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" Address: 12 Sheep Street / Stratford Upon Avon / England / CV37 6EF / Tel: 01789 292554 "
Last year I undertook a paid placement as part of my university course at a hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon and I decided that it would be very appropriate if I visited the local restaurants to see what I could recommend in future to guests.
One of the restaurants which was on our highly recommended lists was Lamb's of Sheep Street. I thought it may be a little pricey so my boyfriend and I decided to go there for our anniversary.
I decided to check the menu before going to the restaurant as I wanted to get an idea of the kind of food I would be eating. The food seemed very english and quite traditional and the menu was appropriate for the season as well being summer (even though our summer is awful).
So on arrival I was just a little anxious as I wasn't sure if we would be going to a posh restaurant. As we parked on the side of the road on Sheep Street (free during the evening) we only had a few metres to walk to the restaurant. Even though it was summer it was pouring down with rain and was a little chilly which was a shame.
As soon as we entered the restaurant I knew I would feel quite at home. Although the restaurant was funished very nicely and quite modern in terms of tables and chairs, it appeared to be a very old building with open beamed ceilings and original features.
We were taken upstairs by a lady who may well have been eastern european (yet still very pleasant) to a table which was overlooking the street outside. It was actually quite nice being cosy inside and watching the rain pour down outside.
So we were given our menus which I very much liked the look of. There was plenty of choice of starters and main courses. As we were chosing what to have the waitress bought over some fresh bread with butter and also a lovely olive paste. I do love it when restaurants offer bread at the start of a meal.
So to start I decided to go for the freshly home-made tomato and basil soup and my boyfriend had crispy pork with mango and watercress salad. The soup was an absolutely huge portion and delicious as well. You could definately tell that it was home-made it just could have done with being a tiny bit smaller a portion. I don't want to complain though as I would much rather have a bigger rather than smaller portion.
The pork with mango and watercress salad was also really delicious, it tasted really fresh and the combinations were great.
For main course I decided to have rack of lamb with dauphinouse potatoes and some little roasted peppers which were stuffed with something (can't quite remember now). The dish also came with a jus (I can't quite remember but I think it was a red wine jus, but not very strong). What I definately do remember is that it was absolutely delicious and the lamb was cooked perfectly. My boyfriend had a gnocci dish was again was very different but extremely tasty and you could definately tell the gnocci was home made.
For dessert I decided to go for a classic creme brulee and my boyfriend had the sticky toffee pudding. I thought the creme brulee would be a little lighter and was a bit more summery and I am glad I had it as it was absolutely delicious, however, my boyfriends sticky toffee pudding was one of the best I have ever tried so I think I will be making a special trip back just for this.
Overall the service was very good, the starters and main courses came quite quickly so we did ask if we could wait for 15 minutes before we had pudding which was fine with them. We also had coffees after which were good.
The overall price of the meal, for three courses each, two coffees and two alcoholic beverages (glass of wine and a beer) came to a total of just under £60 which I was very impressed with. I was expecting to pay this or even more and for the quality of food, service and the location, I think it is very good value for money.
I always recommend this to guests who stay at the hotel now as I know that they will come back satisfied. I know I'm not the only one who likes it as well as many guests have told me how good it is!
The restaurant also does a Sunday Menu and a lunch and pre-theatre menu. I have heard that their Sunday dinner's are fantastic and the pre-theatre menus are even better value for money as you can have two courses for £11.50 and three courses for £15.00 (this is obviously only at lunch time and between 5pm-7pm though).
I think Lambs is part of the same group as the Vintner and The Oppo as well. I have yet to go to these two restaurants but if they are anything like Lambs I will definately be trying them soon!
For a great place to eat in Stratford-upon-Avon try Lambs. You will love it!!!


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The Congressional Budget Office estimates one version of the federal climate change law will cost $1,600 per household, but don't expect this to be the final word.
Cost estimates have varied widely, as evidenced by this bit of back-and-forth from the past two months as chronicled by Politifact.com . And U.S. Rep. Joe Barton has said previously the bill will just be a wealth transfer from the Southeast U.S. where coal-fired power is dominant to the Northwest where there's lot of hydropower.
While it's clear getting an exact number on the costs of the proposed law is difficult, has anyone actually looked at possible benefits (aside from the whole "ice-cap-stops-melting-so-much" benefit supporters tout)? There are plenty of claims it will lead to more "green jobs" and efficiency savings, a claim made by the Climate Progress blog, along with some others. How about Texas' natural gas business?
Wouldn't a move away from coal and oil mean good things if you have a natural gas pipeline or were a natural gas marketer?


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By Heidi Basch-Harod
Today I met with Amoun Sleem, Director of the Domari Society of Gypsies in Jerusalem. According to Amoun, the Dom people of Jerusalem "remain a Gypsy community infused with music and safeguarding their tradition." They have made their home in Jerusalem for over 400 years, nowadays inhabiting the small neighborhood of Burj al-Laqlaq within the walls of the Old City. The roughly 1,000 Dom of Jerusalem are largely marginalized and hardly recognized by the Israeli and Palestinian publics.
The Domari Community Center provides opportunities for empowerment, especially for women and children. This is accomplished by offering literacy courses, providing school supplies for poor children; educating women in the making of handicrafts and allowing them to sell their products for a profit to help them gain security and independence. In providing a safe, warm and beautiful space for the Dom people of Jerusalem, Director Amoun Sleem strives to preserve Domari language and to foster cultural pride in the community.
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Yes, I use to have all this friggin energy….
Not anymore…
I guess the older you get the more focus you become. I sitting at home not wanting to do a lot of anything. I worked a job yesterday…I mean, I luv my job because I am in sells, and I get to talk to people all day. But, I caught the entrepreneurial spirit.
"Entrepreneurial spirit is a mindset. It's an attitude and approach to thinking that actively seeks out change, rather than waiting to adapt to change. It's a mindset that embraces critical questioning, innovation, service and continuous improvement."


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BRADENTON — They were known as the Delta Squad, an elite group of Manatee County sheriff's deputies once praised for ridding the streets of crack cocaine. But their reputation would tarnish. ¶ A federal investigation showed that members of the narcotics unit lied on search warrants, gave crack cocaine to helpful informants and planted evidence. Six officers pleaded guilty to federal charges and were sentenced to prison. ¶ Sheriff Charlie Wells said they were rogue cops acting on their own. The lead federal prosecutor, Jeffrey Del Fuoco, wasn't so sure.
"This seemed to be a fairly entrenched, okay way of doing things," Del Fuoco told a reporter in 2000. "It just seems to me that this kind of network doesn't spring up overnight."
At the time — the final year of a Democratic presidential administration — Del Fuoco's supervisors apparently agreed. Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert O'Neill gave Del Fuoco a glowing evaluation, saying he "was able to demonstrate the legitimacy of the investigation and the fact that the corruption was rampant."
On May 31, 2000, O'Neill signed a form initiating a criminal investigation into "No. 13, a public official" and assigned the case to Del Fuoco.
No. 13 was Sheriff Charlie Wells.
Before the year was out, George W. Bush was elected president, ushering in a Republican administration. And before long, the prosecutor was as much of a target as the well-connected Republican sheriff.
Rags to serious riches
In 23 years in office, Charlie Wells became the most powerful figure in Manatee County as it bloomed into a popular bedroom community for many who work in Tampa and St. Petersburg. By the time he retired a year ago this week, Wells was among the most influential of the state's 67 sheriffs. And by far the richest.
His 2007 financial disclosure statement showed a net worth of $8-million — a long way from his days as a $425-a-month trooper with the Florida Highway Patrol.
Trooper Wells had his highs and lows. In 1972, he rescued four people from a burning car. Eight years later, an off-duty Wells, with "a strong odor" of alcohol on his breath, had a verbal run-in with a St. Petersburg police officer after a motorist said Wells and another person threw a beer can at him and tried to run him off the road.
Wells drew a three-day unpaid suspension, resigned in 1981 and went to work as an investigator for the State Attorney's Office in Bradenton. He soon got the job of Bradenton police chief.
"He was a big, good-looking boy," then-Mayor Bill Evers says of the still-muscular Wells. "He was great with PR, but he had difficulty staying in his budget."
Wells won election as sheriff in 1984. There were more controversies — accusations he illegally tapped employee phone calls, a nude photo his wife took as a joke — but he also shaped a reputation as one of Florida's most innovative lawmen.
He was among the main forces behind STOP, Stop Turning Out Prisoners, that led to a 1995 law requiring that convicts serve at least 85 percent of their sentences. He launched the state's first boot camp for juvenile offenders. To save money on inmate food costs, the Sheriff's Office began raising chickens and cows.
Wells' proactive approach impressed Jeb Bush, who named the sheriff to his transition team and to key advisory panels after being elected governor in 1998. Wells' friendship with Bush was reflected in the names of the department's dogs.
Jeb and George.
An illegal hookup?
While his crime-fighting initiatives drew acclaim, Wells was dogged by allegations he mixed public and private business. Among them: that his wife had illegal access to confidential law enforcement information.
Leslie Wells and partner Paul Sharff owned a real estate company, Gold Star, that handled rentals for a Bradenton apartment complex. Among those who worked in their office was real estate agent Judy Wagar.
In 1999, she told agents for the FBI and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement that Leslie Wells and Sharff did criminal background checks on prospective tenants by accessing the national and Florida crime information centers through a computer connection in their office.
With rare exceptions, using NCIC and FCIC for anything but legitimate law enforcement purposes is a federal crime that can cost an agency its access to the systems.
Wagar told agents she saw a computer screen in the realty office open with the logo of the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. "(Leslie) Wells and Sharff told her that was how they obtained an applicant's criminal history," an FDLE report said.
According to Wagar, the two charged $30 for the background checks, which the applicant was told would be done by an outside company. Instead, Leslie Wells and her partner did the checks through the NCIC/FCIC system and pocketed the money, said Wagar, who declined to be interviewed for this story.
Wells says he never gave his wife access to the system. He showed the St. Petersburg Times a 1999 FDLE audit that spot-checked the Sheriff's Office's use of NCIC/FCIC and found only minor issues. Sharff and Leslie Wells say that all background checks were done by a tenant verification bureau and that Wagar mistook the logo of Gold Star Realty for the sheriff's logo.
After Wagar spoke to authorities, Leslie Wells complained to the Sheriff's Office that Wagar was leaving harassing phone messages in which she claimed she was owed a commission.
In their report, FBI and FDLE agents described Wagar as a credible witness who didn't have any agenda except for being "upset that Wells' and Sharff's political and professional associations allowed them access to sensitive information that other business owners do not have."
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Tampa opened a case in 1999 against Sharff and Leslie Wells, but it went nowhere.
"The FBI basically indicated FDLE would have to staff the investigation and no action taken by FDLE," a supervisor in the U.S. Attorney's Office wrote.
"Case is stale and indications are that Wells was alerted to the problem and is no longer breaking the law in this fashion."
A PR nightmare
In 2000, federal investigators learned of another troubling allegation: that the Manatee Sheriff's Office was borrowing money illegally, in a way that threatened the borrowing ability of the entire county.
Unbeknownst to county officials, Wells entered into several lease-purchase contracts between 1997 and 2000. In all, the Sheriff's Office borrowed $8.5-million from out-of-state banks, using patrol cars and other property it already owned as collateral.
The transactions were legally akin to bond issues, which must be approved by referendum or by the County Commission. The failure to get such approval could have hurt the county's good credit rating and made it harder to borrow for other purposes.
"The county bond attorney said it was totally wrong," says R.B. "Chips" Shore, Manatee's clerk of court and comptroller. "I had no idea (Wells) was doing this and neither did the County Commission because he gave so little information in his budget."
Wells says the money was used to buy more equipment, and that he assumed the contracts were legal because his lawyer said they were. However, he acknowledges the department's bookkeeping was "embarrassing" for a time, possibly because the finance director was in declining health. He later died.
Even after auditors found the contracts in 2000, Shore says there was no interest in investigating how county officials had been kept in the dark so many years.
"At that point, no one wanted to see the county get into a public relations nightmare with the sheriff," Shore says. "We just wanted to get him out of it."
The County Commission authorized a check for $1,046,000 to pay off the final loan and get the sheriff's budget back in balance. Wells promised in writing that "all future capital lease obligations (if any) will be properly coordinated with the Board of County Commissioners."
Wells says any mistakes made were innocent ones.
"I do know nothing was ever missing, there were never any shortages at the Sheriff's Office during my administration. Were there financial problems? Yes. Did it have any thing to do with missing money? No.
"When this came to my attention, you're damn right I was concerned, and I didn't run from the problem."
'Scared to death'
While county officials quietly grappled with the leases, the media in late 2000 focused on the notorious Delta Squad and former member David Livingston. His work history included keeping items seized in a drug bust and letting a prostitute fondle him while on duty.
"Some sheriff's officials believe that federal prosecutors are putting pressure on Livingston in a last-ditch effort to uncover any corruption that hasn't already surfaced," the Sarasota-Herald Tribune reported.
Livingston was never charged with a crime. But a federal grand jury in Tampa was hearing from someone far more important — Shore, the clerk of court.
Under questioning by Del Fuoco, the prosecutor assigned the case of "No. 13," Shore testified about matters involving Wells himself.
"Let me start off by saying, the sheriff of Manatee County has always gotten whatever he asked for budgetwise," Shore told jurors. "It's an extremely high budget, and for a long time, being the chief financial officer, I have not been able to figure out what he does with all of it."
Shore described the lease-purchase transactions. He talked of concerns that some of the money from the sheriff's cattle operation was not properly accounted for. And he told grand jurors that the department's books "are kept so badly" it was difficult to make sense of them, not that anyone was eager to delve too deeply.
"The sheriff of Manatee County is a very powerful person, and everyone is scared to death of him," Shore testified. "Anybody you talk to that has started looking at him always quits."
Shore says Wells knew he had talked to the grand jury "because his deputies followed me up there."
Wells denies that, but a few weeks after Shore's appearance, the sheriff requested a meeting with then-U.S. Attorney Donna Bucella. In a sworn statement he gave in 2004, Wells said he had "offered to cooperate" in regard to the leases. He said he had also complained to Bucella about the "slow pace" of the investigation and the "adverse effect" it was having on law enforcement in Manatee County.
Nonetheless, the investigation chugged on.
Republicans move in
George W. Bush took office in January 2001, and Bucella resigned soon afterward. In March 2002, Bush named her replacement — Jacksonville lawyer Paul Perez, a Republican.
Perez had been in office just a few months when he went to see Wells.
"During the conversation he (Perez) asked if he could provide assistance to my office," Wells said in his sworn statement in a lawsuit. "I expressed to him my opinion that Mr. Del Fuoco needed to be closely supervised."
Perez says the meeting was one of many he held to get acquainted with area law enforcement agencies. He says he doesn't recall Del Fuoco's name coming up.
"I can't speak for what Charlie's interpretation of that meeting was, but it makes perfect sense that it was part of my meet-and-greets," Perez recently told the Times.
Given the history of investigation into the Sheriff's Office, Perez's visit put him in a position where it could have appeared he was being influenced by Wells, an expert on legal ethics says.
"There's a danger of what the sheriff might say even if it's not a conversation the U.S. attorney wants to have," says Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York University School of Law.
"There may be no fire, just smoke, but people see smoke, and you can undermine public confidence."
The mystery vehicle
By 2002, though still working on the sheriff's case, Del Fuoco was devoting most of his time to an investigation of the Plant City Police Department that led to the convictions of three officers. FDLE agents learned that one officer had been instructed to "dig up dirt" on Del Fuoco to get him pulled from the case.
Late that summer, neighbors told Del Fuoco's wife, Carla, that they had seen a black vehicle with tinted windows parked for three days near the couple's north Pinellas home. When one neighbor tried to get a closer look at the tag, the occupant flashed a badge and identified himself as a private investigator but refused to give his name.
"It made my blood run cold," remembers Carla Del Fuoco, who was pregnant at the time.
Del Fuoco assumed he was under surveillance by someone from Plant City. Instead, FDLE agents discovered, it was a Manatee sheriff's employee who had used the tag numbers of Del Fuoco and his ex-wife to get home addresses and other personal information from the computerized Florida Crime Information Center.
The employee, Lola Foy, had run the tags on June 6, 2001 — a day after Del Fuoco was quoted as saying the investigation into the Sheriff's Office would continue. Foy told the FDLE she couldn't remember who wanted the tag information but assumed it was someone from the narcotics unit — the same unit whose rogue members Del Fuoco had prosecuted.
Del Fuoco e-mailed Perez, the new U.S. attorney. "I am most concerned for the welfare of my family," he wrote.
Del Fuoco said he repeatedly asked for protection but nothing happened. At his own expense, he installed a home alarm system.
On Jan. 31, 2003, Del Fuoco filed a lawsuit against Wells and Lola Foy, later adding two deputies. The suit accused them of illegally accessing law enforcement data banks to "harm, injure and harass" Del Fuoco and his family in retaliation for his prosecutions of Delta Squad members.
The suit helped poison Del Fuoco's relations with supervisors, who felt he had acted rashly. But he told reporters he had to make his concerns public because the Justice Department was doing nothing to protect his family.
The lawsuit elicited more allegations.
In March 2003, Del Fuoco got a call from a man who identified himself only as a Manatee deputy and said he knew who had requested the tag runs.
"Do I think these people that are doing this s--- would shoot somebody in the head?" the caller warned. '"Abso-bloody-lutely. That's why I've decided to come forward."
The anonymous caller later was identified as Joe Bernhard, a sergeant in the same division as the Delta Squad. In a recent interview with the Times, Bernhard said he phoned Del Fuoco because "in my opinion I truly felt there was something terribly wrong."
"He's a prosecuting attorney, and he should have some kind of protection," Bernhard says. "If I was in Jeff's position, I absolutely would have been terrified for my life and my family's life.
"Never in my career have I known of a case where an agency under investigation runs the tag of someone in another agency who's investigating them and nothing comes of it."
Bernhard's warnings especially unnerved Carla Del Fuoco, pregnant again after a miscarriage she blamed on stress. "After Joe Bernhard turned up, that's when I really got afraid," she says.
Carla Del Fuoco says it took numerous calls and several months before a U.S. marshal finally did an electronic sweep of their home. A security expert in the Justice Department brushed off her concerns.
"He said, 'Lady, what do you want me to do? I'm in Washington.' "
The big bat
Partly as a result of Del Fuoco's lawsuit, the U.S. Attorney's Office received more allegations involving the Manatee Sheriff's Office. But in May 2003, Del Fuoco was transferred from the criminal to the civil division, a move he considered a demotion.
FDLE Agent Mark Flint, who had been working with Del Fuoco, was teamed with another prosecutor and continued to investigate.
A veteran agent who had once worked for the sheriff's department, Flint was well regarded by the U.S. Attorney's Office. When he retired last year, it honored him for his "outstanding accomplishments in the investigation of public corruption cases" from 1984 to 2007.
Wells, though, often said Flint had a "personal ax to grind" against him.
Flint declined to speak to the Times. In an affidavit last year, he said that "for the safety" of Del Fuoco and his family "the investigation should have been taken to its logical end" — determining who in the Sheriff's Office wanted the personal information on Del Fuoco and his ex-wife.
But when the second prosecutor was reassigned, Flint's affidavit said, the FDLE "was without the prosecutive support to continue the investigation, including issuance of subpoenas."
On Oct. 30, 2003, Flint and his supervisor met with Perez's first assistant, James Klindt, to see how the other allegations involving the Sheriff's Office would be handled from there on.
According to Flint's affidavit, Klindt said he had conferred with Perez and "as far as the elected agency head (Wells) was concerned & he swings a big bat and there would be no further investigations targeting him."
The affidavit said Klindt's meaning seemed clear: "The elected official had considerable political influence."
Klindt, now a federal magistrate in Jacksonville, did not return a reporter's calls.
Perez, who resigned last year to work for a bank, said he would not comment "on anything having to do with Mr. Del Fuoco," including the prosecutor's safety concerns and allegations the Justice Department did little to protect him.
Within weeks of the Oct. 30, 2003, meeting, Perez applied for a federal judgeship. Gov. Bush was part of the nominating process in which names were sent to his brother, the president.
In an e-mail to the Times, Jeb Bush said of Wells: "I consider him a friend and believe he is a fine man." Bush said he never talked to anyone about investigations of the Sheriff's Office, though "I vaguely remember Sheriff Wells speaking about an FDLE agent that had a grudge against him."
Chips Shore, the Manatee clerk of court who appeared before the grand jury, still thinks there were issues that warranted further investigation at the time, if only to clear the air.
Does Shore think Wells' political ties helped him avoid further scrutiny? "Absolutely."
'Fixated' on Wells?
The investigation into the Manatee County Sheriff's Office — which once drew praise for bringing corrupt cops to justice — degenerated into a dizzying cycle of complaints and counterclaims.
Del Fuoco resigned in August 2005. He had a bitter falling out with former friend and supervisor Robert O'Neill, who in media reports and a deposition said Del Fuoco had become so "fixated" on Wells that he "went off the deep end."
Del Fuoco denied any mental problems and filed complaints that accused O'Neill of trying to undermine the Manatee and Plant City investigations. O'Neill was cleared, and this past October he became interim U.S. attorney for Florida's Middle District. O'Neill did not respond to a request for comment.
In 2004, Del Fuoco dropped Wells from his lawsuit after a meeting in which the sheriff accused the prosecutor of trying to extort $500,000 from him in exchange for not reporting alleged campaign violations.
U.S. Magistrate Thomas Wilson ruled that Del Fuoco acted in "bad faith" and sanctioned him by ordering him to pay Wells $167,000 in legal fees. He also dismissed the case against the remaining defendants, saying Del Fuoco had "defiled the judicial process" and made "baseless" claims of retaliation.
Wilson based his rulings in part on gas receipts and other records showing the black vehicle seen near Del Fuoco's home could not have been the Manatee sheriff's surveillance vehicle because it was driven only 98 miles during that time period — not enough to get to north Pinellas and back.
The magistrate's findings gave fodder to critics who said Del Fuoco was an overzealous prosecutor out to get Wells. But left unanswered were the three key questions that had prompted the lawsuit in the first place: Who had requested the personal information on Del Fuoco and his family, and why? And who was the "private investigator" who refused to identify himself to a neighbor?
Wells says he doesn't know. Had it been someone in the Sheriff's Office, "they would have been fired," he says.
In April, Wells retired with more than a year left on his term. He says he would have retired sooner, but "I was not going to let someone like Mr. Del Fuoco think he was going to run me out of office."
Gov. Charlie Crist called Wells "a dear friend" and appointed his handpicked successor, Brad Steube, to serve the rest of his term.
In September, Del Fuoco, Wells and Steube, representing the Sheriff's Office, reached a final settlement in which they dropped all claims against one another, including legal fees. They agreed not to "disparage" or "intentionally harm" one another.
The Wells-Del Fuoco saga now rests with the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, which is investigating allegations that the Justice Department became excessively politicized when Republican Alberto Gonzales was attorney general.
"This is something the committee continues to look at," says Erica Chabot, press secretary to Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. "The counsel for Sen. Leahy is aware of this."
The legacy
The Del Fuocos have a 2-year-old son. Del Fuoco, 54, does fraud examinations and consultations, but business has been slow.
For Charlie and Leslie Wells, business is brisk.
She recently opened a new real estate office and is one of the investors in a new bank in Parrish, near the upscale Foxbrook community she developed. Before leaving office, Bush appointed her to the Sarasota Manatee Airport Authority board.
Wells started a private investigations firm staffed with former deputies. He does marketing and other work for Manatee County Rural Health Services and is a consultant to Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Sarasota. He also has done security and consulting work for the Atlantis casino resort in the Bahamas.
His legacy continues in the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.
Soon after becoming sheriff, Steube hired Wells' son Rick, who had been a $55,000-a-year Highway Patrol trooper. Rick Wells moved into the Sheriff's Office with the rank of lieutenant — jumping over others in line for promotion — and took the $79,200-a-year job of crime prevention officer.
To many in Manatee County, it wouldn't be a surprise if one day Rick Wells were to run for sheriff.
About the stories
In preparing these stories, the Times reviewed thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people.
Susan Taylor Martin can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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New Cheerios Commercial Causes Lots Of Unexpected Racist Backlash [Video]
The latest Cheerios commercial has been the target for comments like "want to vomit" and "disgusting".
So what's really wrong with it? You tell us.
The definition of family has changed dramatically in the last decade, and advertisers haven't always had great results when they tackle subjects like same sex parents and biracial families in their campaigns. The JC Penny same sex Father's Day ad comes to mind, and now the new Cheerios commercial can be added to the mix as well.
The ad, called "Just Checking", features a biracial little girl trying to help her dad's heart with the cereal. Mom is Caucasian, dad is African-American.
The ad has sparked lots of racist backlash. The comments section on Youtube has been disabled and many of the negative comments have been shared on the brand's Facebook page as well.
Does the new Cheerios ad deserve this much criticism? Watch it below.
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Cheerios will not pull the ad. "At Cheerios, we know that there are many kinds of families and we celebrate them all," said Camille Gibson, Cheerios vice-president of marketing in a statement.
Do you find anything offensive in this Cheerios ad? How should advertisers handle the changing definition of what a family is now in their commercial campaigns?


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Hot Spots: Starting Pitchers
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Chris Capuano: As a direct result of Manny Parra's struggles, Capuano will be inserted into the Brewers' starting rotation. Cap had success as a reliever with a 1.80 ERA and 12-to-3 strikeout-to-walk ratio in his last ten innings of work. He missed all of the 2008 and '09 seasons due to Tommy John surgery, making his success this season all the more remarkable. The velocity on all three of his pitches (fastball, change-up, slider) are as high as they have ever been since he was given regular playing time in 2005.
Cap will start tomorrow against the Pittsburgh Pirates, baseball's second-worst offense behind the Seattle Mariners. The Brewers picked a good time to get Capuano back into the rotation. In deep mixed leagues, he will have a lot of value as the Brewers plan to provide the opportunity to re-establish himself as a starter before becoming a free agent after the season. He is available in 99.9 percent of ESPN leagues.
Jordan Zimmermann: Zim was recalled by the Nationals and made his 2010 debut yesterday against the St. Louis Cardinals. He was hit around but it was mostly due to seven hits in just four innings of work, despite four strikeouts and only one walk. That hit rate will not last, of course.
Zimmermann put up some impressive numbers in the Minors: 7.0 K/9, 1.4 BB/9, and a 1.59 ERA in 39.2 innings. The strikeouts are not where they used to be, but 39 innings is not exactly a large sample size. Going forward, expect more strikeouts and more walks. Zimmermann's next start will come Tuesday against the Florida Marlins. He is barely on the radar in ESPN leagues, owned in just a half of one percent of them. Given the injury to Stephen Strasburg, he has a good chance of getting the ball every fifth day, making him relevant in mixed leagues.
Nelson Figueroa: In his two starts since becoming a starter for the Astros, Figueroa has a 1.64 ERA and an 11-to-4 strikeout-to-walk ratio. He has been a part of a stretch of great Astro starting pitching. Aside from a two-game blip on August 20 and 21, the 'stros have allowed three or fewer runs in 12 out of their last 14 games. They are unlikely to make any changes as a result, so Figgy's spot in the rotation is solidified.
Owned in just 0.5 percent of ESPN leagues, Figueroa will start today against the New York Mets. Another solid outing should spur a wave of pick-ups.
Staying on the list
Mike Minor: Although Minor's next start will be skipped, he will remain a part of the Braves' starting rotation and Kenshin Kawakami will end up in the bullpen. Minor's 12-strikeout performance against the Chicago Cubs should have been enough motivation to pluck him out of the free agent pool. If your league is like the 88 percent of ESPN leagues where Minor is still available, go pick him up. In his three starts since being called up, he has an impressive 22-to-4 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
Jhoulys Chacin: Chacin's latest start -- a nine-strikeout, one-walk performance against the Arizona Diamondbacks -- and the ongoing struggles of Esmil Rogers may have solidified his spot in the Colorado Rockies' starting rotation. When Aaron Cook is activated from the disabled list, he is likely to take Rogers' spot, not Chacin's.
I have been tooting the Chacin horn for most of the year and will continue to do so. Make the righty, owned in just 2.5 percent of ESPN leagues, a part of your fantasy squad.
James McDonald: McDonald hit a bump in the road, issuing five walks to the Mets on Saturday. He has had mixed results since being put into the Pirates' rotation, but his impressive strikeout rate and average walk rate -- 9.5 K/9, 3.6 BB/9 -- should give you confidence in making him a part of your NL-only or deep mixed league roster. He will start today against the Brewers and is owned in only one percent of ESPN leagues.
Homer Bailey: Bailey struggled against the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday, allowing five runs without exiting the sixth inning. Overall, the Cincinnati Reds' starting pitching has been sub-par as of late, so Bailey's struggles are not likely to earn him a demotion. Stick with the kid as he has a very high ceiling. Bailey will start on Tuesday against the Brewers. Despite the start against the Giants, his popularity is rising but he should still be available in the vast majority of ESPN leagues (over 90 percent).
Removed from the list
Daniel Hudson: If you were able to get Hudson, congratulations. He is currently owned in two out of every five ESPN leagues. That figure will only rise after he starts Saturday against the Giants. In his last three starts, Hudson struck out 28 batters and walked only three in 21 innings of work. Impressive, yes, but also a fantasy season-saver for many owners.
Bill Baer is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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This is probably as good a place as any to post this: Tommy John surgery is a possibility for Strasburg:
Aug 27, 2010 07:50 AM
Are there there any articles comparing Strasburg's workload in college and the pros, pitch counts, days off between starts?
Aug 27, 2010 09:31 AM
Hmmm, not much to see here for AL-only players.
Aug 27, 2010 10:28 AM
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Michael, I actually tweeted about this. There just aren't any AL pitchers that are both somewhat valuable and not yet taken in most leagues. The last two weeks I've been scouring for AL pitchers and there just aren't any, and I don't want to recommend you taking someone like Jeanmar Gomez.
Aug 27, 2010 12:36 PM
Yes, I figured that was just the luck of the draw.
Aug 27, 2010 13:44 PM
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Mike Minor was optioned to the Gulf Coast League. You should still keep him on your roster, though, because the Atlanta Journal Constitution tweets:
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THURSDAY, Aug. 28 (HealthDay News) -- The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) has released new medical treatment guidelines for the care of workers with chronic pain syndromes, representing the latest chapter in Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines, available online. A print version of the guidelines will be available in September.
A multi-disciplinary panel of national experts developed the guidelines, which focus on diagnostic and other testing and treatments for common chronic pain conditions such as: complex regional pain syndrome, neuropathic pain, trigger points/myofascial pain, chronic persistent pain, fibromyalgia and chronic low back pain. In developing the guidelines, the group reviewed more than 1,500 references, including 546 randomized controlled trials.
The guideline extensively reviews medications (prescription, over-the-counter, complementary and alternative) and provides detailed recommendations regarding the use of appliances such as hyperbaric oxygen chambers, allied health-delivered therapies such as manipulation, and electrical therapies such as a TENS unit for the treatment of chronic pain. Both the indications and limitations of injection therapy are reviewed. Finally, the guideline focuses on functional restoration and the development of a comprehensive program that includes addressing psychological services.
"These guidelines were developed using ACOEM's published methodology, which incorporates the highest scientific standards for reviewing evidence-based literature, ensuring the most rigorous, reproducible and transparent occupational health guidelines available," said Robert R. Orford, M.D., ACOEM president. "Literally thousands of hours of review of the available scientific literature went into this process, yielding what we consider state-of-the-art medical guidelines."
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GP Picks 12-5-13
This week's GP Picks is brought to you by Thanksgiving. We took GP Picks away last week as the Gaming Precision crew was on vacation so we decided to give it back this week. So thank us for giving it back. See how this holiday actually works!?
Welcome to GP Picks for the week of December 5th, 2013. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and a happy console launch. The past two GP Picks have been all about the new consoles but that doesn't mean that good titles aren't still coming out to the for the other new consoles and handhelds that have already come out. In fact, here's my picks for last week:
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (3DS)
- Super Mario 3D World (Wii U)
- Tearaway (Vita)
- Ys: Memories of Celceta (Vita)
So fret not! There are releases this week worth picking up for your current gen machines. This week we've got a port of a 3DS game, an quirky indie game, the re-release of a PSone RPG classic, and the real driving simulator.
What can you say about Gran Turismo? It's one of the pillars of the PlayStation brand. It ushered in a new, more realistic style of racing games. It is usually one of the best selling titles for a PlayStation console and it often breaks over 10 million units sold. It has tons of hardcore fans of the game all over the world and if you are one of them, then you don't need me to tell you that Gran Turismo 6 is coming out today!
Now, this is a different kind of recommendation because, if I'm being completely honest, I don't really like the Gran Turismo series. However, I get the appeal. I own GT3 and 5 and I've played 1 and 2 before and I do get enjoyment out of the collect them all aspect to the cars. This latest iteration will have over 100 tracks and 1200 cars and a feature to drive the lunar rover on the moon! It is strange that this game is coming out on the PS3 instead of the PS4 but that should make it any less of a great title for simulation racing fans.
Stick It To The Man is an interesting game. You play as Ray, who has just awaken from a coma. However, government agents and someone known as "The Man" are now starting to follow Ray ever since a 16 foot long pink spaghetti arm grew out of his head. This arm gives Ray the power to read and manipulate minds and you use this power to to change the world around you by "sticking" objects to each other.
I know that sounds strange but this game revels in that. There are a bunch of wacky characters for you to help out along the way and it has this paper thin, cardboard aesthetic to it that makes everything feel surreal. This unique art style makes this game stand out among the other indie puzzle-platformers out now. It's out now for the PlayStation 3 and it was just released for the PlayStation Vita. A PC version is also on the way next week.
Steamworld Dig was originally released on the 3DS but it's getting a second life on Steam. The game is a Metroidvania style of game in the vein of games like Shadow Complex and Guacamelee, which was released earlier this year, but also has mechanics that make it feel like Terraria. Exploration is the name of the game as you dig into the earth looking for that loot you have been looking for.
The game has a western theme and graphically, it has a stylized 2D look that's not unlike the 2D MOBA game Awesomenauts. You play as Rusty, who is an old mining steambot and the world is filled with old west styled robots with cartoony designs. Since it's not on the 3DS, there's now HD visuals, achievements, and other graphical florishes. If you're a fan of games like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Minecraft, give this game a look.
Finally, we have a last minute release. Out of the blue, Square Enix released Final Fantasy VIII onto Steam. If you're unfamiliar, the eighth game in the series was originally released on the original PlayStation and it has been a polarizing entry in the series. While some call it one of the best Final Fantasy games ever, others call it a low point in the franchise. Either way, it was definitely different. Monsters would level with you, there was a card game with the game, and a storyline that focused more on romance than saving the world.
Nevertheless, it was highly successful and the version on PC has achievements as well as high resolution graphics. The PS1 version of the game can also be bought on the PlayStation Network. So with the holidays coming and new releases slowing down until the next year, this is a perfect time to pick up and revisit one of the more diverse games in the Final Fantasy catalog, either on PS1, PSN or PC.
And there you have it. Another week, another collection of games to spend your money on. Each Friday, I'll recommend games for you all to play. As always, these aren't reviews so much as they are suggestions, as I won't weigh pros and cons of the game. These choices will be new games released that week, but sometimes I will choose games with new downloadable content. I'll also recommend older retro titles because sometimes you need to retreat to move forward! Be sure to check out GP Picks every week to see what's worth picking up. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some games to add to my Steam wishlist.


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Photo Coverage: Head to Toe Fashion at the 2014 Drama Desk Nominees Reception
Nominations for the 2014 Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced last month at 54 Below. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you a head to toe look at the nominees' fashion at the 2014 Drama Desk Nominees Reception!
In keeping with Drama Desk's mission, nominators considered shows that opened on Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway during the 2013-2014 New York theater season in the same competitive categories.
Eligibility and award category designations for the productions under consideration this season were determined by the Drama Desk board of directors with recommendations from the nominating committee. Because of the abundance of great work throughout the season, the Board also authorized the increase in the number of nominees allowed in select categories. CLICK HERE for a full list of nominees.
Drama Desk and Tony Award winner Laura Benanti ("The Sound of Music Live!", Gypsy, Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) will host the 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards on Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 8:00 PM at The Town Hall (123 W. 43rd Street).
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PRINCESS ANNE, Md. — The fruits of a laborious 2014 Outdoor Track Season are about to pay off for a number of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), when they travel to Jacksonville, Fla. for the NCAA Eastern Preliminaries. Beginning on Thursday, this three day event will feature eight Hawks competing in a variety of events, with most Hawks running, jumping or throwing in multiple events.
The contingent of Hawks consists of seven men and one woman went to great lengths to earn the right to compete this weekend. In order by class, they are: Seniors Gayon Evans (Clarendon, Jamaica), Javon Spencer (Montego Bay, Jamaica), Aaron Chatmon (Waldorf, Md.), Rico Taylor (Silver Spring, Md.) and Ramone Waite (Kingston, Jamaica); Junior Dillon Simon (Pottersville, Roseau, Dominica); and freshmen Orwell Maylor (St. Catherine's, Jamaica) and Jared Kerr (Brampton, Ontario, Canada).
Evans is the lone woman to represent the Hawks, and she deserved her place on the team because she goes into the tournament with the highest ranking of any individual Hawk. A time of 23.08 seconds in the 200 meter dash at the MEAC Championships ranks her sixth among all Hawk qualifiers in the event. Evans is also ranked 20th in the100 meter dash with an 11.47 second time. In addition to these qualifying times, Gayon had a spectacular season where she earned the fastest times among all Lady Hawks in the 100, 200 and 400 meter dashes and helped to earn the fastest time in the 4x400 relay. Her efforts made her an MVP for the women's outdoor track team and a finalist for UMES' Female Athlete of the Year.
Spencer qualified for three events, which is tied for the most of any Hawk attending along with Aaron Chatmon. Along with the two relay races, Spencer currently ranks 42nd in the men's 200 meter dash. His time of 21.13 seconds was earned at the VertKlasse Meeting in North Carolina this past April. Spencer finished third during that meet.
Chatmon will join Spencer in the relay races, and will run individually in the 400 meter dash. The holder of the top five times in the event, his best finish was a 46.90 second time at the MEAC Championships which earned him third place in the race earlier this month. The performance gives Aaron a 27th place ranking for the NCAA Preliminaries. Chatmon also competed in the 200 meter dash and 800 meter run this season, and was honored by the school for having a perfect 4.0 GPA this year, graduating with a degree in general studies two weeks ago.
Maylor excelled all season long in the 400 meter hurdles, and earned qualification with a 34th place ranking. His time of 52.12 seconds also earned fourth place at the MEAC Championships. One of two freshmen to make the squad, Maylor also assisted in relays throughout the season.
Taylor qualified for the 4x100 relay race and the high jump. Already the owner of the school's high jump record, which he set in 2012 as a sophomore, Taylor's jump of 2.11 meters at the MEAC Championship earned him first place during that meet, ranking him 28th among all competitors in the high jump at the NCAAs.
Kerr continued his successes from the indoor season in the long jump and the triple jump during the outdoor season, and it paid off with a long jump qualification. The ranking of 35th in the long jump is part of a long list of honors for the freshman, who earned his ranking with a jump of 7.44 meters. Jared was also named Men's Rookie of the Year for the indoor and outdoor season, and qualified for the World Junior Championships in Oregon this coming July for the 400 meter hurdles with a time of 52.69 seconds.
Simon, who is the counterpart to Evans' successes for the men's side, reaches the NCAA's in two events—the shot put and discus. A throw of 18.64 meters ranks Dillon 20th in the shot put and a toss of 56.48 meters in the discus ranks him 23rd. Simon was also a finalist for the UMES' Male Athlete of the Year and won the MVP for Men's Field during both the indoor and outdoor season. In addition, his discus toss reset his own school record, which was previously listed as 53.85 meters, giving Simon three combined school records between the two track seasons.
With a 40.28 second time in the 4x100 relay and a time of 3:08.18 in the 4x400 relay, the men's relay teams rank 22nd and 17th, respectively. Ramone Waite will be the only Hawk competing in relays without earning additional individual qualifications, while Spencer and Chatmon will join Waite in both events. Rico Taylor will run in the 4x100 race and Orwell Maylor will run in the 4x400 race.
In terms of this weekend's schedule, field events will start Thursday at noon while track events begin at 4:30 with Maylor competing in the 400 meter hurdles, concluding on Saturday night with the relay races. North Florida University will play host to the meet, taking place at Hodges Stadium. Tickets can be purchased thru the University of North Florida either in person, online or by calling (904) 620-2473. Game day tickets will also be available beginning one hour before the scheduled start time of the meet. Fans can also follow along with the meet at flashresults.com where results will be posted in real time.
Combined with the results of the NCAA West Preliminaries at the University of Arkansas, the top times will head to the University of Oregon for the second and final round of the NCAA Championships in mid-June.
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Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials, Marvel Comics
I fought the law and the law won. Because I am not the law. And I didn't really fight them because I was wrong. Recently I was editing a script for an episode of an animated TV show that featured a singing frog. Well, to be more precise, the frog doesn't sing at all, but his croaks are treated as if they come right out of Pink's mouth.
For a long time, the frog character didn't have a name, but when it came time to give him one, I thought it would be funny – and a nod to my old pal Steve Gerber – to have this non-singing amphibian called (you guessed it), Garko. Published by Marvel Comics, the Howard the Duck story that pits the cigar-chomping mallard against Garko The Man-Frog is one of my favorite Gerber (and Howard) stories of all time.
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Comic Book Jobs: Who's Hiring? Marvel!
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials, Marvel Comics
My favorite superhero cartoons are the DC ones from Warner Bros. where Bruce Timm and friends are at the helm. In fact, if someone just put a show on the air called "Bruce Timm & Friends," I'd watch it. But the Marvel Comics cartoons have made vast improvements over the years and while I'm outside of the target audience these days, my sons get a kick out of them. Now the Marvel Studios down in Manhattan Beach, California are looking for some help.
In their Animation division, they need a Coordinator in Development and Production. It's an entry-level deal, and you'll be working across all of their shows (both regular series and DTV) and pitching in wherever support is needed. In the corporate world, this used to be referred to unofficially as a "floater."
The job description has a lot of functions – it's longer than anything you'll be able to do in a full week – so just be satisfied knowing that you'll be doing everything someone above you needs done from tracking, monitoring, researching, coordinating and stuff like that. One perk is that you'll be hiring and managing interns and managing the search for key production and creative positions (which makes you my new best friend).
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Charlie Brown For Sale!
I know there are people out there who'd kill to have the image of Jesus appear to them on a potato chip. And there are those who get a thrill out of bumping into a celebrity - even a D-List one - at the local Costco. There's also a group of people who'd love to live in a house that was once owned by a famous person.
As in: "I love this person so much that I want to live in his house after he's dead." It's an odd fetish to have and thank goodness it's not mine.
But if you love Charlie Brown, Peanuts and Snoopy and the Fantagraphics reprints can't satisfy your love, there's something that might. The Santa Rosa house on Montecito Avenue that creator Charles Schulz lived in back in the 1970s is up for sale. The two-story, 14-room house, originally built in 1949, has two master bedrooms (make of that what you will), five full baths and a powder room. There's also a swimming pool, a cabana, a 1000 square-foot guest house (with two bedrooms and a full kitchen), and a chapel on the gated property.
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Weekend Reading: Mo Willems, Bruce Timm, TMNT and Wally Wood
Another big week for people with money to throw around as Nickelodeon just bought the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for $60 million. This is yet another reason why it's great to hold onto your copyrights. If you're just working on Batman And The Outsiders #128, you already know it's a basically a boilerplate work-for-hire contract, but if you've created Dingo, Rescue Dog Of The Outback get that thing copyrighted in your name and hold onto it. Because it's always better for you to have the control - and any related money - than it is to just give it away to a corporation. In the meantime, if you're tired of reading about contract negotiations, take a look around the internet and discover what folks like Mo Willems, Alan Kupperburg, Bill Crider and Bruce Timm are up to. Here's how you can fill up your weekend:
Alan Kupperburg: Steven Thompson over at Hooray for Wally Wood, has a nice interview with Alan talking about his days working for Wood. Great stuff. Here's a taste: "So then he (Wood) asked me if I could pencil Cannon for him. I took the pages home and opened up my T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents and copied out the appropriate panels and adapted them to the situation. And Woody flipped out. He said, 'You're hired.' Within three weeks I was also writing Sally and Cannon."
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Submit Shorts to The Hyde Tube
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Internet, Movies
Budding filmmakers, there is a new site for you to put up your stuff, the Hyde Tube. Submit live action, animation, 3D and mixed media of no more than 3 minutes under a pseudonym. Their jury will screen to make the final selections. After the process, if an agent or record company likes your stuff, they will contact you. Make the cut and join the best shorts to be shown at screenings in Paris, London and New York with awards to be given out. We have to admit, though, you are going to have some competition.
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WEEKEND READING: BILL PEET, WALT DISNEY, and WUMPS
Unless you're caught up in the nerd world of animation credits, the names of some of the top animators in the business are probably not on the tip of your tongue. They should be, though.
BILL PEET is definitely one of those guys. One of Disney's great "storymen" – terrific artists who wrote scripts and gags in storyboard form. He worked for Disney on classic animated films from Song of the South and Pinocchio to Jungle Book. He's the only storyman in the history of Disney Studios who did all the storyboards for an entire animated film and he did it twice: The Sword And The Stone and One Hundred And One Dalmations. You can read more about Peet at his website.
Even in his spare time, he was prolific and managed to publish a pile of children's books that he wrote and illustrated: The Wump World, Huge Harold, Jennifer and Josephine, Pamela Camel, The Whingdingdilly are just a few of his titles and you can get the list here along with a nice cover gallery.
There's also an essay from Peet that's been culled together from his speeches. It's called Bill Peet's Approach To Writing and it has a lot of snippets of great advice for anyone who wants to create. Here's a taste:
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DoInk Simplified Animation
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Design, Internet
Enjoy, discuss and create animation. That is the description that DoInk uses to describe their super-easy online drawing tool that needs only Java to work. Similar to Paint, drag and drop others' single shots or animation or come up with your own and share it. The online app also leaves ghosts to help animate and can layer clone individual frames that are adjustable. When completed, you can email it, put it on your blog or social network for others to appreciate.
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Animasher Beta Launch, Take 2
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Design, Internet, Movies
We first told you about Animasher in May but were cautioned by co-creator Martin Jacobson that we got a little too excited too soon. However, he let us know that the Beta launch is now official. Simply choose pictures, drag and drop, add music and sound effects, and you could be the next Monty Python or JibJab rival.
We understand that the Animasher originated in Sweden when Martin's programmer friend Samuel wanted to make fun of him online. Nine months later, Animasher was born. It must be some friendship to inspire an entire website, eh?
(Thanks, Martin)
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Star Wars Clone Wars Movie Trailer
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Here's what we are thinking. Not to like Star Wars is practically like being anti-American. But the thing that is best about the series is how the fantasy is made better by turning it into a reality. But in this new movie, even Yoda is a bit too creepy. If you haven't yet seen the trailer for Clone Wars, take a peek, and decide for yourself if it is worth paying outrageous ticket and popcorn prices to see on its August 15 debut. We think we may wait for the video to come out and catch another screening of Wall-E.
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Animasher Makes Simplified Animation
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We would love to do more animation if we could get the hang of Adobe or afford the software. We found a beta site recently, Animasher, that can make even the most incompetent into an instant cartoonist. You drag and drop objects around the frame, add background, text, music, special effects, and/or speech. Adjust them individually for time and placement, save, and voila! You got
animation. We wonder if ATHF started this way.
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My mother was deeply in love with my father. They were married over 40 years when he died, and she was heartbroken (she passed away last year).
wow. that is so nice to know that they were inseparable in a way. Kindness, that has taken both away to be together once again.
My mom is still deeply in love with my dad. They've been married for a little over 20 years. Don't know if that counts as a long time compared to people closing in on their golden anniversary, but still.
Probably not. As love is glamorous misdirected sexual attraction and that tapers off with age the answer is..probably not.
True. But there are many different kinds of attraction that keep people together. Love is just a blanket term for it. It's very similar to the illusion that men and women can simply just be friends. But we have to agree that love at 30 is not the same love at 60.
I have been married for 40 years and am deeply in love with my knife. I am a plannin to use it to hurt my wife :>]
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Well, with that being said, lets make this interesting... The first time I heard Nicki was back in '08 and I was in shock. I don't think I've ever heard someone rap so metaphorically and make sense. So I started to do my research and completely fell in love with her. Her intelligence is just unmatched to that of anyone's. For someone so tiny, she is definitely a force to not be reckoned...


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2015 Nissan Altima Specs
The new 2015 Nissan Altima will remain the same as before, without prepared changes for the 2015 model. Nissan management has all the reasons to be delighted by its market performance since Altima left the compact sedan segment and entered the mid-size sedan market competition. They won't change it while it makes a satisfying success, but another reason is that this mid-size sedan had a major redesign just two years ago, so it's not an option to make a new big redesign now. However, there may be some minor changes when it comes to the new Altima interior and technology.
The appearance of the 2015 Nissan Altima won't be changed. Its length will be 191.5 inches and wheelbase will be 109.3 inches, the same as before. The 2015 Nissan Altima interior will have high-quality materials and a lot of comfort. A decent amount of legspace and the roof height provide a comfortable ride for five adult passengers. There are a dual-zone climate control and front seat heaters as a standard. The technology implemented in the new 2015 Nissan Altima will be improved. Almost everyone who had a chance to experience the advantages of the NissanConnect Apps praise its capabilities and performance. The safety system won't have any improvements, but its performance is completely satisfying. There will be a rear-view camera, blind-spot monitoring, lane-change warning system and rear-cross traffic alerts implemented as parts of the new Altima safety characteristics.
The same engine palette used for the previous Altima will be offered for the new Altima. The choice will have to be made within the range of two engines. The first one is 2.5-liter DOHC 4-cylinder 16-valve. It produces 182 horsepower and 180 lb-ft of torque. The stronger engine offered is 3.5-liter DOHC V-6 24-valve. This engine can make 270 horsepower and 251 lb-ft of torque. The 2015 Nissan Altima transmission will be Xtronic continuously variable gearbox no matter which engine is installed. The exquisite fuel economy for the 2.5-liter engine is 27 mpg/city and 38 mpg/highway. The 3.5-liter V-6 fuel economy is 22 mpg/city and 31 mpg/highway.
The price of the 2015 Nissan Altima isn't known yet, but we can reasonably estimate that, since there are no crucial changes, the price shouldn't be far from the price of the current Altima model. In other words, the basic trim level 2015 Nissan Altima should cost around $22,000 while the most expensive equipped Altima will cost around $30,000. It should be at the dealers' showrooms by mid-summer 2014.


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Richard Jeni was one of the most popular and influential comedians of the late 80's and early 90's. His stand up was featured on The Tonight Show and in multiple award winning comedy specials.
I had never heard of him before reviewing this DVD. This is a crime. One I'm glad I corrected by watching "The Beach Crowd"
Through clips of shows from 2002 to 2006 we see how a great comedian operates, how his timing must be adjusted night after night, and how he makes little changes to adapt to hecklers and moments of inspiration. Richard Jeni shines in his ability to deliver material that feels familiar in new and funny ways every time.
Jeni's delivery style is very unique. He's usually seen with a hand or two covering his ears, scratching his neck, sometimes eyes closed as he's finishing his thoughts. It combines the familiarity of talking one on one with impression that he's willing the material out line by line. It feels spontaneous. It allows him to make even the simplest punchlines funny by implying "Hey, I'm shrugging my shoulders too, this is what happened!"
His comedy is primarily observational. Jeni doesn't break a lot of new ground regarding men and women, or cruise ships, or parents, or marriage, but he lulls you into a false confidence before springing a curve ball:
"Nana, that f*****g hypocrite used to yell at me for sucking my thumb!" -When he found out about sex, and the possible revelation that his grandmother probably fellated some men.
"Have you ever feltched a penguin?" -Impersonating an insurance rep on the phone.
"My balls slid down into my foot." -His father, who constantly shocks with his medical ailments.
Needless to say, the material Richard Jeni brings can be very, very blue (crass, inappropirate, NSFW) but always very, very funny. It's his ability to take a standard set up about a subject with a punchline you feel coming and then he gives you something completely different that shows what a master he is.
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"She moaned like a whore…" Delivered while wrapping himself in the stage curtain like a toga, basting on a heavy British accent. Jeni uses this as a frequent callback, and near the end of the set, the whole audience recites the line along with him!
The entire special runs a little over an hour, but it's well worth the purchase, especially if you're looking to study some great stand up. This may have been Richard Jeni's last special, but it's a fitting tribute for a hard working comedian. Even the most cynical audience member will find something to like in Richard Jeni's set, and giving too many gags away would spoil it.
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Fernando Rodney Wrestles Alligator that got Chubs' Hand; Hopes to Find Happy Place
Posted by Bob Biscigliano in countdown to Opening Day, Detroit Tigers, Fernando Rodney wrestles alligator for Chubs
As my excitement of the initial reporting of pitchers and catchers to camp has died down, I want to talk about the little necklace that Fernando Rodney was wearing when he reported. No it was not a Phiten, or four Phitens wrapped around one another for that matter: It was an alligator tooth.
According to Rodney he wrestled an alligator for it. No one really knows if they should believe him. Well, you know what, I believe him. And this is the story I've heard from a number of sources.
Apparently, this offseason Chubs was training Rodney to find his old self. He's seen his work in previous years and what kind of success he had. What really did it for him was when he saw Rodney at a local Lakeland grocery store this summer trying to throw oranges into small pails. Yeah, he was throwing 95+ MPH, but it doesn't matter if the oranges are flying over the pails and hitting old women in the head near the eggs section.
When Rodney was done, someone in a pastelle polo approached him and told him the Tigers were going to be in Spring Training here in a few weeks and that he should try out. Rodney looked at him, as much as he could through half closed eyes, and said, "Yeah I'll see you there, PLFFFF." That was enough to spark a lightbulb for Chubs--"He's going to try out and by golly he's going to win the closer's role."
The next day, Chubs approached Rodney as he was taking balls off the chest at the nearby batting cage. He was taking each pitch square off the heart, with ease, exclaiming "52 days until Opening Day."
Chubs had a look of terror and yelled out, "What the hell is wrong with you?" as he unplugged the machine.
Rodney: "What!?"
Chubs said, "I'm going to teach you how to throw strikes...for free."
Rodney was not interested, "no!"
Chubs wanted to gloat a little, "you have no idea who I am do you?"
Rodney replied, "no I don't,"clearly not interested. Chubs went on about how he won some golf tournaments and that they wouldn't let him play in the Pro Tour. Rodney was thinking, how does this relate to baseball, I want some Chipotle, and who the hell is this random dude, but he responded anyway. "Ohh I'm sorry because you're black and this was pre-Tiger Woods era?"
Chubs was not amused, "Haillll no. Damn alligator bit my hand off." He pulls his hand-less arm out from behind his back.
Rodney's eyes opened further than they ever have before, "Oh my GAWD!" Chubs said it was okay because he had the gator's eyeball. Gross.
Long story short, Chubs persisted and Rodney finally gave in because he figured doing well for the Tigers would get him a better contract eventually and some money to win Grandma's house back.
Chubs was a great teacher, telling Rodney to ease the tension and that it was all in the hips, baby. Rodney really wanted Chubs to ease the tension on someone else, but Chubs was actually helping him. Rodney was starting to throw strikes again and it looked as if the ol' 2006 Rodney may be back in 2009.
Anyway, the story with the alligator tooth is this. One day, Rodney was throwing a bullpen to one of Chubs' old caddies, as Chubs looked on. Late in the session, Rodney was tiring and threw one way over the unathletic caddy's head that trickled to the edge of a nearby pond. When Rodney went to retrieve the ball, he found it resting between the chompers of a cheesing alligator, tempting him to grab it. Sure enough he tried to snatch it from the gator's mouth, but the bastard bit down, nearly taking off Rodney's arm. Rodney's Tiger-like reflexes allowed him to remove his hand just in time before it was bitten off. He took another look at the gator and realized his eyeball was missing. That was the damn alligator that got Chubs' hand. The gator turned around, laughing, and started to crawl back into the pond. Not on Rodney's watch. He attacked the alligator and wrestled it for the baseball, gave him the deathly forearm shiver at the end of the fight, and curtains for that gator. Victory for Fernando!
Just as Rodney was about to report for camp, he went to Chubs' place on the third floor of some apartment complex to thank him for all the help he had so graciously provided. Chubs said it was no problem and gave him a few reminders for Spring Training. Before it was all said and done, Rodney told Chubs he had a present for him.
"You know that gator that got your hand?" Rodney said with an inquisitive look. "Well, I got his head." Rodney undraped the box that revealed the eye-less gator's head. Naturally, Chubs screamed, fell out the window, and died. Former Tiger Jason Grilli, who happened to be on ground level at the time, looked up at Rodney and shook his head.
So the story with the tooth is, Rodney wanted to play for Chubs this Spring, so he took one of the gator's teeth and put it on a necklace to wear during Spring Training.
Hopefully, it helps Rodney find his happy place this spring.
UPDATE: This article was linked to SI.com's Hot Click's daily piece. Check it out here under "The Whole Tooth?".


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The number of police officers serving in Wales has hit its lowest level in a decade, Home Office figures showed yesterday.
There were 6,882 officers in the four forces at the end of September, down 235 or 3.3% on the previous year and fewer than at any point since 2002.
That compares to a 2.9% fall across England and Wales, with 131,837 officers across the 43 forces leaving their posts last year.
The figures come amid a period of upheaval for police as forces deal with 20% budget cuts and the Home Office ushers through a series of reforms which include a £4,000 pay cut for new starters.
Gwent police and crime commissioner Ian Johnston said officer levels at his force were "near to" breaking point and warned further cuts to police budgets in the next comprehensive spending review could be devastating.
South Wales police and crime commissioner Alun Michael said the UK Government cuts had already been "too fast and too deep".
But senior police officers said the cuts had pushed them into working "smarter and more efficiently".
Police officer numbers in Wales have been falling since their post-2002 peak in March 2007, when there were 7,627 officers working across North Wales, South Wales, Gwent and Dyfed-Powys.
Police staff are also down, falling 0.9% or by 34 in Wales. But while numbers of police community support officers (PCSOs) fell by 6.9% overall, all four of Wales' police forces saw a sharp rise of 19.6% thanks to a Welsh Government decision to fund 500 more PCSOs.
The biggest fall in police officer numbers in Wales in the 12 months to September 2012 came in Gwent, where police they dropped by 4.2% to 1,416.
However crime rates have also been falling, with latest figures showing Gwent has experienced a 20% drop in overall crime in the last year – the biggest in the UK – and South Wales recording its lowest levels of crime for 30 years.
Mr Johnston said lower levels of recorded crime provided a boost to public confidence in the police, but said falling police officer levels now risked damaging that confidence.
"It's a bigger question for me," he said.
"Yes, recorded crime is important but it is more about public confidence. Making people safe and making people feel safe."
Since taking up office in November last year, Mr Johnston has pushed for an end to the force's controversial A19 regulation, which forces officers with 30 years service to retire, and which was finally called to a halt last week just under a year after it was introduced.
Former Cardiff South and Penarth MP Mr Michael said the fall in numbers was "as inevitable as it is regrettable", and that, when confronted by police and crime commissioners from around England and Wales at a recent meeting, Home Secretary Theresa May had refused to "even pay lip service" to their calls for her to defend police budgets during the next spending review.
"When police and crime commissioners met her, she didn't even pay lip service to her duty to try to protect a service which is already at a critical level as a result of the cuts already made by Whitehall," he said.
He added: "It would be nice to think that the Home Secretary will fight for a fair settlement for the police service, but judging by the performance so far I am not holding my breath."
But Gwent Police assistant chief constable, Simon Prince, said the cuts imposed on the force had made chief officers, "think about how we can work smarter and more efficiently".
Chief Constable of North Wales Police, Mark Polin, said his force recruited an additional 43 police officers, 71 police staff and 97 PCSOs between March and September 2012.
"In light of the economic climate we looked at new ways of working and credit must go to those within the organisation whose focus on driving out savings and willingness to be flexible have made this possible," he said.
Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said cuts to policing had led to 30,000 fewer crimes being solved in the last year, including 7,000 crimes of violence against the person
But Policing minister Damian Green said police reforms "are working" with crime down 10%.
"We set the police a challenge – to cut crime while playing their part in reducing the country's record deficit. Thanks to the efforts of officers, the leadership of chief constables and our radical reform of policing that challenge is being met."
A Welsh Government spokeswoman said: "Although many of the drivers of community safety, including policing, are not devolved, the Welsh Government is committed to ensuring that we will do all we can to keep our communities safe. As at December 2012, more than 360 of the Welsh Government CSOs were 'on the beat' and, working in partnership with police forces across Wales. We are on target to achieve full deployment by September 2013."


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MONDAY, Nov. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Children are more likely than adults to test positive to amoxicillin allergy on penicillin skin testing (PST), according to a study presented at the annual scientific meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, held from Nov. 11 to 16 in Phoenix.
Stephanie Fox, M.D., and Miguel Park, M.D., of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., evaluated 778 children with a history of penicillin allergy for penicillin allergy by PST. The PST skin test panel was composed of benzylpenicillin polylysine, penicillin G, and benzylpenicilloate. In addition, 685 of the 778 children were tested with amoxicillin. The investigators compared the differences in the proportion of children and adults positive to the various determinants of PST using the Fisher's exact test.
The investigators found that 90.4 percent of the children had a negative PST, 8.5 percent had a positive PST, and 1.1 percent had an equivocal PST. The investigators also found that 62 of the 66 children with a positive PST were tested to amoxicillin, and 34 percent of these children were positive. Compared to adults, children were more likely to be positive to amoxicillin if they were positive to another determinant as well as more likely to be positive solely to amoxicillin.
"Children are more likely to be positive to amoxicillin on PST compared to adults. Amoxicillin should be considered as part of the penicillin skin test panel when testing children, and if included, there may be a better chance of detecting penicillin allergy in this group," the authors write.
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REDLANDS>> Police have arrested a man suspected in the stabbing of a Redlands man in May.
Jeffrey Thomas Moore, 27, of San Bernardino was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of attempted murder after leading officers on a foot chase.
He was being held at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga on $1 million bail.
"Jeffrey Thomas Moore not only committed a violent act upon the victim that will leave the victim with serious injury, he displayed complete disregard for the safety of the community as he evaded arrest for the past 48 days," said Redlands police Lt. Travis Martinez in an emailed statement. "The dedicated efforts of the detectives and investigators assigned to the case allowed for his apprehension before he was able to hurt anybody else."
Moore is suspected in the stabbing of a 29-year-old Redlands man in the 900 block of College Avenue on May 25. The victim was stabbed in the neck with an unknown object. He survived his injuries, but his current condition was unavailable, according to a police news release.
Officers with the Redlands Police Multiple Enforcement Team discovered a vehicle believed to be associated with Moore in the parking lot of the Super 8 Motel at 1160 Arizona St. around 11:15 p.m. Wednesday, according to a police news release.
As police were checking the vehicle, they spotted Moore exiting a room. He attempted to flee on foot, but was apprehended and taken into custody without further incident at a nearby U-Haul rental business, according to the release.
When police searched Moore's vehicle, they reportedly found about five grams of methamphetamine. Police also searched the motel room and found a loaded semi-automatic handgun in his backpack, according to the release.
In addition to the attempted murder charge, Moore was arrested on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm, evading a police officer and being in possession of methamphetamine with intent to sell.
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Marin students are more fit than the state's average student, according to recent physical fitness test results.
The state-required Physical Fitness Test, administered to fifth-, seventh- and ninth-graders, tests fitness levels in six categories. About 45 percent of Marin students tested last school year passed all six tests, compared to less than a third of students statewide.
Within Marin, Kentfield School District posted the highest passing rates, with nearly 88 percent of seventh-graders and 57 percent of fifth-graders passing all six tests.
"We can directly attribute our success from the board level on down to the classroom level on fitness and wellness," Kentfield Superintendent Liz Schott said.
Whether it is the board of trustees supporting health and fitness education, parents dedicated to keeping their kids active and feeding them well, or "the legions of kids riding their bikes and walking to school," Schott said, "there's a focus on fitness and health and wellness in the area that we are then able to take and capitalize on in the classroom and (physical education) classes."
School districts throughout the county generally performed well in the fitness testing.
Though more than half of Marin students failed at least one of the fitness tests, more students from the three grades tested passed all six tests in 2012-13 than in the previous school year. The biggest improvement came among seventh-graders, with a jump from 44.8 to 49 percent.
The disparities between Marin and the state average is magnified in individual categories, where students in some Marin school districts scored 30 percentage points higher in certain categories when compared to state averages.
The six testing categories are aerobic capacity, body fat composition, abdominal strength, trunk extension strength, upper body strength and flexibility. Students who satisfy minimum standards are determined to be in the "healthy fitness zone," while those who don't meet them are categorized as "need improvement."
Aerobic capacity and body fat composition, which generally show lower passing rates than the other four categories, include a "need improvement-health risk" category for students who fall significantly below minimum requirements and risk future health problems.
Nearly 81 percent of Marin seventh-graders passed the aerobic capacity test, compared to 64 percent for the rest of the state.
In Kentfield, 95.9 percent of fifth-graders and 93.6 percent of seventh-graders passed the aerobic test. Kentfield students were even stronger in the other categories, including 100 percent of seventh-graders passing the trunk extension test.
"As a (physical education) department, we decided to separate a couple days of the week just for fitness," Kent Middle School physical education teacher Matthew Kelly said. "It gives you a chance to get a more complete fitness experience."
Kelly said last week's fitness classes focused on core strengthening, using the principles of the popular video exercise regimen, P90X.
Reed Union Elementary School District ranked near the top among Marin school districts in the testing, partially due to the school's emphasis on health, superintendent Steve Herzog said, but more due to the healthy habits they pick up at home.
"It's how active they are in their lives," Herzog said. "Everybody is playing soccer, swimming, playing baseball, lacrosse. If anything, we're looking at whether they're over involved."
Along with being active, Herzog said the district's nutrition plays a big part in student health.
"With our food service program, the kids order very healthy food," Herzog said. "I walk around and I'm impressed with what the kids order. They get that from their parents."
Among high schools, Tamalpais Union schools proved the most fit, with 88 percent of ninth-graders passing the aerobic test and 83 percent scoring satisfactorily in body composition. About three out of five Tam Union students pass all six categories — more than 20 percentage points higher than the statewide rate for high school freshmen.
There is a notable drop off in the county's other high schools. In the San Rafael High School District, 70.7 passed the aerobic test and 67.6 passed the body competition, while students at Novato Unified — the county's largest school district — scored slightly above the state averages, with 65.5 passing the aerobic test and 61.7 passing body fat composition.
Though the testing is most directly a reflection of physical fitness, school administrators throughout the county and state also see fitness as a key component to the learning experience.
Novato Superintendent Shalee Cunningham said the district's elementary schools have implemented a morning exercise routine over the last year to jumpstart their students' days, doing activities such as jumping jacks and walking around the track before school begins.
"There's an awful lot of research that shows that if kids get more oxygen early in the day, it improves their learning," Cunningham said.
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