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Are there Twi-babies in Nikki Reed's very near future?
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McDonald dished that he recently traveled to Italy and Spain with Reed while she was there promoting Breaking Dawn: Part 1 but that the couple still plans on taking a honeymoon away from their busy work schedules.
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From: "Deric John" <>
Subject: Public Houses in Pontardulais
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:23:04 -0000
Hi everyone,
My friend Alun Rees and I are compiling a book on the above topic. We would be very grateful if anyone has old photos of public houses in the Pontardulais and Hendy areas, and would be prepared for us to use them in our publication. We would of course acknowledge the source. I am pleased to say that some list members have, very generously, already contributed.
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Runs perfectly! Many thanks for this great upload to Night-Hawk! Loved this game ever since it was released.
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Letter(s) from Anna Shabunina to Robert (USA)
Letter 1
How are you? I am sorry if I didn't respond to you at once but you see I have no computer at home and I have to go to the Internet cafe which is located not far from my home. I think that first of all I should say thank you that you responded back to me and I guess I need to explain to you at once that I live in Russia, in Totsk city. Totsk is a closed city and it is located in Orenburgskaya region.
It is a very nice and small city. I should say that I have never been to the USA but I think that USA is a good country with nice people and traditions. Actually in my profile it says that I am from the USA.
I hope you are not very sad about it. When I was putting my ad I guess I have done a few mistakes because this is my first experience in Internet datings. I want to be honest from the whole beginning and that is why I want you to know that I am from Russia. I think I have to tell you more about me and my life here.
It is pretty cold here today, it is about 5 centigrades above zero and what about your place? Is it cold there?
I decided to put my profile on yahoo because I a very lonely here in Russia and I just couldn't find that specila man for me here.
I know that many Russian women also found their love somewhere in other coutries and in the USA so I am here now also trying to find my love. By the way one of my friend used to find her husband on yahoo personals also and now they live happily in Germany in a small city not far from Berlin .
And I also want to be happy with someone special for me, and who will love me. And age doesn't matter for me at all, the main thing is to be happy and find love. I told my friends that I am going to write you and they support me because we all wish each other only happiness.
I think you want to know about my family, well I have never seen my mother because she died borning me. I was brought up by my father who has gone this summer, he was a good Policeman and he was shot.
So I am alone now because I was the only child. As you see now nothing holds me now in this country anymore and I try to find my love.
You must be intersted in my likes and dislikes and etc. So here is some more information about me:
- I am a surgeon and I work in a city hospital ( I have a doctor diploma from the Medical Academy).
- I am a Christian
- I like white lilies
- My favourite color is blue
- My favourite music is classical
- I love pets and anymals
- I have no kids and I have never been married.
- I love cooking and my favourite food is Italian and Russian one. My best dish is lasagna.
- I have a driving license but I have no car
- I like to go to cinemas and theatres but I don't like disco because it is very noisy there and it is always overcrowded.
- I don't smoke and I drink socially ( for example a glass of red wine)
- I don't have tattoos or piercings exept for my ears.
- I don't like winters and it is very cold now in Russia.
I guess that is all for today and I hope you didn't get tired to read my email. Please write me more about yourself, your likes and dislikes...
Unfortunately I have to go home now since it is getting late here and I have a lot of work to do for today.
I very much hope that you will write me back today or tomorrow and I will try to reply to you at once...
Your friend from Russia,
Letter 2
Hello my dear
How are you today?
I am very glad to see your email. And would like to see as many pictures of yours as possible, because its very interesting for me and I would like to get to know you better.
Your reply made my day. I am happy to read your emails. I see we have a lot of common and I like it very much. I think we are becoming more closer to each other. Ive chosen your profile because I like you very much, when I read your profile I think you are very interesting person. And I have a feeling I was always looking for you.
Recently we celebrated Women's day in our country and I felt so sad because I had nobody to celebrate it with.
Anyway, I with my friends went to the cafe and had some fun. Everybody was kissing and hugging with their beloved.
All women got flowers...I hope that next time I will celebrate Women's day with my beloved who can be my one and forever.
Could it be you?
By the way I have something more to tell you about me. I didnt tell you that I like travelling. I have been in Moscow a few years ago with my friends.
Also I have been in St.Petersburg. It was wonderful to go sightseeing and very interesting. But unfortunatly I had no chance to visit any foreign country.
Some more information about me:
- I have blue eyes
- I am 5'6 height
- I am 55 kg weight ( unfortunately don't know how much it will be in your measurement system) - my sizes (93-63-92 )in cm.
I have already told you that I work as a surgeon in a city hospital.I do different operations. But I earn not much in our country. About $200 in your money per month. I do think it is a small salary but all doctors have low salary in Russia.
I was attending courses of English for two years already and I like this language, though I have never spoken in English with someone who is from English-speaking country.
Today is 13 digrees above zero( this is a teperature in Celcius), and tomorrow I am going to go outside with my friends for BBQ.
I t should be funny. By the way, do you like camp?
So strange, time flies so fast...I will be 36 years old soon.
My birthday is 13th of May.Can you belive it!!!.
But I should say that I don't want to spend it, because I always wanted to celebrate it with my life partner. That is my dream and I hope it will come true one day. You know, now I am very sad that you are so far away from me, cause we couldnt be together on my birthday .
I have one more dream, a dream to have a family, to take care about my housband. Its all I want in my life, i just want to be happy as a woman. And its doesnt matter in what kind of country my future husband is living.
I will be next to him, and I will find any job I can to help have a good style of life.
I guess that is enough for today and I would like to ask you a few questions:
- what are you going to do this weekend
- what did you do for fun
- what do you feel about such relationships as we can possibly have.
I will be waiting for your reply with great impatience.
I have to run for my work right now...
Goodbye for now
Letter 3
Hello sweety!!! How are you today? How is your week-end. I hope everything is ok. By the way Happy Easter! I am very happy to read all your letters for me.
Your letters makes my day. And my friends are also happy to see that we are in our correspondence.
I have to tell you that you make my life full of happiness. And now I know that there is somebody who is thinking about me and now I am not alone.
Thank you for that. And I dont want to put my profile on yahoo again since I dont want to see other emails, just want to corespond with you only. I dont know why but I liked your profile at the first sight, I can't explain it, its difficult to explane for me. Anyway I am really happy that we can talk with each other and share our thoughts, it makes us closer for each other.
We were going with my friends to go outside for BBQ but two fo my friends got flue and we didn't have BBQ.
I wish you could be here with me right now because I don't like walk alone.
That is why I am in internet cafe now and writing this letter. I dont know what else I can tell you about me. I fill that you have already know all things about me. I have fillings as if I know you for a very long time.
By the way yesterday my friends and I went to the cinema it was "National Treasure". You should see it, cause its very good movie.
As for me I want to hear your voice very much, but I dont have a phone at home and you can't call me but if you want you can give me your number (please inlcude country code and zone area) and I will try to find a way to call you as soon as I can, it will be great, but I don't know how it will be because I have never spoken to anyone in English before .
Speaking about our time difference, I am +5 GMT.
Its very difficult to use messenger because of time diffrence, and I told you that I don't have computer at home.
You know , when I stay alone evening Ii am thinking about our first meeting, how it can be, I imagine when you see me in the airport and give me flowers, take my hand and kiss me and we go to your home to celebrate my birthday.
It will be the best gift on my birthday in the world.Or you can visit me and we will celebrate it here alone, only you and me.I am thinking about it all the time. Can you imagine it or not?. What do think about it?
By the way what is the closest airport to your place? Mine is located in Orenburg.
. I cant stop writing this letter cause I like it very much, but I have to do some housework and need to go unfortunately. I hope you are thinking of me as much as I am thinking of you and sending pictures for you.
One of them is my favourite and two others are pictures of me and the kids who were ill and who were my clients in the hospital.
I hope when you see them you will think about me, Ok, I wish you good day and week-end, Rob!!!
Kisses for you!!!
From Natalya Ivanova with love!!!
Russia, Orenburgskaya region, Totsk, Lenina street 22-54.
Letter 4
Hello my sweetheart!!! How are you today? I am so happy to read your emails.
Sorry that I didn't reply to you at once.
I think you are very special to me and you are a sweetest man and I always dream about you. I told all about our relationships to my friends and they are very happy to see how I happy I am becoming with every day because of you.
I dont know what else I can tell you but my mind full of words of love and nothing else. Every day I hope that all its real and you are not just my imagination. My friends say you hello. I have some present for you from them.
I cant wait our meeting and think about you every day. What about you ???
You are the man I am looking for.
I was in travel agency to find out how I can get to fly to you. And be with you on Birthday. I hope we can make it, and I gave your email adress to travel agent and he promised me to send you all information about my trip. But there is one thing, if we want to celebrate my birthday with you in your place , you should tell me if you will help me or not, because they will sale that cheap tickets and if we meet later it will cost much more for us and then later as they say it will be much more difficult to get visa which is valid during 1 month. I don't know why it is so because i am new to this and I have never been to any other country which needs visa but they told me that.
Think about it because I can't afford it, because I earn only 200 USD here , but you shouldn't worry because I will give it back to you your money when we meet, cause I will work in some hospital and can earn some money for you.
I am sorry to tell that but I am realy want to be with you. I dont know what else I can tell, you know everithing about me. Of course if I could I wouldl ask all my friends to lend me some but I dont have any friends who can do it for me , please understand it, sorry if it makes you sad. I hope you will understand me right. I can speak with all day and night but its better to speak face to face that we can know each other better. Dont you think so ?
If you want I can fly to you only for a week and we will see how things go or I can stay with you forever, all in your hands.
Ok, now I give you a lot of kisses from me, and I give you my heart, and I belive in my dreams to be with you soon.
Love you so much! Want to touch you and kiss you.!!! bye for now.
PS I will be waiting for your reply .
From Natalya Ivanova with love!!!
Russia, Orenburgskaya region, Totsk, Lenina street 22-54.
Letter 5
2 May, 2005
Dear Sir !
Due to the request of Natalya Ivanova we send you the information about the tour from Orenburg, Russia to the USA
Foreign passport - 100 USD
Tourist visa for a month , one entry- 125 USD
We can offer the next flight on 15 May.
We can't provide you with the information about the exact time Natalya arrives to you, we will have that information as soon as we receive full payment and start arranging the trip. If this time is ok for You and Miss Ivanova, you should make balance payment sooner.
Since our travel agency has discounts, the total price for the trip 986USD is valid for 5 days. Roundtrip tickets with the registration of all the documents for Natalya's flight costs 986USD
Total: 986 USD
We arrange all necessary documents and tickets in 8-12 days after receiving full payment for the trip.
You can transfer the funds for the trip of Miss Ivanova via MONEY GRAM or WESTERN UNION system. It is the fastest and the safest way to transfer the funds. Our travel agency is officially registerred as a private businessman AndreyVarnin, Orenburg, Russian Federation. As soon as you transfer the funds on the name of our director, will you please e-mail us your full name and MTCN (money transfer control number) and we shall get the funds the same or the other day after transfer.
Payment memo: Payment for Invoice ¹ 12-391-1548
Order Now
You can also transfer the funds for the trip of Miss Ivanova to our bank account and we shall receive the funds in 3-4 working days.
To be paid by Bank Wire:
Bank of receiver: Severnaya Kazna, Yekaterinburg
Address of bank: Ekaterinburg Gorkogo 17, Russia
Corresponding bank: Bank of New York, New York USA
SWIFT of corresponding bank: IRVTUS3NXXX
F/o account 890-0055-006 of Bank for Foreign Trade, Moscow
Account of receiver: 4230-1840-001194396527
Receiver: "MAKAROV"
Payment memo: Payment for Invoice ¹ 12-391-1548
To get any other information you may contact us by e-mail. It is cheaper for you and comfortable for us, we will reply after receiveing your letter or by phone.
Respectfully yours,
"DeLuxe Travel Agency"
Russia, Orenburg, K.Marksa street 79
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
tel: +7 912-677-2504
Letter 6
3 May, 2005
Dear Sir !
Due to the request of Natalya Ivanova we send you the information about the tour from Orenburg, Russia to the USA
Sir, DeLuxe Travel is a credible and reliable agency, well known in Orenburg. We have been working since 1992 and we are officially registered as a travel company in the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Russian Federation and in the Ministry of Tourism of the region Orenburgskaya. Our licence is attached. Sir, the discount started from 8 april and it has been valid during the month till 7May our Russian time and it is not our fault that Natalya came to our travel agency when the discount is valid only a few more days.
To get any other information you may contact us by e-mail. It is cheaper for you and comfortable for us, we will reply after receiveing your letter or by phone.
Respectfully yours,
"DeLuxe Travel Agency"
Russia, Orenburg, K.Marksa street 79
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
tel: +7 912-677-2504
Letter 7
3 May, 2005
Dear Sir !
Due to the request of Natalya Ivanova we send you the information about the tour from Orenburg, Russia to the USA
Sir, if you are going to send the funds to our bank account it will take 3-4 days to get the funds. In case you are going to send the funds via Money Gram or Western Union, we shall be able to get the funds the same day. Please inform us about the way of paymeny you choose as soon as you transfer the funds.
To get any other information you may contact us by e-mail. It is cheaper for you and comfortable for us, we will reply after receiveing your letter or by phone.
Respectfully yours,
"DeLuxe Travel Agency"
Russia, Orenburg, K.Marksa street 79
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
tel: +7 912-677-2504
Letter 8
4 May, 2005
Dear Sir !
Due to the request of Natalya Ivanova we send you the information about the tour from Orenburg, Russia to the USA
Sir, which way of transaction did you chose? You sent us the MTCN but it is not a MTCN of Money Gram or Western Union.
Did you send the funds to our bank account?
Please confirm as soon as possible.
To get any other information you may contact us by e-mail. It is cheaper for you and comfortable for us, we will reply after receiveing your letter or by phone.
Respectfully yours,
"DeLuxe Travel Agency"
Russia, Orenburg, K.Marksa street 79
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
tel: +7 912-677-2504
Letter 9
4 May, 2005
Dear Sir !
Due to the request of Natalya Ivanova we send you the information about the tour from Orenburg, Russia to the USA
Sir, everything is ok now. When you sent us the MTCN for the first time you made mistake and now we can see the transaction.
WE shall get the money during the hour and write you back at once.
Thank you for choosing our travel agency.
To get any other information you may contact us by e-mail. It is cheaper for you and comfortable for us, we will reply after receiveing your letter or by phone.
Respectfully yours,
"DeLuxe Travel Agency"
Russia, Orenburg, K.Marksa street 79
e-mail: email@example.com
tel: +7 912-677-2504
Letter 10
Hello my sweetheart,
First I would like to appoligeze that you lost me. You see I caught cold and had tostay in bed with high temperature, well I am a doctor and I know how to speed up the process with medicine and ger well quickly. I am sorry if I made you nevervous. I promise now I will write you every day and I want to talk to you on the phone so much because soon we are going to meet and I want to get closer to you before our meeting. I also want to thank you from the botom of my heqrt that you gave us such an opportunity to meet and be together. I know that everything will e great between us. Denied fuel, that flame might dim and falter, leaving the darkness to rule the night. The fuel that sustains that flame is love itself. This is why love is so important. This is why, when you have found the one person in the world for you, you must hold onto that person with all of your heart. I think you understand what I am saying, Rob. Without love, life is far less meaningful. With love, one can find meaning in every aspect of the world around us. Clouds, blades of grass, birds soaring in the air, they all are brought into sharper focus by the lens of love.
When two loving souls are kept apart by distance, it can be difficult to sustain the dynamic connection between them. Difficult, but not impossible. Yet when a certain point is reached in the evolution of any relationship, a meeting in the flesh is required to seal the bonds of love. Until then, they remain tenuous at best. With this knowledge, I guess you understand my eagerness to meet face to face, to gaze into the eyes of the other and see whether love awaits there...
THe only thing I can do now is pray and hope that we shall meet on my birthday and spend that special day together.
Only you and me....
With all my affection
Your Natalya


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NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday professional football would continue to make changes in the game where needed to protect the health of players.
Goodell responded to growing concerns among current and former players that the sport could eventually disappear if it becomes too dangerous to play.
One member of the Baltimore Ravens, who will be taking part in the Super Bowl on Sunday, has recently said he thinks football will cease to exist within the next 30 years.
A class action suit against the league filed by players seeks damages for head trauma suffered during their careers. The risk of brain damage drew attention again during the past year when former San Diego linebacker Junior Seau took his own life and left a note asking that his brain be examined.
At his annual pre-Super Bowl news conference, Goodell said the NFL would "pioneer new approaches to player health and safety and emphasize prevention as well as treatment."
He said the league's competition committee will study the possibility of "eliminating certain dangerous, low blocks, further taking the head out of the game, and expanding the standards for the quality of our playing fields."
Goodell announced neurosurgeons would be added to a list of medical personnel available at each game.
Fines and suspensions, he said, would increase for players whose disregard for the rules leads to injuries.
"I think we're going to have to continue to see discipline escalate, particularly on repeat offenders," he said. "It's not just the defenseless player that's being protected, it's the person doing the striking.
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Rizgar Alizadeh describes himself as a simple plumber living in a small town on the Iran-Iraq border. He doesn't own a computer. He's never travelled outside Iran. And he laughs at the suggestion that he is a member of a terrorist group.
In a lengthy interview with The Globe and Mail Friday, Mr. Alizadeh, who is alleged to belong to a terror cell planning to detonate improvised explosive devices in the Canadian capital and fund insurgent groups in Afghanistan, shot back at the accusations made against him by the Canadian security apparatus.
His older brother, Hiva Alizadeh, is facing the most serious charges of the four people arrested in this week's anti-terror sweep. Police sources said Hiva has ties to an Islamist insurgent group operating in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. He studied electrical engineering at a college in Winnipeg and is the only person charged with making or possessing an explosive substance.
Police sources said that the more than 50 circuit boards seized in the raids were sophisticated, long-range trigger devices that mark a significant technological advance for Canadian terror groups. They said the triggers would have allowed bombs to be detonated from a distance of several hundred metres,
Rizgar Alizadeh said there is no substance to the allegations, and, speaking through a Canadian translator from his home in Iran, sounded remarkably calm about being accused of a serious crime. He said he had been told by his aunt in Canada that his brother was arrested, but didn't know the arrest was related to terrorism, or that he himself was also allegedly one of the conspirators.
"It was very surprising. All through today I was thinking why have they got him? What has he done?" he said.
Rizgar described the allegations against both him and his brother as "a pack of lies" and said he was neither angry nor fearful because his conscience is clear.
"I don't get scared at all. Hiva has the same mentality as I do. He's cool like me" he said.
Quoting an old Farsi proverb he added, "Whoever has a clean account is not afraid of the accountant."
The two men were very close growing up in Sardasht, a city of about 40,000 people near the Iraq border in the mountainous western region of Iran . In 1987, they survived a chemical attack launched by Saddam Hussein on the region's ethnic Kurds, but Rizgar said they remembered very little of it.
Their father was a caretaker for the Iranian board of education. However, the local economy was stagnant, Mr. Alizadeh said, and his brother, one of six siblings, decided to set out for a better life at the age of 19. He walked through the mountains to Turkey where he was accepted as a United Nations refugee and eventually embarked for Canada. He landed in Winnipeg about nine years ago and was embraced by the local Iranian community, which included an uncle who drove a taxi. One person who knew him in those years described him as shy and hard-working. He took jobs as a security guard on construction jobs, stocked shelves at a Halal meat shop, and later followed in his father's footsteps by taking a job cleaning schools.
Rizgar said Hiva struggled in Canada to fit in socially, however.
"He was saying they are kind people, but they are not like us. They are a bit cold," Rizgar recalled.
A person who knew him in Winnipeg, but asked not to be identified, said the elder Mr. Alizadeh took his religious faith very seriously, and seemed concerned that others adhere to the orthodoxy he espoused.
"We weren't actually seeing eye to eye in this area," said the man, who also knew Hiva when he was growing up in Iran.
"Once in a while he would say, "This is right, this is wrong … It was important to him. He was trying to keep his principles."
Eventually, he married an aboriginal woman from Winnipeg, Julie Harper, who converted to Islam and wore the niqab, his brother said. But he felt lonely in Winnipeg after his uncle moved to Ottawa and decided to join him. It was around this time, police allege, that the conspiracy began.
In Iran, Rizgar said he has never heard of any of the other members of the alleged conspiracy: the Montreal doctor Khurram Sher, the X-ray technologist Misbahuddin Ahmed, and unindicted co-conspirators James Lara and Zakara Mamosta.
He said neither he nor his brother had ever travelled to Afghanistan or Pakistan, nor had they ever contributed to Islamic charitable groups in that region. He also laughed at the suggestion they had connections to terror groups in the region.
"He never had anything to do with politics in any country. We do have some unfortunate people in our distant family, people who cannot afford enough rice or meat. Sometimes I was telling him to send money to help them and I help them to buy food and things," Rizgar said. The amounts were usually about $300 a year, and were deposited directly to an account at Iran's Tejarat Bank, he said.
He said his brother had travelled to Saudi Arabia twice in the past decade, but only for the Muslim pilgrimage, not for any other reason.
"I think they arrested him because he's a Muslim," Rizgar said. He added that both he and his brother are soft-hearted characters who would hesitate to water a plant for fearing of harming an insect on its surface.
After the attacks of Sept. 11 he said his brother was upset at the loss of life.
"He was saying there's lots of women and children and lots of innocent people inside that building," Rizgar said.
The two of them spoke on the phone once every three weeks, but otherwise never exchanged e-mails or conventional mail.
The last time they spoke was two days, shortly before the elder Mr. Alizadeh was arrested. He never suggested he thought he was being watched, his brother said. The last time he saw him was about a year ago when he travelled to Iran to visit his mother, who was having surgery. It was only the second time he had been back home.
He never expressed much unhappiness, his brother said. He liked Canada for its wealth and kind people, he said.
"He was saying lots of good things about Canada's economy and it was really good for him because he was working and had enough to do," he said.


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Sufficient Statistics for Measuring the Value of Changes in Local Public Goods: Does Chetty's Framework Inform Lind?
The performance of quasi-experimental methods applied to changes in non-market goods depends on the ability of reduced form models to accurately measure willingness to pay. When exogenous changes are non-marginal, the accuracy of the reduced form approximations is not well understood. Further complicating the performance of reduced form models is that the true representation of the non-market good in household utility functions may differ from the perceptions of that good as captured in the reduced form model. This paper evaluates a series of before/after quasi-experiments where the true model is known and examines the performance of these methods under a variety of conditions. We find that performance is impacted by the scale of the change and that differences in perceptions of the amenity between the reduced form model and the underlying utility function play an important role in determining the performance of quasi-experimental applications. For researchers interested in non-market goods where the true representations of changes in relation to the underlying utility function are unknown, the notion of perceived measures of the non-market good in reduced form models should receive considerable attention.
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Part I: On being single
Indian society, according to Radhika Jha's Barsaati Days, tends to think single people stay single because they've had no choice.
The author speaks of countless women and men, who actually confess to being single only because they haven't met anyone worth marrying, not because they are enjoying their single status.
According to Radhika Jha's Barsaati Days this attitude of society can be blamed on society's mistrust of singles.
We continue with the part two of the story, which is part of an anthology, Chasing The Good Life: On Being Single by editor Bhaichand Patel.
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If you are a single woman then you are considered to be a loose woman, and hence 'not respectable enough to marry' but great to party or sleep with. If you are a single man, you escape the stigma for a while but if you touch forty and are still not married then you are assumed to be a complete loser or else a pervert. Underlying these attitudes is the notion that single people are failures, that they are single because they don't have a choice. This is the story that those who are part of the system tell themselves. Indian society needs to see single people as failures, people who have been unable to perform that most basic and human act -- reproduce. Or else it would have to rethink the fundamental assumption on which it is based -- marriage. For there is no doubt that in India marriage is a purely social contract. Why else is the entire world invited to witness it?
These attitudes are so prevalent that often single people end up internalizing them, and actually feeling like failures. Countless women and men, both in public and in private confess to being single only because they haven't met anyone worth marrying. I have never heard anyone say openly that they are single because they are having a wonderful, fulfilling life.
Paradoxically, those who choose to be single and to stay single after their mid-twenties are, by society's own standards, some of its most successful and visible members. They are doctors, architects, media people, lawyers, managers, writers, actors, professionals from all walks of life. More important, they are high up enough in their professions to be able to earn enough to live alone. What Indian society has conveniently forgotten to recognize is that more and more single people today are single because they have chosen to be, not because they are forced to.
But it is precisely because of this that singleness poses such a threat to society. Because asserting the right to choose directly attacks the foundations of society's most cherished unit, the family. On doesn't choose one's family, just as one doesn't choose one's nation or religion. Yet these are the things a society is based upon. A person who asserts the right to choose flies in the face of family, society and nation.
A single woman is even more threatening to society than a man because it is she who is primarily responsible for reproducing society. One has only to look at how the earliest woman professional, the courtesan, was regarded, to see how threatening an independent woman can be to society-even in the West. In Victorian and Edwardian England, actresses, opera divas, ballet dancers, and authoresses gained great fame but not much respect. Till the gender revolution of the seventies even women with degrees from Oxford and Cambridge were kept out of managerial positions with such zeal that most could find jobs only as executive secretaries.
In India, society hits back at a single woman where she is most vulnerable. A pretty young woman living on her own has to be a sex-maniac. Therefore, she is out of the Laxman Rekha that protects young marriageable girls. Every married man feels he is doing her a favour by offering her some sex. But in fairness, single men don't have it much easier. A young IT professional I met at a bar told me, 'Four months after I returned from the US, I walked up to a woman at a party, and within five minutes of talking to her, her brother and his friends had me in the bathroom with a gun in my face. Now I'm terrified of talking to a (Delhi) woman.'
Male or female, a single person is an individual first, but the ways in which men and women experience 'singleness' are different. For a girl, singleness creeps up on her and catches her unawares. Education is probably the catalyst. In the classroom, a girl gets used to competing with boys and even beating them. At home, doing well in school earns her the respect of her father. In her relationships, she then wants to be reasonably certain that she will enjoy the same respect. Saddled with an educated daughter, even conventional families want to reassure themselves that their daughter will be well-treated by her in-laws and when they can't be sure of it, they reluctantly help her to be independent. As Roshan Lal, a safai karamchari at the Ministry of Finance puts it, 'I am willing to pay a dowry, but I must first be certain that the boy will treat my daughter with respect.' As a result, his daughter, Latha, is unmarried and works as a secretary in a bank.
For men coming out of a joint-family system, the idea that a woman is sizing them up is terrifying. Because it forces them to ask the question, 'Am I interesting enough to satisfy her? This question can only be answered if they answer another question: 'Who am I? But the latter can only be answered in privacy. The answer to such a question, possible the most difficult question anyone can ask of himself or herself, requires that a man be capable of introspection. And that only comes when one is unafraid of solitude. In a joint-family system, privacy is something that a boy never gets. 'I couldn't get my parents to knock on my door before they entered,' a close friend, Vijay, confessed to me last year when he finally moved out of his mother's home. 'I love living on my own. I can think for myself, my feelings belong to me and not to my mother. I feel I'm a person. I know more and more men like him, men who aren't afraid of independent women, who aren't fundamentally insecure about their own attractiveness men who have realized, like a journalist friend of mine, that 'women are like rivers, you have to let them flow.'
Things have changed a lot since 1994 when I fled my barsaati in the middle of the night .In 2003, I returned to Delhi and was shocked by the change. What stunned me was when, shortly after my arrival, a woman at the beauty parlour --obviously married, a big diamond on her finger --leaned over to me and said, 'You lucky thing, don't ever get married.'
It is easy to be single in Delhi today. Landlords prefer single people because they've realized that single people pay the best and look after the place better. There are places to go to, lots of things to do. There is a community of single people in the city who are visible, successful and unashamed.
I think single people have a lot to thank Dr Manmohan Singh for. Though he never planned it that way, young single people are the ones who have most benefited from liberalization. They are the ones who have the incomes to afford the clothes and the glamorous lifestyle the magazines hype. And yet, I don't see anything glamorous in being single. It is a rich experience, but there is little glamour in it.
Like everything in life, even singleness comes with a price attached to it. What is hardest about being single for me are the moments when one is truly alone. These moments steal up on you, catch you unawares when you are at your most vulnerable. What is most wonderful about being single is the anarchy of it, the lack of accountability, the naked intensity of each moment--both the good ones and the bad ones.
Part I: On being single
~ Excerpted from Chasing The Good Life: On Being Single by Bhaichand Patel, published by Penguin Books India, Rs 325, with the publisher's permission.
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For the past seven seasons, when the calendar turned to November the Oakland Raiders were thinking more about draft position, the head coach's status and offseason plans than the playoffs.
Two straight blowouts have made the Raiders (4-4) much more relevant as they head into the second half of the season without a losing record for the first time since 2002.
"It's a totally different atmosphere in here," said linebacker Sam Williams, who has been with the team through seven years of losing. "It's a great feeling because we know we have something to play for, we know we're a good team, and the sky's the limit."
This week's game against Kansas City (5-2) is the biggest for the Raiders since losing the Super Bowl following the 2002 season. What makes it even juicier is that the Chiefs sit atop the AFC West, adding fire to a rivalry that turned lackluster in recent years.
This marks the first time since 2002 that neither team heads into the game with a losing record as the rebuilding processes that coach Tom Cable started in Oakland in 2008 and Todd Haley began last season in Kansas City are coming to fruition.
"It's exciting, that's the term I used," Cable said. "It's an exciting time for the organization, the community, the fans, but you've got to keep in perspective. It's about our team continuing to get better, and that's what we've been able to do lately, and as long as we stick to that we'll be fine."
The two teams head into the game as the top two in the AFC West, a turnaround from the previous three seasons when they occupied the bottom two positions.
They haven't finished 1-2 since 1993 and have done it just twice since 1972 -- the last of a seven-year run when Oakland and Kansas City finished 1-2 in the division in some order.
"When you look back at the '60s and '70s and the AFL days when both teams were fighting for championships, and they had to go through one another to get to the championship, it's kind of hard to compare to those days," Chiefs offensive lineman Brian Waters said. "A lot of great names came out of those days. There were some lean years for both teams and so to say over the course of my time here (the rivalry) has not been as memorable as those decades, I don't think it has been as memorable. But no matter where we are in the rankings, it's always been close."
Both coaches grew up with a healthy hatred of the opposing team. Cable was a longtime Raiders fan who always pointed to the games against Denver and Kansas City as the most important of the season.
Haley is a former water boy and errand-runner for Pittsburgh when his father worked as an executive for the Steelers and Oakland and Pittsburgh were at the top of the AFC.
"Some things don't change," Haley said. "I've never liked the Raiders very much. It goes back to my growing-up days. Feeling connected to the Steelers and having those ties, I didn't like the Raiders. It didn't matter who the people were in the uniforms, who the coaches are on the sidelines. That feeling's probably not going to change for me unless I work for the Raiders one day, and then it has to change."
Both teams have built their success in similar fashion, relying on a potent running game with many options. Kansas City leads the NFL in rushing behind a pair of backs on pace for 1,000-yard seasons in Jamaal Charles and Thomas Jones.
The Raiders are second in rushing behind a breakthrough season from Darren McFadden, who leads the league with 111.3 yards per game on the ground.
McFadden is a big reason why the Raiders have topped 500 yards of offense in each of the past two games for the first time in franchise history. Oakland outscored Denver and Seattle 92-17 -- the most lopsided stretch in 43 years.
"It's a big confidence boost," McFadden said. "That's something we've been talking about doing, just going out there and putting games together back-to-back, and we've been able to do it. Now we want to just keep going week after week."
This is probably the most meaningful game for the Raiders since losing the Super Bowl in January 2003 to Tampa Bay. They followed that by becoming the only team in NFL history to lose at least 11 games in seven straight seasons.
Right tackle Langston Walker, punter Shane Lechler and kicker Sebastian Janikowski are the only players left from that 2002 team so most of these Raiders have never experienced a game like this in Oakland.
"This is huge," defensive end Trevor Scott said. "Where we are right now, a lot of us, we haven't been in uncharted waters like this before. Just the fact that we're 4-4, and it's been a long time since we've been .500 here. We're very excited about that. We're just going to keep the foot on the gas pedal."


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High Holy Days: Working for happiness
Did you know that many people actually find free time more difficult to enjoy than work? Although many people also find their work stressful, boring or meaningless, success doesn't make people happy either.
"More than a decade of groundbreaking research in the fields of positive psychology and neuroscience has proven in no uncertain terms that the relationship between success and happiness works the other way around," writes Shawn Achor, one of the designers and teachers of Harvard's famous Happiness course, in "The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work." Research shows that happiness is the precursor to success, not the result, and that, together with optimism, it fuel success. This is what Achor means by the competitive edge he calls the "happiness advantage."
But can unhappy people – or even mildly content people – become happy? If so, how? And is it possible to be happy even at work?
Achor believes so. As the CEO of Good Think Inc., a global positive-psychology consulting company, Achor uses the latest in research to give practical steps to increase happiness in our daily lives. His TED talks on the subject have garnered millions of views.
The Texan got a taste of happiness when he unexpectedly got into Harvard after applying on a dare. He then stayed in the dorms for the next 12 years, first as an undergraduate, then a graduate student and live-in resident to help students with academic and personal success. There he witnessed a pattern of students getting worried, overwhelmed, depressed and even failing.
It was only after he went to visit a shantytown school in Soweto, South Africa, that he began to understand the answer. When he asked the kids if they like to do schoolwork, most of the kids raised their hands. And they weren't lying. A CEO from South Africa told him, "They see schoolwork as a privilege, one their parents did not have."
When he returned to Harvard and saw people complaining about the very thing Soweto students saw as a privilege, "I started to realize just how much our interpretation of reality changes our experience of that reality." Students who saw learning as a chore missed out on the opportunities in front of them, but those who saw Harvard as an opportunity shined.
The seven principles in "The Happiness Advantage" are not about putting on a happy face, Achor believes. It's not about using positive thinking to pretend problems don't exist, or that everything will always be great. It's about harnessing our neuroplasticity, our brain's ability to change and rewire itself.
"The hardest part about happiness is remembering that we can choose it," he says.
Achor talked about the seven principles of "The Happiness Advantage."
Principle No. 1 The Happiness Advantage Happiness, Achor says, is "the joy we feel striving toward our potential." This definition links positive emotion with a cognitive awareness of growth. Positive emotion without growth is pleasure, which is fleeting. Growth without positive emotion is equally short-lived and leads to depression.
"Your brain works significantly better at positive than it does when neutral or negative," Achor says, noting that when positive, the brain has triple the creativity, 31 percent higher levels of productivity, 23 percent fewer fatigue-related symptoms, 37 percent higher levels of sales — all resulting in higher profit and lower burnout.
Principle No. 2: The Fulcrum and the Lever Achor learned at an early age that our brain can be thought of as "single processors capable of devoting only a finite amount of resources to experiencing the world." You can use those resources to see the world through a lens of negativity, stress, pain and uncertainty, he says, or through a lens of gratitude, hope, resilience and optimism.
"Happiness is not about lying to ourselves, or turning a blind eye to the negative, but about adjusting our brain so that we see the ways to rise above our circumstances."
According to Yale psychologist Amy Wrzeniewski, a crucial part in work satisfaction is whether you view your work as a job (a means to a paycheck), a career (necessary to advance and succeed) or a calling (work as an end in itself contributing to a greater good). It doesn't matter the work one does, it can always be connected to one's higher calling, Achor says.
Principle No. 3 The Tetris Effect
The brains of people who repeatedly play video games (like Tetris, where blocks have to fit geometrically) became stuck in a 'cognitive after-image,' which causes them to see the game wherever they go. People can also get stuck that way, especially accountants, lawyers and other professionals trained to be critical. Lawyers depose their children while accountants make spreadsheets of their wives' faults.
But you can create a 'Positive Tetris Effect,' i.e. train your brain to get stuck in a positive afterimage using happiness, gratitude and optimism. Make a list of three positive things at the end of the day, and your brain will have to scan for positive events.
"This trains the brain to become more skilled at noticing and focusing on possibilities for personal and professional growth, and seizing opportunities to act on them," he says.
Principle No. 4 Falling Up
The human brain has been wired to create mental maps to survive and navigate the world. After a failure, we create a map with three possible outcomes: 1. Circling in the same spot. 2. Getting further lost (going down a more negative path). 3. Getting to a place stronger than before.
The third way "is the difference between those who are crippled by failure and those who rise above it." After repeated setbacks, some people learn helplessness and believe their actions are futile, while others have what psychologists call "adversarial growth" success after traumas or failures because of their positive mindset.
Principle No. 5 The Zorro Circle
Before he could become a hero, the fictional character Zorro had to learn to control his impulsiveness and master his skills one by one, first within a small circle. Often, Achor says, we feel out of control, especially when we try to tackle too many things at once. In a study of 7,400 employees published in The Lancet in 2007, people who felt they had little control over their deadlines had a 50 percent higher risk of heart disease.
In times of stress, Achor says, it's important to identify your feelings (whether in writing or in words), find out which parts of the situation you can control, then try to accomplish one small goal. Then another, and another.
Principle No. 6: The 20-Second Rule
Neuroplasticity tells us that we can change our brains: bad habits wire them that way as do good habits. Achor works with people to replace a negative habit with a positive one "so that the brain's resources are being allocated appropriately" toward change, he says.
But to form a new habit, you have to create the path of least resistance (i.e., it needs to be easy). Achor found that committing to playing the guitar every day wasn't enough when his guitar was stored in the closet. Once he moved it outside ("lower the barrier"), he incorporated guitar playing into his daily routine.
Principle No. 7 Social Investment
In times of stress and crisis, many people retreat into their shells and cut off communication with their friends and loved ones. But happy, successful people do the opposite. "Instead of turning inward, they actually hold tighter to their social circle," Achor says. Forming social bonds increases Oxytocin, reducing anxiety and improving concentration and focus.
In the end, Achor believes we can always be happy at work by creating positive habits and sticking with them. "But if you feel like you could grow more in another job, then optimism should fuel the belief that you can make that change successfully," he says. But if change is not possible for some reason, "making the best of the current situation only makes good sense."


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Cuernavaca is a famous vacation place among tourists. Located just 52 miles (84 km) south of Mexico City, Cuernavaca fills comes to life especially over the weekends, when locals and tourists alike escape the capital. The comfortable year-round climate along with the historical sites to visit will definitely fill your days. Use the form above to search for the lowest fares to Cuernavaca, or keep reading to learn more about planning your trip.
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News Release 09-22
Date: March 16, 2009
Springfield House Fire
Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department units responded to a house fire at approximately 6 a.m., Saturday, March 14, 2009, in the Springfield area of Fairfax County. The single-family home is located at 7714 Cervantes Lane.
Upon arrival, firefighters encountered an attached garage fully involved with fire, which extended to the siding and attic of the single-family home. Firefighters brought the fire under control in approximately 45 minutes. Units quickly initiated extinguishment and accounted for the occupants. Three adults and two family cats were at home when the fire started and safely evacuated when the smoke alarms were activated. Three occupants have been displaced. Red Cross is assisting the displaced occupants. There were no injuries.
Damage is estimated at $150,000.
According to fire investigators, the fire was accidental. The cause was an electrical anomaly.
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text: Long story short... my friend rooted my phone so I could use Wi Fi tether. It started acting up so I started installing different roms. I eventually got Angry at the malfunctioning and used a method to UNROOT. From then on my phone just stayed stuck on the Google Screen with a lock at the Bottom. I have used One Click Stock Restore, A Samsung App to restore, ODIN to restore to stock and NONE have worked. I am kind of a noob but I managed to get my phone to start by using ODIN to put 4.0.4. on it but time and time again it actually starts but with an Old Rom I used to have. It looks like my phone but then nothing is responsive it is all tore up. Messaging crashes, my phone crashes, it is horrible. So my question is how can I wipe EVERYTHING from my phone to start a new? Or how can I delete everything from the USB Storage? And the thing is I think there are backups on the USB Storage that are keeping me from being able to install STOCK roms or even Stock ICS Roms. I want to start from SCRATCH with a ROM, but everything is there everytime I re install a STOCK ICS I have managed to get into settings and Erase USB Storage and reboot, but everything is still on my phone nothing happens. I think the problem is in the USB Storage which is why I want to delete everything on it but I cant delete anything on it. I delete stuff and when I mount the storage everything comes back. I delete it from the phone, and when I mount it on my PC everything is right there. I have tried to format the usb storage using Windows, Erased it Using MAC, deleted everything manually and everything is still there. It is like the stuff is undeletable. Doing wipe from the Stock Recovery doesnt delete anything either. I need to Wipe my USB Storage but nothing lets me do anything to it.


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Discussion in '35mm Cameras and Accessories' started by hbc, Jan 15, 2003.
please help i am thinking of buying a bessa-r, wich lenses can i use with it?
I don't have one of these, buy you should be able to use any of the Leica screw mount (39mm) lenses. However, some lenses might stick too far into the body, especially collapsible ones, and mess up the shutter. You might want to check with someone who knows more about this.
The R2, which is different, uses the Leica M mount.
Yor problems are solved .
This place is, I believe, one of the major importer of Bessa cameras in the US and Voigtlander lenses,of superb quality and designed for those cameras. In the case of the Bessa R you don't need any adapter and there is not worries about any of those lenses damaging the shutter curtain.
Here're some links of the same place:
Bessa R: http://www.cameraquest.com/voigrf.htm
Lenses: http://www.cameraquest.com/voigtlen.htm
Prices: http://www.cameraquest.com/inventor.htm
The Bessas are great cameras. I would recomend the R2 before the R - it is a much more solid camera. Regarding the lenses - the R takes most LTM/L39 lenses (Leica Thread Mount - 39mm thread) the R2 takes the Leica M-lenses and with an adaptor the LTM lenses as well.
Not 100% sure about your question - which lenses in particular r in general? There are several nice wideangles in the Voigtlander family. I really like 'normal' focallengths myself. Is the Bessa-R your only camera or do you have several cameras? In my case I use it when a mediumformat is to big & heavy to bring along. The Color SKopar 50mm f2.5 is a fine lens for that use. Small & light, extremely fast and easy to use and good optics. If the Bessa-R is going to be your main camera I would recomend the 50mm f1.5 Nokton Aspherical which is a few tads sharper than the Skopar. The Nokton is a top-performer on par with Leica lenses.
The Bessas are a great range of cameras. I hope you enjoy them!
I would like to add to Henning's post and also recommend the Bessa R2. Better build quality than the R. It just feels much better in the hand. Definitely visit Steven Gandy's cameraquest website at www.cameraquest.com. I would also recommend joining the Cosina/Voigtlander mailing list that Steven runs.
As far as the lenses you can use. As Henning mentioned on the R you can use most 39mm Leica thread mount lenses. Except some of the Russian Jupiter 35mm lenses. The rear elements protrude too much on the Jupiters and hit the shutter curtain. Also, you can not collapse most of the Leica collapsable lenses as the same problem occurs.
The R2 can use all the LTM lenses with an adapter (except those listed above). It can also use any of the Leica M mount lenses.
I had an R2 for Christmas with the 35mm Classic lens. Excellent quality lens, very small. Lovely quality to the images. I'm really enjoying rangefinder photography. It's refreshing after an SLR.
Hope that helps
Mike Groves
Shropshire, England.
thank you guys, i did get the bessa-r from cameraquest and its great,simple and quick. i would recomend stephen gandy he is great to deal with. i was able to locate a couple of canon ltms a 50mm 1.4 and a 35mm 1.8 they are great lenses, my next lens will be the 50mm 1.5 nokton i have heard great thins about this lens and i hope to up grade to a bessar2 . in the real world of family, work, bills and other, it is great for some of us who cannot justify the expence of say a leica m6, m7, mp that there is the likes of a bessa r, r2 .but i still dream of m6 summicron heaven.
The Bessa's have intreged me. How plentiful are the 39mm screwmount lenses? Are they expensive and are the lenses available as good as or better than 70's and 80's vintage Nikkors?
I have gotten rid of most of my 35mm gear as I very rarely use it anymore. To me a compact camera is the blad. However there are times I wished I had something smaller. Currently what I use for 35mm is a Nikkormat FTN equipt with 28, 35, 135, 80 to 200, 43 to 86 and of course a 50mm. I realize I would not be able to get a zoom for the Bessa, but then again I very rarely use a zoom, except for the 43 to 86.
The lenses are as good as the Nikkors of the 70's and 80's.
Prices? Some of them around 275.00, not bad. Check the links that I gave in a post above and there you'll find information about the lenses and another link with the prices.


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TUSCON, Ariz. – It was nice to lock down a preseason victory against the Portland Timbers, but Friday night's match also gave Sporting Kansas City coach Peter Vermes a glimpse of what the club's newest Designated Player will bring to the table.
Ecuadorian Claudio Bieler played the first half hour for Sporting, making his first appearance with his new team in a 1-0 victory against Caleb Porter's new-look Timbers.
Did he impress Vermes? Sure, but his brief cameo also reinforced that the former LDU Quito goalscorer still has plenty more to show once he gets fit and accilmated to his new teammates.
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"He's going to be very good for us in the build up," Vermes said. " He can hold on to the ball. He checks in to the right places on the field."
"He's got a very good sense for the game," he continued. "I think he's going to find himself on the end of a lot of stuff with the way we play. His first 30 minutes were solid. We are just going to have to build him up more and more as we get closer to the start of the season."
Bieler has one month to get ready for Sporting's season-opening visit to PPL Park, and even he'll acknowledge he has work to do to reach the levels he became accustomed to in Ecuador.
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"After working very hard in training, I got my first minutes with the team and it felt pretty good," the forward said through a translator after the match. "There is still some time to get used to the team, but I see them playing very well. We are missing depth," he said. "But as time goes on, we will all get the hang of it."
These were Bieler's first minutes in preseason after recovering from a hamstring injury. Team staff had kept him off the field because of cold weather.
"More than anything it was a precaution," he said. "It wasn't that I couldn't play. We decided to play today, and I feel good. I am ready for the [90 minutes]."


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Siebel Hospitality Guide > Creating Hospitality Reports >
About the Banquet Event Order (BEO) Report
Event managers generate and print a Banquet Event Order (BEO) report before an event occurs. This report provides the operation execution team with detailed information about food, beverages, and setup requirements for all functions covered by a single order.
As shown in Figure 14, the report consists of several sections that provide a summary of the property, account, contact, order, function, and function line item details for the event. The information helps the event execution team manage the event.
The top section of the report provides administrative information about the property, the account, the event contact, and event order details.
When notes are created and associated with the order, the notes are displayed beneath the top section. If there are multiple order notes, the notes are sorted by Sequence #. The list includes both internal (private) and external (public) notes.
The main purpose of the BEO report is to communicate the list of functions as well as any associated function line items. The report's line items are displayed according to predefined rules:
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Could Winter be Over for West Central Missouri? [Poll]
When the Groundhog predicted an early spring, a lot of us asked, "When did winter ever start?" Overall, we've had it easy this season. There was a little bit of snow on Saturday night/Sunday morning, but that melted away by Sunday afternoon, and it's been mild ever since. The National Weather Service is even saying that high temperatures could reach the 70s by the end of the week. The 70s! In February!


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As Dave Lennon has reported, 11-time Gold Glover Keith Hernandez has been tutoring the Mets' Daniel Murphy at first base in Florida this winter.
Hernandez will discuss the process on SNY's "Daily News Live" late this afternoon, and the network will show video of the two working together.
Gotta go. Enjoy South Florida vs. Marquette women's basketball at 9 p.m. on CBS College Sports.


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Atletico Madrid post celebratory dressing room group photo after beating Chelsea to qualify for CL final
Atletico Madrid are all about team effort over individual bravado and egotism.
So their celebratory dressing room picture from tonight's brilliant win over Chelsea is fitting, in that it manages to have fitted in just about every member of the squad, as well as some coaching staff.
The joy shown by David Villa, who didn't even feature over the two legs, epitomises the Atleti ethos. What's more, the picture was even taken on El Guaje Villa's phone.
Curiously though, no sign of John Terry, he must be already Lisbon-bound.