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My family can confirm my love of Pho and all things Vietnamese food. So during our visit to Seattle, it was not a surprise that one of our favorite meal (at least for me) was an unplanned dinner at Pho Than Brothers.
Yes, most of the time I tried to plan where we want to eat each day or at least have done some research. It was a must because there are so many places to eat in Seattle. But that day we were on our way back from Mount Rainier and it was late. Many restaurants I had in mind were already closed. Well, thanks to my Urbanspoon & Yelp iPhone app, we found our new destination.
Pho Than Brothers restaurant is a quite popular Vietnamese eatery with many locations throughout Seattle. We settled in at the Broadway location. It might be quite difficult if you don't have a car to go there from downtown. It's doable but not as easy.
The restaurant is in a lively neighborhood with many options for food and drinks. For us though, our main goal was food and more specifically steamy, huge bowl of Pho.
There is no frill at this restaurant. With a few decoration, it reminds me of how most of restaurants in Thailand look. It's all in the taste of the food. Since it was quite late in the evening, we were seated right away. The menu is quite simple with different types of Pho (various varieties of meal) and sizes.
But above all else, we enjoyed the Banh Choux a la cream – a custard puff that was served before the meal. We couldn't get enough of this dessert that we had to order more for our dessert after the meal.
The pho has 4 sizes from small, medium, large and extra large. I ordered the medium size and I think I might have been even happy with small size. Kids loved their noodle which they shared a small size bowl. It's the universal food even for the most picky eater will enjoy.
The best part, this meal costs less than $20 for the 4 of us including dessert!
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Dwight Howard discusses clearing his mind and shooting free throws following the Lakers Friday night win over the Memphis Grizzlies. Read »
After the Lakers win over the Grizzlies, Triple Threat asked Dwight Howard to describe his mental state when steeping forward to take crucial free throws. Shot on April 5. 2013. Watch »
Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard play a vital roles as Marc Gasol, Zach Randolph, and the Memphis Grizzlies attempt to sweep the Los Angeles Lakers in the season series. Read »
Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard discuss playing against Zach Randolph and Marc Gasol of the Grizzlies. Video shot on April 4, 2013 at Los Angeles Lakers practice. Watch »
Dwight Howard, Pau Gasol and coach Mike D'Antoni addressed the media to discuss the recent positive play and the road ahead after the Los Angeles Lakers practice Thursday. Read »
Dwight Howard talked at Lakers practice on April 4, 2013, and he talked about getting in shape and laughed at the idea that the 'Hack-a-Howard' is intense. Watch »
Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard have had chemistry issues with the Lakers this season, but Pau Gasol explained how they are working them out at Lakers practice on April 4, 2013. Watch »
Dwight Howard says he's not Shaq and that he's not one to make that comparison on the night Shaquille O'Neal had his jersey retired at Staples Center. Shot on April 3, 2013. Watch »
The Los Angeles Lakers practiced on Monday, but Steve Nash was considered a game-time decision for Tuesday's game against Dallas, while Kobe Bryant was "good to go" in the world of Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni. Read »
On Saturday night, Kobe Bryant took over point guard duties and helped the Los Angeles Lakers achieve balance on offense, but he was assisted by the efforts of Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard against the Sacramento... Read »
Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash will start for the Los Angeles Lakers against the Sacramento Kings Saturday night, according to Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni. LA finds itself out of the playoffs entering Saturday's... Read »
The Los Angeles Lakers continue their playoffs push in Milwaukee to face the Bucks on the second night of a back-to-back, and Dwight Howard expects the "Hack-a-Howard" strategy to come into play after it... Read »
The Los Angeles Lakers fought off a late challenge from the Minnesota Timberwolves, but overall, Dwight Howard, Pau Gasol and Kobe Bryant all played efficient games to carry the Lakers to victory. Read »
The Los Angeles Lakers have disappointed this season, but all the excuses still do not appease the high expectations that come with having Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, and Steve Nash on the same team. Read »
Kobe Bryant lost the game for the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night against the Wizards, but neither Dwight Howard nor coach Mike D'Antoni would blame Bryant's poor play for blowing an 18-point lead. Read »

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wikiHow to Enable Floating Windows in Android
Four Parts:Installing the Xposed FrameworkDownloading the XHaloFloatingWindow ModuleEnabling the ModuleConfiguring the ModuleCommunity Q&A
The floating window feature has been present as an out-of-the-box only in the Samsung Note line of phones. With a few modifications, you can experience the sweetness of multi-window on your own Android device! You'll need root access, however, which you'll achieve by looking for guides around the web for your particular device.
For this to work, we'll be using the Xposed Framework, which requires root access. It's a free application with plenty of available modules that enable cool and useful features at the system file level, which means you won't be having icons in your notification bar like most apps do with the same purpose. If you're rooted, then you can start at Step 1.
Part 1
Installing the Xposed Framework
1Download the installer. First you've have to get the Framework installer, which you can find in the Xposed Module Repository site (http://repo.xposed.info/module/de.robv.android.xposed.installer).
2Install the .apk file. Before you can install the Framework, you have to make sure that "Unknown Sources" is checked in Settings > Security > Device Administration. This enables installing third-party application not found in the Google Play store. Then you can directly install the .apk file if you downloaded it onto your device.
- If you got the file from your PC or Mac, you'll have to transfer it somewhere to your phone memory or SD card, then install it. It should look like the typical Android application installation procedure.
3Install/Update the Framework itself. Locate the app icon and press it. Once it has loaded, go to Framework. Here you can install or update the Framework in case yours is outdated.
- Once that is done, reboot your device.
- There is a "Soft Reboot" button at the bottom of the screen, which will reboot that device more quickly.
4Download your desired mod. Please refer to the next part.
Part 2
Downloading the XHaloFloatingWindow Module
Part 3
Enabling the Module
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Configuring the Module
Community Q&A
- There is an option that prevents the background app from pausing. You'll find it in Popup Behavior in the main app screen. Make sure App Pausing is OFF.
- This mod is best done on phablets or phones with large screens; it is also ideal on 10-inch tablets.
- Having floating window is a great way to keep your video from buffering over again if you need to check an e-mail quickly and open up plenty of multitasking potential on your device!
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I brewed this earlier, forgot about it and let it cool, then came back and reheated it. I know some people consider microwaving tea to be one of the seven deadly sins, but eh. Ah well.
This time after reheating it, I added some brown sugar to sweeten this. I think it was a really good call – the rich, molasses flavour of the brown sugar melds well with the fig, giving it even more oomph. I may seriously consider buying some of this myself once the sample I got from Ubacat runs out.


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Iraq jihadists pursue Christians who fled from Mosul
Mortar attack as Christians scramble for shelter
Christians forced out of the town of Mosul take shelter in a church. Picture: Aleteia/Allen Karkony
July 24, 2014
If anyone imagined that the militia of the self-proclaimed Islamic Caliphate would be satisfied when it pushed all the Christians and Shiites from the city of Mosul, think again.
According to the Fides news agency, Islamic State militants launched a mortar attack against the village of Tilkif in an attempt to break into one of the towns in the Nineveh Plain, where Mosul families found refuge.
"The attack started from a village controlled by jihadists," Father Paul Thabit Mekko, a Chaldean priest, told Fides, "but was rejected by the Kurdish Peshmerga troops. In the night, panic had driven dozens of Christian families to flee to Dohuk, but the Kurdish soldiers who were controlling a checkpoint told them that the situation was under control and could return home."
Both towns lie north of Mosul, where an ultimatum from the Islamic State last wee--to convert to Islam or die--left the ancient city devoid of Christians.
The Peshmerga are known to be fierce troops, fighting for a Kurdish independence movement in the north of Iraq.
The episode highlights the uncertainty that hangs over the whole area, as the Fides report put it: on the one hand, the attack represents proof that the militia of the Islamic Caliphate are not content with controlling Mosul and would like to extend control over the Nineveh Plain.
But the reaction of the Peshmerga, notes Father Thabit Mekko, confirms that the Kurds are determined to protect this area from jihadist militants.
"Here, now, there are only Kurdish military forces that ensure the safety of the population," he said.
While the United Nations has expressed deep concern about a genocide of Christians in the region, Christians in the country cannot wait for help from the international community. Senior U.S. officials and lawmakers butted heads Wednesday over the American response to Iraq's expanding Sunni insurgency, with Republicans saying drone strikes should have been authorized months ago and even Democrats questioning the Obama administration's commitment to holding the fractured country together, AP reported today.
Testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the State Department's Brett McGurk and Defense Department's Elissa Slotkin said the administration was focused on improving U.S. intelligence, securing American personnel and property, guiding Iraq toward a new, more inclusive government and helping its forces strike back against the al-Qaida offshoot that has seized much of the country.
The U.S. is now conducting about 50 intelligence sorties over Iraq a day, they said, from about one flight a month a few months ago. Both stressed they saw no military solution to patching up Iraq's political and ethnic divisions or to peeling off moderate Sunnis from the Islamic State. Republicans and Democrats accepted that point, but questioned why the administration wasn't doing more.
Full Story: ISIS Attacks Iraqi Town Where Christians from Mosul Took Refuge
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Youth in Myanmar, Bangladesh find meaning in Pope Francis' visit
The pontiff is expected to take the 'pulse' of young people ahead of next year's Synod of Youth in the Vatican
Vietnam church issues guidelines on migrant pastoral care
Bishops' commission says issue of large movement of itinerants and foreign migrants must be addressed
Hindu groups raise conversion controversy ahead of pope's Asia visit
Pope Francis wanted to visit India but switched to Myanmar after Hindu nationalists stalled an expected official invitation
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The Secretary-General is shocked by the firing of mortars, allegedly from a military camp of forces loyal to Mr. Gbagbo, into a market area in the Abobo district of Abidjan on 18 March, which resulted in the killing of at least 25 civilians with more than 40 others wounded.
A UNOCI patrol as well as human rights investigators that went to the area have confirmed that six mortars fired into the market area caused the casualties. The Secretary-General condemns the attack as well as the escalating violence in Abidjan and in the western region of Côte d'Ivoire. He warns the concerned Ivorian parties to bring the violence and related human rights violations to an end without further delay.
The Secretary-General urges the Security Council to take further measures with regard to the Ivorian individuals who are instigating, orchestrating and committing the violence. In the meantime, UNOCI will continue to investigate and record all such violations of human rights and will continue to take the necessary steps to protect the civilian population.


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Even though it features a video of Neal Medlyn humping a mattress while wearing a tight blue unitard, Sexercise Live! isn't really performance art. It's purely performance or purely art, depending on your perspective. My perspective (and rightly so in my opinion) was drunk. From that perspective, I was perfectly comfortable, sitting in the darkness of Someday Lounge, listening to the indomitable Bridget Everett tear her way through soul songs and talk about cunnilingus. I only wish that the place had been more beer soaked and full of smoke.
Sexercise Live! is a show that would be completely, un-ironically at home in a low-down dive. It would be at home in the kind of place where ragged men—love beaten and heart sick—sit around tables, believing that the vision with the smoky voice up on stage is singing just to them. Not only does it offer catharsis, in Everett's unbridled performance, it offers blue laughs as a salve to the weary ways of sex and love.
Kenny Mellman and Bridget Everett created Sexercise Live! as a tribute to Millie Jackson. Jackson was a seventies era soul singer with a raunchy streak, who sang and rapped about getting together, fucking, and breaking up—not necessarily in that order. She was well regarded by her musical compatriots but has since been relegated to the back bins. Luckily, her album, Caught Up, was re-released this year. It's a good thing too... Her version of If Loving You is Wrong (I Don't Want to be Right) is a sad, luscious masterpiece,
Bidget Everett is also a sad, luscious masterpiece. Actually, far less sad than luscious. Her voice is powerful and full of cigarettes and bourbon. On stage, she is completely commanding. The first part of her set found her in a sequined blue dress, split up the thighs. She reminded me of one of those sparkly, sugar coated, wedge shaped candies from back in the day. God help me, I'm a married man, but I wanted to take a bite.
Mellman is something altogether different. He is gloriously ungentle on the keys, yelling along in the background. In association with very capable musicians on bass and drum, the whole ensemble creates a writhing, sweating beast with four backs.
But like I said, it's either all art or all performance, depending on your perspective. through my particular haze of cocktails and sleep deprivation it was all performance... and a goddamn good one. But I gotta tell ya, walking out the door, listening to festival goers discuss the finer symbolic merits of Sexercise Live! made me want to find a real dive bar and a real Millie Jackson to sing me to my stupor.


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Villanueva went 7-7 with a 4.16 ERA in 2012
The Chicago Cubs lost out on Anibal Sanchez last week, but appear to be closing in on a deal to sign free agent right-hander Carlos Villanueva and may be in pursuit of free-agent Edwin Jackson.
Villanueva went 7-7 with a 4.16 ERA in 38 games last season, 5-7 with a 4.50 ERA in 16 starts, splitting time as a reliever and a starter.
Entering the free-agent market for the first time Villanueva made it clear that he wanted to be a starter.
Update: The deal is official according to Jon Heyman
The deal is for two years and $10 milllion.
Jackson went 10-11 last season in 31 starts for the Washington Nationals pitching to a 4.03 ERA.
A deal with Jackson would likely include multiple years.
Jackson is said to have narrowed his choices between the Cubs and Texas Rangers.
Signing both pitchers would likely push Villanueva to the bullpen. Either would be joining a staff of of Matt Garza, Jeff Samardzija, Travis Wood, Scott Baker and Scott Feldman.


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Over 1.8 million nonprofits and charities for donors, volunteers and funders
Causes: Arts & Culture, Theater
Mission: The mission of The Irish Rep is: to bring works by Irish and Irish American masters and contemporary playwrights to a broad American audience, to provide a context for understanding the contemporary Irish American experience; and, to encourage the development of new works focusing on the Irish and Irish American experience, as well as it relates to other cultures. The Irish Rep offers a balanced fare of programs through Theatrical Productions, the New Works Reading Series, and Arts Engagement activities.
Results: Twenty-two seasons and counting . . . Just a few of The Irish Rep's most notable artistic achievements include: 2008 ― Outer Critics Award, "Outstanding Revival of a Musical" ― Take Me Along 2007 ― Jujamcyn Theaters Award for "Outstanding Contribution To The Development Of Creative Talent." 2006 ― Obie Award, "Best Actress" ― Dana Ivey, Mrs. Warren's Profession 2005 ― Lucille Lortel award for "Outstanding Body of Work" 2004 ― Finian's Rainbow, adapted by Charlotte Moore. The production received widespread audience and critical acclaim, was extended for an unprecedented 13 weeks, and nominated for the Lucille Lortel awards for Best Revival of a Musical and Best Choreography of a Musical, Drama League award for Distinguished Revival of a Musical, and Drama Desk award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical. 2004 ― The Colleen Bawn by Dion Boucicault. The production received a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Revival of a Play. 2001 ― The Irish…and How They Got That Way by Frank McCourt. This world premiere production by Pulitzer Prize winner Frank McCourt received international acclaim and continues to attract a worldwide audience both through television (PBS) and sales of the movie on VHS. 1992 ― Received the Drama Desk Award for Excellence in Presenting Distinguished Irish Drama. Along with these artistic achievements, The Irish Rep has presented the American or World premiere of several Irish and Irish American works including, Harold Prince's Grandchild of Kings (1991), Same Old Moon by Geraldine Aron (1995), Our Lady of Sligo by Sebastian Barry (2000), The Matchmaker by John B. Keane, Outer Critics Circle nomination for Outstanding Off Broadway Play (2002), Bedbound by Enda Walsh (2003), new musical adaptation of Beowulf (2005), and Frank McGuinness's adaptation of The Master Builder (2008).
Target demographics: The Irish Rep is acknowledged for its commitment to engaging communities in a greater appreciation of Irish and Irish American dramatic works. The Artistic and Producing Directors, valued for their accomplishments within the theatrical and Irish American communities, provide a vital gateway to Irish culture both here and abroad. The company maintains a database of audience members from the tri-state area and beyond from all racial, economic and social backgrounds.
Direct beneficiaries per year: 40,000 Audience Members Annually
Geographic areas served: Tri-State Area (NY, NJ, CT)
Programs: To provide knowledge and an appreciation for irish culture and literature through the promotion of the irish theatre.
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This is the first of two MID's Sharp promised to release in Japan. The consumer edition should follow suit soon. the developers MID likely released first because Sharp wants the dev's to make some good app and utilities before it launches to the general public.
This version of the IS01 doesn't have access to all the features of the consumer's version. For example, it can't utilize the FM transmitter, 1Seg digital TV tuner, EVDO modem and phone functionality. I don't know why Sharp blocked these features for the developers, they could've used those features to make some awesome apps. But they are granted access to the full 1.6 SDK and a proprietary Sharp API which includes the camera, LED flash, opening and closing notifications, the file picker and infrared that will be used for data transfer.
Both devices feature a 1GHZ Snapdragon, a 5-inch 960 x 480 capacitive touch screen. Sharp has requested that the developers make apps with resolution up to 854 x 480. That's the more in line with the usual Android apps. This version is only available in brown, the consumer's edition is scheduled for release next month.
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Here come the food holidays and boy, do I enjoy the season. My family taught me to celebrate anyones holiday it didnt matter if we were Irish or Italian everyones food was delicious.
How fortunate we are to have such delicious wholesome produce available in Dolores and surrounding communities. The Farmer Markets provide lots of healthy choices local honey to garden grown vegetables. The local ranchers provide wonderful protein choices beef, pork, elk, deer, chicken, eggs and so much more. The season is quickly coming to an end. Now folks who have taken the time to freeze or can summers bounty will enjoy wholesome food for the wintertime. How foolish we are when the good food is passed over for the fast food that does not contain nearly adequate nutrition.
The state of Colorado has one of the lowest incidences of overweight/obese people in the United States. You can be proud of that. However, statistics indicate that many children entering preschool are already overweight/obese. Physicians are treating many more youngsters with diabetes and other diseases correlated to inadequate nutrition. Dolores School has implemented a vegetable garden and a greenhouse that is planted and cared for by students, parents and teachers.
The produce isnt nearly enough to feed the children every day of the week yet, its a terrific beginning. Changing eating habits is no easy task. The garden produce is healthy, but how do you get people especially young people to eat it. Dolores cafeteria employees have attended a week long seminar to hide the good food with tasty recipes that are more likely to enter the hungry children and less likely to land in the trash barrel.
Sugar beverages also add to the nutritional negative intake. An orange contains about 80 calories and provides fiber as well as vitamin C. One cup of orange juice may contain the juice of up to three oranges and no fiber adding 240 calories to the diet. Soda pop and power drinks are loaded with sugar or diet pop is packed with artificial sweeteners and food coloring that have been the greatest source of empty calories and who knows what else. It doesnt take very many soft drinks to pile on the pounds. Water or is a better choice, but less acceptable to most.
Are there easy solutions to these mounting problems? No. Is the health of our children and our own health worth some effort? I think yes. What are you doing to help the change? Do you have time to volunteer at with the school project? Are you willing to go healthy one day a week to start? Do you have any helpful suggestions?


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Phil Knight Discusses State Of College Basketball Coppolella Banned As Part Of Braves' Penalties Jones Won't Sue NFL Owners Over Goodell Dish/CBS Dispute Likely To Affect Thanksgiving NFL MillerCoors, NASCAR Yet To Reach Extension Ruppe Is UA's Latest Exec Departure Sellout Crowd Turns Out For Crew Playoffs FC Cincinnati Owners Sign Option To Buy Stadium Site Duracell, SoFi Buying Six-Second Ads On Fox NBC's Preschlack Says Chicago Cuts Part Of Evolution
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Budweiser Stays With Harvick, Signs Three-Year Deal With Stewart-Haas Racing Team
Budweiser will follow driver Kevin Harvick to Stewart-Haas Racing in '14, bringing an end to its three-year relationship with Richard Childress Racing. A-B's flagship brand signed a three-year deal with SHR that makes it the primary sponsor for 20 NASCAR Sprint Cup races and the Budweiser Duels, a non-points race. The deal is valued at more than $10M a year. Budweiser sponsored 20 points races and two non-points races this year at RCR. Budweiser had an option to stay at RCR and sponsor Austin Dillon, Childress' grandson, when he moves to the Sprint Cup Series in the No. 3 car next year. But A-B VP/Media, Sports & Entertainment Marketing Blaise D'Sylva said the company felt Budweiser would benefit more from sticking with Harvick than changing to its fourth driver in eight years. It previously sponsored Dale Earnhardt Jr. from '00-07 and Kasey Kahne from '08-10. "Kevin is a proven winner, and that plays a role for us, but he's also shown an amazing commitment to the brand," D'Sylva said. "He works well for the system when we have him out in the marketplace with our bottlers and wholesalers. It's not that we wanted to leave RCR. They've been a great partner. It's about the equity we've built with Kevin."
BUD DEAL A LIFT FOR SHR: Harvick made the decision to leave RCR for Stewart-Haas Racing last October, and his move was not contingent upon bringing Budweiser, Jimmy John's or any of his other sponsors with him. However, the Budweiser deal is a huge lift for SHR as it looks ahead to '14. It leaves the team with just 16 primary races to sell on Harvick's No. 4 car. SHR Exec VP Brett Frood said it is "exciting to augment our portfolio with a global brand" like Budweiser. Frood: "Over the years they, from a creativity standpoint, have shown ingenuity and innovation in advertising and marketing, and it will be a great learning experience for us and a challenge to translate our assets for them into sales." A-B's decision leaves RCR without one of its most high-profile sponsors. The team has not announced any sponsorships for Dillon, who is expected to drive the team's third Sprint Cup car. "We're trying to keep as many of the partners on the No. 29 car as we can, but we certainly have to replace A-B," said RCR COO Torrey Galida. "We'd like to keep the No. 29 car going, but it's all sponsorship dependent and that would be us growing to four cars from three, which is a long-term goal."
NUMBERS GAME: After signing Harvick, SHR had an option to put him in the No. 4 car or No. 8 car for the '14 season. It consulted with A-B before making a choice, and the company, which had sponsored Earnhardt in the No. 8, told the team it preferred the No. 4. The company did a photo shoot with Harvick and the new car last week. It will begin changing from No. 29-themed marketing materials to No. 4-themed materials next year. D'Sylva said Budweiser will continue to complement its sponsorship of Harvick with at-track activation and TV advertising. "Our commitment to NASCAR is not decreasing," D'Sylva said. "You look at our assets and what we want to do with the team, Kevin personally, the tracks we have relationships with and the commitment we have on Fox (which broadcasts races) -- our commitment is as strong as ever." Harvick said he did not get involved in the negotiations and will not be involved in talks with other sponsors such as Jimmy John's. "For me, it's all about driving the car and doing what I have to do on the racetrack," Harvick said. "We're racing for a championship. The other pieces of the puzzle they just inform me about."
Buster Posey Leads List Of Best-Selling MLB Jerseys, While Puig Cracks Top 10
Giants C Buster Posey tops the list of best-selling jerseys since the start of the season on MLB.com, followed by Yankees P Mariano Rivera and Cardinals C Yadier Molina. The top 20 also features 18 players age 30 or younger (average age is 27.6) and five players -- Nationals CF Bryce Harper, Mets P Matt Harvey, Orioles 3B Manny Machado, Dodgers RF Yasiel Puig and Angels LF Mike Trout -- under 24. The only players on the list over the age of 30 are Rivera and Yankees SS Derek Jeter. Players representing 12 different clubs make up the top 20 (MLB).BEST-SELLING MLB JERSEYS SINCE START OF '13 SEASONRK
PLAYERRK PLAYER1 Giants C Buster Posey11 Dodgers P Hyun-Jin Ryu2 Yankees P Mariano Rivera12 Tigers 3B Miguel Cabrera3 Cardinals C Yadier Molina13 Red Sox 2B Dustin Pedroia4 Mets 3B David Wright14 Dodgers CF Matt Kemp5 Mets P Matt Harvey15 Dodgers P Clayton Kershaw6 Nationals CF Bryce Harper16 Giants P Sergio Romo7 Yankees SS Derek Jeter17 Pirates CF Andrew McCutchen8 Orioles 3B Manny Machado18 Rangers P Yu Darvish9 Angels LF Mike Trout19 Giants 3B Pablo Sandoval10 Dodgers RF Yasiel Puig20 Tigers P Justin Verlander
CATCHING ATTENTION NATIONWIDE: Comcast SportsNet Bay Area's Jim Kozimor asked if Posey topping the list makes his a "national icon." Kozimor: "I can see the Bay Area buying them. Are they buying it in Topeka?" CSNBayArea.com's Andy Dolich said of Posey's jersey, "They're buying it in the Southeast and they're buying it nationally … because the Giants showed up winning two out of the last three World Series. Is that going to go down pretty quickly if the Giants fade away? Yes it will. It usually takes six months to a year for these numbers to ramp-up, and this is the beneficiary of what the Giants have done, although we have Puig moving up because he's just blown the doors off" ("Yahoo Sports Talk Live," Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, 7/11).


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I'm having an odd issue that causes buildings and units to be transparent.
That's happening on highest settings with everything enabled, and on lower settings as well. My graphics card is a Sapphire 6850, it's more than enough to run the game.
Currently I'm enabling/disabling various options at random to solve it, maybe someone has a better idea?


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Pie Face by Hasbro
Flashback: Pie Face
We've seen many effed-up games come out of the '60s, but this one takes the
cake pie. Or actually, the players do. They sit around, wind a handle, and wait for a pie to smack 'em in the mug. Let me get this straight: a self-deprecating game that makes a mess and gives everyone a reason to laugh and belittle someone for having bad luck? Well, by golly Wally! What a swell way to pass the time.


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Business / Accounting / Comparative Financial Statements: Financial statements in which data for two or more years are shown together.
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Influential NASCAR Exec Jim Hunter Passes Away At Age Of 71
Jim Hunter Seen As A Link
To NASCAR's Past, Future
NASCAR Chair & CEO BRIAN FRANCE Saturday described late NASCAR VP/Corporate Communications JIM HUNTER as "one of NASCAR's giants." Hunter passed away Friday in Daytona Beach at the age of 71 after a 12-month battle with lung cancer. France said, "For more than 40 years Jim was part of NASCAR and its history. He loved the sport, but loved the people even more." NASCAR President MIKE HELTON: "He was a great friend and mentor to so many in the sport." Hunter previously worked as a sports editor for the Columbia Record, and as a columnist for Stock Car Racing magazine. He broke into PR in the '60s, and he was named to his first executive position with NASCAR in '83 (NASCAR). In Charlotte, Jim Utter noted Hunter was "often the NASCAR spokesman assigned to explain the sanctioning body's rule changes and penalties in news conferences." Team owner RICK HENDRICK said Hunter "always handled things with class." Utter noted Hunter was a "close friend and confidant" to former NASCAR Chair BILL FRANCE JR., and he "played a large -- if sometimes hidden -- role in many of NASCAR's biggest moments." His "influence will probably be felt for years." Former SMI President & CEO HUMPY WHEELER: "Jim Hunter will be sorely missed because he knew more about pure media relations and particularly how it relates to the fan than anyone in motor racing." Donations in Hunter's honor may be made to the NASCAR Foundation (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 10/31).
MAN OF THE PEOPLE: In Daytona Beach, Godwin Kelly wrote Hunter's "people skills and relationship-building was the mortar that helped hold the NASCAR community together through good and bad times." As NASCAR's popularity "soared in the 1980s and '90s, Hunter's role changed on a regular basis." He "not only vacillated between" NASCAR and ISC, but "had the ear of car owners, sponsors, drivers and the media." Despite "near-crippling chemotherapy treatments, Hunter continued to work the garage area, keep office hours and stay in touch with his base." He was "one of the last links to the 'old NASCAR' and Bill France Jr.'s roster of executives" (Daytona Beach NEWS-JOURNAL, 10/31). In Jacksonville, Don Coble noted Hunter "not only served as the sanctioning body's spokesman, he helped bridge the generations that make up NASCAR's 62-year history." Driver and team co-Owner TONY STEWART: "I lost a good friend but the whole sport lost a great mentor" (FLORIDA TIMES-UNION, 10/31). Driver DALE EARNHARDT JR. said Hunter was "one of the good guys." Earnhardt: "There's a lot of toughness in this sport and ruthlessness and he was one of the genuine good people that looked out for everybody" (SCENEDAILY.com, 10/30). USA TODAY's Nate Ryan wrote Hunter "helped guide the careers of many drivers and steer NASCAR through controversies." Mixing "sage advice, spin that often seemed like straight talk and deft but disarming storytelling, Hunter became a favorite among NASCAR drivers, teams and media" (USATODAY.com, 10/30).
Teams Ran Decals On Their Cars
Yesterday To Honor Hunter
CHANGING HOW NASCAR COMMUNICATES: ESPN.com's Marty Smith wrote Hunter "changed the way NASCAR communicates," as today's execs are "far more accessible than they were before he moved in at NASCAR HQ in Daytona." Hunter was the "lynchpin between good ol' boy coverage and what we have today" (ESPN.com, 10/30). ESPN.com's Ed Hinton wrote the "last bastion of the real NASCAR is gone." Hunter was France Jr.'s "chief troubleshooter." Hinton: "First. Foremost. Always. When the going got tough, really tough, the second czar of NASCAR always sent for Hunter" (ESPN.com, 10/30). Talladega Superspeedway Chair GRANT LYNCH: "He was just a larger than life figure in our sport. It wasn't because he sought the spotlight either, but because he was genuine and real. He was someone that people wanted to gravitate to, even if for only a moment" (ESPN.com, 10/30). ESPN.com's Terry Blount wrote, "NASCAR lost a giant Friday night, a man who was a dedicated historian of its cherished past and an unapologetic believer in its future" (ESPN.com, 10/30). The CHARLOTTE OBSERVER's Utter wrote with Hunter "goes an irreplaceable resource of NASCAR history and old-fashioned common sense." Utter: "NASCAR is a little worse off today" (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 10/31).
FITTING TRIBUTE: Talladega announced yesterday that the track's press box will be named in honor of Hunter (SCENEDAILY.com, 10/31).
Executive Transactions
The LPGA has hired BRIAN CARROLL for the newly created position of VP/TV & Emerging Media. Carroll joins the LPGA from the PGA Tour, where he had been the Dir of Broadcasting & Programming. At the LPGA, Carroll will manage the relationship with Golf Channel and work with the international broadcasters as well. The LPGA is in the first year of a 10-year agreement with Golf Channel. Carroll had been at the PGA Tour since '01 and previously worked at ESPN (Michael Smith, SportsBusiness Journal).
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In N.Y., Peter Applebome writes WWE's Fan Appreciation Day Saturday at XL Center in Hartford was "yet another sideshow to the Senate race in Connecticut between" Republican candidate and former WWE CEO LINDA MCMAHON and Democratic candidate DICK BLUMENTHAL. Applebome: "The main question is this: Did the McMahon campaign really want the last two weeks of the campaign to seem like all-wrestling-all-the-time?" The event, which was "scheduled a month ago, instead of the year or so common for planning most WWE events, was only the most recent of a blur of wrestling-related issues, initiated by one side or the other" (N.Y. TIMES, 11/1).
O'Hara Says Working For Topps Is A Good Fit
Because Of His Passion For Baseball Cards
TOP DOGS: In Baltimore, Jay Hancock profiled Under Armour Chair & CEO Kevin Plank, noting Plank is "worth half a billion dollars." But "unlike many others in the capitalist aristocracy, he deserves every dime" because he "built a business from scratch." Hancock: "He had a brilliant idea. He risked his own money. You can feel, wear and stack his products. There's no fine print. He hasn't been bailed out by anybody. His equity in Under Armour really did come from sweat" (Baltimore SUN, 10/31)....Topps CEO RYAN O'HARA was profiled as part of the N.Y. Times' "The Boss" feature. O'Hara said working for Topps "seemed like a good fit because of my passion for baseball cards, my background with Nestle candy and an interest in media." He added the idea of working with Topps parent company Tornante Co. Founder Michael Eisner was "very appealing." O'Hara: "The real fun of this job is making products that are thrilling to kids" (N.Y. TIMES, 10/31).
HORSE SENSE: Thoroughbred ZENYATTA was profiled on CBS' "60 Minutes" last night, where CBS' Bob Simon said next Saturday at the Breeders' Cup Classic Zenyatta "could become the first great American athlete to retire undefeated in more than a half a century." Simon: "The stakes are extremely high and not just in millions of dollars. Zenyatta is so adored by horse lovers that if she doesn't beat the boys and win one last time, hearts will be broken everywhere." If Zenyatta wins Saturday, she will "for the second year in a row … take home another $3 million." Jockey MIKE SMITH said Zenyatta "could arguably go down as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, horse of all-time" ("60 Minutes," CBS, 10/31).
POLITICAL BEAT: In a special to the ORLANDO SENTINEL, Magic Owner RICH DEVOS wrote the federal government for decades "has spent money it did not have for projects it did not need." DeVos: "Stop spending what we do not have. Stop creating programs we do not want or need. Stop destroying this country we have built" (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 10/31)....NASCAR and IndyCar team owner CHIP GANASSI gave $10,000 to Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate TOM CORBETT (PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, 11/30).
names: In N.Y., Bob Raissman named MLB Commissioner BUD SELIG his "Dude Of The Week" for "paying for the funeral and burial of" late Mets and Yankees senior official scorer BILL SHANNON, who passed away Tuesday (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 10/31)....Yankees security guard GONZALO NOY is "facing the ax" after he "hawked his 2009 championship ring for $2,400 to an unidentified sports collector." A Yankees official said, "Nobody is allowed to sell their rings" (N.Y. POST, 11/1)....Nets Owner MIKHAIL PROKHOROV sat in his luxury box with EPL club Chelsea Owner ROMAN ABRAMOVICH during last night's Heat-Nets game at Prudential Center (N.Y. POST, 11/1)....Former NBAer DIKEMBE MUTOMBO recently was "honored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which presented him with the Steve Patterson Award for Sports Philanthropy" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 10/31)....The Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on Saturday included a piece about tolerance by Basketball HOFer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. In addition, Stewart awarded Tigers P Armando Galarraga a "Medal of Reasonableness" for his behavior following umpire Jim Joyce's blown call that cost him a perfect game (OKLAHOMA DAILY, 10/31)....Magic C DWIGHT HOWARD is "planning to cut another album, perhaps this summer." Howard "also is looking for another movie role" (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 10/31)....Maple Leafs President & GM BRIAN BURKE and Bruins GM PETER CHIARELLI were "supposed to go pheasant hunting" prior to Thursday's Maple Leafs-Bruins game at TD Garden, but Chiarelli "pulled out at the last minute." Instead, Burke and his son, Flyers scout PATRICK BURKE, "bagged a bunch of birds in Eastern Connecticut" (BOSTON GLOBE, 10/31).
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Free Pick for Betting The Insight Bowl
Looking for a free pick before betting? Texas Tech is going to throw the ball from the moment they walk into Sun Devil Stadium locker room. Quarterback Graham Harrell, he of the 36 passing TDs this season and 343 pass yards per game, will spread it out, run no-huddle, pay silent homage to the whiff of a running game, and send guys like WRs Joel Filani and Robert Johnson and RB Shannon Woods out into a million pass-route variants. They're going to pressure Minnesota's linebackers and secondary like it's never been pressured before.
Minnesota will seek to mix it up on offense behind QB Bryan Cupito, but will likely try and control the clock behind junior RB Amir Pinnix, who rushed for 1,093 yards and a 5.0 yards-per-carry average in 2006. Since Texas Tech was vulnerable against the run this year (their rush defense was 76th-best in the nation in terms of yards allowed per game), and since the Golden Gophers would be nutty to produce many offensive three-and-outs which would give Harrell & Co. that many more possessions, Glen Mason's Minnesota team is going to try and win time of possession by 15 minutes or more.
Who is the public betting on Friday?
And the thing is: if you know all this, certainly Texas Tech and Minnesota know it, too.
So the question becomes: whom do you pick when teams' styles contrast so completely? And whom do you pick when you have to assume that each coach pretty much has a lock on what the other guy's going to do?
I mean, it'll be a pretty big shock of the Gophers don't employ at least five defensive backs on nearly every snap, right? And if they don't try and blitz like crazy, to throw Harrell off? And if the Red Raiders don't pull their linebackers forward a bit, and make Cupito beat them, that would be kind of a surprise, too, yes? Any coach's first job, especially on defense, is try and take away what the opposing team does best. So as we try and pick this game, we have to decide: which squad is better equipped to do that?
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The Gophers haven't shown they can stop the pass yet this year. In their final three games of the regular season, they allowed over 300 yards passing, yet they won all three contests. For the season, they allowed nearly 254 pass yards per game, fifth-worst in all of Division I football, and that includes wins over Kent St., Temple and North Dakota St. Take out those three wimpy wins, and the passing defense number balloons to 285 yards per game (and the team is 3-6). Hoo. Mike Leach's scary pass offense at Texas Tech racked up 363 yards a game via the air, third-highest in the country. Surely, Mason and his charges will know what's coming. But will they be able to stop it?
I really don't think so. You can't just will yourself into staying with quick receivers, against an offensive line that gives its quarterback a ton of time.
Tech had its problems this year, too. Big 12 teams ran all over them, even in situations where the Raiders knew what was coming. Missouri hit them up for 160 yards. Colorado clocked them for 249. Texas created a huge comeback in Lubbock, and racked up 247 rushing yards. Oklahoma got them for 157, and in their season finale, Oklahoma St. amassed 221. While Minnesota definitely misses sophomore tailback Gary Russell, who was declared academically ineligible at the beginning of the season, Pinnix has been a good replacement, and the Raiders will get a healthy dose of him Friday.
For me, picking this game may come down to an unexpected source: the Minnesota passing game. Cupito will be without the nation's top tight end, Matt Spaeth, who will miss the Insight Bowl because of knee surgery. That means some of the Gophers' safer offensive explosiveness will be gone, which will limit Minnesota's ability to come back if and when Texas Tech begins racking up early points. Plus the bottom line is: Minnesota just isn't that good. They went 6-6 this year, including their 10-9 victory over I-AA North Dakota St.; the combined record of the I-A teams they beat this year was 22-38, and with three weeks left in the year, their record stood at 3-6 (and 2-6 against I-A teams, if you can call Kent St. and Temple I-A teams). Yes, finishing strong against Indiana, Michigan St. and a vastly disappointing Iowa squad got them a bowl appearance, but it doesn't win them many points with me. Meanwhile, Tech probably should've beaten Texas, and did topple an underrated Oklahoma St. team to give them a 4-4 record in the Big 12.
Is Texas Tech flawed? Absolutely. Would I be surprised to see Minnesota win time of possession in this game, and see the Gophers score a goodly number of points? Absolutely not. But Harrell and his 67% completion percentage move the ball like poop through a Christmas goose against good defenses, and this pass defense simply isn't good. It's young, and will probably be better in '07, but for now, I can't see them offering enough resistance to keep Harrell down. For this reason, I'm taking Texas Tech (-6.5) over Minnesota in the Insight Bowl.
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Making ideas into art
At ICA, Kuri innovates with the improbable
Two solo shows featuring conceptual art about consumerism, senseless accumulation, trash, and fruit stickers have opened in the Boston area in the past week. Both shows — Gabriel Kuri at the Institute of Contemporary Art and Rachel Perry Welty at the DeCordova Sculpture Park + Museum — have their good points. But where the Welty show, for all its sparkle, seemed formulaic, Kuri's work veers toward the esoteric.
On balance, I liked the Kuri better. (The show was organized by the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston by that museum's director, Claudia Schmuckli.) Kuri's sensibility is more anarchic, less ingratiating, and his work, as a result, more surprising. Turning from one piece to the next, it's impossible to guess what's coming: It might be a moving conveyor belt with an empty aluminum can bobbling about at one end, a fiberglass reproduction of a magnified pork rind, the front page of a newspaper with fruit stickers on it, or a woven wool tapestry of a blown-up supermarket receipt.
And yet the show, titled "Gabriel Kuri: Nobody needs to know the price of your Saab,'' still felt slight. I got the sense of a dilettante dabbling in weighty matters, with some appealingly light-fingered irony but, in the end, insufficient insight, a lack of palpable conviction.
Kuri was born in 1970, in Mexico City, and studied art there and in London, at Goldsmiths College — the same art school that earlier turned out such artists as Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Michael Landy, Gary Hume, and Sam Taylor-Wood.
But perhaps the biggest influence on Kuri has been Gabriel Orozco, Mexico's best-known contemporary artist. Kuri is the third of Orozco's disciples to have been given a solo show at the ICA in the past 18 months, after Damián Ortega and Dr. Lakra.
All three were participants in the so-called "Friday Workshops,'' all-day gatherings to discuss ideas and drink beer that Orozco held at his home between 1987 and 1991. All show at the same Mexico City gallery, Kurimanzutto.
The ICA has made a deliberate decision to support and showcase these Mexican artists, and one can see why. They're smart, inventive, and cosmopolitan. In the case of Ortega and Kuri, they breathe new life into the Duchampian tradition of the ready-made, lending it a social and political charge that feels admirably up-to-the-minute.
And yet, not unlike the work of Duchamp — and without the compensating benefit of his enigmatic originality — their works teeter on the edge of vacuity. Kuri, in particular, creates genuine excitement one minute only to create massive, eye-glazing indifference the next.
The first work in the show is the aforementioned conveyor belt with the rattling can, "Model for parade.'' It's a marvelously unlikely thing to find in a museum, and it is about as eloquent an expression of life's emptiness and absurdity as you could hope to find.
The show's earliest work, "Untitled (Doy fe / By my will),'' made in 1998, is a convincing reproduction of a popular Mexican snack, the slice of pork rind, considerably enlarged, lit from above, and displayed in a glass vitrine. The words "doy fe,'' meaning "by my will'' or "I attest'' have been inscribed on it.
The phrase is a commonplace piece of legal jargon, but here, it suggests at least two other meanings: It's a bold declaration of artistic prerogative — the Duchampian "it's art if I say it is.'' And then also, it conjures the ghost of Francisco Goya, whose scathing depictions of war atrocities were labeled with captions such as "I saw it!'' The artist bears witness.
The irony of using a piece of pro forma legalese — on an artificial pork rind, what's more — to invoke such weighty resonances, but also to puncture them, is typical of Kuri (as it is of Ortega and Orozco).
A lot of Kuri's work is mindful of the gap between the plight of ordinary people caught up in everyday commerce and the more abstract expressions of economic activity as conveyed by pie charts, graphs, and newspaper reports. One feels conscious of his sensitivity to these sorts of disparities, and impressed by his wish to draw them together again, without always feeling he has found effective ways to do so.
In "Untitled (Double yellow wrapped outside-in bin),'' for instance, a three-dimensional painted steel pie chart has been split up into separate pieces and arranged in a way that vaguely calls to mind abstract modernist sculpture. The bubble wrap used to transport the work safely has been taken off and stuffed inside the segments as if they were bins.
In the catalog, you can find a long and laborious explanation for all this: The work, and others like it, writes Schmuckli, "conflate the consummation of desire and waste management into singular images that bespeak the ultimate vacuity of our attempt to keep count.'' But to buy it, you have to cross over into the distorting mirror funhouse of contemporary art cant — and if you do that, you may never return.
Too much of Kuri's work cries out for similarly unsatisfactory explanations. They can't be called interpretations, because in effect, they precede the work of interpretation: Without them, your mind simply draws a blank.
"Untitled (Diario ecónomico / Economic diary)'' is another case in point. Layers of moss grow over the separated pink pages of the Financial Times newspaper. The results look OK — like an avant-garde Spanish chef's newfangled interpretation of lasagna — but the work struggles to articulate the idea behind it.
That said, the combination of apparent effortlessness and surprise can be charming, even poetic in many works here. I very much liked "Thank you clouds,'' an installation of plastic shopping bags suspended from, and inflated by, spinning ceiling fans. The bags all have "gracias'' and "thank you'' printed on them by the supermarket chain that commissioned them. The result is witty, wry, unexpected, light.
"Hard fact slab'' is another terrific work. Rows of steel rods of different lengths have been draped with colored ribbons so that they resemble the ups and downs of a graph illustrating economic performance, but also, perhaps, a mountain range. The rods emerge from a concrete slab — a hard fact, indeed, suggestive of a construction project — but the ribbons feel artificial, unreal, abstract.
They're not, of course. They are a tangible substance like anything else — you can tell from the way they droop under the force of gravity. And this seems to be part of Kuri's point: Instead of dividing up the world into separate categories and levels of abstraction, he thinks of them as all bleeding into one another. A stock market graph is impossible to separate from a new building project or from a household item or a moment of poetry — or even, presumably, an art exhibition.
His point is well taken. But only some of the time does it stop feeling like a "point'' — an earnest proposition about the world — and become instead a work of art.
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Calendar Improvements
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If you think something is missing please feel free to add it in accordance with the guildelines on the front page.
I'm going to attempt to gather up and organize all of the calendar improvement threads.... If I've missed something or overlooked it, please feel free to add it in.
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Calendar Administration
- There should be a built in Calendar Admin role for approving, adding, updating, and removing events
- Calender Admin should be able to approve events to appear on their Group, Community, or Org calendar when requested by others.
- Calendars should be able to be moderated even for users within the Group, Community, or Org.
- Calendar should be able to be configured to only pull events with a specific tag and/or category
General Calendar
- Delegate managment of personal calendar to another user (e.g. Administrative Assistant)
- Have Resource Calenadars (things like meeting rooms, projectors, presentation equipment) that won't necessarily be associated with a given user but will be managed by at least one.
- Conflict resolution
- Meeting Scheduling
- Ability to check free/busy time on another user's calendar
- Event Owner should be displayed
- Mutliple Delete for events
- The tab Events should be configurable to hide bygone events
- The tab Events should be configurable in regard to which columns (fields) are displayed
- other Calendars should be added to a Calender, to view in one Calendar the shared Events of configured Calendars from community, group, organisation, other users, etc.
Event Types
- Event types should be managed dynamically
- Event types should be able to be shared across communities
- Event types should be able to be editied at several levels. Some event types will be specific to a Group, Community or sub-org while others will be Org-wide.
- When a user adds an event to their personal calendar, they should be able to specific the other calendars it will be added to, if any (Group, Community, Org)
- Ability for a user to create a personal view of a calendar (see voting below)
- Once a user requests to add an event to a calendar, the Calendar Admin should have to approve it before it will appear.
- Org. Calendar Admins should be able to "push" events on to calendars for Groups, Communities, and sub-Orgs.
- The ability to delete a single occurence of a recurring event without having to delete all the recurring events.
- Events should have the ability to have a location
- Events should be able to be tagged and categorized [Update: done for Liferay 6.0 - Juan Fernández]
- Events should be able to be made private and not shared at all.
- Events should be able to require a user to be authenticated with the approrpriate rights in order to see the event. (like Document permissions)
- Add ability to have an event point to a link or Web Content Article. So when you click the event it will take you to a page that is already publicizing the event and has more info than what an event description can provide.
- Attach images, documents, etc to an event
Event Entry (see post below)
- Location for event
- Ability to require RSVP either via link to a form or via email before exporting event
- Allow association with a thumbnail to be displayed on the event list (e.g. logo or small jpg of invitation, etc.)
- Events should start at start time and end at an end time. The event should be viewable during this period.
Event Import & Export
- The ability to purge duplicate events on import
- The ability to specify which events to export (for example, only events added today to be exported for importation into another calendar)
- Dynamic import/export of events from/to ical-feeds.
- PDA Connectors (Mobile Windows, Crackberry, Android, iPhone)
- Outlook and Thunderbird Connectors
- maybe the integration of CalDAV and/or syncml
Calendar Event Notification
- Ability to sign up to get alerts for *newly added* events
Bug Fix -
Imported events don't expire properly
Community proposals already implemented
DONE Allow WYSIWYG editor for calendar events (See LPS)
Community suggestions added to the current roadmap (Liferay 6.1)
Produce iCal feeds from the Calendar
Subscribe to iCal calendars
Ability to see multiple schedules within a single view
Synchronize with external calendar resources
Integrate with Virtual Meeting Places
Calendar administration portlet
Events location
Purge duplicate events on import
Selective export: the ability to specify which events to export (for example, only events added today to be exported for importation into another calendar)
Calendar subscription: ability to sign up to get alerts for newly added events
Add event search in the calendar portlet
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ATLANTA, Ga., -- If there is one school junior running back Travis Custis of Hampton (Ga.) Lovejoy wants an offer from, it's Miami.
The reason?
"That's my dream school," Custis said. "I like the program a lot. When I was a little kid, I used to always watch Miami play on TV."
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The good news for the 6-feet, 205-pound Custis, who is competing this week in the RisingSeniors.com Georgia Junior Bowl, is that apparently Miami appears to have a strong interest in him as well.
"They're looking at me," Custis said. "They need a big running back. I've visited there. I went there in November [to a game]. I think they're [fixing] to offer. They said, 'Keep up the good work. Do what you do, and we might offer you.' "
To date, Custis, who rushed for 1,895 yards and 34 touchdowns in 2011 while helping lead Lovejoy to the state finals, has offers from Boston College, Michigan State, Mississippi State, USF and Vandy. Besides Miami, Alabama and Georgia also are showing interest, he said.
Of the group that has offered, one program stands out.
Mississippi State.
"I've been there a couple times and they treated me like I'm royalty there," Custis said. "I went in their office, and talked to the head coach a couple times. "
At this stage, Custis has no leaders.
"It's too early," he said.
Asked if Miami would shoot to the top should it offer, Custis replied, "I think so."
In Atlanta this week, Custis, who said he's a "long way" from committing anywhere, isn't worried about his recruitment. His focus is on getting better.
"What I need to work on is staying focused, keep improving my footwork and that's about it," Custis said.
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Election Aftermath As Israel's Coalition Talks Enter the Home Stretch, It's a Fight to the Finish
The nearly two weeks of coalition talks that have passed have been little more than foreplay. But not to worry: Netanyahu will never entrust the task to someone else.
Last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to send a message to Labor Party leader Shelly Yacimovich. The go-between was a senior Labor figure...
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Olivia Chow continued to play coy about her mayoral intentions while at York University on Thursday for a book signing that she insists has nothing to do with campaigning.
Yes, she says Toronto needs a new mayor. Yes, she loves this city and is "seriously considering" vying for that chair. But, the federal New Democrat and former city councillor hasn't "quite made a decision yet."
She said a report that she is expected to register to run for mayor the week of March 17 was "news to me." A source told the National Post that she has a stacked campaign team and platform at the ready.
"I have these really wonderful friends that are all excited and they've been working at it on the odd chance I may actually say yes or no," Ms. Chow told reporters while handing out yellow Post-it notes so fans could indicate to whom they wanted her book, My Journey, addressed.
Ms. Chow was at York to deliver a speech marking International Women's Day.
It was her second book event of the day, after an appearance at the City Adult Learning Centre on the Danforth. Mayor Rob Ford, unabashed about his own campaigning, was in the northwest end of the city at roughly the same time, making house calls at an apartment building on Martin Grove Road.
There was the suggestion the two might actually cross paths on campus after students of a Schulich School of Business marketing class began writing on social media that the mayor would make an appearance. His chief of staff clarified later that, actually, a professor had called him cold "to test his brand of customer service" and the mayor answered and spoke to the class over the phone.
Ms. Chow did deliver more pointed criticism of the mayor, saying "I certainly don't want Rob Ford to be a role model for my grandchildren. So, yes, Toronto needs a new mayor, absolutely. No doubt about that."
If she does enter the race, Ms. Chow will be the standard-bearer for the left in a field crowded with right-of-centre voices. John Tory, Karen Stintz and David Soknacki are among the high-profile candidates who have registered to take on Rob Ford.
Ms. Chow's speech touched on her experience as a 13-year-old immigrant from Hong Kong, how she dealt with her father, who had a mental breakdown and turned violent towards her mother, and other stories recounted in her book. She poked fun at her age by showing the crowd that her speaking notes were in bold type. "It takes some talent to fail Grade 3," she quipped of herself. Her message to the crowd was "if the elected representatives won't listen to you and the changes you want, help elect someone who will."
Andrea Mazzocchi, a student, asked her when she would mount her bid for mayor, to which Ms. Chow laughed and replied "soon," but then told reporters she had not made up her mind.
"I actually haven't said anything new. Sorry those of you who came all the way up to York University. Happy International Women's Day," she said, before turning back to the lineup of book buyers. "I'm sorry about the journalists," she told them.
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Slideshow: Foetal development month-by-month
If a sperm cell meets and penetrates an egg, it will fertilise it. This is known as conception. At this moment, the genetic make-up is complete, including the sex of the infant. Within around 3 days after conception, the fertilised egg, which is dividing rapidly into many cells, passes through the fallopian tube into the uterus where it attaches to the uterine wall. The placenta, which will nourish the baby, also begins to form.
Foetal development at 20 weeks
The baby weighs about 300 grams and is about 26 cm long (crown to heel). The uterus should be around the level of the belly button. The baby can suck a thumb, yawn, stretch and make faces. Soon - if you haven't already - you'll feel your baby move, which is called "quickening."
Time for an ultrasound
An ultrasound is generally performed for all pregnant women at between weeks 10 and 14, and again at around 20 weeks of gestation. During this ultrasound, the doctor will confirm that the placenta is healthy and attached normally and that your baby is growing properly in the uterus. The baby's heartbeat and movement of its body, arms, and legs can also be seen on the ultrasound. The gender of the baby can usually be determined at 20 weeks.
Shown here is a 2D ultrasound (inset) contrasted with a 4D ultrasound, both at 20 weeks.
Foetal development at 28 weeks
The foetus weighs about 1kg (2lbs 6oz). It changes position frequently at this point in pregnancy. There's now a good chance of survival if your baby is born prematurely. Ask your doctor about preterm labour warning signs. Register for antenatal classes. Antenatal classes prepare you for many aspects of childbirth, including labour and delivery and parenting your newborn
Foetal development at 32 weeks
Often on the move, the foetus weighs almost 1.8kg (4lbs). The baby's skin has fewer wrinkles as a layer of fat starts to form under the skin. It will gain up to half its birth weight between now and delivery. Ask your doctor or midwife how to do a foetal movement chart. Think about breastfeeding. Soon you may start leaking colostrum from your breasts, a yellowish fluid that precedes milk production.
Foetal development at 36 weeks
Babies differ in size, depending on many factors (such as gender, the number of babies being carried and size of the parents), so your baby's overall rate of growth is as important as the actual size. On average, it's about 47cm and weighs around 2.6kg. The brain has been developing rapidly. Lungs are nearly fully developed. The head is usually positioned down into the pelvis by now. A pregnancy is considered 'at term' once 37 weeks has been completed; baby is ready!
A mother's due date marks the end of her 40th week. A pregnancy begins with implantation and the delivery date can be calculated using the first day of the last period. Based on this, pregnancy can last between 38 and 42 weeks with a 'full term' delivery occurring around 40 weeks. Some post-term pregnancies - those lasting more than 42 weeks - are not truly post-term. A common 'cause' is an incorrect due date. For safety reasons, most babies are delivered by 42 weeks, inducing labour if necessary.
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Prospects and challenges for an ASEAN energy integration policy
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Volume (Year): 13 (2011)
Issue (Month): 2 (June)
Pages: 103-127
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Are you glued to your TV set every time a show like Ghost Hunters comes on? Do you want to something spine-chilling, otherworldly and all in all different from the usual Chicago sightseeing?
The Windy City has a particularly bloody past, with some disturbing episodes in its closet. The Chicago Ghost Investigations are not for the faint of heart, but anyone fascinated by the city's dark side and paranormal activity will love getting in touch with ghosts on one of these tours.
Why Chicago Ghost Investigations?
This is not your typical Chicago tour, or even your typical paranormal tour. Most ghost tours spend time sharing stories about the spookiest places in the Windy City, with guests standing by rather than participating in any ghost hunting themselves. Instead of just hearing about the spooky happenings of the city, you'll actually get to experience it for yourself by tracking down ghosts with the most sophisticated technology around.
These tours take place in an abandoned warehouse that was once the stomping grounds of notorious gangster, Al Capone. You'll be able to locate the various hotspots throughout the warehouse with the assistance of your knowledgeable guide, and armed with several types of scanners, sensors, detectors and cameras.
In addition to equipping you with the right tools for your own personal ghost-hunting mission, these "spooktacular" tours also include a lesson in psychic communication so that you can get a good conversation going once you've located one of the hotspots in this frighteningly haunted warehouse! The group will be broken up into teams to set out hunting on their own, but the CGI Ghost Guides will be there to accompany you throughout the entire thrilling and chilling process, and provide a calming presence in addition to their incredible wealth of knowledge and unbridled enthusiasm for all things paranormal. The results of this Chicago tour will even have skeptics developing goosebumps and turning into believers on this one of a kind experience.
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Started by Brian Malloy after encountering paranormal activity while serving in the army, Chicago Ghost Investigations pulls from his personal experience with many paranormal research groups and his passion in developing a ghost tour that is a truly unique and interactive experience. In addition to tracking down the internal spirits who haunt Al Capone's warehouse, the guides have found that guests often add their own spirit into the mix, in something they jokingly call BYOG. The phenomenon of Bring Your Own Ghost makes these tours even more fascinating and eerie, as personal ghosts from the past often end up wanting to make contact from the other side, making a scary experience a deeply intimate one.
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Nutella Espresso Mousse Brownies
Brownies are so good all on their own, but top them with some Nutella espresso whipped cream and you take those brownies to a whole new level of deliciousness. Yes, these brownies are very, very good indeed. They are a great dessert to wow dinner guests, especially since they are deceptively easy to make. You can top them with chocolate curls to get extra fancy, or keep it simple with chocolate shavings like I did. Either way, you will enjoy every bite of these Nutella espresso mousse brownies. I promise.
Nutella Espresso Mousse Brownies
Makes 1 8-inch square pan
For the brownie layer:
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ¼ tsp. baking powder
- ¼ tsp. salt
- ½ cup (8 tbsp.) unsalted butter
- 1 tbsp. instant espresso powder
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
For the mousse layer:
- 2 tsp. instant espresso powder
- 1 tbsp. hot water
- ¼ cup Nutella
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- Chocolate shavings, curls, or sprinkles, for serving
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter the bottom of an 8-inch square baking dish and line with parchment paper, leaving several inches of overhang on two sides. Butter the bottom and sides of the parchment.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- Melt the butter in a small saucepan, transfer to a large bowl. Whisk in the espresso powder until it dissolves completely, then whisk in the sugar. Add the eggs, one at a time, whisking well after each addition. Stir in the vanilla. Whisk in the dry ingredients until just incorporated.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for about 30 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out with a few moist crumbs attached. Allow to cool completely before topping with the mousse.
- To make the mousse, combine the espresso powder and hot water in a small bowl. Whisk in the Nutella. Using a hand mixer or stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, beat the heavy cream until it just forms stiff peaks. Use a rubber spatula to gently fold in the Nutella mixture. Spread the mousse evenly over the top of the cooled brownies. Refrigerate for at least an hour or up to overnight.
- Using the parchment/foil handles, lift the brownies from the pan. Cut into squares and top with chocolate shavings/curls as desired. Serve immediately.
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As if you didn't already have plenty of reasons to support Fairway bookseller Rainy Day Books, now Stephen Colbert says you should shop there. Rainy Day got a mention on Colbert's Thursday episode as part of his running feud with Amazon.
And the famous "Colbert bump" does work, according to Rainy Day's Roger Doeren. He said Rainy Day received a "significant increase in local and national online orders as a direct result of Stephen's encouraging and enthusiastic endorsement."
Amazon and Colbert's publisher, Hachette, were involved in negotiations when Amazon increased shipping times for Hachette books and then took "Buy" buttons off soon to be released Hachette titles. Colbert began encouraging viewers to order the novel "California" by Edan Lepucki from other four local booksellers, including Rainy Day Books.
Doeren and Vivien Jennings, Rainy Day founder and president, didn't know in advance that Colbert was going to give Rainy Day the mention. "It came as a pleasant surprise," he said in an email. "Vivien and I are kindred spirits with Stephen Colbert's strong stand against the war that Jeff Bezos declared on Authors, Booksellers, Customers, Distributors and Publishers. The world needs more courageous people like Stephen Colbert to stand up for principles."
Rainy Day Books, known for its many author events in the metro, has gotten mentions elsewhere as a result of the Colbert episode. Doeren and Jennings also were quoted in a February New Yorker article about the founding and reach of Amazon.
Colbert's goal now is to put "California" on the New York Times bestseller list without it being listed on Amazon. As Colbert points out, besides ordering online, you can actually walk into stores like Rainy Day Books and go up to the counter to order (click on a clerk, Colbert says). And for those who like ebooks, Rainy Day has a solution in which they get credit: follow the instructions here. "Customers have choices and they vote with dollars and purchases," Doeren said. "Building faithful loyal customer relationships is the foundation of our 40-year success."
For Jennings and Doeren, being in the Colbert spotlight might not be the most exciting event of the month. On June 22, Jennings will interview Hillary Rodham Clinton about Clinton's new book, "Hard Choices," at a sold-out author event at The Midland.
The segment is embedded below. The Rainy Day plug comes at 2:56.