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The Georgetown Social Security office located at 20105 Office Circle is moving to the Vineyards at Nassau Valley, 12001 Old Vine Blvd., Suite 101 in Lewes. Business operations at the Georgetown location will end after closing at 3 p.m., Friday, June 27.
Starting Monday, June 30, residents previously served at the Georgetown location will be served at the Lewes location. Office hours at the new location will remain the same: 9 a.m. until 3 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and 9 a.m. until noon Wednesday. Free parking is available at the new location.
The Lewes office is located at the intersection of Old Vine Boulevard and Lewes Georgetown Highway (Route 9), one mile west of Coastal Highway (Route 1.) Public transportation to the Lewes office is available via DART Bus 206, which will have a stop located near the entrance.
"The public is always free to visit any office of their choosing," said Terri Lewis, regional communications director. Residents in western Sussex County may find that two nearby Maryland offices, in Salisbury (2414 Northgate Drive) and in Cambridge (828 Airpax Road), are accessible alternate locations for an in-person visit.
Most Social Security services do not require a visit to an office. Go to www.socialsecurity.gov to apply for retirement, spouse's, disability and Medicare benefits, get a replacement Medicare card or a tax summary form SSA-1099/1042S. People age 18 and older can sign up for a my Social Security account at www.socialsecurity.gov/myaccount where they can get a personalized Social Security Statement, secure and convenient access to their earnings and benefit information, and estimates of future benefits.
With a my Social Security account, Social Security beneficiaries and Supplemental Security Income recipients can get a benefit verification letter (which serves as proof of income), access their payment history, change their address and start or change direct deposit information online.
Many services are also conveniently available by dialing the toll-free number, 1-800-772-1213. People who are deaf or hard of hearing may call teTTY number, 1-800-325-0778.
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Brian McClure and Thomas McClure each face one charge each of possession of marijuana and maintaining a common nuisance. They were each being held in the City-County Lockup in lieu of $2,500. A third man faces a misdemeanor charge of possession of marijuana. He was released from police custody on his own recognizance.Two adults and a child safely escaped a duplex fire Friday night.
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The blaze's cause remains under investigation.The skating ponds at Lakeside, East Swinney, Franke and Ivan Lebamoff Reservoir parks will remain closed to skaters this weekend.
Only about 1 inch of ice has formed on the ponds since temperatures dropped this week. The Parks and Recreation Department will have the red lights and flags at the ponds to indicate that conditions are not safe, according to a news release.

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This article, entitled "Help Your Child's Classroom with Limeades for Learning," is presented by Sonic.
In June 2003, Charles Best was a history teacher at a Bronx high school, spending his own money on school supplies. He wasn't alone.
It's estimated that teachers nationwide spend more than $1 billion of their own money on school supplies every year. So Charles Best started a website and encouraged teachers to post classroom project requests, inviting people to fund the projects with anonymous donations. But, Charles didn't know many donors, so he anonymously funded those first 10 projects himself. His colleagues thought the site worked and rumor spread. Endorsements from Oprah Winfrey and Stephen Colbert have made DonorsChoose.Org what it is today.
Since 2010, DonorsChoose.org:
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Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
Brown's Tram - Poem by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
A city clerk was Henry Brown,
Whose suburb knew nor tram nor train;
And ev'ry morn he walked to town.
From nine till five, with busy brain,
He labored in an office dim.
Each eve he walked out home again.
And all this tramping seemed to him
A waste of time, for, 'mid the strife,
He could not keep his lawn in trim.
It clouded his domestic life -
This going early, coming late -
And much distressed his little wife.
Then some wise man declared the State
Should put in trams, and for this scheme
Brown was a red-hot advocate.
At last he realised his dream;
And daily in and out of town
He trammed it with content supreme.
For, though it cost him half-a-crown
A week in fares, the time he saved
Meant much to him and Mrs. Brown.
And so they lived and pinched and slaved
And their suburban happiness
Seemed all that they had ever craved.
The little wife began to bless
The trams; nor grieved their meagre dole
Was weekly two and sixpence less.
Then Brown's employer, kindly soul,
Learned of this tram-car luxury,
And promptly rose to take his toll.
He sent for Brown and said that he
Should now contrive to come at eight
Since trams blessed his vicinity.
He also deemed it wise to state
That idleness begat much ill,
And it was wrong to sleep in late.
Yet Brown contrived to tram it still,
And trim his lawn with tender care,
And pay his rent and baker's bill.
His little wife vowed it unfair;
But bowed to stern, relentless fate,
And smiled and sewed and worked her share.
Just here, the landlord wrote to state,
Since trams improved his property,
He'd raise the rent as from that date.
'Three shillings weekly will not be
Too much - an equitable rise,
Considering the trams,' wrote he.
What profit oaths or women's sighs?
His 'sacred rights,' of wealth the fount,
A landlord has to recognise.
To what do poor clerks' lives amount?
An extra hour of slavery
Swells an employer's bank account.
The wealthy boss thanks God that he
Has saved some money out of Brown.
The landlord smiles contentedly.
The trams run gaily up and down,
A sight Brown sadly notes as he
Plods daily in and out of town.
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text: Hi I have a 2001 A4 1.8T in metallic grey (AVJ engine code / B6 model) with 137k. Couple of little dings and suchlike and needs a decent valet but otherwise OK condition apart from the engine. Coolant light keeps flashing and car wont start. Any idea what the issues could be? I have another car so Im really not sure whether to fix it, break it for parts or sell as a project. Whats the likely going rate for the car fully fixed and whats it likely to make as a spares/repairs project? Anyone fancy it? Thanks for the advice Paul..


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1 Killed, 2 Injured in 2 Rocky Mount Shootings
Posted January 6, 2007
According to Rocky Mount police officials, the first shooting occurred about 11 p.m. at 717-K Starling Way. Marvin Braswell, 20, was shot in the head and was later pronounced dead at Nash General Hospital. The gunman fled the scene in a green Dodge Stratus, police said.
In the second incident, Danny Lee Ellis, 29, suffered a gunshot wound to the head at 808 Gay Street around 11 p.m., police said. He was listed in critical condition at Nash General Hospital late Saturday afternoon.
Josh Simmers, 20, and Joseph Wing, 21, were arrested in connection with the shooting of Ellis. Police said one of the suspects suffered a broken hand at some point during the incident. Both men will have their first court appearance on Monday.
Both shootings remain under investigation by police. Anyone with information relating to the incidents is asked to contact CrimeStoppers at (252) 977-1111.


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Dream Team Poker Heads to the Bicycle Casino for Monday Night Series
Fresh off the third tournament in its history, which took place at the Rio during the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, Dream Team Poker announced a Monday Night Football promotion at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles.
Appropriately dubbed Monday Night Football at the Bike, the latest version of Dream Team Poker will consist of 11 tournaments at the storied Los Angeles casino. Teams' performances will be tracked on a leaderboard and the action starts on October 19th. The final week of the series, which issues its "Shuffle Up and Deal" command at 7:00pm local time, is December 28th. Monday Night Football actually airs around 4:30pm PT and, to warm up the crowd, KLAC's Petros and Money will broadcast live starting at 4:00pm PT from the gaming establishment, which plays host to the annual Legends of Poker, a staple of the World Poker Tour (WPT).
Dream Team Poker CEO Daniel Delshad told Poker News Daily, "We are very excited about bringing Dream Team Poker to the Bicycle Casino. After the WSOP event, we had a lot of opportunities to take Dream Team Poker to new places and we wanted to make sure to manage the growth." A total of 366 players, or 122 three-man teams, took to the felts at the Rio, with Team Tao of Poker emerging victorious from the pack to pocket $33,000. The event's overall winner was "Cowboy" Kenna James, who earned $16,000. Dream Team Poker tournaments pay out to the top teams and individuals to avoid collusion.
Each tournament held over the course of the 11-week Monday Night Football series comes with a $67 per person price tag, or $201 per team. The more tournaments a team enters throughout the course of the series, the more chips they'll start with at the end-of-season event, giving an edge to Dream Team Poker regulars.
The Monday Night Football finale takes place on December 28th at 7:00pm and the winning team each week will take home a seat to the Ho Ho No Limit Hold'em Dream Team Poker Main Event on Saturday, December 12th at 2:00pm local time at The Bike. The tournament will set entrants back $140, or $420 per team. Squads that submit their registration prior to December 1st will receive a customized jersey similar to those found hanging outside PokerPalooza at the Rio in July.
Up for grabs for the leading individual and team on the weekly leaderboard at the end of the season are $500 in spending money and one ticket each to Super Bowl XLIV, which will pan out in February from Miami, Florida. Last year's Super Bowl, which was held in Tampa, featured the Pittsburgh Steelers defeating the Arizona Cardinals 27-23. All told, Dream Team Poker will award four tickets and $2,000 as part of the Monday Night Football series.
Dream Team Poker's very first event took place last November at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas. The invitation-only gala saw Team Bluff Magazine, which included Eric Morris, Matt Parvis, and Bodog Poker pro Justin "ZeeJustin" Bonomo, take to the winner's circle. In March, Dream Team Poker headed to Caesars Palace, where the Jamie Gold-led Team ACED emerged victorious from the pack for $59,000. Finally, prior to the WSOP Main Event, the annual media tournament featured a Dream Team Poker format, with Team Lacey Jones coming out on top.
So what's next for the team poker concept? Delshad told Poker News Daily, "We are in the midst of planning our 2010 events, where we expect to expand the game to new locations across the U.S. and especially look to start building our international presence. We do expect to introduce some other exciting products in 2010."
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BWW Interviews: STATE OF CONTROL a Comic Nightmare with a Message
For a man who says he doesn't remember most of his dreams, Columbus-based playwright Bill Cook spends a lot of time writing about nightmares. Cook describes his latest work, STATE OF CONTROL, as a comic nightmare.
"What I like about the dream form is that it makes plays very cinematic," says Cook, whose previous play LOVE IN THE AGE OF CLAMOUR had a character who was greatly influenced by nightmares. "Things move along in a very rapid clip (in dreams). Dreams offer a lot of comic possibilities. Wild things happen in dreams. I guess that has always appealed to me."
In STATE OF CONTROL, Cook's protagonist Stan feels like he's working in a nightmare. A buttoned-up, mild-mannered accountant, Stan (played by Ben Gorman) lands what he thinks is a dream job at a top investment firm but things suddenly come undone and his world is turned upside down. STATE OF CONTROL is produced by Cook and directed by Matt Hermes and the cast includes Amy Anderson, Mark Schuliger, Charles Farrow III and Randy Benge.
"Stan's like an actor who is suddenly on stage and he doesn't know what play he is in," says Cook, an associate professor in the Humanities Department at Columbus State Community College. "He has to fumble along, finding his way. What he discovers at the end (of the first act) is it's all been a setup and he's the fall guy."
The second act also finds Stan out of his element as the accountant lands in jail. Cook said part of this story was partly inspired by the time he spent working in a commissary in the Franklin County Jail in the 1970s.
Cook wanted the play to make a statement on the inadequacies of the criminal justice system. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world with 716 people out of every 100,000 people behind bars.
"People who are poor don't get a fair shake from the criminal justice system," Cook says. "There's all this pressure on prosecutors to get tough on crime. And the way to 'get tough on crime' is to convict as many people as possible.
"I think sometimes the process rides rough shod over people who are really innocent but they don't have the means to defend themselves. Justice shouldn't be something you can purchase. What I am pushing people toward is whether you are rich or poor, black or white, justice is justice."
Dramatic plays like THE KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN and NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES and movies like THE GREEN MILE and SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION have been set in prison, but Cook hopes by presenting his message in a comedy might make more of an impact.
"If I were to present this in a serious way, I think it'd be much less effective," Cook says. "When something is outside that middle class point of view, it's hard for someone to make that leap to what it is like to be living in those kinds of conditions."
STATE OF CONTROL will be performed Sept. 27- 29 and Oct. 3-4 at the Columbus Performing Arts Center's Van Fleet Theater (549 Franklin Avenue). Tickets are $25 in advance through www.brownpapertickets.com or "Pay What You Want" in cash at the door. For more information, call 614.441.2929. Visit www.ab-theatrical.com for more details.


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Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!
Dynamite Entertainment has announced an new ongoing series with The Shadow beginning April 2012. To spice this up a bit, they have Garth Ennis on board as the writer. Ennis will be joined by artist Aaron Campbell and the series will feature covers by Alex Ross, Howard Chaykin, Jae Lee and John Cassaday.
The series will be set in 1938 and the Shadow will retain the pulp magazine/radio feel but told in a way only Garth Ennis can.
Here's what Ennis had to say:
The Shadow is probably the last established character I like that I haven't gotten around to writing yet, certainly on this side of the Atlantic. It makes a kind of bloody, bullet-riddled sense: I always had a feeling our paths would cross sooner or later.
Check out the other covers for issue #1.
In the first issue of the ONGOING SERIES, it's 1938 and The Shadow returns in a tale of blazing action and deadly intrigue, as a night of carnage on the New York waterfront plunges the mysterious vigilante into a conspiracy involving the fate of the world itself. As storm clouds gather across the globe, American Military Intelligence meets with a certain Lamont Cranston, determined to beat a host of spies and assassins to the greatest prize of all... but what that might be, only the Shadow knows. Be sure to get The Shadow #1 in April 2012!


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REV. WILLIAM FUTTERER, pastor of St. Peter's Catholic church at Petersburg, was born in Mattoon, Coles county, Illinois, his parents being Charles and Mary (Zeller) Futterer, who emigrated to America from Baden, Germany, in 1849 and settled in Coles county upon a farm, which the father cultivated for some time and then removed to Mattoon, where he engaged in the grocery business. He followed that pursuit until some time in the '70s, when he retired from active business life. He was a cooper by trade but gave his attention to other business interests in the new world, and acquired a substantial competence. In his family were two children, the elder being Lena, the widow of Henry Ritter and a resident of Mattoon. She has five children.
Rev. Futterer acquired his early education in the parochial and public schools of Mattoon, completing the high school course. He then worked at cigar manufacturing for a year, when deciding to equip himself for the work of the priesthood he entered Teutopolis St. Joseph's College, completing the classical course by graduation. Immediately afterward he took up the study of philosophy in Le Grande Seminary, in Montreal, Canada, and completed a course of five and a half years by graduation with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy. Having been ordained to the priesthood, he spent five years in St. Gertrude's parish, at Grantforks, and was afterward transferred to Pierson, Bond county, where he erected a house of worship, serving as pastor of the church there for about three months. He was then sent to the Catholic University of America and after a two years' course in dogmatic theology and canon law, he received his degree. He next took charge of St. Mary's parish, at Washington, D.C., serving there for a year during the absence of the regular pastor, after which he went to Europe. Following a second trip to Europe Cardinal Gibbons offered him a parish in Washington, D.C., but the bishop refused to transfer him on account of his connection with the diocese of Alton, Illinois, and he had to obtain permission from Bishop Ryan before he could be released. He was then sent to Petersburg, where he arrived on the 16th of October, 1897, and since that time he has taken an interest in everything pertaining to the upbuilding and progress of the town as well as the advancement of his church.
Prior to 1868 the spiritual needs of the Catholics of this locality were met by the church in Springfield, and by priests who occasionally visited Petersburg. On the 4th of May, 1868, the first resident pastor took charge-the Rev. William Cluse, the present vicar general of the Belleville diocese. He was succeeded by Father Theodore Wegmann, in 1872, and he in turn by Rev. August J. Sauer in 1873. Then came Bernard W. Ahne in 1877, followed by Owen O'Hare, and in 1879 Father M. Hogan became pastor. He died January 12, 1884, and by request his remains were taken to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for burial. William J. Merscher, his successor, remained but a short time, after which he built a church in Ashland, Cass county, and was followed in Petersburg, in 1884, by Rev. B. Haase, who through the careful handling of the church finances and his untiring efforts, succeeded in discharging a large church indebtedness in a short time and at the end of his pastorate left a handsome surplus in the treasury. Father John McGraw next had charge of the parish during the absence of Rev. Haase in Europe and until the present pastor arrived. Under the direction of Father Futterer the work of the church has been promoted along various lines and attended with good results, and he has won the respect and confidence of many people of other churches as well as of his own parishioners.


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Lubeck (Oct. 21)
The Exodus refugees today announced that they will quit the Poppendorf and Am Stau camps, near here, for two other camps at Emden and Wilhelmshaven, but asserted that they were not taking this action because of a British threat yesterday to eject them from their present quarters by force if they did not agree to move. A commission of refugees and Jewish doctors is leaving tomorrow to inspect the new camps. In a statement, the refugees said that the "burning question still remains our immediate immigration to Palestine."


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TimeSplitters 2
Review by clarkisdark
"Time Wasters"
It is no shy fact that Goldeneye 007 for the Nintendo 64 was a very fun and groundbreaking first-person shooter. In lesser known trivia, the team responsible for Goldeneye left Rare and formed their own company, Free Radical. Under this moniker, the team continues its flawless FPS design with the Timesplitters series. Nintendo may have missed out on the first, but Timesplitters 2 is to the Gamecube what Goldeneye was to the N64. Yes, it's that good.
First-person shooters seem to stress realism and fancy-pants graphics. Very seldom does a shooter stretch into anything else, like XIII did with its comic-book design. Timesplitters does feature a rough and generic 3D-rendered world, but the characters are exaggerated and over-the-top to the point where they are almost cartoon-like. This I like. The game also boasts a good framerate that can even hold up against four-player split screen with several bots running around. Though Timesplitters doesn't try to hide the load times, they're quick enough to be excusable.
First-person shooters aren't exactly where I look when I need a fix of cool and diverse music. The soundtrack of Timesplitters 2 is that, however. Because the game spans so many locations, the tracklist has a little of everything: heavy industrial, creepy circus music, neo-techno, Siberian melodrama, and Western. It's the best music I've heard in a FPS yet. Like any other good shooter, the sound effects match perfectly to create a more subtly realistic world.
Being very Goldeneye in nature, Timesplitters' levels follow a list of goals (which change with each difficulty) you have to meet to complete the mission. Timesplitters, then, isn't the usual run from start to finish. You often times have to sneak, explore, puzzle, and fight your way down alternate paths through the game's wide array of different locales. As the name suggests, Timesplitters is not limited to any one era. You will traverse snow-covered Siberia, old-timey Western towns, haunted cathedrals, and space stations, to name a few. The levels can be quite long, but this isn't a bad thing as there are occasionally one or two checkpoints. For those who like their non-stop carnage, there is plenty of that, too. While you will never face a whole army at once, there is always a present threat, and the large list of weapons goes hand-in-hand with the themes of the levels, from Tommy guns to charge-up lasers.
If the adventure mode isn't too enthralling, there are plenty of single-player challenges to tackle. The variety of challenges is very refreshing. There are certainly those which are just emulated deathmatches where you have to win, but other challenges are a little more intricate: make it to the end of a "level" within a time limit, stay inside a small radius while wiping out all the approaching enemies, snipe the watermelons off the heads of marching monkeys, kill so many enemies before time runs out, and so on.
The Gamecube controller really isn't fit for the FPS genre. The skimpy and remote D-pad, ill-fitting Z button, and awkwardly placed C-stick make it hard to play in the first-person view without a lot of hassle. You can customize the controls any way you like, but Timesplitters still takes some getting used to. Once you've made it that far, however, everything is okay. The controls are quick and responsive and should remind you of the better days of the N64.
Timesplitters 2 is no easy romp. I had to retry the first level several times before beating it on Normal. The game really does change drastically depending on which difficulty is selected, and the later levels on Normal and Hard can be nasty. It's not difficult in the sense that it's purely frustrating. It's difficult in the sense that every time you lose, you say to yourself, "Okay, I did that wrong. One more time..." And you end up finally beating it on your tenth try, hands tensed and brow sweating. Again, this is paying homage to Goldeneye. The challenges, on the other hand, do start to feel unfair. For instance, one challenge pits you in a small room against a never-ending onslaught of zombies. All you have to defend yourself are your bare hands. Challenging? Certainly. Too much? Most likely.
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The list of unlockables is truly remarkable. There are so many characters, levels, and cheats to unlock, it's almost overbearing. All of these can be opened by completing the adventure mode or challenges under certain conditions. It will surely take you days to break down the massive character list, and there will always be those challenges that border on near impossible and require twenty retries. Even if you don't manage to unlock everything, Timesplitters 2 is still one of the best multiplayer games available for the Gamecube. For starters, the entire adventure can be played co-op with another person, a welcome addition for those harder settings. If that wasn't enough, the four-player deathmatch mode is absolutely customizable. The smooth framerate, quick feel, frantic level design, and tactical weapons make this game a must-have for anyone with friends. You can even add in several AI bots on different difficulty levels! Lastly, Free Radical has also put in a map editor to make your own multiplayer arenas, though the inclusion is more novel than it is practical. The editor only lets you arrange pre-determined "rooms" in a cohesive manner. It's fun to play around with, but you probably won't ever make a truly breathtaking map.
Whether you have friends or not doesn't matter. You must buy this game. The expansive and demanding challenges of the one-player mode are only outdone by the game's amazingly brilliant multiplayer deathmatches. No online mode? Who cares! Timesplitters 2 is a fine first-person shooter that does everything right and is one of the best games available for the Nintendo Gamecube. Don't miss out.
+ Smooth, refined FPS
+ Great challenge
+ Total customization
+ Extras galore
+ Fantastic multiplayer
-- Mastering controls can be difficult
Score: 10/10
Reviewer's Rating: 5.0 - Flawless
Originally Posted: 01/10/05
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RECIPES: Recipe Details
The Bruchetta
The Bruchetta gets it's name from the tomato/basil/olive oil combination. But its originality is derived from the pleated flour tortilla pocket it rests in. This burger has a beautiful and unique presentation. The intensity of the fresh black pepper melding with the cheeses and bruchetta serve as an enhancement to the beef and create a flavor that is suprizingly rich and and satisfying.
2 -3 vine ripe tomatoes - finely chopped
1 bunch fresh basil leaves (3/4 - 1 cup) stems removed and leaves chopped
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/4 teaspoon salt
2lbs ground chuck
4 tablespoons freshly crushed black pepper
freshly ground mediteranean sea salt to taste
6 burrito size flour tortillas
6 slices deli style provolone cheese
6 oz freshly grated parmesan cheese ( room temp)
1 small red onion thinly sliced
1. Preheat grill
2. In small bowl combine chopped tomatoes, basil, olive oil, and 1/4 t. salt- set aside. (This is the Bruchetta)
3. Handling meat as little as possible, divide into 6 -1/3 lb. patties approximately 4 1/2 inches in diameter.
4. Press 1 teaspoon freshly crushed pepper onto both sides of each pattie, following with freshly ground salt to taste.
5. Once grill has reached about 400 degrees it's time to cook!!
6. Place patties on hottest part of grill and cook approximately 4 minutes on each side. No grill cooks the same or has the same "hot spots" so cooking times may vary from grill to grill.
7. *Having a small table and a tray with the Bruchetta, tortillas, the cheeses and onion is very helpful- but if unavailable, this step may be done in the kitchen and the final step done back out on the grill!
Once cooked, place one burger at a time on each tortilla - top with provolone slice, one oz. each parmesan - follow with 2 T. bruchetta and sliced red onion - fold tortilla up into 4 pleats around burger.
8. Place "built" burgers pleated side down back on grill about 1 minute each side until lightly toasted.
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Dream Theater Announce Summer 2012 North American Tour Dates
Progressive metal masters Dream Theater have just announced the addition of a new leg of North American tour dates set for this summer.
The members of Dream Theater have accumulated a ton of stamps in the passports recently, with trips to Europe and Mexico, and will add even more with their upcoming shows in Japan, China, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. After visiting all of these countries where few metal bands have been able to play in, we're hoping for a 'Flight 666′-like documentary to be made! Can you imagine Dream Theater traveling to all those countries and not filming any of the trip? Us neither.
After the band's Asian adventure concludes in early May, their North American tour dates will begin on June 15 in Rochester, N.Y., and conclude July 21 in Chester, Penn.
Dream Theater's single 'On the Backs of Angels' was recently nominated for the band's first ever Grammy Award in 2012 in the category of Best Hard Rock / Metal Performance. Despite their excitement for the career milestone, Dream Theater lost to the Foo Fighters tune 'White Limo.'
Check out Dream Theater's full list of North American summer tour dates below:
Dream Theater 2012 North American Tour Dates:
6/15 – Rochester, N.Y. @ Main Street Armory
6/16 – Montebello, Quebec City @ D-Tox Rockfest
6/17 – Lewiston, N.Y. @ Artpark
6/19 – Columbus, Ohio @ The LC Pavilion
6/21 – Cleveland, Ohio @ Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica
6/22 – Detroit, Mich. @ The Fillmore
6/24 – Cincinnati, Ohio @ Taft Theater
6/26 – Minneapolis, Minn. @ State Theater
6/27 – Chicago, Ill. @ Chicago Theater
6/28 – Kansas City, Mo. @ Starlight Theater
7/1 – San Francisco, Calif. @ Warfield Theatre
7/2 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Gibson Amphitheater
7/3 – Anaheim, Calif. @ The Grove of Anaheim
7/5 – El Paso, Texas @ Abraham Chavez Theatre
7/6 – San Antonio, Texas @ Majestic Theater
7/7 – Austin, Texas @ ACL Live
7/9 – Grand Prairie, Texas @ Verizon Theatre
7/12 – Richmond, Va. @ The National
7/13 – Washington, D.C. @ Warner Theatre
7/14 – Holmdel, N.J. @ PNC Banks Arts Center
7/17 – Boston, Mass. @ Bank of America Pavilion
7/18 – Huntington, N.Y. @ Paramount Theater
7/19 – Huntington, N.Y. @ Paramount Theater
7/21 – Chester, Pa. @ Harrah's Chester Downs


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The Netherlands' consumer electronics shops saw combined sales fall 15% to €1.7bn last year, according to retail research group GfK.
The main reason for the slump is low consumer confidence and a fall in television sales because most households now have a flat-screen television, GfK said. Even the European football championships, which usually boost television sales, failed to have a significant effect.
In the last quarter of the year, which includes Sinterklaas and Christmas, sales were down 18%.


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Foot Locker, Champs and Footaction coupons
I am not that chick looking perky in tights and full make-up at the gym. In fact, I object on moral grounds to spending money to look good sweating. My running shoes are usually the color of pea soup -- and about as sturdy -- by the time I'll cough up cash for a new pair.
So I was thrilled to find not one ... not two ... but THREE printable coupons for 30 percent off athletic apparel over the weekend. Just click and print out these offers from Foot Locker, Champs and Footaction. They're valid through Sunday in stores and online.
Just in time to outfit Junior for back-to-school, or to retire those shorts that sprouted a hole in an embarrassing place. Heck, at 30 percent off, I might just replace my running shoes before I'm moaning about a twisted ankle.
Some exclusions apply in each store, but customer service reps assure me the coupons are valid on a wide range of athletic merchandise and shoes.
~ Deal Diva Letitia
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Damien Hirst & Michael Joo
As a reminder, Haunch of Venison Berlin opens 'Have You Ever Really Looked at the Sun?', a joint exhibition by Michael Joo and Damien Hirst from this Saturday until August 2010.
'Have You Ever Really Looked at the Sun?' is a unique collaboration between the two artists, who met in Cologne in 1991 and have remained close friends since that time. Engaged in a continuous, twenty-year discourse about their individual artistic practices, this marks the first time Joo and Hirst have worked together to realise a full-scale joint exhibition. 'Have You Ever Really Looked at the Sun? 'will feature new, especially conceived sculptures and installations, as well as seminal paintings and sculptures from Joo and Hirst.
A publication will be on sale to mark the exhibition. Keep an eye on the blog and website!


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Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our model All three major indices are trading up today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) trading up 22 points (0.2%) at 12,810 as of Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012, 11:49 AM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,635 issues advancing vs. 1,204 declining with 167 unchanged. The Health Care sector currently sits up 0.2% versus the S&P 500, which is up 0.0%. On the negative front, top decliners within the sector include DaVita HealthCare Partners ( DVA), down 1.8%, Edwards Life ( EW), down 1.3%, Humana ( HUM), down 1.0%, Sanofi ( SNY), down 0.6% and Express Scripts ( ESRX), down 0.7%. Top gainers within the sector include Thoratec Corporation ( THOR), up 4.9%, Boston Scientific ( BSX), up 3.2%, Shire ( SHPG), up 1.5% and Becton Dickinson ( BDX), up 0.8%. TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 5 stocks pushing the sector lower today: 5. Vertex Pharmaceuticals ( VRTX) is one of the companies pushing the Health Care sector lower today. As of noon trading, Vertex Pharmaceuticals is down $1.10 (-2.6%) to $41.06 on light volume Thus far, 615,588 shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2.3 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $40.69-$42.15 after having opened the day at $42.11 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $42.16. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated engages in discovering, developing, manufacturing, and commercializing small molecule drugs for the treatment of serious diseases worldwide. Vertex Pharmaceuticals has a market cap of $9.0 billion and is part of the drugs industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 66.8, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 24.8% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 15 analysts that rate Vertex Pharmaceuticals a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 3 rate it a hold. TheStreet Ratings rates Vertex Pharmaceuticals as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, good cash flow from operations and notable return on equity. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including unimpressive growth in net income and feeble growth in the company's earnings per share. Get the full Vertex Pharmaceuticals Ratings Report now. Holiday Special: Subscribe to Action Alerts PLUS to see how Jim Cramer trades his $2.5 Million+ portfolio for 51% off the list price. Your first 14-days are FREE: Sign up today to get e-mail alerts before every trade
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Nine-month mission includes work managing supply lines
By Rose L. Thayer
Killeen Daily Herald
FORT HOOD — Sgt. Claressa Banister stood with other family members of 49th Transportation Battalion, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 13th Sustainment Command soldiers, dressed in her Army Combat Uniform with her 1-year-old son, Andre, in her arms.
In the field before them stood a handful of the battalion's Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment soldiers, dressed in the darker Afghanistan version of the combat uniform, ready to deploy for the next nine months. Among them was Sgt. Decarlus Banister, Claressa's husband.
"The hardest part is me not being there," said Claressa Banister, also a soldier in the battalion. She and her husband deployed together to Iraq in 2008 from a different post, but this time around, the "49ers" allowed her to remain home to care for Andre.
Regardless, she appreciates the time to care for her son.
"Not everyone gets the luxury of staying back," she said.
During the playing of the national anthem, Claressa Banister put her son down to salute the flag while other civilian spouses continued to hold their children — placing their hands over their hearts. Andre whimpered for most of the song, reaching up toward his mother, clearly distressed about being ignored.
"The unique part of this deployment is having a young child," said Decarlus Banister when comparing this deployment to his previous three, all to Iraq. "Since I'm going by myself this time, I just tried to utilize every second of time to build myself up spiritually.
"It's totally different. It's so hard for me right now, emotion-wise."
Once they arrive in Afghanistan, the 54 deploying soldiers will coordinate the transportation of sustainment supplies and personnel in and out the country from Bagram Airfield, said Lt. Col. Charles Blumenfeld, the battalion's commander.
"The challenge is going to be performing the typical sustainment mission we are there to do and to start to retrograde a lot of the equipment coming out of Afghanistan," he said.
Blumenfeld said the unit will be responsible for a large trucking contract, which uses local Afghan companies to drive supplies for U.S. forces.
"We've trained our soldiers to prepare for the unexpected," said Blumenfeld. "They're ready and we'll tackle each problem as it comes up."
For family members on the homefront, the battalion plans to host monthly video teleconferences with soldiers overseas, said Vicky Word, family readiness support assistant with 4th Sustainment Brigade.
"It lets the soldier know the family is still there," she said. "It allows everyone to take a breather and say, 'We're all good,' and give themselves a reset."
Contact Rose L. Thayer at firstname.lastname@example.com or (254) 501-7463. Follow her on Twitter at KDHreporter.


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This is the first chapter of my first novel, Exchange Alley, originally published by Warner Books in 1997 and now available on Kindle for the introductory price of just 99 cents. It introduces the main character, Frankie Byrne, and presents him with a very nasty little murder case — one that quickly turns extremely personal.
Ramapo, New York
Thursday, October 18, 1990; noon
"Bob and them found it just over there." The woman smacked her lips in recollection. She was only about forty, but she looked sixty. One of her front teeth was missing, and the others were crooked and yellow. Her hair hung in greasy strands around her forehead, and there was a large mole on her left cheek. Her hands were wrinkled and gnarled. Arthritis, thought Byrne, and bad nutrition. Life was tough in the country. Almost as tough as it was in town. "We live out here pretty much by our lonesomes," she said. "Like it that way."
Lieutenant Francis X. Byrne of the New York City Police Department asked the woman for her name. Jean, Jean Brandmelder. He wrote it down as she spelled it out. Byrne followed the woman through the clearing in the woods. Even though it was mid-October, the weather was still warm; hot, even. "Bob and them was out hunting this morning, early," Jean explained. "But really it was the dogs. They all of a sudden set to barkin' and Jimmy – that's my son Jimmy right there – went over to see what's all the fuss about." Another smack of the lips. Byrne took notes as he walked, and hoped he would be able to read them later. The nuns always said his handwriting sucked, and the nuns were always right.
"Bob and them" were standing near the body. Bob was Mr. Brandmelder. He was a big, heavy-set, older man with a weak handshake and the outsized girth that comes from a rigorous diet of McDonald's, Coke and Cheez Doodles, one of the rural widebodies; Byrne thought he looked and sounded just like Andy Devine. Or maybe, with enough eye shadow, just Divine. Over his shoulder, Bob was carrying a shotgun, broken to show it was unloaded. On his face, he wore a gap-toothed grin. "Howdy," said Bob as Byrne approached. He was pointing. "Over there." He had a slight accent of indeterminate origin.
At first Byrne thought Brandmelder was indicating Jimmy. The son, about eighteen, was a sallow, rat-faced kid – looks obviously ran in the family – with a nasty glint in his eyes. A normal teenager would be horrified at what he had just found, but not Jimmy. He, too, was smiling. He shuffled his feet and spat on the ground by way of greeting. "Hey," he said. Next to him stood his buddy, Billy Walters, a dirty, mean-looking blond with a wispy mustache and a tattoo of a girl straddling a dagger.
A dull hum rose from the hard, packed ground: flies. There hadn't been much rain lately, and there were no apparent tracks or footprints.
On the surrounding hills the trees were nearing their autumnal foliage peak, but Byrne found nothing in the scenery to admire. He hated coming up here to the Rockland County boondocks, upstate, across the Hudson and a world away from New York City. The Ramapo hills were alien territory, a largely inaccessible hill country populated by folks who were all more closely related to each other than the law allowed – a little slice of Appalachia on the border between New Jersey and New York State, just sixty miles from midtown. Anything could happen here, and anything did. It was the perfect place for a dump job like this.
Plus his ex-wife Mary Claire, was living over in Nyack, nursing her bitterness and cashing his alimony check every month, which was how he knew she was still alive.
Byrne bent down to look at the body, snapping on a pair of rubber gloves and beginning his examination. The homicide detective was thirty-three years old, young for his rank. At five feet ten inches and one hundred and seventy-five pounds, he was about average size for a cop, and although he was waging a vigorous counterattack in the gym as often as possible, he could feel his body already starting to slide. Still, at least he had his hair, which was something not every guy could claim, and there was no gray in his light brown locks. Looking at him in his off-the-rack gray suit, one would never guess that he spent most of his time communing with dear, recently departed total strangers; he might be mistaken for a middle manager in a struggling business, the kind of guy you saw on the subway, wondered what he did, and felt vaguely sorry for. Only his eyes, blue, hard, cold and indifferent, hinted at his unpredictable, explosive temper.
Byrne contemplated the naked, nameless victim, and felt the little thrill he always got when staring into the face of death. He had graduated from Fordham University and few had expected him to follow his father into the department – it was such an Irish-American cliché – but here he was, right where he wanted to be. Not because of the human tragedy, or to protect the innocent, or to satisfy society's need for justice or any of that blather. Not even out of a sense of revenge for his dad, who had been killed in the line of duty when Byrne was still a boy. He had become a cop because murder fascinated him.
"First we didn't know what it was," someone said, and Byrne turned to look for the speaker. It was Jimmy, the son. "The sun was just comin' up real bright, and with the light right in my eyes well, hell, I thought it was a damn possum." He looked down at the body. "It bein' so white an' all."
The state cops who had found the abandoned BMW 318i with diplomatic license plates had had the good sense to leave the crime scene alone. The corpse lay as it had been discovered, on its side near the base of a tree, the face turned away and partially covered by shoulder-length sandy hair. The body was entirely naked and bent slightly at the waist, the knees pulled up towards the chin; assume the position, thought Byrne to himself: the fetal position. The skin was milky white, gradually fading in death to a pale gray. The buttocks were smooth and hairless, as were the arms and legs. "Give me some room, please," said Byrne.
Thank God it wasn't a popper. All cops hated those exploding human sausages that had been left to stew in their own juice and then erupted when you looked at them cross-eyed. He had one a few months ago, a young black or Hispanic woman – it was hard to tell, given the state of decomposition – who had been raped, brained with a boulder, and buried in a shallow grave at the north end of Central Park; for some reason, no one had felt the necessity to report her disappearance for several days. When Byrne and his Crime Scene Unit tried to move the body, her stomach came apart in their hands and the intestines slithered out. It took him weeks to get the smell out of his nostrils.
The whine of the forensic photographer's camera was intrusive. It felt like they were making a snuff film. The camera, an Olympia 35mm with a 50mm lens shooting Kodak Tri-X color film, fired again as Byrne sketched the scene in his notebook. "I think this guy's ready for his close-up," said Vinnie Mancuso, an investigator attached to the medical examiner's office, as he set up the next shot.
The corpse held its jackknifed position as Byrne rolled the body over. By the looks of things, the victim had been dead eight to twelve hours; rigor mortis had begun to set in, and the skin's lividity was fixed, or would have been: there was almost no blood left in the body, and none on the ground, which indicated that the killing had taken place elsewhere.
"Muthafucka!" exclaimed Mancuso, who had thought he'd seen everything and probably had and yet was still taken by surprise. For even in the welter of dried blood and butchered flesh it was clear that the body was that of a man whose entire manhood was missing, the penis and testicles excised by a sharp, scalpel-like instrument. Byrne guessed he had been alive at the time. What was the point of cutting somebody's dick off unless he was still around to enjoy the experience? For some reason, the image of an Aztec executioner, ripping the beating heart from a victim's chest and exhibiting it to him just as he died, came to Byrne. Thank God the Aztecs weren't around any more; they'd probably be pouring over the border from Mexico, opening restaurants, driving gypsy cabs and performing virgin sacrifices in the Bronx – if they could find any virgins. Who said New York never got any breaks?
Gently, Byrne brushed the hair back from face, which might have been handsome once, when it was a face. One bullet, fired from behind, had exited through the right side of the head in the occipital-parietal area, blowing out the side of the skull and a good deal of the brain; at least one other shot, apparently from the front, had smashed through the bridgework. The eyes were pale blue and sightless. The throat was cut through the carotid artery.
The face, however, was untouched by the carnage. Was it still a pathetic fallacy to ascribe emotion to an inanimate object that once had been a human being? No matter how horrible the manner of their deaths, the deceased often had a peaceful look upon their faces, as if they were only sleeping, but this victim was extraordinary: not just peaceful, but at peace, like a saint who just joyously embraced his martyrdom.
Now for the distasteful part. He knelt, spread the dead man's buttocks apart and dropped an object into a large evidence bag. It was a polished ebony dildo with a silver tip, about seven inches long.
"Wonder what the good sisters would say about this baby?" said Mancuso, who was widely regarded as having both a vile sense of humor and encyclopedic knowledge of restaurants. Mancuso was from the Bronx, but a branch of the family had owned a restaurant in New Orleans, and he always knew where to eat; hell, the man could even find food in New Jersey. "They'd probably take a shine to it. Did I ever tell you about Sister Ann Miriam, the one I had back in eighth grade? We used to call her Sister Sam, and a couple of the kids swore that underneath her habit she…."
Byrne wasn't listening to Vincent Mancuso's Catholic school reminiscences. He was looking at the markings on the dildo. Cyrillic, but whether Greek or Russian or even Bulgarian he could not tell. Not for the first time, he wished he had paid more attention to his language studies in college. Maybe if he had, he'd be in the FBI like his brother. The way New York was getting, it was like the Tower of Babel on the streets. Nobody committed crimes in English anymore.
The Brandmelders and Billy were standing silently nearby; Jean's mouth was working, but she was saying nothing. She might have been chewing gum, or tobacco. The others stared at their feet. "You ought to see the car," said Jimmy. Byrne sighed: these fag killings were always so messy.
"Let's take a look at it," Byrne said to Mancuso, and together they headed over to the BMW, which had been left on the road, a rude foreign intruder in Chevy Impala heaven. It was a new two-door coupe, black with light gray interior. "German car, ain't it?" said Jimmy. "We're German. Brandmelder. Means 'fire-alarm'." He seemed proud of his knowledge.
Byrne, however, wasn't interested in Jimmy's ethnic derivation right now. "I want a double-check on the registration," he ordered. "And I want prints on this vehicle, inside and out, make sure Aprahamian runs 'em through every AFIS system he can think of, full liaison with the FBI. And everybody keeps their mitts off the car, okay?" One of the two members of the Bronx-based Crime Scene Unit who had made the journey north with him – his name was Andersen – went running back to the squad car to do the detective's bidding.
The vehicle was immaculately clean inside, if you didn't count the bloodstains on the driver's side. No trash, no old newspapers in the back seat, no candy bar wrappings on the floor, no old stained Styrofoam coffee cups. Just a car phone, and nothing else.
"Let's also get the blood type off this mess, gentlemen," said Byrne, continuing to make notes. It seemed clear that the stains, while extensive, were not arterial bleeding. If the victim's throat had been cut while he was in the car, the gouts sprayed forth by the pumping heart would have covered the windshield and been spritzed all around the interior of the vehicle. These stains, on the other hand, were pretty much confined to the seat, as if he had bled heavily while driving. Driving where? Surely not all the way up here, unless he had stopped along the way to change into his birthday suit, cut his own throat and shoot himself in the head several times before continuing on to his final destination.
Mancuso had disappeared under the front seat, but came up empty-handed. The only thing in the vehicle appeared to be the keys, which sat in the ignition awaiting their owner's return. They were going to have a long wait.
"Check the glove compartment, Vinnie," said Byrne.
Mancuso popped it open. "Nothing here, Frankie," he said.
"Gotta be," commanded Byrne. "Always is. Pennies, nickels, dimes quarters, cassettes, Kleenex, Kotex, old maps, a woman's panties, something. Look some more. Nobody's this neat."
Again, Mancuso came up empty-handed, and shrugged. "See for yourself, boss," he said. "No registration, no rental agreement, no insurance card, nothin'. And sure as hell no gal's panties. In fact, no panties of any kind."
At that moment, Andersen returned. "Lieutenant," he said, "DMV says the vehicle is registered to the Danish consulate general on Second Avenue in Manhattan. The principal driver is listed as one Edwin A. Paine of 442 Little West 12th Street, New York, New York."
"Twelfth Street? What's a Village fruitcake doing with an embassy car?" asked Byrne. "Call BCI and see if this boy rings a bell." If Paine had ever been arrested, the Bureau of Criminal Identification would have his New York State Inquiry Identification System number. And if Paine had a NYSIIS number, the Photo Unit would have a picture of him on file.
Byrne peered into the empty auto and then climbed into the back seat. "Lemme have a look," he said. He ran his hands between where the seats met the back rests, where folks usually stuffed their seat belts, and down the sides. Nada, not even an old pen. Byrne was fishing around in the side compartments of the BMW, just below the windows on the driver's side, when he felt something.
"Uh, Lieutenant?" said Andersen, who was still standing there. "That address? It's not Twelfth Street, it's Little West 12th Street. They're not the same street, sir."
"Just a minute." He didn't need a lesson in the arcana of Greenwich Village geography at this moment. He could get that from his art-dealer girlfriend Doreen the next time he stayed over.
"Nobody lives on Little West 12th Street, is all," persisted the patrolman. "It's the meat-packing district. Where the sex clubs are now."
The object was crumpled, but even before he looked at it he could tell by the paper's thick texture that it was a photograph. Byrne climbed out of the car and into the sunlight, where he could get a good look.
"The slaughterhouse district," insisted Andersen. "My dad used to work there."
It was a black-and-white snapshot of two women, with their arms thrown casually around each other's shoulders. They were both wearing smiles, sweaters and out-of-date hairdos, which were being tousled by the wind. One of them, the movie-star pretty lady on the left with the flashing eyes, he did not recognize, but the other, plainer one he certainly did. She was young, she was fresh, and she most definitely was his mother, Irene Byrne, of Woodside, Queens, New York. He put the picture in his pocket, as unobtrusively as possible, and hoped no one would notice.
"Body bag," he said.


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Lesson #6: Be Yourself in Sweatpants
Actor and director Zach Braff loves it when people tell him that they relate to Andrew Largeman, the depressed character he played in the 2004 movie "Garden State" (which Braff wrote and directed), because in that role, he didn't have to do much acting. Like his character--an actor confronting his demons when he heads home after his mother dies--Braff doesn't hide under any celebrity image, and isn't afraid to be himself, he says, even if that self is very emotional and wears sweatpants all day.
Text by Therese J. Borchard


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It may only be matchday three, but AC Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri is already thinking about winning UEFA Champions League Group H. However, he is determined not to underestimate an FC BATE Borisov side whose visit to San Siro offers a trip down memory lane for the Belarusian champions, and their boss Viktor Goncharenko.
Coach Massimiliano Allegri
Finishing top of the section is a bonus as it means you play a runner-up from another group in the round of 16, but for now we have to focus on this game; that is the most important thing for us.
BATE are well-organised and defend in an orderly manner. They have a young team which knows how to strike on the counterattack. Mateja Kežman is playing well and is a key player for them. We won't underestimate them.
We played well against Palermo on Saturday, with a good attacking dynamic and defensive movement. That game has revitalised our team after a difficult start to the season. Kevin-Prince Boateng has to prove his worth; he's very important for Milan, but he may become even more crucial. No team has a player quite like him.
Weekend result
Saturday: Milan 3-0 US Città di Palermo (Nocerino 39, Robinho 55, Cassano 63)
Abbiati; Abate, Nesta, Thiago Silva (Bonera 34), Antonini; Nocerino, Van Bommel, Aquilani; Robinho (Emanuelson 66); Ibrahimović, Cassano (El Shaarawy 79)
• Facing his former employers, Antonio Nocerino scored his first goal for Milan as the Rossoneri extended their unbeaten run at San Siro in Serie A to 14 matches, since a 1-0 defeat by AS Roma on 18 December 2010. Robinho scored in his first appearance of the season after shaking off a toe injury
Team news
Gennaro Gattuso serves the third game of a four-match suspension. Robinho is back in contention but Mathieu Flamini is out with damaged knee ligaments. Thiago Silva did not train on Monday and Clarence Seedorf and Massimo Ambrosini are unlikely to start. Mark van Bommel was rated fit by Allegri, who hinted that Antonio Cassano will start up front on Wednesday. "He's playing really well," said the coach.
Coach Viktor Goncharenko
We will need to be very aggressive, well-organised in defence and courageous in attack. We will have to play as well as we can. Milan have many top-class players, with Zlatan Ibrahimović one of the best in their squad. When we played against them ten years ago [a game Goncharenko played in and only BATE's fifth European tie ever] it was a great experience – our first major experience, and the basis for building our club's reputation in Europe.
It was a seminal day. We didn't know how to compete against those great players, like Maldini and Shevchenko. However, we have definitely gained more experience in European competition in the intervening years. It's not a 'rematch' and we can't compare that game with tomorrow's because each challenge has its own story.
Weekend result
Friday: FC Dinamo Minsk 0-2 BATE (Loshankov og 16, Bressan 69)
Gutor; Yurevich (Rudik 46), Radkov, Simić, Bordachev; M Volodko (Gordeychuk 58), Likhtarovich; Kontsevoi, Bressan, A Volodko; Kežman (Skavysh 79)
• Despite a host of injuries and Dmitri Baga missing through suspension, BATE claimed only their second win in eight league games, drawing five during that run. Renan Bressan forced the own goal before scoring the second.
Team news
Aleksandr Yurevich started against Dinamo Minsk, his first appearance since tearing ankle ligaments on 28 August. Goncharenko confirmed his availability and also said Yegor Filipenko had recovered from a back problem, and that Aleksandr Pavlov (torn adductors) is back in contention. However, Vitali Rodionov (knee ligaments) and Evgeni Kuntsevich (knee) remain out.
Match fact
Milan were 6-0 aggregate winners when the clubs met in the 2001/02 UEFA Cup first round. Shevchenko and Javi Moreno earned the Rossoneri a 2-0 first-leg win in Belarus and they prevailed 4-0 back in Italy courtesy of Rui Costa, Moreno, Mohamed Sarr and a Filippo Inzaghi penalty.
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On 27.04.2011 17:00, Dave Page wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Erwin Brandstetter<brsaweda(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote: >> On Apr 14, 11:00 pm, dp(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)pgadmin(dot)org (Dave Page) wrote: >>> Source, windows and osx builds athttp://developer.pgadmin.org/ftp/release/v1.12.3/ >>> >>> Please give them a sanity check! >> After working with it for a couple of days, something stands out. I >> have had 4 crashes when applying a filter in the "View Data Options" >> dialog of the edit grid. >> That's decidedly more often than with v1.12.2 > The only change in that area seems to be this: > http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=pgadmin3.git;a=commitdiff;h=b674cd80d3e8e1cb763ee59a775cc383cca968af > (which I believe has the wrong version number against it in the > changelog). I don't see how this could cause a crash though. > > Can you get a stack trace? Two things are holding me back: - I am not able to reproduce the problem (yet). - I don't know how to operate debugging tools. :) Is this postgres-wiki page applicable to pgAdmin? http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Getting_a_stack_trace_of_a_running_PostgreSQL_backend_on_Windows Regards Erwin
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Pawan Kalyan Face to Face with farmers over land pooling - Tv9
Sun, Aug 23, 2015, 05:29 PM
Pawan Kalyan is raising his voice of dissent against land acquisition of the AP government in the capital region and he expressed this many times on Twitter. Pawan Kalyan has stated that the acquisition can only be done with farmers consent and also said that it is not right to effect the land that is fertile and gives multiple crops. Watch the video for the face to face interaction with the farmers by Pawan Kalyan. . . .


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LORAIN — A city woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend in the left leg about 11:30 p.m. Saturday faces charges.
Nichole Venson was arrested and charged early Sunday with felonious assault and domestic violence. Venson argued with her boyfriend, William Schaffer, when he showed up at their home in the 3500 block of Pin Oak Drive with an ex-girlfriend, according to police Officer James Wolford's report.
Schaffer said the two women fought and when he attempted to break it up, Venson stabbed him in the thigh. Venson denied stabbing Schaffer, but a neighbor who said Schaffer came to her apartment after being stabbed said Venson came to her door carrying a knife and screaming, "I'm going to kill a n-----."
Venson is free on a $5,000 bond. Information on her next court date was unavailable Monday night.


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Churchill (Inuit: Kuugjuaq) is a town on the west shore of Hudson Bay in northern Manitoba, Canada, just south of the Nunavut/Manitoba boundary. It is most famous for the many polar bears that move toward the shore from inland in the autumn, leading to the nickname "Polar Bear Capital of the World" that has helped its growing tourism industry.
A variety of nomadic Arctic people lived and hunted in this region. The Thule people arrived around A.D. 1000 from the West, and later evolved into the present-day Inuit culture. The Dene people arrived around 500 from farther north. Since before the time of European contact, the region around Churchill has been predominantly inhabited by the Chipewyan and Cree natives.
Europeans first arrived in the area in 1619 when a Danish expedition led by Jens Munk wintered where Churchill would later stand. Only 3 of 64 expedition members survived the winter and sailed one of the expedition's two ships back to Denmark. Danish archaeologists in 1964 discovered remains of the abandoned ship in the tidal flats some miles from the mouth of the river.
After an abortive attempt in 1688-89, in 1717 the Hudson's Bay Company built the first permanent settlement, Churchill River Post, a log fort a few miles upstream from the mouth of the Churchill River. The trading post and river were named after John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (an ancestor of Winston Churchill), who was governor of the Hudson's Bay Company in the late seventeenth century. The fort was built mostly to capitalize on the North American fur trade, out of the reach of York Factory. It dealt mainly with the Chipewyan natives living north of the boreal forest. Much of the fur came from as far away as Lake Athabasca and the Rocky Mountains.
In 1783, Hearne returned to build a new fort, a short distance upriver. Due to its distance from areas of heavy competition between the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company, it remained a stable, if not profitable, source of furs.
Between the years of decline in the fur trade and surfacing of western agricultural success, Churchill phased into and then back out of obsolescence. After decades of frustration over the monopoly and domination of the Canadian Pacific Railway, western Canadian governments banded together and argued for the creation of a major new northern shipping harbour on Hudson Bay, linked by rail from Winnipeg. Initially Port Nelson was selected for this purpose in 1912. After several years of effort and millions of dollars, this project was abandoned and Churchill was selected as the alternative after World War One. Surveys by the Canadian Hydrographic Service ship CSS Acadia opened the way for safe navigation. However, construction and use of the railroad was extremely slow and the rail line itself did not come to Churchill until 1929.
Even once the link from farm to port was completed, commercial shipping took many more years to pick up. In 1932 Grant MacEwan was the first person to cross through Churchill customs as a passenger. This was purely due to his determination in taking the Hudson Bay route to Saskatchewan from Britain—most passengers returned via the Saint Lawrence River.
In 1942, the United States Army Air Corps established a base called Fort Churchill, located five miles east of the town. After World War II, this base was jointly operated by Canada and the United States for experimental and training purposes and was in operation until the mid-1960s.
Naval Radio Station Churchill, callsign CFL, was activated as an ionospheric study station by the RCN in support of the U-boat HFDF net and became operational on August 1, 1943. Around 1949, Churchill became part of the Canadian SUPRAD (signals intelligence) network and remained in that role until it closed its doors in 1968. The Operations and Accommodations building still remains today but is abandoned.
This area was also the site of the Churchill Rocket Research Range, part of Canadian-American atmospheric research. Its first rocket was launched in 1956, and it continued to host launches for research until closing in 1984. The site of the former rocket range now hosts the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, a facility for Arctic research. Churchill still hosts a rocket range and subsequent Spaceport Canada effort; currently located at Fort Churchill.
In the 1950s, the British government considered establishing a site near Churchill for testing their early nuclear weapons, before choosing Australia instead.
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QA:Testcase Mediakit Repoclosure
From FedoraProject
This test will read in metadata of a mediakit and check dependencies in all packages for resolution.
How to test
- Download DVD or CD images
- Mount the ISO, for example:
# mount -o loop Fedora-12-x86_64-DVD.iso /media/
- Check the dependencies of all packages. If you have a physical media, the process is the same.
# repoclosure --repofrompath myrepo,/media/ --newest -t -r myrepo
Expected Results
- Checking dependencies finished successfully
- There are no packages with unresolved dependencies from myrepo in the output


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White House blasts senator for blocking nominees
The White House ramped up its criticism of Republican senators blocking presidential appointments Friday after complaints that Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby has placed a hold on more than 70 administration nominees in order to secure funding for home-state projects. "If that's not the poster child for how this town needs to change the way it works, I fear there won't be a greater example of silliness throughout the … year," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. His office said Shelby is concerned about the future of the KC-135 Air Force tanker fleet, a project that could generate thousands of jobs in Alabama.
New York: Christopher Cox, 30, son of state party chairman Ed Cox and grandson of former President Richard Nixon, said he will be among seven Republicans seeking the nomination to challenge Long Island Democratic Rep. Timothy Bishop.
Miami: A federal judge awarded five Liberian torture victims $22.4 million in damages for torture overseen by Charles McArthur Emmanuel, the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor.
Nevada: The U.S. Bureau of Land Management finished a major roundup of wild horses from the range north of Reno, removing 1,922 mustangs from the Calico Mountains Complex, officials said.
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Lesson Ideas
Court Quest is a fun and interactive game about the federal and state court systems, and the appeals process. As players navigate around the U.S., they will encounter citizens who need assistance getting their cases to the correct courts. Players will read each person's case and analyze the details carefully, so they can direct the citizen to the appropriate court. If the citizen wins the case, a player is done helping him or her. Congrats! If the citizen loses the case and needs to appeal, the player is responsible for directing the citizen to the next highest court. This game provides an excellent civics lesson in the workings of our judicial system.
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Union County To Offer Free STD/HIV Testing
The Union County Health Department and the AIDS Taskforce are sponsoring free STD/HIV testing for members of the community.
The testing will be held on March 28 from noon to 6 p.m. at the Union County Services Building on London Avenue.
The Get Yourself Tested (GYT) campaign is an effort to increase the awareness of STD testing.
Officials said the HIV testing is painless and results are available in around 20 minutes.
Health experts also said that chlamydia is the number one reportable disease in Union County. That's also true for the rest of Ohio.
"Sexually Transmitted Infections are prevalent in almost every community in our nation. And to protect you and your partner, it is important you both know your status," said Susie Knox, lead nurse for the County Health Department's Sexual Health Clinic.
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C.J. Fella Releases Science Fiction Thriller 'Rise of the Black Hand'
"Rise of the Black Hand" follows the perspective of young FBI agent Thomas Morelli, in a futuristic Seattle, Washington, as he tangles with a brutal criminal organization known as The Black Hand. Despite being set in the future, the novel has a retro, noir feel to it that gives the book some contrasting elements readers are sure to enjoy. Inspired by the radio serials and pulps of the early to mid 1900's, the action is fast-paced; dialog is crisp, and the pace brisk, delivered with a tongue in cheek nod to the past. Readers will get a glimpse of some very real social and technological facing the coming century, but the entertainment and laughs never stop, even on the last page. In short, the book is equal parts Mike Hammer, Dick Tracy, and Blade Runner all rolled into one, with the added bonus of humor.
Rise of the Black Hand is available in both print and ebook format.
Book Information:
Rise of the Black Hand
By C.J. Fella
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: March 2014
Pages: 308
Genre: Science Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
About The Author:
C.J. is a lifetime resident of Oregon's Willamette Valley, where he attended college and graduate school, and currently works as an auditor for his home state. Raised on classical literature, his interests turned to the radio serials of the early 1900′s, and the pulp era. Inspired by Isaac Asimov, Mickey Spillane and Robert B. Parker, C.J. blended the science fiction and hard-boiled detective genres for his debut novel, Rise of the Black Hand. When he's not working or writing, C.J. is likely to be reading, playing video games, or listening to classic old time radio serials.
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By Joe Nelson
Posted 09/28/2010 at 11:57 AM
The two most talked about 0-2 teams delivered last week with Minnesota and Dallas getting into the win column. The 0-2 team that a lot of people expected to bounce back failed as the 49ers came up well short against Kansas City. St. Louis was another desperate winless team that came up with a big win. Be careful fading the 0-3 teams this week as Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo, and Carolina could play into favorable situations this week. All four teams will be underdogs this week but don't be surprised to see at least one big upset.
Home teams went 4-11 against the spread last Sunday and favorites went just 5-10. A couple of popular public plays still cleared through as the Colts and Eagles both cashed, as did Cincinnati and Pittsburgh to keep it from being a huge week for the books. Home favorites were just 1-7 ATS last Sunday with only Minnesota's narrow cover over Detroit coming home a winner. Home underdogs have been very successful this season in the NFL and 'over' plays came in well last week after a strong start for the 'under' the first two weeks.
While NFL favorites suffered, heavy college favorites made bank last week with a 15-3 mark for chalk of 20 or more points. This includes the FCS match-ups that featured several blowouts last week. While there are almost always a few upsets from lower division teams early in the year as teams are often caught still making adjustments, the chances of those upsets decrease considerably a few weeks into the season. Keep an eye out for later season match-ups that get tossed in between critical conference games as those can be promising underdog situations to consider.
After the Colts and the Saints made late season undefeated runs last season, neither will do so this year. There are just three undefeated teams remaining at this point in the year. The winner of the Packers/Bears match-up Monday night will be the least surprising of the three, even if it is the Bears. Pittsburgh was certainly expected to be a quality team but the QB situation has made this start very impressive. Kansas City is considered a big surprise by most but the Chiefs have drawn a favorable schedule and two teams that the Chiefs beat, the Chargers and the 49ers, do not appear to be as strong as most projected.
This is a very exciting football week with the college conference games taking over for the most part including several dandy debut match-ups. Texas/Oklahoma has lost a bit of its cachet with the ugly upset loss for Texas last week but the Big XII fate is still up for grabs. The SEC features a monster game with Alabama and Florida meeting in a championship rematch. The Big Ten will also start with two very intriguing games between teams with high aspirations. What may be the most exciting game to look forward to watching is in the Pac-10 as undefeated Stanford and Oregon face off to determine the early leader in the conference. Arizona and USC are still undefeated as well in the Pac-10 but with the points the Cardinal and Ducks are posting there will be a lot of interest in that game. Best of Luck, and on to this week's slate…


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Tuesday, June 10, 2014
A Change of View
Combine ships and items into station services.
It makes this happen:
I have absolutely no idea why this is not an automatic setting. It keeps your ships and your items right at hand. I think it would have solved a lot of the rage when the unified inventory was first introduced simply because people 'lost' their stuff. I've showed this to a few people off and on. I just showed it to a vet who was ranting about the UI and he was like, "Oh. This is better."
Note: The Cynabal does not come with the setting.
I remember a stat that only 12% of people use it. I may be absolutely wrong. However, it stayed with me because it seemed like a very small number to use something that was very useful in my opinion. And, isn't that what opinions are for? To try to force everyone to use things exactly as you do? This makes perfect sense to me. I think it should be a default setting. I also think that it would be more intuitive to new players who need to access their 'inventory'.
Or, maybe I'm just weird and the only person that likes this. But, that's okay. Everyone should like it. Everyone.
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- AnonymousJune 10, 2014 at 4:25 AM
oh, interesting. didn't know about that. It's usefulness for me will depend on how good the filter is though..ReplyDelete
It won't show up from the character selection screen. You need to be logged in with a specific character and hit esc before it will. Just an FYI.ReplyDeleteReplies
- AnonymousJune 10, 2014 at 6:22 AM
Sure it will (or it should). I've been using this for years and as long as I'm docked at log-off, the tabs automatically show up on log-in.Delete
Perhaps once you've done it for the first time and is then active. But for someone who has never had it on before it doesn't.Delete
Last week I lost all of my user settings for the first time in four years, had to start from scratch with overview and all the custom settings. When I logged back in I literally couldn't find my ships! I've had the "combine" option selected for as long as I've been playing Eve - was weird not seeing it.ReplyDeleteReplies
Every time I have a reset or a new account I'm confused.Delete
Your in game age shows ^_^ReplyDelete
I used to be the default a long time ago, I can't imagine living without it tbh :)Replies
Uh, sorry but I REJECT YOUR REALITY AND SUBSTITUTE MY PWN!ReplyDelete
I initially used the joined services and ships... learned to hate it TBH. But then again I have a full 17" screen that, while in space, I can spread out my Cargo Hold / Overview and People & Places and Chat screens on... And when in station I have Cargo Hold and Station Hangar and Chat and Station Services all open with PLENTY of ROOM to search and work...
You know, the way EVERYONE should... =PReplies
I minimize my chatscreen layout and other informational windows for screen shots.Delete
I also only open people and places if I need to make a bookmark in warp.
- AnonymousJune 10, 2014 at 9:45 AM
Holy crap where has that setting been my whole Eve career. Can't wait to get home tonight and set it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 10, 2014 at 10:19 AM
Been in the game since beta, at one point that was the only way to view your inventory. They took it away briefly when they did the UI but after many complaints brought it back.ReplyDelete
- RanamarJune 10, 2014 at 12:41 PM
I found that checkbox and tried it... but I couldn't understand why anyone would put up with such a narrow view. I have a big wide inventory window so that I can see all my spreadsheet columns. ;)ReplyDelete
(I also have it set to list view, so I don't see the item pictures at all.)Replies
You can stretch the station services panel if you want it wider.Delete
- LolmerJune 10, 2014 at 6:10 PM
On any new install (or settings clearing), this is the first thing I change in my settings, before even importing my Overview.ReplyDelete


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My 5 weeks baby cries a lot when fed formula milk, not wanting to take it. He wants only my milk. at times after feeding with both breasts , he is still hungry..so I try giving formula milk. Earlier he used to take it but now he cried a lot when i put in a spoon. Is it the taste which is bothering him? or the process? Should I stop using formula milk if he cries a lot? Also want to understand about breastfeeding...My doc told me that after baby sucks in one breast for 15-20 mins, it becomes empty. How much time does it take to produce milk again..thats sufficient for baby
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NEW YORK — Oil declined the most this year Wednesday on reports that the amount of oil moving through a key pipeline to the Gulf Coast had been cut in half.
Benchmark oil dropped $1.45, or 1.5 percent, to finish at $95.23 per barrel, the first decline of more than 1 percent since Dec. 21.
Even before the price sank in the afternoon, traders were questioning whether recent gains in oil had run their course. As of Tuesday's close, the price of oil had risen more than $10 a barrel since Dec. 13.
One catalyst for the recent price increase has been the apparent strengthening of the global economy. But the International Monetary Fund dampened that optimism when it projected only modest global economic growth in 2013, while warning that "there remain considerable challenges ahead."
Some oil analysts raised the caution flag as well.
"The approximate 12 percent crude advance extending back to early December has priced in a very optimistic global economic view," said Jim Ritterbusch, president of energy consultancy Ritterbusch and Associates, in a note to clients.
The price of oil began to fall in the early afternoon after reports surfaced that the Seaway pipeline, which takes crude from Cushing, Oklahoma, to the Gulf Coast, was constrained and could only work at about half its 400,000 barrel-per-day capacity, according to Andrew Lebow, an analyst at Jefferies Bache. That will likely mean growing supplies at Cushing, the trading hub for U.S. benchmark oil, and lower prices.
"There's a logjam down there," Lebow said. "Inventories have the potential to build further and they are already at record highs."
Analysts were already forecasting that the U.S. government would report a 2 million-barrel increase in oil supplies in its weekly update Thursday, according to Platts, a division of McGraw-Hill.
U.S. drivers won't mind if oil prices level off or fall. The average price for a gallon of gas has gone up nearly 10 cents since Dec. 21. But the increase so far in January is just 2 cents a gallon. Last year gas prices rose an average 16 cents in the first month and kept rising until reaching a peak of $3.94 a gallon in early April.
Brent crude, used to price international varieties of oil, rose 38 cents to end at $112.80 per barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
In other energy futures trading on Nymex:
— Natural gas was flat at $3.55 per 1,000 cubic feet.
— Wholesale gasoline was unchanged at $2.83 per gallon.
— Heating oil rose 1 cent to $3.08 a gallon.
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Hello everyone – Thanks to a tip from another doc maker I've been lurking about the forums for months now, trying to soak up as much wisdom as possible, but as 2011 dawns I figure it's time to wave hello.
I'm a writer/director currently stationed in Los Angeles and am in post on my first documentary project: a series about five starkly disparate elementary and high schools in New Orleans and Baltimore, the unusual historical origin they all share, and the stories of what it's like to educate inside their respective walls today. Thanks, all of you, for creating such a great collective resource and community, and Happy New Year!


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Durex does it again
Durex is online with a new advertainment website called "The Pants Whisperer". If you're behind a proxy you might not be able to see it (as in my case from work).
I must say I did not find it particularly entertaining and, in some cases it's quite rude, like in the user generated video section (is it all fake or people really submitted those videos?). The Dickorations was a much better concept.


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The story that brings the Ranger's Apprentice arc full-circle!
Will Treaty has come a long way from the small boy with dreams of knighthood. Life had other plans for him, and as an apprentice Ranger under Halt, he grew into a legend - the finest Ranger the kingdom has ever known. Yet Will is facing a tragic battle that has left him grim and alone. To add to his problems, the time has come to take on an apprentice of his own, and it's the last person he ever would have expected. Fighting his personal demons, Will has to win the trust and respect of his difficult new companion - a task that at times seems almost impossible.
John Flanagan returns for one final bow to the series that has conquered millions of listeners worldwide with this pulse-pounding adventure that brings one era to a close, and ushers in the next....
©2013 Jon Flanagan (P)2013 Penguin Audio
"great ending and better begining"
Yes, It gave a sense of closure to one story but left it open hopefully for another to begin.
I liked the feeling of full circle but at the same time a new begining.
Awesome , played the roles perfectly.
I hope it's the begining to a new rangers apprentice series.
"wish this wasn't the end"
I've grown close to these characters and this book was bitter sweet as I knew it was the end. throughout the series I kept dreaming of living in their world. being a ranger like Will and Halt and living a life like theirs. so I'll say this in closing if they do make the movie series it has a lot to live up to.
"Best one yet"
I have been a fan of the Rangers Apprentice books for a long time, and I love this RA book. The story is compelling, and even with a mostly-new cast of characters, it captures my attention easily. This is easily my favorite in the series
"Saying goodbye to old friends"
John Flanagan had originally picked Lost Stories to tell the end of Will Treaty's tale. It did that, but we fans almost felt cheated as it was a collection of short stories. This book, set about 20 years after the events of the last full length story brings things to an end. It gives us the opportunity to meet a new generation. He has tied down most of our original adventurers in ways that prevent continuations of the old stories, but this story offers a lot of the same excitement we saw in earlier books with Will in a slightly different role. I don't give up all hope of seeing another Will Treaty book, as Flanagan has released books that take place between already published books before.
The story is a compelling one. It dealt with darker plots than we had seen since Icebound Land, but managed to keep things lighter than that story. Introducing a new generation was Flannagn's way to say, "I'm done with this series, but I'm leaving my options open for more stories in this realm." There were several sub-plots to keep the story moving and offer character development. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoyed any of the books in this series. I wouldn't recommend it as a first book to read as it would provide spoilers for just about every book in the series.
"Always love RA!"
this one is a particular favorite with the strong female lead. Definitely a read again book.
Loved the suspense and Maddie ' s transformation. Great story with laughter and suspense.
"This is a great book."
This is a very engaging book. I was constantly guessing the next sequence of events in the story and yet was seldom able to do so. It was great.
"just a great book"
just like all the other rangers apprentice books! would recommend to anyone! easy to follow
"a very good read. a great series!"
I'm sad to be nearing the end of this series that our whole family enjoys!
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