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Jim Mickle's "Cold in July" is a peculiar mix of genres — at times, a revenge thriller, and at others, a noir slasher, with a splash of grindhouse. It can get messy at times, and there are some awkward changes in tone, but it never fails to be entertaining and unpredictable.
The movie revolves around Richard Dane (Michael C. Hall), a mild-mannered, upstanding East Texas citizen with a wife and son who runs a picture-framing store.
The trouble begins when he shoots an intruder dead in his home in the middle of the night. Being the passive, nonviolent fellow he is, this event leaves him nervous and shaking, even feeling guilty. Because of this guilt, he decides to attend the man's funeral and runs into the intruder's father, Russell (Sam Shepard), who's just been granted parole and isn't happy.
In many respects, Richard resembles a typical film-noir protagonist: the seemingly innocent civilian who puts his life and his family's on the line. For a while, we think it's going to be about Russell's attempt to kill Richard out of vengeance and Richard's obligation to protect his family from danger once again. And this is the way it plays out for a while: Russell stalks the family, seeming to materialize out of nowhere, similar to a horror-movie villain. And Jeff Grace's old-school synthesizer soundtrack gives this entire section a slasher-film vibe.
However, this story resolves itself after about 20 minutes or so, when the movie mutates into something totally different. Richard becomes uncertain as to whether the guy he shot was actually Russell's son and becomes suspicious that there's a cover-up involving the police. Things take an even stranger turn when Russell and Richard join forces and together, with a Houston private eye (Don Johnson, decked out in cowboy gear) try to uncover what's really going on.
In some respects, "Cold in July" plays out like a pulpier version of a Hitchcock film. Screenwriters Mickle and Nick Damici (based on the book by Joe R. Lansdale) keep the viewers on their toes the entire time. Near the end. when the final disturbing twist of the plot is revealed (accompanied by Grace's synthesizer music again), it turns into a full-blown, gory, '70s/8'0s grindhouse-style movie.
Admittedly, "Cold in July" doesn't have quite the same finesse of a Hitchcock film, with the sudden shifts in tone. The movie primarily wants to be dark, but at times, it veers into silliness, which doesn't always work.
Nevertheless, the picture still succeeds in being a tense and compelling Southern noir. Hall, who's known mainly for playing a serial killer with a strict moral code on the TV show "Dexter," does a fantastic job of portraying an innocent family man who becomes capable of doing violent acts for the sake of good. Shepard goes from being an intimidating ex-con in search of vengeance to a concerned father in search of truth and ultimately needs to make an extremely tough decision. And Johnson is amusing as the private eye, who provides a little comic relief as the film mines darker and darker territory.
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'New York Post' getting a web overhaul from the team that brought you the new 'New Republic'
The New York Post's website will soon be getting a much-needed makeover.
Design firm Hard Candy Shell is working on a sweeping overhaul of nypost.com that's expected to debut sometime in the coming months, sources familiar with the plans told Capital.
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The Soho-based firm just completed The New Republic's online relaunch and also has done high-profile projects for media clients including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Observer, Newsweek and Gawker. They're working alongside Post digital editor Remy Stern and Alley Interactive, the Flatiron District developers who teamed up with Hard Candy Shell on both The New Republic and The New York Observer and who were also hired by the Post.
The Post has for the past year or so been trying to raise its digital profile as it watched the website of rival paper the Daily News blow past it in pageviews and implement the latest digital news-design ideas popular among the eyeball-baiting U.K. tabloids.
This past fall, Post editors were required to attend an all-day digital teach-in at a Hudson Valley country club, and Stern has been facing an uphill battle warming the newsroom to the concept of putting nypost.com ahead of the print edition, where many old-guard Post hands still prefer their news to break.
Despite the difficulties the paper has had with its website, the Post has made some ground with other digital initiatives, like its iPad app and its recently-published first e-book, a collection of dating and sex advice from former high-priced hooker and one-time Eliot Spitzer paramour Ashley Dupré. It also now has the full attention of Jesse Angelo, who was named publisher after his two-year digital experiment running The Daily, a tablet newspaper and fellow News Corp. title, came to a screeching halt back in December.
That the Post appears to be investing in digital must be some consolation to employees, who are on edge as a result of News Corp.'s forthcoming split into separate companies focused on entertainment and publishing, respectively.
As the most profit-starved operation in News Corp's publishing portfolio, speculation is mounting that chairman Rupert Murdoch may be forced to drop an axe on the tabloid once and for all after it ceases to be cushioned by his more lucrative film and television assets.
A Post spokesperson did not have a comment when asked about the redesign on Monday.
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Issey Miyake L'Eau d'Issey
In life, I like to see, taste, feel and explore everything and anything I can get my hands on. But when it comes to what fragrances go on my body during those adventures, I am a creature of habit. Issey Miyake's L'Eau d'issey is one of only two scents that I wear. Had my introduction to it been contingent upon the description of undertones on its box, I might never have tried it. I tend to gravitate toward darker, exotic and primal scents, a preference which leads me to conclude that parts of me were left back in a cave somewhere when evolution came calling (a theory which, as an aside, explains several other things about me. I shall save those for later. You can exhale now. I'm done sharing my issues for today). Miyake's fragrance has enough musk and other things to carry out "erotic exotic" but had I glanced at the chorus line of floral scents before smelling it my nose would have kept on moving down the line. I usually don't do things like Carnation in life or in scents. As it happened, I was standing in an international airport Duty Free shop when a woman with a feisty haircut, fantastic heels and a good 6 inches of height over me walked up next to me, picked up the sample, raised one arm up high with the bottle and, while holding her shirt open and exposing her (my guess? La Perla) balconette bra, doused us both with it. Then walked away. I admire a woman with fragrance cojones like that. Even when she sprays my eye. At any rate, my hetero-girl-girl airport crush aside, other people loved the fragrance as well. Of course I bought my first bottle right there at the airport, still squinting with one eye. I received more compliments from strangers (four women in that airport alone stopped me to ask what I was wearing) that one afternoon after having been sprayed upside the head than ever before on a scent. And I loved it myself. I really, really loved it. Many years later, I still do. That is why it is one of only two fragrances you will ever catch me wearing. If, of course, you can catch me at all ; )~ Lotus, Freesia, Cyclamen, Rose Water, Fresh Peonies, Carnation, White Lilies, Precious Woods, Osmanthus, Tuberose, Amberseed, Musk.


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Bialetti Hot Chocolate Pot | Williams-Sonoma
There was a time when humans boiled all of their water — whether for coffee, tea, disinfectant, or wintertime bathing — in the same pot. That time is long past. You wouldn't make coffee without your $1,500 espresso machine, and you wouldn't brew tea without your fancy favorite little strainer thing, so don't be get caught dead trying to make hot chocolate in anything as embarrassing as a saucepan or — gasp — the microwave. And why would you when for just $200 you can get this specially designed pot, uniquely crafted to blend cocoa shavings and milk to perfection? God, how do I even live without one of these? (from endlesssummer.com)


text: 1. As of noon trading, Google ( GOOG) is up $9.33 (1.2%) to $799.46 on average volume Thus far, 1.0 million shares of Google exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2.3 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $791.11-$799.98 after having opened the day at $794.80 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $790.13. Google Inc., a technology company, builds products and provides services to organize the information and make it universally accessible and useful. Google has a market cap of $211.5 billion and is part of the internet industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 24.4, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 11.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 22 analysts that rate Google a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 8 rate it a hold. TheStreet Ratings rates Google as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, solid stock price performance, growth in earnings per share and increase in net income. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook. Get the full Google Ratings Report now. It's Official: Action Alerts PLUS beats the S&P 500 with Dividends Reinvested! Cramer and Link were up 16.72% in 2012. Were you? See what they are trading for 14-days FREE If you are interested in one of these 5 stocks, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the technology sector could consider Technology Select Sector SPDR ( XLK) while those bearish on the technology sector could consider ProShares Ultra Short Technology ( REW). A reminder about TheStreet Ratings group: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our model.


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I had the idea last night to try putting little book images next to my Amazon text links. For it to work with my already existing css hover effect, I put the tiny image in the background of the DIV. The problem is that when you move your mouse pointer over the book/text link area, the tiny image disappears because the background color of the hover replaces it until you move your mouse pointer away again.
Is there any way to keep that background image from disappearing during the hover? I searched using Google, but I can't find the answer. I'm probably using the wrong words in my search.
Please post a link to an example page.
I thought I read that we weren't allowed to post links to any of our pages except in our signatures, so that's why I didn't post a link.
It's on the following page on the right side under the words Related Books:
1) Simple. Don't put the background-image on the <a>'s parent.
2) You should really be using an unordered list (<ul>) to mark up those links. I suggest you learn how semantics apply to X/HTML. Semantics is really a very important subject when it comes to X/HTML.
These three articles explain how to style lists.http://www.alistapart.com/articles/taminglists/http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listutorial/http://www.webreference.com/programming/css_lists/
3) [IDs should be unique. [url=http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html#class-html]You could use a class instead.](http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#adef-id)
Class and ID SelectorsWhen should I use a class and when should I use an ID?Use class with semantics in mindThe Meaning of Semantics Take II: Naming Conventions for Class and ID in CSSUsing Firefox to Wage a Class War
Multiple elements may belong to the same class and an element may belong to multiple classes. The X/HTML class attribute's value may be a space separated list of classes.
It seems that they make an exception when we need to see the page in order to answer the question.
Thanks for the links and info.
For the book image to seem clickable within the text link area, where would I put the background image?
On the <a>s themselves. It should look the same as it does now. The images just won't disappear when the links are hovered.
As Kravvitz said, if you need to post the link so we can help you, that's fine. SitePoint only gets involved when you post a link for self promotion and advertising purposes.
Thanks! I totally forgot you could do that. Before I try the other things you mentioned, I need to finish changing the look of my site (I'm about halfway through). While I'm changing the rest of my site, that will give me time to see if those tiny book images make a difference in sales.
Thanks again. I would not have figured that out on my own.
Thanks. I'll remember that from now on.


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I have a registration website that collects name, email, address etc from a form. The php code that processes the form validates the inputs and creates sessions for the variables so I can use them on a confirmation page once the form is submitted.
I have used a shell script .. eg exec ("/usr/local/bin/php emailsend.php >/dev/null &");on the confirmation page that runs a php file in the background once the confirmation page has loaded in the browser. This php file sends a "thank you for registering" email as well as sending a copy to us. (It runs in the background because it has a delay built in before it sends the emails -if I put the code directly onto the confirmation page then that page would not be able to load fully until the delay was finished) I want to personalise the thank you email with the persons name. However for some reason the session variables that are created by the form submission won't print on the thank you email. It keeps coming up blank where the persons name should be. Is there a reason why session variables that I can access and write to any other page on the site won't show up on a page that hasn't been loaded into a browser but simply runs in the background and sends out emails?
I have posted the code for the emailsend.php page below with the name greeting in red. Can anyone let me know whether I'm coding this wrong in the way I'm trying to access the username session variable. Any help would be appreciated.
<?phpsession_start();$email = $REQUEST['accesslogin'] ;//define the receiver of the email$to = "<$email>";$to2 = "firstname.lastname@example.com";//define the subject of the email$subject = 'Welcome to our website'; //create a boundary string. It must be unique //so we use the MD5 algorithm to generate a random hash$random_hash = md5(date('r', time())); //define the headers we want passed. Note that they are separated with \r\
$headers = "From: reply@emailaddress\r\Reply-To: email@example.com";//add boundary string and mime type specification$headers .= "\r\Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=\"PHP-alt-".$random_hash."\""; //define the body of the message.ob_start(); //Turn on output buffering?>
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit$message = '

 Dear <?php echo $_SESSION['username']; ?> ,

 Welcome to our website,  <a
--PHP-alt-<?php echo $random_hash; ?>--<?//copy current buffer contents into $message variable and delete current output buffer$message = ob_get_clean();//send the email$mail_sent = @mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers );$mail_sent = @mail( $to2, $subject, $message, $headers );
You have to pass session id via command line and then set it manually But it is most complicated feedback form design I've ever seen in my whole life.
What does that emailsend.php file do actually? Why do you need to run that script in the background in the confirmation page. Quite strange! Can we try to avoid the use of exec? If you say the purpose of that, someone can present you a solution so that you don't need to use exec.
He's explained that
If it has a delay built in, then why not just use cron?
cron will make things even more complicated
Thanks for the help guys. It's not my preference for it to be like this but it's not just a simple feedback form. It has to do a whole bunch of things all at once that normally shouldn't go together...but that's the brief I've been given so I'm going to piece it together roughly and get it working and then simplify it down the track.
Not to my small mind
Perhaps I'm not getting it, but OP wants to do a bunch of stuff with a delay before sending emails but not delay user page loads? Log it to db and run cron??
Why to involve database into process, when we need to pass just a few variables to the script, which already runs at background?
Even sessions not needed here, as we can pass variables itself using command line parameters
shrug perhaps the script dies before txn complete.
Actually what I mean is, what are the things that are to be done before/after that delay? If they are manageable with some other way then we all can think of it.
So you also don't know now that what are the tasks/things to be done before that delay or with that delay in that script? Are those things to be done at the time of this email sending or they can be done periodically with some schedules as has suggested before? I am quite confused what the delay is for. Did OP mention about it?
OK, using the command line trick has worked..trial and error produced the following..
exec('/usr/local/bin/php emailsend.php '.$_SESSION['username'].' >/dev/null &');
Question: Is it possible to add another variable to that line, say $SESSION['email'] as well as $SESSION['username'].
Solved! The answer is exec ('/usr/local/bin/php emailsend.php ' . $SESSION['username'] .' '. $SESSION['email'] . ' >/dev/null &');
i'd suggest to encode variables somehow.what if name would consist of 2 words? or even of something like |rm -rf /?base64 looks good enough


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SANFORD, Fla. - For days last summer, various news outlets analyzed the voice of George Zimmerman during his Feb. 26, 2012 call to Sanford police, and reached a conclusion that was inflammatory, shocking and false.
Asked by HLN anchor Nancy Grace what he heard on the tape, one of the lawyers representing the family of Trayvon Martin said without equivocation: "He said coon."
No, in fact, both sides of the divisive case now agree: He said, "punks."
Local 6 tracked the earliest mention of the epitaph to an amateur blogger who, like many, was outraged that Zimmerman had not been charged in connection with his shooting of the unarmed 17-year-old.
A local TV station in Orlando aired a report that parroted the blog entry and, from there, the misinformation was off and running to national cable networks.
It was one of many pieces of misinformation that have filtered into the public consciousness since Zimmerman shot Martin and claimed he acted in self defense.
As 500 potential jurors prepare to begin showing up here next week, Local 6 reviewed a few other myths or misstatements:
Trayvon Martin was not a heavily tattooed, bearded man, contrary to a well-traveled email claiming the media was hiding that image of Martin. The man pictured in the email is a 33-year-old rapper known as Game.
Nor was Martin a 6-foot-2-inches, 175-pound bundle of muscled mass, as the email claimed. He was 5-foot 11-inches, 158 pounds, according to his autopsy. (Zimmerman was listed at 5-foot-7, 204 pounds in a medical record created the day after the shooting; a jail record states he was down to 185 pounds when he was finally arrested in April 2012.)
Another falsehood wasn't promulgated by anonymous e-mailers or reckless bloggers, rather, it was broadcast in open court last week by Zimmerman's defense attorney, Mark O'Mara.
O'Mara stated he had recovered video from Martin's cell phone showing Martin taped two of his "buddies" beating up a homeless man. In fact, it was video of two homeless man fighting over a bicycle, O'Mara acknowledged days later. He apologized for the misstatement.
Finally, the most trivial of the myths, but one so prevalent it should be corrected: There was no iced tea.
The Skittles and iced tea narrative, along with the hoodie Martin was wearing, has become iconic in the aftermath of the shooting.
But evidence photos released last week show it was actually an Arizona brand fruit drink Martin carried with him when he died.
Again, a trivial matter, but, for those truly interested in facts, one that needs to be corrected.
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Jaime King gave birth to a son over the weekend, after announcing she was pregnant with her first child in early May. We still remember when the actress showed off her tiny baby bump at the Met Gala in NYC. It was quite a chic debut, right? Since then, we kept a close eye on Jaime because she proves that just because you're pregnant doesn't mean you can't be stylish. Want to see what we're talking about? Head inside to look back on new mom Jaime King's smashing maternity style.
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Welcome to Liverpool Public Library
The Way We Were
Browse our collection of historic photographs on New York Heritage, a research portal that provides immediate access to digital collections that reflect New York State's history. The Liverpool Public Library Historic Photograph Collection is just one of many historic photograph collections available on NewYorkHeritage.org. Images and searchable descriptive data about the images can be viewed.
The Schuelke Collection
Ted Schuelke was a Liverpool, New York resident and his photograph collection is comprised of pictures taken in the immediate Liverpool area and in the Adirondacks. Many of the photographs record the Village of Liverpool during the early 1920s and others document Liverpool's salt industry and willow industry. There are also photographs of the areas surrounding Onondaga Lake, the Oswego Canal, Mud Lock, and the projects undertaken by the Work Relief Bureau under the leadership of Liverpool banker, Crandall Melvin Sr.
The Wolcott Collection
Fred Wolcott photographed and documented daily life on the Onondaga Nation territory around 1910. The Wolcott Collection of 85 photographs can be viewed on New York Heritage.
The Crawford Collection
Toby Crawford was a Liverpool native who loved to collect historic photographs from various sources. The online collection includes scans of ninety-one glass plate negatives from George "Waxy" Miller and James T. Rogers taken during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Both gentlemen were professional photographers with studios in Liverpool. The Crawford Collection of 177 photographs can be viewed on New York Heritage.
Crawford Walking Tour - 1975
Jasper T. Crawford was a printer, a professional photographer and a man who loved to tell the story of Liverpool. During the mid 1970s, Toby decided to photograph many of the houses of historical interest in Liverpool.
Onondaga Lake Amusement Parks and Resorts of the Golden Age
View vintage photos on NYHeritage.org of amusement parks and resorts around Onondaga Lake. An interactive Google Map shows the location of the parks and resorts.
Access to these digital images is made possible by a New York State Regional Bibliographic Database grant, in cooperation with the Onondaga County Parks Office of Museums and Historic Sites, the Onondaga County Public Library , and the Central New York Library Resources Council (CLRC). Additional funds from NYSOPRHP secured by Senator John DeFrancisco's Heritage Grant Program, administered by the Cultural Resources Council.


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Fifrefighters from Esher were called after a car crashed in a ditch in West End Lane, Esher.
Witnesses suspected the car was on fire on Wednesday, August 27, after the driver lost control and crashed into the ditch, and called the firefighters at 8.50am.
After arriving and determining there was no fire, the firefighters gave the 27-year-old driver medical attention, and called for an ambulance after he complained of neck pain.
The firefighters assisted paramedics and helped control the traffic.
The driver was then taken to hospital, nobody else was involved in the accident.
Witnesses said the driver was not speeding and the car appeared to slip on the wet road.


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A lawsuit alleging Tri-City Healthcare District is disenfranchising voters will proceed after a superior court judge last week denied a move by the public hospital district that would have halted the suit.
Carlsbad attorney and activist Leon Page sued the hospital district for blocking elected director Randy Horton from closed session meetings, which he said alienates the director's constituents. Tri-City officials said he divulged confidential information from the meetings.
Tri-City argued the case should be stricken because it was a strategic lawsuit against public participation, or SLAPP. In other words, Page's lawsuit sought to diminish First Amendment rights of the elected governing board, which voted to censure Horton and exclude him from the meetings.
Page and his attorney Ronald Cozad argued their case was a public interest lawsuit, and is not subject to the SLAPP provisions in state code. Judge Timothy M. Casserly agreed, affirming that Page "seeks no relief for himself other than any relief he would realize as a member of the public ... (and) seeks to enforce the rights of the voters to have their chosen representative participate in closed session meetings of the board," the ruling said.
Tri-City officials in a written statement said they will consider appealing.
"Tri-City is presently evaluating whether to appeal the order in order to avoid the expenses to taxpayers that the District would incur should Page's lawsuit proceed to trial," the statement said. "Tri-City disagrees with the decision. ... The decision does not address whether the District's Board has the power to exclude members from closed session nor did it address whether any of Page's legal theories have merit."
The ruling did, however, acknowledge that the board action to censure Horton was protected under the First Amendment, Tri-City officials said.
Page said he was pleased the court recognized the case as a matter of public interest.
"Though not a ruling on the merits, I think the court's decision bodes well," he said. "When all is said and done, I don't believe that any court is going to allow Tri-City — or any local agency — to pick and choose which duly elected members can attend and represent their constituents in closed session meetings."
At a hearing July 20, Casserly encouraged the parties to settle, perhaps anticipating likely appeals no matter the outcome.
A mandatory settlement conference was set for Sept. 21 with Judge Richard E. Mills, and a hearing on the merits of the case is scheduled to go before Casserly soon after, if no agreement can be reached.
District officials said they would let Horton back into closed session meetings if he signed a confidentiality policy approved by the board in October.
"Mr. Horton's failure to sign the document is inexplicable," Tri-City's statement said.
Horton said in December that he opposed the policy because there are already laws in place governing confidentiality of closed session meetings.
Tri-City Director Kathleen Sterling is not part of Page's lawsuit. She is also barred from the closed session meetings and is being sued by the health care district, has been censured by the board several times and is required to attend the public meetings from a separate room via video conference. Sterling has also refused to sign the confidentiality agreement.
Page on July 16 filed papers to run for a seat on board of the MiraCosta College, a public agency he sued over a payout given to a former MiraCosta president after she resigned. He serves as deputy county counsel for Orange County.


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HOUSTON - One of the Americans taken hostage at a natural gas facility in Algeria is based in Houston.
BP said the conflict is in a gas field in the remote Saharan Desert in eastern Algeria near Libya. It is a joint operation by several companies, including BP.
Sources said the hostage situation ensued after militants approached the facility in three unmarked vehicles and attacked.
NBC reported two people died in the attack. Sources said there were 20 to 40 hostages, including at least three Americans.
An internal memo from a Houston company asks for prayers for one of their former employees. According to the memo, the Houston man is among the Americans taken hostage. The memo also said he was able to call his family Wednesday and he was not hurt, but was being held hostage. Local 2 has not been able to reach the man's family.
David Adler, a lawyer and former CIA officer living in Houston, spoke with KPRC Local 2 about the conflict.
"Working in that part of the world, as a foreigner, is a fairly dangerous endeavor," said David Adler. "In this particular area, there have been a fair amount of kidnappings in the past few years for financial reasons. This appears to be the first large scale hostage taking for political reasons."
A former Al Qaeda commander was accused of leading the attack after promising retaliation for nearby military action aimed at keeping terrorists from setting up a base.
Algerian troops have surrounded the facility and warn they will not negotiate.
BP released a statement Wednesday, saying:
"We can confirm that there is an ongoing security incident at the In Amenas gas field in the eastern central region of Algeria. The In Amenas field is operated by a joint venture of Sonatrach (the Algerian national oil company), BP and Statoil. The site was attacked and occupied by a group of unidentified armed people at about 0500 UK time. Contact with the site is extremely difficult, but we understand that armed individuals are still occupying the In Amenas operations site. Our absolute priority is the safety and security of our staff. The site is normally manned by staff and contractors from the joint venture. We do not yet have confirmed information on the status of personnel at the site but believe some are being held by the occupiers. We are attempting to get confirmed information at the moment as to whether there have been any injuries to personnel at the site. We do not have confirmed information on the identity or intention of the people occupying the site. Algerian authorities are engaged with the incident. UK authorities, Norwegian and other governments have also been advised and are engaged. Algerian local authorities are working with the joint venture and with BP and Statoil. BP has activated its emergency response system and is contacting relatives of its people on the site."
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After a turbulent summer, Rosslyn Park's Matt Heeks is enjoying a new lease of life at Priory Lane.
The scrum half left Championship outfit London Scottish after falling out of favour and had to drop a level to find regular first team rugby with Park in National League One.
However, having started in every league game so far this season – scoring two tries and helping Park to fifth in the table, Heeks is happy again.
The 24-year-old is also helping Park rewrite the record books as Saturday's 32-14 win was their first ever at Cambridge.
Heeks said: "I am pleased with how things are going, we've got a really good bunch of lads here and they are all gelling very well.
"I could not be happier. I've started every game this season. It is good to be back playing and I am enjoying my rugby again.
"I'm learning new things all the time as well because the coaches here are first class."
Park controlled Cambridge and the match from start to finish, with Charles Broughton's brace of tries added to by Hugo Ellis, debutant Sam Katz and Dom Shabbo.
And Heeks believes Park have the strength in depth to build on the convincing win when Coventry visit Priory Lane on Saturday.
He added: "There were about eight changes for the Cambridge match and that just shows how strong the squad is.
"We have slipped up on a couple of occasions – especially against Cinderford – and Jan [Bonney, head coach] has been using training to change a couple of things and stop those silly mistakes that can affect a game.
"In the draw against Cinderford, those mistakes cost us points. That was disappointing. But we spoke about the Cambridge game during the week and we knew that if we did our jobs we should win."


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You expect more road accidents when the weather turns bad, especially when ice coats the roads, but the pileup with two dozen or more cars on the Bronx River Parkway was something else.
The snow and ice was our first real taste of winter, and a perfect time to get ready for it.
AAA offers a host of tips for staying safer, and avoiding driving headaches. Some are no-brainers: Make sure you're rested, and always use your seat belt. Others are less obvious. One example: Keep at least a half-tank of gas to prevent the fuel line from freezing.
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Until the day she wrestled a gun from the mouth of her drunken husband, the 37-year-old wife of a Tennessee Army National Guard sergeant thought she was holding it together.
But then the flashbacks started. She began hearing the slide of the weapon repeatedly click into place as she fell asleep and woke from nightmares in which her husband broke windows and punched holes in walls.
Two states away in Texas, at roughly the same time, Renee Ayres, wife of retired Marine Capt. Chris Ayres, also often woke in a cold sweat, dreaming of her husband's blood-soaked bandages or smelling the rank odor of infection. After Chris recovered physically from wounds sustained in Iraq, she dealt with his daily tirades.
Eventually, she "shut down" from family and friends after Chris tried to choke her to death.
And in San Diego, Tim Kahlor, the father of an Iraq War veteran, takes antidepressants to stave off chronic anxiety and worry over his son, diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder after enduring eight roadside bomb attacks in Iraq.
None of these military family members is a combat veteran, but each carries battle scars of his or her own. The burden of 12 years of war, during which 300,000-plus veterans have been diagnosed with PTSD or clinical depression, has left families with their own mental health conditions.
"PTSD places intolerable stress on the entire family system. … It's like living in hell," said retired Navy psychologist Cmdr. Dennis Reeves, who served in Iraq in 2003.
On Feb. 2, former Marine Eddie Ray Routh confessed to his sister and her husband that he had killed famed Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and friend Chad Littlefield at a Fort Worth, Texas, shooting range.
The Associated Press reported that Routh had been hospitalized twice for PTSD.
The deaths have sent a ripple of fear through the already-stressed community of families and caregivers of active-duty troops and veterans with PTSD. For many, the chilling scenario of a friend or loved one turning on them is their biggest fear.
"When some veterans get to a certain point, they completely black out. When my husband tried to kill himself, he thought he was in Iraq. He was not here. I don't know all the details [of the Routh] case, but the family members … God help them. I've been there," said the Tennessee Guard spouse.
Not all who have PTSD suffer severe, debilitating cases of the condition. But for those who do, their family members endure daily anxiety, depression, anger, fear and other stressful emotions.
According to Pentagon data, PTSD and depression diagnoses have doubled in the military health system since 2006. And in the past seven years, outpatient mental health care visits for active-duty family members have risen by half.
At the Veterans Affairs Department, 6,400 caregivers of severely wounded veterans are eligible for their own health care coverage, including mental health services. Veterans' spouses also can access counseling at VA's 300-plus Vet Centers if their veteran is seen at a center.
But the already overburdened system often has unusually long wait times even for Vet Center counseling.
The Guard wife, who blogs about her own PTSD diagnosis but declined to give her name because she often receives hurtful criticism on Facebook, said she and her husband faced an 18-month wait for marriage counseling at a Vet Center.
"This has been around since wars began, and we didn't learn anything from previous wars … it's a shame we are still having to deal with this," she said.
Medically retired personnel and those with access to Tricare seem slightly better off than families whose troops served shorter periods, because Tricare often covers extensive mental health treatment.
After Renee Ayres' husband was arrested for assault, he received intensive inpatient care for combat PTSD. When he got home from treatment, he realized the depth of his wife's suffering and sent her to an inpatient facility, with Tricare paying all but $10,000 of the cost.
Parents and extended family members like Kahlor often can get treatment through private insurance. His employer, the University of California, San Diego, has full insurance that covers behavioral health and "is very supportive."
But others, like the Guard wife, are not as lucky. She said she called Military OneSource, a phone referral service touted by the Pentagon as its "one-stop shop" for family needs.
But OneSource referred her to VA, which has a facility more than an hour from her home that offered only semiweekly group therapy — at a time when her children arrive home from school.
And she can't leave the kids alone with their father.
"Whatever came off that plane to me was a monster," she said. "I'm supposed to be the rock, and there's nowhere to turn."
A hidden problem
Much has been written about the overburdened VA mental health system and the inability of veterans to access care.
But mental health diagnoses, suicides and suicide attempts by family members of troops and veterans are not tracked by the services or VA, and little is known about the extent of mental health conditions among those who have sent loved ones to war.
"VA is our primary avenue for treating PTSD, but they treat veterans. Insurance companies reimburse to some degree, but [not] for family therapy. The system is inadequate," said Reeves, who recently volunteered his services at the local VA.
After her husband's suicide attempt, the Guard wife fought to get him help. She also began receiving counseling via phone and Internet — a technology Reeves said has finally reached a point where it could serve as a significant solution to the nationwide shortage of mental health practitioners.
Other outlets, such as nonprofit groups like Give an Hour that offer free treatment or therapy, must be better utilized and publicized, he added.
"The burden on the health care system is tremendous," Reeves said. "Community outreach has become critical."
A handful of studies conducted from 2004 to 2007 sought answers on the secondary effects of PTSD on spouses and family members, but more research is needed to define the scope of the problem, advocates say.
Even more important than understanding the issue, they say, is getting treatment to those who need it — parents living with anxiety over their children, children with a parent who is angry all the time, girlfriends, boyfriends and spouses "living with strangers," Reeves said.
"A spouse or significant other cannot survive without their own individual intervention and therapy. They must have it," he said.


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MBTA Looking to Public to Help 'mTicket' Win National People's Choice Award
BOSTON – MassDOT & the MBTA are proud to announce that the MBTA Mobile Ticketing Project has been named one of the top ten transportation projects in the country and will be competing for top honors in the 2013 America's Transportation Awards, sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation officials, (AASHTO), AAA, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The MBTA is looking to the public to help vote, up to 10 times per day, for the mTicket app to win the People's Choice Award for the best transportation project in the country for 2013.
In November of 2012, the MBTA was the first in the nation to launch a mobile ticketing program that allows customers on the MBTA Commuter Rail Line and Ferry to use their smartphones instead of paper tickets. This project now allows customers to purchase tickets and passes using the MBTA mTicket app for iPhone and Android devices. The tickets are displayed on the phone's screen as a digital 'flash pass' or encrypted barcode. The system uses the JustRide mobile ticketing platform from Masabi US Ltd. Since its launch, mTicket has sold over one million tickets and generated over $10 million in sales.
"It is wonderful that the MBTA is being acknowledged on a national level by AASHTO for our mobile ticketing project. Not only has mobile ticketing provided a convenient way for customers to purchase tickets, but it has resulted in nearly $70 million in savings." said General Manager Beverly Scott. "This award also highlights the MBTA's commitment to two of our top priorities: customer service and innovation. We're proud of this national recognition as we continue to identify creative measures that enhance our customers' experience."
According to AASHTO, this year, 24 states entered a total of 36 projects into the competition with the 10 finalists receiving the highest number of overall points during four regional contests. The Grand Prize will be awarded by a panel of judges and the People's Choice Award will be decided by popular vote of the general public. The winners of both the Grand Prize and the People's Choice Award will be awarded with $10,000 each, which must be donated by those state DOTs to a charity or scholarship of their choice. The two awards will be presented Oct. 20 at the AASHTO Annual Meeting in Denver.
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John Tortorella:
When asked about it being low-energy at the start, like Montreal:
"No, I don't agree with you. Low-energy is the wrong way of putting it.
"I think (it was) a team that puts itself in some bad spots with some untimely penalties that take momentum when you're trying to gain some momentum. A little ragged, I'd say. A little ragged. But we found ourselves and tried to find a way to get back into it."
On Gaborik being hurt:
On the PP failures spreading to the even-strength offense:
"We had a lot of chances. I mean, the second half of the game we had a lot of chances, especially in the third period. We just didn't finish. Our power play is a struggle. But, no, I don't … some guys just need to score a goal to try to gain some confidence. I don't think it's the power play. I think it's our team in general. I think they're trying like hell. The second half of the game we developed a lot of good scoring chances. We just haven't been able to finish."
On Gaborik's slump:
"I mean, it's just, we need production. I'll leave it at that. We need production. We've got guys grinding their ass off, developing scoring chances. We need some of our skill guys to score a goal for us."
On the issue being effort:
"It's not effort. I mean, what game did you watch? Did you think they were lazy tonight? Let me ask you a question. Did you think our team was lazy tonight."
When it was suggested they were outworked for the first two periods:
"I totally disagree with you. … does that shut it down? Thanks guys."


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The sharemarket has finished higher, led by gains in the financial sector, after positive domestic data showed signs of a consumer recovery.
The benchmark S&P/ASX200 jumped 21.8 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 4738.4, while the broader All Ordinaries added 22 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 4765.
The ASX200 was one of two markets across the region to post gains. Singapore's exchange was the only other to record a lift, up around 0.2 per cent.
Among the sectors, consumer discretionary jumped 0.8 per cent, health surged 2.3 per cent, telcos rose 1.1 per cent and financials added 0.6 per cent.
The Westpac Melbourne Institute Index of Consumer Sentiment for January rose 0.6 points, to 100.6 – a reading above 100 indicates optimists outnumber pessimists.
New car sales also rose in December, up 2.2 per cent for the month and surging 17.9 per cent higher than in December 2011.
''Late last year and into this year, the economic data has been very very soft, pointing to a loss of momentum in the Aussie economy,'' said financial markets analyst at Suncorp Bank Darryl Conroy.
''I think the market did take some heart from motor vehicle sales and consumer confidence,'' he said.
The big four banks were a major factor in the market's rise, all recording gains. CBA rose 0.9 per cent to $62.29, NAB jumped 0.5 per cent to $25.85, ANZ added 0.4 per cent to $25.36 and Westpac was up 0.3 per cent to$26.43.
The iron ore price eased 1.1 per cent, to $US152.90 per tonne, causing the materials sector to slide. BHP fell 0.8 per cent to $36.25, Rio Tinto lost 0.5 per cent to $65.55 and Fortescue Metals dropped 1.5 per cent to $4.57.
''[From] the middle of last week [the iron ore price] began to ease and that's continued into this week. Having said that, it was a massive run-up in December and the start of this month,'' said Mr Conroy.
''[It was a] walloping move which suggests Chinese buyers are back in the marketplace, which is good news for the Aussie miners,'' he said.
Supermarket giants Wesfarmers and Woolworths both recorded gains, after a Deloitte reported said Wesfarmers had joined its rival among the top 20 retailers in the world. Wesfarmers rose 0.5 per cent to $37.83, while Woolworths was also up 0.5 per cent to $30.41.
CSL led the healthcare sector and was the leading force behind the market's gains for the day. Its shares jumped 3.5 per cent to $54.21.
Construction materials company Boral was the biggest gainer for the day, surging 10 per cent to $4.80, after it said it would cut 700 jobs across in a nationwide restructure of its business.
The media sector also enjoyed a broad rise. Ten Network rose 4.4 per cent to 35.5 cents, Seven West Media jumped 6.1 per cent to $1.92, APN News Media added 5.5 per cent to 29 cents, News Corp gained 1 per cent to $26.04 and Fairfax Media was up 0.9 per cent to 55 cents.


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Foods to Freezeby Dana Angelo White in Healthy Tips, November 20, 2011
Utilizing your freezer can mean big savings of time and money. Are you down with chilling?
The biggest freezer mistake people make is not keeping the freezer set to the proper temperature. If it's too warm in there you'll get transferring odors, freezer burn, and foul tasting food. Invest in a freezer thermometer and make sure it says an icy zero degrees in there.
All that opening and closing of the door can cause shifts in temperature. For this reason be sure to place foods in the appropriate spot. If you aren't going to be reaching for it for a while, keep it in the back of the freezer. Frequently used items can go closer to the front or in the door.
Pointers for keeping your freezer spic and span include: wiping down shelving with a damp rag to keep it free of dust and debris and placing a box of baking soda in every 3 months to help absorb odors. See ice building up? If so, it's time to defrost! Check the manufacturers directions for details on how.
Store foods only in freezer-safe bags, containers and vessels specifically marked freezer safe. Invest in a few different sizes to use the space in your freezer most efficiently. Be sure to clearly label and date things too so you can keep track of what's in there.
Some foods freeze better than others. Here are 10 faves for the freezer – most will keep for up to six months.
1. Fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs**
2. Stocks and soups
3. Hot and cold sauces (such as marinara and pesto**)
4. Chili and stews
5. Baked pasta dishes**
6. Cookie dough (shape into balls before freezing)**
7. Baked brownies
8. Bread, rolls and flour tortillas
9. Pizza dough
10. Peeled ginger root, pine nuts, Parmesan cheese rinds
**Thawing not recommended – cook right out of the freezer.
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HOUSTON - Two people were transported to a hospital after a pickup truck crashed into a northwest Houston apartment.
Houston police said the crash happened at an apartment complex on Robert Lee Road near the North Freeway about 2:30 a.m. Friday.
A couple with a small child were inside the apartment. They escaped with only minor injures.
"They were just asleep and had glass all over them," neighbor Nicole Aranda said. "They looked fine, but they went to the hospital to get checked out."
Officials said the damage was extensive. Witnesses said the entire building shook after impact.
"Nobody knew what happened. Then we see the black truck inside the house," neighbor Janet Silva said.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
Officials have not said if the driver will face charges.
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Families are living "on the edge of their nerves" in a council housing block infested with mice.
Nests, droppings and dead mice are regularly found on the estate of 50 flats in Tyrell Way, West Hendon, and tenants there say they problem is getting worse.
Residents had been told by Barnet Homes that it does not deal with individual cases of mice infestation, but the management company has now promised to look again at the problem after residents gathered a petition and enlisted the help of their local MP.
Pensioner Shirley Pearl has lived on the estate for 40 years and, after finding droppings on her carpet over the past two months, was shocked to discover a nest of 16 mice living in her sofa.
She said: "I'm living on the edge of my nerves here – I can't relax. I was sat in my living room the other day when one went scampering across the sofa I was on. I nearly had a heart attack.
"They need to do something outside to stop them getting in. I can't live here at the moment."
Mrs Pearl, who has moved to her daughter's home in Edgware because of the problem, has contacted pest control almost half a dozen times but says she is not being taken seriously.
She said: "One council officer told me to get a cat – it made me very cross."
Around 50 people living in the council-owned block of flats have signed the petition calling on Barnet Homes to undertake some form of pest control.
Mariam Daud, 33, who lives in her flat with her three young children, said: "I've found droppings in our food cupboards, teeth marks on the door frames and I hear them nibbling at night.
"It's so unhygienic and it plays on your mind – you can't get a saucepan out without knowing if a mouse has crawled in it.
"It's disgusting – you think twice when you eat anything and you can't relax in your own home. I don't like being in the house on my own, you can feel them in here with you."
Barnet Homes previously dealt with a major rat problem on the estate, which is due to be demolished in 2017 as part of a major regeneration scheme.
Conservative politician Matthew Offord visited residents on the estate last week and says he plans to write to Barnet Homes and demand they undertake various methods of pest control.
He said: "While people still live here, they need to live in habitable conditions. The people that have been left here seem to have been forgotten and it is unacceptable.
"They're being left to live in conditions that affect their health and, while I welcome the regeneration project, I don't want to see people suffering in the meantime."
A Barnet Homes spokesperson said in a statement: "Our policy on mice is that, if there is a one-off occurrence that affects an individual resident, we will offer advice but it is the responsibility of the resident to tackle the problem.
"We have not been aware of multiple property infestation of mice on the estate before receipt of the Tyrell Way petition and we are very concerned to hear of the reports regarding Mrs Pearl's situation.
"Where there is a mouse problem that affects a significant number of properties within a block of flats, Barnet Homes would take this up as a multiple property issue (as is now the case at Tyrell Way) and begin an investigation immediately, often resulting in a block treatment programme and work to prevent mice entering the block.
"We will also try to co-ordinate efforts with Barnet Council's Environmental Health team and the regeneration scheme developers, to attempt to manage the issue more widely going forward."


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The art community has rallied together in a bid to stop Ilkley artists' workshops being turned into houses.
Artists and craftsmen who occupy the two units in Back Nelson Road – part of the successful recent Ilkley Art Trail – could lose their studios if plans to convert them into two houses are approved by Bradford Council.
But fellow artists and art lovers are opposing the scheme, calling for the council to protect a "scarce and valuable asset" to the community.
Organisers of Ilkley Art Trail and artists who took part in the trail in October are among those opposing the plans to convert the Victorian buildings.
Painter and sculptor Joy Godfrey, who has been based in Back Nelson Road for more than a decade, is one of the artists who stands to lose her workshop.
"It's been such a shock," she said.
As well as participating in the Art Trail, she has regularly opened her studio to the public during Ilkley Summer Festival and other events.
Her sister, glass and ceramics artist Chris Bailey, lost her workshop several years ago when a planning application to convert two neighbouring workshops was approved by Bradford Council. The council previously rejected plans to convert all four buildings.
Art trail organiser Lorna Bird said: "It would be a very sad day for Ilkley if it were to lose the artists' studios at Back Nelson Road.
"Unlike other towns our size, Ilkley has no supported workshops dedicated to artist studios, except these spaces, privately acquired by the artists."
She says 4,000 people visited the Art Trail this year – around half the total from out of town – contributing to Ilkley's vibrancy and economic wellbeing.
Artist Lucia Smith, who helps organise the event, was among several artists who wrote to the Gazette this week, calling on townspeople to object to the plans.
The applicant behind the plan, Mike Hanson, of Town & Country Properties (Wharfedale) Ltd, says the conversion would give the properties a new lease of life, reduce traffic congestion on Nelson Road and improve present access and parking dilemmas.
He said: "We have applied to convert these historically and culturally significant buildings and give them a new lease of life.
"Their present use is contributing to the deterioration of the area, with increased traffic, they are commercially unviable and left in their present use would deteriorate further.
"There is a defined need for first-time buyer housing in the town. This development provides an opportunity to provide further much-needed housing to the community in a sustainable location."
The company intended to make features of the character of the buildings, he added.
Ilkley Parish Council's Plans Committee this week recommended approval of the scheme to Bradford Council.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - This week, workers began tearing down some of Jacksonville's history.
The Southbank Riverwalk is being demolished, making way for a new, safer, concrete structure. However, the new Riverwalk will be a lot shorter than the current one.
The Riverwalk stretches from near Friendship Fountain at the Main Street Bridge over to the Duval County School Board building.
The problems with the Riverwalk have been well-documented for years, but there are parts of the structure that are not being replaced.
The plan four years ago was to use $15 million to build a whole new structure. But the city waited and now that money won't be enough to get the whole thing done.
The new Riverwalk will be 3,000 feet of concrete deck, new guardrails, lighting benches and pet stations, plus new floating docks.
It's something those who use it are looking forward to.
"It's a great way to spend your lunch, and the better shape this is in, the boardwalk, and then you can do it," Thomas Hilton said.
"I don't know what they are going to do, but hopefully it's going to be an improvement," Ashin Rardi said.
What many people don't realize is the part of the Riverwalk from the Main Street Bridge to the Wyndham Jacksonville Riverwalk, which is halfway, will be redone. The part from the Wyndam to the School Board building is not going to be completed because the city is running out of money.
That section will be torn down, but nothing will be built in its place.
There is another portion that won't change. The city never did come to an agreement with the owner of the Crowne Plaza Jacksonville-Riverfront, so the deck in front of it will remain wood.
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Liberty Claims Big South Title with 3-1 Victory
The No. 4 seed Liberty Flames used strong defensive play and a quick-strike offense to down the No. 2 seed Gardner-Webb Bulldogs, 3-1, winning the 2011 Big South Conference men's soccer title, Sunday afternoon at Greene-Harbison Stadium.
Kyle Breitmeyer and Phillip Aseweh scored first-half goals, while Darren Amoo became Liberty's all-time goal leader by netting his 37th career marker in the second half.
With the win, Liberty captures its second Big South men's soccer title and runs its record to 11-6-2 on the season. The Flames claim the conference's automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament. Liberty will find out its opponent and match time tomorrow when the field for the tournament is announced at 4:30 p.m. on NCAA.com. The Flames won their first Big South title in 2007.
Tournament host Gardner-Webb ends its season with a 9-8-4 record.
Liberty struck for the first goal of the game during the 11th minute. Midfielder Aseweh fired a shot from the top of the right side of the 18-yard box, which was blocked by a defender. The rebound fell in front of forward Breitmeyer, who ripped a shot off of Gardner-Webb goalkeeper Scott Krotee's hands and into the net for his first goal of the year and a 1-0 Flames lead at 10:15.
During the 24th minute, the Flames extended their advantage. Breitmeyer moved around a Bulldog defender inside the box and was pulled down for a foul, giving the Flames a penalty kick. Aseweh converted the kick for his seventh goal of the year and a 2-0 Liberty lead.
After a foul in the 42nd minute, Gardner-Webb's John Sargent lifted a shot from 25 yards out. Flames goalkeeper Scott Sutarik smothered the attempt and cleared the ball.
Playing strong defense in the first half, Liberty allowed only one shot on goal by the Bulldogs, while putting three on net. The Flames held a 4-3 edge in shots. Corner kicks were even at 1-1.
Pressing the attack in the opening minutes of the second half, Gardner-Webb was able to create a shot for midfielder John Sargent during the 50th minute. Taking a pass at the top left corner of the penalty area, Sargent lined a shot wide of the near post.
Liberty forward Amoo came open for a shot in transition during the 52nd minute, ripping a shot which Krotee dove out and stopped, preventing the Flames from extending their advantage.
Sutarik turned away a Bulldog scoring opportunity in the 59th minute. Coming free at the left post, Clarke sent a header towards the Liberty goal. Sutarik batted the ball down and away from the front of the net, allowing the Liberty defense to clear the ball out of harm's way.
The Flames put the contest out of reach in the 72nd minute. Sutarik punted the ball over the defense, putting Amoo one-on-one with the goalkeeper. After getting Krotee to dive to block a shot with a fake, Amoo chipped it into the net for his seventh goal of the year and a 3-0 edge.
In the 74th minute, Clarke lined a shot from the left side of the field, which Sutarik deflected over the crossbar and out of play.
Crashing the Liberty net, the Bulldogs broke through for a goal, spoiling the shutout in the 85th minute. Off a corner kick, Kevin Nolan tipped a loose ball in front over a pile of players in front of the goal for his first goal of the year.
Krotee stopped Aseweh on a breakway shot in the 88th minute, as the Flames went on to close out the contest and claim the Big South title, 3-1.
"I am very humbled by what God has done through this group of guys," stated Liberty head coach Jeff Alder after the game. "Gardner-Webb played a great game and we have a lot of respect for their coaches and team."
Gardner-Webb outshot Liberty, 11-9, for the contest and also held the advantage in corner kicks, 5-1.
Sutarik made three saves for the Flames, while Krotee also recorded three saves.
Liberty defender and team captain Chris Phillips was named the tournament's MVP. The redshirt senior helped lead the Flames' strong defensive effort throughout their three-game run to the title.
2011 Big South All-Tournament Team
Chris Phillips, Liberty (MVP)
Juan F. Nino, Liberty
Greg White, Liberty
Scott Sutarik, Liberty
Scott Krotee, Gardner-Webb
Eric Asanin-Miroux, Gardner-Webb
Jon Ole Reinhardsen, Gardner-Webb
Adam Sewell, High Point
Karo Okiomah, High Point
Pedro Ribeiro, Coastal Carolina
Kjarten Sigurdsson, Coastal Carolina
Alex Isern, Winthrop
Mitchell Cardenas, Campbell
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The Victoria Inn, in North Station Road, and the Odd One Out, in Mersea Road, have taken the top spots in prestigious countywide Campaign for Real Ale awards.
'The Vic', run by Andy Pilgrim and Sheena Valentine, was crowned Pub of the Year for Essex, while 'the Oddie' picked up Cider Pub of the Year.
The pair will go on to compete in the East of England awards, in August.
If they are successful, they will be considered for the National Pub of the Year, which is announced in either February of March, in 2015.
Alan Wareham, Colchester and North East Essex branch chairman, said: "We're proud and honoured that two fantastic Colchester pubs have been voted best in the county in their categories in the same year.
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- A relative of a man who killed his father in front of a computer science class at a Wyoming community college called him a "borderline genius" upset by the belief he had inherited Asperger's syndrome from his dad.
Barbara Nichols, an aunt of 25-year-old Christopher Krumm, says her nephew had trouble keeping jobs and blamed Asperger's.
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Christopher Krumm fatally stabbed himself in the classroom.
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Located in Arlington, Ariz., about 40 miles west of Phoenix, Mesquite Solar 1 is part of Sempra U.S. Gas & Power's massive 4,000-acre Mesquite Solar complex, with the potential to build out up to 700 MW of capacity. The Mesquite Solar Complex is well-positioned to be North America's largest photovoltaic (PV) solar power installation.
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Hi everyone! I'm new here and have only recently discovered the joy of Harry Potter (ok...so I'm 10 years behind the times...sorry!)
I'm trying to figure out Harry's Horcrux status. Didn't all the Horcruxes have to be destroyed before Voldemort could be killed? If so, how did Harry survive? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by HedwigRules (talk • contribs).
Thanks very much for any help!
126.96.36.199 18:17, January 25, 2012 (UTC)
- Normally, yes. However, my understanding of it from what Dumbledore said is that whatever Voldemort did when he hit Harry with the Killing Curse was such that it made it so that Harry was no longer a Horcrux. As for why Harry survived, that apparently has to do with how Voldemort bound them together through blood. But we don't have to just take Dumbledore's word for it that Harry was no longer a Horcrux - the fact that he no longer felt pain in his scar when Voldemort was around and that he could no longer speak parseltongue also proved that. ProfessorTofty 18:04, January 25, 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you! That makes absolute sense (although I have not yet read the part in which Harry no longer speaks Parseltongue. That's ok. Any relief Harry finds from Voldemort is good with me!)
- 188.8.131.52 18:17, January 25, 2012 (UTC)
- If you read J.K. Rowling's blog, she says that Voldemort killed only the part of his(Voldemort's) soul that was inside of Harry. In limbo, the baby-like creature underneath the bench at Kings Cross Station was the part of Voldemort's soul that was in Harry. So simply, the only thing that Voldemort killed was his own soul. The rest of Harry's body was just temporarily shocked. So(haha) looks like the joke's on Voldemort! DahSmartzCutie 03:08, February 1, 2012 (UTC)
- Do you think Voldemort killed the part of his soul, inside Harry, because he did not want Harry to be able to see his activities or did I miss something critical? (would be typical of me. :)!!!)
- HedwigRules 18:19, February 6, 2012 (UTC)
He did it unintentionally because he did not know. He wanted to kill Harry.
Harry granger Talk contribs 13:13, February 7, 2012 (UTC)
You would have thought that Voldemort would have fully educated himself on Horcruxes before involving himself with them. Must be tough to be responsible for the death of your own piece of soul. Bad move. :)
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Florida softball starts SEC tournament play against Georgia
Published: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at 8:06 p.m.
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No. 5 Florida looks to pad its NCAA resume when it takes on Georgia at 4 p.m. Thursday in the SEC softball tournament in Columbia, S.C. UF is the defending tournament champion and is trying to win back-to-back conference championships for the second time in program history (2008-09).
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Who: Georgia (42-12) vs. Florida (45-10)
When: 4 p.m. Thursday
Radio: AM-1230
The Gators (45-10) look to earn a spot as host of the first two weekends of the national tournament. With the No. 1 spot in the latest Ratings Percentage Index, the Gators are primed to accomplish that feat if they win the league tournament. Georgia (42-12) is No. 3 in the RPI.
Florida has won the SEC tournament three times in the last six seasons (2008, Baton Rouge, La.; 2009, Knoxville, Tenn.; 2013, Lexington, Ky.), the most in the conference in that span.
The Gators are 71-54 (.568) all-time in postseason games, including 22-23 (.489) in the SEC tournament and a 49-31 (.613) mark in the NCAA tournament.
A win would put Florida in Friday's semifinal against Alabama, South Carolina or Auburn at 5:30 p.m. on ESPNU. Saturday's championship game is set for 8 p.m. on ESPN2.
Following the SEC tournament, the Gators will learn their NCAA Regional site and opponents Sunday night, when the tournament field is revealed at 10 p.m. on ESPNU.
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