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2011 NBA Playoffs: Celtics Look to Rebound After Being Burnt by Miami's HeatMay 7, 2011
The infamous trade of Kendrick Perkins has been both well documented and debated. Since that deal went down, the Celtics have not been consistently playing as a team. For the remainder of 2011's season, they struggled to find the "Ubuntu" mentality that prior years' teams possessed. In addition, the Celtics were not sharing the basketball as they did earlier this season. Instead, Boston resorted at times to playing a more selfish style of basketball in an attempt to win basketball games.
After sweeping the New York Knicks in the Round 1 of the playoffs, excitement was in the air in Boston. The Celtics showed heart and a knack for winning close games against a tough competitor in that series.
Boston would advance to play the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference Semi-finals. After going down in that very series two games to none. The Celtics and their captain Paul Pierce were saying all the right things. When speaking on the series versus the Heat after Game 2's loss in Miami, Pierce said, "We still feel like it's going to be a seven-game series. I like our chances, especially with our backs against the wall."
Paul Pierce's comment was admirable. Furthermore, it seemed as if the C's may actually follow through on Pierce's aspiration/prediction after winning Game 3 and doing so in an impressive fashion. Kevin Garnett turned back the clocks by contributing with a 28 point, 18 rebound performance and it looked like Boston had finally found an answer for the Miami Heat. Things were looking up for the Celtics once again but looks can be deceiving.
To consistently play at a high level, players must be healthy. Shaquille O'Neal returned from an Achilles injury for Game 3 and though he provided a lift to the team, he was obviously not playing at 100 percent. Furthermore, Paul Pierce himself was ailing from an Achilles injury of his own suffered in the fourth quarter of Game 2.
To complicate matters further, Rajon Rondo went down with injury in the third quarter of Game 3 dislocating his left elbow. Rondo had his elbow popped back into socket and returned in vintage Celtic fashion to play through his injury and help the Celtics win their first game and only game of the series.
Although Rondo played well upon his return, it was clear that he was still favoring his left elbow as his arm was dangling by his side and he was barely using it to play.
According to ESPN.com, when asked about Rajon Rondo's injury, head coach of the Boston Celtics Doc Rivers said that he told Rondo with a laugh, "Listen, I played with one hand my entire career. So you can do it. And he [Rondo] did it!"
Rivers went on to say, "Players play. We can all tell our war stories. But very few could do that -- especially in this situation. They try, but very few could succeed. Yesterday was just another example of an NBA player not caring about his health and trying to help the team."
Heading into Game 4 the Celtics were feeling confident. The only chance Boston had of coming back to win the series would be if their leader Kevin Garnett were to step up his game once again as he did in Game 3. If the Celtics were going to win the NBA championship, then they would have to kick their game into a higher gear...the same one they were in for all of Game 3. In that game, the Celtics played focused, hard-nosed basketball. They were under control and illustrated intensity on both ends of the court.
To the dismay of Celtic's fans everywhere, Kevin Garnett followed up his stellar Game 3 performance with a mediocre performance at best in Game 4 registering 7 points and 10 rebounds on 1 of 10 shooting on the way to a Celtics loss. The C's found themselves down three games to one to the young, energetic Miami Heat.
Losing Game 4 was a crucial, heartbreaking loss for the Boston Celtics and their fans. The Celtics were down but not out. According to ESPN.com, when asked about his feelings heading into Game 5 versus the Celtics, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said, "By no means do we feel the series is done, not against a champion like they are. We have tremendous respect for Boston. They've inflicted so much pain on us the last three or four years that it's hard not to have that respect."
Boston had won three games in a row on numerous occasions throughout the 2011 season and the Heat and Celtics both realized that. They also knew it could possibly happen again to complete a monumental comeback in the 2011 Eastern Conference Semi-finals. True Celtics fans believed and kept the faith. It is those fans that the Celtics showed up for in Game 3 and needed to continue showing up for down the stretch if they were going to stand a chance of putting the Heat on ice.
If you are a diehard Celtics fan, then here are 18 reasons you may have had that made you confident that Boston would raise Banner eighteen in 2011.
For those NBA fans who didn't think the Celtics have what it takes to win in '11, you are not alone and were part of a large group of people that felt the veteran Celtics never meshed with their new teammates enough to develop into the team they were/are capable of becoming. That same group of people are also concerned they never will.
These concerns were vocalized to back up the notion that the Celtics wouldn't be returning to the NBA Finals in 2011. Their concerns were validated when the Celtics lost the Eastern Conference Semi-finals and were eliminated from post-season contention. The copycat Miami Heatles and their "Big Three" wanted no part of a Celtic comeback and proceeded to finish off the Celtics in Game 5 with a 97-87 victory. The Heat gave the Celtics a first degree burn of which they are still recovering from as you read this article.
Undoubtedly, Boston needs more size and youth for the future if they hope to contend in it. In fact, they need that right now. However, the Celtics are not all washed up and are still an extremely talented bunch. This year, they could not overcome their lack of size and constant injuries with heart and hustle. Now, Celtics nation has nothing more to look forward to than next year.


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David Villa has scored twice to give Spain a 2-0 lead against Honduras after 60 minutes in their Group H match at the World Cup on Monday.
Villa's shot from just outside the penalty area in the 51st minute went in after a deflection off Honduras defender Osman Chavez. It was his 40th goal for Spain.
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11 April 2013 – Adrian Sutil has set his sights on podium finishes after enjoying a largely positive start to the season. The German, who returned with Force India after a year on the sidelines, believes it is a realistic target to hold ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix.
Sutil, who led home team-mate Paul di Resta in a double points finish at the opening round in Australia, is certain that there is much more to come from his team after technical problems at Sepang scuppered the chance of another large points haul.
"We showed it's possible here and there to get a good result. I think in Australia it was a good start to lead a race with this car. Nico did it last year (at Interlagos) and the next race was Australia, so two times in a row a Force India led quite a lot of laps in the race. It's just a sign that with this car there's definitely much more possible. A podium is my goal."
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Brent Peterson, former associate coach for the Nashville Predators was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease nine years ago. On Tuesday, he continued Deep Brain Stimulation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center as a form of treatment.
The hospital has become Peterson's home away from home these last few weeks.
"Everything has gone great. I just hope it keeps going that way," Peterson told Nashville's News 2.
Tuesday, the former hockey coach and player, affectionately known as "Petey," had the third of four procedures involved in DBS.
Last week's surgery was the most difficult and the most important.
"Last week was a little tougher than I thought. I stayed in most of the week and I didn't do much. I had a few headaches, but when they start cutting into your head, you're going to have a few headaches," said Peterson.
During step two, doctors implanted electrodes in his brain.
During Tuesday's surgery, a device, similar to a heart pacemaker, was surgically implanted in Peterson's body. It consists of a small box in his chest, connected to a thin wire that travels internally up the side of his neck and head to his brain.
The device will deliver electrical impulse to certain areas of Peterson's brain, blocking signals that cause Parkinson's symptoms.
The surgery lasted less than two hours and Peterson was allowed to go home the same day.
Doctors stress that DBS is not for every Parkinson's patient and it is not a cure. However, the procedure should give Peterson better mobility and a better quality of life.
Peterson told Nashville's News 2 he wants to share his story to give others hope.
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all i did was adding honeycomb icons for the soft buttons to the already existing honeybread v4 theme. as soon as there is a new honeybread theme, i hope it features the new buttons - at least i asked for that on the honeybread issue tracker.
get the modified theme here - it will show up with no preview by the name @string/theme_name in front of all your themes - i cannot help that bad behavior by now:
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Letter from Max Beerbohm to H.M. Hake, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, dated 3 December 1935, regarding the proposal to have Eves make a portrait of him.
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Dear Mr Hake, - You will have heard from Sir Evan Charteris that there is an idea that my features, already portrayed by Sir William Rothenstein (and destined to hang in the National Portrait Gallery), should in these slightly later years be portrayed also by Mr. Eves (so that future ages shall have a double dose of what it won't really want a single dose of).
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Well now, this weather is more like it. After weeks and months of getting the garden ready, starting the seeds and planing, planning, planning it is finally time to get it planted. Memorial Day weekend is the traditional time to plant all those fun sun loving veggie and flowers so if your garden isn't in yet it is time to get moving. I had a friend who would spend the entire three-day weekend putting in his garden. He planted the entire thing in one fell swoop, BAM it's done. I envy that ability to singularly focus on one thing and get it done, but it just isn't how I do things, so don't worry if you don't have time this weekend or you only have time to get part of it in. There is still plenty of time, last year I waited until the last week of June to get everything in and I still got plenty of corn and tomatoes.
Gardens are a work in progress, at least mine is. There is no end to what needs to be done, what could have been done better etc. etc. The point is to get outside and spend a little time with your hands in the earth, if the seeds you plant sprout and the flowers grow and bloom great! If not so what? Have fun, listen to the birds sing and the bee's buzz, watch the spiders weaving their webs and the ants marching along and feel the sun on your back . Let yourself drift off into a reverie, it will be good for your soul.
Several years ago in Organic Gardening I read about this new organic herbicide that was being tested and got very excited. The stuff being tested was corn gluten. Yup, plain old corn gluten, a by-product of corn processing. Turns out it has something in it that inhibits seed germination. So if you till up a piece of ground and spread this stuff around it prevents weed seeds, actually it prevents any old seeds from germinating. So you can't use it on ground where you will be sowing seeds but you can use in the garden where you are transplanting starts. Weeding has got to be the worst of garden chores so anything that can save me time and backache is good news so I kept my ears open and my eyes peeled for any information about this new miracle.
A couple of years ago it became available at the nurseries and this year I decided to give it a try on my newly planted bareroot raspberry beds. Well I learned a couple of things they don't bother to tell you in the advertisements! Like: it's corn, stupid, and critters that like corn are really going to like this stuff. As I was walking down the row scattering the pellets (it comes pelleted or in meal form) my dog was trailing right behind licking them up as fast as I could put them down. She did leave enough to be effective. That is until the ravens got wind of the free meal. All of a sudden there were 15 or 20 ravens out in the field. At first I couldn't figure out what the heck they were doing, I can be slow on the uptake sometimes. When I went out to check on my newly planted bareroot babies I discovered half a dozen or so had been torn out of the ground. This stumped me for a few days until I realized that the ravens, attracted by the corn smell, were scratching around the plants in an effort to find the corn. The corn gluten did work to keep most of the weed seeds from germinating so it did live up to the hype, only beware the stuff they don't tell you. The other thing you have to be wary of if you decide to give this stuff a try is that unless the corn the gluten comes from is organic there is a very high likely hood that you will be getting gluten from GMO corn.
It's time to prune all those lovely camellias, azaleas, lilacs and any other early spring blooming shrubs. The idea is to prune for shape and health before the plant starts forming next year's flower buds. They do it fairly quickly after blooming so if you delay you could end up pruning out next year's flowers. Take out damaged and dead branches and shape the plant "into a pleasing form", as Martha would say. Then throw a little fertilizer at it and your done except making sure it has water once in a while.
Don't forget your houseplants. By now they are putting on new growth but it isn't too late to repot and start your summer fertilizer program. Make it easy on yourself, set a table up outside and gather all the stuff you need, new pots, fresh potting soil, soil amendments etc. Then get your leafy house companions and bring them outside where you wont have to worry about getting dirt and dead leaves all over the place. Now take a good look at them, prune them if they look straggly, check for bugs, remove dead leaves and branches. Replant into a pot one size larger using fresh new potting soil. If they don't need to be repotted I usually scrape about an inch or so of soil off the top and add some fresh new stuff. The nutrients in potting soil are used up pretty fast by the plants and they will appreciate the fresh soil and nutrients. If you really want to thrill them you can add a little bat guano to each plant.
Bat and seabird guano is really cool stuff. The word guano is Quichua, an Incan language, which means "droppings of seabirds". For centuries the Inca gathered the stuff on Islands and rocks off the coast of Peru. It was so highly valued as a fertilizer that the gathering areas were protected and only especially chosen people could do the gathering. Violation of these laws was punished by death!
American agriculture during the 1800's became so addicted to the stuff that a law was passed in congress on August 8, 1856. This bill set up protection to be given to any US citizen who may discover guano. Any US citizen was allowed to take possession and occupy any Island, rock or key where guano was found. The only stipulation was that the guano could only be sold in the US to US citizens.
Today the gathering of guano, especially that of bats, is highly regulated to provide protection for the bats. There is a cave in Texas, the Bracken Cave, where the largest known colony of bats in the world live. Scientists estimate that 20 million Mexican free tail bats use the cave as their summer home. Bat Conservation International holds the rights to harvesting the gold from the cave. In November when the bats have headed south for the winter they go in with huge vacuum trucks and tidy the cave for the returning bats. On average they suck up 50 tons of guano each year. Let's see 20 million bats, 50 tons of droppings…well you do the math!
Bat guano is a highly touted organic fertilizer containing billions of live bacteria that help fight fungus. There are also millions of microbes that can help in bioremediation, which means they eat up toxic chemicals in the soil and 13 trace elements. The actual chemical make up varies depending on the type of guano and whom it comes from, and you thought guano was guano. So check labels for specific N-P-k info.
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5.3 Maintaining safe water: Whose job is it?
Essential question: How can water quality be improved by the actions of various professionals and by the personal choices of community members?
Learning outcomes
Students will investigate the concept of stewardship as it relates to water quality and explore some careers that are involved in maintaining water quality and standards.
Teacher planning
Materials needed
- "Whose Job is It?" activity cards
- Masking tape, or some other way for students to stick activity cards on the board
Time required for lesson
One class period (45-50 minutes)
Teacher background
From "Summary of the Clean Water Act" on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website.
The Clean Water Act (CWA) establishes the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters. The basis of the CWA was enacted in 1948 and was called the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, but the Act was significantly reorganized and expanded in 1972. "Clean Water Act" became the Act's common name with amendments in 1977.
Under the CWA, EPA has implemented pollution control programs such as setting wastewater standards for industry. We have also set water quality standards for all contaminants in surface waters.
The CWA made it unlawful to discharge any pollutant from a point source into navigable waters, unless a permit was obtained.
Career outline
- Storm water analyst
- Monitors, samples, and analyzes the various types of point source pollutants that flow from city streets into storm water drains.
- Chemist
- Researches and develops chemicals and consumer products that are safe for the public and the environment.
- Environmental consultant
- Provides technical support for federal, state, and local governments, and private industry or not-for-profit organizations for developing solutions to environmental problems.
- Elected public officials (E.g. city council members and planning commissioners)
- Develop laws and regulations to provide vital services to the community such as transportation, public safety, health care, education, utilities, and courts.
- Before the lesson, cut apart the activity cards.
- Discuss the importance of water quality, the Clean Water Act, and the health of the environment.
- Define stewardship for the students and give examples. (Stewardship is the act of good management. In this context, stewardship is the act of protecting and conserving water resources.)
- Highlight jobs that control and monitor water quality in the city and county. (Examples include storm water analyst, chemist, environmental consultant, and elected public official.)
- Discuss how communities can improve water quality one person at a time.
- Put the following chart on the board, under the heading "Whose job is it?":
Storm water analyst Chemist Environmental consultant Public official / Worker Citizen
- Pass out the activity cards provided.
- Have students read and classify the job descriptions on the cards.
- Have each student come to the board and place his or her card in one of the columns, reflecting where he or she thinks the responsibility lies for keeping water clean.
- Lead the class in a discussion about the placement of the cards and the role of each career in maintaining safe water. Share information about the careers from the teacher background section above.
- As a follow-up to this activity, ask students to design a pamphlet or poster that encourages community members to be good stewards of water. Students may choose one of the following options or come up with their own ideas:
- Use a car wash instead of washing cars in the driveway.
- Recycle used motor oil; never pour motor oil on the ground or throw it in the garbage.
- Pick up pet waste.
- Clear debris from storm drains.
- Use biodegradable products.
- Recycle.
- Use trashcans — not roadways — for car trash.
- Use fertilizers and other lawn care products sparingly (and never on rainy days).
Optional resources for more information on the topics covered in this lesson
- EPA: Water Treatment Process
- Using this diagram, students can follow a drop of water from the source through the treatment process, obtaining more information at each treatment point along the way.
- USGS Water Science for Schools
- This government water education website provides information, data, maps, and pictures on water science and has an interactive center where students can give opinions and test their knowledge.
- Wastewater: Sewage in Your Face
- Students can learn about sewage treatment in a fun, interactive way with games, videos, and audio clips.
- Science Careers: Water and Liquid Waste Treatment Plant and System Operator
- Students can learn about working in water treatment, including high school courses, degree requirements, an interview with wastewater treatment plant operators, job description, and hiring companies.
- Science Careers: Hydrologist
- Students can learn about working in hydrology, including high school courses, degree requirements, an interview with Hawaiian hydrologists, job description, and hiring companies.
- EEK! Get a Job: Hydrogeology
- This website by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources describes the related career of hydrogeology and how hydrogeologists contribute to water safety.
North Carolina curriculum alignment
Science (2005)
Grade 8
- Goal 3: The learner will conduct investigations and utilize appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of the hydrosphere.
- Objective 3.08: Recognize that the good health of environments and organisms requires:
- Monitoring of the hydrosphere.
- Water quality standards.
- Methods of water treatment.
- Maintaining safe water quality.
- Stewardship.
- Objective 3.08: Recognize that the good health of environments and organisms requires:
- North Carolina Essential Standards
- Science (2010)
Grade 8
- 8.E.1 Understand the hydrosphere and the impact of humans on local systems and the effects of the hydrosphere on humans. 8.E.1.1 Explain the structure of the hydrosphere including: Water distribution on earth Local river basins and water availability 8.E.1.2...
- Science (2010)


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Accueil > Anglais > Presse > Archives > Social affairs
"One teenager in seven has been in an emergency situation as a result of a friend drinking too much alcohol, according to a new study by the British Red Cross.
"In the past 12 months, more than one in 10 children aged between 11 and 16 have been left to cope with a drunken friend who was sick, injured or unconscious. Half of those have had to deal with someone who had passed out and a quarter have dealt with a friend who had been injured in a drunken fight.
"The survey, released to coincide with the launch of the Life. Live it. campaign to improve young people's life-saving skills, reveals that it is not just alcohol-related injuries that young people have to cope with."


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28 February 2007
Tracing poachers with tusk DNA
BEWARE all ivory poachers. The cops are on your case, thanks to a DNA test that reveals the geographical origin of ivory.
Developed using comparisons of elephant DNA from different regions, the test can theoretically pinpoint to between 500 and 1000 kilometres the origin of a particular sample. In its first use, the test showed that a huge cache of 532 tusks, seized in Singapore in 2002, came mainly from Zambia, not from multiple locations as originally suspected (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0609714104). "We were delighted with the results," says team leader Sam Wasser of the University of Washington, Seattle.
The test also showed that poaching was more widespread in Zambia than the country's government had admitted. "The number of killed elephants was at least 30 times higher than Zambia indicated," says Wasser.
Zambian police have used the findings to close in on poachers and


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text: The organization Wikileaks is claiming that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry personally pressured the government of Ecuador to cut its founder Julian Assange's internet access, preventing further publication of private emails from the account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. On Tuesday, the Wikileaks Twitter account accused Kerry of using his position as head of the State Department to demand that the leftist South American government disconnect Assange's internet access. Assange has lived in the Ecuadorian embassy in London for the past four years. If true, Kerry's authority to make such a request would be dubious, as the hacked emails in question are not government correspondence, but private emails by partisan political campaign officials. According to Wikileaks, Kerry met with "Ecuador" – potentially President Rafael Correa – in September and requested they shut down Assange's operation out of their embassy. BREAKING: Multiple US sources tell us John Kerry asked Ecuador to stop Assange from publishing Clinton docs during FARC peace negotiations. — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 18, 2016 The John Kerry private meeting with Ecuador was made on the sidelines of the negotiations which took place pricipally on Sep 26 in Colombia. — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 18, 2016 The New York Times


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PRESS: "Kicking off the Hidden Fortress' STGCC 2014 Releases is the 1/144 STORM KING MACHINE (Mini Edition)! The figure stands at 6" Inches (the original being 20") and is set at a limited edition of 100. The figures will be sold at 50 USD (60 SGD) at Singapore Toy Games & Comic Con (Sept 6-7, 2014) and via www.hiddenfortressmanila.com for a September-October worldwide shipping release. The diorama components seen on the preview is not included with the purchase but is available by commission-basis, and interested parties can contact us via email@example.com."AWESOMENESS-IS, people! Also stay tuned for a lil' sumthin'sumthin' to be announced soon too … hee~hee ... meanwhile, check out the size comparison in the pic below = SHERWEET!


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North Korea's adoption of a new rule on natural disasters last month indicates that experts' warnings of volcanic eruptions of Mount Baekdu have spread widely throughout the country, the South Korean government said Wednesday.
Pyongyang's new law stipulates principles for observing and forecasting natural disasters, particularly earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, in addition to how to minimize damage and undertake rescue activities, the Korean Central News Agency reported last month, without giving further details.
Experts outside the secretive communist country have warned since last year that North Korea's Mount Baekdu, which borders China, may still have an active core, citing topographical signs and satellite images.
The 2,744-meter Mount Baekdu, the highest peak on the Korean Peninsula, last erupted in 1903.
"Pyongyang likely intended to calm jitters among the public over widespread speculations over an eruption by devising systematic measures, and to draw international support for its disaster-prevention efforts," Seoul's Unification Ministry said in its weekly report.
"North Korea is presumed to have merged different regulations on disaster prevention while adding rules on volcanoes and earthquakes that have been missing so far," the report continued.
Experts from the two Koreas held talks on potential volcanic activity at Mount Baekdu in March and April. North Korea proposed the rare meeting soon after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan earlier this year. The two sides have held no further talks or actions since then.
(Yonhap News)


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Eliminate Germs From Sponges
Kill the germs you can't see so that your are not spreading germs when cleaning.
Keep your sponge's germ free! Always allow to air dry to avoid mildew and growth of smelly bacteria. To kill the germs that have gathered on your nasty sponges, microwave on high for 2 minutes and let cool.
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Southampton bad boy Dani Osvaldo on the brink of sealing Juventus move
DANI OSVALDO is close to sealing a loan with a view to a permanent deal with Juventus just months after leaving Italian shores to join Southampton.
Osvaldo became Southampton's record signing in the summer as the fiery Italy international joined from Roma for £15m.
But a training ground bust-up in which Osvaldo allegedly head butted Jose Fonte saw the forward suspended for two weeks and declared surplus to requirements.
An initial fee of around £400,000 will see Osvaldo move to Juventus on loan until the end of the season and the clubs have agreed a sum of £16.4m to make the switch permanent.
"Osvaldo is undoubtedly an opportunity for everyone"Beppe Marotta
The Southampton man will fly to Italy in the morning ahead of completing his deadline day to the Old Lady.
Juventus CEO Beppe Marotta had spoken earlier in the week about a move for Osvaldo, but things have progressed since then and Southampton are desperate to get rid.
At the time, Marotta said: "We are evaluating all the opportunities and Osvaldo is undoubtedly an opportunity for everyone.
"He is an Italian player who will go to the World Cup, so we look at him with interest."


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Preserving our landscape
Re: Opposed to permitting of the Rhiner quarry
We hope that others in the community will join with us in protesting the permitting of the Rhiner quarry.
Over the past several decades, the people of Sheridan County have participated in the development of a Comprehensive Plan. This plan is in large part dedicated to the conservation and preservation of our agricultural base and to the preservation of the open range views along the Bighorn Mountain foothills.
We are dismayed that the county planning office with County Planner Mark Reid would even consider a 156 acre quarry application in this area without clear and overwhelming evidence of some major economic or cultural necessity that would supersede the basic tenants of the Comprehensive Plan.
The proposed quarry will be situated right in the middle of the greater Banner community made up of small ranchers devoted to agricultural operations. The quarry site will be in the heart of a broad irrigable grass land. It will sit below Red Cloud point on Moncrieffe Ridge where, according to legend, Red Cloud observed the activity on the Bozeman Trail and planned the Fetterman massacre. The gravel pit is essentially right in the center of our history and would forever change the landscape.
Where is the overriding need? What market justifies such degradation? What is the gravel and stone reserve? Is it sufficient for a productive and profitable quarry? Will this be another high grade fly-by-night open pit job that will operate for a couple of seasons and go broke leaving another unreclaimed pit? What provisions have been made for bonding? Where is the mine plan? Have the air quality, water quality and noise control plans been reviewed and submitted by a professional engineer?
How about external impacts? What provisions have been made to widen and reengineer the County road 28 (Bird Farm Road) for safe travel. You cannot seriously think that this road in its current narrow state would support 20-ton rock trucks traveling in conjunction with the multitude of horse trailers? Is it your intention to subsidize this operation by rebuilding the road on the backs of the taxpayers?
Considering the historical, cultural, environmental and economic impacts on the surrounding community, the application and review are superficial at best, and reflect the lack of expertise and time necessary for the county planning office to properly evaluate an operation of this size. If the application in its current state is approved, it is entirely possible that Sheridan County will be exposed to immediate and ongoing litigation.
We ask that Sheridan County Planning and Zoning Commission at their hearing on March 6 delay any further consideration of the quarry application until such time as it has been reviewed by the professional environmental staff at the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality.
J.M. and J.L. Wilson


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hahahahaha echo please say it ain't so!
Good lord, I guess the AI producers know more than we do about their target audience, people who kick puppies and steal wheel chairs from old people then laugh about it with their friends
I give up, I really thought that people would rather see ALL of the singers who make it through to Hollywood and then fill in the spaces with some of the funny, quirky misfits.
At this point they have done the opposite, fill the show with freaks and whatever time is left over fill in with a couple of the ones who were good enough to make it through
Oh well, soon enough this portion is over with and we are down to the "meat & potatoes"


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Adidas announces a fitness smartwatch priced at $399 coming Nov. 1st
If you are in to insanely priced devices, then does Adidas have something for you. A new fitness tracking smartwatch has just been announced and will be coming out on November 1st for $399. Yes, take a moment to read that again, $399. You can get Samsung's overpriced smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, for $100 less than that. In a world where Nike can announce a $149 FuelBand SE, the Adidas watch will have to have some pretty great features to sway anyone up its way. Some of the features sound promising, such as the ability to track your pulse through your wrist, and will include various motion sensors to track the user's activities. Also, it will be more of a standalone device, not relying on other devices to sync data with, providing you with everything on its own.
To be completely honest, with the information Adidas has released as of now this device seems like it will be dead on arrival (DOA). Pricing it $100 more than the Galaxy Gear, granted that isn't a fitness watch, just isn't a bright idea unless there is something Adidas isn't telling us about this device. There seems to be a lot of information missing, but seeing as November 1st isn't far away more information has to be on the way. I just don't see this competing with devices like the Nike FuelBand SE and the Fitbit Force simply because of its steep price. I wouldn't pay $399 for a device, even if it was standalone. I would rather get something that is by far cheaper and will just sync with my phone. May just be me though.
What do you think? Is this worth the price? Or is it much to expensive? Let us know in the comments, or tweet me @TiP_Kyle.
Via: Engadget


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The unconventional development process pioneered by Amazon Studios extends to the deals it offers actors, according to casting director Alyssa Weisberg.
The streaming service doesn't offer holding deals to its performers the way TV networks have traditionally done with actors that network executives think could work in a variety of projects.
But Weisberg, who cast Amazon's new comedy series "Betas" and has consulted for the company on other projects, said that enhances the casting process.
"That is one of the things that is nice about Amazon at the moment, is that we don't have to put actors in holding deals into roles that they might not be right for," she told Backstage.
In October, Amazon gave the greenlight to three pilots: "Mozart in the Jungle," which was written by Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and Alex Timbers; "The Outlaws," by screenwriters Jeremy Garelick and Jon Weinbach; and "Transparent," from Jill Soloway ("Afternoon Delight").
Earlier in the year, it gave five pilots a series order, including "Alpha House," about four senators living together in Washington, D.C., and "Betas," which features a cast of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs trying to develop a rival to Facebook, along with kids pilots "Annebots," "Creative Galaxy," and "Tumbleaf."
"It's pretty exciting what they're doing; the quality of projects that they are producing and have in development are equal to the best on network and premium cable," said Weisberg.
While Amazon hasn't been offering holding deals, it does recast actors with whom it wants to build relationships. Weisberg pointed to Jeffrey Tambor, who starred in the pilots "Onion News Empire" and "Transparent."
"When they like working with someone they'll definitely work with him again," she said.
Casting established performers like Tambor and John Goodman, who stars in "Alpha House," has made headlines for Amazon. Still, it's willing to take a chance on new faces, said Weisberg. "Most of my cast on 'Betas' are new talent," she said, although Ed Begley Jr. also appears in the pilot and second episode.
Another plus from being cast on an Amazon pilot? It's going to be seen, even if it doesn't go to series. The company has been putting its pilots online and inviting viewer feedback before making a decision on the show's future, which is great for performers, according to Weisberg, who says, "There were shows that didn't get picked up and a network exec or a casting director or a producer still saw it, which is really exciting" for the actors.


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AT 7 O'CLOCK ON Saturday mornings, when most working musicians are still sleeping off the night before, Steve Wolf is sitting with his acoustic guitar behind a microphone in a corner of the Fairfax Coffee Roastery, singing as if his life depends on it. And, to some extent, it does.
The 55-year-old singer-songwriter has been plagued by chronic health problems that have sidelined him for much of the past four years. As he struggles to recover, this humble early morning gig is part of his healing process, the beginning, he hopes, of a return to the life he once led.
"I show up here every Saturday because it's necessary on a spiritual level," he says one recent Saturday during a break between sets. "I'm grateful I'm still alive. Every time I open my mouth to sing, I'm aware that time is passing. So I'm grateful that I get to do this right now."
In the early '90s, I wrote about Wolf and his band, Pack of Wolves, focusing on his lupine demeanor, his stage presence and his talent as a songwriter. He seemed destined for bigger things.
But when Pack of Wolves eventually broke up, he seemed to disappear into thin air. He wasn't playing in his hometown's many bars and clubs anymore. I wondered, what had happened to him?
Then, on a recent Saturday morning, passing through Fairfax on the way to an assignment, I just happened to duck into the Coffee Roastery and there he was, dressed in black jeans and a black tank top, singing songs like "Shoes," which he wrote last year.
"Dry your eyes and face the day/Live or die it's come what may...Goodbye mother, goodbye pop/Never thought that time would stop/Call a preacher, call a cop/Waiting for the shoe to drop."
To hear Wolf tell it, the shoe dropped on Christmas Eve 2008, when he was hospitalized with excruciating abdominal pains caused by a ruptured colon that required emergency surgery and two follow-up operations.
"That began a couple of years of recovery," he told me.
During his convalescence, he took refuge on a friend's land in Mendocino County, where he had hoped to rest and work on his music. In the wrong place at the wrong time, he was swept up in a law enforcement raid on a pot farm.
"The DEA flew in with their helicopters," he recalled. "They snatched me up, manhandled me and threw me in a car. But all the charges were eventually thrown out."
Making matters worse, his recovery was complicated by a flare-up of hepatitis C, a debilitating virus he'd contracted in the 1970s.
"My health got to the point where I couldn't do anything anymore," he sighed.
In the past, he'd resisted chemotherapy to treat the infection, but it became increasingly clear to him that it was the only chance he had left to bring it under control. So a year ago he began regular home chemo treatments that appear to be killing the virus. The downside is that he sometimes feels like they're killing his musical comeback, too.
"When I was sick on chemo, I was beginning to wonder if I was every going to be able to sing again," he recalled.
He needed someone to help him get through this, and that person turned out to be Mason Holcomb, a budding 23-year-old Fairfax artist and novice musician who was still in high school when he heard Wolf singing in a small Bolinas Road club, asked him for lessons and became his friend and musical protege.
"At first Steve was panicked because chemo tears you away from reality," Holcomb explained, sitting by Wolf's side at a table cluttered with a tray of watercolors, a small canvas and a hand-lettered sign that said, "Get your portrait painted."
"I held his hand and guided him through the first couple of weeks of chemo," he said. "It was all about supporting him, giving him a shoulder to lean on, especially on workdays, when he had shows. Six or seven hours of playing while you're on chemo can take a lot out of you."
Wolf and Holcomb's now perform occasionally as a duo and co-write songs, like a recent adaptation of W.H. Auden's poem "Death's Echo." But most of Wolf's limited energy is poured into Samurai Wolf, a collaboration with acoustic guitarist and Buddhist teacher Teja Bell.
While excited about his prospects, he's frustrated at the same time by his inability to bounce back from the chemo treatments, a condition that may be because of a problem with his heart.
"I might need a pacemaker," he said. "I've lost three years, and I've waited a long time to get back up to where I am. I've got so many new songs and things I want to do. I'm kind of low on energy right now, and I need to fix that. If I do, I plan on coming back to the music scene with a vengeance."
Contact Paul Liberatore via email at firstname.lastname@example.com; follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LibLarge. Follow his blog at http://blogs.marinij.com/ad_lib.
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Where: Fairfax Coffee Roastery, 4 Bolinas Road
When: 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays
Admission: Free
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ALABASTER, Alabama -- The death of a 52-year-old man found dead in his Alabaster home Thursday is being investigated as a homicide, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office said today.
Deputies were called to a report of a person down in the 1200 of Shelby County 26 about 1:30 p.m. Thursday.
William David Moore, Jr., 52, of Alabaster was found dead in his home.
"An autopsy this morning confirmed that Mr. Moore's death was not of natural causes and that he was the victim of a homicide," a sheriff's office news statement read. The cause of death was not released.
"Sheriff's investigators have not made an arrest in this case but do not believe this was a random act or that there is any immediate threat to other residents in the area."
Moore's 2003 Hummer HU2, black in color and with Alabama license number 58G91P0 is missing. Sheriff's investigators are trying to find the vehicle and ask that anyone who knows where it is or sees it to contact the Shelby County Sheriff's Office or their local law enforcement agency immediately.
"I never understand the senseless loss of life, but I do understand the importance of arresting those responsible for it. As I send my thoughts and prayers to the Moore family, we are working diligently to identify and arrest whoever did this. As we have shown in the past, we will not quit until we bring some closure to the family," Sheriff Chris Curry said in the statement.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Shelby County Sheriff's Office directly at (205)669-4181 or through the Secret Witness line at (205)669-9116 or through our website at ShelbySO.com by clicking on the "Report Criminal Activity" link and choosing the "General Information" category.
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Originally Posted by DArtagnan
I commend you
Most guys in longer marriages have to take their wives to dinner and romance them every which way before she gets in the mood.
The sign thing sounds a lot easier - cheaper!
As I recall from my longest relationship, I opted to just get cranky and do without. That's what being hard-headed gets ya: nothing but your pride for company - and that's not very warm at all


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September 7, 2016
The CSRD is currently working on the Electoral Area C Parks Master Plan and we want you to have your say! See the Area C Parks Master Plan Engagement page for further information.
Electoral Area C is known as the South Shuswap and includes unincorporated communities of Sunnybrae, Tappen, White Lake, Blind Bay, Sorrento, Eagle Bay and Notch Hill.
The area offers a wide range of recreational activities including boating, fishing and swimming in Shuswap Lake and hiking on its numerous trails.
The area is located along the Trans Canada Highway west of Salmon Arm and east of Kamloops.
The area includes large residential areas as well as rich farmland (both specialty hobby and traditional farms).