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A VIDEO explaining radical welfare benefit changes has raised £4,500 for Halton Haven.
The video was produced by Halton Housing Trust, Halton's biggest landlord, to explain how new Government policy will reduce the benefits of thousands of tenants across Runcorn and Widnes.
It has generated 2,440 views on YouTube and generated more than 30 enquiries from housing associations across the country, keen to replicate its key messages.
For example, 3,128 residents living in homes with spare bedrooms will have to pay a 'bedroom tax'.
Thousands more will have to pay council tax for the first time as Halton Council loses £1.4 million in funding.
The video uses animated graphics in a clear and compelling way, spelling out to tenants how they could be affected by the changes, many of which come into force in April 2013.
Anna Lambert, trust communications manager, said: "We decided to allow other housing associations to tailor the video to their organisation and customers if they donated £500 to Halton Haven Hospice.
"The hospice carries out fantastic work within Halton and we are keen to help them wherever we can. We hope to raise even more money through the video in the next few months."
Hospice fundraising manager, Ciaran Clotworthy, said: "This is such an innovative way of creating funds for the hospice. We are grateful to the trust for their support and tireless efforts to enable the hospice to continue to deliver our special kind of caring."
Ed Cox, managing director of Reason Digital, who produced the video, said: "We are really proud of the interest this infographic is generating, especially given the importance of the Welfare Reform Bill and how many people it will affect. Its success also highlights the importance of using innovative ways to communicate complex information. But perhaps the most powerful part of this work is that it continues to help raise funds for the hospice to do their life affirming work."
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I've wanted to check out the High Line ever since first reading about it in Erin's Single-ish blog post "Playing Tourist in Your Own Town." An abandoned elevated urban railway saved from demolition and turned into a public park and art space? Cool.
New York is not my town for playing tourist, but the High Line I knew I had to check out. Especially after seeing these riffs by comics artist and The New Yorker cover illustrator Adrian Tomine and art director and graphic designer Vahram Muratyan. (Love the work of both these guys.)
Adrian Tomine, "High and Low," The New Yorker,
September 7, 2009
Vahram Muratyan, La Réinvention,
Paris Versus New York, A Tally of Two Cities
book and blog, October 3, 2011
Last time I was in New York just visiting friends and hanging out, though, it was December. On the day I meant to take the subway and walk over to the HL, I stepped out onto the avenues with snow flurries skittering down the sidewalks and—to my California self—arctic winds whistling down the brick and concrete canyons, and thought, Who am I kidding?! (So I went to the Guggenheim and stayed warm instead.)
Still, that hasn't stopped me from wanting to stroll the High Line someday and explore it from end to end. In sunny, balmy weather. When there's room to move beyond more than a shuffle and space on the grass to loll around.
I love the idea of a park in the sky, high above the urban grit, as well as the idea that where once the derelict tracks were overgrown with weeds, there now grow beautiful flowers.
Before. Joel Sternfeld, A Railroad Artifact, 30th Street,
May 2000
After. Echinacea purpurea plantings. Anybody recognize
the spikes of lithe purple flowers in the background?
Now I'm just waiting for Jorge Colombo (who, like Tomine, has illustrated covers for The New Yorker) to deliver his own take on the High Line via the iPhone Brushes app he uses for his 20×200 prints. It's bound to happen.
Have you ever been to the High Line? If so, what do you recommend seeking or doing there? Have you walked along the Promenade Plantée in Paris?
Related: "New York's High Line" (National Geographic, April 2011)
(Top and grass photos via The High Line; echinacea photo by SpecialKRB on Flickr, via The High Line)
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Ever wondered what it would be like to walk a mile in the Duchess of Cambridge's shoes? Here's your chance.
Stuart Weitzman has just launched the SW x You: Corkswoon program, which gives royal footwear fans the chance to customize the wedges that Kate made famous.
For $398, customers can choose from a palette of 15 different colors, which includes everything from basic brown to bright shades like geranium and lemon yellow, and decide between a cork or braided jute heel to create their own signature pair ("Copy Kates" can recreate the Duchess' exact navy-and-cork style) which the company promises will be handcrafted in Spain and delivered to you by the end of July.
Though a press release confirms that the "Corkswoon" campaign is a "direct response to the 'Kate Effect,'" [in which Duchess-loved apparel sells out the moment she wears it] it's not the first time Stuart Weitzman has offered shoppers the chance to customize their footwear.
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Last February, the brand's celeb-favorite "Nudist" sandal was made available in several combinations of color, material and heel height.
The Corkswoon started flying off the shelves when Kate wore them during the 2012 Olympics in London. Since then, she's been spotted in them everywhere from a canoe trip in the Solomon Islands, to a volleyball match in the U.K. and on several stops on the recent Royal Tour of New Zealand and Australia. The wedge has hit sold-out status in the past, but Stuart Weitzman is now quick to replenish their inventory. Still, if you're looking for your own perfect pair, take note: The SW x You: Corkswoon customization option is only available for the next two weeks.
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It's been months since Brian Sinclair, lead guitarist for the famous rock band Sinners, composed anything. Unable to write the music that once flowed so naturally, Brian is lost without his musical mojo. But when sexy psychology professor Myrna Evans comes on tour to study groupie mentality, Brian may have found the spark he needs to reignite his musical genius. When lust turns to love, will Brian be able to convince Myrna that what they have is more than just a fling, and that now that he's found his heart's muse, he doesn't want to live without her?
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"An erotic foray into the behind-the-scenes world of a heavy metal band." (Fresh Fiction)
"My favorite book... put into audio!"
I would say this is in the top three. This was my absolute favorite book on Kindle. I couldn't wait for it to come out on audio.
There is a little bit of everything in the book. My favorite part is the humor between the bandmates and the hopeless romantic Brian.
Justine tries very hard to make the guys sound like rock stars, but there is only so much a women can emulate a males' voice (especially screaming) without being a male herself. :)
Both. Olivia Cunning does a GREAT job of pulling you into the story completely.
This is by far one of my favorite books. It is probably too explicit for some listeners, but if you can handle Fifty Shades or similar, you will love this book! I cant wait for the others to come out on audio. I already own all of her books that are out on my Kindle!
When I clean, drive or exercise I listen to romance. The steamier the better but it must have a great story as well!
"lots of hot sex found here!"
I found the sex scenes in this book very HOT! However, the storyline felt a little slacking. I wish they could combine more story with the sex scenes. I was interested in all the characters and was slightly disappointed not to found out more about them. If your looking for a book with great sex and a simple story this book is definitely for you! Happy Listening!
I love all genres of books. However, when I listen to audio books as I clean, garden, drive they are better with a lot of heat!
"Steamy Sex - Sweet Romance"
Other reviews will use words like hot, or sizzling, or steamy, and all those words are true. What they may not mention is this book also has real heart. It's laugh out loud funny in places, and heartbreaking, and heart-warming.
Backstage Pass is most of all, a love story. Romance with a capital "R". Two very real, wonderfully three dimensional people with histories, and baggage, and hang-ups, who come together for a night of hot sex and find themselves in love. And one of them is going to resist that feeling with everything they've got. Their journey, played out against the background of a rock tour and all the accompanying insanity of that, makes me glad I got to go along for the ride.
Ms. Cunning does an outstanding job of weaving in the music, and making the concert scene--in all its grungy reality--come alive for the reader. It's a fresh, original concept, handled beautifully by someone who knows how to write extraordinarily well, and whose love of the music comes through in every scene.
She's also introduced larger than life characters who are secondary in this first book of the Sinners on Tour series, but who will each have their turn to take centre stage in the subsequent books. I can hardly wait. Imagine me, standing here in the dark, my lighter raised high, screaming for an encore!
Justine O. Keef did a great job in the delivery of the story. This really one of my favourite audio books I will listen again. Please, please Audible more of the Sinners on tour.
I've always been a avid reader so now I'm a avid listener. I prefer the paranormal genre but I do like to switch things up. It's boring if you don't have variety. Of course I do love the romance and the hotter the better. Also, you can't beat a good thriller filled with suspense and a ending you can't even guess at until the very end.
"Totally Fabulous!!"
Great story!! (Caution contains explict sexual content.) In my opinion it was totally awesome. I wanted to listen to it in one session. I was so wrapped up in the story and that does not happen often. It's well worth the credit. I hope the next book in this series is as good because I'm getting that one too.
Love Romance books with Suspense. I usually listen/read a couple of books a week.
After reading the reviews I was not sure I wanted to listen to this book. I took a chance. Normally, I do not favor any books when there is a menage de trios but, I was surprised it did not bother me as much as I thought. The story line was so well done, you sort of not notice the sexual content as much. And yes there was quite a bit of sexual content. This book is not for the faint at heart. I was thoroughly surprised at this book. So much in fact that I downloaded the next one. You really get involved with the characters and want to know what happened. I loved Brian and Myrna. Yes they are weird and not a typical couple, but you feel they really love each other. And let's face it it's a book. The narrator did a pretty good job. Better than most. It's a wild hot story that takes you for a ride, I guarantee you won't be bored.
I really enjoy the world of books! Narration just add layers to that world... don't u think? :)
Sinners on TOUR!!! What ... Amazing... Master Sinclair!!! Soooo totally goood. I loved this book. I was so not expecting this, but WOW. From Chapter 1 I was blow away by Professor Sex... OMG! Loved it. Two people who should not be together that are so totally perfect for each other. I love it. I was shock too at the end when I found out about TREY... WHAT!!! U Gotta listen to know what I am talking about... Trust when I say, you won't be disappointed. Master Sinclair creates the great music riffs when making love... how perfect... Right...???
Totally buy or credit. This is totally worth it.
Narration was just awesome.
"Hot!!! Hot!!! Hot!!!!"
I chose this book based on the ratings and I was not disappointed. The sex scenes were very steamy and the love story of Brian and Mryna keep me interested. I plan to look out for more work from the author.
I love being swept away by a new romance and thankfully Audible's ever growing Library means I get to indulge myself over and over again
"Mmmmmm what's not to like with this new series"
Great, funny and interesting characters all get involved in this very touching and very sexy steamy romance and I thought the descriptions of the band, tour, groupies etc., was brilliantly written.
Worth a credit? Oh yes.
12 step program please. I am addicted to Audible! I love trashy sexy books, award winning novels and everything between. Bring it!
"Makes FSOG look like child's play"
hot, sweaty, sex
Oh yea - serioulsy, If you are ok with explicit, exhibitionist sex scenes then here you have it my friends. Seriously, this book made FSOG look like a teaser. The story is interesting enough and the hook up scenes are really all that!
I really liked Brian - the lovelorn lead guitarist who always falls in love with the wrong kind of girl. He was sweet and let Myrna have her way and gave her the freedom both sexually and emotionally to do whatever, and I mean, whatever she wanted.
No, I needed to breath between chapters. ha!
Totally worth the credit! It's a hot read.
I need more ears!
"A Whole New Level of Wow!"
I was going to skip this one since I wasn't really that interested in a storyline about Rock Stars and the women who love them -- but the reviews were pretty awesome, so I let the reviewers pick this one for me. (Thanks!)
A group of randy rock stars meet a Human Sexuality Professor in a hotel lounge and the fun starts! This book is witty, sweet and even romantic, but the sex scenes are in a class all their own. This has to be the hottest erotica series out there right now -- with great characters, an well written plot and a perfect reader. And did I mention the mind-blowing sex scenes?
Justine O. Keef's performance was pitch perfect, and her male characters were believable and sexy. Again, Wow!
Lock the door, turn off the phone, close the curtains and pour a glass of wine. Once you start Backstage Pass, you won't want any distractions!
"love this series and this book was panty melting."
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"So good!!"
Finally a strong sexy woman!!!! Really sexy sex stuff! And laugh out loud funny moments!! Brilliant! The reader did male and female voices perfectly!
"erotic and interesting"
I enjoyed the story and find the story of other peoples desires very intriguing even if they are not my own views, makes me wonder what mine would be if I thought about it enough
as first audio books experience it is a little difficult to compare but look forward to comparing in the future
none in particular but was very intrigued in the feelings of brian for the woman he fell in love with and the length he went to too make her happy
"Great experience"
This was my first audio book and I was pleasantly surprised as I was dubious about audio and this book. However' I really enjoyed it. The actor was easy to listen to and characterized each character well. Great experience.
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Friday, 29 May 2009
Bank Holiday Pub Fun Part One
10 comments:
- The Northerner said...
That's Clacton-on-Sea crossed off my beer tourist list forever then. [Shudder] - the things you do in the name of research!
- 29 May 2009 at 14:53
- ATJ said...
You. Went. Away. Without. Your. Notebook. And you were doing research. And you're a writer. Did you remember your trousers?
- 29 May 2009 at 16:39
- Pete said...
Nah, I had my notebook then. But I'm in Lancaster now andforgot it here. Got my laptop and 1001 stuff though...
- 29 May 2009 at 16:45
- ATJ said...
You haven't got your notebook now though — cardinal sin, you should always take it with you even if you're going down the shops to record snatches of conversation for the next Cask Ale report (the words '200 grams of polenta please guv,' suggest that here in Hackney-Dalston cask ale is on the rise).
- 29 May 2009 at 17:49
You just described the JDW in Chaversham (AKA Faversham), though mercifully there are Sheps' pubs in the town as well as the brewery...
- 29 May 2009 at 19:29
- Woolpack Dave said...
I suspect that this is unfair on the pub. Tourist pubs on bank holidays are hard work, unless the pub avoids appealing to the lowest common denominator that is.
- 30 May 2009 at 09:40
- BLTP said...
Seeing it was me who bought the round I would say the staff were very friendly and efficient taking food orders making coffees etc,the place had just run out of decent bitter. At least they didn't spend their time skipping through the good tracks on the cd like they did in Liverpool st later on and over charging for lager.
- 30 May 2009 at 12:32
- The Bocking Kellys said...
Sticking up for Essex folk as I must, in Clacton the families in question were likely to be from North London or Harlow (doesn't count, it's practically Hertfordshire) out for a day at the seaside.
Next time you're looking for some north Essex seaside action go to Walton on the Naze, can't guarantee any better pubs but there will be fewer people. Or Harwich, that has got at least one decent pub but I can't remember what it's called.
- 30 May 2009 at 23:44
It sounds a lot like the JDW in Faversham, except that luckily, there are some decent Neame houses in the town. Still, that's the awful conundrum about Wetherspoon's in a nutshell...
- 31 May 2009 at 13:06
- Captain said...
And I'm sure Rik Waller was working behind the bar of that Clacton JDW....
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Business Outlook: Getting Financially Fit in a RecessionJames C. Cooper
Ever since the recession turned into a rout after September's financial meltdown, corporations have been in a cost-cutting frenzy, looking to protect profitability and bolster balance sheets. The bad news is that companies are still in survival mode and unlikely to make much of a contribution to any second-half recovery. The good news will have to wait until 2010. As the recovery picks up steam, companies will be extremely lean, financially fit, and ready to gear up their operations in a way that will benefit both themselves and the economy.
Right now all the frugality is hitting the economy hard. Businesses have slashed payrolls by 6.2 million workers through May, and through the first quarter they have pared capital spending by $248 billion and inventories by $294 billion. The cutting will most likely continue this year, although at a reduced rate. After recessions, companies begin to expand their operations only after they see demand picking up.
One sign of incipient recovery is coming from manufacturing. Businesses have liquidated inventories so rapidly that companies are beginning to reorder. Orders on manufacturers' books rose in both April and May after a steep slide, and industrial surveys through June show firmer factory production. This is the plus side of the steep inventory reductions, which will help stabilize the overall economy, but it will take faster growth in demand to sustain any factory-sector rebound.
That is a long way off. U.S. companies cut their outlays for equipment and software at a 30.9% annual rate in the fourth and first quarters, the largest two-quarter drop since the 1930s. Business construction, which plunged 42.9% in the first quarter, is in only the early stages of its contraction. Falling investment in new equipment and construction has subtracted an average of 3.6 percentage points per quarter from growth in real gross domestic product since the third quarter.
Despite its blow to the economy, cost control has helped to limit the damage to corporate health. Looking only at nonfinancial companies, which account for three-fourths of domestic profits, earnings since the recession began are down 14.9% through the first quarter, based on the Commerce Dept.'s tally. So far, however, the inflation-adjusted earnings decline has been less than in the comparably severe downturns of the 1970s and 1980s and similar to the drop during the relatively mild 2001 recession.
Although earnings are down, spending cuts mean nonfinancial businesses are able to finance all of their current capital outlays with the funds generated by their businesses without the need to tap the credit markets. Internal funds, which are similar to cash flow, are up 4.9% from a year ago, and in the first quarter they exceeded capital expenditures by $90 billion, a wide margin by historical standards.
That doesn't mean companies sat idly by as credit conditions in the corporate bond market eased. On the contrary, businesses raised funds via bond sales at a record annual rate of $570.3 billion in the first quarter, allowing them to lock in debt at a low fixed rate. In the first quarter, long-term debt as a share of all credit market obligations rose to 70.8%, close to the record levels seen from 2003 to 2006.
Instead of using their bond proceeds to buy new equipment, companies beefed up their balance sheets, raising their liquid assets as a share of short-term liabilities to a high 38.1%. They also repaid a lot of more expensive short-term debt, including $422 billion in commercial paper, bank loans, and other advances. And they bought back some of their stock. Overall, businesses lifted their net financial investment in the first quarter to a record $340.8 billion (chart), the highest in 37 years as a share of gross investment.
All this shows a major shift toward corporate caution that will be reversed only by a solid and sustained pickup in orders and sales. The upside: Companies will be in top condition to take advantage when a recovery arrives.


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Troops due to deploy from their Suffolk base to Afghanistan in little more than a month have begun final training exercises in a bid to prepare them for every eventuality.
Servicemen from RAF Honington joined colleagues from nearby bases on the Stanford Training Area (Stanta) this week for a variety of scenarios designed to mirror those likely to arise on the front line.
Together with airmen from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire and RAF Henlow in Bedfordshire, 15 squadron RAF Regiment will deploy to Camp Bastion for seven months in October.
Operations officer with the squadron, Flight Lieutenant Matt Shutler, who has been to Afghanistan once before, said the final exercises were the culmination of a year's worth of training.
"They involve a variety of different things," he said. "It could be patrolling on foot or in a vehicle and dealing with an improvised explosive device, being shot at or dealing with local nationals.
"This part is putting all the bits together and working together as well as testing the squadron. We've done quite a bit of training and the guys are all itching to go.
"You get to the stage where everyone's looking forward to it.
"Each time you go it's different but it's never easy.
"It doesn't really matter how many times you've been because the weather is always different and the terrain is different and it's different people and all of those affect the way you do your job."
Stanta is designed to replicate army strongholds in Afghanistan as closely as possible with scenarios ranging from discussions between commanding officers and local elders to heavy mortar fire and suicide bombers.
Deputy squadron commander with 15 squadron RAF Regiment, Flight Lieutenant Simon Hamilton, said the tour would be his third time in Afghanistan.
"I'm looking forward to it," he said. "We're taking quite a young bunch out there who are desperate to put their skills to practice and they're excited to show what they can do.
"They should be able to deal with all sorts of things and use their initiative to make sure there are new ways of working and interact with local people because getting local people on-side is one of the ways we can have an effect."


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Q: [disembodied moderator] First off, I have to ask: what just happened? When we started planning this roundtable, the Mets looked bad in an unredeemable way, like they were headed for some familiar territory. Willie was being led out of town circus-style, Wagner was popping off left and right, Reyes was throwing tantrums. The Tampa Rays were looking good to many of us as a backup plan. Then suddenly the Mets are kinda good, even indulging in a little win streaking before the break. Both Carlos' are swingin' for the fences. Reyes is smiling. What gives? Were they just fattening us up for the emotional slaughter? Or does this team have what it takes to lose to the Red Sox in October (just kidding). Are you surprised at all?
Itsmetsforme: For me, the big story is the apparent rebirth of my favorite diarist and political agitator, Carlos Delgado. This leads me to the obvious question, if Carlos Delgado was a sit-com from the early to mid 80s, which one would he be?
Metstradamus: It would have to be Doogie Howser. Come on, the book? Doogie's computer? It's all very introspective.
Dan: Dear Diary, I hit a homerun today. Its funny how every hated me when I spent too much time saving lives and not enough hitting. But now they love me, and I might finally get to second base with Wanda and the Mets.
Gerard: You're forgetting what seems to be the resurrection of Aaron Heilman, a development alone that oughta be worth 2-3 games in the standings [editor's note: to be fair, this seemed kind of true at the time]. I'm pleased to see the increased production on the part of Reyes, Delgado, Beltran and Wright since Willie's dismissal, but let's hope the Mets consider voting a playoff share to someone who really deserves it: Brett Myers.
Dan: Considering the theoretical talent on the team, sooner or later enough of them had to start playing well at once for us to do something. I guess Manual drew up a calendar for everyone so that on any given night two players have the assignment of actually playing up to their potential.
Itsmetsforme: I guess the turnabout was surprising to me. This team just felt wrong, up until the Phillies series. Though I will say the Willie saga for some reason reminded me of that scene in the Holy Grail where Lancelot just keeps charging that castle.
Jaap: What took longer, but was most expected, firing Willie Randolph or the execution of Angel Nieves Diaz ?
Metstradamus: I don't know but I heard the executioner's mask that Omar wore while firing Willie has been signed and put up on eBay.
Itsmetsforme: Well, the Angel Diaz affair wasn't anywhere near as painful as my doomed love affair with Victor Diaz. This "Mini Manny" tatoo is surprisingly resistant to laser alteration.
Q: Let's look at the first half. This season has certainly been special so far. Not since Bobby Valentine's Warton lecture series have we bloggers had so much good Mets material to work with. In a way, we Mets fans are rootless right now, what with the Atlanta franchise floundering and us being forced to acknowledge the Phillies as our rival. Thanks in part to the Santana factor and other successes of the Omar regime, we now expect our club to be competitive, which is quite a departure from the last decade and has perhaps deepened the feeling of disappointment. So have we reached the pinnacle of surreal-ity with this club, or is there a ways to go?
Metstradamus: Ask me that question when David Wright gets mentioned in a Savings and Loan scandal.
Dan: I kind of like Philly as a rival. It's geographically close, and the fandom has the same history of teams that just can't seem to win it all. I think especially if the Braves franchise continues its plummet, we could get a nice thing going, a National League counterpoint to Sox/Yanks, which would I believe make the Braves the equivalent of the Blue Jays, but with less maple syrup.
Jaap: I wonder which quote that eventually led to sacking was funnier: a. "Is it racial? Huh, it smells a little bit. I don't know how to put my finger on it. But I think there is something there," Willie Randolph's take on racism in the media, OR b. "They were cheerleading in the dugout like a bunch of softball girls," Nelson Figueroa's etiquette lecture following a Nats' beating?
Metstradamus: It has to be the softball comment. Especially considering that the Mets later brought up Robinson Cancel, who looks strangely similar to USA softballer Crystl Bustos.
Itsmetsforme: I dunno, besides the fact that he delivered that line while practically boarding the Greyhound bus to oblivion, I do like how Figgy's comment plays into a recurrent theme of Metropolitan discomfort with ladies in the dugout. I'm no Freud, but it's not like they're trying to craw into the locker room hot tub and we're up in arms. Of course, to watch the Mets is to accept the need to shore up your manliness; bombarded as we are with Just for Men and Giuseppe Franco commercials, who can blame us?
Jaap: Along those lines, if the Mets were forced to wear pink arm bands for Mother's Day, what will they be forced to wear on Dog Day, September 5th against thePhillies?
Metstradamus: They'll have to put a pinch of Alpo between their cheek and gums.
Dan: This will inevitably lead to Mike Piazza coming out of retirement to announce he is not a dog lover.
Gerard: Not for the first (or last time), I would discourage NY's mutt lovers from patronizing Dog Day At Shea, at least as long as the NSAL are the beneficiaries.
I'm not sure there's anything surreal as opposed to appropriate about a rivalry with a team 90 miles south (and one that has their own share of clubhouse soap operas / paranoid-as-fuck Phans). Some of us are old enough to wish the Cards and Pirates were still in the NL East.
Itsmetsforme: I really can't imagine Shea Dog Day without Fran Healy. Those pooches really brought that man the kind of genuine joy that I someday hope to experience.
Q: Earlier this season, Keith Hernandez caused quite a stir by claiming that Jose Reyes needs to get his grown man on in so many words. But have the Mets really babied Reyes enough? Or should they baby him in other ways? Alternatively, could you recommend some more ways Mex can get involved in the direction of this club, aside from gender discrimination and in-flight consultations?
Metstradamus: All-Star Break campfire cookouts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gerard: Unless Mex is privy to some clubhouse gossip that's-4-real, we really have no way of knowing for sure whether not Reyes' is treated with kid gloves. And with that outburst in mind --- along with Keith's brief squabble with Mike Piazza several years ago --- let's try to maintain some separation between the dugout and the broadcast booth. (None of you guys thought of Sid Fernandez as the new strength and conditioning coach?)
Itsmetsforme: I really don't think it's fair that Keith, alone among former Mets, should shoulder the burden of telling these guys to shape up. Where the hell is George Foster in all this? He knew clubhouse chemistry, I'll tell ya.
...Part II coming next week...
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I like Attack of the Clones, except for it's stupid name and pretty much all the parts that have Anakin without Kenobi, barring the part where he goes on a scifi motorcycle bike ride to commit some genocide.
In fact, if you removed Anakin and Jar-Jar from the prequels completely, I expect they'd actually all be quite good.
I don't like sand...
I watched Revenge with da gf. She specially said she wants to watch the originals again.
I don't think Jar Jar is all as bad as everyone says; in the least he doesn't act like some Shakespearean Robo-Reject. If there's a reason the new ones sucked, it was because the language and acting was totally stale. The first films were modern, of the times on which they were written and the characters were acted and interacted like actual people, in the newer films the characters were set pieces and never really felt or spoke like flesh and blood people, with the exception of McGregor.
I like the part where he says KHHHAAAAAAAANNNNNN!
At least it isn't the Phantom Menace.
same. I'm always like, "son of a BITCH where's Empire?"
every once and a while I get lucky, but that's a rare one.
Ya, the first three (chronologically) suck. Ewan McGreggor is the only reason I'll watch them.
PM is ok. A little long and a little silly.
AotC is horrible.
RotE is excellent.
A New Hope is bad. Luke ruins the movie with his incessant whining. I just want to punch him.
ESB is outstanding.
RotJ is good. Nothing more.
5 - 3 -6 - 4 - 1 -2
i'm more of a 5-6-4-3-1-2 man.
5 - 3 - 6 - 4 - 2 - 1
A New Hope is playing on Spike now.
6-4(A toss up between 6&4)-5(Highly overrated in my opinion)-1-2- I have never seen 3.
5, 6, 4, 1, 2, 3
I liked the first prequel best, but not much, and they just kept getting worse. Yoda with a light saber? Blech...
i like
It looks like you guys are writing out codes for something.
Indiana Jones > Star Wars
I agree with that. The Star Wars movies are okay, I've been watching them since I was a kid, but I just don't see what blows people away about them.
Thing is, I loved, loved both as a kid, but I love Indiana Jones as an adult, whereas I find the Star Wars movies only okay now.
Indiana Jones > Back to th Future > Star Wars
Sure, whatever. Truth is I don't remember the Back to the Future movie(s) at all. Don't even think I've seen all of all of them.
I don't know about this one. I can get behind Indiana Jones > Star Wars, but Back to the Future 2 was a major clunker. Star Wars has its problems, but Back to the Future 2 was really bad.
HOW DARE YOU! Back to the Future 2 is my favorite!
That is OK. No one is perfect. I still think you are a pretty good poster.
Not as bad as The Phantom Menace.
I like all of them!
On the date of the OP, they played 4, 5, then Jurassic Park 3? What kind of BS was that?
But you can't bitch about Hammel as Luke in Ep 4 and not totally rail on Christensen as Anakin in 2 & 3. That was some awful acting.
Like father like son?
I have a theory about star wars, and the love for it is based entirely on nostalgia. I never watched the movies as a kid and when my friends finally convinced me to watch them last year i hated them all.
Has anyone else watched it this way? what did you think?
ehhh its probably true to some extent from the standpoint of attention the movies get.... But I'd say the original Star Wars and Empire are genuinly a great films with the way they are laid out, builds, and climaxes all at the perfect moment... the structures of those two movies are just great..... the other 4 can be fun, but I don't think they were mapped out nearly as well, and don't have the same intrigue and story telling ability of the first two.
First one is pretty bad, I have to say.
I mean, the entire thing starts because some dummy at a laser turret decided not to blast an escape pod because no life forms were detected. BLAST IT ANYWAY, YOU DUMB SHIT. This is a universe that is very familiar with the concept of droids, some with very, very advanced AI. It really didn't cross their minds that something like that could be in the pod?
Oh, and how convenient that a moon-sized battle station has one terribly exploitable weakness that no engineer thought to defend more heavily against. A couple proton torpedoes destroys the entire thing? L-A-M-E.
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Tim Hyman: Taking pictures since 1949
Tim Hyman works for the Maryland State Highway Administration taking pictures of road projects.
He's been taking pictures for the state since he was first hired to chronicle the construction of the Bay Bridge.
"I remember it as if it was 61 years ago," she jokes.
Hyman says that back in 1949, he had to lie about his age to get the job. He said he started pictures of the bridge when he was 12. But age wasn't the only barrier he faced.
He also faced questions about his race.
"So many people were questioning me how I got assigned to this job as a photographer because I was black," he said.
Hyman got the job because he knew one of the foremen.
While Hyman has taken thousands of pictures of the bay bridge, those are just a small percentage of the photos he's taken during the past 62 years.
In his office, Hyman is surrounded by pictures and the cameras he's used over the years, including the camera he used in 1949.
"It's like me - old and it don't move as fast as it used to," he said.
Hyman says one of the most memorable pictures he took was in November 1963 at the dedication of Interstate 95. President John F. Kennedy attended the event. It was his last official event before being slain in Dallas.
At the age of 74, Hyman says the JFK pictures are his most memorable. But his favorite is of his mother. Who is not on a highway.


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In the wacky world of arts and leisure, "retirement" is often just another word for "indefinite period of self-imposed silence during which an audience saves a special corner of its wallet for an inevitable, Jesus-esque homecoming". You know, kinda like the period between the final song and the encore at a rock concert, only with prolonged, hopeless years piled up in between. This explains why particular "retirements" come across as transparent publicity stunts; after all, who didn't expect Jay-Z, the Roger Clemens of hip-hop, to tire of lounging on sun-soaked yachts?
Pixies, arguably Boston's most influential rock band from the late '80s / early '90s (next to Mission of Burma, perhaps), weren't just living the proverbial retired life—they were dead. At least that's what the T-shirts and posters promoting the band's final slogan had us believe: DEATH TO THE PIXIES read their loveless goodbye. They served the noblest of indie-rock lives—coined an iconic brand of dissonant "alternative" rock with tugging dynamics, had a near-hit with a pretty little out-of-character pop song ("Here Comes Your Man"), saw said iconic formula shamelessly co-opted by a band (Nirvana) that became impossibly famous, and, throughout it all, never compromised their poker-faced weirdness—only to die just as profoundly as they had lived.
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The relationship between singer / screamer / songwriter Black Francis and bassist / singer / rock-geek fantasy girl Kim Deal had become so tempestuous that, post-break-up, the subject of the band became one to avoid: Francis would dodge reporters' Pixies-related questions, while Deal would simply hang up the phone. Francis reversed his fake name to make another fake name, Frank Black, and pursued slightly pleasanter power pop; Deal formed the Breeders, whose 1993 hit "Cannonball" charted higher than any Pixies song ever did; drummer David Lovering became a magician, as many drummers do; and no one knows what happened to guitarist Joey Santiago, but he was reachable when it came time for that fated reunion.
In the ensuing commercial wake of Pixies' surprising and successful 2004 reunion tour comes the DVD Live at the Paradise in Boston, which documents a show the band performed that year at the titular club in the city of its origin. While it is yet another entry in a rash of recently released Pixies concert DVDs (The Pixies Sell Out, Acoustic: Live in Newport, the upcoming loudQUIETloud documentary) that capitalize on the reunion's endless buzz, Live at the Paradise benefits from its nostalgic angle (band plays for rabid hometown crowd), intimate / unique setting (200 lucky fans crammed into a tiny rock club, the size of which is a fraction of what the band now commands), and anything-goes atmosphere.
The latter is an apt description of the show itself, which opens not with an expected one-two bomb of ruthless disharmony like "Bone Machine" or "Debaser", but with the sweet and playful "La La Love You" and a requested cover of Neil Young's hazy "Winterlong". Moderate b-sides like "Into the White" and "In Heaven" follow closely behind, long before the real aural bloodletting begins. After these initial curveballs in the set list, a bit of predictability sets in: yes, "Monkey Gone to Heaven" and "Where Is My Mind" are featured, as are a majority of Doolittle's and Surfer Rosa's tracks. (Their prickly swan song, Trompe le Monde, is noticeably underrepresented, and only one song ["Alison"] is drawn from their surf-rock-on-Mars masterpiece Bossanova.)
Maybe it's age or maybe it's just the hurdle of re-learning forgotten roles, but it takes the band a little while to reach its abstract plane of whacked-out wickedness. On a thrasher like "Something Against You", they seem to be delivering the thunder rather than really channeling it; by the time the convulsive "Crackity Jones" is tackled, however, everyone's warmed up and back in their old molds: Lovering plows ahead at full-steam, Santiago stands motionless like a deer in the headlights, Deal offers plentiful smiles of defiance between requisite smoke breaks. Black eventually gives in to his possessed, tongues-speaking alter ego, which he appears unable to hold back after so long—not even a pair of respectable glasses can repress the primordial voice that his eerie songs summon.
When the band finishes its set, throwing sweaty arms around the bipolar closer "Caribou", we've been given two glimpses of Pixies: the kindler, gentler manifestation, and that kinder, gentler manifestation's rough estimate of past incarnations now distanced by time, age, forgotten roles, and so-called "retirement". If that's a reasonable delivery of the best we can expect, it'll have to do.
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Data scientists can add another tool to their toolset today: GraphLab has launched GraphLab Create 1.0, which bundles up everything starting from tools for data cleaning and engineering through to state-of-the-art machine learning and predictive analytics capabilities.
Think of it, company execs say, as the single platform that data scientists or engineers can leverage to unleash their creativity in building new data products, enabling them to write code at scale on their own laptops. The driving concept behind the solution, they say, is to make large-scale machine learning and predictive analytics easy enough that companies won't have to hire huge teams of data scientists and engineers and build the big hardware infrastructures that lie behind many of today's Big Data-intensive products. And, the data scientists and engineers that do use it won't need to be experts at machine-learning algorithms – just experienced enough to write Python code.
"Predictive analytics and machine learning let you make a more and interactive direct impact into company value," says GraphLab CEO Carlos Guestrin, who began developing the technology as an open source offering some years ago as a professor at Carnegie Mellon. Recommender systems, for example, can impact someone's cart before they exit a web site. "Realtime interactive performance can make a huge difference, but to make that happen you have to bring in a complex talent team that is hard to acquire and piece together lot of diff technologies that don't talk to each other. With this new product we provide value from the original inspiration when someone has the idea for a new data product to take it all the way to production."
Putting It Together
Key components to deliver this include the ability to bring together graph, tabular, text and even image data for use by the application the user wants to create. The company says it's the first to apply advanced machine learning to all these types of data sets in a single platform. "Our innovation in machine learning is more around decreasing the expertise you need to deal with the algorithm itself," he says, honing in on developing algorithms that require minimal tooling.
Another big innovation, Guestrin says, is its "series of scalable data structures that we call a frame. It is a scalable data frame so that you can go beyond the memory limits of a computer." On a laptop with just 4 or 8 gigabytes of memory, for example, it's possible to process hundreds of millions of rows of data using the hard drive, thanks to the product's "smart way of laying things out so that we can quickly access and iterate over data that doesn't fit in memory."
At any point, he says, users can visualize data with visualization tools and move from prototype to production-level scale by running the same code on a Hadoop or Amazon EC2 cluster. "You don't need an engineering team to translate a data scientist's idea into Java and build all the hardware," he says. "Now it can be done easily by one individual."
It's the road to getting value fast from the expertise you do hire, says Johnnie Konstantas, vp of marketing. Not every company, after all, can afford a slew of data science professionals, even if the talent were more readily available. "You should be able to get value with a couple of learned individuals, whether data scientists or software engineers, if you have the right platform that makes it easy for them to build those apps." The reality today, Guestrin says, is that the complexities in the toolsets that data scientists have to use keeps them from being as productive in the organization as they want to be.
GraphLab competes at some level with consulting companies that offer to solve clients' issues using machine learning, as well as other startups in the machine learning platform space, such as Skytree. It also overlaps a bit with features found in Trifacta's technology (that company is profiled in a story at The Semantic Web Blog's sister site, Dataversity, here.) But, says Guestrin (who sits on Trifacta's technical advisory board), "they have done something fantastic,… but mostly they focus on the earlier parts of the pipeline, while we focus on what it takes to analyze data and make a service out of it." Guestrin says Trifacta's CEO sits on GraphLab's tech advisory board, as well.
More directly GraphLab competes with open source projects like R, Apache Mahout and MLLib. But open source solutions, he says, can have issues related to performance and brittleness. "We and others using our systems have found our tools to be more scalable, robust and mature," he says. Version 1.0 of GraphLab Create officially will be officially next week, when the third annual GraphLab conference takes place in San Francisco.


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text: Hi Texan fans. Some of you may remember me as the nutty English guy that went to 40 football games in the 2008 season. Now I have a book coming out about my trip. It is called "Tailgate To Heaven" and it is released on July 31. As the book is about an NFL road trip, I knew that my book tour had to be of the same ilk. So for my U.S book I'm driving to every NFL city and doing books signings in Sports bars across the country. I'm also putting in some tailgate time, and I knew I could not come to football season and no taste some more great Texans Tailgate. So I will be in Houston on the 18th August but just for the Tailgate. Then come kick off I will be at Houston Grill where I will be doing a book signing. The pretty lady that was my girlfriend who I left behind in 2008, is coming with me on this trip, and she is now my fiance! I hope to see lots of you guys soon! Feel free to check out my tour: http://www.tailgatetoheaven.com/book-tour/ All the best Adam


text: Hi Folks! Hope you're all having a good xmas so far!! As title says... my 2001 S3 is due it's MOT just into the new year and i'm having concerns about my headlights, I wandered if the xenons should do a self levelling procedure when switched on? I used to have a Mini Cooper S which did this every time. Just a bit panicky that the garage tell me both headlights may need replaced at the same time- not good! Any help appreciated. Cheers Craig


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Martin remembers his last days as a cop while on his way to his new job.See more
Frasier hosts a party for the staff at the radio station to improve his image. Meanwhile, Roz dates a garbageman and Niles recalls his childhood memories with Daphne.See more
Frasier holds a "Dress as Your Hero" Halloween party, but nobody can tell who he is. Meanwhile, Niles dresses as Martin, Daphne as Elton John, Martin as Joe DiMaggio and Roz as Wonder Woman for the party.See more
An accident causes a mess on Frasier's carpet and the destruction of Martin's chair. Meanwhile, Niles gives piano lessons to talented Roz and not-so-talented Daphne.See more
Frasier celebrates his 2000th radio broadcast and has tapes of every broadcast, except one. But it turns out an obsessive fan has the tape.See more
Frasier and Niles compete to see some rare wine, owned by a rich relative of Kirby's girlfriend. Meanwhile, Martin must wear a blood pressure monitor.See more
Frasier gets an annoying new agent in the middle of a competition between him and a rival radio broadcaster.See more
Martin's boss at his new job bullies him, so Frasier decides to try and solve the problem.See more
When Daphne and Niles decide to move in with each other, Daphne's mother and Simon arrive on a surprise visit. Daphne and Niles decide to put off moving in together until her visiting relatives are gone. Meanwhile, Frasier feuds with Cam Winston, his neighbor, over where Cam parks his large vehicle.See more
Daphne and Niles continue to try and hide the fact that they have moved in with each other from Mrs. Moon. She makes such a mess of things that the only way she will leave is if Simon takes care of her, but Simon has left for California. Meanwhile, Frasier's neighbor Cam drapes the American flag over his balcony, and Frasier cannot complain because it would seem unpatriotic.See more
To attract youth to his radio show, Frasier appears on KACL's Teen Scene. But the high school host only ridicules him.See more
Niles plans on proposing to Daphne, so he prepares his speech; buys a ring; and hires a choir, a string quartet, a trumpet player and Wolfgang Puck. But Daphne's mother is still staying with them, and on the night Niles plans to propose, Daphne begins to feel ill.See more
Frasier is suspicious of Blaine Sternin, Lilith's former-con artist brother, when he visits in a wheelchair and is now preaching.See more
Niles sets Frasier up with Lisa, a patient who owns a bookstore, but they never run into each other. Roz sets Frasier up with Suzanne, an artist, who ends up hating Frasier. Martin sets Frasier up with Kris, an attractive girl from his building, who seems to know every man at the bar. But Frasier later runs into and hits it off with Lisa.See more
Frederick wins the National Spelling Bee, but the judges find that Frasier was mouthing the letters of the words during the competition.See more
Frasier and Niles return to their childhood home and recall what they believe to be a murder.See more
Frasier is still fighting with his neighbor Cam Winston, so Martin and Cam's mother pretend to be in love.See more
On his show one day, Frasier tells his caller Jeremy that Niles used to wet the bed. Although he doesn't mention Niles by name, Niles and most of Seattle realize who Frasier was talking about. Niles is of course angry with Frasier.
A few days later the Cranes, plus Daphne, head to Boston. Frasier is giving a speech at a conference and Niles will be making the introduction. At the airport, Frasier meets his old friend Cliff Clavin, who thinks Frasier has come for his retirement party. Not wanting to disappoint Cliff, Frasier says that's what he's here for...much to Niles' annoyance, as he has booked seats at an exclusive restuarant.
At the party, Martin bonds with Frasier's friend Norm Peterson, Daphne is fascinated with Cliff's stories and Frasier is enjoying telling everyone what it is like to be famous. Only Niles is not having a good time, until Carla, the waitress from Cheers, tells him some embarrasing stories about Frasier, which Niles decides to use in his introduction.
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When Frasier radio show becomes syndicated in Spokane and replaces the local radio icon's show, his callers are angry.See more
As a birthday present, Niles surprises Daphne with a trip to Hawaii for two. However, Mrs. Moon falls into a state of total despair about her failed marriage, and Daphne feels bad about leaving her alone for the weekend. Niles hatches a plan to reunite Daphne's parents and get Mrs. Moon out of the apartment. He convinces a reluctant Daphne to take her mother on the trip, and secretly heads to England to track down Daphne's father. Niles hopes to at least convince Mr. Moon to come to the U.S. and give Daphne away at the wedding. He finds him at a bar, but Mr. Moon doesn't take too kindly to the idea of reconciling with his wife. Roz, depressed about her break-up with Roger, stays at the apartment to hang out with Frasier after Daphne's party. They end up sleeping together. Roz leaves in a panic the next morning, but promises that they will get together for dinner to talk things over. She promptly skips town and nixes plans for Frasier to join her at her family reunion in WisconSee more
Niles eventually persuades the reluctant Mr. Moon to come to the U.S. and talk with his wife. He is prepared to leave immediately after Mrs. Moon rejects him, but Niles convinces him to stay for a while. Daphne is furious at Niles for interfering, as she feels her parents would eventually work out their problems on their own. She criticizes Niles for acting without consulting her. Niles and Daphne convince the Moons to join them for a romantic dinner. The plan works initially, but the couple soon gets into a brawl. Mr. Moon talks with Daphne and tells her that he and Gertrude are not going to reunite. A devastated Daphne fears that there is no point to marriage, but her father assures her that Niles is the right man for her. He cites the lengths Niles was willing to take to please Daphne as proof that he loves her much more than Mr. Moon ever loved Gertrude. Daphne realizes that he is right, and heads over to see Niles. She stuns him by telling him that she wants to marry immSee more


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By Geoff Fowler / Published by Science, Dec. 9, 2005
I attended my first career fair unintentionally. I was at a conference, and as I walked past one of the meeting rooms on my return from lunch I saw tons of people standing in long lines in front of small tables. I was willing–maybe eager–to skip the next series of talks, so I decided to investigate. I walked up to one of the few tables with no line and asked the woman behind it what was happening. "It's a career fair," she replied. "Are you looking for a job?"
What a lucky break! Without even trying, I was about to start my job search. So I spent the afternoon answering questions about what kind of research I did and what type of jobs I might want, but my answers weren't well thought-out. I knew nothing about the companies attending and I had no strategy. But I collected a wealth of useless items like refrigerator magnets, key-chain flashlights, and business cards, and when the afternoon ended I felt great: The recruiters knew me now, so it was only a matter of time until one of them called me up and offered me a great job. Or so I thought.


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text: Herd can't dig out of early hole, putting bowl hopes in jeopardy By Doug Smock November 10, 2012 Story Share AP Photo Marshall's Billy Williams (27) chases UAB running back Darrin Reaves. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - After a first half in which it tried to make Alabama-Birmingham look like the school down the road at Tuscaloosa, Marshall's bowl hopes are hanging on for dear life.The Thundering Herd rallied in the second half, but a 31-7 deficit was too much to overcome. UAB used a Darrin Reaves 17-yard touchdown with 2:50 left to seal a 38-31 victory.The loss before 11,941 at Legion Field erases all margin for error for Marshall (4-6, 3-3 Conference USA), which must defeat Houston and East Carolina to qualify for a bowl game. The Herd's home game next week against Houston, also 4-6, becomes a knockout game.The late score was the second touchdown for Reaves, who rushed for 182 yards on 31 carries. Austin Brown threw for two touchdowns, 33- and 32-yard shots to Patrick Hearn and Nick Adams, to overcome three interceptions.Marshall couldn't overcome a dismal first half, in which its 7-0 lead turned into a 24-7 halftime deficit in a rain of long returns, defensive breakdowns and uncharacteristically stagnant offense. When Brown hit Adams with 5:23 left in the third quarter, the Blazers owned the 31-7 lead.The Herd fought back quickly, with Rakeem Cato hitting Jazz King on a 10-yard scoring pass two minutes later, and Kevin Grooms scoring on a 7-yard run on the first play of the fourth quarter to make it 31-21. The Herd blocked a field goal and Dominick LeGrande returned it 35 yards to the UAB 29, but the Herd could only get a Justin Haig 38-yard field goal to make it 31-24UAB drove the ball 80 yards after for the game-icing win, with Reaves covering the last 17 yards. Marshall made it close again on a 4-yard TD pass from Cato to Gator Hoskins, but the Herd could not recover the onside kick.The Herd's day started well, despite a three-and-out on its first possession. As UAB faced third-and-5, Jeremiah Taylor overpowered Brown, knocking the ball free. The scramble pushed the ball nearly 20 yards, and Marshall cornerback Derrick Thomas recovered at the UAB 2. Remi Watson scored on the next play.Keith Baxter intercepted Brown on the next possession, but the Herd offense stalled at its 38. From there, the crumbling began, as Jackie Williams took the low punt, evaded the first wave of tacklers and found a lot of open space to roam. Punter Tyler Williams sized him up at the Marshall 25, but the returner just did break the tackle to complete the 79-yard score. When the Blazers got the ball back after a short punt (that may have been tipped), they needed just five plays to travel 64 yards. Change-of-pace back Bashr Coles delivered the big play, a 39-yard run to the Marshall 20. Reaves traveled the final 4 for a 14-7 lead.Tyler Williams' next punt was certainly blocked, though it managed to go forward 20 yards. Still, UAB took over on its 48 and took just 1:23 to make it 21-7, ending with a 33-yard pass from Brown to Patrick Hearn. How well Baxter would have covered the play we'll never know, as he took a tumble on the turf.That play came on the first play of the second quarter, and the Herd spent the rest of that time treading water. Cato was flushed out of the pocket on fourth-and-4 at the UAB 25, finally taking a low-percentage shot for Davonte Allen in the end zone. Allen couldn't bring it down, but cornerback Cornelius Richards did.The Herd's last possession of the half was even more agonizing. Three Grooms runs gave the Herd fourth-and-inches from its 44, and Watson took the handoff to pick up the first down. But UAB defensive end Chris Rabb submarined under his blocker and took out Watson's legs early.With UAB taking over the MU 44, a Ty Long field goal seemed almost automatic. He hit from 27 yards with 9 seconds left to set the 24-7 halftime score. Marshall was outgained at that point 174-121, and finished with a deficit of 406-337.BriefsLong's field goal at the end of the first half was aided by a personal foul on MU defensive end Ra'Shawde Myers, for a hit that injured Hearn. Myers was called for delivering a forearm to Hearn's head, though it can be argued Hearn brought on the contact by lowering his head. Hearn was taken off on a cart.Andre Snipes-Booker was injured on the kickoff following Long's field goal, possibly with a concussion. He was replaced the rest of the game by Tommy Shuler.Marvin Burdette had 17 tackles to lead UAB. Those made him the school's all-time career leader. Reaves' 12th rushing TD set a single-season school mark. Contact Doug Smock at 304-348-5130 or firstname.lastname@example.com, or follow him at twitter.com/dougsmock. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Derek Redd: Marshall thinks outside the cable box for broadcasts 2 Philanthropist Betty Schoenbaum of Shoney's fortune turns 100 3 DHHR report: No neglect, criminal charges in death of ResCare client 4 'Heroin(e)' spotlights women helping combat Huntington's drug crisis 5 New company planning $73M synthetic fuel plant in Greenbrier County UAB-Marshall statistics Previous Story GW sweeps to AAA state volleyball title Next Story


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Evian striker Yannick Sagbo has admitted he would love to play in the Premier League after being linked with a move to England.
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Yannick Sagbo has admitted he would love to play in the Premier League after being linked with a move to England, but says he has heard nothing concrete from his club Evian.
Speculation has suggested that the Ivory Coast international is a transfer target for both Fulham and Queens Park Rangers.
The striker concedes that he would relish the chance to embark on a new challenge in England and has been particularly impressed from afar by Fulham.
However, he has performed well for Evian in French football over the past couple of years and is not paying much attention to the stories at present.
"I am flattered by the interest in me, but nothing is definite at the moment," he said.
"Evian have not said anything to me about moving to another club, so at this stage I can say it is rumours.
"I would love to play in the Premier League. I was linked before but nothing happened so I am relaxed about it.
"Fulham would be fantastic. They have a top manager and a good bunch of players. I could learn a lot there."


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Mrs. Randolph Guggenheimer, Editor
Summer is once more upon us. To those who have spent the last few weeks tearing their homes apart, and sitting on furniture covers, newspapers, and moth balls, that may seem like a rather trite observation. However, what I meant to observe is that a great many of us will be moving to the country in a week or so for a much needed vacation. For three or four months there will be no care-worn ladies beseeching exhausted friends to give something, "anything at all, dear," to such-and-such worthwhile charity. For those of us who have been approached or approaching all winter this is, of course, something to breathe delighted thanks about. At the risk of being furiously attacked, I should like to state that this cessation of activity seems like a shame.
Federation, although it tries to limit its appeal to one drive, has found that in order to keep going it must circumvent its policy by giving teas, dances, etc., at various times during the winter. There are a great many vacation resorts quite packed with people who find that eight holes of golf or one set of tennis is quite enough for a hot July day, and who would have plenty of time to devote to money raising affairs over the summer.
There is never enough money to do everything that the charities would like to do. Yet there is very little effort made to continue the good work into the warmer months, when I for one feel mellow enough to smile kindly even at my charitably inclined friends. Westchester manages to have a few, a very few-fashion shows, bridges, or fairs, but the Jersey coast, which is full of well-meaning people, has been left singularly untroubled, except for the persistence of a few local charitable organizations.
I do feel that a little more work in the summer would not at all lessen the contributions in the Fall. Most people are quite willing to give extra small sums, if only someone will take the trouble to remind them. And a summer dance seems to attract almost all of the colonists, no matter what the price of admission.
Of course, we are all pretty well dunned during the winter, and it may not seem fair to continue at the risk of irritating people. If that is the objection to actual collecting, still it cannot possibly be offered as an excuse against teas, bridges, fashion shows and dances. What about the dramatically inclined? Amateur plays at country clubs have never failed to be enthusiastically greeted. There are more than enough women who would be thoroughly delighted to use their leisure time in planning various affairs.
Not that I mean to blight anyone's peaceful vacation! The whole idea occurred as the result of some conversation about Federation's Fall campaign, which took place while the moving men were breaking up my furniture, a combination of circumstances which cannot help but make one realize that summer is upon us.


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In the age of the e-book, I still buy physical books. Firstly, these books often come from favorite authors whom I might one day meet and wish for them to autograph it and from books, though I have been considering reviving the old autograph book to collect signatures.
The Wall Street Journal just published an essay. Go read it, I'll wait. Done? Okay. I want to call attention to one line in particular:
In fact, according to Pew, nearly 90% of e-book readers continue to read physical volumes.
The second reason I still buy physical books is that some books aren't available as e-books. I went to buy a bunch of books for my wife for Christmas (it's how I spent the money my father gave me, because reading lots of books was something the two of them shared) and half of them weren't available as e-books. There is a good chance that many people who would like to go 100% e-book simply can't. If they won't sell them, we can't buy them.
The third reason I still buy physical books is that some publishers seem to think that an e-book should sell for nearly the same price as a hard cover. Seriously, go browse Amazon for a while and you'll find plenty of examples where a physical hard cover can be bought for $12 or $15, and the e-book will be $15 to $20. This is primarily due to that agency model kerfuffle a while back where Amazon wanted to sell e-books the same way they do physical books, i.e. they wanted to pay the publisher the price the publisher was asking and then sell the book for any price they wanted. The publishers were afraid that e-books would destroy their physical book market, so they aligned against Amazon and force upon them the model of "We set the price, not you." But only for e-books, Amazon still discounts the physical books.
See, Amazon, like any other retailer, pays (guessing) $12.50 per copy of a new book. The suggested retail price is $25. This is so the retailer can make a profit AND still run sales on it. "20% OFF!" brings it down to $20, still a nice margin from what they paid. Amazon, on the other hand, not needing to pay as much – no stores, fewer employees by volume, etc – can sell the same book for $14 and make up for the narrow margin by selling more copies. They were doing the same thing with e-books. Now they aren't (can't), though there are cases in court that might change this.
The fourth reason I still buy physical books… the technology just isn't quite there for some books. It's getting close, but frankly for long prose I'm always going to prefer an eInk screen like the older Kindle because I stare at a computer screen for 8 hours a day, when I get home I don't want to stare at a computer screen for more as I read. But, tablets are becoming more advanced and the publishers and reader tech is catching up so that graphics heavy texts like manuals and comic books are beginning to work better. I can see myself in the future getting a large 10″ screened tablet to use for browsing and other tasks as well as reading graphics heavy books… I'll still have the eInk reader for the novels.
The fifth and final reason that I still buy physical books: bookshelves. Someday, I will renovate my home and in that renovation I will have a library. Floor to ceiling books, preferably two floors, with a spiral staircase, and a fireplace with big comfy chairs where I will be surrounded by books… reading on my eReader.


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