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Friday, Sept. 20, 2013 | 5:34 p.m.
A private jet served as stork today — delivering a Las Vegas family and their newborn quintuplets home.
Evonne Derrico, Las Vegas, gave birth to the quintuplets Sept. 6 at Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Ariz., where she had temporarily relocated while awaiting the babies' arrival. Her husband, Deon Derrico, made frequent trips back and forth.
Today, the quints — two boys and three girls — begin their stay at Summerlin Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit. A private medical jet made three trips from central Arizona to Las Vegas, shuttling the babies in phases, accompanied by their father, mother or grandmother.
The last flight carrying Evonne Derrico and the youngest baby, daughter Daiten, should arrive early this evening, Deon Derrico said.
"It feels so good to be back on Nevada soil," he said during a news conference at the hospital. "There is no place like home."
Deon and Evonne Derrico also have four other children: a 7-year-old daughter, 3-year-old son and 1-year-old twin boys.
The newest additions to the Derrico clan, who were conceived naturally, are: Deniko (boy), Dariz (boy), Deonee (girl), Daician (girl) and Daiten (girl).
Starting each name with the letter "D" – a family tradition – proved to be a challenge, Deon Derrico admits.
"We ran out of names," he said, laughing.
All babies are doing well and gaining strength, Deon Derrico said. They now range in weight from 2 pounds, 5 ounces, to 3 pounds, 6 ounces.
Dr. Martha Knutsen, director of Summerlin Hospital's NICU, said she expected the babies to be strong enough to go home within a month.
This is the hospital's first time caring for quintuplets.
"We're very well prepared and, obviously, this is what we do," said Robert Freymuller, chief executive officer of Summerlin Hospital. "We look forward to caring for them until everyone is discharged."
Deon Derrico said his wife was looking forward to sleeping in her own bed again tonight. Deon Derrico described his wife's health as "excellent."
"Aside from a good wife of mine, she seems to be a good baby-making machine," Deon Derrico said. "She bounces right back."
The couple always wanted a large family, he said, but learning that they were expecting quintuplets left them feeling humbled and speechless.
Deon Derrico thanked the Las Vegas community for its outpouring of support and continued prayers as the family transitions into this next stage. First up on the agenda: converting a bonus room into a nursery, which will free up two other bedrooms for guests.
"We're trying to make this thing as easy as possible because we realize we're going to need help," he said.


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October 24, 2013 BY Aaron Hope
US Huarache fans continue to be jealous of the developments happening on the regular over in Europe. 2013 has seen several new Nike Air Huarache colorways, but between Size? and Foot Locker, they're all released on the other side of the Atlantic. This is a good reason to expand your horizons and make some connections with friends overseas, because a 'bred' Huarache like this one pictured above is one of those colorups that appeals to just about everybody who likes sneakers. There are more photos of these after the jump and if you're in the shipping zone, pick yours up from Foot Locker EU.
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Cowlishaw: Why I hate having two Class 5A champions
Columnist Tim Cowlishaw answered questions in a chat Thursday. Here are some highlights.
Matt ... On the same note as 70 college football bowl teams, what do you think of Texas having 12 State Football Champions (2 in each classification). No other sport does this. $$ driven? or everyone gets a trophy driven?
Tim Cowlishaw: Money driven. Always hated the two Class 5A champions. Is the one really inferior to the other because it has a smaller enrollment? Having said that, I went to the DeSoto-Allen game Saturday night with my son and his friends. Besides being fun, I believe we counted 27 tubas in the Allen band. I don't know about everyone gets a trophy but clearly everyone gets a tuba.


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MSI Radeon HD 7970 Lightning review @ Guru3D
Published: Friday, March 30, 2012 | Posted By: Dennis
One of the first HD 7970's to feature a completely custom PCB the MSI Radeon HD 7970 Lightning. I almost bought one of these the other day but when I came to my senses they had sold out at Newegg.
We review the MSI Radeon HD 7970 Lightning. What a product to look at, the R7970 lightning has a very rare design, comes with only the best components, has voltage monitoring headers, comes pre-overclocked (extensively at 1070 MHz) and allows to be voltage tweaked at many levels.
To pursue Eyefinity they have made the card Eyefinity6 compatible, by use of four DisplayPort connectors and two single link DVI connectors you can get six monitors running. Though realistically nobody does that as you have that ugly bezel from left to right smack down in the middle of you field of view.
There's another feature though, to give the product a little more 'niche' MSI implemented a small add-on board that is called a GPU-reactor which functions as a power supply module which, when installed on the back of the GPU.
What really surprises me is that we are not seeing more companies take such a radical approach to custom video card PCBs, Yes they are a little more expensive and people "other" than overclockers will buy them. it's just a matter of cost.
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I am a male and I have flat cheek bones but I would like to create a more angular and Narrowness to them is my only option cheek implants or would a filler such as radiesse work?
What Are my Options for Changing the Shapes of my Cheeks?
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Cheek Implants - Fat Grafting as an alternative
A wide variety of facial implants are currently available for the enhancement of the skeletal elements of facial aesthetics. The most commonly used facial implants are used to enhance the profile of the chin and the cheeks. Facial implants very widely not only in shape and style, but also in terms of the materials from which they are fabricated.
My preference is to use structural fat grafting, as much as possible, to enhance facial features. In many cases, the need for a solid implant can be eliminated by the careful and meticulous grafting of a patient's own fat. While the incidence of complications with facial implants is not high, certain problems may develop which require implant removal including infection and implant migration. Bone resorption (bone loss) has also been reported below solid facial implants. Neither of these problems are an issue with structural fat graftin
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Cheek Augmentation
Yes, fillers are a great way to augment the cheeks without using an implant. I generally use Radiesse because it lasts longer than almost all the others, but any of the thicker fillers will work. Fat is also a good choice and can be permanent
Augmenting cheeks
A thicker filler, such a perlane, juvederm ultra plus, or radiesse, are great options for cheek augmentation. Sculptra is a filler that stimulates collagen and also helps to replace volume in cheeks. Consult with a board certified dermatologist to discuss what option would work for you.
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Implants For Cheek Reshaping
For a young male that is looking for a long-term structural facial change, cheek implants are a better choice than injectable fillers. But there are numerous styles and sizes of cheek implants, so careful selection and placement is critical to get the best desired look. While implants can make the cheeks more angular, they can not make them more narrow as they add volume.
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2 Good Options for Changing The Shape of Your Cheeks
Cheek Implants and a high volume filler like Radiesse would both work well for this. They each have their advantages and disadvantages. The main advantage to cheek implants is that they are permanent. They work best in people who have a congenitally flat mid-face, but give improvement in anyone who has lost volume in the mid portion of their face. Cheek implants come in a variety of shapes and sizes, allowing your surgeon to customize the implant to fit your specific needs. Prior to the introduction of Radiesse, fillers were often not a great option for flat cheek bones simply because most people who need volume, need so much volume that it simply took too much of the hyaluronic acid fillers to be practical. Coming in every 6-9 months for 4 syringes of Restylane or Juviderm got to be very expensive. Radiesse, however adds so much more volume per syringe, that 2 syringes are usually enough for most people. And as opposed to the HA fillers that last 6-9 months, Radiesse usually lasts well over a year. The other advantage to Radiesse is that the injector is essentially acting as a sculptor when they put it in, allowing them to get the amount of fullness in the areas they want very precisely. Since the results are immediate, and because you are wide awake while it is being injected (a topical anesthetic cream is all that is needed), you can be a part of the process. I often give the patient a mirror part way through so that they can tell me where they feel they need more volume in order to get the results they desire.
Options for enhancing cheeks
Longer lasting fillers such as Radiesse have many advantages over cheek implants. One obvious advantage is that surgery is not required. Another is that you can get either a rapid or a gradual correction depending upon how many syringes you have injected and you can decide as you go exactly how much correction looks good. Another advantage is that cheek implants may no longer look good in an aging face as it changes over the years. Touch up treatments for fillers can be modified over many years to better fit the aging face.
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Cheek augmentation fillers or implants.
It is more cost effective by far to do implants. The only complication is a veryinpr chance of infection. Fillers can make bumps and need to be continually done.
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MMS marketing: is it too early?
Mobile users don't have MMS enabled phones, or even if they have 'em, brands and media owners don't know how MMS look like on their phones. This is the problem slowing the development of MMS marketing campaigns. On New Media Age, Pamir Gelenbe of Flytxt says that they have a very limited control over the quality of the final MMS.
Basically the problem is that users' positive experience cannot be granted. There is the risk to spoil consumers' attention towards MMS campaigns with low quality messages.


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OOMGeesky! i just signed into my account and found out that i'd been a member for a year and for doing so i had been awarded 500 pts. still in the dark as to what that means... if i get a prize or free merchandise or idk what?! lol. i thought i was the shit for a minute until i saw a girl with 30,000 pts. Dayuuuuuum! But whatevs, Can't Wait for Valentine's Day 2012! Nicki Minaj-- Pink Friday: ROMAN RELOADED i'm sure will make history once again! LOVE you Nicki!
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Anyone with soybeans
from the last harvest left in the barn saw them grown in value again on
Chicago September soybean futures rose for a sixth
successive session, this time by 1.5% to $11.36 Ľ a bushel, the contract's best
finish in nearly a month, and closing over its 40-day moving average for the
first time since June.
The cause is a clamour for soymeal, which for September jumped 2.8% to $413.80 a short ton, the
contract's best finish since June.
'Aggressively bidding'
"Profitable pork and poultry sectors are having difficulty
finding old crop soymeal offers as more [soybean crushing] plants shut down
until harvest," Richard Feltes at Chicago broker RJ O'Brien.
Soybean prices were rising "effort to draw remaining tightly
held old crop beans into depleted pipeline".
On the US cash market, Decatur, Illinois soybean basis has
reached $2.50 a bushel over November futures, "fully $0.50 a bushel over last
year's highs while CIF [export] soybean basis is $0.90 a bushel over early August
highs last year", Mr Feltes said.
At Country Futures Darrell, Holaday said that soybean processors
are "still aggressively bidding for spot soybean delivery for fulfil needs
until they shut down sometime in the next 30 days.
"Bids $2.00 a bushel over the November contract are very
common, which equates to $12.40-a-bushel soybeans."
Export sales
There was enough strength, just, to carry over into the new
crop space for which fundamentals are, of course, completely different, with
the US seen on course for a record harvest, by a distance.
November soybeans closed all of 0.25 cents a bushel higher
at $10.38 Ľ a bushel, helped by a 0.7% rise to $346.50 a short ton in December
Strong US export sales helped too, at 1.42m tonnes last week
for 2014-15, well ahead of market expectations, and, signally, including nearly
950,000 tonnes bought by China.
An apparent dearth of orders by buyers from China, the top
importer, had spooked markets.
Weak export data
Still, soybeans' Chicago grain peers were going to have to
rely on other sources of strength if there were to close higher, with US export
sales soft for corn, at 719,300
tonnes for new crop, and well below forecasts for wheat, at 209,200 tonnes.
The wheat figure was "down 38% from the previous week and
62% from the prior four-week average", the US Department of Agriculture said,
besides being less than half the volume some investors had expected.
It was particularly low for hard red winter wheat, the type
traded in Kansas City, which indeed saw a revival in its performance against
its Chicago soft red winter wheat and Minneapolis spring wheat go into reverse.
Indeed, it was a negative 25,000 tonnes, reflecting
cancellations by Brazil, which has reinstated a 10% tariff on orders from
outside the Mercosur trading block.
Canada data
Still, wheat gained support in part from Statistics Canada data estimating the Canadian crop at 27.7m tonnes – 800,000 tonnes below market
Not all investors were quite so convinced of the bullishness
of that data, with Statistics Canada having a reputation for conservative
estimates at this time of year, and such a harvest not a bad one.
"Not another banner year, but good wheat production
nonetheless," Benson Quinn Commodities said.
Still, the concerns over weather remain, both in Canada and
the northern US, raising concerns over the quality of the crop this late in its
development, with wet weather for example spreading fungal disease, with the
inherent risk of toxic fungal residues.
Benson Quinn said it "would be more concerned with the
potential effects of cool/damp conditions that go hand in hand with a
relatively late harvest".
'No grain export
The former Soviet Union continues to throw out bearish data,
with Rusagrotrans estimating Russia's grain exports for August at 3.9m-4.0m
tonnes, a record for any month.
And Ukraine formally quashed talk of limits on its milling
wheat exports, speculation which sent prices soaring on Tuesday.
"We, according to preliminary estimates, have the opportunity
to export 30m tonnes [of grains] or even more," said Yaroslav Cherevichny,
the head of market monitoring at the country's agriculture ministry.
"With these export opportunities, common sense says
that no grain export limits are necessary.""
Price performances
Close to the former Soviet Union, Paris milling wheat for
November struggled, closing up a modest 0.2% at E171.50 a tonne, dented too by
a slight strengthening in the euro, making eurozone exports less competitive.
London feed wheat for November edged 0.1% higher to £120.85
a tonne, facing improved UK harvest prospects.
However, Chicago wheat for September added 1.3% to $5.46 Ľ a
bushel, ending just below its 40-day moving average.
Spring wheat, the type threatened by northern US and
Canadian rains, added 0.9% to $6.15 ľ a bushel in Minneapolis for September
Barley, sorghum trade
Wheat was a help for corn
too, which added 0.4% to $3.69 a bushel in Chicago, despite mediocre US export
sales data and continuing strong reports from the ProFarmer tour of the
"The theme of above-average yield reports has continued,"
CHS Hedging said.
The increase also defied talk that US barley and sorghum are
the latest feed grains to fall foul of Chinese authorities, with increased
checks for pesticide residues and heavy metals.
"The US is the largest exporter of sorghum and China is the
primary market. Could this have some potential side effects on the market? Will
tons be returned?" CHS asked.
A refusal of US barley and sorghum cargos would only boost
further the feed supplies in the US itself.
Cotton rally slows
Among soft commodities, New York cotton's rally calmed, with the December contract limiting its
rebound this time to 0.2%, taking it to 65.92 cents a pound, the best finish in
nearly a month nonetheless.
One negative is a claim by the Cotton Association of India
that India will in 2014-15 overtake China as the world's top producer, with
output of 6.74m tonnes, ideas that the US Department of Agriculture, which pegs
the harvest at 6.0m tonnes, and International Cotton Advisory Committee, at
6.3m tonnes, have backed away from.
The Cotton Association of India's optimism reflects an
improvement in the monsoon, after its poor start, allowing speedy progress in
"Planting is making rapid progress – by mid-August 5.4% more
acreage had been planted with cotton in India than at the same time last year,"
Commerzbank noted.
'Brazil offers to
But raw sugar
managed to extend its rebound from its six-month low of 15.38 cents a pound
touched on Wednesday, jumping 1.9% to settle at 15.99 cents a pound for the October
contract – which closed above its 10-day moving average for the first time in
nearly a month.
Jack Scoville at Price Futures noted "some talk around the
market of the chance for shortages to develop soon as Brazil starts to wind
down the cane harvest and Thailand gets its sugar sold.
"Brazil offers are expected to drop once the harvest there
is complete."
Indonesia downgrade
And, in coffee, robusta beans this time outperformed,
adding 1.0% to $1,988 a tonne in London for November delivery.
Coffee output in Indonesia, the world's fourth biggest
coffee producer, mainly of robusta beans, will fall 14% to 600,000 tonnes this
year, the Indonesian Coffee Exporters and Industry Association said, cutting
its forecast by 100,000 tonnes.
"Unfavourable weather, and outbreaks of pests and
diseases are causing the decline," said Irfan Anwar, the association's
Indonesia exports will fall 30,000 tonnes this year to 450,000
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A LEIGH finance assistant who siphoned off more than half a million pounds from her employer in order to pay for lavish holidays and cosmetic surgery has been jailed for three years today, Thursday.
Charlotte Darwen, aged 26, of Ledgard Avenue, enjoyed a lifestyle way beyond her means after stealing the money from Action 365, based in Cheadle Hulme, between April 2007 and December 2013.
Her deceit included spending more than £5,000 on cosmetic procedures, foreign holidays and nearly £50,000 on a deposit for a new house.
She was jailed at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court today, Thursday, after pleading guilty to fraud by abuse of position of trust at an earlier hearing.
Det Con Andy Devonshire, from GMP's Volume Fraud Team, said: "While many people have been tightening their belts just to make ends meet, Darwen fleeced her company to fund the kind of lifestyle she thought she was entitled to.
"She didn't put in extra shifts or study for qualifications to pay for it - she just siphoned it off the very people who were paying her wages."
Darwen worked in accounts at the motor claims management company and part of her role involved processing invoices for the finance director.
She used her position to make transfers from the company bank accounts to her own bank account, each time changing the payee reference to disguise the payments as legitimate payments to suppliers.
In total she made in excess of 300 separate payments to her own bank account, which totalled £508,120.38.
The offence was discovered in December, after the company conducted an audit, which uncovered discrepancies with the company accounts.
When confronted by her employers, Darwen admitted what she had done and claimed that she spent the money betting, as she had a gambling habit.
Det Con Andy Devonshire added: "She has blamed her amassing of a small fortune on a gambling addiction.
"While it is true she spent a considerable amount on gambling websites, her addiction was by no means restricted to games of chance. She was also clearly addicted to what you might call retail therapy.
"She is not only now facing a lengthy jail term, but, will hopefully be forced to hand back a chunk of what she stole."


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By: Neal Ungerleider, Fast Company
For online security professionals, 2012 is turning out to be a banner year. Prominent hacks are taking place nearly every week. Credit card fraud and piracy on the Internet are booming. Hacktivist attacks against government computers and private companies are occurring almost daily. Big-name government agencies and businesses everywhere are shelling out for security assistance ... but for everyday Internet users, it's a giant headache with unclear risks.
The one thing no one is really able to explain is why cybercrime's booming. According to a recent Norton study, cybercrime cost the global economy (in both direct damage and lost productivity time) $388 billion in 2011--significantly more than the global black market for marijuana, cocaine, and heroin combined. Officials at the Department of Homeland Security have reported exponentially increasing demand for cybercrime assistance--something confirmed by this reporter in anecdotal discussions with online security experts.


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Gun Sales Up
It's the Bushmaster semi-automatic military style rifle that's generated much of the conversations we're having now. Gun enthusiasts want to make sure they can always have these weapons at their disposal.
Talk about proposed gun legislation often comes up following a mass shooting then goes away. But this time is different.
"20 kids though that' so crazy," says Amber Shanks who doesn't own a gun... yet.
"I wouldn't mind getting a gun, a hand gun just to have it in my house," says Shanks.
'What she isn't looking to buy is this Bushmaster but a lot of other customers are.
This is a Bushmaster A-R-15, a semi-automatic rifle.
It's the kind of firearm used in the Connecticut school shootings. Because they've gotten so much attention, there is fear, these type of weapons might disappear.
"People want to make sure that they preserve their ability to do that. And if they think there may be something to make them think they may be prevented from exercising that right in the future they're probably going to take advantage of what they can purchase now," says Eric Fuson with 2A Shooting Center
Nationwide, Dicks Sporting Goods is the first chain to pull certain semi-automatic rifles off it's shelves. But not all of them look as intimidating as the bushmaster. This is also a semi automatic rifle that some people first learn to shoot with.
If you can aerosolize guns as a bad level or a good level then you're well on your way to convince anyone that any type of firearm is quote a bad gun.
As we have all learned, a weapon in the wrong hands can cause many deaths. Politicians are willing to talk about it while the NRA says it will make "meaningful contributions." I would think that the time to have that discussion get it started would be now," says Shanks.
While some sort of gun legislation is proposed. We still don't know when or exactly what it might look like.


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Paris - Four French journalists held captive in Syria for almost a year were free and "in good health" on Saturday, President Francois Hollande told AFP, saying they would be back in France within hours.
In a statement to AFP, the president said he had "learned with great relief this morning of the liberation of the four French journalists".
Hollande said the four, who had been held in Syria since 2013, were "in good health despite the very challenging conditions of their captivity".
Thanking "all those who contributed to the successful outcome", the president said the men would return to France "in the coming hours".
Didier Francois, a reporter for Europe 1 radio, and photographer Edouard Elias were taken north of Aleppo on June 6.
Nicolas Henin, reporter for Point magazine, and freelance photographer Pierre Torres were seized two weeks later in the north of the country, at Raqqa.
It was not immediately clear if they had been freed by their captors or had escaped.
"I share the joy of the families of our compatriots who have endured ... the fear of this trying time," said Hollande.
He reaffirmed his "deep commitment to the freedom of the press, which demands respect for the security and integrity of journalists in their role of providing information."
Hollande said his attention was now with two other French citizens still held in the Sahel region of Africa, reaffirming his "determination" and the "relentless mobilisation of the state's forces to obtain their liberation". - Sapa-AFP


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The 2011 US Open men's qualifying singles event begins on Tuesday 23 August at 11am local time in New York. The qualifying event is scheduled to be completed over the four days through to and including Friday 26 August. The great news is YOU can attend the entire qualifying event without having to pay for a ticket, yes, free entry for the entire qualifying event so don't miss it!
The two entrances you can use to enter the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, New York are the South Gate by the globe and East Gate by the indoor building/subway walkway. The men's qualifying matches are best of 3 tie-break sets and NOT best of 5 sets like the main draw singles matches. To watch the tennis in Singapore add 12 hours to the New York local times listed below.
The qualifying draw is made at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on the day before qualifying starts. There are 128 spots in the qualifying draw of which 9 are wild cards and 119 direct acceptances.
Click this link-> US Open 2011 Men's Schedule of Play to see the FULL details about: prize money and ATP ranking points earned per round plus more details about the qualifying event.
There are 32 seeds in the qualifying which means that the highest 32 ranked players at the cut-off date are seeded to meet each other in "The Qualifying Round". The cut-off date for the US Open 2011 qualifying singles draw was 4 August 2011, which means the rankings at that date are used to create the draw and seed the players NOT the latest rankings that were released on Monday 22 August.
A seeded player occupies one of every four spots in the draw. There are 32 seeds in the qualifying which means that the highest 32 ranked players at the cut-off date are seeded to meet each other in "The Qualifying Round". The Qualifying Round is the round that decides which players qualify for the main draw, because the winner of that round qualifies.
At the US Open there are 16 spots in the main draw of the men's singles event allocated for qualifiers. The wild cards for the qualifying were announced on 17 and 18 August and in a strong showing of support for Americans the United States Tennis Association awarded all nine wild cards to Americans. In the draw below a "W" in brackets i.e. (W) next to a players name denotes that player was awarded a wild card.
Pictured above is 5-time US Open men's singles champion Roger FEDERER in three frames from earlier to later during his famous service action. The above picture was taken during the final of the Cincinnati Open Masters 1000 in 2010 that Federer won. The 30-year-old Federer won all 5 of his US Open singles titles in a row from 2004 through to 2008. In 2009 the Swiss former World No.1 was defeated in the US Open final by Juan Martin del Potro.
In 2010 Federer had match points in a thrilling 5-set match he played against current World No.1 Novak Djokovic before losing 7-5 in the 5th and final set after 3 hours and 44 minutes. The 1.85m Federer will be doing everything in his power at the US Open to win his first Grand Slam singles title in 2011 after winning at least one Grand Slam singles title every year from 2003 to now. Can he do it?
The players who lose in the 1st round of qualifying receive 3,000 US dollars that win through to the 2nd round of qualifying but are then defeated; earn $5,625 and 16 ATP ranking points. Players who win through to the 3rd round of qualifying but are then defeated, earn $8,000 and 24 ATP ranking points.
Both 2nd round and 3rd round losers in the qualifying receive more ranking points than a player who is directly accepted into the main draw and then loses his 1st round match (the direct acceptance would be awarded 10 ATP ranking points for losing in the 1st round of the main draw).
Players, who qualify for the main draw will earn a minimum of $19,000 and 35 ATP ranking points if they are defeated in the 1st round of the main draw. That means they received 3.5 times the amount of points that a direct acceptance receives when he loses his 1st round match. Do you think that is a fair way to allocate points?
The seeds do not receive a BYE in the 1st round of the qualifying event. All players must win 3 matches in a row in order to qualify. The qualifying draws are different to main draws because these events do not play off until there is one undefeated player. Therefore, the No.1 seed and the No.2 seed are not separated at the opposite ends of the draw.
The Top 32 seeds in the main draw of qualifying have ALL been separated from each other as they are seeded to be the players who do qualify. All 32 seeds are just listed down the draw. The 32 seeds are bolded in the draw below.
The 2011 US Open men's qualifying singles draw is:
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- Vincent MILLOT v Zack FLEISHMAN
- Facundo BAGNIS v Marius COPIL
- Eduardo SCHWANK v (28) Lukas LACKO
- Thomas SCHOOREL (4) v Stefano GALVANI
- Danai UDOMCHOKE v Antonio VEIC
- Guillermo RIVERA-ARANGUIZ v Gregoire BURQUIER
- Maxime TEIXEIRA v (31) Jesse HUTA GALUNG
- Rogerio DUTRA DA SILVA (5) v Clement REIX
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- Nicholas MONROE v (21) Ruben BEMELMANS
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The Happy Road
|The Happy Road
British quad poster
|Directed by
|Gene Kelly
|Produced by
|Gene Kelly
|Written by
|Arthur Julian
Harry Kurnitz
Joe Morhaim
|Gene Kelly
Barbara Laage
Michael Redgrave
Bobby Clark
Brigitte Fossey
|Music by
|Georges Van Parys
|Robert Juillard
|Edited by
|Borys Lewin
|Distributed by
Release date
|June 20, 1957
Running time
|99 minutes
|United States
|Box office
The Happy Road is a 1957 French-American comedy film starring Gene Kelly, Barbara Laage, Michael Redgrave and Bobby Clark.[2] Its plot involves two students who escape from their Swiss private school and make for Paris.
- Mike Andrews - Gene Kelly
- Suzanne Duval - Barbara Laage
- Danny Andrews - Bobby Clark
- Janine Duval - Brigitte Fossey
- General Medworth - Michael Redgrave
- Doctor Salaise - Roger Tréville
- Hélène - Colette Dereal
- Madame Fallière - Maryse Martin
- Motorcycle Officer - Van Doude
- Armbruster - Colin Mann
- The Woodcutter - Alexandre Rignault
- David, Earl of Bardingham - T. Bartlett
Critical reception[edit]
Allmovie wrote, "The Happy Road tends to bludgeon its audience with whimsy at time," but noted, "Gene Kelly, as always, is charming, and less affected than usual" ;[3] while The New York Times praised the film as "a lively and charming little tale" concluding, "Mr. Kelly rates a good hand for this picture. So does Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer." [4]
Box office[edit]
According to MGM records the film earned $325,000 in the US and Canada and $625,000 elsewhere resulting in a loss of $117,000.[1]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- ^ "The Happy Road". BFI.
- ^ "The Happy Road (1957) - Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast - AllMovie". AllMovie.
- ^ "Movie Review - The Happy Road - The Screen: 'Happy Road' Arrives; Gene Kelly Film Opens at Plaza Theatre The Cast - NYTimes.com".
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The Panthers have got unfinished business – and they are determined to complete the task at the Metrodome this November.
"We've just got to take it to the next level – take it to the dome – and we will. The squad's looking really good," said quarterback CJ Janu, one of Spring Lake Park High School's four captains.
Janu was speaking of the Panthers' charge to not only repeat as last season's North Suburban Conference and section champions, but to advance beyond the quarterfinals at the state tournament.
Head coach Jeff Schlieff, while acknowledging that "our section is hands down the toughest in the state," forecasts great things for his 2012 Panthers.
"We've got a tough nucleus of defensive players and the way we play defense, we've got a good chance to win sections," Schlieff said.
All four Panther captains agree, tempering their confidence with modesty and vowing to work tirelessly toward that goal.
2012 schedule
Aug. 30, North Branch, 7 p.m.
Sept. 7 at Benilde-St. Margaret's, 7 p.m.
Sept. 14, St. Louis Park, 7 p.m.
Sept. 22 at Robbinsdale Cooper, 3 p.m.
HOMECOMING: Sept. 28, North St. Paul, 7 p.m.
Oct. 5, Irondale, 7 p.m.
Oct. 12, Chisago Lakes, 7 p.m.
Oct. 17 at St. Francis, 7 p.m.
Daulton Olinger, captain and returning all-state defensive tackle, put it this way. "Our defense looks really strong, we've got a lot of people coming back and we'll be tough against the run," he said. "On offense we're looking pretty good, but of course, on both sides, we've got to work hard."
Captain and all-conference honorable mention offensive tackle Derek Malbrue said, "I want us to be a better team, go further in play-offs. It will take a lot of hard work and I'm confident, but I don't want to be over confident."
That humble confidence is something Spring Lake Park's players have learned and practiced since they were middle school footballers.
It was then, as seventh- and eighth-graders on the Westwood Middle School football team, that they met their football idols – the high school varsity players they so admired.
Those upperclassmen mentored the youngsters, demonstrating to them the value of honesty and hard work, of doing the right thing, following rules and being good kids.
As middle schoolers, they learned, by watching their mentors and listening to coaches, the value of the pyramid of success. That pyramid is built on a foundation of personal goals, like giving 100 percent, doing what's right, being a good kid and treating others as they would like to be treated.
"These things on the base of the pyramid make you rock solid," Schlieff said. "That's the Panther football philosophy in a nut shell."
Assistant coach Scott Wicklund describes Panther football's foundation this way. "The bottom of the pyramid is stuff that will stick around for life," he said.
"You could win a state championship and that's great, but that's it. Next year it's gone. This stuff – knowing the rules, keeping the rules, doing your best, doing what's right – that stuff stays with you for life."
Athletic goals rest on that foundation, and then team goals, conference goals and play-off goals build the pyramid toward its peak: to win the state championship.
"It's the same scheme we've had for 25 years, just tweaked with new faces, new talents, new strengths and weaknesses," Schlieff said.
And that pyramid-building scheme continues to this day.
But even winning the state championship, as the Panthers did in 1991, isn't the end-all, coaches will say.
It's being a good man.
And even while they memorize the play book, do the drills, get to practice, run and lift and train to be the best player they can be, Panther football players are charged with training to be the best men they can be.
Following last Friday's two-a-days, the Panthers were told to go home, get some rest, study the playbook – and write down one thing they could do to be a better son. And then do that thing over and over.
Come Monday morning, coaches would ask each player what they wrote down and check to see that they had done it.
"Every day, I want these guys to do championship things, make good decisions, follow the rules, be good men. That's what we want," Schlieff said.
"Winning isn't the only thing, it's just part of what we do."
And this year, if the Panthers have their way, "what we do" will include winning the state championship.
Spring Lake Park Panthers (North Suburban Conference)
Head coach Jeff Schlieff
Record and 2011 finish: 9-2 overall (North Suburban Conference champions, section 6AAAA champions, lost to Bemidji in state quarterfinals)
Key returners:
Daulton Olinger (captain, returning all state defensive tackle)
Derek Malbrue (captain, offensive tackle, all conference honorable mention)
Justin Axelson (captain, all conference tight end/defensive end)
CJ Janu (captain, cornerback, quarterback)
Jacob Ojile (all conference honorable mention defensive end)
Ryan Flink (nose guard/center)
Jared Evans (running back)
Conner Keefe (wide receiver)
Ejodamen Ejiya (linebacker/running back)
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Both changed the world we now inhabit — Abraham Lincoln, by holding fast to the idea of a United States of America and proving that a nation "of the people, by the people, for the people" could survive, Charles Darwin (known as Charley or Bobby as a boy), by fundamentally altering our understanding of the science of ourselves. The men never met. And in so many ways they couldn't have been more different. Lincoln never left America, while Darwin would not have developed his theory of evolution had he not gone on a multiyear voyage on the HMS Beagle. Lincoln barely had a year of formal education, while Darwin graduated from Cambridge. But they occupied the same intellectual space in a time of dramatic progress in human thinking. We're still living and growing in a world expanded by their vision and insight. And with that in mind, Times staff writers Donna Winchester and Ron Matus offer some facts, figures and interviews with experts about their lives. Jim Verhulst, Perspective editor
The making of the two men
Darwin, the fifth of six children, lived in a comfortable home that still stands in the English countryside. Lincoln, the second of three children, lived in a rude log cabin in the Kentucky woods that no longer exists. • Darwin stood 5 feet 11; Lincoln, 6 feet 4. Darwin's eyes were blue-gray; Lincoln's, gray. Both men grew beards in middle age, Lincoln to appease a young girl, Darwin perhaps to hide effects of ill health or simply to avoid recognition. • Both experienced the death of a child. Lincoln was a depressive, perhaps even suicidal at a point in early adulthood; Darwin was subject to anxiety. • Both men refused to follow the path that tradition dictated for men of their respective stations. Lincoln wanted a way out of the hard life of a frontier dirt farmer; Darwin eschewed a career either as a clergyman or a doctor.
Their complicated views on religion
While at Cambridge, Darwin had embraced the idea of becoming a country clergyman and accepted William Paley's writings on design by a creator. He belonged to a Unitarian congregation after his marriage. But aboard the HMS Beagle, he began to question how God could allow the kind of suffering he saw in places such as Tierra del Fuego. Yet he never became an atheist. Toward the end of his life, he wrote: "The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble to us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic."
While Lincoln frequently quoted the Bible, he never joined any church. His opponent in the 1846 congressional race tried to make Lincoln's religious views an issue in the campaign, accusing Lincoln of being an "infidel." In his defense, Lincoln responded: "I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be open enemy of, or scoffer at, religion." When some freed slaves presented Lincoln with a gift of a Bible, he reportedly replied, "All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated though this book. … All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it."
Lincoln and Darwin as writers
Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan — to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."
Darwin, from Chapter 13 of "The Origin of Species," 1859
"The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree. I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. The green and budding twigs may represent existing species; and those produced during each former year may represent the long succession of extinct species . . . As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications."
What professors say about Lincoln and Darwin
(Edited and condensed comments)
Richard Conley, associate professor of political science at the University of Florida, on Lincoln:
Why Lincoln was important
If he were a revolutionary, he was a revolutionary in spite of himself. He didn't set out to be one. Yes, he did free the slaves, but that wasn't something that he set out to do. It was a consequence of much larger processes beyond his control. This was something that was thrust on him by time and circumstance and a comedy of errors that preceded his presidency.
There is this phrase in one of his memoirs: "Time and circumstance have made the things I've done necessary." By allowing the South to secede, he believed he was violating the Constitution.
His actions, although controversial, saved the union. If he had been a lesser man with a different notion of the Constitution who was completely inflexible in his views — a William Howard Taft, for example — you and I might be sitting here in Florida in Confederate America right now.
I'm not sure he necessarily set out to do all the things for which he's now remembered. If he had lived 50 years earlier, there may not have been the opportunity for him to become famous.
On whose legacy is more enduring
Darwin told us that only the strong survive. Lincoln inspired us by telling us we shall either save or lose the last great hope of mankind. I think Lincoln, in both his thoughts and his actions, inspired us to go beyond the basic character of our nature. And so I believe that for most Americans, Lincoln has had a larger impact than Darwin. People get up on President's Day and think of Lincoln. We don't have a Darwin Day.
Michael Ruse, a philosophy professor at Florida State University and an expert on the philosophy of biology and the history of science, on Darwin:
Why Darwin was important
He did two things. First, he established the idea of evolution — that all organisms are descended naturally from a few (perhaps one) primitive forms — as a fact. Second, he came up with the mechanism — natural selection or the survival of the fittest — that we today accept as the chief force behind evolution.
At the broader level, obviously it was the implications for humankind. It would be a mistake to think simply that it was Darwin who showed that Genesis is wrong. By the time he published, in the middle of the 19th century, sophisticated thinkers had already accepted this fact. The evidence of sciences like geology showed this, and it was reinforced by the German biblical studies ("Higher criticism") that showed Genesis to be in major respects mythlike.
Darwin established humans are truly part of the natural world. We are not something special. We are more sophisticated than other animals, but not different.
Darwin's religious beliefs
Darwin thought a great deal about religion — given his theory and his times, he had to. His beliefs started with conventional Anglicanism, then in the 1830s just before he became an evolutionist moderated to deism (God as a somewhat impersonal unmoved mover) and stayed that way right through the writing of the Origin in 1859. Later in life he became an agnostic (never an atheist), probably for theological reasons. He (like many Victorians) hated the idea of eternal punishment and the implication that someone like his father, whom he adored, would go to perpetual hell. I doubt his science ever had much to do with any of this; it did not for most 19th century nonbelievers.
He was always stone-cold certain that we humans are part of the natural world. He never once agonized over "man's place in nature," unlike so many others.
On Darwin's 'mistakes'
The obvious and big one in the realm of science is that he had no adequate theory of heredity — a theory of genetics — and so could never really explain how it is that the effects of natural selection get saved and passed on from generation to generation.
The interesting mistakes I think come in The Descent of Man. For his time, Darwin was firmly liberal. He hated slavery, and unlike many English people, was firmly on the side of the North in the Civil War. On the other hand, he was a child of his time, and in the Descent we get all sorts of stuff about European superiority over other races and about males being big and strong and brainy and women being soft and yielding and not really quite as developed as their mates.
On whose legacy is more enduring
What is the lasting significance of Lincoln and Darwin and how far today do we see their hopes and dreams realized? Here, today, one has to give the nod to Lincoln. The U.S.A. is hardly a racially free society, but with a black man in the White House, who can deny that the Great Liberator's mission has reached some kind of apotheosis? What Lincoln strove for has been realized — perhaps more so than ever he would have felt comfortable with.
Darwin, on the other hand, has certainly conquered the world of science. However, in the public domain — in much of America and increasingly elsewhere in the world — evolution is doubted and denied. In Florida, for instance — a state that voted for Barack Obama — there is a determined movement to get creationism into the schools. I hope someday that Darwin will succeed as firmly and as importantly as has Lincoln. That day has not yet arrived.


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Lake Elmo City Councilman Mike Pearson earned what turned out to be an easy victory over incumbent Mayor Dean Johnston Tuesday while incumbent City Councilwoman Anne Smith and newcomer Justin Bloyer won the two at-large council posts, ousting incumbent Councilman Brett Emmons.
Complete but unofficial returns from the city's two precincts in the mayoral race showed Pearson received 2,633 votes, or 58.36 percent to Johnston's 1,619 votes, or 35.88 percent and Nicholas Duffy polled 249 votes, or 5.52 percent.
In the race for the two at-large council seats, Bloyer polled 2,327 votes, or 31.37 percent and Smith received 2,252 votes, or 30.35 percent. Emmons was third with 1,869 votes, 25.19 percent and a fourth candidate, Greg Hall, received 950 votes, 12.80 percent.


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AVON — Construction of a rehabilitation center on Health Campus Boulevard is moving forward.
City Council discussed Monday authorizing a special-use permit for Pennsylvania-based Select Medical to open a 60-bed, 60,000-square-foot inpatient rehabilitation center adjacent to the Richard E. Jacobs Health Center.
Avon Planning Director Jim Piazza said the Select Medical rehab center is affiliated with the Cleveland Clinic, but the project should not be confused with the separate expansion of the Jacobs Health Center. The health center expansion, approved by the Planning Commission in December, includes adding 100 beds to the 190,000-square-foot facility and a seven-floor bed tower. The addition will add 250,000 square feet with 25 to 30 rooms on each floor, according to previous Chronicle-Telegram reports.
Piazza said the center will mesh well with patients who have had surgeries that require inpatient rehab.
"This is specifically for folks who have had knee or hip surgeries, things like that, and they need rehab," Piazza said. "You can stay up to two weeks on this property and get your rehabilitation done right there."
Piazza said City Council must issue a special-use permit because the rehab center is classified as a hospital, since there will be overnight stays. Hospitals in districts zoned C-4 are allowable only with a special-use permit, he said.
Dan Blaker, vice president of design and construction for Select Medical, said company officials carefully reviewed their options before selecting Avon. Blaker said the facility will be "an asset to the community."
"After looking throughout the whole area, we think Avon is the place to do this," he said.
Blaker said Select Medical officials visited Cleveland Monday afternoon to discuss design options with Cleveland Clinic leaders.
"Those folks who have been to the existing (Cleveland Clinic) hospital will see a lot of the same design elements," Blaker said.
Avon Mayor Bryan Jensen told Blaker he's glad to see the project moving forward.
"I think it's going to be a perfect fit for the clinic as they move forward with their expansion," Jensen said.
Piazza said Select Medical is working on the architectural drawings for a building permit, and construction is slated to start this summer. Blaker said the center should see its first patients in 15 to 17 months.
Piazza said the facility will employ about 200 people. Select Medical already planned Phase 2 of the site for a future 44-bed addition, Blaker said.
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There has never been anything conventional about Paul Adams. From his bowling action to being the youngest Test cricketer South Africa has produced and now being the youngest Cape Cobras coach at 35.
We caught up with "Gogga" to discuss whether he will be tempted to ever play himself, his mate Herschelle Gibbs's Cobras future and what's up with that strange "beard"?
Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe gave your brother-in-law Wendell Parsons $200 000 when he won Big Brother Amplified. Did he at least take you out for a drink?
I don't think I've seen him since ... wait ... hold on ... aah ... we definitely had some when he was here the last time. Yes, it was after the show. We definitely shared a couple of drinks, and a few stories about what happens "behind the scenes" in the Big Brother house. It was a good night, perhaps that's why I couldn't remember it (laughs).
How much of a fright did you get when a brick was lodged into your windscreen last week?
My nerves were shattered, hey! Absolutely! My brother was actually the one driving, so I just ducked. One of the scarier experiences of my life.
When you began your playing career, it was all loud music and fast cars. Has Paul Adams slowed down over the intervening years?
Very much. I have definitely slowed down. It's a bit difficult to fit all those sub-woofers into my boot now between the pram, the stroller and the bicycles. When we made the decision to start a family, it really changed my life, and I have matured a great deal since.
The Proteas' current Test spinner Imran Tahir is just 18 months younger than you. Does it still hurt that your Test career came to such an abrupt and early end?
I made peace with that a long time ago. When I retired, I made the conscious decision to give coaching my best shot, and I threw all my energies into trying to make a success of the next phase of my cricket career.
So if Robin Peterson or Dane Piedt are injured or suffer a sudden loss of form, you won't be tempted to play yourself for the Cobras?
(Laughs) I still have the odd bowl in the nets, to keep the arm well-greased, but I don't think that need will ever arise. I would have sufficient confidence in the next guy in line, whether it is from the amateur teams or a club side to do the job required.
Is there any particular coach that you have admired, and said "I want to coach like him"?
I have been fortunate that I have played international cricket, and at a high level for a number of years, where I was exposed to some very top coaches. I don't think one particular individual, but more a range of coaches that I learnt from over the years, and taken a small tip from each one.
Did you have any personal self-doubt about applying for the Cobras job, and if so, who did you consult beforehand?
I won't say self-doubt, more like a nervous apprehension. I have a group of people, without mentioning any names besides my close family, that I consult whenever I make big decisions. My wife Adrianna and I discussed it for a while, and we both live by the motto of "no regrets", so I didn't want to think later about "what if" I don't apply. With that in mind, the decision was made that I would give it a full go.
Do you and Salieg Nackerdien share a good relationship and will you be able to manage him, considering he was a leading contender for your post?
I've worked with Salieg since I've started coaching, and even when I was still playing, he was already the Cobras assistant coach. So he knows me very well, as a coach and a person, and I know him too. He would obviously have been disappointed at not having been awarded the top post, but such is the quality of the man that he will be right alongside me in the trenches. We have common goals for Western Cape cricket.
Did you think your rise to becoming a franchise coach would be this rapid?
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be in charge of a franchise team at 35. But I've now been given the opportunity, and I am sure as hell going to give it 100%.
How will Mark Boucher fit into your team dynamic now that Dane Vilas has been appointed Cobras vice-captain?
I've had a chat with Mark and he really is still excited about playing after his international career draws to a close. He will have a mentoring role here at the Cobras, and he really wants to help a guy like Dane fulfil his immense potential.
Who was the first person to call you "Gogga"?
Brian McMillan. He first saw me at the nets, and said "you look like a Gogga" because of my action. And then ahead of my first WP game against Northerns at Centurion, while we were warming up, commentator Kotie Grove was walking around, and asked "who is that?" Eric Simons and Mac were there, and immediately answered "Gogga".
Spinners are obviously your forté. Of the current crop of young spinners emerging in South Africa, who has the brightest future?
(Warriors off-spinner) Simon Harmer. He is really promising. He took over 50 wickets last season, and as an off-spinner, that's even more impressive. He's got really big hands, and big fingers, and gives the ball a real rip!
Will you impose a curfew on all your players while on tour, considering you had your fair share of good moments during your playing career?
I definitely did enjoy a few good nights, but this forms part of my entire coaching philosophy. I want to create an environment where players feel they are being treated like adults, and thereby conduct themselves like adults. There is place for a good night out, but I want each player to start taking personal responsibility. I am no school teacher.
Is there still space for Herschelle Herman Gibbs at the Cobras?
That's a tough question. Herschelle hasn't been back to Cape Town for a while, and I am waiting to sit down with him to find out exactly where he is in his career at the moment and what does he still have left to offer the Cobras.
Which of winning trophies for the Cobras or producing players for South Africa is more important to you?
I think these two factors work hand-in-hand. When a team is successful, and is winning trophies, players automatically thrive in that environment and put in performances that attract the attention of the national selectors.
Are there areas within your squad that you are particularly concerned about?
We have a very balanced squad here at the Cobras, but the fast-bowling resources do worry me a bit. There was some talk of possibly signing West Indian Tino Best, but I've put my faith in our local bowlers, and we've had senior guys like Charl Langeveldt and Johann Louw really putting some young bowlers with potential through their paces this winter.
What's with the thinly trimmed beard Paul, does your wife like it?
(Laughs) I wouldn't really call it a beard, but yeah, Adi does like it. I've asked her on numerous occasions must I remove it, and I'm constantly greeted with a negative.
Do you tweet, and if so, what is your Twitter handle?
Yes I do, and it really is me! @pauladams39
Which sportsmen would you least likely want to be stuck in a lift with?
WWE wrestler Mark Henry. I don't think the lift will be big enough for both of us! (laughs)
Which sportswoman would you most likely want to be stuck in a lift with?
Chris Evert.
Tell us something about Paul Adams we don't know ...
I know how to make a mean potjie. The pot is always empty when I've made one. I'm not sure if that's because of the taste of the food or the fact that everybody is starving because I take so long (laughs again).
Best ball you have ever seen?
It has to be Shane Warne's "Ball from Hell" to Mike Gatting in the Ashes.
Will the Stormers' win the Super Rugby title?
They have been criticised for the style of rugby they are playing, but it sure is effective because they just can't stop winning. Ons almal Storm saam!
What colour is your pyjamas?
(Laughs) I definitely wear pyjamas, brown and green. Those are my favourites. – Cape Times


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Burn the Floor, the hit dance show with a winning international cast – literally: they've racked up over a hundred dance titles among them – is showing in Johannesburg until 19 August 2012. We loved it so much and were so entertained by local boy Keoikantse Motsepe (hot damn, he looks good on stage) that we decided to grab him for an interview about dancing, the show and the personal stuff.
'I've wanted to dance since I was five years old. I used to watch dance on TV, and my friend suggested I go to classes. By the age of seven I told my parents I want to do this for the rest of my life. My mom was shocked but said it was ok – but I think that's because I was young and she thought I'd get over it. Other people feel like dancing makes you gay. My older sister thought I was gay, but dancing really disciplines you. My dad always wanted to me to play soccer, but I had two left feet for soccer! That never stopped me and now they are very supportive.
'I first heard about Burn the Floor when I was busy preparing for Nationals last year. My teacher said I have to watch this show, and I was frustrated because that's two hours out of the day when I could be practicing. But when the curtain went up I was like "wow". One of my dreams is to open a show like that. After I watched it, I knew that this was it, and I decided to audition. I asked my partner if she wanted to join; we've been dancing together since I was eleven so she's kind of like my wife. The hardest part of this was saying good-bye to her.
'After I heard that I got it, we started by training and performing in the USA, then moved on to China and Australia and then from here, Singapore, Korea and Japan. Australia was my favourite; it reminded me of South Africa culturally. It had big crowds, and great theatres. I haven't been to Australia before, and it was an amazing experience.
'The show is completely amazing, and I love the costumes, some of the numbers I'd even wear going out. Between the numbers the outfits changes can be very quickly, especially for the girls. My favourite number is Ballroom Blitz, the opening act, though I prefer the slower pieces. I'm more of a romantic guy. I need to put all of my emotions in those numbers. I'm very chilled and down to earth. Ballroom Blitz was choreographed in 2 days, and took 5 hours a day to learn. We rehearse every day and are emailed corrections after every. I love working with [choreographer] Jason Gilkison! Sometimes I ask if this really happening or am I dreaming?
'As for my future, I believe that you have to follow your dreams. Your love for it can be anything as long as you're 100% committed.'


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AltEnergis, a UK-based Cleantech development and commercialisation company has teamed up with Swansea Innovations, who are responsible for the management and exploitation of intellectual property owned by Swansea University, to take forward an innovative technology invented at the University. Dr Lijie Li from the University has invented a novel device for the harvesting or capture of piezoelectric energy, which constitutes the energy generated by the application of mechanical stress to solid materials.
AltEnergis is taking over the management of the invention to continue development further and take the technology into the commercial marketplace. James Dimitriou, CEO of AltEnergis is very pleased to add Dr Li's technology to the company's portfolio and added,"We believe this technology will have a significant impact in its marketplace and hope that this is the first of many arrangements between AltEnergis and Swansea Innovations that will lead to further development of innovative technologies invented at Swansea University."
Dr Gerry Ronan, Manager of Swansea Innovations, is delighted to be working with AltEnergis and notes that this arrangement overcomes a common barrier to the commercialisation of technologies invented at the University. "At Swansea University we have a number of creative and innovative inventions that although proven in the laboratory, need significant development work before they are in a state of technological readiness that is required for investment. We have every confidence that AltEnergis will be able to take this invention forward to the benefit of all."
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LONDON (Jul. 25)
The Jewish community in Gibraltar, which has been on "the Rock" for 200 years and "is thoroughly integrated" there, is affected by the frontier dispute between Gibraltar and Spain to the same degree that those tensions affect the rest of the population, Sir Joshua Abraham Hassan, Chief Minister of Gibraltar, declared here tonight.
Here for consultation with the Government, Sir Joshua is also active in the leadership of the Gibraltar Jewish community. He made his statement in an interview over the BBC Hebrew Service, a radio broadcast beamed to Israel.
Sir Joshua said there is good cooperation between Gibraltar and Israel. "Close maritime ties have been maintained with Israeli shipping firms for a long time," he said. "Israeli ships call at Gibralter regularly." Many Israeli products, he declared, are displayed in Gibraltar shops.
Sir Joshua, the chief member of the Gibraltar Legislature, and Lord Mayor of Gibraltar, is a member of the Nefusot Yehuda Synagogue in Gibraltar and on the managing board of the Hebrew Community of Gibraltar.


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Things Janet Yellen Said That Distance Her From Others' Views
The main takeaway from Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen's testimony before the Senate Banking Committee was that central bank policy is on cruise control until officials get a better read on the economy's performance. The Fed will continue to gradually reduce its monthly bond purchases unless officials decide the economy has slowed substantially. A recent spate of bad weather in parts of the country make it hard to form a judgment now, Ms. Yellen said.
Here are five other takeaways that don't involve the weather:
She subtly pushed back at the White House, which criticized a recent Congressional Budget Office report on raising the minimum wage. The CBO report said the White House proposal to increase it to $10.10 would lift 900,000 people out of poverty, but lead to the elimination of 500,000 other jobs. Republicans said the report showed the proposal was a bad idea. The White House said CBO overstated the job losses and its view didn't represent the consensus among economists. Ms. Yellen contradicted that argument. The CBO "is as qualified as anyone to evaluate the literature," she said. "I wouldn't want to argue with their assessment."
Sen. Jack Reed (D., R.I.) pressed Ms. Yellen to comment on whether Congress should pursue fiscal stimulus, as many Democrats want. Ms. Yellen didn't take the bait and instead stuck to her predecessor Ben Bernanke's line. Fiscal policy has been a "substantial drag" on the economy in the short-run, she said. The Fed does indeed want less fiscal restraint in the short-run. But she wouldn't endorse fiscal stimulus without some effort to rein-in long-run budget deficits. "There are substantial long-term budget issues," she said. At a minimum, she urged both parties, "do no harm."
She departed slightly from him on the question of whether the Fed's low interest rate policies of the 2000s contributed to the housing bubble. Mr. Bernanke has argued they didn't. Instead, he has said an influx of foreign capital into the U.S. spurred a housing boom and lax regulation allowed it to get out of control. Ms. Yellen said she "would not argue" with other economists who believe low rates contributed to the buildup of leverage in the financial system in the 2000s and a housing bubble. If she thinks low rates helped cause the bubble, she might be willing to raise rates if she sees a new bubble emerging.
Yellen said the Fed doesn't have authority to regulate bitcoin. If there is fraud or money laundering involved, she suggested, it is an issue the Justice Department would need to look at. She said, however, the Fed has been looking at bitcoin to figure out what role, if any, the central bank had to play in this world of emerging online currency.
Pressed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) for more transparency on the regulatory front, Ms. Yellen said the Fed was moving in that direction. The Fed rarely holds public votes on issues such as its enforcement actions taken against banks, Ms. Warren noted. "You have raised a very important question," Ms. Yellen said. "I do think it is appropriate for us to make changes and I fully expect that we will."
Bottom line: Ms. Yellen showed, in her willingness to veer from others' views on a number of these questions that she is starting in subtle ways to carve out her own path as the central bank's leader.


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By M. Morley
From: Sacramento, CA
May 1, 2007
At approximately 6:52pm on Wednesday, July 10, 1996, a large block of granite, with an estimated mass of 184,000 tons, detached from the cliff between Washburn Point and Glacier Point. My friend Darin MacGillivray and I watched this happen as we were descending the Vernal/Nevada Falls trail after having climbed Snake Dike earlier in the day. The only fatality was a young man standing approximately 100 yards away from us on the bridge at the Happy Isles trailhead.
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From: Berkeley, CA
Mar 14, 2011
|3/12/11 rockfall on the grack and marginal. I was rapping down between second and third rappel anchors from the top of Marginal and the Grack, rock fell on the ledge at the top of these climbs, luckily the ledge redirected the rock away from my party, but if someone was on the Grack or at the top they would have been injured or dead. This a supposedly 'safer' part of the Apron, but still dangerous. Scary.
By Stefano Prezioso
From: Denver, CO
Jun 7, 2012
Got off route on Marginal today, and am curious if anyone has any information about the climbing right of Marginal. Here's what we did.
About 20-30 feet right of the last bolt on the second pitch of Marginal is a bolted anchor. From this anchor, there is a bolt up and to the right. From that bolt, you can head straight up a very shallow (two inches), right facing dihedral for about 25 feet. Above the dihedral are two more bolts, and then trending up and to the right takes you two a belay ledge with a bush and bolted anchor. From this anchor, there is a bolt up and to the left below another shallow right facing dihedral. There are two fixed heads in the dihedral, and then a bolt above it. Up and to the left of this bolt is a very thin seam surrounded by very slick, water-polished rock. About 35 feet above the bolt, in the seam, is another fixed head. About 15 feet above this fixed head is another bolt, before heading up and left to a ledge system that trends left, and gains the easier dihedral system that takes you up and to the anchors atop of The Grack - Center, approaching these anchors form the right.
We are calling our 3rd pitch 5.9, maybe 5.9+, and our 4th pitch at least 5.10. Both pitches were runout, and the 4th pitch was VERY runout while also being on crux terrain. It was all friction/slab climbing.
We looked at The Grack - Right, but that line was further right than what we did. It's possible the Good Friday Ledge was the ledge we stopped at at the top of our 3rd pitch. Not positive.
If anyone has a clue as to what any of this climbing might have been, please let me know! We're very curious as to what we got ourselves into today. Thanks!
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May 31, 2015
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The Holiday Gift Pack was content appearing in Grand Theft Auto Online between December 24th, 2013 and January 5th, 2014.
The gift pack included a version of Southern San Andreas, Los Santos and Blaine County covered in snow only for Christmas Day. The pack also includes a bunch of free Christmas-related clothing including Elf outfits and Christmas sweaters. It also included a permanent update to the Snapmatic app for the iFruit phone. Patch version 1.08 was required to access the content.


text: Who wouldn't want to see their name in lights? Wonder Woman, that's who, and she's now hell bent on putting a stop to the Wonder Woman movie. At least she is until she realizes the impact she has on young women and girls, and must decide what's more important to her - her sanity or her conscience?


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Pope speaks out on abuse scandal
Pope Benedict is set to outline his plan for dealing with the child abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church in Ireland to its foundations.
The pontiff's much-anticipated pastoral letter to congregations on the island will be published by the Vatican ahead of being read to mass-goers on Sunday.
While it is not clear if the message will include a formal apology, it will contain a number of measures to improve child protection procedures within the church.
It comes as embattled Irish primate Cardinal Sean Brady continues to resist calls to resign for his handling of historic abuse allegations that saw victims sign confidentiality deals.
While the cardinal has been under fire, his role in secrecy oaths taken by two victims of notorious paedophile cleric Father Brendan Smyth almost 35 years ago, the church has also been stunned with disclosures that two other accused priests agreed to pay £45,000 and £12,000 respectively to their alleged victims in out-of-court settlements.
These claims were all the more damaging as the legal deals included confidentiality clauses that the church of late has so publicly stated its opposition to.
This week's fresh scandals follow only months after state investigations in the Republic of Ireland unearthed a shocking litany of past clerical and institutional abuse against children.
Meanwhile, on the eve of the publication of the Pope`s letter, the leader of Catholics in England Wales insisted there is no statistical connection between the abuse of minors and a celibate way of life.
"Nor is there as far as I know any proven psychological connection between a way of celibacy and the abuse of children," Archbishop of Westminster the Most Rev Vincent Nichols said in an interview on Friday night.