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183 days until opening day!
183 days until opening day!
Have fun updating this for the next 6 months.
Everyones floor is that they get the bubonic plague and take out the whole roster before they die themselves. - Dave Cameron
Go Reds?
Go Gators!
I would rather say right around 137 days till Pitchers and Catchers report
Crap. I've started the Opening Day countdown thread for two years, but I'll give up the honors this year.
"Strickland Propane... Taste the meat, not the heat." - Hank Hill
Just hit midnight.. 182 days
181 days.. just around the corner
180 days
LOL.. atleast we know how many posts you'll make in this thread prior to opening day
Rock on!! CANT WAIT.. til then
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Wildcats Fall to Texas at Home
Wildcats Fall to Texas at Home
Oct. 6, 2012
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MANHATTAN, Kan. – K-State volleyball faced its toughest test of the season on Saturday night and put up a fight against No. 9 Texas but came up short taking only its second loss on the year. The Wildcats fell 17-25, 28-30, 15-25 to the Longhorns in a match that saw some of the top players in the Big 12 Conference battle it out on the court.
Sophomore Haley Eckerman led Texas (13-3, 6-0) with 19 kills over the three sets and hit an impressive .417 on her 36 swings. K-State middle blocker Kaitlynn Pelger also put on a show as she pounded out 15 kills. The two traded blows and kept pace with each other for much of the match until the Longhorns pulled away in the third set on the arm of Eckerman.
Bailey Webster represented UT's second main threat on offense and she, too, reached double digits with 11 kills. The Longhorns hit .339 as a team compared to just .123 for the Wildcats.
K-State (16-2, 3-2) also saw senior middle blocker Alex Muff post double digits in kills as she tallied 10 while hitting .353 to go along with her team-high four blocks. Defensively, senior libero Kuulei Kabalis had 15 digs, but she and the Wildcats could not slow Texas down enough.
"I think we scrapped. I think defensively we slowed Webster down, which is something that we knew we needed to do, but there were others that got away from us," Head Coach Suzie Fritz said. "Texas has tremendous athletes. There's a reason they're a perennial type of team every year. They are tremendously gifted."
The Wildcats were hanging close with the Longhorns in the first set until Texas went on a 7-0 run to finish off the first set after K-State pulled within one point. K-State had a chance to strike in the second set but let it slip away.
With set point at 24-21, Kabalis had a service error. After some back and forth, K-State again took the lead but saw Pelger serve the ball into the net, letting another set point falter. Texas would find a way to fight off the Wildcats and reclaim the lead before finally winning the set in extra points.
"We need to take care of opportunities," Fritz said. "The momentum changed going into the third. It would have been a nice situation going 1-1 against Texas into the third versus going down 0-2. They are not a team that will allow you to make a lot of unforced errors. We made some untimely errors in the third and untimely serving errors in the second."
It was all Texas in the third set as the Wildcats trailed by five points early on and were unable to chip away into the deficit. Muff said her team played well at times but too many mistakes turned out to cost the Wildcats an opportunity to get a win against one of the top teams in the country.
"With a little bit of momentum in the second set, if we could have won, I think we would have come out in the third set a little bit more ready and with a little bit more energy," Muff said. "Against a good team you have to do the little things well and still play well overall."
K-State has a midweek bye coming up and will take the court again next Saturday when the Wildcats travel to TCU. It will be the first time the two teams will have met on the volleyball court with the Horned Frogs joining the Big 12 Conference this year. First serve is set for 1 p.m. from Fort Worth.


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Emails reviewed by The Advocate show the Jindal administration told legislative staff last year that an unfavorable appraisal on state-owned land near the State Capitol was unavailable because it had been "discarded."
State Sen. Gerald Long's staff asked for the appraisal while preparing for a public hearing on Gov. Bobby Jindal's bid to sell 17 lots bounded by North Fifth Street, State Capitol Drive, North Sixth Street and Lakeland Drive.
Jindal initially hoped to generate $5 million by selling the property that once was home to Huey P. Long's alleged assassin and now holds a parking garage.
An appraisal dated Jan. 17, 2012, by Sharon D. Pruitt valued the property at $4.9 million. The appraisal was unusable by the summer because state law requires an appraisal to be obtained within six months before the sale of state-owned land. A subsequent appraisal, by Cook, Moore and Associates, valued the property at $2.8 million.
Cook, Moore and Associates noted several possible problems with the property, including the fact that the site might have to be filled to a developable grade, flooding problems and low demand for business space in the surrounding area.
Long's staff asked for 12 copies of the second appraisal in mid-October.
"What should I do," real estate agent Bernell Boudreaux, who works for the Division of Administration, messaged John Lavin and Clay Carter with the Office of State Lands less than an hour after receiving the Oct. 12 request.
Lavin, administrator for the Office of State Lands within the Division of Administration, wrote to Long's staff the next day.
In an email, he wrote: "The State Land Office has discarded this second appraisal as it was ordered in error by this office ... We decided to 'throw out' the second appraisal and do not have it available for copying."
The intentional removal, mutilation, destruction, alteration, falsification, or concealment of public records is a crime in Louisiana.
Michael DiResto, spokesman for the Division of Administration, said by email this week that the Jindal administration retained a copy of the second appraisal despite Lavin's comments.
He did not offer an explanation for why Lavin said otherwise.
"We rejected the second appraisal, as it wasn't conducted as thoroughly and it undervalued the property. We still have a copy," DiResto said.
A Nov. 9 meeting on the property sale was canceled shortly after the Jindal administration released the second appraisal to the news media following weeks of delays.
Long, R-Winnfield, said Friday that he dropped the matter because the hearing on the sale was cancel.
Boudreaux concluded that both "supported their estimated value of the subject property, based on an analysis of current data using an accepted method established within the industry."
DiResto said Boudreaux simply looked at whether the appraisals were conducted appropriately.
"We rejected the second appraisal, as it wasn't conducted as thoroughly and it undervalued the property. Specifically, it used only seven comparables while the first one used 20, and it discounted the property value by 40 percent for no justifiable reason," DiResto said.
ed. He said most members of the state Senate Natural Resources Committee, which he chairs, had grave concerns about whether the sale was in the state's best interest.
He said he has yet to see the second appraisal.
"Someone has a copy of it. I'm absolutely convinced. But I thought, in light of the fact that the administration was no longer pursuing the sale of it, we simply did not pursue it beyond that," Long said.
DiResto said the Jindal administration still is working on bringing the sale before legislators.
He said the administration recently updated its files by going back to Sharon D. Pruitt, the first appraiser. Pruitt looked at the property again and concluded it was worth $4.9 million as of Nov. 7.
"It's not in the taxpayer interest to have government-owned property go underutilized, and we are working with legislators on our continuing goal to return it to productive use," DiResto said by email.
Boudreaux, the division's real estate agent, looked at the first and second appraisals, including the one the administration found objectionable, in October


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One month in already? Could it be? It's true; I wrapped up another exciting week as the Marketing Intern at the Oakland Zoo. This past week I worked on putting together talking points for a shoot with CBS 5, promoted our Living Social deal through our social media platforms (which sold out), spent a lot of time learning how to use Vocus, wrote and released a press release (with much help), and even learned a few Photoshop skills.
I spent two days out of the office and on Zoo grounds assisting with our training video project and a video shoot with CBS 5. I continued to learn a lot about media and how it all works behind-the-scenes. I greatly enjoyed those two days, being outdoors in this beautiful Zoo, and visiting each animal exhibit. It also allowed me to meet many other Zoo staff and network with local media professionals.
Nicky and Amber also took time out of their day to sit down and go over objectives with me and have greatly assisted in making those become achievable. For example, one objective of mine is to help with events taking place at the Zoo, so I was able to attend and provide input at the first Earth Day committee meeting and will continue to be involved leading up to the 'day of' in April.
Another goal that I expressed is to experience more animal encounters. To my surprise, the next day I found myself on a sixteen foot platform hand feeding the giraffes! I had so much fun and loved being that close with the animals. It was a great week being around the animals and out on Zoo grounds with film crews. I'm learning so many different things, keeping busy, and still have three months of experience to gain.


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The inspiration for these burgers comes from my fond memory of a favorite aunt who used to refer to other women her age who dressed "with airs" as "mutton dressed as lamb"!
Growing up on our weekend farm I experienced the joy of a garden full of fresh vegetables. There is nothing like eating tender corn on the cob, green onions, and fresh jalapeños.


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A housing organisation has apologised to an elderly disabled man who was injured when a handrail outside his home gave way.
Eighty-year-old Maurice Scott says he has been left in terrible pain and hardly able to move since the accident on New Year's Eve.
Now the retired fireman, from Guiseley, has put the matter in the hands of his solicitor.
Mr Scott fell when a handrail gave way after he was told by workmen that the ramp outside his home was usable.
"The rail came apart and I fell, so much that I injured myself," he said.
"I hurt the bottom of my back, my neck and my arm.
"I can hardly move and the pain is terrible. I can hardly get about with my walking frame now, and I have to be very, very careful."
Mr Scott made a complaint to the housing management organisation West North West Homes Leeds, on whose board he used to sit as a tenant's representative. A West North West homes Leeds spokesman said: "We would like to apologise to Mr Scott for this unfortunate accident, it is something that should not have happened.
"Where adaptations are being undertaken it is usual practice for the subcontractor's work to be assessed and signed off by the WNWHLs adaptations team before a tenant is told it is OK to use.
"On this occasion this did not happen, and Mr Scott should not have been granted permission by the subcontractor for Morrison to use the ramp until work was completed to a satisfactory level.
"We went out to visit Mr Scott the day after his fall and made provision for the work to be finished to the correct standard."
A full health and safety investigation been carried out by Morrison and its subcontractor S&C and a change of working practices has been agreed to prevent future incidents.


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Marchesa Spring 2013
Those with long memories might care to remember that Marchesa's debut collection, unveiled if I am not mistaken on Renée Zellweger at the London premiere of Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason in November 2004, had a distinctly Southern Asian theme, all Rajasthani sari silks and Jaipur jeweling. Many baubles and beads have been strewn across the cutting room floor since Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig launched their label, which has impressively grown to encompass big-night glamour, red-carpet dressing, and all manner of fantasy-fulfilling dresses for girls who just want to have fun. Revisiting that Indian theme showed how far this twosome has come. And their trip down memory lane—guided, swami-like, by the Beatles's guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi—resulted in a collision of the rarified and time-honored beading and embroidery skills of India, not to mention its wildly vivid color palette (chartreuse, garnet, fuchsia, coral, and, of course, pink) with the groovy countercultural swing of I-just-want-to-find-myself sixties London.
Keep that in mind, and it explains why some of those sari silk dresses had a fluttery cape overlay, or a Mod-ish shift shape to them, and were layered over capri pants. These were partnered with the shoe seen pretty much throughout the entire show, a brocade or jewel-encrusted low skinny-heeled Christian Louboutin sandal. (Yes, it finally looks like it's curtains for the towering platform at night, but then I've written that before, and subsequently been proved oh so very wrong.) Elsewhere, this collection was at its best when the sari-folding was integrated into the silhouette itself, showcasing the rich diversity of shapes that can be conjured by this elegant draping of fabric onto the body—viz a fuchsia cocktail dress with a cascading hem, or a bordeaux tulle dress appliquéd with gold painted lace. Other times, the Indian theme was little more than a fragrant reminder—such as a peacock blue and turquoise paisley evening look that came embroidered with crystals, and which could swish through the night wherever it's worn on the globe.


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A teenager who robbed two shops in Corsham at knifepoint has been remanded in custody by a judge.
Joseph Kingsley was armed with a large kitchen knife when he threatened staff at the stores early last year.
The 19-year-old went into Oakleys, on Pickwick Road, at about 9pm on Monday, March 19 and threatened two teenager shop workers with the 10-inch blade.
Then just 72 hours later he struck again at Costcutters, in Kings Avenue, minutes before the convenience store was due to close.
He had been seen on CCTV pulling a black beanie or balaclava style hat down over his face before entering the store at 8.50pm on Thursday March 22.
A week later he carried out a third knife point robbery targeting the Esso service station on Kingshill Road in Swindon.
Kingsley had been due to stand trial at Swindon Crown Court facing six counts of robbery, six of having a bladed article and one of attempted robbery.
But before a jury could be sworn in he admitted three of the armed raids and prosecutors said they would not be seeking a trial over the four other incidents.
Kingsley and an accomplice had a large knife when he held up the petrol station shortly before 8.30pm on Friday March 30.
After using the blade to threaten the cashier at the garage, which was closed because of panic buying, the pair fled along the canal towpath at the rear of the premises.
Kingsley, formerly of Lower Allington, Chippenham, pleaded guilty to three counts of robbery and three of possessing a bladed article.
The teenager pleaded not guilty to a further three of each charge and an attempted robbery and those charges were left to lie on the file.
He had been accused of taking part in a robbery at the Esso in Royal Wootton Bassett the day after the Kingshill Road raid.
A week later he was accused of robbing the Best One Express on Clifton Street, Swindon, then again on Monday April 9 at McColls in Chippenham.
The final count, an attempted robbery the Hythe Road Store, in Old Town, the would-be raider was chased off by the shopkeeper.
At an earlier hearing he had admitted a burglary at a farm in The Locks, Devizes, where lead and copper piping worth about £2,000 was taken in September last year.
Judge Douglas Field remanded the defendant in custody to Friday, February 1 when he is due to face sentence.


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A NEW £3.5million community hub is to be built at Blackburn's Shadsworth Estate.
Twin Valley Homes (TVH) has announced plans for the new Shadsworth Enterprise Centre, on and area of Ballantrea Road, Ayre Road and Rothesay Road.
It will remove the buildings on the site, including the Health and Wellbeing Centre, and replace them with the new centre.
It will provide space for five retail units on the ground floor, with a multi-purpose space above for sports and recreation, a kitchen for breakfast clubs and cooking allotment foods, IT facilities for job clubs and ICT Training and a one-stop shop for advice on health, wealth and wellbeing.
There will also be 20 new homes, which will be available for rent, and areas for play, recreation and gardening.
Additional funding has been provided by the Homes and Communities Agency and plans are being drawn up to approach local employ-ment bases to work with the community in the Enterprise Centre.
The move comes following a public consultation with local tenants about what facilities they wanted to see in their community.
Wendy Malone, Twin Valley Homes' head of project management, said: "We have listened to the residents in the area and tried to match their hopes and expectations for the future of their community.
"This development will replace the tired buildings that are there, with modern, fit-for-purpose shops and the Enterprise Centre, which we hope will become the hub of the community. he existing shopkeepers have been informed and will get first refusal on the new units when they open next October.."
Coun Yusuf Jan-Virmani, executive member for neighbour-hoods, housing and customer services at Blackburn with Darwen Council, said: "This development will provide modern premises which I am sure will be a real asset to the community."


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Airfoils, thanks for refreshing my memory. I'm looking forward to trying bread baked on the grill.
Have you ever worked any soups into the grill? I'll share more on this later, but one of my better grill experiments was making spaggetti sauce on the grill.
And since you like grilled bread and soup, do you ever grill your own soup-bread-bowls?


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Youth Essay Contest Again Seeks Horned Toad Memories
AUSTIN, Texas — What one species can bring the old and young together, evoke sympathy and superstition, illustrate changing ecologies and economies, and teach lessons in biology, social studies, history, and composition? The answer is Texas' official state reptile, the Texas Horned Lizard. For another year, Texas' most beloved lizard is the focus of an essay contest called Hometown Horned Toads.
Few species evoke as many fond memories as the Texas Horned Lizard. When Texas Parks and Wildlife Department began asking students, "What has happened to horned lizards in your town?" three years ago, the answers and remembrances began pouring in from older Texans, while younger Texans began to gain new appreciation for the once-common species.
"The first three years of the Hometown Horned Toads essay contest have provided some wonderful insights and have given students a great opportunity to get to know this species and learn new research techniques," notes Lee Ann Linam, Texas Horned Lizard Watch coordinator with TPWD. "However, we would still like to hear from many other parts of the state."
The first three years of the essay contest attracted more than 400 entries from around the state. Students used interviews with local residents and researched local records to hypothesize when and why the popular Texas horned lizard declined in their communities. The majority of the essays suggested that the official state reptile began declining in the 1970s and 1980s with red imported fire ants, urbanization, and pesticide use suggested as the major causes of decline.
With winning essays from Texarkana to Big Bend and Childress to Corpus Christi, winners have represented both urban and rural communities from all over the state.
The 2004-05 contest is open to Texas students in three age groups with the authors of the top three essays in each division receiving outdoor fun kits valued as much as $150. The top ten essays in each age group will also receive a horned lizard souvenir. The best classroom or group effort in each age group will win as much as $1,000 to cover expenses for a field trip to a TPWD Wildlife Management Area and a horned lizard souvenir for their classroom.
Prizes will be awarded based on a combination of criteria, including thoroughness of investigation, number of people interviewed, number of local written sources accessed, and quality of presentation, including historical perspective, scientific analysis, neatness and creativity.
Students should conduct interviews of local residents who have interesting memories of horned lizards and research local historical reports, such as newspaper articles, crop records and aerial photographs that might shed light into the history and ecology of the horned lizard. In counties where Texas horned lizards have declined, the overall goal should be to document when and perhaps why horned toads disappeared.
Contest entries in grades 3-5 should submit a 2-3-page paper. Grades 6-8 should submit a typed 3-6-page paper and grades 9-12 should submit a typed 5-8-page paper. Deadline for submission is Jan. 15. Submissions will be judged by participating organizations, including TPWD's Wildlife Diversity Program, the Texas Historical Commission, County Historical Commissions, and the Horned Lizard Conservation Society. Winners will be announced and prizes awarded by April 1.
Linam said TPWD values the insight that the essays can provide. In return, past participants have applauded the opportunity that the contest gives to students to connect to older members of the community. Said one mother of a participant, "It was a great conversation starter for our holiday gatherings-it really brought everyone together."
For more information about Hometown Horned Toads essay contest or to receive an entry form and set of participant guidelines, visit the Web (http://tpwd.texas.gov/htht/) or call (800) 792-1112 x7011.
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Just Cause 2 Multiplayer Beta
Any good RPS folks or folkesses gonna be playing the JC2MP beta this weekend?
Been on for about half an hour on and off and dealing with the rest of the server's made my head ache. Between the lag and herds of idiots it isn't proving much fun.
Thinking we could make an RPS faction and do some racing, exploring, skydiving, etc if enough people are interested?


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Is it feasible to install BT as a VM and then use the host to do the video and audio recording? I think this might be the easiest solution. Other than that, I'm not sure.
I have spent quiet some time on Linux and BackTrack (although I'm new to forum here). So now I wish to make some Tutorial videos on Backtrack. I got "xvidcap" and "recordmydesktop" all ready and working on Backtrack. But they are not recording Audio from my internal HP DV5 Mic. I checked other apps and mic is not working at all in BackTrack.
Things I have tried :
--> Check input volume and all in 'alsamixer' ..
--> Configure the alsa.conf file and added the line 'option snd-intel model=hp-dv5'
and reloaded alsa
--> Searched the internet the whole day long (Yes! whole day) ,
it seems nobody has got the internal mic working on BackTrack since they have posted solutions like make a video recording and then ADD the sound later by editing the video is "lives" or such video editor.
I want to add the sound AS I'm making the video NOT Later on.
Please help me out.
(Please Do Not post such replies as BackTrack is built for pen testing only so it wouldn't do this and that . Thanks)
Is it feasible to install BT as a VM and then use the host to do the video and audio recording? I think this might be the easiest solution. Other than that, I'm not sure.
Can anyone here tell me why is it that BT hasn't got the mic working, when it's built over Ubuntu and when I'm on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (or any other distro) internal laptop mic works great??
Please help me out, any knowledge you have would be great.
BT developers should look into this, very annoying problem.
this, hope may help.
Think like a criminal and act as a professional.
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Think like a criminal and act as a professional.
Please post settings of alsamixer, if you can post pic, it will be much better. There are some things I'd like to see...It could be settings although you do not belive..
Try it.


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Digest — By Capt. Dave Lear
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|Oahu's new Ko Olina Marina is the perfect place to target yellowfin and other bluewater adversaries.
Mention Oahu, the most popular destination in Hawaii, to Joe Tourist, and he'll probably start babbling about Diamond Head and surfing. If Joe happens to be an angler, however, he's more likely to sing the praises of the Big Island's Kona than he is of Honolulu. Maybe that's because the trade winds whip around Oahu's southeastern point of Makapuu and its northwestern counterpart at Kaena, creating Victory at Sea conditions.
To avoid mal de mer-induced chumming, most of the charter vessels catering to tourists fish the calmer waters along Oahu's western shore, where the Waianae Mountains offer protection from the wind. But now, thanks to the opening of a new marina and charter operation, prime waters are easily accessible from the luxury of a world-class spa and golf resort.
The Ko Olina Marina is located a half-hour west of the Honolulu International Airport, near the Barber's Point Naval Air Station. The newly completed, 43-acre facility offers 270 slips that can accommodate vessels up to 150 feet LOA alongside floating concrete docks. Standard services include electrical power, water, telephone and cable TV connections, together with a launch ramp, fuel dock, and ship's store.
The marina is within walking distance of the gated JW Marriott Ihilani Resort and Spa, which features, among other things, a championship course at the Ko Olina Golf Club; private residences are in the works as well. The complex is away from the bustle of downtown Honolulu, yet convenient to historical attractions, shopping, and nightlife.
But our focus is on sportfishing, and the bluewater potential is excellent, as I discovered last April. Ko Olina's big-game trolling duties are exclusively handled by Legend, a 31 Cabo Express owned by Mike Vidal, the 2000 World Billfish Series World Champion of Billfishing. Capt. Mike Pruner, a retired Navy submariner, runs Legend, and he provided my Oahu initiation.
With the emerald-green mountains as a backdrop and a precipitous drop-off just beyond the marina's breakwater, Ko Olina is ideally situated for big-game pursuits. Legend's stand-in mate Brian Greene quickly had the lures bubbling in staggered wakes as we trolled into greater depths searching for spearfish, tuna, and blue marlin. En route we scanned the horizon for shearwater or frigate birds to tip off the presence of skipjack tuna or subsurface marlin. The skipjacks will reach 40 pounds locally.
"If the skipjacks are around, that's where you'll find marlin," Pruner says. "They're the first choice on the pupu platter. Marlin love `em." Summertime is the prime season for blues, although they are common throughout the year. Black marlin frequent the shallow water near ledges (the state record is 1,200 pounds, according to Pruner), and stripers make a seasonal appearance as well.
Wahoo and mahi mahi (dolphin) are also favorite targets, but the real frenzy comes with the arrival of ahi or yellowfin tuna. Ahi is Japanese for "fire," and when the bite is on, the number of boats heading offshore is as frantic as hook-and-ladder trucks rolling to a five-alarm blaze. The Ahi Fever Tournament, held each June, boasts Hawaii's largest competitive fleet, with an average of 250 boats.
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Here We Go Again? (aka Weis Redux)
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(The Rock Report | Notre Dame Football News) – A 1-2 start, questionable on the field calls, a rapidly disappearing running game and defense that has given up over 200 yards rushing two weeks in a row is causing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder amongst the faithful early on in the Kelly regime. I thought Lou Somogyi did a nice job in summing up those feelings in his article What Can Be Said.
I've read more than a few times that this feels more like Weis redux than a return to Holtz and after two post-game Kelly temper tantrums, I'm clearly not immune either, but it's actually at this juncture that Kelly will likely (or should) begin to separate himself from Weis. People seem to view the first three games through their own viewpoint of what they expected.
Notre Dame is 1-2 and there are some worrisome observations.
- It appears Kelly is coaching this offense as if he's had it for a couple of years and not 10 months. It showed far too much confidence in the offense to go for it on 4th down with 6 minutes left against Michigan State. Having a newbie quarterback go for seven against Michigan was similarly a poor call especially when Ruffer has been so accurate.
- Despite a stated preference to run the ball more with a big offensive line and a group of strong running backs, Kelly's running game has been regressing.
- Similarly, Michael Floyd seems to have regressed from a sure handed wide receiver to a "I hope he catches it and holds onto it" wide receiver. He's still an incredible talent and some may say a more complete receiver, but consistency is very important when you're passing it 60 times a game.
- I started the season with doubts about Diaco and the first few games haven't done much to ease those doubts. I do like that the tackling is better.
- I'm not sure Crist has the consistency to run this offense at the level of precision Kelly is counting on (see number 2.) This offense is about execution and inconsistency throwing and catching the ball will make it pedestrian.
- Safety play…
- The "I don't care about the time of possession" philosophy only works when the offense is putting points up on the board. The idea here is to score fast and make the other team work to get points. Number 1 is essential. As Molnar said (paraphrase time), "if you're going three and out this offense is not pretty."
Of note, Kelly's inconsistency between his statements before the season about the running game and playing to this teams strengths… and what's happened on the field to date, do not match up. Here's where I see an applicable Weis analogy. Kelly will default to the pass. I still believe Notre Dame would have beaten Ohio State in Weis's first year if he used Walker more and didn't default to the pass. I understand that when clicking, this offense can work and have noted Oklahoma is running the ball at 133 yards per game as well, but, like Weis, Kelly seems to be counting on a higher level of execution in the passing game than the team is capable of delivering. Last month Vannie considered the spectrum of outcomes:
While it's possible for the Irish to string together a series of victories against a relatively weak 2010 schedule, the win-loss record of Kelly's first team is not necessarily the most reliable indicator of future success. There simply won't be sufficient data to determine if an 8-0 start means that Kelly should be compared to Ara Parseghian or Willingham. Perhaps the best answer would be "neither". Similarly, if Kelly delivers a 6-6 campaign, fans may not be sure whether to associate it with Lou Holtz' first season or Weis' last. The answer will lie in the details.
That said, of more note, is how the two coaches are different in running a program. The first season is more about changing the culture and putting in place a process of winning. When Kelly walked in and declared that recruiting was not his top priority, fixing issues within the program were, I, like many, started to sweat. But Notre Dame had some fundamental problems that needed to be addressed from a program perspective.
Here are some of the fundamental problems and how Kelly is addressing them (whether they're successful, of course, we won't know for a while)
Weis had far too complicated a passing offense than could be reasonably be expected to be executed without without a strong running game.
- Kelly runs a far simpler passing offense that has allowed many different quarterbacks to succeed quickly. When someone wrote that laughable arguable about Kelly being a "magician with quarterbacks" (or whatever the phrase was) it boils down to "making it simple, practicing it over and over again and focusing on the details."
- Kelly engineers more practice time "reps" in the time allotted by moving at a faster pace and setting up concurrent drills. His "work volume" phrase is really about reps.
Under Weis, we had constant reports of players out of shape, culminating with Bert Berry's damning comments after the Blue and Gold game.
- The training table was already in the works and Kelly had it put in the Gug so that players weren't traveling across campus.
- Kelly's third coordinator model means Longo has the same input as a coordinator. This does a couple of things. If players aren't working hard in the weight room, they can see practice reps diminished. He also can relay information about a player who might be an attitude problem.
- His practices serve as workouts as well.
- Kelly tries to manage their off-field behavior by constant communication about diet and choices.
Under Weis there was much dissention amongst the staff and they all had different ways of doing things.
- Kelly put together a staff with a goal of minimizing the dysfunction and one that he knows.
Under Weis the team lacked toughness and didn't play hard until the game was on the line.
- Kelly's practices are constant motion to simulate a game environment.
- Camp Kelly puts them through what is a simulated environment of performing while exhausted.
- Constant and consistent messaging through the staff on work ethic and toughness. "How do you come to work every day."
- Creating more of team feel by keeping the players in the Gug.
- Preaching the three themes of Lou: Caring, Commitment and Trust.
- Motivating kids to their potential rather than their current level.
Under different coaches bore unequal burdens in recruiting.
- Kelly put into place a process and a database to manage recruiting and filter up information on recruits.
I'm sure there are many more from admin to the field crew. What does all of this mean? My guess is that where a Weis team (2007) might have folded, this team will show more resiliency. I've yet to witness a great coach have a great first year at the helm with a new team and that's usually because they're changing so many things about the processes, the habits, the offense, etc. Many coaches have started out strong, but because they didn't build a strong foundation for long-term success, eventually failed.
Of course none of this means Kelly should have gone for it on 4th down with 6 minutes to go against Michigan State or not taken the three against Michigan. I'm also cringing at thought of Harbaugh coming to South Bend and beating the Irish handily, which is a distinct possibility. If Kelly goes 1-3, he better also have a new process for keeping the Irish hordes at bay.


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Aoki lifts first home run of season, a grand slam, in blowout victory
PHOENIX -- For a team that doesn't hit many home runs, the Royals generated a long-ball frenzy on Tuesday night.
Nori Aoki had a grand slam and Salvador Perez and Billy Butler each blasted a three-run homer as Kansas City flattened the Arizona Diamondbacks, 12-2, in Interleague Play at Chase Field.
"Any time you score 10 runs off three swings of the bat, I'll take it," manager Ned Yost said.
"I like it when everybody hits bombs," Perez said.
The victory was the 10th in the last 13 games for the rampaging Royals.
Among other things on this eventful evening:
• The Royals hit a grand slam and a three-run homer -- by Aoki and Butler -- in the same inning for the first time in franchise history.
• Left fielder Alex Gordon got the 1,000th hit of his Royals career.
• Aoki hit the first grand slam of his career and his first homer for the Royals.
• The Royals had their biggest inning of the season, eight runs in the fifth.
"It was awesome, it just shows you what our offense is capable of and I just feel like we're going to get on a roll from here," said winning pitcher Danny Duffy.
Perez jolted the Royals into a 3-1 lead in a hurry during the third inning, following Alcides Escobar's single and Aoki's walk. Perez teed off on a 2-0 pitch from D-backs starter Wade Miley and dropped it into the left-field seats.
The three-run blast was Perez's 13th homer of the season, tying Mike Moustakas for the team lead.
Butler and Aoki each went deep during the eight-run fifth, a mighty muscle inning for the Royals and a mighty messy inning for the D-backs.
Singles by Infante and Perez, his third hit, preceded Butler's bomb into the left-field seats, his sixth homer of the season.
Then came Gordon's 1,000th career hit, a single, followed by a walk to Lorenzo Cain and the second out. A wild pitch enabled Gordon to score and Cain to take second as he escaped a rundown.
"Cain set the whole inning up when he was so aggressive on that play," Yost said. "He did a great job of getting to second base and allowing that to happen."
Escobar was intentionally walked and Duffy swung and missed strike three, but was safe at first on another Miley wild pitch.
That loaded the bases and got Miley lifted in favor of Bo Schultz. His first pitch to Aoki was belted by the little right fielder over the right-field wall. He had gone 338 at-bats since his last home run for Milwaukee in 2013.
"I'm very happy, it's one of the best feelings in the world." Aoki said of his first career slam.
"It was a fastball. I wasn't sure when I hit it. I knew I hit it pretty good, but it was kind of a low line drive so I wasn't sure it was high enough to get over the fence."
With an 11-1 lead at that point, Yost had Duffy pitch the fifth inning and then excused him for the evening. At that point, he'd given up just three hits and one walk, but had made 94 pitches.
"My mindset today was I wasn't going to take Danny much past 100," Yost said. "We had the big lead and guys down there that hadn't pitched in a while."
So Jason Frasor pitched an inning, Francisley Bueno two and Aaron Crow finished up with one. The second run came off Bueno.
"I know if the game's a little closer, I'm back out there for the sixth, but I completely understand why I came out," Duffy said. "If I'd kept my pitch count down earlier, I'd probably get another inning."
A nutty number: When Duffy left the game in his previous eight starts, the Royals had scored a grand total of eight runs for him. They got him that many in just one inning of this outing.
"Just not a good night for us all around," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "We didn't pitch good, we certainly didn't play very good defense and we didn't hit."
The Royals went into the game with a Major League-low 62 home runs. This was just the third time they'd hit three in one game.
"Hopefully we're going through another good stretch for us offensively," Butler said. "We've been kind of inconsistent, we've been kind of streaky but hopefully we're figuring it out and coming together as a team. Time will only tell that."
Dick Kaegel is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Friday was Day 1 of the fourth GemCis cycle. It hit Marina (my wife's name) very hard. Way, way harder than three previous cycles. She feels better today, but getting through the weekend was tough. She had two really bad days and two sleepless nights.
She complained about a variety, rather than one particular symptom. A little bit of nausea. Some headache. Dizziness. Feeling tired and weak. Her body temperature was a bit on the low size. In her words, she "felt like crap" all the time. Another way she described it, she felt like she wanted to take a knife and splice her veins.
I kept reminding her to drink as much water as possible, to flush out the toxins. Aside from that, I was at a loss how to help.
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AMBITIOUS plans to open a new free school in Hyndburn have been announced.
The Red Rose Free School would be free of local authority control, and has been proposed by a group of local teachers and parents.
The proposal comes just months after a 'pioneering' studio school was forced to move less than a year after it opened.
Students at Hyndburn Studio School, which opened in St James' Court West, Accrington, in September 2012, were sent to Accrington and Rossendale College due to 'lower than anticipated applications' for its second year.
An exact location for Red Rose Free School has yet to be announced, but it would take an initial 150 students, and would offer a 'strong academic focus, a culture of good behaviour, mutual respect, and continuity of education right through school', according to the people behind it.
Free schools are all-ability state-funded schools set up in response to what local people say they want and need in order to improve education for children in their community.
A spokesman for the school's steering committee said: "We will have small class sizes, with a robust academic curriculum, taught by highly qualified subject specialist teachers.
"Red Rose was proposed in response to the demand for more good school places and high quality education in Hyndburn and the surrounding areas of East Lancashire.
"We know that some of our local schools already have high standards, but many of our children simply cannot get into these schools. We also believe there is no 'one-size-fits-all' when it comes to selecting the right school for a child.
"Our school will have a small, nurturing atmosphere which may be preferable to some families.
"Choice has always existed for those able to afford private education and we believe this choice should be available to all."
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Mercer and Roy streets switched to two-way streets on June 1, as part of the continued progress of the Mercer Corridor project.
As is expected, there has been some confusion when the streets changed from one-ways to two-ways overnight.
Eric Tweit, project manager for the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) Mercer Corridor project, said he met with community groups and stakeholders in the area in the weeks before the switch. SDOT also sent out media advisories a few weeks prior to the switch.
The agency also put out changeable-message signs, which grabs attention more than standard signs. Those temporary signs were on eastbound Mercer in South Lake Union, Queen Anne Avenue and Roy Street and one on Elliott Avenue north of Mercer. They were removed on Sunday, June 8.
Even though people may have been confused with the change, there haven't been any major incidents or collisions, Tweit said.
SDOT has received a few complaints about the additional congestion and longer travel times — something the agency expected, he said.
Enough notice, signage?
Scott Strickland lives in the area and often walks to work. When the streets first changed, he didn't notice and was honked at by a car going in a direction he wasn't used to.
Changing a road from a one-way to a two-way is such an infrequent change, that Strickland thinks there should be more signage to show the new routes.
Strickland said his request to SDOT for signs was ignored. Because this is a busy corridor that's highly used by pedestrians, he thinks this is a safety issue.
"What's more outrageous is a [person] can't make a suggestion to the bureaucracy," Strickland said. "I wouldn't want to see someone injured with their headphones on, walking in the crosswalk and not looking the other way."
SDOT followed the standard approach, which is a national standard, for determining the signage, Tweit said. For these streets, the streets were marked with road lines and the regulatory signs, like stop signs, and everything was consistent with the new street configuration, Tweit said.
He also mentioned that the changes were phased in so that even before the two-way streets opened, eastbound traffic was following the two lanes that it uses now, "to get people used to using that side of the street," he said.
Strickland, frustrated by the response, said he feels like he should just make his own sign and "tape it to the phone pole."
"To me, that's a significant omission that could cost someone their life," he said.
In the long term, the Mercer Corridor Project is expected to alleviate some of the congestion in the area, but for now, Mercer is only two lanes per direction, and it's "still pretty constrained," Tweit said.
Learning the streets are two-ways is pretty quick, but habits might take some time to catch up. Tweit noticed that people seem to be used to going westbound on Roy, making for light traffic on westbound Mercer near Uptown.
More changes coming
This phase of the project met the scheduled targets. The next portion of the project will be to fill in Broad Street, Tweit said. Crews will build a temporary intersection on Mercer Street and Dexter Avenue North to replace the current intersection.
Tweit said it would be a good idea for drivers to avoid the area as this construction happens throughout the summer, since Mercer will continue to be restricted there.
The Queen Anne community has been good about adjusting to the new two-way streets and the continued construction through the area, Tweit said.
He understands it's taking more time to reach Interstate 5 from Queen Anne, but people are making do.
"Given that we haven't had a lot of complaints," Tweit said, "I think they're hanging in there. I know it's not ideal."
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The Olympics is the height of an athlete's career. Some will not pass up the opportunity to participate in the Olympics no matter what their physical condition might be…look at Lance Armstrong.
Olympic runner Novlene Williams-Mills was diagnosed with breast cancer, but unbeknownst to any of her running colleagues, she took to the track in June of 2012, just days after her diagnosis, to win her spot on the Olympic team in the Jamaican Senior National Championships. She won the 400 meters in 50.60 seconds to win her spot on the team. A month later, she went on to London with her team to win the 400 meter with the Jamaican relay team, according to the Daily Mail.
The 31-year-old track running dynamo felt that her body had "betrayed" her somehow and only worried that her husband, Jameel, would not love her after she made the decision to have a double mastectomy to rid her body of all cancerous cells following a lumpectomy.
"The mastectomy was scary because this is what makes me a lady. What am I going to look like?
'It was very difficult. I want to have kids one day and you see all those mothers out there nursing and I'm not going to be able to do that…I hoped my husband still loved me the same. We met when I was like this and now he's seeing a whole different person. But I didn't have to worry about him. He was my nurse, my rock."
The furthest thing from her mind was her ability to run and how she would be perceived on the track. She ran away with the medal and said that her next race will be for those who are in the struggle with her.
"I'm still one of the top 400m runners in the world and I want to see what I can do. Moscow will be for all the breast cancer survivors out there. I want them to know it's still possible."
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Interest in Fair Trade Certified herbs and spices is growing among U.S. companies. Besides the great variety of herbs and spices being sold in consumer packages, the wide selection of eligible Fair Trade herbs and spices may also be used as ingredients in a range of food, beverage and body care products - such as ice cream, tea blends, baking mixes and body lotions. Recently, mainstream brands have started to capitalize on this opportunity. For example, as part of their commitment to source all Fair Trade Certified ingredients by 2013, Ben & Jerry's is currently converting all of its vanilla ice cream (and much much more) to Fair Trade Certified. In the body-care realm, consider sourcing vanilla, hibiscus or chamomile, among other ingredients!
How to Import Fair Trade Herbs and Spices
- Sign a Fair Trade USA certification and licensing agreement.
- Pay an annual importer fee of $500 to Fair Trade USA .
- Purchase Fair Trade Certified herbs and spices from Fair Trade producer groups or exporters certified by FLO-Cert. Sell Fair Trade Certified herbs and spices to other Fair Trade registered traders and operators.
- Pay at least the Fair Trade minimum price and the designated Fair Trade premium to the certified cooperative--see the Pricing Database
- Submit quarterly reports to Fair Trade USA on imports and sales of Fair Trade Certified product. Undergo, and comply with, regular desk audits and on-site audits.
How to sell Fair Trade Certified Herbs and Spices
- Sign a Fair Trade USA certification and licensing agreement.
- Purchase Fair Trade Certified herbs and spices from a registered importer.
- Submit a product profile application for each product to be labeled.
- Submit all packaging, sales and marketing material carrying the Fair Trade Certified logo to Fair Trade USA for approval.
- Submit quarterly reports on Fair Trade Certified herbs and spices purchases and product sales. Undergo, and comply with, regular desk audits and on-site audits.
- Brands pay a fee based on quarterly sales of labeled Fair Trade Certified products.
- Please ask about our program for small-scale partners, as lower fees and reporting requirements apply.
- Please note: For composite products with more than one ingredient, all ingredients that can be Fair Trade Certified should be Fair Trade Certified. For example, in a chocolate bar, the cane sugar, cocoa and vanilla should all be sourced from Fair Trade Certified producers.


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Steeton 2 Field 5
Steeton's hopes of becoming only the third Keighley club to lift the prestigious West Riding County FA Challenge Cup in its 114-year history were dashed at Elland Road on Monday night.
The Chevrons were aiming to write themselves into the history books by joining Silsden and Keighley Central on the honours board.
Instead it was Field who took the spoils and clinched a trophy treble, having already won the Bradford & District FA Senior Cup and the West Yorkshire League Cup.
Backed by another large following, Steeton were caught cold within four minutes when they failed to deal with a corner.
Field skipper Darryl Leach bundled the ball in from close range, despite protests that goal- keeper Phil Rishton had been impeded.
Within a couple of minutes it got worse for the West Riding County Amateur League side. Again, they failed to deal with a corner and Josh Milner applied the finishing touch.
Things almost deteriorated further for Steeton as Arley Barnes' back header had Rishton scrambling across his goal.
But before they could pause for breath, a long punt up field was met by the head of Chris Wood and his looping effort sailed over Rishton to put the Bradford side 3-0 up and in dreamland with only 14 minutes gone.
Steeton started to get back into the game as Michael Rhodes' cross was met by Andy King, whose header was narrowly wide of the far post. Tim Hird then burst through after Jack Ogalbe had won the ball in midfield and his shot was narrowly wide of the near post.
It looked all over for Roy Mason's men as Graham Holmes was adjudged to have handled in the box and John Penn made it 4-0 from the penalty spot for the West Yorkshire League side.
Incredibly, this sparked Steeton into life as King found Lee Reilly, who neatly lobbed the advancing keeper to reduce the arrears.
Within a minute Reilly had cut the deficit further as he was felled in the box and he stepped up to confidently dispatch the penalty.
Steeton were now getting on top, Sam Rooke heading narrowly wide from Rhodes' corner.
However, just a couple of minutes before half-time a moment of madness from Andy Holden left the Chevrons with a mountain to climb. He was sent off for retaliation after being hacked down.
Steeton had to reshuffle the pack and were left with just three men at the back.
Despite the setback, they continued to push forward as Reilly and King both went close.
Barnes then had to be alert to sweep up as Field looked to get a final goal to kill the game off.
That duly arrived in the form of a spectacular strike from Milner after 57 minutes for his second of the match.
The game was well and truly over for Steeton 15 minutes later when Matt Kershaw was dismissed for dissent, reducing his side to just nine men.
Despite lacking in numbers, Steeton held their nerve and matched their opponents for the final 20 minutes with substitute Damien Whiteoak providing a steadying influence.
Despite their defeat, Steeton can be proud of the fact that they had reached the final for the first time in their history.
But they woke up on Tuesday morning thinking of what might have been.
Steeton: Rishton, Rhodes, Barnes, Kershaw, Rooke, Ogalbe (Sellars), Holden, Hird, Reilly (Spencer), Holmes (Whiteoak), King: Subs not used: Ferguson, Foster.


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You've heard of eco-tourism, and experience tourism? Well, in a new report entitled "Around the world," HSBC has identified yet another sub-niche in the industry: accessories tourism, or the tendency of the emerging consumer to plan their trips according to where the handbags are cheapest.
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Took a few knocks
George Hamm was born and raised in Medford, Wisconsin. In his 20s he married Emma Paugel and had two children with her. Unfortunately, Emma and George's brother Fred, took a shine to one another and ran off together with the two children. George took this hard, and indulged in activities that led to his being sent to Waupun Prison for two years, sometime around 1918. After getting out of prison he pretty much behaved himself and settled on the family farm with his sister Lydia, where they both kept it running until Lydia died in the 1950s, at which time the farm and land was sold, George having passed on a few years earlier.


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High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Nuclear Disarmament: Statement by Mr. Rolf Nikel, Federal Government Commissioner for Arms Control and Disarmament, German Foreign Office
"Mr. President,
Madam High Representative,
Ladies and gentlemen,
Please allow me to thank first the President of the General Assembly for convening this meeting with the support of the Secretary-General and the Non-Aligned Movement for its initiative. I would like to align myself with the Statements of the EU and the Non Proliferation and Disarmament Initiative.
Nuclear disarmament and arms control is a priority for the German government. Today's high-level exchange of views is a most timely opportunity to discuss the road towards Global Zero. The objective remains clear. Approaches and timelines to reach it may vary. But standstill, in any case, is not an option.
Even though the number of nuclear weapons has decreased considerably since the height of the Cold War, the challenges remain momentous. There are still approximately 17,000 nuclear weapons in existence.
There is a real danger that weapons of mass destruction – not only nuclear, but also chemical or biological weapons – might fall into the hands of terrorists. The consequences would be disastrous.
Mr. President,
At the moment, we are greatly concerned by the outrageous chemical weapon attacks in Syria. Their use against innocent civilians has caused immense human suffering.
Similarly, the use of nuclear weapons would have catastrophic humanitarian consequences. We therefore need specific steps and building blocks towards a world free of nuclear weapons.
The Conference for Disarmament in Geneva has been gridlocked for 16 years. If it is to remain the privileged forum for disarmament negotiations, it must start productive work soon. Starting negotiations on a treaty banning the production of fissile material is high on the agenda. So is the rapid entry into force of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. We will have ample opportunities to discuss this issue tomorrow at the 8th Conference on facilitating the entry into force of the CTBT.
We need further irreversible and verifiable reductions of nuclear arsenals. States with the largest arsenals have special responsibilities in this regard. We therefore strongly welcome and support President Obama's proposal to negotiate further deep cuts with the Russian Federation.
It is in everybody's interest that this opportunity not be missed. It is also of crucial importance that sub-strategic nuclear weapons be included in the next disarmament round. Pending further steps in nuclear disarmament, the role of nuclear weapons in nuclear doctrines should be reduced.
Disarmament and non-proliferation are two sides of the same coin. Only by advancing on both fronts will we succeed in keeping the Non-Proliferation Treaty from eroding.
The challenges we are facing are substantial, but they are not insurmountable. With political will and determination, we can move ahead on the road towards Global Zero, here at the United Nations and elsewhere, where these issues are raised.
Germany stands ready to make its contribution. Thank you."


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Welcome back to Mets Chat Room with a lot on the table tonight.
John Maine needs to turn it around for several reasons, the least of which is not knowing what to expect from Pedro Martinez when he comes back. … Anybody concerned with Billy Wagner?
With Philly and Atlanta this week they have a chance to put things away. And, of course, there's always the game. Wondering the over/under on Joe Morgan rips will be.
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"If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people."― Thích Nhất Hạnh
"This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage." ~Ellen Goodman~
"Without genealogy, the study of history is lifeless." ~ John Fishe~
To forget one's ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root" ~Old Chinese Saying~"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."~Cicero~


text: NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Salesforce.com ( CRM) was a gainer in premarket trading on Wednesday, rising 1.51% to $148.10, after the company's third-quarter earnings beat on Tuesday. The cloud computing specialist brought in revenue of $788 million, a 35% hike on the equivalent quarter last year. Excluding items, Salesforce.com earned 33 cents a share. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters were looking for earnings of 32 cents a share and revenue of $776.12 million. Shares of HP ( HPQ), which plunged 11.95% during Tuesday's session, crept up 0.51% to $11.77 in premarket trading on Wednesday. Early on Tuesday, the No.1 PC maker reported its fourth-quarter results, which included an $8.8 billion write-down related to its purchase of Autonomy last year. The tech giant said that most of the impairment charge is linked to "serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations" at Autonomy that occurred prior to HP's acquisition of the company. Shares of Apple ( AAPL), which has announced a Black Friday sales event on Nov. 23, rose 0.35% to reach $562.90 before market open. Sirius XM ( SIRI) shares rose 0.34% to $2.78 in premarket trading, while Facebook ( FB) was up 0.35% to $23.18. --Written by James Rogers in New York. Follow @jamesjrogers >To submit a news tip, send an email to: firstname.lastname@example.com.


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It's been a long day! You're tired, hungry and all you want is a drink. But you don't have to sit out at happy hour just because those cocktails and bar foods are loaded with calories and fat …
Hungry Girl's got a whole handful of guilt-free ways to get your after-work party on:
- Bake a batch of her De-Pudged Pigs in a Blanket and watch as they get gobbled up.
- Serve up a tray of her crunchy, cheesy Exploding Chicken Taquitos!
- Or plan in advance, and slow cook these tender Sweet-Hot Steak Bites.
- Wash it all down with Hungry Girl's low calorie Kickin' Cranberry Cosmo and Slammin' Slimmed-Down Strawberry Daquiri.
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When Francis Maude said a few weeks ago that he was culling 192 quangos he couldn't put a number on how much money the coalition would save. And no wonder. The cost of any government reorganisation can quickly mount in terms of redundancy payments, closing down offices and so on – before you get any net benefits.
Regional Development Agencies will require a further £1.4bn-plus of state funding over the next four years despite their abolition in the spending review, officials have just confirmed.
The nine regional quangos, which are to be replaced with a patchwork of "local enterprise partnerships" – loose networks of councils and companies – cannot be axed immediately and instead will be wound down gradually with heavy redundancy costs for staff. Read more


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The Coveteur: Erin Wasson
Bryant may have been born in the Bronx and attended boarding school in Connecticut, but these days her home and personal aesthetic perfectly define laid-back California. Clad in a floral Tucker jumper, the Parenthood star (along with her handsome husband, stuntman Dave Pope) welcomed us with a cheese plate and a tour of their bohemian-inspired Glendale digs, filled with ethnic-print pillows, rustic furniture, and raw decorative accents, which served as a backdrop for Bryant's vintage bag and jewelry collection, as well as a few nice surprises: a rare camo Dior bag, Nixon watches, and a rock-star stash of perfectly worn-in band tees.
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A MAJOR overhaul has been completed at a Burnley garage by an East Lancashire-based trading group, creating at least 10 jobs.
Spar and Subway are the anchor tenants for the newly-refurbished Kay Group premises in Rossendale Road, which was given planning approval last September.
Land for the development of the Texaco service station was acquired from neighbouring company Veka and did initially include a drive-thru element.
But this part of the scheme was scaled back, though a new pumps layout, helping to ease traffic congestion on the main road, and increased retail space, remained central to the venture.
Speaking at the time, Paul Blackmore, non-executive group chairman, said: "This development and expansion will bring more than 10 new jobs, locally employed, including additional management."
The group was started by Ken Kay in 1972 at Intack Service Station in Blackburn.
Now based in Grimshaw Park, Blackburn, it has around a dozen locations across East Lancashire and West Yorkshire.
Last summer the company made its first acquisition over the border, acquiring the Hard Ings Road service station in Keighley from the Co-operative Society.
Work has also taken place to widen what's on offer at another flagship Burnley location, Kitchens in Trafalgar Street, which is now home to Spar, Subway, Greggs and Pizza Hut stores.
The same firm also operates the Eastern Avenue service station in Burnley and other sites in Bacup, Clitheroe and Darwen.


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This article was published 22/11/2012 (1734 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
In the last four years, Winnipeg's famed elm canopy has lost 21,606 trees.
And at the rate Dutch elm disease is spreading throughout the city that has the largest urban population of elm trees in North America, Winnipeg's leafy cover could be on borrowed time.
"Imagine what your city would look like if those trees were gone," said Trees Winnipeg executive director Kerienne La France. "It would be very barren."
La France's warning came Thursday with the release of a report that recommends the city and province double funding to plant and protect the trees.
The city may not be able to effectively manage Dutch elm disease if it continues to lose more than two per cent of its trees every year, the report said.
Dutch elm disease is caused by a fungus that wilts and kills elm trees and is spread by the elm bark beetle. Once trees are infected, crews must remove them to prevent the beetles from spreading the disease to neighbouring trees.
During the past 37 years, Winnipeg lost less than two per cent of its elms to the disease in an average year. In the last five years, the report said, the city has seen higher rates of Dutch elm disease. It lost 3.46 per cent of its trees in 2011 and more than two per cent in 2012.
Before Dutch elm disease was detected in Winnipeg in 1975, the city had about 275,000 elm trees. Currently, the there are 140,000 elm trees.
La France said the city's elm canopy is unusual because most cities do not have the same kind of leafy tree cover, which provides a buffer from inclement weather and helps cut pollution.
She said few other types of trees can survive and grow in Winnipeg's harsh winter climate and the city would have fewer urban habitats for birds, squirrels and other animals in their absence.
A proposed strategy recommends Winnipeg work with the province to combat the disease, which includes asking the province to reinstate buffer zones in the municipalities of Richot and Springfield and split the cost of tree removal, Elm bark beetle control and tree-planting.
This year, the province contributed $1 million to fighting the disease and the city's spent $2.7 million.
If the city and province both double funding, $7.4 million would be spent annually on Winnipeg's urban elms.
In the 1990s, the province reduced its Dutch elm disease management in Richot and Springfield and has since ceased spray treatments in buffer areas around the city. The report said the reduced program will have a significant impact on the city's ability to protect its elms since areas such as Richot are adjacent to the heaviest Dutch elm infections in Winnipeg.
"If you stop the disease there, there can't be more Dutch elm disease entering the city," said Dave Domke, the city's manager of parks and open spaces.
The strategy recommends the city take an inventory of all elms on private property, expand spraying from river corridors to all American elms in Winnipeg and plant two trees for every elm lost on private property.
Council's public works committee will consider the strategy Monday.
Public works chairman Coun. Dan Vandal (St. Boniface) said the city's elm canopy is important to our environment and enhances the quality of life. He said the funding will be embedded in Winnipeg's upcoming budget and he hopes the new strategy will be in place next spring.
Earlier this year, council's public works committee asked the city administration to develop a strategy to protect elm trees from Dutch elm disease.
"I think the vast majority of the credit goes to our citizens," Vandal said.
Wendy Land, who lost a century-old elm in her Wolseley Avenue yard, said she's concerned the city has hinged its new strategy on provincial funding. Land said Winnipeg is responsible for its elm canopy and should pay for it, regardless of what the province decides.
"To say they will not act without the province's partnership is a huge cop out," she said.
La France said most of the city's elm trees are on private property and one of the simplest things homeowners can do is water their tree since weakened trees are more susceptible to Dutch elm disease.
She said her organization launched a neighbourhood watch group in which volunteers keep an eye out for trees with symptoms of the disease. "It's really important that all of us as homeowners start to see ourselves as partners in managing the urban forest because there's a lot we could do," she said.


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A woman carries her son as she stands with other women at a camp for internally displaced persons in al-Mazraq, in the northwestern Yemeni province of Hajja, on Monday. Thousands of the displaced who have fled fighting between Shia rebels and government forces in northwestern Yemen have yet to return to their villages three years after the fighting ended.
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Whiskey Myers Talk New Album: 'Early Morning Shakes'
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Whiskey Myers' "Firewater" was without a doubt one of the top albums of the past three years. Just their second album, it solidified the East Texas rockers in a lot of people minds as a true band, worth their salt. But with one great album comes the expectation to follow it up, not always an easy thing to do.
The first single off the upcoming project is "Home," and I'm not gonna lie, I wasn't too wild about it at first. But as it goes, sometimes it takes hearing a song a few times to appreciate it. Guess what? I really like it now, a lot.
So, if the lead single, and the teaser videos the guys are releasing are any indication of how good the album is, there's no doubt "Early Morning Shakes" will be a superb and fitting follow up to "Firewater."


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The Kentucky Association of Sexual Assault Programs and the Kentucky Domestic Violence Association are now accepting proposals for the 15th Annual Ending Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Conference!
December 11-13, 2013
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Human Trafficking; Disability; Substance Abuse, Primary Prevention and Social Change; Advanced Clinical/Mental Health; Non-Profit Administration; Children & Youth; Working Collaboratively; SART Issues; Marginalized Communities including Male Victims
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