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Undocumented Students To Pay 150 Percent Of In-State Tuition In CO; Fox Decries It As Unfair Advantage
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The Metropolitan State College of Denver recently decided to offer a special rate to undocumented students effective this fall -- a rate that is 150 percent of the resident in-state tuition -- provided students meet a series of conditions, including attending for at least three years, and graduating from, a Colorado high school. But Fox's Neil Cavuto, who repeatedly slurred these students as "illegals," and the Daily Caller's Michelle Fields argued that they are being treated better than American students.
Denver College: Mission Is To "Provid[e] Affordable, Accessible Education To All Qualified Students"
MSCD: "We Don't Deny Students An Opportunity To Get An Education At The K-12 Level, So Why Would We Continue To Create Barriers At The Higher Education Level." From a Metropolitan State College of Denver official press release:
Metropolitan State College of Denver's Board of Trustees voted at its June 7 meeting to approve the 2012-13 tuition rates for its resident and non-resident students, including the creation of an unsubsidized tuition category: Colorado High School/GED Tuition Rate. Under state law, Metro State has the authority to set tuition rates.
This special rate is for students living in the state of Colorado who through no fault of their own do not have the lawful status to be eligible for resident tuition rates. The new unsubsidized full-time rate of $3,358.30 per semester is 150 percent of tuition paid by an in-state resident plus a 10 percent fee for capital contributions. No state public benefit or subsidy will be used for this special undocumented tuition rate.
"This initiative speaks to Metro State's mission as an urban institution by providing affordable, accessible education to all qualified students," says Metro State President Stephen Jordan. "We don't deny students an opportunity to get an education at the K-12 level, so why would we continue to create barriers at the higher education level." [MSCD Press Release, 6/7/12]
Undocumented Students Wishing To Attend MSCD Under Special Rate Have To Meet Several Criteria
Among Other Things, Undocumented Students Must Provide Proof They Plan To Seek Lawful Status To Be Eligible For Reduced Tuition Rate. According to Metro State's press release, undocumented students must meet three criteria to qualify for the special tuition rate:
To be eligible for the unsubsidized tuition rate, students must meet the following criteria, beyond the existing admissions requirements: 1) attended a Colorado high school for at least three years 2) graduated from a Colorado high school or received a general equivalency diploma (GED) in this state, and 3) provides a statement that they are in good legal standing, other than their undocumented or unclassified status, and are seeking or intend to seek lawful status when eligible. [MSCD Press Release, 6/7/12]
Reduced Tuition Rate Is 150 Percent Of In-State Tuition
Undocumented Students At MSCD Will Pay 150 Percent Of In-State Tuition. As The Denver Post reported, eligible undocumented students will still pay over $1,200 more per semester than in-state students: "The new rate, which will go into effect this fall, is $3,358 per semester, which is higher than in-state students, who pay $2,152, and lower than out-of-staters, who pay $7,992." [The Denver Post, 6/8/12]
Undocumented Students Will Also Pay A 10 Percent Fee On Top Of Tuition. According to MSCD's press release:
The new unsubsidized full-time rate of $3,358.30 per semester is 150 percent of tuition paid by an in-state resident plus a 10 percent fee for capital contributions. No state public benefit or subsidy will be used for this special undocumented tuition rate. [MSCD Press Release, 6/7/12]
Only Two Percent Of MSCD Students Are From Out Of State. According to the Metropolitan State College of Denver Fact Sheet, 98 percent of MSCD's 24,000 students are in-state. In fact, 93 percent of MSCD students come from the Denver metro area. [MSCD State Legislative District Breakdown, accessed 6/11/12; MSCD Fact Sheet, accessed 6/11/12]
Colorado Law Generally Permits State Colleges To Dictate Tuition Rates
In 2010, The Colorado Legislature Confirmed That An Institution's Governing Body Can Set Tuition Rates. Under S.B. 10-003: Concerning Higher Education Flexibility to Improve the Financial Position of State Institutions of Higher Education, each institution's governing body can set tuition rates. The Colorado Commission on Higher Education described the law as such:
A central component of the legislation was the loosening of the prior restrictions on the governing boards' ability to increase tuition for resident undergraduate students. Instead of long bill footnotes determining tuition policy each year, governing boards are given statutory authority to raise tuition rates for resident undergraduate students. [Colorado Commission on Higher Education, 12/10]
MSCD Has The Authority To Set Their Own Tuition Rates. As the chair of MSCD's board of trustees explained, referring to 2010's S.B. 10-003, "The fact is, we have the statutory power to set our own tuition. In 2010, Colorado's legislature reaffirmed the authority of public institutions of higher education to establish tuition rates for in-state and out-of-state students." [Denver Post, 6/10/12]
But Cavuto, Fields Distorted The Facts To Accuse College Of Giving Preferential Treatment To Undocumented Students
Fields: "What The School Is Saying Is That ... We're Going To Treat [Undocumented Students] Better Than" Lawful Latino Residents. On Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, the Daily Caller's Michelle Fields said:
FIELDS: So Metro State College has decided to give a reduced rate of about 50 percent to illegal immigrants, and they claim that this is all part of reaching out to the Latino community, to the Hispanic community. But, you know, if anything, this is a slap in the face to Latinos like my mother, my family, and others who have spent so much time, hard work and hassle trying to become American citizens. Because what the school is saying is that, not only are we going to reward those who enter this country illegally, but we're going to treat them better than you. [Fox News, Your World, 6/11/12]
Fields: "A Lot Of Republicans Are Saying That This Violates Federal Law." From the Your World segment:
CAVUTO: What I don't understand is publicizing it. This would almost be like Denny's having a - broadcasting on their sign outside: Half-off for illegals. It sounds, at first blush, beyond stupid.
FIELDS: Yeah, and a lot of Republicans are saying that this violates federal law because the law prohibits state colleges and universities from providing resident-based college rates to legal immigrants, unless they provide those rates to U.S. citizens, as well. So this is most likely going to go to court.
CAVUTO: But they don't. And now, if you are an out-of-state resident, I can understand you are going to pay more, but, you know, not a heck of a lot more. So, the question, then, comes down to, offering special privileges for folks who, you know, no matter where you stand on this issue, legally, shouldn't be here. [Fox News, Your World, 6/11/12]
Cavuto's Reasons For Denying Undocumented Students Special Rate: "They're Illegal. That's Why. They're Illegal." From the segment:
FIELDS: Illegal immigrants who live in Colorado, they're going to pay about $7,000 per year for school, while American citizens who live outside of Colorado are going to pay almost $16,000. And honestly, we have so many young people who are struggling right now to pay for college, why not reduce the tuition rates for them? Because they can legally work here once they get their degree.
CAVUTO: Well, what's the appeal behind saying, [unintelligible] for illegals there is this big discount?
FIELDS: Well, they're trying to reach out to the Hispanic community, because if they do have a certain amount, a certain percentage of Hispanics they get more grants from the federal government. So that's their way of reaching out to them.
CAVUTO: Illegal or - Whether they're illegal or not. Because the college responded in a statement, they refer to their press release saying, 'We do not deny students an opportunity to get an education at the K-12 level, so why would we continue to create barriers at the higher education level.' That's coming from the president of the Metro State College of Denver, Stephen Jordan. Well, I guess I would start with, whether K-12 or post, you know, high school, they're illegal. That's why. They're illegal.
FIELDS: Exactly. And it's incentivizing people to come here illegally. And you're treating them - they're treating them better than American citizens who live outside of Colorado. It's absurd. [Fox News, Your World, 6/11/12]
American Students Receive Numerous Benefits Unavailable To Undocumented Students
American Students Are Eligible For Federal And State Loans. As a citizen, a student may apply for FAFSA loans from the federal government, and the College Opportunity Fund, a Colorado state loan opportunity. Undocumented students are not able to take advantage of these opportunities. [MSCD.edu, accessed 6/11/12]
Any Out-Of-State Student Who Is A Citizen Or Legal Resident Can Establish In-State Status After Living In Colorado For At Least 12 Months. According to MSCD's website:
Q.How long must I live in Colorado before I can be granted in-state tuition rates?
A .An in-state student is defined as an individual who has been domiciled (physical presence and intent) in Colorado for the 12 continuous months or more immediately preceding the first day of the semester in which you enroll.
Q. Can I establish in-state status while I am a student?
A. Yes, but the mere fact that you are a student, part-time or full-time, is not sufficient evidence to change your classification. You must still demonstrate your physical presence and intent, as defined earlier, before you can be classified as an in-state student. [MSCD.edu, accessed 6/11/12]
MSCD Is One Of Many Colleges To Offer Special Rate To Undocumented Students
Undocumented Students Can Receive In-State Tuition Rates At Public Institutions In 12 States. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, as of October 2011, 12 states allow undocumented students who meet certain eligibility requirements to receive in-state tuition rates at public postsecondary establishments:
Currently, 12 states have laws allowing undocumented students who meet specific requirements to receive in-state tuition rates at public postsecondary institutions. In all, since 2001, 13 states have enacted such legislation (Wisconsin has revoked its law). In addition, Rhode Island's Board of Governors for Higher Education passed a policy that permits eligible undocumented students to pay in-state tuition. [NCSL, 10/11]
In 2011, At Least 12 States Introduced Bills To Allow Undocumented Students Access To In-State Tuition Rates. According to the Colorado Asset:
During the 2010 legislative session, five states considered eight bills that would have allowed undocumented students to receive in-state tuition rates. None of those measures passed. In the 2011 legislative session, at least 12 states (Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Oregon, and Rhode Island) have introduced 19 bills that would allow undocumented students to receive in-state tuition rates. [Colorado Asset, accessed 6/11/12]
Fox Has Long History Of Attacking Efforts To Make College Affordable For Undocumented Students
Fox & Friends: "Illegal Discount." Teasing a segment about a California law allowing some undocumented students access to in-state tuition rates, a Fox & Friends graphic read: "Illegal Discount." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 11/18/10, via Media Matters]
Shannon Bream On CA Law: "Your Tax Money Could Soon Go To Educating Illegals." Guest anchor Shannon Bream used the slur "illegals" during the November 18, 2010, edition of America Live about the California law allowing some undocumented students access to in-state tuition rates, saying: "Some of your tax money could soon go to education illegals instead of Americans." [Fox News, America Live, 11/18/10, via Media Matters]
Steve Doocy Made Up Scenario To Argue Against Granting Some Undocumented Students Resident Tuition Rates At NJ College. On the March 17, 2011, edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy presented an invented scenario of returning veterans who might be displaced by undocumented immigrants at a college in New Jersey to argue against allowing them to enroll at in-county residential rates. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 3/17/11, via Media Matters]
Alisyn Camerota: CA Law Allowing Some Undocumented Students Access To In-State Tuition Rates Is "Flawed." On June 7, 2011, guest host of America's Newsroom Alisyn Camerota said that a law that granted access to in-state tuition rates to undocumented students meeting certain conditions, which was unanimously upheld by the California Supreme Court, "seems as though" it is "flawed in a few ways." [Fox News, America's Newsroom, 6/7/11, via Media Matters]
Gretchen Carlson Outrageously Inflated Number Of Undocumented Students Attending University Of California. During the June 9, 2011, edition of The O'Reilly Factor, Fox's Gretchen Carlson claimed "about 35 percent of the in-state tuition" students during 2009 were undocumented immigrants. [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 6/9/11, via Media Matters]
Click here for the facts on the California law that granted in-state tuition to eligible undocumented students
Fox Promoted Conservative Texas Students' Opposition To Texas DREAM Act. A pair of conservative college students appeared on Fox & Friends to promote a campaign to repeal the Texas DREAM Act, which granted in-state tuition to certain undocumented students that reside in Texas. Fox Nation later promoted their appearance on Fox & Friends. [Fox Nation, 10/17/11, via Media Matters]
Bill O'Reilly: "You Know What's Heartless? Taking My Tax Money When I'm Struggling And Giving It To People Who Shouldn't Be Here." During an October 25, 2011, interview with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Bill O'Reilly said during a discussion about Perry's debate comments concerning immigration: "A lot of conservatives said, You know what's heartless? Taking my tax money when I'm struggling and giving it to people who shouldn't be here." [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 10/25/11 via Media Matters]
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Turbulent situations produce opportunities for victory, and agile competitors succeed by consistently identifying and exploiting opportunities more quickly and effectively than rivals. But how do they do so? If agility confers success, what confers agility? This was the question that US Air Force Colonel John Boyd tackled when he analyzed the surprising success of the American-made F-86 Sabre fighter against the MiG 15 in dogfights during the Korean War. Boyd discovered that the Sabre had two structural advantages–a bubble canopy and full hydraulics–that largely explained their success. Looking through the bubble canopy, pilots could develop and maintain a fuller understanding of battle as it unfolded, and the plane's full hydraulics allowed them to shift quickly from maneuver to maneuver to stay one step ahead of their adversaries.
If Boyd had ended his analysis here, he would have provided a compelling answer to a specific question. Instead Boyd generalized his findings by viewing the dogfights over the Korean peninsula as the distilled essence of a much more general phenomenon–competition to seize opportunities in any rapidly-changing, turbulent situation. Boyd's breakthrough occurred when he conceptualized air battles as taking place in loops, where the pilots cycled through four steps–observe, orient, decide and act.
The cycle begins when a pilot observes the situation, including the hundreds of readings from the cockpit instruments and outside signals-the glint of sunlight from an upturned wing or an unexpected vibration. The bubble canopy expanded the Sabre pilots' vista and allowed them to form a more expansive view of the unfolding situation. In the second step, the pilot oriented himself by forming

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Welcome to the home of the California State University, Fresno, Department of Music.
Our program provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in music for those planning professional careers as performers, composers, and studio teachers, as well as those preparing for advanced degrees in performance and composition. It also provides State-approved subject matter preparation required for a California teaching credential in music, and graduate instruction for students planning professional and academic careers or seeking professional growth as K-12 teachers or junior college instructors. Students can also acquire a broad acquaintance with music for the community and non music major.
"The Three Graces"
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NEIL Loader, backs coach for Dorset & Wilts rugby thinks his side have a "tough ask" in qualifying for the Championship Shield semi-final.
An 18-37 defeat for the young Twin Counties side in their opening game against Berkshire means that only a bonus win by 18 points against Oxfordshire will see them through to the semi-final of the competition, a scenario only made possible by Oxfordshire's win against Berkshire last weekend.
From what he has seen in training and in their first match against Berkshire Loader thinks his side can cause problems for Oxfordshire.
"(Oxfordshire's win against Berkshire) means it's not a dead rubber going into the game and you know it's a big task, we need to win by 18 points and get a bonus point but we've got a target, we know what we need to do," Loader told the Adver.
"Last night (in training) we looked at a few things, Alan (Low) looked at some video with the guys, it's real top line stuff.
"As a rep side we can't get into the nuts and bolts but when I had the backs they looked really sharp and applied themselves really well. Then when we chucked them together, especially our lines, looked really good.
"We know the size of the task, we've played against the majority of these players for our club sides as they play for Grove. They're a big and strong team and they can play about as well.
"It's going to be a sizeable task. When we got our game right against Berks, we looked good, but we didn't do enough of it.
"We didn't join the dots and that's we've looked at doing a bit more. When we get that right I believe we can definitely trouble Oxfordshire."
Dorset & Wilts: 15 Killian Spain (Supermarine), Stephen Barber (Chippenham), 13 James Kaminsi (captain, Salisbury, 12 Rob Larmcombe (Salisbury), 11 Jorge Wadman (Devizes), 10 Rory Brown (Devizes), 9 Connall Knott (Swindon), 1 Greg Palmer (Chippenham), 2 Gareth Davis (Swindon College Old Boys), 3 Gary Williamson (Swindon), 4 Lewis Paget (Devizes), 5 David Hogg (Royal Wootton Bassett, 6 Gavin Ougan (Royal Wootton Bassett), 7 Chris Day (Chippenham), 8 James Newsam,.
Replacements: 16 Phil Bardwell (Royal Wootton Bassett), 17 Cris Lewis (Devizes), 18 Duncan Fulling (Royal Wootton Bassett), 19 Craig Bryant (Devizes), 20 Roland Barter (Salisbury), 21 Jonny Goldsmith (Salisbury), 22 Paddy Flood (Salisbury).


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Under that green skin, this newcomer is sweet, tender and oh-so-versatile.
What is it?
Not the hard, brown, hairy coconut, but the young, green-skinned, smooth coconut, filled with sweet coconut water and soft, tender coconut meat. ''The coconut tree gives shelter, food, water and fuel,'' says Luke Bice of Sunrise Coconuts in Mission Beach, who shimmies up the 20-metre trees in the wild. ''It's the tree of life.''
Where is it?
In Sydney, Bondi's Bucket List has gone nuts over coconuts, setting up an all-summer-long coconut cocktail bar outside. ''We shake rum, pineapple and mint with plenty of ice and fresh young coconut juice,'' says manager Dave Champ. ''People love the novelty of drinking from the shell''. At the new Palings Kitchen & Bar, chef Christopher Whitehead skewers Vietnamese meatballs (nem nuong) with cuttlefish, prawn and roasted pork belly and serves them with a coconut water dressing alongside leaves and herbs for wrapping and rolling. Over at Shortgrain, the chic little-sis canteen to Longrain, head chef Louis Tikaram goes through cartons of young coconuts every week. ''We use the juice and the soft flesh in our coconut tapioca. It's really refreshing, and lighter than the heavy coconut cream''. Tikaram says each coconut is a complete package, and the kitchen leaves nothing to waste. ''We even use the shells as fuel in the grill'' he says.
Meanwhile at Melbourne's Hanoi Hannah in Prahran, the big summer order is for young coconut juice and spice rum cocktails, served in the coconut itself, complete with straw and cocktail umbrella. ''It's quite theatrical,'' the co-owner, Nick Coulter, says. ''Most people haven't seen a real coconut before, much less drunk from it.''
Theo Do, chef-owner of iDo Kitchen, grew up in Ho Chi Minh City surrounded by coconut trees. ''They were everywhere, and so cheap,'' he says wistfully. He says it is second nature to him to use both the juice and the flesh in his modern Vietnamese cooking. ''The juice is lightly sweet, so I don't have to add any extra sugar, and it keeps chocolate cake and cassava pudding moist,'' he says. He serves black sesame ice-cream with young coconut jelly and basil seed sauce, and also braises the goat for a curry in coconut water. ''Water has no flavour, so you may as well use something that tastes good.'' On a hot day, he blends the flesh and juice with palm sugar, lime juice and ice into cooling drinks for the staff.
Why do I care?
Because you can drink the juice and scrape out the soft, jellied flesh with a spoon. Or blend both juice and flesh together for cocktails and desserts. Or cook fish and meat in the juice. Or freeze the juice in cubes for an icy treat. Or light the barbecue with the shells. Phew.
Can I do it at home?
Yes. You can buy coconut water in bottles and Tetra Paks, but the original packaging is still the best. Look for semi-husked coconuts with intact shells that feel heavy with water.
Sourcing it
The Bucket List, Bondi Pavilion, Queen Elizabeth Drive, Bondi Beach, (02) 9365 4122.
Shortgrain, 8-10 Hunt St, Sydney, (02) 9280 2888.
Palings Kitchen & Bar, Level One, ivy, 330 George St, Sydney, (02) 9240 3000.
Hanoi Hannah, 180 High Street, Prahran, (03) 99395181.
iDo Kitchen, 166 Bridport Street, Albert Park, (03) 96998969.
Young coconuts are available from south-east Asian, Indian and Pacific Island food stores; from The Coconut Shop at Marrickville Organic Food Markets (Sundays 7am-3pm) or direct from Sunrise Coconuts, Mission Beach www.sunrisecoconuts.com.au 0402 098 060.
Ceviche with coconut and lime
It's hard to beat this classic ceviche recipe, but feel free to add chopped jalapeno chillies, baby cos leaves and corn chips for serving.
2 tbsp lime or lemon juice
1 tsp castor sugar
1 tsp sea salt flakes
150ml fresh young coconut juice
400g sashimi-grade white fish (e.g. kingfish, mahi mahi) cut into small cubes
1 green or red chilli, finely sliced
1 tomato, finely diced
8 grape or cherry tomatoes, halved
1 avocado, cut into cubes
Half red onion, finely sliced
3 tbsp picked coriander leaves
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1. Mix the lime juice, sugar and salt in a glass bowl, stirring well, then add the coconut juice. Add the cubed fish and toss well. Cover and refrigerate for two to threehours, tossing once or twice. Drain off the marinade, and refresh the fish with a little extra lime juice and coconut juice.
2. Add the chilli, tomatoes, avocado, red onion and coriander leaves to the fish, and gently toss. Arrange on four dinner plates, drizzle with olive oil and serve.
Serves 4
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One year ago, Jill Parrish (Amanda Seyfried) was abducted, bound with tape and left in a deep hole.
Miraculously, Jill escaped her knife-wielding abductor but when police scoured the miles of dense undergrowth, they could find no trace of the hole supposedly containing the bones of other victims.
With everyone doubting her, Jill was consigned to a psychiatric facility then released into the care of her sister Molly.
One year to the day after her alleged ordeal, Jill returns home from a late shift at a cafe to discover that Molly has vanished without trace.


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This is a full time position supporting the Nevada Medicaid team. Telecommuting from locations within the US may be considered.
Responsible for providing day to day guidance, support, and leadership for the clinical and quality activities and supporting the Medical Director in ensuring the clinical integrity of broad and significant clinical programs and identifies and develops opportunities for innovation to increase effectiveness and quality. Primary duties may include, but are not limited to:
Provides support to clinicians in daily tasks and ensuring timely and consistent responses to members and providers, conducts peer to peer clinical reviews with attending physicians or other ordering providers to discuss review determinations, office visits with providers and external physicians as necessary.
May participate in a physician on-call rotation for a 24x7 pre-certification unit, assists in the practitioner appeal reviews, appropriateness criteria reviews, medical policy and technology assessments, setting and implementing QI initiatives, and practitioner/provider credentialing.
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Shields flirts with no-no before Royals fall in extras
Holland blows save in ninth; Herrera allows go-ahead homer in 11th
KANSAS CITY -- James Shields chased a no-hitter, a shutout and a victory. In the end, he and the Royals got none of the above.
Jordan Danks pounded a home run off reliever Kelvin Herrera in the 11th inning to give the Chicago White Sox a 2-1 victory over Kansas City in a makeup game on Monday at Kauffman Stadium. The loss snapped the Royals' four-game winning streak.
The Royals, however, took the series, two games to one, and finished their homestand with a 6-3 record.
Shields pitched eight shutout innings, giving up just two hits while coming close to reversing the 1-0 loss he'd taken from Chris Sale and the White Sox on Opening Day in Chicago. But closer Greg Holland yielded the tying run in the ninth.
Royals manager Ned Yost was asked if he was close to letting Shields pitch the ninth inning.
"No, not really," Yost said.
"Everybody's got their job to do, and Shields had done his," Yost said. "He got us through eight shutout innings. The runs make all the difference -- a two-run or a three-run lead, yeah, probably. Because his pitch count was at 103, and in a one-run game you send him out and he's either going to win it or lose it. So you let the closer go out and try to do his job."
But on this day, with sunshine finally breaking through the gray Kansas City sky, Holland couldn't get the job done for the 15,576 fans. Jeff Keppinger, Alex Rios and Adam Dunn each singled to load the bases with no outs.
"I didn't get ahead of the first three hitters," Holland said. "I gave up some hits. I felt like once the bases were loaded, I executed pretty well. It was just one of those things when you fall behind and load the bases with no one out, you're not going to get out of it as often as you like, obviously."
Paul Konerko bounced a ball back to Holland, who started a 1-2-3 double play. Now, suddenly, Mother Escape was smiling in Holland's direction. After three called balls to left-handed Conor Gillaspie, he was intentionally walked to give the right-handed pitcher a shot at righty Alexei Ramirez.
Ramirez singled up the middle on a ball that was stopped behind second base by Chris Getz, but Getz couldn't hang on and Rios scored for a 1-1 tie.
"I certainly wouldn't call it a routine play," Getz said. "My first thought on a play like that is keep it in the infield or keep it in control so they don't get two runs.
"If I could get an out of it, it's a bonus. Do I have the ability to get that out? I think so, but I didn't."
Even so, on the same play pinch-runner Danks rounded third base and was caught in a rundown to end the inning. So Holland got through a bases-loaded, no-out jam with just one run scoring.
Danks, the late-inning replacement for designated hitter Dunn, took that role very seriously. His drive over the right-field wall on Herrera's 3-1 pitch was his first home run this season.
"Any time you've got a guy throwing 97-98 mph, he's going to provide most of the power," Danks said. "You just have to put the barrel on it. With a hitter's count, you're looking in one spot. I took one bad swing, and then he was probably thinking I wouldn't be able to catch up to a fastball."
That's exactly what Herrera threw.
"It was a bad pitch," Herrera said. "A fastball up and in the middle."
Shields pitched five innings without allowing a hit, although the White Sox did have a baserunner in three of those innings -- a walk, a hit batter and an error.
However, the no-hit bid ended as Dewayne Wise hit a line drive that Jeff Francoeur charged and lunged after but couldn't catch as he dove into the grass. Wise got a single.
"I should've caught it," Francoeur said. "I had a chance coming in and dove but didn't get it. ... It hit my glove, but it just didn't happen."
The only other hit off Shields was Gillaspie's clean single to right field with two outs in the seventh. It immediately preceded a video replay controversy. Ramirez hit a high drive down the left-field line that was ruled foul. The White Sox took the view that it looked more like a two-run homer.
So the umpires adjourned to view the replay, decided the video was inconclusive and the foul call stood. Then Ramirez struck out.
Sale had a stressful first inning, even though the Royals scored just one run. He burned up 36 pitches, and Alex Gordon's single and Billy Butler's double produced a run.
But that would be it against Sale. Despite throwing 57 pitches in the first two innings, he made it through 7 1/3 with a total of 119.
"We had him working early and we got ahead early and we figured we might be able to work some more runs in there and we just couldn't get it going," Butler said. "It's unfortunate, because Shields pitched so good and deserved to have a win."
Shields didn't take issue with Yost's decision to lift him after eight innings.
"I think if we scored another run right there, he was going to leave me out there, but we're going to Holland all day -- he's been great all season long and that's the right move," Shields said. "Unfortunately, it didn't work our way."
Shields now has a glitzy 2.52 ERA in his seven starts, but just a 2-2 record to go with it. He's usually matched against the other team's top starter; so far he's faced a former All-Star in six of his seven outings. And three of them were Cy Young Award winners, too.
"When you're lining up with No. 1 guys, you're going to be in a battle every single game and grind it out," Shields said. "I feel I'm doing an all-right job of it, but sometimes it goes your way and sometimes it doesn't."
Dick Kaegel is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme 5200 Desktop Reviewby Dustin Sklavos on 8/22/2013 8:00 AM EST
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todlerix - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkNothing beats a $2300+ system when it is rocking a Realtek integrated NIC. Reply
XZerg - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkor the 64gb ssd... Reply
XZerg - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkor the 1tb drive. Reply
homer_pickett - Thursday, October 09, 2014 - linkIt's okay.. but when you add price into the picture it stand zero chance to for example CybertronPC Borg-Q GM4213C. /Homer from http://www.consumertop.com/best-desktop-guide/ Reply
Seminya - Friday, August 23, 2013 - linkhyyyy Reply
BlackObs - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkAfter years of reading articles, I've finally signed up for an account just to say that this looks like a system whose good potential was wasted by some poor component selection and poor configuration.
That's the sort of thing I'd expect of a massive OEM like Dell, not a boutique system maker. Reply
Minion4Hire - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkDell has WAY better validation and QC than the likes of CyberPowerPC and iBuyPower. I've consistently seen horrendous and confusingly bad builds from the latter, ranging from physically damaged ports and slots on brand new motherboarda to fans installed in the wrong orientation.
Seriously, you'd be way better off buying from Dell if you're concerned with build quality. Reply
typicalGeek - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkIMHO - you've never dealt with dell's build issues and their so-called customer service.
My son spent nearly a grand on a 15" XPS notebook w/ processor / RAM / video card and sound card upgrades (from base model) in June of 2012. After just a month or so he has having problems with the power switch. Found this was a common problem with the 15" XPS. They had him ship the computer back to Texas and when he got the repaired computer back (fixed with an updated Motherboard) neither the video card drivers nor the sound card drivers had been re-installed. (The problem was with the motherboard, but dell always re-images your HDD to factory default... causing the customer to waste time re-installing software and restoring files once they get the computer back.)
Once he got the computer back he was on the phone with tech support for a couple of hours before both the sound card and video card worked correctly. Something was preventing the sound card from being "seen" even after the drivers were installed... don't remember the details.
Then just a month or so later he had a game stop working because the DVD drive would not recognize the disk. He first got a replacement disk from the game maker, but that didn't help. At their suggestion, we tried the game on an external USB DVD drive and it worked fine. So the disc was not the problem. This time around dell sent a tech to the house, replaced the drive, still no go with the game and blamed it on some copy protection or something. (The drive acted like it there was no disc in the drive.) It took WEEKS for that problem to be resolved. The resolution finally came when a tech had him roll back to an older driver for the drive. It turned out that the DVD drive was never the problem, just dell's crappy auto updated drivers.
Needless to say, we'll have to think long and hard about our options before considering getting anything from dell again. Reply
Minion4Hire - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkSo a technician at a Dell depot completed a generic restore instead of using Dell's recovery partition and did a sloppy driver install (installing some drivers out of order can cause detection issues) and then you had a DVD configuration issue (there is no "DVD" driver, it would have been a SATA controller or upper/lower registry filter problem)
Have you ever purchased a new desktop only to discover that two internal USB headers on the motherboard were physically smashed, causing an overcurrent problem that prevented the computer from POSTing? What about a dent on the PCB of the mobo next to the PCIe slot that clearly came from the bottom of the graphics card? Or a fan installed in the incorrect orientation on a CLC, and upon correcting that issue discover severe denting to the fins of the rad?
All of the above were issues I personally witnessed with ONE iBuyPower system. And it wasn't a low-end system either; ROG mobo with a GTX 680. They clearly never tested it once after assembly. But CyberPowerPC isn't any better. I've seen a SATA connector snapped off of the motherboard. I've seen a 3.5" hard drive resting in a 5.25" bay... just sitting there bouncing around inside the bay kept in place only due to the SATA cables being tied down. That one didn't even have the slightest excuse if the assembler had been short of screws or something as the chassis in question had a toolless internal hotswapable 3.5" bay with backplane.
These are INEXCUSABLE issues that I have seen far too many of in my encounters with CyberPower and iBuyPower and that I have NEVER once seen with Dell or HP or any other mainstream brand. Hardware and software can fail, problems can occur and no technician is perfect, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about utter negligence. These kinds of things should never pass any kind of post-assembly inspection which leads me to believe such an inspection doesn't happen or they just have insanely low standards. Reply
Flunk - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkActually Dell is not a stranger to this sort of thing. I bought a Dell XPS L521x notebook (@1699.99) last summer and had big issues with build quality, pieces not fitting together, dead pixels, etc. It also had horrible issues with thermal throttling.
It was basically impossible to run the GPU at all because either the GPU or CPU throttled up and down to minimum clocks when playing any game, even ones that aren't particularly stressful like Sonic Generations. This resulted in wildy fluctuating framerates that made it impossible to do anything that utilized the Nvidia GPU at all.
After several system replacements and long after the 30 day return window Dell agreed that the thermal design wasn't up to par and just refunded my money.
I looked around for a replacement unit and eventually (possibly stupidly) settled on an Alienware m14x R2, which has performed very well and I have no problems with so it's not all Dell systems that have issues. Reply
Flunk - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkTo clarify "minimum clocks" is not the advertised clock speed, but the emergency downclock frequency, which I believe was 1.2Ghz for the CPU and 200Mhz for the GPU. a 1.2Ghz i7 with a 200Mhz Geforce 640m is not much fun. Reply
Ubercake - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkI definitely prefer to build my own, but I've dealt with CyberpowerPC in the past. They build a good PC. I had no issues with their machines. A three-year warranty included is pretty darn good in this day and age of the one-year warranty (but other OEMs will gladly sell you more for a few hundred bucks!).
I've dealt with Dell in the past more than once. In each instance, the PC would not boot when I received it and I had to fix something to get it working either with loose hardware or in the BIOS configuration. It's like they don't even boot the PC before they ship it out. Not good when you fork out your hard-earned dollars for a PC.
If I were looking for someone to build me a PC (might never happen in my lifetime, but if I were), I wouldn't hesitate to pick my own parts from the CyberpowerPC.com site and have them build it.
I would never buy a Dell again. Reply
Sabresiberian - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkWhile I might have agreed with your assessment of CyberPower in the past, this build totally throws them in the "will not buy from this company" bin. Using cheap parts is not a good solution; even if you are building a budget PC, which of courser this is not. proper selection and system balance can keep the price low and quality high.
As far as Dell - anyone can make a bad single product, or even a line of products that turn out to be "lemons". I seriously doubt their lack of quality stands out in the crowd of mainstream PC manufacturers. I've read service horror stories about all of them. You want quality, build your own, and do it right. Reply
cjs150 - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkPoor value for the price.
AIO water coolers have become a fashion accessory. In most cases a high end air cooler will do the job just as well for less money. Now if they had built a machine which water cooled both CPU and GPU I could answer the price and the choice of case Reply
spigzone - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkThese prebuilt boutique computer reviews never made sense to me.
So you go online and order up your choice of a case, cpu, gpu, memory, hdd, ssd and power supply - which continually change and evolve over time.
Seems like a meaningless waste of time and manpower better spent on meaningful component reviews. Reply
willis936 - Thursday, August 22, 2013 - linkWhile I agree with the other comments about the component selection not fitting the price bracket (these parts would be aiming closer to a $1400 build) I will stand by their choice to use manual voltage in the OC. I'm going through the 4770k OC circuit right now and I have a successful delid under my belt. What I'm finding is that while using offset or adaptive voltage you'll see massive Vccin spikes under AVX workloads. Massive as in I'm putting in 1.325v and 1.475 is coming out. Yowzers. But wait! No one uses AVX. Well, they do. Especially if you play emulators. Using a few more watts (I say a few because an idle 4770k even at 1.3V runs on 10-20W) is well worth it compared to the prospect of shipping an unstable OC. Reply
JimmiG - Friday, August 23, 2013 - linkAVX is probably the reason why they limited the overclock to 4.2 GHz. A factory-overclocked system needs to be able to handle anything they throw at it, no exceptions, at room temperatures that might be higher than optimal. An unstable factory OC would add massively to their costs and damage their reputation. It's better to give up ~200 MHz.
The screen shot in the review shows 81C, but it doesn't state what kind of stress tests were run. The new killer test is Linpack 11 with AVX2, which can easily push even a moderately overclocked CPU into the mid 90's range and requires significantly higher voltages than Aida64 or IBT. Even the FPU-only test in Aida64 can push some really high temps at anything above 1.15 - 1.20V.
Finally, like willis936 sais, using dynamic voltages will cause unpredictable behavior. Finding an adaptive voltage that works for a particular CPU is a long and frustrating process. In some cases it may be impossible to achieve an offset that gives you a high-enough voltage with non-AVX loads while simultaneously keeping the "AVX-boosted" voltage within reason. Reply
Drittz121 - Friday, February 28, 2014 - linkJust do yourself a favor. STAY AWAY from this company. Yes they look good. But when it breaks and it WILL. All they do is give you the run around. They have had my system for over 2 months trying to fix the garbage they sell. Worse company out there for support. DONT BUY Reply


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Pronunciation: rêf-nek • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. A rowdy, a thug, a tough, a hooligan. 2. An oil-rig worker.
Notes: There are two kinds of compound nouns. One that refers to things that are members of the category of the head of the compound, which is always the second constituent. For example a birdhouse is a kind of house and a motorboat is a kind of boat. Today's Good Word is the other kind, whose meaning has "having X" built in. Thus a redhead is not a head, but someone who has a red head and roughneck is someone who has, figuratively, a rough neck. This noun may be used verbally with the meaning "to act like a roughneck".
In Play: Working on an oil rig is a rough job, so we can see how those who work on an oil rig picked up this name. A father might ask his daughter's date: "What kind of roughneck are you, 'Snake', an oil rig worker or . . . the other kind?" We have another word whose meaning approaches that of today's Good Word: "There's a fine line between roughhousing and roughnecking, and you guys crossed it when you broke my lamp."
Word History: This word is obviously a combination of rough + neck. Rough was ruh in Old English, cousin of German rau "rough", and Danish and Norwegian ru "rough". The ancestor of neck, hnecca, occurred rarely in Old English and it meant "nape (back) of the neck". Old English preferred hals or heals as a word for "neck", cousin to German Hals "neck" and Norwegian hals "neck". However, both these languages sport a cousin of English neck, German Nacken and Norwegian nakke referring, as in Old English, to the nape of the neck. (Kathleen McCune of Norway is no roughneck for 'twas she who suggested today's Good Word.)


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>Off the Beaten Path>The Gym is a Freak Show
This is amazing. I have neighbors who come downstairs to our gym in the building and turn on Jilian on their laptop and dance away. It's kind of adorable because they're a really nice couple. It seems like something older people would do, but they're both like my age (late 20s early 30s).
13.1: 1:45 | 26.2: 3:55
e = mc2 accounts for my hoo-ha's behavior?
Bigger hoo-ha's = more energy?
e = mc2 accounts for my hoo-ha's behavior?
Can it warp space time?
Can it warp space time?
Yes, to a small extent.
Well at least someone here is making relevance to the subject. - S.J.
Bigger hoo-ha's = more energy?
Some of the emails I get say so.
The thing that I find most strange is the people who come to the treadmill - walk for a few minutes (drinking copiously from their water bottle during that time) and then stop and leave. Why bother coming to the gym for that?
Well, agreed the should do more than a few minutes, but, it's a motivational thing.
If they want to pay their 20, 30, 40 dollars a month to walk 10 minutes on the treadmill to make themselves feel better, then, live and let live.
fear the Col Sanders
At the gym for students at the University of Arizona, there would ALWAYS be these fossily old guys that would sit around naked for eons after they showered. They would sit there then proceed to apply powder to their entire body.
It was so disturbing. I've never changed clothes so quickly in all my life.
Just because I look dumb doesn't mean I'm not...
At the gym for students at the University of Arizona, there would ALWAYS be these fossily old guys that would sit around naked for eons after they showered. They would sit there then proceed to apply powder to their entire body.
It was so disturbing. I've never changed clothes so quickly in all my life.
This is what they refer to as a "NOMSS" gym. At least that's the phrase they use around here.
Refers to the "Naked Old Man Social Society". Rule of thumb is the fewer the clothes, the more the chit chat.
Quite fascinating, actually.
I go to our work gym. I suppose everyone is a bit more reserved/civilized as I don't see too much weirdness. It is a bit off-putting when a colleague in the locker room wants to have an extended, work-related conversation with his meat and two veg hanging out. Can't this wait until our next meeting?
My life is boring..I gotta get out more.......I would join this gym simply for the theatrics..show up everyday with a folding chair and a six pack. Definitely a book writing opportunity!
A Saucy Wench
That would be awesome. I would pay a portion of your membership to have you come to my gym with a folding chair and a six pack.
I have become Death, the destroyer of electronic gadgets
"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
Cat Herder
I no longer have a gym membership, but when I used to go to a large franchise gym, there were always these gender confused people (I'm from Thailand) yelling at the top of their voices and occupying all the machines without actually using them. Any attempt to tell them to be quiet or free up would result in them calling in the management people to complain about discrimination.
So eventually I moved to a small, local gym that's owned by a golf club. It's really quiet and everyone keeps to their own workout routines. That is until one day five hundred stark naked Korean men crammed in to the showers. I've never seen so many balls in my life. And they probably thought I was the weird one.
I think this is a good segue to...
Best of craigslist...Vietnamese Waxer Lady!!!
(Don't read if you are easily offended...LOL)
OK...Maybe it has nothing to do with the original post, but it's funny as hell and it came to mind as I was reading this thread..
My gym is pretty weird too. I just joined. There are these weird machines that go round and round and back and forth. The people look absurd on them. There are guys hanging off bars and girls running without going anyplace. No one looks at anyone but everyone looks at everyone else. I look at all these buttons and just start pushing them. Next thing you know I'm on "Everest Climb" and looking for "Easy Stroll" so I don't have a "Cardiac Event".
And there's often some weird woman doing some soft-core-porn buttock exercises over by the orgy balls. Or whatever they're called.
I love that!


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>Cross Training>Swimming question
under a rock
So, I'm playing with the idea of swimming for my cross training. I'm finding that spin class is starting to make me more aware of my IT band. I injured it on my left leg 7 years ago and am so paranoid of the injury coming back. So I was thinking of doing some swimming since I have access to a pool at the YMCA. I took a few swim lessons as a kid but other than that I know nothing about swimming.
What I'm wondering is if I should find some adult swim lessons or just go with what little I know? Does anybody have any tips for someone just starting swimming for cross training?
Hi Ashley
If the Y offers adult swim lessons take them. They will be well worth the investment at any price and your swimming will become a very positive experience quickly.
Swimming, in my opinion is a excellent choice for cross training.
If swimming lessons are not available look into getting the "Total Immersion" Book and video.
Best of luck and Happy swiming !
I am training for my first triathlon, and took a month worth of swimming lessons at my local YMCA in May. It was dirt cheap ($25) for 8 classes, most of which I did a noon, and the majority of which were incidentally private lessons. I couldn't really do any semblance of breathing and stroking, and my coach built it from nothing, and I managed to ACTUALLY swim 25m in something resembling a freestyle crawl by the end of the first lesson.
It was definitely worth the time - I am slowly working up distance, but it's a totally different workout from running - and rather refreshing, considering.
Do it!
I think swimming lessons are a great idea. Also, if you want a basic training program, check out this site:
Zero to 1 mile Swim
Chris PRs: 27:26 5k/ 49:52 5mi/ 58:17 10k/ 2:09:24 half/ 5:13:17 Full
2016 Goals 1,000 miles/ 100 Day Streak/ 25mpw base/ Race a half marathon/ Try for a sub-6 hour marathonRun, consistently, without fail
I signed up for a Masters Swim Group in my area and stuck with it for almost 2 years - The combination of a new job with an earlier start time has kept me out of the pool since this past winter (the -30 degree mornings were a little rough too). There were some awesome swimmers in our Masters group, but the coach made the folks in the "rookie lanes" feel really welcome and always tailored the workouts for our ability. The Masters group in our area even let's newbies come and try a couple of sessions before making a commitment.
This spring I trained for my 1st marathon and I wish I had kept up with my swimming at the same time. I started to develop some IT Band issues. It may have occurred due to the added milage even if I had kept up with my swimming, but I think the extra/different leg workouts in the pool might have prevented it.
I may have just talked myself back to the pool!
Good luck and have fun!
I think swimming lessons are a great idea. Also, if you want a basic training program, check out this site:
Zero to 1 mile Swim
+1, I've used and liked this program. It does assume a basic level of swimming, so if you really feel like you will sink before you get to the other side you probably don't want to start with this, but I'm by no means a great swimmer and I liked it. Then again, my gym only offers Masters swimming for adults at $235 a session (6 months)....ouch.
Beware, batbear...
We also have a forum dedicated just to swimmming. You can check it out for workouts and ideas.
Hope this helps!
2014 Goal -- Run 5X per week, pain-free (relatively) by end of summer.
shonan marathon, girl
take adult swim lessons by all means. it makes a big difference! i am no great swimmer, but getting in the pool or ocean or any body of water does something magical and makes me feel good. its summer so swim!
i think more runners should swim. this gives a good balanced workout for your entire body. plus you have an alternative cross training sport for your days off from running or when you have to stop running to nurse an injury.
i was afraid of deep water and the ocean my entire life. it wasnt until i hit 41 that i started to learn how to swim. it is the best thing i ever did. i cant imagine my life without swimming. i dont think i will be able to run forever, but with swimming i am sure that this will be the one sport that i will do until the end.
next race SHONAN MARATHON nov 3rd, 2012, OSAKA MARATHON nov 25th, i am aiming for nyc!
About 6 months ago I had the same idea. My kids were in the pool for thier swimming lessons and there were free lanes, so I figured I would test it out. I too could swim, but was not very skilled.
You mentioned that you worked on the freestyle and were going to work on breast stroke next week. I would recommend continuing that path and adding backstroke as well. Here is why:
I found that I could control my breathing very easily while swimming the breast stroke. It was very similar to a long slow run. I could get about 500 yards in before taking a break and 1500-2000 yards total. After about 2 months of only breast stroke, my IT band started to flare up a bit. Since then I have made a consious effort to incorporate the freestyle and backstroke as at least 50% of the workout. My IT band pain has been very minimal.
The freestyle was very difficult to learn the breathing, so I just mix the strokes up each lap: 50 freestyle, 50 breast and 50 backstroke, repeat.
It is a great cross training exercise and it will get easier. Build it up the same way you built up your running...slow and steady and don't expect to make the Olympics in the first week :-)
Every day we can get out and get some exercise is a blessing. Best of luck to you.
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Keira Knightley stars as the tragic Russian heroine who flirts with disaster when she abandons her husband (Jude Law) for a Russian military exquisite (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), inciting the contempt of all of Russian society. Layering Leo Tolstoy's sumptuous marital melodrama a heavy dose of airless artistry, director Joe Wright (Atonement) abandons the notion of holding a mirror up to society, a la Tolstoy, in favour of reflecting his own creative ingenuity. 'Ö'Ö
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This is the kind of doc the wags have dubbed "design porn" as the filmmakers roam along the Pacific North West coastline from Los Angeles to Vancouver showcasing the pioneers of West Coast Modernist Architecture -- the sensual equivalent of a long relaxing bath in back issues of Architectural Digest. 'Ö'Ö'Ö1/2
Towne. 18A.
After a botched casino heist, two siblings (Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde) have an unexpected reunion when they join the Thanksgiving dinner of another family. Deadfall has the earmarks of a dozen earlier thrillers and Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky gives it the right tone and look. You could almost forgive the questionable geography, predictable directions and melodramatic flourishes of this tale of accidents and blood-stained coincidences ... until they start to pile up like a February snowdrift. 'Ö'Ö (Reviewed by Roger Moore)
Grant Park, Kildonan Place, McGillivray, Polo Park. 18A
Denzel Washington stars as an airline pilot who has to fight for his professional career after an accident threatens to expose his secret as a prodigious substance abuser. Director Robert Zemeckis paces with the momentum of a thriller but Washington's presence adds the gravitas of a gritty character drama. 'Ö'Ö'Ö1/2
Globe, McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital. 18A
Brad Pitt reteams with director Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) for a crime story based on a novel by the great George V. Higgins (The Friends of Eddie Coyle) in which Pitt plays a mob enforcer investigating a heist of a mob-protected poker game. In its own chatty and slight way, this is the Unforgiven of hit-man thrillers, a gritty, riveting nuts-and-bolts-of-murder tale that vividly illustrates what it is that these much-glamorized thugs do, and the gruesome, agonizing fate of their victims. 'Ö'Ö'Ö'Ö (Reviewed by Roger Moore)
Globe, Grant Park, McGillivray, McGillivray VIP, Polo Park, St. Vital. PG
Ang Lee adapts the best selling novel by Yann Martel about a young man who finds himself adrift on a lifeboat with a man-eating tiger. Lee crafts one of the finest entries in his eclectic resume with this gorgeous, ruminative film that is soulfully, provocatively entertaining. 'Ö'Ö'Ö1/2 (Reviewed by David Germain)
Grant Park, Polo Park. 14A
Steven Spielberg succeeds at getting under the skin of American icon Abraham Lincoln from the perspective of his singular genius as he negotiates the passing of the 13th amendment banning slavery, an effort that required prodigious political skill. Daniel Day-Lewis offers a sure-thing Oscar contending performance. 'Ö'Ö'Ö'Ö
Globe. 14A
A Scandinavian immigrant to the Canadian Prairies in the 1920s is undone by tragedy and madness and builds a ship to transport his family through the Dust Bowl to their Norway homeland in this relentlessly downbeat shot-in-Manitoba drama. Nicely shot and solidly performed, this is nevertheless a movie likely to repel audiences in droves. There should be a difference between movies about the Great Depression and movies that induce great depression. 'Ö'Ö1/2
Polo Park. PG
A raucous comedy about a troubled college girl (Anna Kendrick) who joins an a cappella singing group at the insistence of her father, only to bond with a collection of musical oddballs. As an attempt to revive the magic of the femme comedy Bridesmaids, it's lacking, but the music and the supporting cast do pitch in to deliver a modestly fun time. 'Ö'Ö1/2
Grant Park, McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. PG
A former soccer star (Gerard Butler) attempts to bond with his son and reunite with his estranged wife (Jessica Biel), but finds himself distracted by the soccer moms attending the pee-wee games he coaches. Look upon the PG rating and despair. The emphasis on a run-of-the-mill family drama is especially annoying because movies could really stand to revive the ribald sex farce, or at least reclaim the genre from the grip of gross-out teen sexploitation. Playing for Keeps fails to go there and subsequently fails altogether. 'Ö1/2
Kildonan Place, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. 14A
As a pure action film, this remake of John Milius's commie-baiting, Reagan-era paranoid thriller is just acceptable. But the decision to change the villainous invading force from Chinese to North Korean is sheer cowardice, a demonstration that the filmmakers don't have the courage of their lunatic convictions. 'Ö'Ö
Grant Park, Kildonan Place, McGillivray, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. G
One can't fault the lush animation in this story of mythical kid heroes (Santa Claus, the Sandman, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy) joining forces with Jack Frost to fight the Boogie Man for the imaginations of the world's children. But one can certainly take issue with the Hollywood impulse to render these gentle creatures as warriors. Really, does Santa now have to kick ass to be considered a hero? 'Ö'Ö
Polo Park. 14A
Bradley Cooper plays an unemployed bipolar school teacher who moves back in with his parents (Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver) planning to reunite with his estranged wife, only to be distracted by a young widow (Jennifer Lawrence) with issues of her own. Director David O. Russell returns to the same eccentric/blue-collar milieu as The Fighter but a climactic dance competition doesn't have the same impact as a prize fight, and Bradley Cooper doesn't have the same impact as Mark Wahlberg. 'Ö'Ö'Ö
Grant Park, Kildonan Place, McGillivray, McGillivray VIP, Polo Park, St. Vital, Towne. 14A
The 24th James Bond movie pits Daniel Craig's secret agent against a former agent (Javier Bardem) intent on destroying the British Seceret Service, and M (Judi Dench) in particular. In the 50th year of the franchise, Bond manages to be realpolitik-pertinent while paying discreet homage to the films of the past. Director Sam Mendes also brings unexpected dramatic heft but manages the action stuff very well too. 'Ö'Ö'Ö'Ö
Grant Park, McGillivray, McGillivray VIP, Polo Park, St. Vital. PG
The very last chapter of the Twilight franchise has Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) defending their vampiric daughter Renesmee against a threat by those bloodsucking hoodlums, the Volturi. Whatever happens before it, the finale is a doozy, almost certain to be satisfying to fans and impressive even to the casual Twilight viewer. But so much of what comes before that payoff is mundane, dull ... all talk and no action. 'Ö'Ö (Reviewed by Roger Moore)
Cinematheque. PG
This deceptively simple documentary offers a view of two radically different kinds of indoctrination of women in India, comparing a month-long Miss India "beauty camp" and a boot camp for militant female Hindu fundamentalists, asking the question: What does it mean to be a woman in India? 'Ö'Ö'Ö'Ö (Reviewed by Jay Stone)
Kildonan Place, McGillivray, Polo Park, Towne. G
A video game villain (voiced by John C. Reilly) in a primitive arcade game goes rogue when he escapes his game to prove his mettle in other, more sophisticated games in this funny, inventive Disney adventure. This riff on the realm of video games past and present may lack Pixar prestige, but it blasts out fun as relentlessly as a Low Orbit Ion Cannon. 'Ö'Ö'Ö'Ö


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This article was published 15/10/2012 (1772 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
There is no bigger message to the stewards of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers than empty seats.
Saturday, on a gorgeous fall afternoon, the Blue Bombers announced an attendance of 25,462. That's 4,000 empty chairs.
For a franchise that regularly sells out, it is a damning indictment and should send a strong message to management.
With a new stadium on the horizon this is a bad time to alienate the fan base.
The people of Winnipeg and Manitoba, now more than ever, have a say in how their football team is operated. The Bombers need fans to buy tickets and jerseys and beer. They can speak with their wallets. This isn't the NFL or even the NHL, where customers can be ignored. In the CFL, and in Winnipeg in particular, the fans have a hand on the wheel. Gate receipts are the most important revenue line.
Putting a half-baked product on the field just won't wash. People won't go. We're seeing it unfold at this moment.
Next season, the allure of a new stadium will go a long way towards guaranteeing sellouts.
But with 33,000 seats to fill and the higher ticket prices that go along with a new building, it won't be enough to rely on that new stadium smell for long.
No, the product on the field will drive the economic engine at the new stadium just as it does at the old. Empty seats will damage the bottom line at Investors Group Field, but with a new wrinkle.
Previously, middling financial results have been a big deal. The club has been self-sustaining since the early 2000s but when it needed to build a stadium it had to ask for help. That help will come with strings.
One can bet the first time the Bombers are unable to produce the $4 million or so they are supposed to pay down on the public stadium debt each season, there will be an uproar.
The Bombers organization has been playing with house money for a long time. But now they've borrowed from a loan shark known as the ticket-buying public.
They're going to want their money and when they don't get it, they'll go right past the Bombers board to Premier Greg Selinger.
Do you think he'll spend his political currency defending Bombers management and the board?
Not for a second.
If the Bombers don't appear capable of running their own house and paying their bills, Selinger will make changes -- rapid and vast changes.
What that looks like and who it involves is still an unknown but there are already rumours of a new structure being considered.
The Bombers, as they exist today, are on the clock.
They need results and they need them fast.
The Free Press asked its readers to tweet with suggestions on what to do with the Blue Bombers. Here are some of the responses:
jordan 23@2jordan3 -- Bring in some veterans that are leaders and not veterans that whine about fans on Twitter!
Todd Peters@Miyagithepug -- Vote for board of directors by season-ticket holders! Bye 2 Mack! Buono needs new challenge. Pay the$$$ 2 get him here.
Mike K@mkskud -- Whatever it is, this isn't working. The whole system of community ownership needs to go. It hasn't worked for 20 years.
Scott Cawson@scottcawson -- Blow it up. New GM, coach, QB, O-line and down the line. New stadium next year and a new team to go with it.
Todd Rose@toddrose24 -- Keep Elliott, develop him, he has the tools to be an elite qb as #4 qb coach. Keep some of the promising young guys!
Tim Hodge@BlueandGoldWPG -- Rename Investors Group Field "Travis Lulay Stadium" so that he'll join the Bombers.
Brian Mitchell@AntigothTCO -- Bring in more Canadian O-line talent. Analyze what B.C. & Montreal are doing within their operations departments, mimic it
Dave Lowe@DLo44_1975 -- Simple fix -- ban the media.
Gord Barnsley@WinnipegGordo -- Keep Mack, Burke. Let Burke pick own coaches including QB coach. Talent is there, just need to stabilize QB position.
Paul Poirier@PaulPoirier3 -- Hey guys, we need TNSE to own the bombers
Derrick McBride@BIGDELISH69 -- Male cheerleaders and worst season ever. Coincidence? I think not. Get rid of them!
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Meatless Monday is a global movement, a way of life. It's not a campaign to turn everyone in the world vegetarian or vegan; in fact, many involved are meat-lovers. Eating less meat has been proven to reduce the risk of disease, curb obesity and has important environmental impacts, too. Will you join us in giving up meat, just for one day a week?
Thinking about ordering in for dinner tonight? Instead of reaching for the take-out menu of your neighborhood Chinese restaurant, head to the kitchen and start heating up the wok. You can whip together your favorite Chinese noodles in well under an hour.
Ching's recipe for Hot and Sour Fresh Noodles is lighter than what you would typically order at a restaurant so you'll feel better about polishing off a big bowl. It's the perfect balance between spicy and tangy, and the crisp zucchini adds a nice contrast of texture to the soft noodles. The fresh ginger, chilies and garlic combined with the soy sauce and vinegar make for a fragrant dish you'll crave time and time again.
This recipe is flexible. You can easily add in as many veggies as you want for some extra crunch. If you're not a fan of spicy foods, scale back on the amount of chilies and chili oil you add. Sesame oil and rice wine vinegar can be found in most grocery stores and are worth having in your pantry.
2 tablespoons peanut oil
4 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
One 2-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and finely grated
1 medium green chile, seeded and finely chopped
1/4 teaspoon whole Sichuan peppercorns, plus more, cracked and toasted, for garnish, optional
2 whole dried red chiles, such as Arbol
1/2 cup light soy sauce
1/2 cup black rice vinegar
1/4 cup chili oil, plus more for garnish
3 zucchini, about 6-inches long, sliced lengthwise into thin strips with a vegetable peeler
1 pound fresh wheat-flour noodles, cooked according to package instructions and rinsed
1 small handful chopped fresh cilantro
Toasted sesame oil, for garnish, optional
1 medium red chile, seeded and finely chopped
Heat a wok over medium-high heat until smoking. Pour in the peanut oil and swirl in the pan until hot. Stir-fry the garlic, ginger, and fresh green and red chiles until softened, about 1 minute, and then toss in the whole peppercorns and dried chiles and stir-fry briefly to toast.
Pour in the soy sauce, rice vinegar and chili oil, reduce the heat to medium low and bring to a simmer.
Meanwhile, bring a large pot of water to a boil over medium-high heat. Add the zucchini and cook until crisp-tender and bright green, about 30 seconds. Drain the zucchini strips in a colander, shaking well to remove excess water, and then add to the wok along with the cooked noodles. Stir gently until warm and evenly dressed with the fragrant oil.
Transfer the noodles to a serving platter and garnish with cilantro, cracked toasted peppercorns, if using, and a drizzle of sesame oil, if using. Serve immediately.
More Meatless Chinese Noodle Recipes
Dali Vegetarian Rice Noodle Stir Fry
Vegetable Chow Mein
Radish and Sesame Soy Noodle Salad
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text: FindMyPast has had the parish registers for those churches within the Canterbury and Maidstone Archdeaconries' online for some time, but as browse only. So the announcement that they are now fully indexed will be good news for those with Kent ancestry. The records date back to the start of parish registers in 1538 and span up to the 19th century. The original records for Canterbury are held at the newly re-opened Canterbury Cathedral Archives, whilst the Maidstone registers are held at the History & Library Centre at Maidstone.


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Goblet of Fire appearance?
It's said in his page that Monsieur Delacour was present to the third task, but I don't find the mention. There was Viktor's parents, Cedric's parents, Fleur's mother, Fleur's sister, Bill and Molly. "Cedric and his parents were just inside the door. Viktor Krum was over in a corner, conversing with his dark-haired mother and father in rapid Bulgarian. He had inherited his father's hooked nose. On the other side of the room, Fleur was jabbering away in French to her mother. Fleur's little sister, Gabrielle, was holding her mother's hand. She waved at Harry, who waved back, grinning. Then he saw Mrs. Weasley and Bill standing in front of the fireplace, beaming at him." Famini71 27 december
It's said again that Monsieur Delacour was here in Goblet of Fire. He's not mentionned on the book or the film, there's no reason to think that he could be here... -- Famini talk contribs 18:36, September 22, 2011 (UTC)
How do I change the page title from Delacour sister's father to Monsieur Delacour? PoshPrincess (talk) 15:01, August 12, 2012 (UTC) Victoria
- This Wiki does not use titles as Mr. or Monsieur. When prename is not known, this name is the correct notation. Harry granger Talk contribs 16:43, August 12, 2012 (UTC)
As he is called Monsieur Delacour (which is like Mr. Delacour) should this page not be at "Delacour"? It's like with Madame Bonhabille, whose page-name is at "Bonhabille". --Hunnie Bunn (Owl me!) 19:58, February 3, 2013 (UTC)
- Hi, Hunnie Bunn! Read this here. Here it's explained why. Harry granger Talk contribs 20:35, February 3, 2013 (UTC)
- I appreciate the time you took to find and provide the link, but I'm afraid I still don't see why; true, we don't have his first name, but as I pointed out, Bonhabille's given name is also unknown but that page is where it is. And as we would be using simply "Delacour" instead of "Mr. Delacour" we wouldn't be using a title... I still wonder therefore why it can't be "Delacour". --Hunnie Bunn (Owl me!) 20:38, February 3, 2013 (UTC)
- You can't relate Madame Bonhabille to an existing character, but you can do so with the father of the Delacour sisters. But perhaps someone knows a better answer. Harry granger Talk contribs 20:49, February 3, 2013 (UTC)
- Ah, I understand now. The thing is, if a name is given why not use the name? Perhaps Montgomery is a better example; technically, he should be at "Montgomery sisters' brother" because we can relate him to someone, shouldn't he? I'm not trying to sound rude or anything; I just found it strange that this would be so. --Hunnie Bunn (Owl me!) 20:54, February 3, 2013 (UTC)
You're not rude, you only want to know why and that's o. k. I could imagine that the Montgomery boy is the important and his sisters are not so important, so he is given the name and the sisters are related. No one of the three got a prename, but you cannot call them all Montgomery, there would be no difference anymore and Wikia does not allow it. So the name Montgomery is given to the boy whose prename is not known and then his sisters as relatives. That's how I understand it. Harry granger Talk contribs 20:58, February 3, 2013 (UTC)
- Ah, I understand now. Thanks. By the way, would it be allright if I put a {{Rename}} template on the page to see whether it might attract some other opinions? You're against, I'm for and that's the only opinions we have. --Hunnie Bunn (Owl me!) 21:07, February 3, 2013 (UTC)
- I have no problem with the tag. Harry granger Talk contribs 15:41, February 4, 2013 (UTC)
- I'm sorry, but I have to be against also, given that it seems to be against our guidelines. And given that there haven't been any other responses in so long, it would seem to be a dead matter, no consensus to approve a rename. ProfessorTofty (talk) 04:27, March 8, 2013 (UTC)
How is this possible when he has a 20 year-old daughter in the 7th book, and he is still alive in the 7th book, which takes place in 1998 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ShadowPhoenix00 (talk • contribs).
- "fl." means "floruit": these are the years we know M. Delacour was around. Fleur was born in 1977, and we last see M. Delacour at the wedding on 1 August, 1997. --Hunnie Bunn (talk) 01:01, November 2, 2014 (UTC)


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HOUSTON - Officials with Brazos Transit Authority said they are fielding hundreds of calls from angry commuters after recent bus service problems.
On Monday, at least two buses scheduled to run to downtown Houston from the Sawdust Park and Ride location did not run at all.
Officials said last week, at least eight to 10 buses did not make their pick-ups, either.
For some riders who did get on a bus, transit officials said the drivers didn't know the correct bus routes.
Wendy Weedon with Brazos Transit said the company used to contract out the bus service to Coach America, who provided the buses and drivers. When that company dissolved in bankruptcy, Weedon said Horizon Coach Service took over, starting last Thursday.
Weedon said Horizon has given Brazos Transit nothing but problems. She said Horizon has not provided enough trained drivers, so Brazos Transit has had issues with bus services at all of its park and ride locations, including Sawdust, Sterling Ridge and Research Forest.
Local 2 contacted Horizon Coach Service and a representative said the company would not comment on the bus service problems.
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Side-event: Statement by Ambassador Berger on the future of peacekeeping
(Statement as delivered by Ambassador Berger at a side-event to launch "Peace Operations 2025 - on the future of peacekeeping")
"Ladies and Gentlemen,
Peacekeeping has - since the first observer mission UNTSO in 1948 - developed into the flagship activity of the United Nations. Being designed in the aftermath and under the fresh impression of the atrocities of the World War II, the main purpose of the UN Charter was to address threats to world peace and security caused by armed conflicts between sovereign states – meaning, to keep the peace.
However, since then peacekeeping has undergone, as we know, a number of substantial changes. This applies to both, the threats being posed to international peace and security and the way these threats are being addressed through the UN.
Challenges to peace and security have become far more diverse and multidimensional than most actors within the UN system or other relevant institutions would have thought not long ago. One example was the discussion of the Security Council under the Arria formula on climate change and conflict, organized by Pakistan and the United Kingdom on the 15th of February, where a World Bank report on a world with 4 degrees increase was presented.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am very pleased to speak at the launch of "Peace Operations 2025" which attempts to think about the peacekeeping world in the future. Although one might argue that within the next twelve years, nothing fundamental is going to change, we have seen shifts of paradigms within far shorter periods of time. We are therefore grateful for ZiF's endeavour and the book it resulted in.
First of all, I would like to commend the German Center for International Peace Operations (ZiF) for managing a balancing act: On the one hand, "Peace Operations 2025" is a state of the art academic study. It's a more scientific than politic approach, which has the very refreshing effect - particularly here at the United Nations - that its way of thinking is different from what we are used to in the world of international politics and diplomacy.
On the other hand, there is more to this book, with its inspirational design and the vivid presentation of the different scenarios it aims at readers of all specifications, ages and nationalities. It wipes off the dust of our usual diplomatic and political discussions and provides us with a new and stimulating view on the issue.
As you will see ZIF has taken into account not only political factors but – and that makes this study so interesting- it takes also into account key factors like economic, environmental, sociological and technology developments. It draws from an expertise that is as broad as it is deep.
Ladies and Gentlemen, dear colleagues,
We are all familiar with the current challenges faced by the UN in order to adapt to some of the more recent developments in the peacekeeping world. This concerns issues like new means of coordination and cooperation with partners like regional organisations, the use of modern technology as well as a review and reassessment of its own structures.
"Peace Operations 2025" presents a set of additional challenges and the four possible future scenarios described therein are surely a valuable contribution to the discussion between UN and Member States.
You will judge how likely these scenarios are, some might become reality one day, whilst others will remain possibilities or even nightmares, that hopefully never translate into reality. But one thing is clear: The peacekeeping system will face new challenges in a rapidly changing world and the UN will have to adapt to them in order to fulfil the mandates.
In order to live up to these challenges, peacekeeping has to create and maintain structural and operational flexibility.
This call for flexibility is not new. But flexibility has many foes: It is expensive. It demands constant training. It means adapting to new situations. It is often difficult to reflect flexibility goals in formalized planning procedures. Political dynamics or the lack thereof, slow-moving parts within or outside the system and decision making processes which focus more on hierarchy than on the best possible outcome do also narrow the scope of flexibility within the peacekeeping procedures.
Let me conclude with a brief remark with regard to the present and probably future shortcomings of the UN peacekeeping system: As friends of UN peacekeeping we do not deny that it is far from being perfect. Nevertheless, we have to bear in mind that most countries that make the effort for international peace and contribute troops to peace operations are still in the phase of development themselves, while many industrialised countries face serious economic constraints.
We should all strive for a more inclusive and regionally balanced effort – when it comes to troop contributions as well as financial and contributions of assets. The German minister of defence, Lothar de Maiziere, said recently, that the current system, where the overwhelming troop contribution countries come from the developing world, and the financial contribution is mainly shouldered by western countries is not sustainable.
We all have an interest in keeping UN peacekeeping alive and active: The United Nations are the most legitimate voice of the international community. They are the best guarantor for peace and the fundamental principles laid down in its Charter. As long as we all adhere to these universal principles, we must continue to strengthen the UN and its peacekeeping capacities.
I thank you."


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ICOA Wasn't Acquired by Google, Executive Says
It might have been nice, had it been true. But in fact, ICOA Inc. the wireless broadband provider, wasn't acquired by Google Inc., despite a press release saying so, The Wall Street Journal reports. Here's the dispatch.
By Amir Efrati
Google Inc. did not acquire wireless broadband provider ICOA Inc., according to an ICOA executive.
Erwin Vahlsing, Jr., ICOA's chief financial officer, said in an email that an online press release claiming Google had acquired ICOA for $400 million "is false." He didn't immediately respond to requests to elaborate on the statement.
On Monday, a press release posted on PRWeb.com stated that Google had acquired ICOA for $400 million in order to "further diversify it's already impressive portfolio of companies." The release listed contact information for ICOA and described ICOA's operations.
A representative of Vocus PRW Holdings LLC, which owns PRWeb.com, didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.