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Louisville hasn't lost since February 9, in 5 OT at Notre Dame.
Missouri has 10 losses. 6 of them were by 3 points or less. 1 other was in overtime.
Duke went 18-1 with Ryan Kelly, and 9-4 without him. Ryan Kelly is back and playing.
Gonzaga has the worst strength of schedule for a #1-seed ever. The previous worst was 2004 Stanford…which lost in the 2nd round to Alabama that season.
#8-seed Pittsburgh, by the way, ranks 8th overall in Ken Pomeroy's adjusted rankings.
Arizona started out the season 14-0 and were ranked 3rd in the polls.
Kansas lost 3 straight games in early February, but 4/5 losses were by 7 points or less.
Ohio State only lost to tournament teams this season. But they were 8-7 against those teams.
Minnesota has only won 5 of their last 16 games. Just so you know, 7 of the games were against non-tournament teams. They still only went 3-4 in those games.
Syracuse was 15-1 when James Southerland was suspended. They are only 7-6 since he returned.
Davidson has the longest winning streak in the country; 17 in a row.
Florida won all 26 of their games by double digits this year.
Michigan is a #4 seed? They were never ranked below 7th all season until this week's poll when they fell to 10th.
14 of the last 18 years at least one mid-major advanced to the Elite 8.
The past 10 champions have finished in the top 20 of KenPom's offensive and defensive stats. This year's qualifiers: Louisville, Indiana, Gonzaga, Ohio State, Florida, and Pittsburgh.
Coaches with Final Four experience have won 12 of the last 13 championships. That group of 19 includes (10 in the South region): Louisville, Duke, Michigan State, Ohio State, Kansas State, Miami, Butler, Indiana, Syracuse, Oklahoma, San Diego State, Georgetown, Florida, UCLA, Minnesota, VCU, Villanova, North Carolina, and Kansas.
Every Final Four team in the last 6 years has had at least an 8 game winning streak during the season.


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Mary Kay Beauty Blotters Oil-Absorbing Tissues Reviews
Great for on the go usesThis product works for on the go touch ups (can be left in my purse)for my oily skin. 1 or 2 can be used to dry up some of the oils on the skin's surface for a shine free look. These blotters lessen the chance of getting zits from oils that need to be controlled with a product like this. There are other products from different brands that work the same as this one from Mary Kay so this is about equal to other brands' blotters. — 8 years, 5 months agojeni27 | 186 reviews
Perfect for the purse.I have dry skin everywhere but around my nose. These papers are perfect for me when I get an oily nose mid day. Love them. — 4 years, 5 months agoEBecks | 21 reviews
Not worth it.I don't expect a miracle, but I have to use 2-4 of these at once and I am oily within 20 minutes. Not worth paying even the discount price on eBay. — 5 years, 5 months agoNinny1024 | 5 reviews
This or the oil mattifierMy lil sis has very oily, very sensitive, and acne prone skin. To keep the oil and shine down on her face she uses these. One day my look was so fresh anymore so I tried one. My makeup stayed in place, it took the extra oil off, and I was left look fabulous as usual. My sis also uses the oil mattifier fron MK. She says it doesnt give her a chance to have a any sheen so she doesnt use it much. — 8 years, 3 months agoStacieD | 122 reviews
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Very handyI ALWAYS keep these tissues in my purse! They come in handy when you had a long day and you dont have time to wash your face of all the oil that gathers on your face, it works very very well. — 8 years, 5 months agoMariquita | 12 reviews
Keep it in your purseI always keep a pack of these in my purse. I have oily skin and These are perfect to use and easy to carry with me. I like that I can use them and they don't remove my make up and keep my face from looking so shiny. — 8 years, 10 months agodelightfuldevil | 11 reviews
Work okI found these to work ok, however since my skin tends to be very oily i find that i could use quite a few during a 24 hr period, just a temporary fix, however i think for someone with normal skin these may be great — 8 years, 11 months agoNewMultimom06 | 5 reviews
For quick touchupsThese are great for carrying in my purse for quick touchups. Perfect when I don't have my makeup bag with me. — 9 years, 3 months agomizbrophy | 5 reviews
too much oil?these tissues work - they do blot up oil from the skin. Too often necessary to use more than one. — 9 years, 5 months agoPhillyjo | 6 reviews
Equal to the othersI don't see a huge difference in most of these, these are decent. The best thing is they aren't too small, you can do your whole face with 1 maybe 2 — 9 years, 7 months agoAHRoss | 41 reviews
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New Hy-Vee Convenience Store in Cedar Rapids opening next month
Expansion of other stores to begin next month with Mt. Vernon Road Hy-Vee
The newest Hy-Vee Convenience Store in the Corridor will open next month at 2300 Bowling St. SW in Cedar Rapids, across the street from the Wilson Avenue SW Hy-Vee Food Store.
Ruth Comer, assistant vice president of West Des Moines-based Hy-Vee, said the store will be similar to the company's facility at 1440 32nd St. NE.
"We are planning a two-bay car wash at the Wilson Avenue SW Hy-Vee Convenience Store in the near future," Comer said.
Hy-Vee purchased the former Novak Sinclair service station at Bowling Street and Wilson Avenue SW to make way for the convenience store. Novak Sinclair closed in early December.
Comer said construction will begin next month of a 10,000-square-foot expansion of the Hy-Vee at 4035 Mount Vernon Rd. SE and a 25,000-square-foot addition to the company's supermarket at 1914 Eighth St. in�Coralville.
The Cedar Rapids store will grow to 71,400 square feet and the Coralville supermarket will expand to about 90,000 square feet.
Comer said Hy-Vee will add Market Cafe, a restaurant and bar serving sandwiches and appetizers as well as beer and wine, at both locations pending the approval of licenses and permits. The concept is relatively new for Hy-Vee, which has restaurants in stores in Urbandale, Iowa; Madison, Wis., and Overland Park, Kan.
Hy-Vee expects to start construction early next year on a new�50,000-square-foot supermarket at 1109 and 1123 N. Dodge St. in Iowa City. The store, built on the site of the former�Roberts Dairy, will replace an existing Hy-Vee at 1201 N. Dodge St. in Iowa City.
Hy-Vee/Weitz Construction will be the general contractor for all of the expansion projects. The 17-year-old joint venture also will be the general contractor for a 92,000-square-foot store in Ankeny and a store of similar size in Waukee.
Comer said Hy-Vee's capital improvement plan includes developing stores in new markets and renovating stores in existing locations, including three in�metropolitan Des Moines. She said new larger-size stores cost about $15 million.Hy-Vee, an employee-owned company with about 63,000 associates, operates 233 stores in eight Midwestern states. The company recorded sales of $7.7 billion in 2012, ranking it among the top 25 supermarket chains and the top 50 private companies in the nation.
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"The Narwhal is considerably less-huggable than the animals Shuttleworth has used with prior releases."
Let's dig into that assertion with a review of previous names, shall we?
# 2 Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog) - Tusks. No thanks.
# 3 Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) - Probably not a fighter, but don at least two parkas before attempting to hug.
# 4 Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) - The UK's most hostile land mammal. Taxi!
# 5 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake) - OK, probably do-able but hard to catch.
# 6 Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) - Easy catch, but a bit slippery.
# 7 Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) - Even Bambi could deliver a pretty humbling kick in the nuts. No.
# 8 Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) - It'll be up a tree before you can say "Why won't you let me IN?". If you do manage to grab one, beware powerful bite and twitchy sphincter.
# 9 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) - See #5, plus dagger-like bill.
# 10 Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) - Horns to the solar plexus, pushed off a mountaintop. Next!
# 11 Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) - Doesn't appear to exist. Possibly therefore hardest on the list.
# 12 Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) - worth a crack if it's sleepy (most of the time), but still a fair risk of near-fatal laceration.
# 13 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) - It's a big cat. I've seen small cats put grown men in hospital for less than a hug.
# 15 Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) - Liable to bore you to death about car insurance before you get close.
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François Hollande's Relationship With Bond Investors Is in Trouble, TooBy
His popularity ratings are in the cellar, and his personal life is a mess. But French President François Hollande at least could count on enthusiastic support from bond markets—until now.
The yield on France's benchmark 10-year bonds, reflecting the premium demanded by investors to hold its sovereign debt, has risen to 2.5 percent from a record low 1.7 percent last spring. A debt auction on Jan. 9 drew the weakest demand in a decade.
Eighteen months after he took office, markets are growing impatient with Hollande's failure to repair France's sagging economy. On Jan. 14, he outlined new reform measures, including a planned €30 billion ($41 billion) in payroll tax reductions aimed at reining in labor costs to boost competitiveness. Yet the announcement was largely overshadowed by news of his alleged affair with actress Julie Gayet.
"France is uncoupling from the rest of Europe," Standard & Poor's chief European economist, Jean-Michel Six, said at a press conference in Paris on Jan. 14. "France is the only major economy in Europe whose trade deficit with Germany has widened. Italy and Spain have narrowed theirs."
Indeed, there's growing investor appetite for debt from some of the region's most troubled economies. Portugal and Ireland recently held successful bond sales, and even Greece is contemplating a return to debt markets. Yields on Spanish and Italian debt have fallen to record lows in recent weeks.
France's borrowing costs are still less than half those of Spain and Italy, and despite recent downgrades by credit rating agencies, there's scant risk that Europe's second-largest economy would default on its sovereign debt.
Still, France now has the worst-performing bonds of any major euro zone issuer except Belgium. "French bonds are underperforming both cores and peripherals," John Stopford, head of fixed income at Investec Asset Management in London, tells Bloomberg News. "They are deteriorating in terms of quality, and they don't compensate you enough for those risks."


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IN HIS career, PC Nick Beech has been kicked, punched and spat at – but the bite he received from Steven Bird was the first time he had been assaulted in this way.
He told The Gazette: "I think all assaults are horrible, but I think being spat at and bitten are two of the worst. It's almost animalistic."
PC Beech, 33, was acting sergeant on January 25, helping Basingstoke CID with the arrest of Bird in the course of an investigation into a string of garage break-ins.
It was when PC Beech made the arrest that Bird bit him, leaving three puncture wounds on the base of his right thumb.
He said: "It was very painful. I shouted out to my colleagues but he did not release his bite and I had to use reasonable force to get my thumb out of his mouth.
"At hospital, I had blood tests and a tetanus inoculation and a Hepatitis A jab. I had to wait for four weeks to get the all clear from the blood tests."
The bite had an effect on PC Beech's professional and personal life too. He was on light duties until the mobility in his right thumb returned, and he was unable to do day-to-day tasks for his infant son.
PC Beech said: "I do a job where you have to deal with violent people and accept the risks, but what he did was totally unacceptable.
"He has to realise that is why he was charged with a serious offence, and the court has recognised that."


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I use them on leg days. I went online just looking at different training shoes, and I thought Vibrams really made sense. So I gave them a try. They're like gloves for your feet.
I usually wear cross-trainers or Jordans, and I noticed I wasn't getting the traction that I wanted. I felt like sometimes my heels were coming up on things like squats; I was on my toes a lot. Primarily, this was because I was trying to use my toes to grip through the insoles to the floor. Well, you can't do that with a regular shoe, but that's what Vibrams let you do.
Back in the day, Arnold and the guys used to squat with bare feet. So I thought let me just try Vibrams. So I tried them, and they don't hurt my back or feet or anything, and I do feel more connected to the floor. I change back and forth. I'll train legs with regular shoes or Vibrams, but I think the Vibrams have especially helped me on squats. I feel more grounded when I wear them.
Does your basketball background help your bodybuilding career?
Yes. I think it gave me a mental toughness. I learned things in basketball that have given me an edge on the competition because no one else in pro bodybuilding has done it. It's an easy transition for me to get up at 5 a.m. and go do cardio, because I used to do that with the college basketball team. Or working out twice a day, well, we did two-a-days in college. The main difference has been the eating. In basketball, you better not be eating all the time. In bodybuilding, it's crucial.
It was easy for me to transition to bodybuilding because I thought, "Wow, I don't have to carry anyone else's weight anymore." On a basketball team when we were running suicides, I used to have to push the slow guys. But now I just have to care about myself. Wow, what a relief. I was in some really big game situations where it was do or die, and I was able to be focused enough to perform a certain task. So when I get up on the Olympia stage now, I've been through all that before. Other guys might get nervous. But I don't. I know the techniques to keep myself calm and on an even keel so I can perform at my best.
College basketball also prepared me for all the travel I do now. People ask how I'm able to travel so much and still train and eat right. Well, how was I able to go to practice twice a day, go to class, go to study table, go to meal table, and still have a social life, and still get good grades at 19 years old? We played three days a week in college. Also, when we were watching game film we were being told how shitty we were by the coaches, so being able to take criticism is easy for me as long as it's constructive. - FLEX


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Roddy Hart has become such a fixture at Celtic Connections he's in danger of overshadowing his own work.
Hart and his group, the Lonesome Fire, have served as house band at several of the recent all-star jamborees at the festival, but have finally re-emerged as an ongoing concern, with a fourth album slated for an April release.
There have been changes though, with the group dynamic much more to the fore and Hart, here sharply dressed like a genial dinner party host, less connected to the singer-songwriter fare of before. There was an obvious emphasis on making matters rockier, with drumbeats consistently aiming for an ominous thumping tone, while bursts of guitar suggested the Edge.
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It was solidly constructed, well-played material, although two revamped older numbers shone brightest. Flames proved a jaunty, brass-fuelled power pop number, and Boxes was a vast, yearning torchlight ballad that seemed to encapsulate the epic nature the band were seeking.
Yet while the likes of recent single Bright Light Fever were easy on the ear, there was always a sense that the seven-piece, here aided by a brass trio, are missing that killer song, a tune or two to really grab hold of the senses. Ironically, the night's most leaden number, Ghosts Of Love, provoked the most strident audience response, despite its grandiose tone ending up overwrought.
When an altercation in the crowd broke out Hart joked that it was possibly the first time people had ever squared up at his show, and such a statement hinted at the passive nature that recurred too often for the night to be quite as triumphant a return as hoped.


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Shop Sweet Lulu. Also from my favorite party shop: yellow tissue paper pom poms you see below.
deviled eggs, Camille's asparagus and lemon ricotta crostini (a hit that I will make again and again), quiche from Manhattan Bread & Bagel and fresh berries.
By the way, a side note for my local friends: this was the best quiche I may have ever had, in my life. Blows away any other local, giant specialty food stores.
Shop Sweet Lulu goodness: party kids took home glassine bags filled with assorted yellow candies.


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Warm summer weather and vacations often equal thrill rides and hot dogs on a stick. While San Francisco isn't known for theme parks (the same way a certain Southern California city certainly is), you can get your fill by renting a car for the day and heading to the coast. The roller coasters that is. Here are three Bay Area amusement parks to consider.
Santa Cruz Boardwalk (Santa Cruz, CA): Set on the Pacific
Ocean, this traditional boardwalk has free concerts in addition to the rides. Come for a few hours or the whole day, while trying out the historic 1911 Looff carousel -- It has one of the few "brass ring" machines left in the country. You can lean over from your wooden carousel horse and grab a ring, then toss it into a clown's mouth a few seconds later. The Boardwalk has rides for all ages.
Gilroy Gardens (Gilroy, CA): In the garlic capital of the world, this amusement park is best for the younger set and for parents who might find the horticultural exhibits fascinating. With 40 rides plus water features, the kids will end up happy and tired. They'll even love the 19 "Circus Trees," with branches and trunks grafted and shaped in surprising ways. In addition to a train and monorail, the park also has a large greenhouse with a Monarch butterfly garden.
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom (Vallejo, CA): Head north to Vallejo, and you can ride a coaster that will make you nauseous, swim with dolphins, and more. Six Flags Discovery Kingdom has a little something for everyone, with animals like a Bengal tiger, an Asian elephant, and a killer whale. As for the rides, they range from go karts to a Tony Hawk spinning coaster.
If you're traveling with the family and want to stay in the city, check out the Fisherman's Wharf hotels like the Sheraton, Fairmont Heritage Place or the Holiday Inn and you'll have easy access to the routes.
--Debbie Abrams Kaplan of Frisco Kids and Kaplan Ink
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PriceBaba is a Mumbai-based price and product research platform that provides retailers with information on the buying behavior of Indian consumers. PriceBaba was launched in 2011 by Annkur P Agarwal and Tirthesh J Ganatra. Currently available in some major cities across India including - Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Delhi, Noida and Gurgaon, PriceBaba features over 1000 retailers. This startup has focused on solving a tough Indian problem - getting offline retailers to online consumers.
In an exclusive interview with CrazyEngineers, Tirthesh talks about his startup's initial years that gave him the best lessons for life. Tirthesh also shares details about PriceBaba's competitors, his business idea, his working hours and the most challenging versus the most enjoyable tasks at PriceBaba.
Read on!
1. Could you please tell our readers more about PriceBaba?
Tirthesh: A Google India survey said that 7 out of 10 of buyers know the exact brand and model they want to buy with the help of online research before entering the store. We knew this for a while, so we built PriceBaba!
Over 90% of 200+ million Internet users in India make their purchases offline, PriceBaba gives them intelligence to shop better. We bring data from the real world to help you research products, prices & availability in your local area.
PriceBaba is a product research platform tailed to meet the needs of the Indian consumer. It helps connect local retailers to potential customers on the web. At the same time it serves the default buying behavior of the Indian consumer i.e. Research Online, Buy Offline.
PriceBaba is currently available in Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Delhi, Noida and Gurgaon with over 1000 retailers. The focus currently is mobile phones and Tablets.
2. You have co-founded PriceBaba with Annkur Agarwal. How did you guys come together for starting up PriceBaba? What was the source of inspiration behind PriceBaba?
Tirthesh: Annkur Agarwal, a young tech enthusiast who had started e-tailing by the age of 15 met me during a train journey from Bangalore to Mumbai in 2011. Annkur was fed up with the constant calls he used to get from acquaintances, asking him which phone they should buy and where will they get the best price. I was headed back disappointed by India's silicon valley where I couldn't find a place where I could belong. I luckily met Annkur on the way back.
Together, we brought the idea of a platform that helped people choose the right product and the best place around their vicinity to life!
3. Do you remember the moment you decided to start your business? What was it like?
Tirthesh: It was crazy at first as only two people couldn't do everything that was needed to get PriceBaba off the road. Everything from getting prices from retailers, to building relationships with them, to coding the engine, to hunting for investors — they really multiplexed a lot in the beginning. Now we're glad to have a strong team of people that are great at what they do, making PriceBaba a smooth sailing ride.
4. With 350% yearly growth in 2013, PriceBaba service is available in Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Noida and Gurgaon with main focus on mobile phones. What are your plans for expansion?
Tirthesh: First goal would be to get into new categories. Cameras, Laptops, TVs are just some of the many consumer electronics categories we're closely eyeing for now. Next, expanding into more major cities in India than today remains to be our big goal. It is pure hard work to manually scout new stores in cities for our operations team. But looking at geographic data of people coming to our site, it only makes sense to be able to serve these people too.
Collective intelligence is core in giving people a 360 degree experience. That's why there is also a need to make PriceBaba into a community. We have to go beyond giving our customers more than just "Where to buy?" information. We're looking at a one-stop-shop solution.
The PriceBaba Team
5. Who are your biggest competitors? What is your competitive advantage?
Tirthesh: JustDial has done a good job of being the go-to directory service. We want to more than just point people to stores, so we certainly would like to match up to their scale. JustDial began its roots using telephony as their mode of communication. We are from the Internet generation and believe that a user gets a much richer, wholesome experience on the internet than speaking to an operator on the phone. Our edge lies in building a kickass product — we appreciate good design and a user experience that makes the user keep coming back to us.
At the moment, we offer a choice engine and comparison of upto four products at once. We think we're among the very few research engines on the internet that offer product comparisons which work on small mobile screens too.
6. What are the biggest lessons you have learnt in your entrepreneurial journey that young engineers can learn from?
a) Move / iterate fast. Bring incremental updates to the product on a regular basis rather than deploying big releases after long intervals. We believe in our mentor Dave McClure's words of wisdom who believes in improving at a rate of 1% every day and "ship faster".
b) Understand which metrics are the most important to your business. Don't keep ogling at certain vanity metrics, because they are not the only numbers that define the success of your business.
c) Specifically for engineers — there will always be tons of people suggesting you stuff. Don't follow anyone blindly; question yourself 'Why'? Nobody knows the product better than you do; so deep-dive into every request that comes your way, access/analyse, and take calculated decisions before you build/improve something. "Just because you can do it doesn't mean it needs to be done". Also, it makes sense to keep trying out new stuff on a portion of your product, see user feedback, then roll it out in its entirety. For example, our Nokia phones page features a cleaner design that we are trying out, and should eventually implement on all manufacturer pages.
7. Assuming fairly long working hours, how is a typical work day for you? What will be your advice to engineers who aim to be entrepreneur just to avoid a 9-5 job?
Tirthesh: I may start my day a little later than everybody else, but that doesn't mean it's anywhere close to a typical 9-5 job. I am usually the last one closing the office in the eerie hours of the night. Being an entrepreneur may be wrongfully perceived as having an easy-going life. But the fact is in fact opposite — since it's all on you, your drive to excel, to survive, is stronger. This ends up making you sit nights in a row at the office, but without any remorse or negative feelings. All because it's your baby, and every baby needs the parents' fullest attention.
8. What parts of your work at PriceBaba do you find most challenging? What do find most enjoyable?
Tirthesh: The most challenging part of making non-tech guys understand how tech works. It's not their fault, sometimes there's a disconnect between what they think is the way to go, without realising the mountain of tech effort required to get there. Second thing is, we have a little over 50 percent traffic coming to us via mobile phones. Now, since we're kind of from the desktop computer era, even though we'd like to project ourselves as a mobile-first product, there are times when we think of a feature, only to then to get reminded of its implementation on mobile. But we're evolving.
The most enjoyable part of the job is to make non-tech guys understand how tech works. Yeah, that's right — even though it may be a pain, it is absolutely blissful to see the whole PriceBaba team be on the same page. And I have a responsibility to be up to speed with their thoughts and problems too, as they too are the product.
9. Thank you for your time. Any message for our crazy engineers?
Engineers! Claim your free membership
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Interview with Tirthesh Ganatra, Co-Founder - PriceBaba
By Guneet Kaur Khanuja in 'Founders Circuit - The Venture Capture Series', May 12, 2014.
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Such good answers to the questions asked! Sheer pleasure in reading them all.
The important take-away from this interview that entrepreneurs as well as non-entrepreneurs can benefit from -
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@Anoop Mathew Aren't you surprised that nobody has put up a question here in the comments about PriceBaba's revenue model?
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I see PriceBaba has supported Android KajuKatli campaign and now supporting Ladoo.
Will you please share some of your experience with it. How much it is difficult to make an impact on Google guys?
We should send all the comments to the guy whom we interviewed so they can come back and give some reply to questions asked by CEan.
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I have emailed your questions to PriceBaba's team. Waiting for their response.
Hey Harshad
Apologies for the late revert. I am answering this one (I am co-founder of PriceBaba & I am the one in the Ladoo campaign video).
We campaigned hard. Sent boxes of KajuKatli to Google and even visited the Android building in Mountain View. Despite getting 1000s of tweets / Facebook shares we haven't heard any response from Google (yet). We continue to be optimistic and will keep driving the campaign. Do let me know if you have any ideas to push this initiative forward.
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Thank you @Annkur for the answers. For those who don't know about Android Ladoo Compaign please have a look here http://ladoo.co/ and please please please support ALC.
Great work @Annkur


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Normoglycaemia in Intensive Care Evaluation and Survival Using Glucose Algorithm Regulation (NICE - SUGAR STUDY)
This study has been completed.
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National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia
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Last updated: January 27, 2009
Last verified: January 2009
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NICE-SUGAR Study Investigators, Finfer S, Liu B, Chittock DR, Norton R, Myburgh JA, McArthur C, Mitchell I, Foster D, Dhingra V, Henderson WR, Ronco JJ, Bellomo R, Cook D, McDonald E, Dodek P, Hébert PC, Heyland DK, Robinson BG. Hypoglycemia and risk of death in critically ill patients. N Engl J Med. 2012 Sep 20;367(12):1108-18.
NICE-SUGAR Study Investigators, Finfer S, Chittock DR, Su SY, Blair D, Foster D, Dhingra V, Bellomo R, Cook D, Dodek P, Henderson WR, Hébert PC, Heritier S, Heyland DK, McArthur C, McDonald E, Mitchell I, Myburgh JA, Norton R, Potter J, Robinson BG, Ronco JJ. Intensive versus conventional glucose control in critically ill patients. N Engl J Med. 2009 Mar 26;360(13):1283-97. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0810625. Epub 2009 Mar 24.


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Welcome to another KSK Sex & Fantasy Football Mailbag. Please note the ampersand when writing in, ladies and gentlemen: sex AND fantasy football. Too many of you want my precious fantasy knowledge but have no sex question (or vice versa), and that violates the spirit of the mailbag. Need lineup help but don't have a pressing sex question? That's fine: MAKE ONE UP. Ask me a hypothetical or something.
All I'm sayin' is, we've been in this mailbag relationship for a couple years now, dear readers. Don't get lazy. Let's keep things fresh. Let's keep things… SEXY.
Dear KSK/Ufford,
In vain attempts to "maximize" my roster with silly things like matchups, etc. I am 1-5 in a 10 team (standard scoring, one keeper) league, which sucks. Roster is as follows: QB: Vick/Foles, Kaepernick RB: CJ Spiller , Reggie Bush, Stevan Ridley, Willis McGahee WR: Calvin Johnson, Desean Jackson, Antonio Brown, Edelman, Roddy White TE: Julius Thomas Tell me who to start so that I can take next week's inevitable loss (I have been outscored by an obscene amount of points overall) off (Left 30-40 points on bench every week) my (fantasy football is the worst) shoulders.
-Sam Spain
Start Vick this week. Despite the injury risk, the matchup against the Giants (6th-worst in giving up fantasy points to QBs) is too good. Drop Nick Foles. If you can't trust him at home against the porous Dallas D, you can't trust him at all.
re: Eagles MT @SheilKapadia: Watching All-22 now. An avg. QB would have yielded 300 yds. through the air. Guys running open all game long. — Bill Barnwell (@billbarnwell) October 22, 2013
Start Bush every week, and I'd say lean towards Ridley as your second RB until you see signs of life from Spiller or the matchup dictates McGahee. I'd start Megatron, DeSean, and Brown every week unless injuries dictate otherwise.
Hey Man of Cave,
Sex: When I was in college, my grandmother moved into a nursing home, and soon I noticed that I was developing a fetish for older, retired women. I still dated and slept with women my own age, but nothing compared to the sex I had with a few of the women at the retirement community.
is this real
After graduation, I moved to a different city for a job, and I also started volunteering at retirement home on the weekends. I'm at peace with my sexual interests, even though I know most people wouldn't approve, but here's the dilemma: one of the women I've been sleeping with handed me an envelope with a thousand dollars in it. I'm trying to figure out if I should keep it or not. She's pretty wealthy and I don't think she'd miss it, but I have to admit that I don't really need the money. I'm making close to 75k, I have no debt, and I'm only 25. On the one hand, who couldn't use a thousand bucks; on the other hand, I'm worried about the psychological effects of essentially becoming a prostitute. What should I do?
-Gilf Fetishist
Rich old men dating young women buy them nice things, right? That money is a gift, enjoy it. Put it towards a new laptop or TV or a plane ticket to somewhere cool — something you think about buying, but don't because it's not "responsible."
Give it some thought. If it still offends your moral code, donate the money to a charity that supports a cause you care about. There HAS to be some kind of charity that supplies replacement hips or something.
On a related note, this emailer sent me a photo of a "gorgeous older woman" that I found horrifying and made me doubt the email's veracity. But, if you can step outside the "old people aren't sexy" mindset for a moment, it's kind of an ideal fetish to have. They're experienced, they're doting, and if you ever choose to settle down, your wife will only ever get sexier. Not a bad deal.
Sex: Unfortunately, the multitude of marriages that my friends went through in our twenties has given way to a number of divorces in our thirties. My usual approach towards my friends' divorces has worked pretty well up to this point (give advice if they ask for it, listen if they want to vent, and ignore it if they don't want to talk about it). Giving advice has gotten more difficult recently, as a few troubled marriages involve couples with children. I've never been married and have no kids, so I don't know how to respond to questions such as:
"How do I choose between giving my child a stable home and remaining in a relationship that makes me miserable or getting a divorce that would make me happier but potentially lead to me not being as involved in my kid's life."
"My wife is going to move with our child to another state to be closer to her family. Do I sacrifice my career to move with them and try to keep a dying relationship alive or move for the sake of my kid?"
This is way out of my league, so any advice you and the Kommentariat could give on how to approach questions like these would be a huge help.
How stable is a home in which the parents are miserable and don't like each other? I have a couple friends whose parents divorced while my friends were in college or early adulthood, and it STILL hit them like a sack of bricks — they ended up wondering if what they'd seen while growing up was a lie. So you can gut out a miserable relationship and waste years of your life, or you can get your child adapted to the idea of mommy and daddy living separately from an early age.
I am by no means advocating for divorce, and while I'm not yet a father, the notion of seeing my future children four times a week or only the weekends sounds terrible. Maintaining a close relationship with your child while staying cordial and working with your ex-spouse on consistency in parenting takes a fuck-ton of effort and patience, but to me it seems the preferable course to a loveless or broken marriage.
Football: What's your strategy towards drafting defenses? I'm sure the answer depends on how the draft plays out, but at what point would you draft a Seahawks or Niners D versus going with a weekly streaming strategy based on whoever's playing the Jags?
I'm a 12th-round-or-later guy. The Seahawks D was under-the-radar enough last year for me to get them in most leagues, but I knew that wouldn't be the case this year. While Seattle's D has put up great fantasy numbers so far this season, in general, the drop-off from what's perceived as a "top" defense and the "regular" defenses isn't steep enough to warrant an 8th round pick, IMO. Think back on your drafts: how many years were the Bears and Steelers picked early even after they'd fallen off?
I prefer to target a young, aggressive defense that showed some promise the year before or clicks strongly in the preseason, and if that doesn't pan out I work the free agent pool early. This year I targeted the Browns (good) and Rams (not good), but was able to pick up KC in two of my leagues.
Dear Guy Who I Once Paid To See In Short Shorts,
You're welcome!
Fantasy: I'm 5-1, I'm fine.
Good work!
Other: I've been with a woman on and off for the last 13 years of my life, and I'm 31. We have been living together for the last four years after spending two apart, and a few more not living together. We broke up the first time due to drug use (both of us), jail (me), and cheating (her).
So a pretty smooth relationship without too many ups and downs. Got it.
We got back together after both getting clean on our own (clean being beer and the occasional joint a few times a week) for a while, and realizing that we were really happy together when things were good. This was all I wanted in life as an ex felon trying to live life the right way, work an honest job and come home every night to someone I love.
You, sir, are perhaps my ideal vision of a KSK reader.
Fast forward to now; after both being clean for years, she has been doing drugs (heroin, meth),
stealing quite a bit of money from me (about $1,000), and doing other dudes. This is all in the last month or so, after a long period of stable, domesticated relaxation. I found out a little over a week ago, I'm also still (besides beer and joints) clean.
This is good. Please stay that way.
Needless to say, I'm a little fucked up over it all. I've asked her to move out, and she is in the process of getting her things and hasn't stayed in our place in over a week. Now obviously I need to end this now, that isn't really the question. It doesn't matter how much I love this person, I can't continue to do this to myself. My real question is, as a 31 year old man, how the fuck do I continue to live my life?
I already go to the gym, and do stuff with people at places during times and all the other really great Ufford Plan stuff, and it's great. I just have no idea how to move on, at 31, from a woman I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with who has now ripped my heart out, more than once. I just have no clue how to live life as a single person, I haven't gone to a bar besides my Wednesday night trivia and an occasional birthday or holiday in years. How the fuck do I pay rent on a two income place with one income, or even go about finding a place? I can't even afford shit with what I make where I live, do I need a roommate at fucking 31? I know that things will get better with time, but how fucking much? I've loved this woman for my entire adult life, even when we weren't together, and I have no clue how to turn it off. Please help, I'm fucked.
A guy who remembers when Captain Caveman was a funny Deadspin commenter.
You are not fucked. Your life will be fine. In time, you will find a level of happiness and fulfillment you have never known or thought possible.
But that's all down the road. For now, you're at the "writhe around the floor and cry your guts out and feel miserable" stage. That's called heartbreak, and just about everyone who's sampled love has gone through it before. You're not the first to feel this way. So: welcome to the team! We're sorry about what happened, but we can report that it DOES, indeed, get better.
Don't worry about being single. You don't need to go to bars. A roommate at 31 isn't a bad thing. Lean on your friends — preferably those who don't have access to drugs — and just work on getting through each day. The pain lessens a tiny bit each day — not something you can measure on a daily basis, but one where you notice progress from month to month. Then one day you'll think about being sad and suddenly realize, "Wait, did I even think about her yesterday?" And you'll even miss the sadness, because the sadness being gone means that you've accepted that it's really over. (I think I'm paraphrasing Swingers here. Sorry.)
Eventually, you can focus on being a whole person who can be happy and sufficient by himself. That should be your focus: move forward. Live your life as it is, not how you wish it had gone.
Greetings Matt,
Fantasy: I am the commissioner of a decade-old twelve-team league. I really enjoy the guys who are in it and we have very little turnover, however two teams (0-7 and 2-5 respectively) have decided to stop setting their lineups. These are original members with busy lives (one just got married, but at the courthouse so it's not like they had the time commitment that you and Mrs. Caveman had to dedicate). Each team started injured/bye week players last week and while none effected the match ups, they very well can in the future and really fuck with the playoffs. I'm sure I would catch hell from a team who had to play full strength squads while another team who played these bums got into the playoffs by a game. So, what do I do? I have emailed and texted these guys and they still have Doug Martin, Andrew Luck and the Texans defense in their starting lineups this week. They have paid their buy in for this year but I'm strongly considering kicking them out and giving their rosters to reserve owners who I know would play out the year. Setting a lineup takes five minutes a week, am I being unreasonable in kicking out two ten-year members?
EVERYONE is busy. We all have too much shit sucking time away from the ideal lives we'd like to be living. If these two guys are ignoring your texts/emails and not setting their lineups, how interested can they be in staying in the league?
If it were me, I'd send out an email to everyone in the league and float some ideas. "Hey everyone, so John and Bill have a lot of stuff going on and haven't been able to set their lineups recently. This poses a lot of problems for the level of competition in a league where money's at stake. I know two guys who are willing to take over their rosters for the rest of the year, but I wanted to put it to a vote:" Then you insert a poll that gives them, like, three or four choices: expel them with an option for next year, give them one more chance to set lineups, whatever.
Then you close it out with "Bill and John — no hard feelings, totally understand if you're too busy. If you DO want to stay in the league, just set your lineups each week and I'll stop being the jerky commissioner."
Dear KSK,
Football first, I'm dead last in my 12-team work league, sitting at 1-6. Top of the table is shared by four teams at 5-2, next rung has three teams at 4-3, and mixed bag below that. As you can tell by the records, I'm not TOO far behind yet, but considering blowing up my roster to swing for the fences. Starting 7 looks like Cam, Spiller, Insert Weekly Running Back Here*, Jordy, Garcon, Brandon Myers, Mike Wallace. (*Will eventually be DeMarco Murray, who I just recently did an injury-trade for, trading Steven Jackson after getting fed up with scrounging the waiver wire every week for a replacement.)
Anyway, long story long, someone's offering me Trent Richardson/Charles Clay for Pierre Garcon and CJ Spiller. I think Trent might have some life in his new home, and with Jordy Nelson, Greg Jennings, Brian Hartline, and Mike Wallace think I can make up for losing Garcon. And anyone would be an improvement over Myers at TE, frankly. Should I do it?
I'm lukewarm to the trade. I like the upgrade from to from Brandon Myers to Charles Clay, and you're right: you can afford to lose Garcon. I would say that I like the swap of Spiller for Richardson — at least Richardson's guaranteed touches, right? — but after the Broncos game, I have serious concerns that Donald Brown is going to take over as the primary back in Indy. If you DO make the trade, pick up Brown off waivers (or try to orchestrate a smaller trade for him).
Ladies–Currently enjoying the past year and a few months with someone cool, and while I wouldn't have said she's "the one", I've seen a few folks write in recently suggesting that if it's going good, keep it going. So I'm going to follow that plan until it's not. In lieu, please accept this Mexican Esquire photo of Kaley Cuoco. I don't watch The Big Bang Theory, but I've considered it once or twice, and that's all due to her.
Thanks, At Least I've Got More Wins Than Schiano
You know what? I've never really found her all that remarkable in the world of attractive blonde actresses, but that is a downright compelling picture. Maybe Superman knows what he's doing after all.
Hi Captain,
First, thanks for the "Keepers" segments. By bucking the overdone, round-table format of the major networks, you give us something that's five times as useful and more accountable in a fraction of the time. Win-win-win.
I swear this is not my mother or someone from SB Nation.
Fantasy: Why the eye-rolling every time a question involves a league that's not 10 or 12 teams with 4 pt passing TDs? People do come up with scoring systems that may seem unnecessarily complex/goofy (e.g. 100 yard bonuses, points per rush, etc.), but my feeling is: the roster of NFL players is like a deck of cards, and just like there are a thousand different card games, there are a thousand different ways to play fantasy. I won't exhaust the (admittedly not perfect) analogy, but I do think it's reasonable to adopt different sets of rules for different numbers of participants, whose interest in the game is piqued by different elements. When you consider that everyone in a given league is playing by the same rules, complaining about them as an outside observer can come across as misplaced condescension.
Let's say I write a card game strategy column, Mr Analogy. Most people write in about poker. Maybe some bridge, maybe a little cribbage. I'm going to enjoy the poker questions the most, I'm going to admit my weaknesses as a bridge player, and I'm going to scoff at the chumps who need help playing War (hi, 8 team leagues!).
For instance, I'm in a 14 team league where we scrutinize every rule to reduce luck and maximize skill in a way that makes sense to us; we use 0.5 PPR and 6 pt passing TDs. Is that so bad?
More specifically, why do 6 pt passing TDs raise your ire? I understand that the objective of 4 pt TDs is to reduce QB value relative to R/W/T, but in practice, counting TDs differently for different positions is just as arbitrary as any other "goofy" scoring rule that you deride in your column. That you hold 4pt TDs up as one of your scoring tenets says to me that your objection to other people's rules is more about being entrenched in what you grew up with, than consistent with any well-founded logic. Could you please elaborate on your position?
Why are you asking the question if you understand that the purpose is to reduce QB value relative to R/W/T? Because that's my answer. If you want to have a fantasy football league that's really just a fantasy quarterback league, then have at it. Play Texas Hold 'Em with jokers wild. You don't need my permission.
You asked if your 14-team league is so bad; what the hell does my opinion matter about a league I'm not in? A couple paragraphs up, a guy wrote about how he likes fucking old women, and he didn't need anyone's approval about straying from the norm, or an explanation for why everyone else is so insistent in being attracted to young women with buoyant breasts. He's comfortable with what he likes.
So, why don't I like 6-point passing touchdowns? BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE THEM. It's a matter of personal taste. I'm going to continue liking what I like and crinkling my nose at the stuff I don't. That means I want my world populated with 4-point passing touchdowns, 0.5 PPR, one space after each sentence, bourbon on the rocks, large dogs, and GIF pronounced with a hard G. Don't like it? You don't have to.
Sex: At every wedding I attend, I hear the same talking point that husbands and wives are — or should be — "best friends." It has become such a commonly accepted and repeated sentiment that last week even one of your readers casually included it as a reason why he should probably get married ("she's my best friend etc"). I love my girlfriend deeply, but I don't need her to fulfill every role in my life, namely that of "best friend"; thankfully, she agrees. We recognize that we are in the dwindling minority who think the "best friend" talk is a little creepy, and would value your opinion as a thoughtful, no-bullshit kind of guy. Does it represent evolving gender equality and mutual respect between partners? Is it just another obnoxious way, in the Facebook Era, to project the appearance of a perfect relationship? What exactly are we dealing with here?
What's Wrong with Husband and Wife?
You and your girlfriend love each other and are happy, right? Then I'll just redirect you to the section above about validation.
My personal opinion, since you asked for it, is that the term "best friend" probably means different things to different people, and is probably not an exclusive title in many cases. In practice, my wife is probably my best friend, because we live together and hang out all the time and have sex and meaningful discussions about our shared future. But if you ask me, I'll probably say my best friend is my old roommate from the Marine Corps, who I rarely see or talk to. We have maybe one or two phone conversations a year, usually lasting 90 minutes or so. So which one is REALLY my best friend? Who cares, this isn't fourth grade. I don't have to go to the DMV and register only one Best Friend.
And if people who are getting married say that THEY'RE best friends, GREAT! It means they really like each other. Maybe their interpretation of the term isn't the same as yours, maybe they have secretly retained their previous "best friendships" with the Best Man or Maid of Honor, maybe they just need shit to say at their wedding. But the most likely explanation, in my opinion, is that you're a little too worried about what other people do and think. Do your own thing, man.


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In response to the tornado that struck the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore Monday, the Oklahoma City All Sports Association and the Big 12 Conference announced today a partnership with the American Red Cross to help raise monetary aid for relief efforts.The Red Cross will have donation canisters positioned throughout Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark for the duration of the 2013 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship, held May 23-26 in Oklahoma City. Fans attending the championship are encouraged to make monetary donations using the collection cans that will be set up at concourse concession stands.These efforts come in addition to a Big 12 Conference donation of $200,000 to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, also announced today by the Big 12 Conference Board of Directors. That contribution will come from the proceeds of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship.Fox College Sports and FSN, which are carrying complete coverage of the tournament, will provide information and instructions for the Championship's television audience on how to donate and contribute to the relief efforts.A moment of silence will be observed before the Championship's opening game on Thursday, May 23, at 9:00 a.m. with Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett on hand to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.League teams, which have already participated in several community and volunteer efforts, will also display a helmet decal throughout the event to honor the victims. MTM Recognition in Oklahoma City donated the stickers.


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An engagement for an Entourage star! Actress Perrey Reeves is engaged to her tennis instructor love Aaron Fox, Us Weekly can exclusively reveal.
"Aaron surprised Perrey with a room filled with roses and candles in a suite at New York City's Ace Hotel," a source tells Us exclusively, adding that the room holds sentimental value for the couple.
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The romance didn't stop there, however, as the insider adds, "He took her to ABC Kitchen, her favorite restaurant in NYC and asked her to marry him in front of his mom and family."
Reeves' mother was also a part of the family affair. "He had asked my mom in advance for her blessing," Reeves tells Us Weekly. "Aaron is so sweet and romantic."
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The actress, 43, has been dating her athletic beau for about a year and a half, sources tell Us. Fox has been a fixture by her side in recent months, walking red carpets with her at movie premieres and happily posing for pictures with Reeves at swanky parties.
The couple loves dancing and going to concerts together, they told Us at an event last month. They also recently took a vacation together to Mexico, spending three days pampering themselves with spa services.
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The Covert Affairs star previously dated David Duchovny in the mid-1990s, and was reportedly in a relationship with actor Nathan Fillion in the late 2000s.


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When Nazr Mohammed lost his mind on Friday night and put LeBron James on the floor with a two-hand shove, we were kind of shocked by the amount of people we heard from on the site/Twitter/Facebook calling 'Bron an actor, saying he was flopping. Huh? Nazr is a huge, very strong guy, who in the moment was blind with rage – of course he's strong enough to take down all 6-8, 250 pounds of LeBron when he's not ready for it. But there it was from fans and Bulls players alike, mocking James for flopping.
So why the skepticism and outrage? Well, you can argue that James has brought it on himself. Some of his work in the flopping department over the years rivals the work of Manu Ginobili and Derek Fisher, the Obi-Wan and Yoda of Flopping [Check out The NBA's Top 20 Flops and Fisher's title as the NBA's Worst Flopper], and it seems to have ramped up in the last two years.
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Episode Title: "Queen for a Day"
Writer: Holly Harold
Director: Jeremiah Chechik
In the Warehouse, Artie Nielsen (Saul Rubinek) pursues a beetle artifact that continuously eludes him. In another room, Pete Lattimer (Eddie McClintock) calls Steve Jinks (Aaron Ashmore) and Claudia Donovan (Allison Scagliotti) during their assignment at a Civil War reenactment to find out where Artie hides his marshmallows… but Artie catches him the act. Pete then gets a call from Leena (Genelle Williams) that he has a visitor: his ex-wife, Major Amanda Lattimer (Jeri Ryan). Pete is initially very happy to see Amanda, especially when she gives him back a rare comic from his collection.
However, Pete is soon disappointed to learn that she's getting remarried the next day and she is only there to get her grandfather's ring back from him, While he's out of the room, Amanda picks up an artifact newly retrieved from Warehouse 2 — and thoughtlessly left out in the open by Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly) — which Amanda somehow activates. A small bee emerges from the artifact and hides in her handbag. When Pete gets back with the ring, he apologizes for ruining their marriage and wishes her the best for her wedding, even though he isn't invited. Back at the Warehouse, Pete insists that he doesn't want to talk to Myka about his failed marriage… and then he talks about it.
Soon enough, Leena and Myka realize that the artifact was triggered and that the bug was accidentally smuggled out by Amanda. In New York at a rented castle, Amanda greets her husband-to-be, Michael (Anthony Lemke). But when she goes to give him the wedding ring, the bee stings her. Now whenever she touches anyone in her wedding party, they become slavishly devoted to her. Pete and Myka show up soon after and successfully get Amanda to hear them out. But an offhand request from Amanda leads her new slaves to kidnap her soon-to-be in-laws to keep them out of her way.
Pete and Myka retrieve the bee from Amanda's bag, but her slaves get even more violent. Pete is forced to explain the nature of the artifacts to Amanda as Myka learns from Artie that the artifact in question belonged to a female pharaoh named Hatshepsut. To end the spell, they need to find the stinger in Amanda's body. But first, her slaves attempt to sacrifice Michael. Amanda helps Pete and Myka beat up her bridesmaids and groomsmen before Myka uses the bee to retrieve the stinger from Amanda. The wedding finally goes through as planned, with the wedding party noticeably bruised and bloodied from their ordeal.
At the Civil War reenactment, Claudia and Steve retrieve the artifact from a semi-crazed "union soldier." When Claudia saves his life, Steve realizes that she reminds him of his sister, Olivia; who was killed by a stray bullet when she was Claudia's age. They start to bond as Steve opens up about his history. Later, Pete and Myka offer their apologies and best wishes to Amanda and Michael. When they leave, Pete admits that he has a hard time dealing with the fact that he screwed up his relationship with Amanda when he was an alcoholic, but Myka reassures him and even calls Michael a tool to help cheer him up.
Before we start the review for this week, has anyone else noticed that the opening credits for this season are only about 15 seconds long? I'm sure the producers would like to have another 30 seconds of story rather than credits. But it feels like a cheap excuse for Syfy to essentially say "Aha! Now we can stick in an extra commercial!"
Anyway, this was a relatively solid episode of "Warehouse 13." But I've noticed that the characters on this series have an annoying tendency to be completely on the nose about their feelings. It's such a simplified writing style that it's almost hilarious when Pete tells Myka he doesn't want to talk about his ex-wife… and then he immediately talks about her! Steve is the same way. In fact, I'd say that Steve is actually a victim of this narrative trick. Everything we've learned about Steve has come from him deliberately spelling out every detail in dialog rather than action.
That's just not an efficient way to build up his character. Steve desperately needs some kind of defining moments to make him more than just a glorified guest star. Otherwise we shouldn't be so shocked if he gets killed off at some point this season. Incidentally, since we saw a picture of Steve's sister as played by an actress, that means we'll probably meet her in the flesh at some point this year. As I said, the show doesn't exactly hide what it's going to do.
Myka also had her biggest f*** up to date when she just left out the artifact unguarded and unbagged. For a character who is generally one of the smartest agents on the show, it was like she checked her brain at the door of the Bed & Breakfast. Was that extra bagel really worth it, Myka?
Jeri Ryan was fun as Pete's ex-wife and she actually seemed like a good match for him. The wedding slaves also led to a couple of entertaining moments, especially when they went berserk near the end of the episode. What really made that work was the smiling and bruised bridesmaids at the ceremony afterwards. The reaction of Amanda's in-laws after their ordeal was also amusing.
In last week's episode, Pete and Myka made a big deal out of saying that they would never sleep together. But their moments together in this episode actually make that pairing seem inevitable. Pete doesn't really have any secrets from Myka and she's seen him for all of his faults and his sometimes Looney Toons personality… and she still likes him. Myka still cares for Pete and on TV, that kind of relationship only goes in one direction. There aren't a lot of true platonic partnerships between men and women on television any more, so enjoy it while you can.
It won't last forever.
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KJ-52 takes home a Dove Award!KJ-52 TAKES HOME DOVE AWARD FOR RAP/HIP HOP ALBUM
(Nashville, Tenn.) April 6, 2006 – BEC Recording's own rapper extraordinaire KJ-52 took home the Dove Award for "Rap/Hip Hop Album of the Year" with his Behind The Musik (BEC/Uprock Records) at last night's 37th Annual GMA Music Awards. This Dove win marks a second for KJ-52, including his 2004 award in the same category with his album It's Pronounced Five-Two.
" I feel honored to be chosen for this award and to be recognized by the GMA community for this category," said KJ-52. "I consider what I do to be a privilege and I'm humbled that God chooses some of the least likely candidates to carry out his purposes. It's a blessing and incredible opportunity to do what I do. Awards like these are little road signs on this journey that tell you to 'keep going!'"
The latest installment from this Dove Award winning rapper, KJ-52 Remixed, will street on May 2nd. KJ-52 Remixed hails 15 total hit songs from the four previous releases including two brand new songs, "Napoleon Dynamite" , "Washed Up", and "Run For Cover" featuring Trevor McNevan of Thousand Foot Krutch. KJ-52 Remixed also showcases many of the songs as not only remixed, but with brand new and updated lyric content from KJ-52. Fan favorites such as "Dear Slim part 2", "Are You Real", "Mullet Song", and "Fivetweezy" are also fresh off the remix table. Guest appearances include Jessy Ribordy of Falling Up, and Pigeon John. Remixed by KJ-52 as well as Joseph Kisselburgh of Falling Up and Reggateon artist Funky, the album features collaborative efforts from Liquid Beats, and DJ Morphiziz.
KJ-52, who has toured with the likes of Kutless, Disciple, and Falling Up is just off a 30-city run as part of The Anthem Tour with Superchick and Seventh Day Slumber. Upcoming performances include Acquire The Fire conferences and Dome Events throughout 2006. With six albums to his credit, KJ has amassed over 500,000 records sold to date. He was also just recently voted the favorite "Hip Hop Artist" in the CCM Magazine Reader's Choice Awards. Look for KJ at every major festival this summer.
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"It's my favourite product", so says model Jerry Hall. "It's wonderful", Sadie Frost told a beauty mag. So Christmas 2001 I had the privilege (so I thought) of trying this. To say this product is an anti-aging product is a bit misleading, it is a good moisturiser and that is it. The texture is nice, the smell is a bit off putting for me, the packaging was classy (but it's the stuff inside I'm interested in!), but after using it for 3 months it hasn?t done anything that a much cheaper brand would have done. £150 for 50ml is a ridiculous amount to spend, for that price you'd expect to see a difference in skin which has to cope with central heating, winds etc. I wish I would have known about this site or similar sites and maybe I would have read a review and thought twice about throwing £150 down the drain.


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My Dad Jack Collins said this is Ruby's uncle, William Everett Pelfrey and her Aunt Cora around 1927-28.
I do not know the older lady. Could we be looking at their mother Anabelle (Mary Isabelle) Nantz (Nance?)
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Craig lodging tax proposal finalized
May 20, 2010
The Craig lodging tax committee finalized Wednesday the ballot question it will submit to the Craig City Council for approval.
The proposed ballot question states the city will collect a 6.9-percent lodging tax and allocate it into four categories.
Three percent of the 6.9 percent will go to tourism marketing, and another 3 percent will fund capitol improvements.
The remaining .9 percent will be split between economic development, which will receive .6 percent, and community beautification, which will receive .3 percent.
The ballot question includes an estimate that the city will collect $550,000 from the tax in the first year based on figures provided by the lodging industry in Craig.
The ballot question must be approved by the city council before it can be presented to voters in November.
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Craig City Council member Terry Carwile originally proposed the lodging tax idea in March. He contends the tax can be used to bolster the local economy.
The city council formed the volunteer lodging tax committee to draft details of the ballot question.
Moffat County government currently implements a 1.9-percent lodging tax, which funds the Moffat County Tourism Association.
If Craig voters approve a city lodging tax, the county would not be able to collect its tax within city limits.
Committee members also added campgrounds to its list of areas the tax would collect from, which had already included hotels, apartments, mobile homes and guesthouses that are leased or rented for less than 30 consecutive days.
The committee also amended the ballot question language to place the collected tax revenues in a lodging tax account. The ballot question also states revenue collected from the tax cannot be placed into the city's general fund.
Wednesday's meeting started with committee members addressing the ballot question language.
The committee agreed the language should be simple for voters, but detailed enough to make them comfortable to vote for it.
"So many times when you go to the voters on a lengthy question, the longer it is and the more specific it is people just roll their eyes or they see one little thing even though they might have liked 95 percent of it," MCTA director Marilynn Hill said.
Jay Oxley then made a motion to lump economic development and community beautification with tourism marketing in the ballot question.
The committee voted in favor of the motion, but later re-voted against the measure.
The issue was voted on again after chairman Dave DeRose explained that the city council could change or eliminate those areas if they were not included in the ballot question.
The committee decided its next step will be to start drafting an ordinance to present to the council.
The ordinance and ballot question would go before the city council for approval at the same time.
Committee members were provided the first page of a draft lodging tax ordinance written by city attorney Kenny Wohl.
The committee discussed the possibility of organizing a city board to oversee and manage the potential tax revenues collected from the measure.
The committee also discussed what residents would make up the board and how they would be appointed.
Several questions arose around the subject of requiring board members to be from specific industries like lodging, business, or residents in general.
"I think you need to have citizens at large," DeRose said. "You don't want to make this board so large and unwieldy that it can't get anything done. But, you certainly have to make it to where the proper representation is in the different areas."
A possible sunset of funds allocated from the ballot question was also discussed.
The committee moved to table discussions of the ordinance, a managing board for the collected revenues, and the sunset of the various funds until its
next meeting.
The next committee meeting will be at 6 p.m. June 2 at Craig City Hall.


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But your restless heart and rolling eyes
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I've got to get out of your life
Or I will never mend
I guess I'll die a bit each day
But I'm always dying anyway
I don't have the heart to stay
And I can't take the pain
I know we've tried to no avail
Our heaven now has turned to hell
The same old hurt we know so well
But something's got to change
We both know it's got to end
The passion's gone
It's just pretend
One of us has got to make the move
We might as well just give it up
We've lost respect and there's no trust
And without this there's no real love
It's just some sad excuse
I guess I'll die a bit each day
But I'm always dying anyway
And there's nothing left but walk away
Ain't this a crying shame
A change of pace
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The change of place
A place to start
And we'll be better off apart
Our only hope is change
And we never will
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As if getting a mortgage wasn't hard enoughby Tim Manni
We all know that lenders today are incorporating much stricter standards for mortgage borrowers, but I have never heard of anything like this before:
When Linda Falcão applied for a mortgage from Wells Fargo, she didn't realize she would be required to write the type of essay that's more commonly included with a college application.
So she and her husband, Kemuel Ronis, were taken by surprise when Wells Fargo asked the couple, both 50, to pen a "motivational letter" explaining why they were moving. What they found even more shocking, however, were some of the themes that Wells required them to include in their statement, specifically, their plans regarding an "increase/decrease in family" or property size.
According to HUD, the Fair Housing Act "prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of dwellings, and in other housing-related transactions, based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status (including children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women, and people securing custody of children under the age of 18), and handicap (disability)."
Why would Wells Fargo make such a request? :
A Wells Fargo spokesman said that motivation letters were generally requested when the loan underwriter had more questions about a borrower's "occupancy intentions." For instance, he said the company might request such a letter when a family's existing home is not yet sold and it wants the buyer to show that the new home will indeed serve as the primary residence.
The spokesman did not say why the bank would request information about a prospective borrower's family plans, but said that "under no circumstances would any information about family status be used by Wells Fargo as the basis for a decision on a loan application."
But then why did it ask? The spokesman said he could not answer that for certain without knowing more about the specifics of the case.
Do yourself a favor and read the "motivational letter" Ms. Falcão sent to the New York Times.
Be sure to read HSH.com's article "What Mortgage Lenders Can and Can't Ask Under Federal Law."
Readers: Have any of your lenders made an odd request like Well's motivational letter? If so, we want to hear all about it — leave us a comment below.


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By now you know that Ryan Murphy had planned to focus on the Finn/Rachel storyline in Glee's last season (next year).
"The whole last year of the show was really designed around Rachel-Cory/Finn story. I always knew that. I always knew how it would end," he told reporters before a Paley Center event honoring the FX network Wednesday night in Los Angeles. "I knew what the last shot was — he was in it. I knew what the last line was; she said it to him."
So, please post your best guess as to what Rachel's last line to Finn would have been.


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Frank Rich: TV Lets Candidates Be as Inauthentic as They Want to BeRoundup: Media's Take
Frank Rich, in the NYT (Feb. 8, 2004):
To survey the progress of America's political culture over four decades, you need rerun only two TV shows, each starring a Massachusetts Democrat with the initials J.F.K.
On June 16, 1960, Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy, in a natty suit, sat next to the brilliant and much-mourned Jack Paar on NBC's "Tonight Show" and fielded more than 30 minutes' worth of questions from his host, the droll comedian Peggy Cass and the New York studio audience. The subjects were the U-2 incident, the failed Soviet summit, Cuba and "the Catholic question." Mr. Paar tried to elicit a laugh only once, asking the senator to recall amusing anecdotes from the primary campaign trail. Kennedy was stumped, and when his one example ("I was made an honorary Indian") landed with a thud, the two men scampered back for safety to the cold war.
On Nov. 11, 2003, Senator John Forbes Kerry appeared on the same NBC show, now presided over by Jay Leno from Burbank. But instead of strolling onstage in his senatorial uniform, the candidate arrived, via Harley-Davidson, attired in a brown leather jacket, black boots, a denim shirt and jeans. Mr. Kerry fielded a few questions about his then-lagging campaign, but that was secondary to his comic "material." The candidate mused that the show's other guest, the puppet Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, might be his pick as a ticket mate and quipped, "Can you imagine Triumph debating Dick Cheney?"
Well, you had to be there. Mr. Kerry doing comedy is cognitive dissonance run amok. Though the senator does ride a Harley-Davidson in real life (it was a less proletarian Ducati before the campaign), his entire performance reeked of phoniness. A dour Boston Brahmin was trying to pass himself off as a wisecracking biker. And he was doing so after having given an interview (to Julia Reed of Vogue) criticizing President Bush's handlers for identical theatrics: "They put him in a brown jacket and jeans and get him to move some hay or drive a truck, and all of a sudden he's the Marlboro Man."
But if the late-night TV performance intended to reveal the "authentic," non-Washington John Kerry was inauthenticity incarnate, Kennedy's "Tonight Show" turn of 11 election cycles earlier was nearly as bogus. By the standards of 1960, a presidential candidate's appearance on an entertainment program was considered a bit shocking; no politician had done it before. In his introduction, Mr. Paar felt it necessary to prep the audience at length. After noting that the host of NBC's "Meet the Press," Lawrence Spivak, did his job "very well," he added: "I have noticed if you watch political programs, they ask political questions and the answers are political. . . . When it's all over, no one's said anything. In this relaxed atmosphere of the `Tonight Show' you meet people who aren't on guard and not as tense and perhaps not as political."
Or so he wished. Though Paar was as charming and human and witty as ever (especially when he had to interrupt his guest to hawk such sponsors as Lip Quick and ReaLemon), Kennedy responded with fat paragraphs of well-practiced stump boilerplate. Paar would later commend the candidate for his "very brave and courageous" act of appearing on a show where "anything can happen," but the candidate made sure nothing would happen. He still didn't have the nomination locked up and his political agenda was not to appear too young. So he offered a phony persona that was exactly the inverse of Kerry's act 43 years later: he suppressed his natural wit and youthfulness to make himself seem as stolid and humorless as his opponent, Richard Nixon. In the debates yet to come Kennedy would prove far more up-to-speed than Nixon about how to manipulate the still young medium of TV. (He didn't hang with the Rat Pack for nothing.) The character he presented, however fictionalized, was golden. But whether we ever saw the "real" Kennedy in his public persona remains a subject of historical debate.
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Morning Roundup - May 2, 2012
Here are some things I spotted in my Google Reader this week.
The United States has many people to reach, but it is a mistake for people to say, "We need to put our efforts here, not the rest of the world." We need both-- but most comparisons show the U.S. to be a relatively religious context.
I have spent my life encouraging people to see North America as a mission field, but that does not mean we should not recognize that we have a lot more Christians and resources than the rest of the world.
So, take a look at this survey, and then remember why you want to reach people where you live-- and among the most unreached in the 10/40 Window.
U.S. Ranked 5th Most Religious Country -- Leadership Journal
A new survey by the University of Chicago has ranked the United States as the fifth most religious country.
Researchers concluded that the Philippines had the strongest belief in God, and Japan the least. The U.S. ranked fifth behind Israel, Poland, Chile, and the Philippines. The most atheistic countries were Germany (East), Czech Republic, France, The Netherlands, and Sweden.
The research also looked at changes in beliefs within each country over time. It concludes, "Belief in God has decreased in most countries, but the declines are quite modest especially when calculated on a per annum basis."
If you are not reading Tony's blog, you should be-- it always has practical and helpful advice. Here he shares on building volunteer teams (the "volunteer" makes it especially difficult).
5 Keys to Building Healthy Volunteer Teams -- Tony Morgan
These are the five keys to building healthy volunteer teams that I offered to the Orange leaders last week:
1. Think volunteers before staff. It's our responsibility to "equip God's people to do his work." When we're overwhelmed, our first question should be "How can we equip more volunteers?" As I've shared before, the church I've worked with that had the fewest staff members per attendees also had the highest percentage of people volunteering. They are thinking volunteers before staff, and it's working.
2. Teach shoulder-tapping. My friend Tim taught me this one. In the church, we tend to rely on promotions to recruit volunteers. We use platform announcements and bulletin ads and pleas for help. Volunteer recruitment is relational. It's one friend inviting another friend to join them in serving. Four out of five people show up to church for the first time through an invitation from a friend. That same principle works for every next step people take at your church.
3. Stay focused. This is a simple math problem. The more ministry programs and events your church offers, the more volunteers you'll need. Focused ministry means less competition for people's time and attention. People are busy. Their church shouldn't be compounding the problem. We should be helping people prioritize their time rather than making their lives more complicated.
4. Identify leaders, not doers. The church needs doers, or servants, too. But, as Jethro pointed out to Moses, we also need capable leaders. We need leaders of tens, fifties, hundreds and thousands. (See the 4 Stages of Leadership.) And, this may surprise you, but you don't have to be on paid staff to be a leader in the church. Volunteers have leadership gifts too. If you feel stuck, you probably don't need another person to get tasks done. Instead, you need another person to lead.
5. Empower people to use their gifts. We need to remember it's about the body of Christ using their gifts to fulfill God's mission. It's more about helping people be who God created them to be than it is about us finding people to get tasks done. I love this line from Tony Dungy, "I wasn't there to be their boss. I was there to help the players get better." That same philosophy of helping people pursue God's potential applies in ministry as well.
Thom always has good leadership insights and here is another helping:
Four Keys to Long-haul Leadership -- Thom Rainer
Sometimes the metaphor "flash in the pan" is used to describe leaders...They appear to be great leaders, but that greatness is illusionary. Over time, the true value of the leader is made clear.
On the other extreme are long-haul leaders. These are leaders who, most often, do not begin with great recognition and fanfare. Over time, however, the greatness of their leadership becomes evident. Some will remark that the leader "came out of nowhere." Such is rarely the case. True great leaders for the long haul have been in formation for years. They work hard but rarely get recognition for a season. At some point, however, the value of their leadership begins to show.
My research team and I have examined leaders and their attributes for nearly thirty years. These long haul leaders especially intrigued us, and how they built their careers ultimately to become leaders of renown. In all of them we found four dominating traits.
Key #1: Passion
Key #2: Work Ethic
Key #3: Persistence
Key #4: Humility
Last year, I wrote an article (which Christianity Today turned into their cover story), about the value of denominations. We followed that up with some research on the perceived value of denominations-- which probably surprised many people. Now, even Relevant Magazine (a much more trendy publication-- picture CT with indie rock playing in the background) is affirming the idea in Chris Abel's fascinating article:
Do Denominations Still Matter? -- Chris Abel
Denominations are, at their core, structures that help support and enable a diversity of Christians. They are not Christianity; they merely make space for different varieties of faith to flourish. If we can understand denominational labels as descriptors rather than terms of value--who is right and who is wrong--perhaps we can see beyond the walls that separate us and begin to see the beautiful diversity there is among Christians. This may not be easy, but here are some reasons it's worth trying.
1. Accountability
2. Theological diversity
3. Heritage/diversity
4. Financial transparency
5. Missions
6. Clergy education
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Vicious praying mantis attack on pro baseball player [video]
It's safe to say that this praying mantis isn't a fan of this particular baseball team. Take a look as it attacks a player––probably in attempt to disable the player.
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