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I can't believe that pass made it through. Nice PG to Lance fast break.
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I can't believe that pass made it through. Nice PG to Lance fast break.
Stellar D.That's how i like it.Very impressive start.Lance has been a revelation with his improved shooting.
Stephenson has better ball skills than anyone who has worn a Pacers uniform since Jamaal Tinsley. He makes NBA players look like they are on an AND 1 video.
Hibbert is a steals factory. 3 in 4 minutes!
Wish we looked to run like this every game
Damn Calderon.
What are you guys using to watch LP? On DirecTV I can choose either team broadcast
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I don't mind other announcers to much unless they say things that are just wrong, but I do miss the Pacers broadcast.
Andrea Bargnani has been a fantasy basketball disappointment thus far this season, but I can tolerate one more crappy game.
I love that jumper by West.
Doesn't look like tonight will be the night Hibbert turns his season around.
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I wanna see Lance run the pick and roll more.
It looks like they are finally running an offense and went away from so many ISO's, I still expect the West ISO's at the end.
Pacers don;t hold leads well...
"We've got to be very clear about this. We don't want our players hanging around with murderers," said Larry Bird, Pacers president.
Strong start, bad few minutes
Nice try by Hill but no dice. I'm ok with him missing it as long as the effort is there.
Dude just killed George Hill after that shot...
Wow what a pass by Calderon wow.
Putting on extra muscle has not been good for Roy. It's not really helping him get deeper positioning and he looks winded after a few minutes. And he's slower than last year, as if he had speed to spare.
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I guess we will see soon enough. Nearly beating UL at Louisville is a step in the right direction.
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I guess we will see soon enough. Nearly beating UL at Louisville is a step in the right direction.
Calipari coached teams always peak at the right times--like him or not (and I hate him), there is a fair amount of logic to what he does. He's an underrated coach, and his young players don't get discouraged when they lose early in the year because that's how it's supposed to happen. They gain momentum beating the hell out of the rest of the teams in a BCS conference (even though SEC basketball is largely pathetic), and their talent meshes at the right time. Perfect situation. Meanwhile, Tubby and the Gophers caught lightning in a bottle, played well early in the season, thereby silencing their doubters, and now the rough and tumble Big Ten starts and while they won their first game against MSU, they will end up with 8 or so conference losses. Moral will be down, momentum will be down, and they will be lucky to win one game in the tournament. Whereas Calipari's Kentucky teams have never not made a Sweet 16. Place your wager, I'll take the 'Cats over the Gophers.
I don't know Minny doesn't have the depth that UK does, but they are more experienced and they have a more complete starting 5 IMO. I think they are a really dangerous basketball team, I guess we will get a first shot to see what they are really all about when they visit Btown on the 12th, but even then I think IU is going to be so tough at home that that may not even be a great gauge for them.
This UK team is pretty frustrating if I was a Cat fan. I guess it's to be expected with so much youth, but they are so sporadic. I think they are ripe for an early round upset like Slick does, but then again if they get the right bracket I could see them streaking to the final 4.
Check out this dunk by a high school sophomore- pretty crazy.
Steve Alford's still only 48 and he's got 370 D1 wins, I know, he wasn't great or anything at his only big conference job, but still that's pretty impressive for a guy that really doesn't get much credit nationally
Anyone see Colorado's game-winning three get waved off in Arizona? Tied at 80, Colorado banks in a 3 at the buzzer, replay shows the ball out of his hand with 0.2 but the refs wave it off and send the game to OT, where Arizona wins.
Gutless officials who let the crowd intimidate them into making the wrong call.
I haven't watched it but I saw CU's coach Tad Boyle wants replay banned, "human error's part of the game." I understand being pissed but that's just dumb.
His whole point is why waste time on replay if you're not gonna get right, yeah he was exaggerating, but his team just got pretty obviously jobbed. And now the Pac12 and NCAA won't even admit it was the wrong call which is amazing.
Notre Dame women beat the Uconn women today by a point. It was a pretty good game. I am so sick of Skylar Diggins.
So far Big Ten teams are 100-12 at home, 5 of those losses coming from Northwestern. This season's gonna be brutal.
Arizona lost at Oregon, so there's only two unbeatens left in the country--Duke and Michigan. There might not be any unbeatens left after this weekend.
Take me out to the black, tell 'em I ain't coming back. Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.
Arizona should be 0-3 in the Pac12....whcih says a lot.
The Big Ten is just a murder's row. I think we have established that Illinois is helter skelter--they seem to be really struggling on the road in B1G play. Bad loss at Purdue and a complete blow out loss to Wisconsin, who is showing that the rumors of their demise were premature. Wisky now 3-0 in the Big Ten. The Michigan/Ohio State game tomorrow will be a fun one. Michigan is due for a stinker and their rivals would like nothing more than to spoil their ascent to #1.
What are the chances UK misses the tourney? I mean they wouldn't get in right now IMO.
Slim. The SEC is largely a nightmare, with UK, Mizzou, and Florida the only good teams. A&M might not be bad, but they aren't good either. UK will inflate their record with the garbage teams in the conference and score a win against Florida and/or Mizzou, and probably will make a run in the conference tourney. They'll be fine.
Down goes Michigan!
I believe UK will make the tourney- and make a deep run---as in a run deep back into the heart of KY after the second round. This group of freshmen (plus Wiltjer) just isnt panning out.
Uconn v Louisville tonight. I'm gonna miss the Big East. It really was an awesome basketball conference.
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We can no longer ignore the elephant in the room: The Kentucky Wildcats, defending NCAA champions and the model of new-age success in college basketball, could miss the 2013 tournament. Really.Those still reading need to at least face the possibility of sweating out Selection Sunday. The current Wildcats are simply good, not great, and enter the heart of the season a long way from their accustomed "lock" status as an NCAA tournament team and Final Four regulars.
In fact, the Wildcats are closer to missing the tournament entirely than to playing in April.
Here are several reasons Kentucky is in danger of missing the 2013 NCAA tournament.
• Kentucky sits at No. 42 on our latest S-Curve. This is probably a bit generous, and is based more on recent history and potential than on actual accomplishment. Regardless, that position means the Wildcats were just one spot away from a "First Four" game in our latest bracket. Only the Dayton business community would be happy with that outcome, I suspect.
• The Wildcats are 1-1 in early SEC play, and needed a disputed bucket to escape Vanderbilt before being outclassed at home by Texas A&M. With four of their next six games away from Rupp Arena, there's every chance the Wildcats will hit the halfway mark of their league schedule not much better than .500 in the SEC. In a fairly weak conference, they'll need to be well above that by March.
• A week ago, UK was on my list of national "leaders" in so-called "fake wins." Of the Wildcats' 10 victories this season, just two -- Maryland (in Brooklyn) and at Vanderbilt -- have come over non-guarantee opponents. That means a 10-5 record for the Wildcats, which is already borderline, is more like a 2-5 record in the eyes of the selection committee. So there's a ton of work to do in a conference that suddenly presents more opportunities for "bad " losses than it does "good" wins.
• The RPI, typically so kind to Kentucky, is heading the opposite direction in 2013. UK's current number is 68 and, worse, the best RPI calculators have the Wildcats landing no better than the low 50s two months from now. Without a couple of serious NCAA-level wins on its résumé, Kentucky is going to generate lots of bubble talk with that kind of profile.
The bottom line is that UK's season is going to come down to four SEC games: at Ole Miss (Jan. 29), at Florida (Feb. 12), at home versus Missouri (Feb. 23) and the Florida rematch at Rupp Arena (March 9). A split of those contests should be enough, and most Kentucky teams would have little trouble hitting that mark.
But this Kentucky team has played only four comparable games all season. And all four -- a neutral-site game against Duke, at Notre Dame, at home versus Baylor and at Louisville -- were losses.
If pressed, I would bet on continued improvement for the young Wildcats and a single-digit NCAA seed. But this season there is little certainty with Kentucky, on or off the court.
Your not crazy Joe. The Wildcats have not done enough, to this point, to definitely say they deserve to be there. I think they make it, but I am betting on some progress being made during the rest of the season. Quite frankly, it's painful to watch them play.
I hope the NCAA champion this year comes from the Midwest- IU, UL or the like would be fine with me. Key word here is this year. I fully expect UK to be back next year competing for a final four birth. IU fans have been patient- and deserve some good times.
Illinois is down at half....to Northwestern....by 16....at home.
Michigan is the best team in the Big Ten.
Also, Crean needs to improve his in game coaching drastically. I'm still ****ing pissed about that Wisconsin game.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Chocolate Orange Drizzle Loaf Cake
In this bake, you first make a simple loaf cake with some orange zest for flavoring. Then you make tiny holes and drizzle orange syrup onto the cake and let it drip down into the cake...mmm!!! Then, if that's not enough to send you racing over to the kitchen, you add a topping of melted chocolate and sprinkles - yes, you simply have to add sprinkles, so that's not optional, though the recipe says it is. So I'm telling you, make this the next time you have company, and you're guaranteed to awe.
(Sorry about the bad photos, but I took these with my phone's camera because my regular one suddenly stopped working as we cut into it!)
Chocolate Orange Drizzle Loaf Cake
(recipe from Sweet and Simple Bakes)
For The cake
175g (6 oz) softened butter
175g (6 oz) caster (super fine) sugar
3 large eggs, at room temperature
Finely grated zest of 2 oranges
175g (6 oz) self-raising flour, sifted
2 tbsp milk
For The Orange Syrup
Juice of 1 orange
100g (4 oz) granulated sugar
For The Topping
50g (2 oz) dark chocolate or milk chocolate – your choice
Sprinkles of choice (optional)
You will need a 900g (2 lb) loaf tin – greased with a little butter and lined with greaseproof paper or non-stick baking paper.
Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan oven 160°C/350°F/Gas mark 4.
In a mixing bowl, add the butter and sugar and beat together until light and fluffy in appearance. Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat well until fully incorporated. Add the orange zest, flour and milk and fold in gently with a spatula or large metal spoon. Turn into the prepared tin (I used a loaf pan that was a little big, so it came out pretty flat looking), smooth the top of the mixture and bake in the oven on middle shelf 35 -45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Remove from the oven and leave to cool in the tin. When cool make little holes in the cake with a skewer, (this is important for pouring the syrup onto the cake to ensure the syrup soaks in fully.)
For The Orange Syrup
Put the orange juice and granulated sugar into a pan and heat gently until the sugar has dissolved. Bring to the boil and boil for a couple of minutes. Pour over the top of the cake. When all the juice has soaked in, carefully remove the cake from the tin.
For The Topping
Melt the chocolate by placing a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of barely simmering water. Once the chocolate has melted, pour over the top of the cake. Either smooth the top over with a spatula or make a little pattern with the prongs of a fork. Add sprinkles if desired, leave chocolate to set before cutting into the cake.
44 comments:
- ♥Rosie♥ said...
Arundathi, wow your cake looks gorgeous and I adore those sprinkles. So pleased you enjoyed this bake :0)
Many thanks for partaking in this month's S&SB bake and I hope you will join us in our next bake :0)
Rosie x
- July 1, 2009 at 4:08 PM
- Pari said...
Hey your cake looks moistand soft,see my cake also.
- July 1, 2009 at 6:30 PM
- Parita said...
M drooling over the cake, fantastic, looks so moist!
- July 1, 2009 at 7:26 PM
- Sunshinemom said...
Even in these pics the cake looks tempting!
- July 1, 2009 at 10:39 PM
- Priya said...
- July 2, 2009 at 4:03 AM
- myspicykitchen said...
simple, lovely and delicious too.
- July 2, 2009 at 9:07 AM
- Divya Vikram said...
Love the frosting! Looks too good Anu!
- July 2, 2009 at 11:51 AM
- The Girl said...
Looks brilliant!
And I completely agree about the sprinkles, definitely not optional - they're a must!
- July 2, 2009 at 1:52 PM
- Chitra said...
looks soft and moist..nice cake!!U r a daring baker!!
- July 2, 2009 at 4:10 PM
- Shama Nagarajan said...
wow..what a soft and fluffy cake...yummy
- July 2, 2009 at 4:15 PM
- Wonk said...
Your cake came out a yummy looking treat :)
I didn't have any sprinkles to put on my version :( I loved this cake though so will be making again - lots of sprinkle opportunities in future!
- July 2, 2009 at 4:52 PM
- Heatherfeather said...
The last photo really shows off how fluffy yours turned out. I really enjoyed this cake too, it has a nice taste and was very pretty.
- July 2, 2009 at 5:26 PM
- applecrumbles said...
Looks totally delicious. What are those sprinkles? Little dinosaurs?
- July 2, 2009 at 6:43 PM
- Arundathi said...
Rosie - thanks for another wonderful bake! :)
Pari - Your cake looks great too. Thanks.
Parita - Thanks.
Sunshinemom - it was great! the pics are terrible, i know!
Priya - Thanks!!
myspicykitchen - thank you
Divya Vikram - Thanks a lot Divya.
The Girl - Yup - they really added so much to the cake.
Chitra - lol, thanks! i'm trying to be.
Shama Nagarajan - Thanks
Wonk - Next time you've gotta add some sprinkles! :)
Heatherfeather - Yup, it was fluffy, moist and delicious.
applecrumbles - Yes, little dinosaurs and dolphins! lol! My daughter's contribution. I'm amazed you could make it out with those bad photos!
- July 2, 2009 at 7:28 PM
- Usha said...
The cake looks soft, fluffy and super delicious, love the orange chocolate combination !
- July 2, 2009 at 7:36 PM
- Chaya said...
What do you have on top of your cake besides the sprinkles? The larger pieces are interesting and I like the look they add to the cake. What a great combination of flavors.They seem to be bringing out the best in each other.
- July 2, 2009 at 8:20 PM
- Minu said...
came to your site thru B'bay Grill S.wich; and from here to S&SB.
great job. you are my inspiration to try out some of the challenges.
i just love your blog
- July 2, 2009 at 9:56 PM
- The Purple Foodie said...
Heyy! How are you? Haven't seen you around on twitter. I can see you making effective use of some gorgeous sprinkles you brought back from your recent trip! I love the idea of making holes in the cake and then filling it up with syrup - although I'd go all out and use chocolate for that as well. :P Can't tell that you've taken the photos from your phone cam!
- July 3, 2009 at 1:04 AM
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- July 3, 2009 at 7:42 AM
- Sugar said...
the cake looks delicious and can't stop eating. i like your sprinkles.
- July 3, 2009 at 7:44 AM
- Gale Reeves said...
Your cake looks good with the sprinkles. It also looks whiter than my cake. I imagine that's because of ingredients available in our local areas.
- July 3, 2009 at 9:07 AM
- Shefali Tripathi Mehta said...
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- July 3, 2009 at 10:19 AM
- Cynthia said...
The topping looks playfully delicious.
- July 5, 2009 at 4:18 AM
- Deeba @Passionate About Baking said...
Well done Arundathi...great to see you baking again. Love this flavour combination!
- July 5, 2009 at 7:05 PM
- Maria♥ said...
Arundathi, your cake turned beautiful!
Thanks for taking part and hope you will join us again.
- July 6, 2009 at 11:52 PM
Hi: I really like your blog. I also returned to Chennai recently after living in US for 7 years so I could identify with a lot of things you said. I have a question, I am looking for a good oven and I am not too sure about the microwave, grill oven combination. What oven do you use? Thanks. Esha.
- July 13, 2009 at 3:05 PM
- Raaga said...
Send some over please :)
- July 15, 2009 at 2:55 PM
- Arundathi said...
Usha - Thank you
Chaya - those are dinosaur sprinkles!
Minu - :) thank you - thats very kind.
Shaheen - Thanks but the photos were so bad I thought! Yup, loving the sprinkles!
Sugar - Thanks!
Gale Reeves - Yup I'm sure it is. Loved the cake though.
Cynthia - Thank you! :)
Deeba - I loved it too - and it was just right.
Maria - I loved the cake and will definitely be joining you again.
Esha - I have a Oven Toaster Griller, but would love to buy a regular oven, table top. The range is very limited though and the sizes are incredibly small. Good luck!
Raaga - next time you're over here!
- July 23, 2009 at 12:42 PM
- sheron said...
I really enjoyed this cake too, it has a nice taste and was very pretty.
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- August 24, 2009 at 12:41 PM
- Arundathi said...
@ Sheron - Thanks. Yes, it was delicious.
- September 21, 2009 at 3:38 PM
- January 26, 2010 at 2:31 PM
Как всегда на высоте!
- January 27, 2010 at 4:21 AM
Хотелось бы что-то наваять в комментах креативного, но мысль не складывается, так что просто "зачОт"
- January 28, 2010 at 10:24 AM
Спасибо. Прочитал с интересом. Блог в избранное занес=)
- January 28, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Очень полезная вещь, спасибо!!
- January 30, 2010 at 3:22 AM
нет, не всегда. но в этом случае, да.
- January 30, 2010 at 4:05 AM
я бы сказал не интересно, а разумно
- January 30, 2010 at 9:42 AM
Сколько примет кошмар, замучишься все соблюдать
- January 30, 2010 at 10:17 AM
Огромное человеческое спасибочки !
- January 31, 2010 at 1:54 PM
А продолжение следует?
- January 31, 2010 at 2:44 PM
Отлично написано! Буду много думать…
- February 2, 2010 at 7:20 PM
Интересно и позновательно, а будет еще что-то по этой теме?
- February 2, 2010 at 8:36 PM
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"I just started sweating. I wanted it to be over. I wanted it to be over," he said.
The 71-year-old and his daughter Stacey were in the Boston Marathon running a few miles away from the finish line when the bombs exploded, injuring nearly 200 people and killing three others.
"I'm done crying. I've cried enough. I'm angry now," Smith said. "I'm sad for the families and all that took place with them for no reason."
Smith has mixed emotions about Friday's developments. Although he's relieved the suspects have been identified, he was hoping police could have gotten information from the one brother who was killed.
"How did they put this together? Were there other people involved?" Smith said. "So I wanted him to survive so that he could be interrogated."
"I'm into the vigilante justice for him. I can't help it," Smith added. "It's what he did to all those people up there. This is not about me."
David Martinson was also in the Boston Marathon. At the time of the explosion, he was having lunch with other runners from Jacksonville when he heard the blasts shortly after completing the race.
"Certainly all of us are unsettled by what happened," Martinson said.
He's also glad a suspect was taken down, but he still has burning questions.
"Getting some answers for this -- there's never a good reason for why someone would chose to do this to innocent people, but if it's apart of a larger plot, finding out why," Martinson said.
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WASHINGTON -- It's early enough for sample sizes to be very, very deceiving, but Ernesto Frieri's home run rate has more than tripled.
Nats shortstop Ian Desmond led off the ninth inning on Monday night with a homer to left-center field -- a 462-foot blast that was the second longest in Nationals Park history -- that went for Frieri's fourth home run allowed in 8 1/3 innings. His home-runs-per-nine-innings rate is now 4.32, after being a relatively high 1.32 from 2012-13 (the Major League average was 0.99 in that span).
But Angels manager Mike Scioscia sees a silver lining.
"I think it's pretty clear with Ernie that the balls that have been hit out of the park have been mistakes," Scioscia said. "It's not like he's making good pitches and they're hitting home runs.
"If they're hitting good pitches, and they're hitting them out of the park, and it's where you're trying to go with pitches, I think you have a lot more work to do than if it's a matter of you making a few more mistakes than you're used to, and they haven't missed them."
The ball Desmond hit out on Monday was an 0-1 fastball that was supposed to be low and away but ran middle-in. The one Mariners first baseman Justin Smoak hit out on April 2 was an 0-2 fastball that wasn't quite high enough. The one Corey Hart followed up with immediately thereafter was a 3-2, chest-high fastball -- a pitch that was supposed to be low and away. And the one A's catcher John Jaso crushed to win the game on April 14 was a 1-2 fastball that was grooved right down the middle.
Yes, Frieri (5.40 ERA, 2-for-3 in saves) has missed his location with all four of the homers. But they've all come on his go-to fastball, a pitch hitters were supposed to have a harder time squaring up now that he's added a changeup and slider.
"I think some things in a pitcher's history are cyclical, and I think Ernie has gone through some stretches before that this has happened," Scioscia said. "But I think he's good at making some adjustments, and he definitely did last night to get some key outs after the home run to lead off the ninth."
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Traffic built up and police say that at one stage queues stretched back as far as Millbrook in Southampton.
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If whisky is for drinking and water is for fighting over, as the adage goes, the Bay Area might feel like knocking back a shot and aiming its rhetorical pistols at Southern California.
California's north-south water rivalry revved up Wednesday, a day after a state survey showed that while most of the drought-ravaged state modestly reduced its water consumption, coastal Southern California is headed in the wrong direction.
It increased its water use by 8 percent in May compared with the average of the three previous Mays. And because the Golden State's most populous region wasn't pulling its weight to heed Gov. Jerry Brown's urgent calls for voluntary water cutbacks of 20 percent, the rest of the state must suffer with tough new fines, many Northern California residents lamented.
"Everybody is all about themselves in Southern California," seethed Kip Miller, who with his wife, Darsi, owns L.C. Action, a police supply store in San Jose. "Here we have companies like Tesla and Google that are doing things every day that are better for the planet. But down there, they have all those Beverly Hills lawns and movie stars and high-dollar landscapers."
Don't blame us, Southern Californians shot back, insisting they have pushed conservation to a new level and that the survey was simply a snapshot of one month.
At least for the short-term, the state's survey resurrected California's long-running water war that three decades ago defeated the plan to build a Peripheral Canal to move water from the Delta to Central Valley farms and the Los Angeles megalopolis.
Alarmed by the lack of conservation — and rain — the State Water Resources Control Board voted unanimously Tuesday to impose the first-ever statewide restrictions on outdoor water use, with violations punishable by fines of up to $500 for such things as hosing down driveways and over-watering the grass.
"I am glad they will be fining these seemingly entitled (Southern Californians) for wasting what is basically our water," fumed Julie Wolfe, a resident of Brookdale in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
When Brown in January called on Californians to cut water usage voluntarily, many water officials — particularly those in the Southland — pointed out that they've been building new water storage and handing out rebates for water-efficient toilets and washing machines for years.
"The fact is that urban California in particular is better prepared for this drought than it has been for any drought in its history," Timothy Quinn, executive director of the Association of California Water Agencies, said Wednesday. "It has kind of shielded the water user."
The drought "doesn't seem as big of a deal," Andrew Rossignol, a 32-year-old musician, said Wednesday as he washed his car in the driveway of his home in Santa Ana, which the state's survey outed as one of the worst cities at conserving.
Water agencies in Southern California say the single-month snapshot is easily skewed by things like leaks, new customers, varying temperatures and rebounding economies.
"When you look at a longer period of time, we're still using less water — about 10 percent less — than we were five years ago," said Francie Kennedy, water conservation coordinator for San Juan Capistrano, which ranked second on the state's list of water hogs.
Officials also noted that many Southern California localities had already cut their water use far more than the rest of the state before the current drought began, giving them a lower "starting point."
Michelle Vargas, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said the city uses 17 percent less water now than it did in 2009, before its current conservation law took effect, and now uses only 129 gallons per capita per day — substantially less than the state average of 196. "This has been a way of life in the city of Los Angeles," she said.
Santa Ana said the state's numbers are just plain wrong. They showed Santa Ana's water production up 63.6 percent in May compared to an average of the three previous Mays. But Nabil Saba, the city's water resources manager, provided figures Wednesday showing the increase actually is only 10 percent.
Max Gomberg, a senior environmental scientist with the state water board, said cities and water districts submitted their own data for the survey, so any mistakes probably came from them.
Santa Ana already has a conservation ordinance in place, Saba said, but this was an abnormally hot and dry spring, and building permits are surging as the economy improves. And given past conservation efforts, he said, "it does make it more difficult to ask people to conserve when they're already using less than most others."
The truth is, agriculture still soaks up almost 80 percent of California's water, and what Southern California residences and businesses do has practically nothing to do with the Bay Area's water shortage.
The Santa Clara Valley Water District customers cut their water use substantially in February, March and April compared to recent years. But to see the urgency, local residents need look no further than their own withered backyards.
"We can say, 'Well, I'm not going to save until I see L.A. empty their pools,'" said district spokesman Marty Grimes. "But that's not going to make any difference to our groundwater supply or our reservoir storage."
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Who'd have ever thought we'd be receiving a Total Recall comic book series 21 years after the movie debuted? It's kind of like Weird Science the TV series (although that was only 9 years after the fact). As reported to you last June (read our story HERE), Dynamite Entertainment is picking up where the classic Schwarzenegger sci-fi film left off and continuing the story with Totall Recall the comic.
Shipping this May, the series begins with the death of the Mars mining colony chief, Cohaagen, and the creation of an atmosphere for the planet. Douglas Quaid, the undercover agent known as Hauser, and the man responsible for releasing the colony from the grips of Cohaagen, simply wants to live happily ever after with Melina the woman of his dreams. But with Mars in chaos, new enemies invading the red planet, and a mysterious stranger in their midst, will Quaid have his happily ever after? Check out issue TOTAL RECALL #1 to find out.
"Being given the opportunity to create a sequel to one of the coolest action films of the 1990s was too great pass up," says first time comics writer Vincent S. Moore. "Resonating with one of the themes of the original movie, this is a dream come true and a great benefit for me. In order to fulfill my dream, I simply had to turn around and make the happy ending for Douglas Quaid on Mars into a new nightmare and show him to be the hero once again. It was easy and tons of fun. I threw everything I could think at Quaid, keeping with the flavor of the movie. I hope all of the readers enjoy the ride. My thanks to the folks at Dynamite for giving me this chance. And to all those fans of the original film, I hope you like what we came up with enough to give it a shot. Just remember: get your a**es to Mars!"
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Watch out. The conscience and voice of reason on drug testing in Major League Baseball is Victor Conte.
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There would be no more reliable source on that subject in the world. The same goes for Victor Conte, the Godfather of BALCO.
So, a day after All-Star Game MVP Melky Cabrera was slapped with a 50-game suspension for a positive test for testosterone, Conte was asked by USA TODAY how many major leaguers still use some form of performance-enhancers, in the face of the much-ballyhooed testing program.
"Maybe as much as half of baseball," he said.
Major League Baseball's response to that: "There is no way that Victor Conte would have information that would allow him to have any basis on that," MLB vice president Rob Manfred said to USA TODAY. "He's just making that up. It's a guess.''
Just to refresh everybody's memory … when the heat on the sport was at its peak during the past decade, when the greatest players of this era were being implicated constantly in steroid-related controversies and were dragging the reputation of the national pastime through the mud, who had more information on it all: Conte, or Major League Baseball?
Actually, it's a tougher call than it seems. As the Mitchell report in 2007 revealed, baseball was fully complicit in the scandal, via executives on team after team and by shameless inaction and double-talk from the office of the commissioner.
Baseball just did a better job hiding it than Conte did. He went to prison. Baseball went to the bank.
Conte still is working with boxers, including at least one at the London Olympics—where he made a similar claim about how many Olympians were still doping and how the IOC was just as ineffective at stopping it.
Ironically, no less a figure than legendary anti-doping crusader Dick Pound told Sports Illustrated that he wasn't above using Conte as an unofficial resource: "I find him knowledgeable and helpful."
So, good luck deciphering who really is "just making that up" about how widespread performance-enhancing drugs are in baseball.
And about whether baseball is really doing everything it can to eliminate them.
Conte's accusations are not new, to baseball or any other sport struggling mightily to stay one technological step ahead of the rule-breakers. His bluntness about it, and his doubts about baseball's sincerity, gives it a different twist.
"There's such a loophole," he told the paper, "you really wonder if Major League Baseball has a genuine interest in stopping these guys."
The rewards for a player beating the testing program are the same as they were years ago when there was no testing program and too little interest by baseball or the players union in creating one. The rewards for a team looking the other way are the same, too. Add to that the rewards to baseball—a star's rise from underachievement and obscurity, a marquee team back in contention, a jolt to an All-Star event constantly battling to retain relevancy.
In case you weren't sure exactly how nonchalant players are about this subject, by the way, ponder this quote from one of Cabrera's San Francisco Giants teammates after the suspension: "You don't even know what goes through somebody's head when they make a decision like that. He's obviously going to have to suffer the consequences, and we have to move on as a ballclub."
The speaker was reliever Clay Hensley, who was suspended for 15 games in 2005 for a positive steroids test in the minors. Two years later, as a San Diego Padre, he gave up the record-tying 755th career home run to Barry Bonds. He now is teammates with two players (Cabrera and reliever Guillermo Mota) booted this season.
You wonder if baseball thinks Hensley is more believable than Conte.
Baseball's defenders have pointed out that Conte is a convicted felon, which undermines his credibility. Baseball, of course, has never been indicted in court as Conte was. Exposed (by the Mitchell report), yes; indicted, no.
Cabrera's positive test, meanwhile, is fodder for both sides' arguments. Baseball can claim: Hey, our stringent program catches people, including stars; it works! The doubters can retort: Oooh, now you've caught four guys this season. You're as pure as the driven snow.
If Conte's 50-percent claim seems outrageous, how does five-tenths of a percent sound? That's four suspensions for PED violations, of at least 50 games each, out of some 750 active players.
Who do you trust, then? Who has more incentive to not be honest? Who has more to lose? Who has more to protect?
Baseball says you can't trust Conte.
That's all the answer you should need.


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In today's fast-paced society where people churn out new ideas every second, it can be difficult to slow down and really fine-tune a creative process. "Increasingly in the performing arts, creative development time is rare," said Christopher K. Morgan, artist in residence at American University and artistic director of Christopher K. Morgan & Artists/A Contemporary Dance Company. Morgan also is serving his second year as artistic director for Choreolab, an AU dance program that provides a full view of the creative process.
Choreolab is a noncredit workshop for dance students interested in exploring the choreographic process with facilitated guidance and feedback. Following a selection process early in the fall semester, students have eight weeks to rehearse, rework, and refine their artistic visions.
This year's Choreolab showing, Next Steps, takes place Wednesday, November 7, at 8 p.m. in the Harold and Sylvia Greenberg Theatre.
During the rehearsal process, the choreographers work closely with faculty creative advisors including Morgan, dance program director Melanie George, and adjunct dance professor Sandra Atkinson. "If we can create a truly educational experience where they learn the tools to analyze and assess their own work while it's being created, they'll be more likely to succeed beyond this supported, facilitated process," Morgan said.
This year's Choreolab participants are Gracie Corapi '15, SOC; Sareen Hairabedian '13, SOC; Suzy Mirvis '13, CAS; and Ellie van Bever '13, SPA. The students represent a wide range of dance and artistic expression, including elements of jazz style, modern dance, and improvisation, stemming from a variety of inspirations like Hairabedian's time abroad in Europe and Jordan or Mirvis' passion for the style of the 1920s.
Choreolab helps to prepare students for the world of dance after college by providing them with an array of tools for artistic development and leadership. "I have always loved the choreographic approach to dance," said Mirvis. "Choreolab provides a safe and productive atmosphere with a very professional feel. It gives the students a realistic example of what the roles and responsibilities of a choreographer are both inside and outside of a university setting."
After the performance, a panel of adjudicators made up of local dance professionals dialog with the students about their work. While this is an invaluable experience for the choreographers in developing their work, it is also a rare glimpse into the creative process for viewers. "It gives the audience an insight into what people are thinking about when they are creating," Morgan said.
This year's adjudicators are Dance Exchange resident artist Sarah Levitt, George Washington University dance professor Kate Mattingly, and chief artistic director of Boris Willis Moves, Boris Willis.
Sixteen American University students, including the choreographers, will dance in the Choreolab showing. Choreographers do not appear in their own pieces so they can observe their work and gain experience teaching and leading their peers.
"What's truly excellent about Choreolab is realizing that the reward in choreography lies in the process, not in the piece you create," van Bever said. "Most of your time is spent in the studio with your fellow dancers, and in the end, that exploration is what's important."


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Safari GameLogic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
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LION=4 points minimum
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GIRAFFE=14 points minimum, but would be worth over 64 points in a certain situation.
Based on this information, what is the minimum number of points for a ZEBRA?
Bonus question: when would a GIRAFFE be worth more than 64 points?
HintWhat game gives points for words?
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The game they were playing is Scrabble, so the minimum number of points therefore Z=10, E=1, B=3, R=1 and A=1, for a total of 16 points.
Note that this minimum is based on not forming other words with letters, and not placing letters on a double/triple letter or double/triple word score.
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Why do the things that we treasure most, slip away in time
Till to the music we grow deaf, to God's beauty blind
Why do the things that connect us slowly pull us apart?
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No kidding! There's nothing I can't stand more than a perfectly good basketball thread ruined by these ruffians and their hair talk...Originally Posted by Harmonica
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Jesus Christ, this thread is random. And it's not a good random, either.
Can't we all get along in this thread people? What happened to the love of VAWRT club?
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What happened? I think you were makin' all the guys uncomfortable looking at their butts like that. Just playin'Originally Posted by PaCeRs_GuRL
Who told you that? man I lost my voice last night b/c of the late 3rd all 4th quarter rallying..the 3 Jax made with 1.8 left...well I think me and Slick were the only ones who yelled BOOM BABY!!!Originally Posted by Pacers#1Fan
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How to avoid alarm management mistakes
This article examines common mistakes made implementing an effective alarm management project and recommends a methodology that will make your plant and personnel more productive.
SAM LEVENSON said, "You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself." When it comes to alarm management, Levenson is correct. Ineffective alarm systems pose a serious risk to safety, the environment, and plant profitability. Too often, alarm system effectiveness is unknowingly undermined by poorly configured alarms. Static alarm settings can't adapt to dynamic plant conditions and many other nuisances result in alarm floods that overwhelm operators just when they most need concise direction.
Operators and engineers in the process control industry have become increasingly aware of the value that alarm management solutions offer. Alarm systems are the primary tool for identifying abnormal situations and helping plant personnel take timely, appropriate action to move the process back to operational targets.
As alarm management solutions become more common, our understanding of the factors that impede their success has grown. If you're thinking of undertaking an alarm management solution, or if you have already started one, the following information based on lessons learned, can help drive your project to success.
Alarm Management Methodology
The overall structure of a successful alarm management project is fundamentally the same across industries, regardless of plant size:
- Benchmark & Evaluate Current Performance: This is the time to identify your biggest alarm system problems and your biggest opportunities for improvement.
- Develop an Alarm Philosophy Document: This critical document clearly outlines key concepts and governing rules for your alarm strategy such as what constitutes an alarm and what risk categories pertain to your site operations. The Philosophy also outlines roles and responsibilities, change management procedures, and the project goals, such as target alarm rates. There is good news for those who find it difficult to compile the Philosophy document. Templates are available that do most of the work for you. All you are required to do is include your specific metrics and situation.
- Alarm Rationalization: First, target and eliminate the top 20 to 30 bad actors to significantly improve alarm loading. Then, perform an alarm system configuration review to ensure priorities convey consistent urgency to the operator.
- Implementation: Control system re-configuration makes the intentions of Alarm Rationalization a reality by eliminating nuisance alarms at their source.
- Continuous Improvement: Routine performance monitoring helps to identify new opportunities for improvement, such as dynamic alarm strategies.
- Maintenance: Integrate alarm management practices into plant workflow to sustain optimized plant performance over the long term.
Now that we have defined the correct execution path, let's take a look at the recent lessons learned by industry.
Blunder #1: Poor Project Management
Poor planning, system design, resource allocation, scheduling, or expectation management can destroy the success of any project. Alarm Management is no exception. This may seem drastically obvious; unfortunately it is here where common sense is often neglected. The single most important alarm management activity is planning -- detailed, systematic, team-involved plans are the foundation for project success.
Blunder #2: Using the Wrong Tools
Alarm and event archiving and the correct analysis tools must be used to ensure that time spent on problem correction delivers the maximum return. All alarms should be reviewed in due course to ensure consistent priorities, but it is inefficient, costly and irresponsible to correct minor nuisances when problems remain that pose serious risk to plant safety.
Beyond simple analysis, tools that enable automatic change control, punch-list generation, and project tracking are available. Forethought should be given to how leveraging alarm information will be achieved once this knowledge is in a repository. Although these tasks can be performed without special software tools, it is not practical to do so. The effort often becomes so daunting that alarm management initiatives can collapse under the weight of their own logistics. It is best to do away with paper trails for change control and spreadsheets posing as Master Alarm Databases. Use the right tools.
Blunder #3: Neglecting to Benchmark
Benchmarking is vital to any serious improvement initiative. If you don't measure your current performance, you won't be able to accurately determine your progress. The first step is to keep track of alarm rates for several weeks in order to get a baseline measurement. Once that's done, assess how your plant's current alarm levels measure up to industry standards.
To get a quick snapshot of where your plant ranks according to EEMUA standards, Matrikon has posted an automated calculator on its website.
When you have finished benchmarking and assessing your current performance, you can start identifying opportunities for improvement. Below are the key questions you need to answer when performing this assessment. Note that this checklist is in order of importance:
- Is the dynamic (real-time) alarm load acceptable for all operators?
- Does the dynamic alarm prioritization meet industry standards?
- What are the troublesome tags on the system during steady-state operation?
- How does the configured DCS alarm count compare to standards (alarms per tag)?
- What does the configured alarm distribution look like compared to standards?
Blunder #4: Stop Philosophizing and Get it Done!
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THE BISHOP of Gloucester the Rt Rev Michael Perham has praised Pope Benedict XV1 for the way he valued the unity of the church in the aftermath of his shock resignation.
Pope Benedict announced that was resigning on Monday saying he was too old to carry on as head of the Catholic Church.
Bishop Michael said: "Pope Benedict has valued the unity of the church and cared deeply about its influence in a world which sometimes seems to have lost its sense of God.
"Christians beyond his own church have reason to be thankful for his ministry as Bishop of Rome and his visit to Britain was, for us here in the British churches, a highlight of his pontificate."
While studying in Rome, Canon Tom Gunning of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Beeches Green, Stroud met the Pope when he was Cardinal Ratzinger.
Canon Gunning also saw him speak in Birmingham in 2010 during his UK visit.
"He always came across as a very holy person but I think he will be remembered more for his academic teachings rather than his time as Pope," said Canon Gunning.
"He accepted the job as Pope but his skills were really in the academic world as he didn't seem to have the managerial skills needed to be the head of such a large office, which can be seen through his mishandling of the various scandals during his pontificate.
"He is 86 well past what most would consider an acceptable age for retirement and I think more Pope's should be retiring rather than suffering on in poor health until their death."
According to the Vatican, the Pope will step down on Thursday, February 28 – making him the first pontiff to resign in nearly 600 years.


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I popped out for a pint of milk and won £100k!
6:00am Tuesday 8th July 2014
By Chloe Chapman
6:00am Tuesday 8th July 2014
By Chloe Chapman
AN UNEMPLOYED man is celebrating a £100,000 scratchcard win – after popping out for a pint of milk.
Sonny Williamson, 29, from Canvey, is looking forward to returning to college to train as a plumber or electrician after his surprise National Lottery win.
He bought the Rainbow 2014 Scratchcard from the Texaco garage, in Somnes Avenue, for £1, so he could get some change to pay his mum back for some late-night snacks.
He had gone along to the petrol station with her because she needed a pint of milk.
Mr Williamson, who lives with his parents and girlfriend, said: "I started to scratch the numbers off in the car and when I had two £100,000 signs in a row I initially mistook it for £100, which would have been nice in itself. When I scratched off the third, I couldn't believe it. I think I went into shock.
"I got mum to check it for me and then woke up my girlfriend when I got home for her to check it, too. It wasn't really until I spoke to the National Lottery that I began to believe it.
"I actually started to shake when I saw my bank balance on the cash machine. It really was like finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.
"I've had a challenging few months looking for a new job, but my family have been there for me throughout, so my first priority will be to treat my parents and my grandparents."
He is also planning to splash out on a holiday to Mexico with his beloved girlfriend, and wants to join the gym – a luxury he could not afford before.
Mr Williamson wants to put some of the money towards his own house.
He added: "I used to play a lot of football, but I'm not very fit now, so I'm going to join a gym.
"All in all, this money will help me get my life back on track to where I want it to be and hopefully I'll be able to set some money aside towards a house.
"I've bought a couple of bottles of expensive aftershave and I'll be buying some new clothes too, but what I'd really like is to go on holiday.
"I went to Mexico seven years ago and loved it, so I'd like to take my girlfriend there as soon
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Decently Anthony Randolph, the 14th pick in June's NBA draft, was dropped.
All the info that I've read says the guy has a ton of potential & a lot of promise. I found it odd that a player like this would be waived before the season, especially in a keeper league.
Until the season starts its first come first served as far as the waiver wire goes.
It took just over 6 hours for someone to put in a claim for Randolph.
Just goes to show you, you never know when someone will drop a player that you might want, or need.
I know none of us can monitor the site 24/7 but I wanted to use this as a great example as to why we each should check in at least once a day.
I've sent some messages out to some in our league using the trade feature. Several of them have not been looked at yet.


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Happy toddler zone
Everything parents need to know about raising happy, healthy little ones. more
Kate Browne is a journalist and mother of two who can also be found blogging, occasionally, at tigersandteapots.blogspot.com
Drinking tea with two friends from mother's group, we watch our toddlers brawling over a pink fairy dress when one friend starts to complain about her relationship. She says that while she still loves her husband, she's just not attracted to him after four years of marriage … and then starts wailing about how maybe he "isn't The One" after all.
The other friend, happily married for 14 years, finally interrupts. "For goodness sake, you're not expected to fancy your husband after a while. Just pretend you're with Ryan Gosling and get on with it, that's what I do." After all, the internet has come to life with fantasy Ryan Gosling tumblrs, where women actively caption handsome Ryan G pictures with their "fantasy man sayings" - like in the F*** Yeah Ryan Gosling tumblr. Swoon.
Have you seen Librarian Hey Girl tumblr? Or Is Ryan Gosling Cuter Than A Puppy tumblr?
There's even a Handmade Ryan Gosling tumblr for craft fans. There are whole communities of women actively sharing their celebrity crushes on Ryan Gosling and posting more photos to ogle at.
To those of us who are newlyweds or newly loved up, this could sound shocking, but it turns out there is method to my friend's madness. A recent UK study shows that having a celebrity crush can actually help your relationship.
Marital therapist Andrew G. Marshall and author of I Love You But … I'm Not In Love With You says fantasising about being wrapped up in Ryan Gosling's arms, while you're actually in your partner's, means your relationship is a healthy one.
He says that while most of us have fantasises, only a small percentage of us actually fantasise about our partner. And a good whack of us fantasise about celebrities. According to relationship experts, a celebrity crush is a safe way of exploring the options you didn't take in real life. So those of us who marry sensible, nice guys might fantasise about the bad boys and vice versa.
I have to confess, my own celebrity crush is Javier Bardem. While he doesn't have classic Hollywood looks - nor is he the kind of guy I would ever go for in real life - in fantasyland he fits the bill: a little bit dangerous, disheveled and, well, kinda hot. While I love my husband dearly, it's bloody hard to think of him as hot as he lies on the couch after a long day at work, snoring like a train.
In my head, Javier always looks hot. He would never fart, whinge or bitch about who's turn it is to change the toddler's nappy. In fact, in my fantasy there is no smelly toddler. There's just me and my Latin lover who is interested in my every move and not whether I remembered to pick up stuff for dinner.
Mind you in reality, I'm sure new dad Javier is up to his ears in smelly nappies with his equally glam partner, Penelope Cruz. And that's the whole point of the celebrity crush - it's safe. It's unlikely I'm going to bump into Javier Bardem picking up my skim latte - but you're in far more dangerous waters if you develop a crush on the guy making the latte.
Andrew G. Marshall says he teaches couples a technique called 'simmering', which encourages them to fantasise about their celebrity crush, then to mentally re-run the fantasy, putting their partner there instead. He even says that it makes things easier if you and your partner can have matching crushes – such as two characters in the same TV show.
Hmmm, that might just work – Javier and Penelope were in the Spanish film Jamon, jamon together. Role play here we come …
But what about you – who's your celebrity crush? Do you fantasise about him instead of your partner? Does it help in the bedroom and in your relationship?


text: Perry ready to challenge young bucks By Doug Smock June 29, 2013 Story Share AP Photo Kenny Perry shot his second consecutive 63 Saturday at the Senior Players Championship in Pittsburgh, leaving him two strokes behind leader Fred Couples going into today's final round. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- When Kenny Perry wobbled out of his last PGA Tour event, he was re-examining his health, his equipment and his game in general.He must have done something right, as he is blowing up on the Champions Tour. The ambassador to The Greenbrier resort shot his second straight 63 Saturday in the Senior Players Championship in Pittsburgh, lifting him to second place. He enters today's final round two shots behind Fred Couples.That gives him some momentum entering his fourth Greenbrier Classic, which begins with practice rounds Monday at the Old White course. The 52-year-old native of Elizabethtown, Ky., will slug it out with the youngsters for the third time this year.He still hangs in there, having made the last two Classic cuts. This year, he finished 33rd in the Byron Nelson Championship and missed the Memorial Tournament cut by three shots.After the latter tournament, Perry planned to get an MRI on his knees, and wondered how he was going to reduce the stress on them. He wasn't sure he would play the upcoming Tradition, a major on the oldsters' circuit, or the Greenbrier over the Fourth of July weekend.As it turns out, he played in the Tradition and two Champions Tour events since, finishing 15th, tied for third and the current second. But it wasn't easy - he called his recovery over the last two weeks a "miracle."He took a cortisone shot in his left knee recently and has had fluid drained out of the joint, freeing him up to walk the course with relative ease."If you have had a needle this long stuck in your knee with a big syringe sucking all that junk out of you, that's not very pleasant,'' Perry said Saturday after his round. "But once they do it, immediately it gives you relief. The pressure's off and you can actually bend your knee, you can actually walk.''He is ninth in the Charles Schwab Cup standings and could crack the top five. Still, he knows he has to adjust his game as much as he has to take care of his knees. "I found out my game has changed so much over the years. I don't hit it high enough and don't spin it enough," he said. "I hit if flatter than I used to, which gives me power off the tee but my iron shots ... I had trouble maneuvering it, keeping it around the hole. I would always hit the green and it would kind of skip over."I don't know what I've got to do - change my swing, change my irons ... I probably need to change shafts. That's probably the direction I'm going to go in."Perry has never won a major on the big tour, but he came close - second in the 1996 PGA Championship, tied for third in the U.S. Open and tied for second in the 2009 Masters. His 14 Tour victories were spread between 1991 and 2009, and his three Memorial victories were spaced from 1991 to 2008.nnPending the four Monday qualifiers, Perry is the second-oldest entrant in the Greenbrier Classic field, behind the legendary Tom Watson, the resort's pro emeritus, who is 63. Last year, Watson no doubt got a chuckle out of beating Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson. Hey, he made the cut and they did not, right? Watson faded with a 71-75, but it showed what he still can do with a club in his hands. The difference is he has trouble with the combination of age and the general lengthening of courses.He is slipping a touch on the Champions Tour, where most players begin in their prime on their 50th birthday. He is 30th in the Schwab Cup standings, and hasn't won a tournament since the 2011 Senior PGA Championship.As for the big tour, Watson probably will play the same three events he played in 2011 and 2012 - the Masters, the British Open and the Greenbrier. He has a lifetime exemption into the Masters and has two years left on his British exemption.The third-oldest member in the field will be 50-year-old journeyman Neal Lancaster, who splits time between tours. No. 4 is Vijay Singh, who turned 50 in February but seems to be in no hurry to join the Champions Tour. In fact, he was 1 under par midway through the suspended second round of the AT&T National in Bethesda, Md., placing him in a tie for 22nd.The native of Fiji and World Golf Hall of Fame member plans to come to the Greenbrier for the second year in a row. He fired a first-round 63 last year and before falling to 33rd.Whether Singh says a peep to anyone, media or not, remains to be seen. He was embroiled in a controversy over his admitted use of deer-antler spray, which was on the Tour's list of banned substances (it has been dropped since). Singh filed suit against the Tour, so that issue isn't dead just yet. Davis Love III and Jeff Maggert are 49, while Jesper Parnevik, Scott Verplank and Steven Ames are 48.nnAs for the rest of the field, it appears to be less accomplished than last year's collection, but not by much.With the resurrected Woods in the fold, the 2012 Classic fielded 14 of the world's top 30 ranked players, 35 of the top 70 and 54 of the top 100.That may be too much to duplicate for the foreseeable future. Led by Mickelson, this week's field will feature seven of the top 30, 17 of the top 70 and 28 of the top 100, with 37 of the next 100.By a very unofficial calculation, the tournament will be worth 42 ranking points to the winner. That is below the 48 of last year but well ahead of the 32 given in 2010 and 2011.Reach Doug Smock at 304-348-5130, firstname.lastname@example.com or follow him at twitter.com/dougsmock. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Facebook founder visits Cabin Creek Health Systems 2 Teen pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter in Oakes Field shooting 3 Huggins, WVU tap South Florida hoops talent 4 Safety shutoff disabled prior to June coal-mining death, report says 5 New company planning $73M synthetic fuel plant in Greenbrier County WVU's missing hoopers; a look back at the 2010 Final Four team Previous Story Poca's Hamrick, NM's Lee invited to play in Greenbrier Classic events Next Story


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China is planning to bring back gold standards for international payment after several decades. Being the world's largest importer of yellow metal, China is now preparing to launch an oil futures contract denominated in yuan and redeemable in gold. While the yuan is not yet a global trade settlement currency, China will make the plan possible by backing the yuan with gold for settling crude oil imports. China is also the largest importer of crude oil. Source Business Standard
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NAEYC Celebrates National Worthy Wage Day on May 1
(Washington, D.C.) –The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is proud to celebrate May 1, 2009, as National Worthy Wage Day. Early childhood professionals and families nationwide have chosen today to highlight the need for increased pay, better conditions of work, and greater respect for our young children's educators and caregivers.
"Educating and caring for our youngest children is demanding work," said Mark R. Ginsberg, Ph.D., executive director of NAEYC. "The education and nurturing that children receive today will lay the groundwork for their success in school and beyond. The work of early learning professionals demands respect and fair compensation."
At least 2 million people across the country are working to teach and care for our young children. Despite the value of their work, the average salary of a child care staff member is less than $20,000 annually most often with no benefits.
President Barack Obama's administration has already taken the first steps in ensuring that a down payment has been made toward adequate investments in early childhood education with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). While some of that investment will go toward professional development and training of high-quality teachers, a large part of maintaining that high-quality early childhood workforce is by ensuring our teachers are adequately paid for their hard work and expertise.
Worthy Wage Day came out of an ongoing Worthy Wage Campaign, launched in 1991 by the Center for the Child Care Workforce. The national campaign was designed to draw attention to the important work of early childhood educators and the urgent need to improve the wages, benefits, professional development opportunities and working conditions for early childhood educators.
Founded in 1926, the National Association for the Education of Young Children has nearly 90,000 members worldwide. The association is the largest and most influential voice for early childhood education professionals and the field of early childhood education in the United States
Founded in 1926, the National Association for the Education of Young Children is the largest and most influential advocate for high-quality early care and education in the United States.


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Focus on the quality of your forecasts rather than the accuracy.
As most corporate finance execs know, the value of many merger and acquisition transactions can run into seven, eight or nine figures. Indeed, a recent Thomson Reuters report, "Mergers & Acquisitions Review," found that worldwide M&A totaled $542.8 billion in the first quarter of 2013. Deals of more than $5 billion accounting for nearly one-third of that sum.
Despite the often enormous sums companies dedicate to M&A, a surprisingly large number of CFOs are less-than-confident in the information provided by the financial forecasts their teams develop to support their M&A decisions. In fact, just one-quarter of executives are very confident in their forecasts' accuracy, according to Deloitte's fourth annual Corporate Development Survey. About two-thirds are somewhat confident; eight percent are not confident. In addition, 43 percent said they could identify no discernible pattern of accuracy in their forecasts.
Chris Ruggeri, principal with Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP and a leader in the firm's M&A practice, points out the potential risks of off-target M&A projections: "At a minimum, you can get flawed business decisions," she says. In extreme cases, you can have business disruptions." Moreover, the finger-pointing that can ensue when forecasts fail to provide a reasonable projection of potential results can corrode the company's culture. Ultimately, that can erode value, she adds.
Several missteps can lead to suboptimal forecasts, Ruggeri notes. One is failing to take the time upfront to "understand the critical dynamics." Instead, finance teams sometimes move right to the spreadsheets.
Instead, the stakeholders involved should be identifying the factors associated with the transaction that are likely to create value or contribute to risk. Ruggeri provides an example: say an energy company is considering an investment in additional production facilities in order to drive top line growth. The evaluation should include, among other factors, an analysis of the impact of changes in competitors' volumes on commodity prices. "Stop and frame the business decision the forecast is going to underpin," Ruggeri says. That allows you to measure the possible risk and value creation under different business conditions.
In the report, Charles Alsdorf, director with Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP compares the forecasting process to a football game: "Coaches do not spend time predicting the final score. Instead, they develop a thoughtful game plan that accentuates the strengths of their team, compensates for weaknesses, makes sure their players are prepared, sizes up the competition, and pays attention to game day field conditions."
As Alsdorf suggests, it's often tempting to focus on the accuracy of a forecast. That can be misguided, Ruggeri says, noting that nobody truly can predict the future. Instead, the focus should be on quality: are the assumptions underlying the forecast solid, and does the forecast provide insight into deal terms and value realization?
Another potential error: delegating the process to junior-level employees, with more experienced, senior staffers coming in only at the end. To be sure, it may be appropriate that some of the number crunching is handled by more junior employees. "You can delegate, but it's the informed judgment of senior people that makes all the difference," Ruggeri says. The process has to incorporate "the experience required to interpret and apply results in making business decisions."
One interesting finding from the survey: one-third of respondents report using social media in their M&A decisions. The top applications: target identification and due diligence. At the same time, respondents identified several impediments to the use social media in this context, including concerns about confidentiality and information reliability.