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With unrestricted free agent Mark Messier saying this week that if he decides to put off retirement and play again it likely won't be with the New York Rangers, expect the rumour mill to crank up one more time regarding a return to the Edmonton Oilers.
An encore in Edmonton by the Moose, who last skated here draped in Oilers' silks at the Heritage Classic at Commonwealth Stadium, isn't very likely, but never say never where the former captain is concerned.
"It would be a good story for us," said coach Craig MacTavish, who is on vacation in B.C. "I would say that it's a long shot, but I wouldn't say it would never happen."
While Messier, 44, is clearly no longer the dominant first-line centre that he once was, the future hall-of-famer still managed 43 points in 76 games with the Rangers in 2003-04.
Given the intangibles, like the leadership he'll bring any team he signs with, there's more to Messier's value than just numbers. He's also willing to listen to offers.
"Don't forget, he was close to being one of their better players," MacTavish said. "With his leadership, he could be really beneficial in the right situation. We've pursued it in the past. I think Mark knows where he stands."


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HARRISBURG - Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane today joined a bipartisan national coalition of 49 Attorneys General calling on Congress to amend the law to help fight prostitution and child sex trafficking.
In a letter to key members of Congress, the Attorneys General recommended that Congress amend the Communications Decency Act to provide criminal jurisdiction to state and local prosecutors.
The Communications Decency Act of 1996 was drafted when the internet was in its infancy. The original purpose of the law was to protect children from accessing indecent material online. However, courts have interpreted certain provisions of the Act to provide immunity from state prosecution to online classified ad sites such as Backpage.com that promote and profit from human trafficking.
Unless it involves interstate travel, federal property, or the involvement of a minor, prostitution is considered a local crime, not federal. While the Communications Decency Act provides criminal authority to the federal government, the Attorneys General believe that criminal jurisdiction needs to be extended to help combat these crimes.
"Federal law needs to be modernized to provide local prosecutors the tools to strike back against those who use technology to promote sexual exploitation of children," Kane said.
Local prosecutors report that prostitution solicitations have largely moved online. Backpage.com, for example, generates an estimated $3 million to $4 million per month in revenue

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Thales USA's transport business has been awarded a contract by MTA New York City Transit (NYCT) to perform signaling upgrades and related refurbishment to the subway system's No. 7 line, also known as the Flushing Line. The seven-year contract is valued at $343 million.
Thales's communications-based train control (CBTC) technology will be integrated into the No. 7 line as other upgrades to the line are taking place, including the addition of new rolling stock, which will be placed in service by 2014. The Thales CBTC system will enable automatic operation of trains between stations and will facilitate an improvement in operating flexibility and system safety.
In addition to the core CBTC technology, Thales' Flushing Line upgrade work will incorporate non-proprietary, free-space, wireless radio communication between the train and wayside equipment.
"Thales is proud to be selected by NYCT for this important program, and we're fully committed to NYCT's upgrade objectives for Flushing Line subway service," said John Brohm, president of Thales USA's transport business.
Allan Cameron, president and CEO of Thales USA, said, "The Flushing Line win is a major milestone in Thales' plan to be a leader in U.S. urban rail modernization programs." Similar, open-architecture urban rail signaling systems have been successfully deployed by Thales in Washington, D.C. (Dulles), Las Vegas, Shanghai, and Beijing.
The Thales USA transport team will be supported by a sub-contractor team which includes L.K. Comstock, provider of the project's installation and refurbishment services, and Thales Canada's rail transport technology development group in Toronto, Ontario.


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The Georgetown Inn opened in 1961 as
the finest hotel in Georgetown. The Duke
and Duchess of Winsor are among many who
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property. Take a peaceful stroll along
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Albuquerque, NM Police Chief Resigns Amid Evidence Scandal
ALBUQUERQUE, NM - The police chief resigned abruptly Wednesday amid a scandal involving his department's alleged mishandling of evidence.
Chief Gilbert Gallegos had been under increasing fire over possible long-standing problems in the department's evidence room.
Last year an anonymous e-mail was sent to law enforcement officials claiming that weapons, drugs and jewelry were missing from the room. That e-mail helped prompt an attorney general's investigation, launched at Gallegos' request.
Gallegos said he will offer any information he may have to investigators.
Sam Thompson, a spokeswoman for the attorney general's office, said Gallegos' resignation would have no effect on the investigation.
"This was the chief's decision ... I think he made the right decision," Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez said. "The chief has put his department's welfare ahead of his own."
Gallegos' resignation letter did not give a precise reason for his departure, saying only that he does "not want to hinder the future success of this department."
Chavez said he hopes to replace Gallegos, who took over as chief in December 2001, by the end of the week.
Recently, a former Albuquerque police lieutenant said he and his officers brought allegations of theft in the department's evidence room to Gallegos but that the chief waited two months to begin an internal criminal investigation and seven months to call in the attorney general.
This week, three citizens filed formal ethics complaints against Gallegos for his handling of the alleged problems.
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Our Private Visit at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
// March 11, 2010
// Posted in Adventure, Africa, Brooke Garnett, Katie Losey, Leslie Overton, Sasha Lehman, Travel Experts, Type of Travel
I was introduced to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (DSWT) earlier this year as I planned my trip to East Africa, and I ended up helping out a bit with their February 25th benefit in SoHo. The more I learned about the organization, the more enthralled I was by their mission. DSWT is a Kenya-based non-profit dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and reintroduction into the wild of orphaned elephants and rhinos. During my recent visit to Kenya, I had the privilege of visiting their orphaned elephant nursery in Nairobi National Park.
Most of the resident elephants were made orphans from poaching, which unfortunately remains all too common. As a substitute for their parents, trained locals have stepped up to the plate to help the babies. Known among the DSWT team as Elephant Keepers, their role in each orphan's life is vital: around the clock support to provide whatever they need, from a warm bottle in the middle of the night to an afternoon stroll with their pachyderm pals. The Keepers actually room with "their" baby elephant during their shift! As heartbreaking as the orphans' stories were, the emotional bond and community support they receive through DSWT left us feeling hopeful about their futures. We even signed up as sponsors of the little one we connected to the most!
As I continued along my East Africa circuit, Absolute Travel's Sasha Lehman and Leslie Overton attended DSWT's New York City benefit. Supporters from the tri-state area braved the epic "snow-pocalypse" blizzard to attend the event at the Wild Horses of Sable Island Gallery in SoHo. Despite the record-breaking snowfall, the room was packed. The energy and cocktails flowed as Deirdre Featherstone of Featherstone Design powered the live auction and spurred on the generous crowd; the trip that Absolute Travel donated was quickly snatched up. Hostess Kristin Davis (from Sex and the City fame) offered heartfelt words about her personal experience at the orphanage. I'm sure by the end of the night, most of the attendees were planning their own journeys to Kenya, but those that are not able to get there can rest assured that despite the hardships that these animals face, the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is taking good care of them. -Katie


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Wooo! More amazing men's and women's printed tops from world famous tattoo artists have just hit the racks (and cyber-space racks)!! We only included a few in this picture, but there are 14 styles in total - and we love them all! Check it all out in the NEW STUFF section of our website or come visit us instore.


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Shh! Stolen my man's shirt for the day.
The outfit details: BF shirt - Armani, jeans - Levi , boots - New Look.
The outfit details: bag - no brand (from Shanghai), watch- Michael Kors, rings - Swarovski
winter days go away!
Sometimes when I'm having a hard time or a lot on my mind I decide to stay for a while and just enjoy the view. I heard that alot of people feel more 'down' in the winter. Same thing for my colleagues ,they say it all the time. But a lot of people also feel more happy in the winter. I'm in between, before the hollidays I'm loving winter but after the hollidays I'm longing for spring and summer again :)
Outfit details: bag- Michael Kors, watch- Michael Kors, knuckle rings - H&M + ASOS , jeans - Levi , Boots - Steve Madden.
Happy Newyear! Shake it off
Happy Newyear to all of you gorgeous people! I hope 2014 has been a amazing year for you and if not, 2015 is a nice way to make it a good year and start all over. On NYE I realised that time has gone by so fast this year and actually was kind of sad because it was a nice year for me, and I can't imagine 2015 being as good as 2014. But we'll just have to see about that right?
Talking about NYE . I kind of let myself go with the food. Looking back at it, I'm not proud of it but I'm sure glad I got to relax and do / eat whatever I wanted. Not only on NYE but also with christmas and actually the whole month of december. That's why I want to dedicate this post to.. Starting fresh! Shake of 2014 and focus on 2015, shake of the food that you've been eating and now regretting, shake off all your worries!
My way of shaking everything off is working out, I love working out and it's just a part of who I am. I know a lot of people have ' working out' on their newyear's resolution list. Come on , work out with me :)
This year I want to dedicate the year and all of my ambitions to myself. This isn't meant selffish, I just want to try to fulfill all of my ambitions. And take every time possible to update outfit posts on my blog. I don't like following rules or walking the path like everyone else, I'm cute a stubborn person. But I like to enter journeys my way and I've learned from my own experiences, as you can see in the picture. But that just defines me :)
Outfit details: Pink sports bra- Nike, Track suit - Forever 21 (bought in Shanghai, didn't see it on the website), shoes - Nike Roshe run
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Asheville, NC – Asheville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts will host a Community Yard Sale on Saturday, April 14, from 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the MontfordRecreationCenter, 34 Pearson Drive
. Find great bargains on an assortment of household items, clothing, toys and much more. Baked goods will also be available for purchase. Event will move indoors in case of inclement weather.
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by Christopher Freeburn | August 22, 2013 10:14 am
[1]When most people think of crickets, they think of a night-time chorus in the woods. One upstart food-maker hopes consumers can be persuaded to think of the insects as part of a tasty snack[2].
Exo, founded by Gabi Lewis and Greg Swetz, is promoting a line of protein bars made from crickets as a nutritious alternative to other snacks. The company is also positioning the protein bars as an example of foods made from a sustainable source, FoodNavigator notes.
Its cricket-based protein bars were crafted by a professional chef and will be priced around $2.80 each. The bars are aimed at health-focused consumers, but hope to gain traction with a broader market.
The company is currently looking for financing on crowd-sourcing website Kickstarter, where it has amassed almost $50,000 in initial pledges. It is looking for a U.S.-based production partner to start making the protein bars.
There has been talk of introducing insects into the food chain for years. And, while many popular foods use ingredients that are drawn from insects — some dyes, for instance — the idea of eating products directly made from insects has not received an enthusiastic reception from the public.
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"Wonderland San Diego"
When: 8 p.m., KPBS-TV, tonight
Segment: Solana Beach
Online: wonderlandsd.com
San Diego can be a transient place, known more as a vacation spot than a place where folks set down roots. The "Wonderland San Diego" series on KPBS offers a different perspective.
Hosted by Noah Tafolla, the show takes viewers to local neighborhoods, where we learn about the locales past and what made its residents stay and build a community. So far, there have been segments on La Mesa, Poway, Carlsbad and National City (available at wonderlandsd.com ).
Tonight at 8, Tafolla will treat viewers to a trip to Solana Beach. Though he has lived in San Diego his whole life, he had never visited the coastal town.
"I pick a new neighborhood every month and there are so many to choose from," Tafolla said. "Solana Beach is a good example. I've lived in San Diego my whole life; my grandparents came here in the 1940s. But I knew nothing about Solana Beach."
Viewers will learn that the city was developed by Col. Ed Fletcher in the 1920s, when it was known for its avocado groves.
Today, it's recognized for its design district and the Belly Up Tavern, a popular live-music venue. The original Pizza Port is there, too, established in 1987 and first known for its pies before introducing handcrafted beer in 1992.
"Longtime residents will email me to say, 'I've lived here for so many years and never knew that place existed,' " Tafolla said. "That's the best."
Tafolla discovered his talent for filmmaking accidentally.
He was working as a painter and handyman when he decided to take his filmmaking hobby to another level.
"I had a little camera, a Sony PD150, and I was recognizing the power of film," Tafolla recalled. "I'd take a video of my kids in the yard, take out their screaming, add cool music and slo-mo the action. My wife would cry and say, that's so good."
A travel program by Heull Howser inspired Tafolla to localize an exploration of San Diego's neighborhoods, starting with his own town, Ocean Beach.
First, he researched the beach community at the local historical society. Then, Tafolla filmed the people and places he knew and loved.
"After I made the documentary, I pitched the idea to TV stations all over town," Tafolla said. "I got insight into the fact that local programming is too expensive for most stations to produce. They have to sell advertising and pay for production."
But Keith York, program director for KPBS, loved the idea. He wanted to air it and "see if anybody cares."
The Nielsen ratings were so high for the first show that Tafolla was offered a one-year contract.
"My wife helped me, my 13-year-old son held the camera, I edited it at night."
The program continued to be popular, and last year, Tafolla was granted a small film crew. He now edits his discoveries at the KPBS studios on the campus of San Diego State University.
His favorite experience so far, Tafolla said, was a hang-gliding expedition at Torrey Pines Gliderport. And Tafolla always wants to talk up his latest hidden treasure, from Tide Beach Park in Solana Beach to a hidden garden on Niagara Avenue in Ocean Beach.
Tafolla's title, "Wonderland San Diego," was inspired by a large amusement park of the same name, located on the sands of Ocean Beach between 1913 and 1916, until high tides made the park unstable.
"When I did my first episode, I learned it was just two blocks away from my house," said Tafolla. "They had monkeys, a dance hall, a carousel and a huge roller coaster. I've discovered so many cool places to go. I feel like San Diego is one giant wonderland."Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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Seattle - Nick Risinger has always gazed up at the sky. But last year the amateur astronomer and photographer quit his day job as a Seattle marketing director and lugged six synchronized cameras about 100 000km to capture an image of the entire night sky.
Risinger, 28, set up his rack of cameras in high-elevation locales in the Western US and South Africa, timing photo shoots around new moons when nights were long and dark.
He programmed his six cameras to track the stars as they moved across the sky and simultaneously snapped thousands of photos.
He then stitched 37 440 exposures together into a spectacular, panoramic survey sky that he posted online two weeks ago. The photo reveals a 360-degree view of the Milky Way, planets and stars in their true natural colours.
Viewers can zoom in on portions of the 5 000-megapixel image to find Orion or the Large Magellanic Cloud.
"I wanted to share what I thought was possible," said Risinger, a first-time astrophotographer. "We don't see it like this. This is much brighter. On a good night in Seattle, you'll see 20 or 30 stars. This, in its full size, you'll see 20 to 30 million. Everything is amplified."
Other sky surveys have preceded this one, including the Digitized Sky Survey and Google Sky. Many serve scientific purposes and were shot in red and blue to measure the temperature of stars, Risinger said. He shot in a third colour, green, to give the photo added depth and richness, he said.
"What a labor of love it is!" said Andrew Fraknoi, senior educator at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. "Professional astronomers are now doing much deeper surveys of small regions of the sky, using big telescopes. But every once in a while it's nice to step back and have such a beautiful photographic record of the whole sky."
Not scientifically useful
"This is not a scientifically useful image. This is for educational and artistic appreciation," Risinger said, adding that he didn't want to make money from it. "It is for educational purposes. I want to develop some tools for the classroom."
To capture the entire night sky in a year, Risinger plotted out an exact schedule of images he needed from both the northern and southern hemisphere. He divided the sky into 624 uniform sections and entered those co-ordinates into the computer.
"The sheer amount of work was mind-boggling," he said at his apartment in Seattle. "It's not a wing-it kind of project. You have to plan how you're going to get the entire sky.
"And you do that by dividing it up into pieces and knowing what time you need to collect those pieces because as the Earth goes around the Sun, things come in and out of view."
In March of last year, Risinger and his older brother, Erik, travelled to the desert near Tonapah, Nevada, and took the first photos of what eventually would become his Photopic Sky Survey.
When he realised the work was too monumental, Risinger quit his day job as a marketing director of a counter top company to devote himself full-time to the project. He also persuaded his retired father, Tom, who lives in Gig Harbour, Washington, to join him.
In the US, he and his dad would often drive all day and set up and take photographs all night. They chased ideal windows of opportunity to catch the night sky at its clearest.
Their travels took them to dark places where light pollution was low and higher altitudes where there was less water vapour - near the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona, near Fort Davis, Texas, and Lassen National Forest in California.
South Africa
He found himself staking out stars in freezing temperatures in Telluride, Colorado, and amid stars in South Africa where none of the constellations were recognisable to his northern hemisphere-trained eyes.
Each night, Risinger set the six cameras - high-end monochrome astrophotography imagers equipped with different filters - to point in the exact same spot and continuously feed his laptop with images.
He monitored the photographs in real-time and passed the dark hours eating sunflower seeds. Meanwhile, his dad slept.
Back in Seattle, Risinger began piecing the panoramic image together in January. He used a computer software programme to scan each frame, recognise the pattern with a database of stars and then match them with the other colours and frames. That got projected onto a sphere.
"Making an atlas of the night sky is something that mostly professional astronomers would have done in the past," said Fraknoi, who is also chair of the astronomy department at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California.
"With new computer tools at our disposal, it's remarkable what amateur astronomers can discover."
Risinger finished the project a couple weeks ago, and has been getting thousands of hits on his website.
"It was always hard to describe what I was doing that would make sense to people that aren't familiar with astronomy. But once they see it, they get it."
Bravo, Mr Risinger! What an awesome project, a labour of love indeed.
What a waste of time and money.
Yes Peter. Mr. Risinger should rather have remained a countertop marketer. Who needs to do something remarkable in a field they're passionate about when they could be sensible, save some cash, and not offend the likes of you.
A bit like your comment then. In any case it was his own time and money.
Jealous? Peter
yes, very jealous indeed!
The stars are amazing.Well done
I am sure he feels a great sense of accomplishment, and I congratulate him on being able to quit his day job to do what he loves. However, how did he manage to stay alive? Move back in with his parents? I'd love to quit my day job and gaze at the stars!
this is awesome http://media.skysurvey.org/interactive360/index.html
Magical, thank you!
Lugged 6 cameras 100 000kms huh? That's more than twice around the earth. Where could you possibly go that requires you to go twice around the Earth I wonder... surely once is enough. Unless he went to like, Narnia... hmmm.
(Just saying :)
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You hear it all the time, generally as an excuse after someone has been deeply unreasonable . "Look, I've had a bad day." Frankly, and without wishing to sound like an old man talking about walking seven miles to school in the snow when he was young, I'm a little tired of hearing this refrain relating to trivial irritations.
Bankers, in my experience, are especially guilty of this inability to differentiate their difficulties from those of the wider world. They are apparently under the impression that the only real work there can ever be involves sitting at a desk systematically dismantling the world economy and whining about bonuses.
I used to live with one who would come home sighing deeply and expect nothing but sympathy for choosing to dedicate his life to shoving numbers to-and-fro. Which he did not get. Because he chose to work at one of those fine bastions of under-regulated capitalism and, in my view, was therefore responsible for not whinging about it. Now the system is collapsing they work longer hours and, despite the fact it's their fault, complain more.
I do not claim it is easy, or that I am perfect at it. I just think that if you look at the world's nicest people, and it always seemed that the late, great Tony Hart was one of these, you get the impression they were adept at grinning and bearing it. Icy-to-the-touch Dick Cheney seems more like the kind of guy who might shout at you because he stubbed his toe on the walk over.
Before using your home life as an excuse to be unpleasant at work, or your work life to be unpleasant at home, spare a thought for people who have had genuinely catastrophic days. Working 18-hour days for a week then coming into work one Monday to find you have no job – that's a bad day. Finding out your salary is going to be cut by 10%, bad too. Having a little tiff with a colleague because they never make the tea and/or replace the toner in the printer, not so bad. Delayed train that makes you a little bit late to either the office or the pub, also tolerable. So don't take it out on me.


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Mmmmmm…one of the great pleasures in life = a huge mug of pumpkin chai on a soggy Vancouver evening :-)
I'm on what feels like an eternal quest for the perfect chai. Ever since I had it made from scratch at a friend's house a number of years ago, freshly ground spices and all, I haven't been able to find something close to that wonderful taste. Along the way I do find real gems like this tea. With a bit of brown sugar and milk, Pumpkin Chai is a real winner in my books.
I love how the pumpkin is dominant. Too many flavoured chais that I've tried make it seem like the flavour was an afterthought. This is nicely spiced, although it would have been nice to have just a little "bite" to it. I normally steep this closer to the 6 minute mark, but today I was too impatient to get my relaxing time started.
Since I'm just discovering this now, it's probably too late for me to get a tin to last me through the year. My chai search continues, but this will (hopefully) have a place on my tea shelf.


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HONOLULU (AP) - A supervisor at the Veterans Administration office in Honolulu was manipulating data to make it look like the agency was processing veterans' benefits claims faster than they actually were, according to a new report by the VA Office of Inspector General.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Astronaut Scott Kelly's identical twin pulled a fast one on NASA right before his brother blasted off on a one-year space station mission.
PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) - A brothel employee and an armored vehicle driver from Las Vegas face felony theft charges following their arrests in a months-long investigation of cash disappearing from a Nevada brothel, a sheriff said Monday.
WOMAN'S APPEAL FOR KIDNEY DONOR ON CAR WINDOW PAYS OFF: SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A Maine woman's decision to seek a kidney donor by putting a personal plea in bright yellow letters on her car has paid off.
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) - A two-day Arab summit ended Sunday with a vow to defeat Iranian-backed Shiite rebels in Yemen and the formal unveiling of plans to form a joint Arab intervention force, setting the stage for a potentially dangerous clash between U.S.-allied Arab states and Tehran over influence in the region.
CINCINNATI (AP) - More than seven decades after an audacious bombing run by the "Doolittle Tokyo Raiders" rallied their own nation while stunning another, the World War II heroes are still adding to their legacy.
MISSION, Texas (AP) - A U.S. surveillance helicopter hovering over the Rio Grande spots a body floating near a muddy bank on the Mexican side of the river.
HURRICANE, Utah (AP) - The small southern Utah town of Hurricane might become a little quieter after a statue of a copper bull lost its most prominent private feature this weekend.
PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) - An Oregon couple took it all in stride as they watched the demolition of a house they owned for nearly 30 years.
AKRON, Ohio (AP) - The stars of a charity calendar are in their 80s and 90s, but that didn't stop the men and women from an assisted living facility in Ohio from showing a little skin.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Farmers in Oregon's Willamette Valley hate slugs, slimy mollusks that munch their way through crops.
SCHOOL AIDE BARRICADED SELF IN CLASSROOM; TOOK OFF CLOTHES: LEMON GROVE . (AP) - Authorities say an afterschool program assistant kept 14 children inside a California classroom while appearing to be hallucinating on drugs.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a pugnacious and glamour-averse tactician who united Democrats to help deliver tough victories for President Barack Obama, said Friday he's retiring next year. He immediately endorsed brash New York Sen. Chuck Schumer to succeed him as leader of a party desperate to regain the Senate majority.
BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin couple is accused of locking their 13-year-old daughter in a cold basement with no toilet or sink, forcing her to wear diapers and refusing to allow her to sit on furniture in the family home, according to criminal charges filed this week.
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) - Members of a University of Oklahoma fraternity apparently learned a racist chant that recently got their chapter disbanded during a national leadership cruise four years ago that was sponsored by the fraternity's national administration, the university's president said Friday.
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- A Dream Fulfilled, (Murray, Utah:Cherish Bound, Inc., 2005, 51 pgs).
- Benjamin Kingman Curtis: History of Service in the Civil War (Civil War Volunteer, Michigan 5th Cavalry, Company B, (Sandy, Utah: self-published, 2000, 23 pgs).
- "Blogging Your Ancestor Can Help in the Search: Benjamin Kingman Curtis," Curtis/s Chronicle: The Newsletter of The Curtis/s Family Society, Vol 32, No 4, Dec 2008, p7).
- George and Rebecca Hartley: A history of their family and their ancestry, (Lehi, Utah: Cherish Bound, Inc., 2007, 422 pgs.) This publication includes a family history of George and Rebecca Hartley, their son Andrew and his wife Hannah Wadsworth, and their eight grandchildren. In addition, the ancestry of George and Andrew Hartley, Rebecca Richards, and Hannah Wadsworth, including the collateral relationships of cousins, aunts, and uncles. There are 307 photographs and 119 images of family artifacts included in the history. Restoration work was completed on all images by the author.
- The Curtis Family Album, (Sandy, Utah: MyPublisher.com, 2010, 100 pgs) This is a full reproduction of the Curtis family antique photograph album that originally belonged to Mary Lavantia Curtis 1871-1958, daughter of Benjamin Kingman Curtis and Sarah Lavantia Card.
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Open Road Integrated Media has announced a partnership with Ingram to distribute their print-on-demand titles, including the 36-author "e-riginal" collaborative novel Hotel Angeline, through Ingram's Espresso Book Machine channel and Lightning Source's print-on-demand network.
To promote the new initiative, two Espresso-equipped bookstores in Seattle, Third Place Books and University Bookstore, will be holding promotional events next week for Hotel Angeline, the product of a week-long on-stage marathon writing event "The Novel: Live!", organized by nonprofit Pacific Northwest authors' collective Seattle7Writers. Vladimir Verano of Third Place Books praised the print-on-demand scheme, which gives the store freedom to "choose how many to have on the shelves and on display" as needed: "we don't have to worry about cumbersome returns, or any delays in re-ordering."


text: On 24 August 2010 17:45, Mathew de Detrich <deteego at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic > <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 24 August 2010 15:50, Mathew de Detrich <deteego at gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > - packages on archlinux don't auto update when cabal does. This becomes >> > really annoying when package X gets updated on cabal but not on arch and >> > causes conflicts with other packages >> >> Huh? Are you referring to doing a "cabal update"? If so, how is this >> causing conflicts? Are you mixing and matching distro packages with >> packages installed by hand? > > No I am referring to doing an update through packer -Syu or clyde -Syu (the > archlinux wrappers for updating packages uploaded through aur). Right now I > just use standard cabal-install, because I got sick of this happening (and > haven't had any issues) I still don't get how this is a problem, unless package foo depends on package bar, package bar is updated but not package foo. >> I thought Don kept the external Haskell repository up to date with the >> packages on Hackage... > > They are not auto updated, they are updated whenever a maintainer updates > them. You can check here for more info > http://www.galois.com/~dons/arch-haskell-status.html > If the aur packages were auto-updated (assuming they could be built) > whenever a package was updated on hackage, that would be a different story And I would argue that this is a good thing: I'm rather leery of auto-generated packages being used "in the wild", probably due to the amount of fiddling needed to get some ebuilds for Haskell packages working (admittedly, this fiddling is partially due to limitations on what ebuild dependencies can contain, partially due to some quirks that our hackport tool still generates but mainly because we tend to sometimes tweak how the package is built with USE flags, loosening/tightening deps, etc.). Also, I'm not sure of any auto-generated package being able to cope with non-Haskell dependencies properly (due to not being able to match up the specified C library names to the proper package names, or due to "implicit" dependencies not actually able to be specified as such in the .cabal file). >> > - in some situations doing a general update with arch (through clyde or >> > packer) breaks ghc (last time it happened packer tried to >> > uninstall/update >> > arch packages which failed because those packages had dependencies. The >> > files got removed but since unregister failed ghc thought they still >> > existed) >> >> Is this the problem with bad packages or the package manager playing up? > > What happened at the time, was updating haskell-gtk (or gtk on cabal) caused > packer (the package manager for AUR) to uninstall/update the haskell-gtk > packages (can't remember which one). So when the haskell-gtk package (and > its dependancies) where installed, it obviously invoke ghc-pkg unregister > (which is what you are meant to do when you uninstall a package). However > other packages dependant on those haskell-gtk packages, which meant that > ghc-unregister failed (obviously) however the library files were still > removed, which for obvious reasons broke ghc. This has happened many times > before though (around 3 times for me) At a guess, is this because of a fault in the pre-Cabalised gtk2hs? Since it didn't use Cabal, registering and unregistering it was a little quirky if memory serves... > Another much more common issue is when you are trying to install some > package (through AUR) and it has dependencies on some packages (also through > AUR) however that package happens to be outdated. So then you have to > manually build the package, and if it depends on some other packages things > get even worse (kind of like dependency hell, haskell version). With just > using cabal, you can do cabal install or cabal update. Again this is an > issue that goes to my previous point, where packages on AUR (that are not > just the base ones) aren't fully updated Does it really matter to much to you as an end user if a package is outdated? I mean, yes, I like to keep the Haskell packages I use either directly or indirectly updated in terms of ebuilds for Gentoo as much as possible, but does it really hurt if it takes a month or so for the repository maintainer to update said packages (assuming there's not some large bug with the older version)? Speaking of such, you could always help out by a) asking Don or someone else that said package is out of date, and b) actually helping to create Haskell packages. > Note that these problems aren't just foreign to Haskell, other languages has > it as well (to some degree). I have had similar issues with building > outdated C/C++ programs, its just that due to the way people program/build > in C/C++, they use a few huge libraries (as opposed to a large collection of > smaller libraries) so when problems do occur you don't have > many dependencies that you have to deal with. In Haskell, its not uncommon > to have libraries/programs with >15 dependencies. I actually prefer the > Haskell way of doing things, because its much more modularized, it just > means that if you have issues with dependencies in libraries they are > amplified. Ruby is another language that favors using many libraries, > however everyone that uses Ruby just uses gems (kind of equivalent of > cabal-install) and Ruby being a primarily interpreted/scripted language > makes things less painful then one that is primarily compiled (such as > Haskell) If memory serves, Arch also only has one version of each package; does this ever lead to problems when package Foo depends on Bar-x, and package Baz depends on Bar-y (where x /= y)? If so, maybe this is one reason why packages aren't updated instantly... >> > Apart from base/required packages, unless your linux distro has proper >> > metapackages its in my opinion just better off using cabal install (and >> > only >> > use arch packages for binaries) >> >> What do you mean by "metapackages"? >> > Metapackages would mean that when you do an update/install through your > distro (for my archlinux system it would be packer -S haskell-gtk for > example) then it wouldn't actually install (or sync) a package containing > files. Instead what would happen is that invoking packer -S haskell-gtk > would just invoke a cabal-install (with a pre-configured .config file I am > assuming). More importantly, if you do something like ghc-unregister on a > package and it fails, the package wouldn't actually successfully uninstall > (and screw up ghc) as it did in my example above Oh, so you want to be able to have "virtual" packages that auto-generate the package you want if it isn't already available? IMHO, that's a really bad idea and fraught with possible problems (see my comments on this above). And in the gtk case, now that it's cabalised this shouldn't be as much of a problem. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic at gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com


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By Karen Brainard
San Diego County's new site plan review process, aimed at saving residents time and money, will be the focus of the Ramona Design Review Board's Dec. 15 meeting, which begins at 7 p.m. in the Ramona Community Center, 434 Aqua Lane.
Representatives from RBF Consulting and the county will explain the new method developed for unincorporated communities, including Ramona, that are zoned with the "B" community design review special area designator.
Joe Farace, a planning manager with the county's Department of Planning and Land Use (DPLU), said the county has worked to "find ways to streamline the existing process which can be beneficial to customers."
When residents in communities with a "B" designator want to construct or alter a building or structure, parking lot, or establish any outdoor commercial or industrial use, they must submit a site plan and application at the DPLU zoning counter.
Submittal of the "B" site plan applications requires an appointment with the zoning counter staff and usually includes a complete plot plan, architectural elevations, conceptual landscaping and grading plans, an environmental initial study, and a storm water management report.
Copies of the site plan application are sent to the community's design review board and to public agencies for review and comment. This is followed by a decision from the DPLU planning director.
It is a process that can take six months to a year, said Farace. The new method will still involve the design review board but will convert the guidelines to a ministerial checklist that will ask questions requiring yes or no answers, he said.
The new process should shorten the application duration time to two to three months, Farace said, adding that the design review board will be involved by going through the checklist to stamp the project.
"We don't' want to cut them out of the loop," said Farace.
If a project is too complicated, there will still be the option of a full site plan review.
"We're not getting rid of that process," he noted.
Farace said presentations of the new site plan review process have been given in Valley Center and Fallbrook and the residents "actually had really good comments and were receptive to the idea."


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Zucchini Noodle Lasagna
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Level: Easy
Serves: 4
- 3 medium zucchini (8 to 10 oz each)
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
- 1 large garlic clove, thinly sliced
- 1 (8-oz) package white mushrooms, sliced
- 2 c. store-bought marinara sauce (preferably no-sugar-added)
- 12 basil leaves, shredded, plus more for garnish
- ¼ tsp. red pepper flakes
- 1 c. ricotta cheese
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- black pepper
- 1 c. halved grape tomatoes
- 4 oz. mozzarella cheese, thinly sliced and torn
- ¼ c. grated Parmesan
- Heat oven to 400°F. Trim off zucchini ends. Cut zucchini on a spiral slicer, using the widest blade to make ribbons. Trim noodles as needed to shorten. Place in a 9x13-inch baking dish.
- Cook oil, garlic, and mushrooms in a large skillet over high heat, stirring occasionally, until no liquid remains, 8 to 10 min. Reduce heat to medium-high, and add marinara and basil. Cook, stirring, until very thick, 4 to 5 min. Stir in red pepper flakes.
- Pour into baking dish and mix gently to coat zucchini. Spread out mixture in dish.
- Mix ricotta with egg, and season with black pepper to taste. Dollop over zucchini mixture and sprinkle with tomatoes. Scatter mozzarella on top, then Parmesan.
- Bake until golden brown, about 30 min. Let rest 15 min. Garnish with more basil.
359 cal, 22 g fat (11 g saturated), 19 g protein, 21 g carb, 9 g sugar, 4 g fiber, 728 mg sodium, 106 mg cholesterol per serving
This recipe originally appeared in the October 2015 issue of Dr. Oz The Good Life.
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Pot For Food
Now this is what we call a FOOD DRIVE! A medical pot dispensary in California offered a free joint to patients for every four cans of food they donated (with a limit of three joints per day). Needless to say, the drive was very successful.
11,000 pounds of food was raked in and 2000 joints were passed out. The food went to a Second Harvest food bank. It's not known if anyone asked for their food back when they lit up and got the munchies.
Here's a site for Texas Norml.
Here's a site for Marijuana Anonymous
Below is the original trailer for Cheech and Chong's "Up In Smoke".
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People were shocked when Suzuki elected to re-use the same RM-Z250 in 2006. Well, fear not Yellow faithful because Suzuki is back on track with its all-new 2007 model. Check out our thoughts after our 2007 Suzuki RM-Z250 First Ride
- People were shocked when Suzuki elected to re-use the same RM-Z250 in 2006. Well, fear not Yellow faithful because Suzuki is back on track with its all-new 2007 model.
- Suzuki has reasserted itself in the battle for Lites-class supremacy. Yellow riders have been waiting a long time for this machine.
- With only 203 claimed pounds of dry weight, the RM-Z lofts itself skyward with relative ease.
- Blasting through loamy corners is a hoot with Suzuki's new powerplant. The new RM-Z won't knock your socks off with sheer power, but the motor feels strong and very competitive.
- The new bike was very stable yet managed to retain that traditional Suzuki quickness in the turns. Combine the two and you have a machine that can go inside or outside with equal ease.
- Jumping the RM-Z was one of the most enjoyable things about riding the yellow 250. Light and well suspended, Suzuki should be a favorite among the anti-gravity crowd.
- Even though he's not much of a jumper, JC felt comfortable in the air at all times on the RM-Z.
- Suzuki says the new bodywork creates a speedy and energetic image, but what do you think? We tend to agree.
- Suzuki decided to show the American press a good time in conjunction with a good bike. We zipped around Pole Position Raceway in between technical briefings at the RM-Z unveiling.
- Renthal handlebars are new this year as is the re-designed triple clamp.
- Suzuki had some retro graphics made up for the introduction that matched the style of each former champion. Here's Ezra Lusk's get-up from back in '94.
- This rear brake is an underrated asset on the new machine. Rave reviews about Suzuki's binders aren't as abundant as say those for Honda, but Yellow engineers have found a near-perfect blend of strength and compliance.
- A narrow, comfortable design and roomy cockpit make it easy to move around and give good reason to do so with responsive handling characteristics. Suzuki is known for sharp handling and cornering prowess and the smallest RM-Z hasn't fallen far from the tree.
- A little European influence is finding its way into Japanese engineering instead of the other way around. That seat/fender junction looks like it took a clue from KTM.
- Suzuki engineers were aiming for midrange performance and they hit their mark with stunning accuracy.
- Straight off the RM-Z450, this 50mm shock has a larger reservoir than in '06 and an 18mm shaft.
- The frame looks just like one supporting Suzuki's RM-Z450, but a few dimensional changes adapt the aluminum unit to suit the smaller machine.
- A new Showa fork is near perfect for the Z250. The 47mm unit handled everything we threw at it.
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text: baldie Report post Posted January 29, 2013 We have been busy, beavering away all winter on the new Valhalla action. Its a premium version of the standard valkyrie action, with many new features. People told me they wanted a premium British action to compete with the very best from around the world. This is it. It has several uprated features , starting at the back. The bolt bore is now reamed with custom made reamers, to allow a bolt clearance of just 0.001" if required. This makes for a silky smooth bolt travel. The ejection port now has tapered ends to allow for easier cartridge insertion by hand if required. The picatinny rail now has no central milled out section either top or bottom. Purely aesthetic , but befitting such an action. Its is fixed in place by four M4 cap screws and sits on two stainless dowels, holding it perfectly to the action. This gives the option of changing for a different MOA if required. It is scalloped to match the ejection port perfectly. The action has its recoil lug machined in as part of it. This gives a longer than average barrel tenon length, enabling heavy barrels to be used without worry. It also makes a switch barrel rifle , very simple indeed. On to the bolt. The bolt now has "camlocks". Basically this is a tiny pad, machined into the bolt body, just behind the lugs. These are essentially thicker parts of the bolt. As the bolt is pushed forward, they dont do anything as it travels down the raceway. As the bolt is turned into battery, the cams provide a 0.0005" lock up into the abbuttments. This means a bolt with 0.003" bolt clearance can be run as a repeater etc, but still have the close tolerance lock up of a benchrest rifle. The bolt has a sako extractor and plunger ejector. The bolt body is helically fluted in the candy twist pattern. It is fitted with the finely facetted bolt shroud, which now runs a much finer internal thread. This ensures a smaller gap between the bolt body and itself on opening/closing , and also makes opening the bolt far easier. The firing pin has a small diameter tip to suit hot cartridges such as the 6.5 x 47 far better. Offering substantially more support to the primer upon ignition. Indeed, the action actually feels lighter on opening from FIRED than unfired. It has one of the smoothest bolt lifts i,ve ever felt, and will not disturb any rifle on the bags. The action is available with a variety of bolt handles including the new stainless ball, and is available in righ/left hand. Right/left port , single shot or repeater , long and short action. Remington style bolt nose or cone bolt nose available for single shot actions Available in polished finish only, it is too tight to be painted. The bolts are also available with a Tuftrided black finish, which increases lubricity even further. Retail price of £1500. I,ve barrelled this action today in .22Br and it will be on show at Stoneleigh in a Robertson tactical stock, resplendant in a coat of custom paint. I have no pictures yet, but will also have another action on display at the show. This one is a basic custom action, with no cosmetic frills , just good, stainless quality. Perfect for a sporter, or a full custom on a smaller budget. It will retail, with a rail and lug a, around the £850 mark. That makes 3 custom actions available, to suit all pockets. The basic action will be know as the "Thor" The valkyrie action i,ve sold for a while will be known as the "Odin" The premium action above is the "Valhalla" All will be available from myself to the trade, but will not carry my name. Prices on application. However, i will supply bona fide dealers only. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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October 15, 2009
The Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will evaluate a Biennial Emergency Preparedness Exercise at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant. The exercise, which will be held during the week of October 19, will test Maryland's ability to respond to an emergency at the nuclear facility.
[efoods]"These drills are held every other year to test government's ability to protect public health and safety," said Patricia Arcuri, Acting Regional Administrator for FEMA Region III. "We will evaluate state and local emergency response capabilities within the 10-mile emergency-planning zone of the nuclear facility."
Within 90 days, FEMA will send their evaluation to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for use in licensing decisions. The final report will be available to the public about 120 days after the exercise.
FEMA will present preliminary findings of the exercise in a public meeting at 12:00 p.m. on October 27 at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant Joint Information Center, 100 Skipjack Road, Prince Frederick, Md. Scheduled speakers include representatives from FEMA, NRC, and the state of Maryland.
FEMA's mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all hazards. Region III covers Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.


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NORWEGIAN director Hans Petter Moland knows how to lure the stars into his galaxy.
Take Stellan Skarsgard, who appears in Moland's latest picture, the darkly comic crime thriller In Order of Disappearance.
The two first met on Zero Kelvin, Moland's second feature, which was shot on Svalbard, Norway, a place so cold even the polar bears wear bobble hats.
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Besides offering him a place in a tent, Moland had three more "luxuries" to tempt the Swedish star of Thor and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - a pint of Cognac, a 44-Magnum (to deal with the polar bears) and a pillow.
"So this is Norwegian-style star treatment?" Skarsgard asked.
Still, he must have been impressed, as he went on to work with Moland again on Aberdeen (2000) and A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010), before they reunited for In Order of Disappearance.
In Order is a prime slice of Nordic noir about a snowplough driver (Skarsgard) who sets out to wreak revenge on the drug barons who ruined his son's life. One of the Mr Bigs is played by Bruno Ganz of Downfall. Skarsgard and Ganz had never worked together and Moland saw an opportunity too good to miss.
"Like all people with great talent they know they have to work hard to get it right," said the director, speaking before the film's premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in June.
All of Moland's films seem to require a certain amount of extra effort on the part of the cast and crew, whether it be enduring winter in Norway or having to make Glasgow and Edinburgh look like Aberdeen because the budget will not stretch to staying in Scotland's oil capital.
The environment in his Nordic films would give most Hollywood directors the heebie-jeebies, but Moland is in his element.
"I like the snow, I like skiing, I've grown up with it. And there's something totally ridiculous about adults packed into cold winter clothing. The child within invariably comes out in most of us, which is good when you are making a film."
While filming In Order the temperature was 25 below for a month. Even for Norwegians, admits Moland, that is quite nippy. For the Serbian actors in the cast who had to lie in the snow with wind-machines blazing, "nippy" is perhaps not the phrase they would use. But everyone got on with it, says Moland.
"It's like with anything, once you go there you have to embrace it, whether it's difficult material, difficult weather, people for that matter. You're stuck, you might as well make the most of it."
Moland is never cavalier about the environments in which he often works, however. When he went scouting for locations in Spitsbergen for another film he was alone save for the helicopter pilot who would drop him off and collect him hours later. On one trip, the pilot set down and Moland walked off, only to hear the pilot shouting.
Moland raced back, jumped in, and the bird shot up into the air. A glance out the window soon revealed why the pilot had been so anxious. Right behind where he had been standing was a mother polar bear and her cub. "They were hungry."
Moland has shot abroad, notably America for The Beautiful Country. That was a breakthrough hit for him and offers started coming in to make more films in the US. With six children in Norway he was not tempted to stay Stateside long term, however.
"I go where the good stories are. Unfortunately I haven't gone where the good money is," he laughs. "After I did The Beautiful Country it opened a lot of doors. In many ways I guess I inadvertently shut them myself by not being so available. It wasn't because I didn't enjoy the attention. It was more that someone else needed my attention."
His children range from 12-28, with the youngest having a part in In Order of Disappearance. Moland junior was most amused when dad showed him the Italian trailer for In Order and saw he had been dubbed.
Watching your picture be dubbed, or remade in English, is part of the job description for many filmmakers outside America. Moland has already been approached about a US remake of In Order, and he is relaxed about the notion.
"We might dislike the fact that Americans don't see subtitled films but that's the way it is. If you want that story to be told to a bigger audience it will not be in Norwegian."
Audiences who regard Nordic countries as packed to the gunwales with clean-living sporty types might be surprised at the film's drug plot. But as Moland points out, Norway has its problems like any other western country. In 2002, Oslo was described in the New York Times as "Europe's drug overdose capital".
"There was a huge recruitment of heroin addicts in the Nineties," says Moland. "It was a society completely unprepared for the influx of heavy drugs."
For his next film he has several ideas in mind, one of them a story about the first oil find in the North Sea. I ask if it was Norwegian oil or Scottish oil.
"It's all Norwegian, you know that!"
As his new film demonstrates, there is no such thing as a border between Scotland and Norway when it comes to humour.
Glasgow Film Theatre and Filmhouse, Edinburgh, from September 12.


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OVERLAND PARK -- The towering athlete who became a football and academic standout at the University of Nebraska was remembered Saturday as a loving father and good friend whose life ended in a terrorist attack in Bali.
Family and friends of Jake Young, 34, packed Christ Episcopal Church in Overland Park to mourn his death. He died in an Oct. 12 blast that killed at least 180 people at a popular nightspot on the resort island. Young is survived by his wife, Laura, and 2-year-old son, Wilson.
After days of uncertainty, Young's family received confirmation Thursday that his remains had been identified.
Young, an All-America center at Nebraska in 1988 and 1989, had spent the past few years working in Hong Kong. He stopped in Bali for a rugby tournament while on his way to the Kansas City-area to start a job as a lawyer at bank holding company Dickinson Financial Corp. He would have been rejoining his young family.
Pastor Ron McCrary said the death was difficult to understand. The church maintains a registry of parishioners who have died and their cause of death, often of cancer or old age. For Young, McCrary said, the cause of death is "terrorist bomb."
But McCrary suggested another option.
"Perhaps," he said, "what is more appropriate is hatred."
McCrary described Young as a "gentle giant" and a "big man with a big heart." He urged the mourners to offer their own memories. One by one they recalled his broad smile and their awe of his ability to balance football and schoolwork. The one-word description of "overachiever" earned a round of laughs.
Young's father, Jake Young, remembered his son as a great father who believed in doing his best.
"It's the horror of every parent to have to bury your son. I hope none of you have to," he told the crowd, some holding infants. "As my wife said, 'It's been a great ride for 34 years.' "
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Our NoleNation all-time draft included 72 of Florida State's all-time greats, but that didn't mean the decisions in the final few rounds were any easier than those first few picks. The truth is, we could've kept going for a while, and a number of fan favorites -- not to mention exceptional players -- were left off the list.
So with that in mind, we're doing our due diligence to provide a hat tip to a few Seminoles who didn't quite make the cut, whether due to stiff competition at their position or poor decision making on the part of our drafters. So here are a few of the biggest snubs from our Nole Nation draft -- and yes, we're aware that even this list will leave off a few favorites.
The top two on the list were easy, but picking a No. 3 quarterback in FSU history is a nearly impossible task. In our draft, Jeff Cameron went with Casey Weldon, but there's certainly a strong case to be made for Thad Busby, Peter Tom Willis, Danny Kanell, Gary Huff, Christian Ponder and, of course, EJ Manuel, who wrapped up his career with four bowl wins and the school record for completion percentage. And all of that doesn't even mention perhaps FSU's most successful pro QB, Brad Johnson.
Running back
Once again, the top two were easy. The rest of the list offered ample room for debate. That meant a slew of top runners were forgotten, including Amp Lee, Greg Jones and Lorenzo Booker. But perhaps the biggest oversight was at fullback, where William Floyd was among the best to play at any program, and surely deserved a spot in our draft. And if our draft needed someone to drive a Trans Am, we probably could've found room for former halfback Burt Reynolds, too.
Receiver and tight end
There's a long list of impressive receivers who have called Florida State home, many of which went on to long and successful NFL careers, including Jessie Hester, Javon Walker and Laveranues Coles. And because we were allowed to draft three receivers, only one tight end was selected, meaning major snubs for Pat Carter (71 receptions) and Ed Beckham (70 receptions).
Offensive line
The knock on Florida State of late has been its lack of great O-linemen, and that might have shown up a bit in our draft, where the pickings got a bit slimmer in later rounds. Still, a few names left out included Greg Futch, Jason Kuipers and Mark Salva. Perhaps most intriguing, however, are some recent Seminoles, including recent second-round NFL draft pick Menelik Watson, and current players such as Cameron Erving, Josue Matias and Tre' Jackson.
Defensive line
There have been tons of great pass rushers come through the program, so our draft ended up skipping past a few, like Willie Jones, who starred in the late 1970s, and Everette Brown and Brandon Jenkins, who turned in big seasons recently. Others of note: Kamerion Wimbley, Alonzo Jackson and Carl Simpson.
There's no shortage of talent in the middle of the defense at Florida State, and that includes a handful of linebackers that were left out of our draft. Aaron Carter played in the mid-1970s and is still FSU's all-time leader in tackles with 512. Tommy Polley racked up 100 tackles in each of his final two seasons at Florida State. Buster Davis racked up 26.5 tackles for loss and was a third-round NFL draft pick.
Defensive backs
There may have been no position group more loaded, so apologies to Corey Fuller, Dexter Jackson, Antonio Cromartie, Patrick Robinson, Samari Rolle, and, of course, the great Lee Corso, who wrapped up his career at Florida State in 1956 with 14 career interceptions -- the same number Deion Sanders finished his career with.
It's too bad we didn't draft return specialists or Leon Washington, Willie Reid and Greg Reid all would've been considered. Joe Wessel and B.J. Ward had a knack for blocking kicks, too. Scott Bentley probably wasn't one of FSU's three best kickers, but he made some big kicks for FSU's first national champion. Derek Schmidt had a great career, too.


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A's All-Star Cook comes a long way in one year
A's All-Star Cook comes a long way in one year
Making his Major League debut with the D-backs, Cook faced four Brewers batters. All reached base via hit or walk, and all but one scored. Cook didn't record a single out before being pulled.
"At that point, it's natural to wonder, 'Holy moly, what's this all about? Is this something I can do?'" Cook said.
Surrounded by a plethora of reporters on Monday talking about his first All-Star appearance, it's evident that Cook, now with the A's, realized he could -- and proved it to everyone around him during an improbable journey that, on Sunday night, included a ride to Kansas City on Felix Hernandez's private jet.
Oakland's righty reliever, 25, essentially went from Minor League starter -- he only began assuming relieving duties last year -- to Major League closer with an invitation from American League manager Ron Washington to this year's Midsummer Classic.
"It's awesome," Cook said. "I'm excited to be here. It's a true honor to be here. You look around you, and it's not really something you consider yourself to be a part of. I'm just truly blessed."
Having begun his professional career as a starter in a D-backs organization that drafted him in the 27th round of the 2008 First-Year Player Draft, Cook was converted to a reliever last year and led the Arizona farm system with 19 saves before getting the callup, only to struggle to the tune of a 7.04 ERA in 12 appearances.
Yet in donning the green and gold, after being traded alongside Jarrod Parker and Collin Cowgill for 2010 All-Star Trevor Cahill and reliever Craig Breslow, Cook quietly earned a bullpen spot out of Spring Training and managed to string together 23 scoreless innings, marking the longest such streak to start a season by an A's pitcher on the Opening Day roster since at least 1918. Since then, he has allowed runs on just two occasions for a 1.91 ERA, best among all AL relievers.
"It's really just been a wild ride this year," Cook said. "Coming into camp, not knowing where I stand or anybody in the organization besides the two guys I came over with, I just wanted to make the team. But this whole ride, coming so unexpected, I'm just trying to hang on and enjoy it."
"How does he not make the All-Star team?" fellow All-Star and former D-backs Minor League teammate Wade Miley said. "I knew all along his stuff was so good. It's exciting to see it on a stage here."
Cook is joined in Kansas City by his parents, Chuck and Brenda, and girlfriend, Jamie, along with longtime friend and ex-teammate Jordan Meaker -- reflecting a modest group for a rather modest guy.
"He's about as even keel as they come," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "But he comes out there with fire in his eyes and expectations of doing well. He's quite the competitor when he comes on the mound. He's a killer when he gets on the field."
"In the Minor Leagues, the transition to the bullpen, I was virtually thrown into the closer's role right from the get-go," Cook said. "I kind of only learned that role, so it just became me, and I really like the adrenaline rush and love the situations like that. You're kind of the last line of defense. It's make it or break it, and I like that. It's been fun."
The hard-throwing righty is one of five rookies in Kansas City, and one of 15 pitchers on the AL roster, not to mention perhaps the most unheralded of the otherwise well-known bunch that includes the likes of Justin Verlander, Hernandez, David Price, CC Sabathia and Jered Weaver.
Make no mistake, though. Cook wants to pitch.
"For sure," he said. "Absolutely. To be honest, it's going to be a fly by the seat of my pants thing. But I'll be ready any time."
The 83rd Major League Baseball All-Star Game will be televised nationally by FOX Sports, in Canada by Rogers Sportsnet and RDS, and worldwide by partners in more than 200 countries via MLB International's independent feed. Pregame ceremonies begin at 4:30 p.m. PT. ESPN Radio and ESPN Radio Deportes will provide exclusive national radio coverage. MLB Network, MLB.com and Sirius XM also will provide comprehensive All-Star Game coverage.
Fans will also have the opportunity to participate in the official voting for the Ted Williams Most Valuable Player presented by Chevrolet via the 2012 MLB.com All-Star Game MVP Vote during the All-Star Game on MLB.com.
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Major Lee-ague, and follow her on Twitter @JaneMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Opa! Gyros and grape leaves
A South Bay institution for more than 40 years, the Greek Festival in Redondo Beach draws thousands of revelers both Greek and non-Greek who flock to St. Katherine Greek Orthodox Church for good company, live music, and some mouthwatering homemade Baklava.
This year St. Katherine is undergoing renovations, so while the festival won't be as big as it's been in past years, its spirit is guaranteed to be just as lively. Come July 12, the church's open courtyard will again transform into an old Greek village, proffering the smells of marinating lamb, a lit-up dance floor, and a gathering of boisterously happy people.
Each year parishioners hand-prepare food for thousands of festival-goers. Festival staples include souvlakia (marinated skewers), Pastitsio (a Greek lasagna), Gyro (beef and lamb in a pita), Dolmathes (stuffed grape leaves), and Loukomathes (Greek doughnuts), and grazers can wash it all down with Greek beer, wine, and coffee. The home cooking satisfies the stomach, and the live music and dancing awaken the soul.
St. Katherine is located at 722 Knob Hill in Redondo Beach, between Pacific Coast Highway and Prospect. Festival hours are 5 to 10 p.m. on Friday, July 12; noon to 10 p.m. on Saturday, July 13; and noon to 9 p.m. on Sunday, July 14.
Admission is $2, $1 for seniors, and free for kids under 12. For more information see sbgreekfestival.com or call (310) 540-2434.
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Hmmm...so he doesn't know how he broke his shooting hand? [smiley=think]It's a conspiracy. Now here's yet another excuse for him not to live up to all the hype. He should stick to making Better Basketball videos. That's the best way for him to get some time on the court.
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Market Report / Tel Aviv Stocks Join Europe in Late-hour Leap
Tel Aviv share prices joined world levels at about midday following optimism about Greece.
Tel Aviv shares roared to close well into the green after a sleepy start to the day. Share prices spent most of the session gently going nowhere on thin turnover, but joined the world in a wild rally starting midday on sudden optimism about Greece. In Israel, the rally arrived in late afternoon trading, lifting total turnover to a still-thin NIS 1.6 billion.
The Greek parliament appears increasingly likely to approve vital austerity measures this week. But it might not; Greece could yet totter toward default. Greek legislators will be voting today and tomorrow on a number of austerity measures, which must be passed into law if Greece wants the next European Union infusion of 12 billion euros.
If Greece doesn't get the money, investors fear a Europe-wide crisis and potential credit market freeze. Yet yesterday the sentiment was that a solution for Greece is on the horizon, and investors went for stocks.
Why everybody turned so chirpy is anybody's guess. Yesterday the protests in Greece against more austerity took a violent turn. Hooded youths throwing stones and wielding sticks set fire to garbage bins and a telecom truck outside parliament, and riot police fired tear gas to disperse them. Trade unions began a 48-hour strike against the EU/IMF-imposed measures.
Screens in Europe were green across the board yesterday, also showing an upswing from about noon. German stocks had been under water until then but finished 0.9% higher, while France's benchmark CAC-40 index finished with gains of nearly 1.5%.
Over in Israel, no sector stood out: All the leading indexes gained between 1.3% and 1.6%, with the exception of the Tel-Com index. It was dragged down by Cellcom and Partner Communications. The benchmark TA-25 index closed 1.3% higher at 1,225 points. The broader TA-100 index gained 1.5% to 1,112 points.
The highest turnover of the day was in Cellcom. Shares of the mobile operator dropped 3.7% on turnover of NIS 450 million as Nochi Dankner, owner of the IDB group, sold 5% of the company's stock to Deutsche Bank, which promptly sold it to institutional investors. Dankner sold at a discount to the market price - which the stock has almost reached, closing at NIS 92.40.
Shares of another mobile operator, Partner Communications, fell 1.6% on turnover of NIS 19 million.
Shares of Discount Investment, the IDB group company that sold the Cellcom stock, gained 1.2%.
For all the TA-25's firm gain yesterday, a closer look shows that investors were selective. While the phone company Bezeq lost 0.2%, the HOT cable TV company gained 2.8% - and Internet Gold lost 0.6%. Another Internet service provider, NetVision, gained 0.5%.
El Al shares gained 2%. The airline, which was privatized in 2003, is negotiating to buy Israir from IDB group company IDB Tourism.
Shares of Fundtech sank 4.2% while stock of its parent company Clal Industries gained 1.3%.
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BOTH Washington and London were yesterday involved in a desperate race against the clock.
Labour let it be known, Sunday mid morning, that it will nationalise the Bradford and Bingley bank, and most probably amalgamate it with the already bankrupted and nationalised Northern Rock Bank.
The decision was leaked so as to avoid a run on the bank and its complete share wipe out as soon as the London stock market opens on Monday morning.
In Washington, the Senate leaders were in permanent session and pledged early Sunday morning that before the Asian and European stock markets opened, the Senate will have met and carried a written and completed Bill directing the $700 billion bail out of the collapsed US banking system by buying its bad debts.
It is predicted that a failure to do this will see a worldwide 20-30 per cent share price collapse with the London stock market falling by 1,000 points and £250bn.
The measures taken in both Washington and London are essentially to try to keep alive for a few years more, a system of production for profit, based on the private ownership of the means of production, which has been in its death agony for decades.
Of course, it is to be kept alive by imposing big job cuts, wage cuts, tax hikes and home repossessions on the working class and the middle class.
Capitalism and crisis are inseparable. Ever since the days of the South Sea Bubble in 1720, it has been punctuated by booms during which the productive forces are developed, which then transform themselves into slumps when a vast portion of the productive forces were destroyed through financial and industrial collapses, trade wars and then imperialist wars to divide and redivide the world.
VI Lenin, on the eve of the 1917 Russian revolution, analysed imperialism as the highest and last stage of capitalism, the period of its death agony, the epoch of wars and revolutions, and in particular the socialist revolution, through which humanity would advance to a higher form of society socialism and then communism, under which the anarchy of capitalist production would give way to planned production to satisfy peoples needs.
The imperialist world war of 1914 was brought to an end by the Russian revolution of 1917, which was the start of the world socialist revolution.
The 1929 crash opened up an epoch of wars and revolutions which saw the Red Army advance to Berlin and the successful 1949 Chinese revolution.
The crash of 2007-2008, during which the bourgeoisie is having to nationalise banks to try and sustain its bankrupt and completely out of date system, heralds the advent of a new revolutionary period during which the world socialist revolution will be completed.
The workers of the US, the UK and the EU will not sacrifice their jobs, living standards, wages, pensions and homes to keep the bankers, bosses and their system in place.
The masses of Russia and China will not allow the world to be reordered by the weakened imperialist bourgeoisie and they will not be prepared to put up with the misrule of the Stalinist bureaucracy either.
The masses of the developing nations will not allow the imperialists to make some new grab for Africa, the Middle East and central Asia.
The essence of the present situation is that the working class and the poor of the world must see to it that this is the last crisis of the historically bankrupt and outmoded capitalist system.
They will do this by building sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International in every country to lead the developing world socialist revolution to its victory, putting capitalism where it deserves to be, into a museum of former primitive societies.
What is required is not the bailing out of bankrupt capitalism and its banks in their hour of need but their overthrowal and replacement with socialism.
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Friday, October 9, 1998 Published at 03:43 GMT 04:43 UK
Shaping up to be a dad
Fertilty definitions may be wrong
The official World Health Organisation definition of normal sperm concentration could be a poor predictor of fertility, scientists have claimed.
The WHO defines a sperm concentration above 20m per millilitre (ml) of seminal fluid as normal.
But Danish research on 430 couples planning to have their first child, reported in the Lancet medical journal, found the measure was not an accurate predictor of whether conception was possible.
Among these couples, there was an increasing likelihood of pregnancy when the man had a sperm concentration greater than 40m per ml.
However, the shape of the sperm was also found to be highly important.
Equally, men with sperm concentration below WHO's lower limit may be fertile.
The Danish research team, led by Dr Jens Peter Bonde, conclude: "The current WHO guidelines for normal semen quality should be used with caution".
Professor Ian Craft, director of the London Fertility Centre, said the WHO guidelines were only used as a "rough and ready calculator."
He said the most significant facet was the ability of sperm to move effectively in the right direction.
"A man can have a sperm count of 200m but if they all go round and round in circles, that does not help anybody at all," he said.
Professor Craft said if a man had a sperm count of less than 5m then it was highly likely that his fertility would be poor.
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Wine-based apps and monitor troubles
I'm running Mandrake Linux 10.2 (Mandriva Linux LE 2005), my monitor is a Dell 17" Flat Panel (E172FP). My video card is an ATI Radeon All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro. The rest of my system specs are listed in my signature.
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I'd be willing to wager it has to do with your ATI card. ATI is notoriously unfriendly with Cedega, however, it can be done if you follow the right advice, and IF you can find it. ATI makes great cards. It's a shame they don't give the same level of support to the Linux community as Nvidia.
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You failed to notice, that it isn't just for Cedega, but for any wine-based apps under Linux as well. And actually, I do have 3d hardware acceleration working fully under Mandrake 10.2.
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Rays starting pitcher Jeremy Hellickson joined Gary and Justin this morning to talk about the start of spring training. Jeremy gave us some insights on how he trained this off-season, and what he is looking to accomplish in the spring.
Jeremy also touched on team expectations, what he is aiming to achieve personally, and how he and the rest of the starting pitchers hope to pick up for the loss of James Shields.
Tune in every weekday 9-12 to Gary and The Commish on Tampa Bay's new home for sports, Sports Radio 98.7 The Fan.