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Hi, all! I'm Olivia, and I've been a Style Guru for CollegeFashionista for eight semesters now. If I'm not writing about fashion, social media or the combination of the two for one of my internships or school (I'm a senior journalism major), you can usually find me perusing Netflix, painting my nails, trying to finish up a book or planning a big trip. Those who know me best know me for my addiction to Instagram, online shopping and binge-watching Real Housewives marathons on Bravo (try not to judge me). I'm passionate about aesthetics and style, as well the power of social media and how it connects people to brands and companies—and I'm even more passionate about the magic that can happen when social media, writing and fashion collide. As you can see, I like a little bit of everything, but if you're really curious to know more about what makes me tick, just read my articles—it's all in my writing.
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Sorry everyone for not being online lately and not responding to my messages or thread posts.
I have been keeping busy with my offline life as I am currently looking for a job and a new home.
Also, my relationship with my family has been a little chaotic but I'm doing everything I can to stay strong and have been studying Buddhism as much as possible.
Hope you all have had a lovely Christmas & New Year's.
I will try to keep in touch as much as I can.
P.S. Thank you all for your support to my path to enlightenment.
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Network Inventory Monitor allows you to create a network inventory. This program gives you the possibility to get information about operating systems, service packs, hotfixes, hardware, installed software and running processes on remote PCs. You can get screen shots from a remote computer and send messages to a remote PC. Also you can create reports about hardware, installed software, and running processes on computers in your local network. Supports Microsoft Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, 2003.


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Tadworth's Jimmy Mizon is hungry again, and he is stepping back into the boxing ring to prove it.
The middleweight boxer returns to action in the Queensbury Boxing League on April 19 on the undercard of the Resurrection fight night.
His opponent is yet to be announced, but whoever it is, he faces a new-look Mizon.
Last time out, in February last year, Mizon lost on points to Dan Spencer – but the former Marine claimed the man in the ring was not the real Mizon.
He said: "After my last fight I've had plenty of time to refocus myself and rediscover my hunger for boxing, which had completely deserted me.
"Against Spencer it was not really me in there, and since that loss and the birth of my son all I've been really focusing on is looking after him and getting back into training."
He added: "Since I've been back in the gym I've been feeling sharp, fit and ready to go."
Prior to Mizon's departure from the league he was known for his unforgiving, relentless style of pressure fighting, but the young father now believes people will see a different side to his repertoire when he gets back into the mix.
"I don't want to give too much away, but I've been working on a lot of new things in the gym since I've been back," he said.
"I'm hoping I can show people that I can box as well as fight and on the night I am confident it will all come together.
"Once I get this fight out of the way I want to start to establish myself in the league once more.
"Ultimately I want to get back up to the top of the middleweight division and get my titles back."
Also in action on the undercard is lightweight boxer Beau Jeffrey, also from Tadworth, who will be looking to bounce back after narrowly missing out on winning his league debut back in February.
The 18-year-old will face Suffolk debutant Tom "TNT" Sumner as he bids to record his first victory.
Mizon and Jeffrey's contests will take place in the Oaks Arena at the Epsom Downs Racecourse.
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Bentonville, Ark. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will open its first in-store medical clinics under its own brand name after leasing space in dozens of stores to outside companies that operate the quick-service health stops.
The retailer said Thursday it will open "The Clinic at Wal-Mart" as a joint venture with local hospital systems in Atlanta, Dallas and Little Rock, Ark., starting in April.
Wal-Mart has clinics in 77 stores, including nine in Wisconsin and Florida, operated by local hospitals. Clinics in 23 locations in Florida and three other Southern states have been in limbo since last month when the operator, New York-based CheckUps, shut down.
Now, Wal-Mart has signed a letter of intent to work with local hospital systems and RediClinic to open co-branded walk-in clinics in 200 Wal-Mart Supercenters. It has also signed a letter of intent to partner directly with St. Vincent Health System, a part of the Catholic Healthcare Initiatives system, to open four co-branded clinics in Little Rock.
Co-branding means the clinics will jointly bear the names of Wal-Mart and its partners and have an identical look and record-keeping system, Wal-Mart spokeswoman Deisha Galberth said.
Wal-Mart said this is the first step toward opening 400 co-branded clinics by 2010.


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The Map & Atlas Museum of La Jolla has added an important new volume to its collection: the 1588 "Le Voyage de Messire Francois Drake chevalier."
The book (originally published in English, French and Latin) is a journal of Sir Francis Drake's 1585 mission to America. An English privateer (some would say pirate), Drake was sent west to harass the Spanish as war broke out between the two countries.
Apparently, Drake was extremely successful, burning cities in what is now Colombia and destroying a fort in what is now St. Augustine, Florida. The journal includes several maps of his journey engraved by Baptista Boazio.
"There are six known extant copies of the 1588 'Voyage' with the (Map) Museum holding the only copy in a private collection," said the museum's founder, Mike Stone, in a statement. "Of the six copies, four are in American libraries, with only the Huntington and the Map Museum of La Jolla owning copies containing the maps."
Stone founded the Map Museum in 2011 from his own collection of maps, books and artifacts. It contains approximately 500 items dating back at least five centuries.
The museum is open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays (although it will be closed Dec. 26 and Jan. 2) and the first and third Saturdays. Admission is free. Call (855) 653-6277 or visit


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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Blog written by Jan-Christopher Horak, director, UCLA Film & Television Archives
In the general public there is the notion that archives are spaces where almost everything is saved and preserved for posterity. However, the founding of an archive is no guarantee that its contents will ultimately be saved. This tells us that while the archive exists in an idealist sense to...


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Link Ink: 'Injustice: Gods Among Us' Gets Green Arrow, Batgirl's Fan Film And More Ware Art
Gaming: Green Arrow will be a playable character in Injustice: Gods Among Us when the DC fighting game arrives.
Industry: Dark Horse has officially promoted Scott Allie to Editor in Chief.
Fan Films: The first episode of the fan film web series, Batgirl: Spoiled, is now online...


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Skaggs has Tommy John surgery
ANAHEIM -- Angels left-hander Tyler Skaggs underwent successful Tommy John surgery on Wednesday, manager Mike Scioscia said.
On Sunday, the Angels announced that Skaggs, 23, would miss the rest of this season and all of next season. Skaggs last pitched July 31 in Baltimore, where he threw 4 2/3 innings of no-hit ball before exiting.
Tommy John surgery typically sidelines a pitcher for 12-18 months, but the Angels said they wouldn't rush Skaggs back to be able to pitch next season.
"The protocol for rehabbing Tommy John surgery is pretty specific, and it's plainly laid out and it's going to be, it'll be a process," Scioscia said. "Like we talked about the last couple of days, it's probably one of the more predictable surgeries as far as an outcome as you could have. We'll just look to see Tyler sometime in the spring of 2016."
Skaggs was 5-5 with a 4.30 ERA in 18 starts for the Angels, who were relying on him to be the club's No. 4 starting pitcher. Instead, the Angels will bank on Matt Shoemaker (10-4, 3.89 ERA) and Hector Santiago (3-7, 3.59 ERA) to continue their recent success.
Matthew DeFranks is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Lebanon's public debt up 16.5 percent
The Central Bank in Lebanon reported that the Lebanese public debt reached $27.2 billion by the end of last January, a 16.5 percent rise, reported ksa. The same source added that the country's foreign currency reserves declined by 20 percent to reach $4.72 billion by the end of 2001. The Minister of Treasury, Foad Al-Saniora, said that the government is making efforts to lessen the budget deficit, which amounted to 48 percent of the government's spending last year.
The Lebanese Central Bank reported that the national economy recorded a $46.1 million balance of payment deficit last January. The economy recorded a $1.2 billion balance of payment deficit for the entire year of 2001 compared with a $289.1 million deficit in the previous year of 2000. — (menareport.com)
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Forecasting Space Weather
When he was young, Dhanesh Krishnarao, BS physics and mathematics '14, took a family vacation to Disney World and to nearby Kennedy Space Center. That's when he fell in love with space and astronomy.
Now Krishnarao's dream job is to be an astronaut, but he's taking it one step at a time to get there. Last summer he began an internship with NASA in the area of space weather forecasting. "These forecasts can predict the sun's effects on Earth and its magnetic field, among other things," he says, all of which is helpful information for NASA robotic missions, the military, and the government.
Last fall, he teleworked on his internship project from AU. This semester, he is traveling to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, one day a week to work on a new project: observing solar flares. "I always had an interest in astronomy," he says. "Space weather wasn't a focus until I started at NASA."
It was U. J. Sofia, physics professor and associate dean of research, who recommended Krishnarao for the internship. "What's particularly exciting about Dhanesh's experience is that he was able to bring back [to AU] skills that he learned at NASA. He is applying them to an astrophysics research project in my field that he is working on for his honors capstone," says Sofia. "It's the perfect scenario when a student brings knowledge learned at AU to an internship—and then the expertise gained from the internship back to AU."
The internship has broadened Krishnarao's network of contacts, which will likely be helpful to him in the future for things like "advice on graduate schools and internships."
But he also has nothing but praise for the physics department at AU. "It's a small department, but we have really great faculty," he says. "I feel like we're all friends."
Krishnarao entered AU as a physics major, but he picked up math as a second major because, he says, there's a lot of overlap between the two subjects. "It's particularly relevant because I'm interested in going to graduate school for something related to astrophysics."
And the deeper Krishnarao delves into astrophysics, the more he finds there is to discover. "It's nice to look up at the sky and realize that I have some idea of what's going on up there—but also that I have no idea about what's going on," he says. "There's so much that we don't know."


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Some of u may have noticed I only post in the Pacer section and not here in the Colts section. Even though im a die hard pacer fans, I hate the Colts because im a Vikings Fan I dont live in Indiana so I never grew up around the colts team or any team for that fact since im in Canada. I didnt really get into football untill Randy Moss's rookie season and thats when i became a vikings fan. Sry, i just felt i needed to confess. Im still a pacer fan though
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IT'S SPRINGTIME, and the Baltimore Orioles are coming back to Baltimore. While baseball fans gear up for their team's first game in early April, birders and other nature lovers are looking forward to the real deal: arrival, by the end of the month, of Maryland's strikingly beautiful state bird. After wintering thousands of miles south in Mexico or Central America, Baltimore orioles will soon show up in parks and backyards not only in Baltimore but across the eastern and central part of the country, where they breed and rear their young during summer.
Because orioles nest and forage for insects, fruit and nectar primarily in the canopy of deciduous trees, "they are more often heard than seen," says Peter Marra, a research scientist at the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center in Washington, D.C. "Yet the birds are relatively common in urban areas." Marra encounters orioles regularly in his own leafy suburban yard about an hour south of Baltimore. "It's a real treat to spot a long-distance migrant that might have been flying over a jaguar a few weeks earlier," he says.
Orioles are far from the only birds getting ready to breed in Baltimore. According to a long-term survey sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), more than six dozen avian species nest and rear their young within this major metropolitan area—from common backyard denizens like blue jays, chickadees and American goldfinches (left) to elusive warblers and wood thrushes to shore-loving herons, gulls and cormorants. Scientists conducting the ongoing survey tally birds in a handful of the city's parks, but have recorded the majority of species and individual birds in the places where Baltimore's human residents live and work.
"Traditionally, people tended to view metro areas like Baltimore as biological deserts," says John Kostyack, NWF's vice president for wildlife conservation. "But it turns out that many of us live where the wild things are." Home to 82 percent of the nation's population, cities and suburbs in the United States house two-thirds of all North American wildlife species, including many imperiled plants and animals. According to the report Endangered By Sprawl, published by NWF, Smart Growth America and NatureServe in 2005, the country's 35 fastest-growing large metropolitan areas (those with populations of 1 million or more) are home to 1,200 rare or endangered wildlife species, 553 of which live only in large metro areas. A coauthor of the report, Kostyack has witnessed a subtle shift in perspective among his conservation colleagues since the document was published. Though sprawling development still is considered a major threat to native wildlife, he says "there's also a recognition that people in developed areas have enormous opportunities to protect biodiversity where they live."
As an increasing share of the world's growing population moves to cities and suburbs that gobble up what's left of natural areas, conserving urban biodiversity has never been more important. "If you look at an aerial photo of the United States at night, it's clear that the urban-suburban matrix has overtaken more than half the nation's territory," says University of Delaware entomologist Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants. Moreover, activities within urban areas—including water use, wastewater treatment and the cultivation of invasive, nonnative plants—affect wildlife far beyond city boundaries. "There's simply no way we can conserve the biodiversity needed to sustain ourselves and all life on Earth if we ignore urban areas," Tallamy says.
The good news is that many policymakers, urban planners and homeowners are beginning to agree. "There's been growing interest in green development in recent years," says Mark Hostetler, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Florida–Gainesville. "More people also want to see wildlife in their yards. Conserving urban biodiversity fits both of these goals." Unfortunately, many green developments fall short of meeting their objectives. "The potential is there, but developers spend most of their time on design and too little time on construction and post-construction phases of projects," says Hostetler, author of The Green Leap: A Primer for Conserving Biodiversity in Subdivision Development.
Another challenge is a shortage of scientific research on the needs of urban wildlife. Like conservationists, many biologists have treated cities and suburbs as lost causes unworthy of their attention. Part of a larger NSF-sponsored project called the Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES), the Baltimore bird survey is a notable exception. Launched in 1997, BES and a similar project in Phoenix, Arizona, represent the first in-depth, long-term studies of what the foundation calls "human-dominated ecosystems."
For the bird survey, dozens of researchers have spent the past eight summers monitoring avian abundance and diversity at 132 census points scattered around the metro area. Surveyors visit and tally birds at each point three times during the breeding season. So far, they have recorded 80 species that regularly reproduce in Baltimore (including the red-bellied woodpecker, above)—more than half the breeding bird species found within the region.
"Our next step is to work out why we find different species where we do," says BES principal investigator and bird survey director Charles Nilon of the University of Missouri–Columbia. To do that, Nilon and his students have been recording and analyzing a variety of data about the census points—including land use, vegetation cover and socioeconomic variables such as income, education and ethnicity—at three scales: the property, block and neighborhood that surrounds each point. "The number one predictor of high diversity and abundance we've found is vegetation cover, particularly tree cover," Nilon says.
Though Nilon and his colleagues record the numbers and types of plants at each location—trees, shrubs and vines, for example—they do not take note of species, including whether plants are native to the region. Such data should be incorporated as the study moves forward, says Tallamy. "Most biologists assume that when it comes to bird habitat, if it's green, it's good," he says. "But that's not true." Tallamy argues that when nonnative plants replace natives, as they often do in urban areas, this affects entire food webs by reducing plant-eating insects—the most important food for animals ranging from other insects and spiders to reptiles and amphibians to mammals and birds. "Birds do not reproduce on berries and seeds; 96 percent of terrestrial birds rear their young on insects," he says (male northern cardinal feeds its mate a beetle larva, below).
Because native insects did not evolve with nonnative plants, most lack the ability to overcome the plants' chemical defenses so cannot eat them. In the Mid-Atlantic region, for example, Tallamy says native oaks provide food for 534 caterpillar species while gingko—a popular nonnative street tree—supports just one. Birds such as chickadees and warblers rely specifically on caterpillars for 90 percent of their diet during the breeding season.
In a large, multiyear study published in Ecosphere, Tallamy and several colleagues compared the number of caterpillars found in Delaware and Pennsylvania gardens dominated by native plants with the number found in gardens containing more nonnatives. Depending on how closely related exotics were to natives, the researchers discovered a 50 to 75 percent decrease in caterpillar abundance and diversity in the nonnative plots. "That's a lot less bird food," Tallamy notes.
Another study, published in Conservation Biology, demonstrates the connection between native plants, caterpillars and birds. When the scientists surveyed six pairs of properties in suburban Pennsylvania—each including one yard landscaped primarily with native plants and the other with a mixture of natives and exotics—they found more caterpillars and birds in the native-only yards. The native-plant properties nurtured more individual birds as well as more species, including eight times more species of regional conservation concern.
In the suburbs of Baltimore and Washington, D.C., Marra is making similar observations. For the past 13 years, he has run the Smithsonian's Neighborhood Nestwatch program, a citizen-science project with more than 250 families helping researchers band and track the life spans and reproductive success of eight common backyard birds, including northern cardinals, gray catbirds, American robins and house wrens. Based on the results, Marra concludes: "The three most important things homeowners can do to help birds are eliminate pesticides and free-roaming domestic cats and add native plants."
By helping birds, homeowners also will be helping other wildlife. "Birds are good ecological indicators," Tallamy says. "If you have a diverse native bird population, it's a sign that the ecosystem as a whole is healthy."
This year NWF's Certified Wildlife Habitat® program is celebrating its 40th anniversary. To mark the milestone, the Federation will be ramping up the program in an effort to expand the number and diversity of participants in the nation's cities and suburbs. "The wildlife conservation community has given far too little attention to urban and suburban landscapes," explains John Kostyack, NWF's vice president for wildlife conservation. "We're expanding our efforts in the places where people live, work and play." In the coming year, the program will focus on four U.S. metropolitan areas—Baltimore, Seattle, Houston and New York City—by encouraging these regions' homeowners, city and county parks agencies and others to help at-risk species (primarily birds, butterflies, bees and other pollinators) in and around their properties.
Celebrate with us by turning your yard, garden, or outdoor space into a Certified Wildlife Habitat® site to restore vital habitat for wildlife and create a relaxing place to experience nature.
Senior Editor Laura Tangley keeps her cats indoors and uses no pesticides in her native-plant-filled Certified Wildlife Habitat® site in Washington, D.C.
Help us reach our goal of supplying 75,000 trees to National Wildlife Week planting events across the country.


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Jonathan Coulton Set to Release Artificial Heart
Jonathan Coulton speaks to the outcast in all of us, in the voices of characters we know from our own sad little lives. Some of them may be monsters - mad scientists, giant squids, zombies - but his talent is in turning offbeat subjects into deliciously hooky pop songs that move us in surprisingly personal ways.
His upcoming album, Artificial Heart, produced by John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants, is due out this Fall. It's a new direction for Coulton - he leaves behind the home recording gear for a studio filled with talented musicians and guest vocalists including Suzanne Vega, John Roderick of The Long Winters and Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara.
The album opens with "Sticking to Myself", a blistering, high-energy song about finding success, and then tearing it all down. "Nemeses" is a duet between Coulton and The Long Winters' John Roderick that suggests the only real way to bring meaning into your life is to find your own worst enemy. "Good Morning Tucson" is a highly singable pop song about an aging morning news anchor who one day finally loses it. The album's title track, "Artificial Heart," has a bouncy, joyful melody that can't quite mask the feeling that drastic measures are sometimes worse than the problems they are trying to solve.
Artificial Heart is Jonathan Coulton's first album of all new material since his infamous 2006 "Thing A Week" series, during which he created 52 musical pieces in 52 weeks. It's a strong addition to an already impressive discography that spans a decade. His song "Still Alive" is the closing soundtrack to the video game "Portal," and was awarded "Best Original Vocal Pop Song" in 2008 by the Game Audio Network Guild. This year, Coulton was asked back to write "Want You Gone," a song for Portal's long awaited sequel.
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DETECTIVES have unearthed new evidence after painstaking searches of the remote farmer's field where the body of murder victim Becky Godden-Edwards was found almost exactly three years ago.
Teams of specialist officers were dispatched to the field in Eastleach, near Fairford, Gloucestershire, on Wednesday and made the new discovery, which police described only as a 'bone', on Thursday.
Searches continued yesterday and officers began carefully picking their way across the site near to where the tragic blonde's body was found in early April 2011.
Two teams of specialists have been working in 20-minute shift patterns, with one team of eight turning over the earth before a group of seven pick their way on hands and knees through the churned soil.
The entrance to the field was being manned by a police guard to protect the investigation, and a land surveyor was also in attendance.
The area being searched is in the same location where Becky, who disappeared between the end of 2002 and early 2003, was discovered after police vistied the site as part of their investigations into the murder of Sian O'Callaghan.
While it is not clear at this stage what information has prompted Wiltshire Police to return to the site, they have confirmed that it is linked to the investigation into Becky's murder.
A Wiltshire Police spokes-man said: "As part of the reinvestigation into Becky Godden-Edwards murder, investigators have been at Becky's burial site, a field in Eastleach, Gloucestershire.
"While at this location on April 10, a bone, believed to be human, has been discovered in the vicinity of Becky's grave. Further identification work will be undertaken regarding this.
"Detective Chief Inspector Sean Memory is the new senior investigating officer.
He has taken over the case in recent months and has undertaken a review.
The investigation remains open and any forensic or investigative opportunities will be thoroughly explored.
"A specialist search team are conducting a search at the site."
The spokesman said it could be a number of weeks before the new evidence is identified and it was not clear how significant it could be at this stage.
Attention was brought back to the site at the beginning of the week after new information came to light.
Landowner Anthony Kinch said the field is due up for auction next week, and he has been helping officers with their enquiries.
"I had a phone call at the beginning of the week from the police saying that they would be looking at the field again," he said.
"They are reinvestigating and continuing on the work that they were doing before. The next thing I knew they had search teams out in the field.
"That particular field has a protected monument, so part of it is not open for use. The remaining part of the field we are able to cultivate. The whole field is taken up by an environmental scheme of one option or another."
Anthony said he was not surprised when he was told the police would be returning to the site following a thorough investigation of the area in 2011.
"It was not a surprise to me that they want to revisit the field, because it is an ongoing investigation," he said.
"What was surprising was when they said they wanted to investigate a little bit further."
A police spokesman added: "We continue to appeal to the public to contact us with any information relating to Becky's disappearance in early 2003. All information will be treated in the strictest confidence.
"Wiltshire Police continue to offer support to Becky's family.
"It is our intention to do everything we can to ensure Becky's family get the closure they deserve by bringing Becky's killer to justice."
Anyone with any information should call Wiltshire Police on 101.
DETECTIVES reopened the Becky Godden-Edwards file after mini-cab driver Chris Halliwell was jailed for life for the murder of Sian O'Callaghan.
The 49-year-old killer was originally charged with Becky's death but it was withdrawn after a judge ruled there were breaches of police procedure rules by the lead officer, Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher.
Halliwell, of Ashbury Avenue, Nythe, was told in October 2012 he would serve a minimum of 25 years in prison for the murder of office worker Sian, 22, after he abducted her from outside an Old Town nightclub on March 18, 2011.
But the second charge was withdrawn following four days of legal arguments at Bristol Crown Court after which a High Court judge ruled DSI Fulcher had breached the Police and Criminal Evidence Act.
He had not cautioned Halliwell during an impromptu interview at Barbury Castle and again failed to do so when the father-of-three took him aside near the Uffington White Horse and asked him 'Do you want another one?'
The decision had left Becky's devastated family, including her mother Karen Edwards and father John Godden, without justice for their daughter's murder and after a drawn out court process and disciplinary proceedings against DSI Fulcher, the case appeared to go quiet. But the latest development, with forensic teams searching the field where Becky's body was found little more than three years ago, suggests officers have continued working behind the scenes and may have now made a breakthrough in the case.
It comes after Detective Chief Inspector Sean Memory took over the handling of the case recently.
The senior officer has a reputation as a cold case specialist and in February was given an Excellence in Investigation Award from The Investigator magazine for Best Cold Case for leading a team of detectives in solving a gunpoint sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl more than ten years after it happened.


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Employees' Child Care Center
The Employees' Child Care Center provides high-quality care for the children of Fairfax County government employees in a child-centered learning program where children are respected and nurtured. The ECCC promotes the development of the whole child through a developmentally appropriate curriculum. Through a team approach of open communication and cooperation between home and school, the ECCC provides strong beginnings for each child.
Learning Environments
The ECCC is a learning environment where young children are encouraged to explore, be creative, cultivate positive relationships, experience the joy of learning and develop a sense of community. ECCC teachers are committed to providing safe, nurturing classrooms where children, in mixed-age groupings, can build positive relationships and a sense of community. Teachers value and encourage children's natural curiosity, and emphasize warm and caring relationships and help the children develop a sense of trust and self-confidence. Children are given opportunities to explore their interests individually and within small and large groups, both in the classroom and outdoors.
The ECCC provides a full day of child-centered experiences for children from infancy to 5 years of age. The teachers give children a sense of control over their day by planning predictable, yet flexible, daily routines that meet the needs of the children. Daily schedules include time for group activities, child-directed activities, outdoor play, self-help routines, meals and snacks, rest and relaxation.
Children are eligible for enrollment in the ECCC if they are 6 weeks through 5 years of age and have one parent who is a employee working a minimum of 20 hours per week with Fairfax County government. In two-parent households, the non-county employee must also be working or in school a minimum of 20 hours per week.
Enrollment is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Whenever space is available, siblings of currently enrolled children are given priority for enrollment.
To enroll a child in the ECCC, complete and submit the online application found on the Fairfax County Infoweb. Confirmation will be sent regarding placement on the waiting list. When space becomes available, families will be notified and enrollment materials will be sent. Once an enrollment date is confirmed, families are encouraged to schedule as many visits as possible to the ECCC prior to the child's start date.


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BUSINESS Secretary Vince Cable has hailed Burnley as a shining example to the rest of the country on a high-profile tour of the town's businesses.
He said the recession would not have happened if more towns were like Burnley as he met the area's top business leaders.
Dr Cable praised manufacturing firms, the Bondholders scheme and the town's renewed business reputation during a visit yesterday.
He officially opened the £50million Burnley Bridge Business Park and said: "The town is now enjoying a real renaissance."
The 70-acre site, off junction nine of the M65, opened to much fanfare despite still not having any confirmed tenants.
Dr Cable said it gave him 'great pleasure' that Burnley had 'rediscovered' its engineering and manufacturing roots.
Speaking as he unveiled a plaque at the site's Cobalt Building, he said: "I've been here four times in the four years I've been in this job and I've seen the journey that the town has made.
"When I first came here, it did not have a positive reputation, but last year it was regarded as the most enterprising town in Britain.
"Now, unemployment is well below the national average, and there are lots of really positive things happening, particularly in the rediscovery of the manufacturing industry.
"I remember the first time I came here and Gordon Birtwistle took me to the hill overlooking this site and said 'If we can do something here, it can really unlock the potential of this area.' "It's great to be back four years later and seeing this actually happening."
He added: "I'm sure other towns could learn from Burnley. It's turned round a very bad reputation within five years through hard work, political support and good officers at the council who are totally committed to growth and regeneration.
"It shows what can be done. If every other part of Britain operated like Burnley we wouldn't be talking about a recession."
Dr Cable met with James Chapman, managing director of the site's developer, Eshton Ltd, before heading to audio technology specialists AMS Neve for a tour of its Billington Road Industrial Estate workshop.
He got behind the mixing desk with AMS Neve's managing director, Mark Crabtree, to get to grips with the equipment which has contributed to dozens of Oscar and Bafta-winning productions.
Dr Cable also visited aerospace firms Velocity Composites, in Billington Road, and Kaman, in Bancroft Road, as well as window specialists VEKA, one of Burnley's biggest employers and a Lancashire Telegraph business award winner.
At VEKA, in Farrington Road, he joined managing director Dave Jones in opening the firm's new £5million mixing plant – the 'most technically-advanced' in the UK.
Dr Cable praised the German-owned company as 'a real European success story'.
Burnley Council's Chief Executive Steve Rumbelow said Dr Cable's visit was evidence that Burnley was a 'shining example' of economic recovery.
Mr Rumbelow said: "I think we've been building a reputation as a place that's open for business, investable and it gets stuff done.
"We, in the last four years, have been positioning ourselves to make the best of difficult conditions and be ready to come out the other side of the recession with a bound in our step.
"Burnley's been making an economic comeback."
Regarding the lack of confirmed tenants at Burnley Bridge, Eshton Ltd's Mike Dove said 'a number of our prospective customers' were in attendance at the opening.
He said: "The very latest, accurate agent news that I can give you is that occupiers are coming, and are in active negotiations for a number of buildings on the park."
Dr Cable said he was 'absolutely certain' that the site would be occupied soon.
He said: "It is in the nature of a business park like this that it is a speculative development.
"What I've seen happening in Burnley over the four years I've been coming here is that people's faith in new business has been vindicated.
"I want to come back here actually - I'm getting used to an annual visit - and seeing the site fill up as we go forward. We've got something really tangible - real progress that we can celebrate."
Burnley MP Gordon Birtwistle said he had spoken to representatives of two companies at the Burnley Bridge opening who were considering moving there.
He said: "They'll fill this site in two years. It's absolutely perfect. There's no problem getting planning permission. It's fantastic.
"Four years ago, as Vince said, we stopped on that hill and said it would be a fantastic industrial estate. All we needed was a bridge and we could convert this brownfield wreck. And we got it."


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Feb. 7, 2005
Providence District Holds Tax Relief Workshops for Seniors
Supervisor Linda Q. Smyth to Host March 18 and April 14 Events
Looking for tax relief? Providence District senior citizens are invited to attend workshops about how to apply for real estate tax relief. Hosted by Fairfax County Supervisor Linda Q. Smyth, the March 18 and April 14 workshops will be held at her district office, 8739 Lee Highway, Fairfax. Personnel from the county's Department of Tax Administration will be on hand from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. on March 18 and from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. on April 14 to help eligible seniors apply for relief.
To attend either one of the workshops, please make an appointment by calling Supervisor Smyth's office at 703-560-6946, TTY 711. Reservations will be taken starting on Feb. 14 for the March 18 event and on March 22 for the April 14 event. Please contact Tania Hossain at 703-560-6946, TTY 711, for more information about these workshops.
Seniors looking for more information about real estate tax relief can call the Department of Tax Administration at 703-222-8234, TTY 703-222-7594, between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. weekdays. Tax relief applications can be obtained online at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dta/pdf_files/2005taxrelief.pdf, and an affidavit of disability, for those who need one, can be found at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dta/pdf_files/affidavitofdisability.pdf.
To qualify for real estate tax relief, seniors must file an application with the Department of Tax Administration no later than April 1, 2005, and meet the following requirements:
- The applicant must be a resident of Fairfax County as of Dec. 31 of the previous year and reside in the dwelling.
- The applicant must be at least 65 years of age, or permanently and totally disabled.
- If the dwelling is jointly owned by an applicant and spouse, either the applicant or the spouse must be at least 65 years of age or older, or permanently and totally disabled.
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Vishu is the astronomical or zodiac New Year in Kerala. It is observed by Malayalis around the world and falls on the first day of the Malayalam month Medam (April-May). In 2008, the date of Vishu is April 14. There is a widespread belief among Malayali Hindus that the fortunes of the coming year depends on what one sees first on the Vishu day. Therefore people open their eyes on Vishu day before the Vishukani.
Opening the eyes before 'Vishu Kani' is known as Kani Kanal – kani means 'that which is seen first.' A similar ritual is also observed in Tamil Nadu during Tamil New Year.
Vishukani is arranged on the previous night in the puja room or in an ideal space. The viewing of the Vishukani takes place during the Brahma Muhurta or ideally between 0400 hrs and 0600 hrs.
Vishukani consists of rice, kasavu mundu (traditional cloth of Kerala), gold, silver, coins, mirror (usually Aranmula Kannadi or mirror with a tail), cucumber, mango, jackfruit, coconut, banana, and Kanikonna (yellow flower known as Indian Laburnum). The Vishukani is exhibited in an 'urali' – a traditional vessel of Kerala made from Panchaloham (five metals). It is placed in front of an idol or portrait of Lord Krishna. Traditional Kerala lamp is lit near it.
Vishu is also known as a harvest festival; therefore fresh agricultural produce of each region becomes part of the Vishukani.
Another important event on the day is the distribution of Vishu Kaineettam – money given by elders to children and other members in the family.
On the Vishu day, Hindus make it a point to visit Lord Krishna temples.
'Vishubhalam,' or the predictions for the next year, is read on the day by astrologers. Now this tradition has been taken over by newspapers, fortnightlies and other magazines. All most all major publications come out with the predictions of the next year for each zodiac sign and nakshatras.
Earlier, the preparation for next agricultural season used to begin on the Vishu day and farmers used to plough the land on the day and it was known as 'vishupootu.'


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Nieves benefits from higher spot in batting order
PHOENIX -- With starting catcher Miguel Montero behind the plate on most days, Wil Nieves hasn't seen much field time early this season. But that's doesn't mean the D-backs lack confidence in the 35-year-old veteran.
In the backup catcher's three starts in 2013, D-backs manager Kirk Gibson has penciled in Nieves in the sixth or seventh spot instead of the eight hole in front of the pitcher, which is a tough place to bat. That trust in Nieves to hit higher in the order has panned out over the first few weeks of the season, with the catcher collecting three RBIs and hitting 6-for-12, including a 3-for-3 night at the plate on Thursday.
"I'm pretty sure it has helped," Nieves said. "I thank God Gibby has put me sixth or seventh, because when you have some protection behind you, it's so much easier."
The confidence the club has in Nieves is something new to the journeyman, who knows what it's like to hit with the pitcher behind him for seasons at a time. Over his nine-year career, Nieves has hit eighth in 180 of his 233 starts.
"That's a tough spot," he said. "I remember when I was with the Nationals, Ivan Rodriguez hit eighth for the first time in his career and he went 0-for-4 with three strikeouts. After the game, he came up to me and asked me how I do it. I just told him, 'Yeah, it's tough.'"
Even though it was a challenge while he was relegated to the eighth spot, Nieves believes the experience batting there for so long has helped him evolve into a better hitter over the years.
"You have to be patient there, you have to know how the game is going, what the situation is and everything," he said. "It's different every time, because in a lot of scenarios they might pitch around you. It's helped me a lot. You can't try to do too much, just keep it simple. I've tried to continue doing that, and so far it has paid off."
Besides the benefit of hitting higher in the lineup, the catcher believes part of his early success is also due to some new batting-practice habits he has tried to instill in himself.
"A lot of times in BP, guys try to hit home runs and see how far they can hit it," Nieves said. "But they end up flying open with their swings and it creates bad habits. So I'm trying to do the same in BP as I would in a game. I don't even look where the ball is going. Manny Ramirez used to do that, and that's what I've been doing."
Tyler Emerick is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Interesting discussion about HDR screenshots you have here... not
Interesting discussion about HDR screenshots you have here... not
SRPL Shader Pack v0.92 is now available for modders: announcements / discussion
"Be kind whenever possible. It's always possible." - Dalai Lama
Perhaps none that would be visible on screens.
Sometimes you need to put graphics aside and work on menus, performance, flexibility, stability, packaging and so on... That's a huge part of work that you don't see on screens / videos nor could it become a good topic for discussing it with community.
For example - it's been a year since I first shown my shaders until I had some kind of editor that could be used by people. In the meantime people were complaining that I don't share my work with community and don't provide any tools. Sometimes there's just huge amount of "invisible work" that needs to be done between the point where you can show something on a screenshot and the point where it's actually stable and flexible enough for general use.
That's why I say - let them work Feedback is always appreciated and impatience is understood but I believe they have their hands full allready, so time for feedback will come when public beta is available.
Some of us will present modified screenshots or videos with their vision of rF2, some of us will share our opinions and suggestions, but none of that speeds up developmnent and ISI has it's own vision of the product.
Yeah, I'd love to see a few screenshots every day, but I don't think more screenshots would give us better idea of what to expect than we allready have. List or just partial list of tracks and cars would probably be more informative
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"Be kind whenever possible. It's always possible." - Dalai Lama
And a screen for each track present in the game wouldnt please you ?!
Tim has been hired for what some of us and I ask for. He has licensing to do i understand, but a screen every week shouldnt be hard to do.
And please i like to see Full HD snapshots because latest screen were wip hdr preview in 1600 x 1050 something, and these are just 1200 x 800 http://rfactor.net/web/rf2/screens/w..._hdrsingle_02/
Again if 2011 it is, then we should see more of what we're gona get.
I'm just not gonna demand it just because I'm curious or impatient or I think they should now begin marketing of their product.
Actually I don't think they should - it's too early for marketing. What we're about to get is open beta, not final product that will make it to store shelves and need marketing.
I wouldn't even be surprized nor worried if first release wouldn't include things like antialiasing, replays or HDR. Such things could be added sometime in the middle of beta testing.
Simply put - first things first. We just have to wait and see what will be there. Maybe we will get everything in first beta release, maybe not.
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"Be kind whenever possible. It's always possible." - Dalai Lama
ISI doesn't have to show you crybabies anything. Do you honestly think that tim was hired to show WIP screenshot so you morons can say "oh I don't like the HDr or I don't like the colours"...etc. I'm sure tim has other stuff to do than to communicate with a bunch of sucks around here.
Please be nicer. I'm capable of defending myself when I feel I need to be.
Maybe you can define or try to explain to a moron what is marketing...
Unfortunately I'm sure everything is going to release alpha product as called beta to take another year of time for developing. As you said, without replays, without proper postprocessing. Wouldn't surprised if it will be useless for serious league racing due to some serious issues.
After years of waiting, a few release promises, "almost done" statements, we got such partial product, and Tim will say: "I didn't say that final version will be released on Christmas, I said you will be happy with rF2 for Christmas."
Sometimes I have a feeling that we are regarded to be retarded. I would like to be wrong.
The very next post was a reply from me to him.
The forum comes with features which allow you to block anybody you want to. If someone is consistently doing something you dislike I would recommend taking advantage of those features.
Tim, while on the topic of the Forum in general (I know, there is a better suited place for this) would it be possible do mark the Admins posts with another color, either a light tinted color on the background or a different color on the headers like WMD has, it is avalible as a quick option for this if you are a Forum admin, WMD uses the same platform and it really helps when you are looking for information or posts done by any Admins.
Isamu - I use to say that with every post, people are working on their own reputation.
So there's a paradox here - deleting posts that have any sign of insulting tone only helps rude people to maintain good, undeserved reputation Of course there are limits - insulting someone directly for example.
I personally report such posts (as I reported that particular CdnRacer's post), but don't really demand any immediate action to be taken. If someone gets reported often then it will attract attention of moderator and decision to take action will be up to him.
Anyway, we're getting way off topic on WIP HDR screenshots here
SRPL Shader Pack v0.92 is now available for modders: announcements / discussion
"Be kind whenever possible. It's always possible." - Dalai Lama
You need to report those posts and if someone consistently annoys you just block them. It's an easy option in your user cp: http://forum.imagespaceinc.com/profile.php?do=ignorelist I do want this to be a place where people can be who they are. There's always a limit, but I also would like people to develop a thicker skin if possible, try to not take things so personal maybe as often that's what the poster might want.
Even more often it's the opposite case - poster had no bad intentions but due to difference in opinions his post is percieved by the other side as aggressive, while all it does in fact is presenting an apposite point of view.try to not take things so personal maybe as often that's what the poster might want.
Developing some maturity, "thicker skin" or whatever you may call it is essential on forums, since we don't see other guy's face nor hear the tone of his voice as it really is, but as it is in our imagination.
SRPL Shader Pack v0.92 is now available for modders: announcements / discussion
"Be kind whenever possible. It's always possible." - Dalai Lama
Yeah you're right there. I'm sure sometimes I come across badly. Text is horrible method of communication... I try hard to add smileys, etc, but they still often don't help to put across my frame of mind as sometimes people don't notice them.
I actually used to get annoyed a lot on forums, it used to really affect me. But, as you've probably seen, you really can just brush this stuff off when you get used to it.
Ello ello', new forum header image!
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Diamond still in running for final rotation spot
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Scott Diamond remains in the mix for the fifth spot in the rotation but knows he has to put together better performances than his last two outings.
In his last two appearances, the left-hander has allowed seven runs (three earned) on eight hits and three walks over four innings. His latest outing came on Tuesday, when he gave up two runs on four hits in two innings against the Rays. He gave up only singles in his outing on Tuesday with the runs scoring on a sacrifice fly and an RBI groundout.
"It's the fastball control right now," Diamond said. "I'm not getting pounded, and that's the frustrating thing. I need to change my approach a little bit. I need to be a little bit more aggressive. I'm still leaving balls up in the zone."
Diamond, who is out of Minor League options, is competing for the final spot in the rotation along with Samuel Deduno, Vance Worley and Kyle Gibson, with Deduno as the slight favorite.
Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said it's still early in camp but that he wants to see more from Diamond, who posted a 3.54 ERA in 27 starts as a rookie in 2012 before posting a 5.43 ERA in 24 starts last season.
"He has to throw it over and make quality pitches and it's still not there yet," Gardenhire said. "It's a work in progress. We'll see how it goes. Like I say, it's up to them and they have to make the most of it."
Rhett Bollinger is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Bollinger Beat, and follow him on Twitter @RhettBollinger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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In case you have been living under a rock, The Fault In Our Stars is being released on June 6th! If you haven't read the book yet, there is still time.
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
Also available as an audiobook on CD, a downloadable e-book, in large print and in Spanish
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Here are some other books you can read while you wait for the movie release of TFIOS!
Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy
Alice is ready to go out in a blaze of glory, but then she discovers she's in remission from cancer and she must deal with all of the mistakes she's made and the people she's hurt — Publisher's note
Also available as an audiobook on CD.
Maybe One Day by Melissa Kantor.
Zoe thought that being cut from her ballet program was the worst thing that could happen, but when her best friend Olivia is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, Zoe quickly learns that not being able to dance is the least of her problems — Publisher's note
Before I Die by Jenny Downham.
A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.
Also available as an audiobook on CD and in large print.
Somebody Up There Hates You by Hollis Seamon.
Dying of cancer in a hospice, seventeen-year-old prankster Richard has big plans for his final days.
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Anthem for Jackson Dawes by Celia Bryce.
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Never Eighteen by Megan Bostic.
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Hi all. Just a quick update . I'm on day 5 post op and the surgery went well and so is the recovery. I'm starting to slowly get back on the computer to communicate with others and getting stronger each day. Its possible I will discharge tomorrow but if not tom monday. Hope all of you are doing well and many of you have been in my thoughts the last couple of days. Take care everyone.


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I made Sweabs a co-owner of both my IKL and ABA Keeper leagues. I posted notes in both leagues but I figured I better make a note here too.
He has played the site before, he is active and we will work well together. This way I can keep both my teams and still be able to leave the country. Go Sports!!!!


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Dr. Black is great with teens, my two daughters loved her, she really care for her patients and make them feel valuable and encourage them to behave responsible and look for hight standars. She has helped me though the challenges I had to face as a mother.
She is very knowledgable and sweet. Great with the children and very busy. You have to wait a long time to see her each visit but that is because she is busy listening to ALL of her parents concerns about their children. She will spend as much time as you need answering questions and if she doesn't have an answer she will get it for you.
I've been going to Janet with my 2 daughters for years. Haven't had to see her in about a year because the girls are now grown. Two years ago one of my girls was staying out of state with family for a couple of months with relatives. IShe was schedule to come home for a visit when she got sick. My daughter was insistent that she was getting better and that she should return for the visit. When I called Dr Black, she staid in close contact with the physician out of state, speaking to the other doc each day over several days. Dr Black said she shouldn't travel and she didn't think she was getting better. The outcome was emergency surgery out of state. Dr Black's persistence saved my daughter's life! I think she may be at a time in her life where she has to lighten her load for family reasons (most of us have been there). But she's still a great doctor.
Dr. "Janet" has been my daughters physician since she was born and she's now 7. We would see no other and she has never been wrong with diagnosing and treating my daughter. Despite moving to a different town, she is so worth the drive for that piece of mind and quality time with your child's physician. If you're unhappy with Dr. Janet, chances are you'll never be happy with anyone. She is a real live person with has the same issues as all of us do balancing family and career, shame on anyone for faulting her for that. Dr. Janet listens, cares greatly for her little friends and will even call you back at home and give you her home number if need be. This author of the first comment/evaluation written about Dr. Janet is the first time in 7+ years I have ever heard anything negative. Sure, for that reason she is not taking any new patients, that speaks volumes. She second to none!
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Strasburg set to pitch for Nationals on Sept. 6
ATLANTA (AP) - Washington manager Davey Johnson on Tuesday confirmed plans for Stephen Strasburg to make his first 2011 start for the Nationals on Sept. 6.
Strasburg will start for Double-A Harrisburg on Thursday. It is expected to be his final rehab appearance in his comeback from Tommy John surgery to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow.
If all goes well, Strasburg will make his much-anticipated start at home against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
"I've got a spot open for him," Johnson said.
Johnson also said left-hander Tom Milone will be recalled from Triple-A Syracuse to start against the New York Mets on Saturday. Milone will replace Jordan Zimmermann, who isn't supposed to throw more than about 160 innings in his first full season since Tommy John surgery.
Johnson said he plans for Milone and Strasburg to remain in the rotation.
"This is the time of year you look at young players," Johnson said. "That's what you do at this time of year when you're not in a pennant race. And unfortunately, we're not in one."
Johnson did not say how he will make room in the rotation for both pitchers.
Strasburg, the first pick in the 2009 draft, was 5-3 with a 2.91 ERA and 92 strikeouts in 68 innings as a rookie in 2010. He proved in his last rehab start with Triple-A Syracuse on Saturday that he has regained his velocity. His fastball was clocked at 98 mph as he struck out seven in five innings. He gave up one earned run on two hits and no walks against Rochester.
It was an especially encouraging outing after Strasburg gave up five runs in 1 2-3 innings in his third rehab appearance with Class A Hagerstown.
"He was getting all beat up there in Hagerstown," Johnson said. "I said, `Just get your work in, throw free and easy.' And he went down and had a great outing."
Strasburg said Saturday he is still working on his curveball but was encouraged he was "really able to pound the zone."
"The goal right now is to go out there, feel good, feel good the next day and do it all over again in five days," Strasburg said. "My goal right now is to go into the offseason healthy and be ready to go for spring training."


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Hidden deep in the Pyrenees, Andorra is one of the smallest countries in Europe and it offers superb summer walking. We base ourselves in the village of Soldeu and enjoy some of the area's most beautiful walks including: the UNESCO-protected valley of Madriu-Perafita-Claror, the glacial landscapes of Incles Valley, and Sorteny Valley, home to more than 700 species of flowers and plants.
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1Join tour Barcelona. Drive to Soldeu
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An Interview With Dr. Reto Cina
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David Savona: You joined Davidoff in 1997. How did that come about?
Dr. Reto Cina: I was running a discount chain called Pick Pay in Switzerland for ten years. Part of their assortment was cigarettes. Oettinger Imex was running the wholesale cigarette business of Pick Pay. So through this business relationship, I got to know these people, and in 1995, I got a phone call from the managing director of Oettinger Imex asking if I would be ready to join as CEO of the Oettinger/Davidoff Group. And I said yes, of course. We let quite a long time pass, almost one year after the first meeting, but I got to know all of the family members, because at that time, the Oettinger Imex Group was still owned by three families. This has now changed -- there is only one family owning the whole thing -- the Schneider family.
Q: Did you deal with Oettinger chairman Dr. [Ernst] Schneider in the negotiations to bring you into the company?
A: Directly with him. Formally speaking, it was the vote of the directors who gave the final OK, but as a matter of fact, it was he who said, 'I want to go with it.'
Q: I've heard that things tend to move kind of slowly at Davidoff, or with the Group. Did you think it was unusual for an entire year to go by between being hired and the meetings?
A: Certainly, it isn't unusual. But I wasn't under pressure at all because I had a good position. It may be a Group thing, that you let pass a little while to really get the feeling whether two characters may get along together or not. So I think it was a good idea. Obviously, it was the right decision for both sides.
Q: Let's talk a bit about the company in general, because I think all of our readers know about Davidoff, but very few know about Oettinger. Could you describe the company?
A: Actually, we are in four fields of activities. We are a producer, we have an import and export business, we are in the wholesale business and we are retailers. The company is divided into three divisions: tobacco products, accessories and confectionery, which includes cigars; diversification, which are all the other brands, such as cosmetics, leather goods, writing instruments, glasses, ties and Cognac; and, of course, cigarettes.
Q: How large a company, in terms of annual revenue, is the Oettinger/Davidoff group?
A: The tobacco products, accessories and confectionary division comes to 910 million Swiss francs ($717 million), cigarette licensing is 1.2 billion ($946 million), and diversification is 501 million ($395 million). The number of employees is 2,600. Outside of the Dominican Republic, most of them are in Germany, with more than 800.
Q: Where do you sell Davidoff cigarettes?
A: Only in Switzerland, plus we have some distributing rights for other cigarettes; for instance, we are the distributor of the American Spirit cigarette -- in Switzerland, in Belgium and in Holland -- but it's a tiny thing. In addition to that, we are the importer for Zippo lighters, for Savinelli pipes and so on. Having our sales force selling our own brand together with these imported products makes the portfolio much more attractive, and delivery costs come down with the percentage of the value of the order. By using our infrastructure to the utmost, signing the same customers and adding up other products, we are able to generate additional margins.
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A: We have them made, but we are doing the whole thing: the advertising, the distribution and everything. For cosmetics, Lancaster is our licensee. For Cognac, it is Hennessy, and so on.
Q: What is the breakdown of stores that you own?
A: We started, years ago, buying tobacco retailers in Switzerland because we were aware that sooner or later we would have the situation that this retail business would no longer be attractive. We would have less retail shops and we had to have an outlet where we can promote our own brands. At the end of the day, the retail shop will be the only place where you can promote your products. Having the full vertical integration coming from production, wholesaling and also controlling the retail business, we have 100 percent control.
There are 48 Davidoff flagship, or pilot, stores worldwide. These are stores that carry the Davidoff logo on the storefront and feature the entire Davidoff product range, from cigars to fragrances to Cognac and other Davidoff products. Among them are the Madison Avenue store and the newly opened shop at Columbus Circle in New York, four in Las Vegas, seven others in North and South America, 18 in Europe, 16 in Asia and one in the Middle East. Of these flagship stores, Davidoff owns eight. The remaining 40 are franchised. In addition, we have 150 shops in Germany, 26 in Switzerland, two in Belgium and two in Holland. These carry a variety of Davidoff and other brands.
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A: Yes. I mean, let's take Avo. It's a really big brand in the U.S. It's doing well in Germany and Switzerland and in other European countries, but honestly, in the Far East, where we are really successful with Davidoff, we have a hard time.
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Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
Peyton is still the hall of famer, is like saying that Harden is the biggest adquisition of the off season because Houston sucked so Howard doesn't count because he went to a playoffs team, it makes no sense.
Now if you want to say 2nd or 3rd biggest adquisition then you probably have a point.
By the way getting rid of Polian and whoever the coach was is a huge deal too, so while Luck has been amazing getting rid of those two has helped the Colts in a huge way.
It's great seeing his treatment process moving well so far.
Hoping for all the best and looking forward to seeing him back strong next year.
You know I am just messing with you.
I think its important to note that Luck also has the benefit of good coaching. Where as A) Caldwell was an idiot and B) He was basically a lame duck coach by week 10
That speech was very powerful. Damn.
This team is inspired and as they should be.
Bring it home for Chuck, keep winning!
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I was at the game is there an update on avery? Looked like he was kneed in tge kidney
To follow up Luck's performance with video of that speech was tremendous. What a speech. Irsay was in tears, with them in the locker room.... horrible guy that he is.
I've been having shoulder pain and stiffness from working out for a few months now. I think it's tendonitis... both shoulders. I've been doing my workout regimen for a long time, but these last few months have been painful. It's had me a lil' worried about my shouders, I was afraid I had torn something, put too much on, and done some serious damage, and it's been keeping me from actually working out regularly for a few months now. I watched that speech, saw his face and expressions and was like "wtf am I worried about? I'm worried 'bout my damn shoulders, and this guy has real issues. My shoulders are fine, I'm bein' a pussy, I'm f'n goin downstairs right now and workin' out" and so I did. Went downstairs, rubbed the soreness out for a few minutes, did some stretches, and did a full workout. Shoulders feel pretty good. My workouts are stupid and minor, but that was an inspirational speech. Puts things in perspective. I knew they were going through things, but to see him express it made it real.
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
interesting numbers....
thru 8 games
Peyton 2404 passing yards
Andrew 2404 passing yards
He was a lame duck coach since Day 1 if you think about it he was there to not rock the boat him getting into the SB the first season pretty much saved his job for a lot longer than it should've been.
But yes Luck has a different regime to answer too one that helps him and his growth.
I don't think Luck would be nearly as successful if Caldwell/Polian were still around.
And yes Chuck's speech was touching the Colts have exceeded my expectations for the year I had them at 4-12 anything they do for the rest of the season is gravy.
You can't even put into words what this team is doing right now. This is one of the most special runs I've ever watched as a sports fan. Pagano's speech in the locker room was just incredible. I can see why these guys love him. He was a great hire.
In the Manning years, winning in the regular season got to the point where it was a formality that was to be expected. You obviously can't complain when your team is winning 12 plus games like we were every year. But it's fun rooting for a team that is winning games when most people had zero expectations for them. Every win this season feels like a bonus and its enjoyable.
What can you say about Luck? The throws he made yesterday were veteran throws. There's really nothing he can't do out there. He doesn't get scared when he sees a defender coming at him and always seems to make a play. Is there anyone out there who doesn't think he can throw the long ball now? He threw some pretty balls yesterday. When he missed on a long ball, it was actually because he slightly overthrew it. The guy can clearly sling it around.
4-1 at home. We have a great home field advantage right now. This Thursday's game in Jacksonville is big. We have the opportunity to: 1) Get revenge on Jacksonville for week 3, 2) Get another big road win against a division opponent, and 3) put ourselves in excellent position for a playoff spot. The Jags look pretty bad right now as their only win of the season was against us. I would hate it if they improved to 2-7 with both of their wins being against the Colts. We really need to go down there and take care of business. This week will tell us a lot about just how good this team is. If we win on the road in a short week against a team who beat us earlier in the year then we will really be felling great about this team. After Thursday, we will either be one game over .500 or three games over. Huge huge game.
I appreciate the talent Polian brought in here over the years, but it's nice not having his personality loom over the franchise anymore. It's very refreshing. A change was needed.
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Neither one of them was the biggest acquisition... Peyton has that wrapped up and will be a contender or MVP and could win it if Atlanta loses a couple of games...
No one has changed their team's fortunes more drastically than Luck has this year. From 2-14 to 5-3. Our team has a completely different attitude to it and that is mostly because of Luck. He's doing this with a roster that has like 40 mil in dead cap. Our roster is arguably more thin than last year. Luck is the difference.
RGIII so far hasn't done much to change the Redskins success. 5-11 last year and 3-6 so far this year. We'll see how they finish, but so far RGIII isn't making a big difference in the win column.
Broncos were 8-8 last year and are 5-3 now. Clearly they have been getting their mojo lately and it will be interesting to see how they finish. I wouldn't be surprised if they only lose one more game.
Also, all of the people who said that the Colts and their fanbase would crumble once Manning left were clearly wrong. The team is 5-3 and we haven't had a blackout. We should easily sellout the remaining of the season. I think that what I've been saying for years is correct. Many people became fans initially because of Manning, but in the process they developed a deep loyalty for the horseshoe itself.
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I didn't notice this during the game, but I was watching NFL AM after I got off work this morning and I couldn't help noticing two little details in the game that I haven't seen or noticed before...perhaps I'm just a little slow.
The first thing I noticed is that is that Blue's mohawk is orange instead of white. I don't go to the games because of my work schedule and they don't really show the mascot on TV so I never noticed it.
The second thing I noticed is that the "unofficial" first down marker wasn't yellow, and in fact orange. Granted I wake up early right before the game so I can watch it live and, therefore, not paying too much attention because I'm not fully awake yet.
I really wasn't paying much attention when we played the Brown's at home and didn't record it...plus I should really be asleep instead of youtubing highlights of that game. I don't know if Irsay lobbied to get it changed for our home games or what, but I can only tip my hat to them because they are a class act.
Smothered Chicken!
That has to be one of the most inspiring things I've ever seen.
He's the ****ing man.
Pagano will see both of his visions out. I can feel it.