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Today I finally got my Nexus 7 though the post and turned it on; I was just checking charge. I got an 'out of battery' UI message and the tablet then turned itself off.
I plugged in the USB charger to the wall and attached the Mini-usb to the tablet and waited an hour. Now, when I try hit the on switch the tablet seems to be running, but I'm confronted with a terminal type windows which says 'show low battery logo'. I did some Googling' and I only found on other thread which wasn't much use.
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VANCOUVER, Nov. 1, 2012 /CNW/ - Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. will host a conference call discussing its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2012, on Thursday, November 15, 2012 at 1:00 PM ET (10:00 AM PT).
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Brian Rogers is anxious for a rematch with rival Andreas Spang, but before their paths potentially cross in Bellator's Season 8 middleweight tournament, he's focused on more pressing matters – like the tourney curse he can't seem to shake.
Rogers kicks off his third tournament run in tonight's Bellator 89 co-headliner, which airs on Spike TV from Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte, N.C.
Rogers (10-4 MMA, 3-2 BFC) meets former UFC fighter Dan Cramer (9-3 MMA, 6-1 BFC) in the opening-round of Bellator's latest eight-man tournament.
The 28-year-old Ohio native has been in this situation twice before. He knocked out Victor O'Donnell and Vitor Vianna in previous opening-round fights before suffering knockout losses to Alexander Shlemenko and Spang in the semifinals.
"I'm just focused on winning the first round like I have in the past and then getting the monkey off my back in the semifinals," Rogers told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio).
The Spang loss was perhaps the most infuriating of his career. Rogers thoroughly dominated Spang (a late replacement for injured Bruno Santos) for two-and-a-half rounds before Spang's counter left hook set up the shocking come-from-behind win.
Spang, who had a heated staredown with Rogers a day prior to the win, is again in the tournament and on the other side of the bracket. Rogers just wants to get to the final, and he doesn't care who's there. Admittedly, though, he'd like to avenge the loss if Spang also can get through the first two rounds of the tourney.
"Ideally it'd be great for the fans and for myself," he said. "There's no way he can watch that fight. He landed one solid shot, and it was good enough. It dropped me, and the ref called it. It is what it is, and I can't take anything away from him. But I think he's a fairly intelligent guy, and if he watchers that film, he's going to see his ass getting kicked for most of it.
"… So it'd be nice a nice revenge thing."
Rogers, a former collegiate linebacker who went into special education after graduation, recently quit his teaching job to focus full-time on fighting. It's allowed him to train two to three times per day, but more importantly, he said, it's given him time for proper rest.
It's also allowed him to branch out from Ohio's Strong Style Fight Team, and he's visited Montreal's Tristar gym and Atlanta's Warrior Legion Academy for additional instruction and training.
The hard-hitting Rogers, who's posted knockouts in eight of his 10 career wins, has a skill set that's more well-rounded than ever because of the new schedule. But against Cramer and all future opponents, he's not ignoring his best skill.
"I think Dan's at an extreme disadvantage athletically and skill wise," Rogers said. "He's a grinder, and I think he's going to try to make it a brawl and try to catch me with a wild punches. He doesn't really throw loopy punches, but he kind of blitzes. He'll look to push me against the fence and clinch, and he's got pretty good ground and pound and top game.
"But I don't think he'll stand in the middle and stand with me. If he tries to make this a boxing or kickboxing match, he's going to lose."
For the latest on Bellator 89, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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1834 Dorothy – ARCdoc UK Whaling Logs
Ayre, Matthew
Maritime history; Geography; Climatology; Environmental studies
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- Creative Commons Licence: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England and Wales. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/
- Description
This dataset contains spreadsheet data collated from actual UK whaling logbooks between 1750 and 1850.
Each worksheet represents one year and contains two voyages. One outgoing voyage from the UK to Hudson Bay, normally leaving at the end of June, beginning of July, and one return journey leaving Hudson Bay in September and returning to the UK in October.
The Supporting Documentation describes the collated data and provides a background to the research.
The whaling logbooks used in this project, representing a significant addition to those of the Hudson Bay Company (HBC), are confined to the period 1750 to 1850 although most of them post-date 1800. Attention is also confined to UK logbooks. In contrast to the HBC logbooks, those of the whaling vessels do not cover every year of the study period and only some 40 have survived of the original many thousands of voyages.
The outcomes are a series of monthly summary statistics for each month of the voyages. These are confined to the summer season as the vessels could not sail in winter, but provide nonetheless a valuable series of first-hand observations. These are expressed as a series of indices quantifying the frequency of winds from each of the four quadrants (N, S, E & W), gales, fog, snow and rain. The mean wind force can also be calculated for each month. The whaling logbooks provide a unique additional set of daily and monthly-aggregated data on sea ice cover and character.
- Publisher
- The University of Hull
- Language
- English
- Citation
- Ayre, Matthew (2014). ARCdoc UK Whaling Logbooks, in Nicholls, John (comp.) ARCdoc Data Pages, Hull: (http://www.hull.ac.uk/mhsc/ARCDOC).
- Temporal
- 1750-1850
- Publication date
- 2014
- Date valid
- 1 July 2014
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In Hip-Hop music and culture, the terms "Peace, God," "Word Is Bond," and "Cipher," among others, all pepper the language of the participants and proponents within the culture. While the phrases and terms have flair, the sayings have origins that were established just as Hip-Hop was forming as a known entity. The Nation of Gods and Earths (NGE), also referred to as the Five Percent Nation of Islam, is the source of those and other popular phrases.
The Nation of Gods and Earths has developed a connection with Hip-Hop culture that stretches far beyond the sharing of lingo. Labeled as the "Rastafarianism of Hip-Hop" because of the similarity to many Reggae artists embracing Rasta faith, several Hip-Hop artists have claimed ties to NGE culture. The most famous NGE Hip-Hop artist is Rakim Allah, who still remains as one of the most influential rappers ever. The "God MC" has many contemporaries such as Poor Righteous Teachers, King Sun, Lakim Shabazz, Busta Rhymes, Wu-Tang Clan, Jay Electronica and others, who have all delivered NGE ideology within their verses.
"The Five Percent is built on the premise that 85% of the population lack 'knowledge of self' while 10% percent have this said knowledge & hide it from the larger group."
Nas, AZ and rap duo CNN also dropped occasional hints of the culture in their songs. Other acts such as Digable Planets, Big Daddy Kane,Gang Starr and X-Clan also followed suit by consciously putting some of the culture's ideas forth via their recordings. Worth noting: MF DOOM, often confused with being a member of the Five Percent, was actually part of the Ansaar Allah community.
Considered an offshoot group of the Nation Of Islam (NOI), the Nation of Gods and Earths fashions itself as a separate group forging its own identity. Using "degrees" or lessons fashioned after the NOI's Supreme Wisdom, the "120" degrees are a slightly varied version of scientific facts, conversations between NOI leaders Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Wallace Fard Muhammad, and a vast history lesson as well. The lessons teach that Blacks are the original people of the planet Earth and responsible for every facet of civilization.
The degrees also present a complex set of machinations that led to Black people suffering under the rule of White slave owners by way of oppression and fear. The Five Percent angle is built on the premise within the lessons that 85% of the population lack "knowledge of self" while 10 percent of the population have this said knowledge and hide it from the larger group. Five percent of that population are the "poor, righteous teachers" who will liberate the minds of the 85%.
The Father, or Allah as he was also known, was the founder of the Five Percent Nation and his approach to Islam was not much different than the NOI's but far more inclusive. The Five Percent's rise to prominence happened by way of the defiant nature of The Father, a one-time lieutenant in the NOI. Then known as Clarence 13X, the Virginia native saw a need for the Supreme Wisdom to be taught to the youth in the street.
The Father felt that the rigid nature of the NOI would turn away the urban youth, and he was more comfortable amongst the people than in the temple. By empowering Black male youth in referring to them as God, Father Allah sought to inject a sense of importance into members of the Five Percent Nation. Female members were referred to as Earths or Queens, placing heavy emphasis on the woman's ability to give birth. It was custom to greet another Five Percenter with an exuberant "Peace!"
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Keifer and Shawna Thompson , the husband and wife who currently reign as the CMA and ACM top vocal duo of the year, learned early on in their career the beauty of a life-altering song. In fact, the proof lies within their 2011 breakout No. 1 and platinum-selling single, "Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not." Knowing how to choose the right tune — even when they didn't write it — is also a key element to Thompson Square's chart-topping feat.
"We realized that it doesn't have to be your song to make a difference — to change your life and to further your career," Keifer said.
With this week's release of their appropriately-titled second album, Just Feels Good, the duo again bring an undeniable charisma and passion to their latest batch of work. For instance, take the album's title song — a tune that transports the listener to warmer weather and summertime. Conjuring daydreams of open roads and classic tunes, the song blends effortlessly with the fast-talking "Testing the Water" and party anthem "Here's to Being Here."
Co-writing five of the 13 tracks, they also manage to capture a musical and personal chemistry within their irrefutable love songs. Much like their current and impassioned chart-climbing single "If I Didn't Have You," the song was inspired by the heartbreaking passing of Shawna's father.
"The songs just kind of came to us," Keifer recently told CMT.com during their visit to CMT's offices. "The ones that we wrote are so inside, as far as personal experience, they basically wrote themselves."
Likewise, it's this intense fervor that complements their expressive songs like "I Can't Outrun You," "Maybe It's You," "Here We Go Again," "Run" and "Home Is You," all of which weave separate storylines depicting the complexities of love and relationships.
"We knew kind of what to do and what not to do to kind of define what Thompson Square 2.0 is going to sound like," Keifer said. "I think we did it."
The album manages to find a pleasing balance of lighter material within buoyant tunes such as the flirty "Everything I Shouldn't Be Thinking" to the fortunate tune, "You Don't Get Lucky." But perhaps what's equally attractive about this couple is their sincerity and authenticity. Spending time with these two, it's clear they're not caught up in quick fame or fancy cars. In fact, Keifer shared a story about his recent trip to a car dealership where he was able to test-drive the car of his dreams. But when he got behind the wheel, he realized it was all wrong.
"I just felt like a complete idiot driving this car around because it's not me," he said. "It's not where we came from. I never would be comfortable in that car. I just think you gotta keep yourself grounded."
What's more, Keifer explained how their writing partnerships are also just as sincere, rather than some manufactured appointment. When it comes to their close collaborators, they're as authentic as their lyrics.
"That's an important step — to love the people you're writing with," he said. "We truly love these people. They're like our family."
Collaborating with Brett James, whose songwriting credits include hits recorded by Carrie Underwood and Jason Aldean , Thompson Square also teamed up with "Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not" co-writer David Lee Murphy for "For the Life of Me," a song using clever imagery to paint the picture of the couple's vibrant relationship. In fact, during the tune's first verse, Keifer wittily compares himself to The Andy Griffith Show while relating his wife to that of Sex and the City.
But perhaps what depicts their current love affair is found within the lyrics of "That's So Me and You," a song detailing their early struggles up until now. From playing one of the honky-tonks on Nashville's Lower Broadway to their eventual "dream come true" success, the song shines light on the story of this celebrated pair.
"We worked day and night, underneath those Broadway lights," the song reveals. "Didn't know singing for tips in a pickle jar would change our life."
"'That's So Me and You' is basically me and Shawna's story and how we got together," Keifer explained.
Believing their songwriting has matured and grown since their debut album, Shawna says the two understand each other's writing process and are able to "jive" together more smoothly.
"We know what works for us and what doesn't work," Keifer added to her point. "We've lived a little longer and learned a lot these past few years from radio and from our fans and from being out on the road from other artists."
Currently holding down the middle slot on Luke Bryan 's Dirt Road Diaries tour, the Thompsons are thankful for the opportunity to share their music with continuously sold-out crowds, developing and honing their craft.
Hoping to again bring home this year's ACM top vocal duo of the year honor on April 7, they say the ultimate prize is simply being acknowledged by their peers.
"I mean, the pressure's off of us to win," Keifer said. "It's going to be nice to just kind of go and enjoy it. And if we're blessed to be able to take it home a second time, that's going to be great. If not, we've accomplished that goal. It does mean everything to us, though. That's one of those things we've dreamt about and worked so hard and diligently to get to that point to where our peers recognize you. There's no cooler feeling than being recognized by people who are doing the same thing you are."


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"Bong – how much farther?" Our oldest son, Roswell, was asking our tuktuk driver how much longer we'd be bouncing along this potholed dirt road somewhere in Cambodia. In Khmer (pronounced "k'MAI,"), you address any male older than you as "bong": it means "older brother."
We were heading toward a pepper plantation that the driver had assured us he knew how to find. There were five of us jammed into the tuktuk – a four-passenger cart pulled by a motorcycle. (It's like riding in an escaped carnival ride.) We'd left the riverside city of Kampot in southern Cambodia far behind; past the city center with its giant statue of a durian fruit, past endless low shops lining either side of the asphalt road, and onto a dirt track. We had been bouncing along like this for maybe 20 minutes.
"Ten minutes," the driver said.
We passed small neat farms, with one-story houses up on stilts, Brahma cows strolling by or lying down, and strutting long-legged chickens. Emerald-green swaths of – something. Is that what rice looks like? Little children wearing shorts would wave vigorously as we chugged past and shout "Hello!" They seemed delighted to make a connection. Their lively greetings sounded like bird calls.
But now the landscape was getting scruffier, more hilly. There was more exposed red dirt, and no farms. Where was he taking us?
Ten minutes later we passed a sign for the Starling Farms pepper plantation, and soon bumped to a halt. We'd arrived, our driver indicated, and pointed down the slope. I saw rows of what looked like evenly spaced green towers. As we got closer, we saw that the towers were openwork brick columns, like chimneys, about 10 feet tall. They were wrapped in lush green vines – pepper plants, which in the wild wrap around the trunks of trees. We spotted the green berries, peppercorns, clumped in strings about three inches long. Most of the berries were small and green, but a few – no more than three per clump – were red.
The rows of towers stretched into the distance. We saw a few workers, wearing the typical Khmer head cloths, hoeing among the towers.
"Be careful of the ants," our driver warned. Leaf-weaver ants can sting, but they also attack other insects. On this certified organic farm, we learned later, further insect control was achieved by soaking in water the leaves of a weed that grows naturally among the plants, and then spraying the concoction on the plants; it's a natural insect repellent. Workers rub the leaves on their arms to keep biting insects away. All the fertilizer used is organic, too: cow dung, bat guano (from nearby caves), small fish, plant matter – and more of the insect-repelling weeds. The fertilizer is composted anaerobically in big underground pits, then spread on the plants.
We could go up to the gift shop, our driver said. And just as we approached a rather grand-looking two-story stone home, someone driving a big Land Rover pulled up – the owner, it turned out. The gift shop was the front room of his house, which overlooked the plantation in the valley below. It seemed a beautiful, tranquil spot.
"I originally bought the land as a getaway from Phnom Penh," said owner Mark Hanna, a CPA originally from Derry, Ireland. He mostly lives and works in the city, a grueling four-hour drive. In fact, the roads were so bad that he'd considered buying a helicopter, he said, to get back and forth more easily. He'd also considered buying a brick factory – and now wished that he had. He'd needed a million bricks to make the pepper towers. And now, with building in nearby Vietnam booming, the cost of bricks had gone up 1,000 percent. His wife, Anna ("to be honest," Mark said, "she does all the work"), who is Cambodian, plans to expand the plantation. But they'd be using cheaper, less durable wooden towers this time.
"See that white house over there?" Mark said, as we continued chatting. He was pointing far out to the right. "That was the Khmer Rouge headquarters for southeastern Cambodia."
This used to be a dangerous place, indeed. Before the murderous reign of the Maoist Khmer Rouge, American B-52s had plastered the valley with bombs in an attempt to disrupt the Viet Cong's supply routes in the late stages of the Vietnam War. The so-called Ho Chi Minh Trail had led right through this valley. It was a moonscape of craters when he got here some 13 years ago, he said, as we surveyed what was now an unbroken green expanse. He had chosen one of the craters to serve as the basement of a new outbuilding, in fact. But when the mechanical excavator hit something that went "Clunk!" all the workers had panicked and run, thinking it was an unexploded bomb. It was a bomb – but only a piece of one: the nosecone. He showed it to us; rusty, brown, and bent, but recognizable
We stood amid racks of various kinds of pepper for sale, in vacuum-sealed packets and souvenir wooden boxes and silk pouches. Pepper grinders, too. Four kinds of pepper are produced here, all from the same plant: The fresh green peppercorns, the unripe berries of the pepper plant, are good only for a few days after picking. They have a fresh, citrusy taste, not as strong as the dried black pepper. We'd tried some in the field. (Very good with seafood, we were told; especially the famous crabs caught in nearby Kep.) Riper green peppercorns are harvested from mature vines when the berries start to turn yellow. Dried in the sun on bamboo mats for a few days, they turn black, then are sterilized and packed. Dried correctly, they last many years. But once ground, they lose flavor rapidly – hence the importance of a pepper grinder. Black pepper is by far the most popular kind.
The red peppercorns on the mostly-green strings of berries (Mark called them "drupes") are separated out by hand. Red pepper is rare, and not as well known. It has a sweeter, some say a fuller taste, and isn't as hot as black pepper. (Shoppers beware: Some of the "red pepper" sold in supermarkets is actually a weird dried berry from Brazil.) Half the fully ripe pepper berries are sun-dried and become red pepper; half are soaked in water for a few days, which removes the reddish skin. What's left are white peppercorns, which have a much different taste. Removing the skin removes some of the flavor components. White pepper is most often used when black or red pepper would spoil the visual effect, as in a white sauce.
Kampot is famous for its pepper, and it's been grown here for at least 1,000 years. A Chinese traveler chronicled pepper cultivation here in 1200; the Chinese were the first to recognize the unique flavor of Cambodia's pepper, according to the Starling Farm's website. Mark said the sought-after flavor was a product of the soil here, mostly.
His wife, Anna, cut up a mango for us while we decided what to buy. We were sort of in a hurry, now; it was a long ride back. We bought a few small bags of pepper as gifts, and a bag of mixed peppercorns for ourselves. I bought a big bag of what I thought at the time were black peppercorns – only to discover when I got back home – to my delight – that it was a big bag of dried red peppercorns.
A rare souvenir from a rare, enlightening, and bumpy trip.
Owen Thomas is the deputy editor for the weekly Monitor magazine.


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Corals may be better able to cope with ocean acidification than previously believed, according to new research published in Nature Climate Change, providing a glimmer of hope for the future of coral reefs.
As more carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels, more carbon dioxide is dissolved in the ocean, lowering the pH of the water. This process, known as ocean acidification, is occurring at an unprecedented rate. This is causing problems for shell-building organisms, and it raises concerns for corals. Can corals and their symbiotic algae have the ability to adapt or acclimate to such rapid changes in ocean chemistry?
An international scientific team has identified a built-in mechanism that could equip some species of coral and their symbiotic algae to reduce the negative impacts of ocean acidification. They found that stony corals, such as Porites and Acropora, have molecular 'pumps' at their site of calcification, allowing them to regulate their internal pH balance. The internal pH changes are approximately one-half of those in the surrounding seawater.
The other good news is that there doesn't seem to be much of a fitness cost—the stony corals' pH-buffering capacity enables them to increase their rate of calcification at little additional energy cost. For example, corals with symbiotic algae use less than one percent of the energy generated by photosynthesis in order to buffer pH.
The ability to regulate pH differs among species and is completely absent in some marine calcifying organisms. Those organisms with minimal or no ability to regulate their pH will suffer substantial decreases in skeletal growth rates as oceans become more acidic. Still, this is a positive indication that at least some coral species don't fall in this latter group.
Although the researchers conclude that pH regulation at the site of calcification provides corals with enhanced resilience to the effects of ocean acidification, they note that the overall health of coral reef ecosystems is dependent upon multiple factors. The combined effects of increased thermal stress from global warming and local environmental impacts such as terrestrial runoff, pollution, and overfishing could still cause problems for these corals even if acidification doesn't.
Nature Climate Change, 2012. DOI: 10.1038/nclimate1473 (About DOIs).


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Noah Everett, founder of Twitter image sharing service TwitPic, was arrested last night for walking down his street naked. He tweeted the whole thing and posted a picture from inside the police car.
Everett sent out a tweet late last night that said: "I guess you can't walk down your own street half naked...who knew - I got a free ride home by the nice police officer." He later updated with his arrest, and a line about "and by half naked, I mean naked" — a tweet which was later removed from his timeline, but not before many of his 2.8 million followers saw it.
Since then, Everett's been off-line. We hope if the police give him a phone call, he doesn't try to send someone a picture.


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I wish this one were false.
But it's TRUE.
My friend had this boyfriend. The sad thing is, I can't remember HER name....ummm, Cara? I don't know. Anyway, she was in the band/color guard or something - that is how I knew her(low brass section here, bitches). Those band geeks out there reading this are saying "Wait why is a low brass girl hanging out with a color guard girl....." LET IT GO people. Regardless. Friend, acquaintance - whatever. Person I knew had this boyfriend. His name was Chris. Last name withheld to protect the innocent. She brought him around a few times - positively glowing as she showed him off. He was a cutie too. His family had bucks, he was going to Wabash - a shmancy boys private college for those of you not from Hoosier land, and well - he was pretty cool. At some point they got "pinned" etc etc etc. He'd be around from time to time and I always thought he was a pretty cool guy.
So his family moved to Switzerland one year because of his dad's job (another person I know whose parent had a swanky job at Eli Lilly). So she wrote to him, and pined for him, and talked about him blah blah blah blah. And I pretty much forgot about him. Because, I was in high school - and I was self centered like that. (Ummm still am).
I went to Europe in high school, the obligatory trip to Germany that my husband insists all middle class girls from Indiana take when they are in high school (sort of true......strange but true). I flew Iceland Air on a plane with PROPELLERS. So anyway our layover was in Reykjavik. Beautiful Reykjavik. I walked around the gift shop that looked out over the frozen tundra or permafrost or whatever the hell they have there......and after having purchased a beautiful scarf and mittens (wool - they produce WOOL in Iceland) I see this guy WAVING AT ME. Excitedly. Jumping up and down and WAVING AT ME.
In Reykjavik, Iceland.
I take a better look. I know him. It's Chris. The fancy boyfriend of friend/acquaintance/maybe in band/maybe in color guard whose name I now forget. And he looks delighted to see me. So we go off to the airport bar to have a few. When our connecting plane boards, which we are BOTH on, he finagles me a seat next to him up in first class. Apparently the Iceland to Luxembourg flight is NOT so full. So I sit with him - and we chat chat chat and then we have more beers and (MOM AND DAD AVERT YOUR EYES NOW) we make out for most of the flight. Addresses are exchanged. Promises to write are made.
And in fact, we do write. My F/A/MIBMICG/WNINF starts complaining at school about how his letters are less frequent. She wonders if he met someone in Europe. I say NOTHING because I sort of feel bad. But - they're still pinned and he's certainly not writing I LOVE YOUS to me, just mundane friendly stuff. So I think nothing of it.
A year goes by. I hear little from him. I get a new boyfriend. I start volunteering at the Children's Museum in Indianpolis. And now, this story gets to it's conclusion. I go to work at the Children's Museum with my THEN boyfriend who I was bored with and ready to be rid of. We have an annoying lunch on our break, in the little restaurant there (which has since changed like 10 times so no fear the current restaurant is safe). Anway, I have a turkey sandwich. Not too long after that, when I return to work. I start to feel really really bad. Got the sweats...upset tummy. Boyfriend takes me home.
I start throwing up. But I then feel better. I think, hmm bad turkey sandwich.
The Phone Rings. It's Chris. He's home. He wants to see me ASAP, he broke up with
my F/A/MIBMICG/WNINF. We make plans for later that night to see BACK TO THE FUTURE.
I feel weak and icky but pull it together - shower, break out my best flipped collar polo or something equally 1986 - leg warmers, hair teased up to the sky. You know what I'm talking about. I looked GOOD. At the movies, it's PACKED. Back to Future was wildly popular. For some unknown reason, he has brought friends, two other guys that I knew. He whispers that they tagged along and he is sorry. I excuse myself twice during the movie - and go puke in the bathroom. Desperate for the date to go well, I buy mints and do a huge freshen up in the bathroom each time. I keep thinking I'll be okay - just pull it together, get the movie over go home and go out again another time.
As the movie ends, I'm shaking, sweating, my vision is a little blurry and I'm really starting to realize something terrible is wrong. And I need to poop. Bad. Like, emergency poop. The incredible exploding ass sort of poop. The credits roll. The entire move theater stands up. Gridlock. I can't move. The room starts to sway.
I look to my left. And vomit all over the coolest guy I had ever gone out with.
I make it to the bathroom, vomit a lot more. Crap my brains out. Clean myself up.
My date's friends are nearly in tears when I come out of the bathroom. In tears because they are laughing. One of them says "So I don't think he'll get a good night kiss" before he realizes I am standing there. I am mortified. They take me home.
About an hour later, my dad drives me to the ER because my temperature skyrocketed and I couldn't stop vomitting. I had food poisoning.
The coolest guy I ever went out with? Never even called to see if I was okay. Not so cool after all I guess.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Bold Faced Lie #5 - Barfing on the BMOC of Wabash College
Posted by Gidge Uriza at 11:09 AM
Labels: Fluff N Stuff, Intellectual Vacuum
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Ask her about the three other guys that she's puked on during dates.
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\015 Does not have any lights or blinking lights when it is plugged in. It is brand new as of xmas day and has only been used for a couple of hours. Can someone tell me why?\015
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I have the exact same problem. arg.
I dont know but when its plugged into to charge with the charger cord it could have a red light at a the back... and same with the computer maybe you should return it and get a different one, thats what i did cause it keept deleting my videos and pictures
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The Autumn Defense: The Sun in California
Sometimes, I try to do too much. I have an album that I wanted to review this week. It's a two-disc set with almost an hour-and-a-half of music, and I set out to work on it on Halloween weekend. It didn't work. So I'll have that review next week, while I have a different album that is much more manageable for mid-week this week. Meanwhile, here is this week's For a Song.
Here in the United States, we have an election tomorrow. I am frankly dreading the results, so I wanted a song to take my mind off of it. A perfect pop song would do nicely. There is a vast amount of pop music out there, some of which is actually popular, and some of which was supposed to be popular but wasn't. There is also a significant amount of great pop music that just never reached as many people as it should have. The Sun in California is a fine example. The song is a breezy love song, expressed delicately, but performed with complete sincerity. There is a beautiful blend of voices. Acoustic guitar and piano parts intertwine, propelled along by light drums and bass. I believe that's a clarinet part on top, and it works beautifully. So why wasn't this a huge hit. Probably because it wasn't obvious enough. Much of what succeeds in pop is overwrought, with heavy-handed production and over singing. But I'd rather hear this any day.
Incidentally, The Autumn Defense has a new album coming out tomorrow. I've only heard snippets of some of the songs, but it sounds pretty good too.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
For a Song: The Sun in California
Posted by Darius at 12:41 AM
Labels: For a Song, The Autumn Defense
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- Anonymous said...
Wow, a total attitude adjuster! I love that it is delivered without irony or tortured sincerity. And some of the chord changes are surprising. Breezy: a very good word. And I think that's actually an oboe in the mix.
- November 2, 2010 at 12:03 PM
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|January 2013 TUSAL
There appears to be a lot of threads in that jar for the first ORT report but most of them are the green threads from when I was doing some beading around one of my secret stitchings in December.... three needles and lots of broken metallic Madeira thread later and the beading was done.... I am so glad that I kept on with the beading as at the end of the day the finished ornament looks lovely - I hope you agree - here she is....
|Seraphina (DMC)
Cross Stitcher, Christmas 1998
Seraphina was a very quick stitch, and she was so lovely to stitch. Love the greens of her coat. After raiding hubby's fabric stash I found this lovely green holly fabric to back the ornament with, and then beaded the edges, added the bells, charms, bows and hanger. I am so pleased with how this little Christmas ornament turned out.... Seraphina arrived safe and sound in France and Valerie adores her.
My other secret stitching went to Nia from Caixinha de Pirlimpimpim.
|Kokeshi doll - designer Lucie Heaton
Cross Stitcher, Issue 223, March 2010
So besides the threads from these two delightful little secret gifts what other threads are in the ORT jar?
Well, also in the jar there are some threads from the MS Cool Cat - Summer. I started "Summer" a couple of weeks ago but he is a bit slow going - its all the white.... I don't know why it is but my white stitches never look nice... Does anyone else have that problem? "Summer" is the last Cool Cat in the MS Lovers Blog SAL #3.
|Progress photo - Cool Cat - Summer
Designer: Margaret Sherry
|Progress photo - Lickle Ted Freebie
Cross Stitch Crazy
If you are interested in joining in the fun then drop on over to the MS Blog and have a look at the post explaining all the details. This SAL will last the whole year with monthly check ins at the beginning of each month starting February.
As well as the new SAL for 2013 Nia has also posted the Exchange calendar for the year. The first one is for Easter and I think I have already found the perfect design. But I still need to think about how to "finish" it....
Well dear readers, that's it for another ORT report. See you all again next year... Pop on over to Daffycat's blog if you are interested in keeping in touch with what is going on with the 2013 TUSAL.
Til the next new moon in February 2013, happy stitching and may your collection of ORT's keep on growing!
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Ortiz Homers A Win For Boston
Victor Martinez had never been around for one of David Ortiz's trademark game-ending homers, and he thought it would be a good time to see his first.
"Victor, man, he just pushed me for every at-bat," Ortiz said after curling his second homer of the game around the Pesky Pole to break a ninth-inning tie and give the Boston Red Sox a 3-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday night. "He got in my face and started screaming at me. I liked it. It got me in the mood."
It was Ortiz's 10th career game-ending homer and his ninth with the Red Sox, breaking a franchise record that had been held by Hall of Famer Jimmie Foxx. But it was the first for Ortiz since Sept. 12, 2007, and his first multihomer game of the season.
And it couldn't have come at a better time for the Red Sox, who remained six games behind the New York Yankees in the AL East but improved to 21/2 games in front of Texas in the wild-card race.
"You're getting late into August right now, and it's good to have big hits like that, especially from him," said All-Star Tim Wakefield, who pitched seven strong innings in his return from the disabled list. "We were able to scrap together enough runs to get a win and hopefully we can carry that momentum into tomorrow and sweep this series."
Wakefield allowed six hits and left after seven innings with a 2-1 lead, but the 43-year-old knuckleballer was deprived of a win when Jayson Nix homered off reliever Ramon Ramirez to make it 2-2 in the eighth. Daniel Bard (1-1) inherited the eighth-inning jam, pitching out of it and then adding a perfect ninth for his first career victory.
Tony Pena (1-2) struck out Kevin Youkilis to start the ninth before Ortiz, who hit a solo homer in the second, lined a 1-0 pitch down the right-field line, stopping to clap his hands once and then circling the bases before being greeted at home plate by his teammates.
Alex Gonzalez also homered for Boston, which beat Chicago for the third straight time and dropped the White Sox (63-64) below .500 for the first time since June 28.
"The way we're playing, it feels like we're playing 20 games out," White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said. "But I think this ballclub is better than what it shows right now."
The Red Sox opened the game with a tribute to U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, honoring a lifelong fan whose family was as much a part of Boston history as the team itself. Kennedy, who died Tuesday night after a long bout with brain cancer, threw out the ceremonial first pitch on opening day 97 years after his grandfather, Boston mayor John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald christened the ballpark that is now the oldest in the major leagues.
A lone Air Force bugler played "Taps" as both teams lined up on the baselines - a tradition usually reserved for playoff games or opening day.
The somber beginning and the raucous ending provided emotional bookends to a game that also featured Wakefield's return after his first All-Star game selection. He hadn't pitched since July 8 because of a lower back injury.
Wakefield was activated from the disabled list before the game, and the first sign his knuckleball was active was when his first pitch squirted away from Martinez, who was acquired at the trading deadline while Wakefield was on the DL. He used his first baseman's mitt to catch.
"For the first time catching me in a game situation with hitters up there, he did a phenomenal job," Wakefield said.
He gave up his only run in the first when Gordon Beckham reached on an end-of-the-bat single and Paul Konerko tripled. Wakefield allowed just one ball out of the infield until A.J. Pierzynski doubled off the Green Monster with two outs in the sixth.
Gavin Floyd nearly matched Wakefield, but he allowed two solo homers among his five hits, walking one and striking out four in six innings. He put runners on first and second with one out in the sixth, but he got Youkilis on a fly ball to center and struck out Ortiz to keep it a one-run game.
Chicago put runners on first and second in the seventh, but Alexei Ramirez popped out to shortstop and Wakefield left with a 2-1 lead and to a big ovation from the crowd - and handshakes in the dugout.
Nix tied it in the eighth, and Chicago had a runner on third when Bard relieved Ramirez and struck out Jim Thome with a 101 mph fastball to end the inning.
This program aired on August 27, 2009. The audio for this program is not available.
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Lauren Fair, Kress Conservation Fellow
Lauren Fair, 2010 graduate of the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation, has been selected to complete a yearlong fellowship in objects conservation funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Lauren is completing focused research, technical assessment, treatment, and analysis on Winterthur's important collection of English eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ceramic figures. Throughout the 2010-2011 year, Lauren is working jointly with Objects Conservator Bruno Pouliot, Curator of Ceramics and Glass Leslie B. Grigsby, and Senior Scientist Dr. Jennifer Mass. This opportunity granted by the Kress Foundation allows for focused collaboration between departments within the Museum, providing Lauren with hands-on practical experience and professional mentoring as she begins her professional career.
Winterthur's collection of Staffordshire figures consists of over 250 earthenware sculptures with polychrome decoration, in the form of colored slips, glazes, under glaze oxides, and over glaze enamels. This is the most comprehensive collection of its kind in the United States. Figures represent not only a snapshot of English working class life and culture, but they also demonstrate the latest technology of polychrome decoration available at the time. This project will be the first time the materials and manufacturing techniques of Staffordshire ceramic figures have been studied in such a multidisciplinary way.
During the first phase of the fellowship project, Lauren completed a detailed condition and technical survey of the entire Staffordshire figure collection. From this survey, she identified groups based on date of manufacture, decorative technique, and object condition. The survey provides detailed information about the number of enamel colors present on each object, as well as the particular appearance and stability of each one. Data collected in the survey will inform technical analysis in the coming phases of the project.
Lauren has also conducted a thorough literature search on the history, connoisseurship, and manufacture of Staffordshire figures in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England. With the help of Leslie Grigsby, Lauren has compiled a selective bibliography consisting of both contemporary and period sources.
From her survey and research, Lauren has selected a representative group of figures for which she will carry out elemental analysis of the polychrome decoration, focusing on the enamels. Engaging with Dr. Jennifer Mass and the Scientific Research and Analysis Laboratory (SRAL), Lauren will begin with spectroscopic techniques, using a laboratory-based energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer to determine the compositions of the enamels present on each figure in the group to be analyzed.
Over glaze enamels are highly vulnerable to abrasion and other forms of damage and deterioration. Many of the enamels present on Winterthur's collection of Staffordshire figures exhibit flaking, bubbling, matte surface texture, abrasion, and losses. The nature of ceramics also makes them prone to damages such as breaks, losses, cracking, and staining. Because these objects originally served as decorative luxury items meant to show off the owner's wealth and taste, the museum curators wish to display them as complete and not showing traces of damage or wear.
Lauren will carry out conservation treatments on a selection of figures working in the objects conservation laboratory under Bruno Pouliot's supervision. Compositional information gained through scientific analysis performed during this project will aid in treatment decisions and rationale, as well as the particular needs of the Museum. For instance, one of the figures of a hunter, possibly attributed to Staffordshire potter John Walton, will be surface cleaned for an upcoming exhibit, "Winterthur Collects What?"
Information regarding this project, including a limited bibliography, analytical results, treatment observations and images, will continue to be updated on this website throughout the year. The project team also intends to publish/present the research findings in either a poster at a conservation or conservation science conference, or as a jointly-authored paper in a peer-reviewed publication.
In addition to research, analysis, and treatment, Lauren will use her experience to present seminar sessions to students in both the conservation and early American culture graduate programs at Winterthur and to conservation undergraduate students at the University of Delaware. She will be available to help mentor conservation students working in the objects laboratory under Bruno Pouliot's supervision, and she will assist with instruction in relevant sections of the spectroscopy course taught by Dr. Jennifer Mass.
The project promises to be an enriching post-graduate experience for Lauren, as well as to be highly beneficial to the conservation, scientific, and scholarly community. Winterthur remains very grateful to the Kress Foundation for making this opportunity possible, and for its outstanding support of the arts over many years.


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One party is calling it "one of the largest copyright infringements in history." The other says its "a lawful activity and important work for scholarship."
A group of authors and writers' groups around the world are suing five American universities for copyright infringement for creating online libraries comprised of millions of books scanned by Google.
Observers are calling the fight a proxy battle in the long-running court battle between Google and publishers, the outcome of which could foretell Google's fate in the matter.
The Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des Ecrivaines et des Ecraivains Quebecois, and eight individual authors – British novelist Fay Weldon, Pulitzer-winning American biographer T.J. Stiles, children's author Pat Cummings, poet Andre Roy, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, and novelists Angelo Loukakis, Roxana Robinson, and Daniele Simpson – have filed suit against the universities of California, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Cornell.
The schools partnered with Google to digitize millions of books, including out-of-print and orphan works, books whose writers could not be located. Among the seven million scans schools obtained from Google were works by Simone de Beauvoir, Italo Calvino, Gunter Grass, Herta Muller, and Haruki Murakami. The digitization project was designed to allow students and university staff access to scholarly and other works, the schools claim.
The lawsuit centers on one such project at the University of Michigan, the HathiTrust repository. The suing authors say the scans the schools received from Google were copyright-protected and the scans themselves were unauthorized. And the lawsuit calls the digitization, copying, archiving, and publishing of the works "one of the largest copyright infringements in history." According to the suit, the schools' "not only violate the exclusive rights of copyright holders to authorize the reproduction and distribution of their works but, by creating at least two databases connected to the internet that store millions of digital copies of copyrighted books, the universities risk the widespread, unauthorized and irreparable dissemination of those works."
The suing authors are also trying to stop a project by the schools to make so-called orphan works available to students and faculty at the named universities. The first set of orphaned works, which includes 27 works by French, Russian, and American writers, is set to be released October 13, with 140 more to follow in November.
"These aren't orphaned books, they're abducted books," Angelo Loukakis, author and executive director of the Australian Society of Authors, told the Associated Press. "This is an upsetting and outrageous attempt to dismiss authors' rights … This group of American universities has no authority to decide whether, when or how authors forfeit their copyright protection."
"I was stunned when I learned of this," added novelist Danièle Simpson, president of the Quebec writers' body. "How are authors from Quebec, Italy or Japan to know that their works have been determined to be 'orphans' by a group in Ann Arbor, Michigan? If these colleges can make up their own rules, then won't every college and university, in every country, want to do the same?"
Paul Courant, the dean of libraries at Michigan University, told the AP that he was surprised by the lawsuit.
"I'm confident that everything we're doing and everything we're contemplating doing is lawful use of these works," he said, adding that Google had so far digitized about five million books from Michigan's library, with several million more to scan.
John Wilkin, executive director of the HathiTrust Project, told The New York Times that the project was "a lawful activity and important work for scholarship."
"This is a preservation operation, first and foremost," he said. "Books are decaying on the shelves. It's our intention to make them available to people at institutions for scholarly purposes. We are ensuring that the cultural record is preserved."
The lawsuit is designed to send a warning to Google, whose plans to create the world's largest digital library by digitizing millions of books have resulted in a contentious, six-year-long court battle. In March, Judge Denny Chin rejected a $125 million settlement Google reached with authors and publishers, saying it wasn't "fair, adequate, and reasonable," and gave Google an unfair advantage. A new hearing on that case is scheduled for later this week on September 15.
Husna Haq is a Monitor correspondent.


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A Kid's Guide to Fever
You've had the feeling before — you come home from school feeling awful with a sore throat. Your mom feels your head with her hand, frowns, and takes your temperature with a thermometer. Within a few minutes, you hear the word fever.
But what are fevers, exactly? Why do kids get them? Why do parents and doctors care so much about them? And once you have one, how do you get rid of it? Don't go back under the covers just yet — read on to learn more about the facts on fever.
It All Begins in Your Brain
To really understand what a fever is, you need to say hello to the hypothalamus (say: high-po-THAL-uh-mus). The hypothalamus is in the center of your brain. Think of it as your body's thermostat — like that thing on the wall in your house that you use to set the heat or the air conditioning. Your hypothalamus knows what temperature your body should be and will send messages to your body to keep it that way.
Most human beings have a body temperature of around 98.6°F (37°C). Some people will have a normal temperature that's a little higher; others will have a normal temperature that's a little lower.
Most people's body temperatures even change a little bit during the course of the day: It is usually a little lower in the morning and a little higher in the evening. For most kids, their body temperature stays pretty much the same from day to day — until germs enter the picture.
The Germs March In
Remember that strep throat that made you feel so rotten? Or another time when the flu made you feel tired and achy? These kinds of infections are caused by germs that make their way into your body, usually in the form of bacteria (say: bak-TEER-ee-uh) or viruses.
Once these germs march in and make you sick, they can sometimes cause certain chemicals to flow into your blood. When your hypothalamus gets word that these chemicals are on the scene, it automatically sets your body's thermostat higher. Instead of saying your body should be 98.6°F (37°C), your body's thermostat might say that it should be 102°F (38.9°C).
Why does the hypothalamus tell your body to change to a new temperature? Researchers believe turning up the heat is the body's way of fighting the germs and making your body a less comfortable place for them. A fever is also a good signal to you, your parents, and your doctor that you are sick. Without fever, it's much more difficult to tell if a person has an infection. That's why grown-ups are concerned when you have a fever.
Shiver, Then Sweat
Once your hypothalamus sets a new temperature for your body, your body takes action and starts to heat up. When a fever starts, your body gets hotter and you may shiver without thinking about it to create more heat. You may feel very cold even though the room isn't cold and even though you have your pajamas or nightgown on and lots of blankets around you.
If your body reaches the new temperature that's been set by the hypothalamus — say 102°F (38.9°C) — you won't feel cold anymore. According to your hypothalamus, your temperature is where it should be!
After the cause of the fever disappears, your hypothalamus will set everything back to a normal temperature. When your strep throat medicine starts to work, for instance, your body will begin to cool down. You'll begin to feel warm and will need to get rid of the extra heat that's been in your body. You may sweat and decide to change into some lighter-weight pajamas.
Fighting a Fever
For almost all kids, fevers aren't a big problem. Once the cause of the fever is treated or goes away on its own, your body temperature comes back down to normal and you feel like your old self again. Most doctors agree that many kids with a fever don't need to take any special medication unless their fevers are making them uncomfortable.
It's a different story for newborns and very young infants, though. They should be evaluated by a doctor for any fever that reaches 100.4°F (38°C) or higher.
If a kid has a higher fever and feels uncomfortable, the doctor might tell a parent to give the child medicine. The two medicines most often recommended are acetaminophen (say: uh-SEE-tuh-min-uh-fen) or ibuprofen (say: eye-byoo-PRO-fen). The medicine blocks the chemicals that tell the hypothalamus to turn up the heat. Kids should never take aspirin to treat a fever because it can cause a rare but serious illness.
If you have a fever, your mom or dad will probably ask you to drink more fluids than usual. That's important because as your body heats up, it's easy for it to get dehydrated (say: dee-HI-dray-ted), which means there isn't enough water in your body. You have a lot of choices when it comes to fluids — juice, water, sports drinks, soup, flavored gelatin, and even ice pops.
Before you know it, your mom or dad will pull the thermometer out of your mouth and say, "Your temperature is normal. No more fever!"


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SANDY, Utah – Real Salt Lake (7-5-3, 24 points, West #2) extended its run of hot form on Saturday night, getting three first half goals to cruise to a 3-0 victory over the San Jose Earthquakes (3-5-6, 15 points, West #8) at Rio Tinto Stadium.
MF Javier Morales, MF Ned Grabavoy and FW Robbie Findley scored for RSL, which moved into sole possession of second-place in the Western Conference with Saturday's win. The Claret-and-Cobalt is now 5-1-1 in its last seven matches across all competitions.
Morales opened the scoring in the 16th minute. Findley collected a ball on the right flank and ran in on goal, firing a 10-yard shot off of diving San Jose GK Jon Busch. Morales pounced on the rebound, calmly slotting his eight-yard effort inside the left post to give RSL the early lead.
The Claret-and-Cobalt continued pressing after scoring the opener, controlling possession and keeping San Jose in its own half. The nonstop pressure came to a head in the 33rd minute, with Grabavoy scoring a fine goal to double RSL's advantage. Findley again started the play, finding Morales on the right wing with a through ball. The Argentine playmaker curled a low cross to the middle toward FW Joao Plata, who brilliantly let the ball through to Grabavoy at the back post. The former 'Quake did the rest, running onto Plata's dummy and blasting a 15-yarder into the top-right corner from the left side.
Findley made it 3-0 just five minutes later. Plata got to the end line on the left side, hitting a low cross into the middle that a San Jose player cleared right to Findley in the left side of the area. The 27-year-old speedster controlled the ball nicely, taking one touch before curling a low, right-footed laser past a diving Busch and inside the far post from 15 out.
San Jose Head Coach Frank Yallop made two changes in the 40th minute, bringing FW Steven Lenhart on for MF Sam Cronin and MF Rafael Baca in for MF Adam Jahn.
The changes paid minor dividends in the opening minutes of the second half, with San Jose controlling stretches of the game and registering a couple of decent looks on goal. The 'Quakes first good chance came in the 58th minute, when MF Marvin Chavez unleashed a long-range rocket that RSL GK Nick Rimando parried away. San Jose DF Steven Beitashour latched onto the rebound just outside the six, but hit his right footed shot over the bar.
Rimando made another good stop in the 65th minute. 2012 MLS Golden Boot winner FW Chris Wondolowski collected a Baca pass in the right side of the box, firing a low 10-yarder to the near post that Rimando parried out for a corner.
Grabavoy had a half chance in the 68th and San Jose had another decent look in the 74th. Lenhart collected a loose cross in the right side of the box and hit a side volley toward the near post that Rimando punched away nicely.
RSL and the 'Quakes will meet again on Sunday in MLS Reserve League action, with the Real Salt Lake Reserves taking on the San Jose Earthquakes Reserves at 11:00 a.m. MT at America First Field in Sandy. The match is open to the public and free to attend.
The Claret-and-Cobalt will return to MLS action next Saturday, June 8, when it will take on the LA Galaxy at 7:30 p.m. at Rio Tinto Stadium. RSL will host the Charleston Battery in the fourth-round of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup on Wednesday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m. at Rio Tinto Stadium.
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Real Salt Lake Match Notes – RSL 3-0 SJ
- Saturday's win moves RSL to 5-1-1 in its last seven games across all competitions. The Claret-and-Cobalt has scored 17 goals and conceded just eight during that stretch, which dates back to the team's 2-0 home win over Vancouver on May 4.
- RSL is now 2-0-0 against San Jose this year. The Claret-and-Cobalt was swept by the 'Quakes last season, going 0-3-0 and getting outscored 10-2 against the Bay Area side.
- RSL MF Javier Morales – who had a goal and an assist on Saturday night – now has six goals and six assists in 12 regular season games against San Jose. That's the most goals Morales has against any one team and the second-most assists he has against any one side; he has eight helpers in eight games against New England. Morales has the most goals and most assists in RSL-San Jose games of any player on either side of the series.
- MF Ned Grabavoy's 33rd minute goal on Saturday gave him three regular season goals in the last 13 days, matching his total output in the five MLS seasons from 2008-2012. Grabavoy's other two tallies came in RSL's 4-1 win at Chivas USA on Sunday, May 19.
- FW Robbie Findley had his best game since returning to RSL this offseason after spending two years in England, notching a 38th minute goal and registering an assist as he played a part in all three of the Utah side's strikes on Saturday night.
- RSL FW Alvaro Saborio and DF Abdoulie Mansally will both leave RSL for international duty on Sunday. Saborio – who was not in the 18 on Saturday due to a left quad injury – will join Costa Rica and Mansally – who played the final 32 minutes against the 'Quakes – will meet up with Gambia for World Cup Qualifying matches. Both players will miss RSL's June 8 MLS game against the LA Galaxy and its June 12 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup match against the Charleston Battery.
- Saturday's shutout marks RSL's first clean sheet since its 2-0 win over Vancouver on May 4 at Rio Tinto Stadium.
Goals by Period 1 2 F
Real Salt Lake 3 0 3
San Jose Earthquakes 0 0 0
Scoring Summary:
RSL – Javier Morales – 16'
RSL – Ned Grabavoy (Javier Morales, Robbie Findley) – 33'
RSL – Robbie Findley – 38'
Misconduct Summary:
RSL – Khari Stephenson (Yellow; Foul) – 24'
SJ – Sam Cronin (Yellow; Foul) – 40'
SJ – Alan Gordon (Yellow; Foul) – 49'
RSL – Abdoulie Mansally (Yellow; Foul) – 77'
Real Salt Lake (4-1-2-1-2): Nick Rimando; Tony Beltran, Nat Borchers, Kwame Watson-Siriboe, Chris Wingert (Abdoulie Mansally, 58'); Kyle Beckerman (C); Ned Grabavoy, Khari Stephenson (Luis Gil, 68'); Javier Morales; Joao Plata, Robbie Findley (Olmes Garcia, 75')
Substitutes not used: Josh Saunders (GK), Yordany Alvarez, Devon Sandoval, Carlos Salcedo
San Jose Earthquakes (4-4-2): Jon Busch; Steven Beitashour, Jason Hernandez, Brad Ring, Justin Morrow; Marvin Chavez, Adam Jahn (Rafael Baca, 40'), Sam Cronin (Steven Lenhart, 40'), Walter Martinez; Alan Gordon (Mehdi Ballouchy, 85'), Chris Wondolowski (C)
Substitutes not used: David Bingham (GK), Dan Gargan, Ramiro Corrales, Shea Salinas
Referee: Silviu Petrescu
Assistant Referees: Kevin Duliba, Marco Arruda
4th Official: Alejandro Mariscal
Attendance: 19,064
Weather: Sunny and 77 degrees


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"Our message is resonating" with advisors, says Mark Tibergien, CEO of Pershing Advisor Solutions, pointing out that the RIA custody arm of Pershing has crossed the $100 billion in AUM mark from its 540 advisor relationships, a figure that is growing by 70 to 80 advisory firms a year.
Acknowledging the "very competitive business" that PAS is in, with "formidable" competitors, Tibergien said Wednesday in an interview during the Pershing Insite 2012 conference in south Florida that he was particularly pleased with the "vast improvements in the client service experience" that have occurred in the four and a half years since he took the helm at PAS.
Tibergien (left) said that in addition to providing a global new products set and "keeping pace" in technology, PAS' "big thrust" this year is in encouraging the custodian's RIAs to move from a "practice management focus to a business management process." That resonates particularly well for the kind of advisors that PAS is appropriate for, he says: those who provide comprehensive advice to high-net-worth clients with complicated financial lives.
PAS advisors, he says, "have a luxury other RIAs don't have: professional management." He suggests that we will see "more amalgamation and consolidation" in the RIA world, particularly among those advisors who may not have professional management and who are struggling with growing their businesses.
There's another overarching message from Tibergien for advisors. For the past five years, Tibergien says many advisors have been keeping their "noses down and butts up" in focusing on the immediate needs of their businesses, but they now need to "look over the horizon" and determine what they want to be and do in 10 years' time. For those advisors who do want to grow their businesses, they should consider two areas in which to find new clients: among women investors and younger investors.
While most advisors tend to focus on older, and often male, investors, Tibergien suggests advisors ask themselves whether they want to keep their focus on "a group that is dying" and if they do decide to focus on Gen X and Gen Y investors and the massive women's market, "what does that mean in terms of structure" for advisors' businesses?
On regulation, Tibergien said he was disappointed that the entire advisory industry and its associations didn't cooperate in forging a common approach in the wake of the financial crisis to institute more protections for investors. Instead he said, the industry is being forced to deal with "random legislation without a framework that creates unintended consequences." As a custodian, he concluded, what PAS and Pershing is most concerned about is simply protection of the client assets.
Mark Tibergien is the longtime lead columnist for Investment Advisor. Read his latest article, Growth and Austerity.
For a comprehensive look at Pershing Advisor Solutions and Tibergien's accomplishments at PAS, see this cover story from Investment Advisor, Human Capitalist.


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Man being arraigned in baby's death
Ethen Harrison accused in death of 9-month-old
A 23-year-old New Bedford man is being arraigned on an upgraded charge of murder in the death of his girlfriend's infant daughter last month.
The Bristol County District Attorney's office says Ethen Harrison will be arraigned Tuesday morning in New Bedford District Court. He's been held without bail since pleading not guilty to earlier assault and child endangerment charges.
Prosecutors say Harrison was alone with 9-month-old Ariel Eluziario when she was hurt Jan. 24, and acknowledged "certain acts" consistent with her fatal injuries.
The Standard Times has reported that court documents say Harrison told police he was angry when Ariel became 'fussy" and caused her to hit her head twice on the floor, then slapped her. She had a large blood clot on her brain and died that night at a Rhode Island hospital.
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Directed by Jin Hyeong-wook (진형욱)
Screenplay by Kwon Min-soo (권민수), Yoon Jae-geun (윤재근)KBS | Airing dates : 2007/01/15~2007/03/13
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Our intelligent and righteous hero seems to be capable of everything but nothing works out for him in a family where his father and grandfather are ex convicts. But his hard work day after day in the end bears fruit.
When Spring Comes is the thrilling success story of a social underdog.
Families are our closest loved ones but they can also be the most hurtful to us. The story of an excon father and his prosecutor son underscores persistent familial love despite a repetitive cycle of love and hate, pity, wrath and forgiveness.
Park Geon-hyeong : Lee Jeong-do
A law graduate of a prestigious university, he has been studying for the state bar exam for years. He passed the first stage test but people wonder if he will succeed to the last. So for now, his prospects arent very bright. His faith that law comes before people has earned him the nickname of the towns conflict settler. His tenacity finally gets him through the final examination. Beginning his legal career, unlike his predecessors, he demonstrates himself as a new detective style prosecutor. He is accident prone at times but is always in pursuit of justice.
Lee Ha-na : Moon Chae-ri
The only daughter of a reputed family, her life, unlike her fair looks, has been close to an unpaved road. She had run away from home and theres nothing she hadnt tried. Her rough life has made her a heartless liar but her heart, as dainty as her appearance, isnt able to protect her. And then appears her prince charming Joongi! But another weird guy Lee Jeong-do also comes along, who meddles in everything she does. They clash wherever they go, whatever they do as their fateful relationship begins.
Park Si-yeon : Oh Young-joo
Female homicide detective Oh Young-joo! The energetic and vivacious cop however has a secret. Her powerful and prestigious parents are in fact her foster parents. When her father died, her mother abandoned her and remarried. Despite her dark past, she strives to live hard.
Her new post is a police squad in Jeong-dos neighborhood. There they get to meet and she falls in love with him. But Jeong-do doesnt return her love.
Kim Nam-gil : Kim Joon-gi
He has both money and ability. He may seem a little arrogant but he will portray a new 21st century young noble of impeccable manners.
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