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Alright, now this is more like the January I've come to know and love. As opposed to the relatively well-reviewed releases of last week, two sorta crappy-looking movies are hitting theaters this Friday. These are the sorts of films that usually debut in January. Movies have typically opened poorly in January, as it's somewhat of a box office dead zone after the huge numbers of November and December. Because box office results are often bad, studios release some of their worst movies in January, and because movie quality is bad, the box office stays in the toilet. Do you see how that cycle perpetuates itself? Well, with a confusing apocalyptic thriller and a fish-out-of-water family comedy that, despite some solid star power, each look pretty poor, the third weekend of January should continue the tradition sub-par quality. Poor box office, however? That's another story, as both of these new releases have a shot at some moderate success. Keep on reading for an over view of this week's new releases, as well as some news about Star Trek 2, Green Lantern, a sequel to Twister, and James Cameron's latest move.
This movie looks downright confusing. Somehow, Denzel Washington is a super-violent, Bible-thumping, warrior in a post-apocalyptic world. Maybe it's a sequel to 2012? Maybe to The Road? Denzel is supposed to be a sort of righteous fighter, with Mila Kunis as his apprentice, and as they journey over a barren landscape, they kill a lot of people. This movie's advertising seems to be avoiding associating itself too much with the Bible, though it seems like a key plot point. Thus, the ads have left me scratching my head, and when audiences don't have any clue what movie is about, it's never good for business. Denzel will bring in audiences for sure, but I don't see this taking down Avatar.
This looks almost exactly the same as Disney's 2003 Vin Diesel vehcile, The Pacifier. Jackie Chan plays a former spy ready who's asked to babysit a neighbor's three children, who find themselves in a heap of trouble when one of them downloads an top secret code. Keeping these kids in line and winning their approval proves to be harder than he would have thought, and hijinks ensue. Blah. How can I tell this movie is a stinker. First off, it's an uncreative premise. Second, it's debuting in January. Third, it's starring Billy Ray Cyrus.
I mentioned it last week that Star Trek 2 (I'm sure the title will be something more along the lines of Star Trek: The Rise Of The Blah-Blah-Blah) would begin shooting in Late 2010. Now, BoxOfficeMojo reports that the Paramount sci-fi film will release on June 29th, 2012. That means we've got 2 years, 5 months, and 18 days to buzz anxiously about it!
The Avatar director has optioned yet another film that he may possibly make. Instead of a sci-fi epic like Battle Angel or The Fantastic Voyage, though, this one would be an adaptation of the upcoming book, The Last Train To Hiroshima, which chronicles the eyewitness accounts of Japanese civilians and American pilots who watched the atomic bombs go off. Is this really the right movie for Cameron to direct? I know he loves big special effects, but we don't really want to turn Hiroshima and Nagasaki into entertaining spectacle, do we?
Who needs new ideas when we've got so many old ones? Despite the fact that Twister, which earned $241 million at the box office, is now a whopping fourteen years old, Bill Paxton is hoping to move forward with production on a sequel. At least he's honest about why he's doing it, though: "The only reason I'd like to revisit that ground is because I realize we're living in a time where big movies cost so much to make that the town is looking for built-in audiences…" The bad news about this: they want to shoot it in 3D. Ugh.
Female castings in superhero movies are always some of the most buzzed about movie news on the web, and that's certainly been the case with Blake Lively's recent casting as Ryan Reynolds' love interest in The Green Lantern. I think she's a great actress, and she'll probably do a good job, but to me, her voice is a bit too deep to be a screaming damsel in distress! Is that too judgmental?


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Calais migrants using makeshift RAFTS to cross channel as Britain braces for fresh influx
But a French coastguard spokesman told newspaper La Voix du Nord groups of migrants are now attempting the crossing "at night, on unequipped boats, in greater numbers, without the slightest notion of navigation and totally unaware of the very real dangers that such attempts represent".
They added that, in response, the agency has "intensified" surveillance by land, sea and air in a bid to stop such perilous efforts.
The revelations come after aid workers said the dismantlement of the Jungle camp is driving desperate migrants to increasingly desperate efforts to reach Britain.

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In true "structured authoring" the "components" you create (write, draw, etc.) are saved in the database of a Content Management System (CMS).
The negative side of this type of "writing" is that you lose the local context and formatting. What you're creating is not "only" an X-type of document but a "component" (let's say, a line of command to close a window) that may not make much sense on its own.
The positive side of the same is the power it gives you to recombine, to re-purpose and use the same component over and over again with other components to create new modular content published on many different platforms. You really "write once and publish multiple times." The result is a tremendous gain in productivity, time and money.
However, you need to adopt a new set of writing habits when writing components instead of whole "guides", "manuals", "presentations", etc.
For example, you need to refrain from "legacy expressions" such as "as we'll show you down below", or "as the above figure suggests". Why? Because you never know how your component will be published and what will be "down below" or "above" it in the new context.
Also forget about the whole "header" and "footer" idea which is a legacy of the whole book/codex metaphor. If your component gets published in a traditional book format, yes, you will have a header and a footer. But if it's pushed into a help file or a kiosk display format, then there won't be any headers and footers anymore. Therefore try not to write things like "see footer 12" or "here is how you can change your header information".
The whole "page" concept goes down the drain too, together with things like a "page number" because your next "document" may not have a page number at all, as all user assistance (UA) authors know. So think twice before writing something like "we'll explain this in full detail in the next page."
In short, all positional navigation references like "as seen on the right side" or "please refer to the left of this column" will not work in a CMS because what is "right" on your screen may very well end up being "left" when your component is single-sourced to another document, on another platform (a cell phone, for example).
So, welcome to the brave new world of single-sourcing, component writing, and CMS publishing.
Remember that old American Express commercial in which Karl Malden used to stare at the camera, holding an American Express card, and say: "Don't leave home WITHOUT it!" ?
Let's paraphrase: "STRUCTURED WRITING — Leave home WITHOUT some of your most cherished writing conventions and produce more!"


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Defensive tackle Eddie Vanderdoes (Auburn, Calif./Placer) received a scholarship offer from the USC Trojans on Friday. Vanderdoes is the No. 56 player in the ESPN 150, as well as the top defensive lineman -- and No. 4 player overall -- in California.
Vanderdoes had already collected more than 30 offers from schools such as Alabama, Georgia, Michigan, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oregon, Penn State and Washington, which had some USC fans questioning whether Vanderdoes would receive an offer from Lane Kiffin and staff.
Two weeks ago, USC quarterbacks coach Clay Helton was on hand to witness Vanderdoes go through a workout and pitch a six-inning gem on the baseball diamond. Vanderdoes said then that Helton was pushing for Vanderdoes to receive an offer. Friday, Vanderdoes received the news.
"Great day!" Vanderdoes tweeted, adding hashtags of #USC and #FightOn.
Vanderdoes received a Facebook message from Helton that asked the 6-foot-3, 285-pound lineman to give him a call and relayed that there was good news. When Vanderdoes made the call, he spoke with Helton briefly but was passed on to the head coach.
"He gave the phone to coach Kiffin, and he said he was really impressed with my film," Vanderdoes said. "This was the first time they got around to watching my highlight tape. I guess they had my sophomore film, and that's why they were waiting. He said after watching this that it wasn't even a question, and they wanted to extend a full scholarship offer."
Vanderdoes said he was excited by the news.
"It was great," he said. "That's a great offer to have, especially from coach Kiffin. He's a great coach. I was really excited."
There might be some concern among USC fans that the Trojans waited too long to offer Vanderdoes and ran the risk of losing his interest, but that doesn't seem as if it will be a hill the USC coaches will need to climb.
"It's definitely not a late offer," Vanderdoes said. "I don't have any leaders or a top 10. So for me, it can't be late. That's not going to affect anything."
Though conversations between Vanderdoes and USC had stalled over the past few months, he said he was told to be ready for things to pick up in a big way now that an offer was on the table.
"They said they are going to come after me hard," Vanderdoes said of USC. "Things are going to heat up with USC a lot more over the rest of the recruiting process."


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Oneida's cross country teams would sweep last Tuesday's head-to-head meet against Utica-Notre Dame, beating the Jugglers 22-34 on the boys side and 23-32 on the girls side.
In the boys race, Conor McCarthy grabbed individual honors, posting a time of 18 minutes, 32 seconds. Pat Markle was third, in 20:10.9, while Kyle Meyers finished fourth in 20:26.7.
Over in the girls race, Erin Durdan led Oneida as she won the individual title in a clocking of 22:33.8. Sara Rifendifer was fourth (23:11.4) and Lena Reginelli was fifth in 23:39.6.
From there, both the Indians and Vernon Verona Sherrill worked their way to Proctor Park in Utica for the 67th edition of the E.J. Herrmann Invitational on Saturday.
In the girls No. 2 race, the Red Devils, with 177 points, were seventh in a 14-team field and the Indians were ninth (225 points). Holy Names (34 points) took the top spot.
For VVS, Lauren MacDonald contended for the top spot among individuals, eventually taking third place in a time of 20:26.9. Kerry Miley was 24th (22:34.4), while Emily Hudson was 44th in 23:48.4. Casey Kane (24:18.7) and Becky Talbot (24:33.1) rounded out the scoring.
Rifendifer led Oneida's effort, finishing 31st in 22:52 flat. Durdan was 38th (23:13.3), while Reginelli took 46th place in 23:41.6. Kelsey Hatch (24:39.6) and Jen Scholl (24:41.8) were next to each other.
Running in the same boys No. 2 race, Oneida finished ninth with 209 points and VVS (262 points) took 11th place as Sauquoit Valley (63 points) took the top spot.
Individually, the Red Devils' Seth MacDonald finished 11th, in a time of 18:04.2, just ahead of McCarthy (18:21.9) in 12th place. Joe Casella gave Oneida a 19th place time of 18:43.4, while Nathan Faherty was 26th for VVS in 19:14.9.
For the Indians, Meyers (20:33.2) and Paul Greene (20:33.5) were 61st and 62nd, respectively, while VVS saw Dylan Kavanaugh (21:06.8) and Zane Hasty (21:08.1) finish close to each other.
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"I'm not very good at making a long story short," begins Douglas Pichon. "I am, however, really good at making a long story longer."
This quickly becomes clear. The first thing you notice about Douglas Pichon, though, are his startling lettuce-green eyes, which makes it understandable why the police picked up on them, too, and helps explain why Pichon felt a police revolver poke into the back of his head--although it turned out the cops were wrong. Twice.
But he's getting ahead of himself. "For a real brilliant man," Douglas Pichon starts again, "I've done some pretty stupid things."
Pichon is a former Army brat--Tokyo, Germany and all the required stops to further the career of his father, who ended up in Colorado Springs, a full-bird colonel. He retired, and died soon afterward. "As with most career Army guys," says Pichon, "retirement basically just means they can start drinking earlier."
Pichon graduated from high school in 1970--a star hockey player, written up in Sports Illustrated for scoring three goals in fifteen seconds--and dabbled in college (five of them, actually) before beginning a life of labor. These days he lays gas pipe through the IBEW Local No. 111, attends an occasional class and messes with his home computer, although his entire hard drive went kaput recently and erased most of his important police correspondence, which caused some problems during the second arrest.
But he's tumbling ahead again. Pretty stupid things? "Oh, I'm no angel," Pichon explains. "I've been in some trouble before, but it was all minor stuff--vandalism, shoplifting." There was also the car theft, which he didn't really do, but that's another story entirely. This story begins in 1985, in a Colorado Springs bar.
"It was Super Bowl Sunday, 1985, and I was cruising several of the bars," Pichon begins. "I was drunk," he adds. "I definitely got drunk that day." As the day wore down and San Francisco put the finishing touches on its 38-16 rout of Miami, Pichon put the finishing touches on his buzz at the Lair Lounge.
A local hangout on the city's west side, the bar was undergoing a transition. A nearby biker bar had just closed down, and some of its seedier traffic had begun showing up at the Lair Lounge. On that particular Sunday, for instance, Pichon recalls seeing William Winfrey, whom he held in poor regard.
"I knew the name," Pichon says. "I heard that he dealt drugs. I heard that he carried a gun. Basically a real scumbag. A hoodlum. But I never gave him a second thought."
That's because it was at the Lair Lounge that Pichon noticed his wallet was missing. He can't remember how much money he lost that day. Frankly, a lot of it had been spent by the time the wallet disappeared. But he does remember the hassle of replacing all of his pieces of identification. Eventually, he got a new driver's license, "and that," he concludes, "was the end of that."
Until almost exactly a decade later--November 12, 1994, to be precise.
It was Saturday, about eight in the morning. Snow had fallen. "I was driving through Denver, on 16th and Franklin, in my 1983 Chevy Blazer," Pichon recalls. "I was on my way to a friend's house to do some shingling work. I had picked up another guy--I knew him only by his initials--who was down and out and who I thought could help me with the shingling. And this police car came up behind. It flashed its lights for me to stop and pull over."
Pichon was nervous, although not unduly so. Like it or not--and he's made some mistakes, no one's trying to hide that--he was no stranger to law enforcement situations. "The officer walked up behind the car and asked for my license, and I gave it to him, and he returned to his car," Pichon continues. "Then, all of a sudden, before I knew it, there were five or six Denver police cars there. One of them blocked my car in the front, and one blocked me in the back."
This was cause for more concern, but not panic. Not yet. "I thought it might have something to do with the other guy in the car," Pichon remembers thinking, which, he also remembers thinking, is the danger of giving a ride to someone you know only as "C.J."
Next he heard the bullhorn: "You, in the driver's side, out of the car." He was told to lie on the ground. With his ear to the pavement, he heard the click, click, click of crisp police shoes advancing to his side. "And then," he says, "I felt the gun to the back of my head."
He was yanked to his feet, tossed across the hood of the car and handcuffed. Which is when Pichon asked why he was being arrested. "And they said something about an aggravated bank robbery in Kansas.
"My first thought," he continues, "was to be smart-assed about it, because it was so ludicrous--to say something like, `Kansas? No, that's not me. I robbed a bank in Wyoming, but not Kansas.'" He didn't, though.
The police asked if he used any aliases and read off a list of names. "I hadn't heard of any of them," Pichon says, "until they came to the name William Winfrey--and that's when it all clicked. `William Winfrey?' I yelled. `I know that lowlife scumbag from Colorado Springs!'"
In 1985, in Sedgwick County, Kansas, Douglas Pichon was convicted on one count of aggravated robbery. "He was sentenced to ten years to life," says Bill Miskell, a spokesman for the Kansas Department of Corrections. "He was then convicted in 1989 for one count of aggravated escape from custody from Leavenworth County, for an escape which occurred from the Lansing Correctional Facility on December 6, 1988."
He was eventually caught and returned to prison. He was paroled in 1991 but incarcerated again in January 1993 for violating that parole. Paroled again in January 1994, he still wasn't very good at it, and a warrant for his arrest was issued on January 31, 1994.
But the Douglas Pichon wanted by Kansas was not the Douglas Pichon arrested in Denver. In fact, he was not Douglas Pichon at all.
He was, Douglas Pichon says, really William Winfrey--who stole Pichon's wallet at the Lair Lounge in 1985, robbed a bank soon after, was arrested, and identified himself to police as Douglas Pichon using the goods in the stolen wallet.
"Let me see if I've got this straight," Miskell says, sighing. "It sounds to me like we're looking for a guy named Douglas Pichon. And there's a guy in the Denver area who's named Douglas Pichon, and he keeps getting arrested. But the real kicker in all this is William Winfrey. Is that right?"
When the Denver police learned Douglas Pichon was a Kansas fugitive, they took him downtown and put him in a holding cell. "Ten to fifteen minutes later," Pichon says, "this guy comes up and starts asking questions. First he says, `What color are your eyes?' I said, `Green.' Then he goes, `Do you have any scars on your stomach?'
"And I said, `Thank God.'"
In retrospect, Pichon agrees that lymphosarcoma of the intestines is an out-of-the-ordinary thing to be thankful for. The disease had hit him as an infant. "The doctors started to suspect something was wrong when I began projectile vomiting," he says. One year and several surgeries later, Pichon had seven scars on his belly.
"`Good,' Pichon remembers thinking. "`This'll clear things up.'"
But he hadn't seen the description on the Kansas warrant. It read:
Name: Pichon, Douglas Karl
Hgt: 6 Wgt: 193 Eye: Green
Scars: Abdom.
It also read:
Armed & Dangerous, offenses are aggravated robbery and aggravated escape from custody.
"I have seven scars, not one," Pichon points out. "But apparently it was more than close enough." Pichon's measurements weren't too far off, either: He is 5'11", 170 pounds. And he, like the Kansas fugitive, has green eyes.
"On paper," Pichon concedes, "Winfrey sure looks like me."
His mind turned over. "For a moment," he says, "I thought it was me they were after. I was not rational. I mean, people were telling me, `Don't worry--they'll get it all straightened out when they extradite you to Kansas.' And I was saying, `Kansas! I've got a wife and kids here!'"
In fact, back at Pichon's northwest Denver home, his wife, Beth, was becoming fairly frantic herself. "At first it was, like, `Well, jeez, honey, we know you didn't do this,'" she recalls. "But when they didn't release him, I just couldn't imagine what had happened. I tried to call some lawyers. But you know how difficult it is to raise anybody on the weekend."
Pichon spent the weekend in jail. At 8:40 a.m. Monday, in preparation for shipping Pichon back to Kansas, Gene Gugli, a detective in Denver's division of fugitives and warrants, sent a telex to the Kansas Department of Corrections. He requested that the department fax a photograph and copy of Pichon's fingerprints--"to make sure it wasn't some Joe Schmoe who didn't belong here," Gugli explains.
At 9:16 a.m., Gugli dashed off another telex to Kansas. It read, "Subject jailed by our department, Douglas Pichon, is not your wanted party. Fingerprint comparison is not the same. Our subject knows your wanted party as `Butch' Winfrey. Our subject claims Winfrey stole his ID and went to your prison as Douglas Pichon. We are releasing our subject."
"I took a taxicab home," Pichon says. "It cost $30, but I didn't care. I just wanted to get home. I hadn't slept or eaten for 48 hours."
The next day he telephoned the DPD's fugitives division. "I just wanted to make sure this wouldn't happen again," Pichon says. The secretary there recognized his name and said she'd run a background check to see if the outstanding warrant in his name reappeared. A moment later she said the computer scan had come up empty; he was safe.
"And that," Pichon says, "was that. I forgot about it. It was just a horrible nightmare, and it was over with."
Until last month.
"I responded to this shoplifting call at Cub Foods," begins Officer Ken Manzaneras of the Edgewater Police Department.
"It's more than embarrassing," says Pichon. "It's humiliating. Self-debasement. I don't know what to say."
What he eventually says is this: On the evening of December 30, 1995, he tried to lift some food from the Cub Foods store at 20th and Sheridan. He got caught.
"When I got Mr. Pichon's name," Manzaneras continues, "I made the standard call to records to have them clear him. And that's when the fugitive warrant from Kansas came up--something to do with a bank robbery there."
"The officer said, `Have you ever been arrested before?'" Pichon recalls. "And I said, `Yeah.' Then he asked, `Do you have a scar on your stomach?'
"And that's when I thought, `Oh, no. Not again.'"
"Everything matched," says Manzaneras. "It was to a T, just about: Social Security number, green eyes, the stomach scars--everything. Records radioed back and said, `Sure enough, that's the guy.' So I had him stand up and turn around. And I cuffed him."
Douglas Pichon showed up at the Jefferson County jail just before midnight December 30. "The first thing they did," he says, "is put me in one of those little orange suits, which was way too tight, and the foam slippers. And it's demeaning, because they check to see if you're carrying anything inside you, if you know what I mean."
"Next," he continues, "they took me to a counselor, who's supposed to figure out if you can handle incarceration. I said, `Young lady, none of that is my concern. My concern is that I shouldn't be here. I'm sure that you've heard that a lot. But this has happened to me before.' She told me she'd tell her supervisor."
On Sunday, December 31, the jail's acting supervisor was Rick Lang. "I've been around, and I've learned a lot from it," says Lang. A Marine Corps veteran, former phone company employee and Radio Shack salesman, Lang signed on with the Jeffco sheriff's department six years ago. "It's not my job to judge people," he says. "It's up to the little guy with the robe up on the hill." So he doesn't mind that most of his work is at the county lockup.
"Pichon came in from Edgewater on this fugitive warrant from Topeka, Kansas," Lang recalls. "He kept on saying, `It's not me! It's not me!'
"But, of course," he adds, "we hear that quite a bit."
Still, something about Pichon was compelling. "I don't know--maybe it was his demeanor, his manner. But he didn't sound like he was pulling anybody's legs," says Lang. "I was busy, though, and I didn't have a chance to look into it. It wasn't until about 4:30 that afternoon that I began getting involved." For starters, he requested Pichon's fingerprints from Kansas.
Lang's first clue that Pichon's story might not be jailhouse schlock came via the return teletype from Kansas. It listed a fingerprint classification that didn't match. And when Lang ran Pichon's local record, the Denver arrest turned up.
"In the process of looking at that," Lang says, "it became clear that we now had the same person that Denver had last year."
Lang remained cautious. At the very least, he figured, the Denver cops would have given Pichon some sort of document explaining that he wasn't the man Kansas wanted. (Pichon says he had exactly such a paper but that he had lost it. And when his computer crashed, he lost all the names of the Denver cops he'd dealt with.)
Lang also had to concede that if the man wanted for the bank robbery in Kansas and the man in the cell down the hall weren't the same person, they sure had a lot in common. Their Social Security numbers were nearly identical, the name and birthdate matched, and then there was the physical description: green eyes and a stomach scar.
Lang requested photos from Kansas.
While he waited, he decided to go talk with his prisoner. "I deal with people on a very light tone, to take the tension down," he explains. "I can walk into a location in the jail where the tension is high, and just by the way I deal with people, turn that level from high tension to low tension. I've got a lot of little cliches I use to break the ice. So when I entered Pichon's cell, I decided to say `Good morning' in Japanese. Of course, it wasn't morning."
The funny thing, Pichon says, was that he understood him. "Remember--I'd lived in Tokyo for four years," he adds. "He made me laugh. He told me it would take a little while to get me out."
"I didn't want to give him any promises," says Lang. "Just in case."
But Lang's doubts dissolved when the pictures arrived from Kansas. "They sent a 1985 photo and a 1993 photo of the guy they were looking for," he says. "Even though they were eight years apart, the two photos were definitely the same person."
They were not, however, the Douglas Pichon residing in Jeffco's jail. Says Lang, "I thought, `We have a problem here.'"
He placed another call to the Kansas Department of Corrections, as well as one to the on-duty assistant district attorney. "I wanted to resolve it that day," Lang says. "You know--the last good deed of 1995."
He made his deadline, but barely.
"Lang came in," Pichon recalls, "and said, `Do you want the good news or the bad news first? The good news is that there's no bad news.' Then he said, `You know, you shouldn't be here.'
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"I said, `Thank God.' So I signed this paper saying that I wouldn't hold Jefferson County responsible for false imprisonment, and they let me go." It was 10:50 p.m.
"I gave him a quarter to call a cab," says Lang, who two weeks ago received a commendation for his work on the case. "I didn't even ask if he already had one. I figured it was the least we could do."
But that late on New Year's Eve, no cab was available. Pichon didn't want his wife to pick him up, either--a random sobriety stop and another check on his identification could have proved problematic. So he started walking east along Highway 6. After about twenty minutes he was picked up by two men who'd been drinking and gambling in Central City. They dropped him off on Sheridan Boulevard, and Douglas Pichon walked home.
"I'm not sure I understand all of this," says Miskell, still looking at his computer screen at the Kansas Department of Corrections. "All I know is that we still have an outstanding warrant for a guy named Douglas Pichon. And it's obvious there's a Douglas Pichon living in the Denver area who we're not looking for. So do you know where we can find William Winfrey?"
According to Denver police records, William "Butch" Winfrey, who has a rap sheet approximately nine pages long, has most recently been going by the alias Kenneth Gunkel. He was arrested in Denver on June 11, 1995, for disturbing the peace and loitering. Unaware the man was wanted in Kansas, Denver police released him the following day.


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SALT LAKE CITY — It won't rock the basketball world like Chris Paul's stunning on-and-off trade to the Los Angeles Lakers.
But free agent Jamaal Tinsley has emerged as a potential backup point guard for the Utah Jazz.
Tinsley "agreed to terms" with Utah on Thursday, according to TNT/NBA.com reporter David Aldridge.
However, the Jazz, who've traditionally carried three point guards, could still bring back veteran playmaker Earl Watson for a second season in Utah.
The Jazz and Watson "are talking seriously" and will continue to do so Friday when a decision on his future team is expected to be finalized, a source told the Deseret News.
Watson was reported Wednesday to be leaning toward signing with Atlanta, but he later denied that he'd made a decision yet.
Adding more intrigue to the search for Devin Harris' backup(s), the Jazz have reportedly invited a former Utah player, Keith McLeod, to participate in fall camp, according to HoopsHype.com.
The 6-foot-2 McLeod played for the Jazz from 2004-06, but hasn't been in the NBA since 2006-07 when he split time between Golden State and Indiana.
Tinsley is a 33-year-old point guard who most recently played with Memphis in 2009-10.
The 6-foot-3 playmaker averaged 9.8 points, 6.6 assists and 39.5 percent shooting from the field in eight NBA seasons with Indiana and Memphis.
Hoping to work his way back into the NBA, Tinsley was this year's No. 1 pick of the D-League Draft by the Los Angeles D-Fenders. In nine games, he averaged 9.9 points, 7.6 assists and 31.4 percent shooting.
Jazz power forward Paul Millsap's brother, Elijah, was his teammate in L.A.
Tinsley made the news for several off-the-court incidents with Indiana.
One time, he was shot at with an automatic weapon. Another time, he was with Stephen Jackson when he fired a gun outside of a strip club. And Tinsley avoided going to trial but was put on probation after charges were dropped over his involvement in a 2007 bar fight.
Counting their two rookies, the Jazz currently have 11 players on their roster — two shy of minimum required. Free agents can sign beginning at noon and can attend the camps that start Friday.
Veteran Ronnie Price, who played in Utah the past four years, also remains available.
NEW HIRE: The Utah Jazz have officially hired Mike Sanders as the team's manager of player development.
The 11-year NBA swing player logged stints as an assistant and scout with three different teams in the league. A 6-foot-6 guard-forward, Sanders will help tutor the Jazz bigs, including EnesKanter and Derrick Favors.
Sanders most recently worked for the D-League's Fort Wayne Mad Ants as an assistant coach in 2010-11.
Sanders has ties to the Jazz organization. He was on the 1980 UCLA NCAA runner-up team, which general manager Kevin O'Connor helped coach as an assistant.
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Patt Sendejas, author of Feng Shui for Career Women, The Ultimate Women's Guide for Advancing Your Career & Increasing
Your Wealth, is a California Certified Interior Designer, Speaker, and Feng Shi Consultant for Home and Business.
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Rich Rose – RS Ventures, LLC
Patt I wanted to share with you what happened this morning. The year started out with my tenants calling and emailing me about various things needing to be fixed in their units. In all the years I've been managing my properties I have never seen the amount of repairs requested in a short amount of time. Usually I will get a call every 4-6 months from one of my tenants that a minor repair needs to be made, but never from multiple tenants in a week's time!
This morning I received a call from yet another tenant that his water heater was not working. This didn't make sense as we had just replaced it with a new one earlier last year. The water heaters in this particular complex are locked, and since I had to fire my property manager last year it meant I had to figure out how to get a key to a plumber in the area. After looking at my options I finally decided to make the 3 hour drive there to fix the problem.
While getting ready to leave I remembered reading your monthly Feng Shui energy report and seeing something on separation and/or sickness in the North. I had not put your suggested January 2015 remedies in place yet so I decided to take a minute and get that done before I made the drive.
I went to our bedroom and turned over the comforter to the white side and moved metal into the room. It was not more than 5 minutes afterwards that I got a call from the tenant that the hot water was working!! I could not believe how fast that was!! Thanks so much for being right on with your recommendations! I was so relieved not to make that 3 hour drive.
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Patt Sendejas came to my office on Friday to consult with me for Feng Shui. I started making some of the changes Patt suggested immediately and by Monday I had received a $2,600.00 payment from a client who had owned me money for some time, and another client who I had not seen in a couple of years called me to purchase $2,000.00 of my cosmetic line. We have seen a noticeable increase in business expansion since our Feng Shui consultation with Patt. Dr. Clair, a co-investigator on an FDA-approved investigation of human growth hormone as an anti-aging agent and has published an article on human growth hormone in the prestigious Journal of Medicine.
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I wanted my practitioners to enjoy a harmonious workspace. With Pat's background in design and Feng Shui, she created a space that has brought harmony, business expansion, and profit.
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"I have taken the comprehensive Feng Shui training course from Patt Sendejas previously and I keep coming back for more! The knowledge I have gained from Patt and her classes have been a great help for me personally and professionally. When I first applied the information I learned from Patt, I started with my own home. I began changing the elements in each room, with my goal to get the energy addressed and corrected. I had an unfortunate situation, when I came home one night and my front door was open. My 17+ year old, vision and hearing impaired cat was gone. I did all the "normal" things a distressed "angel" guardian would do…8 days later, no sign of him. I called Patt in a panic, she instructed me on changes to make in one room of my home where she could see the separation energy was coming from, which I did. Within 18 hours, I received a call from my neighbor that he thought my cat was under his house. Yep. Recovered my guy, and he was with me for another year or so.
Patt has a casual teaching style that is enthusiastic, engaging, informative and action oriented. I am very inspired by this upcoming class. Gaining additional proficiency in Personality Feng Shui and relationships will add another "tool" in my toolbox as I assist homeowners, buyer and sellers make informed decisions about their real estate transactions. This information will be applicable to anyone interested in starting a relationship coaching career, already involved in coaching, direct sales, a corporate environment or wanting a better understanding of family and friends and their relationships, past, present and future."
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Folders and the single guy
Let's face it, folders generally do look a little funny, and I think many people shy away from them in large part for that reason. But I've repeatedly experienced a phenomenon that has convinced me a folder is the best choice for the single guy. I'm sure this is more common in cities where getting around by bike is atypical.
At least half the time when I go out I am offered a ride home by girls when they find out I'm on my bike. Because I'm a) engaged and b) enjoy the 12 miles from Dallas to Irving, especially late with hardly any cars, I turn down the rides.
But if I was single . . .
and always went out on my folder so I could throw it in a automobile trunk . . .
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Windows Store Tile Wont Open
Hi, I'm on Win8 Pro x64
I've upgraded from Win7 which is where I think the issue has come from.
Whenever I try and click the Windows Store tile on the startscreen it does nothing.
I've already tried the fixes for:
UAC Level, Apps Trouble shooter, Make Local Account, Hi-Resolution/Driver update
I check my Event Viewer, and there is a error produced by every click.
The error is as follows
Activation of application winstore_cw5n1h2txyewy!Windows.Store failed with error: This application failed to launch because of an issue with its licence. Please try again in a moment. See the Microsoft-Windows-TWinUI/Operational log for additional information.
I've read lots of people having similar situations, however I've not found an easy to follow solution.
So please bare with me as I'm new to policys/domains and stuff
Many Thanks
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Try to temporary disable firewall and security program for test.
If the issue persists, try to perform a system refresh to see if the same issue occurs.
Click Control Panel
Click General on the left column
Under the Refresh your PC without affecting your files, click Get started
Leo Huang
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If this is still an issue - or for those looking for a solution, I fixed a similar issue to this by setting up a new temporary account. I know you made a brief mention that you created a local account, but I had nearly the exact same issue (This application failed to launch because of an issue with its license), and creating a temp administrator account fixed it for me.
Below is more on the process that worked for me... I hope this helps!
I also found creating new user via Control Panel > User Accounts > Manage Another Account > Add a new user in PC Settings didn't work, because PC Settings doesn't launch...
So I fixed this by opening Computer Management > Expand "Local Users and Groups" > "Users" > Right-click and "New User..." > give it any temporary name and leave the password clear > Uncheck "User much change password at next logon" > "Create" > "Close" > Double-click to open the newly created user account > "Member of" tab > "Add..." > type in "Administrators" in the object names field > "OK" > "OK"
Then I completely logged out of my normal account, and logged in to the temporary account. You should get the new profile Windows 8 setup screens showing you "A new way to use Windows" and so on. During this time, it will install the default set of apps ... once the Metro screen appears ... try to launch the store and PC Settings, they should work.
So then I rebooted and logged back into my normal account, and the Store and PC Settings worked again. Therefore, the issue seems to be fixed - at least for the moment.
... Don't forget to delete the temporary administrator account using Control Panel > User Accounts > Manage... > Temporary account > Delete this account and files.


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Hey ho, away we go, get the dragon, get the dragon
Hey ho, away we go, get that nasty dragon!
Hey ho, away we go, get that nasty dragon!
— Lyrics in the theme song.
Calm reigns over the kingdom of the potatoes. A castle, rolling hills and ... THE DRAGON'S CAVE. There is a curse on Hugo III, king of the potatoes. To put an end to this calamity, Hugo III calls upon all knights specialized in dragon slaying, promising his daughter's hand to the successful candidate. From that moment on, all manners of knights, for the most part unratified, try to vanquish the beast and win the royal beauty.Potatoes and Dragons (2004) is an animated series, produced by the French studio Alphanim and Cookie Jar Entertainment (that one's Canadian.) The show's about a kingdom, run by the moderately competent King Hugo III, with a dragon living in it. The dragon makes a regular game of torching the king; thus, the king hires knights from all over the world (read: whoever shows up gets the job). The king's daughter Melodine, the jester Riri, and a little kid called Juju all know the dragon is harmless, and defend him from the competent knights (and lady knights).Run in Australia, the UK and the USA, it's short, sweet and rather cute.
— Lifted directly from its homepage.
This show exhibits the following tropes:
- Accidental Misnaming: It's Fast Freddy, not Fat Eddie, nor Bad Teddy.
- Bilingual Bonus: Juju's name is (spelling aside) the nursery word for 'toy' in French. Likewise, Riri's name is derived from "ris ris", meaning "laugh laugh".
- Happy Harlequin Hat: Riri wears a two-point version with bells on the tips. It is also a mask that covers his face. (Or his face is the same colour as his hat. It's hard to tell.)
- I Call It "Vera": Sir Splash's (magic!) hose is called 'Fido'.
- Instant Ice: Just Add Cold!: Happens to King Hugo in "Ready Yeti?", and the Dragon in "King Of The Potato Frontier".
- Jerkass: One could argue that the dragon and King Hugo are both examples of this, and the whole show revolves around watching the two of them harass each other. King Hugo is a bad-tempered, egotistical royal pain of a king, who often acts like a brat despite his age. In comparison, the dragon's idea of fun is to wander on over to the castle and burn King Hugo and/or his belongings to cinders whenever he feels like it, even when the king is minding his own business — which of course is why the king wants to chase the dragon out of the kingdom.
- The Jester: Riri is the castle's jester. He is also in love with Princess Melodine.
- The Lancer: Subverted; while Harry does seem to be the King's second in command, he's completely incompetent.
- Only Sane Man: Both played straight and inverted; usually, only King Hugo is close to insane. Other times, it flips between Melodine, Riri and Juju.
- Our Dragons Are Different: One episode has King Hugo unleash a blue-colored dragon that breathes ice instead of fire, hoping it will defeat the Dragon.
- Surrounded by Idiots: The idiots being King Hugo, Harry, and about half the knights.
- Villain Has a Point: Let's face it, King Hugo's not exactly wrong that he shouldn't have to put up with a dragon scorching him and his stuff for its own amusement.
- William Telling: "Far From Heaven" opens with Hugo attempting to shoot an apple off of Harry's head. Hugo misses and his arrow knocks Hermes out of the sky.


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(Indianapolis, IN)-- After four decades of racing, a Texas legend will come home for the first time. John Mecom, Jr.'s name is not widely recognized among racing's new fan base, but he is one of the most respected team owners in the history ...
(Indianapolis, IN)-- After four decades of racing, a Texas legend will come home for the first time.
John Mecom, Jr.'s name is not widely recognized among racing's new fan base, but he is one of the most respected team owners in the history of motorsports. Based out of Houston, Mecom began his first racing team in 1962. Within two years of its creation, his team was ranked among the top in the nation, and an Indianapolis 500 victory in 1966 cemented their status.
Mecom, Jr. was instrumental in assisting the racing careers of some of the sport's most legendary drivers, including Mario Andretti, Graham Hill, A.J. Foyt, Roger Penske, Parnelli Jones, Jackie Stewart, Rodger Ward and Al Unser, Sr. Mecom witnessed as his legendary team dominated tracks all over the nation and the globe, but he never saw one of his drivers compete professionally in Texas.
"One of my favorite racing memories was winning in England and listening to the national anthem in the winner's circle on foreign soil," said Mecom, Jr. "I've experienced the thrill of racing all over the world, but the closest I came to racing at home was about 800 miles. My teams participated in SCCA events and things like that, but nothing professional. It's nice to be coming home to race."
Finally, after 40 years of motorsports, John Mecom, Jr. of Houston will watch his race team compete professionally in Texas for the first time on June 9 at Texas Motor Speedway. The cars have changed, the crew and driver are different, the team name is now Heritage Motorsports, but his love for the sport, his team and his state has remained unaltered over time.
"Just the fact alone that we're racing at a major track in Texas shows how much the sport has grown," said Mecom, Jr. "It is a wonderful facility, capable of hosting all major racing events. There are a lot of reasons why I'm thrilled to be competing at the Texas Motor Speedway, most important, it's home."
Mecom, Jr.'s connection with Texas extends over three generations. His father was one of the biggest independent oil operators in the world, and he later inherited the family-business, expanding its interests. In 1966, the same year his race team won the Indy 500, Mecom Jr. founded the New Orleans Saints NFL team. John Mecom III, Mecom, Jr.'s son and co-owner of Heritage Motorsports, now oversees the family's diverse portfolio, which includes car dealerships, cattle ranches, real estate, plastics manufacturing, medical technology, as well as oil and gas operations.
"I couldn't ask for a better mentor than my father," said Mecom III. "He has driven himself and everyone around him to perform at a higher level than his competition. I respect his knowledge in business and in racing."
Mecom, Jr. joined forces with his son and the Rathmann family of Melbourne, Florida in January to form Heritage Motorsports, an IRL team with a historic past and a bright future. The team, piloted by IRL veteran Jeff Ward, made their debut March 18, in Phoenix. In the first three races of the season, the team qualified third, first and second, respectively, finishing no lower than seventh. Heritage Motorsports qualified Ward's car eighth for the Indy 500, and was running third mid-way through the race before the car suffered mechanical problems. They also qualified Stefan Gregoire, in the 29th position for the Indy 500. His car was forced to leave the race after acquiring a fatal oil leak. The team finished the day in the 24th and 28th positions.
"Indy was disappointing, but that's just part of racing," said Mecom, Jr. "There are ups and downs, sometimes you smile, sometimes you cry. I've been around this sport a long time, and it's nice to be involved in the racing community, but to feel apart of it is so much more special. It's nice to be coming home to Texas to race."
Practice for the Casino Magic 500 at Texas Motor Speedway begins Thursday, June 7 with qualifying Friday. The race begins at 8pm and will air on ESPN.
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Still cutting up rough for Rory McIlroy
Rory McIlroy knows all about winning at Quail Hollow but he is finding the going tough after only just making the cut.
McIlroy – who celebrates his 25th birthday tomorrow – was a winner here in 2010 but the Wells Fargo Championship is proving a difficult test.
McIlroy finished on one over par after last night's disappointing four over 76, following on from his first round three under par 69.
But the nightmare continued for Dubliner Padraig Harrington.
An error-ridden six-over par 78 consigned the three-time Major Champion to his seventh weekend off in 11 tournaments this year and his 15th missed cut in 30 events dating back to the 2013 Masters.
Harrington certainly wasn't the only multiple Major winner to find the going tough in the second round of the Wells Fargo Championship.
McIlroy and Phil Mickelson came back down to earth with a thud after opening impressively on Thursday.
Mickelson, one-shy of the lead overnight after an inspired performance with his putter during a first round 67, played as if there was cellophane over the cups as he stumbled to a three-over 75.
The left-hander had 34 putts, including one three-stab, against just 27 the previous day.
Clearly encouraged by some deft putting as he opened with a 69, McIlroy shipped a series of winding body blows on the front nine.
The problems started when he three-putted from 12 feet for bogey four at the second hole, followed by stunning back-to-back double-bogey sixes at the fourth and fifth.
On both occasions McIlroy's tendency to hit the occasional long shot way left landed him in deep trouble, off the tee at three and with his approach from mid-fairway at the fourth hole.
As he mixed sublime shots, like his rip-roaring 330-yard drive into the heart of the fairway at nine, with the slipshod, only making par at that hole, McIlroy completed that front nine in 40 strokes and was perilously close to the cut mark.
Mind you, he barely made the weekend at Quail Hollow in 2010 and went on to win with staggering rounds of 66 and 62.
The way he's playing right now, even a clairvoyant would have difficulty predicting how McIlroy might mark his birthday.
Harrington's future is decidedly unsure as he ploughs ever deeper into a form slump.
Three-under for his first 16 holes, Harrington played his next 20 in eight-over par, taking up yesterday where he'd left off with Thursday's double-bogey, bogey finish.
Martin Flores and Angel Cabrera led Justin Rose by one in the clubhouse on nine-under.
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RADNOR, PA, December 4, 2012 - VWR International, LLC, a leading global laboratory supply and distribution company, announced today that it has acquired Labonord SAS and Switch BVBA, expanding the company's cytology and histology portfolio in Europe.
Based in Lille, France, Labonord is an independent supplier of consumables and chemicals and also represents a number of leading suppliers of histology products in France. Belgium-based Switch, a manufacturer of cytology and histology reagents and dyes, produces products under the Q-Path brand which are distributed through Labonord and an independent distribution partner and sold to customers in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
"Labonord and Switch are recognized nationally throughout France and Belgium as trusted brands in the histology and cytology field." stated Manuel Brocke-Benz, CEO, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of European Operations. "This acquisition will enable VWR to expand its histology and cytology portfolio in these regions and provide opportunities to offer the Q-Path product across Europe. We welcome the Labonord and Switch teams to the VWR organization."
Financial details of this acquisition remain confidential.
About VWR International, LLC
VWR International, LLC, headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, is a global laboratory supply and distribution company with worldwide sales in excess of $4.1 billion in 2011. VWR enables the advancement of the world's most critical research through the distribution of a highly diversified product line to most of the world's top pharmaceutical and biotech companies, as well as industrial, educational and governmental organizations. With over 150 years of industry experience, VWR offers a well-established distribution network that reaches thousands of specialized labs and facilities spanning the globe. VWR has over 8,000 associates around the world working to streamline the way researchers across North America, Europe, and Asia stock and maintain their labs. In addition, VWR further supports its customers by providing onsite services, storeroom management, product procurement, supply chain systems integration and technical services.
For more information on VWR, phone 1-800-932-5000, visit www.vwr.com, or write, VWR, Radnor Corporate Center, Building One, Suite 200, 100 Matsonford Road, Radnor, PA 19087.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems reject GOP offer on Benghazi — House Democratic leaders on Friday rejected a Republican proposal designed to entice the minority party into participating in a special investigation of the deadly 2012 attack on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, Libya. — Although the GOP bill creating …
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico: Karl Rove: Trey Gowdy panel not 'showhorses'
Greg Sargent / Washington Post: Dems put GOP through wringer on #Benghazi
Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA: House Dems Call Boehner Offer a Slap In The Face and Refuse to Be Props In Benghazi Circus
New York Times:
Center Ring at the Republican Circus — The hottest competition in Washington this week is among House Republicans vying for a seat on the Benghazi kangaroo court, also known as the Select House Committee to Inflate a Tragedy Into a Scandal. Half the House has asked to "serve" on the committee …
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Ann Althouse / Althouse: The "Benghazi is a circus" meme.
Dorian De Wind / The Moderate Voice: The GOP Circus Is Coming to Town, Again.
Allahpundit / Hot Air: Tom Cotton on Benghazi fundraising: Where was this outrage when Democrats fundraised off the Iraq war?
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Benghazi panel already faces partisan tension — The House select committee investigating the deadly attacks in Benghazi will begin shortly and the only lingering question is whether Democrats will participate. — The lead up to the panel's work has already devolved into a back and forth …
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Barbara Morrill / Daily Kos: Here's what Republicans are 'willing to concede' to Democrats in upcoming #Benghazi hearing
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Faces Big Dilemma As Its Obamacare War Fizzles: What Next?
GOP Faces Big Dilemma As Its Obamacare War Fizzles: What Next?
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Dean Clancy / US News: Why the GOP Is Headed for an Obamacare Crack-Up
James Oliphant / NationalJournal.com:
Progressive Bloggers Are Doing the White House's Job — This administration enjoys an advantage afforded no other: a partisan media that has its back, minute-by-minute. — Off the record: The Obama administration has a complicated relationship with traditional media. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
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Hart Williams / The Democratic Daily: An Oliphant Always Forgets
Joseph / CANNONFIRE: Funniest article of the year
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: NJ: Progressive bloggers certainly have Obama's back, huh?
Matt K. Lewis / The Daily Caller: Progressive Bloggers Carry White House Water
Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog: DEMOCRATS STILL DON'T HAVE A WORKING NOISE MACHINE, SO WE'RE USING THE GOP'S
Alexander C. Kaufman / The Huffington Post:
Robert Reich Trashes White House 'Numbskull' For Walmart Event — Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich trashed the White House on Thursday for using Walmart, an enemy of unions and fair-pay advocates, as a poster company for a new climate-change campaign. — Reich, who served under President …
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Steven Hayward / Power Line: Civil War on the Left, Part 6
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Republicans Move on Benghazi
Republicans Move on Benghazi
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line: Do the Benghazi hearings pose a political risk for Republicans?
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Rahm Emanuel to help 'Ready for Hillary'
Rahm Emanuel to help 'Ready for Hillary'
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Four Pinocchios for Obama's claim that Republicans have 'filibustered about 500 pieces of legislation' — "Here's what's more disconcerting. Their [Republicans] willingness to say no to everything — the fact that since 2007, they have filibustered about 500 pieces of legislation that would help …
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Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg View: All Filibusters, All the Time — Judging from Glenn Kessler's takedown …
Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
Obamacare Myth-Making — Five phony success stories.
Obamacare Myth-Making — Five phony success stories.
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
¿Quién es el mentiroso más grande?
¿Quién es el mentiroso más grande?
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard: Who's Crazy? — Benghazi, crazy. That's the association …
Donald Sterling's Pathetic Racism Excuse Revealed In Second Secret Recording: I Was Just 'Jealous' & 'Trying To Have Sex With' V. Stiviano! LISTEN To His Crude Comments About His Penis Size — Yesterday, Donald Sterling's reaction to his racism scandal was heard for the first time …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo: Donald Sterling Says He Made Racist Comments To Get Stiviano In Bed
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Nancy Dillon / NY Daily News: EXCLUSIVE: Donald Sterling says 'Horny' tape about V. Stiviano racist rant not me!
Jason Hanna / CNN: Sterling: I was simply jealous
Barry Petchesky / Deadspin: Donald Sterling: I Was Only Saying Racist Things To Get Laid
Michael Sneed / Chicago Sun Times:
There are rumblings Bill Clinton may apologize to wife, Lewinsky — The Lewinsky affair . . . Is Bubba about to blubber? — Sneed hears rumbles former President Bill Clinton, who lied about his affair with White House intern Monica "That Woman" Lewinsky, may opt to publicly apologize …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Paul Says G.O.P. Push on Voting Laws Is Alienating Blacks — MEMPHIS — Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky on Friday broke with fellow Republicans who have pushed for stricter voting laws as a way to crack down on fraud, saying the party was alienating and insulting African-Americans.
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Rand Paul quotes Captain Kirk: GOP to 'boldly go'
Rand Paul quotes Captain Kirk: GOP to 'boldly go'
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U.S. officials 'hitting the ground' in Nigeria
U.S. officials 'hitting the ground' in Nigeria
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Amnesty International USA:
Nigerian Authorities Failed to Act on Warnings About Boko Haram Raid on School
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This module is an object-oriented interface to libshout, an MP3 streaming
library that allows applications to easily communicate and broadcast to an
Icecast streaming media server. It handles the socket connections, metadata
communication, and data streaming for the calling application, and lets
developers focus on feature sets instead of implementation details.
WWW: http://www.icecast.org/
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/audio/p5-Shout/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install p5-Shout
cd /usr/ports/audio/p5-Shout/ && make install clean
pkg install p5-Shout
PKGNAME: p5-Shout
SHA256 (Shout-2.1.tar.gz) = b2f73880a62c3b2bfb4d1232b5d585deedd9d1e4d28640b849375cd943a1d9cc
SIZE (Shout-2.1.tar.gz) = 9433
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months about his other ports, so reset this one too. His last
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Walks burn Brewers pitcher's first start
Burns can't control Twins; Crew rally falls short
By Cash Kruth / MLB.com
On Thursday afternoon in his first Major League start, Burns was unable to live up to that reputation.
Burns walked the leadoff batter in the fourth inning and then misplayed a grounder back to the mound, leading to two Minnesota runs and an eventual 6-4 loss to the Twins at Miller Park.
"I just fell behind 3-1 too many times," said Burns, who was pulled from the game in the sixth inning after giving up a solo home run to Joe Crede. "When you fall behind 2-0, 3-0, you put yourself in a situation where you still have to try to make quality pitches, and I wasn't doing that."
Burns, who allowed four runs on six hits, walked three in 5 2/3 innings. The 30-year-old right-hander held the Twins hitless for the first three innings, but Minnesota got to Burns the second time through the lineup thanks to two mistakes of his own.
Minnesota's Denard Span walked to open the inning, and then Brendan Harris hit a soft grounder back to the pitcher's mound, which got by Burns for an infield single and left both runners safe. Joe Mauer flew out to center -- which would have been the inning's third out if a double play had been turned -- but Justin Morneau hit an RBI single for the game's first run.
Jason Kubel also singled to load the bases, and Burns walked the next batter, Michael Cuddyer, to extend the deficit.
"It's definitely disappointing, because it's a play that should have been made," said Burns, who ended up throwing 31 pitches in the fourth. "If it's made it's a whole different inning."
The Brewers scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning on a two-run home run by Casey McGehee and a solo shot by Prince Fielder to creep within a run of the Twins, but Minnesota answered with two in the next inning on RBI hits by Harris and Mauer.
"You always lose momentum when that happens, but you have to keep going up there and see what you can do, see if you can keep scoring runs," Fielder said of Minnesota's insurance runs. "You can't really dwell on that."
Twins starter Scott Baker (5-6) held the Brewers to three runs on four hits, striking out five, and Joe Nathan picked up his 17th save with a perfect ninth.
"He has to make his pitches good and pitch smart," Brewers manager Ken Macha said of Burns, "and I think if he would have limited his walks, it would have been a real good outing for him."
The loss concludes Interleague Play for the Brewers, which they struggled mightily in, finishing 5-10. Three of their wins came in a series sweep against Cleveland last week, with the other two wins against the White Sox and Twins.
Overall, the Brewers went 1-5 against Minnesota.
Macha said the stretch against more powerful American League lineups such as Cleveland, Detroit and Minnesota came at a time when his starting rotation was struggling to go deep in games, therefore also affecting the bullpen depth.
"We were scuffling at that times as far as getting the starters out there," Macha said, "so let's hope we get back into the National League and get our starters to go out there six, seven innings and not going into the bullpen in the sixth inning."
Ryan Braun, who homered in the eighth inning, said that NL teams are at a disadvantage on the road in Interleague Play, but when it comes down to it there's no excuse for the Brewers' mark.
"When we play Interleague games on the road, it's a big advantage for the American League, because they pay somebody to be a DH," Braun said. "They have a 30-homer, 100 RBI-type guy that they're paying to do that.
"When we play games here, it's just a matter of chance. At home, they shouldn't have an advantage over us. We're just not playing good baseball."
Cash Kruth is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Satchwrote a review of Sunline V1 OS Riser Handlebar on February 1, 2012
sweet bars
nice bars and at the price from h&r/cl, they are unbeatable.
i've always like easton bars, but went from those (711, dh carbon) to the 711 sunline. small penalty in weight, but the carbons were getting old.
then moved to the 745 length. didn't seem like much difference visually, but i was more conscious of it through tight spots. handling was very good.
downside is the weight of the 38/745. big jump from the 38/711 or the 19/745's, but the weight penalty of these bars are worth it. would have to go carbon to make a significant difference.
so, cl, how about a 750mm carbon dh bar?


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My wife and me will be travelling to Paris in June. Please suggest some hotels (which are conveniently located, safe, economic and comfortable). I am not looking for a luxury hotel, but rather for a economic hotel which ticks most of the boxes.
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Try the Hotel de la Place du Louvre***, it's about €225/night in mid-June. Or you could try the Parc Saint-Séverin****, it's a little more, but still economical for Paris. You might find a deal at the Hotel de Varenne in the 7th. It's been totally renovated.
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Hotel Michelet L'Odeon in Saint Germain des Pres, 2 star hotel, EUR145 per night inc breakfast.
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I like the Hotel Langlois in the 9th arrondisement. I have a feeling you want something that is more in the 2* hotel budget, though, as you stress economic. I know a few but they are acceptable, not what I'd call super comfortable. Goes with the territory, I think there is a correlation. The Langlois is comfortable, but is a 3*.
I also really like the 3* Hotel Raspail which is very conveniently located and priced well for that area and its level. I loved the hotel and my room mostly, and the location, but the mattress was a bit hard, actually. A lot of hotels in Europe and Mexico seem to have hard mattresses, I've noticed.
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We stayed in the Hotel Port Royal, which is in the 5th arrondisement, near the Gobelins metro stop. This is a very inexpensive hotel, sort of a backpacker's hotel. The cheapest rooms have shared bath, but we got a room with en suite bath (with shower) which is 88 euros in low season and 93 euros in high season. The room was quite small, but very clean and comfortable and with a nice bathroom. The staff were helpful. We absolutely loved the neighborhood, and I would definitely stay there again.
We didn't take their breakfast, so I can't say how that was.
The one thing I would advise is that you bring an extension cord with multiple outlets. The only usable outlet in our room was high on a wall, with no table nearby to hold the phone or camera battery we were charging, and we could charge only one thing at a time. We put a chair under this outlet and our charging cord just barely reached it.
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I love the Hotel Aviatic St. Germain, where I'm staying right now. It's a 3-star close to Montparnasse, convenient to 3 or 4 Metro lines, buses, plenty of restaurants nearby, rooms recently redone. It might be a little far from the Seine for first timers, but it's a lovely hotel, and affordable, especially if you get one of their internet deals as I did. Great A/C and helpful staff, too. This will be my 4th time staying here. I keep meaning to stay in another district, but gravitate back here because it's so lovely and convenient, and on a not so busy street.
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The Saphir hotels near La Motte Picquet Grenelle metro stops are easy walks to Eiffel Tower and very economical. Small rooms but clean and with a safe. Tiny bathrooms/showers. When booked on the Saphir website you get breakfast included.
No air conditioning, just fans, which could be a problem in June maybe? Also check "Hotel First" which I believe has A/C.
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...and by economic I'm talking in the 80Euros per night range with breakfast, per room.
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For your criteria you can't go wrong with Accor Hotels such as Novotel, ETAP, Sofitel, IBIS, etc.
They are all over Paris and are modern motel-type places of the American style Holiday Inns - dependably decent plumbing and all the facilities - weekends and August can even have special prices as the normal business travelers ain't there.
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We have stayed at the 2-star Hotel Familia several times. Their current rate for mid June is 129 euro ($177) for a standard double room and the rate, I believe, includes breakfast (croissant, o.j., coffee). The rooms are small but comfortable, air conditioned, clean, have private small shower room.
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another thought - go to www.booking.com for a listing of available hotels in Paris for your dates. It's a reliable website for booking hotels and you get to see photos, pricing and reviews of each hotel. You can book online with booking.com or you can go to the individual hotel's website to check prices and to book. Personally, I prefer to book a hotel with at least a 7.5 rating from booking.com - the higher the number, the better. Good luck and do let us know what you decide.
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I would echo the www.booking.com suggestion, with two caveats:
First, don't forget to take location into account, since some "bargains" are poorly located relative to where you would like to stay.
Second, cross reference the 7.5+ (I would try for over 8) against the tripadvisor reviews for the best candidates. In my experience, tripadvisor is more accurate on reviews but you will be hoping to find one that has a high booking.com score AND favorable tripadvisor reviews. Since every hotel has some number of bad reviews on tripadvisor, usually attached to some horror story review, my gauge is to have the number of reviews in the top 2 categories (excellent and very good) outweigh by a large margin (e.g.,4:1) the bottom two categories (poor and terrible).
Sound insane? Probably... but in your budget range you can find a HUGE quality difference between hotels and your job is to sort the data to get to the best level of quality in the best location while staying within your budget.
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Not sure what boxes you want ticking, but I've stayed in these that are clean, comfortable, reasonably located and have free wifi:
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thanks for your inputs. i do search on booking.com, but i like to take suggestions here, because people who have travelled can suggest hotels which are located well. the boxes i want to tick are - economic (as i will not be staying in the hotel for most of the time), clean, safe area, good location.
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i am thinking of a hotel in this area - 66, rue Pere Corentin, 75014 Paris. is this conveniently located nearby any major attractions?
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Check it out on Google Maps and the interactive map of PAris public transport:
And the answer to your question is, no, not really. You'd need to be looking at the lower arrondissement numbers (i.e., the "14" in the postcode - there are 20 arrondissements, arranged in a spiral with the lowest in the centre, so 14 is out on the edge of the city)
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Many tourists stay in arrondisements 4 through 6 to be near a fair number of major attractions. So the postcode of those hotels would end 04 through 06.
Or - even better - consult a map.
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I can tell by the postal code (the last two digits) that hotel is in the 14th arrondisement. No, it would not be consider central or convenient for sightseeing.
Do you have a street map of Paris?
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I disagree about the 14th not being central or convenient. The 14th includes the whole Montparnasse. A large area, sure, but the best part of the 14th -- where the literary figures used to hang out (not dropping names, but Sartre, Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joyce, and on and on). Walk in one direction, you can visit the Catacombs. In relative walking distance to the Musee d'Orsay, and of course the Luxembourg Gardens, as well as the Montparnasse Cemetery. Many famous cafes and restaurants, and the Breton creperies that line rue de Montparnasse, like Crêperie Josselin. Great outdoor markets line streets like the one on Boulevard Edgar Quinet.
I did check the location of the hotel you mentioned, and yes, that one is pretty far out -- in fact the other rim of the 14th. You can still find plenty of relatively modest accommodations towards inner Montparnasse. Still, so long as the hotel is close to a Metro or on a bus line, you shouldn't dismiss it out of hand.
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We just came back from a stay at the Hotel Saint Louis en l'Isle (think spelled right). We got a "superior" twin room for 199 euro; a standard room is cheaper. This hotel is on the Isle Saint Louis (the smaller of the two island in the Seine). The hotel was great and you couldn't get a more central location...1 minute walk from Notre Dame cathedral. This ticked all of our boxes! I spent a lot of time trying to find a centrally located hotel for less than 200 euro per night.
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I think you'd be happy with the Port Royal, which is much cheaper than most of the hotels mentioned here, and conveniently located, in a lovely neighborhood.
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please help me with the any reviews of this area - 11 Bis rue Pierre Semard, 9th arr. Opera, 75009 (hotel ibis Styles Paris Cadet Lafayette). is the area safe?
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The Port Royal isn't far out, I almost always stay in the 14th, which is farther than that as it's on the border of the 5th and the 14th. It's only a couple blocks from rue Mouffetard, which is nice, and only about a block from Gobelins metro and lots of bus lines. It's only about 1.5 miles from the Seine. I call the upper edges of Montmartre or the 19th-20th far out. But if you must stay within a few blocks of the Seine, I guess it is. But the neighborhood of the Port Royal is very nice, it's only a few blocks to rue Mouffetard, lots of small food shops and other things, I think it's much nicer as mainly residential than some areas right near the Seine. But to each, his own.
The Hotel Langlois I recommended is in the 9th like the Ibis Styles you named, but the Langlois is a bit better located and more convenient, I think. I find it a little duller over near Cadet metro stop and it gets a little seedy south of there IMO (between Cadet and the FOlies Bergere which is on rue Richer, and then even south of it). That hotel is just to the NW of Poissoniere metro stop, close to the border of the 10th arrondisement. I've only been through there so won't comment a lot on the safety compared to the areas I know. Most of Paris is pretty safe so I wouldn't worry about it, but I don't think that area is as nice as where the Port Royal is, for example, in several ways. It's also farther out from the Seine, if that is your criteria (it's about 3.5 km from Notre Dame where the Port Royal is only about 2.5 km).
It's not near any tourist attractions, which you said was how you were choosing places. I don't think that's the best way to choose a place myself, though. And I don't agree that you should avoid double digit arrondisements, the problem is the locations you are picking -- that one on rue Pere Corentin in the 14th is almost outside Paris (it's near the Porte d'Oreans metro stop), it's on the bottom border of the city. I stay in the 14th all the time, but near the border with the 6th, which is a completely different story.
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We loved the neighborhood of the Port Royal, and we walked from there to the Orsay museum, to Notre Dame, and to many other places in Paris. It's quite near the Luxembourg Gardens, and also to the Jardin des Plantes, which I had never seen before.
And, I repeat, it's definitely within the stipulated budget, whereas most of the others mentioned here are not. It's quite basic, but clean and comfortable, and the staff are very pleasant and helpful.
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What stipulated budget? I don't see that stated.
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Hotel Eden Opera is a better choice in the 9th. Recently renovated, ticks all your boxes. 2 metro stations within blocks. Check the reviews.
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Discussion in 'Political Issues' started by Skyhook, Feb 5, 2013.
,,,,cry me a river
BTW- war is hell
Declared and undeclared..... but is there a legal difference?
not in the last 15 years it seems
last 50 years.
But IMHO you are no longer an American if you have turned on your country and are hanging out in tangoville plotting to kill Americans.
No ****, Sherlock. For once in a rare occasion, you and I are on the same side of this argument. Yet you spout off... What, exactly?
.......that war is he'll??
So long as there's something MORE than "opinion" to go on, then I say bring it on. Problem is, I'm not reading that it DOES take much, if anything, more than "opinion" to make the call to wipe someone out.
*ahem* Still curious at to a definitive source saying that these drone strikes cannot be used on American soil?
Awlaki's guilt was not opinion.
Drone strikes wouldn't be necessary on US soil. If any .gov agency wanted anyone dead there are plenty of ways to do it covertly. "Accident", hired hitman, etc.


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The novel The Girl in the Green Sweater is about a Jewish family living in the vibrant city of Lvov, Poland around the devastating reign of Hitler. Their daughter, Krystyna, and their son, Pawelek, were 7 and 2 when the Germans took control of their city. They were finally forced to go into hiding in the sewers with another group of Jews to avoid being killed by the Nazis.
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Starting next week, March 30, The Avengers: Age of Ultron production will close off several bridges and areas of Seoul, South Korea, through April 14. Though the actors involved in the shoot are a big mystery, it was revealed not along ago that the core scene set in Seoul involves Ultron laying parts of the city to waste. There is also a Korean IT institute that will play a central part in Age of Ultron where the titular villain "tries to acquire state-of-the-art technology." What do you think?
The Avengers: Age of Ultron stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Cobie Smulders, Jeremy Renner, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, with Paul Bettany, Samuel L. Jackson, and James Spader. The film is set for release on May 1, 2015.