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Impressive start: Falcons pull away from Chiefs
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Atlanta Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez (88) tries to evade Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Derrick Johnson (56) as he runs the ball during the first half of an NFL football game on Sunday in Kansas City, Mo. / photo: Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Tony Gonzalez boarded the first bus to Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday, eager to arrive as early as possible to start what's likely his final season in the place where it all began.
The Falcons made sure it was a happy return.
Matt Ryan threw for 299 yards and three touchdowns, one of them to the longtime Chiefs tight end late in the third quarter, and Atlanta pulled away with a dynamic second-half scoring outburst for a 40-24 season-opening victory over Kansas City.
"It's been like a homecoming for me," Gonzalez said. "I just want all the fans to know, `I love you very much and thank you for letting this day be special.'"
They didn't have much choice.
Ryan also ran for a TD, and Julio Jones caught six passes for 108 yards and two scores, both of them enjoying a Chiefs defense missing four starters due to injuries and suspension.
The highlight, though, was Gonzalez, the five-time All-Pro who spent his first 12 seasons in Kansas City. After making his TD grab, the ball squirted loose in the end zone. Ryan tracked it down and pushed it into Gonzalez's hands, and as he'd done so many times, the former college hoops player dunked the ball over the goalpost - getting mostly boos from a crowd that once cheered him.
"He's such a great part of this organization, you know, probably the greatest tight end to ever play the game," Ryan said. "I think deep down in their hearts, Kansas City fans were happy to see that one more time.
"Maybe not at the time," Ryan quickly added. "Maybe in retrospect."
The Chiefs matched Atlanta most of the first half, trailing 20-17 at the break, but a missed field goal by Ryan Succop early in the third quarter proved to be the turning point.
Atlanta scored 20 unanswered points to put the game away.
Matt Cassel threw for 258 yards and had touchdowns running and throwing, but he also fumbled deep in Kansas City territory to set up a short TD drive, and his two interceptions created short fields that the Falcons turned into field goals by Matt Bryant.
"It's only one game in a long season," Cassel said. "We obviously have to make a lot of corrections and get better as a football team. We've got to play collectively."
There was no controversy surrounding the replacement officials. Both times that referee Mike Shepherd went under the hood for a video review, the original call stood.
Jamaal Charles had 87 yards rushing, and Tony Moeaki had three catches for 37 yards, both providing a bright spot for Kansas City. The pair of them, along with safety Eric Berry, played their first regular-season games since tearing their left ACLs last season.
There were still plenty of injury woes to go along with the suspension of Pro Bowl linebacker Tamba Hali, who missed the game after violating the league's substance-abuse policy.
Starting safety Kendrick Lewis (right shoulder), cornerback Brandon Flowers (right heel) and defensive tackle Anthony Toribio (right ankle) were inactive due to injuries, and that seemed like chum in the water to one of the league's top passing offenses.
"The fact that they weren't there, really no one cares," said Chiefs coach Romeo Crennel, "because all anyone wants to know is did you win or did you lose, and we lost today."
Ryan set the tone with the Falcons' opening series, marching 80 yards behind pinpoint passing before an 8-yard pass to Jones made it 7-0 midway through the first quarter.
The teams swapped field goals before the Chiefs answered with their own TD drive.
Cassel was 4 for 4 on the series, including a 21-yard pass to Dwayne Bowe and a 22-yard TD toss to tight end Kevin Boss, who was signed in the offseason to make precisely the kind of finger-tip grabs down the seam that got him into the end zone Sunday.
The teams kept trading haymakers the rest of the half.
Ryan connected with Roddy White three times on the Falcons' ensuing drive, and a dump-off pass that Jones turned into a 14-yard score gave them the lead again. But the Chiefs had another answer when Cassel weaved his way into the end-zone from 5-yards out late in the second quarter.
Bryant added his second field goal just before half time for Atlanta, but Succop banged his own 40-yard try off the upright early in the second half, shifting the momentum for good.
The Falcons' potent passing offense marched down field, Ryan capping the drive with a 5-yard scramble for a touchdown.
Three plays later, Cassel was blindsided by John Abraham and the ball squirted loose, and Stephen Nicholas pounced on it at the 7. Ryan hit Gonzalez in the back of the end zone on the very next play for a 34-17 lead, effectively putting the game away.
For the Falcons, in the most fitting fashion possible.
"Tony Gonzalez, without a doubt, is going to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer," Atlanta coach Mike Smith said. "We knew it was going to be an emotional week for him and I'm sure he's glad it's over."
NOTES: Atlanta CB Brent Grimes left in the fourth quarter with a calf injury. ... Rookie DT Dontari Poe started in place of Toribio for Kansas City. ... Nicholas had a game-high 12 tackles, recovered a fumble, picked off a pass and had two pass deflections for Atlanta. ... Bryant finished 4 for 4 on FGs for Atlanta.
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Paradise Lost
I've written before that all of life is a quest back to Eden. That all of life a journey for a land of simple Summer eves simmering into eternity. I've written before that all of life is stumbling search to reclaim our childlike innocence.
Indeed I thought it was possible, indeed I thought I could dawdle moondrunk everlong, could climb my way back to Grace.
But that was before I'd eaten from free the Tree of Knowledge, before I'd taken that worm-riddled fruit into myself. That was before I'd happened upon the Truth. That was before I'd ventured into the Heart of Darkness and saw Man is made of, what Man is at his basest.
Wallow in the gallows mud long enough, dawdle amongst the dead — and this will happen.
Dig yourself a hole and sleep with the fleabag dogs — and this will happen.
Yet we give ourself these illusions, these false hopes. Because they are necessary. Because they give us hope, something for which to yearn. We promise ourselves blessings that we can never deliver, tithings we'll never be able to afford. Again, we do this because we must.
And very well then. This is enough for those that skate upon the surface, for those that gaze and admire and carry-on, for those that journey with hands unsullied, faces never bloodied, hearts nary-wrenched. This is enough for those content to see the world through lens of the camera and a boozehazed glare. For those that take a gander and gallop giddily on.
But then there are those that must throw themselves into the muckpainted portrait, those that dig must dig deeper and deeper still. There are those that want Truth. And so they must shovel to core.
And when they can't dig any further, when they can no longer see the sun nor bird-swarming sky, what have they found?
Truth? Or a self-shoveled Abyss?
Or shall we call them the same?
I've returned from the Land of Eagles, from the city of Fire and Worms. I've returned to the City Upon the Hill.
But the glitter is a shade dimmer, the sparkle only a half-sputter.
The summerglow of the gold-faced facades dampened, the trumpet songs muffled, perhaps a bit hurt.
This is not the same Krakow I once knew.
But nor am I the same Kevin.
May 15, 2013
Reach Behind the Silverscreen and Give it a Swirl
If you live your life in a state of sustained refrainment from ever disturbing, interrupting or manipulating reality in any way, then you cannot claim to be alive. You have merely resigned yourself to your lot in life as an extra on a movie set, contentedly following your directions to never speak more than an unintelligible murmur or go off track or disturb the scene in any way — to merely serve as a background decoration, a low-paid prop granting illusory verisimilitude to someone else's grand illusion. And as such, you'll live life as a mere passing blur, an insignificant amorphous figure floating amongst a crowd of uncountably more forgettable amorphous figures. You will receive your meagre wage and not be listed in the credits. You'll try to spot yourself when the feature film rolls, and chances are your single frame was left on the cutting room floor. And that will be that, and you will one day die and no one would notice the difference. You'll be just as you were.
Think about it.
The task of the writer, the artist, the musician, the creator — which is to say all of sentient humankind — is first and foremost to interrupt reality in some way. To make waves, to stir up the dust, to illuminate new possibilities, new modes of being, existing, thinking, feeling, to reconfigure the established order, and when a new order arises, to destroy that as well. For order leads to predictability which leads to numbing of the soul. Indeed, the task of mankind is to breath life into the dead and dying and to suffocate that which deadens.
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So. This is how the sun rears its arse, this is how the madness happens.
Yes, you hear the acapella gypsy music, drum-thumping melodic, emanating form an unmarked cellar. And yes, you wander down for a curious gander. There, the sun doesn't shine. But there the madness dances.
Wide-eyed, you're invited into the inner sanctum of the Albanian Hunting Society, to their impromptu old-man Balkan fiesta. Gold-toothed and merry, they regale with tales of wild bores slain and the women they've claimed and the ways of this wild wild world, the compass points in this land unnavigable.
Never mind the world upstairs, never mind the unwinding of time up there, they tell you. And yes, they feed you brandy and nary let your glass run dry. And they chortle and swig and point you some strange way.
And then you find yourself somewhere beyond possibility. A dual daycare/tattoo parlor. Surrounded by a gaggle of five-year olds giggling at your grimaces of shut-eyed open-mouthed pain as their half-baked teacher inks your milky skin.
Clockspun hours and a pint or two later, you've got a Google image search compass scrawled upon your arm. Directions and polarities and pointers for those long days of sun-drenched disorientation, those sun-slugging summer days to come.
And as the sun rests its lazy arse, yes, you think, this how the madness happens.
February 17, 2013
In Bleeding Bits
There on the stark silent streets of Tirana, I lost my only mind. There on the lunar streets of Tirana, I gave it to the laugh-gasping wind. And when you see the mange-mouthed street dog gnawing on it fierce and starving, give him a wink and keep shuffling. He means no harm. And when you see the soot-stained song birds pecking at it, hum them an ancient dirge. Not for you they have forgotten how to sing.
Yeah, the fridge is empty, the bottles are dry, the weekend is over. I'm a few quid poorer, but richer for it still. A trickle of blood drips from my brow, a splotch of blood gathers on my hand. Yes, I bleed and yes I heal. Because this is how we mumblestumble towards redemption, this how we growl at the cloud-clad sun. Grand, yeah, this is how was stare hollow-eyed hurt at the passing moons and this is how we mad-stagger silent towards a violent Spring.
Stay warm, now, Stay golden and strong. The months are dwindling now and soon you shall breath easy and long. The clocks will spin and you will sin and soon this madness shall become music, this cacophony shall turn to song.March on, Kevin, weary and awake. March on for those that slumber and those cannot sleep. March on, Kevin, never bother looking back.


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Updated: 04/27/2008 - Results from the 44th Annual Women's Tournament and the 29th Annual Men's Tournament
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Updated: 04/19/2008 - The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Cincinnati Reds 5-3 in extra innings to guarentee a win in the series and a winning 9-game road trip.
Posted: 04/18/2008 - The Milwaukee Brewers have promoted Mitch Stetter from AAA Nashville, hoping to ease the load on lefty reliever Brian Shouse. Shouse had been the only left-hander in the Brewers bullpen.
Updated: 04/18/2008 - Prince Fielder hit his first home run of the season, a two-run drive off Brad Thompson in the 10th inning, to give the Milwaukee Brewers a 5-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals Thursday in St. Louis.
Posted: 04/18/2008 - Guard Ramon Sessions is providing the Milwaukee Bucks with a bright spot in their rough times. Sessions has been named the Eastern Conference rookie of the month for April.
Posted: 04/18/2008 - New Milwaukee Bucks general manager John Hammond says he had little choice but to make Thursday's coaching change, no matter how admirable Larry Krystkowiak is as a person and how much work he's put into the job.
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Updated: 04/17/2008 - The Green Bay Packers will retire Brett Favre's No. 4 during the season opener against the Minnesota Vikings on Sept. 8. Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy says the legendary quarterback's number would be retired in a ceremony at Lambeau Field during the Monday night game.
Posted: 04/17/2008 - The Brewers get another chance Thursday afternoon to beat the Cardinals on their home field in St. Louis. The Cardinals lead the Central Division with an 11-4 record after beating the Brewers the past two nights.
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Posted: 04/17/2008 - Brewers reliever Derrick Turnbow is upset over being assigned to what he says is a "mop up" role in the bullpen. Turnbow has asked his agent to talk to general manager Doug Melvin to find out what the Brewers plans are for him, although he says he's not asking for a trade.
Updated: 04/17/2008 - Other cities with sports teams want to claim a moniker the city of Green Bay has used for decades. Titletown USA has long been part of Green Bay's fabric.
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Posted: 04/16/2008 - The Milwaukee Brewers send Carlos Villanueva to the hill Wednesday night for the second of three games against St. Louis. The Cardinals have won six in a row at home since losing on opening day.
Posted: 04/16/2008 - Jeff Weaver would get a $1.25 million salary if added to the Milwaukee Brewers' major league roster, and he would have the chance to earn $2.75 million in performance bonuses. Weaver agreed Tuesday to a minor league contract that pays him $12,000 a month.
Posted: 04/16/2008 - Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Gabe Kapler is missing his second straight start Wednesday. He bruised his right shoulder leaping at the wall for a batting practice fly ball Tuesday and then was held out of Tuesday night's game.
Posted: 04/16/2008 - A wolf expert in the state Department of Natural Resources says he doesn't agree with this week's vote by outdoor enthusiasts in favor of a wolf hunt, at least not yet. That vote was taken during the annual conservation hearings held in each county by the DNR and the Wisconsin Conservation Congress.
Posted: 04/15/2008 - Outdoor enthusiasts at Wisconsin's annual conservation hearings think wolves that were once nearly extinct should be hunted again. And they like the idea in a big way.
Posted: 04/15/2008 - Veteran right-hander Jeff Weaver could restore some depth to the Milwaukee Brewer's pitching rotation. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says the Brewers are close to a deal with Weaver.
Posted: 04/15/2008 - The Milwaukee Brewers begin a three-game series in St. Louis Tuesday night during their three-city road trip. Last time the teams met, Brewers manager Ned Yost and Cardinals manager Tony La Russa got into it.
Updated: 04/15/2008 - The Green Bay Packers will open the 2008 season at home on Monday, September 8 against the Minnesota Vikings. They will also host Dallas and Indianapolis, make a trip to Jacksonville in December before closing the season at home against the Lions.
Updated: 04/15/2008 - They have something brewing in Marathon. The baseball team is coming off a 19-4 season and return a big core of last year's team.
Posted: 04/14/2008 - One-time minor league manager Gabe Kapler has turned into a major league hassle for Brewers opponents. Kapler homered for the second straight day, doubled twice and drove in three runs to help the Milwaukee Brewers beat the New York Mets 9-7 Sunday.


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By Don Wooten
January of 1986 was an unsettling time for me. Several friends commented on my subdued and abstracted behavior. I'm sure a least a part of it had to do with a radical change in my method of addressing the world. I started writing this newspaper column.
Last Sunday ended 27 years of weekly essays for the Rock Island Argus and 17 for the Dispatch. Today, I embark on year 28, with column number 1,415 (Argus) and 888 (Dispatch). My later entry into the latter paper was a testament to its more exacting standards.
Two years ago, I wrote along these same lines, looking back over a quarter century in the media, primarily the electronic kind, along with excursions into politics and education. To quote from that previous column: reaching such markers in time prompts me to reflect on the experiences which have brought me to this day. At my age, I find there is a lot more in memory than in future prospects. Looking ahead only brings the exit sign into sharper focus.
Riffling through the past this time, I have have been reflecting on my long, if largely peripheral, involvement with the press. I started early, around the first grade, reading two daily Memphis newspapers, the morning Commercial Appeal and the afternoon Press-Scimitar. I confess that I initially focused on Alley Oop, Pete the Tramp, and the Katzenjammer Kids.
But World War II brought me to the front page. Because of that interest, I was tasked to cut out stories about the war, post them on the classroom bulletin board, and summarize them for my classmates. I well remember some of those accounts -- especially front-line reports by Ernie Pyle -- and can still work up indignation at the way Gen. Draza Michalovich and his Yugoslav Chetniks were betrayed by the British during that war.
Long before advancing to this exalted status in the editorial page, I spent a season as music critic for The Dispatch after writing for two other newspapers, along with a monthly jazz column for Commonweal magazine. I also did part-time work for the weekly Davenport Catholic Messenger, back in the days when it was edited by Donald McDonald and counted as a major player in the Catholic Press. with subscribers in every state in the union.
I continued to help out when Mac went on to greater things and Bud Johnson took over the operation. During one terrifying, two-week period, when Johnson was on vacation, I was tasked with getting the newspaper out on my own. I moved from compiling the Ordo and editing the rural page to handling it all: local news stories, national and regional items, headlines, page makeup, and proofreading. It gave me a deep appreciation for the hard work involved in print journalism and a deeper conviction that I was better suited for radio and television.
When I returned at last to print journalism, I wasn't sure why. I was invited to contribute a Sunday column, but to no particular purpose. Every time I asked what topics I should address, the subject was changed to word count and deadlines. Which is why I lurch about each week from the personal to the public. This lack of focus was expressed in the beginning by a "kicker" above the headline which proclaimed "And Another Thing . . ."
And so it has been: one thing after another, in no particular order of significance or interest.
But as I continue to take up valuable editorial space, It weighs on my conscience when I dawdle over personal concerns and private interests. Especially now, when we are entering what I consider a troubling, even dangerous period in our democracy.
Issues before us are profound and we begin to doubt the utility of the political assumptions we trust to resolve them: rational, democratic discourse; common purpose; strong social bonds.
I recall what happened to the Weimar Republic; the Roman republic; Athenian democracy; when stubborn, fractious citizenry gave way -- willingly, I remind you -- to the rule of one man, propelled by a self-serving elite. We have nearly despaired of democracy before (at the formation of the nation; during the Great Depression) and struggled through. Will we do it again?
We have known about our problems for a long time, but have let them fester beyond the point of simple remedies: global warming; gun control; paying for shared services through taxation; inequality in many forms, from financial to social; corrupt electoral practices; declines in quality of education and medical care: the list is long, familiar, and monotonous.
I read and think about these things through the week and follow the news closely in its various modes of transmission. But what pops into my mind late on a Wednesday night is what shows up on Sunday morning. And it's likely. not to be a illuminating critique of latest developments, but yet "Another Thing ..."
Ah well, as I have remarked in the past, it is probably unfair that I have been given this space and you have not. But life is not fair. I have had more than my share of opportunities and have been in the public eye (like a cinder, some would say) for a long time. How much longer, I cannot guess. But the exit sign is there and it gets brighter every year.
I really ought to get to work.
Don Wooten of Rock Island is a former state senator and veteran broadcaster; email@example.com.
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the 340th day of 2013. There are 25 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago:
The street crossings on Washington and Jefferson are to be taken up immediately and underlaid with sand to raise above the level of the roadway before it freezes.
1888 -- 125 years ago:
J.O. Bean, father of W.H. Bean, grocer, was accidentally thrown from his wagon near the Rock Island bridge on the Arsenal and received severe cuts and bruises on his face and body.
1913 -- 100 years ago:
Sgt. Birger F. Westergard, of the United States Marine Corps, has arrived in Rock Island to take charge of the local recruiting office.
1938 -- 75 years ago:
Five cases of diphtheria at Lincoln School prompt the city physician, Dr. Edward DeSilva, to urge parents to have their children immunized, as he fears epidemic.
1963 -- 50 years ago:
Rock Island Arsenal will have its own newspaper with the first edition scheduled to be published Friday, Dec. 13. The paper, which will carry advertising, will be published by Bawden Bros. Inc. of Davenport.
1988 -- 25 years ago:
The New Year should ring a better Quad-Cities economy, according to a survey of people in business made by First National Bank of Moline. "Based on our survey, we see a bright outlook for 1989," said Richard M. Bishop, the bank's president.
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Life as a serial entrepreneur was on the agenda at the latest Lakeside Business Briefing in May, when guest speaker Sir Peter Michael spoke about his experiences, linking the diverse worlds of electronics, broadcasting, Californian wines and commercial property.
Best known as a founder of Classic FM, where he was Chairman until 2008, Sir Peter made his fortune in electronics, founding the Micro Consultants Group and Quantel, before turning round Cray Electronics.
A passionate interest in fine wines encouraged him to establish his own vineyard in the Sonoma Valley, California, where the Peter Michael Winery has been producing hand-crafted wines since 1987. Among his many other interests, Sir Peter is also chairman of property fund manager, Highcross and the owner of The Vineyard at Stockcross, Newbury and Donnington Valley Hotel and Spa.
He spoke about some of the inspirations that have influenced his career, including the early Silicon Valley entrepreneurs; the excitement of being involved in the launch and development of Classic FM and the challenges facing would-be entrepreneurs.
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Funeral Services for Ellen Louise Penton, 86, of Carriere, Miss., who passed away Friday, October 26, 2012, were held Sunday, October 28, 2012, at Sones Chapel Landmark Missionary Baptist Church.
Visitation was Sunday until time of service at Sones Chapel Landmark Missionary Baptist Church.
Burial was at Sones Chapel Cemetery under the direction of McDonald Funeral Home. Bro. Jessie Johnson, Bro. Curtis Nobles, and Bro. Billy Spence officiated at the services.
A native of McNeill, Miss., Mama Weezie was the matriarch and heart of her family. She was a very active member of Sones Chapel Landmark Missionary Baptist Church, where she led her Ladies Sunday School Class. Louise devoted her talents and time as she sewed and cooked to uplift and encourage others in her community. She was a successful and respected business woman as she made her career in interior design and real estate.
She was preceded in death by: her parents, John Barney Lumpkin and Susie Spiers Lumpkin; her husband of 48 years, Aubrey M. Penton, Sr.; her children: Aubrey M. Penton, Jr., Miriam Penton Hayes Easterling, Roy A. Penton, Sr., and Baby Boy Penton; her brothers: Ulmer Lumpkin, Elmer Lumpkin, Billy Lumpkin and John Lumpkin; and her sister, Hilda Penton.
Survivors include: her daughter, Sue Spence and son-in-law, Billy Ray; her 10 grandchildren: Billy Spence, Manthie Hayes, Susan Fradella, Jonathan Spence, Stephanie Morris, Roy Penton, Jr., Kimberly Alford, Josh Spence, Daniel Penton, and Chris Penton; 20 great grandchildren; her sisters: Margie Strahan and Patricia Owen; her daughters-in-law: Dana Penton, Lisa Penton, and Anna Penton.
Contributions may be made to the Sones Chapel Landmark Missionary Baptist Church, P.O. Box 602, McNeill, MS 39457.
Obituary, register book, and driving directions can be found on the internet page, at www.mcdonaldfh.com
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Donald Ray Combs, 70, of Edmonton, Ky., passed away Friday, November 29, 2013, at the NHC Healthcare Facility in Glasgow. Born in Glasgow, he was a son of the late Rex and Laverne Greer Combs. Donald Ray was employed in construction and building maintenance and he was a veteran serving in the U.S. Army. -
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Sandi, keep your head up, you're doing awesome! Breathe, run, yoga! Positive people around, positive quotes!
ReplyDeleteI'm currently reading "Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm," by Thich Nhat Hanh. After 30 years of this battle, I'm finding the Buddhist approach very helpful. Keep going, Sandi. Never forget -DEPRESSION LIES!
ReplyDeleteTough time for me personally right now so it is perhaps serendipitous how you are bringing this topic up. I am really trying(perhaps not hard enough) but with lots of changes especially out of my comfort zone, can get overwhelming. Just read a post by Geoff Roes and he said "keep faith, practice patience, keep moving forward." A mantra I will focus on.


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Vodafone Offering iPad 2 Free To Existing Customers
Mobile phone operator Vodafone has been quite sneaky by quietly revealing that they are offering the iPad 2 (3G/ 16GB model) on a contract with no upfront cost. Now, let's not get too excited as there is a wait of four weeks due to stock levels and demand – but could the wait be worth it?
The offer is only available to existing customers, not new customers but it is still a very reasonable deal – it saves you £105 compared to when a new customer opts for the same package.
New customer iPad 2 deal totals £877 for the whole 24 months:
£27 per month: iPad 2 3G/16GB – upfront cost of £229 & 2GB monthly data allowance, 1GB Openzone Wi-Fi
Existing customer iPad 2 deal totals £768 for 24 months:
£32 per month: iPad 2 3G/16GB – FREE, 2GB monthly data allowance & 1GB Openzone Wi-Fi.
If you were to buy the iPad 2 directly from Apple or an authorised reseller and opt for the Vodafone data plan, your costs would look something like this:
iPad 2 3G/16GB = £499
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Economics and Online Dating: The Perfect Match
In the tradition of Naked Economics and The Undercover Economist, Stanford economist Paul Oyer offers a provocative, informative, and entertaining view of modern microeconomics-- using the lens of online dating.
Oyer argues that dating is all economics, having come to this conclusion once he turned his economist's eye to online dating after his own marriage ended. Oyer uses his own experiences and those of other users of dating sites to show just how modern economics works. In fact, he says, the behaviors driving online dating mimic those driving any other market--and so should be central to how business people at every level analyze their critical interactions. Oyer's take on everything from search, signaling, and cheap talk to statistical discrimination and thick markets are informative and will help anyone understand the intricacies of economics and the role they play everyday.
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- Why do some people settle for what they have while others keep going when searching for love, a new job, or the perfect house?
- What's the value in being forthcoming, not just online, but in your resume on eBay, or on Wall Street?
- How does statistical discrimination affect your car insurance, your hiring process or your paycheck?
- How can hidden information or adverse selection lead to bad dates, and used cars?
- Once you've succeeded in the online dating market, what do the economics of modern family life look like?
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Painting should be fun, intense, challenging, artistic, creative, all of these, but still fun, has anyone sold a painting they did not enjoy completing?
My tuition follow this maxim, and I do indulge my students in as much as I provide the drawing, colour palette and plan the sequence. It is true, drawing is the essential start to most paintings so in order to complete the work in a half day some transfer the drawing to their watercolour paper by tracedown. I make no apology for this!
We do from time to time have a complete painting day when we get together, have some instuction on drawing techniques, tonal values etc before lunch, then complete the painting in the afternoon. It seems to work, many of my students complete very creditable works at home, as seen in our recent group exhibition.
My week long holidays planned for 2014 will follow this sequence, drawing in the morning and painting in the afternoon, either on location (for preference) or back in the 'studio'. Weather is a factor in La Charente, it can be too hot and shade can be at a premium, or it can rain, bit like UK really!
The essential thing is to enjoy your painting, and want to do another, soon.
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TEMECULA — When it was over after Cindy Marina had set Amy Underdown one final time and Underdown put that final ball and the match away, the sophomore middle hittler crumpled to the floor.
"That last game point was amazing and chils went all through my body," said Underdown after leading Temecula Great Oak to a 3-1 victory over Temecula Valley. "I hit the floor and I was so happy."
Underdown had 12 kills and put away the final five points in a thrilling 28-26 fourth set victory that kept Great Oak (18-1, 4-0) alone atop the hotly contested Southwestern League standings.
"Last year we never beat TV," Underdown said. "I was so happy because we always lost to them in three (sets). … That was one of the best (matches) we've played."
Great Oak took the first two sets 25-18, 25-18. In the third set, Temecula Valley (10-5, 2-2) jumped out to a 21-11 lead, withstood a 9-1 rally and held on for a 25-20 victory to extend the match.
"It was a tough match," Temecula Valley senior captain Marissa Laster said. "We didn't start very well but we ended the game really solidly. That's how we should always play. That's how we should have started out this game."
That momentum carried over into the fourth match as the Golden Bears surged ahead 14-10 before Great Oak rallied for a 16-14 lead. The rest of the set went like that and it was tied at 22-22 after Laster's cut shot found an opening on the floor. A Sophia Riviere kill followed by another one by Laster brought the Golden Bears within a point of sending it to a fifth set.
But Cadie Bates brought the Wolfpack within a point and then the sophomore combination of Marina-to-Underdown brought Great Oak home.
"Cindy Marina was making some great choices with the ball that last game," Great Oak coach Mark Motluck said. "Those last six, eight points she was really, really good."
Marina, who had 32 assists, said she looked to involve Underdown and the middle hitters early in the match "so when we needed them most, they'd be ready, like Amy at the end."
Underdown, on feeds from Marina, put the ball away at 24-24, 25-25, 26-26, 27-26 and then the one that sent her joyously to the floor.
"I, obvisouly, wanted the ball," Underdown said. "Every set, I wanted it. I was getting them and I was so happy Cindy was setting me. Every point I would just get chills running through my body. 'OK, I want the next one. I want the next one.' "
"That was typical of this rivalry," Motluck said. "It was good to get that, after losint to them twice last year, it feels good to get a win on our court. We're going to have to be really, really well prepared when we (play) them on their court."
Great Oak, which may have been an early surprise, has established itself as the team to beat in league. The Wolfpack have yet to go to five sets in league play but went four with Vista Murrieta, Chaparral and now Temecula Valley.
"I'd rather be the underdog than the target," Motluck said.
Jessica Gaffney had 12 kills and five digs for Great Oak and Bailee Huizenga had 9 kills. Kelsey Bawcombe had 15 kills and 10 digs, Riviere had 13 kills and Laster had 12 for Temecula Valley (10-5, 2-2).
"It's a bummer that we kicked it in so late in the match," Laster said. "Next time around, Great Oak, we're going to give them a run for their money."
Elsewhere in the Southwestern League on Thursday night:
** Murrieta Valley ralled from 0-2 down to knock off Temecula Chaparral, winning the fifth set 15-10, dropping the Pumas to 1-3 in league. The Nighthawks are 2-2.
** Junior Amanda Pedersen-Henry had 12 kills as Vista Murrieta improved to 3-1 with a 3-0 victory over Murrieta Mesa (0-4).
Tuesday marks the end of the first round of league play with Vista Murrieta at Chaparral, Murrieta Valley at Temecula Valley and Murrieta Mesa at Great Oak. All matches are scheduled for 4:45 p.m.
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