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INDIANAPOLIS—The chain of command was altered in late September with a phone call that drew the breath out of Bruce Arians.
An NFL assistant for two decades, he was about to be put in charge of his first professional team, the Indianapolis Colts. He had longed to be a head coach, or at least be considered for a position. But not under these circumstances.
Arians, 60, had spent the team's bye week at his lakefront home in Georgia. On Sept. 30, while preparing to return to Indianapolis, his phone rang. It was coach Chuck Pagano.
"He called me at the lake," Arians said. "I was getting ready to go to the airport to get on the plane and come back. We're talking and he sounded like he always did."
Then, everything changed.
"He said, 'Oh, by the way, I went to the doctor and they told me I have leukemia,' " Arians said. "I almost fell off the roof."
Pagano would take an indefinite leave. He would endure three rigorous rounds of chemotherapy, which ended Nov. 5.
While their coach fought for his life, his team fought on without him.
Arians has kept them on course. The Colts take a 9-4 record to Houston for a Sunday meeting with the Texans. They're the tentative No. 5 seed in the AFC playoffs, one win from securing a postseason spot. Incredibly, the AFC South title remains in play.
While dealing with adversity that hit on a personal and professional level, the Colts have been motivated to extend the season to give Pagano an opportunity to return to the sideline. This year. Arians has pointed to the Dec. 30 regular-season finale against the Texans at Lucas Oil Stadium for his boss' return.
That remains a real possibility.
"I'm fully supportive and I have my fingers crossed that he'll be there on that sideline if that's where he wants to be," said Dr. Larry Cripe of IU Health Simon Cancer Center. "It's feasible. It's possible. Is it definite? No. (But) I definitely think that's where we're heading, and we have our fingers crossed that ... he's able to do it."
Pagano has remained involved in the daily activities of his team during his battle with leukemia. He and Arians talk regularly. He breaks down practice video, offers advice to players via texting.
Pagano has been an occasional visitor to the team complex and has attended the past three home games at Lucas Oil Stadium. He offered a passionate address in the locker room after the Nov. 4 win over Miami.
All that remains is for Pagano to regain his strength and stamina. If the team and his doctors clear him for a return this season, the plan is for Pagano to do so as head coach, not a figurehead on the sideline.
"If he comes back,'' Arians said, "he'll be the head coach and taking back over. I look forward to Chuck's return, I really do. It has been an honor to be able to take over, and it's been fun to have the chance to sit in that chair. But I can't wait for the day that he comes back.
"I welcome that day."
Until then, the Colts move forward. They'll continue to follow Arians' lead.
To appreciate what's been accomplished thus far requires a quick reminder of last season's 2-14 finish and the massive organizational overhaul that followed it. It's not a stretch to consider how the season might have nose-dived after the news hit of Pagano's battle with leukemia.
"Sure, it could have," Reggie Wayne said.
The Colts were 1-2 when informed of Pagano's situation. Arians has directed them to an 8-2 record in Pagano's absence, starting with an emotional 30-27 comeback victory over the Green Bay Packers on Oct. 7.
Wayne considers Pagano a close friend. They were together at the University of Miami, and it was Pagano who helped convince Wayne to re-sign with the Colts during the offseason.
And it was Wayne who quickly realized that if Pagano wasn't to able to lead the team, Arians was the best stand-in.
"He's kept it together because of the type of guy he is," Wayne said. "You know he's the coach, but the type of person he is is what's kept everything together. He came in and kept everything the same, didn't change anything.
"And he didn't change himself. He's different. He's not your average coach. There are some coaches that keep it blunt with you and some who keep it blunt. He's the second blunt. In your face, telling you what it is."
"He's just a straight-up dude," veteran defensive end Cory Redding said. "I like his approach 'cause he keeps it real as far as telling guys that he holds them to a certain standard and he expects them to live up to it.
"He's handling it way better than I thought he would, not knowing who he was or how he approached things, his philosophy. We've just followed his lead."
Arians has delegated some of the daily responsibilities, but has maintained his role as offensive coordinator while assuming so many of Pagano's duties. On game day, he runs the entire show, including calling plays.
Arians routinely talks of how the events of the past several months have bonded the Colts, motivated them.
"This team found a purpose, unfortunately because our coach got sick and that's a shame," he said. "He's fighting for his life and it's nothing more than asking, 'How about we go fight for every game and extend this season until he can come back?'
"We have a date we're all hoping that he can lead us down the tunnel on December 30 if all things go well, and if not we need to have this season extended until he can do that. I think that each man in the locker room, each coach and everybody in the Colts organization, is striving to do the same thing. When you have everybody on the same page and you take egos out of it, you play your best football."
Considering Arians' impact on the season, it's reasonable to wonder if he might finally get a chance to be a head coach once Pagano returns and normalcy returns to the Colts. He already is fielding calls from unemployed assistants asking him to put their name on his list for his staff in 2013.
At the very least, Arians will listen.
"My gosh, you've got to," he said. "But if they don't have a quarterback or don't have a chance to get one, that ain't no fun, man. That's a headache and ass firing waiting to happen.
"But sure, I'd listen. You have to. That's your goal. That's why you do this."


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Not a merry Christmas for battling retailersGlenda Kwek
Published: February 6 2013 - 11:37AM
The struggling retail sector has been dealt another blow after weaker-than-expected sales in the critical December shopping period, new statistics show.
- Michael Baker: It was a blue Christmas for small retailers
Retail sales fell 0.2 per cent in December - the third-straight monthly drop - to a seasonally adjusted $21,420.9 million but rose 0.1 in the three months to the end of the year, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said today.
The results were softer than forecast, disappointing economists who had expected a 0.3 per cent rise. The November result was revised down from an initial reading of minus 0.1 per cent to minus 0.2 per cent.
The Australian dollar fell to its lowest level for 2013 following the data release, dropping to $US1.0356 just after noon following the day's high of $US1.0418 in early morning trade.
Eating out less
Other retailing, which includes pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, led the falls with minus 2.8 per cent, while eating out and takeaway services fell 1.1 per cent. Food retail edged down slightly by 0.1 per cent.
At the same time, clothing, sales in footwear and personal accessories rose by 2.1 per cent, more consumers bought household goods (0.8 per cent) and shopped in department stores (0.8 per cent).
NSW led the fall with a 0.7 per cent drop. Victoria slipped 0.2 per cent, Western Australia fell by 0.3 per cent and the ACT by minus 0.8 per cent. Queensland was unchanged.
''We now have three successive small falls in retail spending. There's clearly a lack of confidence or an excess of caution on the part of the consumer, and that was also manifested in the December data,'' BT Financial Group chief economist Chris Caton said.
Dr Caton said consumers were shopping with caution and placing more downward price pressures on retailers as bargain hunters.
"All in all, it's pretty tough for retailers," he said.
Deutsche Bank retail analysts Michael Simotas and Michael O'Meara said in a research note that the Bureau of Statistics data contradicted the recent feedback from retailers and the industry, which had signallyed ''reasonally solid'' Christmas trading.
Retail trade still rising in original terms
But Dr Caton said it was important to note that retail trade has been rising in original terms over the past three months.
"Essentially, retail trade has been going up in the last three months, but it has been going up less rapidly than it usually does seasonally," he said.
"I doubt it very much that we are going to get a fourth consecutive fall in the month of January. Some of the weakness may be overstated as there may be a change in the seasonal pattern of spending. So the seasonal factor is pulling the numbers down, but it won't pull it down forever."
UBS economist George Tharenou added that while retail trade remained weak despite the Reserve Bank's easing of interest rates last year, the implications on overall consumption levels could be more limited.
[T]he 'read-through' is somewhat limited given retail sales are now only approximately 30 per cent of consumption, consumer sentiment recovered to average, car sales jumped to a record high, and the RBA yesterday noted some consumer durables picked-up," Mr Tharenou said in a research note.
'Not much benefit from rate cuts'
National Australia Bank senior economist David de Garis said the figures showed that the retail sector had not benefited much the lower cash rate.
"People haven't rushed out and spent a whole lot more in shops, whether it's supermarkets or speciality shops," Mr De Garis said. "We had rate cuts through the middle of last year, in October and in December, so it's not unreasonable to expect to have seen some response in terms of consumer spending in retailing."
The data came a day after the Reserve Bank kept interest rates on hold at 3 per cent during its first board meeting of the year yesterday, citing an improving global economy and subdued inflation, while keeping the door open for further cuts if needed.
Mr De Garis said it was unlikely the board of the Reserve Bank would have altered their decision even if the softer retail figures were factored in.
"If they sat down yesterday and decided not to cut rates, would they have decided to cut rates today? That would be a bit of a stretch I think. They have a cautious outcome on consumer spending and this would have added to that," he said.
'Lower the threshold for imported goods'
The Australian National Retailers Association (ANRA), which had called for a cut to the cash rate yesterday, again pushed for a lower GST-free threshold on items purchased overseas to reduce Australians shopping on international websites.
"We estimated about 8 per cent of Christmas sales were lost to overseas competitors in the later stages of 2012," ANRA chief executive Margy Osmond said.
"Looking at these numbers, we might have to revise that number up. Retailers have come out fighting with greatly decreased prices and consumers are buying - but margins remain tightly squeezed. With three years of low growth the retail sector is now at tipping point."
Ms Osmond said yesterday following the RBA's decision that retailers were "anticipating a slow start to the year".
"[T]he RBA has chosen to adopt a 'wait and see' approach. Retailers don't need to be so cautious, they know what they will see," she said.
The National Australia Bank's online retail sales index fell in December following a strong November, which analysts said was the peak month for internet shopping ahead of the Christmas season.
In November, retail sales had fallen a surprise 0.1 per cent to a seasonally adjusted $21.5 billion, a result that economists had described as "disappointingly soft".
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/business/not-a-merry-christmas-for-battling-retailers-20130206-2dxnw.html

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AUSTIN, Texas — Has your living room TV become the central component of your family's group activities? If so, maybe it's time to head outside for a weekend and become an outdoors family.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Outdoors Family weekend workshops give families with children between the ages of 5 and 12 a chance to explore the great outdoors and learn skills like camping, fishing, kayaking and archery.
"It offers today's families an opportunity to learn very basic outdoor skills that they may have never been introduced to or that they may have learned way back in their scouting days," said program coordinator Ashley Mathews. "The learning is so easy and fun that there is little chance of embarrassment."
The program began as an outgrowth of the successful Becoming an Outdoors-Woman program. Demand has grown so much that TPWD has scheduled seven additional workshops for 2008.
Mathews attributes the increased interest in the program to the public's growing recognition of our increasing disconnect from nature as a society.
"More and more people are starting to understand that a disconnection between our children, ourselves and our natural environment is harmful to us mentally and physically," she said. "People are trying to find easier ways to expose themselves and their kids to outdoor activities. Time in the outdoors can really help children with attention issues, and provide a setting for them to decompress and be imaginative."
The workshops typically begin Saturday morning and last through Sunday noon. Usually, six to eight classes are offered throughout the weekend. Families are able to rank in order of preference which three classes they would like to attend while registering. All classes are geared toward absolute beginners.
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John Mackey, CEO, Whole Foods, in conversation with Peter Guber, CEO, Mandalay Entertainment
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Friday, January 25, 2013 at 7:45 AM (PST)
Live Talks Los Angeles invites you to:
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Conscious Capitalism:
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Friday, January 25, 2012
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$40 also includes Mackey's book, Conscious Capitalism
The CEO of Whole Foods discusses why 21st century businesses must have a vision built on love and care—instead of fear and stress.
Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Costco, Patagonia, The Container Store. You shop there not only for the products they sell, but for their business philosophy.
In Conscious Capitalism, iconic CEO John Mackey and professor Raj Sisodia present the fundamental principles and practices of their bold new vision of conscious capitalism: businesses operating from a sense of higher purpose and prospering financially while also generating other critical forms of value—emotional, social, intellectual, ecological, financial, and spiritual. These are businesses built on love and care instead of fear and stress.
In his first visit to Live Talks Business, Mackey will tap into his decades of personal experience to explain how you can craft and make a vision for your company in order to gain a long-term competitive advantage.
Some of today's best companies—Google, UPS, Southwest Airlines, Herman Miller, Bright Horizons, Patagonia, Panera, Starbucks, REI, Tata and others—are making this vision real. They're not being politically correct. Rather, they understand that conscious capitalism is the ultimate path to long-term competitive advantage. They're full-throated advocates for free markets, entrepreneurship, competition, and property rights. But they operate by a markedly different set of principles.
PETER GUBER is Chairman and CEO of the multimedia Mandalay Entertainment Group. Prior to Mandalay, Guber was Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment, Chairman and CEO of Polygram Entertainment, Co-Founder of Casablanca Record & Filmworks and President of Columbia Pictures. Guber produced or executive produced (personally or through his companies) films that garnered five Best Picture Academy Award nominations (winning for Rain Man) and box office hits that include The Color Purple, Midnight Express, Batman, Flashdance, The Kids Are All Right and Soul Surfer. Peter Guber is Owner and Co-Executive Chairman of the NBA franchise, the Golden State Warriors, and Owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the storied Major League Baseball franchise, together with Guggenheim and Magic Johnson.Guber is a weekly Entertainment and Media Analyst for Fox Business News and a full professor at UCLA. Guber's recently published third book, Tell to Win - Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story, became an instant #1 NY Times bestseller.
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IT'S do-or-die time for Malvern Rugby Club as they face a battle to save their Midlands One West skins in the closing weeks of the season.
With four games remaining, the Spring Lane side realistically need to pick up 15 points to avoid the threat of back-to-back relegation.
Tomorrow (3pm), Malvern travel to sixth-placed Whitchurch, who are notoriously strong on their own pitch, and desperately need to take something from the game.
Club spokesman Peter Woods felt the Malvern players put in an impressive showing against leaders Lichfield in last weekend's 33-12 defeat at Spring Lane.
He said: "We didn't expect to beat Lichfield but still put in a good performance, although results elsewhere unfortunately went against us with Old Laurentians unexpectedly beating Hereford and others picking up bonus points.
"We realistically need to take 15 points from our last four games to stay up and we have games in hand over Berkswell and Balsall and Old Laurs, who are immediately above us in the table.
"Whitchurch will be a tough fixture though because, although they don't travel very well, they are always strong at home.
"We beat them at Spring Lane in a close match earlier in the season so we know we can beat them, but they will be a lot tougher on their own patch."
Malvern will be without Ieuan Mustow, who has now quit playing ahead of starting a commando training course at the end of this month, but other key players are returning.
Tough number eight Jamie Anderson has recovered from an ankle problem and will link up with Richard Preece and Stuart Clark in a powerful back row.
Centre Richard Fleming is back after a three-week ban for a red card, while line-out specialist Jonathan Bywater, who was man-of-the-match against Lichfield, will again bolster Malvern's set-piece options.
Woods added: "As long as we can hold Whitchurch in the tight encounters, we should be OK. If we can secure our own ball in the set-pieces, we should be able to match them, which gives us an opportunity to attack.
"If we can get anything at Whitchurch, it would be a big confidence-booster ahead of the rest of the season.
"We then have to beat the teams around us in the division – Market Bosworth and Berkswell – before going to Kenilworth for the final game of the season."


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Kanye West Shares Ups and Downs in Los Angeles for 30 Seconds to Mars Video 'City of Angels'
Kanye West, and a slew of other celebrities who call Los Angeles their home, appear in a new video by 30 Seconds to Mars called 'City of Angels.' In the 11-minute clip, the lineup of superstars confess their love/hate relationship with the city that made them famous.
Yeezy's L.A. stories are heartfelt as he explains how the city has treated him — both good and bad — throughout his career.
"The city took my mother, but this city also gave me my child," he says during a touching moment. "The city of angels is my paradox. My nightmares are my dreams."
West's mother, Dr. Donda West, passed away in November 2007, after undergoing a plastic surgery procedure. Six years later, Los Angeles is the city where 'Ye became a father as he and his fiancee, Kim Kardashian, welcomed the birth of their first child, North West.
Other celebrities making cameo appearances in the visual include James Franco, Lindsay Lohan, Corey Feldman, Juliette Lewis, Selena Gomez, a Michael Jackson impersonator and 30 Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto.
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Honeycrisp, we need to have a talk.
Actually, my neighborhood retailer and I need to have a talk about the $3.97 a pound Honeycrisp they're trying to sucker me into buying in mid-January.
I am aware that Honeycrisp is the darling of the apple category, and I know it regularly retails for $3 and $4 a pound when we're all ready for the first-of-the-season fruit in the fall. I even saw them as high as $5 a pound.
C'mon, really?
But this time of year, Honeycrisp can't be worth $4 a pound retail — even organic, which these were. Convince me I'm wrong. I bought one for scientific purposes, and it did not taste like a $4 a pound apple.
Not even I, an apple aficionado willing to shell out some ridiculous money for good fruit, could justify this.
Realistically, how long can we trade on Honeycrisp's reputation before the backlash happens?
Storage apples can be a beautiful thing. There are some apples that store fantastically hitting the shelves this time of year. I'm looking at you, Opal, and you, Junami, and you Piñata.
Jazz is regularly on my shopping list this time of year as well. I don't want to leave anyone out — these are just a couple of examples I've tried in the past few weeks.
And in the produce department, there are plenty of other great things to eat even in deepest, darkest winter.
We're not stuck with rutabagas and turnips anymore, folks.
Texas grapefruit is fantastic in January. Citrus in general really shines when the sun isn't helping us out much.
I've been gorging myself on Halos or Cuties or whatever brand of clementine is in my store in a given week.
I checked up with my go-to retailer for in-season produce, New Seasons Market in Portland, Ore., and they're doing some awesome citrus promotions.
H.E. Butt's Central Market also has its Citrus Fest going on right now. Their radio commercials are hilarious.
"Do you like to show off your new wedges?"
"Do you faint at the sight of blood ... oranges?"
"Would you wave your Buddah's hands in the air, and zest them like you just don't care?"
They post the commercials on their Facebook page.
I highly recommend checking them out.
I guess my point is trying to get a consumer to go after a tired apple best eaten in October — for an outrageous $4 a pound — seems silly when there are so many other wonderful items begging for some shelf space.
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FEARS are growing for a vulnerable teenager who has been missing for a week.
Danielle Catton, 19, who has learning difficulties, hasn't been seen by her foster parents at their home in Burnley Road, Padiham, since 1pm last Friday.
She last made contact with her foster parents on Sunday afternoon.
Police are worried for her welfare and are urging anybody who has seen Danielle or knows of her current whereabouts to contact them.
Sgt Ifte Ali, of Burnley Police, said: "We're very concerned about her and would just like her to contact her foster parents, or the police, if she doesn't want to contact them.
"We're very concerned because the foster parents haven't had any contact and it's been a number of days now.
"The public response from the appeal has been very good, however it is very early days and we are crossing off lines of enquiry as we are going along.
"We've had some information that she was seen travelling on a bus that goes between Burnley and Accrington, but this has not yet been confirmed.
"We're having CCTV downloaded by the bus companies to confirm or negate this.
"It would also give us the direction of travel and her last known location."
Sgt Mick Smith, from Burnley CID, said: "Although streetwise, Danielle is vulnerable as she has learning difficulties. It is unusual for her to be missing for this length of time."
Padiham councillor and former mayor Jean Cunningham said: "It's very worrying, especially because Danielle has learning difficulties. It is in the hands of the police to find her, but I would appeal for her to get in touch with her foster family."
Danielle is described as being around 5ft 2ins tall, of slim build with shoulder length dark brown hair. She was last seen wearing a black leather jacket and black trainers.


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Part I: VinItaly '10 – Checking In with Our Growers
During the second week of April, I had the opportunity to attend VinItaly – one of the largest and most well-attended trade shows for wine professionals – and two smaller, organic off-shoot shows: VinNatur and Vini Veri. These tastings brought growers, suppliers, sommeliers, and wine buyers together near picturesque Verona. It was a very special opportunity to taste wines alongside the growers, a process that is important in gaining a true understanding of the wines on our shelves and the farming behind them. Attending a show like VinItaly is the next best thing to actually visiting a producer.
VinItaly has grown in prominence and size over the years and it now gives a wonderfully kaleidoscopic view of Italy's wine scene. Passing from one stand to the next, a visitor can see, on the one hand, scantily clad brand promoters or, on the other, casually dressed farmers, surrounded by regional maps and harvest photos. Recently, many small producers have started migrating to off-shoot shows because VinItaly has become too big and impersonal to give their wines the exposure that they desire. These smaller tastings, which are often organic, are much more manageable than wading through the crowds at VinItaly.
In many respects, VinItaly is part spectacle – reminiscent of an ongoing Fellini film that is unsure of both its beginning and its end. The vibrant, gesticulating crowd has an almost theatrical presence that can make it challenging to focus solely on tasting. Nonetheless, the show still offers up intimate encounters with small, provincial growers. Fortunately, this was much more my experience of the show. Large brands are not represented on our shelves at Formaggio Kitchen Cambridge – instead, we favor smaller producers who make carefully crafted wines. Often, these are producers with whom I have developed a personal relationship.
I knew from previous experience that I had to approach the show with a plan so that I wouldn't feel overwhelmed. My goal was to taste and speak with each of the producers whose wines I stock at the shop. Overall, I was very successful, though even five full days of tasting and talking isn't enough to get a full understanding of a grower's wines, a vintage, a varietal, or a region. I tried to taste the more delicate wines earlier in the day but it wasn't always possible, based on the throngs that crowded the stands. By the end of the day, my mouth ached from tasting what would often be more than 100 wines! It became difficult to differentiate primary fruit flavors of strawberries, raspberries or black plums from secondary and tertiary notes such as herbs, spices, tobacco, and earth. However, at the end of every day, it was extraordinarily satisfying to look back on moments that reaffirmed my confidence in the producers we feature at the shop. It was also exciting to find a few new gems that will shortly be making an appearance!
What exactly was I looking for in the wines that I tasted? I was looking for wines that were alive, expressive, interesting, and honest – full of character, personality and authenticity. This is not so simple in a wine-producing country like Italy. Over-production and a lowering of quality standards during the 1950's was replaced by modernization and homogeneity in the 1980's. Only recently has Italy started to reconsider its small-farming/traditional roots with growers planting indigenous varietals and employing non-technological cellar work. I wanted to taste with growers that believed that "less is more," or, more specifically, "nothing can take the place of the quality of the fruit." Finally, the trend of aging in new oak which, in my opinion, weighs a wine down with clumsy flavors of vanilla and butter, has finally started to dissipate even though Robert Parker continues to find it favorable.
To read Part II of Gemma's post, please click here.
Gemma Iannoni is the wine buyer and a cheesemonger at Formaggio Kitchen Cambridge.


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Big K day for Bucs means ticket discount
NEW YORK -- The Pirates' decision to extend their "How Many Ks" promotion through Saturday in honor of the season debut of pitcher Francisco Liriano has dramatically reduced certain ticket prices for the first five games of their upcoming homestand.
The promotion reduced ticket prices $1 for each strikeout by a Pirates pitcher in the first three games of the series at Citi Field. Bucs pitchers amassed 16 strikeouts -- nine by Liriano in 5 1/3 innings -- Saturday, reducing the prices for lower outfield box seats from $32 to $9 and outfield boxes from $28 to $5. The discounted prices apply to games in the four-game series against the Brewers that begins Monday and the game against the Astros Friday.
The promotion runs as long as supplies last.
Marty Noble is a national reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Rainy, cold January weather put a dent in winter watermelon volumes from Mexico.
Crossings from Mexico into the U.S. were down 40% in mid-January and could be down as much as 40% through mid-March, thanks to Mother Nature, said Jimmy Henderson, owner of McAllen, Texas-based Warren Produce LLC.
"The rain last week was a game-changer," Henderson said Jan. 17.
In some growing regions, Henderson said, it wasn't so much the intensity of the rain as the duration. In Nayarit, for instance, it was more a mist than rain, but it lasted for a week.
In Jalisco, the rain was heavier, he said.
The amount of rainfall wasn't as important as the fact that it came in January, Henderson said.
"The timing was real bad," he said. "There's shorter daylight, the plants get stressed and they can't work back into health."
At other times of the year, plants are able to recover much better than they can during the winter.
On top of the volumes lost from the rains, acreage in Western Mexico was down to begin with, Henderson said.
The quality of the crop, at least up until mid-January, had been excellent, Henderson said.
In January Warren Produce was sourcing from the Nayarit and Jalisco growing regions.
Winter acreage is similar this year for Edinburg, Texas-based Bagley Produce Co., said Jeff Fawcett, sales manager.
Unlike last year, however, growers in Jalisco and Nayarit haven't had to contend with hurricanes and other tropical storms this season, Fawcett said, though cool weather and rain have taken a toll.
"It didn't hurt the crop, but it has slowed things down," he said.
Cold weather could have a delayed effect, too, affecting supplies in late March and April, Fawcett said.
Bagley Produce expects to switch to Campeche before coming back to Tampico and Jalisco in April and May.
McAllen-based Majestic Produce Sales was sourcing watermelons from Jalisco, Mexico, in January, said Ward Thomas, the company's owner.
Acreage in 2012-13 was about the same as last season for the company in the region, Thomas said.
Weather problems, though, are limiting volumes.
Majestic Produce Sales' Mexican deal will likely take a turn in a different direction at about the end of February, when the company switches growing regions.
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BBC America has released another 'Doctor Who Insider' video, this is Part 2, The Doctor 2011 Behind-the-Scenes.
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The BBC has announced that Hugh Bonnerville has been cast as a pirate captain for Series 6 in the spring.
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BALLSTON SPA -- Ballston Spa Rotary is sponsoring a Community Volunteer Expo for residents of the area from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, in the Ballston Area Community Center gymnasium, 20 Malta Ave.
More than two dozen community groups will offer volunteer opportunities. The expo is as a celebration of community giving and seeks to attract citizens of all ages and walks of life for whom traditional routes to volunteering are not available.
Attendees will be able to explore volunteer firefighting, hosting children from New York City, protecting the Kayadeross, assisting the library and volunteering at the Brookside and Bottle museums.
In addition to invitations to join the Ballston Spa or Malta rotaries, people may become involved with the Elks, Lions, Masons, Milton Grange and more.
Veterans may speak to the American Legion and VFW to learn how they can support Rural Preservation Co.'s homeless veterans program.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio-- The Ohio State women's soccer team opened its 2001 campaign with a 5-2 victory over the visiting Raiders of Wright State Friday at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. The Buckeyes, 1-0-0 overall, had three players net goals with both Lindsay Eckles (Jr., Hilliard, Ohio/Hillard Davidson) and Lisa Grubb (Fr., Portage, Mich./Portage Central) notching two apiece. Ohio State outshot the Raiders, 21-8. WSU stands 0-1-0.
WSU took the early lead when Kristin Blackwell broke through the OSU defense and challenged goalkeeper Anna Mitchell (So., Canton, Ohio/Jackson) at the 18-yard box. Mitchell slid to her right in an attempt to block the shot but Blackwell pushed the ball to her left past Mitchell and shot the ball into the open net for the 1-0 lead at the 5 minute mark.
OSU answered back 18 minutes later when Eckles connected on a diving header on a cross from Emily Thorpe (Sr., Cincinnati, Ohio/Sycamore) sending the ball to the back of the net to tie the match at one. Eckles was not through as she added her second goal of the match at 31:17. Standing to the goalkeeper's left, Eckles collected a crossing pass from Jackie Shirer (So., Medina, Ohio/South Alabama) and placed the ball to the lower left portion of the net to give OSU the 2-1 lead heading into the half.
Grubb, playing in the first match of her Buckeye career, notched the team's fourth and fifth goals to open the second half. Grubb struck her first in the 59th minute on an unassisted breakaway. Grubb dribbled through traffic and controlled the ball around two defenders before placing her shot to the lower left corner of the net.
Grubb's second tally came five minutes later on a chipped pass from Liz Mumley (Fr., Woodbridge, Va./Woodbridge). Mumley lifted her pass from the top of the 18-yard box to a waiting Grubb who trapped the ball to her feet and again placed her shot past the goalkeeper to the lower left to give OSU a 4-1 lead.
The Buckeyes' scoring ended in the 71st minute when Mumley recorded her second assist of the match after having one of her own shots brushed aside by the goalkeeper. Shelly Besson (Jr., Kettering, Ohio/The Miami Valley School) collected the rebound and shot the ball into the net for the 5-1 lead. WSU's Kim Chianese scored in the 76th minute but the scoring ended there to give the Buckeyes a 5-2 win.
Mitchell totaled one save in the first half while halftime substitute Jen Heaney (Fr., Cincinnati, Ohio/Princeton) recorded three. Both goalkeepers allowed one goal.
OSU returns to action when Kent State comes to town for a 3 p.m. match Sunday.
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WSU- Kristin Blackwell, 4:36 (unassisted)
OSU- Lindsay Eckles, 22:23 (Emily Thorpe)
OSU- Lindsay Eckles, 31:17 (Jackie Shirer)
OSU- Lisa Grubb, 58:26 (unassisted)
OSU- Lisa Grubb, 63:28 (Liz Mumley)
OSU- Shelly Besson, 70:06 (Liz Mumley)
WSU- Kim Chianese, 76:01 (unassisted)
OSU- 1 (Mitchell), 3 (Heaney), 1 Team
WSU- 7 (Freeman)
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I was going to post this in the shrine section but I don't think it's appropriate there.
Anyway, I thought I'd share some pics of the late Nam June Paik's famous art installation, TV Buddha. The idea of a Buddha contemplating the projection of himself raises all sorts of questions about what it means to perceive, to be perceived, and the nature of perception itself.
Nam June Paik created this in the 1970s and had updated it several times. I think it really captures our contemporary situation--it certainly expresses our ocularcentrism. I especially like the last one which he created in 1994, where the Buddha's body is made up of old electronic components. I used this as my avatar on ES. I think he renamed this 'Buddha Reincarnated'. It certainly reflects our changing understanding of our physical world and bodies, now increasingly distributed in cyberspace, which is really a non-space, an empty space.
I was fortunate enough to have viewed it some years ago when his work was showcased in Brisbane. I remember being very captivated by the installation. When I viewed it I felt I was being drawn into this contemplative, reflective space. Perhaps it was the first stirrings of the Dhamma in me (this was before I got into the Dhamma seriously).


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ONEIDA -- Although there were no playoff implications in the season-ending girls soccer match between Oneida and Mount Markham Friday, the teams competed with playoff intensity.
After dominating possession for much of regulation but having nothing to show for it, the hosts took the lead in the 85th minute on Jessica Goode's goal. Under quickly darkening skies Goode beat MM keeper Angela Bartlett to a long pass from Gabi Babowicz and tapped the ball into an open net for what proved to be the game-winner in what wound up a 1-0 match.
The teams played an even first half. Both were tentative in the first 10 minutes, testing the field conditions after a very rainy afternoon. As the clouds cleared and the sun came out, the players got more aggressive. Oneida had the first scoring chance in the 11th minute when Jessica Goode tried to cross the ball to Marissa Smith. Mount Markham goalie Angela Bartlett cut off the pass before Smith could get to it.
Minutes later Oneida got its first shot on goal, but Bartlett easily handled it.
In the 21st, Ashley Roys had the Mustangs' first shot that Oneida goalie Katie Buda easily handled. Oneida took the ball down the field and Goode made a quick move to get an open shot, but she fired it right at Bartlett.
Oneida controlled possession for the remainder of the half while Buda stopped three Mustangs shots. The best save was on a shot to her left. Oneida's keeper reached out and plucked the ball out of the air with both hands.
Hannah Kuhn had Oneida's first scoring opportunity of the second half in the 46th minute, but couldn't bend her shot from the right side inside the post. Minutes later the Mustangs had a chance, but Calley Lynch and Emily Lasalle converged on MM's Heather Curtin and cleared the ball.
Goode had the hosts' next scoring chance in the 62nd minute, making a nice touch on a Lynch pass to get a clean look at the goal. Her shot from in close sailed over the crossbar.
Oneida had another chance moments later on an interesting play. A second ball came onto the field and Goode hit a cross with the game ball that Kuhn couldn't finish.
In the 69th minute, Goode beat the Mustangs' defense and had her best chance of the game, but her shot ricocheted off the far post and away from the net.
Moments later the visitors had their best chance of the second half when Erica Cornmire beat Buda to a ball near the net. Cornmire fired, but her shot went wide left of the goal. Cornmire had another shot in the 75th minute, but Buda made a sliding save to keep the match scoreless.
Mount Markham controlled possession for the final five minutes of regulation, but couldn't get a good shot off.
MM (2-6-1, 4-9-2): Saves - Angela Bartlett 4.
Oneida (1-8-1, 4-11-1): Jessica Goode 1-0. Saves - Katie Buda 8.
Stockbridge Valley 3, Otselic Valley 0
MUNNSVILLE -- Stockbridge Valley's girls soccer team was in a must win situation Friday and came through in the clutch.
Needing a win to make the Class D playoffs, the Cougars beat Otselic Valley 3-0. Dana Smith scored twice and assisted on the other goal to lead the way for coach Mark Kiser's team.
"They deserve it," Kiser said. "They played great this year. It's been 10 years since we've made it."
The Cougars finish 4-6-2 in the Central Counties league, 5-9-2 overall. OV slips to 2-10, 2-12.
OV (2-10, 2-12): Saves - Crystal Hayner 14.
Stockbridge Valley (): Dana Smith 2-1, Tiffani Jacobs 1-1, Hayley Harrington 0-1. Saves - Meriah Beauvais 2.
VERONA -- Vernon-Verona-Sherrill's girls soccer team ended the 2012 season with a 2-0 win against Waterville on Friday. Madisyn Proper and Selena Haas scored the goals while Melinda Stanton and Emily Duvall teamed for the shutout.
Waterville: Saves - Cassie Perrin 7.
VVS (4-11): Madisyn Proper 1-0, Selena Haas 1-0, Amanda Pawlikowski 0-1. Saves - Melinda Stanton 6, Emily Duvall 1.


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The last two tree sitters protesting the Willits bypass slipped away sometime in the last several days. CalTrans spokesman Phil Frisbie confirmed the roosts were empty today.
The two now-absent tree sitters established nests within weeks of the California Highway Patrol's forceful extraction of the first five Willits tree sitters April 2.
These two protesters were not in active construction areas, said Frisbie when asked why no action was taken immediately to remove them.
The first tree sitter to appear following the April 2 evictions was "Owl." This never-identified 27-year-old woman from Southern California quietly moved into her protest camp high in an oak tree the week of April 8.
"Owl" knew someone with the Willits protest group and wanted to help. "It is a privilege to be able to do this," she said. Her oak was in the southern part of the bypass, near an earlier tree sit.
Jean Weilbach, dubbed "Crow" established his tree sit in an alder above Haehl Creek. Weilbach was one of the five original tree sitters. He set up his second roost soon after "Owl" was spotted by CalTrans. He is 23 years old and the booking information from his earlier arrest listed Fort Bragg as his residence.
Save Little Lake Valley spokeswoman Sara Grusky said her group remains focused on this week's planned trip to Sacramento and was reluctant to comment about the tree sitters until next week. The group plans to visit the offices of Governor Jerry Brown, Vice-Governor Gavin Newsome, Assemblyman Wes Chesbro and state Senator Noreen Evans to urge them to stop the bypass project.
Grusky said a visit to the Department of Fish and Wildlife to urge them to force CalTrans to follow state regulations was also planned.
The group has asked the DFW to issue an order forcing "CalTrans to suspend activity on the Willits bypass project" based on a lengthy list of alleged violations of fish and wildlife regulations and permit requirements.


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Correspondence, diaries, clippings, photographs, and other material relating largely to the engineering interests of John Cresson Trautwine, Sr. (1810-83), II (1850-1924), and III (1878-1949). Papers concern railroad promotion and construction (1844-49); experiences of Trautwine, Sr., while he worked in New Granada, and conditions in that province (1844-49); engineering matters; student letters; papers relating to Samuel Ashbridge, former mayor of Philadelphia (1906), the 1912 presidential campaign, the League to Enforce Peace (1916-18), and a letter (1887) from Oliver Wendell Holmes to Mrs. Trautwine. Correspondents include William H. Balch, Clinton Lathrop Bogert, John Ripley Freeman, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Philadelphia Bureau of Water.
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Two comics performing at Wiseguys this week are from a group responsible for introducing these catch phrases into the national consciousness:I swear to God I'm going to pistol-whip the next guy who says, "Shenanigans."I'm gonna have to give you a ticket on this one. No butts, meow. It's the law. Not so funny, meow, is it? Meow.You boys like Mex-i-co? Yee-Haw!Gimme a liter of cola.If those lines don't ring a bell and aren't the least bit amusing to you then you haven't seen "Super Troopers," the film about bored highway-patrol officers in Vermont. It grossed only $23 million at the box office, but emerged as a cult-comedy classic that fans claim you don't even need to be stoned to enjoy."Super Troopers" fans will recognize Kevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme as members of the Broken Lizard Comedy Group, who also created the film "Beerfest." Heffernan played Farva in "Super Troopers" and Landfill in "Beerfest," while Lemme was Mac in "Super Troopers" and Fink in "Beerfest."The pair are in negotiations to film the anticipated sequel to "Super Troopers." On the weekends they perform stand-up, and will be making their first stand-up appearances in Utah at the West Valley City WiseGuys on Jan. 10-12.They have been to Utah before. The troupe's first film, 1996's "Puddle Cruiser," and second, 2001's "Super Troopers," were screened at the Sundance Film Festival really while 2009's "The Slammin' Salmon" debuted at the Slamdance Film Festival.Just don't ask them about Sundance or Slamdance festival memories. Lemme, 44, said in a dual phone interview that all he remembers from one festival is staying in his hotel room, getting drunk and watching the 1989 buddy-cop film "Tango & Cash" for the umpteenth time. As for Heffernan, also 44, he remembers suffering from altitude sickness. He added: "The drinking didn't help."Now planning another trip to Utah, Lemme said he wanted to snowboard, but Heffernan mock-yelled at him, "We've got work to do!"The five members of Broken Lizard met at New York's Colgate University, when Jay Chandrasekhar put together a sketch-comedy show that drew Heffernan, Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske, all members of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. The group have worked together ever since.The troupe supports Heffernan and Lemme's standup tours. In their comedy shows, each performs his own material and then the pair shares the stage to tell behind-the-scenes stories from the sets of their movies. On occasion, they're known to share a beer with the crowd. "It's always a combination of the low-brow and high-brow," Lemme said. "It is what makes us laugh."The Broken Lizard Comedy Group shares a simple, rigorous comedic standard. "To get a joke into one of our scripts, we have to impress the four other guys," Lemme said. So even if you haven't seen one of their films, go grab a liter of cola. They sell that at Wiseguys.
The Broken Lizard kingsKevin Heffernan and Steve Lemme, of the Broken Lizard Comedy Group and films such as "Super Troopers," will perform stand-up comedy sets.When • Thursday, Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, Jan. 11-12, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.Where • Wiseguys West Valley City, 2194 W. 3500 SouthTickets • $20 at wiseguyscomedy.com


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Business Week ran a story this week about Houston Mayor Annise Parker.
She told the magazine that when she first started running for office, it was as if "lesbian" was her last name.
When Craig McDaniel sat on the Dallas city council, he used to jokingly refer to himself as Craig McDaniel, F.O.G. Those initials, which stood for First Openly Gay, came from every reference to him by the Dallas Morning News, even when the story was about something completely unrelated. If the story was about the opening of the State Fair, it would have read, "Mayor Ron Kirk, council member Chris Luna and First Openly Gay Councilman Craig McDaniel were at the State Fair today…."
Parker's office forwarded me a link to the story from Business Week. After rereading my own story about Parker from last week, I noticed I used the word "lesbian" 10 times. Once was referring to Christine Quinn, who heads the New York City Council, so that doesn't count; and once referred to Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez, so neither does that one. The others were mostly quoting her, though. And I never called her "Annise Parker, Lesbian."
But during our conversation, I did ask about some of the issues she's passionate about — like fixing the flooding problems in South Houston and other infrastructure problems. And we talked about her trade mission to China.
I think I was clearer about why she actually won — most people in Houston got past the whole lesbian thing and voted for the person they thought would do the best job. Her opponent in the runoff was a good guy who would have made a decent mayor but she had a lot more experience than anyone else running and people just like her. Her approval rating has soared since the election.
I'm surprised Business Week missed one important business piece of the story — she's the only big city mayor who hasn't had to lay anyone off, mostly because she's been good at managing the budget.
She's advanced the image of gays and lesbians as being hard-working average Americans. In my talk with her she said her family and friends were surprised when she ended up running for public office because she was more of a nerdy policy wonk.
She told Business Week, "I'm a middle-aged soccer mom and I appear in public with my spouse of 20 years and my kids. It's hard to make me scary."
But the line I really love is, "I take a lot of credit for raising Houston's coolness factor."
She's right. We love Houston's mayor, but Dallas has always been much cooler.


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As the first of his two federal criminal trials approaches, agribusiness executive Scott Salyer failed on two fronts to get potential evidence suppressed.
In a Feb. 9 ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Karlton rejected a defense challenge to search warrants used by FBI agents to comb through Salyer's Pebble Beach home and company facilities in April 2008.
On Wednesday, another Sacramento federal judge said prosecutors could listen to most of more than 100 calls that were recorded between Salyer and a female attorney while he was in Sacramento County Jail. The defense contended the recordings were protected by attorney-client privilege.
But U.S. Magistrate Judge Edmund Brennan said Salyer tried to use the attorney-client privilege to protect calls with a girlfriend who knew little about Salyer's pending criminal and bankruptcy cases, but happened to be an attorney.
Salyer, the former president of SK Foods Group in Monterey, is accused by the government of running his former processed tomato company — SK Foods LLC — as a criminal racket by bribing buyers for major food companies, selling low-grade product at inflated prices and trying to rig bids and fix prices.
The defense was granted a request to split the charges between two trials, the first of which is scheduled for mid-April. A September trial is scheduled for the remaining charges — antitrust charges of price-fixing and bid-rigging.
Salyer was arrested in February 2010 after former SK Foods employees and others pleaded guilty to charges and began cooperating with prosecutors in a five-year investigation into food-industry fraud.
Salyer, free from custody on $6.3 million bond, has denied the charges and has hired top defense attorneys to fight them.
The defense contended search warrants for Salyer's home and SK Foods facilities were issued without sufficient probable cause and were too broad. But Judge Karlton said Salyer failed to show how the warrants "do not comport with the Fourth Amendment."
Salyer's challenge of a search of his Google email account, which prosecutors said was based on evidence that Salyer was attempting to flee the country to live in Europe, was rejected.
Though Salyer claimed that 112 jail-recorded calls between himself and attorney Cynthia Longoria were attorney-client communications, Judge Brennan said his review of the calls "demonstrates the opposite for the vast majority."
The judge said the calls were those of "two persons with a long-term and ongoing personal relationship."
He said during the calls they "discuss movies, books, magazines and news articles, mutual friends, family members, health, food, airplane flights, past vacations, their relationship, Salyer's relationship with others, life in general and, of course, Salyer's current problems."
Saying "salacious details" of the conversations need not be repeated, the judge said the personal nature of nearly all of the calls made it clear Longoria was acting as a supportive friend and not as Salyer's attorney.
The recorded calls show that she was not familiar with his criminal and bankruptcy cases and during one call expressed surprise at Salyer's suggestion that he hire her, the judge said.
"To do what?" she said, in a surprised tone, the judge said.
Salyer explained — if she were on his legal team, "Guess who gets to hang out with me?"
After his arrest, Salyer spent nearly eight months in jail before arranging bail in September 2010.
Larry Parsons can be reached at 646-4379 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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POLL: Which 2013 Oscar Nominee Should Make Their Broadway Debut Next?
Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2012 will be presented this Sunday, February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center on the ABC network. Don Mischer will direct the telecast for the third consecutive time. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 225 countries worldwide.
Many of this year's acting nominees already have Broadway credits to their names, including: Jessica Chastain, Hugh Jackman, Denzel Washington, Bradley Cooper, Sally Field, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alan Arkin, and more.
We want to know which nominee that has yet to make it to the Great White Way you'd like to see on stage next. Cast your vote in this week's poll below!


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Two adults are charged with culpable negligence after police say a 13-year-old was accidentally shot and killed by an 11-year-old friend who found a loaded gun in a home where five children were alone.
According to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, Trashonda Richardson, 28, and Eric Pearlman, 39, were arrested and charged Saturday night, hours after Titania Mitchell was shot and killed inside her godmother's Northside home.
Police say the 13-year-old was the oldest of five children at the home was in the home with a group of younger children in Trashonda Richardson's home on Riverstone Way about 4 p.m. No adults were in the home at the time at the time of the shooting, according to detectives investigating the homicide.
Police say the 11-year-old who found the gun was a friend of the victim and told investigators he was "just playing around" when it went off.
"He admitted to playing with the 22-caliber handgun, took it in the bedroom where she was and fired one round and struck her in the forehead," said Lt. Rob Schoonover. "She died instantly."
Police said the gun belonged to Pearlman, who told investigators it was hidden in a closet. Officer say Pearlman also had a shotgun in the bedroom.
Police said Richardson and Pearlman were charged with felony negligence for having an improperly stored firearm. Both posted $50,000 bond and were released from jail.
Superintendent Dr. Nikolai Vitti said he wants to give the school at least a day to deal with the loss.
"In an effort to comfort the students and faculty members directly affected by such an enormous tragedy, we have assigned grief counselors and related services to support them. In addition, I requested to delay the start of FCAT testing until Tuesday and the request was approved by the FDOE," said Vitti.
Lt. Rob Schoonover with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said this tragedy is a reminder of the importance of securing your weapon.
"All too often we hear about kids playing with guns and something like this tragically happening. Adults need to know that these guns need to be secured, unloaded, and put somewhere where they can't have access to kids, and in this case it appears that did not happen," said Schoonover.
John Harrell of the Department of Children and Families agrees. He said children should never handle guns without supervision.
"Children should know that if they see a gun around to tell an adult immediately and to never leave a gun unattended in reach of a child," said Harrell.
Copyright 2013 by News4Jax.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Jessie Oleson (aka Cakespy) drops by every week to share a delicious dessert recipe. —The Mgmt.
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When it comes to cream pies, you probably think along the lines of banana, coconut, or chocolate. But why limit yourself? Why not let your imagination fly high and fill your pie with delicious cupcakes?
I recently gave this pie in the sky idea a try by lining the bottom of a baked pie crust with alternating slices of cut-up vanilla and chocolate frosted cupcakes, over which I poured a rich, homemade custard filling. So what happens? As the custard sets, it absorbs some of the rich butteriness of the frosting, infusing the entire pie. As a result, the taste is kind of like cream pie meets birthday cake, in a decidedly delicious way. While some might argue that it's gilding the lily, it might interest you to know that this pie also tastes fantastic when paired with ice cream.
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We are in Charlottesville VA
A tremendous closeup effect that uses an unexpected method!
Push a RED silk into the top of your closed fist. The action causes a GREEN silk to peek out of the bottom of your fist. Remove the green silk. Your spectator thinks the red silk is still in your hand. Open your hand- it's empty!- the red silk is gone!
But wait- thre's MORE! The trick is repeated by pushing the green silk into the top of your fist, which makes a YELLOW silk come out of the bottom. Remove the yellow silk- again, your hand is empty!
Finally, the yellow silk goes into your fist, the red silk comes out the bottom, and at the end your hand is empty. COMPLETELY empty!
A great value- this trick comes with three quality 9" silks (a $6.85 value if purchased separately).
And that's all you need!Silks are 9" measured diagonally.One each of red, green, yellow.


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As Joe Girardi waits for the likes of Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez and Curtis Granderson to return from injuries, the New York Yankee manager has been filling in lineup cards with names like Travis Ishikawa, Luis Cruz and Austin Romine.
As a result, the Yankees are near the bottom of the AL in runs scored, home runs, OPS and most other offensive categories. New York is 17-18 since June 1 and is struggling to stay competitive in the rugged American Leage East.
If the team is looking to bolster its offense before the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline, it could find a willing trade partner in the Philadephia Phillies, the (New York) Daily News reports. Philadelphia is looking to dump veteran infielder Michael Young and possibly catcher Carlos Ruiz, both of whom are free agents after this season, according to the newspaper.
Young, 36, is hitting .288/.344/.411 for with 23 extra-base hits. Ruiz has played just 34 games and is hitting .266/.322/.294.
In exchange, Philadelphia is interested in Yankees reliever Joba Chamberlain, who is on a one-year contract. He is 1-0 with a 5.75 ERA in 22 appearances this season.
The Daily News points out that Young could help the Yankees fill the gap at third base until A-Rod returns (which is not a certainty) and then platoon with lefty-swinging Lyle Overbay at first base after that. And Ruiz would be an upgrade at the catcher from the meager production New York has gotten this year.


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CHINO — A restored B-17 bomber, the "Aluminum Overcast," will be on display later this month at Chino Airport this week.
Restored by the Experimental Aircraft Association, the B-17 is making more than 30 stops during the 2013 "Experience History" national tour.
EAA's Aluminum Overcast was built in 1945, but was delivered to the Army Air Corps too late to see active service in World War II. The plane was donated to the EAA Aviation Foundation in 1981 with the provision of the aircraft being maintained in airworthy condition.
The aircraft will be on display at April 30 and May 1 at the airport, 7000 Merrill Ave., Chino.
Information and costs: www.B17.org or 800-359-6217.


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N.Y.C. Cheek Glow Single Pan Blush in Outside Cafe, $1.99.
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Get an overview of this hotel5-star design luxury hotel in Paris's Opera - Grands Magasins neighborhood
Popular property highlights
New hotel in Paris Opera
W Paris - Opéra occupies an elegant Haussmann building. The first W Hotel in France is steps from the landmark Garnier Opéra House and located between the Galeries Lafayette and Le Printemps department stores.
Fitness facility
A fitness center with views of Paris as you work out. The hotel's stylish 24-hour restaurant provides food at any hour for guests.
Stylish rooms and suites
The 91 rooms and suites combine Parisian décor with original design and luxury amenities. Some rooms offer great views of the Opera Garnier. Facilities include 40-inch TVs, iPod® docking station, free WiFi, and rainforest showerheads.
Guest Highlights
- Prime spot for shopping
- Good location
- Helpful staff
W Paris - Opera
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
The Sweat® fitness center is available for all guests. Enjoy views of Paris from one of the training machines.The hotel offers services and amenities that include a 24-hour front desk, concierge desk, free WiFi throughout, valet parking, and 24-hour room service.
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 91
- Number of floors - 5
- Bar/lounge
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Luggage storage
- Restaurant
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Year Built 1870
- Conference space size (feet) - 215
- Conference space size (meters) - 20
- Number of meeting rooms - 2
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Room Amenities
- Pay movies
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Minibar
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Slippers
- Shower only
- Rainfall showerhead
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Television
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
- iPod docking station
- Room service (24 hours)
- Egyptian-cotton sheets
- Pillowtop mattress
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Rollaway/extra beds (free)
Where to Eat
Coquette - This 24-hour restaurant takes the finest local flavors and remixes them with a unique urban edge and a large serving of humor.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-out time is noon
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 12 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Free rollaway/extra beds!
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of EUR 150 per pet, per stay
- Restrictions apply
- For more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- No onsite parking is available.
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 3.30 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 18 years of age.
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: EUR 38 per person (approximately)
- Pet fee: EUR 150 per pet, per stay
- An early check-in fee will be charged
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- Paris Opera W
- W Hotel Paris Opera
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Children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section).
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The Ring Two (2005)
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Directed by: Hideo Nakata
Starring: David Dorfman, Elizabeth Perkins, Gary Cole, Kelly Stables, Naomi Watts, Simon Baker, Sissy Spacek
Continuity mistake: As Rachel is trying to get Aidan to get in the bath at Max's house, she removes the blue towel from him and throws it on the towel-rack. Then during the rest of the bathroom scene, everytime we see the blue towel in shot it is in a different position each time.
Continuity mistake: When Rachel goes in to Max's bathroom, all the water falls down from the ceiling drenching everything, but then Max comes in, and takes a dry brown towel off the rail to wrap around Aidan. Also, the white towels behind them are bone dry too.
Continuity mistake: Rachel prepares some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, then brings them into the lounge. She then takes a bite out of it. Then, when she takes the second bite, the first bite she took has gone.
Audio problem: When the deer are all grunting at Rachel and Aidan, the whistle of an elk can be heard despite the fact there are no elk in the scene.
Continuity mistake: When Rachel takes her first bite from the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, in the wideshot she is chewing her bite. Then it cuts to the closeup of her, the food is suddenly gone from her mouth.
Visible crew/equipment: When Rachel starts to climb out of the well water onto the well wall, in the closeup of her left side as she lifts herself out of the water, a long white cord/wire hangs straight down her left side from her shirt to her pants.
Continuity mistake: As Rachel is preparing the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, she places the knife on top of the open PB jar in a closeup, yet in the very next shot the knife has disappeared, the reappears again.
Continuity mistake: When Rachel is in the basement looking through the book and sees the newspaper article, if you pause the film when the article appears close up, you can read some of the article. This article has nothing to do with the title and photo caption above it, about the young girl in the bathtub, it appears to be about something political. The filmmakers assumed the article would flash by too fast for the viewer to read.
Continuity mistake: After Rachel pulls Aidan out of the bath near the end (before she face Samara) as she tries to wake him up, in one shot she places her hand on his face and shouts his name. In the next shot her hand is now on his neck.
Continuity mistake: When Rachel is talking to Aidan at dinner, the position of her hair changes a few times. In one shot she pushes her hair behind her right ear, yet in the next shot her hair is pushed behind her left ear instead.
Visible crew/equipment: When Rachel pulls up to the crime scene where Jake was killed, as she gets out of the car you can see a grid of set lights reflected in the car window door.
Continuity mistake: When Rachel is trying to get Emily to speak to her at the police station, near the end of her attempt the shots alternate from closeups to wider views. In the closeups, Emily's hair is very messy and tangled but in wider views it is much neater and straightened.
Continuity mistake: When Rachel begins to brake her car after seeing the deer on the road, as the shots keep changing the markings on the road also keep changing. In overhead shots the markings are a single broken yellow line, but in closeups of the wheels, the markings are solid double yellow lines.
Visible crew/equipment: In the shot of Rachel driving up the street with Aidan just before they arrive at their new house, the car breaks right in front of the camera for a few seconds. In this shot you can clearly see the camera reflected in the left corner of the car.
Continuity mistake: When Rachel pulls up to the old Morgan house she parks her vehicle on the gravel drive, angled into some tall grass. Yet when she leaves the house with the book, the vehicle is now parked halfway on the main road and is no longer angled (but is now much straighter) and is not facing any tall grass.
Continuity mistake: When Rachel is working in her office and Max comes in to talk to her, during the scene the direction that the coffee mugs handle faces (on Rachel's desk) keeps changing.
Continuity mistake: At the beginning of the movie when Jake sits down next to Emily with a bottle of drink and two empty glasses, after he sets them down on the table the two glasses are suddenly filled with drink, instantly between shots.
Continuity mistake: When Rachel is tucking Aidan into the bed at Max's house she puts a red blanket on him and then a brown blanket on top. Then during the next shots the red blanket goes from slightly visible to completely covered by the brown one and back again to being slightly visible.
Continuity mistake: Near the beginning, Hayden is sitting at the desk in his room and his shirt collar is wide open. His neck shows, but that's it. A moment later, when he leaves his room, and comes into the Kitchen, he wears a light grey t-shirt under the other shirt.
Continuity mistake: In the first Ring it is revealed that Samara was in fact the Morgans' daughter. They showed her birth certificate with the Morgans as the parents and then the father before killing himself yells that his wife wasn't supposed to have a child. Yet a huge part of the second movie is about how Samara is adopted and Rachel talks to her real mother in an asylum. Um... What happened to what was found out in the first film?


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'"You try and make them into something where you can just reset and get your body into a good place," he said of off days. "After back-to-back games, I just kind of felt like my legs were going. I could feel it, especially the second and third period. It's been kind of a long stretch where I'm trying to find time to maintain."'
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