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Heath Ledger found dead
Heath Ledger was found dead today in a New York City apartment
owned by Mary-Kate Olsen according to the New York Times:
At 3:31 p.m., a masseuse arrived at Apartment 5A in the building for an appointment with Mr. Ledger, the police said. The masseuse was let in to the home by a housekeeper, who then knocked on the door of Mr. Ledger's bedroom. When no one answered, the housekeeper and the masseuse opened the bedroom and found Mr. Ledger unconscious. They shook him, but he did not respond. They immediately called the authorities.
The police said they did not suspect foul play. Officials said pills were found near the body.
TMZ reports Heath Ledger was in full cardiac arrest when paramedics arrived and was announced dead at the scene.
UPDATE: Heath Ledger was reportedly suffering from pneumonia, according to TMZ. The pills were over the counter sleeping pills and accidental overdose is not being ruled out. An autopsy is being performed tomorrow.

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I want to know is it possible to display slideshow in a fixed col and images should not scroll with the text or other contents in col2 of the webpage.
Of course
You can use position:fixed to keep an element fixed in the viewport while other content scrolls but is generally only useful for small headers or footers or a small sidebar. The reason for this is that once a fixed element sticks out of the viewport it is unreachable as viewport scrollbars do not scroll a fixed element (because it is fixed).
Unless you say right whatever. Then it will move left with the window
And obscure the content when the text wraps
You can say left:0 right:0 but you would need to ensure that overflow:auto is also set for the fixed element but then starts to look a little messy. You can also top:xxpx and bottom xxpx but once again overflow would need to be set to auto.
Fixed elements are best at fixed widths and in small doses. I've been working with a fixed header for the last few months and its a real pain as its in a fluid site and when the text wraps it obscures the content so I've had to set a number of media queries to move the content away from the header at widths that its likely to wrap which of course doesn't help with text re-size. I've had to use a script to monitor the headers height and when it increases or decreases then I change the padding on the content underneath. Lastly when the header is too narrow for its content another media query switches it back to non fixed. All in all its a real pain although it looks nice.:)
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Florida's 2nd District Court of Appeals asks FL Supreme Court to rule on marriage
Postedon Aug 27, 2014 at 03:00 pm
Today, the Second District Court of Appeals in Florida (a state appellate court) urged the Florida Supreme Court to hear and rule on the question of whether same-sex couples can marry in the state.
In 3 weeks, 3 Florida judges have ruled state marriage ban unconstitutional
Postedon Aug 04, 2014 at 12:45 pm
Today, August 4, a judge in Broward County, FL state court struck down Florida's ban on marriage for same-sex couples, the third marriage ruling in three weeks, following a ruling in Monroe County and Miami-Dade County.
In the Life Media profiles Edie Windsor and her DOMA challenge
Postedon Aug 24, 2012 at 03:45 pm
In the Life, a national LGBT-focused television program, has released a new video showcasing Edith Windsor, the 83-year-old New Yorker at the center of Windsor v. United States, one of the primary lawsuits challenging the so-called Defense of Marriage Act.
Marriage equality isn't revolutionary. It's just the next step in marriage's evolution.
Postedon Jan 10, 2011 at 03:59 pm
Stephanie Coontz explains how marriage has been radically transformed over time and makes the case that marriage for same-sex couples is simply a logical extension of that transformation.
Cartoon/Column: Gays in military, marriage equality are inevitable
Postedon Dec 15, 2010 at 03:00 pm
Future Americans will look back on this moment with disdain, wondering why anyone would have thought it made sense to deny gays and lesbians the opportunity to serve their country in battle.
And, not only that, but generations to come will also find it curious that those who hold the institution of marriage sacred fought so hard to keep homosexuals from becoming old married folks.
NOM's Gallagher mocks pro-marriage equality Catholics
Postedon Dec 10, 2010 at 09:30 am
Gallagher: "Don't pat yourselves [Catholics who support the freedom to marry] on the back for how brave you are," she said. "It takes courage to go into the public square and defend the church's teachings on marriage."
Illinois state lawmakers could take up civil unions this week
Postedon Nov 15, 2010 at 01:30 pm
The Illinois General Assembly this week could consider legislation to legalize civil unions for same-sex couples, giving them many of the same legal rights as married people.
Wharton alum champions LGBT marriage across the country
Postedon Oct 29, 2010 at 03:00 pm
As managing director of Freedom to Marry, Scott Davenport's work reflects his passion.
Finnish woman reveals sad state of EU rights for same-sex families
Postedon Oct 28, 2010 at 01:00 pm
The European Commission says that existing EU law on freedom of movement gives adequate protection to same-sex couples. But the story of one family living in Paris shows how a mixture of confusion and prejudice is stripping some EU citizens of basic rights.
Young, Gay, and Still Married
Postedon Oct 26, 2010 at 03:00 pm
Benoit Denizet-Lewis catches up with several young gay couples he first profiled in an April 2008 cover story for The New York Times Magazine about the first generation of young married and engaged gay couples in Massachusetts.


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HOUSTON - Miami's story of a "zombie" man eating the face of another person before being fatally shot by police is just the latest chapter in America's drug war. For the last year and a half, authorities across the country can do little more than clean up the mess left by the latest drug craze, because, for now, the powdery substance called bath salts is not illegal.
The synthetic substance, sometime sold as plant food in smoke shops and convenience stores, can mimic the effects of ecstasy and amphetamines. A few cities have banned the sale, but it is still legal in most.
Authorities in the medical field and law enforcement told KPRC Local 2 the lack of regulation is leaving the door wide open to danger.
A 19-year-old drug user told Local 2 he actually stopped his illegal methamphetamine habit to use the cheaper, legal bath salts.
"I was attracted to it because it was cheaper than meth and I could walk to my store within 50 feet and buy it legally," said the user who did not want to be identified.
Now going through treatment in a substance abuse program at Cenikor treatment facility in Houston, the man said bath salts have an intense high but can cause paranoia and hallucinations.
Despite the name, the white powdery substance is not something you use to relax in the bathtub. It is sold over-the-counter at smoke shops and convenience stores labeled with cute names like "Tranquility" and "Ivory Wave," but it is being used as a way to get high. Cenikor drug counselor Roy Ortega said what kids and adults of all ages are buying is unregulated, synthetic amphetamine.
"The young people think because it is not a narcotic, there is nothing wrong with it," said Ortega.
Baylor College of Medicine psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Kosten warns that whether it is listed as a narcotic or not, bath salts are drugs. Dr. Kosten pointed out that since they are unregulated, the combination of chemicals in each does vary, but most either are synthetic forms of the drugs ecstasy or amphetamine.
"When you take large does of amphetamines or ecstasy, you get bad side-effects. You get paranoid. You can get hallucinations. You can get agitated and you can get violent," said Kosten.
Three out of 10 people using amphetamines can become addicted. One in 50 can get something called amphetamine psychosis. Dr. Kosten said this is a relatively small number but they apply to the regulated and illegal versions of the drugs. With bath salts being unregulated, legal and constantly shifting mixtures in each batch, all bets are off when it comes to people's reactions.
"One out of 50 when there are only 50 people using equals one person, but one out of 50 when it is 5,000 people and you are starting to see hundreds of these folks with psychosis," Dr. Kosten said.
That is just what has been happening since the drug hit the market over a year ago.
Ben Taub Hospital in Houston reported the numbers are growing. They see at least one to two cases every month. In Friendswood last week, police reported arresting a man under the influence of bath salts who first tried to walk into traffic and then later was burned when he tried to light his dad's truck on fire.
Bath salt incidents have been happening across the country for the last year and a half.
In Calvert, Kansas, a woman was found walking down a road with one son, the other -- a toddler -- was left beaten and abandoned behind her. Police testified the mother thought her son was an evil spirit.
In Scranton, Pennsylvania, a man broke into a monastery and attacked a sleeping priest.
And there is the Miami case where a man people have dubbed a "zombie" attacked and ate pieces of another man's face before he was fatally shot by police. In that case, both men were found without clothes.
"People with psychotic behavior will do very unusual things. They will start to act like wild animals and in this case imitate a wild animal in a fairly gruesome way," Dr. Kosten said.
The Baylor psychiatrist said even when people try to quit taking the amphetamine like bath salts, the agitated violence can give way to depression and that can turn the violence inwards.
"You get the depression that follows that can often add up to the impulsive suicides," Dr. Kosten said.
That was the case in Mandeville, La., where a teen cut his own throat in front of his parents who were both doctors. They had taken the young man to the hospital to be treated for a reaction to bath salts after he had suffered delusions.
In Sante Fe, Texas, a man committed suicide after his father, James Baldwin said he was consumed by paranoid delusions of being stalked by law enforcement. Baldwin's son left a rambling suicide note blaming bath salts before he hanged himself.
"I am telling you that it is poison. It killed my son. I am telling you, it wasn't my son that killed my son, it was that damn bath salts," said James Baldwin whose son committed suicide.
Dr. Kosten said these particular drugs react to people's DNA so different users can have different side-effects even from the same batch of bath salts.
"It is very much like playing Russian Roulette with this substance. You don't know if you are going to be the person who gets the psychosis. You don't know if you are the person who is going to get the addiction. You don't know if you are going to be the one who simply walks away having had a good time and that is it," Dr. Kosten said.
Another major danger, especially for people trying bath salts in the Southern states, is the salts can cause a spike in body temperature. It can shoot as high at 104 to 105 degrees. With cities like Houston or Miami carrying triple digits in the summer time, Dr. Kosten said there is a real chance of people dying.
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|The concept is good, the execution is weak. I looked at the previous review, and I think the score there was a little generous. However, more or less everything the last reviewer said was correct.
The heart of this article would be the poetry. Nobody really cares about what happened to some fictional German soldier introduced solely to give an author name to an article. Well some jokes will exist in the text of the article, think of the text as packaging material or transition from one poem to the next. The article often goes off into randomness after the poem ends. As an example, I'm analyze some of the text.
First off, "Ted" is not a German first name. Himmlerschun is almost too silly, being word play on Himmler. "greatest dust bin man of the twentieth century" is random. The sentence "He had four children and seven grand children." is pointless filler. Is this to funny, or even an attempt at humor? Does it set up a joke? Does the reader care? The quote about coats isn't funny. If you check the math, Himmlerschun started a waste removal service when we was 72. This sort of math error is jarring to the reader. Is the reader supposed to find the fact that he started a waste removal service is old age funny? The death by sexual experiment also comes off as not funny. You might be able to work that in somewhere, or it might feel forced everywhere.
The poetry itself needs work. The poems should always rhyme consistently. For example, in "Meine Country", the rhyme is AAAAXA. Every line but the penultimate one rhymes. (I use X, instead of B, for lines that don't rhyme with anything.) In "Love Letters" the first one goes AAXYZ. Only the first two line ryhme, the last 3 are unmated. The 2nd one goes AABBCCDDXY. There should always be a consistent pattern to poetry. You, in theory, can, break the rhythm on the last line and still be funny, but that runs the risk of sounding stupid.
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|There are some formatting errors. The word "Nazi" is always capitalized. I would format the attribution of the poems somehow. Perhaps an indentation would work, play around with it until it looks right.
Don't double attribute the poems, the first poem under "Love Letters" has "Ted" after the poem and "By Ted Himmlerschun." I would pick one style of attribution, and stay with it. The more formal one (By Ted Himmlerschun) would probably work better.
|The images fit the article. The image of Nick Griffin feels forced, but it isn't out of place either. You might want another image, such as Hitler or a German soldier.
|Your main issue will be improving the poems and removing the randomness from the text. When writing, ask yourself if something is funny. If not, does it help set up a joke, or would the reader care. Writing humor is basically the process of smoothly transitioning from joke to joke. Such of your article seems to substitute randomness for humor.
Many of the Germans mentioned in your article have English names. You generally sound the names to sound realistic, and not overly silly. For example, Baron Fritzjerry von und zu Gekrautenmachenfurher would be too silly. Joseph would be spelled "Josef" to make it look less English.
Also, the delivery of the joke is as important, if not more so, than the punchline. For example (I've used this a few times):
is much more funny than
A simple turn of phrase can turn a "random statement" into a fairly good joke.
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|This article is fixable, but it will need a good bit of work. The underlying concept is viable, but the execution needs alot to be desired. Probably the entire article will need to be rewritten in one form or another.
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|Please contact me on my talk page. My watchlist is 11,000 articles long, and I may miss any comments here. You may also want to withdraw your nomination at the fork.
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"Seven minutes of terror" is what NASA called the intense sequence of events that Curiosity had to execute in order to safely land on Mars, while going from 13,000 miles an hour to zero. The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft carrying the rover had to be guided to its landing spot, the Gale Crater, withstanding 1,600 degrees of heat or risking destruction. A supersonic parachute, the largest and strongest built to date, slowed down the landing. Finally, the rover, guided by rockets, used its cameras to touch down in the right spot on Mars. NASA relived the moment of excitement in a short video posted for Curiosity's anniversary.
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Sarah Palin swimsuit video by insane demand
Before she was Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, she was Sarah Heath, aspiring model. By ridiculous request, here's the video of Sarah during the swimsuit competition portion of the 1984 Miss Alaska Beauty Pageant. While 80's hair and one-piece bathing suits don't exactly raise my flag, I'll admit the governor does have an ass on her. On that note, I should probably watch what I say before my words end up in a campaign ad:
Even fancy liberals with their magic Internet boxes agree: One half of McCain/Palin will bring much needed badonkadonk to Washington.
"I'll admit the governor does have an ass on her." – The Superficial, 9/29/2008
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Amateur photog's online photo cache. All photos are original pics taken by author and her husband. This is not a place to see those awe inspiring Ansel Adams, these are ordinary subjects shot on a whim most of the time.
Friday, September 23, 2011
James Fitzgerald Marine Reserve
I heard of James Fitzgerald Marine Reserve from the hubby who suggested we take a short stop here on our way to Monterey last spring. To maximize our time and fully enjoy the tide pools, I called ahead of time for the low tide schedule.
The Fitzgerald Marine Reserve is west of CA Hwy 1 in Moss Beach at the westend of California Avenue. Look for the large highway sign that says California Avenue and a smaller sign for the Marine Life Refuge just below. Drive to the end of the road and park in the lot. [source]
Best time to go: May and June generally have the best (lowest) tides and they stay low longer. Check a tide table before you go to be sure you get there at the right time of day. Tides are measured in feet: 2.0 means the water is 2 feet above sea level. Go when tide is less than 1.5 (minus tides are even better). Tide pools will be exposed about 2 hours before and 1.5 hours after low tide. [source]
Signs along the entry of the reserve.
The rocky crags are full of marine life. Inspect carefully.
Established in 1969, the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve is one of the richest intertidal areas on the California coast. Extensive shale reefs are home for a wide variety of marine life, such as giant green anemones, limpets, purple sea urchins, crabs and snails. In fact, over 25 new species have been discovered at the reserve. It's best to see the tide pools during the low minus tides which expose the rocky shoreline to view. [source]
Large beds of mussels. Careful where you step.
Also calling this home are the harbor seals. Keep your distance.
There is a little beach area, but people come here for the tide pools.
It's one of the best spots I've seen, rarely known around these parts.
BTW, I had the most amazing vacation so far. It wasn't a relaxing one. I was on my feet walking and sweating. I am happy that I didn't overdo it with picture taking and I have just enough photos I thought, but still too much to get organized right away.
Will blog about this later after the other posts in queue.
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Oh I'm looking forward to your amazing vacation pictures! Re-the Marine Reserve it is reassuring to know that there are still places like these where you can observe marine life in all its glory.ReplyDelete
for some reasons, my heart always beats faster whenever i see underwater creatures. ang ganda! effortless viewing of the colorful corals!ReplyDelete
wow, this is an amazing place. great for exploring. the corals are beautiful! (i wish i had an underwater camera when i was snorkeling in Coron) the rock formations are awesome--great composition!ReplyDelete
looking forward to your vacation photos. i'm also in the process of organizing my Coron shots.:p
oh my. *inggit* i would spend hours just staring at those treasures. thanks for taking us along your trip with those pictures.ReplyDelete
What a great place for exploration!ReplyDelete
This is something I can easily do since I'm not into diving or snorkeling hahaha! I guess one just have to wear shoes with good traction as certain areas there must be really slippery.ReplyDelete
Welcome back from your vacay!
i want to see more photos of these. i can't imagine i will be seeing those marine life so near - they're so beautiful.ReplyDelete
amazing! im not sure if this was the one that was featured in NatGeo magazine months ago. i really hope we can implement this on some of our islands here.ReplyDelete
A fine series showing what an amazing place this is to visit and look…and look some more. Excellent shooting.ReplyDelete
A small marine paradise. We should avoid touch nature in all the parks.ReplyDelete
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What a great place to explore! Love the sea pool shots.ReplyDelete
I guess the only "collecting" is with the camera. That's not a bad alternative!ReplyDelete


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Sherman is a town in Fairfield county in Connecticut. It was formed in 1802 from the following town or towns: New Fairfield. Sherman is a part of the Sherman probate district and has been since 1846. New Milford was/were the previous chronological district or districts. For more information, contact the county at Mallory Town Hall 9 Rte. 39, Box 39 Sherman 06784-0364. On the attached map, Fairfield is located at A4.
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Bridge programs facilitate student transitions from undergraduate degree programs to graduate school. At the Bridge Program Summer Meeting held at the American Center for Physics on June 27-29, students shared reflections on their bridge experiences.
Although just getting underway, the APS Bridge Program has been able to facilitate the placement of at least 14 students into physics bridge programs or directly into graduate programs. Seven students were named Bridge Fellows at two newly selected APS Bridge sites, University of South Florida and The Ohio State University (see the report in the July APS News). Each site was also able to admit one student directly into their graduate programs. Students who applied to APS-BP were considered by other graduate programs as well, with sixteen offers of admission made to ten students. Five of these students accepted offers, and at press time five students have offers pending, leaving the potential of APS assisting possibly up to 19 students to enter graduate programs in physics during the first year of the bridge program.
The meeting was the first opportunity for newly selected APS Bridge Fellows to meet each other and site leaders at their respective bridge sites. Students are beginning classes, research, and other programmatic activities this summer.
"The conference was a great opportunity for collaborations– especially for students to network with each other and faculty as they begin their bridge programs," said Brian Beckford, APS Bridge Program Manager.
Newly selected Bridge Fellows also had the opportunity to interact with students from existing bridge programs at MIT, Columbia, Michigan, and Fisk-Vanderbilt. These students participated in a panel in which they candidly described their experiences, talked about how they fared with the GRE, and shared defining moments, among other topics.
Peter Henderson, Senior Advisor to the President at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, delivered the opening plenary at the meeting. Henderson discussed the National Academies Report "Expanding Underrepresented Minority Participation: America's Science and Technology Talent at the Crossroads." He explained why broad participation matters, and presented recommendations from the report. He also discussed UMBC's Meyerhoff Program, designed to increase diversity among future leaders in STEM.
William Sedlacek, University of Maryland, gave a talk on "What more do I need besides grades, test scores, and the right courses?" Sedlacek described the GRE as an insufficient predictor of graduate school success, and advocated using non-cognitive variables in measuring prospective graduate students. These variables include demonstrating leadership, having long-range goals, taking advantage of support networks, and being involved in the community, among others.
Leaders from bridge programs from around the country presented the nuts and bolts of their programs during a session on bridge program logistics. Summer Ash, Assistant Director of Columbia University's "Bridge to the PhD" Program, described the two-year non-degree program, in which students are hired as research assistants as they prepare for graduate school in the natural sciences. Çagliyan Kurdak explained that the University of Michigan Applied Physics Imes-Moore Fellows Program emphasizes program flexibility and personalized mentoring in preparing students to complete doctoral degrees in applied physics. Keivan Stassun said that the Fisk-Vanderbilt bridge program looks for basic content preparation and "grit" in students accepted into its two-year master's sequence, designed to lead to a Vanderbilt PhD.
The conference also featured sessions on research on mentoring, building community, generating administrative and faculty support, being a successful mentee, research/evaluation questions on increasing diversity, and admissions criteria and their correlation with success.
In a plenary talk, Valerie Purdie-Vaughns of Columbia addressed stereotype threat–the well-documented effect of scoring below ability in high-stakes measures when seeing oneself through the lens of a negative stereotype. She presented values-affirmation as a way of reducing stereotype threat by reminding people of sources of their self-worth.
Mandana Sassanfar described the two-year non-degree Biotechnology Biology Bridge (B3) Program at MIT, which provides students with research training in industry as well as rigorous academic preparation at MIT.
Philip Kutzko, University of Iowa, spoke about the National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences, which has similar goals to the Bridge program. It seeks to increase the number of students from "families, regions and ethnic backgrounds that have had little prior contact with the profession and culture of the mathematical sciences" who enroll in doctoral studies, earn doctoral degrees, and enter the workforce. The Alliance has built a sizable community of faculty mentors, math sciences students, and math sciences departments committed to promoting a diverse workforce.
The APS Bridge Program is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation. The project anticipates holding another meeting next June, featuring the role of master's degrees in improving diversity.
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If mergers of equals are risky and hostile takeovers riskier, where does expropriation rank on the scale of management disruption?
Pretty high, I would guess. So, a day after Argentinian government officials walked into YPF's headquarters with a list of senior Spanish executives they wanted to expel and an order to renationalise most of Repsol's majority stake, I feel for the oil company's staff. Read more


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St. Louis, MO (SportsNetwork.com) - The NFL Players Association can continue a lawsuit against the NFL, which claimed the league instituted a secret salary cap for the 2010 season.
An appellate court has reversed a decision by a district court that denied the union's claims.
The lawsuit, filed in 2012, stems from the 2010 season when teams were not bound by a salary cap with the conclusion of the collective bargaining agreement on the horizon. The CBA expired at the end of the 2010 campaign and a lockout ensued the following summer.
Once the lockout concluded with a new CBA in August 2011, all litigation was settled, including one of an alleged secret salary cap. However, there were public comments made by some owners, including the New York Giants' John Mara, who said in an interview that the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys had acted "in violation of the spirit of the salary cap" in an attempt "to take advantage of a one-year loophole."
The Redskins and Cowboys were slapped with salary-cap reductions in March 2012 for two seasons after front-loading contracts during the uncapped year.
Two months later, the NFLPA began its collusion lawsuit and a district court in Minnesota initially denied the union's claims.
The union had argued two counts. The first was that the district court had never approved the settlement and the dismissal of all litigation before the new CBA was signed was invalid. The second was that the league had procured the dismissal of the litigation by fraud, misrepresentation of misconduct.
In its ruling announced Friday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the district court's decision on the first argument and reversed the district court's denial on the second argument.
"Our union will always pursue and protect the rights of its players," the NFLPA said in a statement Friday. "We are pleased that the Eighth Circuit ruled that players have the opportunity to proceed with their claims. Through discovery and a hearing, we can understand how collusion took place. We have notified the NFL of its obligations to preserve all relevant documents and communications."
The appeals court does not necessarily agree with the NFLPA's arguments, stating only that the union should be given a chance to prove its case that the dismissal was fraudulently procured.
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Gentile Shares PR Insights with Marketers Network
The League's Marketers Network gathered together at the Credit Union Center in Marlborough on March 11. The featured speaker for the meeting was League President Paul Gentile who shared the insight he has on how the media works which he gained while working as a reporter and then as the editor of Credit Union Times.
In a broad ranging presentation and discussion which used recent articles that the League was quoted in and opinion pieces that the League placed Gentile shared examples of what the credit union communicators might face when working with a reporter or an editor and how to make the most of them. For example, he spoke about how to ensure that key points are made by sticking to a limited number of ideas and turning the conversation back to them repeatedly. He also answered a number of great questions about what kind of topics are appropriate for press releases, how many press releases should be sent and how to avoid being misquoted.
The group concluded the morning with roundtable discussions that focused on what sort of products and promotions were yielding the best results at various credit unions and what modes of communication were most successful in reaching certain groups of members.


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I have always called Seattle's Dexter Avenue "Dextrose Avenue." That's in honor of one of its major attractions: the Hostess Bakery.
Since at least 1940, the beige, concrete building — with its streamlined, "moderne" curves — had been a mainstay of the originally industrial Cascade neighborhood (now the posh-ified and rechristened "South Lake Union"). It had its company name in big, red, backlit block letters visible from Aurora Avenue North.
(Similarly, its sister brand Wonder Bread had big neon letters up on East Yesler Way, drawing attention to Seattle's least "whitebread" neighborhood. The sign now lives atop the apartment complex that replaced the Wonder plant.)
The Hostess building had a curved, grand entranceway at Aurora and Republican Street, though the doors were replaced with glass bricks some time after the factory stopped giving public tours. It had the company's onetime logo, a silhouette of a lady's face in profile within a heart, built into its exterior grilles. It had big, gas-tank-like intake tubes for corn syrup and confectioner's sugar.
Day and night, it enveloped the surrounding environs with the glorious smells of sugar, flour, egg whites, chocolate, etc., being poured, mixed, baked and packaged. These smells could be smelled as far away as the School of Visual Concepts, up the next block.
At one time, they separated eggs and re-ground flour by hand — before the treats fully became the automated factory products they'd always appeared to be.
As a child during the early years of kids' TV, I remember the live, local kids' hosts performing commercials, with the big, cutaway props of Hostess Cup Cakes, Twinkies, Tiger Tails, etc. (My favorites were always the Sno Balls. Even at a tender age, two side-by-side, pink hemispheres meant something to me.)
Later on, after the FCC stopped local kids' hosts from appearing in commercials (a move that essentially killed most of those shows), Hostess created animated, talking versions of its goodies: Twinkie the Kid, Captain Cup Cake, Fruit Pie the Magician. (Unlike Will Vinton's later M&Ms spots, these ads never addressed the implications of these "baked" toons inviting you to eat their relatives.)
Hostess treats will probably be sold here again at some point (see below). But they probably won't be made here anymore.
The big rift
In the days before the company shut down altogether, it announced the Seattle plant and two others would close, even if the company itself survived.
Management blamed an ongoing bakers' strike. (However, the mayor of St. Louis, whose Hostess branch was also shuttered that week, said he'd been informed of the closings months before the strike.)
The strikers had refused the company's demands for further wage and benefit cuts, after the company had already cut wages twice and ceased contributions to pension funds. (Top management, meanwhile, got massive salary hikes.) That was as part of a bankruptcy procedure, the company's second in a decade. Hostess had been slowly dying for longer than that, under three different owners.
Too many parents in recent years demanded only "healthy" foods for their kids and demanded that food companies stop marketing "unhealthy" products to kids. In response, Hostess re-targeted its advertising at adults, with little success. It brought out new products that nobody bought then or remembers now.
And many, many newer snack-product brands emerged in recent years (local, regional and national).
(Also, let's not forget the impact imposed on all consumer-products companies by Walmart. It regularly sets ever-smaller wholesale payments, which companies dare not challenge.)
Forever the Twinkie
Somebody will buy the company's trademarks and other intellectual property. The better-known Hostess products will be made again, by somebody, somewhere.
That somwhere will almost certainly not be on Dexter — the land's just too valuable. The factory is worth more dead than alive.
The Hostess site will surely be redeveloped, probably as a posh condo project.
A lot of these developments get named after the places they'd replaced. In this case, we should all demand the condo be christened "Twinkie Towers."
Meanwhile, two local companies have offered tributes to Hostess. The Cupcake Royale chain had a Thanksgiving-weekend special offering, with variations on the classic chocolate cupcakes and Sno Balls. And Hot Cakes on Ballard Avenue Northwest will sell an all-organic version of the Ding Dong starting Dec. 15.
CLARK HUMPHREY is the author of "Walking Seattle" and "Vanishing Seattle." He also writes a blog at miscmedia.com. To comment on this column, write to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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BP has taken all its Victorian petrol tankers off the road after a four-year-old boy, his mother and another woman died when a trailer came loose and smashed into two cars.
The trailer of the BP petrol tanker became detached while rounding a bend, rolling on top of one of the cars and crushing it.
Witnesses said the truck was travelling normally before the trailer came off.
"The tanker uncoupled from the tri-axle primary vehicle, the trailer has then crossed on to the wrong side of the road and collided head on with two vehicles," Det Insp Bernie Rankin told reporters at the scene near Wodonga.
"This is just a catastrophic situation where people innocently driving along a highway have been confronted with a situation that was impossible for them to have any control over or take any evasive action."
A 33-year-old Allans Flat woman and her four-year-old son died in the accident on Thursday morning along with a 67-year-old Yackandandah woman in the other car.
Det Insp Rankin said the trailer and truck will be examined to determine what caused the crash.
BP said that as a precaution it had recalled its entire Victorian trucking fleet and would co-operate with any investigation.
"We are deeply saddened that there have been loss of life," a BP statement said.
No fuel spilled out of the tanker but the petrol had to be funnelled into another truck before it could be lifted off the crushed vehicle.
The truck driver, a local man in his 50s, is assisting police with their inquiries.
The deaths take Victoria's road toll to 153, eight more than at this time last year.


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Veterinarians and cattle producers have long embraced pre-weaning vaccinations as effective ways to reduce the impact of respiratory disease in calves following the stress of weaning. Vaccination against viral pathogens such as BRSV, IBR, PI3, and BVD roughly a month prior to weaning, with appropriate boosters at or near the time of weaning, has been the hallmark of many cow-calf producers' preconditioning programs.
Typically pre-weaning vaccinations have been a task completed in early fall—September, for example. Enter this year's drought, and with it the specter of early weaning in light of decreasing pasture quality. These circumstances create a different schedule for the cattle producer. If calves are weaned at 100 days of age in August this year, for example, pre-weaning shots would best be done in July, a month prior to weaning.
The specific timing of respiratory vaccines (along with the typical Clostridium combinations) is something best discussed with your veterinarian. Recommendations for timing may vary according to the products being used (whether the vaccines are killed or modified live, for example) and the particular management and risk factors present on a particular operation. Some general statements can be made, however:
If calves are seeing respiratory vaccines for the first time now, ideally they should get that vaccine no less than two weeks prior to weaning. Any vaccine, especially the first dose, needs time to stimulate the immune system prior to exposure (in this case, exposure to the stress of weaning)—often the longer the better.
Paying attention to booster doses of vaccine and their timing is important. The best immunological "bang for the buck" is when the booster dose is given in the time frame mentioned on the product label (typically 3-4 weeks after the initial dose). Try to give boosters at that time regardless of how close to weaning the first dose was given.
Calves that have had respiratory vaccines at branding time are blessed with a bit more flexibility. The response to a booster dose of vaccine is quicker than the response to the initial dose. Boostering the vaccine at weaning time is an acceptable practice; however doing this even a few days prior to weaning would ensure a good immune response on board when the calf is weaned.
Producers should not be discouraged from vaccinating calves at this early stage of life. In the past, researchers worried about antibodies from colostrum interfering with the response to vaccines. Newer work shows that, killed vaccines, modified live intranasal vaccines, or adjuvanted modified live vaccines, used in calves as young as a couple months of age can be protected against active infection with viruses such as BVDV. Changing the timing of vaccination programs to respond to challenges such as drought always brings a bit of uncertainty. As always, a cattle producer's best resource for preventive health issues is the local veterinarian.
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Topic: Update chemoembolization
Hi all, thought I would post an update. After I finished my Gem/Cis I tried just the Gemzar on a 3on 1off regimen. I think I had 5 treatments total but never in that order. It was one thing or another that kept me from treatments...rashes, cellulitis, very swollen feet and then finally after 2 in a row a huge drop on platelets. My Doc believed that my body and bone marrow just needed a break. I had been on some type of chemo for about 16 months. I haven't had chemo in 8 weeks. Initially my scans maintained but one of my bone tumors grew a bit and caused a fracture in my sacrum. So I had radiation to treat it. Since I had the break I checked into doing something to get rid of the liver tumor and the Intervetional Radiologist felt based on the location of my tumor that chemoembolization would be a good choice. I'm scheduled to have that done next Wed Aug 14th. Feel a little nervous but very hopeful that this will help shrink/inactivate the tumor. Right now my large tumor and its little friends are located on the right lobe and my left is clear. After all this is done my Doc wants me to try FolFox to see if I tolerate that better. Any thoughts or comments are greatly appreciated!


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Now that I have an almost-canonized script for my language, I can somewhat show how it works!
This script is in one case unoriginal, in that it seems to resemble a mix of Hindi and Ogham. However, the concept is also original in that it's very futuristic, and probably has a much different way (compared to Hindi) of expressing vowels.
Type of script? It's borderline between abjad and abugida, but technically abjad. (at least from my knowledge of alphabets. Correct me if I'm wrong!)
Notable features: It looks like circuitry; Everything goes on a line; Every line needs to have a starting and ending character.
For a start, the consonants! the reality is that I came uup with the shapes by semi-random thought. Though some of the shapes could be looked at as being your mouth from the right side (Not intended, but a nice side benefit!)
FYI, The "Soft" character, when attached to the bottom-right corner or dead-end (those circles) of a consonant, changes its pronunciation to what's in parentheses.
Also, the "Standalone" character, when attached properly (top-right-most corner/dead-end, or in Kh a rather odd way), is like what you'd expect from the Sheva in Hebrew. It simply makes the consonant stand on its own, instead of have a vowel after it. The "vowel of vowelessness" as I call it.
Next up, the vowels! Unlike the consonants, which I took time to think out, my vowels evolved due to lack of planning, and as such exceptions arose. They used to be marks that were written around the consonants themselves, but I eventually changed them to be things attached, and then changed them to be multiples-of-45-degree angles instead of curvy lines. Now the system looks consistent!
Now for a rather interesting factor, the starting and ending characters! Not too much to say here. Here you go!
With that example sentence, you can see very well how phrases are written in Meikar!
Me being me, I end to miss a lot of details without thinking about it. So feel free to ask questions!
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BWW's Top Orlando Theatre Stories of 2012
BroadwayWorld brings you the Best of Orlando in the year 2012. Check out the Top Theatre Stories from each month during in the year 2012. We look forward to another exciting year of theatre in 2013!
Starving Artist Studios Hosts Jason Robert Brown In Concert And Masterclass
Starving Artist Studios, a new performing arts training facility in Central Florida, brings Tony-Award winning composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown to Orlando for a Concert and Master Class.... (read more...)
StarStruck Theatre Announces ANNIE, 2/10-19
Leapin' Lizards! The sun will come out February 10 as the new StarStruck Theatre in Stuart raises the curtain on the second show of its 2012 Professional Series - ANNIE! America's most beloved musical... (read more...)
PHINEAS AND FERB: THE BEST LIVE TOUR EVER! Comes To Melbourne
In Disney's Phineas and Ferb: The Best LIVE Tour Ever! Phineas, Ferb, and the whole tri-state area gang embark on a bold escape jumping out from behind your TV and onto the stage in a live action adve... (read more...)
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STATE FAIR and THE BRAND NEW KID Play Orlando Rep, July-Aug 2012
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The Burt Reynolds Institute Announces 'Conception to Completion' Scriptwriting Course
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Is Courtney Stodden 'Too Sexy' for Facebook?
Child bride Courtney Stodden has been kicked off of Facebook. The reason? Well, her mother thinks it's because she's too sexy for everyone else's shirts.
-Lucia Peters
Where to begin with Courtney Stodden? With the questionable marriage? With the pending reality show? With the bizarrely alliterative and erotic Twitter? Oh! Wait! I know! Let's begin with Facebook, shall we? Because here's some funny news for you: Child bride Courtney Stodden has been booted off of Facebook. AGAIN.
Yep: Yesterday, Courtney Stodden woke up to find that her Facebook privileges had been revoked by the powers that be. Why ever could that be? The message she got was that she was guilty of "inappropriate sexual conduct." Could it be that Courtney had some questionable photos on her Facebook page? That's what my money's on, given the state of her Twitter feed; though according to E! Online, Courtney's mom, Krista Keller, claims that this isn't the case. What does Krista think the problem is? Why, jealousy, of course!
"It's the jealousy from the women towards her," Krista told E!. "The men love her, the women hate her. The women report the photo because it's so easy to do. You just click a button. They think she's too sexy, they all report her together, and it's done." Ah. So it's come down to this, has it? Clearly the only way we're going to settle this is with a cage match: Courtney against every able-bodied female in the entire world.
Apparently this isn't the first time Courtney's been given the boot from Facebook either; according to Krista, Facebook has locked Courtney out some 8 or 10 times, and each time, she has considered it an extension of cyberbullying. Now, cyberbullying is no joke, so don't think that I'm taking it lightly. But seriously? Cyberbullying? Hmmm…
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I think the big problem stems from the fact that Courtney is just trying SO DARN HARD to appear as OVERTLY SEXUAL AS POSSIBLE—which most of us have trouble stomaching coming from a 17-year-old. There's a psychological phenomenon called Kids Getting Older Younger: if you've been wondering why the same toys that used to be targeted at 10-to-12-year-olds are now being marketed to 6-year-olds, KGOY is why. Courtney is the most horrifying example of this phenomenon: she's still essentially a kid, and yet she's marketing herself as a 35-year-old. This is a terrible example to set. In the most public way possible, she's broadcasting that the thing to do is to bypass your teen years—even your childhood years—and grow up much, much sooner than you actually have to. Would you want to miss out on all those years? I wouldn't. I hated high school, but I still wouldn't have missed it for anything. I wouldn't have grown into the person I am now without it.
Maybe it would be one thing if Courtney had just quietly married her 51-year-old husband and hadn't kept shoving it down all of our throats all the time. But she—or her team, or whoever's in charge of her camp—have made the whole ordeal as public as possible, so it's no wonder that there's backlash. Maybe if she just cooled it on the media front for a while, people would be more accepting. We don't like something hitting us over the head every day, especially things that make us feel icky.
Besides, when Krista describes pictures like this as, "It's just her in a bathing suit!"
My ladybits kind of want to shrivel up and die. Don't yours? I mean, really! It hurts just to LOOK at that thing!
Lucia Peters is BettyConfidential's associate editor.


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Topic: Sad to report
I sit hear with a heavy heart to report that my husband, age 51, has decided to begin hospice. He started his battle in October of '05 and has fought valiantly. His journey started with a liver resection. He has taken every chemo offered to him as well as two different sessions of radiation without ever missing a day due to complications or low blood counts. This cancer just won't quit. It has invaded several parts of his body (liver, lungs, pelvis, abdomen). If that isn't enough, he can not stop vomiting. He is getting no fluids or food down. The vomiting is so intense that he was admitted to the hospital tonight for symptom control. We can't seem to get him to a comfortable state enough to be with family and friends. Please pray that this latest stay in the hospital will give him this small break to enjoy some time with those he cares about. I continue to pray that there will someday be a cure to this disease so no other family suffers the way we all are.
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Theodore Roosevelt, in his famous speech "Citizenship In A Republic" starts by saying "it is not the critic who counts;" What makes the speech poignant is that all too often it is the critic who counts because we see time and time again the media pointing out "how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better."
Too often we only hear about failures and waste in government, yet the contributions and success of government-funded science and technology are ubiquitous and often under-reported.
Wouldn't it be nice if your name were a unique identifier and nobody else had the same name as you? Unfortunately, most of us share our names with a number of other people, most of whom we have never met and never will. But we have all probably experienced the challenge and frustration of trying to find a specific person from a list of people with the same name. Remember when we used phone books? Trying to pick out the person you needed from a listing of multiple names? Actually, searching the internet doesn't make this process any easier.
At the legendary 1987 American Physical Society conference, sometimes called the "Woodstock of physics", thousands of physicists descended upon a New York Hilton ballroom to hear about the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity (HTS) in ceramic materials.
The Randolph-Sheppard Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt in 1936. The act established a priority for blind vendors on Federal property. Nearly 77 years later, walking toward the snack stand operated by a blind vendor, the irony always occurs to me as I read an unusual brass plaque on the hallway that commemorates the origin of the Human Genome Project and its champion, Dr. Charles DeLisi. The irony is that Rick, the blind vendor who could one day benefit from that project, cannot see the plaque.
It takes individuals with an almost futuristic vision, able to counter criticism by those with less foresight, to take leaps of faith to establish such a far-reaching effort such as the Human Genome Project. Dr. DeLisi was apparently such a person.
Dr. DeLisi, then Director of the Office of Health and Environmental Research at the Department of Energy, recognized the available technology and came up with the idea to sequence the human genome in 1985.
The National Library of Energy(Beta): A Gateway to Information about the "All-of-the-Above" Energy Strategy
While I have not taken a formal survey, my experience over many years as a Department of Energy (DOE) employee suggest to me that most people have no idea what DOE does. Let me amend that. Many people know exactly what we do. DOE controls the price of gas at the pump; it manages natural gas drilling, builds pipe lines and regulates refineries. As it turns out, people know a great deal about DOE, it's just that most of it is dead wrong.
Look it up and you'll find that "[t]he mission of the Energy Department is to ensure America's security and prosperity by addressing its energy, environmental and nuclear challenges through transformative science and technology solutions." Hmm. Nothing about gas prices there.
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AN armed man suffered injuries during a two-hour siege at a house last night.
Police said they went to a property in Albert Street, Church, at around 7pm to make arrest inquiries.
But more officers were called when it became apparent that a man inside was armed with a knife.
Damage was caused to the front window of the house and there was concern the man had self-harmed, police said.
The man had blood on his arms, officers said.
No-one else was believed to be in the house.
Police surrounded the property and the man spoke to police negotiators through a window.
Residents looked on as a man was led out at around 9pm and was taken away in a police vehicle. He was arrested on suspicion of burglary, police said.
Insp Phil Hutchinson said: "It was resource-intensive because the welfare and safety of the person concerned was paramount."
There were around eight police vehicles at the scene, some cordoning off access to the terraced street, and paramedics were on standby.


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Orange County will see another day of cooler-than-normal temperatures Thursday, with clouds thrown into the mix, the National Weather Service says.
Then the weather has a major mood swing: sunny skies and a warming trend that could push highs into the low 90s by Saturday, with winds turning toward the ocean from land.
Low-pressure air pushing into the Great Basin dominates the forecast for now. Thursday looks partly cloudy with highs of 75 inland, 71 on the coast.
By Friday, high pressure will take over, winds will begin to gust from the northeast and temperatures will rise.
Highs should be 84 to 89 Friday, 77 on the coast under sunny skies, with wind gusts possibly reaching 30 mph.
Saturday also will be sunny and 88 to 93 inland, 76 to 81 at the beach. Winds are expected to manage only about 15 mph in the morning before weakening.
The highs could edge down a little through Tuesday but remain warm, with skies staying mostly sunny.
Inland highs should be 88 Sunday, 83 to 88 Monday and 78 to 83 Tuesday. On the coast it will be 77 Sunday, 75 Monday and 72 Tuesday.
Wednesday could see the return of a familiar pattern, as a mostly cloudy morning with patchy fog gives way to a mostly sunny afternoon.
And highs could ease further, to about 78 inland and 70 on the coast.
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Angels can't capitalize on Kershaw's off night
Poor defense plays role in losing early lead, late tie vs. Dodgers
LOS ANGELES -- It was it their grasp -- until it wasn't.
The ball, the lead, the late comeback -- the Angels had them all on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium.
But Juan Uribe scored on an error by David Freese and the Dodgers walked off with a 5-4 win, capitalizing on the Angels' missed opportunity and knotting the Freeway Series at one game apiece.
The Angels wasted a rare mediocre outing from Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw and committed three errors that led to two unearned runs as they lost just their second game in their last six tries.
"On the defensive end tonight, we hurt ourselves," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "We had a couple of unearned runs, and when you're playing a good club, you got to play a clean game, especially when you're facing a tough pitcher like Clayton Kershaw."
The final unearned run was the one that stung the Angels the most.
With runners on the corners and one out, pinch-hitter Andre Ethier tapped a Kevin Jepsen curveball to Freese at third, who barehanded the ball and fired home to try to cut down Uribe. The throw tailed into Uribe and glanced off Chris Iannetta's glove, giving the Dodgers their fifth walk-off win of the season.
"It's not an easy play because of the pace of the ball," Scioscia said. "I think David came in and did what he could do, but there's not a big window to get it through there to thread it through to get it to Chris."
Iannetta said his positioning was influenced by Rule 7.13 (prohibiting catchers from blocking the plate without the ball) and made it tough to snag Freese's throw when it started to slice.
"You want to make sure you're not blocking the plate before the throw's even made," Iannetta said. "I was making sure I was inside the line and he had a clear lane.
"It doesn't matter how tough it is, I've got to make it. Game on the line, you've got to make that play."
Jepsen, who took his first loss of the season, said he was looking for a strikeout of Ethier, but the Dodgers' pinch-hitter put the ball in the perfect spot.
"It was a curveball breaking down and he filets it to third," Jepsen said. "I don't think he could have placed it any better."
An inning earlier, Albert Pujols launched Brian Wilson's 3-2 fastball into the left-field bullpen to tie the game, 4-4. Pujols' 21st home run of the season was the 513th of his career, giving him sole possession of 21st place on the all-time home run list, past Hall of Famers Ernie Banks and Eddie Mathews.
"We feel that if the game's tied or we're ahead, our bullpen's going to come in and hold the lead or keep the score right where it's at," Jepsen said. "For us to tie it up and then give it back to them, that was tough."
The Angels got to Kershaw in the second inning, scoring two runs on four consecutive one-out hits. Howie Kendrick singled, and Freese and Iannetta doubled to give starter Hector Santiago an early 2-0 lead.
"It's a kind of like a breather, where you can step back and relax and make your pitches," Santiago said. "I go right there and give it back up."
In the bottom of the second, Uribe tattooed a 1-2 curveball into the left-field stands for a three-run homer, his sixth dinger of the season giving the Dodgers a 4-3 lead.
"Pitchers aren't perfect," Scioscia said. "At times, you're going to throw a breaking ball and it's maybe going to hang and it did to Uribe."
After the Uribe home run, Santiago retired 11 of the next 15 hitters before Matt Kemp reached on Freese's throwing error in the sixth. Kemp stole second base and advanced to third on a throwing error by Iannetta before scoring on Scott Van Slyke's sacrifice fly that gave the Dodgers a 3-4 lead.
Santiago finished 5 1/3 innings, allowing four runs (three earned) on five hits while walking three and striking out two.
The Angels added a run in the third when Mike Trout and Pujols opened the inning with back-to-back doubles. It was the first time all season Kershaw had allowed runs in consecutive innings.
"Early on, when Clayton Kershaw made some mistakes, our guys hit him hard," Scioscia said. "He settled in and finished his outing strong, but you have to try to get some things going early. I think we did and we just didn't have enough at the end."
The bats fell silent after the third, with only two baserunners reaching in the final six innings.
"To win a ballgame, you have to do a lot of things well, and we didn't do enough of it," Scioscia said.
Matthew DeFranks is an associate reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @MDeFranks. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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It has an ingenious design with a Plexiglass splash guard that allows for perfect propping of cookbooks, recipe cards and magazine cut-outs. A useful conversion chart makes measuring much easier, it has a deep storage space to keep your favorite recipes handy, and best of all it folds down to save space when not in use. Oh


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Global warming did them in, according to articles in ScienceNOW, 21 Jan 2005 and the Courier Mail (Australia) 22 Jan 2005. Whilst asteroid impacts are claimed to have caused sudden mass extinctions during earth's history, palaeontologists from the University of Washington are now claiming that the greatest mass extinction in the history of the world was the result of thousands of years of global warming. According to current evolutionary theories, the greatest mass extinction in world history was not the demise of the dinosaurs but the extinction of numerous animals and plants that occurred when the Permian period ended and the Triassic period began - commonly called the P-T boundary. A team of scientists studied Permian and Triassic fossils from the Karoo formation in South Africa, and according to ScienceNOW, found that after "10 million years or more of relative stability, Permian creatures suffered more rapid extinction in the time during which the last 50 metres or so of Permian rock were deposited before the Triassic rocks appear". These findings appear to be confirmed by other scientists who have studied sediment cores from the Australian and Chinese coasts and concluded that the environment at this time was filled with hot sulphurous emissions from volcanoes pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which caused thousands of years of global warming and oxygen depletion in the ocean.
Editorial Comment: These studies are good evidence that the fossil record is not the history of life on earth, but the record of death. "10 million years or more of relative stability" followed by rapid extinction is also another way of saying that living things stayed the same then died out. This is the opposite of evolution, but is consistent with Genesis, which tells us God created living things to reproduce after their kinds but then cursed the world with death and destruction after man rebelled against him. The new theory advanced by Ward and colleagues is also a good illustration of how theories about the past keep changing if they are dependent on looking at the present. The only reliable means of knowing what happened in the past is from the testimony of a reliable witness who was there and who has left a record. If scientists choose to ignore the record God has given in His Word they will limp from theory to theory but never find the truth. (Ref, catastrophe, destruction, uniformitarianism)


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History of Dakota Territory page 996
Stewart Sharpe
Stewart Sharpe, who is filling the position of county judge, was for a number of years successfully engaged in the practice of law in Delmont and since his elevation to the bench has proved himself a capable and impartial jurist. He was born in Pennsylvania on the 27th of August 1882. His parents, Moore I and Catherine (Johnson) Sharpe, are still living and the father is a blacksmith by trade.
Stewart Sharpe attended the public and high schools and was later a student in the State Normal School at Cedar Falls, Iowa. Subsequently he taught for four years, being principal of the schools in Freeman, South Dakota. At the end of that time he abandoned that profession and entered the University of South Dakota, where he pursued a law course as he had determined upon the legal profession as his life work. He was graduated with his professional degree in 1913 and immediatly located in Delmont, Douglas county. He soon gained recognition as an able and conscientious practitioner and won a representative practice. In November 1914, he was elected county judge on the prgressive republican ticket and has since devoted his time to the discharge of this duties in that connection. He not only has the requisite knowledge of statute law and precedent but he also has the ability to rise above his personal predilections and decide a question sole upon its merits.
Judge Sharpe married Miss Elma Eva Bundy, a daughter C.W. Bundy, of Delmont, the wedding being solemnized on the 10th of June 1914. Judge Sharpe is a Methodist and not only contributes to the support of the church, but also takes part in it work. He is a member of the Delta Phi Delta, a legal fraternity, and is also identified with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He has already accomplished much for one of his years and his many friends predict for him continued success in his chosen profession.


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Hi Nancy: You gave me some weather advice on my last California post. I'll be in Palm Springs at the beginning of February and want to do a day trip. I'm thinking of doing the loop around Borrego Springs, Ranchita and Julian. As well I'd like to do Palomar Mtn. Is Palomar going to have snow at that time? Any other suggestions about roads that would not be too high or too washed out that time of year? I've been through Joshua Tree and up the Palm to Pines, so would like something else and the Anza Borrego Desert looks terrific again.
Sweet 400...I love those!!!
That's really sweet of you Nancy.
Thank you.
We didn't ride Breckenridge Rd. this time because 23S16 was so nice. We must have been right behind you Sunday Nancy. We had lunch in the campground at Kennedy Meadows about 2:30 and then down to 395 where we split with the rest of the group at the 14. Dee and I took Angeles Forest Hwy to Angeles Crest and down to the 210 and home. Wish we could have bumped into you. I heard you and Walt on the SidestandUp online radio program. Really Cool! I asked that Question about that type of braking in the corners. Can't remember what you call it now(trail braking?) but I'll know what it is next time I hear it>
We did go over Sherman Pass on Sunday. Friday we rode all the way to Springville on 190 - what a spectacular road!! On Sunday, we turned around and rode back on it to Sherman Pass. We were in Kennedy Meadows around 1 pm then on to 395 and back over the Angeles Forest and Crest. Unfortunately, I lost my camera in Sequoia - and I had some great pics of the Tehachapi Look with a train going around it!
Oh well.
I'll have to look at 23S16 on my Benchmark map.
We never did ride Breckenridge Road. Saturday we rode up past Johnsondale and on over to Camp Nelson. Then we backtracked to forest service road 23S16 and took that all the way to the 155. What a great road! Sunday we rode over Sherman Pass and came down 395. I have about 100 pictures that I am going to start sorting thru tonight and hopefully have a ride report on Pashnit this weekend. Did you ride over Sherman Pass?
Welcome to the Fun Zone Nancy !!
Poke around and enjoy - you'll meet some really great people here, not to mention all the great info & pictures. Tim has built a fantastic site. See you & Walt soon, Bruce
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Ukraine's Paralympic Committee president delivered a powerful plea for peace to Vladimir Putin as he announced his team would compete in the Sochi Games.
But Valeriy Suskevich, who had a personal meeting with the Russian President on Thursday night, warned that any escalation in the tension between the two nations would result in his athletes leaving Sochi.
The build-up to the Winter Paralympics, which got under way with the opening ceremony on Friday night, has been dominated by the growing crisis over Crimea.
Suskevich gave a passionate speech to a packed news conference on Friday in which he outlined the team's reasons for staying and the fears he still had.
Suskevich, who said he was close to an "emotional breakdown" because of the strain he and his team were under, said the decision to stay had been made collectively by the entire squad, was without political influence and was supported by the Ukrainian people.
"We are staying at the Paralympic Games," he said.
"The Ukraine team have a colossal desire to bring peace - peace to their country, peace to Europe, peace to the world.
"I really hope that we can keep peace during the Paralympic Games.
"This is the minimum I ask and hope for, to keep peace and to take steps to achieving detente in the conflict, to prevent any steps leading to war."
Suskevich, who has been a senior politician in Ukraine for 15 years, met with Putin for half an hour.
He said the meeting was "calm", "polite" and "respectful" and it was "extremely important" Putin agreed to listen.
He said he had not received any "guarantees", but that Putin told him he would "think about" his points.
"I could have talked at length to the president of Russia about Crimea," Suskevich said.
"I could have talked a lot about conflict, I didn't have time. I realise there is exclusivity in meeting the president of Russia.
"I reiterated for Mr Putin, emphasising one request, that during the Paralympic Games we would have peace."
And Suskevich emphasised that any escalation of military conflict would result in the team leaving Sochi.
"I declare should this happen we will leave the Games," he added. "We cannot possibly stay here in this case.
"This is what we are afraid of. This is what we are opposing and we do not want to take place. I hope my message has been heard, I hope I have been heard by the president of Russia."
A sombre-looking Mykhaylo Tkachenko, the flag bearer, was the only Ukrainian athlete to parade at the opening ceremony in front of the watching Putin.
He received huge cheers from around the Fisht Stadium, louder than those reserved for any country bar, of course, Russia.
But the contrast between the ceremony's theme of bringing people together and the political backdrop to the Games was impossible to ignore.
It is only possible to guess what Suskevich would have made of the huge ship, with the word 'Mir', the Russian world for peace, emblazened on the hull, which glided across stadium as part of the ceremony's finale.
Ukraine had on Thursday appeared on the brink of pulling out of the Games, with Suskevich giving a series of emotionally-charged interviews following his team's welcome ceremony, in which he laid bare the toll the crisis in his country was having on his team, saying they were "very nervous" and "very afraid".
He was joined on Friday by one of those athletes, 25-year-old biathlete Grygorii Vovchynskyi, apparently the only competitor on the team who felt emotionally able to speak on the subject.
Working hard to compose himself, he said: "You ask me if we are ready to compete? Yes, with the strongest desire.
"We are ready to compete, ready to fight for Ukraine, ready to demonstrate we are a strong and free, independent people. We know how to love life, love sport and love fair competition.
The whole Ukraine team had chanted "peace for Ukraine" as they walked back to their accommodation after Thursday's welcome ceremony in the Alpine Village.
International Paralympic Committee president Sir Philip Craven welcomed Ukraine's decision to stay in Sochi.
He said: "We want sport to prevail and a full complement of teams to compete in what we are confident will be a fantastic Paralympic Winter Games.
"The talking point of Sochi 2014 needs to be great sport and great athletes, not global politics."