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Mark Wiebe beats Bernhard Langer in playoff to win British Senior Open
Mark Wiebe clinched the British Senior Open Championship at Royal Birkdale on Tuesday morning after winning a playoff against Bernhard Langer.
Langer missed putts on the 72nd hole and the first two playoff holes before the pair returned early on Tuesday, needing a further four holes of sudden death before the German missed a six-foot par putt at Birkdale's famous 18th to make American Wiebe the champion.
The pair matched each other shot-for-shot through the playoff until Langer caught the front bunker on the sixth extra hole and then failed to get up and down to extend the playoff.
They were locked at 9-under-par after 72 holes after Langer blew a two-shot lead on the final hole with a double bogey to send the championship into the playoff.
Play had been held up twice on Monday (AEST) due to rain and the threat of thunder and lightning but the players returned in more pleasant conditions on Tuesday to finish the job.
Australia's Peter Senior, America's Corey Pavin and South Africa's David Frost were tied for third at 6-under.

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The Boss, Wally and Dilbert sit at a conference table. Wally says, "I didn't use my brain this week." Wally says, "I listened to things I already knew; I waited for people who were late; I was a passenger in my car pool." The Boss says, "Let's start the staff meeting." Wally pumps his fist in the air and says, "Yes!! Keeping the streak alive!"


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In 1996, gymnast Kerri Strug vaulted into history. The anchor for Team USA at the Atlanta Olympics, she competed on an injured ankle to help secure women's gymnastics their first-ever team gold medal – and Tuesday, she watched this year's 'Fab Five' win the second team gold. The now married mom of one is a spokesperson for Hilton HHonors's Support the Dream program, which allows fans to connect with Olympians. "Since I know how much the support of the fans means to the athletes, it's great to be part of a program where fans can send good luck messages to Team USA," says Strug, 34. While at the Games with her husband, Robert Fischer III, the Olympic gold medalist is blogging for PEOPLE.com about her experiences in London.
It's definitely been an unforgettable Olympic Games so far for U.S. Women's Gymnastics. Gabby and Aly both looked focused and ready for the competition as they entered the arena, and just like the team finals, they got off to a great start on the vault.
In the women's all-around, momentum and confidence are key to success, so starting on the vault was definitely beneficial to the girls since this is one of their best events.
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From watching Gabby and Aly over the last few months, I've become familiar with their routines and moves in each event. As I watched them [in the all-around final], I definitely got a little anxious right before their key scoring moves hoping that they hit their marks.
The Russians were strong on the bars, and were right behind Gabby fighting to take the lead, but Gabby stayed relaxed and calm. She knew what she needed to do and she knew she could do it. Even with a lead, nothing is sure in the finals, but Gabby held her lead by staying dedicated to what she could control – her own skills and routines. Finishing with her high energy floor exercise routine, Gabby really shined last night and I am so happy for her.
Seeing Gabby after the final results were posted reminded me that the many years of sacrifice, hard work in the gym and years away from family are all worth it. When you are training for the Olympic Games you can't allow yourself to get distracted thinking about perhaps winning the gold medal and so when you do all your training flashes in front of your eyes. It is such a surreal and emotional moment and is something she and her family will never forget.
I was also glad to see Aly finish strong with a great floor exercise routine and it s unfortunate that she was bumped out of a medal by the tiebreaker. I enjoyed watching Aly throughout the entire competition and she showed the world how talented Team USA is.
Team USA has a lot to be proud of here in London. All of our girls have looked strong and I can't wait to see the individual event finals.


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The arrest warrants against five leaders of the Ugandan armed group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) for Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes committed in Uganda since July 2002, were made public on 13 October 2005. With the exception of Raska Lukwiya, who is dead, and Vincent Otti (allegedly executed in 2007), the men – Joseph Kony, Okot Odhiambo and Dominic Ongwen – are still at large.
Is it beyond the effective powers of the 106 states that have signed up to the ICC to secure their arrest? And is Uganda violating the treaty by failing to arrest the men, and – since trials in absentia are not permitted – preventing them being held to account? Or is it unable to arrest them?
Under the Treaty of Rome that established the ICC, the Ugandan government like all signatories is obliged to cooperate fully with the Court in any matter related to the investigation and prosecution of crimes within its jurisdiction. In particular, Uganda as a State Party to the ICC must genuinely cooperate in arresting and surrendering any person charged by the Court, without delay.
Nonetheless, recent developments indicate that the Ugandan government is not, at present, pursuing the arrest and surrender obligation. Instead, as part of ongoing peace talks in Juba, the Uganda government signed an agreement with the representatives of the LRA on February 19 2008 to establish a national court to try those alleged to have committed 'serious crimes' during the conflict.
The agreement between the Ugandan government and the LRA provides for, "a special division of the High Court of Uganda, to try individuals who are alleged to have committed serious crimes during the conflict". They also agreed that traditional justice and other unspecified alternative justice mechanisms would be used.
While the agreement doesn't explicitly state that the "individuals" to be tried before a special division of the High Court of Uganda include or exclude those indicted by the ICC, the Uganda President – Yoweri Museveni – was quoted to have stated that: "We can save him [Joseph Kony and presumably his commanders indicted by the ICC] because we are the ones who sought assistance from the ICC".
To "save" Kony from the ICC without fair, credible, independent, and impartial prosecutions (conforming to international minimum standards and appropriate penalties) amounts to a violation of Uganda's obligation to cooperate with the ICC.
This is an attempt to use the ICC as a political tool of the Ugandan government, which the ICC must reject to maintain its relevance and credibility.
If Uganda is allowed to get away with its "special division" of the High Court (without a proper determination of how the Ugandan judiciary, under the existing political and legal framework in Uganda, can organise and independently manage complex trials involving crimes against humanity and war crimes), the ICC might be seen as being vulnerable to other States using it to expose rebel leaders internationally if this suits the political interests of a State. This would undermine the independence of the ICC as a judicial (as opposed to a political) body.
It is also important to note that the ICC's sentences are more lenient than the death penalty in Uganda for the nature of crimes the LRA leaders were indicted. If the LRA leaders are genuine, why should they insist on the withdrawal of the ICC warrants and subject themselves to the Ugandan judiciary?
At present there is no evidence to suggest that the LRA leaders are going to disarm, assemble at the agreed assembly area and present themselves freely to the "special division" of the Ugandan court.
Just as the ICC contributed significantly to move the LRA leaders to the negotiating table and contributed to a focus on accountability at the peace talks, it should maintain its warrants for the indicted leaders.
The efforts of all the signatories to the ICC, and indeed all other members of the United Nations interested in peace and stability, should now be focused on arresting and surrendering these leaders to the ICC, while providing adequate security against the possible commission of other violations by these leaders.
Kony is unlikely to submit himself to national trials or to the ICC as long as an alternative remains.


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I've been feeling quite nostalgic today and the tournament that kept popping into my head was this one. I don't think there's ever been a slam, Roland Garros aside were so many top players mugged out early. In RG you had specialist dirtballers who loved the surface so upsets were common, but in this hardcourt slam there was an absolute plethora of them.
Hewitt was injured and fell to a clay courter in round one, Agassi pulled out on the eve of the tourney and second seed Kuerten and fifth seed Grosjean tumbled out in the first and second rounds respectively.
R1: Alberto Martin def Lleyton Hewitt(1) 1-6 6-1 6-4 7-6
R1: Julien Boutter def Gustavo Kuerten(2) 3-6 4-6 7-5 6-3 6-3
R2: Francisco Clavet def Sebastien Grosjean(5) 6-4 3-6 6-0 5-7 6-4
R2: Ivan Ljubicic def Andy Roddick(13) 3-2 ret
The last 16 featured some interesting results. 16th seed Thomas Johansson had beaten Jacobo Diaz, Markus Hipfl and a decent seed in Younes El Aynaoui to get there where he faced unseeded Adrian Voinea. Haas-Federer was a thriller and Tommy pulled it out the bag.
Marcelo Rios def Nicolas Lapentti 7-5 6-1 6-4
Tommy Haas(7) def Roger Federer(11) 7-6 4-6 3-6 6-4 8-6
Wayne Ferreira def Albert Costa 4-6 6-4 6-4 6-7 9-7
Marat Safin(9) def Pete Sampras(8) 6-2 6-4 6-7 7-6
Jiri Novak(26) def Dominik Hrbaty 6-4 6-2 5-7 6-2
Stefan Koubek def Fernando Gonzalez(Q) 7-5 6-1 6-7 6-2
Jonas Bjorkman def Tim Henman(6) 6-2 7-6 6-4
Thomas Johansson(16) def Adrian Voinea 6-7 6-2 6-0 6-4
Four unseeded quarter finalists, however they would all lose.
Tommy Haas(7) def Marcelo Rios 7-6 6-4 6-7 7-6
Marat Safin(9) def Wayne Ferreira 5-2 ret
Jiri Novak(26) def Stefan Koubek 6-2 6-3 6-2
Thomas Johansson(16) def Jonas Bjorkman 6-0 2-6 6-3 6-4
In the semis Haas had Safin beaten all ends up but the rain lashed it down and the 50 minute delay allowed Safin to regroup and take control under the RLA roof. Johansson edged Novak in a five setter to make his first final as huge underdog. Two solid players with excellent backhands but you'd have thought top 10 would be their ceiling. Johansson even lost a set 6-0 :lol:
Marat Safin(9) def Tommy Haas(7) 6-7 7-6 3-6 6-0 6-2
Thomas Johansson(16) def Jiri Novak(26) 7-6 0-6 4-6 6-3 6-4
Safin was clear favourite in the final but:
Thomas Johansson(16) def Marat Safin(9) 3-6 6-4 6-4 7-6
Johansson played very well throughout the tournament and his serve and backhand were superb in the final- he handled Safin's mood swings in a calm, Swedish way ;) One that got away for Marat for sure.
The point of this is to look back and compare with today, and wonder- could a grand slam draw open up sometime in the future and we end up with a Tipsarevic, or a Wawrinka or anyone taking advantage and picking up a shock slam or are those days long gone? Stan almost defeated Nole after all...
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Marat vs Pete was an epic match. Can't believe Marat was playing that good and mug it up like that in the final. At least he should have lost to Haas so he was the champion and not Johansson.
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I remember Marat admitting the rain had saved him from defeat in that SF with Haasi.
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Haha what a tournament.
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yeh, rain was quite the top player in the early 2000s.
fun tourney - was another decent chance for Henman to do something big at the AO, he did land with some epic opening-up draws down under, but never took advantage. Tojo was rock solid in the final and thoroughly deserved his slam - would have far preferred Marat or Haaaasi taking it, however.
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The courts are simply too slow for guys like Djokovic to be defeated by someone like Stanislas, even though the former is playing lights out best-of-his-career tennis and thoroughly out playing the latter; it's disgusting and disgraceful but it is what it is.
Djokovic will always be able to grind and grind and grind his opponents down until the courts are sped up (if they ever are).
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Hass is the spiritual winner of this vulture slam.
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As a Jiri Novak fan, looking back on his achievements, this was one of the biggest disappointments in a year in which many believe he punched above his weight.
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federer and roddick in 2002 counts as 'upsets'? lolwut
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Looking back, Federer-Haas was one of the best matches of the decade. Sometimes I still watch pre-2004 Fed matches because his technique was so lively back then. Tough to deal with his hair though :p
Obviously a mug vulture slam, but there were so many young, exciting prospects. Not just Roger but Gonzalez, Haas, Lapentti, Hewitt, Roddick, Safin and a whole generation that played differently than the 90s generation. Even though the winner was a mug, the prospects for the future were bright. Sadly, Haas was out for most of 2002, Safin was out for most of 2003, Ferrero out for 2004, and pretty much all the future prospects from that 2002 AO except for Roger suffered injuries or disappointing careers.
Not to say Roger played in a subpar era, at his best he was untouchable, by far the best player to ever play the game. More that tennis never recovered from that, and the big hole left by the lack of a pre-Nadull/Fakervic/Mugray era as well as the lack of young prospects like existed back in those days means there's no excitement left in tennis. Until 2011 RG the top 4 seeds had only made the semis of a slam 11 times IN HISTORY. It now happens almost every slam. The consecutive slam semi record looks like this: Roger Federer, Ivan Lendl, Novak Djokovic, Ivan Lendl, Boris Becker, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal (5+) Andy Mugray is above Rod Laver, John Mcenroe, Andre Agassi, Arthur Ashe, Pete Sampras, Bjorn borg, Jimmy Connors, etc.
This is what we mean by tennis being dead, and looking back 2002 was maybe the last time tennis was really alive.
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Djokovic is at 11 above Lendl
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Koubek reaching the quarters was a huge shocker as well. He was a very solid clay court player but I never thought he'd come close to a QF in any of the other slams but the draw opened up in this one and he took advantage.
Jiri was a very good player BTW, excellent backhand and good counter-punching skills. This was a slam that suited him better than RG cause the field was so packed with dirtballing expertise at the time.
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Wouldn´t it be a good idea for you to make a series of threads like this one describing certain slams of the past that peaked your interest? I don´t want to put any pressure on you or anything, but you have an enjoyable style of writing and a lot of historical awareness, so it would be nice to hear your take on slams like Wimbledon 2003 or Australian Open 2005. My own memory of this tournament for instance is quite sketchy at best, so reading this was quite helpful in that regard.
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Someone check my temperature; I reckon I must be coming down with something. Because I'm actually kinda, sort of, possibly starting to enjoy cooking.
But, even more amazingly, the stuff I'm cooking actually tastes pretty good. Will wonders never cease?!
The other week the peeps behind the new HEINZ HOT SAUCE range got in touch to ask if I fancied trying them out. I love hot food, and anything that makes cooking easier, and tastier immediately sounds good to me.
A few days later this lovely food loot arrived, ready to be transformed into something delish…
And don't forget the Heinz Hot Sauces (as if you could!)…
Perhaps knowing full well my dubious reputation in the kitchen, there were also some handy recipe cards included.
I started by making the Chilli Con Carne, with Chipotle and Garlic Hot Sauce. One word. Yummo. It was so good, in fact, I scoffed it all before realising I hadn't taken a photo. Oops.
So then I tried the Mexican Soup with Green Jalapeno Hot Sauce. Sure, it didn't quite look quite the same as the recipe card, but it still tasted delish.
Here it is, in all its Heinz Hot Sauce glory – looks good enough to eat, doesn't it?!


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It's not all that often that today's print media takes a real look at controversial issues. Once in the proverbial blue moon it does happen though. Gun Control is not, I repeat not, just about guns. It is about others controlling you, your life, and those of any that are dear to you.
By Dave Shadow
What don't you understand about gun control?
When thinking about this subject, two words come to mind that relate to our condition or position on the subject of gun control.
Some of us fall into one category, and others may slip into the other.
Unfortunately, most of what we think of and how we behave as the average American certainly falls into one of these categories.
I believe that we are very fortunate to live in the best of times, in the best country and finest society that has ever existed since time began. But I also believe that it's slipping away while we sit idly by and watch it happen. I am not a doomsday prophet or anything like that, but I'd like to think that I see our personal freedoms and constitutional rights situation either more clearly or with more interest than the vast majority of our voting neighbors. Actually, that's not exactly right; I don't want to see the situation more clearly. I want to share some thoughts that may make you look at our positions in a different light.
First of all, get the ideas out of your mind that our elected politicians have everything under control and all have of our best interests at heart. Secondly, bear in mind that they work for us; we are not subject to their personal agendas and wishes based on lobbying efforts. We can make differences if we will pay attention, be vocal and vote accordingly.
If we as average, normal, working class citizens will think and talk about subjects that our forefathers felt so imperative to our rights and the eventual survival of our society, we can make a difference. The liberal activists on these subjects are vocal and very active. We must be also!
The two words mentioned above are "apathetic" and "pathetic."
Most of us have become apathetic over time. The thesaurus defines this word as being "indifferent, lethargic, listless and unconcerned." We simply let others take charge of the decisions in the everyday workings of our worlds and we rest assured that our legislators will all make those decisions that are good for us. Isn't that about where we are? We get excited and even upset over bad calls in sporting activities such as ball games, but we let our politicians erode our personal freedoms without even a groan. It's time to get excited about those things that affect our Second Amendment rights and other personal freedoms before it's too late!
Just in case you've forgotten your grade school class that discussed the Constitution, the Second Amendment was designed to give us the right to bear arms. It says: "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." This and the Christian principals that were the basic foundations of our country are being misinterpreted and undermined by groups and individuals with undesirable intentions while we sit back and say nothing.
Radical individuals and groups seeking to destabilize the very and basic principals that our great country was based upon make a lot of very elegant noise while we sit back quietly and think that all of this stuff really means nothing to us. Unfortunately, many of these campaigners of "control" speak very eloquently, very loudly, and relentlessly. Couple that with the recruitment of many celebrities and Hollywood stars and you get a very believable group of control advocates, many of who do not see the whole picture or realize the eventual effect that the demonizing of our freedoms will have.
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When we visited the CERN's Large Hadron Collider this past year, there wasn't a ton of noise. The massive particle accelerator facility took a two-year hiatus for repairs, and that break meant a rare chance for humans to tour things with less risk.
Apparently things were considerably noisier last month, but it had nothing to do with the facilities getting back to business. As part of an initiative called Ex/Noise/CERN, ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) physicist Dr. James Beacham invited experimental indie band Deerhoof to CERN's magnet test facility, SM-18, in "honor of the LHC's ramp up to 13 TeV." On site, Beacham wanted the band to experiment with noise and music much like his team experiments with particle physics.
Musical curiosity is similar to scientific curiosity and, on a personal level, Deerhoof has inspired me as much as Einstein, Beacham said in a project press release. They re explorers and this sense of exploration is what you feel in the air at CERN right now, and so the pairing of Deerhoof and CERN was natural.
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Chelmsford, Mass. -- A report released Thursday by Kronos Inc. showed that hiring conditions among retailers are tightening, suggesting an improvement in the industry.
The Kronos Retail Labor Index jumped to 4.1% in January 2012 from a downwardly revised 3.4% in December 2011. (This index is defined as the ratio of hires to applications within a given month, expressed as a percentage. A level of 3.0% means that for every 100 applications received, three hires occurred.) This was the second reading above 4.0% since October 2008 and primarily reflected a sharp decline in applications, as hires were little changed from December.
The retailers representing 18,362 distributed locations across the United States that make up the Kronos data sample made 33,324 hires (seasonally adjusted) in January 2012, roughly unchanged from an upwardly revised 33,279 hires in December 2011. The level of hires in January was up about 2% from fourth quarter 2010 and in line with the 2011 average of 33,500 hires per month, continuing the slow, uneven improvement in hiring that began in the second quarter of last year.
The number of applications received by retailers included in the Kronos sample declined sharply in January 2012, falling 16.7% to 815,749 from an upwardly revised 979,718 in December 2011, all on a seasonally adjusted basis. The level of applications in January was down nearly 15% from its level one year ago.
"With signs the overall labor market is firming, recent declines in applications at retailers could reflect renewed job prospects in other industries," said Chris Varvares, senior managing director and co-founder, Macroeconomic Advisers, who conducted the survey.


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While most people think of summer as the time to hold family reunions, don't limit yourself to just that. Long weekends during other parts of the year can also be a good time for a family get-together. You can plan around:
Note: Reunion length is determined by how far the average attendee will travel. The farther he/she travels, the longer the reunion should be.
Now that you have some ideas for dates, choose several different reunion dates that will work for you and call the Honeysuckle Inn & Conference Center to check availability, which is especially important if you will be needing a conference room or catering. Once you have the availability dates, you may want to check with significant family members who absolutely must attend (such as grandparents). Now you are really rolling. It's time to nail down some exact dates. You may take the liberty of choosing the dates yourself, or you can send out postcards or letters asking people to mail or call you with their "vote." If you choose to allow people to vote, make sure everyone realizes that "majority rules."
Now you have the majority's first & second choice dates. As soon those votes are counted, call 1-800-942-3553 to reserve a block of rooms for your family. Use the 2nd choice date if the 1st choice date has sold out between now and the last time you called. You may consider a conference room or catering at the Honeysuckle Inn & Conference Center. The key aspect of choosing reunion dates is to stick to your final decision. Changing the date will only lead to confusion between family members and overall havoc.
One of your first tasks is to make a list of everyone to be invited. Do you want to invite all the descendants of great, great, great....or just your immediate family? How many can you track down in an amount of time?
The number of people on your guest list will be a factor in many ways, such as which conference room to use (Cardinal Room, seats 130; Sunshine Room, seats 110; Hummingbird Room, seats 25), how many rooms to block off.
Begin by making a list of people to invite. Contact the people you already have addresses and phone numbers for. The best idea is to put that information in a computer program specifically designed to manage names, addresses, and phone numbers. Microsoft Works is a good one. You can also print labels with this program, which will save many hours of handwriting addresses.
For those family members you do not have all contact information for, ask your close family if they have the information. For free, you can go online and go to Yahoo.com, then select "White Pages." You will need the name of your relative, and Yahoo! will then bring up every single person in the United States with that name. You will then sift through those people until you come to the one you are looking for. If you know what state or city they are from, that will help you narrow your search immensely. As a last resort, you may try a "family tree search," however those do have an expense.
Your first financial task is to create a budget for anything that is to be paid for or reimbursed by the reunion committee. Make sure you include everything you think of - stamps are an important part of every budget. Plus, it's always a good idea to allow a little bit of leeway in the budget to cover any unexpected expenses.
After you have decided how much this reunion is going to cost, you must determine where you are getting said money. Be sensitive to the financial situation of your attending family members. You don't want to plan a reunion that hardly anyone can afford.
Here are some ideas for collecting money:
Renting a conference room is a very good idea for a family reunion. Since the point of a reunion is to "re-unite," being able to have a common place to come together and socialize, play cards or other games, and enjoy other bonding activities is really important.
Here are some ideas to guide your time spent socializing in a conference room:
1. Welcome Address: (5 - 10 minutes, max.)
2. Certificates and Awards: Create certificates to give to people. Use your creativity to have fun with this. Possible recognition categories include these basics:
3. Organize Games: Games that involve more than one person at once are wonderful. Place some chairs in front and enjoy these classics.


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On the night before our last day of driving, as we sat at a picnic table on the edge of a gravel parking lot, enjoying some brats grilled in a frying pan and drinking wine as if we are in a fine restaurant, we made two promises. The less monumental promise was to eat breakfast at the Arctic Circle. The more monumental was that we'd open Mike up.
Dawn breaks in Eagle Plains, Yukon in the same gorgeous manner it has for most of the trip – sunny and still like a day in the Caribbean. When the sky is like this you can see as far as you wish, making one wonder if eyesight is limitless. The horizon is clearly defined and even the smallest of nature's wonders, the pebbles at your feet and the spider webs stuck in the eaves of the building pop out of the background. As for the temperature, it hovers around 50 degrees. A tee-shirt and shorts are inappropriate.
Last night, Jim, Dan and I slept in the manner of Cub scouts bunked up in one room to save on the motel expense. The proprietors aren't shy. They get what they can from the passersby, owning the lone oasis in 500 miles between Dawson and Inuvik. We went to bed late, drinking cognac and Scotch in a lounge that looked as if Ruth Wilkinson decorated it, with a worn-out plaid carpet and a stuffed animal's head tacked to the wall above an out-of-tune upright piano. The location has wi-fi, but it doesn't work all the time. Patience, as would be the case in anyplace way out of the way, is one of the Yukon's prized virtues.
Come the morning, Dan sees what it is in the way of food that he can scrounge up from the kitchen. He manages to purchase six eggs, some potatoes, a slab of ham and a few links of sausage for $41 from the cook, who is busy preparing pancakes for truckers. This being Canada, the bill comes close to $50 American. We have fixins' for toast in the RV and coffee. By 9:00 AM, after waiting 30 minutes for the crew to assemble, we're on the Dempster again.
The Arctic Circle is designated by a circular wooden sign that Jim calls the Arctic Half-Circle. The marquee proudly states Latitude 66 Degrees North. There's one picnic table in the parking lot and another down a short hill in the scrub bush behind it. Armed with charcoal and lighter, Dan is worried we'll start a forest fire. The nearest forest is 250 miles away. Ridiculous as this seems, he decides that the table down the hill is the one for us and falls on his ass in a heap trying to get there.
Failing the first attempt, we climb back up the hill and ignite our charcoals where the Arctic Half-Circle sign is. Dan cleans out a wound on his hand with peroxide as the bricks turn from black to black with an edge of gray at the edges. It's not a bad wound, but it gives a chance to use the first-aid kit that we brought. We're so hungry and eager to get going again that we begin cooking sooner than we probably should. Inuvik lies 10 hours ahead, maybe more.
I turn Mike's urn over like an egg that is fried to the point that it's ready to be eaten. You must open the box from the bottom. Three Phillips-head screws hold the hexagonal base in place. The screws turn easily. Under the lid, there's a pad of pristine white cotton – a wig of sorts – and beneath that, a plastic bag holding ashes. I dip my finger into the light gray cremains and anoint my sun-tanned forehead as if it was Ash Wednesday. It's a Monday.
The ashes are silky and have the substance of flour. There's no odor. We leave the urn open and watch as the wind whips the top of the opened bag. All is still, except for the sound of the plastic moving against itself. But the ashes stay put where they are. Mike is happy. The four of us take our places for breakfast, saying nothing. Three of us eat as the fourth sits at the head of the table.
Dan takes charge of the mise en place. He is a tireless worker, the kind of man that any woman would want to marry if handy fits her description of romance. Jim and I attend to closing Mike up. The screws are missing. I am certain I placed them on the table next to him, but all I find there instead is a dime. The dime is Canadian, left there by some traveler before us, but I know that people like Cheri Allen and Leslie Johnson, who believe dimes that appear where you don't expect them are signs from the dead, would think otherwise. I place the dime in Mike's ashes before sealing him back up.
Dan admits that he picked up the screws being afraid that we'd lose them. Nevertheless, we apply duct tape to make Mike secure for the trip's grand finale. The day is sad in a lot of ways, not the least of which is that we know that our trek to the end of the road is near over. A similar resignation is what Mike must have felt for his last 20 years.
Till Next Time,
Breakfast with Mike at the Arctic Circle
On the night before our last day of driving, as we sat at a picnic table on the edge of a gravel parking lot, enjoying some brats grilled in a frying pan and drinking wine as if we are in a fine restaurant, we made two promises. The less monumental promise was to eat breakfast at the Arctic Circle. The more monumental was that we'd open Mike up.


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This screenshot is of a great article in this month's edition of NCGE's newsletter focusing on rural lands and recent changes to rural systems. Follow the link for the whole newsletter as a flipbook (PDF here) including an edition of Geography in the News on Siberia's Northern Railway.
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Foxy Shazam's "I Like It" Video Drops Like A Bomb! [VIDEO]
It's "on like a bomb", and that's a good thing! Foxy Shazam has just released their first video with a decent budget and they put every penny into it! Machine guns, confetti, dancing girls and Eric Nall doing his Mike tricks. Check out "I Like It" after the break.


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Making a Difference Through Penn's Way
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Penn's Way, the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Medicine's workplace charitable giving campaign, continues to be recognized as one of the most successful and generous campaigns in the region. Unprecedented participation levels last year enabled us to exceed our $1.40 million goal for local charitable organizations. Through the combined strength of both the University and Penn Medicine faculty and staff, we are confident that this year's campaign will reach our goal of $1.45 million to support the communities in which we live.
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Albany Gets #1 UConn [BRACKET]
Congratulations UAlbany women's basketball team. You are America East Conference champs and the NCAA is sending you to….#1 UConn.
Yup. The Great Danes are seeded #16 and must play the top ranked and undefeated Huskies of Geno Auriemma. UConn is 32-0 and the Huskie have won a record setting 107 consecutive games.
Albany defeated UMaine 66-50 last Friday in the AE championship game.
The first round game will be played on Saturday.
Former UMaine coach Joanne Palombo-McCallie and her Duke Blue Devils(27-5) earned a #2 seed in the same Bridgeport Regional. McCallie's team plays Hampton in the first round matchup on Saturday.
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BBA Aviation ERO (engine repair and overhaul) is expanding its global reach. The parent company of Dallas Airmotive, H+S Aviation and Premier Turbines has extended its international service support network with the opening of regional centers in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Mumbai, India. The centers will provide service to include troubleshooting, parts support, borescope inspection and on-wing hot section inspection and repair.
"Extending our service center reach is the next phase in a structured growth plan to expand our local presence in emerging global markets," said BBA Aviation ERO vice president of international sales Willy Harmon.
The group has also opened a new sales and service regional headquarters in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, to support military, commercial, business and general aviation aircraft in Brazil and the adjacent regions with technical assistance, import/export management, logistics, field service and line-replaceable unit stocking.
The facility is located near the Pampulha Airport, serving the city of Belo Horizonte. Initial efforts will be aimed at military and commercial aircraft, "with a vision to grow our services to meet the demands of the Latin American market," said engine repair and overhaul president Hugh McElroy.
Closer to home, BBA Aviation ERO (Booth No. 7040) continues to expand its Pratt & Whitney Canada PW305 capabilities at the company's Dallas Airmotive regional turbine center at Dallas Love Field.
The latest addition is tools and equipment to perform integrally bladed rotor replacement on the PW305A used on the Learjet 60. The first two engines to receive the replacement work were completed in April.
In the meantime, BBA's H+S Aviation division has received test-cell approval and completed all technician training for the repair and overhaul of the Hamilton Sundstrand T40-1 auxiliary power unit (APU). H+S Aviation was appointed an authorized repair facility by Hamilton Sundstrand in January this year.
The addition of the T40-1 APU augments H+S Aviation's existing GE T700 authorization, allowing the company to offer a complete package of engine repair and overhaul services to operators of Blackhawk and Seahawk helicopters.
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Amy Lee is a mom.
The Evanescence singer gave birth to a baby boy, Jack Lion Hartzler, on Monday, July 28, in New York. Lee announced the birth on her Facebook page, showing a picture of herself holding the baby and writing, "Our little cub, Jack Lion Hartzler, is here. I have never known the depths of my heart till now. The world just exploded in technicolor." Lee also posted the photo on Instagram.
It's the first child for Lee and her husband, Josh Hartzler, but in 2012, during Evanescence's last tour, she told us that starting a family was a priority for her:
"Oh yeah, definitely. That's something I long for more and more the older I get, for sure -- not just about kids of my own but just spending time with my living family. Something I really end up missing a lot on the road is that, just down-home family time from my husband to my parents to my grandparents, my cousins, weddings, funerals, family gatherings. You miss a lot of stuff when you're on the road, and it's starting to hit me, 'Oh, I can't get that back...' "
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What's What About Your New Kelvinator Home Freezer
The front cover is blue and red with a drawing of a freezer and a woman in a yellow dress and frilly red and white apron getting ready to put something in it. The title is in white lettering. The back cover is blue and red with Kelvinator - of Course!, a line drawing of the factory, and the company name and address below that. At the bottom is Part No. 1116249 and printed in U .S.A.. The title page states: This booklet is another service of the Kelvinator Kitchen, company address, and copyright statement. There is a suggested inventory, where to install the freezer, how long food can be kept, and the basics of freezing.View this piece: jpg pdf
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GlassFish, Part 2: Getting Started with the App Server
Configure GlassFish, code an application and deploy it on the application server.
GlassFish, Part 1: Architecture, Community, et al.
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Publication Date: 9/28/2005
Citation: Richards, M.P., Poch, S.M., McMurtry, J.P. 2005. Gallus gallus preproglucagon B (GCG) mRNA, complete cds, alternatively spliced [abstract]. GenBank Accession No. DQ185931. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: The proglucagon gene in mammals produces a single identical mRNA transcript in all tissues where it is expressed. This transcript encodes glucagon and two glucagon-like peptide hormones (GLP-1 and GLP-2). Previously, two distinct proglucagon mRNA transcripts have been identified in chickens, one in pancreas that encodes glucagon and GLP-1 but not GLP-2, and another in intestine that encodes glucagon and both GLPs. It was suggested that tissue-specific expression of these two mRNAs was important to the selective production of glucagon, GLP-1 and GLP-2 by proteolytic processing of the prohormone. The objective of this work was to isolate and characterize proglucagon mRNA transcripts in chickens. A molecular cloning strategy involving primer-directed reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and rapid amplification of 5' and 3' cDNA ends (5' and 3' RACE) was developed to sequence 1183 bp of a chicken pancreas-derived cDNA corresponding to the complete coding region and the 5'- and 3'-untranslated regions of a chicken proglucagon class B mRNA transcript. The chicken proglucagon class B mRNA codes for a 206 amino acid preproprotein that includes a signal peptide, glucagon, GLP-1 and GLP-2 comprised of 22, 29, 37 and 33 amino acids, respectively. Class B mRNA was distinguished by its larger open reading frame (compared to class A) that included coding sequence for GLP-2 due to alternate splicing of the 3' end of the initial gene transcript. The potential use of an alternate first exon also generates two class B mRNA transcript variants that differ in the sequence located at their 5' ends. Together, this sequence data confirms the existence and provides additional information about the structure and function of the proglucagon gene in chickens. Such data will be useful in studying the structure and expression of this gene, as well as, in further defining the function of glucagon and GLP hormones in poultry.


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With All Due Respect, A Collegial Rebuttal (Conclusion)
In my previous blog post, I contrasted two posts by my esteemed colleagues, fellow ADHD bloggers Bryan Hutchinson and Jeff Siegel.
I'd like to continue with my personal analysis of the discussion from the point of view of a woman with ADHD (and possibly a slutty one, at that. You'll have to wait to find that one out).
About success
I think you verge on my point Jeff, when you hold your spouse and other women (such as Jane Goodall) up as role models of success that your daughters could emulate.
But why do we have to have a one-size-fits-all definition of "success"?
I don't want to be forced to swallow society's ideal of "success," "womanhood," or anything else for that matter. This is especially important to me as a woman with ADHD who considers herself to be somewhat outside the "norm" of stereotypical feminine aspirations.
First and foremost, to me a successful person is one who has striven for, and has been supported in, reaching their highest potential, whatever that is. (For examples, see Leading Ladies: Seven Successful Women with ADHD.)
Let's not forget that whatever successes most of us have had, they've more often than not been achieved at great cost, and often on the heels of heartbreaking failures, especially if we're not diagnosed with ADHD until late in life.
In that context, it's tenacity, not family wealth or connections, that helps us achieve whatever successes we have.
About judging others
I'm pretty sure neither Jeff nor Bryan has actually met any of the women cited in Bryan's blog in person. And if they have, I'm guessing that they're not best buds with them.
I apologize right now if I'm mistaken in this.
I'll take my cue from Siegel who says that a writer's role is to say what others are unwilling to say:
What gives you two the right to judge these women the way you have in your blog posts, based on superficial observations and media hype in the first place?
What's the point? If you're actually writing about ADHD, as it appears you are, then I think you've missed the point entirely.
Let's dig a little deeper
I'd like to call for a change of focus to a society that is more interested in ferreting out and addressing the root causes of such evils as alcoholism, drug abuse and so-called slutty behavior.
As a woman with ADHD, I think I'll be the one deciding if and when I feel I've gone "over the edge."
As for Hutchinson (who admits Miley Cyrus' diagnosis was never confirmed), he applauds Cyrus for not allowing her "naughty pictures" to "[go] over the edge."
Again, who put you in the position of deciding what is and isn't "over the edge"?
As a woman with ADHD, I think I'll be the one deciding if and when I feel I've gone "over the edge," and I'd ask that Messrs. Siegel and Hutchinson allow the "girls" [cringe] to do the same.
If a woman's ADHD impulsivity, poor executive functioning, etc., is driving her behavior is it really informative to denounce her as a slut?
What does that even mean? Does it mean that she's promiscuous (i.e. "not restricted to one sexual partner" – Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary)?
Does it mean that she's had 10 lovers? 20?
Or that she dates five men (or women. or both) at the same time?
Zoë Kessler… friendly, neighborhood ADHD slut?
As a woman diagnosed with ADHD at 46, I'm a walking statistic.
Like those who comprise the stats cited in my previous post, my own ADHD impulsivity, hyperactivity, low self-esteem, stimulus-seeking behavior (and other factors) led to rampant promiscuity throughout my 20's.
I'm guessing that by your definition, Jeff, I too could be called a slut (at least back in those days).
Instead of choosing high-stim activities such as driving fast, getting into fights, gambling, etc., I chose sex as my dopamine-inducing activity of choice.
And you know what? That's none of your business.
Who amongst us is perfect?
I've worked extremely hard to understand the neurobiology and psychology driving the behavior of women with undiagnosed ADHD (especially myself).
It's taken much to overcome my personal allotment of shame and blame, the worst and most lingering being that which I foisted upon myself prior to learning about ADHD and its role in my life.
If you choose to judge me on the basis of that behavior (and ignore its association with ADHD) as opposed to judging me for my accomplishments, intelligence, hard work, passionate nature, kindness, caring, sense of humor, or for the wonderful person that I am, that's your problem.
So there.
Okay, Bryan, your turn
These "girls" (I don't have time here to point out how patronizing calling these adults "girls" is, especially when combined with your comment that Britney, thank God, has "got Simon Cowell to take care of her now")…
Oh, what the hell, I'm on a roll…
I agree that it's quite likely that Britney and perhaps the others cited in your post could use some support and wise counsel, perhaps in the form of an ADHD coach; an appropriate ADHD treatment plan, etc.
But to suggest that being taken under the wing of Simon Cowell who as far as I know is neither an ADHD coach, a psychiatrist specializing in ADHD, a psychotherapist, or any kind of ADHD specialist, is just the thing to help Britney stay on her feet is a simplification at best, patronizing and ludicrous at worst.
I agree with multimodal treatment, but I'm not quite sure this could be construed as a valid component.
MY bottom line
Perhaps I'm being presumptuous, Jeff and Bryan, but I think in our common blogging about ADHD we're all fighting for some of the same fundamental things.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure this includes trying to disseminate solid, reliable, up-to-date information about adult ADHD, and making the world more liveable for ourselves and others.
For the sake of fraternity… er… sorority… um… a united front?
That being said, I want you guys to go to your rooms and think about what you've said. And no, I will NOT give you a spanking.
You can come out when we're all back on the same page in regard to not further labeling and stigmatizing women with ADHD, no matter how screwed up (or, alternatively, gorgeous and successful) they might look to you.
We're supposed to be the good guys, remember?
Kessler, Z. (2012). With All Due Respect, A Collegial Rebuttal (Conclusion). Psych Central. Retrieved on September 26, 2017, from https://blogs.psychcentral.com/adhd-zoe/2012/06/with-all-due-respect-a-collegial-rebuttal-conclusion/


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Secretary of the Ministry of Rehabilitation and Prisons Reforms A Dissanayaka states that there are currently 850 prison inmates on death row.
He added that applications have been called for the executioner since the ministry needs to be on stand-by to carry out the death sentences at any given time.
Meanwhile, a special investigation has commenced into mobile phones being thrown over the walls of the Colombo Magazine Prison.
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AnySoldier Golf Tournament
Please join us for the Any Soldier Inc Golf Tournament held at the Queanbeyan Golf Club, Queanbeyan, NSW.
The tournament format will be a scramble format of four man teams. If you are a single, you will be matched up with other players to complete the foursome. The tournament will include a longest drive contest, closest to the pin and a opportunity to win a Harley Davidson motorcycle at our hole in one contest.
Green Fees are $25.00 which includes a complimentary light
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text: By MARK HAZELWOODT-G Sports WriterJEROMESVILLE It was a solid day for four area teams who cracked the top ten in the 17th annual Hillsdale Golf Invitational Tuesday at Mohican Hills Golf Club.Loudonville finished in third place with a score of 346, just one stroke behind second place Norwayne. Northwestern was fifth with a score of 350, while New London checked in at seventh place and Crestview was ninth with scores of 355 and 366, respectively.It was a five-man lineup for each school over 18 holes, with the top four scores factoring into the final total. Ryan Conway led the Redbirds with an 80, while Logan Scott added an 85. Coach Rick Taggart was pleased with the team finish, but says a lot of work still needs to be done.It was quite an improvement from Monday, he said. We golfed pretty well out there. We golfed with two of the better teams in the area and we were right there. Im pleased, and the kids should be happy, but we also gave some strokes away.We missed runner-up by one stroke, so thats something we can work on. But to get third out of 19 teams, Im very pleased with that.Northwestern got an 82 from both Josh Calame and Brice Hastings to help put them in the fifth slot. New London got the best score of the day from Logan Cooke, who shot a 73. Aaron Hess added an 87 for the Wildcats. New London coach Seth Gilbert voiced his displeasure over his teams performance Monday at Mapleton, but came away happy with the seventh-place finish.Im a lot happier with our performance, he said. We had a talk with our top three guys, and something happened because things were much better today. Logan has played pretty well here the past couple years, but hes usually only put together one good stretch of nine holes.Today, he put two good rounds together and it was an excellent score. Im just real happy with our top three today, and I hope it can carry over into the rest of the year.Crestview followed the scores of Brandon Lutz and Alex Griffith to their top 10 finish, with Lutz shooting an 82 and Griffith a 90.The next local team on the board was the host of the Invitational in Hillsdale. The Falcons scored a 394, which was good for 13th place. Kyle Weber was the top score, shooting an 83, which was the 10th-best performance of the day out of all the golfers.Im very proud of Kyle for finishing in the top 10, Hillsdale coach Kevin Smith said. As a whole, we kind of struggled a little bit. We could have played a little better on our home course, but we didnt. But this is a young team and were improving, and that is what were looking to do throughout the season.The two other area Firelands Conference teams rounded out the local field, with South Central finishing in 16th place with a 420 and Mapleton finishing in 19th with a 435. Brett Bond led the Trojans with a 90, while Andrew Yoder shot an 85 for the Mounties.Smith was happy with the class all the golfers showed at the tournament.Everyone was tremendously cooperative, he said. The kids did a super job with the sportsmanship on the course. And of course, its always nice to have great weather, and it was a perfect day for golf. I think everyone had a great time.n Contact Mark Hazelwood, sports writer, at 419-281-0581, ext. 255, or email@example.com.


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Breaking: Pam Anderson, Rick Salomon divorcing!
Also breaking: Our hearts. Because we could have sworn this marriage made in sex-tape heaven would have lasted longer than Pam Anderson's three-month marriage to Kid Rock. But it appears her Vegas wedding to Rick Salomon wasn't meant to be, either. Anderson filed for divorce Friday in Los Angeles, and she's asking for spousal support -- after only 72 days of wedded bliss. TMZ (citing CelebTV) says Anderson won't comment.
What's all this, then? Appaerntly, TMZ says Anderson and Salomon are trying to reconcile. They were seen shopping together on Sunday, and a post on Anderson's blog says: "We're working things out." These crazy kids, with their sex tapes and their kooky concepts of the holy tradition of matrimony!
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Arun, Thankom Gopinath and Ulku, Hulya (2011) Determinants of Remittances: The Case of the South Asian Community in Manchester. Journal of Development Studies, 47 (6). pp. 894-912. ISSN 0022-0388
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This paper investigates the remittance behaviour of the South Asian community using new data from Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi households in Manchester. The findings show that standard variables such as income, employment, education, linkages to the home country and host country are important determinants of remittances. Although remittances are sent mainly for consumption purposes, those sent for land acquisition and savings have stronger association with the amount of remittances. In addition, we find strong evidence for the remittance decay hypothesis for Indian and Pakistani migrants, but not for Bangladeshi migrants.
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I've been hearing that Alaska has had a hellacious winter. Here in the Northeast, it's been the best winter ever. EVER! I couldn't have picked a better winter to break my wrist, there was hardly any snow to shovel. Everyone I talk to, except for hard-core skiers, is loving this winter. But we can't even enjoy this gift from God above. No. We're supposed to be nervous about it.
Potus talked about how he had been in Chicago and Atlanta and how the weather was so warm. "It gets you a little nervous about what is happening to global temperatures. When it is 75 degrees in Chicago in the beginning of March, you start thinking. On the other hand, I really have enjoyed nice weather."
When it warmed up here in Syracuse, I thought "Oh yeah!" My heat bill will go down, and I don't have to wear so many layers of clothes. Maybe we can even plant our garden before Memorial Day and have a better output this year.
He obviously doesn't care about the people in Alaska who endured another harsh winter. He just wants those of us who had a rare mild winter to feel guilty and sign up for his rotten agenda.
Me, I'm a bit more nervous about Friday night Executive Orders than I am about a mild winter, especially when fuel costs are so high. What's his problem, not enough people went broke and signed up for food stamps because of high home heating costs? What a bummer that the weather didn't cooperate with him.
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The lasting image of Zach Randolph from the 2013 NBA playoffs came as he walked off the court at FedEx Forum for the final time, the look of frustration he wore on his face after the Memphis Grizzlies' 93-86 Game 4 loss.
In that moment, Memphis' Western Conference four-game loss to the San Antonio Spurs was official, and Randolph's expression served as evidence he knew he hadn't done enough.
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Randolph is the rare player who welcomes contact, typically dropping his shoulder to draw closer to defenders and crowd them before he gets off his patented no-lift hook shot.
For four games, it was the Spurs who instead crowded Randolph, dropping a defender in front of him and playing help from the back side. Randolph did not respond well to the added attention, and he produced some of the worst playoff basketball we've seen from him.
In the Grizzlies' first West finals appearance, Randolph was held to averages of 11.0 points and 12.0 rebounds, and 30.1 shooting from the field by the Spurs. As his rebounding numbers indicate, Randolph's struggles were fueled more by ineffective offense than a lack of effort. He worked to get open and fought for offensive rebounds and shots in traffic. But, in the end, he often came up empty.
"I think it's just effort. There's no magic," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said of his team's defense on Randolph. We didn't come up with some new defense to guard him, but we were aggressive, we did a lot of denying, a lot pressure on the passer who was trying to deliver the ball, whether it was from the high-low or from the wing.
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"We threaded the three-quarter and showed a lot of looks out on the post. We didn't just stand behind. We made it difficult for him to catch. There were times he caught it and he hurt us, but for the most part I thought the post defense, the foot movement and the commitment was fantastic."
Randolph hadn't performed to his standards through the first two rounds of the playoffs, but he hit a new low against the Spurs. He had 13 points and eight rebounds on Monday, but was just 4-of-13 from the field (30.8 percent).
It was par for the course when measured against the rest of his series vs. the Spurs. His struggles started early, both in games and in the series; the tone was set in Game 1 when he missed his first eight shots from the field and didn't notch his first bucket of the contest until 9:26 was left in the fourth quarter.
Randolph continued to mount slow starts in the series and finished a combined 3-of-25 (12.0 percent) over four first halves. He improved as games wore on, but not by much.
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Monday's Game 4 loss to the Spurs played out just as the first three did, as Randolph went 0-of-6 from the field in the first half. He did show life in the third quarter with consecutive buckets to bring the Grizzlies within 72-66, but then he missed two free throws, displaying another problem he encountered in the postseason.
A 75 percent free-throw shooter in the regular season, Randolph maintained his numbers through the first two rounds with percentages of 73.5 against the Los Angeles Clippers and 72.2 against the Oklahoma City Thunder. His effectiveness at the line dipped significantly against the Spurs; he hit 50.0 percent, and he didn't even attempt a free throw in Game 1.
The Grizzlies' last real shot at extending the series to five games came with 1:15 left in the fourth quarter and Randolph at the line. He split the shots and showed that same look of frustration he flashed on his way off the court and on so many other occasions throughout the series.


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TUV leader Jim Allister has questioned Sinn Fein over a Facebook page calling for Orange-owned businesses to be boycotted.
As first revealed by the News Letter website on Monday an online campaign hosted by a page on the social networking site called on people to help build a database of businesses owned by members of the Orange Order so they could be boycotted.
It is understood the page was set up on Sunday and, during a debate on the matter in Stormont on Tuesday, it was removed.
Following condemnation of the page from Tom Elliott, Mr Allister confronted Sinn Fein west Belfast MLA Rosie McCorley on the matter during a Stormont debate on Internet safety, claiming the party had some link to the page.
He said: "Would the Member care to comment on the fact that the exhortation 'Boycott all Orange-owned businesses' has now appeared on a Sinn Féin website? Does she take the view that that is an attempt to direct people to discriminate in their business practices and is, in its own way, a propagation of hate? Does she defend that proposition?"
Ms McCorely however said the page was "not a Sinn Fein website".
Speaking during the debate on Internet safety she added: "Social networking sites have created a space where those who perpetrate and encourage hatred and violent attacks feel that they can do so with impunity." The Assembly member went on to highlight the use of social networking to organise recent flag protests and make derogatory comments about people from both communities.
The person behind the Orange boycott page wrote: "Comrades, we plan to build up a comprehensive list of businesses, county by county to start with - can you Private Message us, if you know of any Orange-owned businesses in your area... Grma."
Mr Allister claimed the page bore the Sinn Fein logo and a link to their YouTube channel.
Following the debate he said: "Some might think Sinn Fein/IRA may have had a greater degree of control over this page than they would like us to believe. The public can draw their own conclusions as to how within moments of the issue being raised by me in the Assembly the page disappeared? Sinn Fein/IRA is eager to complain about Loyalists using social media, but here we had a calculated republican vendetta against Protestant businesses which happily the promoters of which on Facebook have had to take down.
"When challenged about the issue IRA Hunger Striker Raymond McCartney suggested there might be perfectly innocent explanations about this and that it was possible for someone to set up a Facebook page without having any connection to the organisation they claim to represent. What makes the Sinn Fein link interesting is that before the debate was completed - and once the Sinn Fein support had been identified - the page had disappeared from Facebook."


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The complexity of Tesla Motor's yet-to-be-released battery electric SUV, the Model X, is leading to challenges at the factory and is slowing down production of the Model S sedan. After already undergoing a series of delays, the highly anticipated Model X is set to be released in September or October. Though Tesla CEO Elon Musk […]+ Read More
Ford Motor Company's Focus Electric has now officially crossed the Atlantic. That distinction was made official today as Ford started production of the European Focus Electric in Saarlouis, Germany. The Focus Electric is the first full-electric vehicle to be built by Ford in Europe. According to Ford, the zero-emission Focus Electric is spearheading Ford's line-up […]+ Read More


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SANTA CRUZ -- Have you ever wanted to chuck it all and hit the road? A Santa Cruz native has done just that, along with his adventurous girlfriend.
Nathaniel Chaney, a 2004 Pacific Collegiate School graduate, and his partner Alexandria Washburn are riding their motorcycles from San Francisco to Argentina. The couple, who have been together for more than four years, decided to quit their jobs, put all their possessions in storage and travel more than 7,000 miles to the tip of South America. They began their journey in October and have created a blog to document and share what they call a "totally insane journey" with their families, friends and anyone else interested in taking a vicarious adventure.
Chaney, who was working as an accountant in Burlingame before taking to the road, wrote in an email interview that the trip was prompted by his realization earlier this year that he had been letting his dreams slip away.
"I remember distinctly, I was riding my bicycle home from work about eight months ago and having a sinking feeling that there was a lack of fulfillment in my life," wrote the 27-year-old Chaney.
"My plan after college was to get a job, save for a whole year and then do a trip around the world. This never materialized, and I think the sinking feeling was knowing that was something I really wanted to do and if I didn't do it soon I was never going to have the chance."
Plans in motion
A month later Chaney and Washburn, 25, a professional photographer who was working as a photo editor for wired.com, decided to stop talking about their desire to get their motorcycle licenses and do something about it They took a CHP motorcycle class together, and during the course Chaney realized it was possible to ride a motorcycle from Central California to the southern end of South America. The thought percolated in his brain for a short while.
"About a week later Alex and I were "... talking, and I blurted out something like, we should just quit our jobs and ride to the tip of South America," Chaney recalled. "She thought for a second and then said, yeah we should."
Chaney tapped into his savings and the two began buying the gear they needed for their trip.
After about six months of planning they jumped on their Kawasaki KLR650s and took off. Just six weeks into their adventures the pair has already accumulated memories that will last a lifetime, such as their visit to Mayan pyramids in Guatemala.
"The most memorable experience for me so far has been climbing one of the pyramids in Tikal at 5:30 a.m. and experiencing the sunrise with a handful of other people," Washburn recounted.
"Watching the sky slowly change as trees appeared from the mist sitting on top of a 1,200-year-old structure listening to the monkeys and the birds wake up was something I will never forget. I had this realization as I sat there those sounds have existed far longer than the pyramids."
Close to home
For Chaney one of the highlights so far has been discovering that no matter how far he roams, he feels close to home.
"We were just in Placencia, Belize, and I ran into a large group of Santa Cruzans," he recounted in late November. "No matter where I go, I always seem to run into people that lived in Santa Cruz, and right there I know I have a bond with that person. For a small community we have a world wide influence, and it makes me feel at home knowing the next Santa Cruzan I'll meet is always just a couple towns away."
A few rough spots
Of course, any trip was its rough points. Washburn said her most challenging time so far came when they discovered they lacked the proper documents to cross the Sea of Cortez from Baja to Mainland Mexico. The bureaucratic problem caused a five-day delay, lots of frustration for Washburn, and confirmation that the pair compliments each other well.
"One of the reasons Nathaniel and I are such a good team is that we are such opposites that we can fill in as support when the other person is having a tough time," Washburn said. "The more I had meltdowns over our paperwork in Mexico the more positive Nathaniel was. Then of course there are things that frustrate Nathaniel beyond belief but don't bother me at all -- it's just how we're wired."
Chaney estimates the trip will take about six to eight months to complete. The couple plans to return to the Bay Area after their adventure.
"We both love California and barring job opportunities elsewhere wish to continue to live in the Bay Area," Chaney wrote.
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I had rhinoplasty 3 and-a-half weeks ago and now I noticed a bump on my nose. I didn't have that hump before. What causing this? I had my nose straightened from the front. I had the hump removed. I had the tip reduced.I also had my nose to have a slight curve.
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I Had Rhinoplasty 3 and a Half Weeks Ago Now I'm Getting a Hump?
Posted photos are helpful but better views are needed. Plus you are zoo very early postoperatively that at least wait 3 months before being concerned. It does appear as an open roof deformity. Did you have fracturing of your nasal bones?
Swelling after rhinoplasty
The swelling that occurs after rhinoplasty lasts several months (up to 18 months!) and can be a frustrating part of the recovery process. The first month will lead to resolution of a lot of the swelling with about half gone by 3 months. Try to be patient during this tough time as you let the nose heal.
Bump in nose may go away in several months
There is a bump, more visible from the right, which is a little worrisome. It could be a bone edge. You might need a touch up. But there is no point in worrying now.
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Hump after rhinoplasty
Irregularities are often palpable after rhinopalsty. Many times as the nose heals they improve. It is still early , give it time.
Early results following a rhinoplasty - still feel a small bump on the dorsum
You are still very early in the healing process following your rhinoplasty surgery. More than likely any abnormality that you are palpating on the dorsum of your nose will improve overtime. If it does not remodel over then next year then you may need a revision but it is too early to tell at this point.
Hump 3.5 Weeks after Rhinoplasty
Any time any dorsal work is done such as hump reduction there will be swelling for at least several weeks to months. 3.5 weeks is too early to gauge final results or be concerned about areas that are still swollen. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
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With key government data on the economy unavailable for more than two weeks due to the federal government shutdown, privately-generated indicators of economic conditions have been especially valuable. The October 16 release of the latest figures from the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index provided one of these much-needed windows into the latest conditions for the fall housing market. Unfortunately though, the news was not good.
So far in 2013, the housing market has been a bright spot for the economy, but the government budget crisis may have put a strain on the real estate recovery. This is not the first challenge housing has faced this year, but the key question going forward is whether housing can put these challenges behind it, or whether a recent downturn in the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index is the shape of things to come.
Signs of Weakness in Builder Confidence
The NAHB is the National Association of Home Builders, and they have compiled a Housing Market Index for 25 years. The NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index surveys builders about current and prospective conditions in residential housing. An index reading above 50 means that most builders are optimistic about conditions, while a reading below 50 means that pessimists outnumber optimists.
Thus, this index can provide two primary types of insight into what builders are seeing in the marketplace - whether most perceive conditions as favorable or unfavorable, and whether the trend is towards a strengthening or weakening of those conditions.
Unfortunately, the overall NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index slipped by two points in October, to a level of 55. The silver lining is that with the reading still safely above 50, most builders still see conditions as positive. This continuing optimism is a significant departure from recent years. When the index crossed above 50 this past June, it was the first time it had been in optimistic territory for over seven years.
Building conditions have far-reaching implications for the fall housing market. Housing prices, such as those reported by the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, measure what people are paying for houses, but home price information tends to be on the back end of market activity. What builders are seeing in the marketplace can provide some indication as to where home price trends may be heading. Most notably, the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index dropped below the crucial 50 level just three months before housing prices peaked in 2006.
In turn, housing prices affect not just home buyers and sellers, but also existing home owners who are contemplating a home equity loan or want to refinance a mortgage. As of now, the level of the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index does not suggest a downturn in prices is imminent, but the weakening trend bears watching - October was the second consecutive month in which the index declined.
Outlook Bleakest in the Northeast
Of course, national figures can only tell so much about actual conditions because real estate is highly localized. Regional breakdowns of the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index tell markedly different stories from one part of the country to the next.
Regional readings for the index range from a high of 65 in the Midwest to a low of 31 in the Northeast. The South and West readings each came in above 50, at 54 and 58, respectively.
What may be most disturbing about that weak reading in the Northeast is this region also experienced the sharpest single-month drop in October, plummeting 13 points (rarely a lucky number!) from the September level. In short, builders not only see conditions in the Northeast as the weakest in the nation already, but they also seem to be deteriorating most quickly.
For residents of the Northeast, anyone looking to sell a home or refinance a mortgage might take this as a sign to get a deal done quickly. In contrast, prospective home buyers in the region might be inclined to bide their time and drive a hard bargain.
Leaving Twin Challenges Behind
The fading optimism among builders may have something to do with the government shutdown and debt ceiling debate. This would not be the first challenge the housing market has faced this year. 30-year fixed mortgage rates rose by more than a full percentage point in just eight weeks between early May and late June of this year, according to mortgage finance company Freddie Mac. Despite that, housing prices and builder optimism continued to grow during this period.
Since then, mortgage rates have settled down. Now, with the shutdown temporarily resolved, the question becomes whether the housing market can put this latest challenge behind it, or if the uncertainty involved has set a downward trend in motion. The next release of the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index may provide an early clue as to what the answer is.


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Chris Lau, Kapitall: Is Web 2.0 the foundation for explosive 21st century growth, or are we in a Twitter bubble? Twitter (TWTR) is not a favorite stock these days. Its shares are down 35% in the quarter, close to its opening day IPO price close. Ahead of quarterly results on April 21 2014, Twitter is trying to excite investors. [Read more from Kapitall: Drone stocks: some people in Colorado really, really don't like drones] The hope for product enhancements is to stem the decline in usage, and to fend off competition from the likes of Facebook (FB) and Google (GOOG). Feature improvements in Facebook's newsfeed and Google+ are bad news for Twitter. Twitter enhanced tweet views by adding a conversation view last year. It could add a timeline view of favorite users. This would reduce the "noise" inherent when following many users. App-install ad Advertising will be updated with "app-install ad." Users clicking on such an ad will be directed to the sponsor's page where the program could be downloaded. Tests of this ad engine showed costs for advertisers fell by 80 percent. This makes advertising at least as cost efficient to advertising on Facebook. King IPO a drag on Twitter King's (KING) IPO did little to help Twitter shares. King's IPO may have been priced too high, but one thing is for certain: the drop in King shares on opening day suggests investors are losing interest in mobile gaming entertainment stocks. Investors should be cautious ahead of Twitter's quarterly report. Twitter has a negative book value per share, higher annual expenses over sales, and more liabilities than total assets. Traffic and usage is likely to continue dropping, since the ad and site enhancements will not bear fruit until later. Lower user activity and posts will also mean advertisers will spend elsewhere, notably on Facebook or Instagram.
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