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Get a handle on dual-flush toilets
This new side-mount, dual-flush handle can give you a lot of leverage when you're looking to save water.
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Ed the plumber
Q: My toilet is located under a shelf and I want to replace it since it is old and uses a lot of water per flush. I want to get a dual-flush style, but the toilets I have seen have buttons on top of the tank and this will not work with my built-in shelf. Do they make regular-looking side-lever dual-flush toilets? — Fred, Nevada
A: First, let's get everyone up to speed on dual-flush toilets.
These are water-saving toilets that let you pick between a full 1.6-gallon flush and a smaller flush of about 1 gallon. Basically, you use only the water needed and this can save resources and operating costs.
The original dual-flush toilets I'm familiar with have two side-by-side flush buttons on top of the tank, and that setup has not worked for all users.
But side-lever, dual-flush toilets are available. This two-step trip lever looks just like a traditional lever and is easy to use. You can press the main part of the lever for a full flush or just press the end tip to activate the water-saving flush.
Since it operates in the same manner as a traditional toilet, houseguests probably will not have to call out from the bathroom asking how to flush the thing.
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Arsenal will have to move quickly if they wish to secure a move for Alexandre Lacazette as reports claim Liverpool are ready to swoop.
Gunners boss Arsene Wenger has put the Lyon striker high on his wanted list and reports have claimed that talks with the French club have already taken place.
Wenger is ready to pay £34million to land the striker but he is not alone as reports claim that Liverpool are also willing to go that high and could hijack Arsenal attempts to do a deal.
Liverpool are set to bank in the region of £30million by selling Christian Benteke to Crytsal Palace, and Reds boss Jurgen Klopp will use the cash to fund a deal for Lacazette.
The Gunners will still be in the box seat as they can offer the striker Champions League football, but they will have to hurry or Lacazette could consider a move to Anfield.
Everton striker Romelu Lukaku also remains a target for Wenger as he steps up his striker search.

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Despite the health-care law's unpopularity in most surveys, just 38 percent of Americans favor totally eliminating federal funding for it, according to a new CNBC poll released today.
What's more, that 38 percent is cut in half -- to 19 percent -- when respondents are asked if they still supported defunding Obamacare, even if it means shutting down the government and having the government default on its debts.
The CNBC poll -- conducted by Hart Research/Public Opinion Strategies (the same team who does the NBC/WSJ poll) -- was taken of 812 adults (including 201 cell phone-only respondents) from Sept. 16-19, and it has a margin of error of plus-minus 3.4 percentage points.


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Woman who died in submerged SUV worked at Duluth zoo
A young woman who died after the sport utility vehicle she was driving went down a hill and into the ice-crusted water of St. Louis Bay in Superior was a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota Duluth and a popular member of the Lake Superior Zoo staff.
Superior police identified Ashley Lynn Ganyo, 24, of Duluth as the victim of the accident. Ganyo was a member of the zoo's guest services team and worked in admissions as well as in the gift shop and cafe for about three years.
Her supervisor at the zoo described her as "the glue of the guest services team," said Holly Henry, marketing director.
"She was always planning social events and was very inclusive in including other people in things," Henry said.
Police responded to the one-vehicle accident at the end of North 21st Street in Billings Park about 10 a.m. Sunday. Ganyo was found seat-belted into the driver's seat of the 2002 Ford Excursion.
The SUV was mostly submerged in the water. Three trees on the edge of the water were uprooted.
Superior police said an autopsy was conducted Monday, and the preliminary report revealed that Ganyo drowned. It is suspected that alcohol, weather and speed may have been contributing factors in the crash, but toxicology reports are not expected for several weeks.
According to her Facebook page, Ganyo is from Pelican Rapids, Minn.
"The one thing anyone would tell you about Ashley is, no matter what, she was always smiling," Henry said. "She had this huge smile."
Alyssa Keehn, a cousin of the victim from Hampton, Iowa, said in a phone interview Monday night that she was told Ganyo was driving her dad's vehicle because her BMW was being worked on. She didn't know where Ganyo was coming from or heading to at the time of the accident. She just knew that her cousin was a special person.
"She was outgoing and funny," Keehn said. "She could make you laugh if you were in the worst of moods. Her smile was huge. She was someone you wanted to be around."


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Social butterflies of the human kind
If you have a bigger amygdala than other people you might just be the kind of person known as a social butterfly. At least that is what recently reported research from Northeastern University in Boston suggested.
I'll admit it - I didn't even know I had an amygdala! Oh, I might have learned about in some human anatomy class years ago, but if I did I have forgotten. At any rate I certainly didn't have any notion of whether my amygdala is any bigger than that of anyone else.
So what is the amygdala anyway? Well, it is one of two very small almond-shaped and pea-sized groups of nuclei hidden deep within the folded hemispheres of the brain cortex. And what does it do? It appears that the amygdala is associated with aggressive behavior and what has become known as the "fight or flight" response associated with fear.
And that is why there is a connection between the amygdala and the behavior of people who are sometimes called social butterflies. Social butterfly is a term often used to describe folks who are extroverted and comfortable in social situations. The Northeastern University research shows that such individuals possess a large amygdala. Larger, at least, than the same structure in people who clearly are not as social - the wall flowers among us.
Exactly how the concept of social butterfly came about is not clear. However, the descriptive terms social butterfly and flapper appear to share similar origins. Historically, the word flapper has been used to describe the wing action of fledgling birds learning to fly. But relative to humans, flapper has a negative connotation. As far back as the 1600s the term flap described a young prostitute, a depiction that continued into the 1900s in England. Dr. R. Murray-Leslie of England tied the two terms together when referring to women in the World War I workforce: "the social butterfly type...the frivolous, scantily-clad, jazzing flapper..."
The word flapper gained widespread usage in the United States in the 1920s, beginning with the movie "The Flapper" starring Olive Thomas. Flappers were brash young women who flaunted their disdain for acceptable behavior by the way they dressed and acted. At the same time the term social butterfly surfaced in reference to a person, normally a woman, who gained success and popularity by being in the right place at the right time. In the case of a woman it might also have meant dating many men.
Why was the concept of a social butterfly applied to women more than to men? It probably reflected the attitude of the times relative to the role of women in society. The term flapper was used exclusively in reference to women who obviously were bending the gender restrictions of the times. This was frequently the case with women who were called social butterflies as well. However, when the term first came into use, it applied to both men and women.
One example of a man being called a social butterfly is a 1910 book by Indiana author George Barr McCutcheon. The book "The Butterfly Man" features Sedgewick Blynn, a man described as one who "…gossiped delightfully and never promiscuously. He knew all the scandal, but he was wise enough and strong enough to whisper it into one ear at a time." The butterfly man in McCutcheon's book is a vamp who goes from party to party and charms the women as he goes.
The human social butterfly is an analogy of a real butterfly flitting from flower to flower. So how accurate is the analogy? Butterflies do flit from flower to flower as they seek nectar for their food. This behavior is obvious to anyone who has watched butterflies in a bed of flowers or in a field of clover blossoms. On the other hand calling a butterfly a social creature is an error. There are some types of insects that are social - some bees, some wasps, and all ants and termites - but not butterflies.
So if it is the size of the amygdala that determines social butterfly behavior of humans, how can some insects be social when they don't even possess an amygdala? Something for you social butterflies to ponder!


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A Cunning Chess Opening Repertoire for White
A Flexible Repertoire To Take Your Opponents Out Of Their Comfort ZoneProduct Code: B0184GB
A good opening repertoire need not require an enormous amount of study to be highly effective. A cunning choice of lines and move-orders can steer the game to positions that we like and deny the opponent his preferred strategies.
In this book, highly experienced chess opening writer Graham Burgess presents a repertoire based on 1 d4 and Nf3 with precisely those aims. Black's possibilities for counterplay - and sharp gambit play - are kept to a minimum. Our aim is to give Black exactly the type of position he doesn't want. If he is seeking blocked positions with pawn-chains, we'll keep the game fluid. If he wants complex strategy, we'll attack him with simple piece-play. Simplifications? No thanks, we'll keep the pieces on and intensify the battle. Gambits? Hardly, as we simply prevent most of them!
The main cornerstones of the repertoire are carefully chosen Queen's Gambit lines, the Torre Attack (vs ...e6), and a variety of fianchetto options against the King's Indian and related set-ups. White's position is kept highly flexible, with many possible transpositions to a wide variety of systems that the reader can use to extend and vary the repertoire. The book features a wealth of new ideas and original analysis.
FIDE Master Graham Burgess is Gambit's Editorial Director, and one of the founders of the company. He holds the world record for marathon blitz chess playing, and lives in Minnesota. This is his 23rd chess book.
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Tips for choosing age-appropriate books for your child
Birth to 12 months – Infants
Reading tip! It takes several months for your baby's visual system to fully develop, during that time it is best to keep books 8-10 inches away because she can't fully focus on images further or closer than that.
Here are a few books to get you started:
For more reading lists visit the following websites:
International Reading Association – Choices Reading Lists http://reading.org/Resources/Booklists.aspx
Reading Rockets – Recommended Books for Kids http://www.readingrockets.org/books/booksbytheme/
American Library Association Children's Book Council Joint Committee – Books to Grow On (Ages 0-3yrs) http://www.cbcbooks.org/pdf/Books%20To%20Grow%20On.pdf?phpMyAdmin=397jTuuP1EFq5K%2C6KADflHQNSK4
Reading is Fundamental – Books Lists http://www.rif.org/us/literacy-resources/booklists.htm
The National Education Associations – 50 Multicultural Books Every Child Should Read http://www.nea.org/grants/29510.htm
James Patterson's Read Kiddo Read http://www.readkiddoread.com/home
This information was compiled by Rayna Charles, One Tough Job Manager, and reviewed by the Program Staff of The Children's Trust.


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WASHINGTON — By the end there were only a few scattered disciples left at Nationals Park, most of the 38,611 already bound for their homes in the suburbs, or perhaps to FedEx Field, a reminder that this remains a football town in its soul.
By the end there was a BB soaring off the bat of Bryce Harper — erstwhile baseball messiah, embattled baseball youngster — and it went flying over the left-field wall, and the Nats had themselves an exhausting 5-3, 13-inning win over the Mets, and the Mets had themselves a quiet train trek to Philadelphia.
"This was a big game for both teams," Mets manager Terry Collins said, and he was right about that. It bought the Nats another half-game of cushion over the reeling Braves, nudged them another step closer to reclaiming the NL East.
And the Mets? Well, this was probably the last day you will spend this year thinking about them relative to the essential measurements of a season: How many games out of first, how many games out of the wild card. Those are other teams' concerns now. The Mets are 9-11 out of the All-Star break, and if that doesn't approximate some of the epic second-half free falls of recent vintage, it is plain enough to see this series had the effect of mercy-killing whatever pie-eyed hopes still were abounding.
"If we want to stay in the hunt," Collins said, "we have to win some games."
The hunt is finished, unless the subject in question is searching for long-term answers for this team. And one of the first orders of business the Mets have to address — if not now, then soon — is what's to become of the manager.
This game offered plenty of grist for all three factions of the Managing Carousel.
If you are among the growing number of Fire-Terry believers, there was some terribly compelling evidence: a lazy, ho-hum play in left field by Eric Young Jr. that allowed the Nats to deke in a third run off Jacob deGrom, emblematic of a continuing clubhouse culture that too often allows such indifferent play to go unanswered. There was the incomprehensible decision to double-switch Juan Lagares, the Mets' best defender, out of a tie game in the ninth.
(I asked Collins about that afterward. His reply: "His replacement made a couple of nice plays, didn't he?" But Collins was referring to Kirk Nieuwenhuis, who already had entered the game. Lagares was double switched for — deep breath — Chris Young. It was a baffling choice.)
If you are among the shrinking coterie of Keep-Terry acolytes, there was what always has been his most compelling defense: With their season on the brink, losing late, they rallied back, forced extras, played stride-for-stride with a team that outclasses them in every way. Don't blame Terry, this argument goes; look at what passes for a big league roster.
Then there is the third-party candidate here: the neutral argument that asks, eternally, how much does a manager really matter? For all Collins' faux pas Thursday, after all, he wasn't on the mound, serving up Harper's meatball. Players still have to play, right?
This is the one thing that's clear: If the Mets were going to fire Collins and do what undoubtedly would be the overwhelmingly popular choice — promoting old hero Wally Backman — that would have happened already. Maybe it would have if not for the 8-2 streak that temporarily rescued the season from the abyss in July. Maybe not.
But at this point it wouldn't just be pointless from Collins' point of view but senseless from Backman's. He is better off trying to finish a splendid job in Las Vegas, and would have a limited ability and even less time to impress whomever he would need to impress if he moved to New York. This isn't Bobby Valentine in 1996, promoted near season's end with a commitment to lead the team forward. Backman would have to change some influential minds, entering the final furlong.
Collins? Too many games have played out this way, truth be told, with him making some truly head-scratching decisions. Look, if most of them worked, you would salute his gut and his guts, and he would be praised for some unconventional thinking. But that's the chance you take. And plays like Young's offer further evidence that Collins probably went too far to the other side after spending his early managerial years as a self-admitted tyrant. There seems little to fear inside the Mets clubhouse.
At this point, he deserves the rest of the season. He deserves another job in the organization, back in player development, where his true talent lies. But when Harper's ball sailed over the Samuel Adams sign, it effectively ended the Mets for 2014, and put everyone on the clock for 2015. That ticking starts in the manager's office.


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Braving cold, fighting hunger
Although the crowd was sparse this year because of sub-zero temperatures and not much pre-publicity, the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train still generated some Christmas excitement - and support for the Douglas County Outreach Food Shelf.
It stopped at the 8th Avenue East railroad crossing by Hubbard Feed Mill in Alexandria Tuesday afternoon. More than $1,560 and 250 pounds of food were donated. From inside a modified boxcar, a band performed holiday tunes while the crowd clapped, danced and tried to stay warm. The Holiday Train tour - the largest fundraiser of its kind - will stop in more than 110 communities in Canada and the U.S. Each Holiday Train is about 1,000 feet in length with several decorated rail cars.


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August 02, 2011
The New York Islanders have a lease agreement with the Nassau Coliseum through 2015. Following Monday night's rejection by voters to use $400 million in public funds to construct a new stadium complex, where they go after that is anyone's guess.
Which brings us to Brooklyn.
As Chris Botta wrote last night on NYI Point Blank, owner Charles Wang has spent the last 11 years avoiding heavy flirtation with other municipalities, but it's probably about time to begin sending some secret admirer notes. That doesn't necessarily mean negotiating with other markets in preparation of 2015 — if the Islanders can't remain in Uniondale, they could still remain in New York.
Brooklyn's going to be chief among those options because of Barclays Center, where the New Jersey Nets are scheduled to relocate, and because of the undeniable nostalgic enthusiasm whenever the topic of a sports team arriving in Brooklyn comes up, each one a small Band-Aid on the still-gaping wound left by the Dodgers.
Plus, there's mass transit. As in the kind that doesn't require a bus or cab ride after getting off the train.
So already there's Brooklyn Islanders chatter after Monday's vote. Question is whether it's even a conversation worth having.
From the NY Post's Rich Calder, who blogged about the Brooklyn Islanders at 4:10 a.m. on Tuesday morning:
Arena officials yesterday confirmed the Barclays Center will be fitted with an NHL-regulation size arena when it opens in Sept. 2012, although they declined comment on potential interest in the Islanders.
The arena holds 18,000 seats for basketball, but some seating would have to be removed to accommodate hockey. Sources said the arena could hold about 14,500 seats for hockey.
That cozy capacity is roughly 1,750 smaller than Nassau and 515 seats smaller than MTS Centre in Winnipeg (15,015), which had to overcome the stigma of being "too small" for a return of the Jets. It would be, however, 52 seats larger than the old Boston Garden. Which was built in 1928.
Nets Daily says the capacity is the deal-killer:
But the NHL is highly unlikely to approve a move. Barclays Center, since being downsized in 2009, can handle 14,500 for hockey (with bad sight lines), 2,000 fewer than Nassau Coliseum, the smallest NHL arena. Moreover, officials of Forest City Ratner have publicly and recently said they deliberately abandoned the idea of an NHL tenant when they downsized arena plans to get Barclays Center financed.
"We made some pretty deliberate decisions early on: we weren't going to have a [professional] hockey team," said Bob Sanna, FCR's vice president for construction, in April. The arena is being fitted for college hockey and ice shows.
Still, Brooklyn's leadership thinks it could work. From the Post:
Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz said "Brooklyn is the only place" the Islanders should consider moving to. "The Islanders belong in Brooklyn," he said. "We've got lots of hockey fans, and since we're technically still on Long Island, they can call themselves the 'Brooklyn Islanders.'
"If they come here, I would personally take the first spin on the Zamboni."
Oh, well, in that case, why even have a negotiation? SOLD!
As we said last night, there are going to be other options for the Islanders to remain in New York. The public option from Nassau County is probably dead, but their status as a New York franchise isn't. Could they move to Brooklyn? Perhaps, although one imagines having a huge chunk of arena revenue would be desirous for whoever owns the team, and that might not be the case in The House That Ratner Built.
Only one thing's for certain about the Islanders and Brooklyn: Third jersey, all black, with the work BROOKLYN on the front, and you'd need a NASA super computer to count the money that'd bring in. Spike Lee alone would drop six figures.
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As we savor each remaining day of warm, sunny weather, we're reminded of how we've entered that short yet sweet season that comes between Summer and Fall. From Rosh Hashanah honey cake to bacon-wrapped dates and portobello sloppy joes, our recipes reflected that sentiment. Did you stick around to see what was going on this week? Take our telltale quiz.
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Water resource marketing and development experts from around the country will be gathering at the Houstonian on June 21st and 22nd for the third annual National Water Resources Symposium. This year's featured speaker is Boone Pickens, founder of Mesa Water, Inc.
A legend in the oil and gas business, Pickens is now at the forefront of national water resource development issues with his proposal to market surplus and stranded groundwater in the Texas Panhandle to urban areas in Texas facing severe water supply shortages. Pickens formed Mesa Water in 1999 to develop groundwater in Roberts County in the Texas Panhandle. Area landowners have joined with Mesa Water bringing approximately 400,000 acres of land to the venture.
"All we are lacking is a buyer," said Pickens, a Roberts County landowner. "Our project involves bringing new water into the mix, and we can provide significant amounts at a cost-competitive price and get it to market quicker than any other alternative now on the table."
Water resource development is a new sector emerging in the water industry that focuses on market-based ideas and alternative sources to address increasing demand for fresh water. Other industries like energy and real estate are becoming closely tied to water development as their growth is contingent upon ample water resources. In addition, mergers and acquisitions of industrial assets and property are beginning to recognize the value of water resources associated with the transactions.
The event is being organized by WestWater Research-a leading water marketing firm-and will provide a valuable forum for professionals working in water, energy, real estate, and investment communities to network and stay abreast of the latest developments in the sector. This executive seminar strives to educate participants in these related industries on the legal, technical, and financial components of water marketing and resource development.
"Water markets are becoming an important part of water resource management. This conference is not all about dollars and cents, but rather it is about improving the way we manage a scarce resource," stated Clay Landry, managing director of WestWater Research.


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Rabbi Michael Pollak
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Michael is an educational consultant for PaJeS and the UJIA Jewish Life Education Center.
He is a graduate of Hevron Yeshiva in Jerusalem and studied philosophy at LSE. He has held a series of high profile communal positions and is a seasoned Talmud Daf Yomi teacher.


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On Thursday, July 5, 2012 at approximately 8:30 PM, Capital City Fire Rescue responded to 4043 Mitchell Way off of Valley Boulevard for a residential structure fire. Upon arrival, fire personnel found a two story single family home with light smoke and steam from the roof. The fire was located in the attic space above the living room and was quickly extinguished. The cause of the fire was determined to be the woodstove chimney and its proximity to wood roof rafters. There were no injuries reported and the home is insured. Captial City Fire Rescue would like to remind everyone to have working smoke alarms in their homes and to clean and inspect your woodstove chimneys at elast once a year.


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Today I'm participating in a book promotion event, hosted by ATOMR Tours. I'll be sharing an excerpt of Residue by Laury Falter as well as a giveaway below. Residue is a young adult paranormal romance, originally published in 2012.
The directions I followed, took me to a quiet side street lined with worn buildings, and more specifically, to an unmarked, weathered door along a row of doors looking remarkably the same.Without the typical store sign or even a window to peer in, I didn't know whether I might walk into someone's house. To be on the safe side, I knocked.The door rattled loosely against its frame and then settled. A few moments passed and no one came, so I knocked again. Again, there was no answer.Wondering if the directions were wrong, I tried the door handle. It was unlocked, which almost surprised me. Opening it a crack, I peered inside.While it was incredibly dim inside, lit only by candles held in wall sconces and open lanterns hanging from the ceiling, I could see that it was actually a store. Disheveled and poorly laid out with towering wooden bookshelves stuffed with merchandise, I couldn't see all that far inside."Hello?" I called out without receiving an answer back.Figuring they may be in the storage room, if one even existed, I stepped inside."Hello?"No one responded so I moved farther down the aisle.This was no regular OfficeMax or OfficeDepot. It didn't even resemble a college bookstore. In the place of textbooks on biology, calculus, and the English dictionary there were witch almanacs, spell books for solitary witches, and tomes on spells and rituals for every purpose. Where pens and paper should have been, there were tarot card stacks and candles of every color, style, and size imaginable. Canisters of countless herbs, stones, and gems replaced impulse-purchase bins of calculators and keychain flashlights.What exactly am I supposed to buy in here? I wondered.Then, just as I reached the cash register, which looked like an antique ready for a museum, the store's front door opened, allowing in a thin stretch of light down the side aisle. I listened as the store's most recent patron strolled toward the back, where I now stood when the scratchy voice of an older woman drew my attention away.She hobbled out from the back room, hunched and bracing herself against the counter as she walked."What you lookin' for?" she asked.Hesitating, I didn't know quite how to explain it and then settled on the most basic of answers."My school supplies."She lifted her chin in a brief gesture of acknowledgement and then shuffled down the long counter, stopping at nearly the end of it. From there, she withdrew a clothed bundle, tied with twine at the top. Rather than carrying it back to me, she dragged it, drawing up dust where it had settled. Leaving it before me, she then held out her hand for payment."Eighty-five dollars."I placed the cash in her palm and she dropped it in a canvas bag beneath the register, without bothering to count it."You got the potent kind," she stated."The what?""They're dangerous," she warned. "Watch yerself with them."Interestingly, I wasn't the least bit surprised that whatever the brisk woman sleeping across the hall from me had ordered on my behalf wasn't safe."All right," I shrugged. I wasn't quite sure what was in the bundle or how I should treat them to prevent inflicting harm.Then several things happened simultaneously. Just as I turned around to leave, the person waiting patiently in line behind me spoke. And just as he spoke, the room broke into chaos.The wall sconce candles flickered first. Next the tarot cards lifted from their spot on the shelves as if a brisk wind had picked up and carried them, disheveled, through the air. Then heavier things began to move. Candles darted off the shelves like projectiles, hitting the walls with enough force to leave wax marks. Books slid off and slammed to the floor or against the bookshelves opposite them. The ceiling lanterns swung fiercely from side to side, slamming against the whitewash to send down chunks of plaster. The glass canisters banged against each other threatening to break.That was when I felt arms around me, pulling me to the ground, and a body covering me, solid and secure. My top hat was gone and hands now covered my head with elbows pressed against my ears, dimming the sound of the destruction around us. With my face covered by my own hands and my body in a crouched position, only my legs were exposed.I had to give the person credit. Despite the devastation going on around us, nothing touched me.It raged for several seconds, prolonging the demolition of this elderly woman's store. Then, just as quickly as it had begun, it came to a screeching halt.My protector's hands freed my ears and the body stretched across my back moved away. That was when I heard the voice. It was comforting, concerned, and a little uncertain. I was instantly drawn to it, realizing a ridiculous urge to listen to it endlessly. I couldn't help feeling foolish, especially since his question was so understandable given the circumstances."Are you hurt?" he asked.I felt a hand, warm and firm, on my shoulder, coaxing me to react.Releasing the breath I'd been holding, I stood and blinked a few times, clearing the haziness in my head."Never been better," I muttered and when he handed my top hat back I heard him chuckle.A quick look around told me that the elderly woman had survived unharmed but her store had not. Every piece of merchandise now lay broken, littering the floor.Without any warning whatsoever, she launched in to a tirade, speaking rapidly and in French, a language I hadn't learned well enough yet. Then she stopped suddenly, to my surprise, with a chuckle, wide eyed and beaming.I chalked it up to delirium at seeing her store destroyed at some unknown phenomenon until her other patron standing beside me spoke."Huh…" he mumbled."What?" I asked, still battling the surreal state I was in, watching as the woman shrugged and disappeared into the back room still chuckling.Then he chuckled to himself, surprised. "She said she's never seen this before. Apparently she's read about it and been told of it but hadn't witnessed it herself.""Witnessed what?" I asked, taking my sack of school supplies.He laughed again, farther down in his chest. "Well…" He cleared his throat uncomfortably. "She thinks she just saw the introduction of two fated lovers.""Really? Who?" I asked, my head swiveling back and forth now, profoundly intrigued and looking for the people they were referring to, the two whom they believed to be the cause of this mess.He hesitated and then spoke deep, firm, and with certainty. "She meant us."
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What says, "southern" better than fried chicken?
OK, maybe fried chicken and sweet tea.
The problem is, this southern girl doesn't fix either!
My tea usually turns a bitter and I have always figured that if we want fried chicken, we can go out to eat!
Besides, drinking water is better for you!
So, imagine my dilemma when our soon to be 17 year old son requested, of all things, fried chicken for his birthday dinner … And watermelon.
The watermelon was NO problem!
But the fried chicken…
At our house, birthdays are a BIG deal and a lot of fun. The birthday boy or girl picks the meal and it is complete with a decorated cake, ice cream and of course, presents. So, I really try to give them the meal of choice and it has never been a problem until fried chicken was requested!
My first thought was Sam's Club, they should have something in the frozen food section that I can just heat up or cook in the oven.
Then I was shamed.
John did it. He was the one who said, "You, who runs a food blog, can't fry chicken for your son's birthday?"
That did it.
I was determined not to be ruled by fear of fried chicken ever again. Even if it took several trial runs – I was going to get the hang of frying chicken!
But, just in case, I did check at Sam's and they do have chicken fried tenders you "cook" ! 😉
Actually, it was soooo much easier than I thought and the children loved the trial run!
After consulting many, many recipes for fried chicken, I decided to try combining a bunch of them and results were fantastic – moist delicious fried chicken. Plus, we fried it outside so the house stayed cool!
The brining of the chicken is an important step to seal in the moisture so, don't skip it! It sounds really fancy but it is simply soaking the chicken in a salt bath. With the chicken, it actually soaks in some of the salt so, no salt is necessary in the flour used to dredge it before frying. It does take planning ahead to brine it, but trust me, the results are worth it.
We have a turkey fryer (available from my affiliate, Waring Pro) that we use to fry foods like doughnuts and fish and it works great! Even though it is a "turkey" fryer, we have yet to fry a turkey! But, it is large enough to fry a dozen doughnuts at once -with our crew, that is important! Don't worry though if you don't have one, you can fry it in a skillet too.
Let me just say, one more time, this fried chicken is super easy and the taste is absolutely delicious! So, if you are like me and have had a lifelong phobia of homemade fried chicken, here is your cure.
Fried Chicken with Kefir Batter
Yield 6 servings
- 3 Tbsp salt
- 4 lbs chicken drumsticks
- 2 c kefir - may use thinned yogurt or buttermilk
- 3 tsp dry mustard
- 2 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp cayenne pepper
- 2 tsp black pepper
- 2 c. all purpose flour
- 3 Tbsp yellow cornmeal
- oil for frying
I buy all my real salt and spices from my affiliate partner, Starwest Botanicals, because of their superior quality. Their herbs & spices are organic, non-irradiated plus, I think they are more aromatic and full flavored than any others.
To brine:
- In a large bowl, stir together 10 cups water and 2 Tbsp salt. Add the chicken covering all pieces with brine solution. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
To marinade:
- In another bowl, whisk together kefir, 1 Tbsp salt, mustard, paprika, 1/2 cayenne pepper (if using) and 1/2 tsp black pepper.
- Transfer chicken from the salt brine to the marinade. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours and up to overnight.
To cook:
- Remove the chicken from refrigerator an hour before frying - let stand at room temperature.
- Mix together flour, cornmeal, 1 tsp black pepper and 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper (if using).
- Whether using a deep fryer or oil in heavy pot (filled halfway with oil), heat oil to 350F.
- Remove chicken from the marinade a few pieces at a time - do not shake off excess - dredge in flour mixture.
- Fry chicken in batches until golden brown and thermometer inserted in the thickest part reads 160F. It takes about 10 minutes depending upon the size of pieces.
- Transfer to wire rack.
- Serve and enjoy!
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Junko Brunelle doesn't like Fords at all. "They break too easily," she says. But she bought her Focus wagon for the fold-down seats and cargo capacity. She carries two boards in back: a Mitsven 6'7" and a Topper 6'6". She rode longboards until last month; her skill level was such that she wanted a shorter, more maneuverable board.
She keeps a plastic tub filled with her surf gear and a spare leash. "I broke this leash. A strong wave knocked me off my board and I knew my leash snapped. So I fixed it with some rope and I keep it as a spare." Also in the tub are her X-Cel booties that she used until the first week of June. Junko says when the water temperature rises above 62 degrees, she puts the booties away. Her wetsuit is a 3/2mm O'Neill. She also carries a small green Reef box with a bar of wax and a comb that's been melted. "If it gets dirty, I just strip and wax my board at home. I don't know why I carry this box of wax around still."
She calls a telephone-service surf report to get the latest conditions on her favorite surf spots: Ocean Beach pier and Tourmaline Surfing Park in Pacific Beach.
In the five years Junko's been surfing, she hasn't seen too many crazy things, but her husband, who's been surfing for 25 years, has told her stories. "He found a box of ashes -- someone's cremated remains." And he's been hooked at the end of fishermen's lines next to the Ocean Beach pier, twice.


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I note with mild interest the intrigue with all-things zombie now running on the verge of rampant. Even the Department of Homeland Security talks about a Zombie Apocalypse. If that isn't enough, we have zombie targeting, and major manufacturers are producing zombie ammo and anti-zombie equipment. I only hope this is a bit of tongue-in-cheek, yet I've been around long enough to know marketing people will come up with anything to sell a product. About the time one thinks of this as a joke, then some buck-naked guy is shot repeatedly while chewing the face off another naked guy in Miami. What a zoo.
Doing research, I watched the zombie movie thing, and interestingly enough, through the fog of bull, there are in fact a couple of points that caught my interest. So, let's try to address some of the salient points of "the rules for fighting zombies." Frankly, some of the ideas are not bad ones.
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Cardio: Physical fitness is a point of interest to me and I'm always pointing out to my students physical conditioning is not a bad idea. If you're overweight or somehow otherwise impaired, you can anticipate the zombies — as well as other types of bad guys — would take advantage of you. Remember, prime animals in a herd are not generally the ones the wolves or zombies attack. The old, weak, young, infirmed or injured are primary targets. In warfare, even damaged bombers over Germany that fell from formation were pounced on by swarms of fighters. Easy marks are eaten.
Double tapping: Conceptually I get it; make sure the threat is down in a fight. The only problem with this is what if two rounds are not enough? I say, shoot the threat until the fight is over. If it's one round, so be it. If it's two, three or five, stay behind the gun and sights and shoot until the problem is solved. You brought the ammo, use it.
Kick-ass partner: Always have friends who have guns, always travel with friends who have guns. If I could go to dinner with Robbie Leatham I would. If you have friends who don't have or carry guns get rid of them. If you have friends who know you carry a gun and they don't, trust me — some day in a public place they'll volunteer you for a fight you don't want to be in. Get a good partner, practice and train. Make sure your friends have guns, and they know how to use them.
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The Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS) was established in April 1941 when the Royal Australian Navy enrolled 14 women at HMAS Harman, the wireless telegraphy station near Canberra. It was a non-combat branch of the Royal Australian Navy that, liike many of its sister services created during the Second World War, alleviated manpower shortages resulting from men being assigned to combat roles.
WRANS performed a variety of duties, inclduing working as telegraphists, coders and clerks; but also as drivers, education officers, mechanics, harbour messengers, cooks and sickberth attendants.They worked for intelligence organisations and as domestic staff at Government House, Yarralumla.
The Service was temporarily disbanded in 1948, but was re-formed in 1951 to help the RAN cope with manpower shortages. By 1959 the organisation was incorporated as a non-combatant (and thus non-seagoing) part of the permanent naval forces.
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Curtis Jackson aka [lastfm]50 Cent [/lastfm]just dropped more than 50lbs in order to play a cancer-striken football player in the upcoming movie, Things Fall Apart, which will be out in 2011. Going on a crazy workout plan and liquid-only diet has led him to look like this:
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8 March 2012
On March 11, 2011, a cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami struck Japan's northern coastal Tohoku region of Japan, ravaging communities and transforming in an instant the world's image of Japan. The heart-wrenching images of the disaster flashed across the world on the net and new SNS media triggered an international outpouring of compassion and support, while the courage and composure of the people of Tohoku stirred fresh admiration for the best qualities of Japan.
Yet, as the long year of recovery has passed, the drawn-out Fukushima nuclear crisis, reports of government and corporate failings both after and before the natural disaster itself, and lingering damage to a Japanese economy that had only just begun to emerge from more than a decade of stagnation has stirred new doubts about the future of the country once considered the unstoppable juggernaut of Asia. Today, Tohoku's recovery is more than a domestic humanitarian challenge for Japan. It has taken on global import as a symbolic barometer of Japan's ability to shake off its long malaise, and reinvent itself to once again flourish in a world transformed by new technologies and the rise of powerful new competitors. During the disaster and its aftermath, the US-Japan military alliance reasserted itself as a powerful tool for relief and recovery through Operation Tomodachi.
But today, it is the emerging trans-Pacific synergy in hi-tech that is helping speed Tohoku's recovery, and is pointing the way to new transformative possibilities for the future. The challenge today for Tohoku -- and for all of Japan -- is not simply to rebuild, but to transform, to emerge not just better prepared to respond to the next catastrophe, but reinvigorated and rewired to compete and flourish in the new connected world.
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2017 is the year of HTTPS and
What does this all mean for me?
What is HTTPS?
HTTPS is the acronym for Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure. It is a protocol used for secure communications over a computer network, like the internet. Communication over HTTPS are encrypted between the client and the server so eavesdroppers don't listen in, no one tampers with the data, and your website data isn't forged
What is SSL?
SSL is the acronym for Secure Socket Layer and is often used interchangeably with the term TLS – Transport Layer Security. Both are cryptographic protocols that help encrypt communications over a computer network. Typically, if a website wanted to encrypt the transmission of its data between the server and the client, they would purchase an SSL certificate that contains an encryption key that is placed on the server.
Why should you care about HTTPS and SSL?
Google has three reasons for calling for all websites to switch to HTTPS. In order to access most websites, the URL usually begins with "HTTP." This is the unsecured version of the protocol that transfers data between the web server and the browser on your computer or smartphone. Remember that fear you had of using your credit card online? Well, it's not just credit cards that are of interest.
Google sees three reasons for securing your website with HTTPS and SSL. They are "Authentication," "Data Integrity," and "Encryption." These three reasons speak to a number of issues that have come up when it comes to communications over the web.
Authentication addresses the issue of verifying the ownership of your website. Believe it or not, there are people out there that make replicas of websites and divert traffic to it in an effort to steal from you. Most people know that they need to check for the Green Lock in their browser before entering personal information into the website. You can go one step further and verify the SSL certificate to make sure it belongs to the website you're on.
Back in 2014, Google said that if your website was HTTPS it would give that site additional ranking signal in search results. This is a good thing for businesses that have websites that are competing with other businesses for position on search engine results pages. Google also said they wouldn't penalize the websites that are not secure. Well, at least not with their algorithm.
In September 2016, Google announced that in January 2017 they would begin displaying the security of the connection in the address bar of Chrome version 56 and up on pages that display a password and/or a credit card field. This is the beginning of a long-term plan to mark all HTTP pages non-secure.
With the release of Chrome 56 last January 31st 2017 any website that is not running HTTPS will have a message appear in the location bar that says "Not Secure" on pages that collect passwords or credit cards. Google wants to kill the unencrypted internet, and will soon flag two thirds of the web as "unsafe.
Google wants everything on the web to be travelling over a secure channel. That's why in the future your Chrome browser will flag unencrypted websites as insecure, displaying a red "x" over a padlock in the URL bar. Eventually Google plans to mark all HTTP pages as non-secure and use the same red triangle it currently uses for broken HTTPS sites.
With this upcoming change in Chrome, Google makes it clear that the web of the future should all be encrypted, and all sites should be served over HTTPS, which is essentially a secure layer on top of the usual HTTP web protocol. Several companies and organizations have been pushing for more encrypted sites as part of a campaign to "Encrypt All The Things," which consists of promoting more websites to abandon the traditional, less secure HTTP protocol and adopt HTTPS.
Why? Because when you load a website over HTTP, someone else on the network can look at or modify the site before it gets to you." So, in a nutshell, when you add the 'S' at the end of HTTPS it stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted.
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The cost for an SSL certificate will depend on your website's hosting provider, who they buy the certificate through, and the type of certificate they buy.
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REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 12 (UPI) -- Microsoft says it is working to eliminate a bug that has made its SkyDrive cloud storage service unavailable to users of the Opera Web browser.
Opera users began sending bug reports to the Norwegian browser company on the weekend saying Microsoft's cloud storage service froze out all users when it was being loaded.
Instead of the saved files and photos Opera users expected to see, they were only seeing millions of characters of code.
Troubleshooting identified the problem as "some strange bug in the Microsoft back end [that] sends a load of unexpected NULL characters -- more than 2 million of them right in the middle of the source code," Opera's Hallvord Steen wrote in a company blog post.
Microsoft said it has confirmed the problem and is working on a fix.
"SkyDrive engineers have identified a temporary optimization issue that has prevented customers from viewing SkyDrive on Opera in the past couple days," a spokesperson told CNET. "A fix will be released shortly."
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This is a collection of writings which have been previously published, many, but not all of which, address Darwinism and Intelligent Design. All the essays concern science.
The inimitable David Berlinksi, mathematician and literary stylist, is a free thinker--not in the common sense of skeptics who revel in denying religion on principle, but in the sense of assessing arguments on the basis of evidence, not on the basis of mere consensus or social pressure. He long ago found Darwin evidentially-challenged and began to say so--cutting against the grain. He continues to say so, and so educates his readers in critical thinking and good writing. May his number increase.
If you are tired of the stereotypical and monotonous defenses of Darwinism and denunciations of intelligent design that clutter and litter the press, read this important book. If you read nothing else, consult, "The Deniable Darwin," an essay in Commentary that rocked the readership in 1996.
By the way, Dr. Berlinksi is neither a Christian nor a practicing Jew. But even if he were one or the other (or a member of any other religion) it would make no difference for the force of his arguments. To think otherwise is to commit the fallacy of poisoning the well
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text: First of all, yes, I am a Nintendo gamer. I have been since the 8-bit days. I don't like to call myself a fanboy, there are too many negative connotations to that term. I don't bounce from board to board spouting "ZOMG P$3 suXX0rz". I do, however, think Sony seriously dropped the proverbial ball this generation. Don't get me wrong, the PS3 is a serious piece of hardware. I don't know the exact numbers, but I'm sure it's dozens if not hundreds of times more powerful than the Wii. This is exactly its problem. First and foremost in Sony's ball dropage is the Blu Ray. Its inclusion resulted in short supplies, launch delays, and a hugely inflated price. Blu Ray, again, is a fantastic piece of technology. However, HDTV penetration still isn't that high. No one without an HDTV will see the benefit. Also, consumers are wary of buying into the technology while the format war rages on. While Blu Ray gives Sony a high definition title of some sort, it just isn't needed at this time. The main advantage over current generation DVD is the storage capacity. Okay, so we can have 50GB games now. And...? No game comes anywhere near that, and probably won't for at least a few years. They don't need it. Look at Gears of War: 4.7GB. And that game is beautiful. And while the Blu Ray drive offers better capacity and graphics, it is still a relatively new technology. The result: a 2x drive that gives snail-like loading times. Leaving out Blu Ray could have cut $200 from the PS3's price. Hell, I would have been tempted to buy one at $300. The Blu Ray also cost Sony delays... upwards of a year depending on the market. The delay cost Sony exclusives and gave Microsoft a yearlong head start. So what should Sony have done? Slapped a current generation DVD drive in that puppy, ditched HDMI for component, and called it the PS2.5. Give us Blu Ray in 3 years when it will make a difference.


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Americans For Prosperity, the big-spending conservative "grassroots" group already criticized this year for misleading campaign ads in Colorado, is out with a new TV spot this week attacking three Democratic Colorado Senators up for re-election. From the group's press release yesterday:
Colorado's largest grassroots free market group, Americans for Prosperity-Colorado, today announced a major expansion of its efforts to hold politicians accountable for ObamaCare. That effort starts today, when the group will use cable television spots, a direct mail campaign and neighborhood walks to hold accountable three Jefferson County lawmakers: Sens. Andy Kerr, Cheri Jahn and Jeanne Nicholson for supporting ObamaCare in Colorado.
The cable spots, which will run July 7 through 28, call out "The Obamacare Three" for helping President Obama's unpopular health law take hold in Colorado, through expansion of the federal Medicaid program and creation of a state health exchange that's already fraught with problems. The ads encourage their constituents to call their senator and tell them to stop supporting the failed policy…
What's interesting about this ad is that it goes all the way back to Senate Bill 11-200–the bipartisan legislation that originally created the Connect For Health Colorado insurance marketplace. SB11-200, as our readers know well, became known as the "Amycare" bill after its principal Republican sponsor in the Colorado House, Rep. Amy Stephens. Other Republican sponsors of SB11-200 included Reps. Tom Massey and Ken Summers. On final passage in the Colorado House, Republican "yes" votes on Senate Bill 11-200 included then-House Speaker Frank McNulty, Larry Liston, Cheri Gerou, Carole Murray, Kevin Priola, Robert Ramirez, among others.
So there's that, and for a lot of viewers, omitting the major Republican role in passing SB11-200 is enough to flatten AFP's credibility–assuming, of course, they ever hear the rest of the story. But here's perhaps an even more interesting twist for political junkies: AFP receives a large portion of its funding from influential conservative donors Charles and David Koch, known together as the "Koch brothers." One of the biggest conservative-leaning proponents of Colorado's health insurance exchange legislation, a big reason why there was bipartisan support for the exchange to begin with, is the National Federation of Independent Business. NFIB supported the Colorado exchange because the exchanges were, at one time, anyway, considered a "free market" way of expanding access to health care:
NFIB supported the concept of exchanges long before Barak [sic–Pols] Obama was elected President. The exchange concept was not unique to the Patient Protection and Affordability Care Act.
Do you think NFIB should tell that to AFP? Especially since they've both taken millions of dollars from the Koch brothers?
In all likelihood, the Koch brothers couldn't care less if these two organizations they fund are working at cross purposes. But the NFIB's support for the very thing that AFP is attacking these Democrats for, with no mention of the many Republicans who helped pass it, underscores what an illegitimate pile of crap this whole attack from AFP is. This one group, Americans For Prosperity, has accounted for a disproportionate share of the "Obamascare" mendacity we've seen on the air this year in Colorado–and so far, blistering fact-checks from the media haven't fazed them.
For anyone who knows the facts that AFP twists, it's outrageous. But how many will find out before the election?


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TOP STORY: Lukaku has unfinished business at Chelsea
Romelu Lukaku is eager to return to Chelsea from Everton this summer as he feels he has unfinished business with the Blues, according to the Mirror. The Belgian international, who has struck 18 times in the Premier League this season for the Toffees, left the West London for Merseyside for £28 million in 2014.
Incoming Chelsea manager Antonio Conte now wants Lukaku to return to Stamford Bridge to spearhead his attack, and the outgoing Premier League champions may be willing to fork out as much as twice the fee they received from Everton two summers ago for the 22-year-old.
Arsenal to make Mahrez No. 1 target
Arsenal will make Leicester superstar Riyad Mahrez their top target this summer, with Arsene Wenger prepared to let Theo Walcott leave the Emirates, according to the Sun.
The Gunners will attempt to prize away the Foxes' star man with a £25m bid after a string of stunning performances for the league leaders. Walcott's time at Arsenal looks to be over, though, with Wenger prepared to let the England international depart after yet another lacklustre season for the 27-year-old.
Gunners step up pursuit of Brozovic
Arsenal's list of summer targets isn't limited to Mahrez, though, as the North London side hope to beat Internazionale to the signature of £16m-rated Marcelo Brozovic after the Croatian's impressive loan spell with the Nerazzurri this season, according to Corriere dello Sport (via the Express).
The Gunners have liked what they have seen from the 23-year-old midfielder in Serie A and hope to jump in front of Inter to capture the Dinamo Zagreb player on a permanent deal. Wenger wants to see Brozovic finish the season strongly before attempting to bring him to the Emirates this summer.
Man United set to beat Serie A giants to Biglia
Manchester United are leading the chase for Lazio's Lucas Biglia, though Inter and Juventus are also in the running, according to Corriere dello Sport (via the Express).
The Albiceleste's failure to tie down the Argentine international to a new long-term deal means that with only two years left on his current deal, they are prepared to cash in on the 30-year-old. A fee of £20m has been floated for the player Lazio brought to Serie A from Anderlecht for approximately £7m three summers ago.
– Chelsea will look to tie up a deal for one of Ajax's most highly rated prospects, Juan Familia Castillo, in the next few weeks, according to the Mail. The Netherlands under-16 captain, who plays either centrally or on the left of midfield, is now set to join the Blues over Manchester United, who previously expressed an interest in the 16-year-old.
– As the Blues continue to rebuild this summer, they face a battle with West Ham for Bologna's super-talented midfielder Amadou Diawara, according to Italian newspaper Corriere di Bologna. The Felsinei will demand as much as £24m for the 18-year-old Guinea international, who has been extremely impressive for Roberto Donadoni's side in Serie A this season.
– Manchester United will face competition from Juventus for Ajax starlet Kenny Tete, according to Gazzetta dello Sport. The 20-year-old's contract is up in a year and the Bianconeri have now joined the Red Devils in the hunt for the full-back.
– Crystal Palace remain in the hunt for Fiorentina's star striker Khouma Babacar and will launch a bid of around £8m this summer, according to Gazzetta dello Sport. Alan Pardew's side were interested in the Senegalese star in the winter transfer window but a move failed to materialise.


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SALT LAKE CITY — With all of the ups and downs the Salt Lake Bees endured in their game against the Nashville Sounds on Sunday afternoon, it was more than appropriate for the contest to be decided by a walk-off home run in extra innings.
"It's a crazy game," Bees manager Keith Johnson said after his team prevailed, 8-7, in 10 innings at Spring Mobile Ballpark.
"Today in particular, but the game of baseball in general, it's a crazy game," he continued. "You never know when you're out of it and you never know when that winning run's going to score."
After the Bees dug an early hole, took back the lead, surrendered it late, and then re-tied the score, catcher Luke Carlin created that winning run, blasting a two-RBI shot past the right-field fence with his only hit of the day.
"I faced him in the ninth, so that at-bat in the 10th I had a good idea of what he had," Carlin said of Nashville closer Rob Wooten. "I figured I was going to get something soft. (I) got lucky."
Carlin's hit capped a crazy final two innings in which the teams combined for 10 runs after scoring just five total in the first eight innings.
Although both teams struggled to find momentum, the Bees held a 3-2 lead going into the ninth inning until Sounds center fielder Josh Prince hit a bases-loaded double to give Nashville control. Salt Lake responded with doubles from Roberto Lopez and Brad Hawpe to tie the score, 5-5, and force extra innings.
"You get four at-bats, sometimes five at-bats, a night and the biggest at-bat you're going to have that particular night is the next one," Johnson said of the back-and-forth aspect of the game. "I don't care if you're 4 for 4 going into that fifth at-bat. It might be the winning run out there on second base and two outs. And that's what our guys did a good job of today. Regardless of what they did earlier in the game, whether it was good, bad or otherwise, they came and put together some good approaches late and made some good, solid contact, and we were able to erase two deficits."
The Bees finished with 15 hits and eight RBIs, led by a 3-for-5 performance from first baseman Efren Navarro. Salt Lake also stole five bases and hit five doubles to combat leaving a record-tying 16 runners stranded.
The squads used a combined 11 pitchers Sunday, including Bees starter Jarrett Grube, who gave up six hits and walked three batters but struck out eight in six innings of work.
"Grube got himself into some bad counts in those middle innings, but he was able to limit them to single runs," Johnson said of the starter, who allowed two earned runs. "All we ask of our starters is when they leave the game to leave it with us in position to possibly win it. And he did that for us today."Comment on this story
Sounds starter Frankie De La Cruz went five innings, striking out five and giving up six hits, three walks and one earned run.
With the win, the Bees improve to 21-23 overall, while Nashville drops to 12-20. Salt Lake holds now a 2-2 record against the Sounds this season.
Bees 8, Sounds 7 (10)
In short: Salt Lake's Luke Carlin hit a two-RBI walk-off home run to cap a back-and-forth game for the Bees.
Record: 21-23
Up next: vs. Memphis, today, 6:35 p.m. Redbirds RHP Boone Whiting (1-0, 1.80 ERA) vs. TBD
Next homestand: June 1-4 vs. Colorado Springs (Rockies).
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The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology late Friday issued a proposed rule updating certification requirements for electronic health record technology effective in 2014. In a change requested by AHA, ONC proposes hospitals and eligible professionals only be required to own certified EHR technology for the objectives they use to demonstrate meaningful use under the Medicare or Medicaid EHR incentive program, not for all objectives under the programs. The rule also changes certification criteria for EHRs sold by vendors or self-developed by health care providers; proposes new patient safety criteria for certification; and seeks comments on ways to improve data portability and whether to require technology developers to disclose the full cost of certified EHR technology and modules. The proposed rule will be published in the March 7 Federal Register with comments accepted for 60 days. It is a companion to the proposed rule for Stage 2 "meaningful use" released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week, which requires hospitals and eligible professionals seeking to qualify for incentives and avoid future penalties under the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs to use certified EHR technology and associated standards for recording and sending data.
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can a marshall leave papers at your house when you are no home without serving you in person?
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Meet the Lane twins, Gary and Larry, whose driving ambition is to get their script, fashioned with a lead role for Dolly Parton, into the acrylic-nailed hands of the diva herself. So they decide to buy an RV which they christen "Jolene" (wouldn't you?) and drive across the country, as the title suggests, to get their opus to Dolly at her theme park.
So what's wrong with this picture? Well, for starters, the boys are seen in the opening scenes making chummy with some pretty big Hollywood players (Milk Oscar Winner Dustin Lance Black and Emmy Winner Leslie Jordan among them). Mightn't those contacts have been a better route to Dolly, rather than, say, throwing the script at her while she's on stage? And if they were really on a tight budget, as they claim throughout, wouldn't they have flown to Tennessee instead of buying an RV? They would, unless, of course, what they REALLY wanted to do was star in their own road movie.
But despite the film's obvious contrivances, once the boys hit the road, director John Lavin manages to get beneath the surface and find the real story, if not the intended one; The Lanes are 36 years old and almost embarrassingly concerned with what their mother thinks of them. These are southern boys who grew up with "traditional values" and while they are out to mother, she simply doesn't want to know about their homosexuality. It becomes clear pretty quickly that these men, in seeking fame, in seeking careers, in seeking Dolly, are seeking the acceptance they have been denied since childhood and it's heartbreaking. Sadder still is that they don't seem to see it. But Lavin does, and his film slyly manages to unearth the poignant heart under the trappings of a fabricated "documentary." Parton apparently saw that heart, too; 15 of her songs comprise the film's soundtrack, compliments of the lady herself.
From Hollywood to Dollywood screens at Outfest on Saturday, July 16.
For a full list of films playing at Outfest, click here. To read our Outfest 2011 roundtable with directors, writers, and actors featured in the festival, click here.
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In the dead of night, psychologist Erin Reilly is abducted from her Tucson home. Her kidnapper: a serial killer who burns his victims alive. Tormented by his obsession, he wants Erin to cure him before he kills again. If she fails, she'll become his next victim.
While Erin's twin sister Annie searches desperately for her, Erin delves into her captor's psyche and his past, discovering a secret guilt...a complex web of crime and betrayal...and an unexpected connection between the killer and herself.
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Danny O'Neil's NFL power rankings
Danny O'Neil's NFL power rankings Team (last week) Comment 1. Atlanta (1) Michael Turner is in perfect shape for his position. If his position were...
|Danny O'Neil's NFL power rankings
|Team (last week)
|1. Atlanta (1)
|Michael Turner is in perfect shape for his position. If his position were eating back.
|2. Houston (5)
|Texans have scored 16 rushing TDs, second-most, while allowing a league-low two.
|3. Denver (7)
|Broncos have outscored opponents 245-112 in the second half, largest margin in the league.
|4. San Francisco (2)
|Niners' offense has scored three TDs over the past two games.
|5. New England (6)
|Pats running low on receivers, yet it was the Red Sox who got the new catcher: Mike Napoli.
|6. Baltimore (3)
|None of the Ravens' final four opponents have a losing record.
|7. Green Bay (9)
|Running low on options: Packers have rushed for three TDs, tied for fewest in the league.
|8. Seattle (15)
|Browner downer: Seahawks will be missing Pro Bowl corner for next four games.
|9. Indianapolis (11)
|Colts have won six of their last seven, but play Texans twice in final four weeks.
|10. Washington (10)
|RG III has his team I win away from best record since 2008.
|11. N.Y. Giants (8)
|Giants are like the NFL's annual equivalent of an NCAA tournament bubble team.
|12. Cincinnati (12)
|Green monster: A.J. has 10 TD catches, tied for most in the league.
|13. Pittsburgh (14)
|Steelers feel more anatomically complete with OT Willie Colon expected to return this week.
|14. Chicago (7)
|The running back may be named Forte, but Jay Cutler is this team's biggest strength.
|15. Tampa Bay (13)
|This team's nickname translates to a dollar for corn: Buck-an-ear.
|16. Dallas (19)
|Season has been no pick-nic for a Cowboys team that has a league-low five interceptions.
|17. New Orleans (17)
|Only one of New Orleans' last four opponents holds a losing record.
|18. Minnesota (16)
|The Romans would think this team's nickname after six rulers: VI Kings.
|19. Miami (18)
|Dolphins were only the second-worst fish in Miami this year thanks to the Marlins.
|20. Cleveland (28)
|Darned if the Browns aren't playing themselves some respectable football.
|21. Buffalo (26)
|And the league's longest postseason drought will continue.
|22. St. Louis (25)
|Only team in the NFC West that has yet to lose in the division.
|23. Detroit (21)
|Fourth-degree burns: Lions have allowed league-high 121 points in fourth quarter.
|24. San Diego (22)
|Looking for the Chargers? Check the woodshed. They've been there the past two months.
|25. N.Y. Jets (23)
|It's been two weeks and I still can't hear "butt fumble" without laughing.
|26. Tennessee (24)
|Titans are 4-0 when they score more than 20 points, 0-8 when they don't.
|27. Carolina (20)
|After all the money the Panthers have spent on RBs, Cam Newton leads the team in rushing.
|28. Arizona (27)
|Raising Arizona was a comedy. Razing Arizona would be a good start to rebuilding.
|29. Philadelphia (29)
|The coach's inability to connect with this team points to a lack of Reid-ing comprehension.
|30. Jacksonville (30)
|Truly a sad-sack defense: Jags have league-low 13 sacks so far this season.
|31. Kansas City (32)
|Truly admirable effort in the wake of an unambiguously awful weekend.
|32. Oakland (31)
|Is that an O in Oakland or a zero? That's how many victories Raiders have in last 6 games.