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HTC is trying to make a comeback in the smartphone world with its new Android phone HTC One. The $200 device that will hit the market on April 19 is "very slick and elegant," Katherine Boehret says in her review.
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Same old story for Oklahoma State in Norman as Sooners roll Cowboys
CameronClark and the Sooners rolled off a fourth straight win by beating Oklahoma State. (Brody Schmidt/AP)
NORMAN, Okla. -- The last nine times Oklahoma State has visited Oklahoma, the Sooners have sent their in-state rivals back north up the highway with a a mark in the loss column. Monday night's affair—the first time 'Bedlam' has seen both teams nationally ranked since 2005—was no different.
Behind 18 points from Jordan Woodard and a double-double from Ryan Spangler, No. 23 Oklahoma flattened No. 8 Oklahoma State, 88-76, in front of a sellout crowd and a nationally televised audience. The Sooners, who led by as many as 17 points during the game, won their fourth straight game, taking sole possession of second place in the Big 12 and scoring their third victory over a ranked conference opponent this season. The Cowboys, meanwhile, piled up miss after miss and foul after foul, and are now third in the Big 12 behind Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
The loss capped off an unpleasant 48 hours for Oklahoma State guard Marcus Smart. On Saturday, the All-American lost his temper in a 81-75 win against West Virginia, in which the Mountaineers physically manhandled him, causing him to lose his cool and walk out of sight behind the bleachers at Gallagher-Iba Arena while the game was still in doubt. Against Oklahoma, he quickly notched six points in the game's first four minutes. But with two fouls before the game's 11-minute mark, he also found himself with a nice view from the bench, yelling instructions to teammates who managed to stay on the floor.
Smart led all scorers with 22 points, but his team found itself unable to make up the early lost ground. Oklahoma State's play was marred with sloppy play, with turnovers, missed shots and fouls aplenty, as the Cowboys couldn't keep Oklahoma off the free-throw line. The Sooners attempted 42 free throws, cashing in on 30 of them.
"Every time we would make a run, we would make a silly play, and they are making free throws every time you turn around," Cowboys coach Travis Ford said. "You have to give them credit. We can't keep getting into foul trouble, our room for error is pretty small. And we didn't defend very well."
Oklahoma came away with the win despite a quiet night from its leading scorer, forward Cameron Clark, who came in averaging more than 17 points a game. Clark finished with just seven points and six rebounds, but a balanced attack from Woodard (who scored 17 of his team-high 18 points in the second half), reserve Tyler Neal (15 points) and Spangler (13 points and a career-high 17 rebounds) kept the Sooners in front all night.
"It's just different guys on different nights," Oklahoma coach Lon Kruger said. "It's early in the grind, and we need to get better in the next three or four days. I think we are getting better in the toughness department, we are making big strides and we are growing. It makes it more satisfying."
Woodard scored his team's first eight points of the second half, pushing the Sooners lead to 56-43, and Oklahoma took advantage of a woeful shooting night by Oklahoma State. The Cowboys hit just nine of their 24 three-point attempts—Smart went 3-of-11 from range. Phil Forte was able to keep the game from getting completely out of hand by hitting all six of his three-point shots, finishing with 20 points on the day, but foul trouble for Smart and Le'Bryan Nash cripped the Cowboys offensively. Nash, who scored a career-high 29 points against West Virginia, ended the night with just eight points in 17 minutes and fouled out with four minutes left in the game.
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Based on the results of a Washington Post/ABC News poll, the Post concludes that President Obama is losing public trust when it comes to the economy. The numbers support that conclusion. They show Obama's overall approval rating down by 5 points from just before his second term, to 50 percent. Of the seven post-World War II presidents who served a second term, only George W. Bush had a lower approval rating at this juncture.
With respect to the economy, the poll reports that 44 percent trust the president more than congressional Republicans in this area, while 40 percent trust the Republicans more. In December, Obama's edge was 18 points.
I suspect, however, that Obama's approval numbers in late 2012 were inflated. My theory is that voters who decided to vote for the president as the lesser of two evils convinced themselves, briefly, that he was doing a good job. Why? Because few feel comfortable voting for a president they believe is doing a bad job.
Now that Obama doesn't have Mitt Romney to kick around, his approval numbers are returning to their natural level.
That's not the only thing going on, of course; there's something called the sequester in play, although it's not living up to its advance billing. According to the Post's poll, however, voters hold Republicans more to blame for the sequester by a 14 point margin (47-33). Yet Obama holds only a 4 point margin on the question of who is more trustworthy on the economy.
In the end, these poll numbers don't matter much. The 2014 elections are a long way off. If the stock market continues to flourish and the unemployment rate continues to fall, Obama's numbers very likely will improve.
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CTS spent much of the summer preparing for the opening of SUNY Oswego's newest building, the Shineman Center for Science, Engineering and Innovation. The $118 million, 233,000 square foot building is home to the College's sciences departments including Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Earth Sciences, Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics.
As you walk around the building, you get a sense of the amount of technology available to assist with teaching, learning and innovation. From science labs, classrooms, computer labs, collaborative lounges, conference rooms and more, technology proliferates throughout the building. Chief Technology Officer Sean Moriarty, who started at SUNY Oswego in April, was excited to be involved in the provisioning and opening. He remarked that Shineman "represents the culmination of a few years of dedicated work of many people on campus to give our students the best possible learning and educational environment. The students and faculty have access to state of the art technology in the classrooms, labs and offices, as well as the gathering and informal spaces."
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Wi-fi: Approximately 320 access points were installed for faculty, staff and students to utilize the wifi network from just about any location in Shineman. This is the first academic building to have complete wi-fi coverage.
Voice over IP (VoIP) phones: About 250 VoIP phones were installed throughout the building. VoIP sends phone calls over the digital network rather than through an analog phone switch. Shineman completes a campus wide VoIP installation project.
Advanced technology classrooms: 22 classrooms are equipped with projection and a podium station that includes a computer, document camera, and various input sources for devices brought into the classroom (tablets, laptops, USB drives, etc.). Most include DVD, blu-ray and CD players and some include dual screen display, smartboards or screen annotation capability. All classrooms include lecture capture service for recording lectures, student presentations or guest presenters. Shineman is the first building to have all classrooms equipped for lecture capture. It is currently officially available in about 20 other locations.
Computer labs: About 361 computers were installed to accommodate lab spaces. 28 laptop ready teaching labs with projection and sound capability are also available. All computers are configured with our standard base set of applications.
Digital Signage: Three displays are installed throughout the center and connect to the campus wide digital display system. These systems communicate event and general information about the campus. They are also part of a communication plan in the event of a campus emergency.
Environmental controls: The environmentals for the building including heating, ventilation and air conditioning are able to be remotely monitored and controlled.
Network: All wiring for the building connects to nine network closets that allow wired devices to connect to the campus network. There are 69 network switches installed with backup power throughout these closets which connect approximately 2600 active (wired) data connections throughout the center.
Not only was CTS involved in the installation of new technology, we assisted in the physical moves of employees into the building. Computers, printers, copiers, fax machines and phones of over 100 faculty and staff from Snygg and Hewitt were moved into their new offices in Shineman by CTS staff.
Behind so much technology is a lot of hard work. CTS has dedicated, hard-working staff who put in extra hours to ensure a successful opening. Moriarty points out that CTS staff as well as the other departments who had a hand in Shineman's success "can be extremely proud of what has been created."
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DURHAM — At halftime it was all about saving face. A nine-point first half made that imperative.
The Oyster River High School girls basketball team lost in the championship of the Bobcat Invitational Sunday to Hanover, 53-38.
The final outcome provided the Division II Bobcats with a moral victory of sorts as they trailed 29-9 at the half, and were actually down by as many as 26 (35-9) 90 seconds into the second half.
Coach Dave Nichols called timeout and said enough was enough.
OR responded, scoring 29 points over the remainder of the game to make things respectable.
"I challenged them to get tougher," Nichols said. "Make contact on the screen. Get out there and actually set a screen. Don't just kind of run by people. ... We had a good flurry. We turned it around. We had just dug too deep a hole."
Claire Salmon, who made the all-tournament team, led OR (2-1) with 12 points. Sara Messler added nine and Megan Comeau tossed in eight.
Hanover (3-0), which used a 21-3 run to end the first half, was led by tournament MVP Lexie Hamilton, a freshman guard, with 13 points, 11 coming in the opening half. Erica Hinck added 10 points, and Eileen Daley and Safiya Walker had eight each.
"I think we hit a nice little flow," said Hanover coach Dan O'Rourke. "We've had these runs all year and they're getting longer and longer. In the beginning of the year, we have a lot of young kids, we'd have one good flow and then take two steps backwards. We're starting to get longer and longer flows and our defense is getting a lot better."
The Bobcats stayed with the Marauders through the first five minutes of the first quarter, trailing 8-6.
But Hanover ended the frame on a 10-0 run, led by Hinck's five points to build an 18-6 lead after one.
A sloppy first-half of the second quarter yielded one point (a foul shot by OR's Allie Harris). But again Hanover was able to close the quarter efficiently, using an 11-2 run to go into the locker room up 29-9.
Hamilton hit one of her three 3-pointers to get the run going. She also added a layup, while Walker contributed 4 of 4 from the foul line.
OR shot 4 of 23 from the field in the first half and turned the ball over 17 times. Hanover made 9 of 20 shots, including four treys, and had 13 giveaways.
"We played very soft and very tentative in the first half," Nichols said. "And even the start of the second half the same way. We talked about stuff, we just didn't run it."
Oyster River, finally, came alive after Nichols' timeout early in the third quarter. Down 26, the Bobcats went on a 17-5 tear to cut the margin to 40-26 on Jenny Mistretta's 3-pointer at 2:24. Comeau and Salmon keyed the run with five and four points, respectively.
The Marauders got it back up to 18 (46-28) after three stops and widened the margin to 51-31 in the fourth on a 16-footer by Cathleen Beliveau.
OR ended the game on a 7-2 run.
"I told them, play tough or you're going to be sitting," Nichols added. "We'll just play our the game with subs in the game. They responded well. I was happy to see that."
OR, which is 1-3 in D-II, hosts St. Thomas Friday night.
Also named to the all-tournament team were Somersworth's Rachel Hill, St. Thomas' Meaghan Flynn, Portsmouth's Alicia Brown and Timberlane's Dakotah Vondrasek.
Hanover, 53-38
HANOVER (53) — Hamilton 5-0-13, Daley 4-0-8, Walker 1-6-8, Schlosser 2-2-6, Hinck 3-3-10, Cornell 1-0-2, Daniel 1-0-2, Robbins 1-0-2, Beliveau 1-0-2, Croituro 0-0-0. Totals: 19-11-53.
OYSTER RIVER (38) — Salmon 6-0-12, Comeau 3-2-8, Harris 0-1-1, Messler 4-1-9, Kolter 1-0-3, Mistretta 1-0-3, McQuade 1-0-2, Attisano 0-0-0, McCarthy 0-0-0, Cilia 0-0-0. Totals: 16-4-38.
Hanover (3-0) 18 11 17 7 — 53
Oyster River (2-1) 6 3 19 10 — 38
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VANCOUVER — Canadian snowboard cross racer Maelle Ricker awoke from a four-year nightmare Tuesday.
Motivated by unfinished business from the 2006 Turin Games — where she crashed in the final — Ricker roared down Cypress Mountain and claimed Olympic gold.
"Turin was such a motivator for me," said Ricker, a West Vancouver, B.C., native who grew up racing on Cypress Mountain.
"It just made me work that much harder and just go for it today."
Two days after moguls racer Alex Bilodeau became the first Canadian to claim Olympic gold on home soil, Ricker became the first Canadian woman to achieve the feat.
"It's crazy," Ricker said. "Indescribable. I'm going to pinch myself."
Ricker, 31, once said finishing fourth in the Olympics was "like seeing the love of your life on the subway but never getting to meet them." She had plenty of love awaiting her Tuesday when she crossed the finish line.
Thousands of spectators — including many of Ricker's friends and family members — erupted and chanted her name.
"It was so, so fun," said Ricker, clearly humbled by the support. "There's so many people behind us and so many Canadians watching and having a great time.
"I'm really happy and proud to be a part of it."
France's Deborah Anthonioz won silver, and Switzerland's Olivia Nobs claimed bronze.
The day was bittersweet for Canadian snowboarders, though. Dominique Maltais of Petite-Riviere-St-Francois, Que., who won bronze in Turin, failed to qualify for the top 16. She went off course in her first run, then wiped out at the bottom of a jump on her second run.
Even so, Maltais didn't blame the course, which gave more than a few riders trouble.
"The course was awesome, but it rained and it snowed a little bit so the conditions were really rough sometimes," she said. "Looks like at the end it was pretty nice, actually."
Ricker had her troubles, too. She wiped out in her first qualifying run and needed a strong second run to earn a spot in the quarter-finals. Ricker responded admirably, posting the third-fastest qualifying time of the day.
"I was just trying to keep it exciting," Ricker said. "No, just kidding. That was heartbreaking after that first run. I had to go back up to the start, refocus and think about my lines. I had to visualize all the stuff we've been training all week, all year, the last few years."
In the four-racer final, Ricker led from start to finish. She gained a comfortable lead early and simply had to stay on her feet to achieve her golden dream. A few fans gasped when Ricker appeared to wobble and put her hand in the snow just before the final jump, but the Ricker stayed on course.
"It was fine. It was good," Ricker said of the stabilizing manoeuvre. "I was like, 'OK, here we go. Stay centred, stay focused (and) absorb the final jump because you can (fall) on the final jump if you're not paying attention."
Lindsey Jacobellis of the U.S., the 2006 Olympic silver medallist, ranked among the pre-race favourites, but she fell out of contention in the semis. Riding second to Ricker, Jacobellis caught an edge when landing a jump and then swerved out of bounds.
Jacobellis walked past print journalists without commenting. But earlier in the day, she commented on the challenging conditions.
"This course has been giving a lot of riders trouble," she said. "I took a bunch of crashes in training and I'm still sore from that. I know how it feels sometimes when you can't put everything together. It's so frustrating.
"All these riders deserve to be here. Sometimes the conditions are bad and that's a real shame."
Four years ago, Ricker was the vanquished. She entered the Olympic final with the fastest qualifying time, but crashed early in the race and had to be airlifted to hospital in Turin.
Before the Olympics opened, Ricker joked that she still couldn't remember parts of the 2006 race.
On Tuesday, she rebounded with a performance that she'll never forget.


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Facebook Inc., facing a raft of lawsuits from investors seeking to recoup losses from its botched IPO, laid out on Friday how cascading Nasdaq trading glitches might have stoked the confusion that marred its May 18 debut.
The No. 1 social network and lead underwriters Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co. have filed a motion requesting that dozens of shareholder lawsuits over its $16 billion initial public offering be grouped together in Manhattan federal court.
The filing, while standard in cases with multiple lawsuits, gives a glimpse at how Facebook may choose to structure its defense and represents the social networking company's first public response to the chaos that engulfed its high-profile debut.
Facebook's stock leapt 6 percent on Friday to end above $30 for the first time since May 25. It also recorded its biggest single-day gain since it began trading, as a string of recent improvements to its advertising system raised hopes about its prospects. But the eight-year-old company founded by Mark Zuckerberg in his Harvard dorm room has shed a fifth, or $20 billion, of its value from the $38 IPO price.
Despite the downward spiral, many employees made millions with stock awards. On Friday, chief technology officer Bret Taylor – overseer of the social network's main platform and mobile business – announced he was leaving this summer, becoming the first senior executive to break ranks.
"It's certainly a negative when so soon after the company has gone public that key people leave," said Pivotal Research Group analyst Brian Wieser.
But he said such post-IPO departures are not surprising, as executives whose equity shares in the company have vested, cash out and move on.
"It's not something that you would take as a vote of no-confidence" in the company, Wieser said.
He noted that investors are primarily concerned about Facebook CEO Zuckerberg, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman.
Facebook's IPO was to have been the culmination of years of breakneck growth for the cultural phenomenon. But it became mired in controversy as more than a dozen shareholder lawsuits accused Facebook and its underwriters of obscuring the company's weakened growth forecasts ahead of the May 18 stock offering.
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. has also been sued by investors who claimed the exchange operator was negligent in handling orders for Facebook shares. Nasdaq spokesman Joseph Christinat declined to comment on Friday.
In the motion filed late Thursday, Facebook – the first U.S. company to debut with a market value of more than $100 billion – defended its pre-IPO disclosures on mobile user revenue growth. The motion cited reports that Facebook had told underwriters about lowered revenue forecasts but not amended its prospectus.
Plaintiffs "ignore that what Facebook and the underwriter defendants allegedly did both followed customary practices and did not violate any rules," according to the motion.
Reuters reported on May 22 that analysts at Morgan Stanley and other top underwriters cut their Facebook estimates just over a week before the IPO and told some institutional investors about the unusual step in conference calls.
A series of filings on Friday revealed that the Securities & Exchange Commission quizzed Facebook about the potential impact of growth in mobile users in the months leading up to the social network's initial public offering and asked the company to make the risks plainer.
"Assuming that the trend towards mobile continues and your mobile monetization efforts are unsuccessful, ensure that your disclosure fully addresses the potential consequences to your revenue and financial results rather than just stating that they 'may be negatively affected,'" the SEC wrote in a Feb. 28 letter to Facebook Chief Financial Officer David Ebersman.
In court papers filed late on Thursday before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation, Facebook and the banks said the U.S. District Court in Manhattan was the "most appropriate and convenient forum to oversee these coordinated and/or consolidated proceedings."
Consolidating the many lawsuits leveled at Facebook may help reduce distraction for a company struggling to convince Wall Street it can maintain its growth rates and persuade marketers of the benefits of advertising on a platform with 900 million users.
Internet retailers at a Chicago conference last week voiced worries about a lack of reliable data on the impact of ads on Facebook and many said they were reluctant to switch to paid advertising without that. General Motors upset some investors when it announced days before Facebook's debut that it saw little reason to pay for ads on the social network.
In the short term, however, Facebook has to fend off accusations it played favorites with disclosures and avoid potentially hefty damages from irate investors who bought into a company valued at 100 times earnings.
Facebook cited on Friday a series of news reports that described how trading errors compounded uncertainty on May 18 after the start of trading in its shares was delayed by about half an hour.
The motion cited lawsuits "alleging that technical problems and other trading-related errors affecting Facebook's stock – which Nasdaq subsequently admitted – created market uncertainty and caused investor losses."
IFR, a Thomson Reuters publication, reported on Friday that Nasdaq was still testing for the consequences of a significant change to its IPO procedures the evening before Facebook's troubled debut.
The change, which made compelling commercial sense for Nasdaq and was introduced just weeks ahead of Facebook's debut, allowed the exchange to capture orders for IPO securities from 07:00 EST on the first day of trading. The previous system only allowed Nasdaq to capture orders in a 15-minute pre-opening bookbuilding phase.
The fact that the extra time allowed the exchange to gather a greater number of orders that were then fed into the 15-minute bookbuild is significant because Nasdaq acknowledges the volume of trades during that period exposed a software glitch that gummed up IPO trading, IFR reported.
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A YEAR on from the arrest of the man accused of kidnapping and murdering Daniel Morcombe, his parents have released their 'favourite photo' of the angelic boy.


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Tom Clark
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From: August 19, 1949 – June 12, 1967
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From: June 27, 1945 – July 26, 1949
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Tom C. Clark (1899-1977), served as the United States Attorney General from 1945 to 1949 and, after appointed by President Harry S Truman, served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1949 to 1967.
Justice Clark was the only Texan to have ever served on the U.S. Supreme Court, having graduated from the University of Texas in 1922. Clark resigned prematurely from the Court in 1967 when his son Ramsey Clark became Attorney General. As a retired Justice Clark was authorized to preside in eleven U.S. Circuits and in federal district court.
Justice Clark is best known for opposing the Communists during the Cold War, as one of four appointments to the Supreme Court by President Truman who consistently ruled in favor of anticommunist policies. Personally, Justice Clark worked the hardest at improving judicial administration.[1]
Justice Clark voted with the Warren Court on criminal law, writing the majority opinion in the "exclusionary rule" case of Mapp v. Ohio. Justice Clark also wrote the opinion invalidating daily Bible readings in public schools in Abington School District v. Schempp.
President Truman became angry at Justice Clark when he voted against Truman's seizure of the steel mills in Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer, despite Truman's impression that Clark supported as Attorney General the legality of the seizure.


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Having knitted, painted and stitched my way through early life, I studied for the City & Guilds Creative Embroidery Certificates and the Diploma in Stitched Textiles after my children started school. Since graduating in 1999 I have exhibited with textile groups and mixed craft guilds, written for stitch magazines, developed my career as a speaker and qualified as a quilt judge under the QGBI training scheme; I am also currently the Newsletter Editor for Region 15E.
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BANGKOK – The price of oil fell below US$95 a barrel Wednesday as traders awaited the latest U.S. government report on energy supplies.
Benchmark oil for August delivery was down 74 cents to $94.58 per barrel at midday Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose 14 cents to end at $95.32 a barrel on Tuesday
Carl Larry of Oil Outlooks and Opinions said in a commentary that he expects to see a drop in crude supplies when the U.S. Energy Department issues its weekly report on oil and gasoline supplies later in the day. The nation's supply of crude oil is near a record level, while gasoline supplies remain high because of tepid demand.
"Yes, the market seems well supplied, but that's because it's well under normal demand," Larry said.
Despite ample supplies, traders have voiced concerns about the escalating civil war in Syria, which could disrupt Middle East production and distribution, as well as the temporary closure of two major oil pipelines in Canada due to damage probably caused by heavy flooding.
Brent crude, used to set prices for oil used by many U.S. refineries to make gasoline, fell 36 cents at $100.90 a barrel.
In other energy futures trading on the Nymex:
— Natural gas rose 0.7 cent to $3.654 per 1,000 cubic feet.
— Heating oil fell 1.6 cents to $2.843 a gallon.
— Wholesale gasoline dropped 1.8 cents to $2.706 a gallon.


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Now Foods 100% Pure Evening Primrose Oil 4 oz NOW Foods Evening Primrose Oil (EPO) is an all-natural vegetable oil derived from Evening Primrose seeds. NOW Foods Evening Primrose Oil is pressed at a low temperature to obtain a pure, natural, virgin oil without the use of solvents, fillers or preservatives. Native Americans valued Evening Primrose as an herbal treatment for a variety of ailments. NOW Foods Evening Primrose Oil contains essential fatty acids (EFA's) that support body tissues, including skin. NOW Foods Evening Primrose Oil combined with zinc may be helpful for a healthy complexion. Gently massage NOW Foods Evening Primrose Oil into your skin to ease dryness or skin irritation.NOW Foods Evening Primrose Oil is rich in Gamma Linolenci Acid (GLA), and has been used historically to help promote healthy, glowing skin. Each 1 ml of NOW Foods Evening Primrose Oil contains 80-100 mg of GLA - an essential fatty acid that can nourish and protect healthy skin cells. NOW Foods Evening Primrose Oil is a pure and natural virgin oil that is pressed and expelled at cold temperatures.
Now Foods 100% Pure Evening Primrose Oil 4 oz 100% Pure Now Foods 100% Pure Evening Primrose Oil 4 oz GLA and Fatty Acids for a healthy, vibrant complexion Now Foods 100% Pure Evening Primrose Oil 4 oz How is your Super Primrose processed, and is it hexane-free? Now Foods 100% Pure Evening Primrose Oil 4 oz NOW Super Primrose is extracted by a natural mechanical method (expeller pressed) without the use of hexane or other chemical solvents. Super Primrose is a more potent, concentrated form of Evening Primrose Oil. Evening Primrose Oil is a good source of gamma linolenic acid (GLA), an Omega-6 essential fatty acid that imparts important health benefits.
Now Foods 100% Pure Evening Primrose Oil 4 oz Primrose oil is valued for its gamma–linolenic acid (GLA; 18:3 omega-6) content. GLA is claimed to be effective in reducing inflammation and treating atopic eczema, diabetic neuropathy and certain cancers (McDonald and Fitzpatrick, 1998). GLA rich oils are effective in the treatment of cardiovascular disease, age related diseases and alcoholism (Broadhurst and Winther, 2000). In our diets, GLA is obtained from the conversion of the dietary precursor linoleic acid via the action of delta-6-desaturase. However, impairment of the delta-6-desaturase activity may result in the functional deficiency of GLA and leads to pathogenesis associated with inflammatory, autoimmune and other diseases (Wu and Meydani, 1996). Supplementation with GLA helps in alleviating some of the symptoms of the above health conditions. At NOW Foods, Primrose oil is analyzed for its GLA content by performing gas chromatography of methyl esters of fatty acids. NOW uses this method to confirm the identity of Primrose Oil by its unique fatty acid profile and measure the amount of GLA present in it. This is achieved by separating GLA from other fatty acids especially Linoleic and Linolenic acids. Linoleic and Linolenic acids are also present in common oils such as soybean oil, flax oil and walnut oil but GLA is unique to Primrose and some other special oils. The GLA content is accurately measured by using internal standards technique. All these steps are taken to assure that our customers get what they are buying Primrose oil for: Authentic Primrose Oil and GLA content more than 9%.
What are essential oils? Now Foods 100% Pure Evening Primrose Oil 4 oz Essential Oils are the naturally occurring volatile oils obtained by steam distillation or cold pressing (expression), having the characteristic aroma of the plant part from which it was derived. These 100% pure oils are "neat", meaning they have not been processed, diluted or manipulated in any way with solvents or other additives. Although a particular species of plant harvested and distilled for its essential oil during a particular growing season in a specific region may produce a fragrance that differs from the same species grown in a different region, many of the main chemical markers and physical specifications may be very similar. NOW's citrus fruit essential oils are 100% cold pressed. NOW's other essential oils are typically 100% steam distilled.
Do essential oils have a grading system to tell me which is better? Now Foods 100% Pure Evening Primrose Oil 4 oz There is no official grading system that grades essential oils as A, B, C or Therapeutic grade. All NOW 100% pure essential oils are accurately labeled as such and are the highest purity and quality available.
Are NOW essential oils pure or do they have anything added to them? Now Foods 100% Pure Evening Primrose Oil 4 oz All of NOW's 100% pure essential oils are labeled as such. They also sell clearly labeled oil blends that are formulated with essential oils or absolute extracts and another oil as a base, usually pure grapeseed oil.
Now Foods 100% Pure Evening Primrose Oil 4 oz Natural Essential Oils by their very nature will vary slightly from season to season. NOW allows nature to take its course and does not add isolated compounds to the oil to try to standardize the naturally occurring variations of a particular oil. NOW takes both the organoleptic (sight, smell and taste) and chemical properties into account when selecting and testing NOW essential oils.
Steam distillation is a three-step process comprised of the following:
Now Foods 100% Pure Evening Primrose Oil 4 oz The plant material is placed on a screen in a steam still. Steam from a boiler is introduced under the screen where the plant material is held. The steam vaporizes the essential oil in the plant material. Both steam and oil vapor rise to a condenser. Now Foods 100% Pure Evening Primrose Oil 4 oz The steam and oil are condensed to a liquid, and fed to a receiving vessel. Now Foods 100% Pure Evening Primrose Oil 4 oz The essential oil rises to the top of the liquid in the receiving vessel. It is separated from the condensed steam liquid (water or hydrosols). The water may be returned to the boiler and reboiled into steam. Cold Pressing is a four-step process comprised of the following: The whole fruit is scarified, which means the peel or rind is mechanically pierced to open the sacs containing the essential oil. The whole fruit is then pressed which squeezes out the juice and oil. The oil and juice, which contains the peel and other fruit solids, are centrifuged to separate the liquids and solids. The oil liquid layer is then separated from the juice liquid layer. NOW's Mission The NOW mission is - To provide value in products and services that empower people to lead healthier lives. NOW Foods is an award-winning and highly respected manufacturer of vitamins, minerals, dietary supplements and natural foods.
In 1948, with the natural food and supplement industry in its infancy, entrepreneur Paul Richard paid $900 for the purchase of Fearn Soya Foods—a Chicago based manufacturer of grain and legume-based products. This began a six-decade legacy of providing health-seeking consumers with high-quality, affordable nutrition products.
History of NOW In 1968, NOW Foods was founded under the belief that good health was not a luxury available only to the wealthy. For the past forty years, NOW has made it their life's work to offer health food and nutritional supplements of the highest quality, at prices that are fair and affordable to all those who seek them. Today, NOW Foods is one of the top-selling brands in health foods stores, an award-winning manufacturer, a respected advocate of the natural product industry, and a leader in the fields of nutritional science and methods development. And while NOW has grown considerably over the past four decades, one thing has never changed – NOW's commitment to providing products and services that empower people to lead healthier lives.
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Customer Focused and Information Driven - NOW believes that their products, services, and the decisions they make should be primarily influenced by the desires and needs of NOW customers. The decisions that NOW makes should be based on accurate information and therefore NOW places a high value on knowledge and learning within their organization. Quality and Value Oriented - Acting in the best interest of NOW customers, NOW endeavors to produce the highest quality products at competitive prices. NOW's first priority is to maintain quality where it counts the most – in the products. NOW's exceptional cost-conscious team of employees then focuses their energies on driving costs down. Nurturing this competency of value drives NOW's ability to provide high quality products at the very best prices. Natural is Better - NOW is convinced that natural products are better than their synthetic counterparts and produce better results in human health. Therefore, wherever possible, NOW strives to provide products that contain natural ingredients because they are better for their customers. NOW Science NOW's experienced professional and technical staff formulate their products to be of the highest quality. They have a group of biochemists, chemists, nutritionists, and food technologists who review current science and nutritional parameters, and formulate their products to be effective for the intended use. NOW's structure/function claims are based on science for active ingredients, and on nutritional science for nutritional content. Serving sizes are based on doses from clinical studies and other published data. Their contemporary formulas are designed to meet the health and wellness needs of today's consumers. NOW uses ingredients that have been tested for effectiveness in clinical trials and laboratory studies.
The heart of NOW's science is third party independent research. They investigate and review clinical studies and other lab studies conducted on their ingredients and their formulas. Best science is used to support best formulations which lead to best quality.
NOW's products are constantly being tested in clinical trials conducted at top universities and research centers around the country and in various parts of the world. Their products are being tested to determine such things as effectiveness for joint support, quality of life for cancer patients, cardiovascular support, and athletic endurance. Effective products mean health and wellness benefits, which mean quality.
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MODESTO . (AP) — Modesto police have shot and killed an elderly man they say held his wife hostage at their home during an overnight standoff with officers.
Lt. Rick Armendariz says a SWAT team entered the home around 4 a.m. Thursday to rescue the woman, and shot her husband after he aimed a handgun at them. The woman had been assaulted before the standoff, and police were concerned about her health.
Neither the man nor his wife, both in their 80s, has been identified. The woman was taken to a hospital. Her condition was not immediately known.
The standoff began around 6 p.m. the previous evening after police were called to the home on a report of domestic violence.
Armendariz said the man had a handgun and was despondent and not listening to officers' commands.


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CHANGING FACES: French jeweler Repossi has enlisted Norwegian model Iselin Steiro as the face of its first print advertising campaign in two years. Photographed by David Sims and styled by Joe McKenna, the campaign consists of seven portraits combined in color or black-and-white to make up four separate double-page spreads.
The ads are to break in the February issue of Vogue Paris and the upcoming editions of Purple, Self Service, Gentlewoman, Love and i-D magazines, a spokeswoman for the Place Vendôme jeweler said.
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Australian height safety provider, Roofsafe Industrial Safety (RIS), has completed the construction of the Ardent Leisure concept in Gold Coast's Skypoint Climb with the help of its modern-day high rise construction team "Tarzans with smartphones".
RIS equipped skilled rope swinging construction riggers with the ability to receive smartphone or laptop instructions sent from a specially written Web-based software programme called Syncron, which allows workers on field and in remote locations to downloaded information instantly through the use of smartphones or PCs and access it wherever and whenever needed.
Some of its other features include: customisable security levels to individual specific operations and usage, as well as access by any person – from senior management or site supervisor to the individual on site.
The completion of the concept has enabled the Skypoint Climb to nab the 2012 New Tourism Development award, making it eligible for the upcoming National Tourism Awards.
The Syncron safety program was recognised by SkyPoint commercial operations general manager, Paul Callander, following the announcement of SkyPoint Climb as the annual award winner for New Tourism Development at the recent Queensland Tourism Awards Gala dinner.
Callander said Ardent Leisure selected RIS to build Australia's highest tourist climb only after talking to several major construction companies who were keen to take on the challenge.
"We realised we had to find a suitable partner that possessed both the technical competence to design and build the structure, and place a large emphasis on safety, given construction workers were required to hang off ropes and harnesses 270 meters above ground," he said.
Callander claimed Ardent proceeded with the implementation of the RIS Syncron process as it represented a different approach to both safety and statutory compliance that was comprehensive, efficient and practical.
According to RIS managing director, Michael Bermejo, the project was a "perfect fit" for its Syncron Safety System.
"The team at RIS were confident that the Syncron system was the only way that Ardent's standards and requirements could be met on this complex project because of the extensive development work we had already undertaken over the years," Bermejo said.


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Getting started in archaeology: volunteering and studying as a part-time mature student
I'm going to explain how and why I came into archaeology (which will discuss volunteering and studying as a part-time mature student), and why I went into the field of early medieval archaeology. I hope this will show the positive effects of history and archaeology in schools, the role of museums in stimulating interest, and the significance of public access to archaeology. It will also hopefully provide some insight into the value of education, and the challenges of studying archaeology as a mature student.


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Hamilton shrinks accountability partner's role
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Josh Hamilton's days of having an accountability partner who is constantly by his side are over. For 2014, the Angels' outfielder has, as he put it, "downsized the role," going with someone who will be with him only on the road and who will not dress for games as an additional coach.
"It's time to cut the cord a little bit," Hamilton said. "I don't really use it for home games. I go to the park, I do what I need to do, I know what I need to do, and I have my family. That was one of the main reasons."
When Hamilton got back into baseball in 2007, Johnny Narron served in that role. In February 2012, three months after Narron took the job as Brewers hitting coach -- and less than a month after Hamilton's step-father backed out in order to be with his family -- Shayne Kelley stepped in.
Kelley was employed by the Rangers and the Angels and was with Hamilton at virtually all times during the 2012 and '13 regular seasons. But now, given Hamilton's decision to limit the role, the two sides felt it would be best for Kelley to move on to something else.
"Shayne loves sports and stuff," Hamilton said. "We talked about it and figured it would be better for him to pursue whatever he wants to do."
Taking Kelley's place on a part-time basis will be Boyd Bassham, whom Hamilton knows from his church in Texas. Bassham will fly to road games from his Dallas-area home, continue with the team to any other city they visit on the trip, then return home when the Angels return to Southern California.
Bassham will attend all road games except those in Arlington and in Houston. Chad Harrington, who has known Hamilton for five years and, as Hamilton said, "loves me a lot," will step in for games in Texas.
Both men will continue to handle Hamilton's meal money, and neither is all that interested in baseball, which Hamilton considers a good thing. Most importantly, Hamilton -- now 32 and eight years removed from being sidelined because of harrowing addictions to drugs and alcohol -- feels he has come a long enough way.
"You don't say you don't need it, but I have other people in my life to pick it up -- whether it be [wife] Katie or just spiritual mentors," Hamilton said. "And Boyd, he doesn't know anything about sports. He knows about baseball, he knows who I am and he knows what I do, but it's going to be more of a spiritual thing."
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Farmers Markets Could Generate Tens of Thousands of New Jobs with Modest Federal Support, New Report Finds
They're Growing Nationally, but Federal Policies Favoring Industrial Agriculture Hold Them Back
WASHINGTON - Over the last several decades, thousands of farmers markets have been popping up in cities and towns across the country, benefiting local farmers, consumers and economies, but they could be doing a lot better, according to a report released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). What's holding farmers markets back? Federal policies that favor industrial agriculture at their expense.
"On the whole, farmers markets have seen exceptional growth, providing local communities with fresh food direct from the farm," said Jeffrey O'Hara, the author of the report and an economist with UCS's Food and Environment Program. "But our federal food policies are working against them. If the U.S. government diverted just a small amount of the massive subsidies it lavishes on industrial agriculture to support these markets and small local farmers, it would not only improve American diets, it would generate tens of thousands of new jobs."
UCS released the report just a few days before the 12th annual U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Farmers Market Week, which starts on Sunday, August 7. According to the report, "Market Forces: Creating Jobs through Public Investment in Local and Regional Food Systems," the number of farmers markets nationwide more than doubled between 2000 and 2010 jumping from 2,863 to 6,132, and now more than 100,000 farms sell food directly to local consumers.
All that growth happened with relatively little help. Last year, for example, the USDA spent $13.725 billion in commodity, crop insurance, and supplemental disaster assistance payments mostly to support large industrial farms, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The amount the agency spent that year to support local and regional food system farmers? Less than $100 million, according to USDA data.
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In 2007, the most recent USDA figure, direct agricultural product sales amounted to a $1.2 billion-a-year business, and most of that money recirculates locally. "The fact that farmers are selling directly to the people who live nearby means that sales revenue stays local," O'Hara said. "That helps stabilize local economies."
Keeping revenues local also can mean more job opportunities. Last summer, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asked Congress to set a goal in the 2012 Farm Bill of helping at least 100,000 Americans to become farmers by, among other things, providing entrepreneurial training and support for farmers markets. O'Hara's report takes up Vilsack's challenge and argues that supporting local and regional food system expansion is central to meeting that goal.
In the report, O'Hara identified a number of initiatives the federal government could take to encourage new farmers and the growth of farmers markets in the upcoming Farm Bill. For example, the report called on Congress to:
- support the development of local food markets, including farmers markets and farm-to-school programs, which can stabilize community-supported markets and create permanent jobs. For example, the report found that the Farmers Market Promotion Program could create as many as 13,500 jobs nationally over a five-year period, if reauthorized, by providing modest funding for 100 to 500 farmers markets per year.
- level the playing field for farmers in rural regions by investing in infrastructure, such as meat-processing or dairy-bottling facilities, which would help meat, dairy and other farmers produce and market their products to consumers more efficiently. These investments could foster competition in food markets, increase product choice for consumers, and generate jobs in the community.
- allow low-income residents to redeem food nutrition subsidies at local food markets to help them afford fresh fruits and vegetables. Currently, not all markets are able to accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
"Farmers at local markets are a new variety of innovative entrepreneurs, and we need to nurture them," said O'Hara. "Supporting these farmers should be a Farm Bill priority."
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Cyber criminals could be raking in millions of dollars using a Bitcoin-mining botnet called ZeroAccess, according to newly released data from network security company Fortinet. The company found that ZeroAccess -- also used for click fraud -- was the No. 1 security threat during the first quarter of this year. Cyber scammers have seemingly been unable to resist the allure of the soaring value of the digital currency, which exceeded $200 a pop this week.
Meanwhile, Android remains a ripe target for bad guys. Fortinet observed that two new adware variants targeting the platform, Android.NewyearL.B and Android.Plankton.B, climbed the watch list in the past 90 days.
New ZeroAccess infections have steadily grown since the beginning of the year, according to FortiGuard Labs, which has monitored the malware since last August. Most recently, researchers witnessed a whopping 100,000 new infections per week and almost 3 million unique IP addresses reporting infections. In the past 90 days alone. The owners of ZeroAccess have sent their infected hosts 20 software updates, according to Richard Henderson, security strategist and threat researcher for Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.
According to Fortinet, "the value of the decentralized, open source-based digital currency continues to skyrocket, which likely means the amount of money being made by ZeroAccess is in the millions of dollars or more."
The company estimated that ZeroAccess "may be generating its owners up to $100,000 per day in fraudulent advertising revenue alone."
Henderson said that as Bitcoin's popularity and value increases, more botnet owners will likely attempt to use their botnets to turn target devices into zombie miners or to disrupt the Bitcoin market.
Kaspersky, in fact, reported that scammers have launched an ongoing social engineering campaign via Skype, sending messages to contacts containing links to malware-download sites. Once the malware is on the victim's machine, it usurps the PC's processing power to mine Bitcoins. The initial dropper detected by Kaspersky is Trojan.Win32.Jorik.IRCbot.xkt.
Meanwhile, online Bitcoin storage service Instawallet revealed this week that its database has been breached and perpetrators made off with an unspecified number of Bitcoins. Separately, Tokyo-based exchange Mt. Gox issued a statement Wednesday saying it has been targeted with ongoing DDoS attacks, which resulted in trading lags, 502 errors, and users' inability to access their accounts.
As for the two new Android variants Newyear and Plankton, they're advertising kits that possibly come from the same author but are "being maintained separately in order to generate more infections," said David Maciejak, senior researcher for Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.
Both pieces of malware are embedded into various applications and are capable of displaying ads, tracking users through the phone's unique IMEI number, and modifying the phone's desktop.
"The surge in Android adware ... suggests that someone or some group has been able to monetize these infections, most likely through illicit advertising affiliate programs," said Guillaume Lovet, senior manager at FortiGuard Labs.
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Timi Yuro
Top Songs
- I Apologize
- Smile
- Hurt
- What's a Matter Baby (Is It Hurting You)
- Make the World Go Away
- She Really Loves Me
- Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Live Albums
About Timi Yuro
"The little girl with the big voice," Timi Yuro was America's finest white soul singer of the 1960s. Her million-selling debut single, "Hurt," introduced a performer of such profound poignancy and depth that many listeners assumed she was a man, an African-American, or both, and while Yuro never again achieved the same commercial heights, her finest records deserve mention in the same breath as Aretha Franklin, Irma Thomas, and the other soul queens of the era. Born Rosemarie Timotea Aurro in Chicago on August 4, 1940, she was the product of an Italian-American family that owned a local restaurant; as a child she received voice lessons, and according to legend, her nanny also snuck her into the Windy City's legendary blues clubs, where Timi (a childhood nickname) witnessed life-altering live appearances by singers Dinah Washington and Mildred Bailey. After adopting the phonetic spelling of their surname, the Yuro family relocated to Los Angeles in 1952, where Timi studied under voice coach Dr. Lillian Goodman. By the middle of the decade, Yuro was performing in nightclubs, much to the chagrin of her parents. However, her subsequent performances at their Hollywood restaurant Alvoturnos would not only pull back the eatery from the brink of bankruptcy, but vault it into the ranks of Tinseltown's hottest destinations.
A late 1959 Alvoturnos performance convinced Liberty Records talent scout Sonny "Confidential" Knight to recommend Yuro to label head Al Bennett, who immediately offered the singer a recording contract. But Yuro found Liberty's choice of material so frustrating that after months of recording lightweight demos ill-matched to her resonant, commanding voice, she crashed a 1961 label board meeting, vowing to Bennett and his colleagues to tear up her contract if they did not let her cut more appropriate material. She then performed an a cappella reading of the 1954 Roy Hamilton R&B hit "Hurt," so impressing the Liberty brass that in June 1961 Yuro entered the studio with producer Clyde Otis to record the song for posterity. A remarkably mature and assured debut record, "Hurt" peaked at number four on the Billboard pop charts that autumn, in addition to reaching number 22 on the R&B charts. No doubt viewers on both sides of the color line were shocked when Yuro's accompanying television appearances revealed this deeply emotional ballad was the work of a 20-year-old white woman less than five feet tall. Her follow-up single, a cover of the Charlie Chaplin composition "Smile," climbed to the number 42 spot in late 1961, and Liberty wrapped up the year with the release of "I Believe," a one-off effort pairing the singer with pop heartthrob Johnnie Ray.
Yuro spent early 1962 opening for Frank Sinatra on a brief tour of Australia. While the exposure no doubt boosted her profile, it was instrumental in crystallizing the growing public perception that she was more a cabaret performer than a soul singer, an image that was further established with her fourth single, a revival of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" that went only as high as number 66 on the pop charts but cracked the easy listening Top 20. And despite its title, Yuro's sophomore LP, Soul!, proved to be a collection of standards, although she returned to her R&B roots with the superb Drifters homage "Count Everything." During sessions for her next effort, "What's a Matter Baby," producer Otis abruptly quit Liberty, and the masters were handed to his interim replacement, Phil Spector. The completed single bears all the hallmarks of the classic Spector sound, from its elegant string arrangement to its insistent rhythm to Yuro's righteously indignant vocal, and would prove her biggest hit since "Hurt," reaching number 12 on the pop charts and number 16 on its R&B counterpart. The team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David penned Yuro's next single, "The Love of a Boy," which climbed to number 44 in early 1963. Its follow-up, "Insult to Injury," went no higher than number 81 when it hit radio a few months later.
Following Ray Charles' successful embrace of country & western material, Yuro next covered Hank Cochran's "Make the World Go Away," scoring her last significant U.S. chart hit when the single reached number 24 on the pop charts and number eight on the easy listening chart. An album of country covers, also titled Make the World Go Away, yielded two more minor hits -- "Gotta Travel On" and "Permanently Lonely" -- and in the wake of 1964's "Should I Ever Love Again," Yuro cut ties with Liberty, signing to Mercury to release "If," which stalled at number 120. Her third Mercury effort, a rendition of Roy Hamilton's "You Can Have Him," was her only release on the label to crack the Hot 100, limping to the number 96 slot in early 1965. Teddy Randazzo authored Yuro's next release, the sublime "Get Out of My Life," and while the record was a commercial stiff, its flip side, "Can't Stop Running Away," would later resurface as a favorite of Britain's Northern soul community. Yuro returned to her Italian origins with the 1965 release "Ti Credo," recorded for entry in Italy's annual San Remo Festival. Her profile back home in the U.S. was by now virtually nonexistent, however, and subsequent Mercury releases including 1966's "Don't Keep Me Lonely Too Long" and the next year's bluesy cover of Johnny "Guitar" Watson's "Cuttin' In" went nowhere.
Yuro finally returned to Liberty in early 1968, traveling to Britain to cut her proposed comeback single, "Something Bad on My Mind." The finished product was her strongest release in some time, but went nowhere. Her breathtaking theme song to the Douglas Sirk film Interlude followed, and met a similarly grim fate (although Morrissey and Siouxie Sioux covered the tune a quarter century later); "It'll Never Be Over for Me" also stiffed, but also became a Northern soul perennial, with original copies changing hands for over 100 pounds a copy. A concert LP, Live at PJ's, was scheduled for release in the summer of 1969, but withdrawn just days prior to hitting retail. Yuro again left Liberty soon after, this time relocating to Las Vegas and starting a family. She performed only sporadically in the decade to follow, briefly resurfacing in 1975 on the short-lived Playboy label with "Southern Lady," which stalled at the number 108 spot. For Willie Mitchell's Frequency imprint, Yuro cut a stunning cover of Toussaint McCall's "Nothing Takes the Place of You" in 1979. A year later, she was diagnosed with throat cancer, but recovered to cut several LPs for the Dutch market as well as 1982's Timi Yuro Today, produced and financed by longtime friend Willie Nelson. Two years later she was forced to undergo a tracheotomy operation, effectively ending her singing career. She died March 30, 2004, at the age of 63. ~ Jason Ankeny
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BORNAugust 4, 1941


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By Kris Voakes
The last time Inter lost 15 league games in a season, Sir Alex Ferguson was six years old. Now, as the football world pays tribute to the retiring Manchester United manager, the Nerazzurriare busy mourning one of the most humiliating campaigns in their history.
Andrea Stramaccioni has spent the past few weeks decrying his side's bad fortune, and claimed after Inter's 3-1 home defeat to Lazio on Wednesday that a second half penalty miss "summed up our season." But while the 37-year-old has certainly been dealt a rough hand in his first full term as coach, the fact that there will be no European football next season for a club which won the biggest continental prize of all just three short years ago speaks volumes about where they are as a collective right at this moment.
Injuries have shorn Inter of key players at crucial times. With no Diego Milito, Antonio Cassano and Rodrigo Palacio available, Tommaso Rocchi last night led a forlorn fight against former club Lazio as the Nerazzurri went down 3-1 to end their hopes of Europa League football. But there were elements of self-imposed agony about the whole occasion too.
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Samir Handanovic, by far and away the club's Player of the Season in most people's eyes, flapped at an Antonio Candreva cross, palming it into his own net after a mix-up with Andrea Ranocchia. The defender then pulled down Sergio Floccari with a typically clumsy challenge to gift Lazio a penalty. And when the home side got a spot-kick of their own after the break, Ricardo Alvarez slipped on his run-up, sending the ball flying high over the crossbar into the Curva Nord.
Having witnessed the ridiculous, Lazio contributed the sublime when Ogenyi Onazi's spectacular drive from more than 30 yards found the top corner. It summed up Inter's campaign in so many ways; this just hasn't been their season.
But Stramaccioni cannot simply put it all down to bad luck. He has certainly been severely hamstrung, but the lack of quality of some of the players at his disposal is as much a point of contention as has been the side's injury record. While the error by Handanovic was a blot on an otherwise clean copybook, those of Ranocchia and Alvarez were not.
A club which has been seeking to cut costs on the transfer market needs also to ensure that what money is spent gets used wisely. Alvarez cost over €9 million but has been afforded a full 90 minutes only eight times in two seasons, with five of those coming in the last month when few other options have been available. The Argentine has no change of pace, no real trick in his armoury and no confidence pumped into him from those around him. It sums up his Inter spell that his stand-out performance for the club, when he scored two goals as a substitute against Atalanta in April, became memorable for Inter's collapse to a 4-3 defeat from 3-1 ahead.
Ranocchia, meanwhile, has been his typical calamitous self for much of the season. There were early signs that he may adapt well to the three-man defence which saw Stramaccioni choose him alongside Walter Samuel and Juan Jesus, but that was a temporary reprieve. Having spent €15m when signing him from Genoa in January 2011, Inter have seemingly done nothing on the training ground to help him deal with his extensive technical deficiencies and regular lapses of concentration.
A succession of coaches coming and going cannot help, but even with Stramaccioni's input over the last year there has been no sign that Ranocchia is getting any better. Formations and personnel can be chopped and changed, but the quality and effectiveness of coaching is truly borne out in how technical issues are ironed out of players. Yet the giant defender remains proof positive that Inter have been as much at fault as the injury gods for their current malaise.
This season cannot end soon enough for Inter fans. Come next Sunday night, the curtain will come down on a rotten 12 months. But the feeling sorry for oneself and the 'What If's must stop now. Because it will take hard work and sacrifice on the training ground, even more than a change of luck, to get the Nerazzurri to where they need to be. If Stramaccioni thinks Inter can do exactly the same again but with a clean bill of health, and that that will be enough, he is in the wrong job.