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BROOKLYN, N.Y. — The first shot of Shabazz Muhammad's college career was a glimpse of what he can be. The rest of his debut on Monday night showed it will take some time before the much-heralded freshman and the rest of his UCLA teammates can reach their potential.
Muhammad scored 15 points on 5-for-10 shooting, including that first shot, a contested jumper in transition, but No. 11 UCLA could not match a veteran Georgetown team, which scored a 78-70 victory in the semifinals of the Legends Classic at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
The Bruins' loss means they will face Georgia in Tuesday's consolation game, while the Hoyas get a crack at top-ranked Indiana. That may spoil ESPN's plans to show an early-season matchup of two legendary programs ranked in the top 15, but it does not hamper UCLA's plans for a big campaign ahead.
— Indiana wins on Cody Zeller off night | Scoreboard: Monday results | Tuesday games
With Muhammad joining a lineup that includes freshmen Jordan Adams, Kyle Anderson and Tony Parker, the Bruins need time to figure things out, and they know it.
"I really wanted to get a shot at them," Muhammad said of Indiana, which pulled away late for a 66-53 win over Georgia in the first Monday game of the Legend Classic. "But we know that we're not ready yet. We're going to practice, and really get this together, and we're going to be a really good team."
Even as Muhammad entered the fray, the Bruins did not have a complete lineup, as Parker sat out with a sore back. UCLA also played most of the second half without starting forward David Wear, who injured his back when he landed hard after a pileup of bodies in the paint.
When Wear left the game, Georgetown had a 36-29 lead. Just over a minute later, it was 43-29 as the Hoyas completed a 12-0 run. The Bruins never got closer than four points the rest of the way — a margin they reached with 11:53 left on another Muhammad jumper.
Muhammad's last points of the game came with 50 seconds left, on a three-pointer with a hand in his face. That may have been the shot on which he most looked like a top NBA prospect, elevating and manipulating his body in the air to get the best angle for his shot.
By that point, it was too little, too late for the Bruins to get back into the game. Muhammad could have picked a better opponent to begin his college career against, but the Hoyas were not his choice — the NCAA made the Las Vegas product sit out the first three games of the season for receiving improper benefits in AAU ball.
"Shabazz missed, basically, the summer, from the standpoint of having a high ankle sprain that kept him out for like nine weeks," UCLA coach Ben Howland said. "So, that was unfortunate for him, and he didn't get to go with us on the trip to China, which was unfortunate."
— Get your holiday serving of college hoops; SN does the prep
Where UCLA is fortunate is that Muhammad got to play in a marquee event, which was not the case for Indiana's freshman duo of Hanner Mosquera-Perea and Peter Jurkin, both of whom are awaiting word from the NCAA on when they will be able to make their collegiate debuts and received a warm reception from the Indiana cheering section when they walked through the stands to sit behind the Hoosiers' bench during the first half of the opener.
Muhammad already has been through that, and then some, right down to having Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Flea wear a "Free Shabazz" T-shirt at Pauley Pavilion. With a full beard, NBA hype and a confident voice at a press conference podium, it's easy to forget that Muhammad is only 19 years old, with more eyes on him than he could imagine. The fact that he has handled his situation as well as anything on the court only serves to further the excitement about what he can become.
"It was really exciting getting on the court for the first time," Muhammad said. "I thought we didn't play as well as we could possibly play as a team, but just finally getting the jitters out, and getting comfortable playing college basketball for the first time, it was a good experience. Hopefully I can do better. I think I can do a lot better."
He almost certainly will, and so will the Bruins. They won't get to face Indiana on Tuesday, but it's a matchup that will have everyone's attention if it happens in the spring, not least of all because, by then, Muhammad and the rest of UCLA's freshmen will be ready for that kind of game.


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Gonzalez, Wallace, Martinez on the mend
KISSIMMEE, Fla. -- The Astros have had a relatively healthy camp, especially considering they're nearly six weeks in with one more remaining before they head to Houston. The three players dealing with nagging injuries were all on the mend Friday -- pitcher Edgar Gonzalez, infielder Brett Wallace and outfielder Fernando Martinez.
Gonzalez was struck on the back of his lower left leg by a line drive while pitching in a Triple-A game Thursday in Viera, Fla., and had to be removed after two innings. He was initially worried about the injury, but after treatment Friday morning, he felt much better.
"Yesterday was pretty bad," he said. "As soon as the ball hit me..." he continued, shaking his head. "There was pain, but before I got to bed the pain was going [away]. This morning, everything is good. I can walk and I don't even feel the pain. I feel like nothing happened."
Wallace was removed from Thursday night's game in Lakeland, Fla., for precautionary reasons after pinching a nerve in his neck/upper back while diving back to first base in the first inning. When he showed up at his locker Friday, he said he had no issues.
Martinez, meanwhile, hasn't played in several days because of tightness in his lower back. He took batting practice on Thursday and is hoping to get into a game this weekend. He's hitting .333 with one homer and five RBIs in 24 at-bats this spring.
Brian McTaggart is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Tag's Lines. Follow @brianmctaggart on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Register a settings field to a settings page and section.
This is part of the Settings API, which lets you automatically generate wp-admin settings pages by registering your settings and using a few callbacks to control the output.
This function assumes you already know the settings
$page and the page
$section that the field should be shown on.
You MUST register any options used by this function with register_setting() or they won't be saved and updated automatically.
The callback function needs to output the appropriate html input and fill it with the old value, the saving will be done behind the scenes.
The html input field's name attribute must match $option_name in register_setting(), and value can be filled using get_option().
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This is kind of funny and sad at the same time.
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This is kind of funny and sad at the same time.
"It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."
----------------- Reggie Miller
That paper was brought up and discussed several pages back... probably should have its own thread.
Lack of quality defensive stats is a glaring problem, so these new ones obtained from the newfangled camera technology are great.
But I'd be cautious about concluding anything from these stats until they've been scrutinized a bit. After all, those numbers show Bargnani to be #2 overall (after Sanders) in proximal FG% - that doesn't quite pass the smell test now, does it?
It doesn't at first glance, but looking at the other data available it makes a little more sense. Bargnani doesn't qualify for the first list (shots where the defender is within 5 feet of the basket). So the logical conclusion would be that he's not in the paint as often as other interior defenders, and therefore more of the shots where he would be proximal would be midrange or 3 point shots. Appendix 2 shows that Bargnani has one of the lowest rates recorded of being 5 feet or less from the shot attempted. So he doesn't appear to be helping off his man very much.
We also know aside from statistics that Toronto doesn't try to put Bargnani on top scorers, that Bargnani is not very good at help defense, and that he's not the type of big man to play at the rim very often. So his inclusion on that list seems to be more of a function that he's being measured by shots often by his man at the midrange level or 3 point line, while other players have more help defense situations and close to the basket shots in their data sample.
Obviously help situations and close to the basket situations are going to generally cause higher FG% against numbers. So while Bargnani's defense might be underrated, the overall data seems to suggest that it's more an unfair comparison that lets him get that high on the list.
Team source confirms RealGM report that C's have signed Shavlik Randolph to a 10-day deal.— Chris Forsberg (@ESPNForsberg) March 1, 2013
Which is exactly why new stats need to be properly understood. If there's such an easy way to game this stat, then it's not very informative isn't it?
Your interpretation of Appendix 2 doesn't bode well for Tyler Hansbrough, since he leads the league in that category But as you say, different situations could end up in similar looking stats, which cuts down considerably on its utility. Someone needs to find a better way of filtering/combining the available data.
Lots of action tonight around us. Heat, Nets, Knciks, Celtics and Hawks all playing. Let's start this month off with a road W.
So, uh, I wish we had known about this before we played the Warriors this year...
I doubt that we'd do it.....but Aaron Brooks is now a FA.
It's official. The Sacramento Kings have bought out Aaron Brooks, sources close to the point guard confirm.
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
Unless there's a personality issue I'm not aware of, I would love to see us go after Aaron Brooks in place of DJ Augustine.
Definitely, and I don't even think he's any good. At the deadline I sort of wondered if Sacto'd do Augustin for him straight up but didn't want to because Brooks had a 3mil player option for next year and he's not worth keeping. But I'd definitely do it now.
I always thought Brooks was a better version of DC, not sure the Pacers would be his first choice though, NY should be all over him I think.
Brooks is going to Houston
Ash from Army of Darkness: Good...Bad...I'm the guy with the gun.
Conley has become such an average point guard, he has that unclutch DC thing in him, I wouldn't trade Hill for him, he is soft as a baby a** too.
Don't tell him Amaechi used to suit up in that same locker room.
Spurs say guard Tony Parker is expected to be out for approximately four weeks with a Grade 2 left ankle sprain.— Marc J. Spears (@SpearsNBAYahoo) March 2, 2013
Is Russell Westbrook a dog or a cat?
LOL @ Harden's answer.
Marc J. Spears @SpearsNBAYahoo
Cavaliers have waived guard Josh Selby.
"Nobody wants to play against Tyler Hansbrough NO BODY!" ~ Frank Vogel
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen. "
Bosh is frustrating tonight. Not only he seems to settle for that mid range shot (if only he made those shots) and also being allergic to the paint, he hasn't grabbed a single rebound. Knicks will get that unfortunately.
this heat knicks game is amazing
Wow. Not only did JR Smith completely stink it up in the 4th quarter today, but he is now acting like a complete punk on twitter. What a waste of space.
An ya mom after! RT @mo*****esent: You blew the game bro RT @therealjrsmith: So anyway off to Cleveland!— JR Smith (@TheRealJRSmith) March 3, 2013
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Change is neither good or bad, it simply is.
Ibaka is getting kicked out.
What a game OMG.


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A Second Language for Everyone
Worldwide, millions of people speak Esperanto. Thousands of books are in print in Esperanto, both translated and original works. There are over a hundred periodicals regularly published in Esperanto.
The International Language that works!
Every year, our world seems smaller. Ships carry a thousand items between countries. Jets carry passengers across oceans and around the world. Satellites bring us live television coverage from Europe and Asia. Every year, Americans in every walk of life communicate more and more with people of other countries.
One barrier remains...
As a result of this tremendous increase in contacts with the outside world, Americans are realizing that there is still a major barrier to international communication -- the language barrier!
Americans have long heard the cliche that "Wherever you go, people speak English." In fact, at most ten percent of the world speaks English! Often, in other countries, only people in the best hotels of the largest cities can use English, and even they are often not very fluent. Anyone who has visited a foreign country and struggled with the language barriers understands this. Americans are at last discovering what the rest of the world has long known: there is a real need for an international language.
Fortunately, there is such a language...
Its name is Esperanto. It was created by Dr. Ludwig L. Zamenhof, a Polish physician, who published it in 1887. Since then, Esperanto has been learned by millions. Of the many projects and proposals for an international language over the centuries, Esperanto is the only one that has stood the test of time and is being spoken today. It is in daily use by many thousands of people all over the world, and the number is growing constantly.
Many international meetings are held in Esperanto. Books and magazines are published by the thousands to meet the demands of an international public. Some of the largest international firms put on special advertising campaigns in Esperanto. Hotels, restaurants and tourist resorts compete for the patronage of the Esperanto-speaking traveler.
Esperanto's impressive success as the language of international communication is due to three basic advantages. It is easy to learn. It is politically neutral. And it has many practical uses.
Esperanto is easy...
Esperanto is much easier to learn than any other language. In fact, it can be learned in a quarter of the time needed to learn a national language! The spelling is easy: each letter has exactly one sound. The pronunciation is easy: there are no strange combinations of letters to create new sounds, and the accent is always on the next to last syllable. The grammar is easy: there are only sixteen basic rules, with no exceptions. (That means, for example, that there are no irregular verbs.) The vocabulary is easy, too: many international words are used, such as telefono (telephone), biologio (biology), and matematiko (mathematics). Esperanto gives a very "natural" impression in spoken or written use; and, because of its high ratio of vowels to consonants, it is often said to resemble Spanish or Italian.
Esperanto also uses prefixes, suffixes, and interchangeable endings to reduce the number of words to be learned. For example, in English we make the words friendly, unfriendly, and friendship from the root word friend. Esperanto carries this idea much further, making the vocabulary easier to learn.
In short, Esperanto has been rationally constructed for ease of learning. This has made it especially popular with busy men and women who cannot spend years learning a foreign language, which would be useful in only a small part of the world. Because of these features, Esperanto is attractive as an introduction to other foreign language studies. In the Hawaiian schools, for example, the study of Esperanto is a basic part of that state's innovative English program.
Esperanto is neutral...
The second major reason for Esperanto's success is that it is neutral. It belongs to no one country. Many people in America and England say that English is already spoken so widely and is such an "important" language in the world that it should be officially adopted by all nations as the international language. This view is very unpopular in many countries.
This attitude is not merely because English is one of the most difficult languages to learn. The newer nations of Africa and Asia are very reluctant to accept English (or any major language) for international communication because of the political overtones. For example, the countries of the former Soviet bloc would not want to use English as an official international language, just as we would be reluctant to accept Russian in that role (as some Soviet publicists have actually suggested).
The Western nations have also shown their sensitivity to questions of linguistic equality. Quebec has rejected English as its official language; the Common Market nations insist on using all their languages in Brussels; the UN spends tens of millions of dollars every year translating into five official languages and into fifteen for UNESCO!
Esperanto is not the property of any one nation, group of nations, or social class. It belongs to everyone. It has no political or historical implications to hinder its acceptance. Every person who uses Esperanto is on an equal linguistic footing with all other Esperantists. Esperanto's popularity in smaller nations and in Asian countries, such as Japan, is largely due to this neutrality. This promotes a spirit of friendship and brotherhood among Esperantists which is quite impressive to everyone who sees it in use.
Esperanto is practical...
Esperanto offers exceptional practical advantages. Coordinating these advantages is the worldwide organization, the Universal Esperanto Association.
The UEA, from its headquarters in Rotterdam, maintains a network of over 1,900 representatives in 90 countries, sponsors many international activities, and issues a Yearbook containing the addresses of its representatives and information on current international activities. There are several dozen international professional associations including, for example, teachers, scientists, journalists, doctors, and lawyers. These groups sponsor meetings, publish journals, and otherwise promote the technical use of Esperanto. Other international organizations serve the interests of Esperantists who share the same religious affiliation -- such as Catholics, Protestants, Quakers, Buddhists, Bahai's -- or who share a hobby, such as stamp collecting, bicycling, or chess.
...for travel
Travelers who know Esperanto are not confined to talking with a few people who cater to tourists. By writing to an Esperanto representative in each place they visit, they can be sure of being met and helped. Wherever they go, they know they will find friends who speak the same language and share common interests. They will meet and talk with the people of the country, instead of merely looking at its monuments. At international meetings where Esperanto is used, they can be sure of clear and animated discussions as well as friendly conversations in corridors, lobbies, and nearby cafes, free of earphones and interpreters.
...for correspondence
Through Esperanto you get to know other countries and their people without ever leaving home. Books and magazines in Esperanto bring the news and culture of other countries to your door. And, through friendly correspondence with people in other countries, you can broaden your horizons and learn more about the world. Many Esperantists correspond with those abroad who share their hobbies, others on topics of professional interest. Many seek to learn about foreign customs and how other people live.
A scientifically constructed language
Some people ask, "But isn't Esperanto an artificial language?" Of course it is. So is every language in the world. The word "artificial" means "made by human beings," and every language has been created by human beings. The difference between Esperanto and other languages is that Esperanto was scientifically designed to do a special job -- the job of international communication -- and it does that job superbly.
Esperanto and the UN
In October 1966, the UEA presented the Secretary General of the United Nations with a proposal recommending that the UN solve the language problem by supporting use of the International Language, Esperanto. The petition was signed by almost a million individuals and by 3,843 organizations representing 71 million more people from all over the world. Today, an Esperanto office operates across the street from the UN, staffed by a professional linguist and several volunteers.
Esperanto and You
The national Esperanto group in the United States of America is Esperanto USA (E-USA). In Canada, the Canadian Esperanto Association (CEA) performs the same tasks of providing information, assisting local groups, organizing classes and annual conventions, and cooperating with the UEA. For more information about books, records, membership, and classes, contact:
P.O. Box 1129
El Cerrito CA 94530, USA
(800) 377-3726 or
(510) 653-0998
In Canada, contact:
P.O. Box 2159
Sidney BC CANADA V8L 3S6
For information about Esperanto in Mexico:
Apartado Postal 10576
Col. Centro
México DF, 06000
Esperanto does not aim at replacing the existing national languages; but it overcomes the present linguistic chaos by serving as a neutral instrument of international communication for all.
- Structure:
- The core grammar of Esperanto consists of only 16 rules, with no exceptions. In spite of this simplicity, Esperanto can express the finest shades of meaning.
- Vocabulary:
- The word roots in Esperanto have been taken from many national languages according to the principle of maximum internationality. Thus, many of them are already known to people of all nations. Many words -- an average of ten to fifteen, but sometimes as many as fifty -- may be formed from one root. This building block approach helps make Esperanto easy to learn.
- Technical vocabularies:
- More than 125 technical dictionaries and vocabularies in some fifty branches of science, philosophy, technology, and handicrafts have been published in Esperanto.
- Literature:
- Esperanto literature includes translated and original novels, short stories, plays, poems, scientific works and dissertations. The library of the British Esperanto Association contains over 30,000 items in Esperanto.
- The UEA has consultative relations with UNESCO. By the Resolution of December 10th, 1954, the General Conference of UNESCO recognized that the results achieved by Esperanto in intellectual exchanges and in bringing people together are in accordance with the aims and ideals of UNESCO; that is, Esperanto contributes to international cooperation in the fields of education, science, and culture.
- Magazines:
- Various magazines and literary, scientific, professional and religious reviews in Esperanto are published regularly in all parts of the world.
- Radio:
- Over a dozen radio stations, including stations in Peking, Rome, Valencia, Warsaw, Havana, Vienna and the Vatican, regularly broadcast in Esperanto, for a total of over fifteen hundred hours a year.
- Conventions and conferences:
- Every year an increasing number of conventions, conferences, courses and study groups use Esperanto as their working language. In 1983 about 12,000 people attended international meetings using Esperanto exclusively.
- Esperanto organizations:
- The Universala Esperanto-Asocio (Universal Esperanto Association) has members in over a hundred countries; there are at least 53 affiliated national organizations; more than 70 professional international associations; a workers' association; and more than 1250 clubs and societies in the world. Moreover, 1,900 delegates and specialty delegates in all countries are at the service of Esperantists.
- Local groups:
- If you live in a large city, check your phone book for a nearby Esperanto association. These groups can provide lessons, books, and practice sessions. There are several local groups in the United States.
- Instant Messaging:
- Many Esperantists around the world are using instant messaging to communicate in Esperanto, both as text and as audio. In fact many Esperantists are using the free instant messaging program Skype for this purpose.
Learn Esperanto! Use it in your professional work, in your travels, in your international relationships!
Test your language ability
Inteligenta persono lernas la lingvon Esperanto rapide kaj facile. Esperanto estas la moderna, kultura lingvo por la tuta mondo. Simpla, fleksebla, belsona, ĝi estas la praktika solvo de la problemo de universala interkompreno. Esperanto meritas vian seriozan konsideron. Lernu la internacian lingvon Esperanto.
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An intelligent person learns the language Esperanto rapidly and easily. Esperanto is the modern, cultural language for the whole world. Simple, flexible, musical, it is the practical solution for the problem of universal mutual understanding. Esperanto deserves your serious consideration. Learn the international language Esperanto.


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Welcome to the south, welcome to Charlotte! This thriving city is the largest in North Carolina and everyone who books a flight to Charlotte falls for the charm of that true 'southern hospitality' from the moment they arrive.
It is one of America's major financial centres, but also has plenty of history and culture to offer visitors who fly to Charlotte, looking for a location that's a little off the beaten track and away from the usual Eastern US tourist destinations of New York, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and Boston.
To learn more about the history of the city and the region in general during your trip to Charlotte, head for the Levine Museum of the New South. This interesting museum focuses not on the usual Civil War period, but on the later days of North Carolina, from sharecropping to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
One of the most popular and unusual attractions is Discovery Palace on N Tryon Street. This eclectic science emporium allows visitors to get up close and personal with a giant eyeball, wander through a rainforest, or try liquid nitrogen ice cream! If you prefer something a little more refined, then the Mint Museum of Art is a must see, with a collection of historic maps and American art.
The Afro-American Cultural Centre plays host to everything from Jazz evenings to poetry readings, and also has interesting exhibitions charting the history of African-Americans in the South.
If there's one thing that's 'big' in the southern states, it's NASCAR! Races take place at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, just outside Charlotte. If you want to get a true taste of the south then a visit to a race is the best way to immerse yourself in southern culture. If you're not there during a race, then you can check out the Hendrick Motorsports Complex, a free museum where you can learn about one of the most successful racing teams in NASCAR history.
Other major sports teams include the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League and the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball League.
Those who feel a little more adventurous during their trip to Charlotte can try white water rafting at the US National Whitewater Center – a 400-acre site custom-built to provide adrenaline seekers with a thrilling rafting experience.
Music is important to Carolinians, and the city has plenty of venues to check out, offering everything from jazz and blues to modern American folk.
You'll discover during your travels to Charlotte that the food is similar to the rest of the southern states, with 'grits' (ground corn that's similar to porridge), yams (sweet potatoes) and greens featuring on most menus. One strange anomaly of Charlotte dining is that you will find a disproportionately high number of Greek dishes on the menus, as many of the older restaurants in the city are owned by Greek families who emigrated to Charlotte over the past few generations.
One of the most interesting ways to experience Charlotte's rich culinary offerings (and to burn off a few calories on the way) is to take a cycling food tour!
As with most American cities, there are plenty of Malls to choose from, including the Metropolitan Midtown, which is the redeveloped Charlottetown Mall.
If you fancy getting away from the ubiquitous malls during your travels to Charlotte, then head for the districts of Dilworth and Plaza-Midwood for a more eclectic mix of boutique shopping and independent retailers. East Blvd is good for high-end goods, while Thomas Street is the place to hunt out a few bargains.
Flights to Charlotte arrive at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, on the west side of the town. Special bus services (Sprinters) run into the city centre.
Visa restrictions for entry into the country will depend on your country of origin, length of stay and whether your trip is for business or pleasure. So before you fly to Charlotte please check the visa and passport requirements.
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Hi, I am from India and huge fan of Nigella's. I love the easy and simple recipes she makes and my all-time favourite is the No-Churn Coffee Ice Cream. Unfortunately to date I have not been successful in making it. I don't have a Kitchen Aid at home so can I use a food processor or a hand blender? Also in India we don't get double cream so how can I substitute it? Finally I used Nestle sweetened condensed milk but should I have used some other type? Thanks, Debashree.
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Nigella's No-Churn Coffee Ice Cream (from Nigellissima and also on Nigella's website) is a popular recipe and unfortunately some of the ingredients in the recipe can vary from country to country. The good news is that Nestle sweetened condensed milk is the correct type to use, or you can use another brand as long as it is sufficiently sweetened.
The double cream poses the biggest problem for substitutions. You do need to use a cream that can whip and usually you need to look for a cream with a fat content of around 35%. We understand that this can be difficult to find in India. There is Amul cream but we also understand that this has a low fat content (around 20%) and can be very difficult to whip. There are some websites giving advice on how to whip Amul cream, but it does seem that results can vary. You may also try looking around to find a local cream product with a sufficiently high fat content to whip successfully.
If you can find whipping cream then we suggest whipping the cream to soft peaks first, then whisking in the remaining ingredients. We would not use a food processor as this will not incorporate sufficient air into the mixture. You could try the hand blender, particularly if it has a whisk attachment, or a hand-held electric mixer would work as well.
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Hair disorders is a broad category that includes the following conditions:
Hair disorders are accompanied by the following signs and symptoms, depending on the type:
Hair disorders can be caused by any of the following:
People with the following conditions or characteristics are at risk for developing hair disorders:
If you have symptoms associated with a hair disorder, you should see your health care provider. A physical exam can help identify the type of hair disorder, and laboratory tests can reveal any underlying diseases. In the case of hirsutism, imaging may help diagnose the cause.
Eating a well-balanced diet and avoiding potentially damaging hair treatments can help prevent some types of hair loss.
The primary goals of treatment are to treat the underlying cause, regrow the hair when possible, and correct damaging grooming practices.
Your health care provider may prescribe the following medications:
Hair shaft disorders:
A comprehensive treatment plan for hair disorders may include a range of complementary and alternative therapies.
Following these nutritional tips may help reduce symptoms:
You may be able to address nutritional deficiencies with the following supplements:
Herbs may help strengthen and tone the body's systems. As with any therapy, you should work with your health care provider before starting treatment.
You may use herbs as dried extracts (capsules, powders, teas), glycerites (glycerine extracts), or tinctures (alcohol extracts). Unless otherwise indicated, make teas with 1 tsp. herb per cup of hot water. Steep covered 5 - 10 minutes for leaf or flowers, and 10 - 20 minutes for roots. Drink 2 - 4 cups per day. You may use tinctures alone or in combination as noted.
For alopecia and hair shaft disorders:
Topical applications of essential oils may benefit skin infections and stimulate new hair growth. Use 3 - 4 drops each of peppermint (Mentha piperita), rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis), and sage (Salvia officinalis) in 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil or olive oil. Massage gently into affected area 1 - 2 times daily. If using topical medications such as Minoxidil consult your health care provider regarding possible interactions between topical natural products.
For hirsutism:
Although few studies have examined the effectiveness of specific homeopathic therapies, professional homeopaths may consider the following remedies for the treatment of gastritis symptoms (such as nausea and vomiting) based on their knowledge and experience. Before prescribing a remedy, homeopaths take into account your constitutional type -- your physical, emotional, and psychological makeup. An experienced homeopath assesses all of these factors when determining the most appropriate treatment.
Some of the most common remedies include Ignatia, Pulsatilla, and Sepia. Acute dose is 3 - 5 pellets of 12X to 30 C every 1 - 4 hours until symptoms are relieved.
Acupuncture may help alleviate symptoms of hair loss. Acupuncture may help enhance immune function, normalize digestion, and address disease conditions.
Although not all abnormal hair loss is associated with stress, psychological stress can alter thyroid and sex hormone levels in the body, potentially leading to hair loss. Yoga, prayer, guided imagery, and a variety of other methods may help retrain your body's response to stress. Group support can also be a vital component of any stress reduction plan and can have measurable physiological impact.
Techniques such as yoga, meditation, and counseling may be helpful.
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From what I can gather, it's not official, but close. It's a good move to fill in the slot if need be. Stokely will be coming back, but we don't know about Clark yet. So, Proehl is a good guy to have on the roster, a good veteran with pretty good hands.
Only question I have is this: where are the diamond in the rough defensive guys? Getting Booger was a good move, but there's got to be more we can do to bolster the D. Instead, we sign another offensive piece. I understand why, and I like the move; but it seems like defense would be the first place we'd look to spend any more money.


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SHELLEY Rudman was there during its cash-strapped embryonic days but the Pewsey slider believes British Skeleton is well placed to continue its domination on ice up to the next Winter Olympics in 2018.
The three-time Olympian, now well in to her second decade as a Great Britain skeleton athlete, has progressed from being one of the early sel-funded trail-blazers to an experienced member of a med-winning set-up that boasts multi-million pound funding.
Teammate Lizzy Yarnold's gold medal triumph at the recent Sochi Games, following that of Amy Williams in Vancouver four years ago, underlined the strength of the sport in this country – Great Britain being the only nation with no ice track to ever lay claim to an Olympic sliding gold medal.
Those successes built on the bronze of Alex Coomber at Salt Lake City in 2002 and Rudman herself four years later in 2006, Yarnold actually emerging from the Girls4Gold talent ID programme launched by the Wiltshire woman and Olympic gold medal-winning cyclist Victoria Pendleton six years ago.
Rudman said: "The British women have medalled at every event since it became part of the programme in Salt Lake City.
"All of the medal successes so far have enabled the sport to receive more funding for the following Olympic cycles.
"Hopefully this will continue and the sport will support the next generation of youngsters to come through.
"It's evolved greatly since I first started, and it's now a great sport to be involved with.
"We didn't have alot of depth in the women's field in skeleton and Girls4gold was launched by myself and Victoria Pendleton to attract a range of females who would then be talent ID'd and filtered into a sport which they would be best suited to, then fast tracked through to target an Olympic gold medal.''
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POLICE are reminding people to make sure gifts and new goods bought for Christmas and in the January sales are security coded.
Wayne Cooke, harm reduction inspector for West Mercia Police, is urging people to write their post code on items with an ultra-violet pen, take a note of the make and model and serial number of the goods and record any marks on items.
They are also asked to take photographs of particularly valuable or unusual goods, make sure insurance policies are up-to-date - and to register items on free national property register www.immobilise.com to help police return them if they are stolen and later recovered.
Insp Cooke said: "After the festive season houses are full of brand new things, making them a potential Aladdin's cave for burglars; but if people take a few moments to postcode their property it will help trace the goods if you are unfortunate enough to be burgled.
"Marking property also acts as a deterrent to would be thieves. If they know your belongings have been marked they are more likely to look elsewhere because if they are caught in possession of property which the police can prove has been stolen it will mean more trouble for them."
As well as marking items with an ultra-violet pen, people can also use forensic marking products to mark property with a special code which is unique to the owner, allowing property to be easily identified.
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'Barefoot Contessa' Ina Garten to Appear at PlayhouseSquare, 3/12
The Barefoot Contessa, New York Times No. 1 Bestselling author and Food Network Host Ina Garten will appear at PlayhouseSquare on March 12, 2013, with fellow New York Times bestselling author Michael Ruhlman as host.
"A Conversation with Ina Garten" takes place at PlayhouseSquare's State Theatre for one 8 pm show, Tues., March 12. Tickets on sale at the Ticket Office, playhousesquare.org or 216-241-6000 for $75, $65, $45 & $10 Smart Seats.
While working for President Carter as a White House nuclear budget analyst in 1978, Ina Garten saw an advertisement in the New York Times for a specialty food store in Westhampton, New York. The next day, she and her husband Jeffrey drove up to see the small store. Two months later, to her surprise, she had left her White House position and was now the owner of a 400-square-foot food store called "Barefoot Contessa." Her dream of working in the food business had become a reality.
Eighteen years later, the Barefoot Contessa had moved and grown to a 3,000-square-foot store in East Hampton, New York, and Ina decided it was time to shake things up. She sold the store to her chef and manager to try her hand writing cookbooks. The first book, The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, (1999) became one of the bestselling cookbooks of the year!
She has since gone on to write seven more phenomenally successful cookbooks: Barefoot Contessa Parties!; Barefoot Contessa Family Style; Barefoot in Paris; Barefoot Contessa at Home; Barefoot Contessa Back to Basics; Barefoot Contessa, How Easy is That?; and her current offering, released last fall, Barefoot Contessa , Foolproof. Ina has also been a monthly columnist at House Beautiful , and, in prior years, at Martha Stewart Living, and "O", the Oprah magazine.
In 2002 Food Network approached Ina to create a cooking show based on her cookbooks and her love of entertaining. Initially she was reluctant but decided to challenge herself to do 13 shows. That was 11 years ago, and her Emmy- winning cooking show, Barefoot Contessa, is one of the highest-rated shows on Food Network.
In 2005, Ina, with her friend and business partner Frank Newbold, started a company called Barefoot Contessa Pantry, which produces the highest quality baking mixes for distribution to thousands of specialty food and gift stores around the country.
Ina makes her home in East Hampton, New York with her husband, Jeffrey, a Finance & Business professor at the Yale University School of Management and Chairman of Garten Rothkopf, a global consulting firm.


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Hybrid cloud architectures sound complex. In this two-part blog series, we seek to eliminate some of the confusion by digging deeper into the common characteristics of hybrid cloud architectures. Over the course of this series, we'll define the hybrid cloud and highlight its five key architectural attributes to give you and your business a better understanding of why a hybrid cloud is the best fit for your workloads.
In the first installment, we talked about what the hybrid cloud is and highlighted the first two common characteristic of hybrid clouds: legacy application architectures and large-scale cloud consumption. In this second installment, we showcase the next three common characteristics of hybrid cloud architectures: performance optimization; security requirements; and corporate policy, compliance and SLAs.
3. Performance Optimization
Amid the many benefits of public cloud and virtualization there will always be the virtualization overhead of hypervisors orchestrating the timing and access from logical systems to the physical resources. In cloud application architectures consumers are forced to compensate for this by over provisioning resources, which becomes costly at scale. It makes sense for an intermittent resource requirement, but little sense if this is a continuous or near-continuous workload. In the case of extreme performance and modern hardware architectures, there are some incredible workloads that can be handled by a well designed physical server where an application can achieve 100 percent of that server's capabilities without penalty. In other cases, it simply makes better sense to have a private cloud deployment where virtualization is still present, but you have the flexibility to design your instance resource requirements to match the application's specific needs, be it high VCPU to small memory footprints or vice versa. In either case, there is still much to be said for the flexibility that customization affords an application with extreme performance requirements. Achieving the same levels of performance in any public cloud setting is at scale without having to over provision to compensate appropriately.
Blog: The Value of True Dedicated Computing
4. Security Requirements
Security is always a hot topic with cloud, and any multi-tenant solution in general. Security should be considered at every layer of a cloud application, and while we believe pure cloud applications can be secure when handled with care, a hybrid cloud is often the answer people are looking for to address security concerns. When a multi-tenant solution is not acceptable to your business, due to the data you manage or the clientele you serve, you can abstract the sensitive portions of your workload into a dedicated hosted environment with whatever technology best suits your needs, for example bare metal, private OpenStack clouds or VMware. You can still use low latency connectivity into the public cloud from your dedicated environment for areas of your application or web properties that do not require security controls that are as stringent. In addition, in a hybrid cloud using Rackspace RackConnect, all of your ingress and egress traffic flows through your dedicated network environment, which makes it easy to use industry leading network-based security solutions like Imperva Web Application Firewalls or Alert Logic Intrusion Detection Systems and Web Security Modules. This architecture gives you the ability to segregate your most sensitive workloads onto your dedicated environment and also provides the ability to monitor traffic as it traverses your dedicated environment to your public cloud environment.
WhitePaper – Reference Architecture: Enterprise Security for the Cloud
5. Corporate Policy, Compliance And SLAs
Last but not least, especially for the largest of enterprises, cloud adoption is a long journey that involves more than developing new applications suited for the cloud. Internal policies and processes must evolve to support cloud adoption. While this may be the least desirable state of cloud computing to discuss, it's real, and a hybrid cloud architecture plays a major role in helping bridge the gap in cloud adoption for large enterprises that are thoughtfully (read: slowly) evolving their policies to permit such activity. The network layer is often one of the hardest layers in the infrastructure to adopt change amid an array of suitable and approved architectures driven by pre-established best practices and policies that require adherence to said best practices. In these cases we have seen many organization meet their needs by leveraging traditional dedicated network architectures coupled with highly available firewalls, load balancers and security appliances tied directly into public cloud resources, perhaps with no dedicated servers deployed at all. This traditional network architecture can satisfy the deployment requirements while still granting developers and operations teams the on-demand access to cloud resources as they desire.
Hybrid With Rackspace RackConnect
One of the many ways Rackspace differentiates itself with hybrid cloud architectures is through the use of our proprietary technology known as RackConnect. RackConnect provides low latency intra-datacenter connectivity between your dedicated hosting infrastructure and Rackspace Public Cloud resources. In addition to connectivity, RackConnect leverages automation to help your workload scale. Many of the hybrid cloud solutions throughout the industry are hampered by speed of light limitations that make application architecture challenging, while RackConnect enables a single application to take advantage of traditional and cloud hosting technologies.
Resource: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/hybrid/rackconnect/
Applications have varying requirements and no one technology may fit all those needs; from legacy application architecture, to large scale growth, high performance characteristics, data sensitivity and policy adherence. The best way to truly meet all these needs is through a hybrid cloud strategy. But don't just listen to us, our customers and trusted industry analyst agree:
"The flexibility of a hybrid offering with rich cloud services enables us to bring our product to market and innovate faster. The Rackspace infrastructure is an enabler, never a constraint." -Aaron Rankin, CTO and Co-Founder, Sprout Social
"Hybrid IT is the new IT and it is here to stay….Hybrid IT creates symmetry between internal and external IT services that will force an IT and business paradigm shift for years to come." -Chris Howard, Managing Vice President, Gartner
"Hybrid is the end-state. A lot of people say 'the end state is cloud' I don't buy that at all… It is about creating the right architecture to support the application and the evolution of the application over time." -James Staten, Vice President & Principal Analyst, Forrester
Rackspace is uniquely positioned as a leader in the hybrid cloud movement as evidenced in its track record as a pure hosting provider. With 15 years of managed hosting experience and as a founder of the largest open source cloud project, OpenStack, Rackspace's commitment has positioned it to be your trusted advisor during your journey to the hybrid cloud.


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Atlanta -- A report released Tuesday by First Data Corp. found that dollar volume growth rebounded in January, improving to 6.2% versus 4% in December despite the payroll tax increase.
The First Data SpendTrend report, which tracks same-store consumer spending by credit, signature debit, PIN debit, EBT, closed-loop prepaid cards and checks at U.S. merchant locations, found that improved retail spending was a large contributor to the January growth.
Retailers experienced a healthy rebound in spending as consumers increased discretionary spending during the start of the year. Retail dollar volume growth was the highest growth seen since August 2012. Dollar volume growth in building material & garden equipment & supply dealers and sporting goods, hobby, book & music stores were key contributors to the retail growth.
Average ticket growth of 0.9%, an eight-month high, was a significant improvement versus December. Retail average tickets saw the highest growth seen in over a year as promotional activity by retailers curtailed and shoppers showed an increased propensity to spend more. Sporting goods, hobby, book & music stores in particular saw the largest average ticket growth.
"Consumers showed a willingness to spend despite an increase in payroll taxes. The growth was supported by a number of factors including the short-term resolution of the fiscal cliff scenario, growth in jobs, continued improvement in the housing market and the rising stock market," said Rikard Bandebo, VP and economist, First Data. "However, merchants will undoubtedly keep a close eye on consumer sentiment in the coming months to determine if shoppers will maintain increased spending as the full impact of the payroll tax hike may not be felt until February or even later out."


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- One ticket to the Magnetic Music Festival
- When: Saturday, April 20, at 1 p.m.
- Where: KSU Sports and Recreation Park
- Gates open: from 1 p.m.–11 p.m.
- Ticket values include all fees. No refunds for purchasers under ages stated in each option.

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- $50 for general admission (up to an $81 value)
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- Access to private VIP only lounges and viewing decks
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- $130 for Gold VIP admission (up to a $175.75 value)
- Separate, hassle-free VIP entrance and VIP will-call box office
- Access to private VIP only lounges and viewing decks
- VIP gift bag with exclusive festival t-shirt and poster
- Commemorative VIP laminate and lanyard
- Free VIP parking across from the main entrance
- Ages 18+ only and no refunds for those under 18

Magnetic Music Festival
The Magnetic Music Festival features some of the biggest electronic music artists in the world at the KSU Sports and Recreation Park for a daylong dance party. A joint production of Liquified and Donnie Disco Presents, two of the most revered pioneers of the EDM scene, the festival immerses audiences in a full-on audio-visual experience with a barrage of lasers, LEDs, video-mapped stage designs, and the entrancing sounds of 30 famed DJs on three stages. Click here to view the full line-up.

Festival Highlights
Kid Cudi – Hip-hop hero, producer, actor, and cult favorite unveils new tracks from latest album Indicud
Flux Pavilion – British Dubstep DJ and producer behind huge hit tracks such as "I Can't Stop" and "Daydreamer"
Dash Berlin – Famed Dutch trance guru voted the "Number 7 Top DJ in the World" by DJ Mag
Zeds Dead – Canadian bass, dubstep, and electro house staple of the EDM circuit
Markus Schulz – German trance producer whose remixes of Jewel's "Stand" and "Intuition" hit #1 on the Billboard club chart
Adventure Club – Canadian former pop-punkers turned dubstep duo seen at the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas
Flosstradamus – Popular Chicago hip hop and EDM DJ duo seen at Coachella, Lollapalooza, and the Rothbury Music Festival
Third Party – UK DJ duo pump progressive British house and trance
Cazzette – Swedish dub house DJ duo behind the Hype Machine number one hit remix of Adelle's "Fire in the Rain"
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For first-year students, qualification for a merit scholarship is based on undergraduate academic records, Law School Admission Test scores, probability of superior scholarship in the School of Law and potential for leadership in the legal profession. Scholarships are automatically renewed for the second and third year at Washington and Lee School of Law as long as a student maintains good academic standing and a standard of behavior representative of a prospective member of the legal profession. We expect to make our first round of merit scholarship awards by mid-January. Thereafter, awards are made periodically throughout the remainder of the admissions cycle.
We typically make our first round of scholarship awards in mid-January, and applicants whose files are completed by December 31 will receive full consideration for merit-based scholarships. Application files completed after December 31 will be considered for merit-based scholarship assistance to the extent funds remain available. After the first round of scholarship awards, which occurs around mid-January, scholarship notification can be expected two to three weeks after admission.
While we do encourage applicants to complete their applications by December 31 in order to be eligible for merit scholarship consideration, this is not a hard deadline. We make scholarship awards throughout the entire admissions cycle, but have less money with which to work with each successive month. Consequently, though the chances of you receiving a scholarship award are much better the earlier you complete your application, it is nevertheless possible to receive a scholarship even if you do not complete your application until after December 31st. As with many other aspects of the law school application process, the sooner you can complete your application the better.


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Clinigen appointed Hospira (NYSE: HSP - News) to distribute Foscavir to US patients on an emergency supply basis in September 2011. Now that FDA approval has been received, Hospira has the exclusive rights to market, promote and distribute Foscavir in the US pursuant to the License and Distribution Agreement executed by Hospira and Clinigen in July 2011.
Peter George, chief executive of Clinigen Group, commented: "Since we acquired global rights to Foscavir, a mature brand from AstraZeneca, in March 2010 our growth strategy for the product has included work on its price, the label and its availability in different geographical markets. We've already established good penetration across Europe, but because we didn't initially have a US license, the country's contribution to overall Foscavir sales has been relatively modest. Being granted an sNDA in the world's largest pharmaceutical market will be key to meeting our ambitious growth projections."
Global Foscavir revenues grew six-fold in 2010-2011 and Clinigen expects another doubling in sales by the end of the current financial year.
Separately, Clinigen has signed an agreement granting South Korea's BL&H Co exclusive rights to market and distribute Foscavir locally. Clinigen and BL&H are collaborating to secure Korean marketing authorizations for Foscavir, both in its primary indications and as a treatment for CMV in hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) patients (bone marrow transplants). The companies expect a decision from the Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) by the end of 2012.
"We're excited about entering South Korea, not only because of the country's status as a fast-growing emerging market but, crucially, because it is a world leader in the field of stem cell research," said Jim Curtis, business development director at Clinigen. "As we establish relationships with local researchers, we will acquire valuable insights that will inform our approach in other key markets around the world."
Clinigen is in on-going discussions with key opinion leaders in the field of bone marrow transplantation and with the regulatory authorities, with the aim of adding CMV in bone marrow transplant patients to Foscavir's European label later this year. Foscavir received its first marketing authorization for use in the HSCT setting from Japan's Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare (MHLW) in July 2011.
About Foscavir
Foscavir (foscarnet sodium) is licensed to treat cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis in HIV patients and acyclovir-resistant mucocutaneous herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections in immune-compromised patients in: Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the US. In Japan, Foscavir is also indicated for the treatment of CMV in hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients.
About Clinigen
Clinigen Group was formed by merger in 2010 to create a specialty pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical services company focused on getting medicines to physicians and their patients. The merger brought together three companies: Clinigen CTS (formerly Keats Healthcare) and Clinigen GAP, which make up Clinigen's services division, and Clinigen Healthcare, the group's products business.
Clinigen Group is headquartered in Burton-on-Trent, UK, with offices in Philadelphia, US, and Tokyo, Japan.
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McFarlane Toys' line of Halo: Reach action figures returns for a sixth series in early 2012. In addition to more Noble Team Spartans, Elites, and massive Brutes, McFarlane is putting a special emphasis on multiplayer action with several exciting sets, including their very first accessory pack.
* Jun (Unhelmeted) - includes his signature Sniper Rifle and a Frag Grenade
* Kat (Unhelmeted) - includes Magnum and Frag Grenade
* Brute Major - with Spike Rifle and Plasma Grenade
* Elite Zealot - with Concussion Rifle and Plasma Grenade
* Sabre Pilot - features blue flightsuit and enclosed helmet of the UNSC Air Force along with DMR.
* Spartan HazOp (Male, Rust/Rust) - includes a Focus Rifle and a Plasma Grenade. Exclusive to Toys "R" Us.
* Spartan Recon (Male, Team Red/Team Red) - with Rocket Launcher weapon and a Frag Grenade. Exclusive to Target.
* Spartan JFO (Male, White/White) - packs an all-new weapon: the devastating Target Locator. Exclusive to GameStop.
* Team Objectives - first-ever Halo accessory pack includes a team red Spartan Mark V with Assault Rifle, a Red Flag with detachable base, Blue Flag with detachable base, UNSC Assault Bomb, Covenant Assault Bomb, and a Capture Plate.
* Headhunter - includes two Spartans and five flaming skulls for them to fight over. Player one is a male Spartan EVA custom with green and yellow armor, equipped with a DMR. Player two is a male Spartan Commando custom with violet and yellow armor, equipped with a Sniper Rifle. The five skulls included in this set all feature a unique sculpt, with flames rising from a different area of each elusive prize.
* Invasion - includes a red team Spartan Grenadier custom with Grenade Launcher, a blue team Elite General with Plasma Repeater, and both a UNSC Data Core and Covenant Data Core for each soldier to defend or capture.
* Long Night of Solace - a trio of figures from Operation: UPPERCUT. Set includes the unhelmeted version of Jorge with his Machine Gun Turret, the rare gold-armored version of the Elite Ranger, and Noble Six with Magnum and the all-new M-Spec Re-Entry Pack.
* Generator Defense - features a lockdown shield that can be raised and lowered and a radar dish that spins and pivots. Set also includes a male Spartan JFO custom in sage and steel armor, equipped with a Shotgun to repel any Elites that get too close.
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To keep your lawn mower ready for spring and running strong for years, it's important to store it well during the off-season. From replacing lawn mower blades and parts to changing the oil, fall maintenance for walk-behind and riding lawn mowers is a simple way to ensure you're prepared for the first cut in the spring. As the weather cools and you get ready to put your lawn mower in storage for the winter, MTD Parts has some helpful tips for proper lawn mower maintenance.
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After much prayer, Rebecca is finally pregnant with the twins who will become Jacob and Esau, but the two boys seem to be struggling with each other even before they are born.
This week's Torah portion begins with a puzzle. After much prayer, Rebecca is finally pregnant with the twins who will become Jacob and Esau, and the two boys seem to be struggling with each other even before they are born. Perplexed and exhausted, Rebecca asks God why her unborn children are fighting. God explains, "Two nations are in your womb, two separate peoples shall issue from your body; one people shall be mightier than the other, and the older shall serve the younger" (Genesis 25:23).
The explanation seems clear. The two babies in Rebecca's womb represent two different nations, and because they are so different, they are destined to fight with each other. Rebecca's son Jacob will represent the nation of Israel, and her son Esau will represent the nation of Edom, constantly challenging Israel. The ancient rabbis go further, equating Edom with Greece, Rome and every other enemy of Israel. The message here seems to be that Israel and the other nations of the world are different from each other — and that difference inevitably leads to conflict.
But there is another contrasting understanding of this passage. It stems from the fact that in speaking of "two nations," the word "nations" is written strangely. Although the word is traditionally pronounced goyim, meaning "nations," it is written geyim, which could mean "proud ones." Who are these proud ones?
The ancient rabbis point to two descendants of Jacob and Esau, Rabbi Yehudah ha-Nasi, the leader of the Jewish people in Roman times, and Antoninus, a Roman emperor. According to the Talmud, although their people were in conflict, Rabbi Yehudah and Antoninus had a deep and abiding friendship.
The Talmud relates that Yehudah's parents had him circumcised on his eighth day of life, even though Roman law prohibited the practice. Yehudah's mother was summoned to Rome with her baby to submit to the law in front of the emperor, and the penalty was death. On the way, they stopped at an inn. When the innkeeper's wife heard their story, she thought of a solution. Yehudah's mother could take the innkeeper's baby boy, Antoninus, to Rome instead — he was the same age as Yehudah but uncircumcised. Yehudah's mother did so, and their lives were saved. The two mothers also pledged that their boys would always be friends.
As the boys grew up, they maintained their friendship despite the differences between them and despite the conflict between their communities. The Talmud records many times when they discuss important issues and learn from each other, and each of them has the opportunity to realize that he was wrong and his friend was right about something they had talked about together.
This explanation seems equally clear. Despite great differences between people, connection, friendship, learning, understanding and peace are possible. The message here is that conflict between those who are different is not inevitable.
Although these two explanations seem to contradict one another, we can learn from both of them. If we let our differences define us, then yes, conflict is inevitable, as it is between Jacob and Esau. But if we turn toward each other, if we seek connection in our common humanity, then we — like Rabbi Yehudah and Antoninus — can find another way, a path toward peace.
Rabbi Adam Zeff serves as the rabbi of Germantown Jewish Centre in Philadelphia. Email him at: [email protected]


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A BLACK Country business has purchased a new factory in Brierley Hill after receiving financial support from Barclays.
Petford Tools, which also has a base in Peartree Lane, Dudley, is in the process of moving machinery into its new 3,000sqm premises at Station Drive.
The toolmaker and injection moulding company, which employs 140 staff, will be going back to its roots with the expansion, as its founder, Mick Parr operated from a single unit in Brierley Hill in 1970.
Mel Sinar, managing director of the company, said: "We have always prided ourselves on providing a toolmaking and moulding service of the highest standard. This ethos has stood us in good stead over the years and means we see clients coming back time and time again. Like any forward thinking business, we have diversified into new markets and also offer a moulding service.
"This latest funding facility from Barclays has allowed us purchase the new premises which will allow us to accommodate the increase in orders we have received."
Mike Corcoran, relationship director at Barclays, said: "Petford Tools have an excellent reputation in the industry formed off the back of the quality of the service they have provided to some of the biggest names in the automotive sector over many years. They have continued to develop their product offering which has paid dividends in terms of winning new contracts. The new premises will allow the company to put in to place the next stage of their expansion strategy."
Dudley South MP Chris Kelly recently visited the business discuss its expansion.
He said: "I look forward to watching the future success of the business and I am very keen to showcase to the Prime Minister the best of Black Country engineering in action at Petford Tools on his next visit to the area."


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People are being warned about a company offering people high prices by phone for their timeshares.
Net Management Group and an associate company, Harris Title, have had numerous complaints filed against them, according to a release from the Better Business Bureau serving Eastern Michigan.
"Consumers have reported that Net Management Group employs high-pressure sales tactics in an attempt to get consumers, typically the elderly, to sell their timeshares," according to the bureau.
"Potential customers are asked to sign a contract and wire money to an account in Mexico before the sale of their property can be completed. Once the money is wired, the prospective sellers are no longer able to reach the company and they are not able to recover their money, which is typically thousands of dollars."
One person warned online, "Harris Title is made-up firm and its associated mortgage brokers are a scam to steal your money. They will offer to buy your time-share condo for an unbelievable price, then ask you to put money into escrow to cover expenses that you will eventually be reimbursed for, then they take your money and are gone. Don't take the bait, they will scam you!"
Another person warned online, "No matter how juicy and tempting this offer sounds, don't let them sucker you in."
In some cases, consumers have been directed to contact Harris Title, supposedly located in Houston, Texas, to execute a contract and provide advance payment via the wire transfer.
The Better Business Bureau serving the Greater Houston area conducted a site visit to the address listed on Harris Title's website and discovered that this location does not exist, officials said.
The Michigan bureau conducted a site visit to the address given on Net Management Group's letterhead, 535 Griswold St., Suite 1110, in Detroit. The business does not exist at this location -- rather a different business has been in operation at that address for several years, officials said.
A call was made to Net Management's toll-free number and the call was answered by a recorded message.
Several consumers from across the country forwarded documents and contracts to the business bureau saying they were sent to them by both companies and other consumers have reported to have wired the requested funds, only to discover later that they had been swindled.
Most of the callers to the Better Business Bureau have indicated that the scammers are confident and seem to have an answer for any of their concerns and questions, and are good at reassuring the consumer that they are a legitimate business.
Both businesses have websites that add to their ability to dupe consumers.
Not all timeshare companies are deceitful, but it is important to check out a company prior to signing the dotted line. The Better Business Bureau offers the following advice to owners looking for help in selling their timeshare:
o Use a business you can trust -- Make sure the timeshare reseller you use is a Better Business Bureau Accredited Business or has a good rating with Better Business Bureau. You can check out a business's Better Business Bureau Business Review at www.easternmichiganbbb.org.
o Confirm licensing requirements -- Some timeshare resellers will use fake addresses or P.O. boxes in order to mislead timeshare owners. Confirm where the company is located and in what states it does business. Ask if the company's salespeople are licensed to sell real estate where your timeshare is located. If so, verify this with the state licensing board.
o Get the facts on the figures -- Find out if the business charges a commission. Do they handle the entire closing and provide escrow services? Do they charge an up-front listing or advertising fee? What does it cover and is it refundable?
o Be wary of upfront fees -- Many complainants to the Better Business Bureau were burned by companies charging an advance "appraisal" fee for services or were told that they just had to pay closing costs and the timeshare would be taken off their hands. Consider opting for a company that offers to sell for a fee only after the timeshare is sold.
o Don't fall for the hard sell or an offer that sounds too good to be true -- Don't agree to anything over the phone but instead ask the salesperson to send you written materials; take the time to think it over and don't be pressured. Unscrupulous timeshare resellers may claim that your property is in demand and they can sell it immediately; unfortunately, these promises are often empty.
o Know your state's laws -- In some states "timesharing" developments must be registered with the Attorney General's office before the sale or offer to sell. And some states require that all material facts are presented to buyers prior to the sale. In addition, some states require that all buyers' deposits must be held in escrow until the closing and buyers usually have five days after signing the purchase contract or five days after receiving the public offering statement (whichever is later) to cancel their purchase. Visit http://easternmichigan.bbb.org.
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Faster and Expanded Internet Connections Build Stronger Network Throughout North Carolina
AT&T increases Internet bandwidth for North Carolina Research and Education Network, benefiting Education, Health Care and Public Safety
Research Triangle Park , North Carolina, May 01, 2013
For more than a quarter century, technology non-profit corporation MCNC has built, owned, and operated a leading-edge broadband infrastructure meeting the needs of North Carolina's research, education, non-profit health care, and other community institutions. In the last five years, it has expanded the reach of its services on the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN) to include public safety, libraries, and even more community-oriented institutions.
In order to handle the additional capacity and redundancy required by the ever increasing demands of their constituents, MCNC has selected AT&T to design and deploy two new Internet access sites in North Carolina to address the heavy traffic volumes, and improve the quality and speed of their Internet connections.
MCNC serves all 115 public school districts, 58 community colleges, 27 independent colleges and universities, 47 charter schools, and more research, non-profit, healthcare, and North Carolina state and local government institutions. Education systems are increasingly reliant on the strength of their Internet connection as digital resources continue to become standard in school curriculums. High levels of connectivity are necessary for students and faculty to use Web technologies, including video streaming, webinars, and online courses.
"As MCNC continues to expand network communications, AT&T was a clear choice to help meet our growing bandwidth needs," said MCNC President and CEO, Joe Freddoso. "We operate NCREN as a shared platform to deliver broadband services, giving our schools and our state a real competitive advantage in today's new broadband economy."
The added connections put MCNC one step ahead of their customer demand for fast network response time and additional computing capacity. With North Carolina education institutions using five to seven times the bandwidth than they did just three years ago, AT&T's Managed Internet Service (MIS) will help them meet the Common Core State Standards initiative to enhance campus Internet connections.


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Minneapolis is the largest city in Minnesota and is clearly a twin city with St. Paul. It is the state's media, business and cultural center. It makes heavy use of bike lanes but also has a well functioning light rail and bus system.


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By force of habit, we tend to wince at the term "task force." When applied in even the most remote connection to anything in the world of politics, "task force" all too often equals delay, posturing, grandstanding, early campaign auditions, sub-committee reports and ... wait for it ... another task force.
And so it is that we take heart -- if not complete blind faith -- in the promising start U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson is off to as the chair of the newly formed Congressional Gun Violence Prevention Task Force.
To be sure, it will take more -- much more -- than a mere task force to satisfy the public's anger, exasperation and demand for action in the wake of a recent run of deadly mass shootings in this country. It's both impossible and pointless to rank or list any deadly shooting, but, as evidenced by the formation of Thompson's task force, none of the shootings has struck as deep a chord and seemed to be so clearly a tipping point as the horrific death of 26 -- 20 of them young school children -- on Dec. 14 in Newtown, Conn.
Thompson, a longtime member of Congress who, as a result of redistricting, now represents California's 5th Congressional District, which includes all or part of Solano, Napa, Contra Costa, Lake and Sonoma counties, is the perfect fit for his latest role in Congress. He is a hunter, gun owner, former Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus chairman and a veteran who carried a military assault weapon during a tour in Vietnam.
In other words, any screams from the extreme notwithstanding, Rep. Thompson is not out to get your guns. What he is looking to do, as stated in his goal before meetings in Napa, Vallejo and Santa Rosa this past week, is to "bring together experts, stakeholders and community members for a comprehensive discussion on the steps that must be taken to reduce and prevent gun violence."
Wednesday night at Vallejo City Hall was a promising start. It wasn't just that Thompson listened intently, it's that the forum was open to a variety of challenges, views and solutions. If nothing else, it provided at least a sliver of hope that Thompson and his colleagues on Capitol Hill can help translate a lot of talk into some sort of meaningful action.
That is as it should be. America has a serious problem with gun violence. Let's put it this way: When coverage of Vice President Biden sitting down with the NRA and other gun groups to talk about school shootings is interrupted by news of yet another school shooting, we have a problem. A serious problem.
To watch the drama of the gun debate play out on cable news programs is to be starving for substance, for actual solutions. The debate, such as it is, has been captured by false analogies, twisted and distorted statistics, and loud, hyperbolic screaming, both literal and figurative.
The long story short from both extremes: They're out to get all our guns (they're not), or, it's all about the guns (it isn't).
As reported by our Sarah Rohrs in Thursday's Times-Herald, Thompson stressed to the audience that he supports the Second Amendment, and supports the right of law-abiding, mentally stable individuals to own weapons. It was the perfect starting -- and finishing point -- for any debate on the recent spate of terrifying gun violence in this country, both for Wednesday night's forum and for the country at large.
Wednesday's forum put it all on the table: Mental health services. Mental health background checks. A violence-heavy pop culture world that has seemingly deadened the senses and left a generation immune to the actual horrors and consequences of real violence.
And, yes, high-capacity magazines and many of the weapons that use them.
It was mere coincidence, but Thompson's forum began just hours after a preliminary hearing ended in Colorado for James Holmes, accused of gunning down 12 and wounding 70 others in Aurora, Colo. last July 20. We needn't identify that massacre suspect's weapon of choice, do we?
We have used this space before to call for the reinstitution of President Clinton's 1994 assault weapon ban, and we'll do it again today. As the former president noted earlier this week, "Half of all mass killings in the U.S. occurred since the assault weapons ban expired."
We have no doubt there are discouraging statistics to be had on the other side of the assault weapon debate, but our point remains the same, and remains simple: High-capacity weapons capable of firing off 100 bullets in the matter of seconds are nothing more than mass killing machines, and of no use for any real sportsman.
Will limiting them solve this country's violence problems? No.
It could, however, at least add considerably to the degree of difficulty for some of these killers. And like Wednesday night's forum, that's at least a start.


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Plenty of apples keep this slice ($3.50) extra moist, and buckwheat gives it this homey, nutty essence that I can never get enough of. It's dense and hearty, with an earthy sweetness from homey fruit. Apples are occasionally replaced with seasonal fruits, like blueberries during the summer, or paired with wonders like pistachio cream. You'll also find it plain every now and then—and a plain buckwheat cake is something you should never pass up. Just don't forget a cortado on the side.
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Kansas House members have rejected a proposed diversion of highway funds to other uses as they consider cutting sales and individual income taxes.
The House debated a bill Wednesday to follow up on income tax cuts enacted last year. Members expected to vote later on giving the tax legislation first-round approval.
The bill originally would have diverted $382 million in highway funds over two years to other uses, to help stabilize the budget.
But the idea inspired strong protests. The House first voted 59-58 to reduce the diversion to $181 million, then voted to eliminate it altogether.
The bill promises future income tax reductions if overall state revenues grow. It also would allow the state sales tax to decline in July as scheduled by law.


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JACKSONVILLE, FLa. - With just over three weeks before the new fiscal year begins, a budget showdown between Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown and Sheriff John Ruthforford.
At what was supposed to be the final special council meeting on the budget Friday morning, Rutherford continued to threaten to close down a successful jail drug intervention program, saying Brown is taking away $10.5 million in funding that the council voted to make available.
Rutherford learned the city miscalculated on how much money the Sheriff's Office will have to pay for workman's comp claims -- which the city says must come out of that pot of money.
Ruthord is demanding records to prove that his department owes that money, or prove the mayor wrong.
"They will either give it to me, or I will sue them," Rutherford said. "I have not heard back from them. I hope they are over there working on it. I am sure they are."
Brown, taking heat because 150 city employees got their pink slips this week, spoke out about the budget mess.
"We just did not wake up and say, 'Oh, we are going to cut here and there,'" Brown said. "We did it very strategically, very focused, team-orientated, getting the best feedback from everyone."
Finance Committee Chairman John Crescimbeni said the sheriff should not get any special favors, and that other city departments are already feeling the effects of the sheriff's budget.
"The increase pension cost of police officers and firefighters is coming at the expense of public works employees that got laid off yesterday," Crescimbeni said. "Library employees that got laid off yesterday."
Council President Bill Bishop wants more answers.
"You know, the sheriff is blaming the administration. I don't know if that is true or not," Bishop said. "There may be part of that. My guess is that there it is mostly not that."
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