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He doesn't fill out boxscores with gaudy numbers, and a look at his statlines could lead to a dismissive wave from some wondering what it is that Jared Jeffries brings to the Knicks.
Jeffries has cracked double digits in points only twice in his 20 games since returning from a fractured left fibula. But his job description has little to do with offense. His main task is taking care of the grunt work, focusing on the intangibles.
"I try to play winning basketball," Jeffries said after practice yesterday as the Knicks - who are owned by Cablevision, which also owns Newsday - prepared to host the Grizzlies tonight. "Whatever it is that can help our team win games right now, I want to try to do."
I like the attiude of JJ. Maybe what dantoni saw in him made renaldo expendable.
"I think that whenever I get my full explosion back," Jeffries said, "when I feel like I did before I broke my leg, I think that will really help me out a lot."
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"Clit 45" is a street punk band, formed in the mid 90s by a couple of 15-16 year old kids. The lineup in the beginning was Mike (Guitar), Simon (Guitar), Philip (Vocals), Trent (Bass), and Jorge (Drums). After constant local gigging to build a fanbase and the replacement of Philip with Dave on vocals, the Broken Glass E.P. was recorded, then released on Dave's label, Riot Squad Records.
They gained a certain amount of infamy when a video titled "Star Wars Nerds Vs. Punks" was released on the web. This video featured an incident between Star Wars fans and members of the band in which a friend of Clit 45 is punched and knocked to the ground.
* ''Broken Glass'' EP (Riot Squad, 1998)
* ''Straight Outta Long Beach'' EP (ADD Records, 1999)
* ''Tales From The Clit'' LP (ADD Records, 2000)
*''You Call This Music?! Volume 1'' (Geykido Comet Records, 2000)
* ''Your Life To Choose'' EP (Punkcore Records, 2002)
* ''Kids Aren't Alright'' EP (Ghetto Blast, 2003)
* ''Self Hate Crimes'' LP (BYO Records, 2005)
* "2,4,6,8 ...We're The Kids You Love to hate" LP (BYO Records, 2006)

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Four Things To Remember
The Holy Prophet (Peace be upon him ) Said:
1) Four things that make your body sick:
a) Excessive talking
b) Excessive sleeping
c) Excessive eating and
d) Excessive meeting other people
2) Four things that destroys the body:
a) Worrying
b) Sorrow (Sadness/Grief)
c) Hunger
d) Sleeping late in the night
3) Four things that dry the face & take away its happiness:
a) Lying
b) Being disrespectful / impudent (insisting on something wrong knowingly)
c) Arguing without adequate knowledge & Information.
d) Excessive immorality (doing something wrong without fear).
4) Four things that increases the wetness of face & its happiness:
a) Piety
b) Loyalty
c) Generosity (being kind)
d) To be helpful to others without he/she asking for that.
5) Four things that stop the Rizq (Sustenance) :
a) Sleeping in the morning (from Fajr to sunrise)
b) Not Performing Namaz or Ir-regular in Prayers
c) Laziness / Idleness
d) Treachery / Dishonesty
6) Four things that bring / increase the Rizq:
a) Staying up in the night for prayers.
b) Excessive Repentance
c) Regular Charity
d) Zikr (Remembrance of Allah / God).
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Jazakallahu khayran. I am actually a victim of some of this especially the sleeping because i love sleeping but i do wake up a night to observe nafila any tips to reduce excessive sleep after fajr till sunrise?
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My 45 years at the Edinburgh Fringe
A veteran of 45 years of the fringe festival recalls the best — and the terrible worst — of its many offerings
These days you need seven-league boots, or a magic carpet capable of whisking you from a dilapidated chapel halfway to Glasgow to a sinister catacomb in docklands Leith, if you're to see even a 50th of the zillion offerings that make up the Edinburgh Festival and Fringe. And even then you'll feel obscurely guilty for missing Bare Bawds, Carrot Napper, Headless Doctor, Big Wow, Smarty Pants and the other companies whose flyers will be pressed on you this year by performers dressed as bawds, carrots or headless doctors as you stumble through the throngs on the Royal Mile.
What a change from the half-dozen productions that constituted the Fringe in 1965, when I first dipped into Auld Reekie. Pretty well all I remember from that…


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Deficit projection grows by $2 trillion
The White House on Tuesday reiterated its projection "that the recession will end in the second half of 2009," and said President Barack Obama plans to take further steps to reduce the deficit in next year's budget.
The White House Office of Management and Budget's Mid-Session Review, an annual update between budgets, put the 10-year deficit estimate at $9.051 trillion, up from the previously projected $7 trillion. The administration had leaked the figure over the weekend.
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"More than half of the projected deficits over the next 10 years are directly attributable to the previous administration's failure to follow the pay-as-you-go principle," the White House said.
A background document says the administration "is very concerned about these out-year deficits."
"Getting the long-term deficit trajectory under control is a top priority of the administration," the document says. "We are in the midst of the policy process surrounding the FY 2011 budget, and that process will include proposals to put the nation on a fiscally sustainable path."
The administration said the forecast for the end of the recession "is the consensus of private forecasters as well: 94 percent of those forecasters surveyed in the July Blue Chip Projection believe the recession will end at the end of the year."
"While this is encouraging news, the president will not be pleased until we start creating more jobs than we're losing, get Americans back to work and build a new foundation for long-term economic growth," the administration said.
The document continued: "The Mid-Session Review updates the administration's economic forecast and budget projections. These new forecasts are based on new data that reflect how severe the economic downturn was in the late fall of 2008 and first half of this year. Our economic assumptions are in line with other major forecasters that put out reports over the past few months, and our budget projections are in line with the March projections from the Congressional Budget Office.
"These new numbers show how important it was to rescue the economy with aggressive action and invest in ways to get the economy moving again. In fact, our efforts to stabilize the financial sector have meant that we do not need a placeholder for further financial stabilization efforts or make more FDIC payments to protect depositors at failed banks — which are the primary reason why the size of this year's deficit has fallen by almost $262 billion or about 1.7 percent of [gross domestic product].


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Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson re-teams in the romantic comedy "Fool's Gold", the poster of which features a two-piece bikini wearing Kate Hudson, which is always a good thing. I could do without Matthew in the shot, though, but hey, beggars can't be choosers, right? The plot is your usual romcom stuff: "A new clue to the whereabouts of a lost treasure rekindles a married couple's sense of adventure — and their estranged romance." Hudson and McConaughey play said couple. You know, this would be much more interesting if they made this a sequel to the couple's last movie, "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days". I bet chicks — er, I mean, sophisticated women — would love a sequel to "10 Days". Mind you, not that I would know. Ahem.
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Ben "Finn" Finnegan is a good-natured, surf bum-turned-treasure hunter who is obsessed with finding the legendary 18th century Queen's Dowry–40 chests of exotic treasure that was lost at sea in 1715. In his quest, Finn has sunk everything he has, including his marriage to Tess Finnegan and his more-rusty-than-trusty salvage boat, "Booty Calls." Just as Tess has begun to rebuild her life, working aboard a mega-yacht owned by billionaire Nigel Honeycutt, Finn discovers a vital clue to the treasure's whereabouts. Certain that his luck will change with the newfound information, Finn maneuvers himself aboard Nigel's yacht and, using his good-natured charm, convinces the tycoon and his Blackberry-wielding, celebutante daughter, Gemma, to join him in the pursuit of the Spanish treasure. Against Tess' better judgment, the search rekindles her love… of discovery. But they are not the only ones after the treasure. Finn's mentor-turned-nemesis Moe Fitch has also set out to claim the prize. Let the treasure hunt begin…
And now, the trailer and poster for the film, both via (and yes, this will probably the the last time I make a post on "Fool's Gold", but I think you'll agree that the poster below is worth posting even if there isn't a chance in hell I'll ever see this thing):


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CASTRO VALLEY — Trees are no longer added to the Children's Memorial Grove. The stand of trees, each one commemorating a young life lost to homicide, had grown too large.
A yearly remembrance continues, though, and this year nine Alameda County children who died from violence in 2012 will be honored Friday at the 18th Children's Memorial Grove Ceremony on Fairmont Ridge. Their names will be inscribed on a plaque there and on another one in the courtyard of the county administration building on Oak Street in Oakland.
During the ceremony, the names will be read aloud by parents and loved ones.
One of those names this year is Hadari Askari, 15, who had dreamed of becoming a firefighter since he was a young boy and had just begun an Oakland Fire Department summer internship. The day after he started the internship, he was found shot, lying in a pool of blood and gasping for breath inside the locked gates of an East Oakland apartment complex, less than 100 yards from his front door.
Hadari joins about 400 children whose lives have been lost to violence in Alameda County since 1994.
Then-Alameda County Supervisor Gail Steele began in 1996 what has become an annual tradition to remember those children. Steele, now retired, has continued holding the event, assisted by the Children's Memorial Grove Steering Committee, made of up parents who have lost their children to violence, and the East Bay Regional Park District.
"We need to pay attention to every child who died," Steele said.
She started the annual ceremony after noticing the huge amount of deserved attention given to the tragic death of Jenny Lin, 14, who was found slain in her Castro Valley home in 1994, but after a 16-year-old boy was killed that same year, there was barely any mention in the newspaper.
"If that kid had died in a small town, everybody would be talking about it," she said. "What I noticed was, with so many children, nobody was paying any attention when they died."
This year, names of some who died before 1994 will be read after Steele was contacted by their family members.
In addition to Hadari, the children who died last year because of violence are Shonte Daniels Jr., 15, of Oakland; Ainsley Freeman, 13, of Pleasanton; Raquel Gerstel, 15, of San Leandro; Charles Hill II, 16, of Oakland; Jubrille Jordan, 15, of Oakland; Lamont Price, 17, of Oakland; Bobbie Kathleen Sartain, 16, of Oakland; and Tattiaunn Turner, 16, of Oakland.
Shonte Daniels was shot in an East Oakland park. A 14-year-old who was charged with murder in Shonte's death said he killed his friend because he felt "disrespected" by something Shonte had said.
Ainsley Freeman, 13, was found shot to death in her Pleasanton home. Her mother turned a gun on Ainsley, then killed herself, police said.
Bobbie Kathleen Sartain and Raquel Gerstel were the best of friends. The two had left Bobbie's uncle's home early in the morning. Not long after, an argument in a parked car ended with the two girls being shot and then left on an East Oakland street to die.
Charles Hill II was fatally shot in East Oakland after an argument at a party.
Tattiaunn Turner, a new mother, had gone out for a night out with friends when she was gunned down outside an East Oakland liquor store, where she had stopped to buy candy.
Jubrille Jordan, who loved children and aspired to be a teacher, was shot as she walked to a BART station in East Oakland. Lamont Price was also shot in East Oakland.
Steele said the vast number of children throughout the nation who die from violence receive little if any attention.
"Parents deal with their grief in different ways, but it means a lot that the community remembers their children," Steele said. "We must never forget our children, ever."
Contact Rebecca Parr at 510-293-2473 or follow her at Twitter.com/rdparr1.
Children's Memorial Grove Ceremony
When: 3 p.m. April 26
Where: Fairmont Drive on Fairmont Ridge between Foothill Boulevard and Lake Chabot Road
Details: Shuttle service from the park entrance on Fairmont Drive to the grove on Fairmont Ridge is available starting at 2 p.m. Those attending are asked to arrive no later than 2:40 p.m. to allow time for the shuttle. Contact Gail Steele at 510-538-9422.


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The trial in Tripoli of six Bulgarians and a Palestinian who face the death penalty if found guilty of deliberately infecting nearly 400 Libyan children with AIDS has been postponed again, Bulgarian radio said Saturday.
The trial will resume on February 10. It is the eighth postponement since the trial opened in February last year.
Defence lawyers had asked for the adjournment because of the absence of the lawyer for the chief accused, a Palestinian doctor, the paper said.
The six Bulgarians, five nurses and a doctor, and the Palestinian doctor, stand accused of "triggering an AIDS epidemic by injecting contaminated products" and premeditated murder at a children's hospital in Benghazi.
They have all denied the charges. Two of the nurses initially admitted guilt but then withdrew their confessions saying these had been obtained under duress during police questioning.
Eight Libyans have been accused of "negligence" in the same case.
Bulgaria has been lobbying Egypt to support endeavors to ensure a fair and objective trial.
Bulgarian Foreign Ministry spokesman Radko Vlaikov has said the accusations were "absurd" since there were cases of AIDS transmission at the pediatric hospital where the accused worked, both before and after their time there -- SOFIA (AFP)
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Somewhere buried in Superbad is the poignant coming-of-age fable the glimmer of a suggestion that Seth's dependence on Evan is adolescent, even infantile, and that at some point he has to grow up and accept that friends can be a continent apart and still be close. Or not close: friendships, like erections, can subside. But to find that valuable truth, you have to dig through an avalanche of d--- jokes and strenuous slapstick.
Anyway, I'm glad the movie exists, because it has a fabulous performance by Mintz-Plasse, a first-time movie actor with a beguiling, almost cunning dorkishness. The comedy comes from Fogell's belief that he is somehow cool, though he must have been told the opposite three times a day since he was in pre-school. Apatow has a habit of promoting his featured losers to starring roles. Rogen was one of Steve Carell's friend-torturers in The 40-Year-Old Virgin before getting Knocked Up, and Hill was a Rogen buddy in that film before Superbad. From this natural selection of the lamest, Mintz-Plasse has proved he merits a full-length Fogell feature.
School comedies from as far back as Harold Lloyd's The Freshman in 1925 set up the basic conflict of nerd vs. jock. The athlete was seen as stuck-up, taking adulation as his due, knowing "you gotta be a football hero to win the love of a beautiful girl." So virtually every high school or college comedy dramatized the triumph of the outsider against the sportsman establishment. In 1989, Heathers lifted that vengefulness to a tragicomic delirium.
In Superbad and other contemporary school movies, the misfit heroes are usually mocked or brutalized by the athletes. Well, it's true that the nerds' main form of exercise is masturbation, but they are every bit as competitive as the towel-snapping guys on the football team. The difference is that their aggression is verbal, not physical. Instead of wanting to score the winning touchdown, they want to top their friends in the display of ribald wit. They're joke jocks. And since they don't think girls are funny (their touchstone movie "classics" are Caddyshack and Porky's, not Earth Girls Are Easy and Clueless), and since the jokes they make often have a pretty deep misogynist streak, they play to the one audience they think will appreciate them: their male friends, which is to say, themselves. To each his Onan.
In this all-guy world, girls are the mysterious Other which, from my teen recollections, sounds about right. But they are only the goal: get the girl because of the challenge. They are not only unknowable, they're hardly worth knowing. They're a treat to see swinging their hips as they pass the misfits; but they don't understand the guy game, which is to assert domination by being rudely clever. They can walk the walk but they can't talk the talk.
Being long past my youth, I can't say if this is sociologically accurate. But males and females not charming and testing one another by talking that's a big change from the best old movies.
It was clear as long ago as the late 80s, and When Harry Met Sally (not Larry) that talk was the new sex. But in that film Meg Ryan got laughs by faking an orgasm. If you go back to some of the great romantic comedies of the 30s and 40s Bombshell, The Awful Truth, The Women, Midnight, Ball of Fire, The Lady Eve, Adam's Rib you'll see that women got to be at least as witty as the men, and that was very witty indeed. And it wasn't only male writers inventing funny things for actresses to say; some of these films were written by women (as was When Harry Met Sally).
Hollywood thinks girls aren't funny any more. Today, smart or sassy talk is something only the guys get to do. In The 40-Year-Old Virgin the main attraction of the female romantic interest played by Catherine Keener is that she laughs at Carell's jokes. The Apatow dictum (ha-ha, I said dictum) is that women can't aspire to equality in cracking jokes, but guys will indulge them and let them be the receptive audience.
Which is about all that's left for female moviegoers to do. Except for the months from December to February, when the tonier Oscar hopefuls allow some good roles for actresses, women have practically disappeared from movies. A decade ago, when the teen audience had established itself as the dominant box office demographic, producers scrambled to "young down" their projects, casting actors in their 20s for roles written for characters in their 30s and 40s. Now, I wonder, are producers "guying up" their movies? Are they having romantic comedy and drama scripts rewritten from guy-girl to guy-guy?
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Well, I still have at least a month before my visa is finalized, and there is always the slight possibility of denial, but I need to start looking at cars, and it seems like my family's first car in Japan will probably need to be a Kei.
I'm just trying to figure out the best option. I need space for me, the wife, the car seat and grandma who is visiting.
Right now I am driving a rented Mazda:
(hopefully, this photo publishes not sideways).
I've been looking and thinking I probably just want to go with something a bit more boxy like a N Box, Wake, Tanto, or possibly a Hustler:
Does anyone have some advice on what model might be better for perhaps some tuning to get a more livable amount of HP out of it?
This little Mazda makes a nice little noise when you mash the pedal, but that is about all it does, and it almost stalled on one section of the hill/mountain here where it became fairly steep.


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Messages on Facebook pages associated with the rebels in south Syria said, "the heroes of the Free Syrian Army broke into the military facility in the city of Jara after Assad's gangs took fighters of the Free Syria Army as prisoners of war...and used them as human shields. They were found dead when the facility was breached.
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The rebels told of how they broke into the facility over the weekend and how Assad's army caused high losses. According to the rebels, the unit that took control of the base is the "Martyrs of Yarmouk," active on the southern outskirts of the Dara district close to the border with Golan Heights. This is the same unit that kidnapped 21 Phillipine UN peacekeepers last week. The peacekeepers were released after a few days.
Film clip from captured base
In the past year, the battles in the Syrian civil war have reached the border with Israel and in a few instances, bullets and mortar shells have crossed the border and landed in Israel.
In another blow to the Syrian regime, a high ranking military official, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Ezz al-Din Khalouf, defected with his son, Capt. Ezz al-Din Khalouf, to Jordan. One of the highest-ranking military officers yet to abandon the Syrian President, the elder al-Din Khalouf said that morale among those still inside the regime had collapsed.
Rebel shows off captured base, walks on photo of Assad's brother
Media outlets and human rights activists in the country reported that the general and 20 soldiers deserted and joined the rebels. In a video that ran on the television network "Alarabiya," the general said that he had planned his escape in cooperation with the Syrian opposition over a long period of time. "No one can accept the ideas of the Syrian regime, it is simply impossible," the general said in the clip.
About 70,000 people have lost their lives since the start of the conflict and according to numbers released by the UN, 4-million of the country's 22-million inhabitants have been forced to leave their homes.
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Let The Sneezing And Sniffling Begin! Pollen Season Has Hit Louisiana!
Yuck! I'll say it again… Yuck! I love the fact that the temperatures are warming up and that Spring is here, but I could do without all of the sticky, all-pervasive pollen that comes with it. It's bad enough that it leaves everything in it's path a sickly yellowish green shade. Pollen season also makes me feel like I should invest in a car wash… Just saying! My pretty grey car is a nasty shade and I don't like it! I don't even want to think of trying to clean my patio table up. (Hint, just using the water hose doesn't work!) Add that to the dogs tracking it in on their paws and it's enough to make you cry, 'Mercy!'
Heaven forbid you forget your Claritin or Zyrtec in Louisiana in April! If you do, it's a one way trip to misery-ville! Even with allergy medications, it can still be tough for some of us.
While the pollen has been rated as high today, it's supposed to be 'very high' this weekend, despite the impending rain. You just gotta love the South!


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Investors Support Insider Deal That Favors Dankner Partners
The vote at yesterday's shareholders assembly was far from unanimous, but the insider deal is done: Two IDB group companies will be paying rich fees to the Schimmel brothers, who share control of IDB with Nochi Dankner, for mediating property deals.
The two group companies, Koor Industries and Property & Building, signed five-year agreements yesterday ratified by shareholders, under which a Schimmel family firm called Rock Real Estate may offer projects to them. Rock Real Estate will escort the projects, in exchange for a 12% share in capital gains deriving from the projects, if any.
In some cases Koor and P&B will also bear additional mediation costs, if any. The deal applies to the acquisition of the HSBC headquarters building in Manhattan in October, which cost Koor and P&B about $330 million (in equal parts).
Under the terms of the deal with the Schimmels, if (for instance) the HSBC building is sold for $500 million next year, Rock Real Estate will get 12% of that, minus costs.
The Schimmel brothers, Marc and Jacob, own 10% of Ganden Holdings, the holding company through which Nochi Dankner controls the sprawling IDB group of companies.
At the shareholders assemblies yesterday held by Koor and P&B, some of Israel's biggest institutional investors supported the insider transaction: Excellence and Phoenix, both of which belong to Yitzhak Tshuva's Delek Group; Migdal; and Harel. Menora-Mivtachim, Analyst and Meitav-Gaon also voted aye.
The camp opposing the broking agreement included Psagot, headed by Roy Vermus, who has been vocal in his defense of shareholders in the wake of Africa Israel Investments' default. The investments firm DS also voted nay, as did representatives of Tel Aviv-based brokerage IBI and the Mivtachim pension fund.
"There are tens of thousands of brokers in the U.S. Why contract with the Schimmel family, whose deals haven't proven themselves for the last five years?" sniped the manager of one financial institution yesterday. "Why give them an option for 12% of the capital gains just because they're Dankner's partner in Ganden?"
Out of the disinterested shareholders in Koor, 62.5% voted yea for the deal yesterday. The rest opposed it. At P&B, 65% of the disinterested shareholders voted in favor.
By the way, Marc Schimmel sits on the boards of directors at both Koor and P&B, while his brother Jack Schimmel sits on the boards of IDB Holding and IDB Development.
IDB has done business with the Schimmels before. In 2007 P&B advised investors that it was increasing its holdings in three Las Vegas residential projects, for $41 million. Two months later the company said the Schimmels and their partners had rights in the projects. In 2008 P&B agreed to buy land from them and partners in Ukraine for $33 million, but that deal fell through.
"The Schimmels have been in property for 20 years. They live in London, the hub of the global real estate market ... Somehow they met Nochi Dankner and invested in Ganden," says a source near P&B. IDB had been trolling for business and the Schimmels had deal flows to show, he said. Besides, the IDB people would sooner pay insiders rather than fork over gigantic finders' fees to third parties that nobody in the group knows, he added.
In the original form of the agreement between the IDB group companies and the Schimmels, the family also would have gained from profit on paper when property values were reappraised upward, the source said. But ultimately Koor and P&B decided they'd pay only when they sold the asset and got the compensation. "In any case, the agreement is limited to five years," he said. "It can be terminated at a month's notice by either of the parties."
Nor are the group companies committed to any deal the Schimmels offer, he pointed out. The IDB firms can pick and choose and the Schimmels will, as said, get paid only after the Israeli companies get money in hand.
Insider deals are not new at IDB. Leaving the Schimmels aside, Nochi Dankner appointed his daughter Rona Dankner to the boards of directors at Elron Electronics Industries and at Property and Building. In another controversial insider transaction, Dankner obtained the shareholders' permission for IDB Development to buy his company Ganden Tourism, though its main holding - Israir - has lost $109 million since its establishment and has a $79 million shareholders equity deficit.
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Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe stopped by for his weekly visit with Gresh & Zo to break down the Kevin Youkilis trade.
Youkilis played in Sunday's game at Fenway Park and was pulled in the seventh after hitting a triple, the last hit he would ever have as a member of the Red Sox. Shaughnessy stated that he would have never made the deal and think that the Sox will need Youkilis.
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Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard has predicted that his side will be in for a tough game when they play Steaua Bucuresti in the Europa League on Thursday evening.
Bucuresti bring a 1-0 advantage to Stamford Bridge after their narrow victory in Romania, but despite Chelsea remaining favourites to progress, Lampard has insisted that they must play well to overturn the deficit.
The 34-year-old told the club's official website: "Steaua are a good team. They are technically good on the ball, which most European teams are once you get to this stage of a competition, and it will be a tough game, as simple as that.
"It was a very difficult pitch out there and our pitch will be better.
"The fact we didn't score an away goal is going to make it a difficult night, it will be on a bit of knife edge, but we have to believe we have the character and ability to turn it around."
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St. Paul's Penumbra Theater is hoping a feature Monday night on NBC's new national magazine program, "Rock Center with Brian Williams," will raise the profile of African-American performing arts.
Artistic director Lou Bellamy said crews from "Rock Center" have been visiting the company for months to gather material for a 9 p.m. piece that will highlight Penumbra's work, and its impact as the largest African-American theater in the country.
"It's another step in establishing our worth and contribution to the building of a diversified national theatrical tradition in the United States, one that includes everyone," he said.
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It was a tongue-lashing that the Savannah Christian football team won't soon forget.
But Raiders coach Donald Chumley's halftime diatribe lit a fire within his players, who responded with one of their best halves of the season as SCPS rolled to a 42-6 victory over visiting Montgomery County in a 3-A play-in game.
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The Raiders are expected to play at Mitchell County in Camilla, more than four hours from Savannah, in the first round of the state playoffs.
"I was hostile at the half," Chumley told his team as they gathered around for his postgame speech. "But we cannot come out and play flat for two quarters and expect to win in the playoffs. But if we play like we did in the second half, we can beat anyone."
Chumley was upset with a couple of turnovers that prevented the Raiders from pulling away in the first half. In the second quarter, quarterback Harrison Curry fumbled for the second time in two possessions and Montgomery County's Derric Sharpton picked up the fumble and returned it 25 yards for a score.
The Raiders (9-1) responded on their next possesion as Johnathon Chamblee (who also saw time at quarterback) found Eric Wickham for a 26-yard gain, leading to a 1-yard touchdown run by Andrew Moore and the Raiders led 14-6 at the half.
The Raiders lost their third fumble at the start of the second half, but the defense came up big once again as Kenny Katzman got the ball back with an interception.
Six plays later, Curry found Nardo Govan open in the right flat, and the junior waltzed into the end zone behind a fine seal-off block by wideout Taylor Ivey.
An interception by Will Austin set up the next Raiders touchdown as Moore busted a run up the gut for a 35-yard score.
"We had a little lack of communication on some plays in the first half; that's something we have to work on," said Moore, who rushed for 127 yards and three scores on 21 carries. "I've got to credit my line for opening those holes. They are the hardest working guys on the team."
Moore went on to name the squad consisting of center John Hosey and fellow linemen Josh Garland, Caleb Womble, Josh Gay and Michael Burke.
The Raiders made it three scoring drives in a row early in the fourth when Ivey ran a curl pattern and caught Curry's pass at the 10-yard line. He bounced forward on the initial hit before turning upfield and eluding a clutch of tacklers for the 20-yard touchdown.
Curry was 4-of-4 passing for 52 yards and two scores. Chris Johnston scored the final touchdown on an 8-yard run.
But it was the Raider defense that ruled the night by holding the Eagles (5-5) to just three first downs and 37 yards of total offense, all on the ground. Eagles quarterback Jamichael Snead was 0-for-7 passing with the two interceptions and was sacked twice, with Cooper Lemonds playing a role in both.
"We worked a lot on our pass rushing this week in practice," said Lemonds, who also had a tackle for a loss. "We knew as long as we didn't misalign we would do a good job of stopping them."
Tanner Burch, Deangelo Brown and Wickham also were key players in the stifling defense.
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Wadena mixed martial arts fighter Tony Houn picked up a victory Feb. 2 in Cage Fighting Extreme (CFX) 44 at the St. Cloud Municipal Athletic Complex.
The Wadena fighter gained the win with a submission by arm bar decision at the 2:16 mark of the first round.
The Wadena STOMP-MMA club will host an MMA state tournament event June 15 at the local National Guard Armory. The 7 p.m. event will feature a minimum of 10 contests.


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As an Android user, I was a bit dubious to say the least about converting to Samsung. I previously owned both an Iphone and a Ipad in which I found the internal system gradually became a bit 'slow'. I bought a Samsung Tab 3 as a gift to myself for Christmas last year. I'm not really one for hi-tec gadgets however I have found multiple uses for this tablet. I am a regular commuter to Cambridge - as a student, it is much more convenient to use a tablet instead of carrying around multiple cables and attachments (and it saves room on the bus too!. I also connect it to my phone - a Samsung 6 - and it enables me to transfer various files and music over. The main reason I purchased this tablet was to watch shows such as Netflix on while I commute however, I have recently bought a HDMI cable and a MH1 to connect my tablet to my TV! Overall, a really good buy and for just £199? The best Samsung product to ever be released in my opinion!
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Fantasy Football Injury Report: August 12, 2014
Michael A. Stein discusses the impact of injuries on fantasy football.
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The clock keeps ticking down to the Opening Kickoff of the NFL season. Most teams are getting ready for their second preseason game this week. But while hope springs eternal for all NFL teams and fantasy GM's alike, there are already some key players suffering from a variety of injuries which will have a distinct effect on your draft strategy. Speaking of your draft, if you want to be consumed with the best fantasy football information and draft strategies in the industry, then do yourself a favor and get a copy of the Fantasy Alarm NFL Draft Guide at http://www.fantasyalarm.com/draftguide.php. So without further adieu, here is the next installment of the fantasy football walking wounded.
Arian Foster (RB-HOU)
Arian Foster is one of the most frustrating players to own on a fantasy team. He is exceptionally talented but also extremely injury-prone. He has missed some time recently with a hamstring injury and did not play in Houston's first preseason game. It is interesting that the Texans just released backup running back Andre Brown this week. Perhaps they are confident Foster will be ok and stay healthy, or they have increased confidence in their other backups Jonathan Grimes and Alfred Blue. Either way, Foster's handcuff(s) have elevated fantasy value because he almost never stays healthy all season long.
Andre Johnson (WR-HOU)
Andre Johnson was the subject of some offseason controversy when he proclaimed he would hokd out or demand a trade because he was not on board with Houston's rebuilding plan. But he reported to camp on time and seems to be over his hissy fit. The problem is that he has been battling a hamstring injury which has kept him sidelined for the better part of a week. While he should be fine for the beginning of the season, fantasy GM's do need to be concerned about both his age and the fact he has an underwhelming quarterback in Ryan Fitzpatrick leading the way. Johnson has been one of the most consistent and dynamic wide receivers in fantasy football for many years, but his stock has taken a hit coming into 2014. Buyer beware.
Eric Decker (WR-NYJ)
Eric Decker is a talented wide receiver as evidenced by his spectacular 2013 season with the Broncos. He parlayed that into a lucrative free agent contract to become the Jets primary receiver. Fantasy GM's will no doubt be skeptical about Decker this year who is destined to see a major reduction in his statistics now that he is the number one wideout on a team with a young and unproven quarterback. He recently missed a few practices with a quad injury, but that seems to have resolved itself as he returned to the practice field earlier this week. GM's shouldn't worry about his health…they should worry about his drop in production thanks to Geno Smith and being a reality TV star now living in the New York area.
Toby Gerhart (RB-JAX)
Toby Gerhart is now out of Adrian Peterson's shadow and is the featured running back on a young Jaguars team. He missed a week's worth of practice with a hip flexor but returned to the field on Tuesday. It is still unknown whether he will play in Jacksonville's second preseason game. The hip injury is scary for GM's who do not have a deep field of running backs to choose from once you get past the top tier. If he stays healthy he should reach 1,000 yards this season simply because he will get plenty of rushing attempts on a bad team.
Marvin Jones (WR-CIN)
Bengals wide receiver Marvin Jones sustained a fractured foot which required surgery this week and will likely keep him out until Week 5 of the regular season. Jones burst on the scene in 2013 opposite All Pro A.J. Green and hauled in 51 receptions for 712 yards and ten touchdowns. Until he returns, look for Mohamed Sanu to assume the role of Andy Dalton's second receiver which does increase his fantasy value. Jones could be a nice late round pick assuming he comes back at full strength.
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Maroons at full strength for Origin II
Queensland is on track to be at full strength for next Wednesday's State of Origin II in Sydney, after question marks were earlier raised about two players.
North Queensland prop Matt Scott has vowed he will definitely play against New South Wales next week after spending time with his mother, who is battling throat cancer.
Scott joined team-mates in camp at Coolum on the Sunshine Coast on Thursday but did not want to talk about his personal family issues.
He flew to Longreach to visit his family last Sunday after the Cowboys lost to the Gold Coast.
"Mal (Meninga) and the team have been very supportive of me in giving me a few extra days to deal with things and I'd like to keep it as a private matter and concentrate on my footy from now on," Scott said.
Asked if he would be playing he said: "Definitely".
He said he had discussed playing with his mum Diane and his family who supported him all the way.
"It was a difficult decision to make but I love this team and and I love being part of it," he said.
"I got into camp last night and I'm focused on getting my preparation right."
Scott knows he will have to get his head right and his preparation spot on going up against giant Penrith rookie Tim Grant, who will be launching his Origin career at the Olympic stadium.
"Whenever I've come up against him he's been very hard to handle," said Scott, who like several Queensland players will be looking to lift their performance in Sydney after a less than satisfactory start in Melbourne last month.
"He's a big boy and he's been playing great for Penrith.
"Our start in Sydney was poor and they came out of the blocks hard.
"We have to fix that because they made a lot of metres through the middle.
"We can't afford to be off the pace in Sydney."
Earlier, Souths prop Dave Taylor turned up at the Maroons' training session with his head wrapped in bandages.
Team media manager Frank Barrett explained to the media that Taylor had injured his head after falling out of his bed during the night.
Taylor trained without too much discomfort as the Queenslanders ran through some ball drills under the watchful eye of Meninga.
Tackling machine Ashley Harrison, who entered camp on Tuesday with a groin injury, was also a welcome sight at Queensland's first training session.
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Prime Minister Edi Rama on Friday said the government would set aside €13.1 million in 2014 for former prisoners of conscience of Albania's Communist regime.
Albania's government has pledged to end the hold-ups in compensation payments that have angered former political prisoners in the country. "The problem is much bigger than our ability to resolve it immediately," Prime Minister Rama said.
"We will try first to close the wounds of their moral mistreatment while proceeding with the material compensation," he added.
The sum of €13.1 million awarded by the government covers only part of the total payment promised to former political prisoners, based on a law approved by the previous centre-right government.
Albania's Association of Former Political Prisoners believes that about 5,577 men and 450 women were executed for political crimes during the Communist era from 1946 to 1991. Tens of thousands of others were imprisoned or sent to labour camps.
A law passed in 2007 said that former political prisoners of the regime were entitled to 2,000 lek (€14.3) for every day of prison that they had served.
However, the government then divided the payment into eight tranches and over the past five years only one of those segments has actually been disbursed.
In October 2012, a group of ex-prisoners held a hunger strike in Tirana, calling for immediate reparations of their time in prison.
Two of the prisoners set themselves on fire in protest and one of them later died in an Italian hospital.
Polling stations opened at 7am on Sunday in Kosovo for the second round of the local elections, in 19 municipalities where no one claimed victory in round one.
Author and journalist Julian Borger argues that because Serbia was not penalised for shielding Ratko Mladic while he was on the run, it helped foster a culture of denial of war crimes and genocide.
Turkey's plans to buy Russian S-400 missile systems alarm its Western allies but form part of an ever-closer partnership with Russia that will have an obvious impact on the Balkans.


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I really don't think it's "cricket" for people to tempt me in this way, because I am a weak man...
So here's the deal. I'm already the proud owner of the coolest, geekiest watch on the planet
quite possibly in the known universe. I am of course referring to my Nixie Tube Watch from the folks at Cathode Corner.
Steve Wozniak (the co-founder of Apple Computers), also owns one of these little beauties. In fact, he's on the record as saying that out of all the things he's seen, this is the one he wishes he'd invented himself.
So who could want anything more? Well, certainly not I until that little rascal Jay Dowling emailed me to say "Have you seen this cool timepiece?" Jay also thoughtfully provided a link to the Navitron Steampunk Wrist Compass and Sundial page on the Think Geek Website.
Arrggghhh! May 1,000 curses rain down on Jay's head. I am in torment. Just look at the evocative words from the folks at Think Geek:
The wind blows through your hair as you steer your personal dirigible along the wispy seas of air. For a moment, you forget yourself in the beauty of it all. But then you remember the lunch meeting you have. You quickly look to your wrist, get your bearings, and check the time all without electricity because, naturally, you're using your Navitron Steampunk Wrist Compass and Sundial.
Made of antique brass, this little scamp acts as a sundial, latitude finder, and compass (with locking button), all strapped to a heavy-duty, brown leather band. Furthermore, all of the features, including sundial and angular latitude arm, fold flat for a compact look.
Now I obviously do not need this. In addition to the fact I have my Nixie Tube Watch, I've also been blessed with the talent to always know the right time. Seriously! It doesnt matter if it's day or night or if I'm in the Northern or Southern hemispheres. All I have to do is look at the sky and observe the position of the sun, moon, and stars, and I can say without any doubt of hesitation: "It's time for a beer," and I'm always right!
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1. A weed that grows among corn.
Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field. Matt.13.
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TARE, n.
1. In commerce, deficiency in the weight or quantity of goods by reason of the weight of the cask, bag or other thing containing the commodity, and which is weighed with it; hence, the allowance or abatement of a certain weight or quantity from the weight or quantity of a commodity sold in a cask, chest, bag or the like, which the seller makes to the buyer on account of the weight of such cask, chest or bag; or the abatement may be on the price of the commodity sold. When the tare is deducted, the remainder is called the net or neat weight.
TARE, v.t. To ascertain or mark the amount of tare.
TARE, old pret. of tear. WE now use tore.
TA'RED, pp. Having the tare ascertained and marked.
TA'RING, ppr. Ascertaining or marking the amount of tare.
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NCBA Wins Flexibility in Clean Water Act CAFO Rule
WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the final Clean Water Act rule for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) on Friday, October 31, 2008. The rule has been in development since June of 2006, during which time the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA) has worked tirelessly to ensure that the regulations are accommodating for cattle producers.
We're pleased that EPA has put out this final rule," said Tamara Thies, NCBA's Chief Environmental Counsel. "The regulations are very strict and comprehensive, but they provide much-needed certainty for our cattle producers on what they must do to be in compliance."
Thies worked extensively with EPA to ensure that the final rule would allow flexibility for cattle producers to ensure their ability to comply. "Cattle producers make their living off the land, and because of that they have a vested interest in being good environmental stewards," Thies explains. "They're also business people, and need the flexibility to make decisions based on current conditions, not long-range government planning."
Thanks to NCBA's efforts, under the final rule cattle producers can apply manure and wastewater to their lands based on nutrient values in up-to-date soil and manure tests, rather than a predetermined rate developed five years in advance as was originally proposed. Similarly, the final rule permits cattle producers to apply manure and waste water to their land based on an assessment of phosphorus transport.
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Our morning service opened with a good morning from Bro. Dee. We gave our prayer requests. As always, there were many. Bro. Bob led in prayer. We had the pledges for the flags and for the Bible. We sang for Jesus and gave our Sunday school gifts with prayer by Sister Naomi. Bro. Bob opened Sunday school with a good morning to all. The lesson was from Acts 6:1-10. It was a very good lesson. I am really enjoying the book of Acts. I have read it several times, but for some reason I am getting so much more from it this time than ever before. The youth gathered up the Coins For Christ. It was then time to sing for the Lord. The choir was in good voice. We gave our gifts to the Lord with prayer by Sister Shirley. We had specials from Sister Peggy and Sister Juanita. We had a handshake before Bro. Wilbanks brought the message.
Bro. Mark Wilbanks was filling in for Bro. Gregg. He used Hebrews 11:24-26. It was a good message from the Lord. We had altar prayer and was dismissed by Sister Juanita.
Our evening service began with our prayer circle. We had requests for the sick, the lost, many unspoken ones and many loves ones and others who are in need. Bro. Mark led in prayer. We sang for the Lord. It is such a blessing to sing the good old hymns. We had specials from Sister Peggy, Sister Juanita and Sister Ulla.
Bro. Mark brought the evening message from St. John 14:17 and Revelations. It was a very good message from the Lord.
We closed with altar prayer and Bro. Dee dismissed us with prayer.
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ALERT: 5.9 Earthquake Strikes Mexico. Apr 21 18:16 at epicenter (13m ago, 10km Lazaro Cardenas, depth 74km).
Earthquake Magnitude 5.9 strikes southern region of Mexico, 5.1 aftershock follows
5.9 earthquake strikes West Coast; 7.0 quake hits Mexico
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake has struck the Pacific Ocean about 160 miles west of the coast of Oregon, the U.S Geological Survey said, but no tsunami is expected.
A second much larger quake, registering 7.0, was felt near Michoacán, Mexico, a few minutes later.
5.9 quake strikes western Mexico
A strong 5.9-magntiude earthquake hit western Mexico on Sunday, the US Geological Survey reports.
Event Time
- 2013-04-21 18:16:33 UTC-07:00 at epicenter
- 2013-04-21 21:16:33 UTC-04:00 system time
18.159°N 102.080°W depth=28.5km (17.7mi)
Nearby Cities
- 21km (13mi) NE of Las Guacamayas, Mexico
- 25km (16mi) NNE of Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico
- 25km (16mi) NE of La Orilla, Mexico
- 61km (38mi) SSE of La Mira Tumbiscatio, Mexico
- 341km (212mi) WSW of Mexico City, Mexico
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China, Singapore Partner in Shipbuilding
According to an April 13 report from the People's Daily Online, the China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) and Singapore's Pacific International Lines (PIL) opened a joint venture - CSIC Pacific. Speaking at the opening of the company, Lim Hwee Hua, Singapore 's Minister in Prime Minister Office and Second Minister for Finance and Transport, said that this CSIC-PIL's partnership is reflective of the close links between China and Singapore.
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If we could just get them into a nuclear waste-filled sewer, they could fight their own fights. But right now, turtles could use a little help from the government.
Florida, home to 90% of loggerhead sea turtle nests in the U.S., has just recorded its fourth-worst nesting season on record, and in spite of protective vigilantes and light polution rules, the situation is precarious enough to prompt observers to petition the Feds to reclassify the poor little guys from threatened to endangered.
Experts with environmental group Oceana say the number of nests has plunged 40% over the past decade, and 2009's further 15% drop has put the creatures in watery grave danger.
Similar numbers are coming in from surveys in North and South Carolina.
"We're finally getting below 400 nests, which is scary," Kirt Rusenko, a marine conservationist at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Ratontold the Palm Beach Post. "When I first started here 14 years ago, our nest number was more like 900.''
The turtles have been impacted by overdevelopment, commercial line fishing, and beach erosion, something we'd only wish on visiting "celebrities." Though they've been classified threatened since 1978's Endangered Species Act, loggerheads have struggled to survive.
It's a problem, Oceana believes, that needs government intervention so that increased protections and areas of critical habitat can be created and enforced. They, along with The Center for Biological Diversity and the Turtle Island Restoration Network, are awaiting a response to their joint petition.
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Urban legends are strange creatures. Even when they're exposed for what they are - tall tales seemingly "legitimized" through frequent retelling - people continue to believe the lie.
Case in point: "MinWin." For months, so-called industry "experts" were speculating that Microsoft would make a clean break with Windows 7 - that core elements of the OS would be rewritten from the ground up and that backwards compatibility would be relegated to the domain of virtual machines and emulation.
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Central to this theory was "MinWin." Citing the now infamous "Eric Traut demo," they claimed as fact that Microsoft was retooling the Windows kernel to make it lighter and less monolithic. Never mind that doing so would likely break the entire Windows hardware/software ecosystem. "MinWin" was the future. It was new. It was "cool." And as any industry media professional will tell you, it's the "cool" new technologies that drive page views.
Of course, now we know better. The whole "MinWin" bubble burst last week when, through various Microsoft web postings and interview comments, it was revealed that Windows 7 would in fact be more akin to "Windows Vista Second Edition": An evolutionary update that builds upon the existing NT 6.x kernel architecture as manifested in Windows Vista.


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Fan Bingbing attended the press conference for 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' earlier today (May 13) in Beijing, China alongside Peter Dinklage and Hugh Jackman.
Following the premiere in New York, the Asian actress continues to delight, wearing a Jean-Paul Gaultier Spring 2014 Couture look featuring a cobalt-blue blouson top with a black pencil skirt creating a unique silhouette.
As much as I dislike those quadruple-stack pumps she insists on wearing, I have, at this point, tried to make peace with them.
Chopard jewels and a half-up, half-down hairstyle completed her look.
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Nice Job!: The Guide to Cool, Odd, Risky, and Gruesome Ways to Make a Living (Lookout Media)
The career shelf at your local bookstore is packed with guides to finding jobs in perfectly dull professions, but what if you're looking for a real change of pace? NICE JOB! will equip you with all the information you need to swap your career for a lifestyle. This innovative book is packed with detailed profiles on over 80 truly unusual jobs -- from the practical (rare furniture craftsman) to the daring (National Geographic photographer) to the truly bizarre (cadaver makeup technician). Complete with all the facts on each job's benefits, risks, paycheck, and how to get your foot in the door.
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Schelotto's header cancels out El Shaarawy's opener: Inter Milan 1 – AC Milan 1
Inter Milan 1 – AC Milan 1 (Serie A, February 24, 2013) The Rossoneri took the lead through Stephan El Shaarawy's outside of the boot finish in the 20th minute. Inter levelled midway through the second half through a fine header from Ezequiel Matias Schelotto.
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Carol Award: Novella: Winner: A Trusting Heart
Title: A Trusting Heart in Christmas Mail-Order Brides
Author: Carrie Turansky
Publisher: Barbour Publishing (Rebecca Germany, Editor)
Category: Novella
Reviewed by: Kathleen Maher
A Trusting Heart by Carrie Turansky kicks off Barbour's four-part novella collection "Christmas Mail Order Brides."
Tender, real, and touching, this story makes an enchanting holiday escape.
Heroine Annika Bergstrom tugs on the heartstrings. An immigrant whose parents have died, the lovely young Swedish American must now leave her newly married sister—her only surviving family—to seek a new life and a husband of her own.
Wyoming rancher Chase Simms sends for her via Mrs. Mayberry's Matrimonial Society for Christians of Moral Character—and it seems God has provided. As soon as she arrives, however, Annika's worst fears materialize when she learns Chase wants nothing to do with her.
Plucky Annika determines to bloom where she is planted and takes Chase's motherless daughter under her wings, teaching the girl Swedish customs and feminine arts. While Chase roves the countryside sowing wild oats, his attentive and kind brother Daniel moves in, drawn by Annika's winning ways. Interest kindles as Daniel steps up for his delinquent brother. Suspense turns the pages to see if Annika can turn a rogue's heart—or if nice guys finish first in love.
Tender, real, and touching, this story makes an enchanting holiday escape with a heroine who stole my heart. This romance is sure to brighten your Christmas season with hope, love, and a happy ever after.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010 | 5:47 p.m.
Sun Coverage
- Las Vegas mob museum continues to move forward (9-18-2009)
- Not yet built, mob museum may get rival (9-11-2009)
- Goodman marks Mob Museum progress (8-4-2009)
- Mob museum contractor at odds with city (8-8-2009)
- Oh, the irony: The former mob lawyer gets FBI support for mob museum (8-17-2008)
CARSON CITY – The conversion of the Post Office in Las Vegas to the so-called Mob Museum has received a $220,000 grant from the state Commission for Cultural Affairs.
The commission, completing a two-day meeting Thursday, allocated $3 million to 23 projects. The Mob Museum got the biggest single grant.
State Historic Preservation Officer Ron James said there was also an additional $97,000 that was in reserve that was allocated to the Las Vegas project.
Plans call for the museum to be opened in 2011.
The Mob Museum has received $3 million from the state through the years, James said.
Since 1993, the state has issued about $3 million a year in bonds for historic projects. The Legislature renews the program every 10 years and it is due to expire in 2014. So far, it has allocated about $40 million to programs around Nevada.
The Clark County Parks and Recreation Department received a $150,000 grant for work on the Railroad Cottages, a group of historic buildings in Henderson. The commission allocated $75,000 to the Neon Museum in Las Vegas.
Officials from the Mob Museum and the Neon Museum told the commission this would be the last time they would request money from the state.
The commission approved a $40,000 grant to the city of Mesquite to turn a high school gymnasium into an all-purpose room.
Grants of $200,000 each were allocated to the Oak Park School in Fallon, the Pioneer Hotel Building in Elko and the Thunderbird Lodge at south end of Lake Tahoe.


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Newport Beach, CA (PressExposure) November 22, 2011 -- Three of Orange County's top CEO's - Robert E. Grant (Bausch + Lomb), James V. Mazzo (Abbott Medical Optics) and Michael A. Mussallem (Edwards Lifesciences Corp.) - are joining nationally recognized healthcare policy expert Dr. Paul Keckley at the upcoming Forum for Corporate Directors (FCD) program to discuss the impact of the economy, healthcare reform and the upcoming election on their companies and boards. This "Dinner with the CEOs" will take place at the Hyatt Regency Irvine on Tuesday, November 29.
"Today's challenging global and domestic economy, the impact of the pending healthcare reform on all types and sizes of companies and the implications of the 2012 election cycle provide plenty of uncertainty and potential challenges for today's corporate directors, executive officers and senior level management," said John Della Grotta, chair of FCD and a partner at Paul Hastings LLP. "This program will provide a unique opportunity to discuss these important issues facing all companies, with three of the most successful CEOs in Orange County."
Grant is executive vice president and CEO Surgical, Bausch + Lomb. He joined the company in August, 2010, after serving as corporate vice president and president of Allergan Medical. He led the $3.4 billion Allergan-Inamed post-acquisition integration, and his leadership created the multi-million dollar medical rejuvenation industry through a portfolio of well-known products. Before joining Allergan Medical, Grant was the acting chairman, president and CEO of BIOLASE Technology, Inc., the global cosmetic dentistry company where he led a highly successful turnaround. He holds an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and has a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University.
Mazzo is senior vice president, Abbott Medical Optics, heading up the company's global vision care business. He was appointed to his current role in February, 2009 after serving as chairman and CEO of Advanced Medical Optics. In that role, Mazzo grew the company's sales from $538 million in 2002 to more than $1 billion in 2008 and increased the market cap from approximately $429 million to approximately $1.5 billion. During that time, he also engineered several strategic acquisitions worth more than $3 billion, staking the company to clear leadership positions in the cataract and eye care markets and the global No. 1 position in refractive surgery. He also held various senior executive-level positions for Allergan prior to its spin-off of Advanced Medical Optics, including president of Allergan's Europe/Africa/Middle East region. He serves on the University of California at Irvine (UCI) Dean's Board of Directors' Executive Committee, UCI Dean's Board of Business and Engineering and is chairman of the UCI Foundation. He is also a trustee for Chapman University and the University of San Diego. Additionally, Mazzo is a member of the International Intraocular Implant Club (IIIC) and serves as board chairman of AdvaMed.
Mussallem has been chairman and CEO of Edwards Lifesciences Corp. since 2000 when the company spun-off from Baxter International. Prior to his current position, he held a variety of positions with increasing responsibility in engineering, product development and senior management at Baxter, including group vice president of its cardiovascular business from 1994 to 2000 and group vice president of the biopharmaceutical business from 1998 to 2000. From 1996 until 1998, he was the chairman of Baxter's Asia board overseeing Baxter's operations throughout Asia. Mussallem is the former chairman of the board of directors of the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed). He is currently on the boards and executive committees of AdvaMed, California Healthcare Institute and OCTANe, and is a trustee of the University of California, Irvine Foundation. He received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and an honorary doctorate degree from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Keckley is executive director for the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions (DCHS), the health care research arm of Deloitte, LLP. He brings a distinguished 30-year career in health sciences research in the private sector and academic medicine. A health economist and policy expert, he is a regular contributor to CNN and Fox News health reform coverage, and is considered one of the country's leading experts on U.S. health reform.
Prior to joining Deloitte, Keckley served in leadership roles at Vanderbilt Medical Center including international joint ventures, the Vanderbilt Center for Integrative Health, the health care MBA program launch and as executive director of the Vanderbilt Center for Evidence-based Medicine (VCEBM). He has published several articles in peer reviewed journals and continues to serve in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine as a Visiting Professor and the Owen Graduate School of Business at Vanderbilt as an Adjunct Professor. He has authored three books and more than 200 articles, and publishes the Monday Health Reform Memo.
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Founded in 1991, the Forum for Corporate Directors (FCD) is a non-profit business organization committed to promoting the highest standards of corporate governance and to increasing the effectiveness of directors, CEOs and senior level executives by anticipating important issues facing companies in today's global economy and presenting peer-to-peer forums to share ideas and key strategies. FCD members include many of Southern California's top business and corporate leaders. Corporate members include Abbott Medical Optics; American Vanguard Corporation; California State University Fullerton Mihaylo College of Business & Economics; DDi Corp.; Emulex Corporation; Local.com; Microsemi Corporation; Mindspeed Technologies, Inc.; National Technical Systems; Newport Corporation; QLogic Corporation; Quality Systems Inc.; SRS Labs, Inc.; and The Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine.
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Texas Tesla Store Favored by Residents: Poll Shows
Residents in Austin, Texas are overwhelmingly in favor of electric vehicle maker Tesla being allowed to sell its Model S sedan according to a web poll by the Austin Business Journal.
"We hope that legislators will consider the overwhelming support shown in this poll…" Tesla CEO Elon Musk said of the bill, which would allow EV makers to sell straight from factory to consumer.
In the poll, which isn't a scientific sampling and is still open, 86 percent are in favor of Tesla being allowed to bypass Texas dealership regulations while 12 percent are against while two percent are are undecided. At the time of writing, 1,718 votes had been cast.
SEE ALSO: Tesla CEO Visits Texas, Talks About Electric Truck
Tesla's direct-to-customer business model raises problems where laws block manufacturers from selling directly to customers. It's a problem Tesla successfully defeated in other parts of the country including a Boston suburb where the brand found similar opposition from the local dealer association. Musk travelled to Austin two weeks ago and lobbied to bypass Texas dealership regulations.
SEE ALSO: Tesla Wins License to Sell Cars in Boston Suburb
"For the Auto Dealer Association to claim that restricting competition is in the best interests of the public is wrong and defies obvious common sense," Musk said. Job creation, and the allusion of an electric pickup truck were among the items he discussed at the time.
Opening a store in Austin could mena big business for Tesla. Musk said he thought Texas could prove to be the brand's second-largest market behind California.


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Clinical rosacea is not a single disease but rather a combination of cutaneous stigmata which include flushing, erythema, telangiectasia, facial edema, papules, pustules, ocular lesions, and rhinophyma. Mostpatients, of course, have less thanthefull set of these stigmata.1 The stigmata of rosacea are treatable. It is unpredictably, but potentially, progressive and relapsing.1
There are no accurate figures for the overall prevalence and incidence, which vary with the racial mix of the population. Clinical variants including ocular rosacea or rosacea fulminans should not be forgotten.2 The highest prevalence is in countries with a predominantly fair skinned Caucasian population, many with ancestry,3,4 but rosacea does occur in other groups including blacks5 and east asians.6
Rosacea is frequently missed or misdiagnosed
The most common wrong diagnosis is acne,7 and often patients who actually have rosacea, have already seen many doctors and dermatologists with their so-called acne.7 Ocular rosacea generally goes unrecognized (see later section).2
Trigger factors for rosacea
The most frequent trigger factors identified by patients are sunlight, heat, spicy foods and alcohol.8 The sun and other climatic influences are important pathogenetically, but less important as precipitants of attacks.3 Dietary factors are only important with regard to flushing,3 but these factors play no other role in causing or maintaining rosacea lesions. Everything else is folklore.7 Keep in mind that undue intake of pro-inflammatory substances (e.g. halogens, including iodides and bromides) from fad diets or medications (e.g. cold remedies, sedatives, radio-opaque contrast media) can sometimes precipitate a devastating outbreak of rosacea.7
Treatment of rosacea
The regular use of an effective, cosmetically acceptable sunscreen with good substantivity is very important.7 Sunscreens should be used throughout the day.7,8
The topical therapy of choice for rosacea is metronida-
zole. Sodium sulfacetamide, with or without sulfur, is also used,9
and more recently azelaic acid 20% has
been found to be of some benefit.3,10
In general, it is not
necessary to complicate
application of
metronidazole, by adding other so-called active agents
such as sulphur, corticosteroids or tretinoin.3, 7
Tetracycline (or erythromycin) in full dosage
for up to six months.3
Tetracycline one g/day initially
and then reduce the dose (500mg250 mg/day) for a
total period of 36 months. Alternatively, minocycline
100 mg/day (reducing to 50 mg/day) can be given.
Erythromycin can also be used and clarithromycin
compared well with doxycycline in a recent study.11
Laser treatment of rosaceaBe careful not to promise too much.7 The background diffuse erythema responds poorly to laser treatment, however discrete fine telangiectasia respond well. Large ropey vessels often require more than one treatment.14
Argon, copper vapor, krypton and KTP lasers can improve the larger telangiectasia.9,13
CO2 Laser (often used with the CO2 resurfacing laser and the Shaw scalpel) Has proven very helpful for treating rhinophyma.8,9,13
Pulsed Dye Laser (PDL) Can produce pleasing results for telangiectasia and sometimes erythema.9 The PDL is probably the best laser for small vessels,14 but patients dont like the resulting purpura which can last 10 days.13,14 In some cases, after treatment patients may also notice a reduction in inflammatory rosacea lesions.13 Repeat treat- ment is sometimes necessary due to recurrence caused by ongoing disease.13
Ocular Rosacea
Most patients with cutaneous rosacea have some degree of ocular involvement.15 Ocular rosacea generally goes unrec- ognized, undiagnosed, undertreated, and under-reported.16
The most common tip-off of ocular rosacea is dry
eye, a history of styes or an inability to tolerate
contact lenses. Another common complaint is
discharge, especially in the morning.
The easily overlooked subjective symptoms include
nonspecific rather common complaints such as stinging,
burning, tearing, photophobia, scratchiness, and feelings
of foreign material in the eye. The objective signs are also
non-specific and include blepharitis, conjunctivitis, chala-
zia, styes, punctate corneal erosions, corneal vasculariza-
tion, and chronic keratitis, which in rare cases may even
lead to blindness.16, 17
Tear break-up time is abnormal in
patients with rosacea. Ocular erythema and telangiectasia,
meibomian gland dysfunction, and short tear break-up
time in patients with cutaneous rosacea are indicators of
ocular rosacea.17
Often patients dont seem to be aware that
they have had eye problems but most studies have found
that about 50% of rosacea patients develop eye problems.2
Helicobacter pylori and rosacea
Recent reports suggest a role for Helicobacter pylori in the etiology of rosacea. The disease does respond well to tetracycline, erythromycin, metronidazole and other antibacterials used in the eradication of this organism but "it is difficult to decide whether Helicobacter pylori is a passenger or driver of rosacea."8 However, if a rosacea patient has a history of dyspepsia / peptic ulcer disease, consider referral to a gastroenterologist for a 13 C urea breath test.9
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esky is an implementation of job freezing (checkpoint/resume) for Unix processes. It can save the state of a running process to disk then later resume it from the point it left off, possibly on a different machine. esky currently works on a limited but non-trivial range of processes. esky can cope with programs that open or mmap() files, including opening shared libraries with dlopen(). esky is implemented entirely in userspace - no kernel patches or modules are required. It works under Linux 2.2 and Solaris 2.6 and is written to be independent of CPU type.
eXist is a native XML database featuring efficient, index-based XQuery processing. It provides a complete ecosystem for building applications entirely based on XML, XQuery, and related standards. The high-performance XML database engine stores textual or binary data and documents without requiring a database schema. Using XML across all layers makes mapping technologies superfluous and increases productivity. A browser-based IDE and a standardized application packaging system help developers get started quickly.
Linux, in the tradition of UNIX-like operating systems, implements file system permissions using a rather coarse scheme. While this is sufficient for a surprisingly large set of applications, it is too inflexible for many other scenarios. For that reason, all the major commercial UNIX operating systems have extended this simple scheme in one way or the other. This is an effort to implement POSIX-like Access Control Lists for Linux. Access Control Lists are built on top of Extended Attributes, which can also be used to associate other pieces of information with files such as Filesystem Capabilities, or user data like mime type and search keywords.
f2py is a command line tool for binding Python and Fortran code. It scans Fortran 77/90/95 code and generates a Python C/API module that makes it possible to call Fortran routines and to access Fortran data (COMMON blocks and Module data) from Python. No Fortran or C expertise is required for using this tool.
FLTK (pronounced "fulltick") is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X. It provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat, and supports 3D graphics via OpenGL and its built-in GLUT emulation. FLTK is designed to be small and modular enough to be statically linked, and also works fine as a shared library. It also includes an excellent UI builder called FLUID that can be used to create applications in minutes.