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Our live portrait artist, Lady Hue will be on site for both days, and all you need to bring is a photo of the portait you'd like sketched out. if you'd like to see more of Lady Hue's process watch her little film here.


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Ethel Kennedy Calls Taylor Swift 'Sensational'
The press has been dogging Taylor Swift for months with rumors that her relationship with young Conor Kennedy is a source of contention for his family — but in a recent interview, his grandmother went out of her way to express her approval.
Asked by a WENN reporter how she felt about Swift purchasing a home near the family compound in Cape Cod, Kennedy responded, "I'm happy that we'll be neighbors. I'm thrilled."
But Kennedy wasn't finished singing Swift's praises. "She is just spectacular," she continued. "She is just sensational … she's very kind. You know what she really is? She's game. She had never sailed before, she sailed. She had never gone dragging before, she dragged … she played everything that everyone else was doing [with] no fuss."
Asked if the whole clan had basically fallen in love with Swift, Kennedy responded, "How could you not? I think the world has."
Ethel's public show of support for her grandson's relationship with Swift comes several weeks after Conor's uncle, former U.S. representative Patrick Kennedy, weighed in by saying, "If she wants to be in the family, she's already a part of it."
Hopefully, this puts the rumors to rest once and for all, and frees up Swift to focus on the fresh reign of worldwide chart domination she's set to kick off when her new album, 'Red,' debuts on Oct. 22.
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My MIL used them as stuffing for outdoor pillows. They dried quickly and were very soft to sit on as she really stuffed them full.
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My MIL used them as stuffing for outdoor pillows. They dried quickly and were very soft to sit on as she really stuffed them full.
I use mine for everything.Trash bags,kitty litter,lids,covers,hair wrap for dyes,or perms,you can make purses,bags,rugs,tube tops,belts,handles for your home made purse,mixing meat loaf,etc.So many uses.I even grab extra if I can.I bought 2 big rolls on ebay for $15.00 I think.1000 bags,just because I use them so much.Have one downstairs,one upstairs.I also use them as a glove if I don't want to touch something,like a dead animal.So many uses.
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I was going to say crochet rugs, bags etc, but I see someone already has.
Here is a great idea: a plastic bag wedding dress!!!!!
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I stuff an old pillow sham with the plastic sacks and let my cats "make biscuits" on them for their beds. When they are dirty I unstuff, wash the sham, and restuff. The fuller I can get the sham, the more they like it. Let's them safely play with crinkly sacks that they love so much!


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Cassadaga Valley superintendent resigns under pressure from board
CASSADAGA – Cassadaga Valley School Superintendent Scott Smith resigned from his post, and an interim superintendent, Thomas Schmidt, was hired late Tuesday night by the School Board.
Jeff Swiatek of the Hodgson Russ law firm, who was hired to speak for the district, confirmed that the board asked for Smith's resignation due to his relationship with an employee.
He said that person has not been named.
Also Tuesday, High School Principal Tara DiDomenico requested a leave of absence. Schmidt said the action was left open-ended without a date for her return.
Swiatek said DiDomenico will be paid during her leave.
Schmidt, the new superintendent, said he was not sure if the two situations are related, and he did not have all the facts surrounding the resignation and leave.
Schmidt was the superintendent at the Sherman Central School District until August 2012, when he retired.
He said that he received a phone call over the weekend telling him that the job may be available and that he agreed to help out.
"I am looking forward to working with the board, teachers, staff and parents here at Cassadaga," he said.
Schmidt said he wants to help the district move forward after whatever the disruptions were that caused issues at the school.
The Cassadaga district includes prekindergaten through grade 12 with an elementary school in Sinclairville. About 1,100 students are enrolled in the district.
The action by board members was taken at a special meeting and was handled in executive session.
School Board President Carl Perry said he would not comment further on the situation.
The board's next regular meeting is Monday.
It is expected that the board will take action to establish a search committee to look for a permanent replacement for Smith.


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Plaid Cymru has eleven Assembly Members and is currently working in opposition in the Welsh Assembly. Each one works diligently to represent their area while supporting the Party of Wales's aims to move our country forward. You can visit their websites by clicking on the pictures.
Leanne Wood
Constituency: Rhondda
Leanne has been the Leader of Plaid Cymru since 2012. From a working class background, which she has credited for her strong values and principles, she has been a formidable champion for her area and Wales in general.
Polls continue to show that Leanne is the most popular party Leader in Wales and her campaigning work goes from strength to strength as she continues to travel the length and breadth of the country listening to people's concerns and crafting solution to them.
Llŷr Gruffydd
Title: Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Education, Children, Skills and Lifelong Learning
Region: North Wales
Llŷr lives on a family farm near Ruthin. He was previously a manager with an economic development company specialising in helping set up new businesses and assisting existing businesses to grow.
He started his career as a youth worker and went on to work as a researcher and press officer for Plaid's Members of the European Parliament, Jill Evans and Eurig Wyn. He was also National Campaign Co-ordinator for the then Plaid Cymru President, Dafydd Wigley, in the run-up to the 1999 National Assembly elections.
After moving back to his family roots in Denbighshire in 2004, Llŷr was the 2010 Westminster Election candidate for Clwyd West, increasing the party's vote by over 50% and securing the second biggest swing to Plaid in the country.
Siân Gwenllian
Title: Shadow Cabinet Secretary for the Welsh Language, Planning, Local Government and Equalities.
Constituency: Arfon
Siân is a member of two Assembly committees: the Climate Change, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee; and the Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee.She joined the Council, representing the Felinheli ward in 2008. She has held top positions on Gwynedd Council including Deputy Leader, Cabinet Member for Education, Lead Member for Children and Young People and Finance Portfolio Leader.
Siân has followed a long and distinguished career in journalism. She started with the BBC in 1980 after completing a post-graduate diploma in journalism at Cardiff University. She has worked for ITV, Golwg, as a Press Officer and as a self-employed journalist/broadcaster/Public Relations consultant.
Rhun ap Iorwerth
Title: Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Constituency: Ynys Môn
Rhun ap Iorwerth was elected as Assembly Member for Ynys Môn in August 2013 in a landslide by-election victory.
Brought up on the island, he was educated at Ysgol David Hughes, before graduating in Politics and Welsh at Cardiff University. He enjoyed a prolific career as a journalist with the BBC both as a presenter and Chief Political Correspondent.
A fluent Welsh speaker, he is married with three children. He is a member of the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee in the National Assembly for Wales and is the Plaid Cymru Shadow Health Secretary. He is also Chair of the Cross Party Group, Wales International. He is also a juniors coach with Llangefni Rugby Club.
Bethan Jenkins
Title: Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Poverty, Communities and Steel Issues
Region: South Wales West
Bethan Jenkins was first elected to the Assembly in 2007. She is a former President of Aberystwyth Guild of Students and a member of Cymdeithas yr Iaith.
A formidable campaigner, her interests include economic development, international affairs, women's rights, asylum issues, protection of local services, and the provision for eating disorders in Wales. She has recently played a leading role in standing up for steel workers in Port Talbot.
Outside of politics her interests include sports and music.
Elin Jones
Title: Presiding Officer
Constituency: Ceredigion
Elin Jones was raised on a farm in Llanwnnen near Lampeter. She attended Llanwnnen Primary School and Lampeter Comprehensive School.
After graduating from Cardiff University with a BSc in Economics, Elin went on to study for an MSc degree in Rural Economics at Aberystwyth University, before working as an Economic Development Officer for the Rural Wales Development Board. She was also a director at Radio Ceredigion and Wes Glei Ltd, a television production company.
She was elected as Aberyswyth's youngest ever Mayor in 1997 and was elected to the Assembly in 1999. On 09 July 2007, the 'One Wales' coalition government was formed and Elin was appointed the Minister for Rural Affairs. She is now the Presiding Officer for the National Assembly for Wales.
Steffan Lewis
Title: Shadow Cabinet Secretary for External Affairs
Region: South Wales East
Brought up in Crosskeys and Tredegar, Steffan attended Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw in Pontypool and gained a degree in History and American Studies from the University of Glamorgan. He lives in Blackwood with his wife and son.
His political interests include international affairs and industrial renewal. He is the Plaid Cymru spokesperson for External Affairs and is leading the response to Brexit.
His interests outside politics include football and travelling.
Dai Lloyd
Title: Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure and Culture
Region: South Wales West
Dai was born in Tywyn, Gwynedd, and was raised on a family-run farm near Lampeter. He has lived in Swansea for the past 30 years where he has worked as a GP, building up a wealth of experience and knowledge in the fields of health and social care.
He first entered politics by serving as a local Councillor in his home city, before being elected to the inaugural National Assembly in 1999. Dai is a passionate campaigner on health and cultural issues, and has successfully pushed for a number of legislative and policy changes, particularly in the area of public health.
Neil McEvoy
Title: Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Sports and Tourism
Region: South Wales Central
Neil was elected as Assembly Member for South Wales Central in 2016. He also continues to be a Councillor for Fairwater in Cardiff. Between 2008 and 2012 Neil was the Deputy Leader of Cardiff Council.
Before being elected Neil was a teacher of modern languages. He is able to speak Welsh, French, Spanish and English. His interest in languages has continued as he became the first person to use sign language in the National Assembly.
Neil also works hard to expose misuse of public money by shining a light on government grants, the huge pay packets for directors and the influence of commercial lobbyists on our Welsh democracy.
Adam Price
Title: Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Business and the Economy
Constituency: Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
Adam Price was born in Carmarthen into a miner's family and was educated at Ysgol Dyffryn Amman and then Cardiff University where he graduated with a BSc in Economics. He went on to become a Managing Director of Newidiem, a UK policy and economics consultancy and Executive Director of the Welsh economic development and cultural change agency Menter a Busnes.
He was an MP between 2001 and 2010 gaining widespread recognition for his campaigning work and his attempt to have Tony Blair impeached over his role in the Iraq war.
Following his time in Westminster he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Harvard University where he studied a Masters in Public Administration and became a Fellow at the Centre for International Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
His decision to return to frontline politics was greeted with huge enthusiasm.
Simon Thomas
Title: Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Climate Change and Rural Affairs
Region: Mid and West Wales
Simon Thomas was educated at Aberdare Boys' Grammar School; Aberystwyth University and intially trained as a librarian.
He was the MP for Ceredigion between 2000 and 2005 and succeeded in gaining a reputation as an adept Parliamentarian. He was then appointed development manager for Technium in Pembrokeshire, before being appointed senior special advisor to the One Wales Government, advising the Deputy First Minister and other Plaid Cymru Ministers.
He is married and has two children. He enjoys walking, reading and spending time with the family.


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Depths of Peril - Site Updates, Impressions
Soldak dropped us a line about some updates for their indie action/RPG, Depths of Peril.
First, the official site has been updated with the lich and stalker monsters.
Indie game blog Tales of the Rampant Coyote has some brief impressions from the demo:
I've gotta admit --- I wasn't extremely excited about this title. There were some cool-sounding elements, but I didn't see how they fit together as a whole. Having played the demo far too long tonight, I'm gonna admit... Steven Peeler has pulled it off. This is an indie RPG that shows what indie RPGs can be about. It's got all that "innovation" and stuff that the press and fans claim they really want, but they too often ignore even if it bites them on the face.
...and Gaming's Edge has a preview:
I have NEVER seen monsters that were actually programmed to go after one another in the way that they do in this game. You'll literally see orcs attacking zombies, warring factions among individual monster tribes, etc. This is without any players being around, mind you. Similarly, there are no safety zones. Your main city can be attacked by roving monsters; monsters can even form "uprisings," which roughly translates into raging monster armies that can come and make your day a living nightmare. Even the NPC's are up for grabs - there are plenty of "wandering vendors" who eventually become "monster food."
Information aboutDepths of Peril
SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: Hack & Slash
Platform: PC
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Rebecca Black's 'Friday' Hits 100 Million Views on YouTube
Break out the champagne: The infamous viral video for Rebecca Black's "hit" single 'Friday' has officially passed the 100 million views mark on YouTube, according to Billboard.
The feat happened Wednesday morning, inching the video slightly closer (but not really) to YouTube's all-time view leader, Justin Bieber's 'Baby,' with 515 million views.
It's an especially remarkable feat, considering the amount of bad press the video has garnered since its release in February. In the peak of its popularity, some critics referred to Black as the worst singer of all time.


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Between the year-end business crunch and the bustle of the holidays, December can be the most stressful month for your employees.
If your organization, like most, is doing more with less this year and asking a smaller staff to take on more responsibility, you could find yourself with distracted employees and a dip in productivity.
More organizations are turning to concierge services for help.
Concierge services can take on some of your workers' holiday planning and shopping by doing personal errands like locating hard-to-find presents, ordering gift baskets, making family dinner reservations, picking up dry cleaning and buying theater tickets.
Employees pay for the tickets, gifts and other items they buy through the service.
The cost to employers: very little. Some services charge a few dollars a year per employee; others collect an hourly rate of up to $30; and a few charge both.
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Honestly, who doesn't enjoy receiving a warm cookie upon check-in?? Friendly staff, spit-spot clean, comfy bed, and temperature perfect! Right off the freeway and frankly, reason enough to try Modesto!
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text: I usually muzzle-load for deer, but this year I am going to Hawaii during muzzle-loading season, so it looks like I am going to go rifle hunting with one of the guys I usually muzzle-load with and his uncles on a bunch of private land. Anyhow, I could always borrow my brother's .270, but I already have a .375 H&H, and the Sierra manual has a reduced load for a 200gr bullet that they say is good for deer hunting. I was wondering if anyone has shot some whitetails with a .375, and if so, was it that big of a deal to just use the regular "light" bullets (you know, the 235ish grainers) on them, or if I should try the "downloaded" deer load?


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Dean's Scholarships are chosen by the dean of each of the four undergraduate colleges at the University of New Haven: the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business, the Tagliatela College of Engineering, and the Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences.
To be considered, applicants must have a complete application on file with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions by the Early Action deadline of December 1. The selection criteria will be made by each college based on the applicant pool. Recipients will be notified directly by the college of study in the first two weeks of February. The Dean's Scholarship is awarded in addition to any of the other merit-based scholarships.
This award is guaranteed for your first year and renewable each year provided you remain a full-time undergraduate student while maintaining satisfactory progress towards a bachelor's degree. It is renewable for up to a maximum of eight semesters and applied only to tuition.
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This scholarship is for students who have been selected and have chosen to enroll in the Honors Program. Students who are selected will be notified and scholarship amount will be additional to any merit-based scholarship awarded. Supplemental documentation may be required for this scholarship.
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By Karen Brainard
When a county health official arrived at the Light of the Lamb ministry last Thursday to stop its free food distribution program, Christie Baker turned to San Diego County Supervisor Dianne Jacob and was impressed with the immediate positive results.
"Dianne Jacob jumped forward to make sure hungry people in this town will be fed," said Christie's husband, Mark Baker, pastor of Light of the Lamb at 318 Seventh St.
The ministry has been distributing food at no charge for over 3 years, the Bakers said. The food is supplied by Jacob's and Cushman San Diego Food Bank.
According to Mark Baker, an official from the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health Food and Housing Division accused him of distributing food to the public through his automotive business and was ready to fine him and give a citation.
Baker said he informed the county employee that the program is through the church and he has done the necessary paperwork, but said he was harrassed.
Christie Baker said she fired off an e-mail detailing the incident to Jacob, and the next morning a county health department staff member called and apologized. The Bakers credit Jacob.
"She's always been so supportive of everything we try to do," Mark Baker said of Jacob. "I have so much respect for her."
"As soon as Mrs. Baker brought this situation to my attention, I immediately asked the Department of Environmental Health to investigate the county's visit to the church," Jacob said in a statement to the Sentinel. "To the department's credit, the department quickly concluded that under no uncertain terms does the church need a permit. The church coordinates food distribution with the San Diego Food Bank and is exempt from the California Retail Food Code. As I understand it, the visit from the inspector was prompted by an anonymous complaint to the county. I can't address the details of the inspection because I wasn't there and didn't see or hear the exchange. I can tell you that the church's good works will continue uninterrupted. It's unfortunate that Mr. and Mrs. Baker had a negative and unpleasant experience with the County. It's been my goal and the county's goal to make government work for people, and I'm pleased that the matter has been resolved."
The Light of the Lamb distributes food on Friday mornings from about 10:15 to noon at its Seventh Street location. Mark Baker said 80 people sign up each week, each representing three to five persons at home. He estimated they provide food to 300 to 400 people a week.


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Wednesday, November 18, 1998 Published at 00:59 GMT
ME children need help with education
Some 25,000 British schoolchildren may have ME
Children with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) need to be considered as having special educational needs, according to a leading specialist.
Jane Colby, child services development officer for the Action for ME charity, will tell a conference on Wednesday that children with the illness need to be to be treated as having special educational needs at schools so they have a learning programme tailored to their needs.
But she says many could risk reinfection or a relapse if they go back to school too early.
ME charities estimate that around 25,000 schoolchildren in the UK suffer from the condition, which causes acute tiredness and muscle aches and can lead to permanent disability.
Some doctors are sceptical that the condition exists, but the government has now officially recognised it and appointed a working group.
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Ms Colby is one of its members. She says many children are ready to learn before they are ready to return to school and need specialised education in the home to keep up with their studies.
"We can see on brain scans that when children with ME make mental or physical effort their blood flow goes down instead of up," she said.
"This means they should not be overloaded with work. They need to learn a little at a time, focusing on a few key subjects."
She suggests distance learning or offering children rest breaks and allowing them to sit exams at home.
She has helped develop a specialised educational package to help children with the condition.
She says too much education too early can harm the child's health.
Children with ME often have trouble concentraiting and remembering things. Many have trouble with particular subjects, such as maths.
But Ms Colby says the most important lesson they have to learn is how to manage their illness so that they ration their energy and do not suffer a relapse.
"It is a question of learning their limits, living within their limits and then they will find that the limits expand," she said.
She has just set up a voluntary network of professionals - called the Young Action Online Open Network - who can offer advice to families dealing with ME.
This includes educational psychologists, doctors, further education college teachers and home tutors.
They have all offered to give advice and support and can be contacted through Action for ME or Jane Colby's Website on www.jafc.demon.co.uk.
Ms Colby says schools often do not know what services are available and many children slip through the net and don't get the advice they need.
She adds that schools often misunderstand the disease because they rarely see the child at their worst.
She hopes the government's working group will help foster a wider understanding of the illness as well as come up with concrete guidelines for offering more support to families and sufferers.
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Complaint Review: Platoon Staffing, Captain McCarthy
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Platoon Staffing, Captain McCarthy Security, Guard Card Los Angeles California
On January 23th, 2014 I went into Platoon Staffing's office on 538 League Ave, La Puente, CA 91744. I was told by the lady who handles their paperwork that they were a security guard agency who provides classes and training for guard card permits. She directed me to pay a $45 fee for a background check and a class on Monday Jan. 27th. She also told me that I would need a live scan and pay a state fee before they could send my paper work in. Being proactive and in need of a job, I visited a UPS to get a live scan over that weekend, which costed me $72. Monday, Jan. 27th I returned to the office and paid $45 for the background check and class, along with the $51 dollar state fee. Mind you, I was trying to make the process speedy as possible. Not to mention, I loaned the money to pay the fees from my mother. After a short class, I was told that all paperwork would be sent to BSIS that night and I'll receive my guard card within 4 weeks. Today, Monday March 17th marks eight weeks since I made those payments. Only to call BSIS and find out you they have never received any documents with my name or social security number. After doing some research this morning, I see that I'm not the only person Capt. McCarthy and Platoon Staffing has scammed. In the prior incidences I read about, BSIS was able to help the victims received refunds and even get their cards. At this point, I've tried contacting the office and Capt. McCarthy's personal line numerous times, even leaving messages. I have yet to get a response. There's no doubt that they are just holding my money.
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I'd rather (and will) play it with mouse and keyboard. That pretty much goes with any game that releases on PC & 360…I'd (almost) always choose the PC version (not just for the controls).
With this game I think the controller would work just fine. The only games that really suffer from it (that I play) are FPS games…this is not an FPS. You do not need precise aiming of the crosshair (at least I don't think you do). So to me, as far as the controls go, it's just a matter of preference…not one being "better" than the other. Of course I still prefer mouse & keyboard but in this case I just don't see how it matters.
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Second man charged for his role in Falls bank robbery
NIAGARA FALLS – Police charged a Buffalo man Tuesday for his role in the robbery last month of a Bank of America branch on Military Road near Niagara Falls Boulevard.
Ronald J. Mclendon, 26, of Potomac Avenue, Buffalo was charged with first-degree robbery. He was allegedly one of three men involved in the robbery of the branch at 1263 Military Road on Aug. 6.
A codefendant, Allen Strain, 27, of Central Avenue, Buffalo was arrested at the scene and charged with first-degree robbery. Niagara Falls police said Strain gave a note to a teller claiming he had a gun and demanded money. However no weapon was displayed, police said. The teller told Strain to wait while she got the money, then activated a silent alarm, police said.
Strain was found unarmed and was arrested without incident.
Mclendon was allegedly one of two accomplices who fled the scene. A third accomplice is being sought.


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IAN Cathro is tucked away up at the back of a cafe in Glasgow city centre, almost hidden from sight.
He's absorbed, tapping away on a laptop on whatever work it is progressive young football coaches can do via a keyboard and screen these days. Cathro, as always, is in transit. Beside the table is a cabin bag. Within a few hours he will be on plane to Valencia.
Most 28-year-old Scotsmen currently going to Spain are on their summer holiday. Cathro is there to help steer one of its biggest football teams. Tonight he will be in the dug-out in the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Seville as Valencia, his team, visit on the opening weekend of the Primera Division season. Cathro, the Dundonian who never reached any level as a player, and who has never coached senior footballers in Scotland, is one of the most interesting figures in our game.
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The next chapter in his story begins tonight. "I'm living out of a suitcase. The other case hasn't been opened, it's at the side of my bed in the house in Valencia. It's kinda just about working and sleeping right now. My 'social life' is about this," he pointed to the smartphone on the table. "I maybe catch up with someone for 15 minutes when I'm back and then I have to go.
"It's 'when will you be back', 'sorry, dunno'. It is difficult. It's about having the balance right but after sacrificing so much you have to keep doing it, or it will mean nothing."
Cathro wasn't taken to Valencia by coach Nuno Espirito Santo, the manager who also took him from the Scottish Football Association to Rio Ave in Portugal in 2012, to gawp around and enjoy the sights.
Cathro helping to manage Valencia seems remarkable to us, but not to him. Was there anything left of the young kid who might be overawed or daunted by the sights and sounds he'll see tonight, and in games to come against the likes of Real Madrid and Barcelona?
"He's disappeared most of the time," said Cathro of his younger self. "When I speak to people they say 'it's amazing eh'. I say 'yeah, it's alright'. I sometimes think I'm almost under-appreciating it. I've just not interpreted it like that. It's work. It's your work. I would feel more like that [maybe overawed] if I was sitting in the stand watching another game.
"Occasionally it crosses my mind, mainly in little conversations with friends. Everybody in my life, that I know, loves football. So when it falls back into a sort of non-work general chat, and they speak about it, and I'm in 'take-an-hour-off mode', I appreciate it. The game last week at Old Trafford against Louis van Gaal . . . you could talk about that in an off-day mode. It is a tremendous situation to have been in - wow! - but the reality is that it's my work. We were there to win and we didn't win, so it remains a frustration rather than a nice experience. The switch goes."
Note how he referred to that trip to Old Trafford. It wasn't "against Manchester United", it was "against Louis van Gaal". Maybe that was a slip of the tongue or maybe it was an insight into Cathro's respect for, and fascination with, coaches and coaching. The friendly ended in a 2-1 defeat but it served as a crash course in the class of opponent, and the size of stadiums, Valencia routinely face.
Cathro was an SFA performance school coach on Tayside when Nuno, the Portuguese coach he met and impressed on a Largs course, offered him the chance to be his assistant manager at Rio Ave. They finished sixth and then 11th in Portugal, reaching two cup finals last season as the club punched above its weight. When Nuno was offered the Valencia job it was natural for him to take his young Scottish assistant.
Peter Lim, the Singaporean businessman, has finally completed a takeover of the club and having finished eighth last season the expectation - the demand, in fact, from the famously passionate regulars in the Mestalla - is that Valencia return to the Champions League. In a championship with Atletico Madrid, Real Madrid and Barcelona making irresistible claims for three of the four qualification places, the opening is narrow.
As for Cathro, he is becoming less precocious. Slowly, imperceptibly, his youth is diminishing as one of his defining characteristics.
"It's starting to happen. You see the baldness," he laughs, bowing his head. "I'm getting less and less young all the time!"
There's no denying that, but if he was a player he would only be coming into his prime years. Valencia appointed him in the week that his former prodigy, Ryan Gauld - who he coached years ago in his Cathro Clinic and at Dundee United - joined Sporting Lisbon. Cathro enjoyed the coincidence. "That was a good week: young kid who wants to be footballer, slightly older kid who wants to be coach, after us working together more or less every day for a good number of years.
"When we speak to each other or we think individually about it I don't consider that we have achieved anything yet because my expectation is that we'll both do more. But I think it is reasonable to say 'that was good, we should be a little bit proud of our younger selves for all the effort we put in'."
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National launch of PTSD/TBI Awareness Flag set
The Veterans' National Recovery Center for the Homeless and PTSD Distressed Inc. will be nationally launching the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury flag at 12:30 p.m. Thursday at the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines.
The PTSD and TBI flag is intended to increase awareness of the condition among the support community — lawmakers, families, employers, law enforcement personnel and human services givers — that is necessary for these veterans to live close to normal lives.
The speakers will include author Andrew O'Brien, a PTSD wounded veteran and suicide survivor; Sen. Steve Sodders, a legislative advocate for increased PTSD services in Iowa; retired Vietnam Veterans of America Veterans Service officer Steve Mulcahy, a PTSD wounded veteran; Michelle Uitermarkt, a PTSD wounded veteran; State Sen. Daryl Beall, chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee; Jewell MacDonald, yoga trainer for holistic PTSD therapy; Peter Lamoureux, meditation for holistic PTSD therapy; Paul Harrison, veterans in prison with PTSD and mental illness; and Bob Krause, president of the Veterans National Recovery Center.
The Veterans National Recovery Center is a group of veterans and friends of veterans who are concerned about the lack of comprehensive treatment services and the lack of national cultural understanding of the needs of the 1 million veterans who are wounded by PTSD and/or TBI.


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Firefighters encountered fire and smoke coming from the third floor and front of the three-story apartment upon arrival. Firefighters quickly rescued six occupants from a rear balcony using ground ladders. A second alarm was struck, bringing approximately 60 emergency personnel to the scene. The fire was brought under control in approximately 35 minutes. An adult male and a male youth have been displaced. One adult female was transported to the Washington Burn Center with non-life threatening injuries. One other occupant was treated at the scene by paramedics. The Red Cross is assisting the family. Two family cats perished as a result of the fire.
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Chicago, IL – November 16, 2011 – Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include CVS Caremark ( (CVS - Free Report) , Aetna ( (AET - Free Report) , Universal American Corp. ( , Walgreen ( and Express Script ( (ESRX - Free Report) .
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Earnings Scorecard: CVS Caremark
Subsequent to the announcement of CVS Caremark's ( (CVS - Free Report) third quarter 2011 results on November 3, 2011, we witness a mixed trend in the analysts' estimate revisions.
Street analysts have had nearly a week to ponder over the news. In the subsequent paragraphs, we will cover the recent earnings announcement, subsequent analysts' estimate revisions as well as the Zacks Rank and long-term recommendation on the stock.
Third Quarter Highlights
CVS Caremark reported EPS of 65 cents in the third quarter, up 8.3% year over year. However, after excluding the impact of certain one-time items, adjusted EPS came in at 70 cents, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 67 cents and 9.3% higher than the year-ago level.
Net revenue increased 12.5% year over year to $26.7 billion, almost in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate, primarily due to strong performance of the Pharmacy Services segment. The segment recorded a robust 25.8% increase in revenues to $14.8 billion during the reported quarter. The significant growth was primarily on the back of the long-term contract with Aetna ( (AET - Free Report) as well as the acquisition of the Medicare Part D business of Universal American Corp. ( .
Moreover, benefits from the company's streamlining initiatives are expected to outweigh related costs in 2012. The company eyes further progress in the PBM segment based on its new business wins and strong client retention. By the end of the third quarter, the company completed more than 70% of 2012 renewals, which include AT&T, General Electric and a FEP Retail Contract worth $4 billion.
Based on a solid quarter, CVS Caremark updated its EPS outlook for fiscal 2011. The company now expects adjusted EPS of $2.77–$2.81 (earlier guidance being $2.75–$2.81). The guidance for cash flow from operations and free cash flow for fiscal 2011, however, remained unchanged at $5.5–$5.6 billion and $4.0–$4.2 billion, respectively.
For a full coverage on the earnings, read: CVS Posts a Strong Quarter
Agreement of Analysts
Estimate revision trends for the upcoming fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 and the first quarter of fiscal 2012 depicted the analysts' mixed sentiments.
Over the past 30 days, 6 of the 16 analysts covering the stock have made downward revisions while 3 analysts raised their estimates for the fourth quarter. Besides, estimates for fiscal 2011 were raised by 13 analysts while none moved in the opposite direction. For the first quarter of fiscal 2012, only one analyst raised the estimate while 2 reduced the same.
After several quarters of declining revenues resulting from the disappointing results in the PBM segment, the analysts are encouraged by the improved performance of CVS Caremark's Pharmacy Services segment for the third consecutive quarter.
Although concerns linger given the margin pressure, the analysts are confident about CVS Caremark's longer-term potential, based on its retail execution, deployment potential and strong 2012 generics cycle. Moreover, the firms believe the healthcare reform will open up new avenues for the company. Alongside, CVS Caremark is looking to benefit from the ongoing Walgreen ( -Express Script ( (ESRX - Free Report) dispute for retail contract renewal.
Magnitude of Estimate Revisions
In the past 7 days, the magnitude of estimate revisions for the fourth quarter of 2011, fiscal 2011 and first quarter 2012 remained unchanged at 89 cents, $2.80 and 63 cents, respectively.
Our Recommendation
During the third quarter of 2011, improved performance was observed in the Pharmacy Services segment for the third consecutive quarter. CVS Caremark is also adopting several strategies to ensure consistent growth in its business. We are encouraged by its several recent contract wins, which would help maintain the growth momentum in coming years. Also, the company intends to take advantage of the ongoing Walgreen-Express Script dispute, which if successful will further bolster its Retail segment. However, margins continue to remain under pressure. We reiterate a Neutral recommendation on the stock.
CVS Caremark holds a Zacks #2 Rank, implying a short-term Buy rating on the stock. Besides, the company retains a long-term Neutral recommendation on the stock.
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3 DIY Creative Wreath Design Inspiration For Christmas Decor
Previously we have covered about cute christmas wreath design form Hine Mizushima,today we will take a look at some of the beautiful and creative christmas wreath design that you could also make one yourself. Altough created only from simple everyday object , these DIY Christmas Wreath still look beautiful for your christmas home decor.
Clothespins Wreath
Simple clothespins and embroidery hoop , turns out to be a nice component to be made into wreath. All you need is just add some cardboard to the hoop and glue the clothespins to it. Fast and easy , more instruction and step by step picture of this DIY wreath could be found at budgetwisehome
Winecork Wreath
If you happen to have a lots of winecork lying around , it could also be made into a beautiful wreath , just combine it with some little red bells and wire, add ribon and accessory, and voila, you made yourself a beautiful wreath. More step by step detail on how to make this winecork wreath for christmas is available at goodhousekeeping
Paper Star Wreath
This paper star wreath might be one of the most cheap wreath you could made.By only using some leftover christmas paper , hot glue and some button and ribbon Mandy and Jessica from Little Birdie Secrets able to made a fancy and cute DIY wreath to add to your christmas decor, see how to make paper star wreath yourself on their blog
What did you think about out DIY creative wreath design list choice ? Did you have any beautiful wreath design to add to the list ?


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After all the fun of Creative Kismet's birds of change exchange, I can't wait to do another. If you want to be in on it, too, you'd better act fast. The exchange is limited to 50 participants.1. You email me (dudecraft:AT:gmail:DOT:com) your snail mail address, a short biographical note, and a list of three things in life that you really love.
2. In return, I give you someone else's information who has done the same.
3. You make something for that person and mail it to them.
4. Send me pics and a little story about what you received and I'll post one or two a day on DudeCraft.
5. We rejoice in each other's generosity and coolness.
further guidelines...
1. The thing you make must cost $0.
2. It must be completed and mailed within two weeks of receiving your person's information.
3. It should somehow try to incorporate one of the three things that your person loves in life.


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Resolution: Unresolved
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Tags:shuffling (key,value) pair to multiple reducer
Currently in Hadoop MapReduce mapper output in (key,value) form can be transfered to only one reducer
Our goal is to be able transfer/shuffle (key,value) pair to multiple reducer
Note:- we need to shuffle same pair to number of reducers
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MAPREDUCE-4049 made shuffle pluggable. Will writing your own plugin satisfy your needs?
– Asokan
While it is an interesting ask, I am not sure changing the PL semantics and guarantees of MapReduce is a good idea. Please share a design doc if you have a particular approach in mind. If we can continue to support the same semantics/guarantees we have been so far with the proposed changes, may be we can include it?
This is easily possible in user code with a custom key structure and a custom partitioner. There are no gotchas in implementing this for a specific need.
I don't see why we should add a dedicated API for this. If you agree, lets close this out as invalid as this qualifies as a simple user question and belongs to the mailing lists.
Hi Harsh,
I had also planned by this way only and currently going to implement it in
using user code but
why i thought it will be good to have separate API is
as you already know that there is lot of data reading and writing in
if we implement this using user code it is possible that it may increase
number of
writes to be done to local disk because we may have write same pair more
than one
i think there may be problem with original (key,value) pair because we may
change key -> (key_r1,value) and (key_r2,value) here we r changing "key"
which is not desirable
so my point is that can we have approach where we can shuffle pair without
writing it two times.
Thanx and Regards*
- Vikas Jadhav*
The need is not that highly common although it exists for certain problems. Given that the pluggability allows for users to achieve this, I'm not sure if it would be worth the trouble trying to maintain it upstream here as well. Look at the join package for instance: its serving as a good example but the point was also that folks would use it - but I don't see that happening frequently, as people are preferring to write their own equivalents since its not highly reusable in all scenarios.
The problem of a broadcast is simple: send it to all partitions, easy to define and perform on flagged keys. The problem of a multi-cast is not that simple: you want the behavior defined on a per key basis - flags get more specific. Besides, these needs only crop up for special MR optimization cases, for which a custom implementation should suffice.
Adding in APIs for special things is easy but we also have to consider long-time support for it and usefulness when adding it upstream. If it can be provided by a third party repository, then thats better and more flexible. We can also recommend it to anyone who comes along with such a question.


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By Glenne Fucci, Regular ContributorDecember 12, 2015
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As of late, the news has been filled with things that probably don't make us feel too happy. It seems like everyday there is a new tragedy or event that shakes us to our core and leaves us questioning where humanity has gone. That being said, some very good news came our way recently. In the beginning of December, it was announced that all combat roles in the United States military would be open to women. Up until this announcement, women could only serve in non-combat roles, meaning they were excluded from many prominent positions within the military.
This policy change is a major victory for all lady-kind for several reasons.
First, allowing women in combat roles will effectively eliminate all bars to particular positions in the military. Since allowing women to serve in the military, there has been an inherent power imbalance between men and women, with women often relegated to second-tier status because they were limited to certain positions. While there may have been some justification at some point in history for the physical limitations of women (leading to the conclusion that they were unfit for combat roles), that assumption has been shattered this year but women completing Army Ranger school - a training program much more rigorous than the average combat training program. Additionally, the military will not be lowering the standards for women, meaning they will have to meet the same qualifications as men to obtain combat positions so that everyone will be evaluated equally in selection for these positions.
Second, the fact that this measure has garnered support from three of the four military branches suggests that times are changing and the military has come to recognize the importance that women play in the military mission. Although the Marines has opposed this policy, their justification mainly rests on the history of the military as a predominantly male institution so that introducing women into these units will disrupt the camaraderie of the men. As the policy demonstrates though, times have changed; 100 years ago we may not have had female combat troops, but we also didn't have cellphones, the internet, or commercial flight. I think we can all agree that just because those things didn't exist before the first World War, doesn't mean they shouldn't exist now. I think that as history now shows that nearly every job available to men of the U.S. has also become available to women, removing the bar to women serving in combat roles is the next logical step.
Lastly, this new policy recognizes the important role that women have always had, but particularly in the last ten years, in the military mission.
Thousands of women have served in the Middle East and, due to the shifting nature of how wars are fought, have played in an invaluable part in furthering the mission. We, ladies, tend to have pretty good interpersonal skills and often excel in our ability to listen with compassion. In some tribal areas, women are not permitted to speak with men who are not their family members, so female combat troops are essential to effectively communicate with 50 percent of the population in some areas. Aside from social skills though, I think we can also all agree that we know some pretty unbelievable female athletes in our lives -- the kind are that are more than capable of trekking up a mountain with the world's heaviest backpack. It seems only natural that they should get to put their physical fitness to the test in combat should they want to.
Until last week, it wasn't possible for a girl to say, "I want to grow up and be a soldier in combat" (okay, I guess she could technically say it, but legally it could not have come true). As of 2016 though, all people will have the same opportunities to obtain the same positions in the United States military. Just like many nations before us have done, the gender barrier for particular jobs in the armed forces has been broken down. Ladies -- we have come so far in regards to gender equality (even though, we have so much farther to go), and we've taken a big chunk out of the glass ceiling through combat integration. Now that is news to be happy about it!
Let's chat!
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A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Tuesday:
BERLIN - Greece's international creditors see "significant risks" that the country might fail to bring down its debt burden within targets, meaning it would require more rescue loans.
LONDON - Global stocks were having one of their worst days this month as investors booked some profits following the recent strong run and amid concerns over China's economic growth and the impact of high oil prices on business.
In Europe, the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares closed 1.2 percent lower while Germany's DAX fell 1.4 percent. The CAC-40 in France lost 1.3 percent. The euro was almost 0.1 percent lower.
TOKYO - In Asia, Chinese shares led the retreat with the Shanghai Composite Index closing 1.4 percent lower.
Elsewhere in Asia, trading volume was low because Japan's markets were closed for a national holiday. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index fell 1.1 percent and South Korea's Kospi retreated 0.2 percent.
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration granted exemptions from U.S. economic sanctions to 10 European Union countries and Japan because they have significantly reduced their purchases of petroleum from Iran.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Commerce Department has imposed new import fees on solar panels made in China, finding that the Chinese government is improperly giving subsidies to manufacturers of the panels there.
LONDON - Britain's main inflation rate fell to 3.4 percent in the year to February from 3.6 percent the previous month, official figures showed.
MADRID - Interest rates fell sharply in Spain's sale of $6.6 billion of short-term debt, in another sign that investors remain confident the country will avoid needing a financial bailout.


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MOSUL, Iraq, Feb. 10 (UPI) -- Gunmen in two incidents in Iraq's Nineveh province Sunday killed three people, including two police officers, security officials said.
In one incident, security officials said gunmen fired on a bus carrying workers to an oil refinery south of Mosul, killing one worker and wounding three others, IraqiNews.com reported.
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Lassen County, California Criminal Records
A background check is the process of obtaining all of the available public records on an individual in order to get a glimpse into their private and public character. Most background checks are centered on looking into a person's criminal records, but some go far beyond a mere criminal records check. Past job references, military records, and even rental history can be included in a person's background check. A background check can be done by a company or a private citizen, but they are far more commonly done by a company, particular a human resources department. Background checks can also protect an organization against inadvertently extending an offer of employment to a convicted felon or registered sex offender.
Court Records
You will find that you may require access to a local individual's court records when completing their background check. For Lassen County, California, you will need to petition the Lassen County Superior court if you wish to view their court and case records. The courthouse is located at this address: 220 South Lassen Street, Susanville, California 96130. The courthouse's contact number is 530-251-8205 if you need to get in touch with someone. Public hours for the court are 8:00am – 5:00pm Monday through Friday. The Lassen County courthouse also has a website dedicated to providing useful information to web users, and is located here: http://www.lassencourt.ca.gov/.
Public Records
The county sheriff is another resource that you will want to take advantage of when doing a background check for an individual living in California. If you need to visit in person, you can find the Lassen County Sheriff located at this location: 1415 Sheriff Cady Lane, Susanville, California 96130. The sheriff's telephone number is 530-251-8013. If you prefer an e-mail inquiry to the sheriff, you can also send a message to the following address: firstname.lastname@example.com. More detailed information about the sheriff's office can be found online at the following webpage: http://www.co.lassen.ca.us/govt/dept/sheriff/default.asp.
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You might need to check the online database maintained by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, if you are doing someone's background check and you need to find out if they have ever been an offender supervised by the DOC. To accomplish this, you can look up their information in the offender database located at this link: http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Reports_Research/Inmate_Locator.html.
If you at some point wish to know what results would be returned in your own personal background check, the California Department of Justice has an online procedure to do this. This service will cost a fee $25.00 for each separate personal background check. To begin, just follow along with the instructions at this DOJ webpage: http://ag.ca.gov/fingerprints/security.php.
There are companies and organizations in California that require applicants to provide their own official fingerprint-based background check. The California DOJ also has a webpage setup for this purpose, and you can expect results returned within 72 hours. The background check page is located here: http://ag.ca.gov/fingerprints/.
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Another day, another memoir, right? After George W. Bush left office, that seems to be the theme of the ex-employees of his administration. The newest juicy tell-all, Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor comes from former speechwriter Matt Latimer and recounts all the dirty-dirty of the hilarious (we're told) chaos surrounding Bush's time in office.
And guess who's getting a mention in the book? Yours truly!
It comes on very good authority that your very own Teddy C is totally name-dropped at some point in the manuscript. Of course, it's got to be something tacky. Could it be my mention of Laura moving out of the White House? Or all my blabbing about Dubya's drinking habits? Or what an idiot I am to continue to give this elected Bozo more press in the first place? Who knows what this ex-Bushie has to say about the Awful Truth?
Well, we're not too sure where we fall in the pages, but here's something juicy from the memoir that we can share with all of you lovely readers…
One of our fave anecdotes from the book tells us that Jessica Simpson had just finished a USO show (back when she was waaay more popular than she is now), and the President was giving a short speech to thank the USO staff for their hard work and wanted to make a mention about Jess. Something like, the surge in Iraq was working because J had just visited the troops?
Well, the standard line of quasi-funny political humor was debated for two entire days by high-ranking administration officials at all levels of the White House. Should Jessica be mentioned? Did she really have a statistical bearing on the success of the surge and increased troop deployment? Etc., etc., etc. all around for a good 48 hours while the speech was being approved, all about Princess Jess!
Meanwhile, Dubya thought it was funny and knew the USO staff would adore it, so he kept it in anyway, drew some big laughs, and it ended up being the Washington Post's "Quote of the Week" and the only part of the speech to get any positive attention from the media.
Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Not only of a time when Jess was actually beloved, but of a pre-Obama period of wasted arguing and pointless debate. What else did Dubya's posse blow off their time on? Def not the economy, kiddies.
And, clearly, this is the booze-centric book Hollywood should have made into a movie, not that wimpy-ass, unapologetic, pathetic misfire from Oliver Stone. And we know just the guy to direct a new version: Todd Phillips.
Never heard of him? He's the one who directed Road Trip, Old School, and… oh, that's right… The Hangover. He practically hires himself!


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Mark Sanchez is Jets' Starting QB "This Week," Coach Says
New York Jets coach Rex Ryan says Mark Sanchez is the team's starting quarterback "this week" — and wouldn't make a long-term commitment.
Ryan has been asked about his quarterback situation several times during the last few weeks, and has insisted that no switch to Tim Tebow is coming. When he was pressed Wednesday about his qualifier, Ryan got slightly testy saying: "What do you want me to say? He's our starter. He's our starter this week."
The comments come hours after owner Woody Johnson told CNBC that Tebow will "be with us for three years."
Sanchez says he's not fearful of losing his job, and Tebow says he's happy with any opportunities he gets.
But the solution could be simple: Keep both on the field at the same time.
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Colorado Rockies Sign Carlos Gonzalez to Seven-year ExtensionJanuary 3, 2011
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Colorado Rockies fans everywhere are currently pinching themselves.
According to multiple reports, including from his own publicist, the Rockies have signed five-tool player Carlos Gonzalez to a seven-year, $80 million deal.
There has been noise out of Venezuela throughout the offseason that the Rockies were in talks with Gonzalez about signing a long-term deal. However, excitement about signing any deal that took the 24-year-old beyond his arbitration years was tempered due to the fact the center fielder is represented by super-agent Scott Boras.
Boras is well known for waiting until his clients have hit the free-agent market, allowing them to maximize their dollar amount when every team can compete for their services.
However, it appears that the appeal of the Rockies commitment to winning, despite playing in a medium-market, won Gonzalez over.
The deal is pending a physical that Gonzalez will reportedly take on Wednesday in Denver.
With Troy Tulowitzki signed through 2020, the Rockies have now locked up their two best hitters for the foreseeable future. It also officially ends the pessimists saying that the Rockies ownership group is cheap and doesn't care about winning.
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Ski-Mountaineering Split Thumb, Cairn Peak, Juneau IcefieldsSKI & CLIMBING TRIP
February, 1978
By MtnGuide
For contextual background on Cairn Peak geography, see its SP page first, at:
Cairn Peak.
In the excitement of the first sunny and warm winter day after months of rain and snow, I bumped into a mountaineering friend on the streets of Juneau. I proposed we go ski-mountaineering on the Juneau Icefields, 3,000 feet above the fiord I lived along. He accepted on the spot.
I scooted home and called another mountaineer from Juneau. Both these men had climbed Mount Denali, so had experience in high-altitude mountain climbing for weeks on end.
We chartered a helicopter, with pontoon floats for sea and snow, from TEMSCO on Douglas Island. After work on a Friday we ran out there and loaded up, and the helo lifted vertically from the helipad a few feet above the saltwater fiord of Gastineau Channel on the Inside Passage.
The helo dropped its nose and started climbing in a slant, up over the saltwater, the marshes, and the wooded ridges, revealing sudden views out North toward Skagway and the Chilkats, upward to 5,000 over roaring creek canyons, then cliff faces and sub-peaks, to a camp of the Juneau Icefield Research Program.
From those snowed-in shacks we set up tents in a bergschrund-like cleft behind a rock protecting us from the prevailing winds. A storm was brewing despite the forecast, and the clouds were blowing in and dropping.
In our excitement to be in such a dramatic place we took off from camp as quickly as possible to explore the glacier and icefield.
We skied Easterly in early evening in the gloom of an incoming storm.
We roped up to prevent falling into a crevasse. If we couldn't prevent it we could at least be more easily rescued by other belayers should we fall into a crevasse.
Our destination was Split Thumb, a nunatak spire of granite sticking up out of the icefield. It took us about half an hour to ski across to the East. We had expansive views out to the South, where several glaciers flow down the south side of the icefield into the Taku River canyon.
At last we were able to peer over the edge of the Norris Icefall. It is a glacier that is breaking up as it creeps over the edge of underlying cliffs and becomes crevassed. It was eerily blue in the dusk of the winter evening, becoming white farther down where it leveled out and restored its solidity.
This section is The Dead Branch of the Norris Glacier, and the section far below, where it re-joined the Main Branch of the Norris Glacier, was a wider valley with cliffs, extending Southerly another few miles, emptying into the Taku River.
The storm was starting to spit snow, so we had to ski back in oncoming night, into the wind, albeit toward the lingering light of the sunset shining through beneath the clouds on the Western horizon above Icy Strait out to the Gulf of Alaska.
Cooking inside the tent on our mountaineering stoves, we listened to the patter of tiny bits of ice pelting the thin skin of the rain fly, and the steady thrum of the rainfly in the increasing wind.
After dinner I went out and looked up into the breeze, and let the ice pellets sting my face. It was an exciting time of the year, full of potential for stormy adventure, new rock towers to climb, and more trips in longer daylight through the upcoming spring and summer.
Immediately upon waking I got up out of my sleep sack to see what weather was in store for us. The day was still dark, and the snow was blue. But as the sun started to peek up over the Eastern horizon from behind the lingering cloudbank over northern British Columbia Canada the trailing edge of the system was moving over the top of us, and kept moving on East.
By breakfast we could see all the way Northwest over the top of the Inside Passage, the Chilkat Range and Glacier Bay, to Mount Fairweather, at 15,000 feet plus. From there one would be able to see Mount Saint Elias, another 100 miles North, at 18,000 feet. (See photo on Alaska Coast Range page, and Saint Elias page.)
We broke camp and skiied West up over the head of the Lemon Glacier, South of Observation Peak, toward Cairn Peak.
It turned out that there was a massive cliff in our way to reach our return route down Blackerby Ridge, into the Salmon Creek drainage. If we were to climb around the top-most shoulders of Cairn Peak we would have to side-gouge across the high face of the peak, several hundred feet above the Ptarmigan Glacier. We didn't know the footing up there and were not carrying rock climbing gear like pitons, nor ice and snow pickets.
So we re-mounted our skis on our packs, strapped on our crampons, and side-stepped out over the edge of the cliff, hundreds of feet above the Ptarmigan Glacier. We got nervous about the steep exposure if any of us were to fall, so roped up for belaying.
Under apparent avalanche snow conditions from fresh snow heating up in this spring sun, we downclimbed to a less steep headwall of the glacier's bowl. We had to use some side-pointing techniques, walking sideways, with the ice-axe handle point into the glacier for bracing, and sometimes kick out flatter steps as platforms for the guys behind.
Then we crossed the head of the bowl, and angled up toward the inflection point in the ridgeline where the steep section met a flatter part of the ridge.
We then had to climb the face of that ridge, kicking steps into the face, and eventually trying various cramponing techniques, including some front-pointing. At the top of the ridge we swung iceaxes overhand into the wall to brace and pull, but most of the way we were able to side-point, or stomp steps into the snow to step up.
By the time we got to the top of the ridge it was 10 or 11 a.m., and the sun high on the horizon lit up the whole Coast Range to southward.
As Bob unroped himself above the avalanche zone I took a photo that showed Mount Juneau's ridge behind, Devil's Thumb 50 miles South on the Stikine Icefield, and near Petersburg, Mount Burkett or other peak 70 miles South by Wrangell, and innumerable other unnamed peaks beyond Ketchikan into northern BC near the Skeena River Canyon.
By the time Scott had climbed up to join us and unrope to eat some lunch on our high ridge, we were able to reconnoiter most of our remaining route.
Down below was Salmon Creek Reservoir, and its long ridge running out to Gastineau Channel. We would have to hike and ski down Blackerby Ridge as far as we felt comfortable, then downclimb the South side into the Salmon Creek drainage.
Despite the snowfall the night before the tops of rocks were sticking up out of the ridge, and unknown rocks might be under the snow down on the South face above the reservoir.
We decided to ski along the ridge where most of the snow was, especially on the south side where wind had deposited powder drifts. It was still cold enough that the powder had not turned to sludge. We ended up with excellent corn snow that stacked up against our boots, providing enough resistance to prevent uncontrolled sliding. No ice or crust plates were encountered, nor even surging or sudden slowing.
We could ease into rhythmic down-up-down arm-swinging, even with packs on, crampons away from face, and carve some turns.
After a long sweet ski we finally ran out of sufficient snow to cover all rocks, and mounted our skis back on the tops of packs again.
We decided to get off the ridge where the trees started encroaching,to avoid tree navigation problems with skis on packs, and to stay close to the open edge on the up-canyon side of the copses.
Descending the South slope of the ridge was an unexpected struggle. You couldn't just walk with lugged hiking boots we had used for snow hiking and skiing, because the rocks were covered with moss, which held water, which had turned to ice, and was covered with snow. So you couldn't tell where the rocks were anyway, and they twisted the ankle under the snow.
So we re-donned our crampons, and used them to grip the ice-covered mossy rocks and logs under the snow. Though this still caused some twisting of ankles we at least had the security of feeling the prongs bite into the underlying ice and frozen moss, and tree branches.
Surprisingly, even the waterlogged tree logs gave satisfying security when bitten into by the feet with crampon points. The water had frozen into ice. There was a certain lagging as they ground through the rotten wood, into the ice. But sometimes there was an even more certain and scary stopping, when the wood wasn't rotten, and held the crampon points too tightly - before our momentum would grind over them like tank tracks. When they didn't release we would have to stop suddenly, back up, and kick them loose.
The opposite sensation was encountered when we'd hit rocks. The ice-covered rocks, obscured by snow, would send the crampon points skittering through the thin veneer, and almost send us skittering, with sharp snaps to the joints.
Holding onto trees with gloves and mitts was a welcome security in those steeps. Ice axes were also welcome stabilizing tools, especially when one had to lean under branches with skis mounted vertically on pack, or twist into awkward positions torsionally to wind around trees with skis mounted horizontally.
By the time we had descended all the way down to Salmon Creek it was 6 pm, dark, and we still had to walk out a couple of miles. Our quads were wasted from all that weight pounding down, and our ankles were sharply pained from all the twisting in the rocks.
But as darkness came on, the stars came out, and we climbed up onto the top of the covered flume, where we could walk with confidence (we thought).
The flume cover was icy from rime refreezing, and in some places it had plate ice overflow, where the crampons suddenly would not bite so easily as they did in wood. At those moments we would skitter a bit, lose balance, and struggle with intensity to avoid falling off the flume into freefall to the creek roaring 20 feet below.
By the time we got out to Glacier Highway it was full-on dark. We could barely see. But down there in the gravel pull-out was Scott's wife, waiting with their car to haul us all home.
The silhouettes of Douglas Island, and soon of Gastineau Ridge, gave way to the lights of the city, and as I humped my skis up the steep boardwalk and stairs of my 1800s home downtown, I was glad to be living in such a close proximity to that massive icefield perched over the mountains 3,000 feet above.
I'm ready to go again. Are You?
External Links to More Photos.Lemon Glacier, Norris Icefall, Ptarmigan Glacier, Blackerby Ridge, Salmon Creek, and Juneau aerial photos from helo, at McCullyWeb.
Comparison of glaciers' former and present extent, using photos, Google Earth and USGS maps, by Mauri Pelto and Maynard Miller, Juneau Icefield Research Program.
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Marshall's super try something to behold
The match video is unlikely to rate highly when it comes to entertainment value, the appalling conditions having a huge input into Saturday's fare at Deramore, but it would certainly be worth a look to see again just how Belfast Harlequins' scrum-half Paul Marshall managed to embark on a bizarre solo run to bamboozle the Wanderers' defence to end up scoring the unlikeliest of tries.
With 11 minutes of normal time remaining, and Quins having watched their 15-3 half-time lead whittled back to a mere five points, Marshall got the ball on a rare sortie into the visitors' 22 and broke right looking to link up with the backline.
The Ulster contracted player exchanged a pass with centre Rory Blake-Knox before, with seemingly no options, running sideways and then backwards from the onrushing defenders towards the Wanderers' 10 metre line.
With his team mates doubtless having palpitations, and the opposition lining the isolated Marshall up for a certain turnover, he somehow managed to halt his retreat and jink through the various tacklers before kicking over the remaining cover to win the chase for an individual try that left all who witnessed it open-mouthed in astonishment.
Keith Pyper's conversion bounced wide off an upright and then with Wanderers managing to score and convert a Niall McNamara try, five minutes into injury time, Quins were easily able to quantify the value of Marshall's moment of inspiration as they clung on to win 20-17.
First-half tries from Chris McCarey and Blake-Knox laid the foundations for Quins' second consecutive league win, but Wanderers had more in the tank and though a penalty try got them back in the game, Quins, now in fifth spot in Division Two, will be more than thankful McNamara managed to miss two penalties.
Also in Division Two, Ballynahinch continued setting the pace with another thumping bonus point win, this time seeing off Thomond 40-8 in appalling conditions at Ballymacarn Park.
'Hinch scored five tries – from Willy Faloon, Gareth Rourke, Ryan Bambry, Johnny Cullen and Aaron Ferris – to take their unbeaten record to five games and give them a four point lead in the table over nearest rivals Bruff.
Meanwhile, the Co Limerick side managed to halt Malone's winning run with a battling 9-3 result at Gibson Park, while at Shaws Bridge, Instonians remain bottom of the table, and still without a point, after UCC finished 28-20 ahead.
It was a day of positive outcomes in the top flight where both Ballymena and Dungannon achieved home wins to manoeuvre themselves further away from the danger zone.
Ballymena overcame the elements and UL Bohemians 14-9, the only try of the game coming in the first half from winger Tommy Seymour while Dungannon saw off Dolphin 22-16 with James Bates, John McGuckin and Paul Magee crossing for tries which elevates the Tyrone side to ninth in the table.
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I have a well used, old black, field edition SA 2000 that I had laminated in the early '90s. It shows some delamination on the borders and edges of a few of the charts. I only use the SA charts to start my search for general orientation and then go to my Uranometria copies. The delamination so far hasn't affected my using the the SA 2000 and everything is readable.
But I was wondering if the old lamination could be safely removed and could be re laminated? Or, would it just be better and cheaper to just buy another laminated SA 2000 new or used?