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Jara Jones Joins THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
Off-Broadway Family Theatre announced that Jara Jones has replaced RoBert Gilbert in its well-received inaugural production of C.S. Lewis' "THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE". The production opened October 22, 2011 and continues to play on Saturdays at 11 AM at St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th Street (west of 8th Avenue), NYC.
Jara Jones will take over the roles of Peter, Aslan and others. His other recent stage credits include: Pageant Princess, Home and Richard III. A graduate of the University of Southern California, Jara is also a poet/singer/songwriter and his work appears on his site: Odes and Nonsense (www.21stcenturynonsense.blogspot.com ) Catherine Fowles, who will continue to play Lucy, White Witch and others, has appeared Off-Broadway in The Boychick Affair. Her other stage credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Chorus Line, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, La Cage Aux Folles, Anything Goes, Crazy for You, How to Succeed..., and The Sound of Music.
In this inventive and highly theatrical adaptation of C.S. Lewis's beloved tale from the Chronicles of Narnia, two actors play eight characters, both human and animal. Through the magic of theatre, we travel to Narnia through the old wardrobe with the four Pevensie children, and get swept into their journey to stand with the great lion Aslan against the evil White Witch. As the children battle the forces of evil they discover that Love is the deepest magic of all.
As dramatized by le Clanché du Rand, the two actors play children, beavers, fauns, wicked witches and mythic lions, all under the direction of Julia Beardsley O'Brien. Set and lighting design is by Josh Iacovelli with costumes and masks by Tom Long.
Off-Broadway Family Theatre provides quality theatrical
experiences for family audiences by presenting both new and classic plays targeted towards children while still appealing to adults. "THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE" is its inaugural production. Ms. O'Brien said "We invite our audience to use its imagination. There is no fake snow or audience participation. Instead we create a 'magic circle' in the theatre. When the actors are INSIDE the circle, they are SHOWING you the story as it comes to life. When the actors step OUTSIDE the circle, they are TELLING you the story. Join us for our re-telling of this beloved magical classic."
Director Julia Beardsley O'Brien's NY directing credits include "The Rise of Dorothy Hale" (Assistant Director); the National Tour of
"Gilligan's Island, the Musical" (assistant director); "Mad Forest" (QED
Productions), "True Story Project: Faith" (Visible Theatre), and "Clucky, the Brave Little Hen" (Visible Theatre/Stone Barns Center). She has also worked as the Education Director for a non-profit theatre, a teaching artist for various organizations, and is an Off-Broadway Producer and General Manager with Jessimeg Productions.
Performances of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe began October 22nd at 11 AM at St. Luke's Theatre, 308 West 46th Street, west of 8th Avenue, NYC. Tickets at $35 are available through www.telecharge.com or by calling (212) 239-6200. Running time is 45 minutes and the show is appropriate for children age five and older. For more information, visit www.narniaoffbroadway.com.


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NLDS Game Four Recap: Giants 8, Reds 3
There was a pretty good chance the Giants were going to lose on Tuesday. As you'll recall, they had one hit through nine innings; they drew one walk; they scored because of a passed ball and an error; etc. They could have very, very easily lost on Tuesday. And if they had, Tim Lincecum's season highlights would have looked like this:
It would have been a totally lost season. Giants fans would have moved on from "What's the matter with Timmy" to "What do we do with Timmy." Brian Sabean would have picked up pretty ladies at bars by bragging about the time in 2011 when, like a boss, he managed to avoid signing Lincecum to the seven-year deal that everybody wanted. Lincecum would have gone into the spiraling descent that top athletes go into when everything goes wrong so quickly, and when more and more extreme fixes seem like the cure.
The 67 ERA+ is permanent. Tim Lincecum will end the season with a 67 ERA+. And yet, because the Giants' season didn't end Tuesday, Lincecum got another chance. If the Giants keep winning, and if Lincecum doesn't do anything to screw this up, by golly he can turn this whole thing into a success. It's almost cooler this way. This way, it's not just Timmy being good at pitching. It's Timmy figuring out how to get it done, even though he's not.
So the question is this: Is Bruce Bochy some kind of genius? When he left Lincecum out of the rotation, in favor of Vogelsong and Zito, the statement seemed to be that he wanted Vogelsong and Zito to pitch instead of Lincecum. But Lincecum ended up throwing more innings than any Giants pitcher except (presumably) Cain. Was this the plan? Probably not exactly, but Lincecum's value as a reliever is higher than Zito's value as a reliever, and that's not nothing. Lincecum's value as a starter is probably higher than Zito's value as a starter, too, but, gosh, you could forgive Bruce Bochy for giving up on that faith after six months and one week.
Bochy did manage to keep his faith in Zito. The first chance he had to remove him was before the game, when somebody in the Giants' IT department slipped him a memo pointing out that Zito's FIP was 4.53, pretty lousy and worse than Lincecum's. Bochy passed. Then in the first, when Zito walked three batters and forced in a run, Bochy stuck with him. He didn't pinch-hit for him in the top of the second. He didn't remove him when Joey Votto came up with two runners on in the bottom of the second, and he didn't remove him after a lead-off home run in the third. I was noting all these opportunities to myself because I was fully convinced that Zito was going to somehow survive into the sixth inning and ugly his way to the win. Perhaps Bochy was, too, but he was rewarded instead with the following line: 2 ⅓ inning, four hits, four walks, two runs, both earned. Zito had a chance to clinch the NL West in 2010, and he had a chance to stave off elimination on Tuesday, his two biggest starts as a Giant. In both games, he was terrible. He was always terrible, but then when it mattered he was also terrible. Sort of the opposite of Tim Lincecum this week.
So that's probably that. Unless Bochy decides he can't do without his new bullpen ace, you'd think he'll put Lincecum into the rotation for any future series. If the Giants make the World Series, Zito might not even have a spot on the roster. Again.
Dusty Baker was interviewed during the game. Here's how it went.
Announcer: We talked to Dusty Baker between innings.
That's how quickly it went bad.
Now Mat Latos against Matt Cain. Latos denies he has or had the flu, no matter how many times you heard it and read it.
"Mat is Mat, you know what I mean?" Honest have no idea what he means. But whatever, good news for the Reds.
The Reds are still going to win, even if Sean Marshall and Aroldis Chapman have to pitch three innings apiece. Dusty Baker sure doesn't want to get a reputation for blowing huge post-season leads, after all.
Sam Miller is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @SamMillerBB
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text: Maximize Your Day: What's the Best Way to Work When You're Overworked? When there aren't enough hours in the day, should you work late or get up early? start-up, entrepreneur, side business, small business, start-up launch, going proNEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Whether you're a busy executive juggling a demanding work schedule or an aspiring entrepreneur with a business to get off the ground, more often than not there just aren't enough hours in the day. Although it would be nice to get everything accomplished between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. each day, when that can't happen we're forced to choose between being up with the sun or burning the midnight oil. No matter your career or business goals, experts say there is a smarter way to work when you're overworked. Check out best strategies for your busy days. If you're a busy executive ... "If it's not on your calendar it's not going to get done," says Steven Raz, co-founder and managing partner at executive search firm Cornerstone Search Group. "You are always going to get pulled in different directions, but if you block off two or three hours a couple of days a week just for administrative duties or processing your email backlog, then you'll ensure that those things get done." Busy executives also have to learn to maximize every moment of their work day -- even on their daily commute or on a business trip, Raz says. "There is no clock on your day. There is no 9-to-5," Raz says. "If you're traveling on a plane, in a car service or on a train and you have a little bit of time to focus, you've got to be working." Many executives embrace the power of early office hours to accomplish more than they can when surrounded by co-workers, Raz says. "I like to get into the office early, around 7, about an hour and a half before everyone starts getting in at 8:30. I find that I can get two to three times the amount of work done than I could in a normal hour-and-a-half stretch in the middle of the day," Raz says. "Those morning hours are critical for responding to emails, doing proposals or other things that have to happen with minimal distraction."


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Aggressive Baxter hits another walk-off winner
Queens native provides clutch pinch-hit for second time in three games
NEW YORK -- A significant reason why Mike Baxter has endeared himself to the Mets is his patience. Baxter often works walks, rarely swings at pitches out of the zone and has become a quiet example of general manager Sandy Alderson's on-base philosophy. When Baxter walked five times in a game last season, Alderson congratulated him personally.
But Baxter's main job with the Mets is that of a pinch-hitter, a role in which he does not believe patience always fits. Aggression, Baxter has learned, tends to pay more late-game dividends.
With that in mind, Baxter approached home plate with a hostile mindset in the ninth inning Thursday, two days removed from a walk-off single against the White Sox. Swinging at the first two pitches, he converted yet again, singling to send the Mets to a 3-2, walk-off win against the Pirates at Citi Field.
"Talking to the players that we've had in the past that have had a lot of experience pinch-hitting … I think the consensus among them is you've got to be a little more aggressive," Baxter said. "You've been idle all game. You don't have that rhythm of the game. So if you get a pitch in the zone, especially a fastball that you're looking for, you should probably go ahead and try to get your timing on that first one."
The Mets considered asking Baxter to hit in the eighth inning, after David Wright hit a one-out single. But when John Buck was unable to advance Wright into scoring position, manager Terry Collins called Baxter back from the on-deck circle and proceeded with Lucas Duda, whom he considered more likely to shoot a ball into the gap.
An inning later, Marlon Byrd led off with an infield single against Pirates closer Jason Grilli. This time, the Mets sacrificed the potential winning run into scoring position, bringing their secret weapon off the bench.
Baxter fouled back Grilli's first pitch, a fastball high in the zone. The second was a much more hittable heater, and Baxter redirected it into center field for his second walk-off hit in three days.
"You tip your hat," Grilli said. "Some nights you make good pitches, some nights you don't. Big league hitters and players make plays. That's what happens sometimes."
Baxter previously hit a walk-off Tuesday at Citi Field, pinning a happy ending on Matt Harvey's near-perfect game. His latest hit marked the third straight home game in which the Mets have walked off winners, counting Jordany Valdespin's grand slam against the Dodgers to end their last homestand.
"Very enjoyable," Baxter said. "It's a good feeling and a couple good wins."
In Baxter's mind, a significant amount of credit went to the man he pinch-hit for, center fielder Juan Lagares. With Bobby Parnell in danger of coughing up a go-ahead run for the Pirates in the top of the ninth, Lagares ranged back on a rocket that Andrew McCutchen hit to the warning track. The rookie timed his leap and snared the ball to rob McCutchen of a certain extra-base hit -- possibly of a home run -- ending the inning with a man on base.
"I just said, 'I've got to go hard, because that at-bat right there can be the game,'" Lagares said. "I got a good jump and I got the ball."
He and Baxter made a winner out of closer Bobby Parnell, whose bizarre season now includes more wins (four) than saves (three).
It also made for a thankful starting pitcher. Dillon Gee worked on a scoreless outing until the sixth inning, when two singles and a hit batsman loaded the bases with no outs. That led Gee to the dugout, where he watched nervously as Brandon Lyon induced a shallow sacrifice fly, a popup and a groundout, limiting the damage to one game-tying run.
The Mets and Pirates traded runs in the later innings on Ike Davis' double and Pedro Alvarez's homer, while the Mets bemoaned their inability to do much damage against Pittsburgh starter Jeff Locke.
Then it was time for Baxter.
Already well-known both for his Queens roots and his historic catch during Johan Santana's no-hitter last June, Baxter added to his legend Tuesday against the White Sox. Collins, meanwhile, has learned to pigeonhole Baxter into a distinct role. Should any late-game situation require a home run or extra-base hit, Collins typically turns to Valdespin, who has built an impressive pinch-hitting resume of his own.
But if a base hit is all he requires, the manager calls for Baxter. And Baxter knows what to do. Spending the past few seasons soaking up advice from pinch-hitting aficionados, such as former teammate Scott Hairston and third-base coach Tim Teufel, he has carved his own sizeable niche into the home dugout bench.
"This guy comes off the bench with a plan, with something in his mind, and he executes it," Collins said. "It's truly amazing, because that is one tough job. And for a young guy to do it as well as he does, it is truly remarkable."
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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For Italians, pasta is everything. It's our heritage, our comfort food, our excitement and enthusiasm—pasta is pure sexiness!
Italians cook with both fresh and dry pastas, but don't be fooled! They are very different from each other and they are absolutely not interchangeable.
We cook fresh pasta for special occasions or with special sauces: Grandma prepares it for the Sunday family lunch; the local bakery sells fresh ravioli or tortellini; and your favorite restaurant might offer fresh pappardelle to honor the wild boar that was hunted, prepared and cooked over the weekend by the locals.
Fresh pasta is traditionally prepared with semolina flour, but there are many recipes and variations, from each region of Italy and each family's tradition. There's nothing like a plate of Tortelli di Patate (Potato Ravioli) with meat sauce when a blizzard is keeping you in the house and the windows of the kitchen get steamy and wet. And there's nothing like a dish of fresh tagliolini with seafood, and a glass of dry Pinot Grigio when the weather warms up and June comes around and opens the doors to summer.
But in most cases, when Italians talk pasta, they're usually talking about the box of dry pasta that can easily be purchased at every grocery store and market. I've never been in a household that doesn't have a stash of pasta boxes in the pantry.
Dry pasta comes in a multitude of shapes and lengths, and though their textures and consistencies are mostly the same, we like to think that certain "cuts" of pasta are meant to be paired with specific sauces and ingredients. This can also be a matter of personal preference, but here are some examples to show what I mean, starting with long pastas.
Spaghetti are the most common and loved kind of pasta. They are the stereotype, staple and religion of each and every and kitchen in Italy. Most Italians prefer not to eat them with meat sauce, as it slides from the pasta and collects on the bottom of the plate. When you think spaghetti in Italy, you think red sauce, fresh pesto, seafood. Here's my recipe for Red Sauce and Spaghetti.
Tagliolini are as long as spaghetti, but they are flat instead of round. We eat them with seafood or in a bowl of warm vegetable or chicken broth when we are sick.
Bucatini and Perciatelli are traditional pastas from the center of Italy, and used for specific recipes like Pasta alla Gricia, Amatriciana, and Carbonara. They resemble thick spaghetti with a hole that runs all the way through, have fantastic texture and a very different "bite" than spaghetti.
Pici and Bigoli are another take on spaghetti, thick and without the hole that is characteristic of the bucatini. They are regional variations, usually prepared fresh and are not widely available in stores. Pici come from Siena, Tuscany, and really want to be served with boar sauce. Bigoli come from the Veneto region and their most common use is a simple peasant preparation using white onions, parsley and anchovies.
Continue reading about short pastas and filled pastas.
Peace (and pasta!),
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Record-breaking rainfall south of Perth has caught thousands off guard, with the unseasonal downpour causing widespread damage to homes and a school to be closed.
Mandurah and Rockingham copped the brunt of the weather overnight and stormy weather is forecast for much of the south of the state with people in Collie being told to prepare for flooding.
The Bureau of Meteorology's Neil Bennett told Radio 6PR Collie had received more than 100 millimetres of rain since 9am on Wednesday and the town's mayor Wayne Sanford said water was already knee-high in some areas.
The Department of Fire and Emergency Services has warned the Collie River may reach minor flood level on Wednesday.
The department has warned water will be fast flowing and levels will rise quickly so people should be ready to relocate if need be.
Significant rainfall has been recorded in the Collie River catchment for the 24 hours to 9am, including 66 millimetres in Sandalwood and 53 millimetres in Henty Brook.
The overnight rainfall is causing significant stream rises in the lower Collie River catchment.
Amaroo Primary School and Allanson Primary School in Collie have been closed for the remainder of the day.
Mandurah recorded 70.2 millimetres of rain making it the second wettest day for the town in 11 years - and it might not be over yet, with the chance similar conditions could redevelop later in the day.
About 4000 homes were left without power on Wednesday morning in the Mandurah area, which was hit with a spectacular thunderstorm on Tuesday night.
Rockingham General Hospital sustained severe damage following the storm activity.
Rockingham Peel group executive director Geraldine Carlton said inpatients were being cared for but had been relocated within the hospital and some elective surgery had been postponed.
"Rockingham General Hospital remains structurally and electrically safe but significant damage has occurred including flooding of some areas," she said.
Much of Perth's metropolitan area experienced heavy rain but escaped any real damage - although several flights arriving and departing the city were held on the tarmac because of fears of lightning.
Bad weather is continuing throughout south-western parts of the state.
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State Emergency Service personnel answered more than 100 calls for help after a severe thunderstorm hit Rockingham and Mandurah overnight.
Rockingham was worst affected, recording 86 calls for assistance.
Reported damage involved mostly flooding and roof damage and the number of calls for help was expected to increase.
Photos taken by listeners to Coast FM captured the moment the lightning display coincided with a fireworks show held at the foreshore for the finale of the Community Christmas Celebrations.
More bad weather on its way
Thunderstorms are forecast for parts of Western Australia including people in, near and between Perth, Mandurah, Bunbury, Busselton, Margaret River and Bridgetown and surrounding areas.
The overall weather pattern is unusual for this time of year and rainfall amounts are well above normal in some areas.
This weather could damage homes and make travel dangerous. A warning previously in place for people in areas east of Northam to Narrogin to Mount Barker has been cancelled.
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HAMILTON -- His teammates love the man.
The fans love the man.
GM Joe Mack loves the man.
But Buck Pierce -- in particular his inability to stay healthy and finish games he starts -- is killing the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Calls for the club to cut their oft-injured starting quarterback once and for all grew only louder and more credible Saturday in the wake of the latest Pierce debacle.
With his team's season on the line, Pierce didn't even get out of the first quarter before sustaining a shoulder injury that forced him off the field and into street clothes. The Bombers went on to lose 28-18 to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at Ivor Wynne Stadium and were eliminated from playoff contention.
That's bad.
It was the fourth time in Pierce's seven measly starts in 2012 he failed to finish a game he had started. Winnipeg lost all four.
That's worse.
It was the 24th time in 62 career CFL starts Pierce failed to finish a game he had started.
That's ridiculous.
How long can this team continue to have Buck Pierce as its starting quarterback?
"We'll address all that in the off-season," said head coach Tim Burke. "That's not something I want to talk about now."
If Pierce cannot play Saturday at home to Montreal, it will be the 11th game this season he's missed with an injury. Add to that the four games he's left early because of injury and another one in which he was simply lifted during a losing effort and Pierce's body of work in 2012 amounts to two complete games -- against Toronto last week and Hamilton last month.
The fact Winnipeg won both those games speaks volumes about how much better the Bombers are with Pierce in the lineup. In three seasons, the Bombers are 12-5 in games Pierce started and did not leave prematurely with injury.
But the problem is Winnipeg is now 1-10 in games in which Pierce started and left with an injury. Saturday's events, playing out as they do against the backdrop of Pierce's injury-plagued career, begs the question of whether Winnipeg can move forward as a franchise with that kind of devastating uncertainty at the most important position on the field.
We'd love to tell you what Pierce thinks, but the Bombers refused to make him available to the media. So it was left to Pierce's teammates to speak to that delicate subject.
Pierce's favourite target Terrence Edwards says he thinks Pierce still has more upside than downside. "That's going to be up to upper management to make that decision -- it's not my call. But I think Buck gives us the best chance to win and we have to keep riding with him. As long as he's healthy enough to play, we have to keep going with him."
That's a big "if," of course. And then there's also the bigger picture of Pierce's long-term health. "He's a great quarterback but as we all know, he's had a lot of injuries," said safety Ian Logan. "And I'm just hoping for the best for his health as a person. Buck needs to take care of himself first before football."
Defensive back Jovon Johnson said that for all of Pierce's injuries, there's still no questioning his toughness. "He's a warrior and goes out every game and tries to get the job done. He's been the leader from the start.
"But it just sucks that every time he goes out there, he's got to worry whether he's going to finish the game or not."
The larger problem is that Pierce isn't the only one who has to worry about whether he'll finish the game. And that sucks for everyone.


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I've been in the business of buying and selling talent (a nice way of saying "actors") for about 30 years now. When I came to Hollywood in 1984, I was blissfully ignorant of the structures of power and fear that are so often the foundations of the entertainment industry.
I was also blind to the fact that God loved me and had a plan for my life in Jesus Christ. All these things would be revealed in time. In short, God found me, claimed me, saved me—and then asked me to become a talent agent. Through the hard-knock years of this profession, I've learned some lessons that have played dual roles in my life as a Hollywood talent agent and an associate pastor.
The plans God has for us and our ministry usually don't align with our desires. I had been a casting director, a buyer of talent, for about nine years when God revealed His vocational plans for me. To say the least, I wasn't exactly thrilled about this call. Buying talent is much different than selling talent. Buyers get to say "no" and slam the door. Sellers live in constant humility, often mindful of the seeming futility of their efforts. Such was the path to which God called me and thus prepared me in unexpected ways for ministry.
The harvest of humility is authenticity. It doesn't take long in sales before you can feel as if dignity has been crushed out of you like juice from an orange. After all, it was Willie Loman who said, "You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away; a man is not a piece of fruit" (Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman, Act 2). That's one of the first things I encountered when I became a talent agent—feeling like a thrown-away peel. I poured my energy, my resources and my relationships into developing careers for actors, only to have the success of that endeavor result in that actor rejecting me to move to a larger, more powerful agency.
After one too many times of saying to myself, I can't take this anymore—what's the point? I had to ask myself if I was OK with being humbled if it was the Lord's will. The answer was yes. Paul's words in Philippians 2:8 ("He humbled himself and became obedient") deeply resonated with me. Beyond the humility and the exhaustion were the authenticity and integrity of knowing that whatever small "suffering" I encountered in this profession meant nothing as long as I knew I was where God asked me to be. From this place of obedience, my identity was not based on how I felt or how the world measures success, but on earnestly knowing myself before God.
The futility of our efforts is God's greatest glory. We can work ourselves to death sometimes—just burn out. I think the only place it might happen more often than sales is in ministry. As a talent agent, I invest in people whom I believe have potential. This cosmic roulette wheel might seem like a great game of chance. But I know it is the place of divine mystery—a place of celebrated miracles and dedicated perseverance. It's a lie from the pit of hell that our efforts are futile. Know this: When you invest in people, something will come of it.
After a few years of being a talent agent, God called me to ordained ministry. And while I thought that surely He would phase out the talent agent to usher in the minister, I've found He has retained and nurtured both in me. One informs the other. He's given me a ministry in two worlds that somehow I know He intends to make one. I serve Him in the secular and the sacred. There is, to be sure, a holy calling in both.
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RICKY Hatton has advised dethroned champion Amir Khan to swerve a fight with Floyd Mayweather this year.
Khan is keen to meet Mayweather despite losing his WBA and IBF light welterweight belts to Lamont Peterson in a controversial bout in Washington last month.
But retired double-weight champion Hatton, who suffered one of his two defeats against Mayweather in 2007, believes Bolton superstar Khan would be better served to restore his reputation before taking on the man who is regarded by many as the best fighter on the planet.
He said: "I think a Mayweather fight would be too soon for Amir. He is just coming off a defeat and does he really want to fight the number one fighter right now or later this year?
"I think Amir needs two or three fights to get himself re-established and get his confidence back. Then maybe he'll fight the winner of (Manny) Pacquiao and Mayweather next year.
"If Amir could put in a good performance against Peterson he will improve his position when he sits down at the negotiating table."
Mayweather is currently trying to secure a May 5 fight with Pacquiao, Khan's training partner, to determine who is the best poundfor- pound fighter in the world.


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A CONSULTANT surgeon from Worcestershire swapped the operating theatre for a swimming pool as he volunteered at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.
Specialist oral facial surgeon at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Phil Earl recently spent nine days lending his expertise to divers preparing to go for gold in the Glasgow games.
Mr Earl, who works at Worcestershire Royal Hospital as well as Kidderminster Hospital and Redditch Hospital, joined the team of volunteers on hand at the Edinburgh Diving Pool, where the practice stages of this year's games were carried out.
Although he was prepared to deal with incidents from minor smacks in the water to potentially long-lasting damage, no serious injuries occurred during the practice stages.
Mr Earl, who also volunteered at the London 2012 Olympic Games at the water polo events, said he was delighted to bring his expertise to the international event.
"After having gained so much experience and knowledge at the Olympics I was keen to help out at the Commonwealth Games," he said.
"I volunteered during the athletes' preparation and training time.
"There was less of an atmosphere without the crowds but it was amazing getting to see world-class athletes practice in the pool.
"It was even more interesting to learn how much work went into these huge events.
"I can't see another big event like this happening in the UK any time soon – it was such a great opportunity I really couldn't miss out on."
Mr Earl, who is also a qualified pitchside doctor and worked for many years with Kidderminster Harriers FC, works with the trust's oral and facial surgery team, which treats about 2,000 cases of facial skin cancer every year – more than any other unit in the Midlands.
- A PHYSIOTHERAPIST from Evesham has also put her skills to use at the Commonwealth Games. Lorraine Middleburgh from Vale Home Physio is volunteering at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow, where she is treating any cyclists who take a tumble during their event.
Mrs Middleburgh, who also volunteered at the aquatic centre at the London 2012 Olympics, said she was especially hoping to meet Laura Trott and Sir Chris Hoy – but not as a result of injury.


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Keep track of the available arms with to the bullpen usage chart.
At the end of the post you will find the link to the PDF containing all the match-ups of Sept. 5. The charts show the number of pitches thrown by each team's pitchers each of the last seven days.
How to read them:
Above the thick line in each chart you see the starters, sorted by their WAR; below the thick line are the relievers, again best to worst according to WAR. Darkest colored cells indicate highest workloads. The probable starting pitchers are listed at the bottom of each chart.
You can read about the bullpen usage chart in this introductory article; some tweaks are still needed.
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On the wall in Arnold Asham's crowded, second-floor office, amid all the curling trophies and business awards, are three words in big, bold, black letters:
Dream, Enjoy, Indulge.
"They're inspiration," the former professional curler and founder of one of Manitoba's most successful Métis-owned businesses -- Asham Curling Supplies -- explains during a recent interview.
Asham is a big believer in the power of positive thinking, and those three words help to keep him in a positive frame of mind. They also rather nicely sum up his approach to life: Dream big, be passionate about what you do and don't be afraid to indulge a little.
"I've really worked hard (over the years) on my attitude," the 62-year-old father, grandfather, entrepreneur, curling and baseball coach, motivational speaker and Métis role model explains.
"Maintaining a positive attitude is so important. I'm been so successful because I'm positive."
Asham seems to be in a good place these days. He looks fit, says he feels great, and he's doing something he's passionate about (aside from curling and his family). That's managing and performing with the Asham Stompers, a Métis dance troupe he founded a decade ago that performs at about 100 events and festivals a year in Canada and the United States.
That includes the Asham Stomperfest, a three-day dance and music festival held each September on the former Asham family farm at Reedy Creek, on the west side of Lake Manitoba.
"I'm living proof you can do anything you want if you're passionate about it," Asham says. "I'm 62 years old, and I dance for a living. I shouldn't be able to do that at 62 years old, but I do."
Asham figures he's dropped about 40 pounds since he began jigging and square dancing in earnest in 2002.
"I've probably added 15 to 20 years to my life doing this dancing. And I'm going to continue to do it until I'm 75. No doubt in my mind."
To enable him to devote most of his time to his dance troupe and to organizing Stomperfest, Asham handed over the reins of Asham Curling Supplies to his three children -- Amanda, 36, Nathan, 35, and Kaitlyn, 24.
That doesn't mean he's completely walked away from the business he launched 35 years ago from the living room of his Burrows Avenue home and built into one of the world's leading suppliers of curling equipment.
He still spends at least an hour a day on business-related matters, and in providing guidance and advice to his children. On the day of the recent interview, for example, he had to break away for about five minutes for a quick business meeting.
"We just bought another building," he explained upon his return. "We have a seasonal business here, so every year we buy a building and spend the off-season fixing it up. Then we sell it."
He estimates the company has refurbished 25 to 30 buildings over the years, including single-family homes, apartment blocks and commercial/residential buildings. Most of them have been in Winnipeg's North End, and while most were later sold, the company did keep a few of them. That includes the 8,000-square-foot building at 700 McPhillips St., which houses the Asham Curling Supplies store and a factory where the company produces its own line of curling shoes and other curling-related products, including sliders, grippers and brushes.
That drive to be innovative and to blaze his own trail helped garner a host of business awards for Asham over the years, including a Manitoba Aboriginal Entrepreneur of the Year award from the University of Manitoba's Asper School of Business in 2006.
The farmer's son has also left his mark in world curling circles. In addition to being a professional curler for many years, he also founded the World Curling Players Association in 1989 and co-founded the World Curling Tour a year later.
Asham said the fact he was so immersed in curling is part of the reason why his curling supplies business was so successful.
"Because I was out there curling all the time, I knew what every player liked and disliked," he said. And being able to design and manufacture some of his own products and test them himself on the ice also gave him a huge advantage over other curling equipment manufacturers.
"It would take them three or four years to develop a product, and we could have a prototype in three or four days."
Asham said the family business has seen its sales fall off a bit in the last four or five years, to about $2 million from a peak of $2.5 million. He attributes that to a decline in the number of curlers in Canada. But weaker sales here have been partially offset by an increase in export sales to countries such as the United States, Scotland, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Germany, Russia, China, Japan and Korea.
Asham believes he and Asham Curling Supplies have plenty of good years ahead of them. And he certainly has no intention of slowing down.
"(When the end comes) I want them to be able to say he was a good dad, and he lived a full life. He went hard -- and skidded into the grave sideways."


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Started off Friday night with some wings and some home made jalapeno cheese venison sausage.
Didn't manage to get a shot after they came off the Egg and got tossed with some Buffalo Sauce. Nothing fancy, just your average Frank's hot sauce, butter, sriracha and some spices.
Saturday, we went to a friends house for his kids b-day party. There were some burgers and dogs grilled on a gas grill. Didn't try them, glad I had a big breakfast. Afterwards, we swung by the Dallas Farmer's Market. By this time it was around 4, so I wasn't really surprised to see this sign at Pecan Lodge (which is one of the top BBQ places in Dallas.
That's ok. I got what I really came for. A 100% grass fed, locally raised brisket (full packer brisket weighing in at 5.46lbs). Also got some ground beef. I asked the guy for bacon, but he was trying to sell me some "cottage bacon" which apparently comes from the shoulder. I said no, thanks, I'll just take the regular. Got home and realized he gave me the cottage stuff anyway. It was ok, but not bacon. Also picked up some green onions, avocados, brussel sprouts, plums and probably some other stuff I forgot. Can't wait to smoke that brisket next weekend.
Sunday, we did a ton of yard work. Got the hammock out to enjoy the weather. Bodi wasn't real sure about it.
Well, if he doesn't want to take advantage of it, I'll rest up a bit before dinner.
Dinner was some skirt steak. Fired up the Egg and then used the BGE grate extender to drop it really close to the coals. In this picture you can see how its below the top of the fire ring. The steak was marinated in some Lone Star beer, soy sauce, some whatsthishere sauce and spices.
Almost done, just a few minutes per side.
"Hey! Did you make enough for me?" Ollie asked.
Not the best fiinished pic, but topped with some provolone cheese and sauteed mushrooms and onions. Not tortillas as we're still not doing carbs. Some asparagus that we grilled on the side while they steak was resting and a salad.
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A cure for Parkinson's disease continues to elude modern medicine. But one researcher from Iowa State has worked tirelessly to unlock the mysteries of Parkinson's. Day by day, discovery by discovery, he's gaining ground.
Years ago, distinguished professor of biomedical sciences Anumantha Kanthasamy identified the protein that kills dopamine-producing cells in the brain, known as kinase-C. This lack of dopamine in Parkinson's sufferers results in abnormal nerve functioning, causing a loss in the ability to control body movements.
Armed with his previous findings, Kanthasamy is seeking to develop a process to modify the production of the kinase-C -- and more important, to inhibit it.
"We have found the mechanism that regulates the survival of dopamine-producing nerve cells," said Kanthasamy. "Now we can focus on chemicals to control the mechanism."
All across Iowa State you'll find adventurous professors like Anumantha Kanthasamy burning the midnight fluorescent, inventing solutions that are changing the world in every way imaginable: whether it's developing a method to make artificial bones for trauma patients, sequencing plant genomes to make them more resistant to drought, or creating incredibly maneuverable aerial vehicles inspired by bats. Imagine how lucky the students of these professors feel, getting to witness breakthroughs at the moment of discovery.
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I really don't get it. Not at all.
The Mets talked it over, and decided on Monday to let Johan Santana keep pitching. They did this despite acknowledging that along with his ankle injury not being fully healed, and his you know, shoulder still recovering from massive surgery, that his back hurts, too.
I mean, let's be clear here. The Mets could have come out and insisted Santana was 100 percent healthy, and I still wouldn't understand this move. He's getting crushed. The team has nothing to play for. Why resting him now, and getting him ready for next season, when he'll consume roughly a third of the team's payroll, wouldn't be the default decision is still beyond me.
But everyone's acknowledging that Santana isn't 100 percent. Santana himself has pointed out that he ramped up for 2012 six weeks earlier than normal, meaning he's at roughly the end of his season typically. Oh, and by the way, the two most common reasons pitchers get hurt is either compensating for another injury, or fatigue.
Yet out he goes. And Terry Collins had the added confidence boost of mentioning it was Johan Santana's decision.
Don't blame the decision-makers if he gets hurt. Blame the guy whose entire career is based around being hyper-competitive.
To those who think Santana wouldn't go out there if he could get hurt: were you watching in June? A cautious Santana doesn't throw 134 pitches to secure the no-hitter. Were you watching in September 2010, when Santana threw a bullpen through pain with what turned out to be a massive shoulder injury?
The Mets are not taking the responsible road here. And I am at a loss as to why. Truly. Sandy Alderson said Santana wants to end on a high note.
That's a whole lot of risk for a feel-good start.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo volleyball team pushed their win-streak to three as they upended Nova Southeastern 3-1 (25-21, 24-26, 25-9, 25-17) in Sunshine State Conference action from the Marion Bowman Activities Center, Tuesday evening. With the win, the Lions improve to 11-10 and 4-5 in the SSC while Nova Southeastern is 1-8 in the SSC and 4-16 overall.
Aside from a second set that saw NSU rally to win in extra points, the Lions controlled the match from the first serve. The Lions hit .286 and successfully connected on 64 kills.
The familiar group of seniors including Danielle Bletso and Emily Calderon-Reyes led the Lions in victory with Reyes notching a game-high 15 kills, .333 attack average and 21 digs while Bletso added 12 kills and a .455 average.
One name that stood out was freshman Lauren Campbell, who notched 14 kills and 19 digs as she jumped to the top of the stats sheet as one of the Lions' top performers.
Nova Southeastern was led by Danielle Graham with 14 kills.
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Tracing the history of humans in Missouri begins in the bluff-lined valley of Rock Creek in the southwest corner of the St. Louis metropolitan area.
More than 12,000 years ago, mastodons and other Ice Age animals gathered in the valley at the water and nearby salt licks. Archeological evidence of their bones prompted a local movement to purchase the site for a state park in 1976, and it later became Mastodon State Historic Site.
Excavations at what is known as the Kimmswick Bone Beds found two spear points next to mastodon bones. It was the first hard evidence that the Paleo Indians known as Clovis - paleo means first – hunted mastodons, earning the site a listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
Milestones of human events in Missouri are marked at state historic sites. The mastodon hunters were the earliest, and other historic sites tell about the mound builders of the Mississippi, the arrival of the first French and Germans, the march to statehood, the struggles of the Civil War and the successes of the early entrepreneurs of the Industrial Revolution.
Where the Clovis came from is a matter of conjecture, some believe they walked into North America from land bridges that, at the time, linked continents. Whatever, those two spear points are the first sign of human activity in the state, and are kept under lock and key at the historic site. Reproductions are on display.
"They're invaluable," Brooke Mahar, interpretative resource specialist at Mastodon, said of the spear points. Chicago's Field Museum recently put on a traveling exhibition titled "Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age," and borrowed the points for the show.
The visitor's center at Mastodon State Historic Site explains the people and animals found there, with a diorama of three Clovis Indians near a life-sized replica skeleton of a mastodon. Trails lead along the bluffs, down to the bone beds along Rock Creek.
"The Clovis who gathered at the site actually were here to hunt, a group of about 40 to 50 people," Mahar said. "There was never any evidence of them occupying this area; we don't know where their base camp would have been."
The Clovis Culture was found throughout North America, south into areas of South America. Where they came from, and where they went, remains a mystery.
"We aren't really sure what happened to them once the animals disappeared," Mahar said. "They likely went ahead and maybe evolved into later groups. Right after this was the Dalton Period, some 10,000 years ago, and there's evidence of that at Graham Cave State Park."
Here are some other interesting historic sites for time traveling through Missouri:
Towosahgy State Historic Site near the Bootheel:
The site is a few miles northeast of Big Oak Tree State Park and features seven mounds that rise above the surrounding farm fields. They were built as temples and lodges for the dignitaries of an Indian village of several hundred people.
The first construction began about 1,540 years ago, and the last was built 520 years ago. The site was inhabited for about 1,000 years.
Chris Crabtree, natural resource manager of the site, said it was built around the time that the larger Cahokia Mounds community was thriving near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers to the north. Towosahgy is an Osage Indian word for "old town."
"Inhabitation pretty much stopped by 1340 to 1450," Crabtree said. "We have no idea why."
There were other ancient Indian sites in the Mississippi River Valley, but most have been razed as the land was drained and plowed for agriculture.
"It is one of the best remaining samples of a fortified village site in Missouri, and the only one maintained as a state historic site," Crabtree said. "This is the most pristine one that we have in the state."
Felix Valle House State Historic Site in Ste. Genevieve:
French Canadians from Quebec began showing up in the Mississippi River Valley along southern Missouri as early as 1735. They settled on high ground and established Ste. Genevieve around 1790.
The numbers of new arrivals increased after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, overwhelming the French in Ste. Genevieve. Among them was Jacob Philipson, of a Philadelphia Jewish family, who built a home and store in 1818.
Jean Baptiste Valle bought the building in 1824, and his son, Felix, and his wife, Odile, lived in the house. Odile lived there until her death in 1894. The family donated the home to the state in 1970, and the state historic site now is used to demonstrate the lives and customs of the early French.
Ste. Genevieve is a national historic site with the largest number of French colonial buildings still standing.
Deutschheim State Historic Site in Hermann:
Inspired by a book published in 1829 by Gottfried Duden, a lawyer who visited and praised the area, Germans began arriving in the Missouri River Valley in the 1830s. Hermann was founded in August of 1836.
"Stimulated by Mr. Duden's writings, which created a romantic appeal, families came and wrote back to other families in Germany," said Cindy Browne, site administrator. "The German migration in the early 19th century would have been a few thousand. By the end of the century, it was hundreds of thousands."
The site uses two historic homes to explain the traditions that the Germans brought with them, including wine making. Stone Hill Winery in Hermann was the third largest winery in the world before Prohibition.
Today, Stone Hill is once again an award-winning winery, and Hermann is the heart of Missouri Wine Country, with six family-owned wineries on its 20-mile scenic wine trail.
First Missouri State Capitol State Historic Site in St. Charles:
On Aug. 10, 1821, Missouri became a state and a two-story brick building was used at the first state capitol until 1826, when Jefferson City was named the capital.
The historic site tells the story of the early struggle to become a state, which included three stumbling blocks that had to be overcome, said Sue Love, interpretative specialist.
First, a potential state had to have a population of 60,000. When the first count came up with 55,000, slaves were then included to go over the 60,000 mark.
Second, Missouri was to be admitted as a slave state, but Congress did not want to upset the current balance, which was 11 free and 11 slave states. That was resolved when Maine came in at the same time as a free state.
The third hurdle was a statute in the proposed state constitution that restricted the travel of free blacks within the borders of Missouri. The federal government objected. "They refused to remove it, but promised not to enforce it," Love said.
Arrow Rock State Historic Site near Boonville:
The early Americans were restless, and many headed out of St. Louis, which became known as the Gateway to the West. The first stop by steamboat on the Missouri River was the tiny village of Arrow Rock, which was founded in 1829.
Most continued their journey on the Santa Fe Trail. Arrow Rock reached its peak population of some 1,000 people around 1860. After the Civil War, the town was bypassed by the railroads and new highways.
The historic site has a visitor's center that explains the early importance of Arrow Rock. The stuck-in-time town is home to the Lyceum Theatre, which puts on Broadway-caliber plays, and the Huston Tavern, which was established in 1834 and still serves some of the best fried chicken in the state.
Battle of Lexington State Historic Site:
Only two states, Virginia and Tennessee, experienced more Civil War battles on their soil than Missouri, which nearly was torn in two by the conflict.
The historic site tells the story of the Battle of the Hemp Bales, which was fought in September 1861. Sterling Price and his Southern-leaning Missouri State Guard defeated Union forces by advancing on their stronghold behind a blockade of rolling hemp bales.
The site has a visitor's center that tells the story, and its centerpiece is the Oliver Anderson mansion, which displays bullet holes from the three-day siege.
"It was bittersweet because the Southerners won the battle, but two weeks later they were without the support they needed," said Jenae Fuller, site superintendent. "Union troops were marching this way, so the Southern commander skedaddled out of the state.
"They won the battle, but lost the war."
Watkins Woolen Mill State Historic Site:
The four-story, brick woolen mill was built in 1860 on the eve of the Civil War. Its production peaked in the 1870s at the height of the Industrial Revolution.
A young entrepreneur, Waltus W. Watkins, came to the area in 1839 and established a farm. When he built his woolen mill, there were about a dozen in Missouri. By 1882, there were 119.
The textile industry bottomed out in the 1890s, one of the reasons was the arrival of the railroad, which brought competition from Montgomery Ward and other commercial outlets.
Today, the historic site includes the family farm and home in a bucolic setting and the mill building, the only one remaining in North America with all its original equipment. The site is a national mechanical engineering landmark.


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POWELL RIVER, B.C. -- "It's raining in Vancouver!" our tour guide proclaimed, raising her cellphone with a grin.
We all smiled back.
We were about two hours north of the big city, well-mired in its drizzly bleak mid-winter, but we might as well have been on another planet.
It was 7 C, the grass was green and the sun was shining. Life is good, on the Sunshine Coast.
We've come to explore this 180-km coastline because it's one of B.C.'s 'hidden gems' or 'secret treasures' or whatever you want to call it (and we heard it all). Even a lot of Vancouverites don't seem to know much about this isolated chip of their mainland along the Georgia Strait. Vancouverites tend to head west, to the pricier Vancouver Island or Gulf islands when they feel like getting away from it all.
But the Sunshine Coast -- a name given by a smart real estate developer more than 50 years ago -- boasts an average of 231 days of sunshine a year, compared with Vancouver's meagre 166. You'd think that might be a particular draw.
And for the slowly thawing prairie girl in the group, (who's used to more than 300 days of sunshine a year, one might note) there's a much more compelling statistic: at least 330 FROST-FREE days a year.
Tourists and cottagers flock to the Sunshine Coast in the summertime for its beaches, freshwater lakes, kayaking, hiking, golfing and some of the best scuba-diving in the world. The summer is a myriad of festivals -- choral to jazz to literary. But we're experiencing Sunshine on the shoulder -- the off-season when the hoteliers and restaurateurs are really glad to see you. And it feels like we have the place to ourselves.
The trade-off for chilly scuba-diving in February is off-season rates on everything (from October to April), solitary hiking trails, no-waiting golf games, scenic kayaking, boat tours, or fishing charters; and even some prairie winter sports such as cross-country skiing or snowshoeing. And for Manitobans, the lush greenery and ocean and mountain scenery make it a great winter escape.
The views are particularly breathtaking when you've been strait-jacketed in a Prairie white-out for more than three months. Everything looks and smells so GREEN, an intoxicating blend of cedar, spruce, woodsmoke and greenery. Even the boats on those wide-open waters look like colourful bath toys.
"I had one girl from Winnipeg, when she came in the door (and saw the view) she cried -- she'd never seen the ocean," said Marsha Cargill, owner of the Beach Hideaway B & B in Sechelt.
I'd never get in the way of a good ocean-deprived Winnipegger story myself, but I'm figuring it's more likely she wept because it was just that beautiful. I took a lot of pictures from that B & B's floor-to-ceiling panorama of the Strait of Georgia.
Steep mountains and fjords give the Sunshine Coast its laid-back island flavour; you can only reach it by ferry or plane.
Once there, you take the 'world's longest highway' the Pan-American (a.k.a. Pacific Coastal Highway 101) north to reach most of the coast's major centres -- if you can call them that. They are a collection of quirky little towns, all attached to that ribbon of highway that begins in 'Mile 0' on the Upper Coast at Lund, and bottoms out somewhere in Chile if you continue south through Vancouver's Lower Mainland, California and beyond.
The first stop past the ferry landing is Gibsons, the site of the old Beachcombers series (1972-1990, and it lives on in APTN and CBC reruns). Landmarks such as Molly's Reach are still there, plus a few cute sets-turned-shops that are a nice legacy for the community of about 4,000.
Then it's a series of charming little places, from former hippie haven Roberts Creek to Halfmoon Bay to the biggest town on the lower coast, Sechelt and beyond to the picture-perfect Pender Harbour area, with its labyrinth of islands and bays (dubbed the 'Venice of the North'). Everything is a fairly short drive away on this highway. Take another 50-minute ferry and you reach the Upper Coast, the urban heart of which is the more blue-collar city of Powell River, pop. 13,000.
The pace is a whole lot slower on the Sunshine Coast, a century-old vacation spot that has struggled to find a solid economic base since the decline of the pulp and paper industry. Some folks are trying to establish a caviar fishery; others are farming oysters, salmon and other fish. Many are employed in a wide array of eco-tourism ventures.
While its beauty and affordability (compared with most of B.C.) attracts vacationers and retired people, it takes a creative mind to find a way to make a living here. Luckily, it also attracts a lot of those.
The Sunshine Coast has the highest per-capita number of artists, artisans and crafters in Canada.
There are people like Cindy Cantelon from the Copper Sky Gallery & Cafe in Madeira Park. Cantelon is originally from Edmonton, but moved to the Sunshine Coast with her artist husband, Marshall Mar. They make sculptures of silver pewter, copper-plated pewter and fabricated copper, displayed in their sunny gallery along with a wide variety of other local artists' work. Their cafe is a popular meeting place in Madeira, too, with some great food on offer.
Yvonne Stowell grew up in Miami, Man., but now operates a renowned fibre arts workshop, gallery and studio out of six yurts in the Pender Harbour area. Standing in one of these great circular spaces, Stowell explained she and her husband chose to operate out of yurts because they offer a "lighter footprint and a totally different energy." She weaves, spins, dyes and knits her own fibres, and offers international workshops in many crafts.
Just like the WAVE artist tours in Winnipeg and the Interlake, the Sunshine Coast artists have banded together to offer people a glimpse at their work inside their homes and studios. Wherever you see a 'Purple Banner' flying, it's an invitation to drop in, and you can spot those banners all the way from Langdale to Lund, year 'round.
So you can come for the great outdoors -- the hiking, boating, diving, etc. -- and still spend hours exploring the arts and crafts of the area, and one-of-a-kind shops.
They are inspired, the artists say, by the beauty of the place; the deep green old forest, the bright blue ocean, the colourful and abundant sea life, the mountains and islands, lakes and waterfalls.
After just a few days, I joked I was having a mid-life crisis. "It smells like cedar, the grass is so green and the skies hold a million stars," I wrote my frozen sisters in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ontario. "Across the harbour, I can see Nanaimo. Let's sell everything we own and move here. We can be glass blowers..."
The Upper Coast is a little longer haul, but opens up a world of even less-explored beauty. From Powell River, you can get to Lund, Savary Island, Desolation Sound Marine Park, or Texada Island, the 'jewel of the Georgia Strait.'
One of Powell River's most famous residents has to be German emigrant Eagle Walz, whose vision, drive, and determination helped build the Sunshine Coast Trail, a massive 20-year labour of love. He and other members of the BOMB squad (Bloody Old Man's Brigade) are still embellishing the trail today, building sleeping lofts for those hardy hikers who refuse to veer off to overnight health spas.
Walz isn't the only European to fall for the charms of the Sunshine Coast.
Volker and Silke Pfeifer left Germany 13 years ago to set up a fabulous organic food store and cafe in Powell River. Why? "Because it's the most beautiful place on earth," Silke shrugged.
Sunshine on the shoulder
Five things to see and do in the off-season
-- Hike the Sunshine Coast Trail: It's 180-km long, and you can hop on and off whenever you want. It meanders through three provincial parks, old-growth forest, over salmon streams, and attracts about 1,000 outside visitors a year, as opposed to the 10,000 who tromp the more well-known West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island. We saw a 1,000-year-old Douglas Fir on the Toquenatch stretch. And not another soul. (sunshinecoast-trail.com)
-- Kayak, sail, canoe, fish, golf, dive, horse-back ride, cross-country ski, snowshoe
Contact Jamie Mani at Alpha Adventures, which operates on both the Upper and Lower Coast in Sechelt and Powell River. He makes an outstanding starlight chocolate fondue (outdooradventurestore.ca)
-- Explore the Princess Louisa Inlet
There are 60 waterfalls in the Princess Louisa Inlet, and the tidal rapids have been deemed a 'world whitewater wonder.' With its wide array of marine life, set against a Tolkien-like backdrop of rocks, trees and hills, this is a stunning place. We saw seals, bald eagles, cormorants, black orange and white sea scooters, and a happy gang of Pacific white-sided dolphins.
Contact Bryce Christie at Sunshine Coast Tours (sunshinecoasttours.bc.ca)
-- Shop for beautiful things
If you love art, this is the place to be. All along the coast there are galleries, studios and one-of-a-kind shops, including the Earthly Creatures Gallery in Madeira Park, Pender Harbour. Another standout was the Tug Ghum Gallery in the historic Lund Hotel, where local artist and gallery owner Debra Bevaart offers her own stone carvings and an eclectic collection of more than 40 other local artists' creations.
-- Detox and retox
Even our pretty little B & B in Sechelt offered in-suite spa services, all you need to do is ask. But if you're looking for a five-star spa experience, try Painted Boat at Pender Harbour. It is pretty much full in August and July, but on a weekday in February, we had the whole resort and spa to ourselves. The spa garden has a Finnish dry/wet sauna, a hot pool, waterfall massage, salt-water float pool and a glacier shower. You can 'retox' nearby in the excellent restaurant at Painted Boat. And it's all nestled in five acres of Douglas fir, red cedar and arbutus trees on a hill overlooking the bay. (paintedboat.com)
If you get to Powell River, dine at The Alchemist Restaurant on Marine Avenue, the chefs and co-owners are outstanding.
Or for a little more casual fare, try the Manzanita Restaurant at the Old Courthouse Inn.
Canadian songstress Joni Mitchell divides her time between Los Angeles and a home at Halfmoon Bay. Broadcaster Bill Good has retired to Roberts Creek. Terry Jacks, Colin James and Oprah Winfrey have all spent time on the Coast, as well as more than a few NHL stars, screenwriters and movie-types. The movie The Last Mimzy (2007) was partially filmed in Roberts Creek, and Gibsons was the location for the 1993 Stephen King movie Needful Things, the movie Desolation Sound (2005), and the teen flick Charlie St. Cloud (2010) starring heartthrob Zac Efron. Last but not least, of course, is the iconic CBC-TV series, The Beachcombers starring Bruno Gerussi, that has kept Gibsons on the Canuck map since 1972.
How to get there; how to get around
The Sunshine Coast is a 30-minute drive from Vancouver to the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal, and a 40-minute ferry crossing to reach its southernmost tip. Believe it or not, a lot of lower coast residents happily commute to Vancouver for one-day shopping excursions or medical appointments. We also met one man who said he commuted four hours daily to his job in Vancouver's Kerrisdale. (bcferries.com)
To reach the Upper Sunshine Coast, you take another 50-minute ferry from Earls Cove to Saltery Bay.
Or you can fly -- Powell River has an airport, and it's an easy 35 minutes to Vancouver.
The Malaspina Coach Service offers a twice-daily bus shuttle that stops everywhere you want. (malaspinacoast.com)
Or you can hire your own shuttle from Sunshine Coast Limousine, Shuttle & Taxi. (sunshinecoastcircletours.com)


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I thought about this question and so I am going to take this chance.
The country of Kumogakure has two names. Land of Thunder and Land of Lightning. I always get confused. Which one is propper. The jutsu element is Lightning Release so I think it depends on whether "Rai" means "Lightning" or "Thunder". Even when Lightning Blade is translated it is Raikiri. But Flying Thunder God Technique is translated to Hiraishin No Jutsu. What do you think? Kakashi Namikaze 12:36, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Lightning Probably
Though I don't know for sure, I can only assume that it would be called the land of lightning, because most of the primary lands (with the exception of a few) are named for elements, and lightning is obviously an element. Furthermore, you are right about the "Flying Thunder God Technique" having "rai" in it, but most translations of "thunder" have "rai" in them ("raimei" and "tenrai" both mean "thunder"). "Hiraishin" has two parts: "Hirai" meaning "flying" or "come flying", and "shin", the part where "thunder" comes from, which has many meanings, one of which is "zhen" (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: thunder, east). This is probably (I may be wrong) why "Hiraishin" is translated as "Flying Thunder God" ("hiraishin" can also be translated as "lightning rod", I found). "Raikou" is one of the words in japanese that literally means "lightning" (therefore, "rai" ___ may = "lightning" ___) and I found "kiri" to mean "drill" (weird, huh, but "kiri" could be a romantization of sorts from the word "kire", which is "cut"). "Rai" in itself likely means "Lightning", and therefore the land is probably the "Land of Lightning." I hope my reasoning helps. Peace! --Ikijime Koorimusha 16:37, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
- I stand by Lightning, because the Five Great Shinobi Nations (which the country is a part of) are named after the five major elements: Fire, Wind, Rock, Lightning, and Water. --Dubtiger 21:18, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
- You mean Earth.
- The answer is actually rather simple: both are correct. The word used is kaminari (雷), which becomes rai in compound words (e.g. raiton (雷遁)). This word actually refers to the entire concept of thunder and lightning and can be used to refer to both individually. So both Land of Lightning and Land of Thunder would be technically correct, just like how both Lightning Release and Thunder Release would be technically correct.
- However, translating it as lightning in these cases would be better, as they refer to the element, the actual bolt of lightning, and not the sound it makes. --ShounenSuki (talk | contribs) 17:42, February 28, 2010 (UTC)


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HAMTRAMCK, Mich. - Tuesday marked the one week anniversary since two young women were kidnapped from a Hamtramck home after a gunfight.
Roughly two dozen officers from the Michigan State Police, Hamtramck police, Detroit police and the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office converged on Eliza Howell park on Detroit's west side to continue the search for 21-year-old Ashley Conaway and 18-year-old Abreeya Brown.
Family members say they were taken at gunpoint after a shootout between Brown's stepfather and the kidnappers at a home in the 22000 block of Andrus Street. The women were forced at gunpoint into the trunk of a car and driven away. Nobody was hit in the shooting.
"My daughter, Abreeya, has been taken and put into the trunk of a car. It's like putting someone in a coffin and closing the lid," said mother Lois Brown. "It's the worst feeling a person could ever have."
Search crews have been scouring the area near Fenkell and Telegraph after police sources say a burned-out, bullet-ridden Chrysler was found last week. Sources say the car was used in the kidnapping. It had it's VIN and license plate removed. Sources also said the wallet of one of the women was found inside the car's remains.
Although the women have not been found, three men are in custody in connection with the case.
Brandon Cain, 25, was charged Thursday with two counts of assault with intent to murder and other charges for allegedly shooting at Conaway and Brown on Feb. 8.
That shooting last month was allegedly over Conaway breaking up with Cain.
Police confirm that Conaway and Brown both went to police earlier this month accusing Cain of shooting at Conaway as she tried to get away from him, a bullet grazing her head.
Family members said Cain tried to keep the women quiet about the incident by offering them $5,000. The women said no.
Two other men are held as persons of interest in the case. Andre Michael Todd-Douglass, 34, turned himself in Wednesday morning. Police arrested 24-year-old Bryant Christopher Lee in Pontiac on Wednesday night. They have not been charged.
Anyone with information on the women is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-SPEAKUP.
The women's families say they are offering a reward of $31,000.
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A NOT-for-profit firm set up to keep the town buzzing after the demise of Taunton Town Centre Company has won a £12,000 grant from Taunton Deane Council.
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Egoism -- Fiction.
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This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world, and did. Is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why does he have to fight his battle not against his enemys but against those who need him most? Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves? You will learn the answers to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the amazing men and women in this remarkable book. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, "Atlas shrugged" is Ayn Rand's magnum opus, which launched an ideology and a movement. With the publication of this work in 1957, Rand gained an instant following and became a phenomenon. "Atlas shrugged" emerged as a premier moral apologia for Capitalism, a defense that had an electrifying effect on millions of readers (and now listeners) who have never heard Capitalism defended in other than technical terms.
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A TIRELESS charity worker from Feckenham has raised £7,014 for three children's cancer charities at a recent community event.
A family fun day was held at the Rose and Crown pub in Feckenham and was supported by local businesses as well as receiving a lot of help from the local community, following Sharon Simpson's other successful fundraising ventures in recent years.
Bromsgrove-based marketing agency Superdream supported the event as well as Barclays which offered to match-fund a generous sum.
The three beneficiaries of the money are Macmillan, Primrose Hospice and Birmingham Children's Hospital, which all support people with cancer.
The money raised for Birmingham Children's Hospital will go directly towards the new cancer centre at the hospital, while the amount that is raised for Macmillan and The Primrose Hospice will go into their general funds.
The fun day featured a huge range of traditional activities including games such as hoopla and hook a duck, pony rides, a bouncy castle, hog roast, barbecue, a Pimms stall, auctions and raffle, live music and a disco in the evening.
Sharon Simpson said: "Organisation was the key to the event being so successful. I had a lot of support from Rebecca Manning, wife of Superdream managing director Jason Manning, and Laura Lamb, Superdream's admin assistant, and together we managed to pull off a fantastic event, with a little help from the weather.
"What made it special was that it was a real community event, where local families of all generations and local businesses came together for a really good cause and had lots of fun at the same time.
"We all know someone who has been affected by cancer; many of us have lost somebody close to us and know the huge impact that it has on not just the sufferer but their friends, family and loved ones.
"Fortunately, my son Joseph has not been affected by cancer but he has been saved three times by Birmingham Children's Hospital neurosurgical team, so I can truly empathise with what families of cancer sufferers are going through, and this is what drives me to co-ordinate these events."