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China's continuing refusal to lift all limits on flights to and from the United States hurts Chinese business travelers and prevents Chinese carriers from enjoying the full benefits of access to the U.S. airline market, the chief U.S. aviation negotiator, Krishna Urs, says on this week's episode of "Conversations with Nicholas Kralev."
Urs, who is deputy assistant secretary of state for transportation, also talks about the intricacies of aviation diplomacy, how it affects airlines and the flying public, the expected increase in flights to Tokyo's Haneda Airport, and the Open Skies Agreements the United States has with 111 countries.
A Foreign Service officer since 1986, Urs has spent most of his career in Latin America, having served in Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, as well as in Bangladesh.
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Last night as we were getting ready for bed, my husband said, "You know what I like about you, Rachel? You're ambitious."
This was in response to my decision to cook a Thanksgiving dinner yesterday. For no particular reason. I just had all the stuff, so I made a turkey, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, stuffing, pink stuff (a family recipe), cranberry sauce, and rolls. I invited his parents over (because we certainly weren't going to eat all of that by ourselves), and it turned out pretty well. There were minor disasters (covering the kitchen with brine—twice—and spilling a half a gallon of cider all over the floor), but it turned out well.
I suppose that was ambitious. I did it all by myself, but it was actually a lot less work than I thought it would be. I even had time to loaf some of the day, and I still managed to get everything done. It probably helped that the stuffing was from a box and the cranberry sauce was from a can.
I asked my husband, "Apart from deciding to make a last minute, unnecessary Thanksgiving dinner, do you think I'm ambitious?" He said yes, that I have a lot of big ideas and a lot of big dreams.
Yes, well. Do I ever do anything with those big ideas and big dreams?
Not so much.
I've written a little about this before, but I can't recall being called ambitious ever before. A dreamer, maybe. Idealistic, sure. But ambitious?
To me, ambition means you don't just have the idea; you have the passion to put the rubber to the road and get things done. You make it happen. I don't feel like looking up the dictionary definition or anything, but it seems to me that there's a drive that comes with the concept of ambition. I'm not wanting for ideas, but I'm wanting for the drive to get them accomplished.
I think part of it is out of fear of failure. I always thought that was a silly concept, but lately I've discovered that's something I suffer from. I don't want to be a disappointment. To myself? To my family? To God? I don't know the answer to that part. I'm trying to make myself believe that there's honor in trying despite the result.
Are you ambitious? Are you a do-er? What's your motivation? How do you get stuff done?
More importantly—can you teach me?
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Don't Dream It, Be It
Posted by Rachel @ The Lazy Christian at 10:53 AM
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I don't think anyone has EVER called my ambitious. So I'm no help there!ReplyDelete
Say is the "pink stuff" a frozen salad with cherries and sour cream? I do that one too!
Hey, I took my turkey out the frig to make sure he was thawed and I had juice all over my frig shelf. Are we related???
Happy Thanksgiving
My pink stuff is a can of cherry pie filling, a container of Cool Whip, a small can of crushed pineapple, and a can of sweetened condensed milk. I've had it frozen and it's DELICIOUS, but I usually just keep it soft. :) My aunt always made it for Thanksgiving, and now I can make it myself!ReplyDelete
Thanks, Karen. Happy Thanksgiving to you, too!
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- What is Marijuana
- Ways of Using Marijuana
- Different Names of Marijuana
- Medical Uses of Marijuana
- Cannabis Cup Strains
- Germinating Marijuana Seeds
- How To Transplant Seedlings
- Plant Stress
- Fertilize Seedlings
- Planting Pot Seedlings
- Growing Hydroponically
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- Outdoor Marijuana Pests
What are hermaphrodites? Hermaphrodites are animals or plants capable of having both male and female sex organs. You think this would be great? Well if you�re planning on selling seeds from your produce then go ahead. Hermies won�t bother you at all, Cannabis plants usually turn into hermies if they feel stressed out, some females turn into hermies if they feel like changing too, that in hand ruins your produce and makes seeds, and we don�t want seeds. What causes normal cannabis to turn into shemales? As I mentioned above, it could be stress brought by too much heat, or too much cold. Best thing you would do is check your thermometers, check your ventilation if has holes in it. Check if your PH balance is right from your soil. These are top factors that stress out your plant.
The best way to deal with a hermaphrodite is to keep it out and away from your grow room. If you separate your grow room from your vegetation room that would be also great for you can put your hermie there, it won�t do any harm to those little growing plants until they reach flowering stage, till that stage they are safe. Or you can put your hermie outside and let it grow beside your oak tree, who knows you might need to smoke. If you really don�t want to waste precious space you can destroy your hermie, it�s your plant still.
Also, any seeds from a hermie female will be a female, thus those seeds produced by that hermie would reproduce again another wave of hermie army, which would be really bad. Some people say that those seeds will also have the tendency to become a hermie plant for sure. Others say keep the seeds produced by your hermie plant that would be a hundred percent female.
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So how can you spot a hermie plant from normal ones? Male plants have pollen sacks, and female plants have hairs. If you�ve got them both on your plant, then your plant is probably a hermie. The problem here is the seeds, because when the pollen sacks open dust and the buds with hairs, this would create seeds. And as I�ve said it a million times, we don�t want seeds unless you�re really producing seeds.
Another fact is that there are types on how a hermaphrodite plant is made, or born which ever catches your drift. If you hermie is from a female plant forced to be a hermie due to stress, that hermie plant could probably produce hermie seeds as well. If that plant went hermie because it didn�t receive any polen then that plant would produce female plants 100 percent sure, why 100 percent sure? It�s because the original plant before it became hermie was a female plant, only female plants can turn into hermies. So with the female genetics on, she would only produce 100 percent female seeds, which we can use for our next generation of strain.
So having this new insight of hermie plants and seeds you would now know what to do with them, either use them for next generation, or keep the plant for more personal use. Either way this educational information about hermies help us improve the way we produce good and well breed cannabis.


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First off, what you're trying to accomplish is called 'simplification', not minimization. I don't want to sound pedantic, but this could put your quest on the right track.
Secondly, you could have a look at Math::Symbolic. Unfortunately, the docs are sparse, so it's not clear to me what it does, but it seems to do at least some simplification.
Hope this helps, -gjb-
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Another service I offer to artists is the documentation of their artwork. I create high resolution digital files suitable for printing, or for gallery submissions. I also produce archival prints, suitable for portfolios or as a record of your work. These are colour balanced to the original, and can be printed on a variety of high quality papers. Contact me for details.
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Nikon D5100 Review
The Nikon D5100 successfully bridges the gap between the beginner-friendly approach of the D3100 and the more complex D7000, with the latter's fantastic 16 megapixel sensor being the icing on the proverbial cake. The D5100 does have a few minor handling issues, most notably the positioning of the Live View switch and the secondary controls on the rear, and it could also be seen as being neither simple enough for complete beginners or feature-rich enough for more experienced users. All in all, though, the D5100 delivers excellent still and moving pictures with the minimum of fuss in a lightweight package and is a serious rival to the Canon EOS 600D and the Sony A55.
In addition to the excellent image sensor, the free-angle, tilting and folding LCD screen is the real highlight of the D5100, opening up lots of creative possibilities for both stills and video. Full 1080p HD footage is another fantastic feature on what is a relatively cheap DSLR, although full-time auto-focusing in Live View mode is still a painfully slow experience and not well-suited to fast-moving subjects. The new Effects modes can be used to add a creative flair to your images, although the inability to manually control the camera's key settings means that applying the effect during image playback is often the better route to take.
Tellingly, our biggest gripe about the D5100 isn't a very serious one, in that the illogical positioning of some of its controls, especially the Live View switch and the separate Movie Record button, probably won't stop the camera's target audience from enjoying it. The lack of a dedicated ISO button will definitely irk some users though, only being accessible via the reprogrammable Fn button, something that the previous D5000 suffered from and which should really have been fixed by now.
Ultimately the Nikon D5100 easily overcomes its few real weak points, offering a compelling mix of great image and movie quality, precise and quick auto-focusing, accurate metering and a fantastic LCD screen, all in a format that most users will find intutive and enjoyable to use. This is precisely what a DSLR that's competitively priced for the mass-market should deliver, and judged on that criteria, the Nikon D5100 is a very worthy winner of our Highly Recommended award.
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Two Men And A Woman
The Freebooter
One To One
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Back From Arcadia
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An Evening Call
Harley Makes A Proposition
Virginia Intervenes
Aline Makes A Discovery
First Blood
A Conspiracy
Laska Opens A Door
An Explosion In The Taurus
The Election
Further Developments
One Million Dollars
A Little Lunch At Aphonse's
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Not Guilty Guilty
Aline Turns A Corner
A Good Samaritan
Friendly Enemies
Breaks One And Makes Another Engagement
The Freebooter
Ridgway Of Montana
When next Virginia Balfour saw Waring Ridgway she was driving her trap
down one of the hit-or-miss streets of Mesa, where derricks, shaft-houses,
and gray slag-dumps shoulder ornate mansions conglomerate of many
unharmonious details of architecture. To Miss Balfour these composites and
their owners would have been joys unalloyed except for the microbe of
society ambition that was infecting the latter, and transforming them from
simple, robust, self-reliant Westerners into a class of servile,
nondescript newly rich, that resembled their unfettered selves as much as
tame bears do the grizzlies of their own Rockies. As she had once
complained smilingly to Hobart, she had not come to the West to study
ragged edges of the social fringe. She might have done that in New York.
Virginia was still a block or two from the court-house on the hill, when
it emptied into the street a concourse of excited men. That this was an
occasion of some sort it was easy to guess, and of what sort she began to
have an inkling, when Ridgway came out, the center of a circle of
congratulating admirers. She was obliged to admit that he accepted their
applause without in the least losing his head. Indeed, he took it as
imperturbably as did Hobart, against whom a wave of the enthusiasm seemed
to be directed in the form of a jeer, when he passed down the steps with
Mott, one of the Consolidated lawyers. Miss Balfour timed her approach to
meet Hobart at a right angle.
"What is it all about?" she asked, after he had reached her side.
"Judge Purcell has just decided the Never Say Die case in favor of Mr.
Ridgway and against the Consolidated."
"Is that a great victory for him?"
"Yes, it's a victory, though, of course, we appeal," admitted Hobart. "But
we can't say we didn't expect it," he added cheerfully.
"Mayn't I give you a lift if you are going down-town?" she said quickly,
for Ridgway, having detached himself from the group, was working toward
her, and she felt an instinctive sympathy for the man who had lost.
Furthermore, she had something she wanted to tell him before he heard it
on the tongue of rumor.
"Since you are so kind;" and he climbed to the place beside her.
"Congratulate me, Miss Balfour," demanded Ridgway, as he shook hands with
her, nodding coolly at her companion. "I'm a million dollars richer than I
was an hour ago. I have met the enemy and he is mine."
Virginia, resenting the bad taste of his jeer at the man who sat beside
her, misunderstood him promptly. "Did you say you had met the enemy and
won his mine?"
He laughed. "You're a good one!"
"Thank you very much for this unsolicited testimonial," she said gravely.
"In the meantime, to avoid a congestion of traffic, we'll be moving, if
you will kindly give me back my front left wheel."
He did not lift his foot from the spoke on which it rested. "My
congratulations," he reminded her.
"I wish you all the joy in your victory that you deserve, and I hope the
supreme court will reaffirm the decision of Judge Purcell, if it is a just
one," was the form in which she acceded to his demand.
She flicked her whip, and Ridgway fell back, laughing. "You've been
subsidized by the Consolidated," he shouted after her.
Hobart watched silently the businesslike directness with which the girl
handled the ribbons. She looked every inch the thoroughbred in her
well-made covert coat and dainty driving gauntlets. The grace of the
alert, slender figure, the perfect poise of the beautiful little tawny
head, proclaimed her distinction no less certainly than the fine modeling
of the mobile face. It was a distinction that stirred the pulse of his
emotion and disarmed his keen, critical sense. Ridgway could study her
with an amused, detached interest, but Hobart's admiration had traveled
past that point. He found it as impossible to define her charm as to evade
it. Her inheritance of blood and her environment should have made her a
finished product of civilization, but her salty breeziness, her nerve,
vivid as a flame at times, disturbed delightfully the poise that held her
when in repose.
When Virginia spoke, it was to ask abruptly: "Is it really his mine?"
"Judge Purcell says so."
"But do YOU think so--down in the bottom of your heart?"
"Wouldn't I naturally be prejudiced?"
"I suppose you would. Everybody in Mesa seems to have taken sides either
with Mr. Ridgway or the Consolidated. Still, you have an option. Is he
what his friends proclaim him--the generous-hearted independent fighting
against trust domination? Or is he merely an audacious ore-thief, as his
enemies say? The truth must be somewhere."
"It seems to lie mostly in point of view here the angle of observation
being determined by interest," he answered.
"And from your angle of observation?"
"He is the most unusual man I ever saw, the most resourceful and the most
competent. He never knows when he is beaten. I suppose that's the reason
he never is beaten finally. We have driven him to the wall a score of
times. My experience with him is that he's most dangerous when one thinks
he must be about hammered out. He always hits back then in the most daring
and unexpected way."
"With a coupling-pin," she suggested with a little reminiscent laugh.
"Metaphorically speaking. He reaches for the first effective weapon to his
"You haven't quite answered my question yet," she reminded him. "Is he
what his friends or what his enemies think him?"
"If you ask me I can only say that I'm one of his enemies."
"But a fair-minded man," she replied quickly.
"Thank you. Then I'll say that perhaps he is neither just what his friends
or his foes think him. One must make allowances for his training and
temperament, and for that quality of bigness in him. 'Mediocre men go
soberly on the highroads, but saints and scoundrels meet in the jails,'"
he smilingly quoted.
"He would make a queer sort of saint," she laughed.
"A typical twentieth century one of a money-mad age."
She liked it in him that he would not use the opportunity she had made to
sneer at his adversary, none the less because she knew that Ridgway might
not have been so scrupulous in his place. That Lyndon Hobart's fastidious
instincts for fair play had stood in the way of his success in the fight
to down Ridgway she had repeatedly heard. Of late, rumors had persisted in
reporting dissatisfaction with his management of the Consolidated at the
great financial center on Broadway which controlled the big copper
company. Simon Harley, the dominating factor in the octopus whose
tentacles reached out in every direction to monopolize the avenues of
wealth, demanded of his subordinates results. Methods were no concern of
his, and failure could not be explained to him. He wanted Ridgway crushed,
and the pulse of the copper production regulated lay the Consolidated.
Instead, he had seen Ridgway rise steadily to power and wealth despite his
efforts to wipe him off the slate. Hobart was perfectly aware that his
head was likely to fall when Harley heard of Purcell's decision in regard
to the Never Say Die.
"He certainly is an amazing man," Virginia mused, her fiancee in mind. "It
would be interesting to discover what he can't do--along utilitarian
lines, I mean. Is he as good a miner underground as he is in the courts?"
she flung out.
"He is the shrewdest investor I know. Time and again he has leased or
bought apparently worthless claims, and made them pay inside of a few
weeks. Take the Taurus as a case in point. He struck rich ore in a
fortnight. Other men had done development work for years and found
"I'm naturally interested in knowing all about him, because I have just
become engaged to him," explained Miss Virginia, as calmly as if her pulse
were not fluttering a hundred to the minute
Virginia was essentially a sportsman. She did not flinch from the guns
when the firing was heavy. It had been remarked of her even as a child
that she liked to get unpleasant things over with as soon as possible,
rather than postpone them. Once, aetat eight, she had marched in to her
mother like a stoic and announced: "I've come to be whipped, momsie,
'cause I broke that horrid little Nellie Vaile's doll. I did it on
purpose, 'cause I was mad at her. I'm glad I broke it, so there!"
Hobart paled slightly beneath his outdoors Western tan, but his eyes met
hers very steadily and fairly. "I wish you happiness, Miss Balfour, from
the bottom of my heart."
She nodded a brisk "Thank you," and directed her attention again to the
"Take him by and large, Mr. Ridgway is the most capable, energetic, and
far-sighted business man I have ever known. He has a bigger grasp of
things than almost any financier in the country. I think you'll find he
will go far," he said, choosing his words with care to say as much for
Waring Ridgway as he honestly could.
"I have always thought so," agreed Virginia.
She had reason for thinking so in that young man's remarkable career. When
Waring Ridgway had first come to Mesa he had been a draftsman for the
Consolidated at five dollars a day. He was just out of Cornell, and his
assets consisted mainly of a supreme confidence in himself and an imposing
presence. He was a born leader, and he flung himself into the raw, turbid
life of the mining town with a readiness that had not a little to do with
his subsequent success.
That success began to take tangible form almost from the first. A small,
independent smelter that had for long been working at a loss was about to
fall into the hands of the Consolidated when Ridgway bought it on promises
to pay, made good by raising money on a flying trip he took to the East.
His father died about this time and left him fifty thousand dollars, with
which he bought the Taurus, a mine in which several adventurous spirits
had dropped small fortunes. He acquired other properties; a lease here, an
interest there. It began to be observed that he bought always with
judgment. He seemed to have the touch of Midas. Where other men had lost
money he made it.
When the officers of the Consolidated woke up to the menace of his
presence, one of their lawyers called on him. The agent of the
Consolidated smiled at his luxurious offices, which looked more like a
woman's boudoir than the business place of a Western miner. But that was
merely part of Ridgway's vanity, and did not in the least interfere with
his predatory instincts. Many people who walked into that parlor to do
business played fly to his spider.
The lawyer had been ready to patronize the upstart who had ventured so
boldly into the territory of the great trust, but one glance at the
clear-cut resolute face of the young man changed his mind.
"I've come to make you an offer for your smelter, Mr. Ridgway," he began.
"We'll take it off your hands at the price it cost you."
"Not for sale, Mr. Bartel."
"Very well. We'll give you ten thousand more than you paid for it."
"You misunderstand me. It is not for sale."
"Oh, come! You bought it to sell to us. What can you do with it?"
"Run it," suggested Ridgway.
"Without ore?"
"You forget that I own a few properties, and have leases on others. When
the Taurus begins producing, I'll have enough to keep the smelter going."
"When the Taurus begins producing?"--Bartel smiled skeptically. "Didn't
Johnson and Leroy drop fortunes on that expectation?"
"I'll bet five thousand dollars we make a strike within two weeks."
"Chimerical!" pronounced the graybeard as he rose to go, with an air of
finality. "Better sell the smelter while you have the chance."
"Think not," disagreed Ridgway.
At the door the lawyer turned. "Oh, there's another matter! It had slipped
my mind." He spoke with rather elaborate carelessness. "It seems that
there is a little triangle--about ten and four feet across--wedged in
between the Mary K, the Diamond King, and the Marcus Daly. For some reason
we accidentally omitted to file on it. Our chief engineer finds that you
have taken it up, Mr. Ridgway. It is really of no value, but it is in the
heart of our properties, and so it ought to belong to us. Of course, it is
of no use to you. There isn't any possible room to sink a shaft. We'll
take it from you if you like, and even pay you a nominal price. For what
will you sell?"
Ridgway lit a cigar before he answered: "One million dollars."
"What?" screamed Bartel.
"Not a cent less. I call it the Trust Buster. Before I'm through, you'll
find it is worth that to me."
The lawyer reported him demented to the Consolidated officials, who
declared war on him from that day.
They found the young adventurer more than prepared for them. If he had a
Napoleonic sense of big vital factors, he had no less a genius for detail.
He had already picked up an intimate knowledge of the hundreds of veins
and crossveins that traverse the Mesa copper-fields, and he had delved
patiently into the tangled history of the litigation that the defective
mining laws in pioneer days had made possible. When the Consolidated
attempted to harass him by legal process, he countered by instituting a
score of suits against the company within the week. These had to do with
wills, insanity cases, extra lateral rights, mine titles, and land and
water rights. Wherever Ridgway saw room for an entering wedge to dispute
the title of the Consolidated, he drove a new suit home. To say the least,
the trust found it annoying to be enjoined from working its mines, to be
cited for contempt before judges employed in the interests of its
opponent, to be served with restraining orders when clearly within its
rights. But when these adverse legal decisions began to affect vital
issues, the Consolidated looked for reasons why Ridgway should control the
courts. It found them in politics.
For Ridgway was already dominating the politics of Yuba County, displaying
an amazing acumen and a surprising ability as a stumpspeaker. He posed as
a friend of the people, an enemy of the trust. He declared an eight-hour
day for his own miners, and called upon the Consolidated to do the same.
Hobart refused, acting on orders from Broadway, and fifteen thousand
Consolidated miners went to the polls and reelected Ridgway's corrupt
judges, in spite of the fight the Consolidated was making against them.
Meanwhile, Ridgway's colossal audacity made the Consolidated's copper pay
for the litigation with which he was harassing it. In following his
ore-veins, or what he claimed to be his veins, he crossed boldly into the
territory of the enemy. By the law of extra lateral rights, a man is
entitled to mine within the lines of other property than his own, provided
he is following the dip of a vein which has its apex in his claim.
Ridgway's experts were prepared to swear that all the best veins in the
field apexed in his property. Pending decisions of the courts, they
assumed it, tunneling through granite till they tapped the veins of the
Consolidated mines, meanwhile enjoining that company from working the very
ore of which Ridgway was robbing it.
Many times the great trust back of the Consolidated had him close to ruin,
but Ridgway's alert brain and supreme audacity carried him through. From
their mines or from his own he always succeeded in extracting enough ore
to meet his obligations when they fell due. His powerful enemy, as Hobart
had told Miss Balfour, found him most dangerous when it seemed to have him
with his back to the wall. Then unexpectedly would fall some crushing blow
that put the financial kings of Broadway on the defensive long enough for
him to slip out of the corner into which they had driven him. Greatly
daring, he had the successful cavalryman's instinct of risking much to
gain much. A gambler, his enemies characterized him fitly enough. But it
was also true, as Mesa phrased it, that he gambled "with the lid off,"
playing for large stakes, neither asking nor giving quarter.
At the end of five years of desperate fighting, the freebooter was more
strongly entrenched than he had been at any previous time. The railroads,
pledged to give rebates to the Consolidated, had been forced by Ridgway,
under menace of adverse legislation from the men he controlled at the
State-house, to give him secretly a still better rate than the trust. He
owned the county courts, he was supported by the people, and had become a
political dictator, and the financial outlook for him grew brighter every
Such were the conditions when Judge Purcell handed down his Never Say Die
decision. Within an hour Hobart was reading a telegram in cipher from the
Broadway headquarters. It announced the immediate departure for Mesa of
the great leader of the octopus. Simon Harley, the Napoleon of finance,
was coming out to attend personally to the destruction of the buccaneer
who had dared to fire on the trust flag.
Before night some one of his corps of spies in the employ of the enemy
carried the news to Waring Ridgway. He smiled grimly, his bluegray eyes
hardening to the temper of steel. Here at last was a foeman worthy of his
metal; one as lawless, unscrupulous, daring, and far-seeing as himself,
with a hundred times his resources.
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There aren't a lot of really awesome times to get injured, but when you're having an All-Star season, six points off the NHL scoring lead, and your team is desperately short-handed, the timing couldn't be worse.
So the next three weeks are going to feel like slow motion for Jordan Eberle and his sprained knee.
"It's never a good time for an injury, it doesn't matter how you're doing," sighed the Edmonton Oilers winger, meeting the media for the first time since his awkward fall last Saturday in Dallas. "It would be an honour to be selected to the All-Star game, but at the same time my focus is on this team and trying to get back in this lineup as quick as I can.
"Whatever people are saying, we still want to make a push here and win hockey games. It's going to be tough to watch from the crowd. I want to get healthy and back to the lineup as quickly as I can."
An MRI showed no significant damage, but with a commodity as precious as the 21-year-old sniper, the Oilers won't be taking any chances.
"It's been feeling pretty good, even in the past few days," said Eberle. "There's a timeline, but I'm going to take it day by day. At the same time I'm going to make sure it's healthy and come back when I'm ready."
Two thirds of the Oklahoma Airlift made it to Edmonton when Magnus Paajarvi and Ryan O'Marra reported for duty on Tuesday, but the third member of the relief effort, Gilbert Brule, landed in Phoenix instead.
The Coyotes plucked him off re-entry waivers, taking a chance on a free player who'll have half of his $1.85 million salary paid by the Oilers.
"I'm disappointed, yes, but hopeful that he gets a real good opportunity to play for some really good people and get his career going," said head coach Tom Renney. "You like to see good people get opportunity. He's a good man; he's worked hard in his career, overcome a lot of things. It will be good to see him get a nice fresh start. I think he's going to a good spot where he will excel.
LATE HITS … D Tom Gilbert will be out a month with what's now being diagnosed as a sprained ankle.


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When I went to pick up hubby at the airport (he arrived one day later than I did from Texas), I stopped off at Evergreen Walk in Manchester, CT. It's a nifty outdoor shopping plaza with J. Crew, Anthropologie, and the other usual suspects I like to shop at. I spotted these neon Drea shoes on one of the shelves marked down to $79.99. Apparently they were a return and the only pair (and not on sale yet via the website). The sales clerk called on the "red phone" and customer service honored the lower price. There's no way I was going to pay $198 for neon shoes. But I gotta tell ya, just like I love my Nine West pink suede kitten heels, I have a feeling you'll be seeing a lot of these neon pumps. They go with a lot of my wardrobe.
The belt is one that I got from the Talbots Clearance Outlet near my home. It was a great deal at $4.99! It was marked down 75%. And the tank is one I picked up before going to Texas. I've washed it about three times now and it's starting to fade around the armholes and neckline. But for $5.99, I figured it wouldn't last long.


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This time last week I moved back to uni after 4 amazing weeks at home. I feel so lucky to have such amazing friends and family around me which makes being away so hard. I can't wait to get this semester done so I can get back home again!


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ASOS dip-dye fringe dress, £45
Well, it's certainly different and it's definitely dramatic, we have to give it that.
Is it "different" and "dramatic" in a good way, though, or in an "OMG, call The Fashion Police!" kinda way? That, Fashion Force, is the question before you today.
Under normal circumstances, we'd have looked at the words "dip-dye" and "fringe" in the product description of this dress, and have instantly assumed it was a crime of fashion. We've never met a dip-dye item we didn't dislike, you see, and we're not too keen on fringes, either… especially not when they appear to be growing out of the model's back.
Still, there's no denying that this kind of look is popular right now. We've been noticing an influx of fringed items for quite some time, and although it's probably never going to be OUR favourite thing in the world, that doesn't mean it won't be someone else's, which is why we're putting it up on Style Trial.
Before you cast judgement on this dress, however, we urge to to head over to the ASOS website and view the video they helpfully provide of it in action, as it were. It's not quite as dramatic as it looks in the image at the top of the page (So if you want that effect from it, you'll have to walk around with your hands in the air. You know, like you just don't care?), but it does float along behind the model as she walks, making her look like some kind of be-fringed style superhero. Dip-Dye Girl, perhaps. Tasselwoman? We'll let you decide.
We'll also let you decide whether or not this constitutes a crime of fashion. Do you love it, hate it… or fall somewhere in between? Tell us in the comments!


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When I was young, when I saw a big bug, I'd get my mother and tell her to kill it. She'd have that face on like, "I can't believe this is my son." But I make no apologies. Think about it--
People are scared of monsters. And bugs are tiny monsters. Picture a person-sized fly or a person-sized beetle. That's a blatant monster, right? So why does being a tiny monster let bugs off the hook? They're still a monster.
Bugs are little monsters that fly. How scary is that?? And not only do they fly, but they fly towards people. And land on people. And then they BITE you.
People are scared of mice. Why? I don't get it. They're little and furry and cute. When's the last time you were bitten by a mouse? Now, if mice looked terrifying instead of cute, and instead of darting around trying to avoid humans at all costs, they flew through the air and landed on people and then BIT people after landing on them-- well, then I'd hate mice. And I'd be very, very afraid of mice.
But that's not the case. Mice don't do that. Only bugs do that.
People are scared of snakes. Why? It makes no sense. They're sleek and handsome and they want nothing to do with people either. They only bite when you scare the shit out of them. And they don't fly.
Christ, I heard a fact one time that the average person has eight spiders a year crawl in their mouths while they're asleep. What the hell? Why is anyone okay with that? If mice tried to crawl in my mouth when I was sleeping every month in a half, you can damn well bet I'd hate mice.
You're undoubtedly thinking, "Why is this dude freaking out right now?"
Well, I have two explanations: I'm exhausted. And I'm going to the Amazon tomorrow.
I knew for awhile that I was gonna go somewhere this summer, but only recently did I stare at the world map for awhile and try to figure out where. It's not that long a trip so I decided to keep it in the Western Hemisphere. I had never been to South America, so I walked up a foot away from the map in front of South America and looked at it for awhile. It's a pretty silly-shaped continent. Anyway, I decided to keep to the north because it's winter down there, and finally settled on the Amazon. It's a river and a jungle, I explained to myself.
So I bought tickets and got all excited, and then one day a couple weeks ago, I remembered something--
There are incredibly large bugs in the Amazon. And they have malaria.
Let's talk about this for a second. Not only are there flying monsters in the Amazon-- but these flying monsters are bigger than the flying monsters I'm used to, they look scarier, and they all have a contagious disease. And not only are they large, contagious, flying monsters, but they're large, contagious, flying monsters whose objective it is to bite me and suck my blood.
Forgive me for buying a mosquito net.
Anyway, on a related but immensely hilarious note, I could watch this drastic change in demeanor and accent 750 times and it wouldn't stop being funny.


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