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AFC Wimbledon 0 v 0 LUTON TOWN
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Absolutely incredible. You have to feel for Luton, they played their part in a fantastic game of football. Terry Brown hugs hero Seb Brown and the Dons fans and players alike are ecstatic. Jubilant scenes. I have to sign off as I need to do some interviews. Well done AFC Wimbledon. Heroes.
HE HAS SCORED HE HAS SCORED. Dons promoted!!!!!!!!!!!!
PENS: SCORED. 3-3 and Danny Kedwell can win promotion to the Football League for Wimbledon.
PENS: SCORED: 3-2 after four pens. Oh wait that wasn't to win it, but now Howells must score.
PENS: SAVED, Brown saves from Walker. Yakubu to win it for Dons. 2-2.
PENS: SAVED. Poor pen from Mohamed. 2-2 and we are back level after three pens each.
PENS: SCORED. Newton scores. Good pen. 2-2
PENS: SCORED. Anohter good pen, this time from Moore. 2-1 Dons.
PENS: SCORED. Pilkington scores. 1-1
PENS: SCORED. Great pen from Hatton, advantage Dons. 1-0 Dons.
PENS: SAVED! First up will be Luton's Lawless and Brown saves. WIMBLEDON 0-0 LUTON
PENALTIES: They will be taken at the end with the Dons fans behind the goal. Here we go. I am shaking.
FULL TIME: I don't think I have ever seen a game like this, so many chances have come and gone and it's ended goalless and we will have penalties. A few weeks ago Terry Brown told me they had been practicing penalties ever since the loss to Crawley in March. They should therefore be pretty good at them.
120 min: THAT WAS IT, THAT WAS THE CHANCE AND HE's MISSED IT. Yakubu muscles infront of Kedwell to get to Hatton's deep cross first and he has all the time in the world but heads wide.
119 min: Has a game ever had as many chances as this? This time Gleeson stops Yakuby scoring from a yard out and for a second you think own goal but it trickles wide.
117 min: This is ridiculous now. Tyler misses a Kedwell cross and Moore has the goal gaping infront of him but from somewhere Glesson's makes what could be a promotion-winning block.
116 min: A deep Luton corner gets all the way to Pilkington at the back post but it hits him and loops up into the air and Brown catches.
115 min: Surely this won't end goalless after 120 minutes. Luton guilty of overplaying a good chance now and Brown punches clear.
113 min: Terry Brown reacted to that chance by throwing his water bottle high into the air and then punching it on its way down. Very good technique.
111 min: Oh. My. Word. I repeat how is this goalless. Moore does fantastically to cut tha ball back for Mohamed who hits the post with his shot. So so close.
110 min: He is playing on though but shakes his head as he comes back on the pitch. 10 minutes for a goal or it is penalties.
108 min: YELLOW CARD. Straight after that Minshull is booked but I don't know for that, I still had my head in my hands after the Mulley chance. Mohamed is off the pitch getting treatment and he doesn't look good.
107 min: Oh my. Wimbledon will not have a better chance. Yussuff puts Mulley through and he opts to blast the ball instead of place it and the ball just smacks into Tyler who holds on.
106 min: No rest for the wicked, Luton get us up and running again.
HALF TIME IN EXTRA TIME: Not quite as breathless as the 90 minutes of normal time but still very very good. There's more apprehension out there now.
104 min: Oh my, Lawless comes close to scoring. Curling from distance just wide of the post.
102 min: There's a few tired legs and minds out there now. Kedwell has a go at Mohamed for trying to turn his man rather than just shoot. Wimbledon have been guilty of that a bit today.
101 min: We're passed the 100 minute mark as Mohamed goes on a mazy run down the left but just runs the ball out.
98 min: Again Wimbledon get away with a scramble in their box and get the ball clear. It's all Luton right now.
96 min: SUB: Luton make a change of their own. Gnakpa off, Newton on.
94 min: SUB. Indeed it is, Gregory cannot continue and on comes Minshull in an unaccustomed defensive midfielder role.
92 min: First chance Luton as Gleeson smacks a shot at goal from distance and it's not too far over. Gregory is manfully playing on by the way. How long until we see Jolley? Although Gregory just pulled out of a tackle with his injured ankle so it might be Minshull we see.
91 min: Here we go again then and I never want this to end. Apparently there was some crowd trouble down in front of me just now, I will do a Wenger and say I didn't see it.
FULL TIME: How has there not been a goal, it is incredible. What does Omar think? He thinks this: "Wimbledon have been both heroic and lucky not to concede as we hit 90 mins. It could be our lucky day!"
FULL TIME. Kedwell almost wins it with the last kick but his shot is well-blocked by Asafu-Adjave and the referee blows and we will have another 30 minutes. I have no problem with that whatsoever. What. A. Game.
90 mins: This is incredible. What a game. Both sides going for it, end to end. No caginess here.
90 mins: FOUR minutes for someone to find a winner. It should be Wimbleson's... Kedwell heads back across goal instead of at it. He was all alone at the back post. Waste.
89 min: oh my word. Walker's just gone even closer, rising to head a cross against the base of Brown's right-hand post with the keeper beaten. The ball bounces back to Brown though.
87 min: Oh my word Luton should have won it. Walker is through and Brown comes out and just about gets enough on the ball before getting the man but the ball ends up in front of goal and there's an almighty scramble with bodies flying everywhere and somehow Wimbledon keep the game goalless. I'm not really sure how.
85 min: Half chance as Hatton's corner gets to the back post but only hits a tumbling Yakubu and the ball goes wide. Better from Wimbledon, much better as Gregory takes aim with his injured right foot and skims a shot wide. Lutopn's keeper restarts play immediately. No gaps in this game.
83 min: Omar: "Luton fans are brightly kitted out in orange but deadly silent in last 5 mins. The opposite of Luton itself where its noisy but looks dull!"
82 min: Moore gets another taalking to that I think was 'one more foul and you are off young man."
80 min: YELLOW CARD. Moore stops Keane in his tracks and is rightly booked. Gregory is still struggling.
76 min: Luke Moore wants to score the perfect goal instead of just shoot and misses his chance by trying to pass te ball and getting it all wrong. Kedwell then rounds teh keeper out wide but his touch takes the ball out for a goal kick.
73 min: Gregory is back on with a heavily strapped ankle which he is going to try and run off. Wimbledon need him.
70 min: Almost an instant impact from Mulley as his curling shot is turned behind for a corner. Gregory was hurt in the build up to that and is getting some treatment to his ankle. Terry Brown has eveb gone to have a look, he was about to bring Jolley on I think but it will be Minshull if Gregory cannot continue.
68 min: SUB: Mulley enters the fray in place of Wellard, who even gets a standing ovation from his manager as he comes off.
67 min: Luton have a corner as Asafu-Adjave's shot is deflected wide but it comes to nothing.
65 min: Wimbledon are suddenly looking a bit dejected and flat. They shouldn't be.
63 min: What's that? You want more from the gospel of Omar, oh ok then. He says: "If we don't get a goal by 75 mins you can expect this game to get very tense and defensive. Such a big game for both teams."
61 min: SUBS: It's Gwillim that goes off, I guess he wasn't completely over his injury. So Johnson will go left back and Yakubu into the centre. Not great that. Johnson is a centre back not a left back. Luton also make a change, striker Barnes-Homer is on and Willmott is off.
59 min: Excellent defensive work from Gregory stops Keane in his tracks and he then sets the Dons on the offensive and Kedwell cannot get good contacy on his shot. Yakubu is getting ready.
58 min: And here's Omar's wise words: "Wimbledon have started the second half very brightly. Terry Brown must have said something Churchillian at half-time!"
56 min: Here's man in the stand Paul: "If it was a noise contest, the Dons would have won this game already." Considering there are more Luton fans that's not bad at all.
55 min: YELLOW CARD. Gregory nicks the ball off Lawless who then trips Gregory and gets booked.
54 min: 18,195 is today's attendance.
52 min: Good link up play by the Dons sees Moore in with a chance of shooting but it is blocked and then Yussuff wins a corner. Dons fans in fine voice now but the corner is gathered easily by Tyler as a rehearsed routine doesn't quite come off.
48 min: Good start from Wimbledon as Hatton gets to the byline but again there is no one busting a gut to get on the end of his dangerous cross.
46 min: What could be Wimbledon's last 45 minutes as a non-league club begins. Both teams shooting toward their own fans this half.
HALF TIME: Unimpressed by the press lounge food, biscuits, that is all. I get that at Kingsmeandow.
HALF TIME: No goals and not too many great chances but that was not for lack of trying, both teams giving it their all. Kedwell has had a goal ruled out for offside - which I still haven't seen a replay for - and Luton had two good chances themselves and were maybe the better team. Time to see what food the press lounge has to offer me. Half time 0-0.
45 min: YELLOW CARD. One last chance for the Dons maybe? Keane is booked as he clips a marauding Moore but Hatton wastes the free kick and that is that for the opening 45. Breathless.
45 min: Here's some more from Omar - "AFC Wimbledon full backs are very reluctant to go forward, clearly worried about Luton wingers. Plan A is direct to Kedwell who has done OK."
45 min: Approaching half time and Willmott fins space to shoot well over the bar from outside the box. There will be TWO minutes added on.
41 min: Wimbledon need a plan B, there not fashioning anything at the minute and all the neat passing is nto coming to anything. Luton are well organised. Here's something though... Hatton gets to the byline but no one gambles on a deep cross, chance wasted.
39 min: A word form Omar: "Martin Tyler is sitting a couple of rows behind me. He's not commentating; here as Kingstonian emissary?"
37 min: Tempers flaring as Keane goes in hard on Wellard, the ref deems it a 50-50 but Gregory doesn't and takes revenge on Keane. He doesn't get a card, which is a bit lucky, but Luton have another dangerous free kick that Willmott will take and it's headed behind by Stuart.
33 min: YELLOW CARD. Johnson goes through the back of Gnakpa, out of frustration more than anything else as Wimbledon again struggle to get out of their half. A minute ago Kedwell was clearly brough down on the edge of the box but the ref waved play on. From Luton's free-kick, Gnakpa pretty much has a free header but puts it over.
31 min: So half an hour gone and what can I say. Luton have stuck to their game plan very well, pressing Wimbledon all over the park but they can't keep that up surely? The Dons are a bit nervy in defence but have looked good going forward and should have a free kick there...how did he not give that?
30 min: "Dons fans behind the goal singing their hearts out." From our man in the stands Paul.
28 min: Wimbledon again struggle to clear it and Hatton and Brown are lucky to get away with that. I don't know how the players feel but I am shattered already.
27 min: Stuart though is having a few nightmarish moments of his own and gives away a free kick there as he gets too tight. Willmott delivers and Brown punches out for a corner.
25 min: You were almost right Omar - Tyler has to punch Hatton's corner out from under his own bar. Hatton is not having the best of games in truth, he keeps getting shouted at by Stuart for leaving his post at right back.
23 min: Let's have some words from my colleague Omar shall we? He says: "It's been a frantic start to the game and could easily be 1-1. A goal is certainly coming soon!".
21 min: Excellent save from Brown, truly terrific. Gnapka does Stuart all ends up, hares into the box and opts to shoot from the angle rather than lay the ball off and Brown reacts superbly to tip it over. Excellent stuff.
18 min: Kedwell causes problems again as Tyler can't handle his dangerous cross and the keeper gets lucky - the ball hits a defender and rebounds straight to him. Crazy pace to this game, crazy I tell you.
16 min: Danger. Johnson trips Walker outside the box and this is a definite chance for Luton. But Willmott tries to curl it but only manages to send it a good couple of metres over the bar.
14 min: Kedwell lets Howells sneak away in the box and he gets a shot away that takes a slight deflection but Brown gathers at the second or third attempt.
12 min: This pace is so frentic I haven't had a chance to see a replay of that 'goal' yet. Wimbledon have lost their way a little since and Johnson has to make a superb last ditch tackle to deny Walker.
7 min: ooohhh. Kedwell gets the ball in the net as Tyler parries Mohamed's shot to him but he is flagged offside and the celebrations are cut short, much to the delight of the Luton fans in front of me and the aggitation of Kedwell.
5 min: But Wellard's delivery is over everyone.
5 min: Stuart get to it at the back post but is off balance and it skims off his head and wide. They have another corner now.
4 min: Gregory heads that behind for another corner and then Kedwell heads the next one up rather than out and Kroca heads it down and wide...now Wimbledon have a corner that Hatton will take.
3 min: Slightly shaky start form Wimbledon but it is a fantastic atmosphere as we break for some ballon popping before Luton win the first corner of the day.
1 min: And so it begins, Mohamed and Luke Moore get one of the mosts important games in football underway. Anyone nervous?
2.57pm: For pictures form today - go to http://twitter.com/#!/WimbledonNews and http://twitter.com/#!/OmarOakes. Omar is my commnetary buddy for the day and our news editor Paul is our man in the stands.
2.55pm: The players belt out the national anthems - much more so than the England players ever do.
2.53pm: A suited and booted Terry Brown leads out Wimbledon and nobody seems to know where to stand in the line-up. Quickly then, Luton are also unchanged from their semi-final win over Wrexham so line up Tyler, Gleeson, Keane, George Pilkington, Willmott, Kroca, Lawless, Howells, Asafa-Adjave, Gnapka, Walker. Subs: Graham, Newton, Barnes-Homer, Crow, Kevin Pilkington.
2.52pm: Team news - Wimbledon are unchanged so they line up Brown, Hatton, Stuart, Gwillim, Gregory, Wellard, Yussuff, Moore, Kedwell, Mohamed. Subs: Jolley, Turner, Yakubu, Minshull, Mulley.
2.49pm: Right, finally I am in my seat - it's not padded but it is better than the coach which took ages and then almost wasn't allowed in the stadium. Grr.
The start of the commentary has been delayed slightly as we are still on the coach - it's been a very very long journey and certain parts of me are sore now. Will begin proper commentary once in the nice padded (I hope) press seats at the City of Manchester Stadium.


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Look, I'm not even going to bother pointing out in any detail that the all-homegrown Mets lineup is a function of ownership's financial limitations. We all know, or should know, how we got here.
The question is: what has this new, one-pronged approach brought the Mets?
Adam Rubin pointed out that this was the third all-homegrown lineup in Mets history. The other two were deployed in September 1971. Well, was this a glory time for the franchise? Hardly. The Mets won 83 games in 1971, 83 games in 1972, and 82 games in 1973-sneaking in a division title with the worst winning percentage of any division winner ever- then 71 wins in 1974.
As for the actual homegrowners: Duffy Dyer, C, Ed Kranepool, 1B, Ted Martinez, 2B, Tim Foli, 3B, Bud Harrelson, SS, Cleon Jones and John Milner, LF, Mike Jorgensen, CF, Ken Singleton, RF, easily the most valuable of the group was Singleton. The Mets traded him, along with Tim Foli and Mike Jorgensen in April 1972 for Rusty Staub, signing Staub to a three-year, $330,000 contract.
So the all-homegrown dream fell apart pretty quickly.
But had the Mets kept that team together, do we have any reason to believe things would have turned out better? Is there some value to exactly how players are acquired? Or is this simply a fetish, getting explored right now because the Mets have lacked the wherewithal to bring in anyone of impact other than whoever graduates from the farm system, and is therefore cost-controlled?
The other popular notion is to re-examine the Omar Minaya Era in light of so many of these players coming from his watch. And never mind that most of them never got a shot under Minaya, or in the case of Murphy, for instance, never were sent to one position, second base, to learn and develop.
We will, in a way few general managers get, now manage to evaluate Minaya's drafting and international signings in a largely comprehensive way. I'll be honest, though: I'm not quite sure it means anything.
Oh, sure, if this team manages to go on and win 95 games, then we have grossly underestimated Omar Minaya's player development system. But even then, most critics of Omar didn't take issue with his ability to identify young talent, but rather his ability to put that talent in position to win, and augment it, along with big ticket signings, with the secondary players needed to fill out a roster.
And let's say this team wins 70 games. Is that really an indictment of Omar Minaya's young talent? I don't think so; again, most teams that aren't being run on an emergency basis can acquire players in a variety of ways, and supplement that kind of production from in-house talent to go ahead and win divisions and pennants. As Sandy Alderson said when he was hired, he wants to acquire talent through every channel available, and to be in the free agent market every year.
But there's no money for that. So for now, the Mets need to rely solely on the talent evaluations of his predecessor. How limited the results are likely to be ultimately will say far more about the current state of ownership than it does about the old general manager.


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Corn futures ended higher on Tuesday, but it was a choppy day for old-crop futures. Cash market strength propelled futures higher early, but the dollar strengthened and the outside markets came under increased selling pressure which pulled July futures from its high. Corn planting continues to progress rapidly, coming in a few points above expectations. Planting progress as of Sunday was 71%, up from 53% a week ago and well ahead of the ten-year average at 55%. July corn settled 3 cents higher at $6.23. The December contract was 3 ¼ cents higher at $5.28.
Soybean futures settled strongly lower on Tuesday. Prices dropped as investors rushed to sell off risky assets as a result of the European debt crisis. Strength in the dollar and profit taking by investors added downward pressure to prices also. Export sales of 225,000 tonnes of soybean to China and crop reduction in South American limited losses. July futures were down 27 1/2 cents to close at $14.38 1/4 and November futures were down 13 cents to close at 13.40 1/2.
Wheat futures settled mixed Tuesday. Futures rose on short covering and spillover strength from corn. Favorable rains and a firm U.S. dollar are expected to continue to add pressure to wheat prices. Winter wheat supply is expected to be 1.63 billion bushels and to an already plentiful wheat market. CBOT July was 3 cents higher at $6.15; KCBT July was 4 3/4 cents higher at $6.36; and MGE July was 3 1/2 cents lower at $7.32 1/2.
Cattle futures closed lower on Tuesday. Cattle futures traded lower most of the day as concerns over Europe's debt crisis spilled over into commodity markets and the dollar remained steady. Traders are optimistic that cash cattle trade will be steady this week and should provide support this week for cattle futures. Boxed beef prices helped lift futures; as of midmorning choice was up 87 cent at $191.35 and select up $1.59 at $186.27. June cattle futures settled 57 cents lower at $115.77. August was 47 cents lower at $118.45
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The Row Spring 2012
We might only just be saying a lingering goodbye to the summer of 2011, but in fashion time the clock is already set at summer 2012, creating a nice New York show-week delusion that somehow the intervening winter of tweeds, fur, and puffers will never happen. That state of summery reverie was easy to slip into while watching a pale, ethereal, breezy collection flit by at The Row this morning. Even though the location was a windowless New York basement—actually a lovely dance performance space—Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen evoked a feeling of balmy days and effortless dressing with a collection centering on tunic-shapes layered over sheer pajama-y pants, mother-of-pearl embroidery, and shimmering beading—all of it padding through on flat sandals. "We wanted something floating and angelic," said Mary-Kate, "but also to have things that made a sound." The aural element came from the clink and swish of the densely embroidered shell pieces—a shift, a cutaway bustier, and a bag encrusted with mother-of-pearl paillettes inspired "by Nick Cave's Sound Suits," Ashley explained.
Something about the twins' attitude towards designing and presenting generates a sense of calm and separation around them—nothing pretentious or intellectual, just an apartness that allows them to concentrate on the reality of how clothes will be worn, and the details. All that layering, for instance? It's easy to imagine taking it apart, so that the tunics, with their fluttery, asymmetric chiffon panels, can be worn as dresses, or so that a buttery leather sarong, shown wrapped over pants, can be extracted to clearly be utilized as a skirt. As pale and weightless as this collection is, it (literally) lacked something of the luxurious, deep-pile substance of The Row's game-changing fall show—but, still, the Olsens' aesthetic continuum is convincing. And it's great to see designers whose understanding of minimal, hot-climate elegance comes as second nature.


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Discussion in 'Off-topic Zone' started by chip_gilkey, Jan 17, 2013.
It hurt like a son of a gun! Took 4 hours to finish!!
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It's very subtle. Can you zoom in????
:laugh2: nice one
Nice Ink!
Is that the Droid 4?
I'm thinking 0.1% body fat? Who's your drug dealer? :laugh2:
Just kiddin bro. Love the ink. Definitely not ashamed of your team unlike some in here.
they should have given you something to eat.
Thanks man and yeah its the droid 4. What can I say, I love my physical keyboard and also 4G so it was the only way to go. Great phone.
And yes I realize I'm skinny :laugh2:
You look like a Sneetch.
you look high as balls
lol I had just woken up.
Who knew Chip was really McCalley Caulkin :laugh1:
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Nice Tat.
I feel bad for all of you.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - House Republicans on Friday set a deadline for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to produce documents related to the deadly meningitis outbreak that swept across the nation in late 2012.
Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee first requested, in October, documents related to FDA's oversight of New England Compounding Center, the now defunct, Boston-area compounding pharmacy that was at the center of the outbreak.
But it says the agency produced few documents so far and that those it has "raise new and troubling questions" about the agency's oversight of NECC.
"If FDA does not produce all the responsive documents by 5:00 p.m. on Feb. 25, 2013, the committee will move forward with a business meeting to compel their production," the committee said in a release.
"We hope a subpoena will not be necessary for the FDA to cooperate and help us determine what went wrong," said Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy of Pennsylvania.
The meningitis outbreak to date has killed 45 people and sickened almost 700 in 19 states, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. (Reporting by Ros Krasny; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz)


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Brent and U.S. crude prices recovered from an early sell-off to three-week lows on Monday, rising as record flooding in Canada's main oil producing province threatened exports to the United States.
Major Canadian pipelines that move almost 1 million barrels per day (bpd) of Alberta oil sands crude remained shut on Monday after a spill on a smaller line was discovered over the weekend, a spokesman for operator Enbridge Inc said.
The threat to Canadian exports overshadowed fears that a credit crunch in China could hit demand in the world's No. 2 oil consumer, which sent Brent beneath $100 a barrel overnight, extending a near-5-percent slide last week.
The U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) benchmark had the bigger bounce - more than $3 a barrel off a trough of $92.67, the lowest since June 4. WTI's discount to Brent fell to its lowest since November 2011. The Brent-WTI spread, as it's known by traders narrowed to as little as $5.91 a barrel.
"Imports from Canada should be down," said Phil Flynn, analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago. "That's supporting U.S. crude futures versus Brent."
Brent crude for August delivery settled up 25 cents at $101.16 a barrel, after bottoming at $99.67. Last week Brent lost 4.7 percent.
U.S. crude for August delivery settled up $1.49 at $95.18 a barrel, rallying off of a three-week low of $92.67.
Traders are also watching for the restart of a major crude processing unit at BP's Whiting refining in Indiana, which draws crude from Cushing, Oklahoma, delivery point of the WTI benchmark.
BP was starting up the revamped crude distillation unit at its 405,000 bpd Whiting plant on Friday, said sources familiar with refinery operations.
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Trade in Brent was choppy as investors weighed whether a near $6 sell-off in ten days was overdone. Lingering fears that a liquidity crunch in China and the potential withdrawal of monetary stimulus from the U.S. Federal Reserve could hit the world economy and lower oil demand have pressured prices.
China's central bank said on Monday the overall liquidity in the financial system was at a reasonable level after interest rates for short-term funds last week rose to extraordinary levels as big commercial banks held back on lending in the interbank market.
Oil traders feared this could slow China's economic growth further. The International Energy Agency lowered its 2013 oil demand growth forecast for China earlier this month.
Trade in the U.S. dollar was also choppy as investors weighed whether U.S. monetary stimulus will be scaled back in the near term. The greenback strengthened early in the session before slipping back, helping crude prices to recover by making it cheaper for holders of other currencies.
Oil prices were also supported by growing fears Syria's civil war is dragging in other countries, with deadly bomb attacks in Iraq and fighting in Lebanon.
Lebanese soldiers stormed a complex holding gunmen loyal to a radical Islamist cleric in the Lebanese port city of Sidon on Monday and arrested dozens of his supporters, security sources said, in a second day of clashes fuelled by Syria's civil war.
The fighting has been the deadliest outbreak in Lebanon since Syria's two-year conflict began, with at least 12 soldiers killed in the southern Mediterranean port city.
In Baghdad ten car-bomb explosions killed at least 39 people across the city on Monday, police and medical sources said, adding to the worst sectarian violence in six years.


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Library director saluted for 'super job'
Norma DeVries retires from the top library job that she's held for 14 years
By LARRY DEVINE
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A reception Saturday afternoon honored Norma DeVries (left) for her career with Lake City Public Library, including the last 14 years as director. The new director is Michele Deluhery (right) who has been the library's technology coordinator.
March 21, 2013
Lake City
It's a fitting start to retirement for a longtime librarian.
Norma DeVries began the new chapter in her life this week by checking out three books from the library where she'd worked the last 21 years and served as director 14 years. The first books on her reading list are the inspirational "The Happiness Project" her retirement this week by Gretchen Rubin and the young adult books "The Off Season" by Catherine Gilbert Murdock and "Runaway" by Wendelin Van Draanen.
DeVries was honored at a reception Saturday afternoon for her longtime service to Lake City Public Library. She began as assistant librarian to Judy Ricks in 1992 and became director in January 1999. This week, DeVries turned over that position to Michele Deluhery, who has been technology coordinator at the library about six years.
Asked about her retirement plans Saturday afternoon, DeVries said, "The first thing I'm going to do is check out lots of books and read. That's something I haven't had time to do. I see all these books. I buy all these books because they're so good, and I haven't had time to read them. So now I'm going to start reading the books I've bought over the years."
And in case she needed some recommendations, a couple of tables at the reception were covered with books accompanied by a sign titled, "A Retirement Reading List."
Later, standing in a lounge area of the library that provides a big-window view on the north side of town square, DeVries reflected on her career.
The biggest change came 10 years ago in February when the library moved from the former Carnegie Building on the northeast corner of town square to the current building, which was constructed for $1 million, all funded with donations and grants.
DeVries said of that move, "It meant we could do so much more, coming from the Carnegie Building where basically all we had for (patrons) was books."
In the current one-story brick building, meeting rooms are constantly busy with use by clubs and organizations, as well as for library programs.
While the former library had only one public-use computer, the library now has 12 that have been upgraded over the years, and the building also offers WiFi connection.
"So many people are bringing in their own laptops (computers) now," DeVries said. "That's been a major change, the technology part of it."
During DeVries' tenure, the library's services have grown from just lending books to offering videos, audiobooks, DVDs, downloadable audio and ebooks.
Looking to libraries' future, DeVries said, "Funding is always going to be a challenge."
For the Lake City library, she said, "We have very good support from our city council and (Calhoun) county supervisors. And we have a foundation and friends group that provide private support. But money is tight. We are a very busy library, and we always could do more if we had sufficient funding."
The library features a collection of about 20,000 books, DVDs, books on tapes and magazine subscriptions, and circulation has topped 14,750.
In the future, DeVries said, she'd like to see the library provide more children's programming.
"We do have summer reading and after-school programming," she said. "I'd like to see the library do more supporting kids as they learn to read. There's always room for that kind of children's programming - develop the ability to read as well as the love for books and reading because those will take them so far in the world."
During Saturday's program, retired Lake City school teacher Jean Devine, who served on the library's board of trustees with DeVries for 15 years, said DeVries deserved a big thank-you for doing a super job.
"People don't realize what that job entails," said in an interview this week. "You see her behind the circulation desk or out helping someone, but you don't realize everything else that's required of her, and she did it so professionally and graciously and humbly. That's kinda Norma.
"She developed a budget through county and city funds and was always very conscientious about how money was spent. She lived within that budget. And she worked with a very good staff, and the library will be left in capable hands because of her guidance."
Devine said DeVries was devoted to her career and did it quietly, not with any flamboyance.
"She did it professionally and with a lot of dignity," Devine commented. "And she kept us going as a state-of-the art library. With a budget you have to adhere to, she made sure we had everything necessary to keep us state-of-the-art. We're very fortunate with our library. It's such a vital part of the community."
Devine pointed out that one of DeVries' biggest legacies is the work she put into planning the new library and bringing those plans to fruition.
"It started from a dream, and it became a reality," Devine said.
DeVries and her husband, Jerry, who farmed and retired in 2010 after about 17 years as a mail carrier in Des Moines, have two sons who both live in Waverly - Mark, an actuary with CUNA Mutual Group, and James, who works with product development for IBM of Rochester, Minn. - and three grandchildren.
DeVries said of the rewards of her career, "The people are the biggest part. The library exists for the people, and that's why we're here. That's been the most fun for me, serving the people, taking care of their needs, helping them find what they're looking for, and just greeting them and making the library a pleasant place for them to visit."
For Deluhery, a library career is a dream-come-true.
"It's something I've always wanted to do, work in a library," she said.
When she landed the technology coordinator position at the Lake City library, she said, "I thought this is my ideal job. This is heaven."
Her love of libraries began when she was growing up on a farm south of Lohrville.
"I remember going to the Lohrville library when I was a little kid, and that was my big thing," she said. "We lived on a farm, I could go once a week to the library, and that was my big excitement."
As technology coordinator, she led classes for children, senior citizens and the community as a whole. Now she's looking forward to her expanded responsibilities.
Deluhery graduated from Lohrville High School in 1973, received a bachelor of science degree from Buena Vista University in 1977, worked in psychology for a few years and then in the computer industry for 23 years.
She returned to Lake City from the Denver, Colo., area in order to care for her parents, Gerald and Lois Deluhery. Lois passed away in 2006, and her dad lives in Lake City.
Deluhery said of tackling her new position, "Norma did an excellent job, and the more she's taught me about what she did in this job, I've just been overwhelmed."
She will continue to serve as technology coordinator, and the library will hire a 20-hour-a-week assistant.
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There is something about summer that throws a lot of us off our style game. Socks or no socks? Shorts or no shorts? Will I look stupid if I wear a linen shirt? Wait, should I even own a linen shirt? So rather than take any chances with colors or patterns, we play it safe with khakis and golf shirts while doing our best to blend in. This is no way to get dressed — or, for that matter, to live — but we have a solution: upgrades, a whole bunch of them, and not just of the individual items you're wearing but how you're pulling them together. For instance: Throw an unlined blazer over a good V-neck T-shirt. Or: Go light, or even white, with your chinos. Or — what the hell? — swap out brown boat shoes for blue desert boots. Or: Make like this guy and do all three. You won't look too dressed up or too dressed down or too much like anyone else. You'll look like you, and as far as summer is concerned, you can't do much better than that.
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Overnight, the storm picked up forward speed and was moving toward the north at almost 15 mph. The eye of the storm, where the strongest winds occur, will cross directly over the eastern two thirds of the island nation of Jamaica Wednesday afternoon. Winds are forecast to reach up to 80 mph with higher gusts, and these winds will last up to six hours while the eye is over the island, particularly over the higher elevations of the mountainous interior. Torrential rains will accompany the high winds, thus Jamaicans can expect flash flooding and mudslides, along with downed trees and power outages from Sandy.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic are already experiencing Sandy's outer rain bands and will continue to do so through at least Thursday. Rainfall in excess of ten inches will produce flash flooding and mudslides, which in Haiti could prove devastating.
Overnight tonight, the center of Sandy is forecast to move across eastern Cuba bringing much the same impacts as forecast for Jamaica.
Thursday and Thursday night, the center of Sandy will move through the central and northern Bahamas. Since Sandy is already a large circulation and forecast to increase in size as it moves north, likely all of the Bahamas will experience tropical storm conditions, maybe even approaching hurricane force winds if Sandy maintains an eye after crossing Cuba. The southeast coast of Florida could also experience tropical storm conditions. The strong northerly winds on the west side of Sandy will produce dangerous waves and rip currents all along the Florida coast into the weekend.
Sandy has been behaving pretty much as forecast so far, and we have higher than usual confidence that the center of the storm will move through the Bahamas then parallel the Southeast United States through Sunday as a large, near hurricane intensity, storm. After Sunday, it gets complicated – but that will be a subject of a future blog!Animated Hurricane Map
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- 1/2 cup butter, softened
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- 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
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- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, milk, extracts and food coloring if desired. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes or until easy to handle.
- Roll dough into 1-1/4-in. balls. Place 2 in. apart on parchment paper-lined baking sheets. With floured kitchen scissors, snip the top of each ball in half, cutting three-fourths of the way through. Cut each half into thirds; carefully spread the wedges apart, forming flower petals.
- Place a cherry half in the center of each; top with sprinkles if desired. Bake at 350° for 10-12 minutes or until set. Cool for 1-2 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks. Yield: about 3 dozen.
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World wheat trade for the international 2012/13 July-June trade year is projected higher this month by 2.7 million tons, to 138.8 million. China's imports are projected 1.0 million tons higher to 2.5 million, reflecting strong pace of imports in the past month and recent purchases from various major exporters.
Wheat imports in the EU-27 are boosted 0.5 million tons, mainly on account of lower wheat availability in the United Kingdom, where there are reportedly shortages of milling-quality wheat. Egyptian imports are up 0.5 million tons to 9.5 million, as the Egyptian wheat-buying agency, the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC), continues extensive acquisitions of wheat, mainly from Russia and Ukraine.
Intensified and largely unexpected wheat purchases from Russia and Ukraine in recent months lead to higher projected imports in Israel, Kenya, and Mexico, up 0.2 million tons each. Imports are also adjusted up 0.1 million tons for Taiwan, Tanzania, Vietnam, and Armenia. Imports are trimmed for South Korea, down 0.2 million tons to 4.4 million, as wheat feeding contracts with relative prices increasingly favoring corn. Imports are also adjusted down 0.1 million tons for Algeria, reflecting higher wheat output.
Exports from Ukraine are projected up 2.0 million tons this month, reaching 6.0 million. The Government reportedly has recently increased the top limit in its so called "goodwill" agreement with wheat exporters, raising it to 5.5 million tons. Exporters, nervous and wary of the Government's unpredictability, are attempting to export the maximum possible quantities of wheat, fearing still another change in export policy. So far through the first week of November, Ukraine has already exported 4.5 million tons of wheat.
Exports by Russia are projected up another 1.0 million tons to 10.0 million, reflecting winning tenders to Egyptian GASC and a generally rapid pace of exports, despite reportedly tight supplies.
In July-October, Russia had already exported about 8.2 million tons of wheat, while total grain exports surpassed 10 million tons. As already noted in our previous October publication, the pace of exports is expected to slow down and practically halt in the second part of the marketing year, as domestic wheat prices are on the rise, thereby reducing exports and likely opening the door to wheat imports.
Projected wheat exports are also raised further for India, up by 1.0 million tons to 6.0 million. Higher exports by India support the current fast pace of wheat imports mainly by South East Asia, but also by the Middle East and East Africa.
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Census wheat exports for July through September 2012 were only 7.1 million tons, down 8 percent compared to the previous year. According to Grain Inspections, October wheat exports remained behind the previous year's pace by 22 percent, reaching just 1.5 million tons. As of November 1, outstanding export sales of wheat were 4.1 million tons, slightly lower than a year ago.
Consequently, U.S export commitments (July-August data from the U.S. Census Bureau, plus October inspections, plus November 1 outstanding sales) add up to 12.7 million tons, versus 13.8 million last year, an 8 percent decline. For the local 2012/13 June-May marketing year, U.S. exports are projected down 50 million bushels this month to 1,100 million.
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John F. Craycroft, abstract of obituary
11 Jun 2005 — Decatur, Illinois
John F. "Jack" Craycroft, 76, of Decatur, died Friday, June 10, 2005, in St. Mary's Hospital following a courageous battle of 18 months with cancer.
Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:00 am Monday, June 13, 2005, in Holy Family Catholic Church (2400 South Franklin Street) with Fr. Joseph Molloy as Celebrant. Visitation will be 4-7:00 pm Sunday in the church. Burial will be in Mt. Gilead Cemetery. Moran & Goebel Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. In lieu of flowers memorials are suggested to Holy Family School in his memory. View the online obituary and send condolences to the family www.moranandgoebel.com.
Jack was born on January 11, 1929 in Decatur, the son of Wilbur and Elma Wicker Craycroft. He was a charter member of Holy Family Catholic Church. He was a United States Army Veteran. He was a graduate of Macon High School. He farmed with his brother in Macon and Mount Zion areas for 45 years. He married Eileen Hardimon in 1957. They lived in the Mount Zion area for 40 years.


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Team GB's Olympic gold medallists have been honoured with stamps featuring photos of their winning performances, less than 24 hours after their victories, writes Darren Wee.
Royal Mail has issued two first class stamps in honour of cyclist Bradley Wiggins and the British women's rowing pair, all of whom won gold yesterday.
Helen Glover and Heather Stanning won Britain's first gold medal of the games in the women's pairs event at the rowing regatta, setting an Olympic record in the heats. The pair are the first British women to win a rowing gold and the first all-female sports team to appear on a British stamp. Read more >>


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I have a table set up with a filed called primary. It is not presently set up for auto-increment. Can I set it up for auto-increment now by using phpMyAdmin? and if so, how. I can't find any provisions in phpMyAdmin for doing this.
I am hoping I can do this without destroying the data already in the database.
You can ALTER tables using phpmyadmin. Log in, select the database, select the table, select the field, and then click change (the pencil icon).
Every table I have ever created has had an auto-increment id field, so I don't know what would happen if you made a field auto-increment after it had rows in it already. AFAIK it depends on the highest value in the field. but generally will start where the last left off. i.e. if the last id was 157, the next (the first auto-increment) would be 158 irregardless if rows 0 to 20 had been deleted (in other words it wouldn't start at 0 to fill in the lower numbers).
It might be a good idea to create a test clone of the table and experiment with that first.
From the structure tab you can set whether a field in autoincrement or not.
From the operations tab you can change the current value of the autoincrement.
not picking on you or anything, because i know many people do this, but it is often unnecessary and sometimes even counter productive
do you routinely, as frequently as assigning an auto_increment, also declare a UNIQUE constraint?
if not, then "ur doing it wrong"
Very few of the tables I have ever created have ever needed an autoincrement field. Usually there is an obvious field or combination of fields that qualifies to be used for the primary key without needing to invent extra fields. It is often a generated value such as a product code but something that still has meaning beyond providing a unique value for the key - usually being used outside of the database as well as in.
Honestly no. In fact the only things I've ever UNIQUEd are fields like username, email, etc, where I didn't want duplicates. I guess I've always figured that auto-increment took care of that auto-magically. But it does make a lot of sense, I certainly wouldn't want duplicate id values either. Even if I use them almost exclusively for my benefit and don't use them for table-to-table relationships or in any "live" code (basically just to "tag" the rows). Although my database work is still advanced-newbie-ish at best, I've gotten somewhat better than my "monkey see, monkey do" days, but not much. I'm getting to understand how databases "work" some and I'm getting away from the simple "one table with everything in it" way of thinking, but I've still got a way to go before I attempt writing any complex architecture using relational tables, keys, joins etc.
You may be correct in saying I'm not alone in doing it wrong, but having company doesn't make it right. Thanks for pointing it out. I don't want to carry any bad practices along if I ever start writing databases where my inefficiencies will start to matter more and more.
Are you saying I don't need an index field unless I use it external to the database? I have read where I should have one and that it should be auto incremented. If this is not needed for the proper operation of the database beyond my normal data I don't want to use it.
My data base is basically set up for reservations for a new company. They plan on setting up for four reservations a day. I am basing all my data on the reservation date field. When a potential customer wants to make a reservation I will check to see how many of the same date are listed in the reservation date field. If there are less than 4, I will allow them to make a reservation. Besides this date, the fields are first name, last name, address, city, state, zip, phone, email, and a few more specific to the reservation they want to make.
I want to keep the database as simple as possible.
So far, I have a field I called primary, but I could not find a way to make it auto increment. I have populated the database with test data. If I don't need this field I will just remove it.
I'm sure it is obvious by now, this is my first database application.
If there is already a field in the table that will always have a unique value and which doesn't need to be updated after the record is created then that can be used as the primary key. It is only when there is no unique valued field in the table or where you need that field to be easily updateable that you need to resort to creating a meaningless field to use as the primary key. Even then you only need it if it is going to be referenced from some other table.
everything stephen has said so far is accurate, but in the particular case of people, it's ridiculously difficult to find a column or combination of columns that will reliably have unique values for people, so a surrogate key is almost always used
but here, it appears that the table is not about people, but about reservations
from the description of your situation, the primary key would be date + number (1-4)
tip: don't call it "primary" because that's a reserved word
p.s. stephen, a primary key can be updated quite easily, even if it is referenced by foreign keys (ON UPDATE CASCADE takes care of keeping them in sync)
Thank you Stephen and r937,
I am slowly beginning to understand.
I still have some questions in my mind about the key. Somewhere in phpMyAdmin, I read where it should be called "primary, and only primary". I tried this morning to find where I saw this, but I can't find it again.
Is it absolutely necessary for me to have a field with a unique value? If so why? Is it something MySql needs? I can't see where I, for my own use, need a unique value in any field.
If I need one, I can easily do as r937 mentioned about adding a number (1-4) to the date, but then do I need to do something else to indicate this is the primary key?
Where does one learn the finer details about this. Is there a on-line reference, or a book suitable for beginners?
One last question. If I ever need it, where under the structure tab do I find the way to auto-increment? I have spent hours trying to find this. The only reference I see to auto-increment is when you are going to move or copy a table.
Thanks again for you input on this.
there will be a book about SQL suitable for beginners announced by sitepoint in early january
i would advise you not to use the "wysiwyg" panels of phpmyadmin until you have a complete understanding of how SQL works and how tables are designed
for the interim, do everything in the SQL window
for example,
CREATE TABLE reservations
( res_date DATE NOT NULL
, res_no TINYINT NOT NULL
, PRIMARY KEY ( res_date, res_no )
, lastname VARCHAR(50) NULL
, firstname VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL
, ...
and yes, at this point in your development, it is vital that you have a unique column (or set of columns) in every table
Thank you. I will check out the book, and follow your advice.
I was thinking more in terms of its use outside of the database and that changing it in the database would mean that any other references to it would be invalidated (such as on the printed reservation information in this particular situation where it would be the obvious value to print on all the paperwork that is produced so as to make lookups of the database when the paperwork is available much easier).


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about 1916
Elsie Motz Lowdon
watercolor on ivory
sight 4 3/8 x 6 5/8 in. (11.1 x 16.7 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alice L. McGowan
According to the Atlanta Constitution newspaper in 1928, "It was this miniature which the French government sought for a museum piece, but being a staunch American, Mrs. Lowdon declined to have her masterpiece taken out of America." Elsie Lowdon exhibited this miniature to great acclaim at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1919, and again in Los Angeles in 1928, where it won the popular vote as best miniature and a medal for its technical merits. The following year, Lowdon included it in a show at the High Museum in Atlanta, where it was also singled out as the centerpiece of the show.


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Pelfrey fights through six Ike contracts Home Run Fever Bullpen: DOA
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Hey, hey, Jason Bay Finally sends long ball on its way Strong pitching also from R.A. Though Murphy briefly extends Phils' day
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