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According to the 2015 Consumer Financial Literacy Survey by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, 59% of Americans said they deserve an "A" or "B" when it comes to their own personal financial knowledge. Take this 13-question quiz and test your knowledge.
1. You want to reach a large savings goal - for an expensive vacation, a larger down payment on your next car or a down payment on a house. To maximize your chance of success:
a. Set a dollar goal and a deadline date for saving that much.
b. Save every spare dollar.
c. Devote at least 25 percent of your net earnings to your goal.
d. Crowdfund.
e. Ask friends and family.
You're more likely to accomplish concrete goals than vague ones, says Eric Tyson, author of "Personal Finance for Dummies." With well-defined goals, you'll know whether you're on track.
Answer: A
2. What is considered a "good" credit score?
a. 580
b. 640
c. 720
Answer: C
3. Which of the following things hurts your credit score?
a. Having more than two active credit cards.
b. Owing money on your car loan.
c. Applying for three or more loans in one year.
d. Having a revolving credit balance.
Answer: C
4. Which of these is a discount that Farm Bureau Financial Services auto insurance provides?
a. Safe Driver Discount
b. Low Mileage Discount
c. Good Student Discount
d. Loyalty Discount
e. All of the above
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a. Less than 2 years
b. 2 to 4 years
c. 5 to 9 years
d. At least 10 years
Answer: B
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b. Collision
c. Comprehensive
d. Liability
e. Property damage
Answer: B
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b. Computer
c. Air Conditioner
d. Furnace
e. Refrigerated items in fridge or freezer
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8. What size of emergency fund is recommended to at least have ready in case of those unexpected situations?
a. 1-3 months of living expenses
b. 3-6 months of living expenses
c. 6 months – 1 year of living expenses
d. 1 – 1.5 years of living expenses
e. None of the above.
Answer: B
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Many term policies are renewable and convertible to a permanent policy. After holding your term policy for a set period of time, it may be possible to convert it with a special credit for doing so. The credit helps offset any increase in premium and the usual health assessment may be waived.
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b. Deficit
c. Neither - he had a balanced account.
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b. Phone and utilities fraud
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d. Credit card fraud
e. Both B & C
Answer: A
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Annual Flea Market, The all volunteer Westbeth Beautification Committee will sponsor their annual flea market with clothing, art, housewares, books and more available for purchase. Fri. & Sat., Nov. 10 & 11 from 11am - 6pm; and Sun., Nov. 12 from 11am - 5pm. WESTBETH UNDERGROUND, 55 Bethune St., one block south of W. 12th St. 212-691-1574. Free admission.
Catholic Lesbians, A getting-to-know-you meeting with the pastor of the church, where all are welcome. Fri., Nov. 10 from 7-9pm. THE CHURCH OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER, 55 W. 15th St., bet 5th & 6th Aves., West Room, 2nd floor. firstname.lastname@example.com.
Chocolate Show New York 2006, Taste, shop and discover everything there is to know about chocolate. Fri. Sun., Nov. 10-12. METROPOLITAN PAVILION, Altman Building, 125 W. 18th St. www.chocolateshow.com.
Holistic Stress Management Program, Free services include ear acupuncture, massage and energy work modalities. Tues. & Thurs. from 5-7pm. ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL, O'Toole Building, 203 W. 12th St., corner of 7th Ave., 6th floor, small conference room. No appointment necessary. 212-345-2582.
Latin American Cultural Week Festival, View dance, theatre, films, visual arts and more in celebration of Latin American Cultural Week. Begins Nov. 10 at various venues throughout the city. Visit www.pamar.org for details on events.
Men having babies, A special "How-to" parenting program for gay men. Sun., Nov. 19 from 1-5pm. LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER, 208 W. 13th St. $10, benefits Center Kids program. 212-620-7310. www.gaycenter.org.
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Gasoline sank to a four-week low after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said the region's economic weakness will persist, reducing fuel demand, and as U.S. budget talks are stalled.
Futures fell as Draghi said the ECB forecast the euro area economy will shrink 0.5 percent this year, more than the 0.4 percent contraction predicted in September. President Barack Obama and Republican leaders are at a stalemate in negotiations to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff of automatic tax increases and spending cuts scheduled for January.
"Draghi's comments make the market concerned that any significant amount of growth is not returning for a substantial period of time, which of course impacts demand," said Andy Lipow, president of Lipow Oil Associates LLC in Houston. "His concern also about the U.S. economy shows the extent to which the world is worried about the fiscal cliff."
Gasoline for January delivery fell 4.19 cents, or 1.6 percent, to $2.5959 a gallon at 1:53 p.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices touched $2.5893, the lowest intraday level since Nov. 8.
The ECB cut its 2013 forecast to a contraction of 0.3 percent from 0.5 percent growth.
Gasoline's loss was part of a broader market decline as the dollar strengthened, making commodities less attractive to investors. The Standard & Poor's GSCI Spot Index of 24 materials sank 1.4 percent at 1:52 p.m. in New York. The dollar surged 0.9 percent against the euro.
"The euro is getting crushed a bit," said Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at Price Futures Group in Chicago. " This is a Draghi drop, no doubt about it. Some of the traders are a little distressed with the comments by Draghi."
Fiscal Cliff
More than $600 billion in tax increases and spending cuts will start taking effect in January. Obama, a Democrat, said in a Bloomberg Television interview on Dec. 4 that the stalemate will continue as long as Republicans refuse to raise marginal income tax rates on the top 2 percent of earners.
Today's loss follows a 1.9 percent slide yesterday after the Energy Department reported that inventories of the motor fuel rose the most last week since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.
"It's a little hard to be optimistic about the market with big builds in inventories," Flynn said.
January-delivery heating oil fell 5.33 cents, or 1.8 percent, to $2.9374 a gallon on the exchange. Prices touched $2.9347, the lowest intraday level since Nov. 5.
The average nationwide cost for regular gasoline fell 0.1 cent to a $3.379 a gallon, AAA said today on its website. That's the lowest level since July 6. The pump price reached a 2012 high of $3.936 on April 4.
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Iometer is both a workload generator (it performs I/O operations in order to stress the system) and a measurement tool (it examines and records the performance of its I/O operations and their impact on the system). It can be configured to emulate the disk or network I/O load of any program or benchmark, or can be used to generate entirely synthetic I/O loads. It can generate and measure loads on single or multiple (networked) systems.
The tool consists of two programs, Iometer and Dynamo.
For testing the performance on Windows systems, Iometer can be installed and started directly.
An additional installation of Dynamo is not necessary. Below you find instructions for installing the tool and for starting the test procedure.
First, you have to download Iometer from Iometer.org.
Right click the setup file and then click on Run as administrator
Figure 1.2: Iometer file on the desktop
Click Next > on the Welcome screen.
Figure 1.4: Welcome screen
Select the componentes that should be installed and click Next
Figure 1.6: Choose Components
Select the installation destination and click Install
Figure 1.7: Define destination folder
When installation is done, click on Finish
Figure 1.8: Finished installation
Start Iometer
Agree to the license conditions
Figure 2.1: License conditions
Click on the folder button
Figure 2.2: Folder button in the upper left corner
Download the test configuration file SIM-Real-World-Workload-2.1.0.icf, and open it with Iometer .
Figure 2.3: Choose configuration file
Choose the device to be tested
Figure 2.4: Choose the device to be tested
Start the test by clicking on the green flag button
Figure 2.5: Green flag button in the upper middle
Define the destination where to save the results file
Figure 2.6: Choose destination for results
Now the test starts and will run for about 10-15 minutes
Figure 2.7: Running test
The program Iometer only runs on Windows OS. So on Linux systems the tool Dynamo is used for sending the relevant information to a Windows system, where Iometer is installed.
This means an installation of Iometer on a Windows system or Windows emulator is necessary for testing a system with Linux installed. Download Iometer from Iometer.org.
First Install Iometer on a windows system in the same network as the server you want to test.
If there is no Windows client available to run the Iometer .exe, it can be run with WinE emulator as well.
Figure 3.1: Iometer GUI
Connect via SSH to Linux server (e.g. via Putty)
Figure 3.2: Putty
Figure 3.3: Click Yes
Login into the server
Figure 3.4: Console via Putty
uname -i to receive information about the hardware platform, which is necessary to choose the right version of Dynamo.
Figure 3.5: Check hardware version
rpm -qa|grep -i glibc you check the installed version of glibc
Figure 3.6: Command output
Switch to the
/tmp folder
Figure 3.7: /tmp folder
Uncompress the downloaded Iometer file with
tar xvf Iometer -1.1.0-linux.x86_64-bin.tar.bz2
Figure 3.8: Uncompress the dynamo file
Check the IP address of the Windows system by using the CLI command
Figure 4.1: Check IP of Windows system
Check the IP addresses of the Linux system with
ip addr show or
ifconfig -a
Figure 4.2: Check IP of Linux system
Stop the Linux firewall to allow communication between Dynamo and Iometer
rcSuSEfirewall2 stop
service iptables stop or
systemctl stop firewalld
service iptables stop
ufw disable
Figure 4.3: Stop firewall on Linux system
vi /etc/hosts to make changes to the host file for the name resolving
Figure 4.4: Open /etc/hosts
Add the IP address and the name of the Linux system
Figure 4.5: Add IP and name
Now connect dynamo with Iometer by using the command:
dynamo -i <IP of machine with Iometer = windows system> -m <IP of machine to run workload = linux system>
Figure 4.6: Connect dynamo to Iometer
Figure 4.7: Connection established
In Iometer now the Linux server is visible
Figure 4.8: Linux system listed in Iometer
Before loading the test template Sim-Real-World-Workload-2.1.0.icf, some changes must be done on the file.
Open the file in an editor (e.g. Notepad). Change the Manager name and Manager network address by using the information you used in step 5. Save the file when changes are done.
Figure 4.9: Search MANAGER LIST
Figure 4.10: Add Linux server name
Figure 4.11: Add Linux server IP address and save file
Load the changed template
Figure 4.12: Load configuration file
Choose the device to be tested
Figure 4.13: Choose the device to be tested
Start the test by clicking the green flag button
Figure 4.14: Green flag in the upper middle
Choose the destination where the results shall be saved after testing.
Figure 4.15: Choose destination for results
Now the test starts
Figure 4.16: Running test
When the test is done..
Figure 4.17: Finished test in the console view
…do not forget to re-activate the firewall, delete the information from /etc/host (undo step 5) and
Figure 4.18: Exit console
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TV shows prompting bioethics discussions
In this week's AMNews: TV doctors' flaws become bioethics teaching moments -- comments on a recent study examining medical students' TV viewing habits.
Dr. House is the fictional protagonist of Fox TV's "House," a medical mystery drama that last year drew an average 16.2 million viewers weekly. The bad-boy antics that made the master diagnostician a hit with American viewers also have made him popular among medical students, according to a December 2008 study in The American Journal of Bioethics.The AJOB paper itself: Matthew Czarny, Edwin Bodensiek, Ruth R. Faden, Marie T. Nolan, Jeremy Sugarman. Medical and Nursing Students' Television Viewing Habits: Potential Implications for Bioethics 2008. The Am J Bioethics 2008 Dec; 8(12):1.
The survey of nearly 400 medical and nursing students at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland found that 76% of doctors in training watch "House" and 73% watch ABC's hospital soap opera "Grey's Anatomy." Nearly 40% watch NBC's "ER" and one in five tunes in "Nip/Tuck," which airs on the FX cable network. Eighty-five percent of medical students said they watched a medical drama in the prior year.
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Bronze opponents haven't forged great rivalry thus far
BERNE--International hockey is blessed with many exciting rivalries based on geographic, political, and sporting concerns. Canada-Russia speaks for itself, but Russia-Czech Republic is still somewhat politically charged. Finland and Sweden hold special places in each other's hearts, as it were, and Canada-United States is always an anticipated game.
But Sweden and the United States, the two foes in today's bronze-medal game, can't be said to have any particular animus. Both are happily democratic societies thousands of kilometers apart, and although they are both among hockey's elite, they have never played a finals against each other and their past doesn't recall great games or fierce hatred.
They did, however, meet in the Preliminary Round on April 29, and Tre Kronor won a thrilling game that night, rallying from 5-2 down early in the third period to tie the game in regulation and then win 6-5 in overtime. It was a great rally--or a terrible collapse, depending on your perspective, but it wasn't the most meaningful game in that both teams had already ensured sports in the Qualifying Round.
So what can we make of today's game in an historical context? Perhaps the closest thing to a cutting-edge storyline might be the fact that the last time the teams met, in the quarter-finals in 2006, the Swedes swamped the Americans, 6-0, en route to a gold medal.
Intriguingly, three U.S. players from that whitewash will be in today's game—Ryan Suter, Patrick O'Sullivan, and captain Dustin Brown.
And now that Jonas Gustavsson has left Berne to be with his ailing mother, the Swedish goaltending tandem of Johan Holmqvist and Stefan Liv is the same today as three years ago. Holmqvist was the goalie of record in that shutout victory in '06.
Three Swedish skaters were also in the lineup for that game—Magnus Johansson, Tony Martensson, and captain Kenny Jonsson.
But even that lopsided victory was not indicative of any trend or long-term domination by Tre Kronor. True, the teams met earlier that year, in Turin during the Olympics, Sweden prevailing 2-1, but the Americans beat Sweden 5-1 in the Qualifying Round in 2005.
In the Qualifying Round in 2004 Sweden won, 3-1, and in the Preliminary Round in 2001 the game ended in a 2-2 tie. Later in the 2001 tournament, Sweden beat the U.S. 3-2 to win the bronze medal, in Germany. In 2000, the Americans won, 5-3, again in the Qualifying Round.
The teams never faced each other in the 2004 World Cup of Hockey or the 2002 Olympics, thus concluding their head-to-head results in the 21st century.
So what conclusions can be reached? What hypotheses formed? Not a lot. The teams don't play very often. Each is capable of beating the other. Both are world-class hockey nations icing world-class lineups today. Of course, motivation is so often the determining factor in the bronze game. It's a game that doesn't feel very important at the time because both teams lost to the gold-medal game teams which will step on the ice immediately after. But any player will admit that, after the passing of a few years, winning a bronze medal is a more proud feeling than finishing fourth.


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With the classic cartoons gone from TV these days, it's more important than ever to keep their legacy in the public eye, and show their continuing impact on our culture. I like to think our little blog has helped with that.
Keeping all of this in mind, here's a cartoon that has only appeared on television in the United States a handful of times, on Nickelodeon's "Nick at Nite" 20 years ago. It's one of the few truly great cartoon shorts to come out of the late 1960's, and certainly a highlight in Warner's mixed bag of low-budget entries during the 1967-69 period. Directed by Alex Lovy of Walter Lantz and Hanna-Barbera fame, "Norman Normal" (1968) is a thoroughly adult look at society, predating "The Simpsons" by over 20 years. It was written by musician Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul and Mary fame, and he also provides several voices. Norman is an averge joe put in the tough spot of choosing whether or not to do what's right or follow society. His boss pressures him to get someone drunk in order to facilitate a business deal, his out-of-touch father advises him to "just blend in", and he becomes a party-pooper when he rejects racist jokes. It's surreal, has some laugh-out-loud funny moments, and has a social relevance that still raises questions for today's world...truly ahead of its time! Now if only Warner Bros. could put this on a Golden Collection for all to enjoy...until then, there's always "Misce-Looney-Ous!"
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By Kamal Naama
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Thousands of mourners rallied on Saturday at funerals for Sunni Muslims shot by troops in demonstrations against Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
Troops on Friday shot dead five people in Falluja, in the Sunni-dominated western province of Anbar.
Sunnis have taken to the streets since December to protest what they call mistreatment of their minority sect, heightening fears Iraq may return to the Shi'ite-Sunni bloodletting that killed tens of thousands in 2006-2007.
The Sunni protests have been accompanied by an increase in attacks by Islamist insurgents and the Iraqi wing of al Qaeda. Four suicide bombers have struck over the last week, including one who killed a Sunni lawmaker in Falluja.
Falluja's streets filled with thousands, many taking turns to carry the coffins of slain protesters. Others waved portraits of victims or the national flag used in Saddam Hussein's era, before the U.S.-led invasion ousted the Sunni strongman.
The funerals took place as the country's parliament passed a law imposing term limits on the prime minister's post in an attempt to block Maliki's re-election, although the legislation faces legal challenges in a top court.
Iraqi authorities have tried to calm anger over the shootings by withdrawing soldiers from the city and replacing them with federal police, but protesters want more concessions.
"Withdrawing the army from the city is not enough, I do not know how this will benefit me and it won't get my brother back," said Mustafa Jamal, a relative of a slain protester.
Maliki has also tried to appease Sunni protesters by releasing more than 1,000 detainees and appointing a senior Shi'ite figure to negotiate over Sunni demands. Anbar clerics and hardline tribal sheikhs say that is not enough either.
Anbar province stretches across a third of Iraq's territory and was once al-Qaeda's base to battle against American troops.
Sunni tribes in cities like Falluja and Ramadi then turned against al Qaeda to help U.S. forces, but tribal sheikhs complain the Baghdad government has failed to provide jobs for their fighters who helped turn the tide of the war.
In a sign of Falluja's fragile security, insurgents kidnapped three off-duty Iraqi soldiers and killed their driver on the city's outskirts, security officials said.
Many Sunnis want reforms to anti-terrorism laws they feel unfairly target them and more control over a campaign against former members of Saddam's outlawed Baath party. But Sunni ranks are split with more hardliners calling for Maliki's ouster.
In another challenge to Maliki, lawmakers on Saturday passed a law limiting the prime minister to two terms. But that measure appeared a symbolic victory as it needs the president's approval and faces challenges in court.
Since the fall of Saddam in 2003, many Iraqi Sunnis feel they have been sidelined by the Shi'ite leadership and believe Maliki is amassing power at their community's expense.
After the last American troops left Iraq a year ago, the country's Shi'ite, Sunni Muslim and ethnic Kurdish parties became locked in a power-sharing stalemate that has left key oil and investment laws paralyzed in parliament.
But lawmakers from Sunni, Kurdish and Shi'ite parties voted to pass the term limits law on Saturday.
It would restrict the prime minister, parliament's speaker and president to two four-year terms. First elected in 2005, Maliki was re-elected in 2010 in an indecisive ballot that led to the power-sharing deal.
"This means Maliki cannot be prime minister any more. This will stop people consolidating power in their hands," Sunni lawmaker Jaber al-Jaberi said.
Kurdish parties, the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc and even some rivals in Maliki's own Shi'ite coalition tried unsuccessfully last year to trigger a vote of no confidence in the prime minister.
"This is an illegal law passed by Maliki's opponents who fear facing him at ballot boxes", said Ali al-Shallah, a lawmaker with Maliki's alliance.
(Additional reporting by Suadad al-Salhy and Ahmed Rasheed; Editing by Patrick Markey, Andrew Roche and Jason Webb)


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Rev. biol. mar. oceanogr. vol.46 no.3 Valparaíso Dec. 2011
Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía
Vol. 46, Nº3: 495-498, diciembre de 2011
Research Note
First record of Cochlodinium convolutum and C. helicoides (Gymnodiniales: Dinophyceae) in the Gulf of California
Primer registro de Cochlodinium convolutum y C. helicoides (Gymnodiniales: Dinophyceae) en el Golfo de California
Ismael Gárate-Lizárraga1, Federico García-Domínguez1, Beatriz Pérez-Cruz2 and Jesús Antonio Díaz-Ortiz2
1Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Apartado postal 592, C.P. 23096, La Paz, B.C.S., México
2Laboratorio Estatal de Salud Pública `Dr. Galo Soberón y Parra', Boulevard Vicente Guerrero, Esq. Juan R. Escudero s/n, Ciudad Renacimiento, Acapulco, Guerrero, México
The naked marine dinoflagellates Cochlodinium convolutum and C. helicoides are reported for the first time in the Gulf of California. They occurred in seawater at 21-24.5°C. Cochlodinium convolutum was found in both bottle and net samples; its abundance ranged from 400-2200 cells L_1. A total of 96 specimens of C. convolutum and 23 specimens of C. helicoides were examined from the net phytoplankton samples. A short description is given for each species, and photomicrographs provide information about the main morphological characteristics.
Key words: Dinoflagellates, phytoplankton, Mexico
The genus Cochlodinium belongs to the order Gymnodiniales Lemmermann, 1910. Cochlodinium is an unarmored, marine planktonic dinoflagellate genus forming cell chains with a distinctive spiral-shaped cingulum of 1.5 or more gyres around the cell. According to the recent world-wide review on marine dinoflagellates by Gómez (2005), there are 35 species of Cochlodinium. Cochlodinium fulvescens Iwataki, Kawami & Matsuoka, 2007 was recently described as a new species (Iwataki et al. 2007). Most of the Cochlodinium species are heterotrophic or mixotrophic and have rarely been observed since their original descriptions (Iwataki et al. 2007, Gárate-Lizárraga et al. 2009a). Taxonomy and geographic distribution of Cochlodinium species have scarcely been studied in Mexico. Ten species of Cochlodinium have been found in Pacific coastal waters of Mexico (Gárate-Lizárraga et al. 2004, 2009a, 2009b, Cortés-Lara et al. 2004, Okolodkov & Gárate-Lizárraga 2006, Morquecho-Escamilla & Alonso-Rodríguez 2008). In these reports, massive blooms of Cochlodinium polykrikoides Margalef, 1961 have been recorded along the west coast (Gárate-Lizárraga et al. 2004, 2009b, Morales-Blake et al. 2001). Cochlodinium fulvescens blooms have also been recorded however only in the Gulf of California (Morquecho-Escamilla & Alonso-Rodríguez 2008, Gárate-Lizárraga et al. 2009a). This report describes the presence of Cochlodinium convolutum Kofoid & Swezy, 1921 and Cochlodinium helicoides Lebour, 1925 for the first time in the Gulf of California.
Phytoplankton was sampled at a fixed sampling station in Bahía de La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico (24°21'N, 110°31'W) on 24 March 2011, 28 April 2011, 24 May 2011, and 26 June 2011. Two surface horizontal tows and two vertical hauls from 15 m were performed using a 20 µm mesh net, 50 cm diameter. Each sample was immediately fixed with acid Lugol's solution and preserved with 4% formalin. Other set samples were used for live phytoplankton observations. Two samples were also collected during each sampling to estimate Cochlodinium abundance. Cell counts were made in 5 mL settling chambers under an inverted, phase-contrast microscope (Carl Zeiss, Germany). Sea surface temperature was recorded using a bucket thermometer. Microscopic images were taken in a compound microscope (Leica, Germany).
Two Cochlodinium species were identified in the samples collected monthly from Bahía de La Paz during spring 2011. Cochlodinium convolutum was found in bottle and net samples; its abundance ranged between 400-2200 cells L_1. A total of 35 and 42 specimens of C. convolutum were counted in horizontal and vertical net samples, respectively, on 24 March 2011. Five, ten and four specimens of C. convolutum were found in surface net phytoplankton samples collected on 28 April, 26 May and 26 June 2011, respectively. The specimens fit well with the diagnosis and descriptions of Kofoid & Swezy (1921) and Matsuoka et al. (2008). Cells of C. convolutum are elongated, ovoid to round and slightly fusiform in shape (Fig. 1A-F) with the anterior end rounded. The epicone becomes slender toward the apex. The Hypocone was rounded, with two broad lobes; the left lobe always larger than the right one. The cingulum circled the cell ~1.5 times. Cells range from 55-87 µm in length and from 34-50 µm in width. All specimens of C. convolutum occurred as solitary cells. As described in Matsuoka et al. (2008), no visible orange-pigmented body was noted. A rounded rectangular to ellipsoidal nucleus located in the center and the left ventral side of the cell was observed (Fig. 1D). The chloroplasts of C. convolutum are reticulate; many small grains regularly scattered in the cell surface (Figs. 1A, B and F). Twenty-one encysted cells of C. convolutum were in net phytoplankton samples (Fig. 1D-F). Some temporary cysts have two hyaline membranes (Fig. 1D). Salinity was 34.5 psu. Sea water temperature was 21.0-24.5°C, coinciding with that reported by Kofoid & Swezy (1921) off La Jolla, California when C. convolutum was found. Matsuoka et al. (2008) reported 26-27°C, suggesting that this taxon is a warm-temperate to tropical species.
Figure 1. A-F. Microphotographs of Cochlodinium convolutum found in Bahía de La Paz during spring 2011. A) Specimen of C. convolutum in right lateral view. B) Cell showing the nucleus (N). C) Cell showing the antapical end. D) Temporary cyst clearly shows two hyaline membranes around the cell. E and F) Temporary cysts found on April 28 and May 24 2011, respectively
Figura 1. A-F. A-F. Microfotografías de especímenes de Cochlodinium convolutum encontrados en la Bahía de La Paz durante la primavera de 2011. A) Espécimen de C. convolutum en vista lateral derecha. B) Célula mostrando el núcleo (N). C) Célula mostrando el extremo antapical. D) Quiste temporal que muestra claramente dos membranas hialinas alrededor de la célula. E y F) Quistes temporales encontrados el 28 de abril y el 24 de mayo de 2011, respectivamente
There are few records of Cochlodinium convolutum in the literature. This species was first found in a surface net sample taken near La Jolla on 27 July 1914. Additional collections were made on 20 July 1917 in samples collected 23.6 miles off La Jolla (80 m vertical net haul) and on 6 August 1917, 4 miles offshore (60 m vertical net haul) (Kofoid & Swezy 1921). About 90 years later, C. convolutum was reported as a red tide in several coastal lagoons of western Japan (Matsuoka et al. 2008), and also this species has been recorded in Shimoda Bay, Japan (34°39.52N, 138°572E)1.
Seventeen and six specimens of Cochlodinium helicoides were examined in the net phytoplankton samples collected on April 28 and May 26 2011, respectively. This species was not found in bottle samples. C. helicoides cells are irregularly sub-ovoidal, broad, and posteriorly asymmetrical (Fig. 2A-D). The anterior end is tapering; the posterior end is broad, the postero-ventral face drawn out into a flap-like extension on its right side, giving the body a sinistro-ventral excavation, with the dorsal side strongly convex. The epicone and hypocone were subequal in size. The hypocone was broader than the epicone, less symmetrical with the dextroventral face drawn out into an outstanding flap or lobe, still further posteriorly marked by a deep sulcal notch. The girdle represents a descending left spiral of 1.5 turns. The sulcus invades the epicone in a short loop which may partly encircle the apex or may terminate below the right side of the cell. The nucleus is central. C. helicoides are yellow, usually with chloroplasts. All specimens of C. helicoides occurred as solitary cells. Three specimens were observed enclosed in a thin hyaline temporary cyst (Fig. 2C). Cells are 43-67 mm long and »30-36 mm wide.
Figure 2. Microphotographs of Cochlodinium helicoides. A-B) Specimens viewed from right side. C) Specimen of C. helicoides showing the hyaline membrane around the cell (temporary cyst)
Figura 2. Microfotografías de Cochlodinium helicoides. A-B) Especímenes vistos de lado derecho. C) Espécimen de C. helicoides mostrando una membrana hialina alrededor de la célula (quiste temporal)
There are few records of C. helicoides in the literature. This species was first defined by Lebour (1925) for the organism which was called Cochlodinium helix by Kofoid & Swezy (1921) and which was shown in one of Schütt's figures in 1895 (Dodge 1982). Kofoid & Swezy (1921) reported specimens of C. helicoides (as C. helix) collected on July 27 and August 15, 1917 off La Jolla, California. Lackey & Clendenning (1965) reported C. helicoides (as Gymnodinium helicoides) during an oceanographic survey in July-August 1959 off Ballast Point, near San Diego Bay, California. The species was reported elsewhere: in Plymouth Sound, England (Dodge 1982); in the South China Sea (Yan et al. 2002); Odessa Bay in the Black Sea (Terenko 2005); and Chesapeake Bay (Marshall et al. 2005). In this study, temperature was 21.0-24.5°C. This species has been reported in a temperature range between 0.5°C (Terenko 2005) to 21.9°C (Kofoid & Swezy 1921).
Monitoring microalgae species forming red tides, by studying live specimens, has been performed since 2000 in Bahía de La Paz (Gárate-Lizárraga et al. 2004). Since that time, C. helicoides has been observed only on March 24, May 26 2011 and C. convolutum on March 24, April 28, May 26 and June 26 2011 in Bahía de La Paz. The morphology of C. convolutum and C. helicoides changes during observation under a light microscope. Likewise, cells tend to form a hyaline membrane around the cell or a temporary hyaline cyst, otherwise they explode. Lugol fixed specimens of these species could not be properly identified. Live phytoplankton samples are important in the study of naked dinoflagellates.
We are very grateful to Yuri Okolodkov (Universidad Veracruzana) for his commentaries to a former manuscript. We also thank two anonymous referees for their helpful comments and suggestions. The projects were funded by Instituto Politécnico Nacional (SIP-20110281, SIP-20110139 and SIP-20110590). I.G.L. and F.G.D. are COFAA and EDI fellows.
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I personally would like to drive the persons who voted against Occidental Highway down it. I'm sure none have driven it. Last year we drove in holes. They patched it; now it's like driving over a frozen, plowed field! But, once again, the patching now is now holes again.
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The AESPA (Adrian Educational Support Personnel Association) had its Christmas Celebration Dec. 20. Thanks to several donors, door prizes were given out. We would like to thank those who gave door prizes to us: Maple City Floral, Lenawee Rec, Alpha Koney Island, WOW Cafe and Wingery, Mae Swincicki, Dawn McAdams and Kendra Brian. Also thanks for the poinsettias and little green trees.
We had a lot of fun and everyone enjoyed the prizes. So, once again, thank you for making it a success.
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The beacon is a device that, when activated, transmits a distress signal and provides coordinates to rescuers to help expedite a rescue effort.
Searchers worked throughout the night in extreme winter conditions and very difficult terrain. Sub-zero temperatures, high winds and drifting snow complicated search efforts.
Additional search teams deployed Monday morning along with a Blackhawk helicopter and crew from the N.H. Army National Guard. Shortly after noon, the helicopter team spotted the hikers who were well off the trail in the Lafayette Brook drainage approximately 1.5 miles up hill from Interstate 93 (Franconia Notch Parkway). The men were hoisted into the helicopter from difficult terrain marked by deep snow and dense spruce cover. While exhausted from the ordeal, both hikers were unharmed.
According to Conservation Officer Lt. James Goss, the men were reported to be well equipped for winter conditions. They had hiked to the summit of Mount Lafayette where they encountered severe winds and blowing snow. They lost the trail and descended into the Lafayette Brook drainage. Due to the extreme conditions and the difficult terrain, they made the decision to activate their beacon. They then prepared as best they could to spend the night in the frigid conditions and stay as warm as possible.


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IRVINE, CA — Weight-loss reality shows aren't just for adults anymore. The new youth fitness reality television program "Shaq's Big Challenge" debuted June 26 on ABC and draws attention to the youth obesity epidemic in the United States. Star Trac donated cardiovascular equipment for the show, including Pro Series treadmills and steppers, for the filming at the YMCA of Broward County in Hollywood, FL.
Children on the show also received a Star Trac Pro Series stepper for use in their homes.
"We at Star Trac are proud to support 'Shaq's Big Challenge' and to provide opportunities for these young people to develop lifelong habits for health and fitness," says Randy Bergstedt, vice president of marketing for Star Trac. "It is exciting for us to be a part of such a fantastic project and to positively impact the lives of these youth. We hope they will continue their healthy habits in the future and influence those around them to make a healthy lifestyle a priority."
Four-time NBA champion Shaquille O'Neal hand-picked his "dream team" of experts to create the challenge, which is designed to help transform six obese middle school youngsters from Florida into healthy, fit kids — and, along the way, demonstrate how communities nationwide can help fight childhood obesity. O'Neal and his team go into the children's homes and schools and meet with local school and government officials to develop and implement a wellness program for the children of the community as well as for the entire state of Florida.


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Anyone from the region headed to Salem and looking for a riding partner?
Please PM or post. My schedule is open and I can leave/return just about anytime. Have a brother in western Montana that we could use as a weigh point. Can camp or hotel or a combination of both. Prefer northern route.


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Release thread on TaleWorlds forum.
Release thread on the Total War Center
I mod M&B while I'm playing it to suit my tastes. This isn't a big ambitious mod or anything, just tweaks and ideas that I implemented for myself.
The theory and purpose of the mod is as follows.
I do not like grinding experience and leveling up a character over time, so my character stays fixed with certain skills. To make some more dynamics, weapon proficiencies decay over time, but go up through fighting as usual. This means you have to fight if you want to stay skilled, and gives less incentive to rest while your fiefs give income. Likewise renown decays faster and you eat more food, all to make sitting around worse. However, fighting also has its drawbacks. If you fall in battle, you get a wound which until it heals makes you fight worse. Wounds can accumulate, so you do need to be careful and retreat more often rather than fighting to the death. The two other main features are being able to start as a lord in any faction and have a castle, and also the new recruitment system where village recruits don't upgrade very far, and there are two other tiers of soldiers, "troops" which are recruited from towns, and "warriors" which are recruited from castles. These better soldiers cost a lot more than recruits, and are not as readily available, especially in the case of warriors.
DOWNLOAD LINK for beta 1.2 (20MB)
Open the zip and place the folder "GarnierMod_1" in your modules folder. Then select "GarnierMod_1" as your module when you start the game.
1. Each of the five capitals in the game has a bank, where you can borrow money or store money to be retrieved later. The interest rate on money you borrow is 400% per game year, and you have to pay 100 denars for every 1000 that you borrow, up front. Also you have to have at least that 100 denars in real (unborrowed) money to get a loan. You can't just keep taking more loans and stay rich. Interest is payed weekly and you can't avoid it. You make 1.2% per year as interest on money that you deposit in the bank, and this is added to your deposit each month. In 1.2 the code for the banks is mostly rewritten to be easier to use in other mods. Now also you can easily set in the code which cities have banks.
2. Horses are all slightly faster, slightly more maneuvrable and have slightly less charge, so they aren't as good for wading through masses of men knocking them all down, but they go faster in the open. Also their hit points are halved, so they fall a LOT more. In 1.2 horses are more balanced. They have more hit points than in 1.1, but less armor.
3. Recruiting is changed. Volunteers you recruit at villages only can be upgraded 1 or 2 times. You can hire middle tier troops at towns, though the number you can hire is based on renown and relations with the faction you are hiring from. You can also hire real warriors like knights from castles. These are quite rare to be able to hire. So each of the three tiers of troops stay in that tier, you dont recruit a peasant and turn him into a knight. I did update the types of reinforcements the AI lords get, so they don't just have armies of peasants (as might happen if they simply couldnt upgrade anymore). In version 1.1, AI Lords and castles get better troops on average than in 1.0, so the game is significantly harder in that respect. In version 1.2 the recruitment scripts are entirely rewritten, they are now much more flexible, more potential and easier to adapt to other mods.
4. Your men eat about twice as much food as in vanilla, but there is a warning when you are low on food. So you have to get more food on average, but you won't run out accidentally.
5. There are two sets of companions you can use, you pick which to use at the beginning of the game. "Garnier's set" of companions start at a fixed level and have random combat skills/attributes and proficiencies. The default set was made by my brother and they are similar to the normal companions in vanilla, they can be leveled up.
6. At the beginning of the game your character's skills are set to the default for this mod, and a very important rule is never to upgrade the character. This is a very significant aspect of the mod.
7. Your renown deteriorates four times as fast as in vanilla. Also your weapon proficiencies deteriorate over time, so you have to fight a lot to maintain higher levels. Now there is a good reason not to sit around letting time go by for whatever reason. Tweaked some in 1.1, but the theory is the same.
8. Each time you are knocked out in battle and carried away from the fight or taken prisoner, you get a wound that takes away some skills/attributes until it heals. The time it takes to heal is random, but on average it is 6 weeks for each wound. There is now a good reason to surrender if the battle is hopeless, to avoid taking a serious wound. Wounds tweaked in 1.1, so there is an equal chance of losing STR/AGI, and equal chances of losing each of the personal combat skills. Only STR/AGI and combat skills are affected by wounds. Also in the character report it says how many wounds you still are recovering from. In 1.2, your companions also can be wounded in the same way. This was one of the most difficult coding jobs I've done, but it's working now (finally!).
9. There is a button to sort your inventory by value of the items, and a button to select a new banner at any time you want. Note that selecting a new banner too many times can mess up the banners that other lords use.
10. The starting menus are redone entirely. You can choose to either have grown up in Calradia, or to be an unknown adventurer from far away. If you choose to be from Calradia, you choose the faction you've lived in/near, and then your station in society. You can start as a lord of any faction, and have a random castle and ~50,000 denars at the beginning, or a peasant with almost nothing. In between you can be a merchant, craftsman or soldier, for varying starting difficulty levels. The starting equipment is appropriate to your faction/station.
11. Income from fiefs is increased, so you can support more military, especially so you have money to recruit the rather expensive troops. Also you only recieve taxes from a fief/castle when the accumulated tax from that location is above 1000. I still will probably change the actual tax amount, to balance it.
12. Plate armor and great helmets are removed, as I wanted the armors to seem more historically accurate together. Also lords equipment is changed a lot, in general they ride better horses. Also all Swadian, Rhodok and Nord lords wear heraldric armor.
13. Party size and prisoner space is 1000, so you don't have to worry about hitting that limit. Prisoners are valued based on their level as well, not always 50 denars. Note that prisoners escape now.
14. Since new recruits don't upgrade very far, I have made more of them available and they cost only 5 denars apiece. Also mercenary groups in taverns are larger.
15. I added in "Rhodok Knights" which are just slightly better than sergeants, they are recruited in castles, while the rhodok town troops can upgrade all the way to sergeant/marksman. This makes the Rhodoks stronger like they needed to be.
16. Added in order knights (Templars, Teutonics and Hospitallers). These are available as mercenaries in taverns, as well as roaming the map in small parties fighting bandits and some factions. The parties of them aren't finished, I want to make more interesting stuff you can do such as join an order, but this is as far as I am now.
17. Bandits now ask for random amounts of money when you offer to pay them. The money they take scales with the money you have, so you don't want to carry lots of money around unless you're willing to fight to keep it.
18. Added slave markets in some cities. At slave markets you can sell any prisoners for a fixed price regardless of their level. Though this price randomly changes as time goes by. I also made it quicker to sell prisoners to the ransom brokers by adding in a "sell all" button at the beginning of the dialog. Also note that prisoners can escape from your party if you have too many prisoners and not enough men guarding them.
19. All faction, Lord, and town/castle/village names are redone, using European names. The faction conversions are as follows:
Swadia = Holy Roman Empire (German)
Vaegirs = Principality of Rus (Rus)
Khergits = Kuman Khaganate (Kuman)
Nords = Kingdom of Norway (Norse)
Rhodoks = Lombardy (Lombard)
20. Included the autoloot script thanks to fisheye.
21. Added some options at the beginning of the game and during the game, for using different companion sets and other stuff.
22. This change list isn't entirely complete, this is just a beta of 1.2. The in-game functionality is there, but I haven't taken the time to detail every change and function of the mod.
23. My python source is included.
My brother for the order knights skins, and most of the European names.
Fisheye for the autoloot script.
Don't use the CHEAT! option at the start of the game, it doesn't work properly -- duh!
In the camp menu there is a button to "take other actions" where you can increase or decrease renown by 100 per click. That's for testing, its a cheat, so you're not meant to use it while playing. :wink:
That's all I can think of that I did so far, I know there's more minor tweaks in there but I can't remember them all right now. Nothing game-changing though.
This mod is completely open source. If you're modding feel free to take any of my code and use it in your own mods. I've not included anything from other modders that is not open source.


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NEVER mind Babe, Pontypool has its own pampered pig who accompanies her travel agent owner to work.
Dotty, a 15-month-old micro pig, has become a favourite member of staff at Jet Aways travel agency in Pontypool since owner Kelly Dommett started taking her along to the office.
After being told that micro pigs are known for their intelligence and crave companionship, Mrs Dommett and her husband Roger decided leaving Dotty home alone all day wasn't an option. So now she has her own space on the premises where passers-by frequently pop in to say hello.
She even owns her own T-shirts and has a pink collar with her name in diamantés.
Mrs Dommett said: "She comes with me in the car and then walks on a lead to the office.
"People are always surprised when they see her and come over to make a fuss of her."
With the potential to live up to 25 years Dotty will have to wait a long time for retirement, but in the meantime she's quite content lounging in the office.
The couple decided to purchase Dotty after Mr Dommett saw micro pigs being bred while on his post round. Mrs Dommett said: "I never thought we would end up getting a pig, but I gave in to Roger and now I don't know what I would do without Dotty.
"She's like a dog, following me around. She comes to her name and does tricks, such as standing on her back legs, in return for grapes."
Dotty is described as very laid back and is always wanting a cuddle.
She currently weighs about two stone and is the same size as a small dog.
But an adult micro pig can weigh just under five stone and stand up to 30cm high.
Mrs Dommett said Dotty is the perfect pet as a well-kept micro pig is clean and odourless.
She added: "She is not a farmyard animal — I don't even think she could live outside. She has become one of the family and everyone loves her."
Dotty goes to the toilet outside like a dog and is cleaned up after by Mrs Dommett.


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|MLB Career Stats
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|June 26, 2014
|C Luis Exposito assigned to Sacramento River Cats.
|June 25, 2014
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|June 11, 2014
|Toledo Mud Hens released C Luis Exposito.
|March 29, 2014
|C Luis Exposito assigned to Toledo Mud Hens.
|January 9, 2014
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|November 4, 2013
|C Luis Exposito elected free agency.
|August 23, 2013
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|August 6, 2013
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|April 28, 2013
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|March 20, 2013
|Baltimore Orioles optioned Luis Exposito to Norfolk Tides.
|October 13, 2012
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|September 1, 2012
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|August 31, 2012
|Norfolk Tides placed Luis Exposito on the reserve list.
|July 12, 2012
|Norfolk Tides activated C Luis Exposito from the 7-day disabled list.
|July 4, 2012
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|April 17, 2012
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|Boston Red Sox recalled Luis Exposito from Pawtucket Red Sox.
|June 10, 2011
|Boston Red Sox optioned Luis Exposito to Pawtucket Red Sox.
|June 8, 2011
|Boston Red Sox recalled Luis Exposito from Pawtucket Red Sox.
|March 17, 2011
|Boston Red Sox optioned Luis Exposito to Pawtucket Red Sox.
|November 19, 2010
|Boston Red Sox selected the contract of Luis Exposito from Portland Sea Dogs.
|February 5, 2010
|Boston Red Sox invited non-roster C Luis Exposito to spring training.
|August 3, 2009
|Luis Exposito assigned to Portland Sea Dogs from Salem Red Sox.
Resides in Hialeah, FL during the offseason...has a daughter named Elise Amaya...Attended St. Petersburg (FL) Junior College.2013
Spent the entire 2013 season with Triple A Norfolk in the Baltimore Orioles organization...Collected a season-high three hits on April 23 at Charlotte...Had a season-high three RBI on May 5 versus Syracuse...Batted .310 (9x29) in 10 games during July...Sidelined August 5-23 with a left foot laceration.2012 Recalled from Norfolk for a second time on September 1 and remained on roster through end of regular season ... Recalled from Triple-A Norfolk May 4 and made his ML debut as a defensive replacement in the 12th inning that night ... First major league hit was a single off Texas' Derek Holland on May 10 (G2) ... Made first ML start May 7 vs. TEX, going 0-for-3 ... Batted .268/.326/.420 with 23 RBI in 55 games with the Tides ... Claimed by the Orioles off of waivers from Boston on April 17 2011 Spent most of the season with Pawtucket in his Triple-A debut...Also had 2 stints on Boston's roster but did not appear in a Major League game. Recalled on 6/8 for 1st ML stint and was on the roster for 2 games at Yankee Stadium before being optioned back to Pawtucket on 6/9...Recalled again on 9/26 and remained in the Majors through the end of the season. Appeared in 89 games with Pawtucket, including a team-leading 74 tilts behind the plate...Batted .242 (80- for-330) with 17 doubles, 8 home runs, 36 RBI and 26 walks. Ranked 2nd on the team (min. 50 AB) with a .330 clip (29-for-88) vs. LHP...Also posted a .392 OBP and .489 SLG against southpaws...Hit .282 (35-for-124) after the All-Star break, including a .300 clip (33-for-110) over his last 30 games beginning 7/20. Threw out 18 of 55 potential base stealers (32.7%), 3rd best among qualifying Triple-A catchers. Blasted his 1st career grand slam on 8/25 at Syracuse...Tallied a season-high 4 RBI in that contest. Was the PawSox starting catcher for all 3 games in the semi-finals of the International League playoffs. 2010 Spent entire year with Double-A Portland, playing in a career-high 125 games...Also had career marks in at-bats (473), hits (123), doubles (39), RBI (94) and walks (55), and tied in runs (65). Paced the Sea Dogs and finished among Eastern League leaders in RBI (3rd) and doubles (4th)...94 RBI were also 3rd most among all Red Sox minor leaguers, behind Ryan Lavarnway (102) and Anthony Rizzo (100). Also topped Portland batters with 37 multi-hit contests and 23 multi-RBI games. Caught 30 of 80 attempted base stealers for a league-best 37.5 percent caught stealing rate. Played 85 games behind the plate...Led EL backstops with 95 assists but yielded the most passed balls with 14...Also appeared as the designated hitter in 40 games. Hit .344 (44-for-128) off left-handers compared to .229 (79-for-345) off righties. Set a franchise record for doubles in May with 13, hitting .294 (32-for-109) with a homer and 21 RBI in the month. Tallied 2nd career multi-homer game with 2 HR on 7/29 at Harrisburg and collected a career-high 5 RBI. After the season, played 17 games with Aguilas Cibaenas of the Dominican Winter League (6-for-46, HR, 5 RBI). 2009 Combined to hit .287 (109-for-380) with 9 home runs and 57 RBI between Single-A Salem and Double-A Portland...Tallied a career-high 29 doubles and 27 walks...Combined to throw out 33 of 124 (27%) attempted base stealers...Posted .987 fielding pct. (10 E/746 TC)...Began the year with Salem, appearing in 76 games...Finished 2nd on the club with 24 doubles...Hit .313 (45-for-144) in 39 contests at Fluor Field in Salem...Hit .344 (31-for-90) in 23 games from 6/5-7/15, earning 8/4 promotion to Portland, where he hit safely in 20 of 23 contests...Ranked 6th in the Eastern League with a .354 August average (28-for-79)...Had a Sea Dogs season-long, 12-game hit streak from 8/19-9/6, batting .340 (16-for-47) in that time...Batted .314 (16-for-51) with 1 homer in 14 games for Mesa of the Arizona Fall League...Hit safely in each of his final 7 AFL games, going 11-for-28 (.393) in those contests. 2008 Set career highs with a .293 average (122-for-417), 21 home runs and 68 RBI between Single-A Greenville and Single-A Lancaster...Was 1 of 4 members of the Drive selected to the South Atlantic League All-Star squad...Promoted to Lancaster on 6/25...Had a career-best, 16-game hitting streak from 7/18-8/5, batting .324 (23- for-71) with 7 homers and 16 RBI in that span...Went deep in 4 straight games from 7/18-21...Hit .297 (11-for-37) in 9 playoff games for the JetHawks. 2007 Played a career-low 9 games for Single-A Greenville...Went 7-for-24 (.292) through his 1st 7 contests from 5/19-27. 2006 Made professional baseball debut with Short-A Lowell and finished 3rd on the club with 52 hits and 5th with 23 RBI. Represented the Spinners at the New York-Penn League All-Star Game in Aberdeen, MD on 8/16. Batted .300 (27-for-90) with 11 RBI in August, hitting safely in 11 of the last 13 games of the month. 2005
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The Crew Historian collects and preserves memorabilia, press releases, photo, and and other data of historical significance to the crew.
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The M Festival promises to be an intense and exhilarating ride at the Nürburgring for the seventh time. For all fans, this means another exciting weekend full of adrenaline at the spectacular 24-hour race.
Glowing brake discs, roaring engines and passionate fans - all of which you get to experience at first hand, at the heart of a motorsport spectacle.
Watch the 24-hour race at the M Festival event areas, right next to the Grand Prix circuit, or visit the Fan Base, from where you can follow the race with fellow motorsport enthusiasts.
As well as culinary delights and fantastic entertainment in our BMW M Hospitality, you will also experience that pure motorsport feeling up close and personal.
With a little luck, you may even get to drive your own BMW M around the iconic Nordschleife. This year, a draw will once again take place for tickets to take part in the traditional M Corso on M Night.
You can look forward to a memorable and exciting weekend as part of the M Community at the 2017 M Festival.
The M Festival 2017 Package.
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Kim Clijsters is trading in her tennis racquet for diaper duty!
The former professional tennis player and her husband Brian Lynch are expecting their second child together in September, Clijsters announced on Twitter Monday.
The couple are already parents to daughter Jada Ellie, 5.
"Hi everyone, we have some exciting news to tell you … Jada is going to be a big sister!" the mom-to-be Tweeted.
After competing in her final U.S. Open in August, Clijsters, 29, officially retired from the sport, and, according to the athlete, placed expanding her family high on her priority list.
"And here we are: halfway into September Jada will have a brother or sister. We are of course delighted," Clijsters writes on her site. "I'm doing fine, even though I tire more easily right now."
Clijsters and Lynch married in 2007.
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Lesvos Travel Guide
Mytilene, Lesvos © Koutrolm
Lesvos (alternatively spelt Lesbos), the third largest of the Greek islands, is a little different from the rest, being largely self-sufficient thanks to its commerce in olive-growing and fishing. Despite being a popular summer holiday destination it remains unspoilt and natural, untainted by most tourist trappings, and its size precludes it from becoming overcrowded or claustrophobic like some of the other Greek resort islands.
Situated in the Aegean, Lesvos is very close to the Turkish coast and well connected by air and sea to Athens and Thessalonika, as well as some of the other Ionian Islands like Rhodes and Kos.
The delightful island is encircled with quaint fishing villages and pale gold sandy beaches, while inland the fertile soil is rich with olive groves, the uplands covered in pine and holme oak. Two gulfs, which penetrate deep into the interior of the island, provide for an interesting, sheltered coastline.
The main town on the island is Mitilini, a city of about 30,000 inhabitants clustered around its well-preserved Byzantine castle. The favourite spots for holidaymakers, however, are the northern village of Molivos; the south coast town of Plomari (where it is reputed the finest ouzo in the world is still made); and Sigri, at the western tip, near the world's largest petrified forest.
Apart from beautiful, secluded beaches and superb opportunities for walking and bird-watching, Lesvos has relics of a long and proud history to explore. The island has been inhabited since the Bronze Age, and rose to glory particularly around the 6th century BC when it was rivalled only by Athens as a great centre of civilisation, home to the legendary poets Sappho and Alcaeus.
Lesvos is known as the birthplace of the ancient poet Sappho, and in recent years tourism has increased for lesbian and all-female tour groups who come to pay homage. Lesvos is known as a gay-friendly island, and resorts like Skala Eressos are focused on women-only holidays.
Today it is easy for visitors to wax poetical when enjoying the serenity of this beautiful lush island with its balmy Mediterranean climate.
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Country star Taylor Swift's latest single made a record-breaking entry in Wednesday's Billboard Digital Songs chart, scoring the biggest digital sales week ever for a song by a female artist.
Swift's song "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," an infectious, punky country-pop anthem, quickly rose through the charts and gained strong radio play after its release last week, selling 623,000 downloads, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The song also hit the Billboard Country singles chart, as Swift's music has attracted fans of both country and pop.
"Taylor appeals to a younger female demographic that tends to buy a lot of music and after the years, she's become a staple of two pretty popular formats, country and pop, and she's able to manipulate both formats and be played across both," Silvio Pietroluongo, director of charts at Billboard, told Reuters.
Pop singer Ke$ha's "TiK ToK" previously held the title for the biggest first-week digital sales by a female artist, with 610,000 downloads.
Only male rapper Flo Rida's "Right Round," featuring Ke$ha, sits above Swift as the single with the largest first-week download sales, clocking in at 636,000 copies.
The success of Swift's latest single – the first to be released from her upcoming, fourth studio album "Red" – sold almost double the number of her previous best-selling song, "Love Story," which debuted with 360,000 copies in the first week of its release in December 2008.
Swift, 22, has won fans with her raw lyrics, and the singer has often said her songs are about real life experiences. She addressed her 2010 song "Dear John" to singer John Mayer after their relationship ended.
Swift has also dated celebrities Joe Jonas and Jake Gyllenhaal and is currently dating a member of the Kennedy family.
"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" has piqued the curiosity of Swift's fans over the past week as they try to uncover which one of her famous ex-boyfriends was the subject of the song.


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40/29 walks for good cause at AHA Heartwalk
40/29 walks for good cause at AHA Heartwalk
40/29 News Sunrise anchors Kelly Johnson and Derek Burleson are walking for a good cause at the April 13th Heartwalk in Springdale at Arvest Ballpark.
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Not many movie sequels are better than the original, but it happens occasionally, like with "Godfather II."
So the odds are against "2013 Red Sox II" being better than "2013 Red Sox I," but it could happen. Anyway, the 2013 Sox essentially are already guaranteed of being better than the '12 team. For instance, if this year's Sox go 12-53 in the second half, they will still finish with more victories than they did during the Valentine Daze of 2012.
The All-Star break — the emotional boundary between the first and second halves, if not the numerical one — is here, and the Red Sox are more than halfway to a historically great comeback season. They are on a pace to win 97 games, 28 more than in 2012.
That is a 41 percent improvement, and would be the second-largest ever for a Red Sox team. The '46 Sox went 104-50 after the 1945 team was 71-83, but because of World War II, comparing those seasons is like comparing apples and goat's milk cheese.
If this year's group hold on to win the American League East, they will be the first Red Sox team to go from last place to first place in one season. The only thing comparable is the Impossible Dream year of '67, and while that team went from ninth place to first, ninth was just next-to-last back then. The improvement in victories was 72 to 92, some 28 percent.
The reasons behind Boston's first-half success are several and varied.
Clearly, the elusive "chemistry" factor has come into play, and the evidence for that is the number of come-from-behind and late-inning victories fashioned by the 2013 Sox. That sort of indomitable spirit has helped overcome a volatile bullpen mix, a disappointing season by Jon Lester, fewer wins than expected from Ryan Dempster and a giant step backward by Will Middlebrooks.
John Farrell gets a lot of credit for how well things have worked.
His game strategy has been fine, and that aspect of being a manager can be overrated. Take Joe Maddon, for instance, who does some odd things with the lineup card and defensive alignments, and every year has the low-budget Rays contending for first place.
Farrell's strength has been his even-tempered approach to adversity and his knack for knowing what players to use, and exactly when and how to use them. Given his background as a pitching coach, Farrell has done remarkably well in understanding how the game works beyond the 60-foot, 6-inch straight line from the pitching rubber to home plate.
On the field, the Red Sox surge has been fueled by a group of players that includes Clay Buchholz, Felix Doubront, John Lackey, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Jacoby Ellsbury, Dustin Pedroia, Jose Iglesias, Koji Uehara and David Ortiz.
Start with Pedroia and Ortiz.
Boston cannot win without them, and both are having seasons that rank with their best ever. If both stay healthy through the second half, the Red Sox have an excellent chance to win the AL East.
There is no overstating the value of Ortiz. How important he is was painfully evident in how bad Boston was after he was injured last season. How important he is, and has been, is illustrated by these facts:
Since he joined the Red Sox in 2003. Boston is 815-597 (.577) when Ortiz is in the starting lineup. The Sox are 151-154 (.495) when he is not. Boston is 230-92 (.714) when Ortiz hits a home run, 736-659 (.528) when he does not. The Red Sox are 452-198 (.695) when Ortiz has at least one RBI, 514-553 (.482) when he has none.
Although Buchholz is on his annual injury sabbatical, his first-half contributions at 9-0 cannot be discounted. Doubront has been handled very well by Farrell, and his development has helped take up the slack left by Lester's regression. Lackey has been a revelation, and on a team with bullpen issues — what team does not, though — he has become a staff saver.
Saltalamacchia's average has yet to take its annual nosedive, and if his value can be measured in other ways, Boston is 43-23 when he's the catcher, 15-16 when he is not.
The Sox were concerned with Uehara's age, but the 38-year-old's efficiency has allowed him to work quick, easy innings, and he has clearly been their most valuable reliever. Although his bat does not have Middlebrooks' pop, Iglesias' ability to get on base and his defensive prowess have made Middlebrooks' absence nearly irrelevant.
Nava is the midseason leader in the unofficial 10th Player Award standings. He has started in all three outfield positions and at first base, a quality that helps Farrell maneuver a roster that has often been overloaded with relievers. Nava has hit for average and production, and in an age where trips to the DL have become the equivalent of paid vacations, he has been available to play every day.
The 2013 Red Sox will be better than last year's team. They almost already are no matter what happens after the All-Star break. Given some good fortune in the health department and continued contributions from some unexpected sources, they could make some history.
Red Sox fans are what might be called reasonable skeptics, which is why the 2013 Sox record at the All-Star break does not have them in a frenzy. Since the first All-Star Game in 1933, Boston teams have been in first place at the break 14 times. They have only gone on to finish first overall seven times in those seasons. Conversely, the Sox have been out of first place at the break, then finished in first place, only twice — in 1967 and 1988. The record:
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