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Tottenham – an overlooked fairytale?
From relegation strugglers to title favourites in less than a year, Leicester's remarkable rise has been the story of the season, with many neutrals hoping they can clinch the Premier League title in May.
As the team most likely to stop them, Tottenham have become the pantomime villain in the Foxes' fairytale. But with the chance to win their first league title in 55 years, Spurs' own story is as remarkable as it is impressive.
A team transformed
Last season Tottenham finished fifth in the Premier League – 23 points behind champions Chelsea – and conceded as many goals as relegated Burnley.
In less than 12 months, the north London side's improvement has been remarkable. Not only are they the top scorers in the league, but they also now have the best defence.
Only in terms of taking their chances have Spurs failed to improve, despite Harry Kane having another excellent season.
Ranked as sixth favourites for the title at odds of 150-1 by many bookmakers at the start of the season, Tottenham could become the first side to finish outside the top four one season and win the title the next since their arch-rivals Arsenal in 1989.
Achieving that feat would see them win their first top-flight title since 1961 and only the third in their history, moving them level with the likes of Blackburn Rovers and Huddersfield Town.
Winning with kids
It is 20 years since Alan Hansen's famous claim that "you can't win anything with kids" was disproved by a title-winning Manchester United side brimming with talented youngsters such as Paul Scholes, David Beckham and Gary Neville.
However, if Tottenham do win the title this season, they would outdo even that side to become the youngest champions in Premier League history.
While Manchester United did have more players aged under 23 than this current Spurs side, it also had experienced veterans in their 30s such as Denis Irwin, Steve Bruce and Gary Pallister to lead them, while the oldest outfield player in Tottenham's squad this season is 28-year-old centre-back Jan Vertonghen.
An English core
Although there is concern over the number of English players in the Premier League, Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino has placed great faith in them, with Harry Kane, Eric Dier, Kyle Walker, Dele Alli and Danny Rose heavily involved in Spurs' title challenge.
Only four Premier League teams have given more minutes this season to English players than Tottenham, while the three title favourites at the start of the campaign – Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal – have, along with Newcastle, given the least.
Pochettino's trust in English players has been to the benefit of the national team, with Rose, Dier, Alli and Kane all starting and starring in England's 3-2 win over Germany on Saturday.
The understanding between Alli and Kane is actually the most prolific in Europe's top five leagues this season, with the midfielder setting up seven of the striker's goals – a fact that will please England manager Roy Hodgson heading into the summer.
If the club's English players continue to play such an integral part and help them win the Premier League, Tottenham would be the champions with the most English representation since Manchester United lifted the trophy in 2001.
Shrewd operators
One of the reasons why Leicester's title challenge is so remarkable is that they are outdoing the big-spending clubs of the Premier League.
But while Tottenham have spent £256m on players over the past five seasons – still significantly less than the two Manchester clubs, Chelsea and Liverpool – they have sold an incredible £293m worth of talent, meaning they have actually brought in more money than they have spent in that time.
Even Leicester in their two seasons back in the Premier League have a net spend of £48m compared to Tottenham's £7m.
In an era in which it is often claimed that English players are too expensive, it is worth noting that Rose, Alli and Dier – all of whom started alongside academy graduate Harry Kane on Saturday in Germany – cost a combined £10m.
Pochettino, the trophy novice
It is well known that Leicester manager Claudio Ranieri is yet to win a major league title in his managerial career, but Tottenham's title challenge is being led by a man who is yet to win a trophy of any kind as a manager.
Ranieri has experience of winning the Coppa Italia with Fiorentina and the Copa del Rey with Valencia. However, Tottenham boss Pochettino would become the first manager for whom the Premier League trophy would be his first silverware if Spurs were to be successful in May.
Fairytale ending
In any other Premier League season, a club going from title outsiders to title challengers by shrewdly assembling a squad of young players with a strong English core under a manager yet to win a trophy would be the story of the season.
That it is not makes Tottenham the Cristiano Ronaldo of this season's Premier League – a fantastic story in their own right, but just unfortunate that an arguably even better one is taking place at the same time.
Leicester's story is undoubtedly incredible, but Tottenham lifting the trophy in May would arguably also be the most remarkable title win in Premier League history.


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We're two weeks into the World Cup and the excitement hasn't yet stopped.
Here's how Day 14 shook out:
Nigeria 2-3 Argentina | Full Recap
Argentina's Leo Messi and Nigeria's Ahmed Musa put on a show in this one, both scoring a pair of goals in an entertaining 3-2 win for La Albiceste over the Super Eagles.
The result pushed Argentina to a perfect 3-0-0 in Group F, giving them top honors in the group. Despite the loss, Nigeria still qualified for the Round of 16, advancing by virtue of already-eliminated Bosnia-Herzegovina's win over Iran.
Messi got things going early, slamming a rebound of an Angel Di Maria shot home to put Argentina up 1-0 in the third minute. Musa answered less than a minute later, running onto a pass on the left wing, cutting in on his right foot and curling a pretty shot inside the far post to make it 1-1.
Messi scored his fourth goal of the tournament to put Argentina up 2-1 in first half stoppage time, curling a free kick from the right side over the wall and into the top corner at the near post. Not a bad effort from the Barcelona star. Check it out:
Lionel Messi's curling free kick gave Argentina a 2-1 lead. Check out this #SCtop10 rocket. VIDEO: http://t.co/xtoikxjhKs
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) June 25, 2014
Musa again ensured that Argentina didn't have the lead long, scoring just two minutes into the second half to pull the Super Eagles level at 2-2. Argentina had the last word three minutes later, with Marcos Rojo scoring in the 50th minute to give La Albiceleste a lead that they wouldn't relinquish.
As mentioned above, Argentina finished a perfect 3-0-0 and won Group F. They'll play the Group E runner-up in the Round of 16 at 10 a.m. MT on Tuesday. Nigeria finished group play 1-1-1 and will take on the Group E winner – likely France – in the Round of 16 on Monday, also at 10 a.m. MT.
Bosnia-Herzegovina 3-1 Iran | Full Recap
Iran could've made history on Wednesday, as Team Melli could've advanced to the Round of 16 for the first time in its history with a win over Bosnia-Herzegovina and some help from Argentina in its game against Nigeria.
Iran got the help it needed from Argentina, but it was Bosnia-Herzegovina making history on Tuesday, registering the first World Cup win in their country's short history by taking down the Middle Eastern side 3-1.
Roma midfielder Miralem Pjanic was the star for Bosnia-Herzegovina, registering an assist on Edin Dzeko's 23rd minute opener before putting The Dragons up 2-0 with a 59th minute goal. Iran pulled one back through Reza Ghoochannejhad in the 82nd minute, but Bosnia quickly restored its two goal lead, with Avdija Vrsajevic scoring in the 83rd to make it 3-1.
Wednesday's result moved Bosnia-Herzegovina to 1-2-0 in their first World Cup, placing them in third in Group F. Iran finished the group stage with a 0-2-1 mark, finishing in fourth in Group F.
Ecuador 0-0 France | Full Recap
Ecuador needed a win against France on Wednesday to have any shot at advancing to the Round of 16.
Unfortunately, they fell flat on their face, not creating much in the attack and going down a man in the 59th minute when Captain Antonio Valencia was shown a deserved straight red card. France controlled most of the match, registering a slew of chances but struggling to put any of them away.
Wednesday's result kept France undefeated in the group stage, giving Les Blues a first place finish in Group E with a 2-0-1 record. France will resume play on Monday, when they'll take on Group F runner-up Nigeria at 10 a.m. MT in the Round of 16.
Ecuador will now head home as the only South American side not to qualify for the Round of 16. RSL forward Joao Plata's home country finished the tournament with a 1-1-1 record.
Honduras 0-3 Switzerland | Full Recap
Switzerland star Xherdan Shaqiri turned in one of the performances of the World Cup on Wednesday, registering the tournament's second hat trick in Switzerland's 3-0 win over Honduras.
The win propelled the Swiss past Ecuador and into second place in Group E, advancing the European side to the Round of 16, where they'll take on Group F winners Argentina on Tuesday.
Shaqiri got things going for the Swiss early, scoring a fine goal in the sixth minute to put his team up 1-0.
You have to see this: Shaqiri's magical strike to put #SUI up 1-0. WATCH » http://t.co/a4PTfbsoIp
— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) June 25, 2014
Shaqiri put Switzerland up 2-0 in the 31st minute, putting away a Josip Drmic ball to double the advantage. He completed his hat trick in the 71st minute, again firing home a Drmic ball to give the Swiss a 3-0 lead.
Honduras will now head home from the tournament, finishing their run at this World Cup with a 0-3-0 record.

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Mother's Life No Longer a Mystery
When Eleanor Freedman died of breast cancer in 1974, she left behind three children, a husband, and a life marked by failed promise. She was 50 years old. Her oldest son, Samuel, was 17 at the time of her death. Now Samuel Freedman, who grew up to be a New York Times journalist and author ("Jew vs. Jew" won the National Jewish Book Award in 2000), has turned his journalistic eye toward his own family.
In his new book, "Who She Was: The Search for My Mother's Life," Freedman tells a story of extraordinary tensions in an ordinary Jewish home in the Bronx in the 1930s and '40s. Much of the strain was a ripple effect of the Holocaust on Jews who fled to America, and then had to watch helplessly as the relatives they left behind perished.
Freedman was inspired to learn more about his mother's life after avoiding her grave for more than 25 years — either out of grief or denial — when he came upon it at the funeral of a relative. One of his last memories of his mother was having her come to visit him during his freshman year of college. In typical adolescent logic, he told her she could accompany him to class only if she promised to pretend she didn't know him. While countless other teenagers have committed similar offenses, it haunted Freedman that one of his last interactions with his mother had been so rejecting. He not only rejected her while she was alive, in her death he had remained adamantly uncurious about her.
"We had been stopped and frozen forever," Freedman reflected over the phone from his home in New York, where he teaches journalism at Columbia University. "I had always thought of her life as having a classic immigrant trajectory: fighting against the ties of tradition and family, and emerging bruised, but unbowed. I think the truth though is something much sadder."
He began to uncover his mother's life by interviewing anyone who'd known her that he could find — even a high school boyfriend who lived in Chattanooga, Tenn. Freedman discovered a young woman who longed to embrace the opportunities America provided, but was routinely unable to do. Despite being a gifted student, Eleanor could not attend college because of her father's inability to sustain an income. She was also unable to marry a man whom she waited for throughout World War II, an Italian Catholic named Charlie Greco.
"The big surprise was, having known only a general outline of her life, finding out how much pain she had endured," Freedman said.
His mother, Eleanor, constantly battled her own mother, Rose, over weight, religious observance and money. Their endless fights culminated in Eleanor having to give up the love of her life, Charlie, when Rose threatened suicide if her daughter were to marry a non-Jew.
Rose, devastated that she was unable to save her sister from perishing in the Holocaust, blamed every non-Jew she met for the loss she had suffered, and Charlie, despite all his good efforts to win Rose's favor, was no exception.
Eleanor was never able to forgive Rose for rejecting Charlie, and spent the rest of her life at war with her mother. When Freedman was young, he would come upon his grandmother snapping all of his mother's lipsticks in two. And Eleanor, when she knew she was dying, requested that her mother be barred from her funeral.
While the book offers vivid and novel-like descriptions of Eleanor's life throughout, it is at its most compelling when it brings to life the tensions and conflicts that Jews in the Bronx faced from the Great Depression to the end of World War II. Many of these Jews, including Rose, had been modernists in Europe. But coming to a strange world in America and then witnessing the Holocaust from afar resulted in such confusion and panic that they reverted to the traditional Jewish roles many had abandoned in their young adulthood.
Rose was changed by America and by being unable to extract her beloved sister from Europe. (Her efforts did save several family members who immigrated to Uruguay and live there today.) Rose reacted by reverting to a balabuste from the Old Country. Speaking only Yiddish and pawing through garbage at the grocer's to salvage vegetables, she diminished the joy Eleanor found in America and its possibilities.
"The book allowed me to really see how the Holocaust affected my family," Freedman said.
He'd known that he lost relatives in the war, but never understood its deep impact on his own life: "I was able to get into the marrow of the experience of who was lost, the failed efforts to save people, the human toll. That kind of loss twists lives beyond recognition."
On Wednesday, April 20 at 7 p.m., Samuel G. Freedman will read from "Who She Was" at Dutton's Beverly Hills Books, 447 N. Canon Drive Beverly Hills. For more information, call (310) 281-0997.
Ruth Andrew Ellenson is a journalist and the editor of the forthcoming anthology, "The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt" (August 2005, Dutton).


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Bill Ackman, who has an economic interest in 26% of Longs Drugs (LDG) shares says the CVS (NYSE:CVS) offer is insufficient and is getting his own buyers. The CEO of CVS answers his claim this morning on CBNC.
From the Letter:
We and our financial advisor are pursuing alternative transaction partners for the Company. We have identified four potential buyers including two separate strategic buyers, a REIT and a real estate private equity investor, each of which we believe is interested in pursuing an alternative transaction with the Company. Some of these parties have been identified in the press while others have not. We are confident that the Company and its advisors would view each of these parties as bona fide and will recognize each as having the willingness and ability to pay substantially more than $71.50, including any lawful break-up fee, in addition to a substantial premium to shareholders.
While we can give no assurance that any party will come forward with an offer, the likelihood of such an event would materially increase if interested parties have more time to do their work and if the Company appropriately responds to inquiries that could lead to one or more superior offers.
Fortunately, given the tender offer's 66 2/3% minimum tender condition, the Board has empowered shareholders to act on their own behalf by choosing not to tender into the offer at this time. Moreover, given the put right described above, shareholders retain the optionality to sell at a later date and get paid dividends while they wait.
While the terms of the Transaction limit the Company's ability to fully re-open the auction process, Pershing Square and Blackstone are not limited from seeking higher and better offers. We are continuing to do just that. Blackstone will carry on its efforts to encourage potentially interested parties to approach the Company with alternative transactions. We are hopeful that, if such parties move forward with alternative transaction proposals, the Company's Board of Directors and its advisors will welcome the opportunity for a better deal.
We will update you with our progress within 45 days. Please feel free to call me if you have any questions.
On CNBC today the CEO of CVS answered Ackman's comments from yesterday. Here is what Ackman said:
Now, the CVS CEO's answer:
It is unfortunate that neither CVS or CNBC seemed to be aware of the Ackman letter from yesterday. Perhaps the discussion would have been more accurate had they been aware of the other potential buyers?
No matter who you believe here is the really sad part of this whole thing. Ackman, whether you admire or despise him is doing the very job the Board of Directors and the CEO of Long's should have done, maximize the potential value for shareholders.
The more I see stuff like this the more I start to lean toward the camps of people who want more shareholder rights and control...and I don't even have any skin in this particular game
Bill Ackman, who has an economic interest in 26% of Longs Drugs (LDG) shares says the CVS (NYSE:CVS) offer is insufficient and is getting his own buyers. The CEO of CVS answers his claim this morning on CBNC.


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This is the HIS 242 course syllabus (home page). On this page, you will find important information about the course and the links to the course assignment schedules.
Course Policies and Procedures
Required books
The text for the course is Nicholas Riasanovsky and Mark Steinberg, A History of Russia, 8th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 9780195341973). Earlier editions of this textbook cover much of the same material but lack coverage of Russian events over the last twenty years. If you wish, you can read my Explanation of why I choose this text.
There are two short paperbacks required:
You may also choose to read Lawrence Scott Sheets, 8 Pieces of Empire (Crown Publishers, ISBN 978-0-307-39582-5; any edition is acceptable).
Please check the ELI bookstore website for information on purchasing/renting your textbooks (new or used). If you wish to purchase your books in person, then you will have to travel to the Alexandria bookstore.
If you are wondering whether you must buy the textbook, then please watch this short video.
General course purpose
This course reviews the history of Russia from about 1900 to the present and introduces students to the developments of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Students will examine the major themes and issues that have defined Russia's recent past and also study some Russian cultural achievements in areas such as art, architecture, music, theater, dance, literature and philosophy.
Course objectives
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to::
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Although there are no formal prerequisites for this course, please consider:
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Make sure that you check the very IMPORTANT Explanation of Assignments and Grading, which has information about grading in the course. There are Special Course Grading Requirements that you must meet to successfully pass the course.
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AFTER 11 years as office head at Knight Frank Oxford, Damian Gray has been promoted to the newly created role of regional chairman of North Thames and Chilterns.
William Kirkland takes over as head of office, leading a 27-strong team.
Mr Gray will manage the network of five offices in Oxford, Beaconsfield, Berkhamsted, Bishop's Stortford and Henley.
Mr Kirkland has over 19 years of experience and before joining Knight Frank in 2012, was director at John D Wood in Oxford.
David Peters, head of country business and valuations, said: "Damian has been a vital part of Knight Frank's country business for more than 28 years.


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Ahead of Ireland's Saturday evening Test match against Argentina, coach Joe Schmidt has talked of the unique challenges his team will face against the combative side.
Before November's Guinness Series, which will see Ireland facing off against Australia, South Africa and Georgia, the team has travelled to Argentina, where they will face the hosts in a two-match Test tour.
Former Leinster manager Schmidt is very aware of the challenges facing his side in South America.
"It's going to be very, very tough here [in Argentina,]" Schmidt told RTÉ Sport.
"It'll be hostile. It's a place where Test-match rugby hasn't been before. The local population will be very much behind the Argentinians. It's a pitch that's a different size.
"The combative way the Argentinians play, they're a little bit more unknown, they're a little bit harder to predict than other teams we've played."
Thinking back to his childhood days, Schmidt said he has followed the Argentinians for decades and has been impressed by their intensity when playing on home soil.
"I've seen Argentinian teams get hockeyed away from home, and then suddenly they come back here [to Argentina] and there's a whole different mindset."
The coach said, however, that the difficulties his team face in the upcoming match will provide each player an opportunity to prove his resilience and skill.
"One of the things that you want to find out is how do players cope in a tough environment," said Schmidt.
"We just really want to see how [the players] manage the situation."
Especially for the younger players – including Ulster's Robbie Diack who will make his debut in the match – the Test will represent a chance for emerging talent to show what they can do for the national team.
Schmidt said: "It's a great opportunity, and it's a real responsibility because if that opportunity [to play] is afforded to you, then I think you've got to reciprocate with the best performance you can put together."
Schmidt said that while selecting the squad for the Argentina Test was "difficult in some ways," it was "actually relatively easy in other ways."
A number of players were fatigued coming out of the Pro12 final, and there was a group of younger players that Schmidt and his team want to learn more of going forward, according to the coach.
Schmidt said: "To be able to adapt and endure a fairly tough Test match, a very tough environment, it's going to give us a bit more information about how these guys are going to cope in the future."
Ireland: 15 Felix Jones; 14 Andrew Trimble, 13 Darren Cave, 12 Luke Marshall, 11 Simon Zebo; 10 Johnny Sexton, 9 Conor Murray; 1 Jack McGrath, 2 Rory Best, 3 Mike Ross; 4 Iain Henderson, 5 Paul O'Connell; 6 Robbie Diack, 7 Chris Henry, 8 Jordi Murphy.
Replacements: 16 Damien Varley, 17 Dave Kilcoyne, 18 Rodney Ah You, 19 Devin Toner, 20 Jamie Heaslip, 21 Kieran Marmion, 22 Ian Madigan, 23 Fergus McFadden.


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The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt (Paperback)
Random House Trade, 9780553384901, 656pp.
Publication Date: January 8, 2013
The Washington Post - Publishers Weekly In this landmark volume, one of the world's most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its absorption into the Roman Empire. Drawing upon forty years of archaeological research, award-winning scholar Toby Wilkinson takes us inside a tribal society with a pre-monetary economy and decadent, divine kings who ruled with all-too-recognizable human emotions. Here are the legendary leaders: Akhenaten, the "heretic king," who with his wife Nefertiti brought about a revolution with a bold new religion; Tutankhamun, whose dazzling tomb would remain hidden for three millennia; and eleven pharaohs called Ramesses, the last of whom presided over the militarism, lawlessness, and corruption that caused a political and societal decline. Filled with new information and unique interpretations, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt is a riveting and revelatory work of wild drama, bold spectacle, unforgettable characters, and sweeping history. "With a literary flair and a sense for a story well told, Mr. Wilkinson offers a highly readable, factually up-to-date account."--The Wall Street Journal " Wilkinson] writes with considerable verve. . . . He] is nimble at conveying the sumptuous pageantry and cultural sophistication of pharaonic Egypt."--The New York Times
About the Author
Praise For The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt…
"A magnificent, illuminating and refreshingly readable overview of the entire phenomenon of ancient Egypt."—The Washington Post
"Magisterial . . . [A] rich portrait of ancient Egypt's complex evolution over the course of three millenniums."—Los Angeles Times
"With a literary flair and a sense for a story well told, Mr. Wilkinson offers a highly readable, factually up-to-date account."—The Wall Street Journal
"[Wilkinson] writes with considerable verve. . . . [He] is nimble at conveying the sumptuous pageantry and cultural sophistication of pharaonic Egypt."—The New York Times
"Engrossing . . . Readers will find it hard to put down. . . . This book will serve as a standard for general readers and college students alike."—Library Journal (starred review)
"Absolutely divine . . . a thorough, erudite and enthusiastic gallop through an astonishing three thousand years."—The Sunday Times


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We've Got The Power This program shows viewers how the United States can replace fossil fuels with clean energy in a way that is economically beneficial to consumers and businesses alike, and ensures a safer environment for future generations. By driving electric vehicles, installing solar on our roofs, or doing something as simple as getting a home energy audit, we all have the power to improve energy efficiency, save money, and phase out fossil fuels.G
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NOVA "Inside Animal Minds: Bird Genius" Researchers are discovering that some creatures master skills purportedly restricted to humans. Many are bird brains. Meet a cockatoo with a talent for picking locks. See a wild crow on a mission to solve an eight-step puzzle box so quickly his performance has to be captured with high-speed photography. NOVA examines whether these are skills revealing high intelligence, or just parlor tricks and the result of training and instinct. Part 3 of 3G
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Everyone is dreaming of having the most fascinating Home Theater. There are also other gadgets that need video and you may be wondering what would be the best one to give you the most captivating graphics.
With the signaling standards like RCA, HDMI, S-Video, the audio quality is also affected. You will end up using different cables depending on the model of your appliances with the video component. I guess everyone would love to have the most crisp, clear and vivid video ever with a surround sound to match it.
Some of the standards have evolved from the RCA to HDMI and to S-Video, Component for the DVR, Blu-ray player, console gaming, home theater televisions, personal computer, laptop, projector and other gadgets. You should get to know the various types of signaling standards in order to have a deeper understanding of different audio and video quality.
And What Are The Different Signaling Standards?
1. RCA connector
This is the signaling standard that your parents where using with their TVs and other gadgets. It can be considered the oldest one for all the signaling standards. It is analog type and is capable of multiple connections.
It is not recommended for digital signals. For our modern digital world today it would be better for you to upgrade instead of using other adaptors to connect with a digital signal.
2. Component
This is the signaling standard that is further divided into more component channels.
It is also an analog type but a more advanced one with higher color resolution. You can say that this kind of signaling standard has a highly acceptable video output
3. S-Video (Super-Video)
It's also known as Separate Video or Super Video. This is for the standard definition video.
It has the capability to separate black-and-white and coloring signals that produces better image quality than the Component type of signaling standard.
However, it has a lower color resolution compared to the Component Video.
4. HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface)
This standard Is the highly recommended signaling standard that you should use. Unlike the Component it has the best solution for the audio and video signal. It can deliver the best audio quality with uncompressed audio into the 8 channels.
It will deliver a full capacity of 7.1 speaker experience which is popularly known as the Dolby TrueHd and DTS HD. This signaling standard will give your home theater or other gadgets the highest boost for the audio and video quality.
RCA To HDMI
A common problem for most people is that they still have appliances or gadgets with an RCA signaling standard and they would like to connect with other gadgets with an HDMI signaling standard.
It can be remedied with an RCA to HDMI converter but if you are really looking for the highest audio and video quality, I would suggest for you to upgrade your TV or other gadgets. We now live in a digital world and it would be best if you are using HDMI as it is the highly recommended signaling standard as of today.


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The number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment benefits fell for the third straight week, evidence that layoffs are continuing to ease in the earliest stages of an economic recovery.
The Labor Department said yesterday that initial claims for unemployment insurance dropped to a seasonally adjusted 530,000 from an upwardly revised 551,000 the previous week. Wall Street economists expected claims to rise by 5,000, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.
The four-week average of jobless claims, which smooths out fluctuations, dropped to 553,500. That's the lowest since late January, though still far above the 325,000 weekly claims typical in a healthy economy.
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Vical shares rise 5% on positive vaccine test news
Shares of Vical rose 5 percent yesterday after the San Diego biotechnology company said animal tests of a cancer vaccine with its Vaxfectin technology showed encouraging results.
The company said it will present data at an upcoming conference that demonstrates the Vaxfectin adjuvant's ability to enhance the immune responses of cancer antigen-based vaccines, as well as a variety of vaccines against infectious diseases.
Vical shares closed at $4.43, up 21 cents.
Thomas Kupper
Battery company with link to Qualcomm debuts well
A Massachusetts battery company that counts San Diego-based Qualcomm as one of its early investors had a strong debut in its initial public stock offering yesterday.
The company makes lithium-ion batteries for the car market. Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs is on the company's board, according to regulatory filings.
A123 Systems' shares rose $6.79, or 50 percent, to close at $20.29 on their first day of trading. On Wednesday, A123 Systems issued 28.1 million shares at $13.50, raising $378 million.
The Watertown, Mass., company is eight years old and unprofitable. Wireless giant Qualcomm owns a 5.5 percent stake after the IPO.
Mike Freeman
ViaSat awarded two more modem terminal orders
ViaSat, a Carlsbad maker of satellite equipment, has been awarded two additional orders valued at more than $10 million for satellite ground modem terminals for the military.
ViaSat will provide terminals and spare components for the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command.
The orders are in addition to $21 million in similar modem terminals previously announced.
Mike Freeman
Nonresidential building permit activity declines
Nonresidential building permit activity fell to $95 million last month in San Diego County, down from $108.9 million in July and $202 million in August 2008, the Construction Industry Research Board reported.
For the fourth month out of the past eight, there were no new industrial buildings authorized.
Commercial permits rose dramatically, from $941,000 in July to $4.4 million in August, but that was a fraction of the $21.5 million for August 2008 and $61.5 million in August 2007. Miscellaneous permits were up from $7.1 million to $7.9 million, while alterations and additions rose from $30 million to $30.4 million.
Year to date, nonresidential valuations stood at $424.8 million, down 46.3 percent from $791.1 million for the same period last year and $945.3 million in 2007.
Roger Showley
Solera Holdings, a San Diego-based software provider to companies that process auto insurance claims, will be added to the Standard & Poor's MidCap 400 on Oct. 1.
U.S. auto sales should improve modestly next year as tight credit for auto financing eases, General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson said.


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Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, we have hea rd a lot of debate over the past few days on the question of fairness. Every Member of this body supports equal pay for equal work. I could not find anybody who does not support that.
But this so-called Ledbetter bill is a trial lawyers' bailout. It is not about fair pay.
Pay discrimination has been illegal since 1963. Let me say that again. Since 1963. This bill is about effectively eliminating the statute of limitations on pay discrimination. It unfairly targets business owners who, in many cases, will no longer have the evidence they will need to mount a just defense.
As we all know, job creators have enough to worry about these days. We should not add the threat of never-ending lawsuits. Republicans have a better idea to ensure fairness in the workplace. Senator Hutchison has crafted a commonsense proposal that says the clock should not run out on someone who has been discriminated against until he or she discovers the alleged discrimination. That is fair to both sides.
If we are going to grow our economy, we need to focus on legislation that will create jobs, not put undue hardships on job creators. So we will have an opportunity to vote on the Hutchison amendment, which is absolutely fair to anyone who has been discriminated against in the workplace but also does not create a plaintiffs' lawyer bailout, which is what is at stake if we pass this bill without the Hutchison amendment.
I yield the floor and I suggest the absence of a quorum.
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They met up with all the man's work people
They missed the child
Last week Randall and I traveled to Minnesota for a company retreat. It was a nice change of pace. It was our first time to travel together without Henry. I willed him over to Juju for the week, after he had a brief stay with his Nana. I am so glad we have such sweet family who love our boy and take any opportunity to keep him for us. Sweetness.
Juju met us and handed over the baby boy. It was a struggle to have her give him up, but she did it and we were so very glad to see his sweet face. He heard our voices and went crazy. It was precious. Juju is a good second Mama. I willed her to him as I boarded the itty-bitty plane that took us to our little resort town in Minnesota. It sort of freaked me out so I texted her and said "Raise him well and tell him we love him!" ha.
After we got Henry loaded in the truck we headed to the Fort to see Marmie and the gang! Henry loved having his Marmie feed him Hawaiian Delight for the first time. She and Henry are quite the pair. He looks so much like her side of the family. They have an instant bond. I love it.
We got to eat dinner at TBEO's new house. It is so pretty. I always love a good visit with my Aunt J and Uncle Mike. He is crazy about babies and loved seeing Henry. A dose of hometown family is always nice for this west Arkansas girl. (I may live in NEA but that is not where my heart is. ha!)
A trip to the Fort is not complete without a little time with this ole gal. She is my forever BFF. Melissa and I had not yet introduced Luke and Henry to each other. It was so cute and I am so glad we got this picture. We drove over to her house and hung out in her yard for a while and we all have the mosquito bites to prove it. It was worth it, I say! I love this girl like family. She and I have been through it all and know each other better than we like to admit. ha!
We had to introduce Henry to the historical section of the Fort. A ride on the cannon was a must. I have a photo of me riding this cannon when I was a senior in high school, but I can assure you it it is not near as cute and innocent as this snapshot is!
Henry and his Daddy under the gallows at Judge Parker's Courthouse. Many men were killed at this exact spot. Sort of freaky and sort of cool at the same time.
My sweet baby boy at his great-grandfather's grave site at the national cemetery in the Fort. I wanted to take him there and get this photo and I am so glad it turned out like it did. I love his expression and how reserved he acted/looked while at the cemetery. It was like he knew. My Pawpaw in the Army and a POW in WWII. He was a Godly and hard working man who died 4 days after my 5th birthday. I only knew him for a short time but his legacy lives on in me. My little boy looks just like him!
And here he is....Joe Cool in a real pool for the first time. I took him to Melissa's parents pool and he loved it. I promised him that I would take him back before Summer's end. His Juju bought him the little float. It was darling!
We are now back at home and getting into the normal swing of things...whatever "normal" is these days. Henry loves playing with his stuffed loon we brought him from Minnesota. It is their state bird and you know how his Daddy loves anything that has wings! My little Arkansas baby is proud to be back in his own bed and with his Mama and Daddy. He loved all the kisses and visits from all his friends and family. We are so blessed.
So, what fun things have you been up to?


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Democratic Values v. Virtues: Brettschneider on Ordered Liberty
How can a liberal democracy promote its central values, such as autonomy and non-discrimination, at the same time that it protects basic rights, such as free speech? One common view is that these two goals are incompatible. According to this view, free speech rights commit liberal democracy to "neutralism," which prohibits favoring any values. Under a neutralist approach, liberal democracy cannot promote its core values of autonomy and non-discrimination. It has no role in encouraging responsibility and virtue among its citizens.
James Fleming and Linda McClain offer a powerful challenge to the neutralist view. They propose an account of "autonomy as responsibility" that reconciles the two goals of protecting rights and promoting a set of public values and virtues. Liberal democracy upholds the rights of citizens out of respect for their autonomy, or their ability to use their reason freely to choose their own ends. For citizens to be able to make decisions as autonomous agents, they must have the right to choose their religion, associations, and political positions. But it is also important in an autonomy respecting regime that the government cultivate and encourage good decision-making. It would be pointless to respect autonomy if no actual people exercised their autonomy well. The government thus has an obligation to promote the capacity of citizens to make better and more responsible decisions. The government, including the Supreme Court, should pursue the twin aims of protecting rights and promoting individual autonomy and responsibility. This view differs from perfectionist theories, which advance particular comprehensive doctrines, and neutralist accounts, which refuse to promote values altogether.
Fleming and McClain's two-pronged approach has important implications in matters of education. The government should regulate home-schooling and use public education and to promote autonomy and responsible decision-making. Their approach echoes the dissent by Justice William Douglas in Yoder, where he writes that compulsory education for children is justified to prepare them to become autonomous citizens who are not dependent on the wishes of their parents.
Fleming and McClain tie their view to a balancing approach to constitutional law. They argue against a rule-like approach that treats constitutional rights as inviolable. Specifically, they acknowledge that constitutional cases often involve a trade-off between autonomy as respect for rights, and autonomy as the promotion of responsibility. The Supreme Court, they argue, has often prioritized the former, but it must balance both of these ambitions. Government should protect rights of autonomy, but it equally must be concerned to promote responsible decision-making in the form of autonomy and responsibility. As they note in their post, autonomy rights to freedom of association should, at times, give way to concerns for encouraging the responsibility of citizens.
Before I distinguish my view from that of Fleming and McClain, I should say that we are all kindred spirits in the project of developing a liberalism that is both rights protecting and also promotes liberal values. But my own view has distinctive features that might give us different resources in replying to critics. The distinctions and similarities between our approaches will become clear in the following weeks when Concurring Opinions moves to a discussion of my book, When the State Speaks, What Should It Say? How Democracies Can Promote Equality and Protect Expression (Princeton University Press, 2012). I outline two distinctions and suggest how they offer a response to some of the criticisms raised in this engaging symposium.
The central question for accounts like ours is what values should be promoted. The first distinction between our views is that, unlike Fleming and McClain, I avoid the notions of "virtue" or "civic virtue." For them these terms are intimately tied to the kind of individual responsibility they wish to promote. Fleming and McClain are clear that they want to avoid some forms of perfectionism, or the political theory that the state must take a stand on conceptions of the good. But I worry the terms "virtue" and "civil virtue" are too tied to thinkers who believe that the liberal state should endorse a conception of the good life. These worries have arisen in both Kent Greenfield's posts, which tend to worry that there is too much civic patriotism in Fleming and McClain. These concerns have also cropped up in Mark Graber's post. Specifically, this post raises several issues on which Fleming and McClain might be thought to be advancing not only liberal values, but also a conception of the good. For instance, they take a stand not only on a right to an abortion, but suggest that the government might have a role in aiding women as they decide whether to have an abortion. Graber also provocatively asks whether their position on Bob Jones might cause them to take a stand on issues, such as whether inter-faith dating is compatible with civic republicanism.
On my view it is essential that there are affirmative values that should be promoted by the liberal democratic state. But I do not think that the values that should be promoted are "virtues" that are tied either to individual accounts of the good or one of "civic good." On my account, the state should only promote the democratic values that underlie a commitment to rights, including the ideal of equality under law. Namely it should defend the ideal of "free and equal citizenship" that justifies rights protections in the first place. Thus my approach is deontological, not perfectionist or even partially perfectionist. Fleming and McClain seem, at least to the critics in this symposium, to go beyond encouraging democratic values, and instead embrace a particular conception of the good.
Some might want to see them embrace a clearly robust set of virtues for the government to promote. But I think Fleming and McClain should resist this temptation. To Graber, I would say that revoking tax-exempt status for Bob Jones University is justifiable not because of a concern for citizens' virtue, but because the University is opposing democratic values. In particular, it is preaching racism and a notion of African Americans as second-class citizens. The University signaled its opposition to democratic values when it threatened to expel students who advocated the right to interracial marriage. In short, the core message of Bob Jones University opposed the ideal of equal rights under law. This is not true of institutions that merely advocate perpetuation of the faith. On that question, of whether inter-faith marriages are a good or bad thing, the state should simply be silent, because it does not concern democratic values. Similarly, I think that the question of whether or not to have an abortion is a matter of one's conception of the good, and not a matter of democratic values.
Despite our many points of agreement, my most significant and second difference with Fleming and McClain concerns our approaches to balancing in First Amendment free speech protections. I am an absolutist when it comes to protections of free speech from coercion, and I reject balancing conceptions. Instead, I argue that the most robust speech protections should be combined with state criticism and even condemnation of hateful or discriminatory expression. This distinction is most evident when it comes to our different approaches to Boy Scouts v. Dale. On their view Dale was wrongly decided because on balance, the concern for promoting responsibility and protecting the rights of free association weighs in favor of limiting expression and association. On their view, the organization could be forced to make the right decision in favor of accepting gay scouts as members.
By contrast, I argue that the state can both protect the Boy Scouts' right of free association, and still promote a message of equal citizenship. On my view, the state should both protect the Boy Scouts' right to express its message and choose its members, at the same time that it condemns their discriminatory policy. In particular, I argue that the form of this condemnation could involve the discontinuation of the Boy Scouts' nonprofit status. What is significant about Bob Jones, on my account, is that it did not prohibit the university from expressing a message of racial superiority. The IRS instead revoked a subsidy and tax privilege to the University. The loss of the subsidy must be distinguished from the denial of a right. While free speech and freedom of association entail rights to not be punished or coerced for one's viewpoints, they do not entail a right to the official benefits of tax privileges. On my view 501 (c) (3), especially the benefit of tax-deductible contributions, is not a grant that should be distributed in a viewpoint neutral way. Rather, organizations that receive public subsidies or tax privileges should at minimum not oppose the ideal of free and equal citizenship. I thus propose that discriminatory organizations like Bob Jones, the Boy Scouts and the Westboro Baptist Church be protected in their right of free speech and association. However, the state should discontinue their public subsidies. This would guarantee their rights while robustly promoting the message of equal citizenship. The state should both protect and condemn messages that are contrary to democratic values.
Fleming and McClain have written an important work of constitutional theory and in many places we are in agreement. I have outlined two differences between our views in regard to their balancing approach to free speech rights and the use of the term "civil virtue." I look forward to the discussion of the ways in which our projects pursue a common aim, while taking distinct approaches to promoting values.


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CES: Is your TV big enough? No.
It's time for CES, the orgy of electronic gadgets and tech doodads in Las Vegas. There is nothing so American as this trade show. Can you ever be rich enough? Skinny enough? Can your TV ever be big enough? "No" is the resounding answer, played on thousands of speakers in four convention halls for the entire week.
Don't think of it as a trade show. Think of it as Bumbershoot. It's just as big, crowded, slow to navigate and loud. I covered CES as a tech reporter for The Seattle Times in the early '00s, and again in the '10s. My best friends were a backpack and sneakers. (And I never wear sneakers to work.)
The show started in Las Vegas Tuesday night with the keynote, which is traditionally given by Microsoft's chief executive. The big news this year is that Microsoft chose not to offer Steve Ballmer for the keynote. The company wanted to focus on holding its own product-launch events. (Another sign that Microsoft wants to be more like Apple.)
But Ballmer showed up anyway, according to Brier Dudley, a tech reporter for the news side who is in Vegas. Microsoft and CES — they're the couple that broke up and keeps getting back together. It's cute.
Some of the new products shown here will be relentlessly hawked to holiday shoppers in late 2013. It is a monument to consumerism, and innovation. CES is where I saw my first high-def television. My first thumb drive. The first iPhone case that could also open beer bottles.
But most of the hype you will read this week is hot air. I saw high-def televisions in 2002, but it was several years before they became affordable for a middle-class family. Two years ago the show was all about 3-D TVs, and I doubt most families are ready to chuck their flat-screens to wear sunglasses in their living room. I'll be glued to the coverage like a geek anyway.
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A truck carrying 2,000 gallons of kerosene flipped over in Lebanon as steady snowfall made the roads slick Tuesday.
The driver was taken to a medical facility after crashing in the area of 331 Lebanon Avenue. It's not clear how serious his or her injuries may have been.
Kerosene leaked from the overturned truck and homes in the area were evacuated.
Part of the road was shut down while officials worked to clear the scene. A hazardous materials company arrived on scene to pump out fuel. The process was expected to take hours.
The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection also responded.
Published at 10:42 AM EST on Dec 10, 2013 | Updated at 6:39 PM EST on Dec 10, 2013


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Editor's Note: Alix Cirac is set to walk the commencement stage this weekend as an Honors graduate from the Reynolds School of Journalism. She is also a student intern for the University Media Relations office.
A word starts to sound funny if you say it enough. After 16 or 17 times, it begins to sound alien, like it's made of different, even foreign letters than those that you know compose it. This is how the word "graduation" sounds to me. After six years of attending the University of Nevada, Reno (yes, six — which, for the record, makes me a super, super senior), I have thought about "graduation" often.
And this fall, throughout my final semester, I have thought about it a lot. So much so, that the word sounds different every time I say it. Sometimes it sounds funny and doesn't make sense, and other times it sounds bland, just like "eraser" or "textbook." Each time, a different feeling accompanies the sound—I can hardly explain how to say the word at this point, let alone describe how I feel about it.
What I do know is that my years as an undergraduate at the University have been amazing. This campus served as the backdrop to so many personal milestones. I turned 18 and voted for the first time. I lost my first love and found another one. I got an F. I studied abroad in Ghana through USAC. I learned the balance between social and academic life (at least I think I did). I got an amazing internship through the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University Media Relations office. I wrote countless papers, took hundreds of tests and learned so much about so much that I can hardly believe it.
The University has been so instrumental in my success over these years. The professors here have taken a stake in my personal and academic development. They have challenged me, pushed me, and driven me a little crazy. My classmates have taught me as much, if not more, than the professors. We struggled together, studied together, celebrated together. Many of them have become good friends, a few of them life-long.
There are many things that I will miss about being an undergrad at the University of Nevada, Reno: the spring rolls with that delicious sweet and spicy chili sauce at the Overlook; the beautiful changing of the seasons, from summer to fall, and winter to spring; Wolf Pack sports; concerts in Nightingale Hall; the feeling of searching for the right classrooms at the beginning of each semester; the professors, mentors, and classmates who offered such a supportive environment; room 102 in the journalism school; having a productive night of studying at the Joe or Knowledge Center; Frisbee on the Quad; amazing guest speakers and lecturers; and I could go on and on.
To be fair, there are some things I won't miss; parking tickets, midterms and 17-year-old textbooks are a few of them. Oh, and finals after graduation.
I've heard that the best thing parents can do is raise their children to be able to live without them. Nevada has done this for me and the 1,500 other graduates who will celebrate on Dec. 6. As terrified as I feel sometimes that I am leaving the bosom of the University, I know it has prepared me to enter the big bad world. I know that opportunities abound for me because of my experience here. I can do anything—travel the world, start a career, continue on to graduate or professional school, start a family, anything. Whatever I decide, I know that everything I need, the University of Nevada has offered to me.
So I've decided to stop repeating the word "graduation" to myself every day. To clear the meaning up for myself, I looked it up. "To receive an academic degree or diploma," is the definition in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Which is great, but still a bit bland. It still sounds funny coming out of my mouth.
Instead, I've decided to heed the University's advice once again and use the word "commencement." Merriam-Webster defines it as "to have or make a beginning." This sounds much more exciting to me. If I must leave Nevada behind, it's because I can take everything I've learned here and choose to do something new, something real, something passionate. I can make my beginning.


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Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
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"The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" is one of the fifty-six Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. One of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow, it is a lengthy, two-part story consisting of "The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles" and "The Tiger of San Pedro", which on original publication in The Strand bore the collective title of "A Reminiscence of Mr. Sherlock Holmes".
"The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge"
Author Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930[1]) was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.
Series His Last Bow
Publication date 1908
Client(s) Mr. John Scott Eccles
Set in 1894, by William S. Baring-Gould (1892 in the story)
The Singular Experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles
Eccles, Holmes and Inspector Baynes.
Holmes is visited by a perturbed proper English gentleman, John Scott Eccles, who wishes to discuss something "grotesque". No sooner has he arrived at 221B Baker Street than Inspector Gregson also shows up, along with Inspector Baynes of the Surrey Constabulary. They wish a statement from Eccles about the murder near Esher last night. A note in the dead man's pocket indicates that Eccles said that he would be at the victim's house that night.
Eccles is shocked to hear of Aloysius Garcia's beating death. Yes, he spent the night at Wisteria Lodge, Garcia's rented house, but when he woke up in the morning, he found that Garcia and his servants had all disappeared. He was alone in an empty house. He last remembers seeing Garcia at about one o'clock in the morning when he came to Eccles's room to ask if he had rung.
The Tiger of San Pedro
Murillo confining Miss Burnet.
Holmes and Dr. Watson go to Esher to see Wisteria Lodge with Inspector Baynes. The constable guarding the house reports a hair-raising experience. A brutish-looking man — the devil himself, thought the constable — looked in the window. The constable gave chase, but the intruder got away. Holmes establishes by the footmarks that the constable did not imagine this.
Inside the house, a number of odd items are to be seen. Something resembling a mummified baby, a bird torn to pieces, a pail of blood, and a platter full of charred bones. Holmes later links these to voodoo, providing an important clue.
Suddenly, however, five days after the murder, Holmes is astonished to read in the newspaper that Baynes has arrested someone, Garcia's cook, the brutish fellow who had given the constable such a start. He provides little information, though — only grunts. Holmes is sure that the cook is not the murderer, and warns Baynes. Baynes, however, declines Holmes's assistance and advice.
Holmes spends the next while reconnoitering the local country houses, and finds one of interest, the Henderson household, whose master has obviously spent time in the tropics, and whose servant is a dark-skinned foreigner. Henderson's two girls have an English governess named Burnet. Holmes also learns from a sacked gardener that Henderson is rich, and scared of something, although no-one can say what. Nor can anyone say where he came from. Henderson is also violent.
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Phil Knight Discusses State Of College Basketball Coppolella Banned As Part Of Braves' Penalties Jones Won't Sue NFL Owners Over Goodell Dish/CBS Dispute Likely To Affect Thanksgiving NFL MillerCoors, NASCAR Yet To Reach Extension Ruppe Is UA's Latest Exec Departure Sellout Crowd Turns Out For Crew Playoffs FC Cincinnati Owners Sign Option To Buy Stadium Site Duracell, SoFi Buying Six-Second Ads On Fox NBC's Preschlack Says Chicago Cuts Part Of Evolution
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Indy 500 Looking Strong With Huge Crowd For Helio's Third Win
Castroneves Gives Indy 500
A "Hollywood Script Ending"
FEELS LIKE OLD TIMES? In Indiana, Ben Smith wrote Sunday's race "felt like Old Indy." Smith: "I haven't seen a crowd that huge and that animated here since ... well, since the Good Old Days." He added, "By every measure you want to use, the Indy 500 doesn't get any better than Sunday" (Ft. Wayne JOURNAL GAZETTE, 5/26). But ESPN's Tony Kornheiser said the race "doesn't have the same ring to it." Kornheiser: "Thirty years ago when the Indianapolis 500 was a major deal in this country, (Castroneves' win) would be celebrated all around the country. ... It's like horse racing, it's going down a little bit" ("PTI," ESPN, 5/26). S.F. Chronicle columnist Ray Ratto said Indy is "not as big a deal as it used to be." Ratto: "The hockey and basketball playoffs now have encroached on Memorial Day. It's a much more crowded sports landscape, but the Indy 500 is still an important thing for race fans" ("Chronicle Live," CSN Bay Area, 5/26).
NEW LEASE ON LIFE: NBCSPORTS.com's Mike Celizic wrote under the header, "Castroneves' Big Day May Just Save Indy As Well." Castroneves "could make open-wheel racing important for more than one day a year," as he has "climbed from rising sun to supernova." Castroneves likely will have "morning and late-night talk-show appearances, commercial endorsements [and] stories in the gossip mags," as he has "driven into another world with his entire sport hitched to his bumper for the ride." For Castroneves, "his name was clear, the track was clear, the future was brighter than ever, not just for Helio Castroneves, but for the IRL, as well." Meanwhile, Patrick "ran a good race and nailed down the best finish she'd ever had at Indy" (NBCSPORTS.com, 5/24). Patrick said of Castroneves, "I'm happy to see him happy. It's great for the sport" (N.Y. TIMES, 5/25). SI.com's Bruce Martin wrote of Castroneves' win, "It has to be a big story if Patrick's third-place finish in the Indy 500 is overshadowed" (SI.com, 5/25).
HAPPY QUINCEANERA: Penske Racing has launched a microsite dedicated to Castroneves' win. The victory marks the 15th win in the storied race for team owner Roger Penske. To commemorate the championship, penskeracing.com is offering Indy 500-related merchandise for 15% off. The site also is following Castroneves with video and photos from his victory tour, which includes a visit yesterday to "Live with Regis and Kelly" and other media stops in N.Y. He will be in Dallas today and Chicago tomorrow to promote future IndyCar Series events in those markets (Michael Smith, SportsBusiness Journal). Castroneves noted sponsors and race teams "don't want to be associated" with someone under federal charges. Castroneves: "Having them standing beside me and supporting me through this whole ordeal, it was incredible." He added, "Everybody knows who I am … and when they know you for that long, they know your character" ("America's Nightly Scoreboard," Fox Business, 5/26).
Patrick's Third-Place Finish Could Heighten
Possibility Of Move To NASCAR
DON'T TAKE THE GIRL: In Indianapolis, Bob Kravitz wrote when Patrick's contract with AGR expires at the end of this season, IRL CEO Tony George needs to "present Patrick with a giant check that lets her write in as many zeroes as she wants." Patrick "cannot -- never, ever, ever -- be allowed to jump from this series to NASCAR or Formula One." If Sunday's race was Patrick's final Indy 500 "as an open-wheel regular, the sport is back in very deep trouble as a niche sport on a second-tier cable network," as her departure would be a "decisive and horrible blow to open-wheel racing." Patrick is a "hothouse flower who is drawn to the lights, loves the attention, and NASCAR can give her attention in ways the IRL can only begin to imagine" (INDIANAPOLIS STAR, 5/26).
Rain-Shortened Coca-Cola 600 Finishes To Fraction Of Initial Fans
Coca-Cola 600's 140,000 Ticket-Buyers
Plagued By Rain, Few Remain For End Of Race
DELAYING THE INEVITABLE: SI.com's Tom Bowles wrote, "Within 30 minutes of the race's third red flag on Lap 227, everyone knew the radar left restarting the event all but impossible. For the next few hours, fans started leaving in droves while drivers changed into their street clothes -- knowing the answer everyone knew except apparently NASCAR itself." NASCAR was "left embarrassed by waiting about two hours too long" to call the race (SI.com, 5/25). In Charlotte, Jim Utter wrote NASCAR was in a "no-win situation" Monday. Utter: "Given the on-again, off-again nature of the weather, the nearly two hours it took to dry the track and the fact NASCAR waited longer than two hours after the final red flag before making the call, I think the right decision was made. ... But at some point, somebody has to make a judgment call. In this case, the speedway and NASCAR did their best to accommodate everyone" (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 5/25). In Greensboro, Ed Hardin wrote, "There's never been a sporting event quite like the one we witnessed Monday, and hopefully we never will again" (Greensboro NEWS & RECORD, 5/26). In Charlotte, Scott Fowler wrote, "Race fans got to ponder all sorts of questions Sunday, like why there wasn't a better contingency plan to entertain those fans sitting miserably in their ponchos for hours a bit more. Or why Fox Sports announcers kept so optimistically proclaiming to their audience that there was going to be some racing when the truth was it never got close to that" (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 5/25). However, Driver Ryan Newman, who finished second in the race, said NASCAR did an "excellent job putting an effort in" to attempt to finish the race on Sunday and Monday. Newman: "I don't think there was any type of premature call on the rain-shortened race [Monday]" (HAMPTONROADS.com, 5/25).
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The Fairfax County School Board selected Lubbock, Texas, Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Karen Garza as its preferred candidate for superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools, pending negotiations for employment and a visit to Lubbock ISD.
She would replace Jack Dale, who will step down when his contract expires in June.
Garza has led Lubbock ISD, which serves about 30,000 students, for the past four years.
"Dr. Garza comes to Fairfax County with impressive credentials and skills to lead FCPS in a time of incredible challenges and opportunities," School Board Chairman Ilryong Moon said. "She comes to us with a deep commitment to openness and engagement and is eager to work collaboratively in the best interest of all students. The board looks forward with great excitement to working with Dr. Garza as it builds upon past successes and moves forward in a new era for FCPS."
Following employment negotiations and the Lubbock visit, the school board will take public action on Garza's appointment, likely by the end of the month.
"I am humbled and very thankful to the board and the whole FCPS community for this wonderful opportunity," Garza said. "Fairfax County Public Schools has a long tradition of excellence and has consistently been one of the premier school systems in the country. I look forward to continuing that tradition and working very closely with the board and the other division stakeholders to achieve even greater success for the students of FCPS."


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An Optimal RPC Based Approach to Increase Fault Tolerance in Wireless Ad-Hoc Network
In wireless network, fault tolerant topology control is an important and a challenging task. The wireless nodes and links could experience frequent failures since, wireless networks are usually deployed under extreme environments. Therefore, fault tolerance must be considered for many applications. In wireless network Topology control has been proved effective in saving node power. The main idea of topology control is that instead of using its maximal transmission power, each node sets its power to a certain level such that the global topology satisfies a certain constraint. To increase fault tolerance, nodes in the network will consume more power.
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Week Seventeen Gambling – Chicago Bears vs Green Bay Packers
Week 17 of the 2010/2011 NFL Season is here. Welcome to the CappersPicks.com college football weekly predictions pages! We KNOW you will find our FREE weekly NFL football picks, tips, betting advice, strategies, NFL football betting articles and more to help you become the best NFL football bettor on your block!!
Bears at Packers Matchup
Sunday January 2 – 4:15PM
Venue: Lambeau Field – Green Bay, Wisconsin
Broadcast: FOX
Chicago (11-4) +350 vs Green Bay (9-6) -450 (Odds courtesy of BetUS)
Spread Favourite: Green Bay -9
Over/Under: 42
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The Bears have already clinched the division title and the outcome of this one will only affect their playoff seeding and whether Green Bay makes it into the playoffs. In another era the opportunity to stick it to a rival would be enough for a team to treat this game like any other but coach who has felt the heat in the past, like Lovie Smith, knows that it is more important for the team to prepare for the playoffs. It is difficult to tell how much the Bears key players will be on the field for this one.
It is especially hard to figure out how the Bears will perform because even when they have their first string offense on the field they sometimes struggle mightily to operate as a cohesive unit. I think you will see Jay Cutler out there for a few series with all of the key skill players, especially Devin Hester and Matt Forte, looking on from the sidelines. Backup QB Todd Collins has lots of experience so he shouldn't embarrass himself out there even with limited weapons at his disposal.
The last game of the season is always a tough one to predict. Chicago has always had a tough time winning at Lambeau, something they haven't done since 2007. Chicago has been just an average ATS team this year at 8-6-1. The line of +9 is inflated because nobody is sure how much of the team that collected 11 wins this year will actually play. We are all best of to ignore the Chicago side of this one.
Green Bay
It is the last game of the season and if Green Bay wins they continue into the playoffs. They have a definite advantage in playing an opponent without similar pressure in the Bears, but can not be too confident given the inconsistent nature of their play this season. They are at home and there is every reason they should win, but they need to perform. The Bears, who might be playing mostly backups, are not going to give it to them.
Aaron Rodgers proved last week that there are no lingering cobwebs from the concussion he sustained against Detroit. Last week against the Giants he had his best game of the season throwing for more than 400 yards with 4 TDs and no interceptions. Another performance like that will pretty much guarantee the Packers another game after this one. It would help if the Packers could get something going on the ground. They have been trying all season.
I was surprised when I saw that Green Bay's ATS record was a respectable 9-6 coming into this one. If the Bears needed the win the spread would be below a TD and this 9 pointer may not be all that big given the circumstances. This is an absolute must win for GB so their starters will be in for the whole game unless they can make it out of reach early.
The Pick: Unfortunately for Giants fans I don't see the Packers losing this one. With Rodgers feeling good and the Bears resting starters they are likely to cover as well.
NFL Gambling Trends
Bears are 3-1-1 ATS in their last 5 road games.
Bears are 6-2 ATS in their last 8 games as an underdog.
Bears are 5-2-1 ATS in their last 8 games overall.
Bears are 5-2 ATS in their last 7 vs. NFC North.
Packers are 3-0-1 ATS in their last 4 games as a home favorite of 3.5-10.0.
Packers are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games as a home favorite.
Packers are 4-0 ATS in their last 4 games on grass.
Packers are 5-1-1 ATS in their last 7 games in Week 17.
Score Prediction: Green Bay 31 – Chicago 10


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Linux Mobile (Cellular) Phone Survey: Samsung
Linux compatibility, synchronization and configuration guides for mobile (cellular) phones made by Samsung .
The general resource section at the bottom, contains links
to helpful Linux utilities (mostly available under GPL), community efforts, HOWTOs and FAQs.
Have you written a documentation yourself? Then please feel free to
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*) dedicated Linux phones
pyHandset uses the Python Serial Port Extension to send Hayes AT commands to a mobile phone. It allows to backup phone book entries and sms messages. It does not provide synchronisation but allow phone book entries modification and deleting messages through a simple curses graphical user interface. It also provides a way to send or write SMS messages to memory.
The SamsuTools project develops a set of tools for handling SAMSUNG mobile phones under Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD systems. The tools allow you to: Transfer photos and videos recorded by your mobile phone camera to your computer. Use your mobile phone as an USB disk via a convenient FUSE file system interface. Install Java J2ME applications in your mobile phone for free over USB cable.
SamBru (Samsung Backup and Restore Utility) is a Perl script that talks to a Samsung SCH-6100 or SCH-8500 cellular phone. You can use it to back up and restore the phone book. It can save the data in either raw/native format or as vCard data so GnomeCard can be used to view and edit the data.
NAND Flash Software
SAMSUNG First to Develop Linux OS-based NAND Flash Software for Mobile Phone Industry.
BitPim is a program that allows you to view and manipulate data on LG VX4400/VX6000 and many Sanyo Sprint cell phones. This includes the PhoneBook, Calendar, WallPapers, RingTones (functionality varies by phone) and the Filesystem for most Qualcomm CDMA chipset based phones.
comsams - communicate with your Samsung mobile phone. You can download pictures, telefon entrys and display phone information. This software communicates with the phone over IrDA.
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Calderón de la Barca - La Vida es Sueño
Calderon de la Barca was a famous Spanish writer of plays and poetry during the 17th century. He had a strict upbringing, the effect of which can be seen in many of his plays. For example, he shows concern about the psychological effects on children of belonging to unconventional families. "La Vida es Sueño" is a play by Pedro Calderon de la Barca released in 1635 and belonging to the literary movement of the baroque. The central theme is freedom from fate.
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Pokagon State Park is hosting the third annual Toboggan Time Trials on Saturday, December 5, from 1:00 – 3:00.
According to the Department of Natural Resources website, there are four divisions in the race, and the fastest team in each division will win a prize. The four divisions include Youth (all team members must be 15 or younger), Family and Friends, Corporate Division (all team members from one company), and Costumed Division (prize given to best, most creatively-costumed team).
Other rules & regs from DNR include:
- All participants must use Pokagon's togobbans, which may not be altered (i.e. don't spray Pam on the runners).
- Toboggans are $10 per hour, per toboggan.
- A driver's license is required to rent.
- Teams can register onsite, once you have your sled.
- You can choose which track you'll ride once you reach the top of the tower.
For more information, call Pokagon State Park at (260) 833-2012, or visit www.tobogganrun.com.
There is a park entrance fee of $5 per vehicle for Indiana residents and $7 per vehicle for non-residents.


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Lighting Fighting Crime
The Summer Night Lights program operates in a number of parks throughout the city, keeping lights on until midnight to provide a safer public space. The program targets parks in some of the city's most dangerous and crime-prone neighborhoods
"The program began in a modest incarnation last year, when antigang outreach workers raised almost $1 million in private donations to illuminate eight parks. The lights spread to 16 locations on Wednesday, including Harvard. Even amid dire financial straits, city officials have pledged to match $1.4 million in private donations to finance the lights, along with sports leagues, disc jockeys and food four nights a week in the parks through August.
'These neighborhoods with gang problems don't have a lot of assets,' said the Rev. Jeff Carr, who leads the program. 'But there is a school, a park and a rec center. Those are public assets. Let's use those to create social connections that replace gangs.'"


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The channel will be closed to marine traffic Monday and Tuesday nights from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. On Wednesday through Friday nights, the channel will be closed from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.
During each nightly closure, an opening will be provided at 2 a.m. upon request. Requests must be made to the br4idge tender on Marine Radio Channel 9.
The closures are necessary for routine maintenance operations on the temporary bridge adjacent to the Bridge of Lions. During construction, it is possible that schedule changes may occur.
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On-Mountain Dining
Welcome to dining on the slopes of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. Below you'll find dining options located on the mountain. Whether it's at the top of Rendezvous Mountain at Corbet's Cabin or your choice of options at the Bridger Gondola, there is an experience waiting for you.
Explore our new 360 degree tour of Rendezvous Lodge with the ability to check out Piste Mountain Bistro, Off-Piste, and the Deck @ Piste. Scroll and move the mouse in the image above to look around!
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Take part in the tradition of delicious waffles atop Rendezvous Peak. Situated in Corbet's Cabin at 10,450 feet and accessed by the aerial tram, there is no better place to enjoy a waffle. And these aren't just any waffles either, these are made to order with delicious toppings like brown sugar butter, nutella, peanut butter and bacon (yes, you read that correctly) and more.
Finish up your waffle with one of our many hikes from the top of Rendezvous Mountain, enjoy a nice cruise on the Top of the World Trail or hike down to the Bridger Gondola and find more food options! The opportunities are endless.
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Like Father, Like Son: An Exhibition by Eriberto and Estevan Oriol
Estevan and Eriberto Oriol return west for their joint show.
Beginning May 17, the DAX Gallery in Orange County, California will play host to an exhibition by the father-son duo of Eriberto and Estevan Oriol, aptly titled "Like Father, Like Son." When it comes to photography, the Oriol fam holds it down like no other. Known for their ability to touch and portray the streets in authentic fashion, the Oriol duo made their names documenting L.A. life, in addition to Latino culture and hip hop in its formative days.
With previous showings in New York and Los Angeles, the exhibit returns once again to the Oriols' home base of the West Coast. Folks interested in hitting this up can do so when the show opens on May 17 at Costa Mesa's DAX Gallery.
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A week later the three-day decathlon competition began in a pouring rain. Thorpe opened the event by splashing down the track in the 100-meter dash in 11.2 seconds—a time not equaled at the Olympics until 1948.
On the second day, Thorpe's shoes were missing. Warner hastily put together a mismatched pair in time for the high jump, which Thorpe won. Later that afternoon came one of his favorite events, the 110-meter hurdles. Thorpe blistered the track in 15.6 seconds, again quicker than Bob Mathias would run it in '48.
On the final day of competition, Thorpe placed third and fourth in the events in which he was most inexperienced, the pole vault and javelin. Then came the very last event, the 1,500-meter run. The metric mile was a leg-burning monster that came after nine other events over two days. And he was still in mismatched shoes.
Thorpe left cinders in the faces of his competitors. He ran it in 4 minutes 40.1 seconds. Faster than anyone in 1948. Faster than anyone in 1952. Faster than anyone in 1960—when he would have beaten Rafer Johnson by nine seconds. No Olympic decathlete, in fact, could beat Thorpe's time until 1972. As Neely Tucker of the Washington Post pointed out, even today's reigning gold medalist in the decathlon, Bryan Clay, would beat Thorpe by only a second.
Thorpe's overall winning total of 8,412.95 points (of a possible 10,000) was better than the second-place finisher, Swede Hugo Wieslander, by 688. No one would beat his score for another four Olympics.
Mallon, co-founder of the International Society of Olympic Historians, who has served as a consultant statistician to the IOC, believes that Thorpe's 1912 performances establish him as "the greatest athlete of all time. Still. To me, it's not even a question." Mallon points out that Thorpe was number one in four Olympic events in 1912 and placed in the top ten in two more—a feat no modern athlete has accomplished, not even the sprinter and long-jumper Carl Lewis, who won nine Olympic gold medals between 1984 and 1996. "People just don't do that," Mallon says.
The Olympics weren't the only highlights of 1912 for Thorpe. He returned to lead Carlisle's football team to a 12-1-1 record, running for 1,869 yards on 191 attempts—more yards in a season than O.J. Simpson would run for USC in 1968. And that total doesn't include yardage from two games Thorpe played in. It's possible that, among the things Thorpe did in 1912, he was college football's first 2,000-yard rusher.
Numbers like those are the ghostly outline of Thorpe's athleticism; they burn through time and make him vivid. Without them, myth and hyperbole replace genuine awe over his feats, and so does pity at his deterioration from superstar to disgraced hero. The Olympic champion would become a barnstormer—major-league baseball player, co-founder of the National Football League and even pro basketball player—before winding up a stunt performer and Hollywood character actor. In his later life Thorpe struggled to meet financial obligations to his seven children and two ex-wives, especially during the Great Depression. He worked as a security guard, construction worker and ditch digger, among other things. When he contracted lip cancer in 1951 he sought charity treatment from a Philadelphia hospital, which led his opportunistic third wife, Patricia, to claim weepingly at a press conference that they were destitute. "We're broke. Jim has nothing but his name and his memories. He has spent money on his own people and given it away. He has often been exploited." Despite Patricia's claims, however, they weren't impoverished; Thorpe hustled tirelessly on the lecture circuit, and they lived in a modest but comfortable trailer home in suburban Lomita, California. He died there of heart failure in 1953 at age 64.
The IOC's decision in 1912 to strip Thorpe's medals and strike out his records was not just intended to punish him for violating the elitist Victorian codes of amateurism. It was also intended to obscure him—and to a certain extent it succeeded.
Thorpe's public reserve didn't help his cause. He refused to campaign for his reputation, or to fight for his Olympic medals. "I won 'em, and I know I won 'em," he told his daughter Grace Thorpe. On another occasion he said, "I played with the heart of an amateur—for the pure hell of it."


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I have a nyala I need to do a 1/2 mount with, the problem is that it measures7x19 and i cannot find a form even close enough to downsize the smallest form I can find is 7 3/4 x 24. I'm wondering if there is another animal close to this that I could modify, I'm thinking a lesser kudu would work.OR am I limited to removing 5 inches from the neck, shortening the legs and face? If i had the carcass I'd be tempted to make my own form .
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Precision Mannikins makes a lifesize 7 1/2 x 19 that maybe you
could alter. Their telephone # is 1-800-279-7985.
Thanks Bob, I am so embarrassed I see they also have a sitatunga form that will work for small nyala. I either need to have my eyes checked or bone up on what forms work with what other animals or both.


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Tajaaweed Trying Saturday's Arlington Handicap Again;Wasted Tears at Arlington for Saturday's Modesty Handicap; Junior Jumps Right Back Into Winner's Circle Sunday; Jockey Julio Felix Rides Three Winners Sunday
Shadwell Stable's Tajaaweed, third in the Grade III Arlington Handicap last year and sixth in the Grade I Arlington Million, worked five furlongs over the Polytrack in 1:00.60 Sunday morning in advance of the 2011 Arlington Handicap over the local lawn on Saturday.
"He worked good and he galloped out good," said trainer Danny Peitz later on Sunday. "I got him galloping out in (1:13.20). He's coming into Saturday's race good – just like he did last year. The only difference I want to happen is to make sure we win it this time."
Designed as the final local prep for the Arlington Million in recent years, Saturday's Arlington Handicap will be run as part of a three-stakes program over Arlington's world famous turf course that is billed as Million Preview Day. Saturday's Grade III Modesty Handicap and Grade II American Derby will serve as the local tune-ups for the Grade I Beverly D. and Grade I Secretariat Stakes respectively.
The Arlington Million, $750,000 Beverly D. and $400,000 Secretariat will be run as part of Arlington's International Festival of Racing on Aug. 13.
Others likely for the Arlington Handicap at this time are: G. Watts Humphrey Jr.'s El Crespo, fourth-place runner in Churchill's Grade III Louisville Handicap May 28 and an entire son of A. P. Indy who breezed a half on the Polytrack at Keeneland Sunday in 50.40; Lothenbach Stables' Mister Marti Gras, who breezed five furlongs in 1:01 flat at Churchill on the Fourth of July after being a late scratch out of that track's Grade III Firecracker Handicap on that day; Jose Carillo and Fernando Fantini's Argentine-bred Interaction, winner of that nation's Group I Carlos Pellegrini in 2009; and Stiftung Gestut Fahrhof's German-bred Sanagas, from the same connections as 2001 Arlington Million winner Silvano.
The list of Arlington Million probable starters as of Monday morning was completed by Keith Chudzik's Amun Re, Ken and Sarah Ramsey's Dean's Kitten, Betty and Robert Irvin's Juniper Pass, and William Stiritz's Proceed Bee.
Bart Evans' Wasted Tears, winner of the last three Grade III Ouija Board Stakes at Lone Star Park including the 2011 renewal May 30, arrived at Arlington Park Saturday from her Grand Prairie, Texas, home base to contest Saturday's Grade III Modesty Handicap.
The Modesty is Arlington's designed local prep for the Grade I Beverly D. Stakes – the Arlington Million's sister race – to be contested as part of the International Festival of Racing on Arlington Million Day Aug. 13.
Last year, Wasted Tears used her Ouija Board win as a springboard to a victory in the Grade II John Mabee Stakes at Del Mar, but "(Arlington racing secretary) Chris Polzin talked me into coming here this year for this race to prep for the Beverly D.," owner-trainer-breeder Evans said Monday morning.
"It's beautiful here," said Evans, who breezed Wasted Tears five furlongs in 1:01.60 on June 30 at Lone Star before coming to Chicago. "I just hope it stays nice all week and it's beautiful on Saturday as well. I may give her a little something to do on the grass here later in the week."
Augustin Stable's British-bred Fantasia, runner-up in Belmont's Grade I Just a Game Stakes on Belmont Stakes Day June 11, and the Chris Block-trained pair of Team Block's Never Retreat and Team Block and Richard Ege's Askbut I Won'ttell, who each breezed five furlongs over Arlington's firm grass Sunday in 1:06.80, are also expected for the Modesty, as are Tracy Farmer's La Gran Bailadora, runner-up in the Grade III Arlington Matron May 28; Moyglare Stud's Irish-bred Endless Expanse; Arterbum and Stolich's Monslewn, Magdalena Racing's My Baby Baby, and Butterfly Stable's Romin Robin.
Jockey Junior Alvarado, Arlington's 2009 jockey champion and runner-up in the standings last season, returned to riding Sunday at Arlington for the first time since being sidelined with a broken collarbone suffered in a spill May 27, and won with his second mount of the afternoon.
"I feel pretty good and I'm very excited to win a race on my first day back," said Alvarado after guiding Richard Ravin's Top Surprize, trained by Larry Rivelli, to victory in the fifth race. "I wanted to come back sooner but my doctor made me wait an extra week."
Jockey Julio Felix, hanging his tack at Arlington for the second straight summer, scored a hat trick Sunday at the local oval, winning the opener on John and Libbie Thiel's Reggiville for trainer Ingrid Mason, the eighth on Eagle Valley Farm's Lethal for conditioner John Haran and the finale aboard Dario Vega's Black Cross for trainer Scott Mullins.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The rosy-cheeked aggression is nothing new.
The difference was where Aaron Craft was channeling that famous energy.
The Ohio State junior has built his reputation largely on the strength of his relentless, pesky approach on defense. Michigan State can once again attest that nothing has changed on that end of the floor. But in something of a surprise to the No. 4 Spartans, Craft went after the rim and the lane the same way he normally would a ball-handler. He made himself just as much of a nuisance offensively in a 68-60 win at Value City Arena that offered a reminder that No. 18 Ohio State shouldn't be written off quite yet.
"It was great to see the ball going in for him and him attacking the rim," Buckeyes coach Thad Matta said. "I thought he was tremendous today. It definitely helps our basketball team when he's doing that, because you know what you're going to get on the other end.
"I mean, he's the best defender in college basketball, there's no question about it."
There were some lingering doubts about how much scoring Craft could supply to complement the consistent defense, but he was certainly the most productive offensive player on the court on Sunday afternoon in one of Ohio State's last chances to make a statement and build momentum before the postseason.
The Spartans had no answer for the dual-threat Craft, who made it look routine to get to the basket off the dribble. He rarely took a wrong step on the pick-and-roll, either finishing on his own or setting up teammates for one of his six assists. He won one-on-one matchups to get easy finishes, dropped in contested attempts in traffic, and was almost perfect from the free-throw line on the way to a game-high 21 points.
As recently as a week ago Ohio State was reeling from a blowout loss at Wisconsin and Deshaun Thomas, the Big Ten's leading scorer, was struggling with his shot. The Buckeyes couldn't have needed Craft to be at his best offensively more than this game. Considering that his previous career high had come against Albany in the season opener, Craft might never have been better with the ball in his hands than he was against the Spartans.
"Give Craft credit, he tore us apart in the second half," Spartans coach Tom Izzo said. "It was Aaron Craft, he beat us every way he could beat us.
"Aaron Craft was more aggressive than I've ever seen him as a scorer, and give him credit for that. I couldn't plan for something I've never seen before."
The Buckeyes would obviously be more formidable if Craft had that part of his game more regularly; although his defense has already helped keep an inconsistent team, that relies heavily on Thomas, afloat.
Craft still gave Ohio State everything it has come to expect from him. He was credited with only one steal, but he helped fluster Keith Appling as Michigan State's leading scorer hit just one of his six shots and finished with three points. Craft was a fixture on the floor as he threw his body around for loose balls -- notably securing a crucial possession late in the game in a scrum under the Ohio State basket. He pushed all the right buttons on the floor, knowing just when to push the tempo or slow it down to let his teammates regroup.
But he apparently realized that the Buckeyes needed him to add something extra to allow Ohio State to hang around in the Big Ten race a little longer.
"The biggest thing that we get from a game like this is a win against a great opponent," Craft said. "This is big for this basketball team, the way we've picked ourselves up from a week ago [at Wisconsin] when we weren't ready to go. Hopefully we can continue to build off this.
"If it takes [me scoring] -- I don't care who is scoring, who is putting the ball in the bucket as long as we come out with more points."
Collectively, that was the Buckeyes. And they're clearly a more dangerous team when Craft is pacing the individuals.