed. Almost.
When the Anglo-American invasion force crashed into Iraq in March last year, there were still hundreds of square miles of marshes left; and in the first hours after the British reached Basra, the people of Hamar dug through the earth and concrete dams that Saddam had erected to destroy them and breached his dams.
One old man in Nasiriyah told me his wife woke him after the first night of bombing to tell him she could hear water trickling in the old ditch behind their house. The man didn't believe her. "Then I got up and in the moonlight," he said, "and I saw water."
It is a story of hope. Faisal Khayoun's father was murdered by Saddam's secret police in 1993 while driving on the Basra road. "They shot him in the forehead and neck," he said. "My cousin and my uncle were arrested in 1997 and hanged at Abu Ghoraib. The mukhabarat (intelligence service) used to come here on raids at four in the morning and I would always spend the nights on the roof, waiting in case they came. Now, for the first time in my life, I stay asleep in my home until the sun wakes me in the morning."
Mohsen Bahedh jumped ashore four miles north of the Hamar Bridge and we sloshed together through deep, black mud that sucked at our shoes, to the four broken walls of a house. "This was my home," he said. "I came back and knocked out some of the bricks and window-frames to build a new home south of Saddam's dam. See, that's where we kept the geese and my cattle were where the dust is. And my boat was down there."
He and Mehdi padded through the wreckage. "Maybe we will come back now," he said. "Yes, we helped Saddam's opponents. And when the soldiers deserted and came here, we fed them and gave them places to sleep and fuel to keep them warm. We are a kind people."
Many Marsh Arabs long ago exchanged the water buffalo for the Mercedes and became traders. Other tribes moved in and planted crops in newly irrigated land. But Thesiger's people have survived and Saddam's regime has not, and yesterday a small tide of dark-blue water was still seeping back into the desert, creeping around Mahamar, Manzan, Meshal and all the lost villages of the marshes.


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Date Posted: November 22, 2013
Omaha, NEAg Processing Inc (AGP) announced Nov. 22 that the Company is aiding in the relief effort for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan, a super‐storm affecting a large portion of the Philippines.
The relief will take the form of a $25,000 contribution to the Uygongco Foundation, a service organization affiliated with the La Filipina Uygongco Corporation (La Filipina).
"We are saddened by the tragic loss of life and devastation to many communities in the Philippines," said AGP Chief Executive Officer Keith Spackler.
"The Philippines has been the largest international trade market in Asia for AGP for over a decade. La Filipina has been an excellent trade partner in the Philippines and AGP is pleased to support their efforts to provide relief to the people and places that need it the most."
AGP is a major supplier of soybean meal and other products to the Philippines, utilizing numerous ports across the large island country.
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Travel to the past with Jack and rule a prehistoric tribe in this fun time management game with puzzle elements! Help fellow tribesmen set up their homes and create thriving villages. Keep villagers happy with food, drinks and entertainment; protect them from natural disasters and aggressive barbarians. Introduce new technology and become friends with the chief's beautiful daughter. Find artifacts from the future to help Jack return to his time. Help the lovable tribesmen prosper and master your time management and task prioritizing skills in this charming and challenging game!
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I really liked this game, but it was over too fast. I beat it in one afternoon. I don't really think that it is worth 6.99 price tag for that reason (maybe more like 3.99). The levels were fairly easy to beat, but it still held my interest throughout. There are 40 levels and for each level you can beat it regularly, or if you can try to beat it in a certain ammount of time for a gold star. You will advance to the next level regardless of whether or not you beat it fast enough for a gold star. The levels were enjoyable and unique enough so that they didn't get boring or samey. There are also some amusing lines and the villagers were entertaining.
The only reason I ranked it as low as it is is because it was all over too fast. It was quite addicting, and maybe that is why I beat it so quickly. I would have liked to get more out of it since I paid almost $7.00 Perhaps down the line there will be some updates that will remedy this situation and I will edit my rating. I think it would be fun if there were some mini games/challenges or perhaps if there was a hard version of the levels (harder challenges and a list of goals to reach etc). Now that I have beaten it I don't really want to go back and play any more because I already did everything there is to do.
This game is really addictive. I had to strategize in order to get expert rating (gold star) on each level. It is pretty simplistic and you're guided through every step of the way. It would be better if you couldn't pass to the next level without meeting the goal in a set amount of time but I set expert for my own goal and replayed a level until I achieved it. I could play this game for hours. Very enjoyable.
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I found this game to be enjoyable, addicting, and over far too fast! I wish there was a sandbox mode or something where you could just fiddle around. However, the game is fun and is a good time killer. If you have the money, the time, and if you are just that desperate for a time management game then look no further!
- $4.99
- Category: Games
- Released: Aug 04, 2011
- Version: 1.0
- Size: 130 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
- Seller: G5 Entertainment AB
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The check in was extremely quick.
Rooms were very clean and comfortable, food was excellent: we arranged for a family reunion with 17 adults and 4 kids in the restaurant Eighty Eight, Sujoy the manager was very obliging and resourceful, Aishwarya who served us was very quick to respond to our needs. Breakfast Buffet Sunday morning was a mad rush, staff were overwhelmed, service was delayed, ran out of foo and orange juice and was not replaced in a timely manner, disappointing.
Conrad pune had just opened 14+- days when my mate and I checked in. Within minutes we had tours booked and had extended or stay. Great staff, great rooms. I hope they keep up the great service once the hotel is in full swing. Rates on a driver and miles should be explained in detail so there are no mix ups.
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The City of Westminster is moving ahead with a master plan for its new downtown on the site of the former Westminster Mall.
The city will work with internationally recognized urban planning firm Torti Gallas and Partners to create a blueprint that will guide future development of the 105-acre site, located at U.S. 36 and Sheridan Boulevard.
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It's Roku o'clock somewhere, and we've got some fresh new releases to help streamline your Friday. Do yourself a favor and start the weekend right now! As always, if you have suggestions for the perfect lazy Sunday flick, please post 'em in the comments. Happy streaming!
Netflix New Releases:
- Warrior– This gritty martial arts flick hits the mark with masterful performances and furious fight scenes (2011)
- Albert Nobbs– After posing as a male butler in a posh 19th-century hotel for years, a new love causes her to reconsider the charade (2011)
- God Bless America– On a mission to rid society of its most repellent citizens, terminally ill Frank and his 16-year-old accomplice go on a vengeful rampage (2011)
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Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback ever. Passed Joe Montana in career yards, and post season wins along with many other stats. Will eventually pass Montana in Superbowl wins too. Already has 5 superbowl appearances, with his 6th right around the corner.. Will make 6 in the last twelve years which is half. Add that to the 2007 season, when finally receiving weapons equal to those like Manning .. and 03, and 04 seasons winning those rings.. along with getting to the AFC Championship game with Reche Caldwell and Jabar Gaffney in addition to carrying a team to the SB without a great defense and yes.... I believe he is the greatest ever.. just ask Ray Lewis and Darelle Revis who both admitted themselves in the top 100th player in the NFL video..
Pretty optimistic to think that Tom Brady will win 2 more Super Bowls. You realize that he's 35 now, and will be 36 next season? Almost every quarterback rapidly declines in their late 30's. You think that he has it in him to win 2 SB's in the next 3-4 years?
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Jesus Montero hit .260 amid starting 70 games within the confines of the most hostile of offensive atmospheres, Safeco Field, in his first full season of baseball. And yet from the things that have been said of his overall season you would imagine he finished anywhere other than first overall on his team in batting average for players over 500+ plate appearances. I am not saying that the Seattle Mariners were the benchmark for batting average but the 2012 season was far from a hitter's paradise in many regards. The National League batting crown was captured at .336, the third lowest total since Gary Sheffield hit .330 in 1992, while the runner-up average of .327 was the second lowest in its category since 1992. The American League batting crown mark was .330, the fifth lowest total since 1972 when Rod Carew hit .318, while the runner-up at .326 was fourth lowest in his category since 1990. Don't like history? 21 current or former All-Stars over 500+ plate appearances in 2012 hit .260 or below. Only five of these 21 players hit over 25 home runs on the season which eliminates the thought process that the majority were power producers. Not impressed? Let me remind you that Montero was just 22 years of age throughout the 2012 season and became just the 108th player in the past decade to record over 500 plate appearances in his rookie season.
Dave Cameron of Fangraphs said of Montero late into the season, "He's just not close to being a useful big league player." He continued of Montero's September, "No real sign of improvement anywhere." Montero hit .245/.281/.376 in the first half with a .657 OPS. In the second half he showed marked improvement in all slash line categories hitting .278/.318/.398 with a .716 OPS including a .278/.309/.344 September. He recorded the same amount of hits (67) in both halves of the season, playing in 11 less games the second time around. He showed great improvement in his eye at the plate and pitch recognition improving from a 4.78 strikeout to walk (67/14) ratio the first half of the season to a 2.13 K/BB (32/15) ratio in the second half. Montero's season was more than the story of two-halves, however, his season is best described against those most similar to him, his environment and development as not only a catcher but as a designated hitter.
If you are tired of hearing about the negative park factors that Safeco Field presents to hitters than you are in luck. I will take a different path in explaining why Seattle is a dangerous place for rookies to progress at the plate.
I don't think it can be argued that the three things a team must do to interrupt a pitcher on the mound is reach base, avoid the strikeout, and hit the ball. PACE is a statistic for pitchers that measures the amount of time between pitches to the plate. PACE says that the average pitcher takes longer between pitches as 'situational stress' increases, such as runners in scoring position. Not executing the three things above puts the pitcher in a position where they control the strike zone, the base paths, and each individual at-bat put in front of them. There were a total of eight rookies in Major League Baseball this season that totaled over 500 plate appearances, six of which recorded a higher batting average than Jesus Montero. Of the seven other rookies on our list none of them played for a team that finished below the Major League average for walks, strikeouts, and batting average; the only exception being Montero. What does it all mean? It means that it's very hard to hit a pitchers 'A' game through 162 games a season, especially at 22 years old.
Prior to the 2012 season Montero recalled a conversation he and his father had in Venezuela while he was growing up. They were watching the Mariners on TV with Edgar Martinez at the plate, 'You're going to see me on TV one day,'" he told his father, "I'm going to be like [Martinez] one day, hitting the ball to right field." A bold statement for two reasons; Martinez is a legend in Venezuela and he was 11 years old. Now 11 years later, Montero, a product of Venezuelan baseball like Martinez is in Seattle and has a chance to chase his hero throughout Mariner record books. To quote Martin Luther King, which is something I never thought I would do in a sports piece, "Nothing worthwhile is gained without sacrifice." One thing Montero may have to sacrifice on his journey to becoming a Major League slugger is one of his favorite things; being a full-time catcher.
"I can't wait to be catching in the big leagues over here, to get more of an opportunity to show everybody that I can catch here," Montero said prior to his rookie season in Seattle. He would go on to throw out 11 of 65 runners (17%) this season placing him eight percent below the league average for the season. He has been dinged since his time in the Yankees minor league system for his inability to frame pitches around the plate with consistency. It has been said that catchers develop late but many baseball analysts wonder if accepting his place as a starting designated hitter would help speed up his development at the plate.
No player wants to be labeled as a designated hitter. All baseball players want to contribute with their gloves and with their bats each time they take field. The life of a designated hitter is that of a clubhouse presence rather than a full-time fielder. That is quite the mental transition to make in a society that preaches fielding and five-tool athletes in baseball. The DH in many dugouts sets the tone off the field, is the first to greet a teammate as they return from their plate appearance, and the first to pat a pitcher on the back after he is pulled from the game. I for one do not understand why the baseball community as a whole praises those who pinch hit regularly but looks down on those who are designated to hit. Settling into the mental mind-set of either role is very similar in that your glove and athleticism plays not into the outcome of the game but your resolve to deliver when called upon is nearly identical. That negative feeling towards the DH position is no better described than by baseball great Tony Gwynn, "It's great for players who've had success in the game, but maybe can't take the grind of playing a full season at the end of their careers." But the truth is that it's been done at a young age by a significant group of ball players and differs from the perceived view of fans. In the past 40 years there have only been four baseball players who have received over 40% of their playing time during their rookie season from the designated hitter position; take a look:
|Player (Age)
|Plate Appearances
|Batting Average
|On-Base Percentage
|Billy Butler (20)
|Jesus Montero (22)
|John Olerud (21)
|Eddie Murray (21)
|Player (Age)
|Plate Appearances
|Batting Average
|On-Base Percentage
|Billy Butler (20)
|Jesus Montero (22)
|John Olerud (21)
|Eddie Murray (21)
The first table represents the stats each player recorded at the plate in their rookie seasons while starting as the designated hitter while the second table displays what the players did while starting from a fielding position. For reference the seasons in question are 1977 (Eddie Murray), 1990 (John Olerud), 2007 (Billy Butler), and 2012 (Jesus Montero).
The significance of both tables ties back into the mentality of the position and adapting to the designated hitter role, which is surely made harder at such a young age. With the exception of Eddie Murray, the players in the tables above each well outperformed themselves when hitting from a fielding position. These three hitters not only showed a greater ability to get on base when playing from the field but showed better plate aptitude shown in their K/BB ratios. Call it what you will. I believe the tables above amount to an explanation that adjusting to the designated hitter role is one of the toughest moves in baseball. As Yogi Berra said, "Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical." Maybe that isn't the best explanation of what I am getting at but you see where I am going. Mentally one half-inning you are a designated hitter and the next half-inning mentally you are rooting your teammates on from the dugout. That's a big switch to ask a 22 year old to flip day in and day out.
I would expect the organization to make an extra effort this off-season, most likely in Spring Training, to get Edgar Martinez and Jesus Montero some time together. If you can remember, Martinez has been a guest coach in camp for the Mariners along with other former players since retiring from professional baseball.
Should you as a Seattle Mariners fan be worried about Montero's development? My answer is absolutely not.
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Mercator completes major implementation at Virgin Atlantic
IT division of the Dubai-based Emirates Group, Mercator has completed a project for the UK's Virgin Atlantic Airways.
Mercator has implemented three Oracle resource planning solutions – Oracle Financials, Oracle HRMS and Oracle Payroll for Virgin Atlantic. Oracle Financials comprises general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, cash management, purchasing and inventory modules.
Oracle HRMS provides the features needed to manage Virgin's total human resources requirements, whilst Oracle Payroll manages payments to staff. The deal will standardize and streamline Virgin Atlantic's procedures, increasing productivity and cost-efficiency.
Virgin Atlantic has expanded apace to be Britain's second largest long-haul carrier since it first took off in 1984. It serves 20 cities with a fleet of 26 aircraft and has bases at both major London airports -- Gatwick and Heathrow. — (menareport.com)
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LOOSE Change Buskers, the Trafford-based musicians who have raised more than £100,000 for Cancer Research UK ia about honoured by the charity.
They will receive the organisation's Flame of Hope Award at a special dinner in London and spokesman Bernard Dolan said the news has left the members feeling 'proud and embrrassed at the same time.'
Bernard said the honour was to recognise the group's tremendous fundraising efforts and he added: The judges being impressed by us turning out in rain,wind and snow, as the show must always go on, and also our work in entertaining local community groups."
But he was quick to share the award with the supporters who have helped Loose Change achieve its fundraising success.
Bernard said: "We where all a bit shell shocked when the news came through that we had won the award. It came as a complete surprise, as we had not even been aware that we had been nominated.
"We have to pinch ourselves every morning as it is still hard for us to believe that we got the award. We try not to let this go to our heads, as we know buskers must keep their feet planted on each street corner. We know that none of this could of happened without the support we have had."
Loose Change will received the award on June 6.


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Govt. Satisfied with Results of this Year's Tourist Season
The Minister of the Sea, Tourism, Transport and Development, Božidar Kalmeta, stated at the Government's session on Friday that this year's tourist season was quite successful with even better results than last year.
In the first nine months this year, the number of tourist arrivals and overnight stays rose by 3%, with 9.2 million arrivals and over 51.7 million overnight stays.
Figures about financial yields are still not officially confirmed but Kalmeta expects a higher income, topping last year's EUR 6 billion.
The Government then adopted a report on the tourist results from this season and a program for activities to prepare for the tourist season 2007.
The Ivo Sanader cabinet also adopted a strategy for broadband Internet access until 2008 and the action plan for the implementation of the strategy in 2007.
Croatia currently has four broadband Internet connections per 100,000 citizens, or some 170,000 such connections. Its strategic goal is to ensure the penetration of 12 % until the end of 2008, i.e. 500,000 connections, said Kalmeta.


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Sad to say, the days of the hardware ISA modem is gone. It is true, I would take my 33.6 ISA modem configured for COM2 any day over a 56k PCI modem, but I don't have an ISA slot in my machine (as is the case with most new PC's). The dirty truth is that all PCI modems are clock-cycle robbing winmodems and never as stable as an ISA modem. Part of the reason for poor performance in winmodems is the IRQ that they take. Most winmodems, and this one is no different, take a non-standard COM port such as 5 and an IRQ of 9 or 10. All Hardware ISA modems can be configured for COM2 IRQ 3. I am sure that we are all aware that the device with the lowest IRQ always gets it's request handled first, so it is easy to see why the ISA modem will perform better than any winmodem. Back on track now.....If I had a choice of an ISA over a PCI, I would take the ISA any day. But I would rather have a USR PCI winmodem than any other PCI winmodem
The modem is quite simply too expensive for what you're getting. It's a winmodem. Honestly, how good could it possibly be? The answer to the question is not very. I know you're going to say that's it's just a modem and that it's USR/3COM but that doesn't change the fact that you're payng for name and NOT a good quality modem. When my system was being thrashed the modem suffered. Example, try running the modem on boot-up while everything else is staryting and you'll get a performance hit. (I'm running an Athlon 600 with 256MB RAM). The quality also doesn't maintain well over, say, a 3 hour connection to any standard ISP. Bottom line is that this modem should be retailing for about £30 and not a penny more.
I couldn't disagree more with the above review. I have used US Robotiics / 3 com modems for 5 years without a single problem. My current modem is a 56K Flex model. I installed the card myself on a P II 233. It was easy and the instructions were clear and simple to follow. The process itself was faultless. The installation software was excellent and everything worked first time, just as it should. The technial documentation with the modem is OK, nothing more, but they have a very good web site and you can download updates. I regularly get the latest drivers and again have had no problems at all. The product itself has been faultless in operation. On my line it can only achieve 44K but thats BT not 3 Coms fault. All in all...modem heaven...i'd buy another one tomorrow.
I bought one of these modems as a replacement for an old 33.6 external that had died. I fancied an internal as my computer tends to get moved around a bit, and thought that having less kit to drag around and one less thing to plug in was be handy. However, the modem cuased nothing but trouble. On installing it, I found it would freeze the computer completely every time I tried to dial. I thought I may have an IRQ conflict, but spending hours booting in and out of safe mode, and trying everything I could did nothing. Thinking it must be faulty, I took it back for a replacement. The next one though gave me a completely different set of faults. Although it installed fine, I coudn't get it to dial, or even recognise the dialtone. Once, by some fluke it did dial out, but only managed to maintain the connection for about two seconds. This one went back too, this time for a refund. The experience put me off internal modems, but soon after I was offered a second hand internal 33.6 modem (US Robotics again) which installed perfectly straight away, and has worked fine ever since. I can only assume that the 56k product has some very bad design flaws, or that I was very unlucky indeed. Either way, I doubt I will be buying from US Robitics again.
This is the modem I got with my PC and it is crap. I brought it before v90 was out, and 3com have yet to make new drivers for my one yet. The speed of this modem is very slow when compared to other modems. The voice funtions are limited. All you can do is a basic phone call. Quailty of sound depends on the microphone you use. With modem prices comming down heavily. I suggest you spend a little more money on a top quality modem. you WILL notice the difference.
Software modems are those that use software (not surprisingly) in Windows 95/98 to sort out the binary data that travels into your modem from the outside world... The 3Com USR Winmodem is a bad choice for gamers. I can say that from the start. It is a very cheap and basic modem, that is hyped to be very good. This is due to the fact that it utilises the computer processor rather than chips on the modem board itself. This is all very well for web browsing and downloading, with quite good performance. However this is not the same in games... During online games, a huge amount of data is sent and received by your modem. If the modem is a software modem, it needs to use your CPU to descramble the data coming in and scramble the data going out. But, the problem is, games require high performance processors, and the loads becomes enourmous. What is the result? Lag is the result. I ping very badly on this modem. So, if you want a cheap modem for downloading, this could be the one for you, but for gaming...I would choose the Diamond SupraExpress 56e or 56i, which use hardware to control data flow.


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Beauty and blood of a holy city
A personal history of Jerusalem is vivid and informative
Jerusalem: The Biography
By Simon Sebag Montefiore
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £25.00
The Jewish Odyssey: An Illustrated History
Marek Halter
Flammarion, £27.50
On a visit to Jerusalem, Thackeray mused: "There's not a spot at which you may look but where some violent deed has been done, some massacre, some visitors murdered, some idol worshipped with bloody rites."
The observation is reproduced in Simon Sebag Montefiore's brisk and richly informative history of the Golden City and the people who built it up, looted it, burnt it down and massacred its inhabitants in a cycle that seems to repeat itself over the centuries, frequently in the name of religion. Living in Jerusalem has rarely been a recipe for longevity. The deadly pageant rolls on: Assyrians, Thracians (Alexander slaughtered 50,000 when he took the city), Romans, Crusaders, Arabs, Ottomans…They came, they saw, they slaughtered.
The sheer scale of the horrors so often visited on the place and its people is appalling: you turn the pages and wonder that your hands aren't stained with blood. And throughout the mayhem, the Jews clung on in their ancestral city, their fortunes waxing or waning depending on the whim of their conquerors.
Sebag Montefiore has the good popular historian's eye for the telling detail and the pithy phrase: "The more sacred she [Jerusalem] became, the more divided." He's writing about the time of the First Temple but it could be about today. And yet, among the holy murderers, a few harmless observers survived to leave a record: thank heaven for Josephus, without whom we would know little of what the Romans got up to, for Usamah Bin Munqidh, "an Arab Quixote" in Crusader times, for Wasif Jawhariyyeh, an invaluable, early-20th-century diarist.
Throughout the ages, Jerusalem has attracted fanatics, madmen and adventurers like no other city on earth; there's even a mental condition known as Jerusalem Syndrome, first identified in the 1930s as "a psychotic decompensation related to religious excitement induced by proximity to the holy places".
Montefiore has unearthed a little scoop during his extensive researches: the full story, apparently hitherto untold, of an English adventurer, the Hon. Captain Monty Parker, feckless brother of an earl. Basing his venture on the bogus theories of a Finnish spiritualist, this prototype Indiana Jones reckoned in 1908 that he could find the Ark of the Covenant and managed to persuade a small army of international investors to finance his search for it beneath the Old City.
As the Israelis have discovered in recent years, digging under the Temple Mount is liable to lead to misunderstandings with the local Muslims, and Parker's reckless adventure nearly led to bloody reprisal. He escaped by sailing from Jaffa on his boat just ahead of the mob. "The wrath of the people of Jerusalem was so great," recorded Bertha Spafford, daughter of an American couple who, having lost five of their six children in tragic circumstances, founded a messianic cult called the Overcomers in a mansion on the Nablus road that was to become the world-famous American Colony hotel. How fitting that an entire floor of the hotel should now be occupied by the Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair, another Westerner with a touch of the messianic.
A worthy counterpoint to Montefiore's absorbing history is Marek Halter's The Jewish Odyssey, a beautifully produced panoramic guide to Jewish history by a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto. A must for the coffee table - better still, buy it as a barmitzvah present instead of an idiotic computer game.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO says an estimated 200 insurgents were killed or captured in two military operations that just ended in eastern Afghanistan.
German Brig. Gen. Carsten Jacobson, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, told reporters Monday that the operations, which lasted about a week, were led by Afghan security forces with the support of coalition troops. They were aimed at disrupting militant groups, including the al-Qaida and Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network.
Jacobson says that at least 20 insurgents with links to Haqqani were among those killed and captured in the operations conducted in provinces south of Kabul and in areas around the capital and in eastern Afghanistan.
The forces also seized more than 400 kilograms of explosives, weapons, munitions and computers.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO says international troops and Afghan forces have killed "multiple" insurgents during an operation in an eastern Afghan province where a feared Pakistan-based militant network is particularly active.
The U.S.-led coalition said Monday that Afghan and international forces called for an airstrike on militants in Paktiya province's Wuza Jadran district on Sunday. It said the target of the operation was a heavily-armed group of Haqqani network fighters who operate in the area.
NATO has stepped up its focus on eastern Afghanistan, in areas along the Pakistani border. The al-Qaida and Taliban-linked Haqqani use Pakistan as a safe haven and the U.S. and Afghanistan have urged Islamabad to act against the militants.


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