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NEW YORK RANGERS vs. CAROLINA HURRICANES
Monday, Mar. 18, 7:00 p.m.
Madison Square Garden – New York, NY
Rangers: 13-12-2 (28 pts)
Hurricanes: 15-11-1 (31 pts)
The Rangers will face-off against the Carolina Hurricanes at Madison Square Garden (7:00 p.m. — TV: MSG Network; Radio: ESPN 98.7), in the first game of a back-to-back set. The Blueshirts currently rank fourth in the Atlantic Division standings, and rank 10th in the Eastern Conference, with a record of 13-12-2 (28 pts). The Rangers enter the contest having been defeated by the Pittsburgh Penguins, 3-0, on Saturday at CONSOL Energy Center, to complete their four-game road trip. The Blueshirts have posted a combined record of 2-4-0 in back-to-back games this season, including a 2-1-0 (1-0-0 at home) record in the first game. The Hurricanes enter the contest with a 15-11-1 (31 pts) record to rank eighth in the Eastern Conference, and have lost their last two games. Following tonight's contest, the Rangers will complete their back-to-back set when they face-off against the New Jersey Devils tomorrow, Mar. 19, at Prudential Center (7:00 p.m.), in an Atlantic Division matchup.
RANGERS vs. HURRICANES:
– All-Time: 59-48-7-2 overall (36-17-4-2 at home; 23-31-3-0 on the road)
– 2013: Tonight is the first of three meetings this season, and the only meeting at Madison Square Garden
– Last Season: New York was 4-0-0 overall (2-0-0 mark at home; 2-0-0 mark on the road). The Rangers out-scored the Hurricanes, 17-8, including a 7-1 advantage in the third period. New York was 2-13 (15.4%) on the power play, while the penalty kill was 10-12 (83.3%) in the series. Marian Gaborik led the Rangers with four assists and seven points, while Gaborik and Brad Richards tied for the series high with three goals apiece. Henrik Lundqvist was 1-0-0 with a 1.00 GAA and .971 Sv%, and Martin Biron was 3-0-0 with a 2.34 GAA and .916 Sv%.
– The Blueshirts have won six of their last seven games against the Hurricanes, having out-scored Carolina, 24-16, over the span
– The Rangers enter the contest with a three-game winning streak against the Hurricanes at MSG, and have out-scored Carolina, 11-4, in those contests
– New York ranks 14th in the NHL with a 9-5-1 (19 pts) record at home; Carolina is tied for ninth in the NHL with an 8-5-1 (17 pts) mark on the road
– The Rangers are 5-2-0 vs. the Southeast Division this season; the Hurricanes are 5-1-1 vs. the Atlantic Division this season
– New York lists no former Hurricanes on their roster
– Carolina lists one former Ranger on their roster: Bobby Sanguinetti (2009-10)
INDIVIDUAL CAREER LEADERS vs. HURRICANES:
– Henrik Lundqvist — 20 GP, 11-8-1, 2.37 GAA, 1 SO
– Martin Biron — 22 GP, 13-4-1-2, 2.50 GAA, 1 SO
– Brad Richards — 50 GP, 14-31-45
– Marian Gaborik — 18 GP, 10-11-21
– Jeff Halpern — 52 GP, 16-13-29
– Ryan McDonagh — 6 GP, 1-3-4
The Rangers' power play is 9-42 (21.4%) in the last 15 games, while the Blueshirts' penalty kill is 46-53 (86.8%) in the last 18 games. New York has posted a record of 8-4-1 when not allowing a power play goal.
– Power Play: The Rangers did not tally a goal in two power play attempts (3:55) on Saturday at Pittsburgh. New York ranks 24th overall (13-86, 15.1%) and 20th at home (9-51, 17.6%). The Rangers are 2-8 (7:46) in five-on-three situations (last – 3/3 vs. BUF), and 1-1 (0:21) when four-on-three (last – 3/7 at NYI). Shorthanded goals allowed (3): 2/19 vs. MTL (Diaz, EN); 2/21 at OTT (Silfverberg); 3/3 vs. BUF (Gerbe).
– Penalty Killing: The Blueshirts surrendered one goal to the Penguins in three power play attempts (5:34) on Saturday at Pittsburgh. New York is tied for 10th overall (78-94, 83.0%) and ranks 17th at home (47-56, 83.9%). The Rangers are 5-5 (5:52) in three-on-five situations (last – 3/10 at WSH), and 3-3 (4:19) when three-on-four (last – 3/3 vs. BUF). Shorthanded goals for (2): 1/20 vs. PIT (Nash); 3/12 at BUF (Stepan).
– Four-on-Four: New York did not tally/yield a goal in two four-on-four situations (2:05) on Saturday at Pittsburgh, and are now minus-1 in 18 four-on-four situations (33:21) this season. Four-on-four goals for (1): 1/23 vs. BOS (Gaborik). Four-on-four goals allowed (2): 1/20 vs. PIT (Letang); 1/23 vs. BOS (Horton).
The Rangers will begin their fourth of six back-to-back sets this season tonight against Carolina. New York has posted a combined record of 2-4-0 in back-to-back games, including a 2-1-0 (1-0-0 at home; 1-1-0 on the road) record in the first game and an 0-3-0 (0-2-0 at home; 0-1-0 on the road) mark in the second.
The Rangers have posted a record of 20-5-2 in their last 27 games against Southeast Division opponents, including a 5-2-0 mark against the Southeast Division this season. The Blueshirts have out-scored their Southeast Division opponents, 89-55, over the span.
New York swept their season series against Carolina last season with a 4-0-0 record, marking the first time since the 2002-03 season the Rangers completed a season series sweep against the Hurricanes (4-0-0).
Rick Nash is currently tied for the team lead with nine goals, having tallied his first eight goals of the season in the third period. Nash is the second player in NHL history whose first eight goals of a season were tallied in the third player, while fellow Ranger Arron Asham is the other to have accomplished the feat, in 2003-04, as a member of the New York Islanders.
Marian Gaborik has been among the league's goal scoring leaders since joining the Rangers in 2009-10. Last season, Gaborik became the fifth player in Rangers history to record 100 goals in his first three seasons with the club, and became the third Ranger in franchise history to register multiple 40-goal seasons with the team. Entering this season, his 105 goals from 2009-10 to 2011-12 ranked seventh in the NHL, while his .48 goals per game average ranked third (behind Steven Stamkos and Alex Ovechkin) over that time period. Including games played this season, Gaborik currently ranks seventh in the league with 113 goals scored and is tied for third with .46 goals per game since the beginning of the 2009-10 season.
The Rangers rank fourth in the NHL in hits (820) this season. Rangers' captain Ryan Callahan and forward Brian Boyle are tied for the team lead and eighth in the NHL with 92 hits apiece.
The Rangers rank among the Eastern Conference leaders in several statistical categories…
– 3rd (5th in NHL) in GAA — 2.41
– 2nd (6th in NHL) in FO% — 52.0%
– 1st (2nd in NHL) in Fewest PIM/G — 10.7
– 3rd (4th in NHL) in Hits — 820
– T-3rd (T-7th in NHL) in Blocked Shots — 430
– T-2nd (T-5th in NHL) in OT wins — 2
– The Rangers did not surrender a power play opportunity against on Mar. 7 at Long Island, marking the first time the Blueshirts did not have a shorthanded situation in a game since Jan. 10, 2012, in a 2-1 shootout win vs. PHX. The last time the Rangers did not allow a power play attempt against the Islanders was Jan. 7, 1989, in a 5-1 win at Long Island.
– The Blueshirts have had 13 players make their regular season debut with the team this season
– The Rangers' power play is 9-42 (21.4%) in the last 15 games
– The Blueshirts' penalty kill is 46-53 (86.8%) in the last 18 games
– New York has registered a point in eight of 10 games when scoring the first goal this season (7-2-1), and are 6-10-1 when allowing the game's first goal
– The Blueshirts have posted a 6-0-1 mark when leading after the first period, and are 7-0-0 when leading after the second period
– Henrik Lundqvist — has held opponents to three goals or fewer in each of his last eight games (4-4-0, 2.12 GAA, .926 Sv% over the span)
– Rick Nash — has tallied a point in 10 of his last 13 games (seven goals, nine assists over the span)
– Derek Stepan — has tallied a point in seven of the last nine games (four goals, five assists over the span)
– Ryan Callahan — six points (four goals, two assists) in the last seven contests
– Carl Hagelin — 13 points (six goals, seven assists) in the last 17 games, including four assists in the last six contests
– Ryan McDonagh — 11 points (two goals, nine assists) in his last 17 games, including six assists in the last nine contests
– Ryan Callahan — 3 assists from 100th NHL career
– Michael Del Zotto — 1 point from 100th NHL career
– Steve Eminger — 3 points from 100th NHL career
– Rick Nash — 2 goals from 300th NHL career; 3 games from 700th NHL career
– Brad Richards — 3 points from 800th NHL career
– Marc Staal — 3 points from 100th NHL career
– Anton Stralman — 3 points from 100th NHL career
– John Tortorella — 3 wins from 400th NHL career
– Michael Sauer (concussion, 12/5/11) — 27
– Arron Asham (injured, 2/19) — 12
– Marc Staal (injured, 3/5) — 6
Total Man-Games Lost: 68


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Robert Faires is Arts Editor for The Austin Chronicle, where he's been covering the local arts scene for more than 25 years. In 2011, American Theatre Magazine named him to a list of 12 of the nation's most influential theatre critics. He's also been active in local theatre since 1980, having worked on more than 60 theatrical productions across the city as an actor, director, and writer.

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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I'm in love with a bad boy, the kind l've wanted all my life. He is in love with me, but he has a rubber neck. He stares at the top or bottom of every waitress who walks by and makes no bones about it. "Nothin' wrong with lookin'," he says. Yet, if he catches me staring at a guy's butt, he tells me, "Little girl, your days with me are numbered." I know I'm too much of a goody-two-shoes to last with him, but I love him. How do I get over his wandering eye? I don't think he cheats on me but I don't know. -- Good Girl, River Heights
Dear Good Girl: A girl like you is much better matched with a guy who is a good boy in the outside world, but is a bad boy in bed. The bad boys through-and-through will make a wreck out of a goody-two shoes. Once your parents have been horrified enough by this fellow, move on to find the combo guy.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I woke up this morning, looked into my angry young wife's face, and wanted to run away from the marriage. As usual, on a weekend day, she was holding out a list of errands and jobs she demanded I get up and do. I saw my mother's face float in front of hers. I was shocked to finally realize I had married the younger version of my mother. My father caved in to my mother every time she got on his case, and I despised that. Now here I am with a list of work dangling in my face, when all I want is a little sleep or her to come back to bed and make love with me. She stood there dangling this thing in my face until I grabbed it, ripped it up, and threw it on the bedroom floor. She's not talking to me except for bare necessities. Needless to say, we've had no sex since. We have no kids and are in our late 20s. Should I leave her before we have kids? -- Not Her Slave, Winnipeg
Dear Not her Slave: No need to run away, but it's too bad you let it get to this point. The early cure for "the list" is to make a list for her, and present it while she's still in bed. In fact, wake her up to do it. But at this late date, you need to have a talk about the demanding mother flashback and how you can't continue playing these roles. See a counsellor right away and get yourselves back to the people you were before the marriage with a new plan in place for handling work and errands that involves sharing Saturday errands and lunch afterwards at your favourite spot, and lovemaking when you get back home in the afternoon. Too many young couples go from fun human beings to clones of one of their parents once the wedding and honeymoon are over because they don't know any other pattern. A relationship counsellor can explain the many different templates for a marriage.
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The latest opinion poll by ComRes is far from heart-warming for Labour, suggesting that the party has lost its poll lead over the Tories for the first time in seven months. The survey was done for tomorrow's Independent newspaper.
The poll finds that Labour support has dropped two points since the last ComRes survey to 37 per cent, putting the party level with the Tories, whose support has fallen by one point. Liberal Democrat backing has recovered by one point to 12 per cent. Read more


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DANCE fever hit a school as children put on their dancing shoes to raise money for charity.
Youngsters and staff at Leigh and Bransford Primary School, Leigh Sinton, near Malvern, wore their favourite dance outfits and putting their best foot forward for Macmillan Cancer Support's Dress Up and Dance campaign on Wednesday, June 4.
They were moving and grooving for the fundraising drive which is run in conjunction with Stagecoach Theatre Arts schools and asks pupils to come into school wearing their favourite dance outfits in return for a donation to the charity.
Teacher Lucy Tedds, who ran the dance workshops, said: "Children and staff really enjoyed the day and we all dressed up and joined in learning a range of moves from different styles of dance. We managed to raise just under £200 for this important cause."
All the money raised goes towards Macmillan's vital work, providing medical, financial, practical and emotional support to the two million people currently living with cancer in the UK, and their families.


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LSU coach Paul Mainieri said the Tigers' 8-1 victory against Lamar on Tuesday night was reminiscent of their three victories against Maryland last weekend.
He'd like to see more of the same when No. 3 LSU plays BYU at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in Alex Box Stadium, weather permitting.
"I told the guys after the game that the thing I was most pleased with was, like all weekend, when the games were tight at the end of the game I thought they showed great poise and composure, no panic," Mainieri said. "Our defense was good, our pitching was great and we figured out how to score some runs."
The Tigers took advantage of wildness from Lamar's pitchers to score six runs in the eighth and break open what had been a 2-1 game. Similarly on Sunday, they took advantage of the depths of Maryland's bullpen and scored eight runs in the seventh and break open a competitive game and win 14-3.
On Saturday, a four-run seventh ended a scoreless tie and proved to be the difference in a 5-1 victory, and in the season opener Friday, LSU made a third-inning run stand up in a 1-0 victory.
The Tigers have outscored their opposition 28-5.
"I love where our team is," Mainieri said. "There's still a lot of room for improvement and our best days are ahead of us, but I couldn't be more pleased with where we are right now. I feel like we're right where we're supposed to be. It's hard for me to find a lot of criticism for our team."
In each game, the Tigers pitching has been outstanding as it has compiled a 0.75 ERA and walked five and struck out 34 in 36 innings.
"You can't say enough about our pitching staff," said first baseman Mason Katz, whose two-out RBI-double broke a 1-1 tie with Lamar in the sixth inning.
In that game, Cody Glenn gave up an unearned run in the first and LSU shut out the Cardinals the rest of the way, using a total of five pitchers.
"I was really happy with the way we pitched the ball," Mainieri said. "I thought it was another outstanding pitching performance by our entire staff."
Aaron Nola, who set the tone with 6.2 scoreless innings in the season opener, will make his second start Thursday night. He allowed just two hits and one walk and struck out nine, one fewer than his career-high.
"All my pitches were working," Nola said, "but I can get better on two-strike curveballs and keeping the ball down low."
The pitchers have been helped by outstanding defense as the Tigers have made just two errors. Second baseman JaCoby Jones started two tricky double plays Tuesday and outfielder Mark Laird has made several difficult running catches.
Jones has also been one of the keys to the offense, hitting a homer in each of the last two games. He is also batting .444 with three RBIs, six runs and a .667 on-base percentage.
"Of all the things that have happened to us in the early portion of the season, I think probably the most encouraging thing is the evolution, the maturing of JaCoby Jones," Mainieri said. "I hope he can keep it up."
Jones, who had more than three times as many strikeouts as walks last season, has struck out three times and walked six.
"My confidence builds with each game," Jones said. "During the game when I see good pitches and lay off the bad ones it gives me confidence. I'm just trying to be real patient and real disciplined. That's the key."
The first four games have mostly been played in chilly, windy conditions, but rain could be a bigger issue the next couple of days. There's an 80-percent chance of rain Thursday and a 50-percent chance Friday.
Mainieri said Raph Rhymes will be back in left field after being the designated hitter Tuesday. … The other starting outfielders will remain Laird and Chris Sciambra, though Mainieri said he's unsure which will play center and which right. … Ty Ross will start at catcher after not starting Tuesday, though he entered the game in the seventh inning. … Tyler Moore will be the DH against BYU RH Desmond Poulson (1-0), who threw a four-hit shutout and struck out 10 against Northern Colorado in the Cougars' season opener Friday.


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So much of the conversation this week, with the 2011 season over, has centered around what the team's payroll is likely to be in 2012. Sandy Alderson has stood by a number between $100-110 million. And a number of people have taken great pains to point out that hey, lots of teams can win at that level- only two of the eight playoff teams spent more than $110 million this year!
There's a huge problem with that, however. Take a look at those rosters: how many contracts do you see akin to Jason Bay's, who provided a 0.6 WAR this year, and is scheduled to make $16 million next year? Or Johan Santana, who provided zero innings, and is set to make $24 million next year? Not many. Detroit had about $23 million with Carlos Guillen and Magglio Ordonez, making their effective payroll around $88 million. Texas, Milwaukee, Arizona and Tampa Bay had nothing like that. The Yankees had A.J. Burnett while the Phillies had Raul Ibanez and Brad Lidge, but again, their overall payrolls were so high that their effective payrolls were still way above $110 million.
Now, Santana may recover from a complicated shoulder surgery and pitch 200 innings. Jason Bay may regain his 2009 form. But neither one is particularly worth betting on. And you can be sure that Sandy Alderson knows he can't build a team around those assumptions.
So effectively, the number he has to build next year's team, even at $110 million, is really $70 million. And unlike Arizona and Tampa Bay, both of whom have build through the draft for years, the Alderson Mets have been doing that for exactly one draft. That's not Alderson's fault, of course- he and his crew handled the only draft they had extremely well. But that's not going to help them in 2012.
Now, as we'll get into shortly, it isn't necessarily clear that outside of Jose Reyes, the Mets have many compelling reasons within this free agent class to spend the $40-50 million that will get them from next season's commitments (Bay + Santana + Wright + Dickey + Carrasco = $60.5 million) to $110 million. That's the other problem- those playoff teams, in addition to spending more effective payroll than the Mets even can next season, didn't spend the lion's share of that payroll on free agents. Now, simply bringing many of the other 2011 Mets players back, raises, arbitration, etc., will raise that number from $60.5 million to around $75 million, give or take a Pagan. But that's still a large percentage to spend on a weak free agent class.


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AUSTRALIA should focus on turning Perth into a global energy technology hub, the head of oil and gas producer Woodside says.
Chief executive Peter Coleman said resources and agriculture would still make a big contribution to the Australian economy this century, but Australia's skills and ingenuity would allow the nation to succeed in the Asia-Pacific region.
''We must ensure Australia's endowment of natural resources does not create a sense of complacency in the Australian community, the feeling that our prosperity is virtually assured as Asia continues to rise,'' he told the In the Zone conference in Perth on Tuesday.
Mr Coleman said Perth could be a global leader in oil and gas technology. ''If you think about the work being done by Woodside and others in the industry, it's not hard to visualise a future where Perth is the LNG technology hub of the world.''
He also used the example of floating liquefied natural gas as an innovative contributor in the resources industry. Woodside is yet to make a final decision about proceeding with its Browse gas project in Western Australia, amid speculation partner Shell favours a floating LNG option.
While the nation had benefited from Asia's rapid growth, it had not been by design, he said. ''There's never been a more important time than now for Australia to complete its transition to a high-innovation, highly productive economy.''


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No-cost, professional, confidential counseling for Wabash College students and their dependents. Consultation for student organizations and student leaders. Consultants to faculty and staff on general student mental health issues.
We'll even see a student/student dependent anonymously the first appointment, to assess, educated them on their options and make referrals when appropriate.
Open office hours - Monday through Thursday 11am-1pm. When students/dependents can contact the counselors in the office or on campus. (Knock if we are otherwise engaged during this time, it is your time to drop in.) (Faculty /staff should use the Early Alert System for reporting student issues.)
Regular counseling appointments are arranged with the counselors, outside Open Office Hours
For students and their dependents to get objective, professional assistance for a broad range of issues. To help them manage the stress of college life and to promote healthy and effective life choices.
Your contact with the Counseling Center is confidential between you and the counselor to the fullest extent of the law (FERPA). Some examples when information has to be released include when there is an imminent danger to someone or a report of current abuse of a child or elder. Other releases of information, except to a treating professional, can also affect the privacy of your information, be sure to ask and understand when you initially seek services.
Some reasons Wabash students come to the Counseling Center:
We will make every effort to be available to you, in our offices and on-campus, during our posted office hours. You can call or drop by to speak with us, whether you are a student or their dependent. If you are dealing with a student situation that requires immediate attention, you need to use the Early Alert System to bring it to the attention of those who can respond, (Heather Thrush, Faculty, Student Life Staff, the Dean of Students Office, ect.).
If you would like to schedule an appointment with the Counseling Center, please call 765-361-6252. If you get voice mail, you may leave a confidential, non-emergency message for counselors Kevin Swaim and/or Jamie Sweet Douglas that we will return at our earliest opportunity, which may be the next school day. You may also use email to request an appointment, at email@example.com. Be sure to included the week days you are most available. Remember, email is not a confidential form of communication.
Appointments for further contact with the student / dependent will be at their request as schedules allow. When service needs are outside the scope of the Counseling Center, referrals and education on how to secure needed services will be provided. Services outside the Counseling Center are generally at the expense of the student / dependent.
For students being seen for the first time, (including being seen the first time in the new school year), please print this intake packet, read and fill it out as completely as possible, and bring it to your first appointment.
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McLouth, Davis help back Hammel's strong start
OAKLAND -- Nate McLouth makes leading off look simple. He enjoyed another game that filled up the box score, reaching base safely three more times on Thursday night.
"Knock on wood," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. "He's healthy."
McLouth had two hits, including a double, drove in two runs, scored twice and added a pair of stolen bases in Baltimore's 10-2 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Thursday night.
"Things are coming together now throughout the lineup," McLouth said. "We have good balance. I'm swinging at good pitches. That's what I'm most happy about."
McLouth is the lone Oriole with more walks (14) than strikeouts (8) and the nearly 2-1 ratio puts him in rarefied company in the league.
"I'm working the count and swinging at the pitches I want to swing at," he said, "instead of having to swing at what a pitcher wants."
McLouth was joined in the offensive slugfest by several teammates. Chris Davis hit a home run on his way to two RBIs, Nick Markakis drove in two runs and the Orioles opened their 11-game West Coast swing on a happy note.
"It's hard to look back and see we were down 2-0," Showalter said. "But we battled back. It's a good start to a tough road trip."
Jason Hammel did not allow an earned run in six innings, an effort the Orioles needed following Wednesday's extra-inning loss to the Toronto Blue Jays.
"I was basically struggling, but getting out of the second inning and limiting the damage was key," Hammel said. "Then the guys scored a lot of runs and I was able to stay aggressive."
Hammel allowed three hits, walked two and struck out two in just his second start in Oakland. At an earlier stage in his career, giving up the two unearned runs would have meant disaster.
"The first few years I'd get so frustrated, I'd try to do too much and would fold," Hammel said.
Showalter had seen the maturity in his pitcher.
"At this stage in his career when he gets mad or frustrated, he's able to channel it in the right direction," the manager said.
Adam Jones had three hits, including an RBI double, as the Orioles won the sixth of their last eight games. Jones has reached base safely in 21 of the 22 games, and has gotten a hit in 20 of them.
Davis reached base in four of his five plate appearances.
"Chris had some really good at-bats," Showalter said. "It's a good sign when he takes the walk instead of trying to force something."
After playing three consecutive one-run games, Baltimore needed a game like this, and so did the relief pitchers.
There were no tense moments or pressure-packed situations for relievers Troy Patton and T.J. McFarland, who combined for three scoreless innings.
Matt Wieters and J.J. Hardy each drove in a run for the Orioles.
The Orioles did commit a pair of errors. They had not made an error in their previous 10 games.
"The biggest thing was giving up a couple of tough runs and making Hammel work," McLouth said. "We were able to bounce back and Hammel cruised from there."
Rick Eymer is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Middens among dunes often include remains of crabs, crayfish, birds, fish and even whales.
When South Africa banned vehicles from driving on beaches in 2001, there was a massive outcry, not least from the 4x4 fraternity.
But in 2004 when the policy was reviewed, it was considered such a success that it is now set in stone.
Coastal dune conservation has emerged as a crucial endeavour for environmentalists as well as archaeologists because these dunes carry far more than just beach sand.
In northern KwaZulu-Natal, the massive and ancient dune system there has been found to be an enormous freshwater filtration system. Rainwater that falls on top trickles out decades later.
In Alexandria, the dunefields that are now part of Addo Elephant National Park are almost pristine, and preserve a landscape of extraordinary windswept beauty that is nearly 6500 years old.
Near Cape St Francis, and at regular intervals along the southern Cape coast, dunes protect middens of shellfish and other objects that show how early modern humans eked out a living here up to 50 000 years ago and more. These dunes carry crucial clues about human development. Coastal dune conservation is important for preserving such vanishing middens and archaeological traces.
The edge of the sea is also a place full of life – much of it extremely sensitive. For example, while vehicles were allowed on beaches, various coastal birds like the Damara tern and African oystercatcher were badly affected.
But once the vehicles were stopped, the improvements in breeding were 'staggeringly good', says ornithologist Tony Williams from CapeNature.
Studies found the birds were breeding earlier in the season and more successfully than before the 4x4 ban.
Coastal dune conservation is a now seen as a highly important part of safeguarding South Africa's enormous coastline and the immense biodiversity that it supports.
Travel tips & Planning info
Best time to visit
Summer (October to March) is the dry season in the Western Cape, so is the best time to backpack along beaches. The KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape coastlines are particularly pleasant during winter (May to August).
Tours to do
If you're anywhere near Cape Agulhas, enquire about the local shipwreck tour.
You could also do the five-day Whale Trail in the De Hoop Nature Reserve near Bredasdorp in the Western Cape. Book this through CapeNature. You might need to do this months in advance, depending when you'd like to do it. The best and most popular time is during the whale season (from about June to November).
The five-day Oystercatcher Trail near Mossel Bay will give you an insight into coastal creatures and history that you will never forget.
Get around
You're not allowed to drive on beaches or dunes. Rather walk. You'll see so much more anyway.
What to pack
Sunblock, hiking boots, beach shoes, a hat, a swimming costume and a towel or kikoi.
What's happening
You may encounter a midden while rambling around dunes. They will almost always be on the leeward side, and would be where women shucked shells of abalone and other sea creatures. On the windward side, overlooking the sea, you may find stone blades and spear heads. Do not remove any objects. These are important archaeological remains and, by law, must be left in situ.


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In his "Treasury for Word Lovers," Morton Freeman laid down a workable rule 20 years ago: Spell it as one word after a verb, two words after a preposition. By that rubric, reader Kline had it right -- he was staying awhile in Chicago, and also staying for a while. The rule works for me, but you should be aware that Merriam-Webster characteristically opts for anarchy: "Follow your own feel for the expression, and write it as one word when that seems right and as two words when that seems right." The distinction "is not important at all."
Before dropping the topic, let me rant once more about the abuse of "while" in the sense of "although" or "because." Consider two Horrid Examples from The New York Times a year ago: "Mr. Handwerker said that while (read 'although') he agreed with the reasoning behind the government's timetable, the company's engineers would find a way ..." And in the same article: "The contractors say that while (read 'because') they can move more quickly, they are pleased to operate ..."
What about "all right" and "alright"? For a good many centuries the two-word version was the only version. In the early 1900s, "alright" crept into newspapers and popular magazines, but it was not until 1934 that it passed through the heavenly portals of professional lexicography. Why the wait? The language had long welcomed such respectable unions, e.g.: altogether, albeit, already, although. Theodore Dreiser put "alright" to work in his manuscript for "The Genius" (1915). James Joyce used it in Molly Bloom's interminable soliloquy (1922). It strikes me as an inoffensive melding -- even though The Associated Press Stylebook emphatically disagrees. The choice lies in a writer's ear and eye.


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Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies + Exodus Announce 2014 Fall U.S. Tour
Amazing tour news! Slayer have just announced a monster tour with fellow legendary acts Suicidal Tendencies and Exodus! The trek will invade the U.S. beginning Nov. 12 in Oakland, Calif.
For any fan of thrash, this tour can not be missed. The three bands played a small handful of dates back in May, selling out each venue in the process. Thankfully, the trio have come together once again for a longer tour of the United States.
News of this tour comes just a few weeks after singer Rob Dukes parted ways with Exodus, allowing former vocalist Steve 'Zetro' Souza to return. "This monumental tour is a heavy metal collision of epic proportions," says Souza. "For my first tour back with Exodus, I'm beyond excited to be on the road with my brothers in true thrash metal! I'm also looking forward to meeting and hanging out with all of the fans on this heavy as hell tour." Exodus fans will also be treated to a double-dose of guitarist Gary Holt, who is a full-time member of both Exodus and Slayer.
"We are way f—ing excited about hitting the road again with Suicidal and Exodus," says Slayer frontman Tom Araya. "F—ing intense. See you in the fall."
"Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies and Exodus, for only six shows? They were a blast, but everyone knew that wouldn't be enough," add Suicidal Tendencies vocalist Mike Muir. "Now's your chance to see what everyone else was screaming about. ST definitely can't wait 'til November to do it all again!"
Check out the full list of tour dates below. See you in the pit!
Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies + Exodus 2014 U.S. Fall Tour Dates:
11/11 – Fox Theatre, Oakland, Calif.
11/12 – Fox Theatre, Oakland, Calif.
11/14 – The Forum, Los Angeles, Calif.
11/15 – Comercia Theatre, Phoenix, Ariz.
11/17 – Bricktown Events Center, Oklahoma City, Okla.
11/18 – ACL Live, Austin, Texas
11/19 – Verizon Theatre, Dallas, Texas
11/21 – Hard Rock Live, Orlando, Fla.
11/22 – The Tabernacle, Atlanta, Ga.
11/23 – The Fillmore, Charlotte, N.C.
11/24 – Empire, North Springfield, Va. (Exodus Only)
11/25 – The Armory, Albany, N.Y.
11/26 – Sands Events Center, Bethlehem, Pa.
11/28 – The Palladium, Worcester, Mass.
11/29 – Wellmont Theatre, Montclair, N.J.
11/30 – Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, Pa.
12/02 – Agora Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio
12/03 – Madison Theatre, Covington, Ky. (Exodus Only)
12/04 – Egyptian Room, Indianapolis, Ind.
12/05 – The Fillmore, Detroit, Mich.
12/07 – Aftershock – Merriam, Kansas (Exodus Only)
12/08 – Gothic Theatre – Denver, Colo. (Exodus Only)
12/09 – Pub Station – Billings, Mont. (Exodus Only)
12/10 – The Hop – Spokane, Wash. (Exodus Only)
12/11 – Studio Seven – Seattle, Wash. (Exodus Only)
12/12 – Hawthorne Theater – Portland, Ore. (Exodus Only)
12/13 – Senator Theater – Chico, Calif. (Exodus Only)
12/14 – Strummers – Fresno, Calif. (Exodus Only)
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I have a swedish keyboard, and i use å ä ö to write articles for example. Dreamweaver's design view can read them but as soon as I preview in broswer it looks like this, all these wierd signs is either å ä ö - Idag hÃ¥ller jag fortfarande pÃ¥ att bygga hemsidan som inom kort tid är klar.
Sometimes it works on some websites I have and sometimes not, on this it dosent, but on my other it shows it. So its like sometimes yes and sometimes not, And it dosent matter if I write it fom the code view.
Is there any soloution?
Make sure that 1) Dw is set to encode pages as UTF-8 2) Your server sends the page with the UTF-8 encoding3) you specify UTF-8 as your encoding in the meta element after your opening <head> tag.
<meta charset="utf-8">
If you want, show us the page in question and we can check your page and server encoding.
UTF-8 is a more universal character set that recognizes non-roman characters.
Oh, thanks. I usually delete <meta charset="utf-8"> in the beginning, in though of its something unnecessary.
Thanks man again and again!
If you have that meta element but the server is sending out a different encoding, the server setting will override the page setting. Have a look at this current thread:
I will!
9 times out of 10, that meta is redundant (as long as you are using latin-only English characters). But anytime you go beyond A-Z, 0-9 and punctuation marks, you should always specify an encoding (usually UTF-8 is your safest bet).
Yep. From now on I guess I'll choose that one always :P.
Also, declaring the meta tag helps avoid an unusual (and unlikely) hack, known as the UTF-7 hack.http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.htmlsearch for "utf-7" to specifically read about it.
For this reason my meta tag is the first thing in the <head>, even before the title. Joel also mentions how browsers will stop at that tag and go back knowing they are reading things now with the right encoding (never mind that what the server states in the HTTP Header always takes precedence... sometimes that Header isn't there at all). So I might be saving a nanosecond of time for the browser : )
Arg, sorry, the Joel article doesn't mention the hack, just UTF-7 in general.
But I brought it up so first [Wikipedia has a little bit about it but then in case you thought this really was only old IE [url=http://securethoughts.com/2009/05/exploiting-ie8-utf-7-xss-vulnerability-using-local-redirection/]read more here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-7#Security).
Also Google had security holes based on utf-7 which makes this encoding seem more and more interesting


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In my column from last Thursday, I highlighted the Russell 2000 small-cap index as having neatly marked last week's lows by pulling back to the bottom of the previous week's Nov. 23 Thanksgiving Day gap at the 798 level, coming within pennies of filling that one and bouncing.
After the bounce off of that level, I suggested that the Russell now might be in the process of marking another turn -- this time a top, presumably after filling its Nov. 7 gap. That gap, you'll recall, was at 825.64. Here's what I said last Thursday about that Nov. 7 gap:
"Now that the Russell 2000 has popped to 823.27, that gap has almost been filled. Once it's filled in its entirety, that might just be it for the near term. Note that today, the Russell 2000 has left another gap from Wednesday's close at 813.50. And while the Dow and S&P 500 have filled this morning's gaps, the Russell 2000 hasn't done so yet. That's a downside target for another pullback."
So, pretty much on schedule, on Monday morning, the Russell popped up to a high of 826.58, finally taking care of that bit of unfinished business on the upside as it neatly filled its Nov. 7 gap. At the morning highs, the Russell 2000 had exceeded that gap by less than a point. And that was that.
From there, the market hasn't collapsed, but look at what it's doing. It's pulling back as it should. In the case of the Russell 2000, as suggested last week, the pullback has now returned the index to its gap from last Thursday at 813.50. As noted, that gap at 813.50 is "a downside target for another pullback." The low today was 816.08, so the gap has been partially filled. It was originally 813.50-817.95. Now it's been narrowed to 813.50-816.08.
As usual, it's not just one thing that marked Monday's top, though you could have used just the Nov. 7 gap in the Russell to trigger a sell signal. But if that weren't enough, there was the action in the Nasdaq-100 (NDX), which stalled just shy of its early November high at the 2702 level and turned back down from the morning high of 2699, closing lower on the session and 27 points off the morning highs. That also was a sign of a near-term top forming, and a sign of trouble ahead.
Then there was the S&P 500, which again failed to get back to its Nov. 7 gap. It stalled less than 5 points shy of the gap (at 1428.39) and turned back down. Not great action for the SPX. Of note, the E-mini made a high of 1422.75, which was only 2.5 points shy of the gap in the futures from Nov. 7.
Of course, the market had other reasons to top out where and when it did. Notably, it was quite overbought. While not at overbought extremes, Thursday's reading of +169 was the most overbought it has been since September. Friday's reading of +155 was almost as overbought, and so, no surprise, when the market popped up on Monday morning, it couldn't hold its gains.
Was there some big deal news on the fiscal cliff to account for the pullback? Beats me. As usual, I had the sound muted on CNBC. Numbers, as usual, called the turn. The news, as usual, is just noise.


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Comfortable Studio + Balcony
Size45 m²
Floor No.2(with elevator)
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Air conditioning
- Washer/dryer
- Smoking allowed
- Elevator in building
- Lockable room
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|Via Appia Nuova, 00183 Roma, Italy
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The 45m² studio is tastefully furnished and bright. It features a sofa bed for 2 guests and a dining area with seating for 4. Large, floor-to-ceiling windows create an open ambience and thick curtains offer privacy and block out light, when desired. The bathroom is equipped with a shower. In the kitchenette, everything is available for preparing meals in the apartment.
A small, flat-screen TV and free Wi-Fi are available in the studio. Directly in the neighbourhood are restaurants, cafes, and shopping.
Located just 40 metres from the metro and bus stop, the apartment is conveniently located for exploring the city. The San Giovanni Plaza (Piazza San Giovanni) and the Basilica are just 150 metres away.
House rulesThe minimum stay is 2 nights, the maximum stay is 10 nights.
After one guest, $25 US per guest/night extra.
Check-in is 10am, check-out is 11am.
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Reviews of this property
mi sono trovato bene,la signora adele e suo marito sono stati molto gentili ,di sicuro quando ritorno a roma ci ritorno ,grazie adele ,
Wir wurden sehr herzlich von Adele empfangen. Es fehlte uns an nichts. Die Wohnung ist sehr sauber, zentral gelegen, nur 50 m von der Metro entfernt. Es gibt genug Einkaufsmöglichkeiten in der Nähe. Alles in allem ein gelungener Aufenthalt. Wir kommen wieder. Vielen Dank Adele
Sono stato una settimana a giugno. Posto rumoroso x che da su via Appia!
P.s chiedono se non errò 30euro x le pulizie !! Appena arrivato ho dovuto pulire casa io!!la casa era piena di peli di cane!!!non divertente x chi e allergico!!e tanto meno x chi paga x trovare pulito!!!
X 1 settembre solo 3 asciugamani!!...
Muy bien ubicado y con todo lo necesario para mi estancia. Adelle es una persona muy amable
Excellent small apartment in a convenient location - close to the center, 50 m from the metro station San Giovanni. Wonderful hosts. They provided a mobile WiFi router that I could carry around everywhere. The only drawback is a fairly noisy place.
Gran anfitriona y casa muy bonita y todo en muy buenas condiciones. Nos hemos sentido muy agusto tanto en la casa como en la ciudad.
Grazie Adele, Grazie Roma
Fatima y Marcos
To begin with Adele is a perfectly sweet lady who met me downstairs when I arrived and who stayed until I was perfectly settled in. The location of the apartment is excellent, on Via Appia Nuova, a bustling noisy Rome street during the day but very quiet once the shops close. There are a plenty of small bars and a couple of nice restaurants, and lots of shops. The apartment has a really nice balcony which caught the sunshine for a couple of hours when I stayed and I found it very relaxing to just sit and soak up some sunshine watching Via Appia Nuova going about its business (the apartment and balcony sit to the side of the building). The apartment was spacious for one person and brighter than appears from the photos - though the furnishings are dark. The bed is a little narrow even for one person but I slept comfortably. Via Appia Nuova is lively and typically Roman during the day, and also close to areas of interest such as St John Lateran Basilica just through the ancient Aurelian city walls. The Holy Staircase building and Holy Cross of Jerusalem Church are also nearby. I enjoyed walking as far as the historic centre past the Colosseum and Piazza Venezia, but there is a wealth of transport links: the metro is only a couple of hundred yards away, and there are bus and tram connections in St John Lateran square, so it is really easy to get places. If you are looking for somewhere absolutely quiet (very hard to find in Rome) this may not be for you.
Très bon accueil par les propriétaires.
Appartement bien situé à deux pas du métro ligne A San Giovanni et donc à seulement trois stations de Termini. Pour visiter la ville il suffit donc de prendre le métro, puis éventuellement un autobus à Termini et l'on va où on veut.
(A pied Saint Jean de Latran, et en marchant un peu plus le Colisée)
Equipement de la maison correct peut-être manque-t-il un petit four micro-onde et un grille pain, personnellement ça ne m'a pas gêné, de plus pas de lit double mais deux lits simples.
Immeuble récent très propre avec concierge et ascenseur, petit centre commercial en bas de l'immeuble.
Rapport qualité/prix parfait !
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HOUSTON - Hopefully the Houston Texans can brighten an otherwise gray Saturday with a resounding victory over the Cincinnati Bengals as the NFL playoffs get under way at Reliant Stadium.
For tailgaters and other Texan fans, it would be the only sunshine on an otherwise cold, wintry day.
With a seemingly permanent blanket of clouds overhead and a persistent north breeze, we'll scratch and claw once again to break 50 degrees Saturday afternoon. Expect another 20 percent chance for scattered light rain during the day, too.
The culprit for our cold, damp, gray weather is an upper-level disturbance that's been churning over the southwestern U.S. since we rang in the new year on Tuesday. It'll finally begin to lift out as we head into Sunday. By Sunday afternoon we actually have a good chance to see the sun return and brighten our surroundings once again. Our rain chances will evaporate and we may actually break 60 degrees for the first time this year!
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Please join the Massachusetts Bar Association as we celebrate
the opening of our 2012-13 association year on Thursday, Sept.
Colleagues and friends are invited to welcome 2012-13 MBA
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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
A recent issue of Forbes magazine posed the question, "Are CMOs the New CIOs?" The article appeared shortly after the president of my company assigned me, an archetypal right-brained marketer, responsibility for our IT department.
Clearly reflecting the rapid and continuing convergence of marketing and technology, his decision gave me pause. After all, unlike today's Gen Z which has grown up with the internet, smart phones, iPads, iPods, etc., I had only a workaday knowledge of the digital world.
My president was quick, however, to reassure me he wasn't looking for another techno wizard — we already had excellent IT talent — but rather someone who could provide the leadership to engage that talent in the real issues of our business. The objective was to bring IT into the fray and have our needs and norms placed high on their priority list.
Yet our situation was not uncommon. IBM recently surveyed 1,700 CMOs, 45% of whom cited a lack of marketing-IT alignment; some 70% felt unprepared to deal with social media and the data explosion; and 65% felt unprepared to deal with the growing number of channels and tech devices. Perhaps the most significant finding of the study, however, was that the respondents ranked the impact of technology on their businesses second only to that of market factors, and ahead of even macroeconomic factors and globalization.
These results point to a crying need for closer collaboration between marketing and IT, a need identified by another study conducted by the CMO Council. This study found that marketing and IT executives agree digital marketing is important to their companies, but neither felt they were partnering effectively with the other. Not surprising, considering that marketing and IT respondents both claimed ownership of their companies' digital agendas, revealing a major disconnect in how they view their respective roles, and raising the question as to who's in charge.
Notwithstanding fundamental differences in the nature of marketing and IT — I've heard them referred to as the odd couple — rapprochement is in order, and CMOs and CIOs should become best friends if not one and the same person. In this digital age greater alignment between marketing and IT can yield tangible benefits for companies and their customers alike.
For example, our company's website, previously owned by our IT department, is now much more customer-friendly, featuring improved functionality and faster, easier access to vital information.
While we still provide detailed product information, the focus has shifted to the industries we serve, such as chemical processing, oil and gas, power generation, pharmaceutical processing, pulp and paper and others. Resources and tools are more centrally located so customers can find the information they need more quickly and accurately. Our extensive archive of published technical articles is just a click away from the home page. In addition, the site has also been formatted for compatibility with mobile phones and tablets.
Before marketing took ownership of our website, it ran on code, making it difficult to update with new products and other important developments. Now we can make changes on the fly to keep it fresh and engaging. We also are launching a number of mobile applications to accommodate increasingly younger customers, many of whom no longer travel with laptops and are not inclined to call our toll-free number. These apps will provide instant information to remote field locations where our products are being used. Our IT people are also working with a leading provider of collaboration solutions to bring our applications engineering to the field digitally, instead of having our field sales and customers call and say, "Fax me a drawing."
In addition we re-architected our CRM system for sales lead management to make it a more effective tool for segmenting and gaining a competitive overview of our markets.
At the same time, we have been educating our IT people about our products, customers, markets and applications, while involving them in crafting our social media policy, all of which has them highly motivated to enhance our customer-connectivity. As a result, they are bringing us closer to our emerging customers, and enabling us to engage them on their terms.
Today, marketing professionals who are not conversant in digital technology run the risk of rendering themselves obsolete. At a minimum, we need to work closely with our IT counterparts, not only for job security, but for the substantial benefits a robust CMO-CIO relationship can deliver.
Janet C. Jessen is vice president of global marketing, engineering, innovation and IT for Palmyra, NY-based Garlock Sealing Technologies, which manufactures high-performance sealing products for the world's process industries. She also has served as vice president of business development for WaterfordWedgewood USA. She can be reached at 800-448-6688 or email@example.com.
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Great grandfather Private Stephen Taylor Hall born Nov.1829 in Alabama died 1904 in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas. Married Julia A Tankersley born 1835 in Alabama.
He joined Capt. Milton M. Boggess' Company, McKie's Squadron Mounted Volunteers, May 14, 1862 at Henderson, Texas. His muster records show his horse was valued at $200 and his equipment at $35. He served in the trans Mississippi Department in W.H. Parsons Brigade. Morgan's Battalion Texas Cavalry was organized with seven companies about November 23, 1863, by the consolidation of Major Charles L. Morgan's Squadron Texas Cavalry, Capt. B. D. McKie's Squadron Texas Cavalry and Capt. William B. Denson's Squadron Louisiana and Texas Cavalry. Three other companies were added at various times and the designation changed to Morgan's Regiment Texas Cavalry about February, 1865. He was a 3rd Cousin 3x removed to General Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 and 12 President. Picture taken 1896 Palestine, Texas.


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Forty-two teams hailing from some of the world's top universities will vie for more than $1 million in prizes at the 14th annual Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business April 10-12.
The teams for this year's competition were chosen from nearly 500 entrants to compete in four categories: life sciences; information technology/web/mobile; energy/clean technology/sustainability and social ventures.
The winner will take home a grand prize valued at more than $450,000, including seed funding and the opportunity to ring the closing bell at NASDAQ OMX Marketsite. Judges select the winner based on the company that represents the best investment opportunity.
This year's competitors are the most diverse in the history of the competition and come from top universities around the globe, including India, Taiwan, Bangladesh, United Kingdom, Germany, Kenya, Canada and the United States. (See below for the full list of teams.)
More than 155 past competitors have gone on to successfully launch their ventures and are still in business today. They have raised in excess of $844 million in funding and created more than 1,000 new jobs.
"The true measure of success for the Rice Business Plan Competition is the number of teams that launch, raise funding and go on to succeed in their business," said Brad Burke, managing director of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship at Rice University, which hosts the RBPC. "The RBPC has served as the launch pad for a great number of successful entrepreneurial ventures and the success rate exceeds the national average.
"Innovation and entrepreneurship are the driving factors for economic growth in the United States. We are pleased to do our part to support these young entrepreneurs who are willing to take risks to commercialize technologies that not only drive economic growth, but also lead to advances in health care, energy and other improvements in the lives of all people."
More than 140 corporate and private sponsors support the business plan competition, which includes 250 judges from the investment sector and awards more than $1 million in prizes. Top prizes include the $200,000 Investment Grand Prize from The GOOSE Society of Texas, two OWL Investment Prizes totaling at least $200,000, the $100,000 Mercury Fund Tech Transfer Investment Prize, the $100,000 Opportunity Houston/Greater Houston Partnership Technology Prize and the $100,000 Opportunity Houston/Greater Houston Partnership Life Science Prize.
This year's prizes include a new $125,000 Texas Halo Fund Investment Prize, a $80,000 SURGE Accelerator Most Innovative Energy Tech Startup Prize, a $25,000 CASIS ISS National Lab Space Flight Prize, a $15,000 Wells Fargo Clean Technology Innovation Prize and a new $4,000 RBPC Alumni prize sponsored by former RPBC competitors. This is the third year for the $100,000 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Clean Energy Prize to encourage students from across the country to create new businesses and transform promising energy technologies into innovative energy products that will help to create jobs, boost American competitiveness and strengthen the economy.
For more information on the 2014 Rice Business Plan Competition, visit rbpc.rice.edu.


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The Vitamix 5200 is part of the Blender test program at Consumer Reports. In our lab tests, Blender models like the 5200 are rated on multiple criteria, such as those listed below.
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About the Book
The Food-Stamp Budget Gourmet Cookbook introduces thirty-one unique world class gourmet entree recipes that can be produced inexpensively, accommodating the most cost conscious budget.
Even though the cost of food is relative to location, climate, availability, and demand, on the average these thirty-one recipes can be produced for five dollars or less per serving; less than the cost of a typical fast food lunch!
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Born and raised in Los Angeles, I always had an affinity for cooking. Once completing school, having attended Santa Monica College and Art Center College of Design, I opened my first restaurant, the Blue Board Café in Beverly Hills California, and found that working in the kitchen was truly second nature, and would become a life long passion. Years later, after selling the restaurant, I started up a successful catering enterprise "Papa Don's" and found myself marketing and stocking gourmet style soups and salads at eateries all around Los Angeles. Taking time out with wife Linda to raise our family, we relocated to the East Coast where I worked in several kitchens in and around Mystic Connecticut. Presently I reside in Los Angeles, California writing content and commentary for several online publications, and recently published the fiction work "Creation Anomaly".
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This article was published 27/2/2012 (2001 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
TEL AVIV -- A referendum on a new constitution for Syria Sunday changed nothing -- the opposition does not recognize the results and the proposed constitutional changes are so minor as to be meaningless.
The White House has already described the referendum as "laughable." Berlin called it a "sham" and a "farce."
The proposed reforms -- that new parties be allowed to compete with the single Baath party and that President Bashar Assad be limited to two seven-year terms beginning at the end of his current term -- are widely seen as gimmicks to provide cover for Russian and Chinese support of the regime, which they have declared should be given time to reform itself.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton immediately urged the Syrian army to turn on the regime and "put their country first," as happened in Libya. But unlike Libya, there have been no large-scale desertions from the Syrian army nor defections from the Syrian diplomatic corps.
Furthermore, the Syrian crisis is testing a new phase in international relations. Unlike Egypt, where President Anwar Sadat in 1972 "disengaged" from the Soviet Union and moved closer to the U.S., in Syria, the Assad family remains loyal first to the Soviet Union and second to Syria.
Hence, and contrary to hopes and predictions of the U.S., Europe, Turkey and the Arab Persian Gulf states that Russia could "adjust" its position in the Syrian crisis, Vladimir Putin leaves no doubt where he stands. Putin appreciates Syria's loyalty and believes that Sunday's referendum will give Assad a tool to continue his crackdown on the Syrian opposition.
Thus, the "battle lines" are drawn.
After a year of fighting, the regime is unwilling to yield to its opponents. Nor could the weak and disorganized opposition yield after a year of struggle that has claimed, so far, about 7,500 lives.
Each side considers yielding to be political suicide.
What, then, is the solution? All agree that the downfall of Assad could prove to be even more important than the removal of Iraq's Saddam Hussein.
It could bring regional change, as it concerns both Moscow and Tehran. It could affect the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Sunni-Shiite dispute and the freedom of movement to Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon.
It is now clear that even Syria did not correctly evaluate what would happen after the disappearance from the scene of Hussein in Baghdad and Rafiq Hariri in Lebanon. Both were Sunni Muslims; Assad and his clan are Shiites.
Now the U.S. is caught between its desire to see Assad gone and its fear of civil war in Syria.
For Russia and Iran, preserving their interests in Syria means keeping Assad in power.
The Arab states, mostly those of the Persian Gulf, have already concluded that the only way to undermine Assad's regime is to arm the Free Syrian Army. If the Europeans and the U.S. dither, the Gulf states won't -- weapons will enter Syria anyway, as they already are.
The question then will be: Is that sufficient? All agree that the maximum that can be smuggled into Syria through Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey will be light automatic weapons and light anti-tank missiles. The Free Syrian Army lacks qualified commanders who are able to design an all-state strategy. Will the West or Turkey send such officers to Syria? It's doubtful.
In contrast, Assad's army is well equipped with Russian tanks, missiles and artillery. If needed, Assad can use his missile arsenal. So far, he has shown restraint on that front. He can afford to -- everyone agrees that despite the ferocity of the struggle, he has the upper hand. The Sunnis in Damascus and Aleppo are solidly behind the regime. Bashar's father, Hafez, gave the Sunnis in these two cities many economic benefits and they have vital interests in preserving them.
What is more important, the Alawite ruling minority, only 12 per cent of 22 million Syrians, will fight to the death to keep its grip on power in Syria.
In Egypt the army did not hesitate to "sacrifice" Hosni Mubarak in order to retain its influence. Syria is totally different. Since the days of Hafez Assad, Alawite army, intelligence and security officers occupy the most important positions in the Syrian high command. They know that should Assad fall, they and their families will be slaughtered by the Sunni majority.
This is the dilemma that the U.S. and Europe are facing. A direct and deeper western involvement in Syria could lead to results that no one can predict.
Samuel Segev is the Winnipeg Free
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The neo-Darwinist model we refer to today as the theory of evolution proposes two basic evolutionary mechanisms; natural selection and mutation. According to the theory's basic proposition, these two mechanisms are mutually complementary. The source of evolutionary changes is random mutations in the genetic structure of living things. Again according to the theory, natural selection favors the most advantageous characteristics caused by mutations, and thus living things evolve.
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David Van Kleeck in the Union Army
David enlisted in the Union Army in 1862. He was enrolled August 10, 1862 in Company B of the 120th Regiment of the New York Volunteers and was discharged June 2, 1865. His description was given as follows: "Age 23 years; height 5 feet 6 inches; complexion, Dark; hair, Black; eyes, brown"
He was wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness - "... struck on the left side of the sturnam (sic.) by a gun in the hands of a soldier from which injury he has never recovered. Also that at Fairfax Courthouse in 1862 he was taken sick with Typhoid Fever which has also helped to contribute to his physical disability."
"... he was treated in hospitals as follows: 1st in Reg. Hos. for Fever at Fairfax Courthouse from there sent to St. Allucious Hos. at Washington. Then to the Episcopal Hos. Philadelphia & remained nearly a year in 1862 & 1863. Thence to Chestnut (hard to read that word - may be "Chester" instead) Hill Philadelphia. Thence to Fort Schuylar. After being injured in the Wilderness 1st Reg. Hos. thence to Rhode Island, Portsmouth Grove & remained about a year in 1864 & 65."
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Damn, you're so... well, ah... *hug-tackles Mrthejazz* Crazy. ~ 03:37, 3 February 2011
It's Mrthejazz... a case not yet solved. 03:52, February 3, 2011 (UTC)
edit THIS IS AWESOME
yep. --~ 08:37, February 5, 2011 (UTC)
edit From Pee Review
I have this in mainspace until it's reviewed. I fear deletion for political reasons.
It's Mrthejazz... a case not yet solved. 03:58, February 4, 2011 (UTC)
- Ah, hells. I'll try to review this. I guess. ~ 03:12, 13 February 2011
The idea, the angle, the grand funny of the article...
|I'ma hazard you're aware of the irony of putting such a thing as this up for review - you're literally saying don't put work into things, the opposite of Famine's dealy, and reviews are work. Requesting one is like an implied promise that you intend to put more work into something, and that you've already put in sufficient work that you now need help from another to continue... it amuses me in of itself. I have to wonder if you could have something about that, though - after all, you're sporking Famine's, but no need to stick to it entirely, right? Not that you have; you've already added a fair amount and taken the piece from simple reversal, after all, but there are so many other things you could pull in from around the site.
At any rate, I'll do a little work, myself, whatever that even is. I'll also go vote on some stuff and leave some comments nagging people about various site-related things and try to pull some articles out of the AAP category... not useful, eh?
Seriously, Famine's thingy has bugged me a mite, as well. It's like it's saying that the only important thing to be done around here is write articles, and that just ain't so. I mean, look at ChiefjusticeDS - hardly useless, but it's been quite a long time since he 'worked' on an article. And Sonje - she does images, something Famine specifically lists as not work, and she also hasn't written a single thing herself, yet where would the articles she has illustrated and the songs she has vocalised be without her expert aid? Famine's crusty thing belittles that, as well as what many others do that ain't writing articles, either, so I'm quite glad you've taken the time to put in a little 'work' of your own and say the cronking opposite. It needed saying, and in the spirit of Uncyclopedia, it needed saying funnily, which I'd say you've done rather well already.
Problem is, though, while a wonderful thing to parody, it is also almost entirely an in-joke as it is. More so than a lot of them; it's not just referential to the site and an attitude within, but to a very specific documentation of that attitude that isn't even in mainspace - perhaps you should make it more accessible? Use the parody of Famine's dealy, of course; that is the structure, and a very fine one, at that, but don't leave it at that so much as you have. Make more fun of everyone involved as well, of the points, of work in general, of reactions, of how seriously people take the notion of work. Not just here, but perhaps on wikis in general... 'work' is, after all, a particularly strange notion on a hobby site like this; what are we here for, really? And on Wikipedia, it's even more serious - if you could tie that in, effectively mock the wikipedias and the entire notion of 'work' throughout wilst sticking to the frame of Don't some work, it wouldn't just be an in-joke, but an obvious and strong feature candidate accessible to a wider audience, as well, sort of like Wikipoleonic Complex. Those familiar with Famine's would of course still get more of this, but there is certainly no need to leave it at that. And let's face it, somewhere back in Uncyclopedia's history, it was a parody of Wikipedia, and if we cannot mock them as well as our own overserious selves, what can we mock?
I know, I know, that would take even more work than you have already put into this, but... it'd be so awesome! At least, I think it would be. Feel free to smack me now if you feel otherwise, but I had to at least try. As it is, it's just so self-referential, without that much else.
The implementation, how funny the article comes out...
|As for specifics of the humour that's here and whatnot... hmmm... I'll just go from the start.
Work is not
Work is
When I work
The Beginning (A trip down ego lane)
The Idea (That I'm going to make better because I have a Monopoly on humor)
The Starting Research
Time So far, Update
|Prose and formatting
Appearance, flow, overall presentation...
|I'm afraid Famine didn't put that much work into his presentation. It's just not particularly good, and where you follow it too closely, yours seems to suffer for it as well. Take for instance the table of contents - that's a terrible place for it, considering how the lede tries to transition. Since it doesn't really serve a purpose, anyhow, though, might as well chuck it entirely. Famine's grammar also isn't that good - missing and misuse of commas, needless capitalisation, questionable paragraphing, etc; I'm not sure emulating that is such a good idea. Add to that poorly formed lists, inelegant usage of headers (a h1 in the middle of a page is bad. Well, not always, but in general. And here. Here it just looks bad) and a whole general lopsidedness of the thing, and... eh.
You'll get no argument from me about the 'trip down ego lane' thing being just that, but there is also just so much of it and so little jokery about it, proportionally to the size. Problem is, though, I'm not really sure how much you can change while still sticking to Famine's frame; looks like you've already shortened the 'The Beginning', and the pictures and whatnot, while making it look more like an article and less like a rant, pull it away quite a bit... more and it may well move too far. Still, if you can fix the grammars and whatnots, format the lists, cut out more needless, work in more general humours besides just mocking Famine, you should be able to still stick to the frame whilst getting it to look a wee bit better. That could be part of the joke, too - irony in how the don't do work is better...
Guuh. My normal complaints are mostly on what Famine already did, though, which is just irritating. Only things that're actually your doing that I can think of are some of the headers - smaller headers should be for subsections of the same idea, and when the idea changes, should get a new section. Famine had that problem too, but you may have actually made it worse. I'm not sure. At very least you made it different. And there are also the image captions - the folks musing with the pipes are all very well and fine, but who wants to actually read all that crammed in small font into a small box? It's not that what's there is bad, but... I dunno. Might want to try to shorten the longer ones, even if you are running a supporting sidestory there, just so folks are more inclined to read it.
The graphics themselves, as well as their humour and relevance...
|Wheee, pipes. Decent, but you do need to be careful with the sidestory-ness. It's related, but doesn't directly tie in, so there is danger of losing the reaser even before the too long captions. The last one also seems more random, which sort of fits, but sort of not, so be careful with that. Overall decent images, yes, decent gig going with thim, except for the stick which seems completely out of the blue... it fits with its section but not the other images.
And could you maybe get another one of that same guy - another screenshot of him from the same whatever that's from, perhaps? Mix it up a little more, perhaps...
What was I saying?
Anything else... or not...
|Okay, I'll admit - I don't entirely disagree with Famine's notions, especially in regards to... some. There are a few users who I really wish would stop dicking around and do something useful... write something, read something, spend some time on something, GET THE HELL OF MY TALKPAGE something... but... eh. Actually, I tend to mind them a lot less when they just keep the lengthy chatter off my talkpage...
|Final score
~ 22:26, 13 February 2011
|That's my rant to the counter-rant to the rant. Or something. Hopefully it makes sense and whatnot, or at least contains some helpfulness. Satire, eh?
Oh, gods, I really hope Famine never reads this. Not the article; that justifies its own existence well enough, at least in userspace (probably be fine in mainspace even as it is, though it's still too in-jokey to really go anywhere), but this review, it's... oh well.


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Exercise and Arthritis
Arthritis pain naturally causes most adults to slow down and limit activity. Not exercising, however, can result in more problems.
Understanding how moderate exercise can help arthritis pain and disability is just the beginning. Starting an exercise program is the next step and often the toughest.
This video provides an introduction to starting a safe, effective exercise program. Be sure to talk to your doctor before starting an exercise program, especially if activity is painful for you or you have been sedentary for a long period of time.
This video © American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Many of the images included in this video are courtesy of Thinkstock ©2013.
Last reviewed: October 2013
AAOS does not endorse any treatments, procedures, products, or physicians referenced herein. This information is provided as an educational service and is not intended to serve as medical advice. Anyone seeking specific orthopaedic advice or assistance should consult his or her orthopaedic surgeon, or locate one in your area through the AAOS "Find an Orthopaedist" program on this website.
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Arthritis: An Overview (http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00208)
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CES 2009 - Day 1: Netbooks, "Talking" Cars and moreby Anand Lal Shimpi & Manveer Wasson on 1/9/2009 12:00 AM EST
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vjoose - Friday, March 13, 2009 - linkSomebody please send a copy of this vista driver to my mail box...
Enough suffers with the fxxking Intel driver. I just can't hold myself dreaming of turning my mini 12 to the one shown in CES ... Reply
icrf - Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - link"The Imagination Technologies staff also ran a dual stream video decode demo where they had a Atom/Poulsbo netbook playing one 8Mbps H.264 video and a 1080p H.264 video on an external display, simultaneously."
I thought Poulsbo could only output 1366x768, so it's not outputting 1080p anywhere.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc...">http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc... Reply
syrup1971 - Monday, March 23, 2009 - linkThe Video decoder, can decode 1080P video, so it is showing a 1080P video, which is scaled using the graphics core, to format for the display. The display pipeline is capable of higher resolutions than 1366x768, as witnessed for example in Sonys vaio P, with its 1600x768 display. Reply
sprockkets - Sunday, January 11, 2009 - linkThe HP pictures are wrong. The first two are the new HP Linux GUI interface netbook, http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/compute...">http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopp...imi_seri...
The other one must be the business one. I recently used a Dell Mini 9. Keyboard is a bit too small. But those HP ones are nice. Reply
JonnyDough - Saturday, January 10, 2009 - link"Intel gave a few examples of how this system could be used. Say the car in front of yours with this system in place applied its breaks (hence illuminating the LED brake lights), data embedded in those lights can be sent to your car and processed by an onboard computer (powered by an Intel Atom, of course). The computer could then either warn you that the car in front of you is slowing down or even apply the brakes for you."
I just wanted to say that this is going to present major problems. People will get used to auto-braking and the sound that tones when someone in front of you brakes. Ice over the sensor or headlights, a dead sensor, or a dead pulse switch is going to leave you in the rear-end of the car in front of you.
Oh, and Anandtech: Quote button doesn't work right. Reply
sprockkets - Saturday, January 10, 2009 - linkCars apply their "breaks" all the time, huh? Reply
vailr - Friday, January 09, 2009 - linkRe: "The SGX543 will probably show up in designs in about 2 years."
I'd tend to doubt that statement. I'm guessing: more like one year or less. Also: there was a mention somewhere online about a dual-core Atom CPU being in development. Any news about that? Reply
Penti - Friday, January 09, 2009 - linkDual core atoms is available today it's called Atom 330 which is a 8W TDP dual-core desktop Atom. Reply
ebayne - Friday, January 09, 2009 - linkThe same folks who bought the jellybean colored macbooks will buy the Sony in droves. For the same reason. They're cute. Women, students and metrosexual execs will line up to purchase it because it looks "nice" and because all their friends want them. Feature conscious road-warriors aren't Sony's target demographic. Reply
JimmiG - Friday, January 09, 2009 - linkThat Sony netbook doesn't even look very good IMO. I like the look of that new HP Mini a lot more.
I also agree that Atom-powered netbooks only make sense in the <$400 segment. Even with a GeForce GPU, there just isn't enough raw CPU power to justify spending $600 or more on an Atom netbook. If you want to spend more, just buy a 13" Core2 machine with better graphics. I do like my $290 Aspire One, though. Reply
Zoomer - Saturday, January 24, 2009 - linkTo be fair, the eee isn't 1.2lb like the sony is.
Would probably make a difference in their overstuffed handbags. Reply
VooDooAddict - Friday, January 09, 2009 - linkNetbooks are slow. Even these $500-$900 units being toted here.
People are usually willing to take 2 out of 3. I'll take slow, portable, and cheap. but not slow, portable, and expensive. Netbooks have a perfect niche under $400.
I've got an Acer Aspire One it's perfect... for $300. If I had paid $500+ for this kind of performance I'd feel robbed.
To even get a glance $900 that Sony for $900 needs a dual core Atom and 2gb of ram. Reply
JonnyDough - Saturday, January 10, 2009 - linkNetbooks aren't THAT slow. A modern netbook could run Windows 95 fantastically. They can even handle XP ok. But Vista + Atom = slow, no. You simply can't run Vista with the current Atom lineup. Reply
aeternitas - Sunday, January 11, 2009 - linkI hope you mean Windows 2000. There is no reason to run Win95 on anything anymore. We have light distros of Linux for hardware that slow with way more functionality and compatibility. Reply
JonnyDough - Monday, January 12, 2009 - linkYou'd be an idiot to run Windows 95 on anything connecting to the internet. My point was that Vista cannot run on crap hardware. Reply
OCedHrt - Friday, January 09, 2009 - linkI believe Microsoft's dev team has released an unsupported driver that allowed the wireless NICs under Windows to be emulated, allowing you to link an emulated wireless with any of the free Wireless AP software that is available today.
Also, many MB manufacturer's who have the wifi cards also bundle it Wireless AP software. Reply
strikeback03 - Friday, January 09, 2009 - linkOr, verify that the hotel actually does not allow multiple devices to use the same MAC. I accidentally found that our network (with MAC filtering) at work does not care if two systems use the same MAC address. Reply


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L'Oréal signed a contract for the acquisition of Colombian makeup brand Vogue from its shareholders, according to an October 2012 press release. "The brand represents development opportunities outside of Colombia, particularly in Ecuador and Peru," said Alexandre Popoff, L'Oréal's executive vice-president of Latin America.
In Colombia, Vogue is the leader in mass-market makeup, with sales of approximately $38 million in 2011. In its press release, L'Oréal also noted that 2011 sales of Vogue outside Colombia grew by 21% over 2010, and sales outside of Colombia also increased to 12% of the total sales.
The move follows L'Oréal's June 2011 $38 million investment to build a hair color production facility in San Luis Potosí, Mexico—the company's largest such facility—which opened in mid-December 2012.
In other LA market moves for L'Oréal, Valentín González was named leader of the active cosmetics unit of its Argentine subsidiary, which includes the La Roche-Posay and Vichy brands. González has headed, and will continue to head, the regional luxury unit for the past 12 years.
In November 2012, the luxury division celebrated the first anniversary of its brand Yves Saint Laurent in Argentina. Despite the strict barriers on imports in Argentina, the brand, according to González, has met launch goals and has continued to develop in the region, offering a model for continued international expansion.
In October 2012, Mariela Martínez was named Avon's marketing planning head for the Southern Cone, which is comprised of Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay. She has worked for the company since 2003, and replaces Claudia Germino, who will now be working as executive director of sales for the region.
Also, Andrés René Ordóñez was named Avon's new general manager for Southern markets (Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay and Paraguay). He was previously general manager of Avon China.
Jorge Uribe, P&G's president of Latin America, will became the company's first global productivity and organization transformation officer, a position the company created as it works on improving its structure and cutting costs. Uribe, who took up the new role Dec. 1, 2012, will report directly to chairman and CEO Bob McDonald, and will also be part of a new productivity council of senior managers.
Tarek Farahat, formerly president of P&G Brazil, will step in as president of Latin America. P&G Brazil will now be led by Alberto Carvalho, former vice president for Gillette Global and manager of P&G for Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.
In an effort to avoid misleading advertising of cosmetics and personal care products, the Mexican Federal Commission for Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) published an official standard for labeling.
Carlos Berzunza, president of the Chamber and Association of Home and Personal Care Industry (CANIPEC), said these changes were implemented to ensure honest labeling of cosmetics but, above all, to protect the health of the population and discourage the proliferation of "miracle" products with druglike claims. "It is expressly defined that cosmetics cannot be assigned the actions of a drug," he said.


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Megan Hauserman probably banged a murderer
Rock of Love reject Megan Hauserman may have just gold dug her way into a murderer's pants. Turns out Ryan Alexander Jenkins, one of the contestants on her currently running reality show Megan Wants a Millionaire, is a person of interest in the death of a Vegas stripper whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase. TMZ reports:
Jasmine Fiore was found in a trash bin in Buena Park last Saturday morning. She was first reported missing by Jenkins on Saturday night. We're told the Buena Park PD has been trying unsuccessfully to contact him and fear he may be on the run. A police official told us they fear the 32-year-old Jenkins, a resident of Calgary, may be fleeing to Canada. As the official put it, "It's suspicious."
Jenkins was a contestant on "Megan Wants a Millionaire." The star, Megan Hauserman, told TMZ Jenkins met Fiore at a strip club in Las Vegas where she worked as a dancer. Megan says Jenkins married Fiore two days later.
We're told Jenkins — who was a finalist on the show — went right to Vegas after getting booted from the show and met Fiore.
We spoke with Megan by phone, who told us Jenkins was smart, nice and she is shocked by the turn of events.
Wow. You know what the most fucked up part of this story is? There's a reality show where millionaires compete for the love of a self-proclaimed gold-digger with fake breasts. That's the saddest thing I've heard all day.


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LOS ANGELES COUNTY - A coalition of law enforcement arrested 456 people on suspicion of intoxicated driving during their holiday DUI crackdown, authorities said.
The arrested were made between 12:01 a.m. Friday and midnight Sunday in Los Angeles County by a coalition of 100 law enforcement agencies collectively knows as "Avoid the 100," Glendora police Senior Community Service Officer and task force coordinator Wendy Brewer said in a written statement.
Drunken and drugged driving arrests were down compared with the same time period last year, when 598 arrests were reported, she said. Two traffic fatalities were reported in the county over the weekend, and both were linked to allegedly intoxicated drivers.
The Avoid the 100 Task Force will continue its crackdown through New Year's Day, officials said.
Funding for the task force is being provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
- Brian Day, twitter.com/sgvcrime