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Blue Jackets Prospects Report: November 8by David DiCenzo / Columbus Blue Jackets
Jakub Voracek RW
18 years old, 6-2, 190 pounds (Kladno, Czech Republic)
Columbus's 1st pick, 7th overall, 2007 NHL Entry Draft
Voracek has put his tremendous playmaking skills on display early and often this season in the run-and-gun QMJHL. The Halifax Mooseheads forward leads all Q players with 25 assists and has added four goals in just 13 games. Voracek's play earned him the league's Offensive Player of the Month award for October, in which he averaged a gaudy 2.6 points per game (3 goals, 23 assists in 10 games).
20 years old, 6-1, 172 pounds (Hull, Quebec)
Columbus's 71st pick, 6th overall in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft
The jump to the next level has certainly not intimidated Brassard, who has been a solid contributor with the Jackets' AHL affiliate the Syracuse Crunch. Brassard nabbed the Rbk Edge/AHL Rookie of the Month honours after registering four goals and 12 assists for 16 points in 12 games throughout October. The multi-talented rookie actually had points in his first four regular season games as a pro, tallying three goals to go along with four assists in that stretch. Through 14 games, his 17 total points (4-13-17) had him tied for second in AHL scoring.
Stefan Legein RW
18 years old, 5-9, 170 pounds (Oakville, Ontario)
Columbus's 2nd pick, 37th overall in 2007 NHL Entry Draft
The feisty Legein has been a force for the Niagara IceDogs so far, playing a sound two-way game that highlights his many offensive skills and his abrasive on-ice persona. The Oakville, Ontario native has 16 goals and 10 helpers through 17 games, as well as 52 minutes in penalties, far and away the highest total of PIMs among the OHL's top scorers. Only Nick Spaling of the Kitchener Rangers (17 goals) and the Oshawa Generals' superstar John Tavares (18 goals) have scored more times than Legein, whose play has helped vault the IceDogs to the top of the OHL's Central Division.
19 years old, 6-3, 186 pounds (Oakville, Ontario)
Columbus's 2nd pick, 69th overall in 2006 NHL Entry Draft
No OHL goalie has been as hot as Mason this season. The tall netminder has helped turn things around for the London Knights, who were 0-6-0-0 before Mason took the reins in net. He earned the OHL Goaltender of the Month award after posting a sparkling 7-1-0-0 record in eight starts (2.00 goals against average and .944 save percentage). Mason, the league's Goaltender of the Year in 2006-07, is 9-2-0-0 overall and was also recently named to the OHL all-star team taking part in the ADT Canada-Russia Challenge later this month.
20 years old, 5-11, 176 pounds (Kindersley, Saskatchewan)
Columbus's 9th pick, 189th overall in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft
The small but scrappy winger is back on the ice after being assigned to the Syracuse Crunch this week. Dorsett missed over a month of action recovering from a stress fracture in his leg suffered in late September. He'll undoubtedly add some toughness to the Crunch lineup after having tallied a total 483 penalty minutes in his past two seasons with the Medicine Hat Tigers of the WHL. But Dorsett can do more than drop the gloves – he scored 25 goals two years ago and chipped in 19 goals and 45 assists in 61 games last season. He's been a plus player in all three years as a junior, including a career-high plus-17 rating in 2006-07.
Tom Sestito LW
20 years old, 6-4, 209 pounds (Utica, New York)
Columbus's 83rd pick, 85th overall in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft
The big winger is adapting to life at the next level following a stellar final season of junior hockey in which he tallied 42 goals, 22 assists and 135 penalty minutes in 60 games with the OHL's Plymouth Whalers. Sestito has a goal and four assists through 12 games with the AHL's Crunch. He recently scored his first goal as a professional, beating the Hamilton Bulldogs' Jaroslav Halak for a power-play marker that proved instrumental in a 3-2 Crunch shootout win.
Jesse Dudas D
19 years old, 6-1, 228 pounds (St. Albert, Alberta)
Columbus's 8th pick, 159th overall in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft
Dudas is emerging into one of the Prince George Cougars' most effective set-up men, forming a great one-two offensive punch on the blueline with teammate Ty Wishart. While Wishart leads all defensemen in WHL scoring, Dudas is holding his own, scoring once and adding 14 assists in the 18 games he's played. The skilled D-man tallied 13 of those points in the midst of an eight-game scoring streak.
Jake Hansen RW
18 years old, 6-1, 182 pounds (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Columbus's 4th pick, 68th overall in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft
Hansen is performing well in his first full year at the USHL level with the Sioux Falls Stampede, sitting near the top of his team in scoring. Through nine games, the former Minnesota high school star had four goals and five assists (with an even plus-minus rating), tying him for third on the roster in scoring. Hansen has proven he can thrive in special team situations, registering one of his goals on the power play, while adding a team-high four assists with the Stampede on the man advantage.


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The new family holiday card includes Kim Kardashian's deceased cat Mercy and Kourtney Kardashian's 5-month-old daughter Penelope, but not Kim's boyfriend Kanye West.
The Kardashians continue their tradition to wish their devotees a Merry Christmas with a card. This year, the family members get into a full celebratory mode for the upcoming holiday by wearing all-white ensembles and cheering as confetti falls over them.
There are two new additions in the new family holiday card. One is 5-month-old Penelope Disick whom Kourtney Kardashian gave birth to last summer, and another is Kim's cat Mercy that died while in the care of Khloe Kardashian's assistant.
Kim's boyfriend Kanye West is not in the picture despite the fact that the lovebirds were inseparable during the past few months. Regardless, the estranged wife of Kris Humphries said, "We had such a fun time shooting this!"
The picture was taken by Nick Saglimbeni. "I love our Christmas card! White party :)," Khloe gushed.

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Peace & War
Climate Change
The G8
L i n k s
to some of my
favourite sites:
Via Campesina - website
of the international
peasants movement.
Third World Network -
a great website from
the folks who make the
'Third World Resurgence'
magazine, a brilliant source
of info from a 'south' view.
Against the Grain - a
brilliant 3-shows a week
radio show that covers
politics, resistance and
a wide range of ideas.
Truth Dig - is a US News
blog that is fascinating.
It's Global and US news
with great comment and
some cool cartoons.
Radio Eco-Shock - a
great weekly radio
show playing news
and views on climate
and eco issues.
Faith47 - south african
grafitti artist with great
talent & political sense.
Zero Carbon Britain
- see how Britain can
stop making it worse.
Transition Towns - an
exciting movement
to "decarbonise" and
prepare for changes
in energy & climate.
Banksy - one of the
best living artists.
Freak Radio - one of
the best web-radio
stations with a mix
of politics, music
and radical debate.
Dr. D - great 'billboard
doctoring' by Dr.D
Wikipedia - the vast
'open' info resource.
Wooster Collective -
a great collection
of street art from
all over the world,
updated every day!
DoodleDubz - is a
great radical-arts
collective who do
'street art'. They have
moved to this Flickr
page for now. Their
older work is still on
view on their old blog.
Unwelcome Guests -
great weekly 2hr radio
show that includes
fascinating speeches.
Polyp - one of the best
radical and political
cartoonist is online!
The Oil Drum - vast &
in-depth website that
explores climate change
and peak oil, etc.
Bamboo bicycle trailer
- fantastic example of
"appropriate tech".
Plane Stupid - whats
wrong with flying,
and what can we
do about it.
Julian Beever - the
best pavement
artist that I have
ever seen!
Killer Coke - a good
introduction to the
crimes of Coca-Cola,
from funding death
squads in Colombia
to stealing India's
water supplies.
VLC mediaplayer - is
a free cross-platform
program that can
play almost any type
of media file.
Stop the Wall - that
is being built by
Israel to cut up
parts of Palestine.
Indymedia - a great
source of current
non-corporate news.
This link is for the
UK general page,
but the list on the
left will take you to
yor local Indymedia
Open Office - is a free
fully functioning
suite of open-source
software created
by people all over
the world without
the control of any
giant multinationals.
And it works well!
Smedley Butler - one of
the most 'interesting'
soldiers I've ever heard
about, famous for his
1935 book entitled
"War is a racket".
Climate Justice Now -
one of many great sites
to focus on the greatest
issue facing us today.


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AUTHORS with disabilities will be promoted with a new reading list available from the district's libraries.
Books by Paralympians Danny Crates and Anne Wafula Strike, as well as award-winning author Hilary Mantel, will be on offer from tomorrow, to mark International Day for People with Disabilities.
A list of the books can be found by going to goo.gl/x8HZ4 and clicking on the 'Disability – words of experience' box.


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30 Wilderness Plots
Plots (Coincidence) (Side-Quest)
's comment on 2008-08-02 02:55 PM
2-Newer Dead
The Everfar Plains stretch out as far as the eyes can see, with only two things that rise more than two or three feet out of the rich soil. Those two things are: firstly, a stone statue of a hybrid cat and snake, apparently centuries old, and secondly, a grand throne, chiseled out of limestone in the shape of a giant hand, curved so as to afford the best possible seat.
As the party is traveling through the town of Spiritan, they observe a commotion coming from the town square, and people rushing toward it, gleeful smiles on their faces. The townsfolk are all heading toward the execution by hanging of a heretic. Graiban the Old, the local herbalist, started spouting things about a week ago, things that the church in town sees as blasphemous and rabble rousing ideas. Most put Graiban down as a old man gone horribly mad, but a few began to listen to his talk of a new and more powerful god. The public lynching of Graiban is supposed to quiet those followers by making an example of him as an enemy of the church.
Once Graiban stopped moving, the executioner cut him down, and the body was buried in a pauper's grave on the edge of the graveyard. If the party sticks around until night, then a few screams can be heard from the direction of the graveyard, and then silence. In the morning investigations reveal that the new grave is empty, and two young lovers lie over an old tree stump, their faces horribly scraped off. Bloody tracks lead away. off into the empty plains.
The new god that Graiban had begun preaching of, is named Tibr, an old, old god from a time that is forgotten by most. The cat-snake statue that lies in the plains is an idol to that malignant deity. One day, while out gathering herbs, Graiban found the throne and statue, and, being tired, sat down on the open palm. When he took the seat reserved, though he didn't know it, for the high priest of Tibr, his eyes were opened to all the tales that Tibr had had over a century to perfect. The tale of the creation of the world, by Tibr, of course. The tales of Tibr's great valor, and loving kindness. These tales, together with a little nudge from the forgotten god, swayed the allegiance that Graiden had to his church, and brought them around to the worship of Tibr. Graiden returned to town, and immediately began preaching of his new god.
To skip ahead a week, we will return to the current events. When Graiden died in the cause of his god, Tibr saw fit to raise him as a foul undead creature. Now, Graiden, or what was once Graiden, stalks the plains around the statue, always in search of more sacrifices.
Graiden is now little more than a shadow of his former self, gaunt skin is stretched too thin over dried bones. His head hangs to the side, looking more like a gross parody of a head, than the actual thing. There is a gaping hole in his chest, where he ripped out his unbeating heart to sacrifice to his master. His decay was sped up by the very foulness of his master, and as such, he looks as though he has been dead for a decade. In his claw-like, scabrous hand, he holds a rusty dagger, the tool used to kill the two in the graveyard.
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30 Wilderness Plots
Plots (Coincidence) (Side-Quest)
's comment on 2008-08-02 01:46 PM
1-Swampy Secret
In the swampy badlands of the west, there stands a monolith from ancient times that emits a dull green glow at night. When the young daughter of a close friend of the PCs (or of one of the PCs themselves, if you want it to hit closer to home) disappears after being seen heading toward the monolith, the characters are drawn into a devilishly old secret.
When they arrive in the village that the girl lived in, they find grieving parents, and grimly determined villagers. Throughout the years, there have been numerous disappearances of this sort, each time it was a young girl, and each time they were never heard from again. The only reason that nothing was done before now, was that most people thought the tales to be simply a way to scare off children from going near the dangerous swamp. But now, with this most recent disappearance, the villagers are restless for revenge. They feel certain that someone, or something, is taking away these girls. So, the villagers, led by a few young, brash individuals, have decided to take things into their own hands. Their plan is to topple the monolith, and then go into the swamp to search for the missing child.
The monolith is actually a guide set up by an ancient civilization. It, when activated, leads the way through the devilish swamps, using only the safest ways known to it. But, though the magic is still active, the things knowledge of the swamp is outdated, it leads along ways that were once safe roads, but have since eroded into murky puddles. The way you activate the monolith is really quite simple, if you place both hands palm down on the surface of the rock, then the guide will appear, and start off through the swamp. The fact that all the children gone missing were girls is merely a very strange circumstance. They are neither compelled or forced to follow the guide, they are simply too curious fr their own good. The daughter that disappeared is most likely dead, either at the bottom of some bog, or at the hands of a foul beast.
The guide appears as a tall man, with an elk's skull for a head, and a body made of swirling green lights. In his gnarled hand is held a brightly shining lantern.
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The Brute Hammer
Items (Melee Weapons) (Non-Magical)
's comment on 2008-07-28 05:40 PM
The spelling and grammar should be checked in a spell checker. While the item itself is fairly good, the backstory seems weak. It might just be me, but, becuase it is almost demanded on here, every other item is just a plain old thing. so, everything new needs a superbly original backstory, or else it seems just a rehash of what's before. Mind you, I'm not trying to say that I don't like the Brute Hammer, I would just like to see a slightly different backstory.
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Systems (Mystical) (General)
's comment on 2008-07-28 04:31 PM
Ah, a good, new-fashioned way to cast spells, that takes the repetitiveness out of it (wave, chant, boom, repeat). I like the image of a noble at a grand ball illuminating him and his partner with a few floating orbs of light. Good job, Grey!
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30 Hammers
Items (Melee Weapons) (Non-Magical)
's comment on 2008-08-02 12:33 PM
18-The Bellringer
Rather a small hammer, the Bellringer is only about ten inches long. It has a sturdy wooden handle wrapped in strips of wolf hide, and is topped by a rough chunk of metal, rumored to be the cast-offs from one of the mythic blades that pop into tales every now and then. The Bellringer is a little less than average quality for a war hammer, even one as small as it is. However, anything, and everything, that is struck will ring like a bell, anywhere from a small silvery tinkle, to a booming gong.
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30 Hammers
Items (Melee Weapons) (Non-Magical)
's comment on 2008-07-26 04:55 PM
Good work! You're right, hammers, (and spears, and axes) are under appreciated. I plan to add a few myself.
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Weapons to be Wary of
Items (Melee Weapons) (Cursed)
's comment on 2008-07-26 04:48 PM
Although I do not have a specific favorite that I can name, I do find them all to be very usable. A PC gets a Berserker Blade, and goes a little crazy. A high profile criminal fakes his own death with a Goretooth weapon, and shows up after a string of murders carrying a Crusader Sword. The list could go on. Good sub, Grey!
(I remember the Goretooth weapons from before, and I like them as much now, as then).
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Moeder Moeras
NPCs (Major) (Agricultural)
's comment on 2008-07-25 12:07 PM
As others have said before me; good work, Scras!
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Tarrath the Betrayer
NPCs (Mythic/ Historical) (Political)
's comment on 2008-07-25 11:39 AM
I'm pretty much saying the same as Echo and Cheka. More content would be nice, such as further description, or what happened to him after the betrayal. The fact that there really isn't a way for him to be used in a game is somewhat detrimental to his usefulness. But, perhaps, you just need some ideas, so, here it goes. The characters are hired to find the original "Hammer of the Betrayer", whether by a museum, or someone wanting to reenact the attack who hopes that the hammer could help in their endeavor. Or, there are rumors that Tarrath has been seen walking through the kingdom, and preaching of the coming doom. The PCs could be hired by the government to investigate, or simply decide to put a stop to him.
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Jahla the Light.
NPCs (Minor) (Criminal/Espionage)
's comment on 2008-07-24 10:57 PM
Jahla the Light is a simple, usable thief. He's a fairly minor NPC, but minor can be good. The spelling could be better, as could the structure. I would like some plot ideas for The Band of Nine. Could the merchant who lost his daggers need someone to investigate? Could one of the nine want out, and need help to get away? Or, could one of the nine really want to beat Jahla, maybe by turning him in, or hiring a "helper"? Also, does Jahla simply have the lightest fingers, or does he have something that helps him steal?
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Locations (City) (Other)
's comment on 2008-07-14 06:46 PM
Finished, and being added as a Normal Submission.
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Locations (City) (Other)
's comment on 2008-07-14 08:48 PM
Not actually done, so I'm putting it in work for now.
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Bruin the Bellringer
NPCs (Minor) (Criminal/Espionage)
's comment on 2008-07-15 03:16 PM
Finished, and being posted as a normal submission.
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The Gauran Dau
Society/ Organizations (Political) (Country/ State)
's comment on 2008-07-09 05:37 PM
I echo once again, "Woah". These men, or beasts, if you like, are well rounded, with an interesting backstory. They have more than a touch of flavor, and are also useful. Echo, if you're rusty, then I'd like to read what you wrote at the top of your game.
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Tabs' Candy Carnival
Locations (Establishment) (Any)
's comment on 2008-06-15 09:45 AM
Wow...If I ate any of these I'd probably get sick. Good job, Stephie. You do a nice job describing the different types of candies. However, I would like to know how it's supposed to be used in a game. Could the players purchase some candy, and then get mugged for it? Or use it to distract guards outside of a door that they need to get into? I would suggest some "Plot Hooks" at the end, just to help all of us to better use your idea.
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The Rumrunner's Rum Runners
Items (Clothes) (Magical)
's comment on 2008-06-13 03:32 PM
I think you should have put THE BONUS ITEM as its own sub. The Boots themselves are good. Not earth-shattering, or anything as cliched as that. Just a nice pair of smelly boots.
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The Blackbirds
Society/ Organizations (Combative) (Country/ State)
's comment on 2008-06-10 03:32 PM
Finished, and now being added as a Normal Submission.
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Sabrille the Leech Fetcher
NPCs (Minor) (Travelers)
's comment on 2008-06-08 10:22 PM
A lovely leech lady. (Whee, alliteration!) Anyway, as Cheka said, a friendly NPC, although quite, erm, disgusting, in concept.
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Blind Mary
NPCs (Minor) (Religious)
's comment on 2008-06-08 10:14 PM
You have kept the Medusa set of subs good. Blind Mary is nicely detailed and usable. I could see a group traveling along, they get attacked by bandits. Once they finally fight off the bandits they stumble wearily toward the nearby town. But, once they get there, they are faced with a foul beast! The ensuing role-playing would hopefully end in the parties comprehension that the "horrible beastie" is actually a helper. Or something like that. Anyway, it was good.
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Aunt Mags and Her Little Teapot
Items (Home/ Personal) (Magical)
's comment on 2008-06-10 02:29 PM
Although I do agree with Misanpilgrim, I enjoy this one. as Muro said, like tea with Miss Marple. So, basically, What eveyone else said before me. Good post, Stephie.
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The MP for Burley-in-Wharfedale and Menston has demanded that the government ensures offenders who break their licence conditions when released early from prison are recalled back to prison for the full remainder of their original sentence.
Shipley constituency MP, Philip Davies, was outraged that recalled criminals were walking free after a short term back in prison. Speaking in the Justice Questions last week, Mr Davies said: "Does the Secretary of State agree with me that prisoners released on licence who breach the terms of their licence should serve the remaining part of their sentence in full in prison? If he does agree what is he doing to ensure this always happens? If he doesn't agree, why not?"
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said: "I have a lot of sympathy with him on these matters like breach of licence and areas like automatic release.
"What I would say to him, while I cannot do everything he would like me to do for resource reasons, when we publish the Bill due to be laid tomorrow is that when he reads it he will find things in it that he feels are, at least, a step in the right direction."


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If logos could tell the truth.Leaky Penny (2612 pencils) | Mon, 2011-04-18 13:54
Leaky Penny
Check out what I've been up to lately!
I'm going to print it out and eat it.
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What does all this stuff mean?
I am not Steve Ballmer pretending not to be me!
I like the facebook one the most...
I wanna see lots more!!
Is Steve Balmer a narcissist, idiot or just trying to evoke a reaction?
>> Cookie cut the chaos >>
I'm going to do some logos that target evil bastard corporations like Halliburton etc...
>> Cookie cut the chaos >>
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Moron Television, so true...
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if people don't know it, read "NO LOGO" written by Naomi Klein.
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Eagles will take over London's O2 for four nights before embarking on longer tour.
Eagles will soon begin their world tour to support 'Long Road Out of Eden' at O2. The rock band have announced a residency at the London stadium for four nights.
The first date would be March 20, followed by 22, 23, and 26. Tickets for these four shows will go on-sale on Friday, January 18 with price ranging from 70 to 110 pounds via Ticketmaster. The world tour will also take them to U.S., Australia and other U.K. territories with dates expected to be announced soon.
The setlist for the O2 concerts is not yet fixed but it will debut an all-new stage production. The band will play both the new hits from 'Long Road Out of Eden' and their classics such as 'Hotel California', 'Take It to the Limit', 'Take It Easy', 'Desperado', and 'Life in the Fast Lane'.
A special ticket for the leg has been prepared in collaboration with iloveaccess.com. For more details go to iloveallaccess.com.
Meanwhile, Eagles has just garnered two nods at BRIT Awards, one for 'Best International Group' and 'Best International Album' for 'Long Road Out of Eden' which was certified 7 times platinum in U.S. as of January 4, 2008.


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Heath's son will join Bulls as walk-on guard
Tampa Prep senior point guard Jordan Heath, who has helped the Terrapins reach the state final four in each of the last two years, will walk on at USF and play for his father Stan's team this fall.
"He's a great floor leader, a real heady competitor," Tampa Prep coach Joe Fenlon said. "You can tell he's a coach's kid. He just understands the game and knows where everyone needs to be on the court."
Heath, a 5-foot-11 point guard, was a two-year starter at Tampa Prep and was recruited by smaller schools like Saint Leo in Pasco County and DePauw University in Indiana, where Fenlon's brother Bill is head coach. The Bulls lost their only walk-on from last season, guard Ryan Kardok, who logged 147 minutes as a senior.
Heath's younger son, Josh, is a rising sophomore at Tampa Prep.
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Ten Reasons You Should Attend Portland Fashion Week
TEN Reasons Why Portland Fashion Week 2009 (Oct 7-11) will be The best PFW Ever!
- Two of the biggest Oregon designers Anna Cohen & Michelle Decourcy are launching brand new lines Imperial by Anna Cohen and La Vie from Portland Fashion Week.
- Jantzen, one of the most leading swimwear companies in the world launching its 100 year anniversary swimwear collection from PFW
- Audience-vote will select the best emerging designer of 2009. As you know, Leanne Marshall, the emerging designer from PFW 2006 went on to become winner of Project Runway.
- Two of Portland's most successful designers, IDOM and Amai Unmei will launch their Spring/Summer 2010 Collections from PFW; this launch would be their third year, in a row, in PFW.
- Four of the biggest Pacific NW designers, from Seattle and Vancouver BC, launching their Spring/Summer 2010 collections, making PFW THE regional fashion week
- Five international designers, all the way from Pakistan, France, Sweden, Canada, New Zealand, are launching here, this enhances PFW's role as an international fashion week
- PFW is presenting an attractive bicycle-wear fashion show, as part of Oregon Manifest bike festival.
- Leading eco-designers, from Chicago, New York, California and Pittsburg are launching from PFW.
- The high-production runway shows, which in 2007 got recognized as the "first sustainable production of a fashion week in the world", will be taking place just a few miles from city center, in the Swan Island, otherwise known as Portland's working harbor, at the amazingly industrial Vigor Industrial Shipyard, Portland's most bike-riding work-campus.
- Last but not least, the swanky after parties in the Pearl and downtown will keep the excitement going till the wee hours at night.
All these make Portland Fashion Week not only the biggest fashion week in the US after NY and LA FW, but, make us being proud of being in Portland and Oregon.
Editor's Note: The kind and generous folks at Portland Fashion Week have given us a pair of tickets for Thursday, October 8th to share with you. To enter to win, leave a comment on this post letting us know why you're excited for Portland Fashion Week '09. The contest will close Wednesday at Noon and we'll choose a winner shortly after. Good luck!
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News, views and gossip relating to Tottenham Hotspur over the past 24 hours.
Reports linking Tottenham with a move for Brazilian attacker Willian persist, with the Shakhtar playmaker sending out mixed messages again that he is keen on a January move, factoring in the Ukrainian club's Champions League prospects. Shakhtar are already into the knockout stages, but the winger said: "As for possible a possible transfer there will be offers, and I work so this happens." At the same time he said he was 'happy' and living for the moment at Shakhtar, hardly messages of long-term commitment. Talksport claim Spurs are preparing a big bid, but Willian's owners are likely to demand £30 million, and it was mooted last week that Spurs have a £20 million budget, so there would need to be a compromise for the player to clinch his dream move to London.
Michael Dawson has shrugged off reports linking him with being re-united with Harry Redknapp at QPR. The defender did say it is frustrating not to be part of the Spurs side, but was in a good mood after the game against West Ham, in which he started, and said while that continues he is very happy at White Hart Lane.
Clint Dempsey is another Spurs player who was smiling after the final whistle yesterday, in what was arguably his best performance for the club since arriving in the summer. He commented that he has found it difficult to adapt to Spurs' style of play, and has not been getting enough of the ball as he would like, 'at the right angles', and also cited a lack of pre-season with the club for his slow start. However after yesterday he feels his form is picking up. You can read his full interview here.
West Ham United have released a statement condemning their own fans' Anti-Semitic chanting during the match with Spurs yesterday. The FA have launched an investigation into the abuse - and so have the police. Two Hammers fans have been cautioned, and so far one season ticket holder has been handed a lifetime ban by the club.
West Ham's Israeli loanee Yossi Benayoun has spoken of his 'embarassment' of the chanting of his clubs supporters. He said on Twitter:
"I have a great relationship with the West Ham United supporters, from my first spell at the club and again now I am back on loan here.
"This why I was very disappointed to hear some of the songs yesterday and it was embarrassing."
The president of Lazio football club has visited the injured Tottenham fan in hospital in Rome. Claudio Lolito told reporters that the shameful incident was 'nothing to do with football'. He added that Lazio would bear a 'surprise' on their t-shirts under their kits for Spurs when the club face Udinese tomorrow night. Two Roma fans have been arrested in connection with the attacks.
Key midfielder Sandro has moved to quell fears of his injury after being carried off late against the Hammers, describing the blow to the stomach as a 'hard hit' and nothing more. His status for the midweek game against Liverpool is currently unclear but there is every chance he will be available to start the match.
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Raleigh, N.C. – Predictions about Texas eventually becoming a presidential battleground state could get fast-tracked if Hillary Clinton is the Democratic nominee in 2016, according to PPP's latest poll.
The results are within the margin of error, but Clinton leads Marco Rubio 46% to 45%, Chris Christie 45% to 43% and Rick Perry 50% to 42%. She has a +7 favorability rating (50/43) with Texas voters and strong support among moderate voters—72% view her favorably, and she crushes her potential GOP opponents among this voting group.
"If Clinton is the 2016 nominee, she could conceivably expand the electoral map for Democrats in deep-red Texas," said Dean Debnam, President of Public Policy Polling.
Rubio leads the pack in a potential 2016 GOP presidential primary with 21% support, followed by 14% for Mike Huckabee, 13% for Rand Paul, 11% for Jeb Bush and Paul Ryan, 9% for Christie, 4% for Bobby Jindal and Perry and 2% for Susana Martinez. 10% support someone else or are undecided. 70% don't want Perry to run again for president.
Ted Cruz has a +6 job approval rating (36/30), with 34% not sure. 41% of voters have a favorable view of George P. Bush to 33% unfavorable and 26% unsure.
51% of voters support continuing to allow Texas' popular vote winner to receive all of its electoral votes to 28% who support the congressional district proposal. 20% support seceding from the United States because of President Obama's reelection to 67% opposed and 12% not sure. Same-sex marriage is opposed 55% to 35%, but 61% support some form of legal recognition—33% support marriage equality and 28% support civil unions.
42% of Texas voters consider themselves to be Dallas Cowboys fans while 50% do not. 52% of Cowboys fans think the team would be better off without team owner Jerry Jones, while 29% think it would be about the same and 14% think it would be worse off.
PPP surveyed 500 Texas voters as well as 400 usual Republican primary voters from January 24th to 27th. The margin of error for the overall sample is +/-4.4% overall and +/-4.9% for the GOP portion. This poll was not paid for or authorized by any campaign or political organization. PPP surveys are conducted through automated telephone interviews.
Topline results are below. Full results, including crosstabs, can be found here.
General Election Toplines
Q1 Do you approve or disapprove of Senator Ted
Cruz's job performance?
Approve ................. .36%
Disapprove............. .30%
Not sure ................. .34%
Q2 Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion
of George P. Bush?
Favorable........................................................ 41%
Unfavorable .................................................... 33%
Not sure .......................................................... 26%
Q3 Do you think same-sex marriage should be
allowed in Texas, or not?
It should .......................................................... 35%
It should not .................................................... 55%
Not sure .......................................................... 10%
Q4 Which of the following best describes your
opinion on gay marriage: gay couples should
be allowed to legally marry, or gay couples
should be allowed to form civil unions but not
legally marry, or there should be no legal
recognition of a gay couple's relationship?
Gay couples should be allowed to legally
marry ..............................................................33%
Gay couples should be allowed to form civil
unions but not marry .......................................28%
There should be no legal recognition of a gay
couple's relationship .......................................36%
Not sure .......................................................... 3%
Q5 Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion
of Hillary Clinton?
Favorable........................................................ 50%
Unfavorable .................................................... 43%
Not sure .......................................................... 7%
Q6 If the candidates for President in 2016 were
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Chris
Christie, who would you vote for?
Hillary Clinton.................................................. 45%
Chris Christie .................................................. 43%
Not sure .......................................................... 12%
Q7 If the candidates for President in 2016 were
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Rick
Perry, who would you vote for?
Hillary Clinton.................................................. 50%
Rick Perry ....................................................... 42%
Not sure .......................................................... 8%
Q8 If the candidates for President in 2016 were
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican
Marco Rubio, who would you vote for?
Hillary Clinton.................................................. 46%
Marco Rubio ................................................... 45%
Not sure .......................................................... 8%
Q9 Do you think that all of Texas' electoral votes
should go to the presidential candidate who
wins in the state, or do you think one electoral
vote should be given to the winner of each
congressional district?
All of Texas' electoral votes should go to the
presidential candidate who wins the state.......51%
One vote should be given to the winner of
each congressional district..............................28%
Not sure .......................................................... 21%
Q10 Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion
of Lance Armstrong?
Favorable........................................................ 16%
Unfavorable .................................................... 59%
Not sure .......................................................... 25%
Q11 Would you support or oppose Texas seceding
from the union because of Barack Obama's reelection?
Support ........................................................... 20%
Oppose ........................................................... 67%
Not sure .......................................................... 12%
Q12 Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion
of Jerry Jones?
Favorable........................................................ 13%
Unfavorable .................................................... 50%
Not sure .......................................................... 37%
Q13 Do you consider yourself to be a Dallas
Cowboys fan, or not?
Consider yourself a Cowboys fan ................... 42%
Do not ............................................................. 50%
Not sure .......................................................... 9%
Q14 (Asked only of Cowboys fans:) Do you think
the Cowboys would be better off, worse off, or
about the same with a different owner than
Jerry Jones?
Better off ......................................................... 52%
Worse off ........................................................ 14%
About the same............................................... 29%
Not sure .......................................................... 5%
Q15 Would you describe yourself as very liberal,
somewhat liberal, moderate, somewhat
conservative, or very conservative?
Very liberal ...................................................... 8%
Somewhat liberal ............................................ 15%
Moderate......................................................... 30%
Somewhat conservative.................................. 22%
Very conservative ........................................... 25%
Q16 If you are a woman, press 1. If a man, press 2.
Woman ........................................................... 56%
Man................................................................. 44%
Q17 If you are a Democrat, press 1. If a Republican,
press 2. If you are an independent or identify
with another party, press 3.
Democrat ........................................................ 32%
Republican...................................................... 43%
Independent/Other.......................................... 25%
Q18 If you are Hispanic, press 1. If white, press 2.
If African-American, press 3. If other, press 4.
Hispanic.......................................................... 19%
White .............................................................. 62%
African-American ............................................ 13%
Other............................................................... 7%
Q19 If you are 18 to 45 years old, press 1. If 46 to
65, press 2. If you are older than 65, press 3.
18 to 45........................................................... 30%
46 to 65........................................................... 48%
Older than 65.................................................. 22%
Republican Primary Toplines
Q1 Given the choices of Jeb Bush, Chris Christie,
Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Susana
Martinez, Rand Paul, Rick Perry, Marco Rubio,
and Paul Ryan, who would you most like to see
as the GOP candidate for President in 2016?
Jeb Bush......................................................... 11%
Chris Christie .................................................. 9%
Mike Huckabee ............................................... 14%
Bobby Jindal ................................................... 4%
Susana Martinez............................................. 2%
Rand Paul ....................................................... 13%
Rick Perry ....................................................... 4%
Marco Rubio ................................................... 21%
Paul Ryan ....................................................... 11%
Someone else/Undecided............................... 10%
Q2 Do you think Rick Perry should run for
President in 2016, or not?
He should........................................................ 19%
He should not.................................................. 70%
Not sure .......................................................... 11%
somewhat liberal, moderate, somewhat
conservative, or very conservative?
Very liberal ...................................................... 2%
Somewhat liberal ............................................ 5%
Moderate......................................................... 15%
Somewhat conservative.................................. 34%
Very conservative ........................................... 42%
Q4 If you are a woman, press 1. If a man, press 2.
Woman ........................................................... 53%
Man................................................................. 47%
Q5 If you are 18 to 45years old, press 1. If 46 to
65, press 2. If you are older than 65, press 3.
18 to 45........................................................... 33%
46 to 65........................................................... 41%
Older than 65.................................................. 26%


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The highs and lows of sports are so entwined, so linked as to be inseparable.
That was the situation that Chippewa's Katlyn Petit found herself in Saturday afternoon. Without her, Chippewa would never have enjoyed the success it has this season. Chippewa may still have gone 19-1 in the regular season and won its 13th consecutive Wayne County Athletic League title, but it certainly would have been a more difficult journey.
But as the Chipps and Manchester squared off Saturday in the Div. III Smithville District championship game, Petit found herself mired in a very forgettable shooting slump.
Indeed, as the two teams played through a deadlocked 32 minutes and headed into overtime, Petit was struggling from the field, having missed nine consecutive shots, including seven in the overtime period alone.
It could have been 29 or 99 for all that matters this morning, though. All that counts was the one she DID hit.
Seconds after her last 3-pointer left her hands, Petit found herself at the bottom of Chippewa's celebration pile, her 21-footer stunning everyone in the Smithville gymnasium as it hit nothing but net to give Chippewa a 56-55 victory and end a string of two consecutive district championship losses to the Panthers.
"Katlyn was off on her 3s all night long, but I told her big-time players step up," Chippewa coach Denny Schrock said. "She's still the best 3-point shooter around."
That's what the game boiled down to after Manchester's Hailey Staubs split a pair of free throws with 10.4 seconds left in overtime to put the Panthers up 55-53.
It took longer than the Chipps would have liked, but they called time in front of their own bench with exactly five seconds to play to set up the final play.
"It was the sideout we've run all year," Schrock said, his casualness as he said it failing to note it was the first time all year where the mental pressure was as intense as it has was.
It was inbounded to Ashley Canter, whose lob pass settled into Petit's hands behind a screen at the top of the key. The horn sounded as the ball hung in the air on its downward arc, leaving the outcome still in doubt for a split second before the shot found nothing but net.
Petit knew she had been struggling -- "Oh, yeah, I knew that," she said with a roll of her eyes, although at that juncture she didn't know her line read 3-of-16 -- but she was also ready for redemption.
"I looked at Ashley Canter and told her I knew I could do it," Petit said. "She said, 'I know you can.'
"I knew I had to get my feet set and I shot it like I normally do. The one (3-pointer) before, it felt off and I knew it was off," she said. "But I knew it -- I knew it was in.
"My heart dropped. I couldn't believe we had won."
As dramatic as the final seconds were, the end of regulation had the same drama. The Chipps came into the final period with a 37-33 lead, but the Panthers tied the game on a 3-pointer by Nicole Weible with 2:29 to play.
At that juncture, Schrock tried to bring the Panthers out of their 2-3 zone, which was backboned by 6-foot-2 center Nicole Neila. The Panthers wouldn't bite, though, so the Chipps opted to settle for the last shot.
They got what they wanted, with Cheyenne Boyan driving the lane and colliding with Neila, but they didn't get the call when Boyan was whistled for the charge, giving Manchester one final chance.
Inbounding from half-court following a timeout, Katie Burns split the Chipp defense for a layup attempt, which didn't drop. Had it fallen, it was sure to have ignited a controversy of its own and left it up to the officials to decide if the ball had left her hand before the horn sounded.
The miss, though, sent it to overtime where Weible put Manchester up 48-46 on the first possession with a baseline layup and Neila split a one-and-one to make it a 49-46 game, but Manchester's Burns came away with the rebound, only to see her team turn it over.
Canter tied the game with a 3 from the top of the key, but the Chipps couldn't convert on two more Manchester turnovers, which allowed the Panthers' Susan Hawk to break the tie with a driving layup, which also resulted in Boyan fouling out of the game.
Hawk missed the free throw, but Burns again came away with the rebound, which resulted in Staubs splitting two free throws (1:36) to put the Panthers up 52-49.
A pair of Genet Saeger free throws (1:21) pulled Chippewa within 52-51 and Heather Hoffman followed a Manchester turnover (one of five in the period) with a shot from in close to put the Chipps back on top with 53 seconds to play.
Staubs' layup returned the favor to make it 54-53, but she couldn't convert on the subsequent free throw. After Hoffman missed a one-and-one, Manchester turned the ball over on a 2-on-1 fastbreak which could have given it a three-point spread. In return, Petit couldn't get a 3-pointer or a follow-up jumper to go, and her foul on Staubs then set up the frenetic final 10 seconds.
Hoffman had an inspired game for the Chipps, who were in early foul trouble and had to abandon any thought of utilizing their defensive pressure.
"I had Boyan with two (fouls), Canter with two and Hoffman with two," said Schrock in explanation of his team's second-quarter woes. "Our pressure got us back in the game (in the second half) and I could keep them on the court. In the first half I couldn't."
Hoffman came back to score seven of her game-high 20 points in the third quarter. She made 8-of-15 floor shots and pulled down a team-high seven rebounds.
"I can't emphasize how well Heather Hoffman played," Schrock said.
"I did what I had to do," said Hoffman, who aided in the weakside defense on Neila to help out Petit. "Once I saw no one else was shooting, I wanted to shoot. I focused on my shots more this game.
"It's great to win."
Boyan and Petit each scored 11 points for the Chipps, who were 20-of-55 from the field but 11-of-15 at the free throw line.
Neila, who scored 30 in the Panthers' 68-55 win over the Chipps a year go, led the way with 14 points. Hawk added a dozen for the Panthers, who were 18-of-40 from the field but only 15-of-29 from the stripe.
The victory pushed Chippewa to 22-1 on the campaign and into a date next Wednesday at 8 p.m. against Villa-Angela/St. Joseph at Cuyahoga Falls High School. Manchester bowed out with an 18-6 record.


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Soggy Weather Pattern Continues Through Weekend
Date: July 6 Time: 4:00 a.m. Meteorologist: Josh Poland
Your Doppler 10 Forecast
This Morning: Mostly cloudy with a few scattered showers and storms.
This Afternoon: Scattered showers and thunderstorms. High 82
Tonight: Warm and muggy with scattered showers and storms. Low 69
Sunday: Mostly cloudy with more scattered showers and thunderstorms. High 79
Special Information:
Our soggy weather pattern will continue this weekend with scattered showers and storms. The weekend won't be a complete washout, but keep the umbrella close because showers and storms will be possible at just about any point in the day both today and Sunday. Our severe weather chances will stay low, but any storms that do develop will be capable of producing heavy rainfall. We'll be warm and muggy today with high temperatures climbing into the low 80s. Look for warm and muggy conditions to stick around tonight into Sunday with Sunday's highs in the upper 70s and low 80s. Scattered showers and storms will likely stick around through at least the middle of next week.
Alerts: None
Inconvenient Weather: Scattered showers and storms will be likely throughout the weekend.
Planning Your Day: Keep the umbrella handy as showers and storms will be possible at just about any point in the day.
Stats: Averages: 85/65 Record High: 101 (2012) Record Low: 43 (1972)
Sunrise: 6:09 a.m. Sunset: 9:03 p.m.


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|Bonnie Dee Wilson
|Picture above, Bonnie Dee from her Pet of the Year runner-up Pictorial, the picture on the right is from her November 1975 Penthouse debut. Below, a scene from the exhausting 3 day Imperial Bordello shoot, you can see the back of Bonnie's head on the left, she's wearing the yellow dress. She was reluctant on the set, that is until she got a couple of drinks under her belt!
|Above, Bonnie Dee Wilson Oct 1977. Bonnie was Bob Guccione's plaything. Bob had an open marriage, and he and Bonnie were an item. She was 28 and had a 9 year old daughter. Bonnie also had a drinking problem, and this hampered Bob's plans with her. She was supposed to be Pet of the Year but instead was the Runner-Up for 1977. She was reluctant on the set of Caligula, although she did participate in the orgy scenes, shown below.
|January 1977-Rome
|Bob really liked Bonnie. She was from Texas, and that was a turn on! She was born April 2nd 1947 in San Antonio, and when she got involved with Penthouse was a single mom, with a daughter born in 1967. She left the girl with relatives when she went to Rome. Bonnie had a problem with booze, and began to embarass Bob at parties they would go to. He created the Pet of the Year runner up for her, because she was too much of a lush to be named Pet of the Year.
It's not known what became of her after Caligula came out in February 1980.


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THE last baby girl to be born in an iconic former hospital in York is celebrating her 50th birthday today.
Sally Wilkinson, nee Rhodes, is believed to be the last girl to be born in the private Purey Cust Nuffield Hospital in the shadow of York Minster before its maternity unit closed.
The daughter of well-known top-flight Football League referee Peter Rhodes and his wife Sheila, Sally said her very protective 42-year-old father suggested she should be born in the hospital after reading about babies being mixed up in maternity units.
He missed refereeing a Tranmere versus Rochdale match to be with Sheila, then 30, and to look after older daughter Jane at the time of the birth.
Sally, who was brought up in Dringhouses and Woodthorpe, said: "I'm a very positive person and this feels a new chapter in my life. I was privileged to be born in the hospital.
"My mum always said I was born at 9am with the St Peter's bell ringing in the background, which was a nice coincidence with my dad being called Peter."
Sally was delivered by family doctor Sam Smith, of the Dalton Terrace Surgery.
The landmark birthday is one it was not thought Sally would reach after she was involved in a devastating car accident in Wetherby Road as a teenager.
She was given her last rites after the crash which left her with multiple fractures of the pelvis. When she pulled through, doctors warned Sally would not be able to walk again but she gradually recovered, undergoing numerous operations in the decades after the crash.
She said: "My forties were tough - losing my parents, getting divorced, and getting two new hips.
"But I was told I would never walk again, and I can and you would never know looking at me. I never thought I would reach my 17th, let alone 50th."
Sally, of South Bank, is celebrating her landmark birthday with a Hollywood-themed fancy dress party with family including children Sophie, 17, and James, 13, and good friends.
Her father, Peter, who enjoyed long spells as chairman of the York FA, died in 2011, and Sheila, who had worked in the family's grocery shops, died in 2007.
Ian Saville, who was born a couple of weeks later at the Purey Cust Nuffield Hospital, to Barbara and Michael Saville, owners of Saville's camera shop in Goodramgate, now lives in the USA.
The Purey Cust Nuffield Hospital moved to a new building in Haxby Road in 2004.


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CALDWELL -- Noble County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney and prosecutor-elect Kelly Riddle will be the guest speaker at the Caldwell Veterans Day event today (Sunday) on the west side of the Noble County Courthouse in Caldwell.
The Caldwell High School Marching Band will form on West Street in front of VFW Post 4721 at 9:45 a.m. and move out at 10, march around the square and end at the Veterans Monument where they will play prior to the ceremony.
Belle Valley American Legion Veterans Day parade will commence at 10:30 a.m. today at the south end of town and march to Post 641 on Brown Street, where a short service will be held. A light lunch will follow with the public invited.
At 5 p.m., a ham dinner for veterans will take place in the Legion Hall. Sons of the American Legion and Auxiliary members are asked to bring a covered dish and dessert.


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WE XDM Compact 3.8 Short GBB Pistol
Just like its big brother XD-M, reviewed here in its Airsoft version by Moondog, the XD-M Compact belongs to the XD-M family from Springfiled Armory USA. These show an evolution of theirXD line of products which, as just acknowledged by Springfield and noted on Moondog's video review, draws inspiration in a number of other popular guns but is presented in a ery well finished and innovative package.
The XD-M Compact is of course noticeably smaller and more compact than most .45 ACP caliber guns. It also carried its frame from the XD-M with slightly modified contours and its purpose is to offer a compact and light weapon, easy to carry and conceal, with just about the same features and ergonomics that are present on the XD-M.
The Airsoft version is very faithful to the real steel, and its aesthetics makes it indeed a very remarkable and unique gun produced by WE.
I would like to thank Robert from CWI Airsoft for making this review possible.
The whole body is made of polymer with the exception of the metal slide. Very rugged and durable is how I would best define the polymer used on this gun. I have been using it a lot for past 3 or 4 weekends and it endured quite well all I've thrown at it, and just begs for more.
The frame features an angled grip that has been a heritage from the XD, but what stands out are really the deep and long grasp slide serrations, which are a joy to pull, and the texture on the grip which according to Springfield has been engineered to have the best angle and depth to offer maximum grip and control, which in real steel is very important due to recoil. Nevertheless these details make this GBB gun look very cool.
The slide is quite massive and heavy. This in my opinion makes the gun just slightly unbalanced when using the smaller mag. But once I picked up the XDM with the larger mag it felt right and balanced.
Of course that someone with smaller hands might instantly have a different opinion when holding the same gun, but in weight terms it seems to me like it's just more evenly balanced and comfortable when using the larger mag.
The grip is very good with the small indentations working as they should to help improve the grip when holding the XDM Compact. Of course, if you have a larger area to hold the weapon you will witness an increased grip, so the larger mag is once again better not only if you have large hands but also if you want better control and more accuracy. At least from my experience I preferred this combination which positively affected my accuracy.
Although I've been saying I love the XDM Compact with the large mag, which is the normal mag from the regular XDM, having a second mag included in the package is a great bonus! I only wish more airsoft manufacturers would do this because having a second mag to me is very important. So congratulations to WE Airsoft for this, hope you guys start doing this with the non-compact guns. :)
Included in the package are some accessories that make this GBB much versatile and quite customizable: three different sizes of back straps and three different sizes of extended grips that work along with the backs traps. These will help you to adapt the best grip to your hand by adding or removing to the size of the grip, just like the XDM.
And again, just like the XDM these will be hold in place by a pin which is easily removed with a small screw driver. Each back strap comes marked with a size letter that will somehow correspond to the number of the grip extension you will choose: if you choose the smaller back strap "S" then you will have to use the "I" extended grip on the mag, and so forth. Also, there are two mag bases you can use for your mag: a flat one and an extended one which I totally advise using on the smaller mag.
Together, these accessories provide a multitude of options that I can customize the WE XDM Compact. Eight to be exact, six just as you can see in the following picture, being that you can achieve two more with the extra back straps.
Another great feature I love is the ambidextrous mag release which is much welcome since not only is it more user friendly, but it also helps decrease reloading times. The whole reloading process gets much less awkward and allows you to maintain your weapon pointed in the enemy's direction during the reload process. So when you aim down again you won't have to correct so much the gun position. For instance with Glocks and 1911s I have to twist my wrist to push the catch with my thumb. On the WE XDM Compact I just use my right hand middle finger to push and the mag is quickly released.
The trigger is very responsive and ergonomic, and the sights are easy to use and acquire targets, making it a pleasure to use on the field. Also security wise this gun is very complete, much like the real one: you've got a loaded chamber indicator but it's non-functional. Then there's the striker status pin which is working and is very useful so that the user knows if the gun is cocked and ready to fire, since the pin will stick out.
A two-stage trigger safety just like the real one is also present and working, plus you'll notice that there's a grip safety, so only when these two safeties are used the gun will fire. Finally, under the barrel there is another safety system that is Airsoft specific since it's a numbered plate that locks the trigger when pushed back.
If this wasn't enough, you can accessorize the WE XDM Compact thanks to the rail system underneath the barrel with lights, lasers or lights with lasers.
The packaging comes complete with two mags, one with 21 rounds capacity and the other with 26 rounds capacity. WE also included a very small adapter to load you magazine with BBs which I really don't use that much since I prefer to do the recharging process manually.
Let me begin by saying that this gun has the strongest kick I have ever experienced on a Gas Blowback pistol. Perhaps due to the heavier slide, it provides a very satisfying response once you pull the trigger, and this is also noticeable on the sound that it produces when firing. Pretty nice indeed!
As for power, I got around 240 fps using .20g BB's, which you might not argue it's not much, but considering it's a pistol which is meant mainly for close quarters combat and if I were to tell you that the hop-up unit does miracles in terms of range, then you would understand.
Once I had the hop-up correctly adjusted I noticed that the BBs fired from the XDM would easily reach the distances achieved in stock AEG rifles. It's like you can follow the BB with your eyes without losing any sustentation for about 100+ feet!
When it comes to precision, grouping is pretty much consistent like you can see in the video where I fire from about 30 feet.
Field striping is done by pulling the slide back and pushing the locking lever up, thus revealing the inner barrel and hop-up assembly.
Overall this is a very balanced and unique Airsoft gun which is very realistic and gives me a kick using it thanks to its nice blow back. The only thing I suppose its missing now are more specific holsters for this gun which I heard are hard to find.
Well, manufactured, with a very good reach and quite precise, this is a perfect secondary weapon for any Airsoft loadout.
You can get a WE XDM Compact 3.8 at CWI Airsoft for $121.38.
- Versatile and customizable
- Great build quality
- Nice kick
- Two mags included
- Ambidextrous mag release
- Slide scratches easily
- Finding specific holsters can be hard to find
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When the DNA "instruction manual" of life becomes damaged – as it does in human cells tens of thousands of times a day – bad things can happen. The cell may die, cause an inherited disease, or grow out of control to form a tumor. To prevent genetic catastrophe, cells have evolved a molecular toolkit for repairing their own DNA to restore normal behavior, duplication, and controlled growth.
A cell sensing genetic injury often grinds to a halt. It puts growth and division on hold and, like a ship in dry dock, undergoes repairs before setting sail again. The cell's repair kit – specialized enzymes and other proteins – can snip out and replace broken stretches of DNA, correct spelling errors in the genetic code, or simply bypass the damaged areas. Self-repair is vital to life and health, because DNA is constantly under attack from internal and external forces, including tobacco smoke, sunlight, environmental toxins, and dietary byproducts.
But when a patient has cancer, the repair team becomes the enemy, since most treatments attack tumors by smashing their cells' DNA. In response, tumor cells activate repair forces. Physicians, in turn, resort to giving higher doses of therapy to overcome the resistance, but this raises the risk of toxic side effects.
Clearly, new strategies are called for. Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center's Alan D'Andrea, MD, and colleagues are developing ways to throw a wrench into cancer's DNA repair systems, making tumors more vulnerable to therapy. They're measuring "profiles" of the activity of different repair systems in a particular tumor to guide drug choices.
"This is an exciting part of the trend toward 'personalized medicine,'" says D'Andrea. "We could genetically profile tumor tissue from a biopsy and say, 'Here's the status of DNA repair in this tumor at this moment in time – this pathway is low, therefore a certain drug should work well, or this pathway is high, we'd better stop giving this drug.'"
Scientists have identified at least six major types of DNA repair mechanisms in normal cells. Each excels at fixing a different form of breakdown in the DNA molecule.
"By understanding these damage repair pathways, we can tweak them to enhance radiation therapy by protecting normal tissues or increasing the kill of tumor cells," says Jay Harris, MD, chairman for Radiation Oncology at Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center (DF/BWCC).
D'Andrea, a pediatric oncologist by training, followed leads from his studies of a rare genetic blood disease, Fanconi anemia, to the important discovery of DNA repair abnormalities in a variety of cancers – and ways to use them for treatment.
Patients with Fanconi anemia have a defect in one of the components of a common DNA repair pathway. D'Andrea found that this pathway was part of a repair circuit that includes the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes which, when mutated, raise the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. Although Fanconi anemia patients have an elevated cancer risk, their tumors are vulnerable to drug regimens containing cisplatin. It occurred to D'Andrea that certain cancer patients who lack this repair pathway would also respond well to cisplatin. His hunch was correct. Breast and ovarian cancers that had an inactive Fanconi repair pathway were highly sensitive to cisplatin.
How a gene mutation can both raise the risk of cancer and make tumors vulnerable to certain drugs is an interesting tale, explains D'Andrea.
"Tumors sometimes inactivate or 'give up' one of their DNA repair mechanisms," he says. "That raises their odds of mutations that allow them to evolve more quickly and become more aggressive." For the cancer, it is a Faustian bargain. Already lacking one of the six DNA repair kits, the tumor often becomes dangerously dependent on, or even "addicted" to, a single repair method. "The tumor says, 'This pathway is working well for me,' and gets committed to it," explains D'Andrea.
This is an Achilles' heel, a chink in the tumor's defenses, which scientists and cancer doctors are beginning to exploit. They identify the dominant repair pathway, then launch a pre-emptive strike with a drug designed to block it – lowering the tumor's resistance – followed by radiation or chemotherapy. Having now lost two critical repair mechanisms, the cancer cell may die. Normal cells, by contrast, have more functioning pathways and can tolerate the loss of just one.
Clinical trials of DNA repair inhibitors are already under way at DF/BWCC, with some early reports of favorable responses in women with advanced breast or ovarian cancer.
One promising approach involves a new class of drugs called PARP inhibitors. PARP, which stands for poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase, is a key protein involved in repairing broken single strands of DNA molecules.
Conducting trials of PARP inhibitors are Judy Garber, MD, and Ursula Matulonis, MD, of DF/BWCC's Women's Cancers Program, along with Geoffrey Shapiro, MD, PhD, director of the Early Drug Development Center at Dana-Farber. One group of patients believed likely to benefit includes women with "triple-negative" breast cancer, an aggressive form that occurs in many patients with mutated BRCA repair genes. These tumors tend to rely on PARP to repair themselves. So there is reason to believe that blocking PARP to overload cancer cells with genetic damage, then giving chemotherapy, may be a successful strategy for these tumors.
Another form of DNA repair inhibition is aimed at forcing damaged cancer cells to continue dividing, rather than resting and repairing their DNA.
If a cancer cell's checkpoint kinase can be blocked, the cell can't repair the damage caused by cancer drugs. Often, the cell's only recourse is to self-destruct – resulting in a victory for treatment.
"Checkpoint kinases are critical components of cascades that ultimately allow the cell to rest and recover from chemotherapy," Shapiro explains. "So if you block the checkpoint kinase, the cell has to continue through the cycle and it can't repair the damage." Often, the cell's only recourse is to self-destruct – a victory for treatment.
In a recent trial, some DF/BWCC patients who had advanced ovarian or endometrial cancer received a checkpoint-blocking drug along with standard cisplatin chemotherapy, says Shapiro. "We found that many patients who were previously considered to have tumors resistant to cisplatin were gaining some benefit, with minor tumor shrinkages and reductions in CA-125 [a cancer biomarker]," he says. Trials with two other checkpoint-targeting agents are under way in patients with ovarian, colon, pancreatic, or lung cancer.
D'Andrea and his colleagues are now seeking "biomarkers," or chemical fingerprints, that reveal which pathways are turned on or off in a tumor. (See related story Looking and Listening.) "Until three or four years ago, the only way to assess these was to grind up a sample of the tumor and add a piece of damaged DNA to see if the tumor can repair it," says D'Andrea, "[We're] beginning to capture snapshots showing the status of DNA repair in the tumor at a certain moment in time."
These methods could help streamline the time-consuming process of drug development, D'Andrea points out. "We think profiling could help 'stack the deck' so that when you begin a clinical trial of a compound, you would be more likely to enroll patients whose damage repair profiles make them more likely to respond to it.
"I think we're going to see the day when the diagnostic test is packaged as a companion kit with the drug from the very beginning."
With prospects like these, exploiting the expanding knowledge of DNA repair pathways could be an early and important milestone as "one-size-fits-all" therapy gives way to the vision of personalized medicine.
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Talavera Restaurant
Restaurant in Scottsdale
Classic Steakhouse
Exceeding Four Seasons standards in the bluffs of Pinnacle Peak, perched prestigiously atop the sprawling valley below, Talavera is Troon North's true north of Southwestern gastronomy.
Executive Chef Mel Mecinas' artful spin on steakhouse fare meets locally sourced cuisine results in an elegant offering as vibrant as the roaring fires that surround.
But first. Do your evening justice by commencing with a twilight infusion at accompanying Onyx. Live music, lounging, and luscious libations beneath a balmy sunset breeze make for a magical pre-show when dining atop the towering cacti at adjoining Talavera.
Opportunities to dine fireside are abundant indoors and out, but to deny the multiple versions of sunset spawn turquoise and clementine, is a shame. Sunsets and city lights provide the back and front drop to the Talavera terrace, the natural theatre to accompany your meal. Moss green cushions play off the craggily mountainside, the flaming division between indoors and out is entertainment, the elevations, an exceptional extra. Dine alfresco. You don't even need a sweater.
Start with the lobster and corn bisque (artfully ladled tableside), or the herb gnocchi (the locally made Burrata and kale puree sing), can't go wrong with either. Both outstanding. But the spiced ahi tuna, prepared perfectly rare, fanned out by an emerald arrangement of haricot vert and fennel, it's homage to the local grower loyalty Mecinas has masterfully matured. And it tastes as good as it looks.
Night hawks circle above (resembling bats, which we thought they were, creepy until they set us straight), setting the scene for the chocolate caramel icebox cake, I beg you not to miss. Though given the calibre of the meal and its icebox finish, I doubt anything would qualify as less than outstanding. Fastening its devotion to location with Arizona-ranch raised meats, locally grown heirlooms and olive oil sourced from a neighbouring mill, Talavera is a beautiful tribute to steakhouse fare honouring its supremely serene and surprisingly bountiful southwest locale. With all the Four Seasons panache in place, it is a wonderful enclave to celebrate milestones and the every day. As long as the Arizona desert sun will set, this is a prized place to dine beneath it.
Jolie Loeb is a Luxury Lifestyle columnist based in Los Angeles
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|Couples, Romance, Outdoor seating, Special occasions, Scenic view
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Stunning views, scenic desert scape vistas.
It's not going to be a cheap night. Set this aside for something special, and enjoy it. Summer Dinner Menu from $48 for 3 courses. Salads from $11; Starters from $10; Mains from $30; Steaks from $43. Seafood from $32. 485 wine labels and 30 available by the glass from $11; by the bottle from $32.
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Dreams and futures are on the line as Tara Webster and her friends enter their final year at the Academy and compete against each other for one of the coveted National Ballet Company contracts up for grabs.
It will be the ultimate physical and emotional endurance test for Tara, Abigail, Grace, Christian, Ben and Ollie as they complete third year with the Company watching their every move.
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Special rules are provided in Privilege Resolution 1(16) in relation to public servants as witnesses. An officer of the Commonwealth or state public service must not be asked to give opinions on matters of policy and must be given reasonable opportunity to refer questions to a superior officer or to a minister.
The rule relating to the giving of opinions on matters of policy is designed to avoid public servants becoming involved in discussion or disputation with committee members about the merits of government policy as determined by ministers. Public servants may explain government policy, describe how it differs from alternative policies, and provide information on the process by which a particular policy was selected, but may not be asked to express opinions on the relative merits of alternative policies.
The rule concerning reasonable opportunity to refer questions to a superior officer or to a minister is designed to ensure that an officer is not required to answer a question where all the necessary information may not be available to the officer, and that, if there is any difficulty in answering a question, the difficulty is referred to a superior officer, and, if necessary, ultimately to a minister, for resolution. It is not the role of a public service witness to refuse to provide information to a committee. If there is some difficulty in providing information the officer states that there is a difficulty and indicates its nature to the committee, and asks that a superior officer or a minister consider the matter. If a superior officer considers that the information should not be supplied, the matter is referred to the minister. A decision to decline to provide information to a committee is thereby made only at ministerial level by the office-holder who can accept political responsibility for any dispute between a committee and the executive government.
In adopting a report by the Privileges Committee in 1993 the Senate resolved that public servants should receive training in accountability to Parliament (42nd report, PP 85/1993, 21/10/1993, J.684; resolution reaffirmed, with requirement that departments report on compliance, 1/12/1998, J.225-6; see also 64th and 73rd reports, PP 40/1997, 118/1998).
In 1999 the Senate endorsed the Procedure Committee's condemnation of public service witnesses giving evidence on legislation bringing with them private persons in support of the legislation (29/4/1999, J.815). The committee considered that such a practice violated a committee's right to select witnesses. There was also concern arising from the payment of the private witnesses' expenses (see above, under Protection of witnesses).
The government issues a document, entitled 'Guidelines for official witnesses appearing before parliamentary committees', which sets out practices and principles to be followed by public service witnesses (for text of guidelines, see SD, 30/11/1989, pp 3693-3702). The guidelines are based on the principle that public servants have a duty to assist parliamentary inquiries, and are generally consistent with the rules laid down by the Senate, but have no status in proceedings of Senate committees other than as persuasive principles. (See Supplement)
For claims by the executive government to public interest immunity from giving evidence to committees, see Chapter 19, Relations with the Executive Government, under that heading.
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In the Panic Away ebook, you will learn:
-a technique that now allows that person to break the cycle of anxiety and return to normal everyday living.-Learn to avoid making the one mistake almost everyone makes during a panic attack episode.-Why 95% of anxiety treatment courses fail...and the exact, detailed steps you must take to be in the successful 5% (and stay there!)-You may have heard the reassuring fact that panic attacks are not life threatening but did you know exactly why this is? Being fully educated on the latest research (2008) will help you understand the true nature of panic attacks.-The top worst foods you should never eat-The top best foods and supplements you should eat all the time to keep anxiety at bay
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Panic Away is The Most Powerful Technique For Eliminating Anxiety And Panic Attacks Without The Use of Medication. The simple technique known as the One Move Technique™could be so powerful in restoring you back to your former care free self. I am not only talking about eliminating panic attacks but also getting your general anxiety level right back down to zero without the use of any medication or alternative therapies. This technique is based on advanced psychology made simple for everyone to apply. This technique is not NLP or hypnosis. It is an advanced cognitive technique born from traditional psychology that everyone can apply regardless of how long the anxiety has been present. Getting You Back To Your Former Self Is What Is Important.
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New York - Predictions for a blizzard to hit New England widened on Thursday to include New York, threatening commuter disruptions and power outages in America's most densely populated region.
The National Weather Service predicted a "major winter storm" for Friday into Saturday and said New York City was in the mix for blizzard conditions, which combine sustained strong winds and snowfall.
The storm was expected to pound Boston particularly hard, but forecasters said the system should blow through later on Saturday, with milder temperatures to follow.
"The storm should reach its peak intensity early Saturday morning just east of Cape Cod," the weather service said, forecasting between 30cm and 60cm of snow across the region.
Strong winds of 40km/h to 55km/h were expected.
According to the commercial AccuWeather service, Boston is expected to be in the thick of it.
The Friday commute and air travel were expected to see snarl-ups, while wet, freezing snow on power lines was likely to knock out electricity in some areas, although the weekend should give repair crews time to swing into action.
"Many people could be caught offguard Friday evening," AccuWeather said. "A person travelling northeastward from New York City to Boston Friday evening along I-95 would encounter increasingly challenging and potentially dangerous weather conditions."
"Strong winds will not only cause whiteout conditions and massive drifts, but also coastal flooding and power outages. Gusts can approach hurricane force in coastal areas," AccuWeather predicted. - Sapa-AFP


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Sirena, a 15-year-old high school student, is very much in a coming-of-age dilemma. She is an excellent swimmer and everyone, including her wealthy widowed father, Nestor, has high hopes for her in the upcoming swimming season. Unfortunately, Sirena is at a point in her life where she wants to make her own decisions without having to live up to her family's expectations. To add to this stress, her father decides to marry the social-climbing Minerva, whom Sirena and her little brother, Pepe, despise. Seeing an opportunity to express her growing rebellion, Sirena enters into a relationship with Sol Torres, a poor boy from East L.A. As Sirena crosses over into Sol's world, she meets his family and discovers the warmth and closeness that is missing from her own family since her mother died. Ultimately, Sirena reconnects with what is important to her and realizes how the enduring power of her mother's love transcends death.


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Top 10 Overblown Cable News Stories of the Decade (PHOTOS)
As we so fondly reminisce on this decade, we look at both the serious moments and the not-so-serious moments, the combination of which might best be defined by the news stories that became hysterical, 24-7 coverage for the cable news outlets.
These stories had underlying serious elements that got transformed into full-blown info-tainment with anchors, attorneys, psychologists, criminologists, and just random talking heads prattling on for days, weeks, months, on every angle of these impossibly blown-up stories.
Take a look at our Top 10 Overblown Cable News Stories of the Decade and see if you agree with our list.


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Christmas comes but once a year, even though it feels like you just had to see all of these relatives less than a month ago. Even the most wonderful time of the year can present challenges, and many of those are directly related to you or your significant other. Having a family that could probably land its own Bravo TV special has helped me gather some strategies for dealing with the trials and tribulations that come with relatives. It has also helped me learn to mask a lot of my true feelings with sarcastic banter. Both great gifts if you ask me! My gift to you is this guide to surviving your family this Christmas! Sorry, I forgot your gift receipt-no returns or exchanges.
Your Dad's New Significant Other
According to this New York Times Article, while the overall divorce rate in our country is declining, the rate of divorce for people over 50 has almost doubled. That means that a good chunk of you are like me and your parents divorced after you left the nest. Now, there may be someone new in you mom or dad's life, and that brings with it a myriad of feelings which are not all Christmas cheer. My advice is this: one, don't meet this person on Christmas day. That's too much pressure for a holiday. Two, try to keep it all in perspective. This person is not expecting to be your new parent, nor do they want to be. At best they will be a new friend; at worst they will be a reason for you to write to advice columnists in your spare time. And three, don't let your dad's new significant other sit down with your mother to look over your parents wedding album to see "what he was like in the 70s." That kind of awkwardness is more of an Easter thing.
Nana is your elderly relative who struggles with memory. If she's like my Nana, she is fairly progressed in her dementia but is still able to attend holiday functions. This is a double edged sword- I feel truly lucky to still be able to spend holidays with her, but the challenges this presents are not to be taken lightly. For one, Nana repeats her questions a lot. Smaller children need to be prepped ahead of time to avoid hurt feelings. Another challenge that has recently come up is that dementia can also bring with it some paranoia. At Thanksgiving, my Nana could not remember that she had handed down to us a few pieces of furniture and some dishes over the years, and began to question how we had come to have them. While you can't move major pieces of furniture, it would be smart to preemptively skip the serving dish you were gifted in order to avoid further confusion. I would also suggest pictures. Make "Selfies with Nana" a thing. You won't regret it.
The Debater
Christmas should be a time for giving, for eating, and for watching A Christmas Story while reciting the best bits of dialog ("Stick my tongue to that stupid pole? That's dumb!") But some friends or family members can't let a large gathering go without trying to debate someone over current hot button topics. They see a living room full of people and think audience. When this happens, I want you to whip out some awkward conversation segues like so:
Obamacare – doctors – TV doctors – "Hey small child, come over and tell Grandpa all about Doc McStuffins."
Gay Marriage – Married With Children – Where is Ed O'Neil's Emmy for Modern Family?
Global warming– It's cold outside – Baby It's Cold Outside; creepiest Christmas song ever?
Your Polyamorous Brother and His + 2
While I don't have direct experience here, I do know a thing or two about relative's sexuality and how others think it will somehow affect the Christmas ham. The best course of action here is to just pull up three chairs far, far away from The Debater and maybe not directly next to Nana, as she may be having a hard enough time keeping people straight without additional challenges. Leave it up to the polyamorous adults to take the lead on how much they are telling, or not telling, people about their trio. In an ideal situation, this should probably not be the first time your parents are hearing about this aspect of your brother's life, but he's an adult, so that's his call. Also, since they are bringing an extra adult, they need to bring extra food. Personally, I would prefer more desserts, but I also enjoy sides so surprise me!
Bonus Kids
There are many ways to make a family, and many ways to get invited to a family's holiday dinner. For example, maybe your sister is dating someone with kids and they are joining you all this year. I have read enough Dear Abby/ Prudence/ Comment Section letters to know that sometimes these bonus kids aren't well received by older adults, especially in situations where there are other grandchildren. If you can, and are able, please pick up a gift or two for these kids. Holidays can be rough- and can be made rougher still by watching kids busting with joy at opening an American Girl Doll goat, while you sit with nothing. Art supplies or comic books can go a long way in making a child feel included.
The Relative Who Won't Stop Singing
Once, this was my brother's boyfriend and a strange array of Disney songs. Often, this is my dad, especially if my aunts are around. All I know is, when you hear "Angels We Have Heard on High" for the second time in 40 minutes, that's the time to signal every man, woman and child who can walk to dress warmly and go caroling. Pass out hats and scarves and make lofty promises of hot chocolate for when they return. Then have yourself a merry little moment of quiet, wine, and the twinkling of lights on the tree.
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Purchased from Sotheby-Park Bernet Galleries, New York in the 1970s this reddish slip clay female figure on a buff ground exhibits remnants of white paint around the legs. Significant traces of manganese dioxide and other mineral deposits cover much of the surface. No damage or repair of any kind. 8-1/2" tall. Excellent example of western Mexican shaft-tomb culture.
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HARRIS COUNTY - Three teens have been arrested for a series of aggravated robberies and burglaries in west Harris County.
The Harris County Sheriff's Office said deputies received a call for service by a realtor who was checking on a vacant residence in the 6000 block of Plantation Crest Drive on Sunday. The realtor saw people in the home and called 911.
The sheriff's office identified the suspects as 19-year-old Brenda Flores, 17-year-old Neiman Gasper and a 14-year-old boy.
Deputies said the three teens had hidden in a stolen SUV in the garage of the residence. Officials said the vehicle was carjacked by the group in the 18000 block of FM 529 earlier that morning.
Authorities said the three suspects also robbed someone at gunpoint in the 17600 block of W. Copper Lakes Drive that same morning.
Deputies recovered several stolen items from the victims, along with numerous baskets of liquor that were stolen from a burglary of a business located at 14000 block of Cypress Rosehill Road.
Investigators believe the three teens may be responsible for other robberies in the area.
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