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5.0 stars 16 totalReview Cynthia Diggs
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Cindy represented me in a high conflict, high stakes divorce case and delivered results. Cindy is and outstanding attorney - hard working extremely knowledgeable, professional and caring. I would highly recommend Cindy and HD&E.
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We initially consulted with Cindy for our child custody matter. I have to say after speaking with Cindy the first time I knew that her firm was the one for us! We had several other interviews and cancelled them all because we knew this firm was the only firm to handle our very complex custody case. Cindy's firm has a vast amount of experience and knowledge. Her presence in a room is remarkable, her knowledge is something your in awe of. If you want to win you simply go to the best and Cindy and her firm are the best. I cannot thank her and her staff enough for being there for our process, we were protected, always kept in the loop and never once worried. There is a reason they are consulted by everyone. This firm is simply the best! Thank you!
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Cynthia Diggs was my lawyer during my divorce and custody case from late 2002 to mid 2003. As an active duty military member stationed overseas, I was up against significant odds with relation to obtaining custody of my son. Mrs. Diggs explained my chances for a man to obtain custody of their child (son) but advised me to go for it of which I did. During this time, countless emails and phone calls transpired. Sometimes not as often as I would have liked but in the end, Mrs. Diggs kept me informed and guided me the entire way. At times when I would become frustrated, Mrs. Diggs who was some 2500 miles away kept me focused and calm. On judgment day, I won custody of my son who was seven years old at the time. I need not say how elated both Mrs. Diggs, her staff and I were at the decision. Today, my son is 18 and just graduated from H.S. with a 4.1 GPA and 26 out of 404 in his class. My son has received countless academic awards to include junior honor society x 2, honor society x 3, Presidents Education Award Program, AP Scholar award program, earned his varsity letter in football, a member of the National Student Leadership Conference, and a member of the National
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Penn-Trafford reflects on strong closing kick
Late during the 2013 regular season, the Penn-Trafford football team made a conscious decision to change its performance — and its fortunes.
After a 34-14 loss to Kiski Area dropped the Warriors to 4-3 with two regular-season games remaining, the team had a heart-to-heart the next day about turning the season around.
And the Warriors did that, responding with a four-game winning streak that propelled them to their best postseason run since 1997.
"The kids said enough is enough, and let's go play the way we're capable of playing," Penn-Trafford coach John Ruane said. "It was impressive from the kids' perspective to take that on and do what they did."
Penn-Trafford (8-4) saw its 2013 season come to an end with a 49-10 loss to Pittsburgh Central Catholic in the WPIAL Class AAAA semifinals last week at West Mifflin. The No. 2 Vikings (12-0) advanced to the WPIAL Class AAAA championship game, which will be played at 2 p.m. Saturday at Heinz Field.
"They were outstanding in every element of the game," Ruane said of Central Catholic. "We struggled to get anything going offensively, which ultimately led to some problems in the other phases of the game. We'd run the ball well all year and didn't do a good job of it on Friday. Our special teams struggled to cover, (which) put Central in good field position all night and put our defense in a bind. The defense, I thought, played pretty well considering the circumstances, but ultimately we played a better team."
Central Catholic held Penn-Trafford to 36 rushing yards, including 31 on the final drive of the game. The Vikings never started a drive in their own territory.
"They did a job on every team they've played this year, so they're a very high-quality team," Ruane said. "They're very well-coached, and they showed it Friday."
Despite the loss, Ruane said the 2013 season was a memorable one for the Warriors — particularly during the four-game streak that included must-win victories over Gateway (35-34) and Hempfield (42-14) to close the regular season and Penn Hills (22-16) and McKeesport (35-20) in the playoffs.
"Their resiliency and their ability to perform under pressure was really something to watch," Ruane said.
Some of those wins were especially memorable for Ruane, as the Warriors came back in the final seconds to beat both Gateway and Penn Hills. John Guzik caught the final touchdown pass against Gateway — the first and only catch of his high school career. In the McKeesport game, running back Tom Stinelli overcame bruised ribs to carry the Warriors' offense in the fourth quarter.
That type of "gritty" performance was one that several players showcased throughout the season, Ruane said.
"Adam Polakovsky plays all year with a broken hand, Tom Stinelli runs the ball in the second half (against McKeesport) with bruised ribs, Ryan Marasti plays all year on a bad ankle," he said. "And there were no excuses; there was no letdown. They came and did the work every day, and I think that's something (underclassmen) can learn from this senior group. And there's way more examples than that."
Penn-Trafford will graduate a senior class that finished 25-8 over the past three seasons.
"The best part about coaching is that we're together from January until the season starts, and that's when you get to know a lot about these guys," Ruane said. "You get to know a lot about their work ethic, you get to know a lot about who they are outside of the sport. They're just great kids. They're great academically, they're great for the school, they come from great families — they're the type of kid you want to coach.
"But then you add the football element of it ... they played with a lot of heart. They're just really good high school football players."
Ruane hopes the current underclassmen will continue the program's upward trend.
"I know we're at the point where the kids expect a certain performance on the field, and the direction the program's headed," he said. "I hope they have high expectations going into next year."
Doug Gulasy is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at 412-388-5830, via email at firstname.lastname@example.com or via Twitter @dgulasy_Trib.


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Sheffield Tigers were offered first use of a strong wind and they took full advantage in yesterday's SSE National League Two North clash.
They scored within seven minutes and were worth their 19-3 half-time lead, only for Otley to resume with confidence and battle their way back to level on the 58th minute.
Otley were playing with such authority that they had the game in their grasp but were hit by a second try for winger Peter Swatkins and their last-gasp effort failed when winger James Twomey, winning the race in pursuit of his kick, saw the ball bounce into touch and the final whistle was blown.
A scrum near the touchline on the Otley 22 should have presented no danger but Swatkins followed the ball across the field to provide an overlap and stroll over for fly half Jonathan West to convert.
Otley opened their account with a penalty from fly half Christian Georgiou but consecutive penalties gave the home side a five-metre line-out, where lock Sam Cook was driven over.
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It is quarter to four on a sunless Thursday afternoon in central London. The traffic is jostling around King's Cross station. Offices are full of their usual inmates in Bloomsbury and Holborn. But in Mecklenburg Square two men come walking side by side down the pavement with a different air about them. Simon and Elos are in their 40s and have their own businesses, but in old shorts and jeans they are not dressed for that kind of work today. They are purposefully pushing prams with a two-year-old in each. In the eyes of both fathers there is an unmistakable gleam of happiness.
At a corner of the square they disappear into a low municipal building. Gregory House, the local base for the government's Sure Start scheme for parents and young children, holds one of London's - and Britain's - few regular drop-in sessions for fathers and children. There is a room of much-used toys, a fathers' worker to offer advice, and the company of other fathers. Simon and Elos immediately and unselfconsciously sit down on tiny child-sized chairs at a low child-height table with their two-year-olds and start building plastic blocks into towers.
"This is like a new paradise for me," says Simon. He used to be a full-time photographer, but now he works only two days a week: "Being with my daughter is an opportunity that's too good to pass up." Elos takes frequent weeks off from his jewellery business: "I find I'm doing things with my son I can't believe I wasn't missing before. I want to spend as much time as possible with my kid." Simon goes on: "I'm hoping that when she's older my daughter will appreciate what we did together. With my dad ... I didn't feel short-changed, but I only saw him at the weekend." Simon and Elos talk about taking their children to the Science Museum on weekdays, about coffee mornings with other local parents, about whole afternoons spent messing about in the fountains in the courtyard of Somerset House. "Really good days," says Simon a little dreamily. But as we talk, and their children try every toy in the room, and the fathers' worker offers cups of tea and a radio plays soothing pop music in the background, a realisation gradually dawns. An hour and a quarter into the drop-in session, Simon and Elos are the only fathers who have turned up.
Fatherhood in Britain is changing, but it is hard to know how much. Until the late 90s, British fathers were largely characterised by their absence - from single-parent families, from most two-parent families for most of the working week and, most tellingly, from almost all political and media discussions about childcare and the work-life balance. Yet since then, the government has introduced paid paternity leave and the right for fathers to request flexible or part-time working. It has proposed in the work and families bill currently going through parliament that fathers be allowed to use a share of their partner's paid maternity leave. And all the while developments in the economy - more mothers are working - and in Britain's demography - people are having children later, meaning grandparents are older and less able to help with childcare - have made a larger male involvement in parenting a practical necessity for many families.
Being a father, perhaps not surprisingly, has become a subject for bestselling novels (Tony Parsons' Man and Boy), successful film adaptations of novels (Nick Hornby's About a Boy), TV series (He's Having A Baby), guidebooks (The One Minute Father) and new magazines (FQ). It has become close to obligatory for well-known politicians (Tony Blair, David Cameron) and sportsmen (David Beckham, Andrew Strauss) to take very public paternity breaks. Most eye-catchingly of all, the amount of time British fathers spend with their children has increased eightfold, according to the Equal Opportunities Commission, over the past three decades. "This doesn't feel like a quirk of fashion," says Jack O'Sullivan of the fathers' information service and pressure group Fathers Direct. "It feels very fundamental."
But not all observers agree. "I don't see this massive revolution in equality of parenting occurring," says Professor Charlie Lewis of Lancaster University, a social psychologist who has been studying British fathers since the late 70s. "Men want to associate themselves with a sexual equality agenda. Yet there's an element of tokenism in the whole business. Fathers say, 'I'll do the parenting on Mondays.' But what about the other six days of the week?"
A significant minority of fathers - over a third - do not use in full even the brief paternity leave they are permitted, two weeks. Even fewer - one in 25 - work part-time to be with their children, although the proportion is rising. "It gets forgotten quite often that you have to be in a certain bracket financially to make that decision," says Carena Rogers of the National Family and Parenting Institute. A reluctance to be social pioneers, unsympathetic workplace cultures and hostile employers are other common obstacles: "We hear about investment banks where they offer flexible working to 'weed out the losers'," says Alexandra Jones of the Work Foundation.
Of course, working mothers have faced such professional attitudes and personal conflicts for centuries. But fathers who want to be more involved with their children have a much less established parenting culture to draw on. And as any British father who spends substantial time, especially weekdays, with their children knows, you move through a social landscape that still defines you - sometimes enjoyably, sometimes not - as an exception. There are the brands such as Mothercare, the babychanging facilities in women's toilets, the predominantly female childcare professionals you encounter. But most of all there are the public spaces.
The day after meeting Simon and Elos, I went to look for more fathers on Clapham Common in south London. It was the first warm afternoon for a fortnight and the last weekday of half-term. But after an hour walking around, loitering in the cafe, and scrutinising the playground, I had not seen a father alone with his children. There were plenty of fathers in the playground - perhaps one for every half-dozen women - but mother was always there with the children too, and close at hand. I watched one father guide his tottering little son with loving care around the head-high platform of a climbing frame. Mother watched too, her arms tightly folded.
Parenting analysts have phrases for this sort of behaviour. Jones talks about fathers "supplementing care rather than taking responsibility for it", Lewis about "dad the babysitter rather than dad the parent". Lewis says not all the blame can be put on social norms and unhelpful employers: "Men are really good at denial, at persuading themselves that what they are doing with their children is wonderful." O'Sullivan argues that men often contribute more than appearances suggest - "Fatherhood is still largely a private activity" - but concedes that some public parenting is a significant indicator of family involvement: "Who takes time off when the child is sick is used as the benchmark for parental equality in some countries."
On the far eastern edge of Clapham Common, I finally found a dad in sole charge. But he wasn't finding his responsibilities too onerous. His son was kneeling, looking for insects under a fallen tree trunk, head low to the ground with concentration, a plastic container in his spare hand. Dad was practising his football tricks. Sometimes his swerves and dribbles carried him 50 metres away. Only every few minutes did he stop to come and see what his son had found. When the boy had finished with his insects, they had a brief kickaround. Dad did it with a cigarette in his mouth.
Some historians of the family blame the industrial revolution for the shortcomings of modern fathers. Before Britain industrialised, Adrienne Burgess argues in Fatherhood Reclaimed, home and the workplace were often the same place - a shop, a farm - and jobs were often seasonal, with slack periods, and parents and children often labouring together during the busy ones. A large minority of women died in childbirth: between 1599 and 1811, Burgess estimates, almost a quarter of the children in British single-parent families were with their fathers, compared to only a hundredth of British children in single-parent families in the 1990s. Burgess quotes from diaries kept by fathers before the industrial revolution as evidence of their greater involvement with children. The writer and radical William Cobbett, she notes, worked from home while his children were small so he could see more of them. He approvingly recorded that the "labouring men of Hampshire" had a custom of "taking part in the work of nursing the children".
But from the early 19th century to the late 20th century, the rigidity of factory work and the fragmentation of the family it entailed put an end to this world. There were periodic revivals of interest in active fatherhood, culminating in the discovery of the New Father, a version of the New Man, in the 80s - yet these were mostly rhetoric. The contribution of fathers to parenting has always been hard to measure, distorted by unreliable answers to research queries and the intangibility of much of parenting itself; but until the late 70s, fathers were barely studied at all. Even social scientists assumed that it was the mother that mattered.
Yet generalisations about family practices are never watertight. In Britain, the more committed kind of fathering never ceased altogether. "Throughout the 20th century," says Lewis, "a minority of fathers were highly involved at home, though most of them wouldn't be seen dead out pushing a pram." When the age of the factory in Britain drew to a close in the 80s and male unemployment rose, this hidden fathering culture became more important and more visible. In 1990, a sociologist called Jane Wheelock published a pioneering study of jobless fathers and their contribution to family life. She focused on Sunderland, known then for its high unemployment and supposedly traditional gender roles. What she found was workless fathers doing all the school runs, planning and cooking the family meals, and looking after the children while the mothers, who had jobs in shops and offices, were out earning.
Lewis and other analysts are beginning to speculate that the nature of work in modern Britain, with its instability and untraditional hours, may actually be good for getting fathers involved: working parents often have no choice but to take turns with the children. In research ranking European countries by the proportion of fathers spending "substantial time" with their children, published in 2004 by an Oxford University sociologist called Alison Smith, British fathers came third.
But the country that did best by far was Denmark. If you go there, it does not take long to be persuaded that the research is accurate. In the centre of Copenhagen, midway through a weekday morning, fathers alone with their children are conspicuous by their presence. A dad sits by a fountain with his daughters, pulling new dolls out of their packaging. A dad pedals up the hill past the zoo with his son in a bike trailer. A dad pushes a pram round the public gardens with a cigarette and a cooler-than-thou expression. None of them is in work clothes; and there is none of the selfconsciousness you still sometimes see in British fathers in public places.
"Britain is a much more traditional society," says Lasse Nylander, in casual shirt and sandals, standing next to one of the zoo enclosures with his two children. "I know people in England, in the rock'n'roll business. They try to walk around holding the pram with one hand, as if they're not really pushing it." Nylander is in his late 20s and studying electronics. His wife Rikke is studying too, and they both take long periods off with their children. "My dad was always at work, just pushing harder," says Nylander. "I reflected on that." Rikke has a more pragmatic explanation: "Relationships that last are the ones where the childcare is shared 50:50. Especially when the second child comes."
In a report published by the Danish minister for gender equality earlier this year, equality between the sexes was described as "a basic value in Denmark - a hallmark of what makes Danish society unique." The report went on: "Gender equality is a necessary element for utilising all talents and increasing [economic] growth ... companies must start changing in ways that allow fathers to use the [paternity leave] options aimed at them and that do not impede women in pursuing their career options."
The assumption made here about families is summarised by Svend Age Madsen, a Danish psychologist and authority on fatherhood: "Men have exactly the same potential as women for looking after children." But he acknowledges that the reality of Danish parenting is less utopian than it sometimes seems in government publications and the eyes of visiting foreigners. Paid maternity leave in Denmark is a full year, of which the father can take up to three months. "At present," says Madsen, "fathers take on average three and a half weeks."
Tense maternity-leave negotiations between couples, and between new fathers and their employers, who do not necessarily share the Danish government's vision of gender equality, quickly come up when you ask parents in Copenhagen about their childcare arrangements. And when maternity leave is over, parenting inequalities persist. More than 90% of Danish fathers work full-time; only 60% of mothers do - although that proportion has almost doubled since the 70s. Madsen describes the subtly unequal family routines that result: "A common pattern is that the father takes the children to daycare at 8am. Mum comes back from work and fetches the children in the afternoon. The man comes home late. Mostly the man works longer and later."
Away from the capital, parenting arrangements are often more obviously traditional. Jakob Moll, a young Copenhagen journalist who has just started three months' paternity leave, says: "Pretty much all the guys I know will probably take the same amount of leave as me. But you wouldn't see that many dads in the street at the other end of the country."
And even in Copenhagen, with all its weekday dads, mothers still comfortably outnumber fathers in public places. The current Danish government is rightwing by the country's own standards, and emphasises giving parents "choice" in how they divide up their childcare. Left-leaning Danish politicians would like to compel fathers to do more, by allocating paid parental leave specifically to them, and forbidding them from handing their entitlement to their partners. "Everybody in Denmark is talking about men working too much and not spending enough time with their children," says Madsen. But Lars Barfoed, the minister for family and consumer affairs, will only say that, "Equal [parental] responsibility is not an unrealistic goal."
This public debate still feels quite a way off in Britain. It may be significant that the minister for children is a woman, Beverley Hughes. Her speeches on the balance between work and family and between fathers and mothers, while thoughtful and quite radical by British standards, rarely risk suggesting that male careers or the British brand of capitalism may have to be rethought a little if fathers are to do more with their children.
In a speech last October, Hughes reassured employers and those uncomfortable with equal parenting: "Flexible working may involve less than full-time hours but not always. It may mean ... home working, compressed hours, shift working ... One parent may decide temporarily to work longer hours, perhaps working overtime, to maintain the family income when the other decides to reduce their working hours or take a break from the labour market to spend time caring for their children ... especially if one partner earns significantly more ..." With British women still earning significantly less than men, and British employers still having the right to reject requests for flexible or part-time working, it would take a very optimistic fatherhood advocate to anticipate such government thinking prompting an exodus of fathers from their workplaces and into drop-in sessions.
Besides, some believe that not all mothers would welcome more equal parenting anyway. Lewis explains the "gatekeeper thesis": some mothers find their "self-worth" threatened by a more involved partner. So these women act as "gatekeeper" to the children: "they try to prevent their men getting involved in the responsibilities and jobs of parenting. And the men go along with it because they want time off."
This argument may be a bit too bleak. It could be that many mothers want to be in charge of the family just because that is what they are used to - not because equal parenting would really make them unhappy. More unsettling, perhaps, for supporters of parental equality is the thought that it may leave major work-life dilemmas unsolved.
"Some Danish children have a hard time if both parents work hard and they stay in daycare for a long time," says a Danish working mother who does not want to be named. "Daycare does not give them personal love and contact. It's professional contact, and it's with a group of children." Jones suggests another danger: "If work keeps expanding and parenting keeps expanding, what gives? It may be community time." Or, less high-mindedly, time for parents to please themselves. Or have a good lie-down.
Yet all these warnings and reservations about more active fathers ultimately feel like only part of the story. "Fatherhood is at a very transitional stage," says O'Sullivan. "There's all sorts of contradictions." Social transformations tend to be like that. And there are moments even now when a more benign future for fathers can be glimpsed.
In Copenhagen on Tuesday, with the late- morning sun feeling close to perfect, I spotted two men sitting outside a bar with large glasses of lager. One of the men had his son on his lap, holding a balloon. The men talked, drank very slowly, and occasionally rolled the balloon down the pavement. The toddler fetched it looking delighted. The three of them kept this up for more than half an hour. At the time, I was faintly scandalised - what a louche, lazy way to be a parent. But now I'm wondering about my day with the kids next Monday.
Fathers through the ages
Fatherhood has always been contested. Before the industrial revolution, the family unit was primarily an institution of production, with fathers, mothers and children working together for the economic upkeep of the household. The demands of agrarian society required that everyone in the household devote their daylight hours to producing the food and shelter necessary for survival. Even young child were put to work watching over the chickens or babysitting infants. Although parents routinely sent children to live in other people's homes as servants or apprentices, those young people who remained at home would be accustomed to spending most of their time with both parents.
And fathers worked from home. The letters and diaries of these men show just how intimately involved they were in nurturing as well as instructing their young offspring. In a period with high infant death rates, the distress these fathers expressed when any of their children died was not only based on a hardnosed calculation of economic loss but was also a sincere demonstration of deep ties of affection and love.
From the late 18th century, rapid industrialisation dramatically altered relationships between fathers, mothers and children. The triumph of the factory system and the mechanisation of manufacturing meant that the family ceased to be the basic unit of production. Public institutions such as asylums and the poor law emerged to take care of individuals who would previously have been looked after by kin. Fathers became the sole breadwinners in the household, and mothers retreated into unpaid domestic chores. In the middle of the 19th century, three-quarters of married women were in paid employment. By 1911, 90% of wives were full-time housewives. Then, instead of sharing childcare with their husbands, mothers took on sole responsibility for taking care of children. The nuclear family slowly became the norm.
A wage sufficient to provide basic food and housing needs was obviously necessary if a household was to be supported by only one wage earner. As a result, male workers within newly established trade unions fought hard for a "living wage" - that is, a wage that would enable them to support a wife and children. Working-class respectability came to rely upon the waged labour of a man outside the home and the unwaged labour of a woman within it.
In the early 20th century, however, another way of being a father emerged. Declining employment opportunities for children and the instigation of compulsory schooling meant that children were becoming more dependent upon both parents. Ironically, although children were no longer earning money for the family, they were increasingly valuable. In part, this was the result of declining birth rates. Couples marrying in the 1890s would have, on average, four children in their lifetime, while those marrying in the 1920s would raise only two children. More time and energy could be put into nurturing fewer children.
Increased economic security meant that fathers were expected to devote more time to leisure within the home. Mothers still presided over the home, but a distinctive male form of domesticity was being encouraged, particularly in relation to boy children. For fathers, the home became a haven from the cold world of the marketplace. The incentives that emerged at the turn of the 20th century for fathers to devote time and energy to raising as well as providing for their children remain just as powerful today.
Joanna Bourke
· Joanna Bourke is professor of cultural history at Birkbeck College, London.


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1. Lleyton Hewitt
Hewitt went into last year as the world number one and built on that success over the following 12 months, winning Wimbledon and retaining his top ranking.
The year ended with a magnificent win in the ATP Masters Cup as the 21-year-old saw off his biggest rivals for the second year in a row.
But it was far from a perfect year, and Hewitt still has plenty to prove on home soil.
At last year's Australian Open he became the first top seed to lose in the first round of a Grand Slam since 1990, and he has yet to make even the quarter-finals in Melbourne.
He also went out of the French Open in the fourth round and let his US Open crown slip with a semi-final loss to Andre Agassi.
But as the world's leading player, and with a game suited to all surfaces, it is surely only a matter of time before he makes an impact at Melbourne Park.
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I have many liberal leanings, but also want to be free.
I have a Harley, but by no means am I a 'biker', I enjoy riding the coast and going to fun places. The wind in your face, the sense of freedom is great! Riding is no way a deal breaker. :)
I love a lazy Sunday BBQ'ing on the patio, a nice glass of wine and you!
Riding bikes along the boardwalk at the beach, stopping for a bite, or a drink is always a great a great day
Golf is a something I enjoy and it's a constant challenge to keep up with my 28 year old son- the 3 hours on the course with him is priceless.
I'm very easy going and fun to be with ( so I've been told ) and love to please. I'm vigorous, active and try to get the most out of every day. I am looking for a sensual woman, and I will keep you happy
Love dogs they're the best people I know.
The personality tests says I'm more aggressive - which I am NOT, I'm very easy going, a get along type.
Sushi, Italian, and BBQ'ing fish or thick steak at home rate at the top. I've become really interested in wine, ya,I know-wecome to the party. lol
Love all kinds of music- from '60's-'70's British, Rock and Roll, Punk-to Jazz and even occasionally classic.
I love movies that tell a story or with great dialogue- I have a wide taste, look for the under the radar, indie, and not the mass issued 'block buster'. i.e. 'Thank you for Smoking'.
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The Fijian-born star talks Warriors, plumbing and his obsession with cleaning…
Age: 28
Warriors apps/pts: 45/105
Country: England
Favourite film: Count of Monte Cristo
Favourite food: Spaghetti bolognaise
Favourite band: UB40
You're in your third season at Warriors now, how would you describe your Sixways career so far?
Amazing. The opportunity to play under Dean Ryan is a blessing. I love it here and hopefully it will continue for some time.
What do you love about Warriors?
I like the atmosphere on matchday. When we run across the pitch to warm up, the fans clap us in and that always lifts our spirits and on night games, the atmosphere is so good it's hard to hear ourselves!
How do you feel you've improved under the new coaching regime?
I feel that I've improved in the decision-making area of the game. My ability to think quick, knowing exactly what I should do beforehand and also reading the defence - those are areas where I feel much more confident. Shane Howarth has come in and really developed the backs and you can see it, especially with Chris Pennell. You look at how much he has come on from two years ago and he has rocketed. Carl Hogg is also superb with his rucking drills.
What was your take on the last weekend's match against Leicester Tigers?
It was one of the best performances we've produced all season and we were so unlucky not to get the win. We deserved it. We talked about emotion and everyone showed that last Friday. Sam Betty hit 42 rucks and Chris Pennell is in his own league. He should be with England right now. The forwards fronted up in the scrum and in the lineout too. It was great to be able to suffocate such a team like Leicester at home and we want to make Sixways a fortress.
How can we beat Northampton Saints?
They have a fantastic side and we need to challenge them up front with collision and work-rate. If we do, I think we should give them a test and we're certainly looking forward to it.
Do you have any personal targets?
My main aim is to play on the wing every weekend. With talented wingers coming up like Dean Hammond, James Stephenson and Josh Watkins, you can't think that the shirt is yours. You have to be on your toes because if you make mistakes, the next person will come in and have a chance to prove themselves. It's good competition.
What do you get up to when you're not playing rugby?
I'm doing a plumbing course so I'm getting my head down over the next few months to get that done. I also like to go on random drives to places I haven't been before. I like driving around farm and rural areas and admire the tranquillity and scenery. I lived in London for a while and it was too busy for me. I love it here because it is peaceful!
Do you ever go back to Fiji?
I try and go every other year. It's nice to relax on the beach there or take my family for a picnic but it's so hot.
Are you still into your cleaning?
Yes. I'll clean the house and everything but if I don't have anything to do, I'll just make more mess so I have to clean everything up again!
What's your fondest moment in rugby?
It was when I was playing for The Navy when we beat The Army in 2010. We hadn't beaten them for 11 years before that. To win that game was one of the best feelings ever. I literally cried. I was so emotional. Every year I was so annoyed because we weren't winning and kept getting thrashed but that year we believed we could do it and we took it to them with a late try.
What's the most memorable game you've played for Warriors?
One of the most memorable performances for me was against Northampton Saints away last season. I was on the bench with Jonny Arr, Josh Matavesi and Ollie Hayes. We were getting thrashed 37-3 with 20 minutes left but all four of us came on and scored a try each and we got a bonus point. It was such a great game and it finished 37-31!


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The marine layer is turning out to be thinner than expected, and it should be even thinner on Monday, Memorial Day. So look for temperatures that are just above seasonal levels. The National Weather Service says highs will reach the 69-74 degree range Monday along the coast, 72-75 across inland coastal areas, and 75-85 across inland valleys.
Seaside: Solspot.com says the waves will be in the 3' to 5' range in North County on Sunday and Monday, and about one foot shorter in South County. Sea surface temps have warmed up to the 65-67 range.


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Study of T Cell Phenotype Activation Pathway in Human Alcoholic Liver Disease
This study has been completed.
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|Study of T Cell Phenotype Activation Pathway in Human Alcoholic Liver Disease
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|Alcoholic liver disease is characterized by circulating T cell activation and liver T cell infiltration but their phenotype is poorly studied. The aim of the study is to test the hypothesis that the (CD4+ T cell secreting Interleukin-17) Th17 pathway is involved in alcoholic liver disease.
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|Consecutive patients undergoing transjugular liver biopsies for alcoholic liver disease or hepatitis C virus infection will be included in the study to measure plasma cytokines levels, peripheral blood mononuclear cells cytokine release and liver T cell infiltrates.
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Reese's Fudge
Reese's Fudge – a layer of creamy peanut butter fudge topped with melted chocolate and peanut butter. And easy no bake recipe that is down right addicting!
One of my dear friends has a cookie exchange every year. She has a house full of people that all bring 3 dozen cookies, packaged in groups of 6, and place them around her large dining room table. We visit, sip champagne and snack on delicious appetizers. Then to end the night we all get in a long line and take turns walking around the table.
Each time around the table, you get to take 1 package of cookies, until there are none left. So you go home with 6 packages of cookies that you picked out, all baked by different people. It is a super fun night, and I always come away with yummy treats. At this cookie exchange my friend always serves her Reese's fudge, which is one of my favorite things ever.
This year at the cookie exchange my friend actually had her Reese's fudge as her "cookie" to exchange. It was the one I picked first! I came home and my 10 year dove right in. It was the first thing gone, and as soon as it was, he said "I guess I know what you and I are doing together tomorrow." Peanut Butter Chocolate Balls have always been our favorite, but this fudge has taken over!
Despite the fact that we have No Bake Avalanche Cookies sitting on the counter right now. And a ton more in the pantry and freezer!
He declared it a must for our Christmas cookies this year. My only problem with it, is I want to eat it all and have no self control! It is like a giant Reese's peanut butter cup only better! And if you couldn't tell based on these peanut butter stuffed brownies, we have a thing for peanut butter around here.
I have actually made something similar before..these Peanut Butter Bars. But this Reese's fudge is much softer and more like fudge than a bar. It all comes together in 1 bowl, no mixer required. No baking required either.
You do need to melt some chocolate and butter, but aside from that no other heating is involved. It is super easy, maybe you can even let the kids make it for you! If you are a fan of Reese's peanut butter cups, trust me, you will LOVE this peanut butter fudge!
Check out the video below to see how quickly it all comes together!
As you can see I used my absolutely favorite GIR spatulas to make these bars.
- 1 cup butter , melted
- 1 pound powdered sugar
- 1 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 1/2 cup graham cracker crumbs (about 1 sleeve)
- 1 (12 oz) package milk chocolate chips
- 1 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- In a large bowl mix together all of the ingredients for the peanut butter layer. Use a large fork to blend well. Press into 13x9 inch baking pan. Chill for 1 hour.
- Place chocolate chips and peanut butter into a bowl. Microwave for 1 minute. Stir until melted and smooth. Pour over peanut butter layer. Chill for 2 hours, until firm.
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IMF's Blanchard: Global Economy Gripped by Meta-Uncertainty
The International Monetary Fund downgraded its global economic outlook Monday and warned of more trouble ahead unless policymakers around the world ramp up action. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard said higher uncertainty is weighing on growth around the world. He also said European nations need to step up quickly to ease borrowing costs for struggling nations such as Spain and Italy. Here are excerpts:
–On the pervasive global slowdown:
People feel the world has darkened a lot. The trend is a bit worse than the forecast suggests. The bigger story is that we still have a weak world recovery.
There is clearly increased uncertainty. The fact that this downside risk is not the tail risk anymore … is increasing uncertainty. I was talking to somebody who is on the board of a number of large companies. They're all sitting on the cash and not spending. I asked him and he said, 'Well, it's uncertainty.' But what exactly is it? It's nearly meta-uncertainty. It's a world they cannot quite think about. These were decisions in the U.S., where so far the direct effects from Europe haven't been very substantial. So I think the world's higher uncertainty is clearly a factor.
–On the significant declines in trade:
In 2008-09, there was a collapse of global trade. We were all very surprised. Output was not doing well, but the collapse in global trade was enormous. We realized at the time that the elasticity of trade with respect to global output was not 1, as you might think, but more like 3 to 4. So this explained it. And then it recovered like crazy.
This is still true. If global output goes down by 1%, global trade goes down by 3% to 4%. If a part of the world does poorly, then it imports much less, and therefore the other guys export much less. It's striking. We focus on financial links because they make the news everyday. But these trade links are quite relevant.
–What Europe needs to do:
In the periphery countries, the question is how do we get them to turn around? These countries have to do what they need to do. There's no question there has to be fiscal consolidation. We can discuss the pace, but it has to happen. The other is competitiveness, which I see as much tougher of the two. It has to be through a combination of structural reforms, hoping they will work, and nominal wage adjustments, although one cannot be incredibly optimistic about the scope there. We know that that's going to take a while. So I think negative growth numbers this year, probably next year as well in most periphery countries.
Take the big two, Italy and Spain. You can always dream of more, but I think they're serious about doing it, both on the fiscal front and the structural-reforms front. I think it may well be that even if they do everything they can, and do it right, it's still not enough. They have to have help — I would say when needed rather than if needed. It takes two concrete forms. … The banks have to be recapped, and they have to be recapped not using sovereign money. I think that is really very, very high on the agenda. I don't think they can make it without help to the banks. The big issue in these countries is that depite the fact that the ECB has nearly zero policy rates, borrowing costs are still very high. If the banks were healthier, I think they would lend at lower rates. Help has to come there and I think it is coming.
And the sovereigns have to be able to borrow at reasonable rates. As long as they behave and they do all the things they're asked to do, they have to be able to borrow at lower rates than they currently do. Some way has to be found to do it. That's where there's a large number of proposals, but they all really get to the same thing. Euro bonds is one way. Some people think the [Securities Markets Program] should do it. There's a question of whether some people think the ECB should be in the business or not. The [European Stability Mechanism] could buy bonds in the primary markets. It's not that I don't care about the way it's done. But I care about the result. These countries, if they're doing the right things, they have to be able to finance themselves.
–How much euro depreciation would help:
Some people say a euro depreciation would help Europe a lot. I think there is an argument for it, even in a multilateral context. You have to depreciate vis-a-vis somebody, so somebody has to appreciate. My sense is we would like most of the depreciation to be vis-a-vis emerging-market countries. Even if there was a depreciation vis-a-vis the dollar, I still think it would be a good thing. In a way Europe needs it more than the U.S., and the U.S. could probably offset it in some way. So that is something which should be considered.
It will have an effect. We've done simulations. Other people have done simulations as well. 10% real depreciation would lead to a 1.4% increase in growth for a year — which at this stage, given the numbers, would be nice. The footnote, and it's a very big footnote, is that … how much you benefit depends on how big your exports are related to your GDP and where you export — whether you export in the euro zone or outside. Unfortunately the countries that benefit the most are the countries that really don't need it — Germany, the Netherlands. The countries that benefit the least are Greece, Portugal, Italy, Spain. It would be good. There would be some cost on the rest of the world and the U.S., which would have to do something about it. But unfortunately it would be helping more the countries which need the help less.
There's no question, the periphery countries have to improve their competitiveness. That's not something even monetary policy at the level of the euro or fiscal policy can do. This they have to do through productivity improvements or nominal wage adjustments.
–The pace of European policymakers' response to the crisis:
It is no secret that they have tended to respond to crises rather than be much more proactive. There is a sense that the attitudes have changed. They have understood that waiting for the next crisis to do something was probably not the best strategy. At this stage I think there is a genuine commitment to thinking about the whole beast. That's why these words — fiscal union, banking union — have come in. It's a fairly recent thing in terms of semantics. Until recently it was this measure, that measure. And now there's a sense in which they're thinking about the full architecture.
Where I think there is still a problem is that all these things will take a lot of time. And some of these things may not happen because they're unpopular. And meanwhile, there is a fire in the house. So they have to be willing to do more in the short term. But it's better news. There is a sense now of a path. The measures are going to be tough, but there is a plan. I think that's considerable process.
–How emerging economies are faring:
In each country you see a slowdown. There's one explanation per country. I think there's probably something underneath which is common. Emerging-market countries had a great decade and it may well be that their potential growth rate is really lower than the actual growth rate was, and maybe even their potential growth rate was before. All of them, in different modes, have had to slow down either in exports or investments and so on. My sense is we may well be in a regime in which these growth rates will be a bit lower than they were.


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Philip Roth has quit writing novels.
The famous American author said in a recent interview that he was done writing novels. Roth said that Nemesis, a book he published in 2010, would be the last novel that he ever writes.
In an interview with French magazine Les inRocks, Roth said:
"I do not intend to write for the next ten years. To tell you the truth, I'm done. Nemesis will be my last book. Look at E.M. Forster, he stopped writing fiction aged 40."
Roth said that he was continually writing in his younger days but hasn't managed to write anything for the last three years. Instead, Roth is spending his team re-reading his old books.
"I used to write book after book, but I haven't written anything for three years … I decided to reread all my books, beginning with the last one, Nemesis. Until I got fed up just before Portnoy's Complaint, which is imperfect. I wanted to see if I had wasted my time writing. And I thought it was rather successful."
Roth said that he has spent his life studying the novel and has finally had enough.
Roth said:
"I have dedicated my life to the novel: I studied, I taught, I wrote and I read. To the exclusion of almost everything else. Enough! I no longer feel this fanaticism to write that I have experienced in my life. The thought of sitting down to write one more time is an impossible one for me … And if I did write a new book, it would most likely be a failure. Who needs to read another mediocre book?
Roth has one the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award (twice), and the National Humanities Medal.
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DELAFIELD, Wis. ( Stockpickr) -- Professional traders running mutual funds and hedge funds don't just look at a stock's price moves; they also track big changes in volume activity. Often when above-average volume moves into an equity, it precedes a large spike in volatility.>>5 Stocks Insiders Love Right Now Major moves in volume can signal unusual activity, such as insider buying or selling -- or buying or selling by "superinvestors." Unusual volume can also be a major signal that hedge funds and momentum traders are piling into a stock ahead of a catalyst. These types of traders like to get in well before a large spike, so it's always a smart move to monitor unusual volume. That said, remember to combine trend and price action with unusual volume. Put them all together to help you decipher the next big trend for any stock. >>5 Toxic Stocks to Sell Before It's Too Late With that in mind, let's take a look at several stocks rising on unusual volume today. Canadian Natural Resources Canadian Natural Resources ( CNQ) engages in the exploration, development, production and marketing of crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas. This stock closed up 2.5% at $33.15 in Wednesday's trading session. Wednesday's Volume: 4.53 million
Three-Month Average Volume: 2.03 million
Volume % Change: 115% >>5 Stocks Set to Soar on Bullish Earnings From a technical perspective, CNQ jumped higher here and broke out above some near-term overhead resistance at $32.96 with above-average volume. This move is quickly pushing shares of CNQ within range of triggering a big breakout trade. That trade will hit if CNQ manages to take out Wednesday's high of $33.41 to its 52-week high at $33.64 with high volume. Traders should now look for long-biased trades in CNQ as long as it's trending above Wednesday's low of $32.45 or its 50-day at $31.69 and then once it sustains a move or close above those breakout levels with volume that hits near or above 2.03 million shares. If that breakout triggers soon, then CNQ will set up to enter new 52-week-high territory, which is bullish technical price action. Some possible upside targets off that breakout are $38 to $40. American Woodmark American Woodmark ( AMWD) manufactures and distributes kitchen cabinets and vanities for the remodeling and new home construction markets. This stock closed up 2.2% at $35.02 in Wednesday's trading session.


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A man who caused road closures and huge disruption in central London after spending six days up a crane dressed as Spider-Man ended his protest yesterday.
David Chick, 36, took several minutes to climb down the crane at Tower Bridge.
He was arrested at the bottom as onlookers shouted their support for the protester who is trying to highlight the plight of fathers and their need for access to their children.
Scores of police attempted to contain the crowds as Chick was ushered to a police van and taken away.
Matt O'Connor, spokesman for pressure group Fathers 4 Justice, said although Chick was not a member of the organisation, he had done much to raise the plight of fathers who do not have access to their children.
"I think he's raised the issue. Everyone's talking about it in London. MPs were talking about it in Parliament.
"We're pleased we helped to bring the protest to an end. We worked with the police last night and got him to agree not to go on the arm of the crane meaning roads could be reopened, but were unable to bring him down last night. We're really pleased he's raised the profile of this issue."
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The Mets produced another sorry ending to another season, this one being the final ever at Shea Stadium. Brian Heyman provides the details on yesterday's 4-2 loss to the Marlins.
It couldn't happen again, but it did, Sam Borden writes. Sam covered the Yankees' collapse in the 2004 ALCS, but he can't remember a fan base having to endure a stretch this crushing. … This team's destiny was remarkably similar to that of last year.
The fans were crushed. They never thought it would happen again either, and it left them feeling bittersweet about yesterday's poorly-timed postgame ceremony.
Rick Carpiniello tells us more about a ceremony doomed to matter much less than the one in the Bronx from the very start. After all, yesterday's game couldn't have been more meaningful. The Yankees, despite their grand history, couldn't say the same.


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The young assassin breaks the neck of a female agent and escapes from an isolated facility in the new preview videos.
Two clips from "Hanna" have been debuted online, highlighting the title character's skill. One snippet making its way out via Guardian features Hanna acting like a fragile girl before she shows her true self, breaking a female agent's neck and attacking other security guards. In the other video she is seen escaping from the isolated place.
Hanna is raised by her father, an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland. Her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. Once she is ready, she is sent into the world by her father on a mission.
Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.
Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan tackles the lead role of Hanna, sharing screen with Oscar winner Cate Blanchett who portrays the ruthless intelligence operative. Eric Bana plays her father. Directed by Joe Wright, "Hanna" will be dropped in U.S. cinemas on April 8.
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Rise of Nightmares might be the best core Kinect game yet
The previous E3 trailer for SEGA's Rise of Nightmares wasn't very good to say the least, but now there's finally a trailer that shows the actual game. What a world of technological marvels we live in. The trailer shows you that the game is... read


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Every year when teaching my "autism and reasoning" class, I have another chance to delve into cognitive science. And each time, I'm reminded of how much is involved even in apparently "meaningless" tasks like memorizing and reproducing complex shapes like (excuse the low fidelity) this one:
This is similar to another skill often dismissed as meaningless: speed. As I noted earlier in connection with math tests:
many people assume that speed tests (especially multiple choice speed tests) measure only rote knowledge. But they're also a great way to measure conceptual understanding. Performance speed reflects, not just rote recall, but also efficiency, and efficiency, in turn, is a function of reasoning, strategizing, and number sense.When it comes to our computers, we place high value on speed and memory capacity; perhaps for the same reason, we increasingly dismiss these same things in humans. But they correlate, not just with those skills that are being supplanted by computers, but with higher level skills still matter for the foreseeable future.


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I've been recently approached (twice) by Elliottsweb salespeople regarding their SEO services. They charge a hefty amount, but were also able to show me some impressive results. They claim they use only white-hat techniques in SEO.
I was just wondering if anyone had any experiences - good or bad - with Eliottsweb. Especially looking forward to hearing critique.
Good SEO companies don't cold call, they don't need to, because they get found in searches.
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Smithfield | Buffalo Creek Highlights
Length: 3.3 miles
Exploring downtown Smithfield: Smithfield on the weekends can be downright sleepy. The Howell Theatre and Ava Gardner Museum are both open (as is the public library on Market Street — until 5 p.m.!). Orchard House Booksellers at 117 N. 3rd St. is a good spot to get coffee and loll about, and there's the Neuse Little Theatre. The town's wide, tree-lined streets and minimal traffic enhance the experience of exploring the town's historic homes.
Smithfield Community Park: Located at the greenway's northern trailhead, the park has a boatload of ballfields, playground and the Smithfield Recreation & Aquatic Center with an indoor 8-lane pool, splash pool, racquetball, basketball and a bunch of other activities.
Greenway hours: 4:45 a.m. to 9 p.m. or 30 minutes after dark.
Speed limit: 10 mph
Nice touch for runners: Markers ever two-tenths of a mile.
Nice touch for everyone: The greenway crosses no streets.
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Kahlil and Henning talk to Ed Finkler about his origin story. Ed tells us about his interested in computers as a user and how to took quite some time for him to become interested in development. He adopted PHP in the early days and also dabbled in JavaScript and Python before returning to PHP. In one of the /dev/hell podcast episodes he reviled that he has suffered from mental illness for most of his life and this gave rise to the Open Sourcing Mental Illness project he is currently involved in.
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- [00:03:50] Henning introduces Ed Finkler
- [00:04:22] Space Invaders and Pong
- [00:10:36] C64, Basic
- [00:18:15] College, HTML
- [00:40:28] Desktop applications
- [00:45:58] Spaz Twitter client
- [01:08:26] Python
- [01:20:24] The MicroPHP Manifesto
- [01:23:15] /dev/hell
- [01:26:55] Mental Health Issues
- [01:43:44] Picks
- Ed Finkler is @funkatron on Twitter
- RealBasic Xojo
- Spaz
- Graph Story
- The MicroPHP Manifesto
- /dev/hell
- Open Sourcing Mental Illness: Stronger Than Fear
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Damascus: Syrian regime air strikes targeted rebel-held police stations inside Aleppo city on Friday, ahead of talks between visiting peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and opposition groups in the 18-month conflict.
An AFP correspondent said three loud explosions were heard in Damascus, where Brahimi spent his first night ahead of meetings with the opposition groups tolerated by the embattled regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
Among those the UN and Arab League envoy is scheduled to meet is the opposition National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change, which brings together Arab nationalists, Kurds and socialists.
Hassan Abdel Azim, spokesman for the opposition bloc, said a delegation would meet Brahimi to inform him of their suggestions for a way out of crisis.
"We support Mr Brahimi… and we will cooperate with him because the violence has reached (unprecedented) levels and the Syrian people are suffering from the killings, destruction and displacement," he told AFP.
Brahimi, who was appointed earlier this month, said the conflict was getting worse, on arrival at Damascus airport on Thursday when at least 125 people died in violence across Syria, according to a watchdog.
"We came to Syria to hold meetings with our Syrian brothers because there is a big crisis, and I think it is getting worse," the Algerian veteran troubleshooter said, quoted by Syria's official SANA news agency.
Brahimi, who succeeded former UN chief Kofi Annan following the failure of his six-point peace plan, met Foreign Minister Walid Muallem on Thursday night.
Muallem assured Brahimi of "Syria's full cooperation" and stressed that any initiative must be based on "the interests of the Syrian people and their freedom of choice without foreign intervention," SANA reported.
On the battlefront, Syrian regime forces on Friday used fighter jets and helicopter gunships to pound the city and province of Aleppo, where fierce clashes raged around a military airport, monitors said.
Warplanes bombarded the rebel-held towns of Al-Bab and Marea near Aleppo city, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, adding that army forces and rebels fought around Minnigh military airport.
Despite shelling by regime forces, as seen in videos posted online, residents of Marea, Aleppo city and towns across the northern province came out for anti-regime demonstrations after the weekly Muslim prayers, activists said.
Demonstrations were also reported in the provinces of Damascus, Idlib, Daraa in the south and Hama in central Syria where an unknown number of protesters were killed as regime forces opened fire in Hama city, the Observatory said.
In the central Aleppo district of Midan, regime forces carried air strikes on two police stations which the rebels had taken over, according to Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
"Whenever the rebels take a police station, the regime destroys them," Abdel Rahman told AFP by phone. "Now no one controls these posts," he said, adding that "regime forces have deployed throughout Midan to try and push out the rebels."
In the Hanano district in the northeast of Aleppo city, air strikes destroyed another police station in the hands of the rebels, Abdel Rahman said.
Just south of Damascus, the army fired live ammunition at an anti-regime demonstration in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmuk, according to the Local Coordination Committees — a network of activists on the ground.
Near the capital, at least 15 soldiers were killed or wounded in an attack on their vehicle in the restive town of Douma, where clashes broke out near the municipal building, the Observatory said.
In Damascus itself, three large explosions were heard in the late morning, according to an AFP reporter. The Observatory said that security forces swept its southern districts of Midan and Nahr Aisha.
The Observatory also reported "fierce clashes" inside the capital.
At least 18 people were killed on Friday, according to the Observatory, with the highest toll in Daraa province where eight civilians, including three children, were killed in air strikes on the town of Bosra al-Sham.
The Britain-based Observatory says that more than 27,000 people have been killed since the uprising against Assad's rule erupted in March last year. The United Nations puts the toll at 20,000.
In neighbouring Lebanon, Pope Benedict XVI on Friday started a weekend visit with a call for an end to arms imports to Syria. "Arms imports must stop once and for all, because without arms imports, war cannot continue," he told reporters on his plane.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, meanwhile, said the Assad regime was nearing its "inevitable" end and that his government was holding continuous contacts with the Syrian opposition.
"Assad's regime is approaching its inevitable end," Erdogan said in comments translated into Russian at a news conference in the Ukrainian Black Sea resort of Yalta.
"We must say 'No' to this human drama and not allow flames to engulf the whole region, so that the transition process could move more quickly ahead," said the Turkish leader.


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"Return of the King" Rules BAFTA Awards
Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ruled the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards–Britain's equivalent of the Oscars–picking up five prizes including best picture at Sunday night's ceremony held at a movie theater in London's Leicester Square.
The Return of the King beat out Master and Commander: Far Side of the World, Big Fish, Cold Mountain and Lost In Translation to win the ceremony's most coveted award.
Translation's Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, however, won the best actor and best actress awards for their roles in the Sofia Coppola-directed drama, while Peter Weir walked away with the best director award for Master and Commander.
Jackson, a New Zealander, was thrilled at the recognition given to the third and final installment of his Lord of the Rings trilogy.
"This is so fantastic," Jackson said. "We were a bunch of Kiwis making this film with American money and we were always aware that we were looking after one of Britain's most loved books. We always tried very hard to do professor Tolkien's book the justice it deserved."
Director Anthony Mingella's Cold Mountain, on the other hand, received a chilly reception. The civil war drama, which was nominated in 13 categories–one more than The Return of the King–won only two awards, best music and best supporting actress for Renee Zellweger.
Also shut out was Girl With a Pearl Earring, which had 10 nominations, and Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, which had four nods.
Here is a list of winners:
Best film: The Return of the King
Best British film: Touching the Void
Best director: Peter Weir for Master and Commander
Best actor in a leading role: Bill Murray for Lost In Translation
Best actress in a leading role: Scarlett Johansson for Lost In Translation
Best actor in a supporting role: Bill Nighy for Love Actually
Best actress in a supporting role: Renee Zellweger for Cold Mountain
Orange Film of the Year (Audience award): The Return of the King
Best film not in the English language: In This World
Original screenplay: The Station Agent
Adapted screenplay: The Return of the King
Carl Foreman Award (for special achievement by a British director/producer/writer in their first feature film): Emily Young for Kiss of Life
Short animation: Jojo in the Stars
Short film: Brown Paper Bag
Make Up & Hair: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Visual Effects: The Return of the King
Sound: Master and Commander
Editing: Lost In Translation
Costume design: Master and Commander
Production design: Master and Commander
Cinematography: The Return of the King
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David Ortiz wasn't in the opening lineup, but he was happy to start the celebration for Rocco Baldelli's home run. (Associated Press)
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Baldelli had a blast, then left
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2008 Liquid Force Lyman 143
When working on our 2008 product line, the idea of giving Keith Lyman a new board was an obvious one. When it came to designing a board that would hold up to the demands of Keiths riding, things werent so easy. No other rider had worked as hard through the 2006/2007 season to prove to the world that he was back and ready to take wakeboarding to the next level. No rider on the planet goes bigger and is more demanding on a boards performance level than Keith Lyman. Watch him spin a 540 20 feet into the flats and youll know what we mean. Unafraid, Jimmy Redmon rose to the challenge and created a super charged board that will take anything a rider gives it. Keiths lightweight rocket ship of a board is all about speed, pop and unmatched strength. You might not be able to charge as hard as Keith behind the boat, but with his board under your feet, you sure can try!
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09/08/2008 12:00am
I'd like to first off say that I've tried A LOT of three-stage boards (multiple times) from '08 and the Lyman was the one that fit me the best. I came off a '08 CWB Marius 140 and was looking for something that would boot me a little harder. I went into my first set with the Lyman expecting a whole lot. I generally like really fun slippery boards that let you slide around and are forgiving even if u dont hit the wake just right. With that being said, you have to work a bit harder to get the good boot youre looking for (compared to the Marius), but when u hit it just right, it lets you know. As far as three stage boards go, the pop is super predicatable, and it doesnt give a huge abrupt buck when compared to something like the ibex (btw.. that board hits like a hammer). Ive noticed that this board really pushes you out into the flats and has SUPER SOFT Landings... The Lyman also transitions very smoothly (but very solid as well) on edge and is one of the faster boards that I have ridden. I havent noticed a huge difference in my ollies with the thinner tip and tail, but I was comparing this board to the byerly monarch which feels like a spring in comparison. I ride the lyman without the center fins and even so, it still grips on edge a whole lot better than the Marius. My buddy with the monarch hated this board partly because he was used to really long, deep molded in fins IMO. This has really helped my toeside tricks, because the board helps me really lock on edge all the way through the wake. Like people have said... its probably a little more slippery than most boards, but Ive found that this is a happy medium for me. The board seemed to ride best for me when you just charge and attack the wake with all you got. Its pretty light (probably a little better than average & 1/2lb lighter than my marius) and Ive noticed that my fs & bs 180's are easier to spin, grab, and stomp. Overall.. I wouldn't recommend this to any beginner that is really working on basics or anyone who likes to drift into the wake with a floaty w2w style. I still use my Marius to learn new tricks as it seems to be more forgiving, but pull out the Lyman when im just in the mood to get after it and rip. Anyone with a hard charging, aggressive style will absolutely love this board.
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The following videos are a bunch of adverts for Citroen. Will the agency please stand up?
I think it's a great idea. We're not talking about a single VCV (viral candidate video) here, nor even a series like Old Spice. Citroen are going for a viral collection.
I think the technique might work (not just because they're paying for the viral launch through video networks) because the video clips will appeal to a wider ranger of viewers.
For example, I really like the chicken washing the car (followed by the cheerleader washing the car - but not for the reasons you might think).
The Intro
The chicken
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Diva Brown
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So, what do you think? Are Citroen attempting too much here with all these videos? Are these VCV strong enough?


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Friedrich Hitzemann
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d.14 Nov 1949 Lake County, Indiana
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Fred Hitzemann was born on his parents' Indiana farm (on the Illinois state line near Dyer), the eighth child (and fourth son) of Carl and Maria Hitzemann. In 1894 he married Sophia Seegers, the girl next door; her parents owned an adjacent farm. Fred took up farming on the Seegers farm, probably shortly after the wedding. The 1900 census shows Fred and Sophia living on the farm with sons Alvin, Edwin, and Walter (and also with Sophia's widowed mother). Diptheria struck the family that summer, including all three sons, and baby Walter died of it. Three daughters were then born, Dora, Bernice, and Alice, followed by another son, Bill.
When World War I came, the oldest two sons were drafted into the army. After the war, they settled in Nebraska and in South Dakota to farm. Fred and Sophia sold the farm in 1920 and moved with the younger children to a house on Carroll Street in Hammond, Indiana. Fred took up work with the railroad. When Edwin's wife died after childbirth in 1922, Edwin and his two young children returned from South Dakota and moved in with them. Sophia died in 1928 following surgery, and Bill in 1929 of spinal meningitis.
Bernice's husband Ed Helmer died in 1941, and sometime after this, Bernice bought the Carroll Street house. Fred then went to live with daughter Alice Beckwith, who also lived in Hammond, and stayed with her family for the remainder of his life. He had problems with alcoholism, which was the cause of his final illness and death.
Fred is remembered for his sense of humor. His grandson Gene once recalled a typical example:
Grandpa was sitting in church waiting for the service to begin, with two of his young grandsons, Gene and Dale, on either side of him. Bored, he reached into a pocket, pulled out a cigar, and began slowly to unwrap it. The boys looked at him in horror. Was Grandpa really going to smoke in church? "Well," he told them, "I don't see any 'No Smoking' signs in here." But he immediately put the cigar back in his pocket.